₦airaland Forum

onexile:
Who still listens to this old fool? Somebody who faced the same trial Kanu is facing now and compromised?


We believe in Kanu. Yes we trust in Kanu! Even if he is a fraudster, we still like him.
We like his type of fraud. A type of fraud that has established IPOB in 88countries of the world. A type of fraud that has established a functional Biafra embassy in Spain. A type of fraud that established Biafra radio that has dominated the Nigeria airspace etc.


We so much love this Fraud walahi

Which embassy?

Where?

Oh you mean this club house?

As usual, Governor Fayose gets away with not giving any cogent response to any of the questions asked. Just blaming his predecessors and bad mouthing the president.

What a clown!

Vorpal:
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Please do.....

The Alaafin that has been repeatedly pictured with his wives praying at Muslim grounds.

Or the Awujale who has increasingly said he believes in the only true one God and has said repeatedly that he wishes Islam should be practised at every corner of his kingdom.

Who also made mention in his book on how tolerant he is an how both Muslims and Christians have prayers in his palace.

The agemo cult known to the ijebus,, not once has he partake in it!.

You seriously want me to believe that any festival can take place in the realm of these kings without them playing their role?

Are you trying to tell me that these Obas did not enter the traditional conclave (Ipebi) before their coronation?

Did the Ooni's christianity stop him from personally dedicating the Ojubo of Moremi Ajasoro in Ile-Ife?

My, brother, these are men that have found a way to strike a balance between tradition and their secondary religions.

Vorpal:
He is the Sultan of Sokoto as well as the head of all Muslim bodies in Nigeria

He either abdicate the post of the head of the supreme Muslum bodies or vacate the throne of sultan of sokoto.

The Awujale and Alaafin do not head any religious bodies added to their hereditary title that has been even before the existence of Nigeria.

If one wanted to push your line of argument, I can prove to you that both those Obas are the spiritual heads of all forms of traditional worship in their realms.

Jayceo:
More tweets from Omokri

Reno Omokri is either missing the point or simply being mischievous. My bet is on the latter.

The Sultan of Sokoto is a traditional ruler who by virtue of his position is considered the spiritual head of Muslims in Nigeria. He isn't an imam of a mosque or the sheikh of a sect like Zakzaky was (is?). Pastor Adeboye on the other hand leads a congregation of faithfuls and all that the law seeks to do is to make him accountable to those who hold up the church financially.

Let me state clearly that the religious bodies might not like the law, but are under obligation to comply.

Quite ironical of Omokri to mention the visit of the Israeli prime minister to crises spots...given that President Jonathan, his principal did not visit any of the territories occupied by Boko Haram until 2015, the last year of his 6 - year administration.

We have not forgotten.

In all sincerity, it was wrong for the contract to be awarded to a company in which the SGF had a stake...even if the value of the contract is worth the amount it was awarded for.

It is unethical and constitutes a conflict of interest for an official to award a contract to a company he owns or has shares in. Period!!!

DIKEnaWAR:
Read the first paragraph of my post very well. Majority of his people, not me or you, love his style of leadership. That is what counts.

Yeah I did read not just your first paragraph, but your entire post and it appeared to me like you endorse his style of leadership.

You even went ahead to compare his style to the President's style, showing your approval for his and your disapproval for his.

Don't get me wrong sir...you are absolutely entitled to your opinion. I just find it strange and quite vexatious that people still have not been able to see through Governor Fayose's demagoguery.

Are you aware for instance that Governor Fayose owes Ekiti workers over 6 months salary. Yet out of the 8 billion naira that accrued to the state from the Paris Club refund, he only paid one month salary and a "13th month" salary to the workers?

Yet I'm supposed to be impressed that he is taking photos while standing on a fire truck at the scene of a fire? Please!!!

ScotsReferendum:



See the disaster Adeboye Kumuyi Mbaka brought to Nigeria through their quiet and open support for APC


Is Pastor Bosun not right after all

When you remove our spiritual leaders, Satan then ensures that false pastors take over the pulpits and destroy the church making it easy to islamize Nigeria

Adeboye has destroyed Christianity


Do we listen to the Government or God.?


Oh God grant we Igbos our wish. Our faith is on the line.


Jesus and HolySpirit we Igbos don't want to end up like Turkey.

This law was put in place by the previous administration and like any other law, the current government is under obligation to enforce it.

Read my friend! Please read before displaying your ignorance for the world to see!

Pastor Bosun ko, Pastor Bomoon ni

DIKEnaWAR:
It is not! But a government should be responsive, responsible and proactive. Government should have a face, be known, identified and identifiable by the people. A government should connect with the people and feel their pulse. I used to think that Fayose 's method was crude, but recent events have proven me wrong. The man connects with his people and they love it like that.

Now, you have a Buhari who, since winning office, has like a torise withdrawn into his shell, sorrounded himself with the rich and powerful he said he were our problem and is rarely seen in punlic nor respond to issues as they arise in the country. All the killings in Nigeria could not even wake him from his deep slumber, neither does the crumbling economy awaken a sense of urgency in his government. As it is today, we don't have a government!

Are you for real?

The person of a governor goes to the scene of a fire incident, seeking photo-ops and distracting trained professionals from doing their job and that according to you is "responsive, responsible and proactive?"

SMH

dumebiifeanyi:
Governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose was seen fighting a fire that occurred on Sunday afternoon at Ijigbo, Ado Ekiti.Fayose joined residents and officials of the fire service to quench the inferno that occurred from a petrol tanker explosion at a filling station.

Photos below;

http://politicsngr.com/photos-governor-fayose-joins-fighting-petrol-tanker-fire-ekiti/

Fayose!!! Showman per excellence!!!

OLADD:
https://politics.naij.com/1080507-buhari-kicks-n5000-monthly-payment-1-million-impoverished-nigerians.html?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C1010424353

A cross section of Nigerian media reported that Ekiti was one of the pilot States for the scheme. How can a state whose indigenes were excluded in the first tranche of the payments be regarded as pilot state? In a nutshell, only 3 states qualify to be regarded as pilot states. Period. You and APC should not confuse us with semantics. Please.

Whatever helps you sleep better at night.

OLADD:
Stop been crafty my friend and don't bring Jonathan into this. The Fed govt told us that the N5000 stipend had started in 9 pilot States of which Ekiti was among. Why did they have to specify on 9 states when only fewer states were practically ready in terms of finance. Don't you get it? Mentioning Ekiti as a pilot state when the reverse is the case was nothing but false claim and that was what elicited Fayose's disclaimer. No other words can be used to describe it other than LIE.

Do you have a link to the news story where the federal government said it has commenced payment to all 9 states?

What I recall reading is that 9 states, including Ekiti State form part of the pilot for the payment, out of which 3 states have received payment. Perhaps you and governor fayose misread or did not comprehend the news report.

Nine states are mapped out for coverage in this first batch and already, many of the beneficiaries were reported to have started receiving their first payments by Friday last week. The states were Borno, Kwara, Bauchi, Cross Rivers, Niger, Kogi, Oyo, Ogun and Ekiti. Of the states, Borno, Kwara and Bauchi have started receiving the money while the rest of the states in the first batch would commence the CCT payments soon.

Of the states, Borno, Kwara and Bauchi have started receiving the money while the rest of the states in the first batch would commence the CCT payments soon.


Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/01/presidency-begins-payment-n5000-monthly-stipend-poor-nigerians-9-states/

HAH:
A small basket of tomoto was N200 yesterday at kawo kaduna. who need canned tomoto when fresh ones are available and very cheap, and truly even when tomato ebola came my wife used dried tomato, is by far better than tin tomato.

If the locally produced canned tomatoes are not relevant locally, there is nothing saying that we cannot export and earn foreign exchange for the country.

It might interest you to know that Nigeria is the 15th largest producer of tomatoes in the world. While other countries are processing and exporting their excess, over 60% of annual yield is wasted away due to a lack of processing capacity.

godoluwa:
With his substandard tomatoe paste?
Before you quote me with rubbish, have a taste of good tomatoe paste and compare it with that of dangote/erisco to know the difference.
Gino is easy to get & its better than dangote/erisco product
iranu

The so called "standard paste" or Gino did not get it right in one day. Standards can be improved as we go along.

Curb your appetite for imported goods especially the ones we have the capacity to produce locally. A thriving local production sector will ensure more jobs for Nigerians and help save on foreign exchange.

Kudos to Dangote and Erisco for blazing the trail.

Bring her back into the family financial planning...but this time have a real discussion. Draw up a financial plan and discuss the details with her. I am sure if she is made aware of how you intend to spread the money to ensure you get by as a family while also planning for the future, you will get her buy in.

Secondly, if she has a job, please insist that she contributes her quota to the common purse both in the recurrent and capital expenditure aspect and in the "saving for a rainy day" also. That sense of inclusiveness could go a long way in forcing her back to reality and curbing her "wastefulness".

It doesn't look to me like your wife is a bad woman. She's probably still caught up in the euphoria of a whirlwind period of courtship and been married to an upwardly mobile young man. Do not give up on her and avoid acting from a position of frustration and anger at her current behaviour.

She is still the woman you fell in love with and married. What you saw is still in her. See it as your duty to ensure you add value to her by helping her overcome her excesses and you will be the better for it. Also realise that you are also not perfect so open up yourself up to improvement.

A good marriage is so because a lot of work went into it. Roll up your sleeves and get to work bringing out the best in your wife. Take charge of your home!

Lanretoye:
How do we knw the poorest citizens now?

Well for one, the poorest people aren't on Nairaland because they cannot afford data.

Thank God you can...so you aren't one of them.

Most of these big men carry these kinds of phones for security reasons.

Smartphones are easy to hack and track.

kettle84:
he did no damage. the court has given its verdict on the case.All Buhari need to do is to comply with the rule of law.

what is secrete trial,are we in a sharia country?

I don't know which "case" you are talking about. But last I heard, the court turned down his bail application and asked that he be remanded in DSS custody for the duration of the trial.

The ruling yesterday is not that he will be tried secretly per se but that government's witnesses will use fake names and be be screened so he cannot see them. This is ostensibly to protect the witnesses whose lives may be under threat for daring to testify against Mr. Kanu.

Google "secret trials" and you will see it isn't unprecedented.

If Mr. Kanu did not prepare himself physically, psychologically and spiritually for what he is going through presently before heading down this road, he only has himself to blame.

His current ordeal pales into insignificance when compared with the likes of Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Ghandi who both championed similar causes for their people.

Sincerely speaking, Mr. Kanu hasn't seen anything yet.

kettle84:
Mr KANU has been quiet all this while and the scam judgment of Buhari has become deafening that he has to yell out for a stop of all of that rubbish.

He chose a very wrong place and time to "yell out" his frustrations.

Did you notice how his lawyers were frantically trying to get him to calm down? That is because they know that the man, is using his own mouth to do untold damage his case.

More like disgraces himself..

The truth is that Mr. Kanu did himself no favors with this public meltdown. There is something about calmness and serenity in the face of oppression and persecution that confounds the "enemy".

The DSS is pushing for a "secret" trial on the basis that they want to protect their witnesses. What Mr. Kanu has just done is help their case by losing composure and displaying violent behavior in open court. It is obvious that his lawyers know the negative implications of his outburst and that is why they were trying to bring him under control.

He should have just continued to maintain his peaceful and calm demeanor and allowed his lawyers to do their job of challenging the ruling of the trial judge.

It is unfortunate that he inadvertently helped the DSS make their case.

This is a laudable move from Mrs. Buhari.

I wish she and the Vice President's wife will also personally intervene and use their influence to resolve the palaver with the Falcons and their outstanding payment.

Seeing that the players are also women, methinks the first Lady should champion their cause and ensure they get paid their dues by the NFF.

EastGold:
One doesn't even know where Falana belongs.

Today he will hail DSS, tomorrow he will condemn them.

I think someone should probe him

Must we belong to one side or the other?

What happened to just being objective in our assessment of government's actions?

Why can we just assess each action, commend the good ones and condemn the bad ones?

If we all take sides politically, who then takes the side of the common good?

Methinks that in this present day Nigeria, it takes a lot of courage to be as objective and unbiased as Femi Falana has been in my humble opinion.

omonnakoda:
No Obasanjo was not in government in 2013 . The initiative started over 2004-2006 when he actually WAS IN government.

Thanks for the correction.

I got my dates mixed up.

Cassava Bread was an initiative of the Obasanjo government in 2013.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/obasanjo-shares-40-cassava-bread-with-african-leaders/

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/134415-obasanjo-exports-cassava-bread-to-tanzania.html


The Jonathan administration however, did very good by adopting and further pushing the policy.

SkytrendNews:
The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has said that the result of Saturday’s governorship election in Ondo State is an indication that the country is sliding towards anarchy.

It said the situation needed to be arrested now before it would be too late.

PDP stated this in its officials Twitter handle.

It said, “This is very sad and a sign of a nation sliding aggressively into anarchy under the APC if nothing is done now before it is too late.”

SOURCE: http://skytrendnews.com/2016/11/27/ondo-poll-results-show-nigeria-sliding-towards-anarchy-pdp/

What is the meaning of this nonsense?

How does the conduct of an election that was relatively peaceful in spite of all the prophecies of doom, translate to a descent into anarchy?

The PDP really needs to get its house in order and become the opposition it needs to be. Some of these reactions are puerile and petty.

When I read that nonsense story, I told someone that Fayemi can NEVER speak like that publicly about Tinubu. Not even Fashola will do that.

They might have their ideological or political differences. But both men still hold BAT in very high regard and wouldn't want to join issues with him publicly.

I give it to FFK....he is a fantastic writer.

Sad to note however, that this excellent piece of prose is wasted on some self delusion about him being innocent and persecuted by the present government.

Goodluck to him. I hope he clears his name so he can return to his family.

SycophanticGoat:
A very useless comment.. The first set of boko haram members that originated from Maiduguri was wiped off the face of the earth before some members who escaped regrouped and turned into the most deadly terrorist group in the world. When there are news all over the Internet, just a click away, some mofos won't read.

Is it that Nigerians are just dull, ignorant, don't read news or are just plain foolish?

Methinks it is you that needs to do some reading sir.

Boko Haram has always had fundamentalist ideals cloaked as a peaceful religious movement and because the initial campaign against their existence was not sustained, they morphed from a rag tag band of bandits to the well organised guerilla army they are presently.

While I cringe at the heavy-handed tactics employed by government agencies in quelling the Shiite protests, I am afraid there is very little option left to the government in this case. It is either this matter is handled with kids gloves like Boko Haram and risk another debilitating wave of militancy or the government does the needful, howbeit painful.

There is freedom of worship and association as long as it does not infringe on another citizens right or militate against national security. I grew up in Kaduna and Zaria where the Shiites have their headquarters and can tell you that the Shiites are far from a peaceful religious group.

By the way here is a link that will give you a bit of a background information on the origins of Boko Haram.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boko_Haram

Otenestbestyaho:
Who cares? Iran should come to their rescue before buhari slaughter them all for suya!!!

...And you think when "Iran comes" they will specifically target only enemies of the Shiites right?

The elders say that the "Elulu" bird that is calling for a rainstorm has conveniently forgotten that the rain will fall on it too.

Be careful what you wish for my friend.

This is a stern warning to the EFCC....MR. FANI-KAYODE MUST NOT DIE OOOOO!!!!

At least not before he returns all of the money he is suspected to have stolen

The EFCC needs to ensure he gets top of the range medicare to keep him alive...even if it means giving him permanent residency in the commission's medical section.

The law is no respecter of man. Period!