The chicken has come home to roost

Associating the word gay to homosexuality is a recent things,growing up the word is used as synomn of happy,so the intension of the author of the book has nothing to do with homosexuality

Boyooosa:


I understand your point and appreciate the fact that you are trying to let Nigerians see the good part of the country.

Meanwhile, I'll like you to help with two clarifications:

1. With your own personal experience, how were you educated in Nigeria 'almost for free'?

2. With the system on ground as at date in Nigeria, do you think Dr Simi will be able to fulfil her utmost and wishful mission?

Thanx for anticipated sincere response

People that attended Govt school paid next to nothing come their counterparts that school abroad

Workch:
I will pay tax like a good citizen but we will make sure that kano ends up getting more federal allocation than lagos state

The last time Lagos senator demands special status for Lagos,senators from other region stood against it,so you wishing Kano gets more allocation than Lagos is not a new thing.

SyrusdeHansome:
These are the same idiots that campaigned for PMB in 2015, that's why i can never take any of them serious. When i see pple castigate some southerners for supporting anoda northerner to succeed Buhari i bcom angry, remembering what the same pple, including Tinubu did to their brother in 2015. I once told u pple that a time will come that other southern Nigeria pple will laugh at them when they need our help

People have right to support whoever they want,and there have never been a time where all southerner agree to support a candidate,so nobody is seeking for anybody's help,vote for your candidate,and allow others to vote their candidates too,it's their fundamental human right

To spite Igbo? why would anybody do that?people have fundamental human right to make choices,and the choices don't need to align with any group's aspiration

drsugar:
If given the opportunity to ask just one question from Obi and/ or Datti, what will you ask?

Let’s drop our questions below. Who knows, Peter Obi may be on Nairaland.

Is conflict of interest not corruption?,since he sees no harm in investing Anambra State fund into his family business

Frank didn't see anything wrong when Pa Adebanjo was criticising Tinubu his tribeman,but now has the temerity to criticise Prof Soludo for not support Peter Obi.

ASUU has every right to demand for it's entitlement, government cannot tell ASUU that there is no money in as much as government officials still earn jumbo pay, though using the recovered loot would be difficult because there is a condition attached to the return of the loot,and meeting ASUU demand is not part of those conversations.

SensualMan:
Why won't u support him? Your tenure as the IG of police still leave a sour taste to date.

It's very obvious that this man lacks intelligence and foresight. The simple reason why u are supporting him is cos he facilitated ur transfer as commissioner of police to lagos state and there after facilitated ur ascendency to DIG?
I'm sorry sir but I have to call u an ediot! When old men refuse to accord themselves necessary respect due to them, kids will use them as playfield.

Peter Obi has seized everywhere in Nigeria!

How influential could Tinubu be to influence the deployment of Okiro to Lagos,and his eventual elevation to the position of IG, considering he was the unofficial leader of the opposition under a PDP government that had vengeful Obasanjo as the President

donaldking100:



I know say na wetin u go chop make u de support Tinubu.
Don't worry, God fit provide for you from another source. Just put your trust in God.
You and i both know Tinubu isn't good enough for Nigeria.
He has no conviction.
All he wants is presidency.
We are no fools, and he has nothing to offer this country.

Kindly elucidate PO's plan since he his here to solve Nigerian's problem

Papichulostunne:

You see the difference between Our God Almighty and allah? A Christian woman married a muslim man and we dont seem to have a problem with that and neither does God. We are all one and he created us all. But as for a muslim marrying a Christian, allah places a curse on him. Na wa sha oh

You being clever by half,is it not the bible that has 2 Corinthian 6:14 that says do not be unequally yoked with unbeliever?

TimFisher2:


That's good!

Very Fantastic


Since she has turned it into tribal voting

Let every region vote for its own

South East and South will vote for Obi

South West will vote for Tinubu

Northerners will vote for Atiku

Last last Atiku will win


Let's remind them how it started


We warned them


They chastise us...insulted us called us all sort of names

We wanted the good of the country where everyone will be equal among others.. but we were wrong,we never knew they had an ulterior devilish motive.we saw their treachery..Gov Babatunde Fashola made an infamous statement in their dialect that they should remember to vote for Buhari so that power will return to their region

They imported tribal politics into our political space and corrupted both the unborn child to know how to play the politics

If I start to mention their treacherous sins they have committed...time won't be enough


We told them that they will never smell the seat again.. rather let the North continue ruling us

Which tribe is south east and south south?

AntiBMC:


Which dirty wahala? Instead of telling people that they don't have the right to freedom of speech, maybe you people should catch up with the rest of the world and leave ur crude and backward thinking behind. This is 2022.

Right to freedom of speech doesn't include the right to insult and denigrate the belief of others

Saifullah01:
I am not here to discuss the incident of her death, but rather the comment that triggered it.
So if you are unable to deconstruct and analyse issues without sentiments, this is not for you.

Below is a translation of what she said verbatim. I have removedthe expletives she used:

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Like I said the essence is to analyse what she said. One wonders was she deliberately trying to start a religious crisis thinking it wouldn't go beyond the usual social media banter against Muslims?

I ask this because for some one trying to stop religious posts in a chat group do you start by saying "Holy ghost fire"? This is self contradiction.
Secondly, after making your point on not posting religious materials in the chat, why on earth did she had to insult the prophet (peace be upon him)

It is a fact that Muslims revere the Prophets of Allah more than anything in this world, and the prophet of Islam occupies a special place in their heart.

It is also a fact that although ignorant people have over time and in different places used bad words against the prophet (PBUH), no Muslim worth the name dear mention great prophets like Moses, Ezekiel etc without saying "peace be upon them or "Alaihim Salaam" or AS, not to think of using bad speech against them

These guys should be investigated, and thoroughly dealt with to serve as deterrents to their likes, you can't always turn to violent for every provocations

GreatAxeMan:
The terror attacks under GEJ were the coordinated efforts of his Jihadis supporters to undermine a government by a Christian.

They let the genie out of the bottle so let them live with the consequences.

It's always the same people behind every evil, wether it's herdsmen killing farmers, kidnapping, banditry, illiteracy, poverty, wretchedness etc

They're a cursed lot. They have fallen into the trap they set for GEJ so they should enjoy the experience.

The only people for whom I have any sympathy are the Christians who have always been the real targets of the Jihadists.

You are not different from the ignorant ones that because of politics, ethnic and religious biases decide to destroy the life they cannot create for gloating on people's misfortune

Phillipson02:
#2023: BOLA TINUBU AND THE COST OF POLITICAL MISCALCULATION


By the deposed Emir of Kano, Sanusi Muhammad Lamido
The godfather of Lagos politics, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in 2015 led the South-West into an alliance with the North to birth the All Progressive Alliance (APC). His decision, evidently, was informed by the expectation that the two geopolitical regions will share power, invariably to the exclusion of the Eastern bloc. And ultimately that he, or the South-West, will take power by the time the North completes two terms in 2023. But it has proved to be a miscalculation.
Certainly, power play is about conspiracies and alliances. Tinubu is well within his right to do what he thought would best advance his political interest and that of his region. However, in backing President Muhammadu Buhari, he cut his nose to spite his face.
It may not have seemed obvious to many, but once Buhari took power in 2015, Tinubu’s political career was in jeopardy.
To navigate the presidency without bruises, the best Tinubu could have done was to retire from active politics and assume the role of an elder statesman. He did not, he stayed on, wanting to be president and pushing hard to remain at the centre of political discourse. But power is jealous, and if there is any holder of the highest office in the land who would tolerate a co-president, it is not Buhari. Things are beginning to unravel, fast.
Without Tinubu, and by extension the South-West, Buhari could not have been president today. This is one fact that president’s men who now dominate the political space and brook no opposition will hate to admit, but it remains true, regardless.
But being essentially Buhari’s kingmaker, it was political naivety to decide to hang around in the expectation that he would share power. The old Machiavellian advice is that the prince must first destroy the one who made him king. Reason? Because he could decide tomorrow to make another king.
Writing in The Prince, the legendary Niccolo Machiavelli noted “…he who is the cause of another becoming powerful is ruined; because that predominancy has been brought about by astuteness or else by force, and both are distrusted by him who has been raised to power.”
Of course, it should have been obvious that, in helping to make Buhari president, Tinubu was jeopardizing his political career and plunging the South-West, and by extension Southern Nigeria, into political slavery whose only parallel in the country’s political history is the late Emeka Ojukwu leading the Igbo to war in 1967.
With respect to the Biafra War, blaming Ojukwu for embarking on it could earn one exile in the Igbo country. But if truth be told, the war was avoidable and could have been avoided if Ojukwu had not been too stiff to listen to the likes of Zik and other intellectuals who understood better, international politics and diplomacy. This is not to say, nonetheless, that Ojukwu was not sufficiently provoked by the killings of the Igbo in the North in the aftermath of the July 1966 revenge coup that threw up Yakubu Gowon as head of state, and indeed the actions – or lack of it – of the Gowon-led federal side. Regardless, it was still in his hands to accept to fight or toe the path of diplomacy which, given the circumstances, was the best option and the only way to win international support for his secession quest. In the event, he went to war and only succeeded in sacrificing more Igbo lives and weakening the Igbo politically.
The consequence of that weakening is that it provided fertile ground for the emergence of hegemonic Northern power. The imbalance so created is largely responsible for the crisis of Nigeria’s national identity. One mistake many Nigerians, particularly in the South, make is the assumption that the country is already formed and settled as a secular state. It’s not the case. There is the ever present quest to define the country right, of course, from the 1804 jihad.
Colonial rule put a stop to it, then in the post-war years, the Middle Belt soldiers who dominated the army acted as a wedge. Tinubu’s alliance with Buhari has served to reenact that quest. Buhari is now, apparently, out to define the country. The Jagaban’s political miscalculation could yet prove too costly.
The old generals who, I reckon, understand this are already raising the alarm. But of course, the horde of naive, ignorant online crowd of crumb eaters are blurring the resistance line.
As it concerns the 2023 presidency, it should be clear to anyone with a functioning brain that President Buhari’s North has no intention of relinquishing power to the South-West or any zone for that matter. What many may not have realised, however, is that for the next three decades at least, if ever, and should Nigeria remain one, power will not leave the North. But in projecting, one must always leave space for the law of unintended consequences and the God factor.
But given Buhari’s antecedents, was there any grounds for the South-West, particularly, to have given him benefit of the doubt in 2015? Absolutely none in my reckoning. However, it would appear that emotion rather than sound political calculation informed their support for Buhari in 2015. It was, perhaps, more to spite the East than love for Buhari. I had been amazed when, in the heat of the moment in 2015, before the election, the news editor of my then media platform branded a fellow reporter who didn’t buy into the Buhari presidential project a “bloody b*stard who is following the Igbo people to betray Yoruba by supporting Jonathan.”
In the lead up to the 2019 polls, I had on several occasions engaged my landlord – a backer of Buhari’s second term project who loves to discuss politics with me – on who between Atiku Abubakar and the President would make a better leader. My insistence was, of course, that Atiku would. After we exhausted all manner of issues he raised against the former vice president, he said finally that he would still back Buhari because Atiku was an “Omo Igbo project” and that “after Buhari, Yoruba will take power and after Yoruba, Hausa will take power again.” According to him, “we will be rotating it like that, Igbo people will never smell that place.” I had more of pity for his ignorance.
When in 2003, Buhari joined presidential race, he did so, apparently, to stop the then president, Olusegun Obasanjo. Not because Obasanjo had performed badly as president, having taken power with the return of democracy in 1999, but because Buhari and the section of the North he represented believed that power had to return to the region.
In settling for Obasanjo in 1998/99, the intention of the Northern military class was for him to do four years as compensation for MKO Abiola – the Yoruba had become uncontrollably agitated – and hand power back to the North. But not long after Obasanjo took power, it became clear that he was never going to leave it for anybody. This realisation led to agitations; criticisms of the Obasanjo government was swift in the north, the climax of which was the Sharia crisis of 2000. To take power, however, the anti-Obasanjo forces in the North knew that ultimately, it was about going to challenge him at the polls. Buhari emerged as the arrow head of that challenge. And through speeches and actions that appealed to regional sentiments, he built a cult following that saw him win elections convincingly in the North right from 2003.
Until 2014/15, Buhari was a regional hero who believed he could become president by winning elections in the North and never thought seriously about campaigning in the South. However, in 2014/15, the Tinubu led South-West gave him an undeserved national platform, and through heavy media propaganda, dressed him in the robe of a born again democrat. But old habits die hard.
Once in power, Buhari did not hesitate to take off the borrowed garb of a nationalist and democrat to put on his original robe of sectionalism. Right from his first set of appointments, he made clear his intentions. And as it stands, he has completely consolidated power in the hands of the North.
Buhari is an idealogue; usually idealogues are very resolute and persistent people. Say what you will, he is doubling down on nepotism. Shout ‘Fulanisation’ or ‘Islamisation’ all you will, he will only look for a hate speech bill or social media bill to shut you up rather than re-examine his ‘hate’ policies.
Possibly, when Buhari is done with the country – if he has his way – no Southerner will, on the basis of an election, ever become president except at the behest of the North. By suppressing votes in the South and inflating figures in the North, the administration is only trying to establish a pattern - a dangerous pattern which supporters of his party in the South are evidently too blind to see.
It is clear to the discerning where the president is headed. But the question is whether he would succeed. I had pointed out elsewhere that the project would fail, ultimately, because Nigerians are too many to be subjugated.
It would seem, from the actions of those controlling the levers of power, that there is an attempt to precipitate a national crisis with a view to using force to take over the country. But, of course, this is a country of 200 million people. The advantage those who have a “legitimate” right to bear arms are enjoying at the moment would be lost if there is a total breakdown of law and order. And the country would break into fractions controlled by warlords, such that it would take a miracle to have it again as one stable country for anyone to control.
By Sanusi Muhammad
https://www./2208374552799540/permalink/2777983405838649/?flite=scwspnss
Cc:
Lalasticlala seun

The writeup is the writer's opinion,and definitely not written by Sanusi

Mummyfour:
I have just read comments here and they are very disheartening indeed.
I ask you nairalanders that hate the Igbos with so much passion,what did the Igbos do to you all?.
Why this anger and bitterness at this tribe?.
Funny enough some of them I know are die hard APC supporters .
You buy goods from them, you have them as friends, they gat your backs when you are in trouble, they employ you and your families in their businesses, they loan or dash you money, yet you people hate Igbos.
I really need to know the reason why.
Maybe I have been missing something
Politics apart, why the hatred?
A group of people should have their own opinions and ideologies.
You can't generalize and call all Igbos names because of some judases that are very much in other tribes.
But again, apart from the hatred of the Igbos, my heart breaks when I see the amount of tribalism on this platform.
My heart breaks when I read comments of people without conscience abusing or insulting a tribe.
But we go to church or mosques and ask God for mercy.
It is hypocrisy.

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I think the feeling is mutual, just like other groups hate Igbos,Igbos also hate them,and the painful part is, it started with just few people,but now the number is growing,and something drastic needs to be done to stem the tide,if not for anything for humanity sake

ScamHunter:
Since 2023 is obviously out of the equation UNLESS there's a consensus for Igbo presidency, do you think that the south has a chance of clinching the presidency by the next 10 years? The fact is that the north is solidly united (even with the so-called middle-belt) unlike the south, due to the traditional greed of a section of the south (Yoruba). It is obvious that all the north needs to clinch the presidency for another 10 years is just the presentation of one candidate, any candidate, even if he is Pantami, Malami or El-Rufai. Now with the northern consolidation, it is possible that southerners would become the minorities.

Yorubas are greedy? Really,are you for real? This nothing but emotional blackmail

loveth360:
Oga you can only deceive those that have not been to yoruba land or been around you guys.



We that witness yorubas hatred first hand knows better.


I used to be naive until i witness it.


The hatred a typical yoruba man have for Igbos is legendary,but of course they will try to pretend until when it's time to exhibit it.

And you think this is one sided,and peculiar to just the Yorubas?. Judging an entire tribe based on your limited interaction with few of their likes is haste generalization

ikorodureporta:
I still don't understand why a group of individuals would just impose movement restriction on others even without any prior notice..
As I'm typing here, the dogs in my area are barking due to their presence, & hitting of objects around

I'm suppose to get out of my house by 4.30am to beat the traffic, but now I can't go out till darkness fades away...and females are to remain indoors, businesses closed throughout the day.. making life to be more difficult for the people that are already suffering here

Some of us already have appointments, and some are trapped here..

They did the same thing last month.
Is it till we start taking laws into our hands by protesting??

This nonsense should stop in Ikorodu
!

Prior notice was given since 2 weeks ago you should have tailored your engagement to suit you

Ola17:


A man with two master’s degrees from an Ivy League college in a vital field like communications and electronic engineering and with over 23 years experience in multi billion dollar companies working as a pizza delivery guy?

Continue

My sentiment exactly,the story doesn't add up

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Nemeka:
The great crash of the current political guru in the South West and by extension the whole South was painful but expected.
MY people said 'when you're dining with a devil, get a long spoon'. And always remember that you fight off outsiders before querreling with an insider. Bishop Oyedepo was once asked for an advice to young ministers he said 'never fight alone'.
Over the years, our brothers from the 'core' North have proven to be master strategists, appointing, supporting whomever the choose in power, and sabotaging whom the disagree with.

Fast forward to 2014. After years of perennial failure to glench power, Buhari saw a willy nilly in Tinubu and promptly dangled the suicidal fish they gave to MKO to him; power.
My brother quickly forgot all and betrayed Jonathan despite overtures to him. Jonathan quietly left and sulked himself to sleep.
Tinubu wanted to pull of the marriage on the eve of 2019 but wouldn't because of fear and greed.
For ever trying to disobey, he was marked for demolition.
To curb his influence, systematic program was released. Oshiomole became the testing waters while Edo state governorship election was the certificate of death.
He read the signal and wanted to resurrect by distancing himself from Ondo election, but like a fish with a bait down the throat, vomiting and running away way impossible.

#endsars started, some politicians fidgeted at the unity of the South, but suddenly saw an opportunity to finally nail the coffin of a comrade.
From the day meyitti accused Tinubu, I knew they were upto something.
Tinubu refused to comment on the #endsars from the beginning. He was called to Abuja and was made to see reasons to say something, and lost binoculars to the river of servitude.
#mistake 1. He decided to stand with the powers that be, and spoke against the protest. There they caught him even going further to prescribe force.
#mistake 2. He discussed with his boy the governor to issue curfew. That was the platform.
#mistake 3. On governor's order, network service, light and camera were removed.
That was all they needed to finish Tinubu.
The North may not have started the protest, may not have sponsored it, but in it they saw an opportunity to reduce and Bury their comrade-enemy into the dustbin of political history. I strongly believe it was done with the connivance of some southern politician in the west.
Why have Amaechi, elrufi, etc not commented?

: TINUBU would have gone down as the greatest politician in Nigeria if he had not allowed greed and selfishness not took the better part of him. If he had stood from day 1 to do the right thing by supporting one of his boys do the presidency or better still an Easterner which would have won him the whole South.

Lesson : Be considerate and magnanimous in victory, no matter the position. Because, your best bet as a southerner and defence of security remains the South. The Fulani's only FEAR IS THE UNITY OF THE SOUTH. That's why they are sponsoring the igbo blame game to tear the cemented unity gotten from the demonstration.
Funny enough, expected intelligent people are buying that crap

Tinubu has an inalienable right to support whomever he likes,so the issue of betraying anyone does not arise,what is playing out is politics,even the protect has some element of politics in it.The question of whether the next president should come from the east is germaine,but the east should not think it would be gotten through intimidation,or demonization of others,the east should rather try to convince others as to why it's should be surpported to achieve this. The first step should be to grab the presidential ticket of the PDP.

LegendHero:


Money don’t care whether you have PhD or not. Everyone deserve the right to good living whether educated or illiterate.

Nigerians have been wired with this bullshit that the educated alone deserve good living while the uneducated should be confined to the wretched part of the society.

If just looking at the surface, this guy is a member of the NURTW, a government recognized union body, so you don’t need to say the country is upside down because of him building a hotel.

Yes, we can talk about corruption and question the cost of this hotel in comparison to his take home pay, if you suspect a foul play then you can attack him alone instead of the class he belongs to.

Well said