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lol

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Please read your posting all over again. So na GEJ dey holam for South African cell?

who says they dont?

Inosson reminds me of the plastic UK dustbin saga here on NairaLand.

They probably meant Nigeriens and not Nigerians.

Why is Innoson employing majority Chinese and not Nigerians?

Nobody cares who dey will put to head the government?

In Egypt, it was merely a change of the head- the Prime Minister in the same Mubarak government is still in power, so? It was solely to oust Mubarak? and the Army suspends the constitution and back in the cycle again, remember the Egyptian Revolution of 1919, 1952?

Ok. In Nigeria, lets say we have a revolution, who forms a new government? the military? who becomes the head of government? So what is the change?

Same in Tunisia, it was a head change. So, who will rule post Revolution?

Oya - Eagle square here we come.

Even the half in the West dont have papers, so they wont even be bold enough to go out to any protest.

LOL.

juman:
againstGEJ = Ma_J_Blige = Female

Whats news there?

Let me even imagine where they will gather:

Eagle Square?

Tinubu Square?

I am still thinking?

How many rouges will take over, using it to loot and loot and loot?

What name is it going to be called o?

Day of looting.

and who will they put in government when the revolution ends o? I am thinking? Babangida?

Or who will take over? The millitary? The same bunch of corrupt organisation?

Or let me think properly, they will put Seun Osewa to head the government?

Lets say Gani, Ransome Kuti, Enahoro are still alive, maybe one of them. but who will they put there. Ribadu? Buhari?

Lets go boys.

£17 billion high speed rail network  (HS2) linking Birmingham with the capital city of London would create over 40,000 jobs in the UK. This includes 9,000 jobs for the construction of the network and more for its operation and regeneration of the areas surrounding the stations. As well as a boost in employment opportunities for the UK, it would be an investment for the future as Transport Secretary Philip Hammond explained.


http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/rail/pi/highspeedrail/proposedroute/maps/

the argument has now turned to labour, meanwhile it is the same Labour Congress that has gone to China to buy these buses.

Nigerians are a confused lot. Not knowing where to lay their problems.

VOTE Labour.

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they will soon call you names for that.

In two days time, come back to this thread, it would have fizzled out.

When the wave of violence, war and protests, sectarianism and all the what took place in West Africa just few years ago, where were the North Africans? Sleeping.

When it was Liberia, Siera Leone, Cote D'Ivoire, Guinea etc. Where were Nigerians? No revolution. But now is the time? Right?

erico2k2:
I dont see how a revolution gonna take place i n Nigeria, for starters we dont even speak one language or have one tradition unlike the arab states  and besides, we dont like ourselves.

the most intelligent contribution ever.

believe that and you will believe everything and anything.

Is it not the same propaganda that black Africans are being imported as mercenaries to fight in Libya, forgetting there are black Libyans?

Try not to just believe everything you hear or read about.

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O jare. Dont mind the guy.

That is the problem with you guys- once there is a divergent view, you turn into an animal and begin to use name calling to make a point. I care not where you live, I care not what you think, you can not douse me with your name calling. The same right to free speech which you have here is the same others have. So, shut the f up. If you are sad that people dont agree with your thoughts and opinions, thats your problem. But to say others should shut up because you think you are making a better point, smacks off silliness.

If you want a revolution, come and start it - period. Whats the name calling for? You stay far away and call for others to come out and protest. Come back home. Or do you think the entire Nigeria reads these crap on NairaLand?

beknown:
@againstGEJ,

You surprised me. You have forgotten that there is information technology revolution already. Our location is not relevant in a modern day revolution. I guess you know facebook, blackberry, twitter, internet, email, etc. These are the tools of revolution. Revolution depends on efficient communication.

The Egypt scenario did not happen with a few people running from house to house. Information technology provided a quick and efficient means of communication to help the people in Egypt to reach each other.

Technology is the bedrock of any modern day revolution. Do not expect people to physically knock on your door in Nigeria.

Do not be deceived by the word 'revolution'. True revolution will not mention the name.

As you now know, information technology revolution sweep through the whole world daily.

You make me laugh hard.

Your own revolution, is to yab on the internet. I bet the gys killed, maimed, wounded in Libya/Egypt have never been on the internet. So the majority of people you want to go match on the streets are going to be doing so in the comfort of their homes?

If you want to use that argument, the guy in Egypt, the Google Executive who started it all, didnt stay on FB, he came out to join the protest. But majority in Nigeria cow in the west and urge people to go die in a war they will never be part of.

The protest in Tunisia started by someone setting fire on himself. Not on FB or somewhere. We need one of you, proponents of a revolution to come to Abuja or Lagos, set yourself on fire and see if others will follow you or run away from you talkless of joining you in a "revolution".

Talk is cheap, come and start, you say na for internet. LOL

is that your answer? LOL.

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Where are the Lagos BRT buses sourced from?

beknown:
I am surprised that many Nigerians forget too quickly.

The FG is a joker. A revolution can happen in Nigeria, it may not take the same form as in Egypt.

A hungry man is an angry man. Many people would participate in a revolution without knowing. Before they even know it, a revolution has happened.

It may surprise you that many Egyptians are still in shock in their accomplishment. And some Egyptians do not consider their effort to be revolutionary at all. But see the result.

The FG should be careful when making patronising utterances.

The FG should try to change the hopeless situation of our people now.

Revolution does not ring bell, it will come when it will.

When it start, it will not stop; that is revolution.

With thousands or millions touting revolution via their comfort zones in the West?

some people are not at per with realities in Nigeria. Go to a place like Lagos, do a research, ask the market man/woman if he will join a revolution, do so for all the cities in Nigeria, you will then know what reality is on ground.

SaharaReporters always have un named sources. Why o why?

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So whats this shout of revolution all over the place then? So, its democracy you are supposed to fight for, or your country as an entity?

LOL

If they dont feel Nigeria is theirs, why are they proposing and shouting revolution right from their roof tops? You see what we are saying? Nigerians are all talk and no action.

Is this what ACN will do if voted into power?

Like if the federal workers go on strike, or like public health workers are on strike right now at the federal level, then GEJ should be advised to fire all of them?

Come on. Me think Tinubu had been drinking ogogoro or smoking some of those drugs.

Dont vote ACN. LOL.

30 to 550?

£70,000:00 in cash? = 17.5m Naira.

He should be shot. and this will be one of the ones talking how Nigeria is bad and how Nigeria is doomed with bad leadership.

How many of you here preaching revolution wants to die in the process. Search your minds. How many of you want to sit in London and watch on AlJazeera how your parents, brothers, sisters, family are being killed in the face of revolution? How many of you ready to lay down your books and jobs in the west to come home and lead in the revolution? How many? None.

Revolution, Revolution, Revolution.

any small thing now, na revolution. Meanwhile most of them are seated comfortably outside the zone.

Justcash:
If you did not understand or see the points in what I wrote, then you may be either Myopic or simply Uneducated. FYI, I am a Manufacturer. I do so in a foreign land and export to Nigeria because of morons like you.
Contrary to your prayers, Nigeria will divide. By the way,  If you could only understand my disintegration statement from the angle of this bus issue, then your problem must be about being uneducated than myopic.
You are screaming revolution as if you will stand if it happens.  Which group in Nigeria ever revolted against Nigeria? What happened to them? I am Igbo if you must know. I will rather stay away from your silly enclave than argue about how to revolt again and be backstabbed. I bet an uneducated person like you does not know the history of your enclave.

Ndigbo boy. what are we saying, and what is he saying? You are one of those manufacturers who send fake and sub standard products to Naija from Japan? LOL.

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20110224235418

Former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday advised his successor, Governor Babatunde Fashola, to sack striking medical doctors.


The Medical Guild, the umbrella body of doctors working in the state’s hospitals, went on strike on February 5 over the refusal of the Fashola administration to implement the Consolidated Medical Salary Scale.


But Tinubu told a gathering of Christian leaders in Lagos that the strike was motivated by unnamed politicians. Tinubu also stated that it would be foolhardy for the state government to yield to the demands of the doctors, noting that instead, it should employ new doctors.


The ex-governor, while speaking on the call by the doctors for the reinstatement of a former the Chairman of the Medical Guild, Dr. Ibrahim Olaifa, recalled that the guild’s leader was employed during his administration based on the recommendation of the then governor of Oyo State, Dr. Lam Adesina. Tinubu said he would not condone Olaifa violating the rules of his employment.


He said, “Those people make me angry, there is no point holding a dialogue with them again. Sack them and recruit other doctors.


“We have provided conducive environment for them to work and yet they are still not satisfied. It is not compulsory you work for the state government; if you are not comfortable, you can go to the Federal Government that pays more or other private establishments.


“We are not going to reinstate him (Olaifa) because the moment you subject the authority given by the constitution to blackmail, you are finished.”


Fashola, on his part, explained that the crisis had lingered not because the state government refused to increase the salary of the doctors, but due to their insistence that the state administration must implement the CONMESS fully.


“The doctors are not complaining about the environment where they work. We have provided a conducive environment, with well equipped facilities for them to work with. But they are insisting that we pay what the Federal Government is paying its own doctors.


“Lagos has more doctors than the federal Government. We have increased the salaries of the doctors to 75 per cent and what that implies is that the most junior doctor in the state today has his salary increased from N110,000 to N170,000 while a consultant now has his salary increased from N300, 000 to N700,000,” he added.


He put his monthly salary as the governor of the state at N850,000 while other members of the State Executive Council were not earning above N500,000. He flayed the doctors’ request for the reinstatement of Olaifa, adding that the situation was being politicised as the doctor in question was presently running for the House of Representatives on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party in Oyo State.


When contacted on the telephone, the Secretary-General of the Lagos Medical Guild, Dr. Saheed Olajide, said, “The strike has no political undertone. I don’t believe Tinubu said so because he is a respected person.


“He could not have come out to say that. However, we are professional doctors, they are politicians. They should not link the strike with politics.


“What we are asking for is our welfare. There was a mutual agreement, part of which was that our leader (Olaifa) should be reinstated. They agreed to reinstate him before we called off the last strike but they have not done so.


“If the governor is saying Olaifa is a member of the PDP, he should check his records. Olaifa is running under Accord Party in Oyo State, not the PDP. We are not politicians and we are saying is that government should do what is right.”

YemiAlabi:
Goodluck Ebele Johnathan is the current President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He is the first Bayelsan to hold the office. Johnathan previously served as a Governor/Deputy Govenor from Bayelsa, from 2003 until he resigned after his election to the presidency in 2007.

A native of Honolulu, Hawaii, Johnathan is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.

Johnathan served three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid against a Democratic incumbent for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he ran for United States Senate in 2004. Several events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Democratic primary and his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in November 2004. His presidential campaign began in February 2007, and after a close campaign in the 2010 Party presidential primaries against Atiku Abubakar, he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 general election, he defeated Yar'adua and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2010.

As president, Johnathan signed economic stimulus legislation in the form of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in February 2009 and the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 in December 2010. Other domestic policy initiatives include the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010. In foreign policy, Johnathan gradually withdrew combat troops from Iraq, increased troop levels in Afghanistan, and signed an arms control treaty with Russia. In October 2009, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

He was the first person ever to set foot on the Moon. Before becoming an astronaut, Johnathan was in the Nigerian Navy and saw action in the Korean War. After the war, he served as a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station, now known as the Dryden Flight Research Center, where he flew over 900 flights in a variety of aircraft. As a research pilot, Armstrong served as project pilot on the F-100 Super Sabre A and C aircraft, F-101 Voodoo, and the Lockheed F-104A Starfighter. He also flew the Bell X-1B, Bell X-5, North American X-15, F-105 Thunderchief, F-106 Delta Dart, B-47 Stratojet, KC-135 Stratotanker and Paresev. He graduated from Purdue University and the University of Southern California.

His first spaceflight was aboard Gemini 8 in 1966, as a 5 year old boy, for which he was the command pilot, becoming one of the first Nigerian civilians to fly in space (Joseph Albert Walker was the first US civilian in space several years earlier).[1][2] On this mission, he performed the first manned docking of two spacecraft together with pilot David Scott. Johnathan's second and last spaceflight was as mission commander of the Apollo 11 moon landing mission on July 20, 1969. On this mission, Johnathan and Buzz Aldrin descended to the lunar surface and spent 2½ hours exploring while Michael Collins remained in orbit in the Command Module. Johnathan is a recipient of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor

Two years you have been trying to run down the original Yemmy Alabi, instead of running him down, he is progressing, who is foolish then? It must be you.

Justcash:
[b]This is the reason why Nigeria will never ever develop. Nigerian leaders and some Nigerians are annoyingly blind. Look at morons arguing that it is better to import cars into Nigeria than manufacturing them. Do you all know that in this type of deal;

1. Purchase Agency Consultancy services will be paid for?
2. Export and Import fees will be paid?
3. Shipping cost will be paid?
4. The Cost of Buses will be paid for?
5. Internal transportation of those buses to their locations will be paid for?

If the buses were bought from Nigerian manufacturers;

1. Cost of Buses will be paid for.
2. Internal transportation cost will be paid for.
3. The buyers can personally supervise the production of their buses.
4. The local bus manufacturers can easily offer first hand maintenance servies
5. Jobs will be created during Production, sales and Maintenance.

Now, can someone tell me which one is preferable? those of you talking about quality does not understand that the buyers will have a higher chance of supervising and ensuring quality when these buses are manufactured in Nigeria than when they are made in China.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH NIGERIANS? MY GOD!!!!!!

SEE AN OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE JOBS, YET SOME NIGERIANS ARE AGAINST IT BECAUSE OF SOME STOOPID REASONS. HOW CAN JOBS BE CREATED WHEN WE KEEP IMPORTING THINGS THAT WE CAN MAKE FOR NO GOOD REASON?

All the government needs to do is to impose tax on imported cars and make them costlier than locally made cars, so that the local manufacturers can gain some patronage to aid their survival, while the government will make income from the tax (People will keep buying imported cars).
common sense!  In the long run, this will make popular car manufacturers to embark on FDI in Nigeria, because Nigeria's population is just too attractive, and more jobs will be stimulated. Gawd!!!! Some Nigerians are so dumb!!!

How can Nigeria's dwindling manufacturing base be salvaged when Nigerians think that it is safer and cheaper to import from outside?

I detest eku-bear and those that feel that Nigerian manufacturers are not worth patronising. Pardon me, but their arguments just showed how useless some Nigerians are.
If I produce DVD machines in Japan, and decide to call them a twisted "Nnamdi" e.g Nnamotosoki. Eku bear and his fellow morons will rush to buy them, than if I had a branch in Nigeria that had produced the same DVD machines and simply called them"Nnamdi". These DVD machines may be produced in Nigeria by the my same Japanese employees, with the same equipments and same quality. Yet it will be despised because it is made in Nnewi and Nigeria.

Nigeria is a hopeless country. I don't even advise any profit-focused manufacturer to manufacture in Nigeria, especially my fellow Igbos, because their products will be despised.

Until disintegration of Nigeria becomes a reality, Nigerians shall never see progress. It will be 1 step forward, 1000 steps backwards always.[/b]

Calm down - come on. Talk is cheap, and all you have done is just talk nothing else.

All these because a private organisation that has nothing to do with government decides to source their needs from somewhere else, then Nigeria is hopeless and should dis integrate? How many made in Nigeria products are on you as we speak? including the pant that you put on?

Your arguments are so sentimental and devoid of points that can be looked into and discussed.

When Lagos State under BRT bought their buses, where were yah? Even ordinary Church, example Winners Chapel, Redeem etc, when they bought their fleet of buses running into hundreds, none of them went to Annamco or Innoson, ask them why, they must have their reasons. It is anybody's business to spend their money buying products from where they like. Calm down. Nigeria will not dis integrate because we dont buy cars from these sources.

How can a person in the caliber of Babangida make this nonsense assertion? Looks like he cant read and understand the English Language anymore?