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Health › Re: How HIV Became A World Wide Epidemic by davidif(op): 10:14am On Apr 19, 2017

Later, he said, when reporters asked if Mr. Dugas had brought AIDS to North America, “We said no, that he wasn’t the first.”

Dr. Jaffe added: “But I think they went with it anyway. The idea of Patient Zero was very attractive. Letter O would not be a story.”

Richard A. McKay, a Cambridge historian and another author of the Nature paper, has long fought for Mr. Dugas’s reputation, saying his friends in Vancouver’s gay community had painted a sympathetic portrait of him for Mr. Shilts, who ignored it.

Humanizing Mr. Dugas could help in the fight to end the epidemic, said Dr. Robert M. Grant, an AIDS researcher at the University of California, San Francisco.

Even though the disease can now be prevented and controlled, many people — in San Francisco and in Africa, he said — resist getting tested for H.I.V. and fool themselves into believing they are not at risk because they fear being blamed by their social circle.

“No one wants to be the Patient Zero of their village,” he said. “But this may be helpful because it says, ‘Just because you are the first to be diagnosed doesn’t mean you started the epidemic.’”

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/27/health/hiv-patient-zero-genetic-analysis.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

Health › Re: How HIV Became A World Wide Epidemic by davidif(op): 10:13am On Apr 19, 2017

The legend itself sprang from the publicity campaign for a best-selling 1987 book, “And the Band Played On,” by Randy Shilts, a gay San Francisco journalist who himself died of AIDS in 1994.

In a 1993 interview, Mr. Shilts said he had heard C.D.C. investigators use the term Patient Zero and thought, “Oooh, that’s catchy.”

By hunting down former boyfriends of men in the 1984 study, Mr. Shilts established that the flight attendant was Mr. Dugas, who was born in Quebec but lived his last years in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Mr. Shilts said he was initially horrified that his publisher, St. Martin’s Press, focused his book tour on Patient Zero instead of the government’s slow response to the epidemic, but he went along.

Although Mr. Shilts did not accuse Mr. Dugas of starting the American epidemic, he demonized him as a deliberate spreader of the virus who ignored a doctor’s demand that he stop having unprotected sex, and coldbloodedly told some sex partners that he had “gay cancer” and now they might get it.

Back in 1984, the term Patient Zero was not normally used to describe an outbreak’s first case, said Dr. Jaffe, an author of the new Nature paper. “I don’t remember who first used it,” he said. “But after Randy Shilts did, we started saying it ourselves.”

Health › Re: How HIV Became A World Wide Epidemic by davidif(op): 10:10am On Apr 19, 2017

The symptoms that were later called AIDS were first recognized in 1981, and the legend of Patient Zero began with a 1984 study that traced the sexual contacts of 40 gay men with Kaposi’s sarcoma or other indicators of late-stage AIDS. Eight of them, half in New York and half in Southern California, had had sex with an unidentified flight attendant.

Initially described as “Case 057” and then as Patient O, he reported having about 250 sexual partners a year.

That study incorrectly assumed that most patients developed AIDS symptoms within about 10 months of infection. In reality, it takes years — so some participants may have been infected long before meeting Mr. Dugas.

Also, Mr. Dugas may have become the cluster’s focal point partly because he kept a diary. Men in the study reported an average of 227 partners a year, often quick, anonymous encounters in bars and bathhouses.

But Mr. Dugas gave investigators 72 names.

Dr. Harold W. Jaffe, who was one of the original investigators and is now the associate director for science at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the text of the original article referred to a “patient outside California.”

But the chart, of which he had an early copy, was admittedly ambiguous. At the center is the “O” or “0,” identified as the “index patient.” The other cases are numbered: “LA3” and “NY15,” for example.

Politics › Re: A Tale Of Two Presidents/countries - Nigeria & Usa by davidif: 6:17am On Apr 19, 2017

azimibraun:
It's much deeper than you think. Can you differentiate between Garri and corn flakes; in respect of the white man and the back man? Have it at the back of your mind I wil ask fundamental questions after your answer. Eg; why do you export garri to Europe and America for Nigerians living there in small quantity and you import corn flakes from Europe and America to Africa not for their own consumption but for us Nigerians and Africans; they have simply told you, your own is for you and their own is for them and for you. They even go ahead to tell you what theirs contain and how it is what you need for good health and to stay alive. It's deeper my brother. We are programmed already. At every point in our lives, we use foreign goods by fire by force at most our watch, necklace, make up etc. But the white man uses our own product by choice. We must spend on their products. At most the phone in your hand right now or your computer came from them. Are they using our own; do we have our own? Ask yourself.

Family › Re: Share Your Challenges As A First-born by davidif: 6:14am On Apr 19, 2017

mynd44, lalasticlala, seun

Why have i been banned? I posted some educational post in the health section and you are banning me?

Romance › Re: What Getting Married As A Virgin Does Not Guarantee by davidif: 4:24am On Apr 19, 2017*

chloride6:
Nawa for people ooh.......

I have never understood the virginity is....

In the end everybody gets fvuked so what the biggie....

I mean on the average all this virginity ish won't pass 10 years.

You are most probably going to still be a Virgin till 16 and by 26 you would be married, while your punna would be bashed for upwards of 40 years.

So what's the deal?

If it was Virgin for life I would say OK confirm.

Infact 2 years into marriage, your punna would have been so smashed eh?

I still can't get whole ish. Anyways in the end which isn't so far away, we all smashed.

Uhm, besides the possibility of contacting a host of sexually transmitted diseases, having a child out of wedlock and a multitude of emotional issues that come with it i guess its no big deal.

Romance › Re: What Getting Married As A Virgin Does Not Guarantee by davidif: 4:21am On Apr 19, 2017

aflyingbird:
Good. I've a friend (not me o) who's now single whose bf cheated on her throughout their relationship. She was a virgin, still is, from what she says. A man who wants to cheat's going to cheat even if he met his wife a virgin but you, it's great your wife's virginity's going to prevent you from cheating on her.

But it makes it easier for her to walk away from the cheater than if she had been physically intimate with the guy. Besides, she doesn't run the risk of being pregnant or having a sexually transmittable disease so it his loss not her's.

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Romance › Re: What Getting Married As A Virgin Does Not Guarantee by davidif: 4:18am On Apr 19, 2017

Incline:
You make sense, op. When money or cheating problems come up, your going into the marriage as a virgin won't save you. Being a virgin doesn't mean you won't have problems, doesn't mean your wife or husband won't cheat, doesn't mean you won't have any other issues. Besides as a woman it's not like you won't get pregnant for your husband, after you have a child no one's going to remember your virginity again. Be the best version of yourself, have something to take to the marriage besides your virginity.

Ciara wasn't a virgin... she had a son already before she met her christian hubby who wasn't a virgin either, they're happy together and expecting another child, both stayed celibate till they got married. Meagan Good wasn't a virgin till she met her Pastor hubby who wasn't a virgin either but both stayed celibate till they got married. Point is when you meet the right person whether you're a virgin or not, it won't matter. The man or woman you're destined to marry's going to marry you, virgin or not, stop giving yourself headaches. Any man who can't see beyond a woman's virginity is sick. Nigerians have the wrong priorities, i swear. You wonder why your country's messed up. The energy people should be spending to improve the country's being spent on virginity like your world revolves around virginity virginity.

This is wrong on so many levels. The fact that you are a virgin might not mean that your marriage will be perfect but it means that it would save you a whole lot of trouble. It would mean that you won't go into your marriage with so much unnecessary baggage which a lot of couples and the unnecessary scar tissues in your heart from all the nonsense you have been through. There are so many people that go into there marriage with so many issues from there past relationships its not even funny so i don't understand why the writer would write something so reckless. If those guys want to keep theirs let them do so just don't demean there efforts by typing up this rubbish.

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Politics › Re: A Tale Of Two Presidents/countries - Nigeria & Usa by davidif: 3:00am On Apr 19, 2017

Oxone:
The president also pays for other basics – everything from toothpaste to dry cleaning

There’s no free lunch – or breakfast or dinner – for President Barack Obama on Thanksgiving Day. Or any other day, for that matter.

He has to dig into his own pocket to pay for his holiday feast of turkey, ham, two kinds of stuffing, sweet and regular potatoes and six different kinds of pie. It’s a longstanding practice that a president pays for meals for himself, his family and personal guests.

Obama also pays for other basics – everything from toothpaste to dry cleaning.

WHY IS THAT?

Gary Walters, who was chief White House usher for many years, said the payment rule dates back to 1800 when the White House was first occupied by President John Adams and there was no staff. Presidents brought staff with them and paid for everything.

Congress gradually began spending money to maintain an official White House staff to oversee operations and maintenance, but presidents continued to pay for personal expenses.

What it boils down to, Walters said, is that the White House is first and foremost the president’s home.

“All those things that are personal in nature that we all pay for, the first family pays for,” he said.

WHAT IS EXCLUDED?

White House chefs who prepare the president’s meals are paid by the government.

For the budget year that ended 30 September, Congress gave the White House $19,000 to pay for official receptions and $12.7m to cover operating expenses for the residence, which may include entertainment. The cost of meals for some White House events, including state dinners and receptions, is picked up by the State Department or political parties.

WHAT ELSE MUST THE FIRST FAMILY PAY FOR?

Since presidents and first ladies can’t easily pop into the neighborhood drug store, a White House residence staff member will pick up things like toothpaste and deodorant during shopping runs and keep the bill for Obama.

Another cost is private parties, such as the 50th birthday bash Obama threw earlier this year for first lady Michelle Obama. For private events, presidents pay for food and beverages, use of waiters and servers and setup and cleanup crews. Taxpayers are only supposed to pay for official government functions.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

The White House usher’s office prepares a detailed bill and sends a copy to the president and another to the first lady by mid-month. It is itemized to account for all the food and beverages consumed by the first family and personal guests, and includes invoices and receipts for those costs and other services.

Obama then reimburses the government.

“It’s just the tradition that it’s continued on through time that the president will pay for their own food and, I guess, if they needed something for the house that was personal. Toothpaste, cologne or whatever,” said William Bushong, chief historian at the White House Historical Association.

HAS ANYONE EVER COMPLAINED ABOUT THIS?

The practice appeared to catch Nancy Reagan by surprise.

“Nobody had told us that the president and his wife are charged for every meal, as well as for such incidentals as dry cleaning, toothpaste and other toiletries,” she said shortly after she and President Ronald Reagan moved into the White House in January 1981.

Laura Bush knew about it – she’s the daughter-in-law of a president – but was still unprepared for some of the costs after becoming first lady in 2001.

One of the heftier expenses for the American first family? The first lady’s wardrobe, according to Laura Bush.

“I was amazed by the sheer number of designer clothes that I was expected to buy, like the women before me, to meet the fashion expectations for a first lady,” Mrs Bush wrote in her memoir. “After our first year in the White House, our accountant said to George (W Bush), ‘It costs a lot to be president,’ and he was referring mainly to my clothes.”

She also paid “with our own money” for someone to blow-dry her hair most mornings “just so I could try to avoid a bad hair day.”

WHAT IS OBAMA'S SALARY?

He gets $400,000 annually, plus a $50,000 allowance to help defray costs associated with carrying out his official duties.

WHAT ARE SOME OF OBAMA'S PERSONAL EXPENSES?

Mortgage on a home in Chicago, private-school tuition for his daughters.

WHAT ELSE DOES HE GET FOR FREE AT THE WHITE HOUSE?

Rent, utilities, transportation, security, medical care.

http://www.theguardian.com/money/us-money-blog/2014/nov/28/obama-bill-white-house-thanksgiving

Makes you wonder when you compare to Nigeria where the first family budgets One Billion Naira for feeding[i][/i] aside other expenses

Meanwhile the average house of reps member in one of the poorest nations in the world earns around 3 times that of the leader of the richest nation on earth. Go figure.

Romance › Re: What Getting Married As A Virgin Does Not Guarantee by davidif: 2:26am On Apr 19, 2017*

corpersforum:
The Truth can be bitter meeeeeeeen

and what exactly was the point of posting a sexually suggestive picture next to your topic again? What is the correlation?

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Romance › Re: What Getting Married As A Virgin Does Not Guarantee by davidif: 2:23am On Apr 19, 2017

corpersforum:
Getting married as a Virgin has been laced with so many lies and fictions. Unfortunately many bought into these lies and became confused when things are not working as they ought for them.

1. GETTING MARRIED AS A VIRGIN DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE SEXUALLY PURE.
The bible talk of purity of the body, the soul and the spirit , the body can be touched without tell tale marks, the soul can be so corrupted with evil imagination and the spirit not connected to God. Sexual purity goes beyond an intact hymen...what about the hymen of your mind?

2. GETTING MARRIED AS A VIRGIN DOES NOT MEAN YOUR MARRIAGE WILL LAST
The longevity of a marriage is a function of many things that your virginity has no say about. Death, Divorce, Diseases, Disorder, Even the character of your spouse and yours has a say in how long your marriage will be.

3. GETTING MARRIED AS A VIRGIN DOES NOT MEAN YOU WON'T BE BARREN
fruitfulness is a fuction of you and your spouse reproductive capacities and even beyond that, barrenness has many root causes that goes beyond the couple's control.

4. GETTING MARRIED AS A VIRGIN DOES NOT MEAN YOUR HUSBAND WON'T CHEAT ON YOU
If a man is not disciplined, he will cheat on you regardless of your virginity status before marriage. Your virginity can't correct covetousness and lust in a man's life.

5. GETTING MARRIED AS A VIRGIN DOES NOT MEAN YOUR HUSBAND WILL LOVE YOU.
It takes more than your virginity to be loved, you have your own part to play and he has his. Besides, if a man is not trained or working on loving you, your virginity won't help out. A Man will love you if he choose to and the basis on which he makes that choice is beyond the fact that he met you as a Virgin.

6. GETTING MARRIED AS A VIRGIN DOES NOT MEAN GOD WILL ANSWER YOUR PRAYERS IN MARRIAGE
God answers our prayers on the basis of his goodness not ours. Your virginity is not a bargaining chip before God, he answers prayers according to his will not according to your virginity.

7. GETTING MARRIED AS A VIRGIN DOES NOT MEAN YOU WILL HAVE PEACE IN YOUR HOME
Peace in your home is a function of how you and your husband choose to respond and resolve conflict, it's a function of how much you and your spouse want the prince of peace to reign. It's a fuction of your triumph over the spirit of strife or the devil over your home.

8. GETTING MARRIED AS A VIRGIN DOES NOT GUARANTEE YOU WILL GIVE BIRTH TO GODLY CHILDREN
godly children are a product of training, discipline, prayers, hardwork and God's favour. Your children can't be godly just because you as their father or mother is got married as a Virgin. Your lifestyle in marriage is as an important factor in determining the kind of kids you will raise. Besides, many good people are raised by parents who are not virgin when they got married.

9. GETTING MARRIED AS A VIRGIN DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY ATTRACTS GOD FAVOUR
God's favour is recieved on the basis of his goodness, our preparation ànd wisdom. It has nothing to with wether we are Virgin or not when we got married. Mary was not the only pure Virgin in Israel at her time but God decided to choose her, Rahab was a prostitute with a well known office yet she was in Jesus' genealogy, so it is on the basis of his sovereignty

10. As much as I canvass for sexual purity among young people, I cannot but mention the fact that God loves those who are not virgin, he wants them to live their lives according to his Dictate and he loves them just as if they have never lost their virginity.
He is not pleased with those who look down on them for by so doing they make themselves righteous by their own doing.

BY ALL MEANS ABSTAIN FROM SEXUAL SIN

DEVELOP YOUR CHARACTER OR ELSE YOUR VIRGINITY WON'T COUNT FOR ANYTHING TANGIBLE.

REMAIN A VIRGIN FOR PREMARITAL SEX CARRIES ONLY RISK AND REGRETS

STOP RUBBING YOUR VIRGINITY ON OUR FACE.....there are other virtues a man and woman must have, have them and don't be foolish to think being a virgin is all that God wants from you, he wants you to surrender all your being to him let him have a say on your life.

Don't be like the foolish virgins be a wise one that has the EXTRA OIL (something beyond the virginity)

[Source: http://www.corpersforum.com/sexuality/what-getting-married-as-a-virgin-does-not-guarantee/]

Sounds like you are bitter person who is angry at those who kept theirs.

What would have made this a better write up is if this came from someone who got married a virgin not someone who is lashing out at those who kept theirs. Then to top it off, you now put a half naked woman and attach it to the write up to prove what exactly? Sorry buddy but this is as shallow as shallow does.

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Romance › Re: What Getting Married As A Virgin Does Not Guarantee by davidif: 2:20am On Apr 19, 2017*

Xaos:
[color=#808080]Why are non-virgins obsessed with virgins? [/color]

I tire o. This looked like a good write up until the end when it looked like the person who wrote it was a bitter person who lost theirs and is now a little resentful towards those that kept theirs. What a way to ruin what would have been a good write up.

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Romance › Re: How To Know Ladies That Will Become Lazy And Dirty Housewives by davidif: 2:07am On Apr 19, 2017

Seun, mynd44, dominique, lalasticlala why have i been banned? I was trying to post an informative topic on the health section since yesterday. Can you please fix it?

Health › Re: How HIV Became A World Wide Epidemic by davidif(op): 9:17am On Apr 18, 2017*

The researchers also reported that originally, Mr. Dugas was not even called Patient Zero — in an early epidemiological study of cases, he was designated Patient O, for “outside Southern California,” where the study began. The ambiguous circular symbol on a chart was later read as a zero, stoking the notion that blame for the epidemic could be placed on one man.

Myths like that of Patient Zero echo in prevention efforts even today, experts said. Many vulnerable groups, including young gay men and African women, fail to use protective drugs or avoid testing because they fear being stigmatized or accused of being carriers.

Reflecting on the epidemic’s early days, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, then a doctor treating AIDS patients and now the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he remembered it seeming plausible at the time that one person was responsible.

In hindsight, he added, the idea now seems absurd. “We were unaware of how widespread it was in Africa,” Dr. Fauci said. “Also, we thought, based on very little data, that it was only about two years from infection to death.”

The new data is consistent with the scenario described in 2011 in “The Origins of AIDS,” by Dr. Jacques Pépin, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec.

Relying on previous genetic research and African colonial records, Dr. Pépin showed that H.I.V. was carried from Kinshasa to Haiti in the 1960s — most likely by one of the thousands of Haitian civil servants recruited by the United Nations to work in the former Belgian Congo after colonial rule collapsed.

In Haiti, he theorized, a few cases were multiplied by unsterile conditions at a private blood-collecting company, Hemo-Caribbean, that opened in 1971 and exported 1,600 gallons of plasma to the United States monthly. Plasma clotting factors were used by American hemophiliacs, many of whom died of AIDS.

Haiti was also a sex-tourism destination for gay men, another route the virus could have taken to New York.

The blood samples analyzed in the new study were collected in 1978 and 1979 in New York City and San Francisco as part of an effort to make a hepatitis B vaccine. Researchers stored almost 16,000 blood samples; nearly 7 percent of those from New York and 4 percent of those from California later turned out to be infected with H.I.V.

A team led by Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson and the lead author of the Nature paper, sequenced the genomes of the H.I.V. found in some of those samples and compared them with viral DNA in samples collected in the early 1980s from Haitians, Dominicans and others treated in American hospitals.

Because decades spent in freezers had degraded many samples, Dr. Worobey said, his lab developed an “RNA jackhammering” technique similar to that used to reconstruct the ancient Neanderthal genome. Counting mutations allowed the researchers to “wind back the molecular clock” and see when each strain of H.I.V. diverged from its ancestors.

Africa has a dozen H.I.V. groups, and Haiti’s epidemic came from one of those. The New York samples all derive from one Haitian strain, and those from San Francisco are all so closely related that they probably all resulted from one person introducing one New York strain, Dr. Worobey said.

Health › How HIV Became A World Wide Epidemic by davidif(op): 9:16am On Apr 18, 2017*

H.I.V. Arrived in the U.S. Long Before ‘Patient Zero’
In the tortuous mythology of the AIDS epidemic, one legend never seems to die: Patient Zero, a.k.a. Gaétan Dugas, a globe-trotting, sexually insatiable French Canadian flight attendant who supposedly picked up H.I.V. in Haiti or Africa and spread it to dozens, even hundreds, of men before his death in 1984.

Mr. Dugas was once blamed for setting off the entire American AIDS epidemic, which traumatized the nation in the 1980s and has since killed more than 500,000 Americans. The New York Post even described him with the headline “The Man Who Gave Us AIDS.”

But after a new genetic analysis of stored blood samples, bolstered by some intriguing historical detective work, scientists on Wednesday declared him innocent.

The strain of H.I.V. responsible for almost all AIDS cases in the United States, which was carried from Zaire to Haiti around 1967, spread from there to New York City around 1971, researchers concluded in the journal Nature. From New York, it spread to San Francisco around 1976.

The new analysis shows that Mr. Dugas’s blood, sampled in 1983, contained a viral strain already infecting men in New York before he began visiting gay bars in the city after being hired by Air Canada in 1974.

Career › Re: Vivian, A Groundnut & Banana Seller And An Undergraduate Of NOUN (Photos) by davidif: 9:09am On Apr 18, 2017

She is gorgeous.

Romance › Re: Man Rants After His Friend Got Cheated On By A Girl He Placed On 100k Salary by davidif: 1:39am On Apr 18, 2017

oheni:
Ohmmmmmm
Sometimes,I wonder where all these guys where when God created me?
See, if a girl doesn't like you, if you like buy her mansion at lekki,she go still cheat!!
Sorry to the broken hearted
Bro,take heart ooh

Bros, i tire o. Why in goodness name would you spend money on someone who is not your wife? I can understand paying when both of you go on a date but just lavishing money on her sef na wa o. I guess its a naija thing.

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Romance › Re: Nigerian Ladies Recount The Dishonest Thing A Man Has Done Or Said To Them by davidif: 1:05am On Apr 18, 2017

ednut1:
Hmmmm. What about this one my ex told me. Was with her phone and chat msg entered., 'I was worried u were in pains dat y i slowed down'. Babe said he was pinching my arms in d party and i told him to stop

https://vine.co/v/hUbZ3uiFHzT

https://zippy.gfycat.com/HarmoniousAgedCrayfish.mp4

Romance › Re: Nigerian Ladies Recount The Dishonest Thing A Man Has Done Or Said To Them by davidif: 1:01am On Apr 18, 2017

Chei!!!!!! Naija guys ehn?!?!?!?!? hahahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahaha

Kai! Naija women don suffer o. Na wa o.

Romance › Re: Ladies How Do You Get Money From Him Without Being Seen As A Hoe? by davidif: 12:43am On Apr 18, 2017

chibaby1990:
I'm about to ask him for money for the first time, i've never ask before. He only spend on me through shopping and outing. I don't know how to start and what to say. ladies help.

And why should you asking him for money? Is he your dad?

Romance › Re: Make I Post My Pictures,i Deh Find Wife Oh by davidif: 12:41am On Apr 18, 2017

shinarlaura:
Hahaha. Comment tu va?

Thanks

I believe you meant to say comment vas tu?

Dating And Meet-up Zone › Re: Nairaland Virgins' Lounge by davidif: 12:35am On Apr 18, 2017

Amarabae:
ok. Yap

Education › Re: Nina Uziogwe Admitted Into 7 Ivy League Universities (photo) by davidif: 8:45am On Apr 16, 2017

Sharon6:
Nice one... Go girl!!!

GET RID OF STRETCH MARKS, CHECK MY SIGNATURE!

Really?!?!?!?

Politics › Re: Take A Look At Lord Macaulays Address To The British Parliament On 22nd Feb 1835 by davidif: 4:01am On Apr 16, 2017

EzeCanada:
However logical this may sound, reality is that the story is fake.

Similar edited news has been circulating on social media forums of former British colonies. See link for such one example in an Indian cyber forum:

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/10055/what-is-the-truth-behind-this-speech-by-lord-macaulay

Hahaha thanks.

Politics › Re: Anambra State During The War (pix) by davidif: 3:58am On Apr 16, 2017

edudguy:
I know this thread was opened to appeal to the senses of Biafra supporters (which I know it has) but let's look at this... war has no winner, both sides will be losers... I know Ojukwu saw the war as the only option (at that time) because of the progroms.. The military government was indifferent to what was going on..... but that war claimed lives... property worth millions were lost.... I am sure if Ojukwu had a rethink he would have considered other options other than war.... that's why I kind of feel sorry when people say : Biafra or War? Do they really know what war is? Do they think war is heroism? They haven't experienced war before.... just the pictures above makes me sick..... Nigeria has a big problem; a very big problem but violence is not the answer; it will never be..... We must sort out our problems..... Now, I know people will come for my head but I don't care It's the truth anyway...Now you'll see the two tribes insulting each other.. just wait they are coming... I am an Igbo man by the way

Gbam!! Thanks for hitting the nail right on the head. Why is it that a lot of Africans can't learn to sit down and settle there problems without letting there hurt feelings cloud there judgement? This is the 21st century for goodness sakes!

Culture › Re: How Argentina 'Eliminated' Africans From Its History And Conscience by davidif: 3:52am On Apr 16, 2017

[quote author=OLAADEGBU post=55354112][/quote]Wow! Very illuminating and educative.

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Romance › Re: How Do I Get My Ex Back? Matured Responses Please. by davidif: 10:34pm On Apr 15, 2017

Edemaya:
You are a confused man, thereby confused us with your stories. You know what? You don't know what you want! Simple

You left a relationship of 3.5 years because you found a new girl, now ur mother doesn't like the new girl, reason you want to go back to the former.

You don't actually deserve your ex. In between, how old are u?

Gbam!

Romance › Re: How Do I Get My Ex Back? Matured Responses Please. by davidif: 10:32pm On Apr 15, 2017

alizma:
I pray you never get that girl back because you don't deserve her.
had your mum not reject the other girl would you have remember she went through a lot for you while you were still a student and broke? would you have remember she was the one who really know who you are(because she is the one who can really tell your story)?
you are looking for her now not because you love her neither is it because you truly know her value nor appreciate her love but because your mum wants her and not any other person. I am very sure if you ever get to marry her, you will cheat on her.
guys, babes never dump your partner without concrete need for that.

Abi o. The selfishness of that post is astounding. It's as if the poster does not even have empathy or the self awareness to even realize how selfish he actually sounds right now.

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Crime › Re: 5 Reasons Why Men Commit Suicide Than Women In Nigeria-from A Female Perspective by davidif: 9:56pm On Apr 15, 2017

myking95:
Don't mind him. America is the only land where people will invest billions of dollars in a silicon valley company that has little prospects for profit. Does he know that Snapchat, Uber and twitter have jointly incurred over 1.5 billion dollars in losses and have not yet turned a single dollar of profit in the last 4 years of operation? Yet Americans have invested so much that the stock worth of these three companies is approaching $50bn. Here in Nigeria, even your relatives go swear for you not to succeed. Govt officials will kill you with demands for bribes, PHCN go do you too, Banks are ready to runbyou down should you default, the education system won't even equip you, and your fellow Nigerians won't believe in your product. To succeed in Nigeria requires God's favour

As in eh! It's like the entire system is just set up for you to fail. It's like You have to be either well connected to really hit it big or you have to be super connected.

Instead of Buhari and co to fix the system to remove the obstacles to run a business he is running around the world trying to lure investors. Why would an investor come to a country where it's shardo corrupt and hard to do business.

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Celebrities › Re: M.I Abaga Visits Diamond Bank Headquarters Lekki (Photos) by davidif: 9:23pm On Apr 15, 2017*

lumydee44:
So everyone left their duty post cause Mr incredible was around. Nigeria my country.

They could be on break you know.

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Politics › Re: $43m Found In Lagos Home Not Mine, Says Amaechi by davidif: 9:19pm On Apr 15, 2017

unclezuma:
Nigerians have really suffered... In a country of 190+mn people the best we have to offer is a recycling plant of riffraffs and "messiahs".

It's NIECe's fault. They didn't create a system for independent candidates so its it's always the same old suspects who tend to run for office.
Another thing is that before you can run for office you need to pay millions of dollars to your party just for application which is what Buhari did. Homeboy had to pay 25 million to run for office. It's no coincidence why it's always the same people time and again.

Crime › Re: 5 Reasons Why Men Commit Suicide Than Women In Nigeria-from A Female Perspective by davidif: 9:01pm On Apr 15, 2017

nnadychuks:
when did owner of KFC start his chicken business? Silly excuse

You are making a terrible comparison. KFC was started in America, the land of opportunity not Nigeria where because of the economic system opportunities are incredibly few and far between and out of reach for a majority of Nigerians.

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