₦airaland Forum

fagbalex:
Pro Jonathan Senator, where was he during the term of Jonathan. Is he not using Generator that time? Let ask Ben Bruce. Or is Buhari the genesis of the problem in the Power Sector?
Rubbish of the highest order from Ben Murray Bruce. He's just seeking public attention at all cost. To let him know we are not moved by your rants and shenanigans.

God bless Nigeria!!!

Why is it so easy to degenerate to insults? Bruce is challenging the ministers, he is only starting a conversation we must keep an eye on... And this is what you throw at him? It didn't start in Jonathan's time either... But if you accept to run for office, you must invariably accept the challenges. Please speak more maturedly.
Buhari, if you have forgotten so quickly, was head of state in 1983 (also ripe for a treasonable felony charge). Our electricity woes began in those days.

Zinicc:
Every reasonable Igbo person should wake up and lend his surport to IPOB youth now in any way he can to encourage those who are willing to risk there lives to actualize this life long truth to continue this fight.
As for me I shall continue to credit their account monthly.
My tithe is to the IPOB!!

Pls, Stay off my mention if you are not IGBO!

How do you support... Please share.

Aufbauh:
This man is an embodiment of uprightness, integrity and honesty. He's also focus and determine. Not given to mundane things, keep close associates of men of like minds and values. To him loyalty, trust, steadfastness, dedication and hardwork are the primary essence of viable association. The man you can not put out your neck for is not worth a close ally.

Embodiment of integrity? How come he brazenly committed treason by overthrowing an elected government? How does that show integrity?

@OP, I can tell you these honestly:

PORNOGRAPHPY
1. Pornography is ill advised. Talk with your husband lovingly and firmly about quitting it completely. Remember, you have to be loving and firm at the same time. Nobody should be able to influence him more than you.

MouthAction
2. I have searched to find out if MouthAction/stimulation is forbidden or a sin. I have not found any reference in the Bible in which this is even alluded to, how much more condemned. Your spouse's body is for you, and vice versa. As long as you are married, and the act is in no way harmful to your bodies, please disabuse your mind and please your husband, and he is to please you in turn.

TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
3. You mentioned that you cannot use the same mouth you praise/pray with to stimulate your spouse. Now let me ask you, are you aware that your entire body is the Temple of the Holy Spirit? As it is, then, why do you even have sex at all...because at least one part of your body (your main private part) is involved in sex. Why do you even kiss, why do you touch (you lift up the same hands to God in prayer and clap in Church).

Please don't overreach yourself, sex is ordained in marriage. Sex involves stimulations that differ from person to person, but all bordering on pleasure and satisfaction, bounded by your marriage vows to each other.

ANAL SEX:
I can tell you for sure that anal sex is forbidden. Why...because it was introduced by pop culture as the beginning of homosexual tendencies in men. This is wrong also because our backside is not designed for sex. It is not naturally lubricated, it is not different from person to person (meaning it can be substituted and would make no difference for the pleasure seeker involved).

However, the same cannot be said for your mouth (naturally lubricated, sense of taste (and by extension, smell) - this is evident in some animals as they only get attracted to their mate through smell), your hands or main private part.

Below you will find material culled from bible-christian.org that you can use to convince your spouse that pornography is BAD. You can copy/print it and read it together, lovingly.

I hope things are clearer to you now.

Pornography and the Bible
by Gary T. Panell

Today, if a person desires to look at naked men and women doing immoral things, it is very easy
to do so. Recently, I heard that there are more people watching pornography than there are
people who watch sports. There are many magazines, internet sites, videos, movies, cable T.V.
programs, and "music" programs that are porn-related. Most of these are accessed by the mere
touch of a button. There are also "live" strip shows in many cities and towns besides "Adult
Bookstores."
Access to porn today is extremely easy. Many local market stores also sell "adult magazines."
With these types of temptations being so prevalent, it is easy to destroy a life, a marriage, a
home, a country. It can become an addiction that is every much as bad as a drug, alcohol, or
gambling addiction.
The addiction will lead to death, physical and spiritual! What price are you willing to pay? Are
you willing to give up your family, your home, or your life? In the Bible we have the story of
Esau and Jacob in Genesis 25: 29-34:
"Jacob cooked a stew; Esau came in from the field, and he was weary. And Esau said to Jacob,
'Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am weary.' Therefore his name was called Edom
(Red). But Jacob said, 'Sell me your birthright as of this day.'
"And Esau said, 'Look, I am about to die; so what is this birthright to me?' Then Jacob said,
"Swear to me as of this day." So he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob. And Jacob
gave Esau bread and stew of lentils; then he ate and drank, arose, and went his way. Thus Esau
despised his birthright."
You say, "What does this story have to do with porn?" It has everything to do with it!
You can fill your eyes with things God never intended for you to see, and sell your "birthright"
for a short time of pleasure, as Esau did. God has something far better for us in marriage, and
that is lasting "love," not "lust," that lasts a short time.
You say it will never happen to me; I only watch a little porn, just enough to have some fun. This
is the way Satan tempted people of the Bible. Eve got close enough to the forbidden tree to see
what it looked like. Then Satan tempted her even more, he said, "You will not surely die." So
when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes.Genesis
3:1-6
The Bible says, "For all that is in the world-the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride
of life-is not of the Father but is of the world." 1 John 2:16 says that two of the Devil's main tools
to destroy men and women are the "lust of the flesh," and the "lust of the eyes." Jesus said, "You
have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not commit adultery.' "But I say to you that
whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
"If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for
you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell," adds
Matthew 5: 27-29
The temptation today to watch porn is for both men and women. Even countless married couples
say, "Oh, we just watch porn to encourage our sex life." Wrong, God never intended for a
husband and wife to need anyone other than their own spouse to cause stimulation. Scripture tells
us, "Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her
husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And
likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does." 1
Corinthians 7: 3, 4
You see Satan has taken something that is proper and right in marriage, and made it dirty. Dirt is
fine and useful for growing plants, but bring a bucket of it and pour it onto the carpet in the
living room and it is in the wrong place. So too, sex is right in marriage, Paul says, "Marriage is
honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge,"
Hebrews 13: 4. Using pictures of women or men other than your spouse for stimulation is
playing with fire.
Accessing porn is playing with fire, look at what Proverbs 6: 23-28, "For the commandment is a
lamp, and the law a light; reproofs of instruction are the way of life, to keep you from the evil
woman, from the flattering tongue of a seductress. Do not lust after her beauty in your heart, nor
let her allure you with her eyelids. For by means of a harlot a man is reduced to a crust of bread;
and an adulteress will prey upon his precious life. Can a man take fire to his bosom, and his
clothes not be burned? Can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be seared?"
God created the woman's breasts for nursing babies, and for the husband's stimulation. The
husband doesn't need to see any other breasts for stimulation, other than his wife's. "Let her
breasts satisfy you at all times; and always be enraptured with her love. For why should you, my
son, be enraptured by an immoral woman, and be embraced in the arms of a seductress? For the
ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and He ponders all his paths," Proverbs 5:19b-21.
The Bible also makes it totally clear that men are never to go to another woman other than his
own wife for sexual satisfaction. Proverb 5: 15 says, "Drink water from your own cistern, and
running water from your own well. Should your fountains be dispersed abroad, streams of water
in the streets? Let them be only your own, and not for strangers with you. Let your fountain be
blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth."
Then, the New Testament, 1 Corinthians 6: 15-20 states, "Do you not know that your bodies are
members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot?
Certainly not! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For 'the
two,' He says, 'shall become one flesh.'
"But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a
man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you
have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God
in your body and in your spirit, which are God's."
In Romans Chapter One, we see that immorality leads to homosexuality, in the individual, and in
a nation. Right now in the United States, I believe, we are moving from immorality into
homosexuality.
Here is what Romans says, "Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their
hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie,
and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
"For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural
use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman,
burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in
themselves the penalty of their error which was due."
The next step down is all sorts of perversion, no doubt, such as pedophilia and bestiality.
This is where porn leads to, the only way out, and there is a way out, is through the salvation that
Christ alone can give. In 1 Corinthians 10: 13 it says, "No temptation has overtaken you except
such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond
what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be
able to bear it."
You have to realize that Satan is out to destroy as many of us as he possibly can. 1 Peter 5: 8
reminds us, "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring
lion, seeking whom he may devour."
God wants us to be victorious in our lives, like Joseph. It says of him in Genesis 39: 7-12, that
when Potiphar's wife tried to seduce him, he ran from temptation. "Now it came to pass after
these things that his master's wife cast longing eyes on Joseph, and she said, 'Lie with me.' But
he refused, and told her 'How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?' And so it
was, as she spoke to Joseph day by day, that he did not heed her, to lie with her or to be with her.
"But it happened about this time, when Joseph went into the house to do his work, and none of
the men of the house was inside, that she caught him by his garment, saying, 'Lie with me.' But
he left his garment in her hand, and fled and ran outside." You see he did exactly what God
wanted him to do to in order to overcome the temptation, he had to run from it, he had to get
away from it. Do Christians have these temptations? "YES," but God can help us to be
victorious!
We need to realize that people in these porn pictures are not playthings-they are people God
created and died to save. They are someone's sister, daughter, brother, son, etc. Job said that he
had made a covenant with God not to look at women in a lustful way. Job 31: 1 states, "I have
made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I look upon a young woman?"
How can you overcome this temptation to look at porn? First you have to have Christ Jesus
living in your heart. You can ask Him to forgive you, and invite Him to come into your heart
right now. Just pray and He will hear and answer your prayer. Then start reading your Bible
everyday. You will need to go to church and pray and live for God.
When temptation comes, and it will come often, do what Jesus did when He was tempted by
Satan, use the sword of the spirit, the Word of God! 1 John 4:4 says, "You are of God, little
children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the
world."
Maybe you feel your sin is too great and God cannot forgive you. Look at what King David did,
the story is found in 2 Samuel 11: 2 "Then it happened one evening that David arose from his
bed and walked on the roof of the king's house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and
the woman was very beautiful to behold. So David sent and inquired about the woman. And
someone said, 'Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?' Then
David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her..."
You may know the rest of the story, but she became pregnant and David had her husband killed.
I don't think a person could get much worse than this. But this is not the end of the story. David
repented, and God forgave him. You can see David's prayer of repentance in Psalm 51:1ff "Have
mercy upon me, O God, according to Your loving-kindness; according to the multitude of Your
tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse
me from my sin."
It is a beautiful prayer, and one that you might pray. You may be saying, "But I have been
involved in things God could never forgive." Consider 1 Corinthians 6: 9-11, which says, "Do
you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived.
Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves,
nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God."
You may be thinking, "see God says I am not going to heaven," but wait read the next verse:
"And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were
justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God." If you truly repent of your
sin and turn from it, God can, and will forgive you of that sin. He will save you, and make you a
child of His.
Will you ever sin again? No doubt, but that is why 1 John 1: 9 is in the Bible: "If we confess our
sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
What would you feel like if Jesus were to visit you in person while you were looking at porn?
Jesus is looking at us all the time whether we know it or not. We want to be ready for His return
and not ashamed when He comes for us. Now, go and live for God! (All the verses in this article
are taken from the New King James Version of the Bible.
For more information: bible-christian.org

From what I understand, Shettima wants amnesty for forcefully conscripted foot soldiers.
If they exist, then I think it's worth doing, provided it can be proven, there is a rehabilitation program that will help them after they have escaped.

Talking about forceful conscription, how many people will one forcefully conscripted terrorist kill before they reject the conscription and face the consequences?

Nigeria should begin protecting vulnerable populations of young men and boys from further forceful conscription.

Zico5:
I wonder how we get ourselves aligning with these set of people. It seems igbo has nothing good to contribute to the development of this nation rather than victimization. How is it your concerns if the president cut his salary or the only thing these people understand is corruption. That is why igbo can never rule this country. But I cannot rule it out in their Biafra kingdom. I just pity them cos they re not helping themselves at all

Do you understand the meaning of the word "never"?

Do you understand the meaning of the word" victimisation "?

Do you know the laws of Nigeria? The president simply does not have such powers. The professor is suggesting that it is neater for the president to receive the salary as it is, and then donate the 50% to the State. That way, he will be on the side of the existing laws. Seem to me you arrive at conclusions on news topics by only checking the name of the news maker and where they are from.
You expect a certain tribe to continue participating in elections but you bar them from being elected?
You should be ashamed of this behaviour, if you can make yourself aware of it.

honourhim:
Luke 11:27 And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. 28 [/b]But he said, [b]Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

We can see in the scripture above that Christ didnt give support to the slightest worship of his mother yet people wont hear.

Our LordJesus is not the author of confusion. Look at His response critically...Yea (meaning "Yes", an affirmative. He affirmed that the womb that bare him is blessed, that the paps which He sucked are blessed also.)...Rather (meaning "More properly", "More appropriately", "Of a weightier substance", "More correctly put", to state a better application of the shouting woman's praise.)

If you argue otherwise, it would mean/convey that Our Lord Jesus does not agree that His mother was blessed (We know this is impossible!) I believe my own biological mother is blessed, you would believe same about your mother, wouldn't you? It's all part of honoring your mother.

Our Lord only showed the overwhelmed woman a more appropriate expression for her pronouncement.

Compare Matthew 23:23, where our Lord chastised the Pharisees: "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices--mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law--justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former" This is just another example of mentioning what is weightier and worthier, without abolishing or condenming the lighter one.

I hope we can use the above to extinguish any form of confusion on this thread. I am not part of the Roman Catholic congregation, but I do not believe they should be maligned on this. However, anyone who is worshipping Mary should be corrected, not condenmed. Honoring her, just like I would honor my own mother is a different and natural thing to do.

carnegiefan:
The man may be semi-literate but I really think that he understands power
The DSS has been there for far too long with so many former leaders, so he cannot reasonably trust that those leaders aren't going to call in favors from their former appointees.
In any case he is spot on about using regular police and military for presidential guard duties. That way if anything happens we know who is responsible. Secret police tend to be less accountable.

The meaning of illiteracy is inability to read and write. Even though I did not vote for him, I am not blinded by sentiments. Surely, Buhari can read and write.
He is NOT illiterate!

Even though I always choose to wear a suit for governmental functions, it is not set in stone.

The reason I prefer the suit is simple. This kind of governance is foreign to us...Do when we participate in it, let us consider presenting ourselves in the most sitting attire for it.

If you say wearing suit is not our culture, I will ask you, is having a corporate government with 3 arms our culture? Are presidency, senate, elections, judiciary party of our culture? But we adopted it as best for us, let us also adopt the dress code fit for it.
You wouldn't play football with your kaftan...our would you?

Our traditional attires are best suited to our traditional events and occasions...which are no less events as diurnal government meetings.

What is the occasion that all these men had to assemble at the airport to receive Mr President...as if he had just arrived on a State Visit to Abuja?

Those handshakes are unnecessary, a waste of the president's time and a waste of resources (scores of empty Landcruisers idling at the airport parking lot, drivers sitting inside, glasses rolled up, air condition turned on forever, burning fuel), protocol traditions that should be done away with, in the spirit of the much-mouthed change.

Buhari, please overhaul these

eliment:
The cry of the loosers.

This man has barely stayed in office for a week and you guys want to kill him with criticism give him a break please let him do it the way he wants

At least I have enjoyed stable electricity supply in the last one week better than anytime under the 6 years of the clueless one

What exactly did Buhari do in the past week that increased your power supply?

I have not had power since Inauguration day. Do you know why?

Buhari had hit the ground sitting...in my opinion. I haven't seen anything different from Jonathan yet, except a strange soft spot by the Nigerians who voted him.

BigElEddy:
The bible and all other "spiritual" books have too many unanswered question. One of the many reasons many people don't do religion anymore. To me, live your life right and do good by your conscience. If there is a God out there, the only thing he gave to man to guide his ways is his conscience and not any book be it Bible or Quran. If God actually sent us a book he would make it easy for anyone and everyone to understand it easily.

God did not send a book! He sent His image, His Son, His mystery, His fullness...Jesus Christ.
The Bible is a recording of witnesses, words and the wisdom thereof.

Flets:
And all of a sudden

It doesn't matter that someone condemned the attack of the military on Bokoharam

It doesn't matter that someone described an attack on Bokoharam as an attack on the north

It doesn't matter that someone urged muslims to vote only muslims in a secullar country like Nigeria

It doesn't matter that someone committed to the spread of sharia across the country (the feasibility is a diff topic)

It doesn't matter that someone instigated the death of over 1000 Nigerians just because he lost an election in 2011

It doesn't matter that someone enacted retroactive laws to deal with a select set of people

It doesn't matter anymore that someone ended democracy with the barrel of a gun to assume office

Does it really not matter anymore..... Time shall tell.

We might have just killed morality and damned our sensibilities to the HOPE of a better Nigeria.

And please don't tell me he is my president for the next 4 or 8 Years cos I know that already and that is not the thrust of my thought process.

In sane societies, these would matter. Even if he wins such elections, he would be approached with so much consciousness and carefulness but not with all open arms because the words of a man defines a man and people hardly change.

Just before you scream Sai Baba..... Something must be wrong with the black race.

I was afraid I had become a lone voice...until I read this.

If another should end our democracy today, the same way he did 31 years ago...what would we say?

RockMaxi:

All this people shouting up and down about what Buhari will discover about the rot in government should go and sit down.

Yayale himself have been in one topmost position or the other since year 2000 and now he is talking about corruption. What was their own contribution to fighting corruption especially when he was Head of the civil service and the Secretary to the Government of the federation.

Let us equally remember the role this same Yayale played during Yaradua's demise.

You stole my thoughts...but I won't charge you.

Buhari MUST distance himself from these favour seekers and belated self-launderers. Even TY Danjuma is talking too...nobody wants his oil well to be taken away from him in 2016.

Buhari, please don't fall for these men. Jonathan fell for a lot of nonsense...watch carefully and learn from your predecessor´s many errors in judgment and perceived weaknesses.

I'm pretty sure there must be somewhere in all of our 36 states where one can get some rest. If he is truly acting on security reports, what would he have between acting on if gej had not conceded?

Some really cool media spinning there...

Well as shocking as it sounds, Transparency International (TI) has rated the out-going government of President Goodluck Jonathan as the best compared to the past governments headed President-Elect Muhammadu Buhari and that of Olusegun Obasanjo.
According to the analysis done by Pointblank news, it stated that in TI’s data from 1979 till date, the tenures of both Buhari and Obasanjo were more corrupt than the tenure of Jonathan.
The data also showed that under the administration of Jonathan, Nigeria recorded its best score in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) since 1979.

But the point that the figures from Transparency International make so clearly is that, in comparative terms, Nigeria is actually much less corrupt today, and perceived globally to be much less corrupt today, than it has been in the last 35 years – including under the regimes of Buhari and Obasanjo, both of who are in support of anti-corruption.

Shockingly, according to the TI data, Obasanjo’s first tenure had the worst scale of corruption during the 35 years period between 1979 and 2015.
The TI Corruption Perception Index is a rating of countries from 1 to 100 showing their corruption scale. A rating of 1 is the worst and rating of 100 means a country is completely free of corruption. The pass mark is 50 and any country scoring below 50 is considered a corrupt country.
In the year 2000, Nigeria was ranked the most corrupt country in the world and improved marginally in 2001 and 2003 when it was rated the second most corrupt nation in the world in the TI’s Corruption Perception Index. This was certainly not under the watch of President Jonathan.
Since 2012, Nigeria has made steady improvements in the CPI. Indeed, under President Jonathan, for the first time in decades, Nigeria is not in the list of 1-10 most corrupt countries in the world.
In the 2014 Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index, issued in December, Nigeria was ranked 136 out of 175 countries surveyed in the report. This ranking placed Nigeria, alongside five other countries, as the 39th most corrupt country in the world. This is Nigeria’s best ranking in the last four years.
With this ranking, Nigeria leap frogged eight countries within a space of one year from the 31st most corrupt nation in 2013 to the 39th in 2014. This may be regarded by cynics as a small achievement: but it represents a big step in the right direction.
Indeed, the administration of President Jonathan deserves some commendation for the positive steps it has taken, and the modest achievements it has made so far, in the war against corruption rather than the vengeful knocks it is receiving from various quarters.

Apparently it appears that this media are an ardent supporter of President Goodluck Jonathan but with the details by the TI, it is something to consider critically. Is GMB administration going to be different this time around or should we expect something worse than the previous led administration.

Source: www.ynaija.com/transparency-international-says-obasanjo-government-worse-jonathan/

Ndi Igbo should exercise their best civility here.
Do not in any way justify the Oba's shameful comments and that of some of his most ignorant followers by generalizing this behavior to all Yorubas.

Yoruba people cannot be dragged into this. Falana has done the needful. Many other yorubas can identify with Falana's statement.

Igbos should maintain their dignity in calculated silence, which I believe will further their cause, instead of being tempted to insult the throne which Akiolu occupies temporarily.

obum88:
hahahaha...APC be like GEJ set his boys to attack NIGER to look like he is not involve. #ndiara

Who are these monkeys always reducing every piece of news to APC/PDP.

owobokiri:
This is a big character flaw he and his type exude at every turn. There is always that tendency to act as if the rest of the country should consider themselves lucky to share same space with him/them. What's more? He lacks both the educational and cultural background to defend such unbridled chauvinism. There is also the issue of his military past. As was the case with Obasanjo, that empty superiority complex, is there. I won't be surprised if he starts acting like a dictator if, God forbids, he smells that seat. When we elect a snobish General, are we modernising democratically or is that a thousand steps backwards? This ghoulish looking haughty buhari; does he really represent change or chains?

I'm afraid I share your opinion absolutely. Of all the differing opinions and dissenting men in Nigeria, why is Buhari the candidate? This shows the color of our opposition. We neither want to move forward not stand still...we want to regress to a dictator who set our democracy back by at least 16 years.

God bless and help Nigeria.

About the elections, Nigerians will hold INEC accountable should the ejections be marred by their unpreparedness. My prayer is that their words are true and all present challenges will be overcome in time for the polls. Jonathan is a gentle president who does not interfere high-handedly in institutions, unlike Obasanjo.

ohaleoghene:
I'm joining him this year

Tough times don't last.

You have won already....but watch and pray, when you think you're standing, that's when a fall could be very imminent...keep your fingers crossed and endure the remaining days or months before you join him. Get busy, try to create something from scratch, whether it will profit you or not. Find a new schedule, like visiting prisoners or motherless babies and bringing them goodies every weekend. After your first visit, you'll be so inspired that you'll look forward to another visit...that can driveway the sex urge for as long as you do it until you join your fiancé.
Goodluck!

I had read this Soyinka's article sometime ago. People like him who know the weight and worth of precedence cannot help weeping for the people and nation of Nigeria, who in their circumstances repeatedly refuse and abhor correction.

Why do we as Nigerians reward undesirable elements every time? Buhari should stand trial, so should IBB and everyone who had robbed this nation of democratic progress. Buhari set us back 16 years alone when he marched Shagari out in 1983. Yes, it took us 16 years to get that democracy and rule of law back. Should another unscrupulous miscreant like him choose to truncate this present democracy through a coup today, how would Nigerians reward such a miscreant 30 years after?

I wonder what value Nigerians place on their nation...i just wonder!!!

Never seen a larger gathering of countrymen without a sense of history excited to vote a slave master into office to resume where he left off in 1985.
This is sickening! We are all clueless!!

nikenry: infact Jonathan and Ayo orisetjafor are the two most unintelligent liars in the whole world. This story is best told to dogs and not to more intelligent fellow countrymen. Orisetjafor should better hang his bible and redefine his identity. Has he forgotten his earlier messages on righteousness? I pity my dear country! The blood of innocent Nigerians who die daily due to poor medical facilities, untold hardships, unemployment among others cry daily for vengeance!

Why are we quick to point at Oritsejafor? Why are we so simplistic?
Why don't we begin with the company that operated the aircraft?
Or with the FG? Are we saying all the statements from the officials have no weight?
However, if the CAN president has a hand in laundering money, then his punishment awaits him...as it waits the giants who had succeeded before him

arewanationz: JNI have a strong case here. This matter must not be allowed to fizzle.

For BH insugency to end,that evil pastor gang-star should be charged, prosecuted and sentenced to death by bombing.

You show your bias clearly. Why should your victim go through the trouble of prosecution and a bombing sentence?

Are islamists this dumb that a pair can sponsor them to act in the ways BH has been acting? They must be absolutely gullible and brainless, if so.
But I doubt it.

FG might be telling us the truth here, considering the covert and unexplained interference by the US to keep us from buying arms the official way.

My take is that the FG should have asked the arms vendor to deliver on international waters, and then receive cash, just like the ND militants do/did.

Finally, it is hard to convince Nigerians either way, because we have grown up in an environment of suspicions, insincerity and impunity.

Things aren't always as they first appear. Always have that in mind.

PerfectFortune: Nicolas Ibekwe has finally found a way to get public attention and become popular and it seems to be working for him already.

Press everywhere in the world receives money to write good stories about somebody or an events. The Briths do it through BBC while the Americans use the CNN and others. President GEJ employed one recently while the APC is also suspected to have employed the services of Sahara Reporters.

They call it image laundering....

In UK and the US, journalists uncover stories to become popular. They devote their lives to digging in places ordinary people are not even aware of. When they finally break the story, they become celebrities and head hunters chase after them. How dare you offer them a bribe in order to keep silent...you are effectively nailng your own coffin, because the royalties they will receive (from futures books, exclusive images, interviews, future appointments in bigger media) will be far larger than what anyone could offer them in a one-time bribe.
Where they do image laundering, their motive is not necessarily cash, unlike our "brown-envelopees"

bigfrancis21: Chijioke - God own's the share.
Nnamdi - my father(God) lives.
Obiageli - a visitor(to this word) must partake in its goodness.
Chimaobi - God knows the heart.
Chimdike - My God is strong.
Oluebube - Glorious work.
Obianuju - one(a child) that comes in time of fullness.
Chinedu - God guides.
Adaobi - daughter of the Obi, ie princess. Also, Adaeze
Adaora - daughter of the people.
Chinua/Chinualumogu - Let God fight for me.
Ogochukwu - God's kindness.
Kosisochukwu - As it pleases God.
Onyekachi - Who is greater than God?
Nneka - mother is great.
Nnedinma - mother is good.
Nneoma - good mother.
Ezinne - virtuous mother.

In my opinion, Chijioke actually means God holds (is the custodian of) creation ("oke" being shortened from "okike", meaning creation).

"Oke" also means share, but in the context of name Chijioke, I believe it means creation. Otherwise, what share of what does God own?

Please throw more light if you have a better explanation.

If I was in charge of the DSS, on receiving this seemingly ordinary petty theft report, I wouldn't go public this way.

I'd meet with the prime Roman Catholic leaders and advise that ALL nuns should dress down in ordinary gowns for a period of 3 months. I'll also advise pentecostal and other communions to immediately raise alarm on sighting any "nun" within their environment. Next, I'll meet with the prime leaders of the mosques and advise that "nuns" on their street should be watched (not mobbed) "closely".

Lastly, I'll get an agreement from them...sit back and wait for our mystery nun to show up. In the meantime, churchgoers would have observed over a short time that their nuns are now dressing down...hopefully.

I support the DSS in all their strategies...

egift: May god punish all those drumming the sound of war and beating their rusty chest, while hiding behind their free MB.

Nigeria will come out victorious. The labour of our Past Heroes shall not be in vain.

I love you. God has heard our prayers.
They want to incite every part of the country against one another, the same people that have been living together for a century plus did not suddenly get bomb-crazy.
The pit they have dug shall swallow them clean. All of them.

For importing little quantities of an item, say 1,000 pieces of something the size of a smartphone using air freight (fedex, dhl, etc) do you need to go through the process of Form M and its associated documents (certificate of insurance, RAR, etc)?

With time, the things we desire in a democracy will be institutionalized. Oftentimes i wonder how far we would have come in our democracy by now if it hadn't been truncated in December 1983. We lost 16 years of experience, advice, pride, growth by convention and years of direction and freedoms.

We cannot overemphasize the importance of debates in our democracy. I look forward to it.

Can we young Nigerians now decide to the following?

1. Demand that David Mark and Ekweremadu enforece the voting logs of senators...so that can see who voted for or against this debate proposal?

2. Vote out our current senators next year? They are just too happy to be senators.

@shogz89,
If only you could identify satire and sarcasm more quickly.
Besides, the evaluation if a president cannot be done based on occurrences of fuel scarcity.
Obj was as bad as his predecessors. Same goes for Gej. This is like two men sitting at adjacent toilets and screaming over the tips of their voices how one man's poo is smelling more than the other man's. As long as the political system that produces our politicians subsists, we will continue to have poor and inadequate leaders.
You may quit being tribalistic, at your convenience. It won't change the facts.

Gamji007: I'm not a tribalist, but it seems so. The only time a SEastherner became president,his biased policie made the country on a brink of collapse. Now the SS has it and we are experiencing the same thing.
The SS nd SE aren't good administrators- FACT.

I'm not a tribalist, but it seems so.
The only time SW was elected president, he threw this nation into perpetual fuel scarcity, playing hide and seek with pump price while doubling as petroleum minister. He thought it wise to pay off debts while infrastructure and manufacturing, (including the power sector for which he embezzled $16 billion) were allowed to die, sectors that could have earned forex for us.
All the times the north have been head of state, they literally ran our economy into the ground, making this place one of the worst places to live in. The SW and the North are not just good administrators - FACT.