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niyooo:
Kenosky. When u turn to ardent Man. You fan like this? No be Ass**nal fan u be before? Na wah for una. No worry we go achieve wetin una no fit achieve with all una small boys wey una pack put for squad, tok say u wan win.

[size=15pt]thot u said u were goin to crash! see ur life- posting in the dead of nite when all good people are asleep! gotcha . U with opoks fit call mi Ass**nal, Barc**nal- wateva but it will not detract from the fact that Man utd plays good football and as the only surviving 'good football playing' team, they dont deserve to lose to a bunch of 'drab old bullys'. Its just about 22 hrs to the end of the match (by which time u, opoks and stannesi would av been silenced for a long time to come- cos i know one thing for sure, man utd is goin to entertain us to some of the best football we r gonna be seeing and talkin about for a long time to come! Make i come go face my book (not on facebook o ) before i turn to Mr 'a long time to come!'[/size]

AlfaPrime:
Hi chaps! I can understand the high tempo and tension generated by the awaited match tomorrow. Well, let the better team win. Reminds me of what the panelist told me when I faced him at the very final stage interview for my current job: "At this stage of the recruitment process, every candidate is already qualified to work in the company," he said, " but it's just that we cannot employ everyone. So we have to find a way to choose only the very best, " In order words, I'd say that both Manchester United and Chelsea, for getting to this final stage, each deserve to lift the cup; but it's just that a winner has to emerge, SO cheer up, loser fans, and celebrate wisely/moderately, winner fans, after the match.

[size=15pt]sorry to burst ya bubble alfa, but u and I know that the best dont always win! Chelsea has proved that time and time again- against middlesboro at the bridge, against arsenal at the bridge, against Liverpool at anfield- d list is endless but one thing is certain, tomorrow in moscow, they shall meet their waterloo![/size]

On a more serious note, I embarked on a very symbolic 24-hour boycott of MTN GSM services, in protest over the confirmed hostilities meted out to Nigerians in Diaspora. I don't see any reason why they should treat our people like dirt, while their own blue chip companies are making mindblowing profits here. Good a thing ,the SA govt has condemned the attacks and the Nigeria and I beleve thyey're workig hard to resolve it, but my 1-day boycot has been so significant to me. You don't have to join me in it, but I felt I should say it out on the thread.

Cheers

watever, though they might not even notice dat one man switched off his fone (they will even assume its for ur selfish gain! ) but i say kudos for taking such a bold step though like aniffy said 'your own NLC dey go strike first before una come inform us about strike action!' lol

stannesi:
2Pak and Keno, sorry man Utd is going Dwn tomorrow,

Opoks, Niyooo d blue men,

Lets just leave Droba to do d scroing,

HA HA HA HA HA

[size=15pt]dream! dream! dreaaaam! dreammmmmmmm!
dream! dream! dreaam! when u want to! (u know dat song na!). The drog and shevy alongside bollock will be consigned to clearing balls off the line until one ball go pass enter net![/size]

pak:
Actually guys, I must confess, scenes of a drab game, that will see 'the drog man'

scoring a solitary late goal in the 85th, 86th, 87th min ( who cares ) has been playin

in my mind but each time it comes i just make sure I 'bind and cast'. (e no fit happen).

Anyway, the ball is in your court, lets see once an for all, who the true 'prophet ' of

'which way' is.

opokonwa:
Kenosky,

Just wondering yesterday/today, when exactly are you coming back?

who said i wuz coming back again?

I can't wait for us to get down to one of our numerous joints in Las Gidi and just chill out.
Perhaps na me go trip you now!

na u must trip mi! but that should wait till whenever i decide to come back to naija!

I've also been thinking .  .  . _{knowing that you're an ardent palmy fan}

Have you discovered any palmy joint in the UK?
I mean fresh palmy joints no be for Harrods wey them fit freeze am?
Oyibo dey drink palmy? Abi na all those their fake beers?

frozen palmy? bushman!

I also know that you enjoy isi ewu
Can I get a correct isi ewu joint in the UK? I mean the one wey im two eyes, ears and tongue complete?
Knowing that you love those things, I can understand why you're so keen to come back.

I do not blame you though.
All those Oyibo food sucks! _{including the ones I ocassionally chop in Lagos}

I wuz in London last week and had pounded yam, banga soup with assorted meat- hmmm! i no dey come back to naija soon o

Abacha n'Ugba nko?
Abacha ncha? Abacha Enugu state?

One thing I like about you is that you neither forget nor pretend about your roots.

I wonder whether you do see correct ofe egusi there?
Abi na all those their sillly source?

No more Garri for you! Isi azu!

I miss abacha- but 2 your offer i say 'lead us not into temptation and deliver us from all evil !

Suya spot nko?
I bet na all those their lousy Barbecue

Perhaps a good business case might be to spring up a correct Naija Restaurant there!
Where we can bring all those dishes to those in diaspora
And bill them $, British Pounds or Euro.

That's for those wey wan settle there sha!

I sign out!

There's Obalende suya in London- i almost thot i wuz in naija o! enough yoruba and igbo people (speaking yoruba and pidgin! )

I can't wait to demolish MAN UTD 2morrow.
We will seperate the Boyz from the MEN!
And we shall know who be the Boyz-2-Men!

We will know who the REAL Champions of Europe are!

[size=55pt]UP CHELSEA![/size]

pak said something and i shuddered because it has happened before!, Chelsea cramps your style- play rubbish football and den in the 87th minute, d drog scores one of those bully type goals! but I believe Manchester United will give us a game to remember and help shut up loud mouths for a long time to come. I no go join u by blowing up MAN U to font 19 cos they are big already- champions 2007/2008! go jump in a lake man!

kuwena:
I've not been happy lately. Someone has said, 'A philosopher is someone who torments himself too much and dies very sad.' Ashamed as I am to admit it, I think he is right. I permit myself to become a little too sensitive to the world around me.

I probably was happier when I prayed regularly, back then in school. Life did not seem so hard, even if I suffered more economically. And all this is ironic. It's like I'm saying life was easier when it was hard and is harder now it is easier.

I feel somewhat insecure. And for the first time this year I went to church. The same old church, here in Kano. Coincidentally, today was Trinity Sunday. The choir, the mass and everything was all so familiar, and yet all so new. But why did I attend church?

I felt afraid; I felt alone; I felt threatened by life itself. And I needed strength. I really don't want to resign. I may need to save more. But all the motivation to work seems to have left me. And I want to have a safe trip to the US. And for God to cure me of this sense of threat. I went to church for psychological protection.

The same preaching: God is three and God is one. Nothing new there; the same pontification: the Eucharistic feast, where Jesus appears in form of bread and wine. Again nothing new there. The prayers were still as I left them last year. The liturgy intact. I recalled that Jesus had said that the Gates of Hell were not going to successfully overthrow Christianity.

But my concern was more selfish. All I needed was for God to protect me. To protect me from fear. Or have I been alone for too long? I am thinking of asking Chima to come and spend some time with me here.

I am seriously thinking.

[size=15pt]Hmmm! [/size]

niyooo:
Wey that Kenosky sef? Kenosky where you dey? You don go start fasting and prayer for Woman You? You better hurry up accept the chelsea offer while stocks last. I no fit beg for you later when you decide to see the light o.

[size=15pt]niyoo, even if na free registration! u bet i wont join ur people. Meanwhile, i v been touring mama charlie's capital- white hart lane, emirates, stadium of light, riverside, st james park, upton park and of course old trafford . I wont be caught dead at the bridge u know!![/size]

kuwena:
I have been tempted to abandon this thread. For one week I steeled myself against it. But this thread is like sex. You abstain from it awhile, and then you do it again. But how do I know? I thought I once declared myself a virgin. Was I lying?

, he who wears the shoe knows where it pinches!

niyooo:

@ all good morning, i can see the thread is progessing well. I have a few things I'll like to reply to and I don't see a way it's going to be brief so please indulge me.

[size=15pt]hmmm! I better fasten my seat belt! [/size]

Now over to u, Kuwena. We are not sparring only exchanging ideas. 

The good thing about life is one chooses who or what you want to believe, that's what makes us unique in our own different ways. You chose to agree with one great "Nkrumah" and disagree with another "Achebe". That's okay.

2. Niyoo, Kwame Nkrumah was a politician. Achebe is a writer. Who would I rather believe on political issues? (recall the error called 'ad verencundiam'?)

I don't think your response to my statement is really apt, but based on your analogy let me post this. "Femi Fani-Kayode" or "Walter Ofonagoro" or "Jerry Gana" etc is a politician but "Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie" or "Wole Soyinka" or "late Ken Saro Wiwa" or "late Fela" etc are not politicians. So who would you rather believe on political issues?    So as i posted somewhere earlier, we are all unique individuals and God has given us unique brains to think so it's up to us to choose what to agree or disagree with and not necessarily agree because anyone is an authority on a subject matter.

[size=15pt]argumentum ad verecundiam aptly put![/size]

On a lighter note, @ Kenosky on second thoughts maybe na Kuwena stannesi draw, u know say na him dey talk about cult and the pix take style resemble cult logo. Oya stannesi yarn for this matter, who you draw? 

kuwena:
2. Niyoo, Kwame Nkrumah was a politician. Achebe is a writer. Who would I rather believe on political issues? (recall the error called 'ad verencundiam'?)

[size=15pt] , Its a free world![/size]

kuwena:
Niyoo, I know that what I am about to do now is foolish. I am about to explain myself to you, even though Robert Greene (author of the 48 Laws of Power) has said that the more we explain ourselves, the more we risk being misunderstood. Pardon this indiscretion.

It is not in your place, Niyoo, to outrightly say that my 'business proposal' is not practicable. You are NOT an authority on businesses. And to listen to you on this issue would be stupid.

For your information, I WILL soon enough float at least one such company, in the United States of America. And it will not be up to eight years from now. I will go ahead and get 100 committed and financially endowed individuals (probably not including you), and we will float this kind of company. And it will be a revolution.

Very many things are possible. There was no aeroplane before the Wright brothers invented one; there was no electricity before Faraday; there was no atomic bomb before Einstein; even when Emeagwali was crafting his supercomputer, many thought he was mad. But he did it, and won the Gordon Bell prize.

There are so many things I have done in private that I am yet to publish. I have not been able to publish them all this while because I live in Nigeria (and you know what Nigeria is). As of today I have five unpublished literary works:

1. Ninety Negro Numbers (a 258-page autobiographical song-book)
2. Membusoje Doherty (another 258-page full-length novel)
3. The African Verses (a collection of 120 poems, not yet typed, but handwritten)
4. A Planner Defiled A People and Two Other Plays (not yet typed, but handwritten)
5. Small Small So Say (a full-length novel not completed)

I have also been working on many hypotheses in communication, mysticism and pseudoscience, such as the Catparian classification, which is the fusion of the Zodiac and the Enneagram to produce 48 personality types. I am also drawing up pseudo-spiritual and pseudo-psychological theories that blend modern witchcraft with astrology, seances and religion. But most of these works cannot bloom here in Nigeria, I think. (I may be wrong).

One project I intend to undertake is to be the first to fuse the usual company with the usual non-profit organization. I came up with the framework while still at Ofada. I said that I would gather 100 individuals. And I will. These individuals would contribute each a fixed amount over a period of one year into a common pool.

Logic of the above: Cults have donations that bind them, usually one another's blood that they drink during meetings. Cult masters collect followers who are willing to donate their 'precious' blood, and drink other people's blood even at the risk of HIV/AIDS. The task for me would be to, through extensive persuasion, comb the USA and look for 100 people who can commit their 'precious' money and form a cult-company.

Of these hundred individuals, twenty would resign their jobs and float the company proper. The rest 80 would still be cult members. Now, in ordinary parlance, they would be called the board of directors (non-executive directors).

Logic of the above: Cults have members with specific portfolios, who have specific roles to perform. These roles justify their existence in the Fraternity. In the case of the Catpar, the cult-company, the purpose is simply not to be a cult, but to facilitate the industrial and psychological transformation of Africa. The Brotherhood, having 'assumed' that it is industries that Africa needs would not be content with only spiritual activities, but with economic ones as well.

Now, the twenty executive directors would divide themselves into four:

a. Outreach
b. Business Development
c. Financial Management
d. Corporate Affairs.

a. Outreach: The individuals in Outreach would be responsible for going 'out there' to scout for creative geniuses. These would be people who can create stuff, but do not have the money or the savvy to turn their bright ideas into businesses. They would be black people primarily, and they would be willing to share their ideas with our Cult-company, so that we can help them. The outreach people would use multi-media approaches to collect these people. They would be social workers, mass communicologists and social psychologists, among others.

b. Business Development: The individuals in Business Development would be responsible for turning the creative ideas proposed by the geniuses into viable businesses. They would serve as representatives with banks that may sometimes be called upon to provide the necessary funding. They would also help the geniuses to plan workable business proposals, and to draw up Memoranda of Understanding and what have you. Individuals here would have studied Business Administration, Economics, Banking and Finance; but they would also have studied Art, Engineering and so forth, as geniuses could come from these areas.

c. Financial Management: The individuals in Financial Management would be responsible for making sure that that initial pool of money that the Cultists (Board of Directors) contributed keeps multiplying. They would invest such money in long, short and medium term deals. They would make sure that the asset base of the company kept ever strong, so that the company lived forever.

d. Corporate Affairs: The individuals in Corporate Affairs would be responsible for the day-to-day running of the company: secretaries; clerks; lawyers, human resources, and so forth. They would be in charge of business and external relations as well. They would also keep the company's books. The HR people in particular would be in charge of recruiting from outside. They would induct new 'cultists' who have no shares, but who work for the company. Their status in the Cult though would differ.

Now, as a Cult, the Catpar would function as a cult. All the Hundred Brothers would have both financial and moral stakes in it. Financial because they contributed cash to the company charged with the practical aspect of bringing a radical developmental change to Africa, and Moral because they would promise to stick to all the emotional (or psychological, or spiritual, depending on how you view it) ideals of the Cult. They would attend meetings, share things in common; they would love one another as Brothers. They would practice the Spiritual exercises, and learn about the separation, development, integration and transcendence of the human personality, sexuality, spirituality and vocation; they would also learn how to be measures and ends for all humanity. It will NOT be a secret cult. Activities of the Cult will be published in all the media, and the cult would have a regular teevee program: HEALING THE MOTHERLAND. This program would be geared towards using the television to campaign for radical developmental change for Africa. By the by it would even have its own station, like Christ Embassy does. It will be non-religious, and there will be no oaths, or wearing of sacred uniforms. Sacrifices, if any, would be free-willed and entirely psychological, like my Three Sacrifices. There will be NOTHING secret about the Catpar.

As a company, it will be a Public Limited Liability Company, just like others. Name them: Intercontinental, UBA, Globacom, and so forth. As a company, it will be registered with the requisite body in the USA, and incorporated under its laws. As a company, it will be a Corporate entity and contribute to the American economy first, and then to the rest of the world. As a company, it will pay corporate taxes, and publish Financial Statements, showing Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss, and Corporate Social Responsibility statistics. As a company, it will pay regular dividends to the Hundred Brothers and to as many as would join later. There will be two or more kinds of membership: Brothers, and Workers. The former would own shares, and the later would simply be employed by the company. It will be a regular company in the sense of all the foregoing.

I fear I have said too much. But I am not just ranting. I intend to do all I have said. And believe me, I will try to the best of my ability. And if it does not work, it will not be because I did not try. But in a corner of my heart, I know somehow that it will work. All it will take is PERSUASION. Lots and lots of it. To get 99 others like me.

kuwena:
Appearance is not always reality. This is a problem of philosophy.

kuwena:
Feel me? Please read and UNDERSTAND my posts before trying to respond to them, okay?

And this goes for both certain individuals and the rest of you, on this 'noble' thread.

crazycolor:
All of una no serious o,
u dey sit down write all these jargons?

[size=18pt]its true wat they say 'a man's name will order his footsteps!' crazy color u indeed live up to ur crazy name! Must u post? Or havent u heard the saying 'dat if u have nothing to say , u should just blow whistle'? [/size]