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meforyou1: The internet you use the free electricity Nigeria supplies to Ghana to power? Just a button in kanji dam. Switch it off and that your fastest internet will go down one time

uzoexcel: @ iamord, stop trying

Fourwinds: call it whatever name. are u telling me dey don't have indepth knowledge of deir route.? so y didn't d captain watch out for ice berg. when d Supreme Being wants to take charge of His affairs., u can use what ever measure u have at ur disposer and yet u will things drifting away.

cold: 5 people died but god saved the eggs because of a picture of Jesus in the boot. Smh..i give up

MissMeiya: He was being sarcastic. He doesn't actually think you're a genius...

SLIDEwaxie: which innoson? What innovation did innoson bring except those normal kick-and-start driven coffins?

Though, both innoson and this ghanian manufactures buy used moulds from other international car manufactures and only changed the logo and the vents to their own design!

What's new in that design. A normal ford-truck, and a normal old pathfinder shape!

The only edge the ghanian has over that overrated innoson is the new patented breathtaking inventions included which I really commend.

Even the rolls royce will be jealous of such great idea incorporated into the old mould!

I challenge both of them to make their own design different and with a trademark like the hondas, toyotas, benzoids , beemers, rolls royce, Bentley etc!

Konjour: Dude. Don't even try to play the righteousness card in this tragedy. In 1912, ships were allocated

lifeboats based on their gross tonnage and NOT the number of passengers they could carry.

Also, in times of disasters as such, special treatment was often given to Women and Children.

The lifeboats that were launched too had to start evacuating passengers from the top decks

which was occupied by the first class passengers, followed by the middle class passengers.

Thus, much more people died in the lower decks cuz the flooding had gotten to an advanced

stage before it was their turn to board the lifeboats, using your way of reasoning, does that mean

that God saved the first class passengers cuz they were rich and let the poor die cuz they were

poor?! Even the first lifeboats that were launched were nowhere close to being filled cuz people

were scared of boarding the boats as the ship had not really developed a severe list like it did

before it broke amidships. Some people who had been evacuated didn't want to come back cuz

they were scared of the suction effect and that the remaining survivors might swamp their boats.

Some rich people bribed their way into lifeboats cuz they had money but others died cuz they

couldn't. Does that count as God's grace too?! I implore you not to mish mash whatever you don't

understand with whatever you think you do. Think, research, learn the facts and don't always use

the name of God to support mundane things or anything you can't get a grasp of.

All some people have seen about the Titanic here is just the movie and probably a few

Wikipedia footnotes and they believe they know everything about the ship and the disaster

already.

Konjour: So, those who died when the Titanic sank were sinners innit and those who survived were saints?

PointB: Op, thanks for the invitation. And thank you Berem for acknowledging my contributions to the dynamics of this section

I will be brief.

Soon after the current outbreak of Ebola, after the emergency of the experimental drugs (a serum) - Zmapp, I began to wonder if there is indeed a foul play somewhere. Perhaps a direct consequence of having seen several movies (24hrs Season 7 for example) in which corrupt western pharmaceutical companies, use corrupt and strife rife African countries to conduct human trials on bio-agents (usually deadly pathogens), preparatory for bio wars, especially during the cold war era. Now 1970s-80 Congo (Zaire then) was deeply enmeshed in this politics of cold war, with the inanely corrupt Mobutu Sese Seko backed by several US presidents, including the notorious Nixon, as cold war ally. The first Ebola outbreak was in Congo (Zaire) in 1976. You do the maths.

Now whether it was a bio-agent gone awry, or whether it is one of nature's potent weapons of population and resource control, and forest conservation; whether hyped or un-hyped , Ebola is real, and it's killing people! One can argue that the objective of the current 'noise' about Ebola is to push z-mapp and other experimental drugs/vaccines and make someone rich, but one cannot argue against the fact the preventive options available are relatively inexpensive, and practicable. And they are beneficial and effective in the long run.

In other words, washing hands with soap, avoiding fluids from ill people, avoiding wild animals (sticking to domesticated animals for food), etc are all good hygiene practice which benefit everyone whether rich or poor! It will certainly help in preventing/ curtailing other equally deadly epidemics, such as Cholera which is killing more people in Ghana, than Ebola has done in some affected countries.

My conclusion is that, this ruckus about Ebola will surely pass, but West Africa, which is worst hit now, should be able to learn a thing or two about epidemic management, and thus be better prepared in future.

sunex: Now i bliv u are an id*iot, u jus an agbero,I dnt discuss wit piple lik u. Broda ode... mayb ur family folo Die for d water, infact nah u suppose first die inside d water.

meforyou1: will do that definitely

Emessy: Actually I mean physically , like chaining and other stuffs

uzoexcel: i may need to quit nairaland

uzoexcel: lol...i dnt really v any opinion on the conspiracy theory but the fact that xtians here say God sank the ship to show his might is quite appalling and baffling and quite illogical to me...sometimes i get tired of nairaland

meforyou1: let me indulge you, what silly statements exactly?

bimbor: Ask any african rapper alive, they know M.I is the Chairman. Yes like seriously. Who else delivers such intelligent flows like he does? We ain't talking about making noise about ladies' sensitive parts and bikinis, We are talking of core rap bro! The kind of rap ever done the by the greatest Tupac. We are talking hardcore delivery. M.I has no comparison. He kills it in a perfect blend of lyrical mix. If u're still in doubt ask Ice Prince.

meforyou1: boy, in your whole life, u can never go to as many countries as I have been at d moment

dealslip: My Ghanian brothers please take it easy. Naija get hin own problem so does Ghana. Let us not pretend anyone is better. Contribute your part to grow your economy, I will contribute mine to Nigeria. I was bored yesterday and decided to have fun at your expense and I did have it. no hard feelings as I don't even know any of you @Santamafia, @Oxygen01 and other Ghanian on that thread. As one created in the image and likeness of God, hate is not permitted in my soul I love you and Ghana unconditionally, we are all unique in our different way and we should emphasize this not our weaknesses. Wish you well in all your endeavors. One Love, One Naija, One Ghana, One Africa. God Bless

meforyou1: Ghana's stories are always so disgusting. They should just sell the country to Nigeria if they don't have money to manage it.
Ghana always lacking money when Nigeria even supplies them free electricity from kainji dam

bimbor: M.I. is Africa's best. Take it or leave it!!
Did you listen to his collaboration with Jimmy Jatt lately? M.I. is a god you should worship!! He's too much for Lagos to handle.

Dibiachukwu: https://static-p2.photoxpress.com/jpg/00/10/18/50/400_F_10185035_TB9qmnIhFakH1zxmXK6hufHgvLyzAPTU_PXP.jpg

Oink bi.tches. Whatch you gon do about it.

You gonna cwry?

Onyeyi save us all.

Onyeyi protects those who honour him. He controls the devils too. Onyeyi is supreme

EmpressaDelRei: Rainmakers are highly patronised during political rallies/functions, weddings, building and construction, funeralsand virtually everything in our day to day life. I have seen rain being held myself before: during my friend's traditional marriage ceremony in Kwale, Delta state, her family didn't pay homage to/settle one particular rain-maker from her kindred. All other rain-makers got settled except this man who the community saw as a quiet man.
On the morning of her marriage, heavy rain and thunder started. The clouds became so dark and everybody began to panic. Her eldest brother remembered that quiet old man and ran to his house. The old man was sitting at his backyard; a big pot was on the fire, empty without contents. He was chanting incantations. When he saw my friend's brother and laughed saying "I thought nobody would come". He begged the old man and the old man told him to bring a carton of Guinness stout and a Billy goat and a 4,000 naira. All the items were brought, the man sent his little son to bring something under his bed, he plucked a leaf from a hidden corner of his house, went to the fire, chanted some stuff, threw the leaf into the empty put while holding the "under-the-bed-thing". He asked the youngman to look in the direction of their house, he looked and the rain stopped instantly.
The marriage went well and that old rain-maker ate, drank and danced the most.

ilotriouzAY: All na vanity upon vanity

Obi1kenobi: I can never compare Hollywood and "Nollywood". That's insane stupidity. It would be as stupid as comparing America and Nigeria. They're day and night. Darkness and Light. Total polar opposites.

All the defensive ramblings here don't detract from the astonishing mediocrity of Nollywood. It's painful to watch. And yes, I've seen some of the parrotted Afolayan, Isong and co films and while they may be the best of the mediocrity the indusry has to offer, they couldn't come close to top international films from Hong Kong cinema, Brazil, or India or even the South Africa Nigerians hilariously like to feel superior to(in your dreams). I wouldn't even dare put it in the same sentence as Hollywood to make a comparison. The greatest problem of the Nigerian film industry is the total lack of organization and the lack of professionalism to truly set the industry apart from the marketers and traders that run the industry like they do Alaba market. Or the actors who only see the industry as a meal-ticket - often because they have nothing else to do with their lives. It's the same lack of integrated planning you see in many sectors in Nigeria - where everyone can make their own rules. They don't live for the passion of producing something truly brilliant and original. They're incapable of doing anything which stimulates the audience intellectually or really educates them about the deeper issues of the world. Big budget films, requiring big investment of money and time to craft something worthwhile, can't be produced because it's not a well regulated industry that could pool scarce resources for a few ambitious project rather than mutiple garbage low-budget productions- as long as they can profit on making weekly home videos for a profit to their Idumota trader masters that run the industry.

It's a shame the best African movies have to be shot by foreigners. Or South Africans. Movies like Hotel Rwanda or Sarafina tell the stories that Nollywood are incapable of telling. The few attempts at such things I've seen have been highly underwhelming. So we have to go back to the comfort zone of 50 Mr. Ibu or Osuofia or Olu Jacob movies every year. What a shame.

FOLYKAZE: Heya, the tsunami that hitted nairaland deleted a beautiful thread created about Osanyin.


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