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@EmperorOlu

You are breaking records. How can anyone generate such a negative image in only 3 days on NL?

Abagworo:
i support southern nigeria republic 100%.the capital is simply asaba.three regional capitals(ibadan,yenagoa and enugu).the two major cities are lagos and port harcourt.the north should be given stake of 30% to 40% in the oil industry.

That is not only uncalled for, it is also unhealthy. Why would one nation bankroll another, for what reasons?

illusion2:
America's overstretched now. . . .they'd be foolish to try this,apart from the fact that their people are tired of war.

When? Do you know how many wars the US fights every year? The US is constantly fighting more than one war at any point in its history. War makes money.

The West is making its position known.

[size=14pt]Power vacuum leaves Nigeria `ripe for jihadists'[/size]
As media spotlight falls on would-be jet bomber in U.S., ailing president's absence from West African nation is glaring
By Olivia Ward Foreign Affairs Reporter
Published On Thu Dec 31 2009


There are growing calls in Nigeria for Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan, right, to replace President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, left.
REUTERS

Violent clashes with religious sects, militant attacks on oilfields, endemic corruption and now the notoriety of a would-be airplane suicide bomber with Nigerian citizenship.

Governing Nigeria would be a 24-hour-a-day job for any leader of the large West African country at the best of times. But with President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua languishing in a Saudi Arabia hospital for more than a month with a serious heart ailment, the timing of the U.S. airline incident could hardly be worse.

Although Yar'Adua signed a crucial $2.6 billion spending bill from his hospital bed this week, calls for his resignation are getting louder.

As the international media spotlight falls on Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's failed attempt to blow up a Delta airliner near Detroit on Christmas Day, Yar'Adua's absence is especially glaring.

The divided country – split between a mainly Muslim north and a largely Christian south – has been fending off extremists from Algeria, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, and the U.S. is looking for answers on Al Qaeda's possible presence.

In the wake of the attempted plane bombing, Nigeria's government said it was boosting security in the Lagos airport, where Abdulmutallab boarded a plane for Amsterdam and changed to the Detroit-bound flight.

But in Nigeria, domestic issues are equally pressing, and there are calls for the ailing 58-year-old president to hand over the reins to Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan. Yar'Adua suffers from chronic kidney problems, as well as an acute heart inflammation.

"There are insinuations that since Nigeria's driver's seat has been vacant, the country has run like a vehicle with a full load of passengers yet without anyone controlling its direction," said the nairaland.com news service. It warned there could be a "fatal crash" unless drastic measures are taken to put competent hands on the wheel.

Although Nigeria is one of the world's leading oil producers, its people see few of the benefits: a formula that has led to growing anger, crime and rebellion.

"Ten years of supposed democracy have yielded mounting poverty and deprivation of every kind in Nigeria," said Jean Herskovits of State University of New York in an essay in Foreign Policy magazine. "Young people, undereducated by a collapsed educational system may `graduate,' but only to joblessness."

Meanwhile, Nigeria's traditionally tolerant Sufi Islam is vulnerable to infiltration by insurgents and Internet propaganda.

"These currents are growing in strength," says John Campbell of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria. Radical imams halted a World Health Organization vaccination program in the north as a plot to limit Muslim births, he points out, and an extremist Islamic sect called Boko Haram staged a violent uprising last July that cost hundreds of lives.

Earlier this week, clashes between militants and Nigerian security forces left at least 38 people dead in the northern city of Baluchi.

Although Yar'Adua was elected in a 2007 poll widely criticized as fraudulent, he pledged to clean up corruption. But since then he has rated mainly failing grades.

Now there are fears that the anger of disadvantaged Muslims – as well as middle-class youths seeking social justice –will fuel new radical movements.

"Social conditions in northern Nigeria make the region ripe for infiltration by jihadist Islam and Al Qaeda," said Campbell. "The region's social development statistics are the worst in Nigeria and among the worst in the world."

He added, "the government is all but paralyzed" by Yar'Adna's illness and lack of agreement in elite circles "on a course of action if he dies soon, which is widely expected."

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/744412--power-vacuum-leaves-nigeria-ripe-for-jihadists

No, we link it to Shango.

This story is an invention of the rumour mill. It is a lie.

SEFAGO:
You wish. So how will presidency be determined? Vice-presidency? on merit? Heads will roll

You neva tire wit lost and and missing presidents sha.

If we have a true federation, we woudn't have to worry about how offices will be determined. We will need to strive not repeat any mistakes from Nigeria.

Africom, F22's and missiles launched from Djibouti, if any trace of Al Qaeda is found.

Lagos is quite developed compared to the rest of the country. I can see it as the most important financial and technological hub.

Other areas like Warri, Port Harcourt, Calabar and Nnewi / Aba will be positioned as technological, industrial and innovative hubs.
Cross River and all coastal areas can be developed for tourism.

As a priority, we will need to move sharply away from an oil based economy. But, we could set up a system where oil is used as seed money to invest heavily in economic diversification.

There will be no federal character or quota system. The welfare of the individual will be paramount and actively protected at home and abroad.

We will change the education curriculum from the current counter productive rote system, to one in which knowledge is illustrated with real life scenario's and inventive talent is identified early and actively nutured. Education would be intimately meshed with industry and the business World.
Students will be taught thinking and logic skills, from kindergarten to university.

Jesu! I see so much potential!   I could go on and on. . .

gidson12:
could there be mor to it that meets the eye, maybe they thought the old man might know something,

I think the CIA and FBI will only be interested in his strong backing for sharia and the pivotal role he is playing at the head of Nigeria's first Islamic bank; they will checking if his life outlook had an effect on his son or if he too is involved, either as a sponsor or more peripherally.

PHCN will deal with them. Abi dem go use kerosene?

OAM4J:
Interesting. At least let the dream start. Reality might set in later. Who knows.

Quick suggestions:

The name Nigeria should not reflect at all, I suggest UNITED STATES OF GREENLAND, or just GREENLAND, or  OCEANLAND  (after the atlantic ocean)

The green color is ok but should be married with another colour  like black, or blue (blue for the ocean, black for black people / the black crudel, green for vegetatation and white for peace )

The people of Kwara, Kogi and Benue will decide on their own if they want to join the south or go with the north

Our first official language will be pidgin english, follow by the Standard english

Let the dream begin.  

I think we should keep away from English names. I suggest that in recognition of the failure of Nigeria and its general disrespect of ethnic groups, we should seek out the smallest ethnic group and give the new country a name in that language. Some of the smallest groups are:
[list]
[li]Afemai[/li]
[li]Wepa-Wano[/li]
[li]Isoko[/li]
[li]Ekoi [/li]
[/list]

A country with no president and surplus Chief Justices! First country to have two Chief Justices. Na wa!
We can now start exporting them, abi no be wetin de happen to surplus?

AIRDIG:
Something seems fishy in this whole messy issue. This days it's real hard to know what is real and what's not. This is disturbing.

what is the level of involvement of all players in the whole story i.e The Umar farouk, the U.S, Amsterdam's connections.
Are what we know Half-truth, does anyone have something to hide, or what is the aim of the sick game unfolding

Anyway, Let's stand together to commit ALL form of terrorism irrespective of who commits it.

Check out this links on you tube video to find out:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GCRHZJ87-0&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI5DN0Mimk4&feature=channel

Lock just yourself and your family in a room "to commit ALL form of terrorism". . .
Seriously, if you want to entertain conspiracy theorists and right wingers like Alex Jones, your mind will soon get twisted.

[quote author=onye_ngbu link=topic=373829.msg5221621#msg5221621 date=1262229767]How can any body conclude that publisher is becomrich.
The grammar is not close to being same let alone ideology.
@sjeezy,
are you telling us that the reason why you dont want seccesion is because you are afraid of war not because it is bad for our progress?[/quote]It is called "raw, piss in pants" fear.

Make me the president!!!

I guess you mean x86 assembler?
You can find tonnes of resources online. I doubt there's a simple way to go about it.

. . .A couple of cheats you could use though:

[list]
[li]gcc compilar has an option to output the equivalent asm for c++ code.[/li]
[li]Write asm in Visual studio, compile to IL and get the equivalent VB or C# code for study in Reflector http://www.viksoe.dk/code/asmil.htm[/li]
[li]This should be your last cheat option, download High Level Assembler (HLL). It allows you to write in C-like syntax or go guru with 100% assembler[/li]
[/list]

^
You're talking like a politician.
I just don't want to engage in roundabout arguments (a bit too busy right now).

TrueSeeker:
What of if Mr Yaradua has delegate the swearing ceremony to Justice Kut~

Yar Adua?! Is that a joke?

In any event, Femi Falana says Yar Adua did not even write a formal letter of appointment. . . _{There is something about our "president" and letters}
From Femi Falana's position, the selection has been okayed, but the new guy has not been appointed. So based on what was he sworn in?

Pifa:
It seems that just as a good lawyer will exploit a hole in a law to his client's favor, the retiring CJ is exploiting the absence of a specific designee to swear-in the new CJ.

All the ruckus following this event may very well end up for naught.

The whole World is reporting the appointment as 'illegal'. There's got to be a lot wrong with it considering the stance of senior legal experts; I posted this earlier

. . .
Not all Nigerian lawyers agree, saying only the president has such authority. The head of the Nigerian Bar Association and other high-ranking lawyers did not attend the ceremony.

"It is not legal," said Femi Falana, a leading human rights lawyer who has launched legal action to try to force Yar'Adua to hand executive powers to Jonathan while he is away.

Falana said Yar'Adua had sent the name of the new chief justice to the Senate for confirmation before leaving for Saudi Arabia but that he should then have written a formal letter of appointment once that confirmation was given.
. . .

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKLDE5BT0M420091230?sp=true

There will be trouble ahead.

[quote author=Aloy~Emeka link=topic=373727.msg5219319#msg5219319 date=1262204308]I stand corrected. I thought street vending is part and parcel of almajirism.[/quote]No na, almajiri's have a very bad name, for begging, stealing and killing.

. . .
Not all Nigerian lawyers agree, saying only the president has such authority. The head of the Nigerian Bar Association and other high-ranking lawyers did not attend the ceremony.

"It is not legal," said Femi Falana, a leading human rights lawyer who has launched legal action to try to force Yar'Adua to hand executive powers to Jonathan while he is away.

Falana said Yar'Adua had sent the name of the new chief justice to the Senate for confirmation before leaving for Saudi Arabia but that he should then have written a formal letter of appointment once that confirmation was given.
. . .

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKLDE5BT0M420091230?sp=true

Power hunger is going to cripple this country.

[size=14pt]Hurray!! We have two Chief Justices until tomorrow!!![/size]

No country has ever done this before! Wonderful! No president and two Chief Justices! Wow!