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Sports › Re: FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup: Nigeria Vs Spain 2 - 1 (Full Time) by linearity: 9:00am On Nov 20, 2016

gbosaa:
How will that work out? Japan is ahead of Nigeria both on head to head and goal plus.

Spain, Japan and Nigeria would've beaten other if the results remain at it is. I think Spain and Japan would qualify due to superior goals.

Head to head comes before goal difference, there Nigeria qualifies ahead of Spain.

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Romance › Re: Prostitutes Now Give Receipts... by linearity: 8:06am On Nov 20, 2016

Order#276, but delivery only #272?

Service delivery appear to be lagging and on back order, stop slacking and catch up with the orders or hire more hands to help with service delivery

Nairaland General › Re: Large Python Killed At Akuora Obosi In Anambra State by linearity: 10:33pm On Nov 19, 2016

sammuell:
u dont kill Eke but Eke kill u

In these Ibo communities, where eke idemili is revered, I have not heard that, it once bite or kill a human being even a kid who is a native.

Maybe a stranger, who tried to kill it.

Business › Re: Nigeria Proposes Jail Time, Fines As It Tries To Bolster Naira – Bloomberg by linearity: 7:25am On Nov 19, 2016*

Truth234:
@Adesiji77 According to a CBN report, about $20 billion is sitting idle in various domiciliary accounts. This is almost $23 billion of the entire foreign reserve of the nation, the problem is, as long as you have such amount sitting idle, the Naira will continue to struggle while the parallel market thrive due to the gap in foreign exchange rates.

So, the CBN is struggling to get an autonomy to effect changes to individual/company holding of dollars, including repatriation. It is all to control activities of saboteurs and further inject liquidity into the market.

Though, there are certain things to be removed from their demands, but this move seems necessary if we really want to curtail the illiquidity issue.

If someone have $20 billions sitting in his account, what is the business of the government, if the money were legitimately acquired? Now, the government is giving them ultimatum on how long to keep their money and on the other hand forbidding them from taking their own money abroad to spend.

If you do not see anything wrong with that picture, I do not know what to really say. The Federal Government is treading on dangerous grounds here, no government can authoritatively dictate to people how to use or bank their money, I see the government losing badly, if someone take them to international court on this issue and this will scarce the sh!t out of foreign investors, who should be right afraid that, if they bring their dollars into the country for investment, their money will be trapped.

If you work, do business and live in Lagos State or any state for that matter and the Governor of that State do the same to you, you will cry foul. Imagine the riots on the street; if the Governor of Lagos telling all Lagosians that, since they work and do business in Lagos and Lagos have invariably made them rich, they can only bank with a Lagos bank, they are not allowed to transfer money to their village or state or origin for projects there...and if they have any projects, they must first seek the permission of the Government House is Ikeja for approval before such transfers can take place. The Governor will then justify his action by saying, he wants liquidity to flourish in Lagos State, to help the economy of Lagos.

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Romance › Re: Married Woman & Her Lover Get Stuck In Bed During Sex In Kenya (Pics & Video) by linearity: 6:19pm On Nov 18, 2016

Wen dey go release dis movie for market? This prelude is captivating....

Health › Re: NAFDAC Destroys Drugs Worth N75Million In FCT by linearity: 2:34pm On Nov 18, 2016

Is NAFDAC is professional organ of government or made up quacks?

This is not the proper way of destroying medicinal products! You are poisoning the whole environment and the ignorant officials are standing by the fire taking pictures while inhaling the dangerous mixture of fume and contaminated air?

May God help us!

Crime › Re: Why The "7-Year-Old Boy" Was Killed In Lagos - Man by linearity: 1:37am On Nov 18, 2016

ritababe:
not enough reason to kill him

Most people that takes your position, have never had encounter with individuals of his kind or had been affected by their atrocities.

Contrarily, most people that don't care meting out or condoling these types of jungle justice have been victims or have lived through their atrocities or has been affected by it.

A common ground for understanding between these two polar opposite opinions is either:

1. Those who have experience it, to undo the experience, we know this is not going to happen; you remember horrible events like these for the rest of your life.

2. Those that have not experienced it, to experience these atrocities first hand...I hear you just say 'God forbid bad thing'.

You can see that, both positions have some valid point and it is not fair to stick to one side, but at the same time quote the almighty God in an attempt not to empathize with the other side's position.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: 2016 US Election - Its Impact On Immigration Enforcement by linearity: 9:30pm On Nov 16, 2016

obixcel:
@Linearity, Lol, your number four is funny, you were there with them at their homes to know if they stayed back?

The 2016 US Presidential election can be summed in a single sentence, taking percentage of votes and it is..."There was a drop in democrats votes, with a spike in votes for third party candidate candidates and with Republican votes holding steady, resulting in an electoral college victory for the republicans and a majority votes for the democrats."

If you do your independent research, you will also come to the same conclusion.

Foreign Affairs › Re: 2016 US Election - Its Impact On Immigration Enforcement by linearity: 7:58pm On Nov 16, 2016*

abbey621:
Nice write up but you are also wrong to an extent. Americans have certain rights but if you are an illegal immigrant and/or a criminal those rights are off the table. A lot of Trump's plans can be carried out via executive order. This means he does not need the consent of Congress. Trump is a businessman which means he has been dealing with government officials, business people and technocrats for a very long time, he is a strategists which means he is highly unpredictable, the majority in the House and Senate will only work in his favor and not against him as a majority of the American people believe that Washington is broken and power needs to return to the States. For example Obamacare, Trump could use a process called reconciliation to strike down parts of the law that is unfavorable, this requires less votes from Congress and will surely pass with little efforts. Other issues like NAFTA and TPP are also dead because majority of Republicans agrees with Trump, these are 3 crucial issues that could be fixed within 100 days of the Trump's presidency and will make him even more popular.

Let me address your points one after the other:

1. Striking down unfavorable portions of Obamacare via reconciliation and leave the favorable portions.
This is Alice in wonderland wish list, when it comes down to the actual work, it is not possible. The most hated unfavorable portion of Obamacare is the individual mandate and the favorable portions seems to be: removal of pre-existing condition for buying insurance, allowing teens to stay on their parents policies till age 26, removing lifetime caps, etc.

If you look closely, the favorable portions is being paid for by the unfavorable portion, if you remove the individual mandate....Insurance company will not be able to offer any of the favorable portions, because their pool will only contain sick people, no one will be forced to buy insurance until they are sick and the insurance companies will be out of business within a month.

The only sure path is to repeal the whole of Obamacare, or appoint DHS reps that will change rules to undermine the law or starve it of funds, the net effect of any of these is, about 20 million Americans will loose coverage, and all the favorable portions that he promised Americans during the campaign that, he will keep, will be all gone! The Republican will have a lot to answer for in situation like these, next time around at the pool and believe me, despite all the talks, they are approaching 'Repeal of Obamacare' with caution.

2. NAFTA and TPP Dead!
Yes, they can do this, but they risk running the Country into a Recession. By repealing NAFTA, the flow of America manufactured goods and services will also be subjected to the same type of tariff and fees abroad that the American government subjected these countries goods to at the import into American. As we know, no single country is an Island, if American goods & services do not find favorable entrances into markets all over the world, those manufacturing companies that were been protected by these policies in America will crumble under their own weight. Plus, this will exacerbate the problem at the US-mexico border...one of the things NAFTA did was to allow companies strive in Mexico that employed lots of Mexicans, many Agricultural companies sprang up in mexico because they had easy access to America market. Once NAFTA is repealed, all those people will head to border and will invade America for jobs. If Trump like, let him built a 30ft wall, they will construct a 31ft ladder, plus digger additional and bigger tunnels into America.

3. Deport 2-3million illegal Immigrants
Firstly, this will require a huge budget, I doubt is congress is going to appropriate this kind of funds, so this huge task will be left to current ICE agents, plus...it is not true that illegal immigrates do not have these inalienable rights that citizens have. They have a right to due process of the law, you cannot just capture them in the night and ship them home the next morning. Only a judge can order deportation, and if these immigrats have access to good lawyers, they can delay this process for a long time and if this is coordinated, they will clog the court system.

Plus, American businesses love cheap labor, those grocery you see at Walmart and your local supermarket are cheap thanks to the cheap labor from the illegal Mexicans. So All that Trump policies here will achieve is to drive them underground.

If Trump and the GOP truly want to deport 3million illegals, they would have gone after the employers. If the demand is dried, the supply will crumble, but they will not do that, because most of these businesses are own by Republicans and Republican donors.

4. Remember, majority of Americans voted for Hillary. Trump's win is attributed to the fact that, many people stayed home and did not border to vote, most believed that Hillary got it in the bags and did not border to vote. So Trump or the Republicans do not have a mandate here. As they risk loosing their jobs, the next time around, hence they will be very cautious on everything they do.

Will there be any changes with Trump win? Yes! there will be changes, but they will not be as drastic as he suggested during the campaign.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: 2016 US Election - Its Impact On Immigration Enforcement by linearity: 5:58pm On Nov 16, 2016

RaeMystix:
You ought to realize that the Senate, House of rep are lead by majority of the Republicans that support majority of Trumps decisions.
During the last Election Republicans won the Senate seat by 51 to 48 Democrats and the House of rep by 238 republicans to 193 democrats. House of rebs needs 218 for full control. America is screwed for the next four years.

Theoretically, you are correct but to a large extent, you are not.

First, the filibuster rule is still in place to a large extent in the Senate, which means the minority Democrat Senators will have a say in bills.

Second, you only need 3 Senators from the GOP side,to flip on each bill that require simple majority votes and there are more than 3 GOP senators that are from blue states, who will gauge the tone and will of their constituents on each bill before voting.

Third, America is not a democracy, it is a constitutional Republic, which means Americans have certain enumerated inalienable rights that no President, Senators, Congress or majority of America citizens can take away.

Fourthly, Politicians in American always listen to their constituents and knows that, their jobs & seats are not guaranteed, the next time around, if they screw them.

Remember that, Trump is not a politicians, he does not know the inner workings of the US establishment. Some of his utterances during the campaign are against Republicans conservative values and if you look at his current transition team, they are made up of career Republican politicians and his rumored picks for various positions are the same. Which means, though something's will change, but you will be highly disappointed if you expect a drastic change or even most of the things he mentioned on the campaign trail coming to past.

Campaigning is one thing, governorship is another.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: 2016 US Election - Its Impact On Immigration Enforcement by linearity: 4:51pm On Nov 16, 2016

engrelvis:
this is a very good point.america is running a democratic system n nt one man show.is nt all trump ideas DAT will b approve by US legislative body.this is nt naija

America is not a democracy, it is a constitutional Republic, look up the difference.

Romance › Re: Which Body Type Do Men REALLY Prefer? by linearity: 4:09pm On Nov 16, 2016

Winnelyn:
curvy just like me

gay alert!

Politics › Re: Obiano Boarding A Commerical Arik Flight From Enugu To Abuja (pics by linearity: 2:54pm On Nov 16, 2016

tyhgfrdeswscbhf:
i need to have sex this afternoon

No one is having sex with you, go and look for cucumber.

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Christianity Etc › Re: Oritsejafor Arrives Airport With Armed Policemen (Video) by linearity: 2:51pm On Nov 16, 2016

Kingsasian:
In Jesus's time, there was an instance where his disciples prevented some people from coming to him e.g when his disciples were preventing those parents from bringing their kids to him etc.

You conveniently forgot the part, where Jesus rebuked his disciples for that act and declared that...they should suffer them not from coming to see him, and he eventually allowed those individuals access to him.

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Crime › Re: Lady Stabbed By Her Ex-boyfriend's Friend Whom She Helped In Kwara. Graphic Pics by linearity: 2:20pm On Nov 16, 2016

Since police is looking for the guy in order to fully investigate the crime allegedly committed by him, why not post his full facial pictures?

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Christianity Etc › Re: Do Witches & Wizards Exist? I Don't Think So! by linearity: 5:56am On Nov 16, 2016

I do not know about witches or wizard, but there are supernatural powers and scientifically advancements backs this.

I grew up in the village in Nigeria and have the consciousness of both the evil and good supernatural powers. One thing I also believe is that, the more one believe in them, the more they have powers over you and it could be metaphysical.

Google 'Area 51' (Air Force Base, Nevada, USA, codename 'Dreamland')... the US is harnessing the prowess of supernatural extra-terrestrial beings to develop the next generation stealth fighter planes and weaponry.

Politics › Re: Lieutenant Colonel B.U. Umar Killed By Boko Haram by linearity: 4:44pm On Nov 15, 2016

mamabomboy:
$21million well spent. Shekau has already sent thank you messages to the Dullard-in-chief.

but in any conflict, both sides must take casualties, it is naive to think that, only the bad guys will take casualties....in some conflicts, the good guys even loses the battle and the war.

Romance › Re: 5 Reasons Most Ladies Prefer Married Men - Brainnewsng.com by linearity: 11:31pm On Nov 14, 2016

beautiful232:
I don't believe in this at all....Cause you can still meet a good single guy...and he will treat you so right and love you too

who says married men are romantic

ha ha ha

It appear you have some experience with married men and romance, please spill the beans.

Romance › Re: Couple Get Married After Being Apart For 65 Years by linearity: 2:53pm On Nov 13, 2016

Wonderful!

Literature › Re: Why I'm Leaving USA - Soyinka by linearity: 8:55am On Nov 13, 2016

More people voted for Hillary compare to Trump, the US by and large is still be governed by sets of laws and principles.

Trump needs peace to govern and the US citizens will take it likely if Trump carter to the very few. There will be riots and unrest on the streets.

The professor should also look to history and note that, Americans unlike Nigerians will be the the forefront of these fights and will be more than willing to give up their life for a good cause and the government will listen.

One of the major reason the Nigeria government has not sit up is because, no Nigerian is willing to take the fight to the government and organize peaceful disobedience even if it means dying in the process, but in the US many are willing to do it.

Mass riots demanding for Trump's resignation will also be enough to drive him out of office.

Business › Re: Naira Appreciates After DSS And EFCC Raid Traders by linearity: 7:35am On Nov 12, 2016

pointstores:
i dont understand these rates how much is dollar nw sold for in black marke nw

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Lessons I Learnt From 2016 US Presidental Elections: Donald Trump's Victory by linearity: 3:29am On Nov 12, 2016

bukatyne:
7. People do not always mean what they say/ say what they mean: Who would have thought Trump would have any supporter/ vote with all the 'he is anti-woman/anti-gay/anti-black/anti-(fill in the gap)'? Who would have believed that the same women/Black/Latinos would vote for him more than Hillary? According to Huffington post, majority of the women, blacks & Latinos voted Trump.

This is not true, the analysis you might be referencing must have stated that Trump out performed previous GOP Presidential nominees in these demography.

Hillary out performed him with these groups, but under performed Obama with these groups.

Many democrats crossed over to vote for Trump, and many sat it out; also the Sander's effect affected her, the FBI interference also hurted her.

What PMB is currently to many low income people voted for him and are now wailing will happen in the US very shortly.

When they revoke Obamacare, 20mil ppl will lose coverage, same with the other social services. It is crazy that union families voted heavily for him many becos they falsely believed that he will bring back manufacturing jobs from Mexico and China whereas this guy is against union and they will start gutting unions anytime now.

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Politics › Re: "Donald Trump May Pull US From Fight Against Boko Haram In Nigeria" - Soyinka by linearity: 1:01pm On Nov 11, 2016

chiefobdk:
Story. . U said u ll tear it.

Typical afonja. . Two faced

Say one do two

This is much ado about nothing. It does not make any iota of difference if he tears it or not; it is just a piece of paper, all he need do to get a new one is to fill some USCIS replacement form and mail it with a nominal fee and viola! He gets a new one.

If he truly meant to reject his permanent residency, he need not tear his green card, he should simply write USCIS asking them to cancel it or he can even do that at the US embassy in Nigeria.

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Politics › Re: Omokri To Soyinka: Think Twice Before Tearing Your US Green Card by linearity: 4:02pm On Nov 09, 2016

Chaloba:
Trump might not even send them off

Trump CANNOT send them out, even if tried as they are in the country legally, unless they commit any crime.

Even if He influences congress to pass a new immigration policies, those new policies cannot affect prior green card holders.

Foreign Affairs › Re: Trump Vs Clinton: When Did Nigerians Start Having Opinion In American Politics? by linearity: 11:46pm On Nov 08, 2016

This is a very naive and ignorant question...Nigeria andNigerians have a deep shared interest in what happens in the US, as it will affect us all.

No doubt, America is the most powerful country on earth today, with far reaching influence over many other countries than other powerful countries.

By analogy, the smaller trees should and must be concern about what happens to the big iroko tree in its mix.

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Celebrities › Re: Actress Rita Dominic Is Sizzling Hot In New Set Of Photos by linearity: 5:23pm On Nov 08, 2016

OP, I think want you really meant to say is that, her makeup and body paintings looks flawless...

Mary Kay really make nice products, with their help, what was thought as impossible before can be accomplished today by spending few minutes in front of a mirror.

Christianity Etc › Re: TB Joshua: Hillary Clinton Will Win Narrowly by linearity: 12:37am On Nov 07, 2016

willyo:
Maybe the massive votes will come from Maine and Nebraska... U just don't know

Maine and Nebraska's electoral college votes will be meaningless in this election.

Nebraska's two electoral college votes will go to Trump and at the minimum Hillary picks two electoral votes from Main and Trump picks the last one.

Hillary's blue wall is holding steady against Trump and with the news today about FBI concluding investigations on her email server, the poll reveversers we have been seeing for a week now will stabilize and this election will not be close going by electoral votes and she will have more than two states cushion against Trump.

Christianity Etc › Re: TB Joshua: Hillary Clinton Will Win Narrowly by linearity: 12:30am On Nov 07, 2016

chronique:
If you don't have any reasonable thing to say, isn't it better you keep quiet? The world is tired of all the stupid wars America keeps funding globally and we want a peaceful world to live in. With Hillary winning, that would just be a pipe dream. You wonder how a black man will support trump;must everybody support Hillary?

I guess you know so little about the US military and war complex.

The GOP are more ready to start wars and they own the military complex of US. They prefer to fund America military research compare to fighting diseases or even the welfare of their people.

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Christianity Etc › Re: TB Joshua: Hillary Clinton Will Win Narrowly by linearity: 12:26am On Nov 07, 2016

agabasam:
Watching Emmanueltv, and TB Joshua just said a woman will win very narrowly because of two states who voted massively for the woman(Hillary)

But he cautioned that the new president will face many challenges with passing bill, and they will be an attempt on passing a vote of no confidence on her...

Source : Emmanueltv

There is no news here, we all know she will win, some polls even give her a 98% chance of winning and since last week, the GOP have started floating talks of impeachment and that, they will block all her Supreme Court nominees.

Am curious though about the 'two states'. The only states that are voting massively for her from early voting data are states with increased Hispanics and only FL & NV comes to mind, but she does not need these states to win.

My personal take is, she will win by more than two states margins. she will win massively on electoral college votes, which is the only metrics by which which US elects their President, the popular vote counts will be close, but they are meaningless.

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Christianity Etc › Re: TB Joshua: Hillary Clinton Will Win Narrowly by linearity: 11:57pm On Nov 06, 2016

It is easy to make such pronouncement, when all true indicators of the elections that indicated that she will win, with some giving her a 98.1% odds of winning.

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Christianity Etc › Re: Waking Up From Sleep With Thin Blade Marks On My Body. by linearity: 4:43pm On Nov 06, 2016

Rossikk:
Very simplistic analysis. The Japanese are highly religious. Millions of white evangelicals in the USA are highly religious to the point they vote for politicians on the basis of their specific bible beliefs. Indians are highly religious, and yet theirs is the fastest growing major economy on earth.

Yes, those groups are highly religious but their first point of call for solutions (or answers) to strange happenings is not their religion, that was the point I was trying to make.

Galileo Galilei, Blaise Pascal, Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, Albert Einstein, etc were deeply religious people scientists and inventors, who believed in God; but use common sense, logic and exploring alternatives to seek answers to the difficult questions and events of their days.

One of Einstein famous quotes is..."Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind".

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Christianity Etc › Re: Waking Up From Sleep With Thin Blade Marks On My Body. by linearity: 4:18pm On Nov 06, 2016

DonaTee:
hian! What type of epistle is dis? After chopping sunday rice u spent ur energy to diss africa. D developed country u claim u knw so well are d ones with churches of satan n scientology which u don't even know wat dey do inside there.
tune ur dstv to 171 n watch on Saturday n Sunday night. U will see where ur colonial master is pursuing evil spirit with different means and they are not Christians b4 u come wit dat point.

Dey make u believe africa is bad yet dey turn around n do d same things dey condemn

I don't believe Africa is bad, am sorry if my prior comment came out like that. My intentions is for us to first use common sense and logic to eliminate plausible causes before ascribing events to the supernatural. Even, the fact that we have exploited all common sense and available logic and still could not come to a reasonable conclusion does not mean that, it is supernatural, it might just mean that, we do not yet know the cause, given the available data and it is time to go hunt for new data points.

Yes, there are satanic worshipers in developed worlds, whose default position for every event is the supernatural, we have wicans, card readers, palm readers, etc. The logic in my prior comment in also applicable to these set of people, in that; if you observe their followers, they do not tend to be achievers, however the leaders of these groups tend to be successful, because they are cleaver and had turn these practices to business and their followers are meant to pay for certain activities, card reading, palm reading, etc.

The above reverse logic is also applicable in Nigeria, in that religious leaders be it in church, herbalists, marabout, etc tend to be more successful than their followers or believers, because they profit from these beliefs through payments from their followers for certain activity.

The commandment of Jesus that 'freely ye receive, freely ye shall give' is lost on these people and unlike the early apostle who fervently await the coming of christ at any moment and therefore dwell in tents, these modern day believers build mansions, that could even rival our own imagination of heaven.

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