₦airaland Forum

@ekt_bear merci. was working with some earlier info I heard in an energy seminar: 41 confirmed barrels of oil (much closer to 49 with offshore now), 34 barrels of oilsands (43 confirmed by you) and 184 tscf of natural gas.

Oops I forgot:

They all wanna live here.

I guess in the southwest we sometimes act like americans.

We would rather live here than anywhere else.

We believe the rest copy us. (Go as far as kenya. You'll sit geles sitting pretty on many african women's heads).
(About music: A few yoruba words here and there can raise your growing music career by some hundred thousand CDs).


We buy and sell mostly within.

We allow aliens n immigrants to settle in. The Three Talking Statues in Lagos or the normal central Roundabout Statues in our many cities would be our own version of the statue of Liberty.

We try to fight moral wars.

We are businessmen at heart who protect our core interests.

We tend to value hard working people.

We value education and smart people too.

We live large when we have it (many wives, many cars, many pieces of meat).

We remove leaders that grow too big for their britches.

We already have 34 billion barrels worth of oil sands in SWest Nigeria extending from Okitipupa to just near the Republic of Benin Border. Exploitation will start when the oil wells dry up in the delta.

350. 400k maximum . Tho there r places in edjeba that are actually up to N500k. Aim for somewhere close to airport road. Bendel estate can be expensive but its quiet.

Guy you wan use style style steal my idea. anyway it makes sense.

What would make me buy it at the kiosk? convenience. there might not be any nearby cyber cafe and I might not have the laptop with me. Your kiosk would make it easy for me to stroll downstairs and get  an Arik ticket.

Would I pay N500 for  a N100000 ticket? yes, thats 0.5%. not too bad.

Why bring the holy ghost into a political argument? Why say what God did not send you? Why Damn yourself eternally to satisfy a temporary and potential corrupt candidate?

Kobojunkie:
@Poster, Awo just rolled in his grave!!

He's actually trying to spit at the suggestion too.

People can be desperately dumb when trying to achieve personal selfish ends. However, pls note that we adore but do not worship Awo in the Southwest (On second thot, that sounds like a catholic argument, lol). as such we will vote our own chosen candidates irrespective of whatever message from the noble dead carried by fake mediums like this.

Customized T-shirts. Get a good designer friend to handle Tshirt design for you. Show the designs to trusted friends (preferably of the opposite sex) on your PC before going to press. Print on demand if possible or do small batches until you turn a profit.

Am interested in replies to this. interestingly a friend has the same characteristics though the legs not so hairy and there some light fuzz on his chin but thats about it.

@Seun This post is in the politics section because there's no section for Civil Activism.

Since we are in the era of Youth Taking Charge, I feel this particular problem is probably an easier win for us(or me) than unseating PDP or some other gigantic notion. This is similar to Durotoye's team painting Mushin. Its the kind of accessible change we should all attempt and achieve.

I see drains in PH overflowing (both in the rainy and dry seasons)

I feel it should be possible to tackle this but at the moment I am bereft of ideas.

How would you go about tackling this problem (not as an elected official but as a young citizen)? Would you also be interested in doing something about it?

All ideas are welcome.

OAM4J:
I have seen this picture before here on NL a long while ago, the story was that she went to a party and got drunk. haba people!

story is false and even if true not for this section.

Thanks for trapping the lie. You beat me to it.

ziccoit:
It is not true that AD wa voted out of office. OBJ entised and decieved them so they were rigged out of office. Have you ever been to Osun state? The AD projects of 4 years are more than that of 8yrs of pdp, despite better funding.

Going by the look of things SW is becoming a region to be recon with. Very soon others will have to take examples from them.

Had it been Nigerians were not corrupt, nowhere in entire state would pdp have got a single seat. But, thanks to heavy bribery in a state where people have been povertised just to enslave them.

CPC/ACN did not go through becos of ACN experience with OBJ. In all my people are doing well. In fact, SWers are more polirically advances.

Please stop lying.

We kicked AD out because they sacked our parents.

We also kicked them out because they tried to collect 30% tax.

We kicked them out because they were so arrogant they told us to go and meet our pastors/prophets/babalawos/imams for confirmation that they will win.

We kicked them out so they would not wreck our school system by sacking all arts and commercial lecturers/teachers.

we kicked them out because they couldnt tar more than 3 roads in each town (PDP has tarred more roads in Ilesa East than AD/ACN, thats a fact).  

We kicked them out because they claimed that sacked workers only constituted 1% of the population (as if sacked people dont have parents and children).

We kicked them out because they were stealing us blind while tarnishing the Awo name and legacy for their selfish ends.

We kicked them out because they assumed we were silly slaves and forgot that the core of the new nigerian middle class actually lives in the highly educated southwest.

We kicked them out because we have zero tolerance for idiots.

We kicked them out also because they thought they have a right to the keys to our funds simply because they were supposedly former NADECO freedom fighters (thats so debatable).

The first time we voted them out because we hated both PDP and AD but we hated AD more.

Lets see if ACN will learn, they claim to be a different party.

Waiting for the next maga who will come up with another dumb explanation for why we kicked AD and PDP butts one after the other. Last time they claimed we were illiterate outside lagos and thats why Lagos AD was the only survivor. What would be your excuse for PDP getting trounced this time? illiteracy again?

Not at all otherwise they wouldnt have lost so much.

The reality and the level of support as evidenced by the majority win from ACN is that they are mostly hated by the people. Thats the result of the numerical analysis. How you drew an opposite conclusion I dont know.

Nobody is saying they dont have any supporters but rest assured that will wither away once the ACN governments start up. Of course ACN can still f[i].uck[/i] themselves up by performing poorly but definitely PDP is in for a Bashing in the southwest.


Akala is definitely on his way out in spite of all the hooligans he has amassed. Time to reclaim the pride of Oyo state (we are not slaves to brigands).

As a lesson: Senator Kamoru Adedibu just recieved a whipping in spite of his dad's machine still being on ground.


Tinubu You overrate Tinubu, we dont give a damn about him.

The people of the southwest may respect Fashola but they dont like Tinubu.

Thats a fact.

Ask anyone outside Lagos and Ogun (where you people are mesmerized by closeness). We dont see anything spectacular about him. Given a straight contest between Fashola and Him for anything in the SW, He will lose by a massive margin.

pardon me for saying southwest. I have a tenency to equate Southwest==Yoruba.

however they definitely have ahigher dowry than yoruba who consider the dowry a formalty

nastydamus:
Even if he ever gets arrested, I trust he'd have construction charts and satellite images for all the prisons in the country, enough to stage a one-man jail break.

Prison Break: The Becomrich Saga

If you are willing to abide by their dowry demands (realise that you are going outside the southwest. dowry is still majorly respected so dont take offense too much if they make big dowry requests. it is the norm).

jpworld:
You do not need any clarification, The Bible is a Fraud. operated by Fraudsters.

finally you come out of hiding.

By their fruits you shall know them.

Fake RCCG member.

Fake Christian.

namfav:
did you already get pounded

sounds like a satisfied sigh to me.

Germany, US, Japan, France, Singapore, Botswana, Israel, Brazil, India all well functioning democracies and all considered the best examples of development in d world.

Only Lazy nigerians who refuse to fight to secure their own democracy trumpet the goodness of tyranny.

Are u so deeply enmeshed in slave mentalities that you would yearn for a tyrant to rule?

We all deserve a chance to serve and democracy offers that. Not giving power to some stupid pancake faced tyrant.

The way I see it, this idea will end up happening at some point. Same for the Nairaland parties: once Seun gets over the fear of actually connecting with his community in public.

i bet there are quite a lot of people who would be willing to meet him in reality.

same for the mag, it will sell definitely.

You automatically assume the worst. There's no guarantee both ways.

My key issue is with the family's decision to give her out behind her back.

I know we all have different cultures but I just deeply resent that.

As has already been said elsewhere. we are naturally businessmen and we try to get the best possible.

Commiting to a price too early spoils the bargaining.

But at the end of the day, I believe the southwest will be voting Jonathan.

Lagos will vote him and still vote Fashola.

The other PDP governors will feel the wrath of the southwest (the same way AD chieftains were serially toppled last time they misbehaved).

On judgement day, you will be tested alone (Your parents will not be party to it).

At work, you are paid for what you do, not what your parents did.

In school, you got marks for what you wrote, not what daddy taught you at home.

So why allow your major life decisions to be made for you? You will be the one to experience whatever comes in that marriage not your dad or mum?

If you go along with the forced marriage, please dont blame your parents for ANYTHING.

You have tacitly agreed to it and IT IS ALWAYS YOUR DECISION.

Live Your Life.

C'est fini.

(My own 2kobo)

jas man:
I can tell from your posting that you're either not mature in both age and complex reasoning, at least you're smart enough to post this here. Dating and all that are very different from marriage. I have been married for almost 17ys and I'm speaking from experience. You'll be travelling on a very difficult road, one in which you're not even sure its a road if you married your so call boy friend. Married to someone with different religion and maybe culture, now that's what I'll call STARTING A JOURNEY NOT PREPARED. By the way, if your virginity's all you're bringing in this marriage then, you're not even ready for marriage.

So she should consign herself to a loveless marriage to satisfy her parents? 17 years should be enough to know that the marriage doesnt end with the wedding night, its just the beginning.

She will have to perpetually live with the fact that she didnt chose her husband. She will have to live with the fact that her parents raised her up and do not care about her enough to consider her wishes important. They are simply making a socially acceptable choice to satisfy themselves.


I dont know the specifics but I believe we are not indians and should have overgrown the culture of choosing spouses for our kids. Its stupid and misguided.

namfav:
you're wise, her 'boyfriend' will either give her aids or leave her pregnant and deny/run away, what she will bring is nothing but shame to her family, to be honest it's better to get pregnant from a marriage than from a hidden relationship whether its love or not, morally what is wrong and right should be differentiated

little girls

Since we only know what she has told us, you are not competent enough to make that assessment.

Who cares what she brings to her family, if they cared about her, they would have considered her wishes in the first place. They deserve anything they get. (Why would you give someone out BEHIND HER BACK? thats just wrong).

AjanleKoko:
^^
Didn't you attend a private university?
If that's the case, that's rather disappointing. Though I think most of the lecturers would have come from the public universities anyway, so why would one expect them to do things differently?

For the general Nigeria case, I think it's a matter of exposure. There's really no programming industry to speak of in Nigeria. Yes, people are coding, but mostly in 4GLs, and there are not too many indigenous software companies creating software products used within any industry mainstream. We're still very traditional and hierarchical, and that kind of spills over into the tech industry. Still I am concerned. Without the right education, we cannot have a change in the industry. There are so many platforms and systems nowadays, keeping track is a job in itself.

I did but it was pretty traditional in the beginning. though unlike the public schools, you dont wait until 2nd year to start comp sci courses. we got into the heat of the action from day 1. by 200 level you are already into data structures and graph theory.

But IMHO: I could still reorder the curriculum better. I aced courses but once I came across the MIT OCW curriculum, my comp sci education felt shabby to me. Can you imagine that I'll graduate and compete with these same guys internationally? (Thank God for OCW actually, it levels the ground a bit.)

if they were competent, they would teach C and not FORTRAN. I am speaking from firsthand experience. Most of the comp sci lecturers I meet automatically assume that a 100-level student cannot possibly be expected to master C. WHy? because they are not good in it.

People make noise about fortran being hard but I mastered it pretty fast and was writing 12-line programs while classmates were writing 89 or 90-line programs for the same tasks. WHy? because lecturers made it that hard.

I broached the idea of C in my school and got more or less the same response : "its too hard for beginners". Really??

Expert C programmers are very versatile and they tend to be quite prolific. If the nigerian professors were as competent as claimed, we would have seen their products and they would have moved for FORTRAN to be consigned to the rubbish heap of history as far as nigeria is concerned.

that remains my PERSONAL OPINION.