₦airaland Forum

He is going with Okowa, a PDP governor, nao dats how a president should behave, little wonder d PDP governors are testifying to his goodwill

President Muhammadu Buhari has
approved the removal of the head of
service of the federation, Danladi Kifasi
with immediate effect. A letter signed by the SGF seen bySaharaReporters asked Kifasi to proceed on
terminal leave starting from today. A
replacement will be announced later in the week
according to presidency sources.
saharareporters.com/2015/10/20/president-buhari-removes-head-service-danladi-kifasi

Now, what is the story in this book? It starts in Jos in 1966, when the author was a nine-year- old pupil. By September of that year the Chukwurahs, like most Igbo in Jos and the rest of northern Nigeria, had fled to Eastern Nigeria, to escape orchestrated pogroms induced by the coups of that year. Months after their return to what was considered a safe haven, the war started. The family lived first in their hometown of Enugwu-Ukwu. From there they started hopping from one town to another, one step ahead of advancing Federal troops. By the war’s end 30 months later, they had stayed in Port Harcourt, Emekuku, Imerienwe, Ekwolobia, Ifite-Dunu, Isu, Achala, Otuocha, Oroma and back to Ekwulobia. A projectile in the opening battles of Port Harcourt had killed a child of the family. The civilian father of the house had taken a hit from artillery fire, and narrowly missed the amputation of an arm. The five children of the house came under the care of Diliorah, who was not even 12 years old, when both parents disappeared into thin air. The children fed largely on rodents and slept on bare floor or on bedbug infested bamboo beds. During the day they passed time scavenging for food and dodging bombing and strafing by the Nigerian Air Force. Suddenly the war ended and, fortunately, both parents returned days later to the Ekwolobia refugee camp. The trek back to Enugwu-Ukwu followed. That was, more or less, the lot of most Biafrans. What makes the story both terrible and heroic at the same time is the sensitivity and fidelity of the telling. This recommends it to general readership. The book also cautions warmongers, to please explore alternatives other than warfare for settling political disputes. The posthumous tribute to the late Chief Rwang Pam, the traditional ruler of Jos and the Berom people, who opposed the killing of Eastern Nigerians in his domain, is touching. Yet, the author misdirected himself when he got to summations. From page 171 where he dealt with Entrepreneurship, he blamed Ndigbo for not maturing to the ownership of conglomerates 40 years after the war, despite their business proficiency. He missed the point, of course. If Ndigbo are shy of business conglomeration, it cannot be their fault. The blame resides in negative national politics. There were Slok Air and Sosoliso Airlines in this country. Both were shot down through presidential fiats. There was Savannah Bank. It was shut down on a morning it was still solvent and doing roaring business. These businesses were killed because Ndigbo owned them. All South East states are endowed with crude oil deposits. But they are not being mined, they being in “strategic” reserves! The South East has the largest gas deposits anywhere in Africa. No one is discussing their exploration and exploitation. Oil blocs hardly go to Ndigbo; they belong mostly to lucky guys from areas unable to boast even cashew nut oil. If those sworn to keeping Ndigbo suppressed fail to realize that they are trapped in time wasting, it is not our place to salve their consciences by blaming the victim rather than the victimizer.

Many books have been written on the Nigerian civil war, which has turned out to be the greatest impetus to national literary creativity. The factual and fictional accounts of the war are in the hundreds. Established authors wrote some. Others are the works of those who never thought circumstances would force them into the drastic action of putting pen on paper. Two of the best known Nigerian writers, Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka, wrote profusely on the war; Achebe as an instant participant, and Soyinka as a distant but no less interested party. It’s difficult to fully appreciate Nigeria’s civil war without gleaning from their writings. But it doesn’t end with the duo. There is hardly a pre-war Nigerian author that didn’t end up producing a volume – whether drama, poetry or prose – on the conflict. Most of the second generation of Nigerian writers honed their craft writing on the war. There are two interesting aspects to the country’s war-induced literature. First, it appears timeless. Which is why Chimamanda Adichie, who was not even born when the conflict took place, wrote Half of A Yellow Sun (2006). It is also the reason Onuorah Nzekwu, a first generation author now in his 80s, published in 2012 a novel on the war entitled Trouble Dust . Secondly, it insists that telling the story of the war cannot be the exclusive preserve of professional writers. This is where factual accounts of the war weigh in. Two of the better-known combatants, Olusegun Obasanjo and Alexander Madiebo, published during 1980 their war accounts. Colonel Obasanjo, as General Officer Commanding the Nigerian Third Marine Commando Division, published My Command . Major General Alexander Madiebo wrote The Nigerian Revolution and the Biafran War as the Commander of the Biafran Army. The war turned these soldiers into best-selling authors. In 2013, Brigadier-General Godwin Alabi-Isama reinforced the undying interest in these war stories by former officers with his authorship of The Tragedy of Victory . The common thread throughout these ‘war memoirs’ is the author’s obvious subjectiveness. Thus, Elechi Amadi’s Sunset in Biafra and Ken Saro-Wiwa’s On a Darkling Plain, both biographical, eloquently announce their Biafran antipathy. On the other hand Chukwuemeka Ike’s fictional Sunset at Dawn and Achebe’s biographical There Was A Country underscore their Biafran partisanship. But reading Last Train to Biafra: Memoirs of a Biafran Child, (Constellation Publishers, Ibadan, 2014), affords one a deep look into the circumstances of the secessionist republic that is bereft of obvious partisan justification. This fresh Biafran song by Diliorah Chukwurah, a mere child at the beginning of the civil war, is a priceless jewel, worthy to be read by every Nigerian. On seeing the book, I was somewhat put off by what appeared like wild adulations on its blurb. Dr. Onyebuchi Ile, who teaches English at the Nigerian Turkish Nile University, Abuja, called it “…the most touching account of the pogrom against the Igbo after the 1966 counter coup as well as their civil war experience that I have ever read.” Noel A. Chukwukadibia, a former Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, pronounced it “…the only unadulterated story of the Biafran war told with the passionate rigours of the voice of innocence which impinges on our collective guilt in that avoidable war…” As for Dauda Abubakar of The Booksellers Ltd., Abuja, Last Train to Biafra is “A very brilliant and gripping account of the Nigeria-Biafra war perfectly rendered without politics or prejudice.” On reading Last Train to Biafra , however, I found to my pleasant surprise that it more than deserved the encomiums showered on it. Without fear of contradiction the book is one of the very best on Biafra. How did the author achieve this feat? Well, Achebe taught us that good storytelling was different from the employment of polysyllabic jargons, the aim of reading being to understand whatever is on offer. Now again, Diliorah Chukwurah has strongly made the same point, telling a complex tale with delightful diction and explaining the seemingly mysterious with an exemplary economy of words. The achievement is tremendous.

Naija chapter 1 vs 1 "For its is easier for a camel to pass through the hole of a needle than for Nigeria to breakup" una no dey go anywhere

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athaboi:
Confused bunch of mofos..i wonder how they will deliver when they are not always sure of their programmes and policies. God save this nation

now dat he has been cleared, u see how vanguard has made a fool of u

... PDP governors keep working with d president while some mofos keep WAILING

NgeneUkwenu:
But he may not be there to preside on Wednesday, as he must be in court to defend himself..so, is likely Ekweremadu would preside in his absence..

let's just wait till Wednesday n see hw things turn out, am sure Ekweremadu will want to flex muscle small

Since he uploaded a video of himself in a basketball court, den maybe he should just head back to dat BB court, court na court na

NgeneUkwenu:
You are right!

well by Wednesday, most of d politicians in #Thelist would av already been screened

Dats a lie, wat of Ibadan airport where only one-two helicopters fly a week

He should thank his stars it's not d yoruba thunderbolt (MAGUN), he would have somersaulted three times, all drink about a drum of water or b looking for eba up n down, he is really lucky

CR77:
I am here to look the name

name bawo tun ni e n wo, dis thing ain't funny again oo

Although he has commenced some road constructions especially in areas neglected by Fashola but his team really needs to work on d worsening traffic situation n d growing insecurity in d state n above all, I hope he proves himself cos a lot of people are doubting his ability n he even looks more like an owanbe governor

Praise God

U gather ur hard earned money, struggle to get a slot, travel on air for over hours, stop over n get packed inside bus to b moved to ur final destination, on arrival u are given accommodation very far from the main place of events, then u are given some strict rules as if u are refugees, u fall sick n could not take ur drug just because it's a contraband in d "HOLY LAND" n after everything a stamped happens n dey put all d blame on u just because of d colour of ur skin n after returning to ur country u are already planning towards d next hajj den there must b something wrong with u

I was having d same taught, but dis is wat does fighting him are actually fighting him for, just imagine how he will give PDP an advantage to mess up d presidency assuming it sends a serious bill on a day like dat

What is annoying Metuh is how dis Adesina guy always comes with a punchline wen replying him, I remember d day d guy gave dem dat name "WAILING WAILERS", he has seen dat Lai Mohammed is too much for him now he is checking out Adesina but d guy has been giving him sucker punch.

DelticStephEn:
Noise Maker.
Nothing will Happen to Nnamdi Kanu
all d FG is doing is Just Initial Gra gra.
Mandela did worst.

God punish u for comparing dat hate spreading mofo to Mandela, Mandela never spread hate, he never abused nor speak bad of d whites and he was never jumping from one country to d other with skinny leg babes, moreso d struggle he led was genuine not dis charade filled with lies n hate

All I can say for now is hmmmmmm

homirefacuny:
This got me cracking.... Strange but true.

abi na

Why didn't he say dis in d beginning, after d DSS has arrested dos guys nao n dey av been confirmed to b mere miscreants, he is now saying dis to take advantage of his kidnap in getting d president's attention just d way dey were all over GEJ

Nairaland don dey turn linda Ikeji dis days oo, with all dis things dey put for front page, abi seun wan buy banana island mansion too?

May our patience never b tested

DiegoNakel:
Governor of the people of ekiti !!!
Ekiti number one citizen !!!
Peoples governor !!!
Jagaban of ekiti !!!
Two hands up , one leg up . I for put my second leg up but which one I go take stand so I put my third leg up.
Three gbosa for him .
GBOSA !
GBOSA !!
GBOSA !!!

U read am at all? So everybody na Fayose nao 4 ur eye, oloun ma je ko pa ara e nitori oro Tinubu, eni ti oloun ti gbe ga ni iwo n ba binu

A lot of people outside Ondo state won't know hw much this guys is heated by his people, he is a 419 Governor

I have a feeling Ameachi's screening will even b more easy dan dat of Lai mohammed, cos he is of both APC n PDP 4get all d drama dey put up in public

The best solution is for other states Governor to sit up n make their States viable so dat people will stay instead of rushing to Lagos den other ports should b developed to serve as alternatives thereby reducing d number of articulate vehicles moving in n out of Lagos daily

FORMER Secretary to the Government of the
Federation (SGF), Chief Olu Falae yesterday
revisited his recent abduction by gunmen and
said his ordeal remains a blessing until the
Yoruba are liberated from Fulani herdsmen’s
attacks.
He told a delegation of the Oodua Peoples
Congress (OPC), led by Otunba Gani Adams,
at his Akure residence that contrary to claims
by the Department of State Services (DSS)
that the abductors were mere criminals
looking for money, they were determined to
kill him.
“They were not after money alone; they
wanted to eliminate me by shooting my car,
thinking I was inside the car,” he said.
He added, “They later walked into my office
with their sharp knives and cutlasses and
started attacking me before taking me into
the bush. We trekked from Akure to Owo,
following bush paths and swampy areas on
my bare legs till we got to an area close to
Ifon in Ose local government.”


thenationonlineng.net/falae-my-kidnap-useful-if-swest-is-rescued-from-fulani-herdsmen/

dainformant:
more

is dis it Bamanga Tukur?

Congrats to him n I wish him well in his quest to b d fifa president even though I doubt d possibility

There was tension in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, yesterday as members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) terrorised the public. The NURTW members moved around in a convoy of vehicles singing war songs and attacking residents. They were said to be protesting the directive of the National President Najeem Yasin on the harmonisation of the state executive to accommodate aggrieved members. The state NURTW is polarised into two with one faction led by caretaker chairman Clement Adekola and the other by Kunle Babatope. Adekola has been in office since July 22 last year. He was supposed to be in office for three months. The other faction is calling for a congress to elect a substantive executive. Peace was brokered by the national body after the two factions were summoned to Abuja. It was resolved that the Adekola group should produce 10 members and the Babatope group five in all the local branches in the state. This did not go down well with members holding union positions. A union member, who asked not to be named, said over 250 members loyal to Babatope have been barred from loading passengers at motor parks. This, he said, had rendered them redundant since July last year, when Adekola took over. But the rampaging union members believed to be loyalists of Adekola maintained that they would not share offices with the Babatope group. Armed with machetes, cudgels, clubs, broken bottles and other missiles they drove dangerously on major roads. They unleashed terror on Ojumose, Old Garage, Matthew Road, Odo Ado, Ijigbo, Ajilosun, Ikere Road, Okesa and Poly Road. Many fled on sighting the union members many of whom were clutching Indian hemp, cigarettes and bottles of dry gin. They barricaded the Ado-Ikare Road with logs of wood and held up traffic for about 45 minutes. The hoodlums vandalised motorcycles belonging to commercial operators. The state NURTW office was sealed off with an abandoned vehicle at the time of filing this report. Passengers had a harrowing experience at Old Garage and Odo Ado motor parks as they were chased away by the armed men. The situation was still tense last night. The NURTW caretaker secretary, Akinsola Osundiya, said Governor Ayo Fayose has intervened in the crisis, adding that the matter is being resolved amicably. He urged the public to go about their legitimate businesses.
thenationonlineng.net/feuding-nurtw-members-terrorise-ado-ekiti/