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Just saw this on my Facebook page and decide to share it on NL.

The biggest country in Africa that the
United Kingdom colonised is Nigeria.
The biggest country that the United
Kingdom colonised in Asia is India (which then comprised the present
Pakistan and Bangladesh). When the UK came into Nigeria and
India, like all other countries they
colonised, they brought along their
technology, religion (Christianity), and
culture: names, dressing, food, and
language, among others. Try as hard as the British did, India rejected the British
religion, names, dressing, food, and
even language, but they did not reject
the British technology. Today, 80.5 per
cent of Indians are Hindus; 13.4 per
cent Muslims; 2.3 per cent Christians; 1.9 per cent Sikhs; 0.8 per cent
Buddhists, among others. Hindi is the
official language of the government of
India, but English is used extensively in
business and administration and has
the status of a “subsidiary official language.” Interestingly, it is rare to
find an Indian with an English name or
dressed in suit. On the other hand, Nigeria embraced,
to a large extent, the British religion,
British culture – names, dressing, foods,
and language – but, ironically, rejected
the British technology. The difference
between the Nigerian and the Indian experiences is that while India is proud
of its heritage, Nigeria takes little pride
in its own heritage, a situation that has
affected the nationalism of Nigerians
and our development as a nation. Before the advent of Christianity, the
Arabs had brought Islam into Nigeria
through the North. Islam also wiped
away much of the culture of Northern
Nigeria. Today, the North has only
Sharia courts but no Customary courts. So from the North to the South of
Nigeria, the Western World and the
Eastern World have shaped our lives to
be like theirs and we have lost much or
all of our identity. Long after the Whites and Arabs left
Nigeria, Nigeria has waxed strong in
religion to the extent that Nigerians
now set up branches of their home-
grown churches in Europe, the
Americas, Asia and other African countries. Just like the Whites brought
the gospel to us, Nigerians now take
the gospel back to the Whites. In Islam,
we are also very vibrant to the extent
that if there is a blasphemous comment
against Islam in Denmark or the US, even if there is no violent reaction in
Saudi Arabia, the Islamic headquarters
of the world, there will be loss of lives
and destruction of property in Nigeria.
If the United Arab Emirates, a country
with 75 per cent Muslims, is erecting the tallest building in the world and
encouraging the world to come and
invest in its territory by providing a
friendly environment, Boko Haram
ensures that the economy of the North
(and by extension that of Nigeria) is crippled with bombs and bullets unless
every Nigerian converts to Boko
Haram’s brand of Islam. We are indeed
a very religious people. Meanwhile, as we are building the
biggest churches and mosques, the
Indians, South Africans, Chinese,
Europeans and Americans have taken
over our key markets: telecoms,
satellite TV, multinationals, banking, oil and gas, automobile, aviation, and
hospitality industries among others. Ironically, despite our exploits in
religion, we are a people with little
godliness, a people without scruples. It
is rare to do business with a Nigerian
pastor, deacon, knight, elder, brother,
sister, imam, mullah, mallam, alhaji or alhaja without the person laying
landmines of bribes and deception on
your path. We call it PR, facilitation fee,
processing fee, transport money,
financial engineering, deal, or
whatever. But if it does not change hands, no show. And when it is
amassed, we say it is “God’s blessings.”
Some people assume that sleaze is a
problem of public functionaries, but the
private sector seems to be worse than
the public sector these days. One would have assumed that the more
churches and mosques that spring up
in every nook and cranny of Nigeria,
the higher the morals in our society. But
it is not so. The situation is that the
more religious we get, the baser we become. Our land never knew the type
of bloodshed experienced from
religious extremists, political
desperadoes, ritual killers, armed
robbers, kidnappers, internet
scammers, university cultists, and lynch mobs. Life has become so cheap and
brutish that everyday seems to be a
bonanza. We import petrol even when we have
crude oil in abundance. We also import
rice and beans that our land can
produce in abundance. We even import
toothpicks that primary school children
can produce with little or no effort. Yet, we drive the best of cars and live in the
best of edifices, visit the best places in
the world for holidays and use the most
expensive electronic and telecoms
gadgets. It is now a sign of poverty for
a Nigerian to ride a saloon car. Four- wheel drive vehicles are the in thing.
Even government officials, who were
known to use only Peugeot products
as official cars as a sign of modesty,
have upgraded to Toyota Prado as
official vehicle without any iota of shame, in a country where about 70
per cent live below poverty line. Private
jets have become as common as cars. A
nation that imports toothpicks and pins
flaunts wealth and wallows in
ostentation at a time its children are trooping to Ghana, South Africa and the
UK for university education and its sick
people are running to India for
treatment. India produces automobile and
exports it to the world. India’s medical
care is second to none, with even
Americans and Europeans travelling to
the country for medical treatment. India
has joined the nuclear powers nations. India has launched a successful mission
to the moon. Yet bicycles and tricycles
are common sights in India. But in
Nigeria, only the wretched of the earth
ride bicycles. I have intentionally chosen to compare
Nigeria with India rather than China,
South Korea, Brazil, Malaysia, or
Singapore, because of the similarities
between India and Nigeria. But these
countries were not as promising as Nigeria at the time of our
independence. Some would say that our undoing is
our size: the 2012 United Nations
estimate puts Nigeria’s population at
166,000 million, while India has a
population of 1.2 billion. Some would
blame it on the multiplicity of ethnic groups: we have 250 ethnic groups,
India has more than 2,000. Some
would hang it on the diversity in
religion: we have two major religions
— Christianity and Islam; but India has
many. Some would say it is because we are young as an independent nation:
we have 52 years of independence;
India has 65 years. Apartheid ended in
South Africa only in 1994. I am a Christian, and nothing can
change me from Christianity. But I think
that our country is daily sinking into
religiosity to the detriment of godliness.
Our land is sick and needs healing. “If
my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, and pray and
seek my face, and turn from their
wicked ways, then I will hear from
heaven, and will forgive their sin and
heal their land” is still a saying that is
germane to our current situation. We need more godliness than religion;
more work and less of hope; and more
action and less of words. Let everyone tidy up his or her corner
first and demand fervently that our
leaders tidy their areas of governance.
Our nation is degenerating at a fast
pace and we need to save it now or it
may be too late.

Leed united vs chelsea.
#commonchelsea

About to enter
November and Gary Cahill has more goals than Rooney, Aguero, Cisse and
Adebayor.
#reliable_cahill

Eight teams for the quarter-
finals of the Capital One Cup are
Arsenal,
Aston Villa, Chelsea, Norwich, Swansea,
Leeds, Middlesbrough and Bradford.
#we_want_bradford

Twice hitting the woodwork. . . Damn!

Michael Keane should not be on
the pitch right now, especially after the
Branislav Ivanovic incident on Sunday.
#say_no_to_favourism_in_football

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afam4eva: You guys are defeating the purpose of this thread.

as if u didnt join them in the 1st two pages.

front page pls

fake news. . .disgrace to journalism.
www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/money-laundering-gov-ajimobi-sues-media-outfit-for-n1bn/

but i saw this woman with her husband in the news last week na

dabossman: Yep, but heck it happens! England lost to Germany at the last World Cup because a clear goal was not counted. Even though Germany went on to win by 4 clear goals, that singular mistake still marred the game. It happened to Arsenal against Barca in the EPL a couple of seasons ago. It's all part of the game, sad as it may be.

yeah its part of the game, but why is it that it mostly common to united. If it happens once in one or two seasons it would av bn anoda thing. But everytime man u wants to play any big team they get favoured by the refs. Against liverpool jonjo shelvey was sent off for a 50-50 challenge.

nerodenero: I like your comment and it was well said.Dont forget the best team dont win at times. Such was the case of Barca Vs Chelsea and the show of shame put up by the ref in d game yesterday

that game was one of d biggest in europe last weekend, it was nt only watched in europe but all over the world. Some ppl far away kept vigil for it. Its an advert for the epl. Just like the last day game of last season btw man city and qpr. A big game of that magnitude shouldnt have been marred by the 'mistake' of one guy.

Number of penalties Howard Webb has
awarded Manu: 9 in 32 games. No. of
penalties Webb has awarded
Arsenal,Chelsea and Pool: Only 10 in
100 games.

Gary Neville said on yesterday game: "The referee killed the game and the
better team deserved to win which was
Chelsea and not, Manchester United."

Chelsea is better than even Man United at
the moment,
that's why sucking haters are buying
officials. Let them know that we are the team
who can beat even Barcelona with
10 men. We fight till our last breath, and win
with Pride.
We are the pride of london and the
European Champions.

Good initiative by Aregbe

Aregbesola Launches 10,000-
capacity Cattle Ranch (O’Beef),
Berates Under-utilization of
Resources Governor Rauf Aregbesola at the
weekend launched a cattle ranch
where a new agro-based industry
is emerging. The 78.8 hectares,
10,000-capacity cattle ranch is
aimed at meeting the beef demand of the State of Osun as well as the
entire South-West when fully
operational. The Governor said the
beef farm would boost self-
reliance in food production as well
as create economic bases and job opportunities for our people. At the commissioning of the Osun
Beef Production outfit (O’Beef)
ranch located at Oloba Farm
Settlement in Iwo, he said it was
primarily targeted at boosting
agriculture, meat and food production, food processing and
mass agro-based employment. It
is also part of a plan to assist
livestock farmers to improve milk
and meat production, saying,
plans are afoot to establish similar but lager ranches in Ede (400
hectares) and Ejigbo (1,000
hectares). Land has been acquired
for this purpose and the location
would have grazing reserves and
cattle hub – including markets, feed mills. The grazing reserves
will help us to tackle the recurring
feud between the Fulani
pastoralists and the crop farmers
usually caused as a result of cattle
grazing on farms. Meanwhile, Aregbesola has
declared that the country would
remain poor despite the huge
income from crude oil as long as
the leaders fail to properly utilise
the income to generate employment. Speaking at the Education
Conference of the National Union
of Textile, Garment and Tailoring
Workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN)
held in Osogbo, he stated that it
was an illusion to claim that the country is rich. The governor said: “As a
government we must be able to
produce the food we eat. A
government cannot be said to be
good if it is incapable of feeding its
own people. In Lagos alone, about 6,000 cattle are slaughtered
daily in the abattoirs, while the
remaining five South-West States
combined conservatively accounts
for another 6,000 based on their
total population, no state in South- West produces a single one. All
these animals come from the
North. We intend to target just 10
per cent of the Lagos market. The
governor described the potential
of the beef market in the Southwest as huge, adding that it
could not be waved aside by any
visionary government.” “This translates to a huge N4.4
billion per annum. This huge
market demand for beef, the
governor argued, carries the
potential to empower the state
and the entire Southwest people economically through wealth
creation.” For a start, the ranch, which is
being managed by a South African
expert in conjunction with
International Institute of Tropical
Agriculture (IITA) and Faculty of
Agriculture, Obafemi Awolowo University, has 1,500 cattle
sourced locally. The farm is being
run with the technical direction of
foreign Technical Partners from
Zambia and South Africa. According to the Governor, 30
foreign species of cattle called the
Zambian Boran, would be
introduced to the ranch with a
view to genetically crossbreeding
them with local ones to get new indigenous species. When fully in operation, the ranch,
which will be run on public private
partnership basis, will have
modern abattoir that offers
services to the people at a lower
rate. It is the objective of this
administration in the State of Osun
to create the enabling
environment that will make this
happen. “We will be dedicating and
developing hundreds of hectares
of land into grazing reserves,
cattle markets, breeding centres,
and fattening hubs. This will be in
addition to the new central abattoirs that we are developing
in selected towns across the
state,” Aregbesola said. It is against this backdrop that the
government began a study of the
process to come up with a
programme that will be
indigenous to the state and the
region. In February 2011, this assignment took them to the
International Livestock Research
Institute (ILRI) in Ibadan, where
they discussed about building
partnerships to help the state
develop a robust framework for implementing an innovative
programme that focuses on Beef
Chain Development in Osun. What
came out of the interactions
between the Osun team and the
ILRI is the abattoir-linked enterprises that include fattening,
breeding and marketing activities. Hence, government decided that
the strategic option for the state is
to adopt the value chain approach
to developing the beef sector in
the state, with a preliminary target,
excluding production for local consumption, of serving a
minimum 10 per cent of the Lagos
6,000 cattle per day market. This,
it was gathered, would be
achieved through a strategic
initiative incorporating activities such as cattle genetics
improvement, breeding, fattening,
slaughter and beef marketing. With the resulting strategic
discussion with the ILRI, between
December 11th and 16th, 2011,
Aregbesola led a delegation of
selected state government officials
on a tour of the Zambian agricultural industry. Research
revealed that Zambia has practised
what could be achieved through
agriculture as a means for creating
jobs and wealth for the people. The first, it was gathered, hinged
on gaining a first hand
understanding of the Zambian
success story in agricultural
development, as well as to begin
the development of the beef sector in Osun. The programme hit
the ground running and this result
is the Oloba cattle ranch, which the
governor revealed would not be
the only one in the state as efforts
are on to establish more in viable locations in the state. Oloba Cattle
Ranch is about 78.8 hectares in
size. Government also intends to
promote the establishment of
cattle and ram feedlots and as
such, efforts are in progress to put
the feedlot infrastructure in place
to accommodate 1,500 cattle. At the maximum capacity, this ranch
will accommodate up to 10,000
cattle being fattened at the same
time. Not only that, the Oloba Cattle
Ranch would act as a breeding
centre for a foreign breed of cattle
known as the Boran, so as to
develop a new breed of cattle that
is indigenous to the South-West by cross-breeding the Zambian-
Boran with local breeds such as
the White Fulani and Sokoto
Gudali. The resulting cattle, it is expected,
will have greater capacity to
produce meat, making cattle
fattening and beef production a
very profitable endeavour for the
state.
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stshakes: Nairaland na real comedy club... See as we siddon here dey argue people money and they probably siddon for the jet dey laugh as we dey yab ourselves.... Lol. Anyways I go talk on 3 things.

1. The guy that says Naija Artists put together ain't worth $50Million ( abt N9 Billon). You really need to get out of your ignorance. It might interest you that Just Wizkid raked on almost 3billion for EME in the last year in excess of World Tours, Endorsements, Album Sales, Royalties, Awards etc. Remember he got an International PEPSI endorsement within this period. Go figure the amt that came with that. U never talk of Tubaba, D'banj, Don Jazzy, J-Martins, even this same bracket wey start yesterday. Be careful what you say in public.

2. On this Jet issue. P-Square don't OWN a private jet. Rather they have an arrangement with a Jet company. Now the deal is, for every international show, every promoter must meet the condition of paying that Jet Coy to fly them to the place as part of the general criteria for them coming to perform. I think it takes confidence in their art for them to do that.

3. on the actual worth of P-square, I can't give you the exact figures but those boys can buy a private jet if they want to. But they are wise enough to know they don't need it, at least not yet. There are private jets that go for as low as N2.5Million. P- Square apart from Music got investments. In fact they invest more than they spend, real estate especially. So those of you expecting them to come beg you for food in ten years... Sorry that won't happen. Those boys get BAR die. You need to see their new crib nearing completion in Ikoyi. Its something like the house on 50 Cents candy shop video with its own underground club. If you have had the opportunity to visit Squareville in Omole, its a joke compared to this new crib. Those boys are living their life and reaping the fruits of almost 10yrs active effort in the Nigerian music industry and deserve to enjoy their money. Abi na u wan spend am for them when they are gone?

I don talk my own finish. And please no ask me how I know all these details... Let's just say am a guy that knows a lot of these celebs.

N2.5m worth of jet? . . . . Guy u're a joker, lmao

denzel2009: Tonto Dike of America!

lmao

By their names u shall know them. . . Am not suprised at all.

xcubed: Keep talking, does this make any difference with those that didn't finish school and went into music, or people that did nasty things just to make it? if he knew better and things were okay would he have done CC fraud? Mohits might have been based on CC frud money but now am sure you can see and say for yourself that if they want to repay the person he defrauded it will be times 10, and who told you he's keeping it a secret? He even sang about it in 'Mobolowo won' It's people like you who wouldn't forget about the past just to keep saying negatives.

Wande coal denied it yes and deleted the tweet afterwards why? Who would not deny such? The only person that can deny it is Donjazzy and he didn't!

And by the way, 50cent was a drug delar at a point, and so is Pusha T of G.O.O.D Music, do I even need tell you all these?

stop schooling 'em bro. . . No matter how hard u tell them, they wont admit it. We sabi ppl like them wit thier strong head.