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His words: "I have no qualms with Chief Obasanjo. He is my leader, he is the chairman of our party's BOT and in the Yoruba tradition, somebody who has been Head of State and President for about 11 years, there are things he may know that I may not know as a young man. If at my age, I want to equate myself with Obasanjo, then something is wrong with my head."

chai, nigerians and public relations ha ha ha.

@poster
obviously, you know absolutely nothing about oil exploration. It seems that in Nigeria once we discover the smallest quantity of oil somewhere we blow it out of proportion. When you discover oil, you first of all have to judge wether the costs of drilling and productions is substantially lower than the benefit gained from it. This includes checking sulphur content to see if it would be easier to refine. That's why even though the US has a lot of oil, they don't drill because it costs less to drill because there oil has a high sulphur content. so DeepZone can you tell me if the oil discovered in Ogun state is as large as Saudi Arabia's oil deposits or as large as the newly discovered oil fields in Brazil this year which some estimate to have an estimated 33 billion barrels? If not, please don't post anything you don't know abeg.

abeg nadia is very hot.  deepzone, you must really hate light skinned people.

How To Make Your Childrens African.

omo no kill us with your grammar abeg.

Katie Couric: Why isn't it better, Gov. Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families who are struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries; allow them to spend more and put more money into the economy instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?

Gov. Sarah Palin: That's why I say I, like every American I'm speaking with, we're ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health-care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy, helping the -- it's got to be all about job creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health-care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans. And trade, we've got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive, scary thing. But one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today, we've got to look at that as more opportunity. All those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that.

DeepZone
what is wrong with you? please stop shoving down your own version of beauty or the ones the magazine insist are beautiful upon us? If you want to see beauty check out leila arcieri, lauren london. I am sure you are one of those people that think that the likes of Omaroosa or Giselle are pretty.

Is Nigeria A Developing Or A 3rd World Country?


iru question wo leleyi? in case some of you didn't know already, Nigeria is a third world country.

@disguy
In the US, a bill is usually a very long ( just think 5 "Ababio's" put together) list of legalistic "mumbo jumbo" on the nature of the bill, scope, how to implement it and so forth, that's why its very rare for senators to read a bill from start to finish making it very easy for "el presidente" to snick one in just before they go on recess(vacation e.g Christmas or independence day). To snick one in, it should be in fine print (you know, all those tiny letters in a contract or on a bottle of orange juice that you don't even bother to read). In yanki, most lawmakers and members of congress have a background in law and still some don't even bother to read it, they just pass it to there assistants. When a bill makes it through the sub-committee (e.g treasury subcommittee) and makes it on to the committee hearings, then it is now open to debate on the senate floor, then sent to the house of rep. for general debate, then sent to the president. This is where the president can make sure some of his boys in the house can snick one in.

Another option for the president is to gather all the brightest legal minds in the country to look for certain loopholes in the constitution (which of course is legal) concerning payment of govt. officials and see if he can out-manouevre is way around the constitution.

If there is none, then he can create a distraction by issuing habeas corpus granting him supreme powers to rule the state. He can do this by using the Niger Delta problem as an excuse to persuade congress to give him absolute powers to handle the situation, thereby making them irrelevant. This would make him pass whatever law he likes, like removing the "immunity clause" and by granting the systematic reduction of the salaries of the executive and judiciary e.g there salaries can be cut in half two years from now and another 2 years later by 3/4 (130,000 a month should be enough for them) . While he is at it, he should make sure that the fed. govt. immediately stops paying state officials salaries like the governors and state judiciary members. If these guys want a salary, then they should raise the money by taxing there constituents. Nigeria cannot afford to be like Saudi Arabia and the UAE which have abundant oil reserves and very small populations and therefore don't even bother to tax there citizens. This rule would make state and local govt. officials more accountable to the people they govern and of course there would be less money to embezzle.

Numbers don't lie o.

he he abi iru osi wo leleyi ha ha ha.


@jakumo
ha ha ha, no make them pursue from computer lab abeg na 3:51 at night.

@dudubobo

e good make woman get yansh o
I no like woman wey get yansh like slate , that's why I no like oyibo

Thank you o jare my brother, e get one oyinbo babe here wey like me but even though she get correct manchester but her yansh be like slate, i say no o abegi, make i go find better woman abeg.

@richyblack

In terms of sexual arousal for the non-gay guys out there, a woman's booty is second only to the almighty boobs!

you gotta have both in bountiful quantities abeg.

oga, look you can't do without local govts because they are closest to the people and they understand the peoples needs more than the state govt,  In yanki, we call them counties and they are semi independent from the state and from the fed. govt. They raise revenue through property taxes to build there own roads (not with fed. govt. money), schools, hospitals and help create jobs(they even have there own law enforcement from police to highway trooper). Also, whatever resources, they have belongs to them and not the state (majority are even privately held and are not even held by the state). Another reason why the local govt. is extremely important is that they are easy to govern because of there small size unlike the fed govt. or the state govt. where you have to go via a senate and house of legislators (and we are not even talking about the ministries) all the way to the capital city. This unique feature makes them very accountable to there local constituents because all you have is a perm. sec. and a local govt. council. If they are not doing there jobs right then they get fired through what we call a referendum or a "recall" unlike the president where you have to wait 4 years to vote him out of office.
So my good friend, i don't agree with you in scrapping all of Nigeria's 774 local govts. and replacing them with states, just make them all independent on there own. Just think about it,  is it easier to govern 700 people in one LGA or 15 million in one state.

On a side note, if you want the creation of more states, then they should all be independent and not be asking for budget allocation or salaries from the fed. govt.

@bawomolo
he should snick that proposal into one of those bills like they do in the US senate. Also, here in yanki, the fed. govt. does not pay each of the govs. salaries, not at all. Each state is independent, they raise taxes to pay there state officials.

it would be awesome for saturday night live if McCain/Palin won the election.

abeg house is just waaaaaaaaaaaaay too intelligent. If you want to know nothing about medicine then go watch Grey's anatomy but if you love smart people or are interested in the field of medicine watch E.R or House any day any time.

HUGH LAURIE IS THE MAN HA HA.

Either way sha, she is still very sweet and definitely hot ha ha .

no mind mr. platini abeg.

@mr i am so obsessed with satellite maps.
here is the reason why we should create more states
http://sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2008/sept/27/national-27-09-2008-001.htm

and remember next time that when you have a large inefficient biz that is not working that instead of downsizing, you just keep employing more and more people to keep creating more departments.

olodo rabata

@bilymuse
According to the bell curve, in every class, there are 10% very intelligent, 10% not so smart (in naija we like to call them "olodos" and 80% in between. There are reasons why students fall in this categories starting with the bottom 10 (but first of all, in case you didn't know, a high I.Q is something you develop, and not necessarily something you were born with). Kids in the bottom 10% usually have problems understanding things easily either because of some learning disability like ADD (Attention deficiency disorder), dyslexia, autism and the others. Some don't even come from a home that focuses on education; remember that for education to work, three agents have to be working simultaneously at the same time; the teacher, student and parent. If one is missing, the education process collapses, if the teacher is committed and is a good and knowledgeable teacher and the student on the other hand is not cooperative then it doesn't work, or if the parents don't contribute by helping the child, then its not going to work or worst of all, if the teacher doesn't know anything like the ones i had in secondary schools (what do you expect from an HND holder).
Now back to what i was talking about. If the child watches more than 3 hours of TV each week, or doesn't get at least the adequate hours of sleep, then the kid is in biiiiiiig trouble because he or she would find it extremely hard to pay attention in class because he would always be thinking about the movie on TV or video games. In some cases, students need there education to be visualized because as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words (it won't hurt if our educational system were more practical especially when it comes to the sciences. 

A huge reason why a lot of kids do poorly in math is not only because the teachers are lazy ( partly because they are underpaid, undertrained or even undermanned: how could a teacher teach 8 classes in a day) but they are not well trained in teaching methods. For example, anybody would tell you that the key to knowing math is repitition repitition repitition. It sounds obvious but we don't practice it. I remember when i was in primary school that the teacher only gave us homework once a week instead of everyday and also providing one one one sessions where they could explain it to us a lot better (its usually hard for some kids to pay attention or follow the teacher when you have 15 students in a class, let alone 50 students crammed like sardines in smelly and really hot conditions where kids are fanning themselves because the fans don't even work). If teachers can focus on "one on ones" with students and less on yelling, flogging (nothing wrong with flogging but should only be done when a kid is being unruly and disruptive in a class, not when the student doesn't understand the material) and being impatient with them, they would learn more. Teachers should create a friendly atmosphere for learning and not one of terror.

In naija, our teachers are sooooooo lazy that they only focus on the top 10% and don't care much about the other 90%. My mother used to say that when she was in secondary school, the teacher would only focus on the top 4 smartest kids in the class, if they understood the chapter, then he was moving to the next, he couldn't be bothered about the others in the class. Thank God, she had the drive and ambition to teach herself and spend unbelievable hours a day studying extra if not she would have gotten nowhere. Now for every case like my mom, there are 10 other kids who don't have the drive and therefore end up in the arts or other unprofitable majors simply because they've been told that they are not good enough. Its no wonder that Nigeria has the lowest amount of engineers per capita or that we have the one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world (basically, we have a health crisis), its because we have an acute shortage of doctors.This kids need to be encouraged (and coerced in some cases) and to be drilled with the self belief that they can accomplish anything they want to and that means putting them in direct competition with the so called smartest kids in class so that they know where they stand because some of this kids are just late bloomers like Albert Einstein.

did i just hear her say that Waziristans economy is about to blow up?? ha ha ha

you are right about that vieira.

What else can you expect from a country with one of the worst public school systems in the world. I read sometime ago in the guiness book of world records, that Nigeria spends 0.6% of its GNP on education, second lowest in the world.

compare to this.
http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9989914

Singapore has the best primary and secondary school system in the world because they recognize that the quality of education cannot exceed the quality of its teachers, that's why they believe that you must not only have at least a masters degree to even teach in there elementary school but you must have graduated top of your class and after that you must go to teaching school for at least 2 years which is paid by the govt, because its one thing to know something and another thing to properly explain things to people so they understand it.

I wouldn't want Nigeria to lower its education standards so that everybody can pass like they do in the US or Britain but just make the teachers a lot better by assisting them with better learning aids like watching lectures on video or listen on radio cassette, so that they can pause or rewind. Having said that, trust Nigerians not to do this.

how?

yeah, you want Nigeria to turn to holland or Jamaica where everybody is lazy and smokes all day and you wonder why oyinbo people think we are good for nothing.

In Nigeria, with all our problems, we at least seek refuge in religion or friends. If they legalize marijuana, all hell would break loose.

[size=18pt]WHERE IS NIGERIA1!??!? [/size]

The guy who is always clamoring for more states. Nonsense. In the US, the fed govt. only takes care of federal branches of govt. and not the state branches of govt,  Why should the fed govt. be paying gov. salaries and state senators salaries?? This is absolute nonsense. This is why i am really hyper-ventilating .

If yar'adua wants to leave a good legacy behind before the supreme courts decide that his election is illegitimate, then he should stop paying the salaries of all state branches and while he is at it, he should slash the salaries of the legislature and other branches of the fed govt. by 2/3 or give them one condition: a constitutional ammendment to remove the "immunity clause" which prohibits them from being dragged to the court of law because with all the money they get, they still embezzle lots and lots of public funds (which kind nonsense be that?!?!)


OlUWASEUN OSEWA. This topic should be on the front page for general discussions (since you posted the thread that "We are all monkeys" then you might be interested in this one) instead of stupid threads like "why northerners hate southerners"

celebrate ke?

ha ha ha ha yepa, America is doooooooooooomed ha ha ha. I used to like the woman because i thought she was smart, witty and hot, but no more o abeg, make she go back her village for alaska abeg. She really does make Bush a genius.

On a sidenote though, just to give her a benefit of a doubt, she looked very very nervous and even looked like she was reading something, that's probably why she was fidgeting and had her ideas all discombobulated, or who knows she might be pretending so that Joe Biden would under-estimate her going into the debate this week, then she might murder him. But if that's not true, then the McCain guys better prep her for the interview like they did during her speech during the convention where they spent close to 5 hours preparing her.

But if McCain wins the elections and earth forbid anything happens to McCain, then America is in biiiiiiiiiiiig trouble. But hey, what do you expect from a country that voted George Bush for a second term.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamazing

no it isn't, the second is the best one (even though i've not yet seen the 3rd one). If you love a good espionage movie without all the gadgets and over the top special effects, then M:I is for you.

@poster

simple, because he is black and that he is a democrat.