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[size=17pt]Our lawmakers smile home almost everyday with millions without having any positive impact on the economy. What have the govt done to reduce looting in public offices? Instead we are here busy congratulating the president for such a decision. It seems we dont know what we are deliberating on? To those who say the F.G supported them during their course of study, I quite agree with that. But the people we call leaders today are same set of people who enjoyed free education from primary to tertiary, free meal during studies, clothes washed for them and are given pocket money by the government. These are same people depriving we the younger generation quality education, good health and adequate social amenities. Hmmm! I wonder the type of country we are....[/size]

You want to make front page abi? You say its conspiracies because someone just sat in front of his computer to say so with no research or evidence to the said 'facts'. Silly twats

oilyngbati: Job well done by the nigerian immigration. They should kill the terrorist, for most of these muslims are terror-inclined. What the hell is he doing in Germany? Could he be learning how to make more bombs for boko haram?

seun, this fault is on you for not doing an age census. What is the meaning of this? making stuuupid comments co you feel it will make you relevant or what?

2cato: Why not go and throw bombs like BH so as to register ur protest?

That means you agree your president is a worm hole failure because for you to open your smelling and disgusting mouth this morning to say that solidifies my statement that jonathan is a failure. how can a citizen open his dirty mouth to say that? because you have lost faith in the nations security

ProfessorPeter: supporter of APC, another hopeless APC Jonathan till 2019 if don't want go to Liberia, contact ebola and dieJanjaweed, another hopeless APC Jonathan till 2019 if don't want go to Liberia, contact ebola and die

Idiet, you should know this supporter of APC and jonah till 2019 is very stale.

Now take a reality check, are you on the right side? every where is you go in nigeria things are falling apart. whats wrong with you guys?

Tazmode: Lead the way.

The Change.org petition will be coming up soon and protests are being organized under way. This will be way bigger than the subsidy crisis.

UchihaMadara: Very disgusting, almost makes me want to wish evil on them so that others can laugh at their misfortune or their deaths and make hash-tag jokes, just disgusting.

Just imagine you're in trouble, about to get beaten, molested, maybe killed, and people here are joking with hash-tags.

At this point I am equally disgusted with the responses on this thread, as I am with the vile acts of boko haram. I really don't know what the difference is between someone that kills a human being, and someone that smiles and laughs while witnessing another human-being being killed.

Disgusting!!!!

I'm really disgusted at Nairaland, how i wish the hackers come back and seriously clear out nairaland, this time remove its existence, since seun hasn't declared what area nairaland is going.

Isnt it clear now to all of you that Jonathan is clueless?
The total paralysis of the important sectors - talking of strikes here and there from Education, to Labor to Health, to worsening Security?

Jonathan is clueless! Lets boot him out now. Impeach the President now before its too late.

Please register your intent and displeasure.

Kidnappings in Nigeria

[size=18pt]A clueless government[/size]

The incompetence of Nigeria’s president and government is hurting the country’s reputation at home and abroad

FOR the past few years President Goodluck Jonathan has publicly shrugged off the deaths of thousands of people, mainly in the north-east of his country, portraying them as the unfortunate but unavoidable result of a fanatical insurgency for which his government cannot be blamed. But in the past few weeks the plight of 200-plus girls abducted from a school by Boko Haram, the extremist group chiefly responsible for the mayhem, has put Mr Jonathan and his government under an international spotlight, [size=15pt]exposing them not only as incompetent but callous, too.[/size]

As outrage spread beyond Nigeria’s borders, Barack Obama and other Western leaders, hitherto watching more or less silently from afar, have felt obliged to offer help as well as sympathy. West African leaders, led by Ghana’s president, have expressed unusual solidarity. The surge of global horror mixed with curiosity and bafflement was particularly embarrassing, at a time when Mr Jonathan was about to host a glamorous gathering of leaders, including China’s prime minister, at the World Economic Forum in Abuja, his capital, where he was hoping to celebrate the recent international re-evaluation of Nigeria’s economy as by far the biggest in Africa, well ahead of South Africa’s.
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Not that there was the slightest sympathy for Boko Haram and its maniacal leader, Abubakar Shekau, who purported to be the man pictured in a video released on May 5th, making blood-curdling threats to kill all Christians. “I took the girls,” he declared, standing in front of a tank, flanked by masked men in uniforms. “By Allah I will sell them in the marketplace…I will marry off a woman at the age of 12. I will marry off a girl at the age of nine.” Some of the girls, it has been speculated, may already have been forced to marry their abductors for a bride-price equivalent to $12. The UN warned members of Boko Haram, which means “Western education is forbidden”, that if they carried out their leader’s threat they would be committing war crimes.

The girls, abducted on April 14th from a school in Chibok, a town in the north-eastern state of Borno, are probably being held in a rebel stronghold. One of these is in the dense Sambisa forest, 60,000 square kilometres (23,000 square miles) in area, south of Maiduguri, Borno’s capital. The other is in the Gwoza mountains, which straddle the cave-ridden border with Cameroon.

Boko Haram, which was founded in 2002 but began its violent insurgency in 2009, has been responsible for at least 4,000 deaths, mostly in the north-east. But it has also demonstrated an ability to strike at the centre of the country, setting off a bomb last month at a bus station in Abuja, killing at least 70 people, and another one on May 2nd near a police checkpoint, also in Abuja, killing around 20. The capital is now beset with checkpoints, snarling up traffic just when the government wants to show off the place to its foreign visitors.

In recent months Boko Haram has been aiming with increasing ferocity at soft targets such as schools and marketplaces, though it had not previously attempted a mass abduction. On May 5th, however, it was reported that it had kidnapped another eight girls from elsewhere in Borno. On the same day it was reported that Boko Haram had killed 300 people in the Borno town of Gamboru Ngala. Most secondary schools in the state had been closed before the mass abduction, for fear of an attack, but the education authorities had convened the girls at a boarding school so that they could take their final exams.

As worldwide outrage grew over the abductions, the American and British governments offered to help. A White House spokesman said that experts in intelligence, hostage negotiation and victim assistance would fly to Nigeria. The British offered to send surveillance aircraft along with soldiers from its special forces.

The Nigerians have been loth to accept such help in the past and are wary of perceived encroachments on their sovereignty. America has operated drones from a base in neighbouring Niger since 2012, but Nigeria’s government has long refused American requests to be allowed to do the same from Nigerian territory. Moreover, Nigerians are proud of their army ( ), the biggest in Africa, with its long history of contributions to peacekeeping missions, most recently in Mali. And they are also notably secretive and prickly about its operations—and the low standards of soldiery which foreign experts would see. Though Mr Jonathan declared a state of emergency in the north-east a year ago, his army has dismally failed to defeat Boko Haram.

Indeed, it has itself perpetrated numerous atrocities against civilians suspected of harbouring or lending sympathy to the rebels, who thrive among embittered young Muslims in the north, the poorest part of the country. The army was widely castigated after a military counter-attack on March 14th following an attempted jailbreak by suspected members of Boko Haram detained at a barracks in Maiduguri. According to hospital sources, around 500 people were killed, mainly at the hands of soldiers. Such human-rights abuses by the Nigerian army make Western governments edgy about offering to join the fray, for fear of being deemed complicit.

Corruption, Nigeria’s great scourge, is another reason for foreign military advisers to keep their distance. Nigeria’s soldiers say that commanders pocket the bulk of their salaries, leaving them with little incentive to fight a well-equipped guerrilla movement that knows the rugged terrain and forests. Why risk death at the hands of Boko Haram for no reward? It is hard, in such conditions, to see how outsiders could raise Nigerian troops’ morale, let alone improve their military skills.

Patience not always a virtue

Perhaps the worst aspect of the Nigerian government’s handling of the abduction is its seeming indifference to the plight of the girls’ families. It took more than two weeks before Mr Jonathan addressed the matter in public. His government’s sluggish response and its failure even to clarify how many girls had been abducted provoked protests in several cities across Nigeria—itself an unusual event.

[size=15pt]To make matters worse, the president’s wife, Patience, ordered the arrest of two leaders of the protests, bizarrely accusing them of belonging to Boko Haram and of fabricating reports of the abduction to smear the government. In a televised broadcast on May 4th, the first lady, who holds no official position, warned against further such marches. “You are playing games,” she said. “Don’t use schoolchildren and women for demonstration again. Keep it to Borno, let it end there,” the official News Agency of Nigeria reported.[/size]

Such statements do not give the impression that Mr Jonathan or his colleagues, who face elections next year, take the worries of ordinary Nigerians to heart.

http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21601839-incompetence-nigerias-president-and-government-hurting-countrys

You mean Top Five Cult Infested Universities in the South East

Kasynpaulsyn1997: I have visited most universities in the south east geopolitical zone and from what i saw in the various universities in terms of infastructure,i came up with the list of the top five............
(1)UNIZIK
(2)UNN
(3)ESUT
(4)EBSU
(5)MOUAU
Note: nah for my mind o......

Whats this nonsense bring back out boys hash tag rubbish? Nairalanders are getting really dull as the days go` by. It's hard to find engaging comments like the old days here.

Oou - is that a secondary school?

hijackers alert!!! fake drugs alert!!!!

Songhai is a fulani/hausa thing so no go area

Falana fall my hand, snipers dont have any business harassing you, they will just shoot you on sight and from a far away distance. so the SAN as an illiteraco on this matter

na God now

Its true,there are also Ethiopian Jews

Is that an embarrassment? I thought the full crowd threw toilet rolls at him.

This is nonsense. So CBN must revert the Trapped ATM card policy if they resurrect this draconian one

I thought i would learn how to play notes on keyboard here, but all i see is just talks. Anyone teaching on notes on how to play the keys?

but the pic looks real and eerie, ***spits***

Hollywood and all its negative jibes. Its likely illuminati (t.v industry evils) related as many of these stars are suffering from one form of depression/suicidal syndrome or another e.g the 27 club - amy winehouse, jimi hendrix, kurt cobain etc and lana del ray wants to join that club, also 50 cent mentioned that his death is coming soon. Well bye Robin, you were good actor, so bad you had to end this way.

Iykopee: Up untill now it hasn't occur to u that ur elders are holding their girls and turn around to pass off the blame?

you are too young to drink beer and even too young to engage in beer parlor talks.

egift: You skipped liquor, akpuru achia, ibuo 5, chekpe, sapele water, etc

chaiiii diaris gooduuuoo, it be like you be confirmed pro. Did you learn from GEJ? abi that drunkard aura is flowing over you? please reject it in Jesus name,but sapele water that one sweet die. akpuru achia which one be that? guess i'll have to call aso rock for clarification. ibuo 5, ol boy, you don travel,

JECBOSS: The Northern Elders are simply wounded lions seeking whom to devour. If they are really elders, why won’t they liaise with their Governors,and settle their errand boys called Boko Haram?
They are just attention seekers and No one is afraid of their empty threats!

Emmaesty: Attention seekers

myked: Very asinine elders......we all knw boko haram ar dia errand boyz

Plus10: Haaa...you people should better bring back your girls in where ever place you're keeping them...because jonathan will rule you people beyond 2015!

lilprinze: Bunch of useless ppl who r looking 4 attention what effort hav dy contributed towards looking 4 d missing girls nw dy even hav d effrontery to giv Johnathan deadline to bring d girls bck even d parents of d girls did nt even giv Johnathan deadline to bring dere children back. Bunch of shameless hypocrite

ratiken: Who are northern elders?
Who authorized such forum?
Are they recognised by constitution?
Non entities. ....

IGBOSON1: He should tell them to go find the girls wherever they kept them!

bintudon: Or what?

kids, kids, kids. Oga Seun please do an age census here.
Just because you want to talk trash to be relevant doenst mean anyone will notice you. they will just call you guys FOOLS, because in the north people are being blown to pieces and what about the girls? see kids still eating from mummy's pot talking like they mean shittt. ol boy you guys are so dull. If GEJ the failure doesnt bring back the girls by september ending then he will get whats coming to him, no questions asked.

Jakumo: Polygamy is both legal and tolerated in Nigeria, Beazy, thanks in no small part to the Arab religion embraced by many there, so most Nigerian men of all religious persuasions, regard it as a matrimonial right to stray away from their better half for some nookie on the side where the grass appears greener, every once in a while, just to show their drinking buddies that they are still a virile young buck at heart.

If you can arrive at some sort of an "understanding" with your groom-to-be, about the need for him to be, ahem, safe, during all his "consultations" while out in the field, as it were, then there is no reason why you should not enjoy a long and harmonious marriage blessed with brilliant kids.

That'll be ten dollars cash for my free advice. Thanks in advance.

somehow you think you make sense but your brain is so full of weed and smoke infested.you want her to start open marriage when they havent even climbed the altar yet. this guy dey kolo - musiwa part 2

ah ah dont you guys know gej took like one shot before he said this nonsense? why must you say he is a crazy man? why dont you let ruben abatic do your dirty laundry?

PhockPhockMan: You need deliverance, I can help you.

is this displaced frustration? stop weed, and stop olosho things. do you have a job sef?

egift: [img]http://3.bp..com/-W3HiDMHawT8/UpbDMvTAuMI/AAAAAAAAyiE/0XQHtIWOEso/s1600/Jonathan+drinking.jpg[/img]
7 people in the room and only one man is drinking the liquor (one glass on the table)

You mean you are insulting the Commander of the federal republic of palm wine, ogogoro, one shot, man power, clean mouth, cast and die, gburantashi, and black water. you must receive your ban

abacus: Must yearn dust.. Some people are trouble marker from childhood as if na curse....

nnna men, i hold you blokos?

Oklander: Inna'lillahi wa'ina illahi raji-un....

is that how you guys speak in tongues? please speak in the language we understand