₦airaland Forum

Akainzo:
You might also want to read up on Tony Blair and the drug importer that financed his political campaign. Do read up the house of commons conclusion on it.

koruji:
Atiku/Soludo were arrow-heads of the OBJ administration under which recurrent expenditures ballooned. The damaging effects were hidden away because oil money was flowing at the speed of light. They lent the funds to their friends who took it to Dubai, and so on. . . Like a tumor fed by a large artery, they laid huge pipes to siphon Nigeria's oil earnings by crooked means.

The oil price collapsed, revenues dwindled, but how do you cut off recurrent expenditures without destroying the economy? You can't. You don't. You are forced to both cut back a little and borrow a lot.

In the same shoes the Atiku/Soludo combination would be doing worse than the GEJ/Aganga combination. Soludo sat at the central bank as the economy collapsed, unwilling to admit that the banks were failing. Atiku used mirrors to move Nigeria's money around to his and his friends benefits.

For some reason people think our condition is unique in this regard. The fact is that if you spend without saving during a period of abundance, as sure as day comes a period of want is coming, then you will have nothing to fall back on - it is a universal law. The story of the 7 years of abundance and 7 years of famine in ancient Egypt is really a story about the recognition of boom/bust cycles that characterize national economies. This same scenario is what happened to the world's greatest economy - USA- from 2001-2007, and from 2008-now. The differences are:
1) The USA has a structurally sound economic foundation;
2) As the USA put in place short-term spending & borrowing to revive its economy with great difficulty, it is also putting in place fundamental restructuring in infrastructure, auto-industry, energy and education that will eventually allow production-based growth to return;
3) Corrupt people who took advantage of the system are being prosecuted. New laws are being written, etc.

In Nigeria's case, the foundations of our economy are weak or non-existent so we need not just fundamental restructuring, we need new foundations for growth in all the above areas. Currently, our economy doesn't produce much - we take oil from the ground and sell it using foreign companies (who steal us blind by the way), but we produce nothing beyond what our farmer's grow from their day-in-day-out hard labor. Guess what, the same corrupt people that destroyed and continue to destroy our economy are the same ones running for office & pretending to have some magic wand.

It is easy for Atiku to criticize, and he may be right. The real question is WOULD HE HAVE DONE THINGS DIFFERENTLY? Next time he writes, let him state WHAT SHOULD BE DONE INSTEAD to be taken seriously.

pro01:
These people that keep talking about trust and 'why do you want to see her phone' must be either extremely foolish (male) or extremely dubious (female). Trust is not a right - it is a privilege that is EARNED by what a person does and doesn't do. Gosh. Unless we're saying that cheating (or signs of cheating) should be condoned or overlooked in a relationship as serious as that of the poster (heading towards marriage). If that is the case, then why waste time, money and emotions on one old hag in the name of a relationship?

phantom:
jesus christ! lol some people just argue stupidly just to sound advanced and refined.

Bleh. This is why democracy imo is slightly overrated. If the majority believes slavery is OK, then slavery will happen in democracy. If the majority believes discriminating against n.iggers/Jehovah's Witnesses/Mormons/etc is OK, then it will happen. If the majority believes gays shouldn't have any rights, then no rights for gays. If the majority believes taking away the God-given resources of the Niger Delta away from them is OK, then nothing for the Delta.

I speak Yoruba, so do you, and I dont think it is right that some people speak languages that are different from me. Irrespective of how I feel about other people, I still think that people who speak different languages from me should be allowed the same right as myself. Just because your religion has impressed it upon you to think that homosexuality is bad, it does not mean it is wrong.

Bleh. This is why democracy imo is slightly overrated. If the majority believes slavery is OK, then slavery will happen in democracy. If the majority believes discriminating against n.iggers/Jehovah's Witnesses/Mormons/etc is OK, then it will happen. If the majority believes gays shouldn't have any rights, then no rights for gays. If the majority believes taking away the God-given resources of the Niger Delta away from them is OK, then nothing for the Delta.

I speak Yoruba, so do you, and I dont think it is right that some people speak languages that are different from me. Irrespective of how I feel about other people, I still think that people who speak different languages from me should be allowed the same right as myself. Just because your religion has impressed it upon you to think that homosexuality is bad, it does not mean it is wrong.

calyx:
@Beaf

If your claim is true that Jonathan is a very popular president, how come you are the only one in many threads who rise in support of Jonathan whenever any issue is up.

Is it that you like to live in illusion or that your just doing what they have asked of you?

the USA and french are trying to push it to others.

That there are parts of the United states YOU do not consider to have the luxuries that satisfy you does not imply that those who currently reside in those areas are not at home and content with what they have available to them.

emofine:
errr   english is not our language to rescue

Besides like the great laurette Chinua Achebe said, 'that any language that has the cheek to leave its primordial shores and encroach on the linguistic territory of other people should learn to come to terms with the inevitable reality that it would be domesticated.'

so whut iz my consern in meking enlgeesh beta

Aigbofa:
Imagine if British kids have to learn and write their exams in Yoruba. They too will face the same problems Nigerians are having with English. It has nothing to do with how smart you are.

bidemi12:
If your home gets burgled in the UK, aren’t you confident that when you call the cops they will arrive at least 30min later?

Beaf:
Ol' boy! Those missiles that babe fired with such abandon can never ever clear from my hai's o!
Purely dangerous!

Beaf:
Una nefa see nutin! Dis can kill!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



I somehow find myself posting this at the end of every year!

Aigbofa:
Lame.

Try something else.