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This whole North/South killing is all linked to the first military coup in Nigeria which has severed the Ibos from the Fulanis for about 30 years now. Until we agree that this is the problem, we will never find a solution.

It is like trying to solve mathematical equations without bothering to confirm if they are simultaneous equations.

The first thing you can do for yourself is to get enlightened, then you can begin to log on to forums and post.

Even within my own nuclear family, there is marginalization and discrimination.

When my papa die, first born say na him go inherit all properties and benefits, second born say all male children should recieve equal share and females nothing, females say instead, make we jus' leave all the cash and property for our village people to rock, me I say since I be last born and every other person don finish university, only me just dey finish primary school, make dem give me all the financial benefits to use bring myself up, then dem fit take all properties.

Una no go believe say only six children, almost 16 years now, we never still agree.

So even if my family break up from Nigeria, we go still dey marginalise each other. Abi you think say Native Americans no dey marginalised for USA? At one time, dem been dey keep dem for game reserve for Europeans to pay money to come watch as tourism. Why dem never form their own country since?

Make we just chill first till 2010. If nothing better happen, then we can begin to take decisive and divisive action.

Banks are not buying APCs for anybody. Banks are buying better Armoured Bullion Vans as applied for by the police.

No bank in this world will be sold an APC.

@mamajama

I think what Fasuba did was right. Right now Nigeria to a large extent needs chastisement in broad daylight. Especially in the sports ministry where as long as they achieve success, they don't agree that they have some corrections to make.


Did you see how The Falcons were treated with absolute neglect? If I were on that team, I wouldn't have any of my fellow players to take part in the last match against the USA because we would definitely lose and we would lose because of the failures of the Sports Ministry.


I cannot lose in front of the whole world due to another man's failures.


Compare this same scenario to the under 17 world cup won by the "Golden Parent-Stock". As long as they won and they celebrated with all glory, the NFA will never accept that there is anything wrong with using 34-year-old men to play in a teenagers' tournament.




@I-man

you have not yet reached that level of enlightenment.


In his book, The Unfettered Mind, Takuan Soho wrote about THE AFFLICTION OF ABIDING IN IGNORANCE.

As a matter of fact, that was the first matter discussed in the essay. You should try and read it up sometime.


He defined Ignorance as the absence of enlightenment, which means delusion.


He then defined abiding as signifying stopping, and stopping meaning that the mind is being detained by some matter, which may be any matter at all.


Yet if Takuan Soho had the misfortune of encountering a fellow such as yourself during his lifetime, then he wouldn't need so many words to define THE AFFLICTION OF ABIDING IN IGNORANCE, he would have just called it the I-man syndrome.


Yes I can die for even Togo. As long as I can make a profound difference of which millions of generations unborn would recognise that it was for my sake that their lives were changed.


I don't believe in a jolly journey to pearly gates or riding the broadway to the pit of brimstone. I believe in living on in this world forever by achieving glory during the physical life which will keep you in the hearts and minds of people who never even lived during in the same era.


Like I said before, I can die for Nigeria. But not a useless or pointless death.


I know such things are impossible for your detained mind to understand, and I wish there was a more nursery way to put it, but there isn't. It is the Way.

What kind of alarmist talk is this mr poster?

For the proper security and defence in Nigeria today, we need not less than a thousand armoured personnel carriers. Not to start killing citizens but for peace-keeping mostly outside the country.

There's hardly any part of the world where APCs have been used to assault even violent protesters with the intent to kill. They are for the protection of the peace-keeping forces from sticks, stones, molotov cocktails and the likes during civil unrest. In fact to stop any of these vehicles during peaceful protests, all you have to do is lay in front of them and they will not move any further (though in naija, I won't fully subscribe to this because brakes fit no dey work well. Plus, the kain beating wey you go chop that day, e no get part 2).

But in war zones, they are more secure than jeeps and trucks.

The broad daylight parade may have just been a publicity stunt so that people will monger rumours and MEND will hear. In fact, dear poster, I think you're just helping the government do what they aim to achieve.

As per our need for tractors, abeg, make we leave that story. Hundreds of tractors have been bought over the years and they are still looking brand new because nobody uses them due to the fact that most Nigerian farmers have small holdings which would make the employment of a tractor become equivalent to using a sledge hammer to kill a fly. The farmers who have large holdings can afford their own tractors. So please leave agric out of it.

We need more defence equipment. Helicopters, HMMWVs, Radar, Fighter Jets and at least a Submarine. From my estimation, apart from the cost of acquiring a submarine and providing radar coverage, Nigeria needs to spend at least $2 billion for the acquisition of brand new equipment for the army.

If the army is ill-equipped to do its job of defence, it may start thinking of new career moves like taking over the government (though e go hard them this time).

With all the violence in the world heaped on the lap of Islam, one must wonder if the cultists who wrecked violence on Port Harcourt are muslims. I suspect that Bakassi Boys that were be-heading and be-handing people a la short sleeve and long sleeve were doing it in the name of Allah. OPC too was to the glory of Mohamet. MEND nko? Shey they are engaged in Islamic Jihad?

The cowardly Americans who slaughtered 60 Iraqi citizens while they were worn out with fasting are all Jihadists too.

Staff of BlackWater who took a joyride on a helicopter with the option of spraying innocent Iraqi citizens for extra points, they must have been Sunnis or Shias.

For those of you that are sitting down asking stupid questions, by the time you are caught in the crossfire, you will realise whether it's a North/South thing or a Muslim/Christian matter. For your information, I have been there and the question you should ask yourself is how many Christian Hausas have been killed in Kano throughout the past years.

The day I was caught up in one of these riots, I had just entered high school and as people were trying to save their lives, a Cocacola staff bus which was empty stopped for students to enter and I didn't believe my life when an old lady whom I'd help to get on the bus told my fellow students to kill me because I looked "Inyamiri".

Nobody asked whether I was muslim or christian, she said I looked Inyamiri, end of story. Even when I corrected her that I was Edo, she laughed that it was the same difference.

The only thing that saved me was that I was the one whose English and Integrated Science homeworks were copied by everyone in my class. Maybe they considered that if they killed me, no more high scores. Besides, the bus driver threatened to drop us all in one of the hotspots if everyone didn't behave.

So here I am alive today, but I know that the threat of death was not because of any religious issue. It was because of my Ibo look. Anyway, as they say in Benin, "who no go, no know". That's why somebody that was born in Ibadan and grew up in V.I will be discussing matter within the scope of their mind's imagination.


In fact, from the way, people have been attributing massacres worldwide to Islam, one would think George Bush and Charles Taylor are both muslims.

See question!

Abeg, the thing tire me.

A majority of christians today are protestant who adhere to the teachings of Martin Luther. If they can accept the Christian teachings of Martin Luther, why can't they heed his warnings about the jews of whom he dedicated and entire book "on the jews and their lies"?

A country has Judge Bush for president and people are not complaining, yet they see Obanikoro being an ambassador as a grave misdeed.
If one man asks what is wrong with Yar'Adua and at the same time claims that he has no problem with Yar'Adua, then we have to ask such fellow what is wrong with his head.

Accepter of popular beliefs and slogans, please shut up!

E fit be O! This one wey Nigeria just dey catch spies and foreign agents all over the country, nobody fit know finish O! Thank you for bringing that perspective jare my brother.

Laws have to be made to ensure that anyone who engages in segregational strife, whether by killings, injury or incitement; whether religious, tribal or class will sure pay the ultimate price.

But seriouly, something dey smell.

If you are more intelligent than those your lagos mad men, you would differentiate between Martin Luther King and Martin Luther.

Abeg let's concentrate on achieving better things.

Security personnel who have authority are allowed to carry weapons on commercial airlines.

You think we are still living in the pre-globalization era? You mean there are no security personnell carrying weapons on commercial flights in the US? Brother please!

Yet nobody talked about OBJ bringing weapons on an aircraft. What we're saying is that we must stop quoting ridiculous sources.

Security personnel who have authority are allowed to carry weapons on commercial airlines.

You think we are still living in the pre-globalization era? You mean there are no security personnell carrying weapons on commercial flights in the US? Brother please!

47 years of Nigerian freedom from brutish imperialism. Half century of plundering and after their Second European Tribal War, our enemies succumbed. THANK GOD!

Ahmedinejad is no doubt of greater intelligence than most men. I personally have been researching the population of jews killed by Adolf Hitler and 6 million is absolutely outrageous.

Anyway, in as much as most of you guys are Protestant Christians, you should take time to read the book written by Martin Luther "On the Jews and their Lies".

Are you sure we're worse of today? Go and check the statistics. INCOME, PER CAPITA, GDP, INFRASTRUCTURE and even SOCIAL ADVANCEMENT.

Go and check it. Stop making crazy assumptions we were massively disadvantaged.

@davidylan

so you expect the wind of change to blow from Nigeria to where you are in New York?

That one don pass sweet wind of change of change O! E don enter hurricane of death.

I don't think there's anything worth celebrating. In fact, I don't think independence day is a day for celebration.

What we need to do is look deeply into our history and see the precedence for the way things are today. Then we can plan on the way we can get to where we are meant to be.

I'm currently reading part of a book by Frederick Lugard, it tells much about how we've landed here and the mistakes the colonialists made.

It's great to to be free!

Is that so? They are training Nigerian peacekeepers?

Shey the UN ranks Nigerian peacekeeping forces above those of the US? How come they are now training us rather than receiving training from us?

O ga O!

I've often heard right from the days of my childhood that politics was a dirty game.


As I grew older, I began to hear learned individuals of the Social Sciences refer to man as a Political Animal. Surely, I thought to myself, these intellectuals can't possibly be prophesying that man is a dirty being. That'd be crazy.


Anyway, though I've always been interested in politics, but I never sorted out the time or even the patience to seek and properly define the true meaning of POLITICS.



A polity (Greek: consisting of many) is a governed body or a group of people who come together in agreement. A polity could be Corporate, Religious etc.

So when it is said that man is a political animal, what is meant is that man is a being that loves to commune and live in company of others of the same species rather than individually in isolation.



Politics is the means, method and tactic by which groups of equal and independent people make decisions, formulate or apply policy to govern or police their social relations and utilise their power in regulating the polity.

Therefore, when we hear that politics is a dirty game, it is an absolute fallacy. Coming together to institute the rules by which humanity chooses to live together is a noble endeavour which involves everybody one way or the other.



Besides the various phenomena encountered by polities, communities, societies and nations in everyday modern life, politics performs the traditional functions of :

Decision-making
Agenda-setting
Preference-shaping



Aristotle who first proclaimed that humans were by nature, political beings, also postulated that:

Monarchy often devolves into tyranny or dictatorship.

Aristocracy often devolves into oligarchy.

Politics often devolves into democracy (demos= common people/masses/talakawa, cracy=rule).




Left-wing or Right-wing politics first came into being during the era of the French Revolution when members of the National Assembly who opposed the Monarchy sat on the left, while those who supported it sat on the right.


Though left-wing and right-wing politics may mean different things in different countries, but broadly speaking,
-The right attempts to maintain moral and social conservationism, law and order, and religion
-The left attempts to effect the redistribution of wealth and resources to the poor and less privileged, and also to maintain secularism in society.



Politics generally is using the general will for the public good. I think it is Rugby which is a dirty game.

Is there any US Military presence in Nigeria?

An organization that was founded and chaired by none other than Mathew Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo in 1993 when was thinking of different get-rich-quick schemes at a point he never expected that he would ever taste from the broth of Government of Nigeria ever again.


I can bet that OBJ is still receiving his cut from TI's budget every year as their founding father.


In as much as I do not hate Obasanjo, I also do not believe that any organization founded by Obasanjo has the moral justification to judge anybody as corrupt.
Not the EFCC and definitely not their sister agency, Transparency International. Unless of course they can provide irrefutable proof that Obasanjo himself is Absolutely Transparent.



www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/subjindx/134corr3.htm

You will get the kind of reaction that will send you swimming with the fishes. Just so they can remind you that they haven't all that changed.


Abeg, my own is that this Bill O'Reilly guy should not be made more popular than he deserves to be.

If you cannot communicate, I will not put myself through hell just to make meaning of your message. I can't suffer a headache just because some little brat chose apprenticeship over formal education.

It is because of these kind of people that Nigeria is still rated at less than 70% literacy.

They are mad!

If they like they should rank us absolutely incorruptible, they are liars and will continue to be liars.

Transparency International gets its funding from Governments of various countries of the world. They know who their major source of fund is and they know that if they don't give favourable rating to those countries that massively fund them, they will not survive. So all this one they are doing is Home Video.

This is The Problem With Nigeria

If they can pump this kind of money to develope the areas around the Osun shrine, the Osun Sacred Grove and Osun River, build a couple of 5 star hotels and upgrade the roads and airport in Osun to world standard, we will be making billions of dollars annually from the millions of Cubans, Brazilians, Haitians and Americans who worship Osun and want to come for pilgrimage.

Then Osun State would not only be finally independent of the Federal Government, but it will be among the top 5 foreign exchange earners in the country.

Instead of us to respect our own Goddess, we're using public funds to sponsor the glory of other gods. No wonder a growing percentage of young Nigerian couples are without Osun's gift of the fruit of the womb.

If not that we're a hardy breed, we'd have been extinct long ago.