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[quote author=Ileke-IdI]Exactly why is my name on the list?

The only NLers I find enjoyment in "fighting" are the boys/men. Girls are off limit lol, I no get that energy [/quote]Ileke-Idi Rocks! Please exclude her from this list.

What is Carl's opinion on "Pot-Head" Phelps? Americans and their double standards.....The only legacy carl lewis has left is that messed up haircut from the 90's.

The woman is the "8th best" in the world in 400m hurdles. How many people in Nigeria can claim to be 8th best in the world at anything?? Please allow the woman jare!

2012 - 1961 is 51 o!!!!!

Jamaica...Good Choice GEJ!...i dont know what the fuss is about jare. Enjoy your life sir. My top Three recommendations while you're in Jamaica: 1. Visit Scotchies in Montego Bay..the best barbeque in the world..even the Jamaican President visits. make sure you get the goat ribs.Also sir, Make sure you buy the 25 Year Old APPLETON Jamaican Rum...pure bliss. Lastly on the corner of the 4 seasons hotel as you hit the road heading to kingston, ask your convoy to pull over and ask anyone for a guy named Winston...he has the best local herbs on the Island. Have a great trip sir...

The one in the middle...maybe....after Grey Goose....and Tequila Shots...just maybe.

For anyone outside the Motherland, you know you are back home when:

1. You pay Agency & Legal Fees to people who are not agents or lawyers
2. Words like Perkins, FG Wilson, Mikano and Inverter make perfect sense to you
3. You own 6 jerry cans
4. People offer you champagne at funerals and kiddies birthday parties
5. Everyone that calls into a radio show speaks with a weird hybrid american/canadian/english/pidgin accent
6. Everyone has a MOPOL contact on their phone for minor traffic altercations
7. You have contacts like "Femi Plumber, "Emeka Gas man" and "Sule AC man" on your phone
8. There are more Range Rovers on paved roads than on offroad tracks
9. Your legislators are the same thugs that used to "tax" you for cigarette money in school
10.Your blackberry is considered a status symbol...

Welcome home

As membership approaches 1 million on Nairaland, can the members (if speaking with one voice) swing the results of a Presidential election in Nigeria? Thoughts.....?

Redhot111: do u expect my class 1 accomodate more dan 50 pupils? Giv ur brain some wrk 2 do. Its bin idle or dormant 4 2 long.

Yawn....!

Redhot111: Back in my primary skool days, dia is dis guy who normaly take d last position. i.e 50 out of 50. And wen eva d teacher calls him last, he always burst into uncontrolable cries. So after sum yrs d teacher nw decided to announce all result frm behind. So dat my guy ws always said 2 be 1st to save all of us a whole lot of trouble. Am sure dis is d case here.

Dude - you had 50 people in your primary school class

Hmmm, no PHCN or basic infrastructure, No security or healthcare, depressed stock market (bottom 3 in the world), No functional national rail, sub-standard aviation, weekly terrorist strikes, rapidly falling oil prices, low manufacturing and high consumerism via imports, corruption at all levels of government, eroded educational and value systems. If all of these factors make us one of the fastest growing nations then i'd hate to see what life is like in the slowest growing nations. The rating agency can take their top 10 analysis and shove it!

Aba looks very Impressive and this is the 2nd thread of discussions this morning about the great potentials of the city. I want to take a trip from Lagos to go and check out Aba and its wonderful industrious businesses to see whats possible export-wise. Is it advisable to make the trip as a JJC or do i need to go with a seasoned "brother" who knows his way around?

[quote author=*Ileke-IdI]Yoruba (single horizontal mark)

[img]http://bunmiodunowo.files./2010/07/funke.jpg?w=450&h=675[/img][/quote]Not bad...a bit of MAC foundation and she's sorted!

A TIKU... O!!!! = Yoruba transalation...WE DON DIE O!!!

Willzkid: My oga if u were careful enuf to check my profile, you will see that I have been an active user since jan 2009...I believe wizkid was still in his SSS then

GBAM!!!!

I struggle to think of a single Minister who has made the kind of impact that cuts across tribe or age group. The only person i can think of (in terms of impact) was not a Minister but a Director-General. The 1st DG of NAFDAC, Dora Akinluyi changed the face of drugs and food standards in Nigeria. Any more?

very sad, may she RIP. If it was in Nigeria, the media would be awash with stories of presidential "Jazz", sacrifice etc. God help us all.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI]I'M BEGINNING TO THINK THAT 95% OF NL THREADS ARE FAKE.[/quote]Absolutely agree! This is my second appeal for the moderator to launch a "creative writing" thread for all these story tellers. It baffles me that anyone in Nigeria will have deep family problems and feel that the best way out is to post on Nairaland rather than seek counsel from their family,pastor or imam. next topic jare!!

texazzpete: Please don't be daft. English is our official language and is taught to everyone from an early age and up to the tertiary level. There is no excuse for bad grammar, and certainly not one as brainless as 'it is not our mother tongue'.

The Brits really succeeded in brainwashing you my dear friend. But maybe you have a point, Yorubas dont have an English word for Billionaire!! Next topic please.

Femi is a Yoruba man and i'm sure he can communicate eloquently in his mother tongue. Can Berlusconi the Italian Billionaire speak good English? Colonial Mentality...Next Topic please.

Source:http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/kola-abiola-50/118881/ Mr Abdul-Lateef Kolawole Abiola, eldest son of the late Bashorun M.K.O Abiola (no further introduction needed), will be 50 this coming Sunday. But there is not going to be any celebration. By his plan, after observing Umrah (Lesser Hajj) in Saudi Arabia, he is going on an expedition to Mount Everest, having already conquered Mount Kilimanjaro.

That is the way he celebrates his birthday.
On Tuesday, I was with Egbon Kola (as I have been calling him right from my days as a staff in his father's Concord Press in the 90s) at the invitation of Chief Dele Momodu (Bob Dee) to conduct what has become a once-a-decade ritual. In 2002 when he was to celebrate his 40th birthday, Bob Dee invited me and Dr Reuben Abati to join him in interviewing Kola Abiola for OVATION.

Ten years later on Tuesday, Bob Dee and I were joined by Messrs Femi Adesina (The Sun), Felix Abugu (The Guardian), Mobolaji Sanusi (The Nation), Jide Ajani (Vanguard) and the editor of Ovation, Mike Effiong. 
I was allowed to fire the opening shot and I started by reminding Kola of a remark he made on July 7, 1998 when his father died in military confinement in Abuja: "They said June 12 or nothing. Now they have nothing!".

What really did he mean? With a mirth-less smile on his face, Kola said "yeah, I remember saying that but unfortunately, nothing has changed since then. June 12 has been exploited for all manner of reasons by all manner of people who have used it to advance their own political career." Without pulling punches, he went into a long disquisition of what June 12 meant and the opportunism as well as the contradictions that have materialized around it over the last 19 years.
Quite naturally, the question dovetailed into the controversial renaming of UNILAG after his late father and he didn't disguise his displeasure with the Jonathan Administration.

He in fact described the decision as one of those exploitations of June 12 he had earlier alluded to. He said: "we had a government that asked itself after one year in office, 'what have we achieved?' and with no coherent answer just said, 'let's rename UNILAG after Abiola to show we have done something'.

The family was not consulted. The authorities of the University of Lagos were not consulted. The National Assembly was not consulted. I am not even sure the Federal Executive Council was consulted. And then, someone was trying to reduce Abiola to a regional figure."
Without sounding bitter but obviously angry, Kola gave his views (very strong ones) on the renaming of UNILAG as well as on what he considers the hypocrisy of, and gratuitous insult from, some people who question his late father's contribution to education in Nigeria

. But for him nothing pains more than how the nation's ethno-religious fault-lines are now being exploited to sow discord and division within the country. Recalling his own experience as a Youth Corps member in Zaria, he located the problem within a certain generation of Nigerians who, having mortgaged the nation's past now wants to circumscribe the future. 
No doubt Kola has seen a lot in his 50 years and he was passionate about several issues, including a new NGO on “Tribe Nigeria” which he is working on.

He spoke about the whole June 12 experience and what he learnt. He dissected leadership in Nigeria at all levels, the current political parties and we also engaged him on personal issues. He was particularly emotional (holding back tears) as he told a moving story of his relationship with his late daughter, Labake, who introduced him to mountain climbing and in whose honour he has decided to mark his birthday every year by going on such expedition. He also spoke on divisions within the Abiola family and the ongoing efforts to mend the cracks. He responded to issues about the controversial DNA for his late father's children as well as his view on polygamy (his father's and his own).

And trust my brother, Femi Adesina, Kola also had to account for why he could be reportedly romancing General Ibrahim Babangida's daughter at a time some other people were being killed and "standing on June 12" in 1993. With wisecracks, anecdotes and proverbs, Kola left no one in doubt that he is indeed a chip off the old block. Sample: Asked for his take on the denial of House of Representatives ticket to his half-brother, Lekan Abiola by the Ogun State ACN which instead fielded Olumide Osoba, (son of Chief Segun Osoba), Kola responded: "Whatever disagreement I may have with Osoba, omo eni ko ni se idi bebere, ka gbe ileke s'idi omo elomiran". That Yoruba wise saying crudely interpreted means Osoba could not have left his own son to back another man's.

For almost two and a half hours, it was an engaging session and so enthralled was Abugu (encountering Kola for the first time) that he wanted to know why a man who held such strong political views and could articulate himself so brilliantly would stay out of limelight and Kola responded by attributing his style to the grooming of his late mother, Simbiat Atinuke Abiola. "My mother moulded us and she was a very powerful woman but most people didn't know her strength. You only needed to get my mother to support a cause because while others would be making noise, she would be working in the background and she would achieve result.

She was very effective.But as candid as Kola was, one question flustered him: "What was the problem between your father and Obasanjo?" For almost a minute, he didn't know how to respond; then he went into the complicated but interwoven history of the duo before he added, "whatever the issue was between my father and Obasanjo, my father is dead now but I hope Obasanjo can put a closure on it before he dies.

My father sought to be president and he didn't make it but Obasanjo has led this country twice. The last time he was elected to assuage the South West for the injustice done to my father. But as I said, whatever the issue was between him and my father, I wish we can put a closure on it before he (Obasanjo) dies."
 It almost sounded like a 50th birthday wish and I sincerely hope Obasanjo would grant it. With the interview, OVATION has a big scoop and I have no doubt that when it is eventually published, it will raise some dust. I thank our big brother, Bob Dee, for inviting me as I wish Egbon Kola a happy birthday and a successful expedition at Mount Everest

"Soja Come, Soja Go, Soja Come , Soja Go...na so our lives de "blow" like one yeye ball , wey one yeye wind, de blow from one yeye corner...." - Fela Kuti

Dear Moderator - Can you please create a creative writing or fiction section , so some posters can fulfill their fantasies there? This story flows like beer parlour jist to me.

Sales & Marketing 101 - if you want to advertise a motorbike for sale, please remove all screwdrivers, mechanics tools and rubber slippers from the background. Drive the bike to Oniru beachfront or barbeach, pay a miscreant 1k to give it a good wash with N50 bag of OMO. Take nice bright pictures of the Bike on the waterfront...then maybe...just maybe - you can achieve 3,500 USD or 500k. Good luck sir.

This Lawan chap sounds like his brake pads have "chopped"

Only God has the right to give or take life. Ans lets be honest, corruption is so endemic that the executioners will be very busy my dear friend. What will work however is the following: The worst thing you can do to a man who craves riches and relevance is to make him poor and irrelevant. Corrupt officials should get 21 years imprisonment and given public manual labour assignments so school children and tourists can come and watch former ministers and governors wearing LAWMA outfits and sweeping the streets. Sometimes death is to "easy" a punishment when compared to 21 years of public ridicule. Having said all the above, I still do not understand why for example, Bernie Madoff has been sentenced to life imprisonment while our corrupt bankers here plea bargained and are still flying 1st class and living a life of luxury? The system is beyond repair!

Ojukwu wasnt a happy man when Gowon stole that big piece of meat from his plate..LOL!!!

what a pointless and tangential debate. What does this have to do with Air Safety in Nigeria? Do Indians own Chachangi and Kabo with 35 year old planes?

This Nigerian politics comedy is more fun than DSTV ![b][/b]