₦airaland Forum

Racoon:
https://www.channelstv.com/2023/01/05/obasanjo-jealous-of-me-obis-endorsement-wont-work-tinubu/

Jealous kini?
Coming from a presidential candidate, this is bad.

Munzy14:
To sleep better sleep with small snoring....

So funny

Mercisharelove:
FULL TEXT: Obasanjo writes letter to Nigerians, endorses Peter Obi
1st January 2023

By
Daud Olatunji

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Sunday wrote a letter to Nigerians asking them to elect the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, ahead of the February election.

Obasanjo made this known in a new year message titled, “My appeal to all Nigerians particularly Young Nigerians.”

According to Obasanjo, none of the presidential candidates is a saint, but when compared to the knowledge, discipline and what they can offer, Obi has an edge.

He wrote, “none of the contestants is a saint but when one compares their character, antecedent, their understanding, knowledge, discipline and vitality that they can bring to bear and the great efforts required to stay focused on the job, particularly looking at where the country is today and with the experience on the job that I personally had, Peter Obi as a mentee has an edge.

“Others like all of us have what they can contribute to the new dispensation to liberation, restoration and salvaging of Nigeria collectively. One other important point to make about Peter is that he is a needle with thread attached to it from North and South and he may not get lost. In other words, he has people who can pull his ears, if and when necessary. Needless to say that he has a young and able running mate with a clean track record of achievement both in public and private life,” Obasanjo said in a letter personally signed.

Describing the seven years of the administration of the president, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), as hell, saying, “The last seven and a half years have no doubt been eventful and stressful years for many Nigerians. We have moved from frying pan to fire and from mountain top to the valley.”

Full text of the letter below:


Dear Compatriots and Friends,

MY APPEAL TO ALL NIGERIANS PARTICULARLY YOUNG NIGERIANS

Happy New Year! May all our national calamities disappear this year.

I am constrained to write this letter to all Nigerians especially young Nigerians, friends of Nigeria globally as well as our development partners because of the gravity, responsibility and implications of the collective decision Nigerians, both young and old, will be making within the next two months.

The last seven and a half years have no doubt been eventful and stressful years for many Nigerians. We have moved from frying pan to fire and from mountain top to the valley.

Our leaders have done their best, but their best had turned out to be not the best for Nigeria and Nigerians at home and abroad. For most Nigerians, it was hell on earth.

Those of us who are alive should thank God for His mercies, brace ourselves for the remaining few months of this administration and pray and work very hard for an immediate better future – future of liberation, restoration and great hope and expectation.


We have had campaigners going up and down the country feeding us with what they mean and what they do not mean, what they understand and what they do not fully understand, what is possible and what is not possible, what is realistic and what is unrealistic, what is true and what is untrue. I believe that we need not be confused nor be gullible. Let us be cautious, not to be fooled again.

I have interacted with the major contestants and I find it interesting that, in one form or the other, each of them claims to want to do what I did during my Presidency and to take Nigeria back to where it was at the height of my Presidency and immediately after. I was pained that most of them do not realise that the Nigeria of today had been dragged down well below Nigeria of the beginning of my Presidency in June 1999.

Although at that time, Nigeria was in very bad shape and was tottering on the verge of collapse and break-up.

Even then, Nigeria was not faced with the level of pervasive and mind-numbing insecurity, rudderless leadership, buoyed by mismanagement of diversity and pervasive corruption, bad economic policies resulting in extremes of poverty and massive unemployment and galloping inflation.

For these reasons, I kept pointing out to them that the instruments used in 1999 to 2007 and methodology used will grossly be inadequate for the perilous situation we now find ourselves.

Without prejudice but with greatest respect to each individual with utmost regard for the best for Nigeria and all Nigerians and from my personal experience, all the major contestants claim to be my mentees. I will not deny such positions since I have worked with all of them directly and indirectly in government.

I have come to realise a number of factors in character, attributes and attitude that are necessary in the job of directing the affairs of Nigeria successfully and at a time like this. These characteristics or attributes are many but let us be mindful of some key ones together.


From interaction and experience, and as mentees as most of them claim, I will, without prejudice, fear or ill-will, make bold to say that there are four major factors to watch out for in a leader you will consider to hoist on yourself and on the rest of Nigerians in the coming election and they are what I call TVCP: Track record of ability and performance; Vision that is authentic, honest and realistic; Character and attributes of a lady and a gentleman who are children of God and obedient to God; and Physical and mental capability with soundness of mind as it is a very taxing and tasking assignment at the best of times and more so it is at the most difficult time that we are.

Let me say straight away that ‘Emi Lokan’ (My turn) and ‘I have paid my dues’ are one and the same thing and are wrong attitude and mentality for the leadership of Nigeria now.

They cannot form the new pedestal to reinvent and to invest in a new Nigeria based on an All-Nigeria Government for the liberation and restoration of Nigeria. Such a government must have representation from all sectors of our national life – public, private, civil society, professional, labour, employers, and the diaspora. The solution should be in ‘we’ and ‘us’ and not in ‘me’ and ‘I’.

Mind you, I reiterate that no human being is an angel let alone a Messiah, but there are elements of these attributes and on comparative basis and by measure of what we know of, and what some of us have experienced from the front-runners, we must assess judiciously and choose wisely.

If anybody claims he or she has anything to the contrary, it will be up to him or her to prove to us.

I pray not to be proved right again in the bad sense but rather to be proved right in the positive and glorious sense of Nigeria becoming what God had created it to be – a land of plenty and prosperity united for common purpose of inclusive society, common security, shared prosperity, equity, egalitarianism, justice, and equal stake in the Project Nigeria with leadership role of Nigeria for the black race and fair share of global division of labour.

One ridiculous point that has been touted to justify unjustifiable appointments and selections is ‘competence’. In truth and in reality, genuine competence can be found in any region or section of Nigeria through track record and performance if only people will honestly and sincerely look hard for people with such attainment and attribute.

Most of us in good conscience can testify to competence when we see any anywhere. What is masqueraded as ‘competence’ is self-interest and nepotism.


In 2023, power must change hands in Nigeria
We have a unique opportunity to correct ourselves by ourselves for the good of ourselves. Those who are preaching division, segregation, separation, and want to use diversity for their own self and selfish interest are enemies of the nation, no matter what else they may disguisedly profess or proclaim.

The Challenge Is For Nigerian Youth:

If we fall prey again, we will have ourselves to blame and no one can say how many more knocks Nigeria can take before it tips over. To be forewarned is to be fore-armed.

Future is not emotion. I challenge the youth to arise. Let nobody pull wool over your eyes to divide you and/or segregate you to make you underlings. Nigerian youth, wherever they come from, North or South, East or West need education which is now denied to over 20 million children; Nigerian youth also need skills, empowerment, employment, reasonably good living conditions, welfare and well-being.

My dear young men and women, you must come together and bring about a truly meaningful change in your lives. If you fail, you have no one else to blame. Your present and future are in your hands to make or to mar. The future of Nigeria is in the same manner in your hands and literally so. If for any reason you fail to redeem yourself and your country, you will have lost the opportunity for good and you will have no one to blame but yourselves and posterity will not forgive you. Get up, get together, get going and get us to where we should be. And you, the youth, it is your time and your turn. ‘Eyin Lokan’ (Your turn).

The power to change is in your hands. Your future, my future, the future of grandchildren and great grandchildren is in your hands. Politics and elections are numbers game. You have the numbers, get up, stand up and make your numbers count.

Let me say it again, loud and clear, Nigeria has no business with insecurity, poverty, insurgency, banditry, unemployment, hunger, debt, division and disunity. We are in these situations because advertently or inadvertently, our leaders have made the choices. They have done the best they could do. Let them take their rest deservedly or not and let them enjoy their retirement as Septuagenarians or older.

I became Head of State at 39 and at 42, I had retired into the farm. When it was considered necessary, I was drafted back into active political life after twenty years of interregnum. I came back at 62 and by 70, I was on my way out. Others like General Gowon and Enahoro became national leaders at 33 and 27 respectively and General Gowon at the helms of leadership of Nigeria at the highest level. The vigour, energy, agility, dynamism and outreach that the job of leadership of Nigeria requires at the very top may not be provided as a septuagenarian or older. I know that from personal experience. And it is glaring out of our current experiences.

Otherwise, we will be fed with, “The President says” and we will neither see nor hear him directly as we should. Yes, for some, age and physical and mental disposition are not in tandem.

But where and when they are with obvious evidence, they must be taken into account for purpose of reality. And yet it is a job in our present situation where the team leader or captain of the team should be up and doing, outgoing inside and outside and speaking to the nation on almost daily basis visibly and as much as possible interactively and meeting his colleagues all over the world on behalf of Nigeria.

Youth of Nigeria, your time has come, and it is now and please grasp it. If not now, it will be never. I appeal to you to turn the tide on its head and march forward chanting ‘Awa Lokan’ (Our turn) not with a sense of entitlement, but with a demonstrable ideological commitment to unity and transformation of Nigeria.

Leave The Past, Face The Future:

Can we let the past go? I appeal to the young Nigerians to stop inheriting other people’s prejudices and enemies. Make your own friends and stop inheriting your father’s enemies.

Let’s stop criminalising and demonising one another on the basis of the civil war on which we are all wrong. And let’s praise and thank God for preserving the oneness of Nigeria.

The Scripture says that if God would take account of all our wrongdoings, nobody would be able to stand before Him. While not suffering from amnesia, let us stop still fighting and reacting to the civil war in our hearts, minds, heads and our attitude acrimoniously.

Let’s stop living on our different wrongs or mistakes of the past: treasonable felony, Tiv riot and its handling, first military coup and its aftermath, second military coup, araba, pogrom and the civil war, all in the 1960s. And more recently OPC, Egbesu, MASSOB, IPOB, Boko Haram and banditry. No region can claim to be innocent or to be saintly. And no justification will suffice. I

n our respective individual or regional positions, we have done right and we have done wrong. It is therefore not right for any of us to be sanctimonious to see ourselves as saints and the rest as devils incarnate.

Just let us agree to move forward together in mutual forgiveness, one accord, inclusive society, equality and equity. Together and without bias and discrimination, fear or favour, we can have Nigeria of one nation in diversity, in truth and in practice. Let us honour, cherish, respect and even celebrate our diversity which is the basis of our potential greatness and strength.

If we will only continue to harp on wrongs done by each of us individually or collectively, we will never be able to stand together. If we will continue with wide brush to paint a national or sub-national group as bad and never to be trusted with leadership because of past error or mistakes that some of them were responsible for and treat their offspring as inheritors, it will amount to great injustice that will surely lead to no peace, no security and no stability for development and progress.

First, no group is faultless; second, for the greatness of the whole, we need one another as constituents of the whole; third, we cannot be talking and working for Africa’s integration and for Nigeria’s disintegration at the same time. Why for instance should I be stigmatized or despised because of my place of origin, place of birth or where I come from? Where I was born, by whom I was born and when I was born were not choices made by me. They were choices and prerogatives of God.


Any antagonism against me on that basis is unfair and is tantamount to fighting against God, the Creator. Such derogatory attitude and mindset do not build any human institution let alone a nation. While not forgetting the past, let us put the past behind us for it not to continue to mar our present and our future and that of the coming generation. We must rise above primordial animalistic instincts and behaviour. Yes, we are human and higher than animals in the wild. Let us develop national ethos and national characteristics that can take us collectively to the promised.

My dear young men and women, let me assure you that there are only two tribes of people in Nigeria a tribe of good people and a tribe of bad people. You are either a good Nigerian of Igbo extraction, Kanuri extraction, etc, or a bad Nigerian of Yoruba extraction, Ijaw extraction etc.

I will at this juncture want to commend the politicians as they have generally been reasonably civil in their campaigns without making politics as a call to war against opponents.

Genuine and fair competition conveys greater legitimacy in any political rivalry or competition. A situation where people in authority and power assume such positions through foul and despicable means and continue to espouse and act in ways that only engender conflict or war by subverting legitimacy of power and authority does not augur well for the polity and as such, the moral foundation of the government and the society will be terribly weakened.

May God help, save, protect and sustain Nigeria for all Nigerians, for Africa and for the human race. We can only continue to play politics of ethnicity, religion, region and money bags at the peril of our country and to self-destruction. We need selfless, courageous, honest, patriotic, in short, outstanding leadership with character and fear of God beyond what we have had in recent past.

None of the contestants is a saint but when one compares their character, antecedent, their understanding, knowledge, discipline and vitality that they can bring to bear and the great efforts required to stay focused on the job particularly looking at where the country is today and with the experience on the job that I personally had, Peter Obi as a mentee has an edge. Others like all of us have what they can contribute to the new dispensation to liberation, restoration and salvaging of Nigeria collectively.

One other important point to make about Peter is that he is a needle with thread attached to it from North and South and he may not get lost. In other words, he has people who can pull his ears, if and when necessary.

Needless to say that he has a young and able running mate with clean track record of achievement both in public and private life.

OBJ's letter is filled with words of wisdom.
It's Youth O'clock.

NwekeUG:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PImlCvfqN7o

Nollywood actress, Uche Ogbodo and her man, Bobby Harris, tied the knot traditionally in a ceremony that took place in Enugu state on January 5, 2022, IGBERETV reports.

The couple share a daughter together, while Uche has a daughter from her previous relationship.


https://www.instagram.com/reel/CnC1-Ydgd3y/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Seun Lalasticlala Mynd44 nlfpmod

This second marriage should last long for the Actress.
Happy married life to the couple.

Sirchiboy:
.
Is this laptop good enough

The photos are blurry, nevertheless a Corei5 with a good graphics is okay for video editing.

ruggedtimi:
Pictures from the beach party held in okochiri Kingdom, Okrika on 3rd Jan, 2023.

I can see the Amayanabo was there.

See groove @Mrksquare

Wakirike Be se

VeryWickedSimp:
Thunder fire you. So I should use money I budgeted for olosho to be paying school abi. Be like u no well 4 head.

Really?
So funny.

securitywatch50:
I'm interested in learning cyber security
Can someone be of help please

Go for Comptia A+ certification, although it is quite costly but it is the cybersecurity profession standard.

yinkus6750:
Nice one. United they stand. Makinde has done well in his first term in office. Widely loved by his people. Surely deserves a second term. Good

Yes ooooo GSM till 2027

longetivity:
It's one of my uncles that is teaching me. And we usually do it after work hours, I mean when we both return from work in the evening.

video editing needs a laptop with a good graphics.
Let's say Corei5, Corei7,etc.
software applications like Adobe Premiere pro needs a good laptop to work uninterrupted.

UyaiIncomparabl:
How to drive a car, communicate effectively, master emotional intelligence and swim.

How far have you gone on that UI/UX design program?
How lucrative is the UI/UX design?

In wike's voice " As e dey pain them, e go dey sweet us".

learnoflixx:
Pls what are the landmarks for their office ...I'm in Durumi looking for the office

It looks like a scam
Please visit the place and verify, so that we will know if it genuine.

Nice2023:
He was in charge of a mosque in Paris during World War II. He was originally born in Algeria before immigrating to France.

When World War II broke out, Germany began deporting Jews from France to concentration camps.

Si Kaddour began offering shelter to lots of Jews through willing Muslim families in the area.

When German inspectors came, he would lie about the records of Jews, saying that they were Muslim. He eventually had cellars and basements in mosques where he would allow the Jews to hide during the war. He also gave them fake certificates that would certify that they were Muslim, enabling them to escape certain death.

He had an open-door policy as well at his mosque. If any of the attendees had Jewish friends in need of refuge, they could bring them with them.

Si Kaddour saved 500 Jews by the end of the war. He risked his life in the process. And most people don’t even know of him.

What a kind heart.

Sen. Rabiu musa Kwankwaso, it is not your time.
Try harder, next time.

mariahAngel:
Acquiring a new skill is a way of adding value to yourself.
Every time you learn something new, you become better than you were.

This year, be encouraged to learn as much skills as you can, so that in the near future, you can be better than you are now.
So that when you look back, you can be proud of the person you have become and what you have been able to achieve.

So, without further ado, what skill(s) are you learning this year?

Tech skills
Lots of Tech/software skills to learn this year.
I pray to be a beneficiary of Qtguru trio gift.

Lucifyre:
Avicii - Faster Than Light Avicii - Dear Boy Enya - Flora's Secret Kygo - Firestone Lupe Fiasco - Show Goes On Jon Bellion - Hand Of God....

Enya's songs are so soothing

@Felimax This is your kind of thread.
Okowa supporter.

infoleak:
1. When you say "Mummy, I am sorry! And she replies, sorry for yourself!" �

2. When you ask her where you should drop something and she says, " drop it on my head." ��

3. When she brings food wrapped in a nylon bag from a friend's daughter wedding. ��

4. When you say "Mummy, I have fever and she replies you, why won't you have fever when you press phone every night." ��

5. When you say "Mummy I took 2nd in my class and she replies, so the person that took 1st has two heads abii??" ��

6. When she takes the DSTV remote to work just to punish you. ��

7. When you are watching TV with her and she sleeps off and still doesn't want you to change the Channel.��

8. When you tell her you are going to a friends place to play and she asks, "when last did that friend come here to play with you?" ���

10. When she tells you, "if I hear peeem, you will hear weeen." ��

11. When she touches hot pot comfortablely without a cloth or paper. ��

12. When she tells you, "I didn't kill my mother, so you will not kill me!" ��

13. When she calls you from your room upstairs and then sends you back upstairs to bring her purse. ��

14. When you ask her to refund the money she borrowed and she tells you, "All the food you have been eating in the house nko?"

*Our Mothers are wonderful...*

I ❤ My Mom! *(Hmmm.)


Love your Mom..```

May God bless mothers.

chokekachy:
https://www.bbc.com/hausa/articles/cprneer7r3zo?at_format=image&at_link_origin=bbchausa&at_medium=social&at_ptr_name=twitter&at_link_type=web_link&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_campaign_type=owned&at_link_id=48D4701E-8CB0-11ED-94F5-77FC2052A482

It's true that you-Sen. Kwakwanso is more experienced in politics but the Obi movement is a growing political force.

mrksquare:
The Appeal Court has giving judgement in the appeal brought by the Rivers state APC on ground of disqualification of sixty of it's House of Assembly candidates by the Port Harcourt Federal High Court presided over by Justice Mohammed Adamu in suit number FHC/PH/CS/152/2022 filled by the Rivers state PDP.

The constituencies affected were: Obio/Akpor 1 and 2, Andoni, Okrika, Ahoada west, Khana1and 2, PH 1, 2 and 3, Etche 1 and 2 Oyigbo, Gokana, Tai and Eleme.

The Appeal court in it's ruling this afternoon, affirmed that the PDP lack the locus standi to have instituted the case against the APC. And therefore upturned the ruling of the Federal High court.

By this ruling, all APC House of Assembly candidates are now eligible to contest the March 2023 House of Assembly election.

Nice one
let them test their popularity in the election.

Okealaaye:
Soyinka didn't GRADUATE from Unibadan! He's a graduate of University of Leeds. I don't know his score though.

Yes, he transferred to Leeds for completion of study for the award of his first degree(B.A).
He had second class upper division(2.1).

marlow1962:
It’s so funny how Africans especially Nigerians glorifies meaningless songs, lmao.
Anyways 90’s for me.

Yeah, 90s for me.
what are your favorite musicians in the 90s?
were you a fan of RnB or High life or Hip hop/ Rap?

Autobot05:
Juice wrld
Come and go
In my head
Hate me
Without me
Hate the other side
Realer N Realer



Eminem
Without me
Lose yourself
Superman (fully redpilled )

Sia

Unstoppable
Genius
Elastic heart ( both versions)
Birds set free
That's life

2pac

Only God can judge me
Thugs mansion
Picture me rolling


Jack harlow

Tyler herro
First class


The list is endless but I can't get enough of these
NB I only derive the meaningful knowledge from their lyrics .. you don't necessarily have to copy their lifestyle

Eminem , Sia and tupac songs are fully loaded with words of wisdom

Tupac shakur was the best Rapper in the 90s.
B.I.G comes second

Blupen:
She tell me say

Really?
I opine that "Superstar" and "Ayo" albums had Wizkid's best songs.

Now, the guy's songs lacks lyrical content.

Peacecore:
Life goes on by 2Pac Happy home by 2Pac Happy birthday by 2Pac Like my father by Jax Lots of Eminem's songs

A hardcore Rap fan spotted.

Captain8:
Isaac Adaka Boro's arrest in 1966.

Aguiyi-Ironsi ordered Odumegwu-Ojukwu to hunt down Boro.
Mbiama and environs was surrounded by federal troops. They were told that the Ijaw man could survive underwater for days, so the river at Mbiama should be bombed to either kill Boro or make him come out from the water, because since they didn't find him and his boys early they said they got intelligence that he was hiding underwater at Mbiama. The Engenni river at Mbiama was actually bombed sometime late February 1966. The airforce plane flew very low up the river even to Joinkrama, and the surrounding bushes, frightening the Ijaw natives.
The same or greater siege was mounted at Yenagoa, Kaiama, Oloibiri and many other Central and Western Ijaw communities.
To save the people from the siege and attendant harassment by the federal forces, Boro and his comrades had to come out and surrender themselves.
Adaka(The Lion) Boro was a lover of his people.
May his revolutionary soul continue to rest in power.
Haaa Izon!

Anticipating Isaac Boro's day celebration this year.
The labour of our hero's past shall never be in vain.

BadNews:
Source: https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2023/1/man-kills-father-in-akwa-ibom-for-allegedly-hypnotizing-him-in-his-dream.html

What an abominable act!

senatordave1:
Sen Emmanuel bwacha is the next governor of taraba state.him and Joel ikenya of sdp will divide taraba south,win taraba central and divide taraba north...same thing will happen in the presidential polls...

Cc mynd44
Immaculatejoe

No, kefas is coming.