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I took time to read almost 4 pages of replies and no one is saying anything about the fact that the girl might very well be innocent. The report says she confessed. What interrogation tactic was used? I dont trust the nigerian police an inch? Let them say how they obtained this 'confession' from her. Someone else might be responsible for that murder & she would be nothing more than a fall girl. Whatever the case maybe though, this case has no business being in a high court. She's a juvenile and she should be in a juvenile court, end of. The so called confession should be thrown out and declared 'inadmissible' in court. Any further interrogation should be done in the presence of a court appointed guardian (in lieu of her very poor excuse of a parent).

Maybe there is something else everybody knows that I dont know o, but if her 'confession' is all they got, let them just do a little 'real investigation' and they might just find d real murderer(s).

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This is really sad. To think that for a couple of hours there, this man had the destiny of the country in his hand, literally. Imagine he wanted to and could have shot Abdusalam dead and then we would have been saddled with Bamaiyi as head of state; I shudder at the very thought of Bamaiyi as head of state even for 1 hour. He would only have instigated blood shed and began his own reign of terror.

For an intelligence man Al-mustapha, u didnt sound very inteligent there for a moment. You ask y people never say that Abiola died 'on top of a woman'? Because he was in prison.  remember? you and your oga put him there and I wanna bet you didn't allow him conjugal visit. So that's y, it would never cross anybody's mind. Simple rule of comparison: compare like with like. On the other hand your oga, having hijacked and annexed Nigeria's treasury, was living in wealth and opulence and could have paid for the services of the most expensive call girl in the world, be she Indian, European or African or whatever.

It really surprises me that a lot of people are buying into this. Mind you, I never really believe the story of d indian whores. sounds just a wee bit over outlandish and novel. Pardon me, but Al-Mustapha's version isnt any more logical. All of a sudden 'the head of state was unstable'. Of cos he was unstable and that was why he died. Until you tell us d cause of the instability, the real cause, I'm sorry al-musty, we'll just make do with the Indian LovePeddler(s) or d (Indian) apple or any other story that tickles our fancy.

Can't believe it's been 13 years, but I remember like yesterday where I was the day I heard that Abacha had gone the way of his fathers. I was in El-Kanemi hall, university of Lagos. I remember because there was spontaneous jubilation and the students of El-ka immediately took to the streets. I didnt join but i vividly remember leaning over the wall to watch other students along Akoka road marching towards FCE Akoka. And i remembered thinking that it was real sad when people celebrate the death of another person, seeing as we are all going to leave this plane one way or the other.

The only thing he said that makes any kind of sense is the fact that General Abacha's death was planned/organised. I  agree wholeheartedly. And that's why I still believe in the entity called Nigeria. Because God still has plans for us. (Sorry to disappoint all the conspiracy theorist, I believe it's God that ultimately rules over the affairs of man. He sets up rulers and disposes of them).

God bless Nigeria.

For some absolutely hilarious comments, you can read the yahoo reproduction of it here:

http://news.yahoo.com/census-world-look-2050-084801254.html?ugccmtnav=v1%2Fcomments%2Fcontext%2F6b800d64-a265-3116-b1ce-562b359ceb09%2Fcomments%3Fcount%3D20%26sortBy%3DhighestRated

Take this for example: 'I am no longer sure I wish to live to be 100.'

And of cos some uppity fella suggests that they reduce the food aid and increase the condom supplied to Africa. The nerve of it.

402 Million. Gosh! Talk about bursting at the seams. 401,999,999 other Nigerians besides me come 2050 (God sparing me). I shudder and shiver to imagine Naija still stuck with the burden of '1 Nigeria' and this present ilk of leaders and 402 million of us, not counting the diaspora. And maybe by then the oil (the black glue holding us together ) drying out or loosing out to some other form of alternate fuel and no longer  bringing in billions of dollars.  I can just imagine riots, and area boys and almajiris and kidnappers and armed robbers or is it army robbers. and no roads, zero ammenities, moribund healthcare and educational system. And worse, gross inky darkness everywhere. And the ever present, ever looting politicians, still doing what they know best to do: LOOTING. And what percentage living below the so called 1-dollar-a-day line? 90%, 95%?

O boy, I'm having a nightmare in broad daylight; someone pinch me please.

Hopefully, the CIA's (or whoever's) prediction that Nigeria would be a failed state 35 years before then comes to pass first. And by failed state I hope it is going to be (at least) 3 separate and fully functional entities and not the Somalia kind of failed state.

But 402 million within the present Nigeria is a formula for Armageddon and anarchy. Join me in saying God forbid.

Here is the world in 2050, as imagined by the U.S. Census Bureau: India will be the most populous nation, surpassing China sometime around 2025. The U.S. will remain exactly where it is now: in third place, with a population of 423 million (up from 308 million in 2010). And declining birth rates in two of the world's most economically and politically influential countries, Japan and Russia, will cause them to fall from their current positions as the 9th and 10th most populous nations, respectively, to 16th and 17th.
The findings are the result of population estimates and projections of 228 countries compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau's International Data Base (IDB). They offer a revealing look into the future. "One of the biggest changes we've seen has been the decline in fertility in some developed countries such as China," says Loraine West , an IDB project manager, "while others are experiencing a slight increase." In other words, China's population boom is finally slowing down while Western Europe's long-declining birth rate is - in some places, at least - rising again. Spain and Italy are "on an uptick," says West, "but how high will [the birth rate] rise? Or will it simply fluctuate up and down on some long term level? We'll have to see." According to Italy's The National Institute of Statistics, the country's recent population increase can be largely attributed to its own immigrant population. See TIME's "Intelligent Cities."
The two countries on track to make the biggest population gains are Nigeria and Ethiopia. Nigeria currently boasts 166 million people, but by 2050 its population is expected jump to 402 million. Ethiopia's population will likely triple from 91 million to 278 million, bringing the east African nation into the one of the top 10 most populous countries in the world for the first time. In fact, according to the United Nations Population Division, although only 18% of the world's population lives in so-called "high-fertility" countries (places where women have more than 1.5 daughters on average), most of those countries are in Africa; the continent is expected to experience significant population growth in the coming decades, which could compound the already-dire food supply issues in some African nations.
While the U.S. appears relatively stable - it's the only country in the top 10 whose ranking is not expected to change in the next 40 years - previous census reports have highlighted dramatic demographic shifts within the country's borders. Last week, the Census Bureau announced that more than half of children under two in the U.S. are ethnic minorities. Add to that the non-Hispanic white population's increasing age (in California, for example, the median age for non-Hispanic whites is almost 10 years older than that of the state as a whole) and America in 2050 will look a lot different than the America we know today. (See TIME's video: 10 Questions for Robert Groves.)
Perhaps the most unfortunate change is the one currently experienced by Russia. The cold, vast country has been undergoing steady depopulation since 1992 and the U.S. Census Bureau expects it to decline further, from 139 million people to 109 million by 2050. That's a 21% drop, even more than country suffered during World War II. Like many countries, Russia is experiencing declining birth rates, but it's also suffering form a relatively low life expectancy. According to the World Health Organization, Russian men have a life expectancy of just 62 years, a fact that is often attributed to the country's high rate of alcoholism and poor diet. (For comparison, Japan is also struggling with depopulation, but the World Health Organization puts its life expectancy at 80 for men and 86 for women).
So what does this mean? The U.S. is not yet experiencing the kind of population decline that Europe experienced in the 1990s and 2000s, although immigration and differing birth rates among races means that the country's ethnic composition is changing. Something similar will be going on in the rest of the world, as well: Africa and India's boom, Russia's decline and China's expected plateau (holding steady around 1.3 billion people between now and 2050) will change the makeup of the estimated 9.4 billion people who will call Earth home in 2050. The future, it seems, is not as distant as we think.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2080404,00.html?xid=rss-fullnation-yahoo

[quote author=High_Chief link=topic=648419.msg8150947#msg8150947 date=1303082527]As incorruptible as Buhari, we hope he will not accept the results from Kano, Kaduna, Sokoto, Kano, Katsina, Niger and all those Northern states where he is expeted to win due to under-age voting and other irregularities. The world is watching![/quote]Soundbite. very cheeky too. My best commentary of the lot.

@ ileke-idi. Who is gorgeous? your brother?

naijaking1:
I beg tell them.
So, Olusegun Igbochukwu Obasanjo is Igboman. And of course Jonathan Ebelechukwu Azikiwe is also an Igboman. While looking for ways to deny Igbos their chance at 2015, don't also forget that Alhaji Shehu Sorochukwu Shagari, and Gen. Ibrahim Batanisi-nmiri Babangida are also Igbomen. Did you also say Alhaji Atufue-aku Atiku?

This thread is absolutely farcical. It is the funniest i have ever read on Nairaland and maybe anywhere else for that matter in a long long while. It just goes on to show that if u have got some sense of humor you can reduce any situation to a joke.

In contributing to this thread, I will say that I am proudly Yoruba, but we've got no chance in hell of passing Obasanjo off as Igbo.

That said, it saddens me to see what greed and avarice is doing to this country. We are all one. We have intermarried, 'intermingled' and 'inter-every other thing possible'. A lot of us can say along with ndu_chuks 'that the blood of at least 4 major tribes in Nigeria runs through my veins'. But what do we see, we still kill ourselves. And if you get to the root of the matter, its hardly ever because of religious or ethnic differences. Its always because of Money. Sad.

Can I point out sth that we all seemed to have missed. This man (Ghadaffi) went to a Christian country (infact the headquaters of Catholicism in the world) and he held a 'crusade' as it were for Islam, urging the citizens to convert to Islam and even distributing free copies of the Quran. Can the reverse of this situation ever happen i.e. a christian president or maybe the pope visit Saudi officially and then make a detour to hold a crusade somewhere inviting people to convert to Christianity and then distribute the Bible? It can NEVER happen methinks. And that is the importance of freedom. And given the chance again, the Italians wont stop him, becos its a free country and he has a freedom of expression which is more than can be said about a lot of the Arab countries.

Im sure he will provide the bail. But how fair is this? What was the bail for Ms Ibru? are they comparable? well the fact that Ibru never hotfooted it to the UK will probably count in her favour.

To the best of my knowledge, only the Scandinavian countries have any such i.e. Norway, Sweden, Finland etc. Not anywhere else and certainly not North America (US & Canada) except for their citizens and they have to meet a certain set of criteria (usually a very high CGPA); unlike the Scandinavian countries who give it to both citizens and non-citizens. Their academic selection criteria is also high and you'll have to convince their embassies that you can sustain yourself while in their country without having to work (an account balance of 1.5 million should see you through).

", this power which belongs to us must remain in the North until 2015".


Alhaji, i beg to differ, Power belongs to God.

"Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever;
      wisdom and power are his.

He changes times and seasons;
      he sets up kings and deposes them" Daniel 2:20,21

There's such a thing as a tactical mistake; and i hope that by going to meet IBB on his turf (Niger state), the president hasnt made a blunder.

'We humans keep brainstorming options and plans, but God's purpose prevails'.

I didnt say that. Its in The BOOK. Proverbs 19:21 (The Mesage)

Common guys! whats dis about? This is an online forum and people are free to post on it whatever! I'm sure the forum is moderated, but only loosely at best and thats the way it should be. We supposedly believe in freedom of speech but sometimes we merely pay it lip service.

The people that make the pro IBB posts know this is a forum that they can take advantage of because of its popularity with our age group. and they sure are using it (and Im sure we aint seen nothing yet, wait till the election heats up). I believe in speak and let speak: let everyone have his say and if u have a differing opinion, also have your say.

Why do the Punch and Guardian etc run advertisement for causes u can see in their editorials that they dont believe in? This thing called freedom of speech/expression is the bastion of  true democracy.

Having said that, I believe it is very unfair to levy those allegations against Seun. He is someone I  know very well which I am sure, is more than these his accusers can say else they wouldnt make this allegations. And thats all Im going to say to that. but anyone who has met him can say more abt his personality traits. And thats another one of our problems - making unfounded allegations.

And concerning IBB, what can I say? I think that philosopher said it best when he said "a country gets the leader it deserves". Till we can show in practice and principle, that we deserve better, believe me, we are only going to get leaders in the mould and ilk of this present crop of selfish, self seeking, self serving politicians. Why? Because we ourselves are by nature selfish and self seeking, so why should our leaders be better than us when we are no better than them.

The bane of the country is the dearth of self sacrifice and courage among ordinary Nigerians.

Becomrich0:
Ibadan to port harcourt.   And they claim river state and oyo state is 5 million. Oyo state is 4 time or more populated than river state

By your logic sir, that means Ibadan is either 20 million in population or rivers is only 1.25 million people strong and neither scenario is very plausible. You do have a point though, our demographics is all screwed up, not only in Rivers and Oyo, but from Abia to Zamfara. And as Donald Duke pointed out in that wave-making speech, we are closer to 200 million than 150.

Kennyblues:
“Many of them did not use their fathers’ names to contest election. They used Obafemi Awolowo’s name. I used my father’s name to contest and I won.”

Of course we all know you used your father's name to contest. Or more acurately, your godfather's name (one Lamidi Adedibu, sounds familliar mr governor?). But what the heck! Father and godfather are the same shebi, mr governor Alao Akala Adedibu? carry on sir! Eyin le l'aiye.

paddyboi:
Otio. . . This is serious. . .Undoubtedly Nigeria needs the arms,

In a country thats teetering on failure, we need more arms like the plague, especially not with our reckless, trigger-happy, undisciplined millitary men. What for anyway? Are we at war? If at all we are, we are at war with ourselves. In which case, the police and not the millitary need to be re-armed; not that I recommend that either except we are ready to overhaul the police force extensively.

If we had the right kind of leaders (leaders in the mould of Awo), we could easily revitalise our ailing educational sector, from the Primary to the Tertiary, with that kind of capital expenditure (3.5 Billion US Dollars, for crying out loud). But the bane of the country is its leadership and i daresay we are not in danger of seeing that kind of money ACTUALLY spent on the education sector (maybe on paper, yes).

President Goodluck Jonathan isn't naive and wont shoot himself in the foot by awarding such a huge contract to IBB, his arch-opposition. And if he does, hopefully , IBB will only top-up his loot and not execute the contract, like Jamace said; which IMO is better than giving guns to the millitary only for them to turn it on the civillian populace.

the polarity in here is actually interesting. i have taken time to read almost all d posts and i find that roughly, the gals sympathise with d'banj and they r more or less like 'is she suffering temporary insanity or sth?' and the guys, well to quote one of them, genevieve actually stooped too low in befriending d'banj (one has to wonder wht criteria dis guy considered, cos if its money, d'banj is definitely richer than her). but like i said this is rich in humour - it seems d guys hav a crush on Genie and the gals on Dbanj (some of them could giv their right hand for 1 date wit d self-styled 'koko master'). guys and gals wht can i say, ya'll hav been watchin way too much tv, get into d real world.