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montelik:
^^^ Go Schumi

Lol!

What do you think about Sutils stabbing of a Renault boss with a champagne glass? We might have an F1 driver in jail soon.

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Lol dude! You do have a unique user name!

@topic
As always, here's my sahara reporters antidote:

Sahara Reporters is best known for fake news these days.

[size=14pt]The fake pic below too is courtesy Sahara Reporters[/size]. Shame.
http://saharareporters.com/photo/photonews-jonathans-declaration-when-jonathan-women-met-goodluck-men

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[quote author=alj_harem link=topic=490918.msg8344920#msg8344920 date=1305719944]Mods please i am following this complain to tell u that i am disappointed with the way NL is run

their is no topic on NL that is not attacked by yorubas and igbos

the biggest problem we have now is Beaf

he is an internet gangster that goes around posting pictures and insulting ekt_bear

please look at this beauiful thread being turned to insults

very sick people

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-669806.0.html[/quote]Joker.

@mods
The amount of Yoruba vs Igbo nonsense on NL is very sickening. It is immensely frustrating when threads that are intellectually stimulating get derailed by mindless ethnic bigotry. Even worse is the feeling of dirtiness that follows a challenge of NL's bigots, something ordinary NLer's wouldn't need to do if the mods were in the least bit vigilant.
NL is always among the top results for google searches on Nigeria, and that just makes the disgraceful display of ethnic all the more worse. NL's politics section gives any foreigner the first impression that Nigerians are animals with low IQ's.

I cannot understand why such small-minded posts, threads and userss are allowed to flourish on this site, especially in a section titled "politics," which is a word clothed in a toga of gravity. I am shocked that the likes of zstranger, eko ile, ekt_bear, rhino dm5, bk.babe are allowed to continue tarnishing the section. These folk derail every other thread with their supremacy drivel. Alj harem is is slightly different since he has stopped engaging in direct ethnic bashing, instead he stokes flames and helps derail threads.

In the past, we have seen unrelenting action against mekus, who is not even half as disgusting as the crew above. What is so different these days?
Mods, for the love of God, give us back the politics section we used to have. There was a time when we actually used to have intellectually stimulating debates which are few and far between these days, because the capable don't care anymore and 419 boys, agbero's etc have taken over the section.

worldbest:
Absolutely, $1500 per month

Tif!

Instead of looking for estacode and forex from Seun, why not simply collect it by bombing the 419 idiots that pollute this section?

hardywaltz: So whatz the big deal? Rivers State Government as far back as 2007 dualized Port Harcourt-Owerri road up to the Rivers State boundary while Imo State (Ohakim) is currently dualzing Owerri to Imo State boundary. Guess what? they are both PDP states so abeg make we hear word!

You are wasting ting with one of the crazed members of NL.
A mere year ago, in his incarnation as babapupa, the same clown was preaching about how buying a couple of patrol boats was the beginning of Lagos forming a new navy to SECEDE from Nigeria. lol! Mad.

At last, Schumi has beaten Rosberg, but nobody seems to care!

1 S Vettel Red Bull
2 L Hamilton McLaren
3 J Button McLaren
4 M Webber Red Bull
5 F Alonso Ferrari
6 M Schumacher Mercedes
7 N Rosberg Mercedes
8 N Heidfeld Renault
9 S Perez Sauber
10 K Kobayashi Sauber
11 Russian Federation V Petrov Renault
12 P Di Resta Force India
13 A Sutil Force India
14 S Buemi Toro Rosso
15 P Maldonado Williams
16 J Alguersuari Toro Rosso
17 R Barrichello Williams
18 J Trulli Lotus
19 T Glock Virgin
20 J d'Ambrosio Virgin
21 N Karthikeyan Hispania
22 F Massa (ret.) Ferrari
23 H Kovalainen (ret.) Lotus
24 V Liuzzi (ret.) Hispania

Good one from Vettel, this was a legit victory not the car. Its game on between him and Lewis though, McLaren have definetly increased the speed of their car.
Webber and Alonso were bloody dissapointing.

I really pity die-hard Buhari supporters. They are really living in a weird make-believe world and are starting to sound srange and wacky. Sad.

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Radio communications show that Red Bull have no KERS issues today.
Its turning out a smashing race tho, the 3 bad boys are out in front!

Alonsoo takes all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow!
Bad start from the McLarens, Lewis 4th, Button 10th. Vettel takes Webber!

Its gonna be a grand race!

I fear a crash is Vettels KERS still isn't working.

The crazed campaign for the red-eyed stone throwing sharia addled psycho, Buhari. His sore losing, belly aching followers and dark angels just won't leave us be.

The legalising the killing of youth corpers, Middle Belters and Southerners by core-Northerners is the only policy the sick Buhari would have brought in.

netghost: whatever !!!, cant believe that the quest for a moderator is like the most intersting event on NairaLand,

@BEEF, need your advise on something, do u still program in c#
how do i contact u, BB pin or email

Dude, feel free to send me an email. You can use the old address I gave.

[quote author=alj_harem link=topic=671527.msg8365958#msg8365958 date=1305983857]Pa Eziachi

He who speaks the truth will ALWAYS be respected, such is your case here

your post is alway like light in the mist of madness darkness

thank you[/quote]This is the sort of sickening pseudo-religious rubbish that fools like yourself and Buhari think is good politics or sound political commentary. That is why 800+ died in the core-North.

Webber takes pole. No be shakara!
That breaks Vettels boring run of poles.
Lewis is 3rd (1 sec behind the Red Bulls), Alonso is 4th for the first time this year, after starting 5th in all other races.

Prediction for the start. . . Button and Petrov to beat Alonso off the line; Lewis to take Vettel by the first corner.

[size=14pt]Obasanjo to Quit Politics[/size]
By Imam Imam
19 May 2011

One of Nigeria's foremost nationalists – as well as one of its most divisive personalities – former President Olusegun Obasanjo has indicated interest to finally retire from active politics.

He told Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftains from Lagos State who visited him at his Ota home last weekend that he had had “enough” and would leave the political scene for the younger generation.

Should Obasanjo go ahead with the retirement plan, he is expected to give up his position as the chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the PDP which he has held since the end of his tenure as President in 2007.

Obasanjo, who last weekend met with a delegation led by elder statesman Rafiu Jafojo, Mr. William Oganga, and Princess Gloria Adebajo-Frazier, said the only developoment delaying his retirement is the need to have a new Deputy National Chairman of the PDP whose position has been zoned to the South-west.

"Baba made it clear that as soon as a new Deputy National Chairman of the party emerges from the South-west, he will hand over party affairs to the person and concentrate on his ambassadorial assignments on the African continent.

"He also said his priority now is to ensure that someone from Ogun, Ondo or Ekiti emerges to fill the position. He told the delegation that all the past leaders who have held the position are from Oyo, Osun and Lagos States, so to ensure fairness, he wants someone from one of the states that has not produced the Deputy National Chairman to do so", a source at the meeting told THISDAY.

The role Obasanjo played in the re-zoning of the position of speaker of the House of Representatives to the South-west as well as the endorsement of Hon. Ajibola Muraina for the job is believed to be fuelling rebellion within the PDP as North-west lawmakers have vowed to truncate zoning.

Besides, it is believed that Obasanjo deliberately picked the terminally ill Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua as his successor on 2007 so that power could return to the South in a short span.

Of the seven former Nigerian leaders alive, only Obasanjo and Muhammadu Buhari have remained in active politics, with both men serving as BoT chairmen of their respective parties.

Buhari contested last month's presidential election on the platform of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) which he lost to PDP's Goodluck Jonathan.

Obasanjo's continued activities in the political scene have divided opinion in the country, with some urging him to pick up a role of an elder statesman in the category of former leaders such as Shehu Shagari and Abdulsalami Abubakar.

Considered one of the luckiest Nigerians around, Obasanjo rose to national prominence in 1970 when he accepted the instruments of surrender from the Biafran army which attempted to divide the country.

He served as a federal commissioner of works (now minister) in the Yakubu Gowon regime and rose to the position of Head of State following the assassination of General Murtala Ramat Muhammed in 1976.

He entered the history books when he handed over power to a democratically elected government in October 1979.

In 1999, following his release from prison by General Abdulsalami from incarceration by the Sani Abacha regime over his alleged involvement in a coup, he was elected the President under the PDP where he served for two terms.

Despite introducing far-reaching reforms while in office, he is best remembered for his failed attempt to change the constitution and elongate his tenure for a third term.

The effort was defeated in the Senate.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/obasanjo-to-quit-politics/91614/

Fiscal federalism is not about more money going to the states. That is the same monkey de work baboon de chop mentality that see's the various regions producing zilch, while the ND bears the unfair burden.

Lets adopt the "if you don't work, you can't eat approach." It is immoral for the regions to continue recieving free money, instead of paying taxes to the centre as happens in all normal economies. It is understandable that target is not immediately acheivable, but we must lay solid plans to hit it sooner than later; also, we must begin taking immediate transitional steps.

Let those that can't swim sink. Such an attitude will go a long way to ensuring the country develops and fixing worsening issues like the almajiri problem (without free money, there will be no almajiri).

[size=14pt]Nigeria and challenges of fiscal federalism[/size]
Written by Abiodun Awolaja Thursday, 19 May 2011

Fiscal federalism has remained one of the potent challenges to the Nigerian nationhood. Abiodun Awolaja looks at some of the issues surrounding the concept in the country and some of the solutions proffered to tackle them.

DR Goodluck Jonathan is, by nomenclature, the current President and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. But is Nigeria really a federation? This question may be a perplexing one because, among other factors, the federalism question remains one of the potent challenges to Nigerian nationhood, some of the others being the fear of ethnic the dominance and population census controversy. With respect to the question of fiscal federalism, conflicts over revenue sharing formula, centralisation of fiscal relations and the agitation for resource control are problems which have proved quite intractable in the last 40 years at least.

Like most federal republics, Nigeria boats a bi-cameral legislature at the centre, and a unicameral legislature at the regional or state level. It also boasts a third tier of government, the local government, which underwent massive reform under the Olusegun Obasanjo regime in 1976. In addition, Nigeria has a centre which is stronger than the component units, which are currently the 36 states in the country and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, the seat of federal power which is run by an administrator rather than an elected governor.

In Nigeria, as in most federations of the world, questions of equitable revenue sharing formula have been at the forefront not only of policy discourse but also physical agitation, including militancy movements. The state governments in the country, especially since the return to civil rule in 1999, have also been engaged in wrangling with the Federal Government on the issue of securing adequate financial resources to discharge their constitutional responsibilities.

In this regard, particularly with reference to the Obasanjo era (1999-2007), fiscal federalism issues were encapsulated in debates and litigation over the controversial on-shore/off-shore dichotomy in the oil sector, with the former Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, the late Chief Bola Ige, advising the affected states ( the Niger Delta states) to pursue their case at the Supreme Court, which finally gave its verdict in April, 2002.

In tackling the fiscal question, the Federal Government had, at various times, even form the colonial days, set up committees/commissions to look into the question. In addition to Decrees 15 of 1967, 13 of 1970, 9 of 1971, 6 of 1975 and Decree 7 of 1975, some of the commissions set up were the Phillipson Commission (1946), Hicks-Phillipson Commission (1951), nChicks Commission (1953), Raisman Commission (1957), Binns Commission (1964), Dina Commission (1969), Aboyade Technical Committee (1977),. Okigbo Committee (1980), and the Danjuma Commission (1988). However, none of these commissions was able to evolve a viable fiscal allocation formula for the country.

With the return to civil rule in 1999, the Federal Government established the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission and the Politics of Revenue Allocation (RMFAC) to, among others, monitor the accruals into and disbursement of revenue from the federation account; review from time to time, the revenue allocation formula and principles in operation to ensure conformity with changing realities; advise the federal, state and local governments on fiscal efficiency and methods by which their revenue is to be increased; determine the remuneration appropriate to political office holders.

In 2001, the commission evolved the following sharing formula: Federal Government ( 41.3%) state governments 31%, local governments (16%), Special Fund (11.7%.) This formula, however, proved unworkable arising from the Supreme Court judgement on resource control in April 2002. Thus, in 2008, the fiscal body drafted a new proposal, which seemed to reinforce the hegemony of the Federal Government. By this new arrangement, the Federal Government was to have as much as approximately 54 per cent of the total revenue.

In the opinion of Dare Arowolo, a lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba, Ondo State, the revenue allocation formula in Nigeria inevitably encourages parasitic governance where states become relaxed and endlessly expectant of the monthly ritual of allocation from the federal government. According to him,the implication of this is that while the allocation formula limits the capacity of states to provide public goods needed to promote and sustain governance, it also predates on the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of each state, thus making the states perpetually dependent on the Federal Government.

As he puts it, “This arrangement of allocation sharing in Nigeria threatens initiatives, innovation and modern ideas of generating resources, especially money, for sustainable development. The Federal Government, on the other hand, cannot also be divested of this revenue allocation ‘pathology’ since it appropriates and concentrates too much money at the centre leading to waste and corruption. The Federal Government lacks a basic plan for the transformation of resources into concrete developments. This also explains the reasons for the characterisation of politics in Nigeria as a ‘do or die’ phenomenon.’’

Thus, in order to redress the imbalance, Arowolo advocated the following options: readjustment of the tax revenue sharing power of the federation in an equitable manner among the component units which currently skew in the favour of the federal government; embarking on radical diversification of the Nigerian economy to other viable and productive sectors of the economy, such as agriculture, mining, industry and human development; reviewing the constitution, especially as it relates to federalism, and, finally, the adoption of the principle of derivation, which, in his view, is capable of spurring the states to work harder to contribute maximally to Federation Account.

Although the current administration led by Dr Goodluck Jonathan is yet to make any pronouncement on the revenue allocation formula, there appears to be grounds for believing that there might be a change in the coming months. For instance, on Monday, the president advocated a review of the country’s foreign policy to reflect current realities after 50 years of independence.

In the same vein, will the president make a commitment to the federalism question, particularly in the face of the resolve by legislators-elect on the platform of the opposition Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) to fight for a more equitable fiscal federalism?

While the question still remains in the realm of conjecture, critical observers of the Nigerian may be left wondering why, since the murder of Major-General Aguiyi Ironsi, Nigeria’s first military Head of State, on charges of abolishing the federal structure of the country through the now infamous Decree 63 of 1966, the country has found it difficult to navigate its way out of the unitary structure foisted on it by the military.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/politics/22172-nigeria-and-challenges-of-fiscal-federalism

[quote author=eku_bear link=topic=669806.msg8344864#msg8344864 date=1305719601]Can you imagine?  

Sounds like a terrible way to die.[/quote]Bigot, so, your inferiority complex is driving you to research easy ways to die?
No kill yourself o! Because you are so ashamed of your cassava covered village that you want to claim Lagos.

What do kids do as pastime in your village? I guess its stvpid things like betting with goats to see who can run faster, jumping from trees etc.

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Erm, can you post the pic of your village? Or are you that ashamed of it? Lol!

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=669806.msg8344772#msg8344772 date=1305718796]Anyway, to any Isoko or other folk reading this, you should know I mean no insult to you.

That I have a problem with this very big fo.ol, hypocrite, and victim of cyanide poisoning named Beaf Maggot doesn't mean I have a problem with you.[/quote]Lol! Telling you how much of a shyte faced bigot you are is certainly beginning to work. We absolutely straighten and reform fools like you with fire!

Bigot.

[size=33pt]Bigoted Rhino.5dm in his normal state. Its crack if it sounds like crack, looks like crack, smells like crack, talks like crack.[/size]

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[size=33pt]Ekt_bear, I challenge you to post a picture of your village before claiming Lagos.
Why are you ashamed of your origins, why lie you come from Lagos?
. . .just to be a bigot?[/size]

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[size=33pt]Ekt_bear, I challenge you to post a picture of your village before claiming Lagos.[/size]

[img]http://talbotcreek.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Peeling-Cassava.jpg[/img]

[size=33pt]Let us know your industries, fvcking bigot.[/size]

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[quote author=Rhino.5dm link=topic=669806.msg8344618#msg8344618 date=1305717630]The ravage of a straw man! Lmao.

Sir! I want some maggots. . . .[/quote]Hmmm! You are already a maggot, just look in the mirror. Its a sad sight, bro. Until I saw your posts, I never realised man could be so close to monkeyhood.
Dude, you upset the scale of stvpidity.

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[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=669806.msg8344591#msg8344591 date=1305717319]See, my farming ancestors/relatives grew YAM and RICE.

Yours grow CASSAVA.

So what does CASSAVA and the food poisoning it causes have to do with me, maggot muncher?[/quote][size=14pt]Lying is second nature to bigots and racists. Your fvcked up village is buried under cassava and looks like a shrine forgotten by God, that why your inferiority complex is driving you to lie and claim Lagos.

What a lost baboon![/size]

afam4eva:
I don't think you should be insulting the Isoko people. The people that have made life easy for you and your family. Without oil you'll be no different from Somalia and Rwanda. So if there's anybody to give utmost respect to apart from God it is the Niger Delta people.

Dude, you are talking to a freak. Someone who actually denies his fathers village to claim Lagos.

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=669806.msg8344553#msg8344553 date=1305717039]No insult intended to them. Me bashing Beaf doesn't mean I am bashing his ethnicity.

And I disagree with the Somalia/Rwanda stuff. . . but that is another story (remember, Ondo sef produces 10% of Nigeria's oil, if that alone is what you are using to distinguish between Somalia or not.)[/quote]Ondo does not produce 10% of Nigeria's oil. Liar, its more like 2.5%.
. . .But what do we expect from a fvcked up bigot who lies through his teeth, even about his origins?

You aren't bashing my ethnicity? Dude, maybe your cassava ravaged mind imagines that the World is blind.

Bigoted dunce.

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=669806.msg8344540#msg8344540 date=1305716929]Seriously. Can you believe it?

This loser is claiming that I am the one falsely claiming. Yet I've never claimed to be a Lagos indigene. Hell, my name on this forum is ekt_bear.

Yet Beaf, an Isoko man will claim Warri as his town  

Why are you ashamed of your cassava-munching, cockroach chewing origins, Beaf?

Or maybe I should rename you MAGGOT now, since that more accurately reflects your origin and your source of protein to combat cassava poisoning.[/quote]Lol! Brought up in Warri, proud Isoko/Urhobo. You wanna let it kill you?
We operate with pure swag, thats why we never feel so inferior like you and begin claiming Lagos.
I blame cassava for your weak mind.

[quote author=Rhino.5dm link=topic=669806.msg8344472#msg8344472 date=1305716181]Ose migwor!!
Sir sir! You want maggots 100 100 naira?

That's first introduction along warri ughelli road.

Beaf do you share ancestors with chines? Lmao![/quote]I only wish you knew the meaning of the bolded. But you are too damn [size=33pt]bigoted and stvpid.[/size]

[size=33pt]Its the drugs twisting your mind. Sad.[/size]

[img]http://tizona.files./2010/05/evildrugdog.jpg[/img]

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[size=21pt]Can you show something from your village? Anything?!!!!
It is just like an evil forest, thats why your low self esteem leads you to claim Lagos!

Bigot and wannabe Lagosian![/size]

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