₦airaland Forum

Firstly,All those political elephants and juggernauts Nairalanders contributors and analyst have to come to agreement for such a conference to hold thereafter we talk to Seun to give his consent because it should be seen as an offspring of his Nairaland project before we get into details.

@kosovo

Is it possible to poll the opinion of members about such a conference?

yeswecan:
Leave the media , they are controlled .

Controlled? Is like you live in one small bush? If you live outside Nigeria you will understand. Just one small scare at Newark Airport,New York yesterday there was 6 hours delay because a man breached security. My brother this is real life

it can be online realtime,it can be life,it depends.Probably the first real time online Nigeria political gathering will be the bomb.Yahoo!

Their Messiah should come just like Jesus came with his massage of love and forgiveness. Asking the Muslims to concur to the New Testament or the Bible is an impossible mission,a clash of civilization that can bring man's existence to end. The Apocalypse.The beginning of the end.Iran will develop and release all the nuclear weapons it can.

Madam re branding has seen situations that surpass her. She is helpless.

[size=20pt]When I sound it loud and clear that Nigerians are the worlds best living cowards,some people will call for my head[/size]

This conference I am proposing should be spear minded by the politics section which boost of a diverse congregation of a microcosm of Nigeria. I believe that mediums such as NL can make an impart on the political landscape of Nigeria for a positive change. It should be nonpartisan and should be held in Nigeria if the freedom of association of Nigerians willing to attend will not be impeded-as in Iran where protesters pay with their lives. I have observed that posters and contributors on NL are sincere possibly due to the element of anonymity attached to the forum. I figure that most people who visit Nairaland are young Nigerians who are dissatisfied with the current trends of negative news that emanate from the only country they can call their own. Most of those eminent figures who are well respected pro democracy activist do not visit Nairaland.I still believe in Nigeria and I believe firmly that we can save this nation from further slide down in level of underdevelopment and chaos. A bigger prosperous nation is better than fragments of nations who may turn into rogue states. Undoubtedly,God has blessed us with enough human and material resources to succeed but Nigeria's problems are man made.

42 years of Misrule with Nigeria in disarray and poverty and want ravaging the citizens.
A comatose president which is better than having none.
Boko Haram and Religious crisis.
Placed Nigeria on on the list of Terrorist nations.
I think the next is heralding the beginning of the end of Nigeria as one nation? Who knows! Obj will always say "we dey kampe."

Please add to the list.

I nominate this guy because instead of enjoying the wealth of his rich parents he chose to dream of 72 virtual virgins and a fight against Irans's 'enemies of God." Looking at his pictures the looks on his face depicts exactly the kind of senerio in  'Things Fall Apart" where Chinua Achebe said that said that Nwoye-Okonkwo's son-developed into a sad youth.

To come and change some mundane violent laws inherent in this religion. When Christ appeared on the scene in christian religion,He came with a massage of peace and forgiveness.That is exactly what Islam needs in other to root out extremism. Some of its laws are not in consonance with spiritual concepts and are at conflict with human's ethics of living on planet earth. If this Messiah comes,maybe he will be against extremism which leads to terrorism.

Soon we will be classified among the notorious four-Cuba,Syria,Iran and Sudan.We are witnesses to the devastation caused by our northern brother,a stigma which its full negative effect is yet to be fully unraveled. Undoubtedly,the classification of Nigeria among potential terrorist country with introduction of full body scanners and random checks gives us a grim picture of what is yet to come.

Check it out on CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/01/03/tsa.measures/index.html

Imagination don't have effect in Nigeria politics.

Every Nigeria is now regarded as a potential terrorist.

Don't mistakes happen? Sahara reporters is marvelous as long as information dissemination is concerned. They should learn to report facts and improve on the strides that they have achieved so far.

[size=20pt]Nigeria most wanted man-Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'Adua-President of the Federal Repubulic of Nigeria.
for abdicating his throne.Anyone with useful information of where we can find him dead or alive gets $20m ransom[/size]

Wonders shall never end,but we are used to it.

"We Should be guided by What works" President Barack Obama.

I grew up to learn that you don't wish your fellow man even your enemy death. It's cruel and only acceptable in the extreme of all circumstances perhaps when that person is after your own life and you can't help the wickedness of men but defendj your dear life.

Today marks exactly two years,seven months and two days since Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was sworn in as Nigeria's president in a disputed election which himself acknowledged that the process that brought him to power was 'flawed.' I was one of those who had tremendous faith in the incumbent President's ability to deliver and put Nigeria on the road map to progress and bring about the much needed economic and political emancipation that the 'Giant of Africa' deserves given the fact that God in his infinite mercies has blessed the nation with abundant human and material resources. My belief in Yar'Adua's ability to herald that needed paradigm shift stemmed from the fact that in our 50 years of nationhood,he is the only university graduate to assume the highest office of the land and moreover he came from one of those perceived humble profession which is teaching.

I presumed that since this man was coming from the education sector and more so a retiring teacher,he will come to terms with the underlying reality that education needed to be accorded high premium in our nation's development agenda;even as African governments have overlooked the full education of the African people as one of the major bane of our advancement in all areas of human endeavor.The West never misses that point that is why one of the major fulcrums of Obama's ascendancy to the US presidency as outlined in his books and campaign remains a call on America to invest more in the education sector as a panacea to maintain its enviable status as the world's then sole super power.Inability to pay serious attention to the education sector is just one of the many failures of this administration.

I was one among many who advocated that although Yar'Adua came in through the back door,he should be given the chance to build on the achievements of former President Olusegun Obasanjo or at least improve on them while we move ahead in the task of perfecting our democracy and in the direction of upward mobility of nation building. The report card of Yar'Adua today is nothing to go by rather dismal and appalling.He paints Baba Obasanjo as a super achiever. The year 2009 which coincided with the world recession-that ravaged the developed world and threatened human existence-is the worst in the ten years of our nascent democracy. A summary of the Yar'Adua's achievement has been captured in a 14 point report card published by saharareporters.com.

I had initially on the 9th of November 2009 weeks before the present incapacitation of Mr. President articulated and elucidated a 10 point discourse(nigeriarevoluition..com) on why the president should as a matter of urgency resign to save the soul of this nation;his poor health status topped the list. The saharareporters.com version is a better and summarized version of my over 25 pages discourse.

One month and 9 days ago,President Yar'Adua who could no longer hide under the cloak of performing Hajj in Saudi Arabia was admitted in a Saudi hospital. Those of us who were in the know of the inevitable quickly added steam to our initial calls for his resignation.We were vilified and demonized,call names and accused of trying to distort the political equation of Nigeria. Fasting and prayers were declared,while 'men of God' stormed Abuja and took their turns to pray for our ailing leader. Politicians have since then engaged in spurious prayers and have been posturing for who will out-pray the other. At a point it was rumoured that they were planning to bundle the President back to the country dead or alive.As for me, I continued to ask what this prayer warriors of our darling nation Nigeria want the God of Heavens to do.A miracle? A man that is known to suffer from a severe kidney ailment which is a terminal disease has his precarious health status complicated by an inflammation of the heart which is even an official version whereas we do not know if he had a heart transplant;then we are praying that God should heal him so that he will once again return to Aso Rock and be buoyed with the onerous task of leading Nigeria? Why are we so daft? Why can't we become pragmatic in the issues relating to our nation building? Does common sense not tell us that this man will indeed return to Jeddah in less than no time given the difficulty of the job of leading this nation?

For me I have never wasted my time in praying for Yar'Adua's recovery but I have busied myself praying to God to touch the heart of this man,the way he did to Pharaoh, to change Yar'Adua's heart so that he will release his sick grip on Nigeria because the real cure to his sickness remains perpetual rest with his N700m which must be running into say N700bn as at today going by the norm. Anyone who suffers multiple terminal diseases like his requires all the rest he can get and I don't think the presidency of Nigeria can warrant such rest for him. If we are a developed country we can afford to have a 'thai King' so loved that we can have him rule us from coma but in our state of depression we require a healthy individual with a good heart to alleviate the suffering of the masses.

Blinded by sectarian agenda,he has refused to hand over to his Vice-president solely because he is not a northerner.The drama has just started to play out.The other day I joked on Nairaland.com that Yar'Adua will thumbprint the supplementary budget as was speculated from his hospital bed in Jeddah. The next day,a mail filtered inside my mailbox from FOI Coalition that he actually did so. We have a healthy vice-president who can hold the fort for the president until he is able to return to Abuja even if he will eventually administer the nation from the Aso Rock hospital.

I have been and will remain a strong advocate of rotational presidency(RP) and I will be remiss If I fail to realize that truth. We have a unique history and that history requires that RP remains a panacea for the continued unity of Nigeria until we attain a certain level of development when the ethnic nationality of our president will play little role in politics.

The north should realize that once in the history of Nigeria,luck has run out on them. Or possibly as many have put it,OBJ outplayed them in that famous game of politics.I also vehemently and strongly believe that power should remain in the north till 2015 when they will pave way for the South-East.To avoid a further deterioration of the polity,a political compromise should be worked out which will see Yar'Adua hand over to his vice Goodluck Jonathan as the Constitution stipulates to hold the fort till Yar'Adua is healthy enough to return.Or even till 2011 when all the major parties will field an all northern presidential candidates with the realization that 2015 is non-negotiable for Ndi-Igbo or we face a possible break up of Nigeria.

However, I continue to ponder and ask myself these questions:Does Yar'Adua know that we have become an object of ridicule by among African nations and indeed the whole world as a sleeping giant? Is Yar'Adua aware that his continued absence,stubbornness and refusal to hand over to his vice can lead to a more severe constitutional crisis even as we have witnessed recently? I begin to wonder if he is of this generation or another one to realize that situations like this are those that can spur our brothers in uniform to have a good reason of explaining to us 'why they struck'? Does Yar'Adua realize that the destabilization of Nigeria spells doom for all Africa nations who will follow suit because if other Africa nation take it or leave it we remain the leader of Africa and as they say when a mother goat is chewing his cord,the child goat will imitate it?

I do not know the answer President Yar'adua will give to this questions but it is not difficult to arrive at what his eventually response might be going by the nation's status quo.Nigeria is at the crossroads and one man who is supposed to provide guidance and good leadership has constituted himself into a nuisance and indeed a cog in the wheel of our progress as a nation. I know that we can not continue in this chaotic state for so long. Change which is the most constant element in life must play out its role. Uncertainty hovers over the nation and even as we glide into the new year,let us remember that Idiagbon struck on the 31st and history has a way of repeating itself if we water the ground for it.

Finally,I want to end the year just like the Iranian who constantly rile out 'death to America' in all their demostration by echoing loud and clear,death to Yar'Adua for his determination to destabilize the nation in his over two years in power.

God bless Nigeria.

This that mentality I hate amongst Nigerians. Why not mobilize millions of citizens to go to the street like the orange or velvet revolution. Do these guys understand that we are in a democracy.It is all about numbers.

Olisa4all:
@chapelle. . .The CIA's primary function is to collect information bout foreign govt,corporations & individuals, d CIA hs,d FBI doesnt. .

With 9/11 all that changed

To say that i am delighted to write this is to say the obvious. The whole Journey started not too long and the progress is Visible without a doubt. My duty as a Moderator became clearer, not until i was appointed here. Over at the Games section, everywhere looked so calm but the reverse occurs here!

Through out the year, Our Political Contributors, strategist and analyst were indefatigable and unflinching towards the tear-down of Issues that bothers us as a Nation, Though some arguments were nugatory as it is found in any organized community.

The section had been acerbated by common insults and fights between members, it is However my wish that the recent level of maturity and reduced baseless fights amongst members continues.


I would like to thank all the politics posters for their intense Contribution to the provision of Information not found anywhere else.

I have also not failed to work on the constructive criticism from members especially from Afam, ElRazur, Katsumoto, Chapelle.S and others too numerous to mention.

I would like to Thank everyone for reading my Earlier message Here, Irrelevant/Duplicate threads has reduced drastically in the section. Though there is still Room for operation achievements

After Conducting the most Free, Fair and Balanced Election process in Niarialand, i think i have the honor to once again congratulate the Political Poster of the year. Smiley

The amount of work, time and wise decisions taken by the Previous Moderator, I must not fail to acknowledge,

My kudos to the Supreme Commander Of Niaraland for creating the most intelligent Nigeria Community.




I wish you all a wonderful Holiday season and a Happy New Year

P.S Thread would be sticky for a couple of days

Edit: I also want to thank all those who has made used of the "Report To Moderator" Button. It has been most helpful in the effective discharge of my Duties

I have taken to Nairaland because I still believe in Nigeria. I see it as a place to vent my outrage on those who do not want to imbibe democratic ideals so that our nation can move forward. There is what Obama refers as to 'creative destruction'. NL is a good and healthy venture but any attempt to censor opinions of anyone is counter productive. Also the reference of seun as supreme commander is not democratic and I will continue to be against it.It is dictatorial in nature.Politics shapes the life of every nation on earth and the powerful ones have emerged because they had sound minds who engaged in the field. So will this political section continue to be the bomb.

@Kosovo

You have to be dynamic and pragmatic if you are going to survive here. Its better to use simple English if you are not advanced in the art of use of English so that you don't cause consternation here over and over. Read Obama's books and speeches you will realize the guys use of not so heavily worded grammar.His English is easier to comprehend more than most of our Nigerian journalist who mix up everything. I will say more in the coming year.

Happy new year Nigeria.And to Yar'Adua please release your sick grip on Nigeria.

It is not by prediction!

Ndi ara! Why should Islam encourage any sort of Jihad? They also make young men hallucinate about some 72 virgins or am I wrong?

Olisa4all:
Dnt wanna go off point but isnt d FBI's jurisdiction within d USA ONLY??(i stand2b corrected tho)

CIA don't have jurisdiction okay! They are the police of the world.Someone must do that job.Don't you think so? Or you want to get bombed by one guy hallucinating about some 72 virgins?

FBI,CIA! Do they think that everything is movie? Where was all those actors wey no dey die? Who could decipher terrorist like Jack Bauer?

"We Should be guided by What works" President Barack Obama.

I grew up to learn that you don't wish your fellow man even your enemy death. It's cruel and only acceptable in the extreme of all circumstances perhaps when that person is after your own life and you can't help the wickedness of men but defendj your dear life.

Today marks exactly two years,seven months and two days since Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was sworn in as Nigeria's president in a disputed election which himself acknowledged that the process that brought him to power was 'flawed.' I was one of those who had tremendous faith in the incumbent President's ability to deliver and put Nigeria on the road map to progress and bring about the much needed economic and political emancipation that the 'Giant of Africa' deserves given the fact that God in his infinite mercies has blessed the nation with abundant human and material resources. My belief in Yar'Adua's ability to herald that needed paradigm shift stemmed from the fact that in our 50 years of nationhood,he is the only university graduate to assume the highest office of the land and moreover he came from one of those perceived humble profession which is teaching.

I presumed that since this man was coming from the education sector and more so a retiring teacher,he will come to terms with the underlying reality that education needed to be accorded high premium in our nation's development agenda;even as African governments have overlooked the full education of the African people as one of the major bane of our advancement in all areas of human endeavor.The West never misses that point that is why one of the major fulcrums of Obama's ascendancy to the US presidency as outlined in his books and campaign remains a call on America to invest more in the education sector as a panacea to maintain its enviable status as the world's then sole super power.Inability to pay serious attention to the education sector is just one of the many failures of this administration.

I was one among many who advocated that although Yar'Adua came in through the back door,he should be given the chance to build on the achievements of former President Olusegun Obasanjo or at least improve on them while we move ahead in the task of perfecting our democracy and in the direction of upward mobility of nation building. The report card of Yar'Adua today is nothing to go by rather dismal and appalling.He paints Baba Obasanjo as a super achiever. The year 2009 which coincided with the world recession-that ravaged the developed world and threatened human existence-is the worst in the ten years of our nascent democracy. A summary of the Yar'Adua's achievement has been captured in a 14 point report card published by saharareporters.com.

I had initially on the 9th of November 2009 weeks before the present incapacitation of Mr. President articulated and elucidated a 10 point discourse(nigeriarevoluition..com) on why the president should as a matter of urgency resign to save the soul of this nation;his poor health status topped the list. The saharareporters.com version is a better and summarized version of my over 25 pages discourse.

One month and 9 days ago,President Yar'Adua who could no longer hide under the cloak of performing Hajj in Saudi Arabia was admitted in a Saudi hospital. Those of us who were in the know of the inevitable quickly added steam to our initial calls for his resignation.We were vilified and demonized,call names and accused of trying to distort the political equation of Nigeria. Fasting and prayers were declared,while 'men of God' stormed Abuja and took their turns to pray for our ailing leader. Politicians have since then engaged in spurious prayers and have been posturing for who will out-pray the other. At a point it was rumoured that they were planning to bundle the President back to the country dead or alive.As for me, I continued to ask what this prayer warriors of our darling nation Nigeria want the God of Heavens to do.A miracle? A man that is known to suffer from a severe kidney ailment which is a terminal disease has his precarious health status complicated by an inflammation of the heart which is even an official version whereas we do not know if he had a heart transplant;then we are praying that God should heal him so that he will once again return to Aso Rock and be buoyed with the onerous task of leading Nigeria? Why are we so daft? Why can't we become pragmatic in the issues relating to our nation building? Does common sense not tell us that this man will indeed return to Jeddah in less than no time given the difficulty of the job of leading this nation?

For me I have never wasted my time in praying for Yar'Adua's recovery but I have busied myself praying to God to touch the heart of this man,the way he did to Pharaoh, to change Yar'Adua's heart so that he will release his sick grip on Nigeria because the real cure to his sickness remains perpetual rest with his N700m which must be running into say N700bn as at today going by the norm. Anyone who suffers multiple terminal diseases like his requires all the rest he can get and I don't think the presidency of Nigeria can warrant such rest for him. If we are a developed country we can afford to have a 'thai King' so loved that we can have him rule us from coma but in our state of depression we require a healthy individual with a good heart to alleviate the suffering of the masses.

Blinded by sectarian agenda,he has refused to hand over to his Vice-president solely because he is not a northerner.The drama has just started to play out.The other day I joked on Nairaland.com that Yar'Adua will thumbprint the supplementary budget as was speculated from his hospital bed in Jeddah. The next day,a mail filtered inside my mailbox from FOI Coalition that he actually did so. We have a healthy vice-president who can hold the fort for the president until he is able to return to Abuja even if he will eventually administer the nation from the Aso Rock hospital.

I have been and will remain a strong advocate of rotational presidency(RP) and I will be remiss If I fail to realize that truth. We have a unique history and that history requires that RP remains a panacea for the continued unity of Nigeria until we attain a certain level of development when the ethnic nationality of our president will play little role in politics.

The north should realize that once in the history of Nigeria,luck has run out on them. Or possibly as many have put it,OBJ outplayed them in that famous game of politics.I also vehemently and strongly believe that power should remain in the north till 2015 when they will pave way for the South-East.To avoid a further deterioration of the polity,a political compromise should be worked out which will see Yar'Adua hand over to his vice Goodluck Jonathan as the Constitution stipulates to hold the fort till Yar'Adua is healthy enough to return.Or even till 2011 when all the major parties will field an all northern presidential candidates with the realization that 2015 is non-negotiable for Ndi-Igbo or we face a possible break up of Nigeria.

However, I continue to ponder and ask myself these questions:Does Yar'Adua know that we have become an object of ridicule by among African nations and indeed the whole world as a sleeping giant? Is Yar'Adua aware that his continued absence,stubbornness and refusal to hand over to his vice can lead to a more severe constitutional crisis even as we have witnessed recently? I begin to wonder if he is of this generation or another one to realize that situations like this are those that can spur our brothers in uniform to have a good reason of explaining to us 'why they struck'? Does Yar'Adua realize that the destabilization of Nigeria spells doom for all Africa nations who will follow suit because if other Africa nation take it or leave it we remain the leader of Africa and as they say when a mother goat is chewing his cord,the child goat will imitate it?

I do not know the answer President Yar'adua will give to this questions but it is not difficult to arrive at what his eventually response might be going by the nation's status quo.Nigeria is at the crossroads and one man who is supposed to provide guidance and good leadership has constituted himself into a nuisance and indeed a cog in the wheel of our progress as a nation. I know that we can not continue in this chaotic state for so long. Change which is the most constant element in life must play out its role. Uncertainty hovers over the nation and even as we glide into the new year,let us remember that Idiagbon struck on the 31st and history has a way of repeating itself if we water the ground for it.

Finally,I want to end the year just like the Iranian who constantly rile out 'death to America' in all their demostration by echoing loud and clear,death to Yar'Adua for his determination to destabilize the nation in his over two years in power.

God bless Nigeria.

Obj outplayed all of them. OBJ is the undisputed [size=30pt]WINNER[/size]

When I was saying it yesterday,it was a joke.This morning am reading from my mail box from FOI Coalition that Yar'Adua actually 'New reports are coming in that the Budget were not signed but were Thumbprinted by the President, ' Some one said

yorke:
Pls explain the meaning for this thread, what does it gat to do with politics?it should be move to religious section, kosovo are you there?

Unbeliever,I wish you can call up Larry King and ask him that question because He featured Bishop T.D Jakes,one of Obama's spiritual guide (if you know him) on his Larry King live on CNN not quiet long ago. If you don't know what this thread is doing here why are they calling for prayers for Yar'Adua here in politics section?

Pick up Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama;It will serve a useful guide but note that it doesn't apply to the Nigeria of today.

FL Gators:
rotflmao!!!!

This is too funny. Dude is talking like a blabbering id.iot, cant keep his mouth shut. Yemen and Al-Quelda are prolly wishing they've never met a fo.ol who is ever so happy to reveal their secrets

Secret? You make me laugh.If cowardice is a secret worth keeping,I will not keep such.

When you ask what Nigeria should do,I wonder what answer you are looking for.If we cannot tackle basic problems bedeviling this nation,it is terrorism that will be an exception. They should simply cor-operate with Western security agencies,if drugs could get past,what else cannot get thru. As for the West they should review the VISA of all MUSLIMS currently issued.Then any person with a muslim name should pass through the eye of a needle,I mean a vigorous process. before getting VISA in future.Now US will think twice about all those USAID projects that the located only in the north.

[size=20pt]Which Nigerians? Mind yourself![/size]