^^^ it is you that is blind, deaf and dumb. On top of that, you are st.up.id, ignorant and a bigot

@buzor, I mean your father! slowpoke!

In as much as I do not subscribe to some of the posts by some northern guys above, I do have to admit that we have some trolls here who think it is fashionable to insult the president. It is becoming really disgusting.

I am so glad that NL is not a true representation of Naija. The level of ignorance and gross bigotted idiocy here is alarming. So many id.io.ts just running their mouths here. A president goes on an hostoric reform of the NPF, first of its kind in the history of Nigeria and you lot who are suffering from acute cynicism crawl out of your disgusting holes to once again try to take the shine away from the event. You lot are pathetic. This is the most sweeping reform that have ever been carried out in the police force. Do you know what it is to retire the whole DIGs. You guys have absolutely no clue. Ignorant morons!

Reading thru these posts, I feel like crying because most of us dont even know what our problem is in Nigeria.

Many of you just make cliches like top to bottom or bottom to top. Those are very vague statements. I have said over and over again that corruption is not the problem of Nigeria. Corruption is a result of the problem, not the problem itself. There are fundamentals that must be dealt with and the most important of those is the establishment of true federalism and the complete overhaul of our constitution. The constitution of Nigeria is the single most important factor that facilitates corruption. Once we can develop a new constitution that esponges all the loopholes on which corruption thrives, then we are on course.
Crap like federal character, structure of government are major corruption loopholes.

How can a constitution say you must appoint a minister from each state. So if you cant get someone who is credible from a state, what do you do? What of the composition of people in federal parastatals, the real coven of corruption. We always fight politicians in Nigeria, but we keep forgetting that these politicians cannot operate without the aid of government people in the various ministries. And by government people, i do not necessarily mean ministers. I am talkign about the foot soldiers and middle management. Have you gone to Abuja to see the cars these government workers drive. You will feel sick.

It has become a real epidemic and God help us. One of the problems I had with the last protest was the morality of corrupt people claiming they are fighting against corruption. It is like a man fighting against himself. The only person I can stand behind in Nigeria and fight against corruption is Chief Gani Fawehimi. evry other person parading out there as anti corruption are all a bunch of goats. Femi Falana, Buhari, Tam David West, El Rufai and the lot out there are very corrupt guys.

The guys that really made me laugh were the Nigerian artists talking about fighting corruption. It really made me feel bad. They are corruption personified. They even claimed government should cut down on waste. I was shocked because they are the biggest beneficiaries of government waste. Imagine an artist collecting N4m for performing a 3 minute track in a government function. That is the definition of waste. We just need something to happen to change our hearts in Nigeria because we are deceiving ourselves when we talk about fighting corruption. I dare say all the guys posting on this thread are a bunch of corrupt duds

Nigeria and Nigerians are so full of lies and propaganda. Instead of them to commit their effort to producing quality, they produce crap and try to do propaganda.

1. Nigeria does not do movies. They do home videos. There is a big difference. So please stop saying we have a movie industry not to talk of competing with Holywood.
2. Nigerians dotn even watch the so called crap. The highest selling movies in Nigeria right now are American series like 24, Legend of the Seeker, Spactarcus and Pillars of the earth. Nollywood is crap that only a few illiterates watch.
3. The problem is not money because I have many of these guys as friends. Amata was given $500, 000 to shoot Amazing Grace and he still produced a sub-standard crap. If you give a Director money to produce movie, he will first remove his share which can be as much as 60 percent of the whle money before he does anything. We are not ready for serious business
4. A typical Nigerian home video does not sell more than 20, 000 copies. Go find out. Ghana movies have taken over because they are far better
4. All the movies we produce in a year does not gross as much revenue as 1 regular Hollywood movie

We are just blowing hype here in Naija. We should stop deceiving ourselves and start building a new future

IykeD:

And how does all your "the same Buharis'" correlate with what he pointed out? Now tell me how losing election in a super-corrupt country like Nigeria has become a sin? You need to examine your head bruv!

It means, he lacks any moral and ethical standing to speak against anyone. He is only looking for cheap popularity and he is an hypocrite. We need sincere Nigerians fighting for Nigerians, not these set of opportunists and thieves who are only looking for their own and we only fare worse.

El Rufai, Buhari, Tam David West are examples of scammers who want to capitalize on the on going situation.

989900:

When he was, all our refineries were working, he even built the last of them which is the biggest.

[size=14pt]You people will never stop spewing garbage propaganda. No new refineries have been built since Gowon's regime. Only maintenace and some expansion works.[/size]

GenBuhari:

Buhari also said that the idea that fuel is subsidised, is a fraud.

A word is enough for the wise.

[size=14pt]The same Buhari that was hiding behind idiagbon? You think everyone here is less than 20years old?
The same Buhari that was minster of petroleum during OBJ's first regime and supervised one of the biggest oil fraud in Nigeria?
The same Buhari that was so clueless he didnt have any plan for democracy or any economic blueprint but kept shouting a sharia style war against indiscipline where he was asking people to be flogged on the streets?
The same Buhari that said moslems should only vote for moslems?
The same Buhari that presided over PTF and totally defrauded Nigeria of billions under abacha's watch?
The same Buhari that was first to support Yerima's drive for the sharialization of Northern Nigeria?
The same stu.p.id illiterate Buhari who keeps loosing election after election?

I guess you think we are children. Nonsense. The next thing you will start to post those your st.up.id long propaganda posts from the 50's. Those tricks will not works anymore.[/size]

^^^ So who is feeding who? The last time I checked, you guys produce nothing and are feeding fat on Niger Delta resources. Please enlighten me otherwise.

[size=14pt]He defeated the PDP northern consensus candidate
He shoved IBB aside
He defeated Buhari, Ribadu
He has increase PMS price by over 50%

He withstood the harrasment and fury of Millions of Nigerians
He brushed aside a one week nationwide strike. He didnt even reply his critics who were pouring venom at a music jamboree in Lagos
He has "declared a subtle state of emergency" in Lagos
He brutalized El Rufai
He has sign the dreaded FOI bill into law
He has repealed the dreaded official secrets act. These are laws that can really expose him
He is fast tracking the PIB

And they still say he is clueless, weak and slow and is only a fisherman! I didnt know fishermen were this great. When I grow up, I want to be a fisherman! [/size]

[size=18pt]I thought you lot said he is weak? Make up your mind now! Is he weak or is he a dictator? Choose one as you cannot have the 2! 

Or is he now a weak dictator? hahahahahahahaha!!![/size]

Illiterates talking bull on here. If he needed money to recoup his election cost, he doesnt need to go thru this ordeal. Just collaborate with the oil importers and get kick backs. Or better still bring in his boys to join the oil cabal and do the normal over invoicing thing. Why go thru all this stress and receive so much insults for something that simple? Otedola and Co. would have been more than willing to play ball. I guess your fish brain didnt consider that eh?

^^^ Clap Clap Clap!!!

I said it from day one that labor were going to shoot themselves in the foot. They have showed great inexperience in the handling of this crisis. This is where you have to duff your hat for Oshiomole. Having been a part of many protest myself even from my school days, I knew they had made some very major blunders with their approach. Their blunders left a lot of loopholes in the strike and boxed themselves to a corner. Some of their mistakes were:

1. You never ever take an extreme stand in a government labor dispute. You can take a hard stand, but you must always leave room for negotiations. Labor from day one allowed the sentiments of some clueless NGOs to influence them and took an extreme stance. They said they would never go back to the negotiating table until the government announces a reversal. No government will ever succumb to that. That is at best completely st.u.p.i.d and will always backfire. Labor is employed by government not by NGOs. It is like the fight between a husband and wife. Any third party that comes in between will eventually get the stick. In this case, labor became the unfaithful wife that decided to bring in an outsider to intimidate her husband. Foolish move!

2. When you do 1 above, you put yourself on the back-foot when you eventually come to the table. Also 1 above made the negotiations to start very late. At this time, the FG had gathered enough feedback and security reports to plan better and call the shots.

3. They allowed opposition politicians to take over the protest. Now before some of you defend that, consider this. There is a big difference between a mas action called by opposition groups and industrial strike by labor. They both have different rules and different outlooks. On top of that, there was no unanimous opposition support because the opposition actually supported the removal but only kept mute because they didnt want to offend the people. This created a real loophole. The opposition did not have the full moral power to protest. some say it is within the rights of politicians to hijack such protest. Well I completely disagree in a multi political state like Nigeria. There is a complete distrust amongst the various sections of Nigeria. So any protest can easily transform into a clamor for power shift. That is the reality of the day. And that was what people like Bakare brought to the table. The problem with that is that, those who seek power shift cannot seek it through mass action except they have the total support of the country. Unlike Libya and Egypt, they dont have that total support.

4. This one is interesting. They didnt consider a very subtle but key loophole. They didnt consider the fact that, though they were fighting a "good" cause on behalf of the masses, the corrupt oil dealers where as much beneficiaries of the strike as the masses. This was a big irony. I saw that loophole from day one and expected labor to find a way to maneuver themselves out of that but they didnt. That situation brought a moral question to the protest. Yes the loud voices of the mob tried hard to shut that down, but it was never going to go away. It was always going to be a recurring decimal in the whole saga. It also created a big moral problem for the labor leaders. There was always going to be the suspicion they were being sponsored. There was always going to be the issues that a return to N65 was a return to a cabal controlled Nigeria.

These are just my thoughts. I think that labor showed a lot of inexperience in the handling of this strike. I dont think they were bribed by government. People are too quick to say negative things because they have never worked in government circles. The situation on the ground didnt need government to bribe anyone. There are people whose job it is to do these kind of negotiations and believe me, they are good at it. they are what you might call evil geniuses. They know how to exploit all these loopholes I have stated. Some where too quick to say GEJ was not on top of the situation. But the silence for 4 days by the government shows he was on the driving seat all along. The ignorance of many here on NL is that GEJ actually works as one man. He never works as one man. He works as a team. There are people paid to handle crisis and they are well funded to research and act. Their reports give government the tools to navigate these waters. They get it wrong sometimes, but they always know how to regroup and restrategize.

I said it from day one that labor were going to shoot themselves in the foot. They have showed great inexperience in the handling of this crisis. This is where you have to duff your hat for Oshiomole. Having been a part of many protest myself even from my school days, I knew they had made some very major blunders with their approach. Their blunders left a lot of loopholes in the strike and boxed themselves to a corner. Some of their mistakes were:

1. You never ever take an extreme stand in a government labor dispute. You can take a hard stand, but you must always leave room for negotiations. Labor from day one allowed the sentiments of some clueless NGOs to influence them and took an extreme stance. They said they would never go back to the negotiating table until the government announces a reversal. No government will ever succumb to that. That is at best completely st.u.p.i.d and will always backfire. Labor is employed by government not by NGOs. It is like the fight between a husband and wife. Any third party that comes in between will eventually get the stick. In this case, labor became the unfaithful wife that decided to bring in an outsider to intimidate her husband. Foolish move!

2. When you do 1 above, you put yourself on the back-foot when you eventually come to the table. Also 1 above made the negotiations to start very late. At this time, the FG had gathered enough feedback and security reports to plan better and call the shots.

3. They allowed opposition politicians to take over the protest. Now before some of you defend that, consider this. There is a big difference between a mas action called by opposition groups and industrial strike by labor. They both have different rules and different outlooks. On top of that, there was no unanimous opposition support because the opposition actually supported the removal but only kept mute because they didnt want to offend the people. This created a real loophole. The opposition did not have the full moral power to protest. some say it is within the rights of politicians to hijack such protest. Well I completely disagree in a multi political state like Nigeria. There is a complete distrust amongst the various sections of Nigeria. So any protest can easily transform into a clamor for power shift. That is the reality of the day. And that was what people like Bakare brought to the table. The problem with that is that, those who seek power shift cannot seek it through mass action except they have the total support of the country. Unlike Libya and Egypt, they dont have that total support.

4. This one is interesting. They didnt consider a very subtle but key loophole. They didnt consider the fact that, though they were fighting a "good" cause on behalf of the masses, the corrupt oil dealers where as much beneficiaries of the strike as the masses. This was a big irony. I saw that loophole from day one and expected labor to find a way to maneuver themselves out of that but they didnt. That situation brought a moral question to the protest. Yes the loud voices of the mob tried hard to shut that down, but it was never going to go away. It was always going to be a recurring decimal in the whole saga. It also created a big moral problem for the labor leaders. There was always going to be the suspicion they were being sponsored. There was always going to be the issues that a return to N65 was a return to a cabal controlled Nigeria.

These are just my thoughts. I think that labor showed a lot of inexperience in the handling of this strike. I dont think they were bribed by government. People are too quick to say negative things because they have never worked in government circles. The situation on the ground didnt need government to bribe anyone. There are people whose job it is to do these kind of negotiations and believe me, they are good at it. they are what you might call evil geniuses. They know how to exploit all these loopholes I have stated. Some where too quick to say GEJ was not on top of the situation. But the silence for 4 days by the government shows he was on the driving seat all along. The ignorance of many here on NL is that GEJ actually works as one man. He never works as one man. He works as a team. There are people paid to handle crisis and they are well funded to research and act. Their reports give government the tools to navigate these waters. They get it wrong sometimes, but they always know how to regroup and restrategize.

In preparation for A state of emergency!

Bode George for administrator? Any Other suggestions?

lol

I have said it a thousand times that  there is nothing like one Nigeria. I am being vindicated here once again. You can see the speed at which ACN supporters and Yorubas have come out en mass to defend Fashola and even try to portray that he is not in support of the fuel subsidy removal. Non of the governors have come out to oppose the removal because they actually started this call for the removal. Even Tinubu in an interview last week did not really oppose the removal but kicked against the method and supported a phased removal.

But once again, ACN members and Yoruba peeps (definitely not all of them, we still have objective people like @seun) will rise to defend their own. I dont have a problem with that really. I only have a problem with their continued claim that they are fighting for Nigeria and their fake stance that we are one country. I have many Yoruba friends and dont have anything against the Yoruba race, but it is important for us to admit we are not one and we are not united. Then we can now sit down properly to discuss our union. This is the only way forward and anything else will just be a futile attempt to postpone the evil day. It will surely come no matter how long it tarries. I do believe that somehow, recent events have accelerated the process and anything can happen from here on.

I have something i have been mulling in my mind for a while. Everyone keeps saying NLC/TUC should demand accountability from the Government and demand that government should fight corruption. Labor have also come out to demand accountability from the government. So I have a few questions to ask:

1. Is labor different from government? Apart from the political appointees of the president, which are quite few in comparison, All of Labor are what makes up government. So why do we refer to labor and government as 2 different entities when we talk about accountability and the fight against corruption?

2. All the information necessary and required to fight corruption are on the desk of members of NLC and TUC. So why cant they just expose the corruption themselves. Why are they asking "government" to do it? Especially now that we have the FOI bill passed and the official secrets act repealed.

3. The people that destroyed our power, oil and other infrastructures could not have done it without members of NLC/TUC. Are there not ways they can bring their members to book? Do they not have ways to check their members? NLC/TUC run both the Executive, Legislative and the Judiciary. They are the real government that we are talking about. In fact, they are the ones that actually formulate and fine tune policies and actions of government. So why do we differentiate them from the government. Just some serious thoughts.

For the records, No one can steal anything from Nigeria without the collaboration of someone in NLC/TUC.

Now I know NL has the dumbest set of Nigerians. How can the landing cost of pms be N65 if they sell at filling stations for N65. Imagine someone asking if he gets the fuel for less than N65. Of course filling station owners get the fuel for less than N65!!! Thats why they sell for N65, st.u.pi.d. I cant even believe I am typing this, and I dont even like the dud. I mean, this is not even as difficult as 4 multiplied by 4. Duh!

oyb:

go and choke on your champagne, mr gej apologist. we have seen you in and out, and know what you are. what are you even doing here. shouldn't yu be off with your fellow thug in arms biatching about Yoruba parasites?

he is doing the best he can to extricate us from the mess created by gej and madueke, who are bankrupting this nation for their friends

the real solution is to prosecute all the briefcase importers, but we have naija 'honour among theives'.

Sorry i dont exchange word with touts. Its not ma thing! Try another number

oyb:

sanusi is probably the only honorable man left in the gejs gallery of rogues

The man is representing the FG. He is voicing what has been agreed in meetings. He is not speaking as Sanusi. Never forget that. Especially in a time like this

We forget that the single biggest reason why corruption has thrived in Nigeria is because we celebrate it. One of the most popular slogans you find on the streets is "if you reach there, you no go go chop?". I have asked simple questions like why we spray cash in parties in Nigeria and some say it is our tradition. What kind of tradition is that? A tradition that encourages corruption?. Truth be told that we extol corruption and that is why it thrives. If we examine ourselves, this country would have changed a long time ago

fork adict:

Was this not the same GEJ that couldnt step up to Turai and a few of Yaradua's cabinet members when he was supposed to assume office as acting President? It took the National assembly to help him out.

Is this not the same GEJ that has said time and again that Boko haram has high-up ties in the government but doesnt have the guts to bring both boko haram and their sponsors to book despite the mayhem and anarchy the goons unleash on the land?

Is this not the same GEJ that admits the existence of a cabal in the oil sector but doesnt have the guts to tackle them head on?

Suddenly he has the guts to tackle 150 million nigerians at once (excluding the direct and indirect beneficiaries of the corruption in the oil sector?!

Jona.  Na who give you liver? E too sure say God go punish you. You no go die better!!!

You are a classic example of the stu.pi.dity going on in NL. So you actually believe in your head he didnt react because he was afraid? You didnt even consider the situations you mentioned to know what the best decisions and reaction should be? By the time you wake up, the guy would have divided the country and you will still be saying he is afraid. The joke is on you. lol

DanKan0:

GEJ knows very well who the cabal is. He is just to scared to tackle them because they financed his campaign. He rather loot your subsidy to refinance the 'owners' of Nigeria  

You are not making sense bro. If he wants to loot, why go thru all these stress. The easy route is continue with subsidy and keep looting. Why go thru all these fight to loot something you can loot without a fight? If he nadnt talked about removing subsidy, we wont even be having this discussion.

SPIDER90:

Are you in Nigeria? or you've lost your sense of reasoning. Is minna,kano,kaduna,benin etc in south west. Pls for once think straight. It is not only south south that voted for gej

Hmmm protest started on monday. Minna had a protest today after government treathened them. How is that a group of people who believe in the protest. Secondly, most of the protest that has been shown where protests organized by civil society groups. that is in no way a protest of the people. Only Edo and the south west  protests was carried out by the people. All the pictures and evidence is there to prove. Even Lagos state protest has been more of a music festival. I am right here in lagos and people are already agitating to go back to work. They are just a little bit unsure what will happen.

[size=18pt]The most foolish part of this whole protest is the assumption that Nigeria is united about it or any other thing. And this assumption is really popular is the south west. But it is very false. Be care what you wish for![/size]

Gbawe:

Hear we go again with the paranoid delusions that "Yaribas" are trying to bring down "saint" GEJ. Look Mr. Man, by the time this escalate and the searchlight is beamed on the Senate and their wages, GEJ will be gone quicker than you can say "Ebele". If there is one thing you can trust about our Legislators, it is their nose for self-preservation. These guys only care about their 'stash' unlike folks making this an ethnic thing and swearing the sky will cave in if GEJ goes. If he carries on resisting the will of the majority, then he will go. End of story. The man himself is probably tired and cursing OBJ as we speak.

I didnt say he cannot go. I only said he might take Nigeria with him. Except you want to deceive yourself, you will see that not even half of Nigeria is protesting. Except of course, you want to believe the south west press. There is no 150million protesting Nigerians, except on NL. If you think all those senators and reps will come out and impeach GEJ, you must be living in dreamland. But the real point is, he has the last punch and it could be a deadly one. Disbelieve it at your own peril

olajide_07:

Very pathetic are you guys sure you heard what I heard the NASS can only advise and he can chose to listen or forgo it, impeachment proceedings, this group of legislators would never do that to the person that made them by increasing their allowances from #12m to #45m (reps)and #54m(senate) respectively how I wish nepotism could be put aside by the people of the S.S and S.E and the reality of the issues at stake could be looked at by everybody without any baise I heard nigeria makes #9b daily that means in a month #270b and a year #3.2t meaning about 6.25% are actually spending this while they borrow to sustain the rest of us, according to the paretos rule of a 100% of people, 20% work while 80% don't, amongst this same 20% - 20% actually head these ministries and agencies, and do the stealing while 80% are spectators, amongst these 20%- 20% are actually telling us that they know more then us which form the cabinet of GEJ and this is what we should resist, 2% or less dictating to us that we should continue to subsidize their corruption, when is enough! enough!! my answer is at the point at which you are now harming yourself, 2months ago if you are walking along the road from berger to wuse at about 8-9pm and carrying a hand bag as a woman, you are not safe bag snatch ers and thieves took over abuja same while climbing pedestrian bridges they take your phone and laptop and run, this is hunger joblessness, in the afternoon while you are walking people would openly face you and beg you for money to eat and enter buses, in the face of a minister and D.G going to the airport with fleet of cars and the presidency itself, why do we allow lame argues and sentiments to be cloud our vision as for me today would have been a go turning point for our CLUELESS and WICKED jonathan to back pedal and do what is right first (JOE rome was not built in a day and you can definitely build nigeria in 4 years set the right antecedents) I guess he doesn't know the difference between being a leader-leaders carry people along and earn respect and a dictator-commands respect which only lives with him as long as he holds the mantel of power, rubbish people

1. The SE and SS can never agree because they have been pooed on for so long. They cannot trust thier lives to people like Buhari, Soyinka, Bakare et all. Its just a natural reaction. And to add to that the SS have immensely benefitted from GEJ. So why would they work against him.

2. A man cannot the clueless and wicked at the same time. If he is wicked, it means he has an end game and a goal. If he is clueless, he cannot be termed wicked. Get the jist

oyb:

i was wondering where the main wastrel was hiding. probably getting drunk in a toilet. the fav gif of the gej zombies

you empty headed noisemakers can fk off

if we decide to impeach that dunce that you shamelessly advocate for, feel free to d o your worst.

bunch of empty headed noisemakers

The last time I checked, only the south west cannot impeach the president of Nigeria. You need a 2/3 vote from the 36 states house of assembly. I would love to see how you guys will do it. Interesting.

[size=18pt]I thought they said this guy is weak? hmmmmm. I warned them about Ijaw men. Never say an Ijaw man is weak just because he is calm. You will be making the mistake of your life. I am watching but I know GEJ has the last punch in this battle and it could be a deadly one. You all might not only loose subsidy. You might loose the whole oil revenue completely and you might have to build your new countries from the scratch. I pray it doesnt happen though because it will be a long drawn war but i have this feeling we might be heading to that door[/size]

[size=18pt]Be careful what you wish for! Any move to impeach or kill GEJ will surely split Nigeria and in the end, you will get neither subsidy or even any oil money at all. You will have to build your new countries from the scratch or even face a long drawn civil war that could last for like 10 years.

Be really careful what you wish for! In this epic battle, GEJ has the last punch, believe me. And it could be a TKO![/size]