₦airaland Forum

jamuta:
The dismissal of Dr. Usman Aliyu by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University sends a strong message about accountability for sexual harassment in academia. This case underscores the importance of robust institutional policies and their enforcement to ensure safe learning environments. Such actions not only validate survivors’ voices but also reinforce trust in academic governance.

What the hell? You're using AI on nairaland?

dederocs:
Northerners are slaves to their governors. Fulani herdsmen killers, bokoharam, iswap don't have dreadlocks.

If northern governors channel those hisbah sharia police into fighting bandits it will go a long way. A people blinded and confused by religious dogma won't develop, progress or see peace.

Na wa for you O. Niger state is in the North Central. They don't have sharia. You Southerners that think everyone in the North is Hausa-Fulani.

Users should be able to create custom categories. Just like subreddits.

Penguin2:
It wasn’t betrayal but what?

How can it be betrayal if they were opponents from the get go?

yemmit90:
Military men caused the civil war and not regionalism.

Regionalism is the right way to go if this country is to work, and I see this step as a vital step towards it.

It was regionalism that made the political atmosphere so tense that a coup happened.

Penguin2:
Would you blame Azikiwe?

How do you expect him to form Government with a man that betrayed him and used tribalism to get his NCNC members to defect to AG and prevent Azikiwe from becoming Premier Western Region that his party, NCNC, won the majority in the House?

If you were the one, would you trust such a man?

That wasn't a betrayal. I don't think they were allies in the first place.

But I mean, in the end, didn't Azikiwe's party end up forming an alliance with the AG? But it was too late.

Penguin2:
Foolish Bill.

Should be killed.

What I hate is that some of these men are old enough to know why Parliamentary System of Government was dumped for Presidential System.

The ethnic and religious configuration of Nigeria does not support parliamentary system of government because the north for instance can come together and perpetuate themselves in power by continually voting a pro-North party to gain majority in the National Assembly.

That was what happened in the first republic before Independence even.

Before then Azikiwe’s NCNC and Awolowo’s AG were the only major political parties.

But in the build up to independence, Ahmadu Bello registered NPC as a political party and used tribal sentiments to get northerners to vote the party in the 1959 pre-independence election.

That was how NPC (Northern Political Congress) won majority at the National Assembly and had to produce the Prime Minister in Tafawa Balewa. Making Nigeria to miss out on the refined leadership of men like Azikiwe or Awolowo as Head of Government.

And if the 1966 coup which truncated democracy hadn’t happened, the North would have continued to vote their party and hold on to power for as long as God knows.

Bring back Parliamentary System and you face similar scenario all over again.

If there’s anything we need from the past, it’s regionalism.

They should die this parliamentary bulcrap.

The North is not a monolith. Tafawa Balewa's party had the largest number of votes, but they were far from being the majority. They needed to form a coalition with another party to run the government.

By the way, Obafemi Awolowo approached Azikiwe and asked for a coalition. Both parties, combined with some other Northern minority parties would have been enough to form a coalition. Azikiwe would have been prime minister and Awolowo wanted to be minister of finance.

Azikiwe said no.

Penguin2:
If there’s anything we need from the past, it’s regionalism.

After everything you typed, this was your conclusion? The very thing that causes the civil war was regionalism.

Decidetolive:
Tinubu, a terrible leader like no other

Wetin consign Tinubu for here now? The governor is from the PDP.

TimeManager:
The four “renegade” members of the Tinubu political clan could not handle their individual and collective discomfiture when, against all odds, the man managed to dribble Muhammadu Buhari and his cabal to clinch the APC presidential ticket. The godfather crowned it by beating their ambush to win the presidential election subsequently.

This is rubbish O. Didn't Fayemi and Amosun play a part in Tinubu's victory by stepping down?

Osiris12:
Federal government na scammer


Since Kwara state refuse to develop, make dem share the local governments between oyo, osun and Niger state.

The shithole is too backward for a state created in 1957

Wetin consign Kwara state for here?

PulaPower:
Heard it’s the 4th husband..

Them just dey pass the Toto around like Puff Puff Pass..

Where you hear am?

MadPolitician:
This is nothing but a coup!
Never in the history of this countrys democracy have we seen such brazen federal government sponsored rascality as we are seeing in such places like Rivers state, Kano state, Lagos state and now Osun state.

Lol. Where were you in 1964? You haven't heard of Wetie?

So, I have a substack dedicated to Nigeria's history. I'm starting off with the recent major historical event - the 2023 elections.

I wrote the series in three parts. Part 1 covered the buildup to the election and the primaries. Part 2 covered the campaign and the election itself.

This final part covers the events that happened post-election, especially the election petition. If you heard that Tinubu won the election petition but don't know how or why, you can read the post to find out here -

https://naijachronicles.substack.com/p/the-2023-nigerian-presidential-elections-e66

Let me know your thoughts.

brain54:
Babangida has never ever said Abiola never won the election...

Even when he canceled the election. He has only been vague,elusive and never given any coherent reason as to why he canceled the election.

I see the book hasn't shared any more light on that either.

So he hasn't told us anything we don't know!

He canceled it because Abacha was after his life.

attackgat:
Governor Nwifuru should disband the existing Ebubeagu security outfit, whose activities have been politicised and set up a new local outfit to protect the residents of the state from the rampaging herdsmen.

Is this not foolishness?

Paraman:
Compare 2015 with the price in 1999

2005. Since we're doing ten years.

EmperorCaesar:
That aside, whats bad in Nairaland trying to emulate Quora?

Ah! It's bad I. Very bad. Isn't nairaland older than Quora?

kettykin:
Their delusion is laughable. The moment even a whisper of progress emerges from the East, they lose all composure, descending into their predictable fits of hypocritical outrage. A single thread on ipob activities in the Southeast ignites an endless frenzy, ballooning to 20 pages before noon, while identical threads from the North barely scrape 20 pages in an entire month.

I've dissected their behaviors meticulously, stripping their façade layer by layer. The bias, the double standards, and the deeply ingrained inferiority complex . These people, consumed by envy, perpetuate their manic episodes to mask their inadequacies. Their sickness is palpable, and their reactions are nothing short of pathetic. If there's one anomaly here, it's the bottomless pit of their hypocrisy.

All this one is long story. Bring proof that he's a billionaire. You people give small dick energy.

Kobojunkie:
Is he not a human being like the women that were questioned?

He wasn't being questioned. They were humiliating him. They were mocking him.

Lol. Why dem do the hookup boy like that na

emkz:
Is this proper? That a traditional ruler goes to the governor's office to collect a staff of office?

We must not allow politicians destroy our traditional institutions. Look at the sad case in Kano.

Yimu

WriterNig:
Like the popular saying "The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must".[/b][/color]

I see you've been reading your Melian dialogue

God1000:
South Korea has a sound democracy, in Nigeria the executive branch controls the national assembly

This wasn't how it has always been. Even as recent as 2002, when the legislature sneezes, the president catches cold. But they used politics to clip their wings.

femisplash:
Finally, NNPCL maintains JV with all IOCs and as such, the equity stake of SEPLAT in this deal is 40%.

This your logic isn't complete. You made an assertion, but didn't provide a proof. How does NNPC maintaining JVs automatically means that the equity stake of SEPLAT is 40%?

mikeapollo:
Go and reconfirm the new JV ratio after the settlement of the dispure.
The original ratio in the JV was Mobil 40 : NNPC 60.
After the settlement of the didpute NNPC got additional 10percent from Mobil's share, hence making a new total of 70percent and Mobil sold the balance 30percent to SEPLAT.
Reuters does not know more than NNPC/NUPRC in this matter.

And where did you get your information from? At least he has provided a source which said it is 40% for SEPLAT. Where did you see your own 70 - 10% ?

buckeyemedia:
Guy you be intelligent man, but on this subject, u are wrong you ain’t talking to a child.
https://lawpadi.com/process-impeaching-president-nigeria/

He has a reputation for being intelligent?

yarimo:
That sections he posted has step 1 to 8 what did step 4 says

You mean this?

4. A motion of the National Assembly that the allegation be investigated shall not be declared as having been passed, unless it is supported by the votes of not less than two-thirds majority of all the members of each House of the National Assembly.

What is hard to understand here? There's nothing like state house of assembly.

Blue3k:
What's craziest is people liked that nonsense you posted.

Maybe it's bots. People can't be that stupid.

yarimo:
illiterate people everywhere, national assembly alone can't impeach president or vice president of Nigeria. Stop assuming you can fool everyone with your nonsense trash okayyyy

The constitution is nonsense trash?

Be like you be troll.

Blue3k:
The legislature is subservient because the executive pays them off. The legislature is happy collecting checks and looking busy. Anything they do is normally ignored by the public because they lack basic civics education and common sense. Remember Obasanjo was the only president to get his veto overridden by NASS. Rivers State Assembly is the only other Veto override I know about. This shows they are slaves just on one accord.

They weren't subservient under Obasanjo's first term. But Obasanjo checkmated them through the nomination process for reelection. About 70% lost their seats because they lost their party's tickets in the primaries.

The legislators tried reversing that in the recent Electoral Act amendment by making party primaries direct primaries as opposed to indirect primaries which governors use to remove them.

The governors opposed it, and the foolish Buhari sided with the governors. The same governors that he later had to beg to let him choose his own successor. Of course, they ignored him.

buckeyemedia:
General Obasanjo The Hypocrite, The Architect of the destruction of modern day Nigeria.

The man is a curse on Nigeria.

How?

Nigeria was doing well under the PDP until 2015.