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Revvy, I'll start this as a new thread in the Religion block. Let's meet there and not distract people who'd like to help Spikey.

I have said it before now, and I will repeat it anywhere that OBJ is the most corrupt President we've had so far in the nations history. Posterity will vindicate me one day.

Reverend:
@ Ono

It is called an over active imagination!

Meaning having an hyperactive imagination, right? Like you just allow your mind to think up weird things and that blablabla, right?

Well, a very close friend of mine described this situation in which he was pressed down while in bed. He was practically struggling for breath. And he could not get up, summin like that. When he eventually got up, he was sweating the hell out of his body. Is that hyperactive imagination too?

But do you folks believe in something like spiritual attacks? Is there anything like that? Has anyone experienced it?

If you have, please share your experience with us. I've heard of people getting pressed down on, while in bed and several other stories like that in the past, could it be real?

Chinani, well, I guess I'll have to handle this with the dexterity it deserves, otherwise I'll have my head chopped off very soon.

I still stand by my word that you're very pretty, with no strings attached.

I see that aside from Nwoke a.k.a oSeun (and later on to be known as Adamu), the admin, all the contributors to this thread are the female folks.

I will like the male folks to contribute to the thread.

Women discussing politics? I don't think there's anything ridiculous about it. They can discuss politics, as it has been the case since days gone by, but I know we have a credible few amongst them who can make things work in this world.

God gave us women to be our help. The word ''help'' can manifest in different ways and forms, even up to holding very important positions in the society. They are there to help us. And we need them.

When you ''see'' this thing in the light of the above reasoning, you'd know that women really are not lords above men, they are helping men in anything they come to in life.

IAH wants to know why one's looking at her profile, I just noticed that on looking her up at her profile page.

Did you say one should go away? - buhahahahaha (that I got from Queenzy) Makes me crack right up my head!!
But there's nothing in there other than words and adds.

Cool. All well and good.

Nwoke:
Igbo Kwenu! (my next name will be adamu)

stealers == criminals, robbers, thieves, miscreants.

I see, so, you're calling the MEND boys miscreants and thieves abi? It's OK. Anyways, it's good to know you're doing your own bit to unite the country. All well and good.

Maybe She's the daughter of a VIP in Nwoke's town.

Maybe I should have just said, Chinani is gorgeous, Maki is too, Snazzy and Ushergirl, and all the other contestants.

Goodness!! Who's this Afeni? from outer space or where?

Really, 2C, there's no strings attached to my admiring Chinani. Heavens! you know as a lot of other folks know that I'm married.

I confess I've been staring at Chinani's photos. She's gorgeous.

Danmasani:
Omoifa

Recent events in Abuja have made me get back to you. I want to ask you this. Is 50 million sharing among our representatives in the House of Assemblly justified to pass an amendment. See for Obasanjo to ridicule Balogun and Alams with EFCC and yet share out billions of Naira for his agenda is hypocrisy. Is this who u want to lead us for more years? a man who preaches against corruption and yet bribes at his time of distress? See this can't be denied as every paper has reported this backed up with substantial evidence. So Nigeria's constituition can now be sold for 50million per head ehn?
Well,i want to know( with all your BB rating and other rantings you have used to justify the man's action) if this double-mouthed man is worthy to serve Nigerians again with what he has just pulled?

Danmasani,
Abeg helep me ask omoifa o!

WesleyanA:
I can't wait to turn 18. I hope it feels special.

Believe me, it sure does. But it's worth waiting for that day. I know you'd make us proud.

Happy birthday though.

WesleyanA:
I'll  have to confess, I agree with some of your points, Ono.
I was just arguing for the sake of arguing / getting on your nerves. 

But I still believe that teenagers should be educated on sexual matters and they ARE allowed to read the romance section. There's nothing wrong with it.

I didn't know this thread was still alive 

Adolescents to me are those folks within the 18-25 age bracket. So, I support sex education, but with a clause that it should be taught to adolescents within that age bracket and above ONLY.

Other ''children or Teens'' including my friend Wes, should not even[b] see [/b] anything about it, talkless of getting taught about sex education in school! That's my stand.

Now, Wes, I said I want us to chat, remember? I'm waiting for you to set up that YIM of yours.

I bet I could take a few things home with me from here. So, I'm all eyes for now.

ocho:
oh my!! I wasn't searching to be hooked up. It was just kajad exploring the meaning of my name in Igbo.You two are funny Thanks for the birthday wish. when is your birthay?

My birthday's is on the 22nd of October - Libra to the core.

Cool response from a cool lady.

Jakumo:
Ono your call for MEND operatives to bomb areas of Lagos or Abuja rather than Port Harcourt or Warri will not further the cause of seeking justice for the Niger Delta, since many folks who have never worked for or benefitted in any way from Nigeria's oil industry will inevitably wind up dead or mangled in such attacks.

Similarly I would remind Nwoke that America's NSA ( National Security Agency ) actively monitors all electronic communications world-wide, and the key words in Nwoke's last post suggesting a bombing of the United States embassy in Lagos or Abuja would automatically actuate recording devices and close scrutiny of the writer's IP address, GPS coordinates and identity, regardless of the context in which such a call was made.

Bros,
A lot of my people have been mangled by long years of neglect and deprivation. It's even the offsprings of these mangled ones that are causing this mayhem in the Delta. The resources of our lands were used to build up Abuja and Lagos. Let those places have a little bit of the trouble we're facing in here, hopefully they'll appreciate the gravity of their sins against our people.

Much as I detest these bombings, I cannot but praise these boys for having the courage to prove to Nigerians and the world in general that there's an internal colonisation going on in Nigeria.

Well, is it that you're not hooked up yet then? I thot you were. My mistake.

Happy birthday then, hope you get what you're searching for.

omoifa:
Ono! I can see you are "area". Why are you people worried about resources control then. In your words "Don't worry about the future. Do one thing at a time". Take what is given to you now (18% derivation) and stop worrying about what you would do to get 25 or 50%. Tomorrow will take care of that. In fact why are we all discussing. Why should we be talking about the future. We shouldn't worry about tomorrow now. Abeg make we go drink Ogogoro jare.

Ono, abeg drop that mentality oooo. The mentality no go carry u reach anywhere. Na d mentality make oyinbo man take schnapp carry all our able bodied people go build America.

Just hear yourself,

''Take what is given to you now (18% derivation) and stop worrying about what you would do to get 25 or 50%''

You just wait until MEND comes around to blow up that place where you are. You will then know that what we want in the Delta is not some lousy, rotund and dirty people who cannot take care of their backyard and who wants to come around and dictate to us how our own resources should be shared between them and us. Just wait.

Wait until that your statement will read something like this in the not too distant future, for your type (Hausa/fulani North, Yoruba West, and Igbo East)

''Let us wait for the ND people to give us the crumbs that falls from their table, so that we might live''

For the first time since I've joined this forum, someone is going crazy right before me!

Thanks, Maki. How are you?

Well, I saw this lady on a drilling rig at one oilfield called Kanbo. Her name's Ono, and she's a geosteering engineer with Baker. She taught me some stuff on geosteering a well and we got stucked.

Besides, we happen to have thesame name, Ono, but I hardly use it. So, I put up the name in here to remind me of her and that I have another name called Ono.

My shout?

I can't shout. Drank one large mug of hot tea too quickly this morning and got my throat burnt! Since then, I can't even talk, talkless of shout.

I shout in silence - if there's anything like that.

Jakumo:
After another huge car bomb that killed a young girl and two innocent civilians in Warri, the MEND boys have issued defiant notice that more random bombings are scheduled to be targeted at civilians in coming weeks. 

One wonders how MEND hopes to garner international and local sympathy for their just cause when they are now deliberately focusing bomb attacks on the civilian populace who have absolutely NOTHING to do with the historical injustice suffered by inhabitants of the Niger Delta.

No doubt, they are taking this thing too far. My residence happens to be within the blast radius of that bomb. Our house was ''visibly shaken'' by the blast.

I urge all well meaning Delta People to prevail on the MEND boys to take it easy. Those bombs should at best be planted in Aso Rock or Maitama districts in Abuja, or better still at Ikoyi and Broad Street in Lagos. Not Portharcourt and Warri, please.

Bros Jakumo, no casualty was reported for the Warri blast.

omoifa:
That was a brilliant dig-up Owo. Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. That is the price you pay for being a public figure. That is why it is dangerous to say things categorically especially when you are not privy to some information. I guess that should teach everyone including OBJ some lesson. But that doesn't mean we still wouldn't need him to put together our insurance policy for us.

The issue isn't OBJ's character. That shouldn't becloud our sense of judgement. The issue is about responsibly chasing him out. Do we want to chase him out without securing ourselves or do we want to chase him out without caring who comes in next. Whether its another Shagari or an IBB or an unknown who could be worse than everyone put together.

So obviously we want someone who will be better than everyone put together. What are the probability of getting that?. judging from our history less than 20%. should we still try that out. Ofcourse NO NO NO.

I say again. We should have a pact to have him put together institutuons that will protect us from a bad government. Then we should chase him fast to OTA.

Ofcourse if I don't get that I will only pray that we get a better person knowing fully well that the odds are against us.

Omoifa,
Why worry so much about the future? my friend, do one thing at a time. OBJ will soon give up the ghost, will you wake him up when he's dead to continue his rulership of the country?

kajad:
Her name Ocho could mean searching in igbo so i was asking if she's found what she is searching and advising her to search harder while praying for God's blessings upon her.

Hey Perhaps she searching for me you i m unpredictable

C'mon man, she's hooked, I'm hooked and nothing will ever make me/her search for someone else.

IAH:
It will happen again. 1am in the night and 1pm in the day.

Yeah!

It will happen twice in a day. Just 1 day and that's all.

Someone's opinion.

What then is corruption?
By Uzo Nwankwo
It is with stunning incredulity that one has observed the shenanigans of this Federal Government on the proposed constitutional amendment, with the unmistakable third term bogey as its main driving force. This incredulity owes much to the fact that this writer was one of the most effusive admirers of this president when he took office in 1999. I even did an article at that time in which I changed his name from Obasanjo to Obasanma. How times can change.

Here was a man universally deemed to have been roped into a phantom coup by the Abacha ogre for speaking out against dictatorship. By a twist of fate he emerged from Abacha's gulag alive, with his already towering credentials further enhanced. Before his near-death experience with Abacha and his goons, he was already a member of the eminent persons group, a well regarded world statesman. He had been widely acclaimed as the first African military officer to hand over government voluntarily to civilians; a one-time aspirant to the office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the originator of the African Leadership Forum etc. Now in addition to all these, he had added the toga of "Prisoner of Conscience" and emerged from gaol to lead his long-oppressed people to freedom. In summary, our own very Mandela.

Like the legendary Nelson Mandela, he went from prisoner to president in one fell swoop. But alas, there the similarity ends. Whereas Mandela deepened his mystique by ruling for one only term and turning over the reins of power to his lieutenants, our own Nigerian equivalent seems bent on destroying his legacy by instituting for us a corrupt dictatorship. Corrupt! Yes you heard right. One of the cardinal pillars on which this administration has tried to build its reputation is the fight against corruption. However, in this fight, only the narrowest definition of corruption has been adopted and that is the issue of stealing of the national patrimony by those in positions of trust. How very convenient? My Chambers dictionary defines "to corrupt" thus: "to make putrid; to taint; to debase; to pervert; to destroy the purity of; dishonest , etc"

It is therefore corrupt practice when the democratic process is perverted by changing the rules of the game midway for the sole benefit of those already in the field of play. It is corrupt practice for a president who swore an oath to defend a constitution which prescribes a maximum of two terms of office to seek to change the condition and benefit from it. Is it not corrupt practice for a government to pervert the democratic process by flouting the order of the highest court in the land in regard to the release of local government funds to Lagos State? This singular act of the Federal Government has no doubt done more harm to the democratic process and our body politic than all the billions allegedly purloined by Tafa Balogun! What is a society without the rule of law? A veritable jungle! Is it any surprise that following this act by the Central Government, there has been a spate of copy-cat disobedience of court orders in Oyo State and other parts of the country? The utter impunity and contemptuous disregard for the laws of the land which pervade this society gained a tremendous boost from this frightening example by the Obasanjo Government.

Is it any wonder then that a group of hoodlums with well-advertised sponsors can set fire to a government house and radio stations among other properties in a state and yet go absolutely scot free? Not only did they not pay for their crimes, their sponsors were subsequently promoted to higher positions in the political pecking order!

The debasement of our democratic process by the charade that passed for "public hearings" by the Mantu Committee on constitutional amendment was unmitigated corruption. The committee already had an answer and it appears that their only task was to work out the question to fit. It is not so hard to recall that Mantu, as one of the stalwarts of one of the erstwhile five leprous fingers of one hand (apologies to the late Bola Ige), was active in the raucous crowd that was screaming "Abacha Forever!"

Not so long ago in this regime, one Prof. Babalola Borishade had a disastrous tour of duty as Minister of Education. During his tenure, our universities were paralysed for up to six months due to his inept handling of ASUU/Government disagreements. Soon after, Mr. President reshuffled his cabinet and re-presented the same professor for re-confirmation by the senate. Naturally, the senate demurred. But what did our all-knowing president do? He kept bringing forth the Prof's name for confirmation until, thoroughly brow-beaten and intimidated, the senate finally gave in and confirmed the apparently indispensable professor. By insisting on destroying the purity of the normal democratic process where the legislature is permitted to have its say, my dictionary declares this government corrupt. And when the indispensable professor was assigned to the Aviation Ministry what happened? Aeroplanes started tumbling out of the sky. Coincidence? That's your opinion.

Why are we so blessed and yet so cursed simultaneously? What makes it so easy for charlatans and selfish politicians to seize this country by the jugular time and time again? Yesterday it was "Abacha For Ever !", "Who the Cap Fits!" and other similar inanities. What happened to decency and integrity on these shores? What is it at Aso Rock that makes whoever enters there to want to stay glued to the seat, whereas in South Africa, Thambo Mbeki (not even Mandela) would brook no suggestion of an elongated tenure for him?

Obasanjo can still redeem himself today by cutting loose all those leeches who are trying to convince him that if he leaves in 2007 Nigeria will collapse. He should learn from the experience of Babangida. Nigerians generally have a large heart and will forgive most of his shortcomings provided he does not succumb to this third term bait. Nigerians would have forgiven Babangida his multitude of sins against this land if only he had not annulled the June 12, 1993 election and thereafter being forced to leave office in utter ignominy. This third term trap is going to be Obasanjo's "June 12" if he is not careful.

If Obasanjo really wants to be remembered as the man who fought corruption in Nigeria then he must today broaden his definition of corruption and stop perverting the democratic process. He should begin to fight moral corruption, democratic corruption and ethical corruption. All doublespeak and "the more you look abracadabara" should be dropped. Then and only then shall the average Nigerian sit up and applaud his war on corruption. It should be obvious to him that the perversion of our democratic process to satiate a selfish desire to remain in power will cause more long-term damage to the polity than if all the cases in EFCC files remain unsolved.



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