₦airaland Forum

The frustrations of the Jonathan govt and cabinet is becoming evident by the minute. Intolerant they've become that they can't stomach constructive criticism, even be it an aggressive one, there are rules of engagement based on decorum and tact. Abati has fallen to the deepest abyss of rascality(sic) and hooliganism. How did he get to be this way, is a big mystery to me. He's made nonsense of his career and reputation.

This project like it's predecessors will never, I repeat never come to light. We all know how the cookie crumbles when it comes to power generation in this ill country. Tis very, very, very, frustrating I tell y'all.

Amaechi,Amaechi,Ameachi.How many times did i call you?For your own good, I'll advice you "port" to APC before the committee submits its report,because you'll never get a fair hearing.Remember my nigqer,"he who pays the piper dictates his tunes",nough said.

[quote author=Mrs..Chima]I haven't taste nothing yet but my coworker is sure cute! [/quote]going by the tone of ur post,you will very soon,if you haven't already.
you make chima look bad.giving us the impression you're ashamed of him,hence you did not complement him too.why did you get married in the 1st place?dis iis just unbelelievable,mrs chima falls my hand again!

[quote author=Mrs..Chima]Giving a tribe a compliment means one is sexually starved? I weep for Naija ooo.[/quote]naughty you.would you approve chima flirting on the side with a fellow co-worker?or better still,him knowing you have a tin for ur "cute" colleague?now,now,be honest here.no snide or smart remarks.
BTW,a married woman seizing up a man is bad enough,but now broadcasting shamelessly like NL is some kinda BB,beats me.Yeah,I'm Nigerian,I'm old skool,but I've got morals.The best u could've done was to post under another pseudonym.
Don't tell me you're that shameless?SMH

clarence peters is the best and unrivaled director to have come out of this country and probably Africa.He knows how make a wack song into a masterpiece video.

A 48-year-old divorced Briton locked in a bitter custody
battle confessed on Sunday that he had killed his two
young children by slitting their throats near the eastern
French city of Lyon.
The bodies of a five-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy
were discovered on Saturday afternoon in the man’s
apartment in Saint-Priest, a southeastern suburb of Lyon.
The unemployed father confessed to the gruesome crime
“but did not go into details of the motive”, prosecutors
said.
The tragedy was “linked to a bitter separation” and “the
state of his visitation rights which he considered
insufficient”, another judicial source told AFP.
“In 2010, there was an incident of violence with his
spouse which led to restrictions on his visitation rights,”
the source said.
He was arrested on Saturday evening in Lyon and placed
in custody. A judicial official said a knife which is thought
to have been the murder weapon had been found.
The man had visitation rights but only in the presence of
another person, the official said, adding that this was the
first time he had brought the children home to his
apartment on the second floor of a four-storey building
without a third party being present.
He remained in custody late Sunday and was to be
presented to a prosecutor on Monday when he was
expected to be charged.
Police were also questioning his ex-wife, notably to learn
more about “the legal framework of the children’s visits
to their father”.
“We understand that a British national has been arrested
in France,” a Foreign Office spokesman told AFP. “We are
in contact with the French authorities and we await the
outcome of their investigation.”
Several witnesses said the man fled on roller skates after
his former wife encountered him on the stairwell of the
building and saw him with bloodstained clothes. She
immediately alerted the police.
A neighbour said the mother was soon joined by
relatives, including her brother-in-law and the children’s
grandparents, and was lucid although in shock.
A psychiatrist from the emergency services was
immediately dispatched to give her counselling.
“They were devastated but relatively composed,” the
neighbour said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“She said: ‘He has killed them’. I tried to comfort her
saying we didn’t know as yet although I knew at the
bottom of my heart that they were dead.”
Ahmed Benguedda, another neighbour, told AFP the
couple had divorced “two or three years ago” and that
the man had drinking problems and was a wife beater.
After the divorce the wife, who worked as an assistant
accountant, moved out of the apartment they had jointly
bought and was living in the Isere region of eastern
France.
But the children were “well-balanced”, said Benguedda,
whose seven-year-old daughter often played with them.
“All the people in this building are in a state of shock,”
Benguedda said.
More neighbours were being questioned by the police on
Sunday.

This one bold step you're making gurl. May it be fruitful. Not everyday you see a lady bravely declaring a relationship want the way you just did. Proud of you.

Why Is Cannabis Illegal ?
I am really curious as to why marijuana is illegal. When
the topic of legalization comes up, most people that I
meet fail to give compelling reasons other than the ones
they received during anti-drug week in fifth grade; we
are all adults now, and the mystery of why a seemingly
harmless recreational drug is illegal is not solved by a
conclusive "Just say no."
It is not physically addictive. But like any pleasure
inducing activity, it can be mentally addictive; Facebook
stalking shares this quality.
It cannot be resolved for use in a deadly poison (ie.
opium and coniine). A documentary I watched a little
while ago stated that one would have to smoke 1500 lbs
of marijuana in 15 minutes in order to overdose, any
human with that kind of lung capacity will have better
things to do than seeking a deathly high.
It has very little long term effects. Alcohol has liver
damage, tobacco has its lung cancer and the irritated
"I'm going out for a smoke" habit. Campaigns claim that
marijuana kills brain cells; but I've grown up among
extremely intelligent people who have done nothing but
smoke weed and read throughout their school careers, it
must be killing off the bad brain cells.
It does not cause aggressiveness. The association
between alcohol and bar fights is ubiquitous. However,
how many fights have you heard about involving two
people intoxicated with marijuana? If anything, cannabis
should be used as a peacekeeper in riots; peace, love
and unity would be the only thing coming out of the tear
gas canisters.
All jokes aside, the question still remains. Why has this
plant been prohibited? Was there really a legitimate
reason to do so besides fulfilling a conservative right-
wing's death wishes? If anyone can really give me some
legitimate, non-contradictory and non-hypocritical
reasoning I will be forever grateful.
"[Law is] a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims
and prejudices of those who administered the laws."
- Frank Herbert

I am really curious as to why marijuana is illegal. When
the topic of legalization comes up, most people that I
meet fail to give compelling reasons other than the ones
they received during anti-drug week in fifth grade; we
are all adults now, and the mystery of why a seemingly
harmless recreational drug is illegal is not solved by a
conclusive "Just say no."
It is not physically addictive. But like any pleasure
inducing activity, it can be mentally addictive; Facebook
stalking shares this quality.
It cannot be resolved for use in a deadly poison (ie.
opium and coniine). A documentary I watched a little
while ago stated that one would have to smoke 1500 lbs
of marijuana in 15 minutes in order to overdose, any
human with that kind of lung capacity will have better
things to do than seeking a deathly high.
It has very little long term effects. Alcohol has liver
damage, tobacco has its lung cancer and the irritated
"I'm going out for a smoke" habit. Campaigns claim that
marijuana kills brain cells; but I've grown up among
extremely intelligent people who have done nothing but
smoke weed and read throughout their school careers, it
must be killing off the bad brain cells.
It does not cause aggressiveness. The association
between alcohol and bar fights is ubiquitous. However,
how many fights have you heard about involving two
people intoxicated with marijuana? If anything, cannabis
should be used as a peacekeeper in riots; peace, love
and unity would be the only thing coming out of the tear
gas canisters.
All jokes aside, the question still remains. Why has this
plant been prohibited? Was there really a legitimate
reason to do so besides fulfilling a conservative right-
wing's death wishes? If anyone can really give me some
legitimate, non-contradictory and non-hypocritical
reasoning I will be forever grateful.
"[Law is] a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims
and prejudices of those who administered the laws."
- Frank Herbert

190: Never say Never - Justin Bierber

GRRR!!!Senior Citizen Nutville League.

50% animation,40% rearview,10% directing,and I got to waste 23 mb of my data plan.Seun,Seun,Seun.How many times did I call you.................fine,now tell your mods to scrutinize the panti they "port" to the front page before responsible people open and download contents of obscenities.I'm better off downloading poon than this shigbinshigbin.wande and sesan fall me hand no be small. Chei!my 23mb o!

the suit wore the dude

looks like Popeye the sailor.

dysfunctional

I remember way back when he used perform those stage plays and people either were indifferent or booing him.now the wind is blowing air of bliss in his direction.congratulations sir.

FRONT PAGE PLEASE!!!

naturally ,the bad boys always have the good gurls.she looks cute and shy .

I Have Murdered Poverty - Saka

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Hafiz Oyetoro’s controversial move from Etisalat to MTN as a brand face seems to have changed his fortune for good, writes CHUX OHAI

South Africa-based scholar, Prof. Kole Omotosho, and lecturer at Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Hafiz Oyetoro, do not belong to the same generation. The distance between Nigeria and SA also implies that they cannot be meeting each other constantly. Yet, they both have something in common.

They have the enviable record of successfully combining their work as lecturers with advertising. Apart from the fact that Omotosho is a writer, best known for his controversial novel about Nigeria – Just Before Dawn – he has made a name for himself in SA where his face has graced several advert bill boards. The latest is the one in which he is advertising for Fidelity Bank Plc.

Also, both men are household names in SA and Nigeria. While Omotosho is almost worshipped as a cult hero called Yebo Gogo, Oyetoro is popularly known as Saka among TV viewers in Nigeria.

Incidentally, at a time when Omotosho’s 70th birthday is still the talk of the literary community, Oyetoro, who has also established himself as an actor and a popular face on TV, also recently stirred the scene. This is courtesy of his ‘shocking’ appearance in the MTN’s I don port advert, a commercial that many have described as an excellent one – not minding the fact that some believe it is a below-the-belt jab for Etisalat, the telecoms company for which he worked as an advertising model for some time.

Ever since Oyetoro’s crossover, in which he is required to lead a major advertising campaign to drive the network portability initiative by Nigerian Communication Commission, Nigerians have not stopped talking about him and his amazing rise to fame and riches.

The deal is believed to be worth about N20m, which is enough to give the hardworking and self-effacing actor a clean break from poverty. But while the man himself has declined to comment on the positive twist in his fortune, he was recently quoted in THE NEWS as saying that he had finally conquered poverty.

“To the glory of God, level don change. Let me put it like that. I believe that in the nearest future, level will finally change. But now, level don dey change. I have murdered poverty and God has finally murdered it for me. I am no longer poor, but very comfortable,” he said.

In a telephone interview with our correspondent on Tuesday, he said he was not ready to talk about his new contract with the telecommunications company.

“For now, I don’t want to say anything. I promise you that I will talk at the appropriate time,” he said.

But when asked if his new responsibilities as a brand ambassador for MTN would not clash with his job at the Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, he replied, “I am a responsible civil servant. My duty is to teach other people’s children well, just as I would expect others to teach mine. So I cannot abandon my job. I assure you, everything has been taken care of.”

A few years ago, little was known about Oyetoro.

Although he studied Theatre Arts at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ago Iwoye worked as a part-time lecturer at the Olabisi Onabanjo University before moving to Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education in Ijanikin, Oyetoro remained relatively obscure for a long while.

In those days, he managed to appear in a few insignificant theatre productions, in which he played mostly comic roles. It took a while before the qualities that would raise him a notch higher than most of his peers began to manifest.

First, Nollywood came calling with an opportunity to establish himself as a regular face on the lighted screen. Oyetoro, who was burning up with a desire to prove himself, had to grab it. Still, a few years later and with appearances in hundreds of Nollywood films to his credit, he was far from hitting the limelight.

Then another opportunity presented itself. This time, it came from Centrespread, an advertising agency. The agency wanted him to be their model for its advertising campaigns with Etisalat. The deal clicked and Oyetoro’s transformation began in earnest. That was when, for the purpose of the campaigns, he assumed a new identity: he became known ‘Saka’, a character that he helped create along with other Thespians in 2004 for a TV comedy series titled ‘House A-part’.

Eventually, Oyetoro became the face of Etisalat campaigns. Within a short time, Saka had become a household name and Oyetoro could look forward to a brighter future free of the clutches of poverty.

In an interview published on the Internet, the actor cum lecturer admitted that he was involved in a bitter struggle against poverty for a long time.

“Poverty was my friend and family for a long time. As you sit with me here side by side, that was how I was sitting with poverty in the past,” he said.

The struggle against poverty had also cost him the opportunity to settle down early enough in life. “There was a lady who disqualified me because I didn’t have a car. But, thank God, I eventually got a wife who genuinely loves me and who I genuinely love,” he said.

http://www.punchng.com/feature/midweek-revue/i-have-murdered-poverty-saka/

so masquerades too dey die,wonderful!

SOURCE: http://www.punchng.com/columnists/trivia-constitutional/polices-misconception-about-tinted-glass/
MOD please oblige front page presence for benefit of NLanders who at one time or the other have been fleeced by these rascals,thanks

For
some
time
now,
owners
of
vehicles
with
tinted
glass in
Nigeria
have
been
going
through
a rough
time
with
policemen
who see
the situation as one from where they can make up for
the personal and institutional revenue losses that
have been plaguing them ever since the removal of
roadblocks from the nation’s highways.
Without going into the legal and policy arguments on
the issue, it is obvious that some vehicles (outside the
statutorily designated exceptions) are actually so
opaquely tinted that any rational person seeing them
would naturally think that the occupants are into
something sinister. They are so darkly tinted that
someone outside, no matter how close, cannot see
whoever is inside. Any scrupulous law enforcement-
minded person would naturally suspect that there is
something fishy about such unusual vehicles.
On the other hand, most vehicles, especially vans
and SUVs that are manufactured in North America,
Europe and Japan come with tinted glass with the
thickness graduated from the front to the rear. In all
these vehicles, it is never a problem for anyone
standing close to see or identify the occupants. In
fact, the front passengers’ windows are generally and
rightly of a lighter tint.
The reason why these cars are tinted range from the
need to enhance the performance of the air-
conditioning system, protection from harmful glare
and the general room-type comfort of modern
automobiles. They don’t have criminals and other
deviants in mind and as a matter of fact, none of
these factory tints will meet the demands of anyone
trying to avoid visibility as they are reasonably
transparent.
Unfortunately, in Nigeria we have developed a
national worldview that seeks to avoid rational
responses to emerging challenges by resorting to
extreme and bizarre solutions that are, in most cases,
counterproductive or are indicative of palpable
intellectual laziness. Nowhere is this mentality more
prevalent than in the areas of crime prevention and
law enforcement. That is why it is often possible for
the police to block road traffic with lines of vehicles
stretching into kilometres just because they are
“searching for criminals”. Common sense should have
made it clear that only a foolish and suicidal criminal
will wait patiently in a roadblock queue to be
apprehended.
Little wonder therefore that no wanted person has
ever been caught at such foolish and annoying
checkpoints. The only possible thing happening at
such places is the opportunity of the officers manning
them to collect illicit tolls and unlawfully enrich
themselves at the expense of security.
Specifically about tinted glass ban in Nigeria, the only
reason that the authorities thought it necessary is
their belief that criminals also use them to shade
themselves from detection. It ought to be the rational
expectation that any vehicle that is tinted has
unwittingly invited the scrupulous law enforcement
officer upon itself as that would be easily profiled to
be something questionable. Unfortunately, that will
be the car they would approach obsequiously and be
asking “Oga, anything for your boys?” Their only
alternative is to lump all those with tinted glass
together as criminals who must then cough up
something if they are to continue on their journeys.
Recently, the Senate sensing the abuses and unfair
harassment that have followed the recent IG’s
directive on tinted glass has initiated a legislative
process intended on repealing or nullifying the Motor
Vehicles (Prohibition of Tinted Glass) Act, Cap M21
Laws of the Federation (Formerly Decree 6 of 1991). A
proper reading of section 1(1) of the act shows that
the Police have been wilfully misinterpreting it to
harass innocent road users who have the misfortune
of driving vehicles with any form of tint. What the law
actually prescribes is that “no person shall cause any
glass fitted to a vehicle to be tinted, shaded, coloured
lightly or thickly or treated in any way as to render
obscure or invisible persons or objects inside the car.”
The critical issue here is not whether the tint was
factory-fitted or not, it is whether it obscures or
makes occupants invisible. Simple! The police know
they cannot sustain their nebulous argument based
on this Act before a court of law. So it is just a source
of illegitimate revenue and power show.
As long as the tint on a vehicle does not render
“obscure” or “invisible” whatever is inside it, there can
never be a sustainable charge on it. It is not the
expectation of the law that any subjective
interpretation by a police officer who probably needs
an eye test for his poor vision to be the conclusion as
to what is obscured or ordinarily invisible. Of course,
there are some wilfully tinted vehicles that do not
allow for either vision or identification of occupants.
These are the targets of that law and certainly not
those factory-fitted ones that were tested for
transparency in the general interests of traffic safety
for the occupants and every other person concerned
where they were made. It is inconceivable that a
vehicle would pass the rigorous inspection of safety
personnel in the manufacturing countries if the glass,
as tinted, would lead to the inability to see those
inside or for those inside not to see what is
happening outside.
If the Police could just do what is right instead of the
present situation of wholesale embarrassment and
harassment of innocent road users, there should be
no need to nullify the present statute. Perhaps the
dictatorial origins of the Decree that metamorphosed
into the present law are beclouding the logical and
inevitable juristic perception that the demands of the
rule of law under a supreme constitution have
brought into being: the days of subjective
interpretation of military decrees are far gone. All
Nigerian laws, to be valid, must now meet the
standards of objectivity, reasonableness and
constitutionality. The present abusive, indiscriminate
and oppressive application of the tinted cars laws by
the police cannot stand the muster of judicial review
and that of common sense.
It is the subsisting injustice that the current initiative
before the senate on tinted glass seeks to stop.
Otherwise, it is a law that was necessitated by the
reality in the country but which the enforcers have
discredited irretrievably. It is not a crime for a vehicle
to have a tinted glass that does not obscure visibility
either from outside or from inside it.

are you on whatapp? if not ,register now so serious business men like us can get across.not everyone uses BB you know.thanks.let's know when you're registered.

don't get ur hopes high peeps,there'll never be a cure for HIV.NEVER!!! you just don't put out billion of dollars generating business of condoms,retros and NGOS like that.No way in hell is that happening baby,no way.
So therefore,in the mean time,PLAY SAFE,PLAYERS.

reminds of some girls I dated way back

The Writer: .
The way your brain works just astounds me! I wonder how you inferred in-breeding from that.

but you said your daddy taught you sex.how? MouthAction or annal ?

The Writer: .
Really? What is he then? I'l tell you what he is: a loving father that despite his busy schedule, always plays football with his family on saturdays, listens to our problems and gives us first-rate advice. I feel comfortable telling him anything, and he's the one that taught me about sex. Yes, he did. How many of you can boast that?

When my sister's first boyfriend broke up with her, he was the one she ran to in tears. Can your father do that for your sister? Can you do that for your daughter?

erm, inccest is forbidden in MY FAMILY!

The Writer: .
Wow! I'm surprised you morality-imbibing religion didn't come with simple reasoning and comprehension. I meant, to dumb it down for your religion- and tradition-addled brain, that both my dad and uncle help out in the house as a matter of responsibility because their parents, my grandparent, taught them so.

a lineage of dysfunctionals !!! God save us on NL.

The Writer: .
Belive me I'd rather be raised by them 500 times over than by someone like you that sees women as property.

Any man that'll treat my sister like that will be in for a world of pain!

if you were my kid, I'd donated you as a lab experiment

The Writer: .
Whatever it is, the issue is that my dad does it and his dick hasn't fallen off. YA HEAR THAT PEOPLE? HELPING OUT IN THE HOUSE WILL NOT MAKE YOU LESS OF A MAN!!!!!!!!!!! MY DAD IS LIVING PROOF, MY UNCLE IS LIVING PROOF.

the fact that his joystick is intact does not also make him a man. BTW, how come you know he still has one, you pervert!

The Writer: .
Whatever it is, the issue is that my dad does it and his dick hasn't fallen off. YA HEAR THAT PEOPLE? HELPING OUT IN THE HOUSE WILL NOT MAKE YOU LESS OF A MAN!!!!!!!!!!! MY DAD IS LIVING PROOF, MY UNCLE IS LIVING PROOF.

such dysfunctional family. Which of them is your dad? Your dad or your uncle. Be explicit kid!