₦airaland Forum

akinbola2:
Guy u have no point,u know dats d way all Nigerian websites lack details.NYSC is even beta,check some banks website like Gtb career page and other orgs and u wil know what am saying.if u re serious 2recruit go 2d NYSC state secretariats or Zones.corpers are not destitutes or beta still go to d web: nigeriancorpersforum.com.

denzel2009:
Its a real shame. Here in UK, they aired a programme about nigerian scammers renting out fake properties.

All they do is put an advert on property sites,if you are unlucky and respond, you will be required to send a western union to yourself or reliable person of your choice as an evidence that you can pay the rent( Its is usually over £1000) and then scan a copy to them.

Before you say Jack Robinson, they will make an ID on the recipients name and collect the money from Western Union. I pitied an Oyinbo crying on TV the other day.

leye1234:
as a passanger, make sure you carry your own helmet. otherwise your head might end up in someone's soup pot.

keyremotes:
It only makes hygienic sense to have a personal helmet.
It will soon become a "cool" thing to have "carry" one.

vikiviko:
The battle line has been drawn between Thisday Newspapers and the Lagos State Government, personified by its immediate past and present governors, Bola Tinubu and Babatunde Fashola. The past one week has witnessed a barrage of negative reports on Lagos State by Thisday.

I will not dwell on the truthfulness or otherwise of the reports. This piece is to affirm that the hypocrisy of Thisday within the Nigerian socio-political milieu is gradually becoming open for all minds, discerning and undiscerning, to see glaringly.

On Tuesday, July 22, 2008, Thisday’s website had a huge headline reading: “PDP, Obanikoro Call for Tinubu’s Probe”.

I am so surprised that strident calls for Tinubu’s probe came to the notice of Thisday only yesterday! With the very transparent corruption that all the serving and former governors have displayed since 1999, do we need any special investigation to know the existence of so much corruption in contract awards and other government business?

Apparently “encouraged” by the Lagos PDP commendation for the “mind-boggling disclosures” and “for taking the lead” in the patriotic duty of exposing pseudo-progressives such as Tinubu who pretend to be fighting for the masses”, Thisday has “urged other newspapers to wake up to their responsibilities in doing same in the interest of the nation’s democratic project”.

I am not holding fort, or defending the Lagos State government and its governors. I am only curious about why it is only within the past one to two weeks that Thisday Newspapers suddenly “discovered” questionable contracts of the Lagos State government, after its “investigative” journalistic work.

Thisday media is stabbing the Nigerian people behind their back. Why has Thisday only now decided to give prominence to allegations against the former Governor Bola Tinubu? Why is Thisday only now deciding to give prominence to the issues raised by Musiliu Obanikoro since last year during the heat of the 2007 electioneering campaigns?

Is this not the same Thisday that organizes bogus Awards for “achievements” by our underachieving government leaders? Thisday employs all forms of adjectives and superlatives to describe how failures have “achieved” in government. I don’t know what Thisday thinks government stands for, may be Thisday thinks a government is good when it is thought so by its attention-seeking and lavish publisher.

The manner in which Thisday splashes colorful photographs and celebrates the high and mighty, including governors and ministers, with their pseudo capitalists and money-spinning “corporate” patrons often stinks to high heavens. This is not the practice of any serious, balanced newspaper anywhere in the world. Thisday has connived with these attention-seeking governing politicians to promote and celebrate mediocrity as achievements.

This promotion of mediocrity had prompted me to write “Thisday Awards: Celebrating Mediocrity in Government” , in which I totally condemned the over-celebration of under-achievement. The Governor Fashola had received the ‘best governor award’.

As at today, Fashola has returned the “award”, which he called a “Greek gift”. Greek gift or not, none of the governors in the 36 states of Nigeria today deserves any award! It is crimininal to award someone who scored 40 percent, because s/he scored the highest marks in a class of disgraceful failures. Normal societies or communities would rather ask questions and seek reasons for the poor performance, than celebrate and “award” failure and mediocrity!

The shameful discovery only now, of the gross corruption happening in Lagos epitomizes the hypocrisy of Thisday, and other such news media. What is so “revealing” in the obvious corruption by our governors? Yet the same Thisday in May 2008 cooked up a “governors’ scorecard” to mark the first year in office of our “backsliding” governors, whose only forward movement is seen in the open grand stealing that is going on in the 36 government houses.

Thisday newspaper is a big, big conspirator in the designs and stratagems of the ruling elite to undermine Nigeria ’s struggle toward transparency, openness and democracy in general.

May unfolding events continue to open up the grand conspiracies of media like Thisday.