₦airaland Forum

Terror48:
Waiting for urchins to link this to Peter obi

How can this be linked to Peter Obi when the people from Anambra State are only interested in accusing Tinubu for being the cause of all their problems.

Racoon:
Liberate the gateways. Not the senseless, impactless and useless economic blockades the APC govt placed on the lucrative southern borders with attendant huge economic loss sometime back while the northern fringes were just leeways for terrorists to freely stroll in and do more damages.

Nigeria case is an import and a oil-mono-economy dependent nation because local production are not sufficient enough to meet local consumption demand.

And what did the senseless blockade Buhari government imposed on the borders yielded? Did local production increased or saved Nigeria from the present food inflation and insecurity nationwide especially with the insecurity menace on farmers?

Liberate the economic and provide security first, to encourage local and foreign investors that will boost the process and enhance food production to help us shift from local consumption to export.

You are mixing so many things up.

Trade restrictions is not the same thing as the border closure.

BiafraAburi:
As a Lagos lazy asshole, do not worry, your agbado nation is loading, where you will never be a parasite to me and my people.

Enemy of Progress, why are you always embittered about anything Lagos?

Lagos commissioned it's Rice Mills, to be managed by a private sector and neither the raw rice paddies nor the company involve your people yet you have been complaining bitterly over it. What's the colour of your problems?

Billmos:
Nigeria rice dat even cost pass foreign rice now abeg make una open border cos it's not funny anymore.the problem of nigeria are cause by nigerian demselve.

We need more of this kind of massive Rice Mills and strategic investment in rice Agribusiness to meet our demand and this will eventually crash the price of rice.

OBIdients and lies are like Bread and beans.

The supporters of Peter Obi strongly believe in peddling outright falsehoods and propaganda as campaign strategies.

Felimax:
Reality!
Same way you have strangers and foriegners scattered all over lagos. In the estate where i was in lagos there is hardly maybe just one yoruba tenant the rest of us are strangers likewise almost the entire area. Very few Yoruba people or Lagos indigenes around. Real fact.

During Christmas i hate been in Lagos because it will seem as if almost everybody is gone. Make public holiday reach if you have not observe the exodus movement out of Lagos you have not stayed in Lagos. Real fact!

How is this related to unhindered and undocumented movement of foreigners into Nigeria?

Joevics:
You are quite stupid. This is an adult discussion; if you don't know jack about it. Keep quiet. The headquarters of Mobil in Nigeria is in Lagos where they employ staffs and where employees pay taxes to. While operations happen in Eket. This case of moving mobile HQ has been on since the days of Victor Attah. Idiot.

You just showed that you aren't adult enough by resorting to insults.

Mobil, like any other PRIVATE Companies can site their Headquarters anywhere they like and no law is breached in that.

Who told you that Mobil only operate in Eket?

2elliot:
On Monday in my place in Bayelsa state, several okada guys were arrested who were Nigeriens, because one of them killed an Hausa guy. I was shocked to know that these huge number of okada riders were not Nigerians but rather foreigners. I had thought that they were all northerners. So, where is the northern population if these large number of foreigners who impersonate the northerners are residing in this country. And they Ae being used to rig elections. Why aren't the huge numbers attributed to the numbers not do the rigging magic for them?

In reality, there is no effective ways of separating citizens of Niger Republic ,Tchad and Northern Cameroon from Nigerians.

These countries are more or less 37th,39th and 40th States of Nigeria.


I have lived and worked in the North and I know that so many people from these countries move in and out of Nigeria. Some have even joined our Armed Forces.

Grgton:
The current political system and civil war events will make it almost impossible for a Nigeria president of Igbo extraction okay

If you say they are politically irrelevant, I think it's high time we tell ourselves the truth Mr one Nigeria

Is Peter Obi not contesting and getting support from Tiv, Igala,Yoruba,Nupe, Fulani, Ibibioy, Hausa and others?

BiafraAburi:
Who cares. Did we even send him Peter Obi for Igbo presidency? Did Igbos tell you they are looking for your zoo presidency. Are you deaf that you haven't been hearing of our clamor for Biafra? Peter Obi is gathering this present massive support because all you urchins want to use him to keep your zoo one. Deal with him and make him your president to achieve your aim of keeping your zoo one, or be ready for the other alternative which is Biafra. We hole una for blokos!

Mr Biafra, there is no tribe on the ballot papers, only the names and logos of political parties.

The election is not an inter-tribal contest

LocalStandard1:
It took me quite a while, shamefully, to understand what the Igbo people of Nigeria are going through. This is how it made sense to me:

First off, I put myself in their shoes, but then I realized I am already in their shoes! See, Kaduna State is like a mini Nigeria, we face the same marginalization as the Igbos so yeah.

People always bring back what happened more than fifty years ago saying "Igbos started the civil war so they can't be President". Okay, then let them go.

Fulanis kill, maim and destroy people and lands, I don't see anyone saying "no Fulani Will ever be President!" Oh no! Instead we have a disaster as President and as if that's not enough another Fulani is glamouring for the same seat, consecutively.

The Igbos have paid their dues for the civil war after more than half a century. This is slavery!!

If the second most populous tribe in Nigeria can't be allowed to lead Nigeria, their country, then let them chart their own course!

Justice, fairness, equality most reign supreme.

The presidential election is not really about Tribe.

Individual candidates representing their political parties are contesting for the election and NOT tribes.

Joevics:
You are dumb. The same Tinubu that sent soldiers to shot at the MD of Mobile just to frustrate moving mobile HQ to Eket?

All this IGR Tinubu is claiming today will wither away once there are other ports and companies start moving their HQ out of Lagos.

Hmn, this Joe thinks that Mobil is like Chukwudi and Sons Enterprises!

1) The Headquarters of Mobil is not in Nigeria but in the US.
They just have branch offices in Nigeria.

2) The MD of Mobil is an employee and does NOT have the powers to site or relocate the Regional Office in Nigeria. Such a decision is taken at the Board level

Fraud!

I can bet it with my voter's card that this Prof Uju will be collecting Dick but just using Lesbianism as a smokescreen to prevent possible victimization.

Eagle07:
Can you just learn to respond without throwing insults ?

Azikiwe was never an executive President because he wasn’t elected through the ballots. The first executive President was Shehu Shagari. Azikiwe was Head of state (ceremonial) while Balewa was head of government. So tell me how Azikiwe became President because the title President was never used on him.

You are wrong sir.

Azikiwe and Balewa were NOT directly elected but elected through through the Parliamentary System(which Nigeria used between 1959-1966) in which their parties formed a coalition Government by virtues of the majority seats they won in the Parliament.

OneCandleAway:
Why didn't you counter me on the oils production.

https://www.nairaland.com/3982247/need-meters-account-daily-oil

Tell me which white nation will be producing or exporting crude oil and won't have meters to know the production estimate.

The black man usually doesn't like stress. They like easy money. Asians are more hardworking. Of course there are little exceptions but we've been unfortunate to be mostly governed by the sections of the country not intellectually sound but have the support of the British.

There's no part of the country that is not intellectually sound.

When I was doing Post-graduate Residency Training with the West African College of Physicians, many of our examiners and research supervisors are Professors/Consultant Physicians from the North. There aren't only super-intelligent but very meticulous!

Troublemaker111:
There was over voting in ife, osogbo , iragbiji you know next to.nothing about osun politics . I think we should also start looking into Ekiti election . Iwo tio mon nkankan

In election petitions, ONLY the results from the disputes polling units (where the petitioner) is challenging the results will be looked into.
Even obvious infractions of the electoral laws in the Oshogbo, Ife or Iragbiji won't be discussed if the petitioner is not challenging the results in those places.

kushme:
Is adultery a criminal act?
If it is, then I wonder why? Cos a crime is an act harmful not only to some individual but also to a community, society, or the state.
How eh take be crime for two consenting adults to pursue pleasure/happiness?

Sotey state go come award money give another person.

Where those people wey sabi make Law self?

Mr Elechi denied himself the pleasure of other women by marrying Mrs Benedicta Elechi and invested his time, energy, resources and emotion into the marriage with the hope that the woman will reciprocate, provide him companion, comfort and happiness.

However, this dream was cut short when Daddy Freeze showed-up and started fuuucking Mrs Benedicta Elechi unnecessarily.

Mr Elechi is now the victim of this wrongful acts by Daddy Freeze.


Bottomline: The law doesn't encourage wrong doers to benefit from their wrong doings.

tito44:
Once u see any moniker with a tribal meaning on NL, know that the moniker is the opposite of the tribe it is trying to portray

For example ,PrinceOfLagos

Period007:
Wheres Thiefnibus Primary school certificate
Wheres Thiefnibus secondary school certificate

Do you know Thiefnibu is the only presidential candidate without a primary and secondary school certificate?

These are really irrelevant if you have Diploma and a University Degree plus professional qualifications.

Tinubu attended Richard Dalley College , Chicago State University and passed CPA.

You don't really primary and secondary school certificates for all these.

All he needed to do is to attend extra-mural classes, sat for the entrance exams at Richard Dalley and after passing, enrolled for a two-year Diploma program which he passed in flying colours. Such Diplomas with good grades are similar to what we call OND or A-Levels in Nigeria and with that you can get admission into the Universities in America.

9japride:
I believe all these protest are backed by foreign powers. Why is that when these set of Islamic faithfuls go to USA or Europe, they tend to force their way of Islamic lifestyle on their community and it's usually difficult for them to integrate into their host communities? Their women keep wearing hijab in foreign countries and continue with their Islamic lifestyle. So why are they against the lifestyle they love with extreme passion?

The human mind love freedom and can NOT be subdued for a very long time.


Religions place dogmas over reasoning and are entrenched by means of rules,which if too rigid often leads to revolts/rebellions. This is why religious laws are often broken all over the world.

Akin Ogunbiyi should remain in the Accord Party to build it in Osun State or join the APC in Osun State which will need neutral power brokers post Oyetola period.

LalastiklaIa:
Someone up there was saying don't generalize. The average Nigerian Nurse has a hardheart. They are promiscuous, worship money, bad-mouthed and all they know how to do is slimfit their white dress so that their useless ass can be more visible to the highest bidder.

That's why you barely see a doctor marrying a nurse because they know what those b*tches do in public and behind closed doors. Jezebels in white apparel

I understand you frustration and experience.

However, not all Nurses are like that.

As per morality, there are many Nurses who are moral. However, you need to understand that in any female dominated profession, it's natural to see male making advances towards them.

Those slim fitting their uniforms are those between 18-25years who as young ladies won't be different from what other young ladies do.

Doctors , especially the older generation marry nurses alot and the reason is simple; most Medical Schools were isolated in Teaching Hospitals ,away from the rest of their parent universities. When Medical Students got to 400L-600L, they started dating the females they see regularly, the Nursing Students! In the days of old, many such relationships resulted in marriages.

The reasons why Doctors no longer fall for the Nurses is simple: Many College of Medicine now admit more Female Medical Students and there are now many Females studying Medical related courses in those colleges,so there are more options to chose from.

The falling standards of morality also mean many young people can just date, have sex without commitment that can lead to marriages.

stunnert:
Good lawd..... I'm glad I never did because I know I'll be traumatized

What will be the cause of your trauma sir?
That the two people who gave birth to you are still happy with each other and fulfilling their obligations to each other?


What will now happen to people that see another man sleeping with their mums?

chrisxxx:
If Tinubu thinks he can win let him drop APC ticket and pick up the of SDP. APC is the ruling party and with government support his chances of winning stands above 40%.

How do you build a house and in the course of preparations for the house warming, you quit because of the rantings of a random hater on Nairaland?

backnbeta:
Ondo is actually a different state from Lagos sir- albeit they are both in SW, Nigeria. Check very well, the picture says "intercepted in Ondo" and not Lagos.

Hatred and propoganda won't allow them to reason well.

chrisxxx:
Tinubu should pity Nigerians by withdrawing from this madness. Not all of us want to travel out even when we can. We feel comfortable here where the nature is friendly with us than the harsh environmental climate of Europe.
We are at home where we don't feel our circumstance is due to our colour. We are relaxed here where we know all we need to do is to work hard to make ends meet as government has no concern with us.
Tinubu shouldn't give us the last reason to leave. Please let him withdraw from the race.
Buhari can help us to make him a honorary president even if it is for a day since it is his life ling ambition just as Fashola did to a certain boy to be the governor of Lagos just for a day.

Why are people who hate Tinubu advising Tinubu to withdraw from the race instead of working towards getting adequate votes for their preferred candidate who can solve all the problems in Nigeria?

HIGHESTPOPORI:
When did Adeleke govern Osun?

That mean you don't even know the Adelekes in Osun State well enough.

1) Father: Sen Ayoola Adeleke (1979-1983)


2) Son: Gov Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke (Jan,1992-Nov,1993).

Son: Sen Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke (2003-2007)
Senator ,Osun west (2015-2018)

3) Son: Sen Ademola Adeleke ,Osun West (2018-2019)


Sen Ademola Adeleke ,Gov-Elect

Peter Obi should focus on selling his candidacy and party to more people instead of talking about Tinubu this, Tinubu that all the time.

press9jatv:
my local haven’t ask me about this tax before ever since the creation of the local government.

Which tax do you pay to your Local Government?

Obojuju:
It is now obvious to all and sundry that Tinubu has moved from being the overlord in 2015 to an underdog in 2022, just a year to the election. It's even possible that it'll not just rain but pour on Tinubu. Everything that could get wrong is getting wrong to the point that it'll be an upset for Mr Tinubu to come second in the election. In fact, he may likely drag number 3 with Kwakwanso. How did it get so bad for the Lagos landlord?
I think he hadn't reckoned with the emergence of Obi, but rather anticipated a contest between the north and the south. Tinubu was depending on Southern sentiment to arm twist the north with cries of it's the turn of the south. Unfortunately for him, Obi happened and Nigerians just love him.
It's obvious that Tinubu has invested heavily in northerners to buy their loyalty prior to this time. The man and his mafia had hoped that PDP would field a Southerner from SE/SS. They would have used tribalism, religion and ethnic hatred to arm twist the north to support Tinubu who would have been sold as 'a friend of the north' but unfortunately for Tinubu, Atiku happened and became his nemesis in the North. The north no longer need a friend but "one of their own".
And it gets worse...
With Atiku in the picture, Tinubu panicked ... Atiku is a Muslim and Tinubu has no hope of mass votes in the south. The SE and SS are no go areas for him. Now the north that he banked on for years is slipping off his fingers. What was he to do? Tinubu goofed and went to a Muslim running mate to counter Atiku.
He effectively became the only candidate with an opponent in the north stopping his progress and an opponent in the south stopping his progress. That is the story of Tinubu. From overlord to an underdog. He will come a distant 3rd in the next year presidential election.

How exactly is this long epistle related to Yahyah Bello mobilizing youths for his candidate?

gidgiddy:
The blockade effected by Nigeria and Britain led to deaths if many people, Im talking about the aged, women and children. Thats not something anyone forgets in a hurry unless it didnt happen to them.

Then there is this talk about Gowon offering Ojukwu a land corridor so that aid could be delivered to the suffering people, and that Ojukwu turned it down.

A total lie

I posted this about Professor Aluko, a Yoruba man who was both friends to Ojukwu and Gowon, and was heavily involved in trying to reconcile both men throughout the war, in a recent thread that Ojukwu rejected aid coming in through a land corridor

Dr Aluko completely destroyed Goldsteins letter in 2012, it was posted here in the previous thread about this

https://www.nairaland.com/3854388/biafra-war-nigeria-starvation-land

Below is what Dr Aluko said


Dr. Aluko:
It is obfuscation at its most blatant to read
Goldstein letter outside of the rationale for action
taken by Ojukwu and the Biafran leadership.
I'll attempt to answer your earlier questions posed
to me alonsgide this, because they are related.
- The first question was why Ojukwu did not, given
that Biafra had shrunk dramatically, not surrender
to save starving Biafrans.


- The second is, to link it to the substance of
Goldstein's letter, why Ojukwu insisted on ceasefire
and the airlift of relief to Biafrans as the only
grounds or conditions for accepting relief.
First, Ojukwu knew that an internationally observed
ceasefire was the only guarantee for the security
and safety of the Biafran. Second, the atrocities
recorded wherever the federal forces liberated lent
credence to that demand. In fact, it made it
imperative, particularly because the Lagos regime
was not prepared to negotiate in true faith for the
amicable end of the conflict.


The war strategy of the Gowon administration was
hell-bent on Biafra's complete surrender without
guarantees. No political and military leader will
agree to that kind of suicide. I'll return to this
point. But let me quote from Susan Cronje's quite
illuminating book, The World and Nigeria: The
Diplomatic History of the Biafran war 1967-1970
( I'd also recommend that you read the other,
Biafra: Britain's Shame). Cronje writes this about
the meeting in Niamey referenced by Goldstein:
"The Nigerian delegation was led by Chief
Awolowo, but General Gowon arrived in Niamey on
16 July and addressed the meeting as an
'observer.'

The main theme of his speech was a
warning that if the 'rebels persist in their
contemptuous attitude to the conference table the
federal government will have no choice but to take
over the remaining rebel-held areas...In military
terms the rebellion is virtually suppressed already.'
But the atmosphere had suibtly changed. hamani
diori had altrady suggested that the committee's
consultative role should be changed to a mediatory
one, and after Gowon's address the committee
went into closed session. Eventually it was
announced that that Ojukwu had been asked to
attend, and Gowon who had already returned to
Lagos flew back to Niamey the following day,
cancelling all engagements. His presence in
Niamey was required not for a meeting with
Ojukwu but to reply to a truce proposal put forward
among others by General Ankrah. This called for a
ten-mile wide demilitarized zone patrolled by
neutral troops to allow relief supplies to pass to
Biafran refugees. According to one account of the
debate, Gowon is said to have turned to General
Ankrah, saying, 'You are a military man: you know
what it is with commanders.'

The suggestion that
he might be unable to restrain his army was
reinforced when he warned the committee that if it
did not see things his way they would have to have
'a Nigeria without me.' According to a Niamey
radio report the following day, General Gowon
rejected the resolution put to him by the O.A.U.
committee; the main points of this resolution were
the establishment of a demilitarized zone and 'an
international force which would include neutral
observers acceptable to both sides.' Ghana and
Cameroun, the broadcast said, had offered
shipping facilities for moving relief supplies.
Ojukwu arrived in Niamey on 19 July in President
Houphet-Boigny's private jet.

The Biafran
delegation, when it was fully assembled, included
Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the former Nigerian president,
Dr. Okpara, former Eastern Nigerian premier, Sir
Louis Mbanefo, Dr. Eni Njoku and several other
notables; Lagos was not far off in suggesting that
the 'entire rebel leadership' had assembled in
Niger. At the end of the meeting between Ojukwu
and the consltative committee - Gowon had
returned to Lagos two days previously - a
communique was issued. Two versions appear to
be in existence; the one broadcast by Niamey radio
read:

(1) the Nigerian Federal Military Government
and Colonel Ojukwu have agreed to meet immediately in Niamey under the chairmanship of
President Diori Hamani in order to begin
preliminary talks on a speedy resumption of
Nigerian peace negotiations;

(2) the Nigerian
Federal Military Government and Colonel Ojukwu
have agreed to resume as soon as possible peace
negotiations in Addis Ababa under the auspices of
the O.A.U Consultative Committee on Nigeria.' The
version as broadcast by Lagos - and which does
not pretend to be a verbatim report - said that the
committee had called on both parties to resume
peace talks as soon as possible, '... with the
objecvtive of preserving Nigeria's territiorial
integrity and guaranteeing the security of all its
inhabitants.' The committee said, according to this
broadcast, that 'it will be in contact with the federal
military government, and Ojukwu or his
representativs may at any time contact any
member government of the committee.' The Lagos
version went on to cite two further point of which
ther was no mention in the Niamey version, both
dealing with relief, and appealing to the two sides
to undertake various mesures to alleviate the
suffering among war victims.


In view of the strong criticism that has been
levelled at the Biafran leadership for its
intrasigence, and the high praise heaped o General
Gowon and his Government for humanitarian
concern and magnanimity, it should be stressed
that in Niamey Gowon rejected the O.A.U
proposals for a partial truce and international
policing of relief routes, while Ojukwu was
prepared to accept both these proposals. When
Ojukwu returned to Biafra, he gave a press
conference at which he was asked whether his
invitation to the OAU had meant any form of
recognition of him. For once Ojukwu was cautious
in his reply: 'Let's put it this way. My presence in
Niamey for once represents the O.A.U's acceptance
that there are two sides to a conflict.' He would not
reveal any further details about the forthcoming
Addis Ababa peace talk, but said, 'I find myself in
a rather simillar situation as after Aburi.' He did
not want to say anything in case Lagos started
'interpreting it, and go back to square
one..." (302-303)

The foregoing provides the clear context of the
situation, that it was not Ojukwu, but Gowon who
rejected the proposals by which Ojukwu and the
Biafran leadership was prepared to abide.The
context is clearly established and makes nonsense
of Golsdstein's ground for resignation.

While the Biafran government was prepared to act
without precondition, the Nigerian authorities
persistenly insisted on Biafran surrender. It was a
deliberate and determined argument made to make
certain that the only solution was by a military
solution because Lagos knew that the basic
grounds on which it made its offer of relief was
conditional and unconscionable.

It was to disavow
the very basic reason why Biafra defended itself in
the first place: its sovereignty as a means to the
safety, security and dignity of its population. Now,
were the Gowon administration acting in good
faith, that would be a differet matter. What
guaratees could Biafrans have, had Ojukwu
surrendered as a condition for food? None.
Here is the evidence narrated by John Stremlau in
his The International Politics of the Nigerian Civil
War how Gowon's cable upturned the agreements
reached in May 1968 in kampala between Eni
Njoku and Enahoro in which Eni Njoku had in fact
"conceded the evntuality of one-Nigeria."

As Stremalau notes, "Whereas Enahoro had left
acceptance of the twelve-state structure implicit
in his propsals, Gowon insisted that before any
agreement was reached the rebels must explictly
embrace the twelve states. In addition, Gowon
stipulated that there would be no question of an
interim commission for the rebel-held areas, there
would be no recruitment and formation of Ibo
units into the federal armed forces, and no
elements of the rebel troops or police would be
allowed to retain their arms. Gowon's instruction,
which did not reach Kampala until shortly after
Enahoro had made his presentation, clearly
reflected the views of the more hawkish elements
in the federal government" (172-173).


To put these in summary:
(a) Ojukwu did not reject relief, he wanted the
security and guarantee of safety for Biafrans. He
was in fact willing to accept the O.A.U's proposals

(b) Gowon and the Lagos administration
manipulated international propaganda, as testified
in the versions of the broadcasts of the Niamey
agreement to further its own goals of the
liquidation of Biafra

(c) The federal government was not, in spite of all
the efforts made by the Biafrans willing to
negotiate peace, they were hell-bent on
"surrender" as the only condition for the survival
of the Biafran population.

If anybody must bear responsbility, it must be
those who kept using the talks to elongate the
suffering of the civilian population, and clearly this
are the 'hawks" who placed the only condition for
peace on Biafra's surrender and liquidation. And
there, you have it.

Stop writing Epistles, the war wasn't between Gowon and Ojukwu. It was a Nigerian Affairs that transcended beyond these two individuals.


The Federal Military Government offered a safe landed Corridor for movement of relief materials subject to 100% by the Nigerian Security Agencies. The Biafran authority who were smuggling weapons desguised as relief materials rejected this offer.


What efforts did Biafra made to grow foods for their people during the war?
Where were the Biafran soldiers getting their own foods from?

Why prolonging the war when your people were dying and using images of starving children and women to appeal for donations and recognitions all over the world?


Didn't you ask for the Food Storages before the unilateral declaration of secession which is an act of war all over the world?



In any case, going to war and basing your survival on the magnanimity and cooperation of your opponents is a poor sense of judgement and might as well be considered an act of suicide.

Without that blockade , the senseless destruction of lives and properties would have persisted for upto 10years.