₦airaland Forum

trium:
You are funny. I criticise Abati on some issues but on this one, let me educate you.

Abati has been a journalist for over 30 years. On his T.V. show with Utomi in the 90s, he was a columnist till he became an Editor. He now has a PhD which he can use to work anywhere in the world. You are quoting footballers who have a lifespan of 10 to 15 years. Footballers who still go to school when they have to find out how retirement is. That is the person you are comparing with a scholar. A scholar who has many opportunities in life. Mind you, Abati was also a lecturer and if he dies today, there are many citations that will be credited to him that your money cannot buy. I understand how Nigeria has made you think everything today is money but wait, let Abati go to a foreign country and watch how they will protect him at all costs. Someone that is a working encyclopedia, a national asset. Please, leave the matter.

I was trying to see exactly what makes him bigger than his employer from your write-up and I'm unable to spot just one thing. You keep shouting he has been a journalist for 60 yrs. What has that got to do with the fact that the îmbëcile is still an employee who is working for money? Is he the first idiot with a PhD. What's so special about one. I can take you to Ekiti today and you will see PhD holders that poverty has bent their dry necks. You keep fooling around with scholar this citation that. I don't know where in the world you are at the moment but you're forgetting that we're Nigerians first and foremost and 99.9% of Nigerians who pursue a PhD do so to improve their chances at landing jobs that will offer better remuneration. So the fact on the ground remains that Abatidiot is a useless employee who an Igbo man by name high Chief Nduka pays his salary and he can be sacked and the bald-headed monkey thrown back into the labour market with his usèless qualifications so the old fool can easily get another job in this Tinubu era that all companies are downsizing.

ElevationD:
And you do not know that he’s a card carrying member of the PDP? And you do not know that he left the same media to work with GEJ, even after his friends pleaded with him no to go in that direction? And you do not know that he contested the governorship of Ogun state in 2015?

Are you so uninformed?

Yes I'm ill informed. Kindly inform me. What's the big deal in being a pdp card carrying member? Was Bwala who was running helter skelter and willing to sell his dignity for a plate of fermented porridge not a pdp card carrying member? Even my dog has a membership in the party. If you want one I can get the card and send it to your location free of charge. How does the card negate the fact that you still need to be gainfully employed to earn wages?
What's special about contesting a primary you know you went there to make up the numbers? How does it erase the fact that you still need to earn wages to continue your fight towards survival?

Before the land use act came on board, Igbos already had a land use act. Even in my town, before I can buy a land in another village… there is a process for the seller to follow… especially so you don’t end up buying community land and get into problem.

LastGiantAlive:
I was trying to see exactly what makes him bigger than his employer from your write-up and I'm unable to spot just one thing. You keep shouting he has been a journalist for 60 yrs. What has that got to do with the fact that the îmbëcile is still an employee who is working for money? Is he the first idiot with a PhD. What's so special about one. I can take you to Ekiti today and you will see PhD holders that poverty has bent their dry necks. You keep fooling around with scholar this citation that. I don't know where in the world you are at the moment but you're forgetting that we're Nigerians first and foremost and 99.9% of Nigerians who pursue a PhD do so to improve their chances at landing jobs that will offer better remuneration. So the fact on the ground remains that Abatidiot is a useless employee who an Igbo man by name high Chief Nduka pays his salary and he can be sacked and the bald-headed monkey thrown back into the labour market with his usèless qualifications so the old fool can easily get another job in this Tinubu era that all companies are downsizing.

I don't need to argue with you. I am not Abati, I don't necessarily like him but you don't know the story of Thisday and Arise. If you knew, you would know why Abati is a boss at both places. Whatever the case against Abati is, he still remains a good scholar.

Abati Reuben and Rufai Oseni are pursuing their journalism careers at the wrong TV station. The sooner they both realized this and submitted their resignation letters, the better for them.
"Arise TV" was founded primarily to promote the Ibo agenda, and they are simply using these two Yoruba journalists to further their tribal interests. It is not about them; it is only about Ibo's sinister agenda. This is so obvious and noticeable...The TV station hired these Yoruba journalists to undermine the Yoruba tribe while promoting the Ibo tribe. Because this illogical practice has made them popular, they must continue to use these two Yoruba journalists against their people.

And if any of these two journalists want to undermine the Ibo tribe at any time, they will rubbish, discard, and bring in another person.

FSU:
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Reuben Abati's PhD is wasted education.

Why?
The current senate president had praised the Igbo during the events related to the burial of an Igbo senator who died recently. He said among other things, that Igbos go out to develop other parts of Nigeria and that other Nigerians do not do quite the same. That the said late senator was a true representation of the Igbo spirit.

Then, Abati was asked to respond to the senate president's comments on his TV program. Abati, after other kinder words about the Igbo, retorted that, according to TOS Bension (A Yoruba political leader who was born in 1917 and died in 2008) that Igbos don't sell land to strangers. That TOS had wanted to buy land and build a house in his Igbo wife's village and that the villagers had told him (TOS) they don't sell land to strangers. Abati went on to affirm his own opinion along the lines that Igbos go out and buy properties and build elsewhere, but do not sell land to others.

Now, Abati claims to hold a PhD. To obtain a PhD anywhere in the world, including in the local university from where Abati obtained his, requires conducting research for at least 3 years. In Nigeria, it takes longer. In most cases, such research involves conducting statistical analysis using sample populations and establishing margins of errors based on the sampling population size. Abati regurgitated the unproven claim made by TOS about his wife's village (one village) and extrapolated that to cover more than 30 million Igbos living in thousands of villages and towns and cities. The inability of Abati to conduct his own research and to gather data from a representative sampling of Igbos on the matter makes his PhD null and void. That he even believed what TOS Benson said in the 1960s or 70s or 80s, or 90s (whenever he had said it), and repeated it in 2024 makes his case even worse and deserved that his alma mater asks for their certificate back.

Assuming one Igbo village does not sell their land to strangers, how is that an Igbo-wide culture that should be linked to other Igbos?

Pray tell, the Redeemed Church, Deeper Life church, Living Faith church, and numerous other churches own properties across nearly all Igbo villages, towns and cities in Nigeria. These churches are private churches owned by Yoruba individuals. The church lands were sold to the Yoruba owners by Igbos.

GTB, Wema Bank, FCMB and a few other banks in Nigeria are 100% owned and managed by Yorubas. These banks have branches in Igbo towns and cities. The lands were sold to them by Igbos.

Polo Mall Enugu and the Onitsha Business School are owned by Yorubas

GLO Mobile is owned by a Yoruba. GLO has offices in Igbo cities. The lands where these offices are located were sold to GLO by Igbos.

There are 1000s of Yoruba who own private properties in Igboland. I personally know one in Umuahia.

I can go on and on. How come Abati does not know this? How come Abati cannot conduct simple research before bleating out on National TV in 2024 that Igbos don't sell land to strangers?

Abati is not only ill-educated, but he is also a bigot, because only a bigot can take an incidence by one person and extrapolate it to all persons related to that offender. Worse still an uncorroborated incidence that was said to have happened decades ago.

Op is typing from the psychiatric hospital....do not worry, the nurse will soon come and give you the necessary injection.

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I was trying to see exactly what makes him bigger than his employer from your write-up and I'm unable to spot just one thing. You keep shouting he has been a journalist for 60 yrs. What has that got to do with the fact that the îmbëcile is still an employee who is working for money? Is he the first idiot with a PhD. What's so special about one. I can take you to Ekiti today and you will see PhD holders that poverty has bent their dry necks. You keep fooling around with scholar this citation that. I don't know where in the world you are at the moment but you're forgetting that we're Nigerians first and foremost and 99.9% of Nigerians who pursue a PhD do so to improve their chances at landing jobs that will offer better remuneration. So the fact on the ground remains that Abatidiot is a useless employee who an Igbo man by name high Chief Nduka pays his salary and he can be sacked and the bald-headed monkey thrown back into the labour market with his usèless qualifications so the old fool can easily get another job in this Tinubu era that all companies are downsizing.[/quote]