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CrimeRe: Absu Gang violation: Victim Agreed To Be violated – Police by arsenefc: 11:05pm On Oct 08, 2011
^^^^


Visas arent for fuglies. No worries, no Nigerian man is gonna r/a/p/e you.
RomanceRe: Which Condom Is The Best? Married Only! by arsenefc: 10:53pm On Oct 08, 2011
eghost247:
Dude said he is married
I know. When I am married, I still plan to abstain because you lose less energy and you can channel the saved energy into something better like starting a business, getting to connect with your wife emotionally, rather than carnally, etc
RomanceRe: Which Condom Is The Best? Married Only! by arsenefc: 10:48pm On Oct 08, 2011
Abstinence is always the best policy.


Abstain!
PoliticsRe: What Economic Crunch? by arsenefc: 10:40pm On Oct 08, 2011
^^^ f/a/g/g/o/t
PoliticsRe: Are Overseas-based Posters ( Like Eku/ekt Bear, Kobojunkie) Small-minded? by arsenefc(op): 10:14pm On Oct 08, 2011
tpia@:
What happened to fstranger's crush on kobojunkie.

Thought he was chasing kobojunkie for s.ex before.

The guy opened a number of threads to that effect.
I found out from those who know Kobo, that Kobo is indeed a man, a grown arse man for that matter. And I dont do men
CrimeRe: Absu Gang violation: Victim Agreed To Be violated – Police by arsenefc: 10:13pm On Oct 08, 2011
Seun:
Acording to the law of Nigeria, even if she "consented", if the consent was obtained by force, threats, etc,then it's still violation. [size=18pt] These idiots dont read the laws they enforce[/size].
How can you not read and understand " the laws you enforce (to make sure that a law or rule is obeyed by people )?"

Secondly, as long as no one puts a gun to your head, you cant claim to have been forced to consent.
PoliticsRe: Nigerians Will Stop Using Generators Soon- FG by arsenefc: 10:02pm On Oct 08, 2011
dustydee:
a generator is what produces the power you use in London. Without power generators there will be no electricity. And as you know(which I doubt since you don't know what a generator is) most of our modern day devices such as electronics and the computer or phone you used to ask this question run on electricity. In Nigeria, instead of having a central generator in the power plants that generates electricity for everyone, the roles are reserved and virtually everyone has a generator at home and generate their own electricity, that way they don't have to rely on anyone and control when they have electricity.(it's kinda flexible but more expensive, we are richer than Londoners that's why we chose this option) I hope that answers your question? if it doesn't you can use google or wikipedia. ciao. wink
Thank you.

WHat is the difference between a generator and a v/i/b/r/a/t/o/r? My sugar mummy and my escort told me that their v/i/b//r/a/t/o/r/s can generate a lot of power? Is is the same power that you "is" talking about?
PoliticsRe: Jonathan Is Clean, Honest – Wikileaks Quotes El-rufai by arsenefc: 9:55pm On Oct 08, 2011
2mch:
Did you get a new job? you were quite neutral. undecided
I am always neutral. The guy looks clean, no be so?
PoliticsRe: Jonathan Is Clean, Honest – Wikileaks Quotes El-rufai by arsenefc: 9:48pm On Oct 08, 2011
doctokwus:
^^^Where is your proof dat he was "clean"
Does he look dirty to you?

His clothes are always well ironed and there is no evidence he has body odor or halitosis. I think he is clean too, No?
PoliticsRe: Nigerians Will Stop Using Generators Soon- FG by arsenefc: 9:37pm On Oct 08, 2011
What is a generator?

I live in London, I dont know what a generator is
PoliticsRe: Gbenga Daniel Allocated Choice Lands To Judge And Aides by arsenefc: 9:34pm On Oct 08, 2011
~Bluetooth:
He sold everything in ogun state including olumo rock .can you imagine ?
At least, we thank god, he didnt sell you.
PoliticsRe: Are Overseas-based Posters ( Like Eku/ekt Bear, Kobojunkie) Small-minded? by arsenefc(op): 5:51pm On Oct 08, 2011
Yeah, I think they all are annoying as hell and small minded!
PoliticsAre Overseas-based Posters ( Like Eku/ekt Bear, Kobojunkie) Small-minded? by arsenefc(op): 5:50pm On Oct 08, 2011
Are overseas-based columnists small-minded?





Are overseas-based columnists small-minded?

By Levi Obijiofor

Friday, 7 October 2011

One of the commonest criticisms directed most frequently against Nigerian newspaper columnists and posters who write from their overseas locations is the notion that they lack comprehensive knowledge and understanding of national issues to facilitate authoritative and critical analysis of such matters. I am one of those overseas-based columnists. I must admit also that, as a columnist, I have been the butt of public criticisms based on the idea that commentators who reside in foreign places have superficial knowledge of national issues. These uncultivated assumptions about the narrow-minded perspectives of overseas-based Nigerian newspaper columnists deserve to be interrogated.

In this age of new technologies, knowledge of local and international affairs cannot be restricted to a writer’s geographic location. This clarification is important because of the grand illusion held by some people that Nigerians in the Diaspora cannot engage in insightful and meaningful analysis of national events. The new media environment that has spawned multiple channels of news and entertainment, as well as 24-hour news cycle, has indeed encouraged and empowered ordinary citizens and socio-political organisations across the globe to participate in news reporting and analysis and to influence how the public perceives social reality.

The idea that only people who reside in Nigeria are equipped with acceptable knowledge to comment on national events must be challenged because it is misleading. Knowledge is open and cannot be appropriated by anyone. We live not in the authoritarian age in which knowledge is presumed to be difficult and therefore available to a few privileged people. In the new electronic environment in which news and information travel faster than they used to do, geographical distance no longer constitutes a barrier to knowledge acquisition. Overseas-based columnists who comment regularly on issues relating to Nigeria should not be regarded as dunderheads who lack basic information about what is happening in the country.

The plethora of online discussion groups and web sites set up by Nigerians in the Diaspora is surely evidence of the profundity of interest shown by Nigerians (whether they are resident overseas or at home) on matters that relate to their homeland. Consider also those who engage in the production of personal blogs not necessarily of events that occur in their places of residence but well documented accounts of developments in Nigeria.



Can anyone argue persuasively that overseas-based Nigerian newspaper columnists, as well as online discussion groups, websites and personal blogs are not contributing significantly to the process of national development or that they do not play a role in the democratisation of our society through critical appraisal of national events and the people entrusted with the task of governing the country?

While technology has reduced our world to a small village, it has not reduced our ability to scrutinise our national leaders and the institutions that serve our society. The use of new communication technologies for participatory communication in the public sphere contributes also to the development of deliberative democracy in developing and developed countries. Indeed, Jane B. Singer, a renowned journalism academic at the University of Iowa in the United States, once wrote that “In a world as tightly interconnected and interdependent as ours has become, we are poorly served by a myopic view of the place in which we live.” One significant outcome of technological changes in the new media scene is increasing participatory communication and civic deliberation by citizens through wider use of technologies.

Rather than mock the contributions that Nigerians in the Diaspora make to the development of our nation through public sphere discussions in traditional and online media, we should be exploring how a greater number of ordinary citizens can use the platform of traditional media (such as independent newspapers and magazines) and digital media (like mobile phones, e-mail and social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr) to participate in the public sphere and to communicate news of national and international events to a global audience.

The impressive ability of Nigerians in the Diaspora to report or comment on news events that occur at home shows that technological changes have not limited their capacity to record, report and analyse news. In our world of new media, maintaining a newspaper column is no longer restricted to people who reside in the country. If an event is not reported by home-based journalists and columnists, it does not mean the event never happened. Nigerians in the Diaspora are now fully equipped and are contributing to online and traditional media contents, including setting the agenda of public policy and media debate.

The relationship between traditional or new media and greater citizen participation in the democratic process in both western and non-western cultures has been underscored. Traditional media and new media serve as engines that galvanize public interest and participation in modern democracies. In a developing country such as Nigeria, popular participation in media discourse must be viewed as a veritable condition for civic engagement and socioeconomic development. Through discussion in newspaper spaces, for example, columnists and other contributors promote a healthy democracy (e.g. freedom of expression and respect for human rights), and facilitate critical public assessment of the performance of political leaders.

If everyone must participate in the democratic process, the media must furnish everyone with essential information. Information is vital to how we make judgments about our political leaders, about our own welfare and about the state of the nation. Newspaper columnists and other public commentators on national affairs, regardless of where they reside, represent official and unofficial watchdogs of national political leaders. In performing this role, they provide valuable service to the nation because, in true democratic spirit, political leaders must be scrutinised to ensure they remain accountable to the society they claim to serve. Unfortunately, we live in a society in which critical comments in the media are perceived as instruments designed to destroy the careers of politicians and public office holders.

It seems to me that our national leaders have not yet learnt how to absorb critical comments which are, in general, intended to compel the leaders to change their errant ways in order that they can lead the nation in a productive direction.

In the introduction to their edited book entitled Deliberation, Democracy, and the Media, Simone Chambers and Anne Costain argued: “Healthy democracies need a healthy public sphere where citizens (and elite) can exchange ideas, acquire knowledge and information, confront public problems, exercise public accountability, discuss policy options, challenge the powerful without fear of reprisals, and defend principles.”

Although newspaper columnists serve as overseers of government officials, one of the problems with public reliance on traditional media as sources of information is poor performance by the media. Public cynicism and distrust of the media as the pipelines of credible and reliable information has continued to grow in Nigeria and elsewhere.

General scepticism over media performance has developed partly because the mainstream media are seen to serve the interests of the elite more than the interests of the common people. Karin Barber made the point forcefully in her review of popular arts in Africa 24 years ago. In that article which was published in African Studies Review journal (1987), she wrote: “In Africa ordinary people tend to be invisible and inaudible… Newspapers, radio and television offer a magnified image of the class that controls them. Not only does the ruling elite make the news, it is the news – as endless verbatim reports of politicians’ speeches, accounts of elite weddings and birthday parties, and the pages and pages of expensive obituaries testify.” This view captures vividly the media situation in Nigeria.

While I cannot defend any overseas-based writer’s one-dimensional examination of national issues driven by self-serving objectives, it would be improper to accept the argument that columnists who do not reside in Nigeria are ill equipped to comment on home-based events. Newspaper columnists who are sincerely driven by the desire to change society for the good of humanity cannot engage in deliberate dissemination of falsehood or uncritical acceptance of the performance of national leaders. Regardless of their place of residence, columnists cannot analyse authoritatively events that occur in their society without possessing credible knowledge and understanding of their country’s historical background and cultural practices. To write without well informed knowledge of a country is a disservice to a society.
CrimeRe: Absu Gang violation: Victim Agreed To Be violated – Police by arsenefc: 5:12pm On Oct 08, 2011
ogugua88:
I suggest spiked condoms. The same anti-violation spiked condoms that were distributed in South Africa. The only people knowing how to remove those condoms are doctors. This is one gang-violation case out of several. Let's not forget that. Since Nigeria wants to continue to demoralize and degrade itself to the level of barbarians, or pass barbarians sef. I guess barbaric measures should be implemented.
And what do you think Naija men would do?

Siddon dey look?

Either way you look at it, women will be the worse for it.
SportsRe: AFCON Qualifier: Nigeria Vs Guinea Conakry (2 - 2) On 8th October 2011 by arsenefc: 4:17pm On Oct 08, 2011
musiwa.,.:
the issue is some of this nigeria player do not have good rating. the second goal is the fault of the man in the right. not the goal keeper.

the middle field is weak. you need someone with the skill of oliseh in the middle field. you dont have it in the team. you need obafemi martin in the attack. this boys dont have confident yet. Taye taiwo sometime have to move forward to join the attack. some his rating, it will help the team. so, instead of just remaining at the back, anytime we are attacking taye taiwo should always move into the other people end of the field in the middle. that way if the loss the ball. and he get back the ball. he has a good rating of crossing the ball.
Long Live Egbon Musiwa
RomanceRe: So Why Do Girls Run From Moi? by arsenefc: 4:00pm On Oct 08, 2011
beejaei:
I have been on this forum for a fairly long time, so I know how people behave. People with insecurities just come here to make themselves feel better by convincing themselves that something is wrong with others. And I always come prepared, fire for fire, oloshi people
You still didnt get laid last night, I can tell

Again, get a wipe and wipe the sh1t off your arse and girls will stop running away from you
SportsRe: AFCON Qualifier: Nigeria Vs Guinea Conakry (2 - 2) On 8th October 2011 by arsenefc: 3:43pm On Oct 08, 2011
so we are struggling to beat Guinea again?


On our phocking shoil?
CrimeRe: Man Arrested For Raping 80-year-old Woman by arsenefc: 3:38pm On Oct 08, 2011
BootyOnMe:
May God send 50 smelling, AIDS-infected Abia ra-pists to sodomize all your mothers even in their graves for calling my name.
Ijjjjiots!
Blazay, why curse na?


No cursing here ooo, just phocking and VJJ sniffing?
CrimeRe: Absu Gang violation: Victim Agreed To Be violated – Police by arsenefc: 8:03am On Oct 08, 2011
Outstrip:
ANIMALS. Useless country. What a disgrace. Shame. Shame. Shame. Wow. This man very obviously is a despoiler. He most likely Desecrates his wife and thinks it is okay because she did not kick his Bottom. What a dumb Bottom. This scares me because any man that says that it was not violation is a despoiler. If you know the details of this crime and still say you are not sure or that it is not violation then it means that they can violation. You have to know that something is bad to not do it. Shame on Nigeria. That country is a jungle. Honestly I see animals doing a better job.
Really?

You like this stuff:

http://www.dogtied.com/video/602/lady-bleeps-her-horse-cock-then-swallows-his-load
CrimeRe: Absu Gang violation: Victim Agreed To Be violated – Police by arsenefc: 7:47am On Oct 08, 2011
ogugua88:
There's no amount of holy oil that can cure your madness. I hope your daughters don't suffer this girl's fate.
Well hopefully, you dont suffer the girl's fate.

I hope to never have a daughter, if I do, I am gonna give her up for adoption. I am misogynistic BTW
CrimeRe: Absu Gang violation: Victim Agreed To Be violated – Police by arsenefc: 7:25am On Oct 08, 2011
ogugua88:
But did you not read what I said? I clearly said that filming without her consent is a different legal issue of its own so that no one would take that issue and digress. *coughs*

"Ay Papi" means "hey daddy". "Oui, c'est bon" means "yes, it's good". I wonder how many women shout "kill me" when they're ENJOYING intimacy. Na wa. Don't go into law, abeg.
SOme people claim that o/r/g/a/s/m is like being in heaven. . . how do you get to heaven without dying?
CrimeRe: Absu Gang violation: Victim Agreed To Be violated – Police by arsenefc: 7:00am On Oct 08, 2011
Wilfred_ng:
This is one of the most outrageous story i have ever heard in this country. What has our security agents turned into?
Actually, this is one one of the least outrageous I have heard/seen



I have seen 10 guys use "amudo" on a girl. Lots and lots of stories.
CrimeRe: Absu Gang violation: Victim Agreed To Be violated – Police by arsenefc: 6:55am On Oct 08, 2011
dademola:
i dey find d video bad bad. tsnt on youtube again. can anybody help?? undecided cry
How bad do you want it


Send me 100 dollars and I will get it for you in a jiffy
CrimeRe: Absu Gang violation: Victim Agreed To Be violated – Police by arsenefc: 6:54am On Oct 08, 2011
ogugua88:
Did Kim Kardashian consent to sex or was she screaming "kill me" in her own too?
That is not the point my dear. Your argument that I responded to was about the whole thing being filmed. I dont like when people shift the goal post. I dont like it at all.

And secondly, WRT her screaming "kill me"

Women all over the world say that and many other unprintable stuff in the throes of hot s/e/x.  I have observed some North American women say 'Oh Jesus' or 'Oh God' even if they are not Christian, or not religious; some will also say "phuck me." I have heard a Mexican say "Ay Papi" and a French woman say "Oui, c'est bon" while being r/a/p/e/d. you have to realize that some of these things can be very individual, what she said in the throes of her escapade is not pertinent to proving r/a/p/e here. It is inconsequential, especially if she has said such things in the past while having consensual s3x.

Also, action speaks louder than voice. Talk is cheap. Anyone can say anything, the fact is she did not make any attempt to resist those guys.
PoliticsRe: Why Are African Leaders So Easy To Influence? by arsenefc: 6:36am On Oct 08, 2011
This thread is hilarious

LOL
FamilyRe: Father Disowns Daughter Publicly ( With Photo ) by arsenefc: 6:28am On Oct 08, 2011
Jakumo:
As a purely humanitarian gesture, I am prepared to adopt this wayward girl, in order that I may correct her sinful ways.

Before my final decision on this urgent matter, I will need to carefully inspect a bikini shot of the young lady, so as to ascertain how well she will work under me, or canine-style, whichever she finds more convenient. 

Praise the Lord !
Arent you in like your 60s?

Can you still do 'sointin'

Or you just like digging your own grave?

Leave those young girls to energetic young men like me. Focus on your age mates.
CrimeRe: Absu Gang violation: Victim Agreed To Be violated – Police by arsenefc: 6:18am On Oct 08, 2011
sizzlers:
I ve just re-watch the video now, [size=18pt]though i see no signs of physical abuse like bruises or sth and the girl dosent seem to be repulsive either[/size]. Who is dis Nonso!,
Interesting!

Me too I didn see any sign of dyyck going in and out, maybe there was no penetration at all.

Wow, your reasoning is the most demented I have come across in my life and I have come across a lot of people on 5 different continents. Your stupidity takes the cake!
CrimeRe: Absu Gang violation: Victim Agreed To Be violated – Police by arsenefc: 6:16am On Oct 08, 2011
dayokanu:
Prince, did you hear where the girl[b] asked the men to kill her[/b] ?? That doesn't sound like consensual sex to me
Women all over the world say that and many other unprintable stuff in the throes of hot s/e/x. Some say  phock me, spank me, kill me and all sorts of thing in the middle of hot s3x. At least thats what my friends who have had s3x tell me, I am still a virgin BTW.

Also, action speaks louder than voice. Talk is cheap. Anyone can say anything, the fact is she did not make any attempt to resist those guys.
FamilyRe: Father Disowns Daughter Publicly ( With Photo ) by arsenefc: 5:08am On Oct 08, 2011
aloy/emeka:
If the picture above is that of a male, will you accuse him of being a LovePeddler?. Why must women be subjected to total disrespect whenever issues like this come up?. There are many reasons the man made such move.

Reasons like:
1. She refused to listen to him and married who she wants
2. She refused to attend his church
3. She refused to hate those he hates
4. She refused to sleep with him
5. She refused to give him money
6. She converted to Islam and he hates muslims
etc etc etc

Please learn to treat women with respect because I am sure you wouldn't have called her the town bicycle if she is male.
Go girl

Show that American born Confused Naija how its done. No common sense at all. no mind am.
CrimeRe: Absu Gang violation: Victim Agreed To Be violated – Police by arsenefc: 5:03am On Oct 08, 2011
Ileke-IdI:
If she consented, it's Nigeria's fault. She's a product of Nigeria's economy and leadership.

I doubt she consented tho, simply Naija's police being bribed to say shoit without proper investigation.
They were bribed? With how much?

Thanks for that info Ileke?
PoliticsRe: Edo Voters Sing New Song Ahead 2012 by arsenefc: 4:49am On Oct 08, 2011
Of course, from The Nation Newspaper, propaganda of the lowest calibre
CrimeRe: Absu Gang violation: Victim Agreed To Be violated – Police by arsenefc: 3:50am On Oct 08, 2011
kabukabu:
Rough s.ex with 5 guys at a time, I hope thats not how you came into this world. grin
Even if that was how I came to this world,How does it affect the topic at hand.


Unlike you, I dont personalize issues. Grow up and stop acting childish on the internet.

That said, how I wish you could say that to my face. . . I know, liver no go gree you.

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