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Do you know how dumb this is beginning to look?

Did you read what I put in brackets? it cant be said officially but everyone knows that the BBC will always pander to public opinion.

Even at the start of the Iraq war when the BBC reports were said to be not-too-friendly to British interests according to public opinion, BBC had to re-track and it toned down it news reports in a way that did not have a lot of negatives about British operations.

Do you follow UK/British news?

Kobojunkie:
Does the BBC speak on behalf of britain Does CNN speak on behalf of America?? What the heck has what the media chooses to focus on to do with anything??

The BBC speaks largely (not officially) on behalf of the licence paying public. They act in the interest of the licence paying public.

Dont even talk about CNN again please

What I said was that we should use our own funds that are in reserve. World Bank doesn't give a hoot about Nigeria as long as it can make profits by giving loans to Nigeria and i wont blame World Bank for that. i blame the idiots we call leaders

It is sad if we allow ourselves to get carried away by one thing and fail to see a wholistic picture of an issue.

Mugabe has done a lot of harm to his people through his foolishness. FACT
The western powers have done a lot of harm to Zimbabwe. FACT
The westerners dont care whether or not your people are dying if you do their bidding. FACT.

bilymuse:
UK can keep it, even if they repatriate the fund, another person will steal it. afterall we are losing N240 million to corruption daily without breaking a sweat.

wrong way to think. why should a foreign country hold our money?
We should demand it back and try to put measures in place which will prevent looters getting our funds

we should be withdrawing some of our reserves for such things rather than incurring more debt with all the associated interests and baggages

landis:
and you truly expect a president of a country to accept this



so any country US does not like his president's face is now in touble?

what more do you need to know who is the 'Real Dictator'??

That's exactly the way Bush saw/sees himself. He is the world despot

I cant blame Sierra Leone if they want to flush out ILLEGAL immigrants. We should not be seen to be condoning illegalities

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/12/equatorialguinea

Wearing handcuffs and leg-irons in an African prison, the former SAS soldier who tried to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea in a coup d'etat yesterday claimed the main instigator of the plot was the London-based Lebanese millionaire Ely Calil.

In his first interview since his arrest in Zimbabwe in 2004, Simon Mann also claimed that Mark Thatcher was "part of the team". Thatcher pleaded guilty in South Africa in 2005 to helping charter a helicopter which he agreed "might be used for mercenary activity".

Despite fears that he would be mistreated after he was secretly extradited from Zimbabwe to the Equatorial Guinea's capital of Malabo in January, 55-year-old Mann appeared relaxed in a grey uniform as he talked to Channel 4 News in Black Beach prison. For the first time, he admitted he was involved in the attempt to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema. "I was the manager, not the architect, not the main man," he said.

Calil, who counts Tory and Labour politicians among his friends, has repeatedly denied any involvement, although Mann named him in a prison confession in Zimbabwe which he later retracted. The confession was made under duress, but it was true, he said. In a statement to Channel 4 Calil said: "I have no involvement in or responsibility for the alleged coup."

Mark Thatcher, who was fined £275,000 and given a four-year suspended sentence, said he had nothing to add to what was publicly known about his plea bargain.

Apparently dispelling a myth which has grown up around the botched attack, Mann said the "JH Archer" who is recorded as giving money to his company was not the disgraced peer Jeffrey Archer. The novelist's name and that of former Labour minister Peter Mandelson, have been drawn into the extraordinary cast of characters in the tale as they both were friends of Calil. Asked if they had any involvement, he said: "They've got none at all. God knows where that came from."

Mann, who faces a life sentence on charges of "terrorist conspiracy and attempts to murder the president", said he was stupid to go ahead with the plot. He and 67 South African mercenaries were arrested at Harare airport in March 2004 as they touched down to pick up illegal arms. He was sentenced to seven years, reduced to four. Until now he has claimed that he was heading for the Congo to protect a diamond mine. "It was a Bleep-up," he said. "I blame myself for not simply saying: 'Cut'. I was bloody stupid. I regret all that terribly. You go tiger shooting and you don't expect the tiger to win. I have been saying how sorry I am to everybody for four years now actually." He did claim, however, that Spain and South Africa were in favour of the plot.

The interview, recorded two weeks ago, was broadcast after Mann's wife, Amanda, and his London lawyer won an injunction in the high court. They claimed he had been forced to talk by the prison authorities. But, according to Channel 4 the legal battle ended in dramatic fashion when Mann's sister, Sarah Grootenhuis, flew back to the UK after seeing him in prison last week. She went to the high court to confirm he wanted the interview to be shown.

Documents leaked since the coup show that Mann was expecting to make $15m and run the country and its oil revenues through a commercial company. In the interview he admits "money and business reasons were a motivation". But he went on: "The primary motivation was to help the people of Equatorial Guinea who were in a lot of trouble."

Perhaps for the benefit of his captors - the attorney general and security minister were sitting in the room - he claimed that Calil and Severo Moto, the Equatorial Guinea politician in exile in Spain who they planned to install as the new leader, both misled him about the country. They said conditions were "diabolically bad". Fears of frightful torture were unfounded. "I have been treated well. My accommodation is good, there's water, there's food and I am under no coercion."

He did complain about his violent and secretive extradition from Zimbabwe which took place at night before his appeal process had been completed. He claims he was kidnapped. His removal was also strongly condemned by the Foreign Office. "We have serious concerns about the legality of this under domestic and international law," a spokeswoman said. It is widely believed the extradition was a political deal. After the plot was foiled, Obiang agreed to ship oil to Zimbabwe to help Robert Mugabe's battered economy. The two men became allies.

Mann's trial, which is likely to be brief because of his cooperation, is expected to start in the next few weeks. The attorney general of Equatorial Guinea, General Jose Olo Obono, has said he will be given a "transparent" trial. To avoid allegations of partiality, the government promised his trial would be observed by a judge chosen by the head of the African Union, currently Tanzania's president, Jakaya Kikwete.

Was the Zanu PF not really helped to vistory by Britain?
These westerners always think things will remain the same forever. They instal their friends as puppets in developing countries and then when there is a disagreement, they re-label their ex friends.

That's true. we need to organise ourselves well enough to have our own correspondents reporting news to us. Not western media with their own agenda. Maybe then we'll have clearer pictures and be able to have less divided opinions. The western press will never give you news that will be damaging to their own societies. Those kind of news are quickly washed away.

Example: BAE deals

This amber get problem no be small. when the guy eye clear he go find 9ja woman and dump this white woman. na dat time she go sabi say she no know anything

ewu

They have made so much money from Iraq and they say it was not about the oil.
thief thief Americans

I am a happy man. I dont need Obama to be happy
Anyway Obama sef na white man

beystwin:
I wonder why Ethiopia is always bringing shame to Africa; why don't they ever learn? Very soon musicians across the world will be singing: "WE ARE THE WORLD", "FEED THE WORLD".

I also hate the idea of westerners saying they are singing for Africans who are hungry. But please spare some thought for what these people might be going through. They dont have the resources that we have and that's mainly why they are suffering

MyTempID:
The war in Iraq has done more harm than good for the US. economy. But let's continue to support those troops, no matter what.

support killer troops as they perpetuate the killing and maiming of the innocent people of Iraq?

Xiomarra:
Sectioned? I thought that term is used for pregnant women only who are way past their due dates? You bloody illiterate!


Hopefully I can still be "sectioned" by a certified doctor outside Nigeria to give birth to you as your only chance of being born again.

Idiot!

Yeah I am already in "Aro Chukwu"

Sorry, I have never had a C-section and I can't start now. Too old! Everthing I deal with enters or exits from my vagina. . .pick your choice. Would you like to be a "tampon" or a "period"?

Deeeks preferably. Make that extra beefy and "tall"! No wrinkles please.

This market fool does not know waht it means to be sectioned and she's not asking.

Afribiz:
Only about 2% of Nigerian women choose to be single mothers. The others see themselves into it out of their own wish. It could be that age was running out on them, or that they were impregnanted when they were younger, and the man refused to marry them.

In either case, they would've preferred to have their children under a matrimony.

who talk so?

abi u mean say na 2% of Nigerian single mothers?

if he is an american or british we would all have been made to understand that the trial was very unfair and that he is not guilty. a nigerian has no such privileges

just have to cry

It seems she's already well known here

Thank goodness that people actually know that this woman Xiononsense is a comical fool with dead brain cells

I think you will find that very very FEW women actually chose to be single parents. They are forced to become single parents by circumstances and mistakes they make.

It is not about money or skill.

Single parenthood is never good for a child. if it happens, they should make the best of it but i dont think any human being should desire single parenthood

Spermdrops:
I say common shut the phock up or down! Why are you following me around? You slowpoke! If people carried guns in Nigeira like in the US, I would gladly shoot your whole village in total annihilation.

For the last time stay away from my posts!

you really do need help.

Did someone recommend that your life's frustrations should be taken out on Nigerians online?

If you have any known relatives, they need to seek help on your behalf because you have already gone round the bend

Spermdrops:
Please go and get yourself a good phock ok? I am not interested! For the last time. . . stick to the bloody topic and stay the hell away from me! I do not need your retarded friendship! We both get banned and we shall definitely meet again! You ugly toad!

Monkey deek!

Where did this dog come from?

I have just looked through to see that you're just a nuisance on the forum. Go and find other dogs like yourself. And while you're at it, you may wish to see a clinical psychologist to examine your mental state.

It wont be long till you get sectioned.

You should be in Aro

Spermdrops:
Common stick to the topic, you son of a retarded father phocking bitch! You see banana eat for Nigeria? Idiot!

are you so much of a retard that your incomprehensibility (whatever) is boundless?

Xiomarra:
We don hear! Like anyone asked you guys or shemales who can only afford to get phocked in the arse by fellow cross dressers for a fee when the correct customers have all been chosen for the night? Go and marry your own first!

Single nairaland old cargos, with multiple failed YIM romances! At least I have failed "marriages" with some priceless collection of rings to show for my conquest of mugus like you discarded in the trash can!!!! Idiots!

At least I have tasted it. . . you try to see if anyone will prize you off the shelf with your stinking arses full of AIDS!!!

Some of us are not frustrated retards which is what you are.
Some of us are happily married to wonderful women. Thank God we avoided 'slum buggers' and life-time failures like you when we wanted to get married

Tchinasa**:
The height of joblessness I say!

Let the mother phocker burn I say,


The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire,

The Nigerian roof is on fire


Burn mother phocker, burn!

You will not be missed with all the imbeciles living within!

I believe this person is the real slowpoke.
Go away from this forum if you're not the prime slowpoke on the surface of the planet.

Monkey dey find banana

Tchinasa**:
No wonder one country is progressing and the other is regressing. Spot the difference please!

I dont see how Britain is regressing any more than America.
Britain is trying hard to ensure that people dont carry weapons because many youngsters with weapons claim it is for fear of attacks. Imagine saying that everyone should be allowed a gun/knife because they might get a attacked

Marriage is no longer in vogue please.  But for children, societal pressure, companionship and some religious "cultic" beliefs, people continue to plunge in. Small wonder the divorce rate world wide is alarming.

Many girls are single because many guys are ineligible.

Not a matter of life and death. 

To single ladies in the house, please make yourselves happy.  You do not need to be with any man's insincere or useless proposal. At the end of the day, most are polygmists. Most are highly ineligible and irresponsible.

The ratio of woman to men may be 100 to 1. But for every 100 women there is a useless man.

Go figure.

The rants of a frustrated human being.

Probably a woman who has had 1/2/3 failed marriages and trying to mislead younger girls into the same path