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Once to everyman and nation comes the moment to decide; in the strife between truth with falsehood, for the good or the evil side.” J. R. Lowell, 1819-1891, (VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS,VBQ, p 254).
For great nations, the choice comes once or, at most, twice. For Nigeria, the choice had come several times. And, the fact that, today, the failure of a country which was more advanced than South Korea, Malaysia and Thailand, among others, in 1965, is unanimously attributed to the lack of purposeful leadership is an indictment of the leaders as well as the followers.
To the best of my knowledge, nobody had been elected into office, either at the Federal, or State, level who had not enjoyed some significant measure of support. Even when the votes were supposed to have been rigged or bought, with “Stomach Infrastructure”, fellow Nigerians had been involved in the deals. Nobody alone can impose himself on a nation of 170 million people. As Joseph de Maistre, 1751-1820, in VBQ p. 80, has warned us, “Every country has the government it deserves.”

Buhari and Jonathan
So if Nigeria, a potentially rich, but, actually poor country, has a government in which a Minister can purchase two bullet-proof cars, at inflated prices, that is what we deserve. If another Minister can spend billions of naira leasing a jet for her official use; and, then go to court to stop anyone from asking questions, because her “boss” never did, that is what we deserve too. If the BOSS himself runs a Presidential Airline with nine aircrafts, while the Presidents of France and Brazil and the Prime Ministers of Japan and Britain manage with one each, that is what we also deserve.
By contrast, we now have a challenger, who was a former Minister for Petroleum Resources (he leased no jets) and a former Head of State (no Presidential Airways then). Yet, he could state, without fear of contradiction as follows: “While others who have occupied those same positions have grown mysteriously rich, I still live on my army pension. I own no foreign bank accounts, I own no companies profiting from government contracts.”
To me the difference is clear; as clear as drinking tea or coffee with milk; or drinking mud water. Let those who had become mysteriously rich explain the source(s) of their wealth to Nigerians – including how much tax they paid on them….
Support and Vote for General Muhammed Buhari

Allah is your protector

GMB 2015 In Sha Allah

Wrong calculation. What of NNPC money?
GEJ must Go.

Air parcel of change is moving from an environment of high pressure to low pressure as Sam and Imo state governor step down

Who cares
PDP will win

akins56:
Nonsense , did he make any statement that he has converted to Christianity?, i can not count the number of times my dad and my other siblings followed my mum to church, whenever there is an important program in her church, and that never make us any less Muslims, its a common phenomenal among yoruba Muslims, we ain't fanatical hausas nor are we bigotic igbo's!,,we are yoruba's!

ISLAM and practice of Islam IN SHA ALLAH, till I die

FAYOSE is not acting within the norms context and culture of YORUBA conventional lifestyle, because he want to defend his boss(GEJ).
Let wait and see
How far, he (Fayose) will go.

Say No to bad leader in 2015

APC on the way to ASO ROCK
Q
#TeamBUHARI
APC will win the following states
Kano
Sokoto
Nasarawa
Lagos
Ogun
River
Kaduna
Yobe
Borno
Gombe
Kebbi
Kwara
Imo
Benue

[b][/b] what a leader.

Okay

[b][/b]ALLAH(SWT) will safe us.

Wait make I confirm

eunisam: evil genuis is at it again. Due to lack of comprehension while reading,I don't think ibb is suporting GEJ.

eunisam: evil genuis is at it again. Due to lack of comprehension while reading,I don't think ibb is suporting GEJ.

[b][/b]Evil genuis is using diplomatic language to save himself from GEJ and The northerners

Raji Gafar Abiola represent FEDERAL UNIVERSITY LOKOJA

He may not win but he can contest
let wait and see

who cares

For me , he should drop his Second term agenda.......
1st to comment

Last Night, President Goodluck Jonathan met with the delegtions of NORTHERN ELDERS FORUM over the issue of Insecurity In Northern Part of my Noble Country , Nigeria. Where he(GEJ) promised to grant Boko Haram amnesty.
As a concern Nigerian, what Amnesty do you think President Goodluck should grant them(BOKO HARAM)

therefore , Seun go and create Nairaland Application in Android version especially.
Seun be Spectator .

[i][/i] Facebook fueled fresh talk
Friday about its own mobile phone after the leading
social network scheduled a press announcement for next
week.
Shortly after the Facebook invitation went out for the
April 4 event, the technology news site TechCrunch
reported the announcement would be a modified
version of the Google Android operating system with
“deep native Facebook functionality.”
Another report on “9 to 5 Google” said Facebook
designing the software for the new smartphone, which
would be made by Taiwan’s HTC.
Facebook’s invitation said only “Come See Our New
Home On Android.”
The reports, if accurate, could explain the long
speculation about a “Facebook phone” to help the social
network better monetize its mobile platform by
featuring Facebook prominently on the phone.
Facebook has long held firm it has no intention of
building its own smartphone, saying instead it would
rather weave access to the social network into software
running the gamut of handsets.
News of the April 4 event at social network’s main
campus in the Silicon Valley city of Menlo Park came as
the research firm IDC released a Facebook-backed study
showing that smartphones have become people’s close
friends in the US.
US smartphone owners tend to be connected from the
instant they rise until they fall sleep and revel in every
minute of it, according to the study.
A weeklong IDC survey of more than 7,000 people
ranging in age from 18 to 44 years old with iPhones or
Android-powered smartphones showed that four out of
five check their handsets within 15 minutes of waking.
The top three applications used were for messaging;
Web browsing, and Facebook, in that order, according to
IDC.
“People have a universal need to connect with others,
especially those they care deeply about,” IDC
researchers said.
“This coupled with mass market adoption of
smartphones means that social engagement via phones
has become mainstream.”
At a TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco in
September, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg said
the social network giant is focused on mobile devices.
“It is really clear from the stats and my own personal
intuition that a lot of energy in the ecosystem is going to
mobile, not desktop (computers),” Zuckerberg said
during an on-stage interview.
“That is the future,” he continued. “We are going to be
doing killer stuff there.”
Facebook has made a priority of following its more than
one billion members onto smartphones and tablet
computers, tailoring services and money-making ads for
mobile devices.
“Now, we are a mobile company,” Zuckerberg said at the
conference.
Zuckerberg rejected suggestions that Facebook would
make its own smartphone, adamant that the company
had no intention of stepping into the fiercely
competitive handset hardware arena.
“Apple, Google, everyone builds phones — we are going
in the opposite direction,” Zuckerberg said at the time.
“We want to build a system deeply integrated in every
device people want to use.”

Here are some facts from our common heritage that should make you proud to be called a Nigerian:

1. Nigeria is home to seven percent (7%) of the total languages spoken on earth. Taraba state alone has more languages than 30 African countries. The importance of this fact is appreciated when one understands that language is the “soul of culture” (as Ngugi wa Thiongo famously said). It is language that births the proverbs, riddles, stories and other aspects of culture that give us identity. UNESCO puts forward that the world’s languages represents an extraordinary wealth of creativity. Linguistic diversity correlates with cultural diversity. This means Nigeria can look inwards and drive itself to become the greatest hub for cultural tourism on earth, and consequently empower its citizens tremendously in the process.

2. The Walls of Benin (800-1400AD), in present day Edo State, are the longest ancient earthworks in the world, and probably the largest man-made structure on earth. They enclose 6500 square kilometers of community lands that connected about 500 communities. At over 16000km long, it was thought to be twice the length of the Great Wall of China, until it was announced in 2012 (after five years of meticulous measurement by Chinese surveyors) that the Great Wall is about 21,000km long.

3. The Yoruba tribe has the highest rate of twin births in the world. Igbo-Ora, a little town in Oyo state, has been nicknamed Twin capital of the World because of its unusually high rate of twins that is put as high as 158 twins per 1000 births. In a video I watched last year on YouTube presented by Titi (a white lady who speaks Yoruba), and which was centred on twin births in Igbo-Ora, one of the locals boasted that every family in the town has at least one twin!

4. Sarki Muhammad Kanta The Great of Kebbi, was the only ruler who resisted control by Songhai, West Africa’s greatest empire at that time. He founded and ruled the Hausa city-state of Kebbi around 1600 A.D and built Surame its capital, a planned city which was almost impossible to penetrate during war. In fact UNESCO describes Surame as “one of the wonders of human history, creativity and ingenuity”, and probably the most massive stone-walled constructions in West Africa. He is listed in Robin Walker’s 50 Greatest Africans.

5. Africa’s oldest known boat is The Dufuna canoe which was discovered in Dufuna village, Yobe state, by a Fulani Herdsman in May 1987, while he dug a well. Various radio-carbon tests conducted in laboratories of reputable universities in Europe and America indicate that the canoe is over 8,000 years old, thus making it the oldest in Africa and 3rd oldest in the world. The discovery of the canoe has completely changed accepted theories of the history and sophistication of marine technology in Africa.

6. Sungbo’s Eredo, a 160 km rampart equipped with guard houses and moats, is reputed to be the largest single pre-colonial monument (or ancient fortification if you like) in Africa. It is located in present-day Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State and when it was built a millennium ago, it required more earth to be moved during construction than that used for building the Great Pyramid of Giza (one of the Seven Wonders of The Ancient World). The most astonishing thing is that Sungbo’s Eredo was the biggest city in the world (bigger than Rome and Cairo) during the Middle Ages when it was built!

7. Sarki Abdullah Burja of Kano (ruled 1438-1452 AD), the 18th ruler of Ancient Kano, created the first Golden Age in Northern Nigeria and ushered in a period of great prosperity. During his reign, Hausa became the biggest indigenous language spoken in Africa after Swahili. He is on the list of 50

Greatest Africans in Robin Walker’s wonderful book, “When We Ruled”.

8. The Jos Plateau Indigobird, a small reddish-brown bird, is found nowhere else on the planet but Plateau state, Nigeria.

9. The Anambra waxbill, a small bird of many beautiful colours, is found only in Southern Nigeria and nowhere else on earth.

10. The Niger Delta (which is the second largest delta on the planet), has the highest concentration of monotypic fish families in the world, and is

also home to sixty percent of Nigeria’s mangrove forests. You should know too that Nigeria’s mangrove forests are the largest in Africa and third largest on earth.

11. According to the World Resources Institute, Nigeria is home to 4,715 different types of plant species, and over 550 species of breeding birds and mammals, making it one of the most ecologically vibrant places of the planet.

12. Ile-Ife, in present day Osun State, was paved as early as 1000AD, with decorations that originated from Ancient America suggesting there might have been contact between the Yorubas and the Ancient Americans half a millenium before Columbus ‘discovered’ America.


http://thenationonlineng.net/new/online-special/12-shocking-facts-about-nigeria/

D'banj is a noun. anybody can bears the name.
there are many D'banj in my area.
are they D'banj. Nairalander are you a learner

SOWETO means SOUTH AFRICA WESTERN TOWENSHIP

Will you miss him?

Multi-Billionaire businessman, Arthur Eze has dismissed
the controversy trailing the presidential pardon granted
former governor of Bayelsa state, Dipreye
Alamieyeseigha and others saying it was God that
directed president Jonathan to grant the pardon.
Speaking with state House correspondents at the
Presidential Villa, Chief Eze said criticisms against the
pardon was misplaced.
“What Jonathan did is what a man who fears God will do.
If I have an opportunity as president of Nigeria I will do
the same. All of us are human beings. What he did was
correct. We are not fighting war. Jonathan took advice
from God. God has told him to show mercy. The bible
says blessed are those that are merciful for they shall
see God” he said.
He said the American government has no right to dictate
to Nigeria because Nigeria is an independent nation.
Speaking on his donation of over N1billion to a church in
the president’s Village, Chief Arthur Eze said those
criticising him over the donation are criticising God.
“God gave me the money to contribute to the church.
The money is not meant for Jonathan to put in his
pocket. We are thinking of thanking God for what he has
done for Otuoke. It was abandoned for many years.
They had no water, no electricity until when God brought
Jonathan to change that place. Let the people have a
place to worship God. Those criticizing me are confused
people” he said.

www.vanguardngr.com/2013/03/god-told-jonathan-to-pardon-alamieyeseigha-arthur-eze/

It is a Slogan In my school (FEDERAL UNIVERSITY LOKOJA)
SLEEP WELL EAT WELL
Therefore, sleep well.
but dont forget to go to Jumah on Friday

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