₦airaland Forum

rokiatu:
I am a newly wed bride I hate threads like this.

With your pseudonym and over 27,000 posts on Nairaland alone, it's not so difficult to fathom your rational for that answer. Pathetic!

@Shinor, I couldn't agree more with your analysis. Indeed, I found this line accurate with my own experience "Believe it or not, there are news magazines that you will read and at the end of it all, you will sound more coherent than a masters degree holder from our Nigerian universities."

I'm not trying to hype myself but what you wrote is so spot on I couldn't escape but say this.

There's a professor from OOU that relies on me for everything foreign news and ideological politics. He would call me at least 5 times in a month to find out one of two things about the events around the world, the history preceding them and how to summarize them into a nutshell. The same goes to tonnes of my friends and neighbors.

Am I a Ph.D. holder? No. Was I born with this knowledge? Of course not. I haven't been to these countries and I didn't get my knowledge from school either. But I'm just an average Joe who's obsessed with one thing: reading.

Suffice it to say that you're doing a great service to your child by teaching him those habits from such a minor age, most importantly because in contemporary Nigeria, you only get to hear about Facebook and Pinging when it comes to the use of Internet. Overwhelming majority of my contemporaries have no idea what the Internet can be used for outside the aforementioned scope.

I've always been fascinated with the foreign media from my primary school days. In fact, you don't often find me quoting articles from Nigerian media. I read from big news sources like Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Real Clear Politics, The Spectator, BusinessWeek, Forbes, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, New York Times, Daily Telegraph to smaller blogs like PJMedia, FoxNation, RedState, Politico, Townhall, MichelleMalkin, Dailybeast, American Thinker, Newsbusters, American Interest, among others.

Going through my Facebook page, Samuel Sir'Mo Ogundipe, will give you a better perspective on how much I like sourcing my news from abroad.

I salivate to read weekly columns from conservatives like George F. Will, Thomas Sowell, Victor Davis Hanson, Daniel Henninger, Charles Krauthammer, Walter Russell Mead among others.

And if you want professional analysis on all sorts of sectors of Humanities, check think-tanks like the Heritage Foundation, Brookings Institution, Manhattan Institute, CFR, Eurasia, AEI, Cato Institute among others.

Now, does that mean I don't read our local sources? Absolutely not, in fact, I'm a registered blogger at the Vanguard. But I just like foreign media for its professionalism.

President "Goodluck" Jonathan, an ex shoeless proletariat who's never seen a spending program he doesn't like, staged another event on Monday to propagandize his nominal "job creation program" by announcing his intention to create 370,000 new government jobs.

Sounds good on paper. Or does it?

Be that as it may, what the President failed to tell Nigerians is that he'll be loading an additional hundreds of thousands of people to the payroll of an already over bloated and redundant Federal Civil Service where ghost recruiting is a par for the course.

The government shouldn't be in the business of creating jobs. The earlier Mr. President and his minions reach the epiphany that Keynesian quick fix economic policies doesn't work the better for his approval ratings.

Wande Coal has got his work cut out for him in this murder case. The Net has quoted an anonymous neighbour as saying Wande Coal's loud music was the reason he couldn't hear the woman scream bloody murder. I hope Wande's able to clear the air swiftly before this exacerbates into something unbearable for him.

Good luck to Wande. R.I.P to Ms. Yusuf.

Another day, another amateur hour at Abuja, another irrational and unpatriotic political fiat from a man appointed to head the central bank based on a certificate obtained from the Madrasah.

omanzo02:
Its security dude.

Its has nothing to do with kind of government. As free a europe is, do u know the security around where Obama, George Bush pass thru?, I walk to shake the hand of the prime minister like a fellow neighbour, but u can't do that with some high risk head of states like GEJ.

Troll alert

I couldn't agree more. A Nigerian Pastor fighting against corruption? Who'da thunk it? The evil deeds of Adeboye, Oyedepo and their whole band of gullible followers has beleaguered the good work this Pastor with limited congregration is doing. God Bless You, Mr. Bakare.

Have they (RIM) paid they dues to the Volkswaggen group before tapping on their brand?

Porsche is not just a brand, it's Porsche. Get it?

''Therefore, when the men began the
thorough search of the house, they found Qaqa under the bed from where he was dragged out.''

The aforequoted, if anything, reveals how poor the SSS operatives are when it comes to lying. And trust me, the ability to lie and be very deceitful is the most important task in covert operations and intelligence gatherings.

Under his Aunt's bed? So the SSS can't even cook up a convincing lie to Nigerians, who are arguably the most gullible set of people to ever walk the Earth's surface. Then how can they lure and track hardened criminals?

They had better return to the field and work their butts of to incarcerate Abu Qaqa instead of wasting insufficient time telling us cheap tales.

Someone should memo the SSS: this is not Alice in Wonderland.

This guy continue to repeat the same diatribe on every chance he get to hop on camera. He's a media LovePeddler. Apparently.

Musiwa and Jmoore, you guys seems to be lost here. I'm just trying to counter the diplomat's claim that their (U.S) government never mentioned anything like Nigeria's disintegration.

I also didn't take the prediction at face value and that, I believe, was apparent in my point that we knew how their ”estimate” on Iran's nuclear program turned out. By that I mean they're not as prescient as they would have us believe.

Of course, Nigeria won't disintegrate, not even by the Taliban. Be that as it may, I think the country urgent needs a Sovereign National Confab to better pave a good path for a prosperous, well organized future.

The National Intellegence Estimate, NIE, released a detailed report towards the end of 2007 that unequivocally predicted Nigeria as an entity would disintegrate on or before 2015. It was in the same report that the Department claimed Iran has suspended it's Uranium Enrichment Program has been halted. Well we know the truth of that now. The reports can be can be sourced at the CIA, Council on Foreign Relation, Eurasia and Brookings Institutions websiter to name but a few.

CNN reported it extensively back then and I remember they listed Barbara Starr and David Bergen to give their analysis.

The fact that no reporter available to make this clear really tells us the crop of journalists we have in Nigeria than it does about the incompetent diplomat Obama appointed into his administration.

Alhaji Tafawa Balewa is not just your average greedy and acrimonious politico.

He's a man of both integrity and utmost honor, well educated and intelligent to the extent that Obafemi Awolowo envied him to boot and made several attempts to assassinate him as revealed in Justice Sowemimo's court.

Enough of these legendary tales that's nothing but propaganda to prop we the Yorubas.

The nominal ”pastor” Adeboye is the number one one the list of errant ”pastors” in this regard. He's the most egocentric, nassisistic Nigerian out there. When he's not telling you how he could purchase a MCD double engines jet at a snap of fingers, he'll be telling you how everyone automatically felt the presence of an ”anointed spirit” when he entered a restaurant in Canada. He was the same SOB who claimed there would have been 49 crashes in 2005 but for his ”prayers” that averted it to five, including the one in which scores of innocent, home bound Loyola College teenagers perished.

The level of ignorance and gullibility of Nigerians is beyond any rational reasoning.

I was with her today at the Fuel Subsidy protest in Lagos

This guy is practicing madness. Let him not enter market abeg.

This is balderdash.

We're taking to the street. It's either Mr. Jonathan or Nigeria. There cannot be both.

@ Ihengote, only in your bedroom

Yes, it is.