₦airaland Forum

HungerBAD:
Another fabricated story by Metuh(selah) of the PDP.

The fear of APC/BUHARI is the Beginning of Wisdom.

ineco:
nothing like shift,its just monday to friday. I ve s guy work with them at their call centre at Victoria island

MrFairplay4ume:
Acting President Goodluck Jonathan shouldn't
have come to America. OK, I take that back. Acting
President Goodluck Jonathan shouldn't have come
to America without preparation. His speeches and
press interviews have sadly inflicted enormous
reputational violence on his person - and on
Nigeria. They were, to use the weakest expression
I can summon to capture my deep disappointment,
a pain to watch.
I had never heard Jonathan speak before. I'd just
assumed that being a Ph.D. and a former lecturer,
articulateness in speech would be the least of his
problems. How wrong I had been. His performance
at the (American) Council on Foreign Relations was
a disaster of epic proportions. Let's not even talk
about his CNN interview with Christiane Amanpour.
That was a dismal fizzle. No Nigerian who wants to
retain his national self-esteem should watch it.
What the eyes do not see, they say, the heart does
not grieve over.
On Wednesday, I visited the
NigeriaVillageSquare.com, like I always do, and
saw a video of Goodluck Jonathan's Q & A session
at the Council on Foreign Relations posted on the
site's front page. I left everything aside and
decided to watch it. I'd just finished arguing with a
group of Nigerians who thought Jonathan wasn't
presidential in his carriage.
They said he looked intimidated and unsure of
himself before Obama. But I thought otherwise.
The pictures of him I saw looked to me dignified,
presidential, and admirably self-assured. I
managed to convince some of my online
interlocutors that they were mistaken in their
assessment of the acting president's composure
and mien throughout his U.S. visit.
So, when I saw the video, I looked forward to
watching it with a lot of enthusiasm. I had an
expectation that I would listen to a clear-headed,
intelligent, confident exposition on Nigeria from
Jonathan. But less than five minutes into the video
I felt so embarrassed for the man - and for Nigeria
- that my teeth itched. Just then a colleague of
mine strolled into my office. I instinctively and
furtively stopped the video and minimized the
window with the anxiety, alacrity, guilt, and
embarrassment that a self-respecting family man
caught watching dirty porn would evince.
And that was precisely what my colleague thought
I was doing. So she apologized and left
immediately, half-embarrassed too. I was so
thoroughly mortified by Jonathan's performance
that I didn't want anybody else, not least a non-
Nigerian, to watch it.
What did he say in the Q & A session that was so
atrocious? Well, you will have to watch the video -
or read the transcript - yourself. No second-hand
recapitulation will do justice to the abysmal
emptiness it betrays. But a few things stood out in
bold relief from watching that video. First, this man
is clearly thoroughly provincial. He does not know
the ways of the world and is not emotionally and
socially prepared for the job of a president - yet.
After former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria Mr.
Howard Jeter introduced him to the audience with
lavishly laudatory prefatory remarks, he didn't even
acknowledge the remarks. He didn't say a word
about the introduction. Jeter described him as "a
man of uncommon loyalty, impeccable integrity,
and an immense commitment to Nigeria and to the
welfare of the Nigerian people." That's some pretty
strong praise. But that's not the reason why he
should have acknowledged Jeter's remarks.
Protocol requires that he does so even if the
praise weren't this flattering. That he didn't say
"thank you Ambassador Jeter for that warm
introduction" or something to that effect was just
socially awkward.
But I forgave him that gaucherie. I chalked it up to
the fact that he was probably too intimidated to
have the presence of mind to observe
commonplace conversational niceties. Who
wouldn't be? America can intimidate the hell out of
even the most self-assured person, especially from
the Third World.
Then came his speech. It was unbelievably dull,
colorless, and uninspiring. Whoever wrote that
speech for him needs some basic training in
speech writing. Although he could have enlivened
the drab, rhetorically impoverished, error-laden,
cliché-ridden speech with an artful delivery, I
didn't blame him for it. I held out hope that he
would prove his intellectual verve in the Q & A
session.
How wrong was I again! His performance in the Q
& A session was worse than the speech he'd read.
He couldn't articulate a coherent thought, hardly
made a complete sentence, went off on
inconsequential and puerile tangents, murdered
basic grammar with reckless abandon, repeated
trifles ad nauseam, was embarrassingly stilted, and
generally looked and talked like a timid high
school student struggling to remember his
memorized lines in a school debate. It was
obvious that even Ambassador Jeter was
embarrassed.
The point at which I stopped watching the video
was when he started answering a question about
what Nigeria's foreign policy is. This man had no
clue what Nigeria's foreign policy is! I felt deep
pity for the acting president and for Nigeria. But
why didn't his assistants prepare him to answer a
question as basic as Nigeria's foreign policy? How
could he accept an invitation to speak at the
Council on FOREIGN Relations and not give a
thought to Nigeria's foreign policy?
This was a painful piece to write. Our acting
president came across like someone who is barely
literate. His grammar was awful. He doesn't seem
to be aware that there is something called subject-
verb agreement, as evidenced in statements like, "I
wish to thank the esteemed members of the
Council on Foreign Relations for its continued
interest in Nigerian affairs," "issues of corruption
bothers us," etc. And "Muslim faithfuls"? Well,
there is no word like "faithfuls" in the English
language, Mr. Acting President. And by "sectoral
crisis between Muslims" did he mean "sectarian
crisis between Muslims"? Hmm.
He also came across as thoroughly insular and
unsophisticated. How else could he promise an
American audience that he would make "50, 60, 70
percent" progress on his promises? Those are
failing grades in America, Mr. Acting President!
Doesn't he have advisers who went to school in
America? In America, 50 percent is "F," 60 percent
is "," and 70 percent is "C" minus.
Finally, he came across as unfathomably clueless.
Just look at this statement as an example:
"Muslims and Christians are not at war and they
will never be at war as far as my own
circumstances." Seriously? Enough said.


Farooq Kperogi wrote from USA

Ghandi12:
Hon. Gbaja, take a pause, have a look behind you, who/what do see?

A man's fall provides another opportunity for him to rise again and again, even higher.

PMP remains the acceptable rallying point of APC - follow his directions.

The APC leadership have noticed your talents, loyalty, and commitment your days of glory will come...patience, patience, patience I preach.

buzquet:
Betrayal is in d blood of yorubas. am nt suprised.

shamecurls:
[size=28pt]Change is here[/size]





Sai Baba.........

lolaxavier:
Wailing wailers/The mumu above me/Tanoids be like 'Buhari wants to profit from awarding contract by doing it himself'. If you are one of those with thoughts like that, always remember that thunder will continue to fire you left, right and centre.

AMBIVERT:
Make this conversation a strictly one on one thing.

Do not bring my mom into whatever nonsense you're spewing.

Be Warned.

Flashh:
Nonsense!

mascot87:
Waiting for 10 things Men NEVER tell their Woman

mascot87:
Waiting for 10 things Men NEVER tell their Woman