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What on earth are they trying to achieve attacking an armed to the teeth police station of disgruntled low paid trigger happy officers. All in the name of the retaliation of education? This; I have no words for this,


Mend to the south of me, Islamic clowns to the north, and here I am, stuck in the middle with you,


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CdW-4TRcDQ

imranmo:
Since your profile says you're from the U.S, I propose the US be divided considering your sizeable population of Mormons who do not completely adhere to the US constitution. Right? rethink! They have their way of life and everyone else theirs.

The Mormons don't try to impose the Mormon way of life across the USA. The USA is secular, if Nigeria was secular and upheld its principles life would be easier for a whole many a people.

Nigeria deserve a horse's head chopped off delivered to the Rock.

Chiddysville:
The major problem with this geographical entity is that there has never been a true nation called Nigeria. The leaders right from the so called independence are busy continuing plundering the resources from where the British stopped. The day the nation Nigeria will be born is the day every ethnic nationality give up their sovereignty for a true united nation. Where there is a true fiscal federalism, each state or region allowed to take control of what is at their backyard, develop at their own pace and subsequently pay remittances to the central government. Running off to another man's land and joblessly sitting in front of a yet to be fully paid computer and calling on the British plunderers to come and continue from where they stopped is the height of irresponsibility. Let us be sincere to ourselves and what we truly want and our problem is half solved.

You know its our fault though. I'm tired of seeing Nigerians deny it.

The Philippines, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brazil, they were all colonies you know. Nigeria just keep sliding deeper and deeper into complete chaos and anarchy while Nigerians continue to blame the brits and lugard for all their problems.

Shit, I wonder why Ghana is lifting itself up while Nigeria,


you know what, i give up,

Nigeria is so bleeped. When people go to western countries they take for granted what Nigerians can only ever dream of, 24 hour power supply, clean tap water 24 hours a day, sanitation, sewers, a police force that works - at least somewhat, and some form of partially reliable healthcare.

Nigeria has none of those.

We've got committees, lots of them. And for some reason we're more fixated with useless things like having foreign language (Arab) written on our banknotes, or who's sultan was forced to stand in line, or our endless obsession with religion, (god this, god that, but god don't give a fxck about you, you gotta do it urself ain't no god going to bring you drinking water), and tribalism, endless amounts of it.

Fvck Nigeria. I guess its time to jump off this sinking ship, or, actually I mean swim away from this sunk ship.



After Abacha raped her, Obasanjo but a bullet through her. She's lying there on the side of the road, all fvked up. I guess if the Europeans wanna give a shot reviving her, well they can be my guest.

Shit, the British can have her, we don't want her.

arab tunes

F*ck the sultan and his following.

I'm getting a beer, its on the Sultan.

Nigeria is terrible. I hope they start denying our leaders VISAs too. That will be the day.

borrowing to loot

Every time I think of most colonial nations I think of the crap Europeans have done to Africans.

However, the British aren't really "European" and their colonial model was not bad. Sadly, they were still selfish, but they helped us far more than you can imagine. In a way we were lucky it was the British and not the dutch, or Belgians.

Want to see a modern day colony? Look nowhere than Hong Kong. It was run by a British Governor until 1996. I can almost guarantee that if Nigeria was a colony of the UK, ran by a  British governor, it would look like Japan today, almost guaranteed. Our population density would allow the British to apply their highly successfull economic model.

However, is that what we want? To be run by the white man?

I think if the British had the the time to break our tradition of patronage we would have been a world superpower today (not African, WORLD superpower, with nukes, tanks, etc).

Although being run by the white man may simply be unbearable for our pride (and we are the proudest people in Africa).

With that, I'm going to quote a passage from a book by a British governor on the state of Northern Nigeria in the early part of the 20th century,

From the Book "Nigeria, Our Latest Protectorate" - written by Charles Henry Robinson.

There are one or two points to which I should like to refer in conclusion. The first step towards the development of Nigeria must be the abolition of slave-raiding. As long as the majority of the people live in constant fear lest their town or village should be destroyed on the coming night, and they themselves carried off as slaves, we cannot expect any real improvement in the general condition of the country. The marvel is that, despite the existence of this desolating evil, they should have been able to attain so high a degree of civilization. Slaves are used in Nigeria first as porters, and secondly as the currency of the country. During the wet season beasts of burden can only be employed to a limited extent, and when they are available, slaves are often used by preference.
Again, the absence of any proper coinage or substitute for coinage makes it almost impossible to transact business on a large scale, except by using slaves as the medium of exchange. This is especially the case where tribute has to be paid by one king to another. A sort of feudal system prevails throughout most of West Africa, the smaller places paying tribute to the larger. The King of Kano, for example, has two hundred kings who pay tribute to him, the greater part of which is paid in slaves. According to Captain Binger, Samory, whose country lies to the west of Nigeria, pays eight hundred slaves per month for the gunpowder which he receives. Assuming the Hausa-speaking population of Nigeria to be fifteen millions, five millions at the very least of these are slaves. There are probably fifty thousand slaves in Kano itself. On one occasion, after spending thirty-six hours in or on the edge of a slave-raider's camp, and having with difficulty escaped from his clutches, I had to march for four days through country which he had recently raided. In the course of this sixty-mile march, during which we were nearly starved, we passed through village after village destitute alike of inhabitants and of food, the former having been massacred or carried off as slaves by our late host. No one who has not seen a town or village that has recently suffered from such a raid can realize the horror which the constant repetition of such sights from day to day serves to produce. In the presence of this diabolical cruelty and waste of human life, one could not but feel impatient for the day when the forcible intervention of a European power should rid the earth of such crimes. It is quite certain that slave raiding will never die a natural death. History affords no single instance in which Mohammedans have voluntarily abandoned the slave trade, and Nigeria is certainly not likely to afford such an example, "

Tax em damnit,

We got a church or mosque in every nook and cranny in this place.

To those who asked, Federalism, Let's use the broader Wiki term

"Federalism is political philosophy in which a group of members are bound together (Latin: foedus,ovenant (disambiguation)|covenant]]) with a governing representative head. The term federalism is also used to describe a system of the government in which sovereignty is constitutionally divided between a central governing authority and constituent political units (like states or provinces). Federalism is a system in which the power to govern is shared between national and central(state) governments, creating what is often called a federation. Proponents are often called federalists."

Nigeria is not actually functioning like a true federal republic. When it does, it will work.

Power in Nigeria is still highly concentrated in an ineffectual central federal government.

True federalism, yes, otherwise impossible.

They won't need money. Theres no oil in Arawea.

Religion is opium for the masses, and Islam is the worst of it.

To be fair, I'd love to see all forms of religion banned in Nigeria once and for all. All public and religious gatherings should be banned.

Have you noticed most religious riots occur on friday after prayers?

I re-iterate, Nigeria needs good riot police. Then we can inact the changes that are required.

The FG can do something about it, if they had ample riot police. See how China deals with the problem.

brainwashed monkeys.

But when it comes to OIL money coming in, I bet they'll sing whatever asked.

When you make money your immediate family, your cousins, your cousin’s cousins, and random people in your village expect money. Hence people either become discouraged to work hard because all their money will be sucked out from them, or they go into public services, where they can just steal it from the coffers and toss it to expectant family members.

Question, will a little cold heartedness and individuality bring order in Naija?

The curse of oil won't allow it.

All of them.

Ministries in Nigeria do exactly what they are supposed to do. Loot.

Or was it the governor who was in the thief's bedroom?

Is there much difference between the governor and the thief?

Yes? One is more efficient than the other at stealing.

I have noticed in regional elections, that Nigerian politicians campaign about nothing. I have not seen a campaign so far that actually stresses a political mandate.

Bread and butter issues such as health care, investment in education, and lowering the requirements for private capital investment to create jobs in the private sector are nowhere to be heard.

All campaigns seem to be is simply a show of strength, where-by, our leaders walk around in traditional clothing sporting an entourage of associates with sunglasses, almost posing for the media.

How did the politicians in your area run their election campaign? Did they speak publicly on bread and butter issues? Did they gather crowds outside and discuss what they promised to do when they entered office? Anything?



Discuss? Any input on how elections r run in ur state

Fashola

Well if we convicted our senators the same way the USA does we'd be in a far better shape.

thats naija for you, in Kaduna where they plan next oil institute

Easier to loot contracts with construction.

Nobody is building anything.

Kaduna — Officers and men from the Kaduna State Police Command, weekend, aborted a lecture on corruption earlier billed to take place at the Kagoro Town Hall, in southern Kaduna.

"The action of the police is a clear indication that those in government are not sincere with the fight against corruption," said one of the invited peakers and National Secretary of Action Congress (AC), Dr. Usman Bugaje.

Other dignitaries also invited to speak at the public lecture on the topic, Corruption and the Crisis of Development, organised by the Movement for a Better Future, included the Action Congress governorship candidate in Ekiti State in the 2007 general election, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, Vicar-General of the Kaduna Catholic Diocese, Rev. Fr. Matthew Hassan Kukah, as well as Prof. Sam Egwu, a lecturer at the Kogi State University, Ayangba.

Police Division Officer in the area, I. Attahiru, who led a team of policemen, had arrived the venue at about 8.00am in an ALGON jeep with registration number NPF 2659 B and a Hilux van from the Kaduna State security outfit, Operation Yaki, with registration number AG 271 KRA and Code 001 and sealed off the hall.

Bugaje said, "Whoever stopped the event must have done so because they do not want us to expose their corruption. Whoever is stopping it is corrupt and do not want corruption to stop.

"Whatever they want to tell anybody now will not hold water because this is a very strong message that the citizens cannot even speak about corruption," he added.


http://allafrica.com/stories/200907131435.html

lol Nigerian navy.

Haha, what Navy? 3rd hand boats from Germany built in the 70s?

Who's going to pay for the equipment and training? Who's going to pay the personnel, support staff, for the technological investment and the intel departments?

This is Nigeria we're talking about.

I saw an article on this from Thisdayonline.

I seriously doubt our politicians have the will to pony up money for such a division, it is simply very expensive and the troops require heavy equipment and thorough training.

This money could be used for looting instead,a couple of Toyotas, a big mansion in Kaduna, a big party, investment in a hotel. Who the hell needs security when an armored truck will take care of it?

Yar'dull went to beg.

Embarrassment.