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Which Premier League team do =N=landers support the most?

That was the worst performance i have ever seen from a defending champion, lets face it chelsea shld have been beaten by wolves and blackburn they got lucky bt not today . Two Ghana boys destroyed them like IBB destroyed 9ja. Welbeck and Gyan what a combo to be honest Sunderland could have had 6.
Oh ya nice assist by Cashley- I'll sell my nob 4 a fiver- Cole .

There were indications on Thursday that the Federal Government had demanded an explanation from the Iranian government on the interception of arms and ammunition at the Apapa Port in Lagos.



The weapons, concealed in 13 containers and labeled as ‘packages of glass wool and pallets of stone,’ arrived at the port in July from Mumbai, India. But on October 26 when the containers were opened by security agents, they revealed weapons comprising rocket launchers and bombs.



CMA CGM, an international cargo shipper based in France, had said the containers were picked from Bandar Abbas, a port in southern Iran.



The discovery of the weapons raised fears that they were meant to be used by politicians during the 2011 general elections.



The fears were strengthened on Thursday by an Associated Press report which quoted intelligence officials as saying that the arms and ammunition were imported by some politicians.



An intelligence source close to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told THE PUNCH in Abuja that the Federal Government had sought explanation from the Iranian embassy on the weapons shipment.



The source, who declined to be named because of the sensitive nature of the issue, said, “The government is already in touch with the Iranian government through its ambassador in Nigeria, Hussein Abdullahi.”



“You know that where the shipment emanated from is no longer in dispute. Government is taking up the matter more seriously because they have been reports that two Iranians that facilitated the importation of the containers are hiding in the Iranian embassy.”



Abdullahi seemed to have confirmed the development when he told AP on the telephone on Thursday that he was ‘meeting with Nigerian officials’.



The ambassador had said there was no clear evidence linking Iran to the weapons. But Israeli intelligence officials had claimed that the weapons were headed for the Gaza Strip before they were intercepted.



The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Odein Ajumogobia (SAN), in interview with Channels Television on Thursday, also confirmed that the government was in touch with Iran on the issue.



He added that the government was building the capacity of its security forces to deal with security challenges.



The minister also, at an interactive session with diplomats in Abuja on Thursday, allayed fears over the 2011 general elections as well as the general security situation in the country.



The minister said that the October 1 twin car bomb blasts in Abuja had no political undertone but were an act of terrorism.



“The recent interception of an illegal arms shipment at one of our sea ports illustrates the high level of vigilance and response capability of our security agencies,” Ajumogobia said.



Before the minister spoke, AP said in its report that documents from Nigerian intelligence officials showed that the Iranian government was aware of the shipment of the weapons to Nigeria.



The report added that the officials believed that some Nigerian politicians were behind the importation and had intended to use the arms and ammunition to destabilise the country if the outcome of the elections did not favour them.



It said the Nigerian investigators, who followed a paper trail, learnt that Iran’s foreign ministry endorsed a Nigerian visa application for Sayed Tahmaesebi, one of the two Iranians who allegedly shipped the weapons.



According to the documents, the letter of endorsement from the ministry claimed that Tahmaesebi would work at the Iranian Embassy in Abuja as an ‘administrative support staff.’



The documents sighted by the international news agency added that Tahmaesebi and the second Iranian suspect, Azimi Agajany, organised the shipment of the deadly weapons through a Tehran-based company, International Trading and General Construction.



The intelligence documents claimed that Agajany received a visa to travel to Nigeria after getting an endorsement from a Nigerian Islamic teacher, Sheikh Othman. The Islamic teacher, known as Abbas Jega , worked for Radio Tehran’s Hausa language service and studied in Iran.



He is currently in the custody of the State Security Service for his role in the seized weapons.



The documents added that Agajany initially wanted the weapons shipped to Abuja but when told that there was no port in the city, he came up with Lagos as the destination.

I THINK RIBADU HAS BEEN THE MOST EXCITING THING TO HAPPEN TO NIGERIAN POLITICS FOR YEARS. HE IS YOUNG ENERGETIC AND ACTUALLY HAS A MANIFESTO. THE ONLY THING AGAINST HIM IS THAT JONA HAS SENTIMENT ON HIS SIDE, AFTER ALL IT WOULD BE A FAIRYTALE IF NIGERIA ELECTED A MINORITY LEADER JUST LIKE THE U.S.A.

HOWEVER JONA IS I THINK INEPT AND INADEQUATE AND LACKING LEADERSHIP CAPACITY. I REMEMBER HIS AMAPOUR INTERVIEW EARLY THIS YEAR, THE MAN COULD NT ARTICULATE HIS IDEAS IN A CLEAR FASHION. AND HIS PROMISES ON ELECTRICITY AND ELECTORAL REFORM HAVE NOT BEEN FULFILLED THUSFAR. AND PERHAPS WHAT MAKES ME MORE SCEPTICAL ABOUT HIM IS THAT HE IS PDP. PEOPLE LETS NOT FORGET THAT THEY HAVE BEEN IN POWER FOR 11 YEARS CONTOLLING THE EXECUTIVE, SENATE, AND HOUSE WITH AN UNRIVALLED MAJORITY, ALSO CONTROLLING THE MAJORITY OF STATES YET THE HAVE THOROUGHLY FAILED TO IMPLEMENT ANY OF THEIR PROGRAMMES.

RIBADU WITH A MINORITY DEPUTY I THINK WOULD BE IDEAL LETS WAIT TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS.

Hi  =N=Land,

If you have ever been privileged enough to have watched a Nigerian document pre 1970's you would have noticed that the political generation of old had a certain charisma and suave about them. This was accentuated in the way and form they spoke. Their speech was assertive yet soothing, distinctively African but with more than a sprinkle of aristocratic England. It was what I have dubbed "Classy African". Nowadays our political elite can barely spring two  well delivered and coherent sentences together. In our esteemed chambers of debate rather than hearing orations of the highest order delivered in uncompromising English, we hear drab, ponderous, and heavily adulterated accents labouring to make an iota of sense, and when all else fails they resort to shouting like mad men . Apart from Speaker Bankole (who in every other regard is a failure) I struggle to find any well articulated lawmakers in the NSS. I would rather them speak pure Pidgin so the masses would understand, however since they don't, I believe English is the official language of the Federation in that case every person vying for political office should be well hearsed in it. I urge leaders to please study our Elders past and learn from them.
Like Cicero the great Roman statesman and Orator said "Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?"

@jason 12345

my apologies jason, but its so frustrating seeing the big 3 polititians dominating. I wouldnt mind if they made life better for everyone is that they dont. and then when it comes to elections its all tribal. I would like a minority woman even to become president like our very own Obama or something you know. Again my apologies.

@ Jason

You shot yourself in the foot there. This is one thing I hate about Nigeria. Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa is that it why dont you name the other 200 or so tribes too, arrogant bastards.

They put people from those three big for nothing tribes on our currency and made their languages recognised. What about the other 25% minority that also constitutes Nigeria, what they dont count?

@ guddsid
what are you saying after ruling the country twice with universal popularity that ALLAH wacked her out because she was a woman
kyrgyzstani Leader if IM not mistaken is a Muslim Woman(she's not dead yet).

HAS ANY BODY HEARD OF BANEZIR BHUTTO, IM GUESSING SHE DID NOT HAVE A MANDIGO
BUT BECAME PRIME MINISTER IN PASKISTAN.
OH GUESS WHAT SHE WAS MUSLIM!!!!!!!!!!!

AGAINST THEIR RELIGION MY ARSE!!!
I WANT A MUSLIM WOMAN AS PRESIDENT NOW JUST TO SPITE THEM.

Hi
A few days ago I was out with a couple of my friends(white), we decided to head to my crib.
Upon arriving, my sister was watching a Nollywood movie, so my friends thought it would be fun to watch.
I tried to dissuade them but they were having none of it, so I sat down for the most embarrassing 2 hours of my life watching Nigerians making fool off themselves.

Is it unpatriotic to be embarrassed by they tripe that is Nollywood?
Would you show it too your foreign friends?

Arsenal be my team
so i dey ope 4 city win,
make asenal beat wolve so we go 2nd and chelshit make una lose wellu. wellu.
CHAI CHAI NA DIS SEASON WE GO WIN PREMIERSHIP

yeswecan:
There is no reflection of independent thinking in your post.

What do you mean sir??

Social Capitalism is the way forward. Countries like Japan and Germany have pioneered this system to an extent. Where it failed for countries like Japan was their pension system which became a combersome, over bloated burden, that drained the state coffers. In my opinion the state should have nothing to do with pension, every working person should have their own private pension that in later life they can draw upon, the status quo now is that the younger generation are paying for the pension of the now retired because living + pay standards since the 70's have greatly increased.
there is a way to augment this quagmire, if the state was to ensure not only a minimum wage(already in place in 1st world) but also a maximum wage, even the poorest worker would get a bigger slice of the pie, hence he or she may invest more in their pension schemes. Due to thoroughly greedy capitalist lords sadly i doubt this will ever happen. In England the government has been trying to cap the wages of their highest earners but one nation cannot implement this. As courageous as it may be it would also be economical suicide as there would be an Exodus of the most brilliant minds that drive the economy to other countries willing to indulge their greed. It has to be a consensus agreement between all the countries especially the economic powers. I hope one day man will wake up from the capitalist hypnosis it seems to be dancing to at the moment, I mean the worlds largest communist state China practises one of the most vitriolic brands of capitalism, a slight juxtaposition no? Sad really.

We can mary any girl even from pregnancy without being disturbed by one silly Cannon-inclined Nigeria constitution.     What a peado.

  ppl dont seem to be getting this Landlocked thing. Now if Arewa was to come to fruition it would happen under a cloud of contention with the south, it will not be a clean break as some of you thing, Knowing africa ethnic clensing might even come into place on both sides. So arewa would be stuck within the ever creeping sahara on one side and a hostile neighbour on the other. and without oil money to keep the one already decrepit international airport it has going Im am afraid Arewa would be isolated. And this fantasy about the North African Arabs coming to the aid of their muslim brothers of arewa is just that a Fantasy. Let me tell you we subsaharans are nothing to them apart from kaffirs . An egyptian is offended if you call him african. Black men are regularly discriminated in Arab countries Worse than they are in Western countries even!!! Tunisia and Morocco both applied for entrance into the E.U. They look upon Africa as an embarrasing association. Believe me Arewa would be no more better than Niger, Chad, Mali, or Mauritania

yes yes b4 oil we were this we were that, ppl stop being so naive if Africa is going to have an iota of influence in world decision making it needs too united no disembark,

as for arewa being a success its nothing but Fantasy. If People can not work together when they are one country what makes you think they will when they are two!!
Its stupidity, Arewa will be worse than Nigeria is now. I hate to say it but apart from Kano, Whereelse in the north is "Educated". I say that tentatively because some fool will say now "my mallam get degree". By educated I mean a center of Learning and culture.

@ Beaf

Yes I am Man and Proud!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@ AUWAL87

you are obviosly smart i like that im not going to insult you
with regards to all those european landlocked countries that are  prosperous let me take. switzerland, they have gr8 link with thier nieghbours and has been in existand since 1500. in this increasingly competive world do you expect a weak country like Half of nigeria cuz thats what arewa is to prosper? No big Fish like europe and america will just eat it up not give it a chance to grow. as bad as  nigeria is its done well to get where it has. Both the u.s and britain  have diliberate policies to hinder nigerias growth Its true.
anyway back to my point about being landlocked its great to aspire at the upper scale of prosperous landlocked countries but look closer to home like Niger and Mali. 2 LL countries with abundant gold resources but becuase of its LLness it is Isolated. Thats my point.
@ Dapo Bear
Sure desetification is already happening in Northern Nigeria
so i am valid. having a shoreline is one of the biggest assets any civilization can have especially in the C21th.

Hi, I have noticed in recent months the increased clamour by our brothers in the North for secession from the entity Nigeria. Like any long suffering southerner my heart was racing with excitement at the prospect. For years I have thought that the ultra conservitive, alien, impossible,and backwards North was the achillies heel of Nigeria.
But now on second thoughts I actually dont want them to go!!!! Call it afrocentric but since watching the African World Cup in the summer and seeing what Africans are capable of once united, if filled me with a sense of hope that we Nigerians arent just beating a dead horse with this nation.
With the milk of african compassion and kindness now oozing from within I started to ponder, would the North actually survive on its own (even if they took abuja). The answer to that question is a resounding no!!!!

Here are 5 well qualified reasons why it wouldnt

1- The proposed Arewa would be a LANDLOCKED Republic.( Chad+ Niger come to mind  )
2- Nigeria is only tolerated on the world stage because of Oil even with that look how we are treated, so imagine disedent Nigerians without oil lol. ( Unless they find oil quick in Lake Chad)
3- In Nigeria 55% of the population is under the age of 20. In Arewa its 65%  thats a lot of almajaris lol.
4- What generally happens to poor Islamic states with high youth population and unemployment- Al Qaida !!!!!!!!
5- And Perhaps the most terrifying aspect to this destined Titanic is Northern Politicians i.e. IBB need i say more !!!!

I guess the point I am trying to make is, there are a lot of sections of the the country clamouring for disintergration. But rather lets unite and not just be pround Nigerians but be pround Africans, because its only when united that africa can tackle all its problems and in so doing lifting itself out of shame and depression.

                                             VIVA AFRICA