there are three other official languages? no u sir are dearly misinformed. hausa igbo and yoruba are not official languages but the major indigenous languages. There's a difference. u do know the meaning of OFFICIAL right? and whats ur response to spanish being an official language in the US right? All govt-related things are available in spanish as well. what's ur response to that?

And as long as a yoruba man is born in the us, he can become president. the fact that it hasnt happened doesnt mean it cant. look at obama. ppl thot a black man couldnt be president. Has a tiv man been president in Nigeria yet? has an edo man? ijaw? efik? ibibio? calabar? The fact is only the major tribes have enjoyed the presidency in Nigeria. Same concept as it is in the US. The majority enjoy the presidency in a democratic country. it's simple logic. i I think i'm wasting my time trying to make a point.

and in response to ur jos comment, same thing can happen at state level:if he doesnt abide by the laws, he can lose his job. ur point is moot.

the fact that u do not know how diverse the US is tells me u have not spent a great deal of time here.

well excuse me for keeping my standards high. Of course comparing him to his predecessors will make him look like Jesus. I'm not assessing his achievements in comparison to or relative to any of his predecessors but i'm assessing it based on how things should be.

@ ogosoga, I will not be blinded because he is from the south. Tribe has nothing to do with this and should not even be brought up. it is irrelevant.

@ dmainboss, i wonder where u've seen me praise fashola or any1. I'm not impressed with GEJ and i think he's unfit to be the president of a country. It's as simple as that.

and as for the jos thing, the individual police and their dpos and commissioners will always side with their tribes whether state or federally controlled. Or do u expect the commissioner to sit idle while his own ppl get slaughtered?

frog12:

MannyLa,

The US is a singular-culture country, though with people from different nations. It has a single language; you can only marry one spouse, and do you expect to make your culture the norm in their constitution? Keep trying. No, we will make your language the official language of the US. hahahahah --they would have driven you out of their country by then.

As per JOS, even if it had its own State Police, the issue was about cultural differences, it would have been worse, with State Police under the guide of a Governor, that would most likely side with his ethnic group.

The solution remains, fixing the current problem with the national Police as it is.

in california, there are tons of ppl who dont speak english. spanish is an official language in many places and is being taught in schools. whites are fast becoming a minority. many chinese and asians also dont speak english

In nigeria, there is only one official language and thats english.

dmainboss:

Hmmm! So you didnt hear about the FOI bill? About the Free and fair elections? About the increase in power generation and power supply in some part of the country? About the new IPPs that have been granted licences to produce power? About the British Airways tackling? About the launch of the railway system? About the You-Win scheme? Can I go on?

Maybe you are deaf!

maybe u are naive or u are one of the propaganda puppets.

Free and fair? R u kidding? Most Free and fairest perhaps. There was rigging in that election but it just wasnt as bad as it was in the past.
All those bad federal roads from abuja to lagos have not been touched. As for power, come talk to me when a week passes with steady and constant power. British airways tackling? That's his big accomplishment? that's not even GEJ's doing. The railway system was from the previous administration (yar adua's).

And the you-win scheme? ok, i've been holding myself but i have to say this, u're an idiot. Of what use is good generating good business ideas when the basic and fundamental conditions for good business are lacking; security and steady power supply. Once these two things are solved, a lot of small businesses will take off and the unemployment problem would be decreased significantly. Nigerians are smart and innovative, this you-win scheme is just another way for some1 to steal money and misappropraite funds. Nothing will come of it.

And b4 u make any reply, come back with proof of GEJ's initiatives that have borne any fruit

And in reference to the jos crisis, if the state had ctrl over its own police, it would've spent more money trying to solve the problem. How much money are u willing to spend on something u have no control over?

@ Frog,

First of all, the US is by no means a single-cultured country. If anything, it is way more diverse than Nigeria with the amount of foreign nationals who become naturalized citizens. In chicago, u have greek town and a lot of polish nationals. In sunnyvale CA (silicon valley), u have the largest group of indians and pakistanis u will find in the US. U have a lot of italians in Jersey. A lot of Jews in Orange county CA. Need i go on?

Secondly, most states are struggling to stay afloat financially b/c they mismanage their funds and spend almost the entire budget on wage expenses. They have no legitimate revenue sources other than their federal allocation. many states dont collect taxes. Edo only started recently. They waste so much money on committees for the most ridiculous things and never get anything productive out of these committees. Not to mention the constant theft of funds. Need i go on. Trust me the money is there and can be generated if the right ppl are put in office.

Finally, no one is asking for an autonomous state police. They will work in cooperation with a federal police and the part of the money allocated to the current police in the budget can be given to the states to run and maintain their police force. Besides, Security and Power (electricity) are the two most important and fundamental problems facing Nigeria today. Our budget should reflect this.

All we ever hear is what GEJ wants to do. Never what he's done. Smh

And try not to get caught up in the ethnocentricity of the ave nigerian. Every1 thinks their tribe is special. All delusions of grandeur and uniqueness

If any1 cannot accept u for who u are and ur heritage, then they do not deserve a min of ur time. Trust me, there are lots of nigerians (both good and bad) just like any other country. Some will welcome u with open arms, some will try to take advantage of u, some haters will try to put u down for having American affiliations. We call the latter Bad belles (pronounced beh-lehs). A lot of them suffer from delusions of grandeur and are insufferable. Dont worry, as long as u're not too naive or too bias, u'll be fine.

And it will be the job of the federal police to keep those governors who try to abuse their power over the state police in check

it should be up to each state to decide how much of its budget it wants to spend on the police force. This should not necessarily mean a decentralization of the police in its entirety but the establishment of state police to operate concurrently, independently and mutually, with a federal police. Each would have it's own jurisdiction but in cases where jurisdictions overlap, the federal police would supersede the state police. For example, the FBI supersedes the LAPD or NYPD when their jurisdictions overlap

In the US, the mayor of the city appoints the police commissioner and hence is the head of the police force of that city. Same with governors and state police. When crime rates go up, the mayor/governor is held accountable. In Nigeria, the state governors find it hard to fight crimes like kidnapping and theft when the rates go up in their states because the police is appointed federally. The state has to make petitions to the federal govt to deal with crime-related problems. It is then up to the federal govt, who are more detached and removed from the problem, to decide if to listen or not. This is the fundamental problem of the Nigerian Police Force. Each state's police should have its own mandate; Lagos PD, Benin PD, Abuja PD, PHPD etc

time for kenny to go! liverpool deserves better

chuck norris