₦airaland Forum

Tsiya:
So in essence you agree there will be no war if the military boys take over the gov't?

Tsiya:
There will not be anywar. The UK or America will not deploy their forces to come and aid Nigerians when they refuse to aid themselves. Nothing will happen my friend. The past few years, we hav seen coupes in Africa and all over the world. Nothing happens if the citizens don't care.

Do you think, the masses, will come out and demonstrate because the military take over. No. No way nothing will happen.

Wallahi I tell u, nothing will happen. Infact, people will celebrate, if the general, col, or even the major, is bold enough to effect the arrest of people like Aondoka, Ibori, Goje, Yuguda and few other gov, publicly consficate their property and execute them.

The interest of foreign countries and multinationals is not Nigerians, it is their investment (oil), and they pretty know that their investment is safe whoever is the government in power.

Tsiya:
You failed to put 20 years ago, the military would have taken over the country.

tanimz:
Who dey decieve who?

I laugh in Ogoni!!! LOLOLMAOROTFL!!!! OMG!!

So Nigerians dey happy say Americans dey wish dem well?

I read a lot of stuff from some of the younger ones here, they rightly feel that generations before them have laid waste to the country. That is certainly true. . .

redsun:
It means burn down babylon.

The President of the West African Bar Association, Femi Falana has said the confession of the Federal Executive Council that it is unsure when President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua will return to the country supports the opposition’s calls for the president’s resignation.

Mr. Falana, who spoke to NEXT in a telephone interview last night, said: “that is the more reason why they (the FEC) should get the president to transmit a letter to the National Assembly enabling the Vice president to take over, as acting president of the country.

“They have to follow section 145 of the constitution. Now that the Federal Executive Council has admitted that they have no idea when the president will return to the country, the seriousness of the president’s illness has just being confirmed.

“To avoid a situation where there will be constitutional crisis in the country, the FEC should carry out their responsibilities under section 145 of the constitution by passing a resolution on the health of the president, that the president cannot perform the functions of his office.”

On conflicting claims that the president might have signed a similar document, Mr. Falana said: “since they think that the president is still attending to urgent matters and there are claims that the president indeed wrote a letter, if the letter is seen, the letter should be transmitted to the National Assembly.”

Yinka Odumakin of the Afenifere Renewal Group and a member of the group which recently called on Mr. Yar’Adua to resign, said the statement was a confirmation of what Nigerians already knew.

Crippled government

“They have just exposed themselves that they are jokers that they are and with due respect, I think they should no longer be referred to as the Federal Executive Council but Federal Executive Clowns,” he said.

“Just last week, they were telling us the G65 members to shut up, that they are in daily conversation with the president and now they are uncertain, making discordant tunes. I think they have just affirmed our demands for the president to resign.

“The president of the Appeal court has retired and the new one is yet to be inaugurated and the same goes for the chief judge of the nation, whose tenure ends by the end of this month.

“That leaves the judiciary without a head and Yar Adua would have crippled not just the executive but also the judiciary arm of the government.”

The leader of the Conference of Nigerian Political Party (CNPP), Balarabe Musa, expressed shock at the announcement by the Federal Executive Council saying, “this is serious.”

“The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has to review its decision that the president’s health will not hamper him from performing his function,” he said.

“Nigerians should insist that the FEC must invoke the constitutional powers to review the president’s health and do what is right.”

Gbawe:
Not true. Folks are using perfectly sensible logic given that they are dealing with a Government that is callous, decietful and dishonest. Please list the number of conditions that affect the skin, kidney, heart ,lungs, peripheral nerves plus produce pericarditis as a complication !!! Yar Adua has locked up folks when they said things he did not like . He has come out vehemently to refute certain claims in the past. He took leadership to court and I believe he even recieved an apology or retraction. Why has he never denied that he has Churg Strauss when several news agency , other than saharareporters,  have reported that he does?

What is wrong with Nigerians trying to deduce what will never be willingly revealed to them? Do you think that Yar Adua will admit he has stage three Churg Strauss when those wanting him to step down will use that revelation to state that Yar Adua , given his heart involvement , may suffer a heart attack because of the stress and rigour of office? My man , it is not 2+2 equals 20 at all !!! Far from it !!!

In fact if Nigerians are to be accused of anything,  it is excessive and dangerous docility. The type that has always ensured they are badly led.

Famous patients

The memoir Patient, by the musician Ben Watt, deals with Watt's mid-1990s experience with Churg-Strauss syndrome, and his recovery. Watt's case was unusual in that it mainly affected his gastrointestinal tract, leaving his lungs largely unaffected; this unusual presentation contributed to a delay in proper diagnosis. His treatment required the removal of large sections of necrotized intestine, leaving Watt on a permanently restricted diet. The current president of Nigeria, Musa Yar' Adua, is also suffering from Churg-Strauss syndrome.

PapaBrowne:
@Pacodas
You gleefully omitted the Delta State Governor whose state has been a major discourse in this thread!.

pacodas:
Oh I must be out of my minds I thot I added Him. Please Moderator Add Emmanuel Uduaghan (Delta State)

edoyad:
@Beaf, So going by what i have said, i'm sure we can compile our own little developmental Index her[/b]e.
1.We should compare the state of security between both
2. Level of education and access to it
3.Electricity and water - don't tell us of generators for street lights o.
4. Transportation in all forms and ramifications of it.
5. Housing in terms of facilities to aid commoners in procuring one.
6. Health situation in all It's ramifications: no. of health workers visavis population, mother/infant mortality rate, access to and cost of treatment etc

I'm open to more suggestions from you.

edoyad:
Mr beaf i urge you again to please tell me which HDI ? Is it the one of the UN of one Nigerian government agency, please be specific.

babapupa:
Dude, what challenge are you talking about and of what use is your irrelevant index and challenge to me when the discussion is about the best governor?

Don't you wanna go start your own thread and discuss your index to your heart's desire?

The Human Development Index (HDI) is an index used to rank countries by level of "human development", which usually also implies whether a country is developed, developing, or underdeveloped.