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U1:
Wait o, na wa for this our ladies self, then no wan take things easy at all and in the end they end up paying for it, look at the way the bridesmaid take squeeze breast put for cloth, she wan tell me say better cloth no dey. All in the name of fashion.

Na wah for you oh. You guys are just cracking me up,
Oh well, if Madonna (at 51) could screw a 22 year old Jesus Rodrigues, pls don't begrudge Lizzie who's 40-ish and trying to restart herlife with someone hopefully of the same age.


Good Luck Liz Benson.

The son of Nigeria's former military ruler Sani Abacha has told the BBC he is strongly considering running for the governorship of Kano state.

The BBC's Bala Ibrahim in Kano says colourful posters of Mohammed Abacha have been put up across the city.

Mohammed Abacha spent three years in prison on charges of embezzlement before being freed in 2002.

His father ruled Nigeria from 1993 until he died in 1999. He is thought to have embezzled billions of dollars.

Mr Abacha told our correspondent he was under a lot of pressure to seek the governorship but was still consulting stakeholders.

Last month, he said he would enter politics but did not specify which office he would seek.

The next national elections are due in 2011.

Happy Eid

Our correspondent says Mr Abacha is close to the People's Democratic Party, which is in power nationally but in opposition in Kano state.

The posters from Mr Abacha wish people a happy Eid - the Muslim festival to mark the end of Ramadan. They do not include a party emblem.

This is something traditionally done by politicians in the majority Muslim state.

His entry into politics is generating a lot of controversy, our correspondent says.

Mr Abacha is a reserved man and this could count against him but his family's riches will help him, our correspondent says.

Swiss banks have returned millions of dollars belonging to the Abacha family to the Nigerian state but they are still hugely wealthy.

As well as the embezzlement charges, Mr Abacha was also cleared of murder by the Supreme Court in 2002, sparking street celebrations in Kano.

He had been accused of ordering the murder of the wife of Moshood Abiola, who is believed to have won the 1993 elections which were annulled by the military, before Sani Abacha seized power.

Mr Abiola died in prison in 1999 just a month after Gen Abacha.



Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8268270.stm

Ikeymann

Learn to type proper English for God's sake!!!

[center]Nigerian soldiers jailed for life  [/center]

The Nigerian military has been peacekeeping in Liberia since 1990
A group of Nigerian troops who held a protest over pay have been sentenced to life in jail for mutiny.

The 28 soldiers, including four women, took to the streets in south-western Ondo state in July 2008 waving leafy branches and singing songs.

They claimed they were owed as much as $25,000 (£17,200) each by the army.

But the court martial in Lagos said the protest breached military discipline. One of the soldiers, who were UN peacekeepers in Liberia, was cleared.

In January the same court convicted five officers of stealing $68,000 (£46,800) that was meant for Nigerian peacekeepers in Liberia.

'Dehumanising'

Peter Adonu, of the soldiers' legal team, said they would appeal against the verdict.

The protest was a pay dispute, not a mutiny and never posed a threat to state security, he said.

Mr Adonu added his clients had been held in "dehumanising conditions" and were denied medical care.

Nigerian troops have been part of the peacekeeping forces in Liberia since 1990 when they were brought in by the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) to stop a civil war there.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8022117.stm

[quote author=Frank-C link=topic=261952.msg3737080#msg3737080 date=1239883216]I once learnt from a highly respected friend that smart people show their smartness by the way they treat the less endowed ones. With all these names calling in NL, i wonder who is better than who. Is there no better way to talk to people than words like 'slowpoke' and the likes? Otherwise, NL will become less intellectually engaging.

Why not address the message and leave the messenger alone.[/quote]The fact remains, there's no message in this thread but the dumb messenger. Nairaland has always been on the decline ever since illiterates like ikeyman00 have been given access to threads meant for people who could hold reasonable oconversations.

I can't understand all the fuss about thistribal bashing he does, he (ikeyman00) tends to react at tribal threads like you had just openly criticised his mother's taste in men!!! It's only supposed to be a debate!!!

Sagamite:
As some people turn the tribalistic thread into a more intellectual debate, you will see that ikeyman00 has not been able to engage in this type of debate as his IQ is low and is only looking at pouring more cretinous tribal balderdash.

Mark of a stack illiterate.

texazzpete:
Does Ikeymann/Superman read what he types before clicking the 'reply' button?
95% gibberish

I concur. When it comes to arguments, he can't reason intelligently. When it comes to spellings, he can't spell and when it comes to postings, he makes absolute no sense at all.All he does is copy and paste wannabe tribal bashing linguistic nonsense.

Ikeymann/Supermann if you could read this. . . you need a good book to improve your English and IQ rather than staying on Nairaland and sabre-rattling.

udezue:
Kaygee1234567891011121314

Nna man kindly hop off my privates u overly obsessed man or woman. Now get up jare. The way you chase me around nairaland spewing garbage each time is amazing. Bitch a taram ji ki? Chineke!!!! Ne kwanum na okoro.

If you took your time to read the post b4 jumping on my ball sack you woulda seen Becomerich talking nonsense and what was my response? Igbo kwenu!!! Anioma Kwenu!!!!! "Egbeomodudwa fool". Fool maybe you don't understand what that means but I'm not even ready to tell you either. I mean you are worthless piece of trash who spends his or her life obsessing over another online character that he or she have never met. Get a life if you aint got 1.

Umu Igbo Kwenu!!!!!
Proud of my Kwa Igbo heritage. If you are not happy about that you can always commit suicide. Its an easier route.

Who says you shouldn't be proud of heritage? But shoving it in people's face is what puts us all off. Go and die you retard.
Ps:I shall continue to hop on your Tom, Private and Harry even if you advice me not to, except you stop your daft tribalist posts on Nairaland.

Mad Man Kwenu. . .

Brig Gen Mohamed Buba Marwa . . .

Rear Admniral Arogundade who'se only accomplishment is beating a helpless lady to a pulp.

Nigeria Desperately Needs To Tax Religion
Written by Ayo Akinfe
Friday, 13 March 2009
Nigeria desperately needs to tax religion



By Ayo Akinfe

Over the last week, it was revealed that the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) acquired a new aircraft for N4bn ($28m). To allow its leader Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye carry out his calling more efficiently, the church bought a Gulfstream 4XP that has the capacity of about 15 depending on its configuration.

It was flown into Lagos from Bahamas last Sunday and puts RCCG on a par with one of its main rivals, the Living Faith Worldwide church, whose general overseer Bishop David Oyedepo, flies around in a Challenger aircraft. Apparently, Bishop Oyedepo has ordered another aircraft bigger than the one acquired by Pastor Adeboye.


Apart from purchase costs, a lot of money is spent maintaining these aircrafts and paying the crew, in addition to the landing and parking charges. Unlike a commercial aircraft that is always in the air, private jets spend more time on the ground and must be checked before taking off.


One aeronautical engineer at the Murtala Mohammed Airport in Lagos, said: “The same with refitting parts. These are parts that are changed after every 12 or 15 calendar months whether you are flying or not, so, acquiring a private aircraft means that you are ready to be spending money to keep it going.”


A former official of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, added: “ This is unbelievable. You know the amount of poverty in this land, which I know is widespread. How can he acquire such aircraft when he knows that members of his church are suffering? Even the Pope does not have a private jet. I am a Catholic. It is true that the Catholic church is the richest church in the world in terms of artefacts but the Pope flies Alitalia. How can the Pope tell the church that he wants a private jet?"


What we are witnessing with RCCG and Living Faith Worldwide are not isolated incidents. Across Nigeria, religious organisations simply have too much money. They account for such a high percentage of our gross national product (GDP) that Nigeria cannot afford the luxury of granting them charitable status. It is time to tax our churches and mosques.


We do not have precise figures but I would not be surprised if churches and mosques account for as much as 10% of Nigeria's GDP. Economically, Nigeria simply cannot afford to let them go. We have to deal with the economic realities on the ground and in Nigeria it means that religion must be levied.

Do you know that in 2008 Nigerians spent a total N34.63bn on pilgrimages to holy sites in Saudi Arabia and Israel? Of this amount, the Muslim annual pilgrimage cost the nation a total N29.7073bn, while that of Christians cost the national economy N4.93bn.

Figures obtained from the Central Bank and the federal and states pilgrims boards showed that in October 2008, a total 84,878 Nigerians went to Mecca to perform the annual hajj, in which a total N29.7073bn was spent on a package that amounted to N350,000 per person. Tickets for the airlift of the Muslim pilgrims alone amounted to N24.275bn.

In December, a total 17,000 pilgrims were approved by the federal government to perform the annual Christian pilgrimage to Jerusalem at a cost of N290,000 per person. Tickets for the airlift of the Christian pilgrims amounted to N174m. This brought the total amount spent on air tickets for the two pilgrimages in 2008 to N24.449bn.

In October 2008, 84,878 Nigerians performed the hajj to Mecca and a maximum of $1,500 was approved as personal travelling allowance for each of the Muslim pilgrims, thus resulting in total foreign exchange procurement of $127.21m per person.


If I were to list the top 10 sectors in the Nigerian economy, it would look something like this - oil and gas, agriculture, banking, religion, telecommunications, insurance, retailing, manufacturing, services and leisure & hospitality All the other sectors are being taxed, so why should religion be spared? A religious tax could provide funding for education, healthcare, transport and a lot of our infrastructural problems.

With oil prices perilously low and none of the other sectors robust enough to generate sufficient revenue, religion is the only industry that can provide an immediate respite to our plethora of current problems. Whether we like it or not, finance minister Mukhtar Mansur simply has to levy churches and mosque to balance his books during 2009.

With President Yar’Adua declaring that the 2009 budget is over-optimistic and unlikely to match the goals for which it was originally drafted due to the onset of the global economic recession, it is time to think outside the box. We simply need to start thinking in a lateral manner and this means considering what was hitherto regarded as sacrosanct.

Desperate times call for desperate measures and believe you me, these are difficult moments. Not only does religion not bring in a penny to the Nigerian treasury, it actually acts as a drain on it, milking our poor export earnings of funds that are desperately needed to resolve our plethora of socio-economic woes.

There will never be a better time for Dr Mansur to bite the bullet and scrap the charitable status churches and mosques enjoy. A little bit of political courage is needed here.


http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/ayo-akinfe/nigeria-desperately-needs-to-tax-rel.html

Rebrand Death First!
Written by Pius Adesanmi
Wednesday, 18 March 2009
Pius Adesanmi


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It is impossible for any modern computer software or calculator to keep track of the dizzying number of Nigerians who die like goats every day. I am not talking about the normal finality of every human life that we capture with the phrase “natural causes”. I am talking about deaths so ridiculous and preventable you gnash your teeth daily, wishing the internet does not exist so that non-Nigerians would have considerably reduced possibilities of knowing how a good number of our compatriots still die in the 21st century. Some of the ways of dying in Nigeria would embarrass the people of Darfur, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq. I have argued elsewhere that any Nigerian who ventures daily into e-Nigeria for news is either a necrophiliac or s/he has completely lost the capacity to be shocked by the contemplation of some of the most undignified poses of death that one state allows to happen to its own people.

In Nigerian newspapers, there is no avoiding narratives of needless deaths illustrated by gory and sobering photos that make very loud statements about the worth of human life in that country. Thanks to cell phone cameras, Nigeria’s contribution to pre-medieval ways of dying now exists in video clips that circulate widely online. The latest is a video recording of a “necklacing” in Lagos. The video shows a suspected thief being roasted to death in broad daylight. The badly burnt Nigerian is writhing in the last throes of life. One of the executioners pours more petrol on him even as we hear someone in the audience scream excitedly in Yoruba: “E je ko je rora” (Don’t kill him quickly, let him suffer). I had the misfortune of being sent this barbaric video clip by one of my Canadian colleagues with the predictable email query: “Pius, someone sent me this clip of an execution in Nigeria and I thought you might want to see it. Is this true?” I’ve been dodging him since last week. Whenever I eventually bump into him in the Department, I am just going to have to “bone face” and claim unconvincingly that these things happen everywhere. I foresee myself in one of those encounters where one gets very aggressively defensive about Nigeria in the presence of the outsider, even when you know the bitter truth.

I have tried to keep tab of Nigeria’s tableau of needless deaths since the beginning of this year. From Jos to Bauchi and back to Bauchi; from the Niger Delta to Abuja; from Lagos to Calabar, the task has been daunting. Hundreds died in religious/political riots, an entire football team perished on the criminal contraptions we call roads, armed robbers never missed the normal quota of deaths they contribute to daily statistics in Lagos and other parts of the country, rival football supporters slaughtered twelve Nigerians in Bayelsa, compatriots continued to die by inhaling poisonous fumes from their generators, and the wind of political murders and assassinations continued to blow in Ekiti. Writing this piece, I decided to check Nigeriaworld.com. Perhaps it’s possible to have a single day without news of goat-like deaths? Two headlines came up in quick succession: “Robbers Kill Three, Injure five in Lagos” (Vanguard), “Lagos: Beggar Stabs Beggar to Death over N20 Gift” (Punch). I navigated quickly away from the site.

The least one would expect from one of the most advanced countries in terms of the production of needless and undignifying deaths are advanced and humane structures of disposal that could ensure that fallen compatriots go in dignity. Sadly, it is precisely in this area that Nigeria defies logic. In most parts of the world I’ve been to, dead dogs and cats are guaranteed a much more dignifying passage to the great beyond than some dead Nigerians in terms of the handling and treatment of corpses. Even pet parrots, pythons, and rats die and are disposed of in dignity. I remember visiting a good friend of mine I call Deopka in Washington shortly after the untimely death of his kids’ pet rat. Deopka announced that the children were “mourning”. We all laughed and evoked the fate that would have befallen that rodent in Nigeria had it belonged in the edible family we call okete! Too many dead Nigerians are simply left to rot, especially those faceless compatriots in the lower rungs of society. If you are unlucky to be felled by the “accidental discharge” of a police man, you’ll most likely end up in a mass grave, dumped with those armed robbers they parade routinely before they are quietly shot “while attempting to escape”. Your family will certainly not be notified.

Those looking for rational ways of explaining the failures of the Nigerian state should look into its management of death. It seems to me that we have so far failed to find answers because we look in the direction of life to explain Nigeria. That is the wrong way to go. The things we complain endlessly about – corruption, security, electricity, water, infrastructural collapse, comatose educational and health systems, dysfunctional democracy, etc – all belong in the province of life. Those things are all about the management of life and man’s endless quest to improve the quality of life. For instance, only the living need security, electricity, water, and infrastructure. Why then do we expect things associated with life from a state that cannot even manage death?

In essence, it is only normal for a state that is too incompetent to manage even death to be completely clueless about the management of life. Dora Akunyili is going to spend her time in the Information Ministry rebranding life. She is wasting her time and our money because the state she is serving is not equipped to handle life. She stands a better chance of making some headway if she starts by rebranding death. Let her tell her boss that a state that is able to ensure that her dead do not go like goats would also be able to ensure that her living do not live like goats.

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/pius-adesanmi/rebrand-death-first.html

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presido1:
You have just shown that hatred the guy u quoted wrote about. Did you not see becomerich post b4 his? If you should criticize him of tribalism why not criticise becomerich first. You were quick to quote him cuz you saw IGBO in what he wrote.

My bad for not noticing that from Becomrich, and in that case, I put both of them in the same category of tribalists because it's definitely uncalled for. By the way, it's not personal hatred but being unbiased about my comment. I hope you reason except you're another closet tribalist.

udezue:
Che che che

Ndi Anioma Kwenu!!!!!!

Ndi Ika kwenu!!!!!

Umu Igbo KWEZUENU!!!!!!!!!!

Becomehaterz always gon hate on us. Pathetic egbeomoduduwa fool.

Another opportunistic idiot. People are arguing wisely but you just clipped that stupid tribalistic line. This thread is not about tribe but about the average Nigerian's love for big fat titles attaches to their names. Would you ever get it?

sley4life:
if u home is iraq or vietnam wuld u stay there?

Another myopic individual. And who says the modern day Vietnam is not improving better than the war ravaged nation it used to be and by the way, who says the West don't want Iraq to get better after the attrocities? Think man, think. The West would rather focus on Iraq right now than Nigeria.