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pafun:
Idiocy ? Yo men , I'm gonna kick your motherf+++ing as+ for that . Do you know who you f++king with ? You are a goner dude. I know where you live men.

You're a f'ool.

Ibime:
Femi Falana is doing well. Even in his old age he is still sacrificing his time for this cesspit called Nigeria. Where the hell is Festus Kenyamo in all this?

Its wierd that Keyamo has melted into thin air at this time. When Gani died, I was among many who thought he was the one to take up the mantle. Oh well!

Anyways, Falana looks to be seriously toasting Andoakaa (from a laymans viewpoint).

When the judge asked if he had taken any drugs or alcohol in past 24 hours, he answered, "[size=14pt]some pain pills[/size]." Siefer then said he was competent to understand the proceedings. Abdulmutallab, who is being held at a federal prison in Milan, Mich., had been treated at a hospital for burns after the attack.

His attorneys then waived the reading of the indictment, and the judge entered not guilty plea enter on his behalf.

Beware of castration, it might be painful.
All hail Farouks self inflicted eunuchry!

He will spend his life in jail.

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[size=14pt]Why FG is afraid of tendering medical report on Yar’Adua’s fitness[/size]
Politics Jan 9, 2010

By Ise-Oluwa Ige
About 72 hours ago, radical Lagos lawyer, Mr Femi Falana introduced a new dimension into his legal quest to compel President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, hand over, willy-nilly, his presidential powers to his Vice, Jonathanm Goodluck, on account of his inability to discharge the functions of his office.
Yar’Adua was diagnosed of suffering from acute pericarditis and has been on a French leave in the last 44 days allegedly receiving medical attention overseas.

Specifically, the Lagos lawyer invoked Order 43 Rule 2 of the new Federal High Court Rules to deliver seven fundamental questions otherwise known as interrogatories on the Attorney-General of the Federation, Chief Michael Kaase Andoakaa (SAN).

The interrogatories were delivered on Andoakaa (SAN), being the Chief Law Officer of the Federation by virtue of section 150 (1) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

All the questions channeled to Andoakaa (SAN) through the court touched on whether or not President Yar’adua is suffering or not from infirmity of the mind or the body as envisaged by section 144 (1) (a) of the 1999 constitution which renders him permanently incapable of discharging the functions of his office on one hand and whether indeed he is really performing the functions of his office on his sick bed.

Falana wanted Andoakaa (SAN) to study carefully all the questions, mandatorily provide clear answers to each of them and produce relevant documents like genuine medical reports emanating from the hospital where Yar’Adua is presently receiving medical attention.

As at November 23 to sometimes December 20, 2009, all reports indicated that President Yar’Adua was receiving treatment at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Saudi Arabia but there were conflicting information as to whether he is still in the hospital towards the tail end of last year.

There were even rumours that the Federal Government seemed not to be telling the whole truth about the nature of his ailment.

According to Dr. Oluyemi Badero and Dr. Ola Akinboboye, both of who are New York based award-winning cardiologists and American board certified doctors, they said treatment of acute pericarditis, the ailment Yar’Adua is allegedly suffering from, should take

Akinboboye, a nuclear cardiologist, explained that the Federal Government “has been deliberately vague” on the nature of President Yar’Adua’s ailment because “simple acute pericarditis treatment does not take too long in most people.

He argued that the President’s handlers may have just held back pertinent information about his medical conditions and the hospital where he is taking treatment because “if no surgical procedure is needed, the usual hospital stay is less than five days with medication.”

But Falana said he is not bothered by whichever hospital President Yar’Adua is receiving his medical attention.
He said all he wanted was that the court should compel Andoakaa (SAN), who has been sued on behalf of the Federal Government to produce a certified medical report from the doctor attending to him, attesting that he is indeed not suffering from either the infirmity of the mind or of the body rendering him permanently incapable to perform the functions of his office.

He said the interrogatories i.e (the seven questions) were the main pillars upon which his case, in court, was resting.
He said if the seven questions were persuasively answered and backed up with genuine documents emanating from qualified medical practitioner to the effect that Yar’Adua is still fit to govern as being mouthed by the Attorney-General of the Federation, he vowed that he would discontinue his case and push no more for his reliefs.

But the Attorney-General of the Federation, Chief Mike Andoakaa (SAN) who had earlier dismissed as unnecessary, sheer waste of time and energy, all the three lawsuits filed so far to compel Yar’Adua to activate the provisions of section 145 of the 1999 constitution, is presently crying foul.

He said the request by Falana could not be granted.

He complained silently that acceding to his request would place the private life of President Yar’Adua in the public domain which he said is unfair.

He told the Chief Judge of the Federal high court hearing the case that he would file an objection to collapse all the interrogatories.

In fact, he backpedalled on his earlier agreement to allow the court roll together both his preliminary objection with Falana’s main case.

He said he would not answer his questions except and until the court first deliver a well considered ruling on the locus standi of Falana to sue him in the first place,

But it was too late in the day for Andoakaa (SAN) to change the rule of the game after the trial judge had already delivered a ruling on the issue.
Andoakaa (SAN) however said that if the court is still inclined to roll both the objection and the substantive suit together in the Falana’s case, he begged the court to take his objection to the interrogatories first.

Falana is not objecting to this request.

[b]Although it is legally available to Andoakaa (SAN) to object to the administration of the interrogatories on him if the questions posed are oppressive and scandalous; irrelevant and not sufficiently related to the subject-matter, objectionable or and if the interrogatories are not administered bonafide, it is however curious that he is mustering all the strength he has to frustrate the interrogatories.

But what are the specific questions that are giving the Federal government a hot fever?

The questions neatly packaged in the interrogatories read:

(1) Was the resolution of the Executive Council of the Federation at its meeting of December 2, 2009 to the effect that President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is capable of discharging the functions of his office based on any medical report?

(2) If you answer Yes to Question 1, have you annexed the medical report to your answer?
(3) Since you insist that the President is not incapacitated as to be unable to discharge the functions of his office, do you have a medical report on the current health condition of the President?

(4) If you answer Yes to Question 3, have you annexed the medical report issued by his doctors to your answer?
(5) Has the President signed the 2009 Supplementary Appropriation Bill?
(6) If you answer Yes to Question 5, have you annexed the signed copy of the bill to your answer?

(7) Can you say categorically when the President will resume duties in his office?

The seven questions though look innocuous, but a close examination of the interrogatories would reveal that each of the questions is a bobby trap should Andoakaa (SAN) attempt to answer any of them as all his beautiful legal defence already submitted before the court would overnight turn to mere legal inanities and crumble on him.[/b]

For instance, there is no way he could answer Question 1 in the affirmative.

This is because Andoakaa (SAN) had already tendered a comprehensive minute of the EX(2009) 45th Meeting of the Executive Council of the Federation held on December 2, 2009 before the Abuja Federal high court wherein a blow by blow account was given of how the resolution endorsing Yar’Adua’s medical fitness to continue governance in the country came about.

Specifically, the minute so tendered indeed explained that it was Andoakaa (SAN) that raised, at the meeting, the issue of the continuous calls for resignation of President Yar’Adua from office on account of his ill-health while Vice President Jonathan who said he was worried about it too told FEC members that he would have raised the issue if Andoakaa had not.

The FEC, according to the detailed minute of the meeting, agreed to pull a fast one by passing a resolution to the effect that the President is still capable to continue governance.

The purport of the resolution was make it impossible for the President of the Senate to convoke a medical panel that would travel overseas to examine Yar’Adua’s health with a view to determining whether he was still fit to continue ruling.

It is indisputable that there was nowhere in the minute where it was mentioned that any member of the FEC either saw Yar’Adua before its December 2 meeting, procured any medical report from his doctor or that the meeting relied on such medical report to pass its resolution.

The danger therefore is that if it admitted by Andoakaa (SAN) before the court that no medical report was obtained or relied upon to pass the resolution, the December 2, 2009 position of the FEC on the health status of Yar’Adua would be unreliable as to prevent the court from compelling Yar’Adua to activate the provision of section 145 of the 1999 constitution as requested by Falana.

Even if Andoakaa (SAN) lied that medical report was relied upon before the December 2, 2009 resolution of FEC was passed, he would stumble on a big difficulty in his attempt to answer Question 2 which requested him to produce document (the medical report) which never existed.

This is because if it had existed, it would not only have been tendered before FEC, it would have been smuggled out to the media to show that their position was credible.

To answer Question 3 would mean complying with the provisions of section 144 (1) (a) of the 1999 constitution which the FEC has been running away from and which is preparatory to mandatory invocation of the provisions of section 145 of the 1999 constitution as sought by Falana.

If Question 4 is also answered, then Andoakaa (SAN) would have fallen into the traps of Falana by eventually producing a medical report necessary for the preparation of a written declaration required by section 144 (1) (b) which the medical panel convoked by the President of the Senate would verify to sack Yar’Adua from office.

While Question 5 must necessarily be answered in the affirmative, Andoakaa (SAN) having said in different fora that Yar’Adua performed the functions of his office by signing the Bill on his sick bed, Question 6 is a dangerous trap to compel Andoakaa (SAN) exhibit a copy of the 2009 Appropriation Bill allegedly signed by Yar’Adua with a view to juxtaposing the signature on the document with his regular one in order to establish whether indeed he (Yar’Adua) signed the document or was forged by some crooks.

The last question is one that no member of Yar’Adua family or FEC member can answer because as we are reading this piece, no one knows his health condition as to say with certainty when indeed he would resume the functions of his office.

In the analysis above therefore, it is clear why Andoakaa (SAN) is fuming and why he was approbating and reprobating over his earlier agreement to allow both the preliminary objection and the substantive matter in the Falana case rolled together.

But the question now is: even if Andoakaa (SAN) files his objection, can he collapse any of the interrogatories on the ground that it is oppressive and scandalous; that it is irrelevant and immaterial to the subject-matter of the suit; that it is not administered bonafide and that it is objectionable?

This is a jigsaw puzzle that must be left for Justice Dan Abutu to exclusively determine.

But truth be told, Andoakaa (SAN) is not objecting to the administration of interrogatories on him to protect the private life of President Yar’Adua, he seems to be protecting all that has been illegally done in the name of section (5) (1) and 148 (1) of the 1999 constitution so that the Government of President Yar’Adua would not collapse overnight.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/01/09/why-fg-is-afraid-of-tendering-medical-report-on-yar%E2%80%99adua%E2%80%99s-fitness/

Olujimi Gureje, who named his dog Umaru as a dig at Nigeria’s president, Umaru Yar’Adua, welcomed the rules and said Nigerians should not be quick to claim discrimination. “You are not Abdul-whatever-his-name-is,” he said, surrounded by African-influenced avant-garde clothing he designs at his boutique in Prospect Heights. “Take responsibility for yourself.”

He said Nigeria had received a wake-up call, and that Mr. Abdulmutallab, the son of a wealthy family, typified the aimlessness of the country’s young elite.

He went too far, naming his dog "Umaru". That was plain disrespectful and must be very strongly condemned, but the question is, where is our president? Even when he was present, of what use was he to the country?

At this time, the country needs a voice of authority, but there is none. Olujimi Gureje's feelings reflect the frustrations of those who either travel a lot or reside abroad. We can't afford to continue drifting.

@Ishikawa

No point arguing with you. You quite obviously don't have a clue about .NET.

I wonder why the World does not seem to be seeing your reasons? C# set to take Java's crown as Java drops 50 percent, click the link; Java has lost 50% of its users to mainly C# in the past 7 years.

[size=14pt]Immigrants’ Reactions Vary on New Security Rules[/size]
By ANNE BARNARD
Published: January 8, 2010

Eating spiced lamb at a bustling Yemeni restaurant in Downtown Brooklyn, Mahib Alkrizy said that since Sept. 11, 2001, his wife, a religious Muslim who covers her hair, has come to expect being patted down and stared at when she travels by plane.
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Olujimi Gureje, who designs avant-garde clothing, said Nigerians shouldn't be quick to claim discrimination.
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Abdul Alzundani, a clerk with the airline Yemenia, said of the new rules: “People who travel a lot, they're getting used to it.”

Around the corner at Abu Yasser Travel Agency, employees waved a reporter away — they were tired of even talking about the Obama administration’s recent decision to impose tougher airline screening measures for people flying from 14 countries, including Yemen.

“People who travel a lot, they’re getting used to it,” said Abdul Alzundani, a clerk at the office of Yemenia, the national airline, nearby.

It was a different story at Odyssey African Market in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Evident there, along with the smoked fish and kola nuts that loaded the narrow aisles, was much of the anguish that radiated from Arab-Americans in the days after 9/11.

For Nigerian immigrants, the news that their country was on the list, after a Nigerian citizen was charged with trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, was a new experience, bringing insult and a creeping fear that they were entering a new era of stigma and scrutiny.

“There is nothing like that in our record!” exclaimed Raymond Owolewa, 73, a retired Metropolitan Transportation Authority worker who brought his children to the United States from Nigeria more than three decades ago and was incensed that Nigeria was lumped in with nations the United States lists as state sponsors of terrorism, like Syria and Iran.

“Every country has radical people,” he added. “But we are not specializing in that.”

Five days after President Obama announced the new rules, it is too early to tell how they will ultimately affect people from Nigeria and the other listed countries, or New York’s Nigerian diaspora, which numbers more than 15,000, according to the Census Bureau. The immediate impact, Nigerians and Yemenis said, is simply inconvenience and fear of stigmatization; travel agents said no one was canceling trips.

But these immigrant communities are uncertain whether there could be, over time, a chilling effect on family visits or business travel. And Nigerians, for whom the problem is freshest, wonder if it is a precursor to more serious challenges like the ones Middle Easterners face, such as increased difficulty getting visas to study and work in America.

Nigeria and Yemen were bound together by the Dec. 25 bombing attempt, when, officials say, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 19, a Nigerian Muslim working with a Qaeda cell in Yemen, tried to detonate explosives on a plane about to land in Detroit.

Besides Nigeria and Yemen, the rules affect Afghanistan, Algeria, Lebanon, Libya, Iraq, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria. Anyone flying from those countries, and citizens of those countries flying from anywhere in the world, must undergo a pat-down and a check of their carry-on luggage before boarding. Critics say the rules will simply encourage plotters to recruit bombers in nonlisted countries.

Complicating reaction among Nigerians is the country’s tension between the mostly Christian south and the largely Muslim north. Many Nigerians in the United States are Christians, and their chagrin at the blow to Nigeria’s image was mixed with anger at growing Islamic extremism in the north of their country and concern that ill-informed Americans might now associate such views with all Nigerians.

Many blamed the Nigerian government for making their oil-rich country famous for corruption, e-mail get-rich-quick schemes, and, some argue, fertile ground for Qaeda recruiters.

Oliver Mbamara, of the New York-based Nigerian Lawyers Association, wrote in African Events magazine that Nigeria’s leaders were “turning a blind eye to elements that breed the type of circumstance and environment where the likes of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab thrive.”

Olujimi Gureje, who named his dog Umaru as a dig at Nigeria’s president, Umaru Yar’Adua, welcomed the rules and said Nigerians should not be quick to claim discrimination. “You are not Abdul-whatever-his-name-is,” he said, surrounded by African-influenced avant-garde clothing he designs at his boutique in Prospect Heights. “Take responsibility for yourself.”

He said Nigeria had received a wake-up call, and that Mr. Abdulmutallab, the son of a wealthy family, typified the aimlessness of the country’s young elite.

But more Nigerian-Americans saw the story as every parent’s nightmare. They praised Mr. Abdulmutallab’s father for alerting American authorities to his son’s growing extremism, insisted that Nigeria’s 150 million people were being penalized for a plot that had nothing to do with them, and opined — like many Yemenis — that the rules should apply to all countries.

“It goes to show the relations between powerful nations and weak nations,” said Eman Orji, 50, a paralegal who was buying kola nuts at Odyssey. The United Kingdom, he noted, was not placed on a “no-fly” list after a Briton, Richard C. Reid, tried to blow up a Miami-bound plane in December 2001: “It shows this air of superiority, that we can subject Nigeria to this kind of international humiliation.”

Sheri Adenekan, 39, a home health aide who stopped in for plantains, said, “Because of one person, a lot of people will suffer.”

The Yemeni airline office, despite its inviting pictures of Yemen’s dunes and ornate traditional houses, was deserted Wednesday but for the clerk, Mr. Alzundani. He grew up in New York but sent his wife and family back to Yemen so the children to study Arabic and Islam. Now he worries the new rules will have a very personal effect: loneliness.

His modest, traditional wife, he said, might refuse to visit him if it meant a pat-down or a walk through a machine that let guards see through her clothes. “It’s going to be difficult,” he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/nyregion/09screen.html

[size=14pt]House to Debate Yar’Adua’s Absence[/size]
•Group plans protests
From Joseph Ushigiale and Onwuka Nzeshi in Abuja, 01.09.2010

The House of Represen-tatives will on resumption from its Christmas and New Year vacation next week commence a debate on the implications of the continued absence of President Umaru Yar’Adua from the country for health reasons.

Chairman, House Committee on Rules and Business, Honourable Ita Enang disclosed this yesterday at the weekly chat with journalists in Abuja, stating that the lower legislature would discuss the president’s long convalescence at a Saudi Arabian hospital.

Enang’s statement is coming on the heels of plans by yet another group called the ‘Save Nigeria Group’ to embark on street protests next week in Abuja, Lagos, Kaduna, Port Harcourt, London, Washington DC and New York over the president’s refusal to hand power over to his deputy, Goodluck Jonathan as provided by the constitution.

President Yar'Adua, who has suffered from kidney problems, left Nigeria 47 days ago. His physician later released a statement saying Yar'Adua suffered from acute pericarditis, an inflammation of the lining surrounding the heart.
Unveiling the legislative business of the House in 2010, Enang said the debate on Yar’Adua would come in the form of a motion and would be deliberated upon “to allow lawmakers most of whom have been uncomfortable with the situation to air their views on the matter.”

Enang said the proposed debate would dwell largely on the constitutional and national security implications of the prolonged absence of the president and “not necessarily on the state of his health since only his personal physician and the medical team in Jeddah are competent to discuss the nature of his ailment and to what extent he is recuperating.”
He, however, said it would be difficult to predict what resolutions the House would reach and what line of action it would take after the debate.

“We will discuss the state of indisposition of the president because there is pressure from members that we discuss it. I will not be able to say what the resolution of the House will be but I know that there are matters for us to discuss on the floor of the House,” Enang said.

The House last December tactically avoided deliberations on motions raised on the constitutionality of the president’s absence before the lawmakers embarked on recess last year.

Sources say this current move is being influenced by some key figures in the House “who are now convinced that the National Assembly might not be able to hold the off the fire any longer given the long drawn out cat and mouse game being played by the Federal Executive Council on the issue, and the current situation where the parliament appears to be docile in the eyes of the public.”

Enang also confirmed that the president recently spoke to the Speaker of the House, Honourable Dimeji Bankole on the telephone.
Although Enang was not forthcoming with the details of the telephone chat, he simply said the conversation centered on the state of the legislature.

The prolonged absence of the president from the country has generated heated debate among Nigerians and groups who are questioning the propriety of his leaving the country for treatment without handing over the reins of government to Vice President Goodluck Jonathan.

Added to this, lack of information about the true state of his health has stirred up controversy in recent weeks with several civil society organisations demanding his resignation.
Groups such as the Nigeria Bar Association, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, a group of 100 lawyers and several eminent Nigerians, have also mounted pressure on the National Assembly to take the necessary steps to save the country from the leadership vacuum.

Other issues, according to Enang, that will top the agenda of the House when it resumes include the bill on electoral reforms and the constitutional amendment as well as the bill on anti-terrorism pending before the two chambers of the National Assembly.
Also yesterday, Enang dismissed the controversy surrounding the signing of the 2009 Supplementary Appropriation Act, stating that contrary to insinuations in some quarters, “the signature on the 2009 Supplementary Budget is the signature of President Yar’Adua.”

According to Enang, copies of the signed budget have been dispatched to the National Assembly and the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

He charged those who think that the president’s signature might have been forged to go to court and prove their case.
On the general plan of the House for the New Year, Enang disclosed that the House would receive the report of the Constitution Review Committee as well as begin consideration of the anti-terrorism bill designed to provide a legislative framework to combat terrorism in Nigeria.

The anti-terrorism bill was first introduced by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2006 but was not concluded before the expiration of the tenure of the then House which prompted President Yar’Adua to reintroduce it in October 2009.

The Constitution Review Committee, Enang said, was ready with a comprehensive report and the aggregated inputs of Nigerians who attended the public hearings on the bills.
The House, he said, would not only consider the bill in plenary but will vote on it to ensure that two thirds of the members endorse the amendments.

Also in the line up for 2010 is the controversial Freedom of Information Bill. The bill which was stalled by the Committee of the Whole House, is expected to be resurrected and possibly sent to the Committee on Information and Justice to enable the bill go through the all important stage of public hearing to feel the pulse of the public.

Meanwhile, in an effort to break the power vacuum and constitutional gridlock currently enveloping the country, the Save Nigeria Group will next week mobilize supporters to hold protests in Abuja, Lagos, Kaduna, Port Harcourt, London, Washington DC and New York.

The group which was convened by the fiery Lagos Pastor, Tunde Bakare, after a meeting in Lagos on the state of the nation, called on Nigerians to join its membership and work to halt the nation's slide into the status of a "failed state and quasi-dictatorship."

It lamented what it termed “the dangerous slide of Nigeria into a failed state, worsened by the power vacuum and absence of a Commander-in-Chief in Nigeria for the past 45 days (47 today).”
Expressing outrage at the story making the rounds that Yar'Adua spoke to some federal officials, the Save Nigeria Group called on him to address all Nigerians by radio or television, stressing that he is the leader of the entire country.
It further demanded that Yar’Adua saves Nigeria’s fledgling democracy, national security and his own health by deploying and implementing the provisions of Section 145 of the constitution.

The group also expressed worry that as the nation approaches the 2011 elections that the genuine electoral reform promised by President Yar’Adua during his inauguration is vanishing due to lack of political will and outright refusal to implement the Uwais Electoral Reform Committee recommendations.

In a related development, text messages where sent to several mobile phones last night announcing the convening of a protest against the prolonged absence of the president and the current impasse in government.
According to the message, protesters are expected to converge at London’s Trafalgar Square on Monday, January 12, 2010 at 12 noon, after which they will move to Parliament Square and then end at the Nigerian High Commission at 9 Northumberland Avenue.

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=163759

pafun:
I had a dream that America invaded Nigeria and annexed it by force because it is a terrorist country like Afghanistan etc. 140 milion Nigerians took to the streets jubilant.
We are Americans at last !. No more Green card lottery , no more queueing at embassy. O happy day !
Now we can say things like hey men, motherf+++er , sh+t etc and wear I love NY tshirt to office without being accused of imitating Americans. Thank you Jesus!

Idiocy!

Kobojunkie:
You are not humoring me at all!! If you really know of me on here, you would admit the one thing I like to do is ASK QUESTIONS . . . . Now, I know some feel once you ask them probing questions of ANY KIND, you are violating them in some way and they respond by attacking instead of actually proceeding to answer the questions, but the reality is rather than ASSUME I have you all figured out,[size=14pt] I prefer to ASK you questions so I can better understand where you are coming from or the reason for the logic you present[/size].

I asked you some simple questions on what you posted above. For one I have seen that line presented in defense of the Nigerian situation over and over, and wanted to ascertain if you are doing the same in this case. All you had to do was answer or just ignore, that’s it. Not try to tell me of MY LIFE’s STORY or something. [size=14pt]I HATE IT WHEN FOLKS ATTEMPT TO READ MY MIND WITHOUT MY CONSCENT[/size]. WORSE WHEN THEY CONCLUDE THEY HAVE ME ALL FIGURED OUT ON HERE!!!

Now where is my dictionary? I've got to find the definition of "contradiction".

"I will do it to you, but you have no right to do it to me". Damn!

I hail Abeokuta South Local Government Area!
This is the sort of self confidence we need to develop. No country can develop without self pride and looking inwards for solutions.

--Digression--
I see no reason why Nigerian judges still wear wigs that portray white people's hair. To be honest, I hate our legal attire; it reminds me of our high levels of colonial mentality.

We must be ourselves.

[quote author=paddy_lo link=topic=378467.msg5278797#msg5278797 date=1263005661]@ beaf

that was more than 10yrs ago. . . .

i guess the los angeles riots after rodney kings acquital shows that the average american is a racist and violent bigot

the infrequency of these things especially in the south
and even in most of the north tells u these are rather the exception than the rule[/quote]Your logic about the Los Angeles riots is faulty, if a sizeable enough portion of its population were racist and violent bigots, we wouldn't have had just the Rodney King beating; there would have been hundreds or thousands, perhaps almost war.
The riots in Lagos might have been more than 10 years ago, but 10 years is still a very short time. More important though, you should check my conclusion to get the context in which I made those examples.
Like I said, the word "bigot" is a very strong one indeed and the average Nigerian is not an ethnic bigot.

Katsumoto:
While I am not doubting you, it is usually easier for others, including myself, to believe you if you provide a link.

I see your point. Here are some;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/503549.stm
http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/idep/unpan004231.pdf
http://www.dpmf.org/images/ethnic-agitation-bamgbose-sept-2001.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/more-than-45-die-as-ethnic-riots-hit-lagos-1128978.html

Kobojunkie:
A bigot is a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices.

The correct use of the term requires the elements of obstinacy, irrationality, and animosity toward those of differing devotion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigotry

I am at a loss as to why you posted that. I really have given up engaging with your twisted mind.

That definition you have pertains to the likes of Nazi's and murderous racists. Is that the average Nigerian to you? Boy! You might need help!
I do not see ethnic bigotry in the average Nigerian, whether on NL or anywhere else.

Why do I recall several ethnic conflicts in Lagos?  
In the Ketu - Mile 12 riots of 1999, 45 lives were lost (Yoruba vs Hausa). In the Ajegunle riots, at least 12 lives were lost (Yoruba vs Ijaw).
Na today?
It is a Nigerian problem that is visible all over the country.

However, the average Nigerian is not an ethnic bigot. Bigot is a very strong word.

America has had a way of dripping out Yar Adua's exact condition through reputable people, they just bury it amongst other stuff.
Most recently, it an ex ambassador who said about a week ago that Yar Adua is widely expected to lose his fight for life. Now an international lawyer has this to say;

For those unfamiliar with Nigeria, it may seem strange that no media outlet has published a single comment or interview from President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua. The fact is that nobody has heard one word from him since he disappeared almost two months ago to receive medical treatment in Saudi Arabia. With the president out of the country, his entourage has refused to give up power. There are even unconfirmed rumors and hearsay circulating that the president suffered irreversible brain damage during the flight, and that control of the government has fallen into the hands of opportunists in the palace circles.

Though unable to communicate, the president mysteriously signed a supplementary budget order from his sick bed, releasing $2.4 billion dollars to the government caretakers, which naturally caused these rumors of state capture to accelerate.

What is striking, is that while he say's there are unconfirmed rumours that Yar Adua "suffered irreversible brain damage during the flight", he is 100% certain that "though unable to communicate, the president mysteriously signed a supplementary budget order from his sick bed".

Becomerich, it is either you are a f'ool or a coward. You are free to fear your "majority" or "minority" or the other mad and f'oolish things you talk about, but leave Edo, Delta and Bayelsa people out of it. We have [b]nothing [/b]in common with you; I am quite sure the Yoruba's want nothing to do with you as well.

How can someone who calls himself an adult degrade a topic so much?

Right now, the heat is on Islam, but Christianity and all other religion needs to be regulated as well. There are the Jankara human parts market and Okija shrine as well as bizare churches that promise everything from fraudulent miracles to the detection and murder of child witches; these things are every bit as dangerous as the extremism in the North, maybe they are just not yet as big.

We have had an upsurge of truely shameful behaviour in recent times, even from top govt officials regularly spue out rubbish in a bid to sound religious. The truth is that, aside from fraud and outright theft, religion is the only form of business that truely flourishes in our country. The problem runs very deep, just closing down madrasa's will not solve it.

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Na lie!
Nobody has heard from Yar Adua; a man who could "sign" for money and who could "make phone calls", yet hasn't uttered a single word about Mutallab.

otawa:
supported.

Senate should pass new bill asap: 'Nigerian Enemy Law'

In this, we add countries whose action to Nigeria and Nigerians protray them as our enemy.

We should have our own ways of dealing with them.

The thing is, how will we deal with them? Will we surmon Sango? Because we really have no means of threatening the US or orther countries.
When common Cameroun farted, we gave them Bakassi.

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Thats exactly why the US claims it has reacted so harshly to us. Lets hope Yar Adua pops up or power is handed over to Jonathan before too long, then lets see if the US removes us from that cursed list. If they don't. . . Na enemy action be dat o!

That is not our president!
I don't know that guy.

The US has simply found Aondoakaa's soft spot. Expect further arm twisting.
New saying, "if you live in a corrupt house, don't throw ultimatums".

Bank accounts must have been threatened sha, the ultimatum barely lasted 48 hours.

Damn!
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