₦airaland Forum

icez: lslam.

Hey, when you meet a true muslim, you'll realize you're wrong.

We have pastors preaching prosperity and peddling miracles that don't glorify Christ right? Is that Christianity? But they all call themselves christians, and we helplessly accommodate them.

On the subject matter, how did this occur during curfew hours? Wasn't there a military or police patrol?
Until GEJ mandates all GSM companies to reserve short code 999 and make it toll free, insecurity will continue to plague this country. Why isn't this emergency short code issue on the front burner at Aso Rock?
Oh GEJ...please ask for wisdom...use your head!

Regardless of who has led nigeria, that same intractable incapacity to gather information, process it with high fidelity and produce actionable intelligence has passed on from one administration to the other.
Gowin, Obj, IBB and now GEJ have used the same tactics to visit crude solutions on the nigerian problem - deliberately sending soldiers to any location to quash insurgents.
What happened to taking the pains to gather intelligence and using SSS to surgically arrest gangleaders?
The Nigerian soldier - that enigmatic and mysterious internal problem solver has been visiting his wrath on every part of the country since independence. Biafra, Zango Kataf, Odi, Zaki Biam, Maiduguri...Its simply round robin, I wonder whose next...expect it if you haven't had it yet.

For me, I don't find any other woman sexually worthy anymore. An ex once tried to chat me up two weeks after my wedding and I turned get flat down, even though she was very good when it was going...perhaps the best, but a strong canceling anchor hooked me when I said "...I do".
Paper attraction and first looks will always be there...but a sixth sense should hold everyone back, because when you look back after the act, you'll truly feel worthless inside, even if you don't show it.
Couples who cheat on themselves simply take their marriage for granted.

Biggyd2: How did most of these houses WITHOUT parking spaces manage to be built with the approval of governments(then and now)?

God bless you.
An orange tree cannot fuss over other orange trees for looking like mango trees...because it knows that every orange seed contains instructions on how to become an orange tree.
Complex societal anomalies are often solved by asking the simplest questions. How did we get here? Why is the white man over there and we are still stuck here?
Because we continue to have people in government who only understand the power of leadership negatively.
Fashola has been making efforts to appear exceptional among the pack of anti democratic governors littered over Nigeria, he is highly commended. However, he still falls far short with these symptomatic laws. If the mega city DNA is not engineered now, this law will leave piece with him.

Dear Fashola,

In aspiring to be a mega city, do you consume yourself with the appearance of it, or do you consciously engineer its DNA?

New York City designed the grid system for their sky scrapers way back in the 1920s. That was the DNA bring engineered. As years passed, the city took shape. Here in your chaotic Lagos, what has your government done to design the DNA of the new towns in Ibeju Lekki and Ajah? Private citizens are buying and building and its spreading like wild fire, when I look at it, I see no government presence. Your government has not come to mark out roads and set backs. There is no visible sign of law and order in the manner in which these pseudo estates are springing up. When you drive through most of them, the muddy/sandy/earth roads are irregular in shape because omoniles have sold land arbitrarily. There is no provision for kerb or sidewalk. Where is your government? Ten years from now, LASG will remember that these places need to be sanitized to look like a mega city.

You are not filling the gap in local transportation, yet you are killing with a heavy hand an industry which impacts positively on the health (green house emissions from okada is lower than from keke) and income of families (and GDP of the State), instead of regulating them smartly.
Your rehabilitated Lekki-Epe expressway carries multiple roundabouts instead of overhead bridges. I wonder what the vision was? For a part of the State which will witness the highest density of residents very soon. With this kind of thinking, all the overheads we have in Lagos would have been roundabouts had they been built by Tinubu and Fashola in the 1970s. By 2016, the Jakande and Ajah bus stop roundabouts on that road will be an obnoxious cycle of gridlock. You can bet on this.

Is it the appearance you are obsessed with, or the DNA that will regulate development that you should be concerned with? Just like a tree bears fruit which carries its DNA, that tree will never have to worry how the seed will grow because it already carries its instructions within.

Fashola, please stop chasing appearances, rather engineer mega city development DNAs and every thing will fall into place...it must not be in your short tenure!

Leadership is everything.

Any organization whose members continue to exhibit unacceptable and unwholesome behavior is only interpreting the state of its leadership.

Thank God Badejo survived. If he hadn't, the police would have claimed he was one of the robbers.

I don't watch NTA, and I had never heard of this citizen until his disappearance made the news on July.
It's painful to have no clear understanding on what may have happened to him, especially for the family. It's also encouraging to read the comments from his children.
One question though, can't the nigeria police dust his car for finger prints and then converge fingerprints from the mobile networks and do cross referencing?
Our insecurity problem is a matter of doesn't brains in authority, not guns and bombs.
May The Good Lord keep him save and return him to his family alive.

I saw this and was filled with disgust and resentment...but that I was because I believed it hook, line and sinker.
I have asked my folks in owerri and they said he gathered the people at heroes square to announce/declare free education at secondary school level (free education is provided for only at primary school to JSS3 nationwide), and that the public holiday was just for his private school.
Why is it so difficult to get the right information out all the time in nigeria?
It's the facts that should determine our reactions and responses, not the color of opposition painters.

Interesting.
There need not be a law on this, rather an unwritten convention that should be consciously adopted and guarded by all at all times, except in strictly national engagements where other Nigerians might be present.

Every issue in life is a matter of perspective.
I believe every rational human vetoing will do what is positive and necessary to survive and live through every valley on the journey of life.
I have not seen the Dangote driving job advert, but common sense tell me that it is not intended to be a life-time offer to any one who does not want one.
When I started my working life at a bank, I was started out as a cashier, and I hated it because I thought it was lowly. I was a hot brain second class upper graduate of geophysics and in my mind, I should have been at NASA or in a lab somewhere developing cutting-edge sub surface data processing techniques.
As the months passed by,i rose to become a trainer and retail software operator. More years passed and my bank laid me off without apologies. I suddenly went from the cosy comfort of a good regular income to the bitter cold of none. Consider this, I had gotten married and had two children, with second one coming in the wake of my lay off.
I spent two years in solitary self-rediscovery. Few friends and family lensed a helping hand initially, with every one expecting another job to come, and with every one getting disappointed and withdrawn when none came.
Finally, I have landed a mouth-watering job in a foreign oil and gas firm after a telephone interview, as against countless rejections by the ones operating here in nigeria. There was always either an age/experience or complete despicable silence from their HR.
During the two years o spent in self rediscovery, I used my car for hotel pick ups, (i drove the car myself, sometimes being called up early in the morning while I was still in bed with my wife, just to convey a prostitute back to her apartment), I sought odd jobs like selling decoders no one wanted to buy just to be able to buy cereals for my children.
Now, I must tell you the truth;
The frustrations of being a cashier back in 2005 burned my will long enough to rediscovery my self. Out was this rediscovery that made me believe that even after the rejections by the Shells and Chevrons of Nigeria, that I could land a foreign oil firm without having had prior O&G experience.
Let everyone of Dangote's graduate drivers come with an open mind, especially after they have failed in finding more suitable offers. It cannot be the end of the road for them. Rather, it will be an opportunity to rediscover themselves.
We cannot question life, but we can learn from its answers.

Until late last year, I never spent a breath on prayers for Nigeria.
I'm now a father of three. With the turns our economy has taken since 2009, I have come to realize that if one does not pray for one's own land, whatever calamity that befalls that land also affects its inhabitants. The devil can effectively hold down and obscure the best brains we have by simply holding the leadership of our country.
I used to engage in ridiculing Nigeria, but more I know better. As long as I live here, whatever good comes to Nigeria comes to me...and whatever bad comes...we work hard to prevent it.

Is this how inept the SSS and police are? I expect them to have rounded up the assailants on the spot.. Why do criminals always get away in this country...except some of these stories are either made up or exaggerated

frond: This is what I don't understand. Why one Nigeria. Do you live together by force. Do we have to continue to live together at the detriment of Nigerians Welfare. If spliting Nigeria will increase the welfare of Nigerians so let it be. The people of scotland are preparing for the referedum to seperate from Britain, British government doesn't roll out armoured tank to prevent them. Unity of Nigeria should be for the benefit of the Nigerians not at all cost and to our detriment.

A united nigeria has benefited no one except the ruling class who can steal in peace and the privileged ones picking up the crumbs from under the table. The real nigerians are outside the door.

Nobody here has quoted any part of the pastor's sermon that constitutes grounds for a felony. For the GEJ proponents, you guys remind me of the zero tolerance days of Abacha. Are we really in a democracy?
Is Bakare not a bona fide citizen of this nation? Can he not cry out if he believes his president is ruining this nation? Are teaparty goers in USA not crying out that obamacare will bankrupt america? Is anyone calling for their heads?
Is Bakare not better than all of you for daring to march to the NA in 2010 when we were all folding our arms in the typical nigerian docility, suffering & smiling?
My point is this; there is so much anti-democratic words from GEJ supporters that makes my blood boil.
Atiku made an inviting statement when he said he would make nigeria ungovernable. That is not criticism, in fact, that is the samething a foreign enemy woo seek yi do to nigeria in a war...to make nigeria ungovernable. What do GEJ supporters have to say to that? Have you called for Atiku's head with same zeal?
Your enemy will never criticize you...he will keep mum when he knows you are going the wrong way. Is that not the essence of counter intelligence?
Bakare had criticized, and once when I listened to him on tv, he made out constructive by asking the FG to prosecute subsidy scammers. Well your enemy ever tell you the right thing to do?
I'm not a supporter of Bakare/Buhari, but I am a democratic citizen of Nigeria and will never let anyone run democracy over with their blind venality or sentiments.

GEJ is unfortunate to be president in the information age. This should be a plus for him, not a minus. His predecessors, (all of them failures by the way, excuse Yaradua for ill health) were much luckier. Their failures traveled slowly across the globe.

Deep in my heart, I want GEJ to succeed. At a point during the chat, he said "...perception is everything..." If he really understood that, why does he think that perception of his refusal to publicly declare his assets isn't hurting the way his anti-corruption posture is perceived by the world, especially as his predecessor did it?

On BH, I believe the president has everything at his disposal for intelligence gathering. Are the cars used for suicide bombing purchased and registered in the names of the suicide bombers? Which car shop were they bought from? In whose name was it registered? The CCTV mounted in Abuja, what information has been gleaned from them? Shouldn't an integrated national database be an accelerated priority, as opposed to spending billions on 'questionable security' votes?

It is hard to give the president a passmark, very hard.

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I think it's time the military brought some sanity to this shithole of a country.

This was Buhari's pause button on our democracy march. Let us leave the military out of this because it will throw us back to 1983.

All these things are happening because we have never been at this stage before in our national life. Trust me, something will come out of all these and Nigeria will crush these evil men and move on. It will be bitter, tough, nearly hopeless and heartbreaking, but nonetheless fruitful in the end.

2015 is ahead of all of us, what will we make out of it? Are we ready to prepare now? Or would we wait for that year to happen upon us like 2003...2007...2011?

I do not have any confidence in EFCC. Do you?

It is odd the first lady did not put off her return to Abuja to join her husband at the crash site. That is the proper thing to do as a first lady.

The other suspicion of the airspace being shut down for her about the time the Dana airliner went down is a technical speculation that only the blackbox recordings will either dispel or affirm.

In the absence of any other cogent explanation, the first lady's timing of her return trip was inappropriate.

In any tragedy, the ultimate comfort will be that there is a resurrection at the end of this uncontrollable existence.
Please pray for strength to all bereaved families as they go through this tough time. May time pass quickly for us all.
My profound sympathies to all Nigerians!

deshclones: so sad...

The dumb NCAA guys should as a matter of urgency and national interest suspend the license of AIR NIGERIA.......those dudes are using the crappiest and unsafest plane in the history of airline business.was on their flight to abuja and we all had our heart in our mouth..the ride was something else...there was no passenger including the cabin crew guys that did not pray to God that day.....its by the grace of God that they are still surviving....a word is enough for the wise

Heard from an aviation operations insider in Lagos yesterday evening that Air Nigeria planes were grounded over salary payment issues. The pilots staged a walk out because salaries have not been coming as at when due since Jimoh Ibrahim took over.

alj harem: If you want to criticize Sanusi please do but using slogans like Aboki etc is highly inappropriate and very very ethnocentric.

@ Op

Sanusi should have appeared, he would only make matters worse

I think so too. Only a true Nigerian can point this out.

ebamma: the man wan use sanusi make name 4 himself?

Are you in blatant disregard of the specificity of the professor's claim's? He is a professor in faraway United States remember? If he was just seeking fame with a law suit then I think it would have made the rounds if he had filed it in a US court and hinted CNN (and all bodies that have ever given SLS an award) about it.

The matter is subjudice now...so let us watch and wait. Surely, someone has got it wrong and someone else has got it right. There are no stalemates in the law court.

The protests were spontaneous and I believe that it is difficult for any current (or alumnus for that matter) student not to have mixed feelings about this name change.
However, I do think that the energy displayed by this mass of students can be better utilized. With some deft organization and commitment, these students can get together with other students from other schools to prevail on their Representatives in NASS not to amend the law when it comes to them. This will become the beginning of democratic muscle for these young leaders of tomorrow.
Barraging the Presidency is an inferior level of democratic participation in this information age.

BTW, does renaming UNILAG also make it an equal-opportunity university to all Nigerians (without catchment area policy)? Because MKO died for a national cause, so any institution bearing that name should no longer be a regional/localized one.

POTUT: You know, you just stole my thoughts. This remains the first and only reason why I will NEVER vote for Buhari. Come to think of it, Buhari became the pause button to our democratic and political and social development as a nation. By truncating that democratic government in 1983, he put on hold all the solutions to today's political problems that would have naturally come with time.
For instance, had we continued in democracy in 1983, by now our national assembly men would not be allocating so much to themselves because we would have started crying out since 1983 and by 1987...1991...1995...1999...2003...2007...2011...we would have gotten our voting priorities right. Just look how widespread public indignation caused some high and mighty politicians to lose elections in 2011. People insisted that their votes must count and voted out those who had caused them pain. This exercise of painful realization would have begun since 1983, but Buhari paused it...thereby delaying our emancipation by ...count the years please.
In considering the principle of forgiveness, I think Buhari should mentor some young politicians and pass on whatever good dream he claims to have about Nigeria. I think young voting Nigerians should read history...and refrain from repeating it.
GEJ's opportunity to write his name in gold is ticking away. Hopefully, 2015 will be an opportunity for a passionate young Nigerian without any baggage to arise and shine forth.
Long live the good of Nigeria!!!

honeric01:
And you went to school? can you show US with fact that Buhari took over with a gun? can you show us that he was among those who carried out the coup?

So Mr. Professor, if some group of misguided soldiers truncate a legitimate government's mandate and hand you the reins of power you would gladly and patriotically take it up and unleash draconian (and retroactive) decrees upon your subjects and mete out lopsided treatments to democratically elected officials based on which part of the country they come from and continue to stay in power for 20 whole months without having the democratic thought to return power to civilians?
Please answer Mr. Professor.

Jenams: A man who used GUNS τ̅o oust an elected govt I̶̲̥̅̊n †ЂΞ past Ȋ̝̊̅s nt morally fit τ̅o ask us τ̅o elect him as our leader. ¶ will neva vote buhari.

You know, you just stole my thoughts. This remains the first and only reason why I will NEVER vote for Buhari. Come to think of it, Buhari became the pause button to our democratic and political and social development as a nation. By truncating that democratic government in 1983, he put on hold all the solutions to today's political problems that would have naturally come with time.
For instance, had we continued in democracy in 1983, by now our national assembly men would not be allocating so much to themselves because we would have started crying out since 1983 and by 1987...1991...1995...1999...2003...2007...2011...we would have gotten our voting priorities right. Just look how widespread public indignation caused some high and mighty politicians to lose elections in 2011. People insisted that their votes must count and voted out those who had caused them pain. This exercise of painful realization would have begun since 1983, but Buhari paused it...thereby delaying our emancipation by ...count the years please.
In considering the principle of forgiveness, I think Buhari should mentor some young politicians and pass on whatever good dream he claims to have about Nigeria. I think young voting Nigerians should read history...and refrain from repeating it.
GEJ's opportunity to write his name in gold is ticking away. Hopefully, 2015 will be an opportunity for a passionate young Nigerian without any baggage to arise and shine forth.
Long live the good of Nigeria!!!

Tinubu did speak well enough. His ideas of immortalizing MKO go down well with me. But, can the President really reverse himself now? I know the best of them do sometimes.

I am owing my landlord 200k from last year and another 500k for the new rent that has just rolled in. He has been to my house and we have talked about 4 times now about the payment. He understands that losing a job isn't easy, especially when you haven't found another. He prays for me and even when I asked him to give me a fixed moratorium, he told me that he couldn't, that God will make a way for me. Now how do I describe such a man?

He is Yoruba and I am Ibo...tribalism just died! He even used some Ibo adages during our conversation.

It baffles me how several agencies of government are capturing data without collaboration.

I haven't received my National ID card captured since (circa 2001) under OBJ when I was just an undergraduate. I am now a father of two and going to be subjected to another round of boring data capture. Just last year the NCC did their own show. Why can't they collaborate with CBN and the Nigeria Police?
They all have our fingerprints yet crimes are unsolved!

Collaboration is what we should be doing...

nasty45: Pls everyone do ur research,since the comin of ICC,nobody have been sentence to jail.now africa is being use as scape goat...indeed i weep for africa.al other western president's case have been on adjournment,wen tis africa tis immediate....MTCHEW FOR AFRICAPls everyone do ur research,since the comin of ICC,nobody have been sentence to jail.now africa is being use as scape goat...indeed i weep for africa.al other western president's case have been on adjournment,wen tis africa tis immediate....MTCHEW FOR AFRICAPls everyone do ur research,since the comin of ICC,nobody have been sentence to jail.now africa is being use as scape goat...indeed i weep for africa.al other western president's case have been on adjournment,wen tis africa tis immediate....MTCHEW FOR AFRICA

How does Charles Taylor's imprisonment spite or marginalize Africa? Does the man not deserve to go to jail? Which western president's case has been on adjournment? Mind you, western connotes North America & Western Europe. The communist Eastern European countries still have their case going on...

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since when has Buhari been on the side of the people. The same man who doesn't mind joining forces with ''Tinubu''? Or is Tinubu no longer in ACN? Or are there not ACN senators in the national assembly? Puhhleezzz!!!! Enough of this Buhari nonsense. Tunde Idiagbon was assassinated and Buhari was spared because Idiagbon was the one fighting corruption. Now the man is taking credit for what he didn't do. Afterall all he did then was try to put Nigeria's name on the list of islamic countries.

Did you mean his character was assassinated? Idiagbon died naturally in 1999.

ujchief: so in ur own analysis, the traditional rulers and university administrators are the primary cause of coruption, while the executive president, comander-in-chief of the armed forces, grand comander of the federal republic and his all other ministers and chief beneficiaries of coruption are the secondary causes? U're just contradicting urself. Read ur post again, this time around, try and concentrate.

Try to differentiate the ACT of corruption from the CAUSE/REASON why corruption persists. Then, and only then would you appreciate that the facets of our society that honor the actors help to sustain the culture. Now you do the concentration.