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These things aren't just the way many of us here paint it. While I sympathise with the woman whose 7 year-old daughter was raped, it should be clear to us all by now that we are in a country where the folks leading us are really not after our welfare. Besides, the sins of the past is what, I think, we're paying for today. How?

We (and I use the word in the Nigerian context - I am a Nigerian, albeit a Niger Deltan to the core) have allowed rogues to lead us this far. Today, we even have a university lecturer leading us. But, we're worst for that. I have decided its not an ''education thing'' that's our major problem. There's more to it.
Nigeria is reaping what she has sown over the years - seeds of discords, lies, violence against her people all over the nation, not only in the delta (where we all know it is worst), theft of the people's god-given resources, falsehood, etc. These are the ''ingredients'' this country is built on. It is only natural that we begin to see these manifest in our peoples/society with time. Maybe we have reached that point where we have to decide if indeed, this is where we want to be.

I understand that some of these militants are graduates of engineering, sciences etc etc from some of our universities. I used the word ''some'' because I have heard/read so. We all know that when Jomo Gbomo ''speaks'' from the creeks, we all are at attention. He writes with such passion and clarity of purpose, you cannot say that whoever Jomo Gbomo is, he's an illiterate. Many of us read his briefs/notes on their planned attacks with fear and trembling, knowing fully well that MEND acts with such brute force, and our source of livelihood in this country could be blown to shreds within minutes by these people. No, some ex-militants are not dafts, rogues, illiterates etc.

I think the FG is just trying to make the best of a very bad situation. But how long this will drag on is what I don't know.

Who cares.

Nice way to chill out on Sunday nite. Where is Jakumo?

Is there a mechanism for tracking the[b] little [/b] that Nigerians at home contribute to the national economy - just for the sake of knowing how much? I pay tax - amounting to some millions of naira every year, deducted at source. Plus I know that my company pay tax to both the state and federal inland revenue people.

Nobody is saying that we all(home and foreign based nigerians alike) are not contributing to the nations economy in one way or another.

This whole wahala btw naija peeps at home and in the diaspora started with someone saying that the folks in the diaspora claim to know much about the problems at home than the folks at home. Any sane person will know that his line of reasoning or his reason for starting such a thread was at best warped. He surely did not get his acts right before putting his hands on the keyboard. People come and go in Nigeria everyday. And depending on credibility of the news source you have at your disposal, and how far and wide you have travelled across the land, you may be classed as someone with firsthand info about what's going on in the country, or an ordinary arm chair critic.

Now, at any time, many of us fall in between the two extreme. We draw up ''intelligent'' conclusions based on the info available to us.

Comparing people at home to those away from home is a futile exercise that does all of us no good.

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tjadeba:
"Look mister, you make very stupid, convoluted and insane statements because of the blindness of your mind. Let me respond to some of your foolishness, perhaps your vain pride will let you get some understanding:

1. Lagos, Abuja and PH do not constitute the whole country, doofus! Yet you are grandstanding on mere ignorance?? The success of a nation is not measured by their best (strongest of them), but an appraisal of the weakest of them. In any of those places you mentioned, life is ". . .poor, nasty, brutish and short. . .", take this from someone who has lived and worked in Abuja even before you got your pathetic job, lived in Lagos, and visited more parts of Nigeria than your sorry ass. Guess what? There are places over here which you haven't heard about. . .not New York, LA, London, Paris, Toronto,  Madrid. . .but life here is way, way, way, way much better than you will ever know. Believe that people who work here as welders (nothing wrong with that job), they make more money and live a better quality of life than you will ever know. If you make millions from your suffer-head white collar job and you can go to the malls and buy imported goods and flaunt it in the face of your less fortunate neighbor, but can you buy good roads, electricity (not generator killing you with noise and pollution), freedom without harassment from politicians, thugs and robbers, justice and fair hearing (almost 100% of the time), health care that you can bank on (remember your president will not even vouch for his life after spending N2B to import equipment for his personal use, and the list goes on. . .endlessly). This is not in a popular city and this is even for less than average people who can only have an ordinary job. Now, think of people who actually aim very high in their vocations and create the technologies the company you work for sells or markets in Nigeria.

2. Those companies you mention (Chevron, Shell, Haliburton, etc) are only paying you slave wages for all I care. How much do you earn that you think it is representative of everyone in Nigeria? Guess what? In a proper, fair and functioning system, although people will work for these companies you boast about, a lot of people will not. Some will finish their high school, start on a bright idea and make more money you could never dream about. You are talking of a job like you will keep the job forever. . .you must be demented. Look at the worst cases in the villages and smaller towns where real people face serious challenges foisted on them mostly by a system that is designed to limit them from the day they were born. The salary you get per year is what some students will get here on a scholarship in one year and you are flexing muscle? The least privileged person here will still enjoy the roads you cannot, the power you cannot, the peace you cannot, the stability you cannot, better health care than Yaradua can buy for billions in Germany! I am talking about the least privileged in a small town ad your are boasting about a failed system operating in the "best" places in Nigeria?

3. I bet you can never quit or resign this job you worship except you die or are incapacitated, can you? I see your are even talking about the fact that you are a "big boy". . .utter FOOLISHNESS. Look, it is only in failed and failing states like Nigeria that how big you are is important. When you visited somewhere outside Nigeria, did anyone notice your clothes, your jewelery or that you are a big boy? Did you not join a queue, wait for your turn and address even a receptionist with respect and courtesy? If you disagreed with someone, did you just slap them and insist on YOUR way? Look, in a functioning system, a much higher paying job will be resigned and the person goes back to school or quits to take his life in another direction. Can anyone in Nigeria (average Joe the Plumber) resign his job and be confident of his next steps?"

You really don't have to use such foul words to mess up your points. The man works to keep himself and family afloat, especially in one of the worst of places, Nigeria. He deserves some respect for that. Plus I did not see anything abusive or derogatory in his post. So, why use such harsh, clueless and stupid words on him?

There are people who shuttles Nigeria and other countries of this world. They have interests here at home and all over the globe. And they can afford to stay anywhere at time T. Yet, they feel more relaxed and comfortable over here at home. For some of us, we love our traditions, our culture better than what all these other countries you boast of have to offer. You can call ours crude and all what not. But I'll still stick with ours here than face what those countries have to offer.
The point I'm making is that different people have different reasons for doing what they do - including where they stay and others. It's their choice.

RichyBlacK:
This is undoubtedly the most naive phrase on this thread!

This is the result of allowing the ugly Nigerian mindset sink in deep into one's psyche.

LOL . , , .

r231:
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-349795.0.html

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-345783.0.html

Ok. Thanks.

But where on this forum did some folks outside Nigeria cast aspersions (call us names, insults, etc) at those of us at home? I need just two links to verify this claim.

Wow! This is truly an interesting piece.

Let me say I did something similar to this in 2007. I helped take a female colleague - who had no car at the time, home, almost everyday from work. My house is nearby. Let me add that the ''everyday'' thing was our undoing. My wife started complaining. - especially when I get home late. Wife was on maternity leave. Her hubby, I was later told, also complained that it was getting too much.

In the end, I got my fingers burnt - the fingers of both hands. LOL.

She has a car now. And her hubby picks and drops her off everyday, or so I think.

Who cares

I don't blame them too much. Na military rule cause am. Asaba, an enclave, a village and its environs - including this loudmouth Obi's territory of Owa, would never have witnessed such growth they're witnessing today were it not for IBB's twist and turns. His marriage to one of them - Miriam contributed to their making Asaba Delta State capital.

Na person wey don chop bele full na im dey yarn dust.

This Obi forgot that its the proceeds from these boys actions that's fetching some money into his domain and pockets - a case of biting the finger that feeds him. No worries, very soon the wheat will be separated from the chaff, then we will know who's right or wrong.

Strange. OBJ is indeed an enigma.

LOL. . . . . . .Nairaland no go kill me with laughter!

I don't know what happened between yesterday and this morning at my area o. All I know is that we've had power for almost 24 hours in my area, here in Port Harcourt - Rumukwurushi/Rumuodara axis. This is very very unusual. We haven't had that much power for more than 6 months. And the area no be high brow area.


Is anything wrong somewhere? Or should I wait just a little bit more for the system to revert to status quo?

asha 80:
e be like say them wan mess up asaba airport.

Money wey dem for take do better things for the core Delta state. Dem just waste the thing for one useless Airport at Anioma Asaba. I wonder who Uduaghan dey pacify sef.

Well

Can we see the face of the wife of the Grand Khadi?

I just love the way the igbos on this board rally round to chase out any ''dirt'' who wants to bring some kind of harm to them and their cherished ''history'' Una well done.

Could it be that because we have very few complainants in the country, we are at this sorry pass after almost 50 years of ruling ouselves?

I think we need to give way for people who complain about bad leadership, corruption, ethnic bigotry, fraud, hooliganism, etc to come show how best this can be done so that we can get the needed support from the world over.

The OP surely got it all wrong from the start. Nigerians are not moaners. We have very few of them who are vocal. . . . who can voice out their disgust about the way they're being governed. And government and leaders are those that are the real problems of the country.

Hmnn. . . . . . .

What then do investors do now? We should just wait for him to lead the banking industry to the cliffs?

Notes:
1. Govt should create enabling environment for ideas to flourish and ultimately engender wealth creation

2. There is very little the populace can do when their leaders care less about them

3. People deserve the kind of leaders that governs them - meaning, we can choose the type of people we want to lead us at any time. Crooks or leaders indeed

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . He revealed that George told his visitors that there is no big deal being in Kirikiri, as prison has become[b] “an institution every politician must pass though to come out strong and formidable.”[/b]

PRO spoke
When contacted, the Nigerian Prisons Service public relations officer, Mr. Ope Fatinikun, said that imprisonment does not mean punishment. He said that it was rather a way to reposition convicts back to normal life.  

“That process is applicable to all other prisoners as long as the court that convicted him said that he should be remanded in the prisons,” he said.


On why Bode George was still wearing his personal clothes instead of the prison uniform, Ope said: “Prison uniform is meant for everybody under the Nigerian Prison Service. The way it works is that within 24 hours, the inmate is expected to appear before the reception board that laid down the rules and regulation guiding the prison. It must be done after 24 hours.”

When told that George has a bag of personal clothes in his cell, he described such rumour as scandalous, stating that if there was such it must be from NGOs, churches or humanitarian organizations that visit the prisons on a daily basis.

George way to prison
George, a retired Naval Commodore, was found guilty of 46 out of the 48 charges, over his activities as chairman of the NPA board. Justice Olubunmi Oyewole said that George and others were guilty as charged over N1billion contract scam as NPA board members.

Rebarobyn:
We cannot deny the fact that corruption in Nigeria has reduced from what it used to be 10yrs ago when people stole and collected bribes without hiding it. at least now people are making effort to hide their crimes and EFCC is arresting and prosecuting high profile citizens, I think this is peaceful progress and I'd rather have that slow progress than see Nigeria in a state of anarchy!!

I want to agree with you but I have my reservations. Bode George stole 84 Billion naira from NPA. Today, you can say what you like, he's a free man.

OBJ is living large at his Hiltop mansion at Ibara, Abeokuta. No one has done anything to bring him out and prosecute him. It was this same OBJ who set up EFCC to arrest and prosecute thieves and hardline criminals. In his days as President, OBJ shielded Bode George from the long arms of the law. George was called several names - Garrison Commander of PDP in Lagos, OBJ's man, etc.  Today, instead of the government of the day snuffing the life out of the old thief, they gave him only two years! And I heard he's already served 15 months out of the 24 months. So many governors, all over the country (except a few number of them) are practically doing nothing other than going bowl in hand to collect federal allocation at Abuja and keep same in their overseas account!

When you replied my first entry, I relaxed a little bit. Tex also brought up the polls stuff and I agree 100% with his line of thought. But I later realised that people actually died at the polls that brought both Adams and Mimiko into office. . . . .for without the shedding of blood, there will be no peace! A lot of people perished with those polls because they fought for what they believe in and also to silence the voice of the oppressors by all means possible. What that implies is that we can only win this war via violence for what is just and right.

And so now, I have resolved that it's through violence that we all can be free from the grip of the dissilussioned few amongst us and from the doldrums that we find ourselves in this country. Any other means will amount to nothing, or nothing much.

What a loss!

This year will go down memory lane as one that took so many stars life with its passing.

Michael Jackson
Gani Fawehinmi
Sen Edward Kennedy
Patrick Swayze
Ladi Lawal
and now
Steve the Sleek, Kadiri?

What a terrible year!

@Rebarobyn,
But we have got to start from somewhere. We cannot and should not continue to watch, fold our arms in despair while these dissilusioned few ruin our lives and future! A journey of a thousand miles must start with one BOLD step.

That's why I like the MEND guys approach. Take it or leave it, they've been able to BEND the corrupt government of the day to listen to what everyone (imho) thinks is right. The language corruption understands is FORCE AND VIOLENCE. Well, some might say there are better and civilised ways of getting attention and channelling grievances. I await contributions from everyone as to how effective these civilised ways have been over the years in Nigeria in particular.

[quote author=inspired_m link=topic=342058.msg4789402#msg4789402 date=1256338878]My Mentor,

THE BULL. [/quote]Really?? Since when?