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While Oba had his faults, he has made several good points. He has also done so much for Nigeria in 8 years, not just the negatives, but many positives too. Compare Oba's 1st few years with Yar'Aduas.


And sometimes I do feel that Nigeria could have been much worse. Think of Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Niger, etc.

Oh come on!!!


Typical Nigerian mentality. Markets spring up like mushroom fungus all over the country in every city. No one pays taxes, no one cleans, they create health hazards, clog up roads, mice, garbage, etc etc.

I'm fully behind Lagos Government with its cleaning up policy.


Hopefully with the land reform bills (if it ever passes) these people can return home or stay and purchase a small piece of land and build their capital onwards from there.

We have summit, last selected 20. I'm sure all the criminals will enjoy that summit where they can discuss nothing of actual importance, but bitcker over stupid shit that doesn't make any difference, a bit like our national assembly, ACTUALLY EXACTLY LIKE OUR NATIONAL ASSEMBLY!

Yar Adua, Bashir, Rajoelina, Baptiste, and all the other miscreants can hold their summit in Abuja until thugs vandalize or break the generator outside, in which case they can huddle around a candle in the dark and praise each other.


Come bring Maddof and Stanford too, they've got Nigerian blood in them.

If government says it will increase funding to a program or utility, expect money to be looted and nothing to be built. Outside of Lagos city and Kwara state, I doubt anything productive is being accomplished.

We are not developed.

G20 is for developed countries.

We're a 3rd world nation. Simple and plain.

G20?


No electricity, no water, no roads, no accountability, no real elections, back breaking poverty.


First of all, we're not G100 (literally). Please see the Human Development Index (UN website or Wiki "HDI". Nigeria is lower rank than Haiti, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Cuba, Vietnam.

All of those countries deserve an invite before Nigeria as they are more developed.

G20. HA!!!!

"We have the people". HA! (Drowning of the coast of Lybia)

"We have the potential" HA! (To Loot)

"We have the resources" HA! (That we can't manage)

If Nigeria was like Ukraine there would not be Nigerians drowning off the coast of Lybia.

Just to re-iterate? What makes any of you think Nigeria is worthy of a G-20 invite?

Tell me 1 virtue we have, 1 thing that makes us important other than our OPEC membership. Please.


1 THING??

We all know why the NNPC is being so heavily defended. This is why ANYTHING in this country is defended, SO IT CAN BE LOOTED!!!!!!!!



All over Africa, its the same story.

Chop Chop. How now de? Chop Chop!

Same story. Chop chop.

Disgrace.

Can't build anything because the whole village wants a cut for something they didn't earn.


Its why I stop going to tribal gatherings. Its a way to gouge money out of the few that bother to earn it. Our leadership is no different.

Gouge, chop hop, steal, loot, bribe, share with the village, repeat.

Didn't read the whole thing. Too damn long. Skimmed through it. Got the jist.


Our leaders are corrupt, take bribes, and built a system where they can safely do that. That system is called the Nigerian constitution.

Welcome to Africa and enjoy your stay.

Fucking sickening beggars. I'm tired of them.


Look at Kenya. The morons looted the food allocation money. And now they beg for more from the west.


LET THEM ROTT!!!!

I'm tired of African leaders begging the west for aid as they proceed to squander and loot it while the populace starves.

Typical Africa. Nigeria is the same. Bribe taking leaders.

Africa is hopeless. No more aid embarassment.

Nigerians murdered Nigeria.

Wiki just took a photo.

That's because "20 most industrialized countries"





Out of all of you who have travelled the world. Please tell me, honestly, does Nigeria DESERVE an invite? Are we one of the top 20 industrialized countries in the world? The top 50? The Top 100?

Just to put things into perspective for all of you who think Nigeria deserves an invite, Our economy of 150 million people is $100 million (US dollars) smaller than that of Czech Republic's. Czech is 10 m people.

Have they started?

Anyone noticed?


Anyone even care?

I hope the government doesn't bail them out. Instead let them completely collapse and let foreign private investors pick up the pieces.

http://www.businessdayonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4202:nnpc-broke-owes-n600bn&catid=85:national&Itemid=266

WoW!!!

just, wow,


Why are they still stalling the sale of this entity?

Warri — The new helmsman of the reconstituted Joint Task Force (JTF), code-named Operation Restore Hope, Major-Gen Sarkin Yaki Bello, has vowed to go after retired generals and military officers involved in illegal bunkering of oil.

Bello made the remarks while briefing newsmen in Warri, Delta State, yesterday on the restructured task force, which is now headquartered in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.

He also promised to take "with a pinch of salt" unilateral ceasefire declaration by the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) on Sunday, which the group had said would lead to the shutting down of their militant camps.

He said he was not worried that retired military generals are accused of spearheading the spate of illegal bunkering in the region, adding that the JTF does not hold anybody as sacred cows but has the federal mandate to put an end to "illegal bunkering, vandalism and other forms of criminality in the oil-rich region".

The worrisome levels of militancy and proliferation of arms in the Niger Delta have been widely attributed to the involvement of highly placed persons who have remained elusive in the face of huge crude oil losses to the nation.

However, Bello assured Nigerians that the Federal Government is determined to stop illegal oil bunkering, maintaining that the JTF would deal equally with anyone caught in the act whether he is retired military officer or not.

On the promise by the militants to lay down their arms, apparently in response to the Federal Government's peace process for the region, he said such declaration would only be appreciated in practical terms if all forms of attack on military positions and personnel, oil and gas as well as other installations cease completely.

According to Bello, while peace remained the desire and goal of the Federal Government's establishment of the JTF, the soldiers and security personnel would continue to respond militarily to any attack on the JTF or oil installations.

Bello, who said the changes in the formation of task force, which involved the merging of the two separate units of the JTF for Delta/Bayelsa State and Rivers State, respectively, would not undermine the effective operations of the security outfit.

He said: "There is no better thing in human life than peace. Without peace, no form of development whatever is possible.

"Some of us have had the opportunity to visit places of war like Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and you do not wish your country to go through that bitter experience. So, it is in that light that I was happy about the IYC's decision."

Bello, however, said the apprehension in militants' camps was unfounded as the JTF would not launch any attack on the militants unless they became the aggressor by attacking the task force and oil facilities.


"My subsisting instruction to my soldiers and men is simple: any attack on any facility whatsoever should be followed by appropriate military response," he said, wondering if indeed the militants have stopped attacking security points or oil installations.

Meanwhile, the naval authorities are preparing to launched two new 38-metre Fast Patrol Craft (FPCs) and three new Augusta helicopter gunships, armaments which many militants are said to be apprehensive might be used by the JTF specifically against them.





These men ran our country for the last 50 years. Good times.

A bloody revolution will change what?

The culture of bribery and looking after one's own tribe before the interests of the country.

You think that a revolution will change naija overnight? It will replace one set of looters with another.

Death penalty for bribery at the Federal and state government level please!! That's the only way to break the tradition of bribery.





And yes, for those that asked, bribery is part of our culture. Traditional chiefs in the past would offer food, jewellry, and other small gifts for exchange of slaves, women, specific spices and permission to fish in another tribe's river(in my home state fishing was a big part of our culture before the oil came). We did not develop complex monetery and land ownership systems like the Europeans and Asians, we were still bartering.

Bribery is modern day bartering. Its so deeply ingrained in our culture that only the threat of death or imprisonment can change it.

Ghana is stable.

The power company has the courtesy to let people know if there will be an outage.

In Nigeria everything from elections to power provision is a surprise.

Investors don't like that.

Depends in which countries. Nigerians in Anglo Saxon based nations (US, Canada, Britain) are generally well behaved and achieve high social status within a generation.

Nigerian refugees in mainland Europe's Germany, Austria, Italy, etc are quite a threat to our "brand" (if thats what we wanna call it).

Ah naija naija.


But for what its worth we have a culture of bribery that extends for at least a thousand years into our history. Its not easy to erase. We can't just sweet our culture and tradition under the carpet overnight.


Death penalty for corruption please!!

HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!??



We have a police?

Yeah we know.

kamalydeen:
, so Nepa are still functioning i thought they've pack off since they have turn to, Please hold your candle now i e (PHCN)

It was another "re branding effort" by the FG, nepa to phcn.

This is why i know the re branding of Nigeria will fail, because changing a name doesn't do shit.

Its like putting lipstick on shit, its shit, but now it has lipstick on it.

Privatize.

Let private business sort it out. Government's job is not to provide power, the private sector is more than capable. All the government is doing is subsidizing corruption while incompetence multiplies exponentially.

lexdino:
EFCC are scammers themselves, arresting today and telling us tomorrow that they were innocent.

Bribes well paid.

So if its a white created problem why are we suffering? Are we that DUMB to allow whites to rule over us without even coming to Africa.

no modify so i'll add to that



I don't think many of us will notice to be honest.

They should privatize the phcn already kick out all these incompetent clowns

SOURCE?!