₦airaland Forum

Mindlog:
Let Igbos continue to be " “onlookers in the Nigerian project.”' while other tribes who have had their people as Presidents continue to enjoy their world class road networks, schools, healthcare services, 24/7 electricity, low unemployment rate..

Igbos as a people should not waste their next 20–25 years of hard work aiming to produce the president of Nigeria, they should rather channel it to continue building their human capital resources and infrastructure in the South East.

Northwest has produced Shagari, Abacha, Yar'dua and Buhari but going by the data of NBS, the poverty and illiteracy rate in that region is bone chilling......a state from that region some years ago between 20111 and ,2015 was only able to produce 65 indigenes who got admitted to study medicine in Nigerian universities in a particular year while Imo state alone had 1,500 of her indigenes admitted for the same medicine.

Igbokwe should not weep for the Igbos but should weep for himself and his children.

u are still not getting d message of igbokwe. No matter how good u think u are u still need d strength and support and contributions of others to achieve

Morbeta11:
I Salute all the ethnic groups that produced Presidents who built this Eldorado called Nigeria..... A country where all the cities and streets are built with gold unfortunately......how can we progress with this useless mindset, even if Jesus come down to rule Nigeria, Nigeria will happen to him.

Joe Igbokwe is an empty old man. You can never get the attention of Tinubu with this nonsense. They have dropped in both state and federal level.

he is making some sense even in that emptiness. U can not win alone

Vinnie2000:
IGBOS this, Igbos that.😏

Anyways, the Igbos I know are Not desperate to produce President.

They are Hustlers and think more of making 💰 Money. 😊😊

Not Palliative Beggars like some Tribes. 😟😌

. It is that sense of pride that keeps U complaining

paramakina202:
It will take Joe Igbokwe 250 years to get common sense.

ok having common sense means surpotting ur own myopic point of view

DaddyCoool:
What good has producing almost all the heads of state since independence done Hausa people??

then U don't have to be abrasive or openly arrogant. Do ur home work very well to produce a better solution. You can always earn people's respect by ur works and legacies

rintileri:
Gutter adviser how many years did it take you of selling out your people so they can dash you gutter adviser? Wretched politicians

oga how did he sell out his people? He has been in APC long before now from d time of fashola.. u guys are still lacking in accurate judgement. U still let ur emotions do it for u. Forgetting that this thing over all its more of game of numbers and u need to carry people along. Continue dey play. Shine ur eyes. Tone down on hubrism and see clearer

talented321:
With my loud..
Women believe lies and packaging...
Just manage rent one fine apart with some monthly income'' see anyhow u want bad girls will not let u go..
*A bad guy don't judge because he just want to collect his share..
A lady is more free with a bad guy than the a good guy..
Good guys hardly let things go..
Majority of bad guys are jovial and funny..
Bad guys are good in bed especially eating of the honey pot
Good guys are strict, and women don't like strict life but wayo life...
And lastly even girls hate simps...

don't mind them. You see them requesting for God fearing, honest and sincere men but they will hate u when u are simple and sincere that's why some guys take to lying. So most times they get what they deserve

OyeofIkoTuN:
We want that Yoruba war to proceed..

Leave this cows distraction.. Yorubas will deal with the North as predicted normally...

Igboland will rejoice

what is this one saying! Ur thought is always at d tribal level.

naptu2:
Radio

First there were many MW stations, none of which was able to really capture my attention. We had Radio Lagos, RCOS, B.C.O.S/Radio O.Y.O, Ogun Radio/OGBC and of course the king of them all Radio Nigeria 1 (1089). Radio Nigeria 1 was the first place to go to for the 7am news and whenever there was a coup.


RN2

Then came the glorious Radio Nigeria 2 (RN2). RN2 played great music and they had superstar presenters. It was the first FM station in Lagos. I paticularly enjoyed listening to the station in the afternoons and at weekends. RN 1 catered to the older folks, while RN2 was the new exciting station for the younger folks (these roles were replicated on tv, with NTA Ch 10 being for the older folks and NTA 2 Ch 5 for the younger folks).

RN 2 had superstars like

(Your Willing Willy) Willy Egbe
Sunny Irabor
(JAJ) Joseph Akinyemi Johnson
Ohi Alegbe
Jones Usen
Ihria Enakhimo (one of the funniest human beings on tv and radio)
(Bonny with the face) Boniface Onogwu
Godwin Asuquo
Momoh Kubanje
Tony Ibegbuna (he was the voice of the station when it started. It seemed like he did all their jingles).

And many more. There were shows like Willy Brunch, Sunny Side Up, Martin Street Special (before the Martin Street studios burnt down), Police Diary, I Beg Una, etc.

Radio Nigeria One later caught my attention with a beautiful breakfast show called Radioscope. In the years that I was hooked on that show (1988-1993) it was hosted at various times by Zachary Mohammed (Captain ZM), Manny Onumonu and Evelyn Russel.

Radio Nigeria Three was set up in 1989 (it was the first community radio station in Nigeria and broadcast in pidgin, igbo yoruba and hausa) and I often listened to them in the evenings.

RN2 is now known as Metro FM, RN3 is now known as Country Radio and RN1 moved from MW to FM and is now known as Radio One.

OGBC 2
Then came the Ogun State Broadcasting Corporation's second station (OGBC2), the second FM station that could be received in Lagos. It blew RN2 out of the water. It was lightyears ahead of its elder sister OGBC (which transmitted on the MW band). It had great presenters like

Ladi Akeredolu-Ale
Larry Ichiejile
Olusesan Ekisola
Aderinsola Aladeselu
Peter Okodua
Busayo Olaifa
Toyin Shogbesan.
Ambrose Shomide
Toba Opaleye

Its breakfast show, which included Headliners (newspaper review) and Bournvita Sports Special with Larry Ichiejile/Izamuje was second to none. It rode on the wave of the golden age of hip hop by playing all the latest hip hop tracks that people wanted to hear.

It was one of the key sources of information during the June 12 movement. People got anti-government news from OGBC2, The Punch, The Concord, etc; pro-government news from the NTA, Radio Nigeria, Daily Times and New Nigerian and impartial news from The Guardian and The BBC. Then the government shut down OGBC temporarily.

Raypower
The very first private radio station actually began broadcasting without permission from government. The station debuted sometime in the middle of the year (broadcasting on 100MHz), then they were ordered to shut down by the NBC, then they legally started transmission towards the end of the year on 100.5MHz.

It virtually wiped out OGBC and RN2 from the airwaves. They were broadcasting from Alagbado, but they had a relay station on Bookshop House in Marina, thus their signal was clearer across Lagos than OGBC and RN2's signals. They poached a lot of talent from OGBC and Radio Nigeria. People like Ambrose Shomide and Momoh Kubanje joined the station. They had presenters like

Olusesan Ekisola (the first General Manager of Raypower, he was poached from OGBC).
Steve "The Sleek" Kadiri.
Dennis Tha Menace Ogi
Ogee Onazi.
Sule "Solazo" Ellams
Becky Ellams
Lola "L Boogie" Mogaji
Ibiyemi Olufowobi
Busola Faiga
Doe Abrahams
Tony Akiotu
Jumobi Adegbesan

They had Milo World Of Sports (which attempted to compete against Larry's Bournvita Sports Special on OGBC), Newspaper Headline Review, Jukebox (with Olusesan Ekishola), Rock Radio (with Dennis Da Menace Ogi), Doe Abraham's calypso show, etc. They also collaborated with The BBC and broadcast Sports Round Up, Sports World, News Hour, etc. It ruled the airwaves for much of the Abacha/June 12 crisis era and people depended on their news for information about what was going on.


Rhythm

And the Murray-Bruces finally floated a radio station. Their selling point was "More music, less talk" and they won people over by playing mainstream music that people liked (hip hop, R&B and soul). Rhythm has endured and has remained one of my top two favourite stations since 1997. They've had presenters like

Femi Sowoolu (formerly of OGBC)
JAJ (formerly of RN2).
Eldee The Don.
Steve (the South African)
Naphtali Tope Brown (Brown Sugar)
Nnamdi Anazia
Kemistry

And more recently

(The Wildchild) I.K Osakiodua
Phoenix
(Big Time) Onome Oyaide

At breakfast time I would often switch between the sports, newspaper review and news programmes on OGBC2, Raypower and Rhythm, before OGBC2's quality and signal strength depreciated.


Cool FM

Between 1998-2010 Cool FM had undoubtedly the best collection of nigerian on air personalities in one radio station that I have ever heard. The only radio station that has had anything like that (and they are a distant second) is Radio Nigeria 2 (in the early 1980s).

They had amazing presenters like

1) Lakeside (Lekan Saheed). He was definitely my favourite. The guy was INSANE!

2) Iyke The G (nobody else plays the kind of music that he plays. It's almost like he reads my mind).

3) Dan Foster (the Big Dawg. He has an unusual ability to connect with his listeners).

4) Kemi Adetiba (amazing impersonations).

5) Gbemi Olateru-Olagbegi

6) Olisa Adibua (yes, the same guy that hosted "Top Of The Pops" on NTA2 Channel 5 c1988-1992)

7) Dare Art-Alade

8 ) Tosyn Bucknor (she also co-hosted the crazy Fanta show with Lakeside).

9) Mark Silvere (an american that first presented the Good Morning Nigeria Show. He also had the ability to connect with his listeners [he often prayed for them on air]. Made a good team with Dan Foster).

10) Keith Lane. The very first voice I heard on Cool FM (on the day they started transmitting). This guy is the definition of insane! He introduced "Radio Grafitti" to Cool FM and it hasn't been the same without him (no one has his level of insanity). His first stint at Cool FM ended when he complained about a decision that management were about to make and invited listeners to call in and talk about it. He was brought back several years later, after Dan Foster left the station, but listeners hated him because they kept comparing him to Dan (Dan is nice and friendly, while Keith is irreverent and insane).

11) Charles Supo Orija (the king of news).

They also ran the Bournvite Sports Special with Larry Izamuje for a while (at first it was networked with OGBC2, then it was exclusively on Cool FM) and also had Sports Express with the Sportsvision crew.

Now I just shuffle between Rhythm, NigeriaInfo and Classic FM. No radio station is particularly dominant or strong enough to get my attention exclusively. Raypower lost the right to use their relay station, so their signal isn't particulalrly strong and they also lost a lot of their best presenters. The 2010 tsunami also saw Cool FM losing their best presenters and I don't listen to them anymore. OGBC2 and RN2 (now known as Metro FM) are shadows of their former selves.

Picture 1: Sunny Irabor

Picture 2: Joseph Akinyemi Johnson (JAJ)

Picture 3: Jumobi Adegbesan and Dennis Da Menace Ogi

Picture 4: Dan Foster

the Joseph akinyomi Jonson is d youngest old man. He never ages Mani onumonu moved to d usa

AllenSpencer:
Been that way since the 80’s

UK people are “NATURALLY” stingy!

Rumors even has it that, Peter Obi learnt it from there.

and they go about it with some swag. They raise their nose high with high sounding phonetics and terms to impress u. Trying to proof their frugality

NwokoloOwa:
This was how Buhari lost all respect. Tinubu is dangerously heading same direction. Its so unfortunate

oga make him select him team. When u get there U do d same. The outgoing presidio did d same

Omodua:
Exactly. Supported.

Appointments into federal agencies should reflect our ethnic spread. Not just one or two ethnic groups.

We should restructure this country or dissolve the Union.

So.much impunity, cronyism, grovelling bigotry and nepotism in the conduct of public affairs.

South South and South East should be blamed for lack of unity. Otherwise, this nepotism in running the country where they are shortchanged should have been addressed.

. Oga wait for ur turn and stop complaining. You may end up doing worser

WriterNig:
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thank God no life was lost. It is better to be lost in d desert on earth than in far away space

Free2Fly:
I was waiting for those useless Yoruba boys and their usual 'Igbos are greedy' yeye talks

U people has turned this space to ' ndo ro ndo ro '

Free2Fly:
They go mainly to lagos, mumu, and every Nigerian is free to reside there, as a large chunk of our national resources went into developing it.

Lagos's discovery and development as an economic hub started with the Portuguese slave traders, then the British empire and finally the Nigerian government, all of which used it as their capital.

So, Lagos wasn't developed by your lazy fathers and every Nigerian is free to transact his/her business there.

seems d internet and nairaland was created for u to exploit and display ur bad behaviour under cover.

favor914:
It is true, Ecowas is really slowing Nigeria down, let Niger’s army just enter any part of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by mistake, the country will seize to exist.

Trouble dey sleep, yanga go wake am, wetin em dey find?

What general Buhari did to Chad in 1982 with only ground troops, will be kindergarten play.

ur banditry never sieze to exist na niger

Ttalk:
I accept that just as I don't like the way northerners have mostly occupied FCT minister appointment until Tinubu broke the jinx

it was exactly becos of that that he is ranting indirectly. Nothing more. Forgetting that all d big slots in petroleum and maritime is dominated by them even when they are not indegenous to it

Ttalk:
I accept that just as I don't like the way northerners have mostly occupied FCT minister appointment until Tinubu broke the jinx

it was exactly becos of that that he is ranting indirectly. Nothing more

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wittywriter:
True definition of enjoy while it lasts....lolz


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Thanks for engaging.



Wittyness

there will always be an audit to retrieve d funds

BigYash:
That is why a lady should not have a say in a man's life.. Because they can't even stand for themselves (Broke ass) ,then you see her calling a hustling guy broke ..

If they minus all the help and gifts most of these girls got from the men they call scum,you will see that they are worth nothing..

well the men too whole heartedly choose to be fools and scum. Me I no fit stress myself for any undeserving girl

MrsTwrite:
Two shameless people










Do well to check my signature.

funny

BrokenCondom:
The Korope driver told me this after he needed to explain why i have to pay two times what i pay pre-subsidy removal.

He said they are worst hit by the recent situation.
He calculated 570/186 = 3.09
Whereas he is only billing two times of the old price, that he should be billing 3x or more than that

Two hours later i was still disturbed by that assertion, backed by this keke driver who charged two times what was obtainable this same time last year.
So i tried whining my way through his guts...

I asked... How are you guys coping with this subsidy palava?

Although not too confident, he poised Public Transporters are worst hit by the recent economic situation.

Then i asked that question that skipped my thoughts in the Korope,


I said...

"Guy, people wey dey give una money don dey collect double salary"

But the guy's reaction answered me.

Nairaland, who/where is worst hit by the current situations of Nigeria's economy?


Broken Condom

dont mind those guys o . They were already over billing people long before. . They maintain nearly a flat rate for all routes not minding if u are getting down half way and still pick one or two more passengers to fill ur sit before final route destination. They are greedy wicked, babaric and insensitive group of people. Some times they make a U turn before last bus stop and request all passengers to get down not minding that these passengers squeezed themselves to pay d outrageous fares in the first place. They are self centred and lack any sense of empathy or remorse. They jump at d slightest reason to justify and Jack up prices. And even when situation return to normal they will never reverse the increase. The covid 19 event was an example of this. Fares went up then and never returned to previous rates afterwards. Don't pity their crocodile tears o! The only place they deserve pity is the extortion s from several illegal touts

APOSTLECHUMA:
I live in Trans and looking for 3 bed room apartment in upper North for a relation, I was told 1.5m just the rent alone. Enugu has turned into something else.
.

there's rumours that diamond s were discovered recently in Enugu

Angelfrost:
Greedy Southerners... Especially Southeast and South-south. SMH.


Not one of the citizens and residents of Asaba, Owerri, Enugu, etc, can intelligently explain why Rents are outrageously high... Not one!

I mean, workers there don't earn more than workers in Ibadan or Abeokuta... Owerri can't even boast of industries... Job opportunities are literally almost nonexistent...

Yet cost of living is trying to keep pace with Lagos and Abuja.

Tell me how crimes and vices won't be astronomical... So stupid!

no mind them. Don't know what they are celebrating

Confirm4real:
Please this is a serious case she happens to be my younger sister I'm putting this up on her behalf.

1. The husband doesn't give her money for upkeep.

2. Most times he beat her up mercilessly.

3. Disgraced her in the compound by telling a mechanic that she doesn't wear pants.

4. Treat her like rag.

5. Doesn't have regard for my family.

6. Monitor her everywhere and accuse her wrongly of following men, this is someone that they've been married for more than 15yrs and have 4kids together.

7. Always accuse her wrongly of stealing his money.

8. Follow her to the market and pays for any food items she buys.

9. The little money my sister earns as a teacher he will make sure she spends all the money at home.

10. Locks his phone but told my sister to always unlock her own so he will be seeing all her messages and calls. Even put tracker on her phone to monitor her calls.

11. Smells my sister's undies atimes to know if she went to meet a man.

12. There was a time my sister was into restaurant business the husband didn't allow the business to last, he told her customers should not sit down to eat they can only buy and go.

13. He now bought a Sienna he still put tracker to monitor the car and inner tracker to monitor calls inside the car. If he noticed some conversation in the car he will start calling my sister, if she doesn't pick while driving he will start insulting her.

14. He pays the children school fees and house rent with complains. They're living at Ajah.

Although I have reported the case to Human Rights. Please what advice can you give if she's your sister.

Note: They dated long before marriage almost 5yrs, but I wonder why she didn't see those red flags then.

Women should be careful in their choice of selection, most men pretends to be nice during dating but not knowing they're beast in human form.

lol! Joker!

Morningdews:
Threatening to kill the leader of the free world is one thing, then producing evidence that you can actually do it is another

too much of everything and freedom also intoxicates

[quote author=RingRoadMafia post=125001613][/quote]he could be cracking silly jokes though

fergie001:
SOURCE

nobody suspects racism here

CSTRR:
When I was in uniben, girls in the hostel would poo in nylon and throw across fence.

can U imagine? Indiscipline

Majesty33:
Aside being dirty, another one is their act of demonism. Very manipulative and and so so canterkerous in nature. pretends for a very long time inorder to get what they want from a guy and afterwards, the demon in them resurfaced. 90 percent of these delilahs have only kpekus to offer. A lady will complain bitterly how i use her toilet to urinate on intervals and will monitor every single time i use but will still go ahead and use bucket meant for bathing to pee and then pour back inside the toilet and flush and sees nothing wrong with that.

some use the same bucket to wash fish and tomato and cook for eating.

Shinjawestern:
Na female toilets dey always dirty pass..

U wil see them outside behaving like people who don't go to toilet...

U won try! Forming garbage!