₦airaland Forum

DeepZone:
Who is ernest ndukwe by the way?

NCC Vice Chairman

DeepZone:
where is lady nwizu, Dr mrs *somebody ezekwesil and okonjo iweala in your list or did you exclude them b/c they are women?, ngozi okonjo iweala was obasanjo's smartest pick during his presidency.

Aaah, no,no, i dont discriminate by sex not at all
Last time i checked akunyili was a woman
yeah i missed out on Okonjo tho she was more of world banks decision not OBJ.
As for Ezekwesili she has some antecedents that make it hard for me to trust her.
Besides under her due process moves, $16billion was mismanaged on the Power project.

i should add the FIRS woman Omoigun, tho i cant recollect who appointed her.

Tornadoz:
Some post here further re-enforce my belief that pessimism amongst Nigerians is second to none in the world. Did any of  those debunking the Merill Lynch report do their own research? (Hell no)
"Uber" economist diggler  would want us to believe that .
Make's you wonder if he read the report before jumping to conclusion.
I bet you the same people trying  to  debunk this finding would be the same that would  ridicule Obama, the Nigeria/Chinese satellite project, our Nuclear ambition etc. To these people, nothing good ever comes out of black people.
Anyway don't believe the report, believe our eminent armchair economist instead. Our numerous Nairaland armchair economist know better than Merill Lynch (even though Merill Lynch are the world's leader in finance management).

lol
"Eminent armchair economist" has a nice ring to it. i'm adopting that title men
ur EAE & family has vested interest in not less than 2 manufacturing concerns in SE Nigeria.
We provide direct employment for 40 Nigerians and indirectly for 100's.
Our competitors are making gazillions importing what we sweat & bleed to manufacture.

We know first hand what lack of Infrastructure and Corruption can do to an SME.

So Tornadoz, if u want to insult me, please go right ahead but do not, i repeat do not question the patriotism or belief in being black of my self and majority of forum members, i bet my ass is blacker than urs.

I am not trying to debunk Merill, all i'm saying is they shouldn't make a big deal out of recycled information. If u read the annual reports of most banks in this country, u'll see the same information.
So maybe its because the white dudes at merill said it abi? (maybe u should take care of the bloody log in ur eye b4 looking for d speck in mine)

LOL
@ Deepzone
U are not well

Soludo is friggin smart. They should also give him a nobel prize while they are at it. This due foresaw this crisis and recommended some the right moves be made. the Rumour mill has it that Yar'adua is reconsidering the Naira redenomination.

Soludo, Akunyili, Ernest Ndukwe are the best decisions Obansanjo made in his 8 years as President.

Miss Nigeria

Anything u need ur Lawn mowed, just hit me up, Pussywarrior@69.com

anytime baby.

@Snazzy82

So u're from Awka-Etiti
Men y'all niggaz is like the biggest collection of money bags & Drug barons east of d 9ja.

Oge oh
Chioma oh

My Dick wont know the difference when its Ramming them.
I've got 250 different styles to execute on dem honeys.

only problem is i heard d Oge chica is married, tho if her husband aint doing the business right
I could step in and mow her Lawn
She is guaranteed @ least 5 explosion or i wash her panties for the rest of my days.

courage89:
I hope this is not a ploy to whip up sentiments to drive stocks that they’ve already have stake in, to later again dump those stocks at the detriment of our economy and crash our market again. Investors beware!!!!!

Thank you my brother

diggler:
granted I don't know more than merill lynch, however i find it difficult trusting the judgment of a company that took $8.4billion losses on the sub-prime crises.

Actually $8.4billion losses was for 2007

year to date merill has lost close to $19 billion and has been acquired.
So they have 'motive' to drive up interest in nigerias stock market.

If they are serious, they should join in the effort to find private sector financing for our Infrastructure projects.

Horus:
Nigerian Student Fabricates Satellite Rocket Launcher, Digital Antenna

could be used for both military and domestic operations.""The device is specially constructed to perform multi-sectoral purposes such as auronatics, geodesy, geo-dynamics, agro-metrological survey and broadcast transmission. "It is also designed to enhance security surveillance" he said.According to him, the fabricated antenna c[b]ould also be used for soil analysis, climatology and for monitoring earth movement to detect quakes, flooding, storm and natural calamities.[/b]The young innovator said that the device was fitted with navigational device, which could help in establishing the location of individuals, mineral deposits and missing persons as well as guide conflict management and rescue missions.[size=8pt] Zubairu, however, attributed the shortage of funds to his inability to perfect the projects and urged government and non-governmental organisations to give him a helping hand to facilitate the launching of the project for the benefit of mankind.[/size]

https://www.space-rockets.com/photo/launch1.jpg

"I am financially constrained to complete the project, but I am soliciting for support from government and non-governmental bodies so that my dream of launching Nigeria on the global technological scene can be realised," he said.

Source: http://www.voiceofnigeria.org/student-rocket.htm

The guy left out this devices ability to cook amongst other domestic chores.

Also if he needs government support he should highlight the money laundering and embezzlement capabilities of this device.

Iwu will kiss him if he points out the election riggin, ballot box snatching, stuffing and non tribunal overturning capabilities of this device.



Our true scientists at LASU should speed up the rockets make we test run am for Cameroon.

@ snazzy

no insults intended or implied.

Nwanne Nothin mega

Aluta continua

:DBig Man vs Big Woman all on top our money.

I no fit talk.

make KSA relax, anyhow the pepper don rest, so i guess he gained.

LMAO
@ snazzy82


U need to be locked up in a padded cell, immediately

grafikdon:
[b]*Pastor Grafik climbs on a pulpit wielding a big fat Bible. His small frame is wrapped in a shabby ill fitting suit*

Yeah!!! IGBOs all ye racist #$@! Speak with one voice- ah!!!!!! Vote with one hand-ah !!! Elect-tah the man-nah, that will push the "Igbo" angen-dah!! It doesn't matter that we have gazillion ethnic groups-ah. . . including those who transformed villages and variation of some languages into ethnic groups-ah!!! Rally around the candidate-ahh!!! Just like other ethnic groups have rallied around their imbecillic candidates-ahhh!!! It doesn't matter if it is Maurice Iwu, it doesn't matter if it is Chris Ubathrow Ojukwu in the mix if will-ah!!! But VOTE-ahhh. . . VOTE-ahhh!!! One VOICE-ahh. . . one V-O-T-E. . . AH!!!! As long as it is our imbecilic brother that is the candidate. . . ahh. . . Hallelujahhhh. . . .!!! Can somebo. . .


*Sermon is cut short as Pastor Grafik is sent flying across the alter by a deadly barrage of walking sticks, stiletto shoes, red caps, cow tails and hand bags from the irate congregation*[/b]

LM[b]friggin[/b]AO

Dude u must've been high when u wrote this, well of course na jamaica u dey.
I no go mind hit on some of that

@ Toilet Roll and I-Laugh

there aint no reason for hostilities,plus am guessing u're both in the diaspora. if so i understand ur viewpoint.

if u read my 2nd post properly u would understand where i'm coming from.
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toilet_Rol:
and westerners, south africans, chinese, lebanese, indians come to the same economy that you, a Nigerian, says is in the garage, opens up the garage, establishes their conglomerates, telecomms, oil, shopping etc,

my post said

diggler:
M
To enlighten u, 90% of the Real Sector of the Nigerian Economy has been stagnant for close to two decades now.
Apart from Oil & Gas, telecoms, real estate & the typical importation/buying & selling, what else is working?

[b]Our textile mills r down?, Our steel sector is dead, we can't even generate enough power to adequately serve a quarter of Lagos
Even the Unilevers of this world r gradually importing their products from Ghana. (they are supposed to be manufacturing them here)

Oh yes, i forgot, our mega banks aint giving no long term loans to the SMEs that need em.[/b]

toilet_Rol:
How blind can Nigerians be to their own things?

I guess you would call, Silverbird, Dangote, Choscaris, Elizade, Femi Otedola, Palms, Mike Adenuga (Conoil, Glo, ETB), Folawiyo, Bua group etc etc, Blind to their own things.

These people and the foreigners are investing in the quick returns segments of the economy.
plus some of them got preferential treatment from government.

i_laugh:
he seems to know more than Merrill Lynch.

granted I dont know more than merill lynch, however i find it difficult trusting the judgment of a company that took $8.4billion losses on the sub-prime crises.
Also Our very own Charles Soludo has been saying it since that our macro-economic indicators (thats what merill based their analysis on)is amongst the best in the World.
The same C.C. Soludo (1st class economics, phd by 27 yrs old, CBN governor) also said that macro-economic indicators should not deceive us to the problems on ground like Poor infrastructure, insecurity, Political Instability, corruption. These he said make it hard for small & medium enterprises to grow. (I'm sure they got their data from CBN, Natnl planning commission, Ministry of finance and they r feeling like they did work)


Every great economy in the world, China, Japan, USA etc is built on SMEs.
If orascom (telecoms) & Haliburton(oil & gas) can make money in War torn Iraq, why cant any reasonable business man make money in the same sectors in Nigeria.

Government is responsible for parking the economy in the garage. (_{November and we still have issues with 2008 budget implementation})
not the private sector.

Finally my parting shots ,
all the growth in the Nigerian economy is fueled by our only export Crude (which sold for $147/bbl a few months back)
Well, now the price don dey reach $50

na pesin wey wear shoe know where e dey pinch am


God Bless Nigeria

election primary season is still @ least 25 months away.

that my friend is like an eternity in the Nigerian Political universe.
As much as i would like to see my fellow Okoro man @ Aso Rock, lets not get ahead of ourselves here.


By the way, who the blazes is Ifeanyi chukwuemeka

i can see next weeks headlines "SNAZZY82 for President"

i_laugh:
and your point is?

My analogy was as self-explanatory as it could get

df2006:
ol boy digler that your analogy indeed explains it, how can it not be safe when it is parked in a garage.

please tell that to the I-laugh dude

To enlighten u, 90% of the Real Sector of the Nigerian Economy has been stagnant for close to two decades now.
Apart from Oil & Gas, telecoms, real estate & the typical importation/buying & selling, what else is working?

Our textile mills r down?, Our steel sector is dead, we can't even generate enough power to adequately serve a quarter of Lagos
Even the Unilevers of this world r gradually importing their products from the Ghana setup.

Oh yes, i forgot, our mega banks aint giving no long term loans to the SMEs that need em.

All in all the economy is stagnant, they say HE THAT IS DOWN SHOULD NOT BE AFRAID OF FALLING

So i_laugh, do u need further explanation.

If u buy a car and park it in your house, the chances of u have any fender benders is like 1 in 1million

However if u take the car out for a spin everyday and try to see what the real speed limits are, ur chances of crashing increase exponentially.

So the drivers of the Nigerian economy have decided to park it at home and take rides in other economies (swiss, cayman islands, etc)

@ Fyneguy, tell me how e no go safe.

My guy maurice Iwu aint no politician

If u check my list, most of the players mentioned were from an Era when politics (tho very dirty) was i would say a bit more
respectable than the current PDP consensus kangaroo show that obtains.

like i said earlier, Gani & Soyinka are Activists not necessarily politicians.

their role is to act as the conscience of the leaders by providing needed criticism that will keep the ruling set on edge.

i would have to retract my statement on Adams based on the fact that he won an election.

i wonder why u did not Add MKO, the closest thing to Barack Obama this country ever had. A man who transcended the politics of ethnicity by winning the fairest election in Nigeria.

lucabrasi:
what yardstick have you used in your unreasonable assertion that gbenga daniels is better than fashola??what exactly has he done in ogun state worth mentioning apart from compass newspapers lol and hounding his political enemies all about

i dont think anybody i.e. myself & poster implied in anyway that Daniels is better than Fashola.

The point i was tryin to make was that it wasnt 'fair' comparing this other dudes with Fashola cos he is in a league of his own.

MC Usman:
ken nnamani  not sure of what made him best
Gani fahwemi  100% approve
Adam oshomolow  100% approve
Wole shoyinka    cultist

The two guys you passed and other posters passed are Activists & not necessarily politicians.
If the question truly is asking for People that know how to play the politics game in the the Nigerian context
then from the above list, only ken nnamani would make it.

In my view Nigerias best politicans include the likes of

Obafemi Awolowo
Saraduana of Sokoto
Shehu Musa Yar'Adua
C.C. Onoh
Nnamdi Azikiwe
Micheal Okpara
Sam Mbakwe
Tafewa Balewa
Moshood K. Abiola

Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (maradonna himself)

Assuming ur topic read, aside from fashola who is the best SW governor
then it would have been worth the while.

We know all the rest are wack, though i must say u were a bit harsh on Daniel
cos i feel he is better than the other five (but still wack nonetheless) tho i dont know much about Oni

An editors question in the vanguard newspaper last week asked the following "IS NIGERIA WORTH DYING FOR?"
Personally, i;ve got two answers to the above question.

Yes: Nigeria is worth dying for, if i die fighting against the injustice, corruption & other ills that are dragging us down the drain. Saro-Wiwa & Co, did just that. Maybe those that died in the civil war too.

No: Nigeria aint worth shedding not even half a drop of blood for; if i am sent to the Delta creeks to fight people who to an extent are with the previous answer.

this 2nd answer raises the main issue
How Many Soldiers have we Lost in the Niger Delta?
The US publishes a list of its casualties to date in Iraq & Afghanistan. Rave of the moment Barack Obama was elected partly because he promised to bring the latter of those wars to an end.

Here our Soldiers are fighting to keep the Oil flowing so that the pot bellied petes in Abuja can pad their offshore accounts.
Every once in a while headlines stating a number of JTF troops killed in the Delta are published

Not matter what anybody thinks, these boys/men are somebody's brother, husband, father, uncle or son. Some of them joined the military because it was either that or the highway robbing the likes of me.

_{Pouring some liquor for the boys we lost}

God Bless Nigeria.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/content/view/21426/49/

The reason why they are doing that is cos for the first time in months, they are making gains on landed products as opposed to subsidization (losses)
If they were to let the prices remain, It would be a good step forward in yar'adua's so called mission to make NNPC a professional world class oil company.
This is as opposed to the Boiler Room Chop Shop it is today.

However, we all know that the subsidies provide a good avenue for them to siphon funds.

If our govt was sincere, now would be a good time to partially deregulate and let the marketers fix the prices or let the prices be & channel excess funds to our death trap roads. they could also abolish the Road Tax while they are @ it.

For example some of the majors are already selling diesel (which is deregulated) @ N75 depot price and DPK @ N48.50.

However all i've said above is probably wishful thinking so, if they feel like reducing the prices, who am i to stand in the way of a good thing.

Real soon people will start receiving Lead coated gifts from me

My nephew born last Saturday has 'Barack' as his middle name, maybe u might want a comment from him too.

With all the craze about the dude i fervently pray he doesnt screw up big time.

category:
Nice trend though i'm late here
Thompson Oliha
Eric Ejiofor
Victor Brown
Michael Emenalo
Chidi Nwano
Efan Ikoku
Philip Osondu
Oladimiji Lawal
Uche Okafor
Karimu Shuaibu
Suleman Muhammed
Gbenga Okunowo
Furo Iyenemi
Christopher Kanu
Blessing Kaku

@Category
GRRRRRRRRRRRRR        I feel like strangling u                 LOL
NICE ONE

Okunowo went straight to barcelona or sporting from 3sc for a recor tranfer fee then (heard it was upto $1million)

Eric Ejiofor______Mr Red Card

Victor Brown______saw this dude in jasper utd trading tackles in 1995 a whole six years before 2001 u17 world cup (maybe he was 10, u know too big for his age)

others include but not limited to;

Ajibade babalade
Patrick Pascal
Dondo Avaa
John Aranka
Soga Sambo
Musa Abubarkar
Peter Ijeh
Emeka 'ayaya' nwanna
Segun Abiodun
Dominic Oruma
Ogbonna kanu
Azubuike oliseh__________last three was when senior Prefect Sunday wanted to make eagles shirt a family property.
Chukwudi Nwogu

Issac okoronkwo______what manner of defender (headline about him after a string of own goals)



there was this ugly ass ex-enyimba defender that was Christian Chukwus man when he was eagle manager, cant rember the name now.

Will consult the archives for more_____l8az

PUSSY GALORE, Ian Fleming most definitely has lotsa unresolved issues.
what kinda name is that?

Mad_Max:
Jason in Friday the 13th.

I love u to death baby

Jason Vorhees is da Man

Another villian i love is Lex Luthor (proof that brains & will power can move mountains)

As for Lex Kevin Spaceys portrayal was my best, tho gene hackman wasnt bad either.

thing about both dudes is they just keep comin back

spikedcylinder:
Some men's nipples are more sensitive than women's own sef. . .

I c u like sucking on em,

Well, that's why we got em, WE SUCK, U SUCK,

Why u guys freaking out?

OUR brother is president of the World so in effect we are being 'dashed' the cheddar.

Disclaimer _{above statement not entirely thot through}

omoge:
measurement is what i forgot. but this was how my northern friends made yaji.

Ur northern friends must be really progressive.

During my NYSC up north, these dudes were clinging unto the recipe like it wuz some state secret.
Tho after drowning one of em with some splashes of cheap liquor, i extracted a recipe identical to urs.
However it still dont taste like the real thing, tho i used Onga in place of maggi.