₦airaland Forum

jamace:
OBJ thinks he is smart but GEJ is smarter,

Old generation sense Vs new generation wayo.

But in this their battle of wits it is the grass (Nigerians) that is suffering... It really is not amusing to me at all fa...

gboss4sure:
When I tell Nigerians that they have no idea whats happening in this country, they think they are damn too informed, when i see the elites use them (even the most educated) to play ludo like tinibu and obj is currently doing, i just shake my head in total regrets.

Well said! The majority of Nigerians rooting for one politician or the other, are blind to the actual realities and chess game that shrouds our country's politics. The unending power play that has besotted the country's Politics makes governing with integrity an uphill task. Cabals and political Jingoists are the banes of our democracy!

9jii:
Another Post from Babies Factory.

Maybe and maybe not...only time will tell

crazysaint:
I doubt this questions!

What exactly is/are your doubts, is it as to whether Pres. Jonathan actually did ask them or Is it the veracity of the questions themselves that you doubt?

If it is the first, I'd simply say this is Nigeria and there are scarcely any secrets that last long before they are blown wide open...so definitely, with time the intricate details of the "secret meeting" will all be out in the open....

If it is the second, I'd just allow for you to employ your own objective assessment...

DWJOBScom:
i agree infact totally but i try to stay "causally" objective - you know what i mean

Yea, I do understand your point and also agree we must access everything we observe with open minds...the intrigues of politics could be misleading atimes

DWJOBScom:
i don't believe this

what goes on in Nigerian Politics is more than meets the eyes of the casual observer or distant commentator...

10 QUESTIONS JONATHAN ASKED OBASANJO:

These are the 10 questions from GEJ at the
mother of all meetings with OBJ, witnessed
by Papa Adeboye and Bishop Oyedepo.
Matters arising: Tell the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth.
Do read and draw your own conclusions:
1. Did you or did you not admit to me that
you knew Yar Adua was terminally ill and
that he would die in office?
2. Did you not promise that I have all of your
backing, until I discovered that you were
aiding and abetting sabotage against my
government?
3. Why did you say "genocide and human
rights my foot?" That I must go and totally
wipe out the entire areas affected by the boko
haram, irrespective of the civilian
population in those areas, adding that it was
being used as a political weapon by the
northern power block to come back to power?
Why did you ask me to forget about the
constitution and enforce a "total state of
emergency?"
4. Did you not insist that I drop Sambo for
Sule Lamido as a condition for your
support?
5. Did you not or did you not advise that I
stop the IPPIS and Aquila which have been
used to flush out ghost workers from the civil
service, adding that it was going to
"frustrate" the boys and turn them against me?
6. Did you not tell me that this country,
whether we like it or not, belongs to those
people, and that all the expiring oil licenses
must be put before them on the table again
without any conditions?
7. How many times did you call me "you this
Ijaw boy?" And then you will say "you
think you can transform Nigeria by building
railways and reviving agriculture abi?"
8. Why did you call me to express your
displeasure over the exposure of Buhari's
educational background and arranged
ascendancy in the military?
9. That was when you assured me that Buhari
was also terminally ill with very bad
prostrate cancer and that you have it on good
authority that he won't make it for much
longer?
10. But you severally assured me that you'd
give me a free hand to run the
government, not so?...

N/B:
Copied from A nairalander (Francon)'s Post.

I was in church this Evening when these lines came to my heart and I wrote them down as they came.
I hope you enjoy reading them and get encouraged by them too.

CODES
:


When God is your all
You fear no fall
When you trust in His love,
You are rich enough



When Christ is all your hope
You’ll never grope
When you live for Him,
Your joy will brim



When faith is your shield
Yours’ the battle field
When you choose to believe,
In peace you’ll live



When wisdom is your guide
Your path will glide
When you live to learn
Your tongue’s a pen



When all you can give is you
He says that’ll do
When you are all so weak
He says it’s you I seek

Rareantagonist:
Ebola is truly a disease.

It is indeed. The fear must be the fact that it has travelled across continents with quite some ease. Perhaps getting a permanent vaccine might be the way out...

A Spanish nurse who treated an Ebola
victim in Madrid is thought to be the
first person to have contracted the
virus outside Africa, health officials
say.
The nurse tested positive for Ebola in
initial tests and doctors are awaiting final
results, according to reports.
She was part of the team that treated
Spanish priest Manuel Garcia Viejo, who
died of Ebola on 25 September.
Some 3,400 people have died in the
outbreak - mostly in West Africa.

The priest died in the hospital Carlos III
de Madrid after catching Ebola in Sierra
Leone.
The nurse was admitted to hospital on
Monday morning with a high fever,
Spanish newspaper El Pais said.
Doctors isolated the emergency
treatment room, the report said.
Ebola spreads through contact with the
bodily fluids of someone who has the
virus and the only way to stop an
outbreak is to isolate those who are
infected.
There have been nearly 7,500 confirmed
infections worldwide, with officials saying
the figure is likely to be much higher in
reality.
Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia have
been hardest hit.
Celebrations in West Africa for the
Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha are being
badly affected by the Ebola outbreak,
with many public places deserted this
weekend.
Earlier health officials said people arriving in the US from Ebola-affected countries in West Africa could be subject to extra screening at airports.
It comes as the US tries to limit the
spread of its first confirmed case, a
Liberian in Dallas.

A Spanish nurse who treated an Ebola
victim in Madrid is thought to be the
first person to have contracted the
virus outside Africa, health officials
say.
The nurse tested positive for Ebola in
initial tests and doctors are awaiting final
results, according to reports.
She was part of the team that treated
Spanish priest Manuel Garcia Viejo, who
died of Ebola on 25 September.
Some 3,400 people have died in the
outbreak - mostly in West Africa.

The priest died in the hospital Carlos III
de Madrid after catching Ebola in Sierra
Leone.
The nurse was admitted to hospital on
Monday morning with a high fever,
Spanish newspaper El Pais said.
Doctors isolated the emergency
treatment room, the report said.
Ebola spreads through contact with the
bodily fluids of someone who has the
virus and the only way to stop an
outbreak is to isolate those who are
infected.
There have been nearly 7,500 confirmed
infections worldwide, with officials saying
the figure is likely to be much higher in
reality.
Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia have
been hardest hit.
Celebrations in West Africa for the
Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha are being
badly affected by the Ebola outbreak,
with many public places deserted this
weekend.
Earlier health officials said people arriving in the US from Ebola-affected countries in West Africa could be subject to extra screening at airports.
It comes as the US tries to limit the
spread of its first confirmed case, a
Liberian in Dallas.

Soure: www.bbc.co.uk

donpeey22:
lolzz..sweetie, you can believe whatever makes you feel better...it doesn't change the reality on ground, I hope it won't be too late when it dawns on you that the world has been suffering from limited supply of the male species since the days of john the baptist.

Well perhaps you are right. Afterall in the true sense of who a man is supposed to be, not very many stand to be included.
I mean it's not just about having broad shoulders, a baritone voice, or contributing towards the increase in population.

spotit:
if they did nothing and actually stayed lounging through office, then there just will be enough hope to start well when they're eventually removed by 'God'. (cos it seems that no human effort can fix bad leadership in Nigeria) But the main trouble is that they have choice personal investments everywhere else apart from Nigeria where they're looting the coffers dry. so when the right people come, the society would start afresh on...a deficit!

I indeed agree with you that we need a change (by God's hand) but I wonder: is there enough resevoir of good leaders?
Are these good ones willing and confident enough to come out and confront the challenges?


As for running the country on deficit, the weight of that reality and its effect would come to full light if by chance our 'famed reserve' of crude oil were to get exhausted (I really do hope that doesnt happen). I mean we apparently have no other alternative right now.

Jbravo58:
Awon omo nigeria eleyi gidi gan!!! (This types of Nigerians are tough o..!!!) Na only them dem make dis planet earth for? make dem dey do small small.

Which type exactly do you mean?

Sophyrocks:
Exactly. The bolded is our problem. Very few rich population getting richer and the larger poor population getting poorer.

Very true and sad.
I fear to think that the aging population in our country is already lost as regards genuine efforts towards human development. Majority of the youth are not well informed or simply don't care. We are in dire need of true leaders....

spotit:
yes everyone is concerned and agrees with your second paragraph about the backwardness of black african leaders when it comes to building adequate and durable infrastructure for their societies. myself, i shudder to state openly what i think about nigeria...

And to think that these statistics are available for our leaders to read yet they are doing next to nothing is really disheartening.... We need help!!!

spotit:
then he should use percentage instead. u can't say approximately 300m and even go ahead to say it's like packing all of the US into arizona. that's being so confident and sure. approximately in this case is supposed to mean 290m, plus/minus 10m; when nigeria in reality is just almost half of or slightly above half the US population. somebody needs to stop using figures loosely when presenting 'facts' about a people.

I quite understand and agree with your point about the use of percentage instead of actual figures.
About the description that used Nevada, Arizona etc., I think it is just expressing the difference in land mass between the two countries.

But my concern however is that the explosive growth in population is not matched by an even distribution of the country's vast resources, leaving a good majority almost impoverished.

Sophyrocks:
Truly, the survey is right when it deduced we would explode in 2050. How will the dividends of democracy spread evenly when the population is exploding at this rate? unemployment is very high. If it means adopting the chinese means of birth control to control it, then so be it. I am afraid we have a long way to go as Africans before enforcing such. Our mentality is still low. Polygamists and people who naturally love big families would be difficult to convince. Well, our growing population will soon become a nuisance to us o.

Quite true! The religous inclinations too have a massive role to play since polygamy (which is more or less a command in some quaters) has contributed a major part. As you rightly pointed too the average Nigerian would frown at the idea of limited number of child births. Infact some still think having plenty children is a neccesary 'gamble'. But I think our greatest problem is the uneven distribution of wealth and the large gulf between the rich and the poor...

spotit:
what kind of stüpid tale is this? how is Nigeria 300m people?

The post doesn't say nigeria has a population of 300 million people but that the population has grown by approximately that figure. This is puting into perspective all of the births and deaths within the stated period....I hope the statement is less ambigous now?

Sophyrocks:
This is a reason why Nigeria has become very difficult to govern. OUR POPULATION IS JUST TOOO MUCH. How will unemployment rate be managed? Yet u will see more and more couples giving birth to so many childen inspite of the fact that they cannot cater for them.

As for the population of males and females, i wonder by people, males in particular, have refused to take the result of the census. Is it that the result can no longer afford them to practise polygamy anyhow they like or it has prevented some of them the opportunity of taunting single ladies with their national anthem of 7 women to 1 man. LOL. THEIR EGO IS ALWAYS BRUISED WHEN THEY HEAR THE CENSUS. They forget that the preference of male children over female will result to more males than females. If they keep going this way, we will have 7 males to 1 female. I love it.

Indeed the sociocultural prejudice that favours the clamour for male children in our country may indeed suggest why the male population edges that of females...and true to your observation, the observable geometric increase in population without a commensurate improvement in human development gives genuine cause for concern.
I hope we don't get to a point where we have to go the way of china in terms of birth control.

Mayydayy:
the land of great tales.Nigeria.

Indeed. A land of great people too. You know one in every five African (and all blacks) in the world is a Nigerian.

NIGERIAN POPULATION FACTS (Mythbuster: Males have the edge)


Nigeria, officially known as the Federal
Republic of Nigeria, is a country that is
located on the western coast of Africa.
The country features 36 states and its
Federal Capital Territory, which is known
as Abuja.

****The country of Nigeria features
over five hundred different ethnic groups,
many different languages.

****Nigeria Population 2014 last collected in 2012 by the Nigeria National Bureau of Statistics, the total population of citizens in Nigeria was around 166.2 million people. Today, it is estimated to have 178,571,721 people.

****Back in 1960, when the country declared
its independence from the United Kingdom, the country recorded an
estimated 45.2 million people. The recent population statistics constitutes a change of about 268% between the year 1960 and the year 2012.

****The entire population of Nigeria
accounts for about 2.5% of the entire
earth’s population.

****This technically means
that 1 out of every 43 people in the world
call Nigeria their home.

****The population of Nigeria is expected to pass the US by 2045.

****In the past 25 years, the rate of Nigeria’s population has grown approximately by 300 million people, a population figure that is quite similar to the United States currently.

****Nigeria, since 1960, has grown to be the sixth most populated area in the world and that is saying a lot given the size of the country itself ( imagine the entire population of the United States living in a territory the size of Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico – that is Nigeria and because of this, a lot of the living standards in the country are beginning to fall).

****Nigeria, since 1960, has grown to be the sixth most populated area in the world.


****The life expectancy in Nigeria is,
unfortunately, the lowest in all of West
Africa. For both men and women, the life
expectancy is around 47 years of age
according to the Nigeria Center for
Disease Control.


****The split between the males
and the females in Nigeria are quite even.
Men take the edge in numbers, but not
by much.

****There are, according to
estimates, about 1.04 males to every 1
female in the country.


**** When it comes to the average of a
Nigerian citizen, the country is relatively
young. For both males and females, the
median age of the country is actually 19
years of age.


**** Most Nigerian Muslims are Sunni
and are located in the northern parts of
the country while the Christian
population is located mainly in the middle and the southern areas of the country.


****A study in 2009 stated that 50.4% of the population was Muslim while the rest
were Christian. About 1.4% of the
population practices other faith.


**** The United Nations project that the
overall population of Nigeria will reach
about 390 million by the end of the year
2050.


**** However, according to the Census Bureau of the United States, the population of Nigeria will reach 402 million people by the year 2050.

****With those numbers, Nigeria will become the fourth most populated country in the entire world by 2050.

****The country's population is estimated to hit 1billion by the year 2070 at the current growth rate.


excerpts from: www.worldpopulationreview.com/