₦airaland Forum

jmoore: You don't negotiate with an armed mad man. There is no other option but military option. Nothing new will come out from the meeting with OBJ.

My opinion too but seeing as it's the election season, GEJ has to appear to be considering and implementing advice from the people who claim to be most knowledgeable even though their advise and logical process/reasoning leading to such "advice" is for shit.
Side benefits people who self delude themselves will say you are doing the right thing, the "adviser" at least for a while us off your back politically.If he does not support you at least he won't be against you.

size38: Finally, finally GEJ had to eat OBJ's humble pie to survive as a president. I Knew all GEJ and his team of supporters were doing was just initial Gara-gara. At last, GEJ's gara-gara only ended up begging his master. GEJ turned himself to what we usually say in our local adage " pikin wey first him papa born pinkin"

You know everyone who seeks (re)election does this.
This move is comparable to the time that OBJ knelt down to beg Atiku. Please remind me what happened to Atiku politically: death.
GEJ is simply doing what is distasteful but necessary.
The sign of a strong man is him knowing when to bow to another whether or not that "other" is stronger.Power is not always about what you have the strength and influence to make happen its also about the strength to resist the temptation to tussle with every one who does not agree with you.

datribune: JOHN KERRY - "It's a hell of a pinpoint operation. We got to get over there." that was d USA secretary of state caught on an open mic criticizing Israeli indiscriminate bombing of civilians. Answer dis - if hamas was firing a rocket frm a Tel-Aviv market wit Israeli civilians in it, will d Israeli army bomb dat market?. Israel continues wit dis criminalty because they know dat there ar no consequencies as their own children ar safe wit d iron defence dome protecting them & because hamas's home-made rockets ar no match.
Pls be clear. d Palestinian struggle is not a religious conflict. it is about an illegal land grab by zionists & a people's patriotic resistance to occupation.

Yes and Netanyahu whipped his ass like the sissy he and his boss (Obama) are telling them not to second guess him again.
The Israelis know a threat when the see one and are resolved to do WHATEVER IS NECESSARY TO ELIMINATE those threats.
The CURRENT American government pussyfoot and vacillate until they have a problem as big as Isis caused by their inaction.

oluafolabi: That's a lie. You should educate yourself more. The IDF had little or no support from the US during the war.

If anything only when the Israelis made it clear to the Americans that if got overrun by the Arabs,they will nuke their capitals did the US change its neutral stance.The won the war before bulk of the support shipments arrived.
The off shot of that way is why the US now has massive arms storage facility in Israel.

GuyFawkes: Iran won't do jack wit it if she has it its just for deterrent purposes.Pakistan is a very large and unstable muslim state full of radicals and I don't remember them using it,they need it to keep India in check anyway.
The psychos in North korea also bluff all the time with theirs.
The real opponents of Iran are the Saudis cos of the Sunni Shia divide,if Iran has it then the Saudis will want one also.
No one really wants to start armageddon honestly.

If the west stupidly allows Iran to acquire nukes be sure the Saudis and the gulf cooperation council will get theirs then you will know the real meaning of nuclear threat.
Self restraint is not a virtue found in the middle east save perhaps for Israel.

SirShymex:
The first thing here is that: did Hamas claim the murder of those boys?

Israel controls Gaza, with gazillion of informants there. So if it actually wanted to find the killers of those boys(if it weren't a false flag), without ulterior motives - it's something it could've done easily. However, it's more interested in the systematic destruction of Gaza.

However, it started with airstrikes, with the hope that Hamas will retaliate with rockets - cheeky folks.

You know you lied here.Hamas killed those boys don't pretend like you do not know that even Hamas has confessed to the killings.

Eldavido1: Eurasia, the global political risk and consulting firm, has upgraded
its short-term trajectory on Nigeria from negative to neutral, as it
projects that President Goodluck Jonathan has a 75-percent chance
of re-election in February 2015.
Eurasia says this is likely to put a floor on downside risks to the
economy as the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) steadily
consolidates under the president.
According to Philippe de Pontet, Africa director at New York-based
Eurasia Group, “Nigeria will muddle through after all, without too
much investment-relevant risk.”
Eurasia notes in a new report that the next six months in Nigeria will
be tense, however.
“This will not resolve Nigeria’s structural vulnerabilities, but reduces
the likelihood that the campaign season will completely upend the
investment climate or reverse the country’s economic momentum.
Over the next six months, we envision policy stagnation, but not
sharp backsliding,” it further says.
A Jonathan win could feed political unrest in the north, but makes it
less likely that rebels in the Niger Delta re-ignite their attacks on oil
infrastructure and personnel, according to Eurasia.
“Political risks are already elevated so our neutral forecast starts
from a high-risk baseline. Downside pressures that could push our
trajectory back in a negative direction would include some
combination of an oil shock (price or production), a disorderly
response to Fed tapering, a new wave of defections from the PDP, a
sharp escalation (and southern creep) by Boko Haram and a
prolonged rise of sectarian or political violence,” the report says.
De Pontet states that the upgrade is based on Eurasia’s
methodology for assessing political risk trajectory (six months out
and two years out).
It is expected by Eurasia that the pre-election period will be marked
by patronage politics, constant politicking, and attacks by Boko
Haram, oil theft, and policy stagnation, but they are not expected to
undermine national stability or derail Jonathan’s candidacy.
Furthermore, the risk of fiscal or monetary policy upheaval under
Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala or CBN Governor Godwin
Emefiele is relatively low, limiting downside risk.
Nigeria has in the last year seen dramatic events in the lead to the
general elections that have spelt a political quandary at times for the
two leading political parties, APC and PDP, as they both engaged in
an intense contest of political checkmate.
APC emerged as a political game changer after scoring high profile
defections from the PDP, soon after the controversial merger of its
parties, ACN and CPC.
However, the political storm it raised has started to settle with the
loss of an election in Ekiti State where it previously won the election,
the impeachment of one of its governors Murtala Nyako of
Adamawa State, a governor who defected from the PDP to the APC,
on charges of misconduct and violation of the constitution, and as
high profile defections from the opposition APC to the ruling PDP
occurred.
Nuhu Ribadu, Nigeria’s former anti-corruption chief, Buba
Mohammed Marwa, a former military governor of Lagos, and
Ibrahim Shekarau, a one-time opposition governor of Kano State
and founding member of APC, have all defected from APC to PDP.
Jonathan has faced criticism from the opposition and citizens for
failing to check corruption, contain a raging Islamist insurgency in
the country’s north and deliver on promises of economic reform. All
these have hurt Jonathan’s standing in the run-up to the elections.
However, Ribadu’s defection has been seen as a boost for the PDP.
Ribadu “helps boost confidence in the PDP because it’s a
demonstration of their current political strength”, says Thomas Horn
Hansen, senior Africa analyst at London-based Control Risks.
“It’s a political coup for the PDP over the APC,” he says.
“Ribadu’s defection to the PDP is a blow to the opposition on
multiple fronts,” de Pontet said. “It’s a setback for the APC’s self-
promoted brand as a true alternative to the ruling party.”
YINKA ABRAHAM

businessdayonline.com/2014/08/eurasia-upgrades-nigeria-to-neutral-on-jonathan-re-election-prospects/

Hear Hear.

alqaeda: Just proves that the siege and bombings can never break the will of a determined people. Israel has been defeated. All their targets from the beginning were never achieved. Stopping of rockets was never and will never be achieved. Destroying of tunnels was not achieved. Continuing with the siege not achieved. So what have they achieved. Pikin wey say him mama no go sleep, him ma no go sleep. You want to live in peace but don't want others to. You want to kill other children but don't want yours killed. It's not possible. Congrats to the Palestinians.

Yeah congratulations to the Palestinians who claim victory after loosing some 2000 people and 40% of their infrastructure.
If this is how wars are won I forever want to be on the loosing side.
You people are not that bright.

Ekundayo7: And they won't because of the genuflecting Muslim in the White House Odumbo; the lapdog of the Saudis; the one who handed over the latest in military hardware to the terrorists; the one who released the nightmare Gitmo 5 in return for 1 deserter Muslim apologist soldier; the one who disarmed soldiers and military on base as they might "hurt" themselves hence the Fort Hood Massacre by another Muslim terrorist, yeah THAT eeediot president, pretty much on par with GEJ...

I couldn't have said it better except for the part where you paired him with GEJ.
Obama has in his hands the ability to rain almost instantaneous death and destruction to terrorists but what does he do ? He draws ineffectual red lines and is to whimpy to take action afterwards.He criticized the measures his predecessor took and now being faced with the same threats instead of admitting he was wrong ,he traps him self with political correctness.
GEJ at least admits the threats against him and the government and is acting within the CURRENT capacity of the military.I agree the the military is under equipped bit one thin we seem to ignore is the fact that until 1999 the military was a family hegemony which has resulted in a generation of commanders who lack the imagination and intelligence their command requires.People also like to rant about BokoHaram being allegedly better armed than the military but ignore reports (lots of them over the years) of military and police armories being attacked and robbed.So BokoHarams "superior arms" are actually ours.

anag090: delusional ...... anyways common sense is a scare commodity in the family tree of the mad cows.

For sure there were nurses , laboratory attendants and others in the health care ecosystem.The doctors were not/are not the only individuals involved.
That's the point the poster to whom you were responding to was making

birdman: Wrong. I dont care if the facts come from a white man or a black man. I have a brain, and I can judge information from several sources to come up with a conclusion. Unlike you, I am not swayed by 2 minute videos. Since you like to read what you want into my statements, let me put this in bold for you: I look at at what Idi Ami says, what his detractors and his supporters say, and then I look at his actions (they speak louder than words).

Wait why am I even arguing with you ? Arent you one of those dudes who thinks Abacha is good guy because he was against western imperialism. In your rush to anoint black saviours, you forget the same man murdered Saro Wiwa, Kudirat, Pa Rewane and a host of others. Your eagerness to find facts fitting your narrative would make you ignore those crazy Abacha days when simply driving by the SSS complex in Abuja would make almost break into a sweat. Even the fearless Soyinka had to be convinced to flee. So, if you want to hide in your den of ignorance, it is your own wahala. Just realize that you sound very unwise to most thinking people.

You really have time for that guy,ask any individual with a functioning brain on nairaland and they would tell you that he is a lost case.

Billyonaire: Shymmex, this is no time for conspiracy theories. You are in the Uk, so be careful with the truth you type while sitting in your apartment in the UK, using a UK ISP to connect to the worldwideweb. You are being watched, not even the best of vpn and tunnellers can save you from your truth. There as certain reasons that some of us chose to live in our fatherland.

A word is enough...for...

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berem: Poverty ke? Did the story said he was from a poor home?
All these TAN children sef.....

You obviously do not get his point.He is sticking the finger to all of those who claim the terrorism finds willing tools in young people as a result of them being in poverty.
Clearly this assertion is not true not in the west and not here in Nigeria.We have seen that almost all if not all persons held in connection to terrorism in Nigeria are from well to do families I do not need to recount them.
I do not claim that there is no case of poverty in our country but if poverty was the driving force for BokoHaram recruitment, the whole of Nigeria would have been BokoHaram's catchment area.
Only lazy politician's and analysts hang on the "poverty is the cause for growth of bokoharam " mantra.They know themselves.

Was about to vent my anger on the thread and OP but looking again to see that it was started by no less by the general Buhari character,I just chose no to bother.
In fact knowing the OP I will answer to this thread saying as he said that idi Amin , abacha and buhari are wonderful individuals who have been misunderstood by their fellow countrymen and demonized by the ever greedy imperialist west.All their "alleged" misdeeds are figments of the imaginations of western saboteurs and their collaborators in their home countries.

_{[/sub]by the way I thought the op was banned,or is he using an alternate moniker? Either way I will patiently wait for Oga Jakumo, it's sure to one hell of a laugh.[sub]}

Are you mad you dare to put out information that shows progress in this country ok naa wait for the opposition spokesmen on nairaland to come crucify you and yours data.

imsuboi: ^^ how dare you compare a common engineer to a doctor? Does an engineer deal directly with human lives??

Does an engineer come in contact with disease-laden people daily?

Does an engineer battle for close to 15 hrs daily trying to get a total stranger to at least breathe again?

Does an engineer peep through a microscope daily trying to find a cure to diseases trying to wipe out mankind?

I could enumerate lots & lots of stuff doctors go through daily that you know nothing about. But.. Nah, I won't.

I'll leave you to wallow in your ignorance.



Use your brain dude. It's not for fancy

It's only in this useless country Government messes with doctors


SMH

I just dey look u and in the words of someone who has taught me a lot in life"I feel sorry for you".
The very practice of modern medicine is ABSOLUTELY dependent on Engineering practice from the electrical and electronic to the structural and the metallurgical aspects.If you are is as knowledgeable as you claim you would see this fact and calm down but even in the very likely scenario that you do not , closet minded as you are, I am not about to educate you on the pages of nairaland you have had uncountable years of studying (as you and your ilk like to remind us lowly borne) to learn.
I will let you wallow in your small mindedness and ignorant tunnel vision.
Its a brave new world out there and that world has no patience for small minded mono disciplinary individuals.They are dinosaurs whose time are at an end.
In these days of pacemakers ,implants, titanium rod and steel plate bone augmentations, an ignorant "doctor" thinks that he is all that,the be all and end all.
Even in the study of viruses , their effects and cure have more technical mathematical input than you doctors can wrap your puny little mind around.Think BioInformatics.
"Oga doctor superior to everyone else", study those "big books" of yours that you are so proud of to find out that even the most notable medical achievement of our time GENE SEQUENCING AND MAPPING,happened as a result of the work of physicists and engineers working with biologists , doctors and others within the medical ecosystem.

"Do you know how strenuous clinical medicine is?"
NO I do not but I imagine,it is as strenous as the practice of engineers or geologists or physicists or even nurses.You do not get off telling anyone that you as a Doctor are superior because you save lives.
For your information nurses and policemen and soldiers ,even pharmacologists and laboratory technicians save lives all in different circumstances.
If you doctors in Nigeria are ever going get the rest of the society to understand your needs and your value you will have to understand the need value and sacrifice of others.

"So i would advice you to shut the hell up about stuff you have no clue about & use your little brain for something worthwhile."
I do use my brain for worthwhile things but you really do need to follow your own advice.

saxywale: A common Engineer!! OMG!!
What do you take engineering for, a walk in the park

I just dey look am.The very practice of modern medicine is ABSOLUTELY dependent on Engineering practice.

excell12go: But I really do not think these demands are too high or too much. These people spent more than six years of their lives in school o...I know of someone who spent 15 years studying medicine. The sizes of the books they read alone are scary. These guys have suffered. A newly employed doctor/dentist earns less than 200K a month.
ON The issue of CMD, How wd a NURSE be made CMD over over 200 doctors/dentist in an hospital HABA!!

Stop this ignorant nonsense babble.They chose to study medicine like I chose to study electrical engineering like my sister chose to study at the defense academy like many other people chose to study just about any other thing they did.NO ONE is indispensible not the teacher nor the policeman nor the electrician or the farmers.
All the nig books you studied has nothing to do with anything YOU CHOSE so stop badgering anyone with your learning.Every one is learned I don't care what the darn lawyers say.

Never say Never boy.....i suppose that's one lesson you have yet to learn from your Father because he would never do same he knows better than that.
By the way should you be so visible at this time? Hide your head boy.

Sibrah: The strange moment when the loot gets looted . . .

Why you want him to further expose ACN stalwarts looting since 1999? Not that we don't know it already.

kliq: Why flee? Why they coulda fought back by sprinkling hot urine on the attackers.

A known Liberian weapon system.

Jakumo: Good to hear from you Ify. When someone started an internet rumor urging Nigerians to drink concentrated salt solutions as an Ebola preventative, I never imagined that such a prescription of deadly poison would actually be followed by anyone, AND YET, over 60 people died across the Nigerian federation, from drinking salt water in a panic response to phone text messages advising them to do so. Many more victims of that misinformation campaign are STILL hospitalized with massive internal damage that will render them invalid for a long time to come.

[i][/i]That salt episode illustrates starkly why lunatics and sadists of all varieties must be silenced, as soon as it is clear that their message is for others to commit unwitting suicide.

My sentiments exactly.I couldn't have said it better myself.

Garrithe1st: @Jakumo

You are a silly hypocrite and a double faced oaf. While i don't agree with Gen. Buhari's stand i think he has a right to his opinion. Nobody should be banned for expressing and sharing his opinion.

Any Mod who follows your line of silly reasoning is a cretinous toad.

That "opinion" in a country of very little education (even with about a hundred universities and the like) is the most dangerous thing to allow.
We are talking about a country where millions of supposedly educated(?) people were recirculating outrageously misleading information that salt and pepper (or is it water ) could prevent or cure Ebola based on one miserable individuals OPINION.
In that mix the mad a.s$ i mean unstable individual was screaming at the top of his lungs that the Ebola outbreak was a hoax.
He is lucky if I had the means I would grab him, and dump him in a hospital ward in serria lone filled with Ebola patients half on their way out and leave him with no protection whatsoever.
Jakumo is kind , he is only asking that the riff raff be banned for life
Sounds fair if you ask me.I would go further to say kn real life that he never be allowed near a computer pad or smartphone again for the rest of his ignorant but obstinate and delusional life unless he has received serious treatment and he resolves to stay on the prescribed meds for the rest of his life.

texazzpete: Right decision from the Lagos State Government.

How the hell can you take a nutritional supplement like product and spin it as a 'cure' for Ebola? That's like someone marketing Forever Living supplements and saying its a cure for Ebola.


You see a drug that has never been touted as being under development to treat Ebola, and you want to adopt it when there's no verifiable info that it has ever been tested with any efficacy on mice or even monkeys.

The people celebrating this Nano Silver rubbish are not any bit less dumb than those who were using salt water baths.

kola nut salt and pepper(or is it water) now pesticide.They getting ridiculously dumber with each successive famed "cure".

Ignorant and obstinate: there is no deadlier combination.

Will any opposition party supporter comment here? Or would they rather continue with the disgusting narrative that the osun election was a victory of the people against repressive forces when they know better.

okparaugo: Sharrap..

Did you goto school or you stole your fees ?

Abacha and Buhari paid his school fees.

GenBuhari: [size=28pt]

Patrick Sawyers wife and kids have avoided infection from Ebola, yet it seems every Nigerian Doctor or Nurse that came within 10 metres of him are dropping dead!!

Something does not add up!!!

Make we shine our eyes well well!!

Ebola epidemic is a hoax to panic us into being America's research guinea pig for their experimental vaccine.

Do not allow any experimental vaccines into Nigeria - they will kill a lot of people[/size]

[b][/b][b][/b]YOU MUST NOT BE VERY BRIGHT.

Lots of people have said this but I thought that they just hated your guts.
Otherwise how is it that you have missed all the news that SPECIFICALLY states that his family (read that: WIFE AND CHILDREN) are in the united states and as such he (sawyer) had not had contact with them.

Funny thing is ,right now Russia is playing the reverse role in the Ukarine and they don't seem happy about it.

gbadexy: To be candid, it was a one sided war.
Nigeria had 3 divisions and around 100,000 troops in each division. The overall total troops that fought on the nigerian side wasn't more than 500,000.
One the biafran side, all adult males were drafted into the force.
You can imagine the sheer number of troops they had. [b][/b] Besides, the biafrans were fighting for survival as they were made to believe the northerners were on the way to complete the massacre.[b] [/b]They needed no further motivation to fight hard to prevent imagined possible annihilation while the nigerian troops were motivated by money.
But the biafran fought a good fight and they proved they can survive on their own with various innovations.

And they were..

ROCKJ1: Check the meaning of Sniper in the dictionary... it's important.

Some people are so ignorant and they call themselves learned.They think law is everything.
He could simply have used the term Gunmen instead of advertising his ignorance.Granted a sniper is a gunman and a gunman is a sniper.For the purposes of the controversy he hopes to stir the word sniper does not fit the purpose for which he "invoked " it.
This is because if you are facing the hostile end of a sniper,you would never know it as there would be some distance between you the victim and the said sniper.Snipers by their nature are never seen only their work is.
I use the term invoked because the accuser here had intended to draw a picture of an evil sinister plan and action taking place.
This particular accusation against Jonathan is the most stupi.d ever made because: 1:You do not need a thousand snipers to eliminate a thousand people. 2:Even if snipers are on the prowl as alleged by OBJ et all, we have yet to hear of that mode of assassination ever since the beginning of the Goodluck administration. 3:Damnit , training/having an army of snipers is an imperative for any/all national security and law enforcement establishments.A sniper/snipers in any basic combat unit is a/are FORCE MULTIPLIERS.This has been a known fact since world war ll.
If we had well trained and capable sniper units embedded within combat units in contact with enemy terrorist groups ,the losses on the side of boko haram would have been more substantial and debilitating.As a matter of fact if combat snipers were engaged and available all those times that we were told that the military almost bagged shekau but narrowly missed him a sniper would have ended him definitively even as he made his escape from quite a distance.
Of all the things OBJ said in that inglorious letter of his, the part about the snipers made me wonder if he was the intelligent general he is famed to be.The answer came to me easy enough.Obasanjo is the general for day before yesterdays war not tomorrows' war.