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Helen Paul doing her stuff i liked it...

Chei! see so so speculation on top something no one on here is sure about. Please is there any nairalander that works with DoD or the Iranian Military to let us know full gist. All of una for here go just dey form ITK.

Shuen: ``It was a fair will. This time round, he did not disappoint us,’’ she said.

WTF...i thought i was the only one that saw this statement........"he did not disappoint us" meaning......i got what i wanted?
Chei Chineke me this world is finished...

You Lazy (Intellectual) African Scum!
by Adim Udeh on Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 11:41am ·

They call the Third World the lazy man’s purview; the sluggishly slothful and languorous prefecture. In this realm people are sleepy, dreamy, torpid, lethargic, and therefore indigent—totally penniless, needy, destitute, poverty-stricken, disfavored, and impoverished. In this demesne, as they call it, there are hardly any discoveries, inventions, and innovations. Africa is the trailblazer. Some still call it “the dark continent” for the light that flickers under the tunnel is not that of hope, but an approaching train. And because countless keep waiting in the way of the train, millions die and many more remain decapitated by the day.

“It’s amazing how you all sit there and watch yourselves die,” the man next to me said. “Get up and do something about it.”

Brawny, fully bald-headed, with intense, steely eyes, he was as cold as they come. When I first discovered I was going to spend my New Year’s Eve next to him on a non-stop JetBlue flight from Los Angeles to Boston I was angst-ridden. I associate marble-shaven Caucasians with iconoclastic skin-heads, most of who are racist.

“My name is Walter,” he extended his hand as soon as I settled in my seat.

I told him mine with a precautious smile.

“Where are you from?” he asked.

“Zambia.”

“Zambia!” he exclaimed, “Kaunda’s country.”

“Yes,” I said, “Now Sata’s.”

“But of course,” he responded. “You just elected King Cobra as your president.”

My face lit up at the mention of Sata’s moniker. Walter smiled, and in those cold eyes I saw an amenable fellow, one of those American highbrows who shuttle between Africa and the U.S.

“I spent three years in Zambia in the 1980s,” he continued. “I wined and dined with Luke Mwananshiku, Willa Mungomba, Dr. Siteke Mwale, and many other highly intelligent Zambians.” He lowered his voice. “I was part of the IMF group that came to rip you guys off.” He smirked. “Your government put me in a million dollar mansion overlooking a shanty called Kalingalinga. From my patio I saw it all—the rich and the poor, the ailing, the dead, and the healthy.”

“Are you still with the IMF?” I asked.

“I have since moved to yet another group with similar intentions. In the next few months my colleagues and I will be in Lusaka to hypnotize the cobra. I work for the broker that has acquired a chunk of your debt. Your government owes not the World Bank, but us millions of dollars. We’ll be in Lusaka to offer your president a couple of millions and fly back with a check twenty times greater.”

“No, you won’t,” I said. “King Cobra is incorruptible. He is …”

He was laughing. “Says who? Give me an African president, just one, who has not fallen for the carrot and stick.”

Quett Masire’s name popped up.

“Oh, him, well, we never got to him because he turned down the IMF and the World Bank. It was perhaps the smartest thing for him to do.”

At midnight we were airborne. The captain wished us a happy 2012 and urged us to watch the fireworks across Los Angeles.

“Isn’t that beautiful,” Walter said looking down.

From my middle seat, I took a glance and nodded admirably.

“That’s white man’s country,” he said. “We came here on Mayflower and turned Indian land into a paradise and now the most powerful nation on earth. We discovered the bulb, and built this aircraft to fly us to pleasure resorts like Lake Zambia.”

I grinned. “There is no Lake Zambia.”

He curled his lips into a smug smile. “That’s what we call your country. You guys are as stagnant as the water in the lake. We come in with our large boats and fish your minerals and your wildlife and leave morsels—crumbs. That’s your staple food, crumbs. That corn-meal you eat, that’s crumbs, the small Tilapia fish you call Kapenta is crumbs. We the Bwanas (whites) take the cat fish. I am the Bwana and you are the Muntu. I get what I want and you get what you deserve, crumbs. That’s what lazy people get—Zambians, Africans, the entire Third World.”

The smile vanished from my face.

“I see you are getting pissed off,” Walter said and lowered his voice. “You are thinking this Bwana is a racist. That’s how most Zambians respond when I tell them the truth. They go ballistic. Okay. Let’s for a moment put our skin pigmentations, this black and white crap, aside. Tell me, my friend, what is the difference between you and me?”

“There’s no difference.”

“Absolutely none,” he exclaimed. “Scientists in the Human Genome Project have proved that. It took them thirteen years to determine the complete sequence of the three billion DNA subunits. After they were all done it was clear that 99.9% nucleotide bases were exactly the same in you and me. We are the same people. All white, Asian, Latino, and black people on this aircraft are the same.”

I gladly nodded.

“And yet I feel superior,” he smiled fatalistically. “Every white person on this plane feels superior to a black person. The white guy who picks up garbage, the homeless white trash on drugs, feels superior to you no matter his status or education. I can pick up a nincompoop from the New York streets, clean him up, and take him to Lusaka and you all be crowding around him chanting muzungu, muzungu and yet he’s a riffraff. Tell me why my angry friend.”

For a moment I was wordless.

“Please don’t blame it on slavery like the African Americans do, or colonialism, or some psychological impact or some kind of stigmatization. And don’t give me the brainwash poppycock. Give me a better answer.”

I was thinking.

He continued. “Excuse what I am about to say. Please do not take offense.”

I felt a slap of blood rush to my head and prepared for the worst.

“You my friend flying with me and all your kind are lazy,” he said. “When you rest your head on the pillow you don’t dream big. You and other so-called African intellectuals are damn lazy, each one of you. It is you, and not those poor starving people, who is the reason Africa is in such a deplorable state.”

“That’s not a nice thing to say,” I protested.

He was implacable. “Oh yes it is and I will say it again, you are lazy. Poor and uneducated Africans are the most hardworking people on earth. I saw them in the Lusaka markets and on the street selling merchandise. I saw them in villages toiling away. I saw women on Kafue Road crushing stones for sell and I wept. I said to myself where are the Zambian intellectuals? Are the Zambian engineers so imperceptive they cannot invent a simple stone crusher, or a simple water filter to purify well water for those poor villagers? Are you telling me that after thirty-seven years of independence your university school of engineering has not produced a scientist or an engineer who can make simple small machines for mass use? What is the school there for?”

I held my breath.

“Do you know where I found your intellectuals? They were in bars quaffing. They were at the Lusaka Golf Club, Lusaka Central Club, Lusaka Playhouse, and Lusaka Flying Club. I saw with my own eyes a bunch of alcoholic graduates. Zambian intellectuals work from eight to five and spend the evening drinking. We don’t. We reserve the evening for brainstorming.”

He looked me in the eye.

“And you flying to Boston and all of you Zambians in the Diaspora are just as lazy and apathetic to your country. You don’t care about your country and yet your very own parents, brothers and sisters are in Mtendere, Chawama, and in villages, all of them living in squalor. Many have died or are dying of neglect by you. They are dying of AIDS because you cannot come up with your own cure. You are here calling yourselves graduates, researchers and scientists and are fast at articulating your credentials once asked—oh, I have a PhD in this and that—PhD my foot!”

I was deflated.

“Wake up you all!” he exclaimed, attracting the attention of nearby passengers. “You should be busy lifting ideas, formulae, recipes, and diagrams from American manufacturing factories and sending them to your own factories. All those research findings and dissertation papers you compile should be your country’s treasure. Why do you think the Asians are a force to reckon with? They stole our ideas and turned them into their own. Look at Japan, China, India, just look at them.”

He paused. “The Bwana has spoken,” he said and grinned. “As long as you are dependent on my plane, I shall feel superior and you my friend shall remain inferior, how about that? The Chinese, Japanese, Indians, even Latinos are a notch better. You Africans are at the bottom of the totem pole.”

He tempered his voice. “Get over this white skin syndrome and begin to feel confident. Become innovative and make your own stuff for god’s sake.”

At 8 a.m. the plane touched down at Boston’s Logan International Airport. Walter reached for my hand.

“I know I was too strong, but I don’t give it a damn. I have been to Zambia and have seen too much poverty.” He pulled out a piece of paper and scribbled something. “Here, read this. It was written by a friend.”

He had written only the title: “Lords of Poverty.”

Thunderstruck, I had a sinking feeling. I watched Walter walk through the airport doors to a waiting car. He had left a huge dust devil twirling in my mind, stirring up sad memories of home. I could see Zambia’s literati—the cognoscente, intelligentsia, academics, highbrows, and scholars in the places he had mentioned guzzling and talking irrelevancies. I remembered some who have since passed—how they got the highest grades in mathematics and the sciences and attained the highest education on the planet. They had been to Harvard, Oxford, Yale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), only to leave us with not a single invention or discovery. I knew some by name and drunk with them at the Lusaka Playhouse and Central Sports.

Walter is right. It is true that since independence we have failed to nurture creativity and collective orientations. We as a nation lack a workhorse mentality and behave like 13 million civil servants dependent on a government pay cheque. We believe that development is generated 8-to-5 behind a desk wearing a tie with our degrees hanging on the wall. Such a working environment does not offer the opportunity for fellowship, the excitement of competition, and the spectacle of innovative rituals.

But the intelligentsia is not solely, or even mainly, to blame. The larger failure is due to political circumstances over which they have had little control. The past governments failed to create an environment of possibility that fosters camaraderie, rewards innovative ideas and encourages resilience. KK, Chiluba, Mwanawasa, and Banda embraced orthodox ideas and therefore failed to offer many opportunities for drawing outside the line.

I believe King Cobra’s reset has been cast in the same faculties as those of his predecessors. If today I told him that we can build our own car, he would throw me out.

“Naupena? Fuma apa.” (Are you mad? Get out of here)

Knowing well that King Cobra will not embody innovation at Walter’s level let’s begin to look for a technologically active-positive leader who can succeed him after a term or two. That way we can make our own stone crushers, water filters, water pumps, razor blades, and harvesters. Let’s dream big and make tractors, cars, and planes, or, like Walter said, forever remain inferior.

A fundamental transformation of our country from what is essentially non-innovative to a strategic superior African country requires a bold risk-taking educated leader with a triumphalist attitude and we have one in YOU. Don’t be highly strung and feel insulted by Walter. Take a moment and think about our country. Our journey from 1964 has been marked by tears. It has been an emotionally overwhelming experience. Each one of us has lost a loved one to poverty, hunger, and disease. The number of graves is catching up with the population. It’s time to change our political culture. It’s time for Zambian intellectuals to cultivate an active-positive progressive movement that will change our lives forever. Don’t be afraid or dispirited, rise to the challenge and salvage the remaining few of your beloved ones.

Field Ruwe is a US-based Zambian media practitioner and author. He is a PhD candidate with a B.A. in Mass Communication and Journalism, and an M.A. in History.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/notes/adim-udeh/you-lazy-intellectual-african-scum/521623247867781

mondi_cheeks: the one who can make me happy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XPl6Pb8K4I

Lovely, Lovely and lovely song.............Girl you said it all.

It is quite funny how life is. A lot of people on here are saying the people they met in this remote areas during NYSC were friendly and cool, but yet when Boko Haram or kidnappers and armed robbery happens we insult a whole race or nation of people like we dont know there are good and bad eggs in every race. I am waiting to read more fun stories from different parts of Nigeria sha.

The only lesson from this kind of issues that we always fail to take away from this kind of topics is this mans inhumanity to others and the suffering man faces is not a preserve of one race or color or human being. And this shows the truth in the words " An injustice to one is an injustice to all whether white or black, red or green...".

Point 1
That the FG decides to do a rail project from Lagos to Ibadan is not an issue of Yoruba or Igbo or the problem of Ibadan or Lagos it is the FG problem if its a waste of resources and not viable. i dont see the reason for bashing ourselves over FG waste as if it does not happen in all FG projects all over Nigeria whether East West, South or North. In my own opinion i see nothing wrong in a rail project from Lagos to Ibadan afterall in Geography classes in secondary school we were taught that Nigeria did have such a rail network which is part of a greater rail network running from South West up North so the people coming on here saying such a network should not exist need to cross check their facts. Like i said that the project is overvalued is the FG problem not Ibadan or Lagos problem so if you have qualms with the viability of the project maybe the FG should be called up on that.

And to those that like showing pics of brown rooftops in Ibadan, we are proud of it (yes i am from Ibadan) and i see nothing wrong with it. it is part of the heritage of the city and if i must let you know many cities have across the world still have their old quarters that made the city standing. Examples Marrakech in Morrocco still has the old Madinah standing with its old architecture still intact. Colorado Springs in Colorado US still has Old Colorado city with its buildings having the old architecture standing. My point is it is part of the history of this cities. Anyone familiar with the history of Ibadan knows that these quarters with the brown rooftops were the nucleus of the city and from there the city spreads out in all directions. Agreed it might be an eyesore to some of us raised in the era of colored plastic or ceramic rooftops but pulling them down is not the solution. Every household you see in those pictures has a name, a background and a story destroying and renaming places like Isale Ijebu will likely erase the history to why such a name in Ibadan in the first place. Yes this might not be the best areas in Ibadan but they tell the city's story. Yes it might need renovation and rebuilding but not to completely destroy.

I think we are all missing the point here. To everyone who says muslims are not trying enough please pray tell what are muslims supposed to do? I keep asking this same question and nobody can give a reasonable answer. Terrorism as it is known and attached to muslims in the modern sense is a recent phenomenon. Yasir Qadhi gives a good expose on a perspective of terrorism associated with muslims in the following video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JspeWtFJ8B4. I personally can use my family and friends as examples i dont know of anybody amongst them that supports Boko Haram or terrorism in any form. Yet people come on here and say muslims are not doing enough. Pray tell us what should we do? Form a muslim anti-terrorist group against terrorists.
In my own opinion the point we are all missing is simple and as captured by Milton " the human mind is in itself a place of its own and can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell" (i think i got the quote a little wrong) but the idea is as human beings whether religionist or non religionist there is that tendency to give our own perceptions and understandings to events in life. A muslim standing up to the terrorists and telling them suicide bombing is not acceptable in Islam does not mean anything to the terrorists because they have their own reasons and interpretations for what they are doing. When Shina Rambo was terrorizing Nigeria do you think it would have been appropriate for a foreigner to say " well if you cant catch him then all Nigerians are co-conspirators with him".
I dont support Boko Haram and in my own opinion there should be no dialogue with them because even according to the Sharia they have to be made to answer for the crimes committed. Honestly i dont know how asking every muslim individually to denounce Boko Haram stops them. Even to Boko Haram the rest of us muslims are just not good enough as muslims.

Well afterall said and done i would say all these companies are guilty at one point or another of infringements. Earlier this year Motorola won a case against Apple in the EU about an implementation in its Apple IoS for mobile phones that was patented by Motorola. And like one poster said about both Gates and Jobs, " they both had a rich neighbor called Xerox Gates went in to steal the TV only to find out Jobs already did.." . It is becoming harder nowadays to innovate or invent a process without borrowing (or stealing)ideas from others. I am not supporting what Samsung did but hey in my own opinion they are all guilty. And that is why i support open source.

Here is a link to the Motorola vs Apple story
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/12/09/motorola-wins-patent-suit-against-apple-in-germany-iphoneipad-to-be-banned/

So here we are. I was discussing with a friend recently. She said something that bothered me and, I hope, should bother you too. She went to a Lagos market to buy foodstuff. She, being an economist, started comparing year-on-year price differences. The trend has been upward. She asked the seller why this is so. The market woman had her own explanation: the unrest in Northern Nigeria has been taking its toll on food prices. “No be today the thing start,” the woman told her. As my friend told me the story, an alarm went off in my head: with the unrelenting bombings and shootings, we may be heading for a food supply crisis as insecurity drives farmers out of business.

I have noticed a tendency among Southerners to disdainfully describe the terrorism challenge facing us today as purely “a problem of the North”. It may not be that simple. Last year, in the heat of the tomato crisis that hit Lagos markets, I did a snap survey among my colleagues at THISDAY. I asked a one-line question: “Did your wife make stew last weekend?” or “Did you make stew last weekend?” The instinctive response was laughter, followed by “Simon, you’ve started again o!” Then, a pause. A quick rethink. And then a different answer: “Wait, my wife said there was no tomato in the market, so she couldn’t make stew.” Some would say: “We used tin tomato. We don’t know what’s happening. They said it’s because of the crisis in Jos.”
My research motive was simple: to point out the important role of the North in the food supply chain. We normally take this for granted. If the crisis in the North gets out of hand, it is the whole of Nigeria that will suffer the consequences. But I can imagine someone snap at me: “Don’t worry, we’ll use petrodollars to import food when we break up.” Yes, anyone who has money can import, but any country that survives on importation of its staple food is doomed. We also seem to easily forget that the economic lives of ordinary people are being ruined by these terrorist activities. Cattle sellers were massacred the other day. When people can no longer go to their farms because of insecurity, how do they sustain their families? How do they send their children to school? How do they provide for their medical needs?
What are the implications for the North in particular and Nigeria in general?
Some Nigerians are so shallow-minded that they cannot even see the bigger picture of how interconnected and interrelated we human beings are. All they see is tribal marks. They only think in terms of North and South, Christian and Muslim, Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba and Igbo (and now Ijaw). The only thing that ever excites them is whipping up ethnic and religious sentiments. The solution to every problem, including husband and wife quarrels, is the balkanisation of Nigeria. On the other hand, you also have some opinion leaders up North who are playing the ostrich while the region is gradually being destroyed by terrorists. The only sense they can make out of this bloodbath is that it is Christians that are bombing churches and killing Christians. The only explanation they have to offer is that it is President Goodluck Jonathan that is behind the terrorist attacks. Some have even gone to the ridiculous extent of saying there is no Boko Haram.
How does this kind of mentality help? The North has been set back by decades. Livelihoods are being destroyed. Businesses are being crippled. This is a region that desperately needs massive investment to be able to keep its head above water. By many development indicators, the North is behind: access to safe water, school enrolment, access to basic healthcare and general infrastructure. These areas require constant and concentrated injection of cash. Can you imagine then that the budgets are now being channelled into security because of terrorist activities? Meanwhile, how many investors would like to go to the North today? How many contractors would be eager to construct roads there? How many donors would feel safe to continue working in the region?
To those Northerners who are gloating that the terrorist attacks “serve Jonathan right”, I have a message for them: it is their land that is being ruined. Therefore, the rational thing to do now is work out how to stop this carnage, no matter who is behind it. I care little about the conspiracy theories. I care more about the solutions to the problem. Boko Haram leaders have come out time and again that they are behind these attacks. They released their mission statement the other day, saying: “In our struggle, we only kill government functionaries, security agents, Christians and anyone who pretends to be a Muslim but engage in assisting security agents to arrest us.” The pattern of attacks is consistent. Those who call themselves Northern elders must step in and stem this slide. Enough of politicking and grandstanding. The North is dying a slow death. The North is bleeding. Wise Northerners who have access to the Boko Haram hierarchy should do everything possible to stop this haemorrhage. It makes sense to preserve the North first and ask questions later. It is not about Jonathan.
And to those Southerners who harbour nothing but hate for the North and continue to gloat at this monumental misfortune ravaging the region, I have a message for them: if one part of the country is in turmoil, there cannot be stability in the system. Everybody is affected. Even a problem in a neighbouring country is a threat to us, much less on our territory. In fact, there are millions of Southerners up North whose livelihoods are being destroyed too. They are not doing the North any favour by living and working there; they went there for their own economic end. The Yoruba, Igbo and other Southern nationalities buying and selling and operating businesses in the North are not doing the North any favour.
They are there as economic beings. They too are adversely affected. If all the opportunities were in the South, no Southerner would go up North. It is therefore crass narrow-mindedness for anyone to gloat over this catastrophe rocking the North.
As I would forever argue, Boko Haram is a threat to all Muslims, Christians, atheists, Northerners, Southerners, foreigners, all! To reduce this huge problem to a regional or political issue is to miss the point entirely. We are all in this together. The earlier we realised this, the better.

Source: [url]http://www.africaeagle.com/2012/08/opinion-destruction-of-northern-nigeria.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Africaeagle+%28AfricaEagle%29[/url]

Top Ten differences between White Terrorists and Others

Posted on 08/09/2012 by Juan

1. White terrorists are called “gunmen.” What does that even mean? A person with a gun? Wouldn’t that be, like, everyone in the US? Other terrorists are called, like, “terrorists.”

2. White terrorists are “troubled loners.” Other terrorists are always suspected of being part of a global plot, even when they are obviously troubled loners.

3. Doing a study on the danger of white terrorists at the Department of Homeland Security will get you sidelined by angry white Congressmen. Doing studies on other kinds of terrorists is a guaranteed promotion.

4. The family of a white terrorist is interviewed, weeping as they wonder where he went wrong. The families of other terrorists are almost never interviewed.

5. White terrorists are part of a “fringe.” Other terrorists are apparently mainstream.

6. White terrorists are random events, like tornadoes. Other terrorists are long-running conspiracies.

7. White terrorists are never called “white.” But other terrorists are given ethnic affiliations.

8. Nobody thinks white terrorists are typical of white people. But other terrorists are considered paragons of their societies.

9. White terrorists are alcoholics, addicts or mentally ill. Other terrorists are apparently clean-living and perfectly sane.

10. There is nothing you can do about white terrorists. Gun control won’t stop them. No policy you could make, no government program, could possibly have an impact on them. But hundreds of billions of dollars must be spent on police and on the Department of Defense, and on TSA, which must virtually strip search 60 million people a year, to deal with other terrorists.

http://www.juancole.com/2012/08/top-ten-differences-between-white-terrorists-and-others.html

edicolove: The guy is not a serious pastor. Many christians fast sometimes as much as seven days without food. Millions of Christians fast for 3 days without food at least once a year. If the so called pastor has not fasted this much before, he certainly is not a true pastor. Most Christians really don't consider the muslims kind of fast as fasting because if I have to eat that much before 6am in the morning, I don't think I will feel like am fasting at all. That is not to say the muslims fasting is wrong, just saying we Christians view fasting differently and actually in a more stringent way. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion on fasting but these American pastors just fulfil the prophecy of Jesus that in the last days, false prophets shall arise.

And the other pastors (Nigerians included) that fast have not fulfilled the prophecy?

Please read the following to get an insight into the man and the team
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/sports/olympics/bruised-and-beaten-nigerias-basketball-players-are-undeterred.html?_r=2

Please to all those saying he should resign, please give concrete reasons why he should? In my own opinion i do not see any reason for this man to resign yet.

Whoever is the admin for this thread should close the thread from further postings. The article is self explanatory enough for muslims and non-muslims. It is obvious from the responses from both muslims and non-muslims that there is a lot of ignorance amongst everyone. The one i find most appalling is the statement " you guys should do something about Boko-Haram" pray tell me how? and also someone comes on here saying an average muslim is a terrorist. Please explain how come the terrorism associated to Muslims is a modern trend and did not exist when Muslims were creating the Age of Enlightenment during the Dark Ages in Europe Muslims have condemned their actions and speeches yet i still get people saying do something about them. What exactly are we supposed to do form an Islamic counter-terrorist group or what? If the government or security forces cannot do anything please advise, what is an individual muslim supposed to do? even muslims cleric have condemned them the latest being Sheik Gumi http://africanspotlight.com/2012/08/security-tightened-around-sheik-gumi-over-anti-boko-haram-comment/. To my muslim brothers and sister please let us heed the words in the article, the Quran and from the Prophet " let the speeches coming out from your mouth be the best of all, if not then do not say anything". There is no need to come on here and condemn people to hell, you are not Allah and cannot determine where anybody ends up.

May Allah (God for those of you who will question the arabic word for God) help us all.

i think she probably was scared because i dont understand how she can run sub 11 in all races up to the semifinal even starting out slow in the semifinal race and she ended up runing a 10.93 and she runs in the final and makes 11.01. Maybe she just tapped out.

HiiiPower: I'm still butt hurt about the basketball game from yesterday. African Americans are arguably superior to us in sports, however, we're superior to them in academics. This isn't a malicious thread but a thread to set the records straight.

Bros abeg make i ask you what record is there to set straight?That they beat us does not mean we cannot do better in the future abeg leave matter for Matthias. Make we forget this match and move on to the next thing. I hope Blessing Okagbare can do better in the semifinals she had a slow start and she still came out tops in her race i hope she can do better on her start in the finals.

AMvanquish: I watched it oh! She had the best time of 10.93 of all 100m races today.
It looks lyk she really has a chance for a medal.. Let's pray she can kip it up.

Actually Carmelita Jeter (USA) had 10.83 according to http://www.nbcolympics.com/track-and-field/event/women-100m/index.html

In many parts of the Asian culture, Indians, Arabics, Malays and even some Chinese, they eat with their hands and they are never ashamed or question it and they do maintain an appreciable level of hygiene even while. I once had a Malaysian boss and we bought TFC rice for lunch one day with chicken, the guy dug straight into it with his hands and he was neat about it not messy or anything. They maintain a good level of hygiene if you ask me and eating with your hands does not mean you are dirty neither does eating with cutlery make you neat.

ok so in the history of BBA Nigeria has had

Bayo - begging for love on live TV.
Ofunneka - fingered on live TV.
Goldie - played on live TV.
(please correct me on the above if i am wrong)
I would say that is the stuff reality TV is made of suckers and pussies. Anywayz she don do her own who is next?

Sisi_Kill: I couldn't get past Submarine. . .So we have Submarines?

Lol......No we dont have submarines as in the under water vehicles but we do have companies that have submarine optic fibre cables.

To all who have been commenting on this thread, I must give you all kudos. For me (and i am an African by continent, Nigerian by nationality and Yoruba by ethnicity or "sub"nationality) your arguments have been an interesting read. My only contribution to all that is said and done is this: Whoever came up with these terms showed shortsightedness and a misunderstanding of the people and human races of the world. I am sure if we are to research it further the name came up when the person was not seriously considering it and was just having playtime or just some sort of a joke (just assuming). In my own opinion i would consider the name not very descriptive and in the same league as a name like Middle East. please ask yourselves what is Middle about that part of the world and what makes it the Middle of the Eastern world. Is it because the place is in the Middle of the Eastern part of the world or is it because it is the Eastern part of the Middle of the World. I stand to be corrected but i thought the Sahara desert reach almost to the edges of Northern Nigeria itself? so does it mean Northern Nigerians are not part of sub-Saharan Africa? at to those that say it is because we dont have a name that is why they are calling us names i beg to disagree. every tribe, ethnicity or nationality in Africa has always, from time immemorial, called itself by a name or names especially as regards to the Son of who they are.

i say two reasons arise for this name calling
1. we are not the ones telling our stories. they (whoever came up with the name) are telling our stories and calling us names without fully understanding who we are. it is the same way yorubas would refer to Northerners as "awon ara Oke Oya".

2. The human mind itself tries to create justification for such labels by just wanting to find a way to describe things to make it easier to understand. An effort that can result in creating the wrong assumptions.
In conclusion let me say that i will really appreciate if we can keep the debate/arguments as sane as possible and devoid of any insults. Also please lets proof whatever we say beyond reasonable doubt.

i think the heading of this story is wrong. The proper issue would be that they were closed down for operating a transmission link whether it be for internet or even accessing there own network in a licensed band. But afterall said i think NCC should also hold the ISP that installed the equipment and link for them for using a licensed band for operating the link and i dont see any reason for them to arrest the Manager. Dem for kuku go HQ go arrest everybody there.

@deols i thot we don end this matter already now as in EOD.
There are two things obviously from this thread which is similar to other NL threads.
1.The OP started the thread asking a question but along the line of replying made it known that he wanted to show that muslim women are in darkness for living by such a law.
2. There has been a lot of responses to the said question on this thread and any discerning mind should be able to pick up an honest answer/opinion to the question and every thing related to this matter of Polygamy in Islam. i.e. a woman being a human being with feelings will not tolerate a 2nd wife you dont have to be a muslim woman every woman feels that way. This actually is the answer to the question. i would think to butress the answers women or muslim women especially should answer but like i said the thread would digress betraying the intention of the OP himself , it was about painting someone good or bad, living in darkness or light.
Believe me when i say there is no point going further with this discussion because in the first place it was never a discussion its just one of the many name calling sessions on NL.