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The way people in backward societies explain everything in terms of "God" and those who created the world in which those backward people measure themselves by never do is instructive in explaining why each is how they are

months:
Is it clear now that nobody is sponsoring anything?

Since 1960s igbos have watched Hausa and Yoruba take turns as President.

Loot and share our oil wealth with impunity and murder our people.

We dont want President again, we want freedom from colonialism and oppression.

Igbo people are tired of everything and everyone, we want to face ourselves and solve our problems without interference from foreigners and outsiders.


Even, if we kill ourselves to begin, we will get to a point of loving ourselves.

OK, I'm Bini. I'm a Nigerian too. The Bini empire was so great, they ruled all the way to Lagos. The Ibos were still near-savages who had not evolved to forming even monarchical government (they deceive themselves by saying they were democrats/republicans; why are they now forming kingship?) I no gree until Bini man is president! You people are so dumb; who told you only Ibo and Yoruba has access to the presidency from the south? With all the setback Ibo has caused Nigeria, they even particularly do not deserve Nigerian presidency until we find one in the manner of Azikiwe whom you jingoists mocked and destroyed in favour of your tribal champion Ojukwu. Yeye ppl. I don't want to hear anybody tell me Ibo must be president because its their turn. What turn? It is the turn of Edo, or junkun, or Gwari. You know how many ethnic groups exist in Nigeria? The North has done remarkably well as we always talk of "North" and not Hausa, Fulani. You know the ethnic group of Gowon, Babangida? I bet they're Hausa/Fulani to you cos we're so dumb in the South. The only problem with the North is Islam; other than that they're 1000 times better than the South politically

GenOrumov:
And yet its the smallest state in the country according to land mass.

That is why special status should be given to Lagos to ensure that other modes of transportation e.g rail and water are functioning so as to decongest the roads.

Somebody hold una before? "Special status" = demanding for more national cake. When will each state see itself as self-contained and generating income to contribute to the national purse rather than an excuse to take from? Ehn?! Lagos is what it is because of 1861 - 1991, no reason else: the people there are just like any other Nigerians (incapable)

kessgreen:
when you go about insulting people on social media goes a long way to show your level of maturity. However,I won't stoop low to do same.

What do you know? I'm amazed by people who talk crap and don't want to be told the meaning of what they said

cramjones:
This is not the first time we would hear things like "automatic employment" or "automatic scholarships" in Nigeria. It has indeed become a national banter in the Nigerian political space. The latest one being PMB to the family members of the late James Ocholi, SAN. Let us see why this makes the government look bad, and why actions like this continually affirms that Nigeria is a failed state!

Firstly, what does automatic employment really mean? It simply means that whether qualified or unqualified, you would be given "job". This further shows that an appreciable proportion of the the work done in our Ministries are performed by unqualified people. In a country where actual work gets done, would never have any allowance for "automatic employment". Employment in any serious economy is based on merit and capability. The keyword is "capability". Even if you knew someone to get the job, you must be capable.

Secondly, this phenomenum shows that the job position was not needed in the first place. it was created based on emotions and the need to "compensate" a political family. What this means is that there would be virtually no work being done, but salary paid. Perhaps that is why there is no need to prove capability or qualification, because the position is simply created to pay someone salary, and not out of need to drive the goals of the ministry forward.

Thirdly, this attitude brings us to the big picture of the rot in our civil service. I met a young man recently who told me he worked in the civil service in Abuja, and only shows up to work twice a month! There is absolutely no how Nigeria can develop if we see government jobs as places to earn salary rather than to work. When work is not performed nothing moves. Could this be why Lagos seems to be the only city that is a bit insulated by the recession because they work for their money and do not rely solely on oil money where less work is needed?

Could the western world be right about their stereotype of blacks being lazy? Is it by fluke that Japan, South Korea, Germany and the rest of the pack are where they are today, while we wallow in our mediocrity, nepotism and lacadesical approach to work? GEJ did the same "automatic employment" to the family of those murdered as by the past Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, through the immigration employment scam. Rather than bring the killer minister to justice he opted for a murderer to remain in his cabinet and "solved" the problem by "automatic employment".

Can Buhari and his government take a different turn, by bringing to light and fixing our dead emergency response system, dilapidated highways, and most especially fix our comatose, non-functional health care system. Won't this be a much better way to honor the family of the late James Ocholi?

I wish the Ocholi family well. This is not meant to attack them, but to highlight a fundamental problem with our system. May peace and comfort anchor this grieving family, and may the souls of the departed rest in peace.

-CramJones

If you did not know that Nigeria has long been a functionally failed state, I don't know what to make of your wisdom then. I don't mind when ignorant people attack me for being a hater but I would wish those who laid claim to any knowledge to know better. The process by which you rise in the Nigerian ladder is such that you must be part of the failed understanding of how government works and if you think otherwise like me, they simply deny you a voice and force you to rot away as I am. That debate by which you seek to prove your point, you'll never get it. If you don't know me on Twitter, at least on here you can see my posts where I always say Nigeria is a joke. There's no way to summarise Nigeria but by that way; everything is wrong here. If it attempts to be right, someone comes and kills it!

OP, you should declare that every MSc holder who couldn't get a job but would like to drive a taxi should come forward and you would provide the taxi on any terms and see if you would cope with the number you find. You're out of touch with reality; you don't know the situation we are in in this country. Do you know how much a car costs? This is a joke. People want to do better business with capital half the cost of a car, they can't find it and you come here and talk self-righteously. This is a joke!

franchizy:
Where are there no igbos in this list of appointments.
It pains me how the igbos are over marginalized.
For Gods sake, Buhari must carry the igbos along. We are part of Nigeria and we remain one united Nigerians.
i condemn this list, i condemn it , i condemn it.
We igbos never bargained for this kind of marginilization.
Igbos voted massively for Buhari but the election results were manipulated.
I urge all igbos to rise up and condemn this list.

And who exactly is the senior to all these people just given the appointment? Nigeria is like a rotten yam where people say if we peel the outside the yam will be edible inside, not knowing its all same. The outside are the leaders, the inside is the rest of Nigeria

yaki84:
r u now saying corruption is good n shud be encouraged so money can flow well?

Let me shock Nigerians that are averse to hearing the truth and are holier than thou: if all the money corrupt ppl stole were kept in Nigeria, our nation would be 1000 times better off. But because the thieves know Nigerians are like you, they take the money out and hence we are poor. Do you believe that? Yet it is the truth. In Arab countries, one man owns a whole country as king. He owns more than Nigeria, but since his society allows that, he doesn't hide it in another country and hence his citizens don't become poor. Money and economy means more than we understand here.

sirklin:
The world has gone nuts. Situations like this someone got the mind to take pictures and another like OP and the MOD had the right reasoning to upload it. How inhumane would we be?

This is a soul someone somewhere is crying bitterly and mourning.


RIP to the dead

Your complaint is the opposite of what knowledgeable people would do. How do you think the world came to the modern age? If I told you what doctors did to explain your body to you, I'm sure you'll reject their medicines

Another idle joke once more. If you want to understand why Nigerians don't know nada, come to find out their discussions on nairaland. Maybe this latest clown sculptor will get a scholarship from an equally dumb governor or something. I won't explain; it's just too far to begin. My fellow engineers may have a clue

Nigerians do not know what to prioritise or take as important or not. We have no idea how nations should develop. What if anyone flies a jet? I thought he piloted it sef. If he can afford it, we need to increase our GDP by letting money move around more. He pays the jet charter company, they pay their pilots, pilots pays market woman for foodstuff etc. That's how economic activity and wealth increases in a country. I've been looking for who to buy my security devices since, I no see. So all the people I would have patronised if I were patronised won't see my money cos I don't have any. Now go out and spend some money!

FOLLEY20:
That is the result of unemployment in our nation

Yes, it is also a result of everybody reaching 20something and saying they must begin to have children everywhere, whether there is economic crisis or not. Of course nobody tells you that and no one has the ability to think in this country, only to follow-follow. IT WILL GET WORSE, remember that. When we get to 400 million while born born is our creed and there is no creation of value, we will resort to killing and eating one-another (just kidding but I'm frustrated). Not long ago we were c.65million and Gowon said we had so much money we didn't know what to do. Now we have jumped to 170+ million and each one is raring to grow up quickly and begin to born his own crowd. It is a geometric increase if you understand mathematical terms. We shall see!

Yeye ppl. These ones were out to make money and aren't hardened yet, or else they would have just killed the poor girls since the business had flopped. Some even collect ransom and still kill the victims. Whatever happened to patronising us doing electronic security and surveillance to prevent this in the first place? What is wrong with the people of this country? The parents all arrived and blocked school with all manner of cars? The security devices would not cost even half the value of the smallest car. They obviously prefer to do "dry fast" and prayers. Ok, until when kidnappers progress to killing their victims, we will see what "God" has to say about that as things, once begun, only get worse in this country .

willibounce1:
Bros na true u talk. Even u self wey dey claim decent and faithful go chop one plate if you see correct kpekus. Out of 100 Nigerian men, 98 cheat and the remaining 2 % omo e no still sure.

I hate that word "cheat" as it doesn't apply in Nigerian system. Women here want to be property and are available only to those who can afford them. How can you say I cheat when I'm enjoying what my money afforded me? I've run out of money for years now and it is the exact period also that I haven't caught any fish. If you discuss any such thing with especially girls, they'll tell you you're not respecting yourself - you that you know you don't have "anything" (usually a flashy car, good home and money to waste on them). I no complain o, I accept the game. When I get money again, I go to market and point-and-kill the fishes I like, according to how much I can afford to eat!
PS: lastly, who pays price on the other during marriage? Does that apply to the places where the word "cheat" originated? Women in Nigeria WANT to be property but they want to be very expensive property

MrMcJay:
Copied the below from SDK blog:

Anonymous 22 February 2016 at 15:29

Does this ooni know the past of this girl at all?

Dear ooni of ife is itohan the person you want to use to ruin the ife bloodline? Zainab has been married three times.
Saminu turaki former governor jigawa state. Her second marriage broke up barely 4 months ago to a Lebanese called Eli.

She has been a mistress to most notable men in Nigeria. Itohan SONIA aka Zainab is a woman who likes to be kept. She doesn't do any work. She just looks for a very rich man and glues herself to him. Nduka obaigbena, Abdul Ningi, Aliko were all her men. If 50 notable men come into that oonis palace she would have bedded 70% of them albeit codedly.

What of her scandal with her twin pregnancy with Saminu turaki? It was all over city people and encomiuon. Saminu threw her out with nothing. She opened a clothing store in Maitama and was driving a white Peugeot 206.

Saminu turaki is impotent. She got probably outside and tried to pass the babies as his. Being that he was in power and needed it to cover his shame of childlessness. He accepted. At birth the so called babies died. Saminu kicked her out like a trash can. She had been quitely sending information about their supposed marriage to newspapers etc.
she left with only what she gained materially.

She is not from any bloodline though she claims john obayuwana is her uncle. She is always using john to hide her true backgrowund.

See Zainabs gist is not here oooo. If I start fishing her tea here that oonis throne will shake. We shall certainly see then end of this marriage. 32 married thrice. Been doing runs since 17 when she was doing her diploma at Benin.

At a point she even moved to Dubai and was doing Arabs.

zainab! Zainab!zainab! Your quest for money, fame, and power may be your downfall. You don tough all places come enter royal house Na this one fit finish you finally. Goodluck

www.stelladimokokorkus.com/2016/02/stella-dimoko-korkus-exclusive-ooni-of.html?m=1

Yaaaaay I don die! If all this is true - of one single person - that girl must have very convincing talents and skills known only to those privileged men!

MrMcJay:
Copied the below from SDK blog:

Anonymous 22 February 2016 at 15:29

Does this ooni know the past of this girl at all?

Dear ooni of ife is itohan the person you want to use to ruin the ife bloodline? Zainab has been married three times.
Saminu turaki former governor jigawa state. Her second marriage broke up barely 4 months ago to a Lebanese called Eli.

She has been a mistress to most notable men in Nigeria. Itohan SONIA aka Zainab is a woman who likes to be kept. She doesn't do any work. She just looks for a very rich man and glues herself to him. Nduka obaigbena, Abdul Ningi, Aliko were all her men. If 50 notable men come into that oonis palace she would have bedded 70% of them albeit codedly.

What of her scandal with her twin pregnancy with Saminu turaki? It was all over city people and encomiuon. Saminu threw her out with nothing. She opened a clothing store in Maitama and was driving a white Peugeot 206.

Saminu turaki is impotent. She got probably outside and tried to pass the babies as his. Being that he was in power and needed it to cover his shame of childlessness. He accepted. At birth the so called babies died. Saminu kicked her out like a trash can. She had been quitely sending information about their supposed marriage to newspapers etc.
she left with only what she gained materially.

She is not from any bloodline though she claims john obayuwana is her uncle. She is always using john to hide her true backgrowund.

See Zainabs gist is not here oooo. If I start fishing her tea here that oonis throne will shake. We shall certainly see then end of this marriage. 32 married thrice. Been doing runs since 17 when she was doing her diploma at Benin.

At a point she even moved to Dubai and was doing Arabs.

zainab! Zainab!zainab! Your quest for money, fame, and power may be your downfall. You don tough all places come enter royal house Na this one fit finish you finally. Goodluck

www.stelladimokokorkus.com/2016/02/stella-dimoko-korkus-exclusive-ooni-of.html?m=1

Yaaaaay I don die! If all this is true - of one single person - that girl must have very convincing talents and skills known only to those privileged people!

Did Dele Momodu write that piece I just read? I won't be surprised if he now has shadow writers as my assessment of him before I withdrew suggests that he is far from the intellectual depth to master the details written in that piece. He disappointed me so much I concluded his place in Nigeria is the entertainment and praise-singing industry and not on serious policy issues and I forever stand by that assessment as people don't just change overnight

its been long the FG executed people that's why this one is mouthing rubbish here. Maybe govt should resume regular executions so this nonentity will be silent.

Yewandequeen:
perverts everywhere

Nigeria is under a thick fog of darkness and it's inhabitants are like people living in the Dark Ages. The sad part is they have NO IDEA and think they're doing great according to the life of hypocrisy they choose to live. You know what the internet is? Try to move beyond Nairaland, ok

Sunnycliff:
Here is a man favoured who rose from prison to presidency but his quest for power made him enshrine corruption and electoral malpractices in the history of our nascent democracy.
I only celebrate with him cos God gave him life but has no legacy to bequeath to this generation.

You have no idea who Obasanjo is. Trust me. He's much more than you talk about. To know him you'll have to study his life and Nigerian history; that will take you like 3-5 years full time and will need you to empty your mind of the prejudices you already hold. That's the most difficult part. It would be the honour of my life to meet this man and thank him for what he's been able to do for country. I'm in my 40s and have been studying Nigeria since 1985

Sexytemi:
Lol...tnx oo

There is some kind of modelling or celebration for every fantastic feature in a lady. If you think you come close, send a pic so I explore possibilities. We're talking about bigger than Cossy's cos she really doesn't have anything

With a fraction of that 1million naira by a single family, my company which is going underground due to no patronage would provide security gadgets to prevent or make this incident much harder to pull of for a school with so many more students, but no: they prefer I starve to death because they have other priorities with money. Ok, I now leave them to fast to death too. Penny-wise-pound-foolish will always kill Nigerians. If you reading this stuff love your lives, go and find out all the amazing security and access control and surveillance devices that abound in Nigeria with entrepreneurs like me whom you mock and make to feel useless. It is when it happens to you that you'll know how important our service is in this type of country. Her solution is dry fasting? Pathetic country. So God wasn't aware you had a child in that school to prevent the incident? Only in a foolish country like ours that people ignore real steps to take care of their lives and flock to religious houses for fraudulent interventions. Have you ever seen these top pastors in real life? Haven't you seen their bodyguards? Why didn't they let Jesus be their bodyguard? Abeg make I rest bo, I regret being born in this country

PASCALSILVA:
PLEASE HOW SHOULD PEOPLE ACT IN 2016

In 2016 which is well well into the modern world, processes exist for bringing wrongdoers to justice and laws and countries and governments exist so that one animal does not just attack another because he can physically do it. That is the effort human beings make in modern times to differentiate themselves from the animal world from which they evolved. I can see not all societies have succeeded in that effort as we still also burn thieves alive in this jungle of ours

auntysimbiat:
NICE..

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Are you a human being? If yes, did you go to any school? If yes, did you manage to learn anything about how people should act in 2016?

TolaniLuv:
Lol, No home training at all for this girl .. Your own mother CREEPY ? STALKING ? You? She should be ashamed of her silly sef!

Another future stalker. You are just an average Nigerian brought up with wrong notions. Parents are all-powerful and are always right, abi. A pity

The problem with Nigeria is the Nigerian people themselves, a few of whom are in government. - me

Ben Bruce is a hypocrite, championing the hashtag of Nigerians are not corrupt. It is to find the Nigerian who's not corrupt that the big job is, not the other way round. It is the society, stup,id!

Pls someone help me. I found a notification here that someone e-mailed me with a link to go to my e-mail. On getting to my e-mail I couldn't make out what they were saying. They said I couldn't be contacted because I wasn't connected and I should reply the e-mail so that I could see the message.
This has always happened whenever I get a private mail and I have no idea how to read it. Can anyone help? I participate in many fora but I've never seen PMs the way of Nairaland

Maybe she's enjoying things she never before thought possible and maybe back home all she would have is a dysfunctional family with a violent father. I lived that life. Everyone in the household of failed parents would want to run away given half a chance of survival elsewhere. Such a child can't be bothered with ideology or the future; only the present matters

missbronze:
Yes, is also among my best bible quote. I always draw consolation from it, whenever I feel down.


But, if I am to go with that verse in realities of life, I will boldly say that time and chance is not fair at all. Why happen to some people and leave some people to be so wretched till the day they die.?


Why favour some people and leave some people?

My dear sister, I mean no disrespect but you don't understand that quote. The quote is the answer to that question you still ask. I've seen other bibles that are written in today's English that will help you better understand the quote

missbronze:
Hmmmm.


What do this Billionaires do that we don't do?

I mean, how do they acquire so much wealth?

Does it mean they are the ones that husstle most?

Abi, na dem get brain pass?


And, Yes, life is not fair. how can it bless one person with so much wealth and let another person be as poor as church rat.?



Meanwhile, why is it that the ratio of rich men are higher than that of rich women?

Is it that God or luck favours men most?

"And I came and saw under the sun that:
The race is not to the swift
Nor the battle to the strong
Nor bread to the wise
Nor riches to men of understanding
Nor favour to men of skill
But time and chance happen to them all"
I am anti-religion, but there is no greater truth in all the bible than this epic reflection of King Solomon. Forgive me if there's any error which I doubt, as I've memorised this quote Ecc 9:11 for almost 20 years as life began to destroy all my illusions

I just contributed a post minutes ago where I described how these known Nigerians are only interested in idle talk and personal ego trips. This is one of them. That's all they do and interestingly, depending on who they're supporting/opposing, they do make lots of money from it. And you're saying black man is serious to develop? That's what the Omojuwas have learnt and are doing. People like me ready to better country are suppressed and never get heard of. Please note that it is very easy to be one of them, given the knowledge base that I have. But I have a morality which is clearly absent in the Nigerian given the way the society is. I have resisted such a base life and that's why I can easily see - everyday - why the problem with Nigeria is its people. There is no special problem that needs solving, other than for the inhabitants of this country to stop following "how they do it" and start to think about his actions with a renewed sense of morality

Oh Nigeria. I thought it would be better with the younger generation. I waited, then I acted. No way. Now an even younger generation have come on board, only to diligently pursue the same megalomania as those old failed men. Take this from me: all the activism is about self. They don't give a hoot about country. You will observe they never build anything; they're just on news media provoking one fight or idle talk or another, desperate to prove they are at the top of all Nigerian lives. They only talk about top government, not work on a project or another with real impact on people's lives. No, it's not that they don't know any better. That has been my job: I've spent the last 4 twitter years drawing their attention to everything they don't know. It wasn't glamorous and they probably won't be the head of it all, so they run away. ALL OF THEM, NO EXCEPTIONS. They're all liars and self-obsessed egomaniacs, from Utomi to Ezekwesili; from Ben Bruce to Chude; from Dele Momodu to Ayo Obe to Funmi Iyanda. Nigeria is indeed truly cursed!