skeelo:


longest time, no see no call no messages, no b small thing.
as i open this page now, i jst smiled when i saw that the 'BIG MEN' r still makin this trend move, I bow for una,
wetin com surprise me as i dey move dey read una messages be say, una mind set never change, wetin do u, kwena, if person dey homesick wetin b your own, u knw wetin she leave for here,
As for opoks, i hail u long time, bt una quarrel before, ok i seeeeeeeeeeeeee,
make i warn u , me i well i no knw about others oooooo
nuttin do all of us, make we enjoy this life abeg,
make una no vex say e tey before i show again,
una wey knw the scriptures remember wetin JESUS talk,
he say one time una go see me, another wetin happen,
because i don waka again b that
shoooooo,
miss u guys,

opokonwa:

Why bother to educate a man who has sold his conscience & nationality (and everything he ever had) on the altar of travelling & relocating abroad permanently?
Why are you people still on this very topic?

Let he who wants to love his roots love his roots well well!
And let he who hates it (or disguises same) hate it well well!
_{It's a free world!}

After all, what is the value of either your love or hate for Nigeria?
Does it add food to the plate of the deprived or more money to the earnings of Opoks! ?

I personally think that this subject is an over-flogged issue that only insults the senses of true & patriotic Nigerians.

Kuwena has made up his mind to dump his country, brothers and everything that reminds him of Nigeria. Period.

I wonder whether subsequent discussions on this issue suggests that Kuwena is seeking justification for his resolve?
Your 'home' can be in the Arctic Ocean, Santa Barbara or Imo state, who cares?!

Go ahead and head on to the USA for life. We wish you well! We have always wished you well!
But often coming back on the same topic to relate how you have given up on everything Nigeria or 'home' as you may refer to it makes me sick
As though you're desperately seeking for like-minded peeps who will endorse your viewpoint?

_{This thread is sick!
Full of sick people!}

For a wad of worthless Zimbabwean banknotes President Mugabe’s militias burnt six-year-old Nyasha Mashoko to death.

The target of the Zanu (PF) thugs had been the boy’s father, Brian Mamhova. They came for him on Friday night — three truckloads of them, plus a Mercedes Benz from which alighted three armed men in suits, Mr Mamhova said. The militiamen had been promised Z$25 trillion (£12,500) to kill him, which seems a high price on the head of a district councillor but which is no problem for a Government that sees printing money as the best way out of a crisis.

Mr Mamhova was elected a councillor for the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in elections on March 29 for the Harare South district council, an area of farms and rundown houses on the outskirts of the capital, close to Harare airport.

At 8pm on Friday Mr Mamhova was asleep. His wife, Pamela Pasvani, 21, his son, Nyasha, his younger brother and a nephew were in an adjoining room.

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“They [the militiamen] got in the room where I was and they were searching me against the wall,” he said. He managed to break free from the men holding them and slipped past the others in the darkness. He stopped running when he was 100 metres away, and hid behind a bush. “They were running past me,” he said, and he heard them muttering that they were about to lose their bounty.

“They locked the door where my wife was. They smashed the windows and threw petrol inside. Then they lit it,” he said. “Inside the house, my young brother broke the door. I thank God, otherwise they would be burnt, all of them. He took my nephew out of the room. Then he went back into the room and he took my wife, but it was late. She got 80 per cent burnt. My son was burnt to pieces.”

“Then they beat everybody there, my neighbours, everyone. Many of them are in Chitungwiza hospital [the nearest state hospital] now.” His brother and his nephew escaped with minor burns. “I am in a hidden place now. They are hunting me. They are saying they want to kill me. It is terrible.” The perpetrators of such crimes act with impunity, he said.

“When they did this, they were led by their local Zanu (PF) chairman. He lives close to our place. All of them are still there, now.” Mr Mamhova was left with only the shorts he was wearing. “Everything was burnt. There is nothing left. The clothes, the blankets, the food, all burnt. Somebody gave me some clothes.” His wife died on Saturday in ward C6 of the burns unit of Harare hospital. “No one survives more than 50 per cent burns,” a doctor there said. She was 18 weeks pregnant.

The terror tactic of burning people alive has been little used by Zanu (PF) in recent years but seems to be being revived. Last Wednesday, in the village of Jerera in Zaka district in the southeast of the country, a group of gunmen described as being in riot police uniform broke into an MDC office and fired on six people. Then they poured petrol over them and set them ablaze. Two died in the fire.

A photograph of one of them, published in a local independent newspaper, was remarkably like the picture of one of the charred victims of the xenophobic violence in Johannesburg two weeks ago. Two others are in Harare hospital with 30 and 40 per cent burns respectively. The remaining two have disappeared.

In 1963, when the black nationalist movement fighting against the white minority Rhodesian Government split, youths on either side of the divide locked people in their houses in urban townships and threw petrol bombs inside. The leader of the youth wing of one faction — the newly formed Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu), forerunner to Zanu (PF) — was a young school teacher named Robert Mugabe.

“If you look back at the methods of Zanu (PF) since it was formed, the only one who was there from that time is the President,” Willas Madzimure, a Harare MP, said. “Which means he knows exactly how to do it.”

A history of violence

1963 During the rebellion against white colonial rule Mr Mugabe forms the Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu) as a breakaway from the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (Zapu) led by Mr Nkomo. The Government declares a state of emergency after firebombing and violence in the poor, black townships

1975 Mr Mugabe returns from exile and restarts guerrilla war, which claimed 36,000 lives and displaced 1.5 million people. Mr Mugabe’s forces used mutilation and burning in their brutal campaign

1979 A peace deal is brokered by the British and the first elections are agreed. Mr Mugabe’s campaign is so violent that he is threatened repeatedly with disqualification

1980 Mr Mugabe wins the election and forms a coalition with Zapu

1982 Mr Mugabe sacks Mr Nkomo and cracks down on his supporters. He is accused of killing 20,000 Zapu supporters

Source: International Crisis Group, Times archives

JISIDAISY:

Nice to be back guys, How are you all doing?

Small wahala be say i travel out of Abj and didnt suspend my internet time so i just ran it for nothing and for a whole month!!! how una dey?

This is just a pre- hola. The main the main is coming.

[size=15pt]eh ya! you're a big girl na! why are you whining? [/size]

JISIDAISY:

so na so u fit say welcome ehn?? Kenosky, have i tot you nothing? I'm upset!! but i miss u sha---make i no lie. small sha-- i no too miss u like that before ya hed go burst.
cheers man.

Welcome o jare my dear! Its good to have you back!

niyooo:

Hi All. Seems just like yesterday since i posted last. Missed You'all. Can't read through the post yet, but it seems I don't have too much catching up to do, the thread hasn't moved that much (relieved). Anyway just want to say hi to all that have kept the thread going. Kenosky, I see say you still dey for Oyinbo land. You no go do quick come back come dey follow us enjoy light for 3 hours out of 24? Anyway I hail all of una. Post more later. Ciao

niyooooo, welcome back bro! u r correkt, we just no wan rush so that u wont have too much catching up to do but Jisi is back sha. How were your exams? shey? Nna, i think i v changed my mind about coming back to naija o- waat with the appalling state of the power sector! I ll stay here till next year o!

The hotel the man checked into was in Africa.

2. The man was pleased that 'they have computers here'.

3. He revealed to his wife that the place was very hot (expectedly making her think it was Hell)

If you had added these points, as in the original version of the joke, it would have been easier to laugh to.

Why do we Africans seem too defensive of our mediocre state of affairs? Beats me. 

A ridicle of Africa?

And if we must progress, let us tell our relatives in the village to learn to curtail their jealousies. It is too much! And we are sinfully copying their example! Can you believe today I went somewhere and someone that knew me when I was with IB Plc saw me in mufti and said, 'Ah-ahn. No work today?' I said, 'I've resigned,' and before she could check herself she spontaneously blurted out, 'Thank God!' Then immediately realizing her folly, she said, 'Oh. Sorry, I mean congratulations.' I wanted to ask, Congratulations for what? But I decided it would be in bad taste, and she looked too embarrassed already. This happened only today. Naija, na wa-o! Na so we go use progress? 

maybe in your mind