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FamilyRe: I Need Your Advise by eghost247(m): 3:38pm On Mar 01, 2012
you have 3kids already in as much as i understand that you want to personally have yours  just take things easy
PoliticsRe: Breaking News: Building Just Collapsed In Awka by eghost247(m): 3:36pm On Mar 01, 2012
Logic Mind:
This country must divide.
what does a collapsed building have to do with dividing nigeriahuh huh
Christianity EtcRe: Churches Now Market Centres by eghost247(m): 3:35pm On Mar 01, 2012
~Bluetooth:
Fela don sing am for song. . .

Suffer suffer for world. . . .Amen
Enjoy for heaven . . . .Amen
Christains go dey yarn,Espirit heavenus
Muslims go dey call,Allahu Akbar
Open your eyes everyone
Archbishop na miliki,pope na enjoyment,imamu na gbaladun. . .rararanrarar
Archbishop dey enjoy
Pope sef dey enjoy
Imam sef dey enjoy
HAHAHAHAHA BLUETOOTH NO GO KILL ME OOOOOO
TV/MoviesRe: Who Would Be Your Pick For Mr. And Mrs. Smith Nollywood Version? by eghost247(m): 3:33pm On Mar 01, 2012
There loads of male actors we could pick from but for the females cant say
PoliticsRe: Court Orders Police To Pay N12m As Damages To Salesboy by eghost247(m): 7:53am On Mar 01, 2012
maybe this will teach them a lesson
PoliticsRe: Describe Ojukwu In One Word. by eghost247(m): 10:39pm On Feb 29, 2012
Subscribing
CelebritiesRe: Hacker Cracks Into Nigerian Celeb Twitter Accounts by eghost247(m): 4:35pm On Feb 29, 2012
interesting
FoodGraduate Hawks Plantain in Suit by eghost247(op): 4:02pm On Feb 29, 2012
It is true whatever your hands find to do, do it well. But Nigerians will never accept what is gradually creeping into our system these days as jobs that were said to be meant for the uneducated are now being picked up by serious graduates of reputable schools. Some say its the Nigerian Joblessness, others say its a unique evolution in the business sector. Whatever is being said may be a little inconsequential, but what is the most important thing is that there is change.
The man balancing plantain on his head doesn't really speak of style. That is just just the problem of inadequate job provisions to the Nigerian people. When you laugh, remember this.

http://www.talkofnaija.com/News/newsdetailsone.aspx?NewsId=6B1DEF6A-CA27-4547-A700-4055414BEAC0
PoliticsRe: Picture Of Ibori- The Ogidigbodigbo Of Africa In The Klink by eghost247(m): 1:49pm On Feb 29, 2012
as usual some people will defend corruption
FamilyRe: 6 Month Old Baby And Pregnant Again. by eghost247(m): 1:08pm On Feb 29, 2012
isnt it abit too early
Nairaland GeneralRe: Happy Leap Day! by eghost247(m): 1:07pm On Feb 29, 2012
interesting
CrimeRe: Woman Who Poured Faeces On Female Banker Arraigned by eghost247(m): 1:06pm On Feb 29, 2012
serves her right
PoliticsRe: Ibo And Yoruba Rivalry - Myths And Facts - Part 1 by eghost247(m): 10:27am On Feb 29, 2012
interesting
CrimeRe: Nigerian, Eric Chimezie Oluigbo Sentenced To Death In Malaysia 4 Drug Traffickin by eghost247(m): 10:17am On Feb 29, 2012
So sad hope others will learn from this
CelebritiesRe: James Iroha, Populary Known As Giringory, Is Dead by eghost247(m): 5:54am On Feb 29, 2012
Rip
Music/RadioRe: What Music Are You Listening To Right Now? by eghost247(m): 6:41pm On Feb 28, 2012
Lilwayne featuring Bruno Mars Mirror
PoliticsRe: The Amazing Wealth Of Ibori by eghost247(m): 6:38pm On Feb 28, 2012
and this are just the ones we know about who knows what else he has
Nairaland GeneralRe: Lagosians Feel They Can Outsmart Everyone by eghost247(m): 6:37pm On Feb 28, 2012
Too Much JJCS ON NAIRALAND
CareerRe: I Don't Want To Be A Doctor The Words Nigerian Parent Does Not Want To Hear by eghost247(m): 6:35pm On Feb 28, 2012
two sides to every story
PoliticsRe: Fulani Herdsmen Rob On Lagos-ibadan Expressway by eghost247(m): 1:19pm On Feb 28, 2012
wow this is suprising
PoliticsRe: Pictures Of Obj In Senegal by eghost247(m): 10:11am On Feb 28, 2012
See baba Polo shirt
TV/MoviesRe: What Series Are You Watching Now? Part 2 by eghost247(m): 9:57am On Feb 28, 2012
Two and a half men season 9 Episode 18
TV/MoviesRe: What Series Are You Watching Now? Part 2 by eghost247(m): 6:27am On Feb 28, 2012
Seinfeld Season Five Episode 1
PoliticsRe: Remains Of Ojukwu Arrives Nigeria (in Pictures) by eghost247(m): 5:56am On Feb 28, 2012
see people that want to divide Nigeria good one
PoliticsRe: Picture Of Ibori- The Ogidigbodigbo Of Africa In The Klink by eghost247(m): 4:31am On Feb 28, 2012
hahahaha this is serious shocked shocked shocked
SportsRe: Rwanda Will Be Used To Make A Statement: 'nigeria Still A Force' - Taye Taiwo by eghost247(m): 7:12pm On Feb 27, 2012
hope so super eagles
PoliticsNew York Times On Boko Haram by eghost247(op): 6:45pm On Feb 26, 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/world/africa/in-northern-nigeria-boko-haram-stirs-fear-and-sympathy.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&smid=FB-nytimes
KANO, Nigeria — In an imam’s quiet office, two young men in long hooded robes, their faces hidden by checked scarves, calmly described their deadly war against the Nigerian

state.
The office door was open. Children from the Koranic school adjoining the mosque streamed past, laughing and jostling. Worshipers from the evening prayer service, which the young men had just left, poured into the parking lot. If the police had been alerted in any way, the two young men would have been instantly arrested, or worse. But neither appeared nervous about possible betrayal.

“It is not the people of Nigeria, it is only the army and the police who are against us,” said one of the men, explaining their membership in Boko Haram, the militant group that has claimed responsibility for killing hundreds in its battle against the Nigerian government. “Millions of people in Kano State are supporting us.”

His bravado notwithstanding, the violent Islamist army operating out of these dusty alleyways, ready to lash out and quickly fade back, is deeply enmeshed in the fabric of life in this sprawling metropolis, succored by an uneasy mix of fear and sympathy among the millions of impoverished people here.

The group’s lethality is undeniable. Boko Haram unleashed a hail of bullets and homemade bombs here last month to deadly effect: as many as 300 were killed in a few hours in the group’s deadliest and most organized assault yet after two years of attacks across northern Nigeria. It was an unprecedented wave of coordinated suicide bombing, sustained gunfire and explosions, much of it directed against the police.

But while Western and local officials cite the militants’ growing links to terrorist organizations in the region — presenting the ties as a reason behind the group’s increasingly deadly tactics and a cause for global concern — Boko Haram is not the imported, “foreign” menace Nigerian authorities depict it to be.

Since 2009, the group has killed well over 900 people, Human Rights Watch says. Yet on the streets of Kano, the government is more readily denounced than the militants. Anger at the pervasive squalor, not at the recent violence, dominates. Crowds quickly gather around to voice their heated discontent, not with Boko Haram, but with what they describe as a shared enemy: the Nigerian state, seen by the poor here as a purveyor of inequality.

“People are supporting them because the government is cheating them,” said Mohammed Ghali, the imam at the mosque where the two Boko Haram members pray. Imam Ghali is known as an intermediary between the militants and the authorities, and while open backing for the group can put almost anyone in the cross hairs of the Nigerian security services, there appears to be no shortage of Boko Haram supporters here.

“At any time I am ready to join them, to fight injustice in this country,” said Abdullahi Garba, a candy vendor who came into Imam Ghali’s office.

Of course, Boko Haram is feared and loathed by countless residents as well. Its brutal show of firepower here in Kano, a commercial center of about four million that for centuries has been a major entrepôt at the Sahara’s edge, has left many residents in shock. The attackers came on foot, by motorcycle and by car, throwing fertilizer bombs and pulling rifles from rice sacks, mowing down anybody who appeared to be in uniform. There were even decapitated bodies among the mounds of corpses the day after, said a witness, Nasir Adhama, who owns a textile factory with his family near one of the attack sites.

“When you saw this road, it was just shed with blood,” Mr. Adhama said. “Everywhere there were dead bodies. They passed through this place, just firing and shooting.”

One of the young men at the mosque said he had participated in the planning for the attack, asserting that the group had received no outside help.

But a United Nations report published in January cited regional officials as saying that “Boko Haram had established links with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb,” and that “some of its members from Nigeria and Chad had received training in Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb camps in Mali during the summer of 2011.” Seven Boko Haram members passing through Niger were arrested with “names and contact details” of members of the Qaeda affiliate, the United Nations report said.

For now, Boko Haram’s targets remain largely local, despite its bombing of a United Nations headquarters in Abuja, the capital, last summer. The Nigerian state is typically the enemy, and many analysts see the nation’s enduring poverty as one reason.
This month figures were released in Abuja indicating that poverty has increased since 2004, despite the nation’s oil wealth; in the north, Boko Haram’s stronghold, about 75 percent of the population is considered poor. Overall, 60 percent live on less than $1 a day. Every citizen appears aware of the glaring contrast between his or her own life and those of the elite.

Ado Ibrahim, a 22-year-old sugar cane vendor wearing a yellow soccer jersey, suspected more violence could be ahead.

“Injustice, and misgovernance by officials,” he said, adding, “It’s possible, as long as injustice persists, it’s possible to have another flare-up.”

Down the street, squatting in his open-air stall where he sells cooked yams, Abdullahi Dantsabe had a similar point of view. Why had the attacks occurred? “Injustice,” he said. “The leaders are not concerned about the common man.”

One resident argued that Boko Haram made some effort to protect civilians. “They told us to move away,” said Mohammed Danami, a motorcycle taxi driver, describing a devastating police station attack on Jan. 25. “They said, ‘We are not here for you,’ ” he recalled.

But the fate of Alhaji Muhammadu suggests otherwise. He was fatally shot on Feb. 9 as he walked along a sandy alley to his cinder-block home. His son said that his father had alerted the police to a bosom-trapped car in the neighborhood, several days before the shooting. Boko Haram found out. Two masked men on a motorcycle shouted: “Just try that again. Now you are dead,” recalled the son, Sudaifu Muhammadu, a 27-year-old student at Bayero University, shuddering.

“They are all around,” Mr. Muhammadu said.

Last July the Nigerian news media reported on a letter of warning from the group to Kano’s leaders, including the emir, the traditional ruler of this ancient aristocratic city: “All those arrested should be released immediately, otherwise, I swear with Almighty Allah, we may be forced to deploy our men to Kano,” the letter said.

Six months later, on Jan. 20, the group struck. The planning had gone on under the noses of the authorities. “What happened in Kano was something which the security agencies had foreseen,” said Dr. Bashir Aliyu, a prominent imam in Kano.

There were up to five suicide bombers that day, at least 20 explosions, assaults on what were thought to be well-guarded state and regional police headquarters, on the State Security Service, an immigration office and the residence of a high police official. Gunmen entered a police barracks and opened fire, killing dozens.

Kano officials have said little since the attacks, and the precise sequence of events that day remains a mystery. The police commissioner here declined requests for an interview, and the state’s information commissioner did not respond to a message or phone calls.

An elderly aristocrat with connections to the royal palace here, Yusuf Maitama Sule — Nigeria’s former United Nations ambassador, he was one of those to whom Boko Haram’s letter was addressed, according to the Nigerian media — said in an interview at his home here: “We are making some efforts quietly. I don’t think it is proper for me to speak out.”

Mr. Sule acknowledged, however, that the country faced deep social and economic challenges.

“Because of this oil habit, we are sending our girlfriends to do their hair in Paris,” he said.

For some analysts, the challenge posed by Boko Haram is a serious one for the Nigerian government.

“They’ve built cells in Kano,” said Paul Lubeck, a northern Nigeria expert at the University of California, Santa Cruz. “They have much deeper networks in Kano than anybody ever assumed. My position is, this is a remarkably successful insurrection, more than anybody ever could have thought.”

In the imam’s office, the two young men spoke calmly and confidently of ultimate triumph. “God has already positioned us to follow his rule,” said one of the men, 25. “At any time, we can gain victory. Because God will give it to us.”
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2012/02/25/world/100000001384820/kano-under-siege.html
PoliticsRe: Lagos Funeral For Late Dim Odumegwu-ojukwu (pics) by eghost247(m): 4:57pm On Feb 26, 2012
sighs
IslamRe: 10 Years After Burial, Imam Sheez Adeyemi's Body Remains Fresh by eghost247(m): 4:56pm On Feb 26, 2012
nice
Nairaland GeneralRe: Why Are There So Many Faceless People On Narialand? by eghost247(m): 4:50pm On Feb 26, 2012
huh huh huh

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