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FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
The biggest country in Africa that the United Kingdom colonized is Nigeria. The biggest country that the United Kingdom colonized in Asia is India (which then comprised the present Pakistan and Bangladesh).

When the UK came into Nigeria and India, like all other countries they colonized, they brought along their technology, religion (Christianity), and culture: names, dressing, food, and language, among others. Try as hard as the British did, India rejected the British religion, names, dressing, food, and even language, but they did not reject the British technology. Today, 80.5 per cent of Indians are Hindus; 13.4 per cent Muslims; 2.3 per cent Christians; 1.9 per cent Sikhs; 0.8 per cent Buddhists, among others. Hindi is the official language of the government of India, but English is used extensively in business and administration and has the status of a “subsidiary official language.” Interestingly, it is rare to find an Indian with an English name or dressed in suit.

On the other hand, Nigeria embraced, to a large extent, the British religion, British culture – names, dressing, foods, and language – but, ironically, rejected the British technology. The difference between the Nigerian and the Indian experiences is that while India is proud of its heritage, Nigeria takes little pride in its own heritage, a situation that has affected the nationalism of Nigerians and our development as a nation.

Before the advent of Christianity, the Arabs had brought Islam into Nigeria through the North. Islam also wiped away much of the culture of Northern Nigeria. Today, the North has only Sharia courts but no Customary courts. So from the North to the South of Nigeria, the Western World and the Eastern World have shaped our lives to be like theirs and we have lost much or all of our identity.

Long after the Whites and Arabs left Nigeria, Nigeria has waxed strong in religion to the extent that Nigerians now set up branches of their home-grown churches in Europe, the Americas, Asia and other African countries. Just like the Whites brought the gospel to us, Nigerians now take the gospel back to the Whites. In Islam, we are also very vibrant to the extent that if there is a blasphemous comment against Islam in Denmark or the US, even if there is no violent reaction in Saudi Arabia, the Islamic headquarters of the world, there will be loss of lives and destruction of property in Nigeria. If the United Arab Emirates, a country with 75 per cent Muslims, is erecting the tallest building in the world and encouraging the world to come and invest in its territory by providing a friendly environment, Boko Haram ensures that the economy of the North (and by extension that of Nigeria) is crippled with bombs and bullets unless every Nigerian converts to Boko Haram’s brand of Islam. We are indeed a very religious people.

Meanwhile, as we are building the biggest churches and mosques, the Indians, South Africans, Chinese, Europeans and Americans have taken over our key markets: telecoms, satellite TV, multinationals, banking, oil and gas, automobile, aviation, and hospitality industries among others.

Ironically, despite our exploits in religion, we are a people with little godliness, a people without scruples. It is rare to do business with a Nigerian pastor, deacon, knight, elder, brother, sister, imam, mullah, mallam, alhaji or alhaja without the person laying landmines of bribes and deception on your path. We call it PR, facilitation fee, processing fee, transport money, financial engineering, deal, or whatever. But if it does not change hands, no show. And when it is amassed, we say it is “God’s blessings.” Some people assume that sleaze is a problem of public functionaries, but the private sector seems to be worse than the public sector these days.

One would have assumed that the more churches and mosques that spring up in every nook and cranny of Nigeria, the higher the morals in our society. But it is not so. The situation is that the more religious we get, the baser we become. Our land never knew the type of bloodshed experienced from religious extremists, political desperadoes, ritual killers, armed robbers, kidnappers, internet scammers, university cultists, and lynch mobs. Life has become so cheap and brutish that everyday seems to be a bonanza.

We import petrol even when we have crude oil in abundance. We also import rice and beans that our land can produce in abundance. We even import toothpicks that primary school children can produce with little or no effort. Yet, we drive the best of cars and live in the best of edifices, visit the best places in the world for holidays and use the most expensive electronic and telecoms gadgets. It is now a sign of poverty for a Nigerian to ride a saloon car. Four-wheel drive vehicles are the in thing. Even government officials, who were known to use only Peugeot products as official cars as a sign of modesty, have upgraded to Toyota Prado as official vehicle without any iota of shame, in a country where about 70 per cent live below poverty line. Private jets have become as common as cars. A nation that imports toothpicks and pins flaunts wealth and wallows in ostentation at a time its children are trooping to Ghana, South Africa and the UK for university education and its sick people are running to India for treatment.

India produces automobile and exports it to the world. India’s medical care is second to none, with even Americans and Europeans travelling to the country for medical treatment. India has joined the nuclear powers nations. India has launched a successful mission to the moon. Yet bicycles and tricycles are common sights in India. But in Nigeria, only the wretched of the earth ride bicycles.

I have intentionally chosen to compare Nigeria with India rather than China, South Korea, Brazil, Malaysia, or Singapore, because of the similarities between India and Nigeria. But these countries were not as promising as Nigeria at the time of our independence.

Some would say that our undoing is our size: the 2012 United Nations estimate puts Nigeria’s population at 166,000 million, while India has a population of 1.2 billion. Some would blame it on the multiplicity of ethnic groups: we have 250 ethnic groups, India has more than 2,000. Some would hang it on the diversity in religion: we have two major religions — Christianity and Islam; but India has many. Some would say it is because we are young as an independent nation: we have 52 years of independence; India has 65 years. Apartheid ended in South Africa only in 1994.

I am a Christian, and nothing can change me from Christianity. But I think that our country is daily sinking into religiosity to the detriment of godliness. Our land is sick and needs healing. “If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land” is still a saying that is germane to our current situation. We need more godliness than religion; more work and less of hope; and more action and less of words.

Let everyone tidy up his or her corner first and demand fervently that our leaders tidy their areas of governance. Our nation is degenerating at a fast pace and we need to save it now or it may be too late.


This is food for thought for all of us. Have a great day!

I am quite amazed that Akpabio does not seem to know that there is a difference between "Endorsement" and "Election".

He has been parading an endorsement sheet as if that was what was used for an election he participated in. This goes to show the kind of people that have been saddled with leadership in Nigeria and explains why we are still where we are.

Flyboy Zee: Who is a nincompoop here?
The only nincompoop I can decipher right now is You. Who seems to be taking drugs and consulting Specialists and Consultants for another man's headache.
In case you didn't get it, let me re-iterate what he told you earlier. Face your LG and leave Rivers peeps to solve their own probs. Is it still not clear enough for you?

You've made it clear, you lack the capacity for logical, transparent and edifying thought process as you are still basic in your needs and only have primal instincts of sentimental reasoning. When you learn to rise above religion, LGA, tribe and blind belief, progress will surely come.

Please change the thread title, there is a difference between "BlackBerry Blaclisted" and "BlackBerry Blacklisting"!

What you clearly meant is "Blaclisting", so please change th thread title.

thelastPope: Once Amaechi leaves PDP in Rivers, his political career will simply die a natural death. You are drunk to think that Rivers people will support Amaechi over Jonathan. We are not interested in a second fiddle VP position and we have a way of dealing with traitors. You know absolutely noting about ND. Stick to your local government area my friend

In essence, you are saying ND people are driven by sentiments rather than a capacity to evaluate needs, desires and make a choice on who can deliver to them. That they'd rather be loyal to a nincompoop than select better candidates!

whoawa: Amaechi is nothing but a selfish politician, who thinks something cqn come out from nothing. A gud Governor can not put his state in a war against the presidency just for a selfish desire of being a VP. If he is man enough let him come out and vie for presidency then we will support him

It is docile and spineless goats that berate an elephant standing up to a lion while wondering where it's horns are.

The CP invites the Speaker for alleging threat of assassination because the statement has security implications.

The IG says Asari has no case to answer for threatening bloodshed and disintegration of Nigeria.

Are the two reading from the same law and constitution?

[quote author=justfree.]both on lappy and phone...by now e suppose don pass 40gig . Don't argue with me or even think it's a lie cuz you don't what i do online my speed is about 500kbps to 600kbps.[/quote]My guy, please share this secret with me. Let me enjoy the fullness of my Z10. Sent you an email already.

With the advent of Number Portability, one would expect that NCC would make regulations that make the process simple. While I concede that the process is working, but it is not efficient. The requirement to send the "PORT" SMS from the network one wants to Port away from is proving to be the clog in the wheel!

For lamost 3 days now, I have been trying to Port my 2 MTN lines away to Airtel, but all I keep getting is a failure as MTN network keeps reporting "Congestion"

Seeing as I am unable to Port away and migrate without this step, I am still stuck with MTN. What this implies is that a network could actually sabotage subscriber efforts to Port away by ensuring that the "PORT" to 3232 does not work.

Please NCC do something, abeg una!

reumat: u see all u have tought of is pin, still on d pinging mata. guy have u ever lay ur hand on andriod, it has more taste dan bb in all manas, d guy dat talk abt uc and opera does not knw wats up, am talking abt technology here, and if u must knw if ur knowledge is not up to u wont knw how to make use off does andriod apps, and if u want to compare d function of andriod apps to dat of bb, i guest bb is still a leaner, andriod offers much dan pinging try one and u will dump dat bb ur using bro

Banding words does not show you are knowledgeable as seen from your post above. Tell me what "technology" are you talking about in Android that is not available in the other mobile OSes? Android is just an Open platform thus developers flock to it and manufacturers don't have to pay license for it while the other OSes are owned by either Apple, Blackberry, Microsoft or Nokia. Or do you think that there is a different technology in Android that is not in Linux?

You see your ignorance, "Compare functions of Android app to that of BB", go ahead compare a word processing app in Android to a worksheet in BB.

If you think that Pinging is not important, sit back and ponder why Apple had to come up with iMessage or why WhatsApp is trending. Why we are at it, tell me something that Android offers that the BlackBerry does not offer, just tell me.

onye ego: What is it with RIM n 10
Z10
Q10
R10

or could it be that RIM understands that our BB girls can dribble better than messi who wears d no.10 jersey.

Read up pal, it is simply because this phone are based on the NEW BlackBerry OS 10.

oringo01: The big quetion is hw long can de batery last,every1 nw desribes me as dat guy dat is always carrying charger about.

My bros it is science and your knowledge that is at fault here. When your battery starts failing to hold charge, buy GENUINE batteries to replace the old one. Simple!

blink182: After using my gf Z10, I'm so happy with my 9860. This new piece of crap os lacks almost all essential software. Not even Opera mini is present or uc web or anything that makes sense in an age where jelly bean and ios 6 are on the prowl. What a shame.

It's a shame that you equate Opera Mini as a feature of an OS, my bros, it is just an app. And it is useful on the Old BB OS but the Z10 Browser is the best out there as of now. Go check out all the site where mobile browsers are reviewed.

You just complaining like a man coming from a beetle to an Accord and complaining that he has to put coolant in the car.

Imanuelle: Looks cool, but I'm tired of carrying my blackberry charger Every where , even to the toilet.


They should Behind blackberry batteries .

Datsall

Haba! Buy a new battery! BlackBerry uses REPLACEABLE batteries for that reason as ALL Lion batteries will at some point, fail to hold charge. Buy a new battery o!

visalo: Really our president is too flexible, that is why any tom and jerry can just stand up and speak rubbish any how. Amaechi should be thanking God that is dealing with a president who is still seeing him as a brother. wish am the president, by now Amaechi as governor of Rivers would have been an history, A story for our children to come. Amaechi political career have already ended.

The same reason why you are NOT suited for a demoncratic system and rather would vote and support a party/person without any clue what governance is all about. That ia why you accept anything that is thrown your way, you yourself have no clue!

v love: Spare Jona alone

AMECHI MUST ANSWER WHAT HE DID WITH RIVERS ALLOCATION THAT LED TO HIS BORROWING FROM BANKS, THE AIRCRAFT REGISTRATION,
AMECHI HAS FINISHED RIVERS PEOPLE, DAT THE NEXT GOVERNOR WILL BE SETTLING DEBTS ALL THRU HIS TENURE.

GOD HAS ARISEN TO DISGRACE THE THIEF

What did Jonathan do with the Oil Subsidy scam money? Or the vast amount of money that was left in the coffers by Yar'adua that he has to start borrowing from the Chinese?

PapaBrowne: When a President persecutes a Governor, it is sacrilege and desecration of our constitution.
But when a Governor does same to a Local Government Chairman, it is very alright.
Because Governors see themselves as what? Some kind superhuman?

Most of these Governors strangulate our development on the Local Government Level by preventing LGA elections in thier states.

I would be very happy for you to highlight how this Governor (Amaechi) had persecuted the certain LGA Chairman? Please I would appreciate it that you humour me , and the vast majority, that would not know HOW thios persecution has taking place so that we can juxtapose it with what bis currently going on.

Billyonaire: You are a newbie. I am sure you are still on your political pampers. Always keep mom where and when the elders are discussing.

Typical ramblings of clueless individuals. You were fast to trash Amaechi and now the cat got your tongue.

ldpele: it beats my imagine when u cn mke such statement,south south will object nominations of ameachi,a big YES,and if i may ask who will vote him? ikwerre or eleme or which.he doesnt even av d vote of his ikwerre brothr,he ll b seen as a saboteur,trust me

I thought he just won a 2nd term? Who voted for him during that election, was it the Yorubas, Hausas and Ibos?

[quote author=Mr. Globe]Lol. I thought Amaechi does not recognize the Felix Obuah exco and the 48 hours ultimatum. Lol. He just prevented the fastrack of his political downfall with the press release.

Anyway we don't believe the explanation. Their has to be some form of contractual documentation between Rivers state and Bank of Utah which this statement failed to address[/quote]I believe you are learned enough to know that the press release is in relation to the grounding of the aircraft rather than to the Obuah 48-hour ultimatum.

Billyonaire: This issue is a PDP issue and borders ONLY on RIVERS STATE. If you are neither in PDP nor a Rivers indigene, steer clear and let this issue be handled by PDP and Rivers people. Consult with your own Governor and make sure the Federal Allocation is used wisely and NOT for purchase of "Private" Jets to fly to NOWHERE but burials, child dedications, Party Carnivals and naming ceremonies with debts transferred on the Tax Payers of Rivers State.

What had GEJ done with the fleet of 10 Presidential Jets? I want to bet he used them to commision the 2nd Niger Bridge, the newly re-surfaced Lagos-Ibadan expressway, the 5,000MW Nuclear Power Plant, the East-West Road?

Please tell me which jet took him to all those wantom waste of money trips or junkets he embarks on.

Erhuvwu1: Ears that refuse to heed advise, is cut off with d head at the appropriate time. I hope all those hailing Rotimi now, will stick with him when d chips are down. Can u imagine a local govt Chairman challenging Rotimi?, he would be crushed. Only last week d Chairman of Obi/Okpor lga was brazenly removed by the state's house of assembly over some trump up charges and Rotimi hurriedly swore in one of his stooges. Rotimi's attitude is an affront to the peoples of the south south, a show of arrogance by the north and a manifestation of d usual bigotry of d west. He is now d darling of d west and north because he is fighting Goodluck. The leaders of d south south should call him to order asap. Those beating d drum for him, have no regard for him, all they want is a fall guy dat will derail d president nd dey hv found it in Amaechi. Which sane person from d same region with a sitting president would want to run as a vp candidate?. Sincerely speaking, Amaechi is going mad.

Thank God you said the Chairman was removed by the Rivers State House of Assembly. Tell me, does the RVHA have that right or not? Or should there not be a Chairman for that LGa until that particular guy was returned back to power?

You are seemingly not addressing this properly. Notice the difference between Ameachi's method and your GEJ's clueless method? One is legally binding while the other is morally reprehensible.

deletrue: But, how come that Amaechi is so forgetful? Or has he failed to realise the enormous powers of the president? I have very strong believe that he ( Ameachi ) is destiny to go down shamefully since he is a very proud individual unless he turns back immediately and appeal for forgiveness from jona.
Or let us see how arrogancy will help him this time.

The same enormous power of the president that was deployed against him in his 1st term right.
Well, he still became a Governor despite that enormous might, and he did win a 2nd term as well.

taharqa: You are not very wise, @Ndu-Chuks. You just displayd an overwhelming jolt of IGNORANCE over basic Public Finance, and you did that most confidently.

What do you think Nigerians (through the Importers) use to buy these commodities from abroad? They use their azz, perhaps?? If you do not know that the Means of Exchange in International Trade is HARD CURRENCY, in this case, DOLLARS; and that these importers buy their goods from their International Suppliers with DOLLARS that they get from the Exchange (Money) Market, then you ought to humbly SHUT your mouth. You also probably do not know that it is the Central Bank that controls most of the Dollar sales on the Money Exchange, and that it is from the Central Bank's Component of the Foreign Reserves that the Central Bank mostly gets the Dollars it sells to buyers on the Exchange bi-weekly. If the Demand of Dollars by buyers (in this case, Importers) increases, the rate at which the Central Bank Component of the Reserves also gets depleted; and vice versa. This is one of the ways Foreign Reserves around the world increases or deceases. This is Public Finance 101.

Now, if the money spent on Importation decreases SHARPLY in a year (thank God you didnt attempt to dispute that)- meaning DOLLARS demanded by the importers to buy these goods decreases concomittedly- what do you think would happened to the Foreign Reserves??

CLUE: The Reserves increased from about $32billion to $43billion in 2012.

Dont ever make the MISTAKE of been a DUNCE on a thread and still quoting me. You would get BURNED, bad. You ought to know that by now.

So by your reasoning, importers spend the Foreign reserves without paying or reimbursement to the FGN.

You CANNOT save what you did not budget for! Since FGN did not budget for this importation, how then did they save the money / funds?

The right thing to say is that importation REDUCED, but definitely not saved from the FGN perspective.

You also claimed that dollar demand reduced, can you show where that was displayed? In 2012, the dollar rose from 158 to 160, so if there was less demand on the dollar, where commeth the increase in exchange rate? All this voodoo maths / claims that GEJ and his government keep dishing out, one day, it would all come unraveling.

dirifred: The obvious in this write-up is the motive. you dont give such statement without comparism from what was obtainable before hand,if the report gave comparism it will be showing GEJ in good light,thats why it carefully avoided fact like
1 the susidy scam as been on for decades no administration checked it,
2 police curruption was higher than it is today
3 looting in public office was higher in all the prevous administrations
4 the legal system is more independent now than ever before and so on

all these leads me to see holes in the writeup, so i want to agree with all the nairalanders that fualt the report, its pure gabbage

I am not sure where you got the things you are using as your basis, but let me clarify a little for you:

1. Fuel Subsidy: The highest subsidy payment during OBJ was N250B, Yar'Adua: N320B then Goodluck N1,272B; Tell me how this data supports your claim.

2. Police Corruption: Do show me which indices indicate that police corruption is on the decrease! In your village, or along your village roads?

3. Public Office Corruption: Things have never been this baaad! Mehn, it is so bad that it is now even done openly and even with a sense of deja vu. For comparison the NA earnings is on the increase, constituency project allowance has been jacked up, Oil bunkering is at its highest, some are getting paid 4 times a corpers earnings as militants. Does this show reduction in official corruption?

4. Independence of the Judiciary: The judiciary has remained where it has always being except I can cite instances of GEJ manipulation, Ayo Salami's case comes to mind. In fact, the NJC has only become more politicised under GEJ than any other government.

So my friend, when you spew forth things, do ensure that the facts and realities are there to back them up.

thelastPope: This is not exactly correct. Blackberry uses a compression technique to save data but this does not apply to every Internet function in BB. It applies mainly to chat and email. Now with BB10, the BBM has been separated from the other Internet access. The reason BB still saves data is because the applications don't access the Internet like droid apps. If you control your data access in droid, you can achieve the same data efficiency.

Also, with BB10, blackberry phones will consume data just like any droid phones. The reason it is still cool in Nigeria is because most Nigerians mainly do chat and email. By the time you start downloading badazz apps and doing regular updates and playing online games, you go know say kaki no be leather.

BB is already going the way of the dinosaurs and BB10 was a very weak attempt at come back. Whatsapp is certainly about to send bbm to oblivion. BB's days are numbered.

SO since WhatsApp is also available on the iPhone, I suppoose it would also send the iMessaging to oblivion and by extension the iPhone too?

Yes, the reason the old BlackBerries are cool in Nigeria is because of the data allowance and their cheaper associated cost, are you implyuing that given the same situation, a Smart Alec like you would prefer to pay more for a service than pay less?

BB going the way of the dinosaurs??, Mehn, the BB10 sold more in the first week than HTC One, is HTC on its way to oblivion?

Do ponder on these things I have raised.

Billyonaire: Lets look at the brighter side. Witches and Wizards love GEJ, The God of MOG Adeboye, loves GEJ. Who God, the gods and the witches love, no one can stop him. Vote this great icon of humility, this great man that once had no shoes. He knows the pains of the poor, and will not evict the poor from their homes and share the plots of land, unlike ACN compatriots.

Are you by any chance implying that the Witches and Witches are in the same camp with the God of MOG Adeboye? Please clarify quick quick.

The only thing I can correlate this to, happened in history.

Once there was a vote on who to save, the association of Witches and Witches picked someone else in the coutyard of Pntius Pilate. Is there any wonder they seem to always be against anyone trying to bring succour to the people?

aieromon: Wheelchair on the ground. . .

Olodo, it is Wilshere!

naptu2: In some countries such as Iran, the military engages in commercial ventures. This has also been the case in Nigeria for a while now.

The Nigerian Army manufactures drugs, is involved in real estate and civil engineering business.

The Nigerian Navy is also involved in real estate business.

The Defence Industries Corporation (DICON) was involved in salt making.

Etc.

However, the question is, can the NAF effectively and efficiently run an airline?

Do NOT spread falsehood. The Iranian military/Airforce does NOT engage in commercial transportation.

That most pilots in the Iranian airline operations were former pilots in the Iranian Airforce is not the same as engaging in commercial transportation.

torhuke: Shut d Bleep up. No one asked u to come teach any1 how to post here or how to use whteva. If u don't get d messgae, waka pass make others see front and stop living in that melancholic and opprobrious atention seeking mad life.. Ttchhhew!

Not to worry, it's your choice to make, you can take the admonition and learn to improve OR you can continue in your ways and perish. Your choice.

torhuke: What abati Just said is the bitter truth. Leadership newspaper has been wriing unsubstantiated articles and no one hounded them.......

torhuke if I quote your entire response, it would be a disservice to educated folks. Please go and MODIFY your post, use the following: Punctuations, Paragraphs and sections. (Do google them to understand their meanings and use)