oldie:

Intelligentsia my foot
Pretending to speak big big grammar does not make you more intelligent than baba Ibadan.
Wasnt Utomi the MD at Volks once? and where is Volks today?
I beg don't rationalize nonsense here.
The so called intelligentsia are part of the problems!

denex:

Only a madman will claim that Nigerian politics is boring.

Boxing matches, Ghana-must-go, assassinations and murders, impeachments and overturning of election results. What is so boring about all that? Nigeria has one of the most exciting political fields in the world today because it's growing, and it's growing real fast.

Following continued investigations on the alleged $180 million (about N25.2billion) bribery scandal over the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Project, Halliburton yesterday submitted documents listing the names of Nigeria government officials involved in the scandal to a French judge in Paris.

But in Abuja, the House of Representatives yesterday resolved that all companies linked with TSKJ and Halliburton in Nigeria should be excluded from new contracts pending conclusion of investigations on the matter.

In a bid to absolve itself of any criminal liability, Halliburton has submitted documents listing the names of Federal Government officials involved in the scandal to the French Judge presiding over the investigation in Paris yesterday.
http://www.africaspeaks.com/blog/?p=771

Orikinla:

Experience is still the best teacher.
I have been involved in the early 1990s and was in the same political campaign office with Dr. Raymond Dokpesi, but I left within months when I saw that these Nigerian politicians were not committed to service.
I just resigned and left without even looking back.

"You no wan enjoy?" was the dumb questions they were asking me.
To them, politics is for their selfish cravings.
There were parties every weekend from Lagos to Abuja.
Money and women of easy virtue were exchanging hands.
I went to the office on Eletu Ogabi Street, on the Victoria Island, in Lagos, dropped my ID card and left.
The Igbos there never knew I was Igbo until I shocked them when I was leaving and spoke the Umuahia dialect of my mother tongue.
I was working for Alhaji Bamanga Tukur with the Director of Publicity and I was also his minder.
I often carried the rifle of the Director of Publicity in a leather bag. We dismantle it into three parts to fit into the small bag and assemble it later.
It is a dangerous weapon to be seen in the hands of a young man.
The situation is even worse now.
A week after I left, IBB cancelled presidential primaries of 1992.

If you have the time, go and spend some quality time with Dr. Gamaliel Onosode at home and ask him why he withdrew from his presidential ambition.

Every truly dedicated legislator should be updating those who elected him or her with progress reports on monthly basis. The progress must be tangible.

Since the the days of the Wild Wild West in Western Nigeria, assassinations and political riots have only made Nigerian politics backward and boring.
Seeing the same horror movies for decades would bore you.

The vicious circle of political corruption and terrorism cannot excite any sane person, except the kleptomaniacs and their political thugs.

Orikinla:

Sample of the latest news on Nigeria from Google News

Nigeria
Nigeria: SCSN Decries Treatment of Muslims By Security Agencies
AllAfrica.com, Washington - 43 minutes ago
The Supreme Council for Shariah in Nigeria (SCSN) yesterday la-mented what it described as persecution against Muslims and Islam in Nigeria by the State ,

Orikinla:

While Nairaland was on emergency break, I was having a great time on the Huffington Post as supporters of Hillary Clinton faced the supporters of Barack Obama over the Oprah Winfrey Road Show for Obama.
They had thousands of people at their rallies in Iowa, South Carolina and New Hempshire, and they were peaceful.
It was exciting.

American politics is not perfect, but very intellectually challenging and exciting.

Nigerians know how to copy American hip-hop culture, TV Reality Shows and even shopping sprees and speaking in Yankee accent, but we do not copy American democracy and governance.

The Nigerian government has not done any Judicial Inquiry into the deaths of the hundreds of Nigerians killed during the violent April Fool elections. And President Umaru Yar'Adua is talking electoral reform?

Over 100 people were killed during the last mayhem in Rivers state and no Judicial Inquiry.
The list is endless.

Orikinla:

While Nairaland was on emergency break, I was having a great time on the Huffington Post as supporters of Hillary Clinton faced the supporters of Barack Obama over the Oprah Winfrey Road Show for Obama.
They had thousands of people at their rallies in Iowa, South Carolina and New Hempshire, and they were peaceful.
It was exciting.

American politics is not perfect, but very intellectually challenging and exciting.

Nigerians know how to copy American hip-hop culture, TV Reality Shows and even shopping sprees and speaking in Yankee accent, but we do not copy American democracy and governance.

The Nigerian government has not done any Judicial Inquiry into the deaths of the hundreds of Nigerians killed during the violent April Fool elections. And President Umaru Yar'Adua is talking electoral reform?

Over 100 people were killed during the last mayhem in Rivers state and no Judicial Inquiry.
The list is endless.

Big B1:

This is also why they say "Nigerian Politics is not for boys"

davidylan:

You are right, Nigerian politics is for thugs.

mazaje:


I personally have learned a great deal about politics and how it is supposed to be by closely following the barack obama campaing, why do we keep on killing,maiming and stalking each other all in the name of serving stealing from the nation? We just can't do anything right we are always on the wrong side, i don tire sef no be small.