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This must be a joke

Musiwa2: i dont think cassava bread is a smart move. i think, they should help local farmer grow wheat.. that way it become an export earner for the nation.

a tonne of wheat sell above $300

Of course, it is not within the realm of possibility for the clueless crew!

I didn't know this post had been submitted whereas Nairaland was telling me I should repost later.


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If you have any, please call Gabriel on: 08037026496 or Segun 07067608255. Remember to mention that you saw the advert on Nairaland.

Location: Vi,Ikoyi or Lekki.

Specification: Minimum 5,500 sq m

Corn meal

spikes C: Damn!!!! you look so.....
Can we go on a date, its actually not cheating you know

*goes off to check her profile*

*panting*


Hmmmm, not bad.

@ OP, if this is what you wear to those dates with 'friends', he has reasons to be jealous!


All these ladies with friends sha! Even when they know that the so-called friends have intentions, they still have excuses to go on dates with them. Friends with benefits my foot! Why won't the guy be green-eyed?

This is your life...





Car Talk / Re: I Became An Automobile Apprentice At 7 – Coscharis Boss by FSU: 6:18am On Jul 08

Bluetooth,

I see that you have so much experience with Babalawos. That is why you assume everyone else does. BTW, how did Otedola and Adenuga make their money? By killing and eating human flesh like most Yorubas do abi? So those your pastors (Adeboye etc) do rituals in the night to?

What do you have to say about this thread? https://www.nairaland.com/983856/suspected-al-qaeda-nigerian-members-arraigned


10pm On Jul 07

Ejiné: Say no to tribalism 


The suspects are Yoruba. Aren't they? When did speaking it as is become tribalism?



Politics / Re: Otedola Overtakes Dame Patience by FSU: 11:38pm On Jul 04

Yeske!:
Excuse me!
Didn't you listen to the audio release part 1------ yarcraft-aircraft, yarport-airport?


You will have to excuse Femi on the terrible pronunciation of those words. That is how Yorubas pronounce English words. Like house = aus   

You are an ape. I have never seen you post any meaningful thing on Nairaland other than ethnic bashing and character assassination.

Get a life!

dexcity: Who told you that its only Lagos that has Airport(s)??

"Some of them are forming diasporan, writing nonsense grammar...'I heard...I heard...bla, bla, bla. Whereas most of them have never been to any airport be it local or international."

What part of that is difficult for you to comprehend?

yemmight: Do you know Lagos at all?

Abeg, help me ask am o!

Some of them are forming diasporan, writing nonsense grammar...'I heard...I heard...bla, bla, bla. Whereas most of them have never been to any airport be it local or international.

As for those of them in the remote villages and rustic towns, their only moments of glory are when an uncle or aunt is magnanimous enough to invite them over for holidays. I can understand their frustrations!

Some folks will still come here to ask for the meanings of their names

@ OP
Sorry, you cannot have it all. People differ, so learn to live with what you cannot change.

Imho, coming up with a thread about things that annoy you shows that you are also intolerant.

I also can list so many things especially users with multiple ids who enjoy trolling. But then, where is the fun, if they can't feel free to be errant even on cyberspace?

But if something can be done about tribalism, especially OPs starting threads that have the propensity to degenerate into ethnic/tribal or religious bashing, that would be very great.

However,I think there is more to life than Nairaland. Hence, we should learn not to take things too personal!

Eziachi: I can heartily say that I am neither anti or pro of any politician and Goodluck Jonathan is of no exception and Nigeria will be the last place I will even think of supporting any politician no matter where they come from. The opium to a longer and peaceful life, I had been thought from childhood is to say things the way you see it, not the way you see fit and tell the truth at all times irrespective of how it will be received.

Someone under this thread made some statement that Nigerians hates all their leaders as part of their way of life. I had to say that is not actually the truth. Nigerian crooked politicians don't know how lucky they are to be ruling a country as apathetic as Nigeria where you can do all you like and no one will bath an eye lid. So you can say that Nigeria from day one are blessed with nonentities as leaders, and one thing you are guaranteed with them is that a new one will be far worse that the one he succeeded.

I had doubt about Jonathan right from his days as deputy governor of Bayelsa. That he is an "oh yes" kind of person, who is quite comfortable and happy that he has found himself among the big guys (Owners of Nigeria). You see people like him right from your days at school, at work and in business and they are called the boy-boy of the establishment. As long as they are okay and belong, they are okay. They say little but dangerous in private.

Only a fool will expect Jonathan to solve all the problem of Nigeria even if he is given a whole 30 years, but if he makes a start with one single issue and succeed in it, I will not complain, but the fact that he in power, just for being there and he is neither cold or hot but rather like a look warm tea in the mouth, very unpleasant.
Another of Nigeria emergency and unprepared for leadership rulers, every single ruler of Nigeria from day one had always been accidental and few other that wanted it and prepared for it, irrespective of their flawed personal characters were never allowed. Azikiwe, Awolowo, Olu Falea, Abiola, Maitama Sule are few Nigerians that wanted leadership than been begged to be one but for some accidents of history never gets it. Today, Buhari is another guy that wants it but you and I knew he has more chance of winning American Idol than getting it and the trend continues after Jonathan.

Why can't Jonathan hug and ally himself to the masses that are looking for a real leader and discard all the crocodiles around him? What has he got to lose? Nigerians are crying out for a real man leader who will be on their side once for a change, but every sign has shown that Jonathan is not the man.

He loves the statu quo, the opulence and extravagance you expect from a normal Nigeria leader and embrace it with an open arm.
Those that had been on this forum few years back could remember when I use to be called Mr Biafra as I was the sole voice then telling guys here that Nigeria was designed to fail from the start and no amount patch up will ever fix Nigeria.
And any time spent doing so is a time that could have been used to start building new nations out of it.

But events in the last few months has made people to change their tone and ways of thinking, especially those of Yoruba leaning, who use to see the word Biafra/Ojukwu as unpalatable goose. How I wish that Jonathan will man up and give everybody the right either to continue in this charade called Nigeria or not and write his name in the stone of history. Its a single act that can wipe out Boko Haram and other problems out in an instant.
But he has got the will, boldness, gut and intelligent to even think about it, let alone do it.

A Daniel has come to judgement. God bless you brother!

Snipose: I am a Christian but it is funny d way most of us refer to Islam as violent. Forgetting that according to Statistics, more blood has been shed in the Name of God by "Christians" than by all other religions put together. If in doubt google "the dark ages"/ the "Crusades" Abeg leave Islam out of this. Every religion has sycophants.

Really, with the Ayatollahs, Saddam Husseins, Osamas and organisations like AlQaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah et.al Religion of peace (piss) my foot!

mu2sa2: I really dont understand Nigerian Christianity. Every one of the 000s of denominations is claiming to in the right. Some even dont allow their members to marry Christians not members of their Church. Pls can anyone tell me whether these churches are preaching Christianity or self-interest. And the stupendously rich pastors(overseer, prophet or whatever title) that hav amassed vast personal fortunes - are they following the example of Jesus? Pls anybody with answer may educate me.

Let me just ask. Are you always this open-minded when Islam or your Imams are subjects of discussion?

sayusuf: all your evil plan against hausa/fulani will not yield any fruit..your alliance will fail mysterably.
Do you know why you will not overcome the strong forces of hausa/fulani?.do you know why you can not even confront us?..just one reason
COWARDNESS.Imagin yoruba man seing death,chai!..see run.bayarabe yaga mutuwa.igbo,they worship money, middle belt, slaves.
Average hausa/fulani man is never afraid of death..we embrace it, kiss it, Bleep it....the history of d world is written with blood, let it flows freely....see u at d battle field

Aboki, una be commandos abi? Wars are not fought with infantry anymore. just let us declare war and see how Yorubas will decimate you with drones. You know you guys flock like cattle!

Eziachi: \
Why must all homicide crime in Nigeria has to be connected with ethnic strife, religious strife or Boko Haram.
So a business gone wrong can't be a link to murder anymore?
political enemy can't kill anymore?
family/friends don't plan evil anymore?
Even your own wife, child or husband can get you killed for personal gain.
God! hired/contract killers in Nigeria must be the happiest in the world as there is no chance of them been caught as everybody will be looking at Boko Haram.

Have you read the story? Maybe we can then discuss this after you have read the report.

namfav: you are blaming the wrong person,
but how do you think datong did not fail the plateau?

You seem to know more than you are telling us. Was he ever a governor? In what way and capacity was he executing the 'failed policies'?

Your quest for domination in a place that doesn't belong to you fuelled by the religion that has little or no regard for the sanctity of human lives is responsible. That, Mr Boko Haram, is the truth.

namfav: gyang datong is part of the reason why plateau hasn't had the peace, he is just a victim of his own faulty policies and neglect, i hope this is a warning to the person who takes over

And now peace will reign on the plateau now that you have killed him?

torkaka: ever wondered why after all these years nigeria still remains in the back waters? because we blame the wrong people!
it is not northern elites that marginalised nigerians, it is nigerian elites(both north and south)

Much as I would want to agree with the fact that we have the Nigerian malaise. There is also the problem peculiar to the North. There is a deliberate attempt to pauperize their citizenry. How many Northen governors are making appreciable impacts in areas of Health, education, infrastructure etc. without FG's intervention?
I served in Taraba state between 2003 and 2004 and it was amazing how the governor was ruling the state from Abuja. He was never around. It was the same story with most Northern governors then (even till now).He would only come when it was time to share the allocation. There was only one major road leading into the town- Hamman Ruwa Way. No meaningful development. This same Taraba was created at the same time with Ekiti. You cannot compare both states now.

The North should be introspective and discard their feudal system which is ingrained in the democratic system. How many Northern leaders give scholarships to indigent students inspite of their enormous wealth? What do they give back to their communities except to build mosques?

We should tell ourselves the hard truths because 'conscience is an open wound'...

alaoeri: Marginalised as how where's the vice president, senate president, speaker house of rep from, SW supposed to be asking this question. Something is wrong with this op.

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Do not forget the office of the CJN which has been their exclusive preserve since time immemorial.

eledalo: This, coming from someone that can't even spell 'trash' properly.

Modified, thanks. The purpose was to point out that we all make mistakes!

@ OP
Could you just be more specific? In what aspect is the north marginalised? Appointments or allocation of resources?

...And the blame game continues.

Super1759: Poor grammer.from the topic,u have flaws 2 d end.learn ² proofread ur work

Same applies to you. Check the trash you have written.

Degis: This your shabby attempt at revisionism calls for serious concern because if you were matured enough to decipher issues and happenings at that time, you will realize that no single individual regardless of how wealthy and powerful he is, can fight a military government successfully without support of the international community. If you were alive then, you will remember that people like Mandela, Thambo Mbeki, Walter Sisulu went on exile to solicit and bring to bear on the Apartheid government the need to retract their steps from perfidy and from the path of opprobrium .

If American interest at that time were threaten directly by the presence of Abacha and his fellow bandits, the American government would have garnered support from the rest of the international community and would have generated a UN Resolution to flush them out without any dissenting opinion and restored MKO's mandate regardless of MKO's friendships, business dealings, and his incessant demand for reparations

Thank you my brother. Maybe, he should tell us the role he played then since he was 'old' enough to have an opinion. Perhaps, it would have been condescending for him to join the bandwagon of 'freedom fighters' or fight for a Yoruba man's mandate. He should tell us what he would have done differently if he were Abiola.
The example of Cote D'ivorie is still fresh in our memories.

For those who were not old enough to know, Abacha was a maximum ruler. A dictator in the mould of Ghadaffi and Idi Amin. Everyone in the country was living in palpable fear and no form of freedom was taken for granted.

The arrangement he was referring to was the political solution decided by the political class after IBB had stepped aside. But little did they know that Abacha had different plans. Abacha wanted to remain in power rather than conclude the elections as agreed after toppling Shonekan.

If Abiola had remained in the country, would Abacha had given him the mandate?

rokiatu: hehehe I am not shocked. People usually think I am the bad girl type but am not.

Three actually luv, married the third one so thank God for that.

Never knew you are married! Congrats

I had just gotten back to my hostel after an evening lecture when a course mate came to see me. Being an 'aluta conscious' student, he asked if I had heard the news,I said what was in the news, had there been another coup? He replied that he heard on BBC that Abiola had passed on. We, the students of Obafemi Awolowo University, believed that they would release him. Immediately Abacha died, we had series of protests demanding for his unconditional release and reinstatement. In fact, our hopes were rekindled when he had the meetings with Anyaoku, Kofi Annan and the US delegation. So, I felt he was joking or probably meant he had been released.

While still brooding over it, the leadership of the Students' Union had invaded the halls of residence to mobilise students to protest against the agonising death of Basorun MKO Abiola. We knew it was a conspiracy and Abiola had been murdered.

And so we protested. Students were killed and maimed by the agents of government. The school was closed down indefinitely but re-opened after some weeks.

As we remember him today, I also remember all those who sacrificed for the democracy we are enjoying today. It is also sad to note that many who did not sow are now reaping. From sinators, legislooters, governors and even the president.
When we complain, they would not understand that this democracy came at a heavy price and people paid dearly for it. Most prominent was Basorun Abiola who gave his life for it.

Full Story...

The Day Abiola Died
07 Jul 2012




By Dele Momodu


Fellow Nigerians, exactly 14 years ago Nigeria lost a rare and priceless gem, Chief Moshood Abiola, a proud son of Africa. What you are about to read may appear, momentarily, as being stranger than fiction but trust me, it is absolutely factual. Nigeria has indeed come a long way since that dark season when a handful of influential Nigerians chose to play God by collaborating to annul a process that would definitely have brought our nation closer to its glorious destination. Fourteen years after the symbol of that struggle Chief Moshood Abiola died in mysterious circumstances, it is only pertinent to remind ourselves of the salient stages that we’ve crossed since then. It is a tale full of twists and turns and one that would keep you spellbound by its superlative revelations.


In the early hours of July 5, 1998, Tokunbo Afikuyomi and I left Nduka Obaigbena’s apartment on Park Street, by Park Lane, and trekked all the way to Marble Arch, where we boarded a Black Cab. We had spent the whole night virtually discussing the intractable problems of Nigeria. The three of us were united by one thing, exile. We had served our various stints as refugees on the run from the draconian military regime in Nigeria. Nduka was the first to regain freedom after the sudden death of the maximum ruler, General Sani Abacha, and the take-over of power by the gentleman General, Abdulsalami Abubakar. Nduka had always succeeded as a journalist because of the impeccable sources at his beck and call. His position that night was to warn us about the dangers of not getting Abiola out as soon as possible. Even when you disagree with him on issues, Nduka’s one whose opinion must always be considered. He was not a member of NADECO but he was an Abiola sympathiser. Nduka would readily acknowledge his long-standing friendship with the man Nigerians freely handed their mandate despite occasional disagreements. 


There were dozens of freedom fighters scattered around Europe, United States of America and Canada. Most of us operated under the aegis of National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) while others hid under different formations and organisations. The principal operatives of the war against the military adventurers included Pa Anthony Enahoro, Commodore Dan Suleman, Lt General Alani Ipoola Akinrinade, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, Chief Amos Akingba, Chief Tunde Obadan, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Hon. Wale Osun, Chief Cornelius Adebayo, Chief Ralph Obioha, and so many others forced to flee the land of their birth. Some of those who chose to stay back at home to slug it out with the military were languishing in various improvised gulags and archipelagos all over Nigeria. Chief among the detainees was Basorun Moshood Abiola who had undoubtedly won the Presidential election held on June 12, 1993, and adjudged the best and fairest ever witnessed in our country.


Many other political gladiators who chose to stay back suffered various degrees of punishment including threats, harassments, mass arrests, detention without trial, torture, and outright murder. Such personalities include Pa Alfred Rewane, Prof Wole Soyinka, Pa Adekunle Ajasin, Chief Bola Ige, Alhaja Kudirat Abiola, Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe, Rear-Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu, Chief Abdul-Ganiyu Oyesola Fawehinmi, Pa Abraham Adesanya, Chief Olabiyi Durojaiye, Aremo Olusegun Osoba, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Chief Olanihun Ajayi, Mr Femi Falana, Mr Beekololari Ransome-Kuti, Mr Olisa Agbakoba, Pa Solanke Onasanya, Chief Ayo Opadokun, Comrade Frank Kokori Dr Kayode Fayemi, Mr Richie Dayo Johnson, Mr George Noah, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, Mr Kunle Ajibade, and many of those opposed to military dictatorship in Nigeria.


What started as a poor joke on June 16, 1993, when we got hints that the election might be annulled would, sooner than later, snowball into a major conflagration and haunt Nigeria till this day. For those who reasoned like me, we had assumed that Abiola was coasting home to victory from all accounts available immediately after the elections closed on June 12, 1993. I was in Vienna, Austria, to represent Chief Abiola at the Bruno Kreisky Award presented to Chief Gani Fawehinmi on June 11, 1993 and could not make it back in time for the election. I left Austria on Sunday, June 13 to London where I started monitoring the results that appeared in Abiola’s favour. Unknown to most Nigerians what’s after six is always more than seven.


On Monday June 14, I got through to Nduka Obaigbena in Lagos who had some high-level information that Abiola was going to win the election but that it would be cancelled. In a powerful voice, Nduka told me to get Chief Abiola urgently and persuade him to reach out to General Ibrahim Babangida who was, apparently, under intense pressure, possibly, from some malevolent forces, to truncate the elections and declare them null and void. I argued with Nduka (in utter naiveté, retrospectively) that it was impossible for anyone to attempt such a dastardly act. I later confirmed that Nduka actually passed the same information to Dr Doyinsola Hamidat Abiola who, like me, found such contemplation too cruel and contemptible to be attempted by anyone. Little did we appreciate the sheer determination of those who could not be bothered if Nigeria burnt down to ashes as a result of their most reckless action. They had convinced themselves, like all Nigerian leaders, past and present that Nigerians were too docile and divided to unite and fight for any worthy cause.


They were right and wrong. They were right that they could abort a pregnancy in its ninth month but they were wrong in not calculating the risks involved. The world would later feel the vibrations of such a kamikaze plunge that threw Nigeria from the pinnacle of the temple all the way down the abyss of hell.


The plots and intrigues occurred at different locations and settings at the velocity of wildfire in harmattan. Chief Abiola was kept in solitary confinement, and incommunicado from the society at large. All efforts to liberate him from his kidnappers failed. A fierce but controversial legal battle raged in the courts. Offers of bail with conditions, and were offered to Chief Abiola but studiously rebuffed, willy-nilly, by those who did not realise how far the enemies of June 12 were ready to go. We’ll later realise that Chief Abiola was totally oblivious to the deadly chess game going on outside from the condition in which he found himself. At the height of our frustration and desperation in exile, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and I had surreptitiously met with some Germans who boasted they could enter Nigeria, locate Abiola and set him free but the risks involved were just too gargantuan to undertake, personally or collectively. We soon perished such thoughts.


Abiola’s whereabouts and state of mind remained unknown even to members of his family. What was certain was that the military authorities were working hard on breaking his hard resolve.  This much was later confirmed in a Sunday Times of London publication of July 5, 1998. Tokunbo Afikuyomi and I had picked up the first edition of the famous newspaper at Marble Arch just before we boarded the cab that drove us to our homes in Hampstead Heath and Southgate respectively. A story inside the paper caught our instant attention. A Sunday Times reporter had followed the United Nations Secretary-General, Mr Kofi Annan on his peace-mission to Nigeria. According to the news report, Abiola was met in high spirits in detention but he was not aware of many things going on outside. The reporter claimed Abiola was allowed to watch a television but the volume had been disabled. This was contrary to the rosy picture painted by Nigerian media about Abiola’s newfound comfort and cosiness with the Abdulsalami regime. The spin doctors had regaled us with how Abiola was already negotiating his imminent release from detention when he should be at his desk in Aso Rock sorting out the many problems of Nigeria.


Anyway, both Kofi Annan and Chief Emeka Anyaoku (who was the Commonwealth Secretary-General at that time) had met separately with Abiola and neither of them could extract a commitment from him that he would honour agreements worked out for his bail conditions. The detained man had confessed to being in the clouds and did not know what went on outside. His case was actually more miserable than we had imagined. I was deeply troubled by this news report.


A few hours later, I got a call from Wura Abiola to review and exchange latest development. I immediately told her about the report in Sunday Times. She became emotional and started asking, rhetorically, if there was nothing that could be done to get their dad freed. She said she was on her way to Cambridge and would come back to discuss further with me. I became very apprehensive myself and was engulfed by a premonition that Abiola was going to die in detention.


The feeling was so palpable that I decided to call a friend of mine at LTV8 to share my fears on Abiola’s precarious condition. I remember my friend saying it was impossible for Abiola to die in prison. I wished I was that confident.


On Tuesday morning of July 7, 1998, I received a strident call from Mr Yinka Ibidunni, a famous blind broadcaster at Spectrum Radio in London. I had reluctantly picked the call as I barely went to bed a few hours earlier. As soon as he heard my croaky voice, he queried why I was asleep when my adopted father, Abiola, was about to be killed. He was unequivocal and brusquely emphatic. “Who wants to kill my father?” I asked in a manner that suggested incredulity. It was difficult to imagine anyone would want to harm a man as genuinely caring as Abiola.


This encounter happened just after 7a.m that fateful morning. Mr Ibidunnu pursued his argument to its logical conclusion. He asked if I had not listened to the BBC interviews of America’s emissaries, Thomas Pickering and Susan Rice, who were in Abuja ostensibly to persuade Abiola to forget his mandate and give room for political stability in Nigeria. According to Mr Ibidunni, the Americans were asked about their mission after both Annan and Anyaoku (though Chief Anyaoku told me many years later that he never asked Abiola to forget his mandate) who knew the African terrain better could not persuade Abiola to drop his mandate, and their response startled him, when they said if Abiola fails to agree to a deal, he would have become a danger to Nigeria.  This was what started and nurtured the conspiracy theory that the Americans had a hand in his death. But my question was this: why would America send senior officials to kill Abiola in Nigeria? I will never buy such preposterous theory.


At any rate, I pulled myself out of bed after Mr Ibidunni had managed to annul my sleep. I called Wuraola to tell her of Mr Ibidunni’s doomsday prophecy. We became frantic and decided to issue a press release pleading with the pro-democracy activists to understand the dangers Abiola was being exposed to by refusing to agree to bail conditions. Wuraola composed the release, and we faxed back and forth to fine-tune it. The final copy came through to me at 4.03pm and I was going to forward it to a few media houses when I got the most shocking news of my life. Wuraola was screaming some inaudible things at the other end… Something like “they said they have killed Daddy o” but to me it sounded like “they have released Daddy o” because that’s what we were expecting. Abiola was said to have died at about 4pm that day. Unknown to us our press release was a waste of efforts as the man we want released was already on a journey back to his Creator.


Within a twinkle of an eye, my phone was inundated with calls from all over the world with international journalists asking all manner of questions I could not answer. I was so devastated that I didn’t know when I started querying God. Why would Chief Abiola die in such a manner, after languishing in various cells for four years? Why should Abiola die on the second birthday of my second son, Enitanyole? The coincidence was too painful to bear. One of his last prayers before his arrest was for my wife to conceive and bear children as activism and advocacy had combined to make it impossible for me to spend enough time at home with my young wife. His prayers were answered but we had all our children in his absence.


As my mind raced through this stream of consciousness, I just knew Nigeria was in big trouble. It was only a matter of time before our country would begin to pay a heavy price for this thoughtlessness… We have continued to wobble and fumble from one crisis to another ever since. And it is not known how it would all end.


The more we try to run away from June 12, the more the defiant child continues to humiliate us. Those who think Abiola and June 12 are long dead and buried have missed the point. 
The prodigy just won’t go away. Believe me.

Ordinarily, I would not want to be called an Anti-Jonathan but he has let me down with some of his actions/inactions since he got his mandate.

However, for those who call themselves Pro-Jonathan, I wish to remind them that he is the GCFR and not a regional or clanish president. I respect him and wish him well as the C in C but all the goodwill he enjoyed (is enjoying) has not translated into good fortunes for me and Nigerians as a whole. A fact that most of you cannot deny.
Our man seems unprepared and incapable of steering the wheel of this nation. I can't imagine our president saying he was not the cause of our problems, but he promised to be the solution and we voted him in. So, I'll continue to hold him liable for breach of trust until he improves his performances.