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I hate gay marriage >:. Having said that what gays do to themself in their bedroom is non of our business.we have bigger fish to fry

Rossikk: When I passed through Abuja the other day I barely saw ten aircraft on the tarmac.

we r our own enemies .See op lies

so India generates 225,133 MW while we generate 5000mw

smh

good development UP GEJ

This is her story

Tippi was born in Namibia, where her parents, Alain Degré and Sylvie Robert, worked as freelance wildlife photographers. She was named after Tippi Hedren. During her stay in Namibia, she befriended wild animals, including a 28-year old elephant Abu, a leopard nicknamed J&B, crocodiles, lion cubs, giraffes, a Northern Greater Galago, a Banded Mongoose, an Ostrich, meerkats, a baby zebra, a cheetah, a Caracal, a snake, an African Grey Parrot, giant bullfrogs and chameleons. She also befriended the Bushmen and the Himba tribespeople of the Kalahari, who taught her how to survive on roots and berries, and to speak their language.
Tippi later moved with her parents to Madagascar and then to France, where she became a celebrity.[6] A book of her adventures was published and translated in several languages. My Book of Africa is a bestselling novel of Tippi's adventurous life in Namibia. She also set up a website, and returned to Africa to make six nature documentaries for the Discovery Channel.
In Paris (France), Tippi attended a local state school for the first two years, but was then homeschooled because she was found to have little in common with the other children in Paris.[5] She is now studying cinema at la Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris.[9]

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tippi_Degr%C3%A9[/url]

75% of the country has no power since ages and yet idiots will come and tell how great nigeria is.
. Atleast 50% of people ie 80 million people would have never experienced electricity in lifetime particularly in villages

Good job GEJ .Whether PDP OR ACN, which ever party is in power in states or nation. Nigeria is progressing .
If we maintain the same growth we will join china and india at top of the developing countries.

Width of river Niger at Onitsha is 1050 meters.
While the length of Niger bridge is 1400 meters with 175 meters of bridge inland on Asaba side and 175 meters inland in Onitsha side .

I agree with the poster .

We need people like Oshiomhole in plenty, for nigeria to move forward
religion is the biggest bane of the nigerian society

Arik airlines should not condone the behaviour of staff . let the prosecution present the full facts then we can judge.
until then innocent till proven guity

qualified: I believe the military, thus, Nigeria will win d battle. Call it faith or anything but i know evil never triumphs over good.
May God help and protect JTF.
Long live JTF
long live our president
long live Nigeria

Why dont we do analysis of the situation, instead of saying god will protect JTF .

confusion247: Nigerian soldiers will never win this war because northern Muslims are solidly behind boko haram. Northern Muslims sees Nigerian soldiers as the enemy while they regard boko haram as fighting jihad and a legitimate war.

Then we should prepare for disintegration of nigeria.

A good analysis of the current situation without taking any sides.
The success to mission depends on nigerian soldiers winning the hearts and minds of the locals or else we will drag on the conflict for years leading to disintegration of nigeria

There is no doubt that the situation in northern Nigeria is deteriorating fast and now President Goodluck Jonathan has admitted as much.

No-one else in the government had dared say a word.

The frequency and scale of the attacks carried out by the militant group popularly known as Boko Haram forced the president to take action and to silence some of his critics who accuse him of being out of touch and slow to react.

"These terrorists and insurgents seem determined to establish control and authority over parts of our beloved nation and to progressively overwhelm the rest of the country," said President Jonathan in a televised address.

The tone of the speech was somewhat surprising.


Here was the president of the country effectively telling every Nigerian: "You are all in danger".

Perhaps it was aimed at getting widespread approval for the imminent military offensive.

The Nigerian military has promised "massive deployment of men and resources aimed at asserting the nation's territorial integrity."

Soldiers are being sent to the three states of Adamawa, Yobe and Borno - where the attack on Bama occurred last week.

Describing that attack, an army spokesman told the media that dozens of Boko Haram fighters had arrived in the town, some 70km (44 miles) from Maiduguri, the regional capital of Borno, before dawn in pick-up trucks mounted with heavy firepower as well as in buses.

Mali parallel
The militants killed police officers, soldiers and prison staff before releasing more than 100 inmates.

It was an unusual account coming from an army that has a reputation for playing down the number of casualties following Boko Haram attacks.

It is not clear how declaring a state of emergency in three north-eastern states will change the situation on the ground.


Comparisons have been made between Boko Haram and the Islamist rebels in Mali prior to the French military intervention in January.

Some analysts have suggested that if left to fester, there is little to stop Boko Haram from setting up its own Islamic institutions in the extreme north-east of the country.

Will more boots on the ground improve the situation?

Much will depend on how the troops behave.

Not for the first time, the Nigerian army has been accused of carrying out human rights abuses - last month in the town of Baga in Borno state, residents said soldiers targeted civilians and burnt homes in response to the killing of a soldier.

The military denied the accusations whilst at the same time stating that the militants were hiding amongst the civilian population.

"We call on all citizens to co-operate with our security agencies to ensure a return to normalcy within the shortest possible time," President Jonathan said in his address.

Amnesty?
It is a big ask.

In the already heavily militarised north of Nigeria, residents are hardly in a position to take sides.

Analysts argue that the military has already lost the battle for hearts and minds and residents feel trapped between the two sides of this murky conflict.

When a Reuters news agency journalist visited the battered town of Baga, he witnessed locals shouting abuse at soldiers.

The military faces an almost impossible task of defeating the militants without civilians paying an extremely heavy price.

President Jonathan does have another option.

Under pressure from northern politicians and religious leaders, he agreed to consider an amnesty for the militants despite the fact that he had earlier rejected the idea of dialogue.

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau does not seem keen either.

"You talk of dialogue. You are free to say whatever you want but we will never stop our struggle," he said in the Hausa language in a recent video recording.

Seeing as the Islamist group is not a homogenous group, it is possible that some insurgents could be persuaded to adopt a peaceful path.

But as thousands of soldiers enter the increasingly militarised environment it seems highly unlikely that peace talks can gain any traction.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22546745

where is the Anti-Corruption Network when obj stole 16 billon dollars .Selective justice does not work .

at least we r 4th in some thing .

The kind of money we as a nation r wasting is mind boggling

killing of any human is bad .but where r those so called northern politician when there is massacre of southern people from civil war to at present genocide of christians .

CFCfan: This Bala Na' Allah of a dude should definitely check-in at Yaba Left.

Why not wipeout entire north nigeria for bokoharam

tempest01: I served close to that area, I know what happened when fulani pple attacked our village then. The youths took some concoction to prevent guns from penetrating. No wonder they wey able to wipe the police. We will never know the politics involved in this killing...these eggon youths arm themselves to fight against fulanis...why involve the police instead of finding a lasting solution to the violence between the two waring sides.

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True talk brother . where is MR.El Rufai when odi village is massacred or any TIV or another mid eastern ethnic group
massacred by fulani groups.
Death whether fulani or any another ethnic group or police is condemnable . BuT why take selective justice

solomon111: you are a bloody hypocrite.
Just recently you were congratulating obama for staying away from Nigeria,which according to you,was a proof that GEJ's govt was unprogressive.
Well now that you've found out that your crazed assumptions were wrong,you turn around to brand the "obama visit" as exploitationary.
You are not a man of honour.

Do u mind him .He is programmed to be like tinabu slave .Dont except him to behave otherwise

If obama is visiting nigeria, there must be positive things happening .
Haters can hate him but goodluck is far better than other presidents expect for security, which is aimed at him to cause his downfall

berem: Yoruba May Determine Who Wins 2015 Presidency
07.05.2013, 5:32 Politics
The voting pattern of the Yoruba people of South-West
geopolitical zone in the 2015 presidential election may
determine who wins and who loses.
In 2011, even though the zone voted the Action
Congress of Nigeria in all the elections, they
voted more for the Peoples Democratic Party's
candidate in the presidential election. That helped in no small
way to swing victory for President Goodluck Jonathan.
Many had fingered the ACN leader, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for that
massive vote for Jonathan because of the last-minute discussions
he reportedly had with the latter. But that would be saying that
the South-West people are sheep that don't have their own mind.
Weeks before the 2011 presidential election, even while talks were
on between the Congress for Progressive Change and the ACN,
many South-West people had made it clear that they would vote
for Jonathan for the Presidency, even though they would vote the
ACN in all other elections. The appreciable population of other
non-Yoruba residents in the South-West also helped to increase
the number of votes Jonathan garnered in the zone.
President Jonathan has not stated clearly whether he will contest
the 2015 election. But his unspoken words seem to point more to
the fact that he will contest than the other way. Even though he
completed the remaining term of his former boss, the late
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, after he died in office on May 5,
2010, and won an election in 2011, he is constitutionally qualified
to run for office in 2015.
Ethnicity and religion play a great role in Nigerian politics, and
they will play a role in the 2015 election. The North, especially the
North-East and the North-West zones, has never hidden its
sadness and anger over the loss of presidential power as a result
of the illness and death of Yar'Adua. The North feels that it was
cheated out of power. Some even alleged that the cheating was
pre-planned by former President Olusegun Obasanjo with his
choice of Yar'Adua, who was known to have a health condition.
Supporters of power rotation felt that Jonathan should have
completed Yar'Adua's term and allowed a Northerner to contest
the presidency, so that the North could complete its eight years
just like the South. There was some sense of justice in that
viewpoint.
But Jonathan and many of his South-South people and some
other Nigerians who opposed power rotation felt that given that
the South-South or the entire Niger Delta region, the producer of
Nigerian oil wealth, had not produced an elected president in
Nigeria, even though the North had produced same many times,
he should run for office for the sake of justice and fairness.
There was also some sense of justice in that point of view. In
addition, many wondered if Jonathan were not to contest for the
presidency, would the Northerner that would take over from him
do only a term and leave office, since Yar'Adua had done about
three years of his four-year tenure?
There are those who believe that the rise in violence of the Boko
Haram sect after the 2011 elections had direct links with that
feeling of loss and cheating that the North had. Even though
Boko Haram started as a religious sect, there is no denying that it
has had political influence in recent times. Some people have
even said that if Jonathan were to drop his political ambition for
2015, Boko Haram would fizzle out.
Before the run-up to the 2011 elections, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu
Buhari (retd.) and his Congress for Progressive Change, the
major challenger to President Jonathan and his Peoples
Democratic Party then, handled the merger talks with the Action
Congress of Nigeria with some presumptuousness. They
presumed that Jonathan would not win the election on the first
ballot, since the South-South, South-East and some North-Central
voters would vote for him, while the North-West (with its
perceived high population) and the North-East would vote for
Buhari, with the South-West voting for Mallam Nuhu Ribadu of
the ACN, thereby making the election go into a second ballot.
Even though the South-West vote was split between Jonathan and
Ribadu, but with more going to Jonathan, that made it easier for
him to win on the first ballot. That seemed to have taught Buhari
and the CPC a lesson that working with the Yoruba and ACN was
not just necessary but critical, if the PDP would ever be beaten.
But it is true that the South-West vote did not come from only the
Yoruba, given the high population of other-Southerners in the
South-West, especially in Lagos.
And so, rather than wait till 2015 to commence merger talks, the
CPC, ACN, ANPP and a part of the All Progressive Grand Allaince
began early, which is a great plus. And rather than the hard lines
that characterised the 2011 merger talks, the talks for the merger
are being treated with more respect for each other as well as
without any pre-conditions. Anybody who says that the PDP is
not rattled by the merger talks of the All Progressives Congress is
economical with the truth. The reason the PDP has ruled for 14
unbroken years is because the opposition parties had displayed
disunity, pride and greed. Having a united opposition against the
PDP is the first step towards thwarting the fulfilment of the
prediction of Chief Vincent Ogbulafor in 2008 that the ruling party
would rule Nigeria for 60 years!
For the 2015 elections, however, many scenarios exist. First,
Jonathan may decide not to run, which is most unlikely. He may
present himself for the primaries and lose to another candidate,
given that some governors and former President Olusegun
Obasanjo are working against his ambition. Even though this
scenario will further show our democracy as exemplary, it is also
far-fetched, as no Nigerian President has lost his party's
primaries.
So, if Jonathan is running in 2015, the APC will be concerned
about the team that can beat him. Buhari, Ribadu and Mallam
Ibrahim Shekarau - all former presidential candidates of the
merging parties - are possible candidates. Even a PDP member -
the incumbent Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji
Aminu Tambuwal - has been mentioned as a possible candidate
of the APC. In the South, there are Governors Babatunde Raji
Fashola, Adams Oshiomhole, Rochas Okorocha, Tinubu and
Senator Chris Ngige.
The combination that will likely attract the highest number of
votes from the North and South-West may be that of Buhari-
Fashola or Buhari-Tinubu. If Indeed Tambuwal is an option,
combining with these two men from the South-West would also
attract votes for the party. But there is a snag in that. The key
figures from the North are all Muslims and the two key figures
from the South-West are also Muslims. In the South-West,
religion does not matter in politics. But in other parts of Nigeria,
it does. Presenting a Muslim-Muslim ticket in 2015 will not go
down well with the North-Central, South-East, and South-South.
Even though it worked in 1993 for the Abiola-Kingibe ticket, it will
attract deep suspicion now. In 1993, even though there had been
religious crises in Nigeria, there had not been anything on the
scale of the current Boko Haram carnage. This is a serious point
that the PDP will use - albeit surreptitiously - to campaign against
the APC.
There is also the possibility of using an Igbo or South-Southerner
as presidential or vice-presidential candidate to blunt the
influence of Jonathan in those two regions. But the minus is that
the North is so much focused on the Presidency now that any
arrangement that does not have a Northerner as the presidential
candidate in 2015 may not attract deep interest. A North-Central
Christian presidential candidate with a Southern Muslim running
mate is also an option. But it is no longer a secret that the one-
North stance of the North died around 1975 when Gen. Yakubu
Gowon was overthrown. The destiny of the North-Central or
Middle Belt, as they are better known, and the rest of the North is
not inextricably linked together anymore. The bloodletting in
Plateau State since 2001 has worsened the situation. A Middle
Belt Christian candidate will not sound to the North-East and
North-West - which are most times referred to as the "core
North" to further underscore that division - as a candidate that
has come to assuage the feeling of cheating that the "core North"
suffered by the loss of the presidency due to Yar'Adua's death.
The voting pattern of the South-East, South-South and North-
Central may not change much if Jonathan contests in 2015. He
may not garner as many votes as he did in 2011, depending on
his performance and perception between now and 2015. If he is
perceived as "improved" in his performance between now and
2015, his chances will be brighter. But if the APC makes a
strategic choice of presidential candidate and running mate, the
APC will be a major threat. Whatever happens, whoever the
Yoruba vote for en masse may have an advantage. And it is
obvious that the PDP and APC are aware of this and are
consequently courting the Yoruba.
The Yoruba have another advantage. They are the only group in
Nigeria that has been happy being in the opposition. Other ethnic
groups usually feel like a fish out of water whenever out of
power. So they will take their time to decide on whom to support.
Gradually, the Yoruba are moving to the centre of Nigerian
politics on their own terms. Even if they fail to rule in 2015
because of the unwritten agreement of rotation of power
between the North and the South, they will have a strong hand in
determining who occupies Aso Rock come 2015.



http://m.naij.com/news/33334.html

i think berem is closeted yoruba

Nigeria: 'Many dead in Boko Haram raid' in Borno state

Fifty-five people have been killed in the north-east of Nigeria in an attack by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, the Nigerian army says.

It said 105 prisoners were freed in the pre-dawn raid in Bama, in Borno state.

An army spokesman said 22 police and 14 prison officers, two soldiers and four civilians were among those killed along with 13 members of Boko Haram itself.

Correspondents say extremist attacks are common in the region but the scale of bloodshed makes this raid stand out.

Tuesday's raid in the remote town went on for several hours, the military spokesman said.

Bama's police station, military barracks and government buildings were burned to the ground, a witness told news agency Reuters.

Boko Haram, as it is popularly known, has its roots in this region of Nigeria. It is fighting to overthrow the government and set up an Islamic state.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22444417



This is getting serious . This just shows there is a strong evidence that nigeria is in a state of civil war or reaching close to it . It is only matter of time this s..t enters southern nigeria

my relatives in cross river receive 28 hrs of free power. i dont know what u r talking about

[quote author=Ejiné]Nne, for the sake of honesty on Nairaland, I would really like you to tell me how many governors I have blindly praised here.

Is it Fashola the noisemaking turncoat who makes a living from licking his master's sweaty black asss?
Is it Aregbesola the empty rascal who is busy claiming federal power projects as his own?
Is it the effeminate Peter Obi who looks for tribal sentiments when taken to the cleaners on a blog by a 3-foot aboki?
Or is it my bastaard governor Uduaghan who uses 7 billion naira to pick stones in an airport?

Tell me, exactly WHO have I praised blindly? Why are you shying away from the obvious truth that your governor is a petty criminal masquerading himself as a populist with cheap theatrics that portray an archaic communist mindset?

Hell, is my governor in Delta state not a criminal too? You see, the difference is, I'm not lying to myself.

Your governor was so dumb to dissolve the local government (which was NEVER under his control) and you see nothing wrong in this.

Your governor was shameless enough to pay kids N100 a month to attend school like almajiris and you see nothing wrong in this.

Your governor had a scratch on his mango head and quickly flew himself to LONDON and you see nothing wrong in this.

Anyway, free me abeg. I'm not caught in the delusion that he's a messiah, cuz I don't pass the renovations of the government house and commissioners' quarters as "Putting a smile on the faces of Ndi Imo".

Your governor is a crook. Deal with it.
Cuz I've learned to deal with mine.[/quote]SUPERB

Nigeria fighting 'kills scores' in Baga

Much of Baga was destroyed in fires

Intense fighting between the military and Islamist militants in north Nigeria is reported to have killed at least 185 civilians and destroyed 2,000 homes.

Rocket-propelled grenades and heavy gunfire bombarded the remote town of Baga near the border with Chad for hours on Friday evening, government and military officials say.

Nigeria faces a long-running insurgency in its predominantly Muslim north.

The Boko Haram insurgency has left thousands of people dead since 2009.

'Markets burnt'
Residents of Baga fled into the bush and only returned on Sunday afternoon to find much of the town destroyed and human and animal corpses strewn through the streets.


One local journalist said this marked a significant escalation in the insurgency in the area, with the militants using heavier weapons than in previous attacks.

Residents said most of the bodies had been burned beyond recognition in blazes that had destroyed much of the town.

One resident, Bashir Isa, told Associated Press: "Everyone has been in the bush since Friday night; we started returning to town because the governor came.

"To get food to eat in the town now is a problem because even the markets are burnt. We are still picking corpses of women and children in the bush and creeks.''

Boko Haram wants to carve out an Islamic state across a swathe of Nigeria.

Its name in the local Hausa language means: "Western education is forbidden".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22243834