₦airaland Forum

AkeNathan:
DSS if you want to know sponsor of Fulani herdsmen and the first financer of Boko haram, go to Aso Rock and drag out your Oga from za oza room where he is making love to Aisha

Thank you.

They should ask that Daura Goat in Aso Rock.

ojih122:
Naija how market? God help naija.

We can help ourselves if we unite.

imiski:
Just my point nobody would come to demand for accountable leadership. Rather whats on the front burner is "na our turn to rule"without recourse to good leadership.

I'm trying to emphasize that it is merely the majority. I will and have come out for protests numerous times, both on campus and in the wider world.

The question you should be asking yourself is can you protest for your rights?

Today it isn't you or me, but tomorrow it might be.

From https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/368276-sss-questions-sowore-for-alleged-links-to-boko-haram-shiite-movement-ipob.html

Sources familiar with the continued incarceration of Omoyele Sowore have told PREMIUM TIMES the Nigerian activist was questioned earlier this week over purported ties to Boko Haram and other outlawed groups.

Terrorism allegations were the focus of a grilling session conducted with Mr Sowore by State Security Service operatives on November 12, two sources familiar with the event told PREMIUM TIMES this weekend.

“Agents have been asking him to tell them about his relationship with Boko Haram, Islamic Movement of Nigeria and the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra,” a source told PREMIUM TIMES on Sunday afternoon. “He has continued to deny any relationship with all these groups.”

Boko Haram was outlawed by the Jonathan administration and later designated a foreign terrorist organisation by the United States in November 2013.

President Buhari’s categorisation of Shiite IMN and separatist IPOB has remained one of the most controversial decisions of his government, with opinions splitting over whether a religious or self-determination group could be outlawed under a secular constitutional democracy.

The information came 10 days after Nigerians had been demanding official explanation for the controversial re-arrest of Mr Sowore on December 6.

The questioning indicated the secret police has started fresh plots to file yet another set of criminal charges against the Sahara Reporters, and would likely be before another judge, PREMIUM TIMES learnt.

It came a week after Mr Sowore was violently seized from a federal courtroom by armed agents of the SSS, a domestic intelligence outfit reputable for acts of repression and targeted attacks on anti-government voices.

Mr Sowore was released the night preceding the December 6 court invasion when the SSS pretended to obey the order of a federal judge handling the case.

Long road
The Sahara Reporters’ publisher was arrested on August 3 for leading #RevolutionNow campaign — a series of nationwide protests he had planned with other activists to demand a better Nigeria.

Following his arrest, the SSS accused Mr Sowore of terrorism, treason, amongst other claims, for using the word ‘revolution’ while rallying Nigerians ahead of the protests scheduled to take off across 21 Nigerian towns and cities on August 5.

On November 8, a federal judge granted an initial remand order for the SSS to hold Mr Sowore in custody for 45 days to conclude investigation into ‘terrorism’ claims against him.

Mr Sowore remained in custody through the 45 days, despite the criticism that greeted the court’s decision to grant SSS such an extensive period to keep a citizen despite failing to present any evidence of crime.

By the time charges were eventually filed about 50 days after Mr Sowore was arrested, no reference was made to terrorism. The SSS charged Mr Sowore for treason, money laundering and purported defamation of Mr Buhari’s character.

The charges were prepared by Attorney-General Abubakar Malami’s office.
Following his initial arraignment after the charges were filed on September 20, Mr Sowore was granted bail on September 24 by Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja, but the SSS declined to respect the judicial pronouncement. Instead, he was arraigned before another judge on similar charges.

On November 6, the second judge, Ijeoma Ojukwu, signed a release warrant for Mr Sowore, but the SSS failed to comply again. It took Mr Sowore one month between October 4 when Ms Ojukwu first granted him bail on stringent terms and November 6 when he met the court’s demand after his lawyers convinced the judge to relax the conditions.

After court papers were served on the SSS showing Mr Sowore had met the bail terms and a judge had signed warrant for his release, the SSS repeatedly declined to honour order, jumping from one excuse to another.

Three weeks after the SSS ignored Ms Ojukwu’s order to release Mr Sowore, the judge threatened to hold its Director-General Yusuf Bichi in contempt.

But the threat did not appear to shake the secret police, which is controlled entirely by President Buhari without any external oversight mechanism for accountability.

Likely Fresh charges
Inibehe Effiong, one of the lawyers representing Mr Sowore, said the fresh terrorism charges being plotted by the SSS were the same claims that the agency had previously investigated but found nothing substantial for which to charge Mr Sowore.

“The charges are clearly not fresh,” Mr Effiong said in response to a PREMIUM TIMES’ enquiry about ongoing plots to re-arraign his client on terrorism charges. “They are just looking for something to hide behind to continue their impunity.”

The SSS has declined to issue any explanation for the rearrest of Mr Sowore on December 6.

READ ALSO: #RevolutionNow: IPC denounces attacks on journalists

The activist was just kept in custody in apparent violation of his fundamental rights and the Nigerian criminal justice statutes which prohibit keeping suspects beyond 48 hours without charges.

“They clearly want to continue their attack on a harmless citizen in defiance of the court,” Mr Effiong said. “The terrorism allegations were specifically why they arrested him several months ago but they could not file charges because they had no evidence to prove anything.”

Mr Effiong said he would look forward to see which court would entertain the SSS purported terrorism charges yet again, because it would amount to “a charade and a grivous abuse of court process.”

Peter Afunanya, spokesperson for the SSS, did not return PREMIUM TIMES’ calls and messages seeking comments on why the recent interrogation of Mr Sowore.

Mr Effiong also criticised Mr Malami for “playing to the gallery” in his recent request to the SSS asking for Mr Sowore’s case to be transferred to his office.

“The attorney-generals’ office has always been in charge of the case files and it was the office that filed the initial charges against Mr Sowore,” Mr Effiong said. “We have no idea why he claimed to be taking over a case he has always been the one prosecuting.”

“He is supposed to end the charade that their government has embarked on rather than claiming he is taking over a matter he has been overseeing,” the lawyer added.

The attorney-general did not immediately return a request for comments from PREMIUM TIMES Sunday afternoon.

imiski:
My brother the sad truth is, Nigerians activism only end online, ordinary police-with due respect to the institution-we can't demand our rights, then is it the president that we can demand accountability from?

That's because of our youths. General Buhari said one thing right during his four year reign, which is that Nigerian youths are Lazy. The laziness is not about making money (Nigerians are the most money-crazed people on the planet, and many of them are willing to work for it), but about taking control of our destiny.

If I were to call for protest today, as long as some earn even #200 per day, they will not join in because they feel it isn't in their interest. Until our people start becoming interested in who governs them and how they are governed, we will forever be slaves.

Subduer:
Sowore INSTALLED Buhari, let them stew for a while in their own juice.

This is wrong in a lot of ways, but that isn't the point.

The point is that the Sowore phenomenon was simply one too many violations of the constitution for most people are comfortable with. Invading a court of law is not something that should be done in any civilized society.

From the very moment, Sowore was arrested, I had been telling my friends that this will be the issue that will choke Buhari out of office. It was a flagrant abuse of the constitutionally guaranteed right to association, speech, thought, and protest.

To say that it has been a long time coming is an understatement of the century. Any personality that examines the Buhari regime from its inception without a monocle of greed and bias will say his actions are not a surprise. Major General Mohammadu Buhari (retd.) made a lot of promises before and immediately after his election, where are they now? For those who were engaged in packaging the tyrant as the next best thing since sliced bread, it is head-scratching to imagine how thoroughly they were misled. The greatest joke of this decade was not made on the scene of a comedy hall but on the stage called Nigeria and in the auditorium called the hallowed halls of Aso Rock. The sheer strategy, deception, and financing that went into putting Major General Buhari on his throne seem now like a great mistake.

"From the frying pan to fire"

Not even these words do justice to the enormity of the task ahead. For the majority of the Buhari supporters with a brain (of which I used to be one), the reality has fully set in. We successfully ushered out one set of looters, only to get an even worse bunch but this time, we voted for them. I could speak all day about the various constitutional violations of the Buhari regime, but I won't. Not because I can't list them, but because they are simply too many to type within my lifetime.

Of the numerous political personalities that ushered in this order of impunity and human rights violations, none carry the weight of blame as much as Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. With the return to a civilian government in 1999, the expectation was for the new government to rule as civilians do. A lot of the crimes we today accuse General Buhari of had their roots laid down in Chief Olusegun Obasanjo's government. From the arbitrary arrests of protesters to extrajudicial murders. Obasanjo started it, Jonathan expanded upon it, and now Buhari revels in it.

There are a lot of things to be angry about and even more to be sad about, but unless we band together to exert our collective will on this regime, Nigerians will continue to live at the wills of these tyrants.

Let us make General Buhari choke on Sowore until he has no choice but to either resign due to incompetence or be forced out of Aso Rock by us.

This Sowore Issue was a long time coming. Buhari's government has long since exhibited a lot of traits more popularly found in the regime of Despots.

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I swear down, Na Aiyelala go kill all them bastards

[center]Millennials[/center]

Are we a product of our times or the failures of the past generation? Whichever we are, we are the millennials. A word of which we know not the origin nor its true meaning but those it describes.
Is it meant as an insult or a simple representation of what it hopes to describe? Children of a new millennium. Are we forever to be known as the failed generation even to our children?
History is best examined from the perspective of those who lived it and from those who preceded it. But the thought that keeps me up at night is if history will at all be kind to us. Perhaps to our grandchildren, we will become heroes, but to our grandparents, we are no doubt failures.
For many stakeholders of this State, corruption and crime is the enemy, but how much does this assertion hold true? A more critical party will retrace this fall from grace to a moral decay that now pervades our Nation.
Nigeria is not safe, it has never been, and will likely never be, but that singular lack of safety has never been more apparent than now. As fathers, mothers, and children come to that inevitable conclusion, introspection steps in and the question becomes, how did we get here?
Have we any retort to our questionable thoughts? Relationships are now a mockery of prostitution, Hustling now involves a tradition of ritual killings, kidnappings, and fraud, while leadership is no different from rulership. Who are we fooling?
The popular claim is herdsmen are killing and Buhari is tribalistic and nepotistic, while in the same breath describing northerners as savages. Easterners are called by unprintable names and southerners reminded of conflicts better left forgotten.
We position our brothers in positions for which they are not qualified and yet call politicians Nepotistic. Parents fail to instil moral values in children that will later grow to menace them.
The situation reminds me of a statement by ever-brilliant Awolowo who said “If we are in the habit of practising the opposite of what we preach, our admonition will not only lose their force and cogency but also we ourselves will forfeit every claim to credibility. An ounce of example, it has been widely said, is far better than a ton of precepts. “1970
Our failures as inheritors are rooted in the actions of past generations and the norms of today.
A policeman stands bravely on the highway, carrying a weapon and stopping motorists with it, then depriving them of their hard-earned cash. Is such not a mere robbery by another name?
Many speak of changing the country if they have the chance, but with the little, you have even now, what have you done?
Charity begins at home. It is of no use when we insult politicians about not doing enough when you have yet to do anything yourself.
Millennials are failures, but must we remain so?

[size=16pt]Imperial Privileges: Failings of the Nigerian Political System OR Why we are running an Imperial Democracy[/size]

There have been talks of it, some have said it is not so simple, others claim it is a leap, but I’ll state it here clearly. Nigeria is a Banana Republic. Nigerians should not be shocked to be living in a republic that lacks everything republican about a state. As with all common problems, its nature is in its roots.
Malignant policies, Imperialism, Iberiberism, cruelty, nepotism, and tribalism are the assassins that strangled the state in its cradle. As with all self-defeating characters, this wound is a self-inflicted one, and it would be most ungentlemanly to blame it on others.
Every Nigerians plays his role in supporting this Imperial Democracy just like they all similarly played their roles in its propagation. We are bound in chains of our making and defeated with swords forged by us.
A word of the wise though; Democracy is a call of the common man that has crossed all seas and laid low greater challenges. Beginning in the hallowed halls of the ancient Britons, democracy has evolved from a council of kings to a council of common men.
Democracy exists not as an idea nor a grace from on high, it is an arising inevitability from the common will of the people to control their destinies.
The question on the lips in the current climate is whether we have a president or a monarch, Some even name him Dictator.
Buhari has no doubt been a disaster so far, but while detractors may point him our as the cause, let there be no doubt that he is merely another failing of this Imperial Democracy. Another Symptom of the deadly fever that is ravaging the Nation as the state convulses on the pyres of its funeral.
The state of the nation is one where our proposed leaders have more in common with a character like the German Kaiser than one like the British prime minister. Should there then be any doubt that we are operating under some perverted ideals.
The state lay prostrate at the feet of those who wear the crown of presidency and those who have dawned the beads of chiefly politics. Are we forever slaves in this caricature?
Imperial privileges for our leaders remain Nigeria’s great enemy, and as long as it remains so, this Imperial Democracy is perpetual.

[size=16pt]To a Visitor from the 1960s, seeing what their newly independent nation had become would no doubt be a new level of horror. The gradual transformation of the hopes of a free, united nation where Nigerians can progress and prosper into a world capital in criminality and torture, a difficult pill to swallow.
Sometimes, I make an attempt to imagine how my great elder’s vision looked like, and find it impossible to reconcile that vision with the current realities.
An attempt to contemplate how we got here makes me imagine a stone free-falling down the side of a great mountain and the tragic stop that is its fate. The economy recedes slowly, morality erodes slightly faster, and inequality explodes like a bomb.
The impression from those times was no doubt that Nigerians will in 50/60 years be like their British masters. We are now, but only the worst of them.
To those from the wonderful times, a time before Nigerians lost their way, our priorities are now widely different from theirs. The hope of the common man is to escape the fatherland, to make money to the detriment of all else, to have the most beautiful ladies, and to amass the most wealth. The hopes and desires of decades prior now lay a ruined wasteland of plans, as our people lose the ability to tell right from wrongs.
In this 21st century Nigeria, Hope, and joy lay abandoned as mind-breaking suffering dances a beautiful song, Sin gorges on breakfast, and horror prays for no end to its party.
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Kuku, ex-MEND leaders to join APC
by Alao Abiodun — 1 day ago


There are indications that the leadership of the outlawed Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) is planning to join the All Progressives Congress (APC).
At the centre of the plan is Kingsley Kuku, former Special Adviser on Niger Delta and chairman of the Amnesty Programme under former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Leaders and ex-commanders of the disbanded armed group, hitherto led by Chief Government Ekpomupolo, otherwise known as Tompolo, had strong affinity with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) up till the February/March elections, having openly backed its Presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar.
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A source close to the group said Tompolo had already directed his foot soldiers to be involved in the plan which will crystallise shortly before the November 16 governorship election in Bayelsa State.
“We will soon witness what I call mass movement by the former commanders of MEND to the APC because we cannot remain aloof for too long. Already, our leader who we call GOC (referring to Tompolo) has even directed us to join the APC to help deliver David Lyon with the Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva.
“As we speak, we are mobilising and very soon, you will see action across the entire Niger Delta. As at last week, our brother Shoot at Sight from Ondo State was with the minister with assurances that he will mobilise people in his state to join the APC.”
It was gathered that the ex-militants have presented the return of Kuku to Nigeria as a condition precedent shortly after the Bayelsa election. “We have told Sylva that we will back him and indeed join the actors to help him deliver, but we want him to facilitate a soft landing for Kuku to return home. We want him and he has also agreed to join the APC as soon as he returns to the country. For now, his followers across the Niger Delta will be aligning with the APC pending his arrival,” the source added.

https://thenationonlineng.net/kuku-ex-mend-leaders-to-join-apc/amp/

Duggedised12:
why not port your Sim instead of breaking it?

I honestly forgot that was possible.

no skin off my back though

I've always used glo, and in fact, I just bought the MTN last year because glo was getting even worse.

Airtel is to my surprise even better than MTN here in OAU

Glo. network is epileptic in my area, so I bought Airtel a few weeks ago.
Broke my MTN sim too.
thinking of getting startimes right now.
everything for my country.
if just 20% of my brothers can imitate me, I swear SA go calm down

martineverest:
it happened last year ...many people in southeast and south south lambasted their senators for allowing saraki to do such...this particular road op mentioned was the major one saraki rejected

That's just dumb I swear.
I remember when an uncle was offered a political post and he rejected it in exchange of a major project in the LGA.
I'm forever proud of that man.

martineverest:
u are wrong bro....did u remember how saraki slashed and diverted the fund for east_west road and Calabar-Lagos railway last year...and also several projects I'm South south and south east just to make it look as if buhari doesn't care about those region??

I only just heard about it from reading the comments.

I'm amazed at how far some people will go just to bring others down.

I always assumed buhari was just playing normal politics with southeast development.

I don't blame buhari at all. that has been the nature of leadership in Nigeria for a long time.

Presidents are always concerned with linking up better with southwest.

if you follow the trend of buhari's infrastructure, the majority of the one's that are not nepotic are designed to connect the north with the west, central, or east.

Jonathan was a lot more generous about the nature of his projects, I must admit that.

however, the roads/rails you just mentioned all follow a similar trend. they are good ideas, but not any different from what buhari is doing today.

Op, how far.
Are you a prophet?
most of these things Don happen ooo

I have so many words I want to use to describe you that It's ridiculous.

the same agbo I used to go to his place in kiribo every time I go home is the one you're arguing with me about.

I'm done exchanging words with you b4 I say something I'll regret.

Iamgrey5:
Relax, I know you are an imposter.

We have Ilaje / Ese Odo LGA before 1996 as a single local government in Ondo state.

It was only sperated after many years of being a single local government in Ondo state.

You cannot tell me there's no Ilaje in Ese Odo LGA.

And most Apoi always have an Ijaw sounding surname. I don't believe Ajayi is one.

since you're so confident you know more about my lg than me, tell me just one ilaje town in the local government and watch me burst your bubble

Iamgrey5:
Where is it stated in the report that he is Ijaw ?

I only saw where it was stated he once served as a LGA head in Ese Odo

Ilaje people also have lands in Ese Odo

where is the ilaje land there, just name one since you know the place so well.

Iamgrey5:
I wonder we are the 40% none yorubas in Ekiti or Ondo

He said Akoko Ondo are non Yorubas abi raybaba ABI na raylielie

Have you heard akoko dialects before?

if you have, I want you to tell me if you can understand a lick of what they're saying.

honestly.

Iamgrey5:
Your link is not loading.

Stop spreading the type of lie you can't substantiate.

You are lying recklessly.

i feel you're deliberately obtuse
https://dailypost.ng/2019/09/01/ondo-deputy-governor-agboola-ajayi-accused-forgery-perjury/

abdulwastecx:
Don't mind that guy, I am from Ondo state an akoko indigene. The question is who can they be the fourth most influential tribe when they are not the most influential tribe in Ondo south senatorial district?

Akoko has the highest number of local government, followed by Ondo town, followed by Akure, then owo.
How can you be 10% of a state where you haven't produce any notable politician throughout its existence.

Ondo is a pure southwestern state any none Yoruba in the state is a settler. I am from Ikare in akoko northeast lga

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://dailypost.ng/2019/09/01/ondo-deputy-governor-agboola-ajayi-accused-forgery-perjury/&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwi4vMG7gMHkAhXQKFAKHYEJCzMQFjABegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw10AakDi5GFG82pUMFokT7k

I'll like to point you here if you feel the deputy governor is from your town.

but if you still think you're right, sure.

Iamgrey5:
Go and do some scholarly work

Ijaws doesn't have any land or historical links in Lagos.

You only lived in Ife for a while.

You are lying to yourself!

my dad only rejoined the rest of my family in ese-odo in 1940, and he left grandfather's behind in Lagos.

But if you feel you're right, sure.

Iamgrey5:
Bro if you like rep Togolese.
But please don't start calling Yoruba clans tribe for dubious reasons
Yorubas still have 95% of the population in Ondo state.

if that is what you think, sure.

Iamgrey5:
Bro if you like rep Togolese.
But please don't start calling Yoruba clans tribe for dubious reasons
Yorubas still have 95% of the population in Ondo state.

if that is what you think, sure.