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RomanceRe: I Have Proposed To Her,but I'm Now Confused Found Love Somewhere Else by funloving(m): 7:55pm On Nov 25, 2007
almondjoy:
Please it is normal. Just keep jumping from woman to woman till you die. You are not the first so let us hear word. Too bad women keep falling for losers like you. Whom do we blame after all? undecided

You do not even love yourself not to talk of others! Love? You can never understand that word even if you are dying of it as an illness!

All you have is confusion and irresponsiblity written all over your post! Not to talk of juvenile deliquency!
Almondjoy, are you this insultive and antagonistic ?
Did a guy you loved dearly jilt you or have the guys simply refused to look your way? grin

Kai,some Bini girls are really caustic with their words. Please simmer down a bit on the anger and harsh words
PoliticsRe: Okiro Is Confirmed As The New Ig by funloving(m): 7:49pm On Nov 25, 2007
I was enjoying the public "rofo-rofo" between Mamjama and his arch rival, Big B1 before you guys interrupted the show angry

Please Mamajama and Big B1 resume round Two.This is one fight I plan to watch to the end.

Where is my bag of pop-corn and bottle of soda. This can only get more interesting cheesy
PoliticsRe: Why Arabic Inscription I Was On Old Naira Note by funloving(m): 7:33pm On Nov 25, 2007
luv2talk:
The Inscription on the old Naira Note is not Arabic inscription,Rather,its what they call "Anjemin" which means Trasliteration.As we all know that the most Populous people in Nigeria are Hausa/fulanis and some of them are not educated,the best way to recognise currency is to read the anjemi inscription on the Naira Note.My friends,if u understand Hausa very well and you know Anjemin,You will discover that those inscription are not arabic,Rather,it is Hausa Language.as the inscription is written in western Translitetion style,what is the FAITH of a Typical Village Fulani man who is not able to acquire western education, Please, don't let us be emotional,lets be objective.
Your statement in bold refers:

What about the Yorubas, Ibos, Ijaws, Binis, etc who are also not able to acquire Western Education ? What will be their fate in "reading" our currency ?
Because the Hausa/Fulani are the most populous? (there is no accurate statistics to back this up anyway) should that give them a prefrential treatment over every other tribe in Nigeria or are other tribes less important than the Hausa/Fulani folks ?

Forget this argument, it does not hold water. We either have no "Ajami" script or we have all Nigerian Languages inscripted on our currency, definitely impossible and outlandishly foolish.

Moreover, the Hausa/Fulani folks and all other supposed "uneducated" Nigerians have been using our currencies for years without refering to the Ajami. I believe that there is no adult in this country today, who won't recognise a N20 Note or a N100 note.
Christianity EtcRe: Child Abuse In My Church by funloving(m): 3:22pm On Nov 22, 2007
olrotimi:
HMNN, talk on, all the replys so far make me drowsy cry
@Poster,
you are being mischievous.Your latest reply smirks of mischief.
If you are sincere and really want us to help you help the children then you should have given us the name of this Church instead of coming out with such a lame reply.

Don't ridicule christianity if you have nothing better to post
CareerRe: Is It Normal To Dream About Your Boss? by funloving(m): 7:26pm On Nov 18, 2007
@poster
Is Dreaming Of The Boss Normal?

Hi guys,

I've been working at my job for almost 6 months now and of recent I've been having weird dreams bout the boss who is also female. I've had 3 dreams bout her in the space of 2 months. 2[b] of the dreams were similar which had a somewhat sexual connotation to it [/b] and in the third one she was scolding me bout my dealings in the office.

Please what's your advice? I'm looking for a new job but don't want to quit this one till I get a new one. help!
Statement in bold : Are you a lesbian ?
If you think you are not I would advise you to do a double check on your sexual orientation. It takes a homosexual or bisexual to have same-sex fantasies

Your dreams are a product of your mind. You like your Boss and you think about her, consciously or sub-consciously.

The solution : Detach your mind from your boss. Stop thinking about her and just focus on your job.
Are you into a relatonship ? If not, getting involved in one could help as it will give your mind somebody else to focus on and to like.
You can also engage yourself on something interesting that will take your mind off your Boss
Then pray.
PoliticsRe: The Black Question by funloving(op): 5:39pm On Nov 18, 2007
Blackcat:
2. The curse of Cain

Cain killed his brother and God caused him and put a mark on him so that whoever saw him will not kill him but God never changed the cause. We are the descendants of Cain and still carry the cause and the mark (Dark skin)

GENESIS: Chapter 4. Verse 9-15
9And the Lord said to Cain, Where is Abel your brother? And he said, I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?
10And [the Lord] said, What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground.
11And now you are cursed by reason of the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's [shed] blood from your hand.
12When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength; you shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth [in perpetual exile, a degraded outcast]. 13Then Cain said to the Lord, My punishment is [c]greater than I can bear.
14Behold, You have driven me out this day from the face of the land, and from Your face I will be hidden; and I will be a fugitive and a vagabond and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.
15And the Lord said to him, [d]Therefore, if anyone kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a [e]mark or sign upon Cain, lest anyone finding him should kill him.



3. The cause of the free born sold into slavery.

We sold our own into slavery. Has anyone thought about all the causes that these slaves poured on the black race and the continent before they were sold, died on the way to plantation camps, attacked or torturedhuh? Millions died; which means millions of causes are hanging on out heads.

Solution:
I disagree wiht you concerning the curse of cain. Where is the anthropological evidence that Africans are descendants of Cain ?
After the great flood the whole world was destroyed and restarted by afresh by Noah. We are therefore all by extension descendants of Noah - black, white, yellow, brown, all descended from Noah and his family.

Moreover, there are millions of Christians (Born Agains) among the black population. How do you convince me that these people who supposed to be free from the sins of their fathers and their own sin are still living under the Curse of Cain, assuming we are descendants of Cain?
Our salvation should have delivered us from the Curse of Cain but unfortunately, lots of Christians suffer the same backwardness as most of other Blacks. This implies that the problem transcends the simple explanation of the Curse of Cain.

Much as I believe in the spiritual I don't think we need to blame the spiritual for everything.
God can't be so "wicked" as to send a whole race to everlasting perpetual backwardness and destitution for a sin committed by a man who lived long before this generation of blacks came in to existence. Punishing innocent people for the sin of their ancestor is not in God's nature

I am more apt to agree with you concerning the curse of the free born sold into slavery. It maybe the genesis of our problems and I agree with you that black leaders and African leaders world wide should come together to pray and ask for the forgiveness of the departed slaves and ask God to have mercy on our fore fathers who sold their own into slavery.
Lets also beg the present descendants of slaves (mainly the Afro Americans) for their forgiveness. It might be a good starting point.
PoliticsRe: What Manner Of Minister Of Education by funloving(op): 10:47am On Nov 18, 2007
When I complain that people should speak and write proper English, I am reminded that we are not in an English class or that English is not our native language.
Look at what a Minister of Education and a Doctor at that, get up to. Even crowd shyness shouldn't have led to this.

We got a long way to go in Nigeria if our Ministers have to falter in their public address to a crowd. They should go learn from the British Politicians who speak impeccable English all the time.

As long as English is Nigeria's lingua franca, there will never be an excuse for not speaking or writing proper English
PoliticsWhat Manner Of Minister Of Education by funloving(op): 10:41am On Nov 18, 2007
Education minister falters at UI’s convocation - , As UI graduates 2,603 students
By Taiwo Olanrewaju - 18.11.2007

THE congregation present at the Convocation and 59th Foundation Day ceremony of the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, yesterday, expressed shock at the way the representative of the visitor to the university, Dr. Igwe Aja-Nwachukwu, faltered through President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s speech.


Dr. Aja-Nwachukwu, who is the Minister of Education, apologised on behalf of President Yar’Adua, who was ‘unavoidable’ absent at which the congregation shifted uneasily on their seats, while shuffling their legs.


A sizeable number of the congregation were visibly angry with the minister, who found it difficult to pronounce ‘nostalgia’, muddled up ‘unemployment’ and ‘under-employment’ and thanked everybody for ‘listen’ to the address.


Reacting to the manner in which the address was presented, an Igbo man, who refused to disclose his name, said he was annoyed because Dr. Aja-Nwachukwu was the Minister of Education.


“If the minister of education could muddle up English Language like that, then what is the future of education in this country?”


“I was thoroughly embarrassed, how on earth could the minister of education read through a speech like that. I am sorry for this nation,” said another woman, who also requested that her name should not be published, even as she shook her head as a sign of pity for the nation.


A student of the institution, who simply called his name Victor, rose in defence of the minister, who is an Alumnus of the premier university, “I guess he was crowd-shy. You know some people are like that. They lose confidence when they are in the midst of a crowd.”


Another man, Mr. Timothy Ajakaye, only advised that lectures, trainings and seminars on speech presentation and communication generally, should be organised for all holders of public offices on assuming office.


http://www.tribune.com.ng/18112007/news/news3.html
PoliticsAso Rock Budgets N2.3million Daily For Refreshment: N1.5m For Eye Glasses by funloving(op): 10:01am On Nov 18, 2007
Aso Rock budgets N2.3million daily for refreshment, N1.5m for eye glasses
Written by Emmanuel Aziken, Leon Usigbe and Tordue Salam, Abuja
Sunday, 18 November 2007

THE National Assembly has been allocated N65 billion out of the N2.5 trillion spending plan for 2008 proposed by President Umaru Yar‘Adua. N2.2 billion of the proposal has been earmarked for food, details of the proposal obtained by Sunday Vanguard have revealed. The Presidency including the State House has been allocated N26.9 billion in the 2008 spending plan with N1.301 billion going for feeding and refreshment in the State House.The N1.301 billion feeding plan for Aso Rock Villa is broken into N827.4 million for refreshment while another N474.06 million has been proposed for the procurement of food stuff in the State House.


In effect, the Presidential Villa would be spending about N2.3 million and N1.3 million daily for refreshment and procurement of food stuff respectively.

Out of the N65 billion proposed expenditure by the National Assembly, the Senate is to spend N19.893 billion, while N32.97 billion is to be spent on sustaining the 360 members of the House of Representatives. The balance of the legislature’s budget is to be spent on the National Assembly bureaucracy. The N65 billion vote for the legislature is the highest figure ever received by the legislature since the advent of the fourth republic.

A significant proportion of the National Assembly budget, amounting to N15.879 billion is devoted to keeping the legislators travelling across the country and the world in their duties. Members of the House of Representatives are to expend N10.33 billion for travelling purposes within and outside the country next year, a figure that is besides another N268.8 million earmarked for travelling for training- related purposes.

A total of N5.032 billion has been earmarked for the “general” travel of senators within and outside the country while another N278.2 million is proposed for travelling for training purposes.The Presidency is expected to spend N1.27 billion for local and international trips within the same period besides another N760.8 million proposed for travelling for training of Presidency aides and staff.

In seeming admission of the challenges posed by the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) the Presidency is proposing to spend N225,612 daily, amounting to N82.574 million in the year to buy fuel to run the generators servicing the State House and adjoining Presidency offices. The National Assembly on its part has a proposal to buy fuel for its generators at a cost of N63 million. Despite the monetisation policy of the Federal Government, the Presidency is also proposing to spend N102.7 million on rents for some officials in the year while tax payers are to cough out N1.5 million for paying for the reading glasses of presidential aides domiciled in the State House.
The Presidency is also proposing to spend N10.468 million on sewages, another N80.7 million for the payment of telephone charges while N13.8 million is proposed to keep insects and other pests at bay from the Presidential Villa.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1774&Itemid=0
Jobs/VacanciesRe: When Alder Consulting Broke My Heart! by funloving(m): 9:55am On Nov 18, 2007
So how much does this Alder firm pays grin

Hope it is in seven and eight figures because the way some people are lamenting their fate with the company, hmmm, me I bow. cheesy
PoliticsRe: The Black Question by funloving(op): 3:00am On Nov 09, 2007
davidyland@yahoo.com:
thats all in your mind - the black race is not wasted in my thinking.

u got a warped thinking boy if thats all u think of the black race.
Typical answer, especially from a Nigerian, instead of facing the truth and finding a solution to the problem.

Do you genuinely think the issues I raised are not true of the black race ?
Do you really need proof because they abound and are too numerous to mention.

If you don't accept that you have a problem you will never look for a solution and in that case, you will remain in your problem.

Did you read PW Botha speech posted by another contributor ?
One of the things Botha said about the Blacks is that "They are good in nothing else but making noise, dancing, marrying many wives and indulging in sex". How true this is in this situation considering your naive reply because instead of thinking through the issues, you conclude that there is no problem and it is all a mind thing so we can go back to drinking burukutu, owambe parties and marry many more wives while the world leaves us behind.

Dude, wake up from your slumber and start to think.
That is actually one of the problems.
The black man does not like to think and would rather accept anything that comes his way.
PoliticsThe Black Question by funloving(op): 9:25pm On Nov 08, 2007
For years this has bothered me  huh

Why is the black race so wasted ?
Irrespective of where the black man is, whether Africa or America, Europe or Asia, his situation is always poor and destitute.
We have achieved the least among the races
We rule the world of corruption
We have the most incompetent, greedy, self centered and selfish rulers
Our wars are among the most dastardly. Genocide seems to run in our blood
We suffer terrible people to rule over us and do nothing about it and even when we shake them off, those who come after them are just as terrible or even worse.
We have fewer geniuses
Fewer innovations and inventions
Fewer scholars
Fewer wealthy people
Put a black man in a place where a white man used to manage and he will sooner than later run it down.

I could go on and on

The question is why is this so ?

Is it lack of education ?
I am not sure because even those who have schooled in the Western world still come back home to commit all forms of attrocities and behave just like the guy who never left his black hometown

Is it a spiritual curse?
I know not but we have so many Pastors and Alfas. Shouldn't we have shaken off the evil curse by now

Did the fallen angels (demons) land in Africa ?
I doubt because I guess they must have spread all over the world when they fell. Moreover, we have heard stories of how white witches use white witchcraft to invent good while black wictches specialise in using their power to kill, destroy and improverish. ( I don't support the myth of the good white witch. A witch is a witch and it is an evil way of life)

Are we genetically intellectually inferior ?
I won't believe this because there is no scientific evidence to back it but could it be true  huh

Did God deliberately create Blacks to be like this ?
Why would He? After all He commanded us not to discriminate and declares in the Bible that before Him, there is neither Jew nor Gentile. If He, God, does not wish us to discriminate among men, then I won't want to believe He created us inferior to other races

Is it our environment ?
Then what about the blacks in Europe, American, Carribean and far Australia, the Aborigenes. Most of them have never had contact with Africa and yet they are just in as worse shape. The Aborigenes in particular are not slaves carried away from Africa. They are not African descendants. They are bonafide blacks developed specifically within their own environment but their state is just as terrible as that of the average african. The carribean blacks have been separated from Africa for over 200 years and have had closer contacts with America. They live in an environment less like that in Africa and more or less, the same as what obtains in the US and Canada but yet for the most part, they fare far less than the other races in the American continent


So what is the problem with the Black race ?
RomanceRe: Can My Pastor Instuct Me To Marry A Sister In My Fellowship by funloving(m): 8:56pm On Nov 08, 2007
A few questions at the poster

1. Are you finanacially well off ?
2. Is your pastor aware of your financial status ?
3. Is the sister getting towards the dangerous age of thirties ?
4. Is your Pastor aware that you have somebody in your heart ?
5. What is the relationship between your pastor and the sister ?

The reason for these questions is simple: Just hoping your Pastor is not trying to match a sister to a brother he thinks has got it.

Your Pastor may hear from God but he is not God. If you are a christian, talk to God and let Him lead you to the right woman.
You are the one who will live with the girl you marry not your pastor. You therefore should be doubly sure of who you marry and not just rely solely on what your Pastor says. He is human and not infalliable.

All the same, pray about it and try being friends with the sister in question. Your pastor just might be right. I am not saying he is right.
PoliticsRe: Reps Speaker, A Bachelor @ 37, Dont You Think: by funloving(m): 9:48pm On Nov 07, 2007
Nigeria has for years been inundated with "MARRIED" leaders who did nothing but steal our money and improverish the nation while lying glibly and trumpeting their ill-gotten wealth.

Maybe it is time we try an UMARRIED leader after all, Mrs Etteh is married, just like Obj, Atiku, Alams and Co.

To hell with useless married men and women destroying our country.

I don't care about the Speaker's marital status. All I care about is his ability to lead Nigeria to the promise land
PoliticsRe: Caring Leaders Accra, Ghan- When Will Nigeria Leadres Be ? by funloving(m): 4:53pm On Nov 07, 2007
tosin.tunj:
Part 1
I am a Nigerian , Born and bread in Lagos. I lived all my life in Lagos , however i went for my NYSC in Ogun State Shagamu, before the , I 'd live in Abuja for close to a year.
I had thought the hustling and bustling life in Nigeria was normal, until I got to accra, Ghana.
My Fisrt sight in accra was amazing. I want you all to imagine a City with no Powre failure " No NEPA or PHC or whateva" , Godd road network , No harrassment and egunje of policemen, Security of Lifes and properties, people who love their National flag more than food, whites walking freely everywhere, public transport with three passenger on each role " not four or five as the case in naija", Taxi as cheap as 100 naira worth ,freedom of speech, clean water to drink, affordable food , just to mention but few.
I wept for my dear country and everyday we hear of the people who are supposed to be the custodian of our welfare, fighting over tax payers money, throwing punches and abuses. Have they got any plan for us , its a pity.
A normal guy like me and my friends could afford to stay in place called MCCARTHY HILLS, one of accalimed places for the rich, at cost that will only secure apartemnt for you at ketu mile 12 in Lagos.

What do you have to say to this , contribute,
No offence meant but bro, you are a University or Poly graduate, right ? Why  these errors (in bold) ? It is a bit more saddening if grads command such English Language in a country where the lingua franca is English.
PoliticsRe: Agf Helping To End Anti-corruption War by funloving(op): 7:48am On Sep 14, 2007
Don't I just love this man angry

He sure has an agenda which is playing out very nicely
We are gradually going back to the dark ages of corruption free-for-all
All those who have consistently complained of EFCC style and selective justice must be clapping their hands and patting their backs in self and well earned jubilation

When the donors are gone, when this government continues to permit corruption and corrupters under the guise of the rule of law, when the international world no longer believes in our anti-graft war, when we are back on the 'blackest' list of countries of greatest financial crimes, when nothing works anymore in the nation and politicians are back to freely dipping into the national commonwealth tills, then the AGF policy would have been actualised and all those who felt EFCC should be dead would have achieved their goals

Patriots ! we better wake now and demand that Micheal Aondoakaa resign from this government otherwise we are about to return to the very dark days of FULL BLOWN CORRUPTION

I would rather EFCC administers jungle and selective justice, go against the rule of law and yet keep corruption away than obey some stupid rule of law which allows corruption to have a free run on our nation
PoliticsAgf Helping To End Anti-corruption War by funloving(op): 7:35am On Sep 14, 2007
http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/news/article04

Foreign donors express fears over Nigeria's anti-graft war
From Laolu Akande, New York

INDICATIONS have emerged that some foreign donors are becoming worried over the sustainability of the anti-graft war in Nigeria following the recent altercation between the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Michael Andoakaa and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Specifically, sources close to some international donors in the United States (U.S.), said with the internal rancour going on within the Nigerian government regarding the style and means of operations of the EFCC, their focus may be shifting towards the Independent and Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), which has recently announced its preparedness to name an independent counsel.

Incidentally, the Attorney-General and the EFCC chairman have both been invited by the New York-based Nigerian Lawyers Association to address the lawyers yearly dinner. This year's dinner is coming up tomorrow.

Ribadu would be the keynote speaker, while the AG would also be speaking at the dinner, which attracts very top Federal Government officials and distinguish Nigerians yearly.

Last week, two Nigerian lawyers, Femi Falana and Kayode Oladele in a statement in the U.S. objected to the plans of the ICPC to create the office of independent counsel, a move sources close to a US-based international donor said reflected the ongoing worry over the EFCC's fate among donor bodies.

But another Nigerian lawyer based in Washington, DC, a certified U.S. special consultant on Nigerian laws, Emmanuel Ogebe, argued that the need for an independent counsel was now imperative to move forward the anti-corruption efforts in Nigeria.

According to Ogebe in a brief statement, the solution to the jurisdictional concern between ICPC, EFCC and the Attorney-General's office lies in the appointment of an independent counsel who will consolidate and coordinate as a corruption clearing house and czar in Nigeria.

Ogebe added that the funding is critical and should be made available for such an independent counsel basically as a means to keep Nigeria's anti-corruption war constitutionally grounded.

Donor community sources have said that it was not difficult to interpret the debate over the need for the creation of an independent counsel in Nigeria as partly a funding and turf battle since the Independent Counsel would take out a substantial chunk of what the EFCC is currently doing.

Falana and Oladele said the establishment of the office of independent counsel in Nigeria would be a duplication of the role of the EFCC.

The current dispute between the Attorney-General of the Federation, and the EFCC over the means the anti-corruption agency was conducting its business may affect international support and funding that the EFCC has been getting.

There is concern in the international donor community that there seems to be deep internal cleavages regarding the EFCC, and there are conflicting signals from different Nigerian government sources on the means of prosecuting the anti-corruption war.

At the peak of the crusading role of the EFCC, the agency had made tremendous inroads internationally that it is fast becoming a model on an international scale for anti-corruption management and planning. But recent claims that the agency itself may have been abusing the rule of law is beginning to be noticed by international donors, many of which have continuing funding programmes with the EFCC.

Diplomatic and official sources said that most of the foreign donors, including the European Union (EU), UNDP, UN, USAID and other western countries like Canada and the Netherlands were fully aware of the misunderstanding that had developed between the EFCC and the new Attorney-General bordering on the prevalence of the rule of law.

For instance, the EU sources said it had committed about $32 million to the EFCC since 2003, while the UN through its office of Drug and Crime recently signed a $700,000 funding agreement with the EFCC.

Other international donors and agencies actively backing the EFCC include the World Bank. Sources added that the strength of the EFCC among international donors is its perception as an independent anti-graft agency securing results through a lawful pursuit of official looters and curtailing systemic corruption in Nigeria.

However, some of the donors are now said to have become confused with the claims also coming from Nigerian government officials that the EFCC have in the past adopted extra-judicial means against some of those that have been prosecuted.

Some international donors are unsure who to believe. Others attribute the development to the change of administration, while many have now mandated their Nigerian offices to pay greater attention to the deeper currents of the dispute between the EFCC and the Office of the Attorney General.

Sources added that President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's rising perception as an ardent defender of the rule of law has only complicated the situation for EFCC in some international circles.

Before now, a review of the anti-corruption agencies in some selected developing countries including Nigeria, Vietnam, and South Korea conducted by U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Center in Norway, a centre affiliated with the Transparency International rated EFCC very high but observed that critics have accused the government of interfering in particular with the activities of the ICPC.

Of the EFCC, the report said it has gained more credibility with the public for its effectiveness, while the ICPC according to the report has been criticised for not being sufficiently proactive.
PoliticsRe: Efcc Apologises To Orji Kalu by funloving(m): 10:00am On Sep 13, 2007
This AGF is a big disgrace to the Judiciary and highly esteemed Legal profession.

Mark my words, he won't last in this governement. He has shot himself in the foot. He not only lacks decorum and circumspection, he also has publicly shown that he is interested in protecting the accussed looters

Yar Adua is going to be compelled to relieve of his duties because he is begining to make it seem like this government is not fighting but defending corruption.
PoliticsRe: Discrimination Against Nigerians In Nigeria by funloving(op): 8:45am On Sep 12, 2007
Still @ texazzpete
My company has begun to recognise that the expatriates's benefits consistitute a huge chunk of our over running costs and is now significantly reducing expatriate recruitment.
This shows that alot of these expatriate benefits are not just justifiable. This has nothing to do with jealousy but everything to do with simple economic logic and lots of one moment of patriotic nationalism grin
It simply does not make sense to pay Nigerians so much less than foreigners doing exactly the same kind of job
PoliticsRe: Discrimination Against Nigerians In Nigeria by funloving(op): 8:36am On Sep 12, 2007
@texazzpete
I get your interesting argument but the case you enumerated is only a minority

Consider this real situation which I have encountered.

There is this Nigerian Driller on one of the Deep Offshore Drilling Rigs. His colleague is an American. The both work in this same location, dong the same work.
I don't know what you might call more experience here, but the Nigerian does exactly what the American does in fact, in most of my expeditions to the Rig, the Nigerian was the one who handled a most critical aspect of the job. Even if you claim the American is more experienced, that experience doesn't seem to count here as the Nigerian does just as good, if not better. Yet he gets paid alot less

I understand that when you take people out of their countries to work in a foreign land it pays to compensate them. But when your compensation sees to it that the expatriate earns maybe up to five times, literally, more than his Nigerian colleague, please I need a better argument for justifying such pay.

You mentioned it being okay to put the expatriates in good accommodation in V.I. Again I have no problem with that but why can't the Nigerian staff be paid enough housing allowance to also rent good houses in V.I ? Or do Nigerians deserve poorer housing or be exposed to greater crime simply because they are Nigerians ?

Lets talk some more about experience
How much experience does a Canteen staff bring from India unto a job in Nigerian when you consider that the Nigerian Chefs can cook just about any kind of Continental or Local cuisine ? Yet we have all the expatriates ,expecially in offshore location, working alongside their Nigerian colleagues, doing what Nigerians are very capable of doing. And there are lots of Nigerians out there on the streets who can do this job. I speak from first hand knowledge

I am not against expatriation. I have nothing against bringing expatriates afterall, Nigerians also go abroad to work as expatriates. Expatriation brings a form of robustness and diversity to the work force. It "may" also lead to skill transferrence. ( I deliberately used "may" becuase a lot of these expatriates are not willing to share their knowledge with Nigerians).

My arguement is why pay the Nigerian so much less than a Nigerian ? I can understand paying the expatriate some extra for the inconvenience. I also don't have an issue with paying him in dollar or euros or pounds. But why should his "Nigerian colleague" of comparable experience, ability and output earn so much less ?

How do you justify a Nigerian Deck foreman who earns N140,000 a month and his expatriate deck foreman, doing the smae job on the same boat deck earning the equivalent of N1.4M? They are both separated from their families for the same length of time ( 28/28 days shift for both Nigerian and expatriate). They are both exposed to the vagaries of the weather, risk, hazrds, etc.

If the Nigerian earned N1.0M and the expatriate earned N1.4M for working in Nigerian, it would make more sense

For your information, alot of these expatriates are really nobodies in their countries and won't be able to ge the kind of jobs they get here in Nigerian in their countries. They can't get these kinds of benefits. That is why with all the Niger Delta Militancy and crimes and insecurity, they keep coming and working here. The benfits are way beyond what they will get back home.

And just to remind you, alot of Nigerians on expatriation in Western countries do not get benefits that are much more significant than what their colleagues who are citizens of that country receive.

A colleague on expatriation to the US could only afford a room for the first few months of his arrival. Through out his stay, he didn't live or earn significantly better than his Americans colleagues, unlike what obtains for the American in Nigeria.

I can come up with more examples but lets rest this case by saying, pay Nigerians just as good as you pay their expatriate colleagues, making allowance for some extra to the expatriate for being away from home
RomanceRe: Have You Noticed by funloving(m): 1:29pm On Sep 08, 2007
For once the girls agree we call the shot, right tongue

It's a man's world and time to live my name, just in case you'v forgotten, funloving grin

I am gonna sit down on my porch with a bottle of good, sweet wine.
You all beautiful naija girls will line up in front of me and perform to your best abilties, showing your best assets and prove beyond all resonable doubt why I shoud pick you, for today.

Then I will make my choice of who I spend the day with and start the process all over again tomorrow grin

On a more serious note, there are still good, handsome and quality guys out there but you also need to be a good, beautiful and quality girl to get them. Beauty alone won't get you the best men. With the right package, inside and outside, physical and spiritual, you can out beat and out run the competition for the best man in town.
RomanceRe: Why Do Guys Love Dating Unintelligent Girls, Who Aren't That Exposed? by funloving(m): 12:53pm On Sep 08, 2007
I wouldn't say Nigerian guys love to date 'unintelligent' grils.
I would rather say there are alot of factors guys consider when dating girls

The 'so-called intelligent' Nigerian girls may have serious issues that turn guys off. For example, they could be proud, unnecessarily competitive with the guys, trying to prove they are better, not willing to be submissive, demand impossibly high standards from guys, etc. In fact, because they are educated and think they are intelligent, they might subsconciously think guys do not measure up to them and this subsconcious belief shows in their attitude which begins to turn guys off.

The 'so-called uuintelligent' girls may be more womanly, submissive, respectful, teachable and not always trying to prove they are better than their men. It is this type of girls who are actually intelligent but know how to treat their men so the men don't inferior or have their egos bruised

If Nigerian men are refusing to date you because you are 'intelligent' you need to look inwards and find out what you are not doing right. It is not because you are 'intelligent and exposed'. It might rather be because they can't see the 'African Woman' in you.

Please do all you can to be smart, intelligent, educated,learned but learn to use these qualities without pride or in unwarranted competition with your man.
You can have a man eating out of your hands if you only know how to treat him well.
PoliticsRe: Terrorism In Nigeria? by funloving(m): 7:35pm On Sep 07, 2007
What is all these big grammar about ? That there might be terrorist strike in Nigeria and we are now consulting the Harvard and Oxford Dictionaries to bring out the most high falutin English words ever coined in human history  shocked

I don't care about conspiratorialist theories or the checkmating of rising China's profile in Global Politics and Economics.
All I care about is, are we prepared for a terrorist strike on Nigeria ?
The answer is NO
Then lets get prepapred and live the politicians and political scientists to hazard a guess as to what America is up to with it's threat announcement.

Did I complain about big grammar ?  tongue
PoliticsDiscrimination Against Nigerians In Nigeria by funloving(op): 7:55pm On Sep 06, 2007
I have been associated with the oil industry for sometime now and there is a form on National discrimination going on, which is also perpetuated in other sectors of the Nigerian economy.

I will use the oil industry as a case study because that is one industry I am very conversant with.

You have two men doing exactly the same job in the same office or field locaton. Absolutely the same working conditions, same output. One is an expatriate the other, a Nigerian.

The expatriate is paid $Bleep amount of money monthly while his Nigerian counterpart earns Nxxxx monthly. The expatriate's salary when converted to Naira is at least four times the Nigerian's.

The company they work for earns its income in dollars (most services and products are priced in dollars in the upstream oil sector). Yet, the Nigerian is paid in Naira because he is a Nigerian while the expatriate is paid, alot more, in dollars or Pounds Sterling.

This does not happen in Norway, USA or the UK. In Norway, you as a foreiner can not earn more than a Norwegian doing your kind of job in the same company. Same obtains in the UK, where a Briton is never paid less than a Non-Briton doing comparable work.
I haven't been to the US yet but I believe it is near impossible to import a Non-US citizen into the US to do a job were he will earn more than his American counterpart doing the same type of job.

Why this discrimination in our own country ?

Another case study:
Two Nigerian technicians with one of the foreign oil service companies goes to the UK office of the company for training. They manage to get one month training with a meagre allowance. In the same training, they meet 30 Angolans and 10 Egyptians from the Company's Angola and Egypt offices respectively. They are on a 3 months training.

Why do the Nigerians get only one month training and why only two Nigerians out of the several Nigerians who require training in the Nigerian office of the Company ?

I can come up with several more case studies (like exptriates in wonderful accommodation in Ikoyi and Victoria Island with Chauffeur driven cars and jeeps and Nigerians living in ketu, Ojota, etc struggling with Company staff buses or own cars), but these two I am sure have exposed the trend of events in the Nigerian Upstream Oil Industry and also in most other business sectors where expatriates are involved in Nigeria.

My little guess on why we are discriminated against in our own country are:

1. Our Leaders:
They don't care what happens to those who labour so hard to produce the oil that brings the money they loot. As long as the money comes into the Federation Account who cares about the guys in the field or offices sweating it out

2. Our Leaders again :
The senior Nigerian managers in these companies don't think we deserve to be paid in dollars even though that is the currency of the industry. As long as they, the managers, can keep their postions with the perks of office, they connive with their foreign counterparts to keep the  Nigerian staff underpaid.

3. No laws or legal framework:
Nigeria has no framework for insisting on Nigerians being paid as much or better than their expatriate counterparts, because this is their, Nigerians, country

4. The foreign companies :
They take advantage of our very loose system which enables them to treat Nigerians they way they wish because they know the government won't interfere, there are no legal framework and Nigerians are very poor and desperate for work. They will accept any salary just to survive

5. No Welfare or social security in Nigeria :
Nigerians are desperate for work. Any salary is acceptable as long as one can get a job to do. Nigerians end up earning so muuch less than their expatriate counterparts. The companies know this and they exploit this weakness

6. Finally,Nigerians are not well treated in their own country by fellow Nigerians :
When our government loots us and does not care about our welfare. When our so-called security agencies shoot,main,beat and even kills us for flimsy or sometimes, no reason. When fellow Nigerian employers, managers or just plain, ordinary Nigerian, treat other Nigerians despicably, you don't expect foreigners to treat you any better,do you?


What can be done ?
1. Our leaders have to rise to the occassion. They have to establish a framework that will insist that Nigerians should not earn less than their expatriate counterparts, nor should the Nigerian be treated any less than his expatriate colleague. The Nigerian does not need to be paid in a foreign currency, but his Naira earnings should be compatible to what his expatriate colleague earns.

2. The labour unions should rise to the occassion and insist that their members should be treated equally as their expatriate colleagues

3. Nigerians should stop treating one another badly. Lets treat ourselves with respect and decency so that the foreigners in our midst will have no choice but to treat us well

4. All Nigerians must rise up and insist on their right, which is the right to be treated as first class citizens in their own country.
PoliticsRe: Supreme Thief Alams Gets An Overwhelming Welcome From His People by funloving(op): 9:49am On Sep 05, 2007
It so shocking to see some people still defending Alams.
Are you people on drugs on what ?

For one moment, forget about all the other theives.Did Alams steal YOUR MONEY or did he not steal your molney ?
Simple question

The answer is YES because the man confessed to the theft and there are incontrovertible evidence against him

So why defend him on the basis of there other thieves?

There are thousands of armed robbers in Nigeria but does that mean the police shouLd not arrest, and the courts should not convict those caught until all the armed robbers in Nigeria are caught and tried ?

Ono and Co, don't let your ethnicity of the Niger Delta blind you. I am also from that region but it has not changed the fact that these so called leaders stole OUR MONEY and we should not for ANY REASON welcome them or praise them or DEFEND them.
If anything, we should reject them and make sure they never step feet on our land. We should chase them with stones and run them out of Nigeria, so they all die in exile.

Supporting them because other thieves like them have not been brought to justice smirks of not only total ignorance but a very sad state of our mindset.

A mindset of glorifying the thief as long as he is from our family, even when he steals from us and we receaive no benefit from him.

'Ono and Co,
Bros, the guy steal your money. Stone am. Stop to dey defend am unless something dey wrong with how you dey view your personal property
PoliticsRe: Patricia Etteh - Using Big Grammar To Cover Corruption by funloving(op): 11:25am On Sep 03, 2007
They have started using high falutin language to cover this corruption scandal

What is the difference between renovation and upgrade ?

Renovation = Overhaul
Upgrade = Improve

To a lay man, what is the difference here ?

By the way, why

1. Did it take the National Assembly such a long time to respond ?
I guess they were looking for the right grammar to cover the corruption

2. When was the last time the Speaker's house was occupied that it now requires these amounts of money to renovate ? 
If I am not wrong, the last Speaker was still occupying that house as at May this year, less that than four months ago.
How did it now fall into such a terrible state of disrepair ? Could this be one reason why Bello Masari, the immediate past Speaker has been so concerned about protecting Patricia from a probe ? Could it be that the man stripped the house naked of all fittings and gadgets for his person use before leaving the place, and wants to hide that knowledge?

3. The cars that were bought, weren't immediate past Speaker and Deputy Speaker using official cars ? What happened to them ? Why the need to splash 123million naira just for the Deputy Speaker's cars ?

4. How come Deputy Speaker gets 2  Mercedes Benz 500, Toyota VxV8 land cruiser jeep, 2 Peugeot 406 and a Toyota hilux pick up while the Speaker gets only one Toyota VX V8 Land cruiser Jeep and two Peugeot 406 salon cars, which according to Daminabo, is less than the full complement  of eight vehicles approved statutorily  for the official convoy of the Speaker. (Makes the Speaker seem like a nice, caring, humble, simple woman  angry )
http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=88233

Both the National Assembly and the Speaker and Her Deputy are not telling the truth.
There should be a probe to unearth the whole truth and nothng but the truth
PoliticsPatricia Etteh - Using Big Grammar To Cover Corruption by funloving(op): 11:00am On Sep 03, 2007
http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/news/article01/030907

Assembly, Mark clear Etteh, deputy over alleged scam

From Azimazi Momoh Jimoh and John-Abba Ogbodo (Abuja) and Ralph Omololu Agbana (Lokoja)

WHEN the House of Representatives resumes tomorrow, it may no longer have to contend with conflicting figures on the sum spent on the official residence of its Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Olubunmi Etteh, and her deputy, Mr. Babangida Nguroje.

Contrary to allegations that the sum was N628 million, the National Assembly at the weekend said it was N579 million and that the contract was not for just renovation but "total upgrading" of the houses, which are a "cluster of structures."
Senate President David Mark, also at the weekend, described allegations of financial misconduct against the Speaker and her deputy as being without merit.

The spokesman of the House, Mr. Eziuche Ubani, had earlier put the figure at N238 million.

But the Director of Information in the National Assembly, Mr. Monima Daminabo at the weekend, said that the total cost of upgrading the Speaker's residence was N187 million. Other forms of expenditure on the house, however, include N40 million on security, N11 million for Value Added Tax (VAT) as well as furnishing and fittings, which, he said, cost N71 million.

The sum spent on the Deputy Speaker's residence, he continued, is N90 million for upgrading, N55 million for furnishing and fittings as well as N123 million for motor vehicles.

The grand total, Daminabo said, is N579 million, adding that the works done on the residence were "total upgrade" and not mere renovation.

He added that only the sum of N52 million representing 25 per cent of the contract sum had been paid so far to the contractor.

Daminabo gave the break down of the work being carried out at both residences as:

· Upgrade of a cluster of structures at Speaker's residence -N187,478,279;
· Security - N40,000,000;
· VAT - N11,373,913.25;
Sub total - N238,852,192.25;

· Furnishing and fittings in the cluster of structures at Speaker's residence - N71,895,000;
· Upgrade of cluster of structures at Deputy of Speaker's residence - N90,269,255.25;
· Furnishing and fittings in the cluster of structures at the Deputy Speaker's residence - N55,200,000;
· Motor vehicles - N123,600,000;
· Grand total - N579,216,417.50.

Insisting that due process was followed in the award of the contracts by the management, the Information Director said that the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) had recommended that officers in the category of the Speaker and her Deputy be provided with office accommodation, furnishing and transport since they were not to be provided with allowances in respect of such facilities.

Daminabo said: "It must be acknowledged that these residences are national assets in their own right and as such they must be accorded their due precedence and associated security consideration. It is in the light of the foregoing therefore, that the National Assembly is embarking on the upgrade exercise."

He continued: "Under the Constitution, holders of the offices of the President, Vice President and Chief Justice of Nigeria as well as the presiding officers of the National Assembly, namely Senate President, Deputy Senate President, Honourable Speaker and Honourable Deputy Speaker, are to be remunerated as recommended by the RMFAC. The RMFAC provides that such officers are to be availed official accommodation, furnishing and transport by the government. Accordingly, they are not to be provided allowances in respect of such facilities."

He stated further: "Due process was followed at every stage in the award of the contracts. The Tender Notices for the projects were duly advertised through conspicuous display on the official notice boards throughout the National Assembly premises, as is the practice. The only disbursements made so far in respect of the contracts is 25 per cent mobilisation and to only one contractor."

The Director of Information said the contracts were within the capital votes for the National Assembly in the 2007 budget.
Daminabo said that it was not true that the National Assembly had gone to the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) to source for the funds and was turned back, pointing out that it only went to seek clearance for the structural aspects of the work.

Senate President Mark, yesterday, said that allegations of misappropriation of funds levelled against the Speaker lacked merit and did not follow a due process. The Senate President who made his views known during an interactive session with journalists in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, also frowned at the state of insecurity in Nigeria and warned that unless the country is reorganised, the fledgling democracy is in danger of instability.

Reacting to the crisis in the lower chamber, Mark said: "It is completely blown out of proportion. It is not (about) Patricia Etteh, it is (about) the Speaker of the House of Representatives, who is the number four person."

The Senate President continued: "Secondly, whatever renovation or upgrading that is done in that house is not done for Patricia Etteh, it is done for the Speaker of the House of Representatives, what is my position? "I strongly support her!"
He added: "There is a process for awarding contracts and once that process is followed, there is nothing to fault there. What is wrong about National Assembly awarding contracts? In the case of the Speaker, I would support her. I believe that the PDP (Peoples Democratic Party) would stand by her.

"You don't just begin to condemn people and even in the process of saying so, it has to go through proper and due process. You don't just accuse somebody, then criminalise the person and make him or her look like a criminal, and a colleague for that matter. I don't think it is correct."
While advocating that the present administration take urgent steps to reorganise the police, Mark noted that there is growing feeling of insecurity among the citizenry, constituting a threat to stable democracy, because the police, the main plank of security, "has not done well".

His words: "The police hasn't done well at all and people are worried about their own security and if we don't get a good police, I am afraid it is going to be very, very difficult to stabilize democracy. There is no running away from that. Safety of lives and property is an integral part of democracy. If we cannot guarantee that we are safe, then how can we be talking of dividends of democracy?"

The sources said that the anti-Etteh group intensified their lobby at the weekend as several meetings were held at the Apo legislators' quarters to perfect strategies. A prominent member of the group, John Halims Agoda, told The Guardian that the issue was not of individuals but the integrity of the House and National Assembly. "What is at stake is the integrity of the institution and we are not talking about individuals. We are asking for an independent probe so that we can tell Nigerians the truth and nothing more", he said.

The chairman of the House Committee on Media and Publicity, Ubani, assured that contrary to the expectation of the opposition, the House would have a peaceful session tomorrow. "We will have a peaceful session and demonstrate to Nigerians that the legislature, particularly the House of Representatives, has come of age and that we are here to make a difference," he said.
PoliticsRe: Supreme Thief Alams Gets An Overwhelming Welcome From His People by funloving(op): 4:50pm On Sep 01, 2007
Some people might want to argue that it was a rented crowd that came to welcome him,but in this case that won't be true.
The master criminal visited the Bayelsa State Governeor. Adolphus Wabara, who was himself impeached for corruption, visited to represent 'his people'. The Ibos should quickly disown Wabara and publicly announce that he was neither sent to represent them nor was he representing Ibos, otherwise others will begin to think Wabara and his Ibo folks are also in support of the rogue.

I really don't know what his wrong with Nigerians, but my Ijaw folks have certainly broken the record on this one. Rousing welcome for a man that stole so much from you and left you with absolutely nothing. Where is MEND, NDPVF and the other pretenders who claim to be fighting for Ijaw emacipation ? What have they to say to this ?

Sometimes one feels like giving up on Nigerians.
It is going to be very difficult to help Nigerians out of their shit because as you try to that, the very people you are trying to help will turn around and slam you, making it clear they don't need your help.
I guess we are just fine the way we are, forget the mass nationwide complaints of poverty, unemployment and coruption.
PoliticsRe: Supreme Thief Alams Gets An Overwhelming Welcome From His People by funloving(op): 8:50am On Sep 01, 2007
Now you can see how hopeless our situation is as Nigerians.

Unprecedented crowd, former Senate President, Presidential Aspirant, a former Speaker of a State House of Assembly and a former Commissioner of Finance all turning up to welcome back a thief, ex-convict, extremely corrupt leader angry

Our situation is really bad in this country. Our mindset is exteremely corrupt so much that we now worship money as god of gods. All a man needs to have is loadz of money and he will be worshipped like a god. It doesn't matter how the money is acquired.

Nigerians are indeed their own worst nightmare and greatest problem.
We are simply not yet ready to move forward.

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