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9ijaMan:
Chief, you have once again failed to consult your history books properly. ETF only started to deliver project from 1999 after Buhari had left the scene. ETFs projects came to being after OBJ summarily scrapped PTF. The projects I've referred to were all executed mostly before 1999. If you don't know, all you need to do is ask or consult the internet or better still go back to the respective institutions and confirm. No need to muddle things up, there was no ETF project before 1999. See the ETF official web link on ETF projects for yourself.

http://www.etf.gov.ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=186

Abeg get yourself informed before casting aspersions on Buhari.

Dude your crass ignorance of history and stupifying arguments is making you desperate to want to resort to hitting below the belt, Between the two of us who obviously has shown an utter lack of history knowledge. Now you want to kid yourself trying to lecture your superiors about the difference between ETF and PTF and the time of their inception like that was the bone of contention here. In case you dont know dumbo, it behoves on you who has made the dubiuos claims to come up with facts to your far-fetched claims. Instead of downplaying the facts starring you in the face about your bigoted principal, may be you should at least make attempts to prove them wrong. PTF only became defunct in 1999, how come it is so difficult to see any of their left over projects in the South, for crying out loud it is barely 12years and yet there is hardly any proof of any significant project by the much touted PTF. All we hear is go and ask this go ask that, dont you find it curious that there is no statistics to prove anything definitive about what PTF did. I Dare YOU to come out with statistical proof to back up your claim.

Ekt_bear
At times I worry about what too much theoretical education does to people like you. People like you can give a thousand reasons why something should not be done even if it is very obvious some people are doing it and are making head way, however little. Just because certain practicable policies go against your normal western economic explanation models, does not mean it will neccessarily fail.
I find the logic that until the nagging problems of power generation is entirely fixed we should not contemplate venturing into heavy duty industrialization.
You worry more about power like you understand its implications better than these auto manufacturers and their group of professional advisers.
For your information, at this juncture of their endeavour, they are mostly worried about patronage and lack of motivation from government who should show encouragement by patronizing them first to show private individuals the quality of their production. Dont just sit down in your arm chair and paint very simplistic economic scenarios like you know any better. Have you even worked in any heavy industry before? Or you just like to quote figures you ve no idea of. If everyone in Nigeria thinks the way you do, things would have come to a grinding halt. You forget that even without the attendant problems of power, common economic sense demands that they still will need FG's support whether in the form of patronage or subsidies, there is nothing out of place about that. Even Americans that preach so much about capitalism had no qualms propping up their failing banks and auto-industry, yet you want them to survive by virtue of just some acclaimed quality standards , conveniently forgetting quality and standards are functions of experience, long time research and a good balance sheet.
@9jaman
You never fail to display your crass ignorance of very simplistic and common ideas and processes.
Which vehicle manufacturing company does a 100% production of every parts of its products from raw materials to engines and so on. Ever heard of the word "outsourcing" before? Every business enterprice does it to reduce cost and increase competetive edge, Innoson is no different from them, it does not make him or his company any less a vehicle manufacturing enterprise.
People should learn to criticize objectively and stop arguing like western zombies.

@9jaman
Which Niger Delta Federal Universities are you talking about? UniPort or Unical both of which I know very well, there is no such thing as a PTF building or projects there. Don't mistake ETF projects for the defunct PTF's. You talk with so much ignorance and reckless abandon of facts in your blind followership of Buhari, you have turned him into an overnight saint.
This Buhari who you now paint in such glorious terms may have appeared to you as an angel, may indeed be anything else but one. Let us look at this Buhari in an objective manner and see if he indeed is as rosy as you paint him. In 1984, fresh from his coup against what you so call "Shagari's inept and corrupt regime" (and pray tell me which man made regime is free from ineptitude or corruption?) he introduced the War Against Indiscipline or "WAI" which Nigerians accepted with open hands. This man then went on to change the colouration of the currency, ostensibly to check economic saboteurs, and capital flight and he also directed that foreign currency could not be taken out of the country, except a very little sum approved by the CBN. In that same year and at the height of his WAI, we all saw how the matter of an important emir and his 54 suitcases of money seized at Murtala Mohammed Airport was handled. But what was even more curious was that around the time of this incidence, the maverick musician Fela who was traveling for a musical tour to Italy with his band boys was caught with less than a thousand pounds, and was subsequently arrested. Not only was he arrested and tried, but another mysterious telephone call was made to Justice Okoro Idogu the trial judge by Buhari's deputy Tunde Idiagbon, ordering that Fela must be found guilty and given a stiff sentence. This coming from Justice Idogu's very own mouth. Buhari and Idiagbon in their zeal to enhance discipline and curb economic waste, ordered that no underaged person cold go on Hajj to Mecca (under aged being under 18).The same Idiagbon, under Buhari then proceeded to take his own underaged son in the presidential jet to perform hajj. Buhari's government passed a law to the effect that if you publish anything that even if true was in the opinion of the chief of staff supreme military council, capable of embarrassing any public official, then you had committed a crime. When the nation thought he was joking, he sent two journalist, and a cartoonist to jail for publishing materials which were TRUE, but which Buhari found uncomplimentary. When asked by journalist when he was going to transit Nigeria into a democracy, this very man Buhari answered that he had no time for that. You mention that Buhari paid half our national debt. That is a untrue! The fact is that Buhari repudiated all Nigeria's international financial commitments, and stopped all payments till debts could be verified. This ostensibly is a good policy, only that all international financial institution till today lost faith in Nigeria, and refused to give Nigeria credits for her imports. Nigeria from thence on had to always finance her imports before hand by guaranteeing them with her foreign reserves. Further on the economy, Buhari began to barter Nigeria's oil for goods Nigeria needed. Why? Because nobody would do business with the country based on credit, in other words Nigeria was no longer credit worthy, as such we became desperate and started going against our OPEC commitments by bartering our oil for goods far less than their value! In a religious and ethnically heterogeneous country as ours, Buhari saw no problem that both the head of state and his vice under his regime were of the same religion and ethnicity, Muslim Hausa Fulani (although many in the south erroneously believed that from his name, Idiagbon was Yoruba). And while Buhari's tribunals which tried the civilian governors threw them in jail with terms ranging from 5 years to 250 years, it was on record that the cost of keeping the military governors he appointed was more than that of their civilian predecessors (A practice which continued into the Babangida years) Everybody in Nigeria knew that Abacha was an usurper, and that he was uncontrollably corrupt and was also involved in state sponsored murder, but Buhari who you paint in such glowing colours, still agreed to serve under such a man as the chairman of PTF. As chairman of PTF, he made his own cousin the sole consultant for monitoring and assessing the value of contracts. Afriproject consortium was so corrupt that at the inception of Abdulsalami's regime, fearful of exposure, Buhari's cousin committed suicide in his office. When the books of PTF were opened, the can of worms was so much that Haruna Adamu said he felt sickened by it. One body determined the contracts to be awarded, the payments to be made and whether the contracts had been satisfied. Do you know PTF estate in Wuse? The sweetheart deal that Buhari's PTF made with the contractor was so sweet. Not only would the contractor collect rent from PTF, but after 8 years, the place would be his to own! Also, it is on record that though most of the monies which accrued to PTF was sourced from the south, a disproportionately large amount of projects were concentrated in the north, and particularly in Buhari's home state of Katsina, with little done in the east and Niger Delta which needed help more than ever! Is Buhari a statesman? Please ask yourself and answer objectively.

tyrant11:
what is wrong with these silly igbos , do u think i cant go to china and buy a whole bunch of cheap junka nd sell in lagos or elsewhere. I am about to do that by the way. buhahhaa.

well let me tell u , south west dont need you for nothing save to work on our farms.

we already have guaranteed oil and gas reserves in ondo state.

we also have  more off the coast in lagos. just check out this oil well alone already hold 1.2 trillion cubic feet of gas and 232 million barrells of crude. .and its about to start producing. aje oil well (check the end of the first page)
http://www.sovereignoil.com/PDFs/Aje_Teaser_30_Nov_06.pdf

and thats just a small section of lagos , and if u dont know, all of the coast line of ondo belongs to yorubas.
[img]http://grandioseparlor.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/ondo1.PNG [/img]


and ofcourse we already have close to 40 billion of bitumen in lagos ogun and ondo alone,  which can be processed into oil and sold on world markets. this is what canada and venezuela do and we can join them. 


then we can move on to gold , which we have more than in abundance in osun state ,

if u havent heard the segilola gold project is about to launch. very soon we will be competeing with south africa.

http://www.ratelgroup.com/projects.php?id=1
http://www.punchng.com/Article2Print.aspx?theartic=Art201002053272267

and then we can talk of limestone(our region produces most of the cement )  , granite,  iron ore and other minerals we have an abundance of. 

and don't forget our huge agricultural base and educated manpower. so if some dummy somewhere in the swamps or in the east , think that we need them, they need to go check themselves.


the west will rise again, this i can be sure of.

so bleeping easterners or whatever , pack your bags its time for u to go . sell your properties.

.

what an eeeeeeediot.

9jiman
Your arguement is very petty and preposterous, it reminds me of one mediocrity pointing accusing fingers at another mediocrity and screaming you are more mediocre. The issue is not whether he executed projects through the PTF, the main bone of contention is was the siting of these projects lopsided and very unfair to other regional sections of the country? Why should you take resources from peter in the name of sharing it equally to everyone only for most of my resources to end up with John because john happens to be your brother.
I find it appalling that Buhari's supporter's are so in tune to conveniently forget some fundamental character flaws by the man they so vehemently support.

Lagosboy:
Which south are you referring to SW SE or SS. it is better to be specific

I was talking about The SE. .even in the SW where I grow up, we still ve cases like that. And dont even try to tell me GEJ wont do well in lag, that is a big lie. At state level PDP may not be doing too well but federal they still command a mammoth following, you cant possibly argue that Buhari or Ribadu is more popular than GEJ in a place like Lagos even if it is an ACN controlled state. It is not like Lagos is comprised of Yorubas alone(whom many amongst them will still vote for GEJ), there are igbos in large quantity, southsouthans in large quantity too plus we have midbelters too. Dont confuse the fact that many lagosians speak yoruba for them being yorubas, i too speak yoruba. Even in other SW states like Osun, Oyo (which by the way has a large number of registered voters) and the ACN controlled states PDP and GEJ still controls a better following than Buhari and Ribadu put together.

Some people just like to exaggerate Buhari's potentials and downplay GEJ's. It is not about giving support to your favourites, the reality on ground is that to an average rural Nigerian in the south, Buhari is an unknown name to them. GEJ is more recognized plus PDP is the only party my grandmum and a lot of old folks in the rural areas can remember when it comes to parties. The other time there was some sort of mobilization of women by the PDP, they chanted party songs in igbo language and stuff, it shows you PDP is realy grass root and on ground everywhere. That is how elections are won, taking it down to the grass root and making urself an item

Adelaide2:
In essence, Igbo determine who wins.

Adelaide2:
In essence, Igbo determine who wins.

. . . In the scenario painted yes. Dont mess with the sprawling population of the Igbo. The fact is this, an Igbo man will register and vote in his place of residence but an hausa or Fulani in say owerri, onitsha, Aba or even lagos would rather travel to the north and do his thing and then come back.

The advantage GEJ has over all the candidates is the bulk support and followership he commands in the whole of the eastern region especially the igbos. The eastern region has the highest number of population spread and that is what is going to give GEJ the widespread acceptance that the constitution demands. Take for instance the NW and the SW regions which have the higest numbers of registered voters have a good number of Igbo people in their mix; lagos Kano and Kaduna whose numbers are the highest can attest to my claim.

Going from INEC's provisional figures released, the North-West leads the six geo- political zones with 18,900,543 eligible voters. And this is where Buhari has concentrated his campaigns. Now lets look at other figures coming from the north;
North-East, 10,038,119.
North-Central, 7,675,369.
In total, the north where Mr Buhari has a stranglehold and has almost entirely based his campaigns constitutes over 35million votes of the 67,764,327 Nigerians were registered at the end of the registration exercise. This therefore means that the North constitutes more than 50% of the total votes, enough to give Buhari a good lead and perhaps win the election if he can get at least 35% of these votes which is very possible.
However, there is something wrong with such projections as its principles are in parallel with one of the provisions of the the Nigerian Constitution Chapter VI, Section 134(2), for an aspirant to win an election:
1. He must have the highest number of votes cast at the election.
Lets assume Buhari fulfils this first provision, this then takes us to the 2nd provision:
2. He has not less than a quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two-thirds of all states in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) What this translates to, in a country with 36 states and over 70 Million registered voters, is that: 1.
This is exactly where Buhari's campaign logic becomes flawed because to obtain 2/3rd majority a presidential candidate has to win in at least four zones. This is healthy for the country so we do not have lopsided popularity or support for the president.
And this is where the PDP is getting it right with their all-round campaign, they are not leaving any stone unturned and have shown that the party is the most de-tribalized and all-inclusive party as they have clearly shown to every of the six geopolitical zones that they need their votes to win, hence, giving every one of them a sense of belonging, responsibility and entitlement to make efforts to cast and protect their votes unlike Buhari who has clearly shown with his lopsided campaigns that he does not care if a section of the country do not recognize him, with the large votes of the north he can at least get a re-run, and perhaps come to a compromise with Ribadu and Shekarau to win more votes from them to clinch victory. Alas with GEJ's very elaborate campaigns and even popularity, like Americans will say; "Buhari's chances are overrated" because besides GEJ (who has a fair popularity in the North esp in the NC and NE), there is still the Ribadu and Shekarau factor both of whom GEJ will beat hands down in the South and give them heartbreaks up north.

Buhari is the most Bigoted Leader that Nigeria has ever had, so intolerant and has a warped sense of justice and fairness. Only a political novice will vote him in. His reign in the ptf was low point for Nigeria, this guy did little or nothing in the SE or SS sub regions likewise the SW. I laugh when his supporter talk about his supposedly moral rectitude, the man is not corrupt yet he willingly served under Abacha as PTF chairman and not for one day take a morally upright stand to resign inspite of Abacha's despotic regime. Upright man my budding a$s.

sbeezy8:
^^^ haha

id live in Lagos abeokuta ibadan akure abuja then if not benin city, Kaduna, Benue state , warri, calabar THEN GHANA BENIN, TOGO, US, UK, CANADA KENYA SOUTH AFRICA

BUT DEF NOT ANY OF THE SE- those small 5 baby states or PH - one cannot even wipe their yansh well without brushing shoulders with someone else chai na waoooooo

CHINEKE GODFORBID

. . LoL. .this kid is a genetic garbage. . Wetin U dey feel like na? Dangote or Adenuga? Like if you come there anyone will even notice an asswipe like you. .hahaha. . Guy get over yourself jor, the world does not revolve around you. Nobody is asking your likes to visit the east, there is just enough yoruba people in the east if na to see yoruba ppl be any easterner problem. .hahaha. . . But the fact is SW is no safer than SE or SS, so using that as an excuse to say yorubas are not much in the region because of that is lame. Na which time kidnapping even start for there sef? Those of us that know you very well, know that critical thinking has never been your forte, so why are you trying so hard to sound more inteligent thab you realy are? Didn't you use to be a regular visitor to the romance and sexuality section, you gay a$$, senile kiddo. You are better off displaying your distasteful sexual choice in those sections than overtasking your lame brain here.

Londoner has time engaging a certified slowpoke like Sbeezy that argues without the aids of his brains. I remember when the !diot used to be sjeezy he made himself so popular with his uncontrolable fits of crass stewpidity, the only one thing he did with flair and !diotic brawn was being arrogantly DUMB. Then he used to throw himself around as a student charge and bail lawyer in the U.S. .haha. . He obviously discovered that they were far more better silent achievers in Nairaland that don't get flustered by his very mediocre supposed achievements. Besides his ghetto lingos and very poor writing style always sold him out as just another average lucky guy in one of the ghettos in the U.S trying to boost his ego by throwing himself around. . .lol. .Nigga had to change his monika from the "dumb & Gay" SJEEZY-that used to give us some comic relief with his repertiore of very stewwpid theatrics-to an even dumber and lamer SBEEZY that spews gibberish from all four compasses of his dirty mouth.
I am very surprised Londoner even paid you any mind. . Lol. .what exactly did you say that got you her attention? Probably spewed your usual bigoted mumbo-jumbo and she thought you were a case that could be remedied and started debating in a civil manner with you.
As for the people talking about the East without any concrete knowledge, I laugh at your sheer arrogance at being foolhardy in your ignorance.
Southwest has everything the Yorubas need. .lol. .what a Dolt!
Until some of you visit the East and stay for at least a year, it is pointless arguing with all these school students that see every arguement as their usual "classroom-read about a topic and argue for or against it" debate. Person go dey for jand or yankee, e go wan tell person wey dey im own house for naija wetin they happen for im backyard. Na so una go dey argue with very arrogant ignorance from d far place wey una dey with ppl wey dey actually on ground. There is a clear difference between what is actually read but not experienced and what you read about and have had the experience of.
Igbos move to Lagos not because the southeast region is in any lack different from what every of the regions suffer but because of their itenerant business nature. Lagos is not the only Nigerian City with Igbo Neither is the Southwestern region, I wonder why you lot always like to see yourselves as an isolated case. To the extent of flirting with the temptation to equate it to the WEST. Like there are no Igbos of consequece in the east, do you know the population of Igbos in the east living very decent lives and have never been to the southwest before? If we were to do a head count of people in the east, especially the SE with better standards of living and those in the SW, Lagos being an exception, you lot will see the folly in your silly claims.
I am even appalled by eku-bear's assertion that trading does not have any economic value, what an ignorant statement from a supposedly educated person. So the employment created by trading is of no economic sense? The facts that monies realized from trading can be used to set up other businesses, educate their childrien and wards, pay their taxes and sustain a good standard of living do not constitute any economic importance, right?
Your idea of what constitute economic importance is warped, so everyone needs to be in a white collar job . . Lol. . You guys are just paper tigers that love to talk without testing the waters.

[quote author=EzeUche_ link=topic=631461.msg7985859#msg7985859 date=1301074517]Yes we shall be one big happy family. You all are welcomed to visit Enugu, Onitsha and Port Harcourt. Let us all unite and stop with this constant bickering. It is unbecoming. And VERY bad for business.[/quote]I trust my Igbo brothers for thinking strategically. . . I am loving the way you keep iterating it, now it is another regions turn to play the giver let us see how cheerfully they give. .lol
one Nigeria we stand.
By the way, Owerri is a better place to visit than onitsha, although, onitsha boasts of very many fine storey buildings thab any Nigerian City, Fact!
Eku-bear are u talkin 4rm the perspective of a person that has actually been to the SE or you are just another blabber mouth, mouthing off "mogbo mogbo" gists. I ve lived in Owerri now for close to 5 years and I can comfortably say Owerri is way safer a place to live in than Lagos. As I speak, I am in Ijebu Ode, and what I experienced on my way down to this place from lagos was horrific. A journey that shoull ve lasted for just 2hrs saw me getting home at almost 12 in the middle of the night. On getting to that sagamu-ore express road close to Bacock University junction, we reversed the car noticing there was a gang of robbers doing-what accordong to the gatemen of the University- their routine job. We parked at a corner in the bend of the junction waiting for them to finish their job or at least prayed that the NPF will listen to our numerous stress calls to them and tackle the situation. But for where na? These guys had the whole high way to themselves for over 2hrs, at some point they started approaching our direction and every1 fled their belongings and vehicles in helter-skelter, for over an hour I was just running up and down and stopping at intervals around that road that leads to the University's main gate. At a point I even had to beg the gate men to let me sleep inside the school and continue my journey in the morning, that was about the time men of the NPF finally came out and scared the robbers away or prolly the robbers had already left sef. It was realy terrible. Yet this happened in the southwest, I always say it that most of the time, the situation in the SE and SS regions are exaggerated out of proportion. Of course there were orchestrated kidnappings in the 2 subregions but to talk like that is the order of events there even now, is an ignorant claim. The SW is no safer a place to live in than the SE or the SS, it is just a matter of perception. All of Nigeria is not safe to live in at all. No need talking like it is safe to live in one place than the other, if some overzealous politician does not kill or maim you in the SW, you may fall prey for some criminal gang kidnapping in d eastern region or get killed in the north because of your religion or tribe, that is the Nigeria of today for you.

The fact that these three grown men can form a coalition and say because you the main opposition did not attend the first one we are not going to honour this one goes to confirm my earlier assertions in some thread that the ideology of opposition in this country is greatly flawed and every tom, nkem and ali wants to use the PDP as a cover-up to realize their own selfish goals of becoming the president for regional power sake. So lets say the PDP was defeatefd then what next? Is it those very shallow responses and PDP bashing complaints they keep giving during that debate that will move Nigeria forward? Are they realy in the contest for PDP or for Nigeria? Why the obsession with PDP as if it was the only political party whose candidate did not turn up? Am not even interested in seeing any of the trio, they are full of BS, I would rather see a debate with people like Utomi taking a dig at GEJ than any of the trio looking for a cheap excuse to shy away from the real debate that every Nigerian, especially those of us that were young during Buhari's very tyrant reign as military head of state.
NEDG has the requisite experience and reach to organize the debate with more qualified moderators that actually have a knowledge of Nigeria's politiics.

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Once upon a time, Dapo ‘D’banj’ Oyebanjo,
was the musical sweetheart of many and
poster-boy of the Nigerian hip hop music
industry. Youthful and good looking with
a finely chiseled body, energetic on and
off stage, he gifted Nigerians a string of
commercially successful albums that
earned him a place among the pantheon
of contemporary music stars in a short
while.
With the production wizardry of Don
Jazzy, he could croak into the microphone
and almost so effortlessly sell millions of
copies, nick multi-million naira
endorsement deals and performance
engagements from the east to the west
and everywhere around the globe. This is
despite that his music thrives on
sloganeering and ephemeral lyrics. But
like the saying goes, who God has blessed
no man can curse. The past five years
have been D ’banj’s and it does not beggar
understanding that his musical odyssey
is the stuff fantasies are made of.
He started the first quarter of 2011 as a
transformational, pioneering figure in the
industry when the video of Mr. Endowed
remix featuring Snoop Dogg was
released. The video put paid to every
doubt that D ’banj featured the iconic
American rapper on his song. Hardly had
the euphoria of this international
collaboration subsided than it emerged
that Grammy awards winning rapper,
Kanye West, wanted a piece of the D ’banj
mojo. West actually tweeted at he and
Don Jazzy to hurry over to New York City
because there was work to be done.
And they responded immediately. Thus
earning the Mo ’hits guys widespread
reverence. In truth, every musician worth
his salt would have given a limb to be in
the shoes of the Mo ’hits guys even if for
just a day. Hitherto, he was the high
water mark by which other artistes were
measured.
The misstep?
Sadly, D ’banj is ending the same quarter
of just three months as a punch line. Last
Thursday, March 17, the singer crossed
the line between appealing and appalling
as the choice interviewer of President
Goodluck Jonathan in an interview
packaged by Silverbird Television. He was
seen as the perfect medium through
which the president could reach the
youth. That never happened. Rather, he
wedged a distance between himself and
his touch-point. The contention, among
many others, is that for an artiste of his
repute who has interacted with the
media even more than his interview
subject perhaps, he posted an abysmal
performance. He spent more time
fidgeting and nodding in acquiescence to
his own questions and ended up
disappointing the teeming youths he was
to help the president win over in the April
polls. Not only was he severely panned
for his unintelligible interviewing skills
that saw him asking just three questions
in an interview of about 30 minutes, he
did not ask a single follow up question
despite several opportunities to do so.
D ’banj was perceived as having frittered
away a golden chance to passionately
express the disenchantment of Nigerian
youths to the president.
The thin line between
love and hate
Indeed, there is a thin line between love
and hate while the line between fame
and infamy is thinner. D ’banj has joined a
growing list of celebrities riding the crest
of popularity and seeming infallibility
until a misdemeanor, a misstep brings
them back to reality. In just 30minutes, all
the myth around him evaporated and the
sad part is that everyone now perceives
him as just a shallow and smug artiste.
The youth ’s anger at D’banj’s inept
handling of the interview literally set
blogosphere on fire even before it ended
and thereafter with many virtually calling
for his head. Inadvertently, he became
the sacrificial lamb of the president ’s
refusal to participate in the presidential
debate organised by satellite television
channel, NN24. It was so bad that the
invectives could make a faint-hearted
artiste consider a career detour.
According to a well syndicated,
anonymous message, “D’banj speaking
for Nigerian youths is the highest form of
insult we have received recently. Does he
know what it means to go through a
Nigerian university for four years plus
and come out without getting a job ?” The
questions over his suitability for the role
and conclusions were as scathing as they
were hilarious. Funnily, too, his name
was caricaturized as D ’banjiing,
translated as “The dogmatic act of
nodding one’s head idiotically and
stupidly in an attempt to overshadow the
disconnection to the topic being
discussed. ” He was also seen in a
photograph labeled ‘scapegoat’ with the
reins in the President’s hand. Another
photograph also appeared on Facebook
where D ’banj was dancing with a topless
lady while being castigated as a misfit
and unworthy role model.
Now, there is a groundswell of threat to
boycott everything about brand D ’banj
with an anonymous group opening a
twitter page to make this effective.
Incidentally, the interview took place
about two days after his Kokomobile
phones hit the market. Not a few
Nigerians have pilloried the phone saying
it is inferior and nothing compared to the
cheapest phones in the market. This
probably wouldn ’t have been the case
two weeks back.
The reality
Apparently, brand D’banj is in trouble. He
certainly needs a reboot. However, D’banj
did not set out to falter or be demystified.
No discerning individual would have
rejected the opportunity and honour to
confer with the president of his country
irrespective of political or religious or
ethnic affiliation.
D’banj was just in the right place at the
wrong time and he pandered too gullibly
to his puppet masters ’ whims. Perhaps a
more intuitive and better informed
individual would have fathomed that he
was being choreographed to fail, but he
was probably too carried away to reason
logically. As crushed and battered as his
image and ego have become, D ’banj
should count himself lucky that he is a
Nigerian where the people forgive and
forget easily. He will bounce back.

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was the musical sweetheart of many and
poster-boy of the Nigerian hip hop music
industry. Youthful and good looking with
a finely chiseled body, energetic on and
off stage, he gifted Nigerians a string of
commercially successful albums that
earned him a place among the pantheon
of contemporary music stars in a short
while.
With the production wizardry of Don
Jazzy, he could croak into the microphone
and almost so effortlessly sell millions of
copies, nick multi-million naira
endorsement deals and performance
engagements from the east to the west
and everywhere around the globe. This is
despite that his music thrives on
sloganeering and ephemeral lyrics. But
like the saying goes, who God has blessed
no man can curse. The past five years
have been D ’banj’s and it does not beggar
understanding that his musical odyssey
is the stuff fantasies are made of.
He started the first quarter of 2011 as a
transformational, pioneering figure in the
industry when the video of Mr. Endowed
remix featuring Snoop Dogg was
released. The video put paid to every
doubt that D ’banj featured the iconic
American rapper on his song. Hardly had
the euphoria of this international
collaboration subsided than it emerged
that Grammy awards winning rapper,
Kanye West, wanted a piece of the D ’banj
mojo. West actually tweeted at he and
Don Jazzy to hurry over to New York City
because there was work to be done.
And they responded immediately. Thus
earning the Mo ’hits guys widespread
reverence. In truth, every musician worth
his salt would have given a limb to be in
the shoes of the Mo ’hits guys even if for
just a day. Hitherto, he was the high
water mark by which other artistes were
measured.
The misstep?
Sadly, D ’banj is ending the same quarter
of just three months as a punch line. Last
Thursday, March 17, the singer crossed
the line between appealing and appalling
as the choice interviewer of President
Goodluck Jonathan in an interview
packaged by Silverbird Television. He was
seen as the perfect medium through
which the president could reach the
youth. That never happened. Rather, he
wedged a distance between himself and
his touch-point. The contention, among
many others, is that for an artiste of his
repute who has interacted with the
media even more than his interview
subject perhaps, he posted an abysmal
performance. He spent more time
fidgeting and nodding in acquiescence to
his own questions and ended up
disappointing the teeming youths he was
to help the president win over in the April
polls. Not only was he severely panned
for his unintelligible interviewing skills
that saw him asking just three questions
in an interview of about 30 minutes, he
did not ask a single follow up question
despite several opportunities to do so.
D ’banj was perceived as having frittered
away a golden chance to passionately
express the disenchantment of Nigerian
youths to the president.
The thin line between
love and hate
Indeed, there is a thin line between love
and hate while the line between fame
and infamy is thinner. D ’banj has joined a
growing list of celebrities riding the crest
of popularity and seeming infallibility
until a misdemeanor, a misstep brings
them back to reality. In just 30minutes, all
the myth around him evaporated and the
sad part is that everyone now perceives
him as just a shallow and smug artiste.
The youth ’s anger at D’banj’s inept
handling of the interview literally set
blogosphere on fire even before it ended
and thereafter with many virtually calling
for his head. Inadvertently, he became
the sacrificial lamb of the president ’s
refusal to participate in the presidential
debate organised by satellite television
channel, NN24. It was so bad that the
invectives could make a faint-hearted
artiste consider a career detour.
According to a well syndicated,
anonymous message, “D’banj speaking
for Nigerian youths is the highest form of
insult we have received recently. Does he
know what it means to go through a
Nigerian university for four years plus
and come out without getting a job ?” The
questions over his suitability for the role
and conclusions were as scathing as they
were hilarious. Funnily, too, his name
was caricaturized as D ’banjiing,
translated as “The dogmatic act of
nodding one’s head idiotically and
stupidly in an attempt to overshadow the
disconnection to the topic being
discussed. ” He was also seen in a
photograph labeled ‘scapegoat’ with the
reins in the President’s hand. Another
photograph also appeared on Facebook
where D ’banj was dancing with a topless
lady while being castigated as a misfit
and unworthy role model.
Now, there is a groundswell of threat to
boycott everything about brand D ’banj
with an anonymous group opening a
twitter page to make this effective.
Incidentally, the interview took place
about two days after his Kokomobile
phones hit the market. Not a few
Nigerians have pilloried the phone saying
it is inferior and nothing compared to the
cheapest phones in the market. This
probably wouldn ’t have been the case
two weeks back.
The reality
Apparently, brand D’banj is in trouble. He
certainly needs a reboot. However, D’banj
did not set out to falter or be demystified.
No discerning individual would have
rejected the opportunity and honour to
confer with the president of his country
irrespective of political or religious or
ethnic affiliation.
D’banj was just in the right place at the
wrong time and he pandered too gullibly
to his puppet masters ’ whims. Perhaps a
more intuitive and better informed
individual would have fathomed that he
was being choreographed to fail, but he
was probably too carried away to reason
logically. As crushed and battered as his
image and ego have become, D ’banj
should count himself lucky that he is a
Nigerian where the people forgive and
forget easily. He will bounce back.

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Once upon a time, Dapo ‘D’banj’ Oyebanjo,
was the musical sweetheart of many and
poster-boy of the Nigerian hip hop music
industry. Youthful and good looking with
a finely chiseled body, energetic on and
off stage, he gifted Nigerians a string of
commercially successful albums that
earned him a place among the pantheon
of contemporary music stars in a short
while.
With the production wizardry of Don
Jazzy, he could croak into the microphone
and almost so effortlessly sell millions of
copies, nick multi-million naira
endorsement deals and performance
engagements from the east to the west
and everywhere around the globe. This is
despite that his music thrives on
sloganeering and ephemeral lyrics. But
like the saying goes, who God has blessed
no man can curse. The past five years
have been D ’banj’s and it does not beggar
understanding that his musical odyssey
is the stuff fantasies are made of.
He started the first quarter of 2011 as a
transformational, pioneering figure in the
industry when the video of Mr. Endowed
remix featuring Snoop Dogg was
released. The video put paid to every
doubt that D ’banj featured the iconic
American rapper on his song. Hardly had
the euphoria of this international
collaboration subsided than it emerged
that Grammy awards winning rapper,
Kanye West, wanted a piece of the D ’banj
mojo. West actually tweeted at he and
Don Jazzy to hurry over to New York City
because there was work to be done.
And they responded immediately. Thus
earning the Mo ’hits guys widespread
reverence. In truth, every musician worth
his salt would have given a limb to be in
the shoes of the Mo ’hits guys even if for
just a day. Hitherto, he was the high
water mark by which other artistes were
measured.
The misstep?
Sadly, D ’banj is ending the same quarter
of just three months as a punch line. Last
Thursday, March 17, the singer crossed
the line between appealing and appalling
as the choice interviewer of President
Goodluck Jonathan in an interview
packaged by Silverbird Television. He was
seen as the perfect medium through
which the president could reach the
youth. That never happened. Rather, he
wedged a distance between himself and
his touch-point. The contention, among
many others, is that for an artiste of his
repute who has interacted with the
media even more than his interview
subject perhaps, he posted an abysmal
performance. He spent more time
fidgeting and nodding in acquiescence to
his own questions and ended up
disappointing the teeming youths he was
to help the president win over in the April
polls. Not only was he severely panned
for his unintelligible interviewing skills
that saw him asking just three questions
in an interview of about 30 minutes, he
did not ask a single follow up question
despite several opportunities to do so.
D ’banj was perceived as having frittered
away a golden chance to passionately
express the disenchantment of Nigerian
youths to the president.
The thin line between
love and hate
Indeed, there is a thin line between love
and hate while the line between fame
and infamy is thinner. D ’banj has joined a
growing list of celebrities riding the crest
of popularity and seeming infallibility
until a misdemeanor, a misstep brings
them back to reality. In just 30minutes, all
the myth around him evaporated and the
sad part is that everyone now perceives
him as just a shallow and smug artiste.
The youth ’s anger at D’banj’s inept
handling of the interview literally set
blogosphere on fire even before it ended
and thereafter with many virtually calling
for his head. Inadvertently, he became
the sacrificial lamb of the president ’s
refusal to participate in the presidential
debate organised by satellite television
channel, NN24. It was so bad that the
invectives could make a faint-hearted
artiste consider a career detour.
According to a well syndicated,
anonymous message, “D’banj speaking
for Nigerian youths is the highest form of
insult we have received recently. Does he
know what it means to go through a
Nigerian university for four years plus
and come out without getting a job ?” The
questions over his suitability for the role
and conclusions were as scathing as they
were hilarious. Funnily, too, his name
was caricaturized as D ’banjiing,
translated as “The dogmatic act of
nodding one’s head idiotically and
stupidly in an attempt to overshadow the
disconnection to the topic being
discussed. ” He was also seen in a
photograph labeled ‘scapegoat’ with the
reins in the President’s hand. Another
photograph also appeared on Facebook
where D ’banj was dancing with a topless
lady while being castigated as a misfit
and unworthy role model.
Now, there is a groundswell of threat to
boycott everything about brand D ’banj
with an anonymous group opening a
twitter page to make this effective.
Incidentally, the interview took place
about two days after his Kokomobile
phones hit the market. Not a few
Nigerians have pilloried the phone saying
it is inferior and nothing compared to the
cheapest phones in the market. This
probably wouldn ’t have been the case
two weeks back.
The reality
Apparently, brand D’banj is in trouble. He
certainly needs a reboot. However, D’banj
did not set out to falter or be demystified.
No discerning individual would have
rejected the opportunity and honour to
confer with the president of his country
irrespective of political or religious or
ethnic affiliation.
D’banj was just in the right place at the
wrong time and he pandered too gullibly
to his puppet masters ’ whims. Perhaps a
more intuitive and better informed
individual would have fathomed that he
was being choreographed to fail, but he
was probably too carried away to reason
logically. As crushed and battered as his
image and ego have become, D ’banj
should count himself lucky that he is a
Nigerian where the people forgive and
forget easily. He will bounce back.

Yeah it is easy to conveniently suggest so as it helps your argument but sorry to puncture your souffle, there was a televised debate in 2007. I watched that of Pat Utomi vs Buhari on AIT. In 2003, I watched that of Okotie vs Jim Nwobodo and the one OBJ did alone, could not keep up with the rest cos in 2003 we had about 21 presidential candidates and many of them were paired up. So, Ask Nigerians that live in Nigeria, just because you could not watch it on youtube or DSTV does not mean it did not happen. I even remember the one with the very funny and clownish Sunny Okogwu in 2007 who was talking like a clown and was even dressed like one.
I remember laughing like mad at the man's countenance and replies

oolumide:
In a statement by the Jonathan/Sambo Campaign Organisation, signed by Mr. Ide Eguabor, director of media/publicity, the president said that he opted out of the debate because he had accepted to attend the one organized by the Nigerian Election Debate Group (NEDG), an amalgamation of the Nigeria’s mass media, the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN), the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON), the Nigeria Bar Association, National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), market women and other civil society groups, which has been organising the presidential debate series since 1999.

Sagamite
It is intellectually futile engaging in needless semantics; you know very well that at no point it was implied by the GEJ/Sambo group that the debate was going to be entirely organized by BON, it has always been a coalition effort of different Nigerian media groups of which BON is part of and the most recognized hence the repeated mention in place of NEDG.
And please dont tell me these guys have not been organizing it cos I remember vividly in 2003 Jim Nwobodo VS Okotie at least, of the numerous debates. Yes, In 1999 Obasanjo did not show up for a debate with the very articulatr Olu Falae but in 2003, he did show up for a debate with Buhari who did not show up. Obasanjo ended up debating with himself in 2003.
In 2007, it was even widespread cos we had the likes of Pat Utomi who wowed us with very articulate programs, he literaly had the whole floor to himself. Same with Okotie as well. Yaradua was scheduled to slug it out with Buhari but we know how that turned out too.
So what exactly do you mean by they have never organized a debate. I think your grouse or grouch is realy misplaced, NN24 is just another TV station in the media business, you can't compare their reach, coverage, experience and media standind with that of the NEDG and if the GEJ campaign group saw it that way and pulled out, it is their prerogative and nobody can flaw them on that one, FACT!

Akainzo:
You are a not-so-smart person! You have only posted up here that BON has NEVER organised a presidential debate but rather have always proposed one!
So to you, an organisation that has never done something should be respected and waited upon, than one that has put all plans in place to do one and has even done the Vice-Presidential debate. Cmon man, you can do better than this!

You are just another stray clueless hater that argues without facts and understanding of what is being argued. I wont waste my time indulging you, you probably don't know jack about the debate history of Nigeria.

9ijaMan:
What's all these noise about NN24 not having enough reach. A lot of my pals living within and outside 9ja saw the debate live online. Armed with a mobile phone, the debate was available for all to view. GEJ simply showed us whom he really is. All those who have been fooled to assume that he's humble now know better. I have known GEJ since his days as dep.gov and then governor in Bayelsa sate and I know for sure that humility is not one of the qualities he possesses.

And for those who talk about approachable, we all know that GEJ suffres from a multiple personality disorder, else how can one compare the total inconsistencies between his sermons on Facebook with the real GEJ as presented by D'Banj and as exposed by NN24. A PhD wielding president who is unable to define/explain the meaning of "job security" sure isn't worth the office he occupies!

Guy, you obviously dont live in Niaja hence your ignorant claims of many Nigerians streaming it online using their phone. . Lol. You guys dont get it sha! NN24 is very very very unknown in Nigeria and the only reputation that they have is their affiliations with international media houses nothing more. Like I have said before these guys are barely 5months in the business, I wonder how suddenly all these repute and experience have become their hallmark after only a few months of running and testing. Infact, I would have been more worried if the Debate was organized by NDGN and Jonathan did not show up but a mere NN24 with an elitist viewership? 4ck who cares? If they were all about democracy and not business how come they did not give other local stations the right to show it to Nigerias without DSTV connections or they reckon having a sole right to do so will swell their viewership especially with GEJ to endorse it with his attendance. Unfortunately for them GEJ is looking out for his own interest just like them and he did what he felt was right to better his interests. Until we see the one on march 29th, it is folly and just pure hating dissing the man for sth he is yet to do.

Sagamite, I am yet to fully understand your grouch over GEJ's non-attendance of NN24 debate, while you obsessed about it, you have repeatedly and deliberately chosen to conveniently ignore the fact that there is going to be another debate organized by the NDG. Why are you particular about that of NN24 like there is an agender or something close that you had expected. As for the history of the Nigerian presidential debates, here it is in a nutshell;
In 2003, It was organised by the Presidential Debate Steering Committee which was comprised of the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria, NPAN; the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria, BON; Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ; and the Guild of Editors. Thesame groups that are going to organise the march 29th debate.
In 2003 we had 9 contestants:
Major Mojisola Adekunle Obasanjo(Masses movement of Nigeria) vs Christopher Pere Ajuwa(Liberal Democratic party of Nigeria)
Abdul Kabir Balarabe Musa(people's redemption party) vs Sara Jibril(progressive action congress)
kalu idika kalu(New Nigerian People's party) vs Ferriara Anthonio Abayomi Jorge( Democratic Alternative)
ike Nwachukwu(national democratic party)vs Tunji Braithwait(Nigeria Advanced Party)
Jim Nwobod(United Nigeria people's party) vs Chris Okotie(justice Party)
Olusegun Obasanjo(pdp) vs Mohammedu buhari(ANNP)
which did not hold just like the one organized by thesame body in 1999 between OBJ and Olu Falae did not hold too.
In 2007 thesame NDGN organized the debates, it had Yaradua(who did not show up) Buhari, Pat Utomi, Okotie etc. So those of you trying to downplay the facts that the major organizers of the presidential debates has always been the NDGN which BON is a part of should take a chill pill and wait before jumping to conclusions.

Sagamite:
I stopped reading at this.

He should attend ALL reputable ones especially when armed with the knowledge that ALL his main opponents are attending it and it would be broadcasted and reported by mainstream local and international media.

ALL!

If he can't make that kind of judgement, HE IS NOT FIT to lead a nation. I repeat, IF HE CAN'T MAKE THAT KIND OF JUDGEMENT, HE IS NOT FIT TO LEAD A NATION!

Even several foreign diplomats were there!

He is a man with the IQ of a Siverback Gorilla.

I repeat: ALL!

. . Sagamite are you in anyway saying GEJ is not entitled to choosing which debate to attend? By the way, what makes NN24 a reputable media house? These guys are barely 5months in the business. Or is it because it is affiliated to CNN or because they use Ipad and latest technolofy? I mean what makes them reputable? So because Buhari, Ribadu and Shekarau attended, he must attend too even if it clashes with his campaign schedules and he can easily make up for it by attending another one with better reach and coverage. Come off it man, you can judge him by that wait until the 29th of march before calling him names and stuff.

Seriously, I see no need for all these uneccessary brouhaha over GEJ's non-attendance of the debate organized by NN24 like he is obliged to grace them with his attendance. Let us give the man the benefit of the doubt and wait, aftetall he says he will be attending the one organized by a more reputable and wholly Nigerian debate organized by a BON with a better reach, coverage and standing than the relatively unknown NN24 that is desperately looking for recognition and ratings. Apart from people with DSTV connections, more than %90 of Nigerians still would not have been able to watch it as the channel is a cable channel, so wetin com be the whole yappin and yappin wey una dey yap d guy. Obviously, GEJ is not the only presidential aspirant that did not attend the debate, how come nobody is talking about others, like there was a concerted plan to embarrass him in the name of debating, he probably saw the handwriting on the wall and pulled out. And people should stop being ridiculous, GEJ can not attend every debate organized by every tom dyck and Harry and if he must attend one, it should be the one organized by a more reputable and recognizeable Nigerian channel with a sprawling reach across the country. Infact, GEJ dodged a bullet there not attending that debate, Buhari and Ribadu who wanted to please these insatiable Elite even though they clearly were not well prepared only turned out to be jackasses with their very mediocre performances, making Shekaru come off like a prof. From the point of view of a political analyst,the debate has only ended up casting a cloud of doubts over their capacity to understand the Nigerian problem even if that may not neccessarily be the case. That is what you get when you let people push you around even when you are not yet ready to do something. GEJ understood that and opted out to buy himself time and probably learn the mistakes of his rivals, at least from the NN24 debate, he would ve gotten a clue of the kind of questions to expect and how not to answer them, guaging from the responses so far from Nigerians to the arguments of the trio at the debate. If GEJ aint a political genius then what do you call that? Lol. . . This guy understand the game very well than most of his rivals, instead of falling for the bait by opposition, he made sure he turned the tables against opposition and made the oppositions debate themselves for once without using PDP as an excuse to conceal their own shortcomings and what was the result? A clueless bunch giving a mix of vague and emotional retorts to serious questions that demand clear, simple but well explained replies. The GEJ camp has displayed a rare political cunning by making all the opposition rise to bait and using them to test the waters, knowing all along that they will eventually debate. People should learn to see the political game of psychology going on-at first they had indicated interest then later they made you speculate by coming out to say the president "may" not attend the debate only to come out again to choose the one organized by BON which is even more recognized and better experienced and suited for such- I like the managers of GEJ's campaign, these guys will make good chess mates.

Sagamite seriously, I am appalled by your unrestrained flow of expletives do they realy convey any points at all?
I understand what pro01 is trying to say, it is obvious to any politically discerning Nigeiran that Ibori's travails have nothing to do with any serious effort and fight against corruption. While I am of the opinion that he should spend the rest of his 4cking life doing time in prison, I dont think there has been any genuine effort by the FG through its toothless and spineless force and anti-corruption agencies to make the man pay for the financial crimes he actually commited. Instead, the whole saga has been a confusing mix of witch-haunt, deliberate efforts to thwart his prosecution, a volte face attempt to embarrass, intimidate and malign him without any sincererity of purpose. If actually they are interested in prosecuting him theb let it be done to the full extent of the law without being overly obsessed like he is the worse criminal that deserves the most hounding and witch hunt. I mean from the goings-on, the special intrest in thid man is turning him into a victim rather than a criminal and that informs pro01's outburst, why change the rules when it is Ibori, whatever that is applicable to his crime should be meted out without uneccessarily carrying out any personal vendetta. Let's call a spade a spade.

Who is the coker dude plaguing the thread with his utter lack of intellingence, what an ediooot! Yelling insults and threats like that helps you to cope with your below average I.Q. Basic education is everyone right of course but higher education is not basic and unfortunately too is not for everyone, that is the reality.
You are a disgrace to any institution you claim, there is no difference between you and the street urchins in ojuelegba. I ve got no time for intellectual midgets whom when faced with superior argument and logic resort to insults and threats, IFE seriously needs an overhaul if the school has degenerated to churning out nitwits and menacing miscreants like youself. No wonder Faborode closed down the school, who would not with brainless thugs like you as students who would rather settle simple disagreement by turning it into a brawl. Abeg pack wan corner siddon for ur gutter.

femiti:
@rhymz, u obviously do not know about what has really be going on in ife.Nigeria is where it is 2day becos nigerians can not fight 4 their rights.THIS UNJUSTIFIABLE INCREMENT/ILLEGAL POLICY dat is currently on in IFE HAPPENS in most nigerian unis. imagine if every uni sug detest this illegal action.

. . . Bros the only time I went to a private school was in my primary school level, if you had bothered to read up on some of my posts you would ve realized that, my secondary school was St Finbarr's College, Akoka, if you are familiar with Unilag, you should the school, in my days, it was no private school. I just graduated from the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, so as you can see, I am your average Nigerian student. There is nothing that you can claim happens in OAU that is not reflective of every Nigerian University(both state and federal) , so dont even talk like OAU is a special case cos it aint. Infact, when I was still writing JAMB, OAU was my 1st choice twice, in 2003 & 2004 but for the senseless needless strikes, I prolly would ve been an alumni by now. However, with the benefit of hindsight, I have come to realize that all these strikes and needless protest are not helping matters, to even buttress my point, the so-called Faborode used to be an SUG member himself, he probably fought tenaciously too against policies they felt were not favourable to the students too. But here he is, in the other side of the divide being the protagonist of what he used to fight against, this shows you that most of the times, it is all politics and self ambition to all these SUG members. So it is folly joining them to complex the issues and get entagled in the process. Nobody says you cant protest but dont grab that as your first weapon of negotiation, you will only annoy the other side and make them strong headed to your demands. And if you must engage them, be smart with the way you go about it, dont keep bringing overflogged sentiments to pragmatic managers, they will never listen to arguments like "people are poor and all that" what makes you think they did not see that before jacking up the fees and sundry levies. As long we are leaving by the dictates of economics, policies like this one will always pop up at some point and their is limit to what anyone can do. It is not by speaking or writing uncoordinated grammer, Nigerian students and those of OAU need to show that they are capable of grasping issues in all its entirety and make reasonable conclusions. I am very certain a lot of the freshers that had already paid the new fees and acceptance fees would have wanted to just continue without all these hiccups, even my discerning comerad Arcani here agrees with me. Seriously, it would be a great waste of time, energy and moni if students are asked to resume with just little change or a change that will only gradually go back to the plan.

Cokerr:
Rhymz,ow dare you?av u got human feelings?i'm amazed at your unthinkable stupidity,dis is wy dis country remains like dis,we continue 2 keep mute in d face of tyranny,we keep makin up excuses 4 all our oppressors,quality education comes on a gold platter,ow dare u say dat,do u know d percentage of nigerians livin in abject poverty,i know u do but u just dont care,i'm stopping masef 4rm using harsh words,dat u'v gotten quality education on a platter of gold doesn't mean everybody can or will,greatest ife students are not fools,dey know d consequences of dis strike but yet,dey av d unmatched audacity 2 look evil in d eye and fight it,u dont know anythin abt dis issue and i'm not interested in givin u any heads-up,i'll just let u continue sayin wateva u want but i know dat any reasonable fella will see ow unreasonable, inhuman,self centered and heartless u are. Come visit ife wen we resume and see 4 ursef and maybe,just maybe then,u'll realise we aint just agitated,we av millions of reasons 2 be.The man in u dies d day u keep mute in d face tyranny,dat makes u a livin dead dude. Last but not d least,we're great because we are. Education isn't a priviledge,its our right

, I have heard all these gibberish before, you remind of a stale fart, all air and gusto, no substance. You reason like a toad. What exactly is your point? Yelling insults and throwing childish temper tantrums only highlight the reasons why you are at home now foaming in the mouth while your mates are busy getting a consistent and better education value for their money. You think you can solve technically complex issues with mere macho gusto of a die hard thug? What exactly has been your achievements since you have been yelling threats and calling people evil? Your "poor man"-"poverty" argument is so lame that it wont even fly when any pragmatist who is more interested in practicable facts than some stoooopid emotional rendition of your poverty line of argument?
Inflation cares less if you cant afford a cup of garri, it still goes up any way, so is every natural economic phenomenon. In any society, there will always be people way below the poverty line and struggling, expedient decisions can never rely on that sentiment to take place. It is even a dumb logic in the case of Ife to even argue that line when a majority of the students had already paid the new acceptance fees, so who are these indigent freshers that the SUG all of a sudden realized need to be protected? What exactly is the issue here? Seem pretty clear to me that there is a power tussle between the SUG and the school management for who should control policies of the school especially with the allegations and counter-allegations. School fees increase seem like a perfect excuse to vent out bottled up anger against the school managment.

Lord Babs:
My salute, my learned folks. You have all enthused your sense of good reasoning, sound judgment& intellectual profundity; quite debating& intriguing. I, to this, choose to un-mute my long dumbness &intimate u further on d on-going hubbub. Like an Igbo adage goes that “when one is in a place where an Igbo man is tying medicine and refuses to talk, it will be as if d medicine man is tying ones mouth.” First, I would appeal 2 us 2 disembark 4rm d issue of ‘greatness’ &dwell more on d status quo- THE ISSUE OF STRIKE PRESENTLY IN OAU. Greatness is a unique aspect of every individual. Second, every specie irrespective of d sociological, physiological, psychological, biological or physical constituents or abstractions of life nurtures an ‘anathema’ (i.e. a dislike). In other words, every man, no matter his social or other principles has (at least one) thing he dislikes. This anathema hue is as a result of d immanent nature which is controlled by a kind’a supernatural being or some abstract universal truth. For instance, a man that has an aversion 4 drinking alcohol is called a ‘teetotaller,’ while one that abhors sin is known as a ‘saint.’, contd,

I don't know is it just me that hates this kind of writing style? It appears all the SUG members of OAU write in thesame manner and style. What is with the needless verbosity, for a second I thought I was reading one of those comical jokes from Honourable Patrick. Dude, whoever flatters you that you write well like that is either worse than you or he is a dolt himself. Abeg write like a mature and educated folk, leave that style of writing to secondary school students making attempts to impress and sound smarter than they realy are, you struugle to make sense when you write like that.
And I think pretty much of your claims are hear-says and made up stuff. An SSS trying to bribe one of the SUG members with N50,000. . .haha, I laugh in auto tune as I "T-pain"( such a frivolous assertion). Obviously, those of you in the SUG are playing the usual school politics and ruthless game of wits. Unfortunastely, only a descerning few understand what is actually going on, the majority are just zimbies fighting what they are yet to realy understand.

sonickay:
I commend u.u av truely spoken rhym.but come to think of it our fingers are not equal, heads are bigger dan each other, hands and legs are longer dan each oda, where labour is fightin 4 18,000 minimum wage(av 2 pay 20k as child acceptance fee which is 2k b4), d governors to pay d money collects millions as salaries yet dey are not ready to pay dem.dose who av fee issues worse dan us still enjoys social amenities and good academic condition dan us.but in oau, everytin u do dere flows with a glow of struggle, sufferin and survival.in receivin lectures, fetching water, doin practicals on your legs for 2-3 hours, exams e.t.c.dis sufferin spirit is dere but Aluta is a student Messiah dat wishes to do its best. God save us!

The problem of lack of social amenities is not perculiar to OAU, virtually, every Nigerian University has that problem. I just graduated from the Dept of Mech Eng., FUTO myself, while I can say using the Nigerian standards, it's ok but it is far from what I had expected and wanted. I know after my service, I will be going for some refresher certification programmes in my field to sharpen my competitive edge in the labour market.When people argue about all hands not being equal, I usually say that sentiments does not apply when there is a need to raise funds by any management in order to cater for pressing needs, the only thing SUG can push for is a reduction or some policies put in place to cushion the effects of the increment.
Government funding of the Universities can never be enough no matter how much they try. Take the American and British Universities for instance, the latter always dominate any world ranking, do you know why?
While the US government public investment in education, relative to GDP, is similar to that of the UK, eye-popping tuition fees & generous philantropists( alumni & coperate bodies) have endowed American Higher education with more than six times more private investment.
Take for instance, as at 2006 while Oxford and Cambridge had endowment funds worth about $11billion each Yale had $23billion while that of Harvad was $35billion. Dozens of other American Universities boast of funds valued at more than $1billion. Even Britains wealthiest Universities are poor by comparison. And you wonder why American Universities dominate any world ranking. School with such funds in their coffers can fund big projects in the campus, embark on very expensive research, equip their labs with the most modern facilities and equipments and attract big budget projects and fundings from multi-national coperations. OAU students need to look at the bigger picture, it is not about the much hated Faborode,our schools need serious funding to cope with the teaming numbers they admit yearly. How many of the senior lecturers even go on sabbaticals these days, even the junior ones do not go on refresher courses, what about the obsolete facilities and equipment in the schools, our lecture halls are like overcrowded markets. I usually tell my course mates that engineering in Nigerian Universities is shitty, I dont care how many "greatest OAU" anyone yells, their situation is no different from any other Nigerian University, period! Going on strikes or engaging in activities that can lead to shutting down the school will only amplify the problem, other schools have already started writing their exams, OAU students should stop being myopic with their views and face the real issues and not flaky tissues like "all hands are not equal and stuff" nobody will listen to that line of argument. Appeal to Faborode's interests and I tell you, he will compromise his stance to listen what the SUG guys have to say. But if you lot want to get unruly and talk about the school's interest as it concerns you alone without highlighting his own efforts to better the school as it relates to him raising funds, then you lot will hang around your house for a very long time to come.
Enuff said!

Here with me, I’ve got 99 facts!
1. Guys don’t actually look after good-
looking girls. they prefer neat and
presentable girls.
2. Guys hate other flirts.
3. A guy can like you for a minute, and
then forget you afterwards.
4. When a guy says he doesn’t
understand you, it simply means
you ’re not thinking the way he is.
5. Are you doing something?” or
“Have you eaten already?” are the
first usual questions a guy asks on
the phone just to get out from
stammering.
6. Guys may be flirting around all day
but before they go to sleep, they
always think about the girl they
truly care about.
7. When a guy really likes you, he’ll
disregard all your bad
characteristics.
8. Guys go crazy over a girl’s smile.
9. Guys will do anything just to get the
girl ’s attention.
10. Guys hate it when you talk about
your ex-boyfriend.
11. When guys want to meet your
parents. Let them. …….dont think
so
12. Guys want to tell you many things
but they can ’t. And they have one
habit to gain courage and spirit to
tell you many things and it is
drinking! but do not generalise
13. Guys cry!!!
14. Don’t provoke the guy to heat up.
Believe me. He will.
15. Guys can never dream and hope
too much.
16. Guys usually try hard to get the girl
who has dumped them, and this
makes it harder for them to accept
their defeat.
17. When you touch a guy’s heart,
there’s no turning back.
18. Giving a guy a hanging message
like “You know what?!, uh…never
mind!” would make him jump to a
conclusion that is far from what
you are thinking.
19. Guys go crazy when girls touch
their hands ……yeh rite – Whatever.
20. Guys are good flatterers when
courting but they usually stammer
when they talk to a girl they really
like.
21. When a guy makes a prolonged
“ umm” or makes any excuses when
you’re asking him to do you a favor,
he’s actually saying that he doesn’t
like you and he can’t lay down the
card for you.
22. When a girl says “no”, a guy hears it
as “try again tomorrow”. So true.
23. You have to tell a guy what you
really want before he gets the
message clearly.
24. Guys hate gays!
25. Guys love their moms.
26. A guy would sacrifice his money for
lunch just to get you a couple of
roses.
27. A guy often thinks about the girl
who likes him. But this doesn ’t
mean that the guy likes her.
28. You can never understand him
unless you listen to him.
29. If a guy tells you he loves you once
in a lifetime. He does.
30. Beware. Guys can make gossips
scatter through half of the face of
the earth faster than girls can.
31. Like Eve, girls are guys’
weaknesses.
32. Guys are very open about
themselves.
33. It’s good to test a guy first before
you believe him. But don’t let him
wait that long.
34. No guy is bad when he is courting
35. Guys hate it when their clothes get
dirty. Even a small dot.
36. Guys really admire girls that they
like even if they ’re not that much
pretty.
37. Your best friend, whom your
boyfriend seeks help from about his
problems with you may end up
being admired by your boyfriend.
38. If a guy tells you about his
problems, he just needs someone
to listen to him. You don ’t need to
give advice…….very true.
39. A usual act that proves that the
guy likes you is when he teases
you.
40. A guy finds ways to keep you off
from linking with someone else.
41. Guys love girls with brains more
than girls in miniskirts.
…… , sumtimes.
42. Guys try to find the stuffed toy a
girl wants but would unluckily get
the wrong one.
43. Guys virtually brag about anything.
44. Guys cannot keep secrets that girls
tell them.
45. Guys think too much.
46. Guys’ fantasies are unlimited.
47. Girls’ height doesn’t really matter to
a guy but her weight does!……very
true.
48. Guys tend to get serious with their
relationship and become too
possessive. So watch out girls!!!
49. When a girl makes the boy suffer
during courtship, it would be hard
for him to let go of that girl.
50. It’s not easy for a guy to let go of his
girlfriend after they broke up
especially when they ’ve been
together for 3 years or more.
51. You have to tell a guy what you
really want before getting involved
with that guy.
52. A guy has to experience rejection,
because if he ’s too-good-never-
been-busted, never been in love
and hurt, he won ’t be matured and
grow up.
53. When an unlikable circumstance
comes, guys blame themselves a
lot more than girls do. They could
even hurt themselves physically.
54. Guys have strong passion to
change but have weak will power.
55. Guys are tigers in their peer groups
but become tamed P**** with their
girlfriends …, sumtimes depends
wen they want sumat.
56. When a guy pretends to be calm,
check if he ’s sweating. You’ll
probably see that he is nervous.
57. When a guy says he is going crazy
about the girl. He really is.
58. When a guy asks you to leave him
alone, he ’s just actually saying,
“Please come and listen to me”……
sumtimes.
59. Guys don’t really have final
decisions.
60. When a guy loves you, bring out the
best in him.
61. If a guy starts to talk seriously,
listen to him ….very important.
62. If a guy has been kept shut or
silent, say something.
63. Guys believe that there’s no such
thing as love at first sight, but court
the girls anyway and then realize at
the end that he is wrong.
64. Guys like femininity not feebleness.
65. Guys don’t like girls who punch
harder than they do.
66. A guy may instantly know if the girl
likes him but can never be sure
unless the girl tells him.
67. A guy would waste his time over
video games and football, the way a
girl would do over her romance
novels and make-ups.
68. Guys love girls who can cook or
bake. ….they love u regardless.
69. Guys like girls who are like their
moms. No kidding! ……true but only
wen the guys are ready 2be settled
down.
70. A guy has more problems than you
can see with your naked eyes.
71. A guy’s friend knows everything
about him. Use this to your
advantage.
72. Don’t be a snob. Guys may easily
give up on the first sign of rejection.
73. Don’t be biased. Try loving a guy
without prejudice and you’ll be
surprised.
74. Girls who bathe in their eau de
perfumes do more repelling than
attracting guys.
75. Guys are more talkative than girls
are especially when the topic is
about girls.
76. Guys don’t comprehend the
statement “Get lost” too well.
77. Guys really think that girls are
strange and have unpredictable
decisions but still love them more.
78. When a guy gives a crooked or
pretentious grin at your jokes, he
finds them offending and he just
tried to be polite.
79. Guys don’t care about how shiny
their shoes are unlike girls.
80. Guys tend to generalize about girls
but once they get to know them,
they ’ll realize they’re wrong.
81. Any guy can handle his problems
all by his own. He ’s just too
stubborn to deal with it.
82. Guys find it so objectionable when
a girl swears.
83. Guys’ weakest point is at the knee.
84. When a problem arises, a guy
usually keeps himself cool but is
already thinking of a way out.
85. When a guy is conscious of his
looks, it shows he is not good at
fixing things.
86. When a guy looks at you, either he’s
amazed by you or he’s criticizing
you.
87. When you catch him cheating on
you and he asks for a second
chance, give it to him. But when
you catch him again and he asks for
another chance, ignore him.
88. If a guy lets you go, he really loves
you.
89. If you have a boyfriend, and your
boy best friend always glances at
you and it obviously shows that he
is jealous whenever you ’re with
your boyfriend, all I can say is your
boy best friend loves you more
than your boyfriend does.
90. Guys learn from experience not
from the romance books that girls
read and take as their basis of
experience.
91. You can tell if a guy is really hurt or
in pain when he cries in front of
you!
92. If a guy suddenly asks you for a
date, ask him first why.
93. When a guy says he can’t sleep if
he doesn’t hear your voice even
just for one night, hang up. He also
tells that to another girl. He only
flatters you and sometimes makes
fun of you.
94. You can truly say that a guy has
good intentions if you see him
praying sometimes.
95. Guys seek for advice not from a guy
but from a girl.
96. Girls are allowed to touch boys’
things. Not their hair!
97. If a guy says you’re beautiful, that
guy likes you.
98. Guys hate girls who overreact. ……
sumtimes.
99. Guys love you more than you love
them IF they are serious in your
relationships.