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I experienced same sometime last month - was carrying mine in a bag and was taken to the police station. I prayed to GOD and I'll say HE answered me as I did not beg the police men, neither did I pay any sum.

If the original poster hates this country, is he not being an ingrate? So many of us want to consume without having a hand in making things better. Yes, it could be better; and yes, some have died as well. But also consider that others have gone through worse. Also, have you never noticed that the works of those who condemned are forgotten with time, but those who take decisive steps at change have their works recalled for generations and their names  are remembered with pride.

If you like, keep condemning and complaining as if these can not testify against you when it is time for judgement. Otherwise you can see this as a window of opportunity to contribute to positive reforms on your country.

sunbasque:
There's plenty of malt here in Atlanta. Publix, Walmart, Kroger and in African stores.

noted
[quote author=tpiah! link=topic=621158.msg7912411#msg7912411 date=1300152451]every store in the US sells malt.[/quote]I saw none in Claremont and Pomona, both in Socal, and Brooklyn (except for a Naija buka).

Limaoscar:
Some place behind Ajose Adeogun at Zenith Bank. Good food.

I remember that one, by a cake store and a drycleaner's; with prying mirrors.

Veronica's Kitchen in Los Angeles - my Taiwanese ex-landlord wanted to try some Nigerian food which I had sorely missed. We ate iyan, egusi, panla?, jollof rice, goat meat perhaps, and downed it with some malt. I think it was the first time I saw a malt drink in the US.

Iya Koku on Bashorun Street in Bariga - I don't yet know which ewa agoyin is tastier.

Once upon a time there was a popular joint along Oyin Jolayemi Street, Off Eko Hotel Roundabout in Victoria Island. Many colleagues at my then place of work along Ajose Adeogun Street lamented the demolition of that resource, and we resorted to the likes of Mama Cass afterwards. I would like to know if there's any around that Eko Hotel Roundabout.

At the Pen Cinema area, this Jigbi-Jigbi man who has since passed away had a nice joint.

Some people like to think that inhabitants of the continent of Africa are lucky. Have we not experienced disasters that are worse than earthquakes and tsunamis which are geological? What about humans who have constituted themselves into disasters? I mean people who engage in racism, tribalism, ethnicity, nepotism, superiority/inferiority complex, bribery, suppression, oppression, sabotage that is economic and otherwise (eg PHCN), unqualified contractors who seek contracts because of money instead of development,deception, false prophets etc. What about those who worship money and knives and guns? Have we as Nigerians (individually and collectively) not put money ahead of honour, very much unlike the Japanese way of life. How about we compare the pictures we are getting from Japan to scenes from previous "disasters" in Haiti, Iran, Pakistan, Indonesia etc. You would notice that the Japanese have been orderly and not panicky, they have quietly and responsibly formed orderly queues, they have not seen it as an opportunity to engage in wide-scale looting, they are helping each other instead of putting clan or religious affiliations first, and many more similar instances. I even saw a comment here which seemed to portray ignorance of the religious history, including Christianity, of Japan. Do we even know what's coming?

@morab, I did not receive the SMS but when I tried logging on to the portal, "Login denied".

@pleep, is that a statue if a man with steatopygia?

So, why is it that the artefacts and hieroglyphs I've seen on TV do not depict any Egyptian men and women with pot bellies and moobs? Instead, what I have seen are trim and fit men and women, unlike many Nigerians (men and women alike).

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Imagine what blacks can accomplish if our intelligence was restored. If the past accomplishments were on the dark side, them we probably deserved what we got We can try again but this time without divisions like one group claiming to be superior to others.

I've also wondered why nations of the Nile except arab Egypt+Sudan have allowed the latter to dominate the use of the Nile and let them use their dams to cover/hide/bury Nubian treasures with water (http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2010/05/2010519183943413127.html).

Here's another resource from National Geographic titled "The Black Pharaohs"
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/02/black-pharaohs/robert-draper-text/2

Mine are more like a potpourri of crazy + embarrassing + humour.

I was in SS2 then and it was during an English class of around 9-10 students at a secondary school in Lagos. I can't yet recall what it was that I had been eating or had eaten but I farted thrice.It stank, it was heavy, but it was silent. My classmates accused me each time of being the culprit. Each time I calmly denied. The teacher angrily urged me to not behave like a nursery school child. Anyway, the class ended earlier than scheduled and I felt proud like I had done something huge - bringing about a force majeure for that teacher .

One day, in that same school, we had closed for the day and one of my classmates (a prankster) decided to urinate in a bowl and leave it outside by the window till the next day of classes - it was a Friday afternoon. Being the class captain and the last to leave the classroom and lock the door, I used the opportunity to pay him back. I took the bowl and placed it in his locker. I got to school late on Monday morning at the same time the Chemistry teacher was leaving the class early, another force majeure . The stench was terrible and my classmates decided to investigate while I feigned ignorance. Then it was discovered and they figured out that I must have been the one who put it there. Eventually, the prankster had to take out the bowl and wash it.

Another time in SoCal during a networking lunch on campus with the CEO of Edwards Lifesciences, some course-mates and school admins, my stomach started acting funny. Prior to that time I had been having trouble adjusting to food in that part of the US. As we were chatting I started hearing noises from my stomach, and the discomfort set in quickly. I was scared of standing up to take an excuse to leave briefly because I felt a 100% certainty that various shells could be released in the process. Later, they got audible enough for my Asian classmate sitting beside me to hear and she stopped smiling. Others couldn't hear the sounds because of the conversations going on. Suddenly, there was this unusual pause in the discourse, the perfect time for my gut to embarrass me. The sound was long and slow.

In that same school, some admin staff decided to help me with food, being aware of my situation. I was invited to join them in sharing the spoils of some leftover food from a meeting. This included lots of cheesecake and some other leftover dairy-based confectionaries. About 90 minutes later I got to know that my body was like lactose intolerant as I could only sit in the front row for about 30 minutes in a 3-hour class. There were belly noises and I rushed to the gents. If you've seen "White Chicks" (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiLme0Wayso&feature=related), that's almost exactly the way I reacted, and for about 2 hours as well. I came out tired and returned to class for the last 15 mins, barely able to walk and sit, and at the back.


But the craziest was sinning.

When I was about 8 or 9 yrs of age, I was scouring the living room for what I can't remember. Then I found a sachet with some pills, and at about that time, I had been taking them - sort of like growing up with them. I took like 3 of four tablets. That same day my dad got to know, so he took me to a hospital. Turns out they were oral contraceptives. I did not find out the brand name and I don't know if there were any side effects for boys.

Well, I have some experience with an excessive dose - farts seriously tainted with the garlic pungency!

^^^
What dose do you recommend for similar and not excessive effects?

Not to worry my fellow onioners, I just may just have found the solution to this culinary quagmire - TREAT THE ONIONLESS DISHES LIKE A PLACEBO TO GET THE ONION PLACEBO EFFECT .
Latest findings seem to show that "a patient's belief that a drug (will or) will not work can become a self fulfilling prophecy, according to researchers" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12480310). In other words, just pretend that the dishes have been prepared with onions and expect (or have faith) that it will taste like. Voilà!

Below is an abstract of the paper referred to above.

http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/3/70/70ra14.abstract
DRUG EFFICACY
The Effect of Treatment Expectation on Drug Efficacy: Imaging the Analgesic Benefit of the Opioid Remifentanil

ABSTRACT

Evidence from behavioral and self-reported data suggests that the patients’ beliefs and expectations can shape both therapeutic and adverse effects of any given drug. We investigated how divergent expectancies alter the analgesic efficacy of a potent opioid in healthy volunteers by using brain imaging. The effect of a fixed concentration of the μ-opioid agonist remifentanil on constant heat pain was assessed under three experimental conditions using a within-subject design: with no expectation of analgesia, with expectancy of a positive analgesic effect, and with negative expectancy of analgesia (that is, expectation of hyperalgesia or exacerbation of pain). We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to record brain activity to corroborate the effects of expectations on the analgesic efficacy of the opioid and to elucidate the underlying neural mechanisms. Positive treatment expectancy substantially enhanced (doubled) the analgesic benefit of remifentanil. In contrast, negative treatment expectancy abolished remifentanil analgesia. These subjective effects were substantiated by significant changes in the neural activity in brain regions involved with the coding of pain intensity. The positive expectancy effects were associated with activity in the endogenous pain modulatory system, and the negative expectancy effects with activity in the hippocampus. On the basis of subjective and objective evidence, we contend that an individual’s expectation of a drug’s effect critically influences its therapeutic efficacy and that regulatory brain mechanisms differ as a function of expectancy. We propose that it may be necessary to integrate patients’ beliefs and expectations into drug treatment regimes alongside traditional considerations in order to optimize treatment outcomes.

Would SAP not have worked here if not for corruption?
Anyway, I think this devaluation proposal would have been unnecessary if not for the way GEJ and his government have been consuming and spending huge sums. Has GEJ as president or governor ever debated actively and directly on any economic policy?

@ENZO SCIFO , I admire your intellect and your use of English - you said that you suspect "follow-follow" on my part - but not the condescendence. I'm glad you did not point fingers and judge, and that you were willing to dialogue instead of resorting to insults (dictatorial tendencies) like some others. Please go through my post again and try to read between the lines. I was trying to point out the need to first be aware of the causes of unemployment before blaming others. I feel this should be thoroughly established first

Also, I never said that all who have the means are meant to be entrepreneurs, likewise I did not allude to dislike for intrapreneurs or working for someone else. I know what it means to be unemployed for years and not to be given a chance because of superstitious beliefs, arrogance, delusions, health, and others assuming they know more, despite coming tops in class. I know what it means to be wondering when the next meal would come from. I also know what it means to lead a protest only to turn around and see that the followers chickened out at the last minute. Do you think that all who are unemployed have been pushed to the wall like that Tunisian who immolated himself? What about those who did not know that they were dyslexic or had some other medical issues and were told they were too stupid to make it, but eventually became millionaires?

Again, I never indicated that I was in support of or against such a protest. What I dislike is the actions of some who would claim to support such but would be too lily-livered to stand face-to-face with a gun-totting police officer and/or armed forces personnel. I also distance myself from those who allow their sentiments and emotions to cloud their reasoning as these one could easily bungle such a protest. Take note also that the ingredients in that contributed to the protests in Tunisia and Egypt may be absent or in different concentrations here. On my part, I'm curious about the general level of honesty in those places compared to Nigeria.

@dredone, it is written that it is what comes out of the mouth of a man that defiles him. I'm not sure if you knew what you did and the implications, but I forgive you.

How about all ECOWAS members conducting censuses at the same time to check multiple registration and inflated votes, then a comparison of ECOWAS data with that of other regional bodies or that of surrounding nations like Cameroon and Chad?

Could someone be so kind as to use his/her camera to take pictures of vacancies that appear in the papers eg the Tuesday Guardian of this week, and then post such here?

@poster, do you mean that the Edo people colonized all Yoruba nations, even the Oyo Kingdom? Haba! Do you mean that the Edo colonized the Ijebu as well? Do you even know the history of the Ijebu people who can even trace their history to migration from the Sudan/Ethiopia axis? Do you know that scientists who have been including samples of Yoruba DNA to trace the history of mankind and the neanderthals and denisovans have demonstrated the migration of Yoruba people across the desert and the acquisition of adaptations/mutations in the process?

Do the Edo people even know the origin of the ogiso, even how they (people and ogiso) got to their present abode? What is the pre-Oba history of the Edo people?

My advice, don't live on or be delusional about what may be past glory. Live in the now.

@poster, first heal thyself. Nigerians who have had the capacity (finance, intellect, drive) but choose not to use such to create jobs should be looked at. They would include the employed and unemployed, the rich and poor, leaders and followers, etc. My take is that we protest against our individual selves first and take responsibility for our actions. This is not to say that there are those who have not been genuinely frustrated in their entrepreneurship endeavours. However, those who do the frustrating are part and parcel of our society.

Why not a protest against those employed cowards who are too scared or lazy to become entrepreneurs and create jobs but prefer the false security of their salaries?

I don't know about the whole of Africa o! I do know that respect and demonstration of such for elders is very important among the Yoruba and I guess the Hausa people as well. However I'm not sure about how it is observed amongst the Igbo.

There is a saying - "The age of Methuselah has nothing to do with the wisdom of Solomon".

I've had discomforting experiences with some elders who seemed to have been behaving like prigs, perhaps due to approaching dotage. These ones seem assume that the younger ones are deliberately not giving them due respect or want to take advantage of senility - as if there is a stereotype of how younger ones should behave. So, I feel that the accusation of disrespect is at times uncalled for, unjust, and a gutter behavior on their part.

Also, what have Africans benefitted from the "Elders" when many act like demigods, sit-tight rulers, kleptomaniacs, 419 kingpins, wife snatchers, and prolific fornicators, not to forget entrenchment in sacrifices so as not to take responsibility for their actions.

Nevertheless, I agree that we should give respect but in doing so provide upward leadership when necessary.

Shonsho ori omu Obinrin o gun ni l'oju,
Akakaya Obinrin o gbeleji ni si sun

from verse 2 of Ose Meji

I'd like to see Modupe Oduyoye's take on this as Mr Baiye's looks a bit like speculation to me. Any published papers?
@Negro_Ntns, could you please explain the numbers?

Ohh so you're now back to me after the previous insult. Which cut like a knife, btw.
I'll see what I can post about it.

Haa, My sincere apologies. I didn't know you would take it as such. Me, insult you ke? When I had been trying not to fantasize about your waist ileke and associated gyration.

By the way, this South American dude has been taking all of your attention - envy. I even wanted to drag you back from that Akunyili thread.

Another request Ileke-Idi

Do you know anything about the origins of circumcision and naming ceremonies?

Macs come with bluetooth so no issue with that; and samolina1's tip worked. I only had to additionally click on "Advanced" and type "web.gprs.mtnnigeria.net" as the APN.

So I'm ready for the interview. I still want to try out my glo line to compare speeds. The only thing remaining is to estimate the size and cost of 45 mins of webcast(video) via skype - perhaps 250-300MB.

@unsuregirl

First, you should not have brought this issue to the public e.g Nairaland. I'm tempted to think that you've been seeking advice from "friends" already. I wonder if you've asked yourself if the enemy of your marriage is you instead of looking to blame your hubby. Take responsibility for your actions.

You mentioned something which I consider silly - about your hubby going for anger management therapy. Why don't you go instead for tongue management therapy.

Pray for healing, not your own version or type of healing but God's. Try to see things from his point of view and stop making assumptions. Desist from nagging and competing with him and strive instead to be a helper comparable to him. It is that simple. Remember, there are lots of women out there who are looking to devour husbands from unstable homes. Finally, stop looking outside for solutions/support/justification but listen to your inner voice and reconnect with his; and tell your parents to get pankere to be used on you.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=544320.msg7551022#msg7551022 date=1295291606]So I missed your reply, hope you're still on NL

Ewo o n je "Ela"? Omo ibo ni e? It might depend on where you hail from.[/quote]I'm still very much around, just having to deal with a slow connection (commenting on facebook is even faster than on nairaland). Perhaps we should let my question go because it seems I have a somewhat deeper knowledge of our culture. Still surprised that you haven't heard/read of "Ela".

By the way, I'm from Ijebu but can't yet speak our mother tongue.

Hi samolina1.

I need the same assistance. I use a Mac OS and a samsung d780 phone; also have a glo and mtn line. Its for an interview that requires a reliable internet connection that can support video. I currently use visaphone which is still slow despite the alliance with main one. I just need it for that day.

Why don't we first find out from a prince who is not royal?