₦airaland Forum

afam4eva: Don't forget that majority of the Igbos were killed during the civil war and most Ijaw men now have at least 10 wives thereby giving birth to ten children per family. Mind you many Igbo have died due to REligious riots in the north and due to over-hardwork. Akpu is also the second biggest killer after Cancer and HIV/AIDS and you know Akpu is the official food of the Igbos. So, many have died due to the voracious consumption of this killer food. The Yorubas on the other hand have lost some people due to too much eating of Amala and Ewedu. Some even died because they joined OPC and went to fight. If you even go to Ibadan now, you'll notice that there are more Ijaws than Yoruba...

ijaw citizen: WHILE I WOULDN'T WANT TO JOIN ISSUES WITH BIGOTTED INDIVIDUALS, I STILL WANNA URGE ALL WELL MEANING PERSONS TO DISREGARD THIS WIKIPEDIA WRITE UP.

I KNOW FOR SURE THE PAGE WAS RECENTED RE-EDITTED BY SOME PERSONS TO SPREAD DISCORD & BAD FEELINGS TOWARDS THE IJAWS.

IJAWS LAY NO SUCH CLAIMS.

I HAVE ALREADY CONTACTED WIKIPEDIA TO SEE TO THE REVERSAL OF THIS NEWLY EDITED PAGE.

NOW I BEGIN TO WONDER WHY IT WAS SOMEONE IN NAIRALAND (A NON-IJAW FOR THAT MATTER THAT WAS THE FIRST TO SEE/NOTICE A PAGE THAT WAS RE-EDITTED LESS THAN A WEEK AGO.)

PLS DISREGARD THE FALSE INFOMATION BEING SPREAD HERE BY ENEMIES OF PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN AND IJAWS IN GENERAL BECAUSE THIS WRITE UP IS A SET UP. THANKS

ogbeche77: No he can speak oooo... He just does not want to show off.. He's saving everything for his swearing in ceremony

ijaw citizen: PEOPLE SHOULD STOP SPREADING MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE PEACE LOVING IJAW PEOPLE. THIS WRITE UP IS THE WORK OF MISCHIEVIOUS PEOPLE WHOSE AIM IS TO PROMOTE & SPREAD BAD FEELINGS AMONST OTHER NIGERIAN GROUPS TOWARDS THE IJAW PEOPLE.

I URGE EVERYONE TO DISREGARD THIS PAGE BECAUSE IT WAS RE-EDITTED BY THE SAME PERSON (TORKAKA) BEFORE IT WAS POSTED AS A THREAD.

THE OFFICIAL POPULATION OF THE IJAWS IS PUT AT ABOUT 28 MILLION (WITHIN NIGERIA & IN DIASPORA) God bless you all.

spiaggia: http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/opinion/48092--momodu-abuse-of-columnism


Momodu: Abuse of columnism



Written by Suraj Oyewale Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Give me a good piece, nicely crafted in fine language and you have made my day. This is why opinion and column pages of newspapers attract me more than any other part of a newspaper. There are columnists in Nigeria whose weekly columns I have not missed for many years. I buy newspapers because of columnists and my good friends in Thisday will forgive me if I confess that Dele Momodu is the reason I stopped buying Saturday editions of the paper since 2010. There are a number of Nigerian columnists I don’t agree with, but that fact doesn’t stop me from reading them, but not Momodu. And the reason is simple: I can’t stand men that don’t stand for anything and will easily fall for anything.

The popularisation of the Social Media has given rise to a number of emergency activists in recent time. From Facebook to twitter, these pretenders are there, taking advantage of the public mood, pretending to be on the side of the masses. If Dino ‘Mike Tyson’ Melaye thought we had forgotten how he was captured on live TV shamelessly punching a woman co-member of the lower chamber just two years ago, then we can forgive Femi Fani-Kayode for suddenly finding his voice as a freelance activist. After all, it’s been more than five years that he has lost his national relevance and eagerly needs attention again. Malam Nasir el-Rufai, even if ahead of these fellows in terms of performance while in office, also needs to watch his twitter activities as his needless attacks on the current administration is becoming boring and worn out, and even in unmoderated cyberspace, decency calls for moderation.

But while the above mentioned emergency activists’ activities are more on the social media, Momodu, in addition to his thoughtless twitter postings, also has a formal medium, his Saturday column in Thisday, to himself to lecture us on governance and people. Until recently, Momodu hardly wrote on politics. His turf is entertainment and I have no business with that – that is his choice. Week in, week out, if Momodu is not praising Ghana, he is entertaining us with how he sat in the fourth row in Michael Jackson’s burial service, how he spoke with Mike Adenuga the night before, how he visited MKO Abiola in London, how he visited Siberia or Djibouti, how he fought during the Liberia war, or how he owned a Limousine. But the few times Momodu’s pendulum swings to politics and political economy, one wonders whether he would not have done better staying in his entertainment and photography turf. Among such days was Saturday, September 22, 2012.

Someone had posted an article entitled ‘The Bully called Sanusi’ in an online discussion forum without referencing the author. My quick googling of the original article directed me to Thisday website and I saw the article as Momodu’s. I had expected Momodu to do better this time round, given the fact that there is a very good case to disagree with CBN governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi in his current proposed but now suspended currency restructuring exercise – an exercise I also hold is not well-advised. But rather than Momodu dealing with the substance of the matter this time round, he continued from where he stopped in 2009 when Sanusi sacked two of his celebrity friends in the banking industry. In an article he wrote in 2009, Momodu, while subtly admitting patronage from two of the sacked bank bosses for his magazine business, chided SLS for his kamikaze reforms. To Momodu, it is no crime to empty depositors’ monies, inasmuch as such looters patronise his photography business. After all, he saw no wrong in promoting Babangida and Abacha’s ill-acquired opulence in his magazine for the right prices. Thankfully, he did not find corruption in SLS’s baggage – the common denominator of all his (Momodu’s) patrons in both the private and public sectors.

Momodu wrote: “He (Sanusi) needed to disguise his real intentions and motives by taking on an entire institution and sacking otherwise brilliant bankers in the process”. Even after one of Momodu’s ‘brilliant bankers’ owed up to stealing the funds and judicially accepting to forfeit assets in addition to paying back N191 billion, to Momodu, the matter is still a case of witch-hunting and disguised motive. Whatever is Sanusi’s motive, Momodu should be bold enough to admit his benefactors’ thievery. That is when we can begin to take him seriously.

The currency redenomination proposal, for all its benefits, doesn’t sound convincing enough to me as well-advised, but Sanusi not getting it right this time doesn’t diminish the good things he had done in the past, especially instilling sanity in our financial system. So the old music of ‘hidden agenda’, as sung by the likes of Momodu since 2009, is faded and if Dele’s mission is to take advantage of the current public sentiments against Sanusi to revise history, he has failed woefully.

Momodu also made a veiled attempt to set Sanusi against his boss, President Goodluck Jonathan. Even though this is not new, as a serving Senator even made a more direct remark in that regard recently, the analysis is an orchestrated mis-read of events. If anything, the hesitation exercised by the President before finally succumbing to socio-political pressure to suspend Sanusi’s policy only shows the President still has confidence in the CBN leadership.

Expectedly, Momodu did not fail to lend his voice to the pepper soup joint talk about Sanusi’s presidential ambition. No serious media will take that seriously, because it doesn’t take personal knowledge to know Sanusi fares better as a critic than as a politician and clearly not the type that will climb the podium to dish out those lies called electoral manifestoes as it is done in this part of the world. Above all, he has never hidden his ultimate ambition in life.

In any case, even at the nadir of his popularity today, if Sanusi were to contest presidential election, he would surely poll more than one hundred times the miserable 26,000 Momodu returned countrywide in 2011!

He who lives in glass house should not throw stone.

Oyewale, a blogger and public commentator, lives in Lagos.


Dear Oyewale,

While not being a fan of Momodu, I must state that in your bias you are also guilty of throwing away the baby with the bath water. Momodu has made some salient points and this should be noted. First, the way and manner in which Sanusi conducts the business of governing the CBN leaves a great al to be desired. This can be seen is some of his actions and utterances which to say the least are provocative. His championing of sectional causes such as his reason for the Boko haram uprising and him attributing it to the revenue formulae is unsettling. He spoke then not as a CBN governor but rather as a Boko haram spokesman.

Then there is the issue of his partiality and unilateral donation of money to victims of Boko haram bombings. I can go on and on but let me just end by saying that perharps since Okotie Ebohs first republic show of ethnic garb, Sanusi's appearance as a Prince of Sokoto in full traditional and Islamic garb just tells you how this man's brain functions. This is not helped by The former FCT minister, El Rufai's recent recent praise of SLS as the only brain in the entire Federal Government. What position do you think Rufai is promoting SLS for?

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MAYOWAAK: Who is Sanusi Lamido Sanusi Written by Uche Igwe

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the Dan Majen of Kano must be both saddened and probably shocked wherever he is now. I do not know the Central Bank Governor in person. I saw him first at the annual meeting of African Development Bank in Abidjan in 2010 and then in Washington DC earlier in the year but did not get to chat with him. However, since he was appointed the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, I have been following his utterances and actions cautiously and methodically.

slsOne must admit he has taken some steps which portrayed him as a man with enormous guts and convictions. The sack and subsequent prosecution of Managing Directors of five banks suggest that Mr. Sanusi could bring an end to ‘business-as-usual’ practices in the Nigerian banking industry. Furthermore, the man called SLS by his admirers never shied away from public debates as it can be said to be to his credit that the debate about the salaries of federal lawmakers was brought to the public domain.

Both in 2010 and 2011, Emerging Markets Magazine named him the World’s Central Bank Governor of the year. In 2011, Times Magazine voted him as one of the 100 most influential people in the world while Forbes magazine voted him as Africa’s person of the year. These are no mean achievements that both his admirers and critics must acknowledge. But I am not carried away by them. Lest I forget, SLS has also till date procured about five honorary doctorate degrees for himself from five Nigerian Universities. Though the fact remains that these are no mean achievements either, there are so many things about the apex bank governor that deserve urgent clarification.

Many observers have raised justifiable reservations about his academic qualifications pointing to the fact that SLS may not be as qualified and may only be posturing. But that is by the way. His seeming knack for controversy has caused observers to continue to probe into his background to raise questions about whether Mr. Sanusi is using his position to advance national interest or a sectional one. His stubborn insistence on introducing Islamic banking and his controversial donation of 100 million naira to the Muslim victims of Kano bomb blasts partly confirmed rumours that continued to lurk around his personality. Never mind that he ran back to donate 25 million (one quarter of what he gave in Kano) to the Christian victims in Madala, Niger State in an effort to cover his shame.

Here is a man who conducted himself as though the Central Bank that he heads is a republic of its own even under the nose of a sitting President. You can take this to the bank. The main reason behind every conduct of Mr. Sanusi might be the fact that he is fully aware that he is not qualified and he is doing everything humanly possible to cover up his deficiencies. Although SLS has a bachelor’s degree in Economics, most of his writings before his appointment have been Sharia legal system only. Though Section 8 of the CBN Act is not explicit about the meaning of ‘proven integrity and recognised financial experience’, I argue that someone with Sanusi’s credentials could suffice as Governor in the sixties not in the era of globalization. One must continue to wonder the sort of system that throws up people who are relatively unknown to sensitive national positions based mainly on geographical considerations. I recall that Mr. Sanusi was nominated to that position at a time when the word cabal was probably the most important word in the Nigerian polity and that partly justifies the way he carried himself even after the cabal publicly lost out in the vicious power game. Both his utterances, his pattern of donations, even his policies sound like they are predesigned to make a particular section of the country comfortable and happy. A more objective and rigorous scrutiny of the actions carried out by SLS will reveal his ‘reforms’ might turn out to be one of the most unprofessional and whimsical consolidation exercises that have ever been conducted in the history of banking in Nigeria. Mr. Sanusi might have denied his rumoured Presidential ambition, but the trajectory of his new found philanthropy has sold him out. He will go down in history as one man who has made the highest amount of discretionary donations with public funds.

Probably the most disturbing is the allegation that Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is both a supporter and sympathiser of religious extremism. Dependable academic sources documented that one Sanusi Lamido Sanusi alleged played a catalytic role in the public beheading of one Mr. Gideon Akaluka in Kano in 1995 on a false allegation of desecrating the Muslim holy book. A 2003 report from the Centre for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School Harvard University, United States of America, affirms that this singular event sparked off the religious riots where thousands of Christians were massacred. It was said that Mr. Sanusi was expelled from Kano and locked up in Sokoto prisons for two years by the late Sani Abacha government until his benefactors bailed him out. Now, hang on a minute- could it be the same person or a case of mistaken identity? Who really is Sanusi Lamido Sanusi? A cerebral economist? A reform minded regulator? An ambitious politician? Or an Islamic fundamentalist? The answers to these questions will reveal the real personality of the head of the apex bank and can give ordinary Nigerians fresh insights as to what the next move of the Dan Majen Kano may be.

http://transparencyng.com/index.php/contributions/60-guest/7141-who-is-sanusi-lamido-sanusi

CHESSBOARD: Hmm...he is actually campaigning for Buhari

noblezone: Emm, Prof:

did you really say that Buhari, IBB and Abacha were all your friends?

Then Prof, I am thinking of birds of the same feather.

Please, shut up. Okay?

debrief08: I agree totally, to think I was pregnant and food no reach me, one would think they will serve the pregnant women first. I want my share jor

ilugunboy: Lolzzzz....love the Sarcasm...at least you need to be quiet intelligent to get at what you are trying to put across...but I bet you many won't see it like info.

sheyguy: Jonathan bleeped up no doubt, but then ACN didn't av to open their mouth . . .

ABAKA72: Aggressiveness of small people, please you people should forgive him, if he doesn't act the way he is acting how will he be noticed. it's a psychological complex with tiny people, such people feel that people look down on them, thats why they are always mean when they weld power. check all the smallish people you know for confirmation.

danjohn: El Rufai needs to learn how to act like a statesman.

musiwa7: salami did not nominate akeredolu.. first of all akeredolu can not win ondo state. you are pushing ondo state people into violent once again. you have to understand ondo state... akeredolu will not get even 30% of the vote in ondo state in a free and fair election.. the reason is akeredolu was the president of the nba.. and never use that position to better the lot of the people of ondo state.

akeredolu have seen the satellite pictures and akeredolu never used the nba to fight for justice. you can not expect a man who refuse to fight for justice for the people of ondo state to rule over the people of ondo state.. imagine if gani was nba president what do you think will happen..


As nba president God gave akeredolu a golden opportunity to fight for justice for our people akeredolu refused..

politics is not about party but in getting good people into power.



nigeria workers will suffer.. nobody will speak for the interest of the people. see.. you know nigeria that it is hard to fight labour union in nigeria.


you see i watch tinubu saying this is the party of adeferanti... they say akeredolu is the candidate of adefanrati. nobody liked adefanrrati in ondo state.. police had to guard his house for many month so that they dont burn his house in his home town.. people frrom his home town will have burn down his house.. akoko people never liked adeferanti where he comes from.. the whole of ondo state never like him..

Ondo state people dont like tinubu and they prefer their own thing.. You will notice that ondo was the only state in Nigeria that control 2 banks out of 25 that was remaining before sanusi came to power.

You have to remember 1983 election and you dont want violent that will result in the overthrow of the govt.

There use to be a time in Nigeria when the NBA was the hope of the common man..

akeredolu does not have what it takes to win.. except if he had a deputy governor who is more acceptable than mimiko. but he is less acceptable than mimiko in ondo state. But he can not win base on ACN or his reputation..

anonimi: Does anyone remember these words from the master strategist, Superman Tinubu only a few days ago:



So how much did Tinubu pay Justhief Salami to fight his case in court