₦airaland Forum

onyxo76: LESSON:- ASUU always gets what it wants!!!

ScipioAfricanus: If they were & are still observers don't you think Prof's argument will bring more of the same? Aren't there reform-minded systems outside this closet that should also be appealed to? And tell me, what change was started by only OBJ, interrupted by Yar'adua & continued by GEJ?

As the desperation of opposition linked new and traditional media reaches a crescendo, they have adopted Goebbels’ philosophy that a lie told often enough eventually comes to be accepted by the public as true. It is therefore imperative to expose their tactics so that impressionable members of the public are not fooled by the propaganda of failed politicians posing as journalist whose only motive is to secure from the back door what the electorate denied them.For starters, most Nigerians saw the story carried on Premium Times on Sunday the 8th of December 2013, alleging that President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was traveling on a jamboree to South Africa on Monday the 9th of December 2013 which according to them was six days before the funeral of Nelson Mandela was to begin. The headline on Premium Times read ‘President Jonathan jets off to South Africa, six days ahead of Mandela’s burial’.Of course this was a lie. As may be seen from the official programme by the SouthAfrican government (released on line here http://www.mandela.gov.za/funeral/) the funeral arrangement for the late anti-Apartheid icon began on Tuesday the 10th of December 2013. President Jonathan along with approximately 90 other world leaders including President Obama of the US, Prime Minister David Cameron of The UK and President Francoise Hollande, all left their respective nations on the same day, Monday the 9th of December 2013 in order to meet the memorial for Nelson Mandela which held on Tuesday the 10th of December 2013 at the FNB stadium.The South African authorities coordinated with various governments and actually advised on the date of departure. So, how Premium Times came up with their lying headline, I cannot fathom.After being caught in a lie, Premium Times, rather than apologize, simply moved on to the next lie and carried another story on Tuesday the 10th of December 2013 to the effect that President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was snubbed by South Africa at the memorial for Nelson Mandela at the FNB stadium on Tuesday because the President did not have a speaking slot.Though it only shows you the state of minds of anybody who will be willing to politicize the funeral of such a pure man, those discerning enough may want to ask if the British Prime Minister, the French President, the Canadian Prime Minister and 85 other world leaders who did not speak at the memorial were also snubbed?In their rush to gain political mileage out of the death of Nelson Mandela, Premium Times, like a child in an ice cream shop were so giddy, they did not remember that Nelson Mandela was a man who preached unconditional love and politics without bitterness, and while the world was celebrating the historic handshake between President Obama and President Raul Castro, Premium Times was celebrating the historic lie that Nigeria was snubbed!Perhaps they and their political sponsors ought to be educated on the etiquette for funerals. A funeral is not a place to go and shine. It is a place to go and mourn. As such, it is impossible to be snubbed at a funeral because you did not go there for yourself, you went there because of the bereaved!"">For instance, some opposition politicians on social media spend a considerable amount of time insulting and defaming the president, but when they lose loved ones, the president does not mind what they have done and continue to do to him. He writes them and sends delegations to condole with them. The reason the public never finds out about it is because funerals are not for show but for sympathizing.It is rather unfortunate that Premium Times and other opposition linked sites have shown that they will not let something as vital as the truth stand in their way in their propaganda efforts for their sponsors.This particular medium has a history of lying.They lied about former president Jerry Rawlings of Ghana indicting Nigeria of corruption prompting the former leader to issue a statement threatening them with a libel suit and denying their claims completely.On June 12 2013 Premium Times ran a headline stating ‘World Bank Indicts Jonathan’s Government, says Massive Poverty Unemployment Killing Nigerians’. That headline and story was fictitious and malicious. The World Bank itself whose report Premium Times allegedly relied upon for their story released its own press release with the title ‘Nigeria Economic Update: World Bank Forecasts Rising Growth, Less Inflation, Urges Closer Federal and State Government Cooperation’. Nigerians can read the World Bank Press Release here(http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2013/05/13/nigeria-economic-update-world-bank-forecasts-rising-growth-less-inflation-urges-closer-federal-and-state-government-cooperation). Premium Times merely took advantage of the assumption that many Nigerians would not bother to cross check their story and so sold a lie to the Nigerian public.Also, on the 14th of June, 2013, Premium Times carried a story titled ‘Nigeria: Exclusive – Okonjo-Iweala Opens Up, Says Nigeria Economy in Danger’ and quoted an unnamed source giving details of a meeting of the Economic Management Committee . That story was false as was evidenced when the Minister of Finance and the Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, released the transcripts of the meeting at which Premium Times alleged that she made such statement which showed that the story had no basis in truth.Ever since Premium Times was established by the media handlers of a candidate whom president Jonathan defeated in the 2011 elections, their reportage has been so full of bile that it behoves on me to remind them that the election was in 2011 and they ought to have gotten over the sting of defeat by now.Perhaps they think that they can gain a lot by remaining constant in their line up of false and malicious stories. But the public is becoming wise to them. Anybody can go and check on Alexa.com (the world’s premier internet traffic analyzer) and find out that both Premium Times and Saharareporters have slipped in popularity. They are loud quite alright, but are they still popular?Where they use to be amongst the top 10 sites in Nigeria two years ago, they have slipped with saharareporters,com sliding to number 39 and premiumtimesng.com in number 77.Imagine that a young Nigerian blogger like Linda Ikeji’s blog is in the top ten most visited sites in Nigeria and a site that boasts that they are ground breaking are not even in the top 30. Why the huge drop in visitor traffic? You see, no matter how far and fast falsehood travels, it must eventually be overtaken by truth.

Billyonaire: Many Nairalanders and Nigerians by extension will criticize the Presidency and infact the Federal Government for withdrawing the Ultimatum, because of the refracted psychological bastardization of our psyche by the military regimes. Now, most people are inclined to think that Federal MUST COMMAND, and ASUU must OBEY THE LAST COMMAND.

But I want to admonish all us, that we are in a DEMOCRACY, where deliberations, criticisms and even outfight are permitted in so far it is for greater good of the people of Nigeria.

Last Bullet: Surrender is actually a weapon of control and one of the basic tactics in the Laws of Power.

Read more, and be equipped with knowledge beyond the jungle the military put us in.

eyenCalabar: Most times, am forced to believe that this administration is simply clueless. I see no reason why a whole federal government of a country should be taking miscalculated decisions. Who are they fooling here? ASUU or themselves? Well, it only shows the level of education they have attended. There's nothing I hate like taking back my words.

ScipioAfricanus: You are still dodging. If you are looking at it that way, is it not relegating the non-Muslim northerners to mere observers. Why not an all-inclusive advocacy! Is Prof's position the best, final, & infallible?

superstar1: I am surprised at your miserable pathetic rantings.

At your old age, you are yearning dust. Instead of u to be leaving legacy for your children's children. You are here telling us a daylight robbery is buying of operational car. I'm so sorry for whosoever calls a nonentity, a non-value adding commodity to the world like you a father. You are a disgrace to your forefathers, your children and your future generations ought to dissociate themselves from you.

When will you ever have shame deludedgull, always jumping from one thread to another like the aimless wanderer that you are, supporting one corruption to the other.

I feel sorry for you and my three words to you are:

GO AND DIE

penielnig: not at all sir but choose a candidate first before choosing a party.political parties are jst for election purposes.so a best candidate in your own assessment can contest under any political party.

penielnig: .....At times I jst wonder the way our youths reason these days.every citizens of nations desire good leadership that will culminate to good governance yet we are all here talking about political parties..if I may ask,what makes south south people believe they own PDP and so anyone that doesn't belong to that party is an outcast?,may be we need to go and do our due diligence and find out those brain behind PDP....the Hausas.and we from the south are jst their pawn.infact south east region is worst for it.Also,those claiming APGA to be an igbo party are jst disillusional.how come the so called APGA only control one state out of five states that make up that region?.my point here is,this is the time we youth rise up to champion a change and vote for who we truly believe will give us a better future irrespective of which party or regions he/she comes from.may God help our good sense of reasoning.

5.00GP:
APGA CAN NEVER WIN IN LAGOS LET ALONE OF THE POST OF COUNCILLOR....
APC WILL BE D RULING PARTY IN ALL IGBO STATES JUST LIKE IN IMO, RIVERS

Balos: STOP TRIBALISM. I served in rivers state and am still in ph but d level of tribalism in dis state is appalling.

Demdem: Gradually but steadily, the wind of change is blowing all over Rivers.

Orlando Owoh: This is the problem with most of you, so because Tambuwal is a PDP member he should not criticize the President?

jmaine: Abi oo . . .him chop clean mouth na Bankole carry the egbe . . .

utumunta: Without PDP, these governors are nothing. I have said it earlier on this forum. Check my posts on G7 and their antics.

Amaechi is finished, with him is Murtala Nyako. They are both without political clout and followership in their respective states. The opposition against them is overwhelming.

In Adamawa state, the original APC members(Marwa and Gundiri) would have won Nyako. Now, should the PDP lure them to their fold, they would do it on a clean- slate.

In Niger, Aliyu is finished politically. He lost in 2007 and 2011 to the opposition. His acclaimed victory is dependent on the PDP and it's machinery.

In Sokoto, Bafarawa, Shagari, fmr minister of sports and others will chase Wammako out if they get the PDP's nod to do so. Tambuwal is an Abuja politician and will lose a re election to the House if he choses to come back. His alliance with Wammako is nothing to withstand the PDP.

In Kano; Kwankwaso is a red- capped clown. The same mistakes that cost him a re election in 2003, he has repeated. It has cost him the support of the people that matter, again.

Lamido is his own man and can give anyone a fight for his money.

Bukola Saraki is the driver behind Amaechi and Kwara state has been itching to align with their brothers in the south west. Kwara is an APC state and Saraki has been in control because of the PDP's machinery. He is scared of losing the state, so his courting the APC is a survival strategy. If the PDP machinery abandons him, Dele Belgore and Lai Mohammed will deal him a fatal political blow.

I think the APC showed their hand too early in the game. The PDP now know their strenght and weaknesses. To any discerning politician, APC is a newspaper giant and political lilliput. No wonder the PDP left them to play newspaper politics while concentrating on the real thing.

Tinubu need to do a lot in the days ahead. Let the APC give their ticket to a neutral candidate like Pat Utomi. A south southerner who is also an Igbo man. They would eat into the President's strongest base, while appealing to educated, professionals and enlinghtened. Spice the ticket up with a Shekarau in the north and President Jonathan would be in for it. If they chose to play the northern card, it would back-fire and GEJ would sail to victory.

Afam4eva: I used to think like the professor but not anymore. I don't think the problem is Religion but poverty and illiteracy. Poor and illiterate people always use something as a guise to keep themselves at their comfort zone.

0lumide: He forgot to ask what brand of Christianity is being practiced in states like Ebonyi, Bayelsa, Cross er, Anambra, Imo, Aba that is not being practiced in USA, Venezuela, Norway, Sweden, Canada etc..

I hate hypocrisy with disgust! This prof sits his dumb asss in Canada and have the guts to talk?

Mehn shut up professor!! Let's see what brand of Christianity is being practiced in East West and South of the country that is not practiced in USA, Sweden, Norway, Venezuela etc..

Fuckiing paid hack talking like he is an intellectual. Granted that Sanusi is just a too fanatical to embrace modernity which may topple his chances of emir or whatever, Sanusi has contributed to Nigeria more than this loud mouthed fake intellectual prof. Who da fuk is he?

A prof in English? lmao!!!! Negro please!! The problem is nation wide and the iddiotic prof is suppose to ask what brand of Xtianity and Islam re Nigerians practicing that is not practiced elsewhere in the world. He didnt mention Yoruba Muslim states and others.

If he is so smart, why are his ideologies not reflected in Nigerian society? Oh yeah bittchh nigga took the easy way out and became a Canadian instead of fighting for change in Nigeria.

We don't need your opinion prof, stay in Canada and die a foreigner! foool

jmaine: So you read Lie Muhammed uninteresting babble . . .I just skipped his part cos i knew it will be useless

rezy15: seriously ur clueless as to what is happening. The change in demand is legitimate. Has government eva fulfilled previous promises agreed upon? What is the harm in putting this agreement in paper and signing it? Unless ur government has no plans to continue payment.

gratieao: The news here is possible completion of Onitsha port. that's development in disguise
What is the headline in your enclave? 71 years old man rap.ping 7 year old girl
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/12/71-yr-old-nabbed-allegedly-raping-7-yr-old-girl/
Something abominable in Igbo land. And you still have the "modus operandi" to talk down on people.
Shame on you!!
Shame on your people!!!