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udezue:I second that. I also hope that as oil is discovered elsewherein abundance, so ours should dry up as quickly as possible. That is the only way we will ever come to our senses. I can bet you that in the next 5 years, Ghana will solidly be the power in West Africa, with countries like Sierra Leone not far behind. We will soon be asking Sierra Leone for permission or aid to do things. |
Very soon Nigeria will move from sleeping giant to dead giant. Our sole claim to glory, oil is being discovered like water across W.Africa. 'Oil discovered' off Sierra Leone A recent oil discovery off Ghana sparked huge optimism in the region A US oil firm has announced the discovery of a deepwater oil well off the coast of Sierra Leone. Anadarko Petroleum Corporation said it confirmed the existence of an "active petroleum system" in the Sierra Leone-Liberian basin. Two years ago, oil was discovered off Ghana by the same drillers. Sierra Leone is one of the poorest countries in the world and still faces the challenge of reconstruction after a brutal civil war which ended in 2002. The country is also rich in diamonds and other minerals, but the trade in illicit gems, known as "blood diamonds" for their role in funding conflicts, perpetuated the civil war. Anadarko Petroleum said the new well - called Venus - is one of more than 30 identified prospects across 10 blocks offshore of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Ghana. "We are optimistic that the continued success of our West African Cretaceous program will create substantial value for our stakeholders as well as the people of West Africa through continued investment and increased activity," said Bob Daniels, Andarko vice-president. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8259335.stm |
I'm always very very very very willing to be asked such questions, the babe doesn't even have to know me at all sef o! I would always prefer if you just gets down sha instead of wasting yeye time asking. ![]() |
Jimmy Carter: attacks on Barack Obama fuelled by racism Jimmy Carter has claimed that many of Barack Obama’s most vocal critics are racist and have been spurred into increasingly bitter attacks on his policies by their revulsion at the election of America’s first black president. By Alex Spillius in Washington Published: 4:52PM BST 16 Sep 2009 In a blistering attack on the Right after watching Mr Obama endure a summer of hostility, the former US president singled out Joe Wilson, the congressman who shouted “You Lie!” while Mr Obama was making a speech on health care to the US Congress last week. That attack, Mr Carter alleged, was also “based on racism”. Bush said Obama 'has no clue' In comments that could provoke a contentious debate on race the White House is eager to avoid, Mr Carter went further than African-American congressmen who had begun to make the connection between Right-wing attacks on Mr Obama and his election as America’s first black president. “I think that an overwhelming proportion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, he’s African American,” Mr Carter, 84, told NBC. “I live in the South, and I have seen the South come a long way,” said the native Georgian. “But that racism inclination still exists, and I think it has bubbled up to the surface because of a belief among many white people, not just in the South but across the country, that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country.” The comments mean that Mr Carter has become the most prominent voice to level a direct charge of racism at Mr Obama’s critics. It has emerged since last week that Mr Wilson was among a small group of Republicans who supported a campaign to keep the Confederate flag flying over South Carolina’s capitol building. The flag is regarded by African Americans and many others as an offensive symbol of the pro-slavery South. Mr Wilson was also once a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, which racism watchdog groups regard as a “neo-confederate” organisation. But Mr Wilson’s son, Alan, said: “There is not a racist bone in my dad’s body. He doesn’t even laugh at distasteful jokes. I won’t comment on former President Carter, because I don’t know President Carter. But I know my dad, and it’s just not in him.” During months of raucous protests against his health care reform plans and other initiatives, Mr Obama has been compared to Hitler, the Joker from the Batman films and the anti-Christ. Opponents have called him a Nazi, a socialist, a communist and questioned his nationality. Demonstrators toting guns have appeared outside the president’s town hall appearances while a handful of preachers have led congregations in prayers that Mr Obama would die. “Those kind of things are not just casual outcomes of a sincere debate on whether we should have a national programme on health care,” said Mr Carter. “It’s deeper than that.” Robert Gibbs, the White House spokesman, has been forced to address the race issue, telling CNN: “I don’t think the president believes that people are upset because of the colour of his skin.” His remarks demonstrated the administration’s keenness to bury a debate that would divert attention from the president’s already overloaded agenda. Organisers of the conservative “tea party” protests against the president have insisted their opposition is based merely on dislike of the president’s “big government” policies. Brendan Steinhauser, a co-ordinator for FreedomWorks which organised the first large-scale protest against Mr Obama in Washington over the weekend, said accusations of racism were nothing more than a ploy to muffle dissent. “It is an intimidation tactic. When you make that attack and call someone racist or homophobic it is a way to kind of silence them,” he said. “The idea that people are trying to bring race into this is absolutely ridiculous.” Charles Rangel, a veteran black congressman from New York, said earlier this month: “Some Americans have not gotten over the fact that Obama is president of the United States. They go to sleep wondering, ’How did this happen?’ ” For other Democrats, Mr Wilson’s unprecedented breach of decorum during an address by the president to a joint session of Congress led them to express what they had been feeling for weeks. Mike Honda of California, chairman of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, said: “There’s a very angry, small group of folks that just didn’t like the fact that Barack Obama won the presidency.” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/6198519/Jimmy-Carter-attacks-on-Barack-Obama-fuelled-by-racism.html |
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o9999:You are sounding illogical. Are you trying to say, in very many words that ND people are stupid? That is all that can be gathered from your ill thought out post. They just plant you guys on the forum to talk bullshit. it is this sort of mentality that makes the govt drop bombs on its own people and makes the World look at us in horror. We have a stone age government. |
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Do you wonder that the majority of the people castigating the move are people who are lost in the diaspora? Why, because they just want a reason to justify why they have been gone, battered , forsaken and lost their voice in the country Nigeria- nothing is good about Nigeria in their own eyes - foolish, rotten, illetrates.AjaraEwuro London - the best place to be Posts: 480 https://www.nairaland.com/Themes/default/images/useron.gifOnline Is someneone telling me this guy isn't a donkey? London no be diaspora? |
babaearly:In all honesty, we can go about making our millions and ignoring the issues. . . What about our kids and those to come? What if the millions are lost by a stroke of faith or EFCC? What if you become a kidnap victim, or worse, your wife or kids? |
Could this be the first sign of the ancestral spirits getting their man? It takes a lot of self destruction and evil levels of pauperisation for anyone to please the IMF. The worst is still to come. |
When will this all end? Everything and everybody is on strike in Nigeria. ASUU has already grounded higher education for some time now. What country can develop with both its education and health sections grounded? What can we do to escape this rot? Health workers and educators don't get paid but politicians salaries are never ever tampered with. Across the board, facilities are mediocre. Doctors’ Strike Imminent Written by Vincent Ekhoragbon, Gombe Tuesday, 15 September 2009 23:01 The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), has indicated its resolve to immediately proceed on strike by September 30 if their abandoned MSS/MSSS salary scheme was not restored. The President of the association, Dr. Prosper Igboeli, dropped this hint in Gombe during the opening ceremony of the National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (NARD) annual general meeting/scientific conference and delegates meeting. The NMA, therefore appealed to the Federal Government to be mindful of the ultimatum and do everything in its powers to ensure resolve the situation in order to resolve an impending health crises that may arise as a result of the withdrawal of their services. What the medical doctors are after is a salary perculiar to them as it were before it was subverted for HAPSS/HATISS in 1999 and later CONTISS in 2007, explained Dr. Prosper, whose speech was read by Gombe State NMA Chairman, Dr. D.D. Konkong. The chairman of the occasion, Professor Idris Muhammad, in his remark, blamed the doctors for the way they were being held in the society, which he ascribed to their fragmentation into the NMA, Medical and Dental Consultants Association and NARD. On 'combating the menace of maternal and child morbidity and mortality' scourge which is the theme of the meeting, Professor Muhammad said the rate had shot up over 10 times beyond the figure obtained in his medical school years when there were less number of medical doctors. He tasked resident doctors to take advocacy campaigns on girl child education and routine immunization to the rural populace, especially in view of the misgivings about immunization and the scandal the country was facing with polio vaccines, noting that the problem arose from ignorance and personal ineptitude and managerial negligence. Doctors were then told to look within and question themselves why they allowed the programmes to fail since they are in charge of it. NARD President, Dr. Golden Owhonda, acknowledged the seriousness of the challenges of maternal and infant mortality in Nigeria and the attendant and alarmingly embarrassing indices which he said were unacceptable and must be addressed somehow. He enjoined active participation of members in the conference as deliberations were zeroed on ensuring a better country with the finest practice of the science of medicine. Earlier, Governor Muhammad Danjuma Goje, who was represented by his Health Commissioner, Dr. Mohammed Isah Umar, said Gombe State had recorded significant increase in the ante-natal and post-natal care unit in the state's health facilities because it was made free. He said that the state was witnessing a decreasing mortality and morbidity rate due to the gesture which was occasioned by alarming figures, inadequate health facilities, and inadequate advocacy and the concomitant low patronage of health facilities as it were before the incumbent government came to power. http://leadershipnigeria.com/index.php/news/headlines/6015-doctors-strike-imminent |
Sanusi’s return heightens anxiety in 11 banks over infractions Tuesday, 15 September 2009 01:30 BLESSING ANARO •Analysts call for level playing field Suspense in the banking industry is heightened with the return of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor from China over the likelihood that the apex bank axe may fall on some of the 11 banks linked to some level of infractions in their financials. Bismark Rewane According to sources at the apex bank, the exercise which was completed last week showed that none of the banks was completely free from any infractions. Sanusi is likely to release the report before the week ends. Also, the suspense has become electrifying following calls by some groups which felt that the staggered audit exercise, regarded as selective by them, and portends different playing fields for the operators in the same industry. But Bismark Rewane of Financial Derivatives is of the view that there should not be any cause for alarm, saying that as far as he is concerned, the apex bank is yet to officially come out with the result and so whatever decision the CBN governor would make will depend on that. Consequently, tongues are wagging in the industry to the effect that CBN may go ahead to punish a few banks for their lean level of guilt in financial disclosure, contrary to earlier views that the apex bank may only give them a warning because their offence is not as heavy as the five whose banks’ managing directors were sacked alongside their executive directors. CBN sources said some banks, about three, were discovered to have some level of operational infractions, as well as have bulked against some of the apex bank’s fundamental regulations. Top sources at some of the newly audited banks confided in BusinessDay that most of the examiners were rather rigid, asking for conditions difficult to meet by a bank under the operating environment in the country. In fact, they said there were sharp disagreements over how to classify some loans. One of them said the real problem they had with loans was in the oil and gas sector. He explained that because of the peculiar problem in the sector, some of the loans were restructured alongside new arrangements which the apex bank examiners would not listen to. Banks audited in the second stage include Access Bank, Bank PHB, Fidelity Bank, Zenith Bank, Ecobank, Spring Bank, Skye Bank, First City Monument Bank, Wema Bank, and Equitorial Trust Bank. Business Day had earlier reported that examiners of the CBN have found some infractions during an audit of 11 more banks but not on the scale of those five rescued in the N420 billion bailout loan. The Central Bank injected N420 billion into Afribank, FinBank, Intercontinental Bank, Oceanic Bank and Union Bank on August 14 and sacked their top management, saying they had become so weakly capitalised they posed a systemic risk. http://www.businessdayonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5080:sanusis-return-heightens-anxiety-in-11-banks-over-infractions&catid=85:national&Itemid=340 |
Wherever the IMF has gone, wretchedness has never been far behind. This is not a friend to have! IMF Backs Sanusi’s Banking Reformshttp://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=154608 |
^I was preserving Aloys full flow while he tackles a clown. |
^Be blameless. |
[quote author=becomrich, link=topic=324241.msg4551930#msg4551930 date=1253067303]Amaka let me give you a clue to my mind set. I am accountable to God and not man. And what ever anyman says about me is irrelevant. I shall give account before God what I do. And on this issue, when God ask me what did I do when I saw the satellite pictures of Nigeria. I could say, I warn them and some people abuse me over it. So Amaka what every anyone says about is irrelevant. It is the way God see me, that matter. And in Gods eyes I am doing the right thing, even when it hurt some pride of some ethnics group in Nigeria. Call me name, God calls me good son.[/quote]I am dead serious and very concerned, you need to visit a doctor for your own good. That is the best advice I can give, you are ill but don't know it. I wish we could send pm's on this forum, then I could have sent this privately. But rest assured, nobody knows your true identity, so its ok. You do need to see a doctor, your mind isn't normal. |
@Omoabike and Cap28 Do the functional details matter that much? They are an extension of the US army period. They are only employed by the US govt or those with proxying US interests. One of their directors already has some sort of security experience in Nigeria. Our govt is most likely ready to hire foreigners to kill our own people. ![]() JUSTINE FISHER – Director Ms. Justine Fisher is a Director at Good Harbor Consulting. Ms. Fisher manages the Human Resources and Administration sectors as part of the Operations Support Team based in the UAE. Ms. Fisher relocated to the UAE from Australia in 2007. Prior to joining Good Harbor Consulting, Ms. Fisher worked within the private security sector based in Dubai. Ms. Fisher provided direct HR and admin support and management across projects in Iraq, Liberia, Nigeria and Afghanistan. Due to Ms. Fisher’s exposure and experience within these regions she later undertook the position of Administration and Finance Manager for a commercial client in the Najaf Province of Iraq. Ms. Fisher also served with the Australian Army for 10 years that included her deploying to East Timor in 1999 as part of the initial surge. Ms. Fisher has been awarded the AASM (Australian Active Service Medal), the INTERFET (International Forces East Timor) Medal and tertiary qualifications in Frontline Management. Ms. Fisher graduated from James Cook University, Australia with a Bachelor Degree in Occupational Therapy. This qualification led to Ms. Fisher providing active support across Government and Private agencies in compensation and benefits planning, return to work programming and task/job analysis. http://www.goodharbor.net/team/simpson.html# |
@Alloy. becomerich is an illegal alien that has taken advantage of Ecowas to cross into 9ja from Aflao area of Togo. I won't have problems deporting him and the whole of google. |
Imagine a country were citizens can be deported from state to state. Nigeria is rapidly tearing itself apart. We cannot survive 2011. In the past, it was toxic waste; these days, it is almajiri dumping! |
Kobojunkie:No. The Nigerian reality is that an alarming proportion of the population finds it almost routine to bomb each other or embark on wholesale slaughter with whatever weapons come to hand. The few that are living side by side will not bring back the dead or save those who are next to die come the next ethnic, religious or resource clash. A contract for our collective existence needs to be set out or we abandon the Nigerian project. Doing nothing costs lives. I am interested in what alternative you have; I'm talking about practical solutions that will resolve the current ethnic / religous malaise. |
The police are a disgrace. For what have they arrested the woman and her baby? It can't be for money, her man died while beating her over 50 naira. ![]() Alarm needs to be raised about this. They only want to rape her. |
^The big difference is that, in Nigeria it is 100% black dropping bombs on 100% black. To do the job effectively, without fail; they ship in goons from other ethnic groups. What greater proof of hatred is needed? |
There has been a lot of confusion in the corridors of power since some jailed big bosses unleashed serious ancestral spirits Turai, caring woman that she is, has gone to Vienna to seek nuclear forces to counter strong jass and any type of Okija or tree from Orile. |
--Saunters in, all cool; calmly drops fridge on the Pimps foot and orders Rafiu to lock him up till he's good--- chic2pimp:If I think I'm in Aso, then I must be in Aso Rock. ![]() @topic The truth lies somewhere between Ezeagu's position and yours + Kobojunkie's. Currently, I am for restructuring our federal architecture toward 100% resource control and quasi-autonomous regional entities; failing that, we must seperate. The most powerful motivation for my position is that there is actual hatred between regions / ethnic groups. How do you explain a country repeatedly dropping bombs on its own people, not even in a single event, but across several years. |
chic2pimp:So am I only dreaming am posting from Aso Rock? ![]() |
Is it possible to deport Aso Rock to Chad? ![]() |
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London no be diaspora?

. Until u show evidence proving otherwise,that statement can only be seen as false.