newyorks:
keep watch if u kant sleep..he married u becos u worth the spending so save urself the stress of shouting.universities fees varies based on standard.

Wrong! In some advanced countries, some of the best universities are usually cheaper than the super expensive ones but that's just besides the point. The point of this is her family 'pimping' her out for money. This is extortion at its worst.

humilitypays:
gerrarrahia mhen! If this will make Africa remain backward, let it be you hear!! Broke people hiding under civilisation to run away from their manly responsibility. We need technological and scientific growth in Africa yes but our culture, our identity will remain, Oyimbo should change their own culture and adopt ours or let them gooru hell

The fact that something has been done from the olden days does not mean its correct. In calabar, twins were seen as devilish back in the day and were supposed to be killed. Did that make it the right thing? Abeg think this through and be objective. This is human greed hiding itself under the clothing of 'tradition.'

You should never go into debt to marry someone. Budget the price of the wedding and put your foot down. That's what being a man is about.

CaptainG00D:
Hmm ok so Ur hubby paid dowry and became broke.? Rubbish!!!.
Any man that cant pay for his woman bride price is not ready for marriage n parenthood..
By the way its not by force to marry an igbo woman... look elsewhere where women are cheap.

As for ur friends who has "VOWED" not to marry igbo women pls tell them to vow with amadioha and ogun so that the vow will strong well well.
Becoz im loving that vow let them keep away from our women pls and stick to their own who "dont sell" their kids.

Pls pls all igbo parents should increase the brideprice more let them leave our gals alone becoz its getting too much pls.

NUFF SAID!!

Wow!! See mentality! And they wonder why the continent is so backward.

"You would become a pastor?"

Did God call you in the first place? The way Nigerians just form churches any how can be amazing sef.

omonlaa:
2018 is the year of the Nigerian alarm. Everybody seems to be waking up gradually.

Amen and we need more Nigerians to wake up and exercise their rights. Enough of business as usual.

CharleyBright:



I meant Fiscal Federalism. Then it wasn't fiscal federalism. The unitary / regional govts controlled their resources and paid taxes to the Central govt'.
A more central control of resources came into fore with the advent of oil.

You are conflating facts sir.

Federalism = regional govts
Unitary government = what Nigeria practices now.

CharleyBright:
True.
Why can there be NNPC in Akwa Ibom when the Parasitic Northern govys has mostly been running the country to satisfy their interests?

I try to imagine a situation where groundnut or tomatoes from the North were the sources of revenue sustaining Nigeria, and wonder if the Northerners will concede to Southern states with more local govts receiving more revenues from the proceeds of sales of Northern products.
Am also wondering if the Northerners will stomach a situation where their states producing crops that sustains the economy of the country do not have factories or storage facilities for the produces while there are these factories in the south.
Am also trying to picture where a southern will Head a Ministry or parastal of which oversees a major revenue generating product of the North.
I also wonder if Nigeria would still be existing as one country if Oil was majorly in the north and the north was sustaining the country.

I dare say all the above is impossible.

Nigeria is existing on a parasitic relationship where the north is depending on and exploiting the south.
Before the advent of oil, the North was self sufficient from sale of groundnut. While there were calls for Fedetalism, the North insisted and pushed for Regional govt because it didn't want to share its revenue with other regions. That's why the country was on Regional basis then.
As soon as Oil was discovered, the North fhru Ahmadu Bello canvassed for Federalism and pushed it on Tafawa Balewa who was the President then.
The same North who didn't want anything to do with Federalism were the ones insisting on Federalism because they envisage they would lose out on oil proceeds with the practice of regional govts.
I am 500% sure that the very day oil ceases in Niger Delta or there is discovery of oil in large quantities in the North, the Northern elites will push for Regional govt.
The North & South relationship is unfairly parasitic with the North being in the relationship on selfish basis.

You are confusing your facts. Federalism is what was practiced back in the day. It was a less centralized model with strong regional govts as opposed to states. what we practice now where everything is controlled from Abuja and you can blame Aguiyi Ironsi for that. When those military boys took over, they changed Nigeria from a constitutional republic where power was decentralized and spread over regions into a unitary state where power is accumulated at the centre and where almost everything is run from the federal level and Nigeria began its long slow descent into the mess it is today.
Can't you people see how poorly run things are now. Lets look at the issue of policing. We don't even have community police anymore what we have instead is a federal police that is inefficient, corrupt and ineffective that is not accountable to the people they serve but to their bosses in Abuja. How is that a functional republic?

Naijacost22:
Texas is Americas oil capital and there in Houston you have all oil companies HQ from Exxon to chevron, Marathon oil, BP America HQ etc. There is a place called Energy Corridor in Houston, it has over 5,000 oil companies and oil contractors. Why is it different In Nigeria[size=12pt][/size] ?

Because the govt in the U.S hardly does get involved in the oil and gas sector in that there is no American version of NNPC or NLNG. All the oil and gas companies are privately run. You see, America is not like Nigeria where the federal govt owns all land and the resources in it because Americans believe in the rule of law and individual property rights. What that means is that if I discover oil in my land the oil there is mine and mine only. The Fed govt has no right to come and take it. It also means that the govt has no right to forcibly seize my company from me. This is the difference between poor nations like Nigeria and wealthy nations like the U.S.

2chainzz:
Pls how did we end up with buhari ?

Um, because our electoral process is flawed. It only only allows us to pick between worse and worst and things don't get better until INEC changes the rules and lowers the barriers to entry.

Fantastic journalism.

blacknp:
A bad tree will always yield bad fruits,you people Nigerians are a bunch of Hypocrites that hide their wickedness behind religion.

The children of Israel asked yahweh for change after 400 years of slavery in Egypt,Moses was sent to deliver them and after only 3 days in the wilderness they cursed God and Moses for delivering them from Egypt,a journey of 4+ days ended up taking 40 years and no one from that wicked generation saw the promised land.

I am sorry for you people the mosque and church will not save you people from your hypocrisy, you do not want to sacrifice but you want to enjoy,i was told you reap what you sow.

Dude, what are you talking about?? The Buhari administration has completely failed to deal with the economic crisis. He did not liberalize the oil and gas sector to attract more investment thereby creating new jobs and unleashing the potential of the nation's economy. He bungled the so called war on corruption. his policy of banning imports led to scarcity and artifical inflation of nrcessary goods to relieve the masses, he also failed to decentralize power from the center and reduce the size of the bureaucracy to make the Nigerian economy more competitive and oh lets not forget his decision to burn through our cash reserves to artificially prop up the naira instead of allowing market forces to do their job etc.
Sorry bro but at the end of the day, this administration has failed us and they have proven not to be better than the previous administration in terms of competence.

nely:

gej wasn't too good but he was better than this man in charge now

GEJ was horrendous he failed in so many ways and the incumbent seems to have made things worse.

We need to completely overhaul our electoral system. It has completely failed us. When a system is bad it would always lead to bad outcomes as in bad leaders.

nely:
Thank you GEJ, now we understood what you meant in 2015,that we will celebrate you when you leave office, please on behalf of my fellow Nigerians we are sorry

In behalf of you and who? Please speak for yourself abeg.

Goodness gracious! This shows you how much this country and continent has suffered that some people miss someone as poor a leader as GEJ.
Our electoral system has to be overhauled to allow us to get better candidates instead of whoever APC or PDP give us. Both parties have been truly horrendous.

NwaChibuzor909:
Merry Christmas to the greatest leader in Nigeria's history. We all miss you.

Wow!!!!!!

This shows you how much this country and continent has suffered that someone as poor a leader as Jonathan could be regarded as Nigeria's best leader.
This is why INEC has to change the electoral laws to allow more people to run for office. Anyone who can garner at least 200 signatures should be allowed to run that way we have better candidates rather than whoever APC or PDP spit out during election season. It makes no sense that in a country of approximately 150 million people that Nigeria can't produce better candidates than Jonathan and Buhari.

thewritingtodo:
Plenty memories.. one I can never forget.. Senior Kelechi used me for Judo practice.. till date I have chipped tooth! And oh..that time when it's visiting day and you're still serving punishment.. you can't go outside..damn!

Bros how far? Na which school you go?

Hours after the attack on Chibok, the first intelligence reports flashed across screens at the White House. The details coming through were terrifying: More than 100 girls were missing from a school in northeastern Nigeria, making it one of modern history’s largest abductions.

It was Monday morning in Washington. President Barack Obama was scheduled to meet faith leaders to discuss immigration policy, then hold a strategy session to discuss the escalating conflict in Ukraine.

To the surprise of Obama’s Africa team, the abduction of an entire student body barely registered in the press at home or abroad. In Nigeria, the reaction was muffled by military leaders who informed their president the kidnapping seemed to be a hoax.

“We knew this was going to be big,” said Grant T. Harris, Obama’s Africa director. “But it was initially met with a deafening silence.”

On the afternoon of April 15, Oby Ezekwesili thumbed through her phone and found a short article from the British Broadcasting Corporation. More than 100 girls had been kidnapped in Nigeria the previous night.

My goodness! What a country!

Feraz:

Honestly! Just imagine if things had gone as planned right from independence, many African countries would have been stable with Nigeria seriously playing a huge role.

Dude, I can't begin to tell you how utterly incredulous it is that a President of an entire country with all the full powers of the state along with his cabinet did not know what was on ground and thought the whole thing was a hoax? I was just utterly flabbergasted when i read that.

Reference:


It is their cash cow and scam boat. They won't sell. They are no longer making money from telecoms and power is slowly ebbing away. Do you expect them to give up rhe petroleum sector just like that.

If I was in power I too will not want government to give up that sector because it could make me a killing in a few short weeks. That is why this country cannot develop without the active participation of its most vulnerable peoples, the people that suffer tbe most. Unfortunately they give up theur only powers (elective power) too cheaply and ignorantly. And as long as sentiment and propaganda can be used to manipulate them into cheap electoral decisions then anything goes.

What is stopping us from making concrete, specific demands ahead of thd 2019 polls that whoever comes into government must privatise the petroleum sector before its first term is over and start that debate, now. But the corrupt government will muddle it with ethno-religious sentimentality and the ignorant mases will lose track. The best they will then give are vague promises of 'revamping' the petroleum sector, refurbishment of refineries and other pie in the sky tales. Nothing concrete ever sells in this country.

I'm afraid we are just too ignorant a people to get the kind of quality government we desire.

The barriers to entry into Nigerian politics is way too high. INEC needs to change the rules to allow multiple parties and independent candidates to get in the game that way people don't have to go through PDP, APC and other establishment parties. Anyone who can summon at least 200 signatures should be allowed to run for office this way we have waaaay much better candidates running for office.

aminho:
the man involved is like a father to me

and damn this is the best article I've read this year

Courtesy of the prestigious Wall Street Journal. One of the most popular papers in the U.S.

2cato:

And bubu sorrounded him self with 40 gangs of thieves i just bought fuel 4 500 per litter what do you have to say to that
If you believe that chibok girls story is real click like
But if you know it is scam click share

Wow! I don't know what's more shocking, the fact that someone wrote this or that it had 71 shares. Nigerians never cease to amaze. Even despite all the evidence presented to them some of them will still deny, deny, deny. Wow! Just when you think you've heard it all something comes out of nowhere to shock you.

Feraz:
Interesting!

Modified: first, LRNZH, welcome!

One thing I want anyone reading this article above to know is this: that Nigeria has failed to advance herself technologically despite being the "giant" of Africa; that we cannot use our supposed satellite to map the Sambisa forest - a one time game reserve which if we had maintained this game reserve, it would not have been a terrorist abode; that we have failed as a nation to secure our borders and it had to take almost seven countries to aid with some investigations happening on our soil. It is a sad one.

It's an interesting submission on the Chibok saga and close to being one of the best if not the best. The part it failed to mention is the Borno governor's role in this whole debacle.

1. Jonathan didn't act because his military chiefs had him believe it was a hoax until international communities put interest (a failure on his part);
2. Buhari failed on his promise to being them back by Sept. 5th as predicted to mark his 100 days in office (playing politics with a case this large; BTW, I thought it was one of the campaign promises which he vehemently denied - I stand to be corrected);
3. The Nigerian Police is one of the main causes of this, shooting the main leader in the full watch of his followers and people, birthed the chaos being witnessed in the NE today (yeah, I know, Ali Ndume and Ali Modu Sheriff). Now, this same thing is being witnessed across Nigeria where the police shoots anyone they deem fit and the government has failed to look into it. Shows what i said above - the failure of a nation to arrest certain situation until it goes out of control.
4. The Swiss govt. played a huge role in the rescuing of the Chibok girls.
5. Nigerian government paid a huge amount of money + 5 top commanders of BH to secure their release (despite initial denial).
6. That Nigerians are hypocrites - so many captives in their abode, a school filled up with boys all burnt and yet, we are not concerned about the families of these boys; we are all concerned with the families of the Chibok girls.
7. That the rescued Chibok girls were brave and many stood their grounds despite the intimidation from the terrorists.
8. It pays to have a diary because you never know when you will strike gold with the contents therein.
9. Our media houses have failed to come up with a report this comprehensive since many are partisan.

CC: 9jakohai

What was his tweet on it?

WOW!!! THIS. IS. JUST. ABSOLUTELY. STAGGERING. My goodness! The absolute lack of leadership in almost every facet of this country is just stunning.

ono:
New York Times is a well known pro muslim, pro Hillary, pro "liberals" news outfit in the US. Same as the WashingtonPost, ABC and on top of the pack is the useless, lies-filled "Very Fake News" outlet called CNN. These crop of news outlets have been bought by people who want "a New World Order". They hate anything coming from the hard working and goal oriented D.J. Trump - the President of the US they all fear!

Bwahahaha

CaptainJeffry:
I was telling one of my white bosses who thinks he's very rich that my house in the village in Nigeria is far more better than his in LA, he laughed at me as if I was high on cow urine until I showed him pics.

I don't blame Trump, I blame Nigerian scammers like Rochas who use pictures of hungry Zimbabweans to dupe the whites.

Hahahahaha

For the full report of the exchange here it is.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/23/us/politics/trump-immigration.html?_r=1&referer=http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/23/politics/donald-trump-oval-office-immigration/index.html

Ezeakanobi:
Where are those idiotic trumpers

The man doesn't care about Nigerians

Ndi ara

The man was showing them.his true colors during the campacampaign season but they refused to listen.

The Times said its report was the product of more than three dozen interviews. The explosive and disparaging remarks about immigrants attributed to the president were sourced to a pair of unnamed officials, one who the Times said was present in the meeting, and another who was briefed about the comments by a second attendee. But the Times says several other participants told them they "did not recall" the President using those words.


CNN's Kevin Liptak contributed to this report.

"General Kelly, General McMaster, Secretary Tillerson, Secretary Nielsen, and all other senior staff actually in the meeting deny these outrageous claims and it's both sad and telling the New York Times would print the lies of their anonymous 'sources' anyway," Sanders said.
The report said the Oval Office meeting during the summer included Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, then-Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and senior officials, including White House adviser Stephen Miller, who the Times said had provided Trump with a list of how many immigrants received visas to enter the United States in 2017.

The Times report said Kelly and Tillerson tried to respond by saying many of the visas were for short-term travelers, but that as Trump continued, Kelly and Miller "turned their ire" against Tillerson, who threw his arms up and retorted that perhaps he should stop issuing visas altogether.

(CNN)The White House strongly pushed back on a report that President Donald Trump spoke about immigrants in a dismissive and demeaning fashion during a June meeting with top administration officials.

The denial came in response to explosive reporting from the New York Times, which wrote that, according to two unnamed officials, Trump said during a meeting in June that people coming from Haiti "all have AIDS," that recent Nigerian immigrants would never "go back to their huts" in Africa and that Afghanistan is a terrorist haven.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders issued a statement blasting the paper and denying that Trump had made the comments.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/23/politics/donald-trump-oval-office-immigration/index.html

tete7000:



Nothing works in Nigeria. Nigeria situation defiles all known natural, physical or economic laws. Corruption won't allow anything work. Quest for personal gain makes everything impracticable in this country. Even when you liberalise, there will still be problems.

But liberalizing is the least of all evils. With govt control and influence out of the way the free market (demand and supply) gets to reallocate scarce resources where they need to be.

thunderbabs:
Nigeria is a yeye country. America wey no geh fuel for ground sef no dey get scarcity....

First of all, America has oil but they just dont focus on it ascmuch as we do. Their economy is robust enough.
The difference between there oil industry and ours is that they allow the free market to have its way unlike us that believe the govt should get involved in almost every aspect of the economy. In America there is no govt run company like NNPC or NLNG. They are all privately owned. There are also no govt run refineries but in Nigeria all out refineries are govt owned and you see why they don't work. Liberalize the oil and gas industry NOW!

And here In lies the problem, govt intervention in the free market. Get the govt out of the petroleum industry and let the private sector take over. Sell NNPC, NLNG and those refineries.

The way to prevent this in future is for The govt to liberalize the petroleum sector and let the free market take over. This has proven to work in much saner climes but the Nigerian govt seems to hate logic.