IamLEGEND1:
what did you expect her to do during her father's execution? Grab a sword and start slicing through people?
Arya would've been at the high table too if she hadn't bolted earlier. And what did she do from the crowd? Nothing.
Jofferey was next in line to be king, Sansa understood the consequences of calling him a liar in front of everyone......unlike Arya who just wants to prove she's not to be messed around with by anyone even to the detriment of HER own family.

Did Sansa ever tell dad the truth about what happened with the butcher boy?

Did Sansa hate jeofrey for the death of the boy



NO

Eberex:


Give her a break. Sansa was an immature girl back then. Secondly, remember when Jeofrey visited Winterfell first time with his family? did you see how he and Sansa exchanged glances? Arya took note of this reaction from her sister indicating Sansa was falling in love with Jeofrey (ofcourse she doesn't know he was a beast then).

That played a part in her wanting to please him at all cause just to be queen. But with regards to her father's execution, she was deceived by Cersei. If Cersei can manipulate stronger people, who was Sansa?

And while on the platform delivering his talk on Ned Stark's acceptance for betraying his king, Sansa thought that was enough to save her father, ofcourse it was all lie.

So please, Sansa was naive and just stupid. She has grown to understand the politics going on. Littlefinger will be thinking he is winning Sansa over, but i bet you, Sansa has a personal plan of her own. Did you see the look on her when she asked Brienne to leave?

Don't underestimate Sansa guys. She will be the one who ends up check-mating Littlefinger and eventually destroying him. Let her keep playing the fool for him, because she and Arya already have a plan for him (But we will only find out after LF is finished by both sisters)

I really hope she's playing the fool but so far, she has been doing what Sansa does best SELFISH. Little shake up from Arya and she's back in little finger's hands.
She knows LF is evil just as she saw jeofrey's evil act on the butcher's boy

Seun:

Stop making complicated excuses for an actress who cannot cry on cue and can't be bothered to fake it. How can a woman who can no longer give birth lose one of her three children and not be distraught and inconsolable and angry? She is the mother of dragons. Those 3 dragons are her life.

If the actress had cried out, wept and lashed out in anger, and shown her grief as one would expect, would you have criticized her for weeping due to the reasons you gave above? Would it have been better or worse than how she chose to react in this episode?

She cried a lot in season one, especially when he was given to Khal Drogo

jonsnow92:
Arya never liked Sansa from day one..Sansa was prettier and seemingly had more affection from people than Arya ..It escalated when Sansa was to marry King Jeofrey and Sansa couldn't support Arya when Lymeria(Arya's wolf) bit Jeofrey in Season 1,It happened in season 1,Arya obviously hasn't forgotten.

Not true

homesteady:
Please I need answers to settle an argument I'm having with a friend.
What is the reason behind the suspicious relationship between Arya and Sansa? Since when Arya came back, we all know there has been this tension between both of them.

You need to re watch season one like I am currently doing, all the plots makes perfect sense. Remember when Sansa lied she didn't see nothing when joffery attacked the butcher's boy.
Sansa (God i hate that bit_ch) turned against her family just to be queen. She even watched her dad's execution from the high table. Little did she know Arya was watching her too

siempere:
Armed Force...

Oh, Great

I hope they breakeven with the current price of maize and soya

siempere:
Please can someone explain to me why Jon snow had to step that far from their escape dragon...cos I understand straying a bit to fight them off while odas climb on...but straying that far...even as ser Jorah called him back....that's very stupid.... in my fighting days ..we say d bloodshed got into his head..it happens sometimes..John is brave,very brave and skillful but he is one Stupid muthafuka..a crazy stupid muthafuka...we all will even hate him more when we see the damage the NK will wreak with Cold-heart Viserion next season...I hope Jon receives a knife to d chest...The Brave Fool...but still Daenerys loves him...no wonder love is stupid...just like Jon snow.

Huh??

Seun:
Tyrion's stupid plan which Jon Snow, Dany, and many other people stupidly agreed to backfired. What a shocker. Now the NK has a dragon.

Emilia Clarke is a disappointing actress. I understand that it was difficult for them to get a good British actress who looked underaged and was willing to do casual nudity and simulated sex on camera, but they should have tried harder. Main characters should be played by very good actors. One of her "children" was executed and she could not produce a single tear. Not even fake tears. Her character was smiling at Jon Snow when he woke up, shaking her head when he was apologizing. Wtf was that? She can portray 3 emotions: (1) anger (2) happiness (3) horniness. When she is required to portray other emotions like sadness or inner conflict, all she can do is stare blankly into space.

Mother of dragons is done shedding tears

Shouldn't we be calling for this lawmaker's resignation.

naptu2:


https://thewire.in/110263/macaulays-speech-never-delivered/


http://www.akinblog.nl/2013/05/opinion-lord-macauley-did-not-address.html?m=1


https://www.quora.com/Did-Lord-Macaulay-really-proclaim-in-the-British-Parliament-that-the-only-way-to-rule-India-is-to-make-the-Indian-culture-seem-inferior

Wow, just amazing. Thanks naptu2

Apperently it turns out to be fake or atleat unreliable. I just came accross the indian version. Thanks naptu

How interesting

In Russia as an example, the siloviki, leave something for people lower down the food chain to feed on. That way, they are assured of some loyalty from those people. In Nigeria, our fat cats grab everything in sight.
This young man in this story has been carrying the newspaper clipping of his scholarship award, and his award letter, since 2013. He has been carrying two pieces of paper around for four years!
What does that tell you? It tells me that he is angry, and he is motivated. It matters not that the people who duped him are fellow Igbos. What matters is that his scholarship award letter has a Nigerian coat of arms. In his mind, it is Nigeria that has failed him, and he has logged out of Nigeria. Many in his shoes who have the means, simply dropped everything and moved abroad. He does not have that option, thus, when Nnamdi Kanu came on the scene, he found fertile ground in this young man’s heart. If Kanu is settled or neutralised, the young man’s problem will still remain. He is from a poor family, the kind who cannot afford even FUTO fees.

But there is another problem that bears noting — the cost of driving away some of our brightest young minds. On that day in Umuahia, I met a very interesting young man.
This young man’s story is at once tragic and infuriating. That bird he was holding in his hands, it flies. He built it. It says a lot about what is between his ears. In 2013, this young man won a scholarship, to study Mechanical Engineering at the Federal University of Technology, Owerri. Four years later, and he has never been to that institution.
Why has he not been?
His money was edited.
Herein lies the very corrosive nature of the kind of corruption that we practice in these parts. We have been naive in shouting “corruption, corruption, corruption”, without attempting to understand the nature of our corruption.

A month ago, my boss, Kadaria and I, for a TV programme, The Core, got to interview Nnamdi Kanu. It was an interesting drive from the hotel to his place in Umuahia. Two things that struck me, the organisation of his movement, and how close the Kanu compound is, to the Abia Government House. For crying out loud, there were policemen, a symbol of the Nigerian state, just chilling, and watching the whole show.
Upon getting to the Kanu compound, we took a walk around, surveyed the crowd. There were at least twenty thousand people outside the compound, on Wednesday, 28 June 2017. A workday.
For me, this is where the problem is, and I talked about itextensively for The Cable. We need to, very urgently, create jobs for our young people. These are people, at the prime of their lives, and they have nothing else to do, but wake up, dress up, and go and congregate outside of a man’s house. Make no mistakes, this is not an Igbo problem, it is a Nigerian problem. I have seen it in Kano. I have seen it in Makurdi. I have seen it in Warri. I have seen it in Ibadan. I have seen it in Lagos. Young people, who have nothing to do, and as a result, become willing to listen to whoever has whatever to say.



https://orientaltimes.co/2017/07/28/cheta-nwanze-nnamdi-kanu-will-succeed/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

Interesting

This is what lagos state police would like but idiots keeps say no to state police

obaoyedotun:
You need to stop waiting for nairaland news and read wider

Educate me

obaoyedotun:
Get your facts right in the last 8years oil never sold above $60/barrel you need education in your life

Are you talking about palm oil?

For the sake of convenience, let us consider what we now call the six geopolitical zones in the country. The North-Central, popularly known as the Middle Belt, is made up of Benue, Kogi, Kwara, Nasarawa, Niger and Plateau states. We could add Abuja, but we must remember that Abuja is federally run. The Middle Belt is dominated by “minority” ethnic groups who have various allegiances. This has exacerbated a burning conflict in the region that is at once ethnic and religious. The region has never, since independence, been able to articulate a singular agenda. More importantly because of age-old animosities, there are so many conflicts in the region that keep the people there unable to fight against the Hausa-Fulani-Islamic influence that is coming in from the North of their borders. Should this region become a country, it will be just a matter of time it will fall like a plum, and become a vassal to the North. The North-East is made up of Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe. This region has borne the brunt of the Boko Haram insurgency over the last decade, and there is no sign whatsoever that this will go away soon. The region was also the base of Maitatsine. Historically, the northern reaches of this region, dominated by the Kanuri, was centred around the Lake Chad economy. The Kanuri are spread around Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon, and the creation of these states has not really divided them. They look more “inward” amongst themselves, than “outward” towards any of these countries. This will be a problem for a “North-East country”, not to talk of the extremism of groups like Maitatsine, Boko Haram, or whoever else comes along. This means that this country will be inherently unstable, and will be a problem for the countries that border it, namely the Middle-Belt country, the North-West country, Cameroon, Niger, and Chad. The North-West is made up of Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara. The first problem this new country will have is that while it will immediately have the largest population (disputed) of the six new countries, and a huge proportion of this population, will be uneducated, and possibly uneducatable. The region will however, based on current stats, be the most self-sufficient in food production. However, it will suffer in terms of trade, as a lack of access to the sea will hamper it. To its North, will be very poor neighbours, Dosso, Maradi and Tahoua; regions of Niger Republic, with which it has deep historical ties, and which happen to be the most densely populated parts of that, the poorest country in the world. This means that the movement of people between both will be almost unrestricted, and immediate, putting a strain on the new country. It will fail very quickly. The South-East is made up of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo. Historically the homeland of the Igbo people, this was also the heartland of the secession attempt in the 1960s, and is the heartland of the current secessionist agitations. It is also the smallest region geographically, and the most densely populated. While its natives are aspirational and upwardly mobile, the country will run into trouble pretty quickly because it will be landlocked, and there will almost immediately be fierce competition for scarce resources. There is a reason why three centuries ago, lots of Igbo people began to abandon their farms, and produce great traders — the land simply could not cope. There is no reason to to believe that it will cope now. A drive from Onitsha to Awka, just in Anambra state will show this expanding soil deterioration. Then there will be the geopolitics of coping with expansion from the North, and hostility from the South… The South-South is made up of Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo and Rivers. The first problem such a country will have, that more than any other region in the country, this region has had its environment completely devastated. By the very stuff, which keeps Nigeria going, in its current form. What this means is that should this region become a country on its own, feeding will become a problem, almost from the get go. Fun fact, they produce more fish in the North-West than in the South-South. Added to that, is that the region will have a very similar problem to what the Middle Belt has — no common cause. The only portion of this region I foresee making a headway, is the far eastern part made up of Cross River and Akwa Ibom states today. The others, will soon descend into anarchy brought about by the fact that the youth in that region have been so thoroughly devastated by a proliferation of arms, gangs, and turf wars for control of lucrative, if illegal oil trades. No, a country from the South-South, will be a problem to everyone. The South-West is made up of Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun and Oyo. On the surface, this is will be the most stable and forward looking of all the new countries that will emerge. The current Nigerian economy is centred here (46% of Nigeria’s tax receipts come from Lagos alone), and there is a knock on effect from Lagos, which is beginning to lift Ogun up. But that is on the surface. In reality, we tend to forget that Lagos was federal capital for 87 years, and as a result, commanded the lion’s share of whatever development came the way of the various zones. This arrangement is still felt till today as Lagos is without doubt the centre of everything economic in Nigeria, despite Abuja’s pretensions to the contrary. Lagos, is also effectively Nigeria’s only port. This means that there is a large number of people from the other regions, in Lagos, who are both doing business, and living here. Heck, I live in Lagos too. Now, what if we scatter this country, and every man goes back to the region of his ancestors? The very thing that makes Lagos so dynamic, will be gone. And there will be a lot of catching up to do from the other states in the region. The other new countries, will begin to develop their own infrastructure to compete with Lagos, and a population of roughly 20 million (2006 census figures minus Lagos) will no longer be as attractive to trade, as a population of 180 million plus. This will give a new lease of life to Cotonou, Lome, Sekondi and Tema, all existing ports within six hours of Lagos, and all, even now, better organised. So, these are some of the practical problems that the six new countries will face within themselves. What practical problem will they face amongst one another? First, the fight for resources will continue. You think oil is the only thing worth fighting for? Consider the large scale desertification that is happening to Nigeria’s north, in Niger. It will keep spreading, and that will push people down southwards. Into new countries. These people need to survive, and they will fight to survive. Consider that if this break happens, four of the six countries will be cut off from the ocean. Think about how dependent Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso, and Mali are on their neighbours. Think about the Central African Republic. Do you for one second think that the political and business elite in the North-West, North-East and North-Central will sit idly by and watch themselves effectively become another Niger Republic? Do you for one second think that even the normal South-Easterner on the street will want to be constrained within the limited space that 29,388 sq.km will afford him? A space which will give him a population density of 1,089 people per sq.km, which will immediately shoot his country up to being one of the world’s top thirty in terms of population density? There are arguments for changing the structure that we currently run, and the singular, overreaching argument, is that it is not working. But breaking up the country? You only need to take a look at the map again. From a military standpoint, there’s only one region that will be easily defended: the North-Central. If we are mad enough to go the route of a break-up, and the inevitable war for resources/access to the sea that will follow, we will be caught up in a war without end. This war will affect not just us, but two huge regions — West, and Central Africa. When that happens, isolationist or not, the world will take notice, and will intervene. Then they will put us back together, because that is the reality that they know. We are not the Soviet Union, or Yugoslavia, who had prior body corporates, to return to. Not one of our regions existed as a country, prior to Lugard’s “mistake of 1914”. So my question is — what is the point of fighting a war, or wars, if we will end up back where we started? Will we not be better off thinking through a solution to what is clearly a problem? This article is not absolute. It is meant to provoke a discussion. So, let’s discuss like thinking men.

Since 1914 the British Government has been trying to make Nigeria into one country, but the Nigerian people themselves are historically different in their backgrounds, in their religious beliefs and customs and do not show themselves any sign of willingness to unite… Nigerian unity is only a British intention for the country.” — Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Lagos, 1948. Let’s start from the top. Nigeria is not working. Not for me, not for you who is reading, not for anyone. Except of course, your definition of working is piling up cash from government patronage, and looking at it. The fact is that even those who are making all that pile of dosh still feel our daily pain each day. From the sound of power plants in their backyards, to more than the average visit to the motor-mechanic to have their shock absorbers fixed. From having to provide their own personal water supply, to having to provide their own personal security, Nigeria is an annoyance to everyone. One problem that has been readily identified is that the country is just too big, and too concentrated in Abuja to run properly. This is true. It is also true that China, Canada, the United States, are bigger, and are making progress. It is also true that India, who started along the path to nationhood at a similar time as we did, is making progress in some form. However, this does not stop the arguments that we need to break Nigeria up. Now a confession — I have, for the majority of my life, been almost implacably opposed to the idea of breaking Nigeria up. But ever since I joined a small geo-political research company two years ago now, the contradictions of the Nigerian state, and the sheer waste it engenders, which I am faced with everyday, have kind of elevated my thinking, and made me reconsider my position. Will the people who occupy the space that is currently Nigeria, be better served if we break the country up? Maybe they will, but I still have my doubts. You see, human behaviour is rather constant given certain conditions, and the conditions within the Nigerian state, have been conducive for projecting the worst of human behaviours.

eph123:


Who asked you? I was talking to another poster, not you.

Sorry empty

muyibaba222:
Op could you pls state the total earnings of the first two years of both administrations and let commensurate them?

Don't mind them, being clever by half

eph123:


2 more years and we'll see what the likes of people like you will blame. Also, security has been so great in this era that someone's egbon was kidnapped for several weeks. Nigerians can feed well and feel very safe. Yep, really "impressive" economic and security progress in this current regime.

Was there a time when there was no kidnap? Atleat i can speak of a time when there was bombings every week.
What was special about our ponzi economy 3 yrs ago that states needed bailouts and the FG was borrowing to pay salaries.

ochejoseph:



Madam

When we talk objectively there is no need for insult if truly you mean well for Nigeria

THE REASON WHY THE CRUDE PRICE excuse will not fly is simple

1. GEJ had a crude oil price of 110 but he had to contend with a huge subsidy regime which the APC STOPPED HIM FROM REMOVING
NOW BUHARY HAS NO HIGH CRUDE PRICES BUT THE DOES NOT HAVE THE HUGE BURDEN OF SUSIDY WHICH IS NOW BEEN PAID BY ORDINARY NIGERIANS.


A SOUND ECONOMIC POLICY DOES NOT NEED CRUDE OIL TO WORK ITS NEITHER A MACHINE NO AN EQUIPMENT ITS AN IDEA OR INNOVATION ON PAPER

By your defination, we were spending half our income on subsidy under gej?

Btw, we are spending 40% of our income today servicing debts that way paid off 3yrs before gej despite the oil boom all thru his tenure.

Kathmandu:
Gej was voted out because of religious nd ethnic factors and not performance

True because only muslims voted

Afam4eva:
Hunger Buhari - 95% Jonathan - 30%

Oil price

Buhari - $50/barel


Jonathan - $110/barel

Idiotically skewd write up

My respect for this dude is sky high. Nigeria is a mess, worse than a zoo


https://www.youtube.com/embed/VXZOtqU2Iis

Turks:
Hi. They have the HUBBARD strain. Well, since you didn't get a male line, it's only normal to have females and males at an equal ratio and most times more females than males. This isn't done on purpose. It's just a stroke of luck.

Thanks