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you are still corrupt, the fact that you received it makes you corrupt. the fact that you didnt have them prosecuted makes you guilty.

hmmmmm, continuity is everything.

our 'DEMOCRACY' and its numerous human sacrifices. should we call them martyrs or simply victims of our 'DEMOCRACY'

Wow!!! And we claim to have a democracy??

we actually do have democracy, but we simply just chose to work with the CRACY more.

West Africa pirate threat on rise 
By Frank Gardner
BBC Security Correspondent 




The BBC has been given revealing footage of a pirate attack off Nigeria

World attention on piracy off Somalia has diverted attention from the growing threat of attacks off west Africa, according to shipping experts.

The International Maritime Bureau says it knows of more than 100 pirate attacks off west Africa last year - yet only 40 were reported.

This is partly down to a reluctance by shipping companies to upset the local West African authorities, it says.

The latest attack happened when pirates shot at a tanker off Nigeria's coast.

 

Without warning, the pirates opened fire on the Greek-owned tanker, officials say.

The bullets hit the ship's accommodation area but the unarmed crew fought back with parachute flares and by hurling metal objects down at the pirates as they tried to board.

Amazingly, no-one was hit and the pirates eventually gave up.

While piracy off Somalia has been grabbing world attention and attracting regular patrols by major navies, attacks on the other side of the continent - in the Gulf of Guinea - risk being overlooked, officials say.

watch the video clip here, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7900723.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7901152.stm

Dis Guy:
_{are there zebra crossings in Lagos?}

there are, not as many as needed _{(every intersection should have one)} but there are.

Gamine:
People dont know what Zebra crossing is, but them dey dia ooh.

But, i thought these things used to be taught in Social Studies in primary school ?

u thought right but u also said USED TO, which is what it is.

Kobojunkie:
And here I am thinking this thread was created to discuss Nairaland and it's place in the bright future imagined by the original poster. . . . . jeezzz!!!

All these are supposed to be adults ooo!!! God have mercy on Nigeria !!

They are the NIGERIAN YOUTH being talked about.

RichyBlacK:
Yep, and we must keep it that way.

My prayer is that in the future, people can upload images, movies and documents implicating the criminals in government/power so that we can expose them. We need to start targeting corrupt politicians, police officers, NEPA officials, ministers, senators, governors and local government chairmen. I remain hopeful.

AMEN!

Kobojunkie:
Who are these 'Nigerian YOUTHS' we speak of? That term ticks me off!!

the Under 18 set now.

God doesnt will such on people abeg and if he does he only did such because he expect us to work and get themselves out of such. instead we pray to him and wait for him to get us out, while we sit on our backsides, legs crossed and rolling our thumbs.

inauguration back and forth or not. he still shot off at the mouth with his biafra yarnings.

im not saying its bad. i support it but i stil dey vex. they should simultaneously educate the drivers so they know to slowdown or stop when these kids/pedestrians are in the zebra crossing. and not keep up the speed like the kids/pedestrians have a run me over sign on them.

u caution someone because he didnt slow down for pedestrians at a zebra crossing and he responds to you by saying. "na you papa draw am there"

i dey vex seriously

Govt begins transport education in schools

By Mudiaga Affe

Lagos State Government is to introduce transportation advocacy education in both primary and secondary schools in the state, a top official, Mr. Kayode Opeifa, has said.

The move, which is part of government's efforts to catch them young and make them change agents, will be carried out in public and private schools.

The programme will be inaugurated on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at the Indoor Sports Hall of the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, and it is to provide basic traffic knowledge to the children in order for them to develop a positive road user attitude and behavoiur.

Speaking at a press briefing in Lagos, Opeifa, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Transportation, said the children would be engaged as change agents and vehicles of communicating traffic safety values to their parents and other adults.

He added that the programme would also inculcate traffic safety values and ideals in young citizens and create road safety awareness in them and potentially reduce their risks to road traffic accidents.

He said that a holistic approach of impacting traffic safety awareness through a four-pronged strategy had been adopted which included establishment of traffic safety clubs in schools, enhanced traffic safety zones, school bus drivers' safety training and annual road safety awareness programme.

According to him, registered members of the traffic safety clubs in the various schools will be designed as road safety ambassadors and will be exposed to traffic safety lessons as well as practical exercise, debates, quizzes and games.

He said, "The enhanced traffic safety zone will be accomplished through the installation of signage and traffic signs as well as traffic safety corners in the school playgrounds."

http://odili.net/news/source/2009/feb/20/419.html

presido1:
If the government is working Okada man will not act that way believe me.

I dont and wont believe you.

The Govt, can make law but they don't  enforce it. People litter the street even in the west but if they are caught they will be fined. Who catches them? not fellow street users but Govt agents(might be paid officers or Camera). Who will catch okada man when he acts nobody. So the govt failed to put in place what with check those acts thats why they take the blame.

its like u r telling us that, since government is not providing electricity you wont provide it for urself if u can.

not all laws are enforced before we adhere to them. sense, maturity, et all comes into play.

Nigerian problem is too complex that nobody knows where to start addressing it. If we can correct the citadel of justice first we might have a chance to correct other areas. Who will correct it will be the next question that comes to mind. Again we cannot achieve anything without UNITY. We have been skipping that for a long time, we all shout One Nigeria which we know within ourselves that such doesn't exist. If we can do things by merit and quota we might as well have a chance of meeting up with other countries like Rwanda(pathetic we are trying to be like Rwanda) again can we take the line of merit? not in the near future.

i agree with you here.

Since we cannot vote them in we cannot question them. Until our votes starts to count we haven't got a chance to move ahead.

this only would happen by making it count. majority of the people dont want to make it count.

i would have thot that it was a snake sent by my detractors/enemies to stop me

or on an awesome day, i'll be thinking of the belt i could make out of it.

debosky:
@ BOSS

focus on the subject matter, not Abati.

There is something fundamentally wrong with the way we are doing things if we can't even seem to make progress given all our inherent advantages. Why can't we get things straight? The article posits that it is due to poor leadership - is that the problem?

Is poor leadership the reason why okada men in Lagos defecate by the roadside? Or is it the cause of so many people not paying tax?

I totally agree,

but i bet some would argue that its because the 'leadership' aka government didnt provide public bathrooms thats why they do their BS by the road side. they might even go further and argue that, even if there were public bathrooms. the people are too poor to afford to pay to use them. Nonsense! always giving excuses for everything they know should not be.

WAZIRI! WAZIRI! WAZIRI! maibe she wants land in those states as well.

debosky:
Just you wait, you will soon see satellite evidence that Waziri is focusing only on Yoruba people while Hausas are far more corrupt.

the power of satellite pictures should not be under estimated.

BOSS what is ur own? cant he give discount again. at least he got a discount on his land so why cant he return the favor.

Kobo, wetin dey worry u this friday morning? dont u know its easy to blame everyone else for everything else than ones-self.




last week, some kids were playing in their living room, they sat on the sofa and they felt the cushion moving under them. they probed a little bit and voila, a 4ft Boa constrictor popped out. whats your first thought if that had happened in ikeja?

nigeria has really not learned much from its past.

Kobojunkie:
You have yet to define the WESTERN in democracy you continue to harp on about. I can go anywhere and make superfluous claims myself that WESTERN sugar will not do us all anygood. I will not make much sense until I explain what exactly WESTERN sugar is and why, compared to other kinds, it will not work.

"western democracy" reminds me of people who say "international passport" _{nollywood helped sow that seed in people as well} the two phrases make me sick to me stomach.

TGIF to you all by the way.

if he shot off at the mouth as claimed. the least that could have happened is for him to loose his appointment. enough of this agbero behavior people in leadership positions exhibit. i dont care if he was provoked, u act like an agbero u get treated like an agbero.

Lmao

Kobojunkie:
You have not heard the worst. [size=18pt]My own uncle, who happened to be a member of faculty at the time, took the side of the lecturers and told me to pay up and stop being stubborn and pay up[/size]! I hope I never meet that man but I am doing better than all those who I know paid and are now either doctors or struggling to make ends meet in Nigeria. Some of them are abroad and still not doing as good.

hahaha i no fit shout

and the lesson learned from the last 7 pages of this thread is what?

OH NO! dem do turn tag team! this thread is going to get to 50pages by friday.


Admin abeg, no say because of these people delete this thread o. i dey beg you seriously, it is a reference point for my blog post for tonite. NO DELETE AM ABEG!

na wetin again aunty/uncle tpia?