₦airaland Forum

kodded:
mumu by your useless logic no southerner or yoruba should vote for buhari after he jailed and killed us for no good cause

Your mentality stinks

What part of South West was Umar Dikko from?

atlwireles:
Dumbasss keep driving your cab.

What'd I tell you years ago?

I've influenced policies that will guide how you and your generations will live their life in your own country. Just like they guided how your father and his father lived theirs. And what do you do in response?

Rant on the Internet!

You need to change your mentality. Even if I was a cab driver, it's an honorable, dignified, and honest profession. Only in your country have I seen people chastised for earning a honest living; that's why your country is the way it is today. Because an overwhelming majority of you are crooks and criminals and you don't even know it because that's what youre used to and was born into.

atlwireles:
Questions for Professor Jean Herskovits--on Boko Haram

In early 2012, Professor Jean Herskovits, a well-known historian who has written much about Nigeria for nearly half a century, wrote a most interesting Op-Ed in the New York Times. Titled, "In Nigeria, Boko Haram is not the Problem," the good professor--to whom many governments and NGOs go for advise on Nigerian matters--not only announced authoritatively that "there is no proof that a well-organized, ideologically coherent terrorist group called Boko Haram even exists today," she went on to claim that the world was being misled by the media into thinking that the BH is anything more than a bunch of unformed, criminal gangs produced by incessant poverty in the Muslim north, and insensitivity of a Christian-led government. According to her, "Someone who claims to be a spokesman for Boko Haram — with a name no one recognizes [I guess "no one" refers to specialists like her] and whom no one has been able to identify or meet with — has issued threats and statements claiming responsibility for attacks. Remarkably, the Nigerian government and the international news media have simply accepted what he says."

Her final advise--which was later adopted in a letter to the then Secretary Clinton by a bunch of US-based specialists, including Herskovits--was that the Obama Administration must not declare the BH a terrorist organization, and that the US must not wade into a "Nigerian war on Terror." Fine.

BUT, Professor Herskovits, in the wake of the large-scale murders of school children (in secondary and tertiary schools) in Born0 State before and since you wrote your Op-Ed, and considering the present abduction of nearly 300 school girls, all claimed by Boko Haram through their leader who you doubted his existence in 2012, what advise do you and your fellow Nigerian specialists have? Is the Boko Haram now a problem, in Nigeria? Do you now recognize or know the name Abubakar Shekau who has been leading BH since 2009?



http://chikaokeke-agulu..com/2014/05/questions-for-professor-jean-herskovits.html

And?

Listen, you can pretend to yourself all you want--- like you Nigerians are fond of doing---your Govt has a lot to confess about on the Boko Haram menace. She was right. We weren't interested in helping your Govt fight it's political battle by framing his opponents. That's part of what made BH so big today.

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

Don’t Steal Nigeria’s Election


Campaign posters for Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, an opposition candidate, in Lagos.

AHMED JALLANZO / EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY

By JEAN HERSKOVITS

MARCH 25, 2015
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/03/26/opinion/edherskovits/edherskovits-articleLarge.jpg
LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigeria’s government canceled the February presidential election just days before it was to be held, postponing it until March 28. If this weekend’s vote is delayed, disrupted or canceled, it will imperil the democratic future of Africa’s most populous country.

This election is unlike any other in Nigerian history. President Goodluck Jonathan’s Peoples Democratic Party is facing the first credible challenge to a ruling party, and he is intent on staying in power, even though popular discontent with the P.D.P. is rife.

If the election had been held as scheduled on Feb. 14, it is likely that Gen. Muhammadu Buhari of the opposition All Progressives Congress would have won. The six-week delay broke the A.P.C.’s momentum and gave the P.D.P. time to to reverse the tide. Incumbency guarantees access to the treasury and command of the security forces — the first is in play now, and the second could be during the election and its aftermath.

Nigerian politics can be murderous; Mr. Buhari has already survived one attempted assassination, an October bombing in Kaduna. And if there is another postponement, a contrived disruption on election day that leads to an unconstitutional interim arrangement, or if the election results do not appear credible, Nigeria could erupt in violence.

Although Nigerians have often been divided along ethnic, religious and regional lines, there has been a remarkable change. Until quite recently, southern Nigerians overwhelmingly supported Mr. Jonathan, a southern Christian. That view prevailed in 2011, when Mr. Buhari also ran for president. The influential Lagos press portrayed him as a dictatorial, fanatical Muslim seeking to impose Shariah on the whole country despite the fact that Christians were a majority in his cabinet when he ruled the country in the mid-1980s.

But daily life has worsened and corruption has escalated. Last year, Mr. Jonathan removed from office the respected governor of the Central Bank, Lamido Sanusi, after Mr. Sanusi announced that in one 15-month period at least $20 billion in government funds went unaccounted for. (The government recently claimed that an audit had found that “only $1.47 billion” was missing).


Meanwhile, the same central government has failed to send money it owes to the states, and teachers and other civil servants have gone unpaid. Currency devaluation and inflation mean that unpaid and laid-off workers in the public and private sectors are now in the same boat as the country’s impoverished and jobless millions. They are unlikely to vote for the status quo.

There have been military humiliations, too. Nigerians are embarrassed that their army needed reinforcements from smaller, poorer neighbors like Chad, Niger and Cameroon to reclaim northern towns from the terrorist group, Boko Haram. In fact, no Nigerian troops were present in some of the liberated towns. Worse, the government is hiring South African mercenaries for $400 a day in a country where soldiers are paid much less, often late, or not at all.

Frontline troops have long complained they did not have adequate equipment or sufficient ammunition. But according to the government’s own figures, a quarter of federal budgets since 2010 have been allotted to security. Many Nigerians conclude that the money has gone to enrich the army top brass and their civilian colleagues.

The February election was supposedly postponed so that the military could focus on the offensive it has now launched against Boko Haram. But the government’s priority doesn’t appear to be protecting Nigeria’s people and territory; its goal is to stay in power. The postponement has simply allowed the ruling party more time to spend money the opposition cannot match.

Many Nigerians now see Mr. Buhari as the man who can deliver them from corruption and insecurity. He was Nigeria’s military ruler from 1984-85. He was petroleum minister before that. And in the late 1990s, as a civilian, he chaired the Petroleum Trust Fund. He could have enriched himself, but he did not. In the 1980s, he repelled a Chadian invasion and acted decisively against an earlier extremist Muslim group. As Adeyemi Adefulu, a Yoruba civil servant who was unjustly imprisoned under Mr. Buhari’s regime during sweeping arrests of the allegedly corrupt in the 1980s, wrote recently, “Our jailer has become our hope.” He is now actively campaigning for Mr. Buhari.

With so much at stake, the United States must play a constructive role. Secretary of State John Kerry has stressed that the election must take place on Saturday and that it be “free, transparent and credible.” And Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. last week expressed support for the electoral commission and urged electronic authentication of voters.

More is needed. America must publicly insist on retaining the head of the electoral commission, preventing any election-day violence or intimidation by security forces, and announcing results at each polling place. And voters should not be prevented from using mobile phones to photograph local results as a precaution against later rigging.

This election must not be stolen from the people. Mr. Kerry has suggested that visa restrictions could be placed on anyone who interferes with the electoral process. This policy, along with a threat of targeted financial sanctions, should be announced now and it should include members of Nigeria’s security forces.

The global fall in oil prices, Nigeria’s squandered foreign reserves and the draining of an account intended to cushion price shocks mean that Nigerians face hard times ahead. They deserve to choose who will lead them through those times.



Jean Herskovits, a research professor at the State University of New York, Purchase, has written on Nigerian politics since 1970.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/opinion/dont-steal-nigerias-election.html?_r=3&referre

Roflmao Nigerians are very funny once religious and tribal hatred starts to blind them.

A man...one of the most popular men from your country in the last 100yrs. One who has played an integral part in the development of your country for over 40 yrs --- and was once your Head of State--- does not have a school leaving certificate and nobody knew until Goodluck Jonathan revealed it in 2015?

Not even the coup plotters that kicked him out in 1985 found this absurd claim out. They could've easily used it as one of the reasons why he was overthrown. Subsequent Governments --- since they couldn't nail him for corruption--- could've tarnished his image by exposing his lack of a school leaving certificate, they didn't.

GEJ supporters should try to use their brains sometimes. This is getting tiring.

You can only like this woman's jungle antics if you're as backwards as she is.

Flets:
If by chance Buhari wins this election, extremely hard times lies ahead for this country. 

Definitely, the creeks will go haywire again, Buhari will send the troops to the creeks and together they will set the oil facilities ablaze.

While these persists, the oil producing companies will simply withdraw their personnel from the volatile region and all foreign investment will seize in all sectors.And even if the troops kill 90% of the militants, it will take just one militant, a dynamite and just one location along the multi- kilometre trunklines to continue to wreck havoc. 

Fast forward to 2019, if we remain one country and without a civil war,, we will be an economic wreck with no allocations and salaries, no capital projects, no hope with dollar exchanging for 400 naira and we are worse off than we were in 2015.

Cos the truth is that without crude proceeds for now, Nigeria is finished. 

And then, we'll be screaming another 'Change' because we would have learnt a bitter lesson in the hands of the Fulanis, Tinubu and Saraki.And then we will ask.... Why were we this silly?

And before you quote me, make sure you outline in clear terms how you or Buhari will avert this obvious calamity staring us in the face


Only last week, they creek boys seem to have resumed activities by kidnapping at Yoho facility operated by Exxonmobil and have shut in 80KBD already. Are we ready for this for the next 4 years?

The entire world stands to benefit from a crisis in the Niger delta. Its not a coincidence that USA who abandoned us at the height of bokoharam is busy shouting for change in govt . Crises in the ND will reduce supply of crude to the Oil market and that would drive up the price of crude for producing countries.... But at Nigeria's expense.

Nigerians.... Be Warned!!!

People like you need to be hung from the highest tree in your poverty stricken, and corruption ridden, country.

exxell:
I am a south Easterner.... If I vote Buhari, may heavens close up on me after death... There is no space in Aso Rock. If Buhari must stay in a rock, he should try Zuma Rock! Even that phucktard called Rochas is not getting my vote... Scammer of the highest order! Come to Imo state and see the so called change... Ekperima

When was the last time you had 24/7 electricity for 5yrs straight without even a millisecond power outage?

dolapobello1:
While the speech is very eloquent, I find it a bit hypocritical of the US to claim to be a friend of Nigeria and assume a big brother stance, when it was very quick to desert us in time of need.

However, If I correctly understand Obama's subtle nuances, from 1:50-1:53 of the video, it seemed like he was encouraging voting for GEJ. He says, "By casting your ballot, you can help secure your nation's progress". Any contrary ideas?

We deserted you?! You deserted yourself through you deceitful and corrupt ways. Haven't you suddenly found a way to tackle the Boko Haram menace?

And if you really think that at anytime during that speech Obama endorsed GEJ, you need your head checked. Parts of that speech was a veiled warning to the ruling Government to let votes count and not intimidate its opponents using State apparatus, the rest (about Boko Haram, displaced people etc) was basically to impress it upon you that your Government is a failure and your country is on its to being a failed State if you keep toeing the same path.

Reference:
Tribal problem did not start with Jonathan, the Ijaws or the PDP and will not end with his re-election or otherwise. Nothing I have seen in that report that cannot be attributed to any contestant or any ither region.except the person is just being mischievious.

The problem of Nigeria is a disproportionate balance of power. The rights of some to have power in perpetuity and the fate of others to be in constant subservience. Nigeria cannot work that way. Let the Ijaws enjoy what others have enjoyed since independence, period. When everyone has had his fill then you can start your good governance rubbish.

They only make noise when power is out of their hands. When they regain it they start making excuses why good gobernance cannot work. Nonsense. Are we kids. We have seen enough governments to know what Nigeria is all about.

You're a sick lunatic!

udeh3:
Asari went to University

ROFLMAAOOOOOOOOO

nzeobi:
GEJ used oil money from niger delta to fight Bokoharam , so buhari should be ready to use groundnut sales to fight militants

Fight Militants?!

That area will be turned into a war zone, blockaded, and cordoned off from the rest of the world. I doubt any unrest caused by Nigeri Delta Terrorists in that area just because Jonathan lost will be sustainable for a long period' it will be easily, quickly, and viciously quelled, that much I can guarantee you.

P.S: Why are Ibos eager to cause trouble in Nigeria using GEJ as cover? Why have Ibos been encouraging strife in, and the, destruction of Nigeria?

joyli:
Anybody can buy a house if you have a good credit and ur down payment . no big deal there . na we dey here we knw what's up.

If your downpayment is not $2million or better theres no way you're buying a house like that in New York, even if you live upstate. Thats a $15-20million house Im looking at just from the section shown in the pic. She's not a U.S citizen or resident so for a house like that she's either coming up with the full cost of the house, or a down payment of like 70-85%. So, except she somehow coughed up like $12million....

Common sense tells me this pic was culled from the internet.

Jonathan is not desperate to serve, just desperate to steal, loot and protect his fellow embezzlers.

Not desperate indeed, yet, the first bill he proposed as soon as he became President (after just 2 weeks) was one that'd eventually ensure he becomes life President.

Goodluck Jonathan, you are irritatingly and annoyingly desperate. You are the epitome of desperation.

millman234:
When ever i see newspaper write ups like this, all i do is just laugh. Who can stop a man from his destiny? God knows GEJ will be in office till 2019 he had spoken so let the sun keep on analysing.

I'm assuming you're God?

hansad:
It seems Buhari and Co do not understand the meaning of NEVER AGAIN which Nigerian troops shout aloud.
Boko subjected Nigerian troops to the ordeal of fighting.... .

"Ordeal of fighting" indeed. What do you think people join the army to do?

The rest of that drivel of yours was utter rubbish. I wonder where PDP digs you clowns out from then pay you to come spew rubbish online.

olapluto:
Who is William Reed (the writter)? He claims to be the president of the 'Black Press Foundation' . No info about this 'foundation' on google. The only info about this 'foundation' is this article by WT.
I honestly think this is another 'Wendel Simlinn*' orchestrated by the desperate team GEJ.
This was also an opinion piece (i.e written by members of the public and sent to the editor to consider for publishing). Could this have been written by Abati and sent in using a non existent name William Reed, and a non existent foundation called Black Press foundation?
Investigation begins!

You are smart!

There's a William Reed of the Black Press International, yet I don't see one for the Black Press Foundation.

Either way, the article seems like a paid advertorial for Jonathan and PDP.

Buruji Kashamu is wanted in the United States, but he's one if GEJ'S closest buddies.

chukwudi44:
They have been watching Mugabe for decades yet he is still in power. Abeg tell us another story jare

IBB and Abacha were a thousand times stronger than Mugabe, yet, when Nigeria decided it was time to go they "left".

Nigeria is one nation that has no qualms killing it's leader if their actions threaten the unity of the country.

Nigeria is not Zimbabwe.

chukwudi44:
APC supporters should stop pretending as if their party is holy. Everyone is playing dirty. Afterall Buhari is not qualified to stand for election having failed to present his certificates.

You think unseating an incumbent president in Africa is by making noise on nl and Twitter baa.The games have just started

You talk too much. Even your boss is scared, jogging around town and complaining that Buhari will jail corrupt officials. If he was as confident as you he won't be all over the country making a fool of himself in attempts to garner votes

Sanchez01:
Sometimes I look at the APC and I'm forced to think the sudden disappearance of GMB had long been scripted. He went underground almost after the postponement of the Presidential election, went to the UK while the incoming VP got himself engaged with grassroot politics, touching the least person in the society while the PDP and GEJ plus his two birdies, FFK and Fayose were busy labelling the General with death chants. GEJ's endless charade of 'youth' bribery meetings went on and then, voila! the General returns and the big spender is once again relegated. God bless the General.

Sai Buhari!
#iHaveDecided to
#March4Buhari and
#May4Jonathan

It's called "Strategy".

MayorofLagos:
For a non-Igbo it is perhaps difficult to understand the deep-seated, almost visceral, general dislike Igbo people seem to have for presidential candidate and former military strongman General Muhammadu Buhari. Actually there is a long list of grievances Igbo can point to about Buhari, and you have to go back in history to know them.



The Igbo have a justifiable dread of Nigerian military officers who were natives of Northern Nigeria and who participated in the civil war.

Really?! But they're not scared of evil ones like Gen.Babangida whom the Late Ojukwu himself endorsed as President in the last elections?

The truth is your people are bigots and tribalists. Most of them.

K

Analorgue:
and what makes you think an OVERWHELMING majority are looking to re-elect president jonathan? And who says i clap for our past failed leaders? Thats what happens when ignorant folks abroad take to shallow analysis. And i don't have beefs with non-nigerians, i have beefs with m.orons who ironically think they are smart both in and out of nigeria. As we obviously do not need ur ignorant opinions, u myt like to take ur gate-crashing to ur perfect country or to another country that gives a damn about what you think of them. kapish?. By the way, ur perfect educational system did not make u understand 'void' CAN also mean 'completely lacking' Exactly what i'm saying.

Yap, Yap, Yap......

"Void" in the context you used it was wrong.

torkaka:
. . . . . . . . . .the most insane, backward and low esteem person is one who doesn't know who he is . . . . . . . . . . . .coming online, hiding behind a moniker and claiming American!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . .chairman, if you intend to go about pretending you are what you aren't, make sure there's no trail behind . . . . . . . . . . .I urge all to read through the post(s) from the profile of this so called American wannabe and you will see how he is intellectually bankrupt . . . . . . . . . . . . . .your post(s) are laced with what we call "Nigerian English" all and through . . . . . . . .you are not so smart, or you would have known that most of what we pass as "English" are actually statements filled with Nigerian expressions which over time we think it's correct English.

. . . . . . . . . . . . .Mr. American, go get a life!!

You need to stop drinking so much. We taught you how to read, write and walk around clothed now you're claiming the English language?

What the hell is Nigerian English? Is that what President Jonathan and his wife speak?


P.S: why are your posts always laced with "...."? You need to learn how to use it properly.

HzRF:
She's a great example, she believed in GEJ frm day 1,

More like she had no choice, neither did GEJ. Who in their right mind would want to procreate with either of them? If he wasn't President and he asked for your sister's hand in marriage would you approve? Or, if your brother tried to marry her 25 years ago would you have been happy that this uncouth, obese, illiterate woman would be your in law?

Say "Yes" to either question and I know you have neither standards nor class.

ziccoit:
PEJ is too ignorant to understand that Buhari as a paramount ruler and all in all in the past did not enforce religion practice in any form.

She is not Ignorant. She is fully aware. But she--- like the rest of The Looters Crew FC of Abuja--- is scared to go to prison and lose all the properties she bought with money stolen from the Nigerian people, so they sell fear by spreading religious and tribal hatred through propaganda.

ozoigbondu:
I so much love this woman .But she is right muslims do lock up their women amd i don't put it above pa buhari to equate women to goats

Can't wait to contuine enjoying her speeches till 2019 with her husband as president

Messrs Tinubu, Buhari and Fashola's wives are locked up in what prison actually?

Analorgue:
And then u arrived, portraying ur stupidity in the form of intelligence insinuating that we av a problem detecting sarcasm. Only if u had some common sense. N whats ur f**king beef with nigerians?

Was I the first person to comment that it was sarcasm or do you have a problem because it didnt come from one of your kinsmen?

Whats ur f**king beef with Non-Nigerians?

Analorgue:
The OP posted comments that were void of sacarsm n we based our judgements on this bit we were given.

Do you know what void means?

Analorgue:
i've tried to go through this thread in peace, buh u seem to be talented in posting comments that specifically piss me off. U knw u dnt av to generalise things, just as u av deranged e-diots in ur country(of which i'm sure u belong), we also have them here in nigeria.

Actually, I would disagree by saying an overwhelming majority of your population are actually deranged and insane. I mean, look, yall still trying to reelect President Jonathan and his dancing, singing, illiterate clown of a wife. Added to this obvious case of lunacy, is that in over 100yrs yall still dont have electricity, good roads, quality education, proper healthcare system or even jobs for your teeming unemployed populace, yet you clap for and hail those that have subjected your past, present and future generations to a life of hopelessness and poverty.

So, No Sir, I disagree, if we are looking for deranged e-diots one would have to book a flight to MMA, not JFK.

cindicandy:
Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, who is the Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO), has alleged that former Lagos Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, was arrested twice over money laundering and drug-related offences in the United States of America.

“On the first occasion, the arrest was for drug-related money laundering issues in Chicago and, on the second occasion, he was arrested for money laundering-related matters in Seattle, Washington whilst he was Governor of Lagos State. On both occasions he begged the

authorities like a baby and was eventually forced to settle out of court with the American Justice Department by forfeiting a percentage of the money after a successful plea bargain. If not for that settlement and plea bargain, Tinubu would have been in an American jail by now. .

This is a lie. We are not backwards cavemen. This is not how things work in The United States. You cant "Beg" your way out of trouble out here, this is not uncultured, corrupt Nigeria.

When The Justice Department comes after you, they COME AFTER YOU . If we could extradite and imprison people more notorious, and waaaaay richer than Mr.Tinubu---Like the President of Panama, Manuel Noriega--- all the way from their own country, who gives two hoots how much tears an unknown African Governor of an undeveloped Nation sheds in Washington or Illinois? Plea bargain?! A plea bargain for such a crime wouldve came with nothing less than 10-15 years in federal Prison (of which he wouldve had to serve 85% or 8-12yrs before being recommended for release back into society).

This Fani Kayode man is definitely a liar or insane...or both.

RevDesmondJuju:
Obama is a bastard

He will be disgraced from office

He is the pretender who came from lowly birth was able to secure the throne through flattery as spoken of by Daniel

You still dont have 24/7 electricity.

Youve never had and probably never will. Just because yall always choose ignorance over common sense like youve exhibited above.