@Ikeyman
Not that you were told, you actually believe it because it suit your imagination, bloody tribalist.

@Aloy
Do you even know the meaning of nationalist? I doubt you know. Can't you just restrict your shallow rantings on nairaland to defending your people? I think you will do better as an Igbo activist than just talking for talking sake. You don't have to be expert on every topic.

@all,
I suppose you people know much more than she does, why can't one of you lobby to be appointed  to that position and let us see how far you will go. hossanah today, crucify him tomorrow. abusive children !

@Onlytruth
It is either you are deliberately spreading half-truth or you re an ignoramous. Half education is dangerous, you surely don't grasp the main issues around policy. It seems to me you think more with your heart than with your head in strategic issues of politics.

@Tudor,
Yoruba are not know for betraying collective strategic interest of their people, you can dig up history

daydreaming, have they succeded in banning traditional chiefs?

Anywhere if you are good, your degree is not a limit of your potentials

Boyscout
your information is at best faulty, I wonder how anybody can deny the fact that Obj is a brialliant General, you don't have to like him or his personality, but give it to him, he's a brilliant General, he may not be a good politician. Obj is not only a good General, he's also very intelligent one for that matter.

by the way, who told you IBB was the one that foiled the coup? he actually played the in-between, but he had the benefit of knowing where the pendulum swing will go and he toed the line, for your information and as attested by IBB, were it not for Obj, IBB military career would have ended with coup.

there are some home truths in the position of ACF, but it only take a proactive mind to see not reationary fools.

Na wa o, some people just want our president dead. It's a pity

@post
Of a truth, Ribadu touched many lives in Nigeria directly or indirectly, positively or negatively, depending on which side of the law you were during his reign. There are many relatives and beneficiaries of treasury looters on nairaland. And I won't be suprise if cre8tivity is one of such people.

[b]@post
If it is Nigerians and not Ghanians that voted Adeboye with a wide margin as a legend, what right have all these morons have to insult the people that voted him? Am sure some of them voted for their candidates yet they did not match up with Adeboye, isn't this the same way our politicians find it difficult to accepted elections results in Nigeria? Or is it possible to vote for somebody that has not touch your life in anyway, when you have the choice to vote those that have in many ways? Is this bitterness against Adeboye justified? Or are the people crucifying Adeboye only motivated by hatred and frustration? What has Adeboye done  to deserve all these insults?  


Ok, if Nigerians are brainwashed as some people would want us believe, then why did Adeboye made the list of the most influential men in the world by the world acclaimed magazine? Or are those people too brainwashed? Funny enough no other Nigerian made the list. Are we fools? Why do we always rejects what the world value and celebrates. The same  way we rejected Ribadu and El-Rufai and yet the world is listening to them where even our president will not be given audience.

I think Nigeria has a distorted value system. Yes I know that there are many people on this forum that uses the opportunity of a faceless information highway to spew their frustrations, but what I fail to understand is how such people are incapable of independent thought without allowing  religon, tribal and other frivolities to colour their judgement.

It is a shame! [/b]

[b]@post
If it is Nigerians and not Ghanians that voted Adeboye with a wide margin as a legend, what right have all these morons have to insult the people that voted him? Am sure some of them voted for their candidates yet they did not match up with Adeboye, isn't this the same way our politicians find it difficult to accepted elections results in Nigeria? Or is it possible to vote for somebody that has not touch your life in anyway, when you have the choice to vote those that have in many ways? Is this bitterness against Adeboye justified? Or are the people crucifying Adeboye only motivated by hatred and frustration? What has Adeboye done  to deserve all these insults?  


Ok, if Nigerians are brainwashed as some people would want us believe, then why did Adeboye made the list of the most influential men in the world by the world acclaimed magazine? Or are those people too brainwashed? Funny enough no other Nigerian made the list. Are we fools? Why do we always rejects what the world value and celebrates. The same  way we rejected Ribadu and El-Rufai and yet the world is listening to them where even our president will not be given audience.

I think Nigeria has a distorted value system. Yes I know that there are many people on this forum that uses the opportunity of a faceless information highway to spew their frustrations, but what I fail to understand is how such people are incapable of independent thought without allowing  religon, tribal and other frivolities to colour their judgement.

It is a shame! [/b]

@ikeymann00
I think you re an ethnic bigot. You need to grow up, hatred is not a virtue.

@ tymoti
rather you too shallow to think about the magnitude of forces he had to contend with to achieve what no president military or civilian has ever achieved in our short history.

It is a pity Nigerians celebrates mediocrity because most of them are mediocres

@post
the last three posters above my post are the most subjective posters on nairaland. I have followed their post for quite some time now and I realized that their perspective on issues is myopic, subjective and uninformed.

I advise you guys to open up a bit and atleast be objective in your subsequent posts.

The primary qualification of an analyst is to be informed on a particular subject of discussion, but when such simple qualification is compromised, then there is little room for intellectual discussion.

Now on the subject matter of this post, I have no doubt that El-Rufai is more informed than any one of you on this issue. Atleast, he participated in most of the major decision in the last administration and his information is not based on the news media which is the source of information to most frivolous posters on nairaland. Funny enough, majority of these media houses are owned by people El-Rufai revoked their plots and demolished their houses for one crime or the other.

I bet El-Rufai is 100 times better than most lazy posters on nairaland.

@Abeem & Co travellers
Is it the church's fault that companies are closing shops? Would you have loved those closed warehouse to grow weeds with nobody occupying them? Does a warehouse growing weeds because there is no company to rent or acquire it profits the owner? Or are the churches taking over these warehouses for free? Aren't they paying for usage of these warehouses? If a company packed out of your warehouse, won't you be glad if a church take it over and pay your rent rather than leaving the place idle?

Sometimes, the human mind is so mischievious and hypocritical that the gullible minded could be easily decieved. Am sure it is not the rate at which companies are folding up that is your concern rather you hide your hatred for the church under your "pretentious concern" for the state of Nigerian economy.

I know you may be a sceptical christian or a non-christian for that matter, but rather than confronting the fact that the church is fast growing in Nigeria, you choose to tie your hypocrisy at the stake of the state of the economy.

I think you re a coward, you should have been courageuos enough to argue your point against the church rather than welling up emotions and sentiments to present a case to undiscerning public.

I have noticed this trend on Nairaland, giving the dog a bad name to hang it, unfortunately most people fall for this bait. It's a shame.

@poster
If to you use your hypocritical coinage "Yoruba Universities" I think the management of "Yoruba Universities" should be commended for their foresight and courage to purge the system of bad eggs. Am sure those bad eggs are not restricted to "Yoruba Universities"

@Ijawman
I read somewhere in the thread that you schooled abroad, and it amazed me the University or the college that produced such a monumental and intellectual fraud like you- your reasoning capacity attest to it.

@post
the doctrinal tradition of the Army is against protest of any form, it does not argur well for discipline, command and control. the purnishment must be severe or else the same will be repeated elsewhere and it will be a calamity for state security.

this is not to justify the looting officers that deprived those gallant soldiers their dues, it is a sign of a sick nation.

but then, those soldiers should have used another peaceful and orderly method of registering their grieviances and injustice done to them.

but as I said early on, that kind of behaviour from those soldiers cannot be tolerated anywhere in the world because it creates a problem of order and control, no state or military institution can afford it.

@post
the doctrinal tradition of the Army is against protest of any form, it does not argur well for discipline, command and control. the purnishment must be severe or else the same will be repeated elsewhere and it will be a calamity for state security.

this is not to justify the looting officers that deprived those gallant soldiers their dues, it is a sign of a sick nation.

but then, those soldiers should have used another peaceful and orderly method of registering their grieviances and injustice done to them.

but as I said early on, that kind of behaviour from those soldiers cannot be tolerated anywhere in the world because it creates a problem of order and control, no state or military institution can afford it.

@post
the doctrinal tradition of the Army is against protest of any form, it does not argur well for discipline, command and control. the purnishment must be severe or else the same will be repeated elsewhere and it will be a calamity for state security.

this is not to justify the looting officers that deprived those gallant soldiers their dues, it is a sign of a sick nation.

but then, those soldiers should have used another peaceful and orderly method of registering their grieviances and injustice done to them.

but as I said early on, that kind of behaviour from those soldiers cannot be tolerated anywhere in the world because it creates a problem of order and control, no state or military institution can afford it.

@ Chidichris
I think sometimes you allow your emotion to override your sense of judgment. anyway, its a common problem on this forum, arguement that lacks consistency and logic flow of thoughts.

It is amazing that the only explanation you have for your hatred for Obj is that his son accused him of sleeping with his wife. I bet some of you hypocrites have done worse things.

Sincerely, I don't want to go further with you, most of your posts are too subjective and often times lacks intellectual premise for me to get involved with you. this is what happens when newspaper stand political analysts are the majority poster on Nairaland politics section.

@post
so much hatred on this forum against Obj, some of you Obj haters should just think for a second, if your fathers were given the same opportunity as Obj whether they would have done better for Nigeria. by the way, I have noticed this internalized hatred, hatred has never been of any good to the haters, am sure some of you would be worst than Obj were you to be Local Govt Chairmen let alone a president. Calling an elderly man like Obj all kind of names is a testimony of a character weakness which in my opinion is not a virtue of leaders

@ i - laugh

As unsubstantiated as your post may sound,  I think am in agreement with what you re saying. some diasporas travelled out of Nigeria out of bitterness due to  situation at home, it always baffles me that some of them responded to anything Nigeria out of bitterness, they somehow find it difficult to forgive the country that has made them a second class citizens in a foreign land.

my take on this is that I think they sometimes exerggerate the negative sides of Nigeria, as lucabrasi observed, the sources of information may have contributed to the negative tones of their comments on this forum.

again, my contention with Nigerians diasporas is this feeling that they were not part of the problem confronting Nigeria today, yet some of us that travel ocassionally are being humuliated every now and then, just because some of this diasporas have misrepresented us in their despiration to survive.

I sometimes find them not to be in touch with reality of the situation in Nigeria, the seriousness with which they take our newspaper headlines suggest that they are out of touch with Nigeria's situation, then I guess they are mistaken Nigerian press with European or American press, negative headlines don't really bother us here in Nigeria, because soonest you will sone hear a contrary news contradicting the former report. Sensational reporting is here with us, and most of the major dailies are owned by politicians who find it convenient to demonise their political adversaries at will

they come on this forum and shout blue murder whenever there is a negative news about Nigeria as if they were not part of the problem before finding their way abroad, some diasporas engages in activities that contineu to tarnish the image of Nigeria, yet they are quick to come on Nairaland to point accusing fingers.



@lucabrasi

I agree with your points above, those points may have contributed to their view and perception about Nigeria. I suggest they ask questions here on this forum instead of claiming to know all about Nigeria from their hideout in America, Europe and Asia. It is not everything that is going on in Nigeria that is reported on nairaland and I think the information gap is contributing to the uninformed post been sent here by most diasporas.

@poster
Is this all you have to contribute to Nigeria's greatness, you could have used the same energy to paint the positive side of your country. apart from the digusted video clip, am sure there are other good things about Nigeria, good things that your creativity and ingenuity could paint to the outside world. Again, am sure you know the world is reading your post too.

Every country has its beautiful and ugly sides, I will rather use my energy to promote Nigeria's image than contributes to its battered image, most especially on an open forum like this.

This poster should muster the courage to face his friend and tell him that that video clip is not all that it is about Nigeria, definitely your friend should be able tp believe your story about Nigeria, he shouldn't have any reason to doubt you, atleast if you had been a good ambassador of Nigeria.

@post
I wonder how many of you chicken livered pessimists would have done half what Ribadu did when he was in EFCC. what most of you could do is to chicken out of the country, stay in comfortable locations abroad and be sending nonsense posts to Nairaland. if some of you have half gut as Ribadu, this country will not be in a mess right now. bunch of ungrateful people, probably you expected corruption of 40yrs to be wiped out in one day, yeye people.