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The simple fact is that these people cannot be there for life. One of the offices with the highest turn-over is the office of service chiefs. Almost all Nigerian presidents have a history of changing their service chiefs frequently. So it's normal and expected. The men too would have put it at the back of their minds, even though as human beings it will hurt them.

Vice Admiral Adekeye, my townman, I'm proud of you. You did a good job for the Nigerian Navy. No wonder you were the longest serving of the four. Offa people are waiting for you back home.

P.S: Air marshal Paul Dike was promoted to a higher post, CDS. So using the term DISMISSED for the three of them is incorrect.

Nairalanders, i've become so addicted to Nairaland that immediately I get to office in the morning, the first thing I usually do is open Nairaland and read new posts on topics of interest. At times I spend the first three hours of my office surfing Nairaland in particular, and other websites(newspapers, other forums etc) in general. Three days ago, I spent the whole of my office hours (8:00 am-7:00pm) reading every post on one Nairaland thread from the first page till the latest post, which was about 50 pages. I didn't do anything in office. Maybe because my manager was(and is still) on leave.

The next day, I vowed not to open nairaland until in the evening when I'm through with office work, and set to go home, but I can't just stand it. Despite my self-restraint that day, I still spent not less than 3 hours on Nairaland and other internets sites.

I'm now in a very tight corner. I've got some work to finish  before month-end, and I've wasted almost all of this week on Nairaland. I now have to come to office on Saturday and Sunday to make up(hey, can I stand not contributing to post-olympics final comments?), because I need to show my Manager what I've done when he was on leave.

Assalamu alaikum to my Muslim brothers and sisters, and hello to Deepzone,Queenisha and co,

There is no controversy on the prohibition of alcohol. It is explicitly stated in the Qur'an. Arabs used to be heavy consumers of alcohol before Allah revealed to the Prophet(SAW) the verse that prohibits it. So submissive were the Muslims of then that immediately the prophet told them that alcohol had been prohibited, they instantly started pouring away their alcohol 'stock' and the whole of Mecca was wet with alcohol, as if alcohol rain fell.

To drink alcohol is a grave sin in Islam. The only exception, I read from scholars, is when that is the only medicine available to cure an illness.

Working in a brewery that produces alcohol(irrespective of whether they produce non-alcoholics too) is haraam, according to knowledgeable scholars. And their reasons are convincing enough:

1, By working there, you are contributing to the production of what Allah forbids i.e aiding evil
2, The money you earn from there is unclean, because it is gotten from the sale of forbidden things
3, The Prophet (SAW) said when we see evil we should correct it with our hand, if not capable of doing that, we should correct it with our mouth(i.e talk against it), and if not capable of doing that too, we should correct it with our mind(i.e feel sad that evil is being perpetrated and hate it), and that is the weakest of faith. If a Muslim truly hates (and he should) that some people are disobeying Allah(drinking alcohol), the least he should do is resent it, and I don't know how he can do that if he himself contributes to it.

Please Muslims let's stay away from aiding evil. You cannot die because you don't have job. Better remain unemployed than incur Allah's wrath. What you will eat from cradle till death has been destined. This world is too short. The Hereafter matters most.

As regards tobacco, It's quite controversial, but almost all knowledgeable scholars are unanimous that it's also haraam. Personally, I go with the argument that it's haraam, given the fact it's impairs one's health, and the principle is that anything that impairs your health is haraam for you. Given that, helping in manufacturing it is also haraam.

As regards Maiguards, Hausa, Arabs and other Muslims taking tobacco or weed or whatever you call it, this argument is most laughable. If a Muslim lies, does that mean Islam sanctions lying?

javalove:
Dem dey craze, make i no yab them because i'm half caste. half nigerian, half ghanian but naija runz in my blood and ghanian runz in ma urine,

opa mi lerin

Ibime:
Ife, I cannot believe you put Onitsha ahead of Aba in commerce. I have been to both cities and the whole town of Aba is a market. It is not the same in Onitsha. Infact, when it comes to commerce, Aba could be no 1, definitely higher than Ibadan. I've never been to Kano so Kano may well be the no 1 in commerce, but I find it hard to see anyone else topping Aba.

I reason with your comment. I have not been to both places but I need not go there before I know what's going on there.

However in this case, having been in both places, your argument seems strong. If I can find two other persons that have been to both places to corroborate this, I'll update my list for it i.e put Aba ahead of Onitsha. As regards Ibadan however, I can't put any of those two above Ibadan.

Below is an effort at ranking Nigeria's major towns based on some yardsticks. it's just an opinion based on knowledge of activities in Nigeria and peculiarities of these cities:

Economy-wiseDefined by totality of corporate, commercial, and industrial activities)
1, Lagos- Corporate capital of Nigeria.Head Offices of virtually all the companies that matter are in Lagos.
2, Port Harcourt- The Oil capital of Nigeria.
3, Kano- Arguably No 1 commercial city in Nigeria, but commerce is just a fragment of economy
4, Abuja- The political capital of course, but can't stand Lagos, PH or Kano in terms of economic activities. Regulatory agencies that control the economy(CBN etc) are there
5, Kaduna-Another hub of economic activities. Lagos of the North
6, Ibadan- Hub of grassroot, informal economic activities
7, Warri- If Warri is bombed today, it will tell on the world economy via crude oil prices.

Commerce-wiseDefined by no and size of markets, volume of trading activities etc)
1, Kano: Commerce is another name for Kano
2, Ibadan:Commercial capital of the South(East and West). Trading activities, especially, informal activities, boom here.Millions of market women
3, Lagos: Many markets, formal and informal
4, Onitsha: The 'Dubai' of Ibo-made products. Has one of the largest markets in West africa
5, Kaduna: Also has one of the largest markets in west Africa
6, Aba: Made in Aba! You get me, ?
7, Port Harcourt: A good place to tap some money from the OIL MILLIONAIRES!

Industrial-wise:
1, Lagos: Highly industralized
2, Port Harcourt: Refinery plus other oil-related industries
3, Warri: Ditto
4, Otta: Home of Medium sized industries
5, Kaduna: Refinery plus other industries
6, Kano: Many indigenous plants are here
7, Ibadan:Oluyole industrial estate. Not doing badly

Political-wise:
1, Abuja- The official political capital of Nigeria
2, Ibadan- The political capital of old Western Nigeria and today's S/West. Ibadan politics matters in the country
3, Lagos- More of an economic city than political, but more than a decade after FCT was moved to Abuja, Lagos is still
4, Kaduna- The political h/quarters of the North, politically speaking.Capital of old Northern Nigeria.Till today critical political meetings still hold here. Power-broking city      
5, Kano- The religious capital of the North(apology to Sokoto). And in the North, politics and religion are intertwined. So
6, Enugu- The capital of the old Eastern Nigeria. Still powerful in political dealings today.
7, Ilorin- Another force to reckon with, politically speaking

thendo:
guys what is a 419? i have come across this phrase so many times i would like to know if you don't mind

Not knowing what 419 is, it's either you are not a Nigerian or a Nigerian that has not stepped into Nigeria.

Well, 419 is a term used to describe FRAUDS OF ALL KINDS.

I heard it's section 4 subsection 19 of the Nigerian constitution that talks about FRAUD,that's why they call it 419.

You know many Nigerians are notorious fraudsters, that have wreaked havoc in many countries, including the US. So Ghanaians have nick-named Nigeria 419geria.

Who was more powerful and influential?

Can anybody compare and contrast their brands of politics?

MP007:
I have a question for u poster, what da fuk are u doing on ghanaweb ?

I don't think there is anything wrong in going to or even joining Discussion Forums of other coutries. It makes you know what is going on in other countries. Mukina2, a Sierra Leonean living in Gambia, is arguably the most active member of Nairaland, a Nigerian forum. Today, she is far more knowledgeable about goings-on in Nigeria than millions of Nigerians. That is the power of Discussion forum via internet. RSA is a Soutyh-African-Nairalander. There are other foreign-Nairalanders. They don't receive any bashing here.

So exploring Ghanaweb is an avenue for me to know the nitty-gritty of what's going on in Ghana, especially as it relates to Football.

Yakubu is our top striker at the moment. He has displaced Martins. He has been used as our top striker in all our matches before, during and after Ghana 2008.

If he makes Nigeria 11, why can't he make Russia 11?

But by the way, is Osaze part of Nigeria 11? Difficult to say, because he interchanges FIRST 11 with Utaka. They bench each other depending on form.

Only Yakubu, Mikel,Yobo, and Taiye Taiwo can boast of maikng Nigeria 11 at the moment. I mean automatic shirts. Uche too appears to have laid claim to automatic place in Nigeria's 11.

Two of the best football ever played by any Nigerian team were the TELLA BOYS IN KOREA IN 2007 and the SIASIA BOYS IN HOLLAND 2005.
Which of the two sets was hotter? Team for team,player for player!

Both teams are no doubt very entertaining,and typify what nigeria is known for(Entertaining football) but Tella's boys appear more skillful to me. Gani Oseni, Kabiru Akinsola and King Osanga are bundle of skills. Is there a striker like Macaulay in Siasia's team?

Mikel Vs Rabiu Ibrahim
Kaita Vs Lukman Haruna
Ajiboye vs Vanzekin
Oseni Vs Ogbuke
etc.

Let's compare these two teams.

Who's Nigeria's best winger at the moment?
Who's the most skilful of the three?
Who plays purposeful football most?

To set the ball rolling, I'll say Ogbuke is the most skillful of the trio followed by Osaze and Utaka in that order.
The only problem 3 of them share is that they are not consistent. But osaze appears most consistent, followed by Ogbuke and Utaka in that order.
Utaka, to me, plays the most purposeful football of the trio during his day.
Osaze could be wasteful at times.
Anyway, I'll like to see Osaze on Super Eagles left wing, Utaka on right wing, and Ogbuke can come in for any of them that is not having a good game.

DatNiggaAk:
there are no papers to quote from but authoritative sources informed me that the SGF
Babagana Kingibe contested in Chad last year during their presidential election.
For those who are aware of what is going on in the center,it is common knowledge that
Yaradua has left running the country to Kingibe as a result of his poor health.
Kingibes hold was futher solidified when the office of the Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff
was cancelled and the new office is headed by a fellow borno man Kaigama(how do we know he isn't from Chad also?)

After Obasanjo took the portfolio of the Vice President during his well reported beef with Atiku,
Yaradua has not restored those offices to Goodluck Jonathan who is nothing but a figurehead now.

This post is most laughable, if not odious.

How can Kingibe contest for Chadian election, Presidential for that matter, and the Nigerian press would not have known and raised it?


Kingibe has been around for long. He was Abiola's running mate.

He may truly have Chadian origin, but to say he contested Chadian Presidential election last year smacks of ignorance.

Status and Attraction are as connected as oxygen and life. There are many logical reasons why women would be attracted to “High Status” men, but the fact is that it’s true, and it’s not going to change anytime soon.

If a woman perceives you as being higher status than her, you instantly qualify for the “I’ll consider it” group in her mind.
If a woman perceive you as having lower status than her, she will instantly and unconsciously put you in the “not a chance” mental category.

If you communicate your status in just the right way, you can trigger a powerful instant attraction inside of a woman that will be palpable – it will be impossible for her to ignore.

Remember, if you want to spark sexual tension, chemistry, and ATTRACTION with a woman, you must communicate HIGHER STATUS


I agree 100%, especially with the I'LL CONSIDER IT and NOT A CHANCE classification!

I just believe, no matter how principled a lady is, when you approach her the first thing that will most likely come to her mind is: What's his status?
I had noticed this for some time.
And like you added, if you communiacte yours tatus to her in the wrong way, it may work against you: Like somebody just telling a girl straightway: I'm a banker, I'm a First Class grad, i have three cars, that's too blunt, raw and crude. But there are ways you can communicate your status without mouthing it straight way.

A lady I proposed to when I was in the University two years ago rejected my proposal because I was just a student of low status. Now that, by Allah's grace, I'm an Accountant with an Oil company, she's now begging me. But I've told her NO WAY. She wants to reap where she didn't sow. I 've told her NO WAY, but she wouldn't listen.

I can now confidently say Nigeria is one of the Top 3 countries in World football as far as age-grade football(Under 17, 20 and 23) is concerned. Minus National team, Nigeria is as good as Brazil and Argentina.

Winning under-17 World Cup thrice(only equaled by Brazil) plus getting to last four in several other appearances; getting to final or at least semi-final in Under 20 WC; and getting to final of under-23(just next to World-Cup) for the the second time in the last 4 editions, I think Nigeria deserves the same respect Brazil gets when World Cup is mentioned.

Ironically, when these under-17, 20,23 that are demolishing European/American heavyweights transit to National team, they find it difficult to beat these Holland,CIV,Spain,Argentina,Brazil again.

Anyway, being champions in world stage(at every stage except World Cup) is itself worth being proud of.

Nigeria deserves some respect in World football!!!

Ogbuke my choice!!!

I have always known Nigeria and Ghana are fierce rivals when it comes to football. But I never knew it goes beyond Ghana-Nigeria matches. I stumbled on one Ghanaian soccer forum and I can't believe the level of enmity these people have for us. 419ija is one of the names they call Nigeria.

Please you need to go to Ghanaweb.com and go to football threads and read the topics, whether or not primarily related to Nigeria, but especially Nigeria-related topics, and see the diatribes.

This is not to incite anybody against these people, but I was just alarmed at the level of hatred these people have for Nigerian players. They downplayed Dream Team's success run, Martins' goal against Man-You, Mikel 4-star performance against P'Mouth etc. they don't want to hear anything good coming from Naija9they also know us as Naija, to my surprise) Na wa o!!!

There are however few of them that refuse to join these avowed Nigerian haters.

Just one of the threads:

http://discussions.ghanaweb.com/viewtopic.php?t=88299&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=90

DeepZone:
Another Northern douche bag making circumlocutory comments instead of addressing their real issues on poverty and it's alleviation, Yoruba wannabe. Ability to speak Yoruba does not make you one abeg.

I'm not surprised. I know it will beat your imagination having a detribalized Yoruba that doesn't join the fray of labelling Hausas 'no-do-wells'.

I'm a confirmed Yoruba from Offa, Kwara state, whose ancestors,according to Yoruba history, came from Ile-Ife.
I don't even understand Hausa other than the 'zo', 'muje' 'nawa' etc that I grasped during my service year in the north.

Maybe I should give you my oriki(Yoruba traditional praise poem) to convince you that I'm from Offa:

Iyeru okin olofamajo
omo abisujoko
omo ijakan ijakan tiwon jal'ofa nile olalomi
won losoju taani, wonlo soju poro loko
ibaju soju oloko ibalawon
omo laare buure ikan ogbodo jukan
tikan bajukan lofa, ogun londasile baba won
iyeru okin olofamajo

So what are you saying? Emi omo Olalomi!!!

Argument bordering on North-South divide is one thing I hate. I'm a Yoruba northerner, from the middle belt! I'm more Southern than Northern. I even forget at times that I'm not from South-West.I'm from the North-Central state of Kwara.

Before a couple of years ago, I used to be one of the fiercest critics of the North. I was swayed by the 'Everything North is bad' mentality. I hated the Hausas, I hated the north then. May God forgive me.

But having come of age, and freeing my brain from the shackles of gullible thinking, I have come to realize that all this bashing of our Northern brothers and sisters is a product of mental enslavement. We should be brothers and sisters and not enemies.

We Southerners, sorry Yorubas,(please take me as a Southerner, because my being a northerner was by the 1914 geographical mistake that saw Lugard marking the northern boundary just after my town) are no doubt ahead in terms of education but what we don't know is that these people are catching up while we continue to boast 'we are schooled and they are illiterates'.

I'm a proud Yoruba of course, and my Dad was a First republic politician and a die-hard Awoist.His friend, late J.S Olawoyin,also from my town, was the opposition leader in Northern Nigeria parliament in the first republic. But if I was alive during during that time, I would have gone with Ahmadu Bello.

So all these North-South arguments are baseless. The North survived with groundnut revenue during pre-Federalism, and they(or is it we?) will surely survive without oil.

So, let's stop all these tribalistic rantings, the North is not the cause of all our problems.

http://www.dailytrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16435&Itemid=243

Na wa o! These robbers bold enough to attack President's family house.

Managing success could be difficult. The guy mismanaged his success, what the Yoruba will call 'o fayo fo'. Granted that the Cultists truly threatened him, there is a way he could have played his game and escape from these evil men. Afterall, there are more brilliant students!!!

ppp

RuuDie:
N[b]ot on the strength of that shambolic display against an under-strength, out-numbered American side.[/b] . . . . . . I think the CREAM team is out - even if they make it through, how on earth are they ever g'onna make it past the Brazilians, Argentines, Cameroon, even the Azzurinis. . . .

I have heard and read this over and over again, but it is to me NON-SENSE. What else do you want to happen? They completely dominated the game for the better part of the match. They scored two goals. If you ask me, apart from the under-17 guys display in Korea, that match was the most interesting match ever played by any Nigerian national team(including Super Eagles' matches) in the last two years. The guys showed Nigeria's trade-mark attacking football last seen during the Classes of 94 and 96, but were unlucky to score goals.

Playing against a 10-man team is very difficult as Mourinho himself once said. 10-man Ghana sent eagles packing in ANC 2008 just as 10-man Senegal did in 2002. 10-man Cameroon drew with Italy in this tournament.

Scoring two goals, the guys deserve commendation as the Americans had to be defending, aiming to push 0-0 till half-time, restrategise during break, and come out frustrating our boys in the second half.thankfully,taht did not work. A draw would have put USA thru regardless of the outcome of Japan-Holland match.

Granted that our attacker fluffed so many scoring chances, I believe breaking the about-6-man American defence to put in two goals was no small task.

I have read here and heard about how good the Ivorian team is, but with their last match against Australia I watched I think they are in the same class Nigeria's team.
Siasia's boys chance against the Junior Elephants is, to me, 50-50. Both team have sharp attackers. The match is going to be explosive but I see the Ivorians going home after the match.

This is obviously not Nigeria's strongest under-23 team. Almost all other countries, especially Argentina,Brazil,Holland and CIV went to this tournament with their strongest team.
Our fullest team should have contained Uche,Mikel,and Taiwo. So their chance of winning Gold is slim, to me.

That said, the team has not performed too badly.Recall few people gave them chance of qualifying from that group pre-tournament, but even the tournament favourite,Holland, settled for the second place behind our boys. They were especially fantastic against USA and Japan and not bad against the highly rated Dutch.

We have too many attackers and no strong midfield. The defence has not been bad either. And GK Vanzekin needs to be careful.

Activities have really been more at the wings than any other department.

But one thing I'm confident about is that our attack-force can score against any team,even Argentina and Brazil. Ogbuke scored a wonderful goal against Argentina in 2005. Anichebe, Nsofor,Osaze are other players that can score at the biggest level.

fggg

emmydee:
wow, these Siasia guys lack drive. 10 against 11, they were still struggling against USA. If they meet Agentina or brazil, they will be beaten silly.

Our boys did not struggle. They completely dominated the game,especially in the first half. If you watched USA's previous matches, you will agree that USA were probably the best team in that group. USA has really improved in football. Before, USA would have been a walk-over for Nigeria. But they have really stepped up their game.They played well against Holland,and even against us they were decent.

Before the match I was in one American soccer forum, and I read the posts of their fans on the USA-NIGERIA PRE-MATCH. They all based their analyses on USA beating Nigeria or at worst a draw. That was how confident they were. Recall they were topping the group before that loss to Nigeria.I posted my comment that Nigeria will beat their team, but only one of them took me serious. They never believed what happened to them. Already calculating how they will top the group,but a couple of hours later,they regretted counting their chicks before they were hatched.

The USA really put up a decent show in this group and I believe they deserved the second place more than the pre-tournament highly rated Holland.What a pity? Holland, with their Makaay,Babel etc coming second behind Nigeria, even without Mikel,Taiwo and Uche.Holland should cover their face in shame!

As regards this team, I will score them 60% against Holland,70% against Japan and 80% against USA. They did not appear like a team that can win this tournament at the beginning, but they have immproved. They have still not played up to a level that can give one confidence that they will hold their own against the likes of Brazil and Argentina but going by their game against USA, there is a ray of hope against CIV. I'll give them 50-50 chance against CIV.

davidylan:
that is the basic problem islam has with christianity. Making Jesus Christ equal with God is an automatic invalidation of the entire empire of islam.

For the first time, I have to agree with Davidylan. Deification of Jesus,as well as God-sonship attribution, is the basic problem Islam has with Christianity. Any Muslim that believes in those two has his Islam invalidated. Similarly,any Muslim that doesn't believe in JESUS(as a Prophet of course) equally has his Islam nullified.

The article is nothing but arrant non-sense. Evil beautified!

Queenisha:
when he is the judge himself?
sorry

Jesus will be the judge? Then what will God the 'father' be?

The problem I always have with Christians is raising Jesus above God. Everytime, what you hear is Jesus.'I reject it in Jesus name', why not 'I reject it in God's name'. Anything they say 'Jesus'. Where then is the place of God? Second fiddle,abi? Too bad!!!