₦airaland Forum

ballabriggs: Fact is we have resources but we don't make use of our resources. One very critical resource we have, that easily comes to my mind and we don't use, is time. It is an intangible resource and to that extent the value is easily forgotten. You here them say, "African time". Like seriously, what the fvck is that. You go to a party that is meant to start at 3pm by 3pm in naija and you are seen as a hungry man, "long throat", "na you wan help them start the party". You are seen as wrong even though you are right.

We have not gotten the basics right, our value system has been eroded. We attach more value to intangibles rather than tangible things. Nigerians think once you throw money at any problem, you get a solution. Money is only one of the resources needed for growth as there are many more with bigger impacts

I tell you what, what makes Britain is not Heathrow Airport, it is not Buckingham Palace, it is not the buildings at Canary Wharf. It is the fact that they are better organised. These things are intangible but have the biggest impact on development.

Sirgee1: I c 9ja imposing a £10,000 bond on UK passport holders on arrival

I trust my brothers n sisters @ d immigration telling dem britions dat d reciept wey dem use pay for d bond na fake n that there is no power to confirm frm d computer

howfarwhatagwan: I bet other EU countries will do same but good for us we need to wake up and begin to demand results from the Government rather than fight amongst ourselves. One thing I have come to learn the European countries do not like themselves but when it comes to uniting to stand against other continents they do so seamlessly but we Naija all we do is fight (Tribal, religion) we cannot even be united as a nation

ballabriggs: Oga e be like say your second name na argument?

ballabriggs: Nigerians say the UK is finished yet they flock to one of the worst tourist destinations.

I see people going to the UK for tourism as mugus, why waste your money when there are better destinations?

The other funny thing is Nigerians saying the "country is finished". A country with the assets the UK has cannot be finished. Their situation is not even quarter as bad as it is for Nigerians yet they moan daily about their economy, they moan about their politics, they ask questions about their cities, you have debates on critical issues.

On the topic, I find it immoral to ask students to provide bonds for visas. I know elections are heating up and Mr Cameron is trying real hard to get into the hearts of the rightists who are worried about growing immigration. However, there should still be some decency in his policies.

toshmann: Sorry, but your government is in cahoots with them. And the Brits know your govt doesn't care about you. We've all been sold out by our leaders. Just like the Slavs traders sold out our brothers and sisters 400yrs ago.

Just know it, we are on our own.

Chinom: Escape which 'poverty'. this 3000 pds was introduced for people like you. You have a very pathetic mindset. No sane person leaves Nigeria to the UK to " Escape poverty".Those who do that were already poor in Nigeria or just plain greedy. They wanted MORE.
Note that i mean those Nigerians who obtain a 3 months visitors visa only to disappear in the UK. Some Students too.

Hoodrat: You cannot destroy slavery by becoming a part of your Master’s cultural incubator." - John Henrik Clarke

Today is African Liberation Day, but why are we celebrating? We are not free yet, we are still slaves and we don't even know it. We are economically, politically and mentally colonized. We export raw materials and agriculture, then we import finished goods just like colonialism. We import most of our products, many big industries are controlled by foreigners. We accept all these foreign aid and loans to make us debt slaves. We rely on foreign contractors to build everything for us. We value everything foreign. We cannot unite, there is tribalism. Global Africans are continually demonized and marginalized everywhere in the world. We don't control our media, so we are represented poorly in the media. We have the worst Human Development Index in the world. Many of us are illiterate and don't live too long. We only speak our colonizers languages such as English, French and Arabic. African nations are now trying to introduce Chinese in classes even though our languages are dying out. We have high maternity deaths, high infancy deaths. Our best doctors and minds move to foreign countries to develop them while our continent deteriorates. This is just like slavery. Most of us don't know our great history, we only know that we were slaves and colonized. African culture, languages, religions, clothes and names are dying. We still have self hatred and inferiority complex. We cannot work together. We still fight in proxy wars funded by foreign forces that allow other countries to benefit from our resources. Our resources are still coming from the ground to fund other countries while ours are poor. We are pawns for other country's foreign policy. There are more foreign troops in Africa than during colonialism. AFRICOM is coming to Africa to kick out the Chinese and and secure investments, mines and African resources. But we won't discuss real issues we only discuss things that don't matter like celebrity gossip and European/American sports leagues. And when we discuss real issues people label it as conspiracy theories. We are still neo-colonized and our government is controlled by foreigners. They serve to keep the entire country as permanent cheap labor source, cheap resources and a consumer market. We still have the ICC only putting Africans in jail. These bad International Monetary Fund, World Bank Loans and the World Trade Organization are not serving our interests. The United Nations peace keeping troops do nothing for Africa and actually causing more damage. The colonial Pact makes Francophone African countries slaves to France. So, I am NOT celebrating African Liberation Day. I will not celebrate this until we are free from mental, political, and economic slavery/colonization. We must control our own economies and produce what we consume. Love our own products, services and businesses. Go to tourism in our own countries. Build our own institutions instead of going to other ones. Work together worldwide in Pan Africanism. Working together for the uplift of ourselves.

Pan Africa' leaders and the African Union MUST NOT BE AFRAID to unite as one nation and declare themselves a United States of Africa. Imperialist are not helping any African but rather furthering their own agendas."

Racism denies people's access to life, liberty, to the pursue of happiness, to proper education, to control over their own resources etc.

Al Jazeera Satellite Channel Ltd has its offices right in the middle of the center of the City of London, very close to the House of Parliament and Westminster - and just next door to Vauxhall Cross and Albert Embankment where MI 6 has its "Legoland" or "Babylon on the Thames" headquarters.

Small world, isn't it?

Isn't that just a little odd for an Arabic channel from the Middle East?

Of course Qatar, Al Jazeera's home base of record, has been a British protectorate since 1916. Britain has defended and controlled Qatar ever since.

Here is Al Jazeera's official address:

Al-Jazeera Satellite Channel Ltd
Westminster Tower, 3, Albert Embankment, London,
SE1 7SL Tel: 020 7820 4820
Classification: Broadcasting Services

From the map below you can see just how close Al Jazeera is (yellow X) from Vauxhall Cross on the Albert Embankment. That is where British Intelligence has its headquarters.

How close; how convenient.

How utterly FAKE.

Tolexander: He should have posted a picture of his current club for people to believe. Or tell us the current club he plays for to verify.

polokor60: ^^It's just a matter of time,the up coming generation of educated africans will get things right.Knowlegde they say is power.

[b]Are white women beautiful or is it society that makes them seem so?
Tue 19 Oct 2010 by abagond

Sophen Loren
White women seem more beautiful than they are. Even though beauty is in the eye of the beholder, many things point to a shift among beholders worldwide towards an idea of female beauty that is light-skinned, thin and more European looking.

That shift goes hand-in-hand with Westernization. East Asia and Black America are good examples:

East Asia: Double eyelid surgery has spread hand-in-hand with Westernization. So has a Eurasian idea of beauty. But not women lightening their skin: that goes back to the old days when only the well-to-do did not have to work in the fields.

Black America:

Hair: Black women had little desire to straighten their hair till they came to America – it certainly was not common in the West Africa that most of them came from. Instead it came from copying blacks in the 1800s who were better off. These better-off blacks had generally straighter hair for the same reason that they were better off: they had white blood relations.
Body shape: Black women who go to white universities favour a thinner sort of beauty than those who go to black universities.
Skin colour: Light-skinned women are generally considered to be better looking. The same is true in the cities of West Africa, yet far from the cities where people are less Westernized, skin colour seems to matter much less.
These changes make white women seem better looking than they would otherwise be.

Some of the beauty of white women is natural but some of it comes from looking at them through the white lens of Westernization.

People of colour apply that white lens to themselves too: it is what makes some think their their hair is not pretty, their nose is too wide, their skin too dark, their lips too big, their eyes all wrong or whatever it is that sets them apart from white people.

The power of white people to shape the world’s ideas of female beauty is clearly shown in the death of the hourglass figure.

In the 1960s Playboy models and Hollywood beauties had hourglass figures. Think of Raquel Welch, Brigitte Bardot or Sophia Loren. Then in 1967 came Twiggy. Back then even white people thought she was too thin and dangerously underfed. But fashion designers loved her: it was so much easier to design great-looking clothes for her kind of body. So the fashion industry shifted towards rail-thin models.

By the late 1970s anorexia appeared among White American girls. By 1979 Hollywood could call Bo Derek a “10″ despite her lack of what used to be called a full figure. In America even Playboy rarely shows women with an hourglass figure anymore.

So now thin is considered beautiful among whites generally in both Europe and North America. It is spreading to East Asia and seems to be spreading to Black America too. Anorexia has reached even Nigeria. All this has taken place within living memory.

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all4naija: Image of the Harbor Light concept of Eko Atlantic City

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It is beautiful! Indeed, it will be the most beautiful in all of Africa.