₦airaland Forum

That's it!

Why can't / shouldn't government work?

The government & the people will be sold to the highest bidders.

Government machinery will now totally be used to build private interest.

Liars, deceivers, thieves & robbers....of our common wealth...

AliBaba&The40Thieves....!

Another disaster loading, a worse one, except God shows mercy.....

Caveat emptor!

Globalists testing out their real plan??

Stupid!

Even if so, for how long!

Rubbish!

bro4u:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/01/serena-williams-baptized-as-a-jehovahs-witness/

From frying pan to fire!
Unfortunate!

From fry pan to fire!

millionaire:
All our good doctors are gone. The only doctor left in Nigeria is small doctor

Many good & experienced doctors are still around.

What about if covid unvaccinated is transfused with covid vaccinated blood?

End times economic manipulations.

Significant in end times narratives.

VP's personal opinion.
The people know better.
God knows all.

BBN has absolutely no value except for the organisers who smile to the Banks. It is a projection of immorality & vanities which, unfortunately, too many, especially the younger generations adore.

Since young people are angry now against the status quo, it is time for the evil Establishment to use what they are addicted to to keep them from rising up to get what they need.

Did he take the kofid19fasin?
Many are suddenly dying from it!

TheirEvilPlansAgainstNigeria& NigeriansWillNotStand!!

Imagine if Osinbajo was APC Presidential Candidate. Do you think he will shy away from Town hall Meeting?

End times!

The Pope should know! But on whose side is he?

Congratulation of the Deceived!

N.Y.S.C

Barims:
I don't believe in devil either, but if devil were real, I would gladly sell soul to it.
But unfortunately both devil and God are made up shit

Toyota Camry says Toyota Company doesn't exist.

Sophia the AI robot says it's creators are figments of imagination.

Uchenna10:
Tiktok na bad influence to teenagers..

It was designed so by them....

The god of soccer at work.

UsfoolinU

blueAgent:
No one is exploiting you, You have no facts or evidence to claim you are been exploited.

*Richard Akinjide*

*Excerpts from speech by Chief Richard Akinjide, SAN,  Nigeria's First and Second Republic Minister, on 12 June 2000 at the public presentation of the book “Fellow Countrymen: The Story of Coup D’etats in Nigeria” written by Richard Akinnola*

“I was in the first cabinet that was overthrown by the military in this country. I entered parliament on December 12, 1959. And I remained in parliament until January 15, 1966 when the government was overthrown. I was the Federal Minister of Education in that cabinet. I woke up one morning in my official house in Ikoyi, Lagos, to discover that my telephone was not working. I had never experienced coup before nor did I know that it was a coup. I was thinking it was just a telephone fault, until a colleague of mine in the cabinet, Chief Abiodun Akerele, came in and told me there had been a military coup. So, I had the fortune or the misfortune of being a victim of the first coup in this country.

Many people may not know that I spent 18 months in detention in prisons across the country. I spent time in KiriKiri prison, Ilesha prison, Ibadan prison and the Abeokuta prison.

Two of us who were in Tafawa Balewa’s government emerged, when the military handed over to the civilians in 1979, as part of the civilian government. In Balewa’s government, Alhaji Shehu Shagari was the Minister of Works, while I was the Minister of Education. When the military handed over to us after about 14 years, Shagari emerged as the President while I became the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice. Again, Shagari’s government was overthrown just a few months after I left the cabinet. Of course, we suspected it was coming. A lot of things that happened between that period and now would never see the light of the day. When you are in government, you know a lot of things, you see a lot of things. A lot of things you know or did or saw will die with you. This is the practice of the whole world. People have asked me to write my memoirs, I just laugh because there are certain things I can never reveal.

When I was in Tafawa Balewa’s Cabinet, all Cabinet Ministers had access to written intelligence report every month. That was the practice at that time. But when Shagari came in, for reasons which I cannot explain, that practice was no longer followed. But by virtue of my duties as the Attorney-General and as a member of the National Security Council, I continued to have access to some sensitive matters.

Nigeria is a very complex country. Our problems did not start yesterday. It started about 1894. Lord Lugard came here about 1894 and many people did not know that Major Lugard was not originally employed by the British government. He was employed by companies. He was first employed by East Indian Company, then by the Royal East African Company and then by the Royal Niger Company. It was from the Royal Niger Company that he transferred his services to the British government. Unless you know this background, you will not know the root causes of our problems.

The interest of the Europeans in Africa and indeed in Nigeria was economic and it’s still economic. They have no permanent friends and no permanent interest. Neither their interest nor their friends are permanent. Nigeria was created as British sphere of interests for business.

In 1898, Lugard formed the West African Frontier Force, initially with 2,000 soldiers and that was the beginning of our problems. Anybody that wants to know the root cause of all the coups in this book and our present problems and who does not know the evolution of Nigeria, would just be looking at the matter superficially. Our problems started from that time. And Lugard was what they called at that time imperialist. A number of British soldiers, businessmen, politicians were very patriotic. But I must warn you, they were operating in the interest of their country. Lugard became a Lord. 

When Lugard formed the West African Frontier Force with 2,000 troops, about 90 percent of them were from the North, mainly from the Middle Belt. And his dispatches to London between that time and January 1914 was extremely interesting. Lugard came here for a purpose and that purpose was British interest.

Between 1898 and 1914, he sent a number of dispatches to London which led to the Amalgamation of 1914. The Order-in-Council was drawn up in November 1913, signed and came into force in January 1914. In those dispatches, Lugard said a number of things which are the root causes of yesterday and today’s problems.

The British needed the Railway from the North to the Coast in the interest of British business. Amalgamation of the South (not of the people) became of crucial importance to British business interest.
He said the North and South should be amalgamated. Southern Nigeria came into existence in January 1900…At the Centenary of the fall of Benin, I wrote a piece in a number of newspapers but before I published the piece, I sent a copy to the Oba of Benin.

So when Benin was conquered in 1896, it made the creation of the Southern Nigerian protectorate possible on January 1, 1900. If you remember, Sokoto was not conquered until 1903. So, there was no question of Nigeria at that time. After the conquest of Sokoto, they were able to create the Northern Nigeria protectorate. Lugard went full blast and created what was to be known as the protectorate of Northern Nigeria.

What is critical and important are the reasons Lugard gave in his dispatches. They are as follows: He said the North is poor and they have no resources to run the protectorate of the North; that they have no access to the sea; that the South has resources and that they have educated people. The first Yoruba Lawyer was called to the Bar in 1861. Therefore, because it was not the policy of the British Government to bring the tax-payers money to run the protectorate, it was in the interest of the British tax payer that there should be Amalgamation. But what the British Amalgamated was the Administration of the North and South. That is one of the root causes of the problems of Nigeria and the Nigerians.

When the amalgamation took effect, the British government sealed off the South from the North. And between 1914 and 1960, that’s a period of 46 years, the British allowed minimum contact between the North and South because it was not in the British interest that the North be allowed to be polluted by the educated South. That was the basis on which we got our independence in 1960 when I was in the parliament. I entered parliament on December 12, 1959.

When the North formed a political party, the Northern leaders called it Northern People’s Congress (NPC). They didn’t call it Nigeria’s people Congress. That was in accordance with the dictum and policies of Lugard. When Aminu Kano formed his own party, it was called Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU), not Nigerian Elements Progressive Union. It was only Awolowo and Zik who were mistaken that there was anything called Nigeria. In fact, the so-called Nigeria created in 1914 was a complete fraud. It was created not in the interest of Nigeria or Nigerians but in the interest of the British. And what were the structures created? The structures created were as follows:
Northern Nigeria was to represent England; Western Nigeria like Wales; Eastern Nigeria was to be like Scotland. In the British structure, England has permanent majority in the House of Commons. There was no way Wales can ever dominate England, neither can Scotland dominate England. But they are very shrewd. They would allow a Scottish man to become Prime Minister. They would allow a Welsh man to become Prime Minister in London but the fact remains that the actual power is rested in England.

That was what Lugard created in Nigeria, a permanent majority for the North. The population figure is also a fraud. In fact, a British Colonial Civil Servant who was involved in the fraud was trying to expose it but he was never allowed to publish it.

The analysis is as follows: If you look at the map of West Africa, starting from Mauritania to Cameroun and take a population of each country as you move from the Coast to Savannah, the population decreases. Or conversely, as you come from the Desert to the Coast, right from Mauritania to Cameroun, the population increases.
The only exception throughout the zone is Nigeria. Nigeria is the only Zone whereby you go from the Coast to the North, the population increases and you come from the North to the Coast, the population decreases. Well, geographers, anthropologists and population experts, draw your conclusions.

Someone has told me that the last population census was done by computer. What nonsense. A computer is as good as its programmer. A computer will produce what you ask it to produce.

 I have read this book from cover to cover. This is a fantastic book. I want us to find a way to ensure that many Nigerians read this book. It is a raw material for future authors. 

Talking on the first coup, when Balewa got missing, we knew Okotie-Eboh had been killed, we knew Samuel Akintola had been killed. We the members of the Balewa cabinet started meeting.  But how can we have a cabinet meeting without the Prime Minister acting or the Prime Minister presiding. So, unanimously, we nominated acting Prime Minister amongst us and we continued holding our meetings. Then we got a message that we should all assemble at the Cabinet office. All the Ministers were requested by the G.O.C. of the Nigerian Army, General Aguiyi Ironsi to assemble.

What was amazing at that time was that Ironsi was going all over Lagos unarmed. 

We assembled there, having nominating Zana Diphcharima as our acting prime minister in the absence of the Prime Minister, whose where about we didn’t know. We approached the acting President, Nwafor Orizu to swear him in because he could not legitimately act as the Prime Minister except he was sworn in. Nwafor Orizu refused. He said he needed to contact Zik who was then in West Indies. Under the Law, that is, the interpretation Act, as acting President, Nwafor Orizu had all the powers of the President.

The G.O.C said he wanted to see all the cabinet ministers. And so we assembled at the cabinet office. Well, I have read in many books saying that we handed over to the military. We did not hand-over. Ironsi told us that “you either hand over as gentlemen or you hand-over by force”.  These were his words. Is that voluntary hand-over? So we did not hand-over. We wanted the Acting Prime Minister to be in place but Ironsi forced us, and I use the word force advisedly, to handover to him. He was controlling the soldiers.

The acting President, Nwafor Orizu, who did not co-operate with us, co-operated with the GOC. Dr. Orizu and the GOC prepared speeches which Nwafor Orizu broadcast, handing over to the government of the country to the army. I hereby state again categorically as a member of that cabinet that we did not hand-over voluntarily. It was a coup.

This is a very good book, which everybody must read. It is raw material for future authors. Anybody, who wants to know some of the causes of our problems and military instability should read this book. I recommend this book to all universities and secondary schools, so that they can know how we got to where we are now. What this book shows is that if anybody stages a coup and if people don’t accept it, it would not succeed.

What puzzles me is how the author got all these materials.These
materials should not be in archives, they should be in public domain so that we know the causes of our problems.

I pray that all Nigerians should rise up and say no if anybody seizes a radio station and says “fellow countrymen”. I hope that this book will find a way into all university libraries throughout this country, to all secondary school libraries and abroad. I appeal to the media to give this book a comprehensive and desired review. The more I open the book, the more I see something to talk about. This book is going to represent one of the chapters in the tragedy of Nigeria.

This book is just like horror film because the instability which was started in 1966… because many of the coups are what I’ll call commercial coups. 

If anything at all, we have to learn a great lesson from this book and also learn a lesson on what happened, who failed or succeeded in their coups. When it succeeds, they call it glorious revolution, but when it fails, it is called treason. It is my honour and privilege to present this great and historic book. One of the things I like about the book is the language of the author. He’s someone who speaks Englishman’s English. He writes Queen’s English. Very lucid, very flowing.”

*Chief Richard Akinjide, SAN*
Died on Tuesday, 22 April 2020
He was 89 years old.

blueAgent:
What a useless thoughtless comment!

Why?
How?
Please explain!

God will have mercy on our girls / women folk!

They have been deceived by the god of this world that they are not beautiful as God made them! So he uses the media to project his definition of beauty & fashion through his celebrity agents:

Face make up / make over
Fake eye lids
Fake nails
Breast size enhancement or reduction
Tummy tuck surgery
Fake boobs
Fake bumbum
Hugs
Etc, etc

The craze is increasing and getting worse driven by economic pressures & desperation for attention by men for marriage!

They will never allow anyone trying to reverse the current mess to be President! Their expectations are that Nigeria must be subjugated totally. So their preferred candidate is that one that will further sell Nigerians out &:further open up more opportunities for exploitation of our God-given resources.

Our own end times scenarios.

Caveat emptor!
Diplomatic rondorondo!

Deja vu!

Tithing is not for Christians.
It was OT requirement for the Jews.
So was first fruits.

We are however expected to give to support God's servants & God's work, not by compulsion but freely from a loving heart as much as we can afford.

Therefore let's give liberally, even sacrificially, if so led by the Holy Spirit, but let's not call it "tithe".

Yes you can give to people in need what you originally planned to give to Church.....AS LED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.....May we always have to give to Church & man in abundance.

Good but we know why now at this time

It is clear the side that wants the crisis to continue.

Christians are not mandated to pay tithe, first fruits or even offerings but we are encouraged to give nonetheless especially to the poor & the needy. We are however mandated to love God & our fellows even enemies.

Give freely to support God's work & ministers but don't call it tithes. Rather they are your gift, donation, freewill offering, etc & God will bless you.

There are Pastors and there are "Pastors".
None is our focus.
Our focus is Jesus Christ
The Author & Finisher of our faith.

Don't let any Pastor block you from receiving Jesus Christ into your life.