₦airaland Forum

Omoluabi16:
I never liked pep guardiola. Too rigid and conceited.

Hmmm....some elements of success in that....unfortunately many elements of failure in that as well.

Rajosh:
Team A plays followed by Team B, then team B plays followed by team A, then team A plays again followed by team B. and so on

Sounds like tennis tie-breaks. Less pressure.

EL-Paso all over again.....sad.

Darkseid:
This question should be directed to God. How you want make I take know.
Seriously, I think that God is more interested in the money we give to those in need without asking for anything in return.

I am not too sure about this. The prodigal son was in need and if you gave to him in his rebellion I don't think you will be doing God any favours. That is why I think and the bible says obedience is better than sacrifice. We are created to obey instructions even though God has made this optional by giving us a will.

libson001:
Offering nah wash... Nah pastor the chop am.

Right from day 1 in the garden of Eden offerings have always gone to men. Substance is created for men as God is a spirit and has no need for substance. He asks us to give so that His purposes are achieved once more as established when He created man.

God is not moved by substance. So you cannot 'move' God by returning what He has given you in the first place. The three things that draw God (in no particular order of magnitude and importance) are faith, obedience and love. These are the things to grow and excel in. Let them determine what, how, when and to whom you give. Once again, God does not take bribe. He is bound by law not to.

refiner:
Ewwwww...*pukes*

I rather sleep under d bridge than work for the chinese...and my God will not place in the situation i will be faced with only d two choices..

Don't tempt God. You don't wanna go there. Trust me.

Then why not remain there and fight to ensure the promises to the electorate are fulfilled. Service is just lost on most Nigerians. Very unprincipled, visionless folks calling themselves leaders. And the worst thing is that he has an assembly of equally dense followers.

abumeinben:
So?
What has his private life got to do with his deliverables at work?

If you own a company..... a lot my dear....in Nigeria a lot, believe you me.

Just passing.....

Ignoramus. Why not find out the circumstance first before mocking yourself instead. You think crime fighting is a pass to a tea party or an amusement park. They were purchased for crime fighting and the last time I checked it is a violent business. What you should rather ask is what training the operators undergo in order to protect themselves and the public and whether there are mechanisms in place to return such operational vehicles to patrols within the shortest possible time, i.e. is such a motorpool sustainable. Next time a soldier, airman or sailor returns from battle ask him why his body and his equipment bears the scars of conflict.

Exactly how much has the American mint industry pushed into circulation...ooh mein gott.

Onyejemechimere:
Nollywood actress, Juliet Patrick Odigwe has revealed how a certain popular movie producer in Owerri, Imo State, asked her for six rounds of sex for six movie roles.

The Anambra State-born thespian who spoke to Sun said that she declined the offer, adding that producers in the industry would go extra miles to sleep with up-coming actresses.



http://www.lailasblog.com/offered-six-movie-roles-six-rounds-sex-actress-juliet-odigwe/

Because there is no talent. Competency trumps corruption anyday. Diamonds are terribly small but tough and precious. Men give their lives to get it. Go for excellence ma'am. Asking you for se.x shows there isn't much more on display.

SmartyPants:
Dont be clever by half. There is a gulf of difference in hiring mercenaries to fight your war and inviting state employed Israeli trainers to train your troops.

You're right. That is exactly what President Roosevelt said about the CIA in Vietnam and much later the CIA in Nicaragua. It always starts with 'train' ing. But when the locomotive passes the carriages follow. Buy Nigeria mbok.

Hmmmm....what about 'buy Nigeria' policy....is this not capital flight again.

Her fault.

BUHARItesticles:
Painful! See how Nigeria is being traded and shared by few individuals.
God punish our selfish politicians

As long as the black man cannot think straight for himself, someone else will akways be there to do it. Hopeless, futureless country.

NickiSlay:
The world is advancing .

To where....I get it off a cliff. At this rate your grand daughter will be wearing what....and by then rape will be constitutional.....advancing.....

Na God Almighty I dey pity. A thousand years is like a day to Him so in a 90 minute movie He sees how His creation has deteriorated to decadent destruction. Sad.

Puddings...that is all we eat....terrible.

That is what we have been saying for years. The state of emergency concerning power should have permitted all comers to generate, transmitt and distribute. It is when you have capacity that you regulate. By putting the cart before the horse in an emergency like this you create cartels who prey on folks because demand far outstrips supply. Same with petroleum, modular refineries till you have capacity then regulate.

The only downside to this is the mention of gas which quite frankly irritates me. Lagos has no gas and except if it can import sufficient quantities to keep the plants running we are in for another white elephant. Lagos is a coastal city thus surrounded by immense green potential. It can exploit these as a longer term solution for complete energy independence.

texazzpete:
Funny.
If you mention GEJ's poor administration now as being a massive cause of the current economic issues we face, many of those ejaculating nonsense here will whine that we should stop looking backwards.
Yet they Find it easy to go back to 1983 to blame Buhari for issues of today.

Hypocrites.

Oga. Economies go up and down. We judge regimes and adminitrations by the establishment and strengthening of institutions. Institutions are the difference between developed and under developed countries. Ask those who are on the outside looking in why they don't want Nigeria. No1. The rule of law. And this is what dictatorships destroy immediately they asume power. It is the rule of law that removed Jonathan, it is the rule of law that OBJ wanted to subvert in his typical dictatorial tendency and if not for the much villified NA we will not even be talking about the APC or Buhari today. Economy is secondary. If this regime can improve the rule of law and support all ancillary institutions that uphold it then it will succeed. You should ask how well it is going about that.

rusher14:
OK.

Inspector General Adewusi of the "Kill and Go" fame. Who doubled as the hatchet man for the NPN in the run up to the 1983 elections.

A case in point; a bus conveying some 6 members of the was waylaid by NPN boys and in the glaring view of over a hundred armed policemen, they were shot at, in their bid to survive, some attempted to climb through the windows but were clubbed by their assailants.

P.388 Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds by Nicolas Karolides.

Many more such occurrences took place with Adewusi being the linchpin.

No surprise a command was made in 1984 to stop his reign of terror.

A man who could command a troop of policemen to be so sinister could even be used in taking over government.

So in your wisdom you destroy institutions because of rogue individuals...and here we are today. Is the police better now than then. The way some of you people think, there is just no hope for this country. Like the folks described, you guys just respond to everything spontaneously and emotionally without deep thought, which is typical of the black man. In the history of every institution on earth in every sphere of endeavour you will always have individuals who will misuse, abuse and undermine function and authority for whatever personal motive. When things are to be corrected they are done by reforms not destruction, refocusing such institutions to their core visions and mandates.

I always say, the simple role of leadership is to inspire, period. To do is the task of the inspired. What a leader does reflects on what his followers will invariably continue. It is no surprise the police today is mediocre, disorganised, partisan, militarised, ignorant, and unable to shake off the vestages of colonial rule. You can see even the Oba's recommendation for securing highways is to build more police stations along the affected routes which means more checkpoints, which means Nigeria inching closer to the density of checkpoints in Kandahar or Mosul. Is that progress. Countries like Russia, Canada and the states will require millions of policemen to handle their highways stretching into tens of thousands of kilometres across several time zones. Is it too hard to find out how these countries keep their highways free of crime and copy it. But no, you cannot bring your mind to think we can live better.

Continue supporting rubbish and make your country a dump site. The truncating of democracy is one of the reasons we are where we are today and the destruction of the police with all civilian institutions will continue to haunt this country for decades to come. Take it or leave it. Be talking about a man, a man, a man, a man....as if you are not aware that the man is dead and gone. Don't face your future and that of your children. They will question you.

Who cares. Told you folks corruption was not Nigeria's problem. I don't know why you guys are angry. It is oyel money. Your sweat ain't in it.

Well their punishment will be expected but you can't but admire how this government continues to recruit followers and admirers of this man by continuously shooting itself in the foot by its actions and utterances. Wisdom is being sacrificed on the altar of hate and it will be the biggest undoing of Nigeria at the end if calm heads don't prevail. The time is ticking on this country. Restructure Nigeria now.

Wow....

AntiWailer:
why wont president sign a constitution amendment.

Are these guys crazy ?

Well see it this way. The President like every individual has a view and a bias that may or not be favourable to certain aspects like you and I. A wider representation makes it possible to water down that bias.

Secondly legislators are closer to the people and see them more frequently. When last did the man in Akwa Ibom or Sokoto see Mr. President after the campaign. Even at the best of times (OBJ and IBB being the best travellers the past 40 years) the needs of the people are dynamic and certainly a lot of things have changed since 2015.

Lastly, accountability. The President is less accountable to the people than their reps. In fact, in developed economies/democracies the reps often take the fire locally for the policies of the central government especially where both are of the same political party and that is why they often battle the executive in session because they want to be seen at least to resist unpopular policies. It is only fair they be given a wide latitude to decide certain aspdcts of governance.

Remember democracy is all about representation. I know this is relatively new in Nigeria and years of dictatorship has eaten away at our ability to collectively decide stuff without the favour and pleasure of a 'strongman' but this is the only way to develop.

Totally concur. Having 500 odd people take a decision is less dangerous than letting one man do same. However the problem is getting 500 to agree on a positive thing in Nigeria is akin to me hitting a hole in one from...500 yards.... nigh impossible.

I disagree in part. Money may be a great need but she is currently out of place (perhaps) due to something more important than money, which is wisdom and most of the time money are the clouds that block the sun of inspiration from shinning through. Wisdom is so important that it controls destinies and shortens the lag between inspiration and achievement. I mean it should decide whether you should study chemical engineering and not food (fish) processing in the first place. But kudos for the effort and as they say, more grease to your elbows.

Akpan107:
My brother, our Niger Deltan leaders are disappointing us.

They should speak fire and not mere meetings. The militants are ever ready to blow all the pipelines and bring down oil production to zero.

100% resource control is the only guarantee for total peace in the Niger Deltan.

I think it is time to end this 'we', 'we' syndrome that makes everyone focus on leadership to subsidize his or her lack of knowledge, effort and willpower. Leadership is merely to inspire and organise, period. Achievement comes from individual members of society. I repeat again, today the man Akwa Ibom benefits from the agitation in Warri. The roads and flyovers in Uyo can be traced to Saro Wiwa hung by Abacha. The foreign trained pilots and engineers owe it to some dead militant whose body has returned to the mud in the creeks. Is too much to ask why are more people including you and I are not inspired by these selfless acts of sacrifice to individually contribute their own quota to the good of their communities and the country at large. Edwin Clarke may be all what people call him but remove him from the equation, who is there to take his place, you.? He should be commended for keeping on the pressure when all others have been cowed by the owners of Nigeria. Be careful what you wish for abeg.

seifini:
Only Anambra isn't owing salaries in all of the southeast. How would the south east automatically become a land of milk and honey when food is not coming from the north and import and import are not coming from Lagos and Rivers ports?

The same way when you leave your father's house for the first time wondering how you will cope, then ten years later regretting why you didn't do it much earlier. And they say Nigerians are brave, hardworking people, adept to risk taking. Till today I am yet to see that in the people called by that name that hold tight to daddy's central rule, command and control and mommy's crude oil allocation. Useless big for nothing people. At least the igbos want to risk it. Thank goodness.

omenka:
The government can keep on greasing palms after palms just to placate these people, the blackmail will NEVER stop as long as we have no other major means of sustenance.

I remember an article Bruce wrote sometime ago about the "dictatorship of the minority" (something like that) where he opined that "unless Nigeria finds oil in as much quantity elsewhere in the country as there is in the Niger Delta, the region would continue to hold the country to ransom". There, he made a case for the propriety of oil exploration in the Chad basin and other such places far flung from the ND.

He talked about the abhorrence of nature to the concept of singularity and how such situations, wherever they occur, breed nothing but trouble and alot other undesirable stuffs. Reason why in nature we muat always have such opposites like man and woman, forest and grassland, desert and ocean, day and night, black and white, rich and poor, etc.

As long as this situation of singularity/monopoly as regards our means of income as per location and commodity persists, this cycle of blackmail and intimidation in return for quick cash both from the elders and youths of the region will continue to be our lot.

Go get some other thing to do. Earn a living for goodness sake. Newyork has no oil. Texas has some. The average Texan is no better economically and the Newyorker has no desire to grab his oil. Lazy lot. Blackmail ko, blackmail ni. Sit there and don't develop. These militants or agitators are the greatest agents for true change and development in this country. And they will force Nigerians to work whether we like it or not. I support them 110 percent. Months ago when hunger was ravaging they were dancing around diversification. Now that oil prices are steadying, the curse is back and everyone has forgotten. What rubbish.