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This year’s world most influencial people certainly produced some surprises. The editors picked Hu Jintao, the president of the People's Republic of China as the world's most powerful man, ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama (No. 2). Julian Assange (No. 68), the editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, snuck onto the list in last place, while many traditional media types, including Mark Thompson, the Director-General of the BBC, fell off altogether. In a clear sign of the times, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (No. 40) ranked a full ten spots higher than Bill Keller (No. 50, the Executive Editor of the New York Times.
Power can be used for good or ill and three criminals made the list this year: al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden (No. 57), Joaquin Guzman (No. 60), the billionaire drug trafficker who heads Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel and Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar (No. 63), who runs a vast criminal enterprise in India and who is thought to have a hand in the 2008 terror attacks on Mumbai which killed 174. These rankings are not meant to justify or glorify these odious men. They simply reflect reality.

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#1 Hu Jintao
Age: 67
Title: President
Residence: Beijing
Country of citizenship: China
Paramount political leader of more people than anyone else on the planet; exercises near dictatorial control over 1.3 billion people, one-fifth of world's population. Unlike Western counterparts, Hu can divert rivers, build cities, jail dissidents and censor Internet without meddling from pesky bureaucrats, courts. Recently surpassed Japan to become the world's second-largest economy both in absolute and purchasing power terms. Credible estimates have China poised to overtake U.S. as world's largest economy in 25 years — although, crucially, not on a per-capita basis. Creditor nation oversees world's largest reserves at $2.65 trillion — $1.5 trillion of which is in U.S. dollar holdings. Refuses to kowtow to U.S. pressure to change its exchange-rate regime. Heads world's largest army (in size). His handpicked successor, Xi Jinping, set to assume the presidency in 2012.

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#2 Barack Obama
Age: 49
Title: President
Residence: Washington, DC
Country of citizenship: United States
Obama's Democrats suffered a mighty blow in U.S. midterm elections, with the president decisively losing support of the House of Representatives, and barely holding onto the Senate. It's quite a come-down for last year's most powerful person, who after enacting widespread reforms in his first two years in office will be hard-pressed to implement his agenda in the next two. He can take comfort in the fact that he remains commander-in-chief of world's largest, deadliest military, leader of world's largest (in spending) and most dynamic economy and holds the unofficial title of "Leader of the Free World."

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#3 Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud
Age: 86
Title: King
Residence: Riyadh
Country of citizenship: Saudi Arabia
Absolute ruler of desert kingdom that contains the world's largest crude oil reserves, two holiest sites in Islam. State-owned oil producer Saudi Aramco has reserves of 266 billion barrels, or one-fifth of planet's known supply (worth $22 trillion at today's oil prices). Pushing for gradual social and legal reforms, while maintaining good relations with deeply conservative religious establishment. Ultimate succession unclear: 86-year-old king's official heir is 82-year-old Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud. Established committee of senior princes to ensure smooth transition in the event both become incapacitated.

I was actually searching for Okonjo Iwuala,

[quote author=Efemena_xy link=topic=492003.msg7059560#msg7059560 date=1288649642]Why is commotion for my skool??


Newbie

no is doing love-love 4 hia o! now coming paid skool fees, only £450 per term + £75 for 3 handouts (Mathematricks, Additional Mathematricks and Economic)

just 3 pages each - me nor likeing student to stressing dem head

is crapping her hand!!

Hexcellent!! Hexcellent work Mr O! Me likey!!! [/quote]Me is going to supply you dud check dismediately.
you is giving me handouts - mathematricks and additional Mathematricks, what is happened to subtractional mathematricks? Me is curious to no.

@Tanimz

Easier said! it all starts from internet chat to phone calls suddenly, somebody starts hating. Dnt listen to these ladies! I just got a call from one of my flirts from New Zealand (funny, coz i never really wanna get down with her) My gal nearly burnt my house.

Maybe the world has changed or i still live in mars,

oweniwe:
Mr. Bones, coolest down na ;DAre you not having eyes? Is she given you okokobioko to be chopping and ya swallows it huuk, line and sinkar? Can't you be seeing that she were ug lee?

I cant fit laugh, infact i hillarate in Swahili, hahahaha

Is she ug lee? please discollect my lover letter from her,

tanimz:
Mo daran!

Who are you?

Bebe,
i cant see why you talk this question like you dont know the answer. I am a public admirer or is it in the skool prospectus not to do TT?
It is not criminal to express my feel for you
Afterall everybody do it

Daer Tanimz,
Since i came to this our school, i've look you and saw that you fineness is lack quantification and the value money cannot bye.
I am mesmerizing and disorganizing every aspect of my emotion so that you will come in and organize the scattered mesmer,
Tanimz my honey pawpaw, The alacrity in my blood cannot allow me to express myself in paper and pencil, after you respond to this Lover letter, i will tell you more.
Please dont tell Efe

yours,
Public Admirer

See, my english has plogressed domestically in the opposite direction. I fit cant continue in this skool. Efe, please BALANCE me my remainder school fees. i want to go to onitcha main market with immediate effect!!

I guess the only thing i dropped for love is my "pants"

I like the paycheck ofcourse.
I like that i meet people, i mean tear rubber professionals.
I like that all my bills are paid by employer
I like that my reports are never wrong
I like that am respected
I like that i can terminate my contract anytime,

I hate that i work offshore
I hate that i'vent been laid in a loooong time
I hate the sea breeze,

Its disheartening to observe degradation and decay in just about everything associated with Nigeria (no offence). Time without number, threads like this culminate into senseless arguments, fights, abuses and eventually loses meaning. The poster has a vision which is in symmetry with the dreams of most of us cultivating outside the shores of home.
American passport is only a leverage. Am born Nigerian and i will die Nigerian. The true human value lies in the legacy you set for yourself.
It is our collective responsibilty to make Nigeria as comfortable as America, even if not for ourselves but for the generations to come. Afterall, people made sacrifices to make America what it is today. I live in Dubai and am amazed at the pride an Emerati exhibits when issues of nationhood are discussed. The Sheiks and sultans were visionary. The made the sacrifice. suprisingly, alot of folks in Nigeria are better off than this burger munchers who call Nigeria hell-hole. Anyway, if you have nothing to offer Nigeria, you can stay away,

Shames on all of you one upon another!!!!!! see how you name our school bad bad names,   
Even Efemena who is suppose to teach goood examples is romancing El Guapo inside close doors.

The school authority most hears this,  _{off i walk to the principals office}

i've always flown Emirates on international routes. Though i fly arik on domestic trips. never had a prob with their services, i still believe they're the best locally,

Goodluck has always been the choice candidate basically because we are kinda fade up with the North and need a change but If you access his governance, his weaknesess are very obvious. which includes biased comments regarding the Abuja bombing "using the word - my people". The electoral reform bill was very selfish. In a layman's term, he wants "political appointees" to play voting role in candidate normination. This simply will empower him with a leverage simply because all political appointees currently standing will want to retain their jobs and will simply vote for status quo. Also, he is the only President in the world who took so much interest in football to the extent of suspending superchickens for poor world cup outing - This implies doesnt know his job yet. Last but not the list - his wife sucks

sayso:
people sleep on bed(s) whenever there no options that is to answer the question from the topic.

pardon?

Mr-cock, standing erect and looking for a dame to devour, hehehe. ladies help him out before the viagra wears out

lol, lets see which terrorist takes the first shot,

I love it when some group of nuts and screws hijack a thread, re-invent the topic and chat their @rse off about, it makes me think about terrorists just like yousef in "unthinkable"

well, i've shared an apartment and a bed with a dude for 4 years while i was in school, i bet this argument is pivoted on the level of confidence and how much you know your roomy. whatever the case, have a blade handy to chop off whatever my confront your backside, Make him know that you have a chop chop knife under your pillow while you sleep. he'll get the msg. If he ask you why, tell him its to wade off evil spirits, if he's one, he'll dive the couch

What da heck are you fellas cracking your nuts over this fiction? Banom, i can only say you cooked this up, to set this house on fire, On first encounter, ladies don't do such thing, abi she no be lady, NEXXT!!

Sometimes you manufacture evidences to nail a culprit, sometimes you create a little "evil" to avert a huge ONE

A CULPRIT is guilty, because we KNOW it, all we need is a reason whether existent or imagined.

[quote author=oyinda. link=topic=521064.msg6846224#msg6846224 date=1285792989]ouch

same applies to men too though. guys especially care a lot abt physique (ie bosoms, butt size etc).
true love is very hard to find if u have to take physical measurements into account u kno?[/quote]yeah, i agree with you. I guess "sexual" attraction is accorded preference over good mannerism. nonetheless, it applies to us all, me not excluded, coz i've ditched "true love" for "big butts", not a good thing though, but once the mind "matures" it seeks for "companionship" and nothing else, it all depends on what we want,

I guess its all about physique, and yet you scream "true love is hard to find",
y'all talking about Ex, Ex, EX,  lol, please check your HIV status, heard it's 7'4", thats pretty tall,

Odunnu:
Maybe u are correct.Gbam! I mean, its not 'corporate' having a short man as husband. LOL
(no offence)

Please Odunnu, how deep are you? am just being curious,

Hello folks, and a   to the ladies in the house, i totally agree with you all that tall men appear sexier and will definitely give you ladies a grind. That said, the question still remains, "is that enough"?, i ain't  short either so i guess am qualified to have any of you in my team, don't get scared coz am rich ,  but not withstanding, i feel a twist in me to see that a whole lot of girls don't focus on the real thing, character, height aint a guarantee of a fun filled relationship, better still, so short guyz got a longgg thing down there,

[quote author=ruba_slipa link=topic=519362.msg6826163#msg6826163 date=1285528066]I think you're right. And he's [b]terrified [/b]people will find out, so he tries lamely to come hardcore, attacking just what is fascinating him.

Meanwhile, Sagamental is very weak inside. That's why you shouldn't pay attention to his hurling abuse and claiming (with spelling/grammar mistakes) that he is superior this and mentally that - he just does it to feel better about himself.  

Whoever has point to make, let s/he make their point. No insults necessary.[/quote]Ruba_slipa, what is NORMAL about being gay? why dont we have this same NORMAL phenomena manifest in animals? let me fine-tune your scrambled cognizance alittle, paradventure you have no working knowledge of biology. your rectum is NOT a receptacle by DESIGN. there is no provision to handle semen within the rectum, rather it is DISCHARGED along side the next pile of excrement that goes off this channel. i guess your HYBRID principle is not valid only that the minds of these gay fellows are thwarted to reflect a contempt by the devil on the perfect creation of GOD. please tell me, what is attractive about the backside of a fellow brother, ? Testesterone or whatever it's called stimulates a man to react to the feminine counterpart, unless your gonads bleed puss and not hormones, on a lighter note, if you see your bulldog climb another male dog what you gonna think? a normal but rare case of sexuality? you must be a joke,

@ALL, PLEASE LET US ACT AND RESPOND WITH MODESTY AND DECORUM. WE NIGERIANS TOO LIKE FIGHT AND QUARREL. RESPECT OTHERS POINT OF VIEW, IF YOU FEEL LIKE CURSING OR IF YOU GET SO TENSED UP AND IRRITATED BY A COMMENT, YOU CAN VENT YOUR ANGER ON YOUR LAPTOP, EXAMPLE: FLING IT WITH ALL THE ENERGY YOU'VE GOT, @WHOEVER IS CLOSE BY, AND SAVE THIS BLOG INSULTS AND DERROGATORY COMMENTS. THAT WILL HELP.

MEANWHILE, ANY ACT OF SEXUAL EXPRESSION THAT IS CONTRARY TO NATURES DESIGN IS PRONORMAL. THERE IS A DEMON RESPONSIBLE FOR IT. THERE IS NO DIGINITY IN IT. IF YOU ARE GAY, ASK GOD TO HELP YOU AND HEAL YOU, GIVE YOUR LIFE TO CHRIST AND HE WILL TRANSFORM YOU. PERSONALLY, I DO NOT BELIEVE IN GAY RIGHTS, THE ANUS IS DESIGNED TO DISCHARGE AND NOT TAKE IN, THESE GUYS ARE AS GOOD AS GLOBAL WARMING, THEY SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AS INSTRUMENTS OF NATURAL IMBALANCE, ONCE THEY START RAISING FAMILIES, WHAT LESSON ARE THEY GONNA TEACH THE ADOPTED KIDS CONCERNING SEXUALITY AND THEIR BIOLOGICAL PARENTS THEY WILL RAISE BLUNDERS, I REST MY CASE.

SILENCE!!!!!, after much delibration on the aformentioned issue and the inability of CHIENDUMO and other attorney to this debased gay to provide substantial evidence and reason why this bastard should not be convicted, the jury of this house has found Reverend sticky-pricky guilty and his sentence stand as follows.
1. hanging by the balls.
2.hanging by the balls,
and 3. HANGING BY THE BALLS TILL AN APPOINTED MEDICAL PRACTITIONER DECLEARS HIS WEWE DEAD!!

Una too like quarrel pass fight, i wish one day Nairaland will have buttons and icons indication slap, punch, shove, headbutt, that will make it alot more interesting so the Awos sulking about that near-miss called Ojukwu can express themselves,

got some new plates for swap. kinda costs in Nigeria.
1. Jericho
2. Resident Evil 5
3. Pro evolution soccer 2010
4. NBA live 08
5. Hellboy

abeg holla or email me if you wanna swap games with me.

orbaxy@gmail.com

KnowAll:
I would not be surprised Nigeria imports A4 papers despite all the trees we have in Naija.

YES! Nigeria do import A4 papers.

This is despicable and a contempt on the credibilty of our manufacturing sector. Akunyili is a joke. I wonder the expression on her face while she spew out this blunder.

Anyway, i feel that the passivity of the electorate is a leverage for these bloodsuckers to do just about anything. Forgive me to ask, can such mundane decision be challenged in a court?