leunamme93:
I see you lack value and pride for being called a Nigerian. Just watch out for the Nigerians that will shake this world, and Yes, i know you will be gnashing your teeth then. Dont ever think you are better than anyone here because you are just giving the privilege, you come here to rant all manner of rubbish. I don't want to insult you because you are a Nigerian, will always be and also to maintain the rules here in Nairaland. You see We Nigerians keep to rules and regulation.

shake the world how without light?? without power fuey!! lets wait and see nah

leunamme93:
I see you lack value and pride for being called a Nigerian. Just watch out for the Nigerians that will shake this world, and Yes, i know you will be gnashing your teeth then. Dont ever think you are better than anyone here because you are just giving the privilege, you come here to rant all manner of rubbish. I don't want to insult you because you are a Nigerian, will always be and also to maintain the rules here in Nairaland. You see We Nigerians keep to rules and regulation.

I chucked that worthless Nigerian passport away looooooong time ago...

denex:

So can Christian rule EVER be democratic?

Islamic rule can never be democratic because in the end it always leads to terror and bugger thy neighbour mentality!! that is y you have to be kept on a leash!!

Any sane person will take secular or christain rule (if that's what you want to call it)anyday over you bunch of marauding fanatics!!!

baseg25: If virginity is the Pride of lady, What is the Pride Of a Guy?..

A man's word must be his bond!

inspiredbyGOD:.:

Is faith a negation of reason?

Absolutely not! The one thing has nothing to do with the other...

very depressing stuff..

You come to America, young and dashing, on full scholarship, finish school, get a great job, marry a glamorous spouse, have cute children, and retire at a young age with a great pension, portfolio and posture.

…And live happily ever after. Yes champ; rub it in.

For the rest of you, life abroad is a crest of trajectories.

You come into America, by air, by sea, or via a midnight sneak-in across the Mexican border; fooling the Minute Men and Lou Dobbs all at once. You come to school, to join your spouse, to work after winning the Green Card Lottery, or to raise your hand at the airport and claim persecution in your own country because you are a Mormon as well as a leader in MEND.

You behold America the beautiful. The triple-decker burgers and the giant cup of coke and cars that are wider than your village road and you wonder what took you so long to get here. You get on with schooling. For now any cheap school will do. You study the things people who came before you say brings money – the things Americans do not want to study- to prepare you for the job Americans do not want to do. You hear nursing, bloody, nursing. You say, bring it on. You get on with marriage - the convenience marriage- discovering that you married three persons at once; the person you thought you married, the person your spouse really is and the person your spouse becomes because you got married in this America. For work, you do anything for a dollar; fast food restaurant, drive a cab, guard the parking lot of company executives younger than you, even care for the disabled, breaking your back to pay the bills.

Then reality hits. The dollar is not adding up. There’s more going out than coming in. Time is running. Letters, emails and phone calls are enveloping you from home. School is done; where is the job? Your accent is a problem. Racism is real. You’re finally squeezed in. Corporate job at last. Work place politics really sucks. Meanwhile, the American spouse is gone but your residency is established. Now where do you find someone to marry for real? A Blind date? E-harmony.com? Town conventions? What of picking up someone from your village? But these are all packages which content you cannot ascertain. Somehow, you settle with one. Honeymoon over, now what is the state of the marriage? First mission accomplished, now what next?

You start a house in your village. A big house. You sink in any money you can get. Some of it goes to the house but most of it goes to your family member who is supervising the construction. It costs more than it will to buy a comparable house in America. You afraid to calculate how many days you will sleep in this house in your life time. You say, Tufiakwa. It will not be your portion. You need to do it not just because everyone is doing it – your daddy is demanding it. He’s asking you to wipe away the shame on the family’s face.

Your daddy dies. Your dentist extracts a tooth.

Then America begins to reveal itself quietly. Oh tribalism again; discrimination at the work place. Your head touches the virtual ceiling for immigrants. You now understand affirmative action. Kids come but housemaids are tagged slavery, who will care for them? Now you have day care, mortgage, after school sport activities, mid-life career crisis, more phone calls from home, and marital problems. If only some of these can wait. You can call marital problems by its real name- money problems entangled with control problems, decision making disagreements, tasks and privileges, status problems and in-law problems. Maybe you will stay home with the kids. Maybe your mother will come and help … and incense your spouse.

With caning banished, you raise teens with your hands tied to your back. Marital problems persist because as your fortune falls that of your spouse rises. You have done your calculation. Something has to give. You try selling real estate. You prepare taxes. You sell insurance. You run out of contacts. You buy cars from the auction and ship them home. You get duped by friends and family. Nothing is adding up. Fast insurance fraud deals? You try other businesses on the side, but total dedication is needed. You quit your job entirely and start a business. Cleaning business. Staffing business. Medical equipment. Home Health business. Escort service. Oh, these taxes, running costs, government paper works and lack of patronage by your own people.

Marital problems persist. You wish you had married the lover you left in Nigeria to come to America. You take the divorce option. Half of your wealth is wiped out. Now rages the battle for visitation rights, alimony and child support. You’re estranged from the kids because of the stories your spouse made up against you to win custody. But you keep paying up. You have no option. You start afresh. A new apartment. Maybe a new spouse? No, that can wait. Your classmate at home becomes the CEO of a multinational company. A chieftaincy title follows and you wonder what happened to you.

You consider a fast 419 advance fee fraud deal. You remember those acquaintances still doing time in US prisons. You hold off. You dream of a contract from the government at home. You write a proposal. You get in touch with an old classmate who has done well.

Home looks attractive. The people you left behind are doing better. You conveniently forget the majority who are not making ends meet. You are overwhelmed. High blood pressure is diagnosed. High cholesterol. Heart problems. Another tooth is extracted. You join the gym. You stay away from garri and farina. You join a church. You can be a pastor too, but you don’t like that lifestyle of pretending to be what you’re not. Life is no more fun. You go home, dabble in business, in politics, in entertainment.

You are burnt. You return. You start afresh.

No, you won't take the divorce option. You will manage. You will live like roommates, until the kids are grown and are out of the house. You will wait for retirement. You need just ten more years. At 56, with social security plus pension pay and 401K, you can go to the village, if kidnappers permit, and enjoy your old age. And start afresh. Maybe marry anew. Maybe teach in a college in Nigeria. Yeah! You register for a PhD with an online college.

Your Mummy dies. Your dentist extracts another tooth. Your doctor suggests knee and hip replacement. Your shrink prescribes Prozac.

In spite of your wahala, the children grow. The girls do well in school. The boys go from four-year colleges to two- year colleges, in between gang membership and police troubles. The boys marry White girls. The girls marry African-Americans. You’re glad the girls did not get pregnant out of wedlock. You thank God the boys did not throw a coming out party to announce that they are gay. One lives in Arizona and another in Hawaii. Your house is empty, calls come on holidays only.

It is now time to really go home. But what about managing the diabetes? Do you trust the doctors at home to handle your dialysis? Your medication cocktail will be hard to find at home. Daddy and Mummy are dead. You have to make new friends again. The ones you used to have are now strangers to you. Your spouse refuses to go with you. Spouse cannot deal with the sound of electric generators, untreated well water, Afor Igwe meat without an FDA inspection tag.

You retire. You sell the big house and move into a small condo. When you cannot wipe your behind, you go from the condo to a nursing home. Your children are too busy to have you share their homes. They visit every presidential election year. Once again, you think of going home but no, it is rather too late for that. The twelfth tooth is gone. You now take more pills than the teeth in your mouth.

So you stay until your autopsy is ready. Your townsfolk contribute money to ship you home. As your coffin lands in Lagos, your relations who have gathered to receive you for the last time mutter in between breaths, Tufiakwa. Yes, the same tufiakwa that you said the time you read the article called ‘This American Life’.

Oh, about your kids, well, some of them went home with your body. Those few times you cleaned your bank account to take them home paid off. They watch as sand lands on your coffin. One even remembered how to say, ‘Kedu’. They leave soon after. They will come back one more time – when they accompany your ex on the final journey home.

dumb plan! I mean shouldn't this be done at local council/ward level? With a population of an estimated 20 million residents, how long will it take 600 or so staff to register them all...(even if they all graduates, Ph.ds' and Masters ) I'll give you a guess!! Fashola and his ilk don't know maths..lool

chaos... why can't nigerians do things in an orderly and civilised manner

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dotna: is it a sin to leave Church before the pastor exit? A lady told me dis morning that she went to a Church program last sunday at stadium in surulere and d Pastor said it is a sin to go out before the Pastor leaves.

yes nah, a big sin.. infact thunder will fire you if you do..

**bunch of nitwits!!

eagle,eye:

God will surely Judge. It is not in our place as humans to Judge you.

god will judge wetin?? they are playing politics according to the constitution and you are complaining?? stay there nah.. me i am coming to chop my own walahi..

correct!!!...

By Andrew Ajijah




The governor of Plateau State, Jonah Jang, has described his “victory” over Gov. Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, whom he claims to have defeated to become the new “chairman” of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, as the will of God.

Mr. Jang, was speaking in Jos, Sunday, at a special interdenominational church service held at Faith-way Chapel Church and organized by the Plateau State government as part of the activities marking the forthcoming 14th anniversary of uninterrupted democratic governance in Nigeria.

His remarks came two days after a controversial governors’ forum election in which Mr. Amaechi was declared winner after clinching 19 votes to defeat Mr. Jang who got 16. The result of the election however portrayed Mr. Jang as a usurper to the NGF chairman position.

Governors who supported Mr. Jang rejected the outcome of the elections, claiming it was rigged.

On Saturday, Mr. Jang convened a meeting of the protesting governors and presided as chairman.

“I can assure you that my emergence as the chairman Nigerian Governors’ Forum was the will of God because I went to Abuja for the NGF election not with the intention to contest but northern governors and the PDP governors’ forum endorsed my candidature. When (Ibrahim) Shema of Kastina stepped down, both forums insisted I should contest; I contested and won. So, it’s the will of God.”

He said he had never wanted to be chairman of the NGF.

Mr. Jang told the church that the allegation that a faction of the NGF rigged the elections in his favour was not true. “God is a democrat, does not support rigging but if you rig and succeed, that means God approves of it.” Mr. Jang called on Nigerians to pray for their leaders to enable the present administration at all levels succeed.

He said the current controversies being faced by government at the moment is a foreshadow of what is likely to happen at the 2015 general elections.
“I believe that God has anointed who will be President of Nigeria in 2015 but only him knows who it is,” he stated.

He also said democratic governance was the best form of government that takes care of every sector, pointing out that even the military enjoys more during democracy.

“The military enjoys better during democracy. I’m a living example because I was opportune to serve as governor during the military era and now again as a civilian; so, to my mind, the military should not carry guns to force out democratic governance again,” he said.

During the church service, prayers were offered for the restoration of permanent peace in the country and stability of good governance in Nigeria and the entire African continent.

Eko Ile:


very irrelevant. Without your president messing up and acting incompetent all the time, there wont be anything for SAHARA reporters to report.

Your president is the problem, not Sahara reporters so face your president and leave Sahara alone.

dumbass your problem is your constitution... and i dont mean the one on paper...

AnanseK:

GEJ is not a president elected on merit. He has no history of merit. He was elected based on ethnic and religious sentiments.

so what? Our constitution does not call for merit in anything. It specifically requires ethnic and regional considerations above all else to maintain unity.. ode go and read your constitution b4 complaining...

redsun:

With the way Ken Saro Wiwa was hanged,one shouldn't for fight for what is his.

People got to have compromises and man has to know his place.

Why don't you try and hang GEJ nah see if his boys won't crush ya legs and send you back under whatever backwater rock you crawled out of on your belly....

redsun:

Tinubu is not a party thief than gej,yet,he is the opposition leader that wants to bring change.

yah! genocidal change the type of which we witnessed during the civil war abi?? Nothing 4 him here!! UP PDP, UP JONATHAN, the iroko of nigeria, the only young millionaire president in the whole universe.. abeg carry go!!

redsun: In as much as the union is a union of toothless bulldogs who only caters for their own personal needs,while their people suffers.His failure to realize that it is an important obligation for him to make a speech is disgraceful.He seem like a man in trouble or a man who doesn't care.A man at war.

What actually was he there for?

He is there to eat, drink and s.hit.. It is our oil and he is holding it in trust for us! Go spit if you dont like it!!

There was a Country....

Symphony007: And why have'nt i seen an thrend on nairaland concerning the big news that the african union has endorsed nigeria for a permanent seat in the u.n security council.

Because that is no news!! Such decisions are not based on any individual merit on the contrary lobbying, consensus and other such dynamics determine such things...

Prof Corruption: This is shocking!!! Nigeria has gone to the dogs.

hehe did you just realise this? Welcome to the land of the living...hehe..

Gbawe: What a nation !!! What a President !!!! Only Nigeria can host a President this negligently woeful in this day and age of charismatic, efficient and articulate Presidents/heads of State. Imagine a President so distracted with the scheming and machination to make his candidate chairman of the Governors forum in his Nation to the extent he disgracefully and amateurishly took his eyes away from his Presidential duty on the world stage?

GEJ, more or less, stuck a finger up at an AU address he was scheduled to deliver to the disgrace of Nigeria. When other Africans mock us about amateurish shoddiness we will be dancing around with fake indignation. Like I have said previously, Jonathan will be the last accidental President Nigeria has if there is a god above who realises that Nigeria has suffered and has been disgraced enough by crude and undeserving elements.

What are you complaining about?? is it not people like you that encourage tribalism and discrimination in nigeria because you have no other merit to speak of??
When you choose tribalism and discrimination over merit this is what you get... abeg my Presido carry go.. drink, eat and shi.t as much as you like... we are behind you correct!!!