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byrron: then see mine,bad belle people will nw say its not mine.

poor man, see ur life, Obama room na him u use de pose. chai sorry, when u wake reply me.

175: U can say dat again!!! However no let the David Mark of NL catch u ooo. I hear say she fit cook coke to fanta. Saharareports even say Jona of NL dey dread her with style.

LOL I beg for pardon before I collect I month ban.

Menendez: Hey Guyz am new here......

make we run enter bush because u come new? U nogo fin somewhere rest ur nyash de learn.

175: I will set up a committe to look into dis bill and make sure anoda committe studies d report, and hand it over to Mukina2 for her consideration before i will compel d cabal to buckle and get it passed by the senate president here on nl. Then Oga Seun will give his assent and it becomes law. So no fear @op

so mukina2 na senate president, while seun na jona, u na special advisa on committee matters.

Pls stop embarrassing the guys, what makes this single stuffed room special, last two years I watched them on MTV creek their bedroom was much better. This is a hotel room.

Wish I could do copy copy and become one of the best in Africa, second in Nigeria and own a private Jet.

Remember that the said cabal is powerful.

Seun where u de? See dem o, by their fruit u shall know them. Scam! Scam!! Scam!!!

Thanks

I think as Nigerians we are entitled to freedom of speech and expression. I want to categorically state that in NL whenever u state ur opinion and it does not correspond with that of the powerful NL cabal u will be bullied, insulted and abused. Does it mean that everybody in NL must think the same way, I think we should disagree to agree. Hence forth I don't expect any body to abuse me based on my comment but to come up with a sound and logical argument to canter what av said,moderators should pls try and stop the bullying by this strong and powerful cabal in NL.

aribisala0: Do you have your sister's permission to oen her yansh to the world??

I want to believe this is fiction and not real because if it is real it is not smart to present personal problems to the world. Most especially Nairaland where,predictably,no solution will come after a few pages of watery waffle

I used to think the way u think before but with time av discovered that in as much as NL has a lot of stupid clowns, NL still has a lot of reasonable people that can give u real advice when needed.

Pls get her a smaller phone to avoid materialistic treats.

Sweetheart rich guys will like u because they were brought up with junk foods, but for somebody like me u most know how to cook or u go back home, because I can't imagine having a wife and eating junk.

Another man's freedom fighter is another man's nightmare.

Sometimes it is, sometimes it's not, a lot of factors determines our personal answer. Eg someone driving aston martin dragon 2012 model, phantom 2012 model,bentley 2012 model and porsche 2012 model in nigeria[politicians no follow] can be said to be prosperous, can u also say someone driving a bitus 1965 model and sleeps in the mechanic has prospered?No.

OLASODE2K ur a gud Historian, av read some books also, I think he was the Greatest in the commandos leading Nigerian army, while afeajunwa was the Hero behind Biafra. Gud books on that: Why I was involved, my odyssey, nigerian civil war etc.

Make we check naija wela some skul of bombers go de borno.

I still de fight with my old camry, the 2011 model I enjoyed was my friends own, when am rich enough to buy car 7.5 million then I will come back and comment. As for now 2011 is kul for people that own one.

I demand people making noise here to shut up,people that can speak and I listen are great men that fought the war eg Late Ojukwu,Obasanjo, IBB, Gowon, late Nzeogwu,Banjo,ifejunwa, effiong etc, I was not born then but my dad and mum told me how bitter the war was,I refuse to ask for another one. Wende yekee so fada yeje mu bamua soo, umuigbo oji oso agbakuru ogu amaghi na ogu wu owu. The north should know that the yorubas are the only ones that can match igbo intelligent, and they will not borrow them Another intelligence and passage way, the Niger delta cannot fight without igbo support because presently they are one, the middle belt will not fight for the north again, so let's all be careful.

I have no comment. He looks sick.

Pls can phone experts and technicians In the house pls tell me why this phone is so expensive, I have checked the specification but I can't find any special features that warrants the amount it's sold.

1Naira: The is a BIG FAT Lie. The composition of Gala has not changed. The site (businessnews) whoever they are has neither a link or source in government that made such statement. There are no departments or ministries quoted and I have verified this with UAC Food as a Lie.

Guy even if It's true no big deal, the company will Benefit because cost of production will reduce, the jobless people in NL will get job, it will reduce import, my grandmother will have more income. This policy will Benefit the whole country, the northerner can complain because he don't eat Garri, why should southerners complain? The problem is that we are never objective. We want Development through magic.

drzed: Fine. In that case, you need to separate your argument. Make a distinction between 'Hausa muslims' and Muslims in general.
Since when did the Hausa's become the S.I. unit of Islam anyway?

Guy they are not, But as far as Naija is concern they are the S.I. Unit because they claim to be more holy and closer to Allah than Others, and they represent the face of islam in Naija. I rest my case.

adaybayor: Sorry we have nothing to prove to you!!! Its the plain truth.

@ bayo I think u do, this is 21th century and to convert someone then u must be logical, u can convert with sword presently but well calculated logic and evidence. After my friends were murdered in cold blood. Guy bone talk u de naija.

drzed: No. Muslims dont need to work hard to prove jack!

The difference between we Muslims and you Christians is that you take every bad action of any Muslim as being representative of Islam. We muslims do not generalise the bad actions of some Christians as representative of Christianity. Otherwise we Muslims would blame each and every Christian for:

1). The killing of 6 million Jews and 20 Million Russians by Adolf Hitler - with the connivance of German (and some say papal)Church
2). The massacre of millions of native North American Indians by land-hungry European Christians
3). The murdering of millions of native South Americans by the Spanish Conquistadors
4). The byatch-slapping of presumed witches by your pastors, especially those in Nigeria;
5). The molestation of kids by your 'holy' preachers, especially of the Catholic kind.
6)._________________________(Anyone can fill in the blanks here)....
7)....And list more here.
8].......... And even more here.

We Muslims do not generalise. We know that not all Christians are bad, just as we acknowledge that there are bad Muslims among us. So what is the difference between us? Well, you may not believe in what we believe; you may not like or tolerate us, but we judge each and every one of you according to his words and his deeds. The truth is that we KNOW about you because we were told (and warned) about you in the Glorious Quran. But for you, we on the other hand remain a mystery, an enigma, and unknown phenomenon which you love to hate. Simply because you refuse to even 'consider' making an attempt to know us.

Learn to separate a religion (yes, including Christianity) from its practitioners. The former may be ideal, the latter is definitely not, due to human tendency to err.

A little research about what Islam truly means and what a true Muslim is really like, cannot surely hurt you, will it? But no, most of you would rather believe CNN or what others tell you. For crying out loud: READ!

ps: The very first word revealed in the Glorious Qur'an happened to be 'READ'.

Guy then it means u have not read my post in this forum. I was born in the north, schooled in the north and presently working in the north. But I did tell u that hausa practice of islam is called extremism, they read the quran with 13th century understanding while the yorubas will read with the 21st century understanding. Mind u, I know much about islam. If a yoruba man tells me islam is peaceful then I have no doubt because his father might be a christian, mother a muslim, Bro a hindu, sis a
Buddist and him a pagan, they will still eat in one pot. If u are bold enough try it in ur family and see if ur mother or father will not stab u to death. I stand to be corrected.

blank: So, why were people arrested in Kano for not fasting?

I second ur question. They need to work harder to prove that islam is a religion of peace as they claim.

I watched it myself, although the two ladies failed woefully, one of the worst av ever seen but I think it's a major breakthrough for women in saudi arabia and other muslim extremist countries. Upon the failure the girls were very happy to have been dea.

This is just a normal government policy and the government has promised to help them. The question is why are we always sentimental in all issues? Any body that knows his state has not demolished any place of worship weather church, mosque or shrine should first cast a stone on him.

Islam have different factions, liberals, conservatives, salafist etc. I second adebayo and air_lord because dis guys don't support bokoharam they are moderate muslims, infact yorubas in genaral practice the same islam with turkey,but u see hausas,I reserve my comment.

ferhyntorlah: Kobojunkie is right then; this is another nairaland story in the making. She knows he is a flirt and she open eye wan enter marriage with him.

Is your friend ready to change his ways and remain faithful to her? Some women sha!

once women get to 30 they are usually impatient.
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And The War Lingers – By Chinedu Ekeke
COMMENTARIAT | CHINEDU EKEKE | AUGUST
12, 2012 AT 6:04 AM
This land, in its entire length and breadth, is
soaked in blood. It has sucked up blood of
millions; millions of innocent lives cut short in
their prime.
Between 1966 and 1970, the land of Nigeria
drank the blood of one million Igbos from the
South East. The blood flowed in the streets and
trails scattered in towns and villages in that
region. Some accounts say it was between one
million and three million. But nobody has argued
that it was less. Amongst that shocking number
were inventors, leaders, mobilizers, scientists,
communicators, touts, drunks, clowns, doctors,
teachers and even the illiterate. People in various
walks of life, or those who would have been
excelling in many today, were all lost to that
tragic period of Nigeria’s history. Some of the
slaughtered, at a point in time, were students of
the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Young, and with
their future ahead of them, those lives were
wasted, and their blood shed to please the god of
oneness of Nigeria. To maintain our nationhood, a
grievous evil was committed against the people of
the South East. Even after the war, hunger and
starvation were unleashed on the vulnerable,
children and pregnant women, further increasing
the casualty figures during the war.
Those deaths were the beginning of sorrow and
agony to the families of the victims. The trauma
lingered, even years after the chaos ended. In
victory, no consolation, in form of visible
rehabilitation and reintegration, came the way of
the survivors, the vanquished. Till today, every
Igbo family tells their children the story of the
harm done their people. There is no family which
didn’t lose at least one life in that war. It was a
dark period in the history of an ethnic group, and
the killings didn’t discriminate against men and
women. My father told us stories of how he hid in
the bush for weeks, sleeping and waking with
wild animals, birds of the air and serpents of the
earth, just to avoid being killed.
We may not have to blame anybody now, but we
would be doomed if our carelessness causes
history to repeat itself.
And history is repeating itself.
Today the war lingers, and one Nigeria is still
shaky.
The UpNEPA! generation hadn’t been born when
the civil war was fought. The story may just be to
us what it exactly is: a story. But it happened,
and in it humans, with flesh and blood like us,
were affected.
Yet there is a maze we have to suss out. The head
of the Nigerian government during that civil war
was the head of the government after the civil
war; until someone else took over. He
philosophized on the possibility of a war ending
without any side turning out the victor or the
vanquished. That war ended with that
proclamation. But the task of accelerating the
healing process was left undone. Why was the
man who oversaw the war unable to invest in the
critical rehabilitation of both humans and
infrastructure? Why were equity and justice, the
two key ingredients that guarantee peace in all
human dealings, not pursued vigorously after the
war? Nobody valued the significance of the
volume of blood that was shed for Nigeria. We just
moved on.
Since after that historic strife, Nigeria has been,
“fortunately”, ruled longest by those who even
fought the war. Yakubu Gowon fought the war,
Babangida fought, Obasanjo fought. Yet each of
them treated the country like it didn’t need any
special attention, like we didn’t need to do
something fundamental if we wanted one, strong,
peaceful and prosperous nation. No particular
attempts were made by these people to distribute
our national wealth, to build infrastructure
massively, to educate the citizenry qualitatively.
From Yakubu Gowon to Ibrahim Babangida to
Olusegun Obasanjo, it’s been a tale of public
failure but personal wealth – all at the expense of
the good of the land; the land of blood, the blood
of millions.
The war is still on. And the land drinks even more
blood.
Our people still die in their numbers. The Lagos-
Benin expressway has been collecting blood from
our citizens in over a decade and half. It is not
just that route. Abuja-Lokoja expressway has
taken enough lives. It is supposed to be a national
embarrassment to a country that appreciates
shame. Enugu-Port Harcourt expressway kills by
the minutes. The road is an address for untimely
death. There are others in same – or even worse –
state spread all over the country. The money
allocated for their repairs, in all those years, are
standing as mansions and personal estates of the
government officials and contractors involved, in
choice cities within and outside Nigeria. Nobody
respects the blood of the innocent, or the cries of
their devastated relatives. Rather than be
compelled by the reality of that war to invest in
public good, we steal government funds with
impunity.
On air, our people perish. Nigeria has the worst
aviation safety history in the world. In June this
year, this record got highlighted by the Dana Air
crash. The blood of over 150 Nigerians, including
children, got shed. Today we have forgotten, and
we carry on like it never happened. Nobody
respects those we killed out of our greed and
criminal actions, nobody honors their grieving
relatives.
The war still rages on. And we keep quenching
the land’s thirst for blood.
Last week, the gods of Nigeria drank to excess in
Okene, Kogi State. The merchants of death, a
testimony to the glaring dysfunction that we have
become, bombed worshippers in a Deeper Life
church. We have long got used to it. Nobody is
shocked any more. Bombs have come to live
among us. A couple of days before that, it was in
Yobe. Within a month, serious attempts were
made on the lives of two Emirs; inside Mosques.
They survived, but those around them didn’t.
Innocent lives were sent to early graves. Their
blood wet the ground, and soaked it. In the last
two or so years, it’s been harvest of blood, in
places of worship, in hotels, in parks, everywhere.
Day by day, our Nigeria hands out misery to her
citizens, under the watch of rulers who maintain
criminal silence while they steal every money in
sight.
The war rages on. The only condition necessary
for it to thrive, injustice, is still resident here.
Within a week, injustice and neglect have forced
two new countries out of Nigeria. The Ogoni
people declared their indepence, hoisting their
national flag. And few days after, the people of
Bakassi peninsula followed suit. They also hoisted
their flag made up of a mix of blue, white and red
colours, with 11 stars on the blue colour. They
launched their radio station through which they
will be communicating their citizens. They are
Nigerians, but they have opted out of the union.
The Nigerian government is obviously in a fix.
They are adopting the silence approach, wishing –
or trying to wish – the reality away.
Do we roll out the tanks and reduce the people of
these regions to dust? Do we feed the ground
with more blood, their blood? For expressing their
frustration with an entity that has given them
nothing in return for all their years of loyalty, do
we annihilate them? Do we declare them rebels?
How do we treat these new dissentions that
threaten to reduce Nigeria into fragments?
The war rages on. It’s even in the North.
The North gives every one of us a bone to chew.
Boko Haram has declared the region a special war
zone and ensured a remarkable steady decline in
economic activities there. Yet, even before the
advent of Boko Haram, there was no meaningful
development in that region. Many citizens were
not educated. Poverty bites hard in a region that
has produced more rulers for Nigeria than the
other regions put together. But in the lives of
each of the rulers and their families and friends,
it’s a galore of unbelievable –and inexplicable –
wealth.
Poverty in the North, in the face of mega wealth
of their elites, is the reason for the spread of the
war in that region. It’s easy to get new members
enlisted in the army of extremists trotting the
landscape. The injustice is not about to be
addressed. Those who became rich and accessed
the good life through the bridge of injustice and
corruption, erected for over three decades, aren’t
willing to let go of their primitive acquisitions.
The wonder is that we have had people from
various regions of the country occupy Nigeria’s
very powerful presidency, yet the evil of
misgovernance has lingered. Stealing the money
for bettering citizens’ lives is the rule, and no
president in post-war Nigeria, except General
Buhari, has taken the issue of good governance
seriously. Governance for the others means plain
stealing, and impoverishment of the citizens.
The war lingers. The individual parts of the union
we call Nigeria want out of the marriage. Also, the
blood of those we killed out of greed and stupidity
demands justice today, more than ever before.
The only justice we can do them is to build
prisons and start jailing every person involved in
the stealing of this country’s resources. We must
include, amongst those to be jailed, judges who
acquitted rogue public officeholders and upheld
rigged elections. We must not leave out military
generals who rode on the regime of
unaccountability to inflict injury, through
treasury-looting, on our national psyche. Those for
prison must be sent there fast. Once we are done
recovering their loots and throwing them into jail,
then we commence immediately with massive
welfarist schemes, starting with expansive
infrastructural development; building houses for
the poor wherever they are, taking care of their
health, providing qualitative education for their
children at affordable prices and giving them
convenient means of moving from one point to
another.
Some of us have committed ourselves to one
Nigeria, but not one in which by-gone will be by-
gone. This nation can afford to ignore every evil
done to it, but not the evil of corruption.
Corruption takes the wealth meant to give life and
happiness to many and replace such with death
and misery. That is where Nigeria is. And that is
the challenge before the present ruler.
Mr Goodluck Jonathan is presiding over a nation
at war with itself, and the end of that war can
only be guaranteed with good governance as
defined by the people, not government
apologists.