₦airaland Forum

Dreal1247:
Good

For real?

There is nothing wrong with familiar spirit taking a stroll in the night

Jennifer663:
The Public Relations officer of the Delta State Police Command, DSP Bright Edafe has recently taken to Twitter to share a story of a young boy who was arrested at a back spot at around 3a.m by the Police in Delta state and how the young boy asked the Police what happened to his freedom of movement?
The Police officer shared this in a tweet on his official Twitter page on Wednesday, 14th of September 2022.

According to DSP Bright Edafe, he said that an 18 years old boy was recently arrested in Delta state at a black spot and that he advised that the young boy should be released if nothing incriminating was found on him.

Speaking further in his tweet, the Police officer said that following this development, the young boy asked them what happened to his freedom of movement?
While asking for people opinion on the issue, DSP Bright Edafe asked people what an 18 years old boy was doing outside at 3 a.m.

The Police officer further asked if it is a norm for young people to be moving around at such odd hours, or it is bad parenting that causes it?What is your take on this issue? Kindly let us know in the section below.

Ebonyians are ratified. Gbam.

Massiveglory:
That's a good one. But it is not his money it is our money he hammered and he is hammering from our lagos treasury

What would you say of someone that don't give shishi but would rather divert state money to private business that produces shayo that would eventually destroy the life of his people

Jestin:
See stupid Zack Orji with white beard. I used to think people with white beard have wisdom but this man is foolish. Tinubu should host Sango but he is going to where

Make una dey abuse everyone, you go see who would vote your fake China product on election dey.

IamAtikulate:
Tinubu getting 18% in SW should be more of a concern to urchins

Shut up a confused atikulator that is zombidient, na your type vote dey enter void. Confused mofo

Munonyealvan:
A poll on the 2023 election shows Peter Obi in the lead

Peter Obi will get 68% in SE but Tinubu would get 18% from SW, una dey ment

Qurungu:
Maradona! All 3 candidates fit his description.
Atiku and Tinubu are the politicians and have friends everywhere, and they can also be expected to communicate better and recruit better because of this. Obi does not necessarily fit in to this “quality”.
All three can be said to favor a capitalist economy, but Obi is most frugal and least wasteful. This in itself can be a problem in a democracy, as people expect money to circulate fairly freely.
And finally, only Obi of the three main candidates fit the age description IBB gave.
So, who exactly is he talking about? Kwankwaso?
Please say if you know.

The interview was done in February and Tinubu was still 69 then when the interview was granted.

Obi doesn't fit into IBB description at all because he is not an economist, doesn't have national appeal and spread and he is not among first rated politicians in Nigeria

Espelbengz:
Obi is not an economist, but studied philosophy and does not have friends across the country like Tinubu who studied economics does, on the other hand obi is in his 60s while Tinubu in his 70.. IBB is definitely maradonic�

Obi was not an aspirant when the statement was made. Tinubu and Osinbajo fit into IBB image of future president. At the time that statement was made Tinubu was still 69, he clocked 70 in match.

Obi was never an economist

rhymesnoni:
This interview was way before APC/PDP Primaries, he was even referring to the then aspirant of APC and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo...

You guys should stop deceiving yourselves with the Obidient nonsense..!!!!!

Just leave the mumu them dey dance Makaba dance. I've never seen any naive group as empty as the obidient. Does it mean their brain can't reason properly or what?

Atiku is the pioneer of corruption at National Assembly, is that the way he is going to waste our meagre resources if given opportunity?

No wonder he japa fast fast

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christejames:
The Dapo Abiodun administration has taken it up a step further to construct an Agro/Commercial Airport in the undulating plain of Illeshan-Remo sandwiched some few kilometers inbetween Abeokuta and lagos.

The project is now at advanced stage of construction. The governor stated that flight will commenced on the airport before the years runs out.

Good luck to Ogun State and Nigeria!

In a coded level, no noise no fanfare, yet some people will leave their redundant governors to focus on SW governors

Kingpin1000:
I stopped reading when OBJ said He was at the airport when Atiku succeeded.
Atiku is a smart man no doubts, He saw this in Wike and dodge a bullet, imagine Wike as Atiku V.p.
Atiku wouldn't have slept well, He would have been watching his back all through.
OBJ will never forgive Atiku for thwarting his 3^rd term agenda

Atiku is not smart, he is only being cunning in all his manoeuvres otherwise he wouldn't have relied on the prediction of his marabout as motivation for his pursuit of becoming president.

Who knows, he may equally rely on new prediction for his 2023 wasteful venture.

With this revelation, Atiku ti lule

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“By the Constitution, I had to inaugurate or prorogue the National Assembly on June 4, 1999. The most important officer in the National Assembly is the senate president and that office had been zoned to the South-east. And here was where Atiku Abubakar, my vice-president, first showed his hand and his character.

“Without seeking my view or approval, he started planning the installation of Chuba Okadigbo as the senate president. I did a background check on Chuba including his past as a student and made enquiries about him in the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) under (President Shehu) Shagari and no one would recommend him for the post of senate president.

“I left Atiku to go on his chase while I carried out a meticulous and detailed investigation and background check on each senator from the South-east. The one that appeared most appointable was Evan Enwerem. I canvassed the senate across the board for his election and he was elected. Atiku did not expect it and he felt sore.He began to strategise for Enwerem to be removed and Chuba Okadigbo to be installed. His strategy worked because I was at Abuja airport to receive a visiting head of state when the news reached me that the Senate had impeached Enwerem and elected Okadigbo. I was not perturbed. I came to understand from some senators including Florence Ita-Giwa, who later became my Special Adviser/ Liaison Officer to the National Assembly, that Atiku distributed US$5,000 each to some senators to carry out the ‘coup’.

“That was the beginning of bribing the legislature to carry out a particular line of action to suit or satisfy the purpose or desire of an individual or a group. The National Assembly had tasted blood and they would continue to want more. From the day I nominated Atiku to be my vice, he set his mind not for any good, benefit or service of the country, but on furiously planning to upstage, supplant or remove me at all cost and to take my place.

“That was what I brought him for, but he was impatient and over-ambitious. He was not ready to learn and to wait. His marabout, who predicted that despite being elected as governor, he would not be sworn in as a governor, which happened, also assured him that he would take over from me in a matter of months rather than years.“All his plans, appointments of people and his actions were towards the actualisation of his marabout’s prediction. Once I realised his intention and programme, I watched him like a hawk without giving any indication of what I knew and letting down my guard. I could not succumb to the distraction, diversion and malevolence of an ambitious but unwise deputy.

“The work in hand was more important than a confrontational relationship with my deputy, a man over whom I knew I had far more experience and outreach in all matters. To alert him of what I knew he was up to, would only lead to lying, denial, more mischievous plans and more duplicity on his part.

“He was better managed that way. What was important was not allowing myself to be surprised or outmanoeuvred by him. I must always seize the initiative and know what was going on if not in his mind, but at least in his camp. That I did very effectively.

“Sometime in the fourth quarter of 2004, an associate of Atiku came to my residence at the Aso Villa from Atiku’s official residence. He felt uncomfortable and I tried to make him feel at ease. Then, he settled to tell me the story of what had just transpired in Atiku’s residence. I listened with rapt attention.He went on to say that Atiku told him that for him to become the President of Nigeria, the 2007 elections were only a formality.

“The seven ingredients he needed for his enthronement were already in his hands. He controlled the National Assembly because both the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives were in his pocket. He controlled twenty-eight out of thirty-six governors. He had control of the media. His influence over the judiciary was overwhelming.

“What he needed was foreign endorsement and for that he had employed two lobby groups in the US and one in the UK. And finally, the money for the elections was in his purse.

“When the man finished, I thanked him without passing any comment. The man was surprised at my reaction and asked, ‘You have nothing to say to these?’ I said that I had nothing to say and I immediately called my ADC, Chris Jemitola, to play a game of squash with me.

“On our way to the squash court with my ADC, I said, ‘People at times make plans and leave God out of their plans.’ My casual remark struck Chris and he said, ‘Sir, that was a profound statement.’ I said that I made the statement because of what I had just heard of Atiku’s plan. I was not convinced he had put God in his plans.Atiku was confident and God was laughing. Most of Atiku’s ingredients soon started to fall out of place one by one. The first was the party, PDP.

“He thought I was powerless and had no clue about the execution of his plan with his group; part of his attack on me was for national chairman of the party to give the first salvo, then other things would follow as his grip on the party would be firm and consolidated.

“That salvo came in the form of a letter to me from the chairman of the party, Audu Ogbeh, who had fully defected with (Iyorchia) Ayu to Atiku.

“The letter, which was not the product of any issue or matter discussed with or at any party meeting, came suddenly. When I received it, I could read the sinister intention behind it.

“I spent that night writing my reply and I sent it in the morning. My reply was clear. I wondered why Atiku and his group did not realise that with my reply, the battle line was clear or maybe they thought that the seven ingredients would remain intact to the end.

“My assistants had moles within the Atiku group. Anything that they planned would be reported. That was the case after Ogbeh’s letter. They decided that Ogbeh should appear remorseful and come with the National Working Committee to apologise to me. It was not from their hearts, but to lure me to a ‘killing ground’.

“All pieces of information that were reported were verified because it would not come from only one informant.Timely information is a very important principle of war and also of politics. In politics, just as in war, what matters is not just your plan, but knowledge of your opponent’s plan. Knowing their plan, I had the choice of playing along with them or being firm, I chose the latter.

“I told Ogbeh that my relationship with him as national chairman and me as national leader of the party was based on mutual confidence and trust. But with his letter, my reply and what I knew of him then, I could no longer work with him in confidence and trust.

“There were only two choices left for both of us in our best interest and that of the party – he, leaves as chairman or I leave as leader of the party.

“The following Sunday, I called at his house, which I had done on several occasions in the past when there was an important party matter to discuss. This time, I asked him to give me an undated letter of resignation as the national chairman.

“I waited, he gave me but it was wrongly addressed to me rather than to the national secretary of the party as stipulated in the party’s constitution.

“Ogbeh reported to his group and it was decided by them to play on and to wait for my disgrace whenever I presented a letter of resignation not addressed to the national secretary.

“The informants did their job and I, once again, paid another visit to Ogbeh at his residence. He entertained me to a meal and drink, and changed the addressee on his letter of resignation.“It would appear he never reported the change to his group. When I considered it opportune and appropriate, the letter was dated and presented to National Executive Committee of the party, which regrettably accepted the resignation.

“With that, whatever control Atiku claimed to have over the party began to crumble. But he did not think so and went on to boast that if I made my daughter the national chairman, it would be a matter of weeks not months before he would put her in his pocket.

“I therefore had to look for a successor chairman, who would be too big, uncompromising and inflexible to be lured and controlled by Atiku. I found such a man in Senator (Dr.) Amadu Ali, whom I had known many years earlier as a medical doctor in the army…”

*Me:* Quite revealing!


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ProblemChild1:
minna is still better than most capital bro

Don't mind the guy

Jashub:
You are dreaming and hallucinating at the same time. Minna has no bloody commercial activity to even call it a state capital let alone have the infrastructure to be considered as one. If not for FUT-Minna and the college of education, that town will be no better than a forest region surrounded by wildlife

Tell me any state capital apart from Ikeja, , Ibadan, PH, Kaduna, Kano, Onitsha and very few others that has commercial activity

Whao.Imo for APC

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Jashub:
Mention them...

Minna is better than Lokoja, Ado Ekiti, it is in the league of Awka, Abeokuta

Jashub:
Try visiting Minna , Niger state. You will think you were in 1934

Lies, Minna is better than at least 10capital city in Nigeria

Are you telling us you are to run on budget surplus?

Just tell us how you are going to do that rather than stating the obvious that you will equally do when you get there

Charlie Charlie, when an agbaya call himself area father what do you expect. A lost son of a reputable legal luminary who turned himself to tout with misplaced priority spewing rubbish.

Lest we forget !!!

Historical perspective of the hatred between the Igbos and the Yorubas

I had the privilege of attending some meetings of the Yoruba and Igbo Leaders. I was not a Leader but a Youth who knew how to wash his hands.

At one of those meetings in Owerri, I think in 1989 I think, I listened to Uncle Bola Ige and other Yoruba Leaders take the likes of Mbakwe, R. B. Okafor and others to the Cleaners when the Igbo said the Yoruba were betrayers, citing that Chief Obafemi Awolowo led them into secession with a promise that if the Igbo left Nigeria, the Yoruba would follow suit.

They accused him of not following up on his promise. Trust Uncle Bola Ige ! He pointed to Chief Mbakwe and said, "you were there in the meeting between Awolowo and Ojukwu as I was. Is that statement correct ?"

He turned to two other Igbo and two Yoruba Leaders who were at that meeting and asked the same question, saying he had transcripts of the meeting between Awolowo and Ojukwu.

They kept quiet while the Yoruba Leaders affirmed that Awolowo never promised to follow the East into secession. What he said was that if the Igbo were "driven" out of Nigeria the Yoruba would take it seriously and reassess their own position. Igbo Leaders DID NOT CONTEST this version.

Then Chief Bola Ige threw in the clincher ! "Who are you to accuse the Yoruba of betrayal ?" he roared, and continued:

1. At Independence Awolowo offered a joint Government between the NCNC and AG, with Zik as Prime Minister and Awo as Finance Minister. Awo and Zik "were still negotiating" when it was announced that Zik would be President in a coalition with NPC of the North.

The East then collaborated in destroying the West and sending Awolowo and his Lieutenants to Jail !

2. What of the 1965 elections which the West and the East agreed to boycott ? We met all night and reached agreement about 3 am on the day of the election.

In the morning, while the Yoruba boycotted the election, the Igbo went to vote

3. After the 1979 elections Yoruba (UPN) and Igbo (APP ?) Leaders were still at the negotiating Table for a coalition when to their surprise, an announcement was heard that the Igbo (APP) had agreed to a coalition with the North (NPN).

4. After the 1983 elections, 1979 repeated itself.

Not giving up, Awolowo reached out to Azikiwe again for cooperation.

Talks started and they met in Benin where Awo pleaded passionately that only a collaboration between The Igbo and the Yoruba could save Nigeria.

They didn't reach agreement but promised to meet again. Before the next meeting, the Igbo had again teamed up with the North.

Uncle Bola paused and then continued "we can go on and on. So how dare you accuse the Yoruba of betrayal ?

How many Igbo have been killed in Lagos, Ibadan, Akure, Oshogbo (he mentioned other Yoruba towns)? You have your Businesses in the West and went to Western Schools.

Yet you count the Yoruba as your Enemy. You get killed in Kaduna, Kano, Bauchi, Zaria etc and have your Goods looted yet you consider the Hausa/ Fulani your Friends.

It's your choice. If you want to be Slaves for ever, we can't help you"

I had never been so scared in my life. I thought the Roof was going to fall. There was a pin drop silence and no Igbo dared interrupt Uncle Bola Ige because he was telling the truth.

The Yoruba Leaders ended the meeting at that point and left. I hope Chief C. O. Adebayo's memoirs will give more details of those exchanges.

Copied from "FRIENDS IKOYI CLUB 1938" Forum posted by Adenike Marinho, a Medical Doctor.

Courtesy: Ayoade Ojeniyi

Nigeria Youth Movement

We all know that before. Obi is just been cunny

plusfield:
He ignited nothing. You guys have a way of beating an evil drum in the bush and then jump into the road to ask who beat that drum.
Ethnic division is and has always been the only campaign strategy of Tinubu and apc

Well-meaning Nigerians know which region is full of hate and bigotry

The fire of ethnicity Obi ignite is spreading. He should deal with it

He has always been known to be fraudulent, a dishonest and dishonourable grandfather who pierces all his body in the name of fashion and music but still ended as a failure

Obi can only compete with the likes of Yahaya Bello, Ikpeasu, Dapo Abiodun and the likes, he can't even stand Fashola, Amaechi, Donald Duke, El Rufai, Umahi in a contest of performance not to talk of Tinubu, Kwakwaso

OsunOriginal:
A man who has never associated with the people in any struggle is definitely not for the people. Hopefully, you won't mistakenly make Obi your president when Biafra is realized.

Obi can never defeat Nnamdi Kanu in the Biafra presidency contest.

That's to show that Obi is just an opportunist

AlexBells:
Was Obi an activist or a business man cum politician, during endsars, Obi did support the Nigerian youth, meanwhile during June 12 lol, Obi was a young man struggling to establish in the business world, Obi currently employs more people than Sowore which is the one a bit close to Obi in age.

Obi was also a governor which makes him part of the government, do you expect him to protedt against his government or listen to the protest, most protest during Obi's time was attended to, you seem to mistake political activism with being a politician, the people you mentioned were activist Obi on the other hand is a business man a politician you don't expect the ones solving the problem to join those pressurinsung for the problem to be solved

This is a response to expect from a bookworm who has been a reader since childhood.

Your defense is weak and lacks substance confirming you to be truly 27 years old with nothing upstairs than social media gossip and gist