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This conviction is coupled with a growing realization that little or nothing is being done by us, the victims, of our mostly self inflicted problems to salvage our future which is in dire jeopardy.
The most obvious problem is the serious leadership deficit in the North which became magnified before and after the 2011 general elections. There is almost a general consensus that Northerners who were at the helms of affairs in the country for several decades did little to better the life of ordinary people in the region in terms of provision of healthcare, education and other infrastructure, direction of useful investments and creation of economic opportunities for the population. The leaders are seen to have enriched themselves and their cronies while using an adept mixture of religion and ethnicity to keep people subjugated in the shackles of illiteracy, ignorance, poverty, and misery.

Jakumo:
Anyone who thinks they can order their driver to bulldoze through an ARMED checkpoint will certainly get a quick lesson in terminal ballistics, and then that person die in spectacular fashion .

When troops are drafted ANYWHERE, they are on a hair-trigger, and will open fire at the slightest suspicion elicited by passers-by or vehicles.

The man who just died from his bullet wounds was afflicted with African Big-Manism, coupled with a severe case of Man-Pass-Manism, which was also further compounded by acute infections of  "Do you know who I am ?"

Personally, I fell NO pity for that ignorant and arrogant muffuguh, but if his death serves as a lesson to other Big Men who think they are too cool for school, then it was all for a good cause.

One of my regrets is that the civil service, I’m sorry to say, which we met was not the civil service which we left behind. And if you talk to some of the civil servants there today, they would tell you that things have changed. The civil service of today has become more of service to self than being the service to the state.

Binkalette:
Other parties too can be national spread if YOU VOTE FOR THEM.
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nagoma:
@Logic Mind

Spot on! You are right. Perhaps there is no parasitic situation , just commensals in a symbiotic relationship or the so called parasite may even be a saprophyte feeding on necrotic tissue. The only way to find out for sure is to severe the relationship and the alleged parasite is asking for that. By the way it appears to the aggressive advocates for resouce control/ separation  are hesitating. They don't seem to. Be too sure any more. Why is the agitation waning a d dwindling?NORTH FOR NORTHERNERS AND SOUTH FOR SOUTHERNERS.

Gbawe:
What a mad clown. I know you are obsessed with following me around but try not to make it so obvious. If there are a million responses, mine will be the only one anyone can bet you will respond to because it is the opinion that sends you scurrying around in fear. It is entirely natural to fear those who 'own' you daily because they are always right while you, invariably, are always wrong. Leaving you looking like a fool and discredited hack, who always gets it wrong, is not difficult to achieve given that you don't have much upstairs and cannot think efficiently.

In case your dull brain has not comprehended what is going on, it is Dokubo-Asari and yourself ( by blind and feudalistic followership) showing zero comprehensions of the tenets of democracy. Democracy still remains a game of numbers no President can emerge without the support of other major ethnic groups - especially not when divisiveness, ethnic jingoism and feudalism is the tool of choice "his people" feel will carry the day for them. You have been exposed as no better than Dokubo-Asari i.e a crass feudalist and uncouth local champion. You are simply a waste of time.  A d.un.ce can never be educated. You , like Dokubo-Asari, lack even the most basic of sophistication and are , disrobed of all window-dressing, a charlatan and empty barrel.

Gbawe:
You can peddle this tired, offensive and discredited generalisation all you want. That still does not change the fact that democracy is a game of numbers. The bridge-builders in the SE who truly understand the 'game' (Ken Nnamani, Soludo, Okorocha et al) will be shaking their head at the harmful feudalism, uneccessary tension and enmity the likes of Dokubo-Asari are creating. They will be wondering why these people go looking for trouble for the SE and SS when that is unhelpful in the grand scheme of things. They will wonder why these destructive "amateurs" are doing this and drawing battle lines in the sand daily when, for all the tension brewing, this is the last thing the Nation needs.

I don't even know what to say to this display of feudalistic naivete and childishness. I can only assume Dokubo-Asari et al are getting carried away , Aondoakaa-style, with their 15 minutes of fame to not note what is very obvious i.e (1) power is transient and (2) to lead Nigeria, you need to carry most along (especially other major ethnic groups) not battle them to a standstill and, without need or provocation, insult and bait them daily while outrightly treating them as enemies. This is either the dumbest thing I have ever seen or a strategy to ensure Nigeria breaks up because I think some realise they have handled themselves badly and blown future chances. Going on the offensive pugnaciously , to ruin things for everyone, may be an option for them.

eGuerrilla:
I saw that.
Question is, what happens if the source is traced to a friendly country (or countries) as opposed to designated rogue states like Iran and North Korea?

[size=14pt]U.S. cyber counterattack: Bomb 'em one way or the other[/size]
National Cyber Response Coordination Group establishing proper response to cyberattacks
By Ellen Messmer, Network World
February 08, 2007 12:06 PM ET

San Francisco — If the United States found itself under a major cyberattack aimed at undermining the nation’s critical information infrastructure, the Department of Defense is prepared, based on the authority of the president, to launch a cyber counterattack or an actual bombing of an attack source.

The primary group responsible for analyzing the need for any cyber counterstrike is the National Cyber Response Coordination Group (NCRCG). The three key members of the NCRCG, who hail from the US-CERT computer-readiness team, the Department of Justice and the Defense Department, this week described how they would seek to coordinate a national response in the event of a major cyber-event from a known attacker.

This week’s massive but unsuccessful denial-of-service (DoS) attack on the Internet’s root DNS, which targeted military and other networks, did not rise to the level of requiring response, but made the possibility of a massive Internet collapse more real than theoretical. Had the attack been successful there may have been a cyber counterstrike from the United States, said Mark Hall, director of the international information assurance program for the Defense Department and the Defense Department co-chair to the NCRCG, who spoke on the topic of cyber-response during the RSA Conference here.

“We have to be able to respond,” Hall said. “We need to be in a coordinated response.”

He noted that the Defense Department networks, subject to millions of probes each day, has “the biggest target on its back.”

But a smooth cyber-response remains a work in progress. The NCRCG’s three co-chairs acknowledge it’s not simple coordinating communications and information-gathering across government and industry even in the best of circumstances, much less if a significant portion of the Internet or traditional voice communications were suddenly struck down. But they asserted the NCRCG is “ready to stand up” to confront a catastrophic cyber-event to defend the country.

“We’re working with key vendors to bring the right talent together for a mitigation strategy,” said Jerry Dixon, deputy director for operations for the National Cyber Security Division at US-CERT. “We recognize much infrastructure is operated by the private sector.” The U.S. government has conducted cyber war games in its CyberStorm exercise last year and is planning a second one.

The third NCRCG co-chair, Christopher Painter, principal deputy chief at the Justice Department, said the cyber-response group also seeks to communicate with 50 countries around the world where monitoring for massive cybersecurity events go on as well. “Some of them have some of the same communications issues we have here,” he noted.

The Department of Homeland Security’s National Response Plan calls for coordination with a number of agencies, including the Department of Treasury, when the decision for a national response is made. So far, there has been no major cybersecurity event against the United States that has prompted the need for a national response.

The massive DoS attack attempt against the Internet’s root-servers this week, which specifically targeted military networks, raises the question whether the United States would ever respond with a counterattack.

“It’s the President’s call,” said Hall said, pointing out the recommendation for a counterattack would be passed to the chief executive via the U.S. Strategic Command in Omaha.

In the event of a massive cyberattack against the country that was perceived as originating from a foreign source, the United States would consider launching a counterattack or bombing the source of the cyberattack, Hall said. But he noted the preferred route would be warning the source to shut down the attack before a military response.

All the military services are preparing for military cyber-response, Hall pointed out.

Jim Collins, R& engineer at the Air Force Information Operations Center, who also spoke on the need for network defense at a session at the RSA Conference, said the Air force is also gearing up for an offensive cyber capability.

“The Air Force hasn’t just been standing by,” he said, noting that in November, the Air Force added the mission to fight in cyberspace by creating a new Cyber Command.

“We’re standing up cyber-fighters to do network warfare,” Collins said. “Where we had pilots before, we’ll have fighters in cyberspace.”

[size=14pt]Attacks[/size]
[edit] October 21, 2002

On October 21, 2002 an attack lasting for approximately one hour was targeted at all 13 DNS root name servers.[1]

This event was the first significant attack directed at disabling the Internet itself instead of specific websites.[citation needed] This was the second significant failure of the root nameservers. The first caused the failure of seven machines in April 1997 due to a technical problem.[2]
[edit] February 6, 2007

On February 6, 2007 an attack began at 10 AM UTC and lasted twenty-four hours. At least two of the root servers (G-ROOT and L-ROOT) reportedly suffered badly while two others (F-ROOT and M-ROOT) experienced heavy traffic. The latter largely contained the damage by distributing requests to other root server instances with anycast addressing. ICANN published a formal analysis shortly after the event.[3]

Due to a lack of detail, speculation about the incident proliferated in the press until details were released.[4]

On February 8, 2007 it was announced by Network World that: "If the United States found itself under a major cyberattack aimed at undermining the nation's critical information infrastructure, the Department of Defense is prepared, based on the authority of the President, to launch [, ] an actual bombing of an attack source or a cyber counterattack."[5]

GAR3TH:
Makoko existed but it was a small fishing village with a harbor, you cant compare makoko of 18th or 19th century to the one today. Second like I said, makoko was built by the private sector illegally, and was neglected by the same private sector not the government. Its not a case of wickedness but rather a case of responsibility and order. The government is not responsible for makoko, as a matter of fact makoko shouldn't even be around. I'm caring and I always donate and voluntary to help the needy but in order to maintain order and efficiency in a society, you have to follow town planning and zoning laws and regulations. 

Da infamous:
To be honest i have respect for white people they really use their heads well well,i was watching a documentary about this scientist that invented submarine, what happen was one day he was looking at one particular fish in his fish tank and the fish was standing still not moving an inch, he keep sterling at the fish,from their he started assuming the force behind the gravity that keep the fish still and straight in the water from their he got the idea of inventing a machine that moves under water without detection.

I wish we have leaders like that in Nigeria,by now the country will be so beautiful and rich to the point that Nigerian people will not want to live their country for anywere,

GAR3TH:
Makoko was not created by the government nor was it acknowledged by them. If you look at a zoning map you are not going to see makoko. if you look at districts plans there is no Makoko, Why?  Because its is an illegal settlement built illegally by individuals of the private sector.

Its not a case of providing security but rather a case of not rewarding people for doing illegal things.

OAM4J:
^na wa for you o beaf?

We are not talking about Japan or other countries that have shortages of land here. We have not even finished developing the landed area, you want Government to develop residential areas on top of water? Excuse me! This is still a developing country!

Even if Government should commit resources and develop the area, do you think the people currently living there will be able to afford it? Ask the former occupants of Maroko.

OAM4J:
People need to understand the complexity of Makoko.

Makoko is not and cannot be a residential area. It was a fishing harbor yeas ago before poverty made people turn into residential area.

Note, we are talking about an area where people live on top of water. There is no way development can go to such area as it is impossible to provide road, hospital or school on top of water.

The only solution to Makoko is to move out and rehabilitate the people living there, and you will agree with me that even the FG can not do that overnight, cos we are talking about several thousands of people. But it will happen sooner or later, government cannot/shouldn't allow people to live continuously like that, the present challenge is how to deal with the alternative cost.

Makoko is a slum neighborhood located in Lagos, Nigeria. At present its population is considered to be 85,840; however, the area was not officially counted as part of the 2007 census and the population today is considered to be much higher.[1] Established in the 18th century primarily as a fishing village, much of Makoko rests in structures constructed on stilts above Lagos Lagoon.[1][2] Today the area is essentially self-governing with a very limited government presence in the community and local security being provided by area boys.[3]

Johndoe100:
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