Sincere 9gerian: Just imagine the president of America in 1984 coming back to re-contest again in 2013. Ditto other progressive nations. Buhari contesting elections again will be the height of STUPIDITY.

In addition if someone who shed tears and vowed never to re-contest elections again cannot to stand by his words, how can we trust him in other things?

WOW!!! I SOO MUCH LOVE UR CONTRIBUTION. TELL THEM LET THEM HEAR. A WORD IS ENOUGH FOR A WISE. GBAM!!!

To all nairalanders, please I need ur advices on MBA programme in national open university. I don't really av time to study d programme in our normal Nigeria university and also, d school fees is outrageous. I found out dat d easiest way of obtainin d certificate is thru nationa open university. I want to ask if d certificate is tenable without discrimination. Please, ur contributions is highly essential and will be appreciated. Thanks

gysl1973:

You do not believe that MEND exist, under which group did you carry out your act? if there is nothing like mend, so where is our money budgeted for the amnesty going to, who is collecting it? how come the same organisation that is not in existence was formed for the purpose of your release, also if amnesty is a fraud and not known to Nigerian law, can you return all the money you have benefited from this govt. through the amnesty programme?

Lastly, now that a southern muslim have proved to us that islam support violence and terrorism, while the bible says if someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also, the Koran says if someone slap you, daga them, while Jesus says, love your neighbour as yourself, Muhammed says hate your neighbour if they are not muslim, the bible preach forgiveness, quran preach vengeance, i just hope this will silent our nothern animal aboki brothers and all other boko haram children on this forum that islam is a religion of peace piss

i so much love ur level of inteligence. u av spoken it all. GBAM!!!!!!!!!!!

please, all Nairalander, i want to obtain MBA certificate in national open university, Nigeria because of the school fees in the main Nigeria universities and time. can anyone advice me if the certificate is tenable or there is discrimination. Please, ur advices will be highly appreciated

yuzedo: This man has suffered! I bet his kids are hiding in shame.. #DazALL

The most hillarious post on nl so far. It is extreemly funny

ffo: Are Christians permitted to worship and practice their religion without being persecuted the way these people are allowed here in the middle east or other Islamic countries?

can a christian practice his religion openly like this in Islamic countries.

u av said it all guy. U people are decieving urselves. u these intolerance people, ur islamic countries will not allow other religions without persecution but u will be happy that people r convertin to islam in other christian countries. Allow them to practice other religion in ur intolerance nations whether all of them including their presidents will not convert. the rate islam is losing members is alarming because of this ur intolerance & violence, hatred for other religions and ur fundamentalists and extreemists. u better repent and embrace religion of peace not violence. a word is enough for the wise. thank God for my friend that converted to christian a yr ago because of ur intolerance

Neo-XVI:
As the new party sets about drafting its manifesto, they'd do well do adopt well-meaning ideas from Nigerians from all works of life. Listed below are people-centered ideas that should work well. A real manifesto will have these ideas fleshed out, including some justification and strategies for implementation, but that would be too much to post here. Feel free to discuss and/or add your own ideas, I understand some politicians come by here sometimes.

Corruption:

• Abolish immunity for public office holders from prosecution while in office
• Make it mandatory for all public office holders to declare their assets before taking and after leaving office
• Enact a whistle blower protection and reward act. To avoid false accusations, the onus of providing some form of evidence should be on the whistle blower
• Enact tougher penalties, including life imprisonment, for people convicted of corruption/misuse of public funds and resources
• Set up minimum standards of transparency in government
• Lead by example (critical)

Jobs and the Economy

• As a matter of national emergency, build sufficient power generating stations and distribution infrastructure all over the country with the goal of providing 24-hour, uninterrupted electric power to every nook and cranny of the country. The strategy should be a forceful push for private participation and complimentary government investment to meet demand. This singular act, if achieved, will revolutionize commerce in the country. This can be done within 5 years. The designs already exist so we're not re-inventing the wheel here. The only part that would be time-consuming is usually the lead time on procurement of equipment from companies like GE.
• Get Ajaokuta Steel Company working to its full capacity, as another matter of national emergency. This is another extremely high impact policy that if implemented, could revolutionize Nigerian manufacturing and export. Along with constant power supply, this will provide the base for the industrial super structure that would carry a developed Nigeria.
• Implement a National Tax Plan which demands that every working person pays income tax, whether in paid employment or a small business owner. Without a tax paying citizenry to demand accountability from government, government can never be trusted to be accountable and clean on its own volition. No one is that good. Streamline federal, state and local taxes, especially on small businesses. Tax defaulters are sentenced to jail and/or fined heavily. This will also add to revenue while reducing the focus on oil.
• Implement a new National Interstate Highway Plan from east to west, north to south, linking every state and every major Nigerian city to its neighbor via modern highways
• Rehabilitate and improve air and rail transport, especially for cargo operations. Build high speed interstate trains for passenger transport
• Build more seaports all across the coastline to reduce congestion and ensure more efficient marine and custom operations
• Ban the importation of a long list of goods that could be produced locally in order to stimulate local production. Our GDP will not fare very well until
we reduce the massive trade deficits we currently have
• Increase import duty on certain other goods to ensure that local industries can compete
• Systematical increase capitalization thresholds to ensure stronger, more robust banks
• Provide hassle-free loans for small scale industries and reduce taxes on all manufacturing industry operations
• Provide fast, independent audit of the NNPC, the subsidy scheme, and oil industry operations in Nigeria to eliminate the massive sleaze and corruption
that has crippled that industry. Set minimum standards of transparency in their operations. Reassess oil contracts and contracting procedures.
• Resuscitate refining to the full capacity of already established refineries. Map out policies to encourage more local refining to eliminate the need for oil importation. The goal should be self-sufficiency in refined crude products. We are an oil producer for goodness sake! Whoever heard of an oil producer importing gasoline and diesel?
• Enact and implement a national minimum wage increase

National Security and integration

• Begin the use state of residence as a criteria for seeking political office (as opposed to state of origin). This will rapidly improve national integration and over time douse the tensions that exist now. Imagine a time when an igbo man that has contributed to the advancement of a locality in Bauchi becomes their rep in congress. Beautiful! No?
• Look closely at indigene/settler laws with a view to giving settlers legitimate right to land (including farmlands) and to own properties. The country cannot claim to be united when everyone is holding tenaciously to their territories. If you've lived somewhere for 10, 20 years or more, they shouldn't have any hesitation calling you brother or sister
• Dialogue with all terrorist groups, affiliates and sponsors within the country and try to resolve their legitimate concerns while they declare a cease-
fire. If they remain obstinate after genuine efforts at resolution, unleash the wrath of government on them and wipe them out or chase them out of the
country
• Secure our borders and account for every foreigner in the country
• Adopt a home first strategy in deciding what foreign missions our soldiers engage in. We should stop being Santa Claus to our African neighbors who
neither appreciate nor respect us
• Modernize our military operations and strategy and improve their capability to handle the kinds of threats we face
• Provide retraining for ALL Nigerian policemen. Increase salaries and living conditions and modernize their equipment and operations. Also recruit
massively to provide sufficient policing for cities and states.
• Scrap the NYSC. It has become a corrupted, money wasting venture and a big cause of delay for youths. The productivity of a critical demographic is stifled by this program with huge diminishing returns. Use the money to hire permanent, qualified teachers instead and free graduates to go and work as professionals in their fields.

Education:

• Free, compulsory, universal education for all children up to high school level. Fine parents who fail to comply by not registering their kids for school
• Improve learning facilities and conditions nationwide. Improve school curriculum
• Outlaw child labor in any form, including hawking, until age 16
• Audit teacher qualifications. Weed out unqualified teachers. Hire adequate qualified teachers. Improve training and retraining of teachers
• Set up a National College Fund to fund research and learning in tertiary institutions.
• Improve school curriculum and make it mandatory for all current college lecturers to earn a PhD within 5 years, after which no one without a PhD should
handle a college class without supervision i.e. they should be TAs and AIs, not full lecturers
• Grant partial, and eventually full autonomy to tertiary institutions (after free education through high school, people should be willing to pay a bit more
to get a degree)
• Encourage merit-based public and private scholarships for the brightest students
• Set up a national low interest college loan program to help private citizens fund higher education

Agriculture and Water Resources

• Encourage mechanized farming in the country by partnering with local authorities to provide such machinery for rent Improve agric extension activities, high yield seeds, fertilizers, etc, all at subsidized costs to farmers. The goal should be self-sufficiency in all staple foods. Buy and store excess production from farmers in good years. There are vast swathes of land that are not cultivated the country over because of small scale subsistence farming
• Renewed focus on cash crop production for exports. Bring back the groundnut pyramids, the cotton fields, and the cocoa and oil plantations of the 50s and
60s. Encourage some local processing before export to increase value while also providing jobs
• Pursue a vigorous plan to supply clean, pipe-borne water to all cities and towns nationwide. And gradually to hinterlands
• Provide for better irrigated farming opportunities in dry seasons especially in Northern Nigeria

Health

• Immunize all children on as required from birth. Make these services available even in the remotest villages. Focus should be on less expensive,
more efficient preventive medicine
• Build and improve hospitals and primary health care clinics nationwide
• Build world class specialist hospitals over time and employ Nigerian doctors practicing elsewhere (US, Europe). This will save crucial foreign
exchange for us from politicians and the rich who go abroad at the slightest provocation, sometimes even for such things as medical checkups
• Improve training facilities and curriculum in medical schools

Enough with the 7-point or 10-point agendas. What Nigeria needs is a comprehensive work over

All these are good intention and manufesto. Many have come like this but nothing to show for it. The only thing i will suggest to make the manufesto complete is the death penalty for any body embezle more than 10million naira and life imprisonment for any frm below 10m to 5 million naira and like dat down. any false accusation should be given its own weight of the law to serve as deterrence for false accusation. Corruption is the major problem of this country., All the manufestos are good but it cannot be achieved with corruption. Thank u all

Wily1Wily: Yorubas are the most confused people in Nigeria, [b]nobody know[/b][/font] where this Siillly people belong, which gods created them sef?
[font=Lucida Sans Unicode]Thesame Yorubas that are question Amalgamation now[/b], [b]was the same Yoruba through their Afenifere begged North not to go her separate way when north said they are ready for separation[font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font].
yeye Yorubas why are you people angry any time you hear about Biafra, Niger Delta republic?. Oloooodddddooo people

This illiterate, watch ur grammer. U cannot write simple and correct english and u r abusing the most successful and educated region in Nigeria. Before u comment on Nairaland pls, let somebody dat is literate in ur family proof reads it first. If we can't get any in ur family at least one literate person in ur community should be found to do dat. OLODO THAT CALLS AN UPRIGHT PERSON OLODO IS D MAIN AND BABA OLODO. NONOSENCE

Le Ostrich:

you are a b@stard. how about the money that Fashola and the whole rogue ACN governors contributed to Tinibu's birthday?

Answer me! f00l!

u are a stupid pig and bastard. Do u think Yoruba state depends on ur insufficient crude oil? We av more than dat like overwhelming stuck fish in Ondo state, Crude oil and unprecedented bitumen deposit in Ondo and Ogun state and able, energetic & educated citizens not indolence and ilitrate people like u ostrich or what u call urself dat dominate ur so call oil rich region. NONSENSE

Abagworo: IMHO I think Jonathan can leave his foot prints in the sands of time by conducting a neutral free and fair election as an umpire and not aspirant. He can also leave a negative foot print by contesting and rigging again as done in 2011 but the difference is that the resultant crisis will wipe off a generation of Nigerian leaders. The army will definitely take over after a civil unrest which will be targeted at politicians and their friends. Infact if Jonathan declares he's contesting in 2015, I will relocate with my family to a safer country and watch the crisis on CNN and Al-Jazeera.

u are a comedian man. but to let u kno dat GEJ was massively voted for in the 2011 general election but disappointed the electorates. God should give us a chosen leader, AMEN

0lumide: How can we now prob Jonathan for coming on live TV to say MEND didn't do it even though they did?

Did all the Niger Delta violence make people saying "Buhari is a terrorist" not vote for Jonatha?

Why isn't Jonathan seen as a terrorist? Jonathan came openly to defend terrorists. Buhari never did anything of such.


We have put a secessionist in power. That is our problem. We have put a man who has no deep passion for Nigeria's success.

JONATHAN MUST GO!!!!

what brought about buhari now? what does he want to do if he assumes power? nonsense buhari syndrome. old fool. is it only buhari u an point out in nigeria? this tread ia about mend not buhari

pimp_lucious :
How silly Of President Jonathan To Go On His Knees At Redeemed Camp Again

I am watching Channels TV News@10 and the sight before me is highly disappointing!!!!!

After waving and smiling sheepishly to the crowd and delivering his score-card speech, the shoeless fool once again knelt down with all of his Presidential anointing in PUBLIC before Pastor Adeboye. VERY DISGUSTING!!!!!!

Does this man knows the implication of that singular action on the psyche of the 150M Nigerians, many of whom are muslims and men of other faith, whose sovereignty he holds for them in trust?

This man is truly very foolish and a clown

@ the poster, u r a big fool. U must definately be a muslim. U people u dont see what is good in christianity. For ur infomation he was not worshiping Pastor Adeboye but God. If u make gest of him dat he prays to the Lord in public God will definately curse u, ur entire family and ur generation as he did to d wife of David in d Holy Bible which made her d only barren in d bible. I'm not suprise at ur statement, u ppl were jubilating dat a christian Governor died to b replaced by muslim Governor in Kaduna. I'll also tell u dat u people pray in d national mosque and bow down to Ordinary Imam including all former muslim head of state. God will preserve GEJ. I am from Ondo state, I wonder why u hausa play politics along religion. We vote in my state for integrity not religion. I supported Aregbesola (muslim) for Osun state gov. Regardles his religion. Once again for mocking God. I curse ur life and ur generation unless u ask for forgiveness. Nonsense

ome pastors have gotten thier reward here on earth. God almighty will judge them. I am not so dogmatic

To the proponents of Buhari, are u telling Nigerians dat he's d only one dat can rule dis country successfully? If he does not present himself Nigeria cannot be transformed? Besides dat when he ruled dis country yrs back, he was overshadowed by his deputy, Babatunde Idiagbon. The credit and accolade of d administation if any should b shared with his deputy. Let me tell u dat we av more dan enough to rule dis country not him. To some comments above, what makes u convinced dat south west will vote for Buhari? I'm frm Ondo state and with d extremism attached to Buhari, if not for anything he will fail. Nigeria is a secular state which any religion can rule. We need a person dat does not av any stain in terms of religion at dis trying period. I want u to kno dat in every rumour there is an iota of truth. Likewise, Jonathan is a failure. I demand for a person like Fashola, Ribadu, OShiomole, Pat Utomi to rule dis state not old man dat has been rejected 3 times. because of d support frm d north he thinks he would b voted in south which prompted killing of d Innocent souls including corpers. If ur brother or sister was among those dat were killed u will not b suppporting those blood suckers. Nonsense. He said he had retired frm politics i dont kno what he still wants. He want to fulfill d obligation given to him frm Iran, Afganistan, .syria. He should quit politics