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| Posted By: 5Alive Posted On: Jul 23, 2007 Views: 473 | Re: Ofeke why? why? why??? Simple-we are two-faced...Humans(?)by day and demons by night; go to church/mosque on sundays/fridays or even everyday as d case may be then meet with d devil at night on almost a daily basis, leaders being deceived that they will remain permanently in power and all it will cost is the happiness of the pple dey're meant to lead. A lot of pple make up their minds to loot once they have the slightest opportunity to power (even before they get there) and that is the psyche and mindset of the average nigerian. Unfortunately, this attitude is not only among the leaders, its even among the masses. I would want to know why fuel is being sold at the rate of btw N120-N150p/l in the S/S & S/E? Is it d govt who's selling the fuel for them? And these pple will either pay zakkat or tithe (as d case may be) and still be blaming govt. Can u imagine such a person(s) being admitted to power? Ofeke my dear, it's not only the leaders but even the humanbeings themselves. We shd work on ourselves 1st. Its what we have we give out. Even on this forum, u have read all sorts of posts and u can easily decipher the kind of pple we are. Dont give ur head d ache it did not bargain for. U may hardly get answers to ur many WHYS. The responses from Emeka and Amadi simply show we aren't disciplined and until we allow the good in us take over the greedy side of us, ur whys will never end. Cheers. |
| Posted By: Amadi Posted On: Jul 23, 2007 Views: 475 | RE: Why ? Why ? Because we practice tribal politics and not politics of meritocracy. Because we have a military constitution and a unitary totalitarian system with men in agbada . Because we adopt the wrong system, the right for Nigeria is a true federalism. Because we copy blindly.We copied american presidential system wholely, without considering the perculiarity of Nigeria. Because we are antisocial, we live a selfish life and not a social or community life. Because we are deluded, God this, God that, every thing is in Gods hand ---- Because the tribal politics does not give chance for the right people to lead. Because we lost our priority , because of systematized societal decay. Because our government is a legallized mafia institution , you got to be bad or be a blood sucker to be an active member. Because we are not our brothers keepers both at home and abroad. Because we lost moral standard as a result of chronic corrupt goverments from decade to decade ,this has made people to get loose. Because we are not patriotic and nationalistic , however, these come when people benefit from their government. Because the one nigerian notion is a gimmick and not real. Because an African(Nigerian) has lost his self esteem as a human being , he has accepted a defeat. He now believes in anything goes. And above all because we have not had a benevolent dictator who has to fix discipline, patriotism, nationalism and morals in us. Since the british left us, we have had only crooks, ethnic bigots, military goons, and tribal aristocrats as our leaders. |
| Posted By: Emeka Posted On: Jul 23, 2007 Views: 487 | why why why ? Because we have lost the values that nurture and sustain development. Because we value wealth more than education. Because we do not understand that education is the foundation of sustainable growth. Because all the potential professors are selling spare parts and pure water. Because the surviving elements of the teaching world are too hungry and deprived to think, let alone deliver the researches that will create indigenous wealth. Because everybody wants to get 'rich' and becomes millionaires overnight. Because hardworking and forthright people are ridiculed, while criminals are edified. Because we'd rather invest in private jets and empty mansions, rather than in schools and hospitals. Because a few think they can exist as individual islands of affluence, in the midst of poverty. Because we are selfish (could be positive if channeled wisely), greedy, and stupid at the same time. Because we enjoy inflicting pain on our neighbours. Because we live for I, me, and myself. Because we fail to speak the truth CONSISTENTLY. Because we are largely ignorant, but yet arrogant. Because we often think we know when we do not know. Because we are sentimental, we rationalize things from the heart rather than from the head. Because sentiment robs you of the ability to think straight and derive the most efficient results. Because our mentality is very poor and under-developed. Because our priorities are generally misplaced. Good questions, Ofeke. We can go on and on, my people. The healing will start when we have a DEEP understanding of the ailments. |
| Posted By: Dr. Mike Chidubem Posted On: Jul 23, 2007 Views: 472 | re;Why why why why why You want to know why Nigeria is not getting better? Answers: The seat of power called Government in Nigeria have been swamped by evil men and women of bad omen, cult members: ogbonu, eckankar and the rest all to the detriment of nonmembers. The worsth is that the society or should I say, the religious bodies like the Muslims and Christians with their imams and pastors, priests, bishops are all feigning ignorance to this development by not educating/mobilising their members against cultists for the fear of losing their daily grants from these sons of Lucifer already crowned knights and alhajis etc. So long as they remain in power, there's no hope that these blood-sucking of the common-man/nonmembers will stop. ofeke, these politicians are well informed/educated people: they know book/grammar pass even Bill Clinton but one wonders why they cannot do the right thing in office! They're under bondage, knowing what awaits them after life; they 'out-of wickedness, wishes to make a hell of our (nonmembers) lives on earth. Nigeria will begin to develop they very moment a true man of God will takeover the helm of affairs in that country with the setting up of an independent body like the efcc/icpc to flush cult members out of government. This will be more effective than whatever the efcc is doing today. Only then people (politicians or leaders) can freely practice what they learn and know how to do best. |
| Posted By: MBUK, J. E. Posted On: Jul 22, 2007 Views: 470 | Nyame: Im Ready to Forfeit Loot Just forfeit the loot? Even if it was a loan, would it not attract interest? For approving untested drugs, the head of the Chinese regulatory body had to pay with his life. Have we considered the effect of the looting on the people who were subjected to disease, hunger, and all sorts of vices. Some died in road accidents because our roads beacme death traps; some could not give any form of education to their children because near-illiterate public office holders simply destroyed public education for their private universities; the "nigerian king" sold the country to a shameless "richest black person in the world" who was not paying import charges - after edging out competitors in cement, sugar, rice, salt businesses, etc., he charged 419 prices; etc., etc. Few days to go, the king plunged the country into a dippy crisis by increasing the price of petroleum products. In the last eight years, the purposely grounded the our refineries because of the king's son, friends and sycophants who had licences to import and sell at 419 prices in addition to phoney payments as subsidy. Public enterprises were shared among mostly PDP members in the name of privatisation. Nigeria now goes with plate in hand begging for alms from those it is supposed to be richer than. Is returning the loot enough? |
| Posted By: Franky Posted On: Jul 22, 2007 Views: 470 | Why Why Why!!!!!!! My brother, I'm also asking the same questions. But I have come to the personal conclusion that Evil can only beget evil and evil, etc. An evil man called OBJ, through an evil means called April election handed over power to another man who never had any intention or an agenda to becoming a president. Unfortunately, the people in positions to answer these questions are also confused. Otherwise, the trend should have changed by now for better. If Yar'Adua who is an economicist could not remember how to tackle Power problem, and is asking the same confused PHCN men to suggest what is to be done or he will declare "state of emergency" on the power sector. When in my opinion, state of emergency should have been declared on power long before OBJ attacked UDI some year ago. Another question: What happened to the billions recovered from Abacha and co? Now we are trying present looters, What plans do we have to make good use of whatever is recovered from them? Is even difficult to sleep peacefully in white man's country when you know your brothers and sisters are living in pain in a country so rich like nigeria. only God will save us! |
| Posted By: ofeke Posted On: Jul 22, 2007 Views: 476 | Why why why why why I want to know why nigeria in not getting better? why nigeria can not employ ex-footballers to manage our NFA? Doctors to manage our health care system? why is it that nigeria can not cater for its people? why do nigerian leaders loot our treasury? Why are they heartless? why can't we have good road? Functioning electricity? Portable water for all? Why is it that, anything that goes up in Nigeria never comes down? Why do nigerians have to go to abroad in other to make it? Why is it necessary to study abroad while we have schools in nigeria? Why is it that, anyone that occupy any government seat in nigeria always forgat his kinsmen? Why can't they do the job and steal money? what is Anenih doing with N300bn that was meant for Benin/ Ore road construction? Honestly, I want to know why Nigeria leaders are wicked? This is an honest question that I could not answer myself. Could anyone tell me what to do, after living in another man's country for a long time, I want to go home to establish something, but the truth is that, the amenities for that to function is not there. Do I stay back in a white man country and retire there, or come back home where darkness falls in the day? |
| Posted By: Emeka Posted On: Jul 22, 2007 Views: 470 | re:AC NWOSU why you dey vex now? ok, sorry, i meant to write ewu nama. not fair calling you a bushmeat, at least you could still type, even if nonsense. |
| Posted By: AC NWOSU Posted On: Jul 22, 2007 Views: 454 | emeka You called me bush meat? You are a bastard. All I advised is to contribute meaningfully to the forum instead of tearing it apart with stupid articles. Ofeke, english teacher, thank you for the corrections. Its typing error. |
| Posted By: NOCHO Posted On: Jul 22, 2007 Views: 452 | RE: A. C. NWOSU I doubt it if you are truely a newspaper reader. If you are, you will know that , all work and no play makes Jack a very very dull boy. A newspaper does several things some of which include education, information and ENTERTAINMENT. Newspapers have funny cartoons and other sections to engage readers. This balances the seriousness of any other information they are putting across. A balance of everything is the best in all situations. Even Obasanjo who most Nigerians love to hate crack jokes sometime. My brother life is a balance. I do not know the people you are refering to and to be frank, I do not care. But I can comfortably say that everyone contributes something to this forum (no matter how small). It could be in form of a challenge to previously existing thoughts,new insights to current situation or any other thing for that matter. There are a lot of people I respect in this forum, they know themselves. Whenever they send a post (+ve or -ve), people respond, because of how their arguements, comments, questions or whatever are structured. This is a free forum. The Sun that has made is so is not stupid. If it bothers you so much, then I suggest you should not waste your time reading. You can choose to ignore or not read some contributions. It is not compulsory that you read everything. A lot of people have been here for years and they have the right to express themselves in whatever way, so long as they do not intentionally offend anyone in the process. I may be wrong, but I am tempted to believe that this is your first posting. If this is true, then I am tempted further to believe that you want to get noticed. If I am right again, then my brother, you are going about it the wrong way. Your best bet could have been heeding your own advice - posting something that is productive and contributing meaningfully to Nigeria. All the same, you are very welcome to the Forum. |
| Posted By: Emeka Posted On: Jul 22, 2007 Views: 493 | re:AC NWOSU Brilliant idea! Why not promulgate a decree, to ban the free access to the internet!? With immediate alacrity. Fiam. Ewu bushmeat. |
| Posted By: Igbo Man Posted On: Jul 22, 2007 Views: 493 | Biafra Nation Fellow Biafrans: Dim Ojukwu, this past week, made the most direct and (true) statement to the World about Biafra, through the BBC medium, when he declared that our only alternative to Nigeria is a separate existence. Accurate in every sense, this is not a unique statementnot to Dim, since it is the same action-backed statement on which Biafra, led by Dim himself, was founded and realized in 1967. It is not a unique statement to the generality of Biafrans, either, since we have been acting on the principles of such statement starting from 1999 when MASSOB was founded by Ralph Uwazurike: today, we continue to work on Biafra actualization under the banner of MASSOB, which is the manifestation and reality of our deserved separate existence from Nigeria. It is, though, a sobering statement; it is a courageous statement by Dim Ojukwu living in the patently hostile environment called Nigeria as the defeated leader of a people and nation first thoroughly victimized, then conquered in a war of their self-defense, and thereafter treated with disdain and contempt as non-people with no rights, dispossessed of their land and property. It is necessary to point out a historical pattern, especially for the benefit of the relatively young, and for the re-education of those who would try to rewrite history with distortions. In reminding us of this pattern, we also bring out the firm-grounding of Dim Ojukwus declaration on this matter. Biafra was declared in 1967 when we had run out of viable, reasonable and fair options: there was no other alternative. Then, led by Ojukwu himself, there was an agreement called the Aburi Accord which would have saved the then battered and still-dripping-with-Biafran-blood relationship with Nigeria, on mutually sustainable conditions which the leaders of Nigeria agreed to. Gowon, the rebel leader of Nigeria, and his cronies, reneged on that agreement, foreclosing any chance of reconciliation. Prior to that, our people, already once massacred in hundreds of thousands in Northern Nigeria by their erstwhile fellow-citizens-indigenous Northerner Nigerians, had been persuaded to return to the same region as a demonstration and reassurance that they were still welcome Nigerians, that their safety would be guaranteed in every part of Nigeria, that the earlier genocidal action against us was a mere fluke and simply accidental. Thus was set the condition for the second and third waves of bloodletting to be visited on our people in the period of six to nine short months in Northern Nigeria as the Northerners outdid themselves and their previous record in killing peaceful Igbo and other Biafrans living in their region. We tried hard to be Nigerians: we try hard to be Nigerianswe do in fact try extremely hard, but to no avail. Since after the war, no one has tried harder to be Nigerian than Dim Ojukwu himself. He embraced Nigerianism fully and wholeheartedly, much to our chagrin. We have criticized him in the past for this. Along with him, many of our people went overboard trying to be Nigerianabandoning our towns and cities, abandoned our culture and even language, and changing even our names. Many went a step further: they hated anything Igbo or Biafran with an irrational passion and made every effort to deny their Igboness or Biafraness. We developed other places in Nigeria while deliberately starving our own land, singing loud a one-Nigerian mantra that never changed the fact that Nigeria is not interested in usonly in using and humiliating and erasing us as a people. It is this pattern of continuing to try hard to be Nigerians while Nigeria hardly accepts us as even second class citizens, which needed to be pointed out. So, when Dim Ojukwu says that it is time again for Biafra to get out of Nigeria, he is coming from convictions based on firm grounds of fact and common, obvious experience. When Dim Ojukwu says that there is no other alternative to Biafra, he speaks out of the experience of one who has tried so hard to be Nigerian. We criticized him in the past for trying so hard to be one-Nigerian; now, we have to admit that his trying so hard and failing to be accepted by Nigeriathe same experience of other Igbo and Biafrans in Nigeriahas yielded the best evidence for our case for Biafra. When Dim Ojukwu says that there is no alternative to Biafra for us, his experience lends credibility to his statement: he tried otherwise; we tried otherwise; it (one-Nigeria) didnt work for us forty years ago, it hasnt worked for forty years. One Nigeria does not work for us now and will never work for us in the future. There is no alternative to Biafra for our people. There is no alternative for our people other than Biafra. We have always known that. Thats why we work, and will continuing our efforts, to actualize Biafra, until it is accomplished. Obasanjo and Nigeria, and now, YarAdua, are holding Ralph Uwazurike, the leader of MASSOB, Uchenna Madu, the Information Director of MASSOB, other MASSOB officials, and other MASSOB rank-and-file members in Nigerias jails because these our brethren are spear-heading the work of Biafra actualization, and they are doing so using a non-violent agenda. We call for their releaseunconditionally. We have learnt that the non-legitimate YarAduas administration is trying to force our brethren to sign a statement renouncing Biafra and or Biafra actualization as a precondition for their release from Nigerias Gulag. Knowing Ralph Uwazurike and MASSOB, no such statement will be signed. We remind YarAdua of his responsibility to release our MASSOBians unconditionally and without harm; we remind him of the futility of blackmail and forcefully extracting anti-Biafran concessions from our MASSOBians physically and emotionally battered as a result of their imprisonment by Nigeria: we remind YarAdua that every Igbo is BiafraN; Every former Eastern Nigerian is Biafran. Because, Biafra is the only alternative to Nigeria. Dim Ojukwus Renewed call for Biafra through BBC is one of two crucial messages in this past week which have spawned spirits now alive in the geo-sociopolitical space known as Nigeria today. The other messageearlieris by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Abubakar Saad III, who vowed to counter the upsurge of Christian evangelization in Nigeria with the message of Islam [which] shall be heard loud and clear; and called for ...deploy full time Dawah workers in its strategic areas of operation and make maximum use of emerging media technology for this purpose. Of these spirits, one is a benevolent Spirit of Hope and liberation for Biafrans; the other is obviously the same spirit for destruction of Biafra which has always been in invocation ever since the British force-cobbled Nigeria together and handed the key over to the Muslim North. We choose Dim Ojukwus message and the life and hope it brings to us: its Biafra for us! Biafra is our right. It is our place. We will have Biafra. There is no other meaningful alternative. . |
| Posted By: ofeke Posted On: Jul 22, 2007 Views: 489 | RE: ABC Nwosu I did help you to complete your name to ABC Nwosu. Below is what you said.......... JOBLESS PEOPLE By ABC Nwosu, I AM (a) REGULAR READER OF THE SUN PAPER. I HAVE NOTICED THAT A LOT OF THE CONTRIBUTORS ARE JOBLESS, HENCE IRRELEVANT (S) COMMENTS. HAVING FREE ACCESS TO INTERNET DOES (not) MEAN WE SHOULD BE STUPID. BE PRODUCTIVE AND CONTRIBUTE MEANINGFULLY TO THE WELL BEING OF NIGERIA. Well said Mr. ABC Nwosu. Being a regular of this forum I guess is what you mean, is this suppose to mean that you are jobless too? ABC....HAVING FREE ACCESS TO INTERNET DOES (not) MEAN WE SHOULD BE STUPID. Ofeke...Had it been that Nigeria is like every other country that has free access to the computer, you would have seen more jobless graduates who would have contributed to your failed 1999 electoral commission that brought OBJ to power and as an unproductive minister of education during OBJ regime. Is this sound productive and meaningful to you? |
| Posted By: Omo Posted On: Jul 22, 2007 Views: 460 | RE:ODIHEKANDU AGULLAH Be specific . What do you call abuse ? Who are the yahoo boys ? What exactly do you want sunnews poll to do? You feel uncomfortable with the truth in an open forum and want sunnews to introduce password to restrict people from freely saying the truth ? Sunnews is not the only place with open forum, we have it in guardian news and other forums too. So why do you pour your venom here ? |
| Posted By: ODIHEKANDU AGULLAH Posted On: Jul 22, 2007 Views: 455 | AWAKE SUNNEWSONLINE POLL Nigerians should not abuse this medium instead lets use it to enhance peace and maturity of our democracy.precisely those private issues that they need to discuse on phone.i want to advice dailysun that if this abuse continue that they should include a tarrif to this medium so that all these "yahoo boys" will only view it and not contribute. |
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