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Hello! I don't know if this is common with people, but there are some things I do when am alone. For example when am very happy I usually just dance and listen to music.

My work has to do with talking with a lot of people, I sometimes rehearse what I have to say openly in front of a mirror just to see how I look and my facial expressions. I feel it's not normal talking to yourself when you are alone.

So I just want to know if it's normal? So tell me about yours.......

I found a bug in my bread, I almost vomited my intestine out of irritation.

Rossikk: Actually, a rise in car purchases, including quality car purchases, points to a corresponding rise in consumer income, consumer spending and consumer confidence, which points to a growing/improving economy.

Perhaps you should study economics before posting on these issues.

CORRECT!!

That's the "Law of Okafor" in progress. Look it up and know what it says. God help you.

Ever heard of multitasking?

25 states.

stormm:
Is this man for real? Does the state now control local govt funds? has he not indicted himself of witholding LG funds?  LGs pay their staff from the LG account.  This guy loves to make shakara.

I dey laff at people wey take this man serious.

If you dont know how a system works why not shut ur mouth. The state and local govt have a joint account. It was merged together during the OBJ regime and has reamined like that. That is how most govs and their comm. for finance eat up the local govt allocation, the local govt is just given what it can use to take care of the workers salary.

I'm not from Imo state, but I think the gov is doing well. When we see something good in this our time where most politicians are enrichen themselves, I think we should appreciate it and stop thinking that there is an ulterior motive to every good will. We have all been praying for good governance, let's stop Criticizing those that are working.

@Op The truth of the matter is that there is always two sides to a story. She has tried to wait for you for 6yrs and that no joke. Her family might feel age is not on her side anymore and wants her to settle down. Both of you can pull resoureces together since she offered to help with some funds(if you rejected her offer of helping you out cos of pride, I think you should reconsider that, she is to be your wife not gf.), you musnt wiat for everything to be perfect cos the truth is that it might never be perfect. Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

For those attacking him, if you don't have an advise to give its not a must to comment. Its really annoying when someone is humbly seeking advise one retard with a lackadaisical attitude comes up and says rubbish.

150km\h in a 2007 toyota Aurion, awka - enugu road. The road is quite bad, saw a lil good part of the road took advantage of it to meet with time cos I had a meeting in enugu.

First of all its difficult for a man and woman to maintain a platonic relationship without emotions running deep. Now a married woman to have a male as her best friend? I don't think its advisable, if everything is going on well in the marriage her husband should be her best friend.

I don't think this man has a good skills in communication, why all the grammar when a common man like me won't understand a thing without the help of an updated dictionary. Am sure a lot of people that have commented don't even get all he has said expect that he is against the removal of fuel subsidy.

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I will say I enjoy banking with Access Bank, good atmosphere, the staff are very responsive and always wear a smile that gives you a sense of importance.

The song is wack, and making a lot of pple jonze themselves on youtube. SMH.

How does that affect my breathing?

@op
If you are a graduate, then you can go for short course. A nine month training and when you are out. You become a 2nd lieutenant. In less than two years you will be promoted to a full lieutenant. The way to the top isn't that easy, you will have to go for courses, not even the chief of staff can influence your promotion without taking some essential courses (e.g YOC - young officers course). Patience is needed, withing fifteen yrs you should be in a comfortable rank.

June 28, 2011

 

The President

Federal Republic of Nigeria

H.E., Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, GCFR

Aso Villa,

Abuja

 

 

BOKO HARAM: THE REAL ISSUES OPEN LETTER TO MR. PRESIDENT

 

Mr President,

 

We, the undersigned, citizens of Nigeria, whose domicile of origin is Borno, write to you, as one with overall responsibility for national security to look into the cause of violence that has tragically engulfed Borno State and the sequence of events in the last three years, with a view to finding A JUST AND LASTING SOLUTION, AND NOT A MILITARY SOLUTION WHICH CAN ONLY BE TEMPORARY.

 

BEFORE THE VIOLENCE

 

The late Mohammed Yusuf, like any other cleric of any religious sect, had a mosque and a following.

He held weekly public sermons.

He was exercising his constitutionally guaranteed right of assembly and worship.

At no time was there a breach of the peace.

His followers were young, able bodied, unemployed with no prospect of hope in the horizon.

They had Western Education!, and therefore literate and aware of the prevailing social conditions. (even though they declared a jihad against western education)

Increasingly, their sermons were taking the form of liberation theology, commenting on the ills, injustice and inequities, prevalent in their immediate environment.

As a result, there was no love lost between them and the State Government.

 

THE SSS REPORT

 

Such sermons, publicly made, caught the attention of the State Government.

The State Security Service became interested in their activities.

Investigations were carried out and a comprehensive report was written and made available to the Federal Authorities.

Mohammed Yusuf himself was in regular contact with security services both in Maiduguri and Abuja.

He was even charged to court.

 

THE FLASH POINT

 

The first trigger for violence was when Mohammed Yusuf’s followers in a funeral procession, on their motorbikes were fired on by members of Operation Flush – a combined force of the Army and the Police – ostensibly for not wearing crash helmets.

About 19 of them were fatally wounded.

This force was said to be under the Operational control of the then State Governor.

The incident led to the group taking the law into their hands, attacked and killed security personnel and burnt police stations. (and so they took the laws into their hands and began to kill innocent Nigerians)

Two wrongs can’t make a right.

 

THE VIOLENCE

 

The Federal Government, on the instruction of the late President Umaru Yar’adua, responded with disproportionate, overwhelming and indiscriminate use of force against the entire community.

The leader of the group, Mohammed Yusuf and a former Commissioner of Religious Affairs in the State, Buji Fois were arrested and were summarily, publicly and extra-judicially executed by the police.

Young boys and even invalids on crutches were routinely rounded up, not at the scene of any violence and executed in the same manner.

The footage of these executions were relayed world-wide on Al-Jazeera Television network and posted on YouTube.

 

THE SINS OF THE SON-IN-LAW

 

The late Baba Fugu, was a gentleman in his seventies.

He was a respected figure in the local community.

He was never declared wanted nor arrested by the police.

He was Mohammed Yusuf’s father-in-law.

He went to the Police Station voluntarily to make enquiries.

He was executed at the Police Station.

The sins of the son-in-law were visited on the father-in-law.

Not even Osama bin-Laden’s relatives were ever treated like this. When the U.S. Navy seals attacked Osama bin Ladens premises, they went for their target. His wives and children were spared.

 

NSA/CDS/IGP’s REPORT

 

The gravity of the situation led the Federal Government to set a high powered team comprising of the then National Security Adviser, Chief of Defence Staff and Inspector General of Police to investigate and report.

The team went to Maiduguri and wrote a report.

Nothing has been heard of that report.

 

OUR PRAYERS

 

In order to get to the root of the matter and arrive at a JUST SOLUTION, to consider the following.

a) Why was no proactive action taken and measures put in place as a result of the comprehensive report by the SSS?

b) What Law provides for the shooting of citizens by security forces for not wearing crash helmets?

c) What Law provides for the operational control of Operation flush, a combined team of the Army and the Police by the Borno State Governor?

d) Whether the victims were members of Boko Haram or not. Under what Law did the Police extra-judicially execute Mohammed Yusuf, Buji Foi and the young children and cripples? These are issues of violation of Fundamental Human Rights and the rule and due process of law.

e) Under what Law was Baba Fugu, (father-in-law to Mohammed Yusuf killed)?

f) What is the outcome of the ‘High powered post violence report’?

g) The Governor as the Chief Security Officer of the State and the Police Commissioner in whom operational powers were vested, should be invited to answer under what law they order these executions.

 

LET THE RULE OF LAW PREVAIL

 

Borno State is not Camp Delta and members of Boko Haram are not enemy combatants, where human rights and the rule of law can be dispensed with.THE NEED FOR A STATESMAN-LIKE INTERVENTION

What was once a local affair is now taking a region wide dimension and threatening national security. (they have undermined national security abi? therefore will be treated likewise. The bomb-makers are KNOWN!)

All manner of crime is now conveniently subsumed under the spectre of Boko Haram.

Meanwhile, the social and commercial activities in Borno are being grounded.

Continuation of this situation will ultimately lead to the collapse of the local economy leading to more unemployment, despair and further conflict.

Ethnic chauvinists, religious bigots and sundry criminals would have a field day.

A frightening and forbidding prospect.

 

More indiscriminate military and police intervention will only lead to more innocent loss of life leading to more recruitment of young people into a militant and daring force, determined for revenge.

 

More indiscriminate military and police intervention will lead to an angry population which will sympathize with, aid and assist the young as they take up arms against authority.

 

The root causes are two.

 

1) Injustice which must be corrected.

Secondly – an obvious lack of economic development in a zone (Northeast) which in the last 5 years has received less than 1% of Federal Government spending.

It is the most deprived part of Nigeria.

The solution to the problem is JOBS AND JUSTICE.

 

The President of Nigeria is President of all the zones of this country.

He should and must show that he is the Father of all the zones.

His government will do best if it provides JUSTICE AND JOBS.

 

With the greatest respect,

 

Mamman Kashim

Kalli Gazali

Dr. Usman Ladan

Abba Kyari

 

Cc:

General Owoeye Andrew Azazi,

Please fellow nairalanders help analyse these:

Mid last year i had a project i was working on so it needed me to always go to the bank to withdraw money to pay some workers, i and a particular staff of the bank started getting close so much that most times i will ask her to check my account balance just to know what came in, always hanging out through out the wk end. She is two years older and i told her i cant date someone older, all she will say is that it does not matter. I was not sure if she really liked me or she was attracted to me cos of the money in my account she thought was mine. In long and short of the whole story, there was a time i had money problems and she offered to help but i hesitated and told her i don't borrow money anyhow especially not from a lady she persisted and i collected some money. It got to a time things were not just working out between us so i called it quit. Now after several months of her trying to make us come back and its not just working she is demanding that i give her all the money she has ever given me, and she never for once said she was lending. Guys what do you all fell i should do?

You see how this life be, ada was a girl i once asked out, well we never dated for some reasons but we were good friends.

Why are you guy sounding negative, something good is about to happen and you site down there criticising. If you can't do better site down,close your mouth and stare.

Money to me is jst something i need in case i dont die tomorrow.

It cant happen. Never!!!

I think he makes far more than dat. We should nt forget dat pple in positions like dat dont touch dere dough, they are comfortable living on dere benefits. 12mila a yr is jst ok.

I dont really know which section these should be.
A lady gets on a bike and puts on d helment. Jst 2 drop at her destination pays d okada man and forgets she still got d helment on, sure d bike man did not remember 2 collect his helment back. She only realised she still got d plastic on when someone approached her and asked wats up with d helment. How do you feel and what do you do if you find yourself in such situation. This is no joke.

The best thing is 2 walk. It is nt easy especially when u av a girl dat can finish u with her mouth or a guy dat is nt jst understanding, bt walking out of dat situation is d best and would hurt ur partner more. You will definately regret ur actions when ur temper is down. So save urself d pain of apologising.

i think it depends on individual. Some guys are really strong and difficult to break through their deffences, while others are so weak that at the sight of a charming lady their blood begins to go hot, but i tell you if you play the same game with her the reverse would be the case.