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So...for the Nigerians who were pro-Trump because he would "get rid of the gays", please tell me how the presence of gay people affected the price of garri in the market? First of all, that man was ALL OVER the Epstein files, and he has started a war that will skyrocket gas prices. So...if you're crying about inflation now, just wait, you'll soon be crying pepper.

http://www.thisisyourconscience.com/2018/02/a-message-to-black-folks-planning-on-acting-extra-at-the-black-panther-premiere/

...As someone who did not arrive at the theatre in any type of traditional African cloth, or dressed up as any character from the film, or did not swag surf or bust the gwara gwara dance during the previews, I want to take a moment to address all of those who did act extra last night, and who are planning on acting extra at the premiere sometime this weekend:

GO-FUCKING-OFF.

Wear what the Bleep you want to wear and look fly as shit and take a million pictures and post them any and everywhere you can. Sing loud as Bleep before the movie or after it (just not during it!) and even attempt to hit the notes outside of your range. Dress up as Shuri, or T’Challa, or Killmonger, or WHOMEVER and make sure your costume is on point. Listen, gwan guh sneak a whole container of oxtail in the theatre if you must.

ENJOY YOUR FUCKING SELF.

And the absolute LAST thing in the world you should burden yourself with is wondering how your joy is inconveniencing any white person. Hell, if that white person is worth a damn, they will be wilding out in the theatre with you.

...

http://punchng.com/nigerian-women-are-non-citizens/

In the past few weeks, a chain of events, seemingly disparate, took place both in Nigeria and/or about Nigerians.

One was the news that the Nigerian military was going to end the admission of female cadets into the combatant course of the Nigerian Defence Academy. The previous administration launched the initiative, but the present one is stopping it because – as the grapevine has it – some northern Muslims are uncomfortable with the possibility that a woman would one day lead the army and men would have to take orders from her. While the back story cannot be officially confirmed, there has been enough bigotry about this present government to substantiate that account. The President that once stood on the world stage and declared that his own wife belongs to “the other room” exemplifies the chauvinism that drives the engine of Nigerian culture.

As expected, there was a lot of public outrage and the regular evocation of the familiar registers of nepotism in Nigeria –northernisation, Islamisation, etc. The Nigerian Army has expectedly denied that there is any truth in the report. Knowing how previous scandals – from financial corruption that led to mutiny and massacre of innocent civilians ended – they will bury their heads until this storm eventually passes and Nigerians are distracted by another sensation.

Then, there was the story of the 26 women who died on the migrant ship off the Italian coast town of Salerno.



Ironically, in 2015, when Mrs. Aishat Buhari was campaigning for her husband in Edo State, she touched on the subject of human trafficking and European migration issue albeit tactlessly. It has been common knowledge that most of the women who migrate to Europe through abject circumstances come from that part of Nigeria. However, considering how things have fallen apart in the past two years, Nigerians from other parts of the country have joined the hustle through the belly of a whale to be delivered – if they are lucky – into the city of lights. Interestingly, since the death of the 26 women, the First Lady has not thought of lending her voice following the promises she made during the 2015 campaign. Today, Mrs. Buhari’s highest social intervention project is whining to the public about the poverty of infrastructure in the Aso Rock Clinic that caters for the ruling class. Never mind that the hospital typically gets more money than the hospitals millions of Nigerians are condemned to access.

The person who has been carrying the can on the issue is the Senior Special Adviser on Foreign Affairs and the Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa. After her initial misstatement and the furious damage control she attempted on Twitter, Dabiri-Erewa appeared on TV and complained that Nigerian officials failed to attend the unfortunate girls’ burial because they were blindsided by Italian officials. By implication, she revealed that Nigeria planned to participate in the funeral as guests, not as the bereaved.

As things go in Nigeria, the burial of the girls is the final episode in that tragedy. Forget the promises of our leaders who have sworn to investigate. From now on, those girls are reference points.

Third, the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, was accused of having amorous affairs with female subordinates. According to his accuser, he allegedly gave the women undeserved promotion, he even impregnated one of them. To cover up the shame, he had to marry her. And what was the IG’s response? He claimed that no law stops him from having an affair with his subordinates. The thought of the police boss who does not recognise professional ethics is frightening. If Idris had ethical awareness about power and responsibility, he would not be insisting on his supposed right to pursue women whose responses to his sexual advances could make or break their career in the police organisation. If the IG is not driven by a basic sense of responsibility, his lack of professional ethics will affect his dispensation of his duties and the way the police organisation under his watch is structured. Would such a person ever fight against female sexual harassment in the police?

These three incidents, taken together, bring one to an inevitable and painful conclusion: there is really no moral essence to the legal and political structures on which this country hangs. The laws are not only weak, they also lack internal virtue. There is no guiding ideology or an overarching philosophy that defines the contours of our supposed citizenship. We are inhabitants of the Nigerian space, but we barely have any claims to the political and cultural ideals of citizenship which should guarantee the principles and values by which we are ruled, and the moral obligation and expectations that we can demand of Nigeria.

Instead, we are ruled on the whims and caprices of parochial men whose sole claim to leadership authority is the accident of being at the right place at the right time. The men sit in high places and from there, parcel out bite-size privileges to the rest of us according to the sizes of their nepotism. Even the so-called progressive ideas an administration executes are often more about fanciful showings than those grounded in thought or a moral vision. When they are succeeded by another government, that one – lacking a clue why those ideas are essential building blocks of democracy – unravels its predecessor’s achievements.

Unfortunately, because the political club that cuts and distributes the national cake is male-dominated, women are usually at the receiving end of the patriarchal power and forces of principalities that rule Nigeria. Under Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, the political space has further shrunk to an old boys’ club. Images of the President’s trips abroad and those of people who surround him are composed of mostly men – aging oldies with a befuddling sense of entitlement. They decide who gets which privileges and their treatment of women under this asymmetric arrangement is a form of svengalism. Women, to them, are not citizens with equal rights, privileges, and responsibilities but an afterthought whose uses are determined by their patriarchal impulses. We are ruled by men like Senator Bukar Ibrahim who, as governor of Yobe State, inaugurated Sharia law – with its strict puritan codes on sexual morality. Yet, he was reported the last time as taking down his trousers before women in a “short-time” motel. I suppose he would also be one of those who will think it is an aberration for a woman to give orders to a man?

The other part is that even women who exploit gender-based issues during elections when they campaign for either themselves or their husbands end up in power servicing the same patriarchal power structure. Occasionally, women run the women’s unit of their political organisation (because they would not be allowed to run the mainstream affairs where men dominate) but that is almost as far as it goes. Pushing for women’s rights goes beyond superficial affirmative action programmes that merely increase the margin of women’s representation but still fail to take them seriously as equal partners in the Nigerian project. Women are not to be “gifted” privileges and positions, neither should issues that imperil them be subject to an offhand treatment that does not address the question of their citizenship.

When a society descends to the level where the police IG declares no law bars him from slaughtering and eating any sheep in his fold, we should be worried that our country lacks basic normative principles that ought to guide public moral codes. It does not matter if the IG eventually married the woman he had an affair with or not, or whether Islamic laws permit him to sow his oats wherever he chose, it is wrong for a boss to make advances towards their subordinate and that Nigeria is allowing such a perfidy to stand shows how lax we are on issues of human rights and citizenship privileges for women.

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People for sale
Where lives are auctioned for $400

Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- "Eight hundred," says the auctioneer. "900 ... 1,000 ... 1,100 ..." Sold. For 1,200 Libyan dinars -- the equivalent of $800.

Not a used car, a piece of land, or an item of furniture. Not "merchandise" at all, but two human beings.
One of the unidentified men being sold in the grainy cell phone video obtained by CNN is Nigerian. He appears to be in his twenties and is wearing a pale shirt and sweatpants.
He has been offered up for sale as one of a group of "big strong boys for farm work," according to the auctioneer, who remains off camera. Only his hand -- resting proprietorially on the man's shoulder -- is visible in the brief clip.

Carrying concealed cameras into a property outside the capital of Tripoli last month, we witness a dozen people go "under the hammer" in the space of six or seven minutes.
"Does anybody need a digger? This is a digger, a big strong man, he'll dig," the salesman, dressed in camouflage gear, says. "What am I bid, what am I bid?"
Buyers raise their hands as the price rises, "500, 550, 600, 650 ..." Within minutes it is all over and the men, utterly resigned to their fate, are being handed over to their new "masters."

After the auction, we met two of the men who had been sold. They were so traumatized by what they'd been through that they could not speak, and so scared that they were suspicious of everyone they met.


Read more at http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/14/africa/libya-migrant-auctions/index.html

People for sale
Where lives are auctioned for $400

Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- "Eight hundred," says the auctioneer. "900 ... 1,000 ... 1,100 ..." Sold. For 1,200 Libyan dinars -- the equivalent of $800.

Not a used car, a piece of land, or an item of furniture. Not "merchandise" at all, but two human beings.
One of the unidentified men being sold in the grainy cell phone video obtained by CNN is Nigerian. He appears to be in his twenties and is wearing a pale shirt and sweatpants.
He has been offered up for sale as one of a group of "big strong boys for farm work," according to the auctioneer, who remains off camera. Only his hand -- resting proprietorially on the man's shoulder -- is visible in the brief clip.

Carrying concealed cameras into a property outside the capital of Tripoli last month, we witness a dozen people go "under the hammer" in the space of six or seven minutes.
"Does anybody need a digger? This is a digger, a big strong man, he'll dig," the salesman, dressed in camouflage gear, says. "What am I bid, what am I bid?"
Buyers raise their hands as the price rises, "500, 550, 600, 650 ..." Within minutes it is all over and the men, utterly resigned to their fate, are being handed over to their new "masters."

After the auction, we met two of the men who had been sold. They were so traumatized by what they'd been through that they could not speak, and so scared that they were suspicious of everyone they met.


Read more at http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/14/africa/libya-migrant-auctions/index.html

Hope you're gay - since you hate women so much, you probably can't bear to touch them. Riiiiight - it's the women who've stolen the continent blind. When will black men ever take responsibility??

Bolustical:
See how women spoil good things!

Mugabe would still have remained the President if he had curtailed Grace his wife.

GEJ might still have remained President if the likes of Diezani, Stella Oduah and Patience were not prominent in his government.

If you want to ruin your government or ministry as a politician or pastor, just give your wife undue attention and power and see how you go down very fast.

http://venturesafrica.com/nigerian-immigrant-made-to-defend-the-knowledge-of-his-profession-before-allowed-entry-into-the-united-states-of-america/

The reality of the new immigration laws by Trump’s government of United States of America is beginning to take a new shape as it affects other countries. People had initially thought the only set of immigrants that would be facing serious vetting if allowed into the US are the immigrants from the seven blacklisted countries. However, a recent bad-tempered treatment meted out on a Nigerian shows that the present paranoia that permeates the relationship of America with the rest of the world is not limited or restricted to the seven blacklisted countries.

Celestine Omin is a Nigerian software engineer, one of the very talented ones to get the chance to work with an international agency. Omin has for the last six months been working with a New York city-based tech start-up to build a Javascript application. Needing his immense talent on ground, the company arranged for his visitation to the United States for a better collaboration and environment to drive a successful operation.

Omin finally left the shores of Nigeria for the United States on Sunday 26th February, on a work trip to the US, not seeking to run away from his country. He is by no means an immigrant. After 24 hours on the plane, he arrived Trumpland, very tired, and seriously needing a rest. But what he met at the JFK International Airport slapped reality back into him, giving him a sense of being away from home, on a foreign land a place where he would have to prove his sanity, his humanity before he would be accepted.

Twenty minutes after arrival and having undergone the routine check, Omin was led to a room for a suspicious round of questioning about his profession which would understandably make anyone look a threat. He was made to sit in the room for another hour before the never-before-heard test came. He was going to be tested to see if he truly was a software engineer. And to determine that, they got him a couple of googled up question. Confused, tired from the journey, Omin found it quite hard to think, but still, could provide technical answers to the questions, answers that any other software engineer would flow with. Although, Celestine says he suspected “the customs official interrogating him wasn’t technically trained and couldn’t understand his answers.”

Omin was finally allowed to go after US Customs officials put a call through to Andela and First Access and got an approval of his identity. Nevertheless, to the immigration officer, Omin was still not convincing. Whatever he meant by that, we would not know.

For an average foreigner going into the US, one should not just worry about getting into the country legally; one now has to worry about looking convincing to immigration officers. We would not know if the new “ad-hoc rule” is restricted to blacks or to every other people. Whatever it is that it means, everybody, not just the blacklisted countries, will be finding it difficult to go into the US, whether legally or not. This is the reality of Trump’s paranoid immigration laws.

And here I was thinking it was the skill and knowledge of the pilot that saved them

nelcliff:
Thank God for saving them if not, it will have been another bad news on top hardship in Nigeria....

I'm not sure how quoting the Bible proves a point. All that passage shows is that there were people with reason even back then, who questioned religion with its blind faith, and when they were quashed what happened? Europe entered it's dark ages - similar to Nigeria now - a backwards and violent time. And when reason returned what happened? They entered the age of enlightenment, a prosperous and productive time. History and reality are clear, but keep quoting a 2000 year old book. What wisdom exactly are you referring to? Please tell me. Be specific! Is there a passage in there that tells you how to cure malaria? Is there one that tells you how to predict a tsunami? Perhaps there is one in there that tells you how to nation build? And another that tells you how to reduce poverty? Mtcheeeew! In reality, the most religious countries are often the most backwards, the most violent, the poorest. What wisdom are you speaking of?

jahstech:
[size=14pt][b]1 Corithians 1:18-25: For the speech about the torture stake is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is God’s power. 19 For it is written: “I will make the wisdom of the wise men perish, and the intelligence of the intellectuals I will reject.” 20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this system of things? Has not God made the wisdom of the world foolish? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not get to know God through its wisdom, God was pleased through the foolishness of what is preached to save those believing. 22 For the Jews ask for signs and the Greeks look for wisdom; 23 but we preach Christ executed on the stake, to the Jews a cause for stumbling but to the nations(you included) it is foolishness. 24 However, to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 Because a foolish thing of God is wiser than men, and a weak thing of God is stronger than men.[/b][/size]

Who is the fool now?
Don't come to conclusion on what you don't understand, believe whatever you want but don't trample on others because of what they believe since you are too WISE to inquire why they choose to believe what they do..

Thank you! Those idiots saying "anti-establishment." Do they even know what that means? "Let's replace politicians in the hands of big business with...a big business man!" Hahahahahahahaha. Good luck. Let's face it, most of the commenters here backing Trump have never set foot in the States, and are secretly gleeful that a racist anti-immigrant president might just make it difficult for those Nigerians who can. Don't deny it! Nigerians are a self-destructive bunch. I mean, take a good look at Nigeria! That's your proof.

neocortex:
Trump may not be part of "the establishment" but he is an establishment himself.
I don't see him fighting the wall street or the big banks only his flip-flop immigration and
foreign policy differentiates him from Clinton.
As to the democrat primaries, I won't call it rigging since the leak did not prove
that votes didn't count but that some powerful democrats have a vested interest
in preventing Sanders from winning which is a normal phenomenon in party politics.

Clinton has the minorities, experienced politicians and loud-mouthed liberals behind her
their support has been instrumental in US presidential elections since 2008. Couple
with the fact that electoral college not popular votes determines the winner.

If Trump is to win, he has to play by the rules of the game not against it.

I believe both candidate may change many of their previous stances on key issues as the
campaign heats-up.

Of course epilepsy is neurological, but people are ignorant; they would rather believe a 2000 year old book with outdated beliefs and outlooks than modern science. They use anecdotal evidence as proof instead of science - I wonder why the same people don't simply pray when they have malaria...why take any medicine at all? You have faith, right? Why not wait for God to save you? Maybe your malaria is a "spiritual attack." Mtcheeeeew! Mankind eventually figured out the mechanisms of malaria and you're benefitting from that knowledge; they'll do the same with epilepsy. Not men like you though; not men content to wallow in their ignorance.

With this sort of mentality, is it a wonder that Nigeria is still a third world hell hole? Keep thinking of marriage as having someone serve you while you wonder why you have no jobs, no light, no good roads, no good leadership. Clap yourself for your backwards, can-never-do-anything-for yourself mentality; exact same as your useless leaders.

shamsuRana:
8...They know what they want in a woman.

Except...

SUITORS NOW PREFER OUR MAIDS TO OUR DAUGHTERS FOR MARRIAGE

Why not?

When we devote time in training the maids on how to cook well, how to clean the house and on good mannerisms while leaving our own daughters untrained.

We overwork the maids and they adjust with equanimity because they need us to survive.

The maids turn out to manage the indignation and insolence we and our children subject them to. All these make the maids better wives who can manage even the angriest of men.

Our precious daughters are pampered through nursery and primary schools. They speak the English we want and know all the cartoon slangs by heart. We beat the maids blue black if they ever ask our girls to help out in domestic duties. They see kitchen things as maids' things.

The girls move from boarding schools to the university, do their NYSC, Masters and get a job. Of course, they are ripe for marriage and you wish that to happen soon.

From one relationship to another, the same story. The guys would parade and dump them. They are only good in bed, outings, clubs and red carpet functions.

The boys de-commit when they notice that the possible wife cannot cook, arrange things and are very domestically untrained. The rich guys can manage as they would mitigate the handicap by hiring a domestic help. Not all guys can afford this for a start.

The upcoming and very sensitive guys who would make good husbands, fathers and leaders would not manage these parents' inflicted shortcomings. They would settle for well trained ones. They know the value and the pride in hosting friends at home to delicious delicacies prepared by a wife.

My friends love eating the food my wife makes. My wife's proficiency in culinary matters and the joy she exudes in cooking different dishes for me has made me to stop eating outside. I tell people that as a titled man, that I'm forbidden to eat outside but I know the truth- no food can taste any better than my wife's. I'm also convinced that my addiction is not juju-inspired. It would have expired by now. We are married for 16 years+.

Not all your maids would remain your servants for ever. Some of them would finally do part-time studies and like a train, get to their God ordained destinations sooner or later.

Like a perfume, good guys perceive well trained wife materials from afar and dump the daughters of the bourgeois like hot iron. Long time happiness in at stake. No explanation is given. Sometimes, the sack message is made through a social medium.

Let your daughters learn what you teach your maids to make them compete for the few available good men if marriage is important to them. There are few guys who believe that marriage is for better for worse.

Don't be deceived; love is an active verb. Yes it is. You love; you loved; and you used to love. You can also hate who you used to love. Therefore, some men are immune to pre-marital love blindness.

In practice, love can't cover the stench of bad early formation of our daughters.

Right now, educated former maids are now cornering better men on offer because they possess the requisite or set skills the highly perceptible and ready husband materials need.

Take note..

Was Nigeria a self-determined federation? Did the Igbos originally decide to join up? Did the Yorubas or Hausas? Or was the country cobbled together by the same Britain (that present-day idiot Nigerians are praising as "civilized" without care for the wishes of its citizens?

foladara777:
All you people equating the EU to the Nigerian situation should do a little research and understand the difference. Nigeria is a federation, the EU is not. At best, the EU is a confederal system. A distinctive feature of federalism is d repudiation of secession. Do u see Texas having a referendum to secede from the US?

Maybe when the so called "civilized" read "white" countries stop helping themselves to the resources on the so-called "uncivilized" read "non-white" countries. And if you think that isn't the nature of things; if you think they don't aid third-world corruption; if you think they haven't helped put dictators in power; if you think they don't hold on to trillions of YOUR money; you need to get your nose out of their asses.

ooshinibos:
it is Nigerians fault and the rest of the nations that refused to implement good governance they have put pressure on civilized nations via immigration ..Britain is now tired of Africans coming via Europe to Britain ..that's the truth ...why can't other countries be developed like UK

Ikr. Bunch of hypocrites, eh! If they hate immigrants so much, they can always recall Canada, America, South Africa, Australia.... Mtcheeeeeew! They started the globilization of the world; they should quit their whining now that it's started happening to them. Like the Brexit will stop the hardcore immigrants. Get with the times people! You think Eastern Europeans leaving suddenly means manufacturing jobs will come back? Hahahahahahahaha! Your economy will suffer! But hey, you'll be a pink country. So Eat and drink your pinkness!

And for those comparing it favorably to the Biafra movement - you know, the pink-skin worshippers; as if the Brexit wasn't marked by vitriol, hate, anger, fear and even the murder of a sitting member of Parliament! Forge your own path you morons and stop looking to former colonizers who terrorized your own people! With people that think like you, no wonder Nigeria is still remains underdeveloped.

fiizznation:
You enslaved the world from 15-19 century, and yet you don't want to be ordered around by Brussels. What a funny people. Anyway for the smart business men, this is right time to buy your pounds

Wow - someone actually pointing out the logical next steps - more breakups and chaos. Nice one. Compared to the other idiots hear with their Uncle Tom, pink-ass kissing mentalities. Like it's so hard to resign as prime minister if you know that another cushy job; lots of other cushy private jobs that would probably pay more are yours for the choosing. What's selfless about wanting power, and moving on to bigger and better things to save face when things don't go your way? Mtcheeeeeeeeew!

ItsMeAboki:
That is only the surface; his action has already placed the entire UK union in jeopardy because both Scotland and Wales have predominantly voted to remain in Europe while the English majority voted to exit; therefore likely to reawaken separatist movements for the two former countries to want to break away again - Britain and David Cameron have made a big mistake to go out of Europe.

MarieSucre:
Humans are not just women can be arrogant and bossy. But I don't see anybody complaining about the men who are?

Can you see that you do not care for women, you're just a pretender. When I demolished your excuse for women fighting in the warfront, just like a serpent you changed tact.
Someone like you would justify the oppression of Igbo's because your excuse will be "they're a minority" "they can't take care of themselves" "blah.. blah.. blah.." mtchewwww

I wondered when you would start getting angry at some of these men! You've been so patient! If I could give everyone of your posts a 1000 likes, I would! Honestly, do these men realize that the person who bore, birthed and nourished them is a woman? One even called women bitxhes. Yeah - like your mama?

When they say that Nigerian women haven't achieved anything....have they so soon forgotten about the Nigerian female doctor who was hailed a hero for her fast thinking actions on curbing the spread of Ebola? If she hadn't acted when she did and that horrible disease exploded in the country, how many of the men opening their dirty mouths here saying that no woman is equal to him would still be alive?

Thank you MariSucre for pointing out that if people want to use the bible for justifying female inequality, they should also use it to justify the death penalty for fornicators, and embrace slavery amongst the many other barbaric practices that book seemed to encourage (including human sacrifice)

Thank you for pointing out that the same arguments some of these men are employing can and has been used to justify racism and their own inferiority to caucasians. How well is the Nigeria run by men performing on the world scale? How constant is your electricity, and water; your job prospects and security o ye superior men? Or are you going to blame women for that too?

And as for the one asking exactly how women are disenfranchised in Nigeria, please tell me you are not that ignorant. Were you under a rock when the #beingfemaleinnigeria was circulating? Are you okay with the fact that an old man can marry a 13 year old? And if that 13 year old was your sister, would you still be okay with it? Are you ignorant to the stats of sexual assault? Violence against women? Are you okay with men beating up their wives? Female genital mutilations? Gender disparity in pay? The list goes on! Please get your head twisted on straight. Honestly, if you need to know why the country isn't developing, just read all of these myopic comments!

Success! I just had to type in ube fruit in google! Guess what it's English name was "African or bush pear" Oh look, African is synonymous with bush. Why is that not surprising? And some African idiots keep falling over themselves for the English!

What about ube? I think that's what it's called. Assuming that it's a fruit...you have to boil it before you can eat it, and it's usually eaten with corn...it's dark blue in color.

Frankly, the only reason I'm interested in the English name is to be able to google it. Otherwise, don't see why we need to know the English names per se. That's the colonial mentality talking. After all, you'd never hear English men asking what the "native" name of an apple is, now, would you?

And what's this rubbish I keep hearing about hypnosis. In a country where people can't figure out constant electricity, they now know how to hypnotize people? Hahahahahahahahahaha Please tell us the sort of technology being used. Or is it some kind of biochemistry? Some drug? Electrochemistry? Some kind of stimuli? Or just educated illiterates who throw in so called black magic whenever they can't understand something? And they wonder why the country doesn't develop? Mtcheeeeew! Some people truly are backwards!

Thank you, Texaz! Honestly, some people's stupidity knows no bounds. Apparently, in their tiny little heads, the only marriages that fail are the ones without the parents' blessing. Mtcheew. Rubbish! If only Nigerian parents were as kin on the country's development in the same way as they are on marriage! Always wanting to control - they're your children, not your property! Just because you put a child through school - which you're supposed to! You brought them into this world afterall. Did they beg you to? - doesn't been you own them!

texazzpete:
Look at you, quoting Bible and talking about Love in a case when Parents used police to illegally detain an innocent man for nothing.

With all the nonsense you posted, one would think that parental consent prevents infidelity and violence.

99% of the broken marriages in Nigeria were done with the blessings of the parents and religious bodies.

Right. Like equal access to education? Last time I checked, all those men were highly educated! Mtcheeew! Your mother would be so proud!

charliboy654:
No they are busy fighting for equality

It seems that you're the one putting words into someone else's mouth. The first world/third world divide isn't the heave vs hell you are trying to portray. Each society has its challenges; those of the third world obviously being more dire. The person flipping burgers might be better off overall than the person flipping akara; doesn't make him/her happy! There are so many other factors than the material including inventions and what not that goes towards happiness. A television/electricity can't stop you from being in an abusive relationship, or being enstranged from your family or being in a negative environment wherever you are in the world.

Penisinpenisout:
How on earth do you find it hard to comprehend what i just said.
I never said being rich = Happiness, why are you putting words into my mouth

I specifically made mention of someone who flips burger (equivalent to frying akara) is contented with what he makes, because most of basic amenities (electricity, water, good road etc) are being met. If you're gonna spew bullshiit links atleast use credible source, the survey carried out in those links (webm.com) did not include Africa in their research, (they probably figured everyone already died from depression here, lol)

You can sit there and lie to yourself about how convenient and happy nigerians are, but deep down you know they are wailing and bitter about how inhumane and uncaring our rulers have been over the years
You cant possibly tell me you don't browse Nairaland and see the amount of bitterness in the comment section.

If sucide wasnt such a taboo in nigeria(because religion and tradition) and burial wasnt soo expensive.
Trust me, alot of people will be hanging from their cellings. Just because they have high sucide rate doesnt change the fact that most african countries are unhappy. How many europeans or muricans come to africa in search of a better life? Why didnt refugees migrate to africa when they where being bombed. Its simply, they were in pursuit of happiness and comfort.

Thank you!

A thousand likes!

Ioannes:
what do you know about me exactly and how are you sure I'm not typing from a first world country

so you think having life's conveniences at your finger tip should necessarily make you happy?

sorry, but you are naive. you don't believe me? here. let me take you through some statistics:

this is for suicide rates;


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/suiciderate.html

http://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/10-countries-with-the-highest-suicide-rates-351610/

http://www.sickchirpse.com/top-5-suicide-countries/

and this is for depression;


http://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/11-countries-with-the-highest-depression-rates-in-the-world-351095/2/

http://www.webmd.com/depression/news/20110726/richer-countries-have-higher-depression-rates

How many African countries did you notice therein?

being rich doesn't necessarily make you happy, being content with what you have is what makes you happy.

and when next you feel the temptation to believe the negative things you read about Africa, you would do well to remember that these people probably have never left the shores of their countries.

they sit in their skyscraper offices in New York, wearing fancy suits and fooling around with computer analyses to generate their statistics.

I have to wonder if you've actually lived in a first world country. Where do you think you can afford to live on a burger king salary aka minimum wage? In a crime-ridden ghetto riddled by gun totting gangsters and drug addicts. If you think people living in those conditions are happy, you need to get your head examined! Mtchheeew. Too many Nigerians living with a colonial mentality, and they wonder why their country isn't developing.

Penisinpenisout:
Talk nonsense? Or you just cant comprehend
Happiness ranking is actually a thing that should stay in first world country
Those are the people who already win at life, every great invention, civilization, empire came from there
Life is convineient, you can flip burgers at burger king and still be very comfortable

If you ever wanted to know what it means to actually live (or be alive) go to a first world country(if you can)

All those complaining about the "wicked woman" - your mothers must be so proud. Too bad she didn't abort you while you were in the womb. Or did you forget you were born of a woman? Who birthed and raised you, with very little domestic help from her husband no doubt. Mtcheeew! Ungrateful louts! It's the women presidents running the country, the entire continent to the ground, right?

Finally - a comment that makes sense. Given the sorts of politicians and preachers we've been blessed with, it's safe to say that intelligence, logic etc are often not the key determinants of dominance in one field over another: opportunity and prejudice often are.

As for all these blabbermouth men complaining about women (as if they have no part in our gender roles play ou) - hope you're also equal participants in homemaking.

shepherd77:
So which field is not skewed against women?


Politics - men, sports - men, literature - men, arts - men, military - men, religion - men, you name it.

I don't believe reasoning and
Logic is the cause.

Lol. Tell them - some of those rules were asinine to begin with.

Funny how so many of them ended with "I am the Lord."

Really? You had time to make all those rules, yet gave nothing useful like

Most sickness is caused by tiny organisms, not demons. I am the Lord
Earthquakes are due to moving tectonic plates. No need to fear, just build your homes this way. I am the Lord
You can cure leprosy with antibiotics produced from fungi. I am the Lord
You can cure the malaria that kills millions of your children with the bark of this tree. I am the Lord

Mtcheew. Useless Lord.