₦airaland Forum

freedom@last:
Thank God Okada was banned on that road. It used to be a blood-fest, sometimes with body parts strewn all over the tarmac.
The road is an expressway, and as such, people expect to be able to move at a good speed. Unfortunately, pedestrians arrogantly assume that car drivers are always alert, and can always see them, and will therefore try to avoid them. Most drivers expect pedestrians to be smart especially when crossing the road, and make no provisions for the slow, the weak and unfortunately, the elderly.

Even cars are not spared on the Lekki axis...almost everyday, I see one or more accidents: for instance a bus collided with the concrete divider at the Chevron toll gate on Tuesday 26th August. I got there as they were loading the guy into the ambulance...no idea whether he was dead or alive, or whether other people were injured.

I have not been spared as well, cause my car was hit and badly damaged yesterday, while I was negotiating the Lekki roundabout by a bus that drove out of Lekki Phase 1, without slowing down. Of course his insurance had expired.

Sensitization should be one of the duties of the LCC to educate people on proper road etiquette. It is amazing that within the past two years, on this same road, despite the fact that I usually only ply the road during the off-peak hours, I have seen:

1. A G-Wagon upside down in the middle of the road
2. Innumerable bike accidents, sometimes with the bodies still twitching.
3. A car burn down and its fuel tank spectacularly explode. (ok, not really the fault of the road, but still...)
4. More than 10 Cars drive straight through the roundabout.
5. Cars speed through the bends at the round about, apply brakes suddenly, and lose control.

If you live on that axis, please be veeeeeery careful.

I once saw a car do a 360 degree spin ala James Bond, because he was racing with some other car and lost control. He narrowly avoided the street light pole. sparks flew from inside the engine.

rafhell: Kudos!
I drive that road virtually every day to lekki estate.
One other thing that baffles me is that some people choose to cross the express way instead of using the pedestrian bridge.

Truth be told the pedestrian brides are not enough, especially when you have to walk 800m !

Dantedasz: ***Mou wants a top striker and He doesn't have one that fits his plans now. Bidding for Rooney or not will not change the way small minds like you think. You're one of those who think football is all about attacking and attacking. The man don;t have a striker.....He is looking for one and a dim-wit like you still will find some fault about His formation as if you know better.**
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First of all kid,don't be rude to people on the internet,you never know who is behind the moniker- might be dad,mum or your relative.
Analyse football sans emotion and insults.
Mourinho is afraid of United-simple.
He knows United will NEVER sell Rooney to him but has spent all summer trying to unsettle the lad,the team and David Moyes.
He has shown Moyes a total lack of respect which is something he would NEVER have tried with Sir Alex.
I repeat only ONE team came out to play football last night,while the other team came to defend. Played with out a striker and was looking for a cheap goal via a penalty.

apart from the bolded the rest of your post makes sense

why do I say this?

a careful check online would prove to you that JOSE MOURINHO HAS A BETTER HEAD TO HEAD WITH MAN U

in 15 matches, Sir Alex only won once against Mourinho. Mind you this goes back to Porto, Chelsea, Inter and Real Madrid days

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2288177/Sir-Alex-Ferguson-versus-Jose-Mourinho-Five-encounters-legend-Special-One.html

So why would he be afraid of Manchester united?

spongeback: Mike Tyson has never been in the news for something positive

you obviously didn't know him when he was the best in the world at 20.

YOU ALL FORGET T-BAG ALWAYS CALLED HIM 'PRETTY'

T-BAG KNEW ALL ALONG !

cheiwura: ..........'.............. ..........'..............
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Remember, there is no future for a half baked/poorly educated graduate who cannot compete locally and internationally with senator's foreign trained children when the job is on merit. Now is the time to fight for educational equality, quality, equity and justice.

This issue is a long standing one and I blame the Fed Govt fully. Despite the fact that UN recommends you spending 27% of your annual budget on education, Nigeria spends a paltry 7%. Shows you the sincerity of the Fed Govt towards education.

[quote author=cheiwura][/quote]Yes, the average South African university student is miles better than his Nigerian counterpart

Additionally how many Nigerians are studying in SA

I rest my case

Justosaus: selfish lecturers. Gambling with the future of nigerians because of allowances

you really mean gambling on the future of their families right?

Ayima: Wetin u d fine source for, abi na source want end ASUU strike? http://www.thenationonlineng.net

excellent response

Kayusfity: Who is samkleff and what did he do for living

who are you and why cant you spell/write properly?

SHITT HAPPENS

bloggernaija: This guy is far more articulate , refined ,cultured ,opinionated ,principled and knowledgeable than the fella under the rock and his shepopotamus wife.
Anybody wondering why people in the SW are rooting for him should take the above as some of the reason.
His response to the question about dealing with militancy is what you expect from truly educated strong and civilised leader .
You do not reward criminality with gifts.
Saro wiwa ,wole Soyinka gani fawehimi - freedom fighter
Dokubo ,tompolo - criminals

You also see him dance around entrapping question from which would have made him accuse the federal government led by GEJ.

Now
The question is
Why did OBJ ,after having worked with the likes of ribabu , Raphael ndukwe,ekwesili ,amaechi and with nigeria having a lot of professionals excelling overseas ,chose umaru and this "PHD " lecturer (a typical, lazy ,nigerian civil service salary earner with no record of achievement,drive and who lacks the modern outlook required to govern in this iPad age.
Not much different was his choice of associating with the likes of Akala,adedibu ,agagu,Uba etc.
Believe me. If amaechi is pitted against Jonathan. Amaechi will win 10 times out of 10.
If Jonathan likes it or not ,he will become [b]irrelevant like obasanjo [/b]once his time is over.
Amaechi will dominate that part of the country just like tinubu .
The fools were busy abusing Soyinka without realising that the man has friends and status in very high places and the ability to use his contact to focus the international press on Nigeria and rivers state.
Even the stupid Abacha lived to regret
The British government has already picked up on the 1 billion dollars Malabo oil racket between GEJ ,Madueke and ikimi

N.B
I Have just shown excerpts of this interview and Jonathan's CNN interview to some Oyinbo friends.
I told them to guess ,"which of the two is a PHD holder"?
Your guess is as good as theirs
The four of them chose amaechi.

1. simple. OBJ wanted a guy he could control and would NOT probe him after his departure from office. In this climes, loyalty is preferred to merit.

2. at a fair battle yes, but in the real world no.

3. OBJ is NOT irrelevant. I recall the president visiting hi at his hill top mansion on Monday. same day 4 governors visited him. does that sound like an irrelevant man?

sexymoma: ah ah she is old na, why the pity? everybody must die one way or the other.
Either by accident, sickness,Too much Money too can kill o, natural death sorry is there anything like natural death.

there is dear one, that said 'natural death' is difficult to define.


According to pathologists, "A natural death is a death that results from a natural disease process, distinct from a death that results from accident or violence." But nowadays death from disease is rarely allowed to be natural; it is artificially prolonged by drugs and/or machines and in the eyes not only of medical professionals but of most patients and families, it results from medical measures' failure. It can hardly be said that someone who has spent his or her last hours in an ICU, as pictured on the page about death at www.stewardsoftheflame.com, has died naturally.

The fundamental premise of Stewards of the Flame is that the the logical culmination of this trend would be to deny death entirely, assuming that the machines were "improved" to the point of keeping mindless bodies functioning indefinitely -- and that this would be a very bad thing. Natural death, in my opinion, is death resulting from the normal shutting down of the body when the unconscious mind is ready to die. It happens to everyone, if no accident or acute disease strikes prematurely, as long as the process is not thwarted by interference with the body in the way all too common today. I am aware that this view is termed "deathism" by the proponents of technological life extension, some of whom fervently believe that physical immortality is just around the corner. I don't think it's going to turn out that way. I think people will go on dying in old age (older than the present maximum) no matter what technology does to repair their bodies.

The life-extension enthusiasts admit that people might get bored in time and say that in that case, they could kill themselves. I have personally known people who say this. And of course, the issue of assisted suicide for the terminally ill is a major controversy today. I live in Oregon, where assisted suicide is legal, so I hear a good deal about it. I fear that if such a choice is legitimatized and becomes common, some people will choose to hasten death merely to spare their families the physical and financial burden of caring for them, and eventually those of us without families may be subtly discouraged from continuing to receive care at the expense of the taxpayers. This situation would not exist if high-tech intervention were not automatically employed early in the course of illness which, in the case of an elderly person, is inevitably going to be fatal.

There has been a lot of discussion in the past few decades about the pointless and often cruel way in which people are routinely treated in their last months of life, and many calls for reform. But though the solution -- hospice care -- is now available, comparatively few people take advantage of it. Many are simply unaware that it exists. Others, or their families, are so conditioned by our culture's denial of death that they believe rejecting futile treatment is tantamount to suicide, or at best an abandonment of "hope." In my novel, the forced prolongation of pseudo-life is not arbitrarily imposed by the medical authorities that run the planet; it is a law supported by the people, who do not want to admit that they are mortal. I suspect this is a realistic assumption about what would happen. The vast majority of Americans polled say that they want to die at home, not in a hospital; yet they end up in hospitals all the same. Continuation of treatment is not compulsory, yet most don't contest the medical establishment's imposition of it, perhaps because don't know that they can -- that there are better alternatives -- or perhaps because society as a whole offers no support for the idea that the natural ending of life need not involve suffering. Unfortunately, the only thing likely to bring about widespread change is the financial impossibility of providing high-tech terminal care to an aging population.

sourced from http://towardtomorrow..com/2007/10/what-is-natural-death.html

kingbang: Does this your incomprehensible rubbish justify the verbal abuse on a lady? Was the MOP the only person to call PEJ to order? Why degenerate to name callings? Hide your head in shame dude, you and your MOP!

you made perfect sense.

please replace lady with woman

God bless you as you do so

akpomeme: Senility comes with age. We will all get there some day. When we eventually become demented just like MOP, kindly have good hands to manage you at that age. His utterances are unguided, thus equates the utterances of a mad man.
See as body dey pepper you but you enjoyed it when you and MOP insulted another man's wife. Chauvinist bitter non entities showing their shallow senses here.

gbaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee skiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

dammybravo: I couldn't understood why I was banned

please unban our news reporter dammybravo

dammybravo: Roger Federer is gonna play two clay-court tournament before the hard court last grand slam of the year US-OPEN. He is playing at the hamburg atp, his second round match is scheduled for wednesday....

Rafael Nadal is gonna play in montreal atp and Cincinnati atp before the US-OPEN....

no Toronto?

Afam4eva: I would have replied your question if you had posted it immediately after i made my post but as you can see, the thread topic has changed. Everybody has moved on from the embarrassment that is the British Wimbledon.

. nice reply bro. nothing do you

Afam4eva: It's the oldest. That's all. People tend to mistake old and prestigious. High profile tennis players no longer give a fvck about wimbledon. That explains why a lot of them faked crashing out so that they could prepare for more important tournaments.

IT IS THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS.

errrrrrrr which high profile player?

kindly elucidate.

with quotes please

thank you

dammybravo: WTA
Palermo Final
Two italians and best friends
Roberta Vinci vs Sara Errani

Budapest Final
Yvonne Meusburger vs Simona Halep

ATP
Sttutgart(mercedes cup) Final
Phillipe Kohlschreiber vs Fabio Fognini

Bastad Final
Verdasco vs Carlos Berlocq


Newport Final
Lleyton Hewitt vs Nicolas Mahut

Hewitt is done

hard to reconcile that he's Federer's mate and was world no 1 back to back for 2 years

used to like him.

sad

fredoooooo: ^^^^

can you please add WTA to the topic , thanks ....

whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?

boredom things

yawn

murrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

biolabee: how far,.. and how has the day been

KanepiKvitova vs Lisicki


#Team Lisicki #TeamBullyBasher

I also like this serena wannabe... shes got potential - Stephens

Shes not a wannabe. Shes her own woman

nedu2000: I think the fact,he admits that he'll use almost half the cash to cater for himself for the next one year as shameful really,I wish him speedy recovery however

whats shameful about trying to get better and taking care of yourself?

biolabee: Another one bites the dust



Nole!!!Nole!!

Serena na bully sha

flat track bully

got a taste of her own medicine

joeydozzy: Lisicki definitely gave Serena a bit of her medicine aces, flatlines even dinks at a point

Safe to say, Wimbledon is going haywire
I see Li Na coming out to win this one, had a bagel today

As for the guys, we all know who's winning it

who?

joeydozzy: That's is after Nadal becomes decapitated, Murray injured,Djokovic having drinking problems and Federer reaching 40

Heck,I forgot Del Potro I see him as the other contender

a win is a win, if the others like make dem drink alomo bitters before playing. na their headache

a win is a win

biolabee: Laura robson vs Kanepi loses first set 7 - 6 (7 -5 )

Serena broken 2 4 by lisicki
She takes the first set 2 6

Can the impossible be possible

e wan possible die??

Egba girl: But why did they ask Federer o change his shoes now. I mean it wasn't like the shoe itself wasn't white. Only the soles were orange. I really liked them

Wimbledon didn't

When he hosts the Roger Federer open u can play naked sef

Rules are rules