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naptu2: Do you mean Little Vicious?

naptu2: If you want the video, go to Youtube and search for Nika by Little Vicious.

Demdem: the same people u claimed hates him now all supported him and came out to his defense when he was seconded to washing Turai's pants.
No one hates the man, his stupidity and foolishness he brings to governance is the problem. Once he starts governing well with sincerity of purpose, all these impressions will change.

CFCfan: That 'ninja' pic is priceless and a classic.

GEJ had some swagger there

kasiem: ur people can't wait to see ur burial atleast, to keep them away from remembering how the cursed the world with an id-iot. Udele

kingoflag: Wow, dude you didnt just compare Jesus Christ to GEJ did you?

Joey82: Sincerenigerian,

I think the matter with u and ur likes is u want every body to like what u like either good or bad.
nigeria is one hell of a country, there is no saint that can rule it without committing sin.
we no the hands that fed jonathan to power and we know those hands aint clean.
we also know mr president is strictly doing their bidding and does not have a mind of his own.
we know he's planning to come back 2015 and as such he'll hand a lot of his goons free meal tickets (aka looting)
so far he has suceeded in fixing nothing, neither is he on the path to fixing anything.
forget the statistics churned on paper; unemployment is at all time high and no body is thinking of waking the real sector; we know of people looting the treasury at the speed of light and efcc is dead, u hardly get to hear the name of lamurde in the news, it makes me question govt's justification to sack madam waziri; there is no confidence in the financial sector and foreign direct investments are going down, the roads are more worse; planes are more like flying coffins, we hear the rich now travel to abuja from lagos via london cos they dont trust local flights; i wont start mentioning the issue of insecurity, how can our economic indices be better on paper when almost half the north is shut down; yet to u gej commits no sin, its the doing and undoing of his detractors. well real men dont look for excuses, they solve problems. i am a real man, i'm not sure i can say same of mr president

kasiem: stop showing us that ur parents failed in their primary assignment of bringing up as a human. Mkpi awusa

kasiem: we are still waiting for u to come up with one point but u keep behaving rascally like tinubu and buhari

Billyonaire: You are right, so right. Little wonder that GEJ is always quiet while the chronic losers jump like frogs from blogs to cyber forums spewing irreconcilable propensities! Guess who gets burnt when one picks up a HOT COAL in the arm to throw at the enemies ? The carrier gets burnt first. GEJ is here, and will be here till 2019. There is NOTHING any opposition can do about it. NOTHING!!!

musKeeto: ^^^
Abeg we never sew cloth finish..

Ilekokonit: Take away the gift of the gab (the powers of story telling, eloquent speech, persuasion and seduction) from our Pastors and you will see that they have nothing to offer apart from the psychology and the feel good mantra they read from books published by American Pastors.

How many Nigerian Pastors are bold enough to publicly go onto our streets that are filled with disabled beggars and pray for a miraculous healing for the disabled beggars ??

Why have they shamefully shied away from invoking God's miraculous power in public for all including non members of their church to see ?

Is it because they were not called by God but they called themselves into ministry

What is missing in their faith ? Afterall Jesus said the works that he did shall ye do also.

Our Pastors will not hammer on and try to manifest the miraculous power in the name of Jesus and they will not preach on Holiness withouth which no one shall see God, instead, what Nigerian Pastors major on is the Tithe message in Malachi 3:10 - Will a man Rob God ? Yet you have robbed me in Tithes and offering. Bring all the tithes into the storehouse that there may be meat in my house and prove me whether I will not open the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing.

MOST Nigerian pastors are mainly interested in this "Tit for Tat" exchange of your Tithes into the church bank account and don't really give a damn whether you get a blessing as promised in Malachi 3:10 or not As long as the balance in the church bank account keeps growing weekly then the "General Overseer" and his family's future wealth is guaranteed.

Is Malachi 3:10 the main gospel in the bible ? Malachi is even in the old testament whilst the gospel of Jesus Christ is in the new testament but our Jet hopping, Tax collector pastors will focus mainly on scripture that will perpetuate wealth and opulence for them, their wives and silverspoon kids and further solidify the real estate empire that they are intent of competing with other prosperity preachers to build across the globe.

anuda: Beware!!! Hell is real! Repent and accept Jesus Christ today and live a Christ-like life, so that you could escape hell.

Jenams: the difference between our Mighty God in heaven and ur god is; our Yahweh fights his battles, while u fight for ur god. so get ready cos he will surely fight u for dis statement

Sincere 9gerian: @MAYOWAAK..,you just said my mind.

The problem with Nigeria is structural. Over-centralization of power in Abuja is at the centre of ALL the problems in Nigeria.

We need to devolve powers to the states, and let every state harness its people and resources and pay taxes to the centre.

This re-structuring will make everyone and every state to put on their thinking cap on how to create wealth. Because taxes will be paid from the wealth of every person, there will be more revenue at the state and central govt level.

Also because the wealth is coming from bottom-up, corruption will automatically minimise, inflation will reduce, industries and other creative ventures will multiply in geometric proportion.

Compare and contrast with the present arrangement where Abuja is trying to feed every state and every citizen? It is simply an unworkable arrangement.

Until we make the structural changes that are needed to put Nigeria on the fast lane of development, we'll continue to crawl as a nation.

Unfortunately, structural changes in Nigeria is unlikely except the oil dries up. It will be opposed by the far-north. Worst still, this sort of debate, is completely missing in the media.

MAYOWAAK: The story of Nigeria is like that of a father who has 36 children. He takes the income of his wealthy children to a central port and distributes it among his 36 children. A good father will encourage all his children to be creative and hardworking so that they can make the money to sustain themselves. A bad father will ignore the larger picture of every child being self-sustaining and insist on redistributing his children’s wealth. The ultimate danger is that you will have children who are extremely lazy and unwilling make good use of their talents and gifts. Every month, they will go to “papa” to give them their own share of the other children’s wealth. It will now reach a stage that they will start complaining that the money is not enough to buy the limousine of their dream.

I understand a bit of the logic of natural resources. The oil in the Niger Delta is a gift of nature, many will argue, since the people played no role in putting it under the ground. So let’s share it—it belongs to all. But so also can we say of human beings—we are not gifted the same way! Michael Jackson could sing better than his brothers and sisters. But it would be wrong to compel Michael to bring his income to the table so that his father could share it among all the Jacksons. If that were the case, Janet or Jermaine or LaToya would have no reason to do any work at all. They would all be waiting for the month to end to collect their own FAAC. But Janet honed her skills and became a success in her own right as an artiste. She may not be anywhere near the success of Michael, but she is certainly a success. The Jacksons can have a common purse where they can contribute resources for the common cause of the family. There is nothing wrong with that. But to make a policy of taking from one Jackson to sustain another Jackson is illogical.

There is no state in Nigeria that cannot sustain itself if the governors understand the art and science of development. If it is natural resources, every state has them. If it is value-added agriculture, every state can become an industrial host. These are the things that can generate employment, generate economic activities, generate tax revenue and shore up the incomes of the states. The real challenge for the governors is: how can they use what they’ve got to get what they need? How can they put the right policies in place to attract the needed investment? How do they spend wisely to make state economies viable? These are the questions they should be asking. But because of the ease of travelling to Abuja for federal allocation cheques every month, forward planning and critical thinking are no longer part of governance.

The eternal reliance on oil revenue has done a lot of damage to the federation. Every day now, we hear the Niger Delta people say “our oil, our oil”. During the petrol price hike crisis last year January, some Niger Delta person, trying to suggest that the protests were unjustly aimed at President Goodluck Jonathan, said something like: “If our son is not good enough to be president of Nigeria, then our oil is not good enough for Nigeria.” This warped logic—which tends to paint oil as the solution to all human problems—defies the fact that the most advanced countries in the world do not rely on oil revenue. Even Norway, the poster boy of successful management of oil revenue, survives on tax. Their oil money is saved largely for the rainy day.

But do you blame us? Why do we need to stretch our brain to dream of building our own Microsoft and Apple when we can look up to Abuja for the flow of petrodollars every month? Why should Bauchi bother to tap its tourism potential? Why should Bayelsa dream of feeding Africa with its FADAMA rice when there is a fat FAAC cheque to be collected in Abuja monthly? Why should we quicken Ajaokuta so that the fourth biggest steel company in the world can begin to operate fully and spice up the economy? Why should Aba be developed into our own Taiwan or Japan? There is no such incentive. The only incentive I can see in Nigeria is federation account.

It wouldn’t even matter if we are utilising federal allocations to develop the most important resource at our disposal: the human capital. Oil is not the real deal, no matter how dominant it has become in our lives. It was human beings that designed cars and made petrol as important as it is today. Human beings are now designing cars that run on bio-fuels, electricity and solar energy. By the time the cars become popularly accepted, the demand for oil could drop. It may not happen in the next 50 years but it would happen someday. So the wise person does not keep emphasising on oil and ignoring human capital. The wise person thinks about a future where our lives will no longer depend on oil but on the quality of the brain. It was human beings that invented aeroplanes, computers and phones, etc. If we are wise now, our energies should be devoted to getting out of this oil trap.

I wish we could discuss these issues honestly without trading insult and threat. The quality of public debate is very poor in Nigeria. We have a real problem in our hands but instead of engaging in fruitful debates to chart the way forward, we specialise in name-calling and blackmail as if that would solve our problem. Those of us who have no interest in politics or politicking will continue to make our point.