₦airaland Forum

QUOTES TO REMEMBER ,,, Sunday Akoji Posted:
PRESIDENT JONATHAN UNPLUGGED!
22 Unquotable Quotes Of GEJ
1. “CNN has said our Economy is growing. The best Economists are at the World Bank. Now you have all these Nigerian Economists talking nonsense. Do they know better than
CNN or World Bank?”
2. “Nigeria is not poor. Come and see the amount of private jets Nigerians parked at Kenya Airport when we went to Nairobi for Conference. Kenyans were just looking at us with envy. How can you say Nigerians are poor?"
3. “Nigerians need jobs. Vote for me and I will create Unemployment.”
4′. “We are giving special Scholarships to our First Class Graduates…….in ten years time, they are going to take us to the Moon.”
5. “How can you just say $20 billion is missing. If that kind of money is missing, the Americans will know. They know everything.”
6. ”Corruption is not stealing. If you put nyam and Plantain where a goat is, the goat will eat the nyam.”
7. “If you go to Lagos and shout “ole ole” they will stone you well well. But if you shout “corruption”, people will just be looking at you.”
8.”Why should i declare my assets? I don’t give a damn!”
9.”People are just raising false alarm. How can 200 children go missing just like that? It is our enemies trying to cause confusion. But we are investigating the matter”
10. “We are going to rebuild the Chibook school. And we are going to build high fences round the school to protect them next time . Yes Yes.”
11. “People keep saying, why don’t we go to Chibook, why don’t we go to Chibook. Aaah, we can’t go to Chibook Just like that. The Boko Haram people will fire at us.”
12. “This Abuja bombing is not by MEND. We know it is by Boko Haram. They are everywhere. Boko Haram is even in my Government.”
13. “Boko Haram are our siblings. You can’t set the Army to go and wipe out your family”
14. “Mend tried to kill me. They came to bomb me in Abuja. That is why we jailed Henry Okah in South Africa”
15. “I did not plan the Election postponement. Even my Service Chiefs did not consult me.”
16. “If i knew Election was going to be postponed, why will i waste my time and Federal Government money to go and campaign in Bayelsa.”
17. “I am the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. You don’t expect me to go and be fighting in Sambisa forest. People jus talk anyhow”.
18. “We are going to buy Guns and give good Pensions to our Brave Soldiers, so that when they are killed, their families will not suffer”
19. “Some people just call themselves Statesman for nothing. They jump about and talk like motor park touts.”
20. ‘After God and my Parents, the third person i thank most for my life is President Olusegun Obasanjo.”
21. “I want to apologise to the people of Rivers State for not bringing any Projects here. It is because i don’t want people to say i am doing favouritism. Vote for me and in the
next 4 years you will see my hand”
22. “I am the sitting President. If there is any trouble, it is me that the United Nations Secretary General calls. Everything is on my head.”
[While these quotes may sound too bad to be true, be assured this is NOT just some prank. THESE QUOTES ARE DIRECTLY FROM LIVE INTERVIEWS AND SPEECHES OF PRESIDENT JONATHAN! You can literally verify them for yourself by doing a simple
google search!]
Dazzol

i made this when GEJ won the election in 2011,

hasyak:
Since i do not believe GEJ/PDP are the type of leadership we deserve in this country at this time, i pray GEJ disappoints me and leads the country to a greater height
.

he came and confirmed my believe that nothing good will come out of them

obamartins:
Its easier said than done, this Guy will be rendered impotent if Buhari wins, the Kastina mafia takes over GMB's government and Osinbanjo will as useless as the "P" in Psychology. GMB can never allow yorubas be the core of his kitchen cabinet and those are the decision making body in any government in Nigeria. So spare me all this "beautiful manifesto" the hausa/fulani man doesn't care, for him, it's all about grabbing power from an infidel.

When i remember Ideagbon water runaway mee EYES

Those that have passion for change are burdened with BIG ISSUES and those with passion for status quo are occupied with SMALL ISSUES. Is this coincidence or one is missing something?

Those that have passion for change are burdened with BIG ISSUES and those with passion for status quo are occupied with SMALL ISSUES. Is this coincidence or one is missing something?

chosen04:
Blessed is the man who expect nothing for he shall never be disappointed.
I never expected any good works from that fisher man. Thus, am not disappointed.

Almost 4 years ago?

Where is the FRESH AIR?

beopened:
EXPOSED: AIT Caught Pants Down After Accusing Buhari Supporters of Hacking Its Online Poll


The Africa Independent Television (AIT), has been caught pants down in an attempt to smear the image of the presidential candidate f the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari, which has become a stock in trade for many individuals, groups and organisations sympathetic to the cause of President Goodluck Jonathan.

The Television station had few days ago organised an online poll between the Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), President Goodluck Jonathan and that of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari on who Nigerians prefer as their president.

But just a day after the poll went online, AIT being the organiser pull down the poll after Buhari assumed an unprecedented lead over president Jonathan, claiming the site is undergoing maintenance.

Buhari’s lead in notwithstanding a documentary which has been aired constantly on the television platform with the clear intent of tarnishing the image of the former Head of State.

The decision of the TV station to pull down the poll did not go down well with most Nigerians who criticised AIT for its bias on Buhari. Scores of people lambasted the station for deliberately playing out the script of the presidency and the PDP.

But in order to justify her decision to pull down the poll website where Buhari was clearly in the lead, AIT released a press statement claiming the poll was hacked by supporters of Buhari with the use of a software to vote several times in favour of Buhari.

In the statement widely circulated to media houses, AIT claimed an integrity test conducted on the result of the poll showed that 30 unidentified unique IP addresses voted a total of 4969 in favour of Buhari, suggesting that the process was hacked and rigged.

Not satisfied with the claim by AIT however, ICT expert and Executive Director of Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN), Gbenga Sesan went to work and discovered that AIT did nit only lied in the press statement, but also deliberately manioulated the CSV file which contained the IP addresses where voters who participated in the polling are found.

According to Mr. Sesan, though the AIT tried to edit the CSV file so as to prove their point that the poll was hacked, they failed in putting the numbers together which ended up exposing them.

Incidentally, this is about the second time a similar but deliberate falsification from the Jonathan camp would be exposed.

In early 2014, a presidential aide sent a mail with an alias attempting to indict former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi who is now the emir of Kano as the sponsor of Boko Haram.

Sanusi at that time exposed the $20 billion said to be missing from the account of the Nigerian Nationa Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).


See below Mr. Sesan’s finding as he revealed via his twitter handle.
@gbengasesan

'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
1. Internet Protocol (IP) addresses are number labels assigned to devices within a network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication

'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
2. Internet Protocol designers used 32-bit number. IP protocol version 4 (IPv4) is limited because it’s only from 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255

'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
3. That basically means IP version 4 only has 4,294,967,295 IP addresses. That explains why IP version 6 (128-bit numbers) is now being used

'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
4. Long numbers can be confusing. So, IP addresses use dotted-decimal format: 4 numbers separated by periods. Something like 192.168.123.132

'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
5. If geeks don’t want to be nice, they’d leave easy IP address 192.168.123.132 as 32 bit number. That’d be 11000000101010000111101110000100

'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
15. I now have a copy of the CSV file sent by AIT to media houses. This copy was obtained from a pro-GEJ news website http://www.thebreakingtimes.com/exclusive-how-pro-buhari-online-users-compromised-ait-polls/ …

'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
19. Ladies and gentlemen, look at the IP addresses again. What did you notice? Exactly. 82.145.210.258 to 82.145.210.293. 258 and 293? AIT?!

'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
20. The folly went all the way to 82.145.210.570. First, 82.anything isn’t geographically in Nigeria. It’s in Europe. AIT says NIG. Error 1

'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
21. The biggest error is that anything above 255 is not a valid dotted-decimal number. Remember, highest binary is 11111111. That’s 255.

'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
22. Ladies and gentlemen, AIT messed up! Big time. If you would fabricate lies, don’t be lazy like the Goodluck Jonathan administration.

'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
23. AIT fabricated IP addresses that don’t exist to prove that APC rigged their poll. Shame on you, AIT. I dare you to disprove these tweets

'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
24. I’ll say this again. This is 2015. Not 1999. If you’re going to lie, be smart about it. Otherwise, we’ll factcheck and expose your lies!

'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
In conclusion, @AIT_Online, you owe @ThisIsBuhari and @APCNigeria apologies. The management of Daar Communications PLC lied. Apologise NOW!

'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
AIT reminds me of the cheat who was given “expo”. He dubbed all answers, and also dubbed the instruction, “don’t dub beyond this point” :

'Gbénga Sèsan @gbengasesan · 2h 2 hours ago
The cheats needed to show a lot of rows with Buhari and similar IPs. When “engineer” got to 255, (s)he forgot “don’t dub beyond this point”


SOURCE:http://abusidiqu.com/exposed-ait-caught-pants-accusing-buhari-supporters-hacking-online-poll/

+8

Dewze:
And how where you able to come to that assertion, after the fact that the contribution of men and women in politics section is about 5 to 1 in ratio.

more 50% of ladies are more objective compared to the % of men

will like to have others observations too...

kevoh:
Shut it there! If you know me well, you will know I'm apolitical. What's my business with Buhari and your paymaster Jonathan. You think life revolves round APC vs PDP that you can not discern when your country is being belittled and insulted.

After 54 years, we still don't manufacture our weapons and have trained army personnels handling them, instead we are running helter skelter to procure arms because of boko are rams. Giant of Africa indeed!

Till you use your brain and start thinking beyond APC and PDP, You remain the real enemy of Nigeria.

+8.2

Going thru some posts on politics, i observed that averagely ladies make more objective contribution than guys?

that means there is hope for this country..... open the mind of a woman you open the mind of the nation!

dvee2:
With all due respect to this president, why do you always address Nigerians from the church? Monday to Saturdays, you have all the time to address us but you dont until Sundays in the church. Are you not causing religious division? Nigeria is a circular state for Christ sake. What will happen if Buhari address the nation every friday from the mosque? Why are you buying sentiment from christians and causing further division among your countrymen? I know past northern presidents goes to mosques and saudi arabia, but they never address national issues from the pulpit of the mosque. You move from one church to the other every sunday addressing your countrymen in a circular state like nigeria and bigots call Buhari the one that is religious fundamentalist?

+6.97

Came across this and decided to share it for those that FFK serious

JONATHAN, TUKUR AND A GOVERNMENT OF JEZEBELS ... By Femi Fani Kayode.

I must commend President Goodluck Jonathan for removing Alhaji Bamanga Tukur as National Chairman of the PDP and finally dumping him. It really is good riddance to bad rubbish because that man was a disaster to his party. PDP itself is bad enough but to have a self-conceited and vainglorious ancient dinosaur who is completely fixed in his ways, who believes that anyone and everyone below the age of 60 is still a ''young'' man or woman and who sees the world from the prism and mindset of a 1960's Viet Nam war veteran that is still suffering from post-war traumatic syndrome was a disaster waiting to happen. This was a man that drove goodwill away from his party in the same way that shelltox drives away mosquitoes from a bedroom. As long as Tukur was in charge the continued demise of the PDP was guaranteed. He was not only a scourge to the ruling party but he was also a beautiful, eager and willing undertaker to it's long lost glory and a tremendous source of comfort and joy to those of us in the opposition APC. We shall miss him sorely and I must confess that he did a great job for us whilst he lasted. May he enjoy his forced and long-overdue retirement from public office and partisan politics and may he live long enough to see the PDP defeated and an APC President sworn in 2015.

I also commend the President for removing and reshuffling a large number of his key commanders in the military a couple of weeks ago and then retiring no less than three of his four Service Chiefs just the other day (16th January 2014) and appointing new ones. This was the right and proper thing to do after the precious lives of no less than 7000 innocent Nigerian citizens were cut short by Boko Haram in the war against terror in the last three years. It was also the expedient and responsible thing to do given the fact that no less than 200 of our gallant soldiers were killed in one battle alone against Boko Haram (and later buried in mass graves) just a few months ago simply because they ran out of bullets and after a whole army barracks was burnt down to the ground and the family members of military personnel were slaughtered, again by Boko Haram, just a few weeks ago. Something had to give and heads had to role simply because we were not making any headway in the war against terror and instead we were suffering heavy casualties and embarrassing losses.


Yet despite the fact that both moves were commendable they will change nothing because they are both too little and too late. The PDP will continue to sink because it is a political party that has lost it's bearing and it's soul and it has mortgaged it's conscience. It has also lost the source and strength of it's inspiration and moral authority in the distinguished person of President Olusegun Obasanjo who really was the glue that bound the party together and kept it going against all odds. Though Obasanjo remains in the PDP he has also wisely opted out of participating in it's affairs. This is a manifestation of his disgust with the President and the former National Chairman and he has now become the official ''navigator'' of the newly emerging power in the field of Nigerian politics which is known as the APC. Frankly speaking the PDP has become a party that is beyond redemption and the removal of Tukur cannot change that. I say this because no sensible person will go back to a stinking carcass simply because the head of the dead animal has been cut off and thrown away. A carcass remains a carcass whether you cut off it's head, legs or any other part of it's body or not. Whichever way, it remains as dead as a dodo and it only awaits a formal burial. The truth is that the vultures are already feeding fat on the rotting and decaying cadavar of the PDP and whether anyone likes to hear it or not the truth is that that party can never be whole again. As I said 8 months ago it is a party that has been rejected by God and whose leaders are suffering God's judgement for their unjust, gluttonous, wicked, foul and evil ways.


In the same way I have to say that no matter how commendable and honourable in intention the recent changes in our military High Command may be they will achieve nothing either and, in practical terms, they will serve absolutely no purpose. This is because the morale of the army is very low due to the massive losses that they have recorded in the war against Boko Haram and because they have a Commander in Chief who does not care about their welfare, does not ''give a damn'' about their fortunes and does not have the guts to lead and inspire them with strength and courage. Worst still he has refused to arm and equip them properly or give them a free hand to fight and prosecute the war against terror with the ruthless precision and decisive resolve that is required. They say that if an army of sheep is led by a lion it will win every battle. In the same vein they also say that if an army of lions is led by a sheep it cannot win any battle. The latter is the case in Nigeria. In our military we have an army of lions who are well-trained, professional, strong, courageous, ready to go and capable of doing anything that is required of them as long as they are properly-led, well-armed, well-equipped, well-motivated, well-supplied, adequately encouraged, thoroughly inspired and well-supported.

However that same army of noble and courageous lions is led by a sheep who, by his own words, has told the world that he is not a lion, he is not a warrior, he is not a fighter and that he is not a king. If anyone has any doubts about that permit me to refer you to my essay titled ''A President Without Balls'' and the two updated versions of the same essay titled ''The Gutless Eunuch and Spirit of the Jagaban'' and ''The Gutless Eunuch and the Lion King'' respectively. They can all be found on my website-www.femifanikayode.org or you can just google them. To have such a man as Commander-in-Chief actually encourages and tempts the enemy to attack us because weakness and a reluctance to lock horns and engage and to be strong, forceful and decisive when provoked or attacked always attracts aggression. As long as such a weak and uninspiring man remains the Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces please be ready for more casualties and more losses regardless of how lion-like, courageous or professional our soldiers may be.

However there is hope. If Goodluck Jonathan wants his fortunes and the fortunes of his party to change and if he wants peace to return to our shores he simply has to do twelve things. Firstly he has to resign as President forthwith and undertake to stay out of Nigerian politics for the next ten years and confine himself to fishing in Otueke. Secondly, if he cannot step down, he must give a public undertaking to the Nigerian people that he will not run for re-election in 2015 and tell them that if he changes his mind and decides to do so at the last minute they should stone him. Thirdly he must go and prostrate flat on the floor with his face touching the ground before seven of the most respected and distinguished men in this country and tell them that he is very sorry for the mess he has created and he must refuse to get up until they swear by the Holy Bible or Holy Koran that they have truly forgiven him for destroying our country. Those men are President Olusegun Obasanjo, General Ibrahim Babangida, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, General TY Danjuma, General Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Atku Abubakar and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Fourthly he must write an open letter of apology to the 36 Governors of the Federation, the Senate President, the Speaker of the House and the Chief Justice of the Federation for his manipulative ways and the gross incompetence and ineptitude that he has displayed whilst running the affairs of this country over the last three years.

Fifthly he must write a letter of condolence and pay a token fee of compensation as restitution to the families of every single one of the 7000 innocent Nigerians that have been killed by Boko Haram in the last three years. Sixthly he must take off the kid gloves, stop interfering and give the military the green light to use all necessary means to prosecute the war against Boko Haram and he must win that war. Seventhly he must dismantle the death squads and the group of deadly snippers that he has allegedly commissioned to create havoc and he must tear up the list of one thousand opposition figures that he has been accused of drawing up for elimination by Obasanjo and others. Eighthly he must remove one Esho Jinadu who is better known as Mr. Buruju Kashamu (a rather strange name that does not have it's origins in yorubaland but instead sounds like a low quality brand of Indian tea) as the leader of the PDP in the south-west and honour the demand of the American Courts and the ruling of the Nigerian Federal High Court and Court of Appeal by extraditing him to the United States of America to answer serious charges of drug smuggling in that country forthwith. Ninthly he must direct his Ijaw supremacist kinsmen to desist from threatening the lives of other Nigerians that oppose his government and who keep threatening brimstone and fire and the dismemberment of Nigeria if he is not allowed to come back in 2015.


Tenthly he must undertake to stop serving kai kai at the Presidential Villa and he must dispense with the services of one Mama Brandy, a well-known Ijaw ''prayer warrior'' and spiritualist. Eleventh, he must pull down every satanic alter that may have been erected in the Presidency and consecrate and re-dedicate the whole place to the Living God. And twelfthly he must give a public undertaking that the other four Presidents that run this country with him and that act as his ''Co-Presidents'' will also step down with him forthwith or, if he insists on staying till 2015, give an undertaking that he will fire them with immediate effect and bar them from playing any role whatsover in the running of the affairs of our country from now on. Those four co-Presidents are, in order of seniority, 1. Dame Patience Jonathan (the First Lady) 2. Allison Dizeani Madueke (the Hon. Minister of Petroleum Resources) 3. Stella Oduah (the not so Hon. Minister of Aviation) and 4. Ngozie Okonjo-Iweala (the Hon. Minister of Finance and the Co-ordinating Minister). President Goodluck Jonathan, even though he is the public face of the small cabal of co-Presidents that presently rules Nigeria and even though he is the one that was given a lawful mandate from the Nigerian people in 2011 to lead our country, comes a distant fifth in the pecking order. He is co-President number 5 and woe betide him if he crosses the line and tries to challenge the position or usurp the duties of any of his four seniors. That is the sordid and degenerate level that our country has been reduced to by this little man from Otueke.


Yet it is not too late. If our President can find the courage to take these twelve steps peace will return to Nigeria immediately and our people will once again have hope. The problem that we have in our country today is not an ageing former Party National Chairman called Bamanga Tukur who had lost touch with reality, who never knew how to play the game and who did not know when to call it quits. And neither was it a set of tired and exhausted army commanders and Service Chiefs who did their best but who received no real and tangible support or encouragement from their Commander-in-Chief in the field of battle. The problem that we have is the President himself- a President who prides himself on his own weakness and incompetence and whose love of false prophets and strange women knows no bounds and has no end. A President who is as confused and as clueless as the comic character called Chancey Gardner in the celebrated 1970's Peter Seller's Hollywood blockbuster titled ''Being There''.


A President who does not understand the meaning of the word ''class'' or ''honesty'' and who breaks his own word consistently. A President who has abdicated his responsibilities, destroyed his own political party, divided his own country, alienated his own friends, humiliated his own mentor, abandoned his own people, brought ridicule to his own faith, cowers before his own officials, betrays his own governors, scorns the international community and breaks his solemn oath to protect and defend the Nigerian people. A President who does not even have the nerve or the guts to call to order any of the numerous Jezebels that control him. He is the problem we have in our country today and until he resigns, is impeached or is voted out of power nothing will change and Nigeria will continue to go from bad to worse. That is what you get when you vote for a man who never wore shoes to school. May God deliver our country.

http://saharareporters.com/…/jonathan-tukur-and-government-…

gtrust:
Pictures of Dollars please

BIG LIES... SO NO PICS

ALISMILE:
After the attack on the Kano Mosque which, so far, has resulted in d highest number of casualties in a single attack by BH, is it still rational to pin BH on Islam? Most of us in d South ve alws been quick to blame Islam and Muslims, wenever a church is attacked by BH. Mainly, due to religious bias and the aged long prejudice against Islam. Now who do we blame for this attack? We in d south together with CAN ve been saying that Sanusi is a supporter of BH. We ve alws peddled the idea that Buhari is a BH sponsor, even though he was attacked we said there was foul play,because he wasn't killed in d attack. When the Shehu of Borno was blacklisted by BH we said it was only a false flag until BH sent a suicide bomber to him in a failed attack. When Sheik Gumi's mosque was to be bombed by BH in another failed attack, we said it was another false flag. The former Emir of Kano was alleged to be a BH sympathizer until his convoy was attacked while he mysteriously escaped. CAN president ve been sayin that Northern leaders er not talking loud enough against BH and I ask, 'Who no dey fear'? Is it not time we stopped trading stupid blames and unite in d fight against this blood suckers? Any sunday a church Is bombed we ll say its Islam's war against Christians. For God's sake am tired of hearing all this sentimental bullshit. Tribal and religious tirade will take us no where! Have a blessed sunday!

+7.7

FRESH AIR............. TRANSFORMING THE NATION

Disappointed? NO

Franzeez:
@ op, u and ur father can go and die! GEJ till 2019

typical

Franzeez:
See this muslim fools talking of God of Elijah. Fanantic people mtcheeew,,,, I took my time to look at most of all these people supporting APC and I saw islamic inscriptions in their status.... Seems there is an islamic stuff behind APC. Just check his status and see, I hope he does not change it# APC kai!!! Islamic Party

why is it that anytime someone makes any comment against PDP, the only respond is based on sentiments ie religion or ethnicity

After two years of selfless service, a man
realized that he has not been promoted, no
transfer, no salary increase, no
commendation and that the company is not
doing anything about it. So he decided to
walk up to his HR Manager one morning and
after exchanging greetings, he told the HR
Manager his observation.
The boss looked at him, laughed and asked
him to sit down saying; "My friend, you have
not worked here for even one day."
The man was surprised but the manager
went on to explain:
MANAGER: How many days are there in a
year?
MAN: 365 days and some times 366.
MANAGER: How many hours make up a day?
MAN: 24 hours.
MANAGER: How long do you work in a day?
MAN: 8am to 4pm i.e. 8 hours a day.
MANAGER: So, what fraction of the day do
you work in hours?
MAN: (he did some arithmetic and said 8/24
hours i.e. 1/3) One-third.
MANAGER: That is nice, what is one- third of
366 days?
MAN: 122 (1/3 * 366).
MANAGER: Do you come to works on
weekends?
MAN: No sir.
MANAGER: How many days are there in a
year that are weekends?
MAN: 52 Saturdays and 52 Sundays equals
to 104 days.
MANAGER: Thanks for that. If you remove
104 days from 122 days, how many do you
have now?
MAN: 18 days.
MANAGER: OK! I do give you two weeks sick
leave every year. Now remove that 14 days
from the 18 days left, how many days do you
have remaining?
MAN: 4 days.
MANAGER: Do you work on New Year day?
MAN: No sir!
MANAGER: Do you come to work on workers
day?
MAN: No sir!
MANAGER: So, how many days are left?
MAN: Two days sir!
MANAGER: Do you work on Independence
day?
MAN: No sir!
MANAGER: Do you work on Christmas day?
MAN: No sir!
MANAGER: So, how many days left?
MAN: None sir!
MANAGER: So what do you need a promotion
for? We should even be sacking you! Good morning
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kasiem:
do u mean to tell me that the type of comments we see here on nairaland show a bit of enlightenment?

"a bit enlightened” ..compare to the rest that are not even enlightened? you can now imagine how pathetic our situation is

kasiem:
In many of the elections done here in Nigeria apc has always been the winners online but in actual reality they would always fail. Check how ngige won everything online, same way the party won the elections in ekiti and so many other places online but all through this periods they've always failed yet their followers wouldn't stop being deceived by online elections. This was the same way buhari virtually won all the elections online and when he failed in reality his supporters started alleging rigging which culminated in post-election crisis. Please i suppose by now we should've understood that reliance on online victory is not always good to avoid unnecessary problems

The truth is that most that go online and comment on political discuss are a bit enlightened, and can make rational decisions, compared to the majority whom are politically blinded by sentiments of religion and tribe.

MissMeiya: Nigerians need to be empowered and take control, instead of being spectators to their own lives.

How?

With a mindset that cant see beyond tribal and religious sentiments?

MissMeiya: That is what I'm saying. Nigerians need to take ownership of Nigeria.

We deserve the leadership we get... because most are so myopic

WildChild00: [color=#000088] APC men and women in NL hv taking over the thread, not one not two, alll... [/color]

Anybody that says the truth is now an APC person, how pathetic
The truth shall set you FREE.....

Gbawe: @OP

Nice thoughts. Clearly the thinking of a rational, mature and analytical mind. Virtually all you have said is correct. The problem, as I perceive it, is that for every single Nigerian who is like you there will be thousands who are the opposite i.e sentimental, bigoted, ethnocentric, prejudiced, intolerant and lacking focus and self-pride. These sort of citizens make it too easy for misrule to thrive and that is why this is indeed the case in Nigeria.

The fact is that our leaders might not be the hideous misrules they are if Nigerians, as a people, know how to focus on what matters and hold elected leaders accountable. When this ability is absent in a citizenry then political leadership becomes a get-rich-quick scheme that will attract the worst Nigerians living simply because of the understanding that there is no repercussion for misrule and the looting of the commonwealth of the people. We have a long way to go precisely because what should be a nation's strength, i.e her people, happens to be Nigeria's biggest weakness.

+8

Kold: I personally don't like to comment on any social media. The reason is not far fetched, I am usually surprised by the nature of comments on the social media by us the so-called future leaders. It makes me weep for the future of the country.

We can blame the leaders for all we care but they say the followers deserve the kind of leaders we get. I will try to address some of my concerns as follows:

1. Chasing the Shadows: The social media has been turned to a place where people from different ethnic extractions come to bash one another. Being a Yoruba, Ibo or Hausa is not what you select or choose, it pleases God in His infinite mercy to make you an Hausa, Ibo or Yoruba as the case may be. Poverty, sickness, joblessness, careless death etc does not recognize whether you are an Ibo or Hausa or Yoruba. I have seen many good ibo people, good Yoruba people and good hausa people, good Christians and good muslims. Vice versa, I have come across many bad Yoruba people, bad Ibo people, bad Hausa People, Bad Christians and bad muslims. No ethnic group is bad, God has created us to do good. I am a Nigerian of Yoruba extraction and I have many good Ibo and Hausa friends. I don't see them as different from me, I love them as fellow human beings and they do the same. My encounter with a few Yoruba people or Ibo people will not make me to generalize.

I have been praying that our generation will be light to the Country but with the plenty ethnic hatred on the social media platforms, I cry for my beloved country and that is part that makes me feel bad about being a Nigerian.

2. Accountability in Governance: I often ask whether we often think as a nation. When I hear people comment about whether someone should be voted for or not, they do not focus on the real issues. In advanced countries, political aspirants are taken to task on their policies and programmes. But here in Nigeria, we focus on chasing shadows. He is a Muslim, he is a Christian, He is a Yoruba, He is an Hausa etc - those are the comments you hear from people instead of focusing on the real issues that affect our lives. Whether someone is a muslim or christian, how does that concern us or add value to our lives.

The political class knowing fully well that we are very gullible often focus on telling or sponsoring sentiments since they know that is what we care about. That is why someone can spend 4 years and we don't ask sensible questions on much money has been received by the government and what have they done with the money. I am a Christian but I don't care if my President or Governor is a muslim or not. All I want is a man I can be proud of in terms of performance.

3. Sainthood in Politics: I have often heard people talk about how PDP and APC are the same. Political parties are vehicles and you cannot stop people of shaddy characters from joining. From my little experience of politics in Nigeria, we have heard people of unquestionable character contest elections using the so-called "Saint" Party e.g. Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu and Chief Gani Fawehinmi of blessed memories once contested for presidency using APGA and NPC, how many people voted for them? What I have realized that we need two (2) strong parties but the parties will contain both the good and the bad. It is left for us to make a choice based on the personality of the candidate. For those dreaming that there will be party that will comprise only saints, they had better be dreaming.


4. Terrorism: With the advent of the boko Harram comes our usual buck passing game. Why can't we as a nation acknowledge our shortcomings and come together to address our security concern. I have heard many people blaming the northerners. While I will not argue that some elites might be benefitting from the insecurity, many downtrodden people are suffering in the north. Many lives of innocent people have been lost. If you have seen the pictures of parents of the Chibok girls, who do you think they are? They are very poor parents that are going through a lot of trauma. If we cannot help them, the best we can do is to keep our mouth shut instead of creating ethnic hatred on the social medium. PDP will want us to believe that it is APC that is sponsoring Boko Haram because they know we are gullible people. If that is true, then it is an indictment on the PDP Government that they know the sponsors of Boko Haram and they have not arrested them. If PDP knows the sponsors as they claim by accusing APC, why have they not arrested them? Do you think that if PDP has a little information that APC is involved, they would have arrested them because it is an advantage to them. It is glaring that PDP do not have any evidence to link APC to Boko Haram but because they know that Nigerians don't ask sensible questions, they will sponsor sentiments so as to cover their incompetence to protect Nigerians.

Conclusion:
Though I have so many thoughts, I will just stop here for now. If the quality of the future leaders are the people commenting on the social media, we had better be scared about the future of our nation. Where do we turn to, God forbid if the next generation of leaders are that ethnic bigots that we have on the social media. I pray God help us as a nation.

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5 Reasons to love Nigeria from an American perspective.

I'm an American and I love the United States of America. I'm proud of where I was born and raised. But this post isn't going to be about that. I've been fortunate enough to travel to many places throughout the world. I have fond memories of so many people I've met and so many instances I've been a part of.

Nigeria isn't just a place I've traveled to. This has become a home away from home to me. I lived there off and on for many years and it is a Country that I not only care about, but a place where I want to see it's potential reached. And I have committed myself to being a part of that solution in the years to come. As you've seen from my prior posts, Nigeria is always on my mind and there are so many topics I could talk about. But this post is going to go over the 5 main reasons why I love Nigeria. And it's not only a privilege to share this, but I believe it's mandatory.

Reason #1: March, 2011

In March 2011, I was in Nigeria. I was in the middle of a trip that would keep me there for a 4 month stretch. I was staying on the mainland in Lagos at the time at a lovely little hotel in Mushin. My wife who is Nigerian and her family that were in Nigeria thought I was crazy for staying there. My wife hasn't been back to Nigeria in over 15 years so her opinion on Mushin is based on 15 years ago, not currently. And her parents haven't really been to Mushin in a quite a while. So I appreciated their concern, but I enjoyed staying in Mushin. This could be another post all on it's own so I will stay on topic.

I was working on the Island this particular day. I worked late. It was around 9 p.m. when I left. We had to stop over in Ikeja before I went to the hotel so we were on the Third Mainland Bridge heading there at that time. A small car hit something in the road and flipped on it's side. The car was packed with people. 4 adults and 4 little kids. Since it was on it's side, they were crushing each other. I had my driver pull over to the side and when I got out of the car, what I witnessed told me what Nigeria can become. And this moment will stay with me forever and has been my inspiration in regards to Nigeria.

I would guess that 40 cars pulled over on both sides of the bridge when this happened. At least 40-50 people ran over to the car. They were all there in less than 30 seconds flat. People latched on to each other to make a "ladder" so other people could climb on top of them. One guy positioned himself to be able to reach in the car. Then in consecutive fashion, a person latched on to his feet to give him stability and strength and another person at the bottom was grabbing the other person's foot to give total stability. Everyone was rescued from the car and were not injured because of how quick the rescue was. Then, about 2 minutes after the rescue, the car caught fire. Without that quick response and everyone working together, 8 people would have died.

At that moment in time, there weren't any Yoruba's, Igbo's, or Hausa's. At that time, there was just simply Nigerians helping out fellow Nigerians. I believe what I saw could be incorporated into every day things not just emergencies. A society where people look to help other people. Slowly as the future generations are getting older, the cultural and religious stereotypes that people in Nigeria have been mentally enslaved to are going away.

Reason #2: The Food!.....Oh the Food.

I love Nigerian food. The good thing about the various tribes is that they have their own take on Nigerian cuisine. And it is delicious. Personally, I love Efo. And I can cook it too. My Nigerian friends and my Wife's family are always shocked at how I can cook Efo. When I first ate it, I had to learn how to make it. The key I believe is to fry the onions with the palm oil first. And if you can find the perfect juicy tomatoes and red peppers to blend then you are going to have a good dish.

I don't know if I'm spelling this correctly, but Kokoro is also one of my favorite snacks. And I believe you can only get this snack in Abeokuta. For those who do not know or are not Nigerian, Kokoro is corn that is blended and then fried into corn chips. They are unbelievable. Every time I go to Abeokuta, I buy a large amount of this snack.

Lastly, Suya is one of my favorites. I don't like it spicy though. So when I head over to the Suya stand on the side of the road in Ikoyi, I always ask for Suya without all the pepper. I get extra tomatoes and onions on the side. Since the guy is Hausa, I ask for "fala fala tomatoes and onions". Suya has gotten me through many nights when it was too late for me to get dinner.

Reason #3: The Parties

Nigerians know how to party. Not only do they know how to party, they can find any excuse to throw a party. Just had a kid? Have a party. Just got promoted? Have a party. Just retired from your job? Have a party. Just had an anniversary? Have a party.

These parties are usually scheduled at 2 p.m. but since this is Nigeria, everyone starts to show up around 7 p.m. and the party goes on through the night. Lot's of food. Lot's of music. And I believe 40% of the guests don't even know who the party is for. They just heard about it and came along. So at these parties you meet a lot of new people.

There was one trip where I believe I went to a party on 5 consecutive Saturdays for some reason or the other. By the sixth week, I was exhausted.

Reason #4: The Music

Whatever kind of mood you are in, you can find some kind of music in Nigeria to fit your mood. Nigerians are excellent at using existing genre's and adding their cultural flair to add sound to the music.
Whether it's Hip Hop, Gospel, Rock, Reggae, Jazz or Rhythm and Blues, there are so many talented Nigerian artists that are enhancing these genre's.

Reason #5: The Street Vendors

We all know how bad traffic is especially in Lagos. This is a place where you could be going only 30 miles and take over 3 hours to get there. It's infuriating and highly stressful.

But when you are stuck in traffic, everything you may need will be available to you through the street vendors who walk in between the cars on the street. Thirsty? Get some soda or juice. Hungry? Get some popcorn, peanuts, banana's, ice cream, fruits, or gala. Don't have time to get to the malls? No problem. You can get CD's, DVD's, Shoes, Sandal's, Home Décor or really anything else. All of these things can be bought while you're in traffic.

I got stuck in traffic one day and I was late to dinner meeting. When I finally got to the meeting, I didn't order anything to eat. Because while I was in traffic, I had a Coke, Banana, half a bottle of peanuts, and Ice Cream.

Some people might say that it is these very same street vendors that cause the traffic to begin with. But I don't care. I love them any way.

God Bless Nigeria.

Wishing you Success,

Brian Botts

Do not judge based on one sided information, the writer is bias even from his writeup. Dangote employs more 30,000 people directly.

Imagine how daft, needs them to secure a loan? everything is cabal even in a private biz?

So for him to sack them, then something most be wrong with them, if they were useful i dont think he will sack them.

FYI, he only tried to employ the graduate drivers out of pity, If you think you deserve better go do it yourself!

Woged2005: For those who live abroad N1mil is only about $7,500. For some people, it's only a month's salary, for some 17yrs old high school kids working part-time at McDonald's it's a year's Salary. However, the bills and cost of living is killing abroad (UK, USA especially). Jeez! So honestly I can't say I have, N1mill salary won't do much in USA after taxes and bills, but in Nigeria it's a lot.

My own Story:

My friend and I hit it in Nigeria at age 24 & 25 respectively. Unemployed and fresh from Uni, we worked as Marketing Representatives on 10% commission supplying detergents to hotels and hospitals. During our school's Alumni event, we announced our biz and asked for help. Two months later, a good-hearted fellow Alumni saw how young girls like us could set pride aside and worked on commission without salary and helped got us a supply sub-contract to UNTH/ UNEC, Enugu worth almost N7mil. We got 10% (N700k) from the company after they supplied, and because we supplied above the company's price (markup) we got another N320k, Total N1,020,000. However, we split the money btw us after paying 10% tithe to our fellowship. God bless that man wherever he is.

Girls, heaven helps those who helps themselves. If you can't get a salaried job, start with a part-time sales job on commission until God answers your prayer. It keeps ur mind busy, and better than debasing your body with men over change.

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Kamsy10: Whenever people call Obasanjo a saint or a hero, I'm always like 'are these people suffering from memory loss or they were not born when Obasanjo was president?'
The evil that men do lives with them. Obasanjo is not an exception.
This is big time nemesis.
D daughter who has benefited one way or the other is bold enough to tell him the truth to his face while nairaland jobless youths are here defending him.
Nigeria is indeed a reflection of Obasanjo- corruption

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Face your farming squarely, forget the job, the 50k will be a distraction.

knowing that you have no option than to succeed, this will give you the added push you need.

Welcome to the entrepreneurs club.