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stephenponti: Ojukwu is dead but his ManHOOD LIVES ON. --patience
Typical morons that heads Nigerian government.

Pally, you and the lady share the same boat. Check your own sentence properly.

PeeDaVinci: if it is true that the minister of state for foreign affairs said this "most Christian-populated Islamic nation in the world", then, what the hell is he still doing in govt, doesnt mr shoeless know how to kick?

He's shoe-less na! He wouldn't want to injure his toes.

@ Ijebabe; and you just went and spoiled your entire reportage by posting photos of clowns posing for pics. It downed my spirit.

Which songs did Rozay sing at the show? I'm interested in knowing.

Bamanga Tukur. I used to have a lot of respect for him when he was (abi still is?) Chairman African Business Roundtable. I can't quite reconcile the fact that the same man is now standing surety for his son in a criminal case.

Who knows what he'd been using that chairmanship position for in the first place? My hate for Nigerian politicians has been exponentially growing. Day by day.

mkmyers45: Hausa?

I quoted your earlier post. You were saying Adamawa is not core-North. I don't understand what you meant by that.

muktarl: Just wait till power returns to the north in 2015 then you will understand what am talking about

Haha!! Chei ya.

Amma. Ka fada gaskiya: kai dan hausawa ne?

mkmyers45: Adamawa is not core north...Northern Adamawa is a place of many tribes (Bura,Chamba,Song,Kilba etc) and has nothing whatsoever to do with all the lies you just posted...

Adamawa is geographically located in Northern-Eastern Nigeria na.
Perhaps what you mean is Hausa?

I doubt the veracity of that report. I believe Adamawa has higher human and capital development indices than Yobe, Taraba, Zamfara and possibly Jigawa states.

Mubi should even be more developed than Zamfara in my opinion.

**Sighs. Leaves**

Staying on to follow this thread will only serve to spoil my mood.

Sycophancy is a bad thing.

maclatunji: Great presidents are made great by horrible circumstances combined with character, temperament and intelligence. Like firemen, cops, doctors or soldiers, presidents need a crisis to shine

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan took the oath of office on 29 May, 2011 amidst thunderous expectations of a new dawn, given the mountain of problems that characterized the nation.

Jonathan is one of the most intelligent presidents to ever step forward in Nigeria's history the second fully fit university graduate. The likes of his intellectual capabilities have not been surpassed in public life since the Founding Fathers put pen to paper. His personal character is also solid gold. Take heart, Nigeria: we have the leader for our times.

I say this as a Pan Africanist who believes totally in One Nigeria, former life-long siddon look Nigerian. I say this as a proud Nigerian . I speak as someone who knows it's time to forget tribal loyalty, party loyalty, ideology and pride and put the country first.

Jonathan is our last best chance. He's worth laying it all on the line for.

Where many leaders are two-faced; publicly kindly but privately feared and/or hated by people closest to them, Jonathan is consistent in the way he treats people, consistently kind and personally humble. He lives by the code that those who lead must serve. He believes that. He lives it. He lived it long before he was in the public eye.

Jonathan puts service ahead of ideology. He also knows that to succeed politically you need to be tough. He can be. He has been (Okerenkoko and Gbaramatu). This is a man who does what works, rather than scoring ideological points. In other words he is the quintessential non-ideological pragmatic Nigerian. He will (thank God!) disappoint ideologues and purists of the left and the right.

Jonathan has a reservoir of personal physical courage that is unmatched in our presidential history. Why unmatched? Because as the first monority contender for the presidency who has won, Jonathan, and all the rest of us, know that he is in great physical danger from the seemingly unlimited reserve of unhinged tribal hatred, and just plain unhinged ignorant hatred, that swirls in the bowels of our wounded and sinful country. By stepping forward to lead, Jonathan has literally put his life on the line for all of us in a way no other Nigerian ever has had to do. (And we all know how dangerous the presidency has been)

The greater point about Jonathan is that the midst of our worldwide financial meltdown, an expanding Boko Haram ,Niger Delta Militancy,Piracy,Kidnappings,Armed Robberies,Bribery and corruption etc, watching our educational levels decline to unbelievable levels of incompetence, facing a general loss of confidence in the government that has been exacerbated by the opposition doing all they can to undermine our government's capabilities and programs... President Jonathan has taken on the leadership of our country at a make or break time of historic proportions. He faces not one but dozens of crisis, each big enough to define any presidency in better times.

As luck, fate or divine grace would have it (depending on one's personal theology) Jonathan is blessedly, dare I say uniquely, well-suited to our dire circumstances. Jonathan is a person with hands-on experience, deep connections to top advisers from the renowned Universites in Nigeria being a former university lecturer , and a middle-class background that gives him an abiding knowledgeable empathy with the rest of us. As the son of poor parents, who has worked his way up with merit and brains, in three giant political steps to state office, national office and now the presidency, Jonathan clearly has the wit and drive to lead.

Jonathan is the sober voice of reason at a time of unreason. He is the fellow keeping his head while all around him are panicking. He is the healing presence at a time of national division and strife. He is also new enough to the political process so that he doesn't suffer from the terminally jaded cynicism, the seen-it-all-before syndrome afflicting most politicians in Nigeria. In that regard we Nigerians lucked out. It's as if having despaired of our political process we picked a name from the phone book to lead us and that person turned out to be a very man we needed.

Jonathan brings a healing and uplifting spiritual quality to our politics at the very time when our worst enemy is fear. Fearless Jonathan is the cure. He speaks a litany of hope rather than a litany of terror.

As we have watched Jonathan respond in a quiet reasoned manner to crisis after crisis, in both the way he has responded after being attacked and lied about , to his reasoned response to our multiplying national crises, what we see is the spirit of a trusted family doctor with a great bedside manner. Jonathan is perfectly suited to hold our hand and lead us through some very tough times. The word panic is not in the Jonathan dictionary.

Jonathan brings a moral clarity to his leadership reserved for those who have had to work for everything they've gotten and had to do twice as well as the person standing next to them because of the region they come from . His experience of succeeding in spite of his social background could have been embittering or one that fostered a spiritual rebirth of forgiveness and enlightenment. Jonathan radiates the calm inner peace of the spirit of forgiveness.

Speaking as a believing Nigerian I see the hand of a merciful God in Jonathans Presidency. The biblical metaphors abound. The stone the builder rejected is become the cornerstone... the last shall be first... he that would gain his life must first lose it... the meek shall inherit the earth...

For my secular friends I'll allow that we may have just been extraordinarily lucky! Either way Nigeria wins.

Only a brilliant man, with the spirit of a preacher and the humble heart of a kindly family doctor can lead us now. We are afraid, out of ideas, and worst of all out of hope. Jonathan is the cure. And we Nigerian's have it in us to rise to the occasion. We will. We're in one of the most frightening periods of Nigerian history. Our country has rarely faced more uncertainty. This is the time for greatness. We have a great leader. We must be a great people backing him, fighting for him, sacrificing for a cause greater than ourselves.

A hundred years from now Jonathan's portrait will be placed next to that of Obafemi Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikiwe,King Jaja Of Opobo,Ahmadu Bello and Nana Of Itsekiri etc. Long before that we'll be telling our children and grandchildren that we stepped out in faith and supported a man who stood up and led our country back from the brink of an abyss. We'll tell them about the power of love, faith and hope. We'll tell them about the power of creativity combined with humility and intellectual brilliance. We'll tell them that President Jonathan gave us the gift of regaining our faith in our country. We'll tell them that we all stood up and pitched in and won the day. We'll tell them that President Jonathan restored our standing in the world. We'll tell them that by the time he left office our schools were on the mend, our economy booming. We'll tell them that because of President Jonathan's example and leadership the integrity of the family was restored, divorce rates went down, more fathers took responsibility for their children, and abortion rates fell dramatically as women, families and children were cared for through compassionate social programs that worked. We'll tell them about how the gap closed between the middle class and the super rich, how we won health care for all, how crime rates fell, how kidnappings, militancy and terrorism were brought to an honourable conclusion.

We'll tell them that we were part of the inexplicably blessed miracle that happened to our country those many years ago in 2011 when an Ijaw man was sent by God, fate or luck to save our country. We'll tell them that it's good to live in Nigeria where anything is possible.

Brother, at first, at I thought this entire part was satire. Seeing that it wasn't eventually, made me so disgusted I lost my appetite.

Vicjustice: https://www.nairaland.com/newpost?topic=50144&post=1060450

https://www.nairaland.com/newpost?topic=50144&post=1060450

All that write-up you quoted is an arrant lie.

Don't even know what made me come online this early morning to bi.tch-play. Have a nice day fella.

dayokanu: The b1nch fled the war front and left the populace to die

What a shame to war generals

You don talk finish? :/

Be a good rat and go back to smoking your fone.

dayokanu: The b1nch fled the war front and left the populace to die

What a shame to war generals

You don talk finish? :/

You can go back to smoking your fone.

Pally, as to your whining about my stature, I'm 6'1". I bet your head doesn't even come close to my shoulders.

Grandpa, I didn't know you'd fought in the 1967 war. So sorry to have revived your painful memories, but it'd do you good to keep your fingers away from fire so as not to get burnt okay?

I also saw a mention about pay-grade? LOL. Ranting of a senile, demented bunkum. You should see me in real life.

bleeping gay!

Wish I'd seen this thread while it was still fresh. I know just how to handle your types.

FYI, whenever you feel the need to be noticed, by starting a thread, kindly avoid starting something hateful that would incite foolishness and tribal tomfoolery. You can't start a bar brawl and expect not to get some attack too.

CyberG: A curse follows you and your generation for EVEN mentioning my parents! Do you have parents at all or you are just a bastard born by a sow or bit.ch?? What a cretinous reptile! If you were not born in 1967, then sit yo ass down and maybe you will learn something in your miserable life! That you are tiny and short in life does not mean your brain must be tiny and you will wipe your tiny existence with your useless mouth! What kind of response does a self-admitted ignoramus give to a question like this that is so, so above your paygrade!? Never open your putrid mouth near my post again! Anuofia! Fvking black Reptile!

Haha! Now you are talking! I had wondered how long you'd keep up the "Mr Neutral debate moderator" facade. GO AND DIE! F.ucking Maggot. You ain't even up to a maggot. You're beneath the stuff that comes out after the maggots have finished frolicking in sh.it.

You come up on the internet and white-wash your insults expecting not to get insulted back? You were warned severally to stop insulting in your use of ibo instead of Igbo, yet you take the pain to address your villain by his title and with capital letters?

Nig.ger DIE!!! I have every right and stand to insult you the way I wish. I'd rather choose not to adopt your slimy, Judas method.

Now mess off. Go worship awilo wo's grave or even banjo's or whatever tickles your fancy. If anything Igbo ever crosses your mind again,.. Well let me reserve my comment. Pathetic slime. Idiota!

Pardon my ignorance O. I'm just curious but I think the thread title is mis-leading. I didn't read about any company rep stating that Orange Drugs would soon start manufacturing "noodle-soap".

If this was meant to be a publicity gig then it worked well.

Taking off my jacket and tie while driving. I do that almost every evening and have a scratched bumper to show for it.

BB chatting is another.

But on a serious note, there are certain things we procrastinate and keep postponing. Tyre replacement after being worn down, oil change (engine, transmission, steering, etc) and a whole lot. May God help us.

CyberG: What media propaganda? Do you know that ibos are the Goebbelian-propagandists since the advent of Nigeria? Check your history young man! Now I am not attacking any one, history is something that can not be changed. Can even Germany escape their evil past? They still get flak for it so stop this futile victim mentality of saying I am attacking you. How can, when I have more friends who are SE than you? In any case, your answer skirts the question and you damn know it!!

I've followed your every single post right from when you originated this thread and it's a pity that despite your self-acclaimed pseudo-education, you still can't tell the difference between a common and a proper noun. I pity your parents in their old age. That's if they are still alive. I wonder what other deceptions you've been passing on to the people around you.

Keep forming neutral argumentator. I was not around in 1967 and from what I read about the war, your greenish, slimy, mono-chromatic figment of a reasoning faculty can't comprehend anything I wish to state in response to your dumb cesspit of a question. I can't dignify your demented reasoning with any response.

Keep up the deception bro. You really represent and do your people proud. Thumbs up.

bright007: Ok here is my riddle
(1)What goes around a house without touching d house?
(2)What falls without getting hurt?
(3)Ŵĥŷ don't tigers eat small animals in africa?

1) Sun
2) Rain
3) Cos there ain't no Tigers in Africa.

Did I get them?

bright007: Ok solve this;Two fathers $ two sons are to share 3 mangoes.After sharing they get one mangoe each.How is this possible?

A grand-father, a father and the son were sharing the mangoes.

MRbrownJAY: answer: NOTHING

here is one from me (i posted it in the riddle thread but i got no replies):

10 thieves were caught red handed and arrested. they were placed in front of a firing squad, and shot at point blank range (with real bullet), yet no single men was killed. how is this possible?!

Thieves were women.

sofa-dj:
Okay this one is simple buh let's see who gets it first.


U in a race and u overtake the 2nd person what will be position.?

Am I late?

Second position.

HNosegbe: Now is the time for the CBN to pursue a pro-growth strategy by reducing prime rate (MPR) from 12 to say 6 percent over the next few months. If MPR can be reduced, it will have a knock-on effect on interest rate on treasury bills and government bonds, since all interest rates are tied to the MPR. This will reduce the government's cost of borrowing and free up more funds for capital expenditure.

For banks and other lending institutions, lending rates are also tied to the MPR. Reducing MPR will therefore induce a reduction in lending rates, meaning that more serious entrepreneurs will have an opportunity to access loans at more reasonable rates. 15 percent could be a reasonable target.

There are so many benefits... But they require a change of policy direction on the CBN's part. Pursue growth and de-emphasise short-run stability. My opinion.

The CBN would always display aversion to reducing the MPR to a single digit. Always. Whenever the MPR is reduced, give a space of 3 months and the rates are raised again with the CBN citing inflationary pressure. Meanwhile more TBs are still being sold at prime rates, reducing the amount of funds for the real sector and capital markets.

Who then do you want to caution? Is it the FG that keeps borrowing without a comprehensive plan of spending? Or the DMO? Even the finance minister seems to show indications that her hands are tied. The CBN is not worthy of mention because they only seem to be reactionary, tottering from one failed experiment to another.

Pardon my ignorance but if I may ask, what have all these borrowed funds been used for?

yuzedo: My source?? Go to Agbani for my source! I am reporting on-the-minute and you are talking about source wey newspapers never even carry the news till dis evening or 2moro morning! Not everything reported in the papers is valid, just as not everything without a "media" source is invalid!

LOL. I was short of words in responding appropriately to that guy demanding the news source.

Kagawa: @ai119, That's how quick we Я̩̥̊ to fight ourselves instead of uniting for a common goal. Smh*
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Abu or whteva his name is unfit to hold that post. He ΐƨ callous and stupid, (Seun better don't hide this comment).sometines I wonder if this pple Я̩̥̊ learned at all, why D̶̲̥̅̊o we have the word diplomacy?? I bliv a yoruba or an igbo christian wouldn't have hesitated to reach across to the deceased family if they were muslims.
Evryday these socalled reps kip slipping cocks in us, showing us hw selfish they can be and telling it all to those who can read in between the lines that they want a break-up, I wonder why this country still holds.
I as a catholic hav never been to a mosque b4, but I remember paying a visit to one -Yewa north Central mosque ayetoro for presentation of gifts et al when my batch corps members were abt to passout..Altho I waited till their prayers was over befor I ws ushered in with my team. I was the C.L.O of that Zone, I represented all the over 300 corps members in that zone.. Muslims, Christians, Atheists, Paganists et all. Yet this baga is there feeding on tax payers money, living ayé-foreign and playing the religion card, may Dionsyus wrath befall him. IDIAT.

Broda me, I also served at Ayetoro. Royal Comp. College. Hi ya.

Most people's comments tell a lot about the level of their intelligence.

Mrhod: This is 2 show dat most bankers are criminals. God will continue 2 xpose dem.

Explain.

Do you notice something? Out of two pages of comments, I doubt if up to 3 females have said anything.

I wonder why? Hmmm...