₦airaland Forum

ReubenE:
Cross River was not mentioned but for the others it is because you don't know anything or maybe trying to be mischievous.

You don't know Arogbo people in Ondo state are Ijaws that has produced deputy governors there and other illustrious sons including Kingsley Kuku and former deputy governor Agboola Ajayi. There is Agadagba of Arogbo Ijaw that every Ondo governor pay homage to as a mark of respect, Ibeno in Akwa Ibom, and as for Edo state...you must be naive to even suggest that, Egbema Kingdom is balkanized into Edo and Delta States with over 200 communities in Edo State. Even the Oba of Benin does not go beyond the confines of his four local governments to include Ijaw areas like Egbema, Furupagha, Olodiama, Gbaraun, Okomu etc it is Ijaws that's why Edo is an oil producing state

U go explain tire! 🤣🤣🤣

Stop claiming what is not yours to avoid stories that touch.

For the records, Ijaws are only indigenous to Bayelsa, a small fraction of them are found in Delta and Rivers States. That's all

Did I just read Ijaws in Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Ondo and Edo? So when did Ijaws become indigenous to the aforementioned states, edakun ni tori olorun?

E be lyk say dis Ijaw writer is high with ogogoro mixed with mpuri miri

I laugh in Ijebu 🤣🤣🤣

ikanason:
I saw ur comment where u said, u want someone to take u to uk, and a brother has been checking if to make the bold step...

So, do you want to take me to UK?

When are the starting DSSC/SSC?

*DANGOTE, THE SICK, ADOPTED CHILD OF NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT!*

By Sheikh Juma

Earlier this week, news broke that Aliko Dangote was moving 60% of his family investment to the US.
Two days after, we saw him in Tanzania promising to increase his investment in the country because he wants to support the new president, whose business decisions have been investment friendly.

I am happy for him. He has sense.
But as a businessman, I am not sure Dangote is a model.
Don't take my word for it.

Let the data speak:
In October 2016, Dansa, Dangote's fruit juice company packed up because it wasn't making profit.
It closed shop, owing its workers 6 months salary.
He also started a $13 million tomato processing plant in March 2016 and closed shop in August 2017, saying it was because of "importation of tomato paste, shortfall in the supply of fresh tomatoes and power failure."

It is funny that they didn't consider these three factors before commencing.
So they started a tomato farm that will supply fresh tomatoes, then do some kind of backward integration.

After spending $3million to set up a green house, the farm died.
It has been starting and stopping since then.
No money, no tomatoes, no factory.

In November 2017, it was the turn of Dangote noodles to go under.
In his words, they wanted to "focus on pasta and flour."
He sold the noodles factory to his biggest rival, Dufil, makers of Indomie. It was like Coca-Cola buying a Pepsi plant. A business abomination.

Have you ever wondered what happened to Mowa Water, Dangote's bottled water?
Well, it went down with Dansa, or soon after.

Then his Dangote Flour was acquired by Olam in 2019.
He left the noodles business to concentrate on flour. But even the "commitment to flour" wasn't enough to stop Dangote Flour from baking and burning.

At the start of the Ramadan fast, Dangote Sugar wrote a petition against BUA Sugar, asking the FG to place trade sanctions on BUA for *"undermining the National Sugar Master Plan."*
In English, he wanted the FG to tilt the competition in his favour again by grounding BUA.
BUA claimed that he was being blackmailed because he refused to hike sugar prices at Ramadan, like Dangote did.

Here is my point: wherever and whenever there is competition, Dangote would either crop out or try to change the business rules in his favour using his government connections.

He couldn't sell *Table water* because he was competing with *pure water sellers;*

He couldn't sell *noodles* because of *Indomie* :

He couldn't sell *Flour* because of *Honeywell, Golden penny etc;*

He couldn't sell *Tomato* paste because of *Derika and other pepper sellers* in the market.

He couldn't sell *Fruit* juice because of *Chivita, 5-Alive etc.*

*Dangote would only do well where Government policy is in his favour and competitors are given a bad hand by Government Regulators.*

I read a Reuters report some years ago (and it's still online) which revealed that at the height of the naira-dollar crisis of 2016, Dangote bought at LEAST USD $161million in hard currency direct from the CBN between March and May 2016. This amount was 90% of all the USD sold by CBN within that period.
All other manufacturers - 2,000 of them - got the balance of 10%.

He bought the USD at the official rate of N197/199 while other businesses bought from the black market at N320.

Reuters reported that Dangote made over US$100 million from this Forex deal.

Dangote has always been the favourite side chic of every government since the return to democracy.
In 2003, he was alleged to have part-funded Obasanjo's re-election campaign when Atiku was doing anyhow.
Then he befriended Yar'adua, Goodluck, and Buhari.

On the day Goodluck, his former zaddy was licking his wounds from the electoral defeat of 2015, Dangote was alleged to be clinking glasses and performing a lap dance for Buhari, his new zaddy.

*But why would such a "successful businessman" be thinking of moving 60% of his family investment to the US,* and even adding to his capital investment in Tanzania which is already about $770million?
The answer is in Buhari.

In 2015 when this administration took over, Dangote's net worth was US$17.7 billion.
Right now, it IS US $11.1 billion.
Meaning that in 6 years of Buhari, he has lost about 40% of his net worth.

Project two years forward:
what would his net worth be in 2023? My projection is that he might be worth AROUND US $8 billion, or less, depending on what happens to his refinery, and what happens in the security mileu?.

*With all the favours:*.
>Tax exemptions,
> Special status,
> forex allocations,
> special limestone mining licenses, etc,
Aliko's money is still melting like cotton candy on a hot summer afternoon.

*He has now activated his Plan B.*
Can you blame him?
Sometime last year a short video was leaked by his side chic and we had the rare privileged of seeing a billionaire butt.
Now we know that even Dangote himself is a side chic, an unfaithful one at that, moving from patron to patron: Obasanjo, then Yar'adua, then GEJ, now Buhari.
On another level, his zaddy was Nigeria. Now he has two new zaddies: the US, where his funds will be protected from melting, and Tanzania where Madam President will help him recover the 40% that he lost in the hands of the Nigerian economy.
Those who are in doubt that NNPC funded Dangote Refinery 100% should go and ask Ex Minister of State Petroleum Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who and who got the $ 25 billion contract that he raised alarm on after he returned from vacation. They immediately removed the office of the GMD from his control and later he was forced to resign as the Minister of State for Petroleum.

You want to know who funded the Dangote Refinery, go to the Ministry of Finance and call for Dangote’s file and tell me even if you give a goat in suit the same concession, the same waiver or the same opportunity given to Dangote, tell me if that Goat won’t be the richest being in Africa.

You want to know how the Dangote Refinery was funded, go to Warri Refinery and Kaduna Refinery, find out who was given an exclusive right to lift Low Pour Fuel Oil (LPFO) for a long time. NNPC claimed it was for Dangote Cement Factories. In fact at a time that of Kaduna Refinery was so exclusive to Dangote that no other marketer was loaded. Every other marketer was referred to Port Harcourt Refinery.

You want to know the sponsors of Dangote Refinery, Go to Kogi State and inquire how many trucks of Coal Dangote moves out of Kogi State everyday, minimum of 200 trucks daily without even paying royalty to the State or Federal Government. Are we not aware that Coal can be an alternative to Petroleum and that through coal liquefaction or coal pyrolysis you can derive various Petroleum products such as Diesel, Gasoline (petrol), LPG and other Petroleum products?

You want to know how Dangote Refinery was funded, go and find out how he petitioned President Goodluck Jonathan as soon as President Yardua died against his competitors in the Cement business like Ibeto, Madewell cement, Bua Cement and others that represented Licensees from the six geopolitical zones. His petition caused the withdrawal of two Licenses from the 6 companies; the Bagged cement and the Bulk cement import licenses leaving them with only the Backward Integration Licence only after he had used the same Federal Government to acquire cement factories even at that he was still importing and others were not allowed. As a matter of fact, the other Licensees lost their fortune as some were still offloading cement at their various jetties when Nigerian customs pounced on them never to bring the Cement into the Country but to ship it back to their countries of origin. This was when the competitors had succeeded to bring down the cost of cement to less than N800 per 50kg bag and Dangote couldn’t compete and wanted to monopolize the cement business at all cost.

You want to know how the Dangote Refinery was funded, go see how he petitioned the Federal Government against the few manufacturers of cement over importation of Clinker which is a major Raw material for cement production the moment he built his Clinker factory at Obajana Kogi State and the Federal Government jacked up the import duty on clinker from 10% to 50% causing those that were managing to compete with him to shutdown their cement factories.

You want to know how Dangote Refinery was financed, go and ask Federal Government how much Dangote realized when they shut the land boarders against every other importer and exporter during Covid 19 lockdown but allowed only Dangote to use the Land boarders.

Finally you want to know how Dangote Refinery is funded? Go and ask the Governor of Kogi State why he had to fall out with Dangote, that for 10 years of Dangote operation globally, Dangote made over 7 trillion Naira out of which over 5 Trillion Naira alone was from his establishments in Kogi State.

You still want to know how Dangote Refinery was funded? Nigerians funded Dangote Refinery without knowing it.
Please let us continue to share.
*IT IS TIME FOR A NEW NIGERIA*.

LUAN:
check the email very we, the mistake should be from you. You can try logging in through your npower ID

There is no mistake in the email, in fact I tried changing my password and it was showing me no records found.

Note: I didn't do the validation because I've not had any issues with payment before, but I'm surprise I can't access my dashboard anymore!

@ezenwaez, I tried logging into my dashboard, it was showing invalid email or password.
Then I tried changing my password using the email I used when registering for the scheme, and it was showing no records found!

What could be the problem?

This foolish man again, he will never respect himself.

Always spewing gibberish in the name of prophecy!

Some people pleaded that they would pay double for the bread, but they refused and killed him!

Yet, they can't lay their filthy hands on their thieving politicians like Timipre Silva, Seriake Dickson and Goodluck Jonathan, talk more of killing them!

Ijaw people are so primitive and useless, na only ogogoro dem sabi drink.

May the soul of the lynched RIP.

Please guys which is the best app on play store to learn Yoruba language ?

If Tiktok can give Instagram a run for their money, Bluesky can as well do same to Twitter.

What is good for Greece will always be good for Uganda.

gasparpisciotta:
Figment of IPOB’s imagination

Prof Bolaji Akinyemi is a refined gentleman and a diplomat per excellence

So because he's a refined gentleman, he shouldn't say the truth anymore?
Some of you are just so pathetic, seeing everything through ethnic jingoism! SMH

A very powerful petition by Dr. Bolaji Akinyemi, an Elder statesman, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs and a former Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos:-

Sunday, March 26, 2023

His Excellency,
Muhammadu Buhari,
The President Federal Republic of Nigeria,
The Presidency,
The Villa,
Abuja,
Nigeria.

Your Excellency Sir,

PETITION AGAINST MR. BOLA AHMED TINUBU FOR MAKING INCENDIARY COMMENTS AND HATE SPEECH BREEDING YORUBA SUPREMACISTS AND CAUSING TRIBAL ATTACK AGAINST IGBOS IN LAGOS AND ACROSS NIGERIA.

I write this petition with the full realization that with the recent general elections like ours that allegedly became a tribal war against a particular tribe, there is need to conduct post-mortem investigation and put on trial those directly responsible and those who incited and sponsored such verbal and physical attacks, especially in Lagos State to discourage this pattern in future elections.

The Presidential election of February 25th, 2023 generously described by "The Economist" as chaotic, has further increased the negative perception of the world about our dear country to which belong our loyalty.

A newspaper columnist, Lasisi Olagunju, collated the world views about us informed by the lack of organization of the umpire INEC, disappointing compromise of law enforcement agencies and unfortunate hijack of the process by non-state actors:

"The world is not pleased with our ways, and we could read it clearly in how the global press described what we did with ourselves last week.

The Economist said a “chaotically organized vote and messy count” gave Nigeria a new president.
The Financial Times said in an editorial comment that our Presidential election was “deeply flawed” and the winner “a wealthy political fixer.”
The Guardian of U.K. described the winner as “an immensely wealthy veteran powerbroker trailed by corruption allegations which he denies.”
The New York Times described him as “a divisive figure in Nigerian politics.” Robert Rotberg; founding Director of the Harvard Kennedy School's Programme on intrastate conflict, wrote an opinion for Canada's influential Globe and Mail; its headline: “Bola Tinubu's election is another triumph for Nigeria's corrupt old guard.” The Times of London was the most disrespectful. It used this very bad phrase: “a wealthy kleptocratic 'godfather' of politics” to describe the person who will replace our very clean Buhari on May 29, 2023.
As bad as those characterizations are, they are not as damaging as the Financial Times' revelation that it personally “witnessed armed men remove a presidential ballot box in Surulere, Lagos” on Election Day.

The CNN last Friday played back a part of Bola Tinubu's acceptance speech where he described what he got as “a serious mandate.” A CNN anchor then asked if it “was really a mandate” with less than 10 percent of the registered voters behind it. He must be wondering what kind of people these are? The CNN and that anchor were not the only ones bemused by our electoral culture, our elections and their outcomes. One of Germany's largest newspapers, Sueddeutsche Zietung, had unflattering words for the winner; it also queried the legitimacy of a mandate that was spurned by 90 per cent of the voting population. Aljazeera ran a Special Report on how the election was disrupted in Lagos last Saturday. The headline is: 'How violence robs Nigerians of their votes.' The Washington Post quoted Matthew Page, Associate Fellow with Chatham House’s Africa Program, as accusing INEC of making both deliberate and unintentional mistakes: “They raised the hopes about the election and its transparency, and then they dashed them. When the opposition says the process was broken, it’s hard to argue with them.” Foreign election observers from the US International Republican Institute (IRI) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) summed up their opinion of the election as falling “well short of Nigerian citizens’ legitimate and reasonable expectations.”

Lagunju went further, "I have spent the past five days reading informed commentaries and listening to credible voices. I have not seen, read nor heard a single positive review of the election in any credible media in any country of the world. I have been around long enough to conclude that Tinubu's 2023 mandate is rivaled in content, texture and review probably only by Shehu Shagari's Verdict '83 mandate".

This was the justification for military intervention that brought you into power as military head of state. Sir, If you do not want the military back to power any time soon, you have to respond to the yearning of the 90% majority disenfranchised who are not captured within the less than 10% voters INEC claimed voted for Asiwaju. A rerun of the election will save your integrity as our President, and help repair our badly damaged image as a nation.

If 25th of February was chaotic, the 18th of March election was living in hell across Lagos for the terror unleashed on citizens.

Please, be reminded that the New York Times described Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as "a divisive figure in Nigeria politics". Are they privy to intelligence that your office is not? I doubt it! Sir, I do understand that your hands are tied, but you must loose them for posterity's sake and do what is right. Bola Ahmed Tinubu has never hidden his hatred for the Igbos. I want you to call to mind the unfortunate event of Funke Olakunrin the daughter of the leader of Afenifere who was murdered by criminal elements. During his visit to the father of the deceased, Asiwaju made an uncomplimentary remark which in summary pointed to the Igbo as the tribe behind the act, but as it turned out, the criminal elements were men from another tribe. It is grossly irresponsible of any leader to attempt to tribalize crime. This is what the Fulanis have suffered since 2015 when you a respectable Fulani became the President, if you weren't a strong willed upright person, his comment was enough to let go of the criminals. As we all know, crime has no tribe, without your interference, the criminals are facing justice. Those with tendency to tribalize crime should have no place in leadership. It is not on record that Asiwaju was remorseful for wrongly accusing the Igbo for a crime not committed by one of them, neither is there any apology in the public from him to this effect.

Sir, recall that after Asiwaju made this statement, a Lagos Prince known online as Adeyinka Grandson, based in the UK became known for Yoruba Supremacy Ideology and began running hate speech against the Igbos, till he was arrested by a Team, led by the Scotland Yard Counter Terrorism Command for stirring racial discrimination and encouraging terrorism, an offense for he was tried and found guilty and he is currently serving a four year sentence.

Asiwaju's unrepentant penchant for unhealthy rhetorics about the Igbo is largely responsible for reported suppression, oppression, attacks and killings suffered by persons believed to be Igbos on Saturday 18th March 2023, evidences abound of persons who are not Igbos but suffered the same fate as Igbos for "resembling" the Igbos. The silence of the Executive Governor of Lagos on what I would call the progom against the Igbos by political appointees of his government like Musiliu Akinsanya popularly known as MC Oluomo. The roles of Baales and Obas of Communities who are answerable to the commission of Chieftaincy Affairs is proof of alleged state sponsored terror against the Igbos in Lagos.

Your Excellency, knowing the pain of war to which the country was subjected between 1966 and 1970, for which you wear today a medal of honour as a national hero, will you overlook this obvious sign of another civil war for which a "Pesident to be" and the incumbent Governor of Lagos is already culpable? Sir, imagine the fate of the Igbos in Lagos under a President and a Governor holding dearly Yoruba Supremacy Ideology in a multi-ethnic and divers nation like ours!

You can not afford to overlook a crime against humanity for any reason. This privilege is given to you before other options (international) to seek justice will be considered. Is Asiwaju above the law? I don't think so! Should a man with so much of embarrassing allegations not be cleared before the privilege of Presidential Immunity will be bestowed on him?

Sir, for Asiwaju's performance as Governor of Lagos between 1999 and 2007, I will depend on Festus Keyamo's assessment of his government in this regard:

"...to me, the real meaning of government should be about bringing succour to those you govern. Aside from that, democracy and government is meaningless. I cannot imagine a situation where the military government gave more succour in Lagos state to workers than even Tinubu's Administration. Tinubu regime has been the worst for the workers in the last two decades."
(In his interview with Times Magazine).

Mr President Sir, your campaign train in 2015 threaded on two wheels viz personal uprightness and integrity of heart to duty. This is the month of Ramadan when every Muslim must seek to do only that which is right before Allah, this of course is the last you will observe in the privileged position of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The destiny of more than 200 million people hangs on you this holy month of Ramadan.

Sir, I personally believe the reason you were created and given to us as our President at this season is to bring to reality the plan of God for Nigeria. A plan long spoken by Pa Sydney Granville Elton, a Briton who arrived Nigeria in early 1930 who died a Nigerian and was buried in Ilesha, Osun State, SouthWest Nigeria. Who in 1986 said, "Nigeria and Nigerians will be known all over the world for corruption. Your name – Nigeria will stink for corruption but after a while a new phase will come, a phase of righteousness. People from the nations of the earth will hold a Nigerian and say "we want to follow you to your nation to go and learn righteousness".

Sir, holding unto you now are 200 million people crying in hope that you will teach us to do right, no matter who is involved, that we may learn from you what to teach other nations.

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed's hate speech against the Igbos at the visit to Pa Fasoranti is enough a ground to order his immediate arrest by the Inspector General of Police and Director General of the State Security Services with prosecution by the Attorney General of the Federation .

This letter became necessary in the face of gross irresponsibility displayed by men of the Nigeria Police who became spokespersons for one Musiliu Akinsanya, " MC Oluomo", an hireling of Asiwaju who in the presence of a police made similar statements for which Adeyinka Grandson is serving Jail term in UK. But, the Nigeria Police as an institution that should arrest him turned around to say he was joking over what we will later experience as not just a threat but a war on the gloomy Saturday.

Sir, while the WORLD is waiting to know the extent of Asiwaju's involvement in a narcotics trafficking offence dating back to 1992 committed in the state of Chicago in USA in which the subpoena has been filed for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) of the United States to testify in an election petition filed by Mr Peter Obi, the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party. It is important that the state adequately protects the Petitioner herein against the drug cartel pattern of attack driven by tribal supremacy ideology that Lagos state is presently witnessing.

May I also request for security protection for me and my family.

Your Excellency, you once opined that the rule of law must be subjected to the supremacy of national security and interest, for which a lot of persons including myself differ from you, not with the spirit of your position but rather the letters of it.

Sir, there is no point pretending Tinubu, MC Oluomo and his foot soldiers employed by Babajide Sanwo-Olu under the guise of Lagos State Park Management Agency have become a threat to National Security.
May I inform you that the need to give the spirit of your position on national security supremacy the letters to run with within the ambit of the rule of law is the reason for writing you and making the following recommendations:
Immediate sacking of Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC Chairman and appointment of another.

Asiwaju must be put under house arrest same way you have with Mazi Namdi Kanu, till due diligence is done and clearance from the narcotic offence is gotten, as it must never be heard of, that any one with tainted character is given the leadership of the most populous black nation in the world. This no doubt will affect the global fight against drug peddling and narcotic trafficking for which Lagos State of recent has become home for world record breaking volumes of drugs never seen before.

In the circumstance, I submit this petition in my personal capacity as a patriotic Nigerian to invite/arrest, interrogate and after investigation, if necessary, charge the individuals connected to the racial discrimination and terrorism witnessed in Lagos state to court for their conduct which led to incitement and progom against humanity.

Yours in hope of a better and greater Nigeria,

BOLAJI O. AKINYEMI

CC:

1. Attorney General of the Federation,
Federal Ministry of Justice,
Abuja,
Federal Capital Territory.

2. Inspector General of Police,
Nigeria Police Force,
Force Headquarters,
Abuja,
Federal Capital Territory.

3. Director General,
State Security Services,
State Security Services Headquarters,
Abuja,
Federal Capital Territory.

4. Director General,
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency(NDLEA),
Abuja,
Federal Capital Territory.

𝐌𝐘 𝐂𝐎𝖀𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐘 𝐈𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐀 𝕱𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐈𝐋𝐄 𝕻𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄.
~ 𝐂𝖍𝖎𝖒𝖆𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖆 𝐍𝖌𝖔𝖟𝖎 𝐀𝖉𝖎𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖊
Imagine Standing Patiently In Line, Waiting To Vote, And Suddenly Men With Guns Arrive On Motorcycles And Start Shooting.
Imagine Men Dashing Into Your Polling Unit, Violently Seizing Ballot Boxes And Taking Them Away.
Imagine Other Ballot Boxes Being Destroyed.
Imagine Being Beaten To Keep You From Voting For A Particular Candidate.
Imagine A Crowd Of People Chanting “We Must Vote! We Must Vote!” When Polling Workers Failed To Arrive As Expected.
Imagine The Police Doing Very Little. All These Things Happened During The Nigerian Presidential Elections On Saturday, February 25, 2023.

Through It All, There Was A Chilling Lack Of Transparency From The Independent National Electoral Commission, Or I.N.E.C., Which Oversees Elections.

Nigerian Elections Have A History Of Being Rigged, Of Cooked-Up Numbers And Stolen Ballot Boxes. This Time, Though, Nigerians Were Asked To Place Their Faith In A New Electronic Voting System That Would Make Tampering More Difficult. Technology Would Be The Savior: In Each Polling Unit, Votes Would Be Counted In The presence of Voters And Then Immediately Uploaded To A Secure Central Portal. Failing To Upload The Results In Real Time Was The Most Egregious Of The Many irregularities Of This Election Because It Has Destroyed The Cautious Trust With Which Many Approached The Process.

The I.N.E.C. Blames Technical Issues For The Delay. How, Nigerians Wonder, Can A Well-Funded Electoral Body That Had Four Years To Prepare For An Important Presidential Election Make Such A Significant Blunder? It Is Reasonable, Then, That Many Voters Have Assumed Purposeful Intent, That Election Workers Were Instructed Not To Upload Results So That They Could Later Be Secretly Manipulated.

I Know Nigeria, The Country Of My Birth, Intimately. I Know The Political Culture, Where The Exchange Of Large Amounts Of Money Makes So Many People Conscience-Deficient, Where The Mainstream Media’s Instinct Is Political Deference And Where The Will Of The People Is Often Ignored. Nigerians, Especially Young Nigerians, Are Determined That This Time, Their Votes Will Matter. A Majority Of Nigerians Are Below The Age Of 35. They Are A Bright, Innovative And Talented Generation, A Hungry Generation, Starved Of Good Leadership, Who Do Not Merely Sit Back And Complain But Who Act And Push Back And Want To Forge Their Own Futures.

On Saturday, Many Went Out To Vote, Enthusiastic But Cautious, Their Phone Cameras Ready To Record Any Irregularities. They Waited For Election Workers Who Arrived Many Hours Late To Polling Stations. They Braved The Harassment And Beatings Of Men Paid To Create Chaos. They Went Off And Bought Their Own Ink For Finger-Printing When Election Workers Claimed To Have Run Out Of It. They Provided Their Own Light From Their Phones As They Stood In Line In The Dark, And According To One Recorded Case, A Voter Brought A Small Generator To A Polling Place When The Voting Machine Stopped Working. They Refused To Leave Even Though They Had To Wait So Long That It Was Almost Dawn When They Could Finally Vote. And When It Began To Rain, They Came Together And Sang Beautiful Songs. I Have Never Been So Proud Of My Fellow Nigerians. Many Were Voting For The First Time, Inspired By One Candidate, Peter Obi, Who Has Brought To Them That Ineffable Thing That We Humans Need To Thrive: Hope.

Now, As Results Are Being Counted, There Is Growing Disillusionment. A Sludge Of Tension Is In The Air. A Simmering Rage. Some Voters Say That The Official Numbers Trickling In Do Not Match The Numbers From Their Polling Units, That The Results Tell A Story Different From What They Witnessed On Saturday. They Are Convinced Of The Complicity Of Those Who Should Be Caretakers Of The Democratic Process.

Elections Must Always Be Transparent, Of Course, But For An Abysmally Low-Trust Society Like Nigeria, A Radical Transparency Is Needed For Credibility. Elections Must Be Completely Transparent And Must Be Widely Seen To Be Completely Transparent; Sadly, Neither Seems To Apply To Nigeria’s Presidential Election.

African Democracies Are Ccriticized, Often Condescendingly So, In Ways That Stoke Resentment, Not Because The Criticism Isn’t Valid, But Because It Isn’t Fair. Africa Is Full Of Young Nation-States, And Democracy Takes Time To Establish Its Roots, And Even When It Does, The Fragility Always Remains.

I’ve Always Found It Curious That African Countries Were Expected To Form Functioning Democracies Right After Independence, Even Though The Colonial Governments They Had Only Just Freed Themselves From Were Dictatorships In Everything But Name.

Nigerians Want A Functioning Democracy, And They Are Starting On The Path To It But Might Be Derailed Unless The International Community Pays Attention Now.

Nigeria Is Africa’s Tottering Giant, The Continent’s Most Populous Country, The Most Politically And Culturally Dominant. To Pay Real Attention To Nigeria Is To Signal That Africa Matters, As The United States Has Always Maintained. The Biden Administration Needs To Stand Behind The Nigerian People Now And Make A Firm Commitment To Support Election Transparency. Besides — My Tongue Is Lodged In My Cheek — You Don’t Want A Wave Of Nigerian Asylum Seekers Fleeing The Unbearable Discontent Of Living Under An Illegitimate Government.

Sometimes Democracies Are Threatened By Foreign Invasions And Sometimes Democracies Are Most At Risk From Internal Forces. All Of Them Need Support.


A DIRGE
1. After A Presidential Election In Any Nation, There Is Usually Spontaneous Eruption Of Joy Nationwide

2. After The Announcement Of TINUBU As The Winner, Only The Dead Are Celebrating.

3. In The Land Of The Living, There Is Mourning, Sorrow, Amazement! From Taxi Drivers To Okada Riders, To Market Women, To Corporate Executives, To Housewives To Preachers.

4. There Is No Celebration In Lagos. None In Rivers. None in Sokoto. None In Taraba. None In Ogun. None In Delta. None In The FCT.

5. So, Who Voted For TINUBU ?

NOBODY!

Only The Manufacturers Of The BVAS In Far Away India

6. There Is The Peace Of The Graveyard All Over Nigeria!

7. May Our Victories In life And Death Give Both The Living And The Dead Cause For Celebration!

~ 𝐂𝖍𝖎𝖒𝖆𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖆 𝐍𝖌𝖔𝖟𝖎 𝐀𝖉𝖎𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖊: (Published in New York Times on Feb. 28, 2023

LordIsaac:
I'm sure they will end up reversing it cos it has no logical explanation.

You sound like you ain't interested in the money. Abeg me I need am badly. Shey make I send you my aza?

Temidayo9:
Ask yourself how many non-indigen are in Obi state?

Ask yourself how many non-indigen did Obi stop from coming to his state. 😁

'FINGER IN THE DEAD BODY'S ANUS'

First-year the University of Ghana medical students were attending their 1st Anatomy Class. They all gathered around the table and there was a real dead body on the table.

The Professor, Mwangi started the class by telling them two important qualities of a DOCTOR. He said, "The 1st is that never be DISGUSTED about anything in the body." For example, he inserted his FINGER in the dead body's ANUS & put the finger in his mouth & TASTED it.

Then he told the students to do what he did. The students hesitated for several minutes, but eventually, everyone inserted their fingers in the body's ANUS & tasted it. When everyone finished tasting their fingers, they were all Frowning...

Then the professor looked at them & said: "The most important 2nd Quality is "Observation".

I inserted my MIDDLE finger but tasted the 2nd finger... Now learn to pay attention!!
"ALL the students fainted!!😁

Life is all about paying attention to everything you come across even if it means nothing to you.

This year 2023, decide to be observant, those who pay attention and observe learn faster than those who move with the tide of life.

Observe what is happening in your spiritual life,

Observe what is happening with your relationship with your friends,

Observe what is happening in your marriage,

Observe what is happening with your children,

Observe what is happening in your business.

Observe what is happening in the political and economic sectors.

Don't just only pray, pray and watch, to watch means to observe.

Pay close attention to your life, don't live life carelessly hoping for things to change.



Go ahead and get your PVC!!!!!!!!!!!

A Happy Sunday to you all

'FINGER IN THE DEAD BODY'S ANUS'

First-year the University of Ghana medical students were attending their 1st Anatomy Class. They all gathered around the table and there was a real dead body on the table.

The Professor, Mwangi started the class by telling them two important qualities of a DOCTOR. He said, "The 1st is that never be DISGUSTED about anything in the body." For example, he inserted his FINGER in the dead body's ANUS & put the finger in his mouth & TASTED it.

Then he told the students to do what he did. The students hesitated for several minutes, but eventually, everyone inserted their fingers in the body's ANUS & tasted it. When everyone finished tasting their fingers, they were all Frowning...

Then the professor looked at them & said: "The most important 2nd Quality is "Observation".

I inserted my MIDDLE finger but tasted the 2nd finger... Now learn to pay attention!!
"ALL the students fainted!!😁

Life is all about paying attention to everything you come across even if it means nothing to you.

This year 2023, decide to be observant, those who pay attention and observe learn faster than those who move with the tide of life.

Observe what is happening in your spiritual life,

Observe what is happening with your relationship with your friends,

Observe what is happening in your marriage,

Observe what is happening with your children,

Observe what is happening in your business.

Observe what is happening in the political and economic sectors.

Don't just only pray, pray and watch, to watch means to observe.

Pay close attention to your life, don't live life carelessly hoping for things to change.



Go ahead and get your PVC!!!!!!!!!!!

A Happy Sunday to you all

*SOCIOLOGISTS SAYS:!*

*1- If you are in a hotel or restaurant, and you put more sugar or milk in your tea than you do in your home then you have a predisposition to corruption.*

*2- If you use more tissue paper, soap or perfume in the restaurant or public place than you do at home, then if you have the opportunity to embezzle, you will embezzle.*

*3- If you serve yourself more food that you can devour in weddings and open buffets just because someone else will pay the bill, this is proof that if you have the opportunity to eat public money, you would.*

*4- If you usually skip people in queues, it is certain that you will not mind climbing on the shoulders of others to reach power.*

*5- If you consider that what you collect from the street of money and other things is your right, then you have signs of a thief.*

*6- If you care more about knowing a famous last name instead of a first name then you are a racist and will likely help people only because of who they are.*

*7- If you violate traffic rules and have no regard for the traffic lights... you have a tendency for all transgressions.*

_Fighting corruption starts from the self. Let's try to be distinguished people wherever we are, and remember that honesty is what you do between you and yourself and not just what you do in the presence of people._

*_Fighting corruption starts with self._*

I've not seen any mail yet o, is the congratulatery mail being sent in batches?

sikowitz17:
the commandant asked that Airforce her straight DRC so they won’t need to convert

These cadets are very lucky I must confess.

Dannyhonda:
Yes but currently airforce automatically are DRC meaning they won't convert unlike army Dssc who will convert later on if they actually want to further more in the military

Wow! That's a beautiful one for the Airforce cadets, so automatically they will have 35 yrs in service?

I think Army should do same thing. They should be doing DRC and SSC

Dannyhonda:
Yesterday was the combined dinner of army dssc and airforce DRC...

Which one is airforce DRC? Both army and airforce are dssc courses na

naijapips04:
New charges have been filed, Oluku.

Mumu man! Read and comprehend before replying, and stop disgracing your parents in a public forum!

Under the law in which discharged and acquitted him, he cannot be charged except the supreme court rules otherwise.

In fact, Mazi Nnamdi KANU is being held illegally as far as the law is concerned.

But as a mugu that you are, you wouldn't know!

naijapips04:
Try the idiot in absentia. If you know how many families this idiota has rendered fatherless and motherless eh..

Your Intelligence Quotient is beyond average, and yet you ain't aware!
How can he be tried in absentia when he has already been tried and found not guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction which declared his trial null and void, and subsequently discharged and acquitted him.

Some of you lots just come online and rant just because you have free internet!

The Fulani is a minority group in Nigeria, but have consistently used the word 'North' or 'Arewa' to deceive the Hausas and other tribes in the North in order to control them and Nigeria at large.

The Fulanis do not use the word 'South' when referring to the Yorubas or Igbos or other tribes in the Niger Delta; they identify each tribes because they want the South to remain divided.

If the Fulanis begin to use the word 'Fulani' instead of the word 'North', they will lose the support of the Hausas and other tribes in the North. That's why they call themselves 'Arewa'.

This is the trick the Fulanis have been using to persistently and consistently divide the Southern part of Nigeria from time immemorial.

The South must wake up and stand against this deception and manipulations; enough is enough.

madridguy:
Majority of Buhari's critics are functional illiterates. They lack knowledge and understanding. Buhari has done so much with the little money we have.

Thank you Sai Baba.

May God punish you and yours for saying this, and may you be treated just the way Buhari treated Nigeria and Nigerians. So I mote it be

Can we all stand up and shout IGBO AMAKA

There's more to this, that's all I can say for now!