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lafflaff123: Ignorance they say is BLISS.

Will continue to pray for people like you living in the UK with your small dreams, small cars, small houses, shared toilets, no Parking space, Meat counting in your soup when you have Visitors and the Constant bullying you face in the UK.

The UK is so Racist that the immigration goes into the buses and pick out those that LOOK foreign, to ascertain the status.

The other day on Youtube I saw Immigration randomly picking people that LOOKED different at Stratford Train Station to verify their status. Ever heard the WORD profiling? Let the Immigration try that in the United States and they will make a lot of people rich, but what do blacks like you in the UK like you do? Meekly say than God that's nor me.

Bottom line is, you guys in the UK are a bunch of JOKE and the sooner you guys realize that you are 5th Class Citizens, then the better.

I repeat, the UK is so RACIST, that it makes Russia look like a good vacation spot.

The above is 100% spot on, especially the part about UK immigration openly picking out people who look different at a train station, infact the other day someone was discussing this issue on the radio and comparing UK immigration policy to the facist Nazi persecution of European jews in the 1940s. Many blacks, especially Nigerians are so brainwashed they have no idea of how badly they are treated in this country.

In my view both are equally racist.

Both countries look down on blacks, relegate us to the lowest rung of the socio economic ladder and have stereotypical images of how blacks behave and think.

To be accepted by whites in the UK and US as a black person you must be docile, non threatening and submissive in behaviour. Independent thinking outspoken blacks are regarded as "aggressive, confrontational and angry". To get on in the work place in either of these countries you must be willing to accept overt and covert racism with a smile, your feelings do not count and if you refuse to be disrespected or treated as less than a white person you are labelled as an angry, volatile black person with personality problems.Acceptance into both UK and US societies of black people depends very much on how close you are in appearance and behaviour to a white person. Blacks who look black have a harder time getting good jobs and generally gaining access to the finer things in life, wheareas mixed raced blacks are more likely to have an easier time getting jobs - this is very prevalent in the US.

bjdon: The progress of blacks in the UK and US can't be compared on a like for like basis. Blacks have been in the US in large numbers for over 250 years. Since the end of the American civil war, the blacks in the North were more or less free to get an education and pursue their dreams. In the UK large scale black migration did not start till the 1950's and this was mainly from the West Indies. The vast majority of these migrants were blue collar working class with very little aspiration/ambition for themselves or their offspring. The professional black middle class in the UK has only really come into effect in the last 30 years and it mainly consists of those of African origin. I predict that a generation from now you'll see blacks in the UK occupying top positions in business and politics as it is the US today.

Sorry the above is totally wrong.

Africans were taken to America in large numbers starting from the 1600s
At the end of the civil war former slaves still had to face white hostility and many could not get an education as they were still regarded as inferior both in the north and the southern parts of the united states.

Whites in many southern states in the united states worked hard to ensure that blacks were not allowed to vote despite the fifteenth amendments which stipulates that no American citizen should be prevented from voting on the basis of their race. The southern states used a number of methods to block former slaves from voting:

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

By 1876 Jim Crow or segregation laws had been enacted in the southern states of the united states and this went on until 1965:

The Jim Crow laws were racial segregation laws enacted between 1876 and 1965 in the United States at the state and local level. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy, with, starting in 1890, a "separate but equal" status for African Americans. The separation in practice led to conditions for African Americans that tended to be inferior to those provided for white Americans, systematizing a number of economic, educational and social disadvantages. De jure segregation mainly applied to the Southern United States. While Northern segregation was generally de facto, there were patterns of segregation in housing enforced by covenants, bank lending practices, and job discrimination, including discriminatory union practices for decades.

Some examples of Jim Crow laws are the segregation of public schools, public places, and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for whites and blacks. The U.S. military was also segregated.

These Jim Crow Laws followed the 1800–1866 Black Codes, which had previously restricted the civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans with no pretense of equality. State-sponsored school segregation was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education. Generally, the remaining Jim Crow laws were overruled by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.


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


Large scale black migration to the UK did not begin in the 1950s it started as far back as the first world war when large numbers of African men were enlisted by the british army to assist the british in the first world war, many were sent back to Africa after the war ended but many remained. The ones who remained were mainly sailors, they could not get jobs due to racial discrimination and were confined to port towns like London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Bristol and hull, despite their small numbers they were confronted with terrible racial discrimination and violence from the indigenous people.
West Indian immigration to the UK was introduced by the UK govt in the 1950s because the UK govt suffered a shortage of unskilled labour as many of their men had been killed in the second world war. Many west Indians were brought in to fill these jobs and the objective was for them to undertake only unskilled work, no skilled jobs were available to black people in the UK during that period. Many west Indians who responded were escaping poverty which had been created by the british who had benefitted from the vast wealth generated from the slave plantation system which they had set up there. After slavery was abolished no provision was made for the descendants of the freed slaves and many of those islands were overcrowded and undeveloped, triggering the need for many of its inhabitants to seek greener pastures elsewhere, it is completely untrue that west indian immigrants had no aspirations for themselves and their offspring.

The whole idea behind them leaving those islands was to obtain a better life for themselves and their offspring. A lot of them were also skilled workers but could not do anything other than unskilled work due to discrimination and racism which was and still is very rampant here in the UK.

The white racist establishment has continued to fail generation after generation of black youths in the UK by failing to provide them with the same opportunities in life as white youths.

The so called black middle class in the UK is so small in number it is ludicrous to even refer to it as such, they have no substantial economic or political power and are in such minute numbers that they are not even acknowledged by the british power structure, you have more Asian professionals within the system who have a stronger economic power base, they are also favoured more by British employers and feature more in high paying jobs than africans or carribeans.

Nigerians will continue to get the leaders they deserve - look at the state of the slums in lagos and this clown is giving out cars to useless parasites as if his father owns a car manufacturing plant.

wanna be black americans

what has he ever done for those of you that are kissing his ar..se?

Toks2008: The worst president ever.

I can't remember where a president wakes up and increases fuel price by over 100% ON THE FIRST OF JANUARY.

Thank GOD that is not the case this time.

he still has more in store, as long as he takes instructions from the IMF.

Yes 1 January 2014 will mark the 100th year since the amalgamation of the two british protectorates northern and southern Nigeria, but in whose interest was this amalgamation created - the numerous ethnic groups within it or the british empire?

Here's what former attorney general of Nigeria, Richard Akinjide had to say about the amalgamation of 1914:

The Amalgamation Of Nigeria Was A Fraud

by


Richard Akinjide, QC, SAN
July 9, 2000

Nigeria is a very complex country. Our problems did not start yesterday. It started about 1884. Lord Lugard came here about 1894 and many people did not know that Major Lugard was not originally employed by the British Government. He was employed by companies. He was first employed by East Indian Company, by the Royal East African Company and then by the Royal Niger Company. It was from the Royal Niger Company that he transferred to the British government. Unless you know this background, you will not know the root causes of our problems. The interest of the Europeans in Africa and indeed Nigeria was economic and it's still economic. They have no permanent friends and no permanent interests. Neither their interests nor their friends are permanent. Nigeria was created as British sphere of interests for business. In 1898, Lugard formed the West African Frontier Force initially with 2,000 soldiers and that was the beginning of our problems.

Anybody who wants to know the root cause of all the coups and our present problems, and who does not know the evolution Nigeria would just be looking at the matter superficially. Our problems started from that time. And Lugard was what they called at that time imperialist. A number of British soldiers, businessmen, politicians were very patriotic. But I must warn you; they were operating in the interest of their country. Lugard became a Lord.

Nigerians, too, should operate in the interest of their country. When Lugard formed the West African Frontier Force with 2,000 troops, about 90 percent of them were from the North mainly from the Middle belt. And his dispatches to London between that time and January 1914 are extremely interesting. Lugard came here for a purpose ant that purpose was British interest. Between 1898 and 1914, he sent a number of dispatches to London which led to the Amalgamation of 1914.

The Order - in - Council was drawn up in November 1913 signed and came into force in January 1914. In those dispatches, Lugard said a number of things, which are at the root causes of yesterday and today's problems.

The British needed the Railway from the North to the Coast in the interest of British business. Amalgamation of the South (not of the people) became of crucial importance to British business interest. He said the North and the South should be amalgamated. Southern Nigeria came into existence on January 1900 ... At the Centenary of the fall of Benin, I wrote a piece in a number of papers but before I published the piece, I sent a copy to the Oba of Benin. So when Benin was conquered in 1896, it made the creation of the Southern Nigerian protectorate possible on January 1, 1900.

If you remember, Sokoto was not conquered until 1903. So, there was no question of Nigeria at that time. After the conquest of Sokoto, they were able to create the northern Nigerian protectorate. Lugard went full blast and created what was to be known as the protectorate of Northern Nigeria. What is critical and important are the reasons Lugard gave in his dispatches. They are as follows: He said the North is poor and they have no resources to run the protectorate of the North. That they have no access to the sea; that the South has resources and have educated people.

The first Yoruba lawyer was called to the Bar in 1861. Therefore, because it was not the policy of the British Government to bring the taxpayers money to run the protectorate, it was in the interest of the British business and the British taxpayer that there should be Amalgamation. But what the British amalgamated was the Administration of the North and South and not the people of the North and the South, that is one of the root causes of the problems of Nigeria and the Nigerians.

When the amalgamation took effect, the British government sealed off the South from the North. And between 1914 andl960, that's a period of 46 years, the British allowed minimum contact between the North and South because it was not in the British interest that the North be allowed to be polluted by the educated South. That was the basis on which we got our independence in 1960 when I was in the parliament. I entered Parliament on December 12, 1959. When the North formed a political party, the northern leaders called it Northern Peoples Congress (NPC). They didn't call it Nigeria Peoples Congress. That was in accordance with the dictum and policies of Lugard. When Aminu Kano formed his own party, it was called Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU) not Nigerian Progressive Union.

It was only Awolowo and Zik who were mistaken that there was anything called Nigeria. Infact, the so-cared Nigeria created in 1914 was a complete fraud. It was created not in the interest of Nigeria or Nigerians but in the interest of the British. And what were the structures created? The structures created were as follows: Northern Nigeria was to represent England; Western Nigeria like Wales; Eastern Nigeria was to be like Scotland. In the British structure, England has permanent majority in the House of Commons. There was no way Wales can ever dominate England, neither can Scotland dominate Britain. But they are very shrewd. They would allow a Scottish man to become Prime Minister. They would allow a Welsh man to become Prime Minister in London but the fact remains that the actual power rested in England.

That was what Lugard created in Nigeria, a permanent majority for the North. The population figure of the North is also a fraud. Infact, a British Colonial Civil Servant who was involved in the fraud was trying to expose it but he was never allowed to publish it. The analysis is as follows: If you look at the map of West Africa, starting from Mauritania to Cameroun and take a population of each country as you move from the coast to the Savannah, the population decreases. Or conversely, as you come from the Desert to the Coast, right from Mauritania to the Cameroun, the population increases. The only exception throughout that zone is Nigeria. Nigeria is the only zone whereby you go from coast to the North, the population increases and you come from the North to the Coast, the population decreases. Well, geographers, anthropologists and population experts, draw your conclusions, Someone has told me the last population census was done by computer, what a nonsense.


http://www.unitedijaw.com/amalgamation.htm

APC , PDP, XYZ they all have the same thing in common - to rob you the Nigerian masses blind.

YOu can see that they don't even have any true convictions about what they or their party stands for as you can see in this instance where one person can be persuaded to switch allegiance from his own party to the one that looks like it will succeed in fooling the masses with more empty promises and lies.

Imagine describing a Nigerian politician as a person of good character - what an oxymoron!

If Buhari has infact agreed to this set up it illustrates the fact that all Nigerian politicians are all on the same side and only clash when they disagree on how the pie is to be shared amongst themselves. Usually when this occurs this is when they start playing the ethnic card which many s.tupid Nigerians continue to be fooled by. Please note that the Nigerian elite only play this card when relations between themselves and their fellow partners in crime have broken down - stop being used as pawns in a game that you are not benefitting from.

[quote author=Omo_Tier1]Tuned Bakare have said it all. GEJ is destined to loot Nigeria and bankrupt it, but God's grace has departed His abode and now the wind is blowing but He cannot detect the direction it is coming from.

The truth is no amount of grass root movement will solve a thing unless you have people who have resolved in their hearts that come what may they are going to develop Nigeria regardless of whose head is crushed. We still people like that in Nigeria, but very few.

I concur with you about the Labour movement, they are one rogue mole in the system. Innately corrupt to the bone and lack any sense of shame. I will never forget the fuel subsidy protest, how they betrayed Nigeria for a bowl of banga soup and catfish in Aso rock

As for GEJ, he is a failed lecturer, failed politician, therefore He has no business governing the centre. Have you ever wonder why no student of His has proudly come forward to say they were once lectured by GEJ? You know what may follow that student for life.... [/quote]so whats the solution? to continue with a new set of criminals? - I don't care what they call themselves, APC, PDP they all have the same objective - to loot.

If this kleptocratic system is not derailed generations unborn will curse us.

Also tribalism is used by them to divide and conquer the 80% who are living in abject poverty. Have you noticed that all Nigerian elites irrespective of ethnic group tend to unite under one banner of theft and corruption when the need for such a stance arises, its only when things are not going the way they want it to that they play the ethnic card and time and time again the gullible, naïve and politically ignorant 80% fall for the trick. Nigerian masses need to understand that you are nothing more than cannon fodder to the Nigerian ruling class. They use the ethnic card as a diversionary tactic in order to keep the focus off their corrupt practices while they devise new ways to cheat you out of your birthright.

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Annulment was payment for Abiola’s evil deeds – Sen Owie

on June 12, 2013 / in Politics, Top Stories 12:18 am / Comments

By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor

Former member of the House of Representatives, former Senate Chief Whip and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Rowland Stephen Owie says the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election was a divine recompense for Abiola’s alleged past political misdeeds.

What is your perspective on the June 12, 1993 election?
When people talk about June 12, June 12; June 12 has no meaning. June 12 is the repayment of evil for MKO Abiola. Whatever you sow, you reap. I said about four years ago that if Abiola had been president he would have been dead.

You think so?
Yes, let me tell you. Before anyone can say that the annulment was evil they should answer four questions. Number one, who was that politician that brought what was called the Maroko land deal to limelight? Who was that politician who used the Maroko land deal as an albatross on the neck of Chief Obafemi Awolowo? Who is that Nigerian or group of Nigerians who went to Obasanjo and connived with him and removed the Electoral College act from the decree of 1978?

Who is that politician or group of politicians that aided the military to take over the government of President Shehu Shagari in 1983 after the NPN convention? Who is that politician? Who is that politician that aided the military in disqualifying all the major candidates of SDP and NRC?

I say if they can answer it and the answer is negative for MKO Abiola, then the annulment of June 12 is evil. But if the answer is yes and it’s MKO Abiola, the annulment of June 12 was the best thing that happened because you can’t plant mango and reap yam.

In 1979 I was in the UPN as a member of the House of Representatives and there was a provision in the transition decree of 1978/79 which made provision for Electoral College if the presidential election became inconclusive, and it really was inconclusive, because Shagari did not get two-third of the 19 states. So, we were preparing for Electoral College. NPP, GNPP, PRP and UPN we had majority in the National Assembly which constituted the Electoral College.

The late Mallam Aminu Kano of PRP, Alhaji Waziri Ibrahim of GNPP, Nnamdi Azikiwe of NPP and Awolowo of UPN had met and we had all met. But three days to the Electoral College Obasanjo removed the clause on Electoral College; he removed the goal post within the run of play.
Sen. Owie

Sen. Owie

The Electoral College was removed after the election when we were getting ready for it and that was why Awolowo had no other option and he had to go to court and the judgment gave rise to the issue of 12 2/3! A human being cannot be half, he is either full or… and that is why Justice Sowemimo said that that judgment cannot be quoted in future.

Abiola and Obasanjo were involved as Egbas to remove that clause. Concord brought the headline “Maroko land: Awolowo where is your sincerity”. We were in Minna when it was published. Look it deflated the old man, it scattered him, in fact, he was no longer himself and he started battling how to explain.

Now NPN went for their national convention in Kano and Umaru Dikko, he is alive, he said the presidential candidate of the NPN is not for sale. MKO Abiola wanted the presidential ticket he didn’t get it and he then came and aligned with the military people who now came in.

And IBB came and set up two political parties, Shehu Yar‘adua, Adamu Ciroma and other major contenders in SDP and NRC, overnight the military disqualified all of them, aided and abetted by MKO Abiola. Because if Yar‘adua were (involved) there was no way MKO would have won. He was not even in contention until the disqualification of these major contenders. That is why I said that June 12 was a repayment for evil that was done against other people.

But how do you see the June 12 election in terms of electoral conduct and fairness?

The June 12 election because it was an open ballot and had only two parties which cut across tribal lines was one of the fairest elections ever held in this country. June 12 showed what a good government can do in an election. If IBB and Aikhomu wanted to tamper with the election, they could have tampered with the election, but they didn’t. It was a free and fair election but what I am telling you is that the annulment that came later was the hand of Esau and the voice of Jacob.

What do you mean?
What happened was a repayment for evil.

But was that justified on the nation?
Yes! What I am saying is that it was God’s own work, it was God’s own work.

For Abiola’s alleged sin of…
All the sins!

But did that justify the derailment of the collective hope of Nigerians?
What is the collective hope of Nigerians?

Democracy
Was the Buhari coup against Shagari justified? Was that the collective will of Nigerians?

That is debatable because many Nigerians welcomed the coup just as majority of Nigerians were against the annulment of June 12.

It is because you are a pressman. Do you know how many people in my village that were not interested and were happy with the annulment, even though some of us were not happy.

You, were you happy with the annulment?
The annulment served Abiola right, quote me! You cannot be destroying other people and expect to have victory. There is a parable that all those who destroy other people will end up having destruction at the hour of their victory. MKO should not have expected anything less. Tell me, was it justified for Shehu Musa Yar‘adua and Falae in the SDP to be disqualified? What did they do? Was it justified for Adamu Ciroma and co in the NRC to be disqualified? What did they do? They were all disqualified in both parties so that MKO Abiola who was a friend of the military could emerge as the strongest candidate.

It was no secret that he paraded himself as a friend of the military. That man could not have expected to become president of Nigeria when he had ruined many people. The truth is that God does not come down to do some of these things Himself. He uses human beings as instruments and that is why when a man is looking for elective or appointive position, maybe as LGA chairman, governor, minister or president, he is looking for an aspect of the divinity of God. It is out of that divinity that the man in charge of affairs takes, compassion, service to the people, ability to manage everybody, forgiveness.

Unfortunately, the moment you get that position and you do not utilise it, not generally, just some part of it…if you watch when Christ cured the ten lepers only one came back to say thank you, but he said where are the other nine? And if you read Hipppolytus he said that as soon as Christ asked where are the nine that the leprosy returned to the nine and they died of leprosy.
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- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/06/annulment-was-payment-for-abiolas-evil-deeds-sen-owie/#sthash.4FTQ2QGU.dpuf[/quote]MKO Abiola was a coup financier and a criminal that is not in dispute but the above story only highlights the dirty tricks that the average Nigerian politician will resort to in order to get into the corridors of power.

The senator who narrated this story is no better than the MKO who he castigates (and I was never a fan of MKO) but I am sure that had MKO been alive and in the corridors of power this same senator would have been one of his biggest fans. The fact that he actually attributes the June 12 annulment to God's intervention is ludicrous. MKO Abiola fell out with IBB and IBB being a vindictive person decided to punish him by annulling June 12 its that simple, it had nothing to do with God. God would have no business intervening amongst this pack of satanic demons. In other words it was based on a disagreement between two criminals. There is no doubt that MKO was a terrible human being but which of them was a decent person? How many of them are fighting to remain in the corridors of power because they wish to serve the Nigerian people? if Nigeria did not receive a guaranteed income from crude oil revenue would any of them be tussling for power?

[quote author=Omo_Tier1]There is no grass root movement in Nigeria, all of them are hungry people looking to fill their stomach! Why is it that after every election all the so called grass root movement fizzle away like rose under the scorching morning sun?
No one prays for coup or war, but when a sitting President engage in wanton looting and wide spread corruption, no doubt a coup will follow whether civilian or military coup and that is what Nigeria is facing going into 2014.
I have asked this question, had GEJ done the needful by provide adequate leadership and development across nigeria, do you think there will be any power struggle within PDP let alone the entire Nigeria polity?
A man whose words cannot be trusted is a good as a criminal because He is an innate liar. Unfortunately, that is how GEJ is now being viewed both home and abroad.[/quote]I hear what you are saying but a grass roots movement is the only hope for the Nigerian masses anything short of that will be a continuation of what you are seeing today.

It needs to be well organised just like the one that swept Chavez and Castro into power. The masses need to be made aware of the fact that anything short of a grassroots movement means that they and generations unborn will be condemned to a life of endless poverty and suffering. The reality is that as long as the likes of obj, gej and other criminals continue to feature at the helm of Nigerian affairs there is no hope for over 80% of Nigeria's population.

The current labour movements in Nigeria are infiltrated by govt agents and that's why they have not been effective, remember how quickly PENGASSAN called off their strike when GEJ hiked petrol prices following instructions from the IMF?

Expecting GEJ who was appointd by Obj (following authorisation from the US/Britain) to offer anything positive to the people of Nigeria is like expecting a drug addict to keep off the crack pipe. Why would any sane person expect someone who had already looted his state govt coffers to become a changed man upon assuming the office of president?. Do you think these our leaders are chosen on the basis of their impeccable track record or what? HOw many Nigerian heads of state do you know of that been able to provide the most basic amenities for the Nigerian people?

By the way GEJ is where he is today because of OBJ, Europe and America therefore his allegiance is to obj, Europe and America not the Nigerian people so why would you have such high expectations of him in the first place?

I am inclined to agree with Afenifere's statement because history indicates that Obj has always had some kind of link with the removal of heads of states that are no longer of any use to the people who placed them in office. Miraculously Obj always seems to escape the fate that many unwanted heads of states in third world countries meet with.

All I know is even if there is a military coup d'état the replacement will be no better than GEJ's administration because what you are experiencing right now is nothing more than a power tussle between various factions of a criminal enterprise, none of these various groups have the answer to lifting millions out of poverty, providing decent healthcare and education and the provision of jobs to the millions of unemployed youths.

Engaging in a debate with these fools is a complete waste of time, appealing to criminals to change their ways and stop stealing is the most naïve stance that any Nigerian can take when dealing with these politicians,, instead Nigerians need to mobilise and form a grass roots political party that represents the interests of the poor - after all the poor constitute over 80% of the population - this movement will need to find a way of getting the lower ranks of the police and army on their side in order to protect themselves from these murderous criminals as they will not give up their positions without a ferocious fight. In utter desperataion I can see the likes of obj and co even going as far as calling for military assistance from Europe and America if their positions of power are threatened by a grassroots movement in NIgeria.

Don't even think about it, you will end up regretting it.

Young white british graduates are finding it very difficult to get jobs talk less of black immigrants - also theres a lot of hostility being shown towards immigrants, particularly non white immigrants by the indigenous people because of the current state of the british economy.

I love winnie mandela, she is the epitome of great strength, resilience and great courage in the face of evil.

She stayed true to the people right till the end and never swayed from her stance, unlike Mandela she never sold out.

Mandela let her down badly by giving in to the demands of the apartheid govt who saw her as a threat.

Winnie herself stated that Mandela sold out his own people by brokering a deal which effectively betrayed the blacks and allowed the whites to hold on to everything they stole.

The US and EU can very easily recoup all of that stolen money and return it to the Nigerian people but they have chosen not to because those people on that list are their accomplices, the only way those accounts will be frozen is if those people fall oout of favour with their masters.

you need to ask yourself why the world bank has not applied to have those accounts frozen , after all this information has been in circulation for years.
Shortly before Libya was attacked by NATO the US govt froze all Libyan foreign accounts in the western world and stole over $40billion from those accounts, how come they cant freeze those accounts above?

these creatures are deadly, but can be tamed(trained to act tame):


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScukyYI6Lok

Very brave and courageous dad, I wouldn't mind donating money towards getting the boy a prosthetic leg if I know it will get straight to the dad and not into anyone else's pockets.

interesting article written by a Nigerian journalist about how foreigners, particularly Lebanese treat Nigerians in their own country:

Dead Nigerians in a Lebanese Factory

By

Tochukwu Ezukanma

maciln18@yahoo.com




Some foreign businessmen, especially these wonna-be Whites (the Lebanese, Indians, Koreans, Chinese, etc), in Nigeria are arrogant, rude and obnoxious. Generally financially comfortable and in addition, having a false sense of racial superiority, they feel they can ride roughshod over Nigerians. They often treat their Nigerian employees as peons - wage-earning slaves. They abuse, demean and exploit them and forced them to work under very dangerous conditions. Subdued and disconcerted by an oppressive system that reduces people in their own country to second class citizenship, their Nigerian employees uncomplainingly, acceptingly endure these ill-treatments. The death of eight Nigerians in a Lebanese owned company, Maikano Engineering, in Abuja epitomizes of this reality.




These employees became sick (eight died and thirty were hospitalized) because there was “an epidemic outbreak of which the management of the company knew about, but refused to contact the appropriate health authorities for help”. Hospital sources said “that rather than look for ways to address the mishap in the company, the management was doing everything possible to ensure that the matter did not get to the public”. That is, the management knew of the health hazards and did nothing to protect the workers, and after the calamity, their concern was not in addressing the issue but in covering it up. Oh Lord! It galls. It roils. And you just feel like taking endless swipes at these Lebanese owners of Maikano Engineering.




However, that will be misdirection of your anger because the problem is not with the Lebanese and the other foreign businessmen. The problem is with our government and the “big men” and madams that suffuse the Nigerian society. By their own actions, they taught the foreigners that the lives and welfare of Nigerians do not count; that it is acceptable to treat Nigerians with remiss and contempt in their own country. In their despicable treatment of Nigerians, the foreigners are only taking a prompt from the Nigerian government and the elite groups.




Why would they contact the appropriate authorities for help when they know that the wellbeing of the Nigerian masses do not matter to anybody? It does not matter to the elected and appointed government officials, business elite and the other Nigerian “big men” and madams. Why then will it matter to foreign businessmen? What happened in that Lebanese owned factory is an indictment of the Nigerian system. If the system permits it, many businessmen will not hesitate to maximize profit at the expense of their employees. So, the human catastrophe in that factory was a result of the failure of the Nigerian system. The Nigerian system stinks and that is what the problem is.




Starting from the 1980s, Korean and Chinese entrepreneurs started setting up retail businesses in some poor Black American neighborhoods. They felt they were racially superior to African Americans and being generally more affluent than the surrounding Black population, they were haughty, rude and condescending in their dealings with the Blacks. The Americans, unaccustomed to any form of snobbery, could neither understand nor tolerate these behaviors. Consequently, the Black Americans taught them some violent and painful lessons. They learnt the hard way that the American system does not countenance elitism, inane elitism.




Sadly, the Nigerian society thrives on elitism - ogaism and madamism - cheap, empty ogaism and madamism. The lives and hopes of so many under-privileged Nigerians hinge precariously on the whims and fancies of ogas and madams. The ogas and madams and indeed anyone with any modicum of authority exercise it at the expense the masses. Doctors and nurses in their superciliousness and outright wickedness negligently murder the sick; landlords ignore the legal rights of their tenants and use lawyers, real estate agents and policemen to hassle and bully them; employers disregard labor and industrial laws and treat their employees as dirt, etc. The status quo is inexcusably unjust. It strengthens the privileges and prerogatives of an elite few and tramples the rights and yearning s of the generality of the people. The elite class strives to reinforce the status quo because it buttresses their false feeling of importance, and allows them the latitude to oppress the poor, suppress the weak, exploit the system and disregard the law.




A thorough investigation of this mishap and a rigorous prosecution and punishment of the management of this Lebanese company will be wonderful. At least it will be a lesson to other businessmen and employers that those who railroad their employees into working in harsh and hazardous conditions will sooner or later be brought to book. But a severe punishment of Maikano Engineering will be an assault on the status quo which will invariably erode the pretensions of some Nigerian ogas and madams; some of whom are culpable of similar offenses.




So, it is unlikely that much will come out of the investigation in the death of these Nigerians, and that serious penalty will be imposed on the management of this errant company. Do not be surprised that they will bribe a few key individuals and it will be back to business as usual. It may happen that those who lost their love ones in that misfortune will end up not getting any form of compensation. It might turn out that Nigerian employees of the same company will continue to work in the same cruel and unsafe conditions with no provision made to guide against such accidents in future. That is Nigeria for you; it is a sad country.


Tochukwu Ezukanama writes from Lagos, Nigeria.
http://www.gamji.com/article8000/NEWS8260.htm

kazyhm: Letz wait n c

exactly.

The forces you are trying to unseat are so ferocious that it will take much more than mere marching to remove them.

Nigeria's only saviour at this point in time is a grass roots revolutionary movement made up of all ethnic groups - this movement needs to be a nationalist movement with the sole aim of getting rid of the capitalist system that has been in place in Nigeria which has ensured that only 1% of Nigerians benefit from Nigeria's vast wealth. We have to look at what we need to do in order to remove this cancerous system which is being run from the top by Europe and America and implemented further down the food chain by their stooges the morally bankrupt Nigerian politicians.

shortgun: He was called BARACK OGANJA by his peers.
If a ganja smoker can become d president of america then the future marijuana smokers in naija is bright.

He's not the first US president to smoke weed - Clinton smoked, but didn't inhale.

Dubya also snorted coke and was an alcoholic.

Baby mama: Hopefully she won't take after her bleachy,trashy ways

ugh didn't see this - nasty as hell.
please put them away no one wants to see them

the power of bleach, daughter looks exactly like the mother except for one thing - can you guess what it is?

nice one

all4naija: I can help Michelle with a secret wand that can make her look like the Danish minister, if she so wished to get over every little thing. So that she can stop being jealous! I don't see anything irresponsible on the American president's side in the photos. He's just being human and a free person for that matter.

I like Obama, man!

Use that magic wand to make yourself look human first, in a million lifetimes you can never marry a woman like Michelle Obama - FACT!

Take your white hoe loving , shucking and jiving a...rse out of here loser!

denitro: The Obama’s are Getting a Divorce! The Public Reacts to This (Fake) News, Not Realizing it’s Fake!

it may or may not be fake, but don't forget that the national enquirer first broke the news of Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky

http://digitaljournal.com/article/336264

lastpage: This story is and cant be true anyway.
But lets assume it is true, just for a minute.

MARRIAGE, FOR WOMEN, .........IS ALL ABOUT MONEY!
If this story is TRUE, it further confirms my feelings that a "wise man" should not marry any woman.
Hook-up, have szex if need be, go gay, live together loosely, just about anything but dont ever have a LEGAL MARRIAGE or have KIDS with a woman.

At the end of the day, while a man is working very hard and thinking about "family" .......
THE WOMAN is calculating how much she will make out of the failure of the marriage!
Of-course, with such mind-set, the marriage is bound to eventually fail, either naturally or induced by some event.

No wonder homosexuality is becoming acceptable, as depraved as it is.

Lastpage!

BTW: If she is so fed-up, why not just move-on right now? Why wait till he can earn more money?
Reminds me of Tiger Woods.

First of all Michelle has been with Obama for over 21 years so she met him way before he even dreamt of becoming US president.

Secondly she has a right to demand her fair share of his wealth because she has made a lot of sacrifices whilst with him. by the way she did not even want him to become US president as she did not want the intrusion into the privacy of her and her children's lives.

Thirdly does she not have the right to be treated with respect by her own husband, is it right for Obama to be seen openly flirting with another woman in full view of millions of people ? I know that in Nigeria women are treated shabbily by their husbands in full view of the public and this is seen as normal in Nigeria, but in the western world only women with very low self esteem will put up with being publicly humiliated by their husbands.

Michelle is a woman who has acheived a lot in her own right and therefore should not be dismissed as just another gold digger, if we were talking about someone like Floyd mayweahter the American boxer and his harem of former strippers your analysis would have been correct but with Michelle there is no justification for condemning her for taking this stance. A woman who sticks with you for 21 years through thick and thin can never be described as a gold digger.

the ba.stard has taken down his facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/kaveh.noine

picture of the ar.se wipe and victim:

http://2.bp..com/-KjP3saXpaZM/Urj_HrVYY1I/AAAAAAAAYIo/xL8CrytIM7g/s1600/lebanese+boss+kicked+nigerian+woman.jpg

This is how Lebanese people treat Africans in their own country


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko2vjU97Dtk



they treat us worse than dogs in their own country and avoid us as if we have leprosy, but when they come to Nigeria, we roll out the red carpet for them and treat them like kings. SMDH!!!