I will kill IBB, Abdulsalamy, Mariam Babaginda, Abacha's Wife and male children above the age of 21. I will also kill all the Generals that served under IBB and Abacha's administration. I will then kill Gani all other southerners that LovePeddler themselves to the North. If at the end of the day, 10 million lay dead, thats not my problem. They deserve to die anyway.

Nigeria has to be changed on the local Government and State level. God could be president and baring any use of divine powers, Nigeria still won't be worth a damn.

It matters a lot. I am not going to be made a fool of in front of all my friends because my pathetic wife can't cook to save her life. In fact, I refuse to lay with such a woman. What the hell has she been doing that she did not make time to learn to cook!

Boiled is better.

She is laying nude on my bed. I'll tell her to contact you once she wakes up (might take a day or two after the work out I just gave her).

Odeku:

Estimate 25 Billion naira. do the convertion and this is one project. imagine how many project is under the carpet. there are more to come on this issue, all the law makers commissioners and governor are shaking like headless chicken.

http://www.cometnewsonline.com/ekiti_elders.html

Please, tell me you are kidding. 

I can't grasp how people can be so hearthless. I have traveled to 5 out of the 7 Yoruba states in Nigeria and they are all piss poor. Everywhere you look, poorly clothed and malnourished children are about just lotterring around. All the industries are either working way below capacity or are in complete ruin. The air is blackened with smoke as uneducated farmers use ancient farming techniques to provide enough food for their family. Its just pathetic.

And whats worse, I hear people say that the Niger-Delta is under-developed, but in all honesty, I can't imagine an area any less developed than rural areas of Ogun, Oyo, Osun and Ekiti. I can't imagine roads any worse than the slippery red mud pathways that commuters are forced to travel on. Roads that when rain falls, the ground below you would carry you and your vehicle to rest at the bottom of a near-by creek.

Its one thing to say that the Governors are detached from the people, but that is a lie. It is impossible for you to spend 1 hour moving around in any of those states with out seeing enough tragedy to bury your head in shame.

Nigeria needs true federalism, even in light of the atrocious rate of corruption in the nation. The reason being, it seems like only the sight of Oyinbo (Foreigners) motivates these degenerates to at least put effort into making things presentable. As long as Abuja is the all powerful center, the governors can continue to loot unhindered. If the Governor of Ogun State had to bring foreigners to Abeokuta when he trying to woo them into sponsoring farms int he State, Abeokuta and the whole of Ogun would not look like that. But as it is now, Daniel and Ministers can hitch a flight to Abuja and have dinner and tours with the Oyibos over there. Ignorant Oyibos would no doubt see the ever-improving roads of the nations capital and think that as Abuja is improving,t he rest of the nation is aswell.

Note: I don't know if Gbenga Danielle of Ogun is a looter or not. I just use it as an example because other than Lagos, Ogun is the State I am most familiar with.

Its sad to see so many votes for IBB. O well, fellow Nigerians, if you vote IBB back into power, that is fine. I will just never talk, visit, or associate with Nigerians ever again. I am not in government, I am not out to steal public funds, all I am providing here is an honest opinion. Vote for IBB, and if he wins, myself and many other decent Nigerians in diaspora can be free of the burden of enlightening the people. You will be the ones to rot in the pathetic mess you call a society. Enjoy!

An Efik man as President? Omg, you are really out for a revolution. In fact, if not for Ibibio, the neighbors of the Efik, I never would have heard of your people.

tenik:

damm it, was this about retro and crew, can't u guys just get on your own topic. , i think its good has done, men! Please u all should not send in your crazy posts here, ok

My power tool is my screwdriver. I use it to screw shut the mouths of girls that act like they don't have no sense. Would you like that? No? Didn't think so. Act like a lady before I go up-side your head.

smith4ril:

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Don't be shallow. That "monkey" is one of the best leaders Nigeria has ever had. I might not be the biggest Obasonjo fan, but he does not deserve as much hatred as you guys seem all too willing to send his way.

mamaput - First lady!

Revolution:

well, your name matches your thinking. fyi, carrying drugs is not a crime against the state, however corruption (i.e. stealing from the government purse) but yet Buhari did not execute a single corrupt politician. Both of you have flawed ideaologies and that is why there are only 2 of you supporting Buhari on this forum.

Don't be stupid. When I call for the extermination of entire groups of people, then my views will match the name the heavy-handed admin gave me. For someone that goes by the name "revolution", you seem all to content with keeping the status-quo.

And possesion and distribution of drugs is a crime against society. If you don't believe me, look at what happens in societies where illegal drug use run rampant.

By the way, while I support Buhari here, I did not vote for him. I might be a supporter of some of his policies, but I am also a realist. He is not going to be president again. The current politicians would never let that happen. They remember well from his rule in 1983, and they have reason to fear.

I love dog testicles. I love to suck on them. They have to fried though. I don't want them all soft and yukky like when you boil them.

The reason corruption is so high in Nigeria is because the country was not founded on fairness, or any other well-meaning principle. The British discovered oil in the southern region at a point when they had already made the decision to give sovereignty to all African nations. At which point, they couldn't back out of it. So, they did the next best thing by puting over 70 percent of the armed forces in the Northern regions. The western region (Yorubas) Got 10 percent of the armed forces, most of them were clerical and medical staff. The East got 15 percent and that was the only reason that they, unlike the Yorubas were able to lunch a civil war. With such a bastardized system, Nigeria from the start was designed to be a failure. And to think here we are with this pathetic broken nation and yet we are a part of the common wealth and united nations. The British can take their fuckin Common-Wealth and their bastard royal family and shove it. They should also keep their damn ever-lasting spoil of war from World War 2 (United nations) and go to hell.

Nigeria needs a revolution that would claim the live of the nation and give rise to sovereign States. Its too late to save it.

From Yakubu Musa in Kano, 07.15.2006
Saturday, July 15, 2006
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Northern Elders have raised an alarm to what they claim is a systematic edging out of the region and its peoples from the command sectors of the economy like oil/gas, telecommunications, banking and energy.
To this end, the region’s elders leaders have urged Northern governors and entrepreneurs to rise up to the challenges of the ongoing privatisation of state-owned assets.

The alarm by Northern Elders of being schemed out in the command sectors of the economy is contained in a communiqué issued by the leaders of the zone at the end of a meeting in Kano Thursday.

The Elders in the communiqué signed by Chairman of the meeting, Mallam Yahaya Gusau (Shetima Sokoto) and convener, Alhaji Yusuf Maitama Sule, the Elders blamed poor leadership for the spate of poverty, corruption and insecurity in the country.

And to reverse this trend, the Elders urged the entire Northerners to unite and work “assiduously” for the emergence of credible candidates at all levels in the 2007 elections.

The Northern Elders cautioned Northerners to be wary of deliberate attempt to instigate the Southern states against the region, noting that the development will not augur well for peace harmony in the country.

“The elders have mandated all northerners irrespective of political leanings, gender, religious or ethnic identity, to unite and work assiduously from the emergence of credible candidates in all the elections, at all levels and throughout the country in 2007.

“The participants lamented the current state of affairs with all its negative traits such as corruption, general insecurity, poverty, lack of accountability and transparency, disunity and general disaffection all of which are attributed to poor leadership,” the communiqué stated.

Also, the elders expressed dismay with the poor implementation of Universal Basic Education (UBE) by North-ern governors and local government chairmen in the region and charged them to show better commitment.


-Poor Northerners. Its not easy not controlling everything in their precious one Nigeria. I bet they wish Abacha was still around (You know they liked him) so that the post of chairman of all major companies would be reserved for the Northerners.

Although in all fairness, the South was benefing greatly from the Ground nut pyramids. Ohh, wait a sec, they didn't benefit at all from it. The Saduna used the proceeds to build hospitals and schools that no longer exist due to moronic Northern Generals that can't seem to grasp anything more than having power for power sake. But don't mind me, lets continue to insult the Niger-Deltans because they don't want their oil being sent to make Abuja paradise in the desert. They are just being selfish for wanting those really nice fly-over bridges in the delta where they actually have rivers that need crossing. Instead, the Hausas get the flyover over desert land that they could just build ordinary, cheaper roads over.

•Brig. Gen. Benjamin Adekunle
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Adekunle had led his Division to clobber the then secessionist forces, but when the war was almost over, the command changed hands. The then Col. Olusegun Obasanjo was named commander, and he was the one, who fortuitously received the instrument of surrender from the Biafran forces. Adekunle and Obasanjo had been course mates, but since then, and up till now, there is no love lost between the duo.

Adekunle, popularly called Black Scorpion, says of the heroic feat usually ascribed to Obasanjo in respect of the civil war:

“After capturing them (the secessionist Igbos) Obasanjo came round to say he did it. I had a good laugh and I’m still laughing…”

Adekunle, before the third term gambit was thrown out by the National Assembly, granted this interview to a television station, details of which are reproduced below:

How did it all begin?

If you remember Kaduna at one time, it was almost the headquarters of the Nigerian Army. Kaduna was the headquarters of some of the biggest units. My father was working in the Government House. My uncle was in the Army, Uncle Alabi. I usually go to him, to go and see what they are doing. So, I took interest in the Army. My father was working as a civilian with the governor, who gave independence to the North. So, I had another opening.

From there, I joined the army. But joining the army at that time was hell because you had to do series of trainings. The first training is to see if you have the qualities of being a soldier. I have already got one. That is my family. My father, my uncle, all of them were in the army. So that gave me a leeway.

We were 25 that wanted to join the Army but 15 were selected and the 15 had to go for further training.

At that time, the Armed forces of the British West Africa were united in training, in thoughts, words and deeds. So we had to go to Teshi in Ghana for some training. It was the only school in the whole of West Africa for English speaking people. It was for three months. But the three months was hell. It was real hell. Then you had to face another board, the board that will select, according to merit, according to age, and educational background, among other considerations.

Luckily, I was selected. My contemporaries then were Chukwuka, Amadi, and Ifeajuna of the 1966 coup fame, Adegoke who was killed in Kaduna, Obasanjo and others who were told that they would go for some other courses.

From the Officer Cadet School in Ghana, you have to go to the UK for another course, like the Ghana course. If you’re able to pass or considered fit to be an officer, then you’re selected. But the irony of the whole thing is that everybody wanted to go to the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst.

Why the preference for Sandhurst?

Sandhurst was a regular officer course. If you’re able to pass, then you can do 22 years service in the Army. So, everyone was struggling to get down to Sandhurst. It’s at Sandhurst that your fate is decided.

Let’s talk about your exploits in the Army, your exalted role during the war

You see, my mother was from the North, from Adamawa State, while my father was from Ogbomoso. During the course of the training, I was told to drop the name Adekunle and use my mother’s maiden name, Hamda. I refused to.

I maintained the Adekunle and that was it. So, we stayed in Ghana. The selection was done. And we were divided into two. Those who were selected to do the Regular Officers Course will have to spend 22 years in service before they’re allowed to go. During the Regular Officers course, you have to get down to Sandhurst, and you also have to do a month as formative period.

Going to Sandhurst, you must have some qualities.

You have to get the psyche to become an officer, and the power to command, to pass instruction, to lead. You must have the power to control people. It wasn’t simple then, because you might find that the next person to you is far older and you the young boy are coming to command somebody older than yourself. Oh, oh, there will be another problem. But the irony of the whole thing is that once you’re put in a grade higher than the rest, that is it. They have to respect you.

We were only five selected from Nigeria for the Sandhurst course to do two years, Udeaja, Chukwuka, Amadi and others. You start the course as a junior, then intermediate junior, after passing all the examinations, practical and written, then you are considered an officer. The irony of my own course was that the year I was confirmed as an officer, the year I passed out was the year Nigeria got her independence.

Can you tell us what led to Nigeria’s political problems?

If you go into Nigeria’s political history, the British had very soft spot for the North. In the Army, Air Force, Navy, Police, even in the Prisons Service, the British gave the Northerners more leeway than the Southerners. The idea being that if the North had complete control of the Armed Forces, they’ll control Nigeria. Then, they will have authority to do whatever they wanted. The relationship between the British and the Emirs will still be a live. And that was what they used.

They packed every military institution to the North. Those that were brought to the south were not important. And that was where I used my mother’s side. I’m not a Yoruba man. I’m not a Hausa man. I’m a Nigerian. It was important for one to know how to speak a foreign language other than your mother’s tongue, and be able to write it. I used the advantage of my parents to get into the Army and to Sandhurst. So you do your terms, each term two years. From there, you go and do your own specialist course as either, artillery officer, infantry officer or intelligence officer. I chose to be an infantry officer.

We’re still talking about the issues that led to the Nigerian Civil War

Ha! The first thing was that the British were trying to hand over. Somebody must control the government, somebody must control the armed forces, somebody must control the money, foreign policies, and other developmental infrastructure. The British had a soft spot for the Northerners. All the organizations necessary for the officer cadet, for the officers, for the formations were all situated in the North. It’s only very little formations that were put in the South.

At the time of independence, the highest number of formations including the brigade, the battalions, the artillery, the supply and transport, the intelligence were all based in the North. Anything you find in the south was just a make belief. And that gave the North the opportunity to sit on the throne of Nigeria, and see it as their birthright. The British not only dominated the Armed Forces, they allowed the location of the formations to be mainly in the North. The repercussion would come up later. The North could do anything. They could say anything in the name of Nigeria, if they do any nonsense, they will get away with it.

The police was the same. The police was more in number and they were spread all over the country than the army. And when the Air Force came, they were mainly located in the North. When the Navy was formed, it was located in the south, but then the Navy wasn’t developed as the Army was developed. They didn’t give them adequate equipment.

Even, if you look at it now, look at Jos for example. There are some military establishments there that shouldn’t have been. Look at Kaduna again, the School of Artillery in the North, the Joint Service Staff College is in the North. The factory for the manufacture of the ammunition is in Kaduna.

The British were bringing the knowledge they acquired from Sudan into Nigeria.

You’ll find that Sudan is in trouble now, because the North was made to dominate the South and the south refused. That’s the same thing that happened in this country where the south through Ojukwu was saying the North hasn’t got the brain, they had only got the men, that the North cannot rule Nigeria. But the British had already given the whole of the country to the Northerners, to dominate forces, they only gave them the Army, they gave them also the gumption to say that their population was more, that they were the richest and so they dominate the whole of the country.

Can you recall some of your much-touted exploits during the war? Up till now, people talk of you with great regard and you are held in a kind of awe on account of some of your exploits. Some legend has it that you are able to disappear and reappear.

Hmm! That is a mystery. How can I disappear? Please do not believe all that you hear. I only used my brain and I used the gumption inside it. With all the guns blazing away, I mean if the firing of guns is pointed at a particular place, they’ll get me, but they didn’t. The only place that they nearly got me was when I became a major.

We’ll come back to that, but let’s talk about Nigeria. The arrest of Akintola triggered off a lot of problem. If he had not been arrested, the problem in the Western region would not have been that way. The disagreement between himself and Awolowo would have been settled. If he had not been arrested, the drive in the southern soldiers to say the Northerners were out to dominate would not be there. So the outlook and the behaviour, within the Army and outside the Army changed. People started looking inwards because the North was only out to dominate.

And that was why the northerners had to look for a way of getting a southerner with national standing. And who did they get? After they had put Awolowo in treasonable felony, they got Akintola. They used him to make the South to tie up with the North. So, when the soldiers came, Chief Awolowo had already been arrested. The soldiers took it to be, well, these are politicians fighting themselves, we have to solve the problem and solve it quickly. Awolowo has been arrested now, let’s go and pick Akintola, and that was how it started.

The original plan was to arrest Akintola, not to kill him, but he resisted and that was how he got wasted. The killing was a mistake. He wouldn’t have been killed. Life was very precious then. And for a premier to be killed was a taboo. And the differences between Awolowo and Akintola weren’t something that could not be settled. But it was to the advantage of the North because the North had Akintola on their side, fully on their side. Awolowo wasn’t. Awolowo was for complete region, period. Independent region was what he wanted. But Akintola refused. He went with the North at the expense of foregoing our own independence. Awolowo was fighting against the concentration of power in the North. He wanted power to be spread all over.

What do you mean when you said they almost got you?

When the coup started, the Ironsi coup. I was in Enugu. I was Company Commander.

Company Commander?

Yes, in the Army, you have sections; you have platoon, the companies, the brigades, then the corps. The platoon is the lowest, with about eight to 10 people. It is easier to command.

The company is an amalgamation of a lot of sections. We had a section dealing with food, a section for medicine, sections for pay, training, arms, and what have you. You amalgamate these sections. A battalion comes on a much larger scale. Nothing less than four companies form a battalion.

You said they almost got you?

Yes, they almost did during the coup, the first coup. My course mates, Ifeajuna, Amadi, Chikwuka, Adegoke …we were all course mates. So the coup happened. Then Ironsi came round to say he was going to change the future of Nigeria. My contemporaries were the leaders of the coup. Contemporaries that I attended Staff College with, officers that I did exams with, so I was being accused of being a stooge, that’s why I didn’t come out openly to say I was doing a coup with them. I told Ironsi, remember, we don’t agree. And if I’m taking part in the coup, I don’t think you’ll be alive. There and then, I was transferred to Enugu.

I was in Enugu when the counter-coup started. I stopped the counter-coup in Enugu.

How?

Ogunnigwe was the boss. I had to take over the command of the unit, physically taking it over, putting men, arms and ammunition on the field, saying if you want to fight, let’s fight each other. And they were made to stay on the field there for three days. If you want to eat, the food will be brought there. If you want to urinate, you urinate on the side. If you want to pooh pooh, they’ll take you to go and pooh pooh, then, you’ll come out and be searched. It wasn’t easy. After that, Ironsi transferred me to Lagos.

It was in the process of coming to Lagos that the political dialogue we were having on behalf of Nigeria in Ghana divided the whole of the Nigerian Army, to the effect that the Northerners should go to the North, Easterners to the East and Westerners must go to the West. But when it came to that of the West, they were not allowed to go to the West fully. A portion came to Ibadan, another to Lagos. It was in the process of bringing these soldiers from Enugu to Lagos that the northerners attacked me.

And the man who was the commanding officer in Lagos, I went to him, said, Sir, Ogunigwe, you’re the CO, but you can’t command because you’re Igbo, will you move back a bit and hand over the command and operation of the first battalion to me. He agreed. It wasn’t very simple. The Northerners had already positioned their officers. The most notorious among them, Shehu Yar-Adua. He was my adjutant and yet he was undermining me, giving contrary instructions to the soldiers.

What do you mean by adjutant?

That’s a military lingo for administrative officer. He was in charge of administration, discipline and everything. Everything happening in the unit must go to him before the commanding officer. He used the position to bring the Hausa soldiers together against the East, against non-Hausas. I punished him. You will be on the parade ground; you’ll be eating there. You want to urinate, another soldier must follow you. You want to see your wife; she will come to the parade ground with somebody else that understands your language. So, you don’t go along and tell anybody things.

Yar’Adua was a good, slippery, very untrustworthy officer. I had known he was bringing the Northern officers together, plotting how to massacre the non-Hausas. That was the time the Northerners had to go to the North, the easterners to the East and the westerners to the West. But the Yorubas had no soldiers, no fighting troops, all they had were clerks, nurses, intelligence officers. So we had to leave Enugu.

On getting to Kaduna, Hassan Usman Katsina came round and congratulated everybody and myself, saying that I’ve done very well that there had been no killing. Unknown to me, he had already given instructions to the Hausas that I should be killed. Because they said that I did not allow the North to capture the East. Because all the non-easterners were sent to the East, those from the Midwest were sent to the Midwest; those from the North were sent to the North. Some of them refused to go to the North and followed m e to Lagos, although we stopped for some few days in Ibadan.

Before we got to Minna, there was a bit of fracas, the soldiers had been indoctrinated to say that I did not allow the Hausas to kill the Easterners; which was true. When we got to Ibadan, I thought we were going to stop there, but the Yoruba officers agitated that we will not stop in Ibadan that we’d better get down to Lagos. But before coming to Lagos, that was the time they gave me all these wounds on my body in Minna.

We got round to Lagos here and we went round to Ikeja and put the troops together. There was too much trouble in Lagos, so they mixed up the whole of Lagos and said that is your command. I started commanding. From then onward, no Hausa soldier was to move about alone, no arms was to be given to any Hausa soldier, any Hausa soldier moving about must have somebody with him, who is not from his own tribe, so we had a bit of peace.

From there, we were at Aburi. Aburi was just mediating in the fracas in Nigeria, to bring peace, by Ghana. It was the Ghanaian Head of state who brokered the peace. Then Gowon was brought in as Head of state, we accepted. And that was how the Easterners in the west, in Lagos and all over Nigeria packed their things and went back home. Then Ojukwu declared: “No peace, except the regions were given autonomy.” He directed that his people should not take any instructions from the centre. The East were depending more on the oil. The West had no oil. The North had no oil. The North didn’t like that and they took it upon themselves that there must be a war to fight and get money, money to run the government.

And that was how the whole thing went. Up till today, the armed forces is not the same because the truth is no more there; the comradeship is no more there, the love of the armed forces and not speaking your own language is no more there. Parochialism has taken over. The Northerners had used the fracas to increase the number of soldiers they had, to locate the ammunition depot, artillery depot, and armoured depot all in the North.

All the military institutions that mattered very much, go to Jos, Bauchi, Kaduna, Kano, you’ll see them. It’s a sort of domination of the country. Up till today, that domination is still there.

To make matters worse, the number of soldiers who were enlisted from the time of Gowon became more in the North, because they say they have highest population, the largest land area and the largest area must be defended and the population must reflect in the army.

Can we ever have accurate census figure?

Never. If you want to have an accurate census, then you must start from birth and death. Is it the North that has got land mass that is uncultivated, that it takes miles getting from one village to another. We have been manipulating the system and we’ll keep on manipulating it.

Census is a big joke. It’s like a ritual that must be conducted. If you want to go from one village to the other in the North, you can go miles without seeing anybody. If you want water, you will go miles before you get water. Agriculture doesn’t go with them, so how then did they get the population, the money that they say they are contributing more to the revenue of this country. It’s the same lie that has been told to the Rivers people, that we are going to save you from the headache, from the oppression of the East, come along.

Look, let’s take one factor. There are some states in the North, the amount of money they get from Federal allocation, and they shouldn’t. Yes, they have the land, but the land is not populated, it’s not cultivated. It’s not yielding anything. Then come to the south, especially, the riverine areas, they haven’t got extensive land, but they have got small land, which is productive.

The only way they could say their land was so useful to the country was to tell them, “We’ll free you from the Igbos. We’ll make your government independent; you will be administering yourself.” Administering yourself, but the resources from the land is being taken somewhere else. So what justice are you talking about? Which type of government is that?

Lagos alone is up to some of the provinces or states in the North. How do you co-ordinate that. If you had followed honesty, to say when you’ve got this product, we’ll mine it, you will have a higher percentage, but it’s not. You’ll have the least percentage as if the Federal Government is killing those in the south or poisoning them.

Even when we have our own man in government?

Oh, my God. Our own man in government can be a stooge. He is planted there. Let me give you one instance. When the war was coming to an end, we had OAU to do. Do you know OAU?

Organization of African Unity?

No! Owerri, Aba, Umuahia –OAU. It was a code of operation. After capturing the Southeast and the rest of them, all these villages in Igboland remained. So the only thing to do was OAU. If I tell you we are doing OAU, you will laugh. You will not understand the military implication. And you will not have the time to give it a thought. But to the military chap who was on the scene during the war, Owerri, Aba, Umuahia connotes back bone.

What were you trying to achieve?

Capture them! Get the Ibo land. That’s the root of the secession. Military? Well, I thank the Yorubas, because they fought in those areas. Owerri, Aba, Umuahia was the back bone and the war went on. We were capturing them, breaking the back bone of the Ibos. After capturing them, Obasanjo came round to say he did it. I had a good laugh and I’m still laughing. OAU was very bloody. It was very, very bloody. And that made the Igbos to give up quickly.

Obasanjo came round and Hassan Usman Katsina and all of them said if you allow Adekunle to finish the war, then he’ll become the Head of State. The best thing is, let’s find a way of undoing him. So they brought Obasanjo, my own course mate, a fellow Yoruba man, saying that he captured Owerri, Aba, and Umuahia. It has given him a lot of arrogance. It has made him to think otherwise, the way to administer this country. Something different. Something that will cause untold agony to the people.

A country producing crude oil is paying more for crude oil, for kerosene, for petrol, for engine oil than other countries that get their supplies from Nigeria. Those countries don’t pay one third of what we pay locally. Maybe it’s because he comes from a poor family and he wants people to suffer the way he has suffered.

Else, how can a man at the helms, who’s got a constitution in the country, yet he went ahead to set up another political forum to discuss and readjust the Constitution of the country. Where has that taken us now? Was the initial Constitutional Conference necessary? He just wanted to say I did this. Oh, I did that.

We are in trouble. To pay school fees now is very difficult. To have three square meal has become a very difficult thing indeed. To have a house, ah! You are thinking of going to the moon! You go to buy drugs; you’re given fake drugs. Now he has changed everything but people are suffering. Nigerians are saying they’ve had enough.

Why does he want to continue?

Your guess is as good as mine. People are hungry. Transportation is expensive. Kerosene is expensive. To get admitted into an hospital, some people will prefer to die so as to allow the money that would be used in curing them to go to their children to enable them have better education than going to their death in the hospital. They’ve increased the cost of everything, even the cost of death. A lot of people die because they don’t have the money to live. What is the value of the oil we have got? What’s the value to the population if the rudimentary essentials of life, shelter, food, mobility, and health are beyond the means of the people.

What do you have to say about corruption?

Corruption could be in thought, words and deeds. Whichever way, the government is fighting it now, let us see how far he would go and then we can assess his performance level vis-à-vis the relevance on the social psyche and the society.

latrice:

BURN IN HELL, AND THATS COMING FROM D HEART

Safariking, I like your ideas.

One thing I will like to know is what states belong to what regions? and are the regions allowed to have their army? If not, you are aware that the next "dictator" after you might decide to consolidate power, in so doing, ruin your confederational system.

I don't disagree with foreigners controlling our energy supply. In fact, I will do a lot to hinder foreigners "owning" anything major like electricity generation, rail ways and ports. Such things are too vital to put in the hands of foreigners.

Add to your list the death of God. Such a being limits the potential of the people. As a replacement, the believe that people, by carring out extraordinary deeds can assend to Gods themselves would be adopted. You know, the kind of system that inspired Great men like Ogun and later on, handed them immortality. Tales of heroic men beheading mighty Gods in a quest to serve their nation would be told. In essence the people of Niger would be made God amongst men.

He executed 3 Nigerian students for carrying drugs? Good! Nigeria is a bastardized society and all those that commit crimes against the State should die.

retro:

I should check out Youngcam? Anyways, I can't believe it! He begged me last night on the phone and I said no.

How dare you disregard my suggestions!

Get on YIM now before you get whats comming to you!

retro:

It's REALLY over between John and I. It is.

I am sorry to hear, Retro.

There is a post by a guy named Youngcam. I think it is called "It aint by force, but by choice." He seems like your type. Check it out, baby.

Is that so? You seem like the kind of guy Retro might like.

retro:

I can't entertain you, I'm in pain.

Fine share the pain. Just do something. I will take anything over boredom.

Retro, talk. Entertain me.

retro:

Great.

haha.

retro:

I wish John could come get me.

Thats great. I wish he would. That way, you would shut up already.

Retro, you are somewhere. Do you know where? Are you lost? Do you want me to come find you?

It did. I thought this forum was for posters to share their honest opinions.

retro:

What did you do this time around?

I said 2 things that might have triggered this over-reaction.

1) I said having a woman President in Nigeria is akin to beggin the military to launch a coup.

2) I said if I was given power, the only way I would give it up was from my cold, dead hands.

retro:

Not again!

Really, I know. At least now your sig makes sense. 

I am going to remove myself from inside you. I would hate to tarnish your reputation because of this stupid name.