₦airaland Forum

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#word Ewizard...

All peace- loving, decent- minded and God- fearing individuals and groups within and outside Nigeria had recently agreed that this intractable problem of insecurity should not be joined with politics. It was a gentleman agreement and a consensus by all stakeholders that since these murderers had upped their game to the absurd level of seizing innocent, defenseless and unarmed little girls, it was time for all sane persons across the globe to forget politics and other cleavages and dissipate all their energies and resources in supporting government and the Armed Forces to rid the nation of this scourge.

In these challenging times however, some strange elements will always emerge to seek to truncate a process or be a clog on the wheel of progress. What is normal is that while youths are exhibiting the normal youthful exuberance and saying things that run contrary to commonsense, elders are expected to call them to order and use their benefit of experience, wisdom and knowledge to talk to them. But in this case, a group of senile, jobless and disgruntled elements under the guise of Northern Elders Forum (NEF) have decided to abandon logic and do the needless. Rather than than join hands with other patriots who are assisting security agencies with information and advising government on ways to tackle the problem of insurgency, they are threatening fire and brimstone, hitting the roof and blowing hot air.

The tone of the first paragraphs of this piece stems from the threat and ultimatum issued by the forum on President Goodluck Jonathan to either rescue the missing girls before October or forfeit his right to seek re- election in 2015?

First, it is grossly absurd and treasonable for any group of anarchists to threaten or issue an ultimatum on a democratically elected government.

If I may ask, when did the issue of rescuing the Chibok girls become a political matter? What has it got to do with the constitutional rights of the President to seek re-election?

It is shocking that anybody will tie the safe return of our missing sisters to an election bid that is backed by the constitution? How insensitive can these men be? The way they sound and what I can make out of the statement is not too far from a widely held belief that the security crises we are facing were engineered by some northerners to destabilize parts of the country and tarnish the image of President Goodluck. We can as well recall that some of them threatened to make the country ungovernable if he became President.

If the same northern elders are now issuing another threat about the next election, the belief in some quarters that the whole Chibok affair was acted to blackmail President Jonathan may now begin to make some sense.

Their effort has failed and will continue to fail because even the blind can see through this and the deaf can hear the re-echoing sounds of the stomping feet of our military with the support of Mr President as they regain control of the North.

They will continue to fail because we all know that the views expressed by those few confused men do not represent the views of the majority of the talakawas in the north who know what the present administration has done for the region in terms of infrastructure (roads, bridges ), education (Almajiri schools, new federal universities) etc.

They will keep failing because despite their rantings that they would stop Jonathan from becoming President in 2011, the man got a considerably huge support in the north and since it was God’s plans for him, he was sworn in as President. They failed in 2011, they will also fail this time.

They will keep failing because we know the charlatans behind the NEF group are just attention- seeking people who want the President to notice them at all cost. These are people who have lived all their lives serving their pockets and forgetting to serve the society they represent. These are people who have held several positions in government with a lot to show in terms of the number of properties they acquired all over the world but with nothing to show in terms of what they contributed to the development of the same northern Nigeria they now claim to represent. And now that the President is gradually taking away the innocent, poor kids they abandoned on the streets and building proper western cum Islamic schools for them, they are saying he should not seek re- election. Even if Jonathan quits power today, do these empty people have anything to offer the north in terms of developmental programmes. No, they don’t, we have tested them in the past and they have failed.

Time has come for northern youths to issue an ultimatum on the NEF group and other misguided elements asking them to tell the world what they have done for the north and the future generation. They should say this within a week or consider keeping quiet for life.

The second part of the ultimatum should mandate the NEF group and its co- travelers to begin to assist the Federal Government in the efforts to rescue the missing Chibok girls and end insurgency. They should tell us what they know about the ongoing insurgency and the whereabouts of the missing girls or face the wrath of the people.

It is not my wish to castigate elders in this manner but if a snake refuses to behave like one, children will mistake it for a rope and attempt to use it to tie firewood. These NEF people have sown the wind, they will soon reap the whirlwind. Northern youths and the talakawas who have been at the receiving end of their sins will soon go for their jugular.

ilugunboy: GEJ Waterloo will be the SW......

He may win this battle ...but will eventually lose this war he has declared on Yorubaland...

Hope you eat your words.. D man don tell una say no be do or die how hard is that to get.....

candy: I dey fear to talk. Last time I did, we no get light for 3 days

e b like you and anoda guy when post dey live 4 d same area.. But i get you msg subliminal but understood.. Cheers

reedonne: From who?

The new distribution company in the zone

StealthyMe: Yeah ...power supply in some parts of Akure has been uninterrupted
Crayy people who God will deal with have stolen transformer accessories and left us in the dark for about a month now!

BEDC......Your matter dey pend

SteathyMe.. Sad situation but hope you guys have like met the managing company for ur zone?

modhream: 36hrs/day.
Nnewi,Anambra state.
Improvement?.Not in a million light years

Not kul.. But i learnt some transmission infrastructure is bin constructed around the east

reedonne: Atleast 16h per day. But I think, power supply is getting worse here because there was a time when we have atleast 20h per day
From The great city of EDE, STATE OF OSUN, NIGERIA.
Ede/Osogbo axis of Osun state: enjoying better power supply since God know when.

Ohh dats sad... Have you tried inquiring about why the sudden drop?

foyeks2001: Oga, please which Federal Housing Lugbe are u talking abt? Or do we have another one? Please stop feeding d public wit lies...I stay @ 3rd Avenue, my bro lives around Phase2, my Aunt lives around Sector F( none ever told me of 12hrs per day)...Haba, some pple can lie sha

Foyeks2001 i do live in lugbe and i have bin having power like i said.. It might be different in some other parts i suppose

ikweremilitant: wilema area olodi apapa 15-18ys everydy improvement

@ikweremilitant nice........

JEITO: And by december this year, more improvement..
GEJ gradually transforming Nigeria allround.
I wish the supporters of APC would just take chill pills and join hands to move this country forward..
Vision2015....

JEITO easy ooo na just comments na.. But like you said its always good to say it as it is. If good say it if bad say it

Nice

NgeneUkwenu: Marked improvement, but it is not unexpected during rain seasons.

Ngene tru dat.. You didnt tell ur location?

bucke1: Yes. 16 hour/24. Ile-Ife

Kul Bucke1.. But a friend of mine in Ibadan has never said anything positive about power supply cant tell if he is just making it up

huptin: Ajah..... i would have dropped my rating, but i noticed that each time i come to Nairaland to write about improvd electricity supply to my area, it worsens tremendously.

huptin thats weird though but is it drop linked to anything in particular?

saintgwizard: Television New Extension, Kaduna South, kaduna. 22 Hours on the average. Improvement? Yes!

Nice1 saint dats encouragin...

PaulJohn1: 23 hours/day. Olorunda LGA, Oshogbo. Osun state.

Paul John 4 real?........... Nice

Colossus e no suppose hard to talk if light don improve or not na....... it cant be dat hard if its pls explain. Cheers

colossus2: You dey write project
If Yes, think of another thing.
If No, think of another thing.

N
No be project colossus2. i just need to know and maybe you sef need know

Federal Housing Lugbe, Abuja --------------- 12hrs ----------------------- Certainly Improved (YES) ----------------- 7

I guess its work in progress

My Nairalanders

How you all doin?

I want your candid reports on the power supply frequency and service in the areas you live or do your businesses in.

Can you say there is improvement if YES, rate on a scale of 1-10 with 10 been the highest score

If NO, rate on a scale of 1-10 with 10 been the worst

Or beta still you could be as descriptive as you want i will get the message

Please indicate zone or location, lets have fun while we at it..............

Am up first.

Tanks y'll

It is do or die for the APC... I wonder what our lives will be like if they hold the power at the center?

GEJ is working with the support of the military and the girls will be found soon

@tizbooze very true. The question in itself is like an onion with different layers. Football yea but is for the flops we make as a team or the scandals with non-payment of monies due coaches and players...... Thinking OUT LOUD

@ibnsultan i dont get what you mean

MY PROBLEM is the reporting its kinda partial.. it all about isreal doin this and that and very little reportage about the attacks by the palestinans

Maybe we do, Maybe we do not because its more like we exist rather than live here

As i ponder on why i am here and what this is intended to achieve, i believe lots of people who leave in the this geographical space called Nigeria ask themselves this same question. Is there a Nigerian identity? if yes what is it , has it been abused or misrepresented and can it be corrected.]
If No? then what should it really be and how can we build this identity to reflect us.

Because in my own opinion the identity crisis problem which i think we face is one we have to deal with in other to make progress as, so gentlemen and ladies lets share our thoughts with passion because this space we call Nigeria can be home for us all.