₦airaland Forum

Nigeria has lost its character!
WHENEVER our indigenous practices conflict with foreign ideas, we jettison our indigenous way of life
This is always the case and people start talking about civilisation

what is civilised about immorality, spiritually unhealthy and filthy tendencies
Are we saying our conservative way of life is wrong

We have enough problems without engaging in acts that would bring spiritual problems - perhaps eartquake, tsunami etc
We need to think and rise up against those ANIMALS

Rexxie:
Lets be wise Nigerians. This is obviously the evil and satanic agenda of those who are opposed to possitive change in Naija and Goodluck Jonathans presidency come 2011, HOLY GHOST FIRE WILL ROAST ALL OF THEM.

What!
The same holy ghost of the bible!
roasting people who are pointing out the omission of a public body
Since when have christians started queuing behind iniquity?
And is this an act of christian love?
even if they err, which is the opposite of what they have done, what about holy ghost forgiveness?

felele:
Isn't it interesting that 49 lawyers have taken a case to court, yet we do not know the name of ANY of them This is just a stunt by Obasanjo's detractors.

He has already sent a reply to the media on the Halliburton issue, and the detractors kept quiet. It's good they went to court sha. By the time their frivolous action is sent to the dustbin, they would at least have made some money from their sponsor, a certain gap-toothed General who thinks it's his birthright to rule Nigeria, despite his blatant disregard for the people of this country, at least from the point of June 12 and Dele Giwa.

Your infamous hero will soon taste his own medicine
If Abacha had just done us that one favour of exterminating the vermin, his name would have been written in gold

BTW, when he was in power, whenever people said he was witchunting them with EFCC, he always asked people to go an clear their name
but when left power and his daughter was being sought by EFCC, she started talking about detractors, witch hunting,
It runs in the family

oluagness:
Hold IBB first, Nonsense

Turn by turn
Your man - Obj - is the loudest
So he comes first

This is not nonsense - the man was a pauper in 1999 and now his wealth is obscene

samcc30:
r they mad what about IBB

When GJ made the mistake of sacking NFF and people pointed out that football is not greatest problem here
A lot of people said we have to start somewhere
So I parrot that - we have to start somewhere!

Gift4all:
Let me explain. I am a Christian northerner. I grew up in the north, and I have terrible experiences,  In some muslim dominated towns in the north a man cannot urinate while standing (whether a muslim or christian), not even to talk of building a church. Some of you guys who did their NYSC in the north can testify that U were denied the right to worship in public places. U have to travel very far b4 u get a Church. Just recently, thousands of cartons of bear were destroyed in Kano under the guise of sharia law. Why should the muslims unduly have upper hand over others?

The guys who demolished the mosque in Bukari, Wukari, Taraba state (who are not necessarily Christians) had earlier objected to the idea of building that mosque, and the Traditional ruler had informed/warned the police against the project for security reasons. But the over zealous fanatic area commander went ahead and built the mosque.

Source, please

nomoneydow:
thank for telling the truth ,so nigerians will never learn

So this claim by a faceless poster is suddenly the truth
The crisis in Jos when a muslims wanted to rebuild his demolished house and was attacked by christians is a also not true I guess?
why do I need to believe stories that are favourable to christians although they come from unknown sources
but disbelieve stories from credible sources that portray muslims in good light?

Everyday, we are told Nigerians are some of the brightest people on earth
Do people just wish that these same bright Nigerians disappear from earth when they are posting invented stories?

udezue:
Ogidiboy, Only fools turn the other cheek.

Foolish though it may seem, faith requires a christian to turn the other cheek
And of course, one can choose to become an apostate by deed even while still calling himself a member of that faith
This presumes that there is no other bilble (hidden from non-christians) that has abrogated the duty to turn the other cheek
and that would justify the st bartholomew's day massacre

Orexxy:
The time has come where [b]we christians have to let the muslims know that we cannot live with them as a countr[/b]y. Let them stay in the north and practice their religion. We are ready to grant indegineship to christian northerners here in the south. Lets enjoy our oil money together as one country where there will be peace.

I reckon the christians in the Middle East will also return home
Go to Emir Yahaya road in Sokoto and tell this story
And at least when the next crisis breaks out - Urhobo/Itsekiri, Ife/Modakeke, Ebonyi, Umuleri/Agwuleri, Jukun/Tiv
BTW, in Taraba, the Jukun see the Tivs as settlers and I reckon they will now both live in peace in your dreamland
Or when Northern christians refuse to recognise a pastor from the South, you will understand how false "the-christainity-is-love" theory is
http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2010/apr/04/national-04-04-2010-002.htm

Papishi:
The God of Quran is d GREATEST 'Terrorist' I know.

        -Winston Churchill.

I reckon that you would gleefully quote WC when he abuses christianity
You would recall that WC was PM of Britains during WWII and many Nigerians lost their lives during that war fighting for what?

Orexxy:
Here we all are talking about christians demolishing a mosque. Just one mosque. Three months back in Kazaure Jigawa State, the youths there burnt down 7 churches because a muslim police accidentally killed a another muslim. What concerns christians inside the matter is what we were  trying to understand. As corpers we all ran away for like a month even when our zonal inspector gave us only two weeks off. Thank God I am through with service.

You have to choose between having faith or acting according to your instincts
The number of mosques demolished is not the issue
Remember a man becomes a murderer by willfully killing 1 person and that is an important line to cross
And the actions of those in kazaure (which you have provided no link to) does not justify this
There is another thread on NL where somebody brought a false story about Muslims attacking Christians
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-477427.0.html
Compare the response there to what you have here

CGKing:
These jihadists are such nuisances. Now they are making our ppl forget the other cheek policy.

So the victim is now to blame!
and for what?
For making you attack first!
This is pathetic - you can lie to yourself and NLanders but not to God
Just try this argument in church

BTW - what about the other cheek policy during the St bartholomew's day massacre or  the gunpowder plot 

phreakabit:
Even though I don't believe this story, I will still say, NOT GOOD.We shouldn't be killing ourselves.

If you don't believe this, what will you believe, this?
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-477427.0.html

chosen04:
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As far as it is those [b]gworo chewing, cow liking mallams up north that are killing themselves i have no problems with that be it xtians or muslims,

They have wasted a lot of Easterner and Southerner bloods and deserves to keeping maiming, despoiling and killing themselves for the rest of the duration of a ''ONE NIGERIA!''

Do you think southerners are saints?
Easterners are wasting lives through comunnal crisis in Ebonyi
Kidnapping etc
and southerners, rather than the "illiterate northerners", are responsible for the 419 that has given Nigeria a terrible name abroad

udezue:
After all these years of nonstop attacks by muslims its quite dumb that Christians in the North still rely on incompetent army and police to protect them when they should form their own bakassi style militia to wipe those sons of Satan away anytime they misbehave.

Now that we know that the story is untrue, would you like to review your position
Now that you know that christains just attacked muslims first, what is your opinion

I am a muslim, but I know that one of the articles of any faith is for an adherent to comply with the injunctions of a religion, no matter the provocation

Any muslim who because he believes muslims are wronged kills himself (eg through suicide bombing) is no longer following the rules of islam
In his mind, he is fighting for Islam, but in actual fact, he is taking himself out of the fold of Islam

Similarly, unless christians have been lying to us, I believe that any christian who in annoyance attacks people is also taking himself out of christianity

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5594020-146/four_die_in_religious_violence_.csp

Four die in religious violence


"Violence between Christians and Muslims in Taraba state has resulted in bloodshed leaving at least four people dead, a police official said.

Taraba State Police Commissioner, Aliyu Musa said the killings started on Tuesday in the community of Bukari after Christian youth became angry over the location of a mosque. He told The Associated Press on Wednesday that a group of young people burned down the mosque, which caused a counterattack by Muslims.

Sources said security agents intervened this morning eventually restoring calm to the community. Violence between Christians and Muslims in neighbouring Plateau state earlier this year left a trail of dead bodies in its wake."

The christians started this

006:
Even Mourinho failed sometimes.
Siasia has 2 finals (world) to his resume, tell me any other coach in Nigeria or those Oyibo we've hired with millions that can boast of that.

Sebastian Brodericks Imasuen appeared in two (2) consecutive World U-17 finals and won the maiden edition in China 1985
He lost to Russia in the finals in canada in 1987
This record is better than Sia Sia
The team was technically robbed
That victory of 1985 is the cause of having a street named Fatai Atere way in Oshodi

Fanny Amu (1993) and Tella (2007) and have also both won the world u17 cup

As far as I am concerned, I am looking for an opportunity for the final demystification of Sia Sia
Leading 2-1
Against a team with 10men
at 65minutes
and losing 2-3 by 92nd minutes is not a sign of competence

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5594020-146/four_die_in_religious_violence_.csp

Four die in religious violence


"Violence between Christians and Muslims in Taraba state has resulted in bloodshed leaving at least four people dead, a police official said.

Taraba State Police Commissioner, Aliyu Musa said the killings started on Tuesday in the community of Bukari after Christian youth became angry over the location of a mosque. He told The Associated Press on Wednesday that a group of young people burned down the mosque, which caused a counterattack by Muslims.

Sources said security agents intervened this morning eventually restoring calm to the community. Violence between Christians and Muslims in neighbouring Plateau state earlier this year left a trail of dead bodies in its wake."


Will Release International report this true story. No
Will they invent rumour. Yes
Do they really love us. No
so why? They want a tattered country

If there is a true religious violence, the national dailies will report
Let us now react to this objectively.

~Bluetooth:
did you read what you wrote here ? You are justing contradicting yourself.

Please point out the contradiction

This is another of such incident when christians attacked Fulanis
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=450371.msg6081577#msg6081577

and this is ThisDay's confirmation of it
http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=173925

~Bluetooth:
increasing fragility of the security situation in the area may have warranted restriction on reporting. . .such headline only triggers counter-attacks vice-versa.so the report may not be fake afterall

You sincerely believe that Guardian, ThisDay, Vanguard, Punch (national newspapers all owned by christians) will keep quiet about this
after reporting extensively about the much larger crisis in Jos?
Although they really kept quiet about the attack on Muslims in January

So the source of our news will now be a biased foreign medium?

Do you honestly believe that this Release International will report any attack by Christians on Muslims?

I see children hawking during the day
I see children being hired for hawking and babies hired for begging by some "mama twins"
yet we are celebrating

What  are we celebrating?
The attainment of age 50 rather than

Somebody is saying that we should commend GJ for letting us have access to this information
FHI, it is not GJ's doing
and in any case, why should I commend you for telling me how you are squandering my money
Nigerian case is simply pathetic

I will NEVER EVER support this law
This is one of the foreign ideas that are sold to us by with too much education
Please remind me of any indigenous idea of ours that has been copied by foreigners
We must give up everything in our culture because we want to to be civilised

I remember the countless ocassions that the fear of the cane stopped me from some wayward acts

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5591573-146/jonathan_slashes_n16.4_billion_nigeria_.csp

In a country that makes a lot of noise and was ready to court international bad press because of corruption at NFF
This is a shame

Without the noise making, they would have spent N16b producing dvd telling us lies

~Bluetooth:
we can't rubbish an idea because we expect  100% efficiency from it.it's just like saying we dont want police because they are corrupt.lets see the guidelines and modalities that would be use to ensure the success of this programme instead of rubbishing it at this early stage.

What early stage? Virtually every controversial government policy is carried through by giving government the benfit of doubt
Name it, voter's registration, ID card, census - we are always told - it is too early
Let us see how it will work out
Thes things never work out the way we are told because it is article of faith for government officials ti lie to us 

I SAY A BIG No to SIM card registration
This is nonsense!
Where in the world do you give your biometric properties to foreign PRIVATE COMPANIES because you want to be able to make phone calls

In my own country, I am expected to give my fingerprint to Etisalat (a UAE company) or MTN (SA) or Bharti (India)?
And they are carrying all these information on laptops all over town
And these guys are even tyemporary staff
But serioously, let us look at their weak attempts

Kidnappers do not use their own mobile phones (they use their victims phones)
that way, they confirm to relatives of their victims that the kidnappers are actually in touch with the missing person
They also easily get the number of the relatives they need to make rasnsome demand to
We have been using mobile phones since 2001
why this sudden interest?
I guess it is because the powerful are suddenly feeling the heat of kidnapping

If it were armed robbers issues alone, they would not bat an eyelid
they have their security - siren, escort, fortified gates, security cameras etc

Incidentally, armed robbers do not need to call to threaten anyone
Even if they want to call, if they can snatch cars, can they not snatch phones to call with

We should think harder in order to solve problems
Note that phone operators are registering SIM cards
Yet NCC and Akunyili are budgeting N6b for the exercise
"good people, great nation"!
So let somebody come and tell me she is Mrs Integrity

Somebody is talking about statistics
After what Israel did in Dubai
do you want to put your national data in the hands of foreigners?
I have an international passport which has my biometric profile
That is acceptable for ID purposes to buy a SIM card in a foreign country
But in Nigeria that issued the passport, it is not
This country na wa

NCC requires SIM card registration to "frustrate and capture criminals"
Amongs the details required is the subscriber's fingerprints

Does it not compromise national security to have private companies (especially foreign companies) capture fingerprints of Nigerians
We remember how Israel forged passports for its recent Dubai operations

And besides, why should a criminal use his own registered SIM to call relatives of his victims

Look at the article below
A kidnapper uses SIM card of their victims
An armed robber can steal SIM cards at gun point

Against SIM card registration
http://ww2.guardiannewsngr.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16206:-against-sim-card-registration&catid=38:columnists&Itemid=615

We need to think harder in this country

A well-written analysis of the Presidency-NFF-FIFA tango

http://ww2.guardiannewsngr.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16203:presidential-inconsistency-on-football&catid=37:editorial&Itemid=612

Exceprts

BY rescinding the decision to withdraw Nigeria’s football teams from participating in international tournaments for two years, President Goodluck Jonathan may have staved off a major setback in the nation’s sports sector. But the volte-face, coming barely five days after the original decision, and only a few minutes to the implementation of a threat by the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) to suspend the country, raises questions of managerial competence.
For instance, was the decision well considered before it was taken? Or was it an impromptu decision taken on the spur of the moment to pacify Nigerians who were let down by the appalling performance of the Super Eagles in South Africa? Did the president develop cold feet following FIFA’s threat? Was the President misled into banning the team in the first place? And was the change of mind meant to correct the mistaken decision? These issues need to be publicly addressed, in order to restore local and international confidence in our ability to run football affairs responsibly. At the moment, that confidence, if it existed at all, has been thoroughly shaken.

The ban was apparently based on the recommendation of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on the World Cup, headed by Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi, who said the PTF felt “we should sit back and look inward”, after “all sorts of problems” at the World Cup.

Such suspension, according to FIFA Communications Director, Nicolas Maingot, would extend to all Nigerian teams (including the Female Under 20 team which is billed to participate in a tournament in Germany this month.
FIFA also threatened to freeze financial assistance to the NFF. The reaction of the world football body is predictable as it has always frowned at any form of government interference in football administration.

Clearly, the Presidency had good reason to be upset by the country’s woeful performance in World Cup 2010 and therefore to wield the big stick. However, government’s reaction appeared to be hasty and not borne out of any well-thought-out plan to redress the anomaly. Unfortunate as this was, this is a stance that is all too common in this country. Nigerian leaders tend to act first, before considering the import of their actions.
Otherwise, government should have fully considered whether it was ready to contend with FIFA ban including the suspension of financial aid and of Nigerian FIFA officials. We believe that the ban was hasty and amounted to an overkill.

In any case, the President’s decision was not far-reaching enough, considering that the perceived failure in Nigerian football is itself a reflection of the decay in virtually all spheres of our public life, including politics and governance. The rot is widespread and systemic. It is a big relief that the decision has been reviewed. What government should now do is to focus on its initial promise to develop Nigerian football and “put its house in order.” The senior national team should be disbanded and a new team constituted made up of skilful and talented footballers. The NFF administration is inept and corrupt. Government must explore all possible means to encourage a desirable and productive change, mindful of FIFA rules.
The country should put in place immediately, a machinery for developing grassroots football and discover the hidden talents in the country. The expected new football administration should address recurring issues of developing the local league, providing training facilities and grooming local coaches, as part of efforts to restore the glory of Nigerian football.

Mariory:
Why do we have such lazy backward thinkers in Nigeria. Is it the education system? Please explain how you would go about "cleasing 9ja first of its iniquities".

I disagree with the notion that it is lazy or backward thinking
One can easily explain how to cleanse Nigeria
There are so many low hanging fruits!!

TBK
Anyway, over to you
I reckon that you are equal to the task

macfarland:
Emerging details have confirmed real reasons why some northern leaders are opposed to the perceived presidential aspiration of President Jonathan in 2011.

Sources in the North confirmed that some northern elements who were championing the cause of the zone currently were doing so because of a fear that allowing Jonathan to gain power in 2011 could pose threats to their personal business empires.

It was gathered that some of those advertised as northern leaders had backed the operations of the cabal that held the administration of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua hostage till he died on May 5, 2010.

Many Nigerians had expressed the feeling that the cabal could not have held sway for so long if it was not receiving external backing from some influential Nigerians.

But it emerged, at the weekend, that some of the influential forces who sustained the Yar’Adua cabal had infiltrated the Northern Elders’ Forum and were partly responsible for the persistent calls on President Jonathan not to contest.

Some younger elements in the North were, however, said to be disagreeing with the tactics of the northern leaders, with the claim that such leaders were pursuing personal agenda.

As a Nigerian, if I were representing Nigeria abroad at a conference and I accepted the like of this statement without attribution
Would you not believe that my brain had become addled by some substance
You would be ready to lynch me, and rightly too

ud4u:
I must tell you, the money is too outrageous and Nigeria does not have any cause for celebration. But all those money that has been voted for various institutions should be utilized.

Well said my brother.

I don't agree with spending N10b on a day's event
I have read somewhere the amount is actually N16b
If we want to be fair
let us look for the 75m Nigerians (50% of the population) who live on less than $1daily
We should given them $1 on that day ie N150 per person
This will be N11.25b
That will be a memorable 50th anniversary for them

macfarland:
If the north want to base their arguement on the fact that OBJ ruled for 8 years, they should also consider that northerners have ruled nigeria for 39 years out of 50 years after independence. Also, they should remember that their region contribute less than 10% of the wealth of the nation. Southsouth region contribute over 70% of the wealth of the nation but they have ruled for only 8 months out of 600 months (50 yrs). What justice is the north now talking about? Pls, let us leave Jonathan to rule now or the worse may happen, even to the north.

What did Obj base his argument for trying to return power to the North upon?

Northerners have not ruled for 39 years, although it is close
Nigeria will be 50 in October
Obasanjo has ruled for 11.5
Ironsi .5
Johnathan .75
Balance is not 39

The argument is not even that
The point is that if you want to retaliate then you should never have talked about marginalisation
That is you only believe that marginalisation is wromng when you are not the one doing it
Then you lose the moral high ground

udezue:
Truly, I really don't care if they are eskimo. Why preach all that black man vs white to me when u should be in Kaduna telling your brothers that they are blacks not Arabs? Did the white care about your opinion when Europe rose against German Nazi and their Italian allies? Truth here is that Hausa-Fulani oligarchy have become a menace and there is no need to sugar-coat anything in the name of being black like them. Do they see us as fellow black? Heck naw. Your average Hausa-Fulani man will rather deal with Arab muslims than you and I hence they riot and kill so called fellow blacks over issues concerning Arabs like Palestinians and Denmark cartoons. Preach to some1 else.

Everybody has his own problem
http://elendureports.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1171&Itemid=1
Do you remember the people mowed down with a car by a ManU fan when Barca fans were celebrating their victory last year in Aba
Do you recall ife_modakeke
Warri wars

babaearly:
There must be Sacrifices. If we dont see the results in our lifetime, at least our children's children will live to enjoy it. Good way to go Goodluck.

Some sacrifices are needless
We get our name in the international press for the wrong reasons
We infuriate FIFA without promise of a positive result

Yuo know quite well that Eyimba playing against Kano Pillars for 2 years will not prepare us for an encounter with Ghana
Then we face Ghana, we will be embarassed the more

Why do you think North Korea did not do well at the current world cup?
A pariah nation gets no practice that will make perfect
Japan, its neighbour has improved dramatically

Mock exams (like friendlies) are for a purpose
BTW England has a friendly in August

Travelista:
No offense but politics and corruption are very much involved in this issue. When you have elected officials traveling to SA with family and staff on the government dime, it's an issue of corruption. When you have officials that make decisions based on how big a kickback they'll receive, you have corruption. FIFA does not run Nigeria, Jonathan does. If government money goes towards NFF and it's not running properly, he has the right to take action. FIFA's codes and regulations can NEVER supersede the well-being of a member nation; that doesn't happen and if Nigeria were to roll over and take it, then we're beyond redemption.

I'm still waiting to hear how a sporting organization trumps a nation's sovereignty.

We talk of rule law but seek to ambush the enforcement of the law
Why can Johnathan not use the EFCC report on the allegation made by Glen Hoddle
His action is similar to Obj saying, Wabara, Osuji, Afolabi are corrupt and sacking them
We applauded
But nobody was jailed
They are not ex-convicts, so they can contest any election in the future

We also saw how Yaradua put Bode George in jail using EFCC report
Bode George can no longer aspire to any elective office
Do you think anybody will argue with that? FIFA will not do so of you apply the same process to Lulu and Co

Now as for FIFA
My undertstanding is that the I in its name gives it sovereignty over International footbal
and the N in FGN gives Goodluck sovereignty over Nigerian football

So Goodluck can do whatever he likes with Nigerian football
He can cancel the league, order men to play against women, introduce goal-line technology, abolish offside etc

But if Nigeria seeks to play against even neighbouring Togo or Benin, then it must obey FIFA rules

And if Nigeria believes that FIFA is not democratic, is corrupt and has faulty rules
Then Nigeria should have worked with other member countries to have FIFA accounts audited and the FIFA rules changed BEFORE now

But you cannot start arguing with a policeman after being arrested that the law is silly

SapeleGuy:
This is all academic, Jonathan is not the southerner that can win an election in 2011.

The irony is that zoning permeates the nigerian polity. Did Nwodo stop to think why he had to replace Ogbulafor? or why Ken Nnamani, Adolphus Wabara, Pius Anyim, Chuba Okadigbo and Evan Enwerem were senate president from 1999 to 2007. Just incase he doesn't know, the answer is zoning.

However, that is a PDP rule. Nigeria is not a 1 party state and PDP is not the only party.

Mantu was deputy senate president to several senate presidents
All the senate presidents were from SE
Nobodu ever asked that the man be promoted to the office of senate president
Why? because of zoning

Bankole succeeded Etteh
Why? zoning

Each state has 3 senatorial districts
No senatorial district will allow others districts to continue producing speaker and governor because those people are competent
So the argument that where somebody comes from does not matter in present day Nigeria is not tenable

Nigerians continue to vote according to tribal affiliations
How come APGA and PPA are very popular in SE
And AC and LP in the SW

Even in Ogun, people of the same state and tribe are fighting over which zone suceeds Daniel
I don't believe that a Yoruba does not care if he is ruled forever by an hausa man simply because the man is said to be competent

And if we are talking about competence, is GJ the most competent politician in Nigeria today?

udezue:
Bluetooth, The North doesn't need any compromise. Who are they? U act like these people are gods. No zoning come 2011 if they don't like let heaven and earth collide. The days of bending backwards to our own detriment in the name of appeasing these desert rats are long gone. It was this back-bending in the name of compromise that got us in this mess since the 60s.

And are you really happy talking this way about people created by God
when nobody here can create a cell?

If we talk this way about fellow blacks
why should others not look down on the balck race
It is difficult for a black man to point at his clear achievements compared to other blacks
But the whites have done wonders - your computer, internet, aircraft, space technology, medicine etc
Yet you would be annoyed if they called you a rat

Africanson:
I have heard a lot about president Gooodluck Jonathan's eligibility contesting the presidency come 2011. My own take is there should be no question about Jonathan's eligibility contesting on the PDP ticket or not. Jonathan should contest because he is still continuing the mandate given him and Yar'adua in the last presidencial election(8 years duration of 4 each), they have only done 4 years remaining another 4 years. It does not matter whether Yar'adua is dead. What if it was Goodluck Jonathan that died?. Would Yar'adua not have contested come 2011?.

Do you sincerely believe what you have written
That Yaradua and Johnathan were elected based on personal recognition
And not on where they are from?

And if GJ (God forbid) had died, would the South South not have been putting another person forward as VP?
When we make comments, we should look at 2 perspectives
(1) If you were to be praying before God, is this what you would tell God sincerely
(2) You may set up a rule today to favour yourself, but it may turn against you tomorrow

Zoning becomes useless and anti-progress when it is standing in the way of GJ becoming President
But it was not when it allowed a minority man even from his Bayelsa home state to become VP
(Note that within Bayelsa GJ is from a minority group (1 of 8 LGs) while Alams group is from majority tribe (4 out of 8 LGs) )
This situation can come around

FOI

"Also the management committee set up by the Nigeria government will not be recognised by Fifa.

If Nigeria are suspended, the country cannot participate in competitive matches or club games in African competitions, as well as a host of financial ramifications.

"A suspension goes beyond the suspension of the national teams," added Fifa's communications director Nicolas Maingot. "It also freezes financial help and no referees can participate in international competition."

BTW
Capello has been reappointed - he wants to bring in new blood into the team
Le Blanc is now the coach of France

That is order
we should beware of motion, aggresive motion, without progress

Meldrick:
FIFA has no right to order the leader of a soverign nation around. The move by President Jonathan is a good move in the interest of over 150 million Nigerians and we are in full support of it. The Nigerian Government funds the national team and just like every business man, the government deserves quality football for the money they invest in the sport. FIFA headed by Blatter should resolve the controversies surrounding the 2010 world cup. They should first settle the issues ranging from poor officiating which FIFA calls human error. FIFA must quench the fire in its organisation and leave Nigeria that is trying to solve it's internal problems alone

Sovereignty comes with responsibility
FIFA is not ordering anybody around - we knew FIFA rules before joining
Blatter is just saying - obey it
If you join a boxing club, you cannot turn around to say that somebody punched a whole you
why is this an issue anyway - we obey rules of
UN, IAEA, IOC, Ecowas, AU, IMF, World bank etc
why is FIFA different
UN has just imposed sanctions on Iran - nobody is talking about sovereignty
ICJ issued an arrest warrant to on the president of Sudan - no talk of sovereignty

Is Nigeria really a soverign nation - we rely a lot on aid from foreign countries
They arm twist us on account of that
Is obama not egging Johnathan on on the issue of 2011

I am not one of the 150m that GJ is doing this for