₦airaland Forum

Irony1:
You are just using grammar to demonstrate how dense you are. where in the world is there a supersonic highway. Even the coastal roads very few are dualised roads some of them are for linking tourist spots and attractions in most parts of the world. You people are just shameless and dense walahi. up till now no proper EIA was done on the project if it was the dangers of the submarime cable and the communities would have been highlighted. We don't even know the actual route the road will take it is just guess work and the rantings of that ITK called Umahi saying there will be a spur linking various road, the question is where is the design to show us the spur we no see. then we have you, using grammer to show dense and senseless behavior with confidence.

no be only super sonic na Sonic the hedgehog.

ARE you done wailing ? IF YES, you can now go back into that hole you crawl out of. IF NOT YET, better increase the volume of your wail and make that tears of yours minimal so you don't get into GWR as the cause of the FIRST TEARS-CAUSED FLOOD on earth. Don't drown yourself and family in such sorrow borne out of hatred. The choice is yours though. My last response to you on this.

That's grand

Piracy is evil and a crime that's punishable under NIGERIAN rule of law. Avoid it!

Jokes

Good

Okada riders still operating in LAGOS?

Bloody SUNDAY it was. May GOD strenghten the families of the deceased and grant the injured speedy recovery.

May GOD grant the deceased eternal rest and hasten the recovery of the injured. That was a sad SUNDAY for the community. May,GOD strenghten the deceased relations.

Lagos to Calabar, Abuja to,Lagos, PH to Maiduguri and,Lagos to Sokoto are essential supersonic highways that would define the success of this administration on road network if religiously facilitated as all regions in the country as well as most major cities,would've been covered.

StOla:
I reckon these are the type of basic projects that Nigeria needs to provide 21st century utilities for the people?

Imagine the cavemen we share a country with.

YOU underestimate their hatred and bitterness. it's the only thing they know and promote.

That's not good enough, not at all.

This minister of interior is pushing so hard that you begin to get the feelings that this nation will work again.

Noted

Cool

yinkabeauty:
You think you made sense with this unnecessarily extended jargon you wrote, especially when you can't do without contaminating your write up with unwarranted attack on people's ethnic group and abuses , that's what i condemned in the initial post but behold, there was no adjustment.... okay no problem then, that aside.
.............

How did I almost missed this？
I'll try to be brief and precise with this though. To start, You're beginning to look like a drowning floundering and grabbing at anything, straws to be specific, for survival. You're just bringing up cases upon cases unnecessarily. To the best of my knowledge, this discuss started with your wrong notion that YORUBA and IGBO shouldn't have co-existed in a single country hence my rebuttal, citing evidences of co-existence before amalgamation that which you blamed for it. That led us to the reason the two are at loggerhead and IRONSI came into the picture. So you pretending not to know why those evidences had to be cited denotes your poor understanding of the development or perhaps, you don't understand the meaning of your assertion.
Secondly, little in the context of my argument over inter-tribal wars is absolutely relative. The context was in comparism with the clannish/communities battles against one another. If you care to disagree then you have to present evidence the former were more. So, I don't understand why you go on naming them when I didn't deny their existence.
Lastly, don't be deceived by their unified language （ENGLISH in this case）, the USA is a multi-racial and multi-cultural advance union where everybody （including the aboriginals who ain't surpassed or conquered）put all differences aside to forge a better standard of living for all. The UK, the same. The sovereignties that came together have diversed root but all have one interest. The growth of all. And that's the British intention for us until a certain region decided to outsmart others and destroy it all.
OH, lest I forget, I haven't exonerated the BRITS over their colonial loots and other maltreatments. It's not what the argument is all about. The argument is their intention behind the amalgamation and it's clear the system they left for us was driving us aright until we started another cunny way THAT TAKE US WHERE WE ARE NOW.
THIS IS MY LAST RESPONSE ON THIS BUT MY POINT IS CLEAR- AGUIYI IRONSI AND HIS BROTHERS ARE ALL THERE ARE TO BE BLAMED FOR OUR DISUNITY, NOT OTHER ETHNICITIES AND NOT THE BRITS.

Racoon:
@EuropaLeague

What a moment for him!

DMerciful:
Too many words which you intended to conveal this simple fact. Before Ironsi it was four(4) regions, after Ironsi, it remained four (4)regions.

Whatever administrative system he introduced can easily be reversed. Gowon broke the 4 regions to 12 states making it an irreversible change

FROM the start I never argued whether GOWON couldn't or could've reversed it. I had even stated that GOWON took advantage of the foolish mistake IRONSI made. But what I'm on at is that IRONSI broke the REGIONAL YOKE and INTRODUCED UNITARY SYSTEM. Basic! My argument was clear. Don't drag me around for a mudfight.

@gidgiddy, @DMerciful, the point and,stories continues here that column could take no more.


particularly in many parts of Northern Nigeria at that time. On his return to Kaduna on May 27, Col. Hassan Katsina was besieged with demands for an explanation. It was feared that in a unified service, Northerners would be at a disadvantage. It was no consolation that the Decree provided for the delegation of
appointments and promotions, except the most senior, to
Provincial Civil Service Commissions.

Sadly on 29 July 1966, General Aguiyi-Ironsi and the
Military Governor of Western Region, Lt. Col. Francis
Adekunle Fajuyi were murdered in Ibadan during a meeting
with the traditional rulers from all parts of the country.


THE 1979 CONSTITUTION- HOW IT CONTRIBUTED TO EMPOWER THE CENTRAL THE MORE：

Late Professor Ben Nwabueze

In 1975 Brigadier General Murtala Mohammed GCFR (8
November 1938 – 13 February 1976), he was at that time a
brigadier, approached Chief Frederick Rotimi Alade Williams
SAN (16 December 1920 – 26 March 2005) to be the
chairman of the 50-man Constitutional Drafting Committee.
Chief Williams told Brigadier Murtala Mohammed that he
would accept the job on two conditions, among which is that
Professor Benjamin Obi Nwabueze (22 December 1931-29
October, 2023) from Atani in Anambra state must be a
member of the committee. Chief Williams told me this story
himself when I covered proceedings of the committee which
were usually held in his residence in Ilupeju, Lagos. I asked
why he insisted on his friend, Professor Nwabueze to be a
member of the committee; his reply was “who else but Ben”.
Eventually, Professor Ben Nwabueze was appointed a
member of the 50 man committee. The committee was
inaugurated on October 18, 1975 at the Nigerian Institute of
International Affairs, Victoria Island, then headed by
Professor Bolaji Akinyemi(82), from Ilesha, Osun state....

LONG STORY SHORT

.....Professor Ben Nwabueze was later made the chairman of
the sub-committee on National Objectives and Public
Accountability of the Constitution Drafting Committee. Other
members of the committee were Kanmi Ishola Osobu and
Professor Emmanuel Uwamagbuhunmwun Emovon
(February 24, 1929 – February 20, 2020) from Benin city,
former Vice Chancellor of the University of Jos, who later
became the Minister of Science and Technology under
General Ibrahim Babangida (GCFR). The rest members
were Dr. A.Y. Aliyu, lecturer Public Administration, Ahmadu
Bello University, Zaria, Chief Paul Wanteregh Unongo
(September 26, 1937 to November 29, 2022) from Jato Aka
in Kwande Local Government Area of Benue state, who later
became Minister of Power and Steel under President Shehu
Shagari GCFR and Alhaji Ibrahim Imam (1916 – April 1980)
a Kanuri politician from Borno, who was the secretary of the
Northern People’s Congress and later became a patron of
the Borno Youth Movement . He was elected into the
Northern House of Assembly in 1961, representing a Tiv
district. Prior to his election in 1961, he had represented his
district of Yerwa in 1951 after supporting a strike of Native
Administration workers.
It was in this subcommittee that Professor Nwabueze served
his country best. His footprints are all over in the 1979
Constitution.

The constitution was criticised for eradicating the devolution
of power among the three arms of government as
established by the 1960 and 1963 constitutions. The 1979
body of law stripped some control from the regional
government and gifted it to the central government.
The 1979 constitution created the template of an all-powerful
federal government, which subsequent amendments of the
law would adopt.
Nwabueze said the decision to increase the power of the
federal government was informed by an attempt to achieve
“unity” in the country.
“That’s the idea of federalism which was observed in the
1960 and 1963 constitutions. We abandoned it in 1979 and
went for a unitary constitution, one constitution for the
federal government and none for the state governments.
That was a fundamental departure from the principles of
federalism,” he said in an interview with Vanguard in 2014.
“It is a unitary constitution, more or less in the devolution of
powers. The federal government is all-powerful. Its powers
are all-encompassing. We took 50 per cent from the
concurrent list of matters and merged them into the
exclusive list. We also went to residual matters, took almost
50 per cent and put it on the exclusive list. We took so many
other things.
“And why did we do that? We must take into consideration
the circumstances in the country at that time. In 1976, ’77,
’78, everybody was talking about unity. So, we thought the
best way to achieve that unity was to create a powerful
centre, and we thought that once you have a powerful centre
with so much power, you will achieve unity. That was the
situation at the time. You don’t blame us because you must
take into account the circumstances at that time. The feeling
that people had was that unity was overriding and that you
could achieve it by putting so much power in the centre.”
However, Nwabueze admitted that the devolution of power
was “misguided.” He added that the attempt to create unity
in the country transmuted into “disunity”.
“We were misguided, and that’s the truth. In a number of
public statements, I have frankly admitted that we were
misguided, that we were guided by the feelings at the time in
the country,” he said.
“It turned out that putting too much power at the centre was
an invitation for disunity. Yes, that was what happened—
disunity. Struggle for control at the centre with all that power
led to disunity, and that is what landed us to where we are
today.”



READ UP ALL THESE LINKS:


https://punchng.com/federalism-or-unitary-system-quandary/

https://guardian.ng/opinion/history-and-the-future-of-decree-34-of-1966/

https://www.thecable.ng/abused-decree-34-and-the-demand-for-restructuring/amp/

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/678674-who-else-but-professor-ben-nwabueze-1931-2023-by-eric-teniola.html?tztc=1



ONLY THE IGBO WOULD DENY THE OBVIOUS ROLE IRONSI, NWABUEZE AND FRANCIS PLAYED IN BRINGING UP THE UNITARY SYSTEM BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT TO BE SEEN AS THE PERPETRATORS OF THE SITUATION THEY'RE NOW FIGHTING AGAINST. SO THEY KEEP BLAMING OTHERS.

DMerciful:
You're extremely ignorant. The midwest region was created through a plebiscite in 1963.

Again, before Ironsi there were 4 regions, after Ironsi, 4 regions called 4 states.
Ironsi did not divide the regions, Gowon did

OF course you're right about the 1963 review and I must admit my slip there but it's worthy of note that those created region still operated fiscal independence. Each individual region runs its regional constitution with some slight difference in accordance with their cultures and ideologies. That was until Ironsi came on board, employed a committee to review the constitution and came up with DECREE 34 where all regions were pronouced states and all regional governmental power on fiscal and resource control were collapsed to the centre including the dissolve of the regions respective constitution. It caused many grunts and grumbles from many corners and there were backup interviews from some individuals unhappy with Ironsi's declaration.
I'm likewise admitting mistaken the 1979 constitution BEN NWABUEZE championed with the FRANCIS NWAKEDI review as directed by IRONSI. THE LATTER set the ball rolling while THE FORMER nailed it up.

FOR MORE CLARITY, I ENJOIN YOU TO FOLLOW UP MY RESPONSE COMING BELOW TO ANOTHER MONIKER SHARING YOUR IDEA.

gidgiddy:
People are funny. Documents that have been out there in the public even before I was born is what I will falsify today? Despite evidence in front of a Nigerian, he will still talk nonsense. Out of what do you think Gowon created 12 States from? From thin air? Nigeria had 4 Region's and Gowon abolished those 4 Regions to create 12 states. You guys keep calling Ben Nwabueze but cannot show what the man did. There was no new constitution by Ironsi, military never write constitution, they only issue decree . Decree 34 people keep talking about was just about the civil service

If you want to praise Gowon for Abolishing the 4 Region's Nigeria had, creating 12 states to replace them with Decree 14. If you want to praise Gowon for removing resource control with Decree 15, all good


But don't accuse Ironsi for what Gowon clearly did. People that cannot use Internet to verify facts but would rather listen to third party lies

Before we proceed, perhaps we should initially define the two systems of government in contention and what the Ironsi DECREE 34 said in relation to both of them.

WHAT IS REGIONAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT？
A Regional system of government is type of government where
each region is allowed to control resources found in its
domain, but only has to pay royalty to the central
government.

WHEREAS：

A unitary state is a sovereign state governed as a single
entity in which the central government is the supreme
authority . The central government may create or abolish
administrative divisions (sub-national units).


NIGERIA POLITICAL SITUATION BEFORE IRONSI：

Before the January 15, 1966 military coup, there were five
constitutions operating in Nigeria. There was the constitution
of the Federal Republic of 1963. Then, we had the
Constitution of Northern Nigerian Law of 1963; the
Constitution of the Eastern Nigerian Law of 1963; the
Constitution of Western Nigerian Law of 1963; and the
Constitution of Mid-Western Nigerian Act of 1964.
The four Regions were administered in a way, as if they
were sovereign states.
Sub-section 2D of Section 63 of the Constitution of the
Western Nigerian Law of 1963; sub-section 1 of Section 64
of the constitution of the Mid-Western Nigerian Act of 1964;
sub-Section 1 of Section 66 of Eastern Nigeria Constitution
Law and sub-section 1 of Section 68 of the Constitution of
Northern Nigeria Law of 1963, all made provisions for the
appointments of Agent Generals for the four regions in the
United Kingdom.
The Agent Generals were like modern-day ambassadors.
For example, the Western Region appointed Chief
Emmanuel Akintoye Akinbowale Olasunmbo Coker
(1924-2000), as Agent General to the United Kingdom and
he served in that office between 1960 and 1963. His
schedule was not at conflict with that of the Nigerian High
Commissioner to the UK at that time, Alhaji Abdul-Maliki
(1914-1969), the son of the late Attah of Igbirraland- a true
diplomat and bureaucrat.
And the age-long dream among students of the then
Western Region, at that time was to clinch Western Region
scholarship instead of the Federal Government scholarship.
Those were the booming cocoa era days.
Each of the regions had its own Chief Justice, Police
Commissioner, legislative House and many other bodies. We
remember in particular Sir Louis Odumegwu-Ojukwu
(1909-1966), father of the late Ikemba Nnewi, Chief Emeka
Odumegwu-Ojukwu, who held the powerful posts of
Chairman of Eastern Region Development Corporation and
Eastern Nigeria Marketing Board.
Each of the regions differed on some key issues though.
Section 23 of the Constitution Northern Nigeria Law of 1963
stated that “the business of the Legislative Houses shall be
conducted in English and in Hausa”. Other regions upheld
only English in their legislative Houses.
The Western Region even had a Court of Appeal which
served as an Intermediate Court between its High Court and
the Supreme Court. The only uniformity was in the
procedure for the establishment of key office holders. They
all had Premiers and Governors.
The Governors, according to the four regional constitutions
shall be appointed “by the President acting in accordance
with the advice of the Premier”.
The post of Governor was more ceremonial for the executive
power resided in the hands of the Premier, who had a
majority in the legislative houses.
Interestingly, except the Mid-Western Nigeria Constitution
Act of 1964, the three other regional constitutions, named all
the Governors. As for the Premiers, we had Sir Ahmadu
Bello (1909-1966) in the North; Chief Samuel Ladoke
Akintola (1910-1966), who succeeded Chief Obafemi
Awolowo (1909-1987), in the Western Region; Dr. Micahel
Iheonukara Okpara (1920-1984), who succeeded Dr.
Nnamdi Azikiwe (1909-1996) as Premier in the Eastern
Region; and Chief Dennis Chukadebe Osadebe (1911-1994)
as Premier of the Mid- Western Region.

WHAT HAPPENED WHEN IRONSI CAME ON BOARD？

On assumption of power, General Aguiyi-Ironsi promulgated
the Constitution (Suspension and Modification) Decree 1966.
Decree No 1 dated January 17, 1966 but not published in the
Official Gazette until March 4, 1966. He then issued Public
Order Decree No 33 dated May 24 1966 which dissolved
eighty-one political associations and twenty-six tribal and
cultural associations.
At the early stage of his tenure, he appointed a three-man
advisory team made up of Chief Francis Nwokedi, a
Permanent Secretary, Dr. Pius Charles Nwabafor Okigbo
(1924-2000) and Colonel Patrick Anwunah, who later
became Chairman and Head of the Orientation Committee at
that time.
He replaced the then Attorney-General and Minister of
Justice, Dr. Taslim Olawale Elias (1914-1991) with Chief
Gabriel Chike Michael Onyiuke (SAN), former Director,
Public Prosecution, Eastern Nigeria (1960-1965) from Nimo
in the present Anambra state.
In a speech to the nation on January 28 1966, he denounced
the evils of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa regime and
outlined necessary reforms. ”All Nigerians”, he declared,”
want an end to regionalism. Tribal loyalties and activities
which promote tribal consciousness and sectional interests
must give way to the urgent task of national reconstruction.
The Federal Military Government will preserve Nigeria as
one strong nation.” He then went on to promise
“administrative reforms” and referred specifically to several
matters in which regional as well as personal interests were
known to have had decisive influence. These were official
appointments, public investments, and the universities. He
promised that in the public services, efficiency and merit will
be the criteria for advancement”. That industrial
development would be “coordinated to avoid wasteful
duplication of industrial projects”, and that the universities
would be “re-orientated to serve the genuine interest of our
people.”
Immediately after the speech two Governors kicked against
the proposal. They were, Major General David Akpode Ejoor
(83) from Ovu in the present Delta State, then serving as
the Military Governor of the Mid-Western region and Major
General Hassan Usman Katsina(1933-1995), who was then
serving as Governor of the Northern region.
Lt. Col. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu (1933-2011),
Military Governor of Eastern Region welcomed the decree
while Lt. Col. Francis Adekunle Fajuyi (1926-1966), Military
Governor of Western Region never commented on the
promulgation of the decree.

On February 21 1966, General Aguiyi-Ironsi again
addressed the nation on the issue. He said: “On the question
of the political future of the country, the experiences and
mistakes of the previous governments in the Federation have
clearly indicated that far-reaching constitutional reforms are
badly needed for peaceful and orderly progress towards the
realization of our objectives. I have already touched on some
of the major issues involved in recent broadcast to the
nation. It has become apparent to all Nigerians that rigid
adherence to ‘regionalism’, was the bane of the last regime
and one of the main factors which contributed to its downfall.
No doubt, the country would welcome a clean break with the
deficiencies of the system of government to which the
country has been subjected in the recent past. A solution
suitable to our national needs must be found. The existing
boundaries of governmental control will need to be re-
adjusted to make for less cumbersome administration.’
As a follow-up on May 25, General Aguiyi-Ironsi
promulgated the Constitution (Suspension and Modification)
(No. 5) Decree 1966. Decree No. 34 (the ‘Unification
Decree’).
After the promulgation, the country was thrown into turmoil
which led to demonstration

That's bad. Nobody deserves that

Noted

Wish him all the best

Will they listen？

Congrats to her

Hmmmmm

To each his own...

Hopefully

If their questionable competence necessitate this, then no problem. We can only make do with the best hands.

Nice progress

AcuraZDX:
I Hope Peter Obi Doesn’t Contest Next Presidential Election, His Team Is Incompetent To Lead Nigeria —Wole Soyinka

..........
“But it is depressing to see those who wanted to be
political leaders encouraging that kind of action,
that kind of attitude in the youth. And my mind
went to the expression, ‘They don’t know what
they’re doing’. Those who sow the wind will reap
the whirlwind.”

https://saharareporters.com/2024/05/23/i-hope-peter-obi-doesnt-contest-next-presidential-election-his-team-incompetent-lead#google_vignette

Words on marble!

Vicotex:
Source :
https://businessday.ng/news/article/top-10-richest-states-in-nigeria-ranked-by-gdp/

Hhmmmmm, LAGOS STATE. Kaka ki n bi egberun osusun, ma kuku bi okan soso oga.
Ma roun yan araye loju,
Ma roun gbrega
........

FreeStuffsNG:
The British are using style to drag him with us because he was born, raised in UK and once won the U-20 world cup for England

OH, yeah, truly he won U20! How the fvcking heck,did I forget that？