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An almajiri uprising is impossible, they only hear the views of their Imams. They aren't part of the facebook and twitter generation.

Obiagu1:
Why the attack? It is unwarranted.

It is not.
Delta state is quite sophisticated politically and we don't need outsiders making wild statements that are 100% based on guesswork and that hint at feelings of ethnic supremacy. Anybody can note that against the grain of Nigerian politics, Delta state is ruled by a man thats from ethnic minority in the state; the next governor will also be from another ethnic minority.
The overwhelming ethnic bigotry that bedevils Nigeria is largely absent in Delta state and we absolutely reject it. We know how we roll. You will never find Delta Igbo's making such statements.

9ijaMan:
Why are you going round in circles? I've challenged your likes on a separate thread. Let's discuss the positives/track records of our respective candidates. Abi you dey fear, 'cos there'll be nothing to say about your benefactor?

If you care to say good things about your beloved GEJ, post his records in the thread below for all to see.
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You are being funny. Why not debunk Ebenezer Babatope here? Is it not the fact that he has raised many indefensible truths that has made you run away and open your own thread to spread myths. Dude, if Babatope's words aren't true, then simply debunk them right here, right now, instead of running away.

9ijaMan:
Stale news. Try something else.

Thats the exact point about Buhari, everything is stale, creaky, old, used, dried, bereft, hagard and putrifying.
Nobody wants a Gaddafi style ruler who is "forever tainted with gross human rights abuse, Islamic fundamentalism, repression and a horrible degree of ethnic bigotry."

Ikengawo:
the creation of the 'south south' is a joke, and a clear jab at igbos.

I dont see how Delta and Rivers are igbo states when they're majority igbo.

anyways, the northern figures look suspect, there's no way there's more people in Adamawa then Imo and Anambra

You better swallow your foolish statements. Delta state is not majority Igbo, and ethnicaly bigoted wishes will not make it so either.
One thing I can bet is that you are not from Delta state. These sorts of neandertal comments tend to come from mechanics, hunters and other types who aren't Deltan.
We Deltans know how we roll, so butt out with your bigoted views. Thank you.

In one of his early press conferences after he had come to power, General Buhari did tell the gentlemen of the press that he would tamper with the freedom of the press. He was particularly bitter with the way the Nigerian press had reported the Justice Irikefe Oil probe of 1980. He (Buhari) felt the press was not fair to him as a former Minister for Petroleum resources of the period the Justice Irikefe panel was to inquire about. Tunde Thompson and Nduka Irabor of The Guardian newspapers later went to prison as ransom for the rascality of the Nigerian press. Haroun Adamu was incarcerated for once writing a critical essay on the General inside the Kano based Triumph newspaper. Mr. Rafindadi was appointed as the head of the N.S.O and all the Intelligence officers who favoured a fair treatment for detained politicians were weeded out of the organisation. Mr. Ndukwe then the Deputy Director of NSO now (SSS) and Mr. Oshodi, two fine officers, were all retired at the instruction of Mr. Rafindadi.

The above is about Buhari's reppresive decree to curb freedom of speech. It was a period during which speaking the truth would reward you with a jail term, so long as that truth embarassed govt in the slightest way. In this day when the Middle East is up in flames, we surely do not need a Gaddafi style ruler (not leader).

Buhari is forever tainted with gross human rights abuse, Islamic fundamentalism, repression and a horrible degree of ethnic bigotry. Alex Ekueme, a South Eastern Igbo who was Vice President under Shagari, was jailed under the worst conditions in Kirikiri, while the Shagari himself (a Fulani like Buhari) was kept under "house arrest" in very plush conditions in Lagos states high-brow Ikoyi.

What is new about Buhari, aside from his wild eyed civilian desperation for Aso Rock?

I will never forget that twenty four hours before the Special Military Tribunal in Jos pronounced a jail term on Solomon Lar, General Hananiya the then Nigeria's high Commissioner to Great Britain had been reported by the BBC to have told the British press of the conviction of Lar by the Tribunal.

I really wonder what is new about Buhari. This is exactly the same way he committed murder by making his draconian laws retrogressive.
Abacha announced his coup, he also served under Abacha's govt. Since Buhari took part in the 1967 coup, he has been involved in coup after coup and is guilty of Nigeria's sordid state. For as long as he has been in the army, he has been in one political post or the other; we are tired of him and his type.

What really is new about Buhari? He is as much a monster as IBB who served in his regime.

9ijaMan:
Beaf aka Karl Max/Faeb/Ma J Blige/Johndoe is at his best again. Abeg come up with something new!

VOTE Buhari/Bakare to deliver Nigeria from the absolutely corrupt claws of GEJ and PDP!

Its funny when you guys leave the topic at hand to attack the OP. I would have thought the right thing to do would be to counter Ebenezer Babatope who is a very powerful leader in the SW. No? Anyways, CPC people are best known for stone throwing. Lol.

As for coming up with new stuff, what is new about Buhari? He is still the same old human rights abuser and coup plotter, nothing has changed.

The shyte is now hitting the fan, thats why rascals shouldn't come out swinging when they are guilty as Satan.

It appears Salami was only engaging in a high stakes game of chicken in which he is rapidly becoming the prime loser. Just last week he quietly withdrew his suit against the Attorney General, claiming to have been influenced by "stake holders" and other interested persons. Indeed! What stake holders are more important than the Nigerian state and the super serious allegations he made against the Attorney General?

Can someone now please issue a formal ACN membership card to Salami? LOL!

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It was fearful, but as soon as you confronted that fear, it melted away. Everyone was out there, students, the young, the old. . . everybody.
I missed Wole Soyinka and Gani's address at Yaba, though.

There is one highlight thats stands out.
As the riots hotted up so IBB's rachetted up the level of force employed to break our spirits. But we stood firm, even when columns of tanks began approaching from Ikeja cantonement, we stood resolute, blocked the road with nothing but our bare chests and began chanting. It was a day we stared down an amoured column; it pulled up to us, but we never moved an inch and they halted. Guess what? After a tense moment that seemed like forever, the hatch of the lead tank opened and the commander emerged unto the turret, lifted up his uniform and beneath was a t-shirt with MKO's face emblazoned on it! He asked our permission to proceed just to fulfill the orders he had been given, a massive roar of victory rent the crowd.

That was one hell of a moment, in that instant we knew we had won. There is no ecstasy to rival the feeling, there is a beauty when a crowd moves, thinks, feels and behaves as one. Those were the days, it was a heady time and seeing IBB off was the icing; it was my first ever accomplishment as a young adult.

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I was there, not in that pic though, but on Ikorodu Road. Tear gas of a fearful type was dropped from helicopters and live rounds were fired, in the Maryland-Ojuelegba sector, several died between Bariga and Shomolu.

Algerian:
Thanks!

Well I'm abroad, in France precisely. For Libya, I can't tell much more than what is said on Al Jazeera (Libya is the North African counterpart of North Corea), ie. many freed cities (mostly in the East), bombings of the protestors by (forerign?) Army Jets in the capital city and a 10 sec appearance at 2AM of the Mad Man saying "I was going out to talk to the people but too bad, it's raining".
For Algeria, everything is clear : protests were big failures!
And in France, it's raining

I'm sad to hear the protests failed in Algeria, but you guys don't have a monster like Gaddafi that can bomb protesters. Thats got to be a first and right up there with Hitler!
Gaddafi is surely on his last legs and that video could have been shot anywhere, there are dark alleys all over the World.
I really don't see how the man can get away with the latest atrocities; if not for European interests, I'm quite sure the security council would have sat by now.

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Dude, welcome to NL. Are you on the ground in Algeria or abroad? Can you furnish us with any first hand info of whats going on?

johnie:
Can you believe that Bahrain spends USD60m every year to host Motor GP Grand Prix?

Built race track with USD250m?

Is ruled by Sunnis who are about 20 percent of population. Shias are the remaining 80 percent.

Na wa o!

I beg you in the name of the Lord, leave Formula 1 out of politics; except you a game for a wicked flurry of dazing left hook / straight jab combinations.

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The real problem in Libya is Europe, not the US. Huge amounts of Libyan gas and crude go straight into the European market (about 50% of Libya's output), Italy alone absorbs 30% of Libyan oil. The US gets just 5% and don't give a hoot about Gaddafi, in fact they had a spat with the UK yesterday, when they blamed them for foolishly propping up Gaddafi, especially through their dangerous Megrahi for oil deal.

We need to see our 10 million almajiri's as a huge security risk that must be tackled as the highest emergency; when foreign countries begin to see us as mercenary and terrorist havens, we should realise hoe potent the almajiri issue is.

[quote author=Kilode?! link=topic=609543.msg7776506#msg7776506 date=1298333814]^^It can enhance it though, that is my worry.[/quote]Without the least doubt, it will. That too wouldn't be all bad, the green lining will be the loosening of the unhealthy terrorist ties that exist between us and the Arab World. I can only imagine how excited those Boko Haram fools would be at the prospect of killing people for a whopping $2000 a day; these links need breaking.

It is in Nigeria's interest that Libya, Yemen and other renegade states be completely dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up. Our govt needs to vigorously support the Middle East uprising in response.

[quote author=Kilode?! link=topic=609543.msg7776438#msg7776438 date=1298332952]@beaf this is the same worry I was expressing on the other Ghaddafi thread. The moment I saw the "Black African mercenaries" phrase my mind went to the possible "racial" or color impact.

I know some Nigerians try hard not to view things from a color angle, that's fine, but we can't just wish peoples dangerous stereotypes away. Especially in societies where you historically and culturally suffer disdain because of your skin tone.

I don't know if these people are Nigerians or Nigeriens or whatever. But I'm afraid for dark-skinned people caught up in the Arab world through history, lineage or recent migration. Which ever way this crisis shifts this is further bad news for them IMO.[/quote]Yes its a problem, but i don't think it would really change any already racist perceptions about blacks. I wouldn't be too concerned about the racism angle.

PhysicsHD:
Wow.

It may indeed be a legitimate story.

F-uck Gaddafi.

If there is a Nigerian connection (as it now almost certain), then before sundown tomorrow fullscale yawa will gas and we will have very difficult questions to answer.
On the other hand it might turn out a blessing and yeild solutions to problems that seem intractable.

Its just a pity Nigerians will even sell their kids for money.

PhysicsHD:
Strange. I wonder how he would know. Are they wearing Nigerian army uniforms? Using Nigerian slang?

From Niger to Nigeria to Cameroon to Chad, a Hausa is a Hausa. How do you can tell from a distance whether a Hausa reps the green white and green or some other nationality?

The Nigerian angle seems to get more legit with every passing minute:

news broken on twitter via @SultanAlQassemi,
Al Jazeera: Rights Source: Pamphlets in Guinea & Nigeria asking for mercenaries to fight in #Libya for a wage of $2,000 a day.
SultanAlQassemi is following 210 and has 40,847 followers

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/t/al-jazeera-rights-source-_39826747822182400.html

seanet02:
Thank God it was not an ibo man tenure, he will have siddon and sign. Soludo mu he he

Do you realise how stupeed you sound?
How can anybody be this damaged?