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This issue has been discussed extensively on another thread.

Dora Akunyili is a blessing to the Black Race, you inspired a lot of young Nigerians with the way you went about fighting corruption even in perilous times. I promise to honor you by contributing my quota towards actualizing the Dream Nigeria, and that means standing for the right values at all times. Adieu ma!!

comos: rome was not built in a day, lets take it gradually.

I give you the benefit of doubt and conclude that you are a kid for, if you are above 16 and you make this kind of comment then it means that something is terribly wrong with you and your handlers!

kel4soft: OP, you beat me to this thread. It is true.

This is disheartening men i mean, this is supposed to be the celebrated first class Gbogbotigbo airport that pro-Odua people bragged about? Where are we going in this country? When you can not properly execute a project in your own geopolitical region, where then can you do properly?

Saw this disturbing pictures on another information site i hope its not true.






I've been getting these images all day. Supposedly this is what the new Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu state looked like this morning after it rained. Is this for real, for real?. Continue..

http://www..com/talk/topic,217028.0.html

Well done we need more of this kind of news.

tonychristopher: are these strong institutions not manned by human being ..what happened to the institutions when whites where in Zimbabwe and what happened when whites left

what happened to institutions when there was colonialism in Nigeria and what happened just few years after they left

its not the institutions but the mentality of people Manning the institution

that's my submission

You are getting it all wrong Sir.

An institution is any structure or mechanism of social order governing the behavior of a set of individuals within a given community. Institutions are identified with a social purpose, transcending individuals and intentions by mediating the rules that govern living behavior. This tells you that strong Institutions dictates the way a people must live.
There are certain ways of doing things that have been so knocked into you that you can not imagine it been done otherwise. Strong institutions pass down value from generation to generation, making it difficult for one person to go against the norm without been punished by the society.
The mentality of the people who man the institutions that you mentioned is formed by the institutions. The people who hold positions know by precedence what their actions would result to and how they would be treated or received by the society. So if the Institutions are set up with the right values the people who man them would have the right values. Of course there are social deviant in every society, this could be easily handled in a society with strong Institutions as they would stand out in the society, termed odd and punished but because of the weak Institutions in the Black societies, the ones who do the right thing seems to be the odd ones.
To your question what happened to the institutions in Nigeria and Zimbabwe after the whites left?
You probably did not see my previous post as to why a lot of Nigerians wished the British had stayed much longer in Nigeria, this is because they would have inculcated in Nigerians the culture of organization as they did in South Africa. Institutions are not made over night, and the ones left by the colonial masters in Nigeria where too young. Institution takes time to build and when built is almost indelible. The strength of Institutions lie in the number of persons that are willfully subject to its dictates. If you make Bloomberg or Clinton the President of Nigeria today, apart from having a white man in Aso rock, nothing is likely to change in Nigeria, and GEJ is more likely to succeed in White house because of the culture/values of people in White house and USA at large.

tonychristopher: its not only the whites that are baffled that we are in this mess...I am also baffled ...take a trip to oil producing community and see what is abject poverty ..in the midst of aplenty they lack then visit places like Nnewi with no oil ...that us the situation we have in Nigeria

natural resources cause a nation what is known as dutch disease and that we are suffering

are you still wondering how...in university there is an elective course I did then called sociology of development ...there it was stated that the west practise white wizardry while Africa practice black wizardry and that is just truth

look at Macbeth the witches told him that he will be a king and he became a king

here in Africa witches will see you to be a king they will use their powers to thwart and avert that throne from you ....


that is Africa

look at Zimbabwe when it was Rhodesia it was the best economy because whites where there ....now look at Zimbabwe when they chased the whites away then renamed it Zimbabwe ..such a mess of a country

so I think its nurture that nature

we need to change our thinking ..first its thinking not money

African countries lack strong INSTITUTIONS and that is the bane of our development!

By merely perusing through the comments that this scholarly and intelligent question has generated, it is evident to all who had doubts before now that something is seriously wrong with the way the Black man reasons.

Human beings are born blank, they learn to imitate their environments, what they do repeatedly soon becomes a part of them; if you raise a white kid in a Black country, he would most definitely behave like a Black kid so the skin color is not the issue; or why do our BIG men in Africa stand in cues and behave properly when they are outside Africa? or the white man caught on camera urinating on a bridge in Lagos that he ordinarily would not try in his country? INSTITUTIONS!

Of the different development theories that have been postulated by scholars, the INSTITUTION & GEOGRAPHY approaches to development explains best why some countries are faring better than others. A lot of African countries are favored by Geography (rich in natural resources) so the culprit in African has been weak INSTITUTIONS.
An institution is any structure or mechanism of social order governing the behavior of a set of individuals within a given community. Institutions are identified with a social purpose, transcending individuals and intentions by mediating the rules that govern living behavior. This tells you that strong Institutions dictates the way a people must live.

A lot of Nigerian's wish that the British (our colonial masters) had stayed longer than 1960, they believe Nigeria would have looked more like South Africa (which seems to be the only organised country in Africa) this situation is possible today in South Africa because their colonial masters where around to nurture there INSTITUTIONS to maturity. The laid down INSTITUTIONS were still very tender when the British left Nigeria, the new set of leaders reset the values of our INSTITUTIONS and this is the reason we are in this mess.

If we cultivate STRONG INSTITUTIONS with the right values in Africa, things would get a lot better as man would always conform to the dictates of its environment.

By merely perusing through the comments that this scholarly and intelligent question has generated, it is evident to all who had doubts before now that something is seriously wrong with the way Black man reasons.

Human beings are born blank, they learn to imitate their environments, what they do repeatedly soon becomes a part of them; if you raise a white kid in a Black country, he would most definitely behave like a Black kid so the skin color is not the issue; or why do our BIG men in Africa stand in cues and behave properly when they are outside Africa? or the white man caught on camera urinating on a bridge in Lagos that he ordinarily would not try in his country? INSTITUTIONS!

Of the different development theories that have been postulated by scholars, the INSTITUTION & GEOGRAPHY approaches to development explains best why some countries are faring better than others. A lot of African countries are favored by Geography (rich in natural resources) so the culprit in African has been weak INSTITUTIONS.
An institution is any structure or mechanism of social order governing the behavior of a set of individuals within a given community. Institutions are identified with a social purpose, transcending individuals and intentions by mediating the rules that govern living behavior. This tells you that strong Institutions dictates the way a people must live.

A lot of Nigerian's wish that the British (our colonial masters) had stayed longer than 1960, they believe Nigeria would have looked more like South Africa (which seems to be the only organised country in Africa) this situation is possible today in South Africa because their colonial masters where around to nurture there INSTITUTIONS to maturity. The laid down INSTITUTIONS were still very tender when the British left Nigeria, the new set of leaders reset the values of our INSTITUTIONS and this is the reason we are in this mess.

If we cultivate STRONG INSTITUTIONS with the right values in Africa, things would get a lot better as man would always conform to the dictates of its environment.

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A hashtag #SomeoneTellLevick has began trending in Nigeria in response to an image laundering deal between Washington, DC-based public relations firm, Levick, and President Goodluck Jonathan. Levick recently accepted a deal worth $1.2 million to help manage Mr. Jonathan’s image that has taken a beating in recent weeks over the Nigerian leader’s inept handling of the abduction of more than 250 high school girls in Chibok, Borno State.

Some of the hashtag critics of the deal accuse the American PR firm of accepting blood money to help burnish the image of a Nigerian ruler who appears absentminded and disconnected in the face of a deteriorating security situation in his country.

The widening condemnation of the image laundering deal echoes the sharp criticism of President Jonathan’s wretched approach to his country’s security crises. The Nigerian media, Nigerian political groups and numerous international groups continue to scold Mr. Jonathan for his nonchalant response to the terrible plight of the abducted girls. The critics have also charged the president with insensitivity to the trauma that has befallen the abducted girls’ parents, siblings and extended families.

In the aftermath of the abduction, associates of the Nigerian president, his wife, Patience Jonathan, and officials of the Peoples Democratic Party openly raised questions about the authenticity of the abductions. Such doubts raised by members of the president’s close circle informed a policy of indifference and apathy by the Jonathan team, handing the Islamist abductors of the schoolgirls a critical advantage of time to secure their victims in hideouts.

In the thick of the controversy, Mrs. Jonathan ordered agents of the State Security Services (SSS) to detain and interrogate Mrs. Asabe Kwambura, the principal of the Chibok Government Secondary School, because the First Lady believed that the principal was part of a conspiracy falsely proclaiming that the abductions had happened in order to portray Mr. Jonathan as incompetent.

An SSS official confirmed to SaharaReporters that Mrs. Kwambura was detained for hours and questioned at the orders of Mrs. Jonathan. The embattled principal was subsequently driven to Aso Rock where Mrs. Jonathan personally interrogated her in front of numerous spectators gathered by the First Lady. The interrogation culminated in Mrs. Jonathan’s televised hysterical outburst where she delivered the broken-English cry, “Diaris God oh” (“There’s God oh!”). The video of the First Lady’s theatrics has since gone viral, parodied and adapted by Nigerian as well as foreign performers.

Three months after the abductions, Mr. Jonathan is yet to visit the school where the girls were taken from. Last week, Mr. Jonathan met with Malala Youssef, the famous Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban for her open advocacy of education for Islamic girls. Mr. Jonathan used the occasion of the meeting to assure the Nigerian public that he was still interested in finding the girls.

However, the role of Levick officials in the meeting in Abuja suggested that the firm may have played a role in arranging Ms. Malala’s visit to President Jonathan Abuja. Levick denies the firm had a hand in arranging the Pakistani girl’s visit, but admitted to leading Nigerian officials to the podium to address the media the day of Ms. Malala’s visit.

Levick’s PR gimmick hit a snag when the families of the abducted girls refused to meet President Jonathan on Tuesday, stating that they were not sure that the Nigerian ruler was genuinely committed to rescuing the girls. The aggrieved parents said Mr. Jonathan had done nothing substantial to attempt a rescue of the schoolgirls or to rehabilitate the school and the community.

A press statement reportedly drafted with the help of Levick in Abuja blamed the opposition political parties and members of the #BringBackOurGirls movement for the humiliation of President Jonathan.


http://saharareporters.com/2014/07/17/twitter-war-washington-based-pr-firm-taking-%E2%80%9Cblood-money%E2%80%9D-president-jonathan
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xpizzy: 295 passengers feared dead after Malaysia Airlines plane went down in Ukraine. Alj ezerra

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/7/17/ukraine-malaysianplane.html

Lets see who claims responsibility for this one.

Chinoble: But on a serious note, i love anything or anybody that is beautiful and handsome(i too like fine tinz) that's the number one thing that gets my attention towards you. But then all i just need is for you to alter a word. Just one word from you will tell me wether to run away or run towards you!
#i ve got no business wit big for notin fools abi na NFA(no future ambition) dummies)#

The kind of personalities you attract is a reflection of who you are, hope you are beautiful too?

Brethrens can we really attribute the outcome of events to the will of God?

1) Gambling
2) Highness
The fast lane is quite trilling...i did say as sweet as sex!

These celebrities know where the money is. Instead of waiting for the peanuts they get paid for roles in film, they have decided to join the sky daddy band wagon.....Private jets awaits you, because people must sow! Bravo

luvmijeje: It seems like we are talking of another country, this is where the mass media are performing below average. They are not shocking the world with raw-images.
The much touted best military in Africa are being overpower by militants with superior arms and intels, and no head is rolling, no official statement, just nothing. This is failure of leadership.

The Nigerian Army seems to be over hyped, a recent UN report stated that the Nigerian Army is in a very bad shape, it said '' they are only good at beating defenceless civilians and loading trucks'' this seems to be the case.

Nothing do you babe...more than 60% of babes have done it at one time or another, just dat pple are ashamed of saying so!

maggilove: Prostituition but thank God i traced my steps back quickly.

Amkyzee: No freakinq dime was paid u paqan!!!

You are either naive or a dumb girl!

anitank: The bible forbids fornication too...

Not that I have any tattoos or planning to get any but why are we always particular about some kind of 'sins' and choose to turn a deaf ear to others??

Fornication of all sins? This seems to bother you or why did it attract your interest?

Allohrandy: bro, The least you can rent a 1 bed room apartment house in LA area and SF bay area is $1100. The rich areas or neighborhoods are very expensive and can reach up to $2000 per month for 1 bed room apartment.

Is LA for the poor?

atlwireles: Look for an ediot to give that advice. I know for a fact, that $10/hr in California is worst than N18,000 in Nigeria. We were all not born yesterday.

How is it worse sir?

Allohrandy: The minimum wage in california state is not $10 but $8 per hour so thats like $1100 per month before taxes. The average rent for a 1 bedroom apartment in a month is $1200 so after paying your rent you are left with nothing for food and other expenses like utilities and bills.

The minimum wage is used to protect the unskilled or semi skilled labor, pay earned by skill and educated labor is way higher than this. You did not take this into acct, and there are houses for minimum wage earners, just as for the rich... get your facts straight.

mcjacve: Well, our National Assembly earn more than their Congress.

Clap for yourself smart guy, Dummy!

Baybe: They use the taxes gotten from rich men to take care of the poor.

That's why I envy them other than that, the cost of living over there is ridiculously high

You do not know what you are talking about.

After paying taxes, you'd be left with nothing. [/color][/b][/quote]Big lie!!!

Mr Aboki: I have it on good authority that no money was paid for his ransome..

I'm glad he was freed..

I think he may need to consider getting some serious security detail around him. I have always been amazed how he still moves about with not even a single police man.

That money did not change hands? Are you being decietful or just dumb? Who pays for the cost of transaction?

Exodus#2k:
Thank God he is out at last, may God continue to increase his annointing. As for his abductors the wicked shall not go unpunished

Your aggression is misplaced.. this men (the bishop and his likes) are the cause of these chaos in Nigeria.. they use the pulpit to pursue their interest and they dine with your slave masters who squander the wealth of the nation direct your anger to the right channel.