₦airaland Forum

OCHOdee:
Serious minded people please

elantraceey:
What about us that don't dream and if ever we do we can't remember it?

goodmorning40:
How I wish u came last year

Sanchez01:
If it suits the PDP you all come here to shout "Sai GEJ" and if it does not, you come to say it is a propaganda, whereas this same paper has not been sued by the PDP for the lies you all claim it is. What does that tell you then?

sleemfesh:
This is a non-partisan view on Nigeria.

Nigeria has a date with destiny as March 28 and April 11 draw near. These are two significant dates that, on one hand, present Nigerians with an opportunity to strengthen democracy through the ballot.

These dates, on the other hand, are also beaming scaring danger signals. No thanks to politicians who are beating drums of war, stumping across the country, making campaign statements full of fury, with little about issues of concern to most Nigerians. As is typical of Nigerian elections, the tension is thick in the air, so much so that the putrid smell of Armageddon has enveloped the country. Fears are palpable, generating serious concerns among Nigerians and within the international community.

Nigeria has traveled this route before, not once. There are however reasons for genuine and heightened concern this time. The last few years have seen widening cracks along the Nigeria’s well-known fault lines of religion and ethnicity. The security situation, especially in the northeast, has been a huge sore on the reputation of the Africa’s most populous country. The abduction of more than 200 girls from the Borno State community of Chibok nearly one year ago, and the perceived lack of enough effort from the government of President Goodluck Jonathan to ensure they are rescued, are making the prospect of a peaceful poll a tall dream.

President Jonathan has had to take the blame for virtually everything going wrong in Nigeria. Admittedly, there are issues that currently feed this perception. They include the security situation, corruption and poor living standards of most Nigerians. Ordinarily, the buck stops at the desk of the president. The opposition seems to have succeeded in creating the impression that Mr. Jonathan merely wakes up on daily basis and does nothing. But things don’t always seem as they look in Nigeria.

That the president has been doing nothing would not pass the muster of nonpartisan scrutiny. What would be correct is that the president has actually done little to publicize the many things he has been doing. In the last six years, the government has been confronting more fundamental issues of growth and development with the type of vigor and single-mindedness uncommon in Nigeria.

The Jonathan administration would trump any previous administration in the effort made to tackle the near-complete collapse of infrastructure such as roads, transportation and power supply. The same can be said of employment generation and capacity development. Nigeria’s economy has not only survived major shake-ups affecting most advanced economies, it has actually also been growing in leaps and bounds, emerging as Africa’s largest.


He has perhaps taken an ingenious route to fighting corruption. He understands the difference between the symptoms of corruption and the underlying causes. While many had expected a frontal attack at the symptoms through demonstrative — even if unlawful — actions by deploying anti-corruption forces in a frenzy of mass arrests, media trials and public sentencing of suspects, Mr. Jonathan has chosen to allow the justice system the space to work.

He hasn’t stopped at that. He is, with the skill of a surgeon, identifying the underlying causes of corruption and taking them out one after the other. This is what he did with a fertilizer distribution scam, which had hampered food production and diversification effort for decades. Perhaps, he did not make enough noise on this, but the result of his approach is loud enough for the thousands of Nigerian farmers who now have easy access to fertilizer, completely eliminating the meddlesome middlemen. The action is equally loud enough for the vested interests to fight back and join the now-profitable president-bashing choir.

The security challenge is a bit more complicated. Mr. Jonathan’s emergence represented a paradigm shift in the Nigerian political arrangement. He was the first person with no strong political background or affiliation, and from a minority tribe to become a democratic president in Nigeria. He had not benefited from any of the important pillars of power such as the support of a major ethnic group. The template for success in the Nigerian environment requires much more than the timing of response to a security situation, such as the Chibok abduction saga. It requires the willingness of the players within the affected area to put the safety of lives and protection of properties of the people ahead of their own immediate political advantage. It is not going to be easy trimming the hair of someone who continues to run. It could take time to either catch up with him or get him to willingly agree to the need to solve a problem. The ability to keep calm rather than adopt a knee-jerk and high-handed approach in the face of treachery and impunity is a great asset the president is endowed with. This, as the opposition is wont to do, can also be mistaken for weakness or incompetence.

Mr. Jonathan’s civilized approach to tackling issues is built around the need to ensure social justice, equity and the rule of law. This should, ordinarily, be worthy of global acknowledgment and commendation. But the concerted noise from the opposition camp and the penchant of some international observers to rush to judgment without taking full account of peculiarities of an environment are a bit deafening and blinding to the reality on ground.

As elections are getting closer, the president is faced with the facts that Nigerians are in a hurry. They’ve waited for too long. This is a situation that is being exploited by opposition leaders, who have been calling for mob actions as against the rule of law. Mr. Jonathan has equally shown that he understands that Nigerians are expecting a leader with a magic wand, who could with a snap somewhere, turn age-long and deeply rooted social decay into an instant state of bliss. But the magic wand could actually be a possibility if current efforts are allowed another four years to take root, grow and bear fruits.

• William Reed is president of the Black Press Foundation.


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damseyl:
Badoo not working on ur phne?

ozoigbondu:
Lagos is free from corruption

henrylowe:
nairaland now evolving into a dating site

kilokeys:
very single atm

kilokeys:
yippie

itetemi:
this is another product of mama peace school of politics.
touts.

itetemi:
the clueless jonny walker and his super clueless handlers.nonsense

nwachi1404:
Your father is a clueless animal. dats y he gave birth to a daft bastard like you

xreal:
Clueless human.

uzeba:
Hidden truth!!

An Igbo man had no child,no money,no home and a blind mother. He prayed to God, and God moved by his prayers,told him 2 make only 1 wish which will b granted! The Igbo man prayed thus: God,I want my mother to see my wife putting Diamond bangleson my children's hands in our new mansion! Then God said, Damn! I still have a lot to learn from these Igbo people.

holatin:
but GEJ haven't distance himself from dirt.
can a pig distance from a dirt

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NairaMode:
I call it insane because that is the perspective with which I am seeing it.
I am sure many other guys may have noticed it too and may have have wondered if our girls are thinking right or not.
At least to me, they are not thinking right.

1) So you left your home in the morning for work or an outing and you probably forgot to make up or you intentionally left it undone.
Then you get into a commuter bus and brought out all your contraption:
Foundation
Powder
Eye liner
Big mirror
Lip stick
Eye pencil
Eye brush with a very fat as* mirror.
This of course to me is insane. What do you think?
Solution: Make up from home and do a touch when you get to where you are going or you make up when you get to where you are going. That is what the ladies room is meant for.

2) So you wear a size 75 jeans (Maybe XXL) and you went ahead to buy a jean that is meant for infant.
The implication of what you see on our roads daily is that their hands are ever gracing their behind, trying to pull the jeans up so that it will not expose the stretch mark infested as*.
This of course to me is also insane. What do you think?
Solution: Wear your size and stop looking like YOKOZUNA. I hope I got the spelling right. Most girls who dress this way usually have a upper body with a tiny below.

3) You do not own a personal vehicle or at the very least, you are not good with heels and then you wear this 10 inches and start moving like a snail on the road.
Haven't you seen any looking like she was forced to wear it?.
They move so slow and "laughingly" calculated that you may almost conclude they are robots.
This of course to me is also insane. What do you think?
Solution: Get a slip on and wear your heels where you are going. That is if you do not have a vehicle or rather, practice the heels wearing culture at home before stepping out.

I am angry.
Abeg I am idle this morning na why I say make I express my mind.

Remember GEJ is a good man but a weak man. However, Buhari is a reasonable but dangerous alternative. Vote wisely.

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argob44:
NO HARSE WORDS PLEASE OR I WILL DELETE THIS TREND! SHE IS A HUMAN LIKE YOUR MOTHERS AND SISTERS... BE NICE