There's no way GEJ is going to sign a bill that makes it easier to catch his allies stealing. Obasanjo refused to sign it even though he was leaving office not to talk of Jonathan who is still hoping to be around for the next 8 years.
Also as someone has already said, the current version has been severely watered down from its original form by selfish legislators who want to protect their fat wallets.
In any case, a weak F of I Act is better than no F of I Act. I'm sure Nigerian journalists and private citizens will still find a way to use it to embarrass some PDP thieves.
I refuse to be optimistic about Nigeria anymore. I'm tired of having my heart broken. I expect GEJ to be the same or worse than he has been in the last year and am planning accordingly. Just the latest of a long series of selfish, useless leaders.
If you know how many of these "If only <New President> would just <stop stealing/reform government> then Nigeria will be great" articles I've read in the foriegn press over the past 15 years. The problem is that the new presidents never stop stealing. Given past experience, it will be foolish to expect GEJ to be any different.
Maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised , but I doubt it.
Leave Dimeji alone jor. After all, what is 1 billion dollars? Has he not suffered for Nigeria? Doesn't he deserve something.
All of you haters should face reality, corruption has come to stay in this country. Maybe before there was a debate about it, but in case you haven't noticed PDP just got re-elected by a huge margin. The Nigerian people have voted overwhelmingly for corruption. Mr. Speaker is just giving the people what they want.
I'm so sick and tired of you Nairalanders complaining everytime someone steals a few hundred million. Why don't you people just join the winning party and work hard to steal your own money instead of eyeing another man's loot. Lazy ediots
You christians should stop getting so upset. Nobody's saying that the bible is completely useless. It has some really lovely bits. For instance, the first time I read Ecclesiastes I thought it was the best book I ever read (I was 9 at the time). I still have fond memories of the Book of Jeremiah and I've used the Song of Solomon to butter up a few born-again chicks.
I'm not saying the bible has no worth, clearly it does from a historical and cultural perspective. I just don't think its sane to base your life on it.
It's even more crazy to base your life on the twisted, innacurate, confused interpretations of scripture practically all pastors have accepted as canon. Christianity today doesn't even slightly resemble the religion that Paul and Jesus founded. When I hear the senseless pseudointellectual nonsense christians are constantly babbling, I just shake my head sadly.
Orikinla: Poster, if you are craving for nudity, there is surplus of it on indecency sites. I am happy that BBA is not promoting indecency in disguise.
I don't often watch big brother but I have to admit that the nudity is the only thing that makes it worthwhile. I can already watch people screaming and making fools of themselves on NTA news and without having to pay 10 grand for the privilege.
If there are no bo.obies, then there's no point. Its too bad the majority (or a very vocal minority?) of Nigerians aren't mature enough to handle seeing a little bit of flesh.
bright007: A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects. When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said: 'I don't believe that God exists.' 'Why do you say that?' asked the customer. 'Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist. Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can't imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things.' The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't want to start an argument. The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop. Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He looked dirty and unkempt. The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said to the barber: 'You know what? Barbers do not exist.' 'How can you say that?' asked the surprised barber. 'I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!' 'No!' the customer exclaimed. 'Barbers don't exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside.' 'Ah, but barbers DO exist! That's what happens when people do not come to me.' 'Exactly!' affirmed the customer. 'That's the point! God, too, DOES exist! That's what happens when people do not go to Him and don't look to Him for help. That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world.
Sorry O but this is a logical fallacy, also known as a strawman argument. You're right that the presence of suffering in the world does not disprove the existence of God anymore than beards disprove barbers. It could be that God simply can't be bothered to help people. Perhaps he's cruel and unfeeling. Maybe he's busy playing Ludo with Jesus. Maybe he's not really omnipotent and he can't do anything about it. There are plenty of possible explanations as to why God allows suffering in the world.
Why this is a logical fallacy is that you shouldn't have to disprove the existence of God any more than you should have to prove that you don't have an invisible pink octopus on your head. The principle of parsimony (aka Occam's razor) states that you shouldn't make up an imaginary factor unless there is no simpler way to explain your observations. Modern physics and evolutionary biology have given us simple, natural explanations for practically all the phenomena that used to be attributed to God so as far as I'm concerned, he does not exist.
If I were to witness something that could not be explained in any other way (e.g. If fire and brimstone were to rain down on the National Assembly Complex, killing all the thieves inside), then I'll gladly change my mind.
chines4: _SMF-BREAK_[b]Can we just stop this thread, ppl are just here running their mouth without control. let us be very careful, I said it before Bible is sacred and should be treated as such. Reading it like a novel and talking nonsense,may incur the wrath of God [/b]_SMF-BREAK_
Sorry o. So how exactly are we supposed to read the bible? Are we supposed to turn off our brains first, or read it in tiny snippets out of context the way we were taught in church? You have every right to decieve yourself and ignore all the contradictions and grotesqueries your religion is based on, but don't expect the rest of us to do the same.
Anyhoo, Deuteronomy has one funny passage where it says the if you marry a girl and you discover she's not a virgin, you can call the "assembly of the people" to the front of her parent's house and stone her to death there. The funny part is that if her family can produce a bloodstained bedsheet to "prove" her virginity, the poor girl has to go back to the guy's house and they can never divorce. Apparently, it never occured to the guy who wrote the law (Moses?) that the girl might not want to stay married to the wicked basterd who f.ucked her then tried to have her killed in front of her family.
Also, you would think that the all-knowing creator would be aware that not all virgins bleed the first time they have se.x and that bleeding during se.x is not proof of virginity. Plenty of girls are born without a hymen or rupture it during non-se.xual activity. I can't imagine how many innocent jewish girls must have died horribly because of this stupid law.
I also can't imagine how so many educated women can follow this blatantly sexist, misogynistic religion. There are so many other examples of sexism in the bible from Eve bringing sin into the world, to the laws of Moses, to Apostle Paul telling women to STFU when in church. Its unbelievable. Are you sure you christians have actually read this book?
I am not a Christian. In my discussions of this fact with Christians, I have repeatedly run into one major misunderstanding. The Christians assume that if I believed the Bible were true, I would become a Christian; that is, they believe that my reason for not being a Christian is that I don't believe in their god. This is not the case. One disclaimer: The thesis of this essay is that even if a God as described in the Bible does exist, he is not fit for worship due to his low moral standards. Consequently, I speak sometimes as if I did believe the Bible, when in fact I do not. If I had undeniable proof of the existence of Yahweh, aka Jehovah, aka Adonai, aka El Shaddai, aka Yahweh Elohim, the father of Jesus and the ancient leader of the Semitic peoples, I still would not worship the bastard. If an angel appeared to me and removed my appendectomy scar so I could never deny the reality of divine power, I still would not be a Christian. My primary reason for not being a Christian or Jew has nothing to do with my lack of belief in their god. My primary reason is that the Bible is a disgusting book describing the behavior of a god without the morality of an average high school student. That God does what he wants, when he wants, without even an attempt at self-justification, and all for what reason? According to Paul, all for his own greater glory. Oh, how charming. For his own glory he condemns billions to eternal torment, drowns millions of innocent beasts and thousands of children, orders the slaughter of entire cities down to the last man, woman, and child, creates a race that he knows is flawed and will hurt itself (so that in their pain they can worship him better), refuses to deal with any other god on a friendly basis, restricts the normal expression of the sexual function, rains doom on those who dare to try to be as knowledgable as he is, and so on. Jesus preaching love in no way atones for these many hideous crimes; lest we forget, it was at the time of Jesus that he created Hell. This cruellest of all concentration camps (certainly far worse than the ones created by the Nazis) was at no time mentioned in the Old Testament, and the wrathful and threatening god of the Old Testament would hardly have omitted any chance to terrify his worshippers. I have heard some Christians who believe that there is no everburning Hell in their religion, that the "lake of fire" is purely destructive, that sinners will be annihilated rather than tortured after the Last Judgment. Sometimes, they claim that medieval Catholics created that "myth", and that they would revile any god who made this concentration camp. Well, get ready to start reviling then. The myth of Hell was not created in the Middle Ages. It is explicitly stated in a set of books called the Synoptic Gospels, you know, the ones by Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Since some people don't seem to be very familiar with these books, usually considered the cornerstone of Christianity, I'll fill them in. Matthew 18:8-9 has Jesus saying, "If your hand or your foot should cause you to sin, cut it off and throw it away: it is better for you to enter into life crippled or lame, than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire." A little while later, in 18:34-35 to be exact, Jesus finishes up a parable about an unforgiving debtor with: "And in his anger the master handed him over to the torturers till he should pay all his debt. And that is how my heavenly Father will deal with you unless you each forgive your brother from your heart." Not clean killing -- you will be handed over to the torturers. In the parable of the wedding feast, Matthew 22:1-14, Jesus concludes with "Then the king said to the attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot and throw him out into the dark, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.'" The king didn't say, "Execute him", but bind him and throw him into a painful place. This is echoed in Mat. 24:51, in almost the same words, and again in Mat. 25:30, again with similar words. Finally (for Matthew), we have Mat. 25:41-46, on the Last Judgment. "Next he will say to those on his left hand, 'Go away from me, with your curse upon you, to the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels, And they will go away to eternal punishment, and the virtuous to eternal life.'" My point is proven, so I won't bore you with the quotes from Mark and Luke; however, check out Mark 9:43, Mark 9:48-49, Luke 13:27-28, and Luke 16:23-26 if you still doubt. You hear a lot from Christians about Yahweh's "infinite compassion and mercy". Tell it to the Midianites. Numbers 31 is a classic example of wholesale slaughter and rape under the direction of Yahweh. A sample of this delightful tale: "They waged the campaign against Midian, as Yahweh had ordered Moses, and they put every male to death, The sons of Israel took the Midianite women captive with their young children, and plundered all their cattle, all their flocks and all their goods. They set fire to the towns where they lived and all their encampments, Moses was enraged with the commanders of the army , who had come back from this military expedition. He said, 'Why have you spared the life of all the women? , So kill all the male children. Kill also all the women who have slept with a man. Spare the lives only of the young girls who have not slept with a man, and take them for yourselves.'" Yes, friends, this is infinite mercy and compassion for you. I particularly like the way that Moses got upset with them for sparing women and male children, but allowed the young girls to be kept for later raping. If only humans could keep to such lofty standards without the necessity of divine revelation. I could go on for quite a while in this vein. I don't think the firstborn in Egypt during the captivity would have agreed with the verdict of compassion and mercy (Ex. 11:5,12:29), particularly since it was due to Yahweh's hardening of Pharoah's heart in the first place that made this neccessary. Also, with omnipotence, Yahweh could have teleported the Jews out of captivity without bloodshed, or put the Egyptians to sleep while they left, but no. That wouldn't be gory and exciting enough for him. Then there are the charming instructions about women taken in war, from Deut. 21:10-14. And there is Deuteronomy 28:20-46, a long stream of invectives and curses straight from the prophet's mouth, all about the nasty things Yahweh will do if you upset him a tad. The entire book of Joshua is a long sequence of atrocities. I have not given all these quotes for space reasons -- I urge you to look them up for yourself. If you are not shocked, then your moral standards must be low indeed. Of course, you will sometimes hear rationalizations of this slaughter. There are two major forms: the corruption argument and the mercy argument. The former says that those slaughtered were evil and deserving of their fate; the latter says that since they were religiously incorrect, it was a mercy to terminate their existence. The corruption argument simply does not hold up. The people slaughtered in the Old Testament were almost uniformly blameless (with a few exceptions, of course -- for instance, the Sodomites violated the conventions of hospitality.) Usually, no justification is offered beyond the fact that since they were of another tribe, it was OK to kill them. As to the mercy argument: They shoot horses, don't they? However, people are not animals to be destroyed against their will in the name of mercy. If I don't claim to be suffering, and don't ask to die, neither you nor any god has the right to decide that you know better. If you tried to do this to me, I would shoot you; if a god tried, well, the only weapon I would have would be withholding my worship. Most of us, given omnipotence, would be able to do a far better job than Yahweh. What would you do if given omnipotence? If your answer is anything other than "abolish world hunger", there's something more than a little skewed in your perception of mankind. There is no question that this is the greatest evil in the world today. The second thing would be to abolish disease, right? This doesn't take "infinite mercy", just normal compassion and a bit of common sense. God's supposedly infinite mercy is apparently the same thing as no mercy at all. What makes this particularly unforgivable is that even Jesus's own standards demand feeding of the poor. See Matthew 26:35, in which it is stated that the blessed feed the hungry, and that the damned do not. Does the old saw about "practicing what you preach" not apply to Yahweh? Is his hypocrisy not a sin? One popular rationalization of this is that for Yahweh to feed all the hungry would somehow (and it is never explained how) make it more difficult for people to get into Heaven. Sure, and another reason is that it would make the quality of newspapers worse, right? You can't just say that two things are connected when there is no apparent or explained link between them! The charge against Yahweh of infecting us with disease is particularly strong. God made these micro-organisms, and made us subject to them. If I made a bunch of plague germs and set them loose, you would rightly hold me accountable. Since (according to Genesis) all disease comes from Yahweh, I hold him similarly accountable. Suppose you were a god and there were other gods. What would you do? What I would try to do is the same thing I do as a person among other people -- try to make friends or at least truce with as many of them as possible. The jealous Judeo-Christian god does the opposite. Some people feel that Yahweh is the only god, and therefore cannot be faulted for not having friendly relations with other gods. This idea is a fairly modern invention: that not only is he the best god, but the only one. Yahweh is repeatedly referred to as "our God" in the Pentateuch, and there is no implication that he is the only real one. Also, try Deut. 5:7-9. It is psychotic to be jealous of nonexistent beings. The statement "You shall have no gods except me" clearly implies that the contrary is possible. Suppose you were an omnipotent god and there were no other gods. What would you do? Perform a continual sequence of verifiable miracles; after all, this doesn't require any effort, and keeps people from delusion. No such luck in the case of Jehovah. He demands absolute fidelity without any demonstration of his existence, beyond some visionary manifestations of the sort that you can get from any religion. Christians commonly rationalize this in one of two ways. First, they claim that there is a virtue in believing something without proof; that is, faith in itself is held to be a virtue, and Yahweh doesn't want to remove our opportunity to indulge in it. All I can say to this is that I do not consider faith to be a virtue -- I consider it to be a sign of intellectual weakness, and a significant barrier to scientific and other intellectual progress. (I consider scientific progress desirable because it is so efficacious in improving the quality of people's lives.) I see no virtue in accepting a thing on faith, since it may well be false, and it is clearly not a virtue to believe the false. Given the willingness to have faith, how does one decide whether to put it in Christianity instead of Hinduism? There is no way; you just have to cross your fingers and take the plunge. Whichever choice you take, you will hear voices in your head, see divine manifestations, and so on, so even once the plunge is taken there is no way to know you are correct. Second, there is the rationalization that scientific discovery would become impossible if a continual stream of verifiable miracles were performed. This argument denies the omnipotence of Yahweh. If he can do anything, he can perform a sequence of miracles in such a way as to convince everyone of his existence and not interfere with scientific discovery at all. The only things he can't do are logical absurdities such as making 2+2=5. The point to remember here is that if we don't believe in him, we go to Hell, and this is a greater evil than a lack of the "virtue" of faith or a stunting of science, or anything else conceivable. If Yahweh is concerned about the good, he will do what he can to keep us from Hell, and keeping vital information from us is the exact opposite of this. I have heard the claim that Yahweh does not restrict us from learning, that he encourages us to learn all we can. Tell it to the workers at the Tower of Babel. In case your memory fails you here, Gen. 11:6-7 says, "'So they are all a single people with a single language!' said Yahweh. 'This is but the start of their undertakings! There will be nothing too hard for them to do. [ Horrors! -- tim ] Come, let us go down and confuse their language on the spot so that they can no longer understand one another.'" Yahweh deliberately acts to restrict man's capability for understanding. One thing in particular would keep me from worshipping this god. That is the fact that he desires worship. The only reason why this would be is that he gets something out of worship, perhaps power, perhaps just pleasure. In the former case, it would be totally unjustifiable for me to increase the power of this hugely arrogant and malefic being. In the latter, well, I don't LIKE this deity, and I don't think it deserves such a reward for its heinous career. Some of the responses I have heard to this sort of argument in the past are shown below, with my answers. "You can't judge God by the same standards as man." In that case, why is it that I keep getting told that God is good? Are there two meanings of the word "good", one of which forbids murder, deliberate starvation, infecting people with disease, and so on, and another which allows these things? I suggest that there is already a word for the second meaning. That word is "evil". If you think that it's OK to worship an evil god, that's your business, but you can't expect me to do the same. One particularly curious rationalization here is that "starvation and disease and all the other evils of the world come from breaking God's laws." Starvation comes from not having enough food. Disease comes from exposure to various nasty micro-organisms, and from genetic infirmities. If you can show me how these two things come from breaking god's laws, I will be greatly surprised. Perhaps at the root they are caused by Adam and Eve falling from grace, but you can't hold some starving infant in Namibia responsible for the actions of two long-dead people, any more than you can hold me responsible for the acts of Jack the Ripper. There just isn't sufficient connection to establish guilt. "Everything God does is really good, even though we can't always see that it is." There is no possible amount of good that can counterbalance the deliberate, perpetual starvation of the human race. Maybe we Americans have it so good that we can't see this, but most of the people in the world are starving. Children are dying by the truckload, not for any sin, but just because there isn't enough food for them. If you could see these children, and you had food, you would give food to them. (Either that, or you are an unfeeling monster.) Not so with the omniscient god you worship. He sees their bellies bloat, sees them run out of nutrients and rot alive, sees their brains dying, and doesn't do a damn thing, despite the fact that he has an unlimited supply of food to give. Another example of his mercy. Christians have been claiming that there will be wonderful events, that will more than make up for the abominable pain and suffering on Earth, for about two thousand years now. It is clear from the gospels that Jesus thought that it was about to happen shortly after his death. Before the Christians, the Zoroastrians were saying it. Yet the world still turns as it has, and there is still no reason to think of these claims as other than pipe-dreams to mollify the masses. "Don't ask such questions." People who say this are cowering slaves, beneath my notice. They would as soon serve the devil as god in their blindness and faith. No amount of evidence could convince them that the devil was bad once they had decided to worship him; their basic assumption is that they are correct, so they are untouchable by any rationality. In closing, let's see how Yahweh/Jesus stands up to his own standards. In Matthew 26:41-46, we hear the King, "Next he will say to those on his left hand, 'Go away from me, with your curse upon you, to the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you never gave me food; I was thirsty and you never gave me anything to drink; I was a stranger and you never made me welcome, naked and you never clothed me, sick and in prison and you never visited me.' , And they will go away to eternal punishment, and the virtuous to eternal life." In the light of this, your god himself is the worst of sinners; if there is no double standard, he will be at the head of that line into eternal punishment. He is guilty of every crime of which he accuses the damned. I do not believe in the reality of Jehovah, except as a psychological phenomenon, but if I did believe I would not worship that horror. It could send me to the Hell it's made for those it dislikes, and I would walk in proudly, knowing that I was no slave to be broken down by force.
Tim Maroney, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
DARA1234: @Evil Brain , that was the thing that made me start losing my faith. What first struck me was what a horrible, horrible person the old testament god was. He was cruel, petty vindictive, bloodthirsty, mean, killed people almost randomly for no good reason, and was basically the opposite of what I thought a decent person should be
This and the rest of your post is an example of how NOT to write a reflective article or statement, it has no base, no foundation, no source, please go back to the bible you read as an 8 year old read it again now that I presume you are an adult, reference the events that happened exactly as it is in the BIBLE come back and then we would have an INTELLIGENT discussion of the issues,
I'm now an adult and I've read throught the bible several times since the and I still feel the same way except that now I care a lot less since I no longer believe.
I admit that I didn't cite any bible verses in my last post, but thats because I don't have a bible with me and I don't have time to do a proper write-up. Here's a link to an excellent article by a guy who feels the same as me complete withbible references.
I first read through the bible whenI was 8 or 9 years old and with hindsight, that was the thing that made me start losing my faith. What first struck me was what a horrible, horrible person the old testament god was. He was cruel, petty vindictive, bloodthirsty, mean, killed people almost randomly for no good reason, and was basically the opposite of what I thought a decent person should be. He set Adam and Eve up in the garden of Eden, he murdered thousands of innocent children in Egypt for no good reason. He routinely told the Isrealites to slaughter all their enemies including women, children and even animals (sometimes, he'd allow them to keep the underage girls to be r@ped later). He killed Lot's wife for looking back even though her home, her property and all her friends were being burnt to ashes. Wouldn't you look back if that was you? I can't count the number of times I've read an old testament passage and wondered to myself "WTF is wrong with this guy?" If I saw Yahweh walking towards me, I would cross to the other side of the road fast before he kills me for not combing my hair or something.
I thought God had mellowed a bit when started reading the new testament, but then that was where the concept of hell was introduced. A place of eternal torment, and he plans to throw billions of people into it. How can I worship a god that makes Adolf Hitler and the Nazis look like nice guys?
skydeexie: [size=18pt]Now a Final Word to the Wise.[/size] (The Lord Jesus Christ has allowed us to know the TIMES and the SEASON but not the day or hour!)
[size=14pt]The Importance of Watching[/size] Luke 21-34-36
34 “But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. 35 For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
[size=14pt]God’s Promise Is Not Slack[/size] 2 Peter 3:1- 15
1 Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder), 2 that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior, 3 knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, 4 and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” 5 For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, 6 by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. 7 But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. 8 But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
[size=14pt]The Day of the Lord[/size]
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. 11 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
[size=14pt]Be Steadfast[/size]
14 Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless; 15 and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation-
(All Bible Quotations from New King James Version)
Typical of religious people to dismiss the claims outright without even trying to find out what they are based on. You can't just dismiss something by repeating the crap your pastor fed you and quoting random bible verses as "proof". Did any of you people even bother to find out why these people believe what they believe? Have you bothered to check out their claims before deciding they were junk? Or you think that because you've read a few posts on Nairaland, you are now an expert on the topic?
The least you can do is look at their evidence first, spend a few seconds evaluating it before coming to a conclusion. You people need to try using your brains more often.
I know none you will bother to click on it and instead just quote more bible verses and tell me I'm stu.pid for criticising you. And for the record I think the claims are complete bullshiat. I only object to you people dismissing something without event trying to find out what that thing actually is. That's the basic problem with religion, it trains people never to think for themselves.
If memory serves, they ammended the constitution twice last year because of the election. The legislators amended the constitution to make it harder to reduce their allowances. If GEJ really wanted a leaner government, he can force another amendment in a matter of weeks. He obviously wants to preserve the current bloated, corrupt system and he can't even cook up a decent excuse to do so.
This shouldn't surprise anyone sha. You vote for PDP, you get PDP. I hope you guys are happy.
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Stop generalising. Not all health workers are like that.
Besides, its not like the patients are all saints either. When I was a student in LUTH, I remember a senior nurse being beaten to death in the Accident and Emergency by some Mushin thugs whose relative had just died. It is commonplace for doctors and especially nurses to be threatened, attacked or insulted at work. I've personally received several death threats while at work.
Add to that the constant risk of being infected with HIV, Hepatitis B, Tuberculosis or something even worse and its not hard to see why they are so cranky.
Unity looks cute but there's too much missing missing functionality for now. For instance, the search feature doesn't index files, there's no easy way to stop it from bringing out all my pr0n and embarrassing me, the app lens is completely useless and you can't move the sidebar. It looks like it won't really be fully cooked until the next LTS release.
I would have moved back to classic gnome but that doesn't have any decent search features. Gnome Do isn't really good enough and the last time I used Tracker (7.10 Gutsy) it was a useless piece of crap. Has anyone used Google desktop recently? Windows Vista has made me lazy. I want to start typing and have the file or app I'm looking for appear magically.
Still managing Unity for now but I'm thinking of trying Kubuntu again. I've been hearing good things about KDE 4.6 but I'm not moving unless the search function works at least as well as in Vista. My last experience with KDE didn't go well. It's like they were actually trying to make it as difficult and confusing to use as possible. I still don't understand wtf that cowrie/worm thing in the upper right corner was for.
geezyk: How do i defeat cronos in gow3? Abeg make una help me
I just discovered one cool website where you can find enough tips about how to finish lots of games. The address is www.google.com I wonder why nobody knows about it.
TCD: Anyone who has the audacity to willfully kill a fellow human being has no right to live. How can tax payers money be used to feed such animals for life?
Obviously you have no idea how the legal system works. Even in developed countries, reviews of capital cases almost always reveal gaping holes in the prosecution's cases. The acused's guilt or innocence is never clear-cut. There is always some doubt. Real life is never like an episode of CSI. There is no such thing as red-handed.
This woman was convicted based on witness statements. They could have been lying, there was no forensic evidence. Of course she could be guilty but are we really confident enough to bet someone's life on it? If you knew how useless our police, courts and legal system can be at times, you wouldn't be so sure.
The death penalty is cruel and barbaric. If you support it, then the blood of all the countless innocent people who have been wrongly convicted and killed by the state is on your hands.
dadonda: You will have to split the files up into parts less than 4gig to transfer them to a FAT32 drive. Like slimdakidd said, use swiss knife to cut it. By the way, do you have a media player that plays all these HD movies on your console? just curious
The latest Multiman has a built-in media player (showtime) plus it can read NTFS so you shouldn't have any problem playing 4GB HD movies from an external hard drive. It even has a browser and you can make it look just like the xmb.
Trust hackers to produce software that's better than what Sony spent millions to make.
It depends on what you want. If you want am OS that can run most commonly used programs (photoshop, MS Office, etc) then Windows is about the only option.
If you just want to browse the web or you need a fast stable system with no virus issues the you're better off with Linux. There's a reason why 98% of web servers and most large internet companies (eg google) run on Linux. The security is unbeatable. Linux Mint is probably the best distro for beginners. There's also Ubuntu and Mandriva. You can download and try them without installing or changing anything on your computer.
Of course there's also OSX but its notoriously unsecure and Macs are usually too expensive anyway. You could probably get a more powerful PC for half the price of a Mac.
ogagusps3: By the time you've used a Mac you'll know that it's completely worth it and plus you don't have to worry your head about any virus wahala.
Sorry to bust your bubble but there are plenty of viruses and spyware targeted specifically at macs. Since Windows Vista, the mac has been by far the weakest platform security-wise. They are almost trivially easy to hack for anyone who knows what he is doing. And Safari is a complete joke, its even less secure than ie6!
Couple this with the fact that most mac users (like you) are blissfully unaware of the malware threat and often foolishly ignore even obvious signs of infection (I can't have a virus, I use a mac!), you may be better off running windows XP. At least then you'll have to be careful.
If I were you, I'll go and look for an antivirus program fast.
^^ Abeg someone should upgrade and tell me if it's rubbish or not. I just got 10.10 working just the way I like. If the new one starts misbehaving I'm going to be pissed.
The best thing about this is how peaceful the whole proces has been. I was in Ogbomoso (Alao-Akala's home town) yesterday and even stayed out late to watch champs league at a viewing centre. There wasn't even the slightest sign of violence.
The south-west is really maturing politically. Hopefully, the rest of the country will come to their senses and stop voting for PDP.
Sweet T: I mean seriously?? C'mmon! How in the hell did PDP get 1 million votes in Abia and Anambra states? You mean to tell me that an Ibo man will leave his Okrika clothes and fake goods shop to go line up for hours just to vote? Hard for me to believe that, unless an Ibo man he's being compensated for it i don't believe it. And by the way there are not up to 1 million adult age Ibo guys left in all of East combined, they have all relocated to Lagos to sell Okrika clothes and fake goods. INEC c'mmon, let's be real here.
I don't agree with all that Okrika nonsense but those results are seriously fishy. Those people might have shot themselves in the foot with their mass thumbprinting. If Buhari can get 1 or 2 states over there cancelled at the tribunal, we'll be singing a completely different song.
elikiba: Why are we complaining that the North voted for buhari, did south south not vote for one of their own come on people please allow them they are free to chose who they want as their leader just as we down here is also free.
All we should be praying is that if GEJ comes in he should not succumb to the PDP machinery that has run this country to the ground because it is obvious that people voted the personality of GEJ not PDP.
Who ever wins good luck but remember those that voted you in
Jonathan took money from the Oil companies and he owes the PDP thieves big time. These are serious people who don't play around with their money. They will get a return on their investment whether Goodluck likes it or not.
The Nigerian people have just shown that you can kick them for 12 years and they'll still vote for you as long as you smile a little and go to redemption camp before elections. I doubt if Jonathan will hesitate to screw them once the mafia start breathing down his neck.
So instead of countering me with logic, you make fun of my name. Are you in primary school? What is your teacher's name?
stiyke: Please with which scientific model or data did you draw that conclusion?? if none then i can assume this is: Analysis and future projections of your house hold if you have one.
It's not a Ph.D thesis abeg, just my opinion. You don't have to like it but the truth tends to be bitter. Maybe you want me to echo the "God will hellep Goodluck" bullshiat that every market woman is spewing nowadays, but I prefer to face reality.
And the reality, for most Nigerians, is very ugly.
In the spirit of ethnic bigotry, here's my analysis of what will happen in the next few years.
SS Jonathan's campaign took money from the oil companies so we can guarantee that there will be no end to gas flaring anytime soon. There will also be no serious attempt to clean up the pollution there. Also, GEJ's nonexistent anticorruption record will ensure that the next generation of James Iboris will have little to fear. The Niger Delta people don't even have MEND to fight for them anymore. They are, as always, screwed.
SE Not much will change here. The PDP will zone all the NASS leadership posts away from there and in exchange they will get 1 or 2 of the juicer ministerial posts. Also, no Igbo man will smell the inside of Aso Rock for the next 30 or so years. GEJ has used their "turn" and will serve 8 years (regardless of what the guy says), then the north for 8 years, then the Yorubas, then the north again, then finally, maybe the Igbos. Corruption at the national level will continue to stagnate the local economy.
SW Policically savvy, these guys will have their interests taken care of. Plus the ACN governors will make sure there is at least some development at local level. There will still be no light or jobs though.
The North As always, the ruling class will be well taken care of. The ordinary people will continue to suffer.
In Summary The biggest winners today will turn out to be the biggest losers as Nigeria's kleptocracy adjusts to the new system. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Politics › Re: Freedom Of Information Bill Passed, Sent To President For Approval! by EvilBrain1(m): 1:09pm On May 29, 2011
