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@poster, 9ice write u,
i knw one day Nigeria will lead the world, the day is comming,
God bless Nigeria,

lead the world ke!!! make we see now.

By the way, i didn't write the piece, i just cited it from another website.

"BAD"

tha fucc, how do you select james harden with the no.3 pick.

some NBA teams have lost it.

Thank you o bawomolo, i can't believe that we selected him, i don't even know who that guy is?


Imagine?? we didn't even select Ricky Rubio or DaJuan Blair. It is clear that we needed help at the point and a big time inside presence. Our point guard, Westbrook was just a rookie last year. If we had brought in Ricky Rubio he would have helped us a lot, instead all we have is Westbrook.

I may not be a fan of Banky W and a lot of the new school musicians, but that piece was an excellent response: almost flawless. One would have almost thought the guy was a journalist. I liked his classy response and how he took the high road without insulting the Mr. Abati but just pointing the facts to him.

Having said all that, the only flaw that i have in the article is this.

And for the record: for every "Anoti" by MI, he has a "Crowd Mentality" or a "Talk about it". For a Naeto C's "Ki Ni Big Deal", he has a "The Devil is a Liar".

He could have explained why he used "anoti", "talk about it", and "the devils is a liar" as an illustration for example he could have rephrased it like this;

for every shallow hit like "Anoti" (by MI), the artistes also has a more introspective and reflective track like "Crowd Mentality" and for every "Ki Ni Big Deal" (by popular rapper Naeto C), there is a song like "The Devil is a Liar" that gives us a view of the artistes religious.
Either way, this was AN EXCELLENT RESPONSE. I still can't believe that a Nigerian can actually write this without name calling and insults. omo u too much.

Mr Abati's article on the other hand was waaaaaaaaaaaaay too long. He should have used only 2 examples, instead he kept on reciting the lyrics and the artistes who created them. Its as if he was trying to show that he was "current" and well informed and he just went on and on giving waaaaaaaaaaay too many examples. The man should have used at least a maximum of 3 examples.

There may be a few Nigerians who share Mr Abati’s sentiments and I will blame that on a lack of exposure, lack of wisdom or the need for enlightenment. This cannot be tolerated especially when it is being voiced by a journalist who holds such a crucial position in our media.

@eldee
why do you discredit yourself by attacking those who don't agree with you? by the way, i am very enlightened, and i do not lack exposure or wisdom ( in fact i am blessed with this in excess abundance).

I thought Thierry Henry was from Guadeloupe??


but man, mr. poster, i was blown away by your fascinating story, i almost swallowed it hook, sink and ladder. if to say i no read the comments for this thread i for don  believe you ha ha ha ha  . Nice try sha.

but it'll have a negative effect on our economy here in naija

yommyflo,
and whose fault is it? our loss is there gain.

@Davidif, Yes ooo my brother, I was in Orlando too. I shall be in Toronto also. Las Vegas was fun and you know it's a crazy world. Everything is so expensive. I toured the whole Las Vegas and I gambled in all the prominent hotels. Can't do it better than that, you feel me?.

@okokomeji, omo you guys did it big ooooooo, me on the other hand was just walking all over time square taking pictures with nothing really to do after leaving wall street during the day.

Why Is The English Language Skill Of Nigerian Graduate So Appalling?

@poster,
I am only worried about polishing my Yoruba, complete with the accent and you are talking about English.

men americans  watch nigerian movies
even more than nigerians believe it or not
itz true besides even if they don't itz no big
deal they are americans in america and some do
not really have the access like we nigerians do
but man they really watch nigerian movies
BELIEVE ME

@oracle
Look at this one, you don go america before?? how many americans even know whether Africans have television sets talkless of making movies?
Even there are americans who watch naija movies, then they are very few maybe like 0.00000000000001% so you guys keep decieving yourselves.

o ma se o.

Na lie o, he never die, una dey take una info from TMZ?? yeye people.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/25/michael.jackson/index.html

Critique of Dambisa Moyo's dead aid.

The Dambisa Moyo phenomenon shows no signs of abating, with a front page story in the FT and an elevation this month to Time Magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people. The publicity is also selling a lot of books - she’s currently 3rd in Amazon US sales rankings for books on ‘policy and current events’ (no sour grapes there, honest….).

So with heavy heart, it’s time to add my tuppence. Every time I say anything unkind about her book, Dead Aid, I get a volley of abuse about being a white imperialist male unwilling to surrender the intoxicating power conferred by being a paid up member of the ‘aid industry’ (n.b. I’m being sarcastic, OK?). So just in case you’re naïve enough to think the continent speaks with one (Moyoesque) voice, here is a review by Chikondi Mpokosa, from Malawi, about her disappointment with the book. Chikondi is Oxfam’s Global Education Adviser, so cynics might argue that she is not neutral but a) Moyo’s main objection is to official government to government aid, not the NGO type, b) Chikondi sees lots of problems with traditional aid and c) Moyo previously worked for Goldman Sachs and the World Bank, which also seems to have shaped her views somewhat (see below). For a more academic review by a fellow Zambian economist, see here, and Sudanese-born telecoms magnate and philanthropist Mo Ibrahim has also weighed in in the Financial Times - an entire FT online debate on ‘Is Aid Working’ can be found here.

As for the book, Moyo’s critique of ‘old aid’ rings the occasional bell with me (e.g. its potential to undermine domestic politics and the state-citizen social contract), but overall, it has been taken to task by Kevin Watkins and Owen Barder among others for highly selective use of the evidence (even by NGO standards…) and dodgy attribution of causality (she argues that since poor countries receive lots of aid, aid must be to blame for their plight, but as Kevin points out, ‘using her logic, you could argue that fire engines cause fires because you find them near burning houses’ - see cartoon.) The BBC Hardtalk programme also had a good televised head to head with Alison Evans, the new director of the Overseas Development Institute.

But it is Dead Aid’s purported alternatives to aid that seem particularly feeble: African governments should issue lots of bonds (not too many takers at the moment - bad luck on the timing there); trust in China (and thus get stuck in commodity dependence, let alone the human rights issues); rich countries should remove barriers to trade (fine, but it won’t make much difference except in a few particular products like cotton) and invest in infrastructure (does anyone disagree with that?) and access to microfinance needs to be increased (sure, but it’s not even close to a magic bullet).

What is most noticeable is what’s missing – the book claims to be about finding better ways to finance development, but she barely mentions taxation or redistribution. Maybe it’s that Goldman Sachs/Zambian elite thing coming through again.

Overall, I was intrigued by Moyo’s politics/ideology. She manages to combine an entirely understandable resentment to the patronizing ways of aid donors and their crass portrayal of her continent (in Tony Blair’s awful soundbite) as ‘a scar on the conscience of the world’, an uncritical celebration of the rise of Chinese and Indian influence in Africa, and a highly conventional international financier’s assumption that free capital markets will solve every problem. A kind of third worldist neoliberalism, or right wing version of the old ‘aid as imperialism’ line.

But if the book itself is so flawed, that makes its phenomenal success all the more intriguing. It’s clearly hit some kind of chord with leaders like Rwanda’s Paul Kagame and other Africans who are sick of being lectured to by western aid donors and rock stars; aid sceptics like Bill Easterly can’t believe their luck (see increasingly acrimonious spat between him and Jeff Sachs), and of course any decent journalist relishes a good ‘man bites dog‘ story. But the danger is that it will provide useful cover to cash-strapped rich country governments seeking to backtrack on their aid promises, who can now say ’see, Africans say that aid doesn’t work, so let’s cut the budget’. As for those who disagree with her analysis, (and who in my opinion have rather more evidence on their side) it’s almost impossible to avoid sounding either defensive or self interested (this post is probably no exception). What to do to get the debate onto more sensible ground - the very pressing issue of what kinds of aid work, and what don’t, and how to reform it? The danger is, Moyo’s work will actually squeeze out that discussion. Any suggestions? (I may regret this…)



http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=273

Minister for Special Duties

Now i know why there is no money left.

Make me the governor of this state and i would make it the richest.

PS: How could anyone like Tommy Smyth?!!

tocdee,
Tommy Smyth is Irish.

Wow!i'm still stunned.if xavi could be suppressed like this,i wonder why we didn't make Barca work for their UCL trophy.the coach left the guy on the pitch even when it was obvious he was havin' a rare bad day.

Because he is the engine of the team and all he has to do is to deliever one or two passes that can change the scoreline.

na so o my sista.

Willkommen davidif, das macht jetzt zwei Nigerianer hier, wo bleib denn die anderen Afrikaner und Deutschen mmmmhhh, laut die Besucher Zähler , 38 leute haben dieser raum besuchen aber nur zwei leute haben sich bis jetzt gemeldet. Ich frage mich nur wieso haben wir so wenig leute in Nigeria die deutsch sprenchen können, obwohl es gibt so viele Nigerianer in Deutschland, Austria und der Schweiz. Ferner, warum meisten von uns ausser English sprache, wollen nicht eine 2te sprache lernen . Hat vieleicht jemand eine antwort für diese frage

@waladis
Oh boy you don loss me for here he he he, my german no reach this one ha ha ha (i could only understand willkommen)

papabrowne,
you have not suggested a solution yet.

okokomeji,
thank you sooooooooo much jare, i agree with your points. I have even had to correct some of my oyinbo's friends english meanwhile Nigerians are still obsessing over the English language.
By the way, you said that you were at the NSBE conference in vegas, how was it? i would have made it but i had to go to Wall street during that period. Were you in Orlando for last years conference too?

I am Hungry, Please Re-brand me
By: Salisu Suleiman

I am Nigeria. I have millions of acres of arable land and billions of cubic litres of water, but I cannot feed myself. So I spend $1 billion to import rice and another $2 billion to import milk. I produce rice, but don’t eat it. I have 60 million cattle but no milk. I am hungry, please re-brand me.

I drive the latest cars in the world but have no roads. I lose family and friends everyday on roads for which funds have been looted. I lose my young, my old, and my most brainy and productive people to the potholes, craters and crevasses they travel on everyday. I am in permanent mourning, please re-brand me.

My school has no teacher and my classroom has no roof. I take lecture notes through the window and live with 15 others in a single room. All my professors have gone abroad, and the rest are awaiting visas. I am a university graduate, but I am illiterate. I want a future, please re-brand me.

Malaria, typhoid and many other preventable diseases send me to hospitals which have no doctors, no medicines and no power. So my wife gives birth with candle light and surgery is performed by quacks. All the nurses have gone abroad and the rest are waiting to go also. I have the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world and future generations are dying before me. I am hopeless, hapless and helpless, please re-brand me.

I wanted change so I stood all day long to cast my vote. But even before I could vote, the results had been announced. When I dared to speak out, silence was enthroned by bullets. My rulers are my oppressors, and my policemen are my terrors. I am ruled by men in mufti, but I am not a democracy. I have no verve, no vote, no voice, please re-brand me.

I have 50 million youths with no jobs, no present and no future. So my sons in the North have become street urchins and his brothers in the South have become militants. My nephews die of thirst in the Sahara and his cousins drown in the waters of the Mediterranean. My daughters walk the streets of Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt, while her sisters parade the streets of Rome and Amsterdam. I am inconsolable, please re-brand me.

My people cannot sleep at night and cannot relax by day. They cannot use ATM machines, nor use cheques. My children sleep through staccato of AK 47s see through the mist of tear gas. The leaders have looted everything on the ground and below. They walk the land with haughty strides and fly the skies with private jets. They have stolen the future of generations yet unborn and have money they cannot spend in several lifetimes, but their brothers die of hunger. I want justice, please re-brand me.

I can produce anything, but import everything. So my toothpick is made in China; my toothpaste is made in South Africa; my salt is made in Ghana; my butter is made in Ireland; my milk is made in Holland; my shoe is made in Italy; my vegetable oil is made in Malaysia; my biscuit is made in Indonesia; my chocolate is made in Turkey and my table water made in France. My taste is far-flung and foreign, please re-brand me.

My people are cancerous from the greed of their friends who bleach palm oil with chemicals; my children died because they drank ‘My Pikin’ with NAFDAC numbers; my poor die because kerosene explodes in their faces; my land is dead because all the trees have been cut down; flood kills my people yearly because the drainages are clogged; my fishes are dead because the oil companies dump waste in my rivers; my communities are vanishing into the huge yawns of gully erosion, and nothing is being done. My livelihood is in jeopardy, and I am in the uttermost depths of despondence, please re-brand me.

I have genuine leather but choose to eat it. So I spend a billion dollars to import fake leather. I have four refineries, but prefer to import fuel, so I waste more billions to import petrol. I have no security in my country, but would rather send troops to keep the peace in another man’s land. I have 160 dams, but can not get water to drink, so I buy ‘pure’ water that roils my innards. I have a million children waiting to enter universities, but my ivory dungeons can only take a tenth. I have no power, but choose to flare gas, so my people have learnt to see in the dark and stare at the glare of naked flares. I have no direction, please re-brand me.

My people pray to God every morning and every night, but commit every crime known to man because re-branded identities will never alter the tunes of inbred rhythms. Just as the drums of heritage heralds the frenzied jingles, remember - the Nigerian soul can only be Nigerian - fighting free from the cold embrace of a government that has no spring, no sense, no shame. So we watch the possessed, frenzied dance, drenched in silent tears as freedom is locked up in democracy’s empty cellars. I need guidance, please re-brand me.

But then, why can I not simply be me, without being re-branded? Or does my complexion cloud the color of my character? Does my location limit the lengths my liberty? Does the spirit of my conviction shackle my soul? Does my mien maim the mine of my mind? And is this life worth re-branding? I am not yet born, please re-brand me.


http://naijablog..com/2009/06/i-am-hungry-please-re-brand-me.html

Hiv-aids Rates Higher In D.c. Than West Africa ?

West Africa has a low AIDS rate, the highest AIDS rate in the world are in East Africa namely Kenya and East Africa and Southern Africa, Swaziland, South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia and co.

sexyleamon, thank you for posting Genny to counter that pathetic and horrifying depiction of Nollywood. The person making those depictions has probably never been there before.

Who do you guys think is the scariest of the movie baddies? For me I really find the prospect of being hunted by Agent Smith (Matrix trilogy) and Anton Chigur (No country for old men) very terrifying

I find Agent Smith comical but Anton chigur, even though i have never seen "No country for old men", i am still very scared of him when i see the movie commercial, that deep voice saying "heads or tails". Omo make we no see evil o abeg.

Go into a competition to become Dbanj's kokolette (bedmate)? Such disrespect for the nigerian female!!

what kind of nonsens is this?? i thought Nigerians had more class than this. This is just like American TV. Nonsense.

by the way, how the heck do you lose to americans of all people?? even nigeria would never lose to this people.

i told u guys arsenal needs a solid 6 footer like oguchi brash what do u think?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ABEG, isn't this the guy that couldn't crack the first 11 at Newcastle of all places and you want him at Arsenal. No please let him stay in Belgium.

I no go even touch this one since this is a very divisive issue.

Abeg, english is not our native language. The question the poster should have asked was why is it that most nigerians can't speak there native language fluently (without using a word of english in it or without them stammering or pausing to remember what word to use).