₦airaland Forum

Kukutente23:
A lot of people are mixing things up by taking production for consumption. VAT is a consumption tax not production. The question of parasites as y'all put it does not arise. VAT is actually a tax for the parasites
Ordinarily if the computation is done correctly, states with higher population should have more consumption. So that's why I still don't understand why the north is against that aspect of the bill giving their large population at least on paper except they mean their population is audio.
But be that as it may, we need to hear all sides and FIRS or NBS should release the present consumption statistics for VATable goods so we can have a better view of the issues and how to go about them.

Have you asked yourself, do you consume what is not produced? Most of those states in the north destroy breweries and collect from the proceeds of the ones in the south. Those years in Kano, there was northern breweries a big industry, where is it today. The north should stop being lazy

TimeTraveller:
We used to think the north was the parasite in Nigeria. The actual parasites are the south-easterners.
The Southeast contributes NOTHING to Nigeria! The land is clayish and barren. The people are inhospitable and arrogant.
The IGR is one of the lowest. No mineral deposits, just bad global rep through dr.ug trafficking.

Split this country NOW.

I said what I said.

But that's what they have been begging for, since they are parasites please split the country

Goodvibes007:
No rubbish will be allowed in Lagos.

On twitter, they are recording spaces and posting pictures of Toyin Abraham, The CJN, and other people that support APC by marking them as targets.

On Nairaland, they are saying they won't protests, but on all other social media platform, they are pushing for violence.

Reminder: Nigerian police do not use water cannon or rubber bullets.

Who is this castrated monkey. Mumu, let them fire those who are protesting let's see who will cry. Better tell your agbado brothers to endure their hunger.

Baseless analysis. Currently Wizkid is below those two Guys. If you want to use streams, use that of the past one year and it will shock you where the numbers are. Currently Rema Asake and Omah lay are bigger than Wizkid. Stopp using streams from Drake and Beyonce collaborations of several years ago to hide his Dwindling fortunes. I get am before no be property

columbus007:
This guy style is.wack.

He has more hits in the recent time than Wizkid. Broke boy

fredoooooo:
Don't mind those fool jare , majority of them are nonentities looking g for unnecessary attentions.
I've seen a lots of Northerners doing much better in their field but are just discreet and leave their lives as normal..
But these empty drums and loud mouths will just be making noise looking for unnecessary attentions everywhere.

Northerners thrive in politics and quota system.

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June or July is the best time to plant cucumber, but August/September will be better for water melon ,if you live in southern nigeria

Often you here people use the popular saying that life does not owe you a living, but owes you an opportunity to make a living. So, if you graduated many years ago, and you still have no employment, who do you earnestly blame? The Government, Corrupt politicians or that wicked relative from the village who does not want your progress? Come of it, your kids will not take that as the reason when the time comes.

I had that as an issue, after graduation, I tried a number of things, including white collar employment, yet I could not get what I wanted financially out of life until I ventured into vegetable crop production, with cucumber and watermelon as my flagship crops. The beauty about the cucumber thing is that you only wait for six weeks before you start smiling to the bank.

This coming week on the 13th of June,2015. I will be mentoring those who want to take up Cucumber production , Officials of Agrotropics (Representatives of Technisem in Nigeria) will be around as resource persons. So please take this opportunity. The Seminar registration is FREE though participants will obtain their seminar materials for 2,000 naira only.

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If you are looking for a job, here is an opportunity to earn more than what most white collar counterparts earn
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You partner with experts who will guide you from the time you sow to the time you harvest and sell your produce.
You also have the opportunity of networking with other vegetable crop producers and getting involved in the production of other crops.

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Lets cheer ourselves with something more interesting, not minding the current security situation. Cucumber Riches, is what i want to talk about mostly in pictures. I was actually trained at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka as an Agriculturist, i have however tried plenty, but my people, nothing be like Cucumber farming. Since I decided to respect my natural calling its been cool.

The most interesting fact, is that it only takes six weeks to commence harvesting, and if properly guided you can make almost a million naira on a monthly basis from it /ha. Today am not just a practicing agro person. I also mentor and assist those who want to start, their vegetable crop production, as we are also into water melon, pumpkin and Okra farming.

My next training/seminar comes up on the 13th of June, if you have interests or want to go into this money spinner, contact me via thrizlink@gmail.com. Meanwhile I leave you with pictures from my farm. And remember when next you have that crunchy bite, it might be coming from the ThrizAgro farms.

Nigeria and Ivory Coast also on Monday both restricted flights from Ebola-infected countries, in steps that underscore fears of the virus in West Africa spreading globally by air travel.

Per Second News gathered that the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority Monday suspended Gambia Bird Airlines Ltd. until it "put in place acceptable and satisfactory measures to contain the spread of Ebola virus," according to obtained by Per Second News.

There have been no recorded cases of Ebola in Gambia, where the airline is based. But the airline does fly to Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone —the three countries fighting an Ebola outbreak. The airline didn't return calls requesting comment.

Minister of Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said that blood tests had confirmed Ebola in a ninth hospital worker who, like the previous eight, had treated a single Liberian-American man who flew into Lagos last month. She was a newly married nurse and her husband is also now under surveillance.

Meanwhile, the Ivory Coast went further, banning all flights and passengers coming from those three countries from entering its airports.

The moves reflect the heightened state of global concern over Ebola and how fast and far it may travel. From Hong Kong to New York to Cape Town, hospitals are gearing up to treat potential patients but so far all that the vigilance has yielded is a series of false alarms.

By John Ainofenokhai

The build-up to the Osun State gubernatorial election was very frightening to all peace loving citizens not only in the state but across the country. The party in government, the All Progressives Congress (APC) approached this election with a matter-of-life-and-death mentality. Even more so, the national leadership of the party saw the election as a win or burst situation. With the trouncing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gave them recently in Ekiti State, the leading opposition party in the country, APC, wittingly or unwittingly concluded that another nosebleed in Osun would portend, in finality, the decimation of the party even before the big one in 2015.

No wonder then that the incumbent governor, Rauf Aregbesola with the leadership of his party employed all the tricks in the book in fighting the election. They threatened, cajoled, induced and unleashed all manner of propaganda. They accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of bias towards the PDP. They accused the election management body of releasing ballot papers to PDP members beforehand. They kept “uncovering” one plot or another geared towards compromising the election. At some point, it seemed more like INEC was spending more time responding and debunking the APC allegations than planning to get it right in the Osun gubernatorial election.

Predictably, President Goodluck Jonathan in particular was the main target of the APC serial lies and propaganda blitzkrieg. The President was accused of “militarizing” Osun State in order to intimidate the people who are all presumably APC voters and to pave the way for his party members to rig the election. In an unstatesmanlike manner, the APC leadership, as always, continued to demean the office of the President by calling Jonathan all kinds of names just because of an election.

Thankfully, the election has come and gone without any major violence, which the APC apparently craved for because of their fear of losing on the day. While nobody should begrudge Aregbesola and his party their victory at the polls, it is certainly worth remembering that the monumental success the election turned out to be was the result of the commitment of one man to the sanctity of the electoral process. One of the cardinal issues in President Jonathan’s transformation agenda is electoral reform.

Remember that on the road in 2011 when he was campaigning for the office of president, he promised Nigerians that if elected he would restore dignity and honesty to our elections as a vehicle for expressing the popular will. He was loud and clear that the era in which elections do not reflect the political preferences of voters will not be part of the testimonial of his presidency. And to be fair, he really showed his hand early in the day as a strong democrat by telling his party men and women that his ambition is never worth the blood of anybody. From the “do-or-die” mentality of the past, evidently there is a paradigm shift under Jonathan pointing to one man-one vote!

And in disinfecting the electoral process, President Jonathan was correct in his prognosis that lack of adequate security during elections remains a surmountable impediment to free and fair election. In the past, we were all witnesses to shootings and all kinds of brigandage at polling booths. We also heard and read stories of ballot box snatching and ballot box stuffing and all manner of untoward events that corrupted elections across the land. These are apart from some personnel and the leadership of INEC that did not inspire any public confidence in their ability to make the votes count. The President has admirably banished all those concerns about electoral integrity. First against his own interests, he identified and appointed a man historically linked with the opposition in the country as the head of election management body, INEC. Professor Atahiru Jega, the INEC Chairman, is a happy member of the civil society and a foremost labour leader whose place is assured when the history of democratic struggles in Nigeria will be chronicled. Jega has not only rejigged the operational strategy of INEC for greater effectiveness but more importantly he enjoys the independence, which was alien to his predecessors.

Beyond President Jonathan’s commendable neutrality in electoral matters, he has raised the bar by ensuring that the secured ambience for conducting elections is ever so evident since he assumed office and not even the opposition can deny this. From Edo State to Ondo State through Anambra states, and from Ekiti to Osun State, President Goodluck Jonathan has shown himself a statesman and leader to be trusted by the way he ensured that the common people are protected to cast their votes for the candidates of their choice without any fear and intimidation.

Those hurling allegations of tyranny against him in the APC would have used this privileged position to the advantage of their party if their track record is anything to go by. The APC leadership and particularly their governors unlike President Jonathan, who had never interfered with INEC, have basically turned their States’ Electoral Commissions as mere parastatals of their governments. In Lagos, Fashola used the LASIEC to conduct what has remained the most atrocious local government election in Nigerian history. As if to outdo their Lagos counterpart, Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano and Adams Oshiomhole of Edo among other APC governors gave away their lip-service commitment to democracy with shameful local government elections they supervised in their various states. Yet these are progressives!

It is dishonourable and hypocritical for people like Governor Fashola of Lagos State and, in indeed, all APC governors to seek to change the narrative of the Osun gubernatorial election from the commitment of President Jonathan to electoral integrity to some phoney “victory of the people against the forces of repression.” The APC won the election in Osun State because there is a sitting President who cares more for the rights of the Nigerian citizens than the interests of his own political party. That was the reason President Jonathan kept his word by deploying adequate law enforcement agents to Osun State during the election.

Now, it is clear that Jonathan has nothing to prove to the Nigerian people again when it comes to his commitment to electoral integrity. He did it in Edo State, and APC was the beneficiary. He did it in Ondo State with Labour Party being the beneficiary. He did in Anambra, and the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) was the beneficiary. He did it Ekiti State where the PDP was for the first time, the beneficiary. He has just done it in Osun State with the APC benefitting again. He will do it again in 2015 for the Nigeria people.




http://www.persecondnews.com/index.php/psn-news/item/1737-osun-guber-election-and-the-winner-is-jonathan

By Kayode Ojo

Simply because President Goodluck Jonathan is easily the most unassuming individual to have risen to political prominence in Nigeria some people have taken that as a license to abuse, impugn and threaten him at will. The most recent is the duo of Solomon Dalong and Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed who have broken all rules of decency and issued an ultimatum to the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces. What unbelievable impudence!

Masquerading under the auspices of the Northern Elders Forum, Dalong and Baba-Ahmed asked President Jonathan to “produce” the Chibok girls kidnapped by Boko Haram before October as if the President has been hiding the girls at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. If Jonathan is too constrained by the proprieties of his office to tell Dalong and Baba-Ahmed and their co-travellers exactly where they should go with such insolence, this writer has no such restrictions: Dalong and Baba-Ahmed can go to hell with their ultimatum!

Since matters have come to this stage, we must tell ourselves some hard truths. Dalong and Baba-Ahmed are not children and, as such, cannot claim to be unaware of the many years of terror that were unleashed on people of Southern Nigerian extraction especially in the Northern cities of Kano and Kaduna. Not once did Dalong and Baba-Ahmed condemn the many periodic massacres of Southerners in those two cities and other parts of the North. Today, the monster that Dalong and Baba-Ahmed failed to condemn has turned round to consume those that nurtured it and Dalong and Baba-Ahmed have found the voice to issue Jonathan, their favourite whipping boy, an ultimatum. Rubbish!

Even though, Nigerians are blessed with incredibly short memories, nobody can come out today to claim he or she is not aware that Jonathan was promised by very senior Northern politicians that they would make the country ungovernable for him if he won the 2011 Presidential Election. When Jonathan won the 2011 Presidential Election, what happened? As promised, the activities of the deadly Boko Haram sect escalated, leading to the mass abduction of the Chibok girls. And, today, Dalong and Baba-Ahmed have come out to tie Jonathan’s political fortunes to “producing” girls that he DID NOT abduct! What manner of political blackmail is this?

In their diabolical ploy of playing politics with the lives and safety of the Chibok girls, Dalong and Baba-Ahmed have confirmed beyond a reasonable doubt that the sole purpose of Boko Haram has always been “to make the country ungovernable” for Jonathan just because he is a Southerner. Good grief!

As Afenifere, the socio-cultural organisation for the Yoruba people in Nigeria said in a statement responding to Dalong and Baba-Ahmed, “By linking the electoral fortune of President Jonathan in 2015 to ‘Bring Back Our Girls’ latest by October as well as ending Boko Haram at the time, the ‘elders’ have just confirmed the suspicions in the land that the activities of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, is either enjoying the sponsorship of some elites of the North or at the least having their sympathy.”

Afenifere also said, “In all the sound and fury of the Forum, we searched in vain any outright condemnation of Boko Haram. And this has been the pattern of most reactions from the majority of the elites of the region who always appear politically correct to the insurgents while using their activities to rattle the government. The traumatized country that has been held in anxiety over the fate of the abducted girls cannot but challenge these elders at this stage to appeal to their wards in Boko Haram to release the innocent young girls who now appear cannon fodders in the struggle for ‘we want our power back’. A time has come to let these elites know they can no longer play the ostrich by burying their heads in the sand and think no one sees them because they are seeing no one.”

Indeed, the time has come to let the like of Dalong and Baba-Ahmed knows in very clear terms that no part of Nigeria will ever be slaves to them again. This country belongs to all of us and we all must live in it freely and prosper together as equals or perish.

It is becoming a common but nonetheless bogus and annoying narrative from the like of Dalong and Baba-Ahmed that Jonathan is to be blamed for the troubles of the North. All that is required to debunk this incredible piece of falsehood is to ask which region of Nigeria has been in power for four decades of the country’s almost 54 years of independence, and then follow that up by asking why Jonathan should be crucified for the consequences of four decades of misrule and abuse of power.

And while it may be fashionable in some quarters never to see anything good about President Jonathan, it is still important that we ask why it wasn’t until his administration that schools were provided in the hundreds for the millions of Almajiri children in the North. Dalong and Baba-Ahmed may persist in fooling themselves if they so desire, but Nigerians from the North, East, West and South know the truth and no amount of insolent ultimatums can disguise it!



http://www.persecondnews.com/index.php/psn-news/item/1762-northern-elders-forum-time-for-hard-truths

NgeneUkwenu: I hate Rochas with a passion ! Why did he stop sharing Imo State's money to "Well Meaning" politicians? Why is he bent on reconstructing Imo State? Imo State na im father house? We will continue to run him down using every avenue online until he comes to his senses! Who told him governance in Nigeria is about building hospitals, schools, roads, water, housing estates etc? Rochas Share the money or be ready to be booted out in 2015, Nonsense!!

Ohakim For Governor 2015!

ABeg make we hear word, have taken time to observe the pot holes in the sub standard roads he builds

adamsy07: TIBOY1,
Lagos state govt might have bought this as an investment, probably bought it as a way of generating money in lagos (to start hotel business in lagos) and it would probably start sailing to lagos soon. If its what they bought it for then i think its a good move . . . lets wait and see
HI,
THE YACHT CANNEVER SAIL TO LAGOS FROM EUROPE COS OF THE DISTANCE,NOBODY WOULD RISK TRAVELLING THAT FAR ON A YACHT.
NOTE:
THE SHIP IS ONLY ALLOWED TO MOVE TO 3 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES IN EUROPE FOR TOURISTS NAMELY
LONDON,PARIS AND BELGIUM.
SO I DON'T SEE ANY WISDOM IN THEIR MOVE.
TALK ABOUT TOURISM,TO DO WELL IN TOURISM YOU HAVE TO IMPROVE ON YOUR COUNTRIES HOTELS,NATURAL PLACES,SECUIRITY AND OTHER FACTORS.

It beats my imagination that APC egoats cant see what their beloved mentor is doing with state resources. Floating hotel ko, sinking govt ni.

MichaelSokoto: Northerners surpassin & outsmartin d african jews in all fields of creativity since 1914

#Unfollows thread & deactivates nairaland account#



NB: all dumb comments should pls be 4warded 2 d trash can while commendations should come to www.datnigerdeltabokoboy/facebook.com

So why is the north using marginalization as a reason for terrorism. Dan banza , duri uwar ka. The truth is that the highlighted wealth circulates among a privileged few, while in the south wealth is more evenly distributed. Ask yourself, with the likes of Dangote ( Africa's richest man) poverty on the northern streets is alarming. So keep deceiving yourself with those pictures, the reality is the reality.

wablet: Yes o, we are begging him: those that dies daily because of our unmotorable roads are begging him, the air crashes victims are begging him! I'm also begging him because the electricity companies have refuse to take our light for the past few weeks. Different strokes for different people abi

YOUR GRAMMAR IS ANOTHER REASON HE SHOULD CONTINUE, SO THAT YOUR LIKES WILL HAVE MORE TIME TO IMPROVE THEIR ENGLISH

pDude: The other day I was discussing with my wife and her mum and trying to convince them that the problem of Nigeria wasn't the leadership.

The problem of Nigeria is Nigerians themselves.


Imagine these Igbo youths protesting that a thief who has been shortchanging them should be reinstated. Choi!


I am ashamed to be Igbo at this point. Nigerians are content with their suffering so who am I to plead their case?


Me i waka commot from that sad place called Naija and glory be to God, my daughter's passport is not green like mine.

WE ARE ALSO ASHAMED OF YOUR LIKES, HURRY AND CHANGE YOUR PASSPORT TO RED.

joshua idibia: Some are nt praying. Sm are jst cursing hm waka,shege. If he lyks let hm kneel on Jesus wife (Mary Magdalen) tomb. D man stl dy fall our (students) hands.

MAY GOD FORGIVE YOU YOUR BLASPHEMY IN YOUR ATTEMPT TO SOUND CYNICAL

uchechuwku: *from an unbiased Igbo boy*

This guy should Just remove *DON* from his name.
DONJAZZY of those days (Mohits) was very powerful (even though he doesn't say a word)

Now, he sells Loya milk, shouts EMENANDO infront of TIWA plus back up for saka.

Damn!!!!

DBANJ was Indeed right..... He bought a car for him.

THE GUY IS MAKING MILLIONS FROM DIFFERENT COMPANIES THRU ENDORSEMENTS( MTN, SAMSUNG, LOYA) AND YOU ARE HERE SPEWING RUBBISH. DON CAN COMFORTABLY SET UR FAMILY UP TO START A NEW TRADE IN ONITSHA

owolabifunke14: Funny post, but it seems you breath with your joystick

AND U BREATH WITH YOUR BORE-HOLE

Harbioollah: People like you makes me doubt every human has a brain

OH JUST SHUT UR TRAP

johnstar: Make una leave dis gal alone nw, wetn dey vx me nw bsay, she juz 1 dey famous nor niiii ah... Ki lo de gan.......... na evryday una 1 dey talk abt her ni , wetn self.... 2morw nw she go snap her brea$t, una go stil bring up anoda news abt her again

SHE IS ALREADY FAMOUS BUT WHAT SHE MAKES OUT OF THIS BBA FAME IS UP TO HER. I HOWEVER HAVE THIS FEELING SHE IS MANIPULATING EVERYONE WITH ALL OF THIS TO ATTAIN HER GOAL

peppy luv: Oga tribalism,becos this didn't make front page yestday u are determined to bring it to any front page topic!
U shud be ashamed of urself since seun prefers BBA rubbish bein on front page than ur tribal rants!
Shame on u for trying to start a beautiful day with war of words! Agent of Lucifer!

We don hear and we are not struggling for ur land with u and ur charge and bail master kayode!
*kicking ur bottom* good riddance to rubbish!

DONT MIND THE MUMU, WHOSE HEAD IS OBVIOUSLY FOR DECORSTION, WE ARE TALKING OF BEVERLY AND 2SHOT, BUT HE FOOLISHLY WANTS TO TURN IT INTO A YORUBA-IBO WAR. HE WILL NOT GET WHAT HE WANTS

alveene: can some1 pls tell me who dis pple are..?

THEY ARE YOUR VILLAGE ANCESTORS

Tolexander: pretty sure a monkey hacked your nairaland account!

I THINK YOU ARE THE MONKEY I
PERSONATING A HUMAN BEING

carmenblandish: Leave eye savis sir..........concentrate on the masses that lose their lives daily as a result of hunger, accidents from bad roads etc.

there are 24 hours in a day in which you are already struggling on how to use them well.....every minute wasted on this non stop nunsens eye savis....another child dies...etc

the man don die...i am sure he had a guud life....

concentrate on the living!!!!!!

SO CONCENTRATING ON THE LIVING MEANS THAT CONDOLENCE SHOULD NOT BE EXPRESSED WHEN DEATH IS INVOLVED. IT IS EITHER YOUR BRAIN IS STUFFED WITH SAW DURST OR YOUR HEAD IS MEANT FOR ABOKI DECORATION

ilugunboy: EOD.....you can't substitute facts with emotions and fiction...

It's is time Ibos start asking Adaobi why he is doing all this misinformation...

I think it's time that we drag all the Ibos on Nairaland to Alausa to go and be well informed....

because U R A BIG ODE

pandriod: If D Banj is still around, this guy won't be drinking ijebu garri for dinner.

https://www.36ng.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Don-Jazzy_Garri.jpg

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IT APPEARS YOU DONT KNOW THAT CORPORATE ENDORSEMENT IS WHERE THESE GUYS MAKE THEIR MONEY. HE IS A PRODUCER NOT A SINGER , YET HE HAS MORE ENDORSEMENTS THAN MANY ARTODTS CURRENTLY. WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU

Niggmatic: It's only in Nigeria that producers are being compared with the singers/rappers
No wonder we keep getting artistes that only talk on beat while claiming that they singing/rapping
Nonsense

YAP , BUT I DO FEEL DBANJ IS A BEAT TALKER AND NOT A SINGER, HIS PR IS GIVING HIM AIRPLAY. LET ME ASK, HIS SONG DONT TELL NONSENSE IS THAT SONG NOT WACK?