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[color=#ffffff][size=13pt][/color]Please let us get it clear.
It is ignorance powered by folly that causes them to talk down on other Africans.

It is only the unfortunately successful marriage between ignorance and folly that
supplies the confidence to Nigerian youth to brimmingly spew ignorance outside while they doggedly cling on to every ideological position that keeps them inferior in today's modern world.

Reminds me of what Piers Morgan said of Amorosa on the 1st episode of the celebrity apprentice: "Her ego writes cheques her personality cannot cash".[color=#ffffff][/size][/color]

Sweetle:
When we keep saying that there's so much injustice in this country they say we are wailing.

Thank you Channels TV, figures don't lie.

Everyone can see that allocation to the SS where bulk of the nations revenue comes from is less than the 97% regions.

This is what Buhari has turned Nigeria into.

For those against Biafra or Niger Delta Republic you can see that Buhari has already divided this country into 97% & 5%.

I really pity the Niger Delta people, they have been so cheated in this country.

It is not injustice. That is it is not so much injustice as it is that p. Buhari is really a bad option for a president.
Really unfit.
Injustice came in when the INEC did not disqualify Buhari as candidate on account of his failure to produce his certificate.

I was pleasantly surprised when I came here to see my post was put on front page.
I wasn't even expecting it
I think the mods thought it was good for our country - for people to know that it was possible.
I hear in Nassarawa something like that is happening too but I right now have not verified the price.
Forgotten what the price was announced as on TV (the NTA)

The attached picture says it all.

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Visit Onitsha and get a bag of rice for just N9000.
#BuyNaijaToGrowTheNaira

https://mobile.twitter.com/Maybeks/status/769469184556273664

myforexsolution:
The only sense in which the radio station is popular in PH is that there are many low intellect Igbos voraciously hooked to it.
Those igbos amongst themselves affirm the IPOB position while the rest of PH goes about their normal business, BUYING ANY NEWSPAPER THEY WANT TO BUY.

cheruv, machinery1, modath, 39xtr90r, Businessideas, Jorussia, mabea, modath, Emycord, Victorvexz, vingeophysicist, Demburrows, glassjar1

[size=13pt]Reminds me of how igbos declared the certain bankruptcy of nairaland that would follow their boycott of this forum because of that 1st post we see on the politics section.

They could not even carry out their threat of boycotting in the first place.

I don't think they can even bear the thought of depriving themselves of so much attention.[/size]

~ South-south voice

[size=13pt]these people should be ashamed talking about "...with proper support from patriotic Nigerians..."[/size]

Sibrah:
Do u realize the highlighted part requires heavy funding?
If yes, how do you suggest it be funded without attempting to recover looted funds?

Do you realise this year's budget was the h-u-u-ugest in the history of Nigeria?
Go check out last year's figure and then check out this year's figure.

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[size=13pt]Number 9 got me.

And the pro-buhari supporters on this thread are dissapointing me with their contributions. Most of them do not even deserve a response.

If it was a less intelligent post, maybe some of those contributions would not look so bad.

To those saying there is no funding, inspite of the reduced earnings, this year's budget is the largest in the history of Nigeria, as it took a huge leap from what it was last year.
This administration's huge and creative borrowing on the China trip helped to make to make this happen[/size]

[size=13pt]And Buhari implicated himself by saying they were Libyans. Who is going to believe he does not somehow know what is going on behind the scenes after honestly considering that analysis from him?[/size]

midolian:
https://www.thecable.ng/just-in-breakaway-ipob-faction-to-burn-biafra-flag-on-october-1#.V72fM0dzZBA.twitter

If they truly do this, they are about to become the Nigerian giants that they should have been years ago, before they fell in love with the poise of a victim.

That poise alone set them maybe 30 years behind where I think they should have otherwise been by now.

~South-south voice

Interesting if it is true. What was the wedding about?

Unkl:
Do you live in Abuja and proficient in digital marketing, online promotion, ppc, seo, web analysis and of course graphics design? If yes send your CV to info@kingdomlottery.com

You need to separate the tasks.
Your bid to get this much at the cost of 1 salary is ill-adviced as from what I see, you will only be jeopardizing yourself.

You see, the digital marketing skills and graphic design skills are not really well related. It is better to assign your graphic design task into one job, and all the other tasks into another job, otherwise, you will get crap results and the reason won't be the person you employed, but the fact that you thought you could employ one person to do things that one person SHOULD NOT do.

Now, don't get me wrong. If you had added "competitor strategy analysis" to the list, one person could probably handle that right for your company. But once you added "graphic design" you needed to get another person for that.

shabakm:
chibok girls my foot how do you expect nigeria to free those criminals jonathan's boys called boko haram that killed thousands of nigerian. the parent should go to hell

Quoting for a reason

I could not surpress my laughter when I read this. What was the owner of the handle thinking? Didn't he or she know he/she would be easy picking with that kind of handle?

greenpasture:
If you read that report to the end you will see that he asks what exactly " restructuring means" and reiterates the need for fiscal federalism.

I think people have a fixation with the word " restructuring" it's vague and not capable of common size interpretation. It's just a slogan. Fiscal federalism on th other hand is clear and actionable.

Which report do you refer to? If it was where he said restructuring may not be helpful, it was not a report. It was a speech/lecture which he gave not long after Atiku made his comment at a book launch, and not a report.

Now in that public speech where he really put down the clamour for restructuring, I am yet to see any reference to his mention of fiscal federalism.

I think that speech was to a markedly recognizeable extent, a mistake on his part - reactionary, on account of the kind of Igbo gathering in which Atiku made his comment.
The fact that that comment was made in a largely Igbo gathering did not make the statement wrong. Atiku's statements pointed at the kind of restructuring he thought we needed.

That it is Igbos calling for something should not rob us of our ability to objectively critique it based on the merits of the contents of what is being called for, notwithstanding our knowlede of the fact that Igbo's have been known to go in two opposite tangents at the sam e time

janellemonae:
What he said on TVC was exactly what he said in dt link. Read it & read d position of this meeting. It's d same thing. I can't read for u dear. Neither is it my job to stop u being brainwashed by ipob propaganda. Osinbajo Has aLWAYS supported restructuring to fiscal federalism. Dt was his position in 2003, dt was his position in July 2016. It hasn't changed. He's only against restructuring to regionalism.

[size=13pt]What I see there looks like damage control after he had given the impression he was against restructuring.
Anybody that says he came out against restructuring cannot be blamed.
If he really was not against restructuring, he did a poor job in his first public comments about the issue on TV.
I saw it myself

http://dailypost.ng/2016/07/11/calls-for-restructuring-nigeria-may-not-be-helpful-osinbajo/

http://punchng.com/osinbajo-faults-calls-nigerias-restructuring/

Now I can't read for you too but I know other followers on this thread can read what is on the links I have put up here and compare it with the statement put out after getting a backlash from all around the country

Now why would someone who has always moved for restructuring make these statements in a televised lecture?

Screenshots from links below[/size]

By the way what Igbos have been asking for is different from restructuring.
What they have been asking for is actually disintegration,
which is a completely different thing from restructuring into true Federalism

janellemonae:
You can read what osibanjo said thru his spokesperson below. He said he wants restructuring to true fiscal federalism (where states control their money) but not regionalism. Like soyinkas position. It's d same thing this meeting (this ops post) is talking about. You can read d article again on page 0. Osinbajo clearly didn't change mouth.

It's a good 1st step in my opinion but based on d confab report, d SW majority as a whole, eventually wants to go bk to federalist regions.

http://breaking.com.ng/nigeria/osinbajo-defends-views-on-restructuring/

[size=13pt]We are not arguing about what you are saying here. I am saying that not many weeks ago, the VP, Prof. Osibanjo was recorded as saying that restructuring is not needed (we all know that is the position of his boss, the president). I saw him say it too on TV. Channels TV. The point being made is that his (Osibanjo's) position is inconsistent if he is moving for restructuring now.

But I notice he was not present in the meeting. He had someone represent him. So maybe he is in a hard place now, caught between loyalty to his boss and what his region is now saying they want.[/size]

greenpasture:
That's a lie. As AG for Lagos state he took the then FG to court several times in order to establish fiscal federalism. Fiscal federalism is control over income generated from local resources. You seem to be confused between federalism and confederalism. The south west has always championed federalism. It was the only zone to do so. In the confab the SE were asking for more states. Now they are asking for secession. Apart from the north and the southwest who have investment bodies for their entire region complete with harmonized economic strategies no other region is ready for fiscal federalism. Boundary disputes are still rife.

The rest is all noise making. No planning, no policies.

[size=13pt]But as vice president, he actually recently said there was no need for restructuring.[/size]

Femich18:
What do you people even want...you were all crying for restructuring, now some groups are buying your idea and now you are attacking them? must you guys wail? Enough of all this hypocrisy... Election is far over my guy

[size=13pt]That is not even the point. The point is that the Igbos asked for secession.
Secession is different from restructuring. Igbos asked for secession and not restructuring.
As far as I know, it is certain elements from the south-south and the south-west that have been for restructuring for a long time.
Igbos have only wanted to bail out for a long time. Trying to claim that it is actually restructuring they were clamouring for is actually ridiculous
~ South-south voice[/size]

uniqueB:
am into frozen foods biz before we move to our new area dis year April.. and dere is no light and I can't carry cost of gen...so am still very much searching for job

[size=13pt]Be the better person. Stay in his house. Develop yourself. Read and learn new business models that you can execute and be your own boss. Grow in and with it. Always save. You are in this for your son, God, yourself and even him.

(Note that the order in which I have listed them is not necessarily the order of priority)

The more you develop yourself, the clearer it will become to both of you how inferior he makes himself to be, every time he chooses to carry out improper acts in your relationship.

Through out, just be nice, firm, and decent. Never reduce your standards. Let him reduce his if he will. Your confidence will grow as your mind and money grows.

You confidence will grow as your mind, your money and your class grows.

I say be firm because there will be times you will have to be firm with him as a parent is with a child if you pursue this journey I suggest. For eg, if he wants to waste resources you control or jeopardize your source of livelihood which brings no disrespect to the family and without which the kids may be significantly negatively affected.

In such a case, you have to be firm as a parent who totally insists on what is best for the house even if the kids cry for the wrong action to be taken at the moment.

Just keep doing this on and on. Build yourself, grow yourself, respect your man, insist on the right thing for the family (as long as the matter is in your power). Like a child, he should eventually crawl into a more self-dignifying position in that relationship because, if he does not, the difference between the quality of person you are becoming and the bum he is making of himself will be too much for him to bear.

I am betting he will not be willing to wallow in the sense of inferiority that the person you unapologetically set out to become and remain will create in him[/size]

[size=13pt]I read the thread "Why I Think Voting For Buhari Was Inevitable" here https://www.nairaland.com/3283345/why-think-voting-buhari-inevitable
and this is my take.

You know when a person is caught in an undignified fight/quarrel with someone else in public and he feels the urge to explain to everyone passing by why they made the decision to fight in public? This is very much similar.

This is just simply damage control for the sense of judgement of everyone like the author of that piece.

Number 1: The reason why voting for Buhari was inevitable was because the people with a poorer sense of judgement were much more than the folks with a proper analysis of the situation. Therefore it was inevitable that the country by virtue of majority vote would vote for the wrong man

Number 2: Why it was right to vote for Buhari is different from why it was inevitable. The author hopes to equate the inevitability of the wrong decision at the polls with the rightness of it. While voting for Buhari might have been inevitable, VOTING FOR BUHARI WAS DEFINITELY WRONG.
This is because...

Number 3: Retrogression is always wrong. It was a simple decision to choose the better of the two options before us as Nigerians. If better is always better, worse is always worse. On the eve of the 2011 elections, I planned not to vote for Jonathan in 2015. I had identified a man that I knew was better. But when all was said and done, my preferred candidate did not emerge a flag-bearer for any party. I HAD TO CHOOSE THE BETTER OF THE TWO OPTIONS BEFORE US (EVEN IF I WOULD HAVE PREFERRED SOMETHING ELSE) AND NOT THE WORSE OF THE TWO.

The author said " It shows how shitty the other option was that a man who had been rejected 3 times was voted in". I say it showed how terrible your judgement was.

She said "We voted for hope" I said you voted the wrong choice IN HOPE

And for those who say "We will vote KOWA or HOPE party next time" you will be making the mistake you made last time around in 2015. Being a staunch supporter of GEJ as I saw nothing worthwhile in the "credible" opposition I had been daydreaming would emerge and do things more soundly than they had been done since 1999, I was prepared to vote for the APC if they came up with the right candidate because...

...In Nigeria, we don't vote parties, we vote for the candidates. There are two candidates who if they emerged as APC flag-bearers would have influenced my votes the other way.


So come 2019, if you unfortunately come to decision junction looking through the prism of the party rather than the individuals who emerge across the parties, you will be befuddled again with regards to what the right decision is. You will make the right decision only as a result of luck and not on account of clear vision.

And if you make a terrible decision again, perhaps you will need to concoct another explanation about how/why that decision was "inevitable" as the quality of that decision starts being publicly revealed, as this one we have with us now is.

~South-South voice[/size]

[size=13pt]This is the first time I remember feeling the urge to reply a post with one word like "rubbish" or "bunkum".
This write-up did not deliver the perspective the headline promised.
It seems just a presentation of already familiar factional political sentiment.[/size]

[size=13pt]I was trying to find the guy's angle. After reading what he wrote, it seems he didn't have an angle before he started. And it seems he still didn't find one by the time he came to the end.[/size]

Jalubarika:
Insha Allah, come 2019 ,even if PDP carry Alampasu as their Candidate. I'll vote him for president.
The hardship is outrageous. Every household has confirmed it.
Every minister has no direction, imagine Mohammed telling us he would create 1m Jobs through our Cultural festivals .
Fashola said aggrieved citizen should channel their complaints to Mr Cassandra
It's been confirmed fuel price will soon rise to #165 naira
My gf can't even tell me to send her small bar for her upkeep due to present Exchange rate of Dollar.
I can't even send my parents money coz na manage mesef dey.
No increase in Salary, inflation everywhere. I have not saved money since Mr. Cassandra enter office.
Nothing is working any longer.
It really hurt.

[size=13pt]It really is not about voting the PDP candidate in my view. If the APC had presented Shekarau, former governor of Kano state, as flag bearer, I would have voted for the APC candidate without really thinking because I knew he was better than GEJ. But they presented Buhari so there was no way I could not vote for GEJ under that circumstance.

The point I am trying to make is you don't have to vote for someone who's going to be a catastrophe simply because he is in the PDP. Let us see who they present first before we vote.[/size]

[size=13pt]I do not support Buhari but before Fayose decided to use this story to for whatever reason, this story was already out and about and we looked at it and discovered it was not Aisha Buhari.

It has been verified over and over again. The 419 imposter, I believe, said that she was Buhari's daughter

Buhari's wife is Aisha Buhari and not his daughter.[/size]