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Shollypopz: lol, felt d same way.....u nko??

U hv to answer questions like:
ur age, full name, occupation, what state u live in, what part of Ekiti are u from, and what is ur annual slary??
I could care less about d rest

lol

Odunnu, i figured your boyfriend/husband is igbo or something. You have changed from the Edo girl you were originally into a fluent Igbo speaker

So if I asked more specific questions, then you would answer?

i was somewhat disappointed by the kandiikane interview though...it didn't tell me anything i didn't already know

alas

dammytosh: http://247ureports.com/ajimobis-wife-in-london-police-net-for-laundering-n500m-oyo-gov-stands-surety-for-wife/

Bros.

Your article has a link in it to NewsAXE. The same non-existent website which the OP posted. Aren't you suspicious of an article supposedly pulled from a website that doesn't exist?

Doesn't it concern you that no one has ever heard of this News Axe before?

And truth be told I don't even know this 247ureports.

Let us see it from Sahara Reports, Vanguard, etc.

I propose a slightly different arrangement.

You post the link. If the link is suitable, you keep your credibility.

If you don't post it, you are sacrificed to a shrine.

Deal?

Can I be appointed senior special assistant on yoruba disapora matters for plateau state

Lol I didn't realize that the guy was mentally unbalanced when I started talking to him.

You make mistakes and learn from them

I searched google news for "Ajimobi", came up with no article discussing this story.

Can someone provide a link from a mainstream news source confirming?

coogar: tell me about your prior experience.....

This one weird fellow (fstranger) who I unfortunately decided to chat with on YIM, and revealed enough information for him to find me on facebook and send creepy messages.

Odunnu: lol. So we can all relive the experience together.
@Eku _bear, there's nothing in that interview you havent mentioned somehow already. Except maybe having your pic.
So, go grant it. Please.

I'll think about it.

Why on earth do the states in question have no say about who distributes power?

Very annoying.

coogar: ekiti grizzly bear - when are you doing yours?

Heh, I'd like to. But I've learned from prior experience on Nairaland how it is a good idea to keep your personal and private details non-public

I am sort of in this situation with this girl. We aren't actually exclusively dating for exactly this reason.

It really sucks to be honest...she is otherwise perfect, aside from this premarital sex hangup. Otherwise I'd like to be in a relationship with her.

C'est la vie I guess

^-- I don't know if you did this intentionally or not, but your user name is hilarious

Very interesting.

PointB: Is that so? Well, personally I don't see any beat down.

Well, people choose to see what they want. No matter how sunny today might be, if you squeeze your eyes tight enough, you won't be able to see any light

I see, Republicans living up to their billing. BTW it's a family affair.

Indeed, a family affair. But certainly third parties can watch and laugh

Heh. I was referring to the verbal beatdown your deposed eze has suffered.

Lmao

It has been a while since I've seen someone get ethered like this

Can't you just lease a jet from a private company? Or rent on a per-use basis?

Surely this has to be cheaper than buying outright, no?

How many times a year will he use this private yet?

Not many Nigerians are aware that the Northern Region paid custom duties to the Western Region until 1976, when Murtala Mohammed took over the reigns of Government. Or that as at 1975 when Murtala Mohammend overthrew the Yakubu Gowon administration, the Niger Delta enjoyed 45% rents and royalties? Murtala Mohammed slashed it to 20% (Decree No. 6 of 1975) to assuage the Northern States, before Olusegun Obasanjo, through the Aboyade Technical Commission which recommended the removal of the remaining 20% of the rents and royalties, finally nailed the coffin of the Southern States without any protest from the people of the Niger Delta or other parts of the South.

Interesting. This I did not know.

obadiah777: YOU ARE IMPRESSED BY ISRAELIS DESTROYING AN AFRICAN COUNTRY ?

Sudan lost its ability to play the "African solidarity" card with me after its atrocities in Darfur, destabilization of Chad, and after South Sudan finally pulled away.

They have embraced an Arab identity rather than an African one.

This is pretty crazy to me. I don't think that political differences should be a deal-breaker.

Opposites Aren't So Attractive; Voting Record Trumps Religion, Looks and Schooling
By ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON

In the tussle over whether President Barack Obama or Mitt Romney would be the better steward of the American economy, Barbie Adler has a thing or two to say.


Portraits by Bradford
Shelia Davis only dates Republicans.

Ms. Adler owns Selective Search Inc., a high-end matchmaking service in Chicago. With 28 offices across the nation, the firm pledges to find the ideal mate for clients paying fees that start at $20,000. Not in four presidential elections has Selective Search seen so much love lost over politics.

In this neck-and-neck, ideologically fraught presidential election season, politically active singles won't cross party lines. The result is a dating desert populated by reds and blues who refuse to make purple.

Being a member of the opposite party often beats religious difference, unattractiveness, and low educational and professional attainment on Ms. Adler's clients' list of turnoffs. The trend holds with less-expensive services, too, including OK Cupid, a free service found by a group of Harvard math majors, and Match.com, which surveyed 5,000 singles this year and learned that 95% of them haven't changed their political opinions because of a relationship.

"People now say 'I don't even want to meet anybody who's from the other party,' even if it's someone who's perfect in every other way," Ms. Adler says. In past election years, about a quarter of her clients wouldn't date a member of the opposite party. Now it is three-quarters, Ms. Adler says. She has fewer problems matching Democrats and Republicans in Los Angeles, New York and Washington, but in swing states, "it's 24/7," she says.


Image Source, Inc.
Charles Rawlings only dates Democrats.

Shelia Davis, who lives in the perennial dogfight that is Florida, ought to be a matchmaker's dream. Petite with long blond hair and born in Tennessee, Ms. Davis is an ebullient entrepreneur whose executive-search firm and other interests have provided her with a comfortable retirement at age 47. Divorced and a mother of three, she is a world traveler, art lover, wine collector, dedicated philanthropist and a serious ballroom dancer. She is drawn to professional men, mostly CEOs, doctors and lawyers, but the artist in her longs for "someone I can play intellectual ping-pong with," she says.

Most of all, she wants "a good person, with a kind heart…someone who would love my children as I would theirs…someone who soothes my soul."

And there is one more thing: "I will only date a Republican—or a Democrat who has come to his senses and is now a Republican," she says. "I believe in the free-market society that made America great. I don't believe in Obamacare and government handouts. I want someone who's a giver and not a taker." She worries that for anyone with a liberal viewpoint, "it's simply not possible."


BARBIE ADLER

She went out recently with a Democratic suitor, an attorney. Though there was "a little needling" over dinner, they parted as friends. When Ms. Davis texted a wish-you-were-here photo of herself at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, intellectual ping-pong turned to high-speed squash.

"I thought wow, we are really different people," Ms. Davis recalled. "It's important to me to share my life with someone," she says. "Whether at the RNC or a fundraiser, I want someone who wants to be there, by my side."

Eight hundred miles from Ms. Davis's side, in Winston-Salem, N.C., Charles Rawlings is a neurosurgeon, attorney, deep-sea diver and published photographer. Like Ms. Davis, Dr. Rawlings, 53, is from Tennessee, and he is divorced with three children to whom he is devoted. He leads underwater photography expeditions when he isn't driving his daughter to cheerleading practice and representing patients in medical malpractice cases.

Each time he operates on someone's brain, he recalls that "84,000 people die each year because of medical malpractice," he says. He travels widely, yet enjoys the South, where his children "love their town," he says.

Winston-Salem has offered slim pickings for a liberal thinker who says his new book, "It Really Is That Complicated," "grabs the reader and propels them through the exotic (and erotic) landscape that is the foundation for male/female relationships."

The city is "extremely conservative, politically and in its view on life," he says. There are plenty of eligible women, with one problem: "They could be Miss America or a member of Mensa, but as soon as they say 'I'm a Republican,' probably in five minutes we won't be talking."

Dr. Rawlings has rolled the dice on a few GOP women, especially entrepreneurial types. He recalls dinner in a fancy restaurant in Charlotte with a woman who intrigued him with her business ideas, until it emerged that "she was one of these right-wing conservative Republicans who give 10- or 15% of their income to the Lord," he says.

Dr. Rawlings isn't religious, and as a physician, "I am 100% for a woman having the right to an abortion," he says. "That, right there, polarizes so many people here right off the bat," he says. That is before he tells them he is a tort lawyer and writer of exotic and erotic nonfiction.

Dr. Rawlings paid Selective Search to scour the Southeast, then Chicago, then California for a mate who is "intriguing or fascinating."

In a different era, perhaps Dr. Rawlings and Ms. Davis, two artistic, accomplished entrepreneurs born in Tennessee, might see a way around their differences, the way two other politically opposite Southern-based overachievers, political consultants Mary Matalin and James Carville, did in the 1980s. Those two are still taking their act on the road.

Sometimes, Ms. Adler's consultants will try to bridge the divide by describing a Democratic woman as "fiscally conservative," or a Republican male as "socially liberal." But in the case of these two, Ms. Adler doesn't see any hope for bipartisan compromise.

The "gender gap" is seemingly a permanent feature of presidential politics, and although recent polling has blurred the picture, the 2012 election appears set to confirm the pattern. The most recent Wall Street Journal poll shows that 53% of men support Mr. Romney, while 51% of women back Mr. Obama. Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg pointed out last week that 70% of unmarried women voted for Mr. Obama in 2008.

Party preference has become the basis for "a knee-jerk, umbrella judgment about who you are, where you are going to live, how many kids you want and how good you are in bed," says Columbia University psychologist Judith "Dr. Judy" Kuriansky, author of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dating." "It's like we're back to the Civil War—if anyone is sleeping with the enemy, they're keeping it quiet."

Ms. Davis is concerned she is coming off as a bit inflexible. "I'm not a man-hater, I'm really not," she says. "It's more about who they are as a person. In any relationship it's a compromise." For example, "I may not like to go skeet-shooting."

What about deep-sea diving? "I'm willing to try anything once, as long as it doesn't risk my life," Ms. Davis replied.

What about dating, say, a true-blue deep-sea diver from a red state?

"It's disingenuous," she says, "because I know at the end of the day this person's a Democrat, and I'm a Republican and we're just different. I don't want controversy, I want peace."

Write to Elizabeth Williamson at elizabeth.williamson@wsj.com

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203872204578069373224970996.html/?mod=e2fb

1. Isn't the salt in water?
2. Salt isn't acidic, I thought?
3. Presumably coffins prevent acid in soil from acting on a corpse?

Hmm...very dry joke. Your yaba left one was better

You should consider sticking to your current occupation of asylum escapee rather than trying to enter comedy

van bonattel: The only points made here are that you will die of bad belle, and buried in ebonyi state

OK, this is a slightly less dull tale than your yaba left one. How did you come up with it? Why Ebonyi specifically? Elaborate on your story.

ACM10: Buzz off! And pls don't harass me next time. I hate empty boasts. I get bored debating with people like you. You are obviously a kid. I can sense that from your comments. The claim that you beat me mercilessly was an indication of immaturity.

WTF am I doing with u?!

lwkmd

I am glad that you have learned your lesson, at least. If you are having an argument with someone and they demolish your arguments so badly that you flee the thread for nearly three weeks, don't expect to be able to use those same bad arguments on other threads.

I guess the point has been made.

It seems that the onus is on you to respond to the posts I made nearly three weeks ago, which you have yet to address.

Once you do so, then I'd be happy to respond again.

van bonattel: Is that the only thing your deranged brain is telling you, then you are still sick and we are coming to haul you in. let me bring you chains because you may harm people in the streets

Bros, how can a man more mentally unbalanced than I possibly help me? Who is this "we" you speak of? You and your clan of escapees?

At a minimum, wouldn't I want a real doctor to treat me, not a mental patient like yourself pretending he is a doctor?