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Unibenstudent:
boy election is next year,stop displaying like u donr know was up!and y u gisting me DAT ur dad is dere,pictures or adonbelievit

Point can be made without you displaying that in your skull is a midget brain. Make your point like a person with education and learning. Such arrogant delusions guised in your remark is utter nonsense. O yes. My father is on that list and he is a honourable man that I am proud of. Who are you to earn viewing a picture of my dad?

Even though I may not vote GEJ, kids like you have to be put in their place!

Dannylux:
Mister, do you have a degree?

Your post is very irrational.

These fellas are jokers. I know all those men there and they are all accomplished respectable public servants. I may not vote GEJ but this post and many like it are misguided, lazy and oozingly concocted.

Unibenstudent:
All this group of people must be clueless cos birds of same feather flock together!

My father is there and your village head will be privileged to be a quarter clueful as anybody on that list. Must you be rude with your silly utterance?

What nonsense hits FP these days. What value does this piece add to Tinubu emerging VP to Buhari thereby becoming President and then Nigeria commences another cycle of....? OP, be wise. Please

This is mere kite flying - no substance to this story. Regard, at your own risk. Tinubu will not be that odoriferiously catankerous to sordidly discombobulate a well cooking political broth. lol...Not possible.

The Emir is afterall, an ordinary citizen. Ran away like one, returned like one.

Fp please

lonelydora:
I will comment when I see it on Fp

We await Mods action of extending discussion to Nlers.

I can't feel this. Improved videos but what kind of hook is that? If I wanted to listen to Saheed Osupa the Fuji Don I know where to buy the CD na. Na play I dey o

I have thought same a few times too. I however believe that there will be an equivalent paradigm shift as to what we accept as scholarship. If the interpretation of scholarship becomes contextual, and not broadly traditional - what the likes of the erudite Prof would normally agree with, then the Internet will ONLY ENHANCE scholarship. I find understanding in his position only to the extent that the perception of scholarship has remained relatively same for a very long period of time, including its attendant bearings.

Mod, please do the needful.

emusmith:
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stonemind:
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Nairabeezie:
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stonemind:
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Is this how you guys celebrate a man who sacrificed his breath for the safety of others? I recommend a ban for you guys for a whole day.

Rest in Peace. What you are, living humanity will be soon, within 70 years.

Mods what do you think? Sorry it's not a who-wore-it-better/bikini thread but....please do the needful.

If only Mods could help push this to FP to see what directions and learning this discourse will provide.

Bro, kindly read A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle (and also The Power of Now - by the same author).

I am just seeing this post now and just downloaded the publication. Fingers crossed because I don't know what to expect.Thank you.

This would be the costliest mistake of the APC and I sincerely hope that they will not fall for that tempation. I say this because of the need to entrench peace in our polity. Many people will just die after the loss of 2015.

4C2215131:
There are 'less complex' words you can use in passing your message across. Does the statement "A Magnanimous Conflagration is Consuming My Editorial Edifice" remind you of anything?

You are playing your role already...simplify it. I have played mine. See truth is not everybody can understand, not everybody will understand. I do not have the time for that differentiation, folks like you do. Thanks.

JonBee1:
You alluded to the fact that Democracy is about free choice and the free will of the people. I concur.
Need I remind you that if in a football tournament like the FIFA mundial, a country choose to field a squad based solely on where they come from, the religion they practice etc. in stead of players skill set, relative position in the team and form; then, that country doesn't require a soothsayer to tell them that they are heading for certain defeat & humiliation?

As such, you must be living a lie, if you believe we don’t deserve what we get.
Enlightened folks world over have long realized the universal constant that says: "What you sow, you shall reap"
If you are truly educated (I'm not talking about Literacy here), you will have realize the parallel in my warning
Corruption * (Nepotism + tribalism + religious prejudice + lack of security + unemployment) = Suffering + oppression + poverty

Were you taught the "IF clause" in school? This is your second chance to learn it. For your education, the "IF clause" is use as a conditional statement. When use at the beginning of a sentence it connotes a condition possible to fulfill. For example, If you study, you will pass your exams. IF here is a "Logical test", which is any expression that can be evaluated to TRUE or FALSE.
You can now practise with the exercise below:
Answer True or False.
IF you vote your leaders based on tribal & religious sentiment = bad choice = bad governance = suffering & oppression (?)
IF you vote your leaders based on leadership qualities & quality policy = good choice = good governance = prosperity & freedom (?)

Thus, the IF statement is not a curse, rather it a WYSIWYG statement of fact.
When we have the chance each man should however just choose to do right. It is the avalanche of wrongs, that brings us here! - dabigwalls
as e be like say you go school small, e for better if you stop being emotional, myopic and uncouth! [size=2pt]see the definition in the first post[/size]
Have I dumb it down enough for you to digest?

o yes, as dumb as it gets. you indeed have dumbed it.

Nairaland....not during this match please. Not everything entertainment makes sense na. Some of us are happily married. Booshit

I avoid engagement in a turf that is full of complexities and mind boggling complications as puzzling intrigues is what the Nigerian polity is unfortunately made of. It is possible to spend a lifetime on these unending macabres without achieving anything meaningful at the end. When we have the chance each man should however just choose to do right. It is the avalanche of wrongs, that brings us here.

I believe that we need to start bracing ourselves for the possible re-election of Goodluck Jonathan as president again for another 4 years. Our consistent denials leave us grossly unprepared for what usually turns out as hugely corrupt and highly inefficient socio-political systems. Who really thinks that the APC will win? I think people who believe that miracles happen on a per second basis believe such. People who have good hearts but weak hands. Individuals and groups who wish Nigeria well but who unconsciously believe that changing Nigeria happens during sleep. Let's break this down.

1) The presidential elections will hold on the 14th of February 2015, (some 3 months away from today) but the only party with a presidential candidate remains the PDP - talk about early planning and early preparations. I learnt in secondary school that the earlier you started preparing for an examination, the higher the likelihood of excelling in that examination. I guess that this simple rule does not apply to the APC else why do they not know that they require longer periods of time to gain real political acceptance with the electorate beyond the media hypes which appeal to just a fraction of the educated. The APC will hopefully get a candidate when it is 3 months to a general election and hope to win in a nation of multiple interests as Nigeria? There goes my first reason.

2) When you have a strong contestant for a position, you do double of what he or she is doing to outsmart him/her. The PDP currently enjoys the power of incumbency (which has proven an exclusive ingredient for re-election as president in Nigeria) while the APC basically has some states and goodwill to counter the PDP. They have however failed to present to Nigerians, an ideology that ties our perception of them beyond "oposition". There is no communicated philosophy beyond the "progressives" tag which I bet 70% of their voters have no idea or clues per what that word means. The APC has failed to throw a concept or support ideation that is appealing beyond "removing Goodluck". This situation unchanged, can never remove PDP from Aso Rock.

3) Unfortunately in this electoral period and dispensation, money still counts. Bloggers will be bribed and writers will be compromised on account of favours. Instead of the APC engaging in citizen education - the deliberate re-orientaion of society's social values and a re-caliberation of the measures of political worth, they have pursued winning PDP Governors and folks with vigour that should have been expended on changing the psyche of Nigerians from cheap money politics to enduring political realizations. As usual, from now to February 2015, billions of Naira will flow to many community youth leaders, opinion leaders, traditional rulers, local government thugs and millions of people who will never read this post. They will receive PDP money (which the APC cannot match) and turn awaytheir eyes to the rigging that the police and electoral officers would effect. Villages and remote wards will all be cleared by the PDP whether the PDP admit it or not. We must however remember that rigging is only facilitated too where there is a minimal level of acceptance for the rigger. And we all agree, the PDP is a very POPULAR PARTY.

4) The PDP will take advantage of Nigerians collective Amnesia. We are very forgetful people and with more talk than work. If the PDP decides to power homes with electricity from next month to January 2014, majority of Nigerians in the celebration of the mood will normally forget that they suffered lack of electricity for 75% of the earlier 4 years. The APC however does not yet know how to engage in respectable propaganda. They go so critical of the PDP that Nigerians already have mental assumptions of what their positions are on any issue thereby paying little or no attention to the real issues when they are being raised. They should have learnt to genuinely praise GEJ on some occasions to retain interest in their usual critical submissions such that when they articulate positions of a failed national infrastructure such as electricity, we can tune ourselves better to what that is and be thus guided when casting votes.

5) The PDP has won the defection game. While the media was awash with news of defections a year ago in favour of the APC,the PDP has silently won more prominent politicians into their fold from not just the APC but from APGA, the Labour Party, and the Accord Party. The APC won 2nd Term governors (apart from Kwara State) from the PDP but Rivers State State and Adamawa remain PDP strongholds. In a match of political capacity and action, the PDP, by a far stretch has proven a better political chess player.

6) Goodluck Jonathan will likely remain lucky regardless of who the political supporters of Boko Haram are. If it is indeed his government and his friends sponsoring Boko Haram, then their plot to weaken the political stronghold of the APC (North Eastern Nigeria ) will see them taking advantage of political apathy in that part of the country to clinch electoral victory. On the other hand, if Boko Haram is sponsored by external parties, the government will still continue to engage in fear tactics that cripple that political economy while engaging in reconstruction works that end up as political and economic favours to the powers that be in that region. Either ways, PDP have the manipulative advantage.

7) Signals on the APC wall indicate that either Atiku Abubakar or Mohammed Buhari will emerge presidential candidate of the APC. This reality is one of the best guarantees for a Goodluck Jonathan re-election. Atiku Abubakar, ever since he failed to win Goodluck Jonathan within the PDP during the contest for the primaries about 4 years ago lost my respect. I thought that he was a heavier political juggernaut but incumbency is is an albatross in these climes. The same factors subsist so Atiku will never win Goodluck Jonathan because his strength really lies in the PDP and not in the APC. He cannot win the South East, the South South, the North Central or the North West with PDP roaming those locations viciously with power and money. Buhari has also lost to Goodluck Jonathan marking 3 losses at the presidential election. What has changed since his losses? The system? No. The voters? No. INEC? No. The Police? No. The Military? No. If all factors of 2011 remain same, expect a Goodluck Jonathan victory, again.

Only the likes of Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, Babatunde Fashola and possibly an Oshiomole spun within a presidential ticket can spark fresh interest.

I am W.T.A, and these subjective views remain mine with no recourse to any political interest.

And our dear country has only division lurking around...

wetin de do this one

The thing wey no do you.

Happy to announce the safe arrival of our son 3 days back. Apologies about the late notice but my wife is doing very fine in El Paso. This forum, I troway salute gidigba and thank you all for valuable info.

To God eternal, our shadow of lights without variation, the only wise God, take all the glory for this. Amen

Commotion looming while the PDP is running at full steam already via unity rally cum presidential campaign. Opposition needs sit up fast by killing inordinate ambition to allow for true nationalistic and patriotic intent

Nairaland's most disgusting thread....In the making.

Interesting to see Nigerian fathers and their sons and daughters rocking this thread. God bless ya'all.

UnknownT: It is now turning to a cycle? They must have heard that we successfully isolated the 1st case with less % casualty, now Nigeria is now a haven for them? Maybe its hightime the press started reporting the wrong news that Nigeria cant fight Ebola

You right here are a major trip! loooollll

Both Americans who were treated for the Ebola virus have been discharged from the hospital.

"Today is a miraculous day," Dr. Kent Brantly said at a news conference in Atlanta with staff of Emory University Hospital. "I am thrilled to be alive, to be well and to be reunited with my family." The hospital announced he was being discharged Thursday.

The other patient, Nancy Writebol, was released Tuesday, and is choosing not to make public comments, the hospital said.

Only the semen of the man which may still be infectious for the next few months remains a risk.

www.cnn.com

Brilliancy...oyibo men!

The tide is clearly in favour of Aregbesola. This is however time to guard votes and figures diligently to the end.

Both candidates have really worked hard and I think Osun represents some level of maturity that our politics has come to witness.

Congratultions to the Ogbeni if he wins. Oyinlola really had nothing to offer. He should have been left in the PDP.