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A HUNDRED AND FIFTY!!!!! :oAH AH, NA WA O, I TIRE FOR THIS COUNTRY!!!

Global warming is not a threat. It is just another sequence in the evolution trend.

WHAT?!?!? i take it that you get your science news from Rush Limbaugh ehn.

WHAT KIND OF COUNTRY IS THIS, WHAT IS THE FED GOVT. DOING TO PROTECT ITS CITIZENS. Our fellow Nigerians can't be dying in the North and this president is just standing there doing nothing.

In northern Nigeria today, hordes of illiterate young men, the majority of whom have fortunately not yet married or reproduced due to the draconian separation of the genders enforced by their religion, have taken to the streets to vent their frustration over not getting laid, and have thankfully died by the score under withering police and army gunfire.

Jakumo,
Thanks for your wisdom jare, na sexual frustration dey cause am jo.

poster,
This is probably the best thing i've ever read on the internet. Thanks for posting this, i appreciate it.

Looking at this wanna make me go see food for Nija oh.
I am hungry oh.
I am sure these cant be done by a man, haba

It looks like a guy who did it.

I thought that bone marrow tests were only accurate to a couple of months?

I think it is time that we beg the while man to come back and show us how it is done in Nigeria? Everyday we hear stories of woe and the rich stealing more money. The standard of living is falling, economy in crisis, MEND threatening to blow the source of revenue within Nigeria if their demands are not met (even though we know that they are fighting for their own selfish interest, if not what have they done to their governor, chairmen and counsellors who collect revenue and squander it/or share it with MEND), OPC in Lagos are ranting, Secondary school strike everywhere in Nigeria and university lecturers are on strike too. What is functioning properly in Nigeria? Electricity, water, security are a thing of the past. But corruption and the PDP party is going strong?

Should we just beg our former colonial masters to come back, thing can not be worse than it is now?

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA CHAI NIGERIANS. UNA TOOOOOOO FUNNY. I just dey laugh for library when i read this.

Interesting thread.

Yaaaaaaay.

How do you translate this specific body parts in your language:
finger, elbow, shoulder
toes, ankles shins, knees, pelvis

FL Gators
This are the exact translations that i need, i know the others.

nagoma and kahtiri, what languages are you guys speaking?

If possible each region should have his own independent military.

Ehn nooooooooo abeg, if this happens then there is no point for having a country called Nigeria.

Can you still explain further what you mean by strong center?.

What i mean by a strong centre is a govt where the fed govt. supercedes the power of the states. The probs with naija is that everything is too centralized and when you have govts running sectors that should only be mean for the private sector like electricity, oil production, telecommunications. Then it is all bound to fail. The govt should leave all this for private investors. If a state is lagging behind only then can the fed govt. come in to the rescue.

I don't foresee the right person getting there by a credible election, paper voting or electronic voting that will make this changes. The only way is for the masses to call for a SNC where we will all renegotiate everything. This can be achieved in many ways.

The mend tactics
National assembly
Once and for all alliance of the southern part of Nigeria to call for these conference
Through a referendum
A very strong solidarity action that will paralyse the education, health, security and economic activity of the nation. i believe this last option if implemented like they do in Thailand will bring results.

Trust me, you don't want to go down that road. Once you go there, there is no coming back.

That's why i was advocating for regional governments with no useful center at all.

I am advocating for 5 regional govts but with a strong centre afterall that is what a republic is all about. Federalism requires a strong central govt.

Our current structure is not working.
Too big and too much wastage.

Keep the local govts but disband the states by consolidating it into 5 regions. Tampering with the local govts would cause chaos and trust me you don't want to open that can of worms. All you want is for these local govts to work and for there representatives to be accountable to the people.

I mean who is going to fix all these issues and how should it be done?

Now this is the tough part, the solutions are glaringly obvious but the president can't fix the issues but he doesn't seem to be up to the task since his mandate is illegitimate. The only hope we have is the next election process where i read somewhere that they approved electronic voting, this would make it almost impossible to rig elections on a wide scale.

How do you translate this specific body parts in your language:
finger, elbow, shoulder
toes, ankles shins, knees, pelvis

Do you have a general or common word for the leg or the hand which you use for its various parts.
For example, in yoruba we use the word ese to describe the leg, but what of different parts of the legs like toes, ankles, knees, shins and hips, do we use the same word like ese(in the case of yorubas) to describe all this parts of the legs.
What of the hand? is there a specific word for the fingers elbows and shoulder or you call them one general name like owo (in the case of yorubas).

I will be very worried if my husband can cook like this o

How do I sweeten him up if I need to ask him for something or to "apologise" when I have overspent etc

ha ha ha ha.

Now here comes the tricky question, How do we group these local government into senatorial zones for the national assembly or will the north still be the majority in that arm of government after this restructing and vetoing other parts of the country down?

If there will be any advantage related to the number of local governments then i forsee trouble ooooo.

Okay after this arrangement can we now group this local government into 3,4,5,6,7 regional governments?

We should leave it, there is nothing wrong with the local structure just the people representing those structures. The electoral process has to be transparent so as to prevent terrible and unqualified candidates like Senator A or Governor B from winning elections. If these "public servants" knew that the possibilities of them retaining there seats depended on how they voted on so and so bill or what they achieved during there term, trust me, some of them will begin to step up so as not to lose there lucrative jobs. Here senators lose there seats in elections based on certain bills they voted for or against. The same goes for presidents and govs., at the end of the day, there whole body of work would be examined by the voters with the voters deciding if they want a different leader. This makes the leaders step there game.

when your asset losses value, you have lost money. That is simple economics. Let me reserve my insults for another day.

How did she become a proffessor by the way?

So why don't we disband the present ones also i mean let us erase every structure in the old system and create new ones genuinely from the heart. But i ask these questions how will the relation of these LGA be to the center on the following issues

Resource countrol
Millitary
Development
Many more

Ehn are you serious?? do you know how much time and incredible stress it will take to create new ones and let's not even go to the question of legal ramifications. Omo, abeg, please don't even raise the question of disbanding the structures because the chaos that would ensue WOULD BE INCREDIBLE.

tpia
his wife is really really lucky.

Eziachi
Thanks jo, you are beginning to see my point.

I think this topic and should Nigeria split be moved to the front page because these are pressing issues affecting us right now.

For those of you proposing we go to regional form of government i want you to answer this questions for me.

How will these new regional government stop the following,

1) ATM and banking frauds
[b]2) Electricity Problem ( Like what is stopping each states from doing that now alone or some group of states joining together to do that now? --- Case study in the Nordic country finland,Sweden.denmark and noway they all generate and share electricity among themselves.)[/b]3) Police mounting check points and collecting bribes.
4) Examination malpractices in all our education sector
5) Strikes (ASUU, Health sector, PHCN, and others)
6) Election Rigging and do or die affair kind of politics
7) Importation of fake Products
How will this solve crimes like kidnapping.
9) Corruption
10) Many More etc

When the poor people are fighting are the educated ones not feeling the loss also? example Nysc students killed in the last jos riots,

The local govts would stop them. I am not saying disband local govts but disband states.
By the way, the scandinavian countries you mentioned are too small so they can afford to share electricity but Nigeria has a a huge population than they do.

The more the state, the more wastage it will be.
Imagine if we have to pay just 5 head of regions compared to 36 governors.
Imagine how much will go into servicing their retirement as well
Imagine how many vehicle will suck money
Imagine all the ministers under each states.
Just too much wastage.
So better with small govt and better accountability will come with that

Fhemmy,
Thanks a lot jare, at least you get it.

How will additional states result in better infrastructure; reduce rural-urban migration; better education etc?
It only creates a new army of looters, in geometric proportion to number of states created, in the nation

I was in the university in the Imo state when Abia state was created and till I left that area in 1995 I did not see any serious improvement in roads. The Onitsha-Owerri road did not get any better.

mowire,
o se o jare (thanks a lot)

bolorunfem

i thought blue was ayinrin but you called it aro, please could you explain that further.

This is the biggest load of CLAP-TRAP I have ever heard!!!


May be home videos but not Cinema movies, its OK to churn out 200 crap films in a month (Thats a film every 3.5hrs)

Thank you o jare jo.

Let me steal a question from a famous rapper called Eminem:

"Bitch, are you retarded"

Let me ask again so it is loud and clear:

"BITCH, ARE YOU RETAAAAAARDED"

Oh boy cool down for the shorty, she obviously doesn't know much about global economics.

They were still huge and relevant in their time. Gladiators and 300 were well documented quite unlike the ones we had in Africa so, you never can tell.

Good point though, but i can't see any strongholds from back in the day like fortresses and so on: some relic of back in the day showing us how incredibly sophisticated our wars were.

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No probs my brother, anything to help my folks back home.

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Abeg, i think the first one you stated (kiriji war) was probably just a skirmish and nothing big. If our wars were like those movie scenes in "Gladiator", "300", "kingdom of Heaven", "Arthur" (the one with clive owen and kiera knightly) complete with hundreds of archers and trebuchets then i would be a lot more fascinated jare. If not tell all those juju warriors to go play with there oversized machetes.