₦airaland Forum

Nothing, a nuclear weapon is a weapon of deterrent, not of hegemony. Pakistanis and Indians hate each other to the hilt, both are nuclear powered and yet neither has bombed each other to hell. A nuclear weapon is not really a big deal, it is a sobering weapon if you use it you die, simple as.

not even close, democracy hands down. When Nigerians wake up they will appreciate the institutes of democracy that they have if they choose to stick with it. Look at India, Brazil and (America in the late 19th century) All of these places don't have the best democracies but they've been strengthened over the years. Nigeria's democracy will get stronger if allowed to grow and mature. Military rule and top-down rule in General is bound for failure.

I just have to put my 2 cents in this. Akata means black foreigner, it is in no way synonymous with Nigger, It never has and it never will be. The word has no negative connotation unless you wish to self-identify with Yorubas without speaking the language. DuDu means black, not all black persons are dudu, Dudu means that your skin is jet black, not brown, but actually black. Dudu is equivalent to Pale. Let me ask you people this, do you get offended when Hispanics call you Gringos, the Japanese Gaijin? If No then why the big deal with Akata? The word is devoid of hatred and if you think an African used it to put you down then it is all in your own fetid imagination. If you want to stop being called an Akata learn Yoruba and self-identify as one, if not then please stop making the word into something that is offensive. Technically Akata can and has referred to Oyinbos (whites) too. My sisters have been called Akata by other Nigerians  and I am not offended by that. I find it funny that this misunderstood outrage is being drummed up by people who don't even know the true meaning of the word but think that they know what it means. Did a black african ever call your ancestors Akata while lynching them? denying them their rights as citizens of occidental countries, and have they used the term akata to deny you a job, an apartment, or a loan? No. so please stop trying to drum up a fake conflict where nonexists. One more thing it does not mean cotton picker, Nigeria doesn't have a history of cotton industry.

Litmus:
True Nigerians, crook or not, would know what I mean.

Those who do the complaining should go kill themselves rather than live with the shame they so obviously say they feel about being Nigerian or else go away and don’t return or comment on Nigeria.

What shame? I feel no shame about being Nigerian, if it were not like people like me and my family Nigeria would and Africa would have no goodwill left in the world towards it. I went to my sister's High School Graduation and the Valedictorian Is an American of Nigerian descent with a full ride to MIT. I cannot imagine them being afforded the same opportunities in Nigeria. I amonly feel ashamed of you. Wouldn't it be funny if you happen to live outside of Nigeria? or Better yet to find out that you work in the generator industry or someone within your immediate family is growing fat off the grouse of Nigeria illegally. Just because you've never left Lagos, Abuja, PH and go see what the average Nigerian lives like is no excuse for your gross ignorance of your own country. I don't see how anyone can laud the government of Nigeria as anything but shameful, talk less about bigging it up as Great Nation among Nations.

I would like Nigeria to have Ghana's problems when it comes to electricity at least that would be a huge improvement. out of 364/5 days they provide 24/7 electricity for over a third of the year. I am well aware of Ghana shedding problems and the need to expand power generation, but with Ghana you know that they will do it, Nigeria has been trying and failing for as long as I can remember. Outside of major metropolitan centers you are lucky to get two hours of uninterrupted power. I remember being without power for three months and when it did comeback it was for one hour.

When did I say the foolish post here? Mmmph, I find it funny that all these super patriots are living outside of Nigeria or are living it up in Lagos and they talk about going into the hinterlands of other African countries. I am not a Nigerian hater, if you like the way Nigeria is just say so and I wouldn't fault you on that. But to say that Nigeria is a great nation is a fucking stretch and you know it. So what are you doing in Accra if Nigeria is such a great nation?

Oh GOD NO! Seriously this sounded so ludicrous as to be simply unreal. Oh MY GOD! I am laughing and Crying. Wow! I am surprise that this topic hasn't garnered more posts. This is something straight out of Monty Python, SNL, What the, I am struck dumb, but luckily I am still able to type.

The columnist says that the age of reason and enlightenment is what is wrong with the world, that going back to 12th century religious fundamentalism, dogmatism, and pragmatism is the way to go. and he gave credit where none is apparent to Khomeini for every major event of the past 30 years. In a nutshell these idiot is a literate Taliban from Nigeria. I was perhaps a bit inarticulate earlier, what I meant to say is this are the kinds of people spreading dangerous disinformation about the Polio vaccine in northern Nigeria fearing that it is a western ploy because it is a product of the age of reason and enlightenment I.E. medicinal science, and that they rationalize it by seeking succor in a religious fundamentalism that cannot inform the world of anything new nor can it be a viable alternative to science.

Revmallam with your patriotic faith that Nigeria is indeed heading in the right decision why haven't your pack up from the west and went back home? Oh no do you have some medication that you take that isn't readily available in Nigeria? Can you go months on end with power anymore? What about a working toilet? Are you ready to shit and chuck? What about water? Can you drink unprocessed water anymore without falling ill? Oh no, if you don't go back to the hinterlands and just stay in Lagos and Abuja I guess you don't have to worry about these problems.

I am always fascinated by this phenomenon of deflecting any criticism or self assessment by pointing to occidental countries to try to justify your own injustice. In the end of the day we all know the truth and this isn't a conspiracy. A conspiracy is the mosque bombings in Iran that happened last month all likely sponsored by U.S. money. This on the other hand is the outright denial of the few pressure valves allowed the Iranian people. You guys see western conspiracies everywhere while living off the fat of the land in these occidental countries. I really don't see how the west has any control on who the supreme council sponsors to election, nor do I see how the west can influence millions of Iranians to pick the lesser of two evils. Must be them brain controlling waves they keep broadcasting to the Iranian people.

Litmus as a true child of Nigeria don't disgrace her by living past your 40s. 

Gee what has America done for my family, My siblings got full rides to University, while my parents pension from teaching in Nigeria is epileptic to put it mildly and stolen to be cynical about it.

DRC has enough resources to make all other African country's resources look like chicken shit if properly exploited. If a war does break out you know that Rwanda and Uganda will just gang-up on DRC and install another jackass warlord in the step of Laurent Nkunda.

The only good news that I can take from this is the fact that Joseph Kony is definitely a dead man because of this.  Look at how fast Savimbi was taken out in Angola. Botswana is the only African country that deserves to hit it big when it comes to oil. Seriously if they hit it big when it comes to oil say hello to the first Black First Nation.

I was laughing halfway through this statement please tell me that it is satire. This very well could be real.

can you provide a link to the original source Knowall?

The world that emerged from the Age of Religion supposedly led to the Age of Reason; and the struggle that accompanied the transition automatically set religion and reason in an ageless conflict between misnamed antagonists.

Its beginning was an error, its middle a terror and its end a tragedy in which the world exchanged solid religious truth for ephemeral scientific theories.

Throughout history revolutions that sought to liberate man from all forms of yokes and shackles had come and gone; and among them the Islamic Revolution in Iran by Imam Khomeini [qss] stood unique. One, it is the only revolution that, instead of breaking away from the past, went back to it. Two, it is the only revolution able to challenge, defeat and bury the vestiges and shackles imposed upon its world by Zionism, because the Islamic Revolution was the only one not carried out in its name. And that is part of the reason why hostility to his movement and the obscurantist veil cast over his revolution will remain in place so long as Zionism retains control over international media.

But we are wiser today. Whatever the disguises its actors adopt, the world has been a stage and history has always been the account of the titanic struggles between the forces for Good and Evil, typified by the doctrine of might is right, as when Abel faced Cain; or, by the exploitative power of the purse, as Moses [AS] and Croesus crossed swords; or, by the self-serving abuse of divine knowledge as Jesus [AS] took on the Pharisees and drove the moneychangers out of the Temple. In our time, all these three seemed to have come together in the encounter between Imam Khomeini [qss]--a representative of the Holy Prophet [SAW]--and the West.

Last week marked the 20th anniversary of his demise. And so, 20 years later--and the imposition of the eight-year-long Iran-Iraq war [1980-1988]s, the Gulf War I [1991] and Gulf War II [2003] and the invasion of Afghanistan in all of which up to 2 million people might have been killed and trillion dollars worth of Muslim patrimony destroyed, after sustained political, economic and diplomatic sanctions and isolation of the Islamic Republic of Iran, after the ill-fated Israeli invasions of Lebanon, and after turning nuclear Pakistan into a near-failed state, the Americans have finally given up on Iran, or have they?

US President Barack Obama might have been the decisive factor in bringing about the current scenario; but even without him, it was not difficult to see that the US multi-pronged attempt at crushing the Islamic Revolution was ill-advised, futile and doomed to failure from the very beginning, and what he did was the only sensible thing to do.

Nonetheless, it is part of the victory of the Islamic Revolution that the Western world has finally come round and accepted to engage Iran on its own self-dignifying Islamic terms.

It is also part of the victory of the revolution that Hizbullah seized the moment and is today effectively calling the shots, determining the pace of events and controlling the geopolitics of the Middle East, and keeping the United States and all other Western powers in check. When it twice defeated Israel, the West realised that the time for a new Middle East had arrived; but the same Hizbullah would not allow them to create it on their own terms. With the advent of Imam Khomeini [qss], the days of American Islam--in the Gulf and everywhere else--became numbered; and when Hizbullah came onto the scene, they ended. And with that one off, it became time for informed prediction.

When in 1989, the Imam wrote his famous epistle to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, delivered pointedly by Ayatullah Jawadi Amuli, the great mystic and the very antithesis of Marxist ethos, it turned out that he was in fact sending an executioner to a system condemned. In the letter, he told Gorbachev that henceforth whoever was looking for Communism would find it only in the dustbin of political history. Perhaps Gorbachev didn't fully understand; but it was clear that he understood even less the fact that he was to be the undertaker for Communism and the dustman all in one. And what an effective undertaker he was!

Thus, by the time of his demise, the Imam had seen to the end of Communism; and, now, out of its greed, Capitalism is rushing to see to its own end. But the two events are in fact not unlinked; for, when he yanked at the tree, Khomeini [qss] didn't so much as worry about its ideological branches, he pulled the whole damn thing out by its Zionist roots and cast it aside. That was 30 years ago.

After leading that revolution to victory, he oversaw the setting up of an Islamic government, entrenched a uniquely Islamic democratic culture saw to the creation of unique institutions of governance and then guided the system to stability. Despite the imposition of wars, encirclement by American bases in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, multiplicity of sanctions and an unprecedented plague of urban terror on the nation, the Iranian people have over the past three decades gone to the polls 24 times; first, in a nationwide referendum to determine the character of their new republic, and thereafter 23 times to elect six presidents, hundreds of legislators, regional and municipal officials in elections that were demonstrably free and fair. Today, in spite of the West and the activities of the confederate-like, traitorous capitalist rearguard of the Muslim World, the Islamic Republic is a nuclear power--and perhaps the only truly independent country in this world.

And this is not even the Imam's greatest handiwork. Khomeini [qss] was a modern-day Insan al-Kamil, a man emptied of ego--a true successor to the Prophets of God--in whom we saw the coming together of knowledge and action, the marriage of faith and practice and the fusion of erudition and gnosis, a combination that takes away fear from the heart of Man and imbues life with a higher purpose. His was truly the embodiment of his own motto: Fear none but God, and in Him put your trust.

And this Islamic hero seemed cut out for his role. His whole life was one of concern for preserving the integrity of Islam and the inviolability of its ordinances, love and respect for the Holy Prophet and his progeny as a religious duty, anxiousness to present the true visage of Islam to the world, and a devotion to the cultivation and dissemination of the true knowledge of Islam.

It was out of that concern that he fainted, regained consciousness and fainted again when the heart-rending news reached him that a king had violated the territorial integrity and spiritual sanctity of the Haram in Mecca in 1987. Thus it was that he alone defended the Holy Prophet [SAW] when Salman Rushdie, that hireling of the Western avant-garde, tried to traduce upon his holy honour; and, in defiance of the West, cut-off Iranian oil supply to South Africa and broke the economic backbone of Apartheid. And it was Khomeini [qss] who finally led the snake of knowledge out of its black hole--and it thereafter slithered all over the world.

This was the Man from Qum, who after a millennium of modern paganism, single-handedly gave the world its agenda and forced it back to God and to religion and the world took after him in involuntary awe of the unstoppable reverberations of his epoch-making Islamic Revolution, an event that restored confidence to Muslims and instilled hope in all oppressed peoples of whatever faiths--and, for those who know, it heralded the promise of a new dawn to the world--a dawn that can be delayed but can never prevented.

Condolences to a world deprived of him; and woe and heart-felt condolences to the Muslims who chose to remain ignorant of that which happened before their very eyes--a revolution in the name of Islam that shook the entire world, saved their faith and sounded the death knell to secularism and the oppressive systems basking in its shadow.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200906120666.html

Wow, I will keep my commentary to a minimum for now, but it isn't hard to see why Polio came back in Northern Nigeria with idiots like this.

This wasn't elections about social reforms, it was about the economy. We know that the clerics whittle the choice down to these two men and even then they wouldn't let the people choose. READ MY POSTS, I am not arguing that this is anything but about the economy.

and what proof do you have that iamdinnerjacekt won? Mousavi was a lightening rod to the disaffected youths of Iran, they turned out in their thousands to support him if not his policy because they wanted anyone but iamadinnerjacket. Every election projection within Iran had iamadinnerjacket behind. Again simple logic you fucking idiots. If i am a dinner jacket really did win 65% of the vote in such a landslide victory wouldn't his supporters outnumber those out rioting in the streets by their own joyous celebrations? wouldn't they be out in the streets celebrating? Please spare me you barely literate assholes.

imadinnerjacket didn't win, if he did why did Mousavi claim victory? Please, Iranians aren't asking for much they won't protest whatever Iran's nuclear policy is and they won't protest against a change in foreign policy. All they want is the government to provide jobs for them instead of international saber rattling. Biina listen how does people losing their lives in the hundreds and thousands in every election period in Nigeria mean that elections were fair? Who is arguing that PDP elections are fair? No one. Did you see the same thing happening in Ghana after the close election of Atta mills? Please spare me your sanctimony. This is one of the few pressure valves that Iranians have to release some steams and if the government isn't willing to play ball then they get angry. Nobody is saying that the election of Mousavi means it is all love dovey between Iran and America, but it will signal a change that Iran needs to strengthen its economy and focus inward. But I guess that is too much for you.

Wait, how can we not be sure? Iamadinnerjacket purportedly won 65% of the vote, if the elections were fair you wouldn't  see those street fight scenes. In a repressive society like Iran why would they take to the streets if they haven't had enough?

Biina you intellectually bankrupt woman please refrain from shilling for clearly self-evidence antidemocratic going ons in the world. Did you see the people of South Africa protesting and asking for freedom when the ANC won a landslide victory again in SA? Yet Iamadinnerjacket "won" and these people are out in the streets in force.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8098305.stm

Please, please refrain from posting in this thread, if you want to biggup Iamadinnerjacket go to Presstv's website and congratulate iamadinnerjacket. Like I said before letting Mousavi win would not have changed much except turn Iran's outlook inward, so why not throw the people of Iran a bone?

Wow if that is what the results of a landslide victory looks like what happens if Iamadinnerjacket had squeezed through. Unbelievable.

chukz4real:
I use 2 think it was when I was younger. But now that am grown, I come to realise it was a mere fantasy!

At least you had that wonderful delusion for a few years while growing up. I never realized that Nigeria thought of itself as the Giant of Africa until I left that country. In terms of oil reserves and population yes, everything else eeeerrrrrrrhhhhh

Dear Major General Ojukwu this sounds nice, but just what exactly are the political and economic aims of this civil coup?It sounds like all fury and no sound planning. How do you make people understand that to have a civil society it doesn't mean the favoring of your particular ethnic group? I am glad that you picked one family from the Yoruba that you can trust, and I am sure that Northerners are barred from this civil coup of course. Believe me a revolution is in the brew, but please leave it to those under 30, if it fails it is we that must pay the price. All the old dunderheads of yesteryears will have embraced the warm bosom of death if this populist uprising fails.

Not really, no. Of course the army is a "respected" institution; they ran the country for much of its history. They even crippled the other parts of the armed forces in their bid to retain power--see Nigeria's laughable airforce. What they are known for is peacekeeping; now I do mean to disparage peacekeeping with this statement: Peacekeeping is what happens when both sides in a conflict have agreed to a ceasefire and need a third party to enforce the peace. I am not saying that it isn't as dangerous to some men and women on the ground as war is. The reality is being a peacekeeping force isn't a sign of military might. Hell Cuba did much more for the course of Southern African independence from white minority rule than Nigeria did. So if you want to look up to them be my guest, I just find it hard to reconcile some South African's respect for Nigerians and the murder of them in xenophobic pogroms in South Africa. Can't have it both ways people.

If these yeye leaders knew that a lot of white people, not just racists, view africa, as a whole, prime target for reconquest then perhaps they would see the need to actually build up a self sufficient country. Just look at Guinea Bissau in 2004, Thatcher's idiot son and a couple of white south African mercenaries and their black dogs of war during apartheid plotted a coup to overthrow the country. Yes, but then again it is all RUBBISH, right.

Man it feels good to know that Nigeria isn't the only country practicing selection. Wow, even amongst candidates stacked for the supreme ayatollah in an election that doesn't throw up much surprises they still managed to rig the results to such a massive level that you'd have to commend them for the brass balls needed to undertake such injustice. Mousavi will still ultimately answer to the Ayatollah and its not like he is a liberal either, he just wants Iran to focus internally on itself. Seriously this is amazing,why rig a showpiece election when the outcome wouldn't affect the ruling class by much?

I know that the answer is no judging by what is happening in Southern Africa, but it just makes me wonder why are our leaders so petty? As I type there are Rhodesians, Namibians, South African whites fantasizing about taking Southern Africa back into the hands of white minority rule and glad handing over every piece of negative development to come out of that region. West Africa is for the most part lucky enough not to have to deal with these vampiric jackals. But if you want to tackle racism and equality there needs to be some Black first world country with some motherfucking clout.

Outstrip and her ilk's lack of common sense here is absolutely stunning.  If Nigeria truly has free and fair elections they would be electing leaders that don't need to be taught in a foreign land for a job that they campaigned for, no matter how inexperienced they are.

'in Nigeria, once you are elected a governor and sworn in, you are on your own,

I don't care how highly educated some Nigerians are, the fact of the matter is that the literacy rate in that country is appalling. Unless it is over 90 % of the population Nigeria cannot, in all honesty, be called anything but a failure when it comes to literacy. You want first hand experience that don't represent a cross section of society? Fine, I will give you one. When last I was back in that country I encountered a young boy of about 10 that cannot read or write, he wasn't schooling  nor was any adult interested in schooling him. But you know what? This course at Harvard is just plain stupid and in all honesty looks like a money laundering exercise. Anyone blind to see that is hopeless, and further investigation by the saharareporter confirms that. Seriously how hard is it to figure out how to stimulate your state's economy with a national endowment coming to you monthly in the form of 30 million dollars or there about as part of the remittances from oil. No specially designed course in Harvard will teach you to invest in education, strengthen local industry through subsidies, and attract businesses small and large to the state if you are already devoid of the common sense to see it upon assuming power. You live in the states, most governors, mayors, and council people run on a platform of what they want to do for their state, town/city, and municipality and not on sloganeering and vote rigging alone. In a fair democracy the electoral process will weed out those leaders with a vision from those power and money thirsty idiots.

You mean like Sanusi Lamido saying that Igbos deserved the pogrom of the 60s because they laughed at Northern traders during the first coup?

That is a brazen act of financial malfeasance