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Jonathan's Sun Sets In The East By Erasmus Ikhide
President Goodluck Jonathan has missed being the sun of the nation's life and that of the pit of degradation, called the Niger Delta. Everlasting night has settled upon Nigeria, spurred by moral bankruptcy and the clueless chaos of his governance.
BY ERASMUS IKHIDEJAN 06, 2015
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President Goodluck Jonathan has missed being the sun of the nation's life and that of the pit of degradation, called the Niger Delta. Everlasting night has settled upon Nigeria, spurred by moral bankruptcy and the clueless chaos of his governance. There is nothing his administration has done that inspires hope in the people within the last six years.

President Jonathan on New Year's Day Service
Sahara Reporters Media
Nigerians have grown accustom to the deafening cacophonies of missing billions in the oil sector and the NNPC accounts, pension fund looting, oil bunkering, abandoned projects, devaluation of the nation's currency, spilling of innocent blood by the nihilist Boko haram militias etc. Most of all, mega-corruption and the government's inability to tame the bloodcurdling insurgents Boko Haram has been President Jonathan's undoing.

He could not use his "Omnipotent Government" to suppress the vices because he is a beneficiary of the self-inflicted crises. President Jonathan's government has been a major source of mischief and disaster ever witnessed in Nigeria. Granted that the worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments in human history, but there come a time the people strive for change, and the time is now.

The above statement was echoed - not exactly the same - by no less a personage than the fierce and fire spitting Catholic Priest Rev. Ejike Mbaka. The iron cast Priest obviously ventilated Ludwig Von Mises, the Austrian School economist, sociologist, and classical liberal who became prominent for his work in praxeology, a deductive study of human choice and action. "There is no more dangerous menace to civilisation than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men", Von said.

Rev. Mbaka hits the bull's eye when he told President Jonathan the stark truth he hates to hear: "What is the fate of our children? Tears fill my eyes when I see our young graduates hoping and walking our streets. What is the meaning of kidnapping? Kidnapping is the grandson of unemployment. Boko Haram is a great grand child of the same unemployment, mass looting, and poor governance".

"President Jonathan cannot lead Nigeria. As things stand right now, from the oracle of the Holy Spirit, Jonathan should honourably resign quietly and let Nigeria be. The destiny of Nigeria is greater than Goodluck Jonathan. The Goodluck in Jonathan has become a bad luck to Nigerians. Whatever brought him in should send him back and let Nigeria be.
By this time in few months to come, many are going to lose their jobs and there is no alternative"

"During election, Jonathan will answer Azikiwe, Ebele and become an Igbo man and after election, the Ebele, the Azikiwe and Goodluck will vanish from his identity. Who is fooling who actually? Look at our federal roads, we are not even asking for new ones, roads built by Buhari and Babangidas — the so called Hausa people— cannot be maintained. Follow Enugu here to Onitsha, children born some years ago do not know that there was a lane along the other side of Isiagwu and we are all saying continue. The continuity of Jonathan means disaster to Nigeria".

"When there is no road, no power, all this fake promises… where is the power? That Onitsha Bridge, has it now been built? No. After 6 years, and Goodluck has what it takes to do whatever. He surrounded himself with hooligans. By the time he comes down, he won’t have anybody to work with. He played himself into the hands of hooligans.
My interest is about the wellness of this country. Nigeria must survive. What we are passing through is by the help of God. The same God who saved us from Ebola will save us from this bad luck season (shouts of AMEN from the congregation)".

"Look at it, there was a time there was an argument about pension fund – such billions. Who is talking about it now? Billions and we were hearing it… from excess crude oil money, where is the impact of the excess crude oil money? Now from oil boom, it has met a bad luck; it’s now oil doom. If my father will be my leader and my siblings will all die, let a stranger be my leader and let my family be", Rev. Mbaka said.

I quoted the Catholic Priest at great length because of his religious standing, his following, his geopolitical firmament and the ethno-religious sentiments that have dampened Nigeria political growth. Political leaders who failed to fulfil electoral promises to the electorate deliberately appeal or exploit ethnocentric and religious sentiments of their selfish gains in sections of the country. No Nigerian leader has gained popularity through divisive politicking, ethno-religious grandstanding than President Goodluck Jonathan. Then what is government if it is not to promote human happiness and welfare?

All the blemishes plaguing this administration came as a result of the parasitic sycophants who give the president a halo of false glory and are Hell bent on feasting dangerously on the nation's easy oil wealth. The reason, lamentably, is that Mr Jonathan didn't attain ideological maturation before he found himself in the corridors of power. He is being goaded on by dint of virtual Providence and veritable Luck. Minds more developed and ideologically balanced have proved that one of the greatest bequests to modern civilisation and governance is not entirely humility, but a great deal of granite hardness, as the need arises to trample on closest friends who stand in the way of the masses.

With one stroke of abhorrence for corruption, President Jonathan could have transformed Nigeria. In President Jonathan's administration, Nigerians have lost one of the nation's supposed great educationist whose products we have not yet found in our time their fullest use, to corruption! He missed the chance to wear the cap described in Mein Kampf, The Struggle Of My Life:

"From millions of men, one man must step forward who with apodictic force will form granite principles from the wavering idea-world of the broad masses and take up the struggle for their sole correctness, until the shifting waves of a free thought-world there will arise a brazen cliff of solid unity in faith and will". World-historical men - the Heroes of an epoch - must therefore be recognised as its clear-sighted ones, their deeds, their worlds are the best of their time.

You can now gauge why President Goodluck Jonathan government is besotted by treachery, overwhelmed by violence visited on it by the Boko Haram, drown in blood and will go up in flames in an orgy of self-willed annihilation which will answer some terrible longing question in the minds of Nigeria. The President who ought to be a man of staggering political genius, an incredible reformer by the reason of his education and experience has yielded to crass opportunism and mega-corruption.

How Mr President fell madly in love with corruption and brought himself firmly in touch with mediocrity is out of touch with the taunted story of his humble background and the shoeless narrative. It is either that corruption was imprinted on his receptive mind or his sensitive soul veers relentless to his earlier shoeless state.

Which ever way, President Jonathan's sun has set at midnight in the Eastern part of Nigeria, at the Adoration Ground, where he holds a portion of the nation to a grand illusion of oneness and slavish governance.

Erasmus Ikhide write in from Lagos, Nigeria.

Tel: 23480 5622 5515

ikhideerasmus@yahoo.com

Follow me on twitter @ (ErasmusI

But I thought he was supporting him some days back.

Why Gov Lamido is moving against Jonathan
on december 29, 2014 at 7:28 am in news
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Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North & Aliyu Dangida
Indications emerged, weekend, that Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State had openly rejected the re-election bid of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015.
Although there had been speculations in the past that Lamido was unhappy with Jonathan over the way he had been treated by the leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party and the president’s unfulfilled promises to the state, Lamido openly voiced his opposition to Jonathan’s candidacy at a PDP rally in Dutse on Saturday.
Apparently to send Lamido’s message loud and clear to the Presidency, the event which was held at the state capital, was transmitted live via a private television station with national coverage.
Again, to prove his anger against Jonathan, the organisers of the PDP event deliberately and carefully avoided displaying the President’s posters throughout the rally.
On the other hand, the campaign posters of the governorship candidate of the PDP in the state and those of other contestants for the state and national elections were conspicuously and generously displayed.
Besides, rather than await the President to present the flags to the PDP candidates as is the custom of the party, the governor went ahead to perform the event, apparently preventing Jonathan from performing the political tradition just before elections.
None of the candidates canvassed for support for Jonathan throughout the rally, which was well attended by the members of the party in the state.
Vanguard learnt from a top source in Dutse on Sunday that Lamido felt bitter and betrayed by both Jonathan and the PDP for not doing any tangible project in Jigawa State after he had risked his life and those of his family members to work for Jonathan’s victory in 2011.
The source pointed out that the refusal or the inability of Jonathan to undertake any of the four key projects, which he openly promised the people during his 2011 campaign had pitted the governor against the political leaders and people of the state.
President Jonathan, it was learnt, had promised to build a cargo airport in Dutse, rebuild broken federal roads abandoned in the state for over 20 years, construct a dam at Auyo and build a major waterworks in the capital, four promises yet to be fulfilled with less than two months to the next polls.
It was also revealed out of the N15 billion spent by state government on the building of the Duste International Airport, which Jonathan commissioned on October 21 this year, the Federal Government had only chipped in less than a billion.
A top source in the state confided in Vanguard that Lamido was being portrayed as a traitor by most of the citizens, who see him as supporting Jonathan for personal reasons but working against their interest.

justwise:
When exactly are you going to apply for visa?

I wanted to apply in January with the hope that I can get a march or april interview date, however my travel date plan is august to mark my wedding anniversary.

Good day guys,
Please i want to apply for US visa, though the first time, however my passport will expire in 7months time, so i tried to do a renewal, but on getting to the passport office today, they told me I can't renew until it is less than six month. My fear is that if apply with the present passport by the time I am due in the embassy I may have 4months or thereabout left to expiration. Please do you advise, I intend to make payment 1st week in January and book date same period.

Expecting your response

Goodluck Johnathan is a good man as a person, his simplicity and gentlemanness is second to none.
*He has given us his very BEST over the last
6 years. I mean, what else are we asking for?
*He has granted Alameisiya 'STATE
PARDON' and my guy is now running for Senate.
*He allowed Fayoose to distrupt a court session and beat up a judge, while he walks freely. I wonder if Nigeria is sane.
*He locked up the entrance of the House of Reps from the of the CONSTITUTIONAL
speaker of that house.
*7 law makers impeached a speaker in Ekiti in a house of about 26 men, and nothing happened.
*16 was suddenly greater than 19 in base
10, just to cancel the one-term agreement he signed with the NIGERIA Governors' Forum and all Nigerians in 2011.
*Subsidy has been removed and the
standards in our hospitals have reduced with time.
*$20 billion is missing and minister of Petroleum eats and dines with the president .
*Another BIGGER & BOLDER subsidy is scheduled for 1st of June, 2015 and you may have to sell your laptop charger before you can buy fuel to charge that same laptop!!!
* Earlier this year, over 22 innocent Nigerians were killed in the job scam organized by the Nigerian Immigration Service. The Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, told us the job interview was "simply mismanaged" and he has retained his office and even with extra luggage.
*2 Naira used to be equal to $1 under GMB but now it's #186.5 to just $1, the worst ever in our history.
* Madam Gele, Ngozi Okonjo, just told us
we need an extra $5 billion, through debts of course, so that our economy will not collapse like Humpty-Dumpty.
*While Benue State University was on an
unending internal strike killing the future of poor Nigerians, Senator DAVID MARK (son of the soil) built his own PRIVATE UNIVERSITY, of course with tax payers' money, and my gentle president shamelessly followed him to commission the school!!!
*He has spent all money in the treasury and even had to BORROW an extra $1 billion but BokoHaram keeps getting more equipped than our military.
*Over 200 girls are missing, over 15,000
killed by BokoHaram , over 6 million displaced from their homes and uncountable injured beyond repairs yet my president went to a a meeting in KENYA with 7 different PRIVATE JETS.
AND THE BIG ONE IS
PHCN is giving their loyal customers GENERATORS as gifts for paying their electricity bills on time!!! Grab your copy now

Goodluck Johnathan is a good man as a person, his simplicity and gentlemanness is second to none.
*He has given us his very BEST over the last
6 years. I mean, what else are we asking for?
*He has granted Alameisiya 'STATE
PARDON' and my guy is now running for Senate.
*He allowed Fayoose to distrupt a court session and beat up a judge, while he walks freely. I wonder if Nigeria is sane.
*He locked up the entrance of the House of Reps from the of the CONSTITUTIONAL
speaker of that house.
*7 law makers impeached a speaker in Ekiti in a house of about 26 men, and nothing happened.
*16 was suddenly greater than 19 in base
10, just to cancel the one-term agreement he signed with the NIGERIA Governors' Forum and all Nigerians in 2011.
*Subsidy has been removed and the
standards in our hospitals have reduced with time.
*$20 billion is missing and minister of Petroleum eats and dines with the president .
*Another BIGGER & BOLDER subsidy is scheduled for 1st of June, 2015 and you may have to sell your laptop charger before you can buy fuel to charge that same laptop!!!
* Earlier this year, over 22 innocent Nigerians were killed in the job scam organized by the Nigerian Immigration Service. The Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, told us the job interview was "simply mismanaged" and he has retained his office and even with extra luggage.
*2 Naira used to be equal to $1 under GMB but now it's #186.5 to just $1, the worst ever in our history.
* Madam Gele, Ngozi Okonjo, just told us
we need an extra $5 billion, through debts of course, so that our economy will not collapse like Humpty-Dumpty.
*While Benue State University was on an
unending internal strike killing the future of poor Nigerians, Senator DAVID MARK (son of the soil) built his own PRIVATE UNIVERSITY, of course with tax payers' money, and my gentle president shamelessly followed him to commission the school!!!
*He has spent all money in the treasury and even had to BORROW an extra $1 billion but BokoHaram keeps getting more equipped than our military.
*Over 200 girls are missing, over 15,000
killed by BokoHaram , over 6 million displaced from their homes and uncountable injured beyond repairs yet my president went to a a meeting in KENYA with 7 different PRIVATE JETS.
AND THE BIG ONE IS
PHCN is giving their loyal customers GENERATORS as gifts for paying their electricity bills on time!!! Grab your copy now

FastShipping:
Dangote reverted to old price when he found out uncertainty about who wins the next election. I knew it was fraud when he first claimed to be on the side of common man.

Omo you guys wicked oooo. You know even spare the guy

Surprisingly the price of cement is back 1900 between yesterday and today. Is this also one of the present government propaganda to secure vote in 2015.

englishmart:
the teeth of a vampire cannot deter a Tiv from eating bush rats.

Btw, where IN abuja did this happen?

it was one of those estates on the way to Lokogoma estates

maclatunji:
I have been doing some research and that dentition is not uncommon for rodents with long and sharp incisors. If it were alive, those protruding teeth would be tucked in its mouth.

ok thanks for your response

englishmart:
the teeth of a vampire cannot deter a Tiv from eating bush rats.

Btw, where IN abuja did this happen?

it was one of those estates on the way to Lokogoma estates

I am just wondering about the teeth. So out of place.

My friend dog killed this rodent in her compound in Abuja this weekend. And since then we have been wondering what is fused together to bred this. See pix.

14 June 1963 (age 50)
Epe, Lagos, Nigeria.
Alma mater University of Lagos
Wharton Business School
Cranfield School of Management
Institute of Management Development
INSEAD
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Religion Christianity

Akinwunmi was born on June 14, 1963 at the Epe General Hospital, Epe, Lagos, as the sixth of ten children. His late father, Festus Akinwale Ambode was a teacher while his mother, Christianah Oluleye Ambode (nee Oresanya) was an entrepreneur who ran a thriving sewing business in her prime. In 1967, when Akin was still four years old, his father moved to the mainland part of Lagos with the family and continued his teaching career until his death in 1981. Akinwunmi Ambode began his education at St. Jude’s Primary School, Ebutte Meta, Lagos, Nigeria in 1969. In 1974, while still in Primary 5, he sat for the National Common Entrance Examinations and was admitted to Federal Government College, Warri in the same year.

NomadicNaija:
@oolumide. The number of years she has been in the Job matters a lot more than the money. All depends on how you arrange your paper work plus your leaving kids behind. If that is the option you have chosen.

Am aware of someone with no job, little money but strong ties ( leaving wife and kids behind) plus well arranged paper work. Got B1/B2 Visa.

Note: Arranged paper work here means documents showing you have reasons to return.

Thanks for your response

Scrypt:
Come, are you high? How does my moniker look like the person you planned to mention? Oya fix your mistake before I change my mind.

Sorry you were wrongly qouted. no vex, it was the guy complaining about update that i was attacking. but come self is that why u are screaming like castrated dog. You no even happy say somebody respond to your comment even it was done wrongly

chaloner:
Dear Seun Osewa,
I have noticed with dismay that the frontpage
of this great forum has been hijacked by
terrorists. Yes terrorist! Because I fail to
understand why any sane individual would
embark on an aggressive per second update
of the homepage.
The frontpage of this forum used to be
revered and topics worth their salt.
Today it has totally gone to the dogs. If you're
not convinced of this assertion, why not take
a stroll down some of those topics on FP,
you'll discover that the pages hardly go
beyond page 3. This is opposed to when as a
rule FP threads had a minimum of 20 solid
pages filled with quality and incisive
discourse.
Now go take a look at what's happening to
those threads your 'boys' put out there, its a
real mess. I just dey shake my head
throughout today. I no fit read any of those
topics.
I expect you to solve some of the nagging
problems we've been experiencing such as
those posed by the Space Bookers Association
of Nairaland otherwise known as Nairaland.
But all you've done in effect is help spread
their ministry.
In closing I want to urge you to as a matter of
urgency revert to the old system where
threads where allowed to mature at the
section level before been pushed forward to
the homepage. This will amongst other things
help to;
1) Cut drastically the activities of Nairaland
members as pages would have progressed
way beyond page 1 and its direction of
discourse already clearly established. This na
serious check against Nairaland members
who are not interested in discourse of any
sort.
2) Modelling the direction as well as
improving the content of thread discourse.
3) Ultimately keeping your premium
members who are very highly placed people
of corporate Nigeria but who still find time to
drop in on your little web due the quality of
some posters submissions.
I know say you dey find money as evidenced
by your recent search for a paid supermod,
but please don't sacrifice content for some
mediocre gain that won't even last.
Cheers bro.

What is your wahala with this, do you think everyone here has the time to go to all the different sections. the more they upload topics on the front page the better. That is why some people prefer Linda ikeji, cos there is no missing a posting everything is on front page. Please seun ignore this man i beg. Moderators please fire on.

Scrypt:
Lol, this man just dey stir controversy from all quarters. Spoiling the runs of them polithievians . Can't wait to get my hands on that book.

What is your wahala with this, do you think everyone here has the time to go to all the different sections. the more they upload topics on the front page the better. That is why some people prefer Linda ikeji, cos there is no missing a posting everything is on front page. Please seun ignore this man i beg. Moderators please fire on.

This is bombastic

chaircover:
You do not inflict pain on someone you claim to love

I agree the wifey made a number of serious mistakes, but this mans response is not the answer to the problem. You can correct in love.

Wifey, you need to have a one to one with your hubby. Apologise for previous behaviour and ask him to give you a chance to make amends. Some young ladies are fond of this behaviour, trying to have your cake ansd eating it. You wont sleep with the guy but you are happy to call him maga and call all your friends to come and spend his money. You think all guys are stupid.

Explain to him that he is hurting you both physically and mentally and his hurting you indirectly means that he is hurting himself as your happiness is his happiness too.

He obviously likes sex, so you too need to step up and not be found wanting. This is not the time to be prudish and be wearing jeans to bed. Sex is a beautiful thing between husband and wife. You both own each other and you should both be giving each other pleasure; not just one sided or painful.

. . .and to the people who asked the question . . YES!!! There can be rape within marriage and had this guy been married to an oyibo and lived in some countrys, he would have been arrested by now.

As usual from you madam. Delivered without emotion and straight to the point. The best and most instructive response that I have read since. Your head is usual there.

SAMBARRY:
is that one husband. If that is what marriage is then I reject it for my children.


Titilayo the sacrificial scapegoat is there to learn from. Because she wanted to save a dead marriage she lost her life. I don't know what that is but that's not marriage o.its better she loses the socio path than her life . Thank you

this case is different from Titilayo. The op has not even come to terms with reality about sex in marriage. But op be truthful, has he ever beaten you before, if has done that then your case is pathetic and serious then you better run for your dear life. But if not then all he has done is fare in love and sex in marriage. He just needs some twicking here and there. For me I think communication and stereotype about how things should be is the prob with your marriage. You are better of resolving it now before it fester like infested sore and gangrene

Moderator pls some people on this particular post have very annoying habit of quoting the op anytime they want to comment. Pls start removing their post I beg you.

SAMBARRY! SAMBARRY! SAMBARRY! How many times did I call you. The way you are going about this ordinary f**king that you and some girls here are calling rape will make this girl lose her husband ooo. You OP self you better go home and talk with your husband and stop calling ordinary s*x rape. Learn from oga jona.
if ur hussy face outside you wont like it ooo. Then you will be the one begging him he will tell you to take away your simba bicycle saying he has seen raleigh bicycle outside.

Reference:
Seun. These topics should not make front page.

Why hipocrite!!!!!!!

gabe:
Bro, we v all bleeped women before (don't know abt u sha lol) and unless u r demented, every dude knows d sex is sweetest when she's cooperating fully. It was her honeymoon, she wanted d sex! Why force her? Just some few sweet words n she'd have done all he wanted, even if it wasn't dat nite, but hey, its marriage, they'll be fucking forever. With time, he'll have everything including the love of the woman he 'suffered' for. And oh, the 'suffering' was his choice. Nobody forced him. If he had searched well and wasn't so intent on revenge, he could have gotten a more willing partner.

Ok ooooh. Advise her to seek for a break now. As it is it can be amended with appeal and submissiveness and prayers

maclatunji:
He might kill her going at this rate.

What will kill her? Sex? She better become submissive to her husband. Chikena

@blessie (op) you are realy a joker. Dont allow all these nairalanders deceive you to lose your marriage.
you denied a man of sex and romance all through your courtship which I dont have problem with. Now you want to continue the punishment after your wedding. Men when without sex for sometime behave like maniac when they finally get opportunity. So your husband is not abnormal, I guess he expected more from you on your wedding nite after the long break especially if he is a very active fellow sexually before you guys started dating.
In this day sex in marriage is nolonger just missionary position but more. I expected that you should have been well schooled before the nite considering the denial before marriage.
But it is obvious that you planned to dominate your marriage the same way you did during courtship. And he saw through this and he wanted to break you with force.
1. He said have bath with me. What is the big deal? Ok you want him to do things on his own hmmm you will cry tire if he abandons you.
2. He said felatio I.e oral you said no, he said stand rather than sleep like log of wood you said no. Are you a baby or a pretender.
You better go and read some romance books and watch romantic film to learn. Or talk to a mature woman.
my advice hold to your man before he goes to look for it somewhere else.
you are having problem with sex because you keep thinking too much of it sinful.
I dont think your husband is mean and wicked but all men can behave as such if denied what they think is their own.
I will advise you to start loving him sexually all the way. If he had asked for things like anal s*x is when you could say he is crazy.
if after the amendment he refuse to treat yoi nice then you could conclude he is a maniac.
I warn you to hold to your man before some other girls entice him ooooo.

Ain't you guys going to comment?

For me in my very early 40s with a young family and a career that is just hanging in the air I keep searching for way out. I thought by the time I came to be in my early 40s I should be on my own. But it seems that vicissitudes of life is making it to be otherwise.
I went into farming in my mid 30s but since I had to move from one state to another on my job I was forced to close it down 5yrs later. So can we share info on how to deal with all these.

What is mid-life crises?
In a paper published in 1965, Elliott Jaques, then 48 and a relatively unknown Canadian psychoanalyst and organizational consultant, coined the term “midlife crisis.” Jaques wrote that during this period, we come face-to-face with our limitations, our restricted possibilities, and our mortality.

In his own midlife and beyond, however, Jaques did not seem to live with a sense of limitations. In the 38 years between the publication of that paper and his death in 2003, at age 86, he wrote 12 books; he consulted to the U.S. Army, the Church of England, and a wide variety of companies; he married Kathryn Cason, who was his wife and collaborator for more than 30 years; and, with Cason, he founded a consulting company devoted to the dissemination of their ideas.

Are you in your late 30s and mid 40s? Are you confused about way forward? Lets meet here and share how to take control of our lives. Are you working 9 to 5 and you are wondering how long it will continue before you cross over to entrepreneur side or move to the top of your career?

Let us keep the ball rolling nairalanders.