 Politics › Re: Lesson In ‘african Pride’: Kenya Kicks Out Nigerians And All Hell Breaks Loose by naptu2: 6:27am On Jun 21, 2013 |
How come nobody is talking about his wife, or former wife (Joyce Akinyi)? Did she set him up? |
| Literature › Re: Literature/Writing Section's "Chat Central!" by naptu2: 6:14am On Jun 21, 2013 |
firestar: Bonjour naptu2.
Comment ca va?   Ca va bien, merci. Et toi, ca va ? 1 Like |
| Literature › Re: Literature/Writing Section's "Chat Central!" by naptu2: 5:11am On Jun 21, 2013 |
firestar: 1Corinthians 3:19...
Bon ...(yawwwwwwwwwwwwwns) ....jour Good morning 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: Soyinka - The Village Mourners - A Must-read Bombshell by naptu2: 1:00pm On Jun 20, 2013 |
[size=14pt]Soyinka Warns against Instigating Younger Generation[/size]
20 Jun 2013
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Shola Oyeyipo
Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has condemned acts that are deliberately aimed at negatively influencing the minds of the people to act badly.
Soyinka, in a statement titled: ‘The Village Mourners Association,’ wednesday lampooned whoever that used his privileged position to instigate others to take actions against their conscience.
While recalling that his gesture to honour the late literary icon, Prof. Chinua Achebe, with a ram gift during his 60th birthday, which he could not attend, was tagged as responsible for the late author of Things Fall Apart’s eventual accident and his categorisation as
Achebe’s ‘enemy’, Soyinka described whoever was responsible for the unfounded rumours as “dangerous.”
“These self-righteous clerics are dangerous beings, especially where they flaunt the credentials of secular learning and gather in caucuses of presumed humanities. From the herd, the mindless Internet fiddlers for whom the landing of a planetary probe, or a medical breakthrough is simply distraction from fraudulent internet mailing, nothing less is expected.
What menaces the collective health of society is when the deserving highs of intellectual application of the former, become
indistinguishable from the loutish low of the latter,” he noted.
According to him, it was these breed of people continue to sow poison in the minds of the susceptible and that as teachers, they cultivate hatred in the minds of their students.
“I lament your failure to use the opportunity of the passing of a revered writer to turn your younger generation in enlightened
directions. You have chosen instead to coarsen their sensibilities and breed in their minds misunderstanding, suspicion and above all – hate!
“You will have understood by now how I have come to view you as no different from the homicidal clerics who arm youths with kerosene and match, cudgel and knife, a few naira in their beggars’ bowls, and dispatch them to set fire to structures of comradely cohabitation, of reflection, of mind enlargement, and destroy communities of learning.
Your gospel of separatism goes beyond the geographical – in which I have not the slightest interest! – but the humanistic.
“The difference is in the weapon – in your case, poison, mind corrosion. The means – Internet, and its wide open, undiscriminating
generosity. That is where you lay spores of poison, and doom future generations to a confinement of human relationships within the darkest corners of the mind,” he said.
He also underscored the needlessness of making the people suffer over the death of someone, stressing that when people “encounter hostility over their sensibilities in dealing with loss in their own way, privately, away from public eye, with or without symbolic public gestures, then we are witnessing the end, not simply of plain civility, but of civilisation, and the enthronement of Fascism.”
“It is not the intolerance and excess of a moment’s excitation, but of a cultivated arrogance and will to imposition, one that attempts to
dictate the private responses of others to shared events,” he lamented. http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/soyinka-warns-against-instigating-younger-generation/150981/ |
| Politics › Re: Soyinka - The Village Mourners - A Must-read Bombshell by naptu2: 12:43pm On Jun 20, 2013 |
Melancholy: Achebe and his supporters made a laugh out of that?! Com'on this ain't what u think, and i guess achebe supporters prompted soyinka in dishing-out this warm essay giving them in the language they understood which no one in a long time can fight back. Achebe and his supporters ?? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Starlett: Before the promotion of that alternative cause-and-effect however, Dove-Edwin had re-scheduled, and we had a most bracing, optimistic afternoon with Chinua. Yes, our patient was eventually told the cause of the earlier postponement, and he had a good laugh.
http://saharareporters.com/column/village-mourners-association-wole-soyinka naptu2: 1) Achebe did not use the word "enemy". It was some so-called Achebe supporters that used that word.
2) Achebe did not stop the visit. It was Ambassador Dove-Edwin that postponed the visit because of the atmosphere that was created by some so-called Achebe supporters. When they finally met Achebe, they told him why the previous visit was postponed and they all laughed at the silliness of the whole thing. |
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| Politics › Re: Soyinka - The Village Mourners - A Must-read Bombshell by naptu2: 11:48am On Jun 20, 2013 |
The leading lights of Nigerian literature (Soyinka, Achebe, J.P Clark, etc) knew each other personally. They often collaborated with each other. Just like in any other human interactions, they had their differences, but they were friends.
This essay is about people who claim to be supporters of one or the other of these writers and feel that they need to attack perceived rivals or opponents of their "heroes" in order to justify their support. So-called supporters of Achebe feel that they need to attack Soyinka, supporters of Soyinka feel that they need to attack Achebe, etc (often there's a hint of bigotry in these attacks). Some also feel that they can profit from dividing these literary giants.
Soyinka is railing against them. These men understood each other. For example, Achebe understood Soyinka and his symbols, that's why he had no problems with the ram gift. It's also one of the reasons why he laughed at those who said that the ram gift was the reason for his accident. Soyinka knew Achebe personally and knew about Achebe's rejection of the title of "Father of African Literature", that's why he said what he said in that interview. Soyinka and J.P Clark are friends (Achebe settled the quarrel that arose after Soyinka's detention), that's why he refused attempts by some internet warriors to re-ignite their quarrel.
Soyinka is warning that these warriors, rather than foster understanding, knowledge and collaboration; are preaching hate and are teaching the younger generation how to hate. They are using people that they do not even know, have never spoken to, as symbols of their hate. They are using people who will never agree with their message of hatred as symbols of hate. |
| Politics › Re: Soyinka - The Village Mourners - A Must-read Bombshell by naptu2: 11:30am On Jun 20, 2013 |
Melancholy: If u carefully read this message it explains how chinua achebe himself so into tribalist one way or the other affected their friendship as regards when achebe was on admission in the hospital,only for soyinka's visit to be stopped refering him as 'enemy'.we just need put our heads up against tribalism expecially nigeria writers for the future leaders coming. 1) Achebe did not use the word "enemy". It was some so-called Achebe supporters that used that word. 2) Achebe did not stop the visit. It was Ambassador Dove-Edwin that postponed the visit because of the atmosphere that was created by some so-called Achebe supporters. When they finally met Achebe, they told him why the previous visit was postponed and they all laughed at the silliness of the whole thing. |
| Politics › Re: Who Exactly Was Ezeego And What Did He Do? by naptu2: 9:24am On Jun 20, 2013 |
Ah gosh! Now I'm struggling to remember. There was a porsche boxster, a lexus SUV and three other vehicles (unfortunately I can't remember the brands). He was on his way to his village to celebrate christmas/new year. The accident occurred near a clinic he had built. He was rushed to the clinic, but he died.
He was a businessman. He made his money from the electronics business (which was booming at the time), although people also said that he was involved in 419 (almost everybody that was rich at that time was accused of being involved in 419).
I had a picture of the accidented lexus SUV, which I got from one of those soft-sell magazines (I think it was city people). |
| Politics › Re: Soyinka - The Village Mourners - A Must-read Bombshell by naptu2: 8:35am On Jun 20, 2013 |
Starlett: Before the promotion of that alternative cause-and-effect however, Dove-Edwin had re-scheduled, and we had a most bracing, optimistic afternoon with Chinua. Yes, our patient was eventually told the cause of the earlier postponement, and he had a good laugh.
http://saharareporters.com/column/village-mourners-association-wole-soyinka naptu2: I think I can understand how he feels (I've been there before). You have a friend whom you've known for decades. Both of you discuss all the time. You collaborate. You know his mind. One day he dies and people who have never spoken to him before start claiming all sorts of things on his behalf.
For the record, Achebe always rejected the title of father of African literature. Soyinka knows this because he knows Achebe personally.
Thursday 12 November 2009 14.53 GMT
[size=14pt]Achebe rejects endorsement as 'father of modern African literature'[/size]
Nigerian novelist says he resists the tag 'very, very strongly' because it obscures the role of many other writers.
Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has spoken out about his dislike at being labelled "the father of modern African literature".
The author of the multi-million bestseller Things Fall Apart, Achebe was given the label by Nadine Gordimer as he was awarded the Man Booker International prize two years ago; it has been frequently used both before and since. But the author said yesterday that he "resisted that very, very strongly".
"It's really a serious belief of mine that it's risky for anyone to lay claim to something as huge and important as African literature ... the contribution made down the ages. I don't want to be singled out as the one behind it because there were many of us – many, many of us," he said when asked about the title.
Achebe was speaking to the student newspaper of Brown University, the Brown Daily Herald, before a welcome event at the university as he joined the faculty as professor of Africana studies. He will be overseeing a new initiative at Brown, the Chinua Achebe Colloquium on Africa, which the university said would be developed "in keeping with his life's work to foster greater knowledge of Africa".
Achebe said that the idea of the colloquium would be "to take issues that come up". "Today Africa is a continent of issues wherever you look, and so I thought the best thing to do now is not to limit ourselves to one or two or even three issues, but to look at Africa bursting with problems and find out what we can do in each case," he told the student paper.
"For instance, the issue of governance, which is a major problem – presidents that do not want to retire when their terms are up, elections that are rigged, violence at elections ... Whatever we are doing, we're not doing right. Nigeria has been independent for nearly 50 years and look where we are."
Achebe, 78, is the author of numerous novels, including Arrow of God, A Man of the People and Anthills of the Savannah as well as his 1958 debut, Things Fall Apart, and a wide range of short stories and poetry. He is also known for his essays, with his 1975 piece An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness savaging Joseph
Conrad's novel as "thoroughgoingly racist".
His new book, The Education of a British-Protected Child, is a collection of autobiographical essays reflecting on his upbringing in Nigeria, and is due out from Allen Lane in January in the UK. The publisher described it as "a vivid, ironic and delicately nuanced portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria and inhabiting its 'middle ground', examining both his happy memories of reading English adventure stories in secondary school and also the harsher truths of colonial rule". Its contents "span reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics, and on Achebe's lifelong attempt to reclaim the definition of 'Africa' for its own authorship". http://m.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/12/achebe-rejects-father-modern-african-literature |
| Politics › Re: Soyinka - The Village Mourners - A Must-read Bombshell by naptu2: 12:05am On Jun 20, 2013 |
No wonder Soyinka kept referring to the internet. He's got his own blog!
Although I think Soyinka is also speaking generally, but I think this is his primary target. |
| Politics › Re: Soyinka - The Village Mourners - A Must-read Bombshell by naptu2: 11:55pm On Jun 19, 2013 |
Jenams: From all indication, Wole Soyinka is talking to one man. Read this_________________________________Dove-Edwin
had received communication that some
of “Chinua’s people” – A UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR among them, WHO WAS NAMED
– had pronounced publicly that “Chinua
should have known better than to accept a spotless ram from his enemy” – yes, that was the word used – “enemy”. I verified this report from various other
sources. Yes! And he actually said the man's name in his last interview (which was also posted on nairaland). |
| Politics › Re: Soyinka - The Village Mourners - A Must-read Bombshell by naptu2: 4:49pm On Jun 19, 2013 |
I think I can understand how he feels (I've been there before). You have a friend whom you've known for decades. Both of you discuss all the time. You collaborate. You know his mind. One day he dies and people who have never spoken to him before start claiming all sorts of things on his behalf. For the record, Achebe always rejected the title of father of African literature. Soyinka knows this because he knows Achebe personally. Thursday 12 November 2009 14.53 GMT
[size=14pt]Achebe rejects endorsement as 'father of modern African literature'[/size]
Nigerian novelist says he resists the tag 'very, very strongly' because it obscures the role of many other writers.
Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has spoken out about his dislike at being labelled "the father of modern African literature".
The author of the multi-million bestseller Things Fall Apart, Achebe was given the label by Nadine Gordimer as he was awarded the Man Booker International prize two years ago; it has been frequently used both before and since. But the author said yesterday that he "resisted that very, very strongly".
"It's really a serious belief of mine that it's risky for anyone to lay claim to something as huge and important as African literature ... the contribution made down the ages. I don't want to be singled out as the one behind it because there were many of us – many, many of us," he said when asked about the title.
Achebe was speaking to the student newspaper of Brown University, the Brown Daily Herald, before a welcome event at the university as he joined the faculty as professor of Africana studies. He will be overseeing a new initiative at Brown, the Chinua Achebe Colloquium on Africa, which the university said would be developed "in keeping with his life's work to foster greater knowledge of Africa".
Achebe said that the idea of the colloquium would be "to take issues that come up". "Today Africa is a continent of issues wherever you look, and so I thought the best thing to do now is not to limit ourselves to one or two or even three issues, but to look at Africa bursting with problems and find out what we can do in each case," he told the student paper.
"For instance, the issue of governance, which is a major problem – presidents that do not want to retire when their terms are up, elections that are rigged, violence at elections ... Whatever we are doing, we're not doing right. Nigeria has been independent for nearly 50 years and look where we are."
Achebe, 78, is the author of numerous novels, including Arrow of God, A Man of the People and Anthills of the Savannah as well as his 1958 debut, Things Fall Apart, and a wide range of short stories and poetry. He is also known for his essays, with his 1975 piece An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness savaging Joseph
Conrad's novel as "thoroughgoingly racist".
His new book, The Education of a British-Protected Child, is a collection of autobiographical essays reflecting on his upbringing in Nigeria, and is due out from Allen Lane in January in the UK. The publisher described it as "a vivid, ironic and delicately nuanced portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria and inhabiting its 'middle ground', examining both his happy memories of reading English adventure stories in secondary school and also the harsher truths of colonial rule". Its contents "span reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics, and on Achebe's lifelong attempt to reclaim the definition of 'Africa' for its own authorship". http://m.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/12/achebe-rejects-father-modern-african-literature |
| Politics › Re: Lagos Markets Closed In Abibat Mogaji's Honour by naptu2: 2:43pm On Jun 19, 2013 |
Afam4eva: Nobody is accusing Lagos state of closing the market but they watched while people were bullied not to open their shops, so indirectly Lagos supported the closure. It's unconstitutional. If anybody was harassed, bullied, etc to close shop, that person has the right to report the matter to the police (note, a federal police force) and to go to court to enforce his or her fundamental rights. |
| Politics › Re: Lagos Markets Closed In Abibat Mogaji's Honour by naptu2: 1:28pm On Jun 19, 2013 |
The Lagos State Government did not close the markets. |
| Nairaland General › Re: Commuter Bus Drivers Protest In Ikoyi by naptu2: 1:12pm On Jun 19, 2013 |
^^^
Hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahha! |
| Politics › Re: Lagos Markets Closed In Abibat Mogaji's Honour by naptu2: 1:09pm On Jun 19, 2013 |
Reminds me of the "Trooping The Colour/Queen's Birthday" holiday. |
| Business › Re: CBN To Change Polymer Notes To Paper by naptu2: 9:17am On Jun 19, 2013 |
biina: Australia sacks two in polymer note bribe scandal
The N750 million polymer bank note bribery scandal involving the Central Bank of Nigeria, has claimed two casualties in Australia even as Nigerian law enforcement agencies struggle to reveal clues on the Nigerian beneficiaries of the alleged bribes.
In Australia yesterday, the Reserve Bank of Australia(RBA) fired two top executives of Securency International Pty Ltd., a bank note company which is co-owned by the RBA. The officials, Myles Curtis, the former Managing Director of Securency, and John Ellery, the former Director of Commercial Services, made a final exit from the company yesterday. The duo were suspended in November 2009, following an onslaught of investigations against them by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) in connection with their role in the bribery scandal.
In a media statement yesterday, the RBA said the decision was taken after an audit report prepared from a seven-month long investigation by a private company, KPMG Forensics, showed impropriety on the part of Securency’s officials, especially as concerns dealings in foreign territory.
The report stated that Securency had made a total payment of about $50 million in non-commission and commission expenses to agents in foreign territories. It is believed that the payments may have been used as bribes to gain access into the market in these areas.
Last year, NEXT led media reports that brought to public notice the fact that Securency had engaged in series of bribery schemes in order to promote the sale of their copyrighted plastic bank notes.
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), under its former governor, Chukwuma Soludo, led the reforms that brought about the adoption of polymer notes for all of Nigeria’s lower denomination bank notes. NEXT investigations also revealed that the Nigerian contract was awarded to Securency by the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Plc, based on instructions from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The deal led to the purchase of at least 1.9 billion pieces of polymer substrates on which bank notes were printed from Securency.
Shortly after the launch of the new notes last year, the news broke that Nigerian officials may have taken bribes directly or indirectly from Securency in order to facilitate the deal.
Nigerian Investigations
The Nigerian Police said investigations into the bribery allegations are ongoing and that it will make the report public as soon as the investigations are wrapped up.
In Abuja, yesterday, the spokesman for the Nigerian Police, Emmanuel Ojukwu, said the police could not offer a time limit within which the report would be made ready.He added that Nigerians had no cause to worry about the investigations. “It is a high profile investigation and we are doing a lot of work on it. There is no time frame to it but we will let you know as soon as we are ready.”
Although the Head of Corporate Affairs of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mohammed Abdullahi, denied any knowledge of investigations into the bribery scandal, which allegedly involved CBN officials, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) claimed that the anti-graft agency is working hand-in-hand with the CBN on the investigations.
The Securency bribery scandal makes up one of the many bribery scandals involving top government officials and multi-national corporations; the most popular being the Halliburton and the Siemens bribery scandals. So far, no security agency in the country has prosecuted any Nigerian in connection with any of the scandals.
http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/Metro/Politics/5548068-146/australia_sacks_two_in_polymer_note.csp |
| Business › Re: CBN To Change Polymer Notes To Paper by naptu2: 7:53am On Jun 19, 2013 |
Hm! Interesting.
1) One of the biggest problems in Nigeria is the constant change in policy that follows every change in government/administration/management. Soludo brought the polymer notes and Sanusi is bringing back paper notes.
2) This also reminds me of the Securency scandal. Has anybody been punished for giving the polymer contract to Securency?
3) So what do we believe now? Which is more durable, paper or polymer?
4) Why can't the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company print all our naira notes? |
| Politics › Re: Lagos Markets Closed In Abibat Mogaji's Honour by naptu2: 7:00am On Jun 19, 2013 |
Saudat Salami @lagosshoppin
@LagosTownHall @ClassicFM973 #FPN local mkts close wen a trader dies. Iyaoloja is d Head of all mkts in Lagos so all have to honor her. Saudat Salami @lagosshopping
@LagosTownHall @ClassicFM973 #FPN let's use this opportunity to enlighten our pple of our culture and tradition. We shld be proud of it. Saudat Salami @lagosshopping
@LagosTownHall @ClassicFM973 #FPN the learnings for future shld be a general announcement as soon as possible for pple to be prepared. |
| Politics › Re: Lagos Markets Closed In Abibat Mogaji's Honour by naptu2: 6:15am On Jun 19, 2013 |
Lagos Info &Strategy @LagosTownHall
#FPN The Lagos State Govt did not order the markets closed. The association of market men & women decided to ...@ClassicFM973 Lagos Info &Strategy @LagosTownHall
...close the markets in honour of their late leader, and to attend the program planned in her honour today. @ClassicFM973 #FPN Lagos Info &Strategy @LagosTownHall
#FPN The markets will only be closed for today. @ClassicFM973 Lagos Info &Strategy @LagosTownHall
@benjeedayo Because the markets associations decided to do so in honour of their late President General, Alhaja Abibatu Mogaji. Lagos Info &Strategy retweeted
Saudat Salami @lagosshopping
@LagosTownHall @ClassicFM973 #FPN local mkts close wen a trader dies. Iyaoloja is d Head of all mkts in Lagos so all have to honor her. |
| Nairaland General › Re: Commuter Bus Drivers Protest In Ikoyi by naptu2: 8:47pm On Jun 18, 2013 |
naptu2: Poor journalism. Leaves you with unanswered questions. Obiagelli: Did anyone ask why the buses were seized, you and know how silly this drivers are. We act as if we are talking about innocent people Proper journalism = interviewing bus drivers, commuters and union officials and then getting a reaction from the ministry of transport (the commissioner) and the chief executive or spokesperson of Lastma. Is it true that the buses have been banned from plying Ikoyi routes? If yes, why and what alternatives have been put in place? If no, what are you going to do to policemen and Lastma officials who are carrying out illegal practices? How will you stop the practice? That's proper journalism. |
| Nairaland General › Re: Commuter Bus Drivers Protest In Ikoyi by naptu2: 7:28pm On Jun 18, 2013 |
Poor journalism. Leaves you with unanswered questions. |
| Politics › Re: Eko Ile: let Me Show You By Musiwa by naptu2: 9:07am On Jun 18, 2013*. Modified: 10:12am On Jun 18, 2013 |
Boss13: Who is Musiwa. I read your post but before I get to the next paragraph I get confused. naptu2: Adesegun Musiwa is the Nairaland politics section poster of the year 2009. He is an electricity engineer who graduated from the University of Ilorin. He speaks Batu and a host of other languages.
Adesegun Musiwa is also known as Becomerich 1-100, Eguofor, Complove, Nigeria1, Nigeriaone, Bashali, Tayo4life, Uche 2005, Becomericher, Mapomeji, Are Canada, etc
He works as the chief mapologist at Google. His philosophy is that all Nigeria's problems will be solved if the Western Niger is excised from Nigeria and added to Benin Republic.
He is very influential (more influential than Goodluck Jonathan), knows all the pastors in Nigeria and will win any free and fair presidential election conducted in Nigeria, by virtue of his philosophy as contained in the sacred satellite pictures.
He has been the subject of classic threads on Nairaland such as the threads below.
https://www.nairaland.com/608926/one-party-should-please-summit
https://www.nairaland.com/335745/aloy-emeka-mr-tribalist-cousin
https://www.nairaland.com/321016/mapomeji-finally-out
https://www.nairaland.com/469018/happy-birthday-becomerich
https://www.nairaland.com/549966/
https://www.nairaland.com/898844/h
https://www.nairaland.com/909682/
https://www.nairaland.com/220912/seun-owner-nairaland-accused-corruption
https://www.nairaland.com/469018/happy-birthday-becomerich
https://www.nairaland.com/514772/becomerich-bows-out-nl
https://www.nairaland.com/477125/jakumu-english-nonsense-not-know
https://www.nairaland.com/367629/becomerich-wins-jakumo-closes-beaf/5
https://www.nairaland.com/679870/aare-musiwa-hot-form-look
https://www.nairaland.com/746286/terror-code-red-edodelta-yoruba naptu2: How could I forget? Adesegun Musiwa is also the leader of Egbe Omo Oduduwa
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egbe_Omo_Oduduwa |
| Sports › Re: Nigeria Vs Tahiti - Confederations Cup: (6 - 1) On 17th June 2013 by naptu2: 8:05am On Jun 18, 2013 |
Shevmaen: Who said So? How about Australia's 31 - 0 win against American Samoa on April 11 2001. Fifa worldcup qualifier (KOJA 2002). I think he means in the Confederations Cup. Nigeria also beat Burkina Faso 7-1 in a qualifier in 1991. |
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: Comments? Questions? Complaints? Talk To The Mod Here... by naptu2: 6:46pm On Jun 17, 2013 |
JeSoul: Untagged and unbanned. Sorry about the spambot naptu2. Thanks very much. |
| Politics › Re: Images Of What The Propose 4th Mainland Bridge Will Look Like by naptu2: 4:59pm On Jun 17, 2013 |
Although I suspect that it might end up being the fifth mainland bridge, rather than fourth mainland bridge. |
| Politics › Re: Do Foreigner(s) Usually Acquire Nigeria Citizenship? by naptu2: 4:28pm On Jun 17, 2013 |
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| Politics › Re: Do Foreigner(s) Usually Acquire Nigeria Citizenship? by naptu2: 4:20pm On Jun 17, 2013 |
There are many who have (including european and lebanese businessmen). The Ministry of Internal Affairs usually conducts a ceremony every year where the applicants are given Nigerian citizenship.
Reasons. Most of the applicants have been in Nigeria for decades and have worked either in the private sector or government. They also understand the culture and language and want to enjoy the benefits and privileges of being a citizen of the country they call home. |
| Politics › Re: Images Of What The Propose 4th Mainland Bridge Will Look Like by naptu2: 4:03pm On Jun 17, 2013 |
[quote author=Dudu_Negro]Dude,
Calm down and look on the "Day-Boulevard" image, you will see two-way tracks running the length of the bridge. I suspect these are for trams or light, low occupancy shuttle trains.[/quote]That's the first thing I noticed. It reminded me of the person (I can't remember who) that was demanding that the bridge have a rail component, which he felt was more important than the road component. I wish I can remember who it was. |
| Politics › Re: Images Of What The Propose 4th Mainland Bridge Will Look Like by naptu2: 4:00pm On Jun 17, 2013 |
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