₦airaland Forum

When the president said some Nigerians oversee have reputation for fraud and crime, some wailers were making noise, what does this particular incident speak of?

Two Nigerians gainfully employed with regular and reliable income from different tribes in different geo-political zones and different religions going extra mile to perpetuate their commitment to crimes.

What is their excuse? Poverty? Unemployment? Or what? The only answer is "its in the DNA" of some Nigerians to perpetuate crime.

We may lie about it, but the fact is still that we don't trust each other as Nigerians because we are all aware of what our Nation-men and also tribesmen are capable of.

I think its better we start thinking of how to remove the "kokoro" in our eyes rather than ranting about the president's statement.

I've tried to compare the benefits of devaluation against the adverse effects devaluation will cause, I am of the opinion that devaluation will harm us more than the harms we are presently experiencing. The Government is taking the right step of diversifying our economy and creating enabling environment for Manufacturing and production. Which in the long run, we'll all enjoy. On the other hand devaluation will have serious effect on the generality of the economy. Cash crises will be the order of the day, general increase in prices of products and services which may not result in the take home of workers. These are some of the adverse effects of devaluation in my little opinion.

My question is simple which, where do we go from here after all these revelations? Tribunal has closed, Supreme Court verdict has been given, what next? Can CCB take over the issue?... Learned colleagues in the house, lets hear your views

Lere Olayinka has nothing tangible to say except attack on Dr Aluko based on SSG appointment

Lere Olayinka is really doing an awful job, leaving the issue and arguing about Pension payment

otokx:
It was in NNPC Towers not the house.

The second meeting was in Ifeanyi's house which Ifeanyi himself confirmed.

Jonathan really finished this country, Dr. Aluko referencing the incident in ifeanyi Uba's house

Ifeanyi Uba called back oooo, to clear himself

Dr. Aluko don finish Lere Olayinka oooooooo....chai

This man is giving Lere Olayinka uppercut ooo

Lere Olayinka not doing enough damage control to help Gov. Fayose out

Its very clear and certain that Ekiti Election was actually rigged, but the question that remain unanswered is how is #EkitiGate goin to end

Very dirty and interesting revelations...

Ifeanyi Uba on phone....trying to clear himself ooo

Lere we've listened to enough of your chacter assasination, now face the main issues

Can someone please tell Lere Olayinka to face the issues raised as forget about attacking the messenger

This argument is becoming interesting

Fayose's defence person throwing the messenger to kill the message as well, @seun pushing the argument from the messenger to the message itself

Daramola part 2 saga unfolding....political assasination not far ooooooo.....FAYOSE ooooooo, no kill this man also ooo

Nuuru:
they would murder this guy o.

My thot exactly, but assasinating can't help anylonger, he has already opened up all worms in the can

Let all hands be on deck and utilize all opportunities towards development. I hope it come with empowerment for individuals and youths. Time to go rewrite my business plan...waiting for the northern governors to be back first.

Immediately i read Okonjo's response, the first questions that comes to my mind was "why does this woman always reply people with insults instead of her intelligently countering people's claim." This was the case with Soludo, same with Oshiomhole and now Falana, falana has pointed out this very observation of mine. Let our former Minister stop the insults and face the facts on ground if she's actually not guilty. Thank God the man she's into argument with has a reputation for serious noise making with facts as weapons.

Supporters of the Yahya Bello act are just been biased and somehow mischievous, For the simple reasons and fact that Yahya Bello didn't stand with his party and allowed PDP win his territory is enough to deny him any benefit within the APC. All i can see is a way to cut Tinubu influences in the state and Apc at National level. Am never a fan of Tinubu, but am always in support of equity and fairness.
And to the Ebira ethnic tribe, this could be opportunistic in their favour, but the fact is that they never merited it. I can remember vividly in my office, as soon Yahya Bello lost the primary, they all distanced themselves from APC as if this isn't the same APC they supported wholeheartedly at the presidential and i can remember one Oga lecturing his Ebira tribesmen about how to go about issues in politics when you are in minority. Anyway, lets see how it plays out at the Supreme Court.

Time to go settle in kaduna and leave Abuja wahala. I pray and strongly wish this is true and it will truely commence operation in march. I usually wonder why our political class prefer wasting resources on buillding roads when rails are more effective, cheaper, more comfortable, faster and safer.

BeClever:
My dear, ask them oh.
Almost all the tribe was mentioned by op and these two tribes take it upon themselves to claim it was directed to them.. What a shame.

Don't mind them, all i can conclude is that the two tribes are the highest noise makers in Nigeria. What we need to do now is to create a thread for the two tribes to know who makes the highest noise. I think that should settle it once and for all

I have a question to ask all nairalanders, why is it that every topic on nairaland always turn to e-fight between Yorubas and Igbos? Why? Why? Why?

Na only una dey ds con3? Why other tribes no dey fight, only ds two tribes?

Igalas and Ebiras are enemies, but you no go hear their fight for nairaland, so also many tribes in the country. I think i"ll create a thread for official e-fight if thats what you guys enjoy most

NujiPressy:
No May 18 here? wetin!

Hhello, no response? Y

As far as researches are highly encouraged and welcome, prejudices and cover ups are not in any accepted. Saying the former president was a voracious reader is a completely unacceptable cover up. He isn't an intellectual in any sense of it. Going by unintelligible analogy of goat and yam theory without analysis the system and flow of yams within the goats, is that intellectual in any way or is it his unexplained explanation of stealing not being corruption?

Besides, you mentioned his PhD degree and left us with unanswered questions about it, are you telling us your research doesn't cover the important aspect of his PhD? Then how can you confidently say you carried out a research about the past president and you can't address the most controversial aspect of his person. Bros, please, i can't accept that to be a PhD research.

We would have been more excited if your research had come up with more sincere and thorough research.

I've been experiencing headache since morning which has made me unproductive all day, i was wanted to withdraw to my bed and retire for the day when i saw the caption of fashola, you must read this or whatever, then i said to myself, actually am really tired and exhausted, if i can manage to read this, then i can assume i've achieved something for today. And to my expectation, Fashola never disappoints. All i want to ask is what are the books fashola reads? Its high time fashola starts a mentorship programme, he really needs to impact his knowledge and experience on us the upcoming generation.

That been said, some of his points prove my assertion that the greatest contribution to Nigeria's economic woes is not non-performance of our political class, but the wickedness of our judicial system. Clearly pointed out in his speech, when investors can not be sure that justice will be delivered when dispute arises in the course of doing their business, they won't come in to invest. Like i've always said, there so many multi billion dollar business who can produce their energy, provide their security and improve the economy of the country, their only headache will always be, administration of justice whenever there's collision with the government or their private entity counterparts.

Nevertheless, i strongly believe we are moving, slowly we 'll get there.

I just read an article and i felt it should be shared

Scanty reports reaching us have it that markets banks and major shops in the ancient city of Enyimba have been shut down. This, the reports say is in connection with the protests for the release of Nnamdi Kanu the leader of IPOB. The protest resulted in a clash with security operatives and two of the protesters are reported to have died from bullet wounds.

I have read interesting articles on the recent recrudescence of the biafran struggles. I noticed in the articles that the Igbo have a divided tongue on whether they finally want to secede this time around or not. This is not strange to me for history tells me that the Igbo nation is our own model of democracy as practised in the pre-colonial era; with every adult member of the society expressing their views which are usually divergent.

I have also seen pictures of the protests and witnessed some in parts of Delta State. From what I saw, the agitators were below 50 years of age. The questions to ask are who told these young protesters about the struggles? Is whatever they are being told the truth of the matter and not distorted? While leaders like Generals Olusegun Obasanjo and Yakubu Gowon have been said to have trivialized the resurgence, others are saying the agitators do not have any idea of what embers they fan and probably cannot quench or control the inferno when it starts burning.

It’s obvious that leaders of the Western or Northern extraction cannot come out to support the self-determination bid of the Igbo. But I expect them to keep quiet or better still; have secret talks with Igbo leaders to express their opinions. I do not expect them to come to the public domain and tell us whether this would succeed or not. Be that as it may, I earnestly burn to hear the minds of the leaders of thoughts from the south-east zone, but they seem not to be saying enough or not saying anything at all. Their silence is disturbing. This was how leaders in the North quietly watched Boko Haram fester into a menace and the whole country today pays for that either in kind or cash. Are the Igbo leaders undecided as to where to let the pendulum swing or they are hiding in the wings and secretly financing the protest for some political gains? This silence if not broken may lead to yet another dent on our collective history as a people.

It is a fact that Democracy as practiced in Nigeria with inter-party zoning arrangement alienates the Igbo man and somewhat prevents him from becoming the president. How else can you compare the Igbo falling in the minority with the Hausa/Fulani and Yoruba when it comes to general elections? In a country where politics is tied to religion and religion to politics, the minority will never smell the presidency unless of course, that which providence bequeaths on them as in the case of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. The internal party zoning system was anticipated to solve this debacle but the Yoruba man supported by the Hausa/Fulani would always commandeer the slot meant for the south. In the end, the presidency goes from the (whole of Northern region) North and then to the Yoruba. We are all afraid that an Igbo man will divide the country or steal us blind if he clinches the presidency so we would rather allot to him a subservient position where he isn’t the one who calls the shots. We would rather he cries of marginalization other than divide ‘the one indivisible entity’ called Nigeria as if the country is not already divided by our very actions and inactions.

It is an open secret that Nigerian roads are death-traps but those in the south-east are worse. While other geographical zones have six states each, the south-east zone has five. So this zone automatically gets less allocation for slots for decision-making at the federal level. And so does the zone gets less federal allocation in a ‘feeding bottle federalism’. I can go on and on enumerating the injustices done to the Igbo nation as a result of this forced marriage but does the average Igbo man love his brother? Please don’t tell me about that Igbo adage that says ‘it is better for an internal enemy to eat my wealth than an external enemy’. Why allow an internal enemy to maintain the status of an enemy when he will eventually eat/inherit your wealth?

It is in the Igbo nation that ladies are not allowed by their parents to marry certain men because they come from ‘inferior’ villages or communities, vice-versa. It is in Igboland that an Anglican lady should marry an Anglican man and a Catholic man should only marry a Catholic lady. Out of the five states in the south-east, the man from Ebonyi is not recognized by the rest as an Igbo man. Yet we are clamouring together for the realization of this liberation from the thraldom of the North and West. What happens to this man from Ebonyi if Igbo gets its independence?

An average Igbo would rather go and build a house in the village for rats and cockroaches instead of using the same money to save a dying brother. What does he hope to achieve? An economic superior status! ‘Nna mehnn, I have arrived!’ as we would hurriedly say it, just to massage our badly battered ego. The Hausa/Fulani is not our problem. Neither is the Yoruba. Our problem is the status-seeker at the detriment of the others.

The Igbo nation has Kings, Governors and other political leaders who would rather play politics by pandering to the whims and caprices of the man at the centre instead of discussing development as it affects the people. What one expects of these leaders of thoughts is to come together and think of a way forward for nation. One expects these leaders to think of a system of government evolved to suit our uniqueness and begin to propagate it instead of purveying decent. One expects these leaders to come out and condemn this disturbance of public peace in clear terms because as far as some of us are concerned this protest is out dated and pre-mature at the same time, unless of course they are waiting in the wing to gain from the spoils of war as some of us are already thinking.

Source: https://sometimesweforget./2016/01/19/biafra-and-the-lies-around-the-facts-of-our-struggles/

Informing them or not, ds is a good development, getting prepared against accidents general will endure that lives are not lost unnecessary. This is good

larasparkle:
Lol... Sure

I've sent pm...expecting ur response