₦airaland Forum

I believe it is in Nigeria's best interest to opt out of the world bank and the IMF because these institutions destroy any country they enter.

The US as at some 3 years ago was indebted to the tune of 7 trillion dollars. What mathematics or economics justifies a situation whereby a nation survives on borrowed money while the poor nations are squeezed like hell to pay the bills that countries like the US depend on.

For Nigeria, we make a lot of money from crude oil that we do not need these crazy loans. Meanwhile, what is the amount involved that we must listen to these people & institutions that will do all it can to under develop nations?

@denex,

You cannot rest now, you have one more assignment to complete.

Can you educate this david boy that the statement is he fighting was reportedly made by a former Israeli Prime Minister who was also a terrorist according to the article?

It seems that even if the present Prime Minister of Israel announces that Israel has been waging a needless war and would want a comprehensive peace in the Middle East some Nigerians will dress up and go to Israel to convince the PM that the war must go on.

When a leader of a nation owns up to something concerning the nation then the understanding abi misunderstanding of a Nigerian does not matter.

TayoD:
@Afam,

Here is a link providing the specific information you requested. I am sure you can interprete the data. http://www.answers.com/topic/chart-of-exports-and-production-of-oil-by-nation.

@TayoD,

Not so fast my friend.

Referencing the link you provided, here is a summary

1. 40 nations were listed

2. 12 of them are members of OPEC

3. 5 of them are importers including Indonesia that is a member of OPEC and US, China, Australia, India

4. Only 4 nations (Khazastan, Mexico, Russia and Norway) are non OPEC members that export crude oil over 1 million barrels per day

5. All the other exporters put together export less than 6M barrels per day, Saudi Arabia exports 9M barrels while the US imports 12M barrels.

I hope the summaries above explain to you why it is a wrong statement to state that 60% of oil exporting nations are non OPEC members considering the fact that a single member of OPEC accounts for more than all the oil exports of all the other nations put together with the exception of Russia and Norway.

So, now that we have effectively seen that the statement cannot hold water can we then move on to other statements or do you want to still defend this?

Let us not even forget that Iraq would have been exporting at least 3 times what it is exporting now but for the illegal invasion of that country based on the lies of Bush.

From my inbox, enjoy and make up your mind on what's going on around us today.

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Editor's Note:

General Predicts Israel will attack Iran, Syria, Hamas, Hezbollah, "Al Qaida", this summer

It is a provocative headline: "Israel braces for July war with up to five enemies." If we are to believe Israeli military intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, this attack will be launched by Iran, Syria, Hizbullah, Hamas and, of course, "al-Qaeda," the database. "Each of these adversaries is capable of sparking a war in the summer," Yadlin told the World Tribune. In other words, Israel is capable of attacking one or all of these "adversaries," as Israel has a notorious history of attacking its neighbors under contrived pretense.

Few remember the words of the Irgun terrorist Menachem Begin, later Israeli prime minister—as Israelis, much like Americans, prefer to be led by terrorists and war criminals—who admitted in 1982 "that Israel had fought three wars in which it had a 'choice,' meaning Israel started the wars,"
according to Donald Neff, writing for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.

Here is Begin's quote in full: "In June 1967, we had a choice. The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that [Egyptian President] Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him."

As Livia Rokach writes in the introduction to Israel's Sacred Terrorism, based on the memoirs of Moshe Sharett, the former Israeli prime minister, the "Israeli political/military establishment aimed at pushing the Arab states into military confrontations which the Israeli leaders were invariably certain of winning. The goal of these confrontations was to modify the balance of power in the region radically, transforming the Zionist state into the major power in the Middle East." In order to realize this modification of power, Israel engaged in "military operations aimed at civilian populations across the armistice lines," in particular against a defenseless Palestinian population, but also against Israel's Arab neighbors, and these "operations [were] designed to dismember the Arab world, defeat the Arab national movement, and create puppet regimes which would gravitate to the regional Israeli power."

"A clear, lucid, coherent logic runs through the history of the past three decades," Rokach wrote in the 1980s. "In the early fifties the bases were laid for constructing a state imbued with the principles of sacred terrorism against the surrounding Arab societies on the threshold of the eighties the same state is for the first time denounced by its own intellectuals as being tightly in the deadly grip of fascism."

"Lebanon was the model, prepared for its role by the Israelis for thirty years, as the Sharett diaries revealed," explains Ralph Schoenman in his book, the Hidden History of Zionism. "It is the expansionist compulsion set forth by Herzl and Ben Gurion even as it is the logical extension of the Sharett diaries. The dissolution of Lebanon was proposed in 1919, planned in 1936, launched in 1954 and realized in 1982." Schoenman cites Oded Yinon's A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s, a document that "outlines a timetable for Israel to become the imperial regional power based upon the dissolution of the Arab states."

In regard to Syria, Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery tells us the Zionist state created a convenient myth in order to escalate hostilities and thus steal land. "According to legend, the Syrians exploited their control of heights over-looking the Israeli villages in the valley below them.

Again and again the evil Syrians (the Syrians were always 'evil') terrorized the helpless kibbutzim by shelling. This myth, which was believed by practically all Israelis at the time, served as a justification for the occupation of the Golan Heights and their annexation by Israel. Even now, foreign visitors are brought to an observation post on the Golan Heights and shown the defenseless kibbutzim down below."

The truth, which has been exposed since then, was a bit different: Sharon used to instruct the kibbutzniks to go to their shelters, and then he would send an armored tractor into the demilitarized zone. Predictably, the Syrians shot at it. The Israeli artillery, just waiting for its cue, then opened up a massive bombardment of the Syrian positions. There were dozens of such "incidents."

Earlier this month, Jan Muhren, a Dutch UN observer stationed interchangeably at the Golan Heights and the West Bank in 1966-67, told a Dutch current affairs program "neither Jordan nor Syria had any intention to start a war with Israel," according to Monsters and Critics. Muhren said "Israel was not under siege by Arab countries preced-ing the Six-Day War, and that the Jewish state provoked most border incidents as part of its strategy to annex more land," that is to say steal land at gunpoint, most notably from Syria, although the "war" resulted in the theft of Gaza and the West Bank from Egypt and Jordan respectively.
As well, Israel grabbed the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt.

Once again, Israel is not "under siege by Arab countries," or Hezbollah, Hamas, and the fantastical "al-Qaeda" for that matter, and yet we are told each "of these adversaries is capable of sparking a war in the summer." Israeli officials, according to the World Tribune, "said Iran has direct influence over Syria, Hizbullah and Hamas. He said Al Qaida has increasingly come under Iranian influence and was being used by Iran and Syria in such countries as Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon." In short, the Israeli "security myth" documented by Livia Rokach in the 1980s and in the current
era buttressed by ludicrous fairy tales, is alive and well. Under such a "security" pretense, never examined by the corporate media, we can expect Israel, or more likely the United States, under an AIPAC and neocon zombie trance for some time now, to attack Iran and Syria, possibly next
month, certainly before the Commander Guy leaves office.

Iraq was attacked and 750,000 Iraqis slaughtered in the name of "Israeli security," that is to say Israeli hegemony. "Why would Iraq attack America or use nuclear weapons against us? I'll tell you what I think the real threat (is) and actually has been since 1990—it's the threat against Israel," Philip Zelikow, Bush insider and former executive director of the nine eleven whitewash commission, told a crowd at the University of Virginia on September 10, 2002, according to Emad Mekay, writing for the IPS-Inter Press Service. Naturally, the corporate media completely ignored Zelikow's comments.

As should be expected, the Likudniks and American neocons will demand, in the wake of Israel's defeat to Hezbollah last summer, another go, this time making certain to accomplish their goals. Meyrav Wurmser, the Israeli married to the neocon David Wurmser, admitted as much last
December. "Hizbullah defeated Israel in the war. This is the first war Israel lost," she told Yedioth Internet. "I know this will annoy many of your readers… But the anger is over the fact that Israel did not fight against the Syrians. Instead of Israel fighting against Hizbullah, many parts of the American administration believe that Israel should have fought against the real enemy, which is Syria and not Hizbullah." Wurmser, of course, is talking about the neocon part of the administration, the part that has control of American foreign policy. Iran, naturally, figures prominently on the target list as well. If the Israeli Likudniks and the American neocons have their way, Israel will have a second go this summer.

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Still hoping for peace in the middle east if all the parties will agree to peace.

Who is afraid of a stable and peaceful Middle East?

Selective fight against corruption is 100% better than no fight at all.

It is like an armed robber complaining that the police arrested him because he fell out of favour with the commissioner of police. The issue is whether or not those arrested or accused are innocent or guilty.

If innocent, they should be left alone, if guilty they should be brought to book.

It is better for 10 people to go to jail than none.

Good news.

Since they say OBJ is vindictive my prayer had always been for many of his friends to part ways with him as that seems to be the only way to expose them.

After all if they do not quarrel we will never know some of these times that come out in the open once wahala starts.

Ultimately, Nigeria and Nigerians will be the winners.

If you get 1 million people visiting your site everyday and none is buying from you then you will be wasting money since the bandwidth will be paid for.

1. What products or services do you render that makes you think that people coming to your website will like to buy from you and not the other person?

2. What is you target audience? Without having a clear cut answer then you are already off the mark because 500,000 people that don't need your services visiting your website is worse than just 20 people that actually need your services.

Enjoy.

Nigerians are the most difficult set of people to please.

Yar'adua is taking time to select a cabinet he is being accused of being slow. If he selected his cabinet overnight he would have been accused of being to fast and hasty.

Yar'adua is busy reconciling with political opponents he is accused of wasting time and makes some people sick. If he had ignored the political opponents he would have been accused of carrying on OBJ's fight.

Yar'adua is trying to form a unity government and it makes some sick. If he had ignored the opposition he would have been accused of not taking time to reconcile especially with the petitions flying around everywhere.

Prior to and during the last NLC strike he was accused of not talking. If he had talked he would have been accused of fighting everybody.

Now, we see a leader who is taking his time to get things right and we are impatient. Tomorrow if he takes very fast and hasty decisions the same people will complain and ask what the rush is for.

Now, someone stated that trying to please everyone is not the way to go and will not allow him take the important decisions. But OBJ was known to take very difficult decisions without bothering to please everyone and a lot of people hated him for that.

Is there a set of rules or guidelines that will be acceptable to all Nigerians as regards how our leaders should act, behave, take decisions?

Since every blame or praise will eventually be heaped at his doorstep it is indeed proper for us to allow him run his government the way he wants as long as he is doing so within the dictates of the constitution.

Why do we accept standards that are even low in some countries where Nigerians reside but when it comes to Nigeria we set the highest standards not known to be adhered to by any nation?

@denex,

You see, I win you. I told you that I will deliver on all my promises if you are able to do the impossible.

He sees things in a particular way and that way is the only way that can be right so trying to explain anything no matter how clear, obvious or factual is an exercise in futility.

The mind is a terrible thing to waste, when one turns its mind into a landlocked one then wahala don come be dat.

Good luck to you in your quest to liberate a mind that is long gone.

Maybe I can help you a bit. Ask him to think about his statement that all muslims worship idol and come back to maintain or withdraw such careless statement, his response will help guide you as to whether you will be better off hitting your head against a rock than trying to prevent him from self destructing.

TayoD:
@Afam,
I will not even respond to this. It is so obvious those who have started personalising issues even before any coontrary opinion came on board.

If the statement above is not a response that you claim you won't be providing then I wonder what it is.

TayoD:
For a list of Oil Producing Nations, please check out this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil-producing_states
The link above provide you with answers. And by the way, Equador withdrew its membership from OPEC because its interests was not being served particularly because OPEC limited how much crude oil it should export. This limitation is also imposed on Nigeria as well who cannot export more oil to meet its financial goals all in the name of the Cartel called OPEC. Gabon is also a former member of OPEC.

The link above sure does have some content in it. Maybe we need to clarify a few things.

OPEC is a body comprising of nations that export crude oil.

Now, the US cannot even handle its oil requirement not to talk about exporting to the outside world.

Still on the 60% claim you made, can you please point me to any location where I can educate myself that 60% of oil exporting nations are not members of OPEC?

And bringing religion into this discussion does not make sense as long as Venezuela is not a muslim nation that road is a dead end.

So, we are still on question number 1 which has not been defended.

I hope to get answers so we can handle the other 7 questions one at a time, that we we will not misunderstand each other.

It is not the speed that matters it is how well the cabinet performs. Afterall he was part of the cabinet under Blair that supported the illegal invasion of Iraq so how can we talk about things working in the UK and not in Nigeria based on how fast a cabinet can come up?

If it takes Yar'adua 6 months to come up with a cabinet that will move Nigeria forward it is all well and good.

TayoD:
@topic,

Let me include the following points in addition to the one that Denex raised.

1. Why do 60% of oil producing nations choose to keep away from OPEC?

Well, it seems that some are tired of insulting others and would want to stick to issues, good thinking.

Now, you asked 8 questions but before we deviate way too long I need to ask for confirmation that 60% of oil producing nations keep away from OPEC.

Can you explain this statement abi na question because I do not believe it is correct to state that 60% of oil producing nations are out of OPEC.

While on this clarification it is also necessary to consider the quantity of crude oil (Saudi, Iraq and Iran coming 1st, 2nd and 3rd I think) and quality (even Nigerian crude remains one of the best due to the low sulfur content apart from brent).

The US sure does have oil just as those in the North Sea area but what does it cost to produce the crude and to refine the crude?

Abeg, answers are needed to the issues raised based on the very first statement you made.

@denex,

Na so life be.

There is nothing as good as being objective, sincere and honest in all our doings, those who choose to do otherwise simply lose out and they find it difficult to swallow their shame.

No one is perfect, no group or nation is either. Blind support for anyone, group or nation is wrong.

We must learn to apportion blame and praise accordingly regardless of the people involved.

We must stand by the truth, the facts and promote unity, fairness, love and justice everywhere.

Enjoy joo.

Boy! this is the most stupid statement coming from the US congress.

What do you expect when a country is founded on the blood of innocent people and developed with the blood of black africans?

OPEC should suspend any oil shipment to the US for a whole year so these guys will understand that USA is just a country out of many.

Now, it seems that all the blind supporters of US have gone on vacation. Time is a good thing because given ample time things will sort themselves out.

What people like Ali deserve is complete media blackout because if his likes are ignored one won't be bored with such rubbish.

Anyone that cannot stand up to oppose anything when it is happening should forever remain silent.

@denex,

Hmmm, ok ooo, good luck.

Meanwhile do not be surprised at his stand on the issue of Palestine/Israel or Islam/Christianity. Religous bigotry is the sole reason otherwise how can one explain away the style of becoming objective on certain issues while at the same time displaying the worst form of hatred to a race or a religion on other issues?

The mind is indeed a terrible thing to waste.

Enjoy!

romeo:
i am waiting for the correction!! and if you don't have any correction just sharrap and move away

Don't bother waiting for the correction, that you have not seen it means you will never see it. I think it makes sense to sharrap and move away than to help get you out of your ignorance.

romeo:
i know you are aware of something but please educate me

Educate you? We have free education in some states in Nigeria, you may enroll in any of the schools.

niyyie:
I guess it all bores down to screening each web hosting order, before processing it.

Exactly. It is just that some of these web hosting companies spend a lot of money advertising in the regular and online media to bother about saying NO to a potential client.

On web projects, over 40% of them are turned down especially when they find it difficult to explain certain things as regards what the websites will be used for.

The ability to say NO to a potential client may be the thing that will make the difference between failure and success when doing business online.

IT IS THE DUTY OF THE WEB DEVELOPER/SERVICE PROVIDER TO MAKE SURE THAT THE CLIENT IS GENUINE.

romeo:
Who are these two clowns calling somebody a clown for inventing anti-rigging machine?

Point of correction, nothing was invented.

That you are not aware of something doesn't make that thing non existent.

@denex,

You no dey hia word, shebi I don tell you make you no dey educate this boy, leave am make hin dey lie dey disgrace himself until e tire.

His lies are innumerable, his sense of reasoning totally warped and he doesn't even understand the search results from google that is why he keeps making contradictory statements based on copy and paste from search results without taking time to understand the content.

Google only makes sense if you have an idea of what you are looking for otherwise you will get more confused if you are expecting google to make you more intelligent.

So, denex let me raise the stakes a little higher, Ojukwu will become the governor of Anambra State if you are able to remedy the completely brainwashed state of this christian fundamentalist that keep spreading hatred and stating that the muslims worship idols.

Hello Bankole01,

True talk but it is not only with pastors we have the same thing happening in politics and religion as a whole.

The views of some members of this forum on religion is nothing different from what those believing Rev King are doing.

Some are completely and irredeeemably brainwashed to the extent that the US and Israel are seen as countries that cannot do any wrong regardless of the obvious atrocities being committed by them.

I will certainly not be getting into an arguement with you on the business of web hosting.

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A single server of say 100GB hard disk can conveniently host 500 websites with 200MB for each website.

The same server can host 100 websites with 1GB for each website and can host 5000 websites with 20MB for each website.

So, for the end user, it depends on reliability of the server as the server that is over loaded will be less reliable than one with lesser websites.

The information above has to do with why we do not charge very low prices for web packages because we are not in the business of carving out hard disks to host thousands.

Now to the issue of spamming.

Why would you host a business you do not know or do not understand? Whether you like it or not it is your business to ensure that your clients are into legitimate business.

But what do we have in reality, web hosting companies accept money from anyone that wants a web package because the focus is on the money.

My dear, I have turned down offers to build websites for fraudsters that want to clone bank websites. Some offer as much as N200,000.00 for something that won't take me 6 hours to complete yet I ask them to go elsewhere.

The companies you stated that were shut down were in the business of allowing everyone host with them business the focus was the money that will be made.

As a matter of fact I use my Mastercard to help web designers order reseller packages which they now carve out to make a lot of money from many clients.

In this business, it is your business to know who or what your clients are into. No excuses, do the right thing and you will have less headache.

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Invent? Don't think so.

No machine can stop rigging, in fat it will make it easier if the riggers know what to do. A simple line of code can guarantee a landslide for a particular party by increasing the votes of a party by 300 for every vote that gets to any other party.

Well sha, in a city full of blind people one eyed man na king.

@denex,

Let me raise the stakes. OBJ will take over from Yar'adua if you are able to get the guy out of his small world full of ignorance.

My people talk say half knowledge dey dangerous, e better make person no even attempt to acquire knowledge than to stop half way.

@I-man/4Play,

With zero credibility your posts are meaningless so don't try to salvage anything as you are pure fraud.

davidylan:
what makes it even more hilarious is that unlike Tornadoz who at least manages to stand truth on its head Afam makes absolutely no attempt to even address the issues. I think he is perpetually angry! Even the muslims i tease constantly still make out time to laugh over a couple of jokes.
Haba oga Afam, take style laugh small! Na forum no be ya papa bedroom.

Do not reference my father in any of your silly comments or jokes or else I will respond in kind.

Do you tease muslims or you insult them? You boldly stated that the muslims worship idol and you call that teasing?

You are certainly worse than an islamic fundamentalist because you lie about your position and shamelessly too.

Esss:
In Obasanjos case, we do not have any prime witness that has come out to say obasanjo sent us into Odi to kill people. The military men who were sent there to fish out the people who killed the military officers acted on their own (or so we have been told). So please do not tell me bullshit about something you yourself have no idea about. Abi did you see a note where Obj said "military go and destroy Odi people". Although I strongly believe he should also be facing charges of crimes against humanity.

In Al-mustafas case the prosecutions star witness is there (sergeant Rogers). He has confessed to pulling the trigger in the murder of hajia Abiola (m.k.o's wife). He also said he shot Dele-Giwa (with mohammed Abachas son as his getaway driver), along with other crimes. All these were under direct orders from Major Al-mustafa.

If the government does not want to kill him, they should give me the contract, I'll personally shoot the bastard for no fee at all. (in fact I'll bring my own gun).

An eye for an eye, thats true justice.

Na wah ooo, dem been shoot Dele Giwa abi na letter bomb kill am?

We go fit find very nice movie scripts for Nairaland oooo the way wey we dey go.

denex:
@all

Don't worry am expecting davidylan. He will return with his precise and specific fallacies like "christians are jews" or "no more taliban"

the technique I will employ this time is that rather than let him drag me to his level of ignorance where he can easily defeat me, I will elevate him up to my level of enlightenment where he will feel completely out of element.

The content in bold refers, it will be easier for Yar'adua to step down tomorrow morning and hand over power to Atiku than for you to achieve this new task.

The guy is long gone, completely brainwashed and lacks the boldness to accept responsibility of what he does not know.

Meanwhile, good luck, na hia we go dey dey look look.

@Tornadoz,

Thank God that finally you have been able to read him well. I figured out some time ago and I maintain that he benefits more than the rest because he comes with half baked and sometimes outrageous statements and goes away with genuine attempts to state things as they are.

Better use you time well rather than responding to his many wrong conclusions based on wrong premises.

Did I see him complain about people writing too much when he has over 6000 posts to his name and I believe over 90% of them have to do with Israel, Arab, Muslims either in the Politics section or Religion section (me I never visit that section and one wonders the type of religous supremacy his likes will be fighting for there).

Enjoy and thank God for your latest discovery.

How many times will one tell this slowpoke to leave Afam out of his incoherent and silly thinking?

Guy, take a cold beer and mix it with otapiapia so you can relax.

I will rather watch cartoon than pay any attention to your confused and incoherent analysis based on unadultrated religous bigotry.

Get a life or jump into the nearest lake, you disgust me.

Hmmm, can one really settle for a one site fits all website on this next big thing we are looking for in Nigeria?

For sure ideas will come and hope that they will be implemented properly and most importantly advertised well enough to get meaningful traffic.

A web project I started fiddling with some months ago was uploaded to a server about a month ago. This is supposed to be a free website where a lot of activities can be completed online by Nigerians.

More and more features will be added as time permits and hope it will be useful to the intended audience.

Any thoughts on www.afamite.com?

It seems the site will be sold at the end of the day as I can not guarantee that I will have the time to do so.

NB; The site was developed from scratch, nothing like downloading and tweaking scripts here and there. That means that there is no limit to features and functionalities that can be implemented on the site as long as it makes sense.