Onlytruth:

The bolded is the biggest fallacy in your logic. There are NO AVERAGE NIGERIANS.
All the past leaders that tried to create that identity were killed or ousted in coups.

Onlytruth:

So where are they today?

SapeleGuy:

Cohomology and yourself have spoken well. All we need are a few good men, with integrity, courage and patriotism to fight for the national interest, but where is this national interest? all I can see so far is personal interest.

Onlytruth:



When Nigerians come here to talk about Nigeria as if anything makes sense in it I wonder.

Nigeria is INCAPABLE of progressing politically as presently constituted.

Jonathan would be a fool to allow himself to be killed or ousted just because Nigerians can't think or accept the truth.

All he needs to do is protect himself in office and rule for as long as he wants. That's all.

Andre Uweh:

@Banom: Biko nwanne, Ignore this irrelevant thread. [size=18pt]This post came up last year, and was largely discussed. The Ohanaeze chieftain has since denied it. [/size]I visited him personally at his Ogwashi Ukwu residence this easter period after making arrangements with his secretary. He was only wrongly quoted.

newmaster:


Joined by Professor Pat Utomi, Pastor Tunde Bakare, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, Bisi Akande, Lt-Gen. Alani Akinrinade (rtd.), Malam Nasir el-Rufai, Dele Momodu, Mr. Femi Falana and Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, among others, Soyinka called on Nigerians to prevail on President Goodluck Jonathan not to use the 2006 voters register to conduct the 2011 general elections.

RichyBlacK:

Growing up in Lagos, I recall the days of gbomogbomo (kidnappers of children). As in almost everything in Nigeria, these opportunist criminals were immediately ascribed with all sorts of powers attributed to the, you guessed it, juju they employed.

The stories went like these:

1. They can give candy to a child and if the child takes it he/she will immediately turn to something small, e.g., a piece of stone, a small tortoise, a fruit like pawpaw, etc. Then the kidnapper will just take the child away.

2. The kidnapper can just touch the child and the child will disappear.

3. The kidnapper can knock on the door and if an adult opens the door, there will be nobody, however, if a child opens the door the kidnapper, using his/her juju will magically turn the child to some small object, put the child in his/her pocket and stroll away.

These incredibly nonsensical beliefs were pervasive in 1980s Lagos and struck fear in the hearts of children and parents alike.

The damaging effect of these tales was that they incapacitated the mind of multitudes, as even some members of the Nigerian police subscribed to these magical wonders, and so made it more difficult to solve missing persons cases.

Of course some of the kidnappers were social perverts who wanted to have intimacy with children and murder them subsequently. Some are no different from the serial rapists and killers that have been well publicized in countries like America.

Though some may want to delude themselves to think that serial killers and rapists only exists in places like America, the truth is that we in Nigeria probably have more serial killers/rapists (per capita), but the following realities have obscured the truth:

1. A tangible disinterest, by both the Nigerian police and the Nigerian populace, in solving missing persons cases, especially when linked to juju-powered kidnappers. The sense of hopelessness due to the acceptance of the colossal fraud of juju-based claims render many to a faith of crippling despondence.

2. Lack of modern equipment to fight crime. This lack of modern crime fighting technology may also be tied to the belief by many, even those in government, that no amount of modern equipment can be used to fight juju-powered crimes; a very unfortunate view.

3. A general lack of interest by the press in pursuing and following up with cases of missing persons. Again, this should not come as a surprise because even if a journalist is interested in getting to the bottom of a juju-inspired kidnapping/serial murder/despoil/ritual killing, everybody around him/her will warn him about the omnipotent juju that can kill him instantly should he continue digging deep. Of course such a journalist will get no help from the juju-believing policemen; even the newspaper management will warn him about pursuing "dead end" cases that can bring the wrath of the juju to the newspaper.

This socially enabled fraud of juju continues to set us back in Nigeria. The most unfortunate aspect of this tragic saga is that those who are educated and who should know better and maybe help liberate people from a psychological gimmick with roots in the slave-trade that only stifles the mind and cripples creative thinking on far-reaching social issues, join the barbarian many in continuing the longest running fraud in the history of not only Nigeria but many of the regions affected by the slave trade, including those across the Atlantic in Haiti and Jamaica, all in the name of "preserving our culture".

ALL juju claims are fraudulent.

EzeUche:

This is actually not funny, but quite sad.

However, I know people who may be illiterate when it comes to English, but they are well versed in their language. Does that make them illiterate?

koolboi:

check out the statement below which OBJ made

‘with all due respect, if Jesus Christ could come to the world and be the chairman of INEC, any election he would conduct will be disputed’.

when jesus waz alive, his people never accepted him, the bible had a prior detail of this

OBJ was only trying to say that inasmuchas Jesus christ is most holy, his actions would not be accepted let alone a mortal
he is just comparing nigerians to pharisees,

no wonder OBJ did not give a hoot to all those dumb backside hater and some pastors calling him a blasphemer

Ranoscky:

Make i ask again, why una dey drink panadol for the Oba headache?  make una leavam na ah ah? 

east sef dey boil now with kidnaping, had it been dis Oba no come up with this idea i sure say una go dey blame

doz kidnper's, but bini Oba came up with his own idea to stop the crime in "his state" and u guys kept drinking

unneccessary panadol for his headache. Nna mehn, una own strong O. . .

SapeleGuy:



I guess this your theory can be applied to christianity, afterall Jesus was crucified.

paddy_lo:

No homie,Nigeria is actually the size of California,Nevada,and arizona joined together

No one USA state is big as Nigeria. . capiche?

AIRDIG:

@Muslims,

From the response can I infer that the Crescent & star symbol used in Islam/mosques is:

-essentially a pagan icon. which has somehow been accepted.

-has no place in the religion of the Muslims.

Then how does this reality compare with the Islamic creed on innovation and pagan influence?

Can Muslims kindly explain with with evidence.

saintneo:

poco a poco the journey back to 1966 is coming. I hope other tribes will not sit down and watch this extended to their territory.

mistakay:

The Lopsided admissions are designed to be that way mr.Beaf. Shegen Talaka,what do you do for a living besides nairalanding.

nopuqeater:

frosbel: dont you know the differences between jews and palestinians, israel and palestine; gaza, west bank? is gaza and palestinians living in her now jews and israel?

forget all that is wrong in your eyes, my eyes of palestine, israel, iran, what is wrong with iran sending aids to suffering people, the gazans?

what constitutes to 'act of war" in this? i see gaza at least as the like of cracow ghetto where the jews were segregated. now, wouldnt the third reich thought that any help to the jews not act of war against her? you isreali supporters are so blinded that thinking rationally is a strange "idea". whats so wrong in human helping another human?

am sure you and them and israel and zionists will love to see the palestinians perish and be wiped off the face of the earth.