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But what about the PHC-Warri end of the road? Why is the PHC end in a sorry state?

There are two Yoruba books reputed to be among the earliest written folklore books in an African Language.
- Ogboju Ode Ninu Igbo Irunmale
- Igbo Olodumare

These books were written by one D.O. Fagunwa (OBE).

There's a third one, Irikerindo.....I can't remeber the remaining words of the title. Those were the days people. Very scary, but interesting read.

OP, if you have em, please post. Thanks.

''Yoruboid'' is a new one.

http://www.education.gov.ng/

That should help...I think.

I found this on a friend's Facebook page. Revealing, enlightening, interesting read. Those who don't like long posts (especially about Nigeria's history) can try this for a change, you will not be dissappointed. Enjoy.

'' It is the patriotic duty of every Nigerian to dance on the grave of General Sani Abacha. Contrary to the Levickian PR his supporter Prof G.G. Darah did for him in his article Dancing on Abacha and Yar Aduas’ Graves (The Guardian, 17-18th July 2014), Abacha remains the most despicable leader Nigeria ever had. He killed Ken Saro Wiwa and the Ogoni 8, he killed Pa Alfred Rewane, Kudirat Abiola, Suliat Adedeji, Rear Admiral Olu Omotehinwa, Dr Omatshola, Musa Yar Adua, Madam Tinubu while others like Alex Ibru and Pa Abraham Adesanya were his near-misses.

Countless students whose name we don’t even know were massacred while standing up for the democratic ideals of June 12. We pay tribute to Wole Soyinka, Anthony Enahoro, Gani Fawehinmi, Beeko Ransome Kuti, Frank Kokori, General Akinrinade, Hassan Kukah, Olisa Agbakogba, Ayo Obe, Chima Ubani, Dan Sulaiman, Kayode Fayemi, Emeka Anyaoku, Femi Falana, Sola Adeyeye and some of our finest and fearless journalists and editors still around today: Odia Ofeimun, Nosa Igiebor, Chris Anyanwu, Babafemi Ojudu, Kunle Ajibade, Bayo Onanuga, Dapo Olorunyomi, Akin Adesokan, Ogaga Ifowodo, Niran Malaolu, Osifo-Whiskey, and others assassinated like James Bagauda Kaltho. These illustrious Nigerians formed the minds of my generation and made it impossible for us to believe lies.

Today, Nigerians should hug themselves with tears of joy and say, yes, we survived that evil monster. Yet, that is the person that is worthy of ovation and reverence in Prof G.G. Darah’s value system. Our primary problem as a nation is not the lack of memory but an addiction to perverse values, diseased morality and gutter sense of human decency. Once the value system which is the DNA of any society is allowed to corrode, all other things fall apart.

The onset of the American Civil War led to the rise of Northern Nigeria. Cotton was the oil of the 19th century. Great Britain the world’s most industrialised nation then relied on America as its biggest supplier. The cotton industry based inLancashire was the second biggest industry after agriculture offering employment to 3 million Britons.

The huge wealth derived from cotton production was the reason America’s southern states held on to slavery even when other western nations had abandoned the evil. Then came the civil war which disrupted supplies. The Lancashire business group had to look for cheap alternatives.

Through the “bible and plough” policy of the British missionaries, jungles around Abeokuta rapidly began to make way for cotton fields. When America re-entered the supply market in 1870, the world prices of cotton crashed to pre-war levels and that checked the cotton expansion in “Southern Nigeria.” The British Cotton Growing Association (BCGA) did not give up on diversification of suppliers though.

In 1905, backed by the BCGA’s reconnaissance report, Winston Churchill an MP for Lancashire reported in the House of Commons that Northern Nigeria had been discovered to offer a reliable and rich production of cotton. Investment there must therefore be allowed to proceed. But the only problem was the absence of mechanised, business-friendly and export-compliant transportation network.

In one of his autobiographies, The River War about the conquest of Sudan in 1898, Churchill recounted being awed by a Canadian Lieutenant in his ‘Railway Battalion’ who knew the strategic importance of railways and knew to the last detail everything about their design and construction at minimal cost. This young lieutenant documented them in “ponderous volume several inches thick; and such was the comprehensive accuracy of the estimate that the working parties were never delayed by the want even of a piece of brass wire.” Since then Churchill had it in mind that this young lieutenant, Percy Girouard described elsewhere as “a blend of French audacity of imagination, American ingenuity and British doggedness in execution” would do great things for the Empire.

Lugard may be a great military strategist and an indefatigable administrator but he was not exceptional as an engineering director. So in 1906 when Lugard as the Governor of Northern Nigeria submitted proposals for “Continuous Administration,” by which he would still be able to govern his protectorate even when he was out of the country for a long time, Churchill as the undersecretary for Colonies rejected it and Lugard resigned in September. As the Yoruba say, eni ti a fe sun ni ina to tun fi epo para, 2 ge 4 [He whom we plan to roast alive is even beautifying his own skin with petroleum jelly. Ride on].

In the Commons when Churchill was asked what kind of financial stress a huge railway network to connect a region bigger than the size of France and Italy put together was going to inflict on Britain’s budget, he replied: “The cost of the railway extension at present authorised will be met by Southern Nigeria, so that the British taxpayer will not be affected” (Hansard, 19th December 1906).

Sir Percy Girouard came in and delivered the 366 mile Baro-Kano railway line at £3,800 per mile – half the price of Lugard’s projection. In 1912 with his proposals for Continuous Administration accepted, Lugard was brought back from Honk Kong to deliver access to the sea with frictionless fluency by amalgamating the two independent countries. What we call colonisation was to Britain business opportunity.

The railways were fine, the weather cooperated, the Sultan of Sokoto and Shehu of Borno had pledged their loyalty, cotton was blooming in Gusau and Funtua the same way they blossomed in Mississippi and Alabama, Tin had been discovered in Jos, groundnuts, tobacco, ginger, hide and skin had been added to the mix, what followed was 50 years of aggressive and unbridled “business opportunities.”

The figures leapt for joy.

From 200 tonnes before the railways, groundnut export shut up to 41,000 tonnes in 1915. In 1949, a year after the North was amalgamated legislatively with the South, 10 tonnes of cotton and 378,000 tonnes of groundnuts were exported compared to 103 tonnes of cocoa from the South. By 1961, the North was responsible for 37.8% of world’s supply of groundnuts. In 1963, groundnut exports soared to 650, 000 tonnes fetching the Northern marketing board a cool £46million. The booming northern economy also generated an ultra-wealthy rich class.

In the mid twenties, Alhassan Dantata swiftly replaced Southern money men like Captain Labulo Davies, Alli-Balogun, J.H. Doherty, William Akinola Dawodu, Braimah Igbo, J.K. Coker, Karimu Kotun as the richest man in the country. When UAC, a subsidiary of Unilever which controlled 80% of Nigeria’s exports started out in the North, they needed someone who would go around to the farmers and buy their products and encourage them to grow more and more cash crops needed in Europe. They found Dantata, a small time but willing trader and made him their agent. All those iconic pyramids of groundnuts by railway lines which were the towering symbols of North’s wealth were the hard work of Dantata.

All that changed in 1966. From an economic giant, the North became a welfare case. When farmers harvest their groundnuts or cotton or hides and skin, they take them to the middlemen or directly to nearest UAC or John Holt warehouses for cash. The top staffs of these companies were British while the record keepers, warehouse supervisors were mostly Igbos. Also due to literacy differences, clerks of the civil service, post and telegraph operators, electricity corporation’s maintenance technicians, the water treatment workers, foremen of construction gangs were mostly Igbos.

Those who drive the trains, service train engines, give train signals and the train stations supervisors were mostly Igbos. Laird, Britain’s deputy high commissioner in Kaduna wrote of Northerners who could have held these jobs: “They seem to have little desire to improve their way of live…Any money left after paying their taxes is spent on purchasing a new wife or new bicycle…”

Then it started on 28th May 1966. Based on a flawed estimate of ordinary Igbos’ culpability in the coup of January 15and Ironsi’s handling the affair, then began a systematic effort to ensure every Igbo in the North that was not dead must be made afraid to stay. It mattered less that most of these Igbos were born and bred in the North and do not have residences in the East. Up to 2 million fled. Even those that were working on Kainji dam project were quickly airlifted to Ogbomosho when report came to Impregrelio, the Italian civil engineering giant that the murderous yaniska (sons of wind) were mobilising with fanatical ferocity in Minna ready to storm the construction site and dispossess it of every Igbo worker.

According to archived records, 50 were killed and 900 safely evacuated. The Briton who was the engineering supervisor of the Zaria train depot said he witnessed one of his own train mechanics murder 5 of his co-workers because they were Igbos.

When the dust settled, it was discovered farmers who managed to haul their harvests to the warehouses could not sell them because the trains were not working. Charles Dymond, the Commercial Counsellor at the British High Commission in Lagos travelled to the North to survey the extent of the of the damage. When Lugard sewed up the country and became the governor-general, instead of governing from Lagos, he governed from the North because he had the dream that with effective management, the North could be what India was for the Empire.

Dymond saw that dream in tatters as he surveyed the place from 2 – 13 October 1966. Then the civil war came and after it, instead of going back to the status quo, Petroleum decree No 51 brought a new source of easy money more stupendous than reliance on agriculture. While the American Civil war led to the rise of the North as an economic giant, the Nigerian Civil war ended it.

Wrote G.G. Darah: “It was the Gowon-Awolowo diarchy that abolished the derivation principle and funnelled all the revenue to the ravenous central government under the guise of depriving the breakaway Biafra Republic of 1967-1970 of funds to prosecute the civil war.” This is incorrect.

The Petroleum Decree was signed on 26 November 1969 29 months into the war and roughly a month before it was over. The war according to West Africa Magazine of 19th October 1968 was funded with sales of gold and silver jewelleries donated by Biafran women, donations from Igbo communities aboard, reserve currencies from two regional branches of Central bank, international aid diverted into arms purchase, sale of palm oil, war bonds and most importantly, cash loans and arms from the Charles De Gaulle’s Government.

In April 1969, another $12million was deposited in a Moroccan bank awaiting Biafran emissaries to arrive to pick it up. Oil money was not used to fund the war even though without it Biafra would not have contemplated secession and the Federal Government would not have doe so much to defeat the secession.

For instance, Adekunle’s battalion which later became Third Marine Commando was not tasked to go and win the war, that was for Danjuma’s First Division or Murtala Mohammed’s Second. Adekunle was tasked to deprive the Biafrans of access to the sea, liberate the oil producing regions and secure oil facilities so that the oil companies will know who should have the next royalties. After the Battle of Bonny of 25th July 1967, he radioed Lagos that all the 3.9 million cubic metres in 16 tanks at the Bonny oil terminal were recaptured without incident. Gowon was reported to be ‘overjoyed.’

The Petroleum Decree was promulgated in November 1969 because 1970 was a year of pay since royalties were paid every 3 years then. (Even Biafran war bonds had 1970 and 1973 maturity dates). The pay was for the Federal Government and the Eastern Regional Government as usual. But since the last pay, the Eastern Region had been broken up into Eastern Central state with no oil and Rivers and Cross Rivers states with all the oil.

The Decree then routed all the revenues from territorial areas and continental shelves to the Federal purse. What that eventually created was the dictatorship of the centre. Whether the country was under democratic regime or military junta, federalism or regionalism, Nigerians were chained to the dictates of centre. And this dictatorship was enhanced by the fragmentation of the country into more states.

Nigeria started out as two independent countries. Economic calculus brought the two together not political expediency or ethnic pacifications. But the partitioning of the country into more states was being driven by political and ethnic pacifications not economic imperatives. And this always enhances dictatorship of the centre since many of these states are not self-sustaining and huge amount of money would be lost to bureaucratic overheads. The first test for existence of any State should be, if the Federal Government does not give or take any revenue from me, would I survive? If not, the State should not be created because the meagre resources of Peter would have to be robbed to pay Paul.

Finally, to help the North get back on its feet, the confab delegates must break the dictatorship of the centre by insisting on resource control. That is what Ken Saro Wiwa and the Ogoni 8 stood for. The North used to be the Niger Delta of Nigeria.

The two million that fled during the 1966 ethnic cleansing were there because of the economic opportunities that the North had to offer. Bola Ige, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Emeka Ojukwu were born by parents who went to seek refuge in the North’s economic prosperity. Therefore, the North must not underestimate its own potentials by rejecting resource control.

A new quest for wealth through foreign investments and provision of technical training for all would force the North to compromise on retrogressive practices and ancient beliefs that stand in the way of modern economic prosperity.

On the other hand, the responsible and honourable leaders of the South-South should not settle for less than they are. A no deal is better than a bad deal. Because in the future, if a Dokubo, Boyloaf, Togo, Ekpemupolo or any of their ilk blows up the Niger Delta or kidnap foreign workers, we shall not call them resource control activists or Niger Delta Justice advocates, we shall call them terrorists.

For this is the time to comprehensively articulate their grievances and stand their ground. Anything short of this becomes not the North’s fault, not the Federal Government’s, not the oil companies’ but their own fault.''

http://blogs.premiumtimesng.com/2014/07/29/g-g-darah-the-north-and-resource-control-by-damola-awoyokun/

[quote author=Mynd_44]Cheating goes beyond intimacy. It is the thought behind the dinner. Read the contents of the text and you will see that she wanted to do it again. Which is why the husband was so angry and she was depressed[/quote]Thumbs up for a great insightful post!

Harrisonn: 4. Is it not time to build the bridges that the Forcados and escravos communities need to link them together by land as was done in Lagos that has contributed little to Nigeria's commonwealth in comparison?

5. If we stop the stipend to ex-militants, can Nigeria withstand the upsurge in jobless youths in the creeks?


Tell me how you intend to end oil theft and I will call you MASTER!!!


THE END

http://theenaofugarablog..com/2013/12/all-about-stolen-crudethings-you-would.html

The bold quote above. I haven't seen any major step in that direction - as in building bridges and fastracking the development of the Niger Delta. Even ordinary East-West Road that I have been crying for ages for its dualisation has not been completed. The whole thing just tire persin abeg.

People deserve the type of leaders they have - at anytime.

Maximus85: what of churches praying for their enemies to die, die, die, fire consume? Are they christians.

As true christians, we are not suppose to have enemies cos we shouldn't hate anyone but those people hating you for the kind of godly life you are living and God's blessings in your life are the enemies we are talking about here.

So we must love them, do good to them and pray for them. Who knows...our good behaviour might prompt them to change from their bad ways.

If you read Luther's sermon carefully,you will notice that the central enemy of everyone of us is not our neighbour that we see everyday that we have squabbles with, they're not our friends who are jealous of our progress, it is not even those who physically harm us and treat us badly.

Our enemies are the systems that thrives on evil. And at the head of all these system is that old enemy of mankind. The Devil.

You will argue, but we cannot see the Devil so we can attack him bla bla bla. Yes, you can't see him, and even if you see the Devil, I am sure you will not have the power to fight him. You need Jesus to do that ''seeing'' and attacking.

So, love the ''evil man'' you can see, so that you can, perhaps, redeem him by your actions - but hate the evil system that the man is caught up in.

franciskaine: u are right though, but to what extent has this Machiavellian scruples solved man's problems, more especially in a time like ours? the 'an eye for an eye' strategy against book haram has yielded minimal positive result. it is high time we started changing our attitude and mentality about life and problems dat comes with it.

Great insight man! Did you read what MLK said at this point in the sermon?

''the great Napoleon that at a very early age had all but conquered the world........But that same Napoleon one day stood back and looked across the years, and said: "Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have built great empires. But upon what did they depend? They depended upon force. But long ago Jesus started an empire that depended on love, and even to this day millions will die for him."

^^ You don't know how relief swept through my soul after reading this sermon by this great man.

50calibre: Unfortunately, I'm not blessed with the ability to forgive my enemies, talk much of loving them.

We can put aside out differences and work together if its in our interest but it changes nothing & someday when I get the chance, I won't hesitate to get back at that person.

Ironically, this was one of the exact things MLK spoke against!

"Love your enemies." Because if you hate your enemies, you have no way to redeem and to transform your enemies. But if you love your enemies, you will discover that at the very root of love is the power of redemption''

''Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.''

''When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system''

FORMER South African President, Thabo Mbeki’s contention that ordinary Nigerians deserve as much blame as the politicians for the leadership failure in the country provides a valid platform for the re-evaluation of citizens’ role in governance in Nigeria. According to the man who took over the mantle of leadership from the great Nelson Mandela, it is only the citizens themselves that can put a stop to bad leadership. We agree.
Democracy’s efficacy and legitimacy are predicated on an informed citizenry; without active and knowledgeable citizens, democratic representation remains empty; without vigilant, informed citizens, there is no check on potential tyranny.

Mbeki’s position quickly brings to mind the statement credited to a French historian and political thinker, Alexis de Tocqueville, that “in a democracy, the people get the government they deserve.” Given his background as an activist and freedom fighter, whose struggles helped to bring down the obnoxious apartheid system in his country, Mbeki certainly knows what it takes to put a government under pressure and compel it to do the bidding of the people, in whom lies ultimate sovereignty. This civic political culture is lacking in Nigeria at present. But recent events in the Arab world, known as the Arab Spring, have clearly demonstrated what the people can do with power when they realise that it belongs to them, and is only held in trust on their behalf by politicians. Once the Arabs lost faith in the way they were being governed, they expressed their views very strongly and forced changes. The change of government that took place in Libya, Tunisia and Egypt was an inevitable capitulation to the will of the people, just in the same manner as the reforms that were introduced in Morocco.
This point has been made even more pointedly in Egypt where, after three decades of authoritarian rule, the government of Hosni Mubarak was unceremoniously brought to an end. Notably too, even his successor, Mohammed Morsi, was swept away in a gale of protests, barely a year after assuming office as the first democratically elected president of the country. To achieve this, the people were ready to put their lives on the line, confronting security agents and defying live bullets.


Unfortunately, here in Nigeria, nobody wants to put his life on the line. Apathy by the civil populace has meekly handed politicians and political office holders the freedom to steal the country blind and squander its resources in a manner, perhaps, unheard of in the annals of the country. It is difficult to think of a country where over N2 trillion spent in the name of subsidy has not been properly accounted for; yet, nobody is behind bars two years after. It is unimaginable that in a country that professes the rule of law, billions of naira belonging to pensioners could vanish into thin air and nobody is made to account for it. Indeed, it is still difficult to fathom how over 100 security agents could be murdered in cold blood while on official duty and the killers still prance around unmolested. It is perhaps only in Nigeria that a minister would authorise the purchase of two extra cars, apart from her other official vehicles, for N255 million. To think that this is happening at a time when a minister was given the boot in Ghana for merely expressing her desire to acquire up to $1 million through politics only reinforces the extent to which Nigerians are docile and satisfied with the kind of government that they have. The Nigerian minister in question is still in office. It is not just under the current government, governments in Nigeria have always acted as if they exist in a different planet and owe the electorate neither explanations for their actions, nor effective service delivery. Yet, when the time comes to make a change through the ballot box, it is either the same villains are returned to power or they rig themselves back, regardless of what the ballot says.

In Nigeria, it appears nothing can provoke the people into demanding accountability from political office holders. Things that would jolt a government in any other clime go unnoticed in the country. For instance, how does one explain the continued deterioration in the quality of infrastructure amidst an endless flow of money from the sale of crude oil? How can the decline in the quality of education and health care delivery be explained in view of the amount that accrues to the country from the crude oil sale? It is in this same country that a government came to office when the price of oil was $18 per barrel was able to pay off the country’s debt of over $30 billion and saved over $50 billion in foreign reserves and more than $20 billion in Excess Crude Account. But the country is now accumulating debts, even when the price of oil in the international market has remained largely above $100 pb in the past six years. Yet, Nigerians are not asking questions and are so enfeebled that their views, when expressed, don’t count.

A major factor has been the role of ethnicity and religion in the way people perceive issues in the country. Once a person offends the law and is about to be brought to justice, there will be shameless protests from his kith and kin, claiming victimisation on account of the person’s ethnic origin. This blackmail has worked in many cases, including the corruption case of a former Delta State Governor, James Ibori, and it is currently being put to test in the ongoing bulletproof cars purchase scandal involving the Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah.


Making democracy work, says the National Democratic Institute, a United States-based non-profit organisation, requires informed and active citizens who understand how to voice their interests, act collectively and hold public officials accountable. Democracy’s credibility and sustainability depends, to an important degree, on how it works in practice, and on what it delivers. As Mbeki puts it, bad governments thrive in Nigeria, or elsewhere for that matter, because “the leadership does not feel pressure from the people.” It therefore follows that if Nigerians desire the dividends of democracy, they will have to fight for it. They must decide whether to continue with the way they are being governed or become active in demanding transparency and accountability from government.

Source: http://www.newsinnigeria.org/2013/11/mbekis-damning-verdict-nigerians.html

After the terrible ordeal I went through earlier this year in the hands of loved ones, I sought for ways to have peace with myself and them. So far, it has been futile. But yesterday, the daily verse from the Bible site I read was about forgiving our enemies.

''But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you'' - Luke 6:27.

I was dumbfounded by that verse of the Scripture. For a while, I couldn't think straight. If the Lord had not rescued me from the hands of those people, I probably would be dead meat by now. How is it then that the Lord commanded us to do this? - maybe he wants us to just want him fighting ALL our battles.

Then, I typed the words: ''how to love your enemies'' into google search engine, and several sites popped out - as usual. But I picked this particular one, because after reading through (it's very long but interesting), I got some direction on how to go about it. And it was a sermon on the topic by the famous American Baptist Pastor, Martin Luther King. Now on a second thought, I decided to share with folks on this board. Happy reading - if you can!

I found there's an audio recording of the sermon too - so you can play that back, if you want to listen to it.
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/documentsentry/doc_loving_your_enemies/

Wait o. You be Isoko man?

^^^ Are you sure?

Mafia Man: [size=58pt]Fashola knocked out Akpabio!!! [/size]

No doubt about that.

[quote author=Kris d don.]The truth is that no Nigerian who has held or is holding a public office that has not stolen more than enough, those who were not caught or were caught but freed are connected to the high & mighty. EFCC is merely to intimidate political opponents worse still, the intmidation doesn't really achieve its aim as such. Nigeria is so corrupt that even a councillor @ the local level is not free from corruption. Well, i will say that Nuhu was right cos even him could be worse than so many; was Frida Warizi not tried for corruption charges? Perhaps Nuhu is more connected than her @ such, he mains untauchable. I strongly believe that Ibori is still a learner compare to Lucky Igbenedioun who was found guilty of 121 but later reduced to 1 count charge of corruption & was sentence to 3yrs imprisonment or alternative of 3million naira fine. Imagine! What is ₦3million to a governor who served for 8yrs? Femi Fani Kayode also stole ₦288m during his days as avition minister but due to his loyalty to Obasanjo he was freed, very recenty was the case of Farouk Lawal after all his mess he is enjoying his bribe and even has the mouth to advice the FG not to rush into negotiation with ASUU. Who else?? Orji Uzo kalu alone made Michael Andoaka to slash the powers of EFCC in 2007 cos it attempted to try him. I guess u are all aware? What about Joshua Dariye, i guess u remeber is case? Yet he's a free man today. Same with former governor of Bauchi. Well, is extremely excruciating how dis people loot us this dry. Did i hear u rephrase "us" yes i'm so pained cos i'm my money is involed as a tax payer.the freequency at which we pay taxes in Niger state is already out of hand, the government doesn't even care to know how u manage to get little money and start small business, all they know is to issue various types of notice of unbargainable taxes to be collected in just a week. No crime is worse than being a Nigerian, worse still if u're not from the political class. If the leaders really want to make Nigeria a better place, its starts with them. Just one law as in China and Saudi Arabia can change the whole system but because of their lingering personal ineterest, no one can move such motion and even when moved, the mover's life will be moved. The most excruciating stupid policy of the moment is this plate number and driver's license, imagine the cost and pain of getting the latest ones whereas the ones most people have now are no where near expiration.[/quote]Can't you guys write legibly for people to read? I saw 8 likes against your entry and I was like, let me see what's interesting about this one. The next thing is 'coded' words like @ representing 'at' I think, some wrong spellings here and there, 'u' for you, and.. . . .I am having a headache already! I had to stop. Yes, you can say you've communicated your thoughts across, but must this be done in such painful and distasteful way?

The issue here was whether Waziri qualified for the role of EFCC chair or not. She has now reeled out her qualification details and experience on the job. That's what baba OBJ questioned in the first place.

Her performance on the job is different kettle of fish entirely. If you want to discuss that one, then get ready to discuss all of Baba OBJ's dirty and evil deeds in government too. Are you ready for that?

texaco1: Whether baba is stvpid or not , waziri attitude and actions during ibori case proves beyond reasonable doubt that she has dealings with ibori.kaput
www.vanguardngr.com/2010/04/ibori-northern-group-calls-for-waziris-resignation/

thestreetjournal.org/2011/06/the-rot-in-efcc-why-faridah-waziri-cannot-prosecute-the-war-against-corruption/

How will Nigeria make progress against corruption and corrupt people with statements like this? You sound like one who benefits from the present rot in the country. The Vanguard link you posted is not even available. What do you stand to benefit from peddling falsehood??

texaco1: desertherald./2011/12/01/farida-waziris-waterloo/

abujathievescrooksandliarsnetwork..com/2009/08/again-he-got-away-efcc-aondoakaa.html?m=1


She is the worst efcc chairman we have ever had in nigeria

www.nairaland.com/566006/efcc-waziri-attempted-assist-ibori

mobile.saharareporters.com/news-page/fresh-evidence-shows-efcc-chair-farida-waziri-knew-iboris-ownership-wings-aviation-ltd-sen

https://m.facebook.com/notes/nigerian-civil-right-movement/waziri-signed-letters-that-exonerated-accused-politicians/138806699531063

You quote a nairaland thread, a facebook link and some Nigerian 'herald' newspaper link ( for all of us to take as FACT)??. You need to take a chill pill bro.

deeptesting: Only to the poor, weak and defenseless.
Well, that is not to say that i support their thievery but justice must also be served quickly to the rich,strong and defensive whose actions and inaction, has inflicted so much pain to the poor,weak and defenseless.

I have a Volkswagen bus and i am willing to give it to them to start transport business on the condition that they must be the driver and conductor.

It is well.

We have got to start from somewhere. If we don't start, it will continue unabated. Justice well served.

carr101: Clearly u are the only one on this thread who read and understood my post!
I never said a woman should rule over her husband but rather a man should see his woman as a help mate NOT a rag!!!
Its that simple! Thanks for this.

Well, maybe we didn't read your post very well, but it reeks of several feminist stuff - from the little I read.

ayoku777: There is more emotion in this write up than revelation. Alot of ladies become feminists after multiple heartbreaks, or after watching what other women go through at the hands of men, or boys rather.

But just like my bb dm today 'becoming a bitter feminist or being closed hearted isnt the way to safe guard your heart from heartbreaks. Let God choose your man for you. Trust me, when you have a man who is becoming more like Christ daily, you will count it a privilege to submit to him.

This write up is tainted with more western civilisation opinions than scripture, that tries to make the woman co-head. God in his wisdom made the man the head. A family with no head is dead, and a family with two heads is a beast.

Dont be a bitter feminist or lead impressionable young girls down that path. Submit to God as a woman and he will give you a man you will be proud to also submit to.

God bless

You have helped put my thoughts in a very lucid, crystal clear way.

@carr101,
You're living in the US? - cos this definitely will have a huge impact on your outlook at 'religious' things.

lertee: Good men are scarce,the ones ready for marriage are very few,the unserious rotten ones have taken over the society,may God help the good women around. I thank God for me sha

The main issue here: ''the MEN who are serious and ready for marriage''. These lot are very few indeed.

This is indeed a sad development for PDP in particular and political parties in Nigeria in general. But then, wait, hey! If this type of situation do not present itself, how do one know if democracy is thriving in Nigeria? Ok, lets put aside parties and stuff, ask some questions:

Will this type of development take place during Abacha or Babangida military regimes, or any regimes for that matter? Will invited guests by Abacha walkout on him at any event?

I respect GEJ for this. I think he's a honorable man. Some people will chicken out at the last minute if they see any opposition to what they believe is fair, true and just. The president stuck to his gun to the end, not minding the fact that the gathering turned out a monumental failure.

Now, lets think about what could have gone wrong:
- GEJ and his party chiefs did not do a proper evaluation of the situation of things within the party?
That may not be true, I think. I am sure he's very much conversant with all that's plaguing the party. He's done all he could to restore normalcy, but some selfish lot do not just care for all his efforts. But he stayed true to what he believes in. In the end, I think this guy can hold his own anyday.

- Are the oppositions within the party framework after the interest of the general Nigerian public - by walking out of the convention?
Methink not. It is not news that 99.999% of polithiefcians in Nigeria are corrupt. If one investigate the reasons behind the walkout, it will not be far from stuff bordering on ego boastings, feathering of political nest of thieves, preservation of the interests of a corrupt cabal, ethnic sentiments, etc etc. Otherwise, do we really have honorable men amongst thieves in this country? Why should I care if they stage a walk out or not, when I know that in the end, they're just after what they can cut from the national cake?

Orikinla: I thought over 1, 000, 000 people would have viewed this topic by now.
I bet if the guy was talking about his sexual escapades, the page views would have been over 100, 000 plus.

Bros, for wia. I requested that this be made front page material for a whole month....which side..It's stuff like ''See Obasanjo wearing a T-shirt'', '' COZA and Ese Walters'', ''Wedding photos of an unknown Nigerian'' and other shitty things that's at the front page of my dear Nairaland.

If the admin guys don't deem this as front page material - for a whole year (hahaha), how in the world will people read it?

I said those words to my wife just now. Her response:

''Of course I know you love me, and I love you too''.

jennykadry: LMAO @rebuttal punch. Wait tire. This thread will not be closed down until I want it to and no comment from any of you both those old enough to be my father,or suffering from prostate due to old age will get that reaction y'all are waiting for from me. So you can either relax or buy a chilled sprite and keep waiting, you will find what you are looking for. All na relaxation.

@Debo's comment re money. If making money was the reason why many children were sent abroad by their parents, then the politicians in Nigeria wouldn't have done it. They are capable of paying their children OBAMA's salary per month. Some of us born and married into wealthy families did not travel out to make money, we left for security reasons and a better life and good education. The issue of money came about on this thread when these black monkeys a.k.a insecure NIN's started comparing wealth. Dundee united(sssssssssss).

All of them are oloriburuku oshi's. Useless poverty stricken maggots trying to flex muscles. They are all as useless as their country. Cursed and unproductive like their country NIGERIA

With this type of response, Jenny, myself I will take this thread a very serious waste of Seun's space. debosky is one of my pals, and that's how I got here in the first place, hoping to read some interesting stuff from the OP.

Anyway, after reading Lastpage's entry, I guess, we've technically reached the ''last entry'' of this thread. Every other addition isn't worth much of our time.

theoctopus: In the last few weeks, the power situation in my area has deteriorated badly. I went to see the manager of PHCN in my area and was very sad and disappointed in what he said. He said the problem was a system fault somewhere close to our area but what pissed me off was when I engaged him in the current takeover and payoff going on. He told me clearly that once he receives his payment alert, he will stop coming to work immediately. I asked him if he would not hand over to the new guys and he told me clearly that he was not interested in any hand over.

Bad government has become an excuse for Nigerians. Most Nigerians are wicked, unpatriotic and heartless. Here are men who the government has started paying millions in payoff but are unwilling to do their jobs. I just found out that the present takeover process has grossly affected power all over the nation because the present staff have completely abandoned their posts. They just want to collect their money and go and are not even interested in keeping things working till the new owners takeover. we are our own worst enemies. Many of these people are our fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, cousins, nephews and inlaws. They are not people from other countries. It is very sad

We Nigerians are the enemies of Nigeria.

@debo,
How you dey? See, complaining about our problems will not make it go away. We should be talking about the solutions. When I read Tim Newmann's blog on the situation of things in Nigeria I was happy someone from 'without' finally made it clear to the vast majority of us all that people out there know how bad and corrupt our society is. But that's coming from someone outside of Nigeria.

We Nigerians know what our problems are. We should be talking about solutions, please.

As per JK, well, she's entitled to her opinion, but I think she went about it in a very distasteful way. With all the rants and all, our problems still stare us all in the face. People like lastpage et al, I'm guessing are doing their bit to improve Nigeria. Saro Wiwa, Gani Fawehinmi, Femi Falana and a host of other martyrs are living and some have died fighting the cause for a better Nigeria. Rome wasn't built in a day. We need to appreciate that fact in viewing things about this our great country.

And by the way, I am in the UK at the moment - I have been for the past 2 years and will be for the next 3 years.