can anybody help me with a job , im did mechanical enginnering at abia state university. as far as i concern, success is if they can share money for us before obasanjo leaves goverment.
Musa pls you be hausa , do you have connections i want to working for shell.

jt does that mean john thomas?
dipo, nna my guy, dis ya website izit oh

this is peter representing aba local government
does anyboy have information on latest in about mossob (biafra)
or niger delta frontier force i want to join

Angela nne kedu?

j be like say you right oh my papa na olopa and him dey bring home a lot of checkpoint money and seized goods

yomi and dipo . point of correction ego na money no be pride lol

Ranka-de-de «J» sir,

I must say that J is right the word «Office» is meant for officers weather it is used in the context «public office» or «meet me at the office»

J sir are you an int. operator, what unit are you with?

request permission to see you in camera sir my email is ango40ndaregular@yahoo.com
Ahua!!!

Wow MR Yomi,

You actually took your time to pick on my points again.

It's my prayer that God opens your eyes to see what I see because I doubt if explanations can help.

But I am interested in letting you understand me better by analysing your comment which says

«Your articles suggest that you are a money-driven, fame-driven, and ego-driven person. Years ago, no right thinking person would make a statement like “I would rather be successful than be right” in public. But the onslaught of post-modernism has reduced everything to relativism. I choose to be right first, AND successful. Say what you will.»

1) Money Driven: Well, to tell you the truth I dont understand your definition of money-driven but if money-driven means capitalism then I will say Yes, I am money-driven. I believe in capitalism to the core and I view it as the only solution to human issues. My foundation stems from the bible where Jesus talked about the Kingdom of God as a man leaving talents to his servants.

2) Fame-driven: If the fame is going to lead to greater influence; then I will say I am fame-driven. If I can influence people to God's cause through fame; I am all for it. I will definitely put my light on the candle stand not under the bushel. So, you are right by saying I am fame driven.

3) Ego-driven: The synonyms for Ego is self-esteem, self-worth, opinion of yourself, personality, character. You are correct once again; I am ego-driven but if your definition of ego means I am better than others, then I am very sorry, MR Yomi, this is definitely not me.

I am what you call me under the context that I put it.

I am very sorry that I dont agree with you that being right is absolute; it is defintely relative thus my submission that I would rather be successful than right.

I am really sorry......

In your same dictionary «Law» is also known as «Ordinance». There is an ordinance corps in the army that specialises in storage and deployment of mines and ammunition. Viz a viz «Law» also means «Ammunition» or a «fighting tool»

Members of the armed forces are above the common/constitutional law in any land because they have thier own law, known as martial law (order) and they can only be tried by a general court martial headed by a general or equivalent for the entire length of thier life irrespective of if the crime commited was a civil crime!

this constitutional law can be suspended in a state of emergency and martial law established.

Since the history of mankind war/conflict has been continous or will you tell me that there were no fights in your primary/secondary school , or you do not argue even in your family? if that is the case then believe it or not that is a war! usually this conflict is over resources, rights, control/power, territory, even dogs and other animals fight over territory and access to resources such as a rivers.

There are checks and balances in the military even more than in a civilian democracy i.e the armor/ artillery corps cannot fire any guns, rockets without them being issued by the ordinance corps. military police can arrest any other corps, but even military police can be arrested by intelligence corps. corps are not allowed to use machine guns, rifles except infantry.

why is it that people like enahoro and shoyinka have not run for president ill tell you why its because they know book but they cant practice it, simply because they dont have the resources and they know what they have seen abroad is not the same as whats written in the books wey oyibo (white man) dey publish give you.

Even Ernest Shonekan is an honorary Knight (soldier/officer) of the british empire (KBE)

The best thing is form an alliance let one of your siblings try and join one of the selfless service armed forces even if its police and then another person can continue in selfish service (civilain) that way you will have a link with the people in government, and stop criticizing them because if you have the power they have you will do the same, even worse!

Right or Successful?

I will assume that majority of the bloggers on here are civilians pursuing money and personal interest. On the other hand there are some that are pursuing national and public interest and are willing to sacrifice their life down for their country, infact even jesus christ sacrificed his life for a cause. Based on this are you successful. For your information there can be order without law, but there can be no law enforced without order! Even courts give orders that people should abide by ie a ruling and the justice says «order in the court» etc
Nigeria is an order not a democracy for your infomation. that is why the highest national awards are OON (officer of the order of the niger), OFR, GCON etc even civilians have been decorated with these awards ie medals

Upon commision an officer of the armed forces takes an oath of political office for life, however civilains do not. so the military was meant to rule over civialians and the country as a whole, thats why there is a rank called «General» which means a generalist(person who specialises in many areas). let me also remind you that the prince of wales / prince phillip of england are admirals and were commisioned from thier respective defence academies. They are also knights of various british orders. =Similarly the first democratically elected president of America was a general in full military uniform ie Gen George Washington (and you thought abacha was crazy and wicked!). Moreover, why would the following Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter, George Bush Snr, John McCain, be retired generals, Lt's, Navy Captians etc These are senators, former governors. Infact in America there is compulsory military service for everyone and George Bush Snr (incumbent) is a retired flight officer (equivalent of 1st lieut.) from the airforce!

Majority of the terms you use in your coporate setting such as company, Chief Executive officer are military terms, even in primary school you had a «class captain» infact businesses are at war with each other ie competing for market and customers and they even spy on each others techniques (i.e business intelligence)

Another point im getting at is that there can be no university of lagos etc without a Nigerian Defence Academy first, but there can be an NDA without a UNILAG.Evidence is that mankind is continiously at conflict ie war. infact even in all religions there is a war between good and evil!

Lord Lugard, Lt Glover etc were british army cornels and navy liutenants respectively that were part of an expeditionary force that came to protect the royal niger company. The word governor came from «governor -general» and the armed forces are the watchdog/ father of the nation and if they dont like whats going on they have the right and responsibility to correct or take over the helm of affairs of the brainchild and mother land. Or in your family is your father not the head of the wife and children?

Also of note is that the english language, like most other languages also consists of punctuation and grammar among other aspects and not just vocabulary!

On a final note demoracy does not exist in reality, it was only a theory that was postulated, and every country in the world is a dictatorship. people who go about seeking this imaginary democracy upon assumption of political office end up exploiting power and money for themselves and are even worse than the original dictators! wisodom (book)is good but with wisdom get undertanding (see the reality)!

......thank God this is dipotepede.org not peterwhite.com!

@Dipo: You wrote: So how do we gauge the truth when we see differently? Will knowing the truth make us successful? Is telling the truth a successful approach?.
Simple. We are not suppossed to see differently on certain immutable issues. Morality. Right. Wrong. Truth. Permit me to ask: Is telling the lie a successful approach? We cannot even make any valid statement or take a valid stand on any issue if truth is not an absolute.

J also said: Aptitude tests even prove this: that different people will argue that their answer is right.
Arguing that your answer is right does NOT mean that it is. Thinking that you are right is NOT the same as being right either. There is right and there is wrong. They are often absolutes. Without that, what results is chaos.

By definition, «right» is whatever is in accordance with what is good, proper, or just. It is what is in conformity with fact, reason, truth, or some standard or principle. It is being correct in judgment, opinion, or action. You can check ANY dictionary for that. How you can attempt to subject «right» to relativism is beyond stupid mortals like me.

jt was right when he said I was being diplomatic, so I will just get to brass tacks here. I thought giving you the benefit of doubt would help. Angela was also right about your write-up being «a dire case of rambling under the guise of making sense». The rest of her analysis of your article was also smack-bang down to the point too.

You said: Picking at my points would not provide the aim of your reading an article which is basically to learn.
I would gladly and humbly learn if you wrote anything worth learning. Your line of reasoning and argument in your post will actually do more to encourage corruption and crookedness than teach anything valuable. I noticed this in several other articles of yours.

You also said: You could be right and also successful but if you are not successful, check what you regard as right.
The issue of right and wrong is fundamental. Sort that out first; then you will be able to accurately define what success is, and won't have any problems being successful.

Again, this came from you: Right is a value as you said but right is very subjective. it is based on perspective which blinds you to other perspective of life.
What hogwash. See the definition of right provided above. Right is NOT subjective. There is right and there is wrong.

Another golden nugget from Dipo: You talk of value in preference to success. Value can be qualified as either good or bad, so which value are you talking about? If you are expecting me to assume it to be good value, then you should assume that my definition of success only points to good success.
With statements like «I would rather be successful than be right» coming from you, I had no reason to assume your definition of success. It is clear your definition of success is based strictly on material and financial terms.

Your articles suggest that you are a money-driven, fame-driven, and ego-driven person. Years ago, no right thinking person would make a statement like «I would rather be successful than be right» in public. But the onslaught of post-modernism has reduced everything to relativism. I choose to be right first, AND successful. Say what you will.

And that silly story about the marbles - what toddler's bed-time book did you extract that from?

@ JT

Thanx for the comments; they were wonderful. Please, kindly furnish us with reason for your conclusions......

HI MR YOMI,

Picking at my points would not provide the aim of your reading an article which is basically to learn. Accusation and counter-accusation would only make my article very more convincing to me.

Let's take an example from your style of correcting me. You pick things from your reference frame which I quite understand, but is not effective in correcting me. You believe you are right on your point but you are very unsuccessful in convincing me. This is the heart of my article, «You believe you are right but you are very unsuccessful»

You could be right and also successful but if you are not successful, check what you regard as right.

You talk of value in preference to success. Value can be qualified as either good or bad, so which value are you talking about? If you are expecting me to assume it to be good value, then you should assume that my definition of success only points to good success.

Right is a value as you said but right is very subjective. it is based on perspective which blinds you to other perspective of life.

hmm...
Interesting piece.
@ J : you are a crook.
@ Dipo : calling you a moron would be an understatement
@ Angela: you go skool. I gbadun u too much.
@ Yomi : you are obviously too diplomatic