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BlueDiva:
U'd make a good coach

Cheers baby. . . I hope you're no being sarcastic  


Nateevs I need help, my link dey phock up

lol. Kit is hiding.

Q is a step-over dribbler, Stoch is a body-swerve dribbler. In rainy conditions, body-swerve dribblers are always more effective as body swerves throw the defender off balance.

Trust me, Stoch is the man for this game!

These conditions are too slippery for Drogba to play his usual hustle game. May be better off considering Di Santo.

Malouda not hugging the touchline at all. When conditions are this slippery, you need dribblers.

Stoch is the man for this game!

This Malouda is a waste

Man, Stoch needs to come on. He would bury Hreidarrsson in these conditions.

Get Malouda off!

Cool. . . . .Im watching it on Iraqgoals anyway.

BTW, why is Malouda playing? What happened to Anelka, Quaresma or even Stoch?

Someone give me the link immediately!

An Opobo man is proud to be associated with Ndigbo just like I am proud of my Igbo roots - it is all in friendship. But start an Ijaw vs Igbo debate and argue over their ethnicity and it is a different story. Of everyone on this thread, maybe one or two have bumped into an Opobo man. I grew up with Opobo people, Andrew-Jajas and such. Infact I was in love with one beautiful Opobo girl in secondary school. Opobo people are well known Ijaw-philes. Lest we forget, 16 Ibani houses make up present day Opobo. That is why they have an Amanyanabo, not an Eze or Igwe.

Guinea-Bissau, ringed by an archipelago of uninhabited islands

There is no such thing as an 'uninhabitable island'. I shall advise my MEND brothers to move there promptly and take control of the drug trade immediately.

QuotaSystem is back with a vengeance!

Guys, keep all this long yarns to a minimum. Nobody would even bother reading that Shakespeare otherwise.

Edo are the most liberal cos they share their girls with everyone.

Ijaw are the most detribalised cos they have been sharing their oil with everyone for the last 50 years. 

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=241875.msg3539083#msg3539083 date=1236095814]I have been itching to ask WHY Nigeria can't elect an Ibo President.
What are the reasons??[/quote]The same reason they can't elect an Ijaw president - cos we will stash the guns in the South and launch rocket attack on all y'all  

[quote author=St.Funmi link=topic=240759.msg3531516#msg3531516 date=1235975481]I guess Alan Greenspan couldn't solve America's financial crisis yet because he's incompetent?[/quote]But Alan Greenspan IS incompetent.

Nna biko, allow me to express like sentiment with my brothers above.

All this envy just make us proud to be umu Igbo.

They don't know the caliber of people they're dealing with.

Kedu ihe umu Igbo mere ndi Nigeria?

[quote author=Negro_Ntns link=topic=240932.msg3535281#msg3535281 date=1236033716]I thought this was you Ibime, . . .no?[/quote]I am talking about the earlier nonsense that RichyBlack wrote  that you attributed to me. Me and Richyblack are two divergent species when it comes to Economics.



@ Tayo and 4Play,


Geithner is not the only guy to open his mouth and make indices fall.

Almost ALL measures announced by Governments and Central Banks have underwhelmed market expectations.

The answer is simple - conduct the stress test and PUMP more money into the system.

I am in favour of bailout and will always be in favour of bailout!

NLers complain about bailout of AIG etc.

I say, if Govt lets AIG fall, the whole world falls into INSTANT GREAT DEPRESSION! I am talking the kind of great depression where you wear newspapers on your feet, tie it with rope and call it sandals. 

AIG insures Government bonds for China, India, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong etc etc etc.

Let AIG go and all these countries currencies collapse instantly, rioting, government overthrow and all that.

Almost every car you see on the street is insured by AIG. The cars insurance company is insured by AIG. Houses insured by AIG, Houses insurers are insured by AIG. Retirement insured by AIG, Life Insurance all over the world from Europe to the Carribean is insured by AIG, Financial services, insured by AIG. etc etc etc.

Give us more bailout now!

[quote author=Negro_Ntns link=topic=240932.msg3535203#msg3535203 date=1236032247]Ibime, Big turn around. I applaud your admission![/quote]Which admission? No be the same line I dey tow since?

4Play, abeg tell this guy, maybe him dey argue with himself again.  

@ Negro,

Stop attributing RichyBlacks quotes to me. Am I that heavy on your mind?

Come on guys, stop bringing politics into the financial markets.

DOW falls for many reasons.

They plan to do a stress test on the banks - DOW falls

Sage of Omaha says that the economy is a shambles - DOW falls

The stimulus package is signed - DOW falls (because we buy the rumours and sell the news)

JPM announces that it is not going to pay out the expected dividends - DOW falls

Can a nikka catch a break?

DOW will keep falling till we find out whats in the books. Presently the banking sector is worth less that the soft drinks sector. It is still the same problem we have been having since July 2007 - false disclosure!

I still maintain that sacrificing Lehman Brothers to the pressure of the media created a lot of moral hazard which has perpetuated itself to present.

RichyBlacK:
Ibime,

If you like talk from now till tomorrow, you can't deny the Igbo blood flowing through your veins.

You're Igbo!

Damn! What a shame!

Ibime is Igbo/Etche/Ijaw/English/Dutch.

Some confuse him for a tribalist.

4 Play:
If petrol forms a huge part of our consumption, which it does, then any major rise in fuel prices will spark inflation.

Of course I only asked cos I remember the inflation during the 1990's when petrol prices jumped.

Now the second question:

What percentage of the Govt savings on lifting the subsidy will be carted away to Swiss accounts?

I am not interested in this debate.

However, it is important to raise a point.

What is the correlation between petrol prices and inflation in Naija?

Also what percentage of the Govt savings on lifting the subsidy will be carted away to Swiss accounts?

Ama = Town

Nyanabo = Councillor

WTF does Ama Onye Ana Abo mean in Igbo?

Kalabaris history is well known.

They used to live in present day Calabar, after migrating from Delta area. They subsequently moved from Calabar to Rivers State where they presently live.

Till today, Calabar is named after them after a misspelling by the Portuguese.

Kalabari are known as very fierce warriors. Igbo people in Haiti can attest to that.

Dede1 nor go kill pesin o!

They should try to successfully count the number of Nigerians in Nigeria before worrying about the ones abroad.

What of people like Sauron who are living illegally in the UK. How can they be counted when even British Govt has no record of them

Dede1:
Alagbaria

Okpara Ndoli

Opu Amakubu ( Opu ama ka obu)

Okpara Asimini

Perekule (anglicized Pepple) Sons: Fubara and Opu obu

Allison Nwoju (Igbo slave who became King of Bonny)

Please choose the one to discuss but first, enlighten us on the issue of (Ama Onye Ana Abo)

Discuss them one by one in descending order.

Also, I would like to hear your Amanyanabo = Ama Onye Ana Abo theory!

[quote author=ijaw_girl link=topic=239065.msg3532739#msg3532739 date=1235997842]loooooooooooooooooooool dede1 you crack me up lmao [/quote]The guy is real funny. I wonder if he thinks we are taking him serious.

There is no need to discuss anymore.

This thread was completely derailed when Abagworo started talking about Ijaws needing to go to school and bla bla bla, using social problems to define the characteristics of a tribe.

Agitation for rights and respect is a new phenomenom in Ijaw land, although the intellectual classes have been engaged in it for decades.

Of course Abagworo will not be best pleased by the proliferation of kidnapping which is rapidly spreading to Imo and the South East and will not shy from giving us a discourse on the merits of the "Bakassi boy" syndrome which is gaining ground in the South East just like it did in the South-South. The fact that Nigerian society is degenerating is no excuse to label a tribe facetiously. South-South today, South-East tomorrow!

Perhaps, he may have seen the recent statistics which show Rivers State to be leading the rest of the country in education. How does this fit in with his sisters assertion that Ijaws and Riverine Igbos are lazy drunks?

Of course, Abagworo cannot tell us if we travel or not since we are small in number and will not be noticed even if we did travel. Besides, it is well known that traditionally, PH has been a pleasant city to live in and we have seen no need to travel within Nigeria unless we are going abroad. Maybe Abagworo would like to tell me what my grandmother was doing in London in the 1960's working for the Nigerian embassy whilst his forebears were still telling concocted fables about Igwe Ocha that only hold weight with the slow of thought. Perhaps he can also tell me why many of my cousins are here and visit me from Naija regularly since we don't travel.

If Abagworo had also cared to look at UN edicts, he would see that off-shore oil belongs to countries within 250 nautical miles of the oilfield. Indigenous rights also allow any community within 70 miles of such fields to derive revenue from it. By his logic, USA can also come and drill for oil on the Atlantic coast since it isn't 'under Nigerias soil'. Perhaps he neglects the fact that it is not his rivers that will be polluted and his livelihood destroyed. He neglects the fact that Ijaws traditionally live and die by the river and have no land to farm on. For a son of Oru, his rantings are very unpalatable.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=226256.msg3532530#msg3532530 date=1235995131]Don't get me started or else i will post Arsenal's boom n bust cycle on this page.[/quote]1997-1998 - Boom
1999-2001 - Recession
2000-2001 - Boom
2002-2004 - Recession

2003-2004 - BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
2005-present - GREAT DEPRESSION!!!


Arsenal needs a change of fiscal policy and serious Keynesian Stimulus - Sack Wenger!

Barbarian means many things my friend.

For all you know, Barbarian could just be an inference to the Germanic tribes of the early centuries of the Roman Empire.

In the context, I used it in, barbarian means someone who refuses to follow internationally accepted codes of conduct. In that sense, we could call Nigeria a barbaric country.

Dont worry, I understand that Igbos like to trade where there are no barriers to entry. Perhaps it would be more apt if I described them as 'disciples of the free market'. Accept my apologies.