₦airaland Forum

igbo boy:
Just a matter of time before we see a yoruba terrorist either in Nigeria or overseas like Abdulmutallab, it is inevitable MARK MY WORDS,

Doubtful. Hard for me to imagine any Yoruba person strapping bombs to his chest.

So she'll win easily, I guess?

PDP is a weird party. It is like they are intentionally sabotaging themselves. I don't really get what they are trying to do.

@fstranger1: I think she is my lil shawty. . . but we've not discussed this formally yet.

No mention of nairaland there in the article. Or is one of those guys a known NLer?

ACNs aggressiveness is quite interesting, lol. Perhaps they'll be successful in turning the PDP into the opposition party

Hard for me to consider marrying a woman already with a kid. So proly not.

jason123:
why is that Although, i agree with you but i want to know YOUR  reasons

Defense, economic policy, and many other national issues need a centralized authority to make decisions. You cannot really "direct democracy" certain things that a nation needs.

Also, direct democracy is a bit dangerous. People sometimes are interested in what is only convenient for right now, even though it is harmful in the longterm.

Igbo democracy is useful for a town or small political unit. But for governing an entire state, much less an entire nation. . . doesn't seem quite appropriate to me.

Igbo democracy is fine at the local level. But is not suitable for a modern nation state.

Missy85: Atiku's biggest problem is that, unlike most other politicians who manage to survive a lack of credibility, there seem to be universal acceptance that he is unfit to be president.

Can you elaborate on this? Unfit in what way? Corruption, incompetence, or something else. . . ?

Corruption I'll agree with, but I suspect that he'd otherwise be competent.

fstranger6:
Stop saying that Jason

I am yet to meet a fellow Yoruba who regards Tinubu as a leader

He wants to be, but he is not regarded as a leader!

You should go on some of the Yoruba mailing lists on Yahoo Groups and see what people think about him, whether he is viewed as a leader or not. Granted, they might not be completely representative, but it should give you an idea of what SW folks think of him.

Interesting thread, good points raised.

Hilarious

You have to think about what life will be like when you are 40 and she is 52, though. Or you 50 and she 62. Right now while she is still young, it might seem OK to you. But once age hits a woman, it hits her hard (no offense intended to anybody here, just keeping it real.)

In the short terms things wouldn't be bad. She can even have kids up until age 40 (though the risk @ 37, 38 is way higher than having kids at 22 or 25.)

But I'm just worried about how things will work out in the long term.

Abuja rawks

Well, that they'll flood the American markets makes sense, since they can produce things at lower prices than Americans can (compare minimum wage in the US to the average income of a Chinese factory worker.)

But that they can also dominate the markets of countries with lower incomes (especially African countries) suggests poor management (or outright incompetence) on the part of the African countries.

Pretty hard to beef with Buhari's position. I suggest that you all read the article.

I will say though that Buhari has his priorities slightly off, imo. Security and corruption are important to tackle. But just as important is investing heavily in basic infrastructure. I was a bit disappointed he didn't mention that as well.

I didn't bother reading the links initially (and still have not); sorta had the suspicion that this was much ado about nothing.

Anyway, here is a relevant wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_energy_transfer

Long story short, it is useful for transmission, but not for generation. And power generation is Nigeria's main problem, not really distribution per se.

Bombblast Jonathan 

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Generally speaking, you don't arrest prominent members of the political opposition immediately before an election. . . it is pretty poor form.

This "cannot compete" excuse is a copout.

The per capita GDP of China is several times that of Tanzania. Labor is more expensive in China than Tanzania. That somehow it is still more cost effective to buy shirts imported from China suggests that something is absolutely broken in Tanzania.

Yes, put up heavy import duties to give yourself breathing room to fix the problem. But whatever is broken needs to be fixed, rather than constantly whining and complaining that you cannot compete.

As an extreme example, it would be as if farmers in Luxembourg (GDP per capita there is what, well north over $50k?) were able to beat the farmers in my village in Ekiti (GDP per capita probably $800-1K or so) at producing yam targeted for the Ekiti market. If something like that happened, it would suggest gross incompetence on the part of my village. Not that the Luxembourg farmers are some sort of bullies.

I got the shoeshine example from the article.

Anyway, I'm fine with high import duties to prevent foreign (Chinese, in this case) goods from flooding the market.

But presumably you'll also at the same time need to invest money to make your locals more productive so they can compete and so the import duties can slowly be reduced.

Perhaps Tanzania needs to invest more in basic infrastructure or something so that a t-shirt made 1000s of miles away in China, loaded onto a large, expensive ship, etc are not cheaper than goods made locally   

(If you didn't get my latter point, I'm again criticizing the poor job African countries have done that a wealthier country like China is still able to flood poorer Africa with low-tech goods. . .)

Well, the Chinese shoeshines there certainly aren't benefiting from imports. If Chinese are beating locals at shining shoes, then that reflects poorly on the locals, not the Chinese 

Anyway, it seems implausible that all of the Chinese traders there are importers. Those who buy and sell within the country certainly shouldn't be curtailed, in my opinion (unless their documents are not in order, or something.)

I do agree that uncontrolled importation can be harmful, but this is a separate issue from banning a certain ethnic group from competing. . .

^-- Why? How is it a net positive to kick out highly productive people? Like, I don't see the argument for it.

And if the ban doesn't cause the locals to enter those businesses?

Not clear to me that this will have a positive overall impact.

Plenty of natural gas and coal in this country. I'd much rather invest in that as a solution.

That is a great story!

This happens a lot to me, but in Yoruba instead. Like I'll freeze and forget the right response in Yoruba

Sometimes you get busy with work/school stuff, then forget to call. Then you think it is too late, procrastinate, start overthinking, etc. . .

Sorta see what I'm saying? Isn't really disrespect meant, just not being sure how to approach the person after waiting too long to call.

OTOH, if the girl calls/texts me, then I'll definitely pick up where we left off.

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=580856.msg7478512#msg7478512 date=1294368205]@Akhenaten, I hope the culprits are found and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I for one, cannot say who or what group is responsible but I have enough faith in the FBI that the culprit will be revealed.

I additionally hope they will provide us with drones to destroy their camps, be they in the North or deep in the creeks of ND.  Insha Allah, they will not succeed in destroying our dear nation.[/quote]Dude, Nigeria is not some wasteland like Afghanistan  

We don't need drones to sweep out terrorists or militants in the North. And I think a political solution will be more useful than immediate violence for dealing with the ones in the South (namely, more autonomy and higher derivations for their states).

^-- Absolutely beautiful. Makes my heart glad.

I'm happy that it is entirely private too, so there is less chance of it being derailed.

She is hot.