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Ibime:
The pastor should shaaarrrrraaaaaaap!!!

Its not about religion, but about a certain section of the country who wanna remain Lord forever.

The most muslim of them all, Buhari himself was prolly the best preso we've had.

Adefarasin said that there are about 100 million Christians in Nigeria who must  determine who becomes the president of their country, adding that most of them have  taken the back seat and allowed Muslims to rule the country for long.

Adefarasin, who was preaching at the Eko Hotel and Suites in Lagos, Nigeria, blamed  the predominance of muslim leaders in the country on the disunity in the church.

“The church is divided among itself,” he said.

Adefarasin said that the polity has been Islamized for long and Christians must wake  up and pray against it.

“Nigerians used to be the most educated people in the world until the likes of  Abacha and the Murtala Muhammed came and scattered our educational system to slow  down the South so that the North can catch up, instead of speeding up the North,”  Adefarasin said.

DapoBear:
If a person who loves his own ethnicity is also considered a tribalist, and tribalist is strictly a negative term, then there is something wrong with the definition of tribalist. You cannot tell me some guy in Romania or Finland who wants his people to do well is also a "tribalist."

And keep in mind that that there are FAR more Yoruba people even just in Nigeria than there are Romanians or Finns on the face of the earth.

This is why I questioned the definition of tribalist earlier in this thread.

Jarus:
Becomrich is not a tribalist. He hardly bashes other tribes. He's just obsessed with his tribe. He is only passionate about his own tribe. There is nothing wrong in promoting your tribe. Unlike other guys in the poll, and some others not included like new sensation environer, Seanets, Bluetooth, who insult other tribes. Auwal87 is also like Becomrich of the North, always canvassing for Arewa republic but he too goes ahead to insult other tribes sometimes and is also qualified to be called a tribalist.

When he recovered from the attack, the visibly shaken Obasanjo immediately asked his driver to drive off, while scores of security men had rounded up the attacker who, amidst beatings, screamed persistently “America is watching, …America is watching.”

sbeezy8:
Wrong in 2007 atiku ran alongside ben obi from anambra on AC platform -WHICH SAYS ACN IS A NATIONAL PARTY. and it didnt WORK. Atiku even came in third, they played that "igbo card" and it failed, tho there was rigging, AC lost mainly because PDP,APGA,PPA are more dominant in SE.

best option tinubu has it to pick a vp from edo or sw WHERE HIS PARTY ALREADY EXISTS AND CAN WIN VOTES. ACN has no footing in the SE, its growing in the SW and edo.
It would be dumb for ACN to pick a vp from a region where they are not relevant and expect people to vote them just because its n igbo man on the ticket.

jonathan/pdp is winning all SE votes against any notherner point blank, but in the SW he cannot win more than half if anything against ACN.

only way nuhu can beat GEJ is if buhari steps down and supports him

mikeansy:
Some people will soon score an own goal.



^^^^

Talk about wanting to eat your cake and still have it.

Gbawe:
Ribadu remains my choice. Buhari is second. Even in the ACN nothing has changed as far as I know . The Party continues to state that it wants a young , dynamic candidate who is a break from the past and acceptable to all Nigerians. I would think that appears to be more Ribadu. We are not all like Jonathan's fans who lack integrity. It is only GEJ fans who will claim to respect an individual and then begin to attack his person because he now stands against Jonathan. Everyone , no matter how decent , is open game for GEJ fans.

I respect Buhari enduringly even if he stands in the way of Ribadu. Folks with integrity stand up for what/who they believe in 24/7. I joined this thread to balance out the negative things written about Buhari that I felt was unfair . Writing in defence of Buhari does not then mean that I now support him ahead of Ribadu. If it were Donald Duke my response would be similar i.e I would defend a man I respect. it does not then mean I have switched allegiance. You should understand that some of us don't have the siege mentality and mudslinging thinking of GEJ fans . I am not limited to only speaking well about the candidate I support while denigrating everyone else.

Muza:
Every honest Nigerian knows that Buhari is the best candidate and our last hope and cure from that epidemic called corruption.
2011 is not about now or about u,its about the future,its about your children and their children.

Gbawe:
Indeed. If Nigerians are politically sophisticated and we actually see what needs to be seen, to enable wise decision making ,we will admit , without a doubt , that Buhari's behaviour , [b]as an opposition Politician, has been textbook exemplary if we compare it to what obtains in highly democratic nations. [/b]

We should then look at the behaviour of Atiku , IBB and others when they were not part of the Government of the day to note that they are very poor choices in comparison to Buhari. Atiku was busy running up and down like a cheap love-peddler and dining with all manners of devils in his desire to become President . What manner of President will such an unprincipled man make ? How about IBB? When the cabal hijacked the Presidency lately did we hear even a whisper from this man when Nigeria needed our sagacious statesmen to speak and mobilise Nigerians? Saraki , meanwhile , was busy doing everything to ensure that power was not handed over to Jonathan !!!! Buhari was one of the first Nigerian leader to demand publicly and unequivocally that Jonathan be sworn in as Acting President without delay !!!

Buhari's own chances to become President will be highly strenghtened if Jonathan does not run . Others are in the same position and are trying to make Jonathan pull out by all means necessary. Buhari and Ribadu , to the best of my knowledge, are the only Northern Presidential candidates to state publicly that Jonathan has the right to contest for the Presidency. This is a display of true integrity rare in Nigeria. Not many Nigerian politicians will do/say the right thing if that means their own ambition is threatened . All we see are politicians , including Jonathan, doing undemocratic "do-or-die" things designed to help them win unfairly at all cost while Buhari is happy to democratically test his electoral popularity against anyone fairly . There are more examples showing how Buhari acted like a statesman and democrat when he could have been parochial, cynical and self-serving like virtually all others have done . Buhari is , without doubt , one of the best choices for President as per the leader Nigerian needs right now.

Dubstic:
[b]Gej followers wil neva fault in his stupidity.[/b]i am not saying dat d entertainment industry shuld not be encouraged but not at dis time wen our agriculture,education,power and transport sectors need urgent atention.nollywood employ but a few.what lesson does d entertainment industry especially music and beauty contest wotever pass to d younger generation?listen to d words used in naija music,d display of unclothedness in beauty contest,fashion shows.these are not to be given all diz atention.govt workers,contractors i pity all of u.wen dis man comes bak again u wil sufa.nigeria has gone bak to borowing again.naija is bankrupt.listeo to news not nollynews and movies.

mikano80:
MR PRESIDENT GOT IT WRONG HERE,ABSOLUTELY WRONG![b]The duty of government is to create enabling environment that will attract local and international investors to Nollywood.[/b]The country need constant power generation,roads, security and other infrastructures needed for development.If Mr president give them $200m,it has nothing to do with the activities of kidnappers,pirates, creating jobs for you.I totally agree is not the right of government to create jobs but individuals but government has to create the environment for job creation,He really need to learn the act of governance and priorities.Who is he impressing?

MR Durojaye Job Adeyemi is, according to reports in the media, “ a 30-year-old HND 2 Civil Engineering student of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, who a couple of months ago had tried so hard in the face of temptation to live up to the standard

of his biblical namesake. The Bible describes Job as a man who once lived in the land of Uz, who was “blameless, a man of complete integrity. He feared God and stayed away from evil.”



LIKE his namesake in the Bible, Mr Durojaye Job Adeyemi was also tested. His account with the FirstBank Plc was erroneously credited with N9.3 billion. For a poor student or anybody for that matter, such a discovery is surely a big temptation. Rather than going on a spending spree, Mr Durojaye tested the credit by withdrawing N20,000 and upon seeing that the account had been truly credited, returned the N20,000 and alerted the bank to the error.

IN the Nigerian context, what Mr Durojaye did was quite absurd, even if honest. In a country where societal values that have been upheld and underscored over the years have been invalidated and even repudiated by current trend of events and behaviour, shunning an opportunity such as one provided by the erroneous lodgement of 9.3 billion naira in one’s account is indeed strange and outlandish. To be candid, what Mr Durojaye Job did was the normal, decent thing to do in a sane society and there is even no need for the effusive adulation that has attended his gesture.

MR Durojaye Job’s honest gesture however has contrasted so sharply with the materialistically depraved and corrupt background of the Nigerian cultural context so much so that he has suddenly become an example for this generation and praises and awards have been coming torrentially. His church was proud of him and many other individuals and organisations have been rewarding Mr Durojaye Job for his exemplary honesty which is rare in Nigeria.

In the short time that the ATM device has been popularised, it has caused a lot of woes to the subscribers who have either been careless with their PIN numbers or those who have fallen victims to even insider abuse from the banks. Many have come to sure financial ruin through unauthorised withdrawals from their accounts with ATM cards sometimes even above the legal ceiling for such withdrawals. In all instances, the banks usually claim they were not culpable, blaming the crime on customers’ carelessness with their PIN. Now the tables have been turned.

WHEN ANCOR, the volunteer arm of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) sought a clarification from the FirstBank’s management for the purpose of giving Mr Durojaye an official recognition, the bank demurred. In its memo dated October 6, 2010, addressed to the Chairman of Oyo ANCOR, the bank claimed that information available to it showed that Mr Job wanted to withdraw more than N20,000 that he eventually returned but for the bank’s quick rectification. The bank’s Chief Internal Auditor and the C.O. of the Internal Audit department, stated in their memo that “On Friday 13th August 2010, between 6.36 p.m. and 6.53 p.m., there was an incident where ATMs displayed N9.3 billion on all FirstBank ATM cards.”

IT seems that FirstBank management by this official repudiation of Mr Durojaye Job’s gesture would rather refuse to endorse Mr Durojaye’s claim to any applause. FirstBank’s management ought to have allowed its public relations department to handle the matter instead of further worsening its original errors.

IN the first place, where did the error occur originally? Why should 9.3 billion naira be credited to all FirstBank ATM cards at all if no such lodgement was made? Were there other false withdrawals made based on such erroneous posting? How many of such withdrawals were returned? How did FirstBank management know the intention of Mr Durojaye Job of wanting to withdraw more than N20,000.00 from his account? Why did he eventually return the money if truly he was a crook as FirstBank’s letter would have Nigerians believe?

THE management of FirstBank Plc made a fatal public relations error in its attempt to cover up its original carelessness. Its accusations or counter claims against Mr Durojaye are illogical, not to say foolish. But even beyond that such an attempt would tend to invalidate the aphorism that, honesty is the best policy now that it wants to paint Durojaye as a fraud. Its explanations and excuses are unacceptable because they underscore the views of some Nigerians who are already calling Mr Durojaye a fool. In an era of rebranding Nigeria, FirstBank’s defence is outrageous. The bank should have kept quiet if it could not join in endorsing and celebrating Mr Durojaye’s honesty.

We think that those who may want to recognise Mr Job officially should not be deterred by FirstBank’s foolish attempt to cover up its original errors of posting a fictitious figure into their customers accounts. If Nigeria remains the materialistically depraved and corrupt society that it is, Mr Durojaye should get all the applause and official recognition he deserves irrespective of the grandstanding from corporate organisations like the FirstBank


http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/editorial/13135-job-firstbanks-untenable-alibi

wesley80:
So how does failing to bring contractors that have squandered funds make investing in entertainment a bad thing?