₦airaland Forum

SoNature:
No, that's not what happened.

The report says that Israel didn't think that Hamas had the guts to execute the plan that's why Israel dismissed it.

That's a lame excuse. I don't believe MOSSAD was not aware of the details of not only plans, but also monitor the preparations and execution. Such large scale operation requires extensive preparations in terms of arms build up, training and logistics. A powerful countries Egypt, Iran or even Turkey cannot invade Israel with such ease, not to talk of a rag tag militia like Hamas.
Then ask yourself, why did it take several hours before the Israeli Defence Force to respond, that is after the murder of over 1800 Israelis.
The people of Israeli must demand answers from Netanyahu.

Eriokanmi:
Abba moro...hmmm. i remember those young Nigerian this man scammed and sent to their early graves with the job aptitude tests after collecting their money paid to ontain the form which was meant to be given out free of charge. Many of these politicians would start reaping the benefits of their wickedness right from earth.

Abba moro was one of the reasons Nigerians dumped Jonathan.

In other climes, ABBA Moro will be spending the rest of his life in jail, bit in Nigeria where anything goes, he is receiving honours.

Ttipsy:
oga as long as one bear igbo, yoruba, hausa, Bini names makes you a native of these ethnic groups

Stop bringing British here, we are African and we don’t joke with our origin!

Millions of Nigerians bear English names, Indians bear English names because of colonial influence, does that make them British ?

You are really dumb and obviously need a brain check ! Look at this one telling me about British , lol . You are old but still don’t have sense

False premise.
People sometimes bear names due to cultural or language assimilation, gaining political or social advantage or simply close contact and admiration of the people. Many examples abound. Many Urhobo and Ijaw people bear itsekiri names a good example is Richard Mofe Damijo, an urhobo man bearing itsekiri name. Many igbos born and bred in the South West bear Yoruba names. Same in the north, so many Mohammeds with northern surnames that are from the south east.
Many parents have named their children Lionel or even Messi because of the admiration of the footballer, even not being Argentinian.

My grouse with the OP is trying to force his preferred identity on others. If he feels igbo as an Ikwerre man, fine, that's his perogative. But if another man feels he is not Igbo, that's their own perogative also. You cannot impose identity on another person.

Bobloco:
Tinubu being described as a democrat is the greatest lie ever told

Imagine! How ironic.
A Democrat that use federal might to prevent the constitution from being adhered to.
Meanwhile, he was among those that protested when the Yaradua cabal did the same thing.

oluwaseyi0:
Tinubu supporting illegality

Very annoying. Ondo state is without a functioning governor just because the current sick governor is an ally of Tinubu.

“This means that Governor Akeredolu remains the chief executive of the state, Aiyedatiwa remains the deputy governor, and members of the State Executive Council continue their respective duties, even as the leadership of the state House of Assembly and the APC chapter in Ondo State is preserved.”

Akeredolu might as well rule from the grave.

At the meeting the president also asked the deputy governor to write an undated letter of resignation as “a form of insurance” for his expected demonstration of loyalty to Governor Akeredolu.

Is this not a form of blackmail using the instrument and power of the presidency?
What would happen if the deputy governor refuses to sign the undated letter of resignation given to him?
Ondo people I know to be highly pro active politically must reject theses shenanigans.

Love800:
Ur wife has like a store dat looks like those mini outlets of sizzlers and chicken republic selling snacks, right?

Ok. I understood you. But i want to ask, those frying these snacks at roads, juctions, roundabout, are they making profit? Am asking because that is wat i intend starting.

Even dat ur wife outlet is wat i intend having las las. Because i dont want be on road all through my life. So am still shocked at this ur comment sha.

I like your spirit. That's the Nigerian spirit. You will be surprised at what people doing all these small business are making daily.

My advice to you is that you should invest in good education first. Go to a good catering or baking school and register. In the alternative train as an apprentice under a very good chef or Baker. Most Nigerian have the habit of going into a business or profession without adequate training. To succeed in the long run your products must stand out.
My wife spent 2 complete years train to be a Baker. Even though snacks are not making much money now, she easily diversified into small chops cakes and pizza. We are thinking of converting the snack shop to a pizza shop. The margin for pizza is way better than snacks.
Domino which is the main pizza shop in lagos makes horrible pizzas at exorbitant prices. She has been getting orders for pizza.

So I advice you to never give up, don't mind the naysayers or negative people. If you can learn a skill very well, you will make it anywhere, even in Nigeria.

haslaw:
May God bless you for this truth.

The south east is the only region in Nigeria without a single Cosmopolitan city because. they are too hostile to other tribes

The Irony is that Asaba, a capital city just a stone throw from the east is becoming a cosmopolitan city. There are lots of not igbos developing properties and doing business in Asaba.

Love800:
wat snack buisness are u refering to pls?
Wat about people selling snacks (puff puff, buns, egg roll, doughnuts, fish pie) at roadsides, do u want to tell me dat they are not making money?

I am not talking about selling snacks at road sides or by street trading, And I am talking about snack shops and outlets, ie Mr Biggs, Tantaliser, Tetrazini, Tasty Fried Chicken, etc. I am talking from my wife's 4 years of practical experience.


The business is passing through difficult times right now, due to ever increasing cost of ingredients, low patronage and high energy costs (NEPA and Gas).

My wife attended thevassociation meeting yesterday (association of Bakers and snacks makers in ikorodu), she told me just this morning that many members have quit baking and snacks to try other businesses.

Vinnie2000:
The Likes of Samuel Akintola deserved Death!😒😒

He collaborated with Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa to imprison Awolowo and they had plans to run a CIVILIAN DICTATORSHIP!😕🙁

If not for that January 1966 Coup, They would have succeeded and Awolowo would have DIED in Prison, no Cap!😌😔

It's painful Awolowo and most YORUBAS today fail to appreciate the efforts of those Coupists and are Disparaging them.😔😔

Tafawa Balewa and his Northern NPC wanted to Humiliate YORUBAS
With support from Akintola.🤨🤨😏

I wonder how you came to imbibe those evil and wicked values. Is it through upbringing or through indoctrination? Akintola and others deserved to be killed in cold blood because he (or they) Ccollaborated with Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa to imprison Awolowo, and a meaningless allegation of PLANS to install civilian dictatorship. What exactly is the meaning of civilian dictatorship? Are we in one right now? So you support killing people for PLANS?

Why is it painful for igbos for Awolowo to be in prison, or even if he died in prison? Should it not his fellow yoruba that should be in pains?

mightyhaze:
Even though southeast authorities are guilty of some of these accusations,but then,how many yoruba and Hausa live,work and pay taxes in the east .. how many yoruba and Hausa kids do you find schooling in the southeast, and making meaningful contributions there?

Even though I know Reno is seeking attention from Tinubu, what he is saying is the exact sentiment of most Nigerians including yours truly. Igbo society is very hostile to outsiders. They don't accommodate foreigners in their lands, politics and even business. They don't encourage others to do business on their lands. They are even hostile to other igbos from other states and clans. It's in igbo land that you see an igbo woman married to an indigene of a state being referred to as an outsider and not worthy of a political appointment in that state. In igboland a man whose parents are from Abia but was born and bread in imo would not be allowed any appointment in imo, not even into the civil service.

Igbos have to change that attitude, if they want to build a fast developing progressive society. No society develops by isolating itself.

eagleu:
Haaaaaah
Danjuma and his so called Goodwill Hospital in Enugu more than 50 years after he spear headed unwanted killing, massacre and genocide against Igbos.

How someone as corruptly rich as Danjuma to point fingers at a former minister is just a joke, especially as Danjuma is so afraid of calling out Buhari and his team who depreciated Nigeria to its present level

If you want to reopen oil wounds, then what of the killings and massacre of the military and political of other tribes by igbo soldiers? What of the killing in cold blood of the traditional, religious and political leader of Northern Nigeria? Its like the murder of the king of England.
Maybe we should recall all those involve in both the January and July 1966 coups, tried them (physically or post mortem) and then sentence them to death. Maybe that would satisfy your quest for revenge.

SalamRushdie:
A beneficiary of corruption like Danjuma should learn to keep quiet at all...Non of his Oil wells came through merit

How many of all the dozens of Nigerians with oil well came through merit?

membranus:
Oil well gifted to him by Yakubu Gowon, and not Obasanjo, when he murdered Aguiyi Ironsi and Adekunle Fajuyi in Ibadan, in retaliation for the killing of Sardaunah Bello by the Igbos in the North.

Get your facts right. Gowon did not gift oil wells to anybody. The person that started gifting oil wells was IBB. IBB gifted oil wells to lots of people including Alakija, Adenuga and Abiola.

The person that gifted oil well to Danjuma was Abacha in 1998, just before he died.

Tjra:
Unfortunately people like TY Danjuma is one of the reasons Nigeria is in a mess till date.

How was he the reason Nigeria is in a mess till date? Someone that left the army before you were born, someone that held no political post as a military officer. Someone that was petroleum minister under Obasanjo presidency and not one corruption allegation against him.

This same man is richer than some states in Nigeria by owning oil wells because we live in a corrupt society. He makes millions of dollars monthly doing nothing.

Why you guys hate this man is a mystery to me. I am sure it's tribal, probably because of his involvement in the July 66 counter coup.

Was he the only one that was gifted oil block? Numerous Yorubas and Igbos were also gifted oil blocks by various heads of states, and you guys celebrate them. Folorunsho Alakija was gifted oil block by IBB, and she became the richest black woman. Yorubas celebrate her till date. Same with Mike Adenuga. Emeka Offor was gifted an oil block by Obasanjo, and he is one of the richest igbo man today. The igbos celebrate him.

But Danjuma with all the philanthropic work he his doing and even building multi billion naira hospital in the heart of the East. Something other igbo oil well owners are yet to do, the hate continues.

What did he do to deserve those oil wells gifted to him by Obj?

What did Alakija, MKO Abiola, Mike Adenuga, Emeka Offor, Andy Uba, Folawiyo, Nasiru Ado Bayero, Alhaji Mohammed Indimi and lots of other oil well owners do to deserve oil wells gifted to them? Why are you only obsessed with Danjuma?

Lighthome:
Do you even understand simple English at all? The project was initiated in 2018. It has been ongoing and got completed this year. So why shaming BAT. The current juntas just benefited from long term plan of Francis consortium

We are shaming BAT because he goofed big time by suspending power supply to Niger Republic. Nigeria has reneged on a sign contract with Niger Republic and other West African countries on the river Niger, the agreement was to supply them electricity to prevent them from building a dam upstream on the river. This contract had been in place for over 5 decades - through both civilian and military governments. A change of power Tinubu does not like is not enough reason to bridge the contract. Nigeria would suffer much more should Niger Republic decide to dam the river Niger.

WorldRichest:
30 Megawatt is not worth celebrating

How many Megawatts was Nigeria supplying them to begin with?

garfield1:
You should have compared it in a Kano thread not here.however,apc challenged 165000 votes of nnpp and found them to he invalid.there was no challenge on apc votes.

It's was not in the courts place to find individual votes invalid, that's the responsibility of INEC. courts are not in the position to find individual votes valid or invalid. That's giving the courts INEC’s powers. INEC has been allowed to validate or invalidate unsigned ballots papers.

The courts can query the results - maybe due to proven violence or cheating. It can then order a rerun or even outright cancellation of the whole result, but it should not be in a position to cancell the votes of only one party while leaving the rest for something as trivial as unsigned ballot papers which obvious will affect all the parties.

garfield1:
Sir,we are talking of kaduna.electuins were cancelled or not concluded in 5 units and the court ordered a rerun there

I agreed with three Kaduna tribunal judgement. I was only comparing with the Kano state Governorship tribunal judgement which cancelled the votes of only one particular candidate/party. It did not cancel the results, it cancelled actual votes.

garfield1:
It is not true sir.the courts acts according to the prayers before it.the pdp guy wanted a rerun.moreover once votes are found to be unlawful, the court will cancel them

But the votes themselves were never found to be unlawful. The law made provisions for unsigned ballots papers.

garfield1:
Have you bothered to ask what the prayers in court was

Forget prayers in the courts, this is about citizens votes which should be sacrosanct. The court seems to be denying voters their rights to vote by cancelling their votes due to errors or misdeeds of INEC or any of the parties.

Justice should not only be done but seems to have been done.

wolesmile:
The case of Kano was unsigned result sheets.
This one is over voting. They are two different issues.

It was unsigned ballots paper and not sheets. The sheets were duly signed or else it would not have been used by inec to compute the final results.

If the courts feels the integrity of the tallied votes has been compromised, it should have ordered a rerun instead of allowing APC to sieve through all the ballot papers and remove unsigned ones of NNPP only.

wolesmile:
They won't shout "APC is destroying democracy" now.

But if it were the other way round...

Why did the judges not cancel APC votes and declare PDP winner like the case of Kano Governorship elections tribunal?

abobote:
Instead of sacking him outrightly like in the case of oppositions, they are ordering for re run in few polling units.

Deceiving

That's the inconsistency of Nigerian judiciary. In cases affecting APC where the results of the elections is called to question, the courts calls for a re-run. In reverse cases involving PDP, LP or NNPP, the courts cancels votes and declare APC winner.

Tuaka10:
Obviously what she's saying the truth. Africans have slavery mentality, I mean there are so many opportunities in Africa.

So sad. Its the Chinese, indians and Lebanese that are exploiting those opportunities. Come to Ikorodu, you will find so many companies being run by Chinese, indians and Lebanese, many of them can hardly speak English. The latest news is that Chinese are taking over ogun state as they are buying large swathes of land. Yet the owners of these lands are the ones selling these lands to japa.

Adakintroy:
Am being emotions how? And you practical. The nerve not to call urself a weakling. How are you practical and am not while you encourage weak endeavour like abandoning your country . what then will you do in time so wars. Just natural human striving like struggle. Some of you already immense in million and invest in visa. Is that not stupid. If you have 1million you already beat the huger mark. The rest is hard work self and control and continue improve. Mental slavery will continue as long as blacks cannot not get pass immediate gratifications. You all will keep acting as slaves to the whites while pretending we are equals.

My sister my respect for you just increased 1000 times. I envy your husband - future or present. I honesty don't understand how someone can use millions sometimes up to N5 million to japa to another country to start doing menial jobs. With just 2 - 3 million you can start a viable business here in Nigeria that has growth potentials. I started a mini snack bar for my wife with less than N1million. When business was good, she was making a turnover of 10,000- 20,000 per day. Now snack business has crashed. We are looking at turning it into a pizza bar. Pizza is the latest fad in town.

One of my wife's friends make lots of money by just selling asun at hotels and drink joints. She goes to ketu every weekend to buy goats. Sometimes she buys 3 goats in a week.


Nigerians are just too mentally lazy and avoid taking risks. They want sure bets.

Adakintroy:
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Am not demonizing anyone. You are pro yapa that's all. She gave an alternate perspective. If you you are any objective you will tolerate it.


All of you act as if there is nothing good about Nigeria. Yet your basic education you got here. The little money you made you scrape and take outside. But you will present like you don't know why Nigeria is broke. You are all selfish. All of you. Shame on you for pointing solely at leaders. Imagine the drain in capital flight and the talent lost to your slavery mindset. No sense of honest patriotism. Who will teach you this qualities. White have no respect for men with non of this qualities. They call them traitors .

Yorubas would say ko lè yè yòn (they can never understand). The whites, the Arabs and the Asians would never respect you, if your values system is shit - selfishness, greed, untrustworthy and unpatriotic. With all the wars that went on the Syria, the Syrians themselves refused to japa into Europe, which was a stone throw away. With all the sanctions that the west placed on Iran, the Iranian people remain in Iran to confront the Ayatollah dictatorship. But any small problem in Nigeria (the southern parts particularly), scores begin to japa to any where. You now wonder why everyone hates and disrespect us, the Arabs loath us, the Jews don't want to see us, even fellow Africans hate and disrespect us. Canada that tolerated us because of their dwindling population and the huge expanse of land will soon get tired of us.

Trojan8:
Mumu

Na naira person wey dey Canada dey spend.

Uno tell am say N400,000 (which today is less that $400) no go pay rent for one room self contain in one month.

Saladdin:
We hear you!

I agree to her point that a top earning professional should not abandon his career to be a cleaner in Canada. He should rather seek for a dual citizenship or preferably send his family over there and then gradually plan to join them.

This is the problem with most nigerians, we want ready made in everything, we are not ready to take the time and effort to build something to obtain the reward later. We want everything now now. Those countries we are japaing to was build on the sacrifices, sweat and blood of their people. But we chose to destroy our own society and escape to enjoy the society build by others.

If all Africans or Nigerian professionals should japa with their families, who will then build Africa or Nigeria as the case may be? Boko Haram, Al- Shabab, ISIS or Fulani herdsmen? Fulani herdsmen are not japaing anywhere, in fact more and more are ja-wole, they are coming in from all over Africa looking for land. If you ja-pa, they would gladly ja-wole.

Europe and America is draining Africa of its most valuable resources - its manpower, particularly its skilled manpower. Imagine the richest man in the world is an African.

The AU needs to address this manpower drain of Africa that started with the slave trade.

However, an average Nigerian that has the opportunity to go to Canada should grab it with two hands, at least he has hopes to live in a sane society.

She looks like a Somali-Canadian. Why didn't she stay put in Somalia? I'll not be surprised if she's from an elite family in Somalia, or she probably came to Canada by seeking asylum. Abeg shift!

She has a valid point. It does not make sense to leave a respectable job and life in Africa and start doing menial jobs in Canada. Its acceptable for a young man or woman that just started life, but for a matured person that have achieved some respectable status in society, its embarrassing and shameful.

Djele:
The revolution will start in kano

Kano people no dey hear word o. They are very stubborn like Ondo people. I suspect serious riots if the supreme court agrees to invalidate NNPP votes just because ballot papers were unsigned without cancelling those of APC.
The best thing the supreme court can do is order a rerun in the controversial local governments. We should never be in a situation where the courts determine who would be governor or president.

Guyman01:
State capture of Judiciary, its no longer the people electing their leadership but the courts

That's the tragedy of Nigeria's democracy. People's votes are no longer sacred. The courts can cancel peoples votes based on errors by INEC or the parties, or any other technical issues. The courts have taken over to determine those that represents the people.

The electoral law and the constitution made sure INEC monitors the parties from primaries to the election proper. Why did INEC accept the candidates, screen the candidates, put their names on the ballot and announced them validly elected, only for the court to disqualify their candidacy and votes?

casualobserver:
I agree with you on agencies like EFCC last ma etc.

As far as INEC, I believe you are wrong but I don’t have the energy to engage anyone who thinks INEC is the problem. Largely because you have probably made up your mind and we will engage in back and forth with no achievement.

Let me just state my position on INEC.


INEC is one of the most credible organisations we have in Nigeria. Are there bad elements yes, there will always be bad elements so long as they are staffed by Nigerians. This election we had in 2023 is one of the most credible elections anywhere in the world and certainly ever in Nigeria.

What makes INEC credible? Their product (the electoral system) is credible. You cannot rig without evidence. I didn’t say you can’t rig but you will leave evidence.

If you over vote, there is evidence
you stamp ballot boxes, there is evidence
If you alter results, there is evidence
If you are not registered to vote, you can’t vote
You can’t register or vote twice

If you announce wrong results, there is evidence.

There is evidence for every infraction. What you do with it is not INEC’s business….they have done their job. Which is to provide an electoral system that is difficult to rig and when you rig you will leave evidence of your rigging.

The problem with Nigeria is that we are bad losers and we malign INEC and the judiciary and get the gullible public (very easy because the majority have no brains to use) to believe we were rigged when in fact we lost the election or it was our own blunders that cost us defeat.

Let me tell you something for a fact, if a politician knows he was rigged he knows where evidence of the rigging is. If he isn’t producing the evidence it is because he knows he wasn’t rigged. I am wasting my time try to convince you but the system is fool proof.

If anything I would revise my earlier list and say the most corrupt people in Nigeria are politicians. They know they lost but they lie and go to court even when they know they will lose because they believe if they admit they lost, their supporters will lose hope in them saying “this one never wins” but by saying and perpetuating the lie that we were cheated you keep the fire in the supporters alive.


If you were rigged, there is evidence. I stress I am not saying rigging doesn’t happen but politicians have the results even before INEC because they have situation rooms. They know if any rigging materially affected the outcome. If it did they will provide. The evidence because you cannot hide evidence. But often they know they lost, they know there was rigging in 2 or 2 places but they know it made no difference but they will highlight it to malign INEC and claim they won. If it mattered they have the paper trail and they would present it.


Haven’t you noticed that people claim they won elections and instead on focusing on where they were rigged they focus on disqualification?

Majority of Nigerians would disagree with the redded statement including judges, SANs and many highly respected legal scholars.
Here is the opinion of 3 justices of the court of appeal in Abuja read out today 24th November by the lead justice in the judgement that the sackes the Speaker of the Bauchi State House of Assembly.

BREAKING: Court of Appeal sacks Bauchi state House of Assembly Speaker, orders rerun

A three-member panel on Friday held that the election that produced Suleiman in Ningi Central Constituency in Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi State was full of irregularities.

The appellate court ordered a rerun in 10 polling units in the constituency.

Meanwhile, the lead justice has warned the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct its affairs under the law to avoid plunging the country into crisis.

Delivering judgment in the Ningi Central Constituency appeal, said INEC’s conduct of the 2023 general elections was not as an unbiased umpire.
https://politicsnigeria.com/breaking-court-of-appeal-sacks-bauchi-state-house-of-assembly-speaker-orders-rerun/

If 3 appeal court judges could accuse INEC of not being an unbiased umpire, you expect ordinary Nigerians to accept INEC’s conduct of the last elections.

These 3 honourable judges did the right thing when the integrity of the elections was called to question by cancelling the elections in affected areas and ordering a rerun, instead of cancelling the votes of only one party and leaving the votes of the other.

Some Nigerians still have conscience and have not sacrificed their conscience on the alter of money, tribalism or other personal interests.

LocalFARMERS:
You think so? But the imported ones will also pass through all those setbacks you mentioned.

The don't. Imported products don't have the extra bureaucracy and corruption local goods pass through, particularly in the production and manufacturing process. Ordinary registration of business in Nigeria is problem. Getting necessary certifications and approvals like NAFDAC SON, health approvals, fire certificates, local government fees, Union fees, agbero fees, etc are extremely difficult and costly.
It seems you have never tried to set up a business in Nigeria. The approval processes alone can kill your spirit. And we have not even started about the manufacturing process proper.