₦airaland Forum

You didn't deserve to lose, not to Buhari, of all people. Not to a party with Tinubu in their ranks whilst chanting about 'corruption'.

Popularity contests are the worst way to decide a government but this is the system we have.

Nigerians will shortly come to know what poor leadership looks like and will be writing letters for you to return.

KevinBrown:
Lol, it's 3% in US

That figure is for those institutions with less than 100 million usd (it's 10% for those exceeding 100 million), which still is not healthy.

The reason why people were so critical of the US government post bail out is because the measures that were asked of the financial institutions were not sufficient to stop the fiasco from happening again.

15% still sounds awfully low.

That is how the American (and European) banks got themselves into the mess that almost completely destroyed the global banking sector.

https://oi57.tinypic.com/33az3n9.jpg

https://twitter.com/toluogunlesi/status/582884674428620801

Discuss.

tosag:
Bro, Jonathan is a good man with a good heart. What destroyed or is about to destroy him is the fact the he surrounded himself with criminals and people with tainted records. He feels intimidated by people with impeccable characters. Even his wife, patience , did not help matters. Going about insulting the opposition rather than campaigning with her husbands achievements. I feel so sorry for GEJ, honestly. A good man who allowed himself to be led astray.

I honestly believe that Buhari is one of the more honest politicians that Nigeria has, likewise I believe that Jonathan has performed better than most of his predecessors.

But both are surrounded by criminals.

That is the problem that Nigerian politics is burdened with.

The difference is that the crooks around Jonathan come with credentials, people like Okonjo-Iwela who was lauded as an excellent economist. Tinubu doesn't have her credentials but he is just as destructive. Is Sanusi an asset to anyone? A man who seemingly cannot count - how can such a character be in charge of the CBN when he is constantly revising his announced figures? He was once of the PDP and is now hiding Buhari - do you think that Buhari will discard such people when they become known?

My own preference would be that Jonathan be allowed to continue but that Buhari be made head of the EFCC or a new independent organisation to really fight corruption.

Why can't this man predict his own death and shut his mouth.

nduchucks:
Buhari may very well become our own Mandela.

What exactly did Mandela do in office beside absolve the wrong-doers of their misdeeds and refuse to undertake much needed land reforms?

From what I can see those that benefited from Black Empowerment schemes are those who were in the ANC - how is that any different from what has happened in Nigerian politics?

Nigeria doesn't need a Mandela, Nigeria needs a more mature version of Thomas Sankara or a less corrupt Jerry Rawlings.

olassy239:
as expected. but Sai buhari all d way to aso rock


this SS fools voting for party instead of individual. am sure no body we answer them when they start complaining

Since when is Anambra in the 'SS'?

You should be more careful about what you say when calling others 'fools'.

lawanson44:
Why are yorubad musicians so uncultured? Whizkid+Weed=Smashing Someone's iPhone
Davido+Drinking=Fighting

You can never hear of P Square, Flava or Phyno do something like this

Touts will always be touts!

Thunder strikes anybody who quotes me to say rubbish

It's not where they are from, look at the age of the people that you are comparing.

Davido and Whizkid are children, really. They will grow and mature.

Not that they are good artists but all young entertainers go through this.

cao:
Exactly, concert tickets are no joke, those things cost money, then you pay the booking fee, then on the day of the concert your butt stands there all night. Don't even get me started on those who spend tons of money on them because touts/companies/douches buy loads of tickets and then sell them at exuberant prices (folks paying thousands for a £100+ ticket or worse paying a similar amount for a £32+ ticket), some even sell phantom tickets....Then after all that wahala, the performer come f*** up? Abeg, me too I go crase well well. Thank God the one concert I paid for went smoothly - Janelle Monáe was awesome.

Janelle Monae is a true artist.

You have good taste.

The problem is that most popular 'artists' are not creative, they are actors who sing someone else's lines (often badly).

They can't write their own material.

They can't choreograph their dance moves.

Very few of them can play an instrument or even read music and yet they call themselves musicians and people are paying to see them.

That there are so many of these talentless drones is the fault of the consumer.


P.S.
Numerous people complained about Amy Winehouse when she was alive for subpar performances and a nonchalant attitude and Katy Perry has her detractors owing to her inability to sing live. Let's not forget about the various criticisms surrounding Britney Spears either. Everyone has bad nights but many are just talentless.

I agree with some of what was said by these Kenyans regarding the popular Nigerian artistes (particularly when it comes to lacking lyrics).

My question to them - why do they not simply do what I do and not go to their shows?

Why are you complaining about them on one hand and giving them your money with the other?

If these acts were not able to make money being ordinary they would have to up their game or fall by the wayside.

Why don't we ask why it is that women will willingly engage with (and often chase) men that they know to be married.

That would be a far more interesting discussion.

I could have predicted this result two years ago.

I always feel terrible when I hear of these acts of violence in Jos, it used to be such a beautiful city.

Poor defending.

Super Eagles finally beginning to play some football.

GOAL!

Ahmed Musa.

I'm sorry that dude's phone got smashed but nobody enjoys being observed all the time.

9jii:
The Massive turn out for this Election was as a result of suffering inflicted on people by this administration.

People have no other options but troop out and demand a Changii,women, old, sick,infant. ...

Citizens are always the bedrock of any aspiring 'democracy' - the ruling class can only do what they are allowed to do, If Nigerians were more proactive and more demanding things would be very different from what they are now.

OP's problem is not his sexuality but his religion.

Learn to love yourself.

Religion is an impediment to progress and happiness.

kuuljay:
southerners has been calling northerners barbaric but see what they are doing to each others now

Are they committing suicide to kill their fellow Nigerians?

Or murdering school children?

Calabar, PH and Benin for sure but how did the OP forget Uyo?

kingthreat:
Niger Delta's oil is Nigeria's oil. If you have a problem with that, carry a gun to your cause and die so cheaply

We do not need more violence in Nigeria, we need true Federalism.

Every state and region should be encouraged to develop its own resources . Having a situation where some states suck from the teat of the Niger Delta whilst doing nothing to develop their own resources or even invest in its own population is dangerous.

There are probably minerals in the north but there is no incentive to develop them because they can rely upon Federal (oil) wealth to sustain them.

What is the state of irrigation in northern states? Are they producing as much agricultural produce as they should be?

If every state or region felt compelled to use its own resources to develop the locale and the people we would not have Boko Haram.

Sexual health is a public health issue, it isn't just the actors who are potentially impacted but any children that they may have.

Ignorance of sex and the dangers of reckless/premature sexual activity is not a positive.

Ignorance is not 'bliss' just delayed anger and frustration.

phemmyjohnson:
If we don't get to be ranked positively as the best, we get to Top the list on this one..
#NigeriarRocks
Its not easy to make 4th place in the world...
Diligence and hardwork...

4th on the continent.

No where does it say that Nigeria is 4th in the world.

Nigerians are the largest in population, by far, on the continent but trail behind those with far smaller populations on the INTERPOL wanted list.

OP looks malnourished.

Put your clothes back on, please.

"It really depends what you want. Boy? Girl? Young? Old?"

The man on the phone was offering us young children with the casualness of a market trader. After a week of back and forth phone calls, his initial caginess had given way to greed. He'd heard my foreign accent and clearly decided I would pay more than the domestic rate.

"We can get," he said.

We'd been put in touch with the man through a contact on the ground. We were told he was one of the men running this "unofficial" displaced camp -- one of the many that has mushroomed in the town of Yola as the influx of people fleeing Boko Haram has grown beyond the capacity of the official camps.

It had all been heartbreakingly simple. We'd asked who had children available to "foster" -- a catch-all code word designed to conceal the true intent of those offering up the orphaned children. The man on the phone was the end result of those inquiries.

When our colleague want to see them, he was shown a group of children and asked which one he wanted to take. One, two maybe? He escaped by saying he needed to check with his "madam" -- me.

I called. The man picked up and began referring to me as "sister." I told him we wanted to know what we'd need to do, if we decided we did want to "foster" the children.

He told me, "Sister, Jesus will reward me," so the "fostering" was free, he said. No need for any pesky paperwork -- just a reassurance from me that the children, if I chose to take them, would "live in my heart." If I could also then find it "in my heart" to donate to those still in the camp, then that would be "God's work."

In spite of the harsh measures the Nigerian government has put in place to punish human traffickers, by the government's own admission, 8 million children are currently engaged in forced labor.

The Global Slavery Index says Nigeria has the highest number of people in modern slavery of any sub-Saharan country. Paradoxically, the group also rates Nigeria's anti-trafficking agency, Naptip, as one of the strongest government responses on the continent -- but it's clearly overwhelmed by the realities of working in what is now a zone of military operations, Nigeria's north. As the insecurity in the region has spiraled, the worry is that more and more children are falling through the cracks. And as Boko Haram increases its reliance on child suicide bombers, concerns are growing that orphaned children could end up in the hands of the terror group.

At the camp where we finally met the man face to face, there was no attempt at subterfuge. We spoke in normal tones in full view of the children playing. I could have had one of them, I was told, but because I'd specified a younger child, they'd only identified one so far -- a 3-year-old. Did I want to consider an older girl? A 12-year-old maybe? She could look after the 3-year-old, and cook and clean. Either way, two girls would be ready tomorrow, he said. I could see them then.

Our last phone conversation revolved around what an appropriate "donation" would be in exchange for the children. He couldn't, he said, bargain for it. He then proceeded to do just that, laughing down the phone at my first tentative guess of $200. Laughing again at $300.

We finally found a figure he didn't find funny -- $500. I put the phone down and we traveled back to the capital that day to show Naptip what we'd found.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/23/africa/nigeria-children-for-sale/index.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zm7_cwR1t4&index=4&list=PL9oGCeOg1ewo5e2HKmXVGPFSO7M0oeTio

How typical is this man?

(mods can you move to politics section please)

DesChyko:
Nigeria isn't gay. No one bears this nick but you here, Dude.

I believe he was referring to America.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGuI6tOcROw&list=PL9oGCeOg1ewqbLBfhPeyG9QfBB1kUTbi1&index=3

Very good interview on maternal health

owobokiri:
There citizens like the ones used as lab rats during the Tuksgee experiments? Katrina? Make I hear word.

No, he meant the ones interned during WWII.

And the young men gunned down in the street by police for no reason.

And the young men imprisoned at an unjustifiable rate.

Bants:
Which arms were u buying or how did boko haram get there arms come now lets be realistic there was no new arms brought to fight boko haram we have seen the video is just cheer determination cos of election abeg Abeg who are the people training our army no be South African soldiers and US

The South African mercenaries are there to train the troops on how to use the new hardware.

Which US troops? The Americans long since abandoned Nigeria in this battle.


P.S.
For everyone talking about Buhari having a plan for Boko Haram - http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/stop-killing-boko-haram-members-buhari-tells-fg/