₦airaland Forum

NDPVF:
This administration is dead on arrival.it can't be better than what is obtainable now.

Sheggy13:
Oga, u should compile this ur copy and paste epistle together to become the newest testament of the Bible

experimentist:
which yeye truth be that? we Nigerians get almost stable power supply now.. thanks to baba one chance.

kamair237:
Fayose d talkative!!!!

Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti state, says the harassment of leaders of the Peoples Democratic party (PDP) is one of the achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari since he assumed office.

A fierce critic of Buhari even before the president came into power, Fayose said he would continue to speak out against perceived ills of the current administration no matter the level of intimidation.

“Rather than concentrate and make a difference within his 100 days in office, the president’s greatest achievement so far is harassment of PDP leaders, appointment of his in-law and kinsmen into sensitive positions, selective fight against corruption and arrest and detention of INEC officials who worked in states won by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),” read a statement issued on his behalf by Lere Olayinka, his spokesman.

“I want to state without fear or favour that I will continue to speak the truth no matter whose ox is gored.

“Nigeria belongs to all of us and no one can intimidate me or the good people of Ekiti state who freely and overwhelmingly gave me their mandate. Democracy as a form of government thrives on our ability to ask questions and get answers from leaders.”

Fayose said the national peace committee has the interest of the president at heart and advised Buhari to heed the advice of the group.

He alleged that the committee counseled the president not to involve in undemocratic acts, faulting the approach of the federal government in the fight against corruption.

“President Muhammadu Buhari should tread cautiously and be mindful of the body language of those hailing him today,” the statement read.

“The president should be cautious enough to know that the former head of state, General Abdulsalami Abubakar-led national peace committee tactically told him to tread cautiously and be mindful of the fact that he is not heading a military government.

“The peace committee has reminded the president that he is not heading a military government and with the calibre of Nigerians in the committee, their wise counsel should not be ignored.

“These are Nigerians who don’t need personal favours from the president and he should get the message very clearly that he is being told not to act as a dictator.

“Fighting corruption should not be synonymous with convicting Nigerians on pages of newspapers. Rather, the judiciary and other relevant agencies should be allowed to do their jobs without any direct or indirect interference from the president and his party.

“Corruption must be fought in accordance with the laws of the land because going against the laws of the land and the oath taken by the president to respect the constitution in itself is corruption.”

Splashme:
With due respect, our president seems not to have the right academic capacty to govern Nigeria. His grapse of issues is very diappointing

The man just moves about throwing up figures in the media without facts

phlemzy:
So far,PMB hasn't made the Igbos the target of his anti corruption war. Besides this,he hasn't dished out most of the political appointments yet. Hence,there is no reason for the Igbos to feel hated or left out yet by the president.

carnegiefan:
lol. This summarizes the Igbo that I know. That is why I laugh so hard when some ijjiots come to Nairaland to try to intimidate us about our quest for Biafra. I just laugh because those people are totally clueless about the core of the Igbo mind.
That core is made of freedom and steel.
But they will never learn, will they?

barcanista:
Lalasticlala front page

phlemzy:
b] Had Buhari been probing more of Igbos recently despite the 'claims' that he hasn't been handing them juicy portfolios, I would have outrightly seen him as one who detest the Easterners. [/b] But as it stands,no such hatred has been beamed at the Igbos.

There has been a spate of criticism and worry from the Eastern end complaining that President Buhari’s appointments thus far have been lopsided, and has generally ignored the South-Eastern Igbo in large part, and the minorities of the South, to some extent.

The president’s profile of appointments to key military, security, and corporate institutional positions has tended more to be from the North. In a sense, the President has made the office of the president, the face of his administration, a profoundly regional one. The most disturbing to most people was the quick overturning of the appointment of Mr. Nwabueze C. Obi, as the acting MD of the National Maritime and Safety Agency, NIMASA, replaced with Mr. Haruna Jauro in quick order on the orders of the president.
There is on the surface, a very clearly regionalist bent in the president’s appointments so far, which prompted Dr. Ezeife, reportedly, to snap at the president’s appointment of Dr. Ibe Kachikwu as the new MD of the NNPC – the first of the president’s Igbo appointees. “It is not enough!” Dr. Ezeife says. In a multi-ethnic state, such as Nigeria, with a history of distrust, people have come to regard familiar faces and familiar names they can identify as the basis for securing group interests.
There is very little doubt that the Igbo are a very robust group of Nigerians with their own sense of a strategic interest, and anyone who ignores the Igbo does so at really great risks. I feel certain that President Buhari knows this too. The Igbo have proven precedence of action, once they choose to create synergy, and common cause. And their impact could be devastating. I will cite four historical examples.
Between 1895 and 1930, with British colonial forays into Africa late in the 19th century, the Igbo put up one of the toughest resistances against British colonization in Africa. While the Igbo fought, some of its neighbors fell in quick order.
For instance, in January 1903, twenty four British officers led a column of 700 African soldiers of the new West African Frontier Force, many of them Hausa, fresh from the Ashanti campaigns, and marched on Kano, and defeated it at the battle of Bebedji. The Emir of Kano, Aliyu, was in flight, while his brother, Muhammed Abbas was installed as a British puppet. Emir Aliyu was soon captured, exiled, and locked up in the British military garrison in Lokoja where he died in 1926. The British defeat and killing of Sultan Attahiru, and the Magajin of Keffi, among many in Burmi on July 27, 1903, marked the formal end of the Caliph’s resistance in Sokoto against the British.
Southwards, exhausted by internal rife and the hundred-year civil war following the collapse of Oyo, the Yoruba historian Johnson wrote that it was the Yoruba Obas themselves who wrote and invited the British to come and colonize Yoruba land. Oba Ovoranwen of Benin was quickly defeated by the British and exiled to Calabar, where he too died in exile. But the British fought the Igbo for thirty years, in five campaigns from 1900to 1930, until the British forced the High Priest, Eze Nri Obalike, to appear at the Awka Courts in 1930. Historians like Don Ohadike have written eloquently about the Ekumeku movement and the Igbo use of guerrilla warfare against the British.



Meanwhile, the previous year in 1929, Igbo women had driven away the colonial warrant chiefs, imposed on the Igbo by the British. All that prompted, in an attempted to understand the Igbo, the British government under the Colonial Governor-General, Sir Ralph Cameron, to send a series of Anthropologists to study the Igbo. One of them, Sylvia Leith-Ross, came in 1930, and wrote the book, Among African Women, with the preface by Lord Lugard. She noted thus in her book about the Igbo: “these people are not intimidated by us, and are rather amused by us. They watch us and learn quickly what we know. God help us the day they climb the ladder.”
By the 1930s, following their work as technicians, tradesmen, mid-level clerks in commercial and government jobs, and artisans helping to lay the North-South Rail lines, the Igbo, had fanned across and settled in what is now modern Nigeria.
From 1937-1957 they had enough national density to mobilize and rally round Dr. Azikiwe, and were the arrowheads in the anti-colonial nationalist movement that forced the British colonialists out of Nigeria. By 1967, finding Nigeria no longer suitable for their collective interest and protection, they staged an exit and declared their own state of Biafra. The Igbo remain the only one of the major groups in Nigeria to mobilize an army, create an independent state, and fight in defence of their interests; and they have the capacity to do so again if they feel themselves, and their collective interests threatened. For three years, they fought, and in 1970, exhausted and surrounded, they agreed to a negotiated end, and returned to Nigeria.
But I do know that they did not feel themselves defeated, as elements of the S Brigade under Tim Onwuatuegwu, among whom my uncle, now a Professor of Geophysics, had been trained and prepared to activate the guerilla phase of the war nation-wide should there be need to defend the Igbo in 1970. Nigerians should thank General Gowon, and the late MD Yusuf, who made it part of his policy, to absorb key members of the Biafran Organization of Freedom Fighters, into the Nigerian Intelligence Services to tamp down that possibility.
The Nigerian government knew that the Igbo were the only part of Nigeria that had highly trained combatants with field experience who had circulated into civilian life as traders, artisans, students, university professors, civil servants, teachers, and other professionals, and you do not mess with people like that. Nigeria gave the Igbo their due up till the middle of the 1980s. I have outlined these simply to suggest that President Buhari, himself a combatant of the last war, knows the Igbo, and that he would not take Igbo interest for granted.
General Sam Momah, once Buhari’s Principal Staff Officer has reminded the Igbo that some of the President’s best friends are Igbo. I do believe him. I also think that this president has a right, indeed an obligation to his office, to choose whomsoever he likes, from any part of Nigeria, to do the job. Fair representation is fantastic. But the president is possibly signaling an important message, that these ethnic or regional considerations, should not be at the detriment of competence and trust. The people he has chosen so far, seem competent. All we need to do is keep them under scrutiny. What the Igbo should campaign for is that no matter who occupies a public office, no Nigerian, Igbo or not, must suffer discrimination, or be the subject of selective targeting, in the exercise of the function of any office. Nice as it might seem to see a familiar face in the picture of the president’s team, I should prefer that the president be pushed more in the direction of influencing more direct federal investments in Igbo land, to alleviate the problems of the high unemployment rate in the region.
The president does not need to love the Igbo, but he must assure them just and equal protection in his government in terms of direct benefit to their wider number. Not to do that will certainly rouse the Igbo to seek justice by all means necessary.
Besides, President Buhari will not be the president forever, and the precedent he sets today, might mean, that whoever becomes president after him, may as well choose his key staff from his region, for as long as they satisfy the criteria of competence, integrity, and fairness in the execution of their jobs. The Igbo should therefore be patient, and circumspect on this matter of the president’s political appointments: let him do his job, with the men and women he can trust to do it.

ByfireByfire:
What an irony. By your username you clearly mock God to His very face though He spared your own hands and feet and now you have the impetus to still open a thread of one without hands and feet praising God.

I fear your brazen, adamant, God disdaining heart.

CUM4WHAT:
wheres d pic

nduchucks:
Why can't the congregation sacrifice the collection & tithes for only 1 month and buy the lady prosthetic limbs? This will enable the lady to be able to jump up and praise God even more.

Such a good cause should be the primary focus of tithes, but not the enrichment of some thieving pastors, overseers, prohets of doom, and other barayi lurking around in houses of worship.

kraftykc:
I should praise God because I'm not her...? Are you retarded?

freecocoa:
This is more like a reason not to praise him, if he can't give someone who loves and trusts him this much new hands and legs, why da feck then should he be praised? What exactly is she praising him for? Mschew.

sukkot:
phockphockman you done buy shares for nairaland ? all ya topic just dey make frontpage anyhow

aboki2000:
To God be all the Glory

RickRichards:
But your moniker doesn't glorify his name. Change it today. Deactivate.

priscaoge:
[size=14pt][color=deeppink]I'm Speechless [/color][/size]


I'm sorry Lord for not been grateful, even when I'm ungrateful u are still faithful to me. Thank U Lord Jesus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lanretoye:
Let your name be glorified o Lord.

Kastonkastroll:
The babe set sha and she is also beautiful. I will choose this lady as a wife over our gold-diggers of girls we have in Nigeria.... At least I won't have to spend my money on shoes and wristwatches.

Chillext:
See shape

nduchucks:
Egbe ndi abriba piafuka gi isi.

Beremx:
will you come to back to Nigeria and fight for Igbos when it happens eventually?
ordinary presidential election that brought Buhari as president,you're scared of coming back from your London base to Nigeria for fear of war till this date. What a monumental coward you are Sunday!!

As for Nnamdi Kanu,I will start taking him serious when he comes to Nigeria and operate his Radio Biafra. Dim Ojukwu of blessed memory never made to actualize Biafra from another man's country

samtol4:
"The number one radio station and even popular than BBC"U SABI LIE !

Jesusloveyou:
by wasting 4.6t naira on one man to kill more than 20.000 pple.shm

Firefire:
[size=18pt]This is because the outgone administration had accomplished almost 95 percent of the anti-terror job in the fight against the insurgents.[/size]

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4 Billion Naira wasted!

doncaster:
Info reaching me now from Links Newswire is the T-shirts are being parked for onward shipment to different markets/distributors all acros west African sub-region.

I have the picture but don't know how to upload. Who can help.