₦airaland Forum

uihebom: Abeggeee they know Nigerians are in a good mood. So dey want to spicy it up with fake good news. I'm not that gullible to bliv until dem bring my light wey I nova see for the past 5days.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Yes, you actually have to provide proof for what you say, I dunno how things are where ever you are but that is not how we do it in the world at large.

Nobody expects you to go to work on Sundays but I'd have you agree that they expect you to work on Sundays, never the less, I wasn't working, job doesn't always mean paying work, it could mean like in this case other engagements

If IBB snuffed Abachas breathe and then freed Obasanjo then IBB saved us from Abacha, not Obasanjo. Abacha agreed to an election even if he didn't intend to let it workout, that suggests that even when Obasanjo was in jail there was pressure for a democracy, you have not given me any reason to believe that Obasanjo had a hand in it (yes he got jailed in 1994 probably for wanting a democracy but it doesn't mean he made it happen, all I have so far is sentiment and I've come to that conclusion all by myself), what you are telling me suggests it was IBBs doing while claiming it was Obasanjo's doing.

See, you dunno how to make a point, if you want me to tell you what was actually responsible for the world wars starting/becoming as big as they did, japan switching from primitive to industrial nation in 1860, why Napoleon failed I can do that without giving you 2 hrs of video to watch, what you gave me suggested that you didn't really have the answers (giving really long pointless speeches is what lawyers who don't know what to argue in their final closing do).

You didn't argue that Obasanjo was the first military leader to hand over power to a democracy thereby strengthening your claim that he was freedom friendly, you need to make logical coherent points and with every post you offer different information (320% to 820%) in one post which calls all your claims into question, I don't really think you are quite sure what you are saying.

About your middle class growth, there's a good handful of countries growing at this exact time, what laws, changes did Obasanjo ake to trigger them cuz it can be argued that it is simply changing winds as a result of the recession etc and the fact that smaller things grow faster.

My problem here is here is that you dunno how to make your points and instead are giving me long ars pointless things to do when I am inclined to not believe you.

You are not arguing very rationally and refuse to back your claims up or explain them thoroughly, you will not be convincing me of anything today so lets just drop it.

You see your problem is that you claimed Obasanjo freed Nigerians from Abacha and everything he symbolized, none of this stuff you've just posted is relevant, there is a punch line here, give credible information suggesting that Obasanjo by way of his actions was directly or indirectly responsible for Abachas death because that is how he was freed from Abacha, via his death and if there is a point in one of those videos that says so please tell me what time into the video where it does. I don't have 3 hours to watch videos in which most of it is not quite relevant to what we are talking about here, I am not so jobless and bored. "How did Obasanjo free us from Abacha", very simply make a post that immediately gets to that point and reasonably suggests it, that is all!

This talk about reducing poverty by 30%, I'll need an article that speaks to that and also paying the foreign debt was not Nigeria's most pressing concern when Nigerians were starving, it was a good thing to do but it doesn't serve Nigerians in any meaningful way so its not particularly much of an achievement after 8 years. Finally raising fuel prices by 320%, what was the price of fuel when they said that because that information is pretty subjective. when Obasanjo came into power fuel was about N20 per liter give or take a few and when he left it was well over N70 so unless I am mistaking that is well over 300% so what are you saying? Why did the french suggest that he raise the prices? The reasons why do matter, don't just make statements out of context, provide detailed information to support them.

ba-karya:


Benue man! I don't nid 2 tel u we dnt consider u as one of us ryt? U nd ur ppl r jst a convenient political tool for northern politicians...u ppl b sufferin frm I.D crisis

We appreciate not being associated with raving lunatics.

fle jnr: [b][/b] We own 19states out of 36 plus the fct// we are the nigeria par sey!! Ihejiaka too will soon get to his retirement age and we get our grind back! Without us no nigeria and u dudes knw dat

The implication being that Nigeria is as cool as all get out? What you people don't realize is that many regions in Nigeria would be better off without the north especially the Igbo regions so telling them that is only reminding them that you are the stone tied to their feet. I am from Benue and I feel like you include it when you say 19 northern states, Benue was certainly part of the north on the old map but that is history, we are not muslim, we do not kill people irrationally, we do not speak Hausa and we certainly have nothing in common with you so if you were including Benue better get that out of your mind.

As far as progress and development goes you should be ashamed to be from the north, look at me claiming middle-belt despite all the effort to lump us into the north.

al-qaeda:
9JA'S PROBLEMS CANNOT BE SOLVED BY MAN.

We would ask that you keep that to yourself and allow us to keep trying despite that opinion of yours. Thankyou

With an american flag on the roof, I see you people aren't being secretive about your aim to derail this thread.

The person who killed Abacha if any was the one that saved us from him, there was going to be an election in 1998, Abacha announced that. He tried to guarantee that he would win the presidency tho but never the less the democratic wagons were circling so killing him did the job, if Obasanjo did that then I suppose he saved Nigeria and she is grateful but it has nothing to do with his presidency. I just did a bit of research and that claim is denied, he also would not haven needed to be president, many people have championed ideologies in their countries without being president, what did Obasanjo do to improve Nigeria in his capacity as president is what I want to know.

anulaxad: IT'S EXTREMELY SAD NIGERIANS DO NOT KNOW WHAT THERE ENTITLED TO, ESPECIALLY COMING FROM A RICH COUNTRY.

UNDER YAKUBU GOWON'S RULE,THERE WAS A CONSTITUTION RULE THAT NIGERIANS MAY KNOW ABOUT BUT DO NOT KNOW WHO EM-PLACED,IT ALLOWS THE
AVERAGE NIGERIAN TO BE ENTITLED TO FREE HEALTHCARE, DEPENDING WHERE THEY STAND,IF THERE IN EXTREME POVERTY LIKE THE MAJORITY OF NIGERIANS, EDUCATION AND WEEKLY(AS IT WAS BACK THEN)OR MONTHLY ALLOWANCE BY THE GOVERNMENT.


THINGS HAVE NOT REALLY CHANGED IT'S JUST THERE ARE NOT THAT MUCH NIGERIANS LIKE MYSELF WHO ARE READY TO READ THE CONSTITUTION,LAWS AND SO THAT WE HAD FROM DAY ONE.

AND GEJ IS JUST TAKING THE PISS TO THE NEXT LEVEL. OBASANJO KNEW HE WAS CORRUPT AND HE NEVER ONCE DENIED IT BUT AT LEAST HE GOT THE COUNTRY AND IT'S PEOPLE ON BALANCE SINCE THE DREADFUL,PAINFUL EVIL RULE OF THAT THEY CALL ABACHA.

I am not sure what you mean by on balance but I'll ask that you share with us one thing that improved in Obasanjo's administration.

fr_evangel: All they needed to do was REFUSE to bring their childeren out for immunization, isn't it?

Yes but you see irrationality especially coupled with violent tendencies don't work that way. It also doesn't go well with the get rid of polio campaign.

.....OK.....
I suppose I am glad I was able to fascinate you at least, hurray for me

Kamanda: After years of neglect by previous administrations,the Goodluck Jonathan government has FINALLY delivered and completed the Abuja Inland Deepsea Port.Its the first of its kind in the world.
Transformation is Real.







*Bros Sincere,I try small?*

I just googled "Abuja Inland Deepsea Port" there is no such thing and that picture is also very fake, when you start posting crap here you will destroy the credibility of this thread, keep them real pl0x.

Eko Ile: The new ultra modern federal stadium in Taraba state built and commissioned by GEJ.

Built or to be built? That looks like a computer animation right there.

Omo_Tier1: Yes, the core at Lokoja town.. I have the picture and like Ai told you, when the time is ready... You guys will see what you never wanted the average Nigerian to see... This time..you looter will confess that He had bathroom slippers in village as a boy

POST D PISHURES!!

take dat: There is no way the refinery won't serve Nigerians with its current considerable capacity utilisation, all that is needed from government is "urgent" measures to curb or reduce pipeline vandalism.

Of course you are right but Nigerians need to feel it. You see people on this site yelling how GEJ has done nothing in the power sector, he has done much but nobody cares, not until they see 24/7 electricity. The same way nobody will care until fuel prices go down and stealing of electric cables will continue until the cables begin to transmit electricity rather than being there 90% of the time for show. We have been duped too many times, there must be a direct correlation between his actions and our lives otherwise his changes in Nigeria might as well be nursery rhymes which is why it is imperative that fuel prices go down if the vandalism is to go down. Dealing with people is as much practical as it is psychological.

take dat: If this is true, shouldn't government cut down on the amount budgeted for fuel subsidy in the 2013 appropriation bill since we are locally refining 7.5million litres out of the average daily consumption of 35million litres? Who buys the AGO from them since the market is already deregulated and at what cost does the companies buy it from them since the total cost of refining locally is much cheaper than importing? It is not enough to say that the refinery is working at optimum capacity without knowing if we are being short-changed or not!

No, since vandalism and such can still happen. They should give it a year and still cut prices tho, figure something out but the prices should go down, if people feel the refineries are actually serving them then vandalism will go down but we cannot just cut the subsidy budget because we cannot expect vandalism to just stop, we need to be safe, people need time to change their attitude toward the whole thing. Its a very dicey situation but then running a country always is.

Tolexander: one wouldn't blame them if one was following the 1996 problem the children had with the meningitis immunity drug(trovan) produced by the PFIZER DRUG COMPANY in USA, which was tested in Kano during the outbreak of meningitis. The drug caused death and various disease on the children.
http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/28/6/1860.2.full
All the same the action taken i.e killing by the people in Kano is very barbaric.

I knew that pfizer did something silly in Nigeria back then, sorry but despite the fact that it doesn't justify the killing it does somewhat explain it. Tolexander makes a good point.

abuadam1978: i wonder why you people are tribalistic and sentimist allthe the time you come and create confusion in our peaceful land and you are abusing us also these killings is sponsored by CAN so as to coused confusion in muslim land we know and we are aware but all the time you blame hausa/muslims infact we dont have anything like polio in the north it was created to couse problem to spread infertility and hiv to muslim children

Don't just make statements, prove to us, make us believe. Right here and now:

-Give us evidence, even circumstantial is fine, suggesting that CAN sponsors these killings.
-Tell us what CAN stands to gain from causing confusion in muslim land(why would they want it?)
-Please tell us why anybody would want to cause problems, infertility and hiv in muslim children.
-Tell us about the previous incidents when people tried to harm muslim children that they were caught red handed or about how they succeeded(remember that you must provide evidence. Don't just tell me about an incident when people died, tell us how you know it was these fake vaccine peddlers)

Make your case, I am all ears.

Jakumo: The camo pant job helps hide parked military aircraft on the ground from attacking enemy jets above, and it also helps conceal aircraft that are in flight, from enemy jets flying above them. The undersides of the planes are generally white or light blue, so that they blend with the sky when seen from below.

That'll be ten dollars for the free information.

I was gonna ask why I don't see pictures of other nations planes like that then I decided to do my research, also I noticed the fourth plane is blue under.

most of Nigeria's camo(and this is purely speculation from me) seems made for deserts and forests, the seventh one seems a more practical silver for airforce bases unless our bases are sandy which will just make me laugh. The desert ones seem for countries like egypt that are mostly sandy and we don't really have a reason to park our planes in forests, we are not losing an aerial war yet. Anyway you are all in all very correct, I learned something new today.

ROSSIKE: Shut up and fk off with your peddling of lies and anti Nigerian hate. Nothing works in your brain otherwise you would leave the airforce experts to deal with their problem as they see fit. What training do you have to open your stinking mouth to criticise?

You are very irrational aren't you. I will try not to incite a response like you before I lose a few more brain cells.

martyns303: bloody liar, did u even watch the video befor commenting?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR9of5jqhVQ

Keep your mouth shut, click the link to youtube and look at how many months ago it was posted. I don't blame you tho, stupidity is rampant and now you know that you are one of them.

tha_originator: Boko haram have since cease fire na abi! They will soon say it's the work of some anonymous undergraduates who masterminded it. Abeg nxt time we want names mentioned so we will know which tribe is behind this evil. You never can tell, it may be some people!

When did we establish a tribe was behind it, you know something we don't?

I am not going to ask why the air crafts have a camouflage finish on them, its not like it can help them in the sky but this shouldn't surprise you guys, nothing works in Nigeria, the military certainly wasn't going to be the exception though only one aircraft for training has to be a lie.

The problem here is yours, the president fails to go watch football because he is too busy trying to fix the country and people are upset, there is something very wrong with those people and you shouldn't really be bothering defending him in front of them, their rationality has long gone out the window.

The first one is from the movie stealth, its just a prop.

Built2last: This looks like a 3D stuff but I keep wondering why humanity invests so much in inventing what will destroy humanity one day.

If the serbians had big guns in 1914 there'd have been no world wars. Does that answer your question?

Oabdul: Am in d north nau, doin my NYSC nd i participated in d polio exercise wey jst finish! D problem d north pple are sufferin frm is ORIENTATION. I alwys say it nd d tin can start frm deir so calld Clerics, Imam, Emir because dey are d 1 teachin dem wat is nt rite. Nd pple in d North are frm diff tribes. Evn dey are jst like d south south nd south east. Dat if u call sum1 igbo, she go tell U say she nobi igbo. Its hapenin here in d north because sum will say dey are nt Hausa, Tarok, fulani, Kanuri's. Etc. So its only Almighty Allah nd deir Clerics dat i knw can solve deir problem in d North.

Jesus man, that sounds good and fine when spoken but its a pain to read.

I feel bad for the people who died/got injured, the UNICEF or WHO or whatever Nigerian association that is running them needs to make a public apology and more importantly a personal one to their friends and families, it was quite obvious that the extremists were going to get violent, why were they not protected? Just recently I read an article from a body that promised to fight polio in Northern Nigeria and I thought "hope they are taking security measures" because this was bound to happen, it was like a car accident happening in slow motion. Anybody could have seen it, how could they not?

That guy is speaking Swahili and I saw that video in 2012.

Other than the fact that we have a better grasp on the problems in Nigeria? Things don't change overnight, especially in a country like Nigeria that is actively fighting itself, please tell me one president in Nigeria who helped improve Nigeria in any meaningful way and tell me what he did.

The assumption that you know what is wrong in Nigeria and how to fix it just because you have been living in Nigeria for 50 years is absurd, most people think that way but then most people are dumb. In any country where they want to do something they have surveys, research etc to find out exactly the scope of the problem, how they can fix it and the impact of these fixes in the short and long term, if anybody had bothered to sort those things out maybe GEJ would not not have spent so much time on them. You need to to discovery, plan and then start implementing, you can't just expect the man to go around building roads and bridges without dealing with what it is exactly that causes them to go bad then you wonder why the westerners are ahead of us.

please, don't just sit in your house and complain, tell me what exactly the president has been doing, why he does them, why he shouldn't and what exactly and this is the most important bit that it is he should be doing. So far all you do is complain and offer no solutions.

just shut up and stop proving the Retardeen Theory

I am not sure I know what this means but how exactly is proving a theory a wrong thing to do?

tribune: Professor Peter Adeniyi, Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Land Reform, former vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, [Akure [FUTA] and world-acclaimed geographer, who is being honoured as an Emeritus Professor of UNILAG. In this interview with KUNLE ODEREMI, speaks on core issues in the polity. Excerpts:
At the time you retired from service, one thought you were going to totally disengage from the academic environment, but now you are being made an Emeritus Professor....
It is impossible for me to retire from academics.

Why?
There is no place I love so much than the university environment. Even when I was in government, I wrote to them that I was leaving, that I had had enough because I lost my freedom and there is too much lying in the country. In the university, you will always want to say the truth no matter whose ox is gored. But elsewhere, you are most often afraid to speak the truth because of the assumption that someone could frame you up. No, I’m not the type, in seeking after knowledge, we know that we know very little. In the university, we seek knowledge because University people are dreamers, the good ones dream about what exits and question it, why? Why do they exist the way they are? Some are dreaming about what does not exist at all. Then, there is no executive eye service whereby you cannot talk to your immediate boss as in the civil service. A deputy director cannot tell his immediate boss, why don’t we do this thing this way? So by establishment, universities are different; by operations, universities are different.
When we were growing up, even to my secondary school level, there was no electricity, but we were made to understand that if you don’t want to suffer, you must work hard. We used to rehearse, ise ni ogun ise, mura si ise ore mi… and toju iwa re ore mi. That is, there was a high standard of value. The youth wanted the opportunity to go to school and you would want to put in your best. But those things are gone now. Of course, the structure they put on ground, universities for example had relative autonomy. Council took final decisions about what to do and what not to do.
Senate was in charge of admission and examination and they were the ones awarding all degrees. But these days, what do we see? There is a body in spite of the fact that we have our law; the law establishing the university says how students could be admitted, but there is another law that says they took UMTE.
You then question the issue or rationale and you are no longer the one that actually admits but you are the one that grants degrees. It doesn’t work that why. Globally, the practice is that those people who admit students that would graduate them. You can have another body that serves as a clearing house, that was how JAMB started. Whereby if you apply, you will indicate the three universities and as soon you are admitted in one, then you don’t block the chance of others.
Now, it has become a money-making place such that it is very difficult to ask JAMB to do its bit and but then we have waited too late. You expand your primary and secondary education. You folded up HSC, you introduced a new system, that would produce mass people that would go to the university but at the same time, you put a peg on the number of universities you should have. The communities would have forgotten now that until 1979, there was no state university in the country. Until 1999, that is, 20 years when we were unable to take in more than 20 per cent of applicants, who were qualified to be offered admission into university, there were just two private universities.

What was the overall effect?
Along the line, we have not developed the capacity, the human resources needed to man these universities. So, currently, we have over 100 universities but the capacities within those universities now are not up to 50 per cent of what they should have in terms of qualified human resources to do the teaching and carry out research. There was a time we talked about brain drain. What is draining? It is what is good, it his about people looking for them because they were good. So, if you couldn’t get a job here, somebody was waiting for you in Europe, America, or Saudi Arabia. And Now you produce something that is not even useful at home. So who else will want to take somebody who is not useful? That is the effect of long neglect of what we ought to have done a long time ago. Now, it is not different from what you see anywhere because if you put a building in Nigeria, everybody will be happy that it is a magnificent one. Five, 10, or more years, you will never see any hand on it. Look at the Lagos-Ibadan road for example, by the time you made it two lanes, you had based on perhaps on population and traffic. So, that 20 years down the line, you still retained the two lanes and think the road would not go bad with increasing population and commercial activities and you begin to ask yourself if we are not human beings. What were we waiting for? So, it is the same thing with the university.
Of course, I do not want to blame the press because we have talked about it as many times as possible that people should go in and see what is happening in the universities. At times, you don’t have to blame the (university) authorities because any country without knowledge-workers will never grow. I do not know any company in the private sector that can place N10million, N20 million or N30 million on a single research. I doubt.
Again, I don’t know whether any government in Nigeria is spending money at least N1billion on research the result of which may take 10 years before they can enjoy it. You see such things in some other countries planning ahead and spending money on research. But what obtains here in Nigeria? When you go out and tell people you want to carry out a research, the discouraging question they will ask you is, who will see the research paper you would want to publish in international journal? What appears important to most of our leaders are structures and you begin to wonder, what the research behind what he is doing is.

What do we do towards addressing these key issues?
First, we must stop lying and deceiving ourselves. We must stop manipulating ourselves. In the first place, we don’t have a shared vision of what we want Nigeria to be. What we clamour for and tend to pursue are narrow and myopic interests; what I want my region or I want for myself and that’s all. It doesn’t even matter to many whether the environment is conducive for you to grow so that you can achieve your narrow and selfish interest.
I can give you a couple of examples of how we tend to manipulate ourselves. Anywhere in the world, when you count population, it is recorded for every settlement however small. You will know its population because it is the basis for you to plan for everything: school, public utilities and infrastructure, garbage collection, health facilities. You must know the number of mouths you feed. But in Nigeria, population is aggregated to local government. So you cannot sit down and say what is the population of Epe, Ikorodu, Ikole, it does not exist. And that is why nobody believes us. If the government or any important individual is writing on Nigeria, he will be quoting official or reliable the World Bank, FAO, and UNDP. Is that the way a country should be; that you cannot be quoting credible sources, institutions and agencies at home? Yet we make law that makes it difficult for an individual settlement, local government itself or even state to do a head count. When you don’t have information, you cannot adequately plan; indeed you are completely lost. That’s one.
Two, let me use my own area as a case study. Right from primary school, we were dealing with map reading. Even from the classroom, you could sit down there and know about other places. For those people who read Geography in those days; Geography of Australia; Geography of North America, just name it, there were maps that allowed you to know the special relationship of things. In Nigeria, the British, Canadians and the Shell Petroleum produced the initial maps that we have, one in 50, 000 sheets and we have 1347 of that sheet, covering the whole of Nigeria. we got them up to about 1970. Like any other thing, changes are taking place in the environment, so the maps become obsolete and outdated. But, since that time, no map of Nigeria has been produced. We don’t have a map. You can quote me! We created states, we created local governments, and they don’t have maps. Then, you ask yourself, how do they plan?

What about those maps being sold by road sides?
They are panoramic things. If I do a drawing and say this is Lagos or Abuja, those are general maps. You cannot use them for planning. For example, we asked for a map to show the world, it doesn’t exist. Yet, if you are planning, you must have a unit within which you are to make a plan.
So, we are trying to fix that.
In 1971, the first time I travelled out of Nigeria, I never knew anything about Holland. But the moment you arrive at their airport, you will buy a detailed map showing the routes; rail line, taxi routes. You don’t need anybody to be able to get to where you are going. But in Nigeria, it is a different scenario. We don’t know how many settlements we have now; we don’t know how we are using our land resources, there is no map to show you how you are using it. There is no map of Ibadan indicating complete residential, commercial or telling you the number of structures in a particular area.
When you lack those things, you then begin to wonder how you can plan where the next health facility should be located. So, in terms of information, we are nil. There is a statistical book recording the primary and secondary schools in Nigeria. We stumbled on it and discovered, to our chagrin, that there were two local governments in Ekiti state, where they didn’t have secondary schools, one was Efon-Alaye and the book is voluminous and published by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics. So, how would they use this to plan now when contrary to the book, the local councils have secondary schools? And I can tell you without mincing words that there are so many states having no knowledge of how many primary schools—public, private—number of pupils in their domain. We are just planning in the dark. What the International Labour organization [ILO] told us as far back as 1982 told us that planning in Nigeria is like walking in the bush in the night without torchlight.

A lot of people will be surprised about most of these things you have said about the country as Nigeria will be 100 years next year as a federation…..
Why should people be surprised? It is the truth. We are growing without development. You could become big and still remain unhealthy. That is precisely what is happening to the country. The fact that we have thousands of students here does not mean we are going to produce thousands of quality human resource. So, that is growing without development. Okay, what does it translate to?
Even with the number of universities we have, have you seen the impact directly around the universities’ area apart from commercial activities? So, we are just growing without development. You are talking about 100 years. What about from 1969 when we got political independence; that is more than 50 years ago? What has happened? Where is Michelin? Where is Dunlop? Where is the glory of such cash crops like cocoa, groundnut as major foreign revenue earner? Where is the textile industry? Where is our airline, Nigeria Airways? Where is our railway? Were the not running? What are we doing about? They have oil in Lagos; they have in Ogun; they have in Ondo, which also has bitumen. Ekiti has gold; Osun has gold; Zamfara has oil; they have other minerals but we make laws that do not allow us to exploit and benefit from these resources, rather we said it should be the centre.
At the same time, you said you want employment. Where will it come from? You have resources that you cannot manage. Is it not when you are able to harness, tap and manage the resources that you can give employment to people? Take the case of power generation. Lagos State wanted to go into power generation; the authorities insisted that it must be on the ground that the state connect to the national grid. We now describe most Nigerians as local government chairmen. Why? It is because each individual produces his electricity, drills his borehole, just name it. The only thing that is remaining is the one you cannot produce is the road, though you regularly cater for its maintenance in most localities these days. Whether it is bad or not you manage it.
What I am saying in effect is that the over-centralization of power has killed Nigeria. I don’t know why we over-centralise things. How can you stay in Abuja to discover potholes somewhere in Lagos and still believe that there is nobody who is good enough in that environment to fix the road?
Look at the case of security. We used to have local police. I don’t know anybody who will be able to deal with crime more than the people within a particular locality because he knows the nooks and crannies of the area. We now have distorted values and glorify in the trend. There is no single law that Nigerians would not want to break because there is no enforcement.
They said we are so corrupt in this country. They said somebody stole N230 billion. It is not even the quantum of what he has stolen is the issue. The issue is that the word stealing, whether it is one kobo or 20 kobo, should he not be punished for that? Should it be about confiscating his houses and other properties and some money? I’m not a judge but I simply know that we are operating outside the global practices and at the same time, we are asking of the world. They will never give it us. All these things are running us down completely to the point that even ability to say you are a Nigerian everywhere in spite of the fact that you as an individual may have may have integrity, but what about your country. They see us as who are these people; why are they working against themselves on a daily basis? Why is stealing being glorified. Our courts will say you have no case and another court next door will say you have a case to answer. And we don’t feel ashamed.
We are trapped in our own imagination of what is good is gone, whereas churches and mosques are expanding rapily? Then you begin to wonder if there is a correlation between crime and the worship centres? Or what is the implication of having more of those centres and rising crime waves?

What about the role of leaders in the whole problem?
If you have a good leader, he is bound to motivate others. But the kind of leadership we have in Nigeria are the type that will want everybody to be at the bottom and that they have forgotten that when a tree is too big, it will kill the undergrowth. That is the kind of leaders and we like positions to the point that we ethnicise positions, unionise positions, we tribalise positions, even when you don’t have anybody who is competent, people will write petitions. It has got the university, where people will be saying the university is in our land/community. Our sons and daughters have not become the VC. These need for change; there is no reason for a Vice Chancellor to come from the same institution as the university is a global institution. A VC can come from India, Japan, us, anywhere and that’s what you find in Britain, Canada, etc. but here, he must be a Yoruba man or Igbo man or an Igbo msn had been there, it must be an Hausa man. What concerns an Igboman, Yoruba or Hausa in matters of that nature?
On the other hand, the followers now see that when you want to follow righteously, you will die in penury. So, they are imitating the leaders by indulging in all manner of fraudulent practices too. Look at what some individuals are stealing today. Do you know what N1 million can do to a village; how it can transform it? You will sink a good borehole in a village and the residents will never forget you for the kind gesture. But what do you see happening? We have very few leaders in Nigeria; the followers have become disillusioned. There is fundamental basis for mistrust. We do not show evidence of love at all. You don’t have to be an angel to be a leader. All you need to do is to recognise the goodness of others that you can use to complement your own efforts. Our leaders always want to be the policy makers, the implementers. Can you find Nigerian leaders walking freely on Nigerian streets as leaders from other nations do in their country? If any, there are indeed very few. This is a country you punish people for being righteous. Our problem is not with the structure but the elements you put down. I would have prayed they don’t give us money from oil and ask us to look inwards and mange what we have.

What are the key issues concerning land reform in Nigeria?
Well, I can say that since 1978, some states have not issued up to 10,000 Certificate of Occupancy [C-of-O]. The method is sporadic. The process is cumbersome; the cost is too high and because the people don’t know the value of land very well, they refuse to say they want to survey. It is only in this country that it takes, in some cases, months to one year even more than a year to get a C-of-O for your land.

Some have up to 74 steps and the system is embedded with fraud, just because there are too many processes. Sometimes, you make a payment and the officials tell you there is no receipt for it. If you do not cooperate, you will never get it.
Recently, the World Bank carried out an assessment of 183 countries in terms of the difficulties in registering Titles. Nigeria was ranked 180, Ghana 36 and so many other African countries were within the range of 30s and 40s. Therefore, you can see that what the Nigerian government had done in the past in terms of designating certain areas as grazing areas, and so on are being encroached upon and there is no way of monitoring because we don’t have the map; we don’t have the map, we don’t have cadastral map, we don’ even have the large scale map on which those things can be claimed. So, that is most of those who bought land would have run into difficulties of buying it once because families will rise later to say what you have bought is their own. I am a typical example.

http://tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/component/k2/item/4779-nigeria-has-no-map-%E2%80%93professor-adeniyi

The scale of crap wrong with Nigeria is unfathomable, anybody who claims to know half of our problems is a fool, "here's looking at every last one of our past presidents as non of them bothered with discovery". Jonathan's committees are now the bare minimum before anybody can begin fixing this country. The amount of things they have uncovered is staggering and I have to confess myself a fan of GEJ despite his flaws, no previous president really ever did anything for Nigeria.

Ye you know you jealous. Granted there was a number of people with better JAMB scores when I went to Nsukka for the exam but I know your not one of them since you dunno what sanity means. Now that we have gotten that out of the way, this conversation has peaked, good day. I will go argue with people who have at least half a brain and understand what I say.

jp philips: you always like to sound incoherent what has the rubbish you wrote got to do with Farouk and Emenalor's food?

by the way, 90% of the info you gave there are mere gossips you picked up from a blog site, guy, go take your evening dose

O.o

-I am not talking about anybodies food
-I don't visit blogs
-You need to get your head out your ars and find something better to do

Nigga I got above 304 on my JAMB and perfect A's on my WAEC, shut the Bleep up with the idiot talk already. Free channels showing relatively new shows doesn't bankrupt DSTV but it infringes on their potential market as people can afford to not bother with them and I couldn't care less wtf you chose to call it, you are too literal. You need to learn to understand the meaning/implication of things, Jesus! I won't be responding anymore because you will just read whatever into anything I say

jp philips: why are you saying this




when you just said this;




those dosages were strictly recommended, please ask someone what the thread is about, it's way beyond your sanity. you don't open your mouth to make silly comments when you don't have facts to back it up.

Ghanians are hungry cos their Govt set up free channels, Nigeria with more than 40 free channels still patronize DSTV higher than SA, you don't even realize the incoherence in your statements.

you are truly daft and this topic is way beyond your sanity, point of correction, it is not an insult calling you a m0r0n cos truly you are a m0r0n

You don't know what BON did with their Money and you still open your mouth to talk?

I gather that you are reasoning some but your penchant for misunderstanding seems to be a problem. The fact that the channels are free is not the issue, it is the programs that you expect them to carry that is. If I can watch DSTV level programs on free tv I would not bother with DSTV and others like it thereby making them fail, AFCON is a live continental stage program and a potential goldmine for things like DSTV and that cake belongs to them, besides my argument irrespective of the point of this thread is that it is not the governments job to give you AFCON, something that you have failed to dispute and I never said I dunno what BON did with their money, what I said is I dunno what BON is as in what it is an abbreviation for, maybe if you got your head out of your ars and shared that little nugget this would move along.

FYI, do you even know what sanity means? It is not a synonym for intelligence and can not even slightly be mistaken as such so this:

"you are truly daft and this topic is way beyond your sanity"

Does not make any sense.

the easiest way to identify a m0r0n is obtuse argument, i don't really wish to respond to you because like you said, you are a refugee in another man's country with all your jingoism.
in my post i was specific to Niger delta and your pea sized brain understood it as "welfare state".

now go back and read about the population of the Niger delta and compare it with libya, qatar and saudi arabia. like i said, when you return from exile we talk.

The Niger-Delta is not a country and you cannot compare it to Lybia or Saudi Arabia, the reason for that is pretty obvious. When I said welfare state I was referring to your version of Nigeria, all of it, I hope you understand that too.


Ministry of info. has 12 channels and nobody will set up tele business again? do you even have a brain? must you show the world that you were just released from a mental facility?

Two people generally do not carry the same program within a single country, hence the DSTV-HiTV premier league business, so yes, if the Ghanaian government carries the AFCON the private sector cannot.

The 36 states of Nigeria has independent Radio and Tv stations run by various state governments, lagos alone has more than 5, not including radio channels, all digital, in the midst of all these DSTV rakes in more profit in Nigeria than South Africa. if you don't have facts, just stick to your normal dosage.

I think its quite obvious that those channels do not directly compete with DSTV, they are not nearly of the same quality but things like AFCON, WORLD CUP, relatively new movies, the sort of things you'd expect from DSTV, if those things came to the local channels nobody would bother with DSTV anymore and why didn't DSTV carry AFCON anyhow?

I ask you again, NTA as a federal prastatal has staff who are paid by the federal Govt yet they have 32 TV stations in Nigeria, running advertorials on per minute basis, where is the money?

Like I've said before, this is where you should have directed your original argument, at NTA, the second you generalized it and took the jab at the entire government you were becoming absurd and was never likely to get a result

where does ministry of information in Nigeria sink its budget where? that the whole BON could not afford AFCON TV right?

I confess i dunno what BON is but again my entire point here does not consider whether they could afford it or not, it is that they shouldn't have had to pay for it, I understand that they might have stepped in since nobody else has bothered so its a wasted market atm but don't take jabs at them, this is not an entitlement from the government.

The Federal Ministry of Information and Communications is a Nigerian ministry whose function is to provide Nigerian citizens with "credible and timely information on government activities, programmes and initiatives" and to create the technological environment for Nigeria's socio-economic development.

It says nothing about entertainment. P.S. Its budget is going in their pockets.

i personally will not engage a psycho in an argument that bothers around the oil industry let alone a m0r0n who is an out patient in an oversea mental home,

At first you argue that not leaving Nigeria is the problem and when I tell you I have you begin to say I have left and that is the problem, chameleon much?

It would have been a nice gesture if the government paid for AFCON, I think up till now they have been doing so but don't go crucifying them if they do not, entertaining the people should not included in the governments job list.

What insults are you gonna have for me now?