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mikeansy: what some people do not realise is that rigging is like coup-de-tat, you need a level of public support to succeed.

Jonathan did well in 2011 because of strong support from the whole South. If Jonathan looses South West in 2015 he will definitely loose because he has no leg in NW and NE for obvious reasons.

The battleground will be Middle belt . . . with a half hearted or lesser support from Igbos in 2015 compared to 2011 Jonathan is headed for defeat.

If APC select their candidate wisely and lets say Fashola emerge. Fashola is a Yoruba Muslim and will have both ethno-religious advantage and a moral advantage because of his Governance records in Lagos.

before the 2011 election, some of us predicted the outcome of the electoral map as it happened.

The only way Jonathan wins in 2015 is if APC defeat themselves in their own primary and field a Buhari or that sort of figure.

Fashola/VP candidate from Benue, Plateau, Taraba or Adamawa who is a Christain will defeat Jonathan in a landslide.

This is politics 101!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dream on about Fashola. According to Nigerian behavioural constitution, Yoruba has had their turn inside the cookie jar with OBJ's 8 years of dictatorship, it now the turn of others. Why can't APC find credible candidates from outside Yoruba? Igbos in APC won't mind joining Islam for 8 years at least, if that is the sole qualification.
This cunning idea of using APC to jump back into Aso Rock through arm swisting when your turn again is 2040 can't work.

Sincere 9gerian: Who has time for Willy Ezugwu that speaks for opposition parties? The guy has always been in the opposition so no one should be surprised. He is the IGBO VERSION of Lai Muhammed, the notorious liar.

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I believe we can give him time if its coming from worthwhile and trustworthy Igbos like Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, Pius Anyim etc?

funnyx: That's why it's not always right to vote based on religious and ethnic sentiments, I hope that 2015 Nigerians will vote for the right candidate by looking beyond tribal and religious sentiment.

That must be a fantasy Nigeria where people will not vote based only on ethnicity and religion including you and them.

lagcity: I laff in 99% votes.

Who got your own 99% votes?

I can see arsenal losing this game, not because utd is deserving but arsenal's woeful decisions and bereft of ideas in front of goal.

Why can't Arsenal ever run with the ball instead of walking with it some time until the get confused and give the ball away and then counter attack by the opposing team?

Another arsenal comedian Gervinho will come in soon

eaglechild: Sagna!!!!!!!!
Out!!!!!

He is lucky, should have walked. He is a liability.

This proves my point, why take Rosiky off and leave Ramsey?

biolabee: until that pass.. he was ok

Being ok, for a supposed top flight player is not enough.

United 2nd goal seems brewing. I have never see arsenal players going mad at their team mate for their silly displays or lack of passion. Can you imagine Sagna giving away a goal like this with Roy Kean or Martin Keon as a team mate?

I believe that Wenger must have told his players that shooting is a sin that is never forgiven. There can't be no other reason.

biolabee: u fans are so unfair
he was the reason u started scoring gols when he came back from his broken leg..

his assists from the right

I am not an Arsenal fan, just my observation on Sagna, he is a liability more than he is a reliability. Just this second half, count how many times he will make a back pass to his fellow defender or goalie to against players in front of him.

Funny , for 43 minutes of the game I kept texting my wife (watching at the emirate) how Sagna is useless, and he proved my right in the end. Him and the German pole are two classic acts at the heart of Arsenal defence.
Sagna always burst forward, but give him the ball, he will stop and make a back pass, and when he crossed the ball, 9 out of 10 it will hit the first player in front of him. Why they don't play Carl Jenkinson ahead of him, I don't know. And it seems Ramsey is Wengers love child, because its beyond me why he plays every game and what he bring to the team? While the likes of Oxlade Chamberlain warming the bench, Frimpong on loan.

Is Okupe now the spokesman for Presidency or the PDP?
Can someone do him a favour to clarify to him the difference between his job and any person that speaks for the PDP party and I think that is Olisa Metuh's job.

At least Dortmond are more generous than Bayern, giving Real Madrid a jara goal

biolabee: referee!!!!!!

this ref is biased to madrid 2.0

that was a foul on sven bender

I can't wait for robotic referees, instead of the likes of this and last night too.

Abdul4success: MATCH PREDICTION
R/MADRID 2 - 1 DORTMUND

With prophets like you, who needs prediction? Its now 3-1

[quote author=mama-gee][color=deeppink]Ronaldo scores!!!

Ronaldo for balon d'or 2013[/color][/quote]Just for a 3 yards tap in?

Dibiachukwu: Nigeria must divide. The question is, how long and how brutal will the war be. As usual the people that would suffer the most, are people that do not live amongst themselves. Everything would be brought to a screeching halt. Even the hope of some foreign nations to come in and secure their investments would be futile. Everything mining would be either destroyed or infected. I pray to Chukwu to save my people from war. We all know who will loose the war. We all know which peoples would wish, they were better beggars. Kele CHUKWU.

If anyone is honest with oneself, you don't need to be brilliant to know why Nigeria was doomed from day. Like a leaking roof, each new part of roofing introduced brings a new hope, until it rust and become brown like the rest and then back to square one.

What is keeping one Nigeria is the use of the greatest weapon to man-FEAR. The northern elite, so drunk and obsessed with the southern oil, along with their southern collaborators had used weapon of fear of the unknown to keep Nigeria going just for their benefit alone.

I honestly believe that the biggest casualty of one Nigeria is the northern masses. Used by their crooked elite to keep power for years without anything for them to show for it.
Suppressed their God's given agro based economy that can feed the world if well developed because of the easy oil money of invest at 12pm and bank it at 1pm. An agro economy that will employ millions of both their educated and the unlettered, unlike oil based economy that employs few handful skilful people, mostly foreigners.

All it will take one day is a Moses, among them to open their eyes. But it may never happen as the northern elite last wish is to be isolated with their own people with no southerners around again, especially Igbo as their political bait.
And then their people will start to ask them SOME SERIOUS questions and with their violent dispositions, the likes of Babangida will either stay to die or run into exile. Hence they need the south, as long as there is North vs South to divert attention, their masses will never realised how they've been used.

Another useless waste of time. Another job for the pals.
What exactly will this group of people tell him about Boko Haram that he doesn't know already in more than two years as the commander in chief, who receives daily security briefings? Or doesn't they brief him?

Jonathan, if you are honestly looking to solve Boko Haram problem, you can do within 24 hrs. Send a bill to your national assembly for a referendum on one Nigeria. You will see how quick the northern elite, the sponsors will sit up quickly.

Just as the only language a dictator understands in power, the same for the northern elite/ religious establishment, the only language they understand is anything that pose a threat to one Nigeria-their milking cow.

All these idea of creating jobs for your pals that doesn't need a job, all in the name of committees, inquiries for every possible issue is becoming ever more boring.

delvinmaya: This has got to be the most stupid post ever in the history of forums. Do you really have to stoop so low to fabrications? Damn man. You need to get a grip and get a life.
And as much as most of you will argue that Nigeria is no nation, I laugh at you in Swahili. Truth is your arguments and thoughts don't go beyond this forum. Nigeria has been before you were born and will be after you are long gone. Only posterit can judge Nigeria, not your deluded fallacies. Funny thing is you all got monikers and hide behind it. The day Nairaland servers crashes, that's the day you lose your identities (hoping that in such eventuality, Seun will not have your details backed up). Deluded people. And for your information, the US is as diverse as Nigeria, when you talk about the homogeneous heterogeneous people living there. So shut your trap and ask what you can do for your country to make it great

I respect your opinion and I wished respect mine too. I hope you are right.
And hopefully we all live to see the fulfilment of your prophesy.

thelastPope: You are talking nonsense! Anybody can just come to a faceless forum and post nonsense and that is exactly what you are doing right now. You speak like there is a vacuum in life. You know absolutely jack about social systems. Go and read a good history book about the kingdoms of the world and the methamorphsis of societies.

Not every one will fall for this your cheap post. I have told you already, if you believe a war will solve it, start one, instead of whinning like a lady on a faceless forum and claiming you fought by the side of aldof hitler or napolean bonapat!

We are here to debate about Nigeria and collectively proffer solutions to either move it forward or bring it to a close. Not beat out lean cyber chest hanging on an anonymous moniker. You need some more social education. You sound bitter and petty! Shift go one side joor!

Like I said previously, I don't like people that tie others with same rope as they tend to tie themselves. Just because you're faceless in your opinion, doesn't mean everyone else is. I respects every opinion even when they varies from mine, but your attitude is to attack, insult, dismiss- unless someone agrees with your supposed superior opinion.
Just because you believe in Nigeria now that the person in charge is your favorite, doesn't mean every Igbo man wants the same thing.

Even any attempt to justify myself to you, is totally out of the question. What you want is a mirage united one Nigeria. What I want, which everyone on this forum that has been around for at least five years knew is the Biafra I sacrificed my innocence, plus 13 members of my immediate family and the all the physical and mental scars to show for it. Whether you believe me or not, maybe simply because it has bust your bubble of being a hero on a computer is the least of my concern.

Any day you are dreaming about your mirage of united one Nigeria just because an Ijaw man is in power, just ask the elders in your community, they will tell you that we're hardly adults, when we all went out to fight for the privilege of you to be able to talk today with dignity as an Igbo man.

This is my brief repeat my so-called faceless story:
Yes my brother, believe it or not, I was at young student of Bishop Shanahan College Orlu, when the war broke out, Yes I fought at Oguta, Ogoja and I was at Obudu the night the war ended, Yes i walked from Obudu to Orlu for 2 week to get home. Trekking in the night because it was safer from being caught and possibly executed by the victorious trigger happy Nigerian soldiers and sleep in the bush in the day.

Yes I had the privilege to be among some youth soldiers Caritas took abroad as refugees,in Sept 1970. ( I still have that copy my UN/refugee passport and never had Nigerian green passport until I became a British national in 1974).
Yes I studied Orthopaedic medicine, where I first met and later married the beautiful scottish girl, that is still my wife since till this day.

Worked at various the NHS hospitals in Scotland, Southampton, Kent and finally Kings College hospital London for more than 36 years before opening my own private practice along with my son and Swedish partners in Harley Street London.
Opened a private Orthopaedic hospital at Ikenegbu layout Owerri in 1981, sold it later IN 1984after the military coup to an old friend, a German trained surgeon from Mbieri and his German wife.
He was a colleague of mine in the Biafra 53 infantry brigade trained in Oron under Major Ephraim Henshaw, a school headmaster before the war, from James Town in the present Akwa Ibom state.

All these years, I have seen Igbo brothers like you, who get enthusiastic about one Nigeria. Its always difficult to talk to them, not until they exhaust their enthusiasm. This may be a simple online forum, but there is a lot you can learn, not particularly from me, but after reading about you calling me a faceless cheap poster, that I should go and read about social system etc- I had to chuckle-because that is the great thing about the internet. As you don't really know who is who. But just so kind that I am retired, so I have so much time on my hand now.

I wish you well with all your big plans for one Nigeria,we had seen it all before with the likes of Azikiwe and Ironsi's of this world.

CyberG: GEJ thinks the SWesterners are the people he can buy with money or fake heroism (SE), or the people who will sing praises of leaders because they are ignorant of their rights and see him as son of the soil who can do no wrong (SS). He is deceiving himself for he can say whatever he likes to the Obas, the ordinary man will not vote for anyone based on some meeting he is having with any Oba.

Maybe you were absent minded or in a stupor when both Sani Abacha and GEJ (2011) bought the same South West that cannot be bought?
Deceptive selective memory IS SO OUT OF DATE.

thelastPope: In life, you have to keep moving. You cant just stand on the sidelines and claim your job is to critic. That is lame and lazy. Talk is cheap. That is my take

No matter how some people criticize Ojukwu, I will always appalud him as someone who acted. We can argue all day if he was right or wrong, but a man who acted is far better than one who does nothing. I will continue to respect militants and other groups whether they succeed or not. The problem with BH is that they really have no genuine or reasonable cause and they attack innocents which makes no sense.

For me, considering the present state of Nigeria, doing something is joining hands together to make things better for ourselves. I have my own political inclinations, but I will support anything that will make life better for all of us, not try to pull the country down just because I want my personal agenda to fly.

So what have you done than to beat drum for Jonathan and his inept govt? As a 17 year old, I joined and fought for Biafra freedom along with my 3 brothers, father and 3 uncles. My two brothers and one uncle didn't return home and you're busy sitting in front of your computer talking about joining hands. You think I am just a critic or I am lazy?
Ojukwu acted because people like me gave him our practical support, not sitting by the computer singing praise of rogues called politicians. What exactly do you know about real life?

Great picture- Amazing! the quality of the pix despite age.

chizel: GEJ IS THE BEST PRESIDENT THE NIGERIA EVER HAD.

And who really want to argue with that? Hence the capital letters.

omanzo02: @Eziachi, stop disgracing yourself, the road u showed in pictures is a Ring-roads ( a ring-road is a road that goes round a big city or town, the aim is to decongest traffic going through the town especially if they are just passing through to other destinations), u finished yourself showing the M2, for your information European international or inter-regional/state roads are denoted with 'E' and 'A' respectively as u can see from the picture, and are usually two lanes, the 1st and 2nd pics are from france, 3rd and 4th from Holland , u can see Europe have standard signs for roads identity in every EU state.

You see how ridiculous u sound?, slap yourself 5 times

I rather you make your point than me disgracing myself, let me be the judge of that. I do believe that you believed that too many information, even when irrelevant wins the argument or makes more sense. You believe that the longer the prayer-the more chance of the gods hearing it. What I can tell you is this, stop telling me about Europe that I had lived and raise my kids for more than 40 years. If you're telling about your village roads with you bernal statistics, I am more inclined to listen.

thelastPope: If that is your solution, why not start a war. My position is you should do something, even if it is termed negative. You should act. Not just talk. Thats my take

What is your definition of doing something? Is it just starting a war and war against who?

In my grandmothers language, what is youth empowerment?

Billyonaire: GEJ is the Best thing to happen to Nigeria;

You dare not say

is moving at rocket speed compared to Yaradua!

Anyone who is alive can surely compared with Yar Adua and win where speed is concern. That is no brainer.

is a clean slate regarding corruption compared to Lion of Bourdillon!

In land of the dirt, a pig is always the smartest looking. As clean as an office computer keyboard.

is extravagantly humble compared to OHBEEJAH

Humbly extravagant! Is that a new phrase? If I remember correctly, his first action as president was to take delivery a brand new jet to add to the already filled up fleet. That humble for you, especially when you budget millions from the public coffer to feed yourself.

has done it again, no room for pension thieves, we call it, Zero tolerance on Corruption.

Of course no room, because the room is already full with the sizes like Alamesiegha.

do not need a Buhari to fight corruption, we already have a Supernova on the move!

You got that right, the likes of Buhari doesn't suit Nigeria, Nigeria need Manuel Noriega as their next drug czar.

We all love GEJ, except the mosquitoes and nematodes! Approve this Bill without delays, Oh my Legislooters.

Since you are in a love mode-Its time you get a room. Don't let the mosquitoes spoil it.

Jonathan-A butcher, making noise as a vegetarian.
He should first give a damn declaring his personal asset before pissing himself with his stiffer penalty and after his grand gesture of pardoning a crook like his godfather-Alamesiegha
Don't make me laugh