₦airaland Forum

Comparing Awolowo,Zik, Sadaurna, Balewa and most of the first republic leaders to the crop of nonsense politicians we have around now is an aberration.
Their depth of knowledge, Foresight and philosophical standing is just too much.
How I wish Tinubu will measure up to 1/10 of Awolowo.
Lalasticlacla, Mynd44 this are historical and Educative content that should grace NL FP.

ChristianNorth:
A master that is living as tenant in his slave's "ause" is that one master?

He who own a slave owns the SLAVES' properties... SELAH

ChristianNorth:
You mean a region with substandard "auses" that were falling here and there and killing them.

Those Osu will still buy up your lands even your ancestors graves and exhume their wasted carcasses and build a house you will pay rent to stay in.

Substandard "auses" that your generations are taking refuge in abi? I guess the building collapse in PH and Anambra also killed a lot right? hate filled being.

Have you finished buying up the tiny lands in your SE that's about the size of Oyo state alone before you start chest beating about buying all the properties of your masters? Mr. DEHVEHROPER...lol

ChristianNorth:
Another vulture that is frustrated by lack of skull to mine. We are proud of our religious homogeneity. We will never allow terrorist into the East, we will rather eliminate them at birth.

In one breath you claim igbos marries Muslims and still on the same thread you call Muslims terrorist that should be eliminated at birth.

Show me an easterner without hatred and I will show you a Basterd. You guys are just bunch of emotional hate-filled beings.

ChristianNorth:
Lagos alone has more slums than you can find in the entire SE.

And that's why the "Ragos slums" is "small rondon" to you and your folks. Take a walk to the nearest park in your Osu enclave and see how Economic refugees from your barren erosion ridden land are running to the "ragos slums".

The way this potopoto guys carry SW matter for head no be here o. You'll never see them talk about their 5 failed slums called states but you'll see their table tennis head taking roll call on any issues pertaining to the West.

Don't mind the foolish bigot terrorEASTs propagating their inborn hatred. They're use to segregation (Osu alusi-wawa-free born... Mbiase-Orlu...Catholic-Anglican etc) despite their homogeneous Christian religion. So Op don't be to harsh on them, it's simply their DNA playing out.
Yorubas careless about religion. Most PDP strongholds in the west are Muslim dominated area, from Ede to Ibadan. Almost every family in the west have the combination of all the religions.

Jagaban...he's the semblance of Awo in astute leadership (leading this pack of heavyweights is no mean feat) and political craftiness but far below Awo in developmental strides, Foresight and planning, political philosophy and ideology, social investment and as the advocate and defender of the Yoruba nation.

Hmmmm Tinubu the maradona... I hope he's not offering Akala Oyo state ministerial slot sha? We can't afford another Shittu in the cabinet o.

JerryJJZ:
Nothing can be compared to nature! The beauty is second to none.

This is one of the most beautiful pic of nature I've ever seen..

Please where did you got this picture from... it's simply lovely. it's already my screen saver.

Spokesman of Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Segun Showunmi has conceded defeat to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Showunmi contested to represent Abeokuta South Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives.


He lost to APC’s Lanre Edun.

“I have placed a call to Engr. Lanre Edun of The APC. Declared winner of the contest for the Federal House of Representative for Abeokuta South Federal Constituency to congratulate him,” Showunmi said in a tweeted.


“It has never been about me but what our people in Abeokuta South deserve. I’m particularly happy that the orgy of violence and brigandage that other locations in Nigeria witness were spared my beloved people of Abeokuta South.”

http://news-af.dailyadvent.com/news/detail/64ab9094a6956594408201cc3fed9e9b_ng?features=11&like_count=0

Asshurbanipal:
You aee deceiving your self. Two LGA in anambra just cancelled ten in kano. Atku is winning many apc states in sw and SE

OK, I've heard you, just make sure you don't cry foul when reality dawn on you.

sholatech:
Atiku's target here is 25 percent.

You mean the target of pdp for a state with an incumbent pdp governor is just 25%?..i beg all this atiku needs only 25%, 30%,40% bla bla bla is stale.
The turn out in both the SE and SS aren't encouraging and you're here downplaying over 200k deficit.

This is Ojukaye (Apc state chairman) LGA. so it's expected.

Why the voters apathy, 31k only to win a whole senatorial zone?
I'm very sure all the total votes of Abia won't exceed 300k.
Until we Southerners start showing up on election and not behind our keyboard that's when we will get it right.

Kudos to the Yoruba voters, they've shown again that they are politically sophisticated unlike some regions who have been giving bloc vote to the pdp for the past 20years with nothing to show for it.

cutesmilez:
Mr man in election FCT is separate in the sense that it is the sit of power. U have to get 25% in Fct as a president

And what constitution are you quoting... lol.
The way some of you convey your ignorance in optimum arrogance amaze me.
The constitution is explicit and unambiguous : get 25 percent in 2/3 of the (states + (and) FCT). There is no clause giving Abuja any special treatment in the electoral act.

cutesmilez:
Let me explain something to us.

No President can emerge in NIGERIA without having at list 25% in Fct..... I repeat atlist 25% in Fct..... Forget about other votes, the rule is have atlist 25% in Abuja first then others comes in..... With d look of things is like the PDP has more than 76% in Abuja..... Which isn't good for the Apc. CHECK THIS OUT!!!

Section 134 (2) states that “A candidate for an election to the office of President shall be deemed to have been duly elected where, there been more than two candidates for the election- (a) he has the highest number of votes cast at the election; and (b) he has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election each of at least two- thirds of all the states in Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

Just analysing FACTS

You're wrong, FCT in this context is seen as a STATE. It's 25% of 2/3 of (36+FCT =37). FCT doesn't carry any special status and her inhabitants are not different to people in Ebonyi or Ekiti.

http://www.informationng.com/2019/02/nigeriadecides-nairabet-owner-akin-alabi-wins-national-assembly-election.html

lalasticlacla, mynd44

Obasanjo is only useful for propaganda (Letter writing ) and not votes. I was telling an igbo friend that obj can't guarantee any politician 2000votes. His immediate family hates with passion likewise his community.

Tinubu political sagacity is second to none in Nigeria.

What's offensive in what tinubu said? he was even trying to hail them.
Reno Omokiri is just trying to heat up the polity with his known bigotry.
He should channel his energy towards appealing to the Hausa/Fulanis' him and his fellow junky FFK has called a lot of derogatory names.

Joan Faus , Jose Elías Rodríguez.

MADRID/BARCELONA (Reuters) - Twelve Catalan politicians go on trial on Tuesday for their role in Catalonia’s failed 2017 independence bid, putting the spotlight back on Spain’s biggest political crisis in decades which could make it flare once again.
To the dismay of much of the rest of Spain, Catalonia defied a judicial ban by carrying out a referendum and subsequently unilaterally declaring independence in October 2017.

There was shock at home and abroad when police used batons and rubber bullets on protesters on the day of the vote. Some of the Catalan separatist leaders were later arrested or fled the country.
The start on Tuesday of the trial will refocus attention on the region’s push for secession which so rattles Spain’s political and cultural identity.
The trial will decide if Catalan nationalist leaders stay in jail. The public prosecutor is seeking prison terms of up to 25 years on charges of rebellion and misuse of public funds. At stake are Spain’s stability, the future of Catalonia’s independence movement as well as the region’s and the central government’s image abroad.

“It’s the most important trial we have had in democracy”, Supreme Court president Carlos Lesmes told reporters on Feb. 1, referring to the return to democracy in Spain after dictator Francisco Franco’s death in 1975.
Raul Romeva, one of nine defendants jailed without bail since late 2017 facing the charge of rebellion, has made clear his view that it should end only with an acquittal.

“A (prison) sentence would weigh forever on history and on Spain’s future,” Romeva told Reuters in an interview conducted by email from jail.
At the time of his arrest, Romeva was foreign minister in Catalonia’s regional government and a member of the European Parliament.
Fellow defendants include veteran Catalan politicians Oriol Junqueras and Carme Forcadell. Notably absent from the list is former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, who is in self-imposed exile in Belgium and thus cannot be tried in Spain.
The dozen’s fate has been a rallying cry for separatists ever since 2017, said Federico Santi, analyst at political risk consultancy Eurasia, adding that he expected, like other observers, that the trial will re-ignite tensions.
Pro-Catalan independence protests had quieted down over the past months but separatist groups have called a series of protests in Catalonia and in Madrid to coincide with the trial.
Their supporters say they are political prisoners, while Madrid accuses them of breaking the law.
Among the many witnesses will be Mariano Rajoy, who was Spanish prime minister at the time of the independence vote and its aftermath.
RIFT
Lluis Orriols, a political science professor at Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, thinks the trial will reinvigorate the separatist debate ahead of end-May local and regional elections.
“The Catalan question is activating a nationalistic and identitarian confrontation not only in Catalonia but also in all of Spain,” Orriols said.
The trial starts as the Socialist government, which controls less than a quarter of seats in parliament, faces a key vote on the 2019 budget on Wednesday. A failure to approve the budget proposal could prompt a snap parliamentary election this year.
Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez relies on smaller parties, and in particular Catalan nationalists, to get the budget adopted. These have said they would block the bill, citing their dissatisfaction with Sanchez’s policy towards the region, despite his efforts for dialogue..
On the other hand, Spain’s right-wing parties accuse Sanchez of being too soft with Catalan separatists. On Sunday, thousands gathered in Madrid to protest Sanchez’ Catalan policies.
In Catalonia, support for the twelve is not unanimous. The population is largely split in two between those who favor remaining part of Spain and those wanting to secede.
After imposing direct rule on Catalonia in October 2017, Madrid called fresh regional elections that December in a bid to curb the independence movement. But the move backfired and the secessionists retained a slim majority in the Catalan assembly.
The last time a trial for rebellion was held in Spain was in 1982 after a failed military coup attempt. Its leader, found guilty of rebellion by a military court, was sentenced to 30 years of prison.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spain-politics-catalonia/catalan-leaders-go-on-trial-in-madrid-over-independence-bid-idUSKCN1Q01LD

Amarabae:
The incoming First Lady.
My Igbo sister.
Titi should go and rest.
Bleaching cream mama

You guys lack political intelligence. So you expect any politically liberal Yoruba to read this and still go ahead to vote your Cameroonian impostor abi?
I hope you still have your biafra flag intact? because you'll be going back to your biafla or death default mood after Feb 16.

I'll rather have my thumb cut than vote for PDP. Buhari may not be the best, but he his by far better than any good PDP can offer. I understand when kids born yesterday clamor for pdp, but for a grown adult who witnessed the brazen boldness and impunity pdp looted our treasury without doing anything, shows that the fellow either benefited from the rot or biased.

crestedaguiyi:
stop the lies abeg.

we once had times when we were raising our hands to pass through certain areas of this town.

am at lessuka, come take one Budweiser help your life.

Casablanca and the clubs around GRA still open till down.

Lol... it's very easy to claim Rivers is peaceful when you stay in GRA and Trans amadi. Step out of these places to know how far.

hmmmm

lol... So says a glorified lout who can't loose the lace of ojukaiye's shoe even in his hometown Buguma.
You think national politics is like the esusu, cultism and militant politics you guys play in ASALGA ba?

paq1:
Buhari will be defeated fair and square. Gombe voted massively for buhari in 2015 yet he only managed to win with 2.5m.

Atiku will do better GEJ in all the 19 northern states.

OK, February 16 is here already, then we will see.
But I can assure you that GEJ will have a better showing than Atiku.

Buhari will defeat Atiku with nothing less than 3m vote.
I'm rooting for moghalu.

Buhari will defeat Atiku with nothing less than 3m vote.
I'm rooting for moghalu.

marvinsync:
ur population hypothesis is faulty , ur bring other nations into this when it is quite clear why other nations are the way they are


IGR in Nigeria are as a result of so many things , population is a factor , taxing systems are a factor , The federal government is also a factor marginalization of projects to SW and north thereby bringing investors and taxes is also a factor

Are you also going to fault the fact that Ondo state with less Population is doing better in igr compared to Imo, Enugu etc with more populations?

We've heard people from across the Niger boast of Anambra housing the largest number of billionaires and millionaires and Nnewi men being walking banks...lol. My question is if this empty chest beating is true, then why the low igr? Are this billionaires engaged in illegal businesses that can't be taxed?

You can't claim to have the highest number of wealthy individuals and investors on one hand and also claim that the fg is diverting investors from the SE, That will either be a case of hypocrisy or bipolar disorder.

marvinsync:
because IGR does not equal development and areas with high population always have higher IGR

Who tells you IGR doesn't equal development, IGR is the profit of public enterprises, and it determines the availablility of funds for capital and human development in the states.
Are you telling me that these so called billionaires doesn't pay taxes? Are they operating illegal businesses that are not taxable?
Your population hypothesis is also faulty, there are several nations with less population than Nigeria doing a igr 100x that of Nigeria, or is Ondo state (5+ billion igr) more populated than imo or Enugu with less igr? IGR is simply the reflection of the economic development of a state.