₦airaland Forum

Yomboy4ever:
You wish me dead !
You criticize my religion !
Called me a terrorist !
You painted me black !
You called me a failure !
Now you wana cover my success
Lailai ko possible

This is the koko of the gist.

We are still expecting statements from PDP on this intergalactic fraud.

boujaye:
which uni did u attend?

Don't you know the way to the Office of Joint Admission Matriculation Board?

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boujaye:
this small boy, wetin you know? if there is no opposition to anti people and anti democratic tendencies of any government, then Nigeria is in
for the days of Babylonian bondage.

Mr. Methuselah, stupidity is when elderly people open their mouths to criticise someone upholding his fundamental human rights to his privacy, especially to curtail a compromised imperialistic and unprofessional media house.

He is not a public servant yet. He is an ordinary citizen till May 29 and it's therefore within his right to do that.

Is it a crime to bar a perceived compromised and corrupt personality with sole aim of damaging my personality, from my space? It is not a public space.

naija2dabone:
"Let me re-affirm that under the Jonathan presidency, your views, no matter how freely express, will not send you into prison or into exile". ‪#‎GEJMYHERO‬

Why were newspaper publications confiscated by his govt?

PDP should tell us why GEJ's

1. Confiscation of newspaper publications

2. Beating of reporters

3. Unjust arrest of Aljazeera journalists

were not dangerous for democracy then?

We need this on FP with immediate effect.

Let us see the chameleonic tendencies of some.people, just because they were promised a political post or 1k pay per post contract

Remarkable:
If someone dies, and the living are calling for an autopsy or to find the cause of the person's death amounts to denigrating the dead person? for real? or you probably meant denigrating Buhari himself...whichever angle you look at it if the duty of the press is to inform... they did just that with that documentary... you may not like it, but they have the right to do so.

Fox News in the US says all sorts of crap of Obama... during his campaign didn't they keep hammering on the "fact" that Obama was a Kenyan and had a Kenyan birth certificate or whatever lies they were telling...did and still tell till tomorrow?

How many times did Obama barr them from covering public functions? didn't he even appear on the Bill O'Riley show on Fox?

Oh GEJ, please don't go...!

The duty of the press is not to inform but to inform responsibly, which they never did. Was there any investigative journalism they did that showed GMB did not have certificate.

They only got paid to air a paid for propaganda. Do you think the same people did not approach Channels or STV. Why did those ones declined it. That is being professional.

GEJ please don't go!!!! After the monumental mess he just released.

Lemon12:
Will the parasitic Yorubas and Hausa let us go?

Na we tell God not to bless their dry land with oil?

Parasitic indeed.

SW produces the highest revenue for the nation outside oil from customs and duties.

SW generates the highest petroleum tax.

SW generates the highest IGR.

SW produces the highest agricultural based income for the nation, and the same agricultural constitutes 24% of the nation's GDP.

SW produces the highest volume of Oil after ND.

SW is accommodating the highest number of migrants from other regions.


If that is parasitism, so be it then. We do not mind.

Remarkable:
How did AIT denigrate the dead?

... and if you say it is wrong to talk about his deceased wife.... I and a lot of other Nigerians do not see anything wrong with it as I never knew this before and it is a look back in his past life... if anything AIT said was false, and they have a reputation for doing that, that's a different matter, and could still not even be grouns for b barring them from a public function...

GEJ is not yet out and the OP is missing him already... this is just the start... of New Nigeria... new indeed.

So AIT asking GMB to tell the world what killed his wife is not denigrating the dead?

So AIT talking about a certificate that is not missing is not false. AIT with their bias report is not unprofessional? When it was obvious that their chairman is a major beneficiary of this present govt "kworoption".

See man mii, GMB is still a private citizen till May 29, he has all the rights in the world from barring anybody from poke nosing into his affairs till then.

GMB has all the rights in the world to bar AIT from his activities.

AIT, a totally unprofessional media house.

CyberWolf:
Is Ferguson a public office holder?..David Cameron or Obama dare not bar any media firm from covering his activities...he will be impeached the next day..

So is GMB a public office holder yet or a public officer in-waiting?

For now he has the right to protect his privacy, until he assumes full authority on May 29.

In the writer's logic, If AIT has the right to air whatever it wishes without decorum and professionalism; GMB have the same right to bar any unprofessional, Commercialised and corrupt media house from covering his events.

How unprofessional can a media house be, by denigrating the dead and talking about the dead wife of GMB?

Sir Alex Ferguson barred BBC for over a decade.

CyberWolf:
They were barred from covering his activities till further notice...He will soon be the president and must be subject to public scrutiny by all media firm both friendly and unfriendly ones..He can sue them for defamatory and allow the court to decide. To barred them just like that is a big fat lie ...

Even Ferguson barred the almighty BBC from coming near him for over a decade

Don't you know the difference between "bar" and "ban"?

Na wa o for all these under the mango tree university graduates ooo.

To be candid, this is not corruption. I now understand why GEJ said stealing is not corruption.

Sincerely, there should be a bigger word for this scandal. Maybe MEGALOMANIACCORRUPTOCRACY --- a brazen and crazy act of never-seen-before level of corruption.

Stealer Oduah's scandal is stealing.

Pension Fraud is Corruption.

This is definitely not corruption, but a sheer devilish act of bloodless murdering of Nigerians and a gang rap.ing of the Nigerian state.

how do you expect a president that all these happened under his nose to punish Stealer Oduah or the Pension Fraud actors or the Civil Service Ghost Workers culprits.

LOOTOCRACY at its best.

Government of the looters, by the looters and for the looters.

Nothing more and nothing less.

i had to stop reading this report. This is an embarrassment to sane and learned minds.

We have been duped and I hope we have not mortgaged the future of our generations yet unborn.

Some useless souls and saTANoids were shouting GEJ till 2019 on top their 1k pay per post (PPP), and they were pouring petrol on their future. Lord please save us from this insanity.

We need a messiah in this country

CyberWolf:
Buhari cannot win this war..This is democracy..If you are not comfortable with them,sue them to court. But to barn them from covering his programs is a big fat lie..That will never happen

Did you read the report at all?

He only barred them from covering his activities, which is logical. Considering the unprofessional act of AIT during the election.

Lol.

DG Of NTA is a goner.

That is what happens when you throw professionalism into the wind, to embrace the tempting GEJ's dollars.

When we were telling the saTANoids that GEJ's government was worshipping corruption, they were busy shouting GEJ till Jesus appears in the heaven.

I hope they can see now?

So, if GMB did not say he will investigate the matter further, the full report won't have been released.

What were you keeping it for before?

Why was the report not released to the public before?

Sincerely, it is becoming obvious on a daily basis that the sycophants that surrounded GEJ were bad advisers, that were only interested in their own pockets, rather than the nation.

God will pray that you should save GMB from self serving sycophants and bad advisers too.

PPAngel:
Lol

Itsekiri oil?

First of all, the Itsekiris are limited to a section of Warri and are found only in Koko island outside warri township.
So stop claiming Warri as an Itsekiri town. There are Ijaws and Urhobos who claim Warri as well. There is the Ovie of Warri and the Olu of Warri as well. Also Delta state is not only Warri. We have most of the oil wells sited in Urhobo and Isoko as well as Ijaw areas. Escavros is a main oil producing area and it is mainly Ijaws!

As for Ondo, what little oil you have there lies in a disputed border area with Delta and is under Ijaw communities.

As at last year, ondo oputput was being projected to increase to a mere 30,000 bpd.

So I use God beg you never ever in your parasitic life claim warri.

See this leech.

Even if itshekiris have just a parcel of land in Niger Delta, we have every right to claim every resources that lies therein.

So the Ilajes in Ondo have suddenly turned to Ijaws? Wonders shall never end!!! So, you have suddenly turned the high sea I had dwellers into land grabbers. I tire got you oooo.

Read up your history and come back for a sound lecture.

Even if Ondo is producing 1,000bpd, it is still called oil. Even at 30,000bpd, it is still the highest producing oil state after Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta. That is a fact.

Forget all your noise about oil. Does China, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Germany, Finland or Denmark have oil.

Ideas, mental capability, thinking faculties and human capital are the currencies of the 21st century. So purge your myopic mind of oil that constitutes nuisance to the environment and expand your mind to accommodate ideas. Bill Gates is not an oil mogul and he is richer than 2/3rd of the countries of the world.

Who said Warri belongs to Itshekiris alone or are you reading backward?

Great compilation and informative.

PPAngel:
[size=18pt]at the end of the day nah ND oil dem dey plan with

E go do una like dream when all oil productions drop to zero

Start planting cocoa[/size]

Nooooo.

We are planning with Ondo and Itshekiris' oil and our IGR, being the most industrialised state in the country.

The same state has oil reserves around tonkeji island, between badagry and Benin republic boundary.

How about that.

Why is it only APC that is always rejecting results?

This is an attitude they need to do away with.

When they win, it is free and fair; when they lose, it was rigged.

They should embrace the spirit of sportsmanship. You win some, you lose some.

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fineworker24:
It might interest you to know that cassava sticks resisted your T72 tanks for 3 years. That's very shameful on the side of your T72 tanks.
If that is not heroism, then heroism can be better defined that Nigeria invited Britain, Egypt, Yugoslavia, USSR, Egypt, Ethiopia to help them fight their enemies with cassava sticks.

Keep quiet there. This is the same way Boko Haram will be telling us in 20years time, they held NA for 6years.

Nigeria did not declare full scale war on Biafra till 1968 and by early 1970, it was over.

Mind you France Israel, Tanzania, Equatorial Guinea Ivory Coast, Vatican supported Biafra and US supported in principle. Swedish mercenaries were used by Biafra.

Mind you, tamil tigers held Singaporean Army for 2decades, FARC has been holding Colombian Army for over 2decades now, Osama Bin Laden held US for a decade, BH has been holding Nigerian Army for 6 years and ISIS is holding the whole world for 3years running. What are you now celebrating that you achieved with cassava sticks.

No wonder over 3million lives were wasted.

How can you face T72 tanks with cassava sticks?

If this is heroism to some people, it is sheer stupidity from the point of view of more rational minds.

About 12, 15 years ago, when the issue of who is really a Lagosian was nothing more than a stimulating debate among friends, I had asked a friend to write an article on it for me. His was one of the more passionate voices when the issue was discussed at Ikoyi Club amidst banter and drinks then. He had every reason to be passionate. He was born and bred in Isale Eko, the ‘cradle’ of Lagos of Edo father and Yoruba mother.

He bears his Yoruba name and his spoken Yoruba is rich and often laced with proverbs and idioms. He is also now a Chief in one of the suburbs in Lagos. Surely he qualifies to be called a Lagosian. Unfortunately, his surname gives him away. Another friend who was also born and bred in Isale Eko goes to the Campos area every fortnight to ‘feel the earth’ and identify with his roots.
He proudly bears his Yoruba name but there is nothing he can do about his surname. Does that make him less of a Lagosian? Another, a colleague in my days at the Vanguard is an Ijaw from Bayelsa, but was born and bred in Lagos, and attended one of the popular secondary schools in Lagos. Even when he ventured out, it was to the University of Ife and it was to Lagos he came during breaks and holidays. He says proudly ‘omo Eko l’awa’. (We are Lagosians) despite his names which scream Ijaw. Is he in denial?

Now, let me come home. My brother’s wife is from Akwa Ibom but was born and bred in Lagos and has a Yoruba middle name. Her Yoruba is more fluent than her Efik. My wife is Edo but born in Lafiaji in the heart of Lagos Island. She even has a Yoruba ‘oriki’ which she uses from time to time when she wants to praise herself. She has lived in Lagos all her life. Yet anybody who comes from a Yoruba hinterland in say 20 years ago, would feel more entitled and demand more ‘ownership’ than these people.

When I, an ‘ara oke’, (upland country man) came to Lagos some 50 years ago, it was to a small city. Surulere, the middle class suburb, was walkable. The Island was also walkable and the only bridge that linked the two was Carter Bridge.
I have since watched this city develop in leaps and bounds into a mega city. I feel I am part of the growth; I feel that I, with people like me, have contributed to the growth and therefore entitled to the dividends of that growth. But having said this, I have also watched people come in from different parts of the country to make a life and a living. A popular adage then was ‘Eko gba ole o gba ole’. (Lagos accommodates all shades of people).

If it was true then, it is even truer now. Lagos State is easily the most accommodating State in the country and whatever contribution we have made therefore, is due to the accommodating system in Lagos. Many settlers have risen to top positions in Lagos and we treat it as of right. Many have become landowners and we treat it as of right. We are probably right under the constitution.

But why is Lagos the only state where this happens? For example, my parents had lived virtually all their adult lives in Ilesha which makes the place the only other place I know outside Lagos. But If I attempt to go there for an elective post, somebody will tell me the full story of my father.

Sometime ago, a couple of states from the Northern part of the country purged themselves of people from the civil service because they were not indigenes of the states despite being of the same tribe. The same thing happened in a state in the South East which purged itself of non-indigenes in government including Igbos. So if we feel Lagos State is not doing enough for those of us who believe we have contributed to its development, we should look around and we will see that no state has done half as much as Lagos to make its residents feel welcome.

Now to my original question; who is a Lagosian? As a layman, I believe your length of stay or your financial contribution to a state confers some rights on you as a resident. But it does not necessarily make you a citizen. Citizenship must include spiritual as well as physical attachment along other prerequisites like ancestry and birth. Lagos for many is a place to make as much money as they can; a place to be exploited before they retire to their ancestral homes. A prospective citizen must integrate himself into the community. You cannot make yourself superior to the place or disdainful of the culture of the people you want to make your own. You must believe in the future of the place and be prepared to do anything necessary for the attainment of that future.

For as long as you are repatriating the proceeds of your business endeavours to another place, then you are in the market and not at home. For as long as you are not providing schools, scholarships, hospitals in your place of residence or doing things that will improve the lot of the less privileged there, then you are not in your final home. For as long as the interests of another city is more important to you than the interests of the place you claim to belong, then your claim is shallow and exploitative.

So a prospective Lagosian must be prepared to burn his bridge and adopt Lagos in its entirety- warps and all. He must declare like Ruth in the Bible, “Where you go I shall go. Where you live I shall live. Your people shall be my people and your God my God”. In other words, if your interests conflict with the interests of Lagos, then you cannot be called a Lagosian and Lagos must defend herself against such interests. Simple.

Finally, why do people want to identify with Lagos? It is because Lagos is successful as a land of opportunities and possibilities. And Lagos is successful because it is cosmopolitan and inclusive. Those charged with the administration of Lagos must never forget that. The strength of Lagos lies in providing opportunities to all who come in contact with her. But the true Lagosians, those who have no other home to run to should there be famine or civil unrest, must be protected. They must not be squeezed out

The oil is not the initial problem of Nigeria.

The initial problem of Nigeria started from the cancellation of our regions and amalgamation of the power at the centre by Ironsi.

We have never recovered from it again.

Talking of oil, so far others have made enough concessions which include the following :

1. Normal allocation
2. 13% derivation
3. NDDC
4. Amnesty Programme
5. Ministry of ND
6. CSRs of Oil Majors.
Etc

Is the development on ground in ND, commensurate with the amount of money spent all those highlighted initiatives so far?

If the answer is NO, then it means there is fundamental problem of insincere leadership in ND.

IGBOSON1:
^^^I don't get your point! Are you saying that if they endorsed GEJ as you claim, and your Buhari 'wins' that they should not go and pay him a visit? Your reasoning is on the same silly level with those arguing that Ndigbo should not make demands of Buhari because they didn't support him during the election!

Make up your mind if you want him to be President of APC/Yoruba/North or if you want him to be President of Nigeria!

What is wrong in him.being the president of APC or Yoruba or. North.

Did we not have a president of Ijaws and Igbos alone?

However, we are magnanimous in victory we are the president of Nigeria and Biafra and we shall do what is just and fair to all.