It is so appalling that there are people who think like this? What is the relationship between religion and the presidency? Please learn to address the issues that actually matter and can improve the current situation. Learn to ask the right questions? Islamisation of Nigeria is Highly unlikely. Islamisation of the northern Nigeria is fairly likely but at the same time we are living in civilised times (Thank God). We wouldn't want a repeat of hitler in nigeria now, would we? The more they push for islamisation, they create valid reasons for UN or international bodies to be involved and that would only result in them being wiped off effectively.

This is a fight for the rights of nations and not the institution of beliefs. If we have to fight we will but Nigeria will never be islamised. WHY? Because Nigeria was not built on the foundations of religious beliefs but on the blood of brave men who fought for an independent republic and the freedom of the people. The fight the fathers of the country died for. They can have the North and their people (bordered after benue) and leave Nigerians in peace please.

"The rights to fundamental human right is of outmost importance. The people of a nation should with the freedom of rights, only be answerable to the constitutional laws and not that of a single idea or single entity. Any threat to international prosperity and world peace should be swiftly and effectively eliminated".

None.

may pdpd die and die over and over again.

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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and some elders of the Peoples Democratic Party met with factional leaders of the party and some aggrieved governors yesterday in Abuja.
They also met with the some pro-Jonathan governors at the meeting, the meeting held at a five star hotel in Abuja.
Those at the meeting include former president Olusegun Obasanjo, former military dictator, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (retd.); former chairmen of the party, Ahmed Ali and Sen. Barnabas Gemade respectively and chairman Board of Trustees of the party, Chief Tony Anenih. State governors present include, Gov. Aliyu Wamakko(Sokoto), Gov. Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers) and others.
At the end of the meeting, Obasanjo spoke with reporters, claiming that he and members of his group were trying to save the party.
At a brief press press conference, Obasanjo had these to say:
"Gentlemen of the press, I thank you for exercising patience. Let me point out, you have seen five of us as select elders of the party. We have taken it upon ourselves to prevent the worst from happening to our dear party.
Two of our members are abroad and could not join us today.
"They are Solomon Lar and Alex Ekwueme and we are carrying them along.
"Regardless of the reports your are hearing, it is suffice to say that family dispute within the PDP, which we want to stem the tide of going to the brink. And I want to say that we have met with the two side of the family, we have listened to them. Source sahara reporters

pdp must die weather u guys like it or not. it shall collapse.infact it god that is killing all of u in pdp.

pdp is a dead party. accept it.

what is this now? Buhari's campaign? please go and make fliers and posters.

we never had free and fair elections.

please obasanjo should die naaa!!!!!1 ahn ahn. since i was born i have been hearing his name.

All this politicians and supposed dictators, This how God has planned their downfall, they will use their own hands to kill their selves.

Sorry to say this but nigerians youths are brainless. We are an uneducated bunch. Am so sorry to say, but the the level of education is so low that we dont even know the right questions to ask. To begin with your post does not even motivate anyone to do anything becoz you have nit said anything. What do you need 36 pple for? to fight for nigeria. What are we fighting for? And let us imagine we attain what we are fighting for what vision do you have for the change you are requesting. You think it is by gathering people and telling them you want to challange our leaders. What do you want?

Akshow: I want to believe we are all entitled to our opinion. What he did was air his opinion which u don't have too accept. Whining like a sour widow over an intelligent analysis of d obvious makes u d fuuuuulll at what ever age u are. Cos aside being condescending, I dint see any intelligent argument u offered. @topic, this is d beginning of d end of pdp in Nigeria. It shows God is not sleeping and he is indeed hearing d prayers of d masses over a wasteful govt since 1999. A change of scene is what we need. If woman never try two husband she no go know d one wey sweet pass. Let's give anoda party a chance n see. We need to stop dis pdp is unbeatable and invincible shait.

This is an internet forum where evryone invovled visits. you are entitled to LOGICAL opinions.

I want to join your course, but What exactly are you fighting for?
Have you identified what the country's problem really are?
If you are before a panel and you are asked what you want, what do you say?

He cant be a sincere individual and be a politician at the same time. That is an impossibility. He can only be one.

so do we stand by and watch

It is the 21st century, the age industry, education and technology. Nigeria, is an African country, who was set free in 1960. Allegedly to be 53 years old in October. For 53 years we have been at war. With ourselves, our leaders and even the average Nigerian fights a war everyday to meet the basic necessities of life. We have failed in all aspects to meet with the current modern standard of a developed nation that is industrially, intellectually and technologically stable. Why?
Firstly, We lack an enlightened population. True poverty is of the mind. Most Nigerians cannot define their goals besides making profit and getting money. This is why we do not get rich. Because we find ourselves in the continuos loop of doing something, getting money, using the money and looking for the next thing to do. People hardly think of moving the society forward. Seeing a bigger picture for the country. Instead of moving the nation forward we are concerned wit personal profits and gains. We no longer know the right questions to ask the men who lead the nation. We now see proper allocation of resources and wealth as a basis for gaining election votes. We think that zoning our electoral positions and government offices is the best way to rule, as opposed to who can actually do what is required of that position. We see presidential elections as a religious campaign rather than a campaign for forward moving society. Nnamdi Azikiwe and all those who actually fought and bleed for our independence would turn and still bleed in their graves till this day.
The Nigerian youth does not have the facilities for a modern education, and therefore is unable to identify what is really important. We do not even know what it is for a president to have fulfilled the set out political agenda before being re-elected. Our futures is being destroyed right in front of our eyes and we sit by and watch. The green passport is therefore not only a source of embarrassment to individuals but a signal for caution internationally. Going to Ghana, Malaysia or even kenya is now considered a privilege.
These men have destroyed and sank the nation and I do not know if we can get any lower than this. They have only one agenda and one only. TO MILK THIS COUNTRY FOR ALL ITS GOT!!! A senator for 16 years(which is illogical in the first place), builds a golf course in Europe, a shopping mall worth over billions of Naira and flies a private jet that does not belong to his appointed office but to him. One man has net worth of 5.5 trillion naira (competing with the federal budget). Another with a world class hospital in London, just to name a few. The children of these men no longer hold a nigerian passport. They are citizens of other countries where people bleed, died and sacrificed to developed. Would it have been so painful to them to have just constructed a working educational, health, power, transportation, housing sector for the nigerian people before setting out on the quest for money? If this one man used a minor sum to create something tangible every year he was he office, we would have had 16 tangible things of note in Nigeria right now.
We keep fighting and challenging ourselves, Jonathan VS Buhari, or North VS South etc. This is not our problem. The bitter truth is whoever wins the 2015 election is just a figure. What happens or what comes out of the person at the end his tenure would be exactly the same thing that we have had over the years. A USELESS AND DISAPPOINTING LEADER. It is a question of what human being decides to carry out the uselessness. So what we are actually voting for, is who destroys the country next?
We need to start thinking big!!! If we want something done we need to seek and find out who can do this. Be it a muslim/Christian/Buddhist/pagan/westerner/southerner/Easterner/northerner. We need to start educating ourselves in whatever way we can to ask the big questions. Jonathan constructing roads for example is a good thing and a contribution to the economy. But, it doesn't change the fact that he has been at that position for more than 8 years and has nothing tangible to offer us at the end of his tenure.
Personally, I dont want anyone to be on that sit in 2015. We need to put a stop to these vultures that just rotate the nigerian presidency for their personal means. None of them should sit there. They can retire. Am am really sure they are all passed retirement age to begin with. Nigerians need time to reminisce and think of the next step at this point. We need a new generation of leaders that meet the standards of the modern world today. They had their time, they had their opportunity and it was a completely useless and wasteful period in the history the nation. We need to start writing our own history. The history of this generation. This time. NOW. We need to start taking action. It might not be an immediate action. It might take years to actualise but as long we get there one day. We are building a home for our future generations to come, so they dont have to seek refuge in other countries.
Its just really sad. But like i said, Just thinking aloud.

am 23 years old and i have been hearing this gist for 24 years now(from my mother's womb). mstweeeeeeeeeeeeee. something new please

it is good let us break up. everybody should go their own way and fight for their own country. Hausa kill urselves in ur new country, south do what u want with ur oil east pirate and duplicate more, west do wateva it is u do best!!!!!!!! everybody be on your own. nobody will have any claims to anyones issues or resources again. just be on your own

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Exactly. . .this must be a product of 41 days dry fasting so i guess nobody should consider this false prophet.that was exactly the same thing they said about yaradua;that he wont spend up to six months as president yet the man spent more than two years even when most of us knew that he was critically sick and may not survive it.primate ko,homo sapien ni

dont bother getting skinny for nothing. it will break up

gibsonpally:

Your level is also low! Ishaq Akintola the spokesman for Islamic Organisation is hardly a northerner! Take out tribal bigotry in your comments and we will have a better Nigeria

Ok oo if u say so. But please educated one, can you please educate me on the group of people in Nigeria that usually marry their children of at a young age? Please. I dont really know.

jidestar:

Don't let anybody use islam to decieve u like that peadophile Asari Dokubo. Islam does not mandate child marriage or a husband taking fur wifes.

So wen we go do our wedding babyosisi? I have already start correcting shit with ur brothers in preparation. No worry i go take money blind both ur parents.

But it is u guys that marry ur daughters off at 10yrs old. And keep them caged. You guys need to allow them some space. Give hem a chance to make their own choices and mistakes.

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You know wat they mean, Stop being sarcastic. .

From what this minister is saying, it is obvious he has a low level of education, or non at all or he is not enlightened at all. This is y we say the north should go to school. They will not hear.Instead of them to send their children to school and end their era of illiteracy, they are bombing everybody and marrying their 2 years old daughters off to old men with no waist again passing down the illiteracy from generations to generations. Now that he is old and she is young, so when she is getting old, what will he be doing? Wheelchair?

I dont seem to understand what is going on here. I thought we were in 2013!!! The 21st century. who does this? When you are meant to be striving to give your daughter the best education u can possibly give, groom her to become a cautious woman of virtue that when she is 35 & married she would still be the envy of all men. Marry? to senator? Nwa oo. These are the things that prevent Nigeria from moving into the era of industrialisation. If you guys dont know, this contributes to underdevelopment.

They dont even need too much to wipe africa off the face of the earth. Infact we would be an obstacle for the real countries to fight. They wont waste their resources. Maybe just throw 1 Big bomb that will just wipe us off. That is even too expensive and too much work, THey will use toxic gas. Clean, Simple and effective. Then d real war will start among the real countries.

even if its 16 hours per week, it that supposed to be. Instead of him to hide his face. What is 'enjoy' doing in the sentence?

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wow. such an insightful post. But permit me to ask you these questions , Were we ever developed before? Did we have all these things 3 years ago before GEJ came into power? Seems the only thing GEJ has done is to go around destroying all the massive infrastructures we had? You just exhibited the highest level of cluelessness by posting such.

Unlike other people who would insult and abandon you, i will try to teach you some things about development especially in Nigeria . Before GEJ came into power our income was 90% dependant on oil, today it's reduced to about 65%. Yea that sounds Greek to you, what it means is that another sector of the economy has been revamped to help contribute to our income. Our agricultural exports have increased and the Govt is moving in to fill the next stage of the agricultural revolution which is building agro-allied industries so these agric produces could be processed in Nigeria and the refined products exported. Proof of this is the over 13 rice mills in the north, Dangote's tomato processing plant in Kano , the Chinese cassava processing mills.

All these would be run by human beings hence generate employment thereby creating wealth. However the government can't guarantee everyone Will be employed because either they don't have required skills or they aren't available for employment because they spend all day on Nairaland scooping negative news about their government .

You still dont get the point. Yes we agree that agric exports have increased and a lesser percentage of the economy in dependent on oil now. Yes we agree to that. But the real problem is the that the annual overall GDP is still falling and not increasing. THAT IS THE PROBLEM!!! Bcoz the returns from the agric exports is not in our cash flow, they are in dangote's pocket. So the republic has no claim on the real returns from these exports. The only thing we have is the tarriffs and quota that dangote pays for xporting which can be seen as negligible.
Secondly, the sectors of the economy that are no more dependent on oil, what r they now dependent on? Foreign bodies? That is not reducing dependency on oil. It is just reducing direct dependency on oil. bcoz it is still revenues from oil that will pay these forign bodies in the end, it will just take another route on annual monetary diagram.

boneruns:

I don't need to start listing achievements done by the present administration because a little research would have done so.

But if you travel along Ore-Benin expressway, you'll know what I'm talking about. Previous governments totally neglected that road.

Electricity have improved in so many areas. Roads are getting better. Economy is getting a little bit better.

If previous government did a little of what the present administration have done, we won't be feeling it so bad.

i am really ashamed of you. I cannot bliv dat at ur age u r still falling for this 'pdp,s working hard before election' strategy. smh. we have seen all these b4. wat has he been doing since he has been in power since d death of yaradua? its now dat elections is in 2015 he is decieving us with his false works dat is only putting us in more economic debts and increasing taxes. paying pple like u to come and disturb us in nairaland wit GEJ campaign. mstweeee. pls we are not interested in his works. he can keep it.

does this post still exist? minister of education? I taught dat sector was dead.

PapaBrowne: Interesting thing about this post is that for a large majority of the things posted, Jonathan has pictures all over the internet to prove his wort. Whether its roads, airports, power stations, universities or the world acclaimed Agricultural transformation, the articles and pictures are scattered everywhere here on Nairaland.

The big question would be. What were all the the previous leaders that ruled this doing that all these works were left undone.

What jonathan should be doing is making our refineries work again, invest in getting foreign companies to train, develop & correct our electrical staff so we can do these tins ourselves, Get nigs in agric sector taught ow to use machines and produce for ourselves, creating a different training programs in different sectors for NIGERIAN citizens by foreigners for a while so dat after somtime they can leave and we can continue ourselves, Instead of employing isreall company to handle IT, get them to improve and provide hardware for the sector & train interested youths to handle it across the nation, after a year or two dey leave. That way it is sustainable an in house. The problem is not that we cant get these things we can. the problem is getting them affordably and consistently. The tax on these goods wont be govt taxes anymore. what he is doin is not helpin bcoz at d end of the day having a generator mit be cheaper than using actual light if arik bought one of the power states. so what is d diference in quality of life b4 7 after?

PapaBrowne: Interesting thing about this post is that for a large majority of the things posted, Jonathan has pictures all over the internet to prove his wort. Whether its roads, airports, power stations, universities or the world acclaimed Agricultural transformation, the articles and pictures are scattered everywhere here on Nairaland.

The big question would be. What were all the the previous leaders that ruled this doing that all these works were left undone.

All those pics u see, those tins are not provided by Nigerian based companies and that is what is importan. MY GOD!!! are nigerians reli dis daft? Meaning 1) we are going to pay extra per unit cost of manufacturing/factors of production, 2) whatever you pay for provision of all those services u see online is not coming bak to the nigerian economy, it goes to foreign pockets and private citizens who own the company. When they say America & UK are fully developed countries, dey dont mean that they have roads or houses or light, it means dat they are sustainable enough to provide all these things for themselves and make available & affordable to their citizens ensuring that it is sustainable and consistent for ages to come. Economic development is ability of a nation to provide basic amenities to his citizens. not ability of a nation to employ foreign citizens to provide basic amenities to its citizens.
As long as we are not producing these tins ourselves, we are not developing. we are worse off. pls be wise. I can blive dat at ur age u would still ne deciecved by this pdp's 'working hard before elections' strategy. i tot all nigerians should be wiser by now. We are reli a low educated bunch.