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Well I guess the advice I'm getting from everyone here is to forget about her, and to be honest, I think deep down, I agree. Like someone above said, I'm plan B or her rebound.

So I met this girl, beautiful and hard working. She told me she had a bf, but complained that he cheated all the time. We decided to go out as friends one time, and then kept meeting up, and slowly we began talking on the phone everyday. Feelings started to grow and so I confessed I wanted to be more than just friends, but she ducked the subject. As time passed, she told me she liked me, but was confused, she then stopped talking relationship and never responded to any questions. Once I tried to hug her good bye and she sidestepped me, and just walked away. Despite this, I know she likes me, but am not sure if i should be pursuing a girl with a bf. Some advice pls nairaland. Am I wasting my time? Or should I go for broke and ask her to break up with her bf so we can be together? I feel guilty asking her to break up with her bf, cos she refuses to talk about him, so besides the cheating I don't know what she thinks of the guy.

OP, the difference between Tinubu and Ibori is simple. The British government! Ibori was wanted in London for money laundering and when they asked the Nigerian FG to extradite him; the then Nigerian Attorney General said no. The British Government somewhat irked, turned to the American government, who then started withdrawing funds from EFCC and other government bodies. By this time Yar adua (Ibori's friend due to the fact that ibori donated huge sums to his campaign) was dead, and it was Ibori who was pulling strings behind the scenes to try and prevent Jonathan from taking over (for whatever reason). However once Jonathan gets to power, the Americans and British put pressure on him to extradite Ibori. Ibori not being stupid turns to a US businessman with lobbying powers in washington. Ibori offers through his proxy $1.5billion dollars (of the $3bn) to the US embassy in Abuja to drop the charges. The US say no. Jonathan goes after him, he flees the country because he knows he's bleeped up. He committed crimes outside of Nig. I read up on this a while ago, but can't remember the source. I will try and find the site.

I remember driving into Banana Island a couple of months ago, sightseeing. I was with an estate agent who gave me the low down.
1. If you've got a banged up looking car you aren't getting in.
2. Absolutely no okada.
3. The average plot goes for upwards of N100m.
4. They have a special (secret) deal with NEPA, so they get 24/7 power (unllike the rest of us).
5. The houses don't need walls and gates as 'normal' people can't get on the island anyway, but do, and these are some of the most beautiful homes you'll see.


Who is that lives here? Senators and ex generals.
I saw a cordoned off road, with vast land beyond the cordons. Must be talking 100s of billions worth. Who owns the land, Abacha. Getting the gist.

Politicians in Nigeria are thugs, gangsters, and criminals masquerading as rational statesmen.

They see Government as their own corporate enterprise, and they're very enterprising. You only have to look at Abacha, Bankole et al, to see just how wealthy one can get.

But then again, the vast majority of people in the south voted PDP, and if you vote for it, it's very silly complaining or just talking about it. The people of the country are divided (in terms of religion/ethnicity) that there seems to be very little in way of organised protest. It seems the colonialists did a great job in dividing and conquering the nation. You only have to look at the disgust southerners have for northerners.

You need organised grassroots activism. But do Nigerian's care enough about their neighbour/the poor, or is everyone just out for themselves?

You need to know about something before you question it. I'm sure you dont know so much about evolution theories like big b-a-n-g. The work of the winner of the last nobel prize in physics is something you might like to read. Someone showed that the universe is expanding. Maybe very soon, this proven fact would realize telepathy. For all I care, science has done more good than religion. That I think is the problem with most theist (esp black ones). How can you condemn something that you have not taken time to consider? All you do is accept what your pastor tell you. Just keep believing. If you notice, most atheist are intellectuals. It's very likely that they have taken their time to consider both sides of the coin. On the other hand, theists (esp christains) would not even think for a second that there's another possibility. You keep thinking there's only one way, there're many ways as there are infinite number of circles from a point.

Let's break it down, since most persons cant think.

God is all knowing, yes or no?
If yes, he knew Adam would sin, right? How can you reconcile this with the free will theory? It means that Adam was doomed from the start. same way Judas was doomed, same way God already knows some persons here will go to hell fire even before they are born. Now that's contradictory, right?

When did God create hell fire? How can an all loving and all forgiving God create a place of torment for His own creations? Creations that are doomed already. Like Einstein said (I believe this too), "I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty."

I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings.

The answer to the poster's question is to reconsider the story. You can not justify the creation of the forbidden tree if the story is false itself. I'm not saying it is. I'm just asking you to reconsider. The big question is: Why are you a chistain or a musmim? Is that an exercise of your free will? Are you one because of your environment or because you think its safer to believe in something? Take some time and think. Thinking can be the most difficult things to do, especially when it is about the fundamentals

If you bothered to read one of my earlier posts you would know I've already attempted to answer OP's question. I concluded that it was probably a load of nonsense due to the fact that contradictions exists all over the bible. I don't believe the world was made 4000BC (or whatever the exact figure is), we've been here for billions of years, so I how on earth can you expect me to believe the story of adam and eve.

Why are you a chistain or a musmim?

Because I like being spiritual. It helps me focus on and overcome day to day problems I encounter.

^^what exactly are they doing?

Nano tech allows you to manipulate/work with materials on a molecular level. i.e. being able to strip materials apart atom by atom. 

"Why all the excitement? When graphite is broken down into graphene, the ultra-thin flakes take on unusual and exciting new properties. Three million of these sheets stacked on top of one another would stand just one millimetre high, and yet graphene is the strongest material ever measured, some 200 times stronger than steel. It is also the most conductive. At the atomic level, it resembles a chicken wire lattice of carbon molecules that is so fine that not even a hydrogen molecule can pass through it." http://www.guardian.co.uk/nanotechnology-world/graphene-a-miracle-material-in-the-making

I follow the guardian's extensive blog on the subject. Here: really really fascinating stuff.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/nanotechnology-world

This is a pathetic response and i thought u being a cool guy could have posted something better.

Okay understood. Then you go on to ask two questions;

Do u have any proof that theres corruption in the oil sector?

followed by this question;

what do u mean by 'if u want good things to happen in Nigeris removal of subsidy is one of the basic?

In response to;

I support the removal of fuel subsidy with a big YES.
It will kick out corruption in the oil industry and the money will be used for other meaningful projects and development.
If you want good things to happen in Nigeria, removal of fuel subsidy is one of the basics to kick start any development in Nigeria.
You all will bark and not bite.

You asked two fair questions. I fairly challenged one of them. "Do u have any proof that theres corruption in the oil sector?" That's the question you asked.

You did not ask;

how removal of subsidy would help drive away the corruption.

(you did later)

Which is a totally different question. The fact that you followed; "Do u have any proof that theres corruption in the oil sector?" with "what do u mean by 'if u want good things to happen in Nigeris removal of subsidy is one of the basic?" makes no difference to the first question. They're two separate questions. Granted you could have meant; "how removal of subsidy would help drive away the corruption." But you didn't ask it. Hence the link showing corruption within the Nigerian government. Your question is there for everyone to see. And hey, I've even put everything in context for you too.

God Bless.

I guess my belief is that one day humans will become godlike. Not God, but godlike.

We're slowly heading towards the day where Wet-ware to Hard-ware conversion is possible i.e. being able to store the data of the mind as binary code that a computer can understand. When this is made possible, well the possibilities are practically endless.

Like how would you like to live a thousand years? I honestly believe humans of the future will have that choice.

The stuff that nano technology scientists are doing nowadays is frightening aswell.

Religious people question EVERY evidence presented by modern science which have given them EVERYTHING they use today, computers, cars, aeroplanes, microscope, medicine, rockets to send man to space, nuclear weapons to bring the Armageddon they long for, etc, yet the ONLY evidence that convince them about all other things is a book written by cave dwelling Middle Easterners, or some pastors and imam who hear the voice of a space daddy. Beats me, really beats me.

Not all religious people question evidence. A lot of the so called evidence is theoretical anyway, and not based on hard fact, which means it should be questioned. Any scientist will tell you that. Like the Big Bang theory. On paper (mathematically) it works. But I don't think the theory includes the actual bang itself mind you. If I recall the theory begins a few seconds after the Bang itself takes place. So it's a case of believing that something can come from nothing.

There's a school of thought that suggests we could be living inside a black hole and these so called Big Bangs occur all the time. Theoretical of course. But imagine the possibilities. A fact is, our universe is expanding exponentially. At the rate our human minds find it hard to comprehend. I love the idea that if the earth was the universe then we wouldn't even represent a single grain of sand. Makes me feel insignificant, don't know about you.

Looks like a normal human skull to me

Why , did you think it was something else

Yeah, totally agree with you. Ancestors after-all. The article goes on to say;

"The skeletons have long arms similar to those of orang-utans, a trait shared with Australopithecines, which suggests they were adept at living in trees. But unlike other Australopithecines, they have long legs and a pelvis that is well adapted to walking upright. Analysis of the male's skull revealed small teeth and facial characteristics seen in early members of the genus Homo. Their brains were exceptionally small, around a third the size of a modern human's."

This is a pathetic response and i thought u being a cool guy could have posted something better.
Do u have any proof that theres corruption in the oil sector? what do u mean by 'if u want good things to happen in Nigeris removal of subsidy is one of the basic? im sure u are not an economist or now little about it. answer my questions and i'll explain to u some of the flaws in your post

[/quote]Any proof that there's corruption in the oil sector?

Are you kidding me? Seriously do you have any idea what's going in this country?

You actually come on here and have to ask that question? Especially after all the Wikileaks, leaks.

Okay let me help just a little:

[quote]http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/dec/08/wikileaks-cables-shell-nigeria-spying

Please abeg, read, and then educate yourself on the massive corruption that Nigerian oil is. Saro Wiwa didn't die for nothing. EDUCATE YOURSELF. It's important for us all.

Peharps if you had some grain of evidence to prove this one might take you seriously , but when your scientists start doing crazy things like using a single tooth to construct a whole man and call him the Nebraska man , it starts looking like children playing games.

A quick google search on ancestral skeletons and I found this.

[url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/apr/08/fossil-skeletons-unknown-human-ancestor
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I believe they've uncovered more than a single tooth. Besides, most scientist know that ignorance is part of the game.

For those who smell revolution, I would say it is not entirely a bad thing but trust those in charge of Nigeria, they would never permit that to happen.

Wouldn't be permitted in Washington, London, Paris, or Berlin either. They're benefitting from all the oil money and puppets (GEJ) in government. Remember Patrice Lumumba http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/jan/17/patrice-lumumba-50th-anniversary-assassination.

The first legally elected prime minister of Congo. He was a nationalist who wanted to use Congo's vast natural resources to help his people. Well America needed control of those resources so the CIA organised a Belgian execution squad to assassinate him. They then installed a puppet government, headed by Mr General Mubutu (an unelected dictator who killed a lot of his own people). But the west didn't really care because they controlled the government through very powerful mining corporations.

So a revolution? although it needs to happen, it wouldn't have support of the western oil corporations, I mean why would they want anything to change.

Look at what IMF & THE WORLD BANK are doing to us through harsh economic policies. Goodluck is a puppet to them & the oil is now a curse to us. Qadaffi was against all these, libyans were enjoying their oil wealth before those rascals started the bombings. NATO i think we also need u to help us drive out goodluck

Why would the NATO countries want to drive out GEJ? The NATO countries are benefitting from the status quo. Ask Royal Dutch Shell if they're complaining about their billion dollar profits. The only way NATO would ever get involved in Nigeria is if the GEJ/PDP government was put under threat by an Arab Spring style uprising against the government. A people revolution. Don't forget it was the UN that said "we don't negotiate with rebels we crush them"

But why you ask did the UN/NATO aid the rebels in Libya? Simple, no one in the western world likes Gaddafi, and Gaddafi hates the West.

that you dont understand something doesnt mean it doesnt exist.

It's not that people don't understand or refuse to give it a chance it's just that some people aren't capable of blind leaps of faith.

That a fact wasnt fully explained down to earth to your imbeciles understanding doesnt mean it was fabricated!

What facts are you talking about?

We wouldnt have believed the bible if not that some of us started doing what we read the biblical prophets do! Some of us started healing, prophesying, speaking in genuine strange languate, raising the dead just like Jesus did! The white man needed not say more, we became christians! Same reason christianity is the most populated religon!

My friend, it's believers like you that do other believers damage.

Another stuupid ediot yarning dust. . .why do you think i put it in quote? That was a popular Ghanian song made to insult Nigerians, You are the only fool here trying to make yourself look terrible. Nonsense.

We have enough people here with horrendous grammar, so I guess Nigeria doesn't really need to add another idiot to the already terrible statistics.

This removal of subsidy is long overdue. This is what the Nigerian people deserve. They voted for   their  enemies, now  they  have to face the consequence. The Nigerian people  deserve the govt they get.They voted for GEJ not Pdp. Now they must face the consequence of their action, they should  face it.

I kind of agree with you. Why on earth vote for a party that's been destroying the country for over a decade. I mean God forbid a Muslim from the North's voted in. Southerners would rather a bunch of christian thugs run their country as opposed to a muslim who wasn't blind to the corruption. Northerners are no different in respect to islam. It's okay to Bleep the country up just as long as it's our people doing it.  

The PDP somehow, someway, need to go.

"Thank God Am Not A Nigerians" Mu he he

We have enough people here with horrendous grammar, so I guess Nigeria doesn't really need to add another person to the already terrible statistics.

When you have a bunch of thugs and gangsters running a country this is the type of thing that tends to happen. A revolution is what the country needs. An Arab spring style protest march.

Why Did God Put The Tree Of Good N Evil In The Garden Of Eden?

I'm with you OP.

I think what you're really trying to ask is that is this a whole load of fictitious nonsense? I've asked myself that question many a night (I'm a struggling with my faith christian!). How on earth can I possibly believe in a book that tells me that God created the world several thousand years ago; when we can see the light of stars\galaxies as they were billions of light years away, i.e. the universe has been here for billions of years. If you're thinking logically, you have to say in that instance, the bible is wrong.

Gladiator by Hans Zimmer

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