₦airaland Forum

SeverusSnape:
Hey, Please tell me this is a joke, Neo-Nazis in Nigeria... And you want to eliminate Igbos... Wonderful!... Regale me, tell me more.

Nein, herr snape. Our plans will not be detailed to saboteurs.

SeverusSnape:
Whatever, I'm more interested on your moniker now, Are you a Nazi?...Are you a member of the defunct Schutzstaffel?

Defunct? You rejected death eater!

The SS is very much alive and active. We are the Neo Nazis out to annihilate the resident Juden hund from the East of nigeria.

Im a Gruppenfuhrer in the LSSAH.

Hoch der fuhrer!

SeverusSnape:
I'm not surprised the person asking for reduction of cut-off mark is from that part of the country. Most of them are products of Quota system, Including Buhari.

It's a pity.

You know, im from THAT part of the country but i couldnt suppress a laugh.

However to be honest, exams failures are pandemic. And if the north is illiterate and apathetic to schools, as you always insist, one can then safely conclude that the vast majority of failures are from the OTHER part of the country.

MKO4ever:
How come this guy come resemble Orubebe naa

All bushmen look alike.

Ikengawo:
GEJ have built multiple new airports, port projects are in the works, federal roads repaired, trains back, etc etc. It's no longer fair to keep saying he was 'consuming' or not doing anything. The campaign season is over and it's time for sober reflection. Unless you believe that Nigeria hasn't added multiple new infrastructural works in the past few years.

Take the quantum of funds sourced from crude sales, IGR (Customs, FIRS etc), and borrowings over 6 years.

Now compare those trillions with the federal projects. Do they tally? Of course not!

Thats because the bulk of our earnings were channeled towards a self destructive consumption mentality.

No industry was revived, no new ones established. Certainly changing airport furniture and giving the terminal a new lick of paint does not equal to "transforming" the aviation industry.

So yes, GEJ spent a few billions on a few questionable projects. But the bulk of the earnings and borrowings were both pilfered and wasted.

Seems like we have the fattest cops in the world.

Ikengawo:
90% of the people that read this article don't know that even to start a small business a man needs to go into debt.

True. But what if instead one borrows not to start a business but to purchase a new phone, eat shrimps, and spend the rest on booze?

That's what the government did: borrowed to finance consumption.

There isnt a single organization in nigeria where there isnt corruption and theft.

Where there's no money to steal, office supplies and furniture are carted away.

Ive seen a local government chairman roll up the sitting room carpet at the end of his tenure. True story.

Feranmicharles:
Gloria and the other girl

That's not a girl. That's a woman.

Sie ist eine Frau

omenka:
Cant find the post where I said this, but I did say the only hope of a comeback for PDP is a merger and a change of name.

Sometimes I think myself a political prophet, or perhaps, politically, Nigeria is very predictable.

Or maybe this is just one of those senses that are abundantly common.

Nigeria is not a secular state.

Even if we're, nigeria cannot claim to be more secular than the US.

Well, Obama was sworn in with a bible. Two bibles, actually.

Swearing-in is taking an oath to abide by the constitution. You cant swear TO the constitution WITH the constitution.

Definition of oath:

"a solemn appeal to a deity, or to some revered person or thing, to witness one's determination to speak the truth, to keep a promise, etc."

Whynotthetruth:
Yes...South has ruled but like the original post stated, Obj was more of an offshoot of the oligarchs... if you know how they have to set aside all rules to get him to become the flag bearer as against Ekwueme who would have won in that Joe convention... Obj was part of them and cares less about masses insofar he's need and order are met...

That obj is a stooge of the north is just blind conjecture, unsupported by any known facts. Obj was an independent one man wrecking ball who cowered the north and rode roughshod over everyone. He was so anti north that a band of northern governors came together and implored Atiku to contest against OBJ in the interest of the north, hence the rather famous "OBJ kneeling to beg Atiku" legend circa 2003.

Also let me address a poignant issue: the idea of "northern oligarchs" is a myth.

The elites of the north post-military rule are individualistic and self-centered. Their allegiance is neither to the north nor to nigeria, being culturally unbound from any semblance of communal loyalty.

Despite the paranoia endemic in the south about a politically monolithic north, no doubt propagated by xenophobes, the north remains a patchwork of selfish interests by the elite, and religious convictions by the masses. This disconnect allowed the northern elite to stand by GEJ, in spite of the overwhelming disenchantment in the north of the GEJ government (spawned by his handling of boki haram, mostly)

No one in the north has the authority nor the recognition to shape public empathy and political leanings, not the IBBs, the Atikus, the Abubakars, the emirs, the governors. They represent an abhorent patron system that serves only their own pocket.

You might say buhari is influential, and I'd agree. But then his popularity began in 2011 when boko haram was just starting its bloody campaign. In 2003 and 2007, no one really cared much for buhari.

harbdulrasaq88:
It's the lunacy of the English language.

A retired teacher of English once wrote: 'English is a crazy language.

There is no egg in eggplants, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore it's paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing; grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?

If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, two geese. So one moose, two meese?.Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? . If teachers taught, why don't preachers praught?

If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane .You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all.


http://www.edificationinfo.com/2015/05/the-lunacy-of-english-language.html

Why do fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing?

How can a girl be both cool and hot at the same time?

Why is it cargo by ship, but shipping by car?

Doeant expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?

Whynotthetruth:
Any close observer of the polity post-election would have seen more the actual reason for "get Jonathan out of the way election". From the comments of Mohammed, Shamshudeen to that of Sen. Dansadau etc and people will still come here to tell me about how Jonathan was voted out due to non-performance. Since when did we become so averse to non-performing leaders of which Jonathan doesn't fit the list. Some lords felt that Jonathan was fast making them to lose relevance hence they needed to reinvent themselves politically coupled with oil block licencing cum population census of 2016. To this a powerful propaganda machinery was needed to brainwash the smart by half majority. It's a truism that outside Jonathan, most of these men has been part of Nigeria misrule since 1978 till date. A journey through our history shows a country held hostage by its own and forced to be moving in circles. Why can't there be new leaders? Why can't we have true fiscal federalism? Why can't we regionalize this country? Why is the burden of ONE Nigeria always on the South?

Nzeogwu & co believed due to post election crisis in SW, that they can rescue ONE Nigeria, but they plunged the eastern part into paying 'debts' unending.

Ironsi believed in ONE Nigeria, and his blood was used to wash the streets.

Isaac Boro screamed and cried for same injustice but was muscled out.

Saro Wiwa came to the stage but his blood was used to entertain the oligarchs.

Ojukwu decided to challenge the anomaly engendered by barefaced rape of our sanctity to life and association but was confronted with more blood on our streets and made a fugitive in his supposed fatherland.

Yes, subsequently Easterners were subjected to the background after the gift of 20pounds as punishment for "no victor; no vanquished". Some of their people were used as baits to whittle down the genuine demands and general wellbeing of majority by giving them crumbs called political appointments. While NigerDeltans were brainwashed through series of well oiled propaganda to see the Igbos as their enemies and root cause of their problem. While the alien term SS came into being to copiously highlight the divide always.

SouthWest were made heroes of their fellow southern brothers woes; but unfortunately were eaten by same tiger they fed. Awolowo was stampeded even to death. And Abiola who had national appeal was not allowed to be. Finally, he became a story and a sentence in the past amidst laughter from the lords of Nigeria.

Obasanjo thrived with the hides and shadow of late Shehu Yar'adua(progenitor of the powerful Kaduna mafia). He is a cat with nine lives. He had his bread buttered by the gods but choose to dine with devil and became lord of demons. Blood of the innocents especially from the creeks cries around him for vengeance.

And now, came Jonathan not an Igbo but from a background feeling the pangs of pain and marginalization like Igbo. He gave so much to pacify these internal colonialists and oligarchs at the expense of developing his region but was rejected, framed as corrupt notwithstanding the reputable; "Transparency International" verdict vindicating him. He was humiliated out of office. We all know our position back in the years.

In all, Jonathan didn't just lose. We lost too. It may not be easy to see any Southerner rise to that post in the near future without some radical breakthrough. Forget
the noise and empty rhetorics of people like Rochas Okorocha and co. Boys talk; men act.

The North by the smart machinery instituted by Prof. Attahiru Jega would always determine and decide who rules Nigeria notwithstanding the voting pattern down South. Irrespective of South's discontent with government in power; unless North decide otherwise the government MUST persist.

What slavery is more than this?...Read the dailies and cry for the future because these people we term "aabookiii" ruled all my ancestry, my grandfather, my father and now myself, with the country bastardized and in shambles. When will it all end with all the sycophants, and many smart by half people down South?

Is it too much to ask if Nigeria is reduced to regions with a weak central government?

The cries and shrills of Elder Godsday Orubebe in that INEC hall echoes in my heart...

Nigeria is geopolitically divided as it fits the narrative of the moment. Sometimes there's just north vs south, sometimes its north, south, and east, and so on.

The military dictators of whom you gripe about have only 3 from the socalled core north. The rest were from the north central (or middle belt, when convenient).

Our political history has always laid the failures of political leadership on the heads of the military rulers, so when democracy came about in 1999 we thought that finally we've got the chance to make things right.

Its 2015 now, and we've been running a democracy for16 years. In those 16 years, the south has ruled for 14years.

14 years is more than enough time to put so many things right.

So the failure of this democracy, these wasted 14 years, these endless series of social, economic, and political problems are rooted in southern misrule.

The perennial whipping boy, the "aboki", should not be held responsible for your perceived woes.

Its now up to you to convince us how GEJ was a blessing to the south (or ss/se, as is the trend now) beyond the morsels of federal appointments you find so insulting.

Taylor86:
What's the essence of the curfew. are dey new to the killings



after all what has dey been killing


same bornu dat delivered 1 million plus votes


atink de population is too much


let d massacre continue

You're pro-GEJ, now you see why we voted him out.

Pdp = BH

vheMa:
Are we still using the computer of stone age

In a way, yes. The fundamentals of computing remain unchanged over the millenniums: arithmetic & logic.

vheMa:
Iphone made Iphone6

Im sure iphones didn't make themselves. If im not mistaken, a certain company with a bitten McIntosh apple logo made the iphone.

vheMa:
[size=15]will you pls shut it And what do you think would have happened to nigeria if Jonathan didn't conceded defeat[/size]

What would happen? Oh that's easy. the gbagbo treatment would happened.

kastonkastrol:
smh.

They mofos didn't trek to protest over the erratic power the country is facing

They mofos didn't trek to show their grievances over the fuel crisis we are having.

They fools didn't even trek to protest over the killings and bombings of boko haram

The ediots didn't trek to protest against the frequent kidnappings that are happening in some parts of Nigeria


The ediots didn't trek to protest against corruption that is killing the country slowly.


And yet some silly nigerians are celebrating these shameless clowns. Anyway they always say; welcome to Nigeria, where _stupidity and mediocrity are celebrated.

They're not even trekking for the guy who won, they're trekking for the guy who lost.

Taylor86:
lemme tell us somtin

GEJ ddnt lose because of any superior support (like OBJ)

GEJ failed because of APC hate campaign against him

APC crippled his government with boko haram

under aged almajiris vote

northerners are higher in population


betrayal from d ppl he trusted

so obasanjo has no power or influence to revive PDP

we're coming back by 2019

You're perpetuating an urban legend. GEJ lost because he was voted out.

He was voted out because he failed

He failed because he is clueless.

QED