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@Gbawe
What I am suggesting is that Nigeria as a nation is an illusion. It exists only in the pockets of the thieves and egoistic maniacs that call themselves leaders, but not anywhere else.

I was one of those who would never deny being Nigerian. In fact, in situations that others might consider dangerous I use to go out of my way to tell people about Nigeria. Heck, I was so angry about the way the south african movie "District 9" depicted Nigerians that I started a petition drive.

NO MORE.

The realization came to me that Nigeria's story is that of George and Lenie in "Of Mice and Men". I will not go into this story, but the short of it is that George kept holding the bag for Lenie, even in the face of one dastardly act after the other. At the end, George realized that what was about to happen would take him down with Lennie. He did what must be done to avoid that fate.

It was a sad end, and George would be considered disloyal by some, but he could not afford to go down with him. In the same way, the rest of us in Nigeria cannot afford to go down with the depraved stealing being conducted by the leaders nor with the fanatiscm that will consume those who have exploited it in the past. It is time to get out of this sinking ship.

Besides, what I am suggesting is really no worse than the acts of many who hide behind the seal of state:
We were here when Ciroma openly told GEJ they will make the country ungovernable. What can be less patriotic than that?
We were all here when GEJ without any evidence denied that MEND was behind the Abuja bombings, when even MEND claimed it? I was at that time willing to give GEJ the benefit of the doubt, but now realize that he is even worse than the run of the mill politician.
We were all here when GEJ & his police effectively deported citizens who were visiting Abuja with no incriminating evidence/material. That is really very UNPATRIOTIC. The same Beaf that was here talking crap about the South Africa deportations came here to dance & make merriment about the powers of the police and the presidency to "ensure security"
We were all here when a president informed the nation that neo-colonialism is the way to clean his countrymen of corruption. If that is not the most unpatriotic statement by a sitting president, then I don't understand what is.
We were here when Beaf was telling northerners how GEJ will cut them loose in the desert. What can be less patriotic than that?
We are all here as people die from not receiving their pensions, but a group of people were diverting N21 billion into their own personal accounts (how is it possible for someone to divert even 1 billion of something without being noticed. The guy probably just used his own account number as the account for the pension fund. No place on earth where such is possible should call itself a nation). I certainly don't see a nation here at all.

We need to face it. From the presidency on down the so-called leaders have already abandoned the ship of state, while deceiving us that they are on board. I am simply suggesting that people declare their personal independence in anticipation of the inevitable.

Lastly, while I am not suggesting that you go around declaring yourself a non-Nigerian even you have to admit that in all those places you visit, you are really operating mainly on your own personal reputation. If you were to go to those places on the basis of the reputation Nigeria's leaders have acquired for her, you would find yourself in the cold. This has been the case for even the world-renowned among us e.g. Wole Soyinka, and that was back when all we had to worry about were 419s, and not Boko Haram et al.

Gbawe: Beaf is no doubt an uncouth cretin but it is unreasonable  for you to encourage Nigerians to disown their nation because that is how you feel personally. I think what  you and a lot of bright guys lack is the human interaction and world exposure that would make you gain a better perspective.

I am in Ghana now. I was in Ivory Coast yesterday and will be in Togo on Monday. should I go around telling folks ridiculously that I am Yoruba from Oodua land as you simplistially and unpatriotically suggest? It does not make sense especially to proud Nigerians who know that, in reality and despite popular misconception, majority of Nigerians are good, decent and hardworking folks. I have no connection with book haram or the fraud, corruption and criminality some Nigerians engage in.

Rather, I identify with the many positive qualities that makes Nigerians well-respected professionally worldwide as bright, talented and driven individuals. To that end, I will always be happy to declare myself a Nigerian. It is not my fault or problem that human beings generally prefers to focus on the negatives and I will not deny my nation by pandering to that undesirable flaw.

It is not about being inferior, it is about what you can afford to be associated with. Nigeria as it is currently operating, and where it is headed, is bad for the health of anyone who goes about calling attention to themselves as a Nigerian.

Beaf and his friends can hide under official resources but most Nigerians do not have that luxury. And, as the recent South African episode showed, even those hiding under the cover of an "official of the federal republic" can only hang their hats on that within the borders of their lie they like to call Nigeria. Outside the borders, they will increasingly be treated like an ordinary Nigerian.

One of these days, BH is going to do something so bad that GEJ will be directly embarrased.  OBJ had a small taste of that with his "$45000 farm equipment" saga. Fortunately for OBJ he was able to shift all the blame to a personal aide. With BH it is unlikely that anyone would be willing to accept blame when that day comes for GEJ.

Beaf:
Powerful statement many would not understand.

naijababe:
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent - Eleanor Roosevelt

In addition, how many Afghans have you met lately. It is not that they all returned to their country, but have since 9/11 learn to be invisible - they are all probably claiming to be from Jordan or some other West friendly place these days. Same with Saudis.

Unfortunately, it is going to be hard for the Nigerian to hide his identity. What does that mean? If the atrocities of BH escalates the way it is going Nigerians will soon become a rarity in the outside world - most will be deported. Those left will have to live off their personal reputation. That would work around people that know you very well. Among others, you will have no choice than to deny being Nigerian.

Imagine the kind of bad treatment a world renowned national personality like Wole Soyinka has received at different times in the past - and things were not even this bad. Now imagine a lesser known person going around proclaiming himself Nigerian.

seal777:
[b]As quick as one might be tempted to castigate the poster on his denial of his home country in a foreign land, i will disagree with those who are comparing him with Britons, Americans, Iraqi's, Afghans and even Ghanaian down here because governments in those countries don't take lightly infringement on their citizens anywhere in the world, that cannot be said to be true about our dear country Nigeria as citizens of this poor country are been subjected to inhuman treatments all over the world with their leaders busy laundering public funds into those countries at the detriment of its citizens.

Patriotism is not forced on citizens, its a confidence you gain over time in your motherland when all obvious protection and rights are guaranteed, enforced and defended any where in the world.

I am waiting for a day when a NIGERIAN presidential jet is denied landing access while on officoal visits abroad, perhaps they will be more responsible in managing the affairs of this country for the benefit of the entire populace, home and abroad. [/b]

I am not going around projecting non-existent nations. What I am suggesting is for when someone asks you, unofficially?

It is an expression of personal independence. In my view this pretension we call Nigeria, put together by a colonial master, is effectively dead.

I refuse to be associated, if I can help it, with a country where some people would go around burning schools, bombing market places, etc. all because of some religious s.tupidity.

What's more, the leaders act unconcerned & lily-livered, moving to do something only when either their inner circle or loot is threatened.

eGuerrilla:
Go around projecting non-existent Nations and soon you will have people thinking. . . "here is a fellow with a pepperoni short of a pizza. ".

Which country would that be? The one with nobody at the head, who's so-called senators are completely selfish?

You are making a big mistake. That is not a nation. It is a hodgepodge of thieves who call themselves leaders, lording it over hapless masses, who for some reason simply pass on the terror to those they have power, no matter how meagre, to dominate rather than fight back.

9ja4eva:
No reason to deny your Country tho.
Absolutely no reason

And what high esteem was he suppose to project by identifying himself as a Nigeria.

This is my recommendation for declaring your personal independence when it is not absolutely necessary to identify yourself as Nigerian.
If you are Yoruba, tell them you are from Yoruba/Oodua nation. If somebody wonders where that nation is located, you tell them it borders Nigeria on the East sode and Benin on the West.
If you are Igbo, tell them you are from Biafra nation. If somebody wonders where that nation is located, you tell thems it borders Nigerian on the West side and Cameroun on the East side.
etc.

Beaf and his cohorts can continue holding on to the smelly head of a dead fish - it will not wake up.

Beaf:
You are a low self-esteemed disgrace.

There you go. This is the RE-BRANDING that finally worked, BH style.

Left in the care of egoistic and rudderless leaders, Nigeria drifted out to sea, and have been boarded by all manner of pirates.

Meanwhile, the rats who call themselves leaders are busy buying bullet-proof cars. They have forgotten that when your house is on fire a bullet-proof anything is of no help.

One is even calling for respect of his office and person. An office that he is effectively losing by the day - MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN

If this is not the motivation to sink this country on purpose, and let the hapless passengers escape on their own rafts then I don't know what is.

The nation has being fully branded, and they are transfixed like an antelope in the full glare of the lights of a galloping train.

The ship is going down - those who have sense better prepare their rafts, otherwise it is going to be a long swim and a river full of sharks.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/al-qaeda/9133749/Nigeria-al-Qaedas-new-heartland-of-terror.html

The killing in West Africa of a Briton and his Italian colleague by Islamist extremists takes international terrorism a horrific step forward.
By Con Coughlin

Few outside Nigeria noticed the death of Mohammed Yusuf, a radical preacher, at the hands of the country’s famously brutal police almost three years ago. The only achievement of a man who had publicly insisted that the Earth was flat appeared to have been the creation of a quixotic Islamist cult dedicated to banning Western education.

Today, Boko Haram – Yusuf’s creation – has become one of the deadliest terrorist movements in North Africa and the chosen vehicle for al-Qaeda to penetrate the largely Muslim states of northern Nigeria. The ideology of global jihad would have inspired those who kidnapped Chris McManus and Franco Lamolinara, the British and Italian hostages who died in the failed rescue mission on Thursday.

The arrival of this pitiless worldview in Africa’s most populous country is Yusuf’s most lasting legacy. His posthumous achievement – if that is the correct term – serves as a reminder of the impact that one charismatic figure and a highly motivated cult-like movement can have in an impoverished country where all forms of state authority are corrupt and ineffectual.

Yusuf founded Boko Haram, which loosely translates as “Western Education is Prohibited”, in 2002 with the aim of purging northern Nigeria of the corruption and decadence of the Western way of life. This extended to stamping out scientific beliefs that Yusuf held to be incompatible with Islamic teaching.

On the question of how rain is made, he insisted: “We believe it is the creation of God rather than an evaporation caused by the sun that condenses and becomes rain.” As for the suggestion that the earth is a sphere, Yusuf said this alien theory “runs contrary to the teachings of Allah”.

But the preacher was careful not to reject every aspect of Western culture, at least so far as his own life was concerned. “He lives lavishly and drives a Mercedes-Benz,” one of his contemporaries once remarked. “He is very well-educated in a Western context.”

It was not long before Nigeria’s security services had labelled Boko Haram the Nigerian “Taliban”, even though it had no known links with the Afghan movement.

The group soon came into conflict with the Nigerian security services, and Yusuf was personally blamed for instigating a wave of attacks against government buildings in northern Nigeria, in which hundreds were killed. He was detained and, within hours of being taken to a local police station, it was announced that he had been shot dead “while trying to escape”.

Given the security forces’ reputation for brutality, there was general scepticism about this claim. A few hours before his death, Yusuf, 39, had been filmed at the police station looking calm and relaxed as he cooperated fully with his interrogators’ questions. Later footage showed his bullet-riddled body lying on the police station floor, covered in blood.

Whether Yusuf himself had any dealings with al-Qaeda is unclear. The Nigerian security forces claim they seized weapons and ammunition supplied by Islamist sympathisers when they raided his home in the northern state of Borno.

What is not in dispute is that since Yusuf’s death in July 2009, Boko Haram has formed close links with al-Qaeda’s North African network, to the extent that it now tops the list of emerging terrorist threats being tracked by the major Western intelligence agencies.

Last month, the head of Nigeria’s armed forces publicly accused Boko Haram of having ties to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the terrorist organisation’s North African branch. This group, which is particularly active in the Saharan states of Mali, Niger and Algeria, now provides arms, expertise and ideological inspiration to support Boko Haram’s increasingly effective activities against the Nigerian authorities.

In January, the group struck eight targets in the northern city of Kano, killing at least 185 people in the space of a few hours. The tactics used in this assault bore all the hallmarks of al-Qaeda: suicide bombers and gunmen were used to inflict the maximum number of casualties.

The radicalisation of Nigerian Muslims first entered the public consciousness in the West when the “underpants bomber” failed to blow up an American passenger jet as it landed at Detroit airport in December 2009. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian who is now serving a life sentence in the US, took a degree in mechanical engineering at University College London, before travelling to Yemen, where he was inspired by Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-educated jihadist who was killed by a drone strike last September, to join “al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula”.

Awlaki, who masterminded a number of high-profile plots against the West, trained the young Nigerian for his suicide mission, and provided him with the explosive device which, fortunately, failed to detonate.

So why has al-Qaeda, whose main base of operations has historically been in the borderlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan, suddenly turned its attention to West Africa? The main reason for this change in emphasis is the success the Nato mission to Afghanistan has had in denying al-Qaeda the ability to plan attacks from the region. The relentless pressure brought to bear against its terrorist infrastructure there, particularly following last year’s assassination of Osama bin Laden, has forced the group to seek new havens.

Al-Qaeda has always exploited the ungoverned territory of failed Muslim states to set up its training camps and terror cells – which explains why Yemen and Somalia have recently emerged as new centres. More recently, al-Qaeda sympathisers have been actively seeking to exploit for their own ends the wave of anti-government protests that have swept the Arab world. They were involved in the overthrow of Libya’s Gaddafi regime last year, and are known to have been participating in anti-government protests in Syria.

The al-Qaeda network is tenacious in its pursuit of new, safe territory from which it can pursue its radical Islamist agenda, and the fact that the Nigerian government is struggling to exert its control over the Muslim states in the country’s north makes them an attractive proposition. The group’s ability to exploit such opportunities in the Muslim world certainly makes a compelling argument in favour of Britain and its Nato allies maintaining their military commitment to Afghanistan until the task of stabilising the war-torn country has been completed.

The deaths this week of six British soldiers, after their Warrior armoured personnel carrier was blown up by a roadside bomb planted by the Taliban, has inevitably led to calls for our Armed Forces to be brought home at the earliest opportunity. But while no one wants to see our young troops daily risking their lives, let us not forget that, if we leave Afghanistan before some form of sustainable infrastructure has been established, it won’t be long before al-Qaeda is building a new network of terror camps in the country, with all the implications that will have for our future security.

Congratulations to Seun and all his administrators, and web developers.

Last warning before the fire works, but the mullahs would rather die than be shamed.

The best way out for Iran is for Ahmajenaid to carry all the blame. The supreme fires him, call for new elections, and gives up the nuclear weapons.

Iran has really advanced technologically over the last few years, but Nuclear and Iran should not be allowed to mix.

If they want to keep the great progress they have made, they need to give it up.

But who am I kidding - it will never happen this way.

I saw this headline today and wondered how it is possilbe to defraud a country by 21 billion of something, even if the currency is actual grains of sand.

Are u drunk or being sarcastic? Just wondering.

Da infamous:
Real development is gradually coming,

The loans will neither stop any erosion nor reach the intended beneficiaries. It will disappear into "thin air" somewhere along the way.

GenBuhari:
more unnecessary loans to mortgage our childrens future

When a government treats its citizens worse than foreigners, it should not expect support from them in anything.

This is the same president who is planning to put World Bank officials as gate-managers to verify projects within the Nigerian presidency. Not only did we worship foreigners during colonialism the president that we elected with our own hands thinks self-imposed colonialism is the way to clean up his country.

As always, those who, with fiery patriotism, object to such a policy would be bradished corrupt, and his defenders will take it from there just as in this case.

I won't call him any names, but in my book slowpoke is putting it gently.

seunlayi:
call him slowpoke or whatever. remember, he is still the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Anybody that disrespect him will enjoy same from those under him too.

Even when it is clear that unpatriotic leaders are going to ruin the lives of 150 million people if not called out.

Patriotism sounds good, but remember the phrase "PATRIOTISM IS THE LAST REFUGE OF THE SCOUNDREL". Our leaders have shown they are SCOUNDRELS, hence their use of patriotism to get support. We know better.

prodam:
I think this topic seeks to find a solution to a recurrent problem in our dear nation, the topic is asking an important question which is paramount to finding a solution to the problem of non-patriotism , the Topic is not giving room for some impatient ones to start condemning our dear Nation.

The thing is this, if you think the whole system is corrupt, simply, continue with your own self principle of patriotism.
if you are a patriotic citizen already, please continue to be one cos I strongly believe that Nigeria would have a new story

if the youth of today are saying NO to change, then we are preparing for a worse situation in this country.

There is no Nigeria, so how can you accuse Nigerians of been unpatriotic. That is the truth. Every TDH is just using the cesspool to further their own ends.

But if you do think there is a Nigeria the real question you need to ask is WHY ARE NIGERIAN LEADERS SO UNPATRIOTIC.

You are on to the real issue here. Our officials steal the resources, and go to South Africa to hide it out. They care about absolutely nothing that happens to the common man until their sorry bodies are concerned. They are incapable of running anything successfully.

The only reason you are hearing all these noise is because a senator of the "republic" was among the 125 that were deported.

Countries have being ignominiously deporting Nigerians for lesser reasons for ages, without any form of responsibility shown by our officials. Just a couple of weeks ago GEJ took a whole train load of people to go celebrate 100 years of ANC in SA. Many of our senators shamelessly got on planes to watch the world cup in SA. An event that should have been held with accolades in Nigeria. When Iran brought enough arms to prosecute a small war across our borders they made a lot of useless speeches, and nothing was ever heard about it again. Iran would have invaded the Nigeria embassy or US embassy for that matter, if it happened to them.

I recall when we called for Nigeria to disallow her citizens from being executed for whatever reasons abroad. David Mark had the audacity to say that any Nigerian caught in criminal acts abroad is on his own. However, as soon as Abdulmuttalab, a son of an inner circle of the Nigeria bourgeois commited the worst atrocity possible they did not hesitate to send lawyers. On the other side, the same David Mark once said that Nigeria takes no responsibilty for the issue of 419. What then is David Mark's job - to simply collect monthly payments?

Given the above, any gra-gra on this issue is just all that. Nigeria, sadly, lies prostrate in the hands of incompetent people. The damage done to this nation over 50 years is almost irreparable.

It is high time the country collapses on their heads. They can keep spitting in our faces when the time is good, and expect to use us as their mules when their chicken come home to roost. The individual parts of Nigeria can do better than this crappy setup - enough is enough.

I use to wish for Nigeria to teach these African countries that disrespect us a very good lesson. At this point, it is no consolation for me at all to make such wishes.

Onlytruth:
This whole thing is so funny and really shows how lowly the rulers of Nigeria have rendered her in the international community. Without doing much number crumching, I would guess that South Africa makes BILLIONS of clear dollars from Nigeria yearly, and they do so by providing SERVICES mainly: telecom for example.
Nigeria makes billions too from South Africa from supply of oil, our main foreign exchange earner. In other words, they make money almost from nothing tangible, while we make money by selling our life blood tangible goods to them.

I would guess that Nigeria can EASILY find another buyer for her oil in the world markets, but I doubt that South Africans can EASILY sell her services to another country the size of Nigeria's population; which for example is why their telecom company MTN makes more money from Nigeria than South Africa.
The amount of dollars remitted by Nigerians in South African can never amount to more than $100m yearly, while South Africans remit BILLIONs out of Nigeria yearly.

So if we replace them with other oil buyers, we are basically left with a few million dollars to show for our relationship with South Africa.
At times like this, I wish there are Nigerians with my type of "genius" to deal with the South Africans, who are arguably the most wicked Africans there are; the only country in Africa to conduct a quasi-pogrom against other Africans living in their country.

By the time Nigeria finishes with South Africa, not only would they lose Nigerian market and cooperation in Africa, we would effectively cage them diplomatically in West Africa, and move very close to their borders by "capturing" all their neigbhors and turn them against them.

My disappointment is that Nigeria will mess up this opportunity again; a rare opportunity to deal with these xenophobes once and for all. 

Were you not warned that it is all a ruse?

alj harem:
During the subsidy protest, the FG told us that once the subsidy was removed, the refineries would be built but now they are saying they would not build it again.
Why ?
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-888542.0.html

As I said on another thread yesterday, this is the crux of the problem. SA is telling us that with Boko Haram running wild, and promising to set the their sights on SA & SA companines they are not joking with their security.

It is now appartent why the FG & NASS has being making so much noise for about two days now - just because a senator was involved. Ordinary Nigerians are deported from abroad each day for less justifiable reasons without these jokers batting an eyelid. If those 125 had not included a high ranking official we would not hear any of this noise.

A country that exists to serve its leaders is going to be nothing but a joke to the rest of the world. Truth! Take it or leave it.

The hyprocisy of the spoilt bourgeois stinks to high heavens. Their hand-maidens, by which I mean BEAF especially, were all over this forum a couple of months ago praising the government when the Nigerian police was arresting and turning back citizens from traveling without any incriminating evidence/material to Abuja. I can bet my salary that they are still doing the same thing till tomorrow - all in the name of security. Yet, we heard nothing from the FG & the NASS - even when such an act is not only unconstitutional, but completely immoral. This same sorry bodies are now all up in arms because another country, after adequate warning, decided to exercise its right to protect its international borders.

South Africa has a lot to worry about concerning events in Nigeria. Okar used SA as his base for gun-running, for which the Nigerian government threathened diplomatic war if he was not arrested promptly. Don't mind that a responsible government would have had such a person extradited to face swift justice at home. Now that BH is also threathening I don't blame SA for attempting to protect their citizens - the bottom line is that it is a matter of time before BH get on a Nigerian flight with fake papers.

I use to be the eternal optimist about Nigeria but this particular patient called Nigeria is flat-lining rapidly, and worse, those in charge have no clue about what to do.

A highly placed Nigerian foreign affairs official confirmed yesterday that South Africa had persistently complained to the Nigerian government that most Nigerians coming to South Africa enter the country with fake documents but that Nigeria had not addressed the issue.

Keep fooling yourself over there. I do not support any unjust treatment of Nigerians anywhere, but our leaders are not "wise administrators" - not by a looooooooooooooooooonnnnn shot.

They dole out our resources & business for personal enconiums - basically handling their balls to foreigners. Imagine our whole president saying he was going to bring World Bank staff into the presidency to verify Nigerian contracts. Just imagine that!

As for the highly exagerrated importance of Nigeria to the SA economy it is enough to tell you that Nigeria is a merchant economy, whereas SA is a manufacturing economy. That country makes oil from coal, is rumoured to posses nuclear capabilities, builds high-grade weaponry, manufactures aircrafts, recently hosted the world cup, and Nigeria was ignored when an African country was called to join the BRICS - you guessed it they called South Africa into the club of the worlds next big economies.

Meanwhile, we have oil on the brain, junket to the same SA at every opportunity to spend and hide our peoples resources.

We can only hide behind the one-finger of oil for so long. The lies will soon kill this country.

Osiris.212:
I cringe at naivety of those saying Nigeria is more at losing end.
Without Nigeria, South African economy could be brought to a stand still in a very short time. Their intrest here runs into billion of dallars and I don't think there is any other country that consume south African product like Nigeria. From MTN , Multi-choice, Ericssion, MTI and bunch of Oil servicing orgnisation. . .these are major players in South African economy, an lost in profit could send their economy figures downward. Most Nigerians in Southi are professional and business mugol which can move to more safer ground within split of a second.


@POST
This is the best thing to do. I still beleive the measure should be extended to all countries, irrespective of her might and advancement. E.g France, Italy, Chinia and whatever Bleep up country that is maltrating our people. They have more to gain here and we should have the final say!

No, it is your lies in the face of stinking corruption & incompetence that leads to such behavior by countries that should respect us.

It is the consequences of your type of endless jingoism that cause leaders that should be discarded with a wave of the hand to think themselves "great". No my friend, I have mentioned this to you many times - you are sinking Nigeria rather than making it better by such high level dishonesty.

If you had my type as leader there would be no need for syncophants like you because I would not wait for events like this to engage in useless gra-gra.

I ask you again what is Nigeria going to do if SA calls our bluff? Why are they like area boys shouting fire for fire? Xenophobia, and such utter nonsense? Is Nigeria seriously trying to scare South Africa?

Look in the mirror for once or you can just keep waiting for SA to come crawling on all fours because the money they are making in our country is for free!!!

This same SA is the source of the technical partners for the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. And you know what they are saying now? They want guarantees that their expenses would be paid after the road has been reconstructed.

Lesson: GEJ's is scouring the globe for investment - mess with what is already in the country through this kind of brawn-no-brain gra-gra, and watch potential investors already scared-stiff by the inability to contain Boko Haram walk-on-by Nigeria.

Take it or leave it.

Rossikk:
^^^^Dude please take your fuucked up self and go sit down in some corner.

If we had YOUR type as leader, they would be killing Nigerians on the streets of other countries at will.

And everything you've written so far is upside down trash.

You are on the right track, but need to go a little further and ask yourself this question.

If ordinarily these countries have much to lose from confronting Nigeria, why does it seem they are not at all worried about doing it? There are two possible answers:

1. It is either they have got our balls in some other way - think about the mansions & businesses that past/current administrators have stolen our billions to sink in SA.
2. They really fear something bad coming out of Nigeria that could cause them greater damage than the dollars they stand to lose from confrontations with Nigeria.

I know (1) has always been true, but this latest action suggests that (2) is the real motivation for this action.

Nigeria, with the clear guilt squarely on the shoulders of her leaders, does not command respect abroad - that is the simple statement of the problem.

GEJ can attend all the meetings he wants till kingdom come - only real reform will save the country from an almost inevitable collapse.

Hint: SA despite its clear political and ethnic divisions held an effective truth commission. In Nigeria, the feeble attempt at a "half-truth" commission was completely ignored by our "respected leaders". Go figure.

The weight of lies will soon kill this country I tell you.

Rossikk:
And the funny thing is all these countries have heavy investments in Nigeria!! Worth billions!! By right they should be treating Nigerians like ROYALTY at their airports, and in their countries. But you can't really blame them. It's all these previous regimes we've had in the past that didn't care a hoot about defending Nigerian dignity.

Now we don shine eye well well. No more dulling. 

It is the stuff that backward economies are made of when they think some other country should crawl on all fours because of a service that has been rendered and paid for.

Pray tell me why NITEL has been on the liquidation block more than a decade now. Business is a global context, and Nigeria is losing to SA big time both abroad and on our home turf.

Always looking for some bragging rights where there is none.

Just keep doing that, and SA will take what is left of our influence from the hands of this all brawn and no brain administrators.

For a country that has real power over the other, there would be no need for all this media blitz before that other country gets the message loud and clear.

Something drastic & substantive needs to change in Nigeria.

Rossikk:
My brother do you know how much MTN makes every day in Nigeria?

Look at South Africa that should be crawling on all fours to beg for our business. Our middle class of 40 million - the largest in Africa - is almost the size of their entire population. How dare they think they can spit on Nigeria, and think because we play this game of brotherliness and understanding towards our neighbours, that they can act with impunity, and just summarily deport 125 Nigerians just like that!!

Well now they know better. 

So what happens if SA doesn't care, what do we do in return?

They are probably telling their citizens to get away from Nigeria anyway. Moreover, they have being looking for the perfect excuse to kick out the 1000s of Nigerians resident in that country!!!

When Iran brought arms large enough to excute a small war, where was all these gra-gra.

Didn't GEJ just junket to SA with a large entourage to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the ANC (a party, though symbolic, but still only a party in SA)!!!

When Boko Haram bombed the UN building in Abuja, guess which country the UN had to go to treat its wounded. Boko Haram has also recently promised to set its sights on SA & SA companies - don't you think a serious country will take such threats seriously, especially after Abdulmutallab got on a plane to commit evil on an American plane.

O ma se o - decades of successive incompetent, selfish and sometimes downright wicked administrators of a name too bad to speak have brought a country with great potentials to its knees - Nigeria is OVER!!!

First, I think he meant ". . .making more profit in Nigeria for granted" in the second statement below.

Second, while it is undeniable that African countries, including SA, are unjustly discriminatory against Nigeria, our government's ineptitude and corruption "at everything" it does provides an almost indisputable cover.

We (including the FG & NASS) will begin to understand the basis for this latest move by SA when we have answered the following questions.

When Boko Haram promised to set its sights on SA & SA companies:

1. What do you think the government of SA started doing in return?
2. And the big question is really what do you think the Nigerian government started doing in return?

Answer these two questions, and you will understand why I have declared a personal independence of the Oodua nation.

The Minister gave a note of warning to all African countries on the mal-treatment of Nigerians, stating that “African countries including South Africa, should not take Nigeria’s maturity and the friendliness of our people to foreigners for granted.”
“And also they should not take the friendly business environment we have in Nigeria where companies, including South African companies are making more profit in South Africa for granted” he added.

If India's also imposed pernicious economic policies on her own then she would be equally castigated.

May be it would be better for Nigeria's to go back those she works for, because it is certainly not looking like the Nigerian people!

My signature? It is a declaration of personal independence from the crap that Luggard put together in 1914.

If Lord Luggard were alive today, he would certainly be amazed that some people still consider this act of his almost like the comand of God. He will certainly be surprised that while the leaders of this nation pay lip service to the real word of God, they would rather let the nation collapse on 150 million people than make any adjustments to its set up.

It is inevitable that this Nigeria will soon collapse under the weight of lies that make up its foundation.

BlackPikiN:
^^^What is your signature talking about?
Ribadu is running out ideas.
Make him no come make unnecessary statements make people for north no go finish am for house.

As are your entire family.

Da infamous:
both are rubbish,

Yeah, keep deceiving yaself.

9ja_I_hail:
I will surely not go mad as you have gone.If truly you are not a waste as you have publicly displayed here i am sure you would have read my post and understand that i only respond to the OP question,i did not abuse or mock or bash any tribe or person in my answer to the OP question.well you are sad that i failed to meet your expectation by not saying negative about my HERO OJUKWU. I will advice you to always make sure you maintain those pills after every meal because it helps.Thanks

So glad that at least one SEer realized that many of these statements are being made just because they seem the right thing to say, not because these people actually believe themselves. In that case, those running into town proclaiming immortality for Ojukwu on the basis of these words are the ones deceiving themselves.

Many of these statements are exactly like Ojukwu's statement about Awo as the "Best President Nigerian never had."

These statements appear to be favorable on the sufface but are completely vacuous statements of convenience.

Ojukwu made Nigeria's unity possible in the same way that Awolowo was the best president, without ever being president.

ochukoccna:
I see Ribadu is now a revisionist
So sad he is showing he is not a man of principle
Ojukwu fought to liberate his people from the shackles of the core north whose representatives accompanied Ribadu on his condolence visit Simple
Let no one be fooled by the state burial accorded Ojukwu by a clique that has suppressed not only his people's voice and identity but also of almost every nationality in this lying contraption called Nigeria

It is obvious that your incorrigibility knows no bounds, but can you at least show yourself aware that people will actually read this stuff.

It says something about arrogance, and primitive instincts like that of a dog whose tail is always standing straight up - it is always looking for a reason, any reason, to bark its head off. A leaf falls from the tree it barks, the wind blows too strongly it barks, neighbours minding their own business it barks, other dogs merely passing by it barks. . . No intelligence in deciphering what is, and what is not, worth barking at. That may be all well and good for a do, but I just can't understand how people can live like that.

Yesterday it was MKO vs. Ojukwu, today it is OBJ vs. Ojukwu, tomorror. . .?

Why don't we just skip all the rest that we know you will soon bring up, and go straight to the ultimate.

Who is the greatest between GOD/ALLAH/JEHOVAH/OLODUMARE and Ojukwu?

Who would have though it? Ojukwu is the correct answer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now go and find something better to do with your life.

9ja_I_hail:
In addition i will like to correct you,Ujukwu did not just received a state burial he received the best burial so far in african,what am i trying to say,i am trying to say if OBJ ever receive a state burial it will never be as to compare with Ojukwus burial because both are not in the same class,the likes of papa Zik Papa awo Blessed memories and co are the people who their burial suppose to be compare with ojukwu but still ojukwu burial was far popular than theirs because his people old and young are strongly behind him,as you can see the man Ojukwu was buried home and abroad,what does that tell you?

This is what you are hung up on, and for which you will use an entire presidency seeking revenge? The way you talk about this incident, it seems that many of you are going to bed every night distraught and depressed over the statement "drunken fisherman".

This leads to an important point that Nigerians do well to keep in mind: That is, those currently privileged to administer this lumbering nation either have or are advised by people with a juvenile mindset. This mindset is exactly what we have seen demonstrated in words & deeds over the last year or so!!!

Beaf:
Some people think they will call, "fisherman!" and we will answer, "yes sir!"
Phuck you and whatever alms begging skills you bring to the table.

Don't mind him. He's trying to replace Ojukwu!!!!!!

Ileke-IdI:
The ediot literally cracked me up. . . .making fat albert look like size 0

Atleast speak coherently.