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CityNG: That they are asking Nigeria to help is an acknowledgement that we're doing good and making great progress.

But then if you're educated you would have realized that .

Me as a educated woman already knows that America acknowledge Nigeria cause of how the Nigerian government handled the ebola outbreak(which was mentioned in the article) but being educated is irrelevant cause there are some educated people posting on this thread and they are not seeing it as you. That's why I said it is tough cause there is not a consensus amongst all Nigerian(including the educated) on the next step on this issue regardless of how the US feels about Nigeria, cause some posters feel Nigeria shouldn't be the only ones bearing the responsibility alone hence why I brought up other African countries.

well if you were educated you would have realized that

Tough one here, I think if the US is asking Nigeria to help they should ask that from South Africa, Kenya, Ghana and etc as well to help to However I feel Nigeria should help in some sort of way so No sawyer situation repeats itself in Nigeria but Some Nigerians are bitter about Liberians now so I don't know.

QAPHAYNE: The US is clearly soft on ISIS. Obama only reluctantly
initiated “limited strikes” on ISIS with few jets sent to
“halt the advance” of the terrorists, “protect
stranded Yazidi’s” and “protect US interests.” That
was pretty much it. What happened to US no
terrorist rhetoric? What happened to US non
tolerance to the likes of Saddam Hussein and to
Moammar Gaddafi? Why is the US suddenly so
sympathetic to the cause of ISIS and eager to permit
their existence?
Why is the US not targeting the top command and
control centers of ISIS? Today in the news, the
identity of the ISIS British accented member who
slaughtered an American journalist was the
headlines. What does his identity matter? We know
the identity of the killer of the America journalist. It
is ISIS. It is the leadership of ISIS that authorized his
killing. The US should go after the command centers
of ISIS.
The world is frankly tired of the tolerance of terror.
We the people are tired of the systematic arming of
terrorists and permission of terror to cause chaos in
erstwhile peaceful zones in the world. We are tired
of the use of “kid gloves” against dangerous, real
evolving terror. ISIS should be crushed now. Some
US media including the New York Times are
pleasantly, deceitfully referring to ISIS as “Sunni
Militants.” This is an insult to many who regard
themselves as “Sunni” worldwide and an
encouragement of terrorists.
The world needs a new direction in leadership, a
new world order where conscientious truth and
justice trump over deadly personal interests and
advantages.
ISIS is a dangerous aberration and existential threat.
It must be crushed and crushed now. It is time to
bomb their control centers and military formations.
Troops on the ground are not required for this and
such excuse by the US does not float. Iraqi troops
and volunteers will do the rest.Where are the hawks
who set-up around poor Libya and dropped 50,000
sorties to get Africa’s poor Gaddafi out of power?
Where is NATO? Where is the UN? Where is Qatar
and Kuwait?
Fellow nairalander, Do you agree with this author? I like to hear your views.
Culled from: MyNews24.com

lol Obama is not being soft he is being cautious by not dragging America in every war and etc that goes on especially in the third world. People need to remember after the Iraq and afghanistan war that was created by Bush and slowly being shut down by Obama, many Americans don't care for any war, regardless of their feelings. President Obama is doing what is within his means to appease the American citizens and help(air strikes) innocent Iraqi's from being slaughtered by animals like ISIS.

At the sametime I feel The American government pick and choses at times based on their interest, what battles they join and ones they don't; Darfur and Rwandan civil war is a very good example where America could careless but joined The vietnam war and it messed up President Lyndon Johnson then(70's) or when America went into Somalia(watch the movie: BLACK HAWK DOWN) and left in not in a good note in the early to mid 90's, I still remeber how Americans were complaining then.

President Obama must be taking in all the options and asking other european leaders to get involved, Like the UK, France, Germany, and even Russia(but I doubt they will after the Ukraine fiasco that is currently on-going and a mess, especially after the malaysian air craft that was shot down).

President Obama is doing what he can do in the present time, People need to know also some Americans even disagreed with Obama doing anything which included airstrikes or putting attention on the Ukraine or Gaza fiasco, they wanted thim to concentrate on more domestic issues.

People will always complain about Obama, especially the time he became president when the American economy was a mess and he had to quench two countries(Iraq and Afghanistan) from disaster. When President Obama got elected and he kept to the promise that he will end the Iraq war before his presidency and Americans were happy about this and I feel him sending ground troops will break that promise he made to American people. Air strikes are the best way where he slow doen the crazy ISIS but not start a breeding ground for another war in a country where he said he will end this past summer.

igbo2011: Exactly what will we do?

good question, and to me I don't know, I don't think anybody knows but possibly there could be help from outside Africa or Africa has equipped themselves to defend themselves if that happens

Idrismusty97: Lol! . Poverty na bastards.

funny but sad though

[b]Twenty-seven-year-old Russian millionaire Pavel Durov has earned himself plenty of new critics today after it was reported the mogul threw "paper planes" made of money from the windows of his St. Petersburg office into a growing crowd of pedestrians below.

Durov is the CEO of Vkontakte, or "In Contact," Russia's most popular social networking site and considered that country's equivalent to Facebook.

RT.com reports that a growing crowd amassed to collect the 5,000-ruble notes, which are worth about $160 each. However, while Durov reportedly appeared amused by the crowd, he stopped throwing the cash planes from his office window after some spectators appeared to turn violent.

According to RT, Durov took to his Twitter account, writing, "We had to stop soon, though, as people turned into animals."

Still, Durov apparently neglected to take personal responsibility for the response and even promised that "definitely, more such actions are to follow."

At the end of the day, Durov, who is worth an estimated $260 million, apparently tossed down only about $2,000 in cash to the crowd.

This isn't the first unusual public stunt by Durov. He recently published a political manifesto that included his ideas on how to improve Russia's economy. According to Business Insider, two of those ideas include abolishing Russia's national currency and allowing foreign interests to purchase state land.[/b]
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/russian-millionaire-throws-paper-planes-made-money-crowd-174532847.html

you need a answer for this question

Otamayomi1: [color=#990000][/color]
All nigerians.

Some Nigerians are already appreciating their culture and some are not the ones that are not are the ones I am talking about

Missy89: Yeah.
Apart from North Africa (Which is part of the middle east like you said). South America and Sub-Saharan Africa's contribution would probably be stuffs like: Safe Passage, Raw material supplies etc

Forgot about North Africa, True I agree

Missy89: It wont Affect Nigeria like the person rightly said. The economy might shrink but apart from that, Nigeria is irrelevant when it comes to a full scale war.

exactly; North america, Canada, Europe, Russia, Middle East maybe Asia will be in a possible WW3 but Africa & South America I doubt it

igbo2011: My question is how will Africa defend itself from invaders.

you mean if or when world war 3 comes?

lmao

donroxy: The world is just waiting for that one and first mad man to launch the nuke and Gbam, WWIII !!

So true, I just pray I'm out of the crossfire when that mess happens

donroxy: The dudes have actually contributed to happiness of some companies and families !!

Many Nigerians need to look up to him as a example

surprised and amazed; some Nigerians need to appreciate their culture

[b]NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Madoff, Bernard Madoff's last surviving son, died of cancer on Wednesday, his lawyer said.

Andrew Madoff and his brother, Mark, both worked on a trading desk at Bernie Madoff's firm, a side of the business that wasn't directly involved in their father's $65 billion Ponzi scheme.

Bernard Madoff was arrested in December 2008. Almost exactly two years later, Mark Madoff hanged himself by a dog leash on a metal ceiling beam in his Manhattan loft apartment, as his 2-year-old son slept in another room.

"One way to think of this is the scandal and everything that happened killed my brother very quickly," Andrew Madoff told People magazine last year. "And it's killing me slowly."

Andrew Madoff, 48, died at a New York City hospital from mantle cell lymphoma, his attorney Martin Flumenbaum said Wednesday.

He was first diagnosed with the rare form of cancer in 2003 but went into remission. He blamed the relapse on the stress of living with his father's scam. The disease returned in October 2012, and he told People magazine that he felt "blindsided."

Andrew Madoff had served as the chairman of the Lymphoma Research Foundation's board of directors until his father's scheme was revealed.

Funeral arrangements will be private.[/b]
http://news.yahoo.com/andrew-madoff-dies-cancer-nyc-152920773.html

EnlightenedSoul: Instead of pushing outrageous and relatively unenforceable laws, they should properly enforce the laws we already have in place.

Secondly, if they want to curb ra.pe on campus, they should transfer control from the "campus police" (glorified security personnel) to the local law enforcement. I've talked to a "campus officer" I know, and he expressly stated that his job was to make sure the university never got a bad rap. He was expected to sweep such reports under the rug when studies show that few of these crimes get reported as it is.

I know more than one girl who claims to have been ra.ped. One of them claimed that she'd reported it to the campus police only to be advised against pressing charges. Perhaps this "Yes Means Yes" BC was passed with good intentions, but I don't see it changing anything. I guess we'll see how it goes...

c/s 100%

Canadidacy: New Driving License, New Plate number, new passport, new voters card now new National I.D. Next should bea new Nigeria; a re branded Nigeria of our dream.

lets hope so with no boko haram of course

I'm not surprised Nigeria is pretty mixed because they don't trust easily so both(USA & China) will be in the same boat to them.

[b]The deadly Ebola outbreak in Nigeria is affecting Bourbon SA (GBB)’s operations, the supplier of ships and crew to energy producers said after reporting it swung to a loss in the first half partly on industry cost cutting.

“The mobility of our vessels coming from Nigeria has been restricted by some countries,” Chief Executive Officer Christian Lefevre told reporters. “Vessels coming from Nigeria can’t go directly to Cameroon or Ivory Coast.”

While Bourbon has stopped sending vessels to Nigeria for maintenance, there haven’t been any “significant disruptions” to operations, he said. The company’s Nigerian operations are centered around the southern oil hub of Port Harcourt. The city recorded its first death from the outbreak on Aug. 22.

Bourbon posted a first-half net loss of 4.8 million euros ($6.3 million), after a 14.4 million-euro profit a year earlier, as oil companies cut costs and delay projects, and the ship-supply industry suffers from global overcapacity, the Paris-based company said in a statement.

It fell 3.4 percent to 20.96 euros by 10:14 a.m. in Paris.

“The offshore oil and gas business environment is getting tougher for contractors,” Raymond James analysts wrote in an e-mailed note to investors. Bourbon produced an “uninspiring set of results,” said the analysts, who rate it Underperform.

Growth Forecast

Sales, up 8.9 percent in the half on a “constant” basis, are expected to be at the “lower end” of a full-year growth forecast of 8 percent and 10 percent, Lefevre said. “Offshore markets during the first half of 2014 were affected by a slowdown in activity, partly due to cost reductions by oil and gas companies and delays on some projects,” he said in the statement.

The company, which took delivery of 23 vessels in the half to bring its fleet to 500, has sold and leased back ships to reduce debt. A plan to sell as much as 30 percent of its supply-vessel fleet will continue through next year, Lefevre said.

The Ebola epidemic in West Africa that has sickened more than 3,000 people may infect 20,000 more and cost at least $490 million to curb, according to a World Health Organization plan. Nigeria has reported at least three cases outside Lagos. [/b]
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-03/bourbon-faces-ebola-damage-in-nigeria-amid-loss-in-first-half.html?cmpid=yhoo

World war three predictions have been theorized for years and the way the world is going it may happen. It also predicted that it will start from the middle east, no surprise there.

Fulaman, I think you need to shut this thread down, its another tribal thread again: https://www.nairaland.com/1884060/attribute-average-yoruba-woman-too

sad these ISIS people are sick

Mutuwa: Innovative..naija no de carry last.

True, Nigerians are very innovative and progressive

Three students had time on their hands in the summer of 2009 when their university lecturers in Nigeria went on strike.

[b]Instead of slacking off, Ayodeji Adewunmi, Olalekan Olude and Opeyemi Awoyemi started an online job search company.

Five years later their start-up, Jobberman, has got a multi-million dollar valuation, employs 125 people, and is still growing.

While Nigeria is Africa's largest economy it still has massive unemployment problems, in particular among young people who are also more likely to be connected to the internet.

Jobberman has become the single largest job placement website in sub-Saharan Africa, helping over 35,000 people find jobs within the last two years.

The number of companies using the site to find employees has grown from about 40 in 2009 to some 35,000 today.

Carrying between 500 and 1,000 jobs on the site every day, the founders estimate that there are about 1,000 active users searching for a job at any given time.

"The growth has been tremendous, it's at rocket speed. One of the biggest challenges has been to keep up with the volume of work," says Olalekan.

Overcoming fraud fears

However, there have been other challenges along the way.

"In the beginning a lot of people did not trust an internet-based business because at that time a lot of people were using the internet to perpetuate fraud here in Nigeria," he says.

But as other online businesses thrived and became trusted, so Jobberman thrived. Companies would dip their toe in the water with one or two postings and then when they trusted the site they would come back.

In 2012 some of Jobberman's clients wanted to use the site to find workers in Ghana and so the company took its first work outside Nigeria.

Two years later it says it is now the biggest online job site in Ghana as well as Nigeria.

The company is now expanding its reach to Kenya with a partner called Brighter Monday. The partnership also gives it a footprint in Uganda and Tanzania.

'They found me'

Some people find a job through the site without actually applying for one.

Amarachi Apakama uploaded her details and was approached by a company to take the position of executive assistant at a mobile phone content company.

"That really changed my life," she says. "It was a morale booster. It helped my confidence - the fact that my interests and my experience put together such a good fit that I didn't have to apply for the job."

Multiplier effect

"It is incredibly fulfilling helping people to become economically empowered by getting job placements via Jobberman," founder Ayodeji Adewunmi says.

"One company recruited more than 80% of their employees through the site. Another time, a director was able to hire a former colleague in the United States to come and work for his company here in Lagos. All amazing stories."

Olalekan Olude adds: "If you put food on the table by virtue of getting a job for someone, that person also fends for a mother, or a brother and you create a multiplier effect within that household.

"And anytime we get to hear of such stories, we are very, very happy. It motivates us, it makes us look forward into the future and try and get more people to get more jobs."[/b]
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-29013286

I am nuetral whether Nigeria would have been or not be in the top 10 list cause sometimes you never know with Nigeria but initially After reading the thread title I thought some how the Op wanted to connect Nigeria to the list and put Nigeria in the list However after reading it was a article(not Op's personal list), it makes sense. Nigeria is not perfect and there is corruption but there are countries that are far worse then Nigeria when it comes to corruption. So I am not surprised Nigeria is not in the top ten list. Maybe a top 50 list, you'll see Nigeria pop up.