Can you please name the 6 world-class players? No wonder they are not in hot demand in clubs outside of England. World-Class ko. Don't believe the hype.
I do not agree with you. At least they have players who have won EPL and UEFA titles, and these players were very instrumental to their wins. So they are not hype but just not a team.
I don't know, But a number of you guys are still dreaming, while fact of the matter is this: Koreans didn't come to the WC to loose just like our Super Eagles, sorry Chickens. Let's just face it! we are out of the tournaments.
I just wonder what these northerners take us to be. Look at the kind of embarrassment we are facing. Not even the video, cos the video is indirectly mocking the northerners not Nigerians in a whole.
In addition, the presenter is hot and sexy. Would love to sha.g with her bad!! Doggyway!!
more like it that the redicule was directed to the northerners
"The bottom line here is if the president is secretly dead, then Good luck Jonathan, president Goodluck Johnathan I guess" but these northerners are nothing but disappointment and embarrassment to us.
What I was able to deduce from what the white newscaster of a lady was implying when she was playing on words with the name "Jonathan" wasn't sarcasm against the vice president but against the northerners at the extreme selfish way they are going about the issue of who should become the next president since out presido obviously cant make it. They know what is going on in our country more than most of us think
After all a bunch of thieves have been doing likewise and they got away with it. Why wont there successors follow the evil legacy they left? it has so far become a tradition nothing good works on in our land anymore. Imagine all these nonsense
You fools! A sick president who has been gone for over fifty days, and by the way his fellow PDP northerners are handling the issue is more than clear to us all what the matter is, he has been dead for long. After all the man didnt travel to pluto to be in the ICU, why couldnt he just address us all these while or let us see a footage of him in the hospital bed if he were alive. Slowpokes!
A piece of advice: don't ask for what you sincerely do not wish for. It sounds good to say that they come here and run our affairs for us but I tell those of you dreamers, they don't give e damn hoot about you, and if you think they do, ask yourselves what good has become countries like Afganistan and Iraq ever since they stepped their foot into their soil? Before, was there any misfortune such as constant suicide bombing?
my brother kiloso, there are many if in life. if my number came out i would have won the lottery if i had billions i would have bought a jet.
so my brother there are many if's in life ad so long as you did not kill or harm anybody you can't go to jail for life. he could say that he did that only to kill himself because he don't want to live anymore
Then the more dumb he would appear to want to commit suicide with more then a hundred lives with him in an air flight. What a very weak excuse.
he did not kill anybody so he can never got to jail for life, he will probably claim that he only did that for publicity stunt, besides america is also in fault because his dad warned america about him. you can't blame a blind man for having a car accident but his guardian that let him drive a car".
you must be sick in the head or you are also a pro- Al Qaeda for saying post such arrant nonsense. What if the young man had succeeded and by now American troops are all over our already trouble country, then your contorted sense would have felt the difference
Princeton N. Lyman, the former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria and South Africa, delivered a very poignant speech on the panel titled "The Nigerian State and U.S. Strategic Interests" at the Achebe Colloquium at Brown University on December 11, 2009.
Lyman suggests that rather than continually emphasize Nigeria’s strategic importance, it would behoove us to consider elements that might eventually lead to Nigeria’s irrelevance on the international stage.
Princeton N. Lyman, Former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria and South Africa, speaks on the panel "The Nigerian State and U.S. Strategic Interests" at the Achebe Colloquium at Brown University on December 11, 2009, Providence, Rhode Island. [See Notes 1 & 2]
TRANSCRIPT OF SPEECH (TAKEN DIRECTLY FROM THE VIDEO SPEECH)
Thank you very much Prof. Keller and thanks to the organizers of this conference. It is such a privilege to be here in a conference in honor of Prof. Achebe, an inspiration and teacher to all of us.
I have a long connection to Nigeria. Not only was I Ambassador there, I have travelled to and from Nigeria for a number of years and have a deep and abiding vital emotional attachment to the Nigerian people, their magnificence, their courage, artistic brilliance, their irony, sense of humor in the face of challenges etc.
And I hope that we keep that in mind when I say some things that I think are counter to what we normally say about Nigeria. And I say that with all due respect to Eric [SILLA, SEE NOTE 3] who is doing a magnificent work at State Department and to our good friend from the legislature, because I have a feeling that we both Nigerians and Americans may be doing Nigeria and Nigerians no favor by stressing Nigeria's strategic importance.
I know all the arguments: it is a major oil producer, it is the most populous country in Africa, it has made major contributions to Africa in peacekeeping, and of course negatively if Nigeria were to fall apart the ripple effects would be tremendous, etc, But I wonder if all this emphasis on Nigeria's importance creates a tendency of inflate Nigeria's opinion of its own invulnerability.
Among much of the elite today, I have the feeling that there is a belief that Nigeria is too big to fail, too important to be ignored, and that Nigerians can go on ignoring some of the most fundamental challenges they have many of which we have talked about: disgraceful lack of infrastructure, the growing problems of unemployment, the failure to deal with the underlying problems in the Niger-Delta, the failure to consolidate democracy and somehow feel will remain important to everybody because of all those reasons that are strategically important.
And I am not sure that that is helpful.
Let me sort of deconstruct those elements of Nigeria's importance, and ask whether they are as relevant as they have been.
We often hear that one in five Africans is a Nigerian. What does it mean? Do we ever say one in five Asians is a Chinese? Chinese power comes not just for the fact that it has a lot of people but it has harnessed the enterpreneurial talent and economic capacity and all the other talents of China to make her a major economic force and political force.
What does it mean that one in five Africans is Nigeria? It does not mean anything to a Namibian or a South African. It is a kind of conceit. What makes it important is what is happening to the people of Nigerian. Are their talents being tapped? Are they becoming an economic force? Is all that potential being used?
And the answer is "Not really."
And oil, yes, Nigeria is a major oil producer, but Brazil is now launching a 10-year program that is going to make it one of the major oil producers in the world. And every other country in Africa is now beginning to produce oil.
And Angola is rivalling Nigeria in oil production, and the United States has just discovered a huge gas reserve which is going to replace some of our dependence on imported energy.
So if you look ahead ten years, is Nigeria really going to be that relevant as a major oil producer, or just another of another of the many oil producers while the world moves on to alternative sources of energy and other sources of supply.
And what about its influence, its contributions to the continent? As our representative from the parliament talked about, there is a great history of those contributions. But that is history.
Is Nigeria really playing a major role today in the crisis in Niger on its border, or in Guinea, or in Darfur, or after many many promises making any contributions to Somalia?
The answer is no, Nigeria is today NOT making a major impact, on its region, or on the African Union or on the big problems of Africa that it was making before.
What about its economic influence?
Well, as we have talked about earlier, there is a de-industrialization going on in Nigeria a lack of infrastructure, a lack of power means that with imported goods under globalization, Nigerian factories are closing, more and more people are becoming unemployed. and Nigeria is becoming a kind of society that imports and exports and lives off the oil, which does not make it a significant economic entity.
Now, of course, on the negative side, the collapse of Nigeria would be enormous, but is that a point to make Nigeria strategically important?
Years ago, I worked for an Assistant Secretary of State who had the longest tenure in that job in the 1980s and I remember in one meeting a minister from a country not very friendly to the United States came in and was berating the Assistant Secretary on all the evils of the United States and all its dire plots and in things in Africa and was going on and on and finally the Assistant Secretary cut him off and said:
"You know, the biggest danger for your relationship with the United States is not our oppostion but that we will find you irrelevant."
The point is that Nigeria can become much less relevant to the United States. We have already seen evidence of it. When President Obama went to Ghana and not to Nigeria, he was sending a message, that Ghana symbolized more of the significant trends, issues and importance that one wants to put on Africa than Nigeria.
And when I was asked by journalists why President Obama did not go to Nigeria, I said "what would he gain from going? Would Nigeria be a good model for democracy, would it be a model for good governance, would he obtain new commitments on Darfur or Somalia or strengthen the African Union or in Niger or elsewhere?"
No he would not, so he did not go.
And when Secretary Clinton did go, indeed but she also went to Angola and who would have thought years ago that Angola would be the most stable country in the Gulf of Guinea and establish a binational commission in Angola.
So the handwriting may already be on the wall, and that is a sad commentary.
Because what it means is that Nigeria's most important strategic importance in the end could be that it has failed.
And that is a sad sad conclusion. It does not have to happen, but I think that we ought to stop talking about what a great country it is, and how terribly important it is to us and talk about what it would take for Nigeria to be that important and great.
And that takes an enormous amount of commitment. And you don't need saints, you don't need leaders like Nelson Mandela in every state, because you are not going to get them.
I served in South Korea in the middle of the 1960s and it was time when South Korea was poor and considered hopeless, but it was becoming to turn around, later to become to every person's amazement then the eleventh largest economy in the world. And I remember the economist in my mission saying, you know it did not bother him that the leading elites in the government of South Korea were taking 15 - 20 percent off the top of every project, as long as every project was a good one, and that was the difference. The leadership at the time was determined to solve the fundamental economic issues of South Korea economy and turn its economy around.
It has not happened in Nigeria today. You don't need saints. It needs leaders who say "You know we could be becoming irrelevant, and we got to do something about it."
Thank you. Comment;- You can say in your mind, it's a plot and open conspiracy, Yes, TRUE as it may sound, it is working because we NIGERIANS have no clue that we are indeed on a JOURNEY TO AN OBLIVION OF GLOBAL OBSOLESCENCE. Hope it sinks.
So what are you saying, that Farouk's saga might be a conspiracy or that he was framed?
No Dawodu, I cannot read Mutallab's mind, but I am a muslim. Islam does not teach what Mutallab and others like him practice. Oh but of course you knew that, you are a regular on the religious thread. And again, stay on the topic.
I am a guy of 20yrs old.and i hv never dated a girl in my life or even fell in luv,i feel uneasy and i shake whenever i am with any female.I cant even gist a grl and dis has made so many girls who come close to me find me boring.Pls guys i need yr advise i want to be luved by d opposite sex
May be you aren't the type who goes out with boyfriends who have their own girlfriend, so what I think you should do is first be in the company of your guyz with their own girlfriends and blend in whatever the issue or or conversation is. You don 't need to have anything special special to say, just come up with any topic that is normal and whatever the topic is that someone else brings, just confidently chip in your own opinion relaxed. Then other more romantic topics comes up.
But Johnkent na wa for you o! so if your mama self see this nonsense whey you post here you expect her to her to be proud of you abi? How old you be self?
dont he know how to run the laundry machine?? This is a typical silly Nigerian question. You women should be more independent and don't think because you are married to a man, u have to do watever he asks of ya just to please him. i wont expect my wife to do anything for me, not even cook. She can cook if she wants to but its not something she has to do because she doesn't have to do anything if she doesnt want to. if i want my cloths washed, i know how to run the laundry machine. if i need food, i know how the stove works and if am too lazy to whip up something to eat, i'll just order a pizza. I pick up after myself and don't expect anyone to pick up after me. marriage is not slavery although it still seems that way in Nigeria.
nothing sucks as your post on this thread so far. You probably are hoping to catch a date here Mr. sorry ass hypocrite. Why not zoom the hell off to a dating site and soothe-say gullible ladies there?
As long as you pee from your behind and you 'waste' blood every month, you'll always be inferior to us. Geddit? All these small girls that come online baffle me with their rants.
NO, it's not compulsory to wash your husband's clothes. i think it's demeaning to think a woman HAS to do the laundry, cook etc. if a man realizes that his wife is not obliged to wash, and makes efforts to do somethings himself (like sorting out clothes) the woman wouldn't mind doing it. i don't think i would have problems doing these things, especially when i have kids, as long as the man appreciates it. however, i don't see myself doing the more physical aspects of laundry, like ironing and hand-washing, for a man.
nowadays, girls are raised as equal to boys and we can't be expected to start acting like we are inferior as adults. i understand that tradition places the duty of housekeeping solely on the woman. but as a modern day woman i can't fit into that role, even if i were a housewife. what i can do is work harder and pay people to do the housework. that would even give me more time to spend with my family.
Kilonso, it's unfortunate that I have to reply but let me just for clarity's sake.
I never said I had a global corporation. That statement was made[size=16pt] figuratively[/size]. Same goes for the nanny/chef thing. I'm a 20 year old college student I don't even have kids so why would I need a nanny yet?
Okay, now that I've cleared that up, I'm leaving this thread. Bye.
No, what is rather unfortunate is that a cute looking wench like you with breath-taking facial beauty had to end up getting overly dissed by dudes on this thread and that sucks. You don't have to agree with me, but what I want to say is indicative: soft words embellish women and grievous words tear them apart. So you can always earn your respect by recognizing the fact that you are a human being, not just a woman, that way, when you address or direct your speech at people, irrespective of your own motion or views you won't be disrespected the way all them guyz here fumed at you. Everybody with his own belief, and those beliefs would be respected if humbly presented, despite that nobody has to get down with it. Also your figurative expressions would make better sense.
Harakiri, there is no further need to continue to debate this with you or anyone else. I have simply said everything I intended to say. Whether you agree with what I have said or not is your own choice. It will not prevent me from conducting my relationships as I see fit, just as my words probably will not prevent you from marrying a half-brained twit who only knows how to serve you and cower in supplication to you while you suck her life dry in the name of submission. That is afterall, the kind of woman you want. A woman that will place you so much higher than herself. A woman that will think of herself last. A self-sacrificing woman. A woman that is so absolutely desperate to answer Mrs. somebody that she does not care how much she has to settle or how much she has to give up. A woman with no ambition other than to be your slave.
Well, I am not that kind of woman. I never was and I never will be. Sure, men like you might feel offended that I don't tremble and shake at your manly masculinity but I've never really given a s hit about that kind of thing so excuse me while I drop the kids off with nanny and go rule my global corporation. Excuse me while I pay the maid to clean and the chef to cook so I can go out and conquer. I refuse to apologize for it because men have been doing it without apology for years. And doing it with impunity because women have been so silly to allow men to use them for precisely this kind of taken for granted servitude.
You don't have to agree with me because I don't agree with you. We just live our lives and this is my creed. I don't know how to cook and I don't really care to learn. When I get hungry I buy my food. And if I ever learn how to cook, I will learn because I am interested in learning how to cook and not because some lazy s hit of a man who can damn well feed himself wants me to pick him up and feed him.
So put that in your pipe and smoke it. I'm out of here.
I have seen the picture on your profile. You are one hell of a charm. But if you think that being beautiful is the licence for been a foolish woman then you need to wake up. Plus I see you have a slogan which says you are and will always be, king of pain. Looks like you really wish you were a guy. But it aint still too late: go get a specialist who can operate on you into being a tranny if that would would make you feel better. Again I see you are still young, shouldn't be more than 20 from your look, so stop lying about having global corporation, you aint nothing and you aint got shit and I bet you aren't independent yet cos you don't sound like one. The world knows what powerful women are like. I mean you have like no skills when it comes to navigating words and you are gimmick. Women with the caliber of your claims (paying maids and chef, dropping the kids off with nanny) don't flap the way and manner you do, plus who's kids are you taking to nanny's please? probably your Aunt's kids or , Being proud of your inability to cook even makes you disgusting and childish ( which you still are)
But my photo is on my profile. Also, if anyone here is making illiterate arguments it would have to be you and harakiri. Why? Because both of you are assuming that there is a retinue of men that have dumped me for whatever reason or the other.
Neither of you know anything about my relationships whether past or present, so for you to base your arguments and assumptions and conclusions about me on foggy cooked up ideas about what my romantic involvements might be shows how unintelligent you both are.
Aint nothing illiterate about simply deducing from what one might have felt or experienced at a point in their lives by their manner of approach on issues or situation. You turned this thread into an utter mess, and that simply tells where you are coming from, because no emotionally healthy woman gets down the way and manner you have done here.
Good to see that they let the retards have access to Nairaland. Kilonso, it's time to take your meds. And maybe after that you can go naptime? Would you like that? A nice nap? Or do you want me to get you some milk first?
You see, the thing is you will just end up getting dumped again after I have tasted your milk over and over, you know? been there done that, then your future state would be even worse. If this is your way of flirting then you gotta learn better. You just get to reply every post directed to you awkwardly--- and not a single virtue comes out of any of your replies. You do not even think, but just get unwomanly on your keyboard with those God-forsaking fingers of yours which might have brought upon you nothing but relationship phobia. I wish this is a forum where people's photos and webcams are required, then we'll see if you would have had the nerve to play on yourself like you have been doing.
One advice for you darling, better leave USA if what you have become is the benefit you got staying there. Disgrace! Don't forget my meds and the milk of yours, remember you obliged.
But I must recognize one thing tho' you aren't bleeping anymore
All these people using passages from the Bible to justify women being submissive to men, remember that your arguments are based on the assumption that everyone here is Christian, Muslim, or Jewish. If even one person is not one of the above three religions, then your arguments don't mean poo.
Your wife is your lover and life partner, not your housekeeper, slave, or servant. Just as you washed your own clothes in secondary school and college, so too did she. Just as you go to work and come back tired, so too does she. Men are not better than women. Men are not more special than women that they deserve to rest while women continue to slave away. Men are not more deserving than women and women nine times out of ten work ten times harder than most men do.
If anything, if we were to argue this at all in any way, it is women who are far more special than men. It is women who deserve better than men do. It is women with the ability to create and protect life and for that among other things women should be respected and revered by men. Women should not be slaving about for men. On the other hand men should be running around trying to see what they can do to make the women in their lives more comfortable.
The real problem here is that lots of men here are ungrateful pricks. That same wife that you are trying to force to wash your clothes is going to support you, often putting her own dreams on hold so that she can prop up yours, applaud your sorry antics in bed, carry your progeny for nine months, suffer to give birth to them, run around to take care of them while you ungrateful idiots posture and puff up your over inflated egos, and still juggle working to contribute to your life together, and you cannot find it in yourselves to express your gratitude for once and do your own bleeping laundry
You men should be ASHAMED of yourselves. ASHAMED and CONTRITE. If women didn't put up with all your bullshit what would you do? What? If all the women in the world today decided that they were done giving a poo about men, what the hell would you all do besides sit on the floor and cry?
This attitude is DISGUSTING. You were not born with a female servant conjoined to your hip. You are able bodied and have all your limbs and abilities so YOU CAN TAKE CARE OF YOURSELVES. If you want someone to do your laundry so badly then bleeping employ a servant that will bow to you and say 'yes sah!' You men act as if you are doing women a favour by marrying them. And I bleeping blame Nigerian women that act as if marriage is a do or die affair. It is because Nigerian women have been trained to be so desperate to be married that Nigerian men think they can treat women like poo. Marriage is not about men doing women a favour. Marriage is about two people that love each other choosing to share their lives with each other. Marriage is not the hiring of another domestic servant.
And as for all of you, claiming that women should happily potter about the house while their fat, lazy husband relaxes, tell me, who the hell finds joy in servitude? You? I sure as bleep don't. Women have AS MUCH RIGHT to chase their dreams as men do. You only live one life, and who the bleep are you to tell women to spend their ONE PRECIOUS LIFE playing slave to some silly man while he achieves what HE wants to achieve. We are just as human as you are, and we deserve just as much happiness and freedom as you do. And as long as women bleed red and piss yellow just the same as men then bleep whoever says we're not entitled to every right and freedom men have. Humility my bleeping backside. Why the bleep can't men be humble? Why the bleep should only women be humble? Who the bleep are you? Are you gods? Is there any special power you all have that we don't know about yet? Who the bleep entitled you to pride and accomplishment and relegated us to humility and mediocrity?
Bullshit. You can't do your own laundry. Who the bleep are you? You try to giving birth to a child or having periods and then come back and tell me that you are too big to do your own laundry. bleep and worrahell.
Hey miss "bleep" or madam "bleep" looks like you just "bleep" got a fresh "bleep" heart break, and very obvious it is that you are a "bleep" slow learner, because judging by the tone and mood of your post, your emotions are so BLEEPED by your last break-up that your discretion is now nothing but a "bleep"
Darling you have really had a rough passage but looks like you might have rougher ones 'cos it is obvious that all you learnt from your last relationship was nothing but "bleep" But the wiser women know the ways of nature better. You understand? I say they know nature better and not "bleep"
Saying that marriage is overrated is just like saying that life is overrated as well. So since there is an Umar Farooq Abdullah, just as there are a numberless of individuals who live their lives with utmost reckless abandon, would not give the room for an utterance such as saying that life is overrated. And I needn't remind anyone here that the life most of us got is as a result of the (so-called overrated) marriages which took places at some points in some time. So an institution such as marriage can never be overrated. Other institutions such as your churches, your schools, your banks and you as individuals could be overrated but not marriage. A number of marriages might have failed, but out of a good number of those failed marriages, inspiring individuals who did a number on us have emerged. Once other institutions fail. nothing good, and I mean nothing good come out of them from that moment, because they were overrated.
Sports / Re: England Vs Algeria - [0 - 0] - World Cup 2010 by Kilonso: 11:59am On Jun 19, 2010 
Don't believe the hype.
