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This is so long
I couldn't read it
I got scared by the length

Read it, trust me, i guarantee you its not that long when you get into it.

I strongly suggest that you go through my post again. Did I say that the Niger-Delta conflict and that of Iraq were of the same intensity? And speaking of intensity and one the issue of militants armed with RPGs, may be you've not been following the news. These guys are armed to the very teeth with RPGs, GPMGs, light arms like AK-47s and HK G-3s, and 50 cal machine guns mounted on some of their boats. And yes they have explosives, or how do you think they've been able to blow up pipelines and police stations? I've personally witness these guys operate TWICE within Port Harcourt (2007). The 1st one was at my old place of work were they killed a number of policemen and innocent civilians, one of the victims being my own uncle. In the 2nd, the city metropolise (close to the waterline) was under siege and so bad that Airforce gunships (Mi-35 Hinds) had to be called in. So IEDs/VBIEDs may not be going off with suicide bombers setting themselves up as in Iraq, but it was quite bad. Still, the military, when called in, performed excellently in later and did an excellent job in mop-up operations that followed clearing militants and cultists from their hideouts within the metropolis. The same military that you critize from the US were the same ones that civilians ran to for protection during that crisis. That army (along with the police) opened the gates of their barracks and provided shelter and security to innocent people. The very same army were the ones courteous during stop-and-search operations without asking for a single dime from anyone.

Sorry for the loss of your Uncle but what you are trying to do is to portray the Nigerian army uniformly as good guys but we all know that generally they are not that good infact they have a reputation for being merciless and instead of defending the helpless and defenseless citizens they mistreat them. Just look at several check points in the country or whenever the army has been called in to restore order, they have been usually EXTREMELY heavy handed, using tactics that are unnecessary.

In world war 2, the americans fought guerrilla warfare against the japanese in the jungles of the pacific and they got the job done so please don't even compare a bunch of rag tag boys with hardly any millitary experience to more sophisticated soldiers. The problem with Afghanistan is that Afghanistan is is extremely HUGE and the terrain is very, VERY, VERY difficult (the niger delta is not like that) it easy for this guys to hide in caves or to sneak across the border and hide in Pakistan or Waziristan then lauch raids across the border.


Now back to the main issue, what i am trying to say is that those training dehumanizes these guys so that they act savagely. In the 20's and 30's when the japanese still had ambitions of world domination. They trained there soldiers to be merciless, brutal and extremely ruthless so that when they invaded other countries they would unleash terror on them. An example was in China, when they invaded to annex manchuria, a mineral rich province, the terror they unleashed on this people was beyond genocide. Till today it is still called the "rape of nanking". The training the japanese soldiers had recieved dehumanized them and they looked at the chinese civillians as sub-human so they decided that hey if i was brutal tortured in millitary barracks, i would do much worse to you, my "enemies" so they unleashed hell on the civillian population on men, women and children. This partly explains the way they dealt with American POW's. Nigerian soldiers did almost the same thing (but not on that level) in sierra leone and Liberia and let's not forget there "saintly" and "heroic" exploits in Odi, Choba, Ogoni and other places. You also seem to forget the "amazing" exploits of Chris Garba in quelling riots in the North back in the day (this are the same brutal tactics that have been passed down to the present day soldiers). Its like when we were in boarding school and we were brutalized up till we got to SSS 3, then when we got there we turned around and unleashed hell on our juniors because by then we were all "hard". These is why i say that that form of punishment is unnecessary there are other creative ways of disciplining a soldier like letting him run 10 kilometres at night instead of telling him to "plant" on a stone for that matter.

Also, lets not forget that recently, in Sudan, our "competent" boys were killed by the poorly trained supporter of APC.

Kimora Lee & Djimon Hounsou Put To Bed.

Put to bed?? Naija and there English sha.  I don't think i've ever heard that since i came to yanki, he be like say na only naija people dey use am.

That movie is a joke. And I don't mean that like it was funny or anything. Who shoots decent movies in S.A. anyway? Those slurs about corruption, prostitution and slum life directed at Nigerians was a cheap shot from a tasteless perspective. I was too annoyed to continue the film. It's crap anyhow .

Hotel Rwanda, an academy award nominated movie was shot in South Africa, and so was blood diamond, "the ghost and the darkness" and lots of other hollywood movies so please do your research before you talk abeg.

But then again fulanis have no actual home land

These are the clowns who are messing up the south west

THEY ARE NIGERIANS SO THIS IS THERE HOMELAND AND WE LOVE THEM. By the way, were the likes of Ayo Fayose, Bola Tinubu, Oni, or Rashidi Ladoja fulani? please let us stop this stupid divisions. They are Nigerians and they should be given the privileges of every other Nigerian citizen.

They sang "No one like you" and "fall in love" on my friends wedding day.

Give us these rides and we pay later.

Why don't you save money and buy the car instead of living in debt. Nigerians and there materialism sha.

EXCUSES, EXCUSES, EXCUSES, NAIJA PEOPLE AND THERE USELESS EXCUSES.

i dont believe that singapore is a 25 year old nation. On top of that smaller countries are easier to develop then larger ones. even today the netherlands is significantly more developed then russia.

It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not it is true. It is not only singapore that developed within a couple of decades but south korea, UAE even the likes of Taiwan, Hong kong, malaysia, thailand, UAE, vietnam (that was probably the poorest country in the world in 1990), china was poorer than a lot of countries in Africa, now they have the fastest growing economy in the world. After the second world war ended in 1945, Japan had been destroyed by the united states (infact, in some cities they were basically no buildings left standing) by 1968 they had become the second largest economy in the world that is less than 25 years meanwhile naija has been independent since 1960 and it still keeps regressing.
You also know what the funny thing about this countries is that with the exception of the UAE none of this countries have oil, now look where they are. We on the other hand have probably the most precious commodity in the world yet we are still one of the poorest nations in the world. My friend STOP GIVING EXCUSES.

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” - Warren Buffet

Finally. These guys were cooking the books like Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, Bernie Ebbers and Bernard Madoff. They should be given life sentences to set an example and to deter this kind of future behavior. If the ministry of justice or the attorney general let this guys walk away, then this would confirm there incompetence.

unbelievable.

The combined arm of US military (army, airforce,marine) along with the militaries of NATO-ISAF currently find it difficult to route the Taliban as the conflict there has escalated with more soldiers flown home in bady bags. Then there's Iraq that's been one big mess for a LONG time, `though things have calmed down a bit. These nations boast of the best military training, yet they can't defeat the enemies in these two countries. So I wonder what you'll call their failures. Yet the Nigerian military that you so happily look down on has won practically every major military engagement from the 1st World War in East Africa, the 2nd World War in the jungles of Burma, and our own civil war to the operations in Liberia and Sierre Leone. Compared to problems the US faces in Iraq, the conflict in the Niger-Delta definitely isn't intense, but the terrain (swamps) is far more unforgiven than the plain arid lands of Iraq.

Wow, where do i even begin to start on this one. Do you think that your Nigerian soldiers can win the war in Afghanistan or Iraq. If so why not send troops there and help relieve the US of there duties so that they can give you more aid money. Also, your assertions on winning the war in East Africa and Burma is a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge joke. We were under the command of the british commanders and we were very small in number (less than hundred) so don't talk as if our boys went there and "won" the war (no be ordinary ECOMOG where them dey slaughter your boys and the fed. govt had to be lying about the body count because it was so embarassing). By the way, let's not forget that we won both World Wars.

Your assertions that the conflict in Iraq is less intense is incredibly ridiculous and YOU KNOW THAT. Do your MEND boys have RPG's or do they plant roadside bombs. Heck, didn't i see one of your guerilla's accidentally shoot himself. The boys that we face in Iraq were former soldiers in the iraqi army. In fact, some of them were members of Saddam's elite republican guard. Let's not also forget that the Iranians are partly funding the insurgency by supplying and training some of this fighters. Also, last time i checked, the violence in Iraq is leveling out since we kicked out Rumsfeld and the Iraqi's are about to take over because our job is almost done that's why the president is removing 20,000 troops from Iraq and sending them to Afghanistan. Yep, you hear of the occasional bombing but its just in certain parts of the country. Also, in case you didn't know we won the war (in just a couple of weeks), the only problem we've had was in securing the peace and that had to do with a cowardly enemy who hides in the civillian populace and some stupid blunders by the civillians (like paul bremer's decision to disband the iraqi police and army after the war, and Rumsfeld failure to send in an overwhelming amount of troops). But despite all this, we unlike your soldiers in naija have restrained ourselves to not randomly killing civillians indiscriminately, yes we made some mistakes because we are not perfect but you can't compare us to your war criminals that you call an army.

The army is not the police. Soldiers are trained to kill not to arrest or beg people to fall into line.

You kidding me? In America, the army is taught 3 very important things. THEY ARE TAUGHT NEVER TO DO ANYTHING IMMORAL AND TO NEVER (EVER) OBEY A SUPERIOR COMMANDER WHO ORDERS THEM TO DO SOMETHING IMMORAL. They are also taught to protect and defend helpless people. That does not seem to be something that they teach your boys at NDA.




BTW, on a side note, they are also taught TO NEVER PARTICIPATE IN POLITICS but to leave it to the civillians.

Most naija girls do not know how to welcome an approach from a guy, from the very first move the guy gets all shy, and its not like they dont like him or what he did oh. . . They just form like thats not the right way to approach a lady, and squeeze their faces and question his motives aggressively. You can approach any other woman on earth in any manner that involves saying hello but for most naija babes, it has to be different.

Gbam, you hit the message right on the head. Naija girls are soooooooooooo incredibly intimidating because of there snobbishness, paranoia and overwhelming condescending attitude especially the hot ones. I can easily talk to a hot oyinbo chick that i just met the first time than even a ugly naija girl.

By the way, i am very scared of rejection.

Honestly, I don't know why senior executives do such a thing.

It is OK to fail or have a set back sometimes. Why risk jail by commiting a crime.

Life sentence is too heavy handed though.

That is why Warren Buffet said “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”

GOLD DIGGER ALERT

CHILD CUSTODY
The children stay with the father coz. . . well coz he IS there father. (Duh!!)

ha ha ha, that is sooooooooo true, make my wife come take my pikin, i go break him hand he he he.

Congratulations!!! but no one cares.

I wasn't talking to you. I was talking to the girl called hotteju, i suggested that she should consider modelling because she obviously looks very attractive.

“You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.” - Warren Buffet.


Even though the consolidation  had some positives, truth of the matter is that it was built on sand. First of all, Soludo in his attempt to create formidable bank structures created institutions that were to big to fail. The problem with naija people is that we want to put the carriage before the horse. Soludo wanted to create giant banking behemoths which would be a pillar of strength to the economy. He forgot that the fundamentals of the banks were not sound and that they were no adequate internal controls in the banks so this guys were grossly cooking the books and basically running a ponzi scheme like Bernard Maddoff. The capital requirements for banks should lowered so as to allow for the emergence of more banks as a means of creating competition in the banking industry. 

Nigerians want to become like America in one day, they forget that as America's economy grew so did the banks. They were not all artificially propped up one day (consolidated) at the request of the central bank.  We seem to wonder why HIV is on the rise in naija. What else do you expect when girls have to sleep around so as to make a certain unrealistic quota or else they would get fired. Useless country. Prof. Soludo should go back to the class room and leave the financial system to the real bankers (the finance guys).

Finally. These guys were cooking the books like Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, Bernie Ebbers and Bernard Madoff. They should be given life sentences to set an example and to deter this kind of future behavior. If the ministry of justice or the attorney general let this guys walk away, then this would confirm there incompetence.

My own idealogy - if u can tackle corruption then you 3 quarters of the way tackling the light issue.

blacksta,
that's a good point but the biggest problem we have is the fed govt trying to run everything from telecommunications to power generation, instead of focusing on a few sectors. The fed govt is a jack of all trades but a master of NONE. Tell me one sector that the fed. govt is not in, be it the media (NTA) or transportation (Nigerian airways or railway), that is why nothing works in the country because the govt is INCREDIBLY INEFFICIENT. THIS IS WHY THE GREAT RONALD REAGAN ONCE SAID THAT GOVT. IS NOT THE SOLUTION BUT GOVT. IS THE PROBLEM. The fed govt of Nigeria should leave power generation to the private sector or to each individual state because the power that NEPA is generating cannot take care of 150 million people. Some states have told the fed. govt about this but they would listen to them as they insist that power generation should be centralized so that they can make more money. NEPA or PHCN (or whatever they call themselves nowadays) should only step in if there is a state that cannot light up itself.

I am not trying to downplay the effects of corruption, corruption is bad but even corrupt govs do make projects. Its just that most of the projects don't work because they are the wrong projects and because most often the people don't even know what they are doing, hence the mismanagement. That is why complex things like this should be left to private companies and if possible foreign companies who can get the job done.

What impact is the march going to have ?

Much Ado about Nothing

That's what they said when Martin Luther King Jr started the civil rights movement.
That's what they said when women were protesting for equal rights.
That's what they said during the 60's to the anti-vietnam war protesters.
That's what they said in the late 80's when the Romanians were protesting against communism
That's what they said to "solidarity" in Poland in the 80's when they were protesting against the USSR
That's what they said to the anti-apartheid protesters in south africa when mandela was imprisoned.

We all know what this people accomplished. Like someone once said, some people watch things happen, some people wish for things to happen, while SOME PEOPLE MAKE THINGS HAPPEN.

Das a shame 1 million people want light in Nigeria but when 1000's are killed everyone will keep quiet

When elections are rigged everyone will keep quiet as long as its not their state

That whole Light up Nigeria is bullshit and is a distraction to Nigerias real Problem the Government.

How bout 1 million protest for better Education, Health care,Economy, Law enforcement, etc,  that sounds better rather than 1 million idiots wanting light

sjeezy8
ARE YOU HIGH?!?!?! Do you know that Nigeria's most pressing need is lack of constant electricity? In case you didn't know, lack of electricity severely hampers commerce and inhibits industrialization and that is why the unemployment rate is incredibly high. What's the point of going to school if there are no jobs waiting for you? Look at yanki, what can you do without electricity? almost nothing. You can't have world class research institutes or health centres if there is no electricity. So what are you talking about. Several factories which are supposed to be sources of employment shut down each year because they can't afford the costs of running a generator or buying diesel. This is why lack of 24/7 electricity is still holding the country back and this is why the govt. should throw the entire "kitchen sink" at the problem.

Bread and butter issues such as health care, investment in education, and lowering the requirements for private capital investment to create jobs in the private sector are nowhere to be heard.

poster
Thank you o jare, i have been saying this for a loooooooong time. Why does the govt always love putting the horse before the carriage? Instead of focusing on the most important things like constant electricity which SEVERELY hampers commerce or the aforementioned, they are planting flowers or building financial districts like Fashola.

chei, Nigerians!!!!

poster, thanks for the info, seun needs to include this for general discussion so that everybody would be aware.

Thank you o jare, i have always asked this question. Why are there no internal controls in the system. I had a friend who once worked in a bank and he told me that whenever auditors from the head office came, they would bribe them with a good meal and probably some jara on the side. That is why any bank can inflate earnings or profits without anybody finding out. What a shame.

WHAT IS THE VICE PRESIDENT DOING?!?!?!?!? IF THE PRESIDENT IS INCAPACITATED, ITS THE VICE PRESIDENT WHO TAKES OVER. ALSO, WHERE ARE THE MINISTERS THE SENATORS AND HOUSE OF REP. MEMBERS.

THIS IS WHERE YOU BEGIN TO QUESTION THE WISDOM OF THE PRESIDENT. INSTEAD OF HIRING THE BEST PEOPLE FOR THE JOB SO THAT YOU CAN EASILY DELEGATE WITHOUT MICRO-MANAGING, HE HIRED THE WRONG PEOPLE FOR THE JOB; MOST OF WHOM HAVE COMPETENCY ISSUES.

mrsb

I personally feel that men are the weaker sex when it comes to infidelity and temptation.

Some men just can't help it, for some its just in there nature, that is why one always has to pray for self control. The bible says watch and pray lest you fall into temptation. A lot of godly men don't even do this and you wonder why some do stumble, they think they are matured christians whereas the bible says, "let he who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall".

Women (especially in Nigeria) are very devious and manipulative and they put themselves on a plate. How many times can a guy turn down a freebie?!

Thank you o jare, the bible says that whoever looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery in his heart but what do you think God would do to that lady who causes her brother to stumble either with some outfit or with her seductive behavior, afterall, God is a God of justice. The bible says it repeatedly that we should NOT do things that would make our brother stumble, its amazing how many naija so called christians are not sensitive to these things, heck, the pastors barely even focus on this things.

By the way, this is one of the reasons why i don't wanna marry a naija girl, they are too aggressive, sassy, snobbish, condescending and too matters worse they are not nurturing. Some are not even trust worthy at all. So sad.

dafidi, oti like awan white girls ju
Oru awan thread yi lo ma n like

edakun ejo e fi mi le, abi olorun ko lo dawon ni?  . My sista, emi feran everybody sha.

Be content geez. Women want it all. If you want 10,000 carats then go marry Puff daddy.

The boy sef too much. I couldn't believe it 9.58 seconds unbelievable. The best record since they invented electronic scoreboarding.

Its about Africans modelling. It is an unbelievable sight though.