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Tpia,

In my few days here, I've seen quite a few of his postings where he does nothing, absolutely nothing but denigrate, insult, and humiliate anyone that has d gull to have even d slightest difference in opinion to him. He's a nutter.

You said I jumped in on this discussion, but that's not true. This subject matter interests me as a Nigerian, & I'd made a contribution to the thread a few hrs ealier.

All good.

tpia,

dont give a fig about ur thoughts. this guy insulted me again about 2 postings ago (scroll up) - guess u've reported him then?

Sod off!

Dede1

your postings are filled with mumbo jumbos that rarely make sense.

how on earth can u be a match for me?

@tpia

I've only been on this site for a few days, & if you care to look @ my postings, you will c a very balanced perspective.

And what does reporting me mean exactly??

Did u c the insult that d guy railed on other contributors, thus prompting my intervention.

And, who are u to be reporting me?? Quite extraordinary!!!

Dede1,

You are u so aggressive & primitive.

Ileke agreed, & I concur, that babapupa unnecessarily introduced a tribal slant, & she tried to tell u guys to calm dowm. But your neurotic aggression would lead u to call her a devil!

You r a dumbo

It is widely speculative to suggest that today's Aba is a mirror image of what Biafra would've looked like.

H/ever, there is a view out there that the cohesive core of the Igbos was gravely unsettled by the war in particular.

Also, and notwitstanding d commercial rejuvenation of the Igbos, its political class has time & again missed golden opportunities to recapture d spirit and direction of its people, following the devastating war.

Of course, the crime situation in other parts of the country r in some respects, only marginally better than what the East is experiencing. H/ever, a sustained & wholesale 'takeover' of a state by organised hoodlums for several weeks/months, is unlikely to be possible in other parts of the country. That said, I could be wrong.

[quote][/quote][b]  Re: The Myth That You Have To Be Corrupt To Get Ahead In Nigeria
« #26 on: Today at 05:45:56 PM » 
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@ Dede1

[b]Nigeria and Nigerians are (a) funny set of created matters (English?). I can not believe individuals who had shown tendency to support the candidature of GEJ, a man who has lost all forms of credibility even to teach first graders (a)lesson on (in) civil obedience, are contributing to a discussion bordering on corruption. Corruption erupts (really, like a volcano?)when people do not respect ordinances, regulations and statutory codes of any form.

GEJ is an embodiment of corruption and a typical bad example for Nigerians. GEJ would have won the pending election with fewer (less) efforts if he joined another party and citing section 7-2C of PDP constitution as his reason.

There are many codes he would like to twist to his favor in future. I wish Nigerians would wish up and hand this man a surprise defeat so that others would learn their lesson.[/b]

Join the campain for plain English

Hey Femi, I agree that many in the UK, predominantly Catholics, African Christians, and probably some Muslims may not vote for an Atheist, but remember that you dont need everyone to vote for you to win elections. The 3 groups I mentioned are still in the minority in the UK. Traditionally, the UK is predominantly Anglican, but the ranks of Anglicans has been so depleted in the UK, it is mindboggling.

Most large 'white' churches (except Catholic) in the UK have 100 or less worshipers on a typical Sunday, even though in the 70s, the congregation would have been close to 3 times that number.

Majority of voters in the UK would prefer an Atheist, to a Christian that proclaims his Christianity at every opportunity. Did you know Tony Blair rarely mentioned his faith when he was PM? He only started talking about it after he left office. When asked why, he said it would have caused a lot of 'distraCtion' - a political code for saying the press/and most Brits may not have liked it!

Nonetheless, I believe in God, and I wish Milliband did.

Folks, in my view, Ed Milliband is one of the most humane of the breed of young politicians in the UK. He has always been a champion of the environment, developing countries, and a believer in social justice. Sounds good to me. And to think that the politicians ruining our country Nigeria proclaim at every opportunity to be 'God-fearing,' ah, well.

Some have said on here that because of lack of Faith, he will never be voted in as a UK Prime Minister (PM). That's incorrect. Whilst I agree that he prob will never be a UK PM, that's entirely because his party (Labour) is blamed by many for the current economic mess in the UK. Also, the political cycle is not in his favour - his party was voted out of office less than 6 mths ago, after almost 13 yrs (some1 correct me) in office. They are unlikely to to come back to power for a long while yet. After one or 2 poor election results, his party will prob kick him out (yes UK politics can be ruthless!), or he will resign. But thats got absolutely nothing to do with his Atheism.

Also, while a sizable proportion of the indigenous UK folks may still believe in God, less than 5% of them go to church on a regular basis. Christianity or indeed any form of religion is rarely visible in UK political life. This is not America or indeed Nigeria.

@Johnie, great stuff.

Beaf - Bookmarked - will visit again soon and spread the word whenever I can.

Sounds like a good idea for States, but [b]LG[/b]s too?

My LG struggle to fix 'gutters' properly, & we expect them to build functionning power plants? Laughable! I sincerely hope they don't increase funds allocation to LGs cos of this initiatiative. Are u aware that LGs are probably the least accountable of the tiers of govt? Massive corruption go on there.

@Dede1 -  Use less 'big' grammar that makes no sense

[quote][/quote]GEJ can not lead himself out of Aso Rock. I hate people who break laws and ordinances with measured amount of impunity. 
   
Impunity is not quantifiable.

Nigeria as a country is less than the sum of its parts. The idea that we are stronger together, and that we must by all means retain the current constituitional/political arrangement is, I am afraid, extremely naive. 

If Nigeria was a multinational company, and there was very little prospect (as is currently the case with Nigeria) that its perilous situation could be turned around, many stakeholders/investors would clamour for a fundamental reassessment of direction. Of course, we are not a 'Business,' and I recognise that we cannot reasonably take a profit/Loss perspective to a nation's affairs.

Nonetheless, I believe that to safeguard the country from being in this mess for another 50 yrs, we need to stop chesting-thumping about Nigeria being this, and that  (it's laughable really), and instead start asking ourselves some critical, albeit difficult, questions about who we are, where we are going, how we have got it so wrong to date, and how best to arrive at our desired destination so that we can preserve and handover a decent country to future generations.

That process will, in my view, and at the very least, require a constitutional conference where we will put all the big questions on the table, and hopefully arrive at a new political/consitutional settlement. Although I doubt that a new constiotional settlement will give us all that we need (given the various competing interests), its outcome should be a significant improvement on what we currently have.

Then, we need to embark on a massive project of reorientation of our people to be achored around the values of honesty, respect, selflessness, belief in the greater good etc We probably all agree that the political class has ruined/is ruinning our country, but we also know that our greatest problems transcend society. We need a hand-over-matter sort of blueprint to serve as a catalyst for relocating our lost moral compass, and not the current comical TV/Radio-based 'rebranding' project. Achieving the objectives of this monumental proposition which must start from our homes and pre-tertiary education system will not be easy, but I refuse to believe that it is too late to start.

Of course, a reorientation and a new political/constitutional settlement alone will not solve all of our problems, but boy, will they serve as a platform for changing a lot that is wrong with our country and for the realisation of our dream of a progressive democratic nation.

@Dede1 - Learn to communicate.

I tend to ignore posts borne out of inherent stupidity(and yours fall into this category), . [s]There is no doubt your post fits into the post I usually ignore[/s]. . [s]But for intellectual dimmers such as you, [/s] I must tell you that both the forum called Yoruba Council of Elders and south-west are totally inconsequential in (the) scheme of things in Nigeria. South-west is not a constituted region.

The so-called moronic YCE has no constitutional right to bare (bar) any Nigerian political aspirant to (from) campaigning in the states that constituted former western region of Nigeria. Even if the nomenclatural nonsense as south-west is constituted (a) region, (and we practise parliamentary democracy), the premier of the so-called region does (will) not have any (the) power to bar any Nigerian political candidate to (from) campaigning in the region. 

I guess you have (a) comprehensible issue (comprehensible issue? Is this supposed to be English?) which is none of my care (concern). I used the Oyo Empire because it was a city state with constituted powers that rested on the shoulders of Alafin (vested in the Alaafin). Even as such (Notwitstanding), the Alafin could not issue (an) order of bar(r)ing a powerful man from his kingdom without contemplating a war. 

Again, if these loudmouths who called themselves YCE tend to introduce the activities of political thugs known for western region of Nigeria of yesteryears, they will receive a double dosage of it. (Sentence does not make grammatical sense)

[b]The hell called Aba: Raiders kill boy for refusing to have intimacy with mom
By IKENNA EMEWU
Tuesday, September 28, 2010



The Aba story has taken a dangerous twist in the last three weeks with the close down of the city literally. In the recent months and owing to the dangerous frequency of kidnaps and robberies, banks have been off and on in service.
Today, the city is where absurdities, abomination and oddities have been elevated to everyday life.

A good instance was that of a family that was reportedly besieged at their home off Port Harcourt Road during which two little boys were ordered at gunpoint to have intimacy with their mother. As the first boy bluntly refused, he was shot dead in the presence of the mother. The mother had to prevail on the second boy to do the bidding of the hoodlums as she never wanted him dead. “That is the level we operate at Aba and nobody comes to our aid. We are prisoners and captives in a city that has neither government nor defenders,” a distraught resident lamented.
Often times, banks close huriedly as robbers allegedly write them of their plans to attack. Because they don’t have adequate security to counter them, they simply stay off work to avoid the worst scenario.

A later bizarre incident was when hospitals in the city closed down to protest the laxity of the government in containing the kidnap rave. A doctor was kidnapped in Aba, amnd his family made to part with N30 million as ransom to ensure his release. But the story was that the doctor was later killed even after the money was paid.

What the situation entails today is that Aba is unhygienic. Aba is unsafe security wise. And Aba is unhealthy and unfit for residents who are ill as there are no hospitals to go and no medics to take care of the sick.
Daily Sun gathered from a reliable source late last week that the kingpin behind the dastardly acts is known possibly by the law enforcement agents and security operatives and allegedly by the government.

The terror merchant is said to hail from Obehie, a town in the Abia/Rivers State border in the Ukwa Council axis and also resident there. “The people we should complain to know this man too well. He has been their tool in the past and they still keep him in wait for another use”, a source said.
He is known to have been old in his art of terror and has been a tool in the hands of power seekers in the state who he stands in for to execute some clandestine duties that border on intimidation. The man whose name or alias, Daily Sun, withholds is known by even the men in the street in Aba, especially as the person behind the acts that chase people out of their homes.

In the latest move that made the man a prime suspect, one of his terror agents was said to have written a chieftain of the Ariaria Market union to keep some millions of naira as ransom for them or risk kidnap.
As the union chief ran to the officials that should provide him security, he was allegedly turned down and simply told to go back and comply with his attackers’ demand.

Wednesday last week, at about 11am, Daily Sun got a distress phone call from Obehie, a town about 20 kilometres off Port Harcourt, the alleged base of the Abia chief goon that robbers barricaded the road and had a field day for hours operating without let.

“We live in constant agony and fear because anybody and everybody is a victim at all times. We have no place to go and nothing seems to be done”, he further cried.

In another incident, the marauders wrote the traders in Ariaria asking for N50,000 advance ransom on each trader. The money according to the demand was to be contributed in a common pool and kept in wait for them so as to fasten the process of the collection on they day they will call. To this demand, the traders reportedly wrote them in reply that they prefer to re-enact the civil war of 40 years ago or face total extermination than be intimidated to this extent.

The informer who called Daily Sun fretted that: “Our annoyance is that while government would not protect us, it cannot also give us free hand to protect ourselves. This is the kind of situation in the late 90s that forced us to resort to self-help in forming the Bakassi Boys. They condemned us for that, yet, they have not done anything to secure us since they don’t want us to handle it our own way. The insecurity is getting to that same old level and we are still the same Aba people, one day, we will say no and handle it our own way because the government at all levels have failed us.”[/b][b][/b]