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Coup Again In Nigeria?

Please someone tell me if this is true. I just came into the country a couple of days back, and someone is telling me that the country nearly fell into the hands of the military, but that the coup d'etat was foiled.

I have looked for it in the papers and there is no mention, and there is no copy of the previous days anywhere so I could buy. Was there a coup attempt in Nigeria?

I'd make sure I caught her red-handed, then just continue living with her as if nothing happened. I'd keep silent about the episode, until my silence would be so loud, she would either broach the subject, or run away. I am talking from my experience. This works.

Damollar:
@chiori - And by FAR, the most important of these things
is to make a woman feel ATTRACTION for you.

Women don't go through a logical process to
decide if they're going to feel ATTRACTION.

It just HAPPENS.

But it doesn't happen very OFTEN.

If you're one of those rare men who knows how
to use your body language, voice tone, and other
communication to make women feel ATTRACTION, then
you will have the kind of success that most men
only dream of.

Well Damollar, but that is only a tiny fraction of what I meant. By saying if I had known then what I know now, I mean things that would get me settled earlier, things that would get me to be a solid man who can conveniently fill in the big shoes of the society.

There are two standards here. The modern and the traditional.

By modern standards in Nigeria, the answer is, marrying your cousin is incest.

By traditional, it is not incest. You are simply preserving the family line and creating a stronger bond between members of the same household.

Bros na true u talk. I am guilty of this. At 28 I should be married, but I am still single. I blame it partly on the system. But if I had known what I know now earlier on in my life, I know I'd have been married by now with at least two kids to show for it.

Solve this family riddle.

A man had a bank account, and he appointed his younger brother next-of-kin. The younger brother had an account over which he appointed his wife next-of-kin. His wife had also appointed her younger cousin next-of-kin. This younger cousin appointed his grandmother next-of-kin, just to humor her. Just when the granny was passing on, she made a younger friend of hers next-of-kin.

After the grandmother's death, shortly after, the others died except the first man who had started his account. The riddle is, when he eventually dies - death is always inevitable, will it all go to this young friend of the grandmother?

Judging from goings-on in the nation today, one would be forced to conclude that Nigeria is not ready for democracy. What with the arbitrary registration of political parties; the flagrant disregard for the rule of law and public opinion by Nigeria's leaders and top civil servants; the militarization of the polity using the Nigeria Police [Force]; the weakness of the Federal Constutution before the President of the Republic; the oppression that is prevalent in the society - the rich oppressing the poor, and the poor oppressing the rich; the rising poverty level; the resort of the average Nigerian to force just to buttress a point. There are many pointers to suggest that maybe, just maybe, we entered into this thing called democracy too soon.

Come to think of it. How come nothing works as long as due process is followed? But the moment you think of shunting the order, and doing it in disorderly manner, you hit bull's eye. It also amazes me that we Nigerians, instead of rising as one body to declare to our leaders what we put them there for, we have developed thick skin and adopted the siddon-look attitude.

In a real democracy, the citizenry cannot entirely lay the blame on the leaders of the state. They too have an input to make, through peaceful demonstrations, rallies, and even violent remonstrations of their demands, when occasion calls for it. But in Nigeria, the citizens do nothing to make the rulers know that they have people who are watching, aware of their every move. Our leaders are not magicians, and so we cannot expect them to just know all that should be done. Perhaps they know what to do, but are gripped in the powerful vice of inertia. As good citizens of Nigeria, and to prove to the world that we are ready for this democracy, and not just carrying out an exercise in futility, we need to begin to rise up in little pockets of demonstration against the evils being perpetrated by our leaders. Only then can we say that democracy has arrived in Nigeria.

Would you accept marrying someone who has had kids before? Please try to be down-to-earth realistic in your replies.

Everything about her. I can't choose one part above the other, they are inseparable.

But this should be under religion. I don't see how it evokes a sense of humor.

You see, there is nothing wrong with your friend having a crush for your brother. In fact, you should encourage a relationship to begin. After all you are not going to marry your brother, so why not a friend whom you trust and confide in so much, hooking up with him?

Anyone who believes not in God cannot live under same roof with me. So the answer is 'NO'.