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Atiku will become the Next president when the opportunity comes and none of u can do anything about it cause a large majority of Nigerians will sell their future for recharge cards and bags of rice

Fact

sinceerr:
Oloshi alai ni ise

Na true the guy talk

Tudór:
Says who? 

Says the God Almighty  - Your Stance does not change or will have no bearing at all that God is Still Great and fprever faithfull.

long live nigeria

IKEYMAN!!!:
egwu

u are truelly an idots

plz go and harvast ur cassava

do u advocate for a one Nigeria or a broken one?

Please abeg dont emulate Blacksta - The Guy is a figure of my imagination.

Cause Nigerians r cursed in the area of leadership

unable to score due to non availiabilty of postive information

From Sufferhead to Riches while the masses are going the opposite

God dey sha ,

KnowAll:
The northerner that post this subject has been the most civilised person so far on this thread. I thought southerners use to be light years ahead of the north. But from the response above from our southern brothers that does not seem to be the case. How anyone can log on to a computer and the first thing they do is personally trade the most obsence foul language you can ever imagine, that beats my imagination instead of dealing with the subject matter they just go of course. The fact remains that this so called foul mouthed southerners are the biggest cowards you can think of hiding under the cloak of internet secrecy.

I second that - I can only but feel hatred from the post i have read. We are all equally guilty for this mess we call Nigeria. We need an re orientation or re organisation.

juicy-emmy:
Lets not drag the government into this.The govt has never helped issues concerning the citizenry.However, the fact that nigerian govt collapsed our educational system and made us certificate graduates doesn't mean we shouldn't take our destiny in our own hands.My case is clear and simple--indians cannot be trainned or struggle for trainning slots in a capacity strictly meant for nigerians.my reason?, Afetr trainning them they will hoard knowledge to protect their position and payments in dollars and afterwards scamper back to their country leaving my naija bros to pick up from where they left off (at this stage my naija bros is taking over with a hindsight).I know indians i have worked with them and they always think they are better educated and have every right to work as expatriates in naija whereas they will never offer you jobs in their own country not to talk of trainning you in their own capacity(Think about that).
We need to speak with one voice on this issue and it should start here.Else,if Bua and Dangote gets away with this malady,Nestle might begin to consider it,Mtn and even our nigerian banks might not want to be left out.Then what would we have in our hands?, your guess is as good as mine.

Right there i score 0 over 10 - It is the government that is responsible for providing an enabling environment - thru policies and other infrastructures . Correction will start from the Government no single NGO can turn this mess around.

Very sad though.

philip0906:
I will rate them 9.5/10.they r on d right path.they were selected to lead us to DOOM and they r doing just dat.

i second that

Please seun title the forum - Hell Bound

I dont have to live in abuja to know whether it is expensive or not - can u please tell me the cost of staying at hilton for a night ?

Expensive city dont mean shit where poverty is about 90% of the population. One of the major reason Abuja is thriving cause of the stolen loot that is easily circulating.

Never Mind anyway - it is just another path to self destruction.

Fhemmmy:
what would u wanna recycle?

Government officals

JeSoul:
JJ thanks for sharing that beautiful piece. We all have to go thru the Refiner's fire in order to come out pure, tried and proven.

The Carnal Mind is blind - All these so called Athesit cant even resist the bait called Christians. They are so so quick to post .

e mi ko ki se omo ibo  - mo wa lati ipinla Ogun state.

ilorindad:
tayo ma da owo loshi , that the way they claim that kwara state is the north. what is in my blood that looks like ibo or hausa. mi o ba hausa ni anything.

I am pure yoruba, what is una business if we want follow our own brother. wetin ko seni una. make una mind una own business. and make una and hausa and all the money una they steal go die. we want follow our own people.

how many time have we told you people about odua/benin republic. we have been shouting it for many years. make una let us go.

tayo4lif:
blacksta omo ibo, when did you become yoruba.

E ma won omo ibo yi. When have you become the mouth of we yoruba people. what is the relation between we yorubas and hausa. We do not want to be part of nigeria. Go and die.

If someone says he does not want to have sex with you are you going to force them blacksta .

Becomerich

We the Yorubas have decided to stay as one Nigeria -

spikedcylinder:
Thank goodness for the anonymity of the internet. Otherwise, individuals like you would have torn my face with natural blows giving the nature of minor disagreements here and there.

Spike u dont finish me with laughter --- ooo any way wetin dey happen

Tudor the christian Hater but Jesus still love u -

if it were over consistuency matters - e.g good roads for the people it would have been o.k one might i say they were people passionate but u and i know that the fight was over personal intrests. So who cares let them kill themselves.

The World Enjoyed every minute- Rip

Why the need for Aggression is it so hard to have a civil debate or is it a characteristic of an atheist to front aggression?

All Athesit know in their deepest of heart that God Exists and He is drawing u cause he loves u - dont fight it.

Before Christmas I returned, after 45 years, to the country that as a boy I knew as Nyasaland. Today it's Malawi, and The Times Christmas Appeal includes a small British charity working there. Pump Aid helps rural communities to install a simple pump, letting people keep their village wells sealed and clean. I went to see this work.

It inspired me, renewing my flagging faith in development charities. But travelling in Malawi refreshed another belief, too: one I've been trying to banish all my life, but an observation I've been unable to avoid since my African childhood. It confounds my ideological beliefs, stubbornly refuses to fit my world view, and has embarrassed my growing belief that there is no God.

Now a confirmed atheist, I've become convinced of the enormous contribution that Christian evangelism makes in Africa: sharply distinct from the work of secular NGOs, government projects and international aid efforts. These alone will not do. Education and training alone will not do. In Africa Christianity changes people's hearts. It brings a spiritual transformation. The rebirth is real. The change is good.

I used to avoid this truth by applauding - as you can - the practical work of mission churches in Africa. It's a pity, I would say, that salvation is part of the package, but Christians black and white, working in Africa, do heal the sick, do teach people to read and write; and only the severest kind of secularist could see a mission hospital or school and say the world would be better without it. I would allow that if faith was needed to motivate missionaries to help, then, fine: but what counted was the help, not the faith.
BACKGROUND
But this doesn't fit the facts. Faith does more than support the missionary; it is also transferred to his flock. This is the effect that matters so immensely, and which I cannot help observing.

First, then, the observation. We had friends who were missionaries, and as a child I stayed often with them; I also stayed, alone with my little brother, in a traditional rural African village. In the city we had working for us Africans who had converted and were strong believers. The Christians were always different. Far from having cowed or confined its converts, their faith appeared to have liberated and relaxed them. There was a liveliness, a curiosity, an engagement with the world - a directness in their dealings with others - that seemed to be missing in traditional African life. They stood tall.

At 24, travelling by land across the continent reinforced this impression. From Algiers to Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon and the Central African Republic, then right through the Congo to Rwanda, Tanzania and Kenya, four student friends and I drove our old Land Rover to Nairobi.

We slept under the stars, so it was important as we reached the more populated and lawless parts of the sub-Sahara that every day we find somewhere safe by nightfall. Often near a mission.

Whenever we entered a territory worked by missionaries, we had to acknowledge that something changed in the faces of the people we passed and spoke to: something in their eyes, the way they approached you direct, man-to-man, without looking down or away. They had not become more deferential towards strangers - in some ways less so - but more open.

This time in Malawi it was the same. I met no missionaries. You do not encounter missionaries in the lobbies of expensive hotels discussing development strategy documents, as you do with the big NGOs. But instead I noticed that a handful of the most impressive African members of the Pump Aid team (largely from Zimbabwe) were, privately, strong Christians. “Privately” because the charity is entirely secular and I never heard any of its team so much as mention religion while working in the villages. But I picked up the Christian references in our conversations. One, I saw, was studying a devotional textbook in the car. One, on Sunday, went off to church at dawn for a two-hour service.

It would suit me to believe that their honesty, diligence and optimism in their work was unconnected with personal faith. Their work was secular, but surely affected by what they were. What they were was, in turn, influenced by a conception of man's place in the Universe that Christianity had taught.

There's long been a fashion among Western academic sociologists for placing tribal value systems within a ring fence, beyond critiques founded in our own culture: “theirs” and therefore best for “them”; authentic and of intrinsically equal worth to ours.

I don't follow this. I observe that tribal belief is no more peaceable than ours; and that it suppresses individuality. People think collectively; first in terms of the community, extended family and tribe. This rural-traditional mindset feeds into the “big man” and gangster politics of the African city: the exaggerated respect for a swaggering leader, and the (literal) inability to understand the whole idea of loyal opposition.

Anxiety - fear of evil spirits, of ancestors, of nature and the wild, of a tribal hierarchy, of quite everyday things - strikes deep into the whole structure of rural African thought. Every man has his place and, call it fear or respect, a great weight grinds down the individual spirit, stunting curiosity. People won't take the initiative, won't take things into their own hands or on their own shoulders.

How can I, as someone with a foot in both camps, explain? When the philosophical tourist moves from one world view to another he finds - at the very moment of passing into the new - that he loses the language to describe the landscape to the old. But let me try an example: the answer given by Sir Edmund Hillary to the question: Why climb the mountain? “Because it's there,” he said.

To the rural African mind, this is an explanation of why one would not climb the mountain. It's,  well, there. Just there. Why interfere? Nothing to be done about it, or with it. Hillary's further explanation - that nobody else had climbed it - would stand as a second reason for passivity.

Christianity, post-Reformation and post-Luther, with its teaching of a direct, personal, two-way link between the individual and God, unmediated by the collective, and unsubordinate to any other human being, smashes straight through the philosphical/spiritual framework I've just described. It offers something to hold on to to those anxious to cast off a crushing tribal groupthink. That is why and how it liberates.

Those who want Africa to walk tall amid 21st-century global competition must not kid themselves that providing the material means or even the knowhow that accompanies what we call development will make the change. A whole belief system must first be supplanted.

And I'm afraid it has to be supplanted by another. Removing Christian evangelism from the African equation may leave the continent at the mercy of a malign fusion of Nike, the witch doctor, the mobile phone and the machete.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article5400568.ece

blacksta:
Whereas the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria acknowledges that the challenges of the Niger Delta arose mainly from the inadequacies of previous attempts at meeting the yearnings and aspiration of the people, and have set in motion machinery for the sustainable development of the Niger Delta States;



Whereas certain elements of the Niger Delta populace have resorted to unlawful means of agitation for the development of the region including militancy thereby threatening peace, security, order and good governance and jeopardising the economy of the nation;



Whereas the Government realises that many of the militants are able-bodied youths whose energies could be harnessed for the development of the Niger Delta and the nation at large;



Whereas the Government desires that all persons who have directly or indirectly participated in militancy in the Niger Delta should return to respect constituted authority; and



Whereas many persons who had so engaged in militancy now desire to apply for and obtain amnesty and pardon.



NOW THEREFORE, I, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, after due consultation with the council of States and in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the provisions of Section 175 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, make the following proclamation:



1. I hereby grant amnesty and unconditional pardon to all persons who have directly or indirectly participated in the commission of offences associated with militant activities in the Niger Delta;



2. The pardon shall take effect upon the surrender and handing over of all equipment, weapons, arms and ammunition and execution of the renunciation of Militancy Forms specified in the schedule hereto, by the affected persons at the nearest collection centre established for the purpose of Government in each of the Niger Delta States;

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3. The unconditional pardon granted pursuant to this proclamation shall extend to all persons presently being prosecuted for offences associated with militant activities; and



4. This proclamation shall cease to have effect from Sunday, 4th October 2009.

MADE UNDER MY HAND THIS __25th__ DAY OF_june__ 2009.

UMARU MUSA YAR’ADUA

http://www.thetimesofnigeria.com/Article.aspx?id=1927

This man is a failure - the above framework took forever to be written - And the so called 7 I DANGER still no framework 2 years after.

Whereas the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria acknowledges that the challenges of the Niger Delta arose mainly from the inadequacies of previous attempts at meeting the yearnings and aspiration of the people, and have set in motion machinery for the sustainable development of the Niger Delta States;



Whereas certain elements of the Niger Delta populace have resorted to unlawful means of agitation for the development of the region including militancy thereby threatening peace, security, order and good governance and jeopardising the economy of the nation;



Whereas the Government realises that many of the militants are able-bodied youths whose energies could be harnessed for the development of the Niger Delta and the nation at large;



Whereas the Government desires that all persons who have directly or indirectly participated in militancy in the Niger Delta should return to respect constituted authority; and



Whereas many persons who had so engaged in militancy now desire to apply for and obtain amnesty and pardon.



NOW THEREFORE, I, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, after due consultation with the council of States and in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the provisions of Section 175 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, make the following proclamation:



1. I hereby grant amnesty and unconditional pardon to all persons who have directly or indirectly participated in the commission of offences associated with militant activities in the Niger Delta;



2. The pardon shall take effect upon the surrender and handing over of all equipment, weapons, arms and ammunition and execution of the renunciation of Militancy Forms specified in the schedule hereto, by the affected persons at the nearest collection centre established for the purpose of Government in each of the Niger Delta States;

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3. The unconditional pardon granted pursuant to this proclamation shall extend to all persons presently being prosecuted for offences associated with militant activities; and



4. This proclamation shall cease to have effect from Sunday, 4th October 2009.

MADE UNDER MY HAND THIS __25th__ DAY OF_june__ 2009.

UMARU MUSA YAR’ADUA

http://www.thetimesofnigeria.com/Article.aspx?id=1927

9 page thread - on some copyright issue on page 1

na wa o

Fhemmmy:
At least Yar'Adua will be remembered for one things now.

that he pardoned coup plotters - what about the thousands awaiting various trials but locked up.