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high oil prices may not have had any positive impact on the average Nigerian, but i bet you low prices will have negative impacts! the little (reduced) monies would become inadequate to share for the corrupt politicians at the various state capitals, then they resort to not paying salaries! don't forget govt is the highest employer in the country, what follows? more teachers' strike; more doctors and nurses strike; even less drugs. |
there was a script. whether he read directly from it is another question. |
babs787:good job! detailed response. jazaka-LLahu khyra. |
what about it? i'd rather they show 'us' respect by guiding our basic rights and providing basic infrastructural needs that will shore up our standard of living than stand up for a national 'song'. |
Ujujoan:some nigerians are religious but still corrupt - in government some nigerians are religious (even claim Godliness) but are still haters you don't have to agree with Yar'adua's policies but I can't see why anybody who is not a hater should hate the man as a person |
ramadan kareem! |
Abraham Lincoln had exactly eight years of legislative experience in the Illinois state senate at Springfield and four years of service at the Senate in Washington. sounds like Barack? He took oath of office on the eve of a war. He is still one of the most terrific Presidents Americans still talk about to date. OK. Experience is crucial and it's good McCain called attention to it. But then he turned round and put a near rookie, layman a heartbeat away from the Preidency of the USA. So why has he been shouting about readiness and experience everywhere? Self-centred political expediency! Or is Mr. McCain just impulsive? I mean he has met this woman only once ever! If this woman isn't "dangerously unprepared", as his ads say, I don't know who is! |
I have been shocked with the naivety of many individuals here, just like many Americans are still shell-shocked! Obama should have picked Hillary: obvious, cheap, simplistic, maybe even risky, but definitely road-side beer palour analysis. McCain selects Palin: Even republicans are shocked (but they call it pleasantly surprised). McCain has been shouting from the rooftops that Obama isn't ready to be C-in-C and inexperienced. Lets suppose that's true. Now how does your choice of person you're trusting, putting one heartbeat away from being C-in-C tally with your age-old rooftop cries? McCain might have shot himself in the foot in this regard! At best this is hypocritical! Is this Palin's selection in anyway in the interest of the country or solely in the interest of John McCain? Is Obama's selection of Biden in the interest of both country and self or solely in the interest of Obama? McCain and his advisers passed over Tom Ridge, Mitt Romney, even Joe Liebermann with all their credentials and settle for an individual with no credential beside being 2-year governor of a state with fewer than 700,000 inhabitants! I heard a republican argued that Palin has foreign relations experience because her state is closest to Russia! It could be argued that Joey plugs Obama's loophole and, most importantly, Joey is qualified to be President. Pray tell! What does Sarah add to the ticket? And more importantly, is Sarah ready to be president. McCain obviously thinks she is. It would be difficult for McCain and his supporters to argue that this woman's only qualification isn't the fact that she's a woman. To win some ofHillary's die-hards over, any woman will do! - Pandering! Also an insult! This says a lot about McCain's judgement. His first presidential judgement, maybe. If America is what many people believe it is, McCain lost the election yesterday. But alas! America isn't what many people think it is! |
Jakumo:happy gibberish! |
Joey brings a lot to the equation, regardless of what anybody says. He gave an effective speech on the night. His speech should do some good with the undecided voters. He seems able to connect with the ordinary folk. And John Kerry's was great too! |
Kobojunkie:I have been around here long enough to know you are about the biggest apostle of keeping the focus on the issue and not descending low to personal attacks. posting 'Are you sane?' in my opinion is everything against what you preach. Walk the talk! |
no he shouldn't have |
folahann:exactly what you should do! maybe you're not aware that some of us visit here for such bits of information. in this age of information, every bit of it counts. While we are at it - I would not mind to be told who Nana(?) Addo is choosing to run with him. The woman? |
Barack Obama has reportedly picked Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate, CNN reports. http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/23/biden.democrat.vp.candidate/index.html |
Obama picks Joe Biden as his running mate http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/23/biden.democrat.vp.candidate/index.html |
posted by cola: this is my fear for this country! young 'educated' nigerians not being able to show clear understanding of the difference betwen 'invitation for questioning' and 'arrest'. portends danger for the future , and these same youths make noise about current 'leaders' as bad as they are (current crop of leaders), I hope they wouldn't turn out to be better than many of these ignorant and sensation-seeking 'future leaders'. By no means is this a generalization, my respect to those Nairalanders that are very discerning. this opinion here by no means is meant to be in support of Prof. Ndi's misplaced energy. all I'm sayng is that EFCC's involvement be understood in the right perspective. as for the media, the police inviting someone for questioning should not be misrepresented as arrest by any responsible editor such careless and selfish agenda has caused plenty of problem for this country in the past. Probably still does. Some folks here are tearing one another apart in another thread on this board finding elusive answers to why (some) southerners hate (all) northerners: I say a section of the media is a big part of the reasons. a section of them are a part of the problems in this country. PM News's use of 'arrest' is obviously meant to sensationalize the event for probably no noble reason. |
recent history of leaders of the southern states (esp. niger delta) is not any encouragement. clamour for bigger control of resources doesn't seem people-centred they will get more and get poorer! that's the professor's warning. |
How the military pauperised the North By Pat Utomi , What had changed since 1966. Military rule, Oil and Nigeria's federal arrangement were the intervening variables. How did it get to hurt the North? My greater fear was that the same phenomenon was getting ready to destroy the Niger Delta if new leaders did not emerge. Two events which took place simultaneously in Port Harcourt recently bring them into focus. These were the Job Creation and Empowerment Summit of the Rivers State Government of which I was Chairman, and the Niger Delta Legislative Retreat sponsored by Vanguard Newspapers so the South-South could speak with one voice. You do no have to be a genius to tell that what happened was that soldiers who had political power and were predominantly more Northern saw Oil revenues and wanted to get more to their part of the country thought he instrumentality of fiscal transfers. Net result, the North got more and became poorer. Why? Simple. The incentives were scramble for power and appropriate as much of the unearned receipts as possible. How do politicians who have appropriated money not earned spend it? Like people who have won the lottery. They often return to poverty. In the meanwhile more and more revenues are going to recurrent expenditure to meet the needs of these politicians and the bureaucracies they create than build infrastructure that open opportunities for growth. Go to the North East and see cities that boomed more with the arrival of good roads that have since died because the infrastructure has deteriorated and collapsed. Do we remember the rise and fall of Numan (part of the Numan - Biu highway). So when I see people from the Niger Delta agitate for more, not to maintain a principle but to get more, I fear the same 'gold rush' effect that pauperized the North. This is why I celebrated Rotimi Amaechi's job creation and empowerment initiative as a way of building a generation that seeks to create wealth as against those waiting for their share who will more quickly turn to kidnapping for ransom. The voracity thesis of the scramble for unearned income, the reason for many of Africa's civil wars is still alive in our midst. None of these phenomena should surprise people who make a point of learning from the mistakes of others. I have been showing Niger Delta leaders, and the governors particularly, the need to work assiduously to prevent themselves from repeating what Gnerals from the North did, pauperize their people in thinking they were doing them a favour. When I heard a former Northern governor accuse Niger Delta leaders of their corruption and incompetence being responsible for the state of the region, I laughed. Insensitive and inappropriate as the remark was, it happened to be true, but the speaker was himself a classic example of that phenomenon. We must not democratize poverty in Nigeria because a political class seems unwilling to make democracy work. Civil Society and direct popular action must safe Nigeria the worsening 'resource curse' effects of our experience. N.B: I have removed some parts of the article to make t more readable. See link for full article. http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/editorial_opinion/article04//indexn2_html?pdate=210808&ptitle=How%20the%20military%20pauperised%20the%20North Learn! Learn! Learn! |
this is my fear for this country! young 'educated' nigerians not being able to show clear understanding of the difference betwen 'invitation for questioning' and 'arrest'. portends danger for the future , and these same youths make noise about current 'leaders' as bad as they are (current crop of leaders), I hope they wouldn't turn out to be better than many of these ignorant and sensation-seeking 'future leaders'. By no means is this a generalization, my respect to those Nairalanders that are very discerning. |
Good job lawyer, I am in urgent need of accomomdation: 2-bedroom or mini-flat in Anthony, Maryland or Obanikoro Total package: Max. N550,000. |
I hold the four aces |
IMO Nigeria has enough negative energy as it is. We need some positive energy. America is good, UK is good, is it not people that made sacrifice to make it so? Did they become good by running away to some foreign country and bad-mouthing every single event or news about their countries from their homes in exile? People made sacrifice in almost all the countries that Nigerians go to before those countries became what they are today, including America, UK France etc. The people in those countries didn't run away to other lands. They acknowledge things were not right in their countries but they did not refuse to see anything good coming out of their country. It's ok to travel out of the country for whatever reason but refusing to see anything good whatsoever in the country or anything good coming out of it is sad anytime anything seemingly good is developing in the country, some people say it's a fluke anytime the people they left at home see something to cheer about, they shoot down the hope ok make a wish for Nigeria, it becomes a problem it DIDN'T say make a wish for the govt, NO! it says make a wish for (the people of) Nigeria who may not be as fortunate as you to abandon the country all some people can do is point out why they can't make obviously good wishes. Shocking! The way to start effecting a change is for Nigerians to start believing in Nigeria regardless of what the govts do! Ghanaians amaze me. I have listened to commentaries of matches where Ghana was woeful but the commentators would keep saying wonderful things about their team, even though they are losing! I have a feeling that people that would forever see gloom in Nigeria, if they were asked to name one thing that they have ever done for Nigeria, it's a null set! It'ok to talk but what have you done or what are you doing? No doubt, things have been terrible, it is still bad, but believe we must, work we must! some people have made wishes like: may Nigeria split may bad leaders die may nigeria unite and so on IMO these wishes may not be the end in themselves, but means to an end my wish: I wish the people of Nigeria will have abundant prosperity and justice (whether split or united) muslim or christian, young and old. |
bilymuse:[quote author=Nigeria1@ link=topic=160703.msg2665177#msg2665177 date=1218897252]if i remember well. As long as you have your wazobia, you are ok with police stop. No wazobia, you are in trouble. Have they change or still the same. ??[/quote] cescky:these are the reasons Nigeria is what it is right now some people make all noise about corruption and how bad Nigeria is but they are not prepared to do the right thing themselves they surrender to corruption even when they are told this is a good way to deal with a situation, they refuse to believe it's possible the only way they can see is 'egunje', 'wazobia', 'not possible now' and so on every time people like you give egunje or wazobia to a police at a checkpoint(of course it means you're appeasing them to cover up something), you undermine the future of your unborn children. |
doyin13:@ doyin13 don't know what UBA stuff you're talking about but I think tenor is the right word in terms of loans repayment or returns and sort. I stand corrected. @show I need to be reassured this isn't stage-managed. Well, maybe b'cos I didn't get to hear much 'bout it before yesterday. |

