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Ma_J_Blige:It is amusing to me in part because you have non-Africans immigrating illegally to Nigeria. Though I suppose India is a very poor country too, so maybe shouldn't be surprising. |
GEJ has the entire revenue of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to use to bribe, if he must. He has the property of Nigeria (oil blocks, planes, homes, lands) he can bribe with. There is no way Atiku or any combination of his friends can beat GEJ if it comes down to bribing. |
red100:This is exactly is what I meant. red100:This too! Like, I've looked at some of their supermodel and hottest girls (they have some magazine called Sun which shows pictures of ordinary girls who send in pictures), and they never are as attractive (to me, at least) as the Spanish, German, Polish, French, etc equivalent. Even in Ms World competitions, they are never able to compete. |
Next question is, who was employing them? |
kokoye:Fair enough. There was no offense intended, btw. Just a stereotype I'd heard of and wanted further information about. |
^-- No, white American girls are very hot, especially in the Southern US. Or at least, there are a lot of hot ones. But I've heard nothing good about white British chicks. You sort of see what I'm saying? Supposedly they drink, smoke, act out of control, are fat, ugly and are ill-mannered. No offense intended to any white British chicks possibly reading this, but this is what I've heard. |
White British women are stereotyped to be ugly, boorish, and ill-mannered. Is this true, or false? I've never been there before, but that is what I've heard people say. |
Where do they get the electricity for this facility? More info on CKD, if you are like me and were not aware of this concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_knock_down |
Death for witchcraft? Really? |
^-- Apparent that some Nigerians are not interested in rule of law. |
Ladyjide: ![]() |
MShittu:I highly doubt Atiku that has more cash available to him than GEJ does. |
appletango:Ah, but he can just make the money conditional on him winning, no? It isn't, "I'll pay you X if you vote for me", but "I'll pay you X if i win." So he can still bribe effectively, I think. Or am I wrong. . . ? |
Whatever crimes he committed as a scammer do not give the police licence to murder him in cold blood in front of a frikkin police station. They are two separate issues. |
Pretty sad ![]() No reason for an able-bodied person to be begging, even in Nigeria. I don't understand why Yoruba people would be doing this. . .we shouldn't be copying backward Northern ways. |
On a very serious note, you guys need to do something about it All of those almajiris need to be put to work planting seed to hold the ground. Your leaders stealing millions are playing with the future of your people, man. As bad as things are in the North right now economically, what will the future be like if they do not combat this threat?Your leaders are selfish and only thinking about their own pockets, not thinking about future generations of your people. Read this article on the subject: http://www.irinnews.org/PrintReport.aspx?ReportID=57698 Kano, 30 December 2005 (IRIN) - In the late 1990s, Alhaji Ahmad Idi could still count on his land to produce 40 big sacks of sorghum and another 20 full of groundnuts each year. But today, he works twice as hard to squeeze out yields half that size. “There isn’t enough rain and we have to dig deeper and deeper to find water,” said Idi, a farmer in Makoda village - about 70 kilometres north of the main northern city of Kano. And yet, to look at his land, he says, nothing seems to have changed: a few trees and shrubs, some soil - same as ever.EDIT: Anyway, this will be the last I say on this topic, lest I derail the thread. |
Corruption is part of the problem, yes. But only a part of it. The national cake is too small. Even if it were shared perfectly well and none of it stolen, Nigeria will not make meaningful progress. The cake needs to be made larger, so to speak. We need leaders with prior administrative experience, and a track record of success in those jobs. Ribadu on the other hand has none of this; he is a glorified policeman. I'd prefer some combination of relatively uncorrupt political leader + technocrat, ideally an economist. In any case, if he can find support in the ACN and win, then fine and well. I just don't think he is the strongest candidate we can choose, and will probably lose once stronger options emerge. |
Nice article. Will be interesting to see how he does come the next election. |
Blazay:One of the few times I've actually lol'd from this site ![]() I guess the truth must be quite painful for you. Rather than fighting the truth, should you not be asking your Northern leaders to be fighting the desert instead? Probably a better use of your time and energy ![]() You spoke truly, I am indeed a son of the Ekiti bush. A lush, green, and vibrant Ekiti bush, one that is not losing a battle with the Sahara. |
igbobuigbo:Many of those links do not. Was good before and shows an abundance of commercial quantities of natural resources in all parts of Nigeria.There is no assessment on that site of the commercial viability of the resources, though. For example, having oil is very different from having commercially viable oil. (Canada iirc has one of the largest oil reserves in the world, like 2 trillion barrels. But theirs is in oil sands, very expensive to extract [cannot remember the price to extract per barrel, but it is pretty high.] This reduces the viability of the oil, I think only some small fraction can be profitably extracted at today's prices.) In fact the crop production and livestock production potential in the North can take it to the next level. They are just being lazy because of oil.By "resource", I meant "natural resource." Not agriculture or livestock. I agree that the Middle Belt can and should be good at that stuff, but the core North will not. In part because of the encroaching Sahara desert. |
All the more reason they cannot afford to make mistakes. Secure your base, secure the north, try your best in the SS and SE, then let the chips fall where they may. Leaving your base unprotected is foolhardy. |
lol @ GEJ. [img]http://1.bp..com/_kC5MT2r5U8s/TPdIt2SQ_lI/AAAAAAAARUc/btFsf2FgUrU/s1600/Black+santa+claus2.jpg[/img] Ho ho ho! |
What resources, pray tell does the north have in commercially viable quantities? I'm all ears. |
Blazay:This article is actually great. 500 jobs is 500 jobs. Better than carrying a begging bowl around. I can respect a man who works hard for a living, but cannot respect a beggar. Hard work is honorable, not shameful. |
Mr Faeb is correct. The oil on SS land belongs to the SS. Anyone else claiming otherwise is trying to reap where they did not sow. God did not plant oil into your territory; how can you claim what was not given to you? And the North would suffer the most of all. The Sahara desert is creeping rapidly, gobbling up hectares and hectares of your land. Landlocked region full of almajiris, no education, no resources of note. |
^-- Then the ACN had better be prepared to compete without the SW voter solidly behind them. Buhari/Ngige holds no particular appeal to me, just because they are wrapped in ACN cloth. And I doubt I am the only one who feels this way. |
Yeah, literacy is not only defined as English-speaking, reading and writing. If you can read and write Yoruba instead, you are literate. Still, I doubt that 92% figure. |
igbobuigbo:We don't need large #s of votes from the SE or SS. We probably won't win either region picking an Igbo VP anyways. I'd rather consolidate the base, and ensure that the VP is a core ACN man. Nobody in the SE is going to vote ACN just because Ngige is the VP. And it will also suck out a lot of energy from the SW voter, imo, and leave the SW vulnerable. We'd basically be repeating the same mistake the PDP did in leaving the North vulnerable. |
Faeb: ![]() |
stranger:Proly an OSU alum, I'm guessing. My image of her is that of a fair complexioned lady with some nasty attitude, prolly tallWomen with nasty attitudes can be cured of em pretty easily. Just requires a firm hand and a no nonsense approach. Most guys unfortunately let themselves be bullied, guilt tripped, or tricked into arguing about irrelevant things. As long as the nasty attitude doesn't entail rabid feminist views, then you can fix them. Rabid feminism though, run away from that. Fortunately doesn't show up too frequently in naija chicks |


All of those almajiris need to be put to work planting seed to hold the ground. Your leaders stealing millions are playing with the future of your people, man. As bad as things are in the North right now economically, what will the future be like if they do not combat this threat?
