STILL ON THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF STATES' DECISION!
The Nigerian Council of States comprises; President, Vice-President, former Presidents and former Heads of Government, current and former Chief Justices of Nigeria; Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives; Governors of the 36 states and Attorney-General of the Federation.

But who among these people would have made attempts to block the presidential pardon given particularly to Chief DSP Alamieyeseigha?

Is it GEJ. No. He presented the proposal in the first instance. Alams has information on GEJ's loot during his stay in Bayelsa.
Is it Namadi Sambo. No. He is too focused on VP candidate for 2015.
Is it General Yakubu Gowon? No, he was also a beneficiary.
Is it Shehu Shagari? No.
Is it Mohammad Buhari. Maybe. Perhaps that was why he was absent.
Is it IBB. Not likely. He needs to enjoy his loot in peace.
Is it OBJ. No. No. No. He was a beneficiary. He also extend presidential pardon to a former speaker - Salisu Buhari. (convicted of perjury and forgery)
Is it the CJ. No. Not woman enough to rock the boat.
Is it former Justice Belgore. No. He is too busy enjoying government contracts.
Is it Justice Mohammed Uwais. Oh, I pity this man in midst of all these people.
Is it David Mark or Aminu Tambuwal. They are so focused on 2015. They probably would need same in future.
Is it the serving Governors. No. They probably would be needing the same presidential pardon in not too distant future.

Who then would have stood up to oppose this motion?

This is the tragedy we face....

MAYOWAAK: One day, a cardinal will break ranks and write a book about what actually happens at the Conclave.

Nooo, we don't need to wait till then. A Nigerian 'evangelist' will soon come up with some story on how he died and met a late pope in hell, and how the late pope gave him firsthand details of all the sins, iniquities, rituals etc; often perpetrated within the Conclave.

Now that Alams has been granted a 'state pardon', then I will personally start a petition requesting Oshiomole to rename Edo govt house after Anini!

The same folks who today insist that:

1. GEJ "signed/agreed to an invisible contract" and insist he should honour his word thereby even though they were not in the meeting and cannot show any document to back this up;

2. GEJ spoke in Ethiopia and Zimbabwe that "he won't run in 2015" and that he should honour his word because of that;

3. GEJ's should honour his word since he was silent while OBJ was promising Nigerians at the PDP rally in 2011 that "GEJ won't run in 2015" effectively postulating that "Silence means approval"

...are the same people that said it was not a big deal when "Buhari came back to say he would run in 2015 after the General had WEPT OPENLY IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE WORLD promising that if he loses in 2011 he will never run again" - at the time these same folks said "It is OK for a Man to change his mind and that the constitution does not forbid him from running again."

So here are my questions to these analysts:

a. "Why can't GEJ also change his mind about 2015 since he is a Man just like Buhari that is equally capable of changing his mind and since the constitution also doesn't forbid him from running in 2015?"

b. "Considering that these same commentators have already concluded that Buhari functions at a higher level of INTEGRITY than GEJ, why are they not able to agree that "if Buhari can dishonour his word" that GEJ should also not be expected to do any better?

Re: Ocar Pistorius:

1. Your babe gets to your house by 5pm on Valentine's day

2. You and her were sleeping in the same bed at about dawn

3. You thought you heard an intruder but rather than alert your babe advising her to stay in bed you didn't neither did you notice that "a whole human body" wasn't in that same bed

4. You went on to go to the Bathroom to shoot the invader through the door

5. Only for you to discover that it was the same babe [that you thought you left in bed]

? COCK AND BULL STORY!

I intentionally decided not to make any comment on this matter until this evening when I learnt that Oscar's supporters were practically celebrating his bail in court; I have noticed too many people seem to have been showing so much support for this guy all because of his sporting achievements and rare heroic story - so here is my beef with this matter - is it impossible for a HERO to commit murder albeit mistakenly or in this case possibly under rage?

How come no one seems to care for the slain lady or her family but just seems to want to treat her as a collateral damage that in their pursuit to ensure that their Hero is free? And please - do you think this guy would be getting this same fair treatment if he was Black; or just another "troubled celebrity" that could have been expected to do something like this?

Then how does anyone read the sequence of 1-5 above and still be willing to give this guy the benefit of the doubt?

You pay N250,000 per term as school fees for your 'wonderfully precious' son in ABC Primary school and N50,000 a month for your 'lovingly beautiful' daughter in XYZ Creche... You even brag about it.

BUT you think it is 'crazily stupid' for anyone to ask you to spare N1,000 per month to support your Alma mater (Kukuleku public primary school), where 5,000 pikins attend.

...Yet you say we love GOD.

[N1,000 a month from 1000 alumni = N1million/month].

N1,000 would not shake your budget but it can do a lot in Kukuleku public primary school... There's power in unity and consistency.

Do the math... for every 50 graduates from ABC Primary school, Kukuleku releases 1000... So what kind of society are we building for kids?

Following a disturbing news that l read in some threads on Facebook this morning that Fashola brought in one Kim Kardashian( hope l got the spelling right) into Lagos for a whooping $500,000, l called the Governor to register my anger and he retorted:" Kim what? Who is he?" I said it's a HE but a SHE. He said he was hearing such name fir the first time. Asking "what time did she come and for which event? Of what value would such a person add to my government that l would bring her down with such amount of money? Am hearing this for the first time. My government has absolutely nothing to do with her". This calmed me down as l was boiling with rage when l called him.Richard Akinnola II

On issues like this, I want to thread softly not to be seen to judge nor condemn an anointed. For no one will pass judgement on the anointed and will be guiltless before God. Having said that however, my admonition goes to the men of God. Most of them started well and God lifted them. But what we now see is the danger of fullness. The deceitfulness of riches is derailing most of them. How many jets did they use at the beginning of their Ministry. Yet they saw the raw hands of God and their churches exploded with people who yearned for the truth. If a Pastor could even afford a jet in this impoverished economy, shouldn't the love for the people be enough restraint. Would Jesus do this if he were to be in Nigeria today? Among the hungered, a person drinking common Garri may be lynched for being sumptuous. This is what these men of God should think about. Also, I want to submit that only a very negligible percentage of wealthy men in this present Nigeria will be able to righteously acquire a jet, without a shady underground. Aside the acquisition cost of about N10b, the parking at the port is about N20,000.00 per day, Pilot's salary, maintenance is done daily, not like a car you service 3 monthly, landing tax in foreign countries is exorbitant even for commercial aircraft etc. All these associated cost of maintenance is over a million Naira monthly. So would an hungry man among the congregation not be tempted to pass judgement on the man of God? Paul the Apostle said if my eating meat will make my fellow brother to stumble, I will rather not eat meat. The men of God are making us to stumble by forcing the hungry populace to pass unhealthy comments. I will not. But let everything be done decently and in order.

It is understandable that many Southwesterners reacted with so much anger at what the author said about Chief Awolowo. However, what interests me more is Pa Achebe's honest indictment of himself: throughout the war he had two vehicles and drivers and ran out of fuel only once. He lived in all this comfort while those he described as his brothers and sisters were dropping dead left, right and centre as a result of hunger.What I find intiguing is that the book is far far cheaper to buy in the Southwest than in the Southeast from where the author hails. In the East, it is business first.

"If the leadership of a country does not care about its citizens, why should the citizens care about the country?

On an internet forum i-e NAIRALAND where many Nigerians (at home and in the Diaspora) identify themselves more by their ethnic affiliations and where trading abuses, curses and hate-speech has become the usual fare, something dramatic happened last Sunday afternoon. The moment the match between Cote D’Voire and Nigeria ended with the Super Eagles coming out victorious against popular prediction, there was a ‘ceasefire’ with everybody suddenly becoming proud to be Nigerian.Segun Adeniyi of Thisday Newspaper[size=8pt][font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font][color=#990000][/color]

Dear Stephen Keshi,
I have never seen a man who resigns and 'un-resigns' within the time frame of 5 hours. Did you think it over before going public on your 'resignation'? Was that a cheap blackmail to arm twist the hands NFF and the presidency just because you just won for your country an elusive AFCON trophy? If truly you were serious, negotiations would still be on with you now and probably the nation would be holding its breath awaiting news of the outcome of the talks with you. But before some people who heard the news on Brilla FM drove from V.I to Ketu, you had already 'un-resigned'.
Listen carefully, NFF had wanted to take the right decision of sacking you after our first two group matches and Nigerians would have applauded them because you looked lost and bereft of ideas on how to make the team click. Our Super Eagles were nothing but a bunch of school boys. And then, something happened and they came back and won the hearts of millions of Nigerians once again. Only die hard Super Eagles fans like me stood by that your 'group stage Eagles'. Don't abuse that support by trying to blackmail us. You should have kept quiet, thanked your God and aspire to shame your critics the more instead of that five hour drama you acted yesterday. You were lucky it was not an Abacha who would have called your bluff. You had made your mark, you would have either moved on to coach some other country or stayed quiet and work on winning the World cup with my Eagles, but you acted like a typical Nigerian. Anyway, don't try that stunt again, even at your home. I wish you all the best as we strive to make an impact at World Cup. Super Eagles Forever.

A man wanted to commit suicide. He knelt down and prayed: “God, if it is your wish that I commit suicide, please show me through your word.” He picked up the Bible, opened it randomly and his eyes fell on Matthew 27:5: “And Judas went out and hanged himself.” Not satisfied, perhaps out of fear, the man knelt down again and prayed: “Father Lord, the Bible says out of the mouths of two or three witnesses, a word shall be established. If you are the one who spoke to me just now, please confirm it with another verse from the Bible.” Then he opened the Bible again and his eyes fell on John 13:27: “What you are about to do, do it quickly”.


That’s a joke, I suppose, but this is my message: you can use the Bible to justify anything in the world. In 1989, I read the story of a “church” of hemp smokers in Vintage People magazine. Asked why they were doing that, the head of the “church” quoted the Bible. “Jesus said in Matthew 15:11 that it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a man but what comes out of his mouth,” the man said, shamelessly. A deranged Christian can actually justify suicide-bombing by using the Bible story of Samson, who pulled down the Philistine temple, killing all the worshippers with himself.


Why am I citing these instances and talking in this manner? I have noticed that we think religious extremism is an Islamic problem that should be confronted by Muslims alone. The tendency is for Christians to say “these Muslims have come again”, ignoring the fact that extremist elements within their own ranks can do exactly to the Christian faith what the terrorists are doing to Islam—quoting the Qur’an out of context, killing innocent souls and convincing themselves that they are fighting the cause of Allah.


Actually, Christians have had their own battles with extremists who, though may not be suicide bombers, are weird enough to encourage people to commit suicide under the guise that it was so directed by God. We had “Jesu Oyingbo” (Emmanuel Odumosu) who operated a fiefdom where the most severe form of incest was perpetrated—and, of course, he would tell you that Abraham and Sarah were siblings, quoting the Bible! The Crusaders, we must remember, also claimed to be fighting for Jesus Christ. Between 1095 and 1291, they killed Muslims, Greek Orthodox Christians in Byzantium, “pagan” Slavs, “pagan” Balts, Mongols and Christian “heretics” who did not accept the Roman Catholic teachings.


On the other hand, there is also the tendency for a few Muslims to have sympathy for the extremists with the belief that indeed, they are fighting the cause of Islam. And so while many Muslims may be condemning their activities, a few could be thinking they are justified because of “Islamophia” in the Western world. There is this mistaken belief that the West is Christian. Maybe it was Christian, but no longer. I think the Western world today is patently anti-Christian. How can a society that promotes pornography, bestiality, perversion, infidelity and abortion represent Christian civilisation? How?


The way the West vs East (Christian vs Muslim) debate has been structured globally begs the question on the real issues at stake. If Iraq invades Kuwait, it is not a war against Islam. But if the US invades Kuwait, it is a war against Islam. If Iran attacks Iraq, it is not an attack against Islam. But if the US attacks Iran, it is a war against Muslims. NATO launched strikes against Yugoslavia when Muslim Kosovars were being massacred; it was not seen as a war against Christians. Let the same NATO forces bomb Syria and it would be framed as an attack against Muslims. Are Israelis oppressing Palestinians because they are Muslims or because of the land? The framing of issues around religion, even when religion has nothing to do it, is a major supplier of fertiliser to the growth of religious extremism.


Yet I know that most Muslims are upset by the killings being perpetrated by extremists. I’ve had heart-to-heart discussions with many Muslims who wonder why all the good virtues being preached by their religion have been submerged by the activities of a few extremists. One said to me: “There are about 1.2 billion Muslims all over the world. These extremists fomenting trouble are not up to 1 per cent of our population, but they are the ones by which our religion is judged.” Every religion, it must be said, has its own “lunatic fringe”. The only difference, it would appear, is that Christians are able to successfully ignore or dissociate themselves from their own lunatics. But the lunatics exist nonetheless, even if they are not into suicide-bombing.


I know Muslims who are genuinely embarrassed by the activities of the extremists—just as I was when recently a deranged Norwegian went on a killing spree, saying he wanted to save Europe from Islam. He described himself as a Christian. As a Christian, I was embarrassed and angry. I was ready to confront him, to quote several scriptures where Jesus Christ denounced violence—in fact, at the point of his arrest when Peter drew out his sword and attacked one of the soldiers, Jesus rebuked Peter! Jesus said those who live by the sword would die by the sword. Christians were asked to pray for their enemies and those who “despitefully” use them. I was ready to sit down with the Norwegian guy and ask him to justify his madness with the Bible.


Then it dawned on me—extremists are a different breed. They are not ruled by reason or common sense. But there was an encouraging development in Yemen some years ago. An Islamic cleric challenged the extremists to justify suicide-bombing with the Qur’an. They sat together. They flipped through the Qur’an, page by page. At the end of the day, the extremists went away convinced that suicide-bombing is un-Islamic. They could not point to a single verse in the Qur’an that allows you to wilfully take your own life for whatever reason. Not one verse! The verses that relate to dying for Islam and being rewarded with virgins in heaven which the extremists always use are not about wilful death. They are about dying in the service of Islam.

There is a difference between a soldier who dies on the battlefront and the one who wilfully commits suicide. Somebody needs to pass this message to the suicide bombers.
Most importantly, how can a Muslim justify the killing of a fellow Muslim? These extremists throw bombs. The bombs do not discriminate. They kill both Muslims and non-Muslims. In fact, 59 Muslims were killed in the 9/11 attacks. Many Muslims were killed in the UN House blast. A Muslim lady, Rahman Abdullahi, who died in the UN blast was buried yesterday. Now, can the suicide bomber justify that before his Maker on the Last Day? Can he say: “My Lord, I killed my fellow Muslim because I was fighting for Islam”? Somebody needs to pass this message to the suicide bombers.


That brings me to the point I want to make today: we are all victims of terrorism, so we must find a common voice to condemn it and a common fist to fight it. We should stop seeing terrorists as Muslims or Christians. We should begin to see them as another breed of human beings who are a danger to the human race, made up of Muslims and non-Muslims. They should be isolated and treated as people who need help. The Christians who think it is an Islamic problem and revel in ridiculing Islam on that basis need a rethink. The Muslims who think the extremists are fighting the cause of Islam need a rethink. We are dealing with a common enemy—a breed of suicidal beings who are a threat to everyone—their fellow Muslims inclusive.


Finally, terrorism anywhere must not be justified. When the Niger Delta militants were bombing oil installations, it was terrorism pure and simple. Soldiers of Niger Delta origin died in the attacks. When they bombed Abuja on October 1 last year, the bomb did not pick its victims. It killed Nigerians from various parts. Nothing, I repeat, nothing should justify killing innocent souls. Not religion. Not resource control. Not ethnicity.


I repeat: we are all victims of terrorism. Let no person gloat—Muslim, Christian, CPC, ACN, PDP, Northerner, Southerner, etc etc.

Retweeted Ado (@anehi2008):

@elrufai We dont DEBATE but our oga go for MONOLOGUE and he need to knows the questions & answers in advance. #presdidentialdebate2011

Retweeted Ado (@anehi2008):

@elrufai We dont DEBATE but our oga go for MONOLOGUE and he need to knows the questions & answers in advance. #presdidentialdebate2011

I came to UK in the 80s, went to Skinners school for girls in Stamford hill where I failed woefully. I come from a family that going abroad was like going to the market for us. I lived with my sister-in-law who I happened to have appeared to as a burden at the time. I had no one to take me out as a child, didn't enjoy McDonalds's treats, remember been bought KFC once by my mother's younger sister who was in UK at the time. Most days I had to walk from Pembury estate, Hackney to Stamford hill because I had no transport fee. An uncle got me free school meals from the government so I always had lunch at school but other meals hhhhmmm not guaranteed....

No one ever asked me how I was doing in school even thou I was a failure, never disclosed my report sheet because my results were always 'U- Unclassified' worse than F9. I lived at the expense of few of my brother's friends who were ready to give me £5 in exchange of me seating on their laps whilst they used my nipples as a toy. On few occasions my immediate families would give me £5, £10 but NONE EVER TOOK ME ON AS HIS OR HER RESPONSIBILITY. One glorious day, a brother of mine took me on when he noticed that I have been associating with friends that were smoking and sexing at the age of 12,13.14,15 but due to malicious beating everyday I had no choice other than to run away from his house. ....

I became streetwise, smoking heavily at the age of 11/12, did my first abortion at the age of 14/15. I was unable to contact my mother because I had no access to telephone moreover i didn't know how to use the phones then. I lived with a Jamaican friend who was few years older than me and we had a man friend aged 50t whom was impotent but would pay our rent whenever we allowed him to lick/suck us. Hhhhmmmm I'm sobbing as I'm writing this; I don't know why my spirit has led me to share this horrific and pathetic story on www but I am sure it is to bless someone outthere so I am not ashamed of letting it out because someone outthere will think twice before making the mistake my family made.

Myself and friends began to find it easy to be befriending men for money at night clubs (Golivers, Petter Stringfellows etc) at that very young age in which I found disgusting but was never slept with but they molested my body orally. I can't even carry on expressing my bitter past experiences because I have learnt to see them as my strengths that made me who I am today....

The koko of this post is this.... Now in UK we see Nigerian children killing, shooting, stabbing, selling drugs, raping etc and we wonder why they are ridiculing our darling country's name.... Hhhhmmmm it is not the kids fault it is the fault of the parents that weren't ready to prioritise their priorities. I can't blame my mother and neither can I blame my father because they don't like to get involved in the way our brothers and sisters were bringing us up. They believed when you give a goat to someone, you let go of the rope, least do they knew that their darling daughter had become something else..... You may be boosting that your child lives in London, America etc but do you ever ask yourself how life is treating them where they are

So many parents in Nigeria believe the field is greener on the other side forgetting that NO ONE CAN TRAIN YOUR KIDS THE WAY YOU CAN EXCEPT LOVING & GOD FEARING PEOPLE. In UK so many Nigerian parents have misplaced their priorities, they rather work 24/7, make all monies to build mansions in Nigeria at the expense of their children's lives. So many Nigerian parents in UK don't even attend parents's evening at their kids school, some can't even help their kids with homework. Some belief their kids are at home and they are safe not knowing who is there with them. Some would rather spoil their kids with money & expensive outfits instead of investing quality time in them.

Sending your kids abroad to be looked after by someone else is a pure waste of time and bringing your own kids from 9ja without giving them all the time needed is an irresponsible move and to be working all God sent hours, making sterling, dollars, euro, naira etc without spending quality time with your kids is a disgrace to parenthood. This is one of our bad irresponsible cultures, most children in Nigeria were brought up by housemaids/gateman/next door/grandmother/ neighbour etc. Nigerians don't believe in family planning rather they will have so many children and start using them to hawk sweets, bread etc after school...

Having a child is not by force, God did not say YOU MUST HAVE CHILDREN, YES HE STATED 'MULTIPLY' but he didn't mean we should do it to suffer them. Having children does not mean you will live your life joyfully and it doesn't give you a place in heaven either, instead your children may make you to miss heaven if care is not taken.

I am a product of a neglected, nonchalant, cultural upbringing and I WILL NEVER WISH IT ON MY GREATEST ENEMY BECAUSE I HAD IT ROUGH AND IN SADNESS. Let us stop being selfish for ones and stop pushing our problems/burdens on others. Your child should be with you no matter how poor or rich you are and you must teach them in the ways of God, NOT YOUR OWN STANDARDS....

Some parents in Nigeria don't mind if their children are sleeping with big men for money, it is saddddddd

BY:ABEFE IBADIARAN

Minister for Information, Labaran Maku, replies 'Madam Due Process', Obiageli Oby Ezekwesili - "We also found Mrs. Ezekwesili's interrogation of the educational system somewhat disingenuous and borderline hypocritical. During her tenure as Minister of Education between 2006 and 2007, she collected a total sum of N352.3 billion from direct budgetary releases. In addition, she received about N65.8 billion under the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) Fund, and over N40 billion from the Education Trust Fund (ETF) during her time as Minister of Education. In view of these humongous allocations, a few legitimate questions arise. What did she do with all these allocations? What impact did it have on the education sector? One wonders if our educational system would have been better today if these allocations were properly applied" - Labaran Maku, Information Minister.

Hmmn........E be like say this Labaran 'Fe Ku' oh. Anyway, Madam Due Process, over to you. Make you tell us wetin you do with N352.3billion. I am sure that you didn't spend it on 'cassava bread' and tombo liquor.

As at the time of Jesus death the world's population was btw 200-300million people. History recorded Jesus to have been born and operated in the middle east. Life was in other part of the world where Jesus and his story didn't reach.... Eg. West Africa, India, China South America etc.

It was easy to paint Jesus story for people around the place where he lived for they were less than 10million people, a today's population of Oyo and Ogun states. Jesus will come back, Jesus will fight when he returns, Jesus will sneak in like a thief...... Etc of cock and bull.

The world is 7billion today 2033years after the said death of Jesus. Jesus story was only told to handful of people, then propaganda started 500yrs after the death of Jesus, the bible came as a tool to bind people, make them subject to something. Politics wasn't enough to tie people. Religion was fabricated to give us a sense of fear with words like... Thou shall not judge.... Ofcos the drafters of the bible wanted total control, so why would they want you to judge them?

Jesus is coming back: Really? Stop kidding me. Coming from where? Which country or state? Nigeria and Ghana is almost 300million people today..... Same population Jesus left as at time of death. If Jesus is to come back today, he won't even be noticed and would do jack. The world of 10million is not the world of 7billion.

The analogy or figurative speech you all say was used..... Na holy spirit speak the grammar?...... Kolomental!

Religion is a tool of slavery, perpetual mental bondage tool used to control your minds.

This is why pastors would tell you to pay offering and tithes so you will get money and blessings...... The same way, the drafters of the bible used tithes and offerings to amass wealth back in the days.

Stop being stupid! #freeyourmindsthinkwithyourbrains

anulaxad:


Who told you that the same corrupt government.

NIGERIANS ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE I KNOW THAT DO NOT KNOW FOR SURE HOW EXTREMELY RICH THERE COUNTRY IS.

THIS IS A COUNTRY THAT CAN MAKE UP TO 4 BILLION POUNDS IN A WEEK IF THE CORRUPTION WAS LOWERED BY JUST 30 PERCENT.

A COUNTRY THAT MAKES NEARLY 150 BILLION POUNDS A YEAR(EXCLUDING THE AMOUNT THAT IS BEING STOLEN BY THE GOVERNMENT).

OVERRATED .I DON'T BLAME YOU,IT IS THAT STUUUUPID NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT THAT DOES NOT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT IT'S PEOPLE THAT IS NOW ACTUALLY MAKE SO MANY PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF THINK MAYBE NIGERIA IS NOT AS WEALTHY AS THE CORRUPT GOVERNMENT CLAIM.


NO BUT SERIOUSLY,YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THE WEST AFRICAN STATE,THAT IMPACTED EUROPE THE MOST WHEN IT WAS GIVEN INDEPENDENCE.

I MEAN HOW LONG HAS THIS COUNTRY HAD IT'S WEALTH.OVER FIFTY YEARS.BY THE TIME I EVEN HIT FIFTY THEY WILL PROBABLY STILL BE OIL.

SHUFFERING AND SMILING.SANG BY FELA KUTI. I HAVE SO MUCH TO SAY ON THIS ISSUE BUT LET ME KEEP MY DIGNITY BEFORE I EXPLODE WITH ANGER.

“Nigeria's national budget is 5 trillion Naira? Nigeria is not a poor country then, Nigeria is a miserable country. Five trillion Naira would be something like 33 billion USD or some 25 billion Euros. And this is the national budget of a 52 year old nation of some 160 million people! Now, factor in the endemic corruption and you'll have a nation screwed forever…Taiwan, precisely earned 25 billion USD in 2011 from the sales of only Notebook Computers. South Korea in 2010 joined the clubs of nations earning more than 300 billion USD per year exporting value added finished high tech products. And these are little nations in terms of population and geographical space. On our side, we are drunk and drowning in a freely produced natural product, oil. And this oil is extracted by foreigners. Pathetic!”

anulaxad: YOU MUST HAVE NOT THOUGHT THIS THROUGH WHEN YOU MADE THIS THREAD .

OUR WEALTH IS FUUUCKING UNDERRATED.

IS OIL THE ONLY THING WE PRODUCE.NO,WE PRODUCE GOLD,COAL,GAS,COPPER,AND OF COURSE SOLID MINERALS.


NIGERIA FOR ME SHOULD HAVE MORE MONEY THEN THE WHOLE ENTIRE OF EASTERN EUROPE IF ONLY THEY INVEST INFRASTRUCTURE AND REDUCE THE HIGH CORRUPTION.

Oil is the mainstay of Nigeria's economy.It accounts for over 90% of the nation's source of income.

How "rich" is Nigeria compared to Angola if the former with a population of 160m people produces 2.3m bpd of Oil while Angola with a population of less than 20m produces 1.9m bpd? And how rich are both Nations compared to UAE that produces 3m bpd with a population of 7.9m?

I have often debated that "the wealth of Nigeria" is over-dramatized; and this seems to be an error committed by both Civil Society as well as the Politicians. So how really wealthy is Nigeria vis-a-vis providing for the needs of the Nation and considering the way everyone loves to say "they are chopping our money?"

Isn't it ironical that a Bishop will criticize nudity as being "unAfrican" while neglecting that Christianity itself is not African culture? Somebody shld pls tell all these proponents of "African culture" to wake up to contemporary realities.

Calabar – Bishop Archibong Archibong, Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Cross River chapter, on Sunday expressed optimism that Nigeria would be more prosperous in 2013 and beyond.

He also criticised the nudity in the just concluded Calabar Carnival, saying that it was not the culture of Africa.

Archibong made the comments while addressing newsmen in Calabar, saying that nudity in carnival was not the best for the state.

He said his new year message to Nigerians was that Christians should have hope in the coming year. “No matter what happens, no matter the tribulations of 2012, the word of God says that the path of the righteous is like the shining light.

“It shines more and more into a perfect day, we must have hope in God and believe that next year, things will be better,’’ he said. He urged Christians to put their trust in God and love one another, irrespective of the challenges faced in the country.

“We are hoping that things will be better because of God, we should put our trust in him, believe in him and then begin to love one another and share the message of love,’’ he said.

According to him, Christianity is all about love and “I believe that every religion is about love; once there is love, things will certainly change”.

The CAN chairman said that challenges were part of life “ and where there is no challenge, there is no promotion, problems are examination for promotion’’.

“Each time we pass through severe moment and tribulations, is only encouraging us that something better is on our way. So I give hope and believe that next year will be better,’’ Archibong said.

He, however, said there was no nudity in Calabar Carnival when the former Governor, Mr Donald Duke, started it.

“We need to be very careful because the way we are going now in this carnival thing, we are completely forgetting about morals.

“The way people dance is now sexual, it shows that there is no shame among our women, there is no modesty.

“The people came in and borrowing us the culture that is not our culture and women staying almost naked only with pants and brassiers. “I don’t think it is good for this state or any part of the nation; it is not our culture and I believe strongly that we should not encourage it.

“We should go back to decency and modesty is most important thing.” Archibong called on organisers of the carnival to fine tune the ways participants should dance and dress during the event.

He said that moral implication of nudity was bad in a Christian life, adding that the culture of a black man did not accept it.

“In our culture, women should be respected, all their bodies should be covered and is not something that is nice, I felt bad when I saw it.

“Apart from Christianity, in our culture, it is unacceptable. It is bad and it is wrong and when something is bad we need to condemn it.

“The way we are going, we are indirectly getting too lose and what about the younger generation that is coming. “We are bringing this younger ones from primary and secondary schools in to this carnival.

“What lessons are we leaving behind, I don’t think any right thinking person will accept that in our culture,’’ Archibong said.

On the security challenges faced by the nation, he called on Nigerians to keep trusting and praying to God. “Let’s start praying and then this excessive exposure of our material wealth is the cause. (NAN)

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/12/the-way-people-dance-is-now-sexual-clergy/

“Corruption is not the cause of our problems, it’s our attitude,” says Jonathan. Yeah. The same way PDP is not the cause of our problems, it’s Jonathan.

An electric wire fault has caused fire to gut the home of the deputy Governor of Lagos state Adejoke Orelope Adefulire on Osborne Road in Victoria Island Lagos.

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the Lagos fire services are working to end the fire.

Details later...

http://saharareporters.com/news-page/fire-guts-lagos-deputy-governors-house

There are some yeye complaints I no longer entertain. If you don't know by now that Covenant University is Shawshank Redemption multiplied by Oral Roberts University, you must live on Mars. You know that the Chancellor treats even the Vice-Chancellor and academic staff like errant school prefects. We've argued over virginity tests and other excesses in the past. Yet, you opened your two eyes, your two ears and voluntarily enrolled your kid there. Don't come and grumble that the Chancellor is at it again, expelling some two hundred students for failing to attend a Church service, even cursing and invoking the wrath of God on some of them for noise making during the said service. Allah be praised that none got a dirty slap this time around for being a noisemaker for Jesus. It seems that Baba is always slapping when he is not cursing. Although Professor Okojie's NUC has been spectacularly blind to its oversight responsibilities, always pleading the excuse of ignorance with regard to the assault on the very idea of the University that is going on permanently at Covenant, whatever happened to voting with your money and enrolling your kid elsewhere? You, parent, cannot possibly not know what you are getting your kid into. The heavy-handedness of Covenant University is an open secret. Vote with your money and stop complaining. Besides, if you can afford the astronomical school fees at Covenant, it means you are a parent with means in Nigeria. It means you have the resources to join and support the civic struggle for the soul and standard of public education in Nigeria. If the public Universities had half the resources and facilities of Covenant, you wouldn't have to send your kid there - or to Ghana. Put your money where your mouth is: fight for public education. No country ever made it without a functional, efficient, standard public education system. Taking your money to Ghanaian Universities to pay school fees collectively higher than Nigeria's annual education budget or to wealthy private Universities run as fiefdoms of Christian Talibanism in Nigeria is the educational equivalent of abandoning your roads and taking to the skies in private jets and private or privatized military helicopters. Something always gives.-PIUS ADESANMI

I have to break my silence again to apologise to those that feel offended about my posting on our dear church. I thanked our AG0 dat counselled me.

Am so sorry for any pains.To u there, am sorry, church was not my target but corruption & injustice in our society.

pls,FORGIVE FOR D SAKE OF CHRIST.

To my mother,am sorry,to our daddy AGO,am sorry & to my daddy G.O.am deeply sorry,THANKS.

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For residents of Lagos State, especially those who work or reside adjacent to the broken and ill-maintained Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, it is now an annual fear that they will suffer a total lockdown and traffic stoppages extending to as much as five hours, just because President Goodluck Jonathan would pass to attend the Redeemed Church’s seasonal gathering in Ogun State via Lagos.

It happened last year. It again happened this year. It has become something of great concern to most people because he routinely comes at night to disrupt their lives and livelihood. If so many people have to suffer for just one man to worship God, then, there is something fundamentally wrong in our perception of God and His worship.

The only record of such august nocturnal visitor to the Temple of God in all Christendom is that of legendary Nicodemus. According to the story, “There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: The same came to Jesus by night…” While it is true that both Jonathan and Nicodemus are leaders in their own right, who went to meet spiritual personalities at the dead of night, there is, however, the serious and immutable difference between the two.

As for Nicodemus, he pointedly asked Jesus, without disturbing the peace of his neighbourhood: How can a man be born when he is old? A question that Jesus answered directly and which has now become the foundation of the Christian faith, namely, that “God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

It was understandable why Nicodemus had to visit Christ under the cover of darkness. As a leader of the Jew, he was probably ashamed to be seen with Jesus whose status, vis-à-vis God, had yet to be fully revealed at that time.

But with Jonathan, his stampeding and riotous coming to Pastor Enoch Adeboye annually and at night is a bit worrisome for the simple fact that Adeboye, in all his acclaimed reverence, is not Christ in whose name all knees must bow. In fact, while Nicodemus could justly go to the abode of Jesus at night, Jonathan, on the contrary, does not need to go to anyone at the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway because, with the Lord’s ascension to heaven and the subsequent dominance of the Holy Ghost, he can now be reached anywhere, including Aso Rock, especially whenever “two or three are gathered.” It is more of lack of faith and undue show-off that anyone would embark on such a distant religious safari when God is actually accessible to all those who genuinely seek his face anywhere.

I have no quarrel with anybody going to anywhere he likes to “seek the face of God” and I was indeed glad to see the picture of my president kneeling wretchedly before a man of God in total submission; but there is something ecumenically out of place to think that he has to travel all the way from Abuja, and for just one night in the year, to pray. Is Mr. President suggesting that the Almighty God is persona non grata in Abuja and, in Aso Rock in particular, that he has to annually come all the way to “seek His face” in Lagos?

As a leader of a polity that is religiously variegated as Nigeria, he should not conduct himself in a way that will unduly give away his sectarian zealotry or bias. I am not suggesting that anyone should, within the general protection of our constitution, be ashamed of his faith. Not at all. What I am saying is that even within Christendom, such actions of Mr. President may not go down well with some Christians, let alone with those who do not profess Christianity. It is to avoid situations like these that the Founders of our Constitution prescribed a secular ideology for Nigeria, even though we have found that difficult to comply with all to our collective ruination.

Aside from the spiritual angle to the presidential questionable frolic, such high-profile visits have turned out to be untold hardship to the citizens who are denied their freedoms of movement and personal dignity, as all roads are closed for hours, with the result that even other Christians who also wanted to attend the prayer sessions could not make it. It was certainly worse for those citizens who did not care much about the Church or its beliefs.

In any case, the Holy Bible actually enjoins that we “work and pray” and not “pray and work;” notwithstanding the apparent presidential preference for “praying without working.” I don’t know how many hours of prayers and supplication by the President that will curb the unbridled corruption in Nigeria if there are no practical official efforts at dealing with the challenges, matched with the requisite political will. I also do not see how such lengthy and loud prayers will fix the bad roads in the country or improve on the debilitated national economy if there are no practicable policies in place to redress the gaping mess.

Quite frankly, the Jonathan that we saw while on his knees the other night was very much a troubled man who truly needs urgent salvation, be it spiritual or material. He didn’t appear quite confident and settled and it is most likely that he was forced into the Lagos journey by the daunting challenges facing him.

What is, however, not acceptable is to betray an obvious lack of personal capacity as a national leader. God has given us the brains to solve the problems of our environments and that is why Man has been to the moon and is still aspiring for more feats. The primary duty of a leader is to inspire confidence and faith in the national process, but when it looks as if he, too, is subdued and intimidated to his knees, then, there is serious trouble.

As the elected leader of the nation, the President should, at all times, exude confidence and personal capacity; but when, for whatever reasons, he unwittingly hands over the affairs of the state to tribesmen, fake visionists, spiritualists, juju men, marabouts and “men of God,” then, the mandate to govern is not only diminished for himself but also debased in the eyes of those who elected him.

Technocracy: Why on earth will nairaland enlist chinua achebe in their hall of shame,simply because he said the truth about your most reverd awo and revealing facts about the civil war,i had expected nairaland to bring it in the court of public opinion other than adopting ethnocentric bias,more so one of the cardinal principle of journalism is balance d reporting,which you have negated,i think its a privillege to ur management that nigerians patronise, adopt fairness and throw tribalism and brown paper pack to the bin if u want to remain the choice destination for conscious nigerians

It is understandable that many Southwesterners reacted with so much anger at what the author said about Chief Awolowo. However, what interests me more is Pa Achebe's honest indictment of himself: throughout the war he had two vehicles and drivers and ran out of fuel only once. He lived in all this comfort while those he described as his brothers and sisters were dropping dead left, right and centre as a result of hunger.What I find intiguing is that the book is far far cheaper to buy in the Southwest than in the Southeast from where the author hails. In the East, it is business first.

Tunde Bakare

I have never seen a birthday event where the songs and the ceremonies celebrate the childhood of the celebrant. Why do Christians have this child-in-the -manger fixation about Christmas? Is this the reason that Jesus never really grows in their lives? Afterall He is celebrated as a baby annually. Before He has time to mature in them, another celebration is around the corner...and the baby re-emerges all over again. Well, I have news for you in case you haven't read it in the Bible: THE CHILD GREW....! and went ahead to become the King of kings and the LORD of lords! Let Him grow in you too - enough to be LORD and KING, not a prattling manger-bound myth! Merry Christmas!!!