₦airaland Forum

doyin13:
I mean come on. . . The issue isn't the quality of the Nigerian Press.

The issue is the incompetence of GEJ and his team.

So you see a story thats an obvious invention of the press and thats not the issue? Whats happening to morality? How low can one go, because they lost elections?

See how these terrorists strike their targets at will. From tomorrow, you will see the National Security Adviser summoning meetings of security chiefs, you will see them blocking all the exit and entry points in and out of Abuja, yet simple intelligence have been failing them

This is 100% Nigerian English, its not better than what one would hear in a carpenters workshop. What "diplomatic source" uses such poor English? And when did "diplomatic sources" begin giving clandestine interviews to the press?

The Nigerian press is 3rd rate at best.

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I don't think we lack people who really want to practicalise their solutions. The biggest problem they face is fellow Nigerians and the cynical "shoot your neighbour down" attitude (I've personally been shot down over and over). We need to be able to forge some sort front to overcome such people and take our nation to the height it belongs.

Fayimora:
Without electricity, do you think Studying computer science would be easy? You need ELECTRICITY and AFAIK, when electricity is fixed in that country, a lot would fall into place!

Anyways you should remember that UK is over 200 yrs old, lol and Nigeria is just about 50 ryt?

I know I emphasised that we do things to suit our culture perspective. That perspective should also include our peculiar circumstances, so we could easily replace your mention of electricity with solar energy. All we need do is find innovative ways to look within and we will find that all the answers are freely around us. The sad thing is that the UK is also ahead of us in consumption of solar energy, which should not be.

jason123:
Beaf, don't you think its belittling? He could have used his body language to communicate this instead of saying it publicly. Assuming you are part of the working class n your boss tells you to obey a guy that is in your level in the same department. I am sure you'll not like that. The same is applicable here.

Not at all, rather its about team spirit as bossinie pointed out earlier. I don't see what all the spin and storm is about GEJ's orders to his ministers; being a non-leading member of a team is only a challenge to those who don't have service to the people topmost in their hearts.

This hoopla raised about the order is just more of the usual rubbish from the usual anti-GEJ brigade, Gbawe is their thin-legged chief priest. Why have we never heard the same from the Senate? After all there are several committee's, and sub-committee's, all of which have leaders. Why don't other Senators feel belittled, or is it something specific to Ministers?

Gbawe:
In this day and age, should this argument be tenable at all? I.e that a President who promised a "transformational team" , for a very troubled Nation, has actually delivered a bunch of Barracudas who are more interested in looting and "sponsoring their political ambition". This is why some of us argue that everything about GEJ is back to front and retrogressive. in a Nation with many superb administrators why is it still AGIPs and mediocrities becoming Ministers when GEJ is touted as "fresh air"?

All the rigmarole still brings us back to same spot and argument i.e Jonathan , if a focused leader, should not have put together a bunch of AGIPs or allowed them to be forced on him only so he then has the job of trying to subordinate them ,with ungracious and administratively outlandish threats, under a colleague with the same rank.

Of course he should allow the ministers run independent republics or better still, come to you to you and the rampant Aregbesola's plaguing the land for leprous advice. Lol!
The President has issued his orders, those who don't like it are the usual jealous spectators.

I wonder what Eric Schmidt would say about Nigeria's education system, maybe he'll have a pearl or two about our computer science depts as well.
Nigeria will continue to lag behind in innovation and technology until our education is fixed; there are lessons for us from Eric Schmidt's jibe a the UK whom we are a very long way behind.

The solution to our problems is not employing high tech in our class rooms, but how we apply our brains to harness the little finances available to serve us according to our unique [b]cultural [/b]needs.

mobinga: The entire idea of HTML5 and Javascript as main tools for developing on Windows 8 is a silly idea to me.

An obvious reason why you will never work in an innovative firm like Microsoft. People like you continue to see and love yesterday, does any more need be said?
Microsoft has deprecated all you know and there are no sentiments attached, you don't own the platform, they do.

Those tools are NOT capable of carrying industrial strength applications. Fact.

Lol! Microsoft itself is telling you that html5 and JavaScript are going to be the first class citizens on Windows 8, both being capable of handling native functions. Or don't you know what native means?
Dude, go read up on Internet Explorer 10 thats what will run the Windows 8 interface, it might just save your job and your life.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/04/12/native-html5-first-ie10-platform-preview-available-for-download.aspx

Aigbofa:
What is playing out in Nigeria is the clash of civilizations on a micro scale. It has nothing to do with how long northerners held power. We operate on different cultural and religious believes, even southern muslims are more western in their orientation.

Do you not think that is due to rampant illiteracy, which in turn can be traced to the core-Northern elite deliberately keeping their own out of education even though the held the reins of power?

What is the big deal if the boss tells his employees they must cooperate with Iweala? She is the points-man, and her department is the anchor around whom everything hangs, everything is done with money so its pretty obvious that the finance dept will coordinate every other dept. Its a new coordinated way of doing things, unlike in the past when things were done almost in the same way as rolling dice; there is strength in unity and we see govt laying out plans in such a way that all depts are now in synchrony with finance as the fulcrum.

Every Nigerian is agreed that the economy is of paramount importance, we need to grow it and spread the benefits to the woman and man on the street. Everything in govt is now tailored around generating wealth for the country, even our foreign policy has had to refocus to that end. IMHO, all Nigerians need to embrace this new and organised way of tackling govt problems, it will introduce efficiencies where there was only waste. A new country is quietly being born.

Change will always be resisted by the corrupt old guard who are losing out, but change is here to stay. And here to stay for the good of the common man, the country and the economy.

Pervasive poverty, worsened by unchecked government corruption, is as much part of the problem as fervent religious belief. A stark economic contrast between the mainly Muslim north and the Christian and animist south is also fanning the flames. Literacy rates in the north-east are two-thirds lower than in Lagos, the southern business hub. Less than 5% of women are able to read and write in some northern states. Income per head is 50% lower than in the Christian south. The lack of economic opportunities is driving some into the arms of radicals.

All this and yet the core-Northern elite has held the reins of govt for more than 80% of Nigeria's history. It is a really shameful show, the elite have been all to ready to help themselves to oil loot, while Nigerians and their own people in particular wallow in poverty; indeed, the average core-Northerner has been deliberately kept away from school and kept malleable with maliciously false interpretations of religious writ. There are more than 10 million almajiri's running around today courtesy of the leadership failure in the core-North; these are kids whose dreams have been cut short even before they have begun to live.

The core-North is a time bomb waiting to go off. When it does, the oppressive elite that have kept their own in bestial conditions will be first to be swept away as the place implodes under the stresses of false religion, poverty, illiteracy and disease.
Quick intervention is needed to avert a bloodbath of spine-chilling proportions; programmes need to be set in place to create jobs, educate the masses and divert minds from perilous religious directions.

afam4eva:
I think this federal "aboki" presence should be booted out of the window. It favours them more than it favours southerners.They dominat the Judiciary, Military, Government, Civil service and any government business. Any outsider will thing they're the most educated and exposed.

Dude, you will be shocked if you walk into a place like Nigerian Security Printing and Minting, it is like walking into an office in Saudi (even when they were head-quartered in lag).

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It is exactly the same situation in the army, police, SSS, PHCN, customs and civil service (NNPC has been yanked away to some degree). They disproportionately hold the top posts, federal character only works in education.

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The Queen can only sack her own staff.

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The Queen is the titular Head of state, while the Prime Minister is the true Head of State. The Queens position is purely ceremonial, she takes no part in law making which is the function of Parliament.

Araoye001:
Ib City and the people living in it are too dirty. Apart from drainages that do not exist the living standard are too low. Most of the rivers are filled with dirt, blocking the flow of water. People have built too close the rivers. The goverment does not know where the problems are talk less of solving it.

Dude, lets be civil about this. It is common knowledge that the drains in Ibadan are chocked with rubbish and so fail to serve their purpose. If the drains were clear, the damage and loss of life would have been minimised. To that end, it was unconscionable for the gov to have cancelled the keep Ibadan clean programme as Anvaller mentioned; Nigerian politicians need to learn live above the knee-jerk small-mindedness that makes them smash laudable policies of their predecessors for no reason other than to massage the corrupt pockets of their cronies. Such actions have immeasurable cost in lives and livelihoods.

This disaster, as much as no one can halt natures might, also points at political failures. Let each and everyone of us learn to do things with the peoples welfare as our number one priority, after all money is an inanimate object that can never buy life.

[quote author=ekt_bear]I think ultimately she is well-meaning. But sometimes she says and does stuff that makes you want to slap the he11 out of her. A personality flaw of sorts, but overall a good person (This is my interpretation, I could be wrong! Maybe she really is malicious, i just doubt it.)[/quote]I am convinced of the bolded. There is absolutely nothing funny when disaster strikes, and it is difficult to find words to describe those who get a thrill from macabre events and sorrowful situations. How many people would roll on the floor laughing in a time of tragedy? Kobojunkie is the same person that sided with oyb when he said all ND people should be rounded up in cattle cars and herded into gas chambers. You only have to look into a persons history to make up your mind about what they really are.

At times like this, normal people gather round to give strength to those who lost property and succour to the bereaved.

bossinie:
The particular Minister who made those comments should be SACKED immediately for questioning the directive of his boss,is it not obvious that Okonjo-Iweala is among the very few Ministers who were chosen on merit and not out of sentiments to satisfy various political interests.How can the President value any of them when they came lobbying at all cost for their various positions as against Okonjo-Iweala whom he had to lobby himself.They had better obey that directive and forget about sentiments about her being a woman and all OR get sacked as there cannot be any progress in our economic policy implementation if there is no one to call the shots as most of these Ministers are no better than our Governor's who plunder the allocations to their Ministries.

Brilliant analysis.

The race hasn't even started yet and Vettels tyres are massively fu'cked already! I hope Lewis can pass him safely before the first corner.

This is really sad and the worst thing is that it happens year in year out. We need to find a permanent solution, or at least a framework to guide against floods turning to disasters.
May the souls of the dead rest in peace.

There is nothing new about the FBI helping Nigeria with investigating boko haram. The US, UK and Israel have been helping Nigeria investigate bomb blasts for close to a year now.

Who even listens to you ACN clods anywhere in Southern Nigeria any more? You guys are like a bunch of shifty eyed traitors.
Go on rejoicing at the sight of innocent blood like primitives, because you think thats what opposition is all about.

Vettel gets poll.

Vettel
Lewis
Webber

Massa beats Alonso for the first time and Senna makes 6th on his first qualifiers since his return, nice one! Also great quali from Lewis with his patched up car.

Alonso snatches P1 (Q2) at the last minute. Sadly Jenson is out and Lewis car is damaged.

Lewis overtakes Maldonado in Q2 and still makes P1!

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Dude, just bring your fellow winshes out to party at the sight of blood. What do you guys do in ACN, drink blood?
God alone can fathom why you find the deaths of several innocent Nigerians something to laugh at like a demon.

Monster.

egift:
Am sure you will agree its not in the North alone that we have violence in Nigeria. Any time plan are drawn and implemented for a certain section of the country alone then you have more problem than solution.

Beaf, as I told you before - if Buhari had won there will definitely be protest in some other quarters too (at what degree remains to be determined).

You are not making any sense. Are you saying Buhari is connected to boko haram? Or whats your point with the above.
Is this thread all about bitterness at losing the elections? Abeg let keep it clean.

By the way, as far as Nigerians can see, the problem is 100% Northern and 100% sponsored extremist Islam.

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People have died and all you can do is post tasteless articles. What will you turn to next, cannibalism? Disgunting.

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Go back to your midnight coven where you can sup on blood. Evil thing.

Gbawe:
At last , the thinly veiled bigotry rears it ugly head!!! "Yoruba parasites" are no longer qualified to comment on the poor leadership of our President in situations of National crisis. "Yoruba parasites" , never mind I have never taken anything from you or your region, must now shut up simply because "When you people wee busy destroying the country and Desecrating our homes and land we did not hear this kind of nonsense". Amazing.

Sharap, you were always the number one bigot, people will gradually begin to react to the bigotry and evil attitudes you and your criminal party put out.
Keep on laughing at the dead Nigerians, killed by bitter fools like yourself. Bitter, because you lost elections.

Losers.

By educating Northerners and saving the almajiri's on the one hand, and replacing the top echelon of the army and police on the other; it is well known that these important parts of the nations security are sponsors of boko haram.
This is a clear 4 - 10 year plan.

Anything else is rubbish.

Gbawe:
Suwegbe. You are the scum. Show where anyone is laughing at the death of Nigerians. The article is actually mocking GEJ's ineptitude !!! Nigerians are dying yet GEJ's performance remains absolutely condemnable in comparison to what is seen worldwide and pretensiously sanctimonious sycophant slike you wan't to divert issues. When has any of you sycophants , making noise in this thread, minimally ever admitted objectivley and decently that GEJ's handling of issues is very poor?

You are mocking your own ineptitude and wickedness by rejoicing in spilt blood. One would have thought only witches and wizards feasted on blood.

Worthless scum. Vampire.

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The foolish Gbawe leaves in the UK.