₦airaland Forum

Mad Max. . . .seeing as you have a nice taste in movies from your favourable
judgement of Pan's Labyrinth and An Education. May I recommend the following:

Take my eyes(Te doy mis Ojos): Powerful drama about Domestic Abuse.

Devil's backbone (El Espinazo Del Diablo): Some people think this is actually
the better of Guillermo Del Toro's films. The other being Pan's Labyrinth.

So nice to meet one with such delectable taste in movies. You will really
enjoy watching these.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=421277.msg5799660#msg5799660 date=1269984137]Wetin Van Bommel play?
Please give us just one example of what he did all night apart from sideways and backward passing.
Then he ran with the ball for 15 yards and blasted it from 40 yards. . . .easy save for VDS.

Olic was their Tevez, running after everything, pressing our defenders.
Ribery was also good value but then who wouldn't be good against a 35 yr old Gary Neville.
Bayern deserved the win. . .NO DOUBT but they fluked ALL their goals.[/quote]You observed in a previous post how awful at times United's midfield were.

I doubt it was Olic who caused them to be poor.

Bommel was always available, gave quick ball and hardly lost the ball while
in possession.

Olic on the other hand was physically undersized overmatched
by himself up front. I don't doubt his energy and his harrying etc.
but his primary responsibility besides scoring
goals is to give the team a target up front and hold it so that people can join
in. I remember a few occasions when he lost the ball and the team momentum.

He was especially dire in the first half, and only marginally improved in the
second. Gomes gave them impetus and Olic actually looked better when he moved
to the left.

I hope Van Gaal realises Olic simply is no match for Vidic and Rio with a partner let
alone by himself.

I don't understand how an informed Nigerian
can be impressed with the show.

Sensationalist liberal tosh for a white British audience.

And I am a liberal.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=421277.msg5799613#msg5799613 date=1269983747]Which Van Bommel?
Fletcher disgraced him for 90 mins.
Your best player was Olic. . . . .Bommel wasn't in the game at all.

I cannot even remember him doing anything concrete.
Where was Van Bommel when Fletcher was putting good crosses in your box that Rooney kept missing time n time again.
If you play Van Bommel @ OT, you will lose by a wide margin.[/quote]Hmmm. . .lol.

REALLYYY??

Hey peeps. . . .who wan shack paraga.

I paid off bouncer ''googles'' to let me get the
contraband in

dayokanu:
Van Bommel what a beast.

La Bestia negra.

He ate Fletcher, Carrick and Scholes all at once.

WHat a Glutton

True True. . .I was quite impressed with his performance.

Enigma:
@ OP

Pls this is meant helpfully ---- you used "been" improperly when it should be "being".

Don't you think you are ''been'' a tad pedantic

The show is rubbish.

the tie is well poised.

will depend on how good munich
do upfront cause they sure don't look
tight at the back.

but if wat i saw today is anything, munich
look like they could do some damage.

i jus hope van gaal doesn't play olic alone upfront
again. rio and vidic wpuld handle that all day.

What do you expect from a banana republic.

The Civil Servants won't have it any other way though.

They like clueless individual whom they can run rings around.

yjay:
walks into the club & realises that its packed, mummurs to herself *not like i imagined *she mumured takes a sit & calls the attn of the bartender

madam. . .how do you do.

Can i take that seat beside you there?

googles:
yes o manyola

Kai. . . . I was told you loved troublemakers na

hehehe. . i would take your order.

But I know you would rather take the order
from an Okija shrine priest than myself

[quote author=metal-gong link=topic=421251.msg5787165#msg5787165 date=1269850434]By referring to the 1999 charade as a successfull election tells me that you might be pulling off some jokes.[/quote]I noticed here, you did not mention the 1992 elections.

Perhaps because it was steered by an Igbo man.

And you mentioned earlier there is a tendency to rubbish Igbo technocrats.
I don' hear anyone ever rubbishing Nwosu's achievements anywhere abi?

Honestly. . .get rid of your paranoia. No one is out to get the Igbos.

Moyola:
dint mean fear as in fear jor! notin du yu!

Na wa. . .Dey even let pikin wey dey wear Pampers inside this joint.

googles:
hmm this trouble making factory is here again today. . . . . . wahala dey 

who allowed him into this bar anyways

the thing tire me oo. . .

there should be a restriction on such riff raffs
entering this establishment here.

luizworld:
]Is that you, omo u know bad at all oo

Ashewo bartender. . .

Abygurl. . don't mind me.

I really don't know why I like looking for trouble.

Especially of very nice, sexy, delectable ladies. . .

Abygul:
aby walks in feelin so tired from todays job

wetin happen?. . . .u carry too much cement today?

luvbooks:
Can you imagine . . . I came here to take a break and this is what I get!

E no good ooo .  .  .  

Anyway,  I'm not leaving  . . . unless you intend to chase me out yourself .

Nah. . .I will let the bouncer do that.

KOKONET, . . . .KOKONET OO. . . BIA
Come and deal with this impostor

luvbooks:
All books and no play . . . 

You know the rest.  

Of course I do. . . .

makes you a genius.

To your tent lady. . .Oya start going to the library

Books and gentlemen's club no mix. . .

Don't you think you are in the wrong venue, ?

spikedcylinder:
The movie is even from the person that did that yeye high Fidelity.

texazzpete:
Yeah right. Who controls the 'overall system' of INEC? If things aren't conducive for his job, why not blow the whistle?
We see him crowing and congratulating himself even when elections have been so obviously flawed.

Stop trying to whitewash the man's reputation when we all know better.

The thing tire me oo. . .

''The system is the fault'' has become so popular so quickly especially among
the politicians, you wonder if this form of self flagellation hasn't been aided by
public relations Nigerian style.

They want us to forget elections were successfully conducted under Professor Nwosu and
initially under Professor Guobadia in 1999. I guess there was no system in place
then.

lol. . .I know ziga's line of thought is faulty kobojunkie.


But I empathise with him. . .

Sometimes one is just so burdened by hopelessness when it comes
to Nigeria that even the faintest glimmer will lead to a temporary suspension
of principles, beliefs, ideals etc.

We all know how it should be and the standards we should expect of our leaders.

But can I blame those who forgive Fashola the odd misdemeanour after he has given
the populace an idea of the possibilities.

And can I blame those who are so eager to get rid of Yaradua after three years
of ineptitude and inertia.

Or Iwu after incompetence in every respect.

ibukun. . .dem ban you?

or wait a minute. . . Peroxide??

Good looking brotha. . .

To those who say he has not replied the allegations. . .

I wonder what he might say, ''It is the work of my political enemies. . .the work of my enemies''

Where have we heard that before eh?

The avenues for his critics are not closed. They should pursue him and get the EFCC to be on his case.
If the state courts prove to be an intractable course, they can always go Federal.

Come to think of it. . .It is weird these critics chose the State House of Assembly as the court of first instance

You people shouldn't get me wrong.

I am not in anyway defending Sylva.

If he has stolen money, he should face the
full wrath of the laws of the federation.

@marvix

Federalism does not mean the federal government
would be totally powerless. The federal government
would still be primarily responsible for defence.

Even with true federalism, it is likely that the Niger Delta
would still be the main contributor to federal coffers but not
the ONLY contributor which can only benefit everybody.

Kobojunkie:
But can't you see how the first AIDS and allows/sort of stands as possible excuse for the second? If the Niger Deltan's who continue to cry foul over the continued sharing of allocations to other areas of the countries are themselves INCAPABLE of proving these same allocations willl amount to much more in their own hands, how do the same deltans EXPECT the rest of the country to take their cause SERIOUSLY?

see. . the two issues: judicious use of funds and fiscal federalism are not linked.

It is to the benefit of the thieves from outside the Delta that they link the two issues
though.

A people should not have to plead with anyone to manage their own resources, their property.

As a matter of fact. . .if the two issues are linked, it is the lack of true federalism that aids the injudicious
use of funds. As long as people from outside the area can milk it like a dysfunctional ATM machine, the
more we continue to see a lack of innovation as well as the overwhelming waste and corruption at all
levels of government everywhere.

ode remo:
.
i give up.what an excuse .

lol. . .like i said earlier. I have no affiliation whatsoever with the Niger Delta
so no reason why I should provide excuse for them or anyone.

I am in no way condoning the corruption. Mba.

He should be remanded in jail if found guilty.

But the corruption of some top Niger Deltans should never
be an excuse for any delay in the practice of true fiscal federalism.

orin1981:
@doyin13

Bayelsa state between 2007 and 2009 has issued over 800billion Naira in bonds and sold more than 96% of it. The same state gets more than most states from the federal purse. MEND gets several billions monthly, and now your militants are now been bankrolled by the federal govt.
Y[b]et all we see are more greedy souled Ijaw elders with rimmed hats demanding for more more more [/b]
militancy/freedom fighters, Youth restiveness, kidnapping, poorest standard of living, a state thats yet to begin with no master plan besides crying that Abuja was built by its wealth. The same wealth you cant manage since your state has been created.
When Danjuma half a billion dollars oil well story made it to the headline, and the whole country was shrieking, and its confusing how the same crook was elected by an Ijaw man to his cabinet again, and now Silva is been given the "Carry Go" applaud. For once, I am very happy to be Ibo. Atleast, the ibo man loves money, yet he's honest enough to work hard tooth and nail for his wealth.

Don't you find it ridiculous that people should ask for the proceeds that result from the sale of resources taken from their land.

These are not little kids with little money boxes oo. . .