Languages develop over time. Pidgin English is variation of English language, an amalgam of many languages. That it is being recognised is a good thing. I can't understand why people would be of the inclination that it corrupts 'proper' English. That's not a credible argument.

Anybody who knows black history will appreciate pidgin English, just as they would patois or creole. People who don't appreciate the language generally do not know their history.

Eboski:

Neither north,East,west,south, anybody that win the election is stil nigeria.pls those northerns forum should come up with same good abt nigerian than talking about zoning everyday,among all the aspirants GEJ is stil the best.nobody can share nigerian.ojukwu try and fail,militant try and fail,

This is incoherent. Bros, at least, you for try make sense now.

It is very difficult to make sense of most of these posts. It doesn't take a lot for conversations here to degenerate into utter tribalistic senselessness.

That said, the position of these old men is untenable. There is no credibility to the suggestion that the Nigerian Presidency should be zoned to one region at the expense of others. That's just nonsense. Anybody who thinks he should be President should test his popularity at the ballot. This whole idea of power being zoned to somebody's mother's house is nonsense.

What the hell for? Delete that LovePeddler from your life.

Dear Ex,

You dirty, stinking tart. It all started good. You were sweet and innocent, then you dabbled into games that were just downright dirty. The day you told me you cheated on me, my world and self-confidence practically came crashing down. It's never been the same since as I have never fully brought myself to trust again. I was even willing to try and work things out, that was how much I loved you, but instead you came to me with the bullshit tale about how you couldn't do this any more. You crushed me. Things have never been the same since.

I cannot pretend that I wish you well. I do not. Indeed, I am tempted to pray that you trip in Waterloo station (when you go for those you stupid fashion shows), fall off the platform, and a train comes along and crushes you to death. But I won't. I am also tempted to pray that your mother, who fed you so much nonsense about Nigerians, chokes on a jerk chicken. Again, I won't.

Instead, I pray that one day you will realise that despite the fact that I was not a perfect boyfriend, my love for you was true, genuine and selfless.

Regards,

Lonewolf.

I can't believe people are advising this guy to forgive and forget, and such other bullshit. When the stupid bitch was f__king some other guy raw and having them come into her cursed vagina, was she symapthetic then? Did she give any thought or consideration to the profound betrayal she was visting on the poster? Did she think about the hurt she was putting him through?

Taking it further still, do you know whether or not she's transferred any diseases to the poster -- as she was going around f__king random men raw without protection. Most of all: it is impossible to live with another man's seed. The poster would always think of the betrayal.

My advice is simple: leave the dirty, stinking LovePeddler. She is nothing but a conniving bitch. Discard that bitch like a used tissue.

The poster's analysis is so stupid and pointless that I am at a loss for words.

DIVORCE THE BITCH IMMEDIATELY.

This bitch has shown herself to be nothing more than a LovePeddler. A LovePeddler with another man's seed.

Nobody, I repeat nobody, deserves to be put through such hell. Leave the LovePeddler.

Mumu dey. I take offence to being referred to as, "Yoruba". That's number one.

Number two: By now, it is clear that Ibori is nothing but a petty criminal who got lucky. Having stolen state funds and engaged in money laundering, does it not follow that he be persecuted?

This family is a useless family.

Why does she look so sickly and deathly?

Pshewwwww.

I think that people have to collectively stand up and say, "enough". Then we can go from there. Organise, etc. But this, as it stands at the moment, is the highway to hell.

Burn down the whole place.

It’s as if, collectively, the country is determined to be stuck on stupid. Things cannot go on like this. This is not a sustainable arrangement.

Naija = joke.

If ever there was a creation, an entity, so profoundly pointless in its existence, it is Nigeria. If I could have a conversation with God I would ask him a bunch of questions, one of which would be: what were you thinking when you created Nigeria? As one with a perennially pessimistic view on religion and all things ‘God’, I doubt this day would ever come. But that is fodder for another rant. What saddles my mind, at the moment, with helpless wonderment is this clusterfuck referred to as ‘Nigeria’. Ever so often, when one finds himself in a little study, surfing the web, in the heart of middle England, sometime after 7 pm, after a hard day at work, and one is considering joining the Liberal Democrats, thoughts of one’s native land may drift into one’s head and the notion that one is, in fact, Nigerian, hits one with the ferocious bluntness that only fact can.

What would drive a man to forget that he is Nigerian? An answer can be drawn from an African adage which says something about people only claiming that which is good. You see, I was born in Lagos. I remember going to private schools on the Mainland. Good times. Good times because my family was fortunate enough to be able to afford the good things that could be enjoyed in an environment as rusty as Lagos. Some years -- an urban British accent, two degrees and a foreign citizenship -- later, the reality that one is, always will be, Nigerian begins to tug at one’s heartstrings like the cursed fingers of a maniacal guitarist and then you think about your fatherland, but you can only shake your head in pity.

Why do Nigerians try to run away from Nigeria? Why do Nigerians, once abroad, attempt to shed all things Nigerian? Because a dark green passport does nothing but embarrass you. A land so blessed with natural resources -- resources that other countries would kill for -- still teeters at the edge of collective stupidity in a way that is simply unbelievable: the Attorney General of a country frolicking with indicted criminals and common thugs, a banking system that is effectively a systemic criminal operation, an educational system that is a joke, a road network that makes it easier to force a full grown camel through the eye of a needle in comparison to the mission that is getting from the Island to the Mainland, an energy framework that is not fit for purpose and, most of all, a President with absolutely no clue what his job description is. Indeed, the question should be: why should Nigerians not run away from Nigeria?

The identification of all these problems, deluded ‘patriots’ contest, should not be the end of the analysis. You need to propose solutions, they cry. But reality has little patience for rhetoric. One cannot solve a problem that is incomprehensible. It is impossible to answer the question: what is ‘A’ multiplied by ‘B’ divided by ‘25’ because it does not make sense. Just as the entity referred to as Nigeria is incomprehensible to the analytical mind. To put it simply: Nigeria is a senseless equation, an imbecilic nation pushing fifty.

What is to be done? Burn down this whole place and start from the scratch. That’s what a patriot would do.

Beaf:

My friend go and sleep!
His values from his "intellectual" writeups are the values of shariah. If a man holds women to be of such low value that he can amass them like goods (even at his young age), he is of low value to the country.

The CBN is not a sharia establishment.

Someone writes so many articles (all about sharia) and we should sit down and salivate like brainless puppets? The guy is narrow minded.

I have to agree with this dude man. The thing about Nigerians is that once they see a man who can spill out ‘big’ words and express himself more sensibly that the next man, they start jazzing in their pants. I will admit that Sanusi is eloquent and well-spoken – I was very impressed by his action of cleaning up the banks’ books and I forcefully defended him on this forum. But these essays reveal an intellectual shallowness that is astounding to my mind. There’s got to be more to talk about than Sharia law, Islam and how magnificent the Hausa man is. There’s no progressive in his blood, and his cradling of Islam so – and not, for example, our blackness – confirms my inclination about Muslims. Many think there religion is the best thing since sliced bread and this is just not the case.

Dis Guy:

At least we know is stand point on many things about nigeria and he is not ashamed to make it available

If anyone has articles by other technocrats/governors/reps in nigeria please post it

teh guy is a northerner, muslim and an economist/banker- he is bound to write from his point of view
How do we know what Soludo, Iweala, Fashola etc think about the society when they never make their papers
available to the people

Listen, as far as I know, the Nigerian constitution spells out clearly that we are a secular nation.  Maintaining this tenet is key to our union. When somebody from up-North attempts to foist his beliefs, no matter how debatable they are, on the larger population, he or she has another thing coming. Sanusi, from his essays, is clearly an individual who, in my view, glorifies Islam, his people, his culture, etc, in a way that is unhealthy for the larger polity. You have to bear in mind he’s a national figure. When you are hoisted onto a national platform, you have to shed any inkling of regionalism. This is not about point of views as you say. I don’t give a rat’s arse about his view on politics, history, sociology or the mating techniques of Australian kangaroos, I just don’t want my bloody CBN Governor expressing such extremist views.

In America there’d be calls going out for his resignation now.

There’s no doubt that Sanusi has an impressive mind. He knows he’s smart, he reads wide and he has the perfect effete smirk to go with the physics Professor bow-tie he likes to adorn. However, his brilliance is tainted by his unhealthy glorification of Islam, the North, etc. In one article, this Sanusi character claimed that in the 60s the North was more economically productive than the South. Clearly, this is factually inaccurate. There are many subtle inaccuracies like this in his write-ups which one can only attribute to underlying tribalism. His casual disregard for the Igbos, his declaration that Yorubas are the major obstacle to national progress, little things like that suggest that he probably needs to limit his intellectual prowess to economics and banking.

As far as the factual, unvarnished analysis of politics, history and sociology goes, this motherfucker has not the slightest clue.

I initially thought this Sanusi character was an enlightened individual, but having read all these, while these articles show a deep grasp of diverse issues, his ethnocentrism permeates his penmanship: the guy is clearly a tribalistic person. The scorn with which he views everything non-northern is clear.

This guy is an arsehole.

Wooing ko, wooing ni.

A girl needs to get on her shit and have a lot to offer before I even consider some relationship tip. I mean, this is 2009.

This guy said, "I want us to be boys and girls." Lol. Wetin una be before?!

Anyways, my first experience was with a girl in my secondary school. I was in JSS 2 or 3 in a school in Lagos. I was bashful, full of myself, loud but deep down inside, I was a shy kid. It was this girl named Jennifer; pretty and light skinned. I knew she liked me because we used to play little games like hitting each other and then running off, staring, etc. One day, I eventually mustered the testicular fortitude to tell her what the deal was. Naturally, I was sweating profusely and shivering – a phenomenon that defies logic! But she made life easy for me and said yes. I think she even pecked me. We started getting it on like Barry White. Lol. Exchanging love letters, etc. Then she moved to another school and I moved to another school. We lost contact and linked through facebook only recently. It was intense puppy love. Innocent to the bones.

Now she goes out with some guy in Lagos, who, from all indications, she loves very much. And I’m doing my own thing as well. What’s amazing is how much I liked her back in the day, and how jealous I used to get when other guys chatted to her. I compare that to how much I don’t give a squirt of piss now and just wonder in amazement at how esoteric love is.

Of course, over the years, there’s been many experiences with girls of all creed and kind: black, white, Nigerian, Jamaican. Ah, man, life.

That the government is forcefully going after the bank execs this way is a good thing. Clearly, the execs have been more than incompetent – criminal really – in terms of not providing for their debt portfolio when they declare their figures. Declaring phantom profits and keeping the true state of their health from the public. This should be a crime. This is roughly equivalent to what Enron execs did it in the 90s and they, rightly, went to jail for it. The bank execs in Nigeria should be hounded and pursued to the gates of hell. It is of paramount importance that we build a tangible framework to deal with the fallout of this clusterfuck, but knowing Nigerians, I expect them to just sweep things under the rug at some point.

Religion, as Karl Marx said, is like opium. This, in addition to the weed a good number of you are smoking, explains the thoughtlessness of your positions and the stupidity of your blind support for someone like Oyedepo. I can’t believe somebody just compared Obama to Oyedepo, as justification for Oyedepo’s lavish lifestyle. Apart from the fact that it’s like comparing apples and oranges, Obama is the POTUS. Oyedepo is the self-ordained ‘bishop’ of an African protestant church.

The notion that these two characters are even comparable in the context of this conversation shows that a lot of Nigerians lack a functional brain.

The material impact of religion and religious institutions in today’s society should cover spiritual succour and physical/economic well being. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying churches should give people money. Far from it: what I mean is that apart from ‘casting out’ demons, people like ‘Bishop’ Oyedepo should be involved in robust not-for-profit operations. They should be giving out scholarships to hundreds of poor but able Nigerian students from most hopeless regions. They should be vocal in their advocacy for good governance. Tuition should be free in their university. They should be taking clear steps to materially better the economic situation of the society they claim they provide spiritual succour to. Instead, you get these barely literate men with pot-bellies hustling money off an already battered population.

What makes this whole clusterfuck even more tragic is that the exploited defend the exploiter. It’s kind of like slaves protecting their masters’ interests. That’s some twisted s—t.

As I said earlier: mumu dey.

Lol @ 'Queen of Sheba'.

People go just open mouth, talk nonsense and and grown-arse men would buy it, bullshit and all.

Mumu dey sha.

SMFH @ Nigerians. Regardless of how badly Nigerians wallows in poverty, they'd still never recognise when business men in the cloak of pastors and self-ordained bishops rip them off their hard-earned money by way of tithes and offering.

I can't believe how many people are sitting at their computers and fixing their mouths to praise these so-called "men of God". Question: how many of you can show me a far-reaching not-for-profit endeavour that these pastors have started to better the lives of their fellow citizens living in such abject poverty with no access to any economic safety net or social security? All they do is coax people to part with whatever little money they have.

Instead of you lot to think, you are hailing fraudsters while they dupe you.

Unsurprisingly, Nigerians are unable to process information rationally once again. The facts are clear. In most cases, for such obscene loans to have been approved for individuals and companies with no visible or tangible business operations indicates massive incompetence on the part of the banks execs on the one hand, and criminal activity on the other. Massive incompetence in that do these bank execs understand the concept of being “credit-worthy”? Have they ever heard of the term “credit risk”… or even “risk management”? Helloooo… Clearly, there have been shady deals going on between bank execs and “business men”. The bank execs, most likely, have been conniving with these “business guys”, approving massive amounts for loans to buy IPOs and getting cuts off the total loan figures in the first instance. Hence, as a matter of practicality, there never was any way these loans were going to get paid. This should be criminal.

How on earth can you, as a bank exec, approve a loan of over a billion naira for a shitty computer company in Palmgrove called “Omatek”? How the f--k are they going to pay back? What do they even do? Who the f--k is buying their shitty omatek computers? How did a one billion naira loan for such a mediocre company get approved? I mean, clearly, you have to be either profoundly stupid or irredeemably criminal to approve such a loan.

For Soludo to have been CBN Governor while this clusterfuck was happening demonstrates that he is a failure. In any sensible country, this level of incompetence/negligence would be criminal. These fucktards ever heard of “corporate governance”?

SMFH.

Volunteer:

I think a good number of contributors on this thread suffer from either plain ignorance, ethnic biogotry, stupidity or a combination of those! I don't see an ethnic dimension to the issue at hand; while the 'bail-out' given to the banks would wittle down the equity of the owner-managers, if they can bring in new investors or raise additional funding to,

I could not have said it better if I tried. You break it down so succintly.

This should clear things up for the morons shouting tribalism: people are entitled to their own opinion not their own facts!

These Nigerians are quick to attribute everything to tribe. You lot never let fact get in the way of your rants. Number 1: Nigerian banks are well known for declaring phantom figures. They declare numbers that defy calculus, so anybody who puts his/her fate in those figures clearly has no understanding as to how his/her fatherland operates. Number 2: You can pass a CBN audit when the basis of the audit is the declaration you’ve made.

Send their spreadsheets to forensic accountants and you’ll see the illusion. This is what Sanusi has seen. This is the reality. You lot can tap away from the comfort of your bedrooms and moan about the big, bad Hausa agenda, but the fact remains: your banks are arse, and they need bailing out. Anybody ever wondered why they run after deposits as forcefully as they do?

When you are debating whether your country is as shitty as Haiti, it is at that stage that you realise your country is arse-crumbs.

All the Nigerians saying there is a Northern agenda in this situation are just stupid. And I say that as a Yoruba man. As of yet, there is no evidence to that effect. And as Nigerian banks are in a shitty state, I think you motherfuckers should just sit back and let the man do his bloody job. Of course, it goes without saying that people should be vigilant. But to say that the banks are in a good state is rubbish.

It's the CBN governor's duty to protect the financial mechanism from systemic risk. These stupid banks pose that. It's within the circumference of his role to get rid of them. Se finis.