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Politics › Re: Youwin Winners To Access Funds Within 72 Days by Beaf: 11:26am On Feb 04, 2012
Rhino.5dm is gonna faint o! grin

Instead of at least submitting his ideas about catching squirrels or frying akara, he was all over the place calling it a scam (until many NL winners began stepping forward).

Poor thing. embarassed
Politics › Re: What Does The Ss/se Contribute To Nigeria? by Beaf: 2:45am On Feb 04, 2012
[size=14pt]Ogini di?[/size] grin grin grin

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Politics › Re: What Does The Ss/se Contribute To Nigeria? by Beaf: 2:41am On Feb 04, 2012
Politics › Re: Nigeria Threatens To Leave Africa! Ghanian Media Claims by Beaf: 2:34am On Feb 04, 2012
alj haram, NL's fungal infection and butt of Ghanaian jokes!
You could form a continent with boko haram. No? grin grin grin

You're like some sort of goat wearing clothes and talking about how people see you as a laughing stock. Lol!
Change your style, this 2012, no more eating grass.
Politics › Re: What Does The Ss/se Contribute To Nigeria? by Beaf: 2:20am On Feb 04, 2012
What does SE/SS produce sef?
Unu go take laf kill antelope o! grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin

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Politics › Re: What Does The Ss/se Contribute To Nigeria? by Beaf: 2:12am On Feb 04, 2012
Programming › Re: Programming Gurus I Need Ur Advice! by Beaf: 11:02pm On Feb 03, 2012
ekwah:
I am an Electrical engineering major, but hopes to combine a knowledge of computer science/develop programming skills. I hope to use online resources to teach myself,  has anyone done the same before (used online resources to learn)?Do you think it is possible to become very good using such a means? I want to start with python and know I will definitely need some help when I run into problems. Will I be able to get help from the guys here? please any tips/advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. smiley
Yes, there are a thousand and one top developers who didn't learn to code in a formal school. The biggest example is a certain Bill Gates who dropped out of Havard after enrolling with the plan to read law.

Its all in how you control your state of mind. You can do it, bruv.
Politics › Re: What Does The North Contribute To Nigeria by Beaf: 10:57pm On Feb 03, 2012
This thread should be in the tribalism section. embarassed
Programming › Re: A Site That Requires No Internet Connection To Surf! by Beaf: 9:29pm On Feb 03, 2012
Mobinga:
Cookies are set with headers you ignorant illiterate.
What a grass eating baboon!!
So, what happens if being the dimwit you are, you decide to access a cookie with clientside JavaScript? Now that wouldn't require your glorious request headers or a server call. Would it?
Headers my foot. You are truly a fool, sir and I am enjoying teaching you even if its like teaching a rock.

Dude, you can type in red font that is size, it wouldn't hide the fact that your head is empty. So now that the crap about headers has been cleared, can you take the lil IQ test? No dodging.

What is the minimum size of a website?
What is the size of the website *dhtml built? Hint; the answer requires winsh power. shocked
What is the maximum size of the pages in the website *dhtml built? Hint; the answer requires winsh power shocked
What is the minimum size of a web page?
What stops any of the above being stored in a set of cookies if of suitable size?
By the way, a couple of friends are looking for a place to store yams, stones, rocks, nails, iron rods, sand and cement. Since your head is vacant, can I rent the space? Easy cash na! grin grin grin grin grin grin

Animal go faint o!!

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Programming › Re: Simple Code Challenge: C#, Java, C, C++ by Beaf(op): 6:34pm On Feb 03, 2012
9ja4eva:
@Beaf

Guy abeg u dey good in Visual Basic 2010? I need help urgently, or can u refer me to anyone abeg?
Nah, I generally advice peeps to switch to C#. However, whats the problem?
Programming › Re: A Site That Requires No Internet Connection To Surf! by Beaf: 6:27pm On Feb 03, 2012
Mobinga:
Oh please shut up you fool, talking for the sake of it?
You're talking of saving arrays containing contents of a page to cookies? I'm saying it's not even practically possible to do that, given cookies are a max of 4096 bytes. So he would save bits in one array, append then jump to the next cookie, append? Dunce.


Besides, when did you miss this?

Can't you understand simple written English? He said Once the site loads.

You should understand something before trying to find flaws.

Talk about "people at your level" when you can't comprehend simple English.
Yes, you are talking for the sake of it. And you know what that does? It cuts you out as someone who is as incapable of critical thinking as the average frog.

*dhtml says he built a site similar to the one in question, to which I replied that the only way to do that in pre-HTML5 days would have been to use cookies. That was to suggest to him that he was very likely mistaken, but out you hopped off your tree branch like some nocturnal creature or bad winsh to argue with yourself! grin

Truly entertaining shiit! grin grin grin grin

Anyways, it is not impossible to store a website in cookies, especially if a dev has your abysmal level of intelligence.
But bruv, to prove my conclusion about your IQ wrong, lets test you IQ:

What is the minimum size of a website?
What is the size of the website *dhtml built? Hint; the answer requires winsh power. shocked
What is the maximum size of the pages in the website *dhtml built? Hint; the answer requires winsh power shocked
What is the minimum size of a web page?
What stops any of the above being stored in a set of cookies if of suitable size?

Jump up and slap yourself after you have flunked all the questions above. TAWAI!!
Sir, you make the word, stup!d seem like its a word of praise! Does it take practice and effort to be the way you are? Does it give you a headache?

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Politics › Re: Are Nigerians In Diaspora Disconnected With Nigeria? by Beaf: 6:02pm On Feb 03, 2012
efisher:
On the contrary, I think many of them even have a clearer view than those in the country. Whenever I'm outside 9ja, I tend to know more about the happenings in 9ja than my friends / family back home!
I largely agree with this.

Nigerians who have spent periods in the developed World (even if only holidays) have been exposed to the levels of organisation that would mystify the average person that has not yet been priviledged to travel.
It is this set that tends to quickly grasp that Nigeria's real problem is chaos, not corruption. They appreciate the organisational gaps in Nigeria much better and realise that simply applying patches will not solve the problem.
On the other hand, those of us at home are more given to prayer and adhoc methods to patch leaks in the system.

Experience of the orhanisational culture in developed climes does not make one a better Nigerian, though. Examples of thoroughly useless people abound that spent considerable lengths of time abroad, only to return as the biggest thieves and scam artists, eg Ibori, Ikuforiji and Tinubu.
Politics › Re: Southwest Governors Seek Better Allocation From Federation Account. by Beaf: 3:09pm On Feb 03, 2012
Has laulau Aregbesola even gone back home from Lagos from where he governs Osun by remote control yet? How can such a useless governor demand more money from the FG? He was the one who claimed only in December that he doesn't need any allocation from the FG, because he could generate much more from yams; so it is the height of hypocrisy for him to do a full about turn to ask for more.

Why are these governors so mentally lazy, laulau and useless?

Occupy your governor and LG boss. cool

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Politics › Re: PHCN Has Not Been Sold to Private Companies; Now 18 Companies Run By FG by Beaf: 3:00pm On Feb 03, 2012
GeneralGEJ:
true son of his father - Beaf - are you gay. shocked
I pity fools like you who cannot understand simple sentences, but go around cracking jokes that only make you seem increasing stup!d.
Dude, I can offer you up to scientists for research. They have been looking to crack the mystery of how completely stup!d people like you manage to exist without brains! grin grin grin grin grin grin

Give Glory, cos you are a miracle and your stup!dity proves it!

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Politics › Re: Return Our Arms - Militants To Fg by Beaf: 2:52pm On Feb 03, 2012
JTF will smoke those phuckers out. cool

Ufeolorun:
We can remove Sanusi and replace him with one of these boys cos they are now reformed and na their Oyel money dem dey keep there.

They too are entitled to [b]laulau [/b]na!
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Just like these leather-headed "laulau" peeps: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-861692.32.html#msg10112776
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Politics › Re: Southwest Governors Seek Better Allocation From Federation Account. by Beaf: 2:49pm On Feb 03, 2012
Ufeolorun:
They seriously need to stop waffling,if they are really serious about changing things how much of the 'booty' received so far have been used properly,how much resources have been devoted to Agriculture and education(our strong points).
There's no western region, there's  the  west and the former midwest! What's the point of always kissing up to people who view your actions with huge suspicion,the governors need to really sit down and stop faffing about. They should use that energy on kicking pdp out of  Kwara.Kwara to me is far more strategic and important to the commonwealth but how well are they doing in the  states they have already.
What's  happening to Olokola FTZ port that maybe give far more benefit to Ogun/Ondo,they need to sort that out.
Those who refer to us as parasite may actually have a point now if those who are supposed to chart a new course for our people are beginning to sound confused(though the oil doesn't belong to baba enikan!).[s] They are looking more like Pdp to me!It's so unacceptable cos they have all proved themselves in their personal lives.[/s]
Fiddlestick!
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[b]Laulau [/b]governors![/size]

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Politics › Re: PHCN Has Not Been Sold to Private Companies; Now 18 Companies Run By FG by Beaf: 2:42pm On Feb 03, 2012
This thread is silly.
PHCN has been unbundled into 18 companies. So? huh

In the simplest English; any part of the power infrastructure not dealing with the grid will be sold off outright. The FG will remain in control of the power grid for national security reasons.
Politics › Re: Ajaokuta Bombed By Boko Haram? by Beaf: 2:33pm On Feb 03, 2012
[size=14pt]Abu qaqa is from Kogi state. Do the math.[/size]
Politics › Re: Dead Boko Haram Member Discovered To Be A Governor's Driver by Beaf: 2:30pm On Feb 03, 2012
The OP is talking about the outbreak of civil war in boko haram with the arrest of Abu qaqa. 6 or 7 of them were killed yesterday in an internal battle.
Today, bombs have also gone off in Kogi state where Abu qaqa hailes from. That dude is a really big catch that has led to serious confusion in boko haram.

If the Borno state governors driver was one of those killed yesterday and Mr Sokoto (who escaped) was arrested in the Borno state governors lodge in Abuja. . . Then 2 + 2 = 4 cool

Remove the darn immunity clause! angry
Sports › Re: Formula One Gee-Spot 2012 by Beaf(op): 1:59pm On Feb 03, 2012
God! Please help us! embarassed
When will the parade of ugliness come to an end. Its now a contest between Caterham, Ferrari and Force India for the ugliest car.
I'm really praying now that Mercedes and Red Bull buck the reptilian trend like McLaren.

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Politics › Re: Al-mustapha’s Marriage With Boko Haram - The Inside Details by Beaf(op): 1:15am On Feb 03, 2012
The question that rankles since Monday’s verdict and the almost instant reaction from Boko Haram threatening to kill judges has been : where is the connection between a murder trial and a Jihadist movement? An answer to the question became particularly more important and urgent when, on Tuesday, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) held an emergency closed door meeting in Kaduna with the now twin agenda of Al Mustapha’s conviction and the problem of Boko Haram as the sole issue for discussion. As that meeting held, the question analysts asked was : when has the conviction of an individual become a regional problem to warrant holding an emergency meeting by a respected organisation like the ACF?
It really is curious that boko haram first threatened the judiciary and then the Sultan of Sokoto and ACF quickly called a high level meeting with just Al Mustapha and boko haram on the agenda. What is the link? Hmm!
Politics › Re: When South West Cocoa Was Developing Nigeria In The 40s And 50s . Nobody Called by Beaf: 12:44am On Feb 03, 2012
jason123:
First of all, the oil in Ondo is owned by the Ilajes not Ijaws.
Secondly, 10% of the Oil and gas in Delta state is also owned by Ilajes while 65% is owned by the Itsekiris and 25% Ijaw.
Thirdly, as physicsQED said, every state in Southern Nigeria can hold their own. The parasite argument is redundant.
And there are none in Urhobo and Isoko land or in Igbo land? Lol!
Dude, this your pretence to come from Delta state that you know zero about is quite embarrassing to genuine Deltans. You are much better of as your alter ego, alj haram.
Politics › Re: Sovereign Nairaland Conference by Beaf(op): 11:55pm On Feb 02, 2012
[quote author=Kilode?! link=topic=412959.msg10107129#msg10107129 date=1328209023]When the conference go start?

This must be when Beaf was still innocent, young and idealistic. grin

NL can spoil sha embarassed[/quote]Not NL, but reality opens eyes.
I am still idealistic as ever, but now a hardened realist whose eyes are wide open.
Politics › Al-mustapha’s Marriage With Boko Haram - The Inside Details by Beaf(op): 11:00pm On Feb 02, 2012
[size=14pt]Al-Mustapha’s marriage with Boko Haram - The inside details [/size]
Written by By Lasisi Olagunju, General Editor Friday, 03 February 2012

https://www.tribune.com.ng/images/stories/website_images/abachaforce.jpg
•Members of Al-Mustapha’s special hit squad at the end of their training in Pyongyang, North Korea. Seated 5th from left is Sergeant Barnabas Mshelia (aka Sergeant Rogers), who shot and killed Alhaja Kudirat Abiola on 4 June, 1996.

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From left: Late General Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha and former Foreign Affairs Minister, Chief Tom Ikimi, in a deep discusion in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

A foreign journalist who witnessed one of the trial sessions of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, ex- Chief Security Officer (CSO) to late General Sani Abacha, was exasperated at the deep divisions in the Nigerian polity. He wondered how a man accused of committing murder of a prominent woman would be treated as a folk hero by a part of the country represented by a section of the crowd in the court premises.

His description of the scene was gripping: “As a convoy of security trucks roared away, the crowd rushed forward, pressing their hands and faces against the barred windows of the van holding Major Al-Mustapha, crying “God is Great” in Arabic. The chanting crowd gathered around a local Imam, shouting prayers for his release, their hands raised to the sky.”  God, apparently, did not answer that prayer as Al’Mustapha was sentenced to death by hanging by a Lagos High Court judge on Monday.

Al’Mustapha was found guilty of using Sergeant Barnabas Mshelia, a member of the hit squad he controlled in the Presidential Villa to kill Alhaja Kudirat Abiola, wife of Chief MKO Abiola. During the trial, the former CSO admitted, under cross examination, that the Abacha regime had a para-military squad called the “Special Strike Force (SF), and specially-trained Bodyguards known as “BG” that were used to “contain/repel all aggressive/offensive attacks on the government.” (See photo above)

The Strike Force (SF) was created by then National Security Board (NSB) on January 2, 1995 and began work in May of that year. Its members were sent for training in Libya while the Bodyguards (BG) went to North Korea for their own trainings. The BG was made up of 300 men while the para-military Strike Force was made up of 80. The Strike Force’s commanding officer (CO), according to a former colleague of Al Mustapha, Lt. Col. Ibrahim Yakassai, was one  Lt Ikilana.

Across the far North, it was not difficult to see how the Hausa Fulani viewed the verdict as they lined up behind Al’Mustapha. The Yoruba in the South-West, where Kudirat Abiola came from, hailed the death verdict on Al’Mustapha as just and in equal measure. However, a surprising position was taken by a leader of the Niger Delta militants, Asari Dokunbo, who saw the death sentence from the prism of presidential politics and as a continuation of the attacks targeted at bringing down the Jonathan presidency. He apparently saw it as part of an agenda by the Yoruba, going by the wordings and the tone of his reaction:

“The treachery and conspiracy against Goodluck Jonathan will fail. When your man, Obasanjo, was there for eight years, he (Al’ Mustapha) didn’t get a conviction. Umar Musa Yar’adua was there, he didn’t get a conviction. Shame on you Yoruba. Your conspiracy will fail also.”

The interesting divisive politics introduced into the purely criminal trial showed how tenuous the bonds holding the nation together are. Suspicions of ethnicity and tribal politics always wrack every action of government. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Nigeria’s first and only Prime Minister, at a point in the discharge of his duties, turned to Dr Omololu Olunloyo, a Yoruba academic/political icon, to share his frustrations at dispensing justice without fear or favour. He told him:  “Dr Olunloyo, I caught an Igbo thief, but they said I cannot prosecute him unless I catch a Hausa and a Yoruba thief.” Such experience is common across all divides in Nigeria and has been a pointer to the fault lines of the country’s oneness.

[size=14pt]The question that rankles since Monday’s verdict and the almost instant reaction from Boko Haram threatening to kill judges has been : where is the connection between a murder trial and a Jihadist movement? An answer to the question became particularly more important and urgent when, on Tuesday, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) held an emergency closed door meeting in Kaduna  with the now twin agenda of Al Mustapha’s conviction and the problem of Boko Haram as the sole issue for discussion. As that meeting held, the question analysts asked was : when has the conviction of an individual become a regional problem to warrant holding an emergency meeting by a respected organisation like the ACF?[/size]

Analysts contend that if there were doubts on the linkage between the problem of Boko Haram and the several historical, unresolved issues such as the continued incarceration of Al Mustapha, that ACF meeting just cleared the fog. Thus, while Kudirat’s daughter, Hafsat, was elated by the conviction of Al Mustapha,  declaring her joy that “at last”, there was justice for her mother, a rash of angry reactions raced through the Hausa- Fulani north where Al Mustapha comes from.

However, as noted by the American-based Security Weekly magazine last week,” while undoubtedly some connections between some northern politicians and Boko Haram exist, it would be simplistic to suggest such politicians completely control Boko Haram.” That security journal analysed Boko Haram and came to a conclusion that its stated goals have remained largely fluid, while its operations, though deadly, are still regional, as the sect justifies its activities with teachings from the Quran and the Hadith.

However, Professor Muqtedar Khan, an associate professor of political science and international relations and Fellow of the US Institute of Social Policy and Understanding, in a piece which he subtitled “The Exclusivist Theology”, explained how terrorism get spread and driven by clerics through the use of Islamic sources.  He argued that some Imams choose from the Quran, the Hadith and the Sunnah what could only justify their disposition to members of other faiths, particularly Christianity.

“Islamic sources are often used by radical Imams to recruit Muslim youth to join their terrorist movements. Islamic sources, like all religious sources, are used by Muslim scholars and political elite in the service of their politics. Today, the Muslim world is divided. Some Muslims live in the West, they wish to live in the West and many Western values such as freedom of religion, thought and economic prospects attract them to the West. For other Muslims, West is the enemy that attacks and occupies it and they hate and despise. Thus, there are Muslims who love to live free in the West and then, there are those who wish to live free from the West.

“Both these groups use Islamic sources to legitimise their politics. Muslims, who condemn terrorism, point to verse 5:32 in the Quran - ‘He who kills an innocent soul is as if he has killed all of humanity’ — to argue that Islam condemns terrorism. Those who wish to advocate Jihad focus on other verses such as Quran 2:216 — ‘fighting has been enjoined upon you while you dislike it. But perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you.’

“Muslims who seek to live in peace and harmony with Christians and Jews point to verses in the Quran that praise them as people of the book and recognise their spiritual worth such as Quran 3:113-3:115 - ‘Among the people of the book, there are those who are righteous, they recite the verses of God, and pray to him, they believe in God, in the day of judgment, call people to good and forbid evil, and the good that they do will not be taken from them.’ “

There is also Prophet Muhammed’s 628AD message to St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, promising that Muslims of all ages would protect Christians and their property. (See box on page 25).

[b]As for Boko Haram, its very existence is based on a repudiation of everything western including its values and the virtues of its institutions. But it has shown that it is not completely apolitical, given its reported reaction to Al Mustapha’s death sentence and its threat to kill judges. Could it have joined the Al Mustapha  fray simply because the former CSO is a muslim? Analysts wonder if the group had forgotten that Kudirat, the woman murdered in cold blood in June 1996, was also a Muslim. They argue further that except the Hausa Fulani believe the Western wrong notion of Christian south and Muslim north, there should have not been any schism in the perception of the Muslim ummah on this matter. Islam, they say, forbids shedding of innocent blood and treats women with absolute care. So, in dabbling into this case involving lives of a southern Muslim woman (Kudirat) and a northern Muslim man (Al Mustapha), is Boko Haram not saying it is pursuing a regional agenda? Hussein Ibish, a senior Fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine, in a recent article, considers homegrown terrorism as “ a marginal phenomenon attracting fringe, alienated and isolated individuals” driven by political goals.[/b]

“Such extremists do not have a theology as such, and are largely driven by political, rather than religious ideas, although their sense of the political may be expressed through religiously-inflected language. Generally speaking, such extremists are motivated by a paranoid and chauvinist worldview akin to ethnic nationalism. This is also true of the more organised self-described “Salafist-Jihadist” groups like Al Qaeda in the Islamic world.”

While Boko Haram succeeded during the week in effectively joining Al Mustapha’s case to the politics of its operations, the whole world has woken up to the reality of the emergency the sect represents to humanity. Indeed, spokesman of the sect, Abu Qaqa, told the Guardian (of London) last Saturday that the group’s visage goes beyond Nigeria. “We look at the whole world,” he says just as the group’s operations gather better tact, strategy and precision.

To underscore the global importance of the Nigerian security challenges, United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, at the just-concluded African Union summit in Adis Ababa, said the whole world was behind Nigeria as it battles Boko Haram. Earlier, last week, a report issued by the UN said  “large quantities of weapons and ammunition from Libyan stockpiles were smuggled into the Sahel region,” the report said. The CNN listed the weapons as including “rocket-propelled grenades, explosives and even anti-aircraft artillery.”

“Some of the weapons may be hidden in the desert and could be sold to terrorist groups like al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Boko Haram or other criminal organisations,” the U.N. report said. Amidst all these, there were reports that some northern governors were funding the sect,  a charge the sect and the affected governors denied vehemently during the week. While the affected governors  distanced themselves from the sect and Boko Haram denied any link to any political party in Nigeria, it is instructive that states where the sect’s attacks had been very devastating and widespread are Borno, Yobe and Kano which were under the opposition All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP)  when the sect’s activities became overtly violent around 2009.


Indeed, an aide of one of the ex governors told The Friday Edition on Monday this week that the sect members  “were around” when his boss was in power in that particular state, but were well managed through certain institutional frameworks which reined in their activities. He, however, blamed the current state of insecurity in that particular state to “ the mismanagent of the situation by the new government.”

Could all these security challenges facing Nigeria be in fulfilment of a prophecy limiting Nigeria’s existence to 2015? Is there any link between that American prophecy and a reported 1983 CIA plot to get Nigeria broken up without hurting American interest? The Nigerian Tribune of April 13,1983 (about 29 years ago) published a secret memo referenced SS/RP3 of February 14, 1983 with the subject “Outline of US policy on Nigeria.” Part of the policy outline was a future breaking up of Nigeria with American interest protected. An interesting possible nexus between the 1983 memo and the security precipitate political issues playing out in Nigeria at the moment is the politicisation (by the North) of the murder case of the wife of Bashorun MKO Abiola, Kudirat. The 1983 memo spoke about “Operation Heartburn” and “Operation Headache”  detailing what were referred to as “wet affairs”,  one of which targetted solving “the problem” of MKO Abiola; the other targeting Chief Obafemi Awolowo who was then presidential candidate of the defunct Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN).  The recipient of that memo was then US Ambassador to Nigeria, Thomas Pickering. Although the American government that time (1983) denied those claims, describing them as patently false and absurd , Ambassador Pickering incidentally was part of the American delegation 15 years later in 1998, meeting with Abiola in detention in Abuja when he suddenly took ill and packed up right in their presence.

The American Ambassador to Nigeria at the time of MKO’s death, William Twaddel, had earlier worked with Pickering in the same embassy as political secretary when the 1983 memo was received. One of the successors of these two envoys, Ambassador John Campbell, was the one who predicted year 2015 as Nigeria’s own terminal date. Indeed, Campbell was a political counsellor  in the US embassy in Lagos between 1988 and 1990 and has been very regularly involved in the ongoing discussions on the Boko Haram and other very potent threats to the continued corporate existence of Nigeria such as the last fuel subsidy crisis and the threat by the Niger Delta to break away from Nigeria in the event of anything happening to the government of their “son,” Goodluck Jonathan. Campbell has repeatedly, in recent weeks, advised the American government not to do anything that would hurt its traditional friends in the North.

Looking again at Boko Haram, Campbell last week (Wednesday 25 January, 2012) noted that unlike MEND, Boko Haram is more focused on political power. “This, (the Boko Haram problem) reflects concerns by the Northern elite that Jonathan’s decision to end an informal agreement to alternate presidential power between the Muslim North and Christian South before the 2011 presidential elections will exclude the North from any possibility of future control of the state.

Further, there is a radical Islamic dimension to Boko Haram’s fight, focused on “justice” for the common people vis-à-vis the resource-rich, corrupt state. Some of the group’s operatives have adopted a violent stance against the “evil” Federal Government. Its attacks against police stations are far bloodier than those MEND ever committed in the Delta.

“If the Jonathan government persists in dealing with Boko Haram as a security issue without acknowledging and addressing the political dimension to the insurrection, it is likely that the conflict will intensify. The impotence of the police, military and security services so far indicates that the Abuja government does not have the ability or resources to destroy Boko Haram.

Although the Jonathan government is looking for help from the international community, there is little evidence that additional security resources can turn the tide.

“Money will not solve the Boko Haram problem, and a political settlement would require a restructuring of Nigerian politics that would be difficult for any presidential administration to achieve. Some political and civil society leaders are calling for a “sovereign national conference” that would review the fundamental political and economic issues at stake and draw up a new constitution. While this type of radical course has been unacceptable to those who run the central government, in the end they may have no choice,” Campbell declared.

While the politics of Al Mustapha’s conviction fuse into the larger (yet undefined)  goals of Boko Haram, some key figures up North have adopted very interesting middle -of -the -road position on the matter. One of those northern leaders is Nasir El Rufai, a former minister who is increasingly taking on the toga of opposition leader from the north. On his twitter handle on Monday, he expressed optimism that Al Mustapha could regain his freedom, if he went on appeal.

“ Al-Mustapha and Shofoluwe have been convicted of the murder of Kudirat Abiola after more than 12 years of detention. They can appeal. There is nothing religious or ethnic about the convictions. We should desist from making them so. The convictions can be quashed on appeal.

While I am personally against capital punishment, the law now allows it. Kudirat was killed. She was a mother and wife. Justice must prevail. Those who condemn or celebrate the convictions are both wrong. Law must be upheld. The 12 year detention is wrong and some compensation due! Every conviction for murder MUST be automatically appealed, and can, on points of law, be quashed, between 2-4 years from now!”

Al Mustapha has since appealed that death verdict while discussions on the Nigerian national question continue.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/politics/35360-al-mustaphas-marriage-with-boko-haram-the-inside-details
Politics › Re: When South West Cocoa Was Developing Nigeria In The 40s And 50s . Nobody Called by Beaf: 10:54pm On Feb 02, 2012
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So why was his party destabilising the Oba of Benin with Ogboni?
It is ok to yap that you know history while all you are doing is revising it.
Politics › Re: Breaking News: Boko Haram In Disarray As Sect Members Kill Each Other by Beaf: 10:52pm On Feb 02, 2012
Civil war in boko haram. LOLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!
Politics › Re: Breaking News: Boko Haram In Disarray As Sect Members Kill Each Other by Beaf: 10:50pm On Feb 02, 2012
It is the Abu qaqa syndrome! That arrest must be causing them to kill each other to keep secrets secret. Nice!!! cool
Sports › Re: Formula One Gee-Spot 2012 by Beaf(op): 10:46pm On Feb 02, 2012
montelik:
Wow d season hasn't even  begun and Lewis is back to his old tricks making enemies of fellow drivers  shocked. Somethings never change.  grin

Lewis is lucky he patched things up Massa and Sutil's F1 career could well be over, or he would have 2 separate drivers ready to push him into a ditch at their own expense.  grin grin
You mean he should have gone to defend Sutils stabbing of another person from a rival team? What if there had been loss of life as it was a neck wound? Nobody wants a potential murderer as a friend.
Lets not start the season with these low stories, abeg. This is the exciting part of pre-season cars are being released and speculation is a full circus; I don't wanna miss my ticket and a front seat. . . Ferrari and Force India reveal their steeds tomorrow.
Politics › Re: When South West Cocoa Was Developing Nigeria In The 40s And 50s . Nobody Called by Beaf: 10:37pm On Feb 02, 2012
sheyguy:
that link has been ön this thread since page 1. Keep the denial up ehn. . . . Lolu posted same link but used it to support a different claim. U r the one on burukutu here.
But the pic in the link only mentions palm oil na!
Abi you don add kpoi to di burukutu?

Shuuuuuuuuuu!!!! Oghene me biko o! grin grin grin grin grin grin
Politics › Re: When South West Cocoa Was Developing Nigeria In The 40s And 50s . Nobody Called by Beaf: 10:27pm On Feb 02, 2012
sheyguy:
Oga see*noevil, ur post ön indonesia and malaysia is the rubbish of the year. That palm oil forms part of their GDP which happens to be greater than that of Ghana and CIV's GDP  proves nothing, the context still remains Nigeria.
Record presented by ekt_bear clearly shows that Cocoa was miles ahead of every other product. Ur arguments are not based on fact in the Nigerian context but incoherent deductions from unrelated cöntext and doctored source.
Like i said earlier palm oil was one of the first to be given priority and that was because the Machines needed to process palm oil to international standard and form could only come from the whites.

@ Oga beaf, u tried selling the idea that royal niger co. was into crude oil in another thread and i busted u, now u r trying to be smarter than urself again.
Since I posted the very same document as I posted today, it is clear that you have been remorselessly imbibing the wrong dosages of burukutu again. I think your fingers are staggering on your keyboard.

Saddening. embarassed
Politics › Re: When South West Cocoa Was Developing Nigeria In The 40s And 50s . Nobody Called by Beaf: 10:17pm On Feb 02, 2012
The percentage of oil Edo and Ondo states produce is like 3% and 1%. Also, Ondo states oil is in Ijaw territory.
There is some Bitumen in Lagos and Ogun though and maybe some heavy crude.

The Se also has more oil and gas than the SW, I am not sure if Anambra has more gas than Delta (between those two is Nigeria's gas champ).

The above is a more factual position on oil and gas in Nigeria than the hopes and dreams we have seen so far.

The bottomline of this argument is the sad state of the Nigerian mind that holds that we have to depend on natural resources. As I keep saying, everybody occupy your resources and invest in your people as a resource. True federalism is the only hope for the country.
Politics › Re: Former Militant, Boyloaf, Becomes Presidential Envoy by Beaf: 10:02pm On Feb 02, 2012
I want to ask the question: Why exactly are some of our leather-headed friends questioning the choice of Boyloaf to inspect the militants training facilities? Una be militant? Na una dem wan train? Wetin konsain una?
Bad bele is an evil spirit! grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin

Funny stuff! grin

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