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[size=20pt]Wherewill Tribalism get all you guys to:

We will soon all carry cutlass and massacre each other because that is all you fools want.

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Horus:
We must start respecting each other. We have to start writing and creating our own movies, about us, about our past, about our history. We have to stop letting others define us. we have to correct the lies about us. we have to wake up, stand up, and take back our rightful places as leaders of this planet!. All life comes from our home land that is today called Africa which means life comes from us, Wake Up!

Good Talk

Look gentlemen and Ladies,

Common sense says that if you do not love Nigeria to want to die or sink with her all all cost at all times; you do not deserve to lead us.

Especially when we know the impact of espionage. Though not a lawyer, I believe the Nigeria constitution bars anybody that holds a foreign allegiance from holding public office. It is just a common sense. The guy that mentioned China is wrong. There is much gap between living, schooling and working in a foreign country to holding an allegiance to them: be it citizenship or any other thing.

If I am to vote or decide: those that hold foreign citizenship (except by birth and you are supposed to denounce it) cannot hold public office. Because in our world, countries are in a competition ( : Economic and what have you) and it will suicidal as is the case presently in Nigeria for people that protects the interest of foreign countries to rule us.

[size=15pt]Just go read 48 laws of power. It is just a natural law that whatever you have becomes ordinary and you wants more.

When you love a babe, show has seen all that you can give. Unless there is a particular interest shew wants from you outside that "curious love", she will naturally explore further. Love Intimacy are born out and driven by curiosity [/size]

Outside Islamic Banking, which of the issues you mentioned concerns Sanusi or are you just out to malign him?

You can hold GEJ responsible and not Sanusi.

Sanusi cannot control the foreign reserve. Even the exchange rate is beyond his CBN because the political decisions and economic policies of GEJ and PDP is just unbearable for any economy.

Good work to the guy that got them

Guys if we want our country to change, let go out, get more pictures and videos like this, send them to both foreign and local media and somebody may be shamed to right the wrongs.

Please guys

All you guys are right. But remember this same shell controls your government. Refer to wikileaks and how shell have spies in every department of Nigeria Government.

In summary the people that rule us are puppets of Western governments and their multinational companies. Unless we have a people oriented leadership, the oyibos will always get away with every mess they create in our land.

That's why they imposed GEJ on me and you in the first place; to always have their will on top of the graves of the Nigerian people.

Who will save us?

A lot. My emails, text messages, even forum chats should be private. They should be restricted to who it is meant.

It is an abuse to breach people's privacy!

Only if you know how the internet works, you will figure out we are not save!

A professor of Computer science in University of Glasgow first brought my attention to that and it is real.

We are all in a trap and need to be careful

unipol:
the most stuborn thing on earth is truth. though not acceptable at most time.
BEWARE OF KIDNAPPERS AND CRIMINALS. enugu is a beautiful city. there are good places like national museum, nike lake resulted hotel, polo park

Please do not mind the above fools. I am from Enugu state, though works and lives in Lagos. There is hardly a place in Enugu that is not safe. Except for may be Awgu/Oji axis, you can drive to anywhere anytime in th night. As for during the day time, walk around any where and feel free.

No body will intimidate or harm you.

Enugu people generally respects visitors. Even at the peak of the kidnapping in the East, Enugu had the least reported cases. Even those that was reported that I know were politically motivated.

Please feel free and enjoy Enugu.

I can give you my contacts if you are any how unsure.

CIA Open Source Center Follows Foreign Twitter, Facebook Accounts

McLEAN, Va. — In an anonymous industrial park, CIA analysts who jokingly call themselves the "ninja librarians" are mining the mass of information people publish about themselves overseas, tracking everything from common public opinion to revolutions.

The group's effort gives the White House a daily snapshot of the world built from tweets, newspaper articles and Facebook updates.

The agency's Open Source Center sometimes looks at 5 million tweets a day. The analysts are also checking out TV news channels, local radio stations, Internet chat rooms – anything overseas that people can access and contribute to openly.

The Associated Press got an apparently unprecedented view of the center's operations, including a tour of the main facility. The AP agreed not to reveal its exact location and to withhold the identities of some who work there because much of the center's work is secret.

From Arabic to Mandarin, from an angry tweet to a thoughtful blog, the analysts gather the information, often in a native tongue. They cross-reference it with a local newspaper or a clandestinely intercepted phone conversation. From there, they build a picture sought by the highest levels at the White House. There might be a real-time peek, for example, at the mood of a region after the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden, or perhaps a prediction of which Mideast nation seems ripe for revolt.

Yes, they saw the uprising in Egypt coming; they just didn't know exactly when revolution might hit, says the center's director, Doug Naquin.

The center already had "predicted that social media in places like Egypt could be a game-changer and a threat to the regime," he said in an interview.

The CIA facility was set up in response to a recommendation by the 9/11 Commission, its first priority to focus on counterterrorism and counterproliferation. Its predecessor organization had its staff heavily cut in the 1990s – something the CIA's management has vowed to keep from happening again, with new budget reductions looming across the national security spectrum.

The center's several hundred analysts – the actual number is classified – track a broad range of subjects, including Chinese Internet access and the mood on the street in Pakistan.

While most analysts are based in Virginia, they also are scattered throughout U.S. embassies worldwide to get a step closer to their subjects.

The center's analysis ends up in President Barack Obama's daily intelligence briefing in one form or another almost every day. The material is often used to answer questions Obama poses to his inner circle of intelligence advisers when they give him the morning rundown of threats and trouble spots.

"The OSC's focus is overseas, collecting against foreign intelligence issues," said CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Youngblood. "Looking at social media outlets overseas is just a small part of what this skilled organization does," she said. "There is no effort to collect on Americans."

The most successful open source analysts, Naquin said, are something like the heroine of the crime novel "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," a quirky, irreverent computer hacker who "knows how to find stuff other people don't know exists."

An analyst with a master's degree in library science and multiple languages, especially one who grew up speaking another language, makes "a powerful open source officer," Naquin said.

The center had started focusing on social media after watching the Twitter-sphere rock the Iranian regime during the Green Revolution of 2009, when thousands protested the results of the elections that kept Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in power. "Farsi was the third largest presence in social media blogs at the time on the Web," Naquin said.

After bin Laden was killed in Pakistan in May, the CIA followed Twitter to give the White House a snapshot of world public opinion.

Since tweets can't necessarily be pegged to a geographic location, the analysts broke down reaction by language. The result: The majority of Urdu tweets, the language of Pakistan, and Chinese tweets, were negative. China is a close ally of Pakistan's. Officials in Pakistan protested the raid as an affront to their nation's sovereignty, a sore point that continues to complicate U.S.-Pakistani relations.

When President Obama gave his speech addressing Mideast issues a few weeks after the raid, the tweet response over the next 24 hours came in negative from Turkey, Egypt, Yemen, Algeria, the Persian Gulf and Israel, too. Tweets from speakers of Arabic and Turkic contended that Obama favored Israel, while Hebrew tweets denounced the speech as pro-Arab.

In the following days, major news media came to the same conclusion, as did analysis by the covert side of U.S. intelligence based on intercepts and human intelligence gathered in the region.

The center is also in the process of comparing its social media results with the track record of polling organizations, trying to see which produces more accurate results, Naquin said.

"We do what we can to caveat that we may be getting an overrepresentation of the urban elite," said Naquin, acknowledging that only a small slice of the population in many areas being monitored has access to computers and Internet. But he points out that access to social media sites via cellphones is growing in such areas as Africa, meaning a "wider portion of the population than you might expect is sounding off and holding forth than it might appear if you count the Internet hookups in a given country."

Sites such as Facebook and Twitter have become a key resource for following a fast-moving crisis such as the riots that raged across Bangkok in April and May of last year, the center's deputy director said. The AP agreed not to identify him because he sometimes still works undercover in foreign countries.

As director, Naquin is identified publicly by the agency although the location of the center is kept secret to deter attacks, whether physical or electronic.

Naquin says the next generation of social media will probably be closed-loop, subscriber-only cellphone networks, like the ones the Taliban uses to send messages among hundreds of followers at a time in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Those networks can be penetrated only by technical eavesdropping by branches of U.S. intelligence, such as the National Security Agency – but Naquin predicts his covert colleagues will find a way to adapt, as the enemy does.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/04/cia-open-source-center_n_1075827.html

teskyg:
Sam Omatseye?Works for The Nation(Tinubu and ACN mouth Piece).Why has not also written about his paymaster (Tinubu).Sam Omatseye is a Snake who lost out in the race with Reuben Agbati, You can fool usPlease write about your paymaster too who stoles billions from Lagos State Government Coffers and billions of revenue still accrue to him from all the ACN controlled States before we can listen to you,

Accepted that he may not be forthright. I also have raised the issue. See Nigeria is difficult. The guy needs a job to keep afloat. He may be trying to keep his job and say the truth.

Let therefor forget the messenger and face the message. Jonathan has failed, but obviously, ACN is not a better alternative.

[quote author=Ymodulus link=topic=803689.msg9567271#msg9567271 date=1321430657][/quote]Am not a TRIBALIST just a REALIST


Do you know who would have said that in the 1960s

The father of Tribalism in Nigeria;

let not go into that because some people will never accept the truth.

Gentlemen

Obasanjo, Gej and so many others are part of the global plot to undo Nigeria with so many blood shed.

Read

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-803651.32.html#msg9567878.

Read a prediction made since 2004

Pacification and resistance (guardian newspapers of today)
By Edwin Madunagu
AS a young student, I was highly intrigued by the word "pacification". I was aware that the ordinary meaning of "pacify", is "to allay anger or agitation", or "to restore a tranquil state", and that in this sense, pacification is the process of achieving or restoring peace. But in politics and political history, I found that "pacification" conveyed something radically different. It means, specifically, the violent suppression of mass discontent, protest or rebellion. Although I found, later, that pacification - in the political sense - also carried the ideas of restitution and appeasement - suggesting that the victims of the policy must have been considered by the perpetrators as having some grounds for their attitudes - this did not dissolve the confusion that afflicted me, the joke that the English Language appeared to be playing on me.

The resolution of the contradiction in the meaning of pacification came to me in the form of Machiavellianism: the end justifying the means. In President Obasanjo's Republic, pacification means the restoration of peace by the elimination of sources of opposition essentially by violent means. The other means include the threat of violence - implicit or explicit - and the settlement of opportunists and traitors. That is what is known as the peace of the graveyard. One way of settling a dispute and restoring peace is to eliminate the opposition as a group and settle some of the opponents as individuals. My problem as a young activist was my mobility to see that there are several forms of peace and that pacification only conveys one particular form. Contemporary theatres of pacification in Nigeria include the Niger Delta on top of the list.

President Olusegun Obasanjo appears to be embarking on a twin programme of political pacification: general pacification of the polity, and special pacification of specific segments of the polity. He is doing this either as a necessary step in the realisation of the rumoured "third term" agenda, or to realise the immediate pacification objective of the "international community", or both. The objective of the general pacification is to neutralise all pockets of political opposition within the ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and to defeat, even before the 2007 contest, all opposing political forces, including those that are now in existence and are known, those that are in existence, but underground, and those that they are threatening to emerge. The objective of the special pacification is to blackmail into submission, by legal means, by settlement, and by state violence, all ethnic-based opposition to the present geopolitical structure and the political course which the regime intends to perpetuate.

The agenda sketched above is being pursued with the support of, and indeed, in alliance with, imperialism a.k.a the "international community". If the President succeeds in both objectives, an immediate product will be the emergence of a new hegemonic power bloc in Nigeria, a new power bloc that will shake up, from the roots, the existing two power blocs - the Northern power bloc and the Western power bloc - absorb their best parts and supplant them. It will be a thoroughly conservative and pro-imperialist power bloc, a slave component of the international community, a brutal and traitorous stooge that has no national pride.

If this calamity - which was predictable, and was indeed predicted - befalls Nigeria, then we shall see what fascism or neofascism is in reality, that is, outside the textbooks. It is then we shall see, in practice, what the "international community" means by "democracy" and the "fight against terrorism". I am reminded of an anecdote: A certain geography teacher loved speaking about winter. On retirement, he stepped out of the school compound where he had lived and taught for several years. It was during a particularly severe winter, but he could not recognise the weather. He was told by his former students that it was winter. "No, children", he answered, "this is not winter. It is a disturbance in nature". Let us not behave like the old Geography teacher.

In a recent private chat, a comrade of mine suggested that the regime in Nigeria must have been given the task of undermining genuine democracy, not only in Nigeria, but also along the entire West Coast of Africa. Countries cited as examples included Ghana, Togo, Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire. The task is to ensure that the imperialist agenda (consolidating the new American Empire) is realised in every country in the region. The comrade also suggested that two countries in the Third World - Nigeria and Indonesia - have been permitted by the "international community" to delay the introduction of even the minimal market, democracy being proposed for the periphery of the new American Empire. The consolidation of the empire - is more urgent than democracy! We both laughed, but I would have been mad to throw away his hypotheses. Everyone can see what the regime is doing with the African Union (AU), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), NEPAD, etc.

I wish to propose that we expand our conception of the "third term" agenda. I remember I made a similar proposition during the tail end of General Ibrahim Babangida's transition programme when it became clear that the General planned to install either himself, or someone, in power or, at the very least, prevent some categories of people from succeeding him. I suggested then that the rumoured "hidden agenda" of the general should be subsumed in a larger, more robust, formulation of our political problem. In a similar manner, I am suggesting that in the present situations, we should move from speculation to assumption. It makes practical political sense to assume that President Obasanjo has a "third term" agenda, that is, he is planning to extend his tenure as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria beyond May 2007, or stamp his imprimatur on the post-2007 governance, by means that are not yet clear, even to himself. But our conception of this agenda must be a mature one.

My proposition is based on this simple reasoning: Given the current national and international situation, and the role which Nigeria is being made to play in it, President Obasanjo, acting in concert with the "international community", will fight to install, in office, as his 2007 successor, someone as loyal, as trustworthy and as dependable as himself. The best "someone" is of course Obasanjo himself. If this fails, the strategists will move to the "second best", and then the "third best", etc., and the weapons they will assemble in their arsenal will include the constitutional and the unconstitutional, the legal and the illegal, the peaceful and the violent, the national and the international. The exact weapon or combination of weapons to be used to realise this objective depends on the balance of forces at the appropriate moment. I believe that if the problem is formulated in this way, what is now known as the "third term" agenda will simply appear as one possible form - out of the several which the problem may take - rather than the problem itself. The problem remains even if Obasanjo renounced his alleged ambition tomorrow.

If that is the case, then a single strategic solution which will deal with "third term" agenda, as well as other forms of "undemocratic perpetuation", may be sought. I am convinced that his proposition embodies a strong strategy, one that is capable of winning or, at least, stopping a national mockery or disgrace. I am, however, also convinced that it will not appeal to many professional politicians including, in particular, those who are waiting to be pacified or for the correct offer to fall in line with Obasanjo's plans, and those who do not want to stake anything in any pursuit, but would rather dream of winning in all cases. Although my proposition is not a revolutionary platform, I believe it is one around which a broad democratic, anti-fascist, coalition can be built; or if such a coalition is already in existence, it could help to strengthen it, expand it and sharpen its focus for the 2007 battle.

I find it difficult at this time to predict the trajectory of President Obasanjo's pacification campaign. I doubt, however, if the effort is necessary. What is necessary at this stage is, first, to follow, very closely, the political developments in the country especially in, and around, President Obasanjo, the National Assembly, and the PDP. Secondly, to follow, very closely, what is happening in the pacification campaign in the Niger Delta and in the Southeast geopolitical zone; thirdly, on the basis of this close observation, to try to see or work out the connections between seemingly disparate events; and fourthly to try to make simple one-step predictions, that is, to intelligently speculate on what could immediately follow.

The minimum political act that is demanded of every Nigerian patriot and democrat, at this stage, is simple vow: that the "third term" agenda - whether in the restricted form of extension of tenure or in the general form of "undemocratic perpetuation" - will not be allowed to succeed. The resolution must be unconditional and categorical; that is, it must not entertain "exceptional" situations such as the existence of "emergency" or threat to "national unity" which some people must now be articulating. Make this resolution today and seek out other resolutionists. We have to resurrect the spirit of June 12, 1993 even without an Abiola.

Searched into my old mails and saw this article written in 2004 about where Obasanjo is taking us. Our present state, the link above, the linak about the sponsors of Boko Haram all point to one direction. Can we hears? Can we avert this?

Let wake up guys


Pacification and resistance (guardian newspapers of today)
By Edwin Madunagu
AS a young student, I was highly intrigued by the word "pacification". I was aware that the ordinary meaning of "pacify", is "to allay anger or agitation", or "to restore a tranquil state", and that in this sense, pacification is the process of achieving or restoring peace. But in politics and political history, I found that "pacification" conveyed something radically different. It means, specifically, the violent suppression of mass discontent, protest or rebellion. Although I found, later, that pacification - in the political sense - also carried the ideas of restitution and appeasement - suggesting that the victims of the policy must have been considered by the perpetrators as having some grounds for their attitudes - this did not dissolve the confusion that afflicted me, the joke that the English Language appeared to be playing on me.

The resolution of the contradiction in the meaning of pacification came to me in the form of Machiavellianism: the end justifying the means. In President Obasanjo's Republic, pacification means the restoration of peace by the elimination of sources of opposition essentially by violent means. The other means include the threat of violence - implicit or explicit - and the settlement of opportunists and traitors. That is what is known as the peace of the graveyard. One way of settling a dispute and restoring peace is to eliminate the opposition as a group and settle some of the opponents as individuals. My problem as a young activist was my mobility to see that there are several forms of peace and that pacification only conveys one particular form. Contemporary theatres of pacification in Nigeria include the Niger Delta on top of the list.

President Olusegun Obasanjo appears to be embarking on a twin programme of political pacification: general pacification of the polity, and special pacification of specific segments of the polity. He is doing this either as a necessary step in the realisation of the rumoured "third term" agenda, or to realise the immediate pacification objective of the "international community", or both. The objective of the general pacification is to neutralise all pockets of political opposition within the ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and to defeat, even before the 2007 contest, all opposing political forces, including those that are now in existence and are known, those that are in existence, but underground, and those that they are threatening to emerge. [size=15pt]The objective of the special pacification is to blackmail into submission, by legal means, by settlement, and by state violence, all ethnic-based opposition to the present geopolitical structure and the political course which the regime intends to perpetuate.

The agenda sketched above is being pursued with the support of, and indeed, in alliance with, imperialism a.k.a the "international community". If the President succeeds in both objectives, an immediate product will be the emergence of a new hegemonic power bloc in Nigeria, a new power bloc that will shake up, from the roots, the existing two power blocs - the Northern power bloc and the Western power bloc - absorb their best parts and supplant them. It will be a thoroughly conservative and pro-imperialist power bloc, a slave component of the international community, a brutal and traitorous stooge that has no national pride.

If this calamity - which was predictable, and was indeed predicted - befalls Nigeria, then we shall see what fascism or neofascism is in reality, that is, outside the textbooks. It is then we shall see, in practice, what the "international community" means by "democracy" and the "fight against terrorism".[/size] I am reminded of an anecdote: A certain geography teacher loved speaking about winter. On retirement, he stepped out of the school compound where he had lived and taught for several years. It was during a particularly severe winter, but he could not recognise the weather. He was told by his former students that it was winter. "No, children", he answered, "this is not winter. It is a disturbance in nature". Let us not behave like the old Geography teacher.

In a recent private chat, a comrade of mine suggested that the regime in Nigeria must have been given the task of undermining genuine democracy, not only in Nigeria, but also along the entire West Coast of Africa. Countries cited as examples included Ghana, Togo, Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire. The task is to ensure that the imperialist agenda (consolidating the new American Empire) is realised in every country in the region. The comrade also suggested that two countries in the Third World - Nigeria and Indonesia - have been permitted by the "international community" to delay the introduction of even the minimal market, democracy being proposed for the periphery of the new American Empire. The consolidation of the empire - is more urgent than democracy! We both laughed, but I would have been mad to throw away his hypotheses. Everyone can see what the regime is doing with the African Union (AU), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), NEPAD, etc.

I wish to propose that we expand our conception of the "third term" agenda. I remember I made a similar proposition during the tail end of General Ibrahim Babangida's transition programme when it became clear that the General planned to install either himself, or someone, in power or, at the very least, prevent some categories of people from succeeding him. I suggested then that the rumoured "hidden agenda" of the general should be subsumed in a larger, more robust, formulation of our political problem. In a similar manner, I am suggesting that in the present situations, we should move from speculation to assumption. It makes practical political sense to assume that President Obasanjo has a "third term" agenda, that is, he is planning to extend his tenure as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria beyond May 2007, or stamp his imprimatur on the post-2007 governance, by means that are not yet clear, even to himself. But our conception of this agenda must be a mature one.

My proposition is based on this simple reasoning: Given the current national and international situation, and the role which Nigeria is being made to play in it, President Obasanjo, acting in concert with the "international community", will fight to install, in office, as his 2007 successor, someone as loyal, as trustworthy and as dependable as himself. The best "someone" is of course Obasanjo himself. If this fails, the strategists will move to the "second best", and then the "third best", etc., and the weapons they will assemble in their arsenal will include the constitutional and the unconstitutional, the legal and the illegal, the peaceful and the violent, the national and the international. The exact weapon or combination of weapons to be used to realise this objective depends on the balance of forces at the appropriate moment. I believe that if the problem is formulated in this way, what is now known as the "third term" agenda will simply appear as one possible form - out of the several which the problem may take - rather than the problem itself. The problem remains even if Obasanjo renounced his alleged ambition tomorrow.

If that is the case, then a single strategic solution which will deal with "third term" agenda, as well as other forms of "undemocratic perpetuation", may be sought. I am convinced that his proposition embodies a strong strategy, one that is capable of winning or, at least, stopping a national mockery or disgrace. I am, however, also convinced that it will not appeal to many professional politicians including, in particular, those who are waiting to be pacified or for the correct offer to fall in line with Obasanjo's plans, and those who do not want to stake anything in any pursuit, but would rather dream of winning in all cases. Although my proposition is not a revolutionary platform, I believe it is one around which a broad democratic, anti-fascist, coalition can be built; or if such a coalition is already in existence, it could help to strengthen it, expand it and sharpen its focus for the 2007 battle.

I find it difficult at this time to predict the trajectory of President Obasanjo's pacification campaign. I doubt, however, if the effort is necessary. What is necessary at this stage is, first, to follow, very closely, the political developments in the country especially in, and around, President Obasanjo, the National Assembly, and the PDP. Secondly, to follow, very closely, what is happening in the pacification campaign in the Niger Delta and in the Southeast geopolitical zone; thirdly, on the basis of this close observation, to try to see or work out the connections between seemingly disparate events; and fourthly to try to make simple one-step predictions, that is, to intelligently speculate on what could immediately follow.

The minimum political act that is demanded of every Nigerian patriot and democrat, at this stage, is simple vow: that the "third term" agenda - whether in the restricted form of extension of tenure or in the general form of "undemocratic perpetuation" - will not be allowed to succeed. The resolution must be unconditional and categorical; that is, it must not entertain "exceptional" situations such as the existence of "emergency" or threat to "national unity" which some people must now be articulating. Make this resolution today and seek out other resolutionists. We have to resurrect the spirit of June 12, 1993 even without an Abiola.


Also the link https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-804105.0.html

So long as I love my Village, Love my people and African minus our politics;

In terms of society and how they are organized, I wish I am born in Switzerland. I love their peacefulness, good economy, no wars, no stealing of other country's wealth.

I love Swiss

hollars:
If you govern Lagos state for 8years and you can't own an airline, your parents will disown you out-rightly. besides you need to to be informed, Tinubu was rich before he became the governor, so tell me if you had his kinda wealth before his position would you not grow someday and own an airline? Thank God he's investing it in the country not in Netherland's aviation business.

Corrupt thief, Kparawo, Ole, Onyeochi.

What have you just said? That if you rule Lagos for eight years that you should steal enough to be rich. What is the total emolument of a Governor that will make him rich?

From what you have just said, you seem to have proved you parents welcome thieves.

My own parents will disown me if I rule Lagos for any number of years and turn out rich, because they know it was a public office. Because we are not a family of thieves. may be your are as you have shamelessly proved.

So tell us where Tinubu made his money from? From drugs I guess?

realchange:
isn't it easier for Nigeria to simply call a national conference to address all local issues and fears? are the same people preventing that too? people should stop blaming the wrong people. sort your local problems through good old dialogue before foreigners help you do it.

How will they call a conference when most of the people around Aso Rock are part of the plot?

Read the link well, it is all about money and power. The root of all evils

Chyz*:
^^^
Everything that goes against a particular hemisphere when it comes to its non-"positive" involvent in an african country, is seen as a "conspiracy theory" to some african slaves or junkies.

[quote author=Kobojunkie link=topic=803651.msg9564009#msg9564009 date=1321378504][/quote]Gentlemen and ladies, Remember Wiki-leaks and shell confession. We know so many Nigerians are paid agents of the Super Powers. Do not listen to what any body is saying.

These two may just be agents are are acting out of ignorance.

For sure, there is an agenda to break up Nigeria. I strongly a faction in United States Government is behind it. I believe it is all about MONEY.

I believe it is part of the continuous colonization of Africa.

Even if they are to be lies, Is it not better we do not give them a chance. If any one gives your guns to fight for your tribe or religion say NO. because they will hide under a tribal or religious liberation struggle.

We can tell how the militants of Niger Delta have liberated the people or themselves.

The best we can do is to spread the message so that we do not give anybody a chance t waste us.

I have already forwarded the link to over 700 people in my email contacts.

Can someone pick the nations newspapers of 2010 and see if this same Sam man did not encourage GEJ to contents the election. As a journalist he must have interacted severally with GEJ, why did they give us GEJ and later turn back to complain?

All these people are lairs. Same fokes. In as much I hate GEJ and his government, I detest those that helped to create him for selfish reasons.

ode remo:
Is this not the same govt. That was planng Nuclear energy as an alternative form of power?
I laugh in bayelsa.

Thanks for reminding us

Beaf:
Yes, they are.
Do we have 10 million almajiri's anywhere in the South?

Doubt if you are worthy of wasting time on!

musKeeto:
Id[color=Black]io[/color]t, na our fault say your hustle no work for Nigeria? Come on, go wash plates with your fake papers,

You can call me whatever you like, but face the fact. Technology is meant to simplify task and not for its sake.

For your information I am right here in niaja. I am just telling you what I noticed years ago (may be even before you learnt how to use a computer) having worked in Banks here and in UK.

In UK, Excel sheets was put to it fullest use; all their banking applications are developed inhouse. In naija, they compete over each other in who can buy the latest foreign developed application with zero local content. I can name all the banks and their applications. A case in point was Savannah Bank that paid N800million in 2001 to buy a banking application. Find out how much UBA, Oceanic and First Bank paid for Finacle which is just a Web server running Oracle.

Since you seem to know more about web, if you can be encouraged to develop a banking application and save us the scarce foreign exchange, is it bad? If we can fully use the excel sheets and save the millions wasted on the purchase of technology for its sake, is it not better for us as a nation?

I bet you, most of us do not even know half of the functionalities in simply excel, yet we can claim to know the latest technologies around. Technologies are means to an end and not end on it own.

Have we as a nation not had enough of elephants projects and ego runs?

If pointblanks news fells it is cheaper and more manageable to manage their site in any way, that is their business. Let judge them on the security of the site and the news contents. Let not just drop names of technologies that we have heard.

Let for once be original in our thinking. Let us drop a fake culture.

If for making these points you call me idoit so be it; it is for your like that we live in this shame called Nigeria(Africa). If only and my likes can have our own country, we could have proved to you that we are a better people.

We are not mentally enslaved copy-carts like you. Period.

Did any of them deserve it?

Niaja

Is it about copying the latest technology or about getting the work done.

If manually generating their content saves them cost so be it.

I have seen UK banks that still uses excel sheets in most of their processing. In Nigeria it is all about buying costing softwares that they do not even know how to use.

Fake people; fake culture.

Be real for once.

all4naija:
Yes! I am Yoruba. What is tribalism in my comment? For saying what I observed about an author?Jeez! For your information, many of my good friends are not from my father's tribe.

Keep deceiving yourself. It seems you are not even intelligent enough to know your inner-self.

Wake up. Would you have made those comments, if it was Soyinka that is being discussed?

macjive01:
every one of their present leader is neck deep in corruption, from ciroma to atiku - IBB and their emirs-suporting boko harem.

Are our people better? Ditto: OBJ, GEJ and the Governors?

I forgot, Oshimole is a common criminal. Who does not know his role during the fuel strike days.

he has been settled for selling the common masses with a governorship position. I spoke with a guy that exposed the rotten wars he ran NLC then.

Open your eyes gentlemen.

tlops:
"Aregbesola for president", sounds like SUG election!

Thanks dear

KnowAll:
1.   Rochas – He is his own man, no Godfather, no complicated alliance, he is just who he is. He would be able make firm decision without looking back goring anyone’s oar along the way. He is having a good run in Imo State and so far his word is his bound, I think he is an up and coming Rascal In Power.


2.   Bukola Saraki – Made his father retire from politics prematurely. Although the old man is still insisting that he his still the  true power broker in that state, the fact on the ground proves otherwise, it  is there for all to see who is weilding the big stick now, there  has been a paradigm and tectonic shift from the older to the Younger Saraki albeit protestingly from Father and daughter. The good thing about him is,  he is his own man,  no Godfather to twist and turn him and to crown his triumphuism in his state he got a cushy Senatorial Job to the bargain giving him the best of both worlds I would say.


3.   [size=20pt]SLS-CBN Governor[/size] -  How could anyone forget this prince from Kano whose heart when closed is like the heart of Pharaoh? He is one dimensional; he once called for the death penalty for looters and obviously that would include many Northern Governor whom many are also big time fiddlers despite their outward holier than thou posturing. Just don’t mention Islamic Banking, I think the Government has resulted into a containment strategy by not mentioning it, that way the problem of Islamic Banking would go away  till the current President would take his exit. Whether SLS is happy about this strategy it remains to be seen, perhaps someone should open that Pandora’s Box by asking his view about it once more so as to irritate Jonathan making him jolt from his slumber . 

He is also passionate about the ills of the society. Would he be everybody’s cup of tea, I would say Capital NO to that but he remains a veritable Rascals In Power if given a chance. He would definitely shake the foundations of our society like he did our banks making me lose close to a 1¼ of a million Naira in the process. This is definitely another Rascal that we should be look out for.


4.   Bakare – Haba this man is a passionate man, he loves this country, the ills in the society make his heart bleed for the masses. It appears there has being a societal hypnosis or our people. People cannot see what Bakare can see, if he ever becomes President, a lot of people would relocate out of the country, he is definitely a Rascal I want in power, because he is the last bastion of the common man. “It takes idiots to be ruled by fools” is his most recent quote and what a quote it is.



5.   Buhari- Need I say more about this Gentleman. Nigeria’s premier anti-corruption crusader. If we have Buhari we would not be talking of the removal subsidy, anyways he has already said subsidy never existed before now. Is he a Rascal, Yes he does qualify as a Rascal, he doesn’t need long wielded and unending consultations before making decisions on any matter he knows precisely what the ills of our society is and he would go in like an experience surgeon and rectify the wrongs of the society.


6.   Field Marshall Aregbesola – Is a people’s person, a real Grass rooter, he is the King of his State, and all Opposition are dead on arrival. The only state that gave Ribadu electoral victory. Rumours abound that slaps people at random, well that makes his rascality authentic but I doubt those rumours anyway. He would go places when he gets the calling. But for now I know he is staying put in Osun but he is definitely a true Rascal In Power. With the stroke of the pen he created 10,000 jobs in his OYESS policy that is Dearing and commendable we hope to see more of him in the centre when the time comes.


7.   Tinubu- Or the GodFather – He believe he is God, he has learned his trade in the gangsta City of Chicago and he has had a few burst with the law in the US and come out of it unscathed I believe if he was the head man in Nigeria, he would neither have fear but favour those who love him. He would be decisive, forthright, and straight to the point. One can expect no hanky-panky with this fellow. And if you cross his part there could be only two places for you, exile or six feet under


8.   [size=15pt]Ngige[/size]- I would have called him a Rascal but how did he got himself entangled with that mayhem when he was the Governor of Anambra State. I hope he has learned his lesson, in this business called Politics Godfathers should be kept at arms length. He is in a good party and his brazen victory during last Senatorial elections was commendable. The jury is still out on his Rascality thus. 



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9 Another Rascal how could I forget Atiku -

What was I think off, Atiku Abubakar, the mention of that name makes some people in Aso Rock miss a heart beat even OBJ trembles at this man's tentacle. His hands and claws seems to be at every piece of dirt land North of the Niger and Benue Rivers. The only man that makes Boko Haram tremble with fear and fall weak on their knees. The Americans in d American Uni in Yola are at peace than those in their bunker embassy in Abuja. What does that tell anyone of this tiger Politician. He is currently d the last man standing in d North and d last Generalissimo of d Northern Brigade just like Aregbesola is d Field Marshall of Oshun State. He is one Rascal anyone who wants that coveted crown should overcome. How do you overcome such a collosul human who more or less took on an incumbent and gave him a run for his money. He is d new crusader in d North and a Rascal in the waiting ready to grasp power at d slightest dulling by any of d other candidates.

On a serious note, I support this thread. Having lost the next four years to PDP and Jonathan, we should better start thinking of 2015; so that the mistakes of 2011 will not repeat itself.

On the list, my preferred candidate is Sanusi, because I see him an above average intelligent man; I in him, a courageous man; I see in him, man one that loves Nigeria. Did anyone hear his speech on the last economic forum last week: where he was lambasting the Oil companies for stealing from our country. The American Ambassador was speechless because he knew Sanusi was saying the truth.

I also believe that, in so far as Sanusi will naturally protect Northern(Caliphate interest), he will be forthright enough to be fair to every section of Nigeria. Every Intelligent man knows that this is the only way to succeed in office.

His greatest undoing is that he has shown his hand too early enough, and the forces that kept us back (the CIAs, M16 and co) will never allow him rule Nigeria.

Mark my word, should Sanusi becomes the next President and moves in the direction I expect him to (Protecting our economy, restricting unnecessary imports, enforcing discipline and proper accounting among the oil companies and other conglomerates), the West will look for any excuse to undermine him. Probably treating us in the manners of IRAN, CHINA, AND KOREA.

I wish Sanusi can rule Nigeria. (I am Igbo and will never sell Igbo interest. I am picking Sanusi purely on merit)

Ngige with what he displayed in Anambra state may be good, but need to be watched before comfirmation.

Tinubu is a thief and unworthy of ruling Nigeria. He is meant for the Gallows.
So is Atiku and co.
My best candidate from the West should have been Fashola but he has let me down by the way he allowed Tinubu to undermine him.
Bakare is yet to be tested. I supported him with Buhari but may not trust him as President. he need to prove himself more (I personally gave him a number of someone to call that could mobilise voters for CPC, but he turned it down - I honestly suspect it was because the man was alos a strong character that he Bakare was afriad may undermine his hold on Buhari [Human beings can be funny at times]) .
Buhari is too old for the Office. Look at IBB already dying, Do we want another Yar'adua in office.
Rochas is an ex 19 man and unfit for that office.
Saraki is another theif, have we forgotten Societe General and the stories that emanated from Intercontinental.

I can't see why Aregbesola should be in this list. Let him prove himself first.

SO gentlemen and ladies, if we are to be a serious people, we can start planing for 2015 with a sound candidate; or or can choose to remain the way we are.

Xavier.:
The award was GEJ's way of compensating the SE for it's enormous support during d last elections.

The Yorubas should not expect South East to clean up their mess in producing GEJ. Yes the Igbos voted GEJ because the poor villagers could not abandon their immediate neighbour, morose where no one informed them of his negatives.

But the Yoruba elites produced GEJ. Obasanjo brought him to limelight because he found him a perfect stooge. (A better way to pay back the north for reviving him). The Yoruba press (the nations newspaper in particular) lured him to contest against all norms, in breach of PDP zoning arrangements
The yorubas as selfish as they are always wanted to kill zoning after enjoying it for 8 good years.

Shame to people that will never rise above selfish interest. You produced GEJ, go advise him to rule Nigeria well. Shameless bigots

ChinenyeN:
This thread is filled with ignorance regarding the slave trade in Igbo area. See Ndu_Chucks opening his mouth, jumping erratically and uselessly from slavery to osu.

What Ndu_Chuks said is what I read years ago. The Igbo's republican nature is well known. Igbo Enwe Eze.

I am Igbo and I am proud of our past. I am proud of who we are. We only need to reclaim our future.

Those that envy us should go strive to be better than us. period.