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 Politics › Re: What Will Happen To Igbo Businesses And Investments When Biafra Is Achieved by 9jalyte: 7:59pm On Jun 07, 2017 |
gartamanta:Please which law. Where are you getting your information from. Do you know what they call sovereignty, what happened to white farmers in Zimbabwe, which international court of law reversed the decision of Mugabe. 5 Likes |
| Politics › Why Nigerians Should Be Very Ashamed Of The Selves by 9jalyte(op): 8:53am On May 14, 2017 |
Segun Adeniyi’s just recently published book, Against The Run of Play, makes a very startling and disturbing revelation, one confirmed by the former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan himself, that the United States government and the governments of the UK and France jointly interfered very directly to manufacture the outcome of Nigeria’s presidential election in 2015. The former president basically acknowledged that he had been put under pressure to varying degrees by the leaders of these “global powers” who ultimately wanted him out on the basis of at least, two reasons: his handling of the Boko Haram issue and the kidnap of the Chibok girls, and his signing into law of the anti-gay marriage legislation, and such sundry matters on which the “West” had interest. It so transpired that the US administration under the former President Barrack H. Obama invited the twelve governors of the former Northern sates to Washington DC, to measure the heartbeat of the governors, and to plan and perfect this “civilian coup” to remove Jonathan as president. The red flags should have been raised then, or earlier, when, in the very heat of the campaigns, Kayode Fayemi, Rotimi Amechi, and Bola Tinubu – those “fair haired boys of the empire” – took their race horse, Buhari as a candidate of the APC, on a round of introductory handshakes and ring-kissing to the British political establishment which all in hindsight now, puts all the marbles in place, on the evolution of this electoral plot against the Jonathan administration. The former president in Adeniyi’s book claims that the US had in fact sent a War ship and placed it nearby in the Atlantic as a kind of silent threat, and so Jonathan had no choice but to tuck his tail into his hind and scamper. This story is pathetic. But what is more pathetic is the reaction of Nigerians to this revelation: there is no outrage. As a matter of fact, some have said publicly, “good for Jonathan! They removed him because he was corrupt!” How can a people remain complicit in their own humiliation? I know how. It is because more Nigerians have been reduced to what the great Nnamdi Azikiwe called “mental slavery.” Colonization and enslavement and mastery these days is not about putting chains on the hands and feet of people; it is about putting chains on the minds and consciousness of people through the use of strategic imagery and sustained narrative of failure and diminution; such words as “corrupt nation,” for instance; it is to whip and humiliate them and make them feel both worthless and grateful in that sado-masochist experience; it is to truly subject them, through powerful imagery of their own failure, to wish for something outside of themselves. That is how for instance, a small, backward, island nation like Britain, continues to hold some kind of sick attraction and exert some residual colonial power over a “giant” but failing nation like Nigeria, where its citizens have been successfully, through very strategic action, been turned against themselves, and have been made to hate each other, and have thus made it very easy, and very possible to keep this once hopeful county at the permanent crossroads. Nigerians have always thought of themselves as “the giant of Africa.” I do not really know if anyone still believes that crap. We are a giant, certainly. But more like a giant fart of history – and this because we are more like that ruminating and melancholic cow grazing by the fields while time passes us by. In a military confrontation with Zimbabwe, for instance, Nigeria will most certainly be worsted. Why? Because Zimbabwe has capacity to produce internally its own means of self-defence. It is this lack that makes Jonathan’s story rather pathetic. As became very clear to him, when he sought to buy fighter aircraft and ammunition to fight Boko Haram, and he was rebuffed by the US, the UK, France and all their allies, including South Africa, this thing is not about “democracy,” it is all about maintaining and pressing one’s strategic national interests; and it is a fact that a country like North Korea, for instance, seem to continue to amplify. It is why nations establish clear sovereign boundaries, and protect that system of selecting their leadership, and protecting by all means necessary their capacity to defend their values. Proud nations do not tolerate, and often resist external interference in their political systems. It is this sense of pride and outrage that is playing out now in the United States. I draw this inference in a very ironic way, knowing that only a year before the US elections, President Obama, according to the claims now being retailed by President Goodluck Jonathan, directly interfered in Nigeria’s own elections. Nigerians have actually wondered how more voters than was contained in the election registry voted for Buhari in the North. Where did those votes come from? How? The sweep of votes in areas of the South West where Jonathan had banked on winning also raises red flags now. Jonathan has publicly blamed his failure on “those he trusted.” But we also now know with unfolding events in the “West” itself – in the recently concluded elections in France and in the US elections last year that voting machines and election computing systems can be hacked electronically, and numbers changed, and startling results can come with the dumping of information that could, at the eve of elections, swamp, condition, and transform public opinion, in ways that strategically and artificially manufactures consent or even discontent. These events clearly took place in Nigeria, and it is now left for enterprising Nigerian journalists to investigate and ascertain whether Nigeria’s electoral system was hacked, and to what extent these outside interventions manufactured the results of the 2015 election. Which Nigerians worked with the foreign agents of these powers to undermine the sovereign will of Nigerians? A serious, and treasonable conduct, which is now the subject in question in the United States as the US Congress continues investigation into Russia’s alleged interference in US elections last year that brought in President Donald Trump. It is ironic because a majority of Americans are feeling outraged that an outside power may have interfered in their electoral outcome. Never mind that the US interfered in the outcome of Nigeria’s own election, and have been doing the same across the world for a long time. There is the very irony that the United States has, for a very important moment, come to the distasteful experience of being reduced to a “third world country” by Russia, with the implication that even the mighty power could not protect its own sovereign grounds with all the technology at its disposal. It also only goes to show that the American giant has clay feet. Unfolding events are indeed getting startling. As the Congressional inquiry into the Trump Campaign’s connections with the Russian regime gets under way and begins to unfold, and as it leads in the direction of opening potential can of worms into President Trump’s tangle of financial linkages to Russia, including alleged money laundering activities, there already is blood on the floor. There is this statement that to get to the roots of this, the Congressional investigations must begin to follow the money and to dig up the dead bodies. In the last week, the US is beginning to seem utterly familiar to me: last week, in a very unprecedented move, but using regnant powers available to the President, Donald Trump, suddenly sacked the Director of the FBI, James Comey who has been leading the investigations into the Trump campaign. The President sacked the FBI director, on the advice he says, of the justice department, for his mishandling of the Hilary Clinton story. Quite ironic because it is this same story that brought him to power. But there are claims of a cover-up, as it happened on the same day he invited the Russian Ambassador to the White House, barred American Press photographers from that White house meeting, allowing only Russian equipment. On the same day, an American reporter in West Virginia was arrested for asking the Trump-administration Secretary of Health pointed questions. Sounds familiar? It is “the third world.” The unfolding scenario is what it is: the giant has clay feet. Or we are back in time – to Rome, with the end of the Republic, the making of a rubber stamp senate, and the rise of Caesar. Interesting times. Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/05/america-giant-clay-feet/ |
| Politics › Re: VIDEO: Truly, There Was 'A Foreign Conspiracy' To Oust Jonathan - Reno Omokri by 9jalyte: 10:24am On Apr 30, 2017 |
HungerBAD:Hmm, how I wish I can get your picture, I would be glad to show the world the image of an educated illiterate. You captured every description I gave about the class of Nigerians that are worst hit by the continuous and intensive mental re-calibration. How old are you by the way, cus I would be surprised if you are above 16. Even the Libyans and the world at large have come to blame the US for their role in Libya, Putin put it straight to Obama when he asked him "are you happy now?". That of the French is also not contested. I don't want to indulge you more in your ignorance, no body will save you but you. If you wish to remain where you are, Best of luck. Really, the whole country was shaking when the Chibok girls were kidnapped, how did that happen if not through the aggressive foreign media projections and collaborations with local media and the other civil society organizations. At that time, it was not news that people were dying and were being kidnapped, during the period, the Nigerian Army had rescued over 1000 girls and women kidnapped, but those ones did not matter because they were not the ones used for the "project blackmail". Amazing, PDP did not spend money and same with APC, you must really be a child.Don't worry, I can tell you that after this government when their own story is told, I hope you will be man enough to say "we were wrong". Let me also assume that you guys have agreed that the so called Dasuki arms money was actually PDP campaign money. And for me being Reno, hahahahahaa. 9 Likes |
| Politics › Re: VIDEO: Truly, There Was 'A Foreign Conspiracy' To Oust Jonathan - Reno Omokri by 9jalyte: 8:20am On Apr 30, 2017 |
HungerBAD:MY dear, you don't have to look far to answer how the external forces manipulated GEJ's removal. First ask your self, how did they manipulate Libyans to revolt against their leader that gave them what citizens of the so called develop countries did not enjoy for free, how did they trigger the Arab spring. It is by playing into the heads of very ignorant people, and unfortunately, we have largely uninformed people in Nigeria (mind you, going to school does no necessarily imply being informed). I am sorry to say it, you seem to belong to that class of Nigerians who were victims of that psychological warfare given to Nigerians. You have to understand how this works, when you are caught in that web, it will take some time for you to come out if you don't make deliberate effort to. It was the same way they came in the colonial period and made the locals believe that their way of life was evil, primitive and barbaric and up til today, many people still call the traditional religion Idol worship. We have been made to lose faith in our selves with this "corruption" rubbish, because the international conspiracies do not want to see us emerge as a force to consider in the global sphere. They start by telling the world how unreliable, criminal, corrupt, and unstable Nigeria is. Question is, Why Nigeria. Like Mandela rightly put it, Africa will not be respected until Nigeria is accorded her rightful place in the committee of Nations. To hold the black people down, you have to tie Nigeria leg and hand. if you have not notice, just go and check how many countries prefer to have collaborations with Kenya and Ghana instead of Nigeria just to give create external but closer competitors that will keep Nigeria in check, soon you will accuse your leaders, HELL NO!, you are the one that caused it. If you do not insult your country, no one will insult you. When GEJ was in power, Nigeria spoke all manners of ill against the president thinking they were insulting him, but at the end of the day, they were insulting themselves, ridiculing their country. The same thing was done to Abacha, and I have come to realize that Abacha was not as bad as we were made to believe. So again, asking how they did it, when Obama's wife championed the "bring back our girls", what did you think they were doing, when they mobilized CNN, BBC and their gang of international conspiracy guild to continually paint Nigeria black, what did you think they were doing with your head. When they mobilized resources for the election for APC (ehhn, you will ask me for evidence, but first tell me how APC that was not in power was able to spend more money in the campaign than PDP), when they hyped the issue of Boko Haram, and God knows who is sponsoring them, what did you think they were doing. When they invited the norther governors for briefing, only the northern governors, even southern APC did not blink and wonder why, because for them anything that removed GEJ was welcomed. When they used South Africa to ridicule Nigerian government in the arms procurement saga, what did you think they were doing, when they used amnesty international to accuse the government of human right abuse, what did you think they were doing. when they used they Ebola attach at the heart of campaign period, what did you think they were doing. I can go on and on, I don't expect you to see and understand except you have made deliberate effort to "emancipate your self from mental slavery" Like Bob Marley would say, untill that time, keep swimming in the ignorance. 14 Likes 1 Share |
| Politics › Re: 2019 Will Be Game Changer Only If.... by 9jalyte(op): 4:08pm On Apr 07, 2017 |
profhezekiah:Hmmm, my dear calm down, now read what you wrote above and tell me you made sense. You now understand what I mean. 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: 2019 Will Be Game Changer Only If.... by 9jalyte(op): 2:57pm On Apr 07, 2017 |
profhezekiah:For you, I will only put in one sentence: "It is until we silence bubble heads like you, always perching around, that we will begin to hear young sane minds peak and make sound contribution for the future of Nigeria". 1 Like |
| Politics › 2019 Will Be Game Changer Only If.... by 9jalyte(op): 12:08pm On Apr 07, 2017 |
The most common cliche in politics today is " give the youths power, empower women" etc. No doubt about it, there is a correlation between the quality of people in leadership and the trajectory of the national economy. That brings me to the issue. I asked this question before, why are we always making the wrong choices in people we give power. Why do the youths spend all their energy, and sometimes their blood, to give power to a man that is not even qualified to work as a microfinace bank accountant ( using that in terms of proffesional level, no disrespect intended). Why do we like those that will oppress u, I mean those fellows that feel bigger than Nigeria. How come we cannot use our strength to re-calibrate the system and put these politicians of the apocalypse into the abyss. Now, with this BBnaija program and IPOB movement , I have learnt a few lessons. 1. Our young people can be resolute to an ideology they find close to their heart. Take a look at IPOB, see how young people are active canvassing, debating, demonstrating and financing and above all, giving their lives for a cause. Look at the BBnaija voting and campaigning, see how young people took ownership of the campaigns, debating, conversing, and in fact financing the votes. It is amazing, imagine 11 million votes, imagine the energy, imagine the ideology based debates. And I ask, why not in politics. How come when it comes to that which concerns all of us, we turn to beggars and praise singers. There is no political party that has the kind of youth commitment we have in IPOB and BBN that cannot put Nigeria on the run. 2. One thing I have also learnt/confirmed from BBnaija is that many of the young people think poverty is a virtue, as such if you give power to someone who has suffered poverty, he will remember the poor. For the records, government is not only for the poor, in fact the poor can only feel relieved when there is a large number of genuine rich men contributing in the national development. It is the poor man, who probably has always been more concerned about his personal survival, and who has spent the better part of his life envying rich people that will get the opportunity and spend more time trying to tell the world that he/she has arrived. It seems that the majority of our young people have some kind of grievance against those who they perceive are better than them. It was that ideology of using poverty to give power that we fell for in the "i had no shoes", or the " I can't even pay for nomination form". We have to clear our head, it takes someone who has high sense of worth, who does not dwell too much his/her humble beginning but struggles to tear down the barriers and sometime emerge to prominence. It is such people that we should listen to. Again, poverty is not virtue. In 2019, we will change the game if we reconsider the people we think we should give power, and if will contribute as we are currently doing in IPOB and BBnaija, and by so doing, .... 1 Like |
| Crime › Re: Sodienye Mbatumukeke: Accused Murderer Of Jumia Delivery Man, Failed Parenting by 9jalyte: 10:03am On Apr 07, 2017 |
woodcook:Hmmm, and I was even thinking you might be 4 years. |
| Crime › Re: Sodienye Mbatumukeke: Accused Murderer Of Jumia Delivery Man, Failed Parenting by 9jalyte: 9:42am On Apr 06, 2017 |
woodcook:How old are you? |
| Politics › Re: The Modern Igbos And Our Identity Crisis by 9jalyte: 12:24am On Apr 05, 2017 |
Thank you so much for bringing a new discus on the Igbo. I was just talking about the effort to water down the igbo identity by another construct called Biafra. Unfortunately the present generation of young people hardly read, and so do not know much about their history and identity. Now someone brought the idea of indigenous people of Biafra. There is nothing like Biafra as a people before the declaration by Ojukwu, though there was the bight of Biafra in present day Bayelsa. We are Igbos, not Jews nothing more or less. It is sinful to discard our original identity for another, that will; be calamity. Now some people have blamed Nigerian government for killing history, and rightly so there seems to be that attempt. I rather blame the igbo leaders - political and traditional- for not making effort bto preserve out identity, history and tradition. It should have been make compulsary in all schools in Igbo land to teach Igbo (not Igbo language alone). That way we will be well grounded on our history and the missing link with Nigeria. This should be considered as the only way to re-invent the igbo identity and save Igbo from those reconstructing the cannon for their own interest (for political and religious interests)> For the records we are Igbos. 2 Likes |
| Politics › Re: The Modern Igbos And Our Identity Crisis by 9jalyte: 12:15am On Apr 05, 2017 |
ExplorerReturns:Hahah!, My dear, hove you ever heard that Onitcha people have their ancestral origin from the Binis> Just try and read and stop taking vendor-stand argument too serious. The Igbos are Igbos, I know people have inferiority complex and so try to associate themselves with anything foreign. Be proud of who you are and leave another man's identity. One thing you should also understand is that the present day Igbos do not have same ancestral history. |
| TV/Movies › Re: BBNaija: Efe Leads Early Online Polls Unopposed (Photo) by 9jalyte: 9:44pm On Apr 03, 2017 |
toogbasky:For the fact that Buhari used the same tactics to win election will make me not to vote Efe. Poverty is not a virtue, and I don't believe you. Giving poor people power is dangerous because if such person cannot manage himself/herself out of poverty, such person cannot manage a nation into prosperity. Again, BBN is not a poverty alleviation program, so we cannot just leave people that have sense of worth and patronize someone who thinks street life is a model to celebrate. We are better than that deficient in attitude(imagine someone shout "your father" like that), that is not a model to celebrate. 3 Likes |
| Politics › Re: If President Buhari Runs For President Again, He Would Win- Femi Adesina Says by 9jalyte: 3:53pm On Apr 03, 2017 |
This man has insulted Nigerians seriously. It is just like beating a boy and asking him to say thank you sir for beating me. 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: IPOB And The Need To Reform Her Strategy: by 9jalyte: 2:58am On Apr 02, 2017 |
Nebuchadnezar:Point of correction, Igbo is not IPOB and IPOB is not Igbo. Please for goodness sake, there is nothing like indigenous people of Biafara. Biafra was never and can never be a race. You people should be careful how you are watering down Igbo identity for another creation of an individual. The idea of Biafra as a country is not upto 60 years, while Igbo as a race has existed for over 800 years. In the first place, Biafra as an identity has no Igbo root, it is more connected with the Ijaws. Now on the IPOB issue, I think Igbos should Choose between being Igbo (there racial identity) and being a politically cut out identity. We all have been complaining about the error in creation of a country called Nigeria, which distorted the indigenous identities that existed before Lugard, now in our very eyes, some other people are making the same Lugard mistake by creating an identity that has no connection with the people. This idea of "you are either with us or against us" is stupid. It is not by force, otherwise there is no difference between the action and what islamic terrorist are doing. I am Igbo, SIMPLE! if you want to create an association called IPOB, it is up to you. I am more concerned about Igbos and what will make them great, not Biafra that has remained an identity that has tormented our psych and our nationhood. If you look at the problem of the Igbos today and you say the biggest is issue is Biafara, then you are far from being an Igbo man conscious of him self. We have some of the worst performing governors, the lousiest traditional governing system since the introduction of the scam called Ezes, and the destruction of our town union government. We are all dumb to the problems in our own home but keep blaming outsiders on the reason why our school system has gone to the dust, how our urban spaces are deficient in planning and why we rather build our business in the west and north and not in the east. Wake up and solve the immediate problem of bad leadership in our states before looking at others. "onye ajuru aju anaghi aju onwe ya" 2 Likes |
| Politics › Re: Why Igbo People Are Who They Are And Behave The Way They Do....see Facts by 9jalyte: 11:51pm On Apr 01, 2017 |
Thank you so much for bringing a new discus on the Igbo. I was just talking about the effort to water down the igbo identity by another construct called Biafra. Unfortunately the present generation of young people hardly read, and so do not know much about their history and identity. Now someone brought the idea of indigenous people of Biafra. There is nothing like Biafra as a people before the declaration by Ojukwu, though there was the bight of Biafra in present day Bayelsa. We are Igbos, not Jews nothing more or less. It is sinful to discard our original identity for another, that will; be calamity. Now some people have blamed Nigerian government for killing history, and rightly so there seems to be that attempt. I rather blame the igbo leaders - political and traditional- for not making effort bto preserve out identity, history and tradition. It should have been make compulsary in all schools in Igbo land to teach Igbo (not Igbo language alone). That way we will be well grounded on our history and the missing link with Nigeria. This should be considered as the only way to re-invent the igbo identity and save Igbo from those reconstructing the cannon for their own interest (for political and religious interests)> For the records we are Igbos. 3 Likes |
| Politics › Re: Where Did We Go Wrong? Wake Up Nigerian Youths! by 9jalyte: 1:24pm On Mar 30, 2017 |
Hmmm, my dear if you want to know why, just use this your post as a test. Observe how many people will respond or contribute to the discussion on this issue. Even among those that will respond, just count how many will make sane contribution. We have a generation of poorly groomed people, lacking in opinion and self awareness. If you want to get them to talk or know what they are good at, create a post on Tonto Dike, talk about premiership or soccer, bring celebrity gossip. If you want to understand how informed they are in governance, create a PDP/APC conflict post, you will read the most dirty thing that can come out of a living thing. For the records, the first generation leaders you mentioned were informed, dogged and motivated enough to wrestle power from colonial authority. They were idealistic and believed in Nigeria. They studied abroad and left the comfort of the western society and returned to build Africa (Mind you, the movement was to create a strong African identity at that time not to create IPOB or Arewa, or those self centred ethnic identities). They showed maturity, even when they were quite young, and that was why they got the power. What do we have today, young men that have no confidence in them selves, people who cannot even manage a relationship, people who have more craving for gadgets that for human development, people who are so polluted in mind and hearth that the words that come out of their mouth are toxic. How on earth do you think they can rule. Go to Nigerian Universities and see how the young men and women sent there to become intellectual power box of the nation end of in some kind of street gangsterism they call cultism, or become more religious in the university than being intellectual. In the 1960s and 70s, how many campus fellowships did we have, and what manner of people were involved in the school confraternity. Just look critically at all the stages of development the young people have been passing through and tell me how easy it will be to create good leaders from them. Not withstanding, we have great guys that have managed to build themselves against all odds, and are very qualified to take leadership, but tell me, when such people come out without money to throw around, how will their fellow young people treat them. Enough said! |
| Politics › Re: Nigeria Blasts Amnesty International by 9jalyte: 3:54pm On Mar 04, 2017 |
Really, your darling Transparency international does not know how to do the job again? Oh, during GEJ when they were dishing out those data and you were clapping for them, what has changes, YEYE!!! |
| Politics › Re: Read The 1979 Interview Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe Had With Mohammed Haruna On Biafra by 9jalyte: 2:42pm On Mar 04, 2017 |
Very unfortunate people deliberately decided not to teach history in schools, but I understand why; the main actors in the most important historical moments of Nigeria (civil wars and coups) were/are still alive and in power.There is nothing shameful about talking about the wars, it helps us understand where we went wrong and how not to be wrong again. It makes us appreciate our heroes, understand the cost of heroism and aspire to he heroes ourselves. That is why we have no national hero you people can admire, we only have ethnic political champions. It is time to tell our stories, hold our hands together and say "no more to treachery, to genocide, to ethnocentrism". I know people will be tempted to express ethnic sentiments over this issue, but truth be told, the Biafran leadership made good effort for peace and at the same time made great mistakes, and the Nigerian leadership made horrible mistake driven by ego and misinformation. What ever it was, that part of our history should not be silenced. It is a big water mark on our map of life. 14 Likes |
| Politics › Re: Femi Adesina Belongs To Nollywood Not Aso Rock by 9jalyte: 3:31pm On Feb 26, 2017 |
Honestly, that guy is the most un-charismatic, most lousy and un-trusted mouth piece of the president in the history of Nigeria. He displays high level of disconnection from what it is the president is upto, he only indulges in continued campaign for APC, instead of realistically informing Nigerian of what happening. He cannot intelligently refute any argument or rumor, he only hides under the saying "this is democracy, ... has a right to his/her opinion" bullsh**t!! Anyway, why talk about the guy alone, all of them in this government are in the same intellectual wavelength. Some of us gave up long, hoping that they were going to prove us wrong .. For Where?? The one you call Garba, hmm, abi Lai Mohammed .. ooh Lord! Any way sha! 2 Likes |
| Politics › Re: 1$ Equal #440 Today, An Evidence That Buhari Is A Failure by 9jalyte: 2:37pm On Feb 26, 2017 |
PassingShot:Gentle man, take it easy or you will have hearth attack. The way you have been vibrating on "GEJ" for too long, I don't know what to call it. Check your self, something is causing this bitterness, just like typical of weak men, they find someone/something to blame. Why don't you refute what he said that GEJ set up machinaries and policies to stop the so called corruption and you stopped him. If he had acted draconian, you would have called him the most insensitive president. It is good he left it for Nigerians to learn through the hard way. You will dissipate all your energy trying to rubbish the man, but he will continue to shine. You have to continually deal with the fact that you were wrong and your choice contributed in putting Nigeria in this mess. |
| Politics › Re: 1$ Equal #440 Today, An Evidence That Buhari Is A Failure by 9jalyte: 2:26pm On Feb 26, 2017 |
ezenaija:Chai, this spell is strong. So tell me, how much was Dollars to Naira when Crude was selling at $20 per barrel and our dept profile was as it's highest and so called external reserve lowest. I am talking about around 1999 to early 2000 and during Yaradua's regime. Truth, when lies are told over and over again, it begins to sound like truth even to those peddling the lies. Wake up and purge your self of the spell spinning your head. |
| Politics › Re: 1$ Equal #440 Today, An Evidence That Buhari Is A Failure by 9jalyte: 2:25pm On Feb 26, 2017 |
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| Politics › Re: APC Is Fraud; Nigerians Should Ask Of Their President Not Recovered Loots by 9jalyte: 3:58pm On Feb 12, 2017 |
The vanguard of the pre-Independence generation (those born between 1914 and 1960) are dying out, but it is historically inaccurate to tar them all with the same brush as the military opportunists who usurped power on January 15, 1966 and proceeded, sometimes methodically, but mostly erratically, to kill the concept of Nigeria. We did have insightful, self-sacrificial leaders such as Obafemi Awolowo, Sam Aluko, Michael Okpara, Akanu Ibiam, Udo Udoma, Aminu Kano, Kashim Ibrahim, and on his good days, Ahmadu Bello, the famed Sarduana of Sokoto. Then followed the Age of Unreason: Ironsi, Gowon, Babangida, Abacha, Abubakar, a virtual rogues' gallery of nonentities, fronting a bland facade of smug incompetence, ignorance, greed, petty felony and official malfeasance, with each trying to outdo the other in squirreling off the commonwealth (to build mausoleums-on-hills, in Minna and Ota, of all places?), subverting the rule of law, and undermining all structures of civic engagement, from universities to the Press to the Judiciary and to culture itself. Ironically, the military, once the pride of colonial British warfare, with a tradition of excellence in combat from Burma to the Congo, was equally laid waste by the buccaneer class of war profiteers. A once promising Bantu civilization was brought forcefully to its knees; drug peddling replaced education as the profession of choice amongst the Young & Impressionable. Because of Buhari's abbreviated rule in 1985, and the abomination of Babangida's cartel-as-Presidency, most discerning Nigerians (wrongly) assumed that if Buhari was truly the anti-Babangida, he couldn't be all that bad. It turns out that he could, and was. Unthinkably, unbelievably, Buhari was, indeed, worse than Babangida. Who would have thought that? I had my early misgivings about Buhari's Second Coming, mostly based on his complete disdain for all intellectual matters, and a stoic refusal at self-improvement since his post-adolescent NDA days, even in elementary affairs such as reading, writing, herding cows (Yes, I know arithmetic was never his strong point, but 97-5% is a Bridge Too Far even for Primary III arithmetics). Yet, Mr Buhari has, strikingly, surpassed even my low expectations. I had hoped that he would eventually, given time and support, find his feet in government and lift up this ill-served nation. I was, therefore, prepared to forgive his many faults, including an unfortunate foot-in-the-mouth disease, which typically recrudesces on exposure to foreign microphones. Alas, Mr Buhari clearly has no feet. This is our President as he truly is. He came into power as a sore winner; he would likely leave power on a medical gurney- or in utter disgrace. This country has tragically lurched from the cul-de-sac of Jonathan's incompetence to the swamplands of Buhari's provincial ignorance. May this unfortunate country never again have a leader with such a level of indolence, pettiness, ethnic prejudice, and disdain for informed opinion. Mr Jonathan was very bad, I had (wrongly) assumed that his epoch was the nadir; it is beginning to look as if Mr Buhari is potentially just as bad, albeit in different ways. How unlucky can any nation be? |
| Politics › Re: Nigeria Is Lucky To Have A President Like Buhari- Gov Ajimobi by 9jalyte: 10:25am On Feb 05, 2017 |
Can someone tell this parachute-wearing governor to just keep quiet. I don't know why any body should listen to that fellow after displaying unforgivable arrogance during his encounter with students last time. Imagine him calling himself "constituted authority", meaning he owns people's lives. Why I will not complain too much is that the people asked for it, and they have gotten what they asked for. 1 Like |
| Christianity Etc › Re: When Are christians Permitted to KILL and Can A Christian Be A Soldier? by 9jalyte: 10:01am On Feb 05, 2017 |
MakeADifference:Why I like this post is that it will make a fool of those Lazy, and weak Christians who always hide under one quote "vengeance is for me say the lord" to justify why they will not defend themselves ( Southern Kaduna and Northern Christians come to mind). If God allows Soldiers to kill for the sake of defending their country, what made them think God will be angry when the whole people (not just a selected called the army) should right to fight their battle themselves. Unfortunately, there is no argument about God and faith that Christians have ever won before, they will express their poor intellectual depth and find one verse to hide behind. 2 Likes |
| Politics › Reno Omokri Again! Hear Him by 9jalyte(op): 11:14am On Jan 31, 2017 |
On the 15th of August 1945, the axis nations fighting in the Pacific theater defeated imperial Japan and two weeks later, Japan formally surrendered to allied forces led by the U.S. General, Douglas McArthur, who formally accepted the signed articles of surrender. But though the U.S. defeated Japan, they never decimated Japan's great technological and industrial complex. They were visionary enough to distinguish these from Japan's military industrial complex, which they scrapped. Realizing that Japan was decades ahead of the West in many technologies, the allied powers, led by the US, allowed those industries to remain as a going concern and took the unique step of enacting legislation and policies to enable them flourish. What they did in Japan, they also did in Europe. In Europe, the US, acting unilaterally, even went a step further by introducing the Marshall Plan through which America sent financial and other types of aid to help Europe (and especially Germany) recover from the ravages of the Second World War. The point of the allied and American actions in Japan and Europe is that technological advancement belongs to the human race and should not be allowed to suffer because of a quarrel or war amongst humans. This lesson was thoroughly established in 642 AD when the Library of Alexandria was burnt to the ground during the Muslim conquest of Egypt. It has been argued that that act set the world several centuries back in technological advancement and has become something to watch out for during the prosecution of a war. A war is a quarrel between or amongst people that is settled by means of violence. It is not a quarrel between or amongst technology, so civilized nations have pursued the policy of fighting wars while preserving technology. Gone should be the days of the scorched earth policy which is why despite the bestiality of the apartheid regime, President Nelson Mandela did not do a Mugabe, but rather left intact White owned farms, industry and universities and only insisted that they be opened to Blacks and other races. This brings me to Nigeria. I would like to state a fact that will be argued against, but still a fact that even those who would argue against it know to be true. The Igbo (or Ibo) ethnic nationality of Nigeria are the most technologically advanced Black race on planet earth, bar none! This is a fact. A fact that was proven to be true for 30 months while they were landlocked in their constantly shrinking enclave known as Biafra. Cut off from the rest of the world, the ingenuity of the Igbo came to the fore during the civil war as they constructed the Uli airstrip and when that airstrip was bombed, they repaired it in record time and under the most trying circumstances. They would go on to repair Uli not once and not twice. The Igbos refined petrol from a variety of non fossil fuels, including from but not limited to palm products (from which they also produced diesel) and manufactured surface to air missiles which they also adapted to surface to surface missiles (the Ogbunigwe ). They converted commercial planes to fighter jets and weaponized them. That was no mean feat in 1967. In fact, when in 2012, the Nigerian Army rolled out the igirigi and promoted it as the first indigenous armored personnel carrier, they were wrong. I am not a Biafran. I am proudly Nigerian. And beyond that, I am a proud dark skinned Black African yet I make bold to say that the igirigi is not the first indigenous APC. In fact, the first indigenous armored personnel carrier in Black Africa is the Red Devil, built by the Igbos during the Nigerian Civil War. The Nigerian Civil War ended in January 1970 and the Nigerian Army unveiled the igirigi in July of 2012. If they had converted the Red Devil to their own use, they would probably be talking about a greater feat in the year 2012. My question is what happened in the intervening 42 years between 1970 and 2012? Why didn't the Nigerian Army integrate the military industrial complex of Biafra into its Defence Industry Corporation of Nigeria, DICON? Why did we have to reinvent the wheel at great cost in terms of time and money? The Nigerian Civil War ended on a note of 'no victor no vanquished'. That was a watershed moment inspired by the Christlike mind of General Yakubu Gowon. That gesture is to be applauded. But why did we as a nation not go the whole hog and take advantage of Biafra's technological advances and integrate her scientists into our Research and Development sector much like the US did with German and Japanese scientists? That is where we failed as a nation. I remember growing up as a child and how other Nigerians scoffed at 'Igbo made' electronic products. There was hardly anything including electronics, pharmaceuticals, spirits and wines that the Igbos could not counterfeit. And rather than our leaders seeing the potential in those products, we all scoffed at them. Igbo made products were a pariah. Did it ever occur to any of our leaders that if government had supported these technological advancement, Nigeria could have become an industrialized nation today and Igbo made products would have been exported abroad as made in Nigeria products? It would surprise many that a number of the greatest technological advancement and products that came out of America after the Second World War were the work of German or Japanese scientists! In an operation code named Operation Paperclip , 1500 German scientists, engineers and technicians were airlifted to the United States and given US permanent US residency and citizenship immediately after the defeat of Germany in 1945. The primary aim of Operation Paperclip was to prevent these skilled men and women from falling into Soviet Russian hands. Hans Erich (Eric) Hollmann who was one of the fathers of radar technology was one of such scientists airlifted to America. Kurt Lehovec the pioneer of the integrated circuit systems in electrical engineering is another. He was airlifted to America in 1945 where he became a Professor at the University of Southern California and passed on his knowledge to America's next generation of scientists. The allies had been having issues with the jet engine and were not able to develop planes like the German Messerschmitt Me 262. But after the defeat of Germany, US forces gave safe passage to Rudi Beichel who went to the US and became an adviser to the US army on liquid propulsion. Other German scientists such as Magnus "Mac" Freiherr von Braun and his brother, Wernher Von Braun helped reverse engineer German jets which led to the development of the US American F-86 Sabres, a plane that helped the US dominate the air during the Korean War. More importantly, Wernher Von Braun provided much of the know how that helped America build the Apollo spacecraft which allowed America beat Russia as the first nation to get to the moon. Methamphetamine was invented by Japanese a Japanese chemist, Nagai Nagayoshi and the drug was shared with their German allies and helped their soldiers stay awake and focus. After the war, German scientists helped American scientist synthesize the drug which revolutionized the US health industry. Why can't we do the same in Nigeria? Can you imagine what our technological base would have been if we as a nation had a policy of patronizing the so called Igbo made products right from the end of the war till today? What if we had absorbed the the Research and Production Organisation of Biafra (RAP as it was then known) into the Nigerian Army Corps of Engineers? By now, we may have been manufacturing jets and we would not be dependent on foreign nations for weapons to fight terrorists. This is why I was so disgusted with the minister of science and technology, Ogbonnaya Onu for aspiring, on Nigeria's behalf, to produce pencils by 2018! I mean this man is the first civilian governor of the old Abia state which today encompasses both Abia and Ebonyi states. Right there, under his own nose, Nigerians of Igbo extraction, without ANY governmental support, are manufacturing electronics and heavy machinery components and Onu is caught up on pencils! Onu should visit Nnewi if he knows where it is. Right there he would see a city that does not wait for government. Nnewi people are so industrious that after years of waiting endlessly for government to provide basic amenities, they have built their own roads, have their own power stations and their own water works. Just like Japan, Nnewi has manufacturers of such things like batteries, pistons, automobiles and other products. These Nnewi manufacturers have built schools for the kids of their workers on site, just like in Japan. You just need to visit Nnewi or Aba to see what is going on in Nigeria. These guys are Nigeria's most guarded secret because even the federal government is not aware of them. And the reason why this is so is because these people are Igbos! It is time for Nigeria to forgive the Igbos for being Igbo and accept them as full partners and equal partners in the Nigerian project and use the entire strength of the Nigerian federal government to provide them the support to fulfill their destiny as the Black African people that are nucleus of the technological advancement of Africa. Notice I say Africa, not just Nigeria. I don't say this lightly. All over West and Central Africa, Nigerians of Igbo extraction are the backbone of the commercial and technological sectors. I can say what I have said above without any accusation of self or group interest promotion because I am not Igbo neither am I married to one. I have said the truth as my conscience sees it because I am committed to advancement of the Black Race because as a proud Black man, I know that no black African tribe is as great as the Black Race when it is united. By Reno Omokri. 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Politics › Re: The Second Coming Of Goodluck Jonathan - Dele Momodu by 9jalyte: 8:31pm On Nov 19, 2016 |
MeAboki:Really? So in your mind you have "common sense". Chai, the butterfly thinks himself he is a bird. Just take a look at comments above and conclude for yourself where you belong - the inconsequential few. Keep nursing your wounded heart and ego, I can imagine what you will be feeling when you look yourself in the mirror and see the face of someone whose vote put Nigeria in a mess. 323 Likes 17 Shares |
| Politics › Re: ‘come Back, Baba’: Goodluck Jonathan Receives Hero’s Welcome In Sokoto (PHOTOS) by 9jalyte: 1:51pm On Nov 18, 2016 |
#comebackbabaGEJ pleaseeeeeeese! |
| Politics › Re: Nigerians May Reject APC In 2019 If… — Chief Waku by 9jalyte: 11:05am On Oct 11, 2016 |
Why do they always say "the president has good intentions, but...." We keep blaming those around them, same was said about Jonathan ans Yaradua. It simply means the president is not in-charge.I may forgive Jonathan, but will not forgive Buhari if he fails to get rid of "those around him", who are sabotaging government's efforts because at Buhari's age, and given that he had been head of state before, he shouldn't care about what will happen to his 2nd term ambition if he has one. HE should use the opportunity he has now and throw the bomb, the resonance of his action will remain in the mind of Nigerian and he will be ever remembered as the Hero of modern Nigeria. |
| Politics › Re: Whoever Says Jonathan And Pdp Are Not To Be Blamed For This Recession We Are In? by 9jalyte: 1:05am On Sep 19, 2016 |
Buhari did not just inherit a larger amount of money, he inherited a far better Nigeria than what OBJ met in 1999. I really forgive him when he says PDP destroyed Nigeria in the last 16 years because after PTF, he went to Daura, God knows if he was aware of what was happening in Kastina town, let alone what was happening in Nigeria. Maybe we should enlighten him and his ignorant supporters. We need people to ask these questions: 1. How many Universities were in Nigeria before 1999 (private and public), and how many do we have now. 2. How many other tertiary institutions were in Nigeria before 1999 and how many did we have by 2015 3. How many federal Medical Centres and other tertiary health centres were in Nigeria before 1999 and how many did we have by 2015 4. How many government agencies were in Nigeria before 1999 and how many did we have by 2015 5. How many people were in federal government payroll in Nigeria before 1999 and how many did we have by 2015 6. What was the minimum wage in Nigeria in 1998 and what was it in 2000, remember what Nigeria had in reserve and the turnaround in the earning of public servants 7. Compare the manpower in the public institutions in terms of number and capacity, number of government funded training for lecturers and doctors and other public servants before 1999 and after. 8. Compare how many kilometers of road paved in Nigeria before 1999 and how many in 2015 9. compare number of dualized roads by 1999 and by 2015 10. compare how many communities were linked to the national grid by 1999 and by 2015 11. I don't want to talk about tele-communication. 12. compare the size of middle class in Nigeria in 1999 an by 2015 13. compare our banking sector before 1999 and by 2015 and then by 2016 14. compare our democracy, particularly INEC of 2014 and INEC of 2016 15. Compare the number of new cars in Nigeria in 1999 and the number today ( i am not talking about tokumbo) 16. compare the rail system before 1999 and today And so on and so on. After making the comparisons, I guess I will not be the one that will make you tell APC "shut-up". If Buhari is lamenting when he not only inherited a better Nigeria, but a more reasonable sum of money, it means if he had become the President by 1999, Nigerians would have asked the military to come back. But it is good he is here today, we have to deal with his problem once and for all so that he will retire back silently to Daura and remain silent for ever, otherwise he would have been causing tension with his threats and his followers would have continued to dress him in borrowed robes. Too bad for him, he should have known that the best actor is the on that leaves the stage when the ovation is high-Gej comes to mind. 2 Likes |
| Politics › Re: I Inherited $3.7 Bn, Buhari Inherited $ 30bn ; Buhari Luckier Than Me – OBJ by 9jalyte: 11:23pm On Sep 18, 2016 |
AlPeter:Seriously, I am beginning to get irritated by your daftness. I am not cut out for this "face-me I face-you" kind of lunacy, I know you are comfortable with it. Listen, not everybody is a bubble head to swallow the Fashola super governor jargon. Do you even know what it means to transform a city. like I said, I don't blame you, when you stay in your down town end of Lagos, you think the world begins and ends in that hell-hole you call Lagos. Imagine you using the word "transformed" for Lagos. I need to know what is transformed about Lagos, is it the urban space that is so cancerous, or the miserable school system or the housing pattern or the transport system or health system. Can you tell me what is working in Lagos. Now, before you begin to dish out those expired propaganda, do you even know what Lagos is worth. Do you know that Lagos' economy/budget is higher than those of Malawi, Uganda, Senegal, Gambia and some other countries in Africa, and yet, if you go to the capitals of these countries you can never compare the livability with Lagos, and this countries maintain embassies, military, police universities etc, what did Fashola/APC do with Lagos in the 16 years with all the money.Rate of National development 1999-2015 is higher than Lagos development in the same time frame. Abeg if you, who was fretting about PDP's failure will use Lagos as an instance, it means you don't know what you want/need. Stop avoiding the question I put to you, give me the data I asked for and stop trashing around. I don't blame people like you, I am sure you never had assess to news paper in the 1990s if you were born by that time. If you read reasonably well and engage sound minds in discussions (not foul minded people like you), you must have known where Nigeria was before 1999. I have to put this straight, I am not holding brief for PDP, I was reacting to APC complains and excuses for non performance, and I maintain, they have no reason to complain because the inherited a better Nigeria than what PDP inherited in 1999. You can as well call this "incoherent" , I will not bother about that. I know you have issues with comprehension. Please, if you will not address the issues I raised in my first post, don't just bother me with your irritating jargon again. |
| Politics › Re: I Inherited $3.7 Bn, Buhari Inherited $ 30bn ; Buhari Luckier Than Me – OBJ by 9jalyte: 3:06pm On Sep 18, 2016 |
AlPeter:Wooow! first, thank you for pointing out my grammatical errors to me, hun, seriously were you thinking that it will make me feel bad that I made mistakes in English, gush! Now, over to your own grammar dear English Prof. Go through yours and tell me you were all perfect in what you wrote above. But I will not hold it against you, unlike you, I know they are bound to happen. Talking about education, hmm. Indulging you in this will make me feel silly really, don't expect me to engage you on that. You know, in my first reaction to your comment I said you must have had a terrible childhood and you ended up proving me right. Simple psychology, look at your first sentence, you gave an indication of what matters most to you - "food/bread". People like you attach so much importance to food because you are haunted by your hunger stricken childhood and for you anybody that airs his opinion must have sold his his conscience for food like your impoverished mind would willingly do. Sorry, not everybody is like you and it was not your fault, blame your parents for your over-flowing bile. Now look at the trash you wrote as your answers to what I asked you. See, I don't do "vendor stand" argument I asked you for trend data on the mention sectors simple. Honestly if you are older than 16 years, take it from me, you have mental retardation. Just look at what you said, that 8 years is enough to do what? Seriously you need to grow up. In your words, I am "half brain", I am "mindless", I am "a f*ol", I lack formal education. Ok, despite all those weaknesses, I was able to itemize some issues I wanted you to address, dear smart, educated and astute grammarian, why did you shy away from those facts and decided to use foul language to shout your self through. The cliche of "16 years of looting" has become stale, I am wondering why you are still holding on to it, is it because you lack the intellectual depth and so cannot present another line of argument. I am glad you agreed that PDP built more hospitals and universities and other institutions, just that they were not able to standardize them to world class in the 16 years. My dear, what is wrong with using your common sense, do I need to flog this issue. Why not give us an idea of what was there before they took power, and the level the left the institutions by 2015. Seriously, you need to find out where the bitterness is coming from so that you stop fretting over another thing when your real problem maybe "within". Try and help your self my brother. |
