₦airaland Forum

teminoni: You are quite foolish in your unique way. Are you suppose to be comparing disasters with other countries? Are yoU not suppose to be comparing achievements? 5, 6, 7, years ago did we face all these challenges we are facing now? Even the few we were facing then were controlled and handled properly; what is GEJ doing to handle all these problems now? Instead he is renaming universities and taking decisions that make things harder for the masses. Please open your eyes and realize what is happening around you.

You must be a dreg product of the current disjointed and despoiled educational system. Do'nt you read newspapers, magazines and sensibly analyse happenings around you. 5 to 7 years ago events are now not in any way different from what we are experiencing now. What has changed? Nothing. Because elements like you would never allow changes to happen. Power belongs to God and He gives it to whomever he chooses. Nigerian voted massively for GEJ to run the government for 4 years and after another person will take over. You foolished people think that power should reside with a few section of the country. I know that is why GEJ problems had problems with. That is why you foolish people like you resist change. What is wrong in renaming UNILAG to MAULAG. The Federal Government headed by GEJ owns, funds and run the school and if, in their wisdom, decided to change the name, of what concerned is yours. You educated illiterates will never see beyong your noses. Pity! Pity!!

Ofuks: Since 29th May, 2011 to date it seem all GEJ's fresh air policies have only succeeded in alienating him from the people who turned out enmasse to cast their votes for him. From his shady anti- corruption crusade down to his fuel subsidy shocker and his ineffective security systems the people had looked on with wonder. My people what could have happened to Oga Jonathan?

This is a useless post. What has so happened during GEJ time that has not happened before. We have had coups, plane crashes, wars, tribal battles, religions wars, ete etc, before. Are you new in Nigeria. Did all these problems start today? You people have done all you can to undermine GEJ Presidency. You failed election and you vowed that GEJ would never have a peaceful government. Remember it is what you sow you will reap. Look back to 1960, it has been like this. We will never give our Head of State or President the chance to succeed. When Obasanjo come on board, some reactionary elements started Sharia to undermine the government. They write useless posts and paint unreal positions. Why do you not look at the positive things that have happened instead of dwelling on the negatives. UK had IRA rebels problems, US had and is till having terrorism threats from Alkada and others, Isreal had Palistinians problems up till now, Italy has mafiaso and drugs problems, Uganda has Northern Rebel problems, Zimbabwe had sit-titism and serious economic problems. Ghana once had serious economic and leadership problems, The list is endless. They all struggled and got out of the water and some are still struggling to solve the problems. There is no country in the world now that does not have one problem or the other, always caused by reactionary people of your ilks, who will never dwell on the positive but on the negative. Even if things are moving, they say they are not moving. As far as I am concerned, no past Nigerian head of state or Presidnet never had problems with die hard critics like you who put stumbling blocks on the way of success. The earlier you people repent, the better for this country. Otherwise, if even Jesus Christ comes to rule Nigeria, people like you will still see otherwise.

Ofuks: Since 29th May, 2011 to date it seem all GEJ's fresh air policies have only succeeded in alienating him from the people who turned out enmasse to cast their votes for him. From his shady anti- corruption crusade down to his fuel subsidy shocker and his ineffective security systems the people had looked on with wonder. My people what could have happened to Oga Jonathan?

This is a useless post. What has so happened during GEJ time that has not happened before. We have had coups, plane crashes, wars, tribal battles, religions wars, ete etc, before. Are you new in Nigeria. Did all these problems start today? You people have done all you can to undermine GEJ Presidency. You failed election and you vowed that GEJ would never have a peaceful government. Remember it is what you sow you will reap. Look back to 1960, it has been like this. We will never give our Head of State or President the chance to succeed. When Obasanjo come on board, some reactionary elements started Sharia to undermine the government. They write useless posts and paint unreal positions. Why do you not look at the positive things that have happened instead of dwelling on the negatives. UK had IRA rebels problems, US had and is till having terrorism threats from Alkada and others, Isreal had Palistinians problems up till now, Italy has mafiaso and drugs problems, Uganda has Northern Rebel problems,Zimbabwe had sit-titism and serious economic problems. Ghana once had serious economic and leadership problems, The list is endless. They all struggled and got out of the water and some are still struggling to solve the problems. There is no country in the world now that does not have one problem or the other, always caused by reactionary people of your ilks, who will never dwell on the positive but on the negative. Even if things are moving, they say they are not moving. As far as I am concerned, no past Nigerian head of state or Presidnet never had problems with die hard critics like you who put stumbling blocks on the way of sucess. The earlier you people repent, the better for this country. Otherwise, if even Jesus Christ comes to rule Nigeria, people like you will still see otherwise.

The northern governors spokesman Gov Babangida Aliu says the North will use the Yorubas to dislodge GEJ in 2015. Yorubas, when will you be tired of being used and then dumped like used nappy by the North? Despite your being loyally used as alley, your people are being killed daily in the North. Two of your professors were killed recently in Kano by Boko Haram. GEJ is God sent to you. He is the only redeemer you have. Just as the Jews did not know that the Messiah has come, that is how I perceive your situation. Cherio!

Thanks to GEJ for ordering unqualified students fished out of UniAbuja. UniAbuja has been in the news for quite a while now, especially since the present VC Prof Adedibo came on board. Students are admitted through the backyard, on payment of huge sums of money and other gratifications. Check, the last three PUME results were never published and students were admitted through God knows how. Apart from flushing out unqualified students, the VC activities over the years should be investigated, and lecturers in the universities should submit their qualifications for verification and scrutiny. Inshort sanitise and disinfect the stinking situation in Uniabuja quickly.

The admission problems in Nigeria is a very big concern to most people. Many of our qualified students cannot gain admission to the public tertiary institutions. The private schols have prohibitive school fees. The very rich send their wards to these private high institutions and overseas for eduction. The poor languish here without admission. Any wonder the rate of armed robbery and kidnapping is on the rise? These are signs of a failed country, the result of bad and planless leadership over the years. God help us. Ameen

My dear, don’t worry yourself and don’t break your head over nothing. First class is very good, 2nd class upper is good but it is not the guarantee to success in life. There are so many graduates in Nigeria with 1st class that don’t even have a job. There are also many graduates in Nigeria with 2nd class upper without any jobs. It is only God’s grace that makes one successful. Be focused, hardworking and above all pray for God’s grace and favour. Only God can determine one’s success or failure in Life.



You may be surprised you get the best of jobs amongst people with the best of results.

PeterKbaba, all what you wrote is utter banderdash. Look, nobody can deceive anybody in Nigeria anylonger. We know what the South West represent. Sectionalism and tribalism in SW are lengendry and historic and I think is skin deep. ACN is not the party performing. Individuals perform on their own merit. That why you see Governor Goodswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom, Gov Makarfi of Kaduna State, Governor Duke of Cross River State performed, etc all of PDP performed creditably well; while Lagos State and Edo State of ACN performs. Do not be deluded that it is an ACN or party thing. Any Governor that wants to perform will perform and whose who will not will not. That is why you see some ACN governors in SW are not performing and even one trying to turn his state into an inslamic republic. People like you need to be educated on the Nigerian socio-political disposition and this is what I have done here.

ACN is shouting wolf where there is none. I agree with the Bishop of the Anglican Church. The call for impeachnment of GEJ over a church building renovated for a community is not only SATANIC, PUERILE,FOOLISH AND ALSO DEMAGOGUERY. It exposes "LIE MOH" and the ACN as unserious, tribalistic and religious bigots. Enough is enough of these distractions from ACN and their clonies. Allow GEJ to succeed. At the end of the day the breeze would blow and we will all see the yash of ACN as a disorganized one man party with no serious internal democracy and not capable of winning any serious national election because of their tribalistic and primodal dispositions.

All these GEJ antogonists in Nairaland, all of you can go to hell and blazes. How do you expect GEJ to fight the Boko Haram sect and insulgency than what is being done now? Soldiers and all paramilitary officers are all over the country, checking, searching and patroling, and on the look out for insulgents. They have recorded remarkable success so far. Governement has even initiated a dialogue with the sect and they recently pulled out of the talk. All these efforts are aimed at curtailing the activities of the Boko Haram sect. Maybe you want GEJ to send soldiers to Maiduguri, Kano or Bauchi and kill everybody. If this happens, it is the same apologists that will say GEJ is wicked. Abi? A terrorist is like a witch or wizard. What he or she want to do is in his or mind. It is never written on his or forehead that a person is a terrorist. Shakespare says and I quote "there is no art to find the mind's construction in the face". Terrorism is a problem the world over. May you can ask the Amercans why they have not succeeded in stamping out terrorism in Afganistan and Iraq and other places. Or ask the Jews whey they have not been able to put a stop to the Palistenian problems. Or ask why Somolia, India, Pakistan,etc etc why they have not stamped out terrorism? Americans are not active, abi. All those ACN and CPC members that are GEJ, SS and minority enemies please reprent and stop your tribalistic antagonism. There is no government they never antagonise, even their own OBJ did not have a respite. You see, a people deserve the leadership they get. As long as you are unrepentant artonigist things will never change. You are part of the problem and never a solution. It has been the same song all along since independence. Nigerians voted for GEJ for four years, please for goodness sake let him rule in peace and leave at the end of his tenure.

I am saddened by the news of the death of Mr. Osaze Osifo.  He was a thorough bred professional.  Edo State, Nigerian and the investment banking sector has a lost a guru.  May his gentle soul rest in perfect peace.  Amen

To me, from empirical research conducted, the following reasons are why business in Nigeria, both small and big almost and always fail:

1.   Employing family members to run the business who will eventually ruin the business
2.   Employing tribal people to run the business who will essentially ruin the business.
3.   Not employing qualified, experienced and capable hands. They know too much and demand big pay!!
4.   Paying pea nuts as salary and allowances, thereby encouraging pilfering from staffers.
5. No good conditions of service for staff members thereby throwing commitments to the dogs!
6.   Taking advantages of the female staff and bullying the male staff becuase "I am the boss"
7.   Not paying  salary and allowances  as at when due, usually the boss travelled overseas so nobody to sign cheque!!
8.   Not willing to expand or diversify if even there is means to do that. Most small business overseas became the multi-giants of today.
9.   Arrant arrogance, pride and selfishness of most Nigerian big men. Mr or Mrs know all. No advice is tolerated from anyone!!
10. Corruption, Corruption and Curruption.

I can go on and on but digest the above points, in the meantime!!!

A people gets the leadership they deserve.  Nigerians know how to castigate and insult leaders, especially the one that do not come from their area.  Are we not living witnesses to the insults and curses rained on Alhaji Shehu Shagari, Gen Buhari/Idiagbon, Gen Babangida, Gen Abacha, Chief Shonekan, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Alh, Umaru Yar'adua during their different regimes and now it is GEJ from  especially the SW. They have a way of running down leaders without justification and peddling  unsubstantiated lies and accusations and it is now a trade mark!  Do not be deceived.  Not everybody is a fool as not know what is right and what is wrong.  Please have a change of attitude.  It will give Nigeria a break!  If not, rest assured that nothing will change for the better.

My dear friend, I have these pieces of advice for you.

1.  Do not renew your rent of N300,000. Get into a smaller accommodation, if even it is a one room apartment that will cost something significantly less.

2.  Get a job, however small.  It could be a teaching job in a private school.  Even if the salary is N20k per month. Take it.  You know why?  So we you will
    leave home every morning and not stay in bed or at home distressing.

3.  Go ahead with your marriage ceremony but on a smaller scale. Just do traditional marriage and pend the white wedding until situation improves.

4.  Tell anybody that need to know.  No pretence at all.  God can use anybody to help you.

5.  Pray to God for help.  Life must go on.  Do not despair.  Many have been in your situation before and they pulled through.

    Good luck.

kingoflag:
I call "BullShit".

Either youre an impostor, a liar, deceit . . . or all three!!!! Then again, You could be innocent and just dont know what the hell youre talking about.

Look at the rubbish you posted up there? Look at the bolded. Now drop your crack pipe and tell us your real lineage!

This is arrant nonsense and bumcom!!! You do not just open your mouth and vomit nonsense. Do some research and be sensible for once.

Origin of Oba of Benin title

Friday, August 8, 2008


The origin of the title Oba, a prefix to the name of Benin kings from the beginning of the monarchical era is still shrouded in controversy, writes our Chief Correspondent, Uchechukwu Olisah.



The socio-political leadership of Benin kingdom in Edo State, South-South region of Nigeria, can be classified into three categories: the Ogiso era, the republican interregnum and the present era of the Obas.

Political historians said the groundwork of the managerial, administrative and bureaucratic sophistication for which the kingdom is known today was laid during the Ogiso era. Who then are the Ogisos? Historians said the Benin Empire or Edo Empire, from 1440 to 1897, was a large pre-colonial African state. According to one traditional account, the original people and founders of the Benin Empire, the Bini, were initially ruled by the Ogisos, that is, kings of the sky.・The city of Ibinu (later called Benin city) was founded in 1180 AD.

The Ogisos were said to be a select cadre of kings that descended from the spirit world or the sky. They were the first set of kings that ruled Benin kingdom up to the 12th century or thereabout. About 36 known Ogisos were accounted for as rulers of the empire. On the death of the last Ogiso, his son and heir apparent, Ekaladerhan, was banished from Benin because one of the queens allegedly changed the message from the oracle to the Ogiso. Ekaladerhan was a powerful warrior and a well loved prince. On leaving Benin, he travelled to the west of the present day Nigeria to the land of the Yoruba. At that time, the Yoruba oracle said their king would come out of the forest, and when Ekaladerhan arrived at Ile-Ife in present Osun State, he was received as a king.

Going by what historians and custodians of the tradition in the sate said, Ekaladerhan changed his name to Imadoduwa, meaning 的 did not misplace my royalty・and became the great Oduduwa of Yoruba history. On the death of his father, the last Ogiso, a group of Benin chiefs, led by Chief Oliha, came to Ife, pleading with him to come back to Benin to ascend the throne. Oduduwa reply was that a king could not leave his kingdom, but he had seven sons and would ask one of them to go to Benin to rule as the next king.

Oranmiyan, the son of Ekaladerhan, also known as Oduduwa, agreed to go to Benin. He spent some years in Benin and came back to Ife, after his wife gave birth to a son named Eweka. Eweka I became the first Oba of Benin. In 1440, Oba Ewuare came to power and turned the city-state into an empire. Around 1470, he named the new state Edo.

The reign of the Ogiso reportedly started from 40 BCE and ended around 1100 CE. Thirty-one Ogisos were said to have ruled the kingdom during the period. Cultural and art historian in the state, Osemwegie Ebohon, said the names of the Ogiso kings were given by Dr. Jacob Egharevba and Dr. O.S.B. Omoregie as Igodo or (Obagodo), Ere, Orire, Odia, Ighido, Evbodo, Ogbeide, Emehen, Akhuankhuan, Ekpigo Efeseke, Irudia, Ekebowe, Odion, Imarhan, Oria, Emose (female), Ororo (female) and Irebo. Others were Ogbomo, Agbonzeke, Ediae, Oriagba, Odoligwe, Uwa, Eheneden, Ohuede, Oduwa, Obioye, Arigho and Owodo.

The first Ogiso, Igodo, was reputed to be a great and inspiring king, who achieved great things for the people of the kingdom and in appreciation, his subjects named the land occupied by them then as Igodomigodo after his death. The king was reputed to have turned Benin city into a military fortress protected by moats and walls. It was from this bastion that he launched his military campaigns and began the expansion of the kingdom from the Edo-speaking heartlands. The lands of Idah, Owo and Akure all came under the central authority of the Edo Empire.
The republican rule in the history of the kingdom is not clear-cut, as it was not associated strictly with a particular era. The kingdom also witnessed interregnums. In all, 70 kings, including the reigning monarch, Omo Noba Ndo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Erediauwa, had so far ruled Benin kingdom. Besides, two administrators, Evian, and his son, Ogiamien, also occupied the throne.

Records have it that kings in Benin kingdom took on the appellation, Oba, during the reign of Eweka I. The origin of the title, Oba, is still shrouded in controversy. Certain historians have contended that the title is of Yoruba origin. However, there are others who think the title was coined from Obagodo, the name of the first Ogiso, which means High King.・One thing the historians said, however, was that the Oba became the paramount power within the region at the time of his reign.

Moreover, some other historians claimed that the title was derived from the Bini words, O baa, meaning, hard or difficult. It was Prince Oranmiyan, son of the fugitive Ekaladerhan, who was reported to have made the remark, O baa, before relinquishing the Benin throne he ascended in his father stead. Arising from this, Ebohon posited that the words later became part of a vocabulary for referring to the throne which Oranmiyan considered hard/difficult position・to ascend.

Ebohon added that the speculation, therefore, was that the words O baa, were later abbreviated to Oba, which Oranmiyan's son, Eweka I, added as a prefix to his name on ascending the throne.

The controversy surrounding the origin of the title, Oba, did not remove from the reverence with which the people of Benin held the occupier of the kingdom throne. To the Binis, the Oba was God's representative on earth; indeed, a God-man, a belief that was encapsulated in the expression Oba o re Osanobua nagbon. According to Benin oral tradition, the Oba had a divine essence and so, was considered as a leader God sent from above to his people.

Today, though the ancient glories of the Benin kingdom are no more. Ebohon observed that the Oba still commands tremendous love, awe, reverence authority, power and influence in Edoland, though.

Beyond the controversy is the fact that Benin kingdom is among the oldest monarchies in the world. Ebohon said one remarkable reason for this enduring system is that after experimenting with several rules of ascension, the kingdom settled for the law of primogeniture.
However, there is an observation that from the Ogiso era (40 BC ・1100 AD) up to the reign of Oroghene (1689 ・1700), the law of primogeniture did not strictly hold.

Sometimes, the surviving male son of a king ascended to the throne. At other times, this was not so. The crown prince was side-tracked by a more ambitious ordinary prince lower down the ladder of chronological age with or without the conspiracy of palace chiefs. In fact, many intrigues surrounded the ascension to the throne.

Ebohon captured some of the events thus: when Oba Ohen was stoned to death in 1370, the throne went to his second son, Uwaifiokun, in 1430 and not Prince Ogun, who fled into the bush to save himself from being killed by his detractors. It was only in 1440 that he ascended the throne as Oba Ewuare after he had assassinated his reigning brother, Oba Uwaifiokun. Also with an eye on the throne, Prince Okpanem, a brother of Oba Ezoti, murdered Ezotin son, Owere at Esi, a village near Benin kingdom. For his action, Prince Okpanem was banished.

There was a three-year period of republican rule. However, this form of government could not bring order, peace and progress to the kingdom. Therefore, a decision was taken by the palace chiefs to revert to the monarchical system. Prince Okpanem was recalled from exile and crowned as Oba Ozolua.・

He added that there were many intrigues during what he called the era of experimentation with the rule of ascension to the throne. He noted that during the reign of Oba Ewuakpe, the older order changed as the rigid law of primogeniture was introduced and enforced. And since then, in Ebohonreckoning, 12 crown princes have ascended the throne, including the reigning king, Oba Erediauwa.

Sagamite:
OP, you missed out some a bit:

SOME SANITY PRAYERS
- Let us (i.e. you dimwits) ask God to make sure Adeboye does not use our tithe to live large.
- Let us (again i.e. you dimwits) ask God that pentecostal pastors leaving large with church funds will end up in jail this year.

cgift:
Please grow up cos you do not even understand what you are saying? so you have never heard of impeachment before ? Comments like this will make people conclude you are a stark illiterate !! Please polish yourself up fellow,

I know where you are coming from. That is problem  with ilks like you that  refused to go away.  They do not read and do research.  They only read one paper from a section of the press and make up their opinion based on that. Have you ever read the Nigerian Constitution. Read it and then get educated on the offences that  are impeachable.  Do you impeach a President for implementing the party programmes, though painful?   Elements like you do not appreciate counter opinions.  Any opinion counter to their myopic and jaundiced views are taken in bitter taste. Any sensible and educated person that reads my post will appreciate my logical views on Pastor Bakare. You do not expect me to share your myopic views on Pastor Tunde Bakare, do you?  Dunces like you blatantly refused to  see anything beyond their noses. The most pathetic part of this situation is that you will live in this fool's paradise until you grow up. I sympathise with you. Cherio.

There is a great difference between beautiful speeches and attitude. This man called Tunde Bakare cannot be trusted. His antecedents speak volumes. Was it not Shakespear "that says that there is no art to find the minds construction on the face". Tunde Bakare failed as a politician. He pitched his tent on the sinking boat of CPC. They tried post-election violence. It did not work. They went to all the courts in the land. That did not work. They tried to use the last strike to their advantage. It did not work. The Federal Government, knowing their sinister intention, moved solders to put a stop to their act. Do not look at actions but look or judge intentions. The question I am asking is WHAT DOES TUNDE BAKARE WANTS? You are calling for regime change. You said you a democrat. President Goodluck was voted into power for four years. Wait for the four years to elapse and you can seek election. That is the way democracy works. You cannot move the goal post at the middle of the match. WHAT DOES TUNDE BAKERE WANTS?

There is one thing I find funny with the Yoruba people. They   believe they have superior opinion.  Every other opinion is counterfeit.  This can be seen from the way they play politics.  Right from Action Group, UPN and now ACN.  They vote in block.  If you are in their midst and you have a contrary opinion, death is your portion.  You can see why they want to roast Beaf alive. Some are even ethnically calling on Seun (beause he is a Yorubaman) to delist Beaf from this network.  Simply because he has  contrary opinion.  This is what they called sophistication.  There is no maturity here at all.  God himself, created right, centre and left.  In politics you have the leftist, the rightist and the centralist.  The majority will have their way, but the minority will have their say. That is why in every civilized clime you have more than two parties.  This is to give room for different shades of opinion.  But the Yorubas will stick to one point and they expect everybody else to follow suit.  When they claim they are sophisticated, I laugh.  I have interacted with other tribes in Nigeria, they do not behave this way.  In every issue, you will see different shades of opinions and these opinions are respected especially if you have superior points to buttress your points.  Even among the so called educated amongst them, when they talk and act, you will see ethnic and sentimental colouration in the whole thing.  This does not auger well for one Nigeria.  There should be a change now.

Since South South produced GEJ as the President, some elements in the the SW and North are not comfortable. There have been threats, intimidation, insults and the usual bring-down syndrome. Now they see the well intentioned withdrawal of subsidy and the orchestrated protest that greeted it as opportunity, to once again, undermine GEJ Presidency. Failed politicians like Pastor Tunde Bakare, El-Rufai, Dino Melaye and others became champions of the masses overnight, so much so that Abdulwaheed Omar called them 'emergency comrades'. Their sinister aim is to bring GEJ to ridicule. No wonder the innocuous protests were hijacked by sponsored hoodlums and unfortunately lives were lost. They were playing the proverbial ostrich!

Now GEJ has bared his fangs. The seemingly innocent looking and quiet but highly intelligent and calculating President has come out smoking. Now he had labour and their backers by the balls, MENDS , sensing the tribal colouration in the whole saga, surrounded the oil wells with their smoking war arsenals. Stern looking solders are all over Lagos. A coalition of South South and South East Elders issued a press statement that says it all. Now all those tribal and ethnic jingoists have all scampered to their hiding places. The battle has been fought and won. Nigeria, once again, happily survived.!!!

Beaf, you are right in your posting! Pastor  Tunde Bakare, from historical perspective, has never been  reliable, trustworthy and dedicated to all the bosses he has worked for or with!  He worked with Pastor Enoch Adegboye and the relationship ended up in a big fight.  He worked with Pastor Kumuyi and the relationship soured as suddenly as it began.  Now he is now with General Buhari and the CPC.  My history teacher once told me that if you want to predict the future, take a cursory look at the past.  Tunde Bakare has pathological misgivings to GEJ and the area he comes from and he knows it.  As a so-called man of God, he should mobilize his hoodwinked flock to at least pray for the success of the government of the day. Or as a Nigerian, like every Nigerian is presently doing, air your views on the subsidy removal debacle.  At the end of the day, the majority opinion will be taken into consideration by the government of the day.  All these admixture of religion with politics is repulsive will boomerang sooner or later.  As my people say, the breeze will soon  blow and foul's bottom will be exposed!

Poster, you got the list all wrong.  You ought to have listed elements that had made Nigeria prostrate  since Independenc 50 years ago like:

(1)     Bad leadership

(2)     Tribalism

(3)     Nepotism

(4)     Corruption

(5)     Religious bigotry

(6)     Quota system (federal character)

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Folks, why are you castigating Beaf?  He is entitled to his opinion and he or is it she has voiced out irrespective of whose ox is gored.  I do not blame Nigerians.  They have been taken for a ride severally by successive governments over this oil subsidy removal.  We have been deceived for so long.  We have suffered for such a long time,  so much so that when we see white we call it black.  Subsidy removal or not, we will still survive.  Let us keep our fingers crossed and see events as they unfold.  Goodluck.!!

Folks, why are you castigating Beaf? He is entitled to his opinion and he or is it she has voiced out irrespective of whose ox is gored. I do not blame Nigerians. They have been taken for a ride severally by successive goverments over this oil subsidy removal. We have been deceived for so long. We have suffered for such a long time, so much so that when we see white we call it black. Subsidy removal or not, we will still survive. Let us keep our fingers crossed and see events as they unfold. Goodluck.!!

El-Rufai will never cease to amaze me.  He is not a reliable politician.  Now let us start from the beginning of his public life.  He was Chairman of PBE.  All the companies BPE sold were fraudulent.  None of the companies are functioning today.  They were all sold to cronies and the recent probe by the Senate shows the extent of corruption that characterized El-Rufai tenure at the BPE.  Now take when he was a Minister.  He allocated lands to his children, brothers, sisters and even unborn babies. thank God all his dubious allocations have now been cancelled.  He went ahead to demolish peoples home without allocating to them alternative houses.  Counterless people lost their lives, means of livelihood and their entire live investments.  These lands have now been allocated to cronies. When EFCC was after him for abuse of office, he started looking for a platform to jump.  Now when he lost out in the PDP arrangement, he jumped into the sinking boat of CPC. Now he think he can deceive Nigerians by his outburst and innuendos against PDP.   El-Rufai was part and parcel of PDP/Obasanjo administration that failed woefully to meet the Nigerian aspirations.  He now is casting aspersions because he lost out.  Don't be deceived, El-Rafi has nothing to offer.

Nigerian past leaders, like IBB should bury their heads in shame. For nine years he ruled, he could not put our medical facities in shape and good enough to take care of people. We are 50 years plus as a nation. Our comtemporaries are India, China, South Korea, Brazil, Vernezuela, Indonisia, Turkey, UAE, Iran, and our neighbour Ghana etc. See the technological wonders taking place in these countries. These countries have developed medical facilities. How many of their leaders or politicians go to other countries to have medical attention. Our political leaders rush abroad for the slightest ailment and many are brought back dead from other countries. Our hospitals are disary and, unfortunately, there is no hope of redemption in the immediate future. My people, how long are we going to await for eldorado?

Those attacking GEJ are having ulterior motives.  GEJ himself said recently: "those attacking me know why they are doing so."  To eleborate, most of GEJ critics and cynics are doing so based on ethnicism, religious bigotry and other typical Nigerian primodial sentiments.  Some even detest the stark reality that a Niger Deltan and a minority is the President.  To them only Wazobian or nobody else! How do you expect miracle to be done after successive Wazobian governments have battered and butchered Nigeria in all ramifications.  The foundation is faulty only a demolition and strong structural foundation can make the difference. In any case, all he needs  from us to, at least try,  are change of heart and prayers.

Why the hullabaloo about N90million for marriage and funerals of the NDDC. It is their money, isnt it. They are the goose that lays the golden eggs.
If oil blocks could be brazenly allocated to the likes of Gen Danjuma, and numerous others I cannot mention here, which they sold and raked in billions of naira into their pockets, where governors and government officials steal billions, where each senator gets N50million and House of representative member gets N42million a quarter, then why the hue and cry over the N90million pitance. The house members who complained about the amount should count their teeth with their tongue.