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pls dont come here to bash men, why would a woman go for a married man or rather why would a woman choose to be a second wife? Desperation and money. I know of man who is married to about five women becuase he is soo rich. In fact, he married two sisters. Are you telling me that these women have lost their senses? Let's remember that in our culture its the man that goes out to look for a wife.So, women have an edge over men in choosing life partners. They have got to make good choices too.

Naijaway,
I wonder where you get the clue that Nigerians are lazy because they are not manufacturing. I dont know if you have ever had a private business of any kind.

So is it a fact or tribalism that down stream sector is mostly controlled by a feudal class. Is it is a fact or tribalism that a section of this country where this money comes has not benefited from  these abundant resources. Is it a fact that northerners are considered as educationally less advantaged region when it comes UME admissions?  You want Niger Deltans to leap frog without helping them to jump.

Maybe we are so clueless about tribe that we do not know that Niger Delta needs to be fixed. Niger Delta is a big scar in our national history, yet we stand here to condemn people who challenge this lopsidedness. If these folks founded their companies like most entrepreneurs, I won’t have any qualms with that, but they were favored by Govt to buy govt owned companies.
Indigenization policy was good because white men were forced to sell 60% stake to Nigerians, but minority investment from Niger Deltans is tribalism. Something that was not good to us because the white men were perpetuators, should now be acceptable because fellow black men are in charge. Shame on us.

Nosa pls dont copy me. If you could read my mind, you better get a job at CIA. My post is indicative of the fact that there is not enough conducive atmosphere for big scale manufacturing like that of Dangote. By the way do you know Dangote's source of power?

Also a bag of cement is still going up.

Saying that we dont need traders is shear ignorance and rascality of thought. Maybe OBJ should have asked our banks how much they benefit from informal sector of the economy (buying and selling) Its the informal sector that sustains our economy. Our foreign reserves are in JP Chase Bank because our formal sector has low absorptive capacity. So, we need traders to get products to end users. Imagine what would happen to Coca cola if did not have good marketing outlets. This statement says we need manufacturers not traders. Where was OBJ born?

Gnature. Ma bad.

Chrisokwy,
There is a big difference between Igbo’s commerce and selling of Govt owned oil companies to a tribal hegemony. Mind you those raw materials for these oil companies come a section of the country and they are not well represented in these companies.
I could care less for yoruba's dominance in financial sector, because the raw material is the risk they took in building financial institutions, but oil companies derive their products from Niger Delta. Are you telling me that if Agriculture were the mainstay of our economy, that northerners would allow a southerner to head the biggest agro-processing company in Naija or maybe Yorubas will allow a northerner to head cocoa company or Odua Group of companies. We have to be realistic; people from Niger Delta have been shortchanged.

I think someone posted a web link where very few Nigerian companies (mostly financial sector) made it top African companies. No Nigeria manufacturing company made it. There is a weak infrastructural base in Nigeria. Even NNPC is still importing fuel because our refineries money conduits are not at full capacity. Even CBN is printing money overseas. INEC printed ballot materials in S/Africa. This tells you that our industrial output is very low.

How many Nigerians are powerful as Dangote to source for funds from NEXIM, IFC and foreign investors? MTN, CELTEL and Co and are using generating sets to power their switches and masks.
I would like know if there are fully owned Nigerian manufacturing/processing companies that are waxing stronger on stock exchange? Cost of production is very high in Nigeria, unless you want to engage in pure-water business. You have to carve a niche before you go into manufacturing. The Govt should do its work and Nigerians are willing to put their money where their mouth is. Nigerians are greatest risk takers ever. Imagine people spending millions on business ventures without any loan from banks or insurance coverage.

We dont have enough traders in Nigeria? Does Wal Mart manufacture anything? Dubai is just a free trade zone.Dont you know that manufacturing requires a strong infrastructural base? Why are manufacturing companies like Michelin closing?

There you go again,
Yanks may be oblivious to tribes - maybe you should know why whites live in their neighbour and blacks do their own thing. They even go to separate churches.

When it comes to politics in yankee, its ideologically driven not ethnicically driven. a GOP cannot see eye to eye with a Dem. Their issues are not based on tribes but on idelogies. Sen Clinton from Arkansas went to New York and became a senator, while some folks could not accept it that a non indigene was appointed a comissioner in Lagos. There is no way whites will fight whites because of tribe, instead they fight on ideological grounds.

We dont talk about tribes, but we have AD and APGA as tribal parties. We need to jettison these hallucinatory ideas that tribalism is a thing of the past. It is still in existence in Nigeria and we have not addressed it

your argument is skewed, because you are off of the opinion that Nigeria does not need traders but manufacturers. Who is going to sell their products?

U need to go study your marketing 101. Have you ever heard of  chain of distribution?  This is what happens when Nigeria is led by  idiots.

Last time he said that Nigeria did not  Mass communication students. I wonder waht  OBJ would say  about electricity that  is needed in order for manufacturing sector to thrive. Michelin is gone.

nosa,
you have not answered my question. Why didnt PDP pick Yar'dua as a running mate to Jonathan if we are soo clueless about tribe. We always pretend that tribe does not matter. A friend of mine called DHL office to inquire on DHL office in the East, the customer service agent said " i dont know because I am not from east " Even though average "Nigerian" may be oblivous to tribe, but Nigeria is a mixture of tribes. I am saying there should be a way to integrate Niger deltans into the Nigerian upstream and downstream sectors. They cannot be left alone, unless one day they are going to bring that nation to a halt.

Nosa,
To answer your question, could you tell me why PDP zoned presidency to North? Is Yar'dua the most qualified person? Why is it that we dont see tribe when it comes to oil?

Waxxy,

Take me on as been a tribalist. We ve got to stop defining people from Bill Oreilly's perspective of always seeing evil ONLY from opposition. By the way do you have a contrary view on what I posted? Show me with facts that most oil companies down and upstream are controlled by Niger-Deltans

Gist @

Those guys are not fighers, they are criminals. Let's not make statement that tends to bolden the ND boys on their inglorious activities. Do you really think these guys can hold the country to ransom?I just don't. Just that the gov has been careful to avoid another Odi saga. Yes, they'll blow up some installations but you know what the Nigerian Army can do to them. All the kidnapping they have done in the past, how many foreigners have they refused to released to show their seriousness? They're not fighting for the Niger Deltan, but for their pockets. Millions are paid to these guys to secure the release of the victims. So where do the money go? you may ask

Newton’s law: For every action there is equal opposite reactions. Govt neglect has provided them with a pedestal to cause mayhem. The fact that the Army can crush them is hallucinatory because ODI saga did not stop anything. This "it will fizzle away attitude" has got to stop. It did not stop Ken  Saro Wiwa and Co. The govt must actively engage these jobless youths. Pls I listened to interview granted by one guy who runs an NGO in dellta areas. He says that pipelines are soft targets for these   jobless youths? When these folks hear the amount of Atiku and OBJ misapplied, then they will do more.

@ Otuonye,

First, if someone works hard enough to own a company, is it your business to know who he employs? If you need the employment, then go to school and become employable!

I understand that the Government has really under-developed the region of NIGER DELTA, but the people of that region, still have their own problems.

This sounds like a white South African telling a black South African how to climb up to middle class. These people's resources have been depleted. Is education free in Nigeria? NO, so their major source of income has been depleted.  What are there chances of getting employed if most of oil men are not from their area? How can you say that these oil company owners are hard working? Can you genuinely tell me their source of income before privatization? Men coming from nowhere offloading tons of dollars to buy these govt owned companies. Niger Delta has been short changed by Nigerian leaders. What has been the impact of NDDC in these people's lives?

We cannot integrate these folks without jump starting the process to their integration.  If north gets considered for educationally less developed states, even though they held power for over30 yrs, why cant we consider Niger Deltans? Why has Nigeria used money from this area to develop Abuja and Lagos? Any city in South -South that comes close to Lagos or Abuja? Bayelsa is yet to be connected to the national grid.

One Nigeria so long as the oil is not coming from my backyard or papa land.

No my friend did not get her information. I wonder if she is the manager because she picked the call up first.

We all know that most upstream companies are mostly foreign controlled or maybe a Nigerian stooge as chairman or MD. Common now, how many Nigerian companies are involved in oil exploration? How many of them have financial power to invest in a long term of crude oil exploration? If we like, let's keep calling names thinking that Niger Delta Issues will go away like those in this Govt thought. These Niger Delta fighters can paralyze Nigerian oil sector, then maybe we stop thinking Nigeria. We only think Nigeria when oil is concerned.
Some of these oil marketing companies were owned by the Government like AP and National Oil. The "Govt" sold to some of these rich men.

Why is it that their offices are located in Abuja and Lagos even though their raw material comes from Niger Delta?

http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?threadID=6304&&edition=2&ttl=20070511061909


Rwanda has reformed its university bursary scheme and from next year students will have to go directly to banks for loans.

In the past the government funded the loans – to the tune of $14m a year – but most of them have never been repaid.

Critics warn fear of debt may curb enrolment, while some students feel it may be difficult to repay loans if they fail to find jobs.

Other African countries offer a free university education if graduates do an internship or national service afterwards.

Are student loans a good idea? Do such schemes allow governments to invest in better university facilities? Will the fear of debt stop people enrolling? Do loans make students more serious about their studies? Or do they neglect them for paid work? If you are a student in Africa, what are your experiences? Let us know your views.

Why Is Customer Service In Nigeria Always Different?

A friend of mine wanted to make inquiry on DHL location in the S/East, the customer service agent (working for DHL) told him that she could not provide him with the exact address. The agent asked my friend to tell his brother who lives in the Nigeria to go  and search for DHL location because DHL is big enough company not to be recognized. Even the stupid customer service rep. (working for DHL) had the courage to tell my friend “I don’t know because I am not from East" What kind of divisive minded country is this? I weep for Nigeria.  My friend asks is Nigeria DHL different from ‘’real DHL’’

If we keep doing things this way, we can never progress.

smile4ken.

Bro, there is no single reason for smoking, but this not an indictment on smokers ok

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I feel that we need to have affirmative action in all major oil companies in Nigeria. Niger Deltans are not well represented in most of these companies. Whether we admit it or not, a northern director in a oil company is more likely to hire a northerner than a Niger Deltan.

I know that Nigeria is not good at copying examples. After Apartheid, South Africa introduced Black Economic Empowerment to integrate disenfranchised South Africans into its economic mainstream. Today, Cyril Ramaphosa heads a conglomerate in SA called Shanduka Group.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070509/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/brazil_pope_saint&printer=1;_ylt=AsrLKkUyrHfNto4LHRdpfLa9IxIF

Pope to canonize first Brazilian saint

The Franciscan monk who will become Brazil's first native-born saint is credited with 5,000 miracle cures, but doctors are skeptical of his works and even a former Brazilian archbishiop laments the healings as fakery.

Despite the doubts, the canonization of Antonio de Sant'Anna Galvao by Pope Benedict XVI at an open-air mass on Friday is sure to please the more than 1 million Catholics expected to be in attendance.

The Vatican has officially certified the medical cases of two Brazilian women as divinely inspired miracles that justify the sainthood of Galvao.

Both of these women spoke of their faith with The Associated Press, claiming that their children would not be alive today were it not for the tiny rice-paper pills that Friar Galvao handed out two centuries ago.

Although the friar died in 1822, the tradition is carried on by Brazilian nuns who toil in the Sao Paulo monastery where Galvao is buried, preparing thousands of the Tic Tac-sized pills distributed free each day to people seeking cures for all manner of ailments. Each one is inscribed with a prayer in Latin: "After birth, the Virgin remained intact. Mother of God, intercede on our behalf."

Sandra Grossi de Almeida, 37, is one such believer. She had a uterine malformation that should have made it impossible for her to carry a child for more than four months. But in 1999, after taking the pills, she gave birth to Enzo, now 7.

"I have faith," Grossi said, pointing to her son. "I believe in God, and the proof is right here."

Nearly 10 years before that, Daniela Cristina da Silva, then 4 years old, entered a coma and suffered a heart attack after liver and kidney complications from hepatitis A.

"The doctors told me to pray because only a miracle could save her," Daniela's mother Jacyra said recently. "My sister sneaked into the intensive care unit and forced my daughter to swallow Friar Galvao's pills."

A few days later, a cured Daniela was discharged from the hospital.

But doubters remain.

"That was no miracle," said Roberto Focaccia, an infectious disease expert at the hospital where Daniela was treated. "Statistics show that an average of 50 percent of these patients die and the other 50 percent recover completely. She was lucky to be among the 50 percent who survive.

"It worries me," he added, "that so many people think that these small pieces of paper can replace the treatment available in any decent hospital in Brazil."

Even the church has skeptics.

In 1998, shortly after Galvao was beatified as a key step toward sainthood, then-Archbishop Aloisio Lorscheider of Aparecida do Norte ordered the nuns to stop making what he called "small pieces of paper that foster superstition." But his ban fizzled and the pills remained as popular as ever.

"Those pills are like the fake medicines that miracle workers claim could cure all diseases," Lorscheider said by telephone from southern Brazil, where he lives in retirement.

"If I were archbishop today, I would ban those pills again because all they are good for is to fool the people," he said. "But like in 1998, I don't think anything I could say would stop their production."

Thousands of believers flock to the 18th-century Luz Monastery every day for the pills, three of which must be swallowed over a nine-day period known as a "novena."

"This is the third time I am here for the pills and all I can say is they work," said Antonio Celso Poltronieri, who lined up under a sweltering sun to get the holy pills for his mother, an Alzheimer's sufferer. "My mother now takes care of herself, cooks and washes."

The cases of Grossi and da Silva were documented by Sister Celia Cadorin — assigned in 1986 to be Galvao's "postulator" and investigate his possible sainthood. She said the first known miracle attributed to the pills was a boy who was cured of kidney stones in the 1780s, and "to this day, the reports continue pouring in."

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Associated Press Writer Vivian Sequera contributed to this article from Brasilia, Brazil

@mazaje

why are there no Chinese/Japanese or Arabian slaves

Are you really sure of history? Arabians held slaves in Nile area for agriculture and irrigation purpose unless we are looking at slavery from a Nilocentric perspective.

Ever head of some Asian women who were turned into sex slaves by Japanese Soldiers during WWII?
Remember what happened to Japanese Americans when Pearl Harbor was bombed?

@Ynot,
Yea, you said it: used to.
because Citi Bank operations in Nigeria got Indiginized because of Soludization of Nigerian Banks

smoking no no no. As per drinking, unless that person is a dipsomaniac. I am an occasional drinker. I wonder how many guys who don't drink, but it depends on the frequency

I wonder why some folks spew fear and falsehood. If you can live in Lagos or major cities in Nigeria, Aba ranks higher in terms of Security.

Most big Naija companie have presence in Aba, Guiness, NB Plc,Unilever, and Co. I think Citi Bank used to have an office in Aba like wise IEA.

try ranch fat free

Richandblack.
It ^{all depends on why the person is relocating. It is possible to move to "obodo beke" (the West) and your first job be a manager in Microsoft Corporation}

How many people fit this category. Dont tell me about Stan Ekehs , Soyinkas, Achebes, Miscrosoft Guys in Naija. When we hype about this Oyibo land, make we mellow down.

shear imagination of a hopeless situation. this is how we want naija to look, but its very far from realistic pictures.

Iyke-D,
Nobody says that we should not cheer up, but when you present me with 419 oops 3D pictures of Nigeria, then im going to pass out.

If you show me some beautiful pictures of some selected places in lagos and abjua, while at the same over 70% of Nigerian cannot afford to live in those places in their life time. These pictures are good to show to your yankee friends that Nigeria is not peopled by animals and black mambas but not to convince folks like us who are Nigerians.