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More.

Some more pics,

Taken today.

I wonder if this will ever stop in Naija.

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Chei!

With all violent Islamic groups the world over, the MO is the same:

Peace will reign only when they are happy; they are happy only when:

1) Islam reigns supreme, and Sharia replaces the Constitution.

2) All women are degraded.

3) All ties with the Western World are severed.

4) True Democracy (not like we even have that in Naija) is buried.

If you doubt this, make time for a brief study of Turkey, more than 90%
Muslim, but with a decidedly secular Constitution.

Latest developments show that the present Government has weakened the Military,
long-standing custodians of the Country's Secularist stand.

The ultimate aim is to return Turkey to what it once was as the centre of the Ancient
Ottoman Empire. The proponents will not rest until that is done. (90+ % Muslim Nation)

What do you think will happen in the case of Nigeria?

If in Turkey, the Fundamentalists are pushing their own fellow Muslims to submit to
their agenda, do you think they will be less persistent with Kaffirs (Infidels)?

Can FG afford to even think of negotiating with Boko Haram?

You can't negotiate with a neighbour who wants your house and land for himself.

You can't negotiate with a man who will rather kill you than let you convince him.

You can't negotiate with a man who won't hesitate to kill your wife and kids just
to prove a point!

On the other hand, I can't advocate extermination, ethnic cleansing, genocide, whatever.

Government should just improve security, focus on Counter Terrorism, and please,

DO WHAT THEY ARE IN POWER TO DO!

Provide all missing infrastructure, improve quality of life, make all of us proud of this Country.

General apathy and even increasing antipathy toward the Nation due to failure of Government
is enough to cause youth restiveness (look at Niger Delta for example), without adding fuel of
Religious Fanaticism to it!

Boko Haram, or whatever else, is like AIDS. Not curable, but can be managed.

Well, at least, that's how I see it.

I don too talk, sef, de matter pain me too much.

@ All,

And so, the war spills onto the pages of Nairaland!

Why can't Nigeria be split?

Why can't the so-called "Great Mistake" be righted?

Why can't the people be allowed to say FOR THEMSELVES
where their loyalties lie?

ONCE AND FOR ALL?

The answer is simple. It is also the answer to this question:

WHAT IS NIGERIA RIGHT NOW?

Answer:

A meal ticket for a few, who wish to keep Nigeria
as it is, a hopeless state teetering on the verge of failure,
where corruption is practiced on a grand scale, where they
(the said few "Power Brokers" feed fat and reserve more than
enough for generations of descendants yet unborn to engorge
upon.

A RAT RACE, going in circles, while "Tortoises" catch up with
and even overtake us!

This is Nigeria, and it will NOT fall apart, as long as the sticky,
smelly, gooey stuff called CORRUPTION holds it together!

The "Chop make I Chop" Formula that allows our clueless
Political class to "Disagree to Agree".

Just watch!

See what will happen. The crazy lot we have as our leaders will
"lead" us on a convoluted labyrinth of a wild goose chase that
will, in the end, favour nobody but them!

Just wait.

I went to a Federal Government College, too.

Some Hausas and indigenes of the area needed interpreters!
No Kidding! (no offence to the Hausas, but that was what happened)

I don't mind to share this, though: I scored 328/400 in Common Entrance,
did well too in the Interview, but still couldn't get admitted on National Merit!

I got in by State Quota.

So, what right have I to fault this Admission formula, except to wonder
why I didn't get in on merit?

I still wonder.

@ All,

If you are a fresh graduate, to where would you like to be posted?

Choose from below:

NITEL or MTN/GLO/AIRTEL/ETISALAT?

NTA or CHANNELS/SILVERBIRD/AIT/all others?

NNPC or SHELL/CHEVRON/MOBIL?

I could go on and on,

This may be good for the Government Establishments, but, pray tell,
is it good for the CORPERS?

Getting posted to the right place often sets corpers for the rest of their
professional lives, but now, imagine what a corper stands to gain in a
Local Government Office, Village School, Community Health Centre with
no Equipment, Drugs or Consumables,

Am I painting a bleak picture or being realistic?

Which Government resources are they even talking about, sef?

Their measly alawi, right?

Abraham was not a Jew.

Jews were not so named until Judah, a great-grandson of Abraham.

The Bible records Abraham as coming from "the land of the Chaldeans"

The Chaldeans were from Ancient Babylonia (they were so named in the
book of Daniel) which is in present-day Iraq.

Arabs are descendants of Ishmael, a son of Abraham, so the tribe technically
cannot be used to classify an ancestor of its "founder", so to say.

Arab or Jew, good ol' Abe was neither!

Start Shootin'!

@ All,

Abegi! I support Ndigbo please!

Then FG will have to create more states in the other geopolitical zones, too.

Ain't that how it works?

More States, more state capitals, more towns with at least a semblance of
development!

Enoff of "National Cake.

Let's have "National Plantain Chips"


"National Chin-Chin" "National Cheese Balls"

Whatever!

@ OP,

Wey de money, now?

Abujazz, ma guy,

At least on this thread, we have a little too much water on the surface!

no oofeinse

@ aloy/emeka,

Those poor guys were not swimming in such dirty water for fun.

Looks like an effort at search and rescue to me.

It may also interest you to know that America experiences floods, too!

Does the name "Katrina" ring a bell?

Thought not.

Dare I suggest a mass boycott of Nollywood movies, so as to get these Blobs Actors
to slim down?

Let's call it NSSP "Nollywood Starvation Stimulus Package".

@ Poster,

It's clear you only have two choices: Believe it or don't!

I mean, what else can you do? verify??

It's not like there's a mileage counter or meter you can
check "down there"!

What you should fear is if you actually love and want to settle
down with a lady and she's telling you lies.

Anybody agrees?

@ Gen. Buhari,

I don't quite agree with you.

Buhari was NO saint,  just a bad guy in milder times.

What was crime like back then? What were the youth like?

Were there kidnappers? Terrorosts? (Wicked Mofos) Militants like Dokubo, Okah, and so on?

Check out Police/army Brutality back then, Queuing for "Essential Commodities"!!!

Demolition Exercise without resettlement,

The Guy is just as bad,  only he ruled in milder times.

Well, I kinda like the pic.

My reason? Simplicity!

Clinton was videoed a lot going for a jog, in what, a three-piece suit? eh?

Obama's been seen outside in a simple T-shirt.

In your living room, fully rugged floor, would you wear SHOES?!!!

What of Mikel in a track suit? Was that "inappropriate" too?

Americans are notorious for writing the way they pronounce words.

Look for any American forum, and check it out, like those comments
on Yahoo! news.

@ Ileke,

You mean Ajimobi Vs Akala

Amosun Vs OGD

@ Abbey621,

I'm not interested in the motives for Foreign Graduates coming back to Nigeria, their reasons are theirs and theirs alone.

Plus, I wasn't talking about foreign graduates as applicants or candidates for employment. I was talking about what happens
when they start working. Do they stand out? Do they rise faster though the ranks than their Nigerian-trained colleagues?

Peace.

How many of you guys live in Osun State?

The nine months so far spent by Aregbesola as governor has not seen the wanton waste that was the showcase of the
Oyinlola years.

We in osun have seen a commodity deemed a rarity among our political class: Compassion! Aregbe, I'm sure, will deliver.
At least the beer parlours and pepper soup joints now have fewer SUVs with government plates gracing them every night!

Mehn! You should've been in Osogbo to see how PDP goons were living! Guns, Girls, weed, booze, all the works!
All that has disappeared overnight.

He kept the government as lean as possible for six months so it doesn't gulp money, and peeps here are jabbering about
him not appointing commissioners, while their state governors are appointing their sons as Special Advisers, pimps as
Executive Secretaries and their second-hand whores as commisioners!

How is Aregbe better than your governors?

By a whole lot!

If Nigerian Graduates are so backwards, not a single one will ever get a job, let alone do well at it abroad.

I have many friends doing well at their jobs in US, UK and other places, though they studied here, and I'm sure
I'm not the only one who does around here.

I have worked and still work with expatriates in Nigeria, and, believe me, there's nothing so fabulous about them.

In a profession like Engineering where the theory learnt from school is not far from the practical on the field, you'll
find that anyone who really paid attention in school will do well at home or abroad.

In medicine, I must say Nigerian hospitals are bad mainly due to poor infrastructure, not poor personnel. When there's
no functional MRI scanner or Emergency Room gadgets for example, how can a Doctor correctly diagnose internal injury?

How the nation works is also another matter. What do our values hold as success? Money! Get rich or gerrout! As a result,
we miss it right from school. In a foreign University, everything's available, so you can face what you're really there for. in
Naija, students are hustlers. Will you blame them? A few still manage to face their studies against all odds, and such ones
even end up doing well abroad.

My point? graduating from a Nigerian university does have its disadvantages, but if you are determined to succeed, you will.
Foreign graduates do come back to Naija and end up competing with their Nigerian colleagues. If they were much better, they
would be superstars in their places of work.

When we were kids, it was

"Get back from school, have lunch, do your homework, run out and play football (even if the ball was the infamously hard toilet float!)

come back in, have your bath, sleep". finis!

Can it ever be like that again?

If you ponder on what kids are in the US, UK and so on (some are already murderers in their teenage years, like Damilola Taylor's killers),
you'll find feeding your kids the same junk those little terrors grew up on a little unsettling.

Let's face it, we adults didn't have access to CN. Did it make our lives boring?

Think about that for a while.

@ Original post,

Why? Hmmm,  a few answers, here,

a) Parents's ideas of fun for their kids no longer include physical exercise these days, how many parents buy balls for their sons nowadays?
    Back in the days, the dude with the ball had the most friends.

b) Safety just isn't what it was back when some of us were kids. How many crazy okada riders were on the loose in the eighties? I have to sympathise
    with parents on that one.

c) Even though Footballer role models abound, nowadays, how many schools (especially primary schools) REALLY encourage football among pupils?

d) How many primary schools even HAVE football fields nowadays? more like "fully equipped computer labs" (I'm not saying that's bad, though)

Kids aren't really given much of a choice any more. They simply soak up what they have around them. I think this is bad for our future, health wise.

It is possible for someone to have been better that someone else at a time, abi?

What if 'Ladi was better back in the days these Nlanders knew them together?

A former classmate of mine once told me the same thing, years ago.

That doesn't mean he STAYED better than Obafemi ALL the time.

Anyway, RIP to another Nigerian star.

Why not some of these politicians, eh?

Na waa o!

Well, I don't know what the furore was all about.

All I know is no Church on earth belongs to any human being(s)

If you are in a Church where men hold sway and God seems secondary,

BALE OUT!!

Please, no Christian can embrace Terrorism.

We tend to forget that "Christian" means "Like Christ"

How is this psycho like Jesus?

PS: Most peeps calling themselves "Christians" are not!

University of Ibadan announced in the Punch Newspaper of yesterday that it will not accept SSCE results after 31st August.

Does that mean ALL candidates who chose that school but are awaiting results should kiss admission goodbye, or what?

I'm kinda pi@@ed off at this, It really isn't fair!

Let's pray WAEC results are released in August, o!

I AM married to an ex single parent.

The result? I have a Jambito step daughter and my own baby son

with another baby on the way. After that, we're done, by God's grace.

I'm happy! My little ones have a mature big sister to take care of them.

Loads of advantages.

Clap for dem!!!!

Mumu Governors. Wetin de Ghanaians do? eh?

Boko Haram dey dere, plenty Boko Haram no be
Nigerians. Make dem go deport those ones, now!

Rubbish!!!