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lol, Ilorin is Yoruba. The Yorubas from Ilorin that I know speak better Yoruba than me and I am from Ondo state.

dayokanu:
Didnt we reward MEND terrorism by giving Odechukwu retardeen the presidency?
These middle beltans have ruled more than anyone else

Gowon 9yrs, IBB 8yrs Abdulsalam 1 yr Total = 18yrs

The middlebelt and Hausa/Fulani have controlled Nigeria for too long. They don't need another president from the middle belt. The yorubas and the igbos have the least amount of president. Yorubas had OBJ and Igbo had Ironsi and Azikwe.

lmao, story story o. Talk is cheap.

lol, This man is an Ignoramus. This is such an insensitive statement. You don't say stuff like this when the citizens of your country are looking towards you for help. The President is basically saying the bombings will continue, what kind of hope are you giving the common man? I guess it's every man for himself in Nigeria.


This is beyond defending, how can you make a dumb statement like that

LeoMax:
@Oba234

Which stocks are immuned from the economic crunch, iPhone ? We are talking about the features of BB that makes it the world's most successful business phone and you talk about stock market and profiteering science. If you are in business and have 90% of your business partners both home and abroad on BB, then you will know how much you save on international calling by being on google voice, BBM, and skype and especially BBM all inbuilt on the BB. All this argument is for those who have never been making expensive calls and are not in Business and personnel networking !!!

lol, I don't have time for this I am on my way to church right now, but when I get back, I will find the facts for you, but in the meantime, you can google this information for yourself. I have nothing against BB, just stating what I know from research and staying up to date on news.

okay keep lying to yourself. RIM stocks are falling fast. RIM has lost about 75% of their stocks this year. If you want to invest in a good phone get a droid or Iphone.

here is an article that explained why RIM is falling
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/12/23/why-blackberry-maker-rim-will-never-be-great-again/

MManuel:
personally i'm not particular about blackberry smarts but to say the ', world is dumping' bb's is a very witless thing to say. Check your stats, they're more bb users(bis or no bis) in the world today than iphone users. BBM is really genius stuff i must confess

but it's true that Blackberry is struggling in the competitive mobile market. There are even rumors that RIM is trying to sell the blackberry brand because they are losing.

lol, funny how it's still popular in Nigeria when the rest of the world has moved on. Android and Iphones are what people are getting now, at least in the western world. Blackberry is old news.

Merry Christmas

I agree with Professor Soyinka. It takes a great mind to take an unpopular position in a country like Nigeria. No wonder he is well respected. He doesn't think like the typical mugu on Nairaland. Honestly, use your brain sometimes and stop being hypocrites. Whether you agree with homosexuality or not, they should nor be send to jail for 14yrs because of their intimate orientation.

Sometimes, I think about this, Why would some one decides to be gay? Why would someone decide to be an outcast in society? Why would someone subject themselves to be killed? I don't think many of the people that are gay want to be gay, but they are. I think being gay has some sort of genetic component to it or some sort of chemical imbalance. This is just my own theory.

Say what you want, the richest countries on earth are the ones that are the most accepting of people's rights, you know,  the ones that many Africans are selling their souls to get a visa to, while the poorest countries on earth such as Iraq, Afghanistan,and many Africans countries are vehemently opposed to Gay rights. hmmn, think about this.

okay, I am ready for the Anti-Gay Jihadists to come and attack me.

At least the U.K recognized some of these schools, so be thankful. Before you can practice medicine in the U.S. you will go to hell and come back. No be easy here. I know two doctors from Nigeria who are in the U.S. actually one was a surgeon in Nigeria and the U.S. won't let him practice.

I don't feel sorry for him. What is the point of shouting nigger to somebody you don't know. He did it about 8 times because he said it to taunt him.  Two black people saying what up my Nigga to each other is different from a white person telling a random black person you nigger. What's the point? Suarez said it to belittle him about his race and he deserved punishment.

I also noticed the classic defense that racists use, I have black friends, my grandmother is black, etc. If he really likes black people, he wouldn't have used that word to taunt him.

I don't feel sorry for him. What is the point of shouting nigger to somebody you don't know. He did it about 8 times because he said it to taunt him. Two black people saying what up my Nigga to each other is different from a white person telling a random black person you nigger. What's the point? Suarez said it to belittle him about his race and he deserved punishment.

Don't really pay attention to Nigerian pastors. I only learned their names from Nairaland, but other than that, what concerns me? I am more into politics/politicians.

isn't this a Caribbean tradition? Africa has Masquerade not carnivals.

sbeezy8:
Ilorins and kwarans are mumus if yoruba have thier own country abeg we should leave these clowns to die under fulani rule like the trash they are.

lmao, is it that serious?

Dondav:
do u live there?

no, I stayed there for a while last summer so I am pretty familiar with the area. It is mostly white populated area, but I saw black people there too. I had a good time and nobody bothered me.

Nigeria's potholed roads among world's most deadly
By JON GAMBRELL, Associated Press – 3 hours ago

MOWE, Nigeria (AP) — The tractor-trailer lay alongside the busy Nigeria expressway like a child's forgotten toy, its cargo of cosmetics smashed on the hot, uneven strip of asphalt road and its driver left bleeding with a head wound.
Burned-out metal carcasses of crashed minibuses and wrecked cars line the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, a rutted and potholed highway that connects two major cities in Africa's most populous nation.
Horns screeched from drivers waiting impatiently to pass, as those on the other side of the highway sped on without slowing for the axle-jarring bumps in the uneven lane.
Despite decades as an oil producer, Nigeria's roads remain neglected scenes of needless carnage. And despite the World Health Organization warning that Nigeria's traffic fatalities among the highest in the world, the deaths continue unabated.
"For now, it's a death trap," said Abdul-Azeez Ibraheem, a lecturer at Lagos State University who studied the traffic crashes.
Africa as a whole has one of the highest road traffic death rates in the world, the WHO's 2009 study determined. Nigeria saw more than 47,800 people killed in traffic crashes in 2007 alone, according to WHO statistics. That put it at No. 3 in the world in the number of fatalities, behind China and India.
Paved roads only constitute 15 percent of Nigeria's total road network, and crashes happen with a horrifying regularity.
Speeding buses crash head-on into each other on a seemingly daily basis, as drivers who often take stimulants and liquor rush along unsafe roads. Passengers are crammed onto benches welded to the floor of former delivery vans. And long-haul truckers lose control of gasoline tankers that can explode into hellish infernos.
Along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, tow truck driver Muritala Adeniran, 54, said he's seen an "uncountable" number of crashes from the driver's seat of his old yellow-and-green Range Rover. The worst came several years ago as a fuel tanker overturned on the highway, its fuel draining down a hill and igniting, burning a line of waiting cars behind it.
Talking alongside the highway, he could only shake his head watching a speeding sedan pass, not slowing down despite the road being buckled into ruts from straining under the weight of overloaded semi-trucks.
"The roads are not good," Adeniran said in the local Yoruba language. "If vehicles pass, you see how the tires begin to wobble."
Nigeria's endemically corrupt federal police represent another danger on the road, mounting sudden checkpoints to extort money from drivers. In August 2010 and April of this year, trucks unable to stop plowed into waiting cars at two separate checkpoints, starting fires that killed more than 20 people in each instance.
The agency charged with monitoring roadways, the Federal Road Safety Corps, also faces allegations of accepting bribes to look away from dangerous vehicles and drivers plying highways. A corps spokesman refused to talk to The Associated Press about traffic crashes in the nation.
Another danger lurks from the motorcycles that race around Nigeria's cities and countryside, braying horns originally designed for semi-trucks. The bikes, known locally as "okadas," speed through crowded streets with little regard for traffic signals or other vehicles. Crashes remain all too common, as are serious injuries, as many onboard don't wear helmets.
Nigeria has about 106,000 miles (164,000 kilometers) of unpaved dirt or gravel roads, which wash out in the country's rainy season and make travel impossible.
While Nigeria earns billions of dollars a year from oil production, confusion over which roads remain a federal, state or local responsibility sometimes delay repairs, Ibraheem said. Corruption plays another major problem, as some road projects often get budgeted for each year without any actual work being done, he said.
Along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Aliyu Mohammed, 37, looked over his wrecked tractor trailer and blamed the federal government for not maintaining the highway. He owned the truck and its cargo, which should have been on the way to Maiduguri, a city in the country's far northeast that's more than 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers).
In the past, it took two days to drive that distance, he said. Today, the journey can take five days.
"Without road, there is no life," Mohammed said. "We can't survive."



Here is the link
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iy8SxhbUhPbUexyik8xIleOsbFSw?docId=1533bf61a0d049f5920b0c984d49e721

There are definitely a lot of arabic words in Hausa. Language is constantly changing. The American English that I speak now is not the same English that was spoken years ago. Language evolves and it is influence by a lot of things. Even the original yoruba langauge was probably influenced by another group or culture. Nothing remains stagnant. Just accept it and move with the flow.

Stellenbosh right by capetown. Beautiful and peaceful.

well get comfortable You will be there for a while. I had a 9hour lay over and it was tough. It was hard to take a nap since the seats are uncomfortable, but bring a good book.

lol, why am I not suprised? Yet these same politicians want to act like moral judges?

don't know, but why put capital in the middle of nowhere? I thought you normally put a capital on the coast because of the access to water at least a place that have access to water. Washington DC is the capital of the U.S. and it's on the coast. Lagos was a good choice for a capital and the Europeans that chose it knew what they were doing.

Story o story o. Abeg, talk is cheap. All our leaders know how to do is talk talk talk. Back it up with some action. Imprison some Americans for 14yrs and lets see what will happen? Untill then, I am tired of hearing about this. USA vs Nigeria round 1: lets go



All this sovereign country talk is for the birds. Sovereign or not the west is looking for a way to invade Africa. They already started with Ivory Coast, Libya, who's next?

lol, Fino doesn't sound like a little girl. In the beginning I had a difficult time differentiate between the two characters because both their voice sounds manly.

Rossikk:
Story Story

If you want to be like China, Brazil, USA etc, then UNITE AFRICA POLITICALLY AND ECONOMICALLY INTO ONE NATION, so that ALL the resources of the continent are managed by a single central govt. Maintaining these colonial boundaries of unviable little countries each doing their own thing is a waste of time, and opens the continent up to exploitation by foreign powers.

Tell me. Can France or anybody send troops to 'maintain peace' anywhere in China today?

What about Brazil?

The USA?



No?

But they can do that in Africa because we have tiny little states like Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Liberia etc etc, which anybody can come in from outside and CHANCE. And dictate who should rule there. Dictate policies etc.

UNTIL THAT CHANGES through African unification, be ready for more indignities.

Omo, God bless you for this. I have been thinking the same thing. Africa has too many little countries it's ridiculous. Countries like Benin, Togo should not even be countries. How do we expect to compete on the world stage with almighty China, Russia, USA, Brazil, India, Canada, Germany when we keep breaking apart every little chances we get?  There is strength in numbers my people.  Part of the reason why Nigeria and South Africa are well respected within the African Continent and abroad is because of our size. This is why I don't support Nigerian breaking apart sometimes. Our size and diversity make us who we are and define Nigeria. When we break up into three different parts, who are we expecting to compete with on the world stage?  Africans need to learn how to get along. Point blank. Enter the 21st and learn the days of our great grand parents are long over with. One of the reasons why Africa was so easily colonized in the past was because of our fragmentation. I pity all these little ethnic groups that want to keep to themselves and form their own country. You are just asking for an invasion. I don't think all of Africa can be control under one government. I think it will be too big. I think we should reduce the amount of smaller countries and form bigger ones.

I live in the US and watch the news everyday and up to date on current events and I have never heard this before. Some of you must not realize how conservative the U.S. is compare to their European buddies.  The U.S. still hasn't legalize man-lover marriage and many Europeans countries have already done that. I can't see republican senators passing this and if you must note, the republican controlled the House of Rep and the Dems control the senate. I don't believe this crap when I have yet to see or hear about it except for Nairaland.

Here are the top news in the U.S.
Virginia Tech killing
Senate republicans block Obama's push to extend Payroll tax cuts
Newt Gingrich as emerging in the polls for the republican nominee
European Union Debt issue

Anything else is all lies. Please provide prove from an American source not the Nigerian tribune article. I am sure if this is true, there will be an article about it from either CNN, Washington Post, New york times, associated press, etc.

this look like a scene from Hotel Rwanda. Abeg, there are others ways to protest than with rifles and machetes. Why didn't the police do anything?

Myself2:
Your two cents aint worth sh[i]i[/i]t,are you the only one that has been to SA?what has that got to do with the subject of discussion?I see ignorance is not your onlt affliction but you seem to suffer an acute case of inferiority complex as well.Like I said,I wont give examples but you need some education

chill out! what is the point of you cursing? Well leave me be with my inferiority complex and live in your grand delusion.

The only time I ever see Nigeria gets anything done is when the laws deals with morality issue. They are quick to vote on a morality issue because Nigeria is a deeply religious country, but talks of economy, infrastruture, corruption, we don't see such quick action. Imagine if Nigeria work towards targeting issues like these the way they want to regulate people intimate activities, I swear we won't be a third world country. I disagree with the vote, but I understand Nigeria is an independent country and they can what they want. I still find this whole thing bizzare. religion sha.


I swear Nigerians are hypocrites with the corruption, scams, 419, drug dealing, polygamy, aristo babes, adultery fornication, etc now Nigeria want to be the moral police? LMAO and tout some useless Nigerian values. Abeg, what are Nigerian values? HYPOCRITESSSSSSSS!

Sometimes, I wonder why Nigeria is a poor country and behind despite having so many intelligent people. I am starting to think it is because of our hypocritical nature. God doesn't like hypocrites.

Myself2:
This shows how ignorant you are
Have you checked the balance/volume of trade relations between the two countries??It's heavily skewed in SAs favour,I dont even need to give examples,just wash the mud of ignorance from yo ayes so you can see
Any diplomatic row between the two countries will hit SA more

lol, okay. Keep lying to yourself.  I don't see it affecting South Africa that much at all. That just my 2cent. Been to SA and SA is light years ahead of Nigeria.