₦airaland Forum

bashr8: that started with obasanjo adminstration and 1999 constitution which some people tried to fight then . anyway its not something we can insult GEJ on after all he did cut it down sometime ago but we can pressure for it to be cut down even more but if we must succeed we should be ready to support him because the house wont succumb without a big fight(they are already intimidating him with impeachment).

Rexious: do u really think that this issue of hauling insult on GEJ deserve a debate in this forum? There're thousand of things that d special adviser shld worry herself abt. Don't u think so?

Biggyd2: My dear, please continue with other posts. All you could do is to send our opinion/comments to your oga. His opinion is what we are interested in Sir, not yours. Thanks anyway.

lookmangiw: if i'm to be a GEJ associate like beaf and the 40 laptop squad, i would have preferred a femi fanikayode to that doyin okupe.

Biggyd2: My dear, I have said my piece. If you think that it the job of the state governors to move this country forward, please advise your president, to continue to fold his hands and let them do so for him. You have your opinion and I have mine. I believe strongly that GEJ had an idea of the troubles in Nigeria when he decided to take over as president. If he knew that he will be overwhelmed by them why did he take over the rulership of this country? Ruling Nigeria is not a moi moi and akara business. In as much as I don't like OBJ, he didn't wait for state governors to take critical decisions for him. Nigeria before or now does not deserve a leader that rotates like a proverbial barber's chair. I love my country very much and will like to come to NL to proudly say lovely things about it. I believe you do as well. Our deferences lie in the ways of achieving that. You have stated your opinion earlier and I did mine. My prayer is that the powers that be get to read our comments. Thanks for your comment.

Rexious: then he should tackle the ones that would have positive impact on the citizenry

kingoflag: You sound like your boss: "I don't give a damn"

Guess what, u im.becile*s that don't know what being a Leader entails? You should give a damn, AND give a fcu*k what the people you are meant to serve believe or feel like.

SMH

I hope you guys get flushed out, tied to a stake and executed in Public soonest.

bashr8: insulting them back will only worsen it, infact you should take more of the blame because you have not been updating and educating us on what the federal government is really doing most nairalanders dont reside in nigeria so they only judge based on things they read online and on social media like this, for those of us that live in enugu things are improving our challenges now is employment, more investment and some other things that have little or nothing to do with FG.

ziccoit: This is not about upbringing but protecting your pot of soup.

Infact, able to fight tyrant and corrupt govt is part of good upbringing.

Beaf: Those that insult the President sound like fools who were brought up in the gutter, anyway.
People only act like the homes they come from.

sheyguy: PDP and Gej Follow follow folks (3Fs) have once again demonstrated how attacking anything that poses a threat to their ultimate interest in Nl politics section is their best form of blind defence of that goal. One day ACN will be the cause of World War I and II.

violent: Yeah right! You really do have an impressive opinion on the effectiveness of your security services don't you? The same ones that have no clue on how to stop the bombs from going off right beneath their noses?

This isn't Russia!...David Mark is a cursed b[i]a[/i]stard for even contemplating controlling the freedom of the people to speech!...Not only have these fucktards stolen all that was once good about this country, they now intend to take it a step further to steal the people's freedom of expression!...May Sango curse all their offsprings!..anuofia!

Ufeolorun: Hey! This isn't the reason you got the laptop you know.
Dereliction of duty!
Let me give you a hint:
Laptop ref. 40-001-NL24/7 is meant for bare-face spinning not flirting

MRbrownJAY: lol, looking at it this way, it could have been Baba Ijebu's prediction as NOTHING worked today!!!! cable tv and internet was down, ran to the sports bar and they were showing some BS Olympic, WTF!!!!

as for Alonso, his closest rival was both RBRs, and they both finished "poorly" today....so Ham coming back into top spots is only good, as i said, better ham than anyone driving a RBR.

MRbrownJAY: your own is good, i missed the whole race
i even tried to follow the race on my phone via the f1.com live timing BS..... what a waste of time!

anyway finally Ham got one more race up, and although not yet close to the top, he is getting slowly there and closer to the runners up.....Alonso 40 points ahead and still scoring points on each and every races.

afam4eva: Don't you have some dishes to wash oir have you lost your job at Mama calabar?

Q: Who will be the next champion - and why?
HM: First of all, there are still 250 points to be allocated so there is not even the slightest hint of who will wind up on top in November. But clearly the team and the driver with the least mistakes will win the title. Alonso is the only driver so far who took points at every race. So the key is to win, of course, but if a win is impossible then to take a good chunk of points. Ferrari and Alonso made the maximum out of their potential so far. We on the other hand had two zeros with Sebastian and one with Mark - and that says it all.

Q: That is all too theoretical. Can you name names?
HM: Our main competitor clearly is Alonso, but never underestimate Hamilton. So I would say that our two drivers, plus Alonso and Hamilton will be the top candidates for the championship.

[size=14pt]Formula 1's greatest drivers. Number 10: Fernando Alonso[/size]

This year, BBC Sport is profiling 20 of the greatest Formula 1 drivers of all time. The BBC F1 team were asked to provide their own personal top 20s, which were combined to produce a BBC list. Veteran commentator Murray Walker provides his own reflections in a video of their career highlights and chief F1 writer Andrew Benson profiles the driver. This week, number 10 - Fernando Alonso.

Asturias in northern Spain is a rugged mountainous region that, historically, is renowned for breeding tough, fierce fighters. Fernando Alonso is a true child of his homeland.

There is no more relentless and forbidding competitor in Formula 1. His greatest qualities - among many - are the ability to pound out lap after lap in every grand prix at the absolute limit and always to get the best out of his machinery, however flawed.

These abilities have won him two world titles and 30 grand prix victories - fifth in the all-time winners' list - and have never been demonstrated more impressively than in 2012.

Ferrari started the season with, at best, the fifth quickest car. In the first eight grands prix, Alonso's average qualifying position was eighth. Yet after those races, he was leading the championship. Following his third victory of the season in Germany on Sunday, he continues to do so.

Although his colossal gift is plain for all to see, Alonso responds with modesty when asked to sum up his own ability.

In a BBC interview in 2009, he said: "Maybe I'm not the quickest driver, maybe I'm not the most talented, maybe I'm not the hardest working, but I'm very consistent. I will always be there."

It seems an odd thing to say for a racing driver who is remarkably complete - quick in all conditions, brilliant in an imperfect car, extremely adaptable, highly intelligent, a brave and clinical overtaker, and always a factor.

But on the proviso that it is understood any shortfall he may have compared to a rival in a given area is on the minutest scale, you can see what he means.

Although undoubtedly super fast, Alonso does not very often produce a "special" lap in qualifying, the sort that moves the boundaries of what seemed possible.

It happens - one thinks of his spectacular qualifying lap at Singapore in 2011, for example - but not as often as it does for his contemporaries Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel, or Ayrton Senna in the past.

Paradoxically, though, when he finds himself in a car with some kind of problem, Alonso is unequalled, his ability to compensate for the performance deficit quite staggering.

The best example was the 2006 Italian Grand Prix, when he qualified fifth in a Renault missing much of its rear bodywork, before being demoted to 10th after being given a controversial penalty.

His engineers calculated how much performance the car had lost and say it should not have been possible to get that time out of that car. It was one of the most extraordinary qualifying laps of the decade.

That race was when his campaign for what turned out to be his second consecutive title was coming to a nail-biting climax.

He won his first championship for Renault in 2005, beating Kimi Raikkonen's faster but more fragile McLaren partly thanks to the consistent relentlessness that by then was already a trademark.

Already mighty impressive, Alonso had to step up another gear in 2006. After dominating the early races, Renault faced a determined fightback from Ferrari and Michael Schumacher, who employed the sort of dirty tricks they had perfected over the years to try to derail their rival.

That title came down to a duel between Schumacher and Alonso at Japan's Suzuka, which carried echoes of other great battles at that track between Senna and Alain Prost, and Schumacher and Mika Hakkinen.

After 36 flat-out laps, the race - and effectively the title - was decided when the engine in Schumacher's car failed for the first time in six years. A cruise to the podium in the final race in Brazil made Alonso the youngest double world champion in history.

He had made his race debut for Renault at the expense of Jenson Button in 2003, after a year as their test driver.

The decision was criticised in the British media. But those who felt it was a bad idea had not been paying attention in Alonso's debut season in 2001, when he frequently had his uncompetitive Minardi in places with which the team were unfamiliar.

Once at Renault, a series of superb performances in his first season culminated in his maiden win at Hungary and removed any doubts about his potential.

Through the successful Renault years, though, were the first hints of what many argue is a flaw in Alonso's make-up. On the rare occasions when a team-mate has beaten him, he has not handled it well.

That became a real problem when he joined McLaren in 2007 alongside a novice Lewis Hamilton, who immediately proved to be at least as quick.

It turned into an epic, tense battle that see-sawed backwards and forwards, with virtually nothing to choose between them throughout the year.

Alonso felt McLaren were more supportive of Hamilton - and reasoned that only one of them could win the title in the face of a tough challenge from Ferrari drivers Raikkonen and Felipe Massa.

That person, he believed, should be him - partly because the team had employed him as their leader and partly because he felt Hamilton was ultimately too inexperienced.

The building pressure boiled over in Hungary, when Alonso threatened to go to the FIA with damaging information about the unfolding spy-gate scandal if they did not make Hamilton support him.

The incident ruptured the relationship between McLaren and Alonso for good, and badly damaged Alonso's reputation, to the extent that it has still not fully recovered. The whiff of potential involvement - never proven, always denied - in the 2008 Singapore race-fixing scandal has not helped on that front.

But despite being at loggerheads with McLaren, who did little to disguise the fact they wanted Hamilton to be champion, Alonso still took the title to the wire. Both he and Hamilton lost out to Raikkonen by a single point.

Alonso and McLaren agreed to separate one year into a three-year deal and despite talks with Red Bull he chose to go back to Renault and wait for a seat to open at Ferrari, which it did in 2010.

Had he gone for Red Bull, he might well now be a five-time champion - with the 2009, 2010 and 2011 titles under his belt as well.

Equally, had he better controlled his emotions in 2007 and stayed with McLaren, he might have won four titles in a row.

Alonso shrugs at this. "I have the titles I deserve," he says.

Not all would agree with that.

Having taken the route he did, Alonso should have won a third crown in his debut season with Ferrari in 2010. Despite driving a car inferior to the Red Bull, he went into the final race leading the championship and lost it only because of a catastrophic strategy error by the team.

Alonso is the very essence of the sort of dynamic natural leader on which Ferrari thrive and the team seem a natural home for this proud, determined man. He is contracted there until 2016.

As for Alonso and Hamilton, the events of their season as team-mates left an indelible impression on both.

Neither troubles to disguise that he regards the other as his toughest rival.

Alonso praises Hamilton publicly. And it has recently come to light that while Alonso is happy for Vettel to join him at Ferrari in the future, he has vetoed Hamilton doing so.

Hamilton shares a similar high opinion of Alonso. "I love racing with Fernando, he's, like, the best driver here," he said after winning in Canada this year.

ilugunboy: Na your fada to deal with him or your Jonah uncle....idi0city runs in your blood!

Olaolufred: A free and fair election is no longer the right of Nigerian.
It has become a favor from the presidency
According to your position.
This thread is a cry from a paid jobber.
I heard okupe selling a product on tv yesternite. I voted Jonathan in 2011.
But never in my life will I vote any man from dat axis. He showed me who really they are.
Let them keep on packaging him front,left and right. Huh he is already a BAD market.
If Jonathan doesn't want opposition to talkagainst him, he must start doing things the masses yearned for.
Things that will better their life.
PDP had good chances at burying other parties with great performances in 12 years but blew it up by greed and corruption.
The opposition are comming in because people are tired of PDP's oppression.
If they do not change, they will regret it soon.

mathskill: It seems you are the mouth piece of every corrupt person in nigeria.You defend the undefendable and praise the unpraisable.Resignation is the honourable step to take for the PDP chairman because his son is involved in the subsidy oil scam amounting to billions of naira.

Nayah: loool that was perfect but you know I'm not living in Cameroon hun

--Beaf orders armed brigades to invade France... A few foolhardy French soldiers pop out of the bushes --
--its one of those days... Beaf coolly takes aim. Crosshairs. Obituary.

--Drifts into a pleasant day dream of dappled sunshine by warm, calm lulling waters. He knows his reward is beautiful.--

Nayah: Yeah Beaf what about you? I've been to Cameroon and I just came few days ago