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William o Connor :
You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same.

The man talks and acts like a duh.
Uninspiring,incompetent and hopelessly corrupt.

If you vote a thug,you will get the infrastructure of a thug

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_729np9NLk

Blah blah blah.
The only place you can excuse is Ikerre ekiti.
Apart from Ikerre.the rest of the state is a shithole with backward mentality.

4000 to go and suffer.

Thug.
Itse sagay:
"The People of EKITI will get the infrastructure of a thug."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_729np9NLk

faladeSM1132: Thanks my bro,
I'm also an ekiti man and a APC party member, i can say this boldly that almost 85 percent of our member are not benefit any things out of Fayemi govt and not only civil servant that facing that hunger.

When did government turn to food,bag of rice or feeding bottle?
Apart from providing security,
The purpose of government is to provide basic social services (education ,health ,enabling environment for investment and infrastructure etc) which will be too expensive for individuals to provide for themselves.
Even at that , you are suppose to pay for those social services through taxes.
With the minuscule allocation from ABUJA , how in the world do you expect the money to go round for everybody?
Like I have said before, you guys have no clue what governance is all about.
It is just ME ME ME ME ME ME.
You should be thinking about others benefitting from you (job creation) by combining what is available in your locality with your brain.

Descartes: Coming from a Media Wing of Bokoharam. .

Bigoted fool / complicated fool up there ^
Oya The rest of you should choose your category.
I fall into the educated fool class because nothing will ever make me partake in that cesspit.
One unfortunate observation of a political meeting was enough to repulse me forever.

Nigeria’s Fools At Large By M.B.O Owolowo

For definitive purposes, a fool can be described as one who is deficient in judgement, sense, or understanding. It could also mean one who has been tricked or made to appear ridiculous. In some instances, being a fool or being fooled could be occasional, so it may be one who acts unwisely on a given occasion. But, when such an act of foolishness goes beyond the occasional and increases its mode of frequency, there ought to be some level of concern by the discerning.


I was once taught by my teacher that, no one is born foolish, and rightly so. As I gained more exposure to life's dynamics, I realised foolishness could be gradually attained, sometimes subconsciously and often times unintentionally.

There are many types of fools, and Nigeria is gifted with it's own peculiar breed of fools.
The Complicated Fool: those who aren’t even aware they are fools - the wisdom acclaimer.
We have the Circumstantial Fool: the fool who was made foolish due to some circumstance, like economic hardship, which is slightly understandable in our milieu.
A Loving Fool could also pass as a victim of circumstance - one who has been swindled by a supposed lover and abandoned.

Analysing deeper, we come across the Neo-Colonialist Fool: this is a fool who expects the foreign powers to do what's in the best interest of Nigeria, totally forgetting the golden rule of permanent interests and not permanent friends. Such fools expect foreign interventionists to wholeheartedly assist Nigeria's development, without pondering on the economic implications, and why an underdeveloped Nigeria may actually benefit certain foreign interests.

There are more interesting fools like the Sophisticated Fool: motivated by class, prestige and other types of materialisms. You will find them in some posh social clubs bragging about either their heritage or privileged background and education, but never about using their exceptional qualities for the betterment of the nation.

Enter the Educated Fool: the fool who went to school but has learnt nothing - you come across many of them on social media, exhibiting their ignorance to unfathomable heights.
Another spectrum of the educated are those with the professional experience and acumen to effectively manage public affairs, but deliberately evade it because of the pervasion of unscrupulous individuals in the political sphere.
Ironically, those within this category, feel more comfortable criticising without proffering practical solutions or making any significant contributions to societal development. They are quick to call the opportunists governing them, fools, but fail to realise they are actually the bigger fools, for allowing a brand of fools to attain positions of authority over them.

We also have the Bigoted Fool: the fool driven by bigotry and hatred. These set of fools are multifaceted and their bigotry is boundless. You find them online, defending absurdities.
For example, if a minister that happens to belong to their ethnic group is exposed for malfeasance, they see no wrong in defending obvious incompetencies. Also, if a president they share the same religion with has been chastised for ineptitude, they will defend such apparent inadequacies religiously.

We mustn’t forget the Religious Fool: fools, despite living in dire straits, have been cajoled or brainwashed into believing that by further enriching a religious leader, they will attain salvation. Never mind that their revered religious figure owns private jets, or has been accused of money laundering or gun-running, “touch not my anointed” they say, as they intensify their prayers.

This brings the fools exposé to the prayerful type of fool, a.k.a the 'Prayer-Fool': those who believe in praying for everything and doing nothing to make those prayers a reality.
The similitude of a student that has been gifted with access to good teachers and vast educational material, but instead of taking advantage of these resources by studying, resorts to just praying. Strangely, such a student is actually expecting a 'miracle' on examination day, but is surprised by the realistic outcome of a resounding fail. This is the reality that has befallen Nigeria, we are trying to reap where we obviously did not sow!

Fools manifest into unbelievable mutations like the Sycophantic Fool: they will praise the flimsiest of things as achievements. Like those who celebrated the refurbishment of old locomotives as landmark government accomplishments in 2014. In an age when Maglev trains are doing maximum speeds of 430 km/h and an average speed of 251 km/h.
A mediocre type of fool might retort that this is way too advanced for us, that we should keep it simple and concentrate on the basics like electricity. Yes! Then emerges the 'Transformation' Fool: the one busily defending a 'transformation agenda' that has failed to transform anything but the pockets of those milking the system. A transformation that has continually promised stable or constant electricity supply for the past 4 years at least.

Undoubtedly, we have exceptional fools at the helm of affairs, surrounded by a special set of feckless fools, those who believe they can fool everyone with elaborate foolishness. These are the sort of fools that openly praise ill-thought of pro-government agendas, then try to exculpate themselves when it backfires drastically, i.e.#BringBackGoodluck2015.

Once any opportunistic fool takes over the helm of affairs, the clock starts to tick fast, such opportunists are wondering when the populace will come back to their senses, do the needful and send them packing! They are actually surprised by the series of faux pas they can get away with before reality beckons and are exposed for the fraud they truly are.

We are currently engulfed in a vicious circle of be-fooling that is inevitably contagious. Some may ask, how far can charlatanry be perpetuated? How long can such asininity last? Well! For as long as those being fooled allow it!
So when next a fool lies to you to get your votes and you buy into the foolish lies being peddled, don’t blame the fool for attempting such foolery, rather blame yourselves for permitting such buffoonery and allowing yourselves to be fooled in the first instance!


“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time” - Abraham Lincoln

http://saharareporters.com/2014/09/26/nigeria’s-fools-large-mbo-owolowo

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For your information, Fayemi has never been a gentleman, it's just mere public perception. Which gentleman goes on air to accept defeat in an election only to change his tune less than 2 weeks thereafter? Which gentleman will disregard police advise not to visit a crisis riddled area only to accuse the same police of attacking him with tear gas? Which gentleman goes on a live TV interview to callously support his members for killing g an innocent passerby, cover his dead body with APC's vest(just to paint the picture of been an APC member) and also blaming the police for the killing? Which gentleman-governor will embark on creation of local government councils after his rejection at the poll knowing the financial burden such portends for the incoming government? One can go on and on but the bottom line is; Fayemi is just a subtle, arrogant and mischievous personality.

Emotional outburst without any form of reasoning.
Like someone said , the ekitis love education but they are not intelligent.
Your points
1 visit : Fayemi is the chief executive officer and can overrule any advise from his subordinate . Nowhere is out of bounds

2support : gives us the proof Where Fayemi led a gang of thugs to shoot someone. I will give you many instances of FAYOSE leading thugs to cause mayhem.

3LCDA: LCDA are created for administrative purposes. FAYEMI not FAYOSE is still the governor. Fayemi powers does not end until he officially hands over. FAYOSE can decide not to fund the LCDAs.

4 fayemi character: Do you know the qualities which make up a gentleman?Decent people see a thug or a love-vendor when they see fayose.

You are obviously clueless in this regard.you are definitely not an omoluabi.
Oya collect your salary and continue banging on the dumb terminal job of yours.

Delerichard: i have been reading ppł's comments since yesteday i discovered dat pple dat er commenting er nt frm ekiti rathar understand d politics of ekitiAPC er the cause of chaos in ekiti cos they dont want relinguish power to PDP,anoder tin is dat,wen foluso ogundare was killed by APC HA member in emure,it wasnt violence,wen jeje was killed in ilawe it wasnt violence and wen AIT crew was hit in ikere ekiti it wasnt violence.now dat fayose is fightin for his right u Called it thuggry.well,i want u to no that d judge that presided over d case yesteday is member E-11,wat er u expecting?fayose is wise but u turned his wiseness to thuggry,no wonder segun oni was robed in d court by salami.wat u Called thuggry are the masses that voted him in.ekiti love him!!

They do not have to come from Ekiti to know that the state is backward.
beer palour everywhere and backward mentality.
Ekiti diaspora avoid visiting the shithole as much as possible.
The intelligent ones migrate out of that state in droves.
You think investor will come to a state governed by rogues and thugs?
A thug who beats up a judge.
the fact is no one will take Ekiti seriously.
In the 21st century, you are voting someone who moves around with thugs.
The rule of the agberos
Someone is trying to buy time by causing havoc in the state and disrupting the normal flow of events e.g the court proceedings.
Disgusting.

Good thing is that the power generated is not going into that useless national grid to supply free electricity elsewhere. Also it is used to power public institutions.

The touts are back.
Assassinations have begun once again.
For those years without PDP,everywhere was peaceful.
NURTW touts in the news again
Only fayose can bring them back.

Itse sagay: " the people of ekiti will get the infrastructure of a thug"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_729np9NLk

Are IJAWS collecting permit to fish in "Nigeria's" territorial waters.
I hope the judge will take the case and throw it out for wasting of court time.
By the way, Nigeria's fishing stock is being depleted by massive foreign trawlers unchallenged ,as we speak.
Taking as many fishes in one night as it will take these fishermen to take in a lifetime.
I hope the next government after this useless one ,will send this EFCC to the scrap heap of history.
Set up with good intentions , but another institution gone bad in the hand of this government.
Idiotz

All the way.
Right there in New York .
The word "Criminals "and "Nigerians " are interchangeable.

ESHU(the God the evil ,crusading xtian slavemasters falsely called the devil)

Eṣù is the God of the crossroad, and plays frequently by leading mortals to temptation and possible tribulation in the hopes that the experience will lead ultimately to their maturation.
Eshu presents you with choices and guides you to make the right choices thereby helping you to develop Iwa (good behaviour/character)

Ekiti got to Orita-meta(crossroad), they had
1 fayemi (the mostly stable road on which they were travelling)
2 Fatose (the Jaga JAGA thuggery/assassination/lawless /corruption road they had travelled before.
3 bamidele( the road they have never travelled )

It does not take rocket science or mystic powers to make the right choices.
It is obvious that EKITI is suffering from a deficiency in the Iwa and the omoluabi department.
All those who voted for this evil thug of a man are a disgrace to the yoruba nation and they mock Eledumare(God).

I am very familiar with the South East.
Leaving aside the human factors like bad leadership ,philosophy etc , their settlement system is even a bigger problem.
That hybrid scattered /linear settlement system has resulted in the non availability of land for agriculture.

Good riddance.

That road has always been a federal road. A road which most our west african neighbours use has been left to rot

Hmmmm

Well said.
Nothing but the truth here.

Sophistry is relative.
Liberal ................ YES
perhaps, too liberal for a country full of conservatives and feudalists.
We cannot afford to measure ourselves against anyone in that retrogressive country.

Fascist government.
Hitler' Grandchildren

Meanwhile, a drunkard remains under lock and keys at the Rock .
The coward fears for his life.

1,000,000 likes

He is a rogue.
I weep for those who worship at these churches and mosques.
Self enslavement




Some good quotes


Minoo Southgate, 1984, Negative Images of Blacks in Some Medieval Iranian Writings

Arabs called African Blacks (typically East Africans) the 'Zanj'. Most Arab writers who spoke disparagingly of black Africans had never traveled to subSaharan Africa. Many of their tales were based on hearsay. In the Arab world, as in Europe, there was also a necessity to justify the enslavement of black Africans by portraying them as subhuman.

At least part of the negative fiction was fabricated by black Africans themselves. Coastal East Africans such as the Swahili formed the trade link between Arabs from Asia and the African interior. To defend their trading zone, they told fantastic stories of the dangers of the interior. Asian merchants were thus discouraged from venturing into the interior and making direct trade links with the wealthy kingdoms there. Thus the Swahili preserved their trade monopoly and prospered.

Although the Arab writers featured below described blacks in demeaning language, Ibn Battuta, the most well-traveled man in pre-modern times, wrote of sub-Saharan Africans in a vastly different light. Of all medieval travel writers, he was the only one who actually traveled to both East Africa and West Africa. Ibn Battuta was a native of Morocco, culturally Arab and ethnically Berber.

In the following table, the observations of Ibn Battuta and other Arab writers are laid out side by side. These are not meant to be direct comparisons as Ibn Battuta was writing of specific black African cultures, while most of the other writers were writing of the generic Zanj:

Other Arab/Indian/Iranian writers Ibn Battuta
"Of the neighbors of the Bujja, Maqdisi had heard that "there is no marriage among them; the child does not know his father, and they eat people -- but God knows best. As for the Zanj, they are people of black color, flat noses, kinky hair, and little understanding or intelligence."

Maqdisi (fl. 966 AD), _Kitab al-Bad'_, vol.4
"We ... traveled by sea to the city of Kulwa [Kilwa in East Africa]...Most of its people are Zunuj, extremely black...The city of Kulwa is amongst the most beautiful of cities and most elegantly built... Their uppermost virtue is religion and righteousness and they are Shafi'i in rite."

Ibn Battuta, A.D. 1331

"The geographer al-Idrisi ascribes 'lack of knowledge and defective minds' to the black peoples. Their ignorance, he says, is notorious; men of learning and distinction are almost unknown among them, and their kings only acquire what they know about government and justice from the instruction of learned visitors from farther north."

Bernard Lewis, 1990, Race and Slavery in the Middle East.

"Another of [the Malli blacks'] good qualities is their concern for learning the sublime Qur'an by heart. They make fetters for their children when they appear on their part to be falling short in their learning of it by heart, and they are not taken off them till they do learn by heart."

Ibn Battuta, 14th century

"Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament."

Jahiz, _Kitab al-Hayawan_, vol. 2
"Among [the Malli blacks'] good qualities is the small amount of injustice amongst them, for of all people they are the furthest from it..."

Ibn Battuta, 14th century

"[inhabitants of sub-Saharan African countries] are people distant from the standards of humanity" "Their nature is that of wild animals...."

Persian geography _Hudud al-`alam_, 982 AD
"For [the people of Takadda in West Africa] ease of life and ample conditions are supreme; they vie with one another in the number of slaves and servants they have - as likewise do the people of Malli and Iwalatan. They do not sell educated woman-slaves, except very rarely and at a great price."

Ibn Battuta, 14th century

"We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind, and the least capable of understanding the consequences of actions."

Jahiz (d. 868 AD), _Kitab al-Bukhala'
"[The people of Mombasa in East Africa] are a religious people, trustworthy and righteous. Their mosques are made of wood, expertly built."

Ibn Battuta, A.D. 1331

"They [the Shu`ubiyya] maintain that eloquence is prized by all people at all times -- even the Zanj, despite their dimness, their boundless stupidity, their obtuseness, their crude perceptions and their evil dispositions, make long speeches."

Jahiz, Al-Bayan wa`l-tabyin, vol. 3
"I met the qadi of Malli... he is a black, has been on a pilgrimage, and is a noble person with good qualities of character... I met the interpreter Dugha, a noble black and a leader of theirs... They performed their duty towards me [as a guest] most perfectly; may God bless and reward them for their good deeds!"

Ibn Battuta, 14th century

"Galen says that merriment dominates the black man because of his defective brain, whence also the weakness of his intelligence."

Mas`udi (d. 956 AD), Muruj al-dhahab_
"Another of the good habits among [the people of Malli] is the way they meticulously observe the times of the prayers and attendance at them, so also it is with regard to their congregational services and the beating of their children to instill these things in them."

Ibn Battuta, 14th century

"As regards southern countries, all their inhabitants are black on account of the heat of their climate... Most of them go naked... In all their lands and provinces, gold is found.... They are people distant from the standards of humanity."

Hudud al-`Alam_, Persian geography, 982 AD
"[The sultan of Malli] holds sessions during the days associated with the 2 festivals...The men-at-arms come with wonderful weaponry, quivers of silver and gold, swords covered with gold, their sheaths of the same, spears of silver and gold and wands of crystal.. On [the women] are fine clothes and on their heads they have bands of silver and gold apples as pendants... then come...young men who... have a wonderful gracefulness and lightness...they juggle with swords beautifully."

Ibn Battuta, 14th century

"The Zanj are so uncivilized that they have no notion of a natural death. If a man dies a natural death, they think he was poisoned. Every death is suspicious with them, if a man has not been killed by a weapon."

Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, _India_, 1030 AD
"... there is also the prevalence of peace in their country, the traveler is not afraid in it nor is he who lives there in fear of the thief or the robber by violence...there are no thieves in their country"

Ibn Battuta, 14th century, writing about Mali

About the Zanj: "Their nature is that of wild animals. They are extremely black." About the Sudan: "Among themselves there are people who steal each other's children and sell them to the merchants when the latter arrive."

Hudud al-`Alam_, 982 AD
"[The sultan of Kilwa, East Africa] ... was Father of Gifts because of his many gifts and deeds of generosity... This sultan is a very humble man. He sits with the poor people and eats with them... The gratitude of the people to the sultan increased at the evidence of his humility and graciousness."

Ibn Battuta, 14th century

"If (all types of men) are taken, from the first, and one placed after another, like the Negro from Zanzibar, in the Southern-most countries, the Negro does not differ from an animal in anything except the fact that his hands have been lifted from the earth,--in no other peculiarity or property,--except for what God wished. Many have seen that the ape is more capable of being trained than the Negro, and more intelligent."

Philosopher-theologian Nasir al-Din Tusi (1201-74), _Tasawwurat_
[Mogadishu (in East Africa)] is a town endless in its size... Its people are powerful merchants. In it are manufactured the cloths named after it which have no rival, and are transported as far as Egypt and elsewhere.
Ibn Battuta, A.D. 1331

"Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated."

Ibn Khaldun, _Muqaddimah_, 14th century AD
"Then I reached [a West African town]. This town had as its governor an excellent man, a pilgrim called Farba Sulaiman, well known for his bravery and tenacity...An Arab slave girl of his from Damascus came in to us. She was an Arab and spoke to me in Arabic."

Ibn Battuta, 14th century

Note that in this case, a black man owned an Arab slave

"A man of discernment said: The people of Iraq ... do not come out with something between blonde, buff and blanched coloring, such as the infants dropped from the wombs of the women of the Slavs and others of similar light complexion; nor are they overdone in the womb until they are burned, so that the child comes out something between black, murky, malodorous, stinking, and crinkly-haired, with uneven limbs, deficient minds, and depraved passions, such as the Zanj, the Somali, and other blacks who resemble them. The Iraqis are neither half-baked dough nor burned crust but between the two."

Ibn al-Faqih al-Hamadani, _Mukhtasar Kitab al-Buldan_, 903 AD
"Another of [the Malli blacks'] good qualities is their concern for learning the sublime Qur'an by heart...One day I passed a handsome youth from them dressed in fine clothes and on his feet was a heavy chain. I said to the man who was with me, 'What has this youth done -- has he killed someone?' The youth heard my remark and laughed. It was told me, 'He has been chained so that he will learn the Qu'ran by heart.'"

Ibn Battuta, 14th century

"beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings. They live in thickets and caves, and eat herbs and unprepared grain. They frequently eat each other. They cannot be considered human beings."

Ibn Khaldun, _Muqaddimah_
"There came to sultan Mansa Sulaiman (of the Mali empire) a group of these blacks who eat human beings accompanied by one of their amirs... They cover themselves in silk mantles... The sultan was gracious to them...They...came to the sultan to return thanks."

Ibn Battuta, 14th century

"[Blacks] are ugly and misshapen, because they live in a hot country."

Ibn Qutayba (828-89 A.D.)
"[the people of Iwalatan in West Africa] were generous to me and entertained me...and as for their women -- they are extremely beautiful and are more important than the men"

Ibn Battuta, 14th century

"The Zanj are slight-witted (_kam 'aql_), and God, most high, has created them stupid, ignorant, and foul (_palid_)."

anonymous, Iskandarnamah, 1343 AD
"[The sultan of Kilwa, East Africa] ... was Father of Gifts because of his many gifts and deeds of generosity... This sultan is a very humble man. He sits with the poor people and eats with them... The gratitude of the people to the sultan increased at the evidence of his humility and graciousness."

Ibn Battuta, 14th century

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racist arab quotes (views: 2225)
Sopdet -- 8/20/2002, 6:56 am
Re: racist arab quotes (views: 21)
Ardy -- 8/20/2002, 9:11 pm

Thanks but no thanks.
We do not do 'Jonathan till eternity' type politics (aka sycophancy) in odua states.
50% ,70% .
You got to laugh at these folks

And awolowo started boko haram.
Clowns

Love bernie sanders to death.
He is one of only 5 incorruptible and non corporatist senators who fights for the common man.
The man takes the train home.
Since Elizabeth warren is not contesting ,Bernie is being drafted by progressives to drag Hillary Clinton to the left in the Democratic Party primaries.

This is governance as I knew it when I was overseas.
An invisible arm of government you never knew existed,but is there for you in your hour of need.
I remember the day,some oyinbo girls we had previously met at the club ,invited me and 3 of my homeboys to their apartment.
Raincoat packing and looking ahead to a jollyfull night ,we got into the wrong and old service lift (built to carry only 3 average weight adults and was used by only the building's maintenance technicians).
Meanwhile one of my boys was a tipper(fat) .
To cut long story short,the door closed,the lift moved a few floors and stopped .we were stuck for like 50 min .you couldn't get something out of your pocket,it was that suffocating .
That was ,until those young firemen got us out .Right there to rescue us , was a police car ,an ambulance and 2 fire engines.all these provided with tax-payers money.
Our mamacitas too suspected that it must have been us.
They were waiting for us already .
Na then you go sabi say ,Dudu woman no fit best oyinbo hospitality.
Are you ok.
You are so wet
It's my fault ,I should have warned you
It must have been scary
"Give me your wet clothes I will put it in the wash "
When you hear the last bit ,you know you have scored .
Enjoyment galore for me and my guys for 2 days .

Hopefully ,people do take their jobs seriously.
Whenever I see ilu ekoo, I see hope for the future.
This is governance.

Yawn.
Do not rewrite history.
If you want more I will drop them here for you

http://encompass.eku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017&context=jora
http://archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/African%20Journals/pdfs/Institue%20of%20African%20Studies%20Research%20Review/1969v5n2/asrv005002005.pdf