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I'm very rascal, very very rascal -Fatai Rolling Dollar

^^^^

Profound on so many levels, that's the quote of the year

Check out his mean sunglasses, too cool for words. When I grow up, I want to be rascal like Baba Rolling Dollars!

I saw this online, I think it's a pretty good project for you guys to support:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1748556257/elders-corner

I expect forex cash madams like Naijababe to support this in the 5k category. .at least

Isale can foot the whole bill. . .

OAM4J can end the campaign in one day. . . Ati be be lo

I don't know anything about it beyond what's posted on the site, but I like the idea.

Oga OAM4J, Agbaakin, Imule Seun Osewa + Mukina2   

Thanks jare.  I appreciate.

^^

Hahaha, I never reach Aare Musiwa level o. I enjoy Skibanj when he's not interviewing politicians.

Warrior, which one be mitofag again?  LOL

Beaf:
Don't mind rumour mongers jare. Bodi de inside cloth.

Ok bro that's good to know. I see you are still working hard for Mr. President. That's loyalty. . .

Anyway, I'll give you a bit more time before I start asking "How Far" like I promised in April.


Boys are not smiling sha o, street harsh baje baje.

^^^

Bros na long story oo. How bodi?

BTW, I dey hear some good rumor about you o, if I confirm say na true. . . My own don Betta be that

This is even funnier :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01vfvhC5rYE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Amateur animation, but the GEJ and Boko Haram part is funny

^^^

I bet Abati and co are working hard on a good denial as we speak. LOL

You just gave them some smart talking points ---> Blame "Unreliable" Indonesian Government officials.

[quote author=Kilode?! link=topic=654647.msg8208480#msg8208480 date=1303838002]BTW, Beaf, if you are reading this, everytime I read Reno Omokri, I just assume he's you. I bet I'm wrong.[/quote]Whaaaaat?? I wrote this in April, Where is Beaf?

I just read a few threads claiming you are actually Reno. Wth! So my suspicion in April was correct?

Na true?

Bros Show face o!!

Don't even bother, I dey come your office, I must collect my dividend of Democracy.

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=780478.msg9327033#msg9327033 date=1318461319]Yeah I see what you guys mean[/quote]Ekiti_bear has seen "light" . . . Yea, Nigeria is peculiar.

That said, I'm not sure this story is true, I expect strong denials from the GEJ team.

^^^

LOL She don vex.

I think it's called "Fire Brigade syndrome" it's in the blood of most Nigerian Ogas I know, walahi I tested their DNA

Even on a thread about off-topic-random-life-abroad-perspectives, You. Cannot. Go. "Off Topic"






But, 100 pages?? You don try jare. . .

[quote author=alj_harem link=topic=779659.msg9318902#msg9318902 date=1318363474]where have u been kilode egbon [/quote]Ha! My Alhaji. Ranka dede!

I took a small break ni.

^^

Iyalode Iwapele, Mo ri ise owo yin o. Good looking out. I appreciate 

But 100 pages?? anyway, I guess this is where the run ends. . .if Seun has anything to do with it.




BTW, Oga Katz? hmm. The rumor is that he's in Bahia, stuck between two very jealous menina bonita's    

Seun, Keep it simple bro. Google's homepage still looks the same.


Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication -Da Vinci

Ogini

Shey the air no freeeeesh again ni?

100 pages!!


Mo juba awon Iya oo

So, we are now arresting journalists like Buhari abi?

This must be the meaning of continuity. . .

[quote author=isale_gan2 link=topic=590933.msg8563264#msg8563264 date=1308678253]Kilode, the rampaging conquering warrior!  Here's another Yoruba enclave waiting for you to annex them.  [/quote]Yes. Conquer them all! 

[quote author=isale_gan2 link=topic=590933.msg8563937#msg8563937 date=1308685140]If the Sheba myth is referenced in the article I posted, I completely missed it.  But, I have heard that supposition before.  I am convinced it is baseless, of course!  Another poor attempt to "validate" Africans through an unsubstantiated claim (though some exist) of a Biblical or Middle Eastern connection.[/quote]Well said.

Yea, I've read about the Eredo Bilikisu Sungbo Moat. I'm not sure how it's related to the Middle East, Eredo sounds like a Benin word.

naijababe:
(don't understand why women are not allowed at the burial site of another woman  ).

Probably that "jealousy jealousy" thing. 

The Priestess in Their Midst
New York Times

PAULETTE BUCKLEY, a 56-year-old grandmother whose graying dreadlocks are adorned with beads, is a musician and singer who has performed with the African-inspired troupe Women of the Calabash at Town Hall, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, among other places.

It’s not hocus-pocus. It’s a higher form of science. . .Orisha saved my life

Iba! 

alienYOUTH:
This is a realy sad predicament we find ourselves in as a nation. i dare say that all the expatriate controlled firms are guilty of this - racism on our own soil. without getting into too much story (cos i hate reading long posts too); i worked for one of them ex-pat firms run by lebanese (SETRACO); i had to resign after 3 mths cos i culdnt bear d disdain wit which they regard u; no matter how technically sound u are. 

i supervised another firm too (SCC) on a road project; can u believe they refused us the use of the site toilet facilities; they said we culd stick our d.i.c.k.s in d atmosphere for all they care, trust me, i promptly resigned?!?

I wont blame them, its our leaders who have sold us to slavery once again; they collect huge sums from them before awarding contracts, so the ex-pats are obliged to sweat us (the underlings) for all we can muster. u wont believe the salaries and working hours our pple have to endure. 

We too are to blame, mumu pple; we r afraid to confront these bastiches head-on cos most are afraid to lose their jobs; we idiots will reason that "half bread is bttr than none"; besides, ten pple are in line to fill your space. What more can i say; we Nigerians r highly tolerant.

My bro, while Setraco treated you like dirt, the Lebanese  owner and CEO Fayez Khalaf (who is probably buddy buddy with our politicians) is busy spending money to recruit more lebanese guys to come work for him in Nigeria and probably continue the domination, discrimination and oppression. SMH

Unlike you, they seem to be enjoying their experience with Setraco;

"In Nigeria, I’m able to save money and within one year and a half, I was able to establish a new career and a new lifestyle; for instance I was finally able to pay a down-payment for an apartment”. Another LAU graduate who has been hired by Khalaf as project manager for a 420m long pre-stressed bridge in Ondo, West of Nigeria is Raed Saliba, who also highly recommends working in Nigeria to fresh graduates, saying: “Life is not so demanding and you can save some money. As for work you can develop your career to a great extent. You surely learn something important from this experience

http://campaign.lau.edu.lb/news/archive/lebanese_businessmansaid_fayez_khalaf_renews_his_commitment_to_lau_students/

^^^Sagamite Keep up the good work jare.

mbulela:
unfortunately,  NEXT will soon be extinct.

Hrm, Let me guess the reasons:

1. They can't pay their loans?
2. They've started collecting Egunje/brown envelope?
3. Olojede is about to become information minister?
4. Shell Oil and others are angry about their reports? e.g stepped on too many big toes?
5. Nigerians are tired of decent reports?

Abi IBB don buy the paper ni? 

^^ lol

^^Hmm. He stoop to conquer?

I'm a descendant of warriors, We dethrone Tyrant kings.

Eziachi:
I  took time to read all the posts over this paticular thread and came to one conclusion that it likely that 90% of contributors to issues here do not read first what they are responding to. If not how can anyone with brain not to understand what Uwzuruike actually said, not the attractive headline that had no bearing on the content?

The man is saying that by the action of Nigerian govt regarding violent organisations like MEND/BOKO HARAM shows that they listened or respects violence than peace. He mentioned how despite MASSOB's ideology of a free Biafran state out of Nigeria using peaceful means, no govt of Nigeria has deem it fit to invite them for a talk or anything, rather they get arrested and gullaged in various Nigerian prisons and many of them killed in the last 2 yeaars.

But with MEND no one  touches them, even at atime GEJ chose to become their PRO but they've been financially rewarded instead, sent on foreign trips in the guise of rehabilitation programme, invited to Aso Rock to dine and their leaders taken on various ride on the presidential jets many times.  
Boko Haram has been around for just two years and within that time, Uwazuruike was saying, they had assasinated many politicians, caused untold hardship for many and now bombed Abuja and there is calls  and plan now by the govt to  invite them for a talk and possibley Nigerian settlement.

MASSOB wants independeent of Biafran and Boko Haram want the same for a segment of  Nigeria based on Islam but where they differ is their tactics. That is what Uwazuruike is sarcastically asking you fools whether it won't pay that MASSOB joins Boko Haram/ MEND's violence tactics so that they can be listened to and stopped being imprisoned or killed by the Nigeria security forces for just carrying Biafran flags?.

He never say he wants to physically join the Boko Haram crusade but only making analysis of their positions with regards to the use of peaceful means and violence means, because so far it seems violence pays in Nigeria.
Many of you has no brain or is it just the usual Igbo thing that makes people lose their sense of reasoning?

After 3 pages, somebody with some sense posted.

Evil Brain:
Buried inside Uwazuruike's mostly senseless statement is a very valid point. That[b] the Federal Government is promoting violence by pandering to criminal groups. The Boko Haram people have seen the rich rewards the MEND people have gotten from their murderous campaign: money, political influence and legitimacy. Now the government wants to talk to BH when they have been ignoring peaceful groups for years

The same thing happened when the corrupt niger delta states were wining and dining with kidnappers and paying ransoms. We can all now see where that has led us.[/b]

Any leader worth his salt should know that you do not negotiate with terrorists under any circumstances. You don't talk to them, you don't make deals with them, and you certainly don't offer them amnesty. Doing so is just inviting more violence.

It looks like we will all learn this lesson the hard way in the next few years.

Yes. That is the issue.

^^^
@ Naijababe, I had that on my mind. 

Mi o fe fi gbogbo enu soro ni  

[quote author=isale_gan2 link=topic=590933.msg8554502#msg8554502 date=1308577469]Dunno who the Oba is. Was hoping someone would know, from the royal robes.

Naijababe, go take a nap.[/quote]Oh ok, Looks like an Ara Oke King, maybe DK will know.

[quote author=isale_gan2 link=topic=590933.msg8551579#msg8551579 date=1308544431]This is a stvpid site, but I found the above picture there.  They must be having a laugh.[/quote]You are so right. I shouldn't have clicked it. But I'm too curious for my own good.

I don't think I've ever read a stvpidier synopsis. His attempt at Nigerian history reads like a r/etar/d trying to educate slowpokes.

I hope they keep that "writer" away from children. SMH

Great pic BTW, is that your Kabiyesi ?

Council of state: Members for Life!
[img]http://thewillnigeria.com/thumbnail.php?file=cover_COUNCIL_OF_STATE_MEETING__313201428.jpg&size=article_medium[/img]
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-679970.0.html
^^^
We already have Kings/Monarchs. Getting rid of them is the issue.

Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest -Denis Diderot

^^ Good post.

I prefer to deal with persons face-to-face, therefore I AM Yoruba.

Hmm

Cicatrisation is a special form of scarification,

So what is the difference between Scarification and Tatoo?

This practice is disappearing among the younger generation "because of modernity and the awareness-raising campaigns of civil society and human rights activists" (20 May 2003).

They should go and do their Civil/Human rights campaign in Oyinbo land where every Tom, Becky and Deshaun has a Tatoo

BTW, maybe if Bola Tinubu's parents had given him some scarification love, no one would have any reason to doubt his citizenship of Eko or Iragbiji Ile. 

^^ I enjoyed reading that. The whole Brazil-Oyo-Dahomey historical connection is intriguing especially that Bahia. I bet a good researcher will get plenty of stuff from that Brazilian State, especially if you can speak Portuguese.

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Correct daughter!

[quote author=isale_gan2 link=topic=590933.msg8547876#msg8547876 date=1308489194]I called him yesterday, and I was going to call him later today - you now, time difference and all that. [/quote]^^Excuses

^^^
You are posting some great stuff Tpia, Brazil is definitely filled with historical gems!

I always wonder how slaves sold into Portuguese Brazil seemed to have retained so much of their "original" language and culture.

Of course other groups did retain some across the Americas. Maybe the Brazil phenomenon is due to the practices of the Portuguese slavers compared with the English and the to an extent the Spanish. The Portuguese were probably the first set of Europeans to trade in African slaves. Maybe they were already over it and therefore went mild when they got to Brazil.

I also think it had something to do with the cultural development of slaves from some parts of Africa, in this case; maybe the Yorubas already had a well developed sense of religion and society which helped them survive the effects of slavery.

@Katsumoto, Do you know if Alaafin Abiodun was still on the throne when Dom Oba I was captured?

I'm curious about this other guy Tpia posted also, who knows maybe he was exiled to stop a conflict or something, maybe an Aare Ona Kakanfo, Maybe a king or some other powerful pain in the butt to some powerful person.

I'll check out the books you posted. Good stuff!