₦airaland Forum

Sorry for the loss.

Hmmm

Ezechinwa:
Moral of the story:
the bad guys always win, while the good guys are always last!!!

Yes, crime pays at time. . So unfortunate for those who don't like to bend the rule

Bringing a phone to school is not enough reason for him to be electrocuted. The school authority should not have been negligent.

Igboid:
If those roads were built by other presidents before GEJ, they wouldn't be as bad as they currently are.

So the point is that GEJ didn't build them, likewise those before him.

But GEJ did bring equity and fairness to Nigerian polity, which allowed the Igbo business to grow. Something other Nigerian presidents never did.
And let's not forget the AIIA Enugu. He gave us that too, as little as it might seem now, it would still be but a dream, without GEJ.

What's more? GEJ didn't do much for his Ogbia people too, infact he did more for us than he did for Ogbia, so we cant accuse him of bias.
He was just another Ironsi, trying naively so hard to please the insatiable North.

If any one thinks that any amount of article will ever make Ndiigbo hate GEJ, that person is on a long thing, as the man will always be respected by Ndiigbo. He took us as his own, and we refused to have a hand in his political demise, treachery and betrayal are not the Igbo forte.

. That's the fact.
He tried to be a nationalist. He tried to carry everyone alone. He did more for the North that's why Amaechi was fighting him. He didn't do much for his people.

sotall:
If this news is true, then all is not well as far as victory over boko haram is concerned. Boko haram keeps killing our gallant soldiers everyday but the news of their demise never get reported.

R.IP gallant soldier. God will take care of the family your left behind.

The press is quiet about this. They will never report the killing of our soldiers. They have joined the FG in propaganda.

I know some zombies will hail this move. Whereas massive corruption is going under the nose of the presidency.

Things dey happen for this world oh...

Chai... . This is lovely shape. Interesting thing is that we have many African like this..

nnokwa042:
if na hard work chiwetalu agu wey don appear for more 300 movies for don buy ferrari and Bentley then buy house for banana island u can see why some so called actresses dont want to marry they believe marriage will spoil thier runs , they just marry to ve kids then divorce so she can start with abuja big belle politicians again

I dey tell you. Which kind innovation or work these actresses don do to dey buy wetin dem dey buy ? Not talking about the A-list actresses. U go see one unknown Nollywood actress with Range Rover sport. How many movies she don feature ? May be na 1 or 2 movies wey nobody know.

They will call it women empowerment. Smh.

nnokwa042:
i swear na for nollywood a girl go act one film she go buy jeep while her male counterpart still dey trek from ajegunle to ikeja ok check corsy orjiako for 10 years she never appear for any movie but she don build house for lekki,toto get power

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I dey tell you. And some bloggers go come talk say na hardwork .

She don try. To get shop for Wuse no be yoke oh (joke)

id911:
I respect this great warrior called Peter 'The Rock' Fayose so much. How I wish he can denounce and reject SW and join us in SE/SS. He likes his people but I'm always surprise why Yorubas don't like him.

On a second thought I'm not too surprise though because Yorubas hate all their prominent leaders that worked with Abacha but surprisingly sing praises of Buhari who also worked with Abacha and even defended Abacha's corruption. Pathetic!!!

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It baffles me too oh, especially the SW youths.
They are the ones who called him all sorts of names when he banned indiscriminate grazing. But they were blind to see that he tried to protect them.
Fayose is fair and magnanimous to speak well of Tinubu. But I feel Tinubu can take care of himself. A man will reap whatever he sows.

segun400:
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed was flying economy yesterday when an excited passenger who recognized him went up to him.

He helped her carry her baby during the flight and the mother couldn’t help but take pictures.


The baby looks very comfortable in his arms.

See Photos Below:

Source: http://www.flexygist.com/2016/10/07/photos-minister-of-information-lai-mohammed-cradles-a-baby-he-met-while-flying-economy-class/

Kim Kardashian government

Keneking:
RIP - why the cottonwool in the nose and mouth

To reduce the rate of decay.

dayleke:
Somebody better tell that one wey not sure for amongst the ladies to wake up....
What is she not sure of?
Whether she is in a relationship or whether the relationship is heading somewhere?
Or maybe she no get boyfriend sef?

No mind am

ayomidegambari:
Beautiful pre wedding pictures of a student of law at lagos state university, oluwadamilola dimple, with her besties...

The bridesmaids no even fine sef

I can't imagine how it will smell afterwards. . Her voice will even smell.

TonyeBarcanista:
But I was buying fuel @65 per litre under Yaradua when the ECA wasn't depleted and fuel price sold lower than it did during Jonathan.

Yaradua tried. At least we could see what he was doing. Maybe Nigeria would have been better if he had lived longer.
However, the governors are also part of the problem. The money that was shared, what did Amaechi do with it ? River State is richer than some African countries. What did Amaechi and all the governors do with the money ?

Buhari is making Gej to be a hero

somez:
So, your useless huh?

Him no be adult

gonkin:
WHAT OF ME WEN BE GOD FOR EXCEL, POWERPOINT, COREL DRAW, and thats just the ICT part

The technical part na dead. Over 9 certifications and practically a hobby adapter yet no JOB

MY GUY GOD HAS FAVOURED YOU. FOR THIS RECESSIVE REGIME ITS EVEN HARDER TO GET A JOB.

JUST CLAP FOR YOUR BROTHER

. You get all those certificates and no job You sure say dem no follow you for village . No worry you go get ur own soon. Job na favour Oh..

EMMYB0Y:
this ekiti guy.... he will surely win because you fit use am describe nigeria's current economy situation internationally

Lolz...

doveda:
Are you trying to say he can't do his master's or gain experience as a married man?

He can do both. I guess it's best if he does it now that he's not married. Age is a big advantage on his side. It's my opinion but nothing is absolute.

LekinsRibirth:
I'm currently on a crossroad and I really need your cordial insights on this issue.
I graduated two years ago and I'm currently 25years old and God has been extremely so good to me.
I was recently able to secure a job in a multinational firm and I receive a very good pay.
I've been able to put a lot of things in order and I feel I'm ready to settle down.
I proposed marriage to my girlfriend who is currently 23 and she accepted. our families have been friends even before we were born. myself and her grew up together and we are literally best friends( we've officially been dating for the past 4years).
I've stated my intentions to my parents and hers but they both disagreed .They said we're too young to start a family and we should wait for a minimum of 4 to 5 years .
I'll be travelling out of the country next year with my company to start an off-shore business unit and I planned to get married to her by December and take her along with me.
I really don't know what to do as my family has become my enemy in this issue.
They threatened not to give me their blessings and never to accept money from me if I go ahead with my plans.

Thank God for your career. 25 is young. If u wait a few more years, you have nothing to lose. You'll get more experience. Have u done your masters or planning to do one ? Waiting for some time is not bad.

No be runs girl be thus ?

dainformant:
Congratulations are in order for a Nigerian entrepreneur, Godwin Benson, who was among the six winners for internet.org -a social networking service between Facebook and other multinational companies . During his recent visit to Nigeria, Mark Zuckerberg met with the young man who founded Tuteria Nigeria, as they discussed some business ideas. Now, the young entrepreneur is onto the next level.

Read below what Mark Zuckerberg shared on his page;

Last month in Abuja, Nigeria, I met Godwin Benson. Godwin founded Tuteria Nigeria, an online platform that connects people seeking to learn with people nearby who can teach them.

Tuteria Nigeria won one of six awards for the Internet.org Innovation Challenge for services that provide education and economic development opportunities across the African continent. The other winners were Esoko, Hyperion Development, MPedigree Goldkeys, SaferMom, and mPharma Mutti.

These services are all examples of the great work being done by entrepreneurs across the African continent to strengthen their communities and create opportunity. Congratulations to the winners and all the other entrepreneurs who are doing this important work!

Internet.org is a partnership between social networking services company Facebook and six companies (Samsung, Ericsson, MediaTek, Opera Software, Nokia and Qualcomm) that plans to bring affordable access to selected Internet services to less developed countries.

Source; http://www.nationalhelm.net/2016/10/godwin-benson-nigerian-man-wins-major.html

https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10103151825493241&id=4&set=a.612287952871.2204760.4&refid=17&_ft_=top_level_post_id.10103151830428351%3Atl_objid.10103151830428351%3Athid.4%3A306061129499414%3A2%3A0%3A1477983599%3A5641981036645783537&__tn__=E

Mark Zuckerberg no wear T shirt today. Abi him no humble again

This doesn't make sense. . Why are these celebrities just childish ?

Thisis2raw:
They should also allocate 5% to Rivers State my state also, after all we have helped develop this Damned Nation

Na so. And Bayelsa as well...

HungerBAD:
Following

Comment, no book space.

This is another classic from Femi Aribisala. He seems to sympathize with Tinubu concerning what's happening to him. To me, let Tinubu face the music.

Instead of investing in the future of Nigeria, the only real investment taking place now is towards the hegemonic control of the country by a small segment of the population for the foreseeable future.

Let me re-introduce myself in case you have forgotten. I have been an implacable critic of the politics of Bola Tinubu. Among others, I have written articles against Tinubu entitled: “What Does Tinubu Want?” “Time to Get Rid of Tinubu’s Cronies;” “Time to Disgrace the South-West Godfather;” and “Don’t Cry for Bola Tinubu.” I stand by every one of those articles even though the warnings I gave in them went largely ignored.

Although many Tinubu supporters don’t seem to realise this, my opposition to Tinubu was not personal. My opposition was based on the grounds that Tinubu’s politics was shortsighted. In that regard, my position has been proved right. The strategic political objectives of Tinubu were unattainable and have been not been attained.

In the first place, Tinubu’s recent politics were designed to make him a key player at the national level as he has been at the regional level. He really wanted to become the vice-president of Nigeria. This has proved unattainable, and we warned him about that. Most of his so-called friends at the national level are fair-weather friends. They never really liked him and were afraid of him. Under no circumstances would they allow him to duplicate his stranglehold on South-West politics outside the South-West.

The reality of Tinubu’s politics in Nigeria is that he can be a king-maker but will not be allowed to be king. The best Tinubu has been able to achieve has been to nominate a vice-president who, to all intents and purposes, is not even a major power-broker in government. As vice-president, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has only succeeded in being a fall-guy; for the collapse of the naira and for the failure to date of the 2016 budget.

In the second place, the strategic design of Tinubu’s politics was to make him a power behind the throne at the national level. This objective has also proved to be a pie-in-the-sky. Since becoming president, Buhari has largely ignored Tinubu’s counsels. Not a single Tinubu nominee became a minister in the president’s cabinet. Those who made it from the South-West were deliberately the people he did not want.

Tinubu nominees failed to make the position of Senate president or Speaker of the House of Representatives. The APC has also failed to make Tinubu Chairman of its Board of Trustees. To date, Tinubu has no statutory post in the party he midwifed. The party chairman, thought to be a Tinubu man, has been bought over, so much so that Tinubu is now asking for his resignation; but to no effect.

Having used Tinubu to win the election, he has been dumped like a used rag. It was because we anticipated this reversal of fortunes, that some of us were loud in warning Tinubu in the heady days of APC coalition-building. It was in that context that I later wrote my article saying: “Don’t Cry for Bola Tinubu” on the grounds that he deserved what happened to him. We warned that this would happen but he refused to listen.

But now times have changed. The bombastic change platform on which APC fought and won the election has failed to materialize. The change we are now facing is one far worse than anything hitherto experienced. It is absolutely incredible that, in spite of the grandiloquent promises made during the 2015 election campaign, the dollar is now exchanging for the naira on the parallel market at virtually 500 to 1. Like the naira, the Nigerian economy is in free-fall, going from bad to worse.

But another change has also taken place and this one is political. It is finally apparent to Bola Tinubu that his friends in the APC are really not his friends at all. That is why he has now complained publicly and resigned as inconsequential “National Leader” of the party. Having used him to achieve their ends at the polls, his fair-weather APC friends have now indicated they are not merely interested in dumping him, their plan is to decimate his ranks and render him powerless. They are now out to use their new-found vantage point to attack him in his hearth of the South-West and to split his coalition by sponsoring those in opposition to him and, if necessary, by rigging them into power at his expense.

Given this development, this is not the time to tell Tinubu “we told you so; we warned you but you did not listen.” This is not the time to say: “Don’t Cry for Bola Tinubu.” This is the time to cry for Tinubu. As a matter of fact, this is the time for all true progressives to rally round Bola Tinubu. The reason for this is simple.

Now that Tinubu has hopefully learnt his lesson, he should be more open to those of us who he thought were his enemies in the past but should now realise have always had his back. Tinubu should now be more amenable to wise counsel. Now that he has resigned from the honorific, but irrelevant, title of leader of the APC, he should start making plans to extricate himself from the APC altogether. At the very least, he should leave no one in doubt that he would not be taken for granted by leaving the door open for a realignment with a more agreeable coalition as the APC begins inevitably to unravel.

The nullification or dilution of Bola Tinubu’s power in the South-West, at this juncture of Nigeria’s economic hopelessness, renders Nigeria at the mercy of Abuja incompetence for the foreseeable future. Since coming to power, President Buhari has been unapologetic about the Northernisation of the Nigerian government. He has completely jettisoned any pretensions to the principles of federal character but has placed Northerners in every strategic sector of the government. This is part of the rationale behind the resurgence of pro-Biafra agitators, as well as the emergence of the Niger-Delta Avengers. In the process of consolidating the North, the agenda is now to decimate the South-West. This should not be allowed to happen.

At the moment, Nigerian democracy has no opposition; which is why nobody is complaining about the disastrous collapse of the naira and the adverse economic climate. The government is even floating the idea of further increases in the price of petrol, and nobody is up in arms. The PDP is at war with itself, and the cynical anti-corruption campaign of the government has been used effectively to silence it. That is why the burgeoning attack on Bola Tinubu deserves a rallying response.

Progressive Nigerians should not allow anyone in these climes to make a fool of Bola Tinubu. We must help him to consolidate and even enhance his position. At strength, Buhari can only be a one-term president without Bola Tinubu. All Tinubu needs to do is to start making plans to form another alliance that links truly progressive Northerners with those of the South-West, South-East and South-South. The possibility of that happening should give him a new fillip. At the very least, it would put him back into reckoning, ensuring he can only be ignored at great cost.

Without Tinubu, Buhari would not be the president of Nigeria today. Buhari’s wife, Aisha, acknowledged as much after the 2015 election. Without Tinubu, Buhari would not have secured the presidential ticket of the APC. Without Tinubu, Buhari would not have had the semblance of widespread national acceptability. Without Tinubu, Buhari would not have had the funds to mount a national campaign. Without Tinubu, Buhari only obtained 370,000 votes from the entire Southern Nigeria in the 2011 election. Without Tinubu, Buhari has no political future; unless the unproductive hegemonists currently ranged against Tinubu succeed in turning him into a toothless bulldog.

Therefore, I insist, this must not be allowed to happen. This is the time for all truly progressive people, North and South; East and West to rally to Tinubu’s support. Let us forget the past; even the immediate past. In politics, there are no permanent enemies and no permanent friends. Let us be united in one purpose; the unity of Nigeria is paramount. Nigeria should not be conceded to hegemonists. It is now abundantly clear that those that have clamoured for power for long and have now attained it have no clue what to do with it; other than to put their kinsmen and family members in key positions, while the nation’s economy has gone to the dogs.

We must not be in any doubt as to what is going on now. Instead of investing in the future of Nigeria, the only real investment taking place now is towards the hegemonic control of the country by a small segment of the population for the foreseeable future. This is not only anti-democratic; it is anti-Nigeria. It must be resisted politically with wisdom and clear-sightedness. It must be resisted adroitly by the formation of a new, truly national non-sectarian coalition that stretches across the Niger. In this design, Bola Tinubu would be invaluable once again as one of its principal architects.

Equally important, the South-West must learn from the past when Akintola was used to divide it from Awolowo. That kind of history must not be allowed to repeat itself. From my point of view, the bottom line is as follows. My democratic instincts have always made me opposed to Tinubu’s status as the godfather of South-West politics. But under the present circumstances, I would rather have Tinubu as the godfather of South-West politics, than have Buhari as the godfather of South-West politics. To the extent that a Tinubu can never be the godfather of North-West politics, then Buhari must never be the godfather of South-West politics.

THE NAIRA HAS GONE BANANAS

I walked into Dream Plaza, a supermarket in Victoria Island, Lagos recently and a Lebanese man handling the pharmacy beckoned to me. He wanted to know what is going on in Nigeria. I was puzzled because the man lives in Nigeria. Why is he asking me? What do I know that he does not?

He went further. “Do you know,” he asked, “that this morning the naira exchange-rate for the dollar is now 492?” I did not know and was shocked to hear this. “What are you going to do about it?” he asked. What can I do? I thought. He went on: “Why are Nigerians not saying anything?” “Why is there no reaction?” “Why is everybody keeping quiet?

I did not know what to tell him. Neither did I know what to do. But I knew the situation is already untenable. How low, in fact, is the naira going to fall? Are we just going to keep watching until Nigeria becomes another Zimbabwe or another Venezuela? This situation has gone far beyond partisan politics. It is abundantly clear that those currently charged with the handling of the Nigerian economy are currently out of their depths.

Now is the time for all good men to stand up in defense of Nigeria. This is the time for a government of national unity. We cannot just keep silent and allow Nigeria to go to the dogs.

http://www.femiaribisala.com/time-to-rally-round-bola-tinubu/#disqus-tab.