The best way to reach or send his message across to all Nigerians is by providing at least a steady/uninterupted 12hour electricity daily across the country,ensure the security of lives and property, repairing and fixing our roads, reduce unemployment,stop importation of fuel, fix our refineries,pay our secondary and primary school teachers better, lecturers as well,stop the brain drain,make our economy a non-oil depended one, revive our hospitals  and much more, INSTEAD OF MAKING EMPTY PROMISES WE HAVE BEEN HEARING SINCE 1999

If he does the above, instead of spending billions on 01-10-2010,all Nigerians will hear his voice even when he is SILENTLY SLEEPING in his ASO ROCK VILLA or where does he even live?

Saidsalla:

British colonials spent many years (if not 100yrs) b4 they came to north. British found south without clothes and have no standard way of life. So when colonials came, they faced no rejection frm south and startd teaching them how they want them to write or read. But when they came to north,they found them with their dress styles(for male and female) with even traditonal textile manufacture. They have their system of education (islamic and arabic) right from whats later known as nursery. They have their way of trade both local and int'l.administration:they knw who they are and civilised. So when colonials masters came to them, they repulsed them seriously. It is after years they captured north. While in south, they had been exporting slaves. Unfortunately, south learnd from british long b4 north, but innovated nothing but exam malpractice. You can come to north and find out if north could teach u both Islamic and western. education.

OUT OF POINT,  RUBBISH YAN,  WE ARE EVEN TIRED OF YOUR PEOPLE'S WAHALAS,  Please let us go our separate ways.

Amitex:

British colonials spent many years (if not 100yrs) b4 they came to north. British found south without clothes and have no standard way of life. So when colonials came, they faced no rejection frm south and startd teaching them how they want them to write or read. But when they came to north,they found them with their dress styles(for male and female) with even traditonal textile manufacture. They have their system of education (islamic and arabic) right from whats later known as nursery. They have their way of trade both local and int'l.administration:they knw who they are and civilised. So when colonials masters came to them, they repulsed them seriously. It is after years they captured north. While in south, they had been exporting slaves. Unfortunately, south learnd from british long b4 north, but innovated nothing but exam malpractice. You can come to north and find out if north could teach u both Islamic and western. education.


Please be quick!! Declare your AREWA REPUBLIC!  We shall gladly support you.  If you cannot the accept GOODLUCK NIGERIA!!![font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font]

Thank you, it shall be well with you

alexleo:

those who are against the president's presence on facebook are blind folded with foolishness. A good leader must have a good way on interacting with  his people. The responses (both positive and negative) that the president is getting from people on facebook is what he needs to perform better and not the having tea party with corrupt politcians who will just sing his praise with no single person criticizing him. Obasanjo did his own by organising the monthly presidential media chat but this facebook strategy of Jonathan is far better because it has more room to accomodate responses from people. The media chat only had room for the press and few number of callers.

How many Nigerians are on facebook?? How many Nigerians have access to the internet? Why using Lagos as a yardstick? Mr President missed it on this one.

blank:

Abeg, is he really the one that updates his status or is it one of his aides?
I remember that while he was giving his declaration speech that the speech was uploaded to facebook.
Since he obviously was not on the internet while giving his speech it must have been one of his aides.

For sure he is not the one posting all those updates,  I am very sure he, like other Politicians are not computer literate.

@slap1,
why do you still believe JOMO GBOMO does not exist. You were told he had an interview with The PUNCH, but you said you do not agree with the interview.

If anyone could have access to that email, then why don't The Tompolos, Boyloafs of this world have access to it? They were just ordinary field commanders of MEND,while JOMO GBOMO is in the administrative helm. So lets stop fooling ourselves that Mr Okah is JOMO GBOMO,what happens when (if eventually) is put in Prison and JOMO GBOMO still speaks out? who will you say he is? Maybe you will call him GJ.


Until we sit down and settle our differencies, this collection of NATIONS called Nigeria will never know PEACE.

Why are we just doing selective JUSTICE, I see many of us here making biased comments,

Think positive, think 4 nations in waiting from Naija

My pointssssssssss

1.)Whether on Facebook or twitter,he has passed his message. But sadly enough, we have just 1.7million Nigerians on facebook.

And i am sure not all the 1.7m people have access to him.

2.) whether a northerner or Southerner, i do not want any of those old fools again, if Jonathan won't win the elections, then Ribadu should, but for the old fools to come back to rule us again, then i am in support of Break-up of this nation

realborn:

@dammytosh,

I disagree.
Y didnt d so called leaders disown Jomo Gbomo immediately after the amnesty if he stole their password without their consent?
Y did they not deny involvement in the post amnesty Delta Government house bomb blast of 15/03/2010?
MEND/Jomo Gbomo may be a media created proxy. But threats have been made and executed.
Definitely there is a face behind a masquerade.
Anyone associated with MEND either now or in the past should be properly quizzed for adequate information and not shielded to utter gibberish at tax payers expense.
GEJ has no business defending MEND as he is not a member.
For all I care the declarants at Aso Rock few days ago may be d impostors or former foot soldiers.
We must all stand, pray and vehemently resist the untimely loss of lives due to the Govt's insensitivity and uncouth utterances.

The perpetrators must be fished out and publicly disgraced. Enough of MEND defence and hosting of killers in Amnesty guise.

Tompolo should be quizzed once more, and since he said he is the leader of MEND, let him tell us who was GBOMO JOMO in his days pre-amnesty era

Vavavoom:

[b]It is troubling times indeed. What people will do to fulfill a prohphecy, remember Campbell's warning, John Campbell? And people who are supposed to be intellectuals(Odein Ajumogobia and co) took his assertions with a pinch of salt. The US have got a dossier of all electronic and voice recordings exchanging back and forth between all the players involved in this charade. And so when they proactively but subtly warn we fail to heed and dismiss it with a wave of hand.
We are at a precipice and even some contributors here can't see the danger of self-annilhilation that brews right before their eyes. Chinua Achebe was right, he said, '' things are falling apart the centre cannot hold'', it is a prophecy that is coming to pass, the regions of Nigeria constitute young Ikemefunna, weak but loved by his tribes men. Okowkwo is being played out by a power loving elite, people who have used tribe & religion to cow their lot into submission. Add a gun runner, whose daily meat and mode of survival has been taking away by a supposed amnesty and you have a cocktail of gunpowder waiting to explode. All the actors with their interest to protect, not bothered if Nigeria survives another harmattan or not, it is indeed troubling times as we have half truths, sometimes outright lies being bandied for our consummtion. I don't have all the answers so I can like many theorize but I choose not to because in my eyes all of the actors contribute to why our house has fallen :[/b]

I see blood shed ahead, may God see us through

Ileke-IdI:

@ samoks

Son, now u just being selfish. What's wrong with sharing? Sharing is caring, its good for the digestive system. One naija until that oil is gone, say amen.

Hahahaha , who is being selfish here, you are funny,

sbeezy8:


NO we have our oil in lagos ondo and ogun onshore and deep sea but we will finish ND and East oil before we tap our own, We will marry and impregnate all ND and East babes before this country split, NOBODY IS GOING ANY DAMN WHERE

The oppurtunity to split with no problems was passed up when Awo wanted to split before indepedence now -WE LOVE NIGERIA OIL AND BABES ITS LIKE PARADISE we just dey chill for west side

I don hear you, there is always a second chance.

Goddex:

Jomo Gbomo is an email user ID, not a person.
Henry Okah was the most educated of the group and kept
the password. GEJ knows this and that's why he is after him.

Asari, Tompolo, Boyloaf, Ateke Tom, Dagogo, Shoot At Sight and
others were fighters who have embraced amnesty.

Email id my foot.

marabout:

Politicians have to always say something however silly it is.
6-3-3-4 has not failed. The Nigerian system as a whole is what has failed woefully. A resounding F9 in fact.
If you blame 6-3-3-4 for education failure, what do you blame NEPA failure, Nigeria Airawys failure, the gullies in Benin-Lagos and Lagos-Ibadan roads, the rickety Niger Bridge, decaying hospitals and others on??

With so much neglect and corruption, any education model whether 6-3-3-4 or backward 4-3-3-6 will fail.
By the way I know many people who went through that so-called failed system and are doing marvelously well abroad, from South Africa to Europe to America.
Even common private schools that used to be reserved for the less able students with rich enough parents in my time are now doing well and even getting their students into top European and American universities.
uncle Joe, you can do better than this. Don't give past illiterate dictators and their bootlickers the chance to say that even young educated politicians cannot take Nigeria forward.  Don't shame the younger generations.

Tell him more, GEJ has no plans for this nation, all he knows is party and party, spending billions on 1-10 when the whole nation is in darkness, no roads, no good skools etc,

marvix:

My people this bomb incident is not a GEJ versus IBB matter it is abt our future, can we cast our minds back to 1985 when IBB sacked Buhari we thot it was Buhari vs IBB but where did that lead to after 25yrs, he released all the political criminals Buhari had put behind bars, he allowed evry Nigerian to debate d OMF loan, went ahead and received d loan and set us on a path of suffering, Nigerians we are at that cross road again, would evil win over good, who is MEND, y wld MEND blow up abj, the purpose of the bomb blast was to send the president scampering, the threat msg said d bombs had been planted around d venue the venue was EAGLES SQUARE not MINISTRY OF JUSTICE, the bomb plotters failed to achieve their plan, we should all support the govt 2 fish out d perpetrators, Let us challeng Okah he has nothing to lose by naming the presidential aide that spoke with him, the time of their call he can give dat to the SA authorities instead of Al Jazeera, amd is it not too early in d day to request for the resignation of Mr President, For my frnd askin abt Obama denying AlQuaedas involvement, If Obama knew that he has another enemy that planned an attack and wants to distract him by havin alquaeda claiming responsibility Obama will also absolve them!!!

So what is your point now?

Faeb:




Bros, abeg tell us. What language is he begging in?

Abeg help me beg am to tell us, Foolish SSS officer

Ileke-IdI:

Look here, home boi , nobody is going anywhere until we all finish sharing the oil. Then we can all go back to our cow selling, cocoa selling, kolanut selling, and car parts selling countries.

Madam, i know you have oil in Ondo and Ogun states, those oil wells should be enough for you guys in ODUA republic,

To your tenth oh man, lets all split, i am saying for the upteenth time, there is no reason for us to remain as a NATION when we have in-born hatred for the next tribe.

nigerhead:

, I laff in Greek , so Jomo Gbomo is not a person but an office, so please can Tombolo and co deactivate the email account or better still get the person who was operating the email account to come out and tell us hw many other people hv access to tht email account , abi they left only their talkative to stay in the creeks and plan bomb blast with his or her mouth? , nonscence and rubbish , "anybody that has the password can send a message through it", so hw many people get the password na? , or na all the militants be the Jomo Gbomo ni? they just take everyone as fools or wat

You can imagine how foolish TOMPOLO is, if he was the leader of MEND, he should have access to that email account or at least tell us who was sending those emails in his days in MEND, We are NO FOOLS, he is working for the government, so no surprises.

rasputinn:

[size=16pt]All these investigation of bomb blast should be zeroed on Babagida,he is used to using them.We never heard of killing an individual in peacetime with a bomb,until he killed Dele Giwa with it,now his goons have started with Abuja,with more terror acts planned against our nation and people.They will fail woefully.Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida,for having the misguided,asinine,outrightly silly temerity to utter this most outrageously silly assertion,may God almighty cut your life down so suddenly and may the blood of the innocent people you sent to their untimely graves begin to hunt your useless children(as you yourself have described them) till they get into their own graves[/size]

I say AMEN to those your prayers, that is if he was/is responsible for the bombs, but we do have any proof yet.

MrPrsdent:

have they found the REAL bombers yet?

For where?? They know the truth.

soon they will parade boys/men that have been badly tortured by SSS who will confess what they did not do. Like the joke where the police beat up a goat until the goat started shouting, ' i will confess, i am a rat, please don't kill me'

Ileke-IdI:

Cheiiii and I thought the yorubas were the most hated nation.
Not that we care, we still do what we do

This is the major reason why we must split, lets have an ODUA REPUBLIC, An AREWA ISLAMIC REPUBLIC and then BIAFRA REPUBLIC

With this, everyone will be happy.

Or does anyone have other ideas why we should still remain as a Nation This was Lord LUGGARD'S Fault.

truly:

Who do the Igbos hate?

I am sure you know the answer, The igbos hate their haters, thats it. Lets put sentiments apart, you can carry out a survey in your area and find out who hates who. I am not here to support the igbos, but the truth must be told, the Igbos are the most hated tribe in the country, Can you tell me why?

snakova:

Its just like the US saying zarqawi did not exist in Iraq. All of a sudden in 2007 he was reported killed in a raid. also Baghdadi was claimed to be non-existent, only for his body to turn up in 2010. A true militant respects his privacy and comes out only when his identity has been compromised. All those[b] EX[/b]- militants were around when MEND attacked that meeting in the south with explosions early this year. Why didn't they come out and say the attacks were not carried out by MEND then? Double faced snakes

Thank you very much, All of them now saying I AM THIS, AM THAT, Can any of them come out and tell us who was in charge of JOMO GBOMO then when they were still members of MEND? How come someone now has the password of such an outfit like MEND, It shows they (the ex militants) have lost the fight, and they are dancing to the tune of the FEDERAL govt, after all who wan go prison?

Let us not be deceived, the real MEND is ALIVE and they will soon show us why they are MEND,

chiteny:

GBIM! GBIM!

Two Gbim = one GBAM

You have said it all. I think this is the best thing to do. Aside the fact that many pastors use tithes to enrich themselves, it is not scriptural.

I am still yet to see anyone that would come up with scriptural backing (especially from the ne testament) on paying of tithe.

where are those Pastors in the house supporting Tithes, come out now and show us in the new testament where JESUS asked his followers, of which we are one today, to pay tithes in church,

Nna boys:

That is it. MEND ,move on, you can do it.

Some people here say MEND is dead, I just pity them, But MEND, please do not target areas where innocent Nigerians are, you know where to Target,

You have our (Or more firmly my) support, take your time and strategize, then strike in ASO ROCK and NASS, only then will they listen to our cry.

beejaay:

there is nothing like mend.they dont exist again that is why they are called ex. they are now terrorist. that was the fg stands as at when the deal was beeig brokered. they gave them ultimatum to accept the amnesty deal or be called terrorist after the deadline.this was even done by UMYAu guys shd remember this unless and ofcourse u think with your hands. i dont know y ciroma and his fellow are shouting.what gej did is exactly what any right thinking leader shd do. ofcourse there will be personal damages just like what we are seeing but it would av been worse if the fg accused mend. gej is taking the fall for the sake of the country. is that not what we want a leader that is ready to sacrife himself/herself, now we av it and we want to chase him away. i fear for my country.

There is nothing like MEND abi? I don hear you, just watch this SPACE,

Dunniah:

I know of someone who prefers to package his tithe and give it to orphanages, motherless babies, disabled people, etc. He argues that a lot of these churches just can't be trusted and that giving service/help to people who need it is service/help to God.

GBAM, THANK YOU This says it all.


Everyday you see church members dancing all the streets distributing leaflets, inviting people to come to their own church. Why their own church it is not by force to p[ay tithes in church, Jesus said when you do good things for the poor and needy, you have done so to him,

Mr-Cork:

NOLLYWOULD in which world? Earth? I dont even watch Nigerian Movies anymore.

The chicks are not light skin and its full of IBO people (no oofeinse)

What tribe are you? don't your tribe have their own movies?? why not make your tribe's movies better than those of the IBOS, Tribalistic being like you

kokoye:

I wonder who died and made you king.

The fact that I said I prefer yoruba movies is because I watch Naija movies to laugh and so I understand yoruba jokes better. 

So pls stop the tribalistic rant . . .I paid for and own a lot of english speaking Nigerian movies as well . . and I guess what? I have seen them all.

I love all those artists you mentioned and read about them everyday

But . . . what is wrong with me having a preference?

Must we go tribal in everything I guess it makes you feel better about yourself

If it will make your tribalistic self feel better, my wife is not yoruba, she is not hausa but still a Nigerian. Go figure 

Kokoye, apologies, please am sorry for sounding the way i did,

cold:

There's nothin in the script that insists we must celebrate/appreciate mediocrity.Whilst not writing them off in totality i daresay the largest room in the world is the room for improvement.

Nollywood makes about 2,400 films per year, putting it ahead of the US, but behind India, according to a Unesco report last year. Nigerian film-makers tend to operate in a fast and furious manner; shoots rarely last longer than two weeks, cheap digital equipment is almost always used and the average budget is about $15,000 (£9,664). The finished products often bypass cinemas altogether and are instead sold directly to the “man on the street” for about $1.50 (£1). Most films shift between 25,000 and 50,000 copies globally – although a blockbuster can easily sell up to 200,000.

Aw c'mon are you sayin we can't do better?

Taiwan was used to be known as the home of substandard products, today they are in another planet from ours, China as well, but most Original Nokia phones today, Laptops and other gadgets are made from China,

I am not saying we should accept below per products, but at least it is a right step in the right direction. This is the only industry from Nigeria that is accepted worldwide, Is there any other industry? please educate me more, The improvements will come, just as it is going on now in the Music industry, we shall get there my brother.

kokoye:

I wonder who died and made you king.

The fact that I said I prefer yoruba movies is because I watch Naija movies to laugh and so I understand yoruba jokes better. 

So pls stop the tribalistic rant . . .I paid for and own a lot of english speaking Nigerian movies as well . . and I guess what? I have seen them all.

I love all those artists you mentioned and read about them everyday

But . . . what is wrong with me having a preference?

Must we go tribal in everything I guess it makes you feel better about yourself

If it will make your tribalistic self feel better, my wife is not yoruba, she is not hausa but still a Nigerian. Go figure 

Please this is not a matter is being tribalistic, because you understand yoruba jokes better does not mean the yoruba movies are better.

kingsido:

who so ever is supporting okah or ibb is going to die soon, aljazera is pro - muslim and they are acting a script. they av been paid and they want to heat the polity, an accused granting telephone interview to an international station, ibb did it and god will destroy him and his supporters, as for dokpesi, god don catch u,sss was trailing u since and u didnt knw, im an ss officer and authoritatively i can tell u dokpesi is beggingggggggg

Just listen to yourself, you are an SSS which makes you a supporter of GJ, Do you have any proof, ? Didn't MEND warn before hand that there will be a blast? what did you or your SSS guys do to avart it?

Go and put your house in order, and stop swearing here. The same thing your SSS colleagues did in Owerri, by stopping the prominent IGBO leaders from holding their meeting, Clear your ass first before you come out here to post trash.

Basseti:

People just tie up their under wears in a knot for nothing  

The title says "Largest", it didnt say "Richest", "most innovative" or "most creative".

Besides, crap or not, that industry is putting food on a lot of tables, something that the lame Govt can no longer do.

Instead of whining and crying about all the crap, why dont u try and figure out how to make it better. It was somebody who decided to take the risk and make the movie that signaled the birth of Nollywood. Its left for someone else to take it a step further and that person might be U. Oh, wait, we are still busy whining  

Thank you my brother, please tell them more.

JeSoul:

Despite my other reservations about Naija movies, in this instance, I second Kokoye's post fully.

Kokoye is probably a Yoruba guy who hates the IGBO dominated english movie industry more because that is the industry that has brought Nigeria more fame, who in the yoruba movie industry is known worldwide like the Genes, JIM iykes, Ramsy Noahs and Omotolas, It is only the english movie industry that can go to Ghana and other African countries and feature those countries' top actors and actresses in their movies,


Please stop the beeeeeefffffff.

The Ibo English movies are in another class compared to the Yoruba ones,

A prophet has no honor in his land, The outside world has seen and ranked us high, but we are here destroying ourselves, How did Japan started, how did china started? how about Taiwan? They were all producing SUBSTANDARD products, but their people and government gave them all the support they needed, and today, almost all (if not all) electronics and gadgets in NIGERIA is imported from these three countries.



Nigerians, please learn to appreciate what you have, When the outside world label us with -ve pictures, we cry foul, now they are praising us, and we are asking them to stop



Na waoooooo