mukina2:

Nchara,
will you stop being a nuisance?
you started with  omo-Yoruba,  and all his similar usernames, and then Mekusxyz, with all the variations, then akin-egba and so much more.

To all the other multiple users and the troublemakers, if anyone starts a thread to start a fight, they will be banned and its  permanent.

Hrm. . .

Take a look at this thread where he is managing 3-4 accounts in one conversation: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-369357.0.html

How does he have the time to manage so many accounts? I guess igbobuigbo is the same person as well. Kind of impressive. Or sad, depending on how you want to look at things.

Hopefully the aftermath will be peaceful. . . but I certainly wouldn't bet money on it. We are entering unchartered waters.

Lol, I shoulda read pages 2 and 3 before posting. Hilarious!

honeric01:

Still waiting for them to come and arrest Buhari, still waiting for those empty noise makers

I don't suggest holding your breath while waiting. . . you'll run out of oxygen  All talk, no action. If they say they'll do something, surest sign that they have no intention of following up.

Boko Haram doesn't even seem to be a "Northern" thing. Seems to be centered around Borno State and the NE zone, not the rest of the North. Not clear to me why anyone here is using this as a criticism of Islam in general or Islam in the North. . . at best you can criticize Islam in the NE zone of Nigeria.

It is like having a problem with MEND and blaming some dude from Edo State.

hercules07:

I noticed that the interview was carried by Compass Newspaper owned by OGD? Something is not right somewhere.

Good point, actually. Have any other major newspapers carried this story? Very easy to imagine Compass taking a quote out of context.

A woman who enters a marriage not knowing how to cook had better be a fast learner

Sounds like a disaster in the making, lol.

Cooking isn't even that hard. . . what excuse would she have for not knowing? Especially as a Nigerian woman?

^-- Agreed. Not the most strategically sound move on his part. He made another blunder earlier as well.

Overall, opposition must be careful how it discusses other opposition parties. Sort of got a bigger fish to fry.

EzeUche cursed the Libyan rebels by comparing them to Biafra 

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0314/breaking2.html

Libya rebels flee key oil port

MARY FITZGERALD in Benghazi, eastern Libya

Mon, Mar 14, 2011

Libyan rebels began to retreat from another key town yesterday as government forces continued their advance towards Benghazi, the city that has acted as a nucleus for the uprising against Muammar Gadafy.



Scores of fighters fled Brega, which is home to an oil terminal, under heavy shelling from regime forces and headed towards Ajdabiya, the last rebel-held town before Benghazi just 170km away. A report on Libyan state television later crowed that Brega was “purged of the armed gangs”.

Just eight days ago, after routing pro-Gadafy forces in Brega and Ras Lanuf, another important oil town further west, the rebels had boasted of advancing toward Sirte, Gadafy’s home town, and on to the capital Tripoli. But the regime’s steady gains in recent days have unnerved many in Benghazi, where the uprising began last month.

Last night the mood in the city was ominous. Security was stepped up around the seafront courthouse that serves as headquarters for the opposition. On the ground outside, activists had painted in large, white letters: “Where is the United Nations?”

Telephone lines were cut for several hours in the morning. There were far fewer people on the streets of Benghazi, though several hundred medical staff gathered for a demonstration yesterday afternoon to repeat calls for a no-fly zone to be enforced. Many shops and businesses did not open. An announcement on the rebel-controlled Radio Free Libya urged people to remain calm and patient.

“The situation seems to have turned,” said one resident. “We didn’t expect this to happen and now we are fearful about what might come next.”

Opposition officials remained upbeat, however, their mood jarring with the sense of foreboding on the streets. “Yes, Gadafy has the upper hand with the air force, but we have been getting military aid including weapons,” said Iman Bugaighis, a spokeswoman for the rebel Libyan National Council, though she declined to say from where the military assistance was coming. “There is no return point. This land can’t bear both Gadafy and us.” She said the council had been organising “military defensive capabilities” to protect Benghazi and outlying towns.

Gadafy’s son, Saif al-Islam, has warned that pro-regime elements lying low in Benghazi are ready to act. “You will see the Benghazi people rising up and defeating this rebel militia,” he said in Tripoli. “You will see thousands in the streets, and I tell you, we will win.”

Ms Bugaighis acknowledged such elements exist. “We know that Gadafy has sleeper cells in Benghazi. We know where they are and they are constantly under surveillance,” she said.

Opposition morale had been boosted by an Arab League decision on Saturday to support a no-fly zone over Libya and make contact with the Libyan National Council. The Arab League declared Gadafy had lost all legitimacy and it urged the UN Security Council “to assume its responsibilities” and “take the necessary measures to impose an air exclusion zone for Libyan warplanes”.

But the fear among the populace in Benghazi is that diplomatic efforts will not progress quickly enough given the speed at which the ragtag and poorly armed rebels, who are virtually powerless against aerial attack, have been pushed back.

In Tripoli, state television said foreign companies are being asked to resume oil exports, claiming Libya’s ports are safe despite the continuing fighting.

Many journalists began leaving Benghazi yesterday. Hotels frequented by reporters have increased security, including posting armed guards at entrances. On Saturday, a cameraman for the Qatar-based Arabic language satellite channel Al Jazeera died after he was shot by gunmen near Benghazi.

Starting to look like they'll get their @ss kicked. Alas

So the PDP is stoning itself. . . and blaming the ANPP for it?

Interesting.

So going forward, any time GEJ is stoned, we should assume that it is the PDP doing it.

Kwajay:

It seems like this is one prophecy campbell made that is coming true fast. because 4rm the way things are going now the whole of SE/SS=approx 15million votes are for GEJ, while NE/NW=approx 24million votes are for Buhari. The NC/SW=approx 22million votes may swing eitherways (i better leave that for experts w/out sentiments to analyse). With these i forsee a rerun election & eventually the demise of pdp.

We shall see. Should be one of the more interesting elections in naija's history. Could go either way, imo.

@emiye: I think you must admit that those #s are fairly optimistic for GEJ. I don't think most prognosticators would guess he'd do that well in the NW and NE, and that Buhari would barely get 50% of the NE.

But even despite these rosy predictions of yours. . . Buhari is only behind by 4.11 million votes. It is quite easy to imagine a situation in which Buhari wins.

Mr, Cork:

My belief: A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Lol. There is some truth to that


Seriously though. . . it is pretty fvcked up to promise marriage and then bail out. Especially the way Nigerian girls are. . . they'll pretty much do anything you want if they think you are serious With that said, women need to stop being fools too. Shine your eyes well well

^-- And when if he is a studly Adonis figure? What then? 

I don't see why it is so wrong for a guy to ask for his woman to stay in shape.

I think as a guy it is easy to bounce back from a relationship into casual sex stuff.

But into another meaningful relationship? Takes a lot of time to recover mentally. At least for me. . . . probably a few months. I had a really bad breakup in 2009 and it took me like a year to recover mentally. If you invest a lot emotionally into a relationship, it will take some time before you want to go down that route again.

Yo, how about we just relax on the various ethnic threads for the next few days or so.

Let's not spoil a good thing. Otherwise the politics section will be useless, and some of us will have to migrate to other sites (e.g. NVS) for political news and commentary.

Good question. I'm not really sure of the answer. My gut instinct says guys though.

Lose the extra weight? Shouldn't be a big deal.

But if you marry a dude who is obsessed with weight/looks, then make sure you can keep up. Or find someone less picky.

Tallest woman I've dated before is 5'11. I'd have no problem dating a chick a couple inches taller then me tho (up to 6'3).

Not that big a deal.

Are there even any good dating sites for black people? I dunno of any personally.

Online dating seems to work out pretty well for white folk tho. . . my good buddy met his current GF online.

jason123:

Muki, you have tried. But you must have noticed when Rammon02 started this madness, didn't you?? Ileke idi also reported him but you did nothing yet you
banned Ezeuche?? Mukina, this rammon of a guy/ girl has been terrorising the political section all week and you simply ignored it Not good. mo.

Excellent points.

emiye:

I mean majority,   the simple majority indicates no need to have up to 51% of the votes, since the race is among over two candidates, i.e highest number of votes cast.

Interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_majority

I didn't know that "simple majority" means "plurality" elsewhere (including British English.)

emiye:

Edo state votes will be sharply divided between the ACN presidential candidate  and Jonathan  due to the factthat it is an ACN state, although Buhari's best performance in the south south will come from the state, he will not get up to 25 % of the total votes cast.

Buhari will also fail to get the minimum 25% in one other south west state, most likely Ogun state     and even in plateau state.

We shall see. I don't think it'll be that hard for him to get 25% in Edo and all of the SW.

You didn't address this issue of his larger voting base.

His back looks terrible

Messed up situation.

I would suggest a ceasefire. Otherwise the Politics section will become absolutely useless.

I would also suggest adding another mod for this section. Perhaps two more, even. Two mods is not enough for one of the larger forums on nairaland, imo.

Out of curiosity, is the language of day-to-day speech in Borno state Hausa? When did this happen (In the early 1900s it must have been Kanuri, no?)?

Dude is delusional. Truly and utterly insane.