₦airaland Forum

Some important issues:
First, we must distinguish between demonstrations and insurrections. Peaceful demonstrations should not be fired upon with live bullets. Of course, even peaceful demonstrations should coordinate with the police to ensure that they do not interfere with the rights of other citizens. However, when rioters are attacking police stations and army barracks with the aim of taking power, then they are no longer demonstrators; they are insurrectionists. They will have to be treated as such. A responsible government would have to use reasonable force to neutralize them. Of course, the ideal responsible government should also be one that is elected by the people at periodic intervals. If there is a doubt about the legitimacy of a government, and the people decide to launch an insurrection, that should be the decision of the internal forces. It should not be for external forces to arrogate themselves that role; often, they do not have enough knowledge to decide rightly.
Excessive external involvement always brings terrible distortions. Why should external forces involve themselves? That is a vote of no confidence in the people themselves. A legitimate internal insurrection, if that is the strategy chosen by the leaders of that effort, can succeed. The Shah of Iran was defeated by an internal insurrection; the Russian Revolution in 1917 was an internal insurrection; the Revolution in Zanzibar in 1964 was an internal insurrection; the changes in Ukraine, Georgia, and so forth - all were internal insurrections. It should be for the leaders of the resistance in a given country to decide their strategy, not for foreigners to sponsor insurrection groups in sovereign countries.
I am totally allergic to foreign, political, and military involvement in sovereign countries, especially the African countries. If foreign intervention is good, then, African countries should be the most prosperous countries in the world, because we have had the greatest dosages of that: the slave trade, colonialism, neo-colonialism, imperialism, etc. But all those foreign-imposed phenomena have been disastrous. It is only recently that Africa is beginning to come up, partly because we are rejecting external meddling. External meddling and the acquiescence by Africans into that meddling have been responsible for the stagnation on our continent. The wrong definition of priorities in many African countries is, in many cases, imposed by external groups. Failure to prioritize infrastructure, for instance, especially energy, is, in part, due to some of these pressures. Instead, consumption is promoted. External interests linked up, for instance, with bogus internal groups to oppose energy projects for false reasons. How will an economy develop without energy? Quislings and their external backers do not care about all this.

He's quite moderate: Gadhafi is one of the few secular leaders in the Arab world. He does not believe in Islamic fundamentalism, which is why Libyan women have been able to go to school, to join the army, and so forth. This is a positive point on Gadhafi's side.

Gadhafi built Libya: I have never taken the time to investigate socio-economic conditions within Libya. From the TV pictures, I could see good roads, you can even see the rebels zooming up and down in pick-up trucks on very good roads accompanied by Western journalists. Who built these good roads? Who built the oil refineries in Brega and those other places where the fighting has been taking place recently? Were these facilities built during the time of the king and his American and British allies, or were they built by Gadhafi?
In Tunisia and Egypt, some youths immolated themselves because they failed to get jobs. Are the Libyans without jobs also? If so, why are there hundreds of thousands of foreign workers? Is Libya's policy of providing so many jobs to Third World workers bad? Are all the children going to school in Libya? Was that the case in the past - before Gadhafi? Is the conflict in Libya economic or purely political? Possibly Libya could have transitioned more if they encouraged the private sector further. However, this is something the Libyans are better placed to judge. As it is, Libya is a middle income country with a GDP of $62 billion.

He raised the price of oil: Before Gadhafi came to power in 1969, a barrel of oil was 40 American cents. He launched a campaign to withhold Arab oil unless the West paid more for it. I think the price went up to $20 per barrel. When the Arab-Israel war of 1973 broke out, the barrel of oil went up to $40. I am, therefore, surprised to hear that many oil producers in the world, including the Gulf countries, do not appreciate the historical role played by Gadhafi on this issue. The huge wealth many of these oil producers are enjoying was, at least in part, due to Gadhafi's efforts. The Western countries have continued to develop in spite of paying more for oil. It therefore means that the pre-Gadhafi oil situation was characterized by super exploitation of oil producing countries by the Western countries.

THE GOOD, THE BAD and THE UGLY GHADAFFI

[b]Gadhafi is a nationalis[/b]t: Gadhafi has conducted an independent foreign policy and, of course, also independent internal policies. I am not able to understand the position of Western countries, which appear to resent independent-minded leaders and seem to prefer puppets. Puppets are not good for any country. Most of the countries that have transitioned from Third World to First World status since 1945 have had independent-minded leaders: South Korea (Park Chung-hee), Singapore (Lee Kuan Yew), China People's Republic (Mao Tse Tung, Chou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Marshal Yang Shangkun, Li Peng, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao), Malaysia (Dr. Mahthir Mohamad), Brazil (Luis Inacio Lula da Silva), Iran (the Ayatollahs Khomeini and Khamenei), etc. Between World War I and World War II, the Soviet Union transitioned into an industrial country, propelled by the dictatorial but independent-minded Joseph Stalin. In Africa, we have also benefited from a number of independent-minded leaders: Colonel Nasser of Egypt, Mwalimu Nyerere of Tanzania, Samora Machel of Mozambique, and others. That is how southern Africa was liberated. That is how we got rid of Idi Amin. The stopping of genocide in Rwanda and the overthrow of Mobutu Sese-Seko in the Democratic Republic of the Congo were as a result of efforts of independent-minded African leaders.
Gadhafi, whatever his faults, is a true nationalist. I prefer nationalists to puppets of foreign interests. Where have the puppets caused the transformation of countries? I need some assistance with information on this from those who are familiar with puppetry.

http://www.nipost.gov.ng/

very informative webste.

Check their website online. (nipost)

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."

Jimi Hendrix

^^^^

wales:
“Previously, non-immigrant visa applicants in Nigeria paid both a $140 Machine Readable Visa fee and a VFS processing fee of 5800 Naira prior to their interviews. Now, all costs for using the appointment system, including scheduling and passport pickup, will be covered under the MRV fee, currently $140 for business and tourist visas and $150 for work visas.”


http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201103023162817

Read and note the difference.

uwani:
Hi all,
I need your candid opinion on this issue that has been bugin my mind for dayz now, I and my boyfriend have finally decided to get married but the issue now is the date, I want it in june n he wants it by november, I want it in June cos , I just lost my mum (jan 17), my Dad who luvs my mum so much n couldnt take it suffered a partial stroke, the only sister i have in this world is coming to naija by june. My fiance on the other hand wants it in november because he cant raise money for an elaborate wedding in June which i dont want, cos the mood is not right.

Pls am i being selfish for wanting a small wedding in june with my sister around or an elaborate i.e a big wedding in november which i might not really appreciate? pls your candid opinion

My mum, my dad, my sister. My this, my that. Me, Myself and I. Such Selfishness.
OP please wake up. Marriage is not about you and your father's family. Are you getting married your only sister in June?


In-laws are the root cause of many failed or failing marriages.

WHO CARES? WETIN CONCERN BOB MARLEY WITH COMB?
I DONT GIVE A poo WHAT HAPPENS IN LIBYA.

THEY HAVE BEEN SUFFERING AND SMILING FOR 40 DONKEY YEARS.
THEIR PROTEST IS LONG OVERDUE. THEY JUST WOKE UP?

TUNISIA WAITED 20+ YEARS. llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Congrats. Program Uninstalled. Virus deleted

EGYPT WAITED 30+ YEARS llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Congrats. Program Uninstalled. Virus deleted

LIBYA WAITED 40+ YEARS llllllllllllllllllllllll Malicious Virus detected. Please wait. Program Uninstalling.,, ,.,.,

I WONDER WHO IS NEXT?

The parents should take all the blame.
They had too much money and ended up spoiling the brat.
Sent him abroad 7 years ago to solve a problem.
Sent him back to Naija to reverse the goof.
Tough luck to the entire family.

Pls help with this:

ZTE MF 110
IMEI- 864446004252946
EAN- 6934933003095
S/N- 325902843513

Same SH1T, different day/month/year.
The man will just answer the quiz, share part of the loot and live goes on.

She is 2nd out of the 1st Nine.
Compared to other contestants, her picture does not even tell anything about travel.
Only one big smile.

^^^ Why not ask swedish people to vote for her?
When she gets there, she will deny us and put Sweden flag on the North Pole, instead of Naija geenwhitegreen.
Anyway, I wish her goodluck.

^^^ One-to-One comparisons will always be there, for an analytical minded person. Whether economic PPP or not.
Except if there is too much cash to throw around. Until maybe in 6-12 months, after settling and getting a good paying job.

OP, So far, how can you compare your present experiences with the advices you recieved from fellow NLanders over a year ago?

Just want to ask those Nigerians that have emigrated and nationalised in US through the DV lottery system or any other way, How did they choose the city which they now call their hometown as US citizens??
What was the deciding factor?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DptKbqqO1EY&feature=fvst

LOL.
This racquet was "made is china"
She lost that point.

In some places broken bottles are used as chippings along with cement and sand in making concrete floor decking (Construction).

loveJoyce:
Presently Many married women just faked as mothers and wives while playing the field harder as prostitudes.

Sadly, My boyfriend left me a year ago. now. I may be in need of someone to love,  I am mature and beautiful, My friends told me about the site------ http://bestkept-secrets..com/p/best-kept-secrets-learn-from.html   and i got curious about it. they met their boyfriends there., said It's the best place to meet a wealthy lover, So i got a username ---Claraphil --- there in order to find a new wealthy boyfriend. is it wrong? Very interesting but dubious guys may not enjoy there.

THIS POSTER IS REALLY MARRIED. TOO MUCH LIES AND FAKE PEOPLE ON NLAND

loveJoyce:
My husband is proposing to my younger sister because i have no child for the past five years of our marriage . He said if i refuse, he will marry one of my  friend. Infact he appears in love with both. These are impossible conditions and i am very confused. Which do i accept. I know he is nuts and will go ahead with one.

Within 1 week this poster is married without child for 5 yrs.

OMO IBO:
Are there no restaurants in Lagos/Abuja/PH to review??

Jevnik Restaurant
ABUJA, ENUGU, CALABAR, PH and OWERRI. I am not sure about Lagos.
This is a restuarant that will satisfy your feeding needs, breakfast, lunch and dinner. The food ranges from local meals to intercontinental meals. The restuarant has its branches in abuja, enugu, calabar, ph and owerri -all in Nigeria. Try the restuarant and you will want some more.

What the heck. If the man can afford to give out a 3.5m car. then he is bigger than 500k. He should also dash her the 500k with interest.

If thats is the question then you can also ask if the woman should start paying house rent to the man.

Divorce is just around the corner.

OP you need JESUS.

MOBO444:
So many Nigeria ladies when you look at their facebook  friends list you did be surprise, some have over 1,000 friends, some even have 2,000 friends and this are ladies whom are maybe just 24, 25, 26 years of age (WHAT WILL HAPPEND WHEN THEY ARE 30 YEARS OLD), even some old women of 30, 31,32 years of age also have more than 3,000 friends in their friends list.

Now you have all this friends, no real man will take you serious, all manliness and harry will comment on your profile and picture, some might even paste comment like I WANT TO BE IN THERE, really my Black woman you are hindering your chance of getting a husband, there was this lady I wanted to take serious and saw she had 800 facebook friends, well i just bed her and moved on, she is something like 35 years old now.

The worst part is you have all this friends on facebook, you are SINGLE, no JOB, you are BROKE FINANCIALLY, you have no CAR, you take bike and okada everywere, you have no CONNETION, you have no HOPE for life, you don’t even get a guy to BED you when you want, you BLOCKING YOUR WAY BLACK WOMAN and most of them don’t even know the guys they are adding.

RELATIONSHIP: Its Complicated. Very Complicated.

The boy should not only suck the nipples. He can also use his molars and premolars to chew on the nipples.

Topic should be " See what my husband has done to abuja babes".

^^^^ You are right. OP, ask and answer the above questions now, not after the wedding.
There is a difference between pity and love.
Marry out of real love and not out of pity and sympathy.

I guess she is desparate about the marriage.
However, If you really really love (agape, unconditional love) her. Then go ahead and marry her, dont waste time.

You are lucky she even confessed. Some are die-hard criminals and dont have any guilty.
If she is a good wife and the only problem is the age and infertility issue, keep praying and have FAITH.
Nothing is above God.

^^^^ Super Story.

damisire:
But truly all this yrs, I must av fallen in love with him too. I luv my husband too and he is d man I got married to and stlii love to be with but truly I know dis man shows me more love.
If my car breaks down in d middle of 3rd mainland aqnd I call my husband and call him too. I’m 100% sure, he’ll get there first. I’m not deceiving myself, he is d kind of guy that can take a bullet for me.
I considered d possibility of marring him before I got married. I jokingly told my folks and they all said No, as per older man with kids, u know. He’s met some of my siblings but just as a nice uncle and I think he still calls them.
Pls advise, wt can I do now??

@ OP, You just registered on NL only to post this?
Maybe you are reading the comments/responses with a different UserName.
1. You have no clue "why dis man shows you more love."
2. You are ignorantly deceving yourself.
3. The man is not talking any bullet for you, instead he is shooting the bullet at you and your husband.

Be wise.
You need to know the motive behind his extraordinary kindness.