₦airaland Forum

madenigga:
No king reigns forever, nothing lasts forever, better thing no dae last long, today's newspaper is tomorrow's suya paper.
D fates can be changed just work hard.
Nigeria fought a bloody civil war that lasted 3years, after that civil war in less than 10years igbos were able to produce a vice president (Alex Ekwueme) and a president from the north. Do u know y?
Do u know what made it possible for that to happen?
That has been over decades, okay now we are in a new democratic setting u guys are saying Buhari hates igbos, are u aware if how many times Buhari contested with an igbo man as his running mate yet lost? Yet u gullible people says he hates igbos.
Some days ago u guys were been cautioned to watch what u ppl say, after some comments on Nairaland was featured on AIT, u ppl still kept on spewing ignorance calling Buhari a dullard, calling Nigeria a zoo, u don't know if maybe out of d 100guests visiting d site he is his media advisers are one of them yet u people don't want to have sense.
U are a lady, I hv been to the southeast owerri to be precise so many times and am telling u if Nigeria divides u guys wud BEG for Nigerian visa.

Nigeria is a complete zoo in case u don't know. Please travel outside this country to see things for ur self.

madenigga:
All these Ediots that are shouting Biafra up and down, don't even know d circumstances that led to the first war, don't know anything abt how d war was fought, and anything abt igbos and Nigeria(i discovered that igbos are yet to learn from there mistakes and they keep repeating it over and over again politics is about interest not about tribe or ethnicity), all doz jobless men saying they are members of IPOB MASSOB and d rest chanting war songs should just know one thing, have a look at these boko haram videos and the rest about wars in the northeast, no wise man would want war in his soil, the Niger delta militants saw this, Asari saw this, they know that they cannot go head to head to Nigeria on a full blown war, that's y despite all d noise about war that they made and how they would secede if GEJ lost yet nothing, PMB stopped d amnesty programme yet nothing, He stopped the pipeline protection contract given to them yet nothing, took away a marine contract given ti one of there warlords yet nothing. Despite all d noise they made.
After d first civil war most of Nigerias arsenals were moved up North, most of them are currently up North because of this Boko haram issue, because most of u IPOB members have Akwa made guns and maybe are planning to attack a barrack y guys now assume u have weapons to fight a war.
I ve talked too much, he who has ears let him hear. If u still persist in ur suicide mission Goodluck to u.

Ur reason is why the white man call africans monkeys, must every thing be war? why cant these useless Nigerian govt organize a referendum to put secessonists to shame, like civilized countries do. For ur information southern cameroon seceded from nigeria through a referendum in 1963.

slydey:
And ur Ojukwu is what?

The man that saw tomorrow.

CSTR2:
osibanjo said recently that Nigeria does not produce cars and hinted that all import tariffs on cars will be drastically reduced.
A direct reversal of GEJ automotive policy.
Sorry, i am not optimistic at all.
The instability in policies will cripple this investment and others that we were expecting to come in.
It is only a matter of time before honda gets the hint and stop all investments till further notice.

That man should have faced his calling, I am waiting for him and his small small power plants at every ward.

emekachimek:
Exactly! He does some things that make even morons to wonder. He leaves the needful and does unnecessary things. You need to see Douglas road Owerri and its distasteful state, and he's busy doing this nonsense. Like politicians like being stupid

If you come to imsu road, u will be sorry for imolites, the road is filled with road side traders even at one of the gates of imo state university. In fact it is a big shame.

May be u don't know him well, he will never stop. Go and google Babangida's coup speech, . He is a complete hardliner

Rubbish, boko haram will end the day isis ends

ajebuter:
Not all Yoruba

I'm yoruba and happy things are falling apart for Tinubu, dulardihnooo and APC

So , get your fact right

Shoki

You must a reasonable man.

It is very clear that buhari is trying so hard to divid this country.

From the smell of mess, you know the taste of shiit

dorofresh:
If anything, history is there to teach us very vital lessons.

I hope Buhari has learnt his lessons having ruled Nigeria before.

The lopsided nature of his appointments so far calls for serious concern. I hope he will not prove those that have kept insisting he is a tribal warlord right?

This man shd tread carefully before his government spirals out of control. Nigerians do not joke with issues of ethnicity and religion. Those clamoring otherwise are either direct or indirect beneficiaries or are being plain hypocritical.

Those saying we shd wait for ministerial appointments are expressing warped logic, as those appointments are statutorily bound to reflect federal character.

It is in appointments such as these, that we can judge who this man really is. A word they say is enough for the wise....

SHALOM

From the smell of mess you know the taste of shiit.

[quote author=OrigamiIII post=35349781][/quote]koro, Adeshina, Bode.G etc are true sons of yoruba land, they are not bastards.

Beremx:
Before you start to cry foul and play the victim card,he will surely appoint Igbos in his cabinet.

Coolu down biko!

From the smell of mess, you know the taste of shiiit.

If buhari no put jonathan for kirikiri within the next three months, then i go no sey im be the biggest coward in nigeria.

Fg is just unimaginably foooolish, why put the boko bastards in a prison that is not a maximum security one

I am a true rivers man, but the truth is that successive nigerian govt, with the exception of gej govt, have treated the igbos badly. If I may ask, what stops the nigerian govt from giving the Igbos an additional state to pacify them

HopeAtHand:
We SS?? Please who is we? If you are speaking, speak for your tribe..tell me the name of your State and tribe in the SS before we start..i am Ikwerre, Rivers landlord.

Sharrap, I am from Etche and if biafra go, I and my whole clan will go with them.

This is exactly what boko haram wants.

Super1Star:
i wisssssss a y1boman can even be a commssioner.

I never knew Bukola or Saraki or Olusola or Gbemisola are northern names, until this nyamiri said so. Olodo upon 100.

Foool, saraki is a fulani man whose grand father migrated from mali.

We told people like that Jonathan is better than the man from Daura and u did not believe us, u have not seen anything yet. Meanwhile the lifting of ban on importation of textiles is not unconnected to the N300billion worth of textiles seized by the nigerian customs in kano
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NIGERIA IS NOT WORKING AND WILL NEVER WORK BECAUSE THE UNION IS DONE BY FORCE.. NO PEACE OR PROGRESS COMES BY FORCE.. WHEN BUHARI FELLS WOEFULLY YOU WILL KNOW,,,,,,,,,,,

In Kano state, textile traders, textile workers and the general public are on tenterhooks as the Nigeria Custom Service (NCS) awaits federal government’s directive on allegedly smuggled textile materials worth N315bn. Would the materials be burnt?

There is palpable tension in Kantin Kwari market, the acclaimed largest textile market in West Africa, following the seizure, by men of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), of N315 billion worth of textile materials allegedly smuggled into the country by Chinese nationals. The allegation is rife in Kano that Chinese smugglers of such materials connive with local traders to perpetrate the act.
Customs officials commenced, on 8 May this year, confiscation of textile materials considered to have been smuggled into the country. During the exercise which lasted three weeks, the NCS officials sealed a total of 75 warehouses stocked with textile materials estimated at N315bn, while some Chinese nationals were arrested. Since the commencement of the raid, Customs officials have been laying siege to warehouses in the state, a development that has put owners of the warehouses on the run.
Speaking during his visit to Kano penultimate Tuesday, Comptroller-General of the NCS, Mr Abdullahi Dikko Inde said the sealed warehouses contained contraband textile materials smuggled in from China.
“I initiated the raid of the warehouses from my office in Abuja, based on information, in order to salvage our economy. Goods in one warehouse there alone are worth N4.2bn, and if you multiply that by 75, you will get the worth of the seizure we have made.
“If you recall, during the Obasanjo regime, over 200 trailers loaded with contraband were burnt here in Kano and over 400 others were burnt in Lagos state. I will report this situation to the federal government for them to take a decision on it. We are doing our best and they (smugglers) are doing their worst. Even if all 170 million Nigerians are deployed to our borders, they cannot stop smuggling,” he added.
But the traders have deflated the claim of the Customs boss, saying the textile materials were imported through routes NCS officials were aware of. In an interview, the secretary of the Kano State Traders’ Union (KSTU), Alhaji Aliyu Lamin Gwale maintained that importers of the seized textile materials paid all the necessary duties on them.
“It was the closure of the textile factories in Nigeria that pushed us to China and we have been doing this for over 15 years. We have been bringing the textile materials through the only and known person that the Customs are aware of.
“We are surprised that suddenly they went after our warehouses and have sealed a total of 75 so far. This has crippled businesses in Kano and our people have been exposed to untold hardship,” Alhaji Gwale said.
The Chairman of the Kanti Kwari Traders Association, Alhaji Liti Kulkul declared that contrary to the allegation being bandied about, a huge chunk of the seized items belongs to members of his association and not Chinese traders.
“We paid appropriate taxes on the seized goods. We paid 5 per cent on each N20m goods as tax through our agent. But we are not arguing with the government. We are ready to join hands with the government to sanitise the textile business in Nigeria. Now they are demanding that we should pay N5bn on every billion naira worth of textile as penalty. This is on the high side,” Alh Kulkul pleaded.
The National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN), the umbrella body of textile workers in the country, has, however, hailed the efforts of the NCS and called for the burning of the seized textiles.
“We are impressed by the recent discovery of 75 illegal warehouses in Kano where contraband textile materials worth about N319.9bn were stored. We commend the Customs for the reported seizure of the smuggled textile materials. We hope that this development is not another passing fad and is in line with the mood of the country for change. An enduring commitment of the Customs to do its job is to protect local producers and help the country ensure sustainable jobs,” the workers said in a statement by their General Secretary, Comrade Issa Aremu.
According to Comrade Aremu, the major threat to the realization of the great potential of Nigeria in textile production is the high influx of counterfeit and smuggled goods. “Over 90 per cent of Nigeria’s huge market size is dominated by smuggled and counterfeit goods, killing local companies in Kano, Kaduna, Lagos, Guzau, Aba and Port Harcourt, and millions of direct and indirect associated local jobs.
“Remarkably, too, smuggling denies the government the much-needed revenue in unpaid custom duties. According to the Comptroller-General of Customs, Alhaji Diko Abdullahi, the duty value of the goods in one out of the uncovered 75 warehouses in Kano is N4.2bn. When we add the value duties of all the 75 warehouses, one will appreciate the enormous loss of revenue to the government,” Aremu said.
The workers called for the burning of the seized textile materials. In their words, “all the above efforts will end in vain unless the seized contraband textile materials are burnt in public like seized drugs otherwise they would find ways to the market, thereby defeating the ongoing efforts to curtail smuggling”.
Aremu called on President Muhammadu Buhari to reconstitute the Presidential Task Force on Destruction of Seized Textile Materials once chaired by the current governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir Ahmed el-Rufai.
He advised, “The task force should include all critical stakeholders, including labour. This is necessary in order to protect and strengthen our domestic textile industries and save Nigerians’ jobs. If we combine the fight against smuggling with uninterrupted supply of electricity, long-term cheap funds through the bank of Industry and government patronage of locally produced textiles (school uniforms, police and Customs uniforms), there is no doubt that textile industry in the fullest of time will come back.”
The traders’ insistence that they resorted to importing textile materials in view of the closure of textile factories in the country is drawing flaks from textile workers, who lashed back that the traders contributed in the first place to the misfortune that befell the textile factories through what they alleged was, and remains, their illegal and unbridled smuggling of textile materials into the country.
Will the Obasanjo regime treatment be revisited on the whopping N315bn worth of textile materials in the Customs’ grip? Both the affected traders in Kano state and textile workers, through their NUTGTWN, are tension-soaked on the outcome, each party hung on its interest.

99% of igbos caught for drug offence are from Anambra, why?

This is what u get when u kill 3million people and refuse to apologize to the relatives. This is really sad.

I can now understand why they stopped the pastor from attending the security meeting.

Bombing a whole community because of few criminals is totally unacceptable.

This is not the function of the army, where is the police?