₦airaland Forum

What's this noise about Anambra all about? Is there anything I'm missing?

Uzomacharles:
Money is talking

You Sabi wetin dey..

I thought the "Abacha and prostitutes" tale has been well debunked by Al-Mustapha? Why are they desperate to force that narrative down our throats?

Next protests, folks should consider visiting the national assembly in big numbers. Those fat cows need to explain wwhat they do that makes them take up to 30 million a month!

RuudVanNisteroy:
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/280552-foi-despite-court-of-appeal-ruling-lagos-refuses-to-open-its-books.html

It's obvious that it applies to all states since it is a law made by the national Assembly. How Successive governors of Lagos State will then insist on disobeying duly enacted laws of the land just because they are desperate to cover the tracks of their extremely corrupt godfather is simply nonplussing! These are obviously impeachable offences! Good thing is that the days of one queer looking Tinubu as the El Terrible of Lagos politics are numbered. Hopefully in the coming months, as his corrupt dynasty unravels, anti corruption agencies should be ready to keenly spread their dragnet to all the three musketeers that have over the years helped him during their tenures as governors, to organise this "once In a lifetime looting" of Lagos State.. They all deserve to be banned permanently from playing any role in Nigerias poitics going forward! Audacious thieves, All of them!

RuudVanNisteroy:
Lagos will save between 300-500 Billion in 10 Years If they remove Alpha Beta and allow Lagos Internal Revenue Service(LIRS) collect state taxes. Currently, Alpha Beta collects 10% commission on internal generated revenue according to former Managing Director Alpha Beta,Dapo Apara.

Alpha Beta Consulting received the no bid contract to exclusively collect Lagos state taxes in 2002, when Bola Ahmed Tinubu was Governor of Lagos state.

Lagos state needs to empower LIRS, and recruit tax consultants working for KPMG,Deloitte,PWC,EY into the state civil service. And stop paying the 10% commission, that according to the court case filed before the Lagos State High Court,Dapo Apara, is going to Bola Ahmed Tinubu through his fronts that help him hide ownership of Alpha Beta Consulting.

It is believed the IGR generated by Lagos is in the range of 30-50 billion monthly. Lagos state has refused all Freedom of Information requests relating to Alpha Beta Consulting contracts, citing it is a federal law and not applicable to states.

Are federal laws really not applicable to States or are corrupt state governors using that weird argument as an excuse to hide obvious cases of large scale looting as is the case here?

Biafra should think of having a naval Base for the Chinese

God airpus oooo

Afamed:
Perfect write up. PMB didn't play into their hands. When they failed in all ramifications, they came up with Lekki massacre, over 25 days, they are yet to come up with their family members who were being massacred at lekki.

Can you swear with your children's lives that no one was killled at Lekki?

We need something more radical than a placid ohanaeze... It's time to confront..

They're taking almost 5% from the VAT collected across Nigeria to "rebiuld the northeast". That includes VAT receipts from alcohol and sundry businesses, while they burn every liquor in sight! This amount is being used to "rebiuld" towns under perennial attacks from Boko Haram insurgents, most of them former "rehabilitated fighters", who collected all the funds they can get after their socalled "rehabilitation" and zoomed straight back into sambisa! A section of the country utilized their lopsided numerical superiority in the national assembly to more else corner the biggest part of national finances and a very polarising president signed off on that. . And he is there still claiming to be a "patriot" willing to "die in defense of one naijeiriyaa"..

WilyWily:
But every man has the right to decide his own destiny.
Any Ikwere that identity himself as Onye Igbo is Igbo,
Any the one that said he is not, then he is not.

Very simple

muykem:
Nonsense. Do you know if ikwere people are the original owner of language and names before igbo copy it? We have people in edo state bearing Yorubas names but that doesn't make them Yoruba.

You used to make lots of sense with your posts on this site. Then all of a sudden you went gangsta. Now, you are starting to sound more like a broken gong. Just look at the post above. Don't you think it makes you sound like a repackaged Clifford Orji? You can do better bros, this is totally embarrassing. Honestly. Jokes apart, you're very capable of doing better..

Is it still Nigerias army? At this juncture, is it not obvious that the Nigerian army is now a northern Nigeria instrument for coercion and oppression? We have a thread here where a southern cadidate during recruitment had his number swapped and given to a northerner. People, is this how you biuld a country you want to last or a colony you intend to ransack? It's happening before our eyes. When 90% of men and officers are from a section of the country, it becomes an army of occupation. Nepotism in this government is unrivaled and may have taken this country to a point of no return..

meobizy:
...and? 17 and 18 years of age is a 365 day difference.

Tell them ooo

The fulani army. Obviously it's a sanctioned policy to fill in quotas for the south with northerners. This is how we end up with soldiers taking sides in support of northerners during conflicts. If you are stopped at a check point these days, most f the guys in uniform all look foreign. I wouldn't be surprised if they are from Niger republic! This is dangerous but nobody is complaining. I even heard that they have started giving newly recruited northern officers some southern names to cover the lopsided recruitment going on. These guys are restless. But we seem less concerned! They're cooking and up something and folks should be worried.

Yekini was a monster! Banging in goal every match day. Africa took notice! There can only be one yekini. Legend!

What kind of stupid award is that? And why is it that the two of them are always looking like objects in a shrine?

That guy was a baller... Dude had taste

Moferere:
Nobody is stopping Biafra, I am eager to see Biafra.
But on one condition, Biafra is South East, any attempt or attempted attempt to drag any other parts of Nigeria (outside Enugu, Ebonyi, Anambra, Abia and Imo) into Biafra will be met with stiff resistance.

Who are those going to resist? Jegede shokoya like you that's being brutalized every day by your fat wife.. Abi you will resist with Amotekun?

Niceman12:
Arabic isn't the Official language of Israel. Why did they use it? You say because they have Arab people.

So since we also have people whose language is Arabic, what's wrong in that.

Beside, Naira note is mostly English, in what way do the Arabic affect the English.

Ishi aki,
Leave alone jare, I want to watch football..
You can add Swahili and pinyin there, na you Sabi..

BTW, it's no more Nigerian army. It's now fully a fulani Army.

gidgiddy:
Wike is the butcher of Obigbo and that name will follow him for the rest of his days

Stop replying that hate filled robot... They think they can win territories on the internet

Niceman12:
Yoruba and Igbo from South, Hausa and Arabic from North. I think it balance itself.

if you want ijaw, then we can also add Fulani. That's justice.

How many official languages do we have in this God forsaken enclave? Is your weird Arabic part of that choas? Or because you live in the desert, you are used to making the law as you go?

Niceman12:
What would you like to say about the shuwa people of northern Nigeria whose language is Arabic.

We also have the ijaws and the ebiras.. Since you can't stick to the generally accepted national languages, what is the criteria for choosing shuwas Arabic against say ijaw, efik or junkun?

Igboid:
Yorubas have full control of Lagos. An Osun man hold sway in Lagos and they know how to bring the loquacious Oba to his knees if need be.

Its not same with Ndiigbo and Ikwerres. We are not politically in control of PH. So you might need to put things in perspective.

A good comparison would have been how Ndiigbo have handled Onitsha identity crisis. Using the power we control in Anambra we have managed to get Onitsha to mellow and fit into the Igbo identity seamlessly. This wouldn't have been the case of Onitsha and Ogbaru were in a state we don't control.

Apples and oranges bro.

Onitsha is not totally a good comparison per se. Zik, the leader of the igbos at a time, was from Onitsha. So the identity crises shouldn't have risen in the first place
. I don't understand how somebody leading will be confused about his identity or be wondering if he really belongs... Let's look at Asaba.. Imediately after the war, Asaba was part of the cities that showed this type of attitude. Infact, it used to be the case in in Asaba during the 70s and 80s. The only reason it subsided in Asaba is because of the presence of intelligent people like the Asagba of Asaba and folks like Chief Sony Odogwu and the fact that Onitsha businesses that migrated to Asaba after the creation of Delta State, did so with little confrontations.

Portharcort has not been lucky with such farsighted individuals. So what happened?? It's because we lost a war and the "Victor's" took time to mutilate our borders and hand over many parts to different groups that supported them. Maybe the majority of ikwerres hate Igbo, if that is the case, then let them go. There are other communities with historical Igbo ties that shouldn't be antagonized because they have noisy leaders good at taunting igbos. Personally, I'm not bothered by the empty rants of the likes Wike and co. I'm not that simple minded. You don't biuld a state by being so temperamental. There used to be a time when Obigbo had this sort of acrimonious relationship with the rest of the Igbo states. Today, they are the ones being massacred for an Igbo cause!

Are we also going to throw away Obigbo? After all until recently, they were showing similar nonchalant attitude towards the Igbo cause.. What led to the epiphany that changed them from nonchalant Igbos to foundamentalist Igbos? Isn't it better to focus on those positives than to twaddle with triffles? If this discussion happened twenty years back, Obigbo will be part of those receiving ultimatums to "declare" or "disappear". Isn't it obvious that instead of engaging in all these petty fights, we should be more concerned with improving the Igbo man's political clout so these minorities can see the GAINS in alligning with us? After all the last time they alligned with us, they were massacred! And we couldn't save them!

Few months back, the Oba of Lagos came out openly to say that Lagos is not yorubaland. I mean the Oba of Lagos said that openly! The Yorubas trying to harass you out of the south south all heard it but pretended they didn't! They never seriously challenged that. There were historical facts to some parts of that assertion. They all knew. But they also knew that a loose cannon was on the throne! They didnt even reply him! Maybe they went to him in private or maybe that's why they sent thugs too go and loot his kingdom down! But I guess, if it's the Asagba of Asaba that said Asaba is not Igboland, we will all be matching to the United Nations to ask that folks from Asaba be sliced off from igboland and be thrown away..

Hope they won't fire him for that..