₦airaland Forum

NextGovernor:
Is it only that road. Inside New Benin, Ugbo road, Ekenwan road are federal road too abi?

The problem with Benin is no proper drainage system. Oshiomole collected 150 billion nairn as loan for erosion control and heavy drainage project. Today non of the project is up to 20% in progress. He worsten the whole case by digging abandon holes everywhere and those holes are collapsing. Oshiomole is a scam.

Haba bros 150 billion for where Pls mention one project that is not upto 20 percent completion or even 50 percent. Must everything be about politics, naija youths wake up and do ur research. Don't just spew hearsays

Benin city is a peculiar town as regards rain, I know that area very well. For all just typing ignorantly or out of political disagreement with the state government, to its credit has two drains on that road. By the main carriage and by the service lane. That area is the lowest part of that catchment and so it's always flooded by water right from Ugbowo and adjoining streets and also from areas before Uselu share. The storm water project which is on going will conveniently take care of this problem as it's twin cell box culvert now at textile mill junction will go through Otote down to Adolo College road. Another twin cell box culvert will now take the water from this area through traditional ground Uselu to meet the culvert at Otote/Adolo College road. I know this cos I was fortunate to see the design of the stormwater project currently on going and it will be safe to say it is the biggest erosion control project in Nigeria presently. Benin is a big city and almost every street has drainage/erosion problems. The present stormwater project is taking of only two out of over twenty catchment areas. Let's not politicise everything ok

SeverusSnape:
Perfect question like your moniker, Perfect-touch.

By the way sha... This is bad, very bad. But there's no denying the fact that she's got a nice behind. I know my guys agree with me.

what's nice about her, the earlier women realised that clothes makes them more beautiful the better for them. Imagine how she would have looked on a complete jean

Why is it difficult to say exactly what he said about Zizu's sister. Racist Italian

All those blaming the Govt should know that, there are different ways of working with intelligence gathered. Watch now as the sympathy the NDA enjoys gets waned because of this news, which is one of the Govt's aim

sinkhole:
This country na dead meat o, every scavenger just dey chop am anyhow! Russians don chop chop don tire, Ukrainian, Chinesse etc, now na Indian turn reach to chop!

yeah, with the active connivance of Nigerians in Govt

In as much as reviving the steel complex is a happy news but why Indians with their cheap labour and slavery mentality. It's high time this NA promulgated laws that set standard for wages. It's annoying the way Indians, Lebanese and Chinese make a mockery of us

Mcheeeew, Where is Oluku where is Benin, some peeps do it like twice everyday during hussling. He should trekked from Auchi or Ekpoma then it will be significant

What do u think of urself?

Tomorrow they will say something else

Am humbled at how the burial is conducted

Good if it's as presented, time for every Nigerian to be versed in atleast a trade, an art, etc

Hunger in the land not enough reason for robbing equally hungry citizens. Jungle justice is equally wrong

Wishing this Govt the best. The president must have lost count of all the probes instituted since he came in.

NDA going international

I think the cost of all these litigation should be made public cos the way these cases linger am afraid we don't spend more than we intend to recover!!!

Naija which way are we heading

The truth's coming out small small

owotonbinu:
Lol, the same way pdp supporters were very sure of winning those polls, you don't even knw what strategies the other parties are coming upwith, the pdp's internal wranglings might as well be its undoing

it's really surprising for people on ground cos the way T B and other PDPians are writing u will think it's a walk over.

TonyeBarcanista:
I have said repeatedly and will continue to echo that no Edo son or daughter would even dream of the fraud called Obaseki.

Ize-Iyamu is the only leader known in Edo state.



God one from the Edolite

it's ok u support PDP but u seem too intelligent to fall for this, except u wanna prove me wrong

Indeed

[quote author=willywasco post=46978593]Nigerians consume more than 5 million metric tons of rice every year, with a significant portion of its consumption needs sourced from imports. Rotimi Williams, an ambitious 36 year-old Nigerian entrepreneur and rice farmer, is on a quest to change that.

Williams, a former Journalist, is the owner of Kereksuk Rice Farm, the 2nd largest commercial rice farm in Nigeria by land size. His farm, which is situated in Nasarawa state in northern Nigeria, currently sits on 43,000 hectares and employs more than 100 indigenes of Nasarawa.


More: http://nigerianpilot.com/meet-36-year-old-entrepreneur-owns-nigerias-2nd-largest-rice-farm/

https://nigerianpilot.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Rotimi-Williams.jpg

LESSON: Naija youths we can do better, Imagine this cute guy was born with a silver spoon but yet, he choose to go farming.

Good to know

StOla:
Let us ask Ojukwu, Nwobodo, even Iwuanyawu too who at 78years married a 28years old woman.

So the appropriate question is can you marry someone with an age gap of 50years?

Tell them, if the ladies are not complaining why then do u bother? Some girls feel much more secured with older men in same way some can't stand being with guys a few years older and some go for even younger men. So it's a case for different strokes for different folks

AreaFada2:
Deserving individual people should be given any accolade as appropriate. Everybody should not really have to pay for the sins of their fathers.
Fact is you do not which family I come from.

FYI, the betrayal was not only personal but affected the whole of Benin Empire, way beyond Benin-speaking parts. And going by what Nigeria became, a betrayal a big part of Southern Nigeria.

This Godwin as late as last year tried to rewrite history, saying her ancestor warned that Benin should accept a condescending & utterly reprehensible treaty with the British. Just last year, still trying to justify the unjustifiable. Such a person cannot be trusted not to betray us for pottage again.

Political neutrality (as much as possible) of the palace over his nonsense last year does not mean forgiveness.

In case you are not aware, there was an uproar among Benin people.

Oshiomhole is taking Edo South who largely ensured his governorship for granted.

Even if Obaseki wins using mago mago, his time in office will be tumultuous. I doubt if that's what Edo needs now.

Don't u think u are taking this too far? Our prayer should be that the best person who will attract development to our dear state should be in the saddle. Thanks for the history lessons anyway

AreaFada2:
Also 2016 is not 1914 that various parts of Nigeria were yoked together. But our problems like sharing a country with jihadist terrorists materialised but merely postponed in 1914.

The possibility began with Benin invasion in 1897, as Benin empire was the main barrier remaining against it.

Oba Ozolua of Benin had fought off Jihadists 400 years earlier in Edo North. In battles of many years. Reason some people in Edo North bear the name Ozolua today.

Maybe a bit of knowledge of history will help you understand that what we have today have their roots in the past.

The royal family have moved on as the Obasekis have been given Chieftaincy titles by the same family u say they betrayed, a case of knowing history more than them or crying more than the bereaved?

engineerboat:
The Shaming of President Buhari’s ME-Nister by the People’s Minister

By now, you probably have watched the viral video of the town hall meeting organized by the ministry of masquerade dressing (otherwise known as ministry of information) in Uyo the Akwa Ibom state capital.

At that event, the mild mannered minister of state for petroleum resources, Ibe Kachikwu, proved that you should not judge a book by its cover as he publicly took on the minister of transport, Rotimi Amaechi and gave him an answer that could not be responded to.

By now, you probably have watched the viral video of the town hall meeting organized by the ministry of masquerade dressing (otherwise known as ministry of information) in Uyo the Akwa Ibom state capital.

At that event, the mild mannered minister of state for petroleum resources, Ibe Kachikwu, proved that you should not judge a book by its cover as he publicly took on the minister of transport, Rotimi Amaechi and gave him an answer that could not be responded to.



Amaechi, in response to a question on why he appears to want to consign the maritime university Okerenkoko to history, responded thus:

“I am not against the University. I hope you people appreciate that. My argument about Okerenkoko is that the land alone is N13 billion. If you give me N13 billion I will buy half of Lagos. That N13 billion has built the university already so there is no need to spend more money. Let EFCC retrieve the money from them and then release them and we would build the University. I believe the Federal government has no money to continue. When we have money we would continue. The Minister of state for Petroleum has whispered to me that he would look for the money to continue…Minister, bring it to me and I will continue”

In response to this, Mr. Kachikwu said:

“First let me say on Maritime University, I disagree with the minister of transport. Any facility that is placed in the south south, we should work towards developing it. I don’t care the circumstances under which we are placed… It is not my position to determine whether land was valued at N19 million or N10 million or N3 million. The appropriate institutions which are the court systems will determine that. That has nothing to do with the development of the infrastructure. As far as I know, so much has gone into that property. So much fiscal assets are being developed. We are not going to throw the baby with the bath water. We will deal with the issues but the University will be developed. If he doesn’t want it in maritime, I will take it to petroleum”

Seated with the duo was the minister for budget and planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma. The cameras actually caught his smile as he listened to Kachikwu and I tell you, that smile was worth N13 billion.

It was the type of smile you get when you watch an Uncle Tom being given a lecture he so badly needed.

An Uncle Tom is defined as an individual who is excessively apathetic to the group interests of his community while at the same time rabidly crying more than the bereaved in support of the group interest of another community with competing interests to his own community within a state or a nation.

I will leave it to my readers to determine whether this definition defines Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi or not.

But since the minister of state aptly chided Amaechi for attempting to throw away the baby with the bath water, it might be expedient of me to bring my readers up to speed about the origin of the term ‘throw away the baby with the bath water’.

In medieval Europe up until the Industrial Revolution, water was scarce. You could hardly get enough to drink, let alone bath with, so people did not have their bath regularly as they do today.

What would happen is that a family would obtain a bath tub’s worth of water at great expense and then the man of the house would have his bath right in the bath tub. When he was done, the next ranking male member of the family would have his bath. This would continue until all the men in that household had had their baths according to their pecking order.

Next in line would be the females who, believe it or not, would all have their baths in that very same water, according to their standing in the family.

Finally, the minor children of the household would then have their baths in that same water and bath tub.

As you can imagine, by this time, the water would have become dirty and almost muddy and by the time the matron of the family came to throw away the water, she may not notice that a young child or baby was in the water and in many cases they threw the water into the sewers along with any unfortunate child that was hidden in the water by the dirt.

This historical occurrence is a metaphor for Nigeria.

The precious water in the bath tub represents the wealth of Nigeria, which in this case is largely centered around the oil industry which is domiciled in the Niger Delta.

The bath tub itself is Nigeria.

The men, women and children who bath with the water in the bath tub are the various ethnic nationalities that make up Nigeria.

The man who first enters the bath tub is the Northern gentleman. He is followed in quick session by the Westerner and then the Easterner and the women are the larger minorities.

Finally, the children and babies are the smaller minorities that largely make up the Niger Delta.

The matron who attempts to throw the baby away with the bath water are those people close to power and who rather than serve the people from whence they came, prefer to serve the powers that be.

By that standard, Rotimi Amaechi is a matron who must realize that he was not sent to the Niger Delta by President Muhammadu Buhari. Rather, he was sent by the Niger Delta to President Buhari.

Ibe Kachikwu gets this and I wish more people around President Muhammadu Buhari would get this.

In recent years, there has been an attempt by many pseudo intellectuals to try and revise Nigerian history by peddling the false narrative that prior to the discovery of oil in commercial quantities in the Niger Delta, other regions shared their wealth equally within the Nigeria project.

This is simply a lie.

The fact is that until the infamous Decree 34 (Unification of Assets) was passed by the Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi administration after the aborted Nzeogwu/Ifeajuna (or Ifeajuna/Nzeogwu depending on who you believe) coup of January 15th, 1966, Nigeria practiced a brand of True Federalism known as regionalism.

The 1960 Independence Constitution arising from the 1957 Lancaster House Conference provided that each of the three regions (a fourth region, Midwest Region, was created in 1963) kept 50% of its income and paid 25% to the central government and 25% to a central pool that was then shared amongst the regions.

So in essence, what Nigerians freely agreed was that each region should keep at least 50% of its income (it could go as high as 75% when the central pool was shared amongst the regions).

Now without consulting the minorities, Nigeria’s majority ethnic nationalities, through force of military might, stripped the regions off control over their own resources and vested it in the newly created Federal Government and the minorities have been overruled at every constitutional conference since that time as they tried to reclaim their God given heritage.

On my first ever visit to Bayelsa state in 2012, I saw tens of human bodies that had been burned as if in a nuclear incineration. They had been scooping petrol from a fallen petrol tanker which eventually burst into flames and took them with it to other world.

Why did they do this? Because of poverty.

These people are so poor, yet Lt. General (rtd) T.Y Danjuma publicly declared that after he sold an oil block given to him by General Abacha, he made $1.5 billion (yes, you heard me right, $1.5 billion not Naira!) and had so much money that ‘I did not know what to do with it’!

Mrs. Folorunsho Alakija is the richest woman in Africa with a net worth of over $2 billion. She can afford to dole out millions of dollars through her charitable foundations because, like Mr. Danjuma, she also got an oil block from a military regime.

Not only has the Nigerian state stripped the Niger Delta of its own resources, the state has also used those resources to enrich a selected few individuals to the exclusion of the region that lays the golden egg.

So if Niger Delta oil has made well connected Nigerians over $13 billion in personal wealth, then Mr. Amaechi, what is the big deal if $13 billion is spent on the maritime university at Okerenkoko?

Right in Maitama and Asokoro, there are lands and properties that you can buy for $13 billion, yet there is not a single drop of oil in the Federal Capital Territory. As a matter of fact, the infrastructure that has made Abuja one of the most developed cities in Africa was funded by petrodollars from the Niger Delta.

So as my Yoruba brothers would say, kini big deal?

Ibe Kachikwu gets this. One wonders why Amaechi doesn’t? The two of them are very unique in that both Amaechi and Kachikwu straddle the world of both the Niger Delta and the Southeast where the Biafra agitation is currently very strong.

They should be telling President Buhari how to resolve both the Biafra agitation and the Niger Delta militancy.

I am not in support of violence and I urge both the Biafran agitators and the Niger Delta militants to advocate for their cause through non violent means.

I do not think secession is the answer. If I had the ear of the President, I would tell him that the federal government’s approach to Biafra agitators and Niger Delta militants is wrong. We should do what the United Kingdom did to Scotland. Pet them. Develop their region. Persuade them they are better off in Nigeria.

But I do not have the President’s ears so I count on Amaechi and Kachikwu to tell him for me.

Someone like Amaechi should know that abandoning a project like the Maritime University Okerenkoko will only serve to deepen the unrest in an already restive region.

The state that contributes the highest resources to the federal government is Akwa Ibom where Kachikwu confronted Amaechi. That state did not even have an airport until the state government built one with their own money!

Delta state had to build its own airport. The airport in Amaechi’s home state of Rivers was named by CNN as the worst airport in Africa in a broadcast on February 1, 2016.

Is this then the region that Amaechi wants to strip of whatever little infrastructure that she has?

Amaechi has this all wrong. He will serve Buhari better by explaining the Niger Delta to him than by explaining Buhari to the Niger Delta.

Amaechi should not get too carried away. Let him ask himself two questions. Where was President Buhari living before he became President? Was it not Daura and Katsina both in the Northwest? Where has former President Jonathan lived since he left power? Is it not Otuoke in the Niger Delta? Where has former President Obasanjo lived since 2007? Is it not at Ota and Abeokuta in the Southwest?

Abuja is sweet to call home when you are in power but when power leaves you (as it does to even the best of us) you will have no choice but to return to your mother’s house.

But one thing is clear going forward. Ibe Kachikwu has turned out to be the star in an otherwise lackluster cabinet. He had taught us the difference between a MINISTER and a ME-nister. A minister ministers to Nigerians while a me-nister ministers to his ego!

–– Omokri is the founder of the Mind of Christ Christian Center in California, author of Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God and Why Jesus Wept and the host of Transformation with Reno Omokri.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/06/18/the-shaming-of-president-buharis-me-nister-by-the-peoples-minister/

what I can get from this write is the writer like many are disconnected from reality which Amaechi was seeking to clarify. Which is develop the Maritime Academy in Oron, Akwa Ibom possibly to a standard university with any money from Maritime Institutions then others can follow. Unlike what Jonathan did setting up glorified secondary schools in the name of Federal Uni. every where. Amaechi a big ups to u for being real like ur leader

martin123:
History will not repeat itself. Obaseki's great great grand father was a traitor to Oba Ovoramwen. Now, we're trying to Enthrone a New Oba, another Obaseki want to be governor. Edo people will not allow him. It is very obvious now that APC is loosing to PDP in Edo State. the Binis will not forget Invasion 1898 in a hurry.

each time I hear this fallacy I can't help but laugh, 1898 in 2016. Say something more credible

Mylove55:
u are not in edo state, ize-iyamu wil be d worst candidate for pdp, ize-iyamu is like modu-sherif vested with HIV. solomon edebiri is d only one in d contest without infection

the greatest mistake PDP can make is to give the ticket to Pastor. The man is too soiled. Edebiri is the only one that can give a fight

martin123:
History will not repeat itself. Obaseki's great great grand father was a traitor to Oba Ovoramwen. Now, we're trying to Enthrone a New Oba, another Obaseki want to be governor. Edo people will not allow him. It is very obvious now that APC is loosing to PDP in Edo State. the Binis will not forget Invasion 1898 in a hurry.

each time I hear this fallacy I can't help but laugh, 1898 in 2016. Say something more credible

TonyeBarcanista:
I read a Nairaland featured and Vanguard piece on disagreement within various Niger Delta Militants/Hustlers camps, and I shook my head in amazement. Indeed, these so called agitators are only making caricature of Niger Delta and Ijaw struggle.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/crack-in-militants-camp-widens-2/

MEND suddenly woke up to Raise 7 man team to "negotiate" with the FG on behalf of the 'agitators', a committee that comprises of NDtans that have agreed to 'serve'. They include; Henry Odein Ajumogobia, SAN (Rivers), Bismark Rewane (Delta), Sen. Florence Ita-Giwa (Cross River), Timipa Jenkins Okponipere (Bayelsa), Ibanga Isine (Akwa Ibom), Ledum Mitee (Rivers) and Lawson Omokhodion (Edo State). Now we know the sponsors of MEND. Funny enough, the same MEND are opponents of ex president Jonathan while virtually all 'committee' members were/are either allies or aides of the former president.

Reformed EGbesu Group disowns NDA and JNLF over the demand for KANU and Dasuki release, and also insist that they should negotiate with FG. They also warned Mend, Tompolo, Ateke Tom and others to stay away from this fresh negotiation. They demand that they should be accommodated into Amnesty package and pipeline surveillance jobs.

Joint Niger Delta Liberation Front JNDLF(that promised to shoot missiles) disowned NDA and agreed to negotiations with FG using SS Govs and Dr Ibe Kachukwu. They also demanded for end in corruption probe of ALL south south politicians LOL. We now know the culprits behind them

NDA has said that they are not negotiating and they decried that some people have hijacked their agitation. Perhaps they feel bad that some powerful people are taking their shine.

SS Monarchs led by HRH Edmund Dakoru of Brass Kingdom are talking about negotiating on behalf of the groups. This was a man that served as Petroleum Minister of State Under Chief Obasanjo.

I am awaiting the position of another joke group called Niger Delta Suicide Squad.

From the onset, I have always maintained that the so called renewed agitation by NDA and likes has nothing to do with the fundamental issues facing the Niger Delta region. It is purely a renewed scheme by various group to use the ND as a smokescreen to further their interest of 'chopping' from Amnesty money, furthering political interest, and contracts.

Sometimes I wonder whether these people take others from the region for fools but time for redemption won't be far.

Playing politics and doing business with ND struggle is pure wickedness. I am grateful though that Nigerians, specifically Niger Deltans are watching these people as their real motives are exposed(the internet and SM community including NL, FB and Palmchat will keep record of this expose).




May God Bless Us All and Bless Nigeria
Long Live Niger Delta!!!

I salute u for the objectivity of ur analysis, u are a true niger delta

kimond101:
I don't know about saying "Bless you " but in Islam we are encouraged to say "Alhamdullilah "

The narrations of the Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) encourage us to say “Alhamdulillah” when we sneeze.

“Alhamdulillah” means “All praise is due to Allah”. A rightfully curious mind will wonder why are we supposed to express our gratitude to Allah for the insignificant act of sneezing. On the contrary, sneezing is no insignificant reaction of the body. Sneezing is a great blessing from Allah where various muscle groups come in to play. The muscles of the stomach, chest, neck and eyes are used for this seemingly insignificant reaction of the body.



Some of the reasons for saying “Alhamdulillah” are as follows:



1) Harmful substances contained in the body are dispelled when one sneezes. Especially when the harmful substances are strong, an odour can be smelt. We are saved from many sicknesses and diseases by the mere act of naturally sneezing as these harmful substances are expelled.



2) Our entire lives are in the control of Allah. If Allah wishes, he may cause our bodies to cease where we will not be able to make even the slightest move. When one sneezes, a person’s face becomes distorted for those few seconds. If Allah wished, he could have kept us with the same distorted expression permanently. It is only through the mercy and grace of Allah, that he grants us our normal expressions again.



3) When a person sneezes, the eyes automatically close. By the eyes remaining open, potential damage can be caused to the eyes. Allah causes the eyes to close to save us from such harm.



4) Sneezing generally causes the breathing passages to open up, thus allowing a person to breathe easily. In exchange of the many benefits we enjoy from sneezing naturally, it is only fair that we say our heartfelt gratitude to Allah by saying “Alhamdulillah”



And Allah Knows Best

well said, additionally and this is where I think hits the topic, the person(s) beside u says " Yar Hamaka Allah" meaning " May Allah have mercy on u/bless u". The sneezer replies with yah dikum Allah Wa yuslih balakum meaning "May Allah guide u n improve condition" in summary I think it's a borrow of islamic culture

beloxxi:
http://www.nigerdeltaavengers.com/2016/06/message-to-our-brothers-in-struggle.html?m=1

each time I read this guy's posts honestly I see an Asari Dokubo speaking. I urge the F G to look for this irrtant

AgricSalt:
Oga how authentic is this your data?

hope u haven't been duped by the vagabond, he is the same Scammer with a different moniker