₦airaland Forum

There can be 1000 parties. The # doesn't matter. . . what matters is the strength of each. Dunno why he thinks 5 very strong parties is best.

Interesting interview.

SEFAGO:
If he was igbo he would have bought the whole of Houston. Kind of mediocre.

You read this site and would get the impression that Igbos are Jews. But in the US, they seem no better than other African immigrants. Is your typical Igbo immigrant richer than say a Ghanian one? Are all these hot startups in the US founded by igbos? Is 30% of the population of MIT Igbo? OK, let's not even use those examples. . . what about organizations like black MBA, black scientists, black engineers. Are they 30% of those groups in the US? Again, this is why the superiority stuff annoys me. . . I don't see it actually backed up by facts.

That dude who got executed in Vietnam. . . why wasn't he instead a real-estate mogul rather than a drug pusher? Or a successful retailer?

I dont think Mexico is that much different than Nigeria from what I heard. I have like real Mexican friends (Not Mexican-American) and they complain a lot about the lack of jobs and such.

Income inequality is very high there. Your rich are insanely rich, from what I know.

Why are mexicans migrating to the US and Canada if its getting better?

There will always be immigration from Mexico to the US unless Mexico gets much, much richer. US is one of the wealthiest countries on earth, remember.

Both of you guys have the wrong idea about each other. . . I don't think there are camels in Kanuriland  

bk.babe isn't Mexican to my knowledge, he is Dominican or Puerto Rican.

And Mexico is doing a lot better than Naija, to be quite honest. Even the illegal immigrant types from Mexico, the ones who are hardworking tend to move up pretty quickly in society rather than staying at the bottom. Our mechanic in Houston has already bought his own home, for example.

SEFAGO:
The chick is black . . .what type of Nigerian girl is named Tata??

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=8012037

Nigerian. Her father seems to have some sort of electronics business in PH

EzeUche:
Go to the National Bureau of Statistics and you will get the information that you desire. I prefer dealing with numbers, not Nairaland threads. At least you all can be proud that you all have more wealth than the North. However, Yoruba can learn a lot from the Igbo about spreading the wealth. You will never see an Igbo begging in the East.

I've not seen any such income data on the NBS site. Can you provide a link/reference to back it up?

Jessica Tata (the Houston babysitter chick who fled) is from PH. I don't think she is Yoruba.

Who is ganging up on anyone? I'm just correcting facts here.

The only people who say "Yoruba" are Igbos who think they are funny and clever.

"Oh gee, a Yoruba king is called an 'oba'. . . let me mispell Yoruba as 'Yoruba'! This will be very amusing!"

Anyway, I've no problem calling you guys what you want to be called, but I'm sure as of the 80s, everyone spelled it "Ibo."

EzeUche:
I would expect your akata self to be able to pronounce the "gb" sound, but any West African will be able to pronounce Igbo using the correct pronunciation.

Therefore, since this is a Nigerian website, it should be written like Igbo. Would you want Yoruba?

When have Yoruba ever been called "Yoruba" historically?

Yarriba, Yoruba, Anago, Nago, etc, etc. But never Yoruba. . .

Most of the literature up to at least the 80s used "ibo", if I'm not mistaken. I've seen lots of Igbo posters here use 'ibo' too.

Hrm
https://i54.tinypic.com/vrgfie.png
From Wikipedia.

Alj Uche:
buhari has the whole north

all he needs is 25% in SW and thats it

core north yes, middle belt no

Doesn't look like he is going to have done well enough in the SW either

If that is the case, congratulations to GEJ.

I hope my people know what they are doing

We still here!

^-- Yes, but no LGA breakdowns.

OAM4J:
You might need to find out how ACN is performing in this presidential election, even in the SW.

Let's wait for the final results to be released. But I think I'll end up correct here.

OAM4J:
Result of this presidential election so far does not agree with post.

In what way? Coming in #1 in the SW rather than #2 would have given him a win, no?

In the final analysis, Buhari simply should have joined the ACN rather than starting his own party. He tried to bite off more than he could chew, rather than working with others with common interest.

Unfortunate.

^-- Why do you say that?

FWIW, at least according to Wikipedia, if a Muslim calls a Christian an infidel he deserves a dirty slap:

Islamic
The Arabic word kafir (literally the one who "covers", usually translated as "disbeliever"[citation needed] ) is the Muslim term commonly translated into English as infidel.[12][13] In the Islamic doctrinal sense, the term refers to a person who does not recognize the one God (Allah) - atheists and polytheists. Because Islam sees Jews and Christians as fellow believers, they are called "People of the Book (Ahl-e-kitab)" instead.[10][14][15]
Kafir, like infidel, has also come to be regarded as offensive,[16] thus some Muslim scholars discourage its use due to the Quran's command to use kind words.[17] [16] It is even a punishable offense to use this term against a Jew or a Christian, under Islamic law.[16] Some contemporary Muslim extremists, however, have applied the term to all non-Muslims.[10]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infidel#Islamic

Then again, take the above with a grain of salt. . . since it's from Wikipedia 

^-- Thanks!

wow

I'm still annoyed by this.

^-- What is it about Tiv culture that makes their rates so high?

And where are these sentinel surveys available online?

The usual gameplan of the PDP (in case you haven't noticed) is to announce valid results early where the opposition is strong, then cook the books in the middle of the night in their own strongholds.

They did it last week too.

I do not understand how one week after an election, INEC can have such limited data on its website. I understand democracy is young in Nigeria, but it shouldn't be this hard. Unless someone is purposefully making information hard to get

hmm

Doesn't seem to have breakdowns by LGA or ward for this senate voting stuff. Why? How can anyone double-check that these results weren't entirely cooked up?

Take the Benue South Result. Why no breakdown of votes by at least LGA?

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/3094-mimiko-set-to-dump-labour-for-pdp.html

Seems a punk move, but I guess every man has his price.

By Bosede Olusola-Obasa

A week after the National Assembly election conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission, the results are yet to be posted on the commission’s web site.


INEC conducted the election in most parts of the country on April 9, and as at April 14, visitors to www.inecnigeria.org were still unable to view the comprehensive results of the election on the site.


When SATURDAY PUNCH visited the site on Friday, it was observed that the last post on the bottom right hand side was tagged: Latest News. It was dated April 9.


The news included the list of the House of Representatives and senatorial candidates; list of presidential and governorship candidates and the statement of Prof. Attahiru Jega on the Suleja, Niger State bomb blast on the eve of the NASS election.


Visitors to the site expressed disappointment that they only saw stale items on the home page, especially with the expectation that INEC should be ready to conduct a digital election in the near future.


The visitors had expected to find all the necessary updates about last Saturday’s election on the web site.


The Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Mr. Kayode Idowu, reacted to the disappointment expressed by visitors to the site in a telephone interview with SATURDAY PUNCH on Friday.


Though not sounding assuring, he said, “The comprehensive results of the NASS election would likely be on the web site today.”


Idowu explained that the delay was informed by the need for the commission to be thorough.


He said that INEC could not afford to upload wrong results on the web site, hence the need to be painstaking.


“It is important to have the results on the web site, but we are taking time to cross-check all the figures so that we do not upload errors on the web site.”


But random checks by SATURDAY PUNCH show that this trend is common with most of the web sites hosted by public institutions.


Visitors to the sites are usually treated to stale items on the home page.


This is in spite of the fact that many of them have information technology personnel, supposedly charged with the responsibility of updating the sites regularly.


The information on its site describes INEC as the main agent of democracy in Nigeria.


“It is a permanent body created by the constitution to organise federal and state elections in Nigeria. It’s mission statement as seen on the web site is to educate Nigerian citizens about democracy and the election process; provide for voter registration; compile a credible voter register; demarcate constituency boundaries; organise and conduct credible elections; monitor the conduct of political parties; audit the finances of political parties and promote an enduring democratic culture in Nigeria,” it added.

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20110416254417

When will it be posted? Before Christmas, I hope?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLnWf1sQkjY