₦airaland Forum

Sammysammy1: Pishur of d govt suspending d visa or i dnt belive it

Alishachris: so much for the ibo party . I've always told my umunne, our only redemption lies with APC!

Liamm: A cure is underway for sure and i'm hopeful it would be concluded in 2weeks time

Ladystewie:

Burnaaboi: Lol









the damsel is proudly yoruba....oh i mean grand mother*winks*

kabba7: Ribadu my son, if you want to be successful, you need to join successful people.
Do the right thing now............................................................................


BY JOINING THE LOOTERS FRATERNITY ?

jayseehe: Ribadu won't like to be in the same party with the thieves he probed

ukeleh: Jonathan is now using them for the purpose he left them in the forest.

dont8: By Japheth Omojuwa:

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Omojuwa


Had we lost the General, the reaction from his supporters and fanatics could easily have plunged Nigeria into its worst chaos in a long time.

Nigeria is a land of the absurd, the strange and the illogical. So last Wednesday, General Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd) organized to kill himself? Well, that is what those who see Nigeria through the lens of the 2015 elections want us to believe. There are many things wrong with politics and politicians in Nigeria but General Buhari is well and truly above that. Even his opponents admit he is well and truly above board when it comes to the shame and corruption that accompany Nigerian politics. There was clearly a suicide bomber and the bomber was obviously desperate to ensure the retired General was part of his eventual carnage. The incident has since happened, scores have died and Nigerians in their usual way have moved on. Had we lost the General, the reaction from his supporters and fanatics could easily have plunged Nigeria into its worst chaos in a long time.

We have a problem on our hands as terrorists continue not just to maim and kill but to set us against one another. Following each terrorist attack are the accusations and counter accusations. “They know only Igbos sell in that market, so they chose that market to bomb of all places in the north,” is a classic response from a bomb blast that ripped through Kano in northern Nigeria. It did not matter to the person who wrote the words that there is no way anyone would bomb a public place in Kano and not kill more northerners. Even if we took for granted that only a particular ethnic group sells wares in a selected Kano market, should we also assume all the customers and buyers are from the same place? When bombs go off in a church, you are likely to read, “this people are only killing Christians, it is a war against Christians.” You are not likely to read anything from such people when a Mosque gets attacked or when the insurgents kill a revered Islamic scholar. Those who see the world through their bias often times do not see it through the eyes of logic. So they are not likely to remember than bombs are not capable of separating people into ethnic or religious groups, bombs kill and maim everyone within the radius of impact.

That is the same logic to apply when someone like General Buhari survives a major attack that had his vehicles destroyed. That if the terrorists could strike right at a point where one of the nation’s could easily have been killed, they can get anyone. If they missed a major Islamic cleric by a matter of minutes and have killed some other ones, they certainly do not discriminate in terms of their intent; they want to kill anyone not open supportive of their evil and they are not afraid to go after high profile targets just as they kill the poor every other day if not everyday in the northeast.

We need a bi-partisan approach to the war on terror. We are of course not likely to get it soon if someone as highly involved as the minister of state could share an article link claiming one of the major opposition parties is supportive of Boko Haram. This is despite the fact that Boko Haram predates the party by at least 10 years. How can we have a bi-partisan approach to this war if politicians across the board insist on making this more about the 2015 elections than about what it is; a war on our country, our people and our way of life?

And if politicians insist on making it political all the time, what is the role of citizens and civil society? If the numbers get crunched, Nigeria’s poor masses have suffered a lot more in the hands of terrorism. The least we can do is to stop echoing the voices of those who insist on making this about politics and nothing else.

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Japheth J Omojuwa lectures at Berlin’s Freie Universitat and can be reached at jj.omojuwa@fu-berlin.de and @omojuwa

abdulslutsky: But why

Is it the hope of meeting 72 male virgins as well

Papertrail11: Nigerians pls try and believe in Apc yesss dey are new and a bit strange to our political terrain but they are the only opposition tgat can take us to our eldorado.......

as for me pdp is a no no......
jonathan shouldn't run ohh.....else d pdp northerns will leave his back

bloodykiller: nkita lacha nne gi anya ebea


thunder gbagbuo nne gi there


otu nne gi ebea


useless son of a multiple spermmm

product of unkept pusssy

may sango wipe your family out

idiotic vulture that is used to bangging his ragged mother to stupor


vulture


your father scrotum

bastard hypocrite

May trailer crush you to pieces

Infact by all mean you deserve death and i will see to that.


I only bame a cheap harlot like your mother for not flushing a waste like you after intercourse.

Son of a rabid dog

Your generation can never attain any government level.


Bastard mugu

Rilwayne001: GEJ (clueless) & PEJ till 2015 val day...wether you guys like it or not.


Lets try another party we can just continue with this People Deceiving people of a party

PDP = out

APC = in

Jona the clueless can go to ****

e-boo boys and all other bottom licker please do not quote me..

poweredcom: Omo notin fit stop me from eatin bush meat n palm wine ooo

mrsolutionm: Omg,new disease to replace aids

DankemzI: What was Buhari doing behind the Islamic leader? Must he travel behind the man? This thing na set up. Ubok Abasi

Decibel: Oshogbo here I come.

myola777: It is only in Lagos you will see that kind development. hope it materializes

LMAyedun: All they do best is allegations, petitions, accusations & counter-accusations... No plans or agenda in place for better Nigeria, No plans for job creation.

APC is a failed party.