₦airaland Forum

MrPrsdent:
cheap insults will get you nowhere.only shows how deep your ignorance is.

You want us to celebrate when countries like Pakistan, Indonesia,Iran,Thailand,Venezuela(population 26million),Colombia,Malaysia(population 28million) are ranked above us.You must be delusional

Thank you jare!
We shouldn't mind that brain dead runt.

This is another brain dead post that pretends its all good with the country. It isn't.
We are better of solving our problems than singing funny tunes.

master2:
I think sai d man no believe in God. Why he come say "in God's name, "

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@FL Gators
. . .Count one. There will be many others. Na 9ja we deh.

Big economy where people can't eat, there is no electricity, babies are slaughtered and cabals are running amock. . .

CyberG:
No, I wasn't gonna make you a foe at the outset. . . I think I was only "playing" rough. . .LOL. . .but now I will make friendship. . .no more horse play. . .

Kai, FL. . .I got to sleep it is way past bedtime now. Tomorrow, NL will still be here and I may just come looking for you. Ciao.

Paroh Frey must have had the last laugh! See CyberG behaving correct correct!

FL Gators:
cheiii, na my husband you don yab like that

Don't worry, he will take panadol and come back.

SEFAGO:
Bull- tribe and ethnicity are interchangeable. Its only that tribe seems to sound like a primitive group of people.

That is why oyibo people left "tribe" for willing people like you. Ode.

SEFAGO:
Who is the we? Man you are just making general statements. 99% of the people on NL have no connection to the elite of Nigeria but they rap their mouth with perfect confidence claiming insight.

Don't be silly. Tribal leaders where a thing of the past. If you want tribal leaders, go on a time machine and set it to 1960 .

There are no need for ethnic leaders anymore now. The Hausa have no one, the igbo have no one, the yopruba have no one, the Ijaw/Urhobo have the head of the MEND terrorist organization though  - cheeky bastards

You cannot equate tribe and ethnicity. The word "tribe" originates from the description of packs of monkeys.
All the other groups and regions you mentioned have much stronger leadership than what obtains in the West. If you don't have a leader, you lose out gradually.

SEFAGO:
Small time politicians kill each other. The real people behind the scenes are all paddy

My friend, go and sit down!
You guys better gather behind Soyinka. In the past there were the likes of Awo and Babatope, now there is nobody.

I wonder where those people who would rather pray than accept that there are serious prolems are? Or are they going to accuse Soyinka of being in the diaspora, just because he can think clearly and see severe issues?
I pity most Nigerians! Fake churches, fake mosques, okija and jankara have removed our ability to reason and act robustly.

FL Gators:
Must they continue to remind us that Wole Soyinka is a Noble-Prize winner?

So its really breaking up? Breaks my heart

Oyibo people value brain power. You must know that, sheh you deh akata? My sister, that is what is missing in Nigeria. Lets wait a short while and all sorts of people will come up and say things about his intelligence.

On the other hand, oyibo will worship at the feet on anybody with brains, that is why they will always remind the nearest person that Wole Soyinka is a Nobel Laureate.
It is their respect of brains that has taken them so far and our disrespect for brains that is digging us so deep.

[size=14pt]Nigeria is falling apart, says Nobel prize-winning author[/size]

Veteran writer and activist Wole Soyinka says his country is now a failed state. Daniel Howden reports from Lagos

Nigeria is close to breaking up and its leadership has descended into a "theatre of the absurd", according to the Nobel prize-winning playwright Wole Soyinka, who has been leading protests against the nation's political crisis.

The veteran writer and civil rights activist told The Independent that his home country was now a "failed state" where ordinary people's "anger has peaked", with potentially lethal consequences. "Nigeria is looking at its last chance in the next year," he said.

Africa's most populous country and leading oil producer is beset by multiple crises, from attacks by armed militants in the Niger Delta to sectarian massacres in its central region and a protracted struggle for the presidency in the capital, Abuja.

"If nothing changes, I cannot guarantee what recourse the people will take," the writer said. "The level of anger has peaked. I don't rule out Nigeria breaking up. That's what can happen to a failed state."

Mr Soyinka, the first African to win the Nobel prize for literature, has been at the forefront of Nigeria's democracy movement since the country gained independence from Britain in 1960. Now 76, he is the figurehead of the Save Nigeria Group, which has brought thousands of people on to the streets to demand the impeachment of the critically ill President, Umaru Yar'Adua, who has not been seen in public for four months.

Mr Soyinka condemned what he called the "industry of lies" that had grown up around the President's medical condition. He said Nigeria's first lady, Turai Yar'Adua, who has denied access to her husband and kept his true condition a secret, should stand trial for her role in the power vacuum. "This woman is there standing guard against the truth of his health," Mr Soyinka said. "When will the rest of the nation wake up?"

Mr Yar'Adua was taken to hospital in Saudi Arabia in November and only came back to Nigeria last month. Since his return he has been kept in an ambulance; he is treated only by Saudi doctors and no one outside his wife's inner circle has seen him, including the acting president, Goodluck Jonathan.

"[The President] returns under the cover of darkness and they say he is up and drinking tea, with a straight face," Mr Soyinka added. "Everyone knows it is a lie – even those who say it – and it insults people's intelligence. His mother was told to go away and could not see her son. It is spousal abuse."

He accused Mrs Yar'Adua of using her husband's "phantom existence" for her own interests, along with a corrupt cabal of unelected leaders that he called a "bunch of absolute brigands". "It has gone beyond theatre of the absurd into something ghoulish going on macabre," the writer said.

Mr Soyinka said Nigeria had a failing "neocolonial constitution", a wave of "political assassinations" and was a place where power failures were "the norm" and its leaders were "robber barons" looting the country. "There is this myth of Nigerian resilience, that we will always pull back from the brink, but there is a critical mass at which some things implode," he said.

He defended the "real militants" in the Niger Delta, whom he said had a right to take on the government over decades of neglect, rights abuses, environmental crimes and theft of resources. He called Mend "a small, well-organised and resourceful militant group" that could choke the government's lifeline of oil. Yesterday, Mend launched its biggest attack since last year.

Mr Soyinka has been jailed twice under Nigeria's dictators: firstly in 1965 for taking over a radio station to denounce a rigged election, and again in 1967 after trying to mediate in the dispute that led to a civil war.

The author compared the task of reforming Nigeria to that of Sisyphus, saying: "You roll that damn rock up the hill, you don't get anywhere and the rock rolls back down."

[size=14pt]He urged reforms to the constitution and the electoral system, to prevent a repeat of the electoral farce which took place in 2007. "I wish in God's name someone would govern this place in a way that doesn't make me feel personally belittled," he said. "I cannot stand the notion of these people feeling they have the right to wipe their dirty feet and piss upon us."[/size]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/nigeria-is-falling-apart-says-nobel-prizewinning-author-1921835.html

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Warever!
It is Ovwian Alaja, not Owie Alaja.

violent:
I believe they did, the facts are specific enough!

I wouldn't be so sure.
Olorogun Michael Ibru made millions of pounds in the 1960's from trading in fish; there has been serious money in that family before Cecilia married in.

I will not be in the least surprised if EFCC has simply listed all Ibru properties they could find as mikeansy has said. Why have they released the lis to the public anyway, isn't the matter in court? Why hasn't this list been tendered in court instead where ownership can be determined?
It will pay us to be a bit careful.

alias64:
Ultimately, better they farm with their self-sufficient hands or use their brains to make implements than become consumers of western farming implements.

Do you think typing bullsh!t in bold makes you sound intelligent? Bloody malu chaser.
Only a foo'l thinks there is any unpolluted land or water to farm in the Niger Delta. But then, you've always had the brains of a cow, so no bigie.

Can someone use marine rope to once and for all, tie tpia down in hell? Damn thing keeps escaping!

oyb:
nothing surprises me about the likes of you either  -  keep celebrating your army of kidnappers 

kidnapping people and demanding ransoms and you call them freedom fighters - civilized people call them criminals

i wonder why your heroes could not make a real statement by kidnapping the ibori you are making so much noise about

Abacha lover! Shame deh kill you?
Listen to the voice of a wise Nigerian who truely loves his country and feels the pain of the common people;

OmoOlorun:
We are in for a long haul. This looks like the beginning of the IRA strategy used against the UK. What else can be done to wake our sleeping and looting leaders up? Our leaders still see themselves as in safe havens as long as they have enough stolen wealth. They really believe they can live in peace in the midst of the commotion that is going on and the suffering of the poor masses? They really do not care as long as they have air-conditioned cars, houses with tall fences, they can go abroad for medical treatment and have an ambulance dedicated to an individual, have dialysis machine bought for the President when the rest of the country has just a handful, award oil blocks to individuals at the expense of the people - what should have been common wealth becomes personal wealth, as long as they can generate their electricity at home, they do not need the National Electric power Authority to work, the infrastructure can be left to rot as long as they can fly in helicopters and private jets. What do we do about these set of leaders? Can democracy deliver us - with the bunch of thieves in both houses? Are we going anywhere when leaders put their pockets first, their religions second and their ethnicity third before they spare any thought for the electorate? If things continue this way, there may be need for some shaking by MEND and their likes for a while until we come to a round table to discuss what sort of governance is best for our country.

babaearly:
[size=15pt]MEND You guys are FU[b]C[/b]K-UPS[/size]

why not throw the bombs into the conference room and blow up those besterds? Beaf whatcha say?

Charlie, I heard you the first time.
I am sure you know that MEND views life as precious, unlike the murdererous, criminal cabal that some here are beholden to. That is why they gave a 30 minute warning.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=413520.msg5699946#msg5699946 date=1268689562]nigeria has many problems and one of them happens to be the problem of niger delta waywards who hide under the guise of niger delta struggle to commit serious crimes and someone like you keep justifying the attitude of these militants.until niger deltans themselves realised that the militants are a problem to the region and nigeria entirely,then we can begin profer solution to this problem.[/quote]What is Nigeria's biggest problem? Genuine freedom fighters in MEND or their enemies like of Turai, Aondoakaa, Ibori, Tilde, other members of the cabal, the Mutallabs etc?
You have your priorities totally skewed. Where is the peacefull Ken Saro Wiwa?

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy

Like I said earlier, nothing surprises me about some Nigerians these days. People will sell their mothers to warp the truth, but robust blows from the righteous will always cure corruption.

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Don't worry, you can easily build shrines for the likes of Turai, Aondoakaa, Ibori, Tilde, other members of the cabal, the Mutallabs etc. One of your kind earlier (argued with pride in his eyes) about Abacha's state sponsored terrorism.

Nothing surprises me about some Nigerians these days.

If the video didn't accurately describe Nigeria, it would have been damn funny. I mean, consider that sharia court! WTF!

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=413520.msg5699676#msg5699676 date=1268686486]why are you begging those you useless bunch of i d i o t s,touts,dropouts,thugs,hooligans,arm robbers,miltants,bunkerers,who are out to [size=14pt]tarnish the image of this country[/size].i cant imagine it until i saw this show of shame on CNN[b].@beaf**you better talk to your brothers cuz i dont see any difference between them,the boko harams and the jos militants[/b].bunch of f o o ls[/quote]Abeg, go and sleep off the ogogoro; when you wake, your eyes go don clear.
MEND is spoiling corrupt business, that why you started mentioning all the big words in the dictionary.

You are soooooo funny! Imagine, sensible people list those tarnishing the image of the country as the likes of Turai, Aondoakaa, Ibori, Tilde, other members of the cabal, the Mutallabs etc. . . But, here you are a grown man, pointing your fingers at those who are fighting them. Wonders shall never cease!

Damn!

marvix:
@Beaf all I tried to say is that we need an atmosphere of peace to resolve our problems. Is that simple enough now

Thank you bros, God bless you!

@invisible!
Abeg, forget all that "fullstop" business jare; we all make mistakes . . .and English no be awa language.

Osama10:
I can imagine these pot-belly bastards running for their life.

These bombs should actually be going of in the homes of these bastards that loot the state funds day and night.

Mend PLEASE PLEASE am on my knees begging to direct some them to the national assembly and the whole abuja metropolis.

Abagworo:
nigeria needs urgent restructuring and true federalism.

Our leaders are deaf when it comes to justice and fairplay, but MEND's bombs have a way of curing deafness.

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Seriously, nobody can read what you write. Most times I just skip it.
Get serious.

@ndu_chucks

Keep dreaming wild and impossible dreams.
When it is Mutallab, you will say, "Oh dan banza America hates Nigeria!"; when it comes to oil, you start hallucinating, "Oh America the saviour of our oil parasitism will finish MEND, the freedom fighters".

. . .Dream on!

netotse:
when we cant disagree withour launching personal attacks on each other it's no wonder ppl are calling for the dissolution of nigeria. . .

@beaf and david
a hypothetical question, when the north is excised from nigeria*(assuming that is what you want. . .), will you now call for all muslims to leave as well? cos y'all seem to have the hots for oyb, and he isn't hausa. . .

point i'm trying to make is that as humans we will always disagree, but we dont have to blame it all on a person's region. religion or what have you(admittedly those factors play a part in shaping us as individuals)

Are you imagining things? I have not said a word about religion on this thread.

davidylan:
You're just noticing? Getting a mohammedan to reason is like trying to cook a rock.

I tire for dat dude! How could any sane person think that state sponsored terrorism under Abacha was a pride to have?

oyb:
what a slow thinker - during abacha's days, we had state sponsored terrorism.

today we have random terrorism (by any and all takers) in which anyone who has a grievance / aim against a perceived political rival uses deadly force .

Na adult or pikin be dis? Somebody must have put something in your kunu.

oyb:
keep celebrating.

just keep in mind that while most of you are celebrating nigeria's decent into anarchy from the safety of the west, those dear to you are still on ground here, and not protected from the outcomes of these actions.

most of you are probably too scared to come home anyway - what with kidnapping and now bombing - you'd probably need armored cars to move around.

So it is now MEND's fault that corruption is rampant in the country? Your recommendation seems to be that, everybody should roll over and give up while cabals pillage the country. You will wait in vain and your hope will turn to futility; Nigerians are waking up and seizing what is rightfully theirs.