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davidylan:
lol we all knew it was a cliche perpetuated by those who need to remind themselves of their "pride" in their color. If they were truly "proud to be black" they wont hide their natural hair under tons of chemicals and asian/horse hair.
How many times do white women litter the internet with discussion forums about their color? You're born black and you can't change it, i suggest black women just get on with it.

Well said.

funloving:
I once raised in topic in this forum asking what is wrong with the Black Race ?
There is something fundamentally wrong with our make-up, our psyche. We are very, very, very EVIL.
AFRICANS, BLACKS, ARE VERY EVIL. I make bold to generalise, irrespective of what anybody will say.

There are election irregularites all over the world. It took place even in the world's No 1 Democracy, USA but lives were not lost, churches were not burnt and property were not destroyed.

As long as humans run elections we should always expect irregularities but must it be of the magnitude as seen in Africa ? Why can't we have minor irregularities that will still allow the election result to be a true reflection of how the people voted ?

Why can't Africans for once do something right that the world will applaud ?

Very soon we will begin to blame the West for our woes.

Nobody can use you if you don't make yourself available to be used.

The Arms dealer can't force Arms on you unless you are willing to buy

The natural resource exploiter can't just walk into your land and plunder your resources unless you are willing to help him.

Other better countries and continents have a way of safe guarding their people and their resources but Africans have a repulsively ingenious way of destroying their own, with the help of outsiders.

STUPID BUNCH OF HUMANS !!!

Some thing is very very wrong with the Black people in Africa, its just that it lies deep and there is much more to it that meets the ordinary eyes but something is really really wrong with us. our affinity to each other is at the zero level we hate our selves so much for no reason at all, the affinity of white people to each other is much more than ours .

babasin:
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Power Generation by Country:

[list]
[li]Germany --> 582,000 GW[/li]
[li]France -->549,000GW[/li]
[li]UK --->386,000GW[/li]
[li]Italy -->279,000GW[/li]
[li]Spain -->238,000GW[/li]
[li]Nigeria -->3000MW[/li][/list]

kaycrystal:
Vision 2020 is just mere sing song for political apologists,
wot are the indices for the ecomomic revival?
any directions in terms of policies?
its obvious the same way vision 2010 went is whats happening right now,
we presently don't have the people that can move us forward in key positions,

Why should we keep on lying and deluding our selves? what is vision 2020? what can we do to make us attain that level of development within that stipulated time? What are the indices of economic rebirth as some one has very rightly stated? Where is the excellent and focused leadership? 3000MW chie no be small thing ohhhh.

Kai Bigb1 stop you antics, will you take a bullet for any person? Pls we are tired of your lame topics this is 2008.

RichyBlacK:
@mazaje,
I've dated more than my fair share of "strong black women" and with time I've come to understand their MO. The real issue is that many of them come from broken/unstable homes. This is not saying that people from broken homes always turn out this way (A => B does not mean B => A, thank God for logic!), but that of those who turn out to be angry, the majority are products of their tumultuous backgrounds. At a young age they're made to believe that men will be the source of all their problems on earth.

Thanks to biased family laws that favor women in the US, after the divorce, the mother starts telling her daughter that her father is a "dog". Eternal pampering is reserved for their sons - thug-life is the sure destination [this is a whole different topic].

Not college-educated
The daughters grow up with some level of distrust for men. They self-fulfill the prophecy of their mothers by seeking out dog-like men. They avoid the men with character, compassion, humility and strength for the those living the thug-life - the bad boys. Those who do not fit the bad boy label, i.e. the good boys, are dismissed as "not cute",weak, lazy and unattractive. Of course the bad boys live up to their names and their anger towards men is only multiplied. The good boys are long gone, taken by more stable black sisters or white, Asian, or Latino women. Loneliness sets in and they now are determined to chart their own course - have babies! The intent is to 'create' a good man (better than their fathers and boyfriends) and a better woman (better than themselves). After several kids from different men, the cycle continues.

College-educated
They grow up being told to be focused and not allow any man to tell them what to do. Many times, they're indoctrinated with the idea that personal success (having a good job, buying a house, a nice car, etc.) is incompatible with success in relationships, a.k.a. marriage. Oprah is promptly used as the shining example. In a society like America where black women outnumber black men on college campuses, and where in every American family-based sitcom (except for a few like The Cosby Show), the man is portrayed as goofy, childish, stupid, or incompetent, the woman graduates from college with a warped view of men - dumb, need help, "can't write a check", can't balance an account, not educated, and mentally stunted. They meet a lot of men who confirm such stereotypes, but also meet well-educated brothers that they know not how to deal with. It all ends in what Abami Eda called "Power Show"! After several failed relationships they then decide to have kids. A black male victim is sought out. It ends in no marriage or marriage and then divorce - divorce due to "I'm college-educated and you're not"; or "I'm college-educated and no man tells me what to do"; or "I pay the bills here, how dare you?"; or "I make my own money and don't need your trifling ass!"; etc. She gets the kids and the cycle continues.

Very  insightful. Merry go round they say. Black men ain't shit is the mantra out there, people with attitudes. some times i really wonder why the AA just can't get it right most of the time(relationship wise). Thanks for your write up man, at least i  now know one of the fundamental reason behind the high rate of illegitimacy(baby mama) in the AA society.

Big B1:
I truly do not understand all the noise coming from pure Nigerian alarmist.
What is the big deal and why are you so upset?

The man has asked for the same request from others in the past; why are you folks making this request seem as if I was asking the man to show us his private part?

Guys, be for real; if moving forward is our mission then it is absolutely acceptable for us to get to know our hero (Ribadu). Him declaring his assets will only empower our mission to put end to corruption in Nigeria; but of course many of us do not see things this way. So many are simply too dull to understand my request.
I hate followers with empty heads!

And just FYI: None of you truly admire the man the way I sincerely do and only God knows it. I love Nigeria too much to compromise my desire standard for this nation
We have to raise up our standard in Nigeria and clearly understand the true definition of mission accomplished. And we must also understand that if we clearly express what went wrong with Ribadu and his several failed operations, this will only empower the next man in line. A bench mark will be established and the next in line will never want to fall behind the bench mark; which will be beneficial to Nigeria as a nation at the end of the day.

We must always crave and embrace doing what is right the right way and absolutely not doing what is right the wrong way. This happens to be the most common error in Africa today.

We can only grow by learning from our mistakes and absolutely not by sheltering our mistakes.
In United States, there is absolutely no room for the second place; it's only and always the first place. And this is how things should be done in Nigeria.

Ribadu is a fine Nigerian and a magnificent human being, but at the same time I must keep it real and never worship failure; this is the only way the man will grow to become one of a kind.

Stop making noise, grow up and let's work together to discover a better Nigeria!

Same old rhetorics, we are wise enough to see through and beyond all that. you clearly dislike ribadu and any effort to curtail corruption in Nigeria so spare us all the rhetorics.

away4real:
BigB1 you are such a fool.

kai! toe kaji. Na so war dey take begin

kai BigB1 we are tired of you antics and meaningless attacks on a man that did some good service to nigeria(remeber i said some good service)

RichyBlacK:
Thanx!

Just telling the sisters how brothers feel.

Very true i believe you are not alone on this, so many brothers feel this way too. There is no silver bullet solution to the problems and challenges the black brothers and sisters encounter in their relationship but you have really outlined some of the basic issues.

RichyBlacK:
@Kenya,

I'm glad you realized the folly in the misguided phrase "strong black woman" or it's close cousin "strong independent black woman".

I see them "strong black women" as women who bring swords and machetes to a buffet requiring forks and knives. Their guards are always up even when it's unnecessary. Every move a brother makes is interpreted from a pride-control-power perspective. Perpetually angry, easily irritated, and constantly ruminating experiences with men of yesteryears. Confused by incoherent messages, they hate what they most desire, and push away what they most want. Trigger-happy, they're unable to comprehend peace; hiding their fears with a facade of strength. They indulge in mind games that outplay them. Control and manipulation is their forte. They chant "equality" but work against balance. Anger, selfishness and insecurity rule their days.

As long as "sweet Asian/Black/White/Latino women" still exist, no man wants to be with a "strong black woman".

This about sums it up. i really like the way you put it all up in a very clear and elaborate manner with out resulting to insults.

I aforementioned that you should stop bandying cheap lies. you want and answer? ok here it is

http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2007/12/20/19033296.aspx.

almondjoy:
You should be happy they are "allegedly" married.  Abi the claiming of the "cootchie" dey pain you?

See the link provided--whether true or false----Provide another link to counterblast the "bandied cheap lies". Tilll then, lets rejoice at another "Hollywood Union".

I have provided a link to rebut her claims. O girl the browm cootchie dey pain me ohhh. i for like make i be the one wey the lick that brown clit and vulva.

Sweet T:
@Busta

You look bootylicious, Baby. [b]Makes me want to drink your bath w[/b]ater. LET ME BUY YOU A DRINK, BABY.

Bath water ke, e go better if you drink her urine or her menstarl flow, only then would we know that your are serious and willing to do anything for her.

LAGOS, Nigeria - A ruptured gasoline pipeline exploded in flames, killing at least 34 people near Nigeria's main city of Lagos as they tried to scoop fuel from the gushing leak, police said Wednesday.

The explosion Tuesday morning at Agbogbo, a village near the coastal city of Lagos, occurred on a stretch of pipeline in remote swamp waters, and news of it did not filter out until Wednesday morning.

The pipeline carries gasoline, imported for domestic use, from the Lagos port to inland depots across the country.

"We counted a total of 34 bodies at the scene," Lagos police spokesman Frank Mbah told reporters.

Nigerian Red Cross official Abiodun Orebiyi confirmed dozens of deaths and injuries, but said the final toll was not yet clear.

Most of the victims were women and children who had crowded at the scene with jerry cans and buckets in the hope of collecting fuel for sale or personal use, witnesses said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071226/ap_on_re_af/nigeria_pipeline_fire

Blackcat:
Beyonce is now a married woman , for those of you that were exposing her coochie on nairaland please Jay z has officially claimed the coochie oooooooooooooo!

http://www.dotspotter.com/news/539400_Jay_Z_and_Beyonce_Secretly_Wed_In_Paris

Lies, why are you bandying cheap lies?

While the lives of Blacks collectively continue to improve in North America, the ones in "Africa" continue to head "south" to decadent oblivion.

This statement is false

almondjoy:
Gone are the days when men were men.  Now we have "oreo cookies" like Collin Powell and Barack Obama!!!!! Not to talk of 2-faced fake reverands like Al Sharpton and the mouth-twitching slimy reverend Jesse Jackson.

RIP---MLK.---Your legacy lives on. No "Black Man or Woman" has died for what he or she believed since you departed this world. You made the ultimate sacrifice for the black race in Northern America.

What an "honorable civil disobedient" servant of the black people.

What is this suppose to mean? stop insinuating things  you have little or no knowledge about.  MLK was a great man that had a DREAM.

over 90 percent of all religious adherents are into their religion or beliefs because they were born into it and were thought about it right from childhood. they were also thaught to discard and disregard any other belief and faith contary to theirs thats why we have about 2 billion christains, about 1.5 billion moslems, about a billion hindus, and about 300 million buhdist etc.

And yes, somebody said the quoran is an ordinary book, that statement is uncharitable because if you read it you will discover that the thoughts therein are inspired

I very much agree with this statement.

The primate or what ever he calls himself should go f u c k himself attention seeking goat.

merry christmas to my mum(the best mum alive), my younger brother, nicholas,jimmy, weng and julna. May you all have a splendid christmas and a prosperous new year filled with love and fullfilled dreams.

Afam:
@BigB1,

Stop ridiculing yourself with your position on IBB and OBJ.

As long as you continue to cover up, deny or question real looting and institutionalization of corruption by IBB any comments you make concerning OBJ belongs to the trash can.

Learn to have some decency abeg.

you've said it all.

almondjoy:
I never liked the guy in Nigerian Movies before this. Not to say he is guilty of what he is accused of. But something about the guy has always given me the creeps.

I wish him peace!

I love your candor.

jagunlabi:
So it means that the christiandom has gone back to it's roots.

What is the christain roots if i may ask? is it confusion?

Christianity has always been like that, there was never a time when two denomination ever agreed on any specific issue, the denominations are more like distinct religions on there own, there is no co-relation between the jehova's witness and the catholics, the angilcan church is a very different religion to lets say the african white garmet church, there is absolute no link between the mormons and the protestant church.

In Nigeria alone you have uncountable denominations each with their beliefs and mode of worship its so bad that most denominations denouce and castigate the others for their belief. infact each denomination as an entity is a religion on its own. when you look at the bible you have different bibles and different translations. why all the confusion and complication? My personal take on this is that christianity is a man made religion hence the confusion and insanity.

Mamajama
Where is that stupid thief(Ehindero) you call your father? is he hiding in a hole like a rat?

kai black man! when are we going to open our eyes and discard this stupid borrowed religions and do what is right? what has christianity or islam done to nigeria? pls i will want us to look at our selves and ask our selves how this 2 religions have helped us in any way. when u look at nigeria you will realize that islam and christianity have not contributed anything positive or meaningful to nigeria yet we still kill and maim each other all in the name of religion. kai people with out religion are living in peace and making tremendious progress while we the very religious keep on fighting and killing our selves while moving backwards in the process.

On the surface america looks like a religious nation to those that don't have eyes to see, so religion drove americans to iraq and afganistan abi? Non of america's leaders ever believed in any god or gods from Geroge washigton to George Bush, they only use religion to pander and play with people's emotions just to secure votes, how can american be a religious nation as u cliam and still perpetrate slavery,racism, genocide and what not with the full support of the nation and its leaders, you guys just need to open your eyes. america today has one of the highest number of atheist in the world but they will always claim that its only about 18% of the population that are atheist so that they dont loose the respect other religious nations (like nigeria) have for them (nonsenes).The only people that really believe in god are the african americans and that can be understood.

davidylan:
the intellectually paucity on these boards can be really depressing at times. Information is only a click away, brush up your history before telling others to go get their "facts" right.

I still maintain that america has never been and was never a religious country.

Kobojunkie:
You mean Saudi Arabia, America and all other religious countrys have the same problem?? WOW, blame it all on religion won't ya.!!! So People who choose to use their own money to build are the problem for you

American has never been and was never a religious nation so get your facts right.

Orikinla:
Kenya needs Barack Obama more than America.

Obama should honour the will of his late father by returning to his fatherland and become the President of Kenya.

I do not even know why Africans would do anything to deny serving their fatherland to play to the gallery of America.

Yes, Oprah Winfrey is bona fide Afrcan American since Kunta Kinte, but this Barack Obama guy is only an African American by default.
His father was Kenyan, born and bred and died in Kenya and by our African tradition, the first son must live and carry the heirloom of the Kenyan Father in Kenya and not claiming another fatherland, because he looks down on his own fatherland in Africa.
Obama should come back home.
All African immigrants should be sent back to Africa to join proud Africans like Orikinla to develop Africa.

Barack Husseiin Obama, come back home to Kenya.
We need you more than America.
Come back and become the chief of your father's village and marry more wives.

The only African Americans I recognize are the descendants of Alex Haley's Kunta Kinte.
Any African American whose greatgrand-parents did not pick cotton or work in the sugar cane plantations, should never be called an African American.

The Green Card is becoming FFA (free for all) these days that even Osama bin Laden can become an American tomorrow?

Just hear yourself, why spin issues you have little or no knowledge about? how is barack obama an african?His mother was a white woman from Kansas while his father left them when he was just 2 years old, he grew up with his mum and his maternal grandparents who were all white americans so how does that make him and african?He only saw his dad once when he was about 10years old he is just as american as hillary,bush,Algore or any other person out there.