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man i have a bad feeling about the US match.

she is soooooooooooooooooooo stupid for doing that.

chai chai chai, oma se o. I was ABSOLUTELY STUNNED to hear the news, that i couldn't believe it. What a shame . May his soul rest in peace.

@olaolufred
how does a 0-0 outcome vindicate you, especially in a game you should have won. We had no cutting edge in the final third of the pitch despite all the passing, none at all, and we missed Taiwo's shot.
Bros, unless we win (and i mean win, not take second place again) this tournament, only then would you be vindicated.

Also, guess who made the difference in the Argentina game, yes, messi, who didn't play in the qualifiers AT ALL. I don't care what anybody says, but from what i saw today, we would have used a little of mikel's help with all his experience from  playing the barcelona's, valencia's, man. u's, and arsenal's of this world. Don't let your anger against the kid cloud your objectivity.

@dayokanu
By the way, look at how many games mikel has played since he got to chelsea. check his statistics and game log, this goes to show that he was a starter, even when makelele was healthy.
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/players/gamelog?id=60503&season=2007&cc=5901

Like seriously, white people are not necessarily the smartest people ever. I mean, I go to school with a couple of whites. They're not doing better than most. When you get to live around them and interact with them, you wonder what all the fuss was all about. They're just regular people. Naija people should learn to appreciate their people!

You are sooooooooooooo right on that, i go to school with them and i wonder what the fuss is all about? Because Albert Einstein or Isaac Newton happened to have white pigmentation does not mean everybody who looks like them is very intelligent.

@queenisha

I've had an Italian male walk out on me because he didn't want to be seen by a black woman.
You just shrug your shoulders and move on.
That's life.
Your salary remains unchanged.

You must be very thick skinned my sister, if that happened to me, i would be extremely depressed for a looooooong time.

BY THE WAY, DARFUR, YOU ARE CLOWN

you are right londoner, its not the white man's responsibility to promote black people or black super models after all they are the majority. We should only be promoting our dark skinned models. In ghana, only the light skinned actors get the most attention like the beyonce girl and van vicker, we shouldn't end up like that o.

I also can't understand the reason for bleaching cream, i heard its even common amongst ibo men who want there wives to be light skinned.

sheeeeeeeeeeeeah riiiiiiight.

leave the boy alone, attack his father for his policies and not his qualities as a father.

wooooooooooooooooooooow , i don't know what to say, i am absolutely stunned.

i think snoring is a phenomenon that happens when mucus blocks the nose.

when i was a kid, there was this guy that came to our house and they told me the guy snores so loud that it sounds like an aeroplane taking off.

@bobby16
I meant language wise not engineering wise. Its challenging for this guys to take classes in languages that are foreign to them, yet they still excel.
Also, on your point that israeli scientist are overrated, how come Iran is still way underdeveloped despite the fact that they have better scientists? Israeli's are way underhyped if you ask me, how did a country in a desert surrounded by saltwater develop into an economic and technological power during a short period of time. They have one of the best, if not the best electrical engineering and computer science facilities in the world, in fact, everything from your Instant messenger to the SCUD missiles you see on TV everyday was made by them. Even the US is in partnership with them when it comes to millitary engineering.

@coopedro

I LOVE MY FATHER LAND.

WHO GO BETTER GO BETTER even IF YOU ASIA OR LONDON.
WE STILL HAVE GENIUS IN NAIJA.

JUST Believe IN YOURSELF.

My good friend, believing in yourself is not enough. Trust me, if you have the opportunity to go to a world class engineering university you would realize that.

@greatpeter
"Only recently, the Nigerian defender had relished publicly his decision to play for Germany instead of Nigeria after a reported fruitless attempts to procure Nigerian passport.

He had blamed Nigeria Football Association (NFA) and officials of Nigerian Embassy in Berlin, Germany for bungling his desire to play for the Super Eagles because they didn’t assist him to get the documents."


Geez, you are really wicked o, delighting in someone's demise. Can't you read what happened, the guy wanted to play for naija but couldn't get a passport and the incompetent NFA wouldn't help him, what do you want him to do.

Arogz, leave them o, let them keep talking, no matter what, the defensive midfielder would always play because he is extremely vital to the team.

Mr Siasia, indeed will regret not fighting for this guy, he forgets that believing in your boys is not enough to win you a tournament. Let him keep his ego if he likes.

solution is that we need more black models and to promote ourselves in a more positive light.

He is a pweety boy he he he

The Nigerian judiciary is known for following legal exactitudes; they follow the law as it is written in the rule book, they forget that the law should be adjusted based on the circumstances and every situation is unique that's why the law needs to be constantly ammended. This is one of the reasons why our public officials cannot stand trial for there misbehaviour in office, simply because the constitution simply says that they are immuned from prosecution. This law is in the US constitution to prevent frivolous lawsuits and NOT CORRUPTION CHARGES. The US judiciary understands what the Nigerian judiciary does not: THAT THERE IS AN EXCEPTION FOR EVERY RULE.

They want to demote this guy simply because his double promotion by OBJ was not by the book, therefore it was not done in due process, WHAT A SHAME.

chai, if we at least gave them a 2-4 year warning before demolishing it.

this is what happened during the oil boom, Nigeria forsook agriculture, as a result, millions of poor people from the rural areas flocked to the rural areas living in squalor.

@ovadose

as long as people lose the Doctor, Eng, Acct, & lawyer only mentality, then a lot of things will happen

No, i don't agree with your comments, as a developing nation, we strongly need scientists, especially doctors and engineers. Nigeria has the lowest engineer per capita of any third world country and we have an enormous shortage of doctors that's why we have one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world. If you read my posts, you would realize that there is no such thing as too much doctors and too much engineers. That's why i proposed that our educational system needs to be more pragmatic by focusing education strictly on science and technology. All federal universities should solely be focused on nothing else but science and technology, if you want to study something else then go to a private university, the fed govt. shouldn't be wasting money on unnecessary ventures. The rich nations like the US or England can afford to spend millions of dollars on liberal arts colleges but poor upstart countries who need to develop should not. This is how the asian countries developed and not by spending millions on the department of literature and philosophy. The educational system should be set up to tackle the present problems of our society and not focusing on so called "special talents" like music and theatre arts.

Another important point is that we need to integrate creativity into our science cirriculums. Instead of forcing this kids to cram for exams or go for JET competition, or heck, even inter-house sports, we need to introduce science fairs in primary schools up and secondary schools, where each semester, a student is assigned a project to invent something and introduces it in a science fair, this should make science and mathematical classes much fun, replace inter-house sports. This would make our students more creative and innovative, so that by the time they get to the universities they would well rounded and excellent scientists. This is how even America did it and became number 1 in the world.

my sister, you are right, its a very complex and touchy subject.

i am speechless, absolutely speechless.

I don't know what to say, i think the problem with Nigerians is that we are tooooooo extremely insensitive and heartless. We have no feeling of empathy, we see this people everyday and downgrade them as sub human simply because they are poorer than us. Chai, what a shame.

@miss bond
You are soooooooo fine.

@GAMINE
YOUR WEBSITE IS AWESOME, THE BFHMAGAZINE.COM

My fellow Nigerians i want your opinion on this very insightful article.

In a tidy piece of cultural synchronicity, last month saw both the arrival of the latest issue of Italian Vogue, which exclusively features black models, and the debut in earnest of Barack Obama's presidential campaign as the Democratic nominee. Race has been a singularly polarizing, and thus creatively compelling, issue for centuries, but Obama's emergence onto the national and international stage has brought the topic out from the shadows. Sadly, in the modelling industry, attitudes about race aren't nearly as progressive as they appear to be in the political world. Italian Vogue's initiative has prompted some industry dialogue about why black models remain marginalized, but the issue runs across the entire color spectrum, affecting more than just black people. In the fashion circuit of cities like New York, Paris and Milan, or extended to a more international network of major cities like Sao Paulo, Tokyo and Bombay, racism is alive and well. Despite vastly different cultural and geographic contexts, and the unique physical characteristics of each country's citizens, in most places, light is still right.

Article continued here http://www.newsweek.com/id/144549

@candy
you are right on that, asian schools are more pragmatic, they realise that for there countries to develop or catch up with the west, they have to place emphasis on science and mathematics, not spending millions of dollars on the art programs, philosophy or the theology departments that's a waste of money. This is the reason why the Americans are alarmed right now. Bill Gates and other prominent industrialists have been testifying in congress that very soon the competition from the far east is catching up meanwhile majority of Americans want to explore there "special talents". In China, Bill Gates is an icon but in America Britney Spears or Jessica Simpson is there own icon. Some parents are pissed of that they have to pay higher property taxes in American high schools to keep the music department going on as if they are going to eat music. Imagine Cambridge and Oxford university has an entire department studying "classics" and they spend millions of dollars to keep this departments going and they wonder why they have not come up with anything innovative in the fields of science and technology. Is the study of Russian philosophy going to tackle problems we have on earth today like slowing down global warming, curing AIDS, making us energy dependent? I think not.

Another problem with western universities especially the MIT's and the Caltech's is that they spend billions of dollars on research of absolutely meaningless and abstract things that have almost no application in the real world like planetoids, asteroids. the formation of snowflakes, kuiper's belt and the black hole (who knows wether it even exists sef ) instead of focusing on real world problems like curing cancer. That's why there research budget are so over bloated and there rankings in the world are so high and the rest of us are like , wow.
Another weakness in there university system is that there proffessors are so pre-occupied with research rather than there students, they don't spend one on one with there students with dire consequences.

On a side note, if Nigeria wants to catch up with this guys, its universities better focus on mathematics and science. As far as i am concerned all federal universities should only have a school of engineering and a school of medicine (it only cost 120 million dollars to start a world class medical school). They should scrap out all unnecessary majors like philosophy, forestry, theatre arts, university studies and other unnecessary majors that's how some of the best universities even in america or asia started, they mostly started out focusing on most things they needed like agriculture, engineering and millitary science then decades later they added other "special talent majors" . All the "special talents" and arts are to be studied in private schools and not with govt funding as Africa has so many needs and studying the history of Nok culture is not going to solve them. To put it point blank, if you want to study typewriting or international relations go to a private university.

First of all, Oluwaseun Osewa thanks for putting my topic for general discussion, i truly appreciate it.

@mr birdman
I am not going to argue with you that Nigerians engineers are just as good as engineers in the west and asia. Just go to a good and very reputable engineering university in the US, then come talk to me later. By the way, when i mean good i don't mean some Eastern Tenneese state university, Texas southern university, or south western montana state kind of university i mean the big boys like the Berkeley's, USC's, Urbana Champains, UMichigan's, UT Austin's, University of Chicago not to mention the ivy leagues.

@gabelogan
The asian students you are in class with are some of the worst of the worst students from there country but yet they are in the same class with you, most of this guys couldn't even get into any university back home but were smart enough to pass the GMAT or the GRE and are in the same class with you, that is a testament of how excellent there educational system is

@bobby16
You are right that you have to be rich to go to those schools but most of the asian kids who go there are not, and yet got there the hard way, by simply being geniuses. Afterall, this are the guys who went to Indian Institute of Technology or Tsing hua University (this are the MIT's and Caltech's of Asia) you think say na joke to go those schools?
Yes i know English is usually there problem, but imagine you or an american going to South korea to take engineering classes in Advanced korean, yet for this asian kids, the fact that they struggle with English doesn't deter them from cleaning up the competition. If you think i am lying just go to California, the ASIANS DOMINATE THE HIGH TECH INDUSTRY over there and its not even close. In fact there is a popular saying in Southern california that Sillicon Valley was built on ICP's (not integrated circuit processors but Indians, Chinese and Pakistani's). This is the reason why the state of California has the sixth largest economy in the world (yes a single state, not even a country). The fact that we are even sitting in class with the worst asian students or even comparing them with us says a lot about them.

On a side note, if the Asians are not that smart then why is it that there countries developed over a few decades while it took America over 300 years to become a developed nation. Japan was leveled after WWII but by the 80's they were ready to compete with the Americans. Same goes for Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia et al. What they have accomplished is astounding, there cars are about to put American cars out of business, there electronics are the best, in fact, America gets most of its high tech manufacturing from Asia because the asians do it better and for less so keep decieving yourselves about the myth of the west, if india and China can develop and educate there population, GAME'S OVER.

It is all MEND's fault

chai, you are right, see how MEND has turned Nigeria into South America!! na too much american movies dey cause am.

But the girl really does deserve a lot of flogging when she gets home and NO TV or going out for the next 3 years.

(Female) Slave Owner?

Female slave owner ke. Abeg she was Lord Lugard's wife, by the way, the name means niger area.

ha ha ha ho ho ho.

its amazing how we think that changing a name would change everything.

@oasis

There has to be more people in the cities than there are in the rural areas

You really are joking right

You don't need a lot more people in the urban areas than rural areas, the urban areas are too congested already. You simply develop the rural areas so that the rural poor wouldn't be migrating to urban areas looking for work which does not exist. Why do you think there are too many "agberos" and "ashewos" around? this guys probably moved in from the rural areas expecting a better life and employment in the city and they found none. If Nigeria started by developing the rural areas and increasing the standard of living by investing heavily in Agriculture (you can start by giving free tractors, trailers, harvesters, fertilizers and training the rural populace) and a lot of light industries like shoe and textile industries. The govt should also invest in a lot of food processing plants as this would create a lot oof employment in the rural areas, then the taxes from this companies would be used to develop the countryside and provide them with top quality free education, world class health care.
Also, the govt should create an awesome transportation network that would connect the urban areas with the rural areas and establish property taxes in the cities. This would drive people from the cities to the rural thereby decongesting them and subsequently reducing pollution, crime and lawlesness.

yeah, there are other resources on the web, if you want to find out more.

@nigeria1
Look, most reedeem churches are independent, in that the only affiliation they have with the main church is the name. Each church raises there own revenue through offerings and tithes to pay pastors and other church workers.

In Nigerian politics, its not so at all, the federal govt pays ALL the workers from the president down to the permanent secetary of each local govt which saps 60% of our GNP. How are you going to progress that way by even creating more states.

If you want Nigeria to create more states, then none of the leaders should be paid by the fed., they should all raise revenue from taxing their constituents. I can't understand why Nigeria is paying the governors, state ministers and the others down to the LG chairman of every state (we have 774 LG's in Nigeria ).

It would be better if the country were just divided into 6 geo political zones like southwest, northwest et al. Awolowo did a great job in the western region and we didn't have oyo state, osun, or ekiti state. Geez, can someone tell me what's the difference between Ekiti and Ondo state the creation of that state is just a way to embezzle money.