₦airaland Forum

massinola:
The level of understanding and reasoning of Nigeria youth baffles me. sometimes i feel ashamed of being one. The simple truth is dat PDP is not a good government for Nigerians but APC is not an alternative either. i would rather remain in this present condition than allow bunch of disloyal people to lead me.

So your solution is Mugabe styled one party system until such a time the angels falls down from heaven and presented you with the alternative. Abacha deserved an apology then.

swagwu:
How i wish the plane crashed

Look at what Nigeria politics has done to a God's creation. The pilot alone could be anybody from your classmate, neighbour, next of kin just doing their job. Here you are making a rat of yourself.

drlawizle:
Buhari is reaping what he sowed...karma's a biatch

What did he sow?

The problem is that most Nigerians, especially the so called educated are still warped in the old military mindset, where a dissenting voice is viewed or treatment as an enemy and not as an opponent.
But what the gullible and oppressed Nigerians fail realise is that these political elite are friends behind the scene.
Atiku visiting OBJ, likes of Amaechi and Rochas now friends to Buhari, Modu Sheriff a pal of GEJ.

JECBOSS:
As Usual, APC clowns will blame it on GEJ

It is highly unlikely that Jonathan has anything to do with it. But when a Government made the apparatus of the state believe that they work for the government and not the State, they risk inadvertently encouraging morons to do unlawful things in their behalf, because they believed that they are helping those in power and when those in power did nothing too afterwards, the morons will go a step further.
So the buck stops with Jonathan and the ministers in charge.
Or did you think that all those Ugandans murdered were killed by Idi Amin by himself during his time? A good leader will make heads roll in a scenario of this nature and take the moral high ground over the opposition party, but they are likely to even encourage it with their reaction later.

Nctrice:
it's possible apc could be pulling all these stunts to woo puplic sympathy!

They didn't seem to succeed then, as they did not get yours as I can sense.

snazzylove:
Ola Cargo. No be dressing we come check. Acknowledge d fact dat ur time has passed, for good. We don't need your generation again. Ever since my secondary school dayz they kept drumming it into our ears dat we are the future leaders. How can that be possible when the old brains have refused to give way for modern ideas

GEJ till... Its my turn to shine

It's not his generation that snatch ballot boxes or sit in a hotel room and stuff them.
That thug called a governor now in Ekiti is not of his generation. Those jumping over the fence last week at the national assembly are not of his generation. The go and die governor of Edo is not of his generation.

Montaque:
hmmmm. I knw y0u think I am an ap0l0gist 0f the present administrati0n...I am n0t. Will y0ur answer be different n0w? If n0t,y0u d0nt believe in the milli0ns 0f Nigerian y0uth wh0 has been the rabbit bef0re a dangling carr0t,never eating it. I want t0 be a leader in Nigeria,and Its supp0se t0 be n0w,c0s I d0nt want t0 struggle with ur kids in the next 30 years. I shud be retiring by then. Have u heard 0f @chukaumunna?

Yes I have heard of Chuka Umunna. My family and his has been friends for over 30 years. I personally went from door to door in Streatham to campaign for his candidature during his election.
No one is stopping you from being a leader if you know what you wanted as a leader. You don't say to people to step down for you because they are old and you are young. If Jonathan or any baby out there has better qualities than Buhari, by all means vote for them, that is democratic process.
Chuka was selected over 4 others in his local Labour association because at the town hall meetings, he came across as the brightest and the most intelligent among the others, especially in his area of labour Laws.
And eventhough he is young, he has been an active member of the local Labour party since he was 19. He he has worked as a volunteer with the Labour unions helping workers.
He worked behind the scene with Gordon Brown's and Ed Miliband. So the Chuka you saw as an MP is a finish product years of preparing for leader despite his age.
He wasn't there because he is young.

MrAboki:
The Man who eats his Eba with a Forks can fell our how, how soft, how lumpy the Eba is long before it reaches his mouth.

And I get your point very well. But how do we expect a different result when we keep doing the same old thing over and over again?

I wasn't recommending Buhari for you or asking you to vote for him. Age makes no difference when it comes to leadership, so I disliked when people kept going on about the man's age or his uniform in military times. Great leaders like Dwight Eisenhower, Winston Churchill or De Gaulle are all ex military men. You forgot that there are civilians who are more militarized than the men in khaki uniforms? Men like Abiola or Iwuanyanwu.
But when Jonathan wears the same military gear, the same mouths will hypocritically be going on as to how commander in chief he looks, when he cannot even command his own wife to order let alone command the armed forces against Boko Haram.

nov19:
- What do thses politicians take us for, kids or dummies or what?
He had 4 yrs to prove to us that he will make a better Leader. But instead what you here about them is court cases, unpleasant statements after the loss of election, cristicizing every Govt decision at every opportunity. And now claiming to be saints because they want our votes.

We are no fools. Its a fact that the present govt has not leaved up to expectations. But Gen Buhari has not given me any reason to believe he will do better if given the opportunity to serve.

If you don't like those activities, then return to military rule, where there are no unpleasant statements or critics. Politics is a game of argument, it's a beauty contest, whoever lies best or convinced people best wins.

MrAboki:
This is too funny.



Feels like a mockery of the Otuoke Fisherman.


That outfit does not flatter him at all..

Nice Pictures though. I STILL WOULD NOT VOTE FOR HIM. He is an Army General, he should go and rest. Its time for the next generation to run things.

You forgot that David Mark was in the military longer than Buhari. A greater percentage of all of them today self confessed democrats were ministers, commissioners etc during the military era. What the difference if you eat your eba with your fingers or with a fork?

Montaque:
What will GMB tell that y0ung child in that first pics, ' y0ur father is the leader 0f t0m0rr0w" and the child will be like,"grandfather,when am l g0ing t0 be a leader in Nigeria?". What will be the General's answer?

He will then re -educate the child that Ronald Reagan was a very good leader and was older. That the young like Dimeji Bankole happened to be unworthy of leadership. You will naturally become a leader, when you decide to grow up and man-up .
Hopefully that child will listen and learn.

Whatever slave hat GEJ can wear I can wear it as well. Very creepy

enkay4love:
what does ur statement above imply? Is everythng Obj said about dis government a lie?he just nailed it straight on the head! talking about 3rd term,did'nt ur GEJ promise to serve for just a tenure?but now he's actively gunning 4 a 2nd chance!ppl like u will never agitate 4 a change but will rather stick stongly with the rotten status quo.SMH!

GEJ if ever he made such a promise to serve one term and then decide to change his mind is not a crime or against the law. More of a moral issue then a legal one.
OBJ is like that person that shoot in the bush and came out to the road asking what the noise was about? Most of the rogue in the national assembly was his handiwork.
His problem is not about saying any truth but cannot stomach that the man he planted into power refused to be controlled and he is lashing out. Let him declare his assets. His presidency made GEJ looks like Angel Gabriel.
Just wait, tomorrow Jonathan and his wife will also join the chorus of harping on about corruption too.

OBJ of all people?
Where everyone is shouting about crime and more crime, please tell me, who are the criminals?

He laid the current trend even down to the state assemblies, where governors are impeached at the dead of night with less the quorum numbers, often sitting outside the state, like Peter Obi being impeached from Asaba in them days.
Something Jonathan is watching as its creeping back because of hunger for power, after doing very well in those areas for the past few years.
OBJ imported naira culture into their national assembly. Instigating impeachment of speakers and Senate presidents. Oh! He plotted and murdered our brother Chuba Okadigbo for standing up to him.
OBJ talking about corruption shows how creepy the Nigeria society and their rulers has become.

luchy34:
best reply ever on nairaland. a million likes for you bro, I just wonder why some of us are So obsessed with English language and yet what has It contributed to our standard of living compared to china that can't even speak good English?.........
How many of them English peps can even speak either ibo, Yoruba, Or Hausa.... talkless of writing It.

How many of your physics, biology. Chemistry etc text books were written in Igbo Yoruba or Efik? More likely the first language you heard when you arrived on this earth was English. English is Nigeria lingual franca.

hyfr:
English is the problem here, they said a mac computer without CPU, can't the CPU of the mac computer be removed?? Of course it can, they don't mean the mac computer has no CPU, they meant the CPU was removed, get it right

So your explanation is now that the DSS speaks in coded English and you are here to decode it for us peasants? I don't think so, thanks for trying anyway.

OLADD:
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What a putrid response! If the DSS had kept mute, you and Lai Mohammed would have cried blood that nothing incriminating was found in the office. Just keep your cool, I will tell you about the school I attended by the time a full disclosure of APC atrocious and criminal activities are made. Nincompoop.

I have lived in a country where the rule of law is supreme all the time. There are procedures and ethics as to how things happen in democracy irrespective of what you suspect Lai Mohammed will say. Mr Mohammed is the propaganda mouthpiece of the APC, so it's his job to talk whatever they chose to do anyway
So, not an excuse to behave as if you are in Putin's Russia.
Nigeria has a civilian rule and not a democracy, if the apparatus of the state that supposed to be neutral become the grass cutter of the government. There is huge difference between a State and a Government. DSS works for the Nigeria State not the PDP government.

OLADD:
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And who told you that all incriminating evidences found had been made public? Claiming to be wiser than the DSS?

So in the school you attended, they thought you that you can publish a result first well ahead collecting the fact and cross checking?
If DSS is your epitome of wisdom, then stupidly should be scrubbed off the dictionary. Politics do not colourate my brain, it does not determine my opinion over any issue. I am too smart to be calling a white a blue just because politics of hate and bitterness.
My life would be meaningless if am to sunk to that level.

eziotu:
English as a language has no permanent rule. There's always a change.

Don't kid yourself. Every language has a rule. Don't tell me that my dynamic Igbo language do not have rules.

SaintRobs:
5.“Names withheld.” This expression rankles

6.“Electioneering campaign:” “Electioneering” and “political campaign” mean the same thing. So “electioneering campaign” is tautologous. It’s either electioneering or campaign.

I thought I was the only one that get irked whenever I heard electioneering campaign with the Nigeria media illiterate graduates. It's like saying short-knickers.
Another nonsensical one is the misuse of the expression " Mr President" as if it's a name, instead of a quantification of a title. And you use it mostly when the person is in your presence if you decide not to call him by his name.
I have heard Mrs Jonathan used the same Mr President instead of saying my husband.

Nigeria DSS is an intelligence agency without any atom of intelligent going by their modus operandi and work ethics.

Am a lay person when it comes to computer technology but I still know for sure that Apple iMac computers do not have external CPUs, they are internal.
If you want to break the activities of your opponent using the apparatus of the state, at least make sure that you get your story right, accurate, authentic and believable.
And you raided a place and recovered an incriminating evidence, you just don't broadcast it until you present it as an evidence in court, Meanwhile everything listed are normal basic things you see in any modern office. There was no mention of any smoking gun in relation to cloning of a card as if APC do not have the right to produce their party membership cards.
Who on earth sets up a hacking office, when you can do it anywhere while sipping a cup of coffee?

gtrust:
No, I'm saying: whether you like it or not that senator WILL build that mansion!

Now, if you have a problem with the senator's stewardship then bring your points to the table of public opinion and NOT his house.

Let us discuss substance, I mean, let us discuss real issues!!!

What are the expectations of the constituency from their Senator = topic of discussion.

His house is NOT = topic of discussion!

You are absolutely wrong about your tone of whether Chou likes it or not. If Nigeria is a real democracy (which they are not) a public servant won't be building mansions whether he likes it or not. He may even be restrained, even when it's legitimate because it does not put him a good stade with that elected them to serve. especially when he represents mostly poor populace.
It is your sort of attitude that give those that supposed to be scared of the electorate and what they think of them, to act as if the same electorates are their slaves as they act with impunity.

gbaskipro:
Tinubu is also wanted in America for drug related offence, the stupid writter is biased for including that, because I don't see a nexus between been wanted and reporting the new

Are you sure about this?
If he was a wanted man in America, how come the Democratic Party of the same America invited him as a guest at their national convention during Obama's re-election bid?
Or did they forgot?
This seems untrue to me because it doesn't make any sense that your wanted person can equally be your own guest at the same time.

stevnwigw1:
God bless you sir.

Sir for a drug mule? Ok!!

Alphaoscar:
Former Akwa Ibom SSG and PDP guber Aspirant
defect to APC
A former Secretary to Akwa Ibom State Government
and PDP governorship Aspirant, Umana Okon
Umana will on Thursday defect to the All
Progressives Congress, APC.
Umana, a two term Commissioner for finance will be
defecting with more than 10,000 PDP supporters
including current House of Reps & Assembly
Members, LG Chairmen, Commissioners and
numerous associates.
A National Leader of the APC, Senator Bola Ahmed
Tinubu, all APC Presidential Aspirants, all APC
Governors and many other APC dignitaries will
storm Uyo on Thursday 27th November 2014 to
receive Mr Umana Okon Umana who will officially
declare his membership with APC and announce his
intention to vie for the party's guber ticket for 2015

What happened to the one Akpabio almost extinguished last term, when they nearly burnt Uyo down?

gtrust:
I think it's about you!!!
Free the man.

Will you be happier if this house was in Lagos instead of NIKE ENUGU

Talk about substance and not small thing like house.
What is your point actually

Sometimes I don't know whether to weep or laugh. So your biggest worry about public servants building mansions is just were the mansion located?
Gosh!!!!
Nigerians deserved the leadership they are saddled with, honestly.
What a people!

Fire15:
You're a lair. This mansion you're talking about is not opposite Nike lake Hotel, it's along the road to the Hotel. This building took so many years to be completed, conservatively not less 6 years, and his house in Enugu off Chime ave. in New Haven, Enugu is a semi detached duplex, in he has been staying as a LG Chairman. For a 2 term LG Chairman, 2 term member HOR and now a Senator in his second term in Nigerian context, he's a poor man. The political office holders in Nigeria are making so much, to curtail this,"Vote Buhari For President"

So he was and still is a professional public dependent and reaper then? Enough said.

Mekiluv:
Pls enlighten us what is a Data Centre of a political party with 18 staff working by 6:30am?

Common, you must, surely must not ask such a low question. Stop letting yourself down for mindless politicians. You are smarter than that.
90 days before the biggest election in the land, opening at 6.30 is puzzling you?
Shouldn't they have a thousand people there 24 hours working flat out if they want to win?
Get some sense of reasoning back people and forget politics.

idumuose:
But you folks did not erect any sign post that shows it's an APC office which indicates their activities in that office is questionable.
Once they get caught,they start crying blue murder.APC is now hacking into iNeC data base in order to reproduce voters registration card in their evil desperation to win power at the centre.

What part of Nigeria law are you quoting, requiring them to put a sign post? Sign posting is a form of advertising or invitation. When does it becomes the business of the state apparatus to force people to advertise their activities? Show me a picture of Aso Rock being signed posted, if that is the new law. This is called, problem is sleeping and idiotic one goes to wake him.
It is the freedom of being opposition that share the same equality with the party in power that determines the true nature of democracy of states.

IdiAmin1:
As at 630am, 26 staff were already on the system and you say it's normal. I don't live in Naija but I know that even bankers in Lagos don't start that early. APC should hide their face in shame if there's any atom of dignity in them of which I'm sure there's none. I expected them to even deny the office sef. Sh*ameless group of frustrated old men

Since you are not living in Naija according to your admission, then I do hope you are not living in North Korea, cos I don't know when starting work at 6.30 or any other time constitute a crime and you have already portions verdict of shame.