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oluamid: Read my initial post.

I just read your initial post again.
HIGHLIGHTING Buhari's role in Umaru Dikko's life is useful as part of EXAMINING the late politician's life.
Do you think that is inappropriate

esere826: yep. I agree with u.
Makes me think that The man Buhar might have emerged with the mindset that Nigeria was permanently at war with corruption

Little did he know that corruption'R'us

umhh
he was waging a war against the rest of Nigeria
...if only he knew the difference between corruption and stealing

Buhari was/is and remains an EPITOME of corruption himself despite his PRETENSE to be otherwise.
Have you wondered what money he used to fund THREE presidential elections with judicial battles at the Supreme Court each time with SAN lawyers who do not come cheap

Let us not forget the missing money when he was Minister/Commissioner for Petroleum in the 70s.

esere826: because we have Israelis in our East
Arabs in our North
and those that fell from the sky in our West

So we are extremely special beings
When we cry hard enough God will indeed come down to our rescue

All we need is to persevere in what we are doing
pray more and give more
and then sacrifice our brethens on the alter of religious and ethnic violence

das alllll

Nice sarcasm of our PATHETIC situation

oluamid: And berating Buhari will right all the wrongs with Nigeria?

And where did you get the above idea from

esere826: You answered well
However, hope you get the thrust of my argument
especially if for example you consider what the state of Israel is capable of doing and has done

The state of Israel is permanently at WAR with its Arab neighbours who continue to NOT recognise its existence.
I hope you can agree with me that this was definitely NOT the case with Umaru Dikko.

oluamid: Nigerians! Someone died and we found a way to politicize the issue, some are even berating Buhari. RIP to the dead.

The death of anyone should be an opportunity for those around him to EXAMINE his life for useful lessons from his acts of commission and omission.
That is the way a society makes PROGRESS. We should not continue to wobble & fumble hoping & praying to God to fix our continuously never ending mistakes.
God did not come down to fix other societies, why will he come down to fix ours

esere826: The US got into pakistan without the authorization of its government
and took out Osama extrajudicially

what's your take on this?

...just asking ooo

Osama bin Laden was a fugitive OUTLAW like those held sine die in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba by the Americans for more than 10 years now.
It is NOT comparable with a supposed case of provable corruption against Umaru Dikko.

I hope me sef don try to just answer you ooo.

ode remo: fact is we need to seize power and redeem ourselve as individual and a nation.as it is now our so called redeemer/politicians have carved out every inch of this country for themselves and the unborn. buhar/tinubu will fail likewise jonathan/sambo is one giant failure.
there was a country incubating as countries.

The highlighted is true.
Very true.
However there is ADEQUATE LEGITIMATE avenue to do that by INCREASING our participation in the electoral process as is done in those developed countries we are running to.
How many of us VOLUNTEER our time, money, efforts, skills, talents to a political candidate/party as is done in those places where we pray & fast for "breakthrough" visa to go there and get stuck doing work that is inferior to equally qualified longer-nosed fellow homo sapiens
Nor be magic oh, my brother

ode remo: what illegality are you on about. aint we all surounded by illegality of one sort or the other. we need to continuously challenge
wrongs in our society day in day out but successively we ve had illegality betowed on us by diff. govt., me not in support of buhari but he
is surely not the only vicious character. there is the chief archy of illegality still with us,obj. followed by his cousin in crime BABANGIDA and so on.

I agree with you largely hence Buhari should STOP portraying himself as a saint coming to save us as our redeemer.
He is NOT!

ode remo: and yet ppll ike you will come on here to praise the actions of other govt.
attymes serious decaying/rotten society req. such actions . imagine the isrealis didnt stand up to idi amin?
lets weigh our comments pls.

NOTHING justifies ILLEGALITY.
NOTHING.

If Buhari had a real case against him on corruption he should have followed procedures for extraditing him. Clearly he was out on VENGEANCE just as he was against Beko Kuti for criticising his government and locked up his brother Fela in prison on trumped up forex charges.
He is a HYPOCRITE through & through.
No doubt about that!!!

On July 5, 1984, he played the central role in the Dikko Affair; he was found drugged in a crate at Stansted Airport that was being claimed as Diplomatic Baggage, an apparent victim of a government sanctioned kidnapping. The crate’s destination was Lagos.

One of the signposts of General Muhamadu Buhari's dictatorial LAWLESSNESS that knew no international boundaries and was unmindful of diplomatic protocol.
Yet, the HYPOCRITE and ETHNO-RELIGIOUS bigot was whipping his fellow compatriots, like cows, into obeissance of his CLUELESSLY selective War Against Indiscipline (WAI).
There was a country

blacksta: Nonsense - open another thread to discuss.

My choice NOT yours

How many of their state residents have access to pipe-borne water in APC controlled states after 15 years in power as is the case of Lagos under Thief'nubu & Fashola despite an annual budget of N 500 billion

new2020: This is how close a tv should be stationed from the viewer. Why does our president have his television stationed a mile from his seat? He looks excited...what is he seeing from a mile?

The thing wey people wey get 20/20 vision fit see from that kain distance
Aided or unaided with medicated/recommended glasses/spectacles

What is this strike really about?
Can someone please break it down for me.
Thanks.

[quote author=prophet_one]Is it not the same senate that the beautiful Remi Tinubu accused of being partisan to the GJ's govt and was vilified for? After all he has clarified that stealing is not corruption so they are enjoying the fruits of a kleptocratic government.

Nigerians vote wisely next time.[/quote]Do you know if Remi Tinubu has been REFUNDING the excess illegitimate multi-million salary & allowances she also collects monthly while general workers are paid a miserable N 18,000 monthly
Let her do that first and stop being a HYPOCRITE.

MissMeiya: All you proved is the lengths America would go to to rescue their own.

After how many years
Have you heard the word- PATIENCE? Do uou understand its MEANING?
Was Jonathan's Op-Ed not about the "quiet efforts" being made by his administration to ensure the girls are released
Is that any different from what Obama's America did gor five years in the missing soldier's case
Again why do we have so much INFERIORITY complex & HATRED for ourselves?

MissMeiya: This is hilarious. So what is the federal government responsible for? Security? Oh, wait...

Yes as in Armed Forces, which gulped N 1 trillion (20%) of the N 5 trillion 2014 budget.
That is different from the Police force.
There is also the Immigration, Prisons, Foreign Affairs/Embassies, Universities etc.

Going through many comments here makes one wonder why WE Nigerians HATE OUR country and by extension OURSELVES so much
Is it not the same America of New York Times where this happened

US soldier held captive by Taliban in Afghanistan for nearly five years freed

Details from: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/05/31/wh-us-solider-held-in-afghanistan-bergdahl-is-released-after-five-years/

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America's President Barrack Hussein Obama had to release five hardened Taliban/Al Qaeda terrorists from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in order to secure the release of the one DESERTER soldier.
Can I hear someone say Goodluck America

Let us learn to APPRECIATE our country and our leaders' efforts in the face of daunting challenges.
If we do not then we open ourselves up to ABUSE and DISRESPECT as a collective by foreigners as in this NYT rebuke that does not in anyway positively contribute to resolving the issue it claims to address.

Onegai: You are defending a man who cannot provide you healthcare, education,

I think we should ALL be more conversant with the provisions of our constitution vis-à-vis the different but complementary RESPONSIBILITIES of the three tiers of government.
The states and LGAs are MORE directly responsible for the provision of healthcare:

- Primary Health Care (PHCs)
- General Hospitals

and education:

- Primary
- VOCATIONAL
- Secondary
- TECHNICAL
schools

So we should POINT OUR FINGERS at the appropriate quarters who receive billions every month for this purpose but do next-to-nothing except useless PROPAGANDA to confuse those who CHOOSE NOT to think DEEPLY ENOUGH

Was it not a few weeks/months ago that Okonjo Iweala revealed that Borno state receives more than ANY of the South East states and most south west states in 2013 yet the governor did not provide schools, PHCs and hospitals to generate employment and keep the youth busy so they are not attracted to BH.

Orlando Owoh: Parents and teachers in Osun State complain that the government withdrew the "opon imo" it gave to students in the state two weeks to the WAEC. Of what use were the "opon imo" when they were first shared, not to allow them to be used to prepare for examinations?

Aregbesola has been an all-round disappointment.
Unfortunately Tinubu could not replace him as OBJoke/PDP did with Mbadinuju in Anambra state 2003 that subsequently brought Ngige into our public space.

obayaya: Really?

I wasn't aware

if that's true, then ooni will get his pound of flesh

Thankfully Google is there to help us out:

Ooni to Tinubu: We stayed with our people when you ran away

THE Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, on Thursday, responded to a statement credited to the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu, that “there were three good traditional rulers in Yorubaland,” saying it was the traditional rulers in the South West that held their subjects together, giving room for people like him (Tinubu) to actualise his political ambition.

Oba Sijuwade said this on Thursday, while addressing the audience at a two-day conference of foremost traditional rulers in Osun State on the overall development of the state, in Osogbo.

The traditional ruler said he had to express his protest over the statement credited to Tinubu on behalf of the majority of Yoruba rulers in Nigeria.

According to Oba Sijuwade, Tinubu had forgotten that “when our country was upside down, it was the traditional rulers in this country that saved the situation. If we left the country as politicians did, there would have been no state for the leader of APC to rule when he came back.

“Two among the three obas mentioned by him were the best friends of the late military head of state, General Sani Abacha and among them, one was on the paylist of the late General and one lifted crude oil allocated to him by General Abacha. You can ask them, Abacha gave me money on more than one occasion, but I refused.

“And if you want to talk of the annulment of late Chief M.K.O. Abiola’s election, these two/three traditional rulers should be properly investigated, because they were neither here nor there,” the traditional ruler said.

He also used the medium to caution political leaders against unguarded and unfounded statements which had to do with traditional rulers, to always be sure of their facts before going public.

“If any of our leaders wants to make a categorical statement on an important issue like the Oba in Yorubaland, he should please try to check records to know exactly what each one of them has done, because there is so much blackmailing and, fortunately, the late Abacha’s Chief Security Officer (CSO) is alive and he is in a position to tell the world the obas who were close associates of his late boss,” Oba Sijuwade added.

More from: http://www.tribune.com.ng/news/top-stories/item/5358-ooni-to-tinubu-we-stayed-with-our-people-when-you-ran-away/5358-ooni-to-tinubu-we-stayed-with-our-people-when-you-ran-away

The court records in the US where Thief'nubu forfeited the drug money laundered in his bank account to the authorities clearly show what he was doing when he ran away from us

Bash92: Not only that Aregbe has been announcing on the radio since monday that all those that have been affected by the demolition of houses through out Osun state should come and collect compensation. They are really desperate not to lose Osun. Imagine some house were demolished as far as 2011 nd 2012 without any compensation rendering thousands of people homeless, now that the reality of Ekiti has dawn on them they are begin people to come and collect compensation.

Is this not financial inducement to influence the outcome of the election aka RIGGING

At least he will repatriate some of our stolen money before he is kicked out of Osogbo back to Lagos to resume worship of his godfather

Did he complete the MKO Airport yet
What about the $500 million i.e. over N 8 billion, which is more than two months allocation from Abuja that he CLAIMED to have spent setting up a "factory" to repair telephones

Meanwhile he owes more than eight months of the MISERABLE N8,000 stipend for graduates he "empowered" in O'YES
How did we, smart yorubas, end up with these progreThief Smooth Criminals as our leaders

obayaya: Senator Iyiola Omisore is a very popular man in Osun state!!! and He's Ooni's favourite politician

Did the SOLE PROPRIETOR of the defunct Association of Conmen in Nigeria, ACN that has now merged into Arewa People's Congress, APC not also abuse the Ooni and other yoruba traditional rulers in Ijebu Ode some months ago

ayukdaboss: Some of them go stil fail sef...mtscheww

Bad belle e nor good o.
E fit cause stomach ulcer plus cancer sef

We should be more worried about politicians and government officials RESPONSIBLE for the falling standard of education in PUBLIC schools IF they send their children to such expensive private schools with obviously stolen money as their LEGITIMATE salary cannot afford such.

All this attitude of:

Monkey dey work baboon dey chop must stop.

Let them pay the SE what is their due APPEARANCE fees already received from FIFA by the NFA.

This was the message I sent to Seun's nairaland email account on Monday, 23rd:

Dear Seun,

I hope all is well.
I noticed that the NL site has been down since yesterday. Any feedback about the situation? I hope it has not been hacked by saboteurs and it's just something technical that can be resolved soon.
All the best.

As the hours turned into days it became obvious that the site had been hacked by the ENEMIES of ENLIGHTENMENT who are promoters of PROPAGANDA. They have done their worst but we will continue to do our best to accelerate the ongoing PROGRESS of our dear country by encouraging the DEEPENING of our growing democracy through active contribution into national discourse on forums like NL.
I remain convinced that as always LIGHT will overwhelm their darkness no matter how long the night may last.

Thanks Seun for your courage and tenacity in continuing to provide this platform to enhance a fair & balanced debate of the issues in our nation, Nigeria!

bajeen: Do you know what certificate forgery means at all? SMH for you Insincere 9gerian

Have you seen the forged certificate
Is that what we are dealing with here or rather an allegation that her profile includes a CLAIM of having a degree that is NOT required for occupying her position nor for the performance of her duties.
It is noteworthy that she has done what a Professor, Babalola Aborishade could not do among other previous Aviation ministers.

Meanwhile she may want to borrow a leaf from the Superman of Bourdillon Road:

The Governor's Testimony

The Governor of Lagos State started his evidence by admitting full responsibility for some of the "needless errors," being pinpointed in recent publications and which formed the basis of the allegations against him.

The Governor told the Committee that as a result of the acrimonious primaries of the Alliance for Democracy in Lagos State and its attendant crisis, the information contained in both the INEC form land affidavit of loss of Certificates was supplied by one of his political aides, Senator Tokunbo Afikuyomi.

More from: http://nigeriaworld.com/focus/republic/lagosrelease.html

Meanwhile was this not ONE of the many allegations of forgery, fraud, forfeiture of drug money proceeds for which the Asiwaju of Area Boys sent his street urchin followers to do the needful of stoning the only Senior Advocate of the Masses, SAM late Gani Fawehinmi, SAN at the Igbosere courts

hbpeze: Obanikoro wey we no dey hear him voice....4 lagos...himcome dey talk nonsense....dey bring area boys 4 election

So we should ignore the message because of the messenger since it is about Angel Fashola's corruption. Not so

shymexx: Oh, you mean your FG is responsible for your medieval military with obsolete weapons? The same military that's grossly underfunded and that can't fight its way out of a paper bag? The same military that has been embarrassed by a ragtag terrorist group?

The Nigerian police that's more or less an underpaid vigilante group? The same clowns who don't understand the rudiments of policing, no?

What foreign affairs? Elections ridden with election frauds and malpractices?

And where are the railways, seaports and airports? You mean the smelly and primitive airport in Lagos? The non-existent railways and the 17th century locomotive trains?

Fam, just shut up!



I put it to you that based on what Fashola has achieved, he can become the Mayor of London. Heck, he's overqualified for the governor of New York - since Andrew Cuomo is utterly useless.

Seeing the childishness in your post, I guess it's time I take phantom's advice in his post just above yours.
Happy new year!

shymexx: I shouldn't even engage you because of your post pattern and moronic witch-hunting. You sound a sycophantic pseud, a political jobber and an an innately effeminate duffer with the colour schemes in your post.

So, who built the berths 1 to 4 at the Apapa quays?

Assuming it is true that the British built it during the colonial era, so you imagine they were playing Father Christmas to the natives in Nigeria, right
And BTW are those the only berths in Lagos ports

As usual I will ignore the ranting, abuse and insults so we can stay focused on the real issues and not join you in the gutter.

shymexx: Also, to set the records straight - the biggest seaports in Lagos - the berths 1 to 4 of Apapa Quays were built by the colonial government. That has nothing to do with your oil money nor Nigeria.

I thought someone who claims he is living in London would be smarter than what you wrote above.
Made a mistake