nzeaji:
Nice. I can't believe I've been on Nairaland for 7 years now.

I better find a life oh.

I joined 2 months after it was created. How bout that?

these are not real pictures jor

This is an area around College road, Ifako Ijaye, Lagos

In the first picture I captured the streak of jet smoke and another jet passing by.

The other pictures of an very big expressway is Kubwa expressway.

First break the pot.

More pictures

Nice Camera

Has Sahara Reporters confirmed that story?

ow can they identify these guys among us?

Why are these pictures coming out now?

Thanks OP..

people are owing me enough money to buy a car. They don't even care abut my condition. Now its Xmas I wanna be with my family, I can only afford my plane tickets. No money to flex cos of some selfish people who don't wanna remember that they owe someone (who has a conscience to help them) their money.

You have two options: You will get married or you won’t get married. If you will get married then this article is for you. We will not review whether or not you should get married but we will review how to pick the right wife.

Picking the right wife is of utmost importance. Marriage is a life-long commitment and requires a great deal of forethought. Getting married without a plan and without any forethought is a terrible decision.

Getting married is a business decision. Marriage is a contract between two entities. You’ve got to enter into it with the ruthless mind of a determined businessman for it to work.

You’ve got to pick the right wife like a businessman picks a company to invest in. It shouldn’t be left to chance (“love”) – you’ve got to be pro-active, know what you want and then go after it.

Marriage isn’t about love or connecting with your soul-mate. Those are inventions of TV and movies. Marriage is an exchange of resources. Your wife shall provide A and you will provide B. If you’re wife doesn’t, or won’t, provide her share then she should not have the privilege of marriage with you.

Marriage is a contract and you’ve got to try your hardest to make sure that contract is re-inforced. You cannot make the best decision when you’re emotionally love-sick like a 16 year old school girl. No businessman who wants to stay in business will sign a contract in an emotional state of mind and no man who wants to stay married will sign all of his power away just because he loves her. It takes rational, clear-headed planning and thinking to pick the right wife material.

There are only two reasons a man should ever get married:

1) He wants to start a family.

2) His career or political ambitions demand he has a wife (he is interested in going into politics). We will not talk about this except to say that a political wife is for show and show only. For this article we will assume the reader falls into the first category.

There is absolutely no other reason to ever get married. Love is not a reason to get married. When you get married you sign all your power over to your wife – it must be of some benefit for you to do so. That benefit is to grow old with your family.

The goals of a marriage should be:

1) Minimize the chance of divorce theft and child robbery.

2) Maximize wife’s happiness with her wifely and motherly duties (the complete opposite of everything you will see, read or hear). It’s not about empowerment (or any other buzzword designed to kill the modern family), she should be completely devoted to her family. True happiness for a woman comes from her family, it does not come from her career, or her “independence”, or her sexually liberated point of view.

3) Have a healthy, happy family with well educated, respectful children – non-sissified sons and girlish daughters with strong family values.

Be honest about what you want:

Most men don’t want an “independent, empowered” woman. That’s code for bitchy slut with a chip on her shoulder.

We all want a sweet, nice, joyful, feminine woman who treats her man like a King.

Bullshitters will suck up to the dregs and say the opposite in a futile attempt to get some action. These poor suckers get shit on the most and never understand why. Hear this gentlemen – women love men who go after what they want, who don’t take a woman’s BS seriously, and treat her like a woman, not like a man in drag. Women hate suck-ups as much as they hate stepping in dog poop on the street. To a woman, a male suck-up is less than human.

Divorce:

There is no denying that marriage is a very, very bad deal. When you get married you immediately give your wife all the power over your money and your children. “No-fault” divorce really means “his-fault” divorce. If you wife is to decide she wants a divorce she can have all the benefits of being married and none of the drawbacks. Divorce is theft from the man. It’s a redistribution of wealth from men to women. She can live off of your paycheck via alimony and child support and she can keep your children and raise them in a single-mother or step-daddy household. She has the complete and full support of Papa Government behind her. In the eyes of the law she can do no wrong and you can do no right. And there is nothing you can do about any of that. That’s why you have to choose the right wife in the first place to eliminate much of that risk.

Steps should be taken to minimize the chances of divorce. You must take extra special precaution to choosing the right wife so you can avoid the possibility of a financially devastating and family ruining divorce.

When to get married:

The best time for a man to get married is after 30 years of age. At that age he has had a long time to live life, earn money, think of what he wants in a wife, and settle down a little bit. The ages of 20-30 are the wild years but after the 30 year mark men will tend to settle down. Most men under 30 years of age aren’t mature enough to make the best decision about who to spend their life with.

Now remember, 30 years old is the starting age to think of marriage. That doesn’t mean you should get married at 30 or by 30. Anytime between 30-45 is a good time to tie the knot. Between the ages of 30-45 is when a mans marriage value is at its highest.

We have spoken about the need for a good woman here. In the following section we will look at how to determine good women from bad women.

The top 12 rules for picking the right wife to maximize a happy life and minimize the chance of divorce…


1) She should be young.

The woman should 30 years of age MAXIMUM. 25 is even better and 20 is the best age.

A womans body does not age well. You want the most amount of years with your wife having a tight, young, firm body. After 30 it goes downhill fast. At around the age of 31 a woman’s beauty really declines fast.

It’s a trade off, she gives you her good years and you put up with her in her bad years. Never take a woman already in her bad years.

Women do not age well. “Cougars”, older women that younger men find irresistable, are an invention of the movies. Single women over the age of 30 have wasted all their pretty years have a lot of random sex and now they want to find a sucker who will take care of them without having to give him any of her good years. Don’t be that sucker.

A young body is especially important for bearing children. Old women cannot have and don’t have healthy children. At 30 years of age a woman is already 15 years past her child-bearing prime.

But I like talking to smart women. 20 year olds are stupid.

Her IQ won’t grow much with age. A dumb 20 year old is a dumb 30 year old. The difference is that the 30 year old dumb woman is a lot more bitter and has a whole lot less to offer.

2) She has to come from an intact family with original mother and father.

No step-mommies and step-daddies. Children from single mommy homes cannot be healthy. A mother simply cannot raise healthy children alone or with step-daddies. You want an emotionally healthy wife. Women who grew up with divorce have too much baggage, use sluttery as a way to get attention from daddy, and will not know how to act in a proper family setting.

3) She cannot believe in divorce or even imagine getting a divorce.

If she mentions the word ‘divorce’, what to do in case of divorce, praises a friend who got a divorce, or says divorce is an option then she is not a keeper. Throw her back in the water and go fishing some more.

To make a marriage work, both the man and wife must think of divorce as no option at all.

4) She must have the natural body type you prefer.

Every woman will gain a few pounds when they settle with a man. It’s unavoidable. What is unacceptable is a woman blowing up to whale proportions. If a woman was once very fat, lost the weight on crash diets and ultra-gym sessions, that weight will ALL come back plus more when she gets married.

If she has to constantly diet and go to the gym she is about to blow up like a balloon when the ring is on her finger and the vows are spoken.

You must pick the natural body type you like. That means she must have the same body type her whole life, never yo-yo’ing up or down in weight.

She should have a pretty face. When her body goes the only thing that will be left is her face and you will have to see it every single day.

5) She must be image conscious.

A woman who gets pig-fat after marriage is a disgrace to herself and her family. She must be aware of her image and keep her body trim for you. Women will always gain a few pounds after marriage, but there is a difference between a few pounds and one hundred pounds. Take a look at all the women in her family, if they are all pig-fat it’s a good idea to walk away as fast as you can. You will have to see your wife daily, you don’t want to be thinking about skinning some bacon off of her back to cook breakfast.

6) She must be family oriented and not career oriented.

This is going to be the mother of your children and the keeper of your house. An Ass-kicker doesn’t need two incomes, he can provide, what he needs is a keeper of home and heart.

Two income households leave the raising of their children to expensive day cares and schools, and then mommy goes to work so they can afford to pay for day care and babysitters.

I don’t want children.

Don’t get married. The only reason to get married is to have a family.

But I want a career woman.

Doesn’t matter, even if she is a career woman when you meet she will not be when she is older. No woman wants to work but it takes some of them a long time to figure that out. They waste all their youth playing/working their career and then realize what a huge mistake they made and leave their jobs to take care of their (quite possibly retarded – that’s what happens when old ladies have babies) child. How many 45 year old married female lawyers or other professionals do you know?

The women who work in middle age do so because they have no choice and they whine about it every day of their life. They would give anything to leave their jobs and take care of their family instead.

No woman truly wants to work. Work is a mans world and always will be. A woman’s work should be in the home taking care of the home and children.

7) She must be a “good” girl.

She cannot be a drinker or a smoker or have any tattoos. She cannot have a party girl past, a sordid past, and she cannot have gone out more than a couple times drinking. You cannot turn a LovePeddler into a housewife. The more sexual partners she has had the more likely the marriage will end in divorce.

Are you saying all party girls, smokers and drinkers are sluts?

Yes.

The fewer sexual partners your wife has had, the better. The ideal wife should be a virgin. Remember: The more sexual partners she has had the more likely you are to be divorced in about 6 years and lose most of your money, possessions, and your children.

If you think she needs help or that you are helping her and she is changing then you are being foolish and you are being played. It’s going to end badly for you when you get hitched to a woman like this.

Always pick a good girl. That means a virgin (or close), family oriented, pleasant, eager to help, a smiler, and patient.

She must have no problem signing a pre-nuptial agreement.

A Pre-nup probably won’t save you much money, if any, in the case of divorce but her signing a pre-nup does one very important thing for you: it shows you she is serious about making the marriage work.

9) She should change herself for you.

When a woman is in love she will change herself to please and conform with you. Her new favorite food will become steak and eggs, she will enjoy watching all six Rocky movies with you, and she will do things to please you she has never done or liked before.

I don’t want a woman who flip-flops!

A woman who doesn’t flip-flop is a woman who does not respect you.

Women are not men and should not be held to the standards of men. A man who changes his views on the whims of a woman is a sissy. A woman who changes her views on the whims of a man is a woman who is in love. She should not be degraded for that because that’s what ‘keepers’ do.

10) She must look up to you and respect you.

Women marry up and men marry down, since the dawn of marriage. If she looks down on you she will leave with your money and your children. You’ve got to be a man that she can look up to, admire, love and respect – always.

11) She should not have any children from a previous affair.

In the animal kingdom when a Lion takes over a pride he kills the cubs of other Lions.

Raising someone else’s child is cuckoldry with your full knowledge and consent.

If you raise someone else’s child you will be taking care of another mans seedling and there will always be another man in the picture.

Be selfish and keep your wife and children to yourself. They should be yours and only yours. Don’t settle for another mans leavings and sloppy seconds.

Here is what women with children do: They have unprotected sex with a stud, get knocked up, and look for a sucker to raise the bastard.

or..

She has already been married, had children, and then divorced the father and left.

In each case the woman is unfit for marriage.

12) She should be a smiler.

She should smile when she sees you. Her eyes should light up. She should be excited each time she sees you and reward you with her beautiful smile.

A big, bright shining smile from a pretty girl is worth more than any university degree she has, worth more than any job she has, worth more than any other baloney modern women wrongly believe makes them attractive to men.

You want a happy woman. You don’t want a frowning, nagging, pessimistic bride.

Always pick a smiling, warm, happy-go-lucky woman to share your life with.

Things to remember:

American women have been indoctrinated since birth to believe in and embrace divorce. They have been indoctrinated and instructed to believe that their feminine instincts are wrong and bad. This causes a great deal of confusion in their minds and, to put it plainly, many of them are unfit for marriage and raising a family. Especially avoid women who use psychiatric drugs and especially avoid women who go to therapy. Therapy only makes women more insane and teaches them to blame men more for their problems.

Party girls are for fun, good girls are for marriage.

If a woman cannot or will not cook daily, how will she ever care for children? She can’t. To raise non-fat children you must marry a woman who can and will cook.

As a man your options do not dwindle as you age. Your options only increase with your age and wealth. Conversely, as a woman ages her options plummet. That’s because men age gracefully, like a fine wine, and women age like milk. That’s why you must pick a beautiful young lady. It is highly advisable for a man to wait until he is a little older to get married. 30 years of age is an acceptable starting age for a man to start thinking of marriage.

Never, ever take advice from a woman on how to be attractive to women. Be nice, be yourself, be courteous, buy her gifts only works to put you in the friend zone and rightfully so because it’s pathetic behavior.

You should avoid women who have a lazy, entitled, “me-first” attitude.

Don’t let your wife have complete and utter control of the home decor. You don’t want to live in emasculation-station with throw pillows and doilies and dolls and flowers everywhere.

Men are not women and women are not men. Things that women should do do not apply to men and vice versa. Double standards exist. That’s life.

You are the leader. She is the follower. Lead her.

When she loves and respects you she will enjoy all things about you. She will not demand and nag you into changing. If you smoke a big fat cigar and your clothes smell like an ashtray she will enjoy the smell. She should want to sleep in one of your shirts because it has your smell. That’s the power you should have over your wife for her to be happy and content.

If she’s a nagger before marriage then that is a sign you need to give her her walking papers. Nothing is going to get better with marriage, it will only amplify.

Marriage should be old school traditional for it to work. Pick a non-traditional woman and have some baloney non-traditional marriage and you can expect non-traditional results: Alimony payments, child support payments and seeing your children every other weekend.

Never get married just because. Have a purpose and a reason for the things you do.

Getting married is a dangerous proposition – make sure you know how to swim before you dive in head-first.

Dealing with the one who got away:

There are over 3 billion women in the world. The median age for women the entire world over is 29 years old. There are millions of women who are possible marriage material. “She” isn’t the one or your soul-mate or other baloney. There are millions just like her. And if she was your soul-mate you’d still be together. Let her go and move on. There are plenty more where she came from.

Personal recommendation from BOLD & DETERMINED to find a suitable wife:

Picking a woman from your own country and culture is always the best solution. Unfortunately, there is wholesale, systematic destruction of marriage and family in many 1st world countries, especially America and England, which has narrowed the options tremendously. One may have a broader selection if he were to go abroad to another country country where marriage and family are still valued. But, and this is a big but, think long and hard before you marry a woman of another race and father half-breed children.

Remember, it is best to marry a woman of your culture and race. If that option is unappealing for the reasons described above there is a whole, big, wide world for you to choose from.

Conclusion:

Growing old alone and with no children to carry on your name seems a worse prospect than following this checklist and picking the best wife you can.

Civilization exists because of the nuclear family. Certainly marriage has been tainted in the last 50 years, to the detriment of all, but if you make smart decisions you can cut down your risk tremendously.

If you are going to get married, do it the smart way.

If you aren’t going to get married go ahead and have a beer.

Good luck and Godspeed.

Culled from Bold And Determined

n this report, LEKE BAIYEWU X-rays the factors that will determine the victory or loss of the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, President Goodluck Jonathan, and the All Progressives Congress’ flag bearer, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), in the 2015 election

It has become clear that the battle for the office of the President of the Federal Republic is between the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan and a former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). Jonathan is the candidate of the ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party; Buhari is the flag bearer of the country’s biggest opposition party, the All Progressives Congress.

Fielding the most suitable and eligible candidate by any political party in any election is critical. The challenge before the parties was how to pick the most sellable candidate among their aspirants.

For Jonathan, he had so far enjoyed a smooth ride to the 2015 presidential poll, as he emerged as the consensus candidate of the ruling party. For Buhari, clinching the APC ticket was described by observers as a war.

The retired General had to contest against other strong contenders to win the ticket. They included a former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, who was regarded as his biggest threat; the Governor of Kano State Governor, Rabi’u Kwankwaso; the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha; and the Publisher of Leadership Newspaper, Sam Nda-Isaiah, at the primary.

Jonathan and Buhari have little or nothing in common politically, other than the fact that they represent the two biggest political parties in the country.

While Jonathan is going to the polls for the second time, Buhari is going for a record four times for the presidency alone. It will be the second time the duo will contest against each other.

The total number of votes won by Buhari in 2011 was 12,214,853, while Jonathan got 22,495,187 votes. Buhari also got the required 25 per cent votes from 16 states, while Jonathan met same target in 31 states. Both the total votes garnered and number of states won were more than half of Jonathan’s.

In the 2011 election, Buhari massively won the northern part of the country, while Jonathan won the southern part in a landslide.

Buhari, 72, is a Fulani-Muslim from Katsina State. He became Nigeria’s military Head of State on December 31, 1983 after a coup d’etat that unseated the civilian President, Shehu Shagari, on December 31, 1983. He was forced out of the position on August 27, 1985 by another coup. He has been active in politics since democracy returned in 1999.

Observers of his political career have described him as a ‘veteran presidential contestant’ for he had contested in the 2003, 2007 and 2011 presidential elections. He is set for his fourth attempt at the presidency.

In 2003, he ran on the platform of the defunct All Nigeria People’s Party against Olusegun Obasanjo and lost to the PDP candidate. He ran again on the platform of the ANPP, with Umaru Yar’Adua of the PDP as his biggest challenger. He lost to him. He left the ANPP in 2010 for the Congress for Progressive Change, where he contested against President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011 and lost.

Jonathan, 57, an Ijaw from Bayelsa State, hold a PhD in Zoology. He became the Deputy Governor of Bayelsa on May 29 1999, until December 2005 when Diepreye Alamieyeseigha was sacked by the state House of Assembly after being charged with money laundering in the United Kingdom. He was the Acting Governor between December 9, 2005 and May 29, 2007. He was Umaru Yar’Adua’s running mate in the 2007 presidential election and was sworn in as Vice President on May 29 of that year.

Jonathan became the acting President on February 10, 2010 after Yar’Adua was flown to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment in November 2009. Following Yar’Adua’s death on May 5, 2010, Jonathan was sworn in as President on May 6, 2010. His first election contest was when he ran for the presidency in 2011, which he won. The 2015 election will be his second time.

All the APC looks forward to in 2015 is to sack Jonathan from office and end PDP’s 16-year-rule of the country. The ruling party has been in power since this Fourth Republic began in 1999, leaving the opposition parties with the control of few states. The National Assembly – both the Senate and the House of Representatives – had also been dominated by the PDP ever since.

Political pundits have hinted that the 2015 presidential election will be a different ball game for the PDP. They hinged this on the fact that the opposition was ‘scattered’ in the previous elections. The PDP, they said, was able to record a landslide victory in the 2011 poll over smaller opposition parties like the Action Congress of Nigeria, the Congress for Progressive Change and the All Nigeria Peoples Party, among others.

Apparently in a bid to unseat the PDP, the ANPP, ACN, CPC and a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance merged to form the APC in 2013, on which platform Buhari is now contesting. This development, analysts say, is a bigger threat to the ruling party, unlike what obtained in 2011.

In 2011, Jonathan had contested against Buhari of the CPC, Nuhu Ribadu of the ACN and Ibrahim Shekarau of the ANPP. In 2015, a combination of these parties – now APC – will be behind a candidate – Buhari.

Today, the PDP governs 21 states, while the APC controls 14 states i.e. PDP has 60 per cent, while APC has 40 per cent of the states.

The ruling party has governors in Delta, Niger, Benue, Abia, Kebbi, Cross River, Bayelsa, Jigawa, Plateau, Ondo, Gombe, Adamawa, Kogi, Bauchi, Ebonyi, Enugu, Kaduna, Katsina and Taraba.

The opposition party governs Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Edo, Kwara, Nasarawa, Borno, Yobe, Imo, Sokoto, Rivers, Kano and Zamfara. The All Progressives Grand Alliance is left with Anambra State.

However, political analysts have pointed out that whichever political party governs a state may not determine which party the electorate would vote for, especially at the poll. They argue that even though the governor of a state belongs to a party, the electorate in the state may vote for the other party.

One of them is Prof. Emmanuel Onyebuchi of the Department of Political Science, University of Nigeria Nsukka, who said no political party or candidate could presume the voting pattern of specific states in the elections, especially presidential.

He told SUNDAY PUNCH that one could never predict which states would be won or lost, describing secret ballot system of voting as dicey.

“I know that Buhari will perform very well in the core North; I cannot predict how well he is going to do in the South-West. The South-South and the South-East will definitely go to Jonathan. The two zones are PDP areas. Despite what we have in Imo State (where Governor Rochas Okorocha defected from the PDP to the APC), all the South-East states are PDP states, same for the South-South.

“What is now left for contest is the North. The region is no more homogenous as it used to be because of the ethno-religious crises and several other factors. The Middle Belt may not actually be a fertile ground for Buhari. The South-West too is dicey, even though it is predominantly APC, especially for the presidential election,” the political scientist added.

In 2011, for instance, Buhari of the CPC massively won in Sokoto, Kebbi, Borno, Zamfara, Katsina, Kano, Bauchi, Kaduna, Niger and Jigawa, regardless of whether it was a PDP state or not. On the other hand, Jonathan had won in all the ACN states – Lagos, Ogun, Oyo and Ekiti – except in Osun, where Ribadu of the ACN won. Jonathan also won Ondo, then under control of the Labour Party.

Beyond the claim of which presidential candidate is popular in which state, political analysts have called attention to the silent majority of the electorate, who did not vote in 2011 but might decide to exercise their franchise in 2015. The interest of this category of people, analysts have said, is a game changer.

Another argument raised by analysts is that where the presidential election holds before the governorship – like it had been planned for the forthcoming general elections – it may have a “bandwagon effect” on the states.

Observers of the development in the north-eastern states mostly affected by Boko Haram insurgency have expressed their pessimism about recording free and fair elections in the region. It also remains uncertain which party will have a significant majority in the troubled zone. One, tens of thousands of the electorate in the region had been killed or while hundreds of thousands had been displaced. These states include Adamawa, Borno and Yobe.

In 2011, before the insurgency became intensified, Buhari scored 37.96 per cent votes in Adamawa, while Jonathan had 56 per cent in the last presidential election. However, while the state had 1,816,094 registered voters, only 49.98 per cent – less than half of them – cast their votes. Both candidates will compete to get the majority of the over one million indifferent electorate of 2011 in 2015. However, it remains uncertain how many of them will be available for the exercise.

It is a similar case in Borno State. Buhari got 909,763 votes against Jonathan’s 207,075 votes, and a combination of the votes was less than half of 2,380,957 expected to participate in the exercise. Today, more of the electorate in the state have become refugees in different relief camps.

Again, analysts have cited the example of massive voter apathy, as recorded in the 2011 presidential election.

They have identified Lagos and Kano states as swing states in the 2015 election. These are the most populous states in the country. In August, the Independent National Electoral Commission put the voting strength of Lagos and Kano at 5,426,391 and 4,751,818, respectively. Both states now have 10, 178, 209 registered voters. In the 2011 election in Kano, Buhari got 1,624,543 votes against Jonathan’s 440,666. Down south, Jonathan had 1,281,688 votes in Lagos, against Buhari’s 189,983 votes.

The total vote cast in the 2011 presidential election was put at 38,199,219, out of the 73,528,040 expected from registered voters nationwide. The ‘missing’ voters totalled 35,328,821. In the updated register, INEC puts the national voter population at 70,383,427.

Another example is Bauchi which had 2, 523, 614 registered electorate in 2011 but only 1,610,094 voted. Almost one million of them remained silent. Out of these, Buhari got 1,315,209, while Jonathan got 258,404. Should the silent electorate speak with their ballots in 2015, they may change the tide.

Even in Ogun State in the South-West, only 543,715 voted out of the 1,941,170 registered voters. The ruling PDP had lost the state to the opposition APC. The over one million voters are available for any of the parties in 2015.

In the neighbouring Oyo State, of the 2,572,140 registered voters, only 863,544 voted in the exercise. Over 1,708,000 of them did not participate.

In Gombe, for instance, 459,898 voted for Buhari, while 290,347 voted for Jonathan, out of the available 1,318,377.

Political pundits have hinted that an upsurge in the number of electorate in the least expected parts of the country might be recorded in the forthcoming elections. This, according to them, will be in favour of any party that had not left any of the states for granted.

Onyebuchi, however, advised the electorate to loom at the profiles of the two candidates in terms of who they think would better address the numerous problems facing the country. He noted that both Jonathan and Buhari were credible candidates.

“Buhari has been associated with anti-corruption crusade over the years. For Jonathan, being in charge of the affairs of this country is not an easy task. You can only know how good a person is after he takes over the mantle of leadership. Buhari has not been tested under a democratic dispensation. He is only being judge by his antecedent and posture as an anti-corruption crusader; nobody knows how he is going to perform under a democratic dispensation,” he added.

In his view, the Head, Department of Political Science of the University of Lagos, Prof. Solomon Akinboye, told SUNDAY PUNCH that Nigerians should brace up for the unexpected in the 2015 polls. He said it had become near impossible to predict the voting pattern of the electorate, except in the home-states of the candidates. He added that the 2011 elections results could not be compared with that would be the outcome of the next general elections.

He said, “I don’t see, for instance, how Buhari will not win in Adamawa State and his home-state, Kaduna. I also don’t see how it is possible for Jonathan not to win in Bayelsa. Again, it depends on the way they carry out their campaigns, the intensification of their campaigns and, of course, antecedence of the two candidates.

“You cannot really compare what happened in the last election with what is going to happen now because the situations are different. The kind of situation that they have is a major determinant of what is going to happen. In the last election, the issue of security was not on the front burner, now it is a major factor that will determine what is going to happen in 2015, especially in the most affected states.”

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I can't judge Seun Kuti, and nobody here has the right to. Not even the pastors who tried to judge Fela. After all, one of their prominent members is also in court for allegedly stealing funds running into billions. You guys should just fold your arms and watch things as they play out.

chowlade:
your father Smoked and get ruined you too u r following his path...you dont even have d kalakuta republic of ur own & excel pass you father's accomplishment....u r doomed because have seen u smokin weed before and no weed smoker likes church

Ur an idjit!

KwoiZabo:
Guy How many delegates were accredited? The problem with most of us is that we dont want to learn. Election monitors don't just check rigging they also check voter apathy. In this case there was widespread voter apathy because they do not believe in the candidates.

We all av different opinions. Buhari, Kwankwanso, Rochas, and Atiku have followers in the party, and they were all qualified to run. However most of the delegates chose to vote for Buhari. Now that's true democracy. Everybody was given a chance to get the ticket (unlike another party that didn't want to present forms to their candidates). By the way. buhari won with a wide margin, so why r u complaining?

OLADD:
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The Yorubas you referred to must be your family and clan. They voted for Jonathan in 2011 and they will vote him massively in 2015. Mark my words.

How old r u? Did u even participate in d last elections?

OLADD:
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The Yorubas you referred to must be your family and clan. They voted for Jonathan in 2011 and they will vote him massively in 2015. Mark my words.

How old r u? Did u even participate in d last elections?

KwoiZabo:
what will i check again? about 7400 accredited delegates, Buhari scored about 3400. what is wrong with U?

Former Head of State, Maj. Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Thursday won the All Progressives Congress presidential primary at the party’s national convention in Lagos, beating four other contenders.

Buhari polled 3,430 votes to beat Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, who scored 974 votes, to the second position while former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, got 954 votes to occupy the third position.

Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, garnered 624 votes to stay in the fourth position and the Publisher, Leadership Newspapers, Sam Nda-Isaiah, brought up the rear with 10 votes.

Buhari, , who had equally contested the presidential election in the past, will face President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party in the presidential election in February, 2015.

KwoiZabo:
Buhari could not even win 50% of accredited delegates vote moreso over 1000 delegates did not vote for any candidate indicating that APC is in soup. No wonder PDP said APC has no presidential candidate.

You're not educated. If you don't agree, you are a dullard.

Go and check out the results of the primaries before you come here to talk trash.

kristisking:
This man keeps talking about insecurity,sectarian,violence and the rest.Let me ask him;who created all these in the first place?We all know how you keep supporting these evils just for you to use them against GEJ in your desperation to clinch power.The mayhem you caused in 2011 is still fresh in our minds.Any man who has no respect for human lives can never rule this country.God has destined it for you never to rule this country again and you never saw the handwritten on the wall.Its a pity.Those yorubas following this man like sacrificial lambs do not have the interest of this country at heart.Your people were sluttered like goats during 2011 elections and here you are again supporting the same man at the center of 2011 post election voilence.GEJ may not be performing according to expections but what makes Buhari and his loyalists believe that he can turn thing around?Nigeria needs a God fearing man and not pretenders who can change like chamelions when they assume power.Nigerians think well.

U r not thinking well. Yorubas voted for GEJ cos they thought he would deliver. They didn't even vote for Ribadu who was ACN's presidential candidate. 4yrs after, they want to vote him out after he has shown his true colors n u r complaining. God fearing man indeed.

pweetixandy:
lmao...dude,custard? For real?!

Well that's the best way to say it my dear.

She looks like custard

One time I saw d dude at Intercontinental hotel. He swayed like a lady and he held a purse. I actually saw him pulling out a lipstick from the purse in the elevator.

This Cramjones is becoming more and more irrelevant in the scheme of things. I know what you're doing slowpoke. And so many gulluble, uneducated lackeys will listen to the spewer.

I'm not going to say anything to those lot. From 2011, I knew the right person to vote for. I made the right decision, but idjits who are blinded by religious, ethnic/tribal, and zonal sentiments decided to vote for a 'better person'.

Now things are happening and you are all directing the blame to people. Hold the man at the center responsible. Hold the president responsible. The president who denied the abduction of the Chibok girls until the world proved him wrong. The same president who increased the price of fuel ridiculously with nothing to show for it. The same president who gave a known fraudulent criminal(sneaked out of a country disguised as a woman) presidential pardon. The same president who doesnt agree that corruption is stealing. The same president that promised to do one term and has killed his integrity and damaged his reputation with his bare hands. The same president that cannot account for a certain missing 20billion USD. The same president who was know to attend international conferences and meetings drunk. The same president that claims to be in talks with Boko Haram when Shekau denies it and even threatens to behead the so called negotiator if they ever meet. Only silly Nigerians will vote for a man with these atrocities to his name.

No matter what happens in 2015, I'm confident that Nigeria's mess will not stain my shine.

The fall guys (and many of you are here on this forum) are exceptional in this great nation. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

politricks:
Kwara has produced some great musicians.

He's not from Kwara.

Ijebu Jesha, Osun State.

I. K. Dairo
Juju player, composer

With a musical career spanning most of the latter half of the twentieth century, Nigerian bandleader I. K. Dairo is known as the father of juju for his role in establishing that musical style, which eventually displaced West African highlife as Nigeria's national sound. His songs, which reflected traditional Nigerian culture, appealed to a variety of listeners and his music featured instruments as diverse as the talking drums and the accordion. Dairo recorded hundreds of records and toured around the world, making him African music's first truly international star.

The son of a carpenter, Isaiah Kehinde Dairo was born in 1931 in Offa, Kwara State, Nigeria. His early interest in music reportedly emerged when his father made a drum for him, which he carried around with him at all times. Unable to finish his education, Dairo worked as an apprentice barber and learned to play and make drums in his free time. By 1942 he had joined his first juju band. (Juju music is an upbeat urban music style that began in the 1930s; it is rooted in Yoruba dance drumming with traditional call-and-response patterns.)

From 1942 to 1946, Dairo traveled western Nigeria as a migrant farm laborer, cloth merchant, carpenter, and road builder. By night he played with juju bands led by pioneering musicians such as Oladele Oro and Ojoge Daniel. In 1950 he joined the Rolling Dollars dance band, considered important contributors to the development of modern juju. Settling in Ibadan, he began a decade-long apprenticeship under Daniel that allowed him to explore and polish his own musical ideas. In 1956, he formed a ten-member group called the Morning Star Orchestra, which would later be renamed the Blue Spots.

Dairo was not entirely content with playing traditional juju and embarked on a path of experimentation that revealed his talents as a composer/arranger and forever changed the sound of the music. In addition to the influences of juju pioneers like Ojoge Daniel, Dairo was inspired by the West African highlife style as performed by E. T. Mensah, Victor Olaiya, Bobby Benson, and the Ramblers Dance Band. He began to research and incorporate local oral traditions into his music, while at the same time adding modern elements like the ten-button accordion and Latin American rhythms. Although he sang mostly in Yoruba (a Niger-Congo language of southwestern Nigeria and parts of Togo and Benin), he also used other local languages such as Hausa, Urhobo, and Itsekiri, as well as English, the colonial language of Nigeria. Lyrics, culture, and innovations aside, another factor contributing to Dairo's success was his ability to write music that fit into the format of the three-minute song.

In 1960 Nigeria gained independence and Dairo's parallel rise to stardom made him a favorite of kings, businessmen, ambassadors, and heads of state. In 1963 Queen Elizabeth named him a Member of the British Empire (MBE) for his cultural contributions to the Commonwealth, making him the only African musician to receive that honor. Dairo was also a clear favorite among the Nigerian people, noted Andrew C. Frankel on the Roots World website, quoting the Nigerian magazine Spear, whose readers called him the "Shakespeare of Music" and "an earthly god of music."

During the 1960s Dairo enjoyed increasing success with a number of songs about women, their elegance, and beauty—best-selling hits like "Salome." After a 1965 performance at Westminster Theatre in London, Dairo went on to participate in the World Negro Arts Festival held in Dakar, Senegal.

Despite Dairo's immense popularity, the juju music of Nigeria's poor had yet to replace highlife as the nation's favorite. In the late 1960s, during the Nigerian Civil War (a conflict he predicted in his 1963 song "Ka Sora" Dairo and his band released a stream of successful singles that would, by 1970, establish juju as Nigeria's national sound. This popularity continued throughout the decade with the release of albums such as Kekere, Talaka Nke Ebi, and Emini Oni Gbe Sajo.

By 1980 Dairo had been eclipsed as the king of juju by artists such as King Sunny Ade and Ebenezer Obey. Performing less and less often, he managed several clubs and a Lagos hotel to earn a living. Dairo was a founding father of the Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria and served as Nigerian chapter resident of the Performing Rights Society. He also became a minister in the syncretic Christian Cherubim and Seraphim church movement, whose worship services include Yoruba language, music, dance. After 15 years without an album, Dairo and a reconstituted Blue Spots band in 1990 released Juju Master, which contributed to a greater international interest in his music.

While he officially retired at his sixtieth birthday party in January of 1991, Dairo and the Blue Spots embarked on the first of three North American tours that same year. His final album, Ashiko, released in 1992, reached number eleven on the Billboard charts in 1994, with Dairo singing lead vocals and playing the guitar, talking drum and accordion on the album's tracks. Billboard called the album an "excellent showcase of his singular juju styling," pointing to "the sparse but poignant guitars and deadpan backing vocals of 'Ko Wa Jo,' the relentless beats and delicate picking of 'Ekun Rere,' the oddly compelling harmonies of 'Mo Sorire,' and the accordion-and-talking drum groove of 'Salome.'"

From 1994 to 1995, Dairo held a professorial position on the ethnomusicology faculty at the University of Washington, Seattle. Inspired by his sojourn abroad and the resulting contact with international musicians, Dairo was reportedly ecstatic about his plan to record an album reflecting these influences. Unfortunately Dairo, who suffered from hypertension and complications from diabetes, died in Effon-Alaiye, near Akure, Nigeria at age 65.

For the Record …
Born Isaiah Kehinde Dairo on January 6, 1931 in Offa, Kwara State, Nigeria; died on February 7, 1996, in Efon-Alaiye, near Akure, Nigeria; son of a carpenter; children: several, including musician Paul I. K. "Play" Dairo. Education: Ten-year musical apprentice ship under Ojoge Daniel; graduated in 1957.

Sideman in first juju band, 1942, sideman in several juju bands thereafter, musical apprentice under Ojoge Daniel, 1947-57; bandleader of Morning Star Orchestra (later the Blue Spots), 1957-96. Professor at University of Washington, Seattle, ethnomusicology division, 1994-95.

Awards: Member of the British Empire (MBE), 1963

Addresses: Record company— Xenophile Records, 43 Beaver Brook Rd., Danbury, CT 06810, phone: (203) 730-0333, fax: (203) 730-0345.

Selected discography
Juju Master, Original Music, 1990.

I Remember, Music of the World, 1991.

Ashiko, Xenophile, 1992.

Sources
Periodicals
Billboard, July 16, 1994.

Washington Post, February 19, 1996.

Online
"Dairo, I. K.," MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music, http://www.musicweb.uk.net/encyclopaedia/d/D1.HTM (March 8, 2004).

"I. K. Dairo," All Music Guide, http://www.allmusic.com (March 8, 2002).

"IK Dairo MBE (late)," Nigeria Arts, http://www.nigeria-arts.net/Music/Juju/IK_Dairo_MBE/ (March 8, 2004).

"In Memory of I. K. Dairo," Roots World, http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/feature/dairo.html (March 8, 2004)

—Brett Allan King


King, Brett. "Dairo, I. K." Contemporary Musicians. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 29 Oct. 2014 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

We all know the true story of what happened to that plane. Someone made the plane stay too long in the air because he/she was using the airport at that time. It was not the fault of the airline company, and they know it...so this is just compensation to protect the person's name.

otijah:
Alhaji orezi my best 9ja youngest artist far much beta than pato, runtown and wizkid, skales if U think am lying u beta listen to his rihanna version or shoki. The other guy is his producer kiddominat

The other guy is DelB.