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Also, in the airline business, doesn't one instead usually lease aircraft rather than buying them cash down?

Or am I wrong. . . ?

On a serious note, if this is true, then we need to know where he got the cash funding from.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=651977.msg8178571#msg8178571 date=1303434232]Why do you want to make Tinubu a god?

Do you want to get on your knees and [b]worship [/b]him? [/quote]Is that what they call it these days? "Worship"?  

"God", "King", "slave", "worship". What is this, some gay African BDSM sh1t? Now this is a serious demon that is afflicting Justa.s.s.Cash. . .I dey fear o.

I think we should pray that Jesus will deliver him from this perversion.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=651977.msg8178530#msg8178530 date=1303433381]Anything Yoruba gets the dude hard.
I can just imagine him wheezing when he saw "Bola Tinubu" in the topic title. Why are ppl so afraid of Tinubu?[/quote]Wheezing, ke?

For all we know, he is drooling.

All this "king", "god" stuff. . . making me wonder about the guy a little bit. Generally you only see this sort of obsession in a scorned woman. Dude might be playing for the other team

dustydee:
I also observed on saturday that no result was coming in from SS and SE while we were getting results from other parts of the country. Someone jokingly said on nairaland  "CPC has voted, PDP will start voting by 12 midnight"

One of the more densely populated regions in naija, yet for some reason you get election results more quickly from Nassarawa or Borno.

Naija is a very strange country

@Ileke-IdI: Don't mind them. They are indeed pathetic dogs.

Hydro is pretty cool. I'd like to see kainji dam one day expanded, assuming the negative impact downstream isn't too much. We aren't taking enough advantage of the Niger.

And it seems you can generate electricity commercially from the tides, too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tidal_power_stations

I wonder if Lagos, Ogun, Ondo could take advantage of this.

Damn. Nigga sold us out.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=651724.msg8178422#msg8178422 date=1303431624]And Moses said "Let my people go"[/quote]Hehe.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtLcELU1brA

Is that the right analogy? They are leaving the SE in large #s because there is more money to be made outside of their region than before it. They've been doing this since at least the early 20th century. Biafra, we can use that analogy. But this? I don't think it quite works.

kulutempa:
We should also realise that Northern and Southern Nigeria were merged together by the British for administrative convenience and to serve their interests, not ours. The master has long since left and the three servants now have to consider whether it is still worth their while to continue to live together under the same  roof and if so on what terms.

+1000. We shouldn't be afraid of renegotiating Nigeria.

^-- Good of merging into 25 strong banks rather than a thousand weak ones (or however many it was) doesn't outweigh the bad he did?

Actually, where is a good summary of what exactly went wrong with the banking sector? How did Soludo screw up? I guess I'm focusing too much on the positive effect of the banking consolidation. . . I attribute a lot of the economic growth we've had over the past few years or so to it.

I like Soludo. Guess I'm in the minority here.

^-- Link:
http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/apr/22/national-22-04-2011-002.htm

I'm glad the ACN made this statement. He who has ears, let him hear.

Anyway, I don't think Goodluck will try to rig in the SW, unless he truly wants Nigeria to boil. He might try to rig the Benue gubernatorial elections against the ACN, though.

I don't disagree with Yoruba not joining the army in large #s back in the day. . . I can understand what they were thinking from an individual or family perspective. But in retrospect, in an unstable and coup-loving continent like Africa, it was a tremendous mistake for the Yoruba nation.

I honestly don't know what our leadership was thinking. We lost the Midwest region, were essentially powerless during the various coups. . . all due to not having an army.

If you don't want to have an army, then you should have gained your independence separately from Nigeria on 1961. That would have been smarter. Then you can build it up over time, and can make alliances with foreign countries to stave off invaders, etc.

Alas, hindsight is 20/20, I guess.

https://quotationsbook.com/assets/shared/img/1354/Obasanjo_Carter_3.gif

#checkmyswag


Seriously, GEJ, step your game up, son. Get rid of that hat for something else

Dede1, you missed the entire heart of the article and are focusing on minor and irrelevant details. In any case, the quote you quoted and misunderstood is a light joke about the ambiguity of the name "Ebele"  by Aluko, not any ethnic plays. I'm a bit surprised you didn't pick up on it, heh.

T9ksy:
And what makes you think the SS wants to be in the same country as either the SW or the SE?
IMHO, (after decades of ill-treatment) I believe the SS will rather go it alone.
Trust me, SW will survive with or without the SS.

Yeah, I figure that they'd go it alone. That is what makes the most sense money-wise, at least. Anyway, I'd be sad to lose the money, but I don't think it'd be the end of the world. I agree, SW will survive and find other things to do. But in the short term, it might be a painful transition.

iwonbaoko:
i believe  you are aware that  adolf hitler  is from  what is now austria in other words austria and germany as we know it together constitute deutschland.

No. They were two separate countries. He was just an immigrant from Austria to Germany. Since the ethnic groups in both countries are the same, I don't really think movement across the borders was a big deal at that time. We have Beninoise Yoruba in Yorubaland. Nobody hassles them or views them too much as alien.

afterworld war two the powers that be decided they did not want such a large powerful nation in europe.

Do you have a reference for this? This I doubt. Germany is the most powerful country in Europe right now today, and nobody is trying to partition/weaken them. If they wanted to merge with Austria, they could. . . nobody would block it.

that is the realpolitik of nigeria. no one will allow the SS/SE to remain as one nation even if the SS want it unlikely as that is.

Who would stop them? If both sides want to get married, who is going to stop the wedding?

mens dept:
So the labeling of Yoruba as cowards and all-mouth-and -no-action historically is legit, though the Yoruba of today, and a section of their leadership, is just as courageous, serous, and war-like as other southernors, and as a result, Southern rule and limited development as oppossed to 419, Hajj,  military decree, and nonsense.

Without trying to derail the thread, this I disagree with. How do you resist or kick out a Hausa army already in your land, when you don't have one of your own? I don't see how it is possible without enormous loss of life. . . possibly genocide.

Or what would you have done if you were in their boots at that time?

The mistake we made was not joining the army in large #s in the 40s and 50s. I think Awolowo tried to rectify this (I guess he was locked up for treason for trying to secretly train an army of some sort? ), but I'm not sure what else could have been done.

^-- I doubt we've even seen the worst for this week. What happens after Friday prayers tomorrow?

The GEJ outfit would look so much better if he just swapped out the cap. THe chain is actually a very nice feature.

Imagine that robe in white, with a cap like this:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Umaru_Yar%27Adua_VOA.jpg

And of course the silver chain. Or perhaps gold instead? Yeah, gold.

That would be pretty tight.

iwonbaoko:
that is your own formulation of the problem.there are many others.
like i said  earlier  if igbos want to be with the onye ofe manu they must learn how  to respect big bros (de) and desist from gratuitous prick comparisons .we are africans after all

I just figure that our common interest aligns for now. We can then sort out where it doesn't align later. It may turn out that the day the south secedes from Nigeria, the next day the SW secedes from the south. But it seems to me even if this is the outcome you want, then you should still cooperate.

This is just my opinion, though.

@T9ksy: The past is the past, talk is cheap, I don't really care too much about insults. I don't want to use emotion to make decisions. . . I prefer to make them as coldly and rationally as possible. Truth be told, I don't even care whether SW and SE are in the same country or not. What is more important/relevant is, is the SW in the same country as the SS. That is what will ultimately impact the bottom line. Whether SE is with us or not will not improve or worsen our finances. Same is not true for the SS.

I hope you kind of see what I'm saying?

I need to improve my insulting skills if I ever return to naija.

I am not on ya'll level

asdan:
The south can not do without the North

Lie, lie, lie!

PhysicsMHD:
rofl @ your sig

hehe

Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Southern Nigeria may further divide. But it seems to me that that is Step Z. Step A seems to be deciding whether you want to continue living in the same country as the core North. Most of ya'll seem to agree that separation would be good.

@mbatuku1: I see. So red probably has some sort of religious significance, I'm guessing? Wondering why that particular color for titled men.

lmao @ Beaf

Probably wrong thread for this, what is up with the Igbo red hats? How did that come about? What is the significance of that style?

It looks cool, just curious why it is always a red hat.

Anyway, his attire is fine. Just the hat makes it look very strange. I assume this became popular as a result of trade with white folks, or something?

@kuka700: great post.

Hehe. . . send some electricity to naija!