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Famous? make that notorious

We don't need cult wahala in Pitakwa,not now

bidemi12:
It is because of retards like this that Nigeria is being ruled by morons. I rest my case.

The word "retard" is over-played on nairaland my friend,if you do not have the capacity to muster informed debates,don't hide under curses and swear words,as those wont prove anything to the contrary.
If you lack knowledge,ask those who're more enlightened than you,and they'll teach you;FOR FREE

ziddy:
She's well within her rights but she has unrestricted access to a private audience with Amaechi, she didn't have to speak up in public just to score cheap points with her people.

Then again,Amaechi is smart,he really should have moved a step faster than that presidential bigot

QED

bidemi12:
And ooo!! rasputin, you need to have your head checked. your line of arguement is somewhat disturbing. what business of her's is it that she should have been briefed before hand. last i checked, being first lady is not an appointed nor elected position. Neither does the constitution recognize it.

Little wonder they say empty barrels(like you) make the loudest noise
If she needn’t be briefed,why was no less a person than the governor briefing her via monitor.
Do you know how Nigeria got her name?do you know how Delta state was created?does your ignorant behind know why John the Baptist was beheaded or why Nigeria was drifting ever so close to  major anarchy and failed statehood especially during the period of Oct 2009 and April 2010?I guess you don’t so I’ll school you;it’s because some unelected persons(wives of the elected/appointed persons) asked the elected ones to do it and they did,PERIOD.
Knowing full well that the ingredients or critical factors for the above scenarios to play themselves out are still very much obtainable in this clime,then the diplomatic and smart thing to do(knowing how touchy the issue is) was to have given her the heads up by way of an advance briefing and all the needless brouhaha and public show of shame would have been avoided

So my friend(),next time you wanna ask someone to check their heads,you might wanna check yours first,and oh,your spellings ,check those also

@ Marvix

What's up with your siggy?
Abeg cool down ooo

Please let them air it on a once-weekly basis

@ Bacomerich

Please get out of this thread,you're such a nuisance with your useless sat maps

What's maps got to do with an unruly wife of a President who goes to insult an elected(?) governor in his state of jurisdiction?

Ah ah,so cos that his leg disease aka radiculopathy gave him some breathing space he is busy claiming glory for journalistic pieces put together by his hungry slaves like Kaseem Afegbua,I pray IBB dies soon and very soon

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Hohohohohohahahahahahahhehehehehehehehohohohohohoh

The scousers should've hired the spuds or Stoke city to play the match for them

Never knew there were celebs in Nigeria

What a shameful display by Liverpool

kenoalords:
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You miss road ?

Desperate housewife,OBJs housewife

I see,okay Pete I see your point,next time the roles should be given to you instead of Olu Jacobs for proper interpretation

@ Ziddy

I be like Igboman to you?

dayokanu:
Sharapppp and answer simple question

Yaya kasua?

Baa Kwomi

Hope they will now do the first(right )things first,sack all the state excos and organise elections at the state level before moving up to the national level

Nigeria Football Federation(Association) elections postponed

Elections into the board of the Nigeria Football Federation scheduled to hold tomorrow, August 21 in Abuja has been postponed.

The decision to shelve the election was taken at an emergency meeting of the executive committee of the federation in Abuja last night.

The elections, have been source of controversy as some of the candidates contesting for the presidency of the body insist that the electoral process is flawed.

One of the candidates, Segun Odegbami, had petitioned world football governing body, FIFA on two occasions alleging that the statutes of the NFF from which electoral guidelines were drawn had been tampered, denying contestants a level playing field.

Specifically, he condemned the decision to hold elections into the executive committee when a similar thing had not been done at the state level, even though the tenure of chairman of the state football associations and Abuja who form 37 of the 44 delegates eligible to vote in the elections had expired.

A new date may be fixed for the election tomorrow when the congress of the NFF meets.

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Sport/Football/5608763-146/story.csp

Dr Kitaun:
Dayo
what have u achieved in your personal life these past 5 years? Arsenal isnt about 5yrs old or am i missing sumtin?

Really very funny

1759:
September 14 in the building. Big ups to my birthday mates below. Wouldn't miss being a Virgo for anything in the world.

Well said

BTW 1759,what's your relationship with Arthur Guiness

jpworld:
Btw how did those 10plot land in Lakowe went? any buyer's testimonial, cause that trend i can't trace it again,

Ahhhh,my eyes,my eyes,somebody help pleeaaaaaase

thirdeye:
@Lawyer a great post you have here, I am also compiling one based on my experience in Yaba.
But I will advise if a structural engr is ready to collect 35k from you and not based on personal friendship, sorry don't bother to employ him. That one is structural nothing, you are only going to get some past jobs duplicated for you with some adjustments. Structural drawings are more important to M&E, so you can see that under normal circumstances they shouldn't be higher. The ideal for structural drawings starts fromm 100k up.

Third eye,you really racked me up.I really wondered which structural engineer will do a thorough structural design;drawings,diagrams and calculation sheets as well as stamp for that amount.

Well then again,people may charge based on some considerations,I've doneone for free(for myself ),the least total package we charge in my firm for architectural,structural,M & E as well as BOQ is higher than what I'm seeing on this thread,of couse our high quality and finesse makes it worth your while

Hmmmmmmmmmmm

@ OP,

Now you need to take a chill pill.I think the topics are balanced and they generated much traffic.For instance I started an anti IB thread (based on a newspaper story) and Seun put it on the homepage.So OP,again I say take a chill pill

YES indeed

SEE LINK BELOW

http://www.independentngonline.com/DailyIndependent/Article.aspx?id=19075

•LT-COL PETER EGBE - ULU (rtd), writing from Okokomaiko, Lagos, laments the declaration of IBB as a candidate for the 2011 presidential election…





As a former military officer, especially an army officer, I am, to say the least, very disappointed and concerned about General Ibrahim Babangida putting himself up for election to the presidency 17 years after ‘stepping aside’ from that job. It shows indeed that he is not the officer and gentleman he is supposed to be. Some would say that he never was, and he seems determined to prove them right. He shows himself not to be a man of principle. As a former soldier, one feels a grave sense of betrayal and dismay.

In Nigerian politics, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida is not an unknown quantity. Not that being a known quantity in anyway precludes anyone from contesting for the presidency but what is known about the man, emphatically, does not recommend him for the job. It is arguable that IBB has played any constructive roles, as an elder statesman should do, since leaving Aso Rock in a cloud in 1993. On major national issues, he has always preferred to keep his cards close to his chest, saying little or nothing. By trying to get back to Aso Rock after nearly a generation of leaving the place, Babangida seems to be saying that only one role is good enough for him in the country of about 150 million people: that of the President of Nigeria.

As everyone knows, we are in a very delicate period in Nigeria’s political development. The election year is upon us. The year is also a jubilee year. Until the 6th of May, 2010 we had an acting president installed via a constitutionally dubious resolution, not even a law, of the National Assembly, a shaky proposition ipso facto. The substantive president was gravely ill and totally incapacitated but remained in office, serving no other purpose except to act as a political stumbling block for anyone seeking to run the country in his stead. Yet, somehow, thanks to the presence of mind and courage of a man called Jonathan Goodluck, the country survived and seemed to forge ahead against seemingly impossible odds. What the country needs least at this time is for a man whose ego is as huge as Babangida’s to come barging in and throwing a spanner into the works, but he has done it anyway. Since he obviously was unable to articulate the situation and the gravity of his interference you might also refer to him as a dimwit, a qualification that makes him patently unfit for the job he is seeking. This same dimwittedness was displayed in 1986 in the case of the Newswatch editor, Dele Giwa, and in June 1993 when he annulled the election. Till date, it is unclear whether General Babangida is aware that these actions represent the worst abuses of power this country had ever witnessed.

This political self-interested spoiler game is not Babangida’s first. With IBB, it is something of a habit. Almost immediately after General Obasanjo was sworn in as president in 1999, a coordinated attack was mounted against his government in the form of shariah activism, using Senator Ahmed Yerima, then governor of Zamfara state and now also a charter pedophile, as arrowhead. The last time shariah activism reared its head in Nigeria was in the late 1950s in Northern Nigeria. The Northern regional government was then led by the premier, the venerable Sir Ahmadu Bello (MBE), the Sardauna of Sokoto, of blessed memory. The premier easily finessed the activists, then led by Sheik Abubakar Gumi. Gumi wanted not only the Northern region but also the whole country to come under Islamic law on the one hand. On the other, in the tradition of liberal politicians everywhere, Sir Ahmadu Bello believed in the separation of mosque and state. He also had deep reservations about the competence, transparency and integrity of the alkali courts and the emirs who would be playing key roles in shariah jurisprudence. Sir Ahmadu Bello also felt obliged to respect the national secular penal code of the whole country of which Northern Nigeria was a major stake holder. (The kind of exceptionalism displayed by today’s northern leaders, men like Yerima, was inconceivable under Sir Ahmadu Bello). In the end, just before Independence in 1959, the premier’s government allowed only certain civil matters- marriage contracted under Islamic law, inheritance and certain rules of evidence- to be adjudicated in shariah courts. Ahmadu Bello’s enactment survived in tact in all Nigeria’s constitutions up till 1999. General Obasanjo did not have Sir Ahmadu Bello’s political acumen and not being a student of history was of course befuddled by the development in 1999. So in short, the shariah activists successfully intimidated and undermined the General’s government. The result, today, 12 Nigerian states operate two parallel judicial systems, an Islamic one and the national, secular penal code system, exclusive of the 1999 constitution, which is supposed to be the absolute reference and authority of all Nigeria’s laws. It is only fair however to note that not being a Muslim and not being from the North, constituted an additional complication for General Obasanjo in dealing with the challenge to the authority and integrity of his government. But that could not be an excuse for his failure to bring the law to bear on those who committed acts of violence using the shariah as cover, for his failure to defend an ignominous assault in the 1999 constitution, even if perfunctorily and his government’s indifference to the plight of victims of the violent shariah attacks.

While the foregoing may look like a digression it is nonetheless a useful background to a strategy that was widely attributed to General Babangida as the sponsor of a project intended to keep General Obasanjo on a short leash and so for the latter to keep in mind who were the real lords of the nation’s political manor, just in case he forgot. This point of view was supported by the fact that General Babangida, in a deft and barely disguised maneuver, played a leading role in the emergence of General Obasanjo as President in 1999, but throughout the shariah debacle, in which thousands died needlessly, IBB did nothing to help resolve or mitigate the situation and to stop the blood letting. He kept a very loud silence instead, a silence that suggested, by omission or commission, that he could be part of the conspiracy.

Babangida was not so covert in undermining the Obasanjo government when he did everything in his power, including successfully getting a court injunction, to prevent his appearance at the Justice Oputa–led Human Rights Violation and Investigation Commission (HRVIC), constituted by Obasanjo in his first term. It can be argued that a consequence of IBB’s lack of support for the Oputa panel is that it contributed in no small way to the trivialization of the exercise. A prickly General Obasanjo, notorious for his short attention span, soon lost all interest in the panel. Although Obasanjo initially appeared before the panel with some enthusiasm, such ardour soon waned. The panel was soon left on its own with no political support. On submission, the panel’s report was swiftly swept under the carpet and heard of no more. The Oputa Panel was modeled on and inspired by the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It was also expected to achieve the same results, as a means of politically resolving and bringing closure to the many disputes and open wounds that ravaged the polity and hampered development, in lieu of protracted judicial proceedings, assuming those were even feasible. But all that evaporated as a result of a lack of support by men like IBB. The Oputa Panel was a unique opportunity for a statesman to face the public and give his own side of the story of a political career that threw up many questions that agitated people’s minds but General Babangida balked at the opportunity. Now, a man who has proved many times over that he does not feel himself accountable to or has any respect for the people he served or ruled is now angling to get back to power and rule the same people he manipulated so brazenly when he was in power nearly a generation ago. The problem with IBB’s ambition to rule Nigeria again is that he wants to do so on one condition only: that he rules Nigeria only on his own terms. If that is not tyranny then may the experts tell us what it is.

But beyond all that has been said and written, what really scares me is the fact that IBB has been a former Chief of Army Staff and a former commander-in-chief. He was COAS from 1983 to 1985 and C-in-C from 1985 to 1993. But even before 1983, he had been on the general staff for sometime. In other words, IBB had been involved in policy making for the army for a period not less than 15 years. IBB has a certain perception of how the military should be configured. As COAS and C-in-C, he configured the army, along ethnic lines so that fighting units in general were commanded by people personally loyal to him and invariably from the same geopolitical bloc as himself. The polarization he engineered in the country and bequeathed to generals Abacha and Abdulsalam Abubakar was most keenly felt in the army. This polarization was the absolute cause of the April 22, 1990 failed coup attempt. It was during Gen Babangida’s government that the term ‘hegemony’ first appeared in country’s political lexicon. IBB will not be able to command today’s military, which has radically changed from a lopsided geo-political command structure to a more representative one at all command levels