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nice one

pls i will want to know if Chamillionaire is truly a nigerian?

May the souls of the departed rest in peace.
The Nigerian Aviation industry is a direct reflection of what is wrong with our country. It reflects our poor culture of maintenance and or investments in infrastructure. Planes do fly in heavy snow and or rain in other countries, this is not the 50s, why do we always blame this mishaps on nature instead of our short comings. So it was rainy. Planes are designed nowadays to fly in all weather conditions. Yes, sometimes they do do crash but not with the frequency of crashes in our country. I think the problem may be the fact that we start out with old and ill serviced equipments, both the planes and the airports are sub-standard. In a country where individuals boast of having millions and billions in acounts (local and foreign), its a shame that our infrstructure is non existent. The roads are another story, it now takes 10 hours to go from Benin City to Lagos from 3 hours of a few years ago. How long is this backward trend going to continue. Politics seems to be the only business existing in my country and the so called politicians are only there for themselves and not the populace. One question I often ask is how many members of the US congress or British parliament have houses in Nigeria. When are we going to learn. why is it that we just cant get anything right in nigeria? my heart bleeds for this nation cos as for now we are a hopless case

@Jakumo
what am saying here is that yahoo yahoo is the faliure of the government in nigeria, am not justifying the yahoo boy's actions, am just saying instead of blaming them, blame the corrupt government that forced them in to yahoo yahoo. most of them wont do the yahoo yahoo had the gorvernment been responsible. the same government that set up organisations like EFCC to prosecute the yahoo boys is the same government that forced them into it . thats a double standard and it doesnt make sense to me. why wont the EFCC be on the neck of the police force that every body knows is one of the most coruppt institution in the country(the police is far worse than the yahoo boys)? where is the justice when former inspector general of police tafa balogon was sentenced to about 2 years in prisonment for stealing billions of naira, when so many yahoo boys are awaiting trail for over 3-4years for duping some greedy foreigner. its the total decay of the government that is reesponsible for the yahoo boys actions i will repeat again if the government becomes responsible yahoo boys will cease to exist

May the souls of the departed rest in peace.
The Nigerian Aviation industry is a direct reflection of what is wrong with our country. It reflects our poor culture of maintenance and or investments in infrastructure. Planes do fly in heavy snow and or rain in other countries, this is not the 50s, why do we always blame this mishaps on nature instead of our short comings. So it was rainy. Planes are designed nowadays to fly in all weather conditions. Yes, sometimes they do do crash but not with the frequency of crashes in our country. I think the problem may be the fact that we start out with old and ill serviced equipments, both the planes and the airports are sub-standard. In a country where individuals boast of having millions and billions in acounts (local and foreign), its a shame that our infrstructure is non existent. The roads are another story, it now takes 10 hours to go from Benin City to Lagos from 3 hours of a few years ago. How long is this backward trend going to continue. Politics seems to be the only business existing in my country and the so called politicians are only there for themselves and not the populace. One question I often ask is how many members of the US congress or British parliament have houses in Nigeria. When are we going to learn. I pray everyday that our oil should run out so that we may go back to the progress we were making before the course of oil. Just my 2 cents worth of vent

election in nigeria is just a charade so pls every body sit at home and allow the theiving bastards to select them selves.

davidylan:
Just a few definitions of the famous words of our politicians!

God - A political version of Alladin's lamp conjured up by sleazy politicians seeking to legitimise their continued assault on the masses and unbridled looting of the public till.
National honors - Yearly charade organised by the government to adorn sycophants and political jobbers with meaningless titles meant to reward all but those who have made a meaningful contribution to the development of the nation.
Stakeholders - A word that refers to those whose main interests lies in feathering their own nests. See also Diego Ibrahim Marangida.
Prominent Nigerians - A tiny cabal of alien Nigerians, sycophants and praise singers of any government in power mainly for selfish interest while masquerading as speaking for the people. see also Arthur Nzeribe, Olabode George.
Godfathers - Senile old men who use looted funds to install puppets in power in order to obtain unbridled access to public funds all in the name of the people. See also, Chief Uba, Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu.
Election - A meaningless charade that merely rubber stamps "God's choice" for political office.
Welfarize - The art of bribing legislathieves, political subordinates, and other hangers-on in order to remain in their good books. See also Kola, kickback e.t.c.
Impeachment - A tool used by legislathieves primarily as a scare tactic to force the executive into "welfarizing" them.
Sustainable development - a phrase intended to hoodwink the people that refers to the initiation of white elephant projects meant to be abandoned as a means to siphon public funds into private bank accounts.

thumbs up man u have really done a great job here

the witer of the article wrote and i quote
"Any government who could not protect and guarantee the basic or fundamental interests of its citizens reserves no moral right to prosecute or punish them, when they try to do so themselves, in ways that is not in consonance with the law. This holds true, because the government has not respected the ontological laws that gave it birth; which implies catering to the interests of its citizens.  So the citizens are not morally bound to owe any allegiance to the laws of such a state "
That is perfectly true. if the government will provide jobs to the desperates youths and make them self dependent yahoo boys will be history. but when the governtment is horrible and it expects it citizens to be good is not just sensible. when theives like governor dariye of plateau state that was caught with millions of pounds in the UK and fayose of ekiti state are still in government how do u expect yahoo boys to stop doing what they are doing. when the theiving rich members of the nation(bode george and tony anehni to mention a few) are being glorified, respected and seen as role models how do u expect the yahoo boys to desist from their acts? when the police force is the most corrupt institution in a county how do u expect the yahoo boys to gave up? when people like cris uba and his fellow god father counterpart in oyo state (the ugly former meat seller turned politician i don't remember his name) are being glorified for their theft and wrong doings in public , how do u expect the yahoo boy to agreee he is doing wrong? when the vice persident of the country openly agreed he and the president  stole by making remarks like "Obasajo made more money than me in this administration" why wont the yahoo boys be on rampage? According to the law of economics where there is economic regression and collapse there will be crime, war and conflict which will lead to poverty and as we all know poverty leads to so many things. when the productive youths are left in a situiation of 'hang on or fall off' how wont they do yahoo yahoo to survive and hang on? since we know that they are poor and poverty is the root of all evil coupled with that the government can't provide for them in all ways.how do u expect the yahoo boys to stop what they are doing when their role model is the government(too much corruption an greed in the system)? when they don't have nothing in the presence of so much how do u expect them to sit back and relax and keep on dying due to the poverty that is imposed upon them by their selfish and greedy government. we sit down and talk all day when we know that the government is to blame for all what is happening in the country, when trasperancy international was rating nigeria it didnt say the yahoo boys were the most corrupt people of the nation, it said the presidency and the police force were the most coruppt sect of government. when there is lawlessness at the top how do u expect oder to exist at the bottom? yahoo yahoo is just a manifestaion of the governments failure to take care of its people. to end it all if the government becomes responsible yahoo yahoo will die a natural death.

@Orikinla
just practice ur religion and allow others to practice theirs. there are soo many flaws and confucion in christianity too why dont u try to correct that? how can u try to show some one he is lost when he believes the road he is taking is leading him to some where. i mean islam works for the moslems just as christianity works for the christians, i have seen people being healed in the name of jesus at the same time i have seen demons being cast out with the korans. moslems pray to allah for peace, success and what not and they get it so do christains pray to God too. all the faiths work for their various followers and adherents, so u just do urs and not condeme any bodys, all what u are doing is just faith no body has ever been to heaven and came back and said he saw only christains in heaven or moslems in hell or vice versa. its just a believe, it could all be false so just believe what u want to believe and stop critisising or trying to show others the way. which might not really be a way cos every body beieves his way is the way, there are soo many reigions in the world today and all believe theirs is the way so what about that?

BABA don try ohhh make wuna give am props for moving the nation 7 years behind

EFCC

what is religion doing to our world today? is religion not supposed to bring sense to us and make us live in peace and tranquility with one another? why all the fighting and killings over religion? it doesnt make sense

i dont know am confused about christianity

If u invite your guy out for dinner then u should pay the bills , if its him that invites u then he should pay, thats how it should be done. the person that invites the other should settle the bills, its wrong when the man pays all the bills and the woman never pays nothing .it makes the man look down on the woman am a man and i know what am talking about . so ladies if u want to be respected and treated right with out being used all the time try to be independent and pay the bills some times

Of course they steal but they use it to develop their nation in most cases. the former persident of serbia and montenegro stole about a billon euros and hide it in a bank in cyprus, the US government is currupt but despite all the curruption they are doing , they still delivery their campaing promises to their masses. its not all about eating and stealing and not working. they steal but yet everything is in place we steal and steal and steal and nothing is their to show for it . why is every body talking about nigeria today? its becos the curruption is too much and ridiculous, am serious u wont believe it until when u know how the money is being wasted and stolen away.let me give u an instance so that u can get the picture if u havent , bayelsa state recieves 10billon naira from the federal government monthly as subvention. its uses less than 500million niara to pay its workers salaries and keeps the rest. but do u know that since from 1999 till date no project worth 10billion naira has been executed in bayelsa state? when it recieves 10billion niara monthly? its totaly unbelievable and absurd. the white people too steal but they use the looted money to develop their countries and with the type of government they run their leaders are not exposed to too much public funds so the have no accsess to the public money as our leaders here have so they definately steal less

In nigeria your vote isnt your right, how is your vote your right when u get killed for nothing because u went to vote for someone who u know will never win? when Col Ahmadu Alli and his members of People Destroy People(PDP) select who ever they wish and impose on the people how is your vote your right then? how is your vote your right when the god fathers are still there to make sure that only their candidates win at all cost?, the only way your vote will be your right is when every poor man in nigeria bouycuts the election and sits at home, so that the bastards will know that they are fooling them selves not the poor masses, them i asure u that u might see some changes. they keep on fooling us because we allow them to, if we all sit at home and don't go out to partcipate in their madness they will know that we are fed up and tired of their stupidity, but when we keep coming out, we keep encouraging them. when we sit at home they will realise that we have come of age and they will sit back and think twice. when the whole world hears that nigerians bouycotted their elections because their leaders have failed them totally then the will realise and know that they have messed up. we always talk about revolution and change lets start the revolution and change by sitting at home and allowing the fools to do their selection because u and i know that our votes doesnt count we only expose our selves to danger when we go out to vote, u stand a chance of being hit by a stray bullet or some angry rascals at the pollin station so please every body sit back at home and relax and pray that NEPA allows u to watch some movies while they are busy selecting them selves

there is no need to go and vote .what we have in nigeria is selection not election so why go and waste ur time voting when u know that the credible candidates never win? i advice every body to relax at home and save ur self the risk of being hatched at a pollin station , i know of a guy that was killed at a polling station last time cos he went to excercise his civic responsibility, so why waste ur time and expose ur self to such danger?sleep jare and watch a movie if u can thats if NEPA allows u too

Nigerians are under a spell am serious we are under a curse, do we know what $380 billon dollars is? thats unbeliveable and ridiculous, the US after the war in Afganistan has planed to turn kabul the country's capital into a mordern city with a budget of $20billion when i mean modern city i mean they will like it to be like one of the states in the US(florida, texas or philadeliphia) and they have budgeted $20 billion for that and when they have finished buliding kabul there will be no city in nigeria that will be close to it and will ever dream of being like it, thats just to tell us what $380 billion can do in a nut shell, this revelation to me is a slap on the face by this good for nothing administration cos the country has never made as much money as now (thanks to high oil prices) , and still nothing to show for it, this failed administartion has gotten most of the money any administration has ever gotten but still nothing has changed everything is still in sambles and they want us to believe they are trying when even a mad man on the street knows that things are getting worse, my heart bleeds for Nigeria cos things will never change they will only get worse with the type of mind and attitude and lack of decipline we have

@dblock,

hey man what are u talking about here? what is leadership all about? is leadership for the betterment of the populace or for a selected few? OBJ's leadership is for only him and his greedy boys. i am a nigerian in diaspora too, i went back to Nigeria some months ago and i was terrified with what i saw i must tell u, things are just so bad and i must say that the lives of nigerians isnt better now than during the time of IBB or abacha i heard u say nigerian will prefer OBJ to abacha , who told u that? political killings are still on the rise, poverty is at its higest level, no roads ,no food, no water, no electricity even in abuja the FCT what a shame. during abach the PTF rehabilitated almost all the roads even though some people said they were only in the northern parts of the country, but at least some roads were rehabilitated but now even in the stupid OBJ's state there are no roads. Unemployment is at its highest level. what is it u are saying that going by CIA's report unemployment is not too high ? are u out of your mind to believe that? is it everything u read in foreign papers u believe, no wonder they even ridiculed nigerians by saying that nigerians are the happiest people on earth but u and i living out side nigeria know better, i have come to know what happiness really is now that am out of nigeria at leats i have seen happy citizens of a nation and i will tell u nigerians are the saddest people on earth. OBJ is not and will never be the best leader nigerans have seen, how can u say he is the best leader when everything is still the same, no roads , no elctricity, no clean water, educational system is still as bad as ever before , nothing has cahnged since 1999 till date so what are u talking about. do u know that the basic infasturcue are still not there? how can u say a government is trying when the basic infastuructue is not there? poverty has not reduced a bit and u stand there and say he is the best leader ever, how? isnt good governence supposed to be based on accomplishments? what are OBJ's? life for most nigerian is still the same as during abacha and IBB ,so i don't understand what u are saying because its not making sense and it wont make sense even to OBJ himself if he is to be truthfull

@Odeku
I still insist that OBJ is not better than alams or all the ministers he sacked for corruption, why is the efcc not behind bode george that was indicted by the efcc it self, didnt the presidency tell the efcc to shut up and  said they found their investigation faulty? didnt the former speaker of the house of reprsentatives Ghali umar na'abba and some of his colleagues bring  millions of naira and showed it to the whole world that OBJ gave them to impeach him as the speaker then. what happended? didnt the story just die with out anybody doing anything about it? what about the 50million bribe that was given to the members of the national assembly to support his 3rd term aganda? why is the efcc not behind senetor nasiru mantu and jonathan zuwingina(OBJ's mouth peice in the senate)when  the FCT minister said they told him to bring 50million niara befor they will confirm him as a mimister? why the double standard?no wonder trasperancy international maintained that most of Nigeria's corruption takes place in the precidency. what have u got to say to that? i was still sensible when IBB was in power and i will tell u so many people didnt loose their lives due to supid crises that were caused by the prsidency, how many religious crisis did u hear about during the time of IBB am not behind IBB one bit he is a devil himslef but what am trying to point out here is that OBJ is not a better person than IBB .talking about killings,who killed harry marshal? who killed  the former senate president okadigboh? who killed the fomer minister of power and steel Bola Ige?see what happened in oyo state where a meat seller turned mafia and political God father is doing what he pleases. with the full support of OBJ why is the efcc not behind him? why is the efcc not behind thieves and criminals like Cris Uba? is he not a worse thief than alams? its all a stupid mix up and double standard i insist OBJ is not better tha IBB if u will really open your eyes and see the realities on ground u will agree with me

@Odeku
what do u mean by this post is from one of the IBB boys? is OBJ a better person than IBB? what has OBJ done to the average nigerian, list his accomplishments, as far as am concern OBJ is a bigger thief than atiku. Atiku even said it him self that OBJ has made more money than him in this administration, the whole idea about this Efcc is just a crap, why is the efcc not behind people like senator Ibrahim mantu, tony anehni, jerry gana and bode george that was indicted by the efcc it self, when the former minister of foreign affiars mrs okonjo iweala busted a fraud in the ministry of foreign affiars that implicated some of his close adies what did he say? didnt he come out and condem her? how can u say because he is old and close to his grave he can't steal. he is a terrible theif and still wants to keep stealing ,why else will he come  up with the 3rd term plan that failed?OBJ is not the man that nigerains need because if he was things would have been far better than they are now 7 years and still nothing has happened to the basic infasturucture which is the back bone of every developed economy, there is still no power, health services are worse as ever before, no acces to clean water, poverty is still on the rise, educational system hasnt changed a bit, nothing has worked in the past 7 years even  discipline has not be instilled in the people, and u stand there and say that this is from one of the IBB boys. is the stupid OBJ better than IBB? tell me what OBJ has done to the people that IBB hasnt done? or tell me how his policies has affected the people? rubbish