₦airaland Forum

buzugee:
you guys are missing the point. he should be punished for his crime, which should be a misdemeanor and fines like they do to every other white person. does it not bother you as a black person that you are regarded so inferiorly such that you are always brutally punished more than every other color of people in america ? does that not bother you as a human being or are you just so caught up in the trivialities of life that you refuse to acknowledge the big elephant in your room ? the big elephant with the big sign that says ' you are inferior and hence will be dealt with severely if you ever cross any kinda line in society' ? arent you even human enough to be pissed at this ? is your self esteem such that you cannot bring yourself to be angry at this ? you think as a black person you deserve the harshest treatment in society ?

Quoted for truth. Snipes is one of many black entertainers that become multi-racial icons. They think they have somehow transcended racial bias because of popularity. When the chips are down, your color is still the bottom line, as he has found out, the hard way.

instead make them translate things fall apart, or Ake, or War and Peace, dem dey translate bible. LOL

I've never heard the Ajayi one. Probably a good thing too.

kokoye:
ojun to nsoro  (oloju come and do) 

opelenge

These two are in doubt  .

Arewa, ife re ti pojuuuu

What happened to the other girls. They just left them behind?

DapoBear:
No one has yet justified why the enormous amount of resources that the Delta currently receives is so badly misspent. I understand, you want a larger piece of the cake. But why are you wasting the slices of the cake you are currently getting?

Any solution for the Delta will require addressing both the money they are earning and the money they fritter away. You cannot address the former alone. Yet that seems to be the primary focus of this thread.

The problem is, you can't address the waste in ND out of the context of waste and corruption in Nigeria. God knows pretty much every ND leader that has come out since Saro Wiwa has been found to be part of the colonisers themselves.

It must be for show. This issue will die a quick death in court. No state can pass laws superceding an explicit FG law. Shikena.

sbeezy8:
ACN KNOWS IT CANNOT WIN IN 2011. its just playin politics

Buhari/ngige  = no votes from the SW

Ribadu/ngige/utomi = no votes in the SW.  as all the vps and even the presidetial apirants are not popular in the SW.
SW People wont vote for ACN in the presidetial election if they are unfamiliar with the presiden/vps- The name ACN means nothing if SW people dont know who the aspirants are. 

infact ACN doing that is like giving more votes to PDP/jonathan.

Both can win in the SW, depending on the other options available. If Atiku were to win the PDP ticket, either of these two options would become more attractive. You are confusing SW with some other region. We are not close-minded ethno-centrists

If you do not have love for your fellow man, who you can see, how can you claim to a love a God you haven't seen. If there's a heaven, I guarantee you there will be people there you thought would never make it. And there will be people you thought were a shoe-in who wont make it.

On a lighter note, I googled alamsdee's curse, and I came up with this thread: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-495020.128.html

check out the raw booty warrior vid,  Bawomolo was definitely a character  

SW has learnt it lesson from the AD and NADECO days. We cant keep playing guardian of Nigeria and keep getting our fingers burnt. AC's ultimate aim, is not really Aso Rock. The ultimate goal is to have every Senator, Rep and Governor be an AC man. We have the manpower; we just need to marshal our Federal allocation correctly. Of what use is Aso Rock if over 50% of the people you claim to represent are stark illiterates. Go "Igbotic" Buhari, no skin off my back.

Kobojunkie:
I think @Jakumo will attest to the fact that much of what you have above lines up with what I have given him as reason for why I will be willing to vote for @Buhari next year.

Problem I do have with your response above is that it does not tackle any of the questions asked or put forth. We are still on the topic of voting and supporting known criminals (even those without official criminal records).

I am not against the north in anyway as I sincerely believe there are some intelligent Northerners out there fighting for change as well. [b]And I do not believe in your list of progressives there. I am more concerned that we seem stuck with, and praise the recycling of some of the same old criminal elements.  Much of the decay of the last decade occurred under the watch of many of the thieves we pretend are lesser thieves, eg.Tinubu. [/b]And so I see no reason to rejoice that we may again be faced with the choice of rewarding this man with our votes, in the name of progress come next year, should Buhari pick him as a running mate.

Fair enough. I agree even the progressives I've listed have skeletons in their cupboard. Choosing a potential Buhari/Tinubu ticket is like changing a diaper. At the end of the day, it has to be done, regardless of how you feel about it. I'm willing to hold my nose if it means a saner country in the near future.

Kobojunkie:
I am at least glad you are willing to admit that his having no official criminal record out there is no admission that he, in no wise, has his hands deep in crime.

On picking cleaner criminals, I ask why? Why pick from the stock of criminals? Why not pick from the list of un-identified criminals we have? Granted, we mostly believe our politicians are dirty but there are still those we know are not really into crime(we still have little or no evidence to show for any or all suspected crime)?
Why not vote now for the nobody than voting for the criminal we know? What good has voting status quo done for us so far?

Politics is all about pragmatism. Progressives must be willing to compromise the lesser of our ideals so we can achieve the bigger ones. If breaking the stranglehold of the Northern elders on Nigeria involves an electable Buhari/Tinubu or Buhari/Bleep ticket, so be it. They serve their two terms max, and if they indeed break PDP/North's back, we get to pick a progressive Fashola/Ribadu/Utomi ticket the next time.

I detest Buhari, but I'd be willing to vote for him. In a democratic govt, AC Senators and governors will always serve as effective counterweights to any rubbish he may try. This is how democracy REALLY works, even in the west.

davidylan:
they do shld the informant request anonymity. All the informants in law enforcement are always covered and their voices altered for security reasons. The problem isnt the corrupt cops but the distrust the african american community has for the police - they see it as the last vestige of slavery.

Police brutality in low income areas is real. There are countless videos to that fact. Can you stop with the bs and stop dancing on a fellow NL'ers grave? How low can you go   this is the same guy preaching Christ all over the place.

Rest in peace bro. Only 21! Life is wack.

One thing is for sure: the OP has an IQ of about 50.

Tinubu has no criminal record:
http://allafrica.com/stories/200302110482.html
http://news.biafranigeriaworld.com/archive/ngguardian/2003/feb/10/article02.html

Can someone can supply a solid, verifiable link proving otherwise? TIA

LeoMax:
Nigeria can be on holiday all our lives, we are fuccking wealthy. Trade exchanges and interchanges are the links between nations and allies.

Are you ok? Do you have a fever? Arab countries have 5 times as much oil, and 10 times fewer people, yet they can't afford not to invest in their citizenry.  WHat makes you think we are any different.

Besides, trade exchange only occurs when you have something to trade. Raw materials will NEVER be as expensive as its processed/refined counterpart, and we willl always lose if all we export is raw material.

gogo123:
i cant believe this, don't this educationally less developed state propped up man have advisers, Aganga with all his Goldman Sach experience decided to turn a 3rd world country ridden with corruption into a certified dumping ground, Nigerian port workers are in jubilation

Goldman Sachs operatives owe allegiance to profit only. Everything else, including country is secondary. Aganga is following the pattern used to cripple Jamaica and Haiti. This law allows other countries to under-sell our budding industries, killing them, then raising prices. At the end of the day, we become like carribean nations: pretty tourist spots with no political or economic clout, sovereign in name only. No well-to-do country has a law like this, because its stupid. Only mugus follow WTO recommendations. Smarter countries just find a way around it. I'm officially off the GEJ bandwagon.

No non-profit is going to sponsor students en masse; its up to government to provide a general scheme that can help all. "sense of duty" and "zeal" are not going to pay the bills. At the end of the day, quality education costs money, and it is unfair to expect universities to go into debt just to give education for free.

Odunnu:
Complicated

Definitely not. They are easily the simplest group of people you will ever meet

A dog with a rich owner. Well groomed, well fed all day, without lifting a finger, if I dont want to

[quote author=Inked_Nerd link=topic=193507.msg7148234#msg7148234 date=1289828158]
Lmao, fine call it what you like. Call it "lazy", call it "nonsense", if those words suite you then good for you. Nigerian culture tends to cater more to men than women. Let's not act as though there isn't a huge double standard within our culture and many other parts of African culture. As for the "home-wrecking gold-diggers", last time I checked, it takes two to tango. I'm sure those men involved with these supposed "home-wrecking gold-diggers" knew what they were doing when they decided to step outside of their marriages. I was watching a Youtube video recently about a West African girl who was talking about an argument she had with an old friend of hers. This friend of her's said to her "Behind every married man there is a woman and behind her is his wife", the guy who made the comment argued and used it as a means of justification a man's infidelity and said that women should just deal with it and accept things for what they are and that that was just how African society was, mind you, there were guys who agreed with this guys and encouraged what he was saying. Now if a woman were to take on the same idiotic notions of that fool, then the interpretation and reaction of such a comment would be would totally different. I'm am in no way saying that the life of a Nigerian man is easy. I know it its not. The life of any Black man is never easy. I have a father and I take note of how hard he works to attain everything his has accomplished in life but I'm not gonna sit her and act as though there aren't issues here. Just because we [Nigerian women] may not be as restricted as women in Saudi Arabia doesn't mean that we aren't restricted at all. As for you asking if there were a ceiling, yes there is a ceiling. You may not see it but it is certainly there.[/quote]I didn't ask if there was a glass ceiling, I KNOW there is a glass ceiling. Its not like its a bed of roses for women, but with all these generalizations, you'd think all men are having a ball, cheating all the way and all women are just passive, submissive at the receiving end of the abuse. If you'd posted the above initially, there would be nothing to argue about.

[quote author=Inked_Nerd link=topic=193507.msg7145758#msg7145758 date=1289799507]
Oh really? Would you care to explain to me why it's "nonsense" and "lazy"?[/quote]Generalizing is lazy. Most naija men would chuckle bitterly if someone told them society was "bending over backwards" for them. And there are tons of women at the top in every sphere of Nigerian life. Is there a glass ceiling? Sure. But there are also Naija women that are home-wrecking gold-diggers. I could lazily generalize that to all Nigerian women too.

"walking on the backs of their women" is nonsense, and you know it. If we were talking about Saudi, "pride in holding women back" might even start to make sense.

[quote author=Inked_Nerd link=topic=193507.msg7145284#msg7145284 date=1289783234]I am in no way surprised by this. We're talking about a county that takes pride in holding women back. What do you expect? We're talking about a society that will bend over backwards for men while walking on the backs of their women. This doesn't shock at all. [/quote]This is nonsense. Not only is it lazy to generalize, the facts on the ground do not bear you out.

NOTHING strengthens a long distance relationship. It doesnt work.