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bennyann:
And who is this again? Trying to bring their beloved mothers into a mere argument or disagreement between MEN?

Seriously, do men still exist in this world? I mean gentlemen not males.

You can kill each other for all I care but please leave your mothers out of it. *sighhs*

You didn't have to even waste your time on him.
I wanted to reply him, but decided to check his profile and previous posts, then I even regretted ever replying him at all.

I have learnt a lesson today: always check someone's profile and previous posts before quoting them.

Ericsunday619:
God help who? I wish Christainity should be banned in Nigeria

If you think you do not need God's help, then I am very sorry for you.

Everest1989:
Off course, Abu m nwa otu nah...I pasa na otu?

Nwanne, a pasa m na otu full time.

Everest1989:
Nwanne negodu ka ndi Dortmund si wee kporo ndi Umuoji boys kpojuu na team ha.

Ndi Dortmund ji umuaka Babanawa FC agba dis match mehn...

Nwanne ina enye nsogbu hia.. I bu nwa otu?

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Sierra Leone, den of vice

Sierra Leone’s Kabasa Lodge now houses makeshift apartments and is a den of vice. Built by Siaka Stevens, the country’s third prime minister but first president, it stands derelict and rundown. Siaka was known for running a tight ship, marked by extreme corruption.

He also mismanaged the West African country’s economy, and retired in 1985. His policies are blamed for the country’s civil war.

African presidential palaces, then seem to be an ill political omen. When a big man starts building one, in all probability he won’t be around much longer to enjoy it - nor will his children either.

Jinxed Guinea Bissau

In Guinea-Bissau, where no elected leader has ever finished their term, the presidential palace in the capital Bissau had to be abandoned following a civil war in 1998-1999.

The armed conflict was triggered by an attempted coup d’état against the government of President João Bernardo Vieira.

Vieira was killed by soldiers on March 2, 2009, apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed Guinea-Bissau’s military chief General Batista Tagme Na Waie.

Cameroon’s Ahidjo

Cameroon’s Ahidjo has also in recent years enjoyed a revisionist wave, and acquired a mythical “father of the nation” stature as the country tires of Paul Biya’s 33-year-rule. But to most who lived under his reign he was a strong man who clamped down on many freedoms.

He had a presidential spread built in his northern Cameroon birth town of Garoua, which also had an international airport. Located in Mayo-Oulo, the buildings remain under lock and key, the current administration content to blur out memories of his time in office.

His office was systematically looted and remains in a derelict state, haunted by bees and mice. Despite whispers that Ahidjo had intended to move the capital to Garoua, it remains a shell of its former self, despite two decades of close presidential attention.

His old presidential palace in Yaounde has been turned into a national museum. He died in exile in Dakar.

Yamoussoukro ghost capital

In Cote d’Ivoire, Yamoussoukro was just another village in the bush, but it had the distinction of being the birth place of Felix Houphouet-Boigny, the country’s first president. Houphouet-Boigny, like Mobutu, Bokassa and Cameroon’s Ahmadou Ahidjo among other post-independence Africa leaders was not averse to turning his home village into flights of fancy.

Yamoussoukro thus came to host what is claimed to be the world’s largest Christian church opened by the Pope, and an opulent presidential palace, in addition to a presidential mausoleum. The city has however remained a ghost town, despite being intended as the country’s new capital.

The deserted palace on which Houphouet-Boigny was interred in 1994 is not open to visitors, but many remain intrigued by the crocodiles in its artificial lake.

Remnants of Mobutu excess

In its hey day DR Congo Mobutu Sese Seko’s vast Gbadolite palace complex in his remote ancestral home employed more than 700 staff and played host to VIPs such as Pope John Paul II, UN secretary-general Boutros Boutros Ghali, and American televangelist Pat Robertson.

Mobutu’s ‘“African Versailles”, more than 1,000km from the capital, Kinshasa, cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

Dubbed the “Versailles in the Jungle”, it also had an international airport that could accommodate aircraft, including the Concordes he regularly chartered, in addition to having its own power-generating dam.

A recent report in the Guardian detailed some of it: “…[it] brimmed with paintings, sculptures, stained glass, ersatz Louis XIV furniture, marble from Carrara in Italy and two swimming pools surrounded by loudspeakers playing his beloved Gregorian chants or classical music. It hosted countless gaudy nights with Taittinger champagne, salmon and other food served on moving conveyer belts by Congolese and European chefs.”

The palace is now overrun with creepers, as the jungle slowly reclaims one of the most ostentatious pieces of architecture on the African continent. Looters had a field day after he was deposed in 1997, returning the palace to the bush it was raised from.

In the Congo’s northern Central African Republic (CAR) neighbour, the once-grand palace of self-styled emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa lie in ruins, 80 kilometres from the capital Bangui.

Militia recruits practice in its vast grounds, with the background of an algae-filled swimming pool. The tale of the emperor feeding his rivals to crocodiles has never quite been laid to rest, but from here he is said to have slept on a gold-plated bed, surrounded by piles of gold and diamonds.

His relatives who have now fallen on hard times, have been pushing to turn it into a tourist attraction.

In Benghazi traders turned Gaddafi's more than 10-hectare palace grounds and barracks into a marketplace to sell birds, dogs and other pets.

THE sprawling palace compounds from which Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi ruled for four decades are now garbage dumps and pet markets, following the 2011 revolution which toppled him.

In the heart of Tripoli, the once feared but now humbled Bab al-Aziziya compound resembles a wasteland. All that remains of the compound, which had been hit in a 1986 US air strike before being pounded in NATO airstrikes four years ago, are a few ruined buildings, the green flooring of Gaddafi’s home and a dug-up network of underground tunnels.

Apart from the bedouin tents on which Gaddafi prided himself and which accommodated him on travels abroad, the compound once showcased a zoo, an indoor pool, countless murals and a fairground in its gardens.

Rebels zealously bulldozed much of the compound when they captured it in August 2011.


Another of Gaddafi’s homes in Sabha, in the south of the country, has suffered the same fate. In the eastern city of Benghazi, birthplace of the revolution and which has since become an Islamist stronghold, traders have converted his more than 10-hectare palace grounds and barracks into a marketplace to sell birds, dogs and other pets.

The fate of Gaddafi’s palaces is not isolated—the demise of lush palaces in Africa where once strongman rulers have left is almost the order of the day.





Source:http://m.mgafrica.com/article/2015-04-06-they-lived-opulently-this-is-what-is-left-of-their-lush-palaces

What does Buhari know about education?

Abeg make una leave me jare.

petra1:
I was joking actually but on a serous note . Preaching is different from
Debate . What is going on here is mostly debate it’s not about winning a soul but defense of faith . You can’t preach to a man who already has a conviction . It’s the holy ghost work. We only lay the facts down of our conviction and the “folly and vanity of the other guy “ it’s not about winning a soul . The gospel can only be preached to a seeker not a destroyer of your faith. You defend your faith and belief

Well said, bro. Nothing to add!

petra1:
The best place to preach is where the sinners are . Since atheists have made religion section their home in attempt to rubbish God it only gave Christians opportunity to shoot sitting ducks

That's where you get it wrong: they are not preaching to the atheists, but only engage them in endless arguments upon arguments.

If the motive was to preach and convert them, it would have been different, but the observed motive is to show intelligence and whatever...

By the way, you don't win someone over by arguing with them constantly, you preach and then allow the Holy Spirit do His work: the Holy Spirit is the one convicts the sinner.

I have said this same thing as the OP, time without numbers, but no one cared to see reason, so, I quietly left the religion section for quite some time now.

The Bible even warns against aimless arguments but here on Nairaland, Christians just enjoy having endless arguments with people whose minds are turned totally against God and all He represents.

Ask them what they have achieved since all these aimless arguments began, and I'm sure they can't point to anything tangible or any soul won over to the kingdom.

God help us.

HIV is real and it has a cure.
Though the government have refused to acknowledge the fact that some Nigerians have come up with a cure for HIV, yet it works and it's being sold underground.

Fact#

Please, someone should help with their past questions
emmanuelemekajr@gmail.com

Please, anyone with their past questions?

So, the federal government used theft and corruption as different charges, and yet mocked Jonathan for saying stealing isn't corruption...?

Strange bed fellows....

Humphreycool07:
The guy just dey annoy me.
To just shut up or ignore them just dey hard am.

I tire for that guy

Dramadiddy:
so what if it's a public forum?! better get your head checked!

You are the one who needs his head checked.

Why are the beggars giving you sleepless nights?
What will it cost you to ignore them?

As much as I detest begging, it's not in anyone's place to harass someone for begging others. This is not your forum. Go and open a forum for millionaires like you.

People and their sadistic characters.

swiz123:
I don't need to watch special edited moments of him on YouTube, I watch his full game and I bro, I can categorically tell that he has lost it.
The rate at which he scores tap ins is alarming.He is just reaping of the creativity of Marcelo,isco,kross and benzema

And Messi plays all alone and provides all the assists by himself. Do you know how many assists Dani Alves, Iniesta and Xavi gave Messi?

Stop being ignorant.

I guess you know better than these team captains and coaches.

swiz123:
Messi took on the whole madrid team... Ask Jose mourinho

SMH.

eni4real:
Who assist more,? who create play even from the midfield? who set up his team mates to score goals? Answer:Messi. Despite his amazing goals scoring records, he also create chances and assist a lot. That is how I came about my point which seems nebulous....

When Xavi and Iniesta were at their peak, how many times did you see Messi fall back to play-make?

When you have the likes of Kroose, Modric, Marcelo, and Cavajal, who can provide all the balls you need, what business should Ronaldo have falling back to play-make?

Now, go and watch Ronaldo in the Portuguese team, come and tell me if he doesn't do all what you just mentioned.

And when you statistically look at their assist record, Ronaldo isn't doing quite badly. Go check. Messi has 233 assists and Ronaldo has 200..

Talking about assists is more like me asking you the number of Goals that Messi has scored with his weaker foot compared to Ronaldo or how many headed goals Messi has in comparison to Ronaldo.

swiz123:
Did I hear skill?

Is Messi more skillful than Ronaldo? Abeg make una dey hide una ignorance for house.

Ronaldo has 5star skill rating in football. Do you know what that means? It means there's no skill move in football that he can't perform.

Now go and Google out Messi's skill rating.

Go to you YouTube and refresh your memory... Ronaldo is by far more skillful than Messi can ever dream to be.. He just changed his game for longevity sake.

Did you see him take on 3players against Tottenham? Even the commentator screamed, and said he hasn't seen Ronaldo do that in over 18months..


Smh.

cstr1000:
Ronaldo is supremely talented. Danny Dinkwater is hard working but he will never be like Kross or be listed in FIFPRO 11.
Ronaldo's talent along with his high level of discipline and work input has made him the greatest of his generation.

Best comment so far. Bros, you know football.
They keep talking like other footballers aren't hardworking... Wetin sef.

When Ronaldo was busy in England taking on 4-5 players with ease, they suddenly forget. When he came to Spain and was doing the same, it meant nothing to them.... Just because an intelligent man decided to change his game and focus more on goal scoring, he is now a man of no talent but hard work...

Please, for all those who talk about Ronaldo not having natural talent, go to YouTube and feed your ignorance.
Ronaldo is a bag load of talent and he improved on his talent to become the machine he is today.

Tell me one thing that Messi does that Ronaldo can not do, and I will tell you three things that Ronaldo does which Messi will never even dream of doing.

swiz123:
By getting injured in the final?

Ronaldo is just the best striker. When it comes to all round football, he is just an average player

Please, go to YouTube, search "10 reasons why C. Ronaldo is the greates." Educate yourself. Watch and see...

All the comments I see here are just sentimental talk.

eni4real:
Madrid play for Ronaldo, Messi play for Barcelona. This award is due to dynamics of Madrid as a team not the ability of Ronaldo as the greatest! Messi is better than CR7 and he is not obsessed with individual honors as his rival who rely on goals to arouse football audience! Zizou Madrid!

And Messi told you that?

Nigerians... Make una dey talk wetin una know na.
. Messi worshippers

This is a very laudable idea... Though I have my doubts, which does not in any way affect the viability of the OP's idea of raising 1 billion from a million people.

I would suggest we increase the amount to 5k capital from 1million people and invest in our power sector.

Let's not have the mindset of profit alone, but let's put our collective welfare and legacy into perspective. I will gladly contribute 10k to and idea that will have a positive impact on the lives of the masses, without even asking for a dime in return, as long as the money will be used for what it was intended.

I see power sector as one of the best, though it's capital intensive, but it will have impact and it is something no one in this country can do without: in terms of continuity, the answer is Yes! In terms of profit, the answer is Yes!

Thank you.

How much does the training cost?

Lexusgs430:
The moment LaClickdoogee, the aftermath LaClickLaBend.......

Thanks, but your mention hasn't helped in anyway.

GrandMufti:
Go back to the item page and click on shipping. The processing time is stated there.

Did you pay through Alipocket?

The shipping processing time is there, but this is rather unusual. Today is the sixth day.

I paid with my card.
I have decided to wait till Friday which will be a week and two days, and if the item isn't shipped, I will cancel the order and wait for a refund even if it's gonna take another two weeks. From the look of things, the seller doesn't have the item, no communication and right now messages sent pop unsent error message.