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Here is your suspect.Regarded as a neo-Nazi sympathiser

read it on twitter & kept asking myself 'now was that necessary?' I mean broadcasting it on twitter

ekt_bear:
Seems plausible. Africa is the poorest and most mismanaged continent, so should grow the fastest with some competent hands on deck.

poorest-No! mismanaged-Yes!

^^You're so obsessed with this topic you've ended up attacking the wrong person.Oma se o!

I seriously hope they've been sending funds back home barring any eventuality?If they havn't & been spending their time shopping in Selfridges & M&S wahala dey be dat

1stCitizen:
Only one month of logging into that sweet software and it has deleted the reasoning program from your CPU.

hectorblaz:
If I switch, its as good as switching my destiny as well cos I need this pentecostal platform to fulfill my calling, and actualise my dream and visions.

Yeah right.You need your own auditorium,you need your own jet or jets,you need your own fleet of cars.Anyways i wish you luck

if you want to shoot,shoot straight and stop firing blanks all over the place.If that was meant for me then quote me & i'll take it from there

hackney:
Somalia is hell on earth.
Not even rain falls in the land.

there must have been a curse on that land from biblical days because nothing good comes from that land.

the indigienes infest western countries like rats and dont want to work, they have extremists and terrorists, and
their kids are roaming the streets of UK stabbing people.

WILL ANYTHING GOOD EVER COME OUT OF SOMALIA? ?

I hate to discriminate but I have to concur with you.They're only obsessed with their looks,it's disgraceful

What is it with these cyber urchins?A police man was killed in the line of duty why can't you scumbags just look at it from that angle devoid of your nonsensical ethnic colourations? Seriously what are the requirements for getting on NL these days? Does one have to be absolute m*oron or a consummate r*etard?Oma se o!

Abia should be one of the richest states in the country.With Abia second only to Onitsha in terms of industriousness in the SE region

I just spoke to my mum to bring me up to speed on the situation.And she said she just drove past Ungwan Rukuba & the place is as quiet as a grave yard so I really don't know what to believe

Wetin Nigerian men do dis tym

It is becoming more clearer now that these urchins never had the interest of the Niger Delta at heart.They're being flown around the world,the fat cats in Abuja are getting fatter and the Niger Deltans are far worse today than they were 5 years ago.And to think GEJ is from that region,what a shame

Seriously I'm trying to make out what exactly the problem is here.He calls you 'their mum' that is standard Naija speak as someone has already alluded to earlier.He claims he was born 84 probably that's the age on his passport,people do it all the time, athletes,footballers etc so it's no big deal.You say he loves you very much & vice versa, methinks that's all that matters except you're trying really hard to start or find something that isn't there in the first place.
What's with these folks talking trash on here;9jafetish and her ilk?What is the requirement for getting on NL these days,does one have to be a consummate r*etard?

For those screaming about hugging transformers,that saying has lost its potency coz folks have proven time & again that it is very possible to hug a transformer

JaaizTech:
Well if that man/group still retains the ability to cause more thousands of deaths then why wouldn't you call him to the round-table to seek a more amicable settlement. Crushing Boko-Haram tooth and nail would have been the ideal solution, but since it appears we don't have the capacity to achieve that, rather than allowing the thing to escalate and make another Somalia out of Nigeria, why not make compromises, throw some few cash around, buy some of their loyalists and see if that works. I think Govt. can deal with them silently later, but at the moment we just need to break them up. I am sure some of them are interested in amnesty, you know the "oil-money", and of course some of them are just trouble makers. But whatever can break them up and turn them against each other is in the interest of this nation.

Stop skirting around the issue.The question remains:What are they fighting for?

Kill one man & you're called a murderer,kill a thousand & you're called to a roundtable.That is the nature of man but what I fail to fathom is why would any right thinking leader grant amnesty to this group.On what basis?What are they fighting for?

It's a figurative expression ok.Get over it!

iragbijile:
You dont always have to open your mouth everytime. If you have nothing to say, best to keep quiet and be thought a fool than to post and remove all doubts.


So your definition of a failed state = number of dead people per year in a country?

Just the number not the rate?

In NYC alone in 2010, more people died from gun shots that the number of US soldiers killed in Afghanistan. Does that make the US a failed state, especially when you add total deaths from other parts of the country.  And yes, more people die from curable deaths in the US than Nigeria. If you have malaria, and hope to survive,  trust me, you want to be in Nigeria, not the US.





The same analogy applies to every country. Washing DC and the rest of the country, Melbourne and the rest of Australia, Cape Town and the rest of SA etc.

This point of yours is very senseless.

Young man i've been compelled to reply to your indignant post.I'd strongly urge you to show some respect irrespective of wherever you are I'm sure your parents must have taught  you a thing or two

An interesting article you might all want to read

Beyond a claim to greatness firmly tied to its population size and the vastness of its oil fields, Nigeria’s socio-political developmental progress remains unflattering. This scenario is hardly helped by the latest annual rating of US-based non-profit organisation, Fund for Peace (FFP) in collaboration with Foreign Policy magazine which
ranked the country 14th among 177 countries on the failed states index. LOUIS ACHI examines the substance of this rating

Mulling the human crisis that defined his era, former French president, Giscard D’Estaing once proclaimed that “history is tragic”. Born during the First World War, he fought in the second global conflagration. Perhaps, from insight shaped by being both a participant and witness to the triumph of the human spirit over unimaginable odds, he counseled statesmen and world leaders that, “There can be no response to history without effort.”

This pungent observation by a soldier-statesman captures the development dilemma of Nigeria as she attempts to evolve into a nation-state built on justice and equity. Arguably, as a result of the inability or unwillingness of Nigeria’s political leadership to make the necessary effort to respond to the challenges encapsulated in the peculiar history of its nationhood, socio-political and economic regression have become the defining features of Africa’s most populous state and the world’s fifth largest federation. This scenario has spawned considerable loss of faith among her citizens, as well as gave birth to the subsisting debate: Is Nigeria a failed or failing state?

In the recent report compiled and released by the U.S.-based non-profit organisation, Fund for Peace in collaboration with the Foreign Policy magazine, Nigeria was ranked 14th among 177 countries evaluated by the organisation, trailing states like Somalia, Sudan, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Zimbabwe, Central African Republic, Afghanistan, Iraq, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Pakistan, and Yemen.

It is worth recalling that Nigeria has occupied an unenviable position in the ranking of this organisation since 2005. The country was ranked 54th in that year; 22nd in 2006; 17th in 2007; 18th in 2008 and 15th in 2009.

Today, confronted with a perplexing mosaic of lawlessness, violence, disease, pernicious corruption, weak institutions and massive divestment from Nigeria by notable entrepreneurial concerns, many Nigerians have enlisted dark metaphors to attempt to describe what seem to be the terminal symptoms of their statehood.

In the North, amidst seething poverty, injustice, puzzling elite conspiracy and ignorance, the loss of faith in the state is expressed in often virulent ethno-religious violence. The most recent platform of expressing this revolt is the bloody depredations of the ‘Boko Haram’.

In the South, depraved criminality mirrored in kidnappings, armed robbery and human trafficking, and militancy in the Niger Delta region represent outer expressions of inner contradictions of the state. Today, the nation’s education system is in a quandary as the federal government battles distraught lecturers, teachers and workers in the system.

Clearly visible is an increasingly degraded economic and socio-political environment. In the West African and sub-Saharan region, there is an increasing, strategic shift of attention to Accra, as Abuja takes a back seat.

It could be recalled that visiting US Secretary of State, Senator Hillary Clinton captured something of this dilemma when she noted that “Lack of transparency and accountability has eroded the legitimacy of the government and contributed to the rise of groups that embrace violence and reject the authority of the state, The most immediate source of the disconnect between Nigeria’s wealth and its poverty, (is) a failure of governance at the federal, state and local levels.”

Clearly evident are all the signs of a state heading for failure - where a constitutional authority increasingly shows an inability to provide basic services like guaranteeing security to life and property, maintenance of economic and social services, infrastructure and food security and the likes are not manifest.

Twelve years after the ruling Peoples Democratic Party ‘seized’ political power, considerable hope has been betrayed. Instead of strengthening democracy and promoting good governance, the party has been bedeviled by extreme cluelessness, indiscipline and a compelling failure to exercise power to the benefit of Nigerians. Whereas it was expected to mirror the ideals of the progressives who were its founding mentors, the party rather curiously chose a pathway totally opposite to the deepening of democracy.

Freshly elected, President Goodluck Jonathan promises a transformational administration and sings an alluring song of change. But Nigerians, short-changed for too long, are cautious and carefully watching. Yesterday, a month after his presidential inauguration, Jonathan swore in some ministers that will be part of his new cabinet to drive his agenda. Will the Jonathan presidency provide fundamental change that Nigerians crave? Big question.

As it were, the weight of hope vested on the ruling party previously and currently by Nigerians to transform their lot has been seared by a trajectory bordering on infamy. The emerging consensus is that a puzzling failure of the imagination and the political will to act with clarity has rail-roaded Nigeria to the edge of the precipice. Significantly, what remains of the opposition parties have cloned these regressive traits in their disparate domains. Spokesman of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP), Osita Okechukwu labels this development as “elite factionalisation.”

According to two leading American political institutions, the influential Foreign Policy magazine and the Fund for Peace, a failing has several attributes. One of the most common is the “loss of physical control of its territory or a monopoly on the legitimate use of force”.

Other attributes of state failure, according to the institutions, include the erosion of legitimate authority to make collective decisions, an inability to provide reasonable public services, and the inability to interact with other states as a full member of the international community.

The 12 indicators cover a wide range of elements of the risk of state failure, such as extensive corruption and criminal behaviour, inability to collect taxes or otherwise draw on citizen support, large-scale involuntary dislocation of the population, sharp economic decline, group-based inequality, institutionalised persecution or discrimination, severe demographic pressures, brain drain, and environmental decay.

They said states could fail at varying rates through explosion, implosion, erosion, or invasion over different time periods.

On its part, the Crisis States Research Centre defines a “failed state” as a condition of “state collapse” - i.e, a state that can no longer perform its basic security and development functions and that has no effective control over its territory and borders.

A failed state is one that can no longer reproduce the conditions for its own existence. But contradictions enter the fray in the policy community when making distinctions concerning failed states.

For instance, there is a tendency to label a “poorly performing” state as “failed” - a tendency the Crisis States Research Centre rejects. The opposite of a “failed state” is an “enduring state” and the absolute dividing line between these two conditions is often blurred. Even in a failed state, some elements of the state, such as local state organisations, might continue to exist.

In a telling summary, American scientist, linguist and political expert, Noam Chomsky articulated some characteristics of a failed state: first, the disability or unwillingness of the state to protect its citizens from violence and death. Second, it is inclination of authorities to see them above the law - both national and international. Third, such a state suffers a serious deficit of democracy which “deprives formal democratic institutes of their real content”.

According to the on-line wikipedia, political indicators of a failed state include criminalisation and/or delegitimisation of the state, as expressed in endemic corruption or profiteering by the ruling elite and resistance to transparency, accountability and political representation, and widespread loss of popular confidence in state institutions and processes.

Then there is the progressive deterioration of public services mirrored in the disappearance of basic state functions that serve the people, including failure to protect citizens from terrorism and violence, and to provide essential services like health, education, sanitation, public transportation. Others include widespread violation of human rights, rise of a factionalised elite and using the security agencies with impunity, like praetorian guards.

Will the nation’s political leadership wake to the glaring danger and pull back from the edge of the precipice to save Nigeria from incipient disintegration? Which failure niche does Nigeria occupy? Has she failed? Is she failing? Is she navigating the straits of “explosion, implosion, erosion or invasion”?

OMG!I don die for hia

I wonder why people keep going on about the States like it is somewhere in Mars.How would you pay dearly for something if you don't get caught?

On a lighter note,in the words of a stand up comedian:Marriage is like chewing gum.When you start chewing it is sweet,sometimes too sweet,at some point it loses its taste but you keep chewing just to keep your gums busy.Much later you become indecisive,whether to spit it out,swallow or just keep chewing.

I'm not advocating infidelity o! Just saying

You have all digressed from the topic.The issue is why are Lagos state roads in a state of disrepair?Surely this didn't happen 5 or 3 days ago.Maybe Eko-ile can help us out here

^^end of!And the curtain draws to close on this issue

Bawss1:
A car’s flat tire is as a result of a fault not so? Will a properly maintained tire that is used correctly just go flat without any reason? Will a (good) man just because he is a man cheat on his wife? Anyways that was a rough analogy and can only be stretched so far. I think that at this point it is clear that many people actually like this idea that men will cheat at some point. What better way to shy away from the defect in character that they have acquired than to pass it off as natural.  

I was hoping you would address the issues raised by JJ Smith in that video but i see you deliberately ducked that one.Oh well. . .

Maybe just maybe

Bawss1:
Perhaps a rough analogy to make my points clearer. The fact that a car breaks down on the highway doesn’t mean all cars must break down or that it is in the nature of good cars to break down. The breakdown occurs only when the car is badly driven or poorly maintained. So also it is not natural that all men will cheat unless off course as a result of weak character or no integrity. Again I will repeat myself: Men should stop hiding under this excuse that it’s in our nature to cheat. Cheating is not natural!

Your analogy flew over my head.In any event,I daresay wrong! to the highlighted.Rather,it is fidelity/monogamy that is unnatural but don't take my word for it.you might want to watch this short clip then make up your mind afterwards

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ug8MTopqpE&feature=player_embedded#at=38

And yeah one more thing,it was made by a woman!

Some of these fools who claim they know better than everyone else just choose to spew bunkum whenever it suits them.There are folks who where born in the north & have lived there all their lives as well as made investments running into millions & you just expect them to relocate at the slightest whim & start all over again?Please grow a brain.
Someone like me who was born & bred in Jos & travel home like any other Easterner at the end of the year or whenever i'm in the country would just get up one morning, dispose of all i've ever laboured for & begin all over in the East.Na today!

coogar:
95% of the men out there are going through the same vibe. . . . .you are very normal and any sort of spiritual cleansing will turn you to a vegetable.

very intelligent post. . . . .the fact is a whole lot of men deceive themselves when it comes to this topic. many are living in self-denial they haven't cheated and yet they send ridiculous flirtatious texts/chat with numerous girls online and then tell themselves since they have not busted their nuts then they haven't cheated. truth is. . . . all men(married or single) are cheats!

Or are inclined to cheat

It's human nature to always want more.Some people's shoe room have more shelves than Walmart,their wardrobe nko,they want a new cloth every other day.They'd want their garages brimming with top of the range cars & yet say the longing to have more is unnatural   Even the strongest of men have fallen for the  wiles of the so called 'weaker sex';Samson,David (whom God referred to as 'a man after my own heart') Solomon,etc talk less of lesser mortals that dwell in this day & age.
That does not in any way justify infidelity but it is nonsensical to say it is unnatural

Duh!You must think I care what you think in that warped twisted mind of yours.Go piss up a dry wall son,you don't count in the scheme of things