₦airaland Forum

MadamVanessa:



If there's anything I respect Simon Ekpa , his ability to speak the undiluted truth when it matters most.

I watched his broadcast, one can not really differentiate him with Mazi NNAMDI KANU, except their facial features.

The strength he exuded when speaking was a top notch. I must say that the igbos are blessed with good brains.

I still wonder why some category of people love to be brainwashed and led by certified psychopaths, from one psychopath right to another.

There must something about insanity that most people, even reasonable people, are subconsciously attracted to.

Ofodirinwa:
Soludo came to fight IPOB and appease the people he owes his political career to (Tinubu faction APC), though I don't even believe Tinubu and co care.

Many online (specifically online) have put a lot of expectations on his shoulders that have nothing to do with Biafra, and so far we are on statement #5 about IPOB in less than one month. IPOB has the will of the people and Soludo will waste his political capital as Rochas, Ekweremadu, Umahi, Uzodinma, Obiano and even Obi did in the past.

I'm not sure which people Ipob you're talking about.
The far majority of people in Igboland are extremely loathsome of Ipob.
Yes, Ipob has the will of nearly all the criminal elements of Igboland. Ipob is now synonymous with terror and criminality and brigandage.
A little survey showed that Ipob enjoys the support of jobless, mostly lawless and criminal minded youths, who are , of course, in the very small minority of the Igbo people.
The proof of that is that Ipob, from top to bottom, are impervious to rational dialogue, and have only violence and intimidation as their working currencies.
It is an insult to say publicly that those motley crew of pathological criminals have the will of the Igbo people.

Ofodirinwa:
Soludo came to fight IPOB and appease the people he owes his political career to (Tinubu faction APC), though I don't even believe Tinubu and co care.

Many online (specifically online) have put a lot of expectations on his shoulders that have nothing to do with Biafra, and so far we are on statement #5 about IPOB in less than one month. IPOB has the will of the people and Soludo will waste his political capital as Rochas, Ekweremadu, Umahi, Uzodinma, Obiano and even Obi did in the past.

I'm not sure which people Ipob you're talking about.
The far majority of people in Igboland are extremely loathsome of Ipob.
Yes, Ipob has the will of nearly all the criminal elements of Igboland. Ipob is now synonymous with terror and criminality and brigandage.
A little survey showed thar Ipob enjoys the support of jobless, mostly lawless and criminal minded youths, who are , of course, in the very small minority of the Igbo people.
The proof of that is that Ipob, from top to bottom, are impervious to rational dialogue, and have only violence and intimidation as their working currencies.
It is an insult to say publicly that those motley crew of pathological criminals have the will of the Igbo people.

budaatum:
Every single day with every single post do I move that ass to carry my country people along, plaetton. Unfortunately, getting past the point where "carry" stops being 'on my back' is proving a formidable obstacle, I can't carry more than my own ass.

If we could but learn that "carry" means everyone bearing their own ass. Unfortunately, most await a messiah to carry their asses for them instead of carrying their own asses for themselves

There is immense power in the Logos if one knows and understands what it is, but when it's not understood it's like salt has no saltiness.

May we learn to carry our own asses. In fact, I'm off to start a cult for it!

I hear you bros.

Dtruthspeaker:
Surely you know that it is not man who made these laws you recited but that man came to meet them here on ground, waiting for him.

That clearly tells you, you are under control.

Human history lays it bare for us to see that anytime humans imagine, they create. Whatever they create changes their destiny for good or for bad.
No Gods required.

budaatum:
What! No gods to reward me when I sow not?

Bugger! I better move my ass myself then.

Lol.
You've better move that ass.
And please carry your countrymen along.

The destiny of man is not by the machinations of imaginary gods in the sky, in the ground, in the sea or in any fire.
History is our best witness.

As a man thinketh, so he lives.
As a man soweth, so he reaps.

Igbo:
you're coward
Why not say this since sit at home madness started?

I'm not sure what you mean by coward. I have never shied away from speaking factual truth.
I have never supported sit at home nonsense. In fact, that was the turning point for me.

dchem:
I agree. Stay at home then and leave the rest of us who don't want to stay at home out of it.

Exactly.
Forcing people to stay at home for your tin god is the definition of Terrorism.

Kingpin1000:
Sitting at home for just a day is just a sign of solidarity to MNK a man who has been kidnapped and incarcerated by FG. A man who if acted like an average Nigerian that doesn't care if Buhari doesn't have a certificate or the rise of commodities, inflation, insecurity, and economy, students sitting at home instead of school, corruption, name them, would have been somewhere in UK chilling with a cold bottle of beer and banging some sweet good pussy. But He rejected that because He is not Average, neither an Average Nigerian. Staying a day at home is not too big to sacrifice for the Biafran struggle. Market should be opened on Sundays like it is Mondays.

No one owes solidarity to MNK.
In his wild delusions, he confered omniscience and omnipotence on himself, thereby sealing his fate.
He made his own bed, he should be proud to lie on it.

His IPOB has turned out to be a big embarrassment and tragic liability to the Igbo people.

Chimaraymond455:
Whether you like it or not IPOB have come to stay, the only obstacle the Fulani jihad is having in Nigeria today is the emergency of IPBO and ESN, remove IPBO and ESN Fulani will collapse and overall all the communities across southern Nigeria. wake up from your slumber south. and good Nigerians what love freedom, use your head, since the emergency of ESN have you you heard that Fulani headsmen kill anywhow in the east again, only send their armies to burn down houses and kill innocent people..

I don't know what planet you live in, but you are certainly delusional.
IPOB is washed out. Whatever Goodwill they earned from the Igbo people at the beginning has been fritted away by psychos lost in their delusions of grandeur.
Once they turned their frustrations against their people, they became an abomination.

In Igboland, IPOB is now synonymous with terrorism,
psychopathy and odium.

Yes, if you say that IPOB criminality and terrorism is here to stay, it would be hard for me to argue with you on that. Criminals will always find any way to blend and thrive.

However , they will remain cursed by the land that they have desecrated.

Whiteangel1234:
Simon ekpa the Leader of the ESN Militia , M- Branch and IPOB-Autopilot have publicly denounce and Renounce his Nigeria citizenship and opted for Finnish citizenship pending when Biafra will be actualized . he vowed that it's either Biafra or He Die in Exile

This Single move now make it impossible for Nigeria to Rendition and Extradite Him to Nigeria like Nnamdi Kanu who hold Dual citizenship of Nigeria and UK .
Interpol cannot arrest Simon Ekpa again , he have formerly applied and Renounce Nigeria for Finland

Video below


https://fb.watch/c98eA2itPu/

Absolutely trash.
As long he preaches , encourages indirectly sponsors terrorism ( The use of violence or coercion to achieve political goals) he will be treated as a terrorist suspect anywhere he goes.
All the Nigerian government has to do is to file a formal complaint to the Finish government, The EU and Interpol. I'm not sure why the Nigerian government has not already done so for Simon Ikpa and the rest of IPOB psychos out there.
I suspect that FG is probably happy about the infighting and factionization of IPOB. The best way to weaken, discredit and destroy IPOB is to allow or encourage them to splinter and wage war against themselves.
In that case, Nutcases like Simon Ikpa become assets for the Nigerian government.

ikorodureporta:
Why?
Do you think they really happened in the past?

Same way we should asking why is Zeus and the Olympians no longer in Greece?
Because they all ancient mythology.

LordIsaac:
And the leaders come from the people...in fact, they are a function of the collective will of the people (in a democracy). Thus, it is a two way street; that's his message!

You are basically saying that all Nigerians have the same personality traits.
I beg to differ.

Not everyone is or can be a leader.
Good Leadership is a quality, a trait. Certainly not everyone has it. That's why there is usually a rigorous process of vetting of candidates for Leadership positions.
When that vetting process is debased and bastardized by primordial sentiments, then it becomes open season for everyone, especially the unqualified.
What has been happening in Nigeria is that the masses have been deceived, exploited and traumatized to numbness, to the exact point where the sociopathic leaders want them to be- a sort of Stockholms syndrome, where the preys worship their predators, and accept ,regurgitate and re-enact the dysfunctional worldview of their predators.

My friend,
Leadership is everything.
Every leadership style produces its own peculiar followership. Leaders are the Ruders that steer the ship of state.
A leader's zeal and body language trickles down to the ministers, commissioners, etc, down to all organs of governance.
The masses are very malleable, and ever ready to inculcate and follow the good examples of an honest committed leader.

Unfortunately, Anyone who can hire a Battery of SAN lawyers would always defeat the EFCC in court.

The EFCC are reckless in the way they arrest, gather and handle evidence.
It is only with local yahoo yahoo Boys that they can flex power and jail.

tradingknowledg:
Typical Nigerians.. if they see a way to work a little while they earn , they will reject it .. they just want where they would put money and it will grow like magic

Yes, Nigerians are beholden to magical thinking.
They have been brainwashed by pulpit pi.mps that the laws of physics and economics can be circumvented, that they can reap what they did not sow.

Mooh247:
sad reality is that Nigeria needs portfolio investment platform for people to safely invest
we need more lisenced mutual fund investment company

Even the licensed portfolio managers are all scams. I know an insider who narrated to me that all they do is shuffle tens of billions of Naira from one fund to another ,back and forth, keeping a small % fee for themselves for each transaction. They don't give a rat's bottom about investor returns. It's all about them churning transactions and collecting fees.
In Nigeria, everything is a scam.
The best and only way to invest and safeguard spare funds in Nigeria is real estate.

Ifakiland:
Madam deaf, abeg no disturb us with your noise.....if mmm couldn't teach you a lesson den you deserve been cheated of your money since you're you're fool and even the bible said a fools wealth shall depart from him. So getat. The nig probably chilling in a carribean island sipping coconut with a hot melani bish rubbing his head

Thank you Jare.
They say a fool and his money are soon parted.

Any fool that invests in quick- get-rich schemes deserves whatever they get.

Reflect7:
Oh GET LOST. Who cares what you think? Go hang yourself or go suck on some SA dck or whatever takes your fancy.

My response is for those with brains to think and learn, not self-loathing, school dropout riffraff with rocks for brains.

You need to grow or borrow a brain bros.

Reflect7:
Let me put you in a race and start you 200 yards behind other participants, and then see where you end up at the end of the race.

Simplest way to break it down for a dumb cretin like you.

You're the dumb cretin if you say that Nigeria started developing in 1960. Which school taught you that ?
Your school fees may need to be refunded.

Had Nigeria simply continued its growth trajectory since 1960, Nigeria would have been far far ahead of South Africa, India, Brazil, etc.
In 1960, Nigeria was ranked far above South Africa in terms of future potential. Nigeria was ranked higher than South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia in future potentials. India and Brazil were Nigeria's peers in 1960.

Of course, same way the western media continues to describe terrorism in Northern Nigeria as communal clashes.
It's deliberate.
If they call it terrorism, attention would be drawn towards.
They are too busy trying to make the whole world feel sympathy for the Ukraine people, their own kind.
No time to feel sympathy for Africans.

NOwazobia:
If you are a bit critical in your thought, you would have know that the denial of sentiment is actually the sign of low IQ, and not being sentiment at all.

Sentiment ruled the world, and your post is an example of a sentiment. But your low IQ won't allow you see this.

Lol.
Sentiments rule the world ??.
That's probably why life is haphazard in those parts of the world where Sentiments rule.

A correction to your statement would be that high IQ people employ Sentiments to rule the majority low IQ people.

You can easily distinguish between the nations whose leaders , politics and culture are beholden to Sentiments and those nations who's leadership, politics and culture are beholden to rationality and common sense. Their standard of life indices tell the story.

swagficient:
I believe people who think and act with emotions should not be blamed. They simply lack the power to see beyond their nose.
Ethnic, religious, family, etc sentiments are due to their inability to think wider than what they see.
You might say greed play a long role too, but, I believe greed itself is a big sign of low thinking faculty.

There are multiplier effects to every of our actions, both short and long term. If people could only see negative effects of their actions today, maybe they won't have acted the way they did.

Abi what do you think?.

I agree 100%.
I spend a lot time arbitrating and reconciling family and friends entangled in one lingering conflict or another.

At the end , I find that at the root of every conflict, personal, relationships, family, political and national, lies cascades of unnecessary, illogical sentiments.
And I spend a lot of time wondering why people cannot see things and issues in broader , longer term perspectives, and why they seem unable to simply calculate and forsee the inevitable chain-reactional consequences of their actions.

The chain- reactional consequences of every action can be deduced with almost mathematical precision, but cascades of unnecessary sentiments blurrs people's vision,and they end up in a repetitive cycle of negative action and negative consequences.
Nigeria being the best example .

War Crimes 101.
Thank God it's recorded and on social media.
When the war Crimes Tribunal comes (?) after these criminals, I hope they remember that it was recorded.

I have one less reason to feel sympathy for Ukraine.
In what way now is Ukraine any morally better than the Russians have so vilified?

When Russia goes to volume 2, I will definitely feel no sympathy for Ukraine.

Yakson5:
What I Saw Today In Kano Secondary School (pics)

Good day Nairalanders,
I just say let me share to you what my eyes just saw in a government secondary school situated in panshekara Kano.

And please I don't mean to ridiculed or hurt anyone or any state.It is just my way of contributing to the growth of education in Nigeria so that our leaders can see what education is facing in our country especially Kano state.

This is a picture of a classroom where students are expected to learn;

The saddest thing about this is that the elites of Kano and their families stride around Dubai as if it was a nation they built themselves.
Shameless lot.

treesun:
Nigeria is challenged on all fronts by the evident failure of leadership. This is not just an ordinary failure but a cataclysmic failure that can be most appropriately described as the collapse of leadership. It is cataclysmic because it is a tragedy, awful, terrible, a leadership void of unimaginable proportions. This discourse posits the inextricable link between rights and duties and how this is linked with the current leadership collapse in Nigeria. It asserts that there is no right accruing to any individual, group or political party to assume the powers of the state without a concomitant duty, capacity and attempt at lifting a finger to solve societal problems.

Every Nigerian including the incumbent president, governors, legislators, etc., have a right to aspire to public office. Implicit in this right to offer oneself to be elected to public office is a concomitant obligation to perform the duties of the office once elected and to live up to the oath of office. There is an assumption of nobility of volition and intention for assuming public office. The right of an individual to be elected to public office cannot by any stretch of the imagination trump the rights of millions of Nigerians to good governance, access to education, health, water, energy, etc. Thus, once elected into office, the continued stay in the office after a reasonable period of adjustment is contingent upon good performance which validates the rights of the majority. A mandate freely given by the people is predicated on premises of the common good, for the official to work and be seen to vigorously and meticulously work towards the fulfilment of the rights of fellow countrymen and women.

However, a scenario where persons elected into public office have shown no intention of living up to their oath of office, abdicated their duty and even when reminded by citizens they swore to serve fail, refuse and neglect to change but rather attack and insult persons who seek to call them to order, then the public officials being the mandate holders have by their actions and omissions cancelled the mandate originally given to them. There is no right to occupy an office and instead of providing solutions to the myriad of societal challenges, it complicates and compounds the challenges. The fat salaries, estacodes, allowances approved for these key officials is predicated upon their being put in a position to make life bearable for the ordinary Nigerian. To continue to claim these perks of office while doing nothing or when whatever is being done is not solving the challenges amounts to robbery.

Where do we start this discourse from? We are current witnesses to the latest disgrace in the energy sector where a country richly blessed with hydrocarbons cannot produce or refine one litre of petrol, diesel, aviation fuel or kerosene for domestic consumption or for export. The extant public policy orchestrates the fuel crisis and the resulting suffering by millions of Nigerians. Where is the minister of petroleum resources, what is his plan for bringing this to an end? Busy enjoying the perks of office; he is not bothered one bit about the suffering of the people. The hydrocarbon crisis is compounded by the electricity grid that has suffered so much frequent collapse, providing darkness, unreliable and hallmarks a persistent increase in tariff where Nigerians are forced to pay for the hopeless inefficiency of the electricity cartels. Where is the regulator, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission – evidently pretending to be on duty, drawing huge perks of office without concrete deliverables?

Turn a corner and the education sector is in disarray with the government failing to fulfil its commitments voluntarily entered into with the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities. It has become the yearly accepted norm for government to allow university lecturers to proceed on strike while treating their requests with contempt and disdain. Pray, where is the minister for education? Is he interested in resolving the dispute? Obviously, the answer is in the negative. He is busy setting up a panel to report back in two months after the lecturers have been on a one-month warning strike. Would you blame a man who has no stake in the system for not caring about the resolution of the ASUU strike? With children and wards in universities in Europe and America, young Nigerians schooling in Nigeria can go to hell for all he cares.

At another corner is the massive brain drain going on in our health sector. Our best brains in the sector are leaving in droves whilst the minister of labour, a medical doctor, insists that it is a good development. The once derided consulting clinics have further deteriorated to confirming morgues. The hospitals were not designed to work as high-level health professionals are paid a slave wage. At least prompting, the president boards his jet and heads off to Europe for medical tourism. He has just returned to Nigeria two days ago from one of such trips. And to even show his contempt for over 200 million citizens, he failed to transmit power to the vice president when he travelled for the last medical trip. Despite official statistics which are now based on imaginary depositions, the price of food, energy, transport, etc., has virtually doubled between January and March 2022. Furthermore, the naira has lost ground to many international currencies.


It is therefore imperative to state that a purported four-year mandate is not a mandate to ensure that many Nigerians lose their lives within the four years as has severally happened under the watch of the current president and his team of appointees. It is not a mandate to impoverish, punish and enslave the majority. It is not a mandate to do nothing but simply to enjoy the perks of office. It seems that ministers and executive assistants are appointed for four years certain and do not serve on the basis of their good performance. Once appointed, they stay till the end unlike the practice in previous presidential tenures.



Therefore, Mr. President and members of the federal team, in the name of God, Nigerians beg of you to consider leaving us alone. Resignation is an option. Since you cannot improve our conditions from where you took over, you reserve no right to worsen our predicament. We are tired. You have already dealt us a very bad blow in the economic, educational, health, political and social sectors. The decision is up to you but history beckons.


https://punchng.com/we-are-tired-consider-resignation/

Beautiful, Powerful, Truthful.

Truth needs no embellishments.

jmoore:
If?
When Yaya Bello invited them nko, was that an endorsement?. So they endorsed Tinubu and Yaya Bello to be president? Nigeria will have two presidents at a time?

Nawa for una.

Football stars are frequently paid huge sums of money to endorse products for corporate organizations. The whole idea is to leverage the popularity, name recognition and Goodwill of the Stars to influence the public to buy their products.

Most of us are too mature to buy products simply because a star endorsed them. But majority of the people, especially the young, are influenced to buy products ensorsed by stars.

Likewise, politicians, especially corrupt politicians with image problems, have now began to use Football stars to endorse their own products ( their political ambitions) .

Whether the former Football stars were paid or not, the glaring fact remains that they are being used to endorse political products, bad political products.
If they are not intelligent enough to figure that out, then it's a big shame on them.

Vivonose:
God is love, once God is involved in your relationship, it would stand the test of time

The biblical God is certainly not a good example of a good , tender ,loving and enduring relationship.
God says love me or I'll throw you into hellfire.
The definition of toxic relationship.

Onepeople:
we don't need to wait to end of his tenure to access him,every moment deserve either criticism or recommendations, we will wait to criticise him after his tenure if he failed to perform so calm down. More than 99% of our leaders that have failed us never started on good slate.

Thank you.
I'm sometimes surprised at the knee-jerk cynicism we see each there a small attempt to make a difference in the style of governance.
Even though we have been so traumatized by misplaced trust and broken promises in the past, it is not a reason for us not to jubilate and be inspired each time someone takes a good step forward.

miketayo:
Nigerians are too easy to impress, so because he is using IVM he is God sent, an angel, the man for the job. He hasn't even used 1 week in office.
People will worship me if I hold a major office

Yes sir.
The quality of leads hip had sunk soooo low, that a simple, commonsense gesture like seems like a miracle.
It is refreshing to see a governor in this era take a good first step.
Don't you think ?

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a simple step, a single positive gesture.