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In as much as I dislike OBJ, I have to give this crown to IBB. But both of them are scumbags who ought to be locked up for life.

SlyIg: And who video d eagle right from the sky. I believe d story but that video seems fake to me sha.

I don't think the video is fake. If you watch it again you wil observe that the cameraman started running spontaneously towards where the incident happened at which point the camera was pointed @ the ground and you can clearly see his shadow. Methinks it was just a marvelous coincidence of nature cought on camera that involved a human being but luckily did not end up becoming a sad and unfortunate tale. Meanwhile that eagles get mind oo. Its greed wanted to make it chop a whole human being. Nawa o!

Passes thread singing a modified Fela song.

♫ ♬ Craze thread, na craze thread be dis, craze thread ♫ ♬

Truckpusher: Dino's comment makes me feel that lots of our so called leaders are doing drugs or something worse than drugs.

My thoughts exactly! He must have been high on cocaine, alomo bitters and toad skin. Because it takes either a collosal brain damaged hediot or a crack headed stoned out junkie to tweet such insensitive and stuupid rubbish.

pato405: living abroad is not usually the way most people paint it. I had thought it'll be Eldorado. I was drunk in fantasies of utopia before I left. it has however not been the imagined city flowing with milk and honey as people paint it. . Now, it has also dawned on me that 'it'll about the Benjamines'.if you have a money mine now, just hold on tight to it (provided it's legit). Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them - Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body (Ecc 12: 12) but Money anwereth all things (Ecc 10:19)

I feel you bro. Been there! But what I have come to realise is that a postgrad up to PhD level is no longer about the benjamins. There's more to it. Money usually comes as a by product. If you are lucky

pato405: A couple of yrs ago, I was in this same quandary, guess what, I took a big risk, dived into the Uk for postgrad. Now, I sometyms regret such decision, but friends tell me to cheer up, afterall, I have achieved an Msc & also pursuing a PhD via scholarship which came merely by chance/ grace - sheer chance I believe because if I claim it was merit, there were a lot of students from different parts of the world who also applied along side with me. some, as a matter of fact, had very good MSc grades.

In summary, it's not been rosy. if I'll be candid with you, I'll advise you to be strategic. do not resign your job if you must travel out for Msc. it's pretty difficult getting a job abroad in this time of economic quagmire. otherwise, you'll return begging for a job you despised. a study leave will be ideal. there are possibilities of being made a permanent staff when you return with your postgrad cert. if eventually, you get a job in US after MSc, then you can throw in a resignation letter. marriage may not be a bad option, but that decision is left to you. if you find a good lady (which can be difficult these days too) who's willing to support your meagre income, both of you can pull through while you hold on to your current job and advance your studies latter (it's never late). Infact, this might even be the better option.

@ bolded. Why? If i may ask. #just curious#

alj harem: My brother, Yaradua was the best I repeat the BEST candidate and PDP flag-bearer as of 2007. In the north, the only people that was in real competition with him was Atiku (PDP primaries) and there was no way Atiku would have won the election even he he won Yaradua in the primaries. Also we had likes of Odili from the SS who was in the race and look at Odili now, he is in prison in the UK like a common thief.

Yaradua and GEJ combo was at first loved by Nigerians because we wanted change since we have been accustom to an autocratic style of government. Yes Yaradua stopped Militancy with wisdom and BH was no where to be found even though they were present. Yaradua passed on, due to lack of calculative focus on the our northern leaders, sentiment grew and GEJ became the president.

2011 the election year, GEJ had ruled for 2 years with no change. Some of us Nigerians knew this man was not ready to rule and decided to go for either, Pat, Buhari or Ribadu. Now here was our mistake, we allowed some of our brothers and sisters to lie and use bigotry to blind us. GEJ won again, the country is now ungovernable, not even by BH but by kidnappers, criminals in government, militants in our security schemes etc.

You cannot blame this on OBJ. Who would have seen this coming ? The recent air-accident that killed Kaduna gov and Azazi was no accident but must have been planned by some people. THAT IS A FACT !



You see the trend again. Now 2015 is coming, some people are already shouting Northern president, Southern president very few would say Nigerian president. Well 2015 is coming again, I would urge Nigerians to vote based on competency not sentiments like Beaf ( a nairalander ) used on majority of you.

First of all I think that the South south governor in jail you are talking about is James Ibori and not Peter Odili. Personally I disagree with you that Yaradua was the best choice for president. Yes he was a relatively straight foward and honest person who was also not corrupt. But that alone was not enough. I say so because if you remember Yaradua was not even keen of contesting for presidency. What kind of political party brings out a PRESIDENTIAL candidate at the last minute and wins elections. Atiku would have been a better candidate even though he had some skeletons in his cupboard. Because at least he was ready for the position. He had a manifesto and he had ideas. All these were evident during his campaigns. He did not need OBJ to hold his hand and campaign for him like what literally happened with Yaradua and GEJ if you can remember. My point is that OBJ knew what he was doing from the beginning. There is a law in the 48 laws of power by Robert Green that says something like this (cant really remember completely but get the logic). If people call you a goat while you rule them, then when you leave make sure you hand over to an actual goat so they would know the difference. That is exactly what OBJ has done to Nigerians. I agree with every other thing you said.

alj harem: Lets compare the first 4 years of OBJ to the first four years of GEJ

1. OBJ dealt with Militancy while GEJ is still confused on what to do with BH

2. OBJ IS A LEADER, FIRM AND STRAIGHT FORWARD IN MAKING DECISIONS, WHILE Gej appears to be very confuse.

3. OBJ GSM, GEJ NOTHING

In as much as OBJ is a thief, I would still prefer OBJ to GEJ by far

I must say that I am a little bit surprised that this kind of comment is coming from you. Yes it is true that OBJ's tenure was much better than that of GEJ. But don't forget that the old wicked man OBJ planned it that way . The old thief imposed on Nigerians a sick man who was too weak to govern (Yaradua) and a clueless weak puppet (GEJ) as vice, who was undisputedly the weakest governor in the South South which the position of VP was zoned to. In the north and SS there were a lot of competent and able people who could have occupied this positions and transformed Nigeria for the better such as Donald Duke. But OBJ was not ready to let that happen so that Nigerians would not be able to compare their performance with his and find out what a terrible president he was. Now he is opening his mouth to criticise. He should STFU nobody needs his criticism. We are stuck with the present administration thanks to him and his abuse of the kind of power he held as at that time. He is not a patriot but a selfish, greedy narcissistic wicked old man who has sold the future of the generation that came after him. I believe I speak for many when I say OBJ should do Nigerians a favour and stay away from choosing our next set of leaders 2015. He should keep his critisism to himself I personally don't want to hear.

The story should read that the two chicks were fighting over a CO.CK (male genital/male chicken)

Wallie: People are so funny!

Name a cure to ANY virus once the host is infected? None. However, before infection, your body can be programmed to resist multiplication of a STABLE virus that enters into your body. If a virus is stable and rarely mutates, one can easily be programmed to resist it. Common Flu has no cure and new vaccines are developed every year because the virus mutates. This is the very same reason HIV currently has no cure. It changes so rapidly with many different strains to render vaccinations useless.

In this particular leukemia case, a single strain of virus was deactivated and used as a vehicle to transport something into the cells. It's more about recognizing the good qualities of a deadly virus.

Here’s an analogy: Mr A is at home in need of urgent medical attention but he’s paralyzed and can’t open the door. You tried everything you could but can’t get the door open. You heard of a thieving neighbor that can break into any house. Would you employ his services to break into Mr A’s home?

True talk, especially with the example of the common flu virus. But however, the issue here is that scientists who have questioned the fatality claims of the HIV opine that HIV does not lead to AIDS. The virus may be present and it may be uncurable just like that of the common flu. But the real question is that is it as fatal as we have been made to believe it is and does it actually lead to AIDS? Make no mistake AIDS is real, but does HIV really lead to AIDS? I will not present any details for now to back up the conspiracy theory for now except I am called out on this thread. In the interim just get the logic behind everything.

charlesopp: Dr Sid is dt U̶̲̥̅̊ ?

Yes it is, wetin?

First of all I listened to the song and felt like there is nothing special about it. Then I started reading comments on this thread and was shocked by the positive reviews. So I decided to listen to the song again and still got no trips from it. Then I went on to read more comments just to make sure that I am not the only one that felt that way and reassure myself that I am still musically sane. Then I saw comments that agreed with my perception of the song. Then I went on to read some further comments and observed that some people started insulting others that gave the song a negative review. Which reminded me of the pro GEJ peeps on NL. So I asked myself why would anyone insult another person for criticizing a song that he/she did not even sing. What is more disturbing is the number of people reigning insults on others because of this Dbanj's song. So I have come to postulate that there must be a 40 man pro Dbang laptop squad on NL.

[quote author=steve_cantrell]Yes, anyone who can read and comprehend the article can appreciate that.

But you can't but also notice how far hiv/ aids research has developed. Scientists can now manipulate the virus to the extent that it can be rendered harmless and then render it useful at eradicating blood neoplasias like aggressive leukemia.

Is there something else these researchers are not telling us ?[/quote]My brother to further buttress your point take a look at this video. take note of 6:34 to 8:53 where HIV virus was used to cure sickle cell in mice. I completely understand where you are coming from. But i reserve my comment to avoid being called a black man with black mentality on NL. I am well exposed to analyse modern techniques in the general biosciences, but not everybody is and trying to explain my point might just be a waste of time. Happy viewing . See below


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujf72mjy0Bg

debosky: Growing food organically means growing such food without using pesticides, fertilizers and the like. It has nothing to do with whether the crop itself is genetically modified or not.

Like I said, many people don't know what 'organic' food means in actuality and many things that aren't truly 'organic' are passed off as being so.

@ ehie

Your post on GM food contains so much speculation it's difficult to reach any conclusions. Theoretically is different from what obtains in practice. I agree that there should be robust testing of GM foods before they are released for human consumption, but that is different from simply having an ideological opposition to GM foods in principle - regardless of their potential benefits.

You definately know what you are saying. On another note any body can google the disadvantages of GM foods. But as a you just dont look at the downside or see one side of a coin. If so we should all be dead by now as a result of starvation, you know why? Because organic foods also have their down sides too. See below

http://www.medindia.net/patients/patientinfo/organicfood_disadvantages.htm

http://worldsstrongestlibrarian.com/7574/disadvantages-of-organic-food/

http://www.babiesonline.com/articles/green/organicdisadvantages.asp.

But will I take the information in those websites whole heartedly? Of course not! I did not even read through completely and I got that info in less than a minute. I can go on but I think I have passed on my message. For some peope it is all about winning a debate @ all cost. I avoid such people on nairaland because it is normally a waste of time to engage with them. Anyways thats another topic. But the truth is that when you come across someone who knows what they are really talking about in an issue you are well abreast with you will know.

Perhaps SLS would be better of as an activist rather than a government official. If you look at it his critisms are always spot on but his policies are always questionable and unpopular. The cleaning of the bank sector led to massive job loss and reduced rate of employment, 5000 note proposal was highly nupopular among Nigerians likewise his support for subsidy removal. But on the flipside, criticism of 25 percent being spent on legislators, spot on. Critisism of too many government officials, spot on. Critisism on the federal character policy, also spot on. SLS you are betterr off as an activist. Just my thought.

Sue the Damn University . How can you spend so much money on school fees and be expelled for not attending church. By the time the University gets 200 lawsuits not only demanding reinstatement but financial compensation for inconvenience running into billions lets see if they would still put up lousy laws in the name of the lord. .

oyin50: . Thank you so much, I mean a seven months old pregnant married woman begging my brother for sex cos he's goodlooking....common now.

I am not necessarily replying this particular post. Just quoted it so you know i'm talking to ya. Anyways just want to let you know that ladies that posses the kind of qualities you are putting up on NL are few and arE every man's desire successful or not. No matter how promiscious a man may be. When it is time to put away his swine like behaviour and is ready to settle down its your type he looks for. I have a feeling you might already be hapilly married but if not you will get a good man soon enough it shows. As for other females exhibiting some very nasty character by their comments. All I have to say is if they are like that outside NL then I dont envy their partners. If they even have any. No names mentioned so please let me be.

ehie: @cherld...happy cancer to you,have u seen the cancerous lumps on the mice the french scientist tested gm corns on,have u seen the hairless chicken being bred,or the six winged chickens....am really sorry for u if u decide to eat gm poison,

I will pardon your ignorance ang ignore your wicked wishes. For your information there are so called organic foods that are also detrimental to health by virtue of some toxic constituents. These toxins have been have been reduced by genetic modification. E.G, reduction in the cholesterol levels of animal proteins. Mind you there is food security and food safety. In Africa we lack the former. Any food consumed needs a safety assesment be it GM or organic. And GM foods is a promising way to achieve world food security. So do not just write them off because they are new and novel. Thats what they call development. And by the way what is wrong with a featherless chicken? Is it its creepy looks? . You aint consuming the feathers but its protein within the carcass. The reason they are featherless is to prevent heat stress which is good for them. Because too much heat kills broiler chickens and reduces their productivity.

Technically, majority of the food eaten worldwide (Nigeria inclusive) have been genetically modified. Even the garri we eat is processed from Cassava that has been cultivated from varieties that have been genetically modified to give a higher yield and disease resistance. What the food safety stakeholders are kicking against are transgenic foods that have been modified by gene transfer and not by cross breeding or natural selection. Personally I see nothing wrong with those kind of foods. The world population is increasing by the day and in order to maintain food security new scientific approaches need to be adopted. And transgenic foods is one way to do that. Because achieving improved yields via classical genetic approaches appears to have reached its climax. So the future is by modulating the expression of genes that favour improved yields. Not just by breeding selection for traits. Besides I need to remain employed by virtue of my xpertise. GM foods all the way baby. For it is the future .

vislabraye: All these happening in GEJ's regime. Next, they would start giving National Honours to thieves.

That ship has already sailed. A long time ago! But what really does GEJ have to do with this? Coming to think of it

kunletech: The reason why some intellingent peeps are unballance is because of over release of neurochemical called dopamin.
Thesame chemical release when u smoke weed.

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Thanks for that. Am not a. Neuroscientist. But lets analyse their findings on a molecular level using dopamine as an illustration. Dopamine is a protein encoded by thé dopamine gene. So logically a mutation or damage in that gene and the receptors of the neurotransmitters genes could lead to a detrimental production of dopamine or a production of a totally different protein which could potentially negative mental condition or even unusual high level of intelligence hypothetically speaking. so their coclusion that a damage or mutation in those genes that modulate intelligence makes perfect sense.but what I query and criticise is their conclusion that the price of higher intelligence is more mental illness. How?!!! They did not explain what experiment they conducted to come to that. Their conclusions are too vague to swallow. Not enough scientific evidence. Pardon my typos. Typing from a really small touch screen phone.

Input: When I was 15years old I dare not walk up to any girl of 20years let alone 25years to toast else I will get some very hot slaps.Then you will hear things like 'you nor get respect?','you nor know your age? n bla bla bla.
But now when the same guy is 25years old and she is 30 or even 40 years you will begin to hear 'age is just a number','what matters in marriage is love','I love him'
Ladies why?

You are obviously above 15 now. Be honest with your self if you see a 15 year old boy walking up to a girl your present age (assuming you are 25 now) to toast her will you not be like WTF!! Well I know I would. And the reason is because I know at that age I was not mature enough to handle being in a relationship with a girl of 20-25. Even though when I was 15 I might have thought I was (teenagers know it all). A woman @ 30 finds a 25 year old man attractive yes. But dont forget that a 25 year old female would also find a 25 year old guy attractive too as long as he is doing well in life. But most Nigerian men @ age 25 are on the top of their game and are not even willing to settle down. In most cases, they are living the vida loka and just want to FTW. That on its own is a phase which some will tag as immature. But when he gets a bit older he starts thinking of settling down with a girl younger than him who is still good looking with perky bossoms . Now tell me @ this point why doesn't he go for a 40 year old lady or even a lady his own age? Bottom line age doesn't really matter. Everybody is just particularly selfish when it comes to settling down. This is the realest analogy I can come up with IMO.

kaboninc: Womem of these days sef, I tire. Fine there should be no 'bosses' in a relationship but what will you call a man that 'LEADS' in that same relationship?

A leader and not a boss!

honeric01: see excuse o lol, how can it be 80% national side? Can you name the 80% from the national side that are from catalunya?

And sorry, we didn't use any team b, check the video to see most of our stars then,

Haba na! The Okochas, finidis, Amunikes, Ikpebas, Babayaros e.t.c of that era did not play in that match now. Meanwhile most of the players from Spain came from the Catlunian region. Maybe 80% is an exaggeration sha.

maclatunji: We have played them before. See how it went:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gOs1wIdAsE

This was just after we defeated the Spanish national team after France 98. So they wanted revenge by all means and requested for this friendly and the then NFA obliged them. But the team that represented Nigeria was not our first team but a team B. While the Catalunyans came with a team that comprised about 80% of the Spanish national team. So they did not really play the real super eagles back then but just a national team B. Thus the bottom whooping!

Too much senseless noise. It got me frowning in confusion.

But is there no procedure in place for Stanbic IBTC to have verified and confirmed the authencity of the bank statements presented to them by the man? Is obtaining a loan of 1.2 billion really that easy that all you have to do is show some paper documents containing forged bank statements. Something is fishy here.

1stCitizen: So what does chemical and physical castration achieve. It is not thesame thing? So who is being silly now. The problem with you Nigerians is you think you know too much yet know nothing.You copy everything the white man says without using your heads to question what he does. How do you define barbarism. Is locking up a human being in a prison like animals like they did in the dark ages and as you advocate not barbaric. Silly goat!

I tell you it is.

You still can't comprehend the dumbness of your last post and you think that the only purpose of prison is just about locking up people in cages like what happens in a zoo SMH. for your info prisons are not just cages but correctional and rehabilitating facilities. I can't waste my time with a human being like you like you it will be a frustrating waste of time. Not worth it @ all. Just like trying to communicate with an illiterate.

toluene12: Actually bro, its called chemical castration. The whole idea of physical castration(removal or crushing of testes) is to reduce the testosterone level in the body thus killing sexual libido, and that's what those anti testosterone drugs does to the body, its still castration.
In the u.k chemical castration is voluntary but in poland, russia, south korea and state of california in the u.s its mandated by law as a form of punishment for pedophiles. However chemical castration is reversible upon the discontinuation of the drug unlike the permanent physical one.
I also disagree with u on the homicidal tendencies of these rapist as per naija, most rapist in naija are driven either by uncontrolled sexual apetite to get by force the impossible or the desire to exhibit manly domination over the weaker vessel, few are pathologically driven.
All that said, do I support it? NOPE. Castration either physical or chemical is not a wise idea. As far as am concerned its a powerful eugenics weapon and the concept can easily be hijacked and abused by a pervert who will insist on castration of all low lifes, unintelligent, dullards, wife cheaters, or a certain group of sects in favour of a pure selective breed or castration as a means of population control.
its funny how we've easily forgotten the nazis.

Thanks for the enlightenment. I agree with you on the issue of how the process could potentially be abused. But I still think intimate offenders would become more of a danger to society if they are castrated against their will and released. A death sentence may be to harsh but @ least a longer prison sentence should be put in place to prevent them from further assaulting any victim.

1stCitizen: Nigerians and over sabi. Hear them scream this not the middle ages. For your information all you eye service warlords, the British do not just jail paedophiles, they castrate them. Shebi you like copying the western world in everything.. See link, hopeless Nigerians

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9139845/Paedophiles-chemically-castrated-in-British-jail.html

Did you read that link thoroughly before posting? If you did you will see that they are not proposing to castrate offenders but to chemically reduce their libido on a volunteer basis in order to help control themselves if the offenders feel they are unable to. @ topic now the commisioner and the law makers who were said to be deliberating the law have come out to deny it and labelled such acts as one that belongs to the dark ages, so what is still the bone of contention here to those that were supporting the so called law? Are you suddenly feeling silly and feel the need to justify your barbaric mindsets? . IMO castration will not solve anything it is better to sentence a sexual offerder to death than to castrate him. You castrate him and unleash him to society to commit worse crimes. Do you think a castrated felon will go into his shell? The person will become homicidal and turn to a sreial killer. And his first victims wolud most likely be his molestation victims. Think about it and employ some common sense here people!!!!!

I UNDERSTAND where coogar is coming from. My two Kobo is this, as a man that has dated so many girls (putting it in an acceptable manner) I can diffrentiate between a low life low class poor girl and one that comes from a decent family. So I would raise my daughter to be the later. And any man that conmes near her had better get his game on. And my son should not depend on getting married to a rich family to retain his class by virtue of me being his dad. he should be able to spot a decent girl when he sees one as an experienced bad guy irrespective of her family class. Bottom line people should associate with people on the same class or above and not take financial status to be a yardstick. a practical real life example is this: you allow your offspring associate with low lives, it may just so happen that your child might borrow someone cash out of his/her good heart as a result of the fact ur child has some little to spare because of daddy/mummy and that person refuses to pay back. Then when your child decides to take certain measures to get their money back, all the debtor has to do is shout thief, then his/her felllow low lives label your child a thief and kill him (ALUU FOUR). So I think I would shield my kids from low lives to protect them oo. I am not a snub but Nigerians are wicked people especially the poor. Sorry to say. My opinoion.