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[quote author=One_Naira]ngozi asked one question and they started ranting. tried to avoid her kwestion. balkan came and said they are not business oriented and tears full am eyes. they can dish but can't take

_{*drinking my coffee and waiting for someone to answer the girl kwestion}* oya continue[/quote]Semi-illiterate loser, do you not see how sad and unintelligent you and your Ngozi are? She continued, like a grade A olodo, to ask for one Yoruba on the "world stage" and it does not even occur to any of you thickos that you are actually discussing on the blogging site of one of the Yorubas on the world stage i.e Seun Osewa who has already been acclaimed an influential 'techie'. That is how dull and slow on the uptake you indoctrinated haters are. Sitting under your nose, as something you use everyday, you miss it because you are not only dull but too negatively indoctrinated to actually see straight. Olodos. See Seun Osewa on forbes below. Silly illiterate haters.

As for your moronic co-traveller who talked about lack of business orientation, well he simply got owned with facts that show you fools only thrive on silly stereotype you can only defend with indoctrination and nothing else. You people are simply insufferable and sad.


http://www.forbes.com/sites/mfonobongnsehe/2013/02/23/30-under-30-africas-best-young-entrepreneurs/3/

Oluwaseun Osewa, Nigerian

Founder, Nairaland

Nigerian geek Oluwaseun Osewa is the founder of Nairaland, Africa’s largest online forum. He founded the site in March 2005 as a general purpose discussion forum with a bias towards issues of interest to Nigerians. The site took off. Nairaland now has close to 1 million registered users and is the most popular Nigerian website today. For perspective: In Nigeria, Nairaland gets more visits than Wikipedia. Nairaland earns its revenue through its ad inventory. Read more about Oluwaseun Osewa and Nairaland here.

[quote author=Son-Of-El]See dragonfly feeling like a dragon. chief liar. Lucifer's pet. I pity your putrid soul. Spineless bigot. Dont try to act like you acknowlege decent igbos, you are not a penny decent. Hypocrite. Wannabe.[/quote]You think I care what a rabid loser like you think? You guys have no shame. All Yorubas are bigots to indoctrinated losers like you so why would I be minimally bothered by anything you have to say? Loser. Most of you cannot even speak and think properly and you are consumed with empty braggadocio. Pity is all I feel for your kind who are nothing but troublemakers incapable of being at peace with others. Always one issue or the other with you insecure drama queens.

ilugunboy: Igbos and their usual noise and chest beating....

These people are not just worth the stress..

My man, I usually avoid these sort of threads because I know the utterances against the Yoruba ethnic group here are not that of decent Igbos. It is only the indoctrinated losers, who amount to nothing in real life, mouthing off. I also agree that hateful Yorubas can 'push buttons' too. Yet, lines are crossed when 1diots begin to talk of Yorubas being "Mediocre", "lazy" and such garbage.

There is no Nation of the world, whether Ghana, England or even in Nigeria itself, you go to that you will not see the Yorubas doing noticeably well in every sphere of human endeavour yet some m0r0ns, down to sheer indoctrination in hatred, will stay here lying about Yoruba companies going bankrupt and such similar false garbage. How can some lie to themselves that badly? I can't stand liars. People do not have to like others but telling the truth is a must in my book.

[quote author=Son-Of-El]shut your trap. Hypocrite. Your long essay is a monumental trash. I didnt dispute ondo state having oil if you were following my post like a sane individual. Orangutang. Yoruba igbophobes were spreading their hate and lies at the beginning of this thread, you looked the other way, now you are screaming blue murder. Go to hell. I dont hate yorubas, but i hate your type.[/quote]Empty barrel. You need to stay away from deceitful attempts at spinning what you wrote. You're not very good at it.

Should nigeria split, igbos will enjoy their oil and human resource.

What exactly were you saying with the above you ignorant dolt? Is it not another attempt at empty braggadocio you now recant on when confronted with facts? When you delivered the above, what manner of ignorances lead you to brag about what others have too? What Oil or human resources does the SE possess not present in the SW or you think we are entertaining indoctrination-led lies and self-deceit here?

Balkan: I am just catching fun that I am making you rant in your usual Oil soup manner. I wish could find away of seeing your face. I know you would been shouting AH, AH, AH,AH with that your usual smelly mouth wide open. When you see me in real life you start basking your head like agama lizard greeting me. You guys are really comic relief. I pray Nigeria splits into north and south and you will see that Palestanians will be bette than you. You guys are dregs of humanity

Olodo. You are no longer pushing the "Yoruba businesses go bankrupt" angle because your stark illiteracy has been exposed. Now the Yorubas are "dregs of humanity" yet you live in Yoruba States without any issue and your fellow Igbo wrote the article below. The problem with people like you is that indoctrination has damaged you and you have absolutely no intelligence or capacity to discern this.

The email of the author is at the bottom. Oya rush in your usual manner to send him hate mail disowning him and accusing him of being a traitor because he decently tells the truth about an ethnic group losers like you lie about 24/7.

What the chap reveals below is one example of why the Yorubas will be very okay if Nigeria separates even if a fool like you prefer to wallow in self-deceit. Keep deceiving yourselves and demanding separation, while emptily touting that the Yorubas will be worse off, without realising that unity, tolerance, civility, cohesiveness, uniformity of purpose et al matter immensely. If travelling and setting up business qualifies a people as fit to build great nations, then Lebanon, Pakistan and India should be fantastic nations while the UK, Germany et al should be crappy pits.

The problem for you and your co-travellers is that you guys simply cannot be honest with yourselves.
If that was possible you will actually see that the Yorubas demonstrate enough optimal strengths, precisely where it matters most, that indicate they will always be okay if Nigeria separates. I just don't understand I wonder what it profits your hateful minds to call others what they are not and tell childish lies against them. You are cursing yourself my dear chap.


http://www.punchng.com/opinion/are-the-yoruba-the-number-one-in-religious-tolerance/

Are the Yoruba the number one in religious tolerance?

AUGUST 24, 2012 BY AZUKA ONWUKA


When it comes to religion, are the Yoruba people of Nigeria the most tolerant race in the whole world? It may not be wise to say yes because of the absence of any endorsement of such a position by a global body like the United Nations. But having travelled to many parts of Nigeria and some parts of the world; having read books about several peoples of the world, I can comfortably say that I have not seen or heard of any country or people that tolerate one another on the issue of religion like the Yoruba of Nigeria.

As a child growing up in Igboland, I thought the Igbo were the most tolerant in matters of religion. For example, the only mosque in my hometown Nnewi was built right at the gate of the Diocesan Church Centre of the Anglican Church, which was the central church for Anglicans in the town when the head of the diocese was in Onitsha. The mosque was owned by the Hausa-Fulani community. Items like sugarcane, carrot and kulikuli were sold beside the mosque, and cobblers took care of people’s shoes there. I never missed the sugarcane and kulikuli any time I had cause to be at the church. Christians never bothered that Muslims (who were not sons and daughters of the community) situated their mosque by the gate of the central church of the Anglican Communion in the town.

There was no Muslim in my primary school; in my secondary school, there was a Muslim boy – a boy whose father was a policeman posted to the town. On Thursdays when we had our moral instruction classes, the chaplain of the school who was also the vice-principal, always announced that the Muslim boy was the only one exempted from participating in moral instruction classes because the school had no Islamic teacher. Other pupils must either be at the Roman Catholic section or the Protestant section. We all envied the boy for the preferential treatment he always got as the only Muslim boy in our school.

With this type of background, I grew up with the assumption that the Igbo must be the most tolerant in matters of religion in Nigeria. But there were events that made me have a rethink later in life. When I was growing up, my community had two major Christian denominations: Anglicans and Catholics. Almost all the schools in the town were founded by the two churches. Parents usually sent their children to these schools based on their Christian denominations, even after the state government took over the schools. At the close of school each day, there was usually a point where pupils of the Anglican Church-founded schools met pupils of the Catholic Church-founded school. Preachers, church teachers and parents had indoctrinated the children that only their denomination was the one endorsed by God. So at such meetings, taunting songs would be sung and a fight would ensue between Anglican and Catholic children.

But that was not all. Many young men and women could not marry one another because one was Anglican and the other was Catholic. Especially from the Catholic community, it was always an uphill task for a girl to be allowed to be married by an Anglican or a member of the Protestant Church. But one thing that was shared by all the Christian denominations was that no married woman was allowed to attend a church different from the one her husband attended. The few who insisted on continuing with the church of their birth while in their matrimonial homes either caused a deep rift in their marriage or even lost their marriage entirely.

Compare that with a typical Yoruba family. A couple with six children could have a family like this: the man is a Muslim; the wife attends the Celestial Church of Christ; the first child started as a Muslim but converted to Christianity and is now a member of a Pentecostal church; the second child is a devout Muslim; the third and fifth children are members of the Methodist or Baptist church; the fourth child attends no church or mosque but prefers the Yoruba gods whenever he has any spiritual needs; and the last child is an Anglican.

One would assume that with this seemingly cacophony of religions in this family, there would be constant religious tension, hatred, quarrels and fights in it. No. In Yorubaland, no one disturbs the other because of religion. Interestingly, during Islamic festivals, Christians join their Muslim relatives to celebrate. Also during Christian festivals, the Muslims join their relatives to celebrate. For example, the Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, is a Muslim, while his wife is a Christian.

In the larger Yoruba society, the issue of religion is not a factor while considering a candidate for an elective post. For example, Bola Tinubu, a Muslim, did two terms as Lagos State governor and handed over to Fashola, a Muslim, who is doing his second tenure in office now.

Such high level of religious tolerance is not even obtainable in countries that are known for freedom and rights like the United States of America and the United Kingdom. In such countries, even though there is religious freedom, there are certain social and political positions that some people may never dream of.

This wonderful trait of the Yoruba needs to be publicised. If such a trait were from an American community, several documentaries, films and books would have been produced based on it. If the Federal Government would not publicise such, it behoves the Yoruba nation to sponsor the production of such materials.

In addition, the Yoruba nation should embark on a religious-tolerance campaign across the federation and even the world. That will offer them the opportunity through which they will teach other races how they have mastered the art of religious tolerance. There is no denying that religion is a major threat to world peace today. Nigeria is getting its share of violence. Therefore, any effort that will help to reduce the threat will be a welcome development.

•Onwuka, a brand management strategist in Lagos, wrote in via azonwuka@yahoo.com

Frankdamaxx: LOL at "Unu chori gbu anyi"

I believe some people may get HBP from all the fire being spewed on this page. Take it easy o!! Who knows that the will of God might have been on that civil war because if not, Nigeria would have been under alot of Igbo control.

Even Gbawe knows this might be true.

More garbage. Go back and read to see I don't begrudge anyone of greatness. My point is that is it absolutely ludicrous for anyone to make spurious claims simply to deride the Yorubas and sooth the indoctrination some minds have been destroyed with.

We hear that Yoruba businesses all go bankrupt yet did the silly chap who stated that recant when shown otherwise? This is the problem with some folks. They are simply not intelligent enough to be capable of defending the garbage they throw in the public domain that is driven by nothing other than ignorance and indoctrination in hatred for others.

One slowpoke talks of "Igbos taking their oil" yet it has been tediously repeated that the SW, producing 12% of Nigeria's oil and gas through Ondo and with more to come in future from other States, has enough oil to cater for her needs !!!

What , if not blind indoctrination, makes a people fail to accept truth and logic placed in front of them? You tell me yourself.

Balkan: This man, you sound so frustrated cramped and embittered. This will make you loose your life to hypertension. We know your likes. Amala people trive in mediocrity. Get into your head that the only superior tribe in Africa is the Igbo tribe and the weakest tribe I have ever seen is the Yoruba tribe. Your jealousy will send you to your early grave.

Shameful that for your touted "supremacy" all of you on this thread are so disgracefully dull and unintelligent. You cannot even defend your arguments with facts or even moderate sense. All your knowledge stretches to is making false claim , led entirely by blind indoctrination in hatred, you can never defend once called upon to do so.

Now that you have been countered with facts and superior reasoning the default "jealousy" crap comes out. Why anyone would be jealous of you and your semi-illiterate co-travellers is beyond me. You are the same person who claims every business Yorubas run become bankrupt. Yet I have given you a few examples debunking this lie to include one which features a Company voted the best in Nigeria. Indoctrination has finished you pathetic creatures. It is just a shame you don't realise it and enjoy going around making a fool of yourselves. If you had any shame you would not be here talking after your hideous lack of knowledge has now being brutally exposed.

[quote author=One_Naira]My sentiments exactly. That Gbawe guy is like the biggest hypocrites in NL. He's quick to play victim and cry when othe's insult his tribe or the political party he cares for but when he's people are going around chest-beating, insulting, and attacking others he keeps shut. someone really need to stop whining all the time.

anyway to address what's going on. it seems either they don't understand ngozi's question or they don't want to answer it. with her constantly saying noone is replying her question instead all she's getting is rant. I read her question and the girl is correct, despite all the rantings, none have answered what she asked.
Anyway she said, prior to biafra, nigeria was recognized as an african protege. other african nation's praised it and it's people sort citizenship to it. this was when igbos and other easterners ruled or at least had more members in the FG than north or SW. After the civil war, few years later the situation switched. The igbos and other easterners had no hand in the FG like they used to. Nigerian economy dropped, the country is now a laughinh stock.Even other nation that used to escape to nigeria now degrade and insult the nation. now the girl then asked based on the situation, what did we benefit from Yorubas taking over and what contribution did/do they bring. her question is not that hard, idk why people are throwing temper tanturum and crying[/quote]Another dullard. You are talking about Ngozi's question without realising how idiotic she is . You are the same by extension for quoting and defending ignorance that only exposed the indoctrination of some of you. The unintelligent girl kept probing away senselessly about wanting an example of a Yoruba on the "world stage" as if she has bettered Einstein's theory of relativity and cretins like you back her inanity foolishly to once again show your 'herd mentality'. You may have been indoctrinated to believe the Yorubas are all vulcanisers but one would hope minimal education, to perhaps even Primary school level, and some exposure would show you and your illiterate sister that there are too many Yorubas on the "world stage" to mention !!!

What is the point of dignifying her silly and idiotic enquiry with an answer when it is hollow, m0r0nic and driven by an uninformed agenda of misplaced supremacy? What person, save a total hateful ignoramus, would even ask to be shown one Yoruba on the world stage when even a 5 year old can reel off a list to debunk her rank illiteracy ? Have I, as one example of many, not mentioned Kase Lawal? Did Shymexx not give an example of the guy involved with the Gatwick buy-out consortium? How many do you need Seal (musician), Akeem Olajuwon? How abpout Dr. Olakunle Akinboboye who is the President of the balck cardiologist in the US group? How many more names do you twits need to shore up your argument of "mediocrity" and "lack of presence on "world stage" - whatever that means to that ignorant lady.

You are all just ignorant, poorly-educated and vacuously hateful. A disgrace to your pontification of supremacy. If you want to claim superiority to others is it not in order you should be able to prove it here minimally with superior thinking and knowledge?

[quote author=Son-Of-El]noisemaker, you are polluting this thread with your senseless talent- noisemaking. Where were you when dayokanu and co infected this thread with their igbophobic agenda. Idiot. Its foolery trying to argue with with an irredeemable fool. Whether your thick skull gets it or not-
1. Igbos are progressive survivors of genocide and marginalization. Thanks to their inborn business, intellectual and technological ingenuity. Should nigeria split, igbos will enjoy their oil and human resource.
2. Igbos dont need bad belle owambe or any hater to get there. Rather, these wannabes need igbos, just as they did in pre-civil war days.
3. Only fools think alaigbo is landlocked. From agbor to PH, igboland enjoys waterways and bodies.[/quote]Shut up empty barrel. I don't care what anyone did. You defend yourself against others and I will defend my ethnic group from lies concocted by indoctrinated elements with chips on their shoulders leading to empty braggadocio that now typify some of you here. You claim you are this and that yet reading and comprehending is not even minimally your thing.

You are telling us asininely that "Should nigeria split, igbos will enjoy their oil and human resource ". Yet, how many times will it be repeated to you thickos that the SW has oil also, more than enough minerals and ,most importantly, manpower/human resources calibrated in the right way to optimally facilitate nation-building?

How can you guys be so ignorant and unintelligent yet you keep making claims to some "superiority" your semi-illiteracy holds up as a fraud? You are all just a disgrace to the decent Igbos here because they can only shake their head at your empty argument full of lies, vapid delusions of grandeur and nothing else. You run around deluding yourselves and never face facts and the truth on the ground. I only pity you.

ngozievergreen: @ eggheaders, still waiting for your answer.

@ Gbawe, ur posts are so long, i wouldnt want to quote dem, inasmuch as i dont really dig awards given to corporate bodies but den, do u really want me to post d ones that have gone to the igbo-owned. That means this thread wont finish. Wat happened to our national assets n companies managed by yorubas in those days??

And wat sense is there to that your Olympics post? Remove dat nonsense joor, is dat d gold there were sent to win in sports? Australia, Jamaica and US won d sports awards even Kenya n Uganda clinched some and u were posting art exhibitions, mtchew.

I askd for d contribution of yorubas as a whole to Nigeria and none of u could say anything but here u all are predicting d igbo nation will be worst hit.

Wch of ur predictions have ever worked by d way? Olamide said Super Eagles (SE) no dey reach final but d Keshi and his team proved him wrong in Afcon 2013. Similar results were gotten in d 90's by igbo dominated teams. Its dis stupid quota system dat destroyd SE after d 90's.

When Awolowo reduced igbo millionaires, billionaires n thousandnaires to 20pounds only, was his prediction not that by now, d igbo race will be extinct. He used their remaining money to get shares and secure positions in the said multinationals for himself and other yorubas . How many yorubas were there beffore d war, compare it with dat of igbos. Today, are igbos like ppl dat underwent such?
The shame of his predictions not happening was enuf to make him drink rat poison.

See as naija rubbish finish because ur ppl and northerners hate competition

The usual rants filled with conjectures yet very little intelligence, logical reasoning or factual talk. You guys are only making a fool of yourselves with the "superiority" garbage you are trying to push because it is terribly obvious you are not exactly well-endowed in the IQ department for all your incoherent rants.

The garbage you wrote up there is so nonsensical, there is no way to dignify even one single point with a response that would not involve me getting in the gutter of ignorance and illiterate conjecture you dwell in. There is no way I can join issues with you at all because you make no sense whatsoever and some of us don't speak your language of gibberish, fantasy and psychotic delusions .

You talk of people scared of competition. Do you have no shame? Seriously, is it you and your ignorant co-travellers here who symbolize the "superiority" Yorubas are "scared" of ? Which Yoruba person are you more intelligent than on this thread to back your idiotic claim of superiority? Some of you are so lacking in humility, given your terribly obvious modest ability and endowment, it is unreal. It can only be the aberrant behaviour non-stop hateful indoctrination induces.

Mesico2: You guys should let Gbawe be pls. It's clear that's ACN's style from beginning and we are ok with it as the system favour us and work to our satisfactions here in SW but it's also clear that, that's not PDP style and you can't just change rule overnight because u want to please GEJ for u guys own sake. God bless u my honorable Gbawe of our time for standing for what's right and against what's wrong.

Thank you my brother. The reason some of us speak is that when these killers ramp up the next wave of killing innocent Nigerians, because they perceive they were fundamentally denied their rights, these idiotic, uncouth and blind followers of their kinsmen will not remember GEJ disenfranchising many by changing the rules , in the middle of the game, for "the biggest Party in Africa" that has hosted Primaries as the most fair way to accommodate the ambitions of many.

As for those fans of GEJ, they are clowns. Dishonesty runs through the blood of most supporters of GEJ and I don't bother to read what most of them write. As if , considering the composition of the PDP, any method other than Primaries will suffice. We are talking of the most ruthless and brutal men here who will visit their vengeance on Nigeria if things are not done in a way they want. These clowns here should tell us whether PDP members, especially Northerners, can ever accept "consensus endorsement" at a time we all know GEJ will lose 100% because he simply does not have the numbers to defeat others.

What has GEJ not tried in his desperation to get round his impending loss stemming from how so many are united and determined to teach his treachery a lesson? I will continue to speak because GEJ will plunge Nigeria into total chaos if he is not unanimously implored by Nigerians to drop his dictatorial sit-tight desperation and embrace a democratic test of his popularity. Doing that will ensure that chaos will not ensue as would be the case if so many are summarily disqualified with the "automatic ticket" garbage Anenih is messing around with.

In any case, Did GEJ not play judge and jury to use the Primaries method to deny Sylva a return as Governor of Bayelsa? Why did our hypocritical, callous and highly cynical President not let Sylva have the "automatic return" he now wants?,

mikeansy: so the APC menifesto is to probe OBJ, Yaradua and Jonathan?


That sounds more like a Buhari manifesto

I have always argued that Buhari will be bugged down refighting the fights of yesteryears and not make much progress. Looks like I was not wrong afterall.

You people need to craft a vision for the country:
do you believe in small government or big government?
do you believe in unitary system of government or will you pursue devolution?
do you believe in the structure of our police? or state policing?
what are your policies on education? health? immigration and boarder control?

Nigerians will like to know where APC stand on the issues after you have registered.

Threatening to probe OBJ, Jonathan and yar'adua may not change much or put food on anyone's table

Is that all you took from the article? I would not have put you as one of those who only comment on the title without reading the article but that is precisely what you have done here. If you want to obtain the full manifesto of the APC, there are better ways to go about doing so instead of writing things that leaves objective folk immediately conscious of the notion that you are not really interested in the manifesto of the APC.

ba7man: Can you see the type of person you've been arguing with all this while?? He doesn't even know what the purpose of setting up Unions are. That means he needs someone to sit him down and explain the rudiments of setting up organizations in order to pool together like minded people to acheive a greater goal. The type of business competition he's talking about is the one in which you chase, grab and harrass people all over, trying to drag them to your shop to buy spare-parts while holding a car fender and bumper over your shoulder at the same time.....now that's his definition of being hard working.

I am not arguing with him. I am schooling him and his fellow illiterate braggarts who have nothing but empty indoctrination to go on. At some stage even the most liberal Yoruba man, with genuine pride in him, will say "enough of this garbage !!!!". Look at the lack of intelligence behind his utterances and he fancies himself of "superior" ethnic DNA to others.

You cannot make this kind of crap up because it is the deluded rants of sheer lunacy. It was in a similar show of lunacy that the ugly, repellent and bigoted chap (Onlytruth) they elected Igbo leader here once stated that "A Yoruba man can never get a job ahead of an Igbo man on Merit" Have you ever heard anything so unintelligently offensive considering that the Onlytruth fellow is as unintelligent as they come? I usually avoid these clowns but there are times we all have to defend what/who we love against lies, slurs and wicked fabrications.

djon78: Any body that takes serious what many people say here serious, I will say ur intelligence is suspect.
This is different from real life, Lagos is owned by yorubas so if you get worked up by the taunting done by some of my people claiming Lagos, then I will say u re childish.

The truth is that we need each other, let us put our differences aside, respect each other and work together. Anybody that begins to judge anybody by his tribe and other things, I pity such a person because u re exposing your self to bitter soul and unnecessary work up. I respect every man, I dont judge someone based on where he is from, never. We are all black brothers. Thanks

Shut up you nauseating hypocrite !!! Where was your flowery peace message when "your people" thrash-talked Yorubas with the sort of lies that will test even the patience of Jesus? You only now have the gumption to speak up after the garbage antics of idiots has succeeded to provoke real anger.

When they made ludicrous and false claims, for several pages, against an illustrious people, to including the absolutely inane assertion that "the Yorubas contribute nothing to Nigeria", why did you not reprimand them as you do now? Why did you not call them to order and tell them "I respect every man, I dont judge someone based on where he is from, never. We are all black brothers" ?

It is only when a Yoruba poster gets really enraged at the ungodly lies and hateful character assassination that you now speak. Worthless two-faced coward !!!! Next time, speak when you should, especially against those who deserve it, and we may take you to be someone who "respects every man". Nonsense !!!!

Balkan: I beat my chest to tell you that non of your kins men can dare to start a business in any Igbo land. They will be frustrated back to their Amala states. You guys a so lazy in business that you have union controlling your business. I had a flat tyre the last time I asked one Yoruba vulcaniser to give my tire some air, I gave N50 but the guy insisted on N100 that union people will catch him. I could not help but to laugh. Lazy beople. Union for pepper sellers, union for people that ground pepper my wife just told me now. You can not survive in the east. Competition drives business there.

It does not worry you why Igbos are succeeding in anything the want to do? Its because they are humble people.

Illiterate dullard. How many Britons are running visible business in India and Pakistan yet how many shops are owned by Indians and Pakistanis in the UK? What does that then prove? That the Pakistanis and Indians be deemed "kings of business" because their corner shops are everywhere in the UK and the Britons should be condemned as worthless at business because they don't have the Street business presence in Mumbai that Indians have in London? What a clown.

When you get the fundamental argument behind that contextual example then you will appreciate how ridiculous, unintelligent and downright ignorant you sound. A m0r0n like you better not be what your ilk predicate Igbo "superiority" on. You cannot even think moderately well in comparison to others and you are talking of "ethnic superiority" as if it is something every member of your ethnic group is born with? Deluded Joker.

Balkan: your reference is just one out of numerous companies in Nigeria. You deserve to be pitied. I have made my assertion it's for you to deal with it. Very soon you will be getting Palestinian treatment from the Igbos in Lagos here. You had your fears that was why you guys ran to support your Fulani masters. Cowards? I am praying for Nigeria to separate btw North and the South, I be most happy. You guys are small fry to deal with. We are watching.

Th only person to be pitied is you. You claim every companies Yoruba run goes bankrupt and now you are running from pillar to post in the face of examples that proves you are a pathetic liar and a mentally sick individual. Look at the story of Kase Lukman Lawal. How many from the African continent have achieved what he has let alone even begin narrowing things to Nigeria and taking in your "almighty ethnic group"?

Indoctrination may have rendered you blind and imbecilic but I will delight in making a fool of you and others here. There are the odd moments, when really pissed off, that I have time to ridicule the madness of wicked, devilish and indoctrinated lunatics like you always keen to vilify a comparatively peaceful people who go about their busines with no malice for anyone. You should tell us whether Lawal was an Igbo man who became Yoruba since mental cases like you run around telling the world all Yorubas are "mediocre" and useless at business and entrepreneurship. Clowns. Only God can help with the indoctrination-led lunacy afflicting people like you.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/05/18/kase.lukman.lawal/index.html

Kase Lawal: Not your average oil baron
By Susannah Palk for CNN
May 19, 2010 6:53 a.m. EDT

Kase Lawal with his wife Eileen.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Born in Ibadan, Nigeria, Lawal moved to America in 1971

CAMAC was established by Lawal in 1986 as an agricultural trading company
Now CAMAC is a multi-billion dollar oil empire
Lawal was awarded the USAfrica Business Person of the Year in 1997
(CNN) -- Nigerian-born entrepreneur Kase Lawal is the epitome of the American dream. Arriving to the US a young, idealistic student, Lawal has carved a name for himself in one of the most competitive industries in the world: Oil.
Now head of a multi-billion dollar empire, his Houston-based company, CAMAC, is one of the largest black-owned businesses in the U.S., generating over $2 billion dollars a year.

Founded nearly 25 years ago, Lawal built CAMAC (which stands for Cameroon-American) from a small agriculture business into a global oil company. But it's taken a lot of hard work, determination and guts to get him to the top.
Born and raised in Ibadan, Nigeria in 1954, Lawal became interested in America and its civil rights movement during his teens. After finally persuading his father, a local politician, to send him to university in America, Lawal headed to Georgia and then Houston, where he attended the Texas Southern University.
After graduating with a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering in 1976, Lawal, like many of his classmates, started out as a graduate in the energy industry. First as a chemist for Dresser Industries (now Halliburton) and then as a chemical engineer with Shell Oil Refining Co.
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During this time he met his wife, Eileen through a mutual friend and had his three children.
Now married and settled, it wasn't long before the innovative young Nigerian started to implement his business ideas.
In 1986 he established CAMAC, a company trading agricultural commodities such as sugar, tobacco and rice. In the early 90s he made the leap into the energy sector after the Nigerian government started to develop its energy market.
With his knowledge of Nigeria and his Houston address, Lawal was ideally positioned to attract major oil companies. In 1991 CAMAC made a deal with the oil giant Conoco, agreeing to jointly operate and share production from any Nigerian discoveries.
This turned out to be Lawal's big break.
With his political contacts, local market knowledge and now with the backing of a major oil firm, Lawal's Houston-based company became an instant player in the energy industry.
As Lawal told CNN: "That partnership I believe was the cornerstone of the CAMAC that you know today. Subsequently with that credibility and the advantage of partnering with Conoco, we were also able to partner with BP and also with Statoil of Norway and currently we have made a partnership with Eni, the largest Italian company, which is one of the top five oil companies in the world."
Now CAMAC has offices in London, Johannesburg, Lagos and Port Harcourt, Nigeria and is involved in oil exploration, refining and trading.
[size=14pt]He was awarded the USAfrica Business Person of the Year in 1997 and in 2002 CAMAC was named the largest African-American owned company on the Black Enterprise 100s list.[/size]

Willywilly4: Yorubas are the most intelligent people in the World
Yorubas have the best scientist in the World
Yoruba are the first people to land in the Moon
Yoruba land is paradise on earth full of honey
Yoruba people are the nicest people on earth
Yoruba people created the world with God
Yorubas are the best living human on earth
Yoruba Road is the best on earth
Yoruba Hospitals are the best in the world.
Land of Yorubas the Land of the best of best,
Oooooooohhh my people Yorubas, Land of the Prophets arise and rejoice.

Now you want to play victim? Spineless twit !!!! You want to now pretend the Yorubas are the braggarts when this thread, as every honest person can see, contained many submissions touting wholesale lies from deluded and mentally sick people determined to represent the Yorubas as "nothing" in relation to others. I even read some clown write ridiculously that "the Yorubas contribute nothing to Nigeria". Now you wan't to play victim because Yorubas who deal with facts are now on the case? Eff you !!!!

Look at the "imbued essence" exhibition below showcasing "Nigerian spirit" through art, at the London Olympics in 2012 that I followed religiously as an art lover. How did a "lazy and mediocre" people happen to have so many representatives , as "some of the best available", in something that should be a purely Igbo show since, according to submissions here, they dominate everything and everyone? Many of you are simply sick.

I have not even begun with you clowns. Next time you start a thread like this, stick to bigging yourselves up alone. Stray from that script and I will get involved and will expose your cowardice that sees you now playing victim when you had all been previously happy to carry on an 0rgy of lies against Yoruba folks. Mentally deranged lunatics !!!!!

http://africanartswithtaj..co.uk/2012/07/imbued-essence-nigerian-spirit-lights.html

Friday, 13 July 2012

Imbued Essence… Nigerian Spirit Lights Up London Olympics

By Tajudeen Sowole
On Sunday, July 15, 2012, another side of Nigerian story will open ahead of the opening of the London 2012 Olympics, via an art exhibition.
Organised by Bank of Industry (BOI) as part of cultural artistic package to promote Nigeria during the 2012 Olympics, the art exhibition features works of over 35 artists selected across the country.
The show, titled Imbued Essence, according to the coordinators, Abraham Uyovbisere and Abiodun Olaku ends with the Olympics on August 12, 2012 at G-Live, Guitdford, Surrey.
The BOI-sponsored exhibition joins other African art and culture activities, under the theme, We Face Forward, currently holding in Manchester throughout the period of the Olympics.
Uyovbisere, who is the newly elected President of Guild of Professional Fine Artists of Nigeria (GFA), noted that until lately, Europeans and Americans used to see Nigerian art within naivety and craft context. The art exhibition at the Olympics, he assured would strengthen the awareness for Nigerian art abroad.
Giving kudos to the Managing Director of BOI, Evelyn Oputu for bringing visual arts as one of the events meant to showcase Nigeria at the Olympics, former Vice President of GFA, Olaku said it could only take someone like Oputu who appreciates creativity to organise what he described as the “first coordinated presentation of Nigerian art at any Olympics.”
He noted that though Nigerian art had been showcased in the past Olympics, but at individual level of artists.
The theme of the show, Olaku explained, “is to tell the world, that though Nigeria has its challenges, but they are not surmountable. He argued that the “true spirit of Nigeria” has not been properly presented in the past, assuring that the BOI-organised show will correct the error.”
In her statement published on the brochure tagged, Showcasing Nigeria @ the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics Games, Oputu states that the art exhibition and other activities are in line with BOI’s mandate to collaborate with domestic and foreign partners. She explained that the partnership with the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) “is a development-focused joint initiative for a more effective and positive projection of Nigeria at the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics Games, as the world’s most vibrant market.”
She stressed that the joint venture is part of BOI’s efforts at transforming Nigeria’s economy and integrating it into the global economy, through domestic and international partnerships.
And that the Olympics is holding in London, she argues, is strategic for Nigeria “in view of the historic ties between Nigeria and Great Britain,” as well as “London’s proximity to Nigeria and the city’s strategic location as the window to the world’s financial capital.”

The Dawn, oil on canvas by Abraham Uyovbisere features in the BOI-sponsored art exhibition.

On selection of works, Olaku disclosed that “we ensured the best among the works available were selected because it’s important for us to make a strong statement on Nigerian art.”
And perhaps, quite deliberate, most of the artists on the show are from the middle-generation of contemporary Nigerian art. Some of them are Raqib Bashorun, Olaku, Alex Nwokolo, Uyovbisere, Ben Osaghae, Duke Asidere, Edosa Ogiugo, Kefas Danjuma, Olu Ajayi, Jerry Buhari, Sam Ovraiti, Segun Adejumo, Hamid Ibrahim, Ndidi Dike, Kehinde Sanwo, Sam Ebohon, Adeola Balogun, Gbenga Offo, Lekan Onabanjo, Bunmi Babatunde, Ebong Ekwere, Patrick Agose and Francis Uduh.
Some of the works viewed via soft copies appear to corroborate Olaku’s assertion that “the best available” were selected.


For example, work such as a bust by Ekwere titled The Faithful II could compete with the bests in the world, in terms finishing. Same for Nwokolo’s soft metal collage, Social Networking II as well as Olaku’s painting Ancestral Grace. More importantly, each of these works projects different face within the Nigerian spirit of multicultural entity.
And where western taste could blend with African identity, Uyovbisere’s style of colour renditions takes that mantle as seen in a horse back piece, The Dawn, which stresses the artist’s identity in renaissance-like toning.
The BOI-sponsored show adds to the ongoing art and cultural activities of African origin as part of the London 2012 summer games. Last month, about 30 visual artists and musicians from 11 countries in West Africa opened diverse shows under the theme We Face Forward, which is a sub-event of the yearly London Festival. Among the musicians are Femi Kuti and Angelique Kidjo.
Opened few weeks ago, and running till September 16, 2012, according to reports monitored via the Internet, the show features painting, photography, textiles, sculpture, video and audio installation of 32 artists as well as fashion and music from top artistes of West African descent.
One of six Nigerian artists participating in the show, Victoria Udondian presents a new textile work at Whitworth Art Gallery’s textile collection.
The collection, according to the organisers, ranges from textiles made in Manchester for export to the West African market in the eighteenth century, to fabrics by contemporary makers in Mali who supply DKNY with hand-spun cotton.

Balkan: @Gbawe. If you are relying on award given by a Yoruba body, I can as well arrange one for you from the government if you can afford it. Pls those awards does not in any way portray the reality on ground. They troup to my office everyday begging me to take an award which I always reject.

Tell your brother eggheader or what ever his name is to stop his chest beating. Let's respect the tribe that has put Nigeria in the world stage. Then we can help you Yorubas to leave mediocrity and face reality. It's not that we don't like Yorubas but just that trive in mediocrity and favouritism . They are too jealouse a people. I have lived in Lagos for 14 years and came with nothing here, but telling you what I am what now will amount to bragging. Let's leave that for another day.

Typical excuse from an indoctrinated fool. It seems you do not know when to shut up and who to peddle your crap with. You should stick to arguing at your level where conjecture, delusions and fantasy is king. You want another example? Chicken Republic, as a model of entrepreneural efficacy, is a business based on a franchised model now expanding in Africa. Is it you or your brother behind it or a "mediocre" Yoruba man people like you lie against worldwide?

You are a worthless piece of stool !!! You and others should have limited your indoctrinated rants to bigging up yourselves alone. I don't really care about that because all I see are insecure losers suffering from inferiority complex and trying to sell delusions of grandeur to themselves. All in all, losers not worth any attention.

When you cross over into the realm of trying to belittle the Yorubas, then there is a problem. When I get involved, things change from the conjecture-driven garbage of cretins like you to be quickly about real and factual examples that easily make readers see and discern the truth for themselves. The Yorubas are only guilty of been secure, accommodating and relatively relaxed people not at all into braggadocio or self-promotion. Yet if you want to see exemplary things they are doing, that directly debunks the lies of an indoctrinated tool like you, then I will show you. Many of you are just mentally sick. Rather than seek 'healing' you prefer to make yourselves worse with lies and deluded talk.

http://www.cp-africa.com/2011/12/30/how-deji-akinyanju-founder-of-chicken-republic-built-a-multi-million-dollar-food-business/

How Deji Akinyanju, Founder of Chicken Republic built a multi million dollar food business

BY CP-AFRICA.COMIN BUSINESS — 30 DEC, 2011

After 16 years in the United Kingdom, Deji Akinyanju returned home to found one of Nigeria’s most successful food retailers.“I felt driven to go back and make an impact,” he said on his decision to return home.”It was at the time of transition from military rule to democracy and I wanted to help build an entrepreneurial private sector.”

Today, 42 year old Akinyanju heads one of Nigeria’s fastest growing retail chains valued at about $120 million. With about $2 million (N320 million) in seed funding raised from family and friends, he initially had a franchise deal with Chicken Licken, South Africa but quickly established his own brand Chicken Republic. In 2003, he opened a bakery outlet, Butterfield Bakery (a South African brand), which soon became Nigeria’s largest bakery. Deji also own Reeds Thai Restaurant in Lagos and the St. Elmos Pizza franchise in Nigeria.

According to him, “we revolutionised the concept of buying international brands into Nigeria. Ever since then, new brands have come into the market. And we set the standard, changed the eating experience for Nigerians and introduced a friendlier, world-class ambience into food.”

He says that the market is being driven by the youth. “They want to associate themselves with modern brands and modern ways of eating.”

Since founding Chicken Republic he has grown it to over 70 outlets. When asked by CNBC earlier this year on how his business ventures became successful, he said, “When I started, I didn’t have much experience. If you have passion, the rest is easy to learn, but you can’t teach somebody to be passionate.”

However, success came with its burdens and challenges. In the early years, his company acquired quite a bit of debt to fund its expansion. “We had a strong cash flow but we also had obligations to banks and the business wasn’t profitable. We spent a lot servicing our debt.” In 2008, his company raised an additional $30 million to finance its expansion plans.

According to him, “There is still no strong brand across West Africa, so for instance if you were to go to Ghana you will find three stores run by a particular brand and if you were to go Ivory Coast, you may not find that brand in Ivory Coast, so we have this entire West coast market.”

Deji eventually plans to open three hundred Chicken Republic stores in Nigeria and a thousand Chicken Republic stores in Africa before 2013.

“Nigerian brands want to be global brands,” he says. “And why not? We have a lot of foreign brands in our market. If you apply the right principles, it doesn’t matter where you come from— you should be able to fly anywhere.”

Watch the video below where he talks about Food Concept/Chicken Republic’s expansion plans.

Balkan: let make some clarification to you. An Igbo man is the last person to ask your tribe when dealing with anybody both in business and in employment . They always allow merit to supersede any kind of favouritism . Yorubas trive more in boad room politics and power play. Mediocrity is their second name. Back biting and tribalism. That is why most companies they are at the head always go bankrupt .

What is their fear? You guys know very well that an Igbo man will floor you and make you worthless wherever there is competition. It's this mediocrity tha has kept Nigeria in this situation. Check out the ministers appointed by Nigeria government and check their scorer card. Igbos are moving and driving the economy of Nigeria. Very soon you will know where the power lies in a state. Those tribes that have ruled Nigeria for decades dont have anything to show for it in their regions. To be the president does not make your tribe any better.

What ever a Yoruba man steals from the government will always end up in an Igbo mans pocket. Unless you want to chew the cash and swallow it raw. You will end up buying one thing or the other computers, cars , electronics ,wears, building materials, stationery, name any thing you can think of and I will tell you that Igbos are behind it.

Check the statistics of investment eg properties, plazas, hotels, shops, name anything you can think of in ABUJA that does not belong to an Igbo man. I don't want to talk about Lagos state because we have reclaimed it.

Guy you need to advice yourself wisely. Those jobs that are making you think you are doing well are other people's business foreign companies and they can lay you off anytime the want. Start your own biz. Today

I really don't want to get into the pettiness of all this ridiculous conjectures you guys are throwing around but I must ask why people like you talk like this. I.e in a manner that show you have no qualms lying about reality we can all easily discern. Why do you blatantly ignore facts and issues on the ground to base all your utterances on fantasy and conjecture? I am not here to tell you what Igbos are or are not but I can say what the Yorubas are not. They are not mediocre as some of you postulate.

It is only that many Yorubas here don't know how to shut your ilk up with facts and this is why this redundant lie you tell yourselves has travelled amongst your fellow ignoramuses to now be unquestioningly accepted as the truth by people always keen to tout their own mythical superiority and the "worthlessness" of others as they were indoctrinated to do.

As just one example of the many I can give, Oando was voted best Company in Nigeria in 2012. This is a thriving Company teaching others, including Igbo-owned businesses, how to run Companies. Do you, your father or brother own or run the Company? Why should we have this Oando situation if Yorubas are "mediocre" at running businesses and Igbos are masters at it? Should this touted superiority not reveal itself consistently 100% of the time? The sad thing for clowns like you is that Oando is not even the exception !!!

People like you personally sicken me. You are welcomed to hate others as much as you like because of how you are indoctrinated but that indoctrination turns into mental illness of sort when you are willing to embrace a strategy of lies aimed at reducing a universally celebrated and respected people to zero simply to uphold your own inane and self-deceitful braggadocio led mainly by inferiority complex. It is only people like you that sickeningly come without the ability to even minimally give credit where due to others because you indoctrination in hatred is total and all-consuming to the extent of encompassing blatant and wicked lies.

Even on this wretched forum where folks like you have no shame and are never called out for inane and malevolent lies against others, what notable superiority of intelligence or thinking have members from your ethnic group displayed here to validate your silly, misguided and childish lies about superiority that facts and reality show is only in your head? Let go of the hatred of others and start respecting them. It may have been drummed into you to hate the Yorubas but you cross the line when you start representing them as "mediocre" and with other similar false unsavoury tags to suit your own psychotic and highly unreasonable world view. Nonsense !!!!! You and others are sick !!! Simply the sort to say Mohammed Alli could not box or Michael Jackson could not entertain because you have been indoctrinated blindly to reason like that !!!

http://premiumtimesng.com/business/3922-oando_is_nigeria_s_best_oil_and_gas_company.html

Oando is Nigeria
Premium Times
Published: February 23,2012

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Wale Tinubu and Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Maduekwe

Oando Plc, which is aiming to become one of Africa’s largest integrated energy solutions providers, has emerged Nigeria Best Company during the 12th Nigeria Oil and Gas (NOG) Conference in Abuja.
The award, which was announced at a special gala/dinner sponsored by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in honour of participants in the conference, also saw ExxonMobil being named as winner of the Best Corporate Social Responsibility award, while Shell Companies in Nigeria won the Best Company in Local Content Development and Niger Dock the Best Project Company of the Year.

NNPC Group Managing Director, Austen Oniwon, who presented Oando’s award to the company’s Group Chief Executive Officer, Wale Tinubu, said the awards were in recognition of the various companies’ impressive investment programmes in the country’s oil and gas sector industry.
Mr. Oniwon said Oando, which was one of Platinum sponsors of the conference, deserved the award for its active role in all levels of the industry, including the upstream, mid-stream and the downstream sectors of the oil and gas sector.
“The award is well-deserved based on Oando’s significant presence and impact in the country’s oil and gas sector,” Mr. Oniwon said. “Oando contribution to the growth of the industry is worthy of emulation by other players in all ramifications.”

The NNPC boss who praised the organisers of the conference, which also featured exhibitions, described this year’s conference as unique in more ways than one, pointing out that the successes recorded would encourage the corporation to continue supporting it to provide the forum for stakeholders to interact and discuss issues affecting the sector.
CWC Group and Chairman of the 2012 NOG Conference, Alirio Parra, said Oando’s multi-sectoral investment portfolio in Nigeria and abroad has put the company in unassailable leadership position as Nigeria’s integrated energy company judging by the success stories of its various subsidiaries in the entire energy chain, which straddles products marketing, supply and training, gas and power, refining as well as exploration and production.

“Oando is a home grown company operating at international standard and quality for many years,” Mr. Parra said. “The company represents a strong statement in support of the clamour of indigenous operators to be given more opportunity to participate in the development of Nigeria’s oil and gas resources. The company is also a challenge for other indigenous oil and gas companies.”

ochukoccna: So Ebele has suddenly realised he needs the votes of others and not just his Ijaw brothers If he's to be re-elected
I dey siddon loook as the late Bola Ige would say

I have always said this here but many of us from the south, rather than calm down and learn to play the game, prefer to be sentimental beyond belief and even elementary common sense. When the North is a numerically powerful and currently legitimate part of Nigeria, is it not myopic and self-destructive for GEJ and his jingoistic supporters to have adopted the obviously self-destructive tactics of insulting, vilifying and alienating the North?

At the end of the day, and after all the noise and sabre-rattling issues will come down to democracy being a game of numbers. The wise man, deliberate and ordered in thinking, would have sought to build bridges knowing this. The fool will arrogantly and myopically square up pugnaciously and needlessly to others he may need in future only to come grovelling when reality sinks in. Now all we are hearing, after the we are "supermen" idiocy, is the pathetic noise of "no primaries", "automatic ticket" and "peace moves". The NGF election has indeed opened some eyes.

mikeansy: why not register the party APC first and tell us what your manifesto is?

Mikeansy, the APC manifesto has been out since April. It would be better if you look for it rather than speak as if it does not exist or as if the APC is not bothered to tell Nigerians what they plan for them when issues could be that your mind is made up already. Your disinterest in seeking something that exists, only to speak as if it does not, is perhaps proof of that.

Assuming you really want to know what the APC has to say, it would have been impossible to miss that they have released their manifesto for public perusal since many news sources ran highlights of some of the key points of the APC manifesto at the time. I would like to believe you were not on Mars to have missed noticing.

http://www.punchng.com/news/manifesto-apc-to-probe-obasanjo-jonathan-over-oil-revenue/

Manifesto: APC to probe Obasanjo, Jonathan over oil revenue

APRIL 20, 2013 BY NIYI ODEBODE, ABUJA


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Buhari, Tinubu and Onu

The All Progressives Congress says it will probe how various administrations from 2000 to 2013 managed the nation’s oil revenue.

The APC, which was formed by three main opposition parties, the Action Congress of Nigeria, the Congress for Progressive Change, the All Nigeria Peoples Party, and a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, stated this in its manifesto obtained by our correspondent in Abuja on Friday.

In the manifesto, the party said it would pursue an eight-cardinal programme, including war against corruption, food security, accelerated power supply, integrated transport network, free education, devolution of power, accelerated economic growth and affordable health care.

On the war against corruption, it said, “We shall negotiate oil deals, unveil the secrecy surrounding the ownership of 49 per cent of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas, query the over N50tn oil revenue which accrued to the Federation Account between 2000 and 2013 and recover billions of US dollars which Ministries, Departments and Agencies failed to remit to the Federation Account.”

The Peoples Democratic Party administrations of Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan, have been ruling the country since 1999.

The APC also promised to strengthen the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission and make them independent.

The party said it would review public service rules and financial regulations, which encourage impropriety in public finances.

The APC stated that it would move for the removal of the immunity clause in the constitution, which protects the President, vice-president, governors and deputy governors from prosecution while in office.

It said, “APC in government shall muster the political will to wage strident war against corruption; otherwise, our post-oil economy will be disastrous.

“It is our considered view that none of our cardinal programmes will succeed if the current level of corruption and looting going on in the land is allowed to continue.

“We shall plug all leakages which accelerate monumental corruption, recover looted funds, cap and trim unwarranted allowances to public office holders.”

The APC said it had adopted for its manifesto some recommendations of the defunct Electoral Reform Committee, known as Muhammadu Uwais Panel, set up by the late President Umaru Yar’Adua.

The recommendations that will be adopted include “making the appointment of the chairman and top officials of the National and State Electoral Commissions public” and that the “Burden of Proof shall rest on the Electoral Commissioners.”

On the power sector, the APC said it would pursue the expansion of electricity generation and distribution of up to 40,000 megawatts in the four to eight years of its administration.

The APC said it would encourage an amendment of the constitution with a view to decentralising the police and expanding local content.

The PDP is finished. It is a house highly and irrevocably divided against itself. The members may actually even fully decimate and neutralize themselves before the election.

Desperation in the "nest of killers" is increasing and we all know what follows acute frustration given that the PDP is home to many hardened killers who only know how to destroy "obstacles". The greatest evil against Nigeria, since 1999, has been committed by the PDP and its killers. Whether it is Odili arming jobless young men for his evil agenda or Northern PDP bigwigs sponsoring Boko Haram to murder Nigerians in cold blood, we can always trust the killers of the PDP to be evil and wicked. I will personally enjoy the show which is par for the course given the sheer wickedness and misery this evil Party has visited on hapless Nigerians for 14 years. Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.

Another smelly fly. This forum is full of these dirty creatures who live in sh1t. Seun, no fly spray to rid this place of these smelly irritants?
*covers nose*.

The bane of Nigeria's development. 'Accidental' leaders everywhere i.e people who never deliberately planned to gain influential offices being pushed into it by the cynical machinations of others.

taharqa2: @Gbawe, SHUT up yr mouth you sillly HYPOCRITE. You DISGUST me with yr unbrindled HYPOCRISM *spitsindisgust*... Your party, d ACN, has NEVER selected its candidates, either for Elective or party posts, in any process even remotely resembling an Election. Candidates hv ALWAYS bn Imposed by a very few men in that party, led by d Emperor himself; in fact, I recall top Leadas in that party vehemently opposing and subsequently aiding in killing d Bill sm persons tried pushing tru d NA early 2011, which wud hv made it compulsory for ALL parties to conduct competitive primaries- i recall with sm Alarm how ACN leadas argued that parties shld be left to choose their candidates the way the see fit since the candidates must follow d manifesto and Leadas of d party!! What the helll now gives you d right to be overtly concernd about how ANOTHER party conduct its own 'primaries' when yours has never had any tin resembling it. You want to remove d Speck in anodas eyes, while completely forgeting the heavy log that is almost blinding you. Don't you hv ANY SHAME at all, and sm respect for d sensitivity/intelligence of the people for whom you write yr long epistles.... Again, you DISGUST me

I think I can hear and smell an irritating sh1t-ridden fly buzzing around. Never mind. Such filthy creatures are to be avoided and ignored.

texazzpete: Why must you be such a nitwit? We are talking about the 2015 elections to decide who becomes the President of Nigeria, with 150 million citizens. Incumbency gives a massive advantage in Nigeria, how can any of you be m0r0nic enough to call this a 'PDP internal affair'?
This concerns ALL Nigerians. The true benchmark on performance lies with the governed. Why do you think Fashola was virtually assured of a 2nd term no matter the reported friction between him and Tinubu? If a President or Governor performs well, he/she has absolutely nothing to fear.

I'm not surprised you spelled 'Anenih' as 'Aninih', a close approximation of the name of the infamous armed robber. It seems even you sycophantic lapdogs subsconsiously know that the man is not clean!

Indeed. The next question to ask these charlatans, openly supportive of what is wrong and unfair, is this. Is it wise to support illegality and undemocratic conduct today because it gets us and our sectional affiliates what we want yet pretend to be the 'victim' tomorrow when said undemocratic actions has secured serious repercussions for all Nigerians?

When the openly disenfranchised candidates then decide that geurilla tactics is their only option to fight a rogue Presidency and gangsters like Anenih, it will be the same Nairaland charlatans who would want us to forget this stage where they openly supported unfair incendiary antics. They will then, in a fraudulently revisionist manner, try to hypocritically prompt everyone to focus on the "evil Northerners" trying to "destabilize" the Presidency of "Saint Jonathan" who is always "innocent". Nothing will be said of the provocative, dictatorial and undemocratic antics of Anenih and GEJ.

I am Nigerian but I am disgusted with the viewpoint of fellow Nigerians on this forum as it distinctly reveals that many amongst us are not committed to supporting what is equitable and just all the time.

Overall, the silly noise of this being a "PDP affair" is the most inane thing I have ever heard. First of all the PDP is the ruling Party. Actions within the Party may have serious consequences for the Nation and I am surprised Nigerians have to be shown this since I see that others fundamentally appreciate this worldwide.

The conservative Party in the UK, for example, cannot act like an azz and then arrogantly tell Britons to butt out because it is "a conservative affair". No sir. They will be vehemently reminded of their duty to set good examples, as the ruling Party, or relinquish power if doing so is too much for them

Secondly, nothing ever remains a PDP affair. Many said zoning was a PDP affair, at a time some PDP members swore GEJ was a treacherous chap going against something he signed up for, yet we all know political Boko Haram, that has cost many Nigerian lives, went on on to show that only fools will believe anything remains a "PDP affair" especially when it is related to members of the "nest of killers" being fundamentally aggrieved.

GEJ and Anenih, however desperate they become, cannot change the rules in the middle of the game when me and you know, beyond the "PDP affair" rhetoric, that this can have devastating repercussion for Nigeria.

Besides, did GEJ not fully utilise the availability of the Primaries method to get rid of an incumbent Governor i.e Sylva? Many Nairalanders know I have continuously stated that GEJ, an incumbent President, will get the same treatment he dished out to Sylva. That is what team GEJ is now petrified about but cannot avoid because democracy is a game of numbers and some should have remembered that when they were busy insulting and demonizing Northerners as if they are not a legitimate part of Nigeria deserving respect and inclusion rather than be treated myopically with open disdain and enmity as jingoistic backers of GEJ have done self-destructively.

[quote author=CROWÉ]I knew that someone would pop up saying nonsense, if it is the opinion of the majority of PDP people that Jonathan continue as president in 2015 then there is no need to do this automatic ticket nonsense, this can only serve to deny other PDP people who would want to run in 2015 a chance to do so, it is anti-democratic at its core and there is no precedent for it, everybody should be given a chance, and PDP's internal shenanigans is an indicator of how they will be as leaders, if you can change rules in a system on the fly to suite whatever selfish desires you have at any given time then what are the rules there for in the first place.

I was curious what someone was going to say in defense of PDP and here you are, all sorts of ignorant things and evil always find people to support them. I am just glad no one is my family is this unreasonable.

PS. PDP should be suspended by INEC for anti-democratic behavior, wheres you're logic now billyonaire, where is it?[/quote]Thank you. The next question to ask these charlatans, openly supportive of what is wrong and unfair, is this. Is it wise to support illegality and undemocratic conduct today because it gets us and our sectional affiliates what we want yet pretend to be the 'victim' tomorrow when said undemocratic actions has secured serious repercussions for all Nigerians?

When the openly disenfranchised candidates then decide that geurilla tactics is their only option to fight a rogue Presidency, it will be the same charlatans you respond to who would want us to forget this stage where they openly supported incendiary antics and hypocritically prompt everyone to focus on the "evil men" trying to "destabilize" the Presidency of "Saint Jonathan" who is always "innocent". I am Nigerian but I am disgusted with the viewpoint of fellow Nigerians on this forum as it distinctly reveals that many amongst us are not committed to supporting what is equitable and just all the time.

Also, the silly noise of this being a "PDP affair" is the most inane thing I have ever heard. First of all the PDP is the ruling Party. Actions within the Party may have serious consequences for the Nation and I am surprised Nigerians have to be shown this since I see that others fundamentally appreciate this worldwide.

The conservative Party in the UK, for example, cannot act like an azz and then arrogantly tell Britons to butt out because it is "a conservative affair". No sir. They will be vehemently reminded of their duty to set good examples, as the ruling Party, or relinquish power if doing so is too much for them

Secondly, nothing ever remains a PDP affair. Many said zoning was a PDP affair, at a time some PDP members swore GEJ was a treacherous chap going against something he signed up for, yet we all know political Boko Haram, that has cost many Nigerian lives, went on on to show that only fools will believe anything remains a "PDP affair" especially when it is related to members of the "nest of killers" being fundamentally aggrieved.

GEJ and Anenih, however desperate they become, cannot change the rules in the middle of the game when me and you know, beyond the "PDP affair" rhetoric, that this can have devastating repercussion for Nigeria.

Besides, did GEJ not fully utilise the availability of the Primaries method to get rid of an incumbent Governor i.e Sylva? Many Nairalanders know I have continuously stated that GEJ, an incumbent President, will get the same treatment he dished out to Sylva. That is what team GEJ is now petrified about but cannot avoid because democracy is a game of numbers and some should have remembered that when they were busy insulting and demonizing Northerners as if they are not a legitimate part of Nigeria deserving respect and inclusion rather than be treated myopically with open disdain and enmity as jingoistic backers of GEJ have done self-destructively.

ikenga67: Please I am not trying to be facetious here. I am new to this forum but the more I follow some of the threads, especially in the Politics section, the more I wonder if the profiles I encounter on those threads are truly representative of Nigerian. Or have I stumbled into the "Jerry Springer" crowd of Nigerian public discourse? You know...the mouth-breathers, the flat-earthers and the low-information crowd. Doubt me? Just open any topic on the Politics section and most what you will see are people spewing raw bigotry and displaying a level of grasp of issues that would make my kindergartener son cringe.
I really do hope that the characters I have encountered here are not a true sampling of my compatriots, otherwise we are as doomed as the wooly mammoth. Or what do y'all think?

The main thing to appreciate is that Nairaland is specifically set-up to attract the dregs of society ditto it's "Jerry Springer" mien. Ultimately, illiterates and ignoramuses ready to fight naked in the market square provide the sort of entertainment and 'pull' the owner of this forum wants.

Look around you today to note that shallowness and controversy is what the world wants to be entertained with. In that respect, do not take this forum to be representative of Nigeria. There are other Nigerian forum where the degree of civility, knowledge and general intelligence is laudable. Naraland just happens to be a zoo where all sorts of wild animals, only fit for the most disorderly jungle, are allowed to act as offensively as they wish. 98% of members who post are only worth ignoring whereas in other forums, the figure may be under 15%.

@ Comrade Ray.


The FG can get the ball rolling by embarking on a genuine overhaul of the entire NPF. This can begin with a drive to improve the welfare of police officers through a revision of what amounts to "living wage" for them. I.e income that allows them to meet their private obligations and still enable them to concentrate on doing their job well.

I understand that the IGP is currently pushing forward a pay scale that would increase monthly salary of Nigerian police officers to N100,000.00. Why not focus on that, as a start? I am sure Nigerians will be behind a drive to make the police force, as one of the sector that has no choice but to sacrifice for the safety of the rest of us, adequately paid and compensated for doing what is possibly the most difficult job in Nigeria.

[quote author=CROWÉ]You people are the same ones that will complain about the Nigerian government, wondering why Nigeria is so corrupt, here it is right in your faces and instead of condemning it you are ridiculing the man who despite his potentially questionable motives is standing up for what is right.

PDP have used and abused every loophole in the constitution and now they are fabricating ones in their own party. Some people want Jonathan in office by 2016 come hell or high water so they proceed to deny other pdp members the right to vote and be voted for. If PDP cannot run a clean, fair and most of all democratic party then how can they be exppected to do it in government? Also, if they would go this far to guarantee that GEJ represents the party then who is to say they won't try to abuse the election process as well and rig him back in.

This should be very alarming to all of you, it is yet another Nigerian made attack on the people and their democracy, another method by which PDP want to take us for a ride and you are all more interested in Atiku, when you complain about Nigeria and wonder what our problems are, do us all a favour and look in your mirrors.[/quote]God will bless you and yours abundantly. Imagine if those who , to borrow from your succinct delivery, want to vote and be voted for find themselves denied the right to do that by custodians of everything we hold sacrosanct who have now decided to dictatorially abuse the power vested in them for personal 'sit-tight' ambition?

If these disenfranchised politicians then embrace guerilla tactics to get 'even' , because the door to the legitimate pursuit of their ambition was slammed shut in their face, will the self-destructive and myopic folks you address here remember the part they played, by blindly supporting what is outright wrong, in any anarchy we see in future that may go on to affect many of us? Why is it that Nigerians can simply not be committed to what is right always rather than when it suits them and their sectional affiliations?

For once, folks should rise above attacking the messenger vacuously , because of sectional bias, and demonstrate they have a functioning moral compass that should surely lead them to urge GEJ to go and test his popularity for the sake of our democracy.

fyneguy: Mr Fix it, we understand it- make another 'NGF election' no come happen for PDP Presidential Primary

The 'writing on the wall' must have notched up the blood pressure of some old men. It really will be a fantastic show these guys will put on between now and 2015. Seun needs to start marketing e-popcorn.

[quote author=Marco-P ]All Nairalanders should stand up to observe a minute silence for the man who saw and knows tomorrow...

The man who can predict (in reverse order) the things to come in PDP...

The man who understands the inner workings of the PDP better than the Central Working Committee...

The man who enjoys/competes with Fashakin and Lai Mohammed in drinking Alabukun for other people's headache...

The man who knows the next set of medications Tinubu will be placed on by his doctors in 2014...

The only righteous man on NL.

Please give it up for Gbaweeeeee.

To usher him to the podium to receive this 2013 Award of Shame are Eko Atlantic, Eko Ile, Ilogunboy, Fashakin and Lie Mohammed!!!

Standing ovation please!

24 million likes.[/quote]A lot of you are too sentimental and personality-obsessed so your opinions are not to be taken seriously. What you should ask yourself is whether I predicted many things correctly or not. It is as simple as that and all this mago-mago talk is just the envious rants of a dishonest mind not able to think as critically, as productively or as effectively as that of others.

Don't make a fool of yourself displaying petty jealousy simply because some Nairalander now notes that I have indeed predicted certain things correctly. Deal with the fact that many in life will have ability you don't have. The web joins achievers and loser as it does cretinous and capable minds. Don't forget that