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SWesterners think because they control the media they can as well control the way we think or analyze issues. The writer is obviously a lackey, a hack journalist of the APC, his lack of discretion and foolish suggestives diatribes only shows how desperate they want to replace Jonathan. If they have any video, make them bring am out and stop heating up the polity with suggestive statements and their usual "sources choose to be anonymous" tales by moon light yarns.
So somebody will bring out a phone in a gathering like that and nobody will notice and when somebody in the other phatom camp does he will just shout and continue abi. . . Tales by moonlight crap. Na only ardent ACN dummies una go decieve with una concocted propaganda.

Amaechi is on his own in this war. He is too forward and lacks proper timing, the problem with JEG's opponents is their in ability to get the man flostered or unraveled, they keep inciting brash and hasty actions from the man but the man keeps using his underdog antics to cut them to size. Amaechi will lose this fight and come out of it seriously bruised politically, slowly he is losing both goodwill and political support from both his state and the region. The NGF elections have shown clearly that he does not command the full support of his coleagues anymore. Moving to opposition party like the yet to be formed APC is political suicide, that party is full of failed and desperate politicians whose selfish ambitions clash with one another. He had better be careful with the kind of battles he fight, any pyrhic victories will kill him politically.

CAMEROONPRIDE: I bet you don't know any francophone author...yet you want to tag Achebe as the father of litterature in Africa? When most of his work was ethnic centred? How did he influence? Africa?

You know I have been observing you and your subtle hate for Nigeria, you always get into every thread with this "let me insult Nigerians" attitude and most times everyone just ignore you and move on to more intelligent and serious minded to folks, don't let the fact that Nigerians ignore your pettiness, make you spew horse shit and subtle insults here. You are begining to get annoying, nobody says anything stupid or insulting about cameroon even though there are a million bad things I can say and ridicule cameroon. If you must comment on issues here, pls do it with the right doses of respect for the sensibilities of Nigerians, don't always sound like you have a need to insult or get combative.

truly: Stop talking like that
The North alone cannot install anybody!
We need 2/3rds

I have been to the North my Dear, the populated states are Kano and Kaduna, the rest are just like any other averagely populated Nigerian state. No one is being fooled by the fictitious population that always come out from the north during census counts, we all know the abracadabra that goes on in order to swell the population. Just like you lot could not send him out in 20011 in spite of your so-called "huge population". . .scheew. na today yansh begin dey back?

ilugunboy: Stop the generalization..

Don't just stay behind your device and assume all sorts. Every Yoruba is not ACN/APC members.

I am sorry if I generalized but going by the support that he gets here on NL and rude romance going between the ACN and CPC, it will be hard not to generalize. Seriously, SW need to be clear about their relationship with the likes of Buhari, if the whole ACN/CPC merger is just so Buhari or a Northerner that feels entitled can come back through the back door, then the generalization will be justified.

On a more serious note, Buhari has a very low I.Q power to grasp issues in their proper perspectives. I can't believe this man can be this sympathetic to BokoHaram so openly that he would reduce the issue to "do me, I do you" argument.
Seriously, I am disappointed in Yoruba people, with the level of intellectual development in the South West they still fall wholeheartedly for this goon whose brain capacity can't seem to understand the enormity of the crimes his children in Bokoharam have committed, have continued to commit and will continue to commit if not crushed.

He has the guts to compare BokoHaram brainless struggles to the Niger Delta militant struggles without putting issues in their proper perspectives, na only almajiri will fall for this sentimental crap. He does not even say anything about the innocent lives Bokoharam has wasted, see him crying about how their leaders were killed without saying anything about the victims of Bokharam, Buhari is a bonafide BokoHaram sponsor and a bigoted killer that is only interested in his ambitions and that of the Hausa-fulani people.

Yoruba people will have to be careful with the kind of characters they align themselves with, winning is not everything after all. See how simple-minded the fool is in his analysis of issues, not for once did he make any mention about the crimes of Bokharam. So because Yaradua granted amnesty to the Niger Delta militants, it therefore follows that any group that rises up in arms against the federal government should be placated by sending aircraft to pick them up and given cash gifts to make them stop, this Fool needs to shut it and understand that his selfish expectations is the major reason he has lost three times consecutively.

This is the best and most intelligent way to answer questions that have political implications when said without the required doses of intelligence and appropriate temperament. At this point, I am going to be Igbocentric and a little bias in commenting about the way elderly Igbo men with the benefits of both age and experience comment on sensitive issues. . lol. .
Ezeife reminds me of my grandfather, when there is a very complicated issue in the family to be addressed, you see the man at his best dishing out very deep and intelligent advice, instances, examples and explanation to make his point to everyone in the meeting clear.
Ezeifa just did exactly the same thing here, instead of using inflammatory language or the antics of force and threat as is the past time of the so-called NEF, you can tell where exactly his stance on issues is, no need to rigmarole or grandstand using needless verbose sentences and phrases that confuses instead of enlightening the audience.
Thank You Sir, you truly represent the sentiments of ndi Igbo.

funnyx: How has he 'attacked' Achebe? Sometimes I wonder how many chose their words on the public forum any disagreement with their point of view is termed as an attack and taken personal.

Your pretense and hypocrisy smells to the high heavens. You are in the habit of trying to moderate how others comments about things associated with your tribe while unwittingly talking down on others, abeg carry your yeye antics go rest jor!

My problem with Rochas is the way he does the right things the wrong way. Does he have to sponsor 100 people to learn piloting or 500 people to learn entrepreneural skills, whatever that means. . . Scheeew!

PhysicsQED: The Man Died is not particularly verbose, and certainly the opening parts of the book ('a letter to compatriots' and the first parts of 'ibadan-lagos') are neither verbose nor particularly complex writings that one has to make real effort to decipher. Did you really attempt to read it?

Yeah right, tell that to a 15-16yr old kid that just wanted to read a simple book on our political history only to find out that he was always trying to make out the meaning of every word, sentence and phrase used. Abeg I no wan get headache because of Wole Soyinka jor!

One_Naira: SMH. Achebe response to Conrad's book is called "an image to Africa". It was an essay, not a book. Things fall apart had no correlation to conrad.

as for implying TFA is popular because they "forcing" students to read it is just sad. is it not sad you are trying to belittle that work while disregarding you are also belittling WS in effort to defend him. Do you think it's an easy task to get many schools to require one specific book, out of all the million books in the world, as a mandatory reading in their curriculum. It's not easy. if it was, WS would have achieved that same task. out of all his poetries, plays, etc how many do you kno is listed as a mandatory reading all over the world?

you cannot imply your own view of what you consider "quality" is better than the view of an organization whose sole purpose is to provide quality contents for their students. na only you sabi abi?

You know the funny thing I have come to understand about people referring to Wole Soyinka's work is that they barely mention the name of any of his books, the ones that manage to mention one or two always do not have much to say about the work. It is so obvious that many of his admirers are more into how he mesmerizes them with needless verbosity than the import of his work, they mistake verbosity for quality.

I know how many times I tried reading Wole's book, "The Man Died", I got bored just after few pages of trying to understand exactly what he was trying to communicate in the book: I found myself trying to understand every paragraph of the verbose sentences and phrases he kept on churning out to the point I just had to drop it, as much as I tried. If you observe even the interview that is supposed to be simple and straight forward since the audience are going to be largely moderately educated people reading it, Wole still did not fail to mesmerize us verbose grandstanding and rigmarole, at a point, I just said to mysef, Mr Wole get to the damn point, I am not interested in how many multis and jaw breaking words you can gather in a sentence, leave all that to rappers jar!
Wole Soyinka is good no doubt but he can be a bore when you try to understand him, not necessarily because his ideas or books are so intellectually deep, it is just in the way he sets out to communicate them, he always does a bad job of communicating it.

4watever: Wrong here. MJ did not even invent the moonwalk. Pop songs were common in the 1920s. The term pop music actually originated in Britain

i wonder where the Beetles, elton john and the likes. no mind shymex jor, he just wants to defend his position.

shymexx: Osisi

Michael Jackson is the King of Pop because he created that genre of music. And he's the highest selling artist of all time. Before MJ, there was nothing like pop(popular) music and as long as he remains the highest selling artist ever, he'll forever remain the King of Pop.

Elvis isn't the father of anything; perhaps the father of white people's version of rock n' roll. If anyone deserves to be the top-of-the-pops in rock n' roll - then it should be James Brown.

These folks need to stop throwing titles around.

Michael Jackson created pop music? OMG!! Anything to justify your position.

Whatever it takes to bring some sanity into that region should be fully explored, the so-called northern elders can go to hell and rant, they were too scared to call their children, Bokoharam to order, instead they were busy making inflammatory statements and suggestive statements that gave impetus to Bokoharam.

Kill them all I say, any willing accomplice civilian should also be made to face the judgment of the barrel of a gun.

Lakayana: When talking about northern elders we should be specific o are we refining to the core north or the whole north for its only the core northerners that have gone crazy.

I Understand your point my guy, these Hausa-Fulani politicians like to lump every other tribe in the north in their bigotry and folly, making it look like everyone in the north shares their devilish sentiments.

safarigirl: Osama was just one man (with a face) we're dealing with a FACELESS GROUD. Anyone could be a member, from the mei suya across the street to the bank manager in one's compound. Nothing like tactics, the aim is to extinguish ALL terrorists so anyone and everyone is game.

lol. . . so hard.

We were these bunch when Bokoharam was busy killing innocent women and children and justifying themselves. All of a sudden they have found their voice to criticize Joanthan, their past time obsession. He probably should have allowed Bokharam to continue to reign supreme and put fears in these foolish elders. Hypocrites that are so scared to condemn Bokoharam but are quick to run their mouth about Jonathan.

Uncle JO, burn them and chase them out of Nigeria to hell where they belong, these fools have been treated with kid gloves and the result is the this "rude impetus" that has unwittingly been given to them.

Kill them all like roaches. . .Russian style.

I will keep saying it over and over again, Jonathan may not be the best man but he sure is better than Buhari or any of the elements the from the North the so-called opposition is fronting as an alternative.

No matter how much the opposition exaggerate Jonathan's flaws and mistakes he is a better person both intellectually and morally than Buhari.

I laugh every time some random dude in the SW yaps endlessly about Buhari's popularity in the North and how he is loved over there. Funny enough, these are mostly people who have never been to the North, some like DayoKanu don't even live in Nigeria yet they argue with so much arrogance and assumptions contrary to the living realities and experiences those of us that have been privileged to be and live in the North have.

As far as the North is concerned, PDP is still the most popular party both in support and reach, this fact is reflective in the number of states they control up North. Buhari and his cohorts like to yap about the high voting percentage that came out from the Eastern region during the 2011 elections when in the North underage voting was rife especially in the outskirts and border towns and villages.

This one no be say dem tell me, it was what I experienced and saw as an INEC presiding officer conducting elections in the Sokoto village of Makwana as a serving corper. And you dare not refuse these underagers their "rights" to vote, not when their names and identities are already on the voters' register, how they managed to do that is anyone's guess.

Buhari is no clean or morally upright person, na impressionable people wey no sabi the man's antecedents go dey blab about some imaginary "good work" of Buhari. That Brute forced a lot of ordinary Nigerians in petty trading out of business with his voodoo economics of using his soldier boys to force people to sell their wares at a base price that he and his economic magicians pegged. This is without minding if this arbitrary base selling prices were ridiculously below cost price, you just have to sell at this ridiculous price regardless.

In the event you refuse to sell, they accuse you of hoarding and send soldier boys to forcefully sell your wares at a loss. What kind of economics is that Physically trying to manipulate pricing system without minding the law of demand and supply?
My parents were directly affected by this brute's voodoo economics to the point it affected my mother's health, yet some people with no clue are busy clamouring for a come back for that despot.

Thesame Buhari that ordered for the trial and summary death verdicts of 3 young Nigerians even when the punishment for the alleged crime was not death penalty at the time.

This same tribalistic Buhari overthrew a government headed by a northerner, Shagari only to throw his vice, an Igbo Man, Alex Ekweme in Kirikiri Jail while shagari the head of the corrupt government rested in a cozy house arrest.

No wonder he has continued to fail at every attempt, the leadership of this country will continue to elude him and his ilks that have this false sense of entitlement to rule Nigeria by force and brute.
Even if the whole of the SW decides to support Buhari's lame effort, we in the East that make no pretense about how we feel about Buhari and his ilks will make sure it will not happen.

No amount of propaganda and violence or political blackmail will change the facts, Tinubu and his APC followers can only shout on the pages of newspapers and websites, not even the exaggerations and journalistic embelishments will change our perceptions of Nigeria's tribal and parochial politics.

We all know that opposition as seen by a Yoruba person is very different from the way it is seen by an hausa-fulani politicians, the pally with the Yoruba politicians is a gimmick for a come back in the name of oppositon, there is no sincerity of purpose or intent, it is all about being in control.

[quote author=perrychocks][/quote]I wish that was authoritatively true but I doubt.
The leukemic kid in the movie was diagnozed at an early age yet she and her family went through all that and she still died.
The "thing" can only be managed through blood dialysis and those very painful cleansing techniques medically available but a cure? I doubt.

I don't take news report from blogs seriously unless it is from Linda Ikeji because I know how thorugh and discretionary she can be with a sensitive reports like this one.

Another thing, I suspect the pictures below after the first one may not be thesame. One can not be too sure since their media publicist have not come out to give a press release about the health condition of the young man, we can't be too sure.

Now about this disease cancer of the blood; I have this very emotional movie, "Sister's Keeper", it is a movie about a a girl with leukemic disease whose younger sister was actually born (using genetic engineering techniques to ensure she was a perfect match for her leukemic sister) into this world just to serve as a Donor to her leukemic sister.

I can't remember when last I cried watching a moving, I was so moved by the emotional trauma and effect this disease was having not just on the girl but her whole family. There was this scene when the girl developed a complication, this kid was just vomitting blood from her mouth and nose, her eyes were so red you could mistake them to be bleeding as well.

The girls' mother was a fighter, a real loving mother that got so carried away in her effort to help her sick child through using body parts like bone marrow, whiteblood cells. . . and so on from the other donor
child that she did not notice the sick girl was tired of fighting the disease and wanted to die, neither did she notice that if they continued to take body parts from the other child(donor child), it might at some point put her in a risk too.

The two girls just had to device a way to make their mother stop even though she meant well for her sick child. The result of their plan was for her donor sister to her parents for the emancipation of her own body(of course, she couldn't do that cos she was still a minor, she had to have reached the consent age of 18 or so) the whole plan just opened a flush of emotional scenes in the movie.

My point here is this: if realy Vaste is suffering from such then am afraid that is the begining of the end for him because there is no known medical cure for blood cancer. The best health practitioners can do is to place you on a routine treatment and check up for the rest of your life.

From the scenes on that movie, the patients will begin to lose their hair, the most horrible part of this disease and I think this is usually evident at the dire stage of the disease, they become very susceptible to other infections and disease as their immune system becomes destroyed. Even the things and food they eat are seriously sterilized and steamed.

I just hope the gory effects of leukemia I saw in that movie is not what this Brother is up against. Brother I wish you the best and quick recovery. I want to hope for the best and doubt the worse. I will start by saying those pictures of the guy in the hospital are not yours.

*Kails*:
@rymz bro what is "MOG"?

men of god

Atheist:-D:
So in essence they are atheists

Well, I wont really call them atheist, I don't even buy the idea of labeling anyone that dares to question default belief systems as an atheist, just because I am not convinced does not necessarily turn me into an atheist, anyway, that is by the way.

Now, about whether Many of these MOGs are closeted Atheist, I will say..... may be some but the majority of the bunch are superstitiously religious even when they don't agree with certain claims or events, religious liturgy or myth, they just tend to bury their doubts or guts to be daring and ask questions in that big 'ol word', faith that seems to imply: 'don't ask, just belief if you are a good christian'. And this where I have a problem with religion, it seems to abhor thorough intellectual scrutiny of self, it seems to thrive on ignorance of itself even though it teaches the us so much about others. Any belief system that is based on default-ism and not empirical-ism is dubious to start with.
If you notice, the moment you start to grow in critical thinking and analysis, you start to have problem with religion in general because religion by it very self abhors in-depth knowledge of self and intelligence.

Royal^Pearl^:
Seriously u should go for a casting in Nollywood, think u"d give ramsey noah a run for his money. Anyways on a serious note u need to chill bru, you really should not take everything esp fufu too seriously. Enjoy the rest of ur day :-)

May be you should start taking your own advise. If you did not sound condescending and rude may be you would have gotten a civilized response.

Atheist:-D:
Precisely.

I raised this issue a few times but few pople cared to answer. Freewill and sin do not go hand in hand. Why would God give us freewill if He did not want us to sin but knew we would sin? Why cant He remove sin so we can all live in peace and love?

Like I tell people, the best answer to many of life's unanswered question is science not religion that relies heavily on people's need to believe or want any answer so long as the question is answered.

Many of these religious CEOs understand this, that is why in the face of abject want and poverty, they can still have the guts to justify unnecessary opulence and ostentation they indulge in, they know their is no certainty of a being hanging nowhere up in the skies, sitting in judgement to condemn such act of insensibility and lack of personal moral censure.

Atheist:-D:
God cannot:

Destroy Himself,
Create Himself,
Create someone greater than Him,
Create an object He cannot destroy,
Create an object He cannot move,
God cannot create a place where He cannot dwell,
......

Fill in the rest. The idea of an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent God is a notion that leaves lots of gaps due to limits on such ideas.

hahahah. . .it is a dicey one, and he actually has created something he can not destroy, Satan the devil. This creature has been a pain on God's neck yet God can not do anything about it, what can be more frustrating.

Like you said already the idea of an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent being is utopian and can not in real sense exist:how does one explain an imperfect design from a supposedly perfect being with all these qualities?

ijeoma100: The fact is this - anyone who reads the Bible with a LOGICAL mind will spot a thousand flaws, contraindications and things that are...to put it mildly...unbelievable.

It's funny to see Christians who think they know it all twist the Bible in order to justify themselves and in so doing end up looking stupid. In all honesty, there are a multitude of things in the Bible...both the Old and New Testaments that would put one off religion altogether. The Old Testament is full of genocide, rapes, forced abduction and killings all seemingly sanctioned by a benevolent God, whilst the New Testament makes it clear that women are of the weaker sex and have no real part to play in the church. So why do we tear our hair out over the nitty gritty of the Bible?

All we need to do is to live a good life and hope that God/Allah/Buddah/Krishna/Sango/Ogun/the River Goddess/The Man on the Moon/Father Christmas/Barack Obama/whoever or whatever it is you worship deems you fit to enter heaven (if it exists).

I Love this lady already. Your statement here is the most intelligent one I have seen from a woman. The fact here is this, outside of using faith to justify most of the very incomprehensible claims of the bible and the basis of any religious belief, it is impossible to give any of these religious belief system a pass mark under a logical scrutiny. That is why religion emphasize faith or irrational beliefs in place of empirical evidence and logical scrutiny. Thank you again for not only being honest to admit that yes, if anyone cares to be smart there are way more contradictions in these books than sense but also for being intelligent enough to admit that after all said and done, nothing is certain, not the promise of an eternal heaven or a damning hell, it is all man's invention to answer the unknown. Thank you again Lady.