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Lionel MESSI

freshjayy:
First the regulatory bodies of engineering in Nigeria is a waste especially the so called NSE that does not know more dan collecting money from Nigerians and forgetting why they were created in the first place.
Secondly am an engineer in the power sector and I must say government no try, no motivation, no training, poor salary. I schooled in the UK and I know how very attractive the Power jobs are. The government is only paying attention to oil and one day that oil go finish and we would see what next.
We need a government for the future that can harness the potentials of very bright Nigerians not dem PDP that are enriching demselves

See that's where the real problem lies... Our over-depence on govt for everything!!!. Let me ask you one question, What do you think the scholarship programs being awarded to undergraduates by private/public bodies are meant for
After collecting the massive scholarship funds from these bodies what does the beneficiaries do with it?....they spend it lavishly on other unrelated areas and wait for the next one the following year. So u see my friend, the youths are not helping also. Not everything in the land that we'll blame the govt for.

baggylips:
pls start by leaving this country or ur dream will die with you.If you doubt me visit National biotechnology development agency(NABDA) at lugbe,Abuja.

Well... What I can say is that "it can only get better"

I believe that if we add more pressure by using social media to put up our ideas who knows it can come of good in future

Welldone Op!!!!
Lovely writeup. As a mechanical engineering graduate and I must confess the oil and gas mentality is also in me. I also have had a deep thought regarding this issue for some time I must say. The main issue at hand has to do with our Research and Development system. All they do is rely and rely and rely on Govt funding and when that comes in gbam!!!! We all know what happens to d fund.
Going to ur topic again, most of we youths in Nigeria especially the Engineers refuse on developing our mental capacity but rather focus on how to make a good life @ d end and when that doesn't go our way, we blame it on the Govt, aside from that some of us don't know how to go about developing our ideas. I for one have had big interest in renewable energy (Biotechnology), like creating a bio-refinery in Nigeria but don't even know how to go about it.

SlimSkipper:
dats oree-ilaje axis, and tis a fed road pussi head.

Am really confused here which one is ore-ilaje axis road that u just mentioned here cos I only know of Ore-Okitipupa road which is a state road....biko explain

Johnnoo:
As far as I'm concerned, PDP is fighting a brave fight to cover their loopholes. Talking about Power Generation only in GEJ administration, what about during OBJ tenure when billions of naira was sunked into power ministry without lighting my electric bulb for 2hrs Who is fooling who

I'm voting Buhari this time around

And if he Loses the primaries would you still vote for him

naija2dabone:
The worst thing that can happen to Northern presidential aspirations in 2015 is for Buhari to be on the APC ballot.

On Friday, 23rd August, 1985, the military government of Major-General Mohammadu Buhari decided to place me under arrest. My crime was that I wrote, among others, an article entitled: “Counter-trading Nigeria’s Future” in the National Concord, exposing the government’s scam of diverting public funds into private coffers through barter-trade with Brazil. A man by the name of Benson Norman was sent from the State Security Services (SSS) to my office to get me. Not finding me, he left a note that I must present myself unfailingly at the SSS office at 15 Awolowo Road, Ikoyi Lagos the next Monday morning.

However, on Sunday, 25th August, 1985, Lateef Aminu came first thing in the morning to my house to inform me that the government of Buhari/Idiagbon had been overthrown. For this reason, I am fond of telling people that God brought about a change of government in Nigeria just because of me.

Coup-plotter

Under the Buhari/Idiagbon regime, once you ended up at 15 Awolowo Road, you may never be heard of again. Decree Number 2 of 1984 empowered Tunde Idiagbon to arrest and detain anybody indefinitely without trial and without legal reprieve. After Buhari was overthrown, Mohammadu Gambo opened the prison doors of 15 Awolowo Road on public television, revealing people in various stages of UnCloth and malnutrition that had been kept in the dungeons without trial by Buhari’s hound-dogs.

As self-imposed Head of State, Buhari had no regard for human rights. Immediately he seized power, he announced that he would “tamper with” the press. Soon, the infamous Decree Number 4 was promulgated which made even the publication of the truth a punishable offence. Under this cover, Buhari jailed innocent journalists, including Tunde Thompson and Nduka Irabo. He abolished civil liberties, promulgated retroactive decrees enabling him to kill Nigerians through jungle justice, proscribed civil society organizations and professional groups and exercised “absolute” power.

This same Buhari would now have us believe that he has gone through some metamorphosis and has become a democrat. I am sure you will forgive me if people like me don’t believe him. Buhari is not, has never been, and will never be, a democrat. Only in Nigeria would a man with his track record, who came to power through a military coup that illegally overthrew a democratic government, now be acclaimed as a democrat. It is on record that Buhari’s military regime is the only one in Nigeria’s history that failed to promulgate a program for return to civilian rule.

Facts and fiction

So what exactly qualifies Bihari as a democrat today? Precious little! There is nothing democratic about forming and joining political parties just in order to be the presidential candidate. Little wonder then that Buhari’s parties have a short shelf-life. Buhari would like to be Nigeria’s head of state once again. He can no longer achieve this through the barrel of a gun. The only route now open to him is through the democratic process. That is the reason why he now conveniently fashions himself as a democrat. It is merely a means to an end; no more, no less.

Buhari’s reputation as an anti-corruption crusader is also a myth. As head of state, he did not make any dent in Nigerian corruption. All we got was a cosmetic “war against indiscipline.” The counter-trade scam happened under his watch. Rather than deal with it, he sent his hound-dogs after nonentities like me who dared to expose it. That scam was no different, in scope and scale, from the petroleum subsidy and other corruption scandals that have since plagued Nigeria. The Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) that Buhari headed under Abacha was also a citadel of corruption. While Buhari himself might not have enriched himself, his cronies and those who worked under him did so handsomely.

On three different occasions, Buhari has run for the presidency. On three different occasions he has failed. That should really be enough. If, as seems likely, he were to run for the presidency a fourth time in 2015, there is no question that he would fail yet again. Try as he might again and again, Mohammadu Buhari can never be President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Buhari’s sectarianism

There is a fundamental reason behind this. Buhari is a lousy politician. He is an unbending former military dictator and not a democratic consensus-builder. Like his new ally, Bola Tinubu, Buhari is a regional, sectional politician. Such politicians are practically impossible to package and market nationally in the ethnically-delicate Nigeria of today.

Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasir El’Rufai, one of those Northerners who deserve to be serious contenders for the presidency of Nigeria, observed that Buhari remains “perpetually unelectable” as a result of his “insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity and his parochial focus.” This is an elegant way of saying that politically, Buhari has an uncanny tendency to put his foot in his mouth. He talks before thinking of the political implications of his words. He shoots from the hip.

The strength of Obasanjo, which enabled him to capture the presidency on two different occasions, was that he was perceived as a broadminded politician, not overly partial to his people in the South-West. As a matter of fact, in his first election, his people did not want him. The strength of Goodluck Jonathan, which propelled him to win the presidency, was that he was able to string together a coalition that stretched both north and south of the Niger. The weakness of Buhari is that he is totally unacceptable to people outside his region.

Buhari is a Northern regional champion. As head of state in the 1980’s, his government was unapologetically Northern. No attempt was made to balance the ticket at the top. It was the only regime in Nigeria’s history headed by two Northerners. When he seized power, Buhari put Shagari, the Northern head of state he overthrew, under house arrest. But then he jailed Alex Ekwueme, the Southern vice-president. You may well ask what makes Shagari less culpable for the misdeeds of the Second Republic than his number-two man. The simple fact was that Buhari was Fulani as was Shagari; but Ekwueme was Igbo.

Impolitic words

At the height of the Sharia debate during the Obasanjo administration, Buhari declared that Muslims should vote only for fellow Muslims. This was politically suicidal for a man seeking national office. He became an advocate for implementation of Sharia all over Nigeria. He protested to the Oyo State governor, in the context of a dispute between Fulani herdsmen and indigenous farmers in the state, that “your people are killing my people.” This turned out to be unfounded and perhaps the reverse.

His threats during the campaign for the 2011 elections incited widespread violence in the North after he lost. His supporters went on a rampage; looting and killing; in spite of the fact that, by all accounts, the elections were adjudged the most free and fair in the history of Nigeria’s current democratic experiment. By the time the mayhem had subsided, over 1000 people had been slaughtered in cold blood and some 65,000 displaced.

Forgetting that a statement made in Hausa would readily be translated into English, Buhari later declared unapologetically in a BBC interview: “If what happened in 2011 should again happen in 2015, by the grace of God, the dog and the baboon would all be soaked in blood.” These are the tokens of an irresponsible politician, whose ambitions for power supersede the national interest. Who then are the dogs and baboons that Buhari has in mind to soak in blood if and when he loses yet again come 2015? Are they his children or are they those of others?

With the Boko Haram insurgency in the north, Buhari played to the Northern gallery yet again, calling the Jonathan government “the biggest Boko Haram.” Wole Olaniyi was a fly in the wall at a meeting in Kano Government House designed to persuade PDP rebel governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, to decamp to the APC. Assuming that only Northerners were present, Buhari declared the Boko Haram was a “strategic plan” by the government of Goodluck Jonathan to “destroy the North.” When Jonathan declared a state of emergency in Yobe, Borno and Adamawa states, Buhari still saw this with Northern goggles, insinuating that the President is waging war on the North.

President of the North

Without a doubt, Buhari has massive support in the North. Indeed, he is the most popular Northern politician in the North today. But that precisely remains his undoing at the centre. The more he has been identified as a Northern champion, the less attractive he has become as a national choice. Even in the North, his support base is limited to the Muslim population. He does not appeal to Northern Christians. Then there is the added factor of the opposition of his implacable opponents among the Northern elite. Men like Babangida and Atiku would rather die than allow Buhari get to Aso Rock.

One thing is certain, the South-South and the South-East will not vote for Buhari in 2015. Not only that; there are no buyers for Buhari’s sectarian politics in the South-West. No matter what Tinubu might be telling him, the people of the South-West will not vote for Buhari in 2015. We already had the template in 2011, when Buhari tried to sell himself, first by balancing his ticket with a Yoruba man; and then by making sure the Yoruba man is a Christian; a pastor no less. But it just did not wash. It will not work in 2015.

The worst thing that can happen to Northern presidential aspirations in 2015 is for Buhari to be on the APC ballot. That is a sure guarantee that the North will not be providing the next president. Buhari would be a shoo-in in an election for president of Northern Nigeria. But in an election encompassing the entire country, the best he can envisage is to be a kingmaker. He cannot be king. The nearest Buhari will get to Aso Rock in 2015 is by attending the Council of State meetings.

Hmmm....true words. I for one do not approve of this guy becoming our president, based on his religious sentiments and he also lacks the political leadership. I would pick Kwankwasho over him.

Please who knows the salary pay for an entry-level personnel in julius berger?

bbpreye:
And how will this affect the price of GARRI in the market?

How much for one congo now sef?

Mrval20: Final Battle at Sambisa Forest.
That's like the dumbest movie title I've come across.
#no disrespect meant.

Like the Dumbest idea in the History of mankind

RebelLeader15: Bro, stop deceiving yourself. Why do you think Jimoh Ibrahim stepped down for Mimiko in the last election? They have already assured him his place by 2017 but for the fact that OKE was dumb and wouldn't listen to advice that's why he contested and failed. Just go to Igbotako and you will see with your eyes that Ibrahim is now building his own "ALAGBAKA" there. Come 2017, Jimoh Ibrahim will fly the flag of PDP....IKALE AGAIN!!!

Don't forget that Ibrahim has the money to buy both Oke and his supporters infact the whole Ilaje L.G

Including our Influential OLUGBO Don't deceive ursef bro. Oke has the upper hand. The fact that he's strengthened his ties with Jona alone is enough to put him there.

RebelLeader15: heheheheheheehe! Weldone Mr blind Ayemafuge Ilaje ooo!!!

Its like you are too blind to see that Barr Jimoh Ibrahim will fly the flag of PDP by 2017...

Keep on dreaming, your dream will come through when Oke lanwo lose

Ayemafuge ilaje ko Orunmafuge ikale ni

I pray oh. It's very obvious that it's going to be Oke going by the last election and I trust the dude, He's going to get the flagship ticket just chill bro...... AYEMFUGE!

The way politicians change parties these days is becoming alarming. Even footballers dey learn perhaps a transfer window should be opened for politicians here in Nigeria

Timehin: Not surprised.

I have told friends who cares to listen that though we supported Mimiko but labour will not win the next Guber election in ondo state.

So Mimiko knows where the tide is heading and had to do the NEEDFUL 'cos he understand our people/politics.

Ayemafuge de de ilaje oh!!!!!! Oke for Governor after mimiko leaves office

newguy1: Na wa ooo y in hell will u want to date a girl n cus she is not available so u now agree to b r friend. Hello

Abi oh tell them........if she aint available she shld jus go. If she insist on being my friend, I'll show her my facebook acct so she'll know the amount of friends that I have. So I no want friends again, abi na friend I say make we be B4

According to a historical researcher Michael Paulkovich, the son of God, Jesus Christ, was a ‘mythical character’ and never existed.

The controversial discovery was made after the researcher found no verifiable mention of Christ’s existence from 126 writers during the ‘time of Jesus’ from the first to third centuries. He says he is a fictional character invented by followers of Christianity to create a figure to worship.


“I must conclude that Christ is a mythical character.”

The 126 texts he studied were all written in the period during or soon after the supposed existence of Jesus. Paulkovich says that well-known writers surely have heard of someone as famous as Jesus – but none of them mention him. What is more suspicious is that the super-savior did not write anything himself. 

“When I consider those 126 writers, all of whom should have heard of Jesus but did not – and Paul and Marcion and Athenagoras and Matthew with a tetralogy of opposing Christs, the silence from Qumram and Nazareth and Bethlehem, conflicting Bible stories, and so many other mysteries and omissions – I must conclude that Christ is a mythical character,” he writes. 

Paulkovich says that even in the Bible Paul the Apostle, often credited with spreading Christianity and writing fourteen of the twenty-seven books in the New Testament, never refers to Jesus as a real person. As he was unaware of the virgin mother, and ignorant of Jesus’ nativity, parentage, life events, ministry, miracles, apostles, betrayal, trial and harrowing passion.

http://www.talkofnaija.com/life-style/126-historical-texts-prove-that-jesus-christ-never-existed

lalasticlala: GeneralSani Abacha

17 November 1993-8 June 1998
(Died in Office)

duration: 4 years, 203 days

Baba oh!!! ____o_ all hail the great one. The embezzle-general of all time. These modern day politicians still dey learn work

maestrojay: Mehn.. tiwa fine joor.. mek we talk truth

I think say na only me see am oh

They all Look super Hot bick is Yvonne Nelson anytime anyday

...........Meanwhile where is Yvonne Chaka Chaka in all this

[/b][b][quote author=englishmart]The truth of the matter is that Yvonne babes are synonymous with beauty. One of my girlfriends' name is Yvonne James. If you see this girl you go disown your parents.

"One of my girlfriends".............. Guy u no get Chill for the Female race oh

Wow!!! 4 real? Well that opens the way for me to make my move

mancheeutd: dude united fans dont behave like this

Tell him Oh

Trailblazer1: Please, how did you know that some were ill before they travelled?
Who certified them to travel?
Well it must be GEJ. Yes, let's blame him. Why did he allow Muslims to die in Mecca? He is clueless

U no well oh

Grinder: PDP.....POLITICAL THIEVES..... Since 1960

I call them all thieves (PDP APShits). I hate Nigerian Politics

U mean the Nigerian coin? The coat of arms obviously

Ahmed Musa (Boko Haram member)
Arda Turan (Al-Qaeda Leader)
Ashley Cole (RnB singer)
Diego Costa (Mexican Ranch Foreman)
Phil Jones (Wrestler)
Daley Blind and Theo Walcott(Hollywood actor)
Chris Smalling (DJ)
Fabregas/Xavi (Bollywood Actor)
Frank Ribery/Arturo Vidal (Drug warlord)
Mikel Obi (Project Fame contestant)
Neymar/C. Ronaldo (Superstar Model)
Kaka (Priest)
Balotelli/Yaya (Bodyguard)

Oga Presido na only you waka come for this talk oh

PietroRico: Teleportation devices

Transport at speeds faster than that of light.

Bros ur name na stewie griffin?

When u see something that bends it more than Beckham's Freekick

Two females in their 40s and 60s have risen from the dead after reportedly dying of the Ebola virus disease in Liberia. According to a local newspaper, the incident occured in two separate communities in Nimba County, Liberia.
The ressurected Ebola victims, Dorris Quoi of Hope Village Community and Ma Kebeh, were about to be taken for burial when they rose from the dead.
The women reportedly woke from the dead and have integrated with other members of their communities, which has caused panic and fear among locals.
The Ebola outbreak has already killed around 2,800 people in five West African countries this year while an estimated 5,800 people have been infected with the virus, which has no known cure.
 

http://ynaija.com/two-victims-resurrect-liberia-dying-ebola-virus-disease/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

omenka: All hail the killer party!!

Which party might that be in question? Cos we in Lagos know the Party associated with NURTW
And it's general

eddieblaize: any relationship based on sex is bound 2 suffer. Love is wat both partners shuld expect n give 2 one anoda n nt sex..

And Spending should not be involved also.....let it jus remain plain.