na 2 day?. . .lol
dudes being sarcastic.  . .its satire. .like the one below
so guys just chill ith the arguements

Are you alright with your mind?

Wrex:

Do you even listen to the BBC?all those countries that the USA invaded, you think they are enjoying, you better go to iraq and ask, , guy,i pity u ooo

Germany is ok, Japan has become the world's second largest economy . . . the rest (like Iraq) are not "enjoying" precisely because they are more interested in killing each other than building a country.

paddy_lo:

na 2 day?. . .lol
dudes being sarcastic.  . .its satire. .like the one below
so guys just chill ith the arguements

surprisingly, folks are all up in arms, they need a life seriously  

Not only japan. Look at West Germany under US control after world war 2 as compared to east Germany which was under russian control. What about South Korea ? The US still maintains a strong military presence in the very prosperous South Korea as compared to the bigger but useless North korea that can make nucler bombs but can't feed itself,

wake up from sleep boy and imagine better things

@poster

i had a dream a retard started a thread and rather than ignore him,all the sane folks out there jumped on his tail and in the process started fighting one another.unfortunately the poster went from simple retardation to having delusions of grandeur and what a classic case of a bipolar manic depressive.  

besides what is pafun    PEESHAUN JOOO .OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODE!!!

I had a dream that America invaded Nigeria and annexed it by force  because it is a terrorist country like Afghanistan etc. 140 milion Nigerians took to the streets jubilant.
We are Americans at last !. No more Green card lottery , no more queueing at embassy. O happy day !
Now we can say things like hey men, motherf+++er , sh+t  etc  and wear I love NY tshirt to office without being accused of imitating Americans. Thank you Jesus

Papa Ajasco and Company manufactured by Wale Adenuga Productions, Nigerian No 1, Say wat, Say wat

Orisirisi. Please remain in your dreams o. Dont bother to wake up.

Again I would like to ask, why is it that people can't quit imposing their own opinion on others without it resorting to insults?

Anyway @op, I thought that was a bit funny   , however, U.S. is not economically and financially stable to take over any country now so that kinda dream won't be coming to pass anytime soon, I bet that's the last thing on Obama's agenda right now. Come to think of it and hypothetically speaking, if the U.S. takes over Nigeria, trust and believe that would be a good development, what we wouldn't want is a hostile takeover, that is if it comes down to that.

@ davidylan
Military presence in Japan is not colonising or taking over a country , Germany and Japan worked hard on their own(infact I believe Hitler's Germany Aided Japan to be what it is today). A typical example is American and British  Presence in Nigeria in the  oil industries for years and yet we still have jobs that are for the so call expertrait. It seems , some  would prefer to live under aparthied. I believe, Nigeria would be like Haiti if taken over.  by the US.
   The Confusion of divide and rule, Class system, Corruption, fake democrasy  left by British is still taking toll on us and should be enough lesson.It is only Nigerians that will have interest in Nigeria well Being. Period

japan and south korea are examples of how american occupation can help.

heck add kuwait to the list. occupation isn't the ideal solution though.

EPOMA:

@ davidylan
Military presence in Japan is not colonising or taking over a country , Germany and Japan worked hard on their own(infact I believe Hitler's Germany Aided Japan to be what it is today). A typical example is American and British  Presence in Nigeria in the  oil industries for years and yet we still have jobs that are for the so call expertrait. It seems , some  would prefer to live under aparthied. I believe, Nigeria would be like Haiti if taken over.  by the US.
   The Confusion of divide and rule, Class system, Corruption, fake democrasy  left by British is still taking toll on us and should be enough lesson.It is only Nigerians that will have interest in Nigeria well Being. Period
   

Would you welcome the US army on Nigerian soil? Enough of these ridiculous statements pls. Many of you need to get a history book first before posting.

We are not a colony of anybody and YET we're just about no better than Haiti.

we are lucky that young man did not suceed in self detonate that bomb he had on him in the detroit bound plane lf he had USA would have maped out the total deployment of special unit forces to nigeria

@ davidylan and @Edoyad

US Interest are reason for Military presence Please

Militarization of Strategic Oil Reserves: Amid Africa's oil boom, U.S. binds ties

Freetown, Sierra Leone -- Potentially major oil strikes announced by an American-led consortium and a British company in West Africa have bolstered the region's reputation as the world's hottest energy zone.

It has also become the focus of the U.S. military's global mission to protect America's energy supplies, a development that critics fear will trigger more trouble than it will prevent.

The Texas-based Anadarko Petroleum Corp. said Wednesday its deepwater Venus 1B well off the coast of Sierra Leone had hit paydirt and formed one of two "bookends" 700 miles apart across two prospective basins that extend into waters controlled by Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana.

These could each contain 150 million to 1 billion barrels of oil, according to Anadarko's CEO Al Walker.

One of Anadarko's consortium partners, Tullow Oil of Britain, which has a vast array of licenses in Africa, recently announced a new potentially important discovery in its Ngassa field in Uganda.

By 2025, the United States is expected to be importing about one-fifth of its oil from West Africa. That makes the region strategically important to the United States.

In the scramble for new oil reserves as the planet's older fields become depleted, the U.S. military has become a predominant force in U.S.-African relations.

Witness the 2008 inauguration of the U.S. military's latest command, Africa Command, or Africom, launched a year earlier in February 2007 by the George W. Bush administration, for whom energy security was of paramount importance.

The Bush team insisted that Africom was intended to promote a humanitarian agenda, strengthen democracy in a continent noted for its tyrants and dictators, and improve economic growth. President Barack Obama's administration endorsed that.

But many African see Africom's mission in more menacing terms: ensuring that the United States gets most of Africa's oil, not China or India, which need it to fuel their burgeoning economies.

"While Obama administration officials insist that U.S. policy toward Africa is not being militarized, the evidence seems to suggest otherwise," says Gerald LeMelle, executive director of Africa Action, a non-governmental organization.

LeMelle and other Africom critics argue that the new command -- which is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany because no African government will give it a home -- will only serve to keep dictators like the widely shunned President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea, who overthrew his uncle in a 1979 military coup, in power.

Obama vowed that he would rid the United States of the "tyranny of oil" by developing alternative sources of energy when he got to the White House in January.

But Michael T. Klare, a U.S. energy specialist and professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College, argues that in the years ahead the United States, as well as Europe, will condemn millions of people to the tyranny of dictators.

The United States, he said, "will remain dependent on oil derived from authoritarian regimes, weak states and nations in the midst of civil war."

That pretty much covers Africa as it is today.

This process of militarizing the energy business, and supporting unsavory regimes, began with the enunciation of the Carter Doctrine by President Jimmy Carter in his State of the Union address on Jan. 23, 1980, soon after the Islamic revolution triumphed in Iran and the Soviets invaded Afghanistan.

This principle, endorsed and even expanded by successive presidents, stated that the United States would use military force against any power that threatened its access to Middle Eastern oil.

That, Klare said in a January 2009 analysis, "led to U.S. involvement in three major wars and now risks further military entanglement in the greater Gulf area."

"The U.S. military has come to serve as a global oil protection service, guarding pipelines, refineries and loading facilities in the Middle East and elsewhere," he said in a 2008 analysis.

According to an estimate by the conservative U.S. National Defense Council Foundation, "The 'protection' of Persian Gulf oil alone costs the U.S. Treasury $138 billion a year -- up from $49 billion just before the invasion of Iraq," Klare says.

Far from protecting U.S. energy supplies, he argues, this doctrine "to protect foreign oil supplies is likely to create anything but 'security.' It can, in fact, trigger violent 'blowback' against the United States. … If anything, this spiral of militarized insecurity is worsening."

EPOMA:

@ davidylan
Military presence in Japan is not colonising or taking over a country , Germany and Japan worked hard on their own(infact I believe Hitler's Germany Aided Japan to be what it is today). A typical example is American and British  Presence in Nigeria in the  oil industries for years and yet we still have jobs that are for the so call expertrait. It seems , some  would prefer to live under aparthied. I believe, Nigeria would be like Haiti if taken over.  by the US.
   The Confusion of divide and rule, Class system, Corruption, fake democrasy  left by British is still taking toll on us and should be enough lesson.It is only Nigerians that will have interest in Nigeria well Being. Period
     

What in the world are u talking abt? Dude, military is strength, control, and when there's military presence, there is some degree of control, maybe not necessarily taking over, but they exercise some degree of control in the host country. Dude, where ever u got that your Hitler and Japan is absolutely wrong, I even did this in one of my economics courses and read western civilization. Why u talking about oil industries and expatriates, if Nigeria doesn't have one, then they don't is same as knowledge outsourcing, it's in all industries even in the U.S. Trust me there sure isn't any difference now between us and Haiti, although we might be a bit better but not much difference.

As usual, when the likes of Epoma can no longer defend their nonsensical viewpoints they resort to copy-pasting the warped opinions of others they dont even understand.

Imagine Epoma saying Nigeria would be no better than Haiti if the US colonized us . . . i wonder if he thinks we are any better than Haiti at the moment.

@Epoma, wats with the article, what point are u trying to pass across because I am trying to figure it all out but for some reason I just don't get it.

David, did you say you are from Ijebu Ode? Today, we the Ijebu people, indeed the yorubas divorce you until you change your mindset! If you have another blood from Nigeria, maybe they can keep you, or maybe not! Aa ji se bi yoruba lanri, yoruba oo nji se bi enikon kon! Any invader of Nigeria will meet greatest resistance from all her bloodlines! Except the hypocrites and we know who they are, always ready to capitulate, and no honors.

A man who wishes another people to invade his home and definitely disstabilise it, as he overthrows his home, can expect that he is less than a full man. How do you wish to be a servant and be enslaved by humans just because you like their lifestyle, yet you can be a slave of your Creator, is actually a proof of how his heart is a lying heart! What shall america and american have that any people would wish that america invade them? Dont you have any shame, human dignity, the spirit of must do for yourself and must struggle to do the best to rise higher?

When america invades you, his men will rape your women, that will include, mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, nieces and cousins and next door neighbors!

The yorubas say ediye bere ko to woo ago e, alara gbe ara e ga. Bi ete osun won, elenu a ponla. Alagbara lomo olokele loju iya e. David, why would you want america to take over the other place that you still have its blood, because the yorubas do not wish it for their worst enemy? We will not want anybody to abuse us and definitely our women are not available for anyone by force!

And those who use the owo osi juwe ile baba e, are those who want others to capture them and enslave them! 1000 years ago, there was no USA. so Nigeria shall rise, InshaAllah and become a country of world eminence! Those of our children born outside Nigeria will not even want their forebearers country to be invaded. Only your type of nigerian americans will, the reason I think the new citizens are always the worst type of citizens! Iwo David, kilo le mue fe nkon buruku be fun ilu awon obie, ibi ti won bie si, to je wipe omi e lo koko mu?

olabowale:

David, did you say you are from Ijebu Ode? Today, we the Ijebu people, indeed the yorubas divorce you until you change your mindset! If you have another blood from Nigeria, maybe they can keep you, or maybe not! Aa ji se bi yoruba lanri, yoruba oo nji se bi enikon kon! Any invader of Nigeria will meet greatest resistance from all her bloodlines! Except the hypocrites and we know who they are, always ready to capitulate, and no honors.

and this was meant to address what?

olabowale:

A man who wishes another people to invade his home and definitely disstabilise it, as he overthrows his home, can expect that he is less than a full man. How do you wish to be a servant and be enslaved by humans just because you like their lifestyle, yet you can be a slave of your Creator, is actually a proof of how his heart is a lying heart! What shall america and american have that any people would wish that america invade them? Dont you have any shame, human dignity, the spirit of must do for yourself and must struggle to do the best to rise higher?

lol is Nigeria stable? Why arent you hypocrite living in Nigeria instead of holing up in NY foaming at the mouth?

olabowale:

When america invades you, his men will despoil your women, that will include, mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, nieces and cousins and next door neighbors!

At least that's much much better than what muslim arabs do to those they invade. Take a look at Lebanon.

olabowale:

And those who use the owo osi juwe ile baba e, are those who want others to capture them and enslave them! 1000 years ago, there was no USA. so Nigeria shall rise, InshaAllah and become a country of world eminence! Those of our children born outside Nigeria will not even want their forebearers country to be invaded. Only your type of nigerian americans will, the reason I think the new citizens are always the worst type of citizens! Iwo David, kilo le mue fe nkon buruku be fun ilu awon obie, ibi ti won bie si, to je wipe omi e lo koko mu?

lol sure Nigeria shall rise . . . just enjoy ur couch far away in the USA.

its unfortunate that after all that has been said and done we still have dumb-asses that think from their leg up like this poster here, its a crying shame that u still see America as Ur salvation, people die everyday in that country from poverty, starvation,insurmountable bills, hardships and the likes and you are here deluding yourself that America colonizing u would solve Ur problems, u must be very small minded and fickle in depth and for your information if America colonizes Nigeria today people like you would end up shackled in some white mans house and a God forsaken slave then you would no the difference, after a Nigerian tried to blow up a plane you now think that that same America would come over, colonize you and turn you into her citizens and you'll start enjoying all her privileges!!!!! that's the most incredulous crap iv heard in a long time, really i thought human beings have ceased to be this dumb, well keep living in your lala land where the height of Ur life is to use curse words and address yourself as "nigger". i feel sorry for you.

Hadiza X:

its unfortunate that after all that has been said and done we still have dumb-asses that think from their leg up like this poster here, its a crying shame that u still see America as your salvation, people die everyday in that country from poverty, starvation,insurmountable bills, hardships and the likes and you are here deluding yourself that America colonizing u would solve your problems

We dont see America as our salvation dumbo, we see it as FAR better than the present leprous, irresponsible and inept northern nigerian government that has been foistered on us BY FORCE since 1966.

Yes people die daily in the US from poverty . . . but i'm sure you will agree with me it is nothing compared to the many who die here DAILY by the hands of blood thirsty islamic terrorists who then go scott-free.

Hadiza X:

u must be very small minded and fickle in depth and for your information if America colonizes Nigeria today people like you would end up shackled in some white mans house and a God forsaken slave then you would no the difference

America has maintained military bases in Germany and Japan since 1945, i dont see shackles on their feet. Rather Germany is Europe's largest economy and Japan is the world's second largest economy and the number 1 car maker in the world . . . that after suffering the indignity of 2 atomic bombs. Now pls shut up.

A black man is president of the US . . . if blacks were still in shackles in white men's houses that would have been a virtual impossibility. The problem with your porous premise is that you assume Nigerians are not in shackles already . . .

Hadiza X:

after a Nigerian tried to blow up a plane you now think that that same America would come over, colonize you and turn you into her citizens and you'll start enjoying all her privileges!!!!! that's the most incredulous crap iv heard in a long time, really i thought human beings have ceased to be this dumb, well keep living in your lala land where the height of your life is to use curse words and address yourself as "nigger". i feel sorry for you.

Dont feel sorry for us, rather feel sorry for those who are shackled to poor governance, poverty, close to 80% illiteracy, starvation and corruption in your "la la" land called Nigeria. I'm sure glad i no longer live there. I went through university in Nigeria and a grad program here in the states completely FREE . . . thanks to americans! you can keep your lovely Nigeria.

^^^^^

i think we should ask the american Indians about the benevolence of american occupiers

as to japan and south korea, the us building them up had nothing to do with altrusim, but lesson of the past

the effects of world war I on Germany in general were directly responsible for the events that led to world war II

the fact that there was a cold war going on also played a part


also , germany and japan were occupied by the allies and not america alone


odd really - back in the day , during colonialism, people went abroad for an education, lost any myths about the white man, came back and started agitating for independence.

oyb:

^^^^^

i think we should ask the american Indians about the benevolence of american occupiers

Come visit Las Vegas . . . then crow about American "benevolence" to American Indians.

oyb:

as to japan and south korea, the us building them up had nothing to do with altrusim, but lesson of the past

the effects of world war I on Germany in general were directly responsible for the events that led to world war II

the fact that there was a cold war going on also played a part

also , germany and japan were occupied by the allies and not america alone

Meaningless.

oyb:

odd really - back in the day , during colonialism, people went abroad for an education, lost any myths about the white man, came back and started agitating for independence.

then gained independence . . . and promptly walked back all the gains from colonialism. We thank God.

^^^^

when did las vegas become a reservation

Meaningless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war_II

A variety of events led to the escalation of hostilities between the Axis and Allied powers prior to the start of the war. In the aftermath of World War I, a defeated Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles.[11] This caused Germany to lose around 13 percent of its territory, stripped it of its colonies, prohibited German annexation of other states, imposed massive reparations and limited the size and makeup of Germany's armed forces.[12] The Russian Civil War led to the creation of the Soviet Union. After Lenin's death, Stalin seized power in the USSR and repudiated the New Economic Policy favoring the Five Year Plans instead.[13] In Italy, Benito Mussolini seized power as a fascist dictator promising to create a "New Roman Empire."[14]

maybe that will make it clearer to you. the allies (not america alone as you keep claiming) learnt from world war I. economic support rebuildin etal was not out of any altruis, as you keep claiming, but out of a desire to prevent history from repeating itself

its also more tha alittle dubious to try to link germany and japans progress solely to american influence -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_the_Dominican_Republic

yeah oya tell me about how the Dominican republic which has been occupied twice by the united states is a fantastic nation

@Davidylan: You need to be called abd-america. I am not holding up in the Big Apple. Soon, inshaAllah, I will return permanently to my roots. I am asking myself, after all the benfits you got from Nigeria, you hated this this much, still? I wo yi o nse ara wa. There is no yoruba in you. I doubt if you are a nigerian, at all! You should return the Ijebu names, and her blood, and keep the other one. Maybe they will ask for it. Maybe not, but we the Yorubas know that your thoughts about Nigeria is unyoruba. Even the children born here love Nigeria, yet here you are abandoning your post before the train has a chance to head towards its destination.

I tell you, with or withour you, Nigeria shall suceed. Amin. You are just one person and those wo think like you are just that!

David, which of the casinos in Las vegas is owned by Native Americans? You can tell me because I know enough about Nevada to know that there is no Indian gambling outfit, in DownTown area (Freemont Street experience area) or the New Strip/MGM Grand, but mostly woned by the boys from New York, Cucuran, Winns, and Ensigns! Please go sedon! The real estate condition has replaced the Sin city, and its now Sober city!

I'll find the link later but i read some where that the GDP per capita income of the US in the 1890s is the same with that of Nigeria's today and better than many African countries- around $2k per annum.
Why wouldn't i want to be colonised by a country whose GDP per capita income of the century before last is same with what i'm living in.
Why do football clubs sell out to foreign investors with bigger accounts who bring in foreign coaches and foreign players to the team to help achieve success ? It's no secret that we're no. 15 on the world index for failed states, not far from Afghanistan and the likes, so how much worse could it get ?

David needs to get out often. Rochester is a village, the very reason he does not know that no next door settlement to Las Vegas belongs to Native Americans, even the Old west outpost "Carson city" of the wild wild west era. Maybe he is thinking about New Mexico, Arizona, and other place, but not Las Vegas, Nevada.

To say Native Americans have a stake in the gambling business in Las Vegas, is to say that they still own lower Manhattan, or owning the Atlantic City boardwalk! Is that possible, in the matters of Economy?

davidylan and co want to become houseboys for Americans.

The USA has a GDP of about $14 trillion dollars, the next country to US is japan with about $4 trillion plus and it continues down like that. Nigeria with half the population of the US has a GDp of about $300 billion , that's less than many states in the US(california's is over $3 trillion). Do you think There's any country in this world that can enjoy any reasonable economic progress without the US (including China)?

Guy i like your dream but why did you wake up?? because you know it will never come to past anytime soon

oyb:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_the_Dominican_Republic

yeah oya tell me about how the Dominican republic which has been occupied twice by the united states is a fantastic nation

Umm dumb, pls read your own link.

the first "occupation" took place in 1916 and lasted for 8 yrs . . . America was merely a developing nation itself.
Second "occupation lasted a bare 5 months in 1965 . . .

olabowale:

davidylan and co want to become houseboys for Americans.

ur mates are the "abd" in Iraq. As a "houseboy" here i at least have more rights than they can ever dream of. I wonder why loud mouths like you havent moved out of the states yet. You disgraceful ingrates LIVE HERE and yet criticize it. Why dont you move over to Nigeria or your wonderful caliphates in Iran?