₦airaland Forum

Louislewis:
What moral justification does he has to compare the president with Nebu...Why not speak the truth? First, do we need any force to compel the Speaker (House of Rep.) to resign before force was used on him. Why didn't Wole Soyinka and his likes, advise the Speaker to vacate his seat before forces were used on him. Why not gate jumpers adviced their leader to vacate the seat before forces were used on him. Why can't we obey a simple rule and obey and respect our president for the position he occupied. We can't say the truth when needed, but only to condemn situation when it happened, because we already have a baised mind. We must be objective when we judge.

Some people will not even wait to understand the subject matter before commenting. My friend we are in a democratic process
In a democratic process it is allowed to disagree on principles and constitutionality, however when there is a lacuna, it is not up to the president to interprete who is right or wrong, that is reserved for the judiciary. Tambuwal base his decision on a section of the constitution, we may not agree with him, but neither the president or the police should be the one to interprete. The police can enforce only after a court pronouncement. This is soo simple.

I thought he did not steal any money and Sanusi was only after him for personal reasons? with this revelations can we now say that SLS is vindicated?

PStacks:
WE ARE NOT BLESSED.
"Forty nine innocent little boys were butchered by Boko Haram in their schools on November 10, 2014 as they resumed class in Yobe state. The question must be asked: is there any limit to the depravity of these monsters and those that secretly support and encourage them?
I may not know much but one thing that I know is this: the spilling of innocent blood has terrible consequences for both the land on which it is spilt and for those that spill it. I am talking about long-term generational consequences.
This is the more so when that blood is the blood of children. Our girls are kidnapped from their schools, abducted, raped, married off and sold into slavery and we call ourselves blessed.
Our little boys are bombed to smithereens in their schools, their young lives are snuffed out, there is no sense of outrage and no one is brought to book yet we call ourselves blessed.
Our level of sensitivity has been seared to a point that we don’t care anymore and we are no longer moved when we hear about the horrors being inflicted on our people yet we call ourselves blessed.
When will we appreciate the fact that there is something fundamentally wrong with us? I had every reason to feel so sad on the day that the news from Yobe came but my initial sadness was quickly overwhelmed by a deep and burning rage.
The saddest aspect of it all is that even now, most Nigerians still can’t see or feel that evil despite the daily bombings, killings, abductions and kidnappings.
The truth is that until Boko Haram takes over the entire north and knocks on the gates of the south, Nigerians will continue to act as if the whole thing is no big deal and that whatever atrocities that Boko Haram commit really doesn’t matter. That is how short-sighted, insensitive, depraved and ignorant we have become.
We are a people that have no conscience and we no longer care when our citizens are treated like filth or slaughtered like flies. There is no other country and no other people in the world that suffers from our particular type of affliction. We are suffering from a strange disease.
Nigeria is not blessed, she is cursed and she is in dire need of deliverance. If we were not cursed how can we act as if all is well and how can we be normal after 49 of our school children were bombed to death in one fell swoop.
This single outrageous and horrendous act is enough to traumatise most nations and most people for the next ten years, but not us. Most of us are indifferent: we shut it out and act as if it never happened.
We are a strange land of strange men and women. We are a land where the nepthalim hold sway. We are a land that enjoy to watch others suffer injustice, persecution and wickedness and where the youth would rather rant on facebook and twitter than risk their lives by marching on the streets and demanding change.
We are a land that despise the learned and that celebrate ignorance. We are a land that hates the truth and that worships mammon. We are a land where courageous and righteous men suffer hardship, humiliation, injustice and persecution whilst evil men are reverred and exalted.
We are a land that claims to love God but that does everything that is contrary to His counsel and His will. We are a land where brother eats sister and where sister eats brother. We are a land where parents trade off the future, the destiny and the glory of their own children for a pittance and where men sell their souls to the devil for fame, power and wealth.
We are a land where children are killed and maimed, where women are dehumanised and turned into desperate harlots by virtue of the circumstances in which they are forced to live and where evil is nurtured, encouraged and glorified.
We are a land that continues to dance, to make merry and to rejoice even as it’s weakest and most vulnerable citizens are butchered and even when it’s very own children are slaughtered like christmas turkeys and sallah rams. I see all this and I say shame on us all: from the highest to the lowest we have all failed. From the pauper to the prince and from the servant to the king we are all guilty. Shame on us, more than 8thousand nigerians have died and over 1million have become homeless becoming refugees in their own country..800thousand have fled to neighbouring countries, Yet we pretend as if nothing is wrong. Eagles played last night in uyo without holding a minute silence in respect for the dead boys and u expected them to win? We are a heartless nation.
Our hope and salvation lies in one thing and one thing alone: the love of the Lord God of Hosts, the mercy of the Ancient of Days and the grace of the Living God. I have little doubt and abundant evidence to prove that He still loves us despite the evil that is inherent in us...
A couple of weeks back a courageous Canadian soldier was killed by an insane terrorist who stormed the Canadian Parliament and who held their political leaders hostage until he himself was killed. The whole world rose up and condemned this callous act and rightly came to a standstill.
Most importantly the Canadian government and people honoured the dead and paid him tribute after tribute. It was very moving and highly appropriate. That soldier deserved no less. Everyone in Canada, and indeed throughout the civilised world, was talking about it and people were very sad.
That is how normal people and normal countries are meant to react to such things and that is how sane and civilised people are expected to behave. Yet in Nigeria it is not so. In this country hundreds of our people are slaughtered in 100 different ways and abducted every week and there is no sense of panic or alarm.
There are no tears, there is no urgency, there is no passion, there is no anger, there are no demonstrations or demands for those that commit this evil to be brought to justice, there is no support for our security agents and military, there is no sense of national outrage and most important of all there is no genuine empathy or sympathy for the victims and casualties of terror even though most of them are women and children. It is just business as usual and our nation is flying on auto pilot. Let us hope and pray that we don’t eventually go into free-fall and crash.

Each time I want to give up on Nairaland and our youth, some writer like this comment comes on and gives me hope that at least I am not alone on this thought. For only 20k a month, our youths come online to defend the indefensible. It's not a problem they say, they are killing their people. Grossly insane. Our politicians have succeeded in dividing us,yet when the war rages on, they run with their family abroad. You might think Boko Haram only wants the north,you may be wrong because terrorist never have enough, the moment they capture Abuja, they will demand for Lagos and Portharcourt. A word is enough for the wise.

I AM NOT IN SUPPORT OF USA NOT SELLING ARMS TO NIGERIA, HOWEVER I AGREE WITH THEM THAT OUR SOLDIERS COMMIT HUMAN RIGHT VIOLATIONS EVERY WHERE THEY GO ON A MISSION IN NIGERIA. YOU DONT HAVE TO LOOK AT THE NORTH ONLY TO COME TO A CONCLUSION. REMEMBER ZAKI BIAM, REMEMBER NIGER DELTA - ODI. THERE WAS A VIDEO IN CIRCULATION ON THE NET DURING THE NIGER DELTA MILITANCY WHERE TWO BROTHERS WERE SLAUGHTERED IN COLD BLOOD BY OUR MILITARY. AT THAT TIME MOST PEOPLE CONDEMN THE ACT AS GROSS VIOLATION OF THEIR FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT BY NIGERIAN SOLDIERS. THESE SAME PEOPLE ARE NOW SAYING THERE IS NO VIOLATION BECAUSE THEIR REGION IS NOT INVOLVE IN THE CURRENT FRACAS.
SAME IN PLATEAU STATE DURING THE JOS CRISIS, INNOCENT PEOPLE WHERE MURDERED BY OUR MILITARY.

The most annoying one for me is their saying " There is no better option for now" thats why they must vote GEJ. Are you serious? you mean out of 180 million Nigerians this is the best we have?

Whats the Selling Price for this car?

[quote author=mentorandfriend post=27716976]It's a pity we have paucity of alternatives in our nation today. If not, I should help send Jona back to Otuoke come 2015 with a vigourous campaign of hate. Ridiculous!!![/quote

No we don't, you are just too bias to see ]

lonelydora:
We dont need them to predict for us. GEJ till 2019 until APC brings a credible person.

May I ask who in your perception could be the credible person? Anyone in mind? Does it means that Jonathan is the best? Did you know him when he was Bayelsa state Governor as having presidential qualities?

Previous diagnosis suggest my mums left eye lens have shifted a bit due to trauma resulting in blurred vision from the left eye. Can this be corrected by lens or surgery?

Orikinla:
Bayelsa state needs an international airport more than Jigawa state.

You are right,but GEJ didn't think about that when he was Govenor

berem:
Lolz! The blame is always on the duo who used dynamites to blow up gas pipelines. Waiting for the blame game to start.

Is it the gas pipeline that GEJ pays Tompolo 1 Billion naira every month to protect?

Bliss4Lyfe:
Time and Time again, politicians of Northern extraction have shown themselves to be disloyal to the principles of one Nigeria. First it was Sanusi and now Tambuwal.

I can't help but look back at the many years of Northern leadership of our great nation Nigeria and the decorum with which Nigerians of all works of life, religion and tribe rallied under the banner of one Nigeria.

Politics is not entirely a game of power but unity, the unity that was hard won by the likes of Nnamdi Azikiwe and Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, may their soul rest in perfect peace.

If Northern politicians continue to show distaste and intolerance to other Nigerians in authority, then even if by a miracle APC wins an election which is highly unlikely, there will be no one Nigeria treasury to loot.


A House divided against itself cannot stand.

Some people are soo myopic in their sense of reasoning that they deserve flogging
The vice president is a northerner and working for GEJ ,the Senate president is a northerner and working for GEJ ,the national chairman of PDP Adamu Muazu is a northerner and working for GEJ, Bamanga tukur former chairman for GEJ, former president shehu shagari working for GEJ, shagari's son and former minister working for GEJ, these and millions of northerners rooting to vote for GEJ and you sit with your bigoted brain writing stuff u know nothing about
Where were you when peter obi decamped to PDP? Mumu

This project was conceptualise by Obasanjo, actualised by Yaradua and about to be completed by Goodluck. So any attempt to link it only with GEJ is half truth and politics

Thank God

Privatisation is the way forward, but in Nigeria they will sell it to themselves just like they recently done with power. Look at the names of people who bought the power auction, Abdulsalam Abubakar, Otedola, Bert Nnaji etc, any wonder why power is still comatose? After selling to themselves and running it aground, they will now use our money to bail them out. Back to government control and so the circle continues

One of the most divisive, clannish president in the history of our nation. Kudos recently you are beginning to reach out, you are beginning to get it right. Don't forget though, your paid merchant have still not seen the light. They are everywhere attacking virtually every one. Like they will soon call me names - supporter of APC, APShit,Janjaw#ed, boko haram etc. They have forgotten even your recent successes may not be unconnected with the opposition putting you on your toes. That's the beauty of democracy. Waiting on the trolls

Whether shekau is dead or alive, he is a bloody terrorist and murderer who deserve no mention.

Some people are funny. "if i see anyone better than GEJ" they said. How can you know if the person is better if you don't give him the benefits of doubt just like we gave GEJ and he failed? PDP have failed us. Try another set, you cant just conclude they are the same. Try them first, if they are, change them. That's what open minded people do.

chaloner: What's dos arabic/islamic tins for , I mmean dere meaning?

It's just a translation of the value in Hausa. Example Fifty kobo is transliterated as Kwobo Hamsin.

I thought no girl was missing?

Fashola/Tambuwal Unbeatable

The usual talk, everybody is against this government, Aisha Sisse is against them,America is against them,Hillary Clinton is against them,Chimamanda Adichie is against them,MAdam obi brinbackourgirls is against them, Sanusi is against them,South African government is against them,Wole Soyinka is against them, If everyone is against u, look into the mirror

Some fools trying to make this out as a SA/Ngr issue. This is not about these countries, this is about a scandal of monumental proportion perpetrated by our Federal Government. Forget about politics,this is an impeachable offence in saner countries. How this will pass without head rolling beats my imagination.

This could be new to most of you, but most adults in Plateau state, kaduna state, Nasarawa state and now Taraba state know about the CAN Army. Weapons bought and given to people to kill and revenge for attacks on christian communities in the north and middle belt. It's an open secret,ask people from plateau and kaduna state, CAN have a sleeper underground army. It's an open secret.
This is oritsejafors CAN reply for the incessant attacks on christian in the north by hausa /fulani attacks

Billyonaire: You do not love Nigeria more than I do. Neither do I think Wole Soyinka loves Nigeria better than all of us.

But lets almost always make sure our opinions of others are not based on hear-say from an Australian or anyone with a white skin. I know we equate them to our Gods, but lets use common-sese here.

IS IT POSSIBLE FOR A TERROR GROUP TO NAME ITS SPONSOR ? The Answer to this, my good friend, is NO! In fact, why are we dwelling on Sheriff more than Ihejirika ? Were both not named as sponsors by the same Australian ?

Our elders talk say and I quote ` Na common-sense dem dey take chop paddy rice` quote closed. Neither Ihejirika nor Sheriff is a Sponsor of Boko Haram. This is the verdict of the court of common-sense.

I am not saying you shouldnt criticize the son of a Fisherman from the family of canoe-makers, after all he once had no shoes, and as such no one is happy that the foresaken stone has become the chief-corner stone of the foundation of this parasitic amalgamation, but lets use common-sense, after all we all love this One Nigeria experiment.

Billyonaire, is a stunch supporter of GEJ, especially now that electricity supply has been steady, but I remain truthful and unbias

SINCE YOU TALK ABOUT COMMON SENCE, LETS DISCUSS WHAT SENSIBLE PEOPLE WILL DO IN SUCH SITUATION. NOBODY IS SAYING MODU SHERIFF IS GUILTY, BUT IN THE LIGHT OF THIS CURRENT REVELLATIONS, A COMMON SENSE PERSON WILL TEMPORARILY DISTANCE HIMSELF FROM THE ACCUSED FOR A WHILE AND WAIT FOR THE OUTCOME OF THE INVESTIGATION. THATS ALL WHAT EVERYONE IS ASKING FOR. THATS WHAT COMMON SENSE PEOPLE WOULD DO ALL OVER THE WORLD, EVEN MORE IF HE IS THE PRESIDENT OF A NATION. IS THAT A DIFFICULT THING TO ASK?
FINALLY, WHEN YOU ARE BEING TOLD REPEATEDLY THAT YOUR WIFE IS CHEATING, USE COMMON SENSE TO TELL YOURSELF THAT ITS NOT POSSIBLE BECAUSE YOUR WIFE LOVES YOU. DONT INVESTIGATE TO UNRAVEL THE FACTS OK?
DID I HEAR U SAY WE SHOULD NOT LISTEN TO FOREIGNERS? YOU FORGOT A FOREIGNER MALALA TOLD GEJ TO INVITE THE CHIBOK PARENTS AND HE DID, THE WASHINTON POST TOLD GEJ TO STOP THE BRINBACKOURJONATHAN LOGO AND HE DID, NOW A FOREIGNER ASK HIM TO INVESTIGATE SHERIFF AND U SAY HE IS A FOREIGNER?

dav8id: the dude was a friend to chad presido, boka haram used chad to import weapon,he was accused of being boka haram sponsor, GEJ was in chad to discuss possible way to overcome boka haram . Sheriff appear suddently
Who is fooling who?

They should have just close their mouths, its more honorable than this kindergattan rebuttals.

SAVE OUR SOCCER
" Is President Goodluck Jonathan aware of the damage being done to our football by his new sports minister, Mr. Tammy Danagogo? In a country where so many things divide us, football is about the only genuine unifying factor that no creature should be allowed to toy with. After so many years of relative peace in the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Danagogo has gone gaga in trying to install his own man at the football house. The drama since he became minister is shameless and shameful. Jonathan must call this misguided and clueless minister to order - and very quickly. Enough." -Simon Kolawale(This Day)

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/the-trouble-with-nuhu-ribadu/187782/

OK I must Commend GEJ,MINISTER FOR HEALTH,LASG for the professional way they all handled this case. This is to dispell the the notion that our usual critique of this government is not devoid of any sentiment. We will be the first to commend any proactiveness that will propell our fatherland.