₦airaland Forum

JerryJJZ:
Bnaira ,One of the top richest students in Unilag, He drives cars most of his lecturers dream about and hangout with then gbogbo big girls on campus, dude is well loaded and connected. Some claim he his into "yahoo yahoo" (Internet fraud) and all, but dude doesn't care. After spending close to five years in the university, he had finally graduated. see pics below


Source: http://www.akposvillage.com/2014/09/the-richest-student-in-unilag-finally.html

torkaka:
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iamtheprincipal:
This reason for her action perhaps wasn't justified to deserve the camp leadership to decamp her.

Seun:
Nobody has asked what the male corper did. So I'm asking. It'd be funny if you could get someone decamped by provoking them to slap you.

Kimmo:
Bloody unfair. But I don't suppose they'll be interested in the type of men who would go after a cleaner. I don't mean that as an insult, but these are two different kinds of women.

gists:
Nnamdi Azikiwe => Christian => 1963
Major-General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi => Christian => 1966 -----194 days in office
General Yakubu Gowon => Christian => 1966 ----------- 9 years
General Murtala Mohammed => Muslim => 1975 ------------1 year
Major-General Olusegun Obasanjo => Christian => 1976 -------------3 years
Shehu Shagari => Muslim => 1979 ------------------ 4 years
Major-General Muhammadu Buhari => Muslim => 1983 ------------------ 2 years
General Ibrahim Babangida => Muslim => 1985 -------------------- 8 years
Ernest Shonekan => Christian => 1993 ------------- 70 days
General Sani Abacha => Muslim => 1993--------------------- 5 years
General Abdulsalami Abubakar => Muslim => 1993 1998 ------------------ 1 year
Olusegun Obasanjo => Christian => 1999 --------------- 8 years
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua => Muslim => 2007 ---------------- 3 years
Goodluck Jonathan => Christian => 2010-date -------------- 4 years and counting

Out of 14, we have 7 Christians and 7 Muslims

In South west, it is said that between 1979 - 1983 all the SW states (Ogun, Oyo, Ondo) were ruled by Christian-Christian tickets. Until the advent of Amosun, Ogun state had never had a muslim governor! Just 4 years ago, before Aregbesola, Osun was a under a Christian-Christian ticket (Oyinlola and Obada).

Between 1999 to date, South west has had more christain governors than muslims (Under AD/ACN and PDP)
1999
Ekiti=>Niyi Adebayo=>AD=>Christian
Ogun=>Olusegun Osoba=>AD=>Christian
Ondo=>Adebayo Adefarati=>AD=>Christian
Osun=>Adebisi Akande=>AD=>Christian
Oyo=>Lam Adesina=>AD=>Muslim
Lagos=>Bola Tinubu>AD=>Muslim

2003
Ekiti=>Ayo Fayose=>PDP=>Christian
Ogun=>Gbenga Daniel=>PDP=>Christian
Ondo=>Olusegun Agagu=>PDP=>Christian
Osun=>Olagunsoye Oyinlola=>PDP=>Christian
Oyo=>Rasheed Ladoja=>PDP=>Muslim
Lagos=>Bola Tinubu>ACN=>Muslim

2007
Ekiti=>Segun Oni=>PDP=>Christian
Ogun=>Gbenga Daniel=>PDP=>Christian
Ondo=>Olusegun Agagu / Olusegun Mimiko=>PDP / LP=>Christian
Osun=>Olagunsoye Oyinlola / Rauf Aregbesola=>PDP / ACN=>Christian / Muslim
Oyo=>Alao Akala=>PDP=>Christian
Lagos=>Babatunde Fashola>ACN=>Muslim


2011
Ekiti=>Kayode Fayemi=>ACN=>Christian
Ogun=>Ibikunle Amosun=>ACN=>Muslim
Ondo=>Olusegun Mimiko=>LP=>Christian
Osun=>Rauf Aregbesola=>ACN=>Muslim
Oyo=>Abiola Ajimobi=>ACN=>Muslim
Lagos=>Babatunde Fashola>ACN=>Muslim


PDP has produced more Christain governors in SW than other parties. Does that mean PDP is a Christian party?

All this religious antics are crap if you ask me. What is most important is the credibilty and the performance of the one in charge. Little wonder most south westerners doesn't even realise the fact above that there have been more christian governors.

FFk maliciously said APC governors are made up of 80 % muslims in order to manipulate the poplulace toward voting PDP against the facts above. What he maliciously lfet out is the fact that in South-East and South South governors have been 100% christians (and almost certainly, their deputies too!)

So Where is the Ismalization of Nigerian? In fact, should the majority of the Northan muslim population vote against PDP since PDP is the one playing the religion politics?

drizzytee: all those are by the way, if you have a reputation even your most awkward logo design will make a hit.
check out the airtel logo for example...it so Ordinary and portrays NOTHING. Its abstract yes i knw, but its still rubbish even in 3D

aminu150: I pity you because you dont have the brain to think or you are blinded by ethnic or religious bigotry. People like you are the problem with Nigeria.

aminu150: Nyako is respected because he served Nigeria. How about you or your father? You did nothing to this country. Only helping in bringing down this country through your bigotry.

Leerikz: sometimes i ask myself, was it my fault that i was born into a northern family??, life seems to hold nothing for a young hopeful northern born child like me,i was born in a rural area in zamfara state,a typical Hausa community, i was raised accordingly by my parents, on getting to my teenage years, it dawned on me that everything seemed to follow one pattern in my community, it was compulsory for everyone to follow the Muslim faith, it also seemed compulsory for every male indigene to marry from the same community, i observed the whole life process here, everything seemed the same, nothing different ever happened, men were born local and died local, the whole community lacked innovation, nobody ever thought of anything new, life was an everyday process which everyone had to follow. there was hardly any form of electricity supply in my community, power was supplied on very rare occasions, and on such white collar days, the whole village would gather at the village square to watch tv, most times news, probably to everyone else, they were having fun and expressed it with big grins on their faces, when they saw big cities like lagos, kano, abuja and the rest on television, to me, it was like watching a totally different world, most of the things i saw on television were non-existent in my community,good roads, water supply, electricity and the rest. It all seemed alien-like when i saw them, the schools we had in my community seemed like death traps, with the buildings dilapidated and slowly collapsing due to age, i used to imagine how old those buildings must be, not to talk of the kind of teachers we had, most of them took extra holidays and came to school whenever they wished, we were mostly taught Islamic doctrine and a little bit of arithmetic and English to go with, you would wonder where we the students got our motivation to keep attending school, it all seemed that school seemed to be the most exciting thing happening around us, even though we could not say we had even up to quarter of what you would regard as a stellar education. I myself had dreams to be different, to make my community a happening place, to make my family proud of me, to help all kids in my community have standard education, to put good roads and water in place for my people, but as i grew up, i faced reality and it dawned on me that my dreams would eventually amount to nothing, 'where would i start from?' was the question i asked myself frequently, i was willing to do anything to actualize my dreams, but everytime i tried to muster a little hope for the future, my dreams were dashed by reality .life went on like this for a long while until something happened sometime in August 2008,a group of men came to our community school and separated the male folk from the female folk, we were told that a lot is going to change in our lives in the next few months and advised to prepare for anything.

The lessons we were having at school changed totally, we were now lectured in the reason why our lives and community had come to be like this, we were told by our instructors that our kind was hated and neglected in the whole of Nigeria, we were shown videos of how our kind performed roles of servants to the society in urban areas, how our kind seemed to poverty stricken and isolated in such towns and cities, we were told that we would be in the same situation if we tried traveling to such places in search of greener pastures. Therefore we had to do something that would make our lives and that of our families better, we were told that if we cooperated, our families would be rewarded with huge amounts of money and life would get better. We were then told that it would involve killing and suicide bombing for our plans to really work out. Already our minds were prepared for anything. That was how we took up arms to fight for better lives for ourselves and for our families.

So next time you want to open your mouth to judge the youth who have joined boko haram,think of the situation of this young man, think of the plight of his family and underdevelopment that had eaten deep in to lives of everyone in their community. live positively!.
.This was written by a young Nigerian.. Just looking at things from the other point of view.. I am in no way supporting insurgency of any kind.. Share your thoughts

omenka: What in seven hells are you talking about Is there something else you wanna take me up on??

omenka: You must have had a stint at the CIA. This is interesting. Sadly we have a buncha square pegs in round holes in our intelligence community whose only preoccupation is where the next financial windfall is coming from.

enigmaotr: Being paper delivered at Portcullis House, House of Commons, London by Alhaji Lai Mohammed, National Publicity Secretary, All Progressives Congress, APC, on Monday
SINCE the formation of our party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, our political opponents have strenuously tried (but failed) to misinform Nigerians and the international community that the APC is linked to Boko Haram, claiming ‘our actions, utterances and body language’ support or sympathise with Boko Haram.
Of course, this deliberate political misinformation and manipulation continue to flounder and fail spectacularly, not least because successive events prove these claims to be hollow, but also that it is our political opponents who are playing a ‘Boko Haram Poker Game’.
In particular the PDP and anyone for that matter (including their hired American PR firm, Levick) have failed to produce any substantial and even anecdotal evidence linking the APC with Boko Haram!
Anecdotal evidence
Alh. Lai Mohammed
Keen followers and watchers of Nigerian politics are well aware of recent revelations by Dr Stephen Davis, a renowned Australian hostage release negotiator hired by the Goodluck Jonathan government over the Chibok saga (Lie Number 1), who confirmed some few days back that indeed the sponsors of Boko Haram are nestled in the PDP and President Goodluck Jonathan government (Lie Number 2)– in the persons of Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff (former governor of Borno State) and Lt. General Ihejirika (former Chief of Army Staff). The value of this revelation is hardly about its newness, but that it corroborates previous revelations, such as those by the former NSA (late Major General Azazi Owoye) and even by President Goodluck Jonathan himself!
My task here is incomplete without providing this august gathering with logical, empirical and evidence-based explanation and accounts of goings-on about the Boko Haram ‘crisis’ in Nigeria. I emphasize that Boko Haram is a “crises” because it is no longer a single event but multiple intertwined crises.
There is the crisis of Boko Haram violent attacks, but also crisis of the PDP-President Jonathan’s inept mismanagement, crisis of Nigeria’s military response and operations, crisis of refugees and internal displacement, and crisis of insecurity in general.
Political misinformation
What I present here are hardly mine and APC’s hunches or guess-estimates or attempts at political misinformation, but logical accounts, insights and information contained in open-source materials, thus verifiable. I proceed to share this important empirical account of events about Boko Haram as detailed in media reports, academic papers and research, and even from different sections of the Nigerian government under five main headings:
•Origin of Boko Haram
•The Politics of Boko Haram
•Boko Haram and Resource Allocation
•The Boko Haram Crisis and GEJ Security Spending Spree
•New Thinking and Approaches to Ending Boko Haram: The APC’s Prescriptions.
The Origins of Boko Haram:When the sect “Nigerian Taliban”, the precursor of today’s monster called Boko Haram, started off in 2002, it was another fringe sect along the same pattern of many before it, which started off under the cloak of religion but were in real sense, in response to the widespread poverty, deprivation and the injustice that have hallmarked post-independent Nigeria(Sympathy #1).
Before now, the most remembered, for the scale of its share brutality and mass killings, was the Maitatsine Crisis in the northern city of Kano that left thousands of people dead in 1980.
A decisive response by the then Federal Government saw the crushing of the sect, which was fiercely anti-modernism. Maitaisine was the nickname of the sect founder, Mohammed Marwa, whose preaching attracted a huge number of youths, unemployed immigrants and others who felt that mainstream Muslim teachers were not doing enough for their communities. By December 1980, the group had started launching attacks against other religious figures and the police in Bauchi and Bulukuntu (Maiduguri), forcing the government to call in the military. In the ensuing clashes, about 5,000 people including the founder, died. But in the end the sect was dead and buried for good.
Messianic revivalism
Fast forward to 2009, almost three decades later, Boko Haram, asalafi-jihadigroup that espouses messianic revivalism of Islamic religion and cultural practices (sharia) and which translates literally as “ Western education forbidden” was in full swing and following in the path of the Maitatsine. It is no use hiding the fact that the emergence of Boko Haram and its armed insurgency from 2009, has changed the political, economic, security and socio-cultural landscape of Nigeria.
But who and what is Boko Haram? Why and how did it come about? Boko Haram’s original name is the Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad (People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad) movement. ‘Boko Haram’ when translated literarily means ‘Western education’ (Boko) is forbidden (haram), however, the group’s ideology transcends this to mean the rejection of western culture and civilization of which education is a vehicle for its transfer (Sympathy Number 2) .
In recorded interviews by the BBC with the late founder of the group (Mohammed Yusuf), he stated that ‘western-styled education is mixed with issues that run contrary to our belief in Islam’ and ‘our land was an Islamic state before the colonial masters turned it to a Kafir (infidel) land.
Western civilisation
The current system is contrary to true Islamic belief. Another recorded interview with the group’s spokesperson clarified that ‘Boko Haram’ does not in any way mean Western education is a sin…(It) actually means western civilization is forbidden (Sympathy Number 3 with some confusion).
The difference is that while the first gives the impression that we are opposed to formal education coming from the West…which is not true…the second affirms our belief in the supremacy of Islamic culture, for culture is broader, it includes education but not determined by western education.
The emergence of Boko Haram as a movement and the evolution of its armed insurgency could be divided into five phases:
Phase One:This pertains to the earliest recorded information about the group and its ideological foundation and organizational development as a movement. There is a loose consensus that Boko Haram is an offshoot of the Nigerian Taliban Movement that was first reported in media circles around 2001-02 (following the US-led NATO military campaign in Afghanistan), that the top leadership of the group were adherents of the Ibn Taymiyyah Sect.
The group relocated (undertook Hijra) from Maiduguri city (capital of Borno State) to a remote location in Yobe State (Kanama) in 2002 to establish its own community that was governed in accordance with strict Islamic law and culture (Sharia). Following disagreements and clashes with neighboring communities over fishing rights and police action between 2003 and 2004 the group was dislodged from Kanama and it relocated back to Maiduguri in 2004.
Phase Two:This chronicles the regrouping, activities and growth of the group between 2004 and 2009. Boko Haram’s relocation to Maiduguri in 2004 led to its creation of a new base (the Ibn Taymiyyah Masjid around the railway area, north of Maiduguri). The group is alleged to have got financial support from within and outside Nigeria with which it set up businesses and started providing welfare services to the hordes of jobless, homeless and illiterate young people in Maiduguri.
Mohammed Yusuf’s recorded and live public preachings started circulating and attracting wide audience during this period. With this, the group’s membership grew astronomically and the profile of its leader (Mohammed Yusuf) increased to the extent that he was included in the Borno state committee of clerics following the introduction of Sharia Law. A known senior member of Boko Haram, Late Boju Foi, was actually appointed a commissioner by former Governor Ali Modu Sheriff.
This marked official and unofficial connections between the group and influential politicians and government functionaries that facilitated the flow of patronage, financial resources and immunity from police prosecution for Mohammed Yusuf (whenever he was arrested, he was promptly released based on intervention by influential politicians).
The fact that Boko Haram became a magnet for thousands of youth made politicians on all sides to seek to use it for election purposes. Boko Haram thereafter began spreading to neighbouring Yobe, Bauchi and Adamawa states (Sympathy Number 4 with a great deal of truth).

Eldavido1: www.vanguardngr.com/2014/09/boko-haram-saga-negotiator-stephen-davis/

By Soni Daniel

I first met Dr. Stephen Davis at the American Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, in June 2009. At that time, the Australian was assisting the Federal Government of Nigeria to broker peace with the irate Niger Delta militants, who had taken up arms against the administration and almost rendered its oil-dependent economy comatose through oil theft, destruction of facilities and kidnapping of oil workers.

We lost contact until I got to know that he had been involved in the effort to free the Chibok girls. Some other reports claimed he was hired by government to negotiate with Boko Haram.
However, in this interview, Davies makes it clear he was never engaged by the Nigerian government to dialogue with the sect.

Excerpts of the interview:

What do you have to show that you were engaged by the Nigerian government to negotiate with Boko Haram?

I was not engaged by the Federal Government of Nigeria, any state government or any other party. I went to Nigeria in late April in an effort to facilitate a handover of the Chibok captives after discussing such a possibility with former commanders of JAS (Jama’atu Ahlul Sunnah Lih Da’awa wal Jihad otherwise known as JAS) and others close to Boko Haram.

Why did you release the report of your assignment to the media instead of sending it to government?

I did not construct a report of my efforts in Nigeria. As I said earlier, I was not engaged by any party and therefore had no obligation to report to anyone

Some Nigerians find it curious that you decided to give your report only to Arise TV, owned by a Nigerian, Nduka Obiagbena, who also owns Thisday Newspapers and may be sympathetic to some politicians in Nigeria.

I gave a radio interview to the ABC in Australia which subsequently told me that after the transcript was posted to their online site, it had been picked up in the UK and Sky News requested an interview. In the hope of bringing attention to the many other girls and boys kidnapped by Boko Haram, I agreed to a television interview. That interview took place in Channel 7 studios in Australia and it was at that point that I was told it was an interview with Arise TV. I had not heard of Arise TV and did not know it was owned by a Nigerian or indeed that it had any association with Nigeria. At the time of giving the TV interview, I was of the understanding that it would be broadcast by Sky News in the UK.

On Mr Obiagbena, I have not met him or ever been contacted by him.

Many Nigerians find it extremely difficult to understand how the former Chief of the Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Ihejirika, who actually fought Boko Haram elements and was accused of genocide could be linked with sponsoring the violent group.

It is much easier to understand Mr Sheriff’s alleged association with Boko Haram than any association of Mr Ihejirika. Mr Sheriff was said to have a long history of promoting groups to assist in his past efforts to win the governorship of Borno State.

On 29 July 2009, there was a confrontation with security officers at Mamudo Village, along Potiskum/Damaturu Road, Yobe. 33 JAS members were killed. Later that night, there was a long battle with combined security operatives at Railway Terminus, Maiduguri, Borno State. Scores were killed and the JAS operational base was destroyed. Yusuf was subsequently captured by the military and handed over to the police.

The JAS alleged that it was on Sheriff’s orders that Yusuf was executed in Maiduguri on 30 July 2009. Shekau was presumed killed in the same battle and a corpse was identified as that of Shekau. Thus the remaining JAS leaders made it clear their intention was to kill Sheriff and so it is right that Sheriff claims he is a victim of JAS. The Boko Haram we see today is not the JAS that was operational under Yusuf. Shekau emerged in mid-2010 and publicly claimed the leadership of a reinvigorated JAS.

Shekau formed Ansaru which he used for kidnapping and beheading victims. This behaviour was a major departure from the original mandate of the JAS which was to purify Islam and return it to the behaviour example in the life of the Prophet. Many among the JAS leadership are no longer active and others have been killed. This has allowed Shekau to take the JAS to more extreme action and expanded the kidnapping, bombing and slaughtering.

The Boko Haram we have today is a much expanded Ansaru. What we see now is not the Yusufiya which wanted very much to settle scores with Sheriff. It is Boko Haram as a partner to ISIS and Al Shabaab.

Now I will offer an opinion as to the motives of the sponsors of Boko Haram. The political sponsors of Boko Haram seem to think that they can use Boko Haram to terrorise Nigeria to demonstrate that the current government cannot ensure the security of Nigerian citizens both Muslim and Christian. Therein the sponsors assume they can undermine any efforts of the current government to be re-elected in 2015.

Herein lies the flaw for the conflict and instability currently being fanned suits the aims of Al Qa’eda and the architects of terrorism. Should the sponsors of Boko Haram win government in 2015, they will likely find that they cannot turn Boko Haram off or that Boko Haram will demand control of at least Borno State in return for reducing their attacks. Borno State may be just the beginning of an expanding caliphate.

Several Boko Haram commanders and other persons close to and respected by Boko Haram have told me the names of some of the sponsors of Boko Haram. They have also described how some funds are transferred and arms made available. I have made public some of that information. I have also been told by some commanders that if one of the sponsors is arrested, they will surrender, release the girls and give information on the sponsors. Not all Boko Haram commanders will follow this lead but it may be a firm step towards dismantling or at least isolating Boko Haram.

lakpalakpa: 2015: Lamido kicks against Jonathan’s presidential endorsement

on September 01, 2014 / in News 5:25 pm / Comments

By Aliyu Dangida

As the North-West PDP caucus meeting ended in Kaduna state with the endorsement of GoodLuck Jonathan to contest in the 2015 presidential election, Jigawa state governor, Sule Lamido and the state’s chapter of the People Democratic Party (PDP) has vehemently kicked against the purported decision.

The state Deputy Governor, Alhaji Ahmed Mahmud disclosed this while addressing news men in Dutse said, that the government and people of our dear state (Jigawa) were not in any way in support of the content the of the communique read after the Kaduna PDP north west zonal meeting in Kaduna were they announced the endorsements of President Goodluck Jonathan to contest presidential election under the party in 2015 general election.

His words:- “we are not part of the decision, we didn’t know the content of the communique read after (Sunday) PDP north west zonal meeting at Kaduna, the government (of Jigawa) and the people remain loyal to the party and the federal republic of Nigeria, we are still members and remained loyal to the party and country”.

The deputy governor who represented governor Sule Lamido maintained that the government and the members of the party in the state remained members of the party and loyal to the party, further stated that every one known [/b]the role that governor Sule Lamido and Jigawa state government played canvassed supports and votes to President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011 election[b] led him to won and occupied the presidential seat, but to our greatest dismay Jonathan never fulfills any of the promises made to the people in the state”.

Contacted the Vice national Chairman of the People Democratic Party in charge of north west zone Ambassador Ibrahim Musa Kazaure declined to comment, said “I have no comment”.

The national PDP vice chairman who happened to be an indigene of Jigawa state maintained that “any member of the party has a right to express his opinion”

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