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i am not a GEJ fan and i totally agree with you, i think this useless entity should be divided, but as for this issue i still maintain that it is nothing new and the president has the right to appoint who ever he is comfortable with, here it is again-

yaradua president - north west
danbazau army chief - north west
ibrahim navy chief - north west

i also am from the northwest, now tell me i'm wrong

musiwa23: this is a preach of the nigeria law to appoint 2 igbo people as chief of army and navy... the law state they most appoint base on board of ethnicity..

and online research shows that Rear Admiral Joseph Ezeoba is from imo state and not delta state.. people are placing online comment about him coming from imo state and not delta state... people are placing comment that he is from imo state.. you may want to verify that information.

First of all Goodluck look like he is not ijaw... because i have done several online research and i cant find one video where Goodluck is speaking Ijaw.. Goodluck does not sound or speak as an ijawman, he speak like an igboman. his wife look like she is the one who is ijaw.. married to an ekpeye(igbo) . goodluck mother or grand mother is igbo.

so you have a president who is igbo.. and appoint chief of army as igbo. chief of navy as igbo. this is not acceptable under nigeria law.. because of broad of the ethnicity in nigeria.. the best is to drop one of the 2 chief of staff... to reflect what the law says. it is not fair to another nigerian.

yaradua (president) - katsina - north west

danbazau (COAS)- kano - north west

ibrahim (CNS) - kaduna - north west

its nothing new, next!!

^^^^ what is this one saying?

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^^^^ so go now, or una b cowards? na una get money, na una get COAS and CNS and even better na una get oga at the top, if una no do am now e go hard when the parasites take over o, and as una don show una sef for public, chai!! d tin no go sweet una at all o
parasites go suck una dry!!!!

hurray!! so when is the country coming, abi na only radio?

oga jona should just move d capital to PH or better yet, to yenagoa that way development will follow him

before nko, make una carry una oil and run run run if not we go chop am together as nigeria money

yeah so? danbazau and ishaya ibrahim (army and navy) during yardua were both from north west

dis people no go pity der broda/our oga at d top?

una wan give am heart attack ni?

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soon, God willing

0lumide: To ba ragba fun e, ko ni fun e n'iso.. Olodo akindani dani oshi.

Why my heritage be denied because you don't have a sophisticated mind?

Go and look at all my threads and posts on this forum if I was ever not Yoruba.


Why must every northerner be tantamount to Muslim in your head? Stupenditus!!

Omo Badagry toh bad nimi!!! Mi o kpe meji ninu ibu, Iyemoja o wa olode!

abi o my brother, these fools eyes will never open or maybe they are part of the agenda.
this is a writeup by a northern christian:-



Will Things Continue Like This?
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Mon, 01/04/2013 - 3:24am | SAM NDA-ISAIAH

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The Monday Column - Last Word

The new normal in Nigeria is very abnormal. In one single day recently, there were 52 different murders in different parts of the country. And, as far as I know, no one is being held to account for any of these murders. About a fortnight ago, more than 50 people were killed in a bus-stop in Kano in a single incident. A couple of days later, 24 people were killed in Plateau State in renewed violence, the following day, 13 more were killed in the same Plateau State. By weekend, the death toll in Plateau was about 100. Murders of one or two people are no longer reported in the news media because, according to one editor I once queried why a certain news item was missed, “only two people were killed.” Nigeria is losing its soul.

At issue is that our country is not being governed properly. The way President Jonathan currently governs the country is not how to run a country. There is no country in the world that is free of crime; it is the way an entity deals with crime that will determine the security situation of that entity. Crime flourishes in Nigeria for a reason and even a kindergarten pupil should know why. Crime flourishes in our country because there are no deterrents.

I was in Singapore a fortnight ago and over a single crime – which I am still not sure is codified as a crime in Nigeria – forty-five different people, many of them foreigners, were charged in court. Some were later discharged but many of those arrested are now headed for prison. They were all charged with the crime of engaging in sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old girl. Countries that are secure are always those, which by choice, are tough on crime. In Singapore, it is death sentence for arms trafficking. And arms trafficking is defined as being in possession of more than two firearms. In Nigeria, when was the last time anyone was charged with being in illegal possession of firearms? How many times have we heard the security agencies announce that they had impounded lorry loads or even ship loads of arms and ammunition and then the story just fizzles out? We must have all lost count. How many culprits have been arraigned in court for such offences and jailed since President Jonathan became president? Even the very few who were convicted before he became president are now being pardoned and even compensated.

We have heard of the “uncovering” of bomb making factories several times in the past and nothing eventually came out of it. Where is the attorney-general of this federation? Nobody, not even his detractors can question the credentials of the attorney-general, but why is he so incapacitated? No attorney-general can be this incompetent or absent-minded unless he is under a specific directive from the “Oga at the top” not to do anything. Nigerians are really confused. Nobody knows what is happening anymore. The police, SSS and all other security agents can arrest all the criminals in the world but as long as they are not tried and punished, they are wasting their time and ours. Even as I settle down to write this piece yesterday, several gunshots and explosions were being heard from different parts of Kano and these gunshots and explosions would continue and they will spread to other parts of the country if President Jonathan does not start running the country as any average leader should. Running a country should not be the rocket science that Jonathan is trying to make it unless there is something else many of us don’t know.

Apart from the apparent incapacity of the attorney-general and minister of justice who by the way is a successful lawyer and senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN) to boot, there are many other happenings that cannot just be explained. When the opposition merger appears to be moving smoothly and there appeared to be a brewing political alliance between the North and the South-West, we started hearing of the intention of Boko Haram to bomb Lagos. Some munitions were uncovered and as usual, we have not heard that any of those arrested would be arraigned in court. In any case, how can we expect anyone to be charged this time when no one has been charged in court for killing those professors who were murdered while worshipping in the university chapel at Bayero University, Kano last year and no one has been charged with the murder of General Muhammadu Shuwa in broad daylight in Maiduguri? And, by the way, what is this confusion about some would-be Lagos bombers being arrested in a property belonging to the Bayelsa State government in Lagos? Somebody has to clear the air as quickly as possible please because I don’t like what people are already saying.

It does not even appear that the president thinks there is a problem. All that preoccupies his mind these days is how to seek re-election and continue in Aso Rock beyond 2015. He certainly does not intend to run on his record because he has no record to run on. Is it not a cruel joke that the president intends to seek re-election when he cannot manage the elementary challenge of keeping the country safe from hoodlums? I do not know whether the president intends to rig the 2015 presidential election but if he intends to do so as many people believe, then he certainly does not know how gravely unpopular he has become. Any politician who is ready to rig elections with that kind of desperate unpopularity should also be ready to face the desperate consequences of such action. But the president is perfectly within his right to seek re-election and no one has any right to deprive him of those rights. The only right that the rest of us can exercise is to save our country from inexorable collapse by stopping him from continuing beyond 2015. And we must all exercise that power with everything that we have.

But between now and 2015, what’s going to happen to us? Are we going to continue like this? Who are those funding these murderers? And why is it so difficult to find this out? Are they fifth columnists or blacklegs? Or maybe they are just simply ghosts as the president himself would say. Why won’t the government start by making arms trafficking a capital offence and actually enforcing it? Or at the very least, why shouldn’t the government just start charging people in court today for being in illegal possession of firearms? And seriously, is there anything stopping the president? And what prevents President Jonathan from ordering the immediate arraignment of all those arrested in connection with the several murders in the land? Or, are we going to continue to rely on South Africa and the United Kingdom to deal with our criminals? The more one thinks of this, the more confused one gets. Certainly, things cannot continue like this.

http://www.leadership.ng/nga/columns/51259/2013/04/01/will_things_continue.html

@op we also need answers as to why they boko haram always seem to resurface with deadly force when ever the govt is in heat, like after the subsidy removal, subsidy report, and recently alams pardon after about 5 months of no bomb going off?

oya oya una leader don talk, bye bye and please dont send postcards

Yes blame buhari, he is the one stealing billions and pardoning criminals abi? I will not insult a sitting president like the mini monkey (elrufai) did but this okupe guy is really a scumbag

Will Things Continue Like This?
Mon, 01/04/2013 - 3:24am |

SAM NDA-ISAIAH


The new normal in Nigeria is very abnormal. In one single day recently, there were 52 different murders in different parts of the country. And, as far as I know, no one is being held to account for any of these murders. About a fortnight ago, more than 50 people were killed in a bus-stop in Kano in a single incident. A couple of days later, 24 people were killed in Plateau State in renewed violence, the following day, 13 more were killed in the same Plateau State. By weekend, the death toll in Plateau was about 100. Murders of one or two people are no longer reported in the news media because, according to one editor I once queried why a certain news item was missed, “only two people were killed.” Nigeria is losing its soul.

At issue is that our country is not being governed properly. The way President Jonathan currently governs the country is not how to run a country. There is no country in the world that is free of crime; it is the way an entity deals with crime that will determine the security situation of that entity. Crime flourishes in Nigeria for a reason and even a kindergarten pupil should know why. Crime flourishes in our country because there are no deterrents.

I was in Singapore a fortnight ago and over a single crime – which I am still not sure is codified as a crime in Nigeria – forty-five different people, many of them foreigners, were charged in court. Some were later discharged but many of those arrested are now headed for prison. They were all charged with the crime of engaging in sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old girl. Countries that are secure are always those, which by choice, are tough on crime. In Singapore, it is death sentence for arms trafficking. And arms trafficking is defined as being in possession of more than two firearms. In Nigeria, when was the last time anyone was charged with being in illegal possession of firearms? How many times have we heard the security agencies announce that they had impounded lorry loads or even ship loads of arms and ammunition and then the story just fizzles out? We must have all lost count. How many culprits have been arraigned in court for such offences and jailed since President Jonathan became president? Even the very few who were convicted before he became president are now being pardoned and even compensated.

We have heard of the “uncovering” of bomb making factories several times in the past and nothing eventually came out of it. Where is the attorney-general of this federation? Nobody, not even his detractors can question the credentials of the attorney-general, but why is he so incapacitated? No attorney-general can be this incompetent or absent-minded unless he is under a specific directive from the “Oga at the top” not to do anything. Nigerians are really confused. Nobody knows what is happening anymore. The police, SSS and all other security agents can arrest all the criminals in the world but as long as they are not tried and punished, they are wasting their time and ours. Even as I settle down to write this piece yesterday, several gunshots and explosions were being heard from different parts of Kano and these gunshots and explosions would continue and they will spread to other parts of the country if President Jonathan does not start running the country as any average leader should. Running a country should not be the rocket science that Jonathan is trying to make it unless there is something else many of us don’t know.

Apart from the apparent incapacity of the attorney-general and minister of justice who by the way is a successful lawyer and senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN) to boot, there are many other happenings that cannot just be explained. When the opposition merger appears to be moving smoothly and there appeared to be a brewing political alliance between the North and the South-West, we started hearing of the intention of Boko Haram to bomb Lagos. Some munitions were uncovered and as usual, we have not heard that any of those arrested would be arraigned in court. In any case, how can we expect anyone to be charged this time when no one has been charged in court for killing those professors who were murdered while worshipping in the university chapel at Bayero University, Kano last year and no one has been charged with the murder of General Muhammadu Shuwa in broad daylight in Maiduguri? And, by the way, what is this confusion about some would-be Lagos bombers being arrested in a property belonging to the Bayelsa State government in Lagos? Somebody has to clear the air as quickly as possible please because I don’t like what people are already saying.

It does not even appear that the president thinks there is a problem. All that preoccupies his mind these days is how to seek re-election and continue in Aso Rock beyond 2015. He certainly does not intend to run on his record because he has no record to run on. Is it not a cruel joke that the president intends to seek re-election when he cannot manage the elementary challenge of keeping the country safe from hoodlums? I do not know whether the president intends to rig the 2015 presidential election but if he intends to do so as many people believe, then he certainly does not know how gravely unpopular he has become. Any politician who is ready to rig elections with that kind of desperate unpopularity should also be ready to face the desperate consequences of such action. But the president is perfectly within his right to seek re-election and no one has any right to deprive him of those rights. The only right that the rest of us can exercise is to save our country from inexorable collapse by stopping him from continuing beyond 2015. And we must all exercise that power with everything that we have.

But between now and 2015, what’s going to happen to us? Are we going to continue like this? Who are those funding these murderers? And why is it so difficult to find this out? Are they fifth columnists or blacklegs? Or maybe they are just simply ghosts as the president himself would say. Why won’t the government start by making arms trafficking a capital offence and actually enforcing it? Or at the very least, why shouldn’t the government just start charging people in court today for being in illegal possession of firearms? And seriously, is there anything stopping the president? And what prevents President Jonathan from ordering the immediate arraignment of all those arrested in connection with the several murders in the land? Or, are we going to continue to rely on South Africa and the United Kingdom to deal with our criminals? The more one thinks of this, the more confused one gets. Certainly, things cannot continue like this.

It seems someone wants igbo population reduced. declare war abi? and wit person wey wan die, can u imagine?

Pray and work for peace and/or peaceful division, finish!

sunny t: GEJ will be a very wonderful poet, if he can remain quite for eva

[quote author=IGBO-SON]^^^The bolded caught my attention. Could you expand on that premise a bit?; why would some core northerners think the south is holding them back from reaching their full potential?[/quote]core northerner here and i support division, not SNC, not true federalism, just divide, and yes thats the sentiments all over the north (well except the few that have hands in stealin from the nations oil wealth)

as for potentials, nigeria b4 oil, which part was the economic power house, was the north not doing well?

[quote author=mıkefay]The write up was not clear but from the Youtube video , the police man said they got a call from poeple that some Nigerian were been beaten by the locals .they ruched To the location with four cars to help them and they asked them to vacate the area .The said deceased was taken to the police station to make a report and later he fell down and gaveup due to internal bleeding sustain from the beaten and he was taken to the hospital ,the rest is story ..................
from my own point , i used to live in malaysia ,i wont admit that all the people are bad and wicked but atlist 65 percent are racist and they have hate blacks expecially Nigerians . this is not a new thing to people living in Malaysia ; it happens every month , they kill Nigerians like chicken and the embassy dont do anything about it .Sometimes they even support the Malaysians and refuse to take any necessary action .
The Malaysian guys are found of this bad attitute and they often do it because they were been supported by their local police and people to kill Nigerians , sometimes i asked myself , if this people dont really like Nigerians why do they still give offer letter to study in their country .
Could you believe that dispite all this , Nigeria Government still sends thousands of Niger delta people every years to study in Malaysia , a country where the Government always report bad new and say bad thing about Nigeria.
Its very common in Malaysia , they raid Nigeria businesses ,set you up , and when they see you with their women, that will be another problem , Plaese, what are you still doing in that country they dont like you, no human right ,they hate blacks , no job ,the education is not that better than ours .[/quote]absolute bullocks, i lived in malaysia and they had no problem with us until nigerians decided to go and harm their people ok, i have been with malay, tamil, and chinese girls without any problems in every kind of public place (shopping malls as well as their traditional events) you push even a harmless lizard to the wall, it surely will fight back!!! people should check their criminal nature or stay home!!

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dozzybaba: As a southerner i have always maintained that regional passports should be introduced so the world can differentiate the boko haramic ones from the real nigerian homo sapiens. I will choose drug traffickers over blood-sucking almajiri bokoites anyday and i know the world would too

noted, i support you 100% no man should have to suffer for others behavior or lack of it.

you have my vote

[quote author=val_dee]The thing dey suprise me. To the extent of doing such about a dead man.

Regional passport indeed. The north will be worse off if that is implemented.

There is nothing worse than terrorism.[/quote]worse off? and why should you care?

as for terrorism the idea is to make people afraid right? google false flag and answer me this, why is it that the bokos almost always attack to distract people from govt blunders?

nwabobo: From your comment above, I can deduce that you are a Northerner. If passports should indicate regions, which region do you think will put security operatives at red alert?

I guess it's the one with the potential of being a terrorist ala Boko Haram. Next time, before you hit on the key board, think.

Cow

how many boko cases have you heard outside nigeria, heck even in nigeria lets talk outside the north?

other on the other hand take their criminality to other peoples lands

df2006: wtf regional passport why cant you be bold enough to ask for a brand new passport, and a new different country, different from the south ? No you won't!!! f.o.r.k.ing greedy b.a.s.t.a.r.d, your grandfathers fought for one nigeria and thats what you are going to get!!! a.s.s hole

when a president emerged from a region that have been asking for their country for a very long time, that was what i hoped will happen as it turns out, its all noise and if the breakup is to happen we have to wait for greedy northern leaders to be tired of milking your oil dry, as for me i soooooooooooooo look forward to the day the useless country breaks!!
my grannies didn't fight for one nigeria, and if they did, i am sure they wooped ur azzez

julioralph: Regional passport shebi?
Alright, @ least Idiots who portray us in a bad light ie (by hiding bombs in their underwear while attempting to enter the US) will be exposed!

hahahaha one case of a guy radicalized in uk, really!! thats ur argument?

chiover: typical Northerner ! Boko Haram Member ! Thanks for reveling your 72 virgin vermin infested self. As your celebrating his unfortunate death, yours shall be worst. Just one day all you boko haram people will be caught. St.upid Northerner with gworo gworo mouth. Do you think any good country will grant a Northern Nigerian Malam like you visa Ediot go to Somalia where your lots reign.

you must be joking, they deny northerners visa cos we share same passport as you, donkey!! i do not celebrate death but what i do know especially knowing malaysia is that if this guy is no criminal why would gang menbers kill him and not all the other black/africans living there? i'd rather be gworo gworo mouth than go all the way to other peoples country simply to destroy their lives!!

hey see ba! and achebe died of shock after the attack!!! eyya

see this fool, obviously your kind, legitimate business my arz!! fvckin criminals

AND YES RIGIONAL PASSPORT!!!