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I don't care whether you use PPP or current prices, so long as you do so consistently.

The point I am making is that the 43 or 53 billion bandied about for Lagos is current, not PPP.

So comparing Lagos's GDP to that of Nigeria's and using current for the former and PPP for the latter is like comparing my height in centimeters to that of someone else in inches.

Anyway, I just wanted to clarify this so people have the right ballpark figures in their minds.

Heh.

Kats is one of the best posters on this forum, period.

Many of you taking shots at him or who have taken shots at him in the past bluntly speaking are not fit to even wipe his azz.

Quality and talent shines, no matter how much haters and malcontents may try to deny it.

Neither of those who have fired shots in this thread would even dare try him in an argument. . . you'd both be owned.

Remii:
from what I saw Federal Police did at Lekki Toll gate for Fasola, we don't need  state police for now.

Then I suppose we'll be waiting the next thousand years for adequate security from the federal government.

Securing a country is pretty hard actually. See the wahala the US goes through trying to keep illegal immigrants from Mexico out.

And that is just one example.

Cool. Check it out, let me know what you think.

I think there is a lot of potential with the project. And even if you aren't terribly interested, some of the components I'm willing to pay money for. So that is another possibility.

I would not suggest holding your breath waiting on that one.

Is there any chance you'll be impressed enough to respond to the email I sent you?

Hehe

Yeah I saw.

Seems sketch

Give us state police.

lol

I very much suspect this win, personally.

Seems very questionable (and by "very" I mean "extremely")

IbroSaunks:
ekt we are waiting for you at *you know where*

what? politics section? programming section? Lol if I won in programming section i will laugh

Well done.

He didn't play politics with the matter, as the foolish Bisi Akande did.

He didn't say weasely words, like the id1iotic Sultan of Sokoto did.

He did not choose silence, as many other Muslim politicians have done.

He recognized the gravity of what happened and recognized that it must be condemned.

And not only recognized that it must be condemned, but that it is his obligation to be amongst the first to condemn it, since Boko Haram is committing these acts in the name of his religion.

Thanks for showing wisdom, Aregbe.

Last updated: 12/30/2011
OSOGBO- Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun state has condemned the Christmas day bombing in Madalla by the Boko Haram sect.

Aregbesola made the condemnation at the first annual conference of an Islamic group, the Nasrul-lahi-l- Fatih Society of Nigeria (NASFAT) in Osogbo.

It will be recalled that the bomb attack on December 25 in Niger State left many Christian worshipers dead while others sustained various degrees of injuries.

The governor described the development as a very sad and irresponsible act which had no justification of any kind in Islam.

He said that all genuine Muslims in the whole world must strongly condemn the dastardly act as ungodly in all its ramifications.

Aregbesola decried the ugly act which, he said, was against Islamic teachings or doctrine even as he denounced all the activities of the Boko Haram.

He said that even at wartime, women and children were protected by combatants as against what the sect had been doing.

The governor said that the wanton killings and maiming of people by the sect must no longer be tolerated by the authorities.

He decried a situation where the sect had continued to perpetrate atrocities under the guise of waging religious war

http://nigerianobservernews.com/30122011/sports/sportsnews8.html

Shout out to my n1gga OAM4J

Congratulations man

Nice thread.

Oil is not the answer. Electricity is.

Regarding GDP of Lagos and Nigeria, it is roughly 20-25% of Nigeria's economy. I saw an estimate of $43 billion on The Economist, and $53 billionish or so elsewhere.

Btw there are two ways to calculate GDP, current prices and PPP (purchasing power parity.) I think most of these mainstream papers/analysts tend to use current prices.

Using that technique, Nigeria's GDP is more on the order of $230-240 billion, not $340+.

I am less familiar with ethnic segregation at church in Nigeria than at least where I live.

In the current town I live in, there are at least four churches that I know of.

One of them, the population is 90%+ white. The other, 90%+ black. Another, 90%+ Chinese. The last, 90%+ Korean.

So if a terrorist had to chose one of these four to blow up, you'd get similar statistics as far as casualties go.

But this would not in any way suggest that the terrorist was anti-white, anti-black, etc, ESPECIALLY if we know that he is connected with an Islamic terrorist organization. The natural ethnic segregation is what would produce lopsided casualities in this scenario, not necessarily some bias by the terrorist.

I don't know if ethnic segregation in church also occurs in naija. . . haven't been to church in major cities there frequently enough.

However, if 1000 churches are bombed (well, 10 would be enough for us to start guessing) and they are mostly churches which Igbos go to, then clearly something is going on.

But as things stand, not enough evidence for this particular hypothesis.

I don't think there is an ethnic agenda here.

BH is a terrorist organization with connections to AQ and Somali terrorists.

It is unlikely that they care about targetting specifically Igbo organizations.

If it was instead an RCCG or an Anglican church blown up and 80%+ of the victims ended up being Yoruba, should this be viewed as anti-Yoruba or anti-Christianity?

My natural instinct would be the latter, not the former. . . this sort of terrorism is a new and foreign phenomenon in Nigeria, but not new in the world, at least. So it doesn't make sense to necessarily interpret it fully as a local fight, or super-impose your previous understanding on what is an entirely new situation.

ogugua88:
Very bad mentality. It seems that's the mentality most of our artists have as well. Such a shame.

Congratulations. When is the wedding?

Temporarily assume that the $10 billion in annual subsidies to the oil companies is correct.

Measure this against the amount of tax the government taxes me for every gallon of gasoline I buy.

Multiply that by the number of gallons consumed daily in the US, and then multiply that by 365.

Sum it up, and you'll see that the US government in the aggregate heavily taxes oil rather than subsidizing it.

Europe is even worse in this regard.

If you want to justify fuel subsidy, you cannot use the practices in the Western world to do so.

Well said, Papa Jimba.

koruji:
You better go to the developed economies, look at the innumerable number of subsidies they maintain, but more importantly how thorough the decision process is on any proposals to reduce or eliminate such subsidies.

Koruji, as a fraction of GDP, these Western countries spend a lot less on subsidies than Nigeria does.

GDP of the US is nearly 15 trillion, ~60 times that of Nigeria, and Nigeria spends 8 billion a year on fuel subsidies alone.

In fact fuel is heavily taxed in the US, not subsidized.

In future years we should do ethnic primaries (as they decided to do) so that this situation of two good posters splitting votes against a weak poster doesn't occur again

This is analogous to Barack vs. Bill Clinton vs. some incompetent Repugnicant. .  .no matter how repugnant the Republican, he stands a good chance of winning

Hrm. Oyinbo did what was in his best interest. But if they had wanted to do divide and rule, they'd never have merged the two Nigerian protectorates, right?

Plus, since Africa is so diverse, shouldn't there be *more* borders?

I dunno, I think your accusation is unfair in this case.

Well done, Gbawe.

Katsumoto, I think you already know how I regard you, homie.

I wonder if Boko Haram sets off a bomb in Lagos, whether he will call that "silent revolution" also.

Goatish behavior is goatish behavior.

And just because the man is old doesn't mean that he is wise.

You cannot try to justify and romanticize acts of wanton violence and terrorism using words like "silent revolution."

If you want to condemn GEJ's inaction, fine, do so. But do so without offering any words of support for pure evil.

His words are either very stupid or at best playing politics with what is a very serious matter.

I'm as confused as you are. Does he mean strategic oil reserves, like the US has?

He cannot mean Nigeria's total oil reserves.

Or is he referring to foreign currency?

If he is referring to strategic oil reserves, why is this a big deal (given that Nigeria produces far more oil than it consumes)?

There is no force within Nigeria that can stop the progress of the SW.

In the grand scheme of things the rest of the country is irrelevant for our progress. What is most important is access to international capital so that we build the things we need.

Fire must be met with fire.

In a nutshell, I pity any tribe or ethnic group unfortunate enough to be isolated in the same country as Hausa or Fulani. Especially if they happen to be a predominantly Christian ethnic group.

The same thing that happened to the Christians in Afghanistan, Saudi, Iraq.

The same persecution Christians suffer today in Egypt.

State-sponsored oppression, ethnic cleansing, etc.

Their best bet is to carve out their own state separate from the north, if naija scatters. Otherwise their safety is not guaranteed.

Very interesting post.