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Politics › Re: Freedom Of Information Bill Passed, Sent To President For Approval! by Beaf(op): 1:46pm On May 25, 2011

Demdem:
This is a good development no doubt however rejoice not yet Beaf. its not GEJ initiative in the first instance and he is yet to accent to the bill also.
However, i will like to know the full content of this bill itself. Can anyone help out? I simply dont trust these house guys. They are rogues in my books.

This is funny sir! GEJ pushed the bill through parliament, so why wouldn't he sign it?
The next bill we await is the PIB. . . Fingers crossed. wink

Good things are coming!

Nairaland General › Re: The Programming Section Of Nl Is Now Bloody Worthless by Beaf(op): 1:29pm On May 25, 2011

Oh! I thought the thread had been deleted. Been looking for it a couple of days now.

Seun:
So apart from Fayimora and kodewrita, who else is volunteering? Because that's what really matters,

On the qualities of a mod, we need a person who is buffed, steeped in, groomed, baptized and washed in IT.
I would have volunteered, but I'm always in the politics section am not sure of what the goals of the programming section are. IMHO, it should be a 100% quality and technical with little scope for fuzz, a place where skills can be learnt and challenged; algorithms proferred, beaten and discussed; solutions given to coding or architectural problems. Such would surely pull me out of the politics section!

What are your goals for the programming section?

Politics › Re: Think Only Fashola & Amaechi Are Doing Wonders? Check Out Sule Lamido In Jigawa by Beaf: 1:02pm On May 25, 2011

^
Dude, the address you gave didn't work.

Politics › Re: Presidency Slashes National Assembly Budget By N112b by Beaf(op): 12:57pm On May 25, 2011

monkeyleg:
~~enyojo has a point~~, how much of the reduction actually affects the salaris they are paid? Lets not forget that each of these people earn enough each month to pay 878 people the minimum wage, that is if Greedy wicked governors will ever let that happen.

How can that be right, in any same society how can that be right

For now, I will give Goody a little part on the back

Shaving off 112billion from the lawmakers N232 billion is to be commended. Its a good point to start curtailing the wild expenses of the NASS from. IMHO, we each need to keep the decibels up on the rubbish going on in the NASS where men who don't give a toss about the country collect astonishing amounts of money for doing absolute jack all.

Politics › Re: Think Only Fashola & Amaechi Are Doing Wonders? Check Out Sule Lamido In Jigawa by Beaf: 12:39pm On May 25, 2011

This article gives a good perspective on Jigawa and how Lamido thinks. Lets note that Jigawa is about Nigeria's poorest with a poverty rating of 95% as given by the CBN, yet Lamido has taken the state by the scruff of the neck and is actually building something that competes with older, more established states (North and South).
There are several skills building and poverty alleviation schemes, but lets leave that for later (or someone else). Here's the intro to Jigawa:

[size=14pt]DUTSE: DUSTING OFF A POOR PAST[/size]

Dutse
There are now highrise buildings in Dutse, Jigawa State capital. They rose in bits, brick by brick until they began touching and nudging the navel of low lying clouds. Before Dutse dropped its garb as a local government headquarters on May 29, 1991, it was only a dot on the map of another state, Kano. It was one of those little, lonely places one zoomed past on his way to somewhere else more real. In those days, Dutse was that dusty hamlet where a horde of raggedly kids clutching begging bowls ran after your car and you accelerated mischievously, left and forgot them in a blaze of dust.

Growing pain
But out of that dust, a big city is gradually rising. To mould the city, villages of mud houses and straw roofs, shanties and lean-tos had to be knocked down. They had to give way for asphalt roads, modern, befitting housing projects, re-mapped streets and sewage. As expected, a Babel of protest rose. Some of those directly affected alleged it was the policy of the party in power to drive non- card members out of town.

. . .

Much more here: http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvnews/17338/1/dutse-dusting-off-a-poor-past.html

Politics › Re: Think Only Fashola & Amaechi Are Doing Wonders? Check Out Sule Lamido In Jigawa by Beaf: 12:26pm On May 25, 2011

OAM4J: Am impressed!!!

looks like the guy is a silent achiever.

Apart from the good roads and health facilities am particular impressed with the tri-cycle assembly plant

www.nairaland.com/attachments/218850_jigawa_JPG39e39e87ee911fd161aad063feae6290

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-379261.0.html

Politics › Re: Think Only Fashola & Amaechi Are Doing Wonders? Check Out Sule Lamido In Jigawa by Beaf: 12:21pm On May 25, 2011

chuks01:
is it not this governor that locked up a facebook critics , if he is the one then he is no where a good governor, if he likes let him build 1 million houses he is a bigot to me.

Are you still saying this after seeing the mayhem the almajiri's unleashed on the country after the last elections? shocked

Here is a man who is a Northerner and fully understands how religion is used by their elite to skew and corrupt political opinion toward often violent outcomes. He saw what the bigots were rallying on facebook and acted with a big stick. I say, well done sir!

We need new leaders from the abundant young crop in the North, and Sule Lamido stands out like a colossus.

Politics › Re: Think Only Fashola & Amaechi Are Doing Wonders? Check Out Sule Lamido In Jigawa by Beaf: 12:14pm On May 25, 2011

I feel inclined to repost this from an earlier thread:

Beaf: It is the focus on alternative energy that I am most impressed with. That is the way Nigeria should be going, I would really love to contribute to the efforts in that direction; much more can be done.
Lamido is doing very well from the little I can see. Jigawa is a new state that requires this sort of cando attitude.

https://lh4.ggpht.com/_f7u9OjJRUxg/S0aNLcPkIcI/AAAAAAAAAco/eb9WnB4kqGg/s640/DSCF2713.JPG

Politics › Re: Think Only Fashola & Amaechi Are Doing Wonders? Check Out Sule Lamido In Jigawa by Beaf: 11:52am On May 25, 2011

The road doesn't look completed to me, so sidewalks are likely to be placed later.

@13volt
I would have expected you to start by with a brief history of how Jigawa was little more than a few scattered settlements that have now seen an almost miraculous transformation in a few short years under Lamido.
Housing shouldn't have been your first example. There are several ground breaking schemes he has introduced, such as training people in renewable energy, his tricycle assembly plant etc.

Lamido is a miracle worker, do him proud if you are pointing him out. And don't bother replying bigots who only know about Nigeria from google and ask about IGR and budgets.

Politics › Re: Freedom Of Information Bill Passed, Sent To President For Approval! by Beaf(op): 2:45am On May 25, 2011

Fresh Air!!! cool

Politics › Freedom Of Information Bill Passed, Sent To President For Approval! by Beaf(op): 2:44am On May 25, 2011

[size=14pt]Lawmakers send information bill to president for approval[/size]
BY INI EKOTT
May 25, 2011 12:14AM

The Freedom of Information Bill, passed early this year by the National Assembly, is inches away from becoming law after both chambers yesterday finally approved a harmonised version.

A few days before the end of the current administration, the longstanding document now awaits only presidential assent to become law, the crucial stage it failed to scale after a similar passage in 2007.

Lawmakers finalised work on the bill yesterday after the house of representatives and the senate separately agreed with a conference report that reconciled differences in the bills passed by the two chambers in February this year.

“We said we were going to pass it and we have done it,” said Ayogu Eze, the chairman Senate committee on Media.

Work on the bill was restarted afresh by the outgoing assembly after former President Olusegun Obasanjo refused to append his signature to the one passed by the last legislature in the twilight of his administration.

Almost four years after that setback, the House of Representatives passed the bill. It has been renamed the Right of Information Bill 2011.

The bill is expected to allow Nigerians easy access to information on government activities.

It provides right of access to public information or records kept by governments, public institutions or private bodies carrying out public functions for Nigerians, while protecting public officers who disclose information under the law.

The bill also compels public offices to keep accurate and up-to-date records of their activities and provide absolute access to applicants who do not need to demonstrate any specific interest in the information being requested.

A matter of bureaucracy

The document was first introduced in 1999 as a non-member bill sponsored by the Media Rights Agenda, a non-governmental organisation.

After the House passage, officials of Mr Jonathan’s government said they believed he would be disposed to signing the bill and ending its long journey to becoming law.

But with barely days to the end of the administration, there are concerns over whether the president, already faced with a backlog of unattended bills, will append his signature soon enough to forestall a relapse of the legislation.

That state of affairs is also complicated by a bureaucratic transmission of completed bills from the national assembly to the president. Lawmakers yesterday refused to state when the document would be sent to Mr Jonathan. The president still has the Climate Change Commission bill before him, sent since December 2010.

He is expected to receive the 2011 budget amendment currently being worked on by the lawmakers.

The Speaker of the House, Dimeji Bankole, said in March that the president would be “reminded” to sign the bill after its passage.

As the House winds down its sixth assembly, it announced on Tuesday that 145 bills had been passed between 2007 and date, out of a total 481 that it received.

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/5704566-147/story.csp

Politics › Re: Presidency Slashes National Assembly Budget By N112b by Beaf(op): 2:37am On May 25, 2011

It is still too much money, but its a start.
We MUST eventually get to the point where NASS members are paid per actual seating of the house or senate; or even better, based on performance (number and quality of laws passed).

Politics › Presidency Slashes National Assembly Budget By N112b by Beaf(op): 2:34am On May 25, 2011

[size=14pt]Presidency slashes National Assembly budget by N112b[/size]
By Onyedi Ojiabor1 hour ago

President Goodluck Jonathan has signed the 2011 Appropriation Bill into law.

But the amount to be spent in this fiscal year is N4.407,052,200,582 trillion, down from the N4.971 trillion passed by the National Assembly.

The President slashed N464 billion from the amount passed by the National Assembly.

Jonathan also reduced the National Assembly budget to N120 billion from N232 billion.

House of Representatives Speaker Dimeji Bankole, announced the signing of the budget in its reduced form by the President during yesterday’s plenary session.

But he did not elaborate.

Bankole also read an Appropriation Amendment Bill which he urged the House to pass.

The 2011 budget passed by the National Assembly was earlier described as "not implementable" by the Minister of Finance, Mr. Olusegun Aganga.

The situation almost degenerated to a budget row between the Presidency and the National Assembly.

However, a source said Jonathan and the leadership of the National Assembly struck a deal at the weekend which made him to sign the budget and immediately forwarded the Appropriation Amendment Bill to the lawmakers.

The House suspended its relevant Orders so as to give the money bill which passed first and second reading accelerated treatment.

This may not be unconnected with the financial crisis the House is facing in recent times.

The National Assembly budget, which the lawmakers raised to N232 billion, was reduced to N120 billion, a reduction of N112 billion.

Jonathan had in the original budget pegged the National Assembly’s budget at N111.244 billion but the lawmakers increased it to N232 billion.

Jonathan had last December presented a budget proposal of N4.226 trillion to the National Assembly based on a benchmark of $65 per barrel, an expected crude oil production of 2.3mbpd and an exchange rate of N150 to a dollar.

But the parliamentarians raised the figure by N745 billion from N4.226 trillion to N4.971 trillion. The lawmakers also raised the benchmark from $65 to $75pb of crude oil.

The National Assembly increased the N1.16 trillion proposed by the executive as capital expenditure to N1.7 trillion, injecting figures for constituency projects.

The Appropriation Amendment Bill reads: "a Bill for an Act to authorize the issue from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation the total sum of N4,407,052,300,582 only of which, N387,824,288,743 only is for statutory transfers, N495,096,682,115 only is for debt service, N2,401,330,677,943, only is for recurrent (Non Debt) expenditure while the balance of N1,122,800,651,781 only is for contribution to the development fund for capital expenditure for the year ending on the 31st December, 2011."

Some highlights of the amendment include: National Judicial Council N95bn; Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) N56.076bn; Universal Basic Education N64.567billion; National Assembly N120bn; Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) N52.180bn; Defence, Ministry of Defence, Army, Air Force, Navy N291.692bn.

After reading the covering letter of the Money Bill, Bankole mandated the Chairman, House Committee on Rules and Business, Ita Enang, to print a supplementary Order paper to enable the House consider the bill.

House Leader Tunde Akogun said the bill was straight forward as members already knew its importance.

He urged the House to give the bill expeditious treatment.

Chairman House Committee on Finance John Enoh said there was no disagreement on the oil benchmark of $75 per barrel.

He urged the House to pass the Bill in the interest of the nation.

The Chairman, House Committee on Appropriation, Ayo Adeseun, said the budget had been a subject of discussion for some weeks.

He said he had no problem supporting the passage of the Bill "so that the nation can move forward."

The House later referred the bill to its Joint Committee on Appropriation and Finance.

As the bill was being read on the floor of the House, President of the Senate David Mark also read it on the floor of the Senate.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/7396-presidency-slashes-national-assembly-budget-by-n112b.html

Politics › Re: GEJ Invites Buhari To His Presidential Inauguration! by Beaf: 2:18am On May 25, 2011

enyojo:
[size=15pt] @BEAF, May your life be transformed d way you are sure GEJ will transform Nigeria- Good or Bad.
If u get liver say AMEN[/size]

I thought these primitive "prayers" ended with the equally primitive CPC pogroms in the North.
We used to have decent conversations before the election season brought in a bunch of intellectual queers. But hey! Every village has its fool.

Christianity Etc › Re: How Many Here Have Read The Bible From Cover To Cover. by Beaf: 2:09am On May 25, 2011

[quote author=dem_people link=topic=674844.msg8387508#msg8387508 date=1306284892][size=14pt]@Beaf,[/size]

I share your sentiments. I'm not an atheist but at the same time, I find it difficult believing the bible for all it is. As an interesting book of old, YES. As the WORDS of our creator, NO.

[size=14pt]@ALL,[/size]

I have so much respect for "my" CREATOR that sometimes, I feel i'm disrespecting "him" by labelling him as "GOD". Think about it this way; if I cannot call my dad by his first name or any name but "Dad", "Pa" or "Papa", who the hell I'm I to call him by a name such as "GOD" - a name given by a human like myself.

I believe the name; "Universal Creator" is more appropriate but I understand the popularity of the name "GOD" which has been popularised in the lexicon of Christianity.

I also have a problem with Jesus Christ as the sole son of our Creator -let me humbly call him God. I believe we're all children of God and that God has no specific son. I understand that to say that Jesus Christ is the son of God is strictly referring to the soul and not the body.

Now consider this. If I wasn't born into a Christian family then there's a high probability of me being a member of another religion. As I was born into Christendom, its naturally that my religion is Christianity. With this in mind, how dare me say that another religion is not of God's ways?

Another thing I believe is in the Abrahamic religions. But of significance, I personally believe that NO ONE knows the truth. Yes, I said it. NO One knows the truth but rather, the truth is what we perceive to be the truth. But upon many years of research, I've come to know the religion which is closest to the truth is Judaism followed by Christianity.

There's a limit to human intelligence as far as religion is concerned.[/quote]Lol @ the bolded! I agree!
I believe that religion is our attempt to humanise our environment, including God. So we say God is a "he," we imagine God has human form, we project our concepts of right and wrong on God (only to turn and ask why there are disasters or why innocent kids are allowed to die).

A "human" God is at the crux of all religious problem. It is only for a "human" God that a man will kill another, and in the extreme, invade another country at the cost of thousands of lives (Iraq). It is only a "human" God that we can imagine as angry or having the same emotions as we do.

I wholly agree that we belittle God, that is something that really troubled my mind at the time I read the bible.

Christianity Etc › Re: How Many Here Have Read The Bible From Cover To Cover. by Beaf: 1:58am On May 25, 2011

Kenezi:
Maybe you should read Sefago's posts again.

I only see Sefago saying Steve Hawkings argument is "solid" (except I missed it). Thats quite different from saying he is correct, tho (more like his arguments are very logical and difficult to dispute).
If he was correct, his works would have moved out of the hypothesis stage and become theories and accepted laws of nature.

Christianity Etc › Re: How Many Here Have Read The Bible From Cover To Cover. by Beaf: 1:45am On May 25, 2011

Kenezi:
So Hawkings opinion is correct because he is "respected"?

Appeal to authority fallacy. Just because a famous or smart person has an opinion doesn't mean it's right. That's not a critical or independent way of thinking.

I don't recall anyone saying he is correct. Making assumptions is surely "not a critical or independent way of thinking."

Nairaland General › Re: Alj Harem Is Gone by Beaf: 1:15am On May 25, 2011

If you are truly gone, then its good riddance to a bigot.
Keep to chewing grass and chasing goats very fast. . . and don't come back.

No hard feelings. grin

Politics › Re: What Is The Big Deal About Fashola? Nonsense! by Beaf: 1:13am On May 25, 2011

jmaine:
If na by picture, James Ibori go don win best governor ever year in year out throughout him tenure . . oboy, no try Ibori media machinery oo! the guy use pisure take finish story on top dividends of democracy . . .

LOL!!

Ibori performed as much as he stole. Di guy try well sha! But he deserves his place in jail too. cool

Politics › Re: What Is The Big Deal About Fashola? Nonsense! by Beaf: 1:10am On May 25, 2011

EPOMA:
Can someone help me tell BEAF to concentrate and support his GEJ. you don have a clue about akwa Ibom. Do you know how much comes to the purse of akwa Ibom in a month? Please tell me what he has done. Am not going to say much.

Godswill spend 28 Billion Naira to biuld, paid Arik air 2 billion naira to fly Uyo route which was a fraud. when you are ready we can talk about this man

Everyone knows Akpabio is excellent. We can all read up on Akwa Ibom and how far he has brought it.
I won't argue with you if you lean toward Akwa Ibom ACN though, cos that might raise bias and we'll never see eye to eye. wink

Christianity Etc › Re: How Many Here Have Read The Bible From Cover To Cover. by Beaf: 12:56am On May 25, 2011

^
What is your proof that he is cursed? The man has Worldwide respect, money and a massively high IQ. Wouldn't you count those things as blessings?
By the way, he's been like that from childhood. Who curses children? Surely not your God?

wesley80:
@Beaf
Sorry but there r more contradictions in your little assertion than i think there can ever be in the 66 books of the Bible. Every mans belief has got to have some sort of basis and it doesnt seem like yours does. A couple of yrs ago I fell into deep depression and felt like a humongous failure when i couldnt get my Eck friend converted, so i'm not even going to try having a faith argument here. But one thing i know for sure is that some churches arent really for some inquisitive and questioning folks - been there myself, I had to keep looking until i got the answers i sought and a church that fits me like a glove. The answers u seek r out there but u seem to have already given up your search.

The bolded is similar to the reason my reply was so short. In religious matters, I find it helps to feel my way forward with those I share any concepts with, because it can turn out a delicate area. You are quite right about questioning, but I do not describe any religion (especially Christianity) as phoney, my wife will be the first to go on strike (oga o!) followed by the rest of my dearest. sad

I'll expand on my earlier reply. I believe there's God and I also believe there are unexplained forces humans can harness to do the "supernatural." I put supernatural in quotes only because, such forces are not yet explainable to science. So, yes there are witches, but I do not believe they are superior to humans, talkless of God or being the ultimate powers. However, 90% of religion is based on the unexplained, but the question is if there really is the unexplained or just the yet to be explained.

To make an illustration about unexplained forces, for more than a century now it has been possible to achieve what some might term witchcraft or sorcery in the lab. You can seemingly create tangible things out of thin air (more correctly light) and make things vanish into thin air (or transform into light). To the man in the village, thats pure magic, but to the scientist, its straightforward phenomena governed by very simple mathematical equations [size=4pt](E = MC² and hf = MC²)[/size].

I really believe that humans create religion out of an innate desire to explain their environment and being. If we understood our environment and being, there would be no inconsistencies in religion and we would be able to give an empirical definition to life that is as clear as two plus two. If we cannot define life empirically, how can we draw up a manual for it (which is what religion is)?

Christianity Etc › Re: How Many Here Have Read The Bible From Cover To Cover. by Beaf: 11:32pm On May 24, 2011

SEFAGO:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/may/15/stephen-hawking-interview-there-is-no-heaven

Deal with it

I would pay for the shrink that helps you deal with it.

When are we gonna start stoning adulterous women again?

Leviticus was wanna of my favorites.

I have this chick I used to date, I wanna get back at her.

Lol! Are you an atheist or agnostic?

wesley80:
@OP,
You mean cover to cover as a religious exercise, to settle ones not necessarily religious curiousity or a chest thumping task?
I cant say I have done so personally but i doubt if there's anywhere in the good book my eyes have not seen. I personally think such an exercise no matter how well intended would easily turn to a vain exercise cos the Bible isnt some storybook or novel. To really 'read the Bible' and understand it, one needs some sort of Revelation knowledge (here's where i think Beaf got lost).

@Beaf,
I'm sorta curious. Sometime back u alluded to the fact that u believe in the existence of witches (correct me if i'm wrong). So now that u think Christianity is phoney(?), do u think Witches are the Ultimate powers out there?

No, I believe very firmly that God exists, but that all religion is manmade.

Politics › Re: Bloodbath In Lagos: Soldiers Kill Police Dpo, Dco 8 Others by Beaf: 11:27pm On May 24, 2011

maimalari:
Buhari again? They must arrest Buhari for the killings of the soldier and these policemen.

Yes, Buhari is to blame. He and the other uniformed armed robbers stole our sovreignty and held the entire population hostage at gunpoint; they traumatised the country to the extent that the average person is slightly mad. They imbued mentally suspect, smelly, dirty, illiterate, uniformed goons like themselves with the belief that, gun in hand, they were above God and law. It is that psychotic attitude that has expressed itself in the needless deaths of 11 Nigerians and resulted in countless bereaved.

Christianity Etc › Re: How Many Here Have Read The Bible From Cover To Cover. by Beaf: 11:09pm On May 24, 2011

houvest:
@ beaf. If those are really contradictions why do you think so many billions still believe it? Why have so many millions died because of and for it? You really think they were all foolish or were blinded by faith ? Have you actually given the Bible the benefit of doubt and sat down to consider the resolution of what you considered contradictions? If you are directed to studies that have done that will you now return to the faith? Saying that you bade farewell to christianity because of unresolved issues in your bible study without seeking other opinions does not sound convincing. You are however entitled to your faith or lack of it as the consequences are yours alone but if you are actually a sincere seeker of truth, you should not shut the door just yet till that search is completed.

I always respect a mans reasons for their faith, thats something personal and fundamental. As for my turning away from Christianity, it was a tough journey of soul searching, questioning and seeking. I tend to be very thorough, yet in so many years there has been no answer; so I'll advice you not to read the bible from end to end if you value your faith, cos it will give you a full picture like you get from reading any book from cover to cover and like me, you will lose your faith for good.

Now, I'm content to look around me, believe there's God and conclude that I do not and cannot know the answers to the fundamental questions. For example a definition of life is fundamental to creating a manual for it, but no single person can define life objectively and empirically, neither the scientist nor the preacher. For me, its easier to concede that I don't "know" and neither does any one else.

Christianity Etc › Re: How Many Here Have Read The Bible From Cover To Cover. by Beaf: 10:54pm On May 24, 2011

SEFAGO:
Not if you have faith.

Oh ye of little faith.

The contradictions you see are only because you are being deceived by the devil

Dude, you display most of the qualities of the man I'll need to run my church, hypocricy, deciet, guile and cranial fortitude.
If you are blessed with smooth, long fingers that filch with ease, then I have a proposal for you!

. . .A new religion for the free, a cathedral to wine, lust, liberty and powdered fun. Naturally there'll be a gate fee in addition to the monthly tithe. Holy we shall be! grin

Politics › Re: What Is The Big Deal About Fashola? Nonsense! by Beaf: 10:46pm On May 24, 2011

[quote author=emeka_gh link=topic=674518.msg8385585#msg8385585 date=1306259205]Bigotry apart, how did u arrive at that conclusion. The fact that Fashola is over-hyped does not mean other's should believe it. The matter of good and better governor is subjective. So please let's stop the Fashola is better, fashola is best. It never helped the BB ticket, neither will it help fashola.[/quote]As far as performance is concerned Fashola, Chime, Lamido and Amaechi are in the same class, but Akpabio is better than all. However, Fashola stands head and shoulders above the lot in PR. Lagos states PR is bloody good. Its one hell of an oiled machine, like sinewed sportsman, glistening with potence.

Christianity Etc › Re: How Many Here Have Read The Bible From Cover To Cover. by Beaf: 9:52pm On May 24, 2011

buzugee:
funny enough i have met so many people with your exact sentiments. care to share exactly how, or what in the bible turned you into an atheist ?

I'm not an atheist, just non-religious.
You will be shocked that there can be so many contradictions in single book. Its ridiculous; from contradictions in the sequence of creation to contradictions about the events at Jesus resurrection (number of angels, where and when things happened) etc.
It is a lot like the Nigeria we are determined to rebuild, a stark lie. If you took it to court as evidence, you will be severely compromising your case.

Politics › Re: Bloodbath In Lagos: Soldiers Kill Police Dpo, Dco 8 Others by Beaf: 9:35pm On May 24, 2011

The madness between security officers has left in 11 of them dead. Its difficult to even ascribe any degree of normalcy to any of them, they must all be checked for involvement with drugs.
There is hardly any reason on Earth why such animals should be armed in public, also, retraining and re-orientation are urgently needed for the band of thugs we entrust our security to.
The ugly situation is due to the many years of military rule that established the military as superior to "bloody civilians" (in their warped minds).
As for the police, they should all be sacked and a new force built from scratch.

Christianity Etc › Re: How Many Here Have Read The Bible From Cover To Cover. by Beaf: 9:01pm On May 24, 2011

I did, including the preface. . . And said goodbye to Christianity forever. No regrets.

Politics › Re: I Don’t Respond To Foolishness, Oritsejafor Replies Buhari by Beaf(op): 5:04pm On May 24, 2011

^
Its whether aboki money paid for the bombing thats important. No?
Since that Okah blighter was locked away, we have had almajiri's taking over and blowing themselves to smitherins in their Kaduna bomb factory. Those that didn't blow their nuts off have been locked up.

We also have zilch happening in the ND these days, while aboki MEND blow up Kaduna, Abuja, Maiduguri etc and Buhari's supporters kill and burn Christians, Southerners and Middle Belters.

Politics › Re: Nigeria Faces Challenges Of Building West Africa's First Theme Park by Beaf: 4:49pm On May 24, 2011

Bawss1:
One can only imagine the amount the developers will have to pay for "compensating" the indigenes of the area. This is something that many companies/investors don't factor into their plans when embarking on projects of this nature in the ND and it can easily stall or delay the project's execution.

They aren't oil companies that destroy life and livelihoods, so why your comment? In any event, the struggle in the creeks has abated, because the area is finally getting the attention it deserves. Its not pillaging and ra'pe as in the past, these days when soldiers go in and destroy places, they are promptly rebuilt and the people given soccour. For once, the ND person feels like a Nigerian, not something the rest of the country spits on while the wealth of the land is tapped.

We should be measured in how we describe the Niger Delta. Its funny how most Nigerians are callous about it, but foreigners view it as a disgraceful human rights disaster; indeed, Hilary Clinton recently said the the Niger Delta is colonised by the rest of Nigeria. Do you know the ND is the Worlds most polluted wet lands?

This excerpt is from the Huffington Post:

Indeed, a half century of oil exploration -- and, experts say, exploitation -- has earned the Niger Delta a dubious distinction: Environmentalists call it the most polluted ecosystem on Earth. . .

Members of the Nigerian Justice League said their prank, timed to coincide with Shell's annual general meeting in the Hague, was meant to shine a light on Big Oil's role in damaging the Niger Delta region -- and triggering an increasingly violent atmosphere on the ground.

"Shell's operations in the delta have helped transform that area into the world's most polluted ecosystem, which has in turn resulted in a human rights catastrophe," said Christopher Francis, one of the Nigerian Justice League organizers.
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http://www.aolnews.com/2010/05/23/nigerian-spills-make-valdez-look-like-drop-in-bucket/

Here's an excerpt from CNN article that should interest you (you can watch a vid if you click the link):

Niger Delta, Nigeria (CNN) -- Nigeria's Niger Delta is one of the most oil-polluted places on the planet with more than 6,800 recorded oil spills, accounting for anywhere from 9 million to 13 million barrels of oil spilled, according to activist groups.

But occurring over the 50 years since oil production began in the Delta, this environmental disaster has never received the attention that is now being paid to the oil-spill catastrophe hitting the U.S. Gulf coast.

"The whole world is trembling and even the president of America had to do a personal visit to the site. The U.S. will have put serious measures in place to stop such situations happening in the future," said Ken Tebe -- a local environmental activist who is visibly shaken by what he regards as a double standard.

"It's funny because we've been dealing with this problem for 50 years. I even heard BP will pay $20 billion in damages (for the U.S. spill). When will such hope come to the Niger Delta?" Tebe asked.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/06/29/nigeria.oil/index.html

Politics › Re: GEJ Invites Buhari To His Presidential Inauguration! by Beaf: 4:21pm On May 24, 2011

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Lol! I'm not a GEJ adviser, but I'm sure he will transform Nigeria, North, South, East and West. cool

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