₦airaland Forum

swezenberg:
I was going to say the same. The defense of Dokpesi is as weak as the tv station right now. AIT needs to spend more on good lawyers because I do not see this defense they just put up as solid enough to free them from the fangs of the Lion of Bourdillon. Tinubu is another Obj. If they escape this he will make sure he brings Dokpesi down by all mean. Dokpesi should just have acted like Momoh of Channels. He chose to be Partisan and this is the result. More awaits him after the swearing in.

IsraeliAIRFORCE:
Some people with their line of reasoning makes one vomit.

How will Tinubu win this court case? It will take Tinubu a million years to disprove all the contents of the documentary hence this will take Judiciary 50 years to settle in Supreme Court.

Moreover, AIT is not a person rather a media outfit hence ..... from their initial defense, these knowledge has been out there at public domain without any refutation or denial by the accused until the documentary was compiled.

atlwireles:
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I said do the needful

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I said do the needful

atlwireles:
almajiri look for closest revolver and do the needful.

atlwireles:
These visits will become regular. Budgets will soon be signed from the UK.

EbolaParasite:
Okay I read up on him and no where did they state he was extradited? The write up stated he died in detention. What are you on about?
Do you know the difference between extraditing your own citizen to another country and actually detaining and prosecuting them yourself in your own country? What is your point exactly?

EbolaParasite:
They may not have immunity but do you really think NIGERIA will EXTRADITE a current SENATOR? The only way they will get him if he becomes SENATOR is if he steps out of Nigeria.

gfullmoon:
This might be ''tactical move ''as a Baron concerned from Kashumu Buruji such that if the case is later adjourned on the 4th of June,he will be sworn-in as a Senator of the Federal Repulic of Nigeria with its attendant Immunity. If this happens that means US has to wait for another 4 years provided he didn"t borrow leaf from David Mark having been waiting since 1994 when the said offence took place or were reported. If he succeeds which I doubt he need to avoid any country friendly to US as a leprosous plague. It's time we revisit the Immunity Clause in our constitution.

Spidermon:
I must have had my facts jumbled. My point is that almost every active participant in the political theatre today has been incentivized by money/personal gains rather than patriotism.

Spidermon:
Do you know what the behind the door deals must have entailed?
Just saying....coz for a man to order my dad's justified or unjustified death and still have my support on this kinda scale, *fill in the blanks*

winnieG1:
No, they just made mess of Adam cos the incoming governors will definitely not recognize him.

Aminat508:
Lola Shoneyin wrote:




https://twitter.com/lolashoneyin/status/602826255495524352

Bevista:
In terms of incoming governors, it is PDP 5 - APC 1.

Akwa Ibom - PDP
Cross River - PDP
Bayelsa - PDP
Rivers - PDP
Delta - PDP
Edo - APC

I'm curious to know why they choose the only APC governor to lead the pack.

basilo101:
Imagine comparing oil to tomatoes and onions, less than one week of fuel scarcity and d con3 is shutting down! Fud can easily be imported frm neigboring African co3s with oil money

Jessymez1:
My 2mnths salary

Bevista:
Especially when it's not properly paragraphed. To summarize, though:

He encourages Mutual Assured Restoration (MAR) - A situation where the north & south learn to coexist in peace and harmony. Where we begin to shatt

He believes the south needs the north as much as the north needs the South - while the north depends on the south for oil revenue, the south depends on the north for food. He believes nations can survive without oil, but they cannot survive without food and many of our staple foods be it Rice, locally grown wheat, cows on the hoof, tomatoes, peppers onions etc., come from the North.

[I add that - while oil (the south) contributes most to our National revenue, Agriculture (the north) contributes most to our GDP.]

He encourages GMB to explore for oil in the Chad Basin, such that the ND won't always have to hold the whole country to ransome with their militant threat.

In summary, he believes #WeNeedEachOther.

In the run up to his inauguration, President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, has been telling the nation of his plans and policy direction and one of those policies is his stated intention to resume the search for oil in Northern Nigeria and specifically in the Lake Chad region of Borno State. Ironically, Borno is one of the states ravaged by the scourge of terrorism which has set that state and the entire Northeast region back in almost every index of human development.

If oil is found in the Lake Chad region, it will go a long way in reviving the economy of the Northeast. However, Buhari’s plan has met with some criticism especially in the South were a number of pundits and analysts see the plan as an expensive wild goose chase that would not yield anything.

I believe we are being short-sighted when we criticise such a plan. Nigeria needs multiple streams of income now more than ever. And if Niger and Chad have struck oil in commercial quantities, it stands to reason that the chances of oil being found in Northern Nigeria and especially the Lake Chad region are higher than we had previously thought when we abandoned the search for oil in that region over a decade ago.
Any student of economics will tell you that Nigeria will be more balanced if we can find commercial oil deposits up North. It is just natural. Nature abhors unipolarity and favours bipolarity. That is why things come with a balance. Night and day, hot and cold, up and down, bitter and sweet, fast and slow are examples.

The world was a much safer place because of the Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) doctrine which saw the then Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) now Russia, having an almost equal ability with the United States to assure each other’s destruction which meant that they would never go to war directly against each other. They balanced each other out. However, there was a brief period when only the United States had nuclear weapons and that was the only period in human history when nuclear weapons were used. Do you see how it works? When there was no balance, there was nothing to stop the US from using atomic weapons. But when nature or the divine corrected that imbalance with the rise of the Soviet bloc, there was a check on West and vice versa.

Balance is a good thing

We can relate this to Nigeria. As long as the overwhelming majority of Nigeria’s revenue comes from oil which is located almost exclusively in the Niger Delta and states contiguous to the region, Nigeria will be vulnerable to shocks of a unipolar economy. Anything that affects the oil-bearing region will continue to threaten the rest of the nation, and once the actors in that play have tasted this power and know what it is to take action that affects global oil prices, it is going to be hard to persuade them not to use such influence when they feel wronged. It is just like the saying that, “when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail”. But if we are able to find oil in commercial quantities in the North as Buhari hopes, then Nigeria would have a balance of scenarios such that, if there are tantrums being thrown in one of the theatres, we could afford to damn those actors and push ahead in the other theatre until things return to normal. Such a situation, in my opinion, will ensure that neither side has any incentive to initiate a crisis. It is like a plane. The reason why planes have two engines is not because an aircraft requires both engines to fly. No! A plane can fly and land at its destination with one engine. The problem is that if that engine should fail in the air, the plane would crash, so it is safer to have two engines such that if one of them fails, the other becomes the back up. The reason our economy is looking like it will crash, with perhaps half of the states in Nigeria owing workers salary and refusing to take responsibility for it, and instead blaming the Federal Government, is because we have only one stream of major income coming largely from one region. In other words, we have only one engine! We seriously need another engine and if Buhari is the man to look for that second engine for Nigeria, then he has my support and deserves the support of all Nigerians. Because if he is successful (and the chances are good that he will be), Nigeria will enjoy the opposite of what the USSR and the US had, a Mutually Assured Restoration.

It is not surprising that Buhari’s plan to invest funds in the search for oil in the North is unpopular in the South. Many Southerners erroneously think the North is dependent on the South. In actual fact, the reverse is the case! The most basic human need after oxygen is food. If the North is dependent on the South for foreign exchange, then the South must know that she is dependent on the North for her food security. Nations can survive without oil, but they cannot survive without food and many of our staple foods be it Rice, locally grown wheat, cows on the hoof, tomatoes, peppers onions etc., come from the North.

The point I am trying to make is that we need each other and we have to move from a philosophy of competition between North and South to one of cooperation. And many of the stereotypes we hold of Northerners down south are not true at all. Many Southerners see the North and Northerners as a backward Muslim people, adverse to Western education, who would rather not stay in Nigeria except that they cannot survive on their own without the South. So when Southerners read that a community like Chibok, in the core North is overwhelmingly Christian, their stereotype is challenged. When they become aware that the richest black man and African on the planet is from the core Northern state of Kano, their stereotype is challenged. When they realise that a very large proportion of the population of the North is educated, that stereotype becomes questionable. And, yes, a very large proportion of the North is educated! The issue is that because we see education as a Western phenomenon, we fail to look at it holistically and historically, thereby believing that, if you are not Western educated, then you are not educated. But that is far from the truth! Centuries before many in the South learnt to read and write in the English language, our Northern brothers and sisters have been writing in a quasi-indigenous script called the Ajami script. Hausa has been written in Ajami, since the early 15th century. There are centuries-old literary material and letters written in this script and you must have respect for people who developed intellectual learning methods long before Western civilisation came to our shores. Many of us read about Uthman Dan Fodio in history, but unfortunately, contemporary history has limited his role in Nigeria’s evolution to that of a jihadist fighter. In actual fact, Uthman Dan Fodio was a scholar. Even that word ‘Fodio’ is Fufulde for scholar or learned one. His own mother, Hauwa and his grandmother, Ruqayya, were also ‘fodios’ and taught others. This is in the 17th century mind you. The fact is that long before Western education arrived the shores of Southern Nigeria, Northern Nigeria had already experienced centuries of indigenous and Arabic education. So let us begin to shatter our stereotypes of each other and accept each other based on the fact that if God did not desire it to be so, we would not be Nigerians.

Having found ourselves as Nigerians, let us make the best of it by using our energies to work together so we can make progress, rather than using if to fight each other in a Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). I am all for a Mutually Assured Restoration, and I urge all Nigerians, both Northern and Southern, to understand our differences (because it is foolishness to think that we can forget them) and learn to coexist in peace and prosperity.

hedonistic:
I believe what the guy is driving at is that the constitution stipulates that at least one minister MUST be appointed from each of Nigeria's 36 States.

It may be difficult for any president to personally know credible people to appoint from every single state of the federation, which means he must at times rely on recommendations/nominations by certain influential people in certain states. This is the rationale for the PDP's tradition of allowing governors recommend ministers. In Buhari's case, if it's not the governors that will recommend, we also hope that it wouldn't be equally discredited political power mongers like Bola Tinubu, Atiku, Saraki, etc? Otherwise, it wouldn't make any difference.

doctokwus:
GEJ has done so much harm to the educational sector.
The number of daft people that open threads on nairaland is getting out of hand.
Op must be a product of d same primary school that patience Jonathan attended.I am sure he didn't go beyond secondary school because this thread is so full of daftness.

Firefire:
Other drug Lord should not be spared.

CSTR2:
Of course you'd know, you drug-addled coward.
Next time know who you confront online.

IdiAmin1:
It seems this terrorism has really come to stay in Nigeria.

All we have to do now is cut their supplies and arrest the sponsors b'cos from what I'm seeing, Nigeria army is wasting resources killing people who have already condemned themselves to death.

Once they are out of ammunition, they will resort to carrying matchets which will make them vulnerable.

God will purnish all their sympathisers.

CSTR2:
The same buruju kashamu that was elected senator by your marijuana gulping kinsmen?
No.
In my neck of woods, he'd have been used for scientific research to study the direct relationship between the yoruba ethnic group and international drug peddling.

CSTR2:
My father was privileged to live in a civilized country, dingbat.
Though i watched on fox news from the safety of my home how hundreds of poor Nigerians especially yoruba elites were gruesomely murdered by your general.