₦airaland Forum

na for nairaland you get power to claim wife. . .

try am for outside na, ko je ifoti to dun.

Oya biko. . . no vex.

I am no good at reviewing films I have little complaints about. And I had little complaints about Shutter Island. Could have done with some editing and a shorter running time, though I guess it was required to build atmosphere.

Its a good genre film and does what it sets out to do well.

80 PER CENT.

Oh one gripe. . . one can pretty much figure out where its going halfway through.

I preferred the Tim Burton Batmen cause they never took themselves seriously. . .Any allusions to seriousness or some profoundness in a film where the protagonist wears a cape and has 300 like abs once he dons a suit are ridiculous. The Bale batman needs to lighten up a bit and more. Plus the Dark Knight film was bloody long. Like Kilode. almost three hours.

The same thing with the Inception film. Dreams are such an intriguing subject, there is a reason we only get them when we are asleep. And that is promptly what I did after about an hour of the film. SLEEP.

All these talks of qualifications are so nauseating. Who cares if he got his degree from bloody Ilaro polytechnic.

I must have a thing against Chris Nolan. I just started watching Inception and goodness. IT IS BORING. KMT!!!!! Doubt i will ever bother to finish it.

I guess its just me sha. . . .I found Dark Knight boring too.

I am still sceptical about the touted successes of the Soludo era. . .

As events have unfolded after the global crisis, it would seem Clarus or Girigori wearing a TM Lewin shirt and a dapper suit could have run the finances of this country and money would still have poured in.

On Jonathan-

Besides the general atmosphere of insecurity, there just seems to be no sense of direction. Perhaps its poor PR but the government seems to be on the back foot, reacting to events not controlling them. Nigeria simply can't afford any dithering, especially as it rests on the precipice. Someone needs to get a grapple with the issues and offer firm direction. . . .

Everything that he utters seems only to have the sleek conviction of Ima Niboro's pen.


and this is perhaps why the Buhari-Bakare ticket is immediately appealing. But there are also redflags everywhere. I can imagine there would be a strong anti corruption and moral agenda, which is fair enough, but the methods might leave a lot to be desired. The anti corruption crusade must be welded to an unfettered free press, an idea that was anathema to Buhari during his first stint.

Furthermore, one would like to hear more besides the moral qualifications of both ''clergymen''. What are they going to do about the bloated government or the overcentralised state for example. This is perhaps the most important issue facing us  as a Federal nation. It will take a lot of backbone to confront the many vested interests who benefit from the status quo. While I do not doubt the zeal of Buhari or Bakare, I suspect it will take more than the moral argument to pass any changes through. Deals will have to be made, concessions given to get this things done. Which begs the question: Are these men with such strong convictions able to meet people halfway?

I guess or I hope we will learn more over the next two months prior to the polls.

I didn't find the movie confusing. Some plot holes as one might expect in such a movie but I pretty much got the whole point.

And I quite enjoyed it because unlike other movies of its ilk, you never got the impression it was trying to be too clever, at least till the end. Unlike say a Memento, where the raison d'etre of the movie was essentially the director's ability to manipulate structure and tell you ''ain't I a clever chappie''.

Bawo not being here really takes some getting used to if one can ever. . . .walahi, ko ni da fun awon omo oloriburuku ti won fi wa si ekun

Aaron Rogers is the best quarterback in football, hands down.

Manning and Brady are good with the set pieces, but when the protection
breaks down, they are average, as happened to Brady tonite.

And Vick might be faster but he doesn't keep his wits about him nor does
he have as good an arm as Rogers.

Oooooopsie Daisies. . . .

My bad. . . .I guess I musta been itching to slag Date night for ages

Hard to know what Due Date was exactly. As a comedy it wasn't funny. Thriller, it wasn't edge of your seat at all.

Just a so so film. Only did well at the box office because of Tina Fey I think.

The Rafael boy is a walking red card. But for the refs kowtowing to United all the time, there is a case for him being sent off every single game.

Yes oo. . .It is obvious Ribadu is our best choice. Buhari is too old and with a suspicious religious agenda while Jonathan has as much motivational skills
as a sack of cassava peels.

Ribadu showed his capability at grabbing hold of the national mindset when he headed the EFCC.

LET NAIRALAND DECLARE FOR RIBADU NOW. . . . .THE AGBALUMO REVOLUTION STARTS HERE


*****PLEASE NO GAY GROUP ENDORSEMENTS FOR TEAM RIBADU OO, This is not the banana revolution.

You are disgusting. . .repulsive. . . pathetic

This kind of revolution is much easier when there is a figurehead for the public to direct its anger.

Nigeria's corruption is quite democratic and especially so in this ''democratic'' dispensation.

There are no bars to accessing public funds. . .well, maybe there is. A secondary school leaving certificate.

So long as each Nigerian thinks there is a chance for him or her or a relative to have a turn at the loot
or some unscrupulous venture, it is simply not profitable to participate in a revolution where the costs
are life itself.

Exactly Kobokobo. . . .I noticed the report produced will inform the upcoming summit.

That is two classic bureaucratic apparatuses for siphoning money. The money to
fund these charades would be better off being spent on the pupils whose futures
are being toyed with.

What will the task force come up with ehn that one cannot discern with the naked eye. . .
''Give them roofs and tables and chairs so they can study'' perhaps. . . all very profound

na fire burn your face to patch patch like this?

Erujeje. . . .pampers to bumpers . .na you be this

happy new year jare. . . .

D*ick Head.

This thread used to be well live. . . .warraheck happened.

Will be sprinkling some first class doyin nuts all over this thread
for immediate resucitation.

@topic

photoshop gone wrong. . . ugliness cannot be hidden. Live with your face

Just a reminder its been quite a while our country has been in the docks. Makes for really gruesome reading.

Officials of the Federal Government as well as those of the Kano State government were complicit in the 1996 Pfizer’s Trovan clinical trial that used Nigerian children as guinea pigs, leaving at least 11 infants dead and several others with permanent disabilities. This is according to the report of the Investigative Committee on the Clinical Trial of Trovan constituted by the Federal Government in 2001.

This man that should have known better. . . .For his role in the killings, he got rewarded Nigerian style.

Isa Dutse, chief medical director, Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, now the chief medical director of the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, was also indicted by the report. Shortly before Pfizer hurriedly flew its doctors into Kano on a DC 91 jet in the heat of the triple epidemic, Isa Dutse, who had previously worked for Pfizer, was contacted and made the principal investigator for the clinical trial.

The investigative committee report identified Mr. Dutse as being responsible for recruiting patients for the trial without written consent.

"As principal investigator, he had no record either of the patients recruited or the outcome of the investigation," the report said.

Mr. Dutse, who claimed to have been paid $20,000 (N3 million) also admitted to the committee that he single-handedly issued a backdated ethical clearance certificate to Pfizer at a time an ethical committee was not in existence at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital when contacted by Pfizer six months after the trail.

Mr. Dutse also confessed that a child, identified as Patient 0069, died after the Pfizer team continued to give the child oral Trovan and did not consider changing therapy. The committee recommended that Mr. Dutse should "be reprimanded and considered for disciplinary action."

Instead of the government punishing Mr. Dutse as the committee recommended, he was richly rewarded for participating in the killing of helpless Nigerian children. Mr, Dutse, now a professor, enjoyed a rapid career rise, and is heading the biggest hospital in Kano as the chief medical director.

And how was the lone man of integrity treated. . . . .

In the midst of the confusion and deliberate collusion by government officials and Pfizer to experiment on Nigerian children, one voice stood out against this evil.

Mr. Idris Mohammed, the chairman of the Federal Task Force for the Control of the Epidemics, was the only person who tried to put a stop to the Pfizer trial. The report commended the efforts of Mr. Mohammed, who is a retired professor of medicine.

He had insisted that Pfizer produce a clearance certificate for the trial when he found out that Pfizer was conducting a clinical trial, but Pfizer failed to produce it. He subsequently ordered the immediate halt of the trial but Pfizer seemed to have entered into negotiations and subsequently secured the backing of officials of the Kano State ministry of health to continue with the trial.

He also obtained sample of the drug from Pfizer investigators and handed them over to NAFDAC in Kano for analysis but nothing was done about it.

He then wrote a petition to Mr. Madubuike on 1 July, 1996, where he detailed what transpired during the trial. But on 11 December, 1996, the minister sent a reply maligning Mr. Mohammed, based on the submissions of Pfizer and the Kano State government, all without inviting Mr. Idris Mohammed to defend himself.

"There was no breach of Nigerian law as alleged by you. The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has the legal mandate to grant permit for importation or manufacture of unregistered drugs for the purpose of clinical trial investigation. Kano State Ministry took appropriate actions," the letter stated.

The report reprimanded the former minister for not setting up a committee to look into Mr. Mohammed's petition and for not inviting him for discussions on the matter before writing him "an undeserving and distasteful letter."

While responding to questions from the committee, Mr. Mohammed noted that Pfizer got "excellent cooperation from the Kano State Ministry of Health."

ode remo:
pls let run this joke to the new yr.
igbo ppl are frm ISREAL/JERU-NNEWI.

can someone get strangerf, omongbati, dede1 and sunny-bobo a room please.

So they can shag themselves silly.

@Kilode?

thanks for the link. . . .it was very very informative.

and it is good to see many who share concern over the rot amongst the student polity.

I was so envious during the recent student protests in london over the hike in tuition fees
and longed for those days when students in Nigeria sought for something that was over
and beyond themselves. Their idealism and the belief in their strengths to implement change.
All seemingly gone now and looking like never to return.

Oh well. . .God dey sha

Earlier this year during the whole Yaradua saga, a group of charlatans paraded themselves in Abuja under the aegis of ''Future Nigeria Group'' in support of a dead Yaradua. They performed the usual rituals of the sycophant. Prayers for egregious purposes and the well being of their corrupt benefactors as well as calls to unity of our divided nation. Of course, this unity would only be preserved so long as we leave their sick patrons alone to do their misdeeds.

In their midst was a Kolade Akinjo. A keynote speaker on the day, he had his religious game on, also having his own supplication ceremony during the charade. All very common fare one would say, except for the provenance of this Mr. Akinjo. Popularly known as Vakama, he was a former head of the student body at University of Ife, perhaps the most historically radical higher institution in Nigeria. That a former head of a student body that was at the vanguard of student opposition during the dark years of military dictatorship should stoop so low for a few shillings, tells the whole story of the health of our student polity.

I grew up in my teens idolizing the likes of Anthony Fashayo who battled so valiantly in the face of mortal danger directed at them by the Abacha regime. We also still see reminders of the spirit which animated the student protesters during the latter years of the last century on the pages of Sahara reporters and the activism of its owner Omoyele Sowore.

What we have now, is not so much a cacophony of complicit silence, but a total assimilation of the student body into the culture of deceit, immorality and corruption that their predecessors fought so hard to destroy. Rather than question authority at the juncture when we need the precocious skepticism of youth most, they are like plasticine in the hands of brim-hatted zoologists and agbada donning adulters, denizens of evil who once terrorised student in military regalia but now perpetrate their misdeeds under the cloak of democratic constitutionality. . . .

Wither Aluta. . . .
The ceremony of Innocence has been drowned, there is no best to speak of and the worst dance on the corpse of the nation.

If I try to remove money from my wallet to pay and watch expendables, the money would rather self destruct.

And if I try use card, the reading machine go scream ''YOU NEVER CHOP BELLEFUL AND YOU WAN BURN MONEY''.


Please watch. .Glengarry Glen Ross. Old but a classic. If you have already seen it, then we have to be good friends.

Might I also suggest the Argentine film. . . . Secrets in their Eyes. a very very very good film.

jay bee:
Michael Vick
What a player

I am so annoyed I pulled the plug on my feed when the Giants scored that Boss touchdown.

The shock I got when I saw the headlines on yahoo sports. . . . I thought I misread it walahi.

Woulda been magical watching it live. . .

Game reminds me of the Colts comeback against the Bucs when they scored three touchdowns
with four minutes remaining to tie the game and then win in overtime.

He makes Nigeria breaking up sound like such a bad thing. . . . .

I agree with Tensor there seems quite a bit of revisionism going on.

texazzpete:
I'd much rather we campaigned on Pushing out PDP instead of exhorting people just to vote. Many of these people will only end up voting for the multi-headed hydra that is PDP.

The whole lot of them are thieves.

Was it not a few days ago, the Lagos State Assembly awarded each member a car bonus.