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Please "good" natured or Gnature--- I am not into tantrums. I only asked you a simple question. Who in good conscience will take a position where you cannot make a difference in Nigeria? She met a terrible education system in Nigeria for a few months as "Oby" did. What did she hope to accomplish? I have nothing personal against "Oby" But to sit and be part of a system that robs our youths of minimal education, be used as a puppet is what I think is terrible. WHAT DID SHE HOPE TO ACHIEVE? if not aid and abet looters. Keep waiting for proof and I hope you find it in this lifetime! Before I am tempted to get personal--my "god" says I should PEACE OUT!!!! See you all somewhere else. I have seen this kind of ill temper all over this web page and I refuse to be part of it.

All good! Where do we start from? What is the greatest problem Nigeria has now? I think it is tribalism! How do we overcome such a vice so we can be like other multicultural nations?

By the way what kind of job is "Budget monitoring price and Intelligence unit/due process"?  HOG WASH! Nigeria and big big grammar and posts!  Does she not sound like a master of moving figures with such a position in this strategic area?  She definitely cannot fail in this area given that it is left to her "god" OBJ! She was duly rewarded --- don't you think?? I beg make I go find beta thing do today!  Una dey gif me serious migraine!

You still need proof that your "Oby" looted? Just like Donald Duke? Some people have that ability to eat and wipe their mouths clean. Some just leave the palm oil visible on their faces and clothes. In Nigeria, all are tainted --- guilty by association. That is why you do not see any progress. Ezekwesili is guilty by association and for looking the other way while the educational system in Nigeria was run down. What did she hope to accomplish in a few months if not loot or cover up the ex-looters tracks? Please shine your eyes!

True duduyemi! You know each past leader makes the current one look like a saint. The Nigerian "curse" I agree we shall one day which for OBJ to come back as a "do nothing president"! We are truly a cursed nation!

Precisely why Ezekwesili is one of the worst. Could not make a difference in a few months but decided to put the final nail in the coffin as instucted by her "god" OBJ. Why did she accept the job if not to loot and dissapear? She is a disgrace for jumping into a sinking ship of greed!

MAMA, we cannot let OBJ rest oh! Because the harm he has done is yet to be seen. You wait and see!

Afam, the Nigerian government has shown us worse pictures/stories of the Niger Delta situations than those portrayed by CNN in Nigerian newspapers and Nigerian T.V., so what is there to stage manage? Do you dash out accolades? I think they have to be earned - don't you?

Adura-ngba, Sacked for his randiness?  LOL!  Please randiness in America is not a big deal.  It is a hobby over here, just like drugs.  Please say something else!

Oh God, how can we forget our one and only Oby Ezekwesili----minister of miseducation. This bottom power minister was responsible for finally burying whatever educational system was left in 9ja. You put it well denex---for she left it up to her "god" OBJ! While Soludo was SOLUDONIZING the banks in 9ja, Ezekwesili in the cloak of her prodecessor Osuji was '"EZEKWESILIZING" our universities and polytechniques to hell. Meanwhile all their children are in the best schools abroad. GOD WHERE ARE YOU

Amen---- angel101---you gat it right.  The very worst, LUCKY IGBINEDION--- EDO STATE governor.  Remember how he used Edo state money to finance his father's 70th birthday in Nigeria, London and Johanesburg?  I still have the copy of that ovation and I weep each time I look at it.  See all the houses his siblings and in-laws accuired in South Africa in so short a time.  He had the effrontry to show the world how stupid he is by broadcasting his stolen loot.  Meanwhile Edo state is under seige every time it rains with terrible roads, not to talk of schools.

Sell our souls to U.S.A.  ke?  No need for that! That is what we are best at---selling ourselves and you do not need Jeff K. or CNN for that.  You may feel "vindicated" or "syndicated" now but not for long.  You find it hard to accept that the report on CNN reflected what is going on  in the  Niger Delta region of Nigeria.  "Heart of Darkness"----- Is Africa not a "Dark Continent" where light has refused to shine?  Please  be less emotional in your responses and look at the real problems in Africa.  It is okay to feel ashamed for how the world sees us--- that is why we have to improve on our images. 

Your denial of the simple realities will not help us much.  Your celebrated victory will be short lived and baseless.  OBJ was the one that sold you out.  He probably gave the You.S. some good discounts in the Oil trade to kill that story so Nigeria's vile image would have some relief.  But for how long  Why don't they kill all the 419 stories about Nigerians too around the world via 60 minutes, Dateline NBC or Ophrah Winfrey show?  I love my country Nigeria, but the last thing I will do is to hide her shame---that is not being unpatriotic!  We are truly unrepentant criminals! THE ENEMIES OF OUR GREAT COUNTRY ARE NIGERIANS OURSELVES!!!!

ha ha ha --------you make me laugh. I think I recognize that as a "no go area" from you!

Eh hen now! Scratch my back and I scratch yours! I give you my money, i get sit for ya kingdom come and go!

Does it really matter what race Jesus is?

I do not know where all this is coming from.  I thought we were made to understand that our "God's" love is UNCONDITIONAL? Sounds like a spiritual bribe to me

WOW! IT MUST BE THE "TIME OF THE MONTH"!

Please do not hold your breath for that one. Day 5000 will come and there will be no arrests except the ones Ribadu has in mind for not giving up their loot. We are in the "negotiation" phase of this new administration. Money is still changing hands or should I say Nigeria- must- go- bags. Patience my people, patience! It will be revealed in no time who is the friend and who is the foe!

What exactly is the problem here?  Is it that it was an embarassment to the Nigerian government or the fact that the story was stage managed?  I watched the CNN gig myself.  Stage managed or not, it reflected on the situation in the Niger Delta to its true form.  Do we not have militants in Niger Delta that look like those on CNN Were there not actual Phillipino hostages?  If it was stage managed to reflect the real thing then it is a legit documentary series---just as you will see in National Geographic.

What does CNN have to apologise for? Is Nigeria not one of the most unsafe places in the world----due to lawlessness and sheer indiscipline?  At least we know that other places like Iraq and Afghanistan have some kind of conflict or the other going on so are unsafe.  Other Places like Mexico and Columbia have serious drug trafficking problems. The whole story has not come out.  If you dig deeper you will see Brother Jeff K and some Nigerians had some money change hands and all this is just a  cover up to reveal the real thing.  Nigeria Kwenu!  Ya!

As for the soft porn messages above I guess we all have our "kinky habits"!  We just happen to now know some of Jeff's----If the story na true oh!!!  God knows that if some of us were to be caught on phone or camera, O lordie, lordie!  Jeff's revelations will be child's play.  Just playing the devil's advocate on a Sunday as usual!

Lovely sermon!

Amen ToTochopper, (na wah for your name oh)! I blush as I even type your screen name. May God forgive me. Anyway, Amen to you because you talk am right! We are our own worst enemies not the colonialists!

Which accomplishments? None meaningful in the lives of those who "elected" him not to talk of those who did not "elect" him.

We argue about the pros and cons so we do not make the mistakes of the past.  All the countries and cities you mentioned nosa101 learned to incoporated the "pros" of colonialism and are embracing progress.  So we can start by accepting the "pros" and going from there.  I don rest oh for front of my lap top!

Yes Horus, I agree with you because that is why Nigeria is where it is today. We have become over-zealous and have lost our ways in what is important to us---self respect and patriotism. America today is a place where there is separation of church and state. Nigeria is always at extremes--Deeper Life or Sharia. Like I said before, we have a church or mosque in every corner of Nigeria but remain one of the most godless, selfish nations in the whole world. If Religion in Nigeria is not a propagandist tool, then I do not know what other function it serves! Help me somebody---do I hear and Amen? Amen!

I will bypass all these insults and go back to "nferyn". All you wrote is good. I like to be a drunken happier one than the apathetic sober one. How can any one prove true or false beliefs? My position is that anything that works to keep us sane and helpful to one another is welcomed by me. Religion is also good but like anything else, do not follow blindly. Take the good in all and form your own cocktail. Whether it is true or false, the end result is what matters---the good of all!!!!! I do not really care how anyone finds salvation as long as you find it. By any means necessary! You cannot get the answer from just one place. Thanks for the sources provided. I like to read different things to improve my knowlegde base to avoid being duped by the so called experts! Have your own mind and respect those of others is my motto in life!

Which Northerner is not "dull". They are like "oyinbo" people ke!!! "Slow Poisons". "Silent but deadly" Southerners who look "Awilo sharp sharp" will make noise from morning till night and die off like candles in the wind. See my fellow militias in the Niger Delta kidnapping and releasing prisoners after collecting ransom millions to drink "akpeteshi"--(ogogoro/palm wine" Don't let the man fool you. Patience my people, patience. The abracadabra continues. We shall see!

denex, you know that the cost of rebuilding is going to be 6 times the damage cost by Bush's arithmetic.

Useless man!!!! Could not tar the road to his Otta roach farm!!!  He should be prepared to hand over the keys to all his loot to Y'ardua to compensate Atiku.  He had only N20,000 in his account in 1999 before he was pushed into power by the Arewa Mafia.  He should have only N20,000 with him now! Thief!!!No net gain, no net loss! 8 years out of 47 years of 9ja's existence.

Ghana is celebrating 5 straight years of uninterupted electricity supply and this ape is apologizing. After making generator sellers hold Nigeria at ransom with all the kick backs he got from them for blowing off all the functional transformers in Nigeria. OBJ, your reward is coming. You have not started apologizing yet!

Cool down my people. We are here to exchange ideas amicably, not jump at each other's cyber-throats.

Patience my people, Patience! The abracadabra continues. Give us 6 months and we can really tell where Nigeria is going since we survived OBJ and his tricks.

Rest where

Why do some of us behave like we have been "jazzed" by "Ominigbon"(juju)-----that we cannot even see the truth? Wetin dem gif una chop sef? OBJ an "ex-president" and "a hero"? Please try an "ex- khaki dictator" and a "mugu".

It still amazes me that with all the sound analysis rendered above about the "Bush" man's policies, Americans still voted him for a second term.  No wonder Nigerian Yahoo boys and girls are conning these mugus left, right and center for large sums of money via cyber space.  Majority of them are not smart at all.  No vision or foresight, not to talk of critical thinking ability.  Worst still, no concept of actions and consequences.  They believe too much in those Nintendo/ Dungeon and Dragon video games they play all day long.  What a pity.  I really would like to see what the president of the U.S. of A. would look like in the next 25 years.  Y'all might just fall in love with this "Bush" man and his vice from Britain---Ewu Blairrrrrrr!!!!! It will get worse.

Thank you Naijaway for looking at it objectively. If we say colonialism did not bring anything good to Africa, then we are dishonest to ourselves. I use China for example because of the strong sense of self they have individually and collectively. Yes, they have their own problems with 3 billion people or more--- I think they have small problems. Look at their economy grow. Take a visit to the place and see how hard working they are to salvage themselves. Look in all the stores around the world, what do you see? MADE IN CHINA!!!!! The British were there too whether with slavery or not for 99 years. Did we not sell our own brothers for a cup of kain kain? Whose fault was it that we were colonized. Due to our genetic lilly-liveredness, we continue to sell our brothers and our lands to others. What America could not try in small vietnam. Naijaway, you hit the nail on the head by saying that colonialism made us realize that we are our own worst enemies.