₦airaland Forum

wales:
What were the journalists doing with 3 million naira? Whose money was it? For one, they don't get paid that much to have 3 million in cash on them. Hummnh.

Are u forgetting the brown envelopes they collect from the corrupt politicians and officials to turn a blind to the atrocities they commit?

It is case of chicken coming back home to roost

wales:
What were the journalists doing with 3 million naira? Whose money was it? For one, they don't get paid that much to have 3 million in cash on them. Hummnh.

Are u forgetting the brown envelopes they collect from the corrupt politicians and officials to turn a blind to the atrocities they commit?

It is case of chicken coming back home to roost

[quote author=paddy_lo link=topic=481093.msg6406473#msg6406473 date=1279474074]@Redsun

Why the slander. . i guess i work for AC,PDP at the same time
and while am at it i work for donald duke(cause he built most of what i showcased in calabar),and the new Governor at the same time

On top of that i work for Dora Akunyili,Psquare and Naija Fashion designers. . .Damn i only wish that was true. . .

Am only a kid that knows where am from. . .and wouldn't trade it for any amount of porridge in the world
U talk of developed places like they happened overnight. . if u desire change u must be part of the process
That means getting off your default negativity,and seeing the achievements that are clear for all to see. . .even a 14 yr old white dude!![/quote]I don't care specifically who you are working for but from all indications,you talk as if you have a hand in the nightmare going on in nigeria in the name of governance.

Developed countries did not build the foundation of governance on outright corruption,plundering,looting,tribalism and gross irresponsibilities like we have today in nigeria and like it has always been since the so-called independence,rather they built it on hardwork,dedication,insights,foresight,knowledge,utmost love and pride for their country.That is why they are progressing instead retrogressing like we are doing.

With the kind of mindset we have as a people as regards leadership and nationhood,it is like trying to catch the wind with bare hands.

One would have expected people that live in developed world where things are considerably in order to go back to nigeria and live an exemplary life,by standing out for the truth and doing the right thing.Hell no,when they go back there and have a taste of free bulky dollars that they have vigorously worked for all their lives,they become worse than the politicians themselves.

There are so many nigerian IT experts and experts in other fields living abroad paid by the corrupt politicians in nigeria to propagate for them on the web and other accessible places they can fool some people.I am sure this poster is one of them.

Even egyptian pilots were used to man the russian supplied bomber jets that killed the igbos in thousands on behalf of nigerian government during the war.But then,i we have to move on and chart the cause of peace for the good of all.

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chuxy12:
sometimes i wonder whether nairaland are just filled wild bunch of untrained kids--just hear all the horrible things being spewed on this thread.

I hope your idea of training does not mean respecting a miscreant like obasanjo just because he is elderly.

Quasi-tribal fracas,nigeria.There is always something,someone or some people to blame for our incompetence

Are we really capable of self rule as a people?I don't think so,we probably need iran to to recolonize us because i don't think the british will condone us again.

Aigbofa:
Your grouse with him is because he took surrender of your one legged republic. Obasanjo for whatever reasons tried to placate ibos during his last administration.

Big mistakes, ibos cannot be placated. Anything short of taking everything is not good enough for them.

Can't you see you are washing your dirty linen the public,supporting a mass killer,a prolific rogue,a paedophile,an adulterer and worst of all an incestious individual like obasanjo in the name of tribe?

You could either be two things,an immoral person or a foolish person or both for taking the side of a scum like obasanjo

The second coming of usman dan fodio.Fulani invasion.

Babangida's participation in nigeria politics goes a long way to buttress the fact that nigeria is a rogue state,there is just no other way to explain the phenomenon of a villain and a fugitive contesting for a country's presidency.The same situation of allowing a rogue like obasanjo in participating in nigerian politics is repeating itself.

This thread is not particularly for people with cave mentality,it is for fight against corrupt chimps like obasanjo in our so-called one nation and they cut across all tribes in nigeria.

If we see ourselves as people with decency,self esteem and a sense of rationality,we should be exposing them and their evils,tribal homogeneity not withstanding

Obasanjo is a rogue,any sane nigerian knows that,

I know nigeria is dangerously diverse but with rationality,progressive reasoning and insights we can overide the differences and florish as one people.

We need to learn to differentiate between criminality and civility,between patriotism and unpatriotism,between smartness and stupidity as a people.

We should be seeing our problems as a people based on concepts not basically on tribes

[quote author=Wily+Wily link=topic=480581.msg6400983#msg6400983 date=1279369054]Forget about 6 or 8 Yorubas, Genetically Yorubas are Corrupt people and no amount of treatment can cure the Fraud in them.
The only solution is to reduce their population then Corruption will reduce. And the only way to reduce their population is by killing them.[/quote]Oh yeah.You remind me of some out of this world rwandans.

Death is peaceful when you think you don't have a better option.But what is your problem anyway?Maybe i can help you.

Yoruba individuals are some my greatest mentors in nigeria in the likes of Fela,Fela's mum,Beko Kuti,Tai solarin,Gani,Femi Kuti,Soyinka,even the doctor,Ransome Kuti,they are individuals of enviable characters.

We have to learn to calll a spade a spade,no matter what.

[quote author=Wily+Wily link=topic=480581.msg6400863#msg6400863 date=1279367487]The greatest failure of abacha as a creature was his failure to kill many Yorubas[/quote]I don't think this is  a yoruba issue but about corrupt individuals in nigeria spearheaded by obasanjo.

PROJECT:
what about those that came before him,obj did one thing he made us see those real criminals and let us with the option to deal with them,so deal with them and stop crying like babies,past govt never exposed looters like obj did

If we are going to deal with them,we have to start with him first.

We are heading the way of colombia or rather,nearer home,somalia.It is a state of anarchy,a state of lawlessness championed by the so-called leaders.,like obasanjo,igbinedion,kalu,ikimi,atiku,anenih,babangida,aondokaa,tinubu,even jonathan,name dem,all our statesmen and women,past and presents are all rogues.

The greatest failure of abacha as a creature was his failure to kill obasanjo when he had in a death hook.His death would have meant one monstrous rogue out of the way and would have saved nigeria over 30 billion dollars(rough estimate) that obasanjo and cohorts sqandered in the eight years period that he had the opportunity to loot and dismembered nigeria again.

Had he been killed by hopeless abacha,nigeria probably would have been on the way to true democracy and prospective unification

hooged:
thats is the extacode, obasanjo is highly protected . (ogbologbo babalawo) lets wait and see what will happen`

He is protected because foolish people like u abound in nigeria but the time has come now to remove the veil over your faces for you to see the real light,not the light that wuruwuru pastors and imans are showing u but the light of responsibity,accountability,rationality and practical reality.

Igbos feel like caged lions in nigeria and it is quite a dangerous feat caging kings.

[quote author=bk/babe90 link=topic=304950.msg6393125#msg6393125 date=1279232397]Bitter, lying, deceitful, truth twisting biafrans! Thats what I observe around me![/quote]U seems to have a magnetic attractions to negativity.

Let me ask u one question-Do u have a problem getting it up?U always sound like a man that can't please a woman,very hopelessly bitter.U know,a complete state of hopelessness when ur di-ck can't work

#It takes a revolution to make a solution.

Mr Fire:
Lulu was only able to raise 1 m? has he finished all the money he stole or is he too frugal to bail his mother? Lulu, better act fast before they kpeme your only mama.

He is just making it up for people to think that he is not actually a thief or probably he just love his loots more than his mum,he could be that foolish.

Kobojunkie:
There are, it appears, two separate, dramatically different Nigerias existing side by side. Even though both Nigerias exist within the same space, they rarely interact. In fact, going by the sharp differences between them, these two Nigerias might as well occupy different universes.

One is a Nigeria of legendary affluence and opulent excess. It’s a Nigeria where there’s a slush of cash and the only trouble is that the manufacturers of luxury goods – in Europe, North America and Asia – are often too slow to produce the next amazing toy or high-priced idea that the wealthy, and only the wealthy, should buy. This splurgy Nigeria is filled with private jets, swanky mansions, bulletproof Mercedes Benzes, swimming pools, and round-the-clock power generators. It is a Nigeria where homes are guarded by mobile policemen, or even soldiers.

It is inhabited, this Nigeria, by – among others – the givers and owners of oil blocks, by present and past presidents and their coterie, by bank owners who double as bank robbers, by legislators who moonlight as pugilists, by political godfathers, by governors and their commissioners, by contractors who transmute into money laundering fronts, by Christian and Islamic prelates fast to lie in God’s name, and by top civil servants who disdain both civility and service but worship greed and red tape. Inhabitants of this sector of Nigeria are hardly ever prosecuted for crimes committed, for they own the judges and the courts. Theirs is a Nigeria of little or no work but spectacular harvests.

Then there’s a larger, vaster Nigeria of deprivation, wretchedness and misery. This is a Nigeria of meager salaries, unpaid pensions, and petty allowances. It is a waterless, permanently powerless Nigeria. This Nigeria is a ghetto whose hordes are bereft of hope. It’s a Nigeria of overcrowded slums, of famished children wandering the streets, of open stagnant gutters that reek terribly. This other Nigeria is a cesspool of violence and degradation, a hell-on-earth where the only forms of recreation are sex, alcohol and drugs. It is inhabited, this Nigeria, by hoi polloi who must commute in danfo and molue buses. And their buses must clear out of the path the moment some privileged Nigerian shows up with a siren-blaring, whip-wielding convoy. These Nigerians are bashed and battered at will by the police, soldiers and any man in uniform. They are often treated as guilty even after their innocence is proven.

Nothing illustrates the separateness of these two Nigerians as dramatically as two recent scandals.

The first scandal is the decision by the Goodluck Jonathan administration to squander N10 billion in a party to trumpet Nigeria’s fifty years of failure. A friend called me a few days ago and asked a rhetorical question that captured the sheer farce of it all. “Does somebody who failed an examination throw a party to celebrate his abysmal performance?” he asked.

Apparently yes, if Mr. Jonathan and his team have anything to say about it.

Nigeria’s fiftieth anniversary is a study in – to paraphrase Chinua Achebe – snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. At independence in 1960, many (Nigerians as well as foreign observers) projected that Nigeria was on pace to emerge as an important medium-range power. That projection has been mocked by Nigeria’s record of missed opportunities, of promising roads not taken, of sound initiatives abandoned.

Continued  . . . .

Are sure this is u.You are all of sudden becoming very real,not sitting on the fence anymore.

[quote author=bk/babe90 link=topic=304950.msg6392636#msg6392636 date=1279224757]NYC, bABy!!!
And what lights up the fools ure so lucky to be tribes men with?[/quote]Man,u are a disappointment,New York,the city where dreams are made,yet,u still talk like a cave man.

What do u observe around u?