₦airaland Forum

Teaser4:
OMG!!! I can’t believe Lazarus don locate you bro. I go join you soon bro. Mesef Dey wait for my money oooo

jlomz:
Distinguished Honourable Local Man Larride, what bank please?

number5:
Chief proponent of the ABT, has been hit with a stray bullet of tfare alert..

What can local man do.. He can't can anylonger, he is confused, he is flabbergasted

mathology5431:
Ahhhaaaa
Oga Larride how va na.....we both know all those theories na shildplay.......Iyam expecting that alert o

mathology5431:
The light never reach hia oooo........no alert yet.....local man is confused

Rexmy:
So that's how you're gonna abandon the ABT bus you built just like that ... Eeh yah!

Swargu:
There's no APL next week, list bauncd

nihilistjnr:
State Government can never be effective, when the party is using money from state coffers to fund national party interests.

Party politics as it's played in Nigeria is simply not scalable, and when you have to use money from Lagos state pocket to settle campaign issues in Kano state, so that you can achieve a strategic victory in Abuja, all the issues you're talking about will always pop up.

Everything you described is a symptom of a much larger disease - which is the impractical assignment of running a monstrosity like Nigeria in the face of multiple competing ethno-religious interests.

You better wake up and smell the coffee - no other 1st works country I'm aware of cripples itself with concepts of zoning, or muslim-christian ticket.

If you feel the status quo is working for you, then there's not much more to be said

nihilistjnr:
The decisions that affect the common man are made in Abuja, not at LGC or State Level

Abuja is a place where compromises are made to accommodate party interests rather than electorate interests

Apga or whoever the Igbo party is, are forced to make s deal with the bigger boys there simply to get the chance to be in the room, not even to seat at the table, when resources are being allocated to regions

Split up the country, and Apga doesn't have to worry about what APC can offer them in Abuja in exchange for votes in Enugu.

Apga can simply focus on delivering change to Enugu.

The common man also now knows, there there are fewer middlemen and arrangements standing in the way recieving the dividends of democracy, so he feels enfranchised again to exercise his Viren
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Nigeria is an unweldy beast to administer at the best of times - and these are the worst of the worst times

Break it, and things will be better. It doesn't have to be perfect ...but anything is better than the status quo

seankafor:
@ larride

U re right after all..

ademmy102:
In everything you are doing have the fear of God. You are not different from the guy called MARVEL in DPR thread then telling people to be expecting second batch when he knew such things will not happen. You might even be MARVEL in disguise because as your name implies shows your mission.

I can say it categorically don't expect appointment letter nextweek. I want everybody to wake up from their slumber... Things are going on now. If you know you know. Food for thought

nihilistjnr:
No they won't, but the distance between the common man and the government is greatly shortened.

The man living in Owerri can't blame government in Abuja anymore. He doesn't have the inclination to travel that far to demand accountability. The person he needs to hold lives right there with him.

That's the Koko.

You were talking about grassroots politics.. well, this is only way the grass and the root can combine in a meaningful fashion

nihilistjnr:
The answer is Biafra.

I think that much is obvious from your conversation with Afrodoc2.

Nigerians will never truly unite across tribal lines, so the only way to set up strong institutions within those tribal lines.

Split the country up, and then create strong institutions based on self-preservation.

Any other option is wishful thinking.

mapman:
Yes thanks. I read it and was angry because it's evident that it was a scam. My annoyance was how these fraudsters somehow made themselves seem more credible than the Nigerian government before the law court. Nigeria should have countered their fictitious claims from day one without leaving any room for doubt. It's a perception problem

In the end, I hope Buhari realizes that this case can only be won in a court of law.

afrodoc2:
You have some good points. However WE, the people choose (or are meant to choose) the ruling political class. Therefore if we continue to choose people based on ethnicity/religion/bribe received we will keep on getting inept/corrupt people to form our political ruling class.

It is a bit like the chicken and egg dilemma. Do the leaders initiate the change in the people, or do we need the people to change their leaders?

I do agree with you that we need strong institutions but the problem is that one good leader or one “strong” leader would struggle to effect those changes in a democracy. We need a critical mass of good leaders to rise up at the same time and take control because one solo saint will be swallowed in the mess that is Nigerian politics.

Unfortunately the only solution IMO is either a grassroots people’s revolution OR a military revolution, AND i don’t think Nigerians are ready for either one.

seankafor:
@ the bolded..

How about disintegration?
Let the 3 major tribes go her way and sort out their selves.

We cant coexist with all the numerous tribal bigotry in each parastatal and departments across every sector of the economy.

Isn't it clear yet that the one Nigeria phrase isn't working no more

airmark:
Pep met a team that narrowly lost in the ucl semis. I don't know the pointer you were talking about.

Klopp is better than Pep, period.

afrodoc2:
Where do you get the incorruptible judges for such a system? How do you flush out the corrupt elements from the political ecosystem when the man on the street is impoverished, uneducated and easily swayed by cash, food, or appeal to either ethnic or religious affiliation?

I remember some years ago when it was leaked that the U.S viewed Nigeria as a failed state people were up in arms. Now what they anticipated is becoming more obvious daily.

As long as ethnicity and religion are major factors in our politics i don’t see a way forward. Only when the people are able to unite across ethnic and religious borders and fight their true enemies i.e the political class, can we have real progress in Nigeria.

afrodoc2:
Looks like an excellent piece. Had to skim through because of time, will peruse it later.

It looks to me like the typical pattern employed for decades by foreign businessmen to use unscrupulous/ignorant Nigerian government officials to fleece the people. A vicious cycle of unfinished and often unnecessary projects in which the common man is the loser and everybody else wins.

The annals of Ajaokuta, NNPC, Nigerian Railways, NITEL etc are full of similar stories. Only difference is that this time it was such a huge amount of money, and we now live in quasi-democratic, less indulgent times.

Ibime:
Thanks for sharing.

I am.seething at how the British Courts would deliver these scam artists a $9bln judgement for a sham. $9bln is more than 35% of our yearly budget.

How I wish Nigerian secret service was like Mossad. The Quinn family would be receiving bullets by now.

If Buhari was really a General,.Aoondaoka should be summarily arrested.on National TV for not providing Nigeria legal representation. Everyone involved in the deal should be rounded up.on National TV by DSS SWAT team. NTA should make it a talking point for all Nigerians. Just this case alone could reestablish Buhari as a valid anti-corruption President, but the old fool is unimaginative.

mapman:
Nigerian anyhowness in full display. Like wth!

"
From the start, Nigeria’s government seemed reluctant to participate. Its lawyers in Lagos didn’t provide a list of preliminary arguments until January 2014.

Later that year, a few weeks before the first scheduled hearing, they told the tribunal they might not be able to set out the government’s case in writing or attend, “due to the inability of our client to provide us with complete instructions.”

...When the tribunal convened a hearing on the matter, Nigeria called only one witness—a lawyer who, in the words of the judges, didn’t “claim firsthand knowledge of any of the relevant events.”
"

This is a horror story

bobowaja:
They will soon attack your English and quote 101 reasons why Nigeria and Nigerians should pay for the scam..... Ugly air headed mofos.

People well no Sabi ordinary arbitration and its stages...

Lana1:
I dont know what they were smoking when they made this list, but i want to believe the rankings is based solely on the exploits of this season so far.

Coz i dont understand what Ole he has won or accolades he has earned to be a top 20 manager. Same goes for Rodgers who is ranked above Zidane, Valverde and Poch talkless of even being a top 10 manager.

Zidane, Valverde, Ten Hag and Poch should be in the top 10. Sarri and Conte should remain in the top 10 but ranked lower than that. I also believe Lucien Favre is doing well at Dortmund to have a shot at top 10.

ChristoBam:
Yeah Pep over Klopp but I'm sure they put many things into consideration. For example, Klopp inherited an almost useless Team and turned it into something else. The Man City Team Giardiola inherited could still challenge for the title.

spillo1:
Top spot definitely deserved for Klopp. Best manager in the world and levels above Pep.

Jarus:
My sources have also been evasive.

Lana1:
Una agree?