oiseworld:

did u see any alhaji on that list of leaders.

Pls help with what unites america and isreal

dayokanu:

So if anyone isnt an Alhaji he is a Xtian?

I didnt see Alhaji behind Benjamin Netanyahus name and he isnt a xtian, Neither did I see Alhaji Hu jin tao

oiseworld:

@beaf
u could also help on the american motto "IN GOD WE TRUST"

President Goodluck Jonathan, on Wednesday, foreclosed the idea of convening a Sovereign National Conference, stating that the Presidential Committee on Outstanding Constitutional Issues, headed by Justice Alfa Belgore, was set up to handle defects in the current 1999 Constitution.

ochukoccna:

Its not about defects in the constitution dummy,
its about defects in the country's setup.

Obiagu1:

By 2015, SS presidency will end, make I hear kpim from them again.


If GEJ cannot restructure this country now, who will do it? A Northerner?

Onlytruth:

Bros I'm thinking that our support for GEJ may have been in vain because the more I look to see any transformative agenda from him, the less I see any.
His body language these days even shows that he is almost comfortable with the status quo. That is why I say that I won't support him past December this year.
He has to show that he is serious about changing Nigeria.

Onlytruth:

Bros I'm thinking that our support for GEJ may have been in vain because the more I look to see any transformative agenda from him, the less I see any.
His body language these days even shows that he is almost comfortable with the status quo. That is why I say that I won't support him past December this year.
He has to show that he is serious about changing Nigeria.

dayokanu:

Dry bones shall rise again, dry bones shall rise again

Lord Jehovah is able to do all things

He is able able dry bones shall rise again

In the latter days, the blind shall see, the cripple shall walk and the dumb shall walk

Says the Lord of hosts

Obiagu1:

My support ended after fuel subsidy saga.

Anyway, from what I observed, every agitation from down South starts and ends with resource control and not proper restructuring of the country. Glad that someone like Oritsejafor called for SNC too. It pisses me off when someone that's suppose to understand that Nigeria handed over to us by the Whites and the Military is not working will choose to play politics instead.

“In recognition of the demands by Nigerians for a constitutional amendment, we set up the Justice Belgore Committee to bring up all those issues which have been agreed upon at previous national conferences, for presentation as bills to the National Assembly, and subsequent passage into law, while a larger body will meet on issues that are still controversial for a national consensus.”

Beaf:

^
Cut the crap. Anyone reading would think that the President is only there for the SS. Its time for people like you to leave thinking in bigotted ways.

@topic
For the balance, here are GEJ's words:

No President can convene a Sovereign National Conference without being acused of subverting the state, but GEJ can surely set the ball rolling (which he has).
It is for other groups to begin clamouring for an SNC in addition to the two groups that visited GEJ.

Obiagu1:

Call it SNC or any other name but the aim will be to restructure the country except he sees no problem in the way Nigeria is constituted. SNC does not equate disintegration of Nigeria.

As for the quote "a larger body will meet on issues that are still controversial for a national consensus" does not make sense to me. Nigeria as a whole is controversial from the illegal states and LGAs created by illegal military regimes without conducting a referendum to federal civil service to redefining citizenship and indigene/settler problem to revenue allocation to resource control to . . . everything.
It's not a case where he will selectively pick what to be discussed.

Beaf:

If you follow the setting up of the Belgore committee closely, you'll find that that larger group will represent every ethnic group in Nigeria. Things have to be done with a lot of tact.

Obiagu1:

I hope they make the proceedings public.

“We believe that those areas where there are (is) consensus, except because of the emerging realities, you need to tinker about it, you package them as bills for us and send to the National Assembly but those broaden headlines that there are still controversies, we may expand, we will recommend expansion of your team because those ones will require probably some ethnic nationalities, some opinion leaders, some cultural groups to represent their interests and we will have to debate those sections differently.

[size=13pt]The Sovereign National Conference will give ethnic nationalities an opportunity to examine the questions that have made Nigeria such a disaster and come up with some answers such as the right of every nationality to have greater control over their resources. As such it is hardly surprising that a vast majority of the people, political parties, all ethnic groups, human rights groups, the press, workers unions, and not least the Houses of legislative Assemblies in the six states controlled by The Alliance for Democracy, have strongly come out in favour of calling on the Federal Government to convene the conference.[/size] [size=13pt]However the ruling elite seem to think otherwise, recently, President Obasanjo dismissed the calls for a Sovereign Conference as "idle talk".[/size] he Senate also has set up a committee supposedly to examine the need for constitutional reform, this is nothing but a blatant attempt to evade a full dialogue on the issue. Such an attitude could hardly becomes a democratically elected government as the Obasanjo administration claims to be.

[size=13pt]Senate has rejected calls  for a Sovereign National Conference,  saying the country does not need it. Chairman, Senate Information Committee,  Enyinnaya Abaribe, after plenary said the National Assembly remained the  only platform for any national discuss. Senator Abaribe urged those who were  calling for the SNC to bring their demands to the National Assembly  which he said composed of representatives of the people[/size]

Obiagu1:

By 2015, SS presidency will end, make I hear kpim from them again.
If GEJ cannot restructure this country now, who will do it? A Northerner?

Onlytruth:

Bros I'm thinking that our support for GEJ may have been in vain because the more I look to see any transformative agenda from him, the less I see any.
His body language these days even shows that he is almost comfortable with the status quo.  That is why I say that I won't support him past December this year.
He has to show that he is serious about changing Nigeria.

Obiagu1:

My support ended after fuel subsidy saga.
Anyway, from what I observed, every agitation from down South starts and ends with resource control and not proper restructuring of the country. Glad that someone like Oritsejafor called for SNC too. It pisses me off when someone that's suppose to understand that Nigeria handed over to us by the Whites and the Military is not working will choose to play politics instead.

Sweetlemon:

@Oiseworld, Isreal is LARGELY a Jewish nation and Jews are NOT christains. In fact they do not believe in Jesus christ! besides, America is much more united than Isreal and you cannot compare America's diverse nature to that of Isreal. Like i said earlier, There are Africans, Europeans, Asians, even Arab Americans. But they are UNITED and I dont see ANYTHING tearing them apart anytime soon.

Sweetlemon:

As a matter of fact, it is true that America has a foundation deeply rooted in God. In fact, the born again christians worship God from the bottom of their hearts compared to us here who are more hypocritical in our own worship.
That is why it is easier for them to love and accept each other.
BUT then again, since many of them do not even go to church, we cannot safely say that it is religion that binds them together!
Look closer, the average American respects his neighbours. He considers before taking certain actions such as littering the streets. When a girl brings home a guy to her parents, their first question is not ''where does he come from'' but stuff like ''what does he do?'' ''does he make you happy?''
These little things are what binds them together because these are things that come from their hearts