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just look how local that place looks, after how many years of democracy

Good luck to him and good that our local league can still produce world class talent.

Why must everything be about "War" with these inferior minded European conquered folks.

So everyone has scrapped the next two years of development to prepare for war in 2015?

teniyi: Noted. The country and her Sister DR Congo never withness peace and are being ruled by christian brothren. Haaa

And Somalia, Sudan, and even now legendary Egypt, all being controlled and run down by Muslims.

Boko Haram needs a bailout says bedsheet wearing Alhaji from Sokoto.

Imagine that.

Achebe and Soyinka are feared by many because they tell us the truth about our pathetic state of affairs.

So RIP Achebe.

As for the Igbo Youth Movement, how long is Uko gonna be the leader? Same with Umeh of APGA.

No change?

Its good that he's in Dubai and having fun. Funny enough a Muslim country like that can do great things and make almost the same profit in tourism as they would in oil, unlike the useless muslim region in 9ja that has a quack "Sultan" of sokoto asking the FG for money for terrosist when his region already is taking the lionshare of national cake.

some of these men need to be deposed along with these fake az.z pastors

ubikings: Delta State is moving to the permanent site beyond human expectations, our schools are taking a new shape, roads are working speedily and also new ones are witnessing rehabilitation, transport scheme is one of the best in the federation, our airport is commendable both by foreigners and home base, Sports sector still remain the best with numerous achievements to mention, our micro credit scheme is still the best no wonder CBN crown it as the best in Nigeria, Peace and security is seen every where in Delta State despite the challenges of kidnapping which is a national issue but Delta State is working tirelessly to tackle the menace and bring everything back to status quo, Graduates and Postgraduate are receiving bursary and scholarships till date both local and international, our free maternal care from 0-5years is still in operation till date, Mobile clinic for rural areas including operation issues, our free education scheme for primary and secondary schools level, Employment into civil service, colleges of education, polythenics and university, post primary education board, school of marine and technology, Free transport scheme for pupils in primary school is not also left behind etc. Oliver twist will continue to ask for more we pray for his grace upon the leadership of Delta State led by His Excellency, Dr Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan CON to tackle areas where urgent needs are deem fit necessary and sanction contractors that are delaying jobs across the state back to site revoked contracts when necessary with this our Delta State will grow speedily and indeed the developments of today will be sustained for the future generations unborn.

See the longest run-on sentence of the year from a local champion trying to promote "His Excellency".

Fools

Wasn't it 3 months ago we were talking about this same bull. Igbo folks in the north again.

If they want to stay there and die, then OYO!

They should have read some history and see that on average, Igbo and Christians are attacked in large number at least a minimum of 10 times a year.

There needs to be more than mere sacking.

BTW, if a person is removed then the deputy needs to take over. Enough of this silly zoning shyt.

Funny that all these local men, whether they be Obasanjo, David Mark, or the COAS through "spokesperson" cant articulate or create in reality good roads, modern airports that are world class, stadiums, universities, power, and frankly all that everyone else has figured out how to do,

Yet they are always " The unity of the country is a must", " I will die fro Nigeria Unity", " The unity of this country is not negotiable". Everyday everytime, as if there's a parananoid spirit chasing them.

How about giving the people finished projects, jobs, healthcare reforms (DAVID MARK), and common anemities.

^^^^^ propaganda as usual.

Theo Orji is a bastard and the good people of ABia State need to rid themselves of these Warrant chiefs.

Tinubu is controlling all allocations going to Southwest, and is internationally backed by important folks. His call for amnesty is purely to promote his interest, since he is a muslim, and continues to enjoy patronage from the FG.

So why rock the boat? Do you guys expect this Omo to say the FG should lockup the terrorist boys?

Hel.l No

So was he there himself or not.

If not then bullshyt

pro01: I am surprised you are privy to this information. . .seems you have access to the inner caucus. You are correct: Andy Uba is indeed the richest man in Anambra state at least, and by implication, possibly the richest man in Igboland. I know that Dangote is in 'custody' of several hundreds of millions of dollars (if not billions) of Andy's money. He also has other 'proxies' apart from Dangote. Andy was the principal facilitator of virtually all the big deals that went down during OBJ's eight years in power. The man is unspeakably wealthy, believe it or not.

I also agree that Sir Emeka Offor *might* be richer than Chief (Engr) Arthur 1000, although it's a tough call. I see some guys here talking about how Offor was still a 'small boy' when Arthur started counting millions. Agreed. But wealth is not always a matter of who started first. I think Offor made stupendous wealth under OBJ and enjoyed so many lucrative concessions (whereas Arthur was not close to that government). Nonetheless, had Abacha not died, and had he gone on to transmute to a civilian dictator and ruled for umpteen years afterwards, Arthur would by now be probably as rich as Dangote, as he was quite close to Abacha.

However, I see Arthur bouncing back powerfully again as he is getting increasingly close to Jonathan's government. He might yet overtake Offor; one can't be sure though.

I see Arthur bouncing back powerfully again as he is getting close to Jonathan's government lol

Meanwhile Bill Clinton and GEJ just had tea with sserious men like Tinubu and Fashola, and the Northerners continue to have the lionshare of federal allocation, with substantial representaion in every industry in the country if not the majority.

ANd then there are the once upon a time great Igbo who now, have to rely on the grace of other groups to retain a position of relevance, if not they woud be sacked like the 5 Senate President's they had recently (unlike David Mark who aint goin nowhere except to the Vatican of course).

No international airport, no modern bridge across that Naija, no stadium, no modern unviversity, no modern city, nothing but criminals fighting over crumbs that IBB and co grant them.

The "richest" man in Igboland can't do a dayum thing without the approval from Oga on Top.

Get your local a.zz selves together and be serious for a change

Symphony007: any rubbish that enter your head you put down!! Apprently you're ignorant to the fact that nigeria has one of the largest catholic population in africa and the most senoir africa in the church cardinal arinze is a nigerian. So it will mean alot to nigerian catholics to see their government fully represented in the enthronement of their holy father!!

Nonsense

Wouldn't it mean alot to Nigerians to see their government fully transparent and developing the cities that are all a dumping spot of trash, aristos, wanna be pastors, ritualists, oning and offing gen folks, and did I mention trash?

Look at other "catholic" countries, like France, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Germany, and yes, they deserve representation at the papal meetings, not lightless displaced priority Nigerians who always want to "Belong" with the who's who of the world, when the Who's Who know they belong with Rogue nations

Nothing wrong with making fun of that illiterate guy who has no business having that position. When everyone, even those who like to pity folks and who like to hang out all day on Sunday with their pastor start realizing that the whole country and society is a joke, then anger eventually comes next, and then off with some heads.

LOL, see these people. Celebrating criminals and thugs. No wonder Igbo folks cant be president and cant fly from oversees directly to their region (even they could do that during Biafra war)


My goodness

Nigerias always want to feel as if they are part of the international community (hence the invite for Kim Kardashian).

What they dont understand is that they have to pay a heavy price to be part of that community because that community has no regard for a corrupt inferior minded country where so called leaders like David Mark see no problem running to Germany for medical checkup.

Do you guys know that Nigerians pay 3x to buy "beginning of discussion/discussion continued" cars from US, and pay extra for anything imported from that country? ANd those coming to the US to give birth because they know being a Nigerian is worthless in this world pay cash (about 14k) to just give birth to pikin.

David Mark is not the person to lead this "large" delegation.

WHy not have one of the bishops and one or two folks, but of course, we have to bring everybody to show we are a great country.

Nonsense

This "Emir" has done something akin to making history.

He took perhaps the greatest heroic stride in the history of the Caliphate and spoke the TRUTH for once.

This should be a national story and start a national debate once and for all about the problem Islamic fanatics and Christian Pastor Pastor phenomena is having on the negative psych of the people.

Please dont post any crap from that id.iot. Stop giving him relevance

^^^^

I'm glad you took out the time to read the poster's post in it's entirety, and decided to repond to it in English.

So much for the white man worship no?

He's right and you are wrong and are defensive as typical of people from a much failed country.

Look, just check out the threads on Nairalands politics section and there you'll see that for the most part our people are SCREWED

So Chime should step down abi? Of course not, he's bigger than the pope you know

Just look at his ugly locaaaaaal face.

Nonsense

odumorun 1: Nothing seems to provoke fury, indeed unbridled rage on this website and across the land more than when some prominent Nigerian goes abroad and criticises the brazenly obvious ills in our society. The response always revolves around the excuse that we should not wash our dirty linen in public, Americans and westerners don’t do the same etc etc.

This is more than people with something to hide not wanting exposure where they can’t use their powers of coercion and manipulation to conceal their crimes, as many otherwise innocent Nigerians tend to join in the chorus of hate towards anybody who dare says outside our shores the reality most people endure in it. There is something deep rooted in the African mindset that seems to abhor facing up to reality, a deeply embedded moral cowardice to be seen in offices, business and families in our society that accepts any condition no matter how bad, how humiliating as long as we can look good to outsiders.


People who struggle to feed their families, will never be short of money to buy clothes for the next party, men who can’t pay their kids school fees but will always find money to upgrade their mobile phones regardless of the expense, even when the replaced ones are perfectly functional. The disease affects even the Diaspora, Not a few Africans drive the flashiest cars yet head for the economy shelves of the big supermarkets for their groceries. There are families (from Africa in Europe) who ration the sugar for their families, but will never be seen without the latest designer clothes outside their front doors. There are people whose kids will never be seen without the latest computer gadgets but who shovel the cheapest, unhealthiest food down their throats to ‘save costs’

On any high street in the UK for instance many small Asian businessmen will be mistaken for labourers at first sight. The dress simply but most of their businesses are worth millions and have endured for decades. African businessmen on the same streets dress like kings and the average life span of their businesses tend to range from 4 – 5 years.


Why are we so obsessed with outward appearance, even when it’s not backed by any internal substance? The mindset of an Asian or western businessman is hard work, enterprise, risk taking and innovation. In Africa or amongst Africans, business means luxury, enterprise is equated with elegance. So profit is rarely re-invested, it is immediately spent on conspicuous consumption. So even when the businesses don’t collapse, they don’t expand. There is no drive to innovate, to take risks. The ultimate aim is to look the part. ‘Ah that man is a business man he has a new Lexus’. Not that man is a businessman; he opened a shop 2 years ago now he has 7. In Europe every ethnic group has produced restaurants that have prospered by conquering the western palate, except Africans. Go to any Chinese restaurant anywhere in Europe and most people there will be Caucasian, not Chinese. Go to any African restaurant and you will struggle to see a non black face.

What is the reason; it’s not as if our food is not tasty. Again it is a cowardly desire not to take risks, to innovate. The Chinese, Indian, Arab and Thai menu has evolved. The African menu has not. We still eat the same way our forebears did 200 hundred years ago in a radically changed environment. Our food has not changed – it is still the same old format – a heavy cereal with a separate stew. Eba, iyan etc. But these foods were created for a period that has been largely bypassed at least in the west. Our foods were created at a time when most people worked on the farms, hard punishing labour requiring foods heavy in carbohydrates, to burn off to release energy. Now many people work in offices – having eba or iyan at lunch means you won’t be productive when you return to your desk, because the work does not require you to burn off energy as our ancestors did. So we fall asleep at our desks. How can such a menu attract foreigners? But still we refuse to change because of a fear of risk taking allied to the desperation to keep up appearances


It is the same with the way we live. We have some of the most beautiful apartments in the world (lets leave aside the fact that most of the money used to build them was stolen). Compared to many luxury apartments in other parts of the world, they look good. However go inside and you find shoddy finishes, poor coordination, tasteless furnishing, and a lack of real refinement, which in the minds of the African bourgeois and aspiring classes means big, not necessarily brilliant. . In the homes of the wealthy Europeans or Asians the homes might not look that great from outside – but enter inside its another world, Persian rugs, old antiques, sculptures etc. A sense of real taste and culture. Why are we so shallow? We delude ourselves that we know how to live, yet we in reality don’t know how to even enjoy the life we pretend to love so much. We attend parties that we don’t enjoy, parties were we sit staring for most of the time like beheaded goats because we don’t want to do anything wrong, to draw attention to ourselves for the wrong reasons to look bad lojuagbo

Rich westerners have a love of high art, paintings, and exquisite carvings. I can count the number of times I have seen Africans in museums admiring the finest creations of human civilisation anywhere in the world. We prefer shopping - nothing wrong with that – but how many of the things that we buy can we produce. We buy the latest multimedia gadgets, the finest electronics, yet we can’t build a factory to produce simple radios at a technical a level achieved in other parts of the world 100 years ago.


In our families the problem is the same. There is a problem – take the easy way out blame everybody, so nobody is offended including whoever has committed the offence. We call that wisdom. Of course there are times when both parties could be at fault. But it also possible that one person is at fault, but you will struggle to find a family on this continent that will not seek to share the blame around, ostensibly to reach a compromise but in reality so they can remain on good terms with both parties or at least the offending one in a society where very principle is available for compromise, where standards exist on nothing where anybody who takes a clear stance on anything is immediately dismissed as mad, extreme etc. A man has slept with his house girl, ok blame the man, but also the woman for not putting enough salt in the food tempting the man to sleep with another woman!! A woman stabbed her husband; ok blame the woman, but also the man for not running away fast enough!!!- We are all to blame, so nobody is to blame; we are all responsible so nobody is responsible. All Nigerians are corrupt so don’t blame the government. Leadership has power and privilege but not responsibility and accountability. The government is ‘trying’ ‘they are trying’. What is the point of trying without succeeding? A society of endless compromises where the aim as always is to keep a clean front to outsiders for a home rotting and putrefying inside.


When we end up dying it is the same people screaming that we should not expose our ills to outsiders who will demand immediate outside medical intervention.


We condemn people for going to the west to criticise what we all know is true, trying to silence them. Yet when the problem, because it has not been treated, explodes, it is the same people who now insist we don’t tell the world our problems (problems the foreigners are far more aware of than we are – where is the stolen money kept UBA Ikeja?) it is these same people who will demand for armed western intervention to save their skins and their stolen property

This is actually the best post of the year till date.

I can't believe there are actually "Nigerians" who can think this way.

You are spot on in your entirety but of course those "What's my business" local monkeys are gonna downplay this your gospel truth about who they actually are. Can you imagine the types of leaders we have in this country day in and day out. When the fuel scarcity hit, when you thought people were going to behave like EVERYONE else has done worldwide in that situation (REVOLT and Overthrow the powers that be) they turned the whole thing into a party.

Then they will go to one self acclaimed shuurch on Sunday to play with a "pastor" who is simply imitating one Black baptist preacher he saw on television.

Then we will throw Nollywood party and take pictures to put on top Nairaland abi facebook, when those movies are worse than a Freshman Media major's production at University of Florda.

We are quick to devour Jallof rice and Suya, and flush it down with Guinness, day in day day out, on the gen day in day out, import phones from US and cars from US day in and day out.

We get visa to go to America to shop till we drop for our pikin and brother's pikin. Then when pikin get heart problem in Naija, wetin we wan do with all those clothes we dey buy from Yankee?

By the way, no one is copying us, not our movies, not our music, not our way of speaking, not our cities, and frankly, hardly anything.

What have any of these morons Northerner or Southerner done with the oil blocks they already have? Is it that they need to tap more women perhaps in India?

Some of those men made their fortune with military murderers aka Dangote and Adenuga.

Thank goodness Yobo is not on this squad. All he knows is how to hogg a trophy like typical Naija politicians that no gree step down abi share with everyone.

Disgruntled Politicians from the SouthEast?

Yeah right

Who? Udenwa? Any Uba?, Theo Orji abi Orji Kalu? Ekwueme?

How can they be disgruntled when they have used money meant to fix roads and schools and bridges into their own accounts. How can they be disgruntled when Kema Chikwe was Aviation Minister and could not even upgrade Imo airport to international standard?

How can they be disgruntled when they could have turned Umuahia into a place with world class shopping centers and factories, or built a modern bridge over River Naija with 14 years or so of allocation in an oil profit booming era?

Maybe Arther Nzeribe, Nwobodo, and co are now suffering from arthritis and cant get that visa to Spain for treatment, or are tired of the noise in Lagos or the treat of bombing in Abuja

Does this teach you a lesson

I hope you can now advocate for a change in Nigeria and stop with all your bulyshyting.

Okay good, but please upgrade these stadiums to international standard.

And they supposedly spent US $350 Million on this? Not even the best in Africa.

Theese people just dey chop our money finish.