bandely:
NY Times, get your facts right! Shehu Shagari was the one who ordered immigrants (mostly Ghanaians) out of Nigeria in January 1983, Buhari took over in December 1983, and only ordered ILLEGAL immigrants out.

all4naija:

There you go making no meaningful and emphatic statement that would give your argument the confidence it needs here. I don't know if you have sensibly read it and try to understand the nitty gritty of what you are passing across while only blaming the white people for your country's woe, something caused by you and your government irresponsibility.

The oil scarcity is one of them. It is sad the nation cannot refine its crude oil all due to corrupt process of giving huge subsidy money to marketers all rather petroleum hoarders in the clique of mafia. The writer is even generous with the amount of money the nation expends on maintaining oil subsidy by saying it is in the million of dollars whereas it is in the tune of tens of billion of dollars. Indeed, I am a little perturbed by your rant without giving us the reason to accept you know what you are talking about. In that indication, after reading through your post, I can say you aren't intelligent in all ramifications to deliberate on the matter.

However, the same white people you accused are the ones who keep investing in your economy while the nation is receiving billions of dollars in FDI, although, with robust remittance to the investors. These investments employed the teeming population the government fails to put under control, put to work or embrace a depopulation process. It boost the infrastructural projects and thereby increase the nation income through revenue collection as tax on foreign businesses. I wouldn't be surprised you have no single idea what foreign investments does to any nation of the world. Rather than running your mouth around with pervasive lies, while supporting a wrong notion, you should be doing something to help the nation develop, that you aren't doing than complain and blame others for your country's troubles. What a way to go in your ignorance!

To conclude my post, I would like to quickly say you are a trouble-inciting troll and a blatant rumor monger.

disloman:
Did u read d news at all?must u show how uneducated u r on this forum?U still av a chance to go back n read d news.This tyme,take ur tyme to comprehend what u read.

konjivity:
It's a pity you dissipate so much energy cursing a man who is always happy and smiling. God bless GEJ.

bandely:
NY Times, get your facts right! Shehu Shagari was the one who ordered immigrants (mostly Ghanaians) out of Nigeria in January 1983, Buhari took over in December 1983, and only ordered ILLEGAL immigrants out.

jorlons:
We can't deny what is written on the article. It's a shame we live in mediocrity and what's more shameful is our tendency to always play the victim card when told the truth.

I sincerely pray and hope that in the next 48 months, Nigeria will be in the local and international news for good reasons only.

baby124:


Don't mind them. Very cheeky and patronizing article. No element of sincerity in the article. People fail to read between the lines. Its like, lets see what they can do with such a president with all this history. And then they suggest possible things that could go wrong. They need to leave this country alone for real. There is ISIS and other stuff going on. Hardly any facts in the article. All speculation, badly researched and petty article.

baby124:

you and your mama don chop today? I need not read your epistle according to paul because you obviously don't have a job to write 3 paragraphs in response to my comment. Or is it you that wrote this crazy article. Go for training and stop writing rumours.

SenseiX:
Mr. Jonathan, with his legacy of economic and military disasters, cannot leave soon enough, in the eyes of many Nigerians.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/world/africa/former-strongman-taking-over-presidency-raises-hope-in-nigeria.html

Guyman02:


Sharrap there Olodo! If they dont have our time they will not dedicate so much space writing about Nigeria. This country is too important for their inroads into Africa. Get educated.

all4naija:
This your post is very laughable! Aren't you saying the same thing as the NY Times that Buhari regime expelled immigrants? You are a funny Buhari(former dictator) defender indeed! Jeez!

bandely:

Immigration: Immigration is the movement of people into a country to which they are not native in order to settle there, especially as permanent residents or future citizens.
Illegal immigration: is the migration of people across
national borders in a way that is contrary to the immigration laws of the destination country. In general, an
undocumented immigrant (also called an illegal
immigrant or unauthorized immigrant or other terms) is
a person who enters and remains in a country without a
valid visa or permit from that country, or who has
overstayed the duration of a visa that has been granted, or
whose visa has been cancelled.
Source: Wikipedia.org

Chimamanda Adichie said, the easiest way to disposes a people (story) is to start with secondly. You obviously know that the use of immigrants as against illegal immigrants was damning to the personality of GMB.

all4naija:
It's not demeaning to his personality as a dictator then. Yet most of you would cry foul when Europeans and South Africans repatriate black Africans. Whether they are ILLEGAL immigrants or not he deported immigrants in their thousands during his rootless regime and the author of the article didn't even emphasized on the nature those immigrants were deported because it's irrelevant at that point in time.

bandely:

First, count me out of the "most of you" group. If you don't have a business doing/being an illegal immigrant in a country, you deserve repatriation as the government of the nation deemed fit!
You also mentioned that it wasn't emphasized, but was one of the first description of him in the article. It does tell you something.
Again, Buhari only reminded ILLEGAL immigrants that they are not wanted here, and that is it. If subsequent governments had followed suit, I'm sure the issue of Boko Haram, with Chadian and Nigerien infiltrating our borders, won't be as grevious as it is, if at all it happened.

all4naija:

Whatever! Most-of-you in the sense many Nigerians. Whether you are among them or not is not important to me because I didn't even put you in that position in the first place.

In my post, I said, the author of the article didn't emphasized on the nature the immigrants were deported which is found on this SOURCE below.

http://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/05/world/expelled-foreigners-pouring-out-of-nigeria-by-the-associated-press.html

It clearly explains the cruelty of the then dictator who only was acting on his predecessor's action(a civilian) he deposed on a coup d'etat. It is surprising how you think deportation would have solved the problem of Boko Haram. The fact that the insurgents are mainly Nigerians speaks volumes of your understanding of terrorism. Fighting it is more complicated than merely deporting ILLEGAL immigrants from the country.