₦airaland Forum

menix:
Hmmm.. This one's follow for watin dem dey call Dog Broz I take god beg u, just change that "Dog" to "Bingo"

bolaayenimo:
Pantami's boy

Farukshy:
Them go kidnap this useless man

Veqtor:
If banditry and kidnapping which oftentimes, result to the killing of innocent people are not federal offences, what qualifies as a federal offence?

Sometimes I wonder how dese people reason. After sniffing cow dung, they come on a public space and talk rubbish.

From the so-called educated ones that only learnt how to read and write english to the ones pushing cows, all reason d same backward way.

Goodness me... These are the illiterate things holding important positions in the govt nd ruling sane and well educated ppl. Tufia!

MimiBiggs:
The billionaire daughter celebrity dj recently took to her Instagram page to show off her cute 3month old pomeranian puppies and she's named them Dudu and Funfun Otedola...
No need to ask that this puppies will enjoy an Otedola lifestyle.

(They already have their own instagram page @DuFuPoms


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06P7Rz5RN_c

n3xt:
This too shall pass.

ddeola:
Desmond IDIOT.

Mynd44:
The do not receive constituency allowance. It never goes into their account, the ministry of works pays it to the contractors.

Their job is to suggest projects and contractors. Even the awarding of such contracts is dependent on the approval of the ministry

Mynd44:
Do you even know the job of a legislator? Because even building toilets is a whole lot.

His job is to got to the house and talk not capital project.

xpressionx:
So if another camp of kidnappers and terrorists kidnaps and kills Shekau,he will go to paradise?

Oga if I catch you eh

You can imagine the kind of Crap that these Muslims feed themselves?
No wonder one will allow another Iman Shekau to strap Suicide Belt on him, thinking he is going to be rewarded with 78 VIRGINS in Paradise!
Islamic M0r0n$

FarahAideed:
He made valid point..if you keep paying ransome them there is no way this kidnapping business will go away

Romanoff:
E dey happen.

When men marry women that pass their power.

etrange:
Lol... I was smiling and crying. Happy for him, sad that after all these years, Africans still celebrate being citizens of anywhere other than Africa. I wonder how a foreigner would react to this post that clearly portrays the supremacy of the western world. It's like we shouldn't even be complaining when these guys see us as inferior cause nothing screams "we are inferior" more than posts like this. Yet it's not the guy's fault. God help us.

Has anyone seen the series called 3% ?

You don't want subsidy removed. You want cheap fuel. I get that.

But consider that fuel costs higher in our neighbouring countries...and as a result...smuggling becomes attractive...meaning we end up subsidisng fuel for not only Nigeria, but for a large part of West Africa.

And we don't have the money to keep on doing that.

It is time it stopped.

Modified

This is why smuggling happens

In Cameroon, fuel is N463
In Benin , fuel is N367
In Togo, fuel is n312.
In Niger , fuel is N370
IN Nigeria, fuel is N162 per liter.

And thus a smuggler can make big money selling Nigerian subsidsed fuel at higher prices in these countries...money that won't benefit the average Nigerian.

If you think that is fair...then wow.

Joysticks:
Government is paying subsidy to fuel markets only for the fuel to be diverted to neighbouring countries.The scandal that rocked the petroleum sector where some petroleum marketers were collecting subsidy money and not supplying Petro to Nigerians are still not prosecuted.

cocolacec:
Something tell me the Insecurity in the country is the handwork of PDP to get back into power by frustrating APC and pretending as savoiurs to the masses.

The bandits,herdsmen and agitators are all from PDP members.

Heathrow44:
Tell that maggot that she's a stupid shit stain!!! U see y women treat u like trash is cos u don't respect urslf, u don't av enough sense of self worth and respect for the person u are living inside of, she asked for a chicken and u told her u don't av money and she blocked u And u come here crying like a baby asking us what u should do, someone treated u like a reusable tissue paper and folded u and flushed u down the drain and u still being sorry and trying to make excuses for her shey? My friend what u should do is to live ur life like she doesn't matter, u re not tight to the hips, there are 1.4bn females in d world, people that have Harvard degrees work in Apple inc. As Technology executives, people that may av the self esteem to treat u like trash but they choose not to, cos thats not who they are, and u are crying over a girl that doesn't wash her pant and can't buy for herself a sanitary pad! Besides op what did she get for u for easter? Or is it only the man that brings money

BigBashiru:
The country did not fail them they failed themselves.... Nigerians are ecowas citizens - if it's tough in Nigeria go to Senegal, Ghana, Togo to find something doing....

The devils children are Nigerians themselves.

Baselm:
Is the crude oil prices still same as 3 months ago? When PPPRA posted #212 as landing cost on their website, you don't know someone has to be paying the extra money above the #165. International oil prices fluctuate daily, so whatever makes pump price remain the same over a 2 month period, then someone is either cheating you or subsidizing you

Peterobi90:
Every issue this man has pokenosed into remains a shadow of itself..

Judiciary Call to bar - different associations sprung up, the Judiciary nose dived..

Osun schooling - Osun state education that once used to be amongst 1st - 5th is no where in 1st 10th today..

Oyo parents refused when he tried to distort their education, God knows what would have happened..

Kwara that is not in a good 0lace educationally now wants to rub off the little it has.

He has successfully made visible the division on Yoruba muslims and Christians, a division that was never elaborate..

Northurmate:
Late Capt. Kyari Magumeri From Borno was the first Nigerian to be promoted to the rank of CAPTAIN in British Army (1953) After making a gallant performance in 1st and 2nd WW



CREDIT: Northeast Reporters: https://www.facebook.com/637228206760552/posts/1095400760943292/?app=fbl

By Richard Akinjide

“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.”
-(Being excerpts from the speech of Chief Richard Akinjide, SAN,  First and Second Republic Minister, at the public presentation of the first edition of the book “Fellow Countrymen- the story of Coup D’etats in Nigeria” by Richard Akinnola, on June 12, 2000)

Richy4:

I can just imagine what would have happened assuming OP dished out the food she (the sister in law) prepared by herself to his friend ... His luggage would have been at the entrance gate to their estate.. .

All we wanted for them is peace my brother nothing more..

what I disliked in some people's attitude here on Nairaland is that sometimes they seems good at playing 'culture card' when it suits them perfectly.. like in this case, majority have already became Europeans all of a sudden, They have started forming nuclear family on OP.. they have seen OP as someone who has committed a great taboo by staying with his married Elder brother... But did the African culture permits that? that's a question for another day...

But when situation shifts bases, and sh!t hits the roof in a relationship between married couple,, the same people dishing out Europeans style advise; that were forming nuclear family will be like why not call his family, don't u have uncle, sister, bla bla bla..They just remembered African culture when it feels convenient...It's just annoying..

Lagoon0:
I don't think I will ever tolerate anywoman that will not tolerate my siblings.
Siblings live with their brother b4 their brother get married.
Why do women always think their husband is meant for them only

Slynation:
So your brother is now an intruder because you got married Nigerian men are so wonderful....

chival:
It is not necessarily a food issue. The problem here is one of propriety. I would be offended too if my brother in law does same. However, the lady in question went too far. Throwing her brotger in law out shows she lacks respect for her husband. She should have aired her grouse in a more civil way or taken it to her husband. There might be more to this story though.