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Studio CFR: Satan always want to impress

Children of God don't get carried away by all dis cheap satanic innovations

Stay focused and remain blessed

Is the internet that you used to send crap also a satanic innovation? What is the difference between you and Boko Haram? Annoying hypocritical fanatic.

yuzedo: ME? HELLLLLLL NOO! I live in a Banana Iland house wit swiming pull and table-tennis lawn. But i heard fase my people normally used padlock to lock their pot of soup! huh wtf? we give uppppppp!

Excuse me perhaps I'm being ignorant here, but what is a table tennis lawn? I know of outdoor table tennis, I know of lawn tennis but "table tennis lawn" I have never heard of.

yuzedo: Lol! Went thru this crap last month. The foolish immigrations people singled me out for random search/questioning.

What do you do? I am a Financial Analyst in a Private Equity firm. Ok, please come down from the bus.

They go through my phone. They go through my laptop! On my laptop they saw the movie "Police Academy" and raised alarm, what am I doing with sensitive documents eh? Is this not the Police Academy in Kano? This must be classified info! Who are you and why do you have this on your system?

Chai! See the ignorant, illiterates we entrust our security!

I got home at 12am that day after leaving Accra at 7.30am. Meanwhile some days prior to that I arrived accra at 8pm. All because the Nigeria axis is a failed portion of the journey.

Police Academy, Kano!

Lol @ bolded. They should have charged you for piracy instead. @ least that would have made more sense .

ok

Symphony007: I was on a foreign newspaper website reading comments on an article on nigeria. It was so sad! All the comments were like "nigeria? Is'nt that country with crooks always sending me phoney emails to rip me off" and all sorts of hurtfull things. It was so sad and a horific day to be a nigeria!!

Please can you post the link to the article? Thanks.

playto: Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola has said the economy of the state is rated above Ghana and the United Kingdom.

Source: http://www.punchng.com/news/lagos-economy-rated-above-ghana-uk-fashola/

E be like say Fashola don de smoke igbo.

eyenCalabar: Thank God you've agreed with "most" of my points. Atleast my arguments are not completely empty as rhymz claim. I wish we could see face to face to argue this once again. I love arguments but not senseless ones like between you and rhymz. Pls leave him alone. Silence still remains the best answer to a f00l.

HAHAHAHAHAHA. That argument was really senseless sha. @ bolded, noted! Thanks.

rhymz: hahahahah. . . Why are you making me do this to you.
Well I do not need a reference to school you on this one, here it is;
Grow up is a verbal phrase and grown up is the past participle of grow up, however, if you must use it as an adjective or a noun, it must have a hyphen between the two words.
Example:
You are a very Dull grown-up person. . Lol
now, how is that for a correction?

Go and play with sand and stop quoting me please. You are a waste of time. Come back in 10 years.

eyenCalabar: Bro, let's not argue too much. But let's have an understanding here: In our society today, from 18 years of age, you can deferentiate between good and evil. You can live on your own. You can be hold responsible for your actions. But if at this time you were not taught or grounded in morals, you are bound to mess up. So this is the old age the Bible is referring to not when you are at/from 70. Again, don't forget that at 18, you are a grown up. I agree that the Bible uses old and not grown up but I wasn't quoting the Bible rather I made reference to that scripture. Hope you are satisfied now.

For those saying I shouldn't blame his parents, well, what more should I say: A dog gives birth to a dog. Hope you guys can derive a better understanding here.

I agree with most of what you have said. @ bolded let me point out that there are people who were "taught and grounded in morals" up to that age you have mentioned but still went astray. Home upbringing is very important but you have to understand that environmental influences like peer pressure also affects the way a person turns out. That it why to an extent it is unfair to blame parents for the way their kids turn out. I am not saying in all cases just some cases. Because sometimes it is not the parents fault. Train up a child in the way he should go so that when he is old he ill not depart from it. But nothing was ever said of what could happen in between. For the records I got this concept from a Bishop T.D Jakes sermon some years ago and remembered it when I saw your first post. Cheers bro.

rhymz: kid, your research is misplaced, don't act like it does anything to your error. You are obviously mixing up adjectival phrases, nouns and adjectives, plus you obviously have a flawed understanding of what adjectives do and how they can be used.

Adult, why don't you correct me (if you can) and give me sources to back up your claims? Then and only then between the two of us we would know who is the ignoramous. You boasted you would make minced meat of me. Challenge accepted but give me your sources. Even when writing a paper in University (if you have ever done that) you are compelled to give citations and reference your sources. Since you are so educated all I ask is debunk my claims about "grown up" being used in the context of an adjective with proper references showing that and not by ranting senselessly.

rhymz: Old enough to school your ignorant mind on the imperatives of properly written grammar and structure. What are you going to claim next, that those phrases you use are also adjectives?lol. . .what a tragic show of ignorance.

Ok thank you for teaching me all knowing rhymz. Since you are the father of all knowledge I will hereby ignore the personal research i did and disregard the sources i used to back up my claims from which are http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adjectives.htm and Microsoft® Encarta® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Instead I would solely take the words of a juvenile troll. Thank you once again. By the way how old are you again?

eyenCalabar: No sir. I asked you: At/from what age exactly is that scripture talking about?

The question could also mean at what age is a person considered old. Find that out yourself I don't have the time to do that. Bottom line is that you should know there is a difference between an old person and a grown up person. All old people are grown ups but not all grown ups are old.

rhymz: I laugh in swahili. . .hahahahahah. . . You don't know and do not know that you do not know. . .lol.
Again, I will repeat it and correct your ignorant mind, grown up is not an adjective and can't be used as one.
Even your phrase: "Grown up man" sounds odd and dumb. It is a noun for Bleep sake, you empty-headed nincompoop trying so hard to sound smart.
Your school teacher needs to be shot in the head for not teaching you properly, what a waste of tax payers' money.

How old are you? I have explained things to you and given you sources instead you choose to insult me because you have nothing else to say. Every Tom D.ick and Harry can insult. Even if you cant you can always google the worst kind of insult then copy and paste but maturity should enable an individual to know better. So i ask again, how old are you? I refrain from answering you. Maybe in 5-10 years time we can have a conversation.

rhymz: hahahahah. . .grown up is not an adjective abeg. . .teasher no teash me nonsense

Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence. The Articles — a, an, and the — are adjectives.

the tall professor
the lugubrious lieutenant
a solid commitment
a month's pay
a six-year-old child
the unhappiest, richest man

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adjectives.htm

so also:

A grown up person.

It could also be used as a noun. for example adult: an adult person (usually used by or to children)
Ask a grown-up to put it in the oven for you. [b][/b]

Are you still laughing? Don't be in a hurry to show your ignorance. If you don't agree with what someone else says feel free to refute it but be sure of what you are saying. OK?

eyenCalabar: Am not twisting the Bible per se, it actually a question of when or from what age is a child old? So what would you say here?

Simply put:

GROWN UP:

adjective
1. fully mature: fully developed and mature
2. for adults: relating to or for adults

OLD

having lived long: having lived for many years in comparison with others


senior: showing physical or mental characteristics sometimes associated with long life

OLD AGE

later years of life: the latter years of somebody's life lived out to its full term. See also middle age


SOURCE: Microsoft® Encarta® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Does that answer your question?

eyenCalabar: Brother, calm down, am not disputing that parenting is not difficult. So what you are saying is that between infantry and old age, we cannot predict what would happen? You miss it totally. Don't continue with this mentality brother, be constantly bombarding your child with the right mindset and be rest assured that all would go well. God himself would crown your efforts. Don't try to put blames back on God please. It wouldn't make any sense. Change your thinking about this today.

Yes that is exactly what I am saying. And I say so because that is what the bible says. You on the other hand misquoted the bible by saying "when a child grows up" but the bible said "when a child is old". Also, it does not mean that blames are being put back on God. The scripture was very straight forward and simple in that instruction, but I guess you misunderstood it and that is what I am bringing to your attention. So you are the one who needs to change your thinking about this. The amount of replies you have received alone should tell you that. Stop castigating the boys mother and blaming her for the unwise actions and decision of her son. Because sometimes when a child decides to be unwise it is nobody else's fault but their own.

eyenCalabar: When things like this happen, I always remember this scripture and it reads: "Bring up your child in a way he should go and when he grows up, he won't depart from it". This simply means his parents failed him. I think we should not blame this guy much.

Point of correction, the bible says "Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it". Notice the key word here "old". The bible did not say when he grows up. Also the bible never said what would happen in between childhood and old age. The only assurance the bible gave was that when the child grows old he/she would remember the way he/she was raised and would eventually embrace it and turn a new leaf by virtue of their training. Parents can only train children to the best of their ability and pray that they dont go astray. Saying his parents failed him is a st.pid, unfair and insensitive statement. or was his mom also a cultist? If you don't have kids already one day you will. And you will know parenting is the most difficult job to do. Cheers.

Enoquin: May review consumer protection law



Also, James Faleke said providing such monetary incentives could only compound the economic challenges facing the country.

According to him, since the Nigerian economy was not production-based, industrial revival efforts would be defeated. “Rather than turn our unemployed youths into lazy ones, government should channel the monthly stipends towards the revival of our industries”, he said.


www.theguardianmobile.com/readNewsItem1.php?nid=11171

So they are aware of this and yet choose to allocate to themselves over 40 million quarterly to themselves. I only hope that nemesis catches up with these thieves. I do not wish them or their household well for they are a callous lot.

I think the song was crap .

What association is this? nairalanders and Nigerian twitterati? The women carrying the banners dont even look like youths. I'm sure they don't even know what social network is SMH. The people who rented this crowd for madam Patience are indeed very daft.

vandarsar: This is sweeter and richer than the rubbish we now eat.

Very true. Then the margarine tasted like butter.

ferhyntorlah: Awwwwww, memories. I still kind of remember the advert song for this product:
(Mother calls her children from the dinning table)
Children it's breakfast time!
(Children marching from the stairs singing)
......Planta!
Rich and creamy Planta taste, Planta!
Everybody loves the taste of Planta!
Rich and creamy Planta taste, Planta!
(Not too sure of the lyrics though)

Do you also remember when blueband used to come in tin cans? I used to rub my bread around the can when the margarine finished to scrape out what is left.

victokafor: i pray we experience the goooooood old dayssss.. what of cartoonsss!!!

SUPER TED.
VOLTRON
ATOM ANTS
INCREDIBLE HAWK
LION KING
SPEEDY RACER
SCOOPY DOO
DANGER MOUSE..E.T.C

WHAT OF SOAP OPERAS AND NOTABLE FILMS?

SLEDGE HAMMER
COCK CROW AT DAWN
VILLAGE HEADMASTER
AFTER THE STORM
THE RICH ALSO CRY
NO ONE BUT YOU
THINGS FALL APART
WINDS OF DESTINY
FRANK OLIZE SUNDAY SUNDAY TONIC NEWS AT 9.00PM

Just a few additions to soap operas

NIGERIAN

Willie willie
Tales by moonlight
Checkmate
Riddles and hope

FOREIGN

Another life
Santa Barbara.

BY Reno Omokri

…Christiane Amanpour and our Stockholm Syndrome

As we approach 2014, the year in which Nigeria attains her centenary, it may probably begin to enter the consciousness of Nigerians that this nation has been in existence for much longer than many had previously thought. Alongside this realization, would be a dawning that many of the issues we need to address, as a nation, have been decades in the making and common reasoning would make it obvious that there’s no magic fix for problems that took decades to create.

You don’t go to the gym from the first time at age 40 – unfit and completely out of shape – do a set of bench presses and expect to walk out with muscles. There’s a law of process in nature and you either learn to harness it or you break yourself trying to bypass it.

And it is in recognition of this law that Nigeria’s literary icon, Professor Chinua Achebe, a man who has lived through 83 of the 99 years of which Nigeria has been in existence advised in his most recent best seller, There was a Country, that “we must learn patience and not expect instant miracles”.

We live in a world that spins on its axis, but we remain unaware of this movement of the earth, conditioned by our relative minuteness to remain unconscious of this scientific fact. However, there are those committed to the specific knowledge of this force of nature, who are continually in observation of this phenomenon. Once in a while, those ignorant of the scientific facts attempt to argue with the scientists, calling them liars. These arguments don’t make the scientists liars. Disagreeing with facts doesn’t turn them to lies. Facts remain unmoved by disbelief or cynicism.

This ignorant and loud approach to disagreeing with facts is the unfortunate trend I have observed in the Nigerian social media space where an extremely loud minority hold the preconceived mindset that ‘if it is not happening to me, it is not happening in Nigeria’. This is an extremely shallow and narcissistic view.

Responsible self-leadership requires that if one decides to assume the position of a public commentator, as so many on social media wish to be, there is also a responsibility of widening one’s world view, so as not to mislead the people whom you desire as followers. A true leader is a fact seeker and follows the facts wherever they may lead. A true leader makes research based conclusions.

For example, you can’t sit in your home and conclude that since the power situation in the country has not improved where you live, that it hasn’t improved at all for others in the country. That in itself betrays a selfishness and a corruption of the narrative because you have reduced Nigeria to your locality and give off the impression that you are speaking of Nigeria as a nationality.

Celebrated CNN anchor, Christiane Amanpour did a show on the Super Bowl power failure in America and decided to ask CNN’s correspondent in Nigeria to do some OpenMicinterviews on the power situation in our country. What happened? Vladimir Duthiers found a location in Lagos where he asked Nigerians to appraise the power situation in their country. Some people said it was terrible, some said it had improved. But CNN, for the purpose of sensationalism decided to edit out the voices that projected a positive report and only reported those who painted a sorry picture. By shutting down voices that she didn’t want to hear, Amanpour misled the world in her report and that’s very sad.

Why did Amanpour do this? Her show was a calculated attempt to cover the national embarrassment of the Super Bowl outage by ridiculing Nigeria and video testimonials of Nigerians affirming that power in their country had improved would not fit into her pre-conceived narrative of selling the misery of African nations to the world, hence they were not used in her report.

I am saying this with all seriousness and those who would accuse me of spinning the truth may want to listen to the audio of the unedited interviews here (http:///9wthgaq) And compare with what Ms. Amanpour presented to the world here (http:///bxnquvz)

On the issue of the power situation in Nigeria, there are some who may disagree that the power situation in Nigeria is improving but it is a fact. Nigeria in the last three years has increased from 2800 MWs to 4500 MWs.

Obviously, in a nation of 170 million people this is grossly insufficient, however, Nigerians ought to remember that between 1980 and 1999 no new investments were made in the power sector. In fact, the Egbin power station that was commissioned in the very early 80′s was the last power plant that was built in Nigeria before the launch of the National Integrated Power Project (NIPP) and the contract for that plant was awarded in the 70′s.

So how can we have a situation where our population increased for 20 years and no investments were made in building new power plants and Nigerians who remained silent all that time want to heap all the blame on the administration that is finally doing what ought to have been done? As Lord Denning said in the celebrated case of UAC vs Mcfoy, “you can’t place something on nothing and expect it to stand”!

It used to be back in the day that activists were people passionate about their nation, but accidental activists of today are passionate about power. They criticize ferociously using the foulest language but are themselves so intolerant of criticism and have a horde of impressionable youngsters who would unleash a torrent of insults on any one who dares criticize them.

And the reason these men masquerading as activities are able to hoodwink many in the theater of Social Media is because they have clued on to the psyche of the Nigerian netizen which is that cynicism is celebrated as intelligence.

For example, it is a natural and spiritual law that what you appreciate increases in value and occurrence. So for instance if a child shows good manners and you celebrate him or her, the child is likely to display good manners more often, not because he/she necessarily wants to be good mannered but because the child likes to be celebrated.

Now imagine that two children lived in a home and there was darkness and the first child who was eight years of age was given N16 and then sent on an errand to buy batteries for a rechargeable lamp. Imagine that he bought just one battery and this was not sufficient. And so the second child who was three was given N4 and went to the same store and instead of buying just one battery, he bought two which was still insufficient. Under what scenario would the older child who was given more money have the audacity to criticize the younger child who wasgiven less money but bought more batteries for the house?

It would be tempting to say that no scenario could exist for such an eventuality. But, then you don’t know this house. The inhabitants of this house are so present-minded. They remember not the N16 and the one battery. It is in the past, and after all the 8-year-old has explained his frustrations with the battery buying system, and even gave a half-hearted apology and though he never brought back change, he was forgiven. In this house, the fault must be that of the 3-year-old, he’s the problem. Why? He managed to buy twice the number of batteries his 8-year-old bought with one-forth of what his elder was given. Unfair, you may scream.

But that is the exact situation we find ourselves in Nigeria. A social media user expressed anger at me for celebrating the revival of Nigeria’s previously moribund railway networks and asked me if that was what obtained in America where I lived for many years. Apparently this fellow wasn’t taught that in making comparisons you should first compare what is with what was and only then can you appreciate progress.

Before the American rail system got to where it is, there was a consistent investment by several administrations who kept building on what they met, till they went from A to B to C all the way to Z.

Nigeria’s railways had been moribund for over a decade and rather than applaud the leadership that removed the shame of a nation some people expect that we can go from moribund to fast speed trains, which is akin to asking a child to move from crawling to running.

James Russell Lovell once wrote that “No one can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself”. As Nigerians, we have to be sincere with ourselves. We cannot allow our narrative to be hijacked by tragic heroes, who have written epistles to rubbish all those whose backs they have climbed on to success and praise those whose backs they still need to climb.

Is it not said that a slave who has seen his fellow slave buried in a shallow grave must know that he too will be so buried when his own time comes? Social Media is now the ladder on which bitter people who served in government and left under a cloud of disgrace want to climb to power. One only has to look back at what these disgruntled elements did to the people who helped them rise to power, to know exactly what the future holds for the people they are presently using.

I appeal to Nigerians, to resist this tendency to display the symptoms of Stockholm Syndrome where victims of abuse end up having sympathy for their abusers. Even if you believe there is nothing you can do to make Nigeria great, at least believe that Nigeria can be great. Don’t let bitter persons sap away your faith in your nation. Of course, there are a lot of challenges but things are getting better!

Disgruntled persons may tell you that our economy is not doing well, but the facts don’t support them. Let me present some of the facts to you. Only last year, the Clinton Foundation identified Nigeria as one of the ten fastest growing economies in the world.

On the 10th of October 2012 while addressing the Annual Conservative Party Conference, David Cameron said “We’ve been hearing about China and India for years but it’s hard to believe what’s happening in Brazil, in Indonesia, in Nigeria.”

His Undersecretary of State for Africa, Mr. Henry Bellingham said of Nigeria, “Nigeria has averaged growth of 8.9 per cent which is really stunning. Nigeria is the world’s fourth fastest growing economy with solid growth in the next five years and beyond; this is truly remarkable.”

When the papers reported that President Barack Obama had declared Nigeria the “world’s next economic success story” on August 26th 2012, I tweeted about it and somebody actually tweeted back in response saying, “what does he know of economics?!”

Some may disagree that poverty is reducing but it’s not a lie. According to the World Bank, poverty in Nigeria reduced from 48 to 46%. I did not make this up and the Federal Government has no control over these foreign individuals and institutions. They cheer for no team in the contest, so why would they lie?

Only this morning I woke up to the cheery news that Nigeria’s inflation had reduced to 9% the first time it has hit single digit in four years!

We can invest so much intellectual and emotional energy on painting a negative image of our country on Social Media andcelebrate when Miss Amanpour makes Nigeria the butt of her jokes to a worldwide audience, but not everyone will be laughing in scorn. Some will actually be laughing all the way to the bank. And I know some of those who will be among this lot. Only three days ago Leadership Newspapers ran as its front headline the story “Exodus, The Movement of British-Born Nigerians… Back to Nigeria”.

While some Nigerians resident at home are getting carried away by the gospel of negativity being peddled by tainted persons, Nigeria is seeing a reverse brain drain of highly skilled Nigerians born in Europe and the Americas who know that in a world where many nations struggle with negative GDP growth there must be many things right about a nation with consistent 7% GDP growth.

Reno Omokri is Special Assistant to the President (New Media) and is on twitter @renoomokri


SOURCE: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/02/power-presidency-takes-on-christiane-amanpour-cnn/

I find it rather amusing and unbelievable that the university of Abuja, a federal University situated in the FCT would be going through these circumstance. With all the money pumped into infrastructure in the FCT I wonder why its University has been left in such deplorable state. In my opinion, the most dissapointing aspect about the FCT is the University of Abuja. If the same attention given to other infrastructures within the FCT is given to the institution, then not only should it be the best University in Nigeria, it should also be comparable to other world renowned just as the way the FCT is comparable to other major cities in the world. That is to say it may not be as good as institutions in the northh America, Asia or Europe but at least it should be very presentable and to a good extent comparable. I wonder what is wrong.

This is an old interview. The video was uploaded in March 2011. Whatever information it has is now obsolete.

OCTAVO: As a child, it is quite essential and normal to have a future ambition. However, most of these ambitions are just mere fantasies in some cases.
When I was a child, I wanted to study Medicine & surgery, thereby become a medical Doctor.
Well... I ended up becoming a Biologist!
Wow!!! What a drift!
What was your future ambition when you were a child? Did you eventually end up in that desired profession?

I wanted to be a wrestler like hulk hogan and ultimate warrior . But I ended up becoming a scientist/biologist. Now that's a real drift but I am happy and pleased with my career. By the way a medical doctor is also a biologist so you did not drift too far lol.

Oops, risky thread! I'm out.

StateOfMind: Mallam sidi aint bad at all. The comfort of that camp was the only thing that kept me sane throughout my stay.

between the years of 2006-2008 mallam sidi was indisputably the worst NYSC camp. These pictures are shocking.

lekpalicious: I think they are both pretty in their own way however kim has the finance and money and access to finer things so will obviously be more well kept than juliet.

Seconded. I agree with you 100%. However, I just dropped my opinion but this thread has absolutely nothing to contribute to my life. So before I get wound up in a senseless argument let me take my leave. There are better and more productive things I need to attend to.

Mad Cow: You don dey Blind or Madt!!

Julliet and Kim are not in the same league.. They dont even play the same fhucking sports sef..


https://www.ghanacelebrities.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Juliet-Ibrahim.jpg What is the diffence between this girl and one Ibadan Mgbeke?! See her fake weave-on.

You my friend are the blind one. Why are you castigating the African beauty? Yes financially she is no where near Kim. But when it comes to natural beauty I still say she can give Kim a run for her money. Or abi is it because Kim is Oyibo? I hope you are not driven by a complex. Anyways you have your opinion and I have mine which is Juliet is hot and her beauty rivals KIM K.

Lets be honest, Juliet is smoking hot abeg. She can give Kim a run for her money any time any day.