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Hey, you don too show your hatred for Jonathan. Just focus on the topic of discussion. You go dey there dey beef am, him go dey have his way. Talk say I tell you.

acidtalk: Jonathan is trying to just score cheap politics while in office.

A government that is still struggling to pay minimum wage for those employed is now increasing the 'allowance' of corpers who have only a year to serve, get housed and feeded for free and most of them still get paid at their primary assignment posting as well as get extra income from their parents, siblings and aristos.

Do something to curbe the high rate of unemployment first Mr Jonathan. That N38,900 allowance for a single corper could readily be used to pay two 'ex' corpers a monthly salary.

Let's look for a permanent solution to better the lives of the people and not some irrelevant cheap staunts.

The unemployed need that money most (even half of it) than most corpers who are still dependent on their parents and relatives.

Mblem: Just hope d rumour comes true so dat.... Wen i start dis July, i start with better amount #19,800 na wash

You be serious case oh. No amount of payment will be too much for NYSC. Even when they pay you 50k you'll still call it little. Person wey salary no do for am, na overtime go dey enough?

We may think they dont give a hoot about what insults people heap on them, but let's remember they're humans like us - with weaknesses.
Ultimately, do the abuses and insults make the 'insulter' better? It rather accomplishes the contrary.

seunfly: Psycologicaly he has express his anger verbaly on his oppressor, atleast he won't tranfer it on others.
Have you ever wonder why we Nigerians don't go on rampage of shooting in public all in the name of anger like europe and america? It's because of this temporary anger mangements technique.

You seem to have made some sense here. But then MESS NO DEY SMELL IF NA YOU MESS AM. Imagine if you're are the target of these insults.

^^^
One cannot be too old to learn. Moreover when you see people throwing insults around, you cannot but mistake them for pupils at a creche.

seanet01: Jonathan is a F.O.O.L.I.S.H man like the dumb OP who opened this thread.
OP you are a B.A.S.T.A.R.D for telling Nigerians to stop insulting a monumental looter of all time.
P.H.U.C.K you

Just re-read your post. I wonder what you have achieved by this insult

Thank you obi4eze, you just took the words out of my mouth.
It further shows the kind of persons we are.

I hope we learn something positive from this.

I have observed with some degree of amusement, the wave of criticism and outrage that greeted the ill-timed ignition of President Goodluck Jonathan’s 2015 political campaign machinery. The campaign message – One good term deserves another – is especially humorous. Although Mr President has dissociated himself from the presidential campaign posters which recently flooded Abuja, a lot of frayed nerves still need to be calmed. Our president seems to have a special knack for rubbing us the wrong way, wittingly or unwittingly, and this unusual trait has no doubt enhanced his “popularity” with Nigerians especially the younger generation. Dr Goodluck Jonathan’s popularity is such that he has become the butt of several jokes and unsavoury comments in various circles, especially on social media – and that is very disheartening.

Nigerians are indeed a special breed of people. We have seen so much gloom and doom that we have learnt to see the humour in every situation, regardless of how bad it is. And that is good for us as it has been proven both by ancient philosophy and modern medical science that a happy heart is good medicine and a cheerful mind works healing. It however becomes a problem when we make ourselves happy at the expense of someone else – and that is what we do when we deride our president. It is amazing that some people would actually go to great lengths as to deliberately circulate text, cartoons, animated pictures, videos and internet-based applications for no other reason than to make a joke of the President, and in some cases, his dear wife and other public officials.

Dr Goodluck Jonathan’s reputation has been so battered that his cronies have resorted to Google adverts and other outrageous strategies to redeem his image in public space. I have often found myself assuming the role of an advocate especially on Facebook, when these vituperative statements and jokes become so vitriolic that I simply can’t stand them. Now, I know that I’ll incur the wrath of some persons by taking this position but I believe that our President and other public officials deserve our honour and respect – and this is not contingent on their performance. We must understand that we live in a world that is governed by universal laws and what goes around comes around.

Contemporary history in our nation has shown that given the opportunity, the most vociferous critics will not necessarily perform better. Am I advocating for passivity? The answer is an emphatic No! I believe that we must hold the government accountable and express our grievances whenever necessary. But what if we explore more constructive means to air our views and vent our opinions? Do we always have to drag someone’s name in the mud each time we have to express our dissatisfaction with their actions or inactions?

It will do us a world of good individually and as a nation if each of us recognizes that behind the cloak of public office is a human being like ourselves who is as vulnerable as we are, to malicious words and vindictive remarks. We may not like the president, but that does not detract from the fact that we ought to be civil when addressing him or any human being for that matter. Someone else’s action or inaction is no excuse to throw caution to the winds, breaking ourselves against universal laws in the process. Each Nigerian must learn to think, speak and act right even when the other fellow is wrong. If we must have a better Nigeria, we must have better Nigerians. God bless the President! God bless Nigeria!

http://www.ynaija.com/opinion-in-defense-of-president-goodluck-jonathan/

Last week Forbes Magazine, listed Nigeria as number 20 in countries with some of the world’s saddest people, as usual the reasons were not far-fetched, poor leadership, corruption, inability to do this and that…
Very quickly commentators were quick to mourn and moan; how did we decline so fast, from the once happiest, to now amongst the saddest. Is it Jonathan and the sea of clueless from North to South, or are the ‘subsidians’ responsible, is it corruption unlimited, or the fact that farmers may start using blackberry phones to ping prices of commodity.
Why are we suddenly a sad nation, judging by the fact that when we were the happiest, we also were amongst the most corrupt. So my fellow Nigerians I seek to know how this ‘Forbes people’ do this their thing on global development index.
Only last year our beloved nation was adjudged worst place to be born. We also moved significantly up according to some African Insurance forum in ‘Kidnap for ransom arrangement’. We are never far away from all these very ‘negative awards’, now we have entered the list of sad people.
Before I conclude on our sad status, I first sought out the meaning of ‘Sad’ or what ‘Sadness’ meant. Sad: Causing sorrow or gloom; depressing: a sad movie; sad news. Deplorable; sorry: a sad state of affairs; a sad excuse. It is a Feeling or showing sorrow; unhappy. Causing or characterized by sorrow or regret; unfortunate and regrettable
Sadness itself is emotional pain associated with, or characterized by feelings of disadvantage, loss, despair, helplessness and sorrow. These feelings of certain things are usually negative. When one is sad, people often become less outspoken, less energetic, and emotional. Crying is often, but not necessarily, an indication of sadness.
Sadness can be viewed as a temporary lowering of mood, whereas depression is more chronic. Sadness is one of Paul Ekman’s “six basic emotions“happy, sad, angry, surprised, afraid, and disgusted”.
With the above, I will just make a few comments, admonishing us to reflect on our nation. In the Forbes list, it was an index of nation’s with sad people, that included countries like Chad, a nation we even given aid to, it included Afghanistan, a per minute bomb nation. How can and how did they compare us to Togo, Central African Republic or Republic of Congo or is it Zimbabweans, I did not know Angolans were sad, of course citizens of Iraq, Yemen and Sudan cannot be too happy and except for cricket how can Pakistanis be happy.
My verdict is simple. Nigerians are happy, we are still high up there in the index of happy people, very and I add very happy people. A people kidnapped, robbed, bombed, week in, week out. And yet thanksgiving services with dances of all types and executions follow suit. We are happy jare…
We remain a proud people, joyous in nature, never put down by ‘little’ setbacks. Visit a state where workers were owed seven months salaries on a Saturday, you see women and girls adorned in expensive glittering ‘aso-ebis’. Thousands spent on event planners/transport/comperes and more.

We are happy people, we love to party and forget that ‘Forbes list’: it’s false, this is 2013, we have continued in our happy nature unabated. We provide all kinds of shoes for those who need it, and give another term to those who fail, besides, what has the opposition got to offer, than plenty noise.
We attend ‘suna’ (naming ceremonies) and’ igba nkwu’ (traditional wedding) and ‘oku’ (funeral party) of the same leaders we accuse of looting us dry.
We are happy people, the only people who after being used, abused, misused are tortured with the flamboyance, and ostentatious living and all we do is admire them and cling to hope—after all, ‘my turn will soon come’.
Happy people: very few countries can live the way we do, weeks without light because power transformer is bad, yet you pay bills. Fuel stations have no commodity yet opposite those stations, young men sell same fuel at hyper-black prices.
We are sad people, when the thief who is looting is from the other side, but when it’s from our town, we use the phrase “he is helping our people”. And because the stealing is everywhere, we all, are happy.
‘Forbes list ko, Forbes list ni’ tell that to the birds–we bribe the police and accuse them of taking bribes. We don’t really pay electricity tariffs yet we say ‘there’s no light’, when actually it’s a case of Aso Rock owe PHCN, PHCN owes gas company, that one owes staffs, the staff is in debt of school fees, rent and utility. We are happy people jare.
Maybe if Forbes had said we top the ‘grumblers’ list, no arguments. Maybe we complain most, that’s true, yes maybe amongst nations with most problems. But that Nigerians are sad…that I disagree totally.
People who pay in recruitment scams in the police, immigration, army, civil service et al cannot be sad.
A nation that has bribes for admission scams, or money for marks in schools scams. Rent without house agent frauds. Pension fraud, electoral fraud, where girls date six guys simultaneously and men date five women including their secretary, wife’s best friend and driver’s wife and nothing happens…cannot be an unhappy nation.
How many suicides can be traced to spirited men that were tired of the system and called it quits–fact is we kill to be happy because in Nigeria happiness is it. We steal to be happy because that’s the real deal. We want to be happy not because we are sad but because we want a status quo.
We want change, but don’t want to change, and are weary of change. Common, a Nigerian adage says an erect penis has no conscience. Nigerians are not sad, if almost 2billion can disappear from the Minting and Security Company, no single arrest, no outrage, we are happy, if we really are sad, it is not the Forbes list that will tell…only time will tell.

Source: http://news.naij.com/19872.html

Debokan: Good day guys. I have a Toshiba e-STUDIO 151 photocopier. I've searched online for the driver so I can use it as a scanner/printer also but cant find any reliable one. I'll be very grateful if someone helps me out here. Thanks.

wolebaba: Have U searched the Toshiba website? I am not a Toshiba fan because of their lack of proper service centre. Well I will look it out for you in the morning.

What OS are you using?

deji2009: A good question was just asked by wolebaba
and also please provide the answer to the below.
I take it that you're installing
from http://business.toshiba.com/support/index.jsp

OS type XP/Vista/windows 7/Linux
Browser type chome/firefox/explorer
Printer most likely 10yrs old ?

Connection type USB cable ?
Apart from toshiba website, which
other site have you tried ?

It maybe you're using Win 7 and
the drivers you downloaded is
not compatible with the printer.
Have you tried running the printer
drivers in compatible mode

You might have to install xp virtual
mode/machine from microsoft website and
then you can use it conecting it with xp virtural mode
and install the drivers just before connectin it is
always a good idea.

Good night

Thanks for offering to help out.

I use both Windows 7 and XP, on different systems sha.
Browser type = Chrome
Printer most likely 10yrs old? = Yes
Connection type USB cable? = Yes

I've searched Toshiba website but couldn't find anything useful. I've checked other sites, the one I downloaded that looks like it did not work. I even checked Yahoo downloads, nothing!

wolebaba: Have U searched the Toshiba website? I am not a Toshiba fan because of their lack of proper service centre. Well I will look it out for you in the morning.

What OS are you using?

I've searched their website but couldnt find anything useful. I've checked other sites, the one I downloaded that looks like it did not work. Some sites ask for payment. I even checked Yahoo downloads, nothing!

Debokan: Good day guys. I have a Toshiba e-STUDIO 151 photocopier. I've searched online for the driver so I can use it as a scanner/printer also but cant find any reliable one. I'll be very grateful if someone helps me out here. Thanks.

Someone pls help me out.

Good day guys. I have a Toshiba e-STUDIO 151 photocopier. I've searched online for the driver so I can use it as a scanner/printer also but cant find any reliable one. I'll be very grateful if someone helps me out here. Thanks.

My dear, most of those ppl shouting 'unemployment' have something doing, no matter how small. Instead of them to seize the opportunities available to them to grow, they're there waiting and looking for BIG companies or the govt to employ them. For the records - Entrepreneurs grow the nation.

safarigirl: did you mean dumb? You must be one of the dead brained citizens, mtcheew. People will never know the opportunities abound if they keep waiting for white collar jobs. Some companies have factories, but because some people would rather sit in air-conditioned offices, or feel like factory job is beneath them, they'll go about screaming 'unemployment is rife'. Just cos you were able to cheat your way through school, doesn't make you better than the drop out

I'll advise that we stop complaining. These indeces tell us that we are getting there. What you should do is to invest your time and energy productively in order to reap economic benefits. By so doing you have reduced unemployment by at least one person.

morewealth: And how does all these improvement in economic statistics impact on the life of the common man?

Inflation reduces, GDP rising, FDI increasing, bla bla bla bla bla... Standard of living is still poor, no food, security zero, unemployment is in its heights.
Sometimes i don't like seeing these economic statistics because it has no impact on our lives maybe except for a few(the rulling class)

charlsecy4: Does it mean Nigerians living in the area should start learning French?

Southern Cameroon, formerly a British colony, speaks English

The simple thing is just that Bakassi is now a territory in Cameroon. If I were there I'll simply abide by Cameroonian laws while hoping to retain Nigerian citizenship or taking up that of our new country. Shikena!

Jenwitemi: Well, if your god can't manage to love his own enemy(even he having an enemy is an embarrassment to his supposed lofty devine status), why should you? Are you better than your god? Of course you are not.

I dont know the god you refer to but our God does not make any His enemy. Satan or the devil on his own volition made himself an enemy of God and His people. We should know here that one can love a person but cant be the person's friend. You can love satan but dont fraternise with him.

Design an advert for WAEC (and soon NECO) result checking, print it and paste it where students can see it. With good internet connection and powerful printer, you can make something useful checking SSCE results. Good luck.

That explains a lot. A good move to keep the bid process in good standing. Bravo Barth.

1025: who did he declare his assets to? his family i guess? when Bush ended his leadership in usa, it was on record that in his 8 years as president of america, he had no house in washington. can you say that of a president whose wife is in a serious war with the wife of else president over a land in abuja?
we are talking about a public declaration which is part of the freedom of information bill(FOI) which jonathan signed into law himself.
no nigerian leader apart from the late yar adua can honestly tell nigerians all he has. i can bet my life on that.

Guy get your facts straight. Get correct information before you post.

...life.

Life is .....

^^^^
Thanks a million and God bless you.

If you read the post and understand it you'll know that they're not seceding from Nigeria. They're only trying to kick out LGA system and govern themselves directly. THEY'RE NOT FORMING A NEW COUNTRY.

ebamma: if this happened in a civilized country,the first question will be how those weapons entered the country,i think the nigerian customs should tell us how those weapons passed through our borders.

Those questions are being asked, the transporters and those arrested are questioned. Just that the answers and matters of security are not for public discuss. Let's allow the security agencies to do their job.

We're only in 2012 and some are already killing themselves over 2015. GEJ may end up suprising us all.

greall1: Ha ha ha I don't believe this. I think south africa is the best league in africa.
Nigeria league with bad pitch.

When last did you watch NPL? Comparing it with SA league? I dont blame you, you watch too much of SuperSports packaged SA league matches. Bad pitch is something sooo far away from Nigerian League.

Truth be told.
Arsenal is afraid of loosing to the reformed Super Eagles!

There's nothing unfriendly there joor. Whoever is cutting corners should amend his way. The clarification is straight to the point. If you enter a place to do business, find out how you can do it legally - no cutting corners. My ppl in Ghana, now that you dont have to pay $300,000, pls comply with the other regulations as you're not termed foreigners.

I see some inconsistencies here. The House committee chairman on FERMA announcing on behalf of The President his intention to take the reps to court!
The news has to be a joke.
Well, I'll not say more until I see them in court - that is if the story is true.

This blanket ban on okada and motorcycles is something else oh. What will happen to owners of bike for private use - 1yr jail term?
The lawmakers should find a way to accommodate privately used bikes on the roads.