solomon111: Shut up and get lost.
Your botswana country of not more than 10million is a non-entity.
Definitely can't be compared to Nigeria in status,diplomacy or economy now or in the future.

ceo4eva: I now strongly believe that this Jonathan's Administration Cultivates, Breeds, Nurtures, Fertilizes, Harvests, Packages, and Distributes CORRUPTION.
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Riba_man:

Let me spell out to you then:
Nigeria did a lot for the anti-apartheid movement than the countries that the bulk of today's speakers represent. My retired father has his own personal stories of what the Obj military regime did for ANC.
I think its not Jonathan that has suffered a snub, nope it's Nigeria that has been snubbed. How low this country has fallen!

Lilimax: Be it as it may, the bitter truth message has been sent to all Nigerians home and abroad.
The earlier we arise and re-build our nation and its dented image, the better for us.

It dosen't end at throwing insults on our President; we should do the bits we can individually
to move this nation forward....

Ijawboy: Pres. Jonathan was not snubbed, believe me it is you and I, all Nigerians and everything we stand for that got snubbed. Even at that, Nigeria was snubbed and y'all are laying into Jonathan are you therefore implying that all the world leaders that spoke at the event represent Countries with zero corruption
I can tell you for free that Nigeria was not snubbed because of all the reasons you implied, rather it is because we do not hesitate to pour scorn on our own government at the slightest opportunity, regardless of where we are, washing the proverbial 'dirty linen in public' as if these foreigners will help solve our problems us when we do that.
My point simply is that we should criticise the wrong doings of our government, stand up to them when and where necessary, but this should be done internally and not in the presence of outsiders who instead of offering a helping hand, rather see it as an opportunity to ridicule all of us irrespective of our political inclination or social status.
Mandela himself had very little respect for the blood-thirsty U.S. Government and famously labelled the British P.M. as the " U.S. Foreign minister". Let's call a spade, a spade. The SA Govt. goofed and that point should be made in very clear terms, yes "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth". We should encourage our Government to respond diplomatically, in a manner similar to the 'yellow card saga'.

kokoA: you are the one acting childish here bro. If only one Africa country were to be selected to pay tribute to Mandela, that country should be our country, Nigeria. I remember all the "free mandela" campaign all over the place while growing up. I never knew anything about politics then but I knew the name Mandela because of the way our people then talked about his freedom, I remember a popular song by a Nigerian artist titled "free mandela" which we all loved to sing during our play time. We should be asking ourselves what went wrong. Mandela stood for black people and if we as the most populous black nation in the world were reduced to mere spectators at his funeral then there's something "unmandela-like" we must have done to warrant this embarrassment.

ROSSIKE: Do you know Zimbabwe contributed nearly ten times more to the anti-apartheid struggle than Nigeria?

pitypec: The british were snubbed cos they were the chief instigator of apertheid. They are the root cause of it all. The iinternet is meant for research nw go read my friend na only nairalland u dey visit.

ceo4eva: I now strongly believe that this Jonathan's Administration Cultivates, Breeds, Nurtures, Fertilizes, Harvests, Packages, and Distributes CORRUPTION.
Click 'LIKE' if U Agree.

callmenow: These fake and plastic comments are nauseating. NEXT. Nigeria came to the anti-apartheid party very late. This was not a funeral. It was just a service of thanks, called memorial. Get over it and move on in the direction of Oshodi. Would you like Nigeria president to come to your uncle's (or father, mother, etc) memorial service? And then make a speech? (A president who does not know your loved one) I don't think so. Cameron and Obama and blonde Danish PM (Thorning-Schmidt) were caught taking a 'selfie' in the middle of the ceremony. Nigeria will have split up, if Jonathan was caught in similar circumstances. Americans are happy that their Presido is relaxed to engage with others, the Britons were happy that their premier mixes with the in-crowd. Illiteracy and ignorance can be measured by the inability to comprehend or read between the lines, as well as speaking before thinking.

mama-gee:
Doesn't surprise me...

Goodluck Jonathan is the worst Nigerian leader after Abacha

taharqa: You reali are a DUNCE. Infact, worse than a Dunce; more like an Okpee. So cos Nigeria was not askd to give a Speech at Mandela's Birthday, it there4 means that GEJ Admin 'cultivates, breeds, grows, etc corruption'?? Lawd have Mercy!! If I said everytin I felt cos of this unbelievably stu.pid logic in my mind right now , Seun himself wud ban me for 55years....#KIDS

deeptesting: Many never understood the legacy of Madiba. If Madiba had the opportunity to select those who will speak on his memorial,i think he will give it to all those who stood against the freedom of black South Africans and not those who fought to bring it to an end. Sometimes,i sit back with a bottle of 1756 wondering how Nigeria,the most populous black Nation with rare breed of intellectuals got to these irreparable state.

petrov 10: Nonsense post.

fabulousdame:
sorry..i could choose to hate like some people.
buh tru it all..no place like home en pls dnt quote me unless u ve sometin reasonable to say.
thank u

jaytee01: We got to this state because most of those intellectuals can't be bothered to speak up when things go wrong or even participate in the political process. They leave governance to the dogs, the dregs of the society and then turn around to complain when things go wrong. Make a comparison of our political space, peopled as it is mostly by self serving, visionless,semi-literate jokes and nutured by a most sickening form of sycophancy known to man( read the hired goons patrolling on nairaland, spewing rubbish, who will never admit the dire straits to which our dear country has fallen, interested only in the crumbs they feed off Omokri and others of his ilk) and the countries we look up to and you will get an idea as to why we got to this sorry pass. Where those nations ensure that a rigorous and robust process throws up nothing but the best for political office, we are busy championing ethnic and regional causes, reasoning stupidly that certain people are entitled to hold office not on the strenght of their performance, vision and ideas but on the basis of where they come from.

geeez: Sometimes, beyond the office, the personality determines the extent of your influence

If BRF was president, I'm not sure any serious nation would snub him like this

He's ruthlessly intelligent and aptly presidential

depato88: Honestly, they have serious self-esteem problems.
Do you know Zimbabwe contributed nearly ten times
more to the anti-apartheid struggle than Nigeria? I'm
not even sure Pa Mugabe was aware of the funeral
much less attending it or making a speech. I don't see
Zimbabweans killing themselves over any ''snub''.
Even countries like Angola which were among the
frontline states that even sent in men and material to
fight alongside the ANC, yet they weren't asked to
make a speech. Some of our people really have
problems.
If South Africa has any issues with Nigeria, it is more
of a competition thing for leadership in Africa etc....
With Nigeria set to rebase her GDP, it will make
Nigeria Africa's largest economy, with the benefits
that all brings in terms of investment and global
profile etc.