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@whiteross.
We have to open up our minds and discuss these issues. This thread does not in any way constitute discrimination. By the way PDP zoned presidency to the north. I think  I have grown enough to know what discrimination is all about, I have families  who  can speak other languages like  hausa and Yoruba. They live and have businesses all over Naija. They have more faith in Naija than our politicians who wear it on their lips.  I don't want people who have never integrated or interacted with other parts of Naija to tell me that Naija is one. What efforts have you made to make friends, establish businesses and relationships beyond your ethnic enclave?  We dey where we dey dey think Naija go better. na lie.  Sometimes I see Naija people who cannot even pronounce my five letter name.

this is a response to  " Igbo President: What Will Nigeria Turn Into"  https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-15621.0.html#msg437177

what do you think?

@lioness,
if I were you i will be suspicious of my man. Men are wired in such a way that a woman's booty triggers off their hormones. Women  know that , that's why you get guys attention. It will be  foolish to think that men dont fatasize about women's  apples.

If you approach a girl and she tells you  " I have a boyfriend"  what do you do?
Do you mean I'm not interested, not my type, don't bother me,  etc

Some girls would tell you that and collect your number and may call you

All i know is that Yar'dua is another Shehu Shagari in waiting. By the time he's done with Naija, we will be 25 years back. He is the governor of one of the  most illiterate states in Naija. In a state where everybody is blind, a  partially blinded becomes a king. He will  not deliver. He wil not not live up above Northern Oligarchy's influences and that of OBJ and his cohorts.

this seems like a  y2k technology hype. Why is NASA not using satelite technology for US census. If I were to say,  I will choose  Uchemerije over OBJ

Where are these folks supporting Yar'dua from? What was his ranking when all the governors were ranked? I think even Chris Ngige outperformed him. Another journey into    abyss of desolation.  Where are his educational policies ?The problem with Nigeria is we are too easily satisfied.
my 2 cents:Yar' dua is part of Northern Oligarchy that is bereft of political leadership. I am willing to stake  anything to be proven wrong.

lets look at these jamb statistics   
http://www.jambng.com/app_ume.php
S/N  STATES  NO. OF APPLICANTS           
1  Borno  3,076 
2  Katsina  2,449  his state
3  Kebbi  2,190 
4  Taraba  2,149 
5  Yobe  1,330 
6  Zamfara  523 
  Total  11,717 
/N  STATES  NO. OF APPLICANTS 
1  Imo  78,495 
2  Delta  66,211 
3  Anambra  56,159 
4  Edo  54,368 
5  Ogun  50,101 
6  Ondo  37,346 
  Total  342,680

Marijuana top US cash crop, analyst says.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=healthNews&storyID=2006-12-18T213430Z_01_N18159676_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-MARIJUANA.xml&pageNumber=0&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage2


This dwarfs Nigerian 419 and it does not mean that everyone in the US is a drug addict but everyone in Nigeria is scammer. Double standard.
Jammin, you pointed to the ills of Nigeria and did not feel comfortable when I highlighted some of the ills in your Island. Let there be a holistic debate on crimes OK.

I joined this forum because I felt it was for  progressive minded people. I have always wondered why good topics dont generate alot of  responses. Because it must abuse, incite, tribalize, sexualize,insult. I think we need to grow up. Afam has always agreed and disagreed with me, but has not  for once abused or insulted me. I think its Newton's law " for every action there is equal opposite reaction" His posts smirk of brilliance and intelligence. The very fact that one does not agree with you does not make one less educated. Needless to brandish our academic qualifications cos  this is an anonymous forum where you  know nothing about anybody. I read Nlanders everyday and see how people reason and I must admit that  most of their  posts are above average IQ.

back to business,

Is UK  a democracy since house of Lords members serve for life and are not elected?
Hosni Mubaraka of Egypt is a democrat?
Omar Bongo of Gabon is a democrat?
Democracy has nationally benefited Zimbabweans

not at all, I left a message wanting to know if everything was OK. this happened after she did not return my call as promised.

I met this babe and she took my number and called after 2 weeks and we got talking.  We planned to go on a first  date,  but she had an emergency.

We rescheduled for another date and  I called her to know if she was still going to make it and she told me that she was going to call me and did not call.  I later called and left her a voice message.  In fact I have deleted her number from my address book. My friends are telling me to  call her again.

What do you do in this situation?

@Mariory
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_{Are you kidding? Adolf Hitler was democratically elected? Oh dear God, history has been turned upside down. I think you'll find Hitler was appointed. i'm done with this thread. To carry on would be to repeat myself.}

The Party was run by an executive committee whose original members considered Hitler to be overbearing and even dictatorial. To weaken Hitler's position they formed an alliance with a group of socialists from Augsburg. Hitler rushed back to Munich and countered them by tendering his resignation from the Party on July 11, 1921. When they realized the loss of Hitler would effectively mean the end of the Party, he seized the moment and announced he would return on the condition that he was made chairman and given dictatorial powers. Infuriated committee members (including founder Anton Drexler) held out at first. Meanwhile an anonymous pamphlet appeared entitled Adolf Hitler: Is he a traitor?, attacking Hitler's lust for power and criticizing the violence-prone men around him. Hitler responded to its publication in a Munich newspaper by suing for libel and later won a small settlement.

The executive committee of the DAP eventually backed down and Hitler's demands were put to a vote of party members. Hitler received 543 votes for and only one against. At the next gathering on July 29, 1921, Adolf Hitler was introduced as Führer of the National Socialist Party, marking the first time this title was publicly used. Hitler changed the name of the party to the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler#Hitler.27s_entry_into_politics

https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/vt.html
$245.2 million

jammin,

My state in naija is  al most as  big as  jamaica in population and if you  were to  compare the crime in that population with of jamaica,  drug related activities and teen pregnancies in Trechtown alone will outnumber that of my state. You can easily find  over 13 million impecable  Nigerians which  4 times the population of jamaica, but that cannot be said of your wonderful island.
Besides, have you ever tallied the number of scam letters with the ones from EU  or US?

by the way Adolf Hitler was democratically elected

Crisis Rocks Transcorp, Dangote Resigns
•Pressure on Ajekigbe, others

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=65501

@Afam,
why dont you present your own fact that will exonerate the minister.  I see your connection here, Frank Nweke is Chimaroke's boy and you are vouching for them. I wil also want you to challenge  my statement if Nigerians really matter to Politicians

They had conscience to know what was good or bad.

the only country where you dare not dream  forever but shall become if you are focused and hard working. a country which epitomizes, human dignity, modern civilization, compassion and lots more. Its  is a country of excessiveness.

Nigerians abroad and Nigerians in Nigeria are some kind of two parallels. Most Naija in Naija will easily think that you are not conversant with happenings in Naija. They think you ve got tons of money to throw around which is not always the case. If you tell a Nigerian man that I got a PhD he will tell u my wife has a PhD and I paid for her college education
As for Nigerians in Diaspora, some of them think that will shove everyone aside with their education and money only to find out that you have to do things the Naija way setup by Naija in Naija for you to have it easy. Okonjo Iweala learned her lesson through Naija way.

It’s erroneous to think that Nigerians who live abroad can fight it out in Naija. Its most people's dream to leave that country and seek for a better may become back to Nigeria later. He who fights and runs, lives to fight for another day. Whether we accept it or Nigerians in general don’t matter to politicians because they can do anything without any political price. Nigerians do not matter, that why Frank Nweke could say that without any political price, that’s why Borishade is still a cabinet minister, that's why Ubas can afford to make Anambra their estate, that's why Adedibu can impeach a governor, that's why Benin ore road is not motorable this xmass season even though elections are next year that's why 2007 general elections candidates are selected. The list is endless. Here is a question, can you tell me anything the Nigerian masses have won against this government? Fuel prices to Third term to impeachment. Nigerian people are hapless, helpless and powerless.

jammin,
Would it make sense to think that all Jamaicans smoke weed or are drug addicts. I recently met a jamaican dude who pawned his Bob Marley CD/DVD for some weed money. Is this a standard behaviour in Jamaica? I do not think so.

gal, you have to go for him, chinese adage" good things come to people who wait, but only the left overs from people who hustle"

May be we do not know that the best country in Africa is not a democracy- Libya http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/country_profiles/819291.stm.
May be we do not know that the two fastest growing economies in the whole world are not democracy- China and Vietnam.

May be we also recognize that Nigeria is not a democracy but a civilian state. May be we have to know that democracy is all about numbers- 11 fools Vs 9 geniuses. May be we do not know that noble laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh has positively touched more lives than most politicians.

I think wealth creation trumps our own kind of democracy because most Nigerians understand poverty more than democracy.

How much FDI goes back to its originating countries?100% . Nigerians send money to Naija and it stays. Nigerian economy (if it has any) is sustained informally by Nigerian masses. FDI companies are involved in capital flight. Nweke's statement could further be expanded to say that Nigerians are inconsequential because politician rig elections without massive revolt, loot the treasury without any consequence, they dont build schools, roads, hospitals etc without any form of protest. They are telling Nigerians living in Nigerians that politicians are mightier than masses. In Nigerian politics, a politician is mightier than a state as exemplified by Adebidu and Uba. Nigerians really don’t matter because they are gutless to challenge their government

If it was not for the money and things you got she would not like you.There are millions of men in Lagos, but very few gentlemen like Cletus.Let it not be construed that leopard's calmness is cowardice. I had been in that kind of situation.

ABC 20/20 portrayed Nigeria as a country peopled by scammers.

@Afam

_{Can you limit your allegations to what you are sure of?} Why don't you provide your own facts to counter my argument.

_{Anyone that knows New Haven will know that your statement about dualizing the road is pure nonsense.} I don't know what's  your speciality, but I do know that the cost  of building new road is higher than the cost of  dualizing an existing road, besides New Haven is not in Haven, but  in Chime Avenu, Enugu. So why think that people do not know . I will be amazed if Chimaroke single handedly financed his 1999 elections without any financial help from Jim Nwobodo. Why don't you rebut my allegations on one on one basis.

What we are saying here is Gov Nnamani corrupt? Hell yes and his infractural development cannot absolve him of  corruptly enriching himself. Let's not forget that it's not his money, but Enugu people's money. That's why things are happening because  there is no taxation by representation. Cos if  we paid our taxes and the government is messing with our money, then we should ask more questions. Let's not forget that Enugu city and Agbani are not the only cities for infrastructural development

I was gonna post this topic. It seems that cute guys are always overlooked by cute sistas because they dont want to play with fire. Sistas dont to share with someone. There is impression that cute guys can never be single and you find out that some of them are single and nice. Its just a public percetion of cute guys.Ladies think they are players and cannot settle down. People think that they are not sexually adventurous because they cant go an extra lenght  to satisfy their ladies since  they can easily get lady's attention.