Metalgoong: Who cares !

T-smooth:
some of this otondos have not been to their villages for years, why? because of this same witch craft. Some of them are in yankees, or in Big cities. so i guess u dont knw anything about witch craft. I repeat anybody convicted of witch craft should be executed.

T-smooth:
@khaddafi, because she be witch. I hate witch and evil doer. Anybody suspected of witchcraft should be executed and they did good by executing her.

Wallie: Scary how people are just so quick to blame the US for their dog eating poo instead of eba! Let’s try to recap the facts as it happened:

1. RUSAL and BFI Group sent bids to BPE over ALSCON;
2. RUSAL submitted a bid for $205 million;
3. BFI submitted a bid for $410 million;
4. RUSAL did not pay the required $1 million for participating in the bid process but not disqualified;
5. BFI declared winner on 14th April 2004 due to higher bid;
6. BPE disqualifies BFI because they claimed the 10% bid price was not paid within 15 working-days;
7. BFI takes BPE to court;
8. BFI wins in the Supreme Court.

Yet some conspiracy theorists are blaming the US? Isn’t clear that RUSAL was highly favored from the beginning and the privatization process was a scam? Have you guys seen the legislative report that ALSCON was really worth $3 billion? Let's even assume that the $3 billion figure is highly exaggerated and ALSCON is really worth half of that. Aren't you guys curious who made out with the remaining $1.295 billion?

2buff: Because Nigerian credit cards and destination shipping are still not globally accepted yet on the Internet since their revocation years back.
You have your yahoo yahoo boys to thank for that.

See ediots those days buying containers full of laptops with other peoples credit cards. The same thieving style your politicians do. Senseless and oblivious thieving devoid of tact or fore-thought towards the future. Also like Nigerian robbers who after thieving from a house, decide to kill the residents too just for giggles, forgetting that if they kill everybody they rob, who will then be around to rob a few years later?

Nigeria had to be struck off the E-commerce map for the good of everyone.

folu500:

*prostrate* good evening sir

Kobojunkie:

Yep!!! Bolekaja, in my opinion, was so much better than the Molue days. People still queued at Yaba to enter those. But Molue came right when Lagoscians lost their sence of discipline.

hercules07: In the 80s traffic on Ikorodu road used to be hell in the mornings, it was usually so bad on the Jibowu to Yaba bridge that my dad would be reading his papers while driving (never liked that as I dreaded him hitting vehicles), the trains moved like clock work too, infact, whenever we went for center around apapa road, I will walk down to Iddo to join the trains moving at 2pm or 4pm from Iddo to Agege dropping on the way. The odd and even numbers also helped to decongest the roads, though people got around it by having the PRESS sticker.

Gerrard59: Another thing sef. If the past generation were so good,well nutured,disciplined e.t.c how come Nigeria is in such a big mess? Na youths cause am? The tribalism on nl,na youth cause am? Corruption nko? The past generation are Phd holders in hypocrisy. White man dey e own,cap28 blame hm woes on am. Is it clinton that instigate the tribal fights on nl? Abi,blair na bluetooth? Or sarkozy na chino?

doe-eyed:
@ faithin9ja: please stop being pedantic here.

There is a difference between a culture where child-brides are the norm as seen during the
time of your nanna ( grandmother) and a failing in a system where children fall out of the
safety net.... in a culture that speaks against or prohibits child-brides.

Your nanna was probably married or had the family support, the 15yr old spoken off, was NOT.

Preaching on the need for the modern youth to have an inner sense of well-being and
placing them in a position to be able compete on the global platform is not a bad thing, is it

There are different models to use. If you feel sending them to sell or "hawk" things will make them
understand the value of money, so be it.
Afterall, many innovative businesses were built or at least started in some teenager's bedroom.

To each, his own.


.

isale_gan2:

Language barrier is one reason, but not the only one, of course. Naijas clamour to go to an English speaking country before anything.

cap28:

You are missing the point.

Those nigerians that you mentioned all have one thing in common - they are neo colonial agents -

what is neo colonialism?


Neocolonialism (also Neo-colonialism) is the geopolitical practice of using capitalism, business globalization, and cultural imperialism to control a country, in lieu of either direct military control or indirect political control, i.e. imperialism and hegemony. The term neo-colonialism was coined by the Ghanaian politician Kwame Nkrumah, to describe the socio-economic and political control that can be exercised economically, linguistically, and culturally, whereby promotion of the culture of the neo-colonist country, facilitates the assimilation of the colonised people, and thus opens the national economy to the multinational corporations of the neo-colonial country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocolonialism

Three weapons are being used by europeans against africans in order to dominate, exploit and own us:

CAPITALISM
BUSINESS GLOBALIZATION
CULTURAL IMPERIALISM

the job of those nigerians that you mentioned above is to assist in the implementation of the neo colonial project on behalf of their european and american backers.

All those european and american leaders you mentioned are AGENTS OF CAPITALISM - their job is to fool their respective electorates into thinking that they represent the interests of the people when in reality they represent the interests of - international banks, oil companies, arms dealers and the super rich oligarchs.

try reading up on some of the economic policies of Margaret Thatcher and you will find out how popular she was amongst ordinary working people in britain.


Clued up black americans have lost all confidence in Obama as they have finally discovered that he is an agent of wall street and a front man for the oligarchs who run america and europe.

cap28:

Yes it does because if you are a subjugated and defeated people you will be under the control of an external force. In our own case we as Nigerians are a defeated people who are currently under the control of britain and america who dictate our economic and political policies.

This is why people like you think there is nothing wrong with allowing your kids to watch a western controlled media that are pumping the heads of future generations with garbage and making them focus on enjoyment rather than anything that will make them useful and productive members of society. This is the same tactic that has been used on black americans - first of all they were prohibited from gaining any form of education (during slavery) later when they were allowed to read and write they were given a substandard education under the Jim Crow apartheid system.

blacks in america are still kept ignorant through poverty because in america the colour of your skin dictates your economic position on the racial totem pole, as a result the majority of black americans attend sub standard schools as they can not afford to attend fee paying schools with higher standards. In nigeria many young people do not get a quality education as the nigerian govt has been cutting spending on education in nigeria consistently since 1985 under instructions from the US controlled IMF.

BUSH MAN: its far worst here in england especially young girls having kids as young as 14 years, i know a 23 years old who is already a grand mother

cap28: I

China has overtaken the united states in terms of economic production and is now the economic engine of the world - they were only able to do this because of sustained opposition to western domination and subjugation.

Over 100 years earlier in 1900 the chinese fought against the combined forces of europe and america during the Boxer rebellion. the chinese suffered losses but huge lessons were learned and their experience in that war against europe and america spurred them on to the industrialisation of their country.

Iran is a great country, which has used its vast oil reserves to develop and educate its own people. The Iranians freed themselves from anglo american economic enslavement by overthrowing the Shah of Iran who was an american puppet installed in order to ensure that america would always have easy and cheap access to Iran's vast oil deposits. All of that was brought to an end when the courageous people of Iran revolted in 1979 and nationalised their oil industry. America and britain have never forgiven Iran for this and are now gearing up to destroy the country as they did to prosperous Libya. Research and development happens when a country is in a stable condition and can dedicate vast resources into research, Iran has been under seige from europe and america for over 30 years and therefore time and money that coudl be used for research and economic development has been channelled into military spending in order to defend the territorial integrity of a nation that could be attacked by europe or america at any time. America armed and financed Saddam Hussein of Iraq who launched a war against Iran which lasted for 8 years - the objective being that Iraq would destroy or at least weaken Iran making it easy for the americans and europeans to swoop in and over take Iran. Do you know the americans supplied saddam hussein with chemical weapons which he used on the iranian trooops? Despite all of this the Iranians succeeded in defeating the US backed Iraqi troops.

The worst part of all of this is that the US govt secretly sold arms to Iran during this war in other words they armed both sides in a conflict that they orchestrated.

The reason you queue for visas to the US and europe is because those countries are now prosperous and wealthy as a result of the wealth that they stole from african countries beginning with slavery and continuing to this present day now in the form of neo liberal economic policies which say that a european has the right to reduce your own country to endless poverty using debt enslavement - you are now condemned to the life of a beggar - begging at their embassies all over the world in order to escape the misery and poverty that they caused in your country of origin. Your country's wealth now lies in the coffers of the western banks and corporations and if you are "fortunate" to get a visa to travel to any of those countries to live and work you will be condemned to a life of a servant - doing all of the jobs that their people don't want and still being treaed badly on top of it - that is their gift to you!

The leaders of Cuba, North Korea and Iran had the intelligence, foresight and vision to understand what european and american enslavement would mean for their citizens as they had already seen what had happened and is still happening to africans all over the world.

Where i live is neither here nor there, the important thing is that i am aware and awake.

mindful: So the poster's point exactly is that we should not allow our kids watch dstv, premiership games, buy expensive phones or encourage any artistic ability and THEN they would pass their exams

Sounds like wisdom to me! Nonsense!!! Management of priorities is the key jare! If this theory is so right why do poor,timid people not ALWAYS pass?

Pukkah:

There is no 'free market' anywhere. Government has to exercise some form of control on the direction of the economy. If markets would be perfectly free then what is the essence of government?

pro01:

It is becoming a national embarrassment. Sometime ago, I marked a couple of exam scripts at the behest of a lecturer friend of mine in one of these fledgling bread and butter private universities, and I was appalled to see university students using "text-speak" abbreviattions so freely. . . ."d", "sth", "4", "xteristics", etc. My goodness! In an examination? It was especially bad towards the end of the scripts; I reckon the students were rushing to beat the submission deadline and had to resort to almost exclusive use of abbreviations in their answers. Needless to say I had a migrane after that ordeal. If I had my way I would have failed all of them, but my friend pointed out that he was obliged to ensure that they passed, otherwise his job might be on the line. Yet these half-baked nitwits would graduate in "flying colours" and get decent jobs ahead of better qualified candidates - because of their family connections and whatnot. This country is a huge joke.

cap28: OP you are so on point (excuse the pun)the fact that you have recognised that something is wrong tells me that you are very observant and intelligent.

The fact of the matter is that we live in an age now where young people are being targeted by the media at an unprecedented level. This is no coincidence, neither is it something that is unique to nigeria, this is also happening all over the western industrialised countries as well. The objective is to distract the future generation and keep them focused on irrelevancies and trivia rather than focusing on productive activities that can actually enable them to understand how their govts and the world work. Many young people today are so ignorant that many know nothing beyond the garbage that is spewed out by these junk tv channels that seem to have mysteriously proliferated in the last 15 years. As you have correctly noticed the craze now is for talent shows, reality tv, endless and mindless music videos - in short what you have now is the celebration and deification of banality, stup.idity, sex.ual promiscuity, ignorance and foolish.ness on a level never before seen. this is all going to create a generation of brain dead imbe.ciles whose sole preoccupation in life will be enjoyment with no hope or vision of how to survive in a world which is rapidly becoming more and more cut throat.

If you look at countries that have sheilded their indigenes from western influences like China, Iran and many islamic countries you will find that the moral fibre of their societies is still intact, what you have in nigeria is a complete saturation of our air waves with western imported junk which is going to be our downfall. Why are our youths more interested in singing competitions and reality shows than research and technology? Why are our youths politically ignorant when they live on a continent that is currently under US and european military occupation via USafricom? why is it that our youths do not understand what neo colonialism is when most african govts spend more on debt servicing than they spend on health care or education?

I remember reading on a south african website some months back that DSTV (which by the way is run and owned by white south africans) was set up to numb and dumb down the minds of young black south africans to ensure that they would never become as politically aware as their parents, in doing so this new generation of politically ignorant young people would become harmless robots who would never ever become a threat to europe or america(their masters), i can now see how prescient that statement was because all i see on these numerous african tv channels are an endless supply of talent shows, beauty contests, reality shows ad nauseam.

People please wake up lest this upcoming generation end up worse off than their parents whose lives have already been destroyed as a result of the economic enslavement by europe and america.

justirich: Dear Nigerians, the reasons for mass failure of our teenagers in public exams are not far fetched.

1 FACEBOOK,YAHOO,TWITTER,MYSPACE and generally browsing on the internet instead of reading their books

2 ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE and EUROPEAN FOOTBALL LEAGUES, it is easy for an average nigerian teenager to know the tha names of all chelsea players but same youths cannot tell you the square root 25 in mathematic. Worse still is that these days instead of seeing inscriptions like UNIVERISTY or SCHOLARS on the exercise books, what you see are pictures of paloma,Drogba,Beyonce,Omotola etc

3 DSTV,Home video and african movie magic, watching television and films endlessly.European champions league,English premiership,Barca,Blues,Chelsea,MANU etc

4 GSM and BLACKBERRY, the average nigerian teenager uses the latest and expensive gsm phones just to show off that they belong,when they are actually nothing.

5[b] GSM TEXT LANGUAGE[/b], I will not be suprised to see students write words like your(for YOUR), 2moro( For tomorrow) in their EXAM sheets

6 QUEST FOR CHEAP FAME AND WEALTH, The goverment,electronic media(tv and radio) and companies have not been helpful at all.The average nigerian youth especially the girls want to BE silver Birds most beautiful Girl and get cheap money and fame(Nobody has remembered all the previous miss world,but we still remember MOTHER THERESA),they want to win IDOLS WEST AFRICA, they want to be in NOLLYWOOD, they want to be TWO-FACE,they want to win maltina street dance ,they want to win starquest and GULDER ULTIMATE SEARCH

Warning is that wealth gotten by vanity shall DIMINISH.

7 The new craze of TALENT SHOWS: Suddenly The only talents our youths now have are music,dancing,acting and stand up comedies, they no longer have talents for maths,physics and entrepreneurism.
Check out the list:MTN PROJECT FAME,BIG BROTHER,STARQUEST,MALTINA DANCE HALL,AMBO,GUILDER,IDOLS WEST AFRICA,PEAK TALENT HUNT ETC…What a bad distraction
It is only COWBELL that sponsors national mathematics competition and give scholarships to outstanding students in UME exams

8 EVER BUSY PARENTS, Parents are always in search for money,business and jobs,they live home 5am and come back 10pm leaving their children to the care of house helps and teachers in private schools. THEY have forgotten that out of the 24 hours in a day their children will only spend 8am-2pm(6 hrs) in school and in hands of the teachers the remaining 18hrs is spent in the home(wether sleep or not).these same ever busy parents can not look into the books of their teenagers,they don't monitor waht the teenagers watch nor who they associate with.

9 WEAK GOVT POLICIES:The people in Govt see all these vanities on tele and radio and they will not nip them in the bud, because they are naïve and corrupt and so the rot continues


Source

kiyosaki1: The BDC operators are killing our economy. Was ounce interested in the business, and was alarmed at the amount of fraud going on in this sector.The BDC operator must bring documents backing his demand to the CBN I.e for you to buy dollars from them its either you have a company that needs to imports goods and services,or raw materials for its production or you are a student or traveling out of the country and needs BTA. So what do these BDC guys do they simply

Burger01:

Yeah, how could I possibly answer the last question?

charlesdike: nice post boss but wer did u get al dis info from? Genaral manager? Experiance? Website? Or ?

Alamutatalo: @faithinnaija,
Let me educate you a little bit,I'm an insider and I knw what obtains.Sanusi's reform was totally uncalled for and irrational.All the banks involved were victims of a system which continues to close it's eyes to the atrocities of the wealthy,I was shocked when we were going through the books of one of the banks and saw names of big time businessmen still in business and owning assets owing billions of naira.In an informed and just society,CEO's of dis banks would have quietly been asked to forfeit dr assets to the b ank to offset some of the insider loans and then step aside and allow independent board to recover all the loans with govt.backing and then reposition the banks.There was no need for the unecessary noise and media campaign.The amount of money we spent on rebranding d 3 nationalized banks was quite hugh with little impact except rob d shareholders.lets not believe everything we hear and read.Most issues are normally distorted before being reported by agents of the govt.and pls never forget dr politicians and it's all about gaining popularity and dy don't give a damn about u and I.

double j1:

the sacking of those generals was political, it was to avoid possible rebellion against his government. Haven't you wondered how we are still leaving in this mess with an able milatary, it is because those their are loyal to the government. Just my notion.

queensmith:

lol- just making sure.

Well you'll be surprised. Isn't Wole Soyinka a pagan?
The last guy I met who was into into all the voodoo nonsense was a senior in the company I worked for. Very rich very respected, part time 'wizard'.

So even though you might be right about these people being a minority, you cannot use peoples personal beliefs to decide what they may contribute to society.

ochallo:

what you have said is half truth, sanusi carried out a good intention in a very bad way. Who told you that people didnt go to these banks to collect their money, the customers of PHB and the customers of Mainstreet are not the same at all. The whole taking over was so public and terribly done , it has driven the banks to a much earlier death.

queensmith:

are you trying to say 'juju' is a black thing? You are very wrong there.

I swear oyibos are even more advanced in their voodoo horoscope witch craft homeopath nonsense practice.

It's not exclusive to blacks at all.