₦airaland Forum

djustice: These Lagos PDP people are so stupid. How can they win elections with all these thieves qnd looters leading them? All their young stars are not there. Segun Aeroland Adewale, fro Alimosho, is not there. Jide Obanikoro, who beat Jagaban in the LG elections i his own domain, is not there. Babatunde Olalere Gbadamosi, their only hope for the next elections, is not there. Time wasters and thieves led by Tewonde George and Mumusiliu Obanikoro, the arsonist of City Hall. Jokers.

PDP may not smell power in the SW for the next 50 yrs because their south west big boys are notorious old, ineffectual, spent and corrupt. I can't stand A.CN either mind you.

I wish the dark horse with the best principles the best.

nnenna.1:
Lmao at the complete Yoruba infestation of this thread.

See as they jumped like rabbits over Igbo news.

Joblessness.

LMAO!!!!!!!!

These yoruba "warriors" are the definition of petty and clannish. To think that this thread was started by a yoruba poster they then all rushed in to post their dry rehearsed insults that their parents taught them about igbos for 7 pages. I'm glad igbos have learned to ignore these cretins. Only few bothered to respond

I've noticed that PDP has put in a lot of aggression into its statements either about or in response to the opposition. The opposition started the rofo rofo rhetoric to be honest. Lai Mohammed harassed this administration so much that they had to employ Doyin Okupe! Lol

Anyhow its good for our democracy sha let the barbs exchange continue and let the politicians stay on their toes

Tinubu has drawn his "line in the sand" as it stands now. I cant for sure remember if Tinubu said anything when Kaita and co where running their mouths. We know he's playing politics but it would be very regrettable to apply double standards

luvinhubby: I heard Buhari (a former head of state) on national t.v. say " we will make this country ungovernable if PDP wins 2011 presidential elections". He lost & innocent corpers & others lost their lives & are still loosing lives from Buhari sympathizers & BH.
Mr. Tinubu & Lai, if there is anybody
threatening Nigeria peace, it is Buhari's allies & associates like you.

It was Lawal Kaita who said those words. Muhammadu Buhari addressed an illiterate multitude crowd at a political rally and told them - "defend your votes with your blood". We saw what happened after the elections.

Hate Asari or love him, you cannot fault his logic. Some Northern Elite promise fire and brimstone and it actually comes to pass with the said elite not even brought to task . Asari says something similar and some leaders from the North are calling for his arrest No double standards please. If they arrest Asari then Kaita and the others should also be picked up

Owerri definitely has more robust nightlife but trust me you will sell more beer in Enugu. 042 boys don't play with their booze

Kajiang02: Just some days ago, the fed Rep from that region claimed death toll rose to 228, and El-rufai condemned Johnathan for ordering investigation.
I really wonder what these guys think.

So all the crap news about not allowing red cross and Nema access into the area was a lie!!

I knew it was propaganda the first time I saw the death toll of 185. When the bornu senator claimed that he counted 224 graves I became certain that it was all BS. There is a terror war and more disturbingly a media war is just starting

inaluf: I don't know why EFCC is doing this to the next Anambra State Governor.

Na curse be this? Bros take am easy o

ilugunboy: Next Anambra state governor is Joseph Ikem Odumodu....

Go and quote this anywhere.

The man doesn't have the temperament for politics in my opinion. He's too much of a corporate director type

Wetin concern this businessman politics if not to make money off it.

We need the big strategic thinkers. I haven't heard Ubah say anything special

That Ayo Akinfe guy is a jackass. I see his droppings a lot on facebook. I don't take him seriously though. There are too many garri activists fighting ethnic cause to make quick name

Kennyblues: He said nine persons, including Adams, Fasehun and others, sat down in the chambers of Opeyemi Bamidele, a former commissioner in Lagos State and currently a member of the House of Representatives, at 110, Palm Avenue, Mushin Lagos, on August 25, 1994 to form the group.

Akanni said, “The person speaking, Ogunoye Odunayo, is a faceless person and there is no place in OPC record where such a name exists. Those who formed OPC were Dr. Fredrick Fasehun, Gani Adams, late Tony Ngurube, late Olumide Adeniji, Silas Alani, Evangelist Kunle Adesokan, late Ibrahim Abobanawo, late Ibrahim Atanda and Mrs. Idowu Adebowale.


At the bolded.... never knew an Ibo man was amongst the founder.[b][/b]

Yes o. I knew one baba like this. An igbo man in ojodu who was also a very senior member

tpia@:
recycling programs are needed, should be required of the manufacturers or importers of these drinks.

over to the fed govt.

i dont see a single soda bottle in the pile- thanks to their strict recycling standards.

There's a recycling plant close by the expressway close to cms. I bet if the state govt paid a stipend, street boys would hardly let the plastic bottles land on the ground.

Na lie. Who gave the senator the figures? Abi he counted them himself

The man don visit home to run mouth. If the man dey try develop him constituency d place for better pass as e dey.

Where was he when boko haram started hiding RPG's in the village mosque

IGBO-SON:
This part of the post: "Is there a more efficient way of murdering the soul of youth? Tell me, is there?", is what makes me so exasperated with Nigeria; we're killing the competitive spirit of our youth, and they grow up thinking that all they need to succeed in life is to know someone or hope to be selected for a job based solely on where they're from.....quite sad!

Very sad o. Though I won't say it has killed competition among the youth. Rather it has distracted the youth from focusing on developing skill sets that matter and has turned them like the writer said to eye service champions and office politicians

Saw this on facebook. Some hard truths in it

WHY NIGERIANS HATE MERITOCRACY

First, the textbook answer – because we are a multi-ethnic nation. In fact, some might still say, we are actually a ‘multi-national­’ nation, since the tribes are nations, and the nation is a ‘mere geographical expression’. That was why, in the end, they settled for Regionalism, and then Federalism, and then (God help us) the Quota System. It was all supposed to prevent ‘conflict’, this obsession with minimizing competition between people from different ethnic/­regional groups. It didn’t (hence the coup of January ‘66). But that was the idea - that by allocating positions in the civil service, we would prevent the domination of the public sector by people from any one ethnic/­regional group and, thereby, facilitate national unity - the idea that finally crystallized into the almighty ‘Federal Character’ Principle.

So, yes, that’s the textbook answer. But there’s another reason why we hate meritocracy, a much simpler one; we like power. I have noticed it – that, in this country, people like to be responsible for the progress and prosperity of other people. It is a big part of what it means to be a successful person in Nigeria (aka an ‘Oga’ – is that word a corrupted form of ‘Ogre’ by the way? Or a ‘Madam’.) Success, here, is very much measured by, not just how much you’ve done for yourself, but how much you have done, or are able to do, for others. Sounds like a virtue? Not exactly, not when you are ‘giving’ people what they ordinarily would have been able to get for themselves if you hadn’t put in place a system that made them dependent on your ‘charity,’ in the first place.

Meritocracy threatens this system of fake philanthropy. You mean, someone can just sit down in his bedroom, send a CV over the Internet and get a job? Just like that? Without having to first struggle through security at National Assembly to wait for hours to get a letter of recommendation from his Senator or House of Reps member? What is the world coming to? So, she can just get up, go to work, carry out her duties, get appraised and then – just like that – get a promotion, without having to first deputize as the Madam’s Personal Assistant/­House Girl? What is the world coming to? So, anybody can just apply to FCDA for land, just like that; to the Federal Mortgage Bank for a loan, just like that; with as equal a chance as anybody else of getting it? Ah! There goes the system supporting the rapacious Nigerian ‘elite’, building enormous fortunes off the back of cronyism, masquerading as ‘Federal Character’.

I’ll tell you what ‘Federal Character’ really is. It is the leadership of the daft and the promotion of the idiot; and once you make the mediocre the ceiling then nobody else is getting past. It’s the perfect system for mass-producing inefficiency. People can pontificate all they like, but if you’ve worked in the system, you know – Federal Character drives the best and brightest out the door. It headhunts ass-kissers, promotes eye-service, has facilitated the transformation of the Nigerian work ethic into a model study on how to de-motivate staff. I can’t find words that are strong enough to castigate a system that justifies awarding a scholarship to a student who barely passed the scholarship exam, instead of to the one who was third on the list, simply because the first two people on the list come from the same state as the unlucky third, so the twisted finger of this depraved system has to run down ten more names before the student from the ‘right’ area is reached. (True story) Is there a more efficient way of murdering the soul of youth? Tell me, is there?

(Deep breath.) Forgive my rant. There is no disastrous tribal war that will descend upon us if we choose to do Justice, and give each person what is his or her due; no cataclysmic conflict (any worse than the terrors we are suffering presently) will erupt. And, if they do, then, at least, we can face them in the conviction that we are standing for something worthwhile. You cannot proactively invoke the spirit of division and, at the same time, hope for national integration some day in the distant future. In my better moods, I would describe it as wishful thinking; in my worst, as madness.

Let me categorically say, that ‘unity’ is good roads, steady power supply, clean drinking water, good public schools and hospitals, a functioning public infrastructure.­ These things lay the foundations for national prosperity and, frankly, nothing unites like prosperity. But this ‘Federal Character of Mediocrity’ perpetuates the poor pubic services that perpetuate the widespread poverty that perpetuate the social unrest and division which in turn perpetuates the belief that ‘Federal Character’ is the only way to prevent this unrest from escalating. That is what is called a vicious cycle. And it needs to be broken, if we are to have even the whisper of a chance.

TechyGuy: How do you explain Taliban, Al-qaeda, Muslim brotherhood, Hamas, and the numerous Islamic Terrorist groups all over the world? Are they also misguided?

Nigga wtf do they all want?

Find Out!:
Tinubu is very very corrupt, greedy and power-hungry....I KNOW that, we all know that even Eko-Ile even if he refuses to admit it.

Goodluck jonathan is also very very corrupt, incompetent and since he currently undeservedly holds the office of presiding over 160million people, he deserves to be villified much more than Tinubu. Can SincereNigerian deny that GEJ used poverty alleviation money to pay for Thisday concert? Can sincerenigerian justify the astronomical unprecedented increase in fuel subsidy funds in the election year? (which still leaves me astounded and ashamed of Nigeria whenever i read about it) Who has gone to jail for corruption ever since then? Infact how many people have been sent to jail for corruption snce GEJ got in?

Lastly, what exactly were GEJ's achievements as the governor of one of the richest and least popuated states in NIgeria? Did he even do anything? if he did some things, were they comensurate with the huge allocation he was receiving?

Sincerenigerian, get a life. What you are doing will not help you. there's more to life than money. Obasanjo, Tinubu, Alams, GEJ, Beautiful Diezani, Anenih e.t.c. should all be languishing in JAIL if Nigeria were a sane country. Instead we have them still running things and we have members of the supposedly 'younger generation' like you and all the other paid goons on this forum who 'should know better' cheering them on.

UNLESS we really see FRESH AIR before 2015, anybody who campaigns for GEJ if he decides to run again is an ENEMY of Nigeria and I leave them to their judgement either in the hands of the people or God. AHN AHN, this country has suffered enough please. Compare us to other far less wealthy countries and you will weep at what has happened and what is STILL HAPPENING in Nigeria.

No be una fault sha, its the fault of that shameless old man in his hilltop mansion in Abeokuta who practically wasted 8 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,) crucial years in Nigeria and proceeded to foist the most incompetent duo among the motley crew jostling for the position then on our heads just before his exit. Infact, its like Obasanjo simply hates Nigeria and i think its high time we all return the favour. I wonder how Nigeria would have been today if the old fo'ol had given us a El-Rufai (or Ribadu)as president with a Donald Duke (or Akunyili/Ezekwesili)as vice, but no, the old man didnt want any competent person at the helm, he wanted someone/a duo who will outdo him in incompetence and corruption and he got what he wanted and thats why people like sincerenigerian can daily be insulting our sensibilities on nairaland today.

Bros you done finish work. I don't have anything to add again. Splendid and balanced analysis.

If you ask me 80% of our so called political class and structure needs to be incinerated by any means because the system of filth is just too firmly entrenched. 2015 is going to be a very interesting year. PDP for a start is going to be torn apart. Their ilk in the opposition parties will meet similar fate.

Amen

GEJ dey learn work for where Tinubu dey. GEJ has access to more wealth to grab than Tinubu does but he lacks the latter's sophistication and expertise in chopping. Let's not forget asiwaju na accountant while GEJ na botany teacher

OP has a point. Though I believe that GEJ has the bigger lesson to learn.