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AjCityOne: As much as I appreciated the fact the you posted this video. I hate the fact that you have to ruin your whole effort by bringing up your stupid religious bias. Why can't people like you let history be. Maybe if we go back to those time with high level of religious tolerance and respect for other's belief we will be much better off today. You go to Church and mosque so much and yet nothing works in your country. Corruption is all over the place.

do i have a problem with ATB visiting the mosque? ABSOLUTELY NOT. however, i'm concerned about the kind of message paying a state visit to a religious center may send in present day nigeria, where religious intolerance is growing by the day.
by the way, (this is off-topic), i prefer a secular (not multi-religious) nigeria state in which nigerians are deeply and "truely" religious.

i think this is superhot too

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT5m9Fn9RBg[/flash]
other than the mosque-visiting part of the video (which may send negative message in the nigeria of today), i see a charismatic leader who looks very confident in his pose and speech (irrespective of his ugly look and dressing )

[size=18pt]check
2:27
7:40
25:20[/size] for his ATB's speeches

i think it offers opportunities for wise nigeria entrepreneurs to be better off, as this affords them the opportunity to set up an internet payment service that can be used by nigerian. in the mean time, the enterpreneur will make his money, and he can at the end (when paypal's eyes have opened) sell this company to paypal for good money

when ugandan university is producing electric car http://ictville.com/2012/12/ugandas-35000-electric-car/ https://ictville.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/electric-car-uganda.jpg

imagine what nigeria is celebrating smh

do i blame the student, no, he is doing his best within the confine of his resources, however i blame the people who create and are sustaining a system which produces stuff like this in the name of producing cars. i also have a lot of issues with apologists and sympathizers of this system who justifies this rubish by saying stuff like "nigeria's engineers are trying", "we have to start from somewhere as low as building this crap ??"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/01/07/a-surprising-map-of-the-best-and-worst-countries-to-be-born-into-today/?tid=pm_world_pop

If you came into the world today and could pick your nationality, there are at least 15 better choices than to be born American, according to a study by the Economist Intelligence Unit. The firm looked at 80 countries, scoring them across 11 variables to determine “which country will provide the best opportunities for a healthy, safe and prosperous life in the years ahead.” The results, mapped out above, are both surprising and not.
The study incorporates hard data on facets such as economic opportunity, health standards and political freedoms; subjective “quality of life” surveys; and economic forecasts for 2030, when an infant born today would be entering adulthood. Even gender equality, job security (as measured by unemployment data), violent crime rates and climate are taken into account.
Here’s some of what I found interesting about the data. There’s surely more here — just as there are surely plenty of holes to be poked in any endeavor to understand life and opportunity in only 11 variables.
Money can’t buy you happiness, though it will get you 2/3 of the way.
The correlation between wealth, as measured by gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, and happiness is clear, though not nearly as clear as you might expect. The report concludes from the results that “GDP per head alone explains some two thirds of the inter-country variation in life satisfaction, and the estimated relationship is linear.” Only two-thirds!
If you look at the map, you’ll see that the world’s richest countries score highly, but not in the top category. The United States and Germany, two of the world’s economic powerhouses, tied for 16th place; Japan ranks way down at 25th. Britain and France score even worse.
The Middle East offers some great lessons on money and well-being. The region scores poorly in general, with two exceptions. Democratic and developed Israel, which is about as rich per person as the European Union average, ranks 20th. But the top-ranking country in the region, at 18th, is the oil-rich United Arab Emirates. Even more telling, though, is the gulf between the U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia, which for all its oil money scores much lower, perhaps due in part to problems such as repressive laws or a lower human development index.
The best countries to be born in are small, peaceful, homogenous, liberal democracies.
Yes, it’s yet another international ranking on individual well-being where the Nordic countries come out on top, alongside Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The top 15 also include Austria and Switzerland, which seem to meet similar criteria. The three best places to be born are, in order: Switzerland, Australia and Norway.
Here’s a surprise: the top-ranked countries also include Asia’s two super-rich city-states, Hong Kong and Singapore, as well as Taiwan. I’ll admit to being surprised by the data’s suggestion that a newborn today is better off being Taiwanese than American or German, particularly because Taiwan’s aging population and declining birthrate could lead the economy to decline. But Taiwan does enjoy good political freedoms and improving health and living standards.
There is some interesting variation among the top-ranked countries. New Zealand ranks seventh overall even though its GDP per capita is low compared to many worse-ranking European countries. Singapore, though ranked sixth, is not a liberal democracy by any stretch, and life satisfaction in the hyper-competitive city seems relatively low. But it sure is rich.

It’s still best in the West.
In spite of Asia’s miraculous growth and of Europe’s economic decline, factors such as political rights and health standards keep the Western world overwhelmingly desirable. Other than a small number of exceptions, most of which are mentioned above, the top third of the rankings is dominated by Europe and other Western states.
Even Portugal and Spain, for all their very real troubles, score highly. A child born today is likely to have a better life, according to the data, in Poland or Greece — yes, Greece — than in rising economic giants such as Brazil, Turkey or China.
Poverty, violence and/or lack of freedom define the worst countries to be born into.
Countries with violence, poverty or political oppression all rank poorly, but the variance within the bottom fifth or so is fascinating.[size=14pt] The worst three countries to be born into, in order from the bottom up, are Nigeria, Kenya and Ukraine. [/size]
Some of the bottom-ranked countries are not actually so poor, such as Russia, which has bad records on political rights and public health. Ecuador, backsliding on political rights, is the sole low-scoring country in an otherwise optimistic-looking Latin America.
Though countries such as Indonesia and Vietnam are projected to show astounding economic growth over the next generation, they are poor today. This map is a reminder that being born into a poor society, even one that offers opportunities for new wealth, can still mean life-long challenges.
Inequality plus poverty is much worse than just plain poverty.
Three telling cases here are Angola, Kazakhstan and Ukraine, all of which scored much lower than I’d have expected. Both Angola and Kazakhstan are enjoying rapid economic growth from energy and mineral exports, and Ukraine is a middle-income democracy. But all three have severe and worsening problems with economic inequality, which in turn are fueling corruption and poor governance.
You’re worse off being born in any of these three countries, according to the data, than you are just about anywhere else, including Sri Lanka, a poor hotbed of ethnic violence, oppressive Vietnam, or even Syria. Pakistan places higher than Angola or Ukraine but just below Kazakhstan.
China is still not a great place to be born.
The country ranks 49th out of 80, just below Latvia and Hungary. That’s an amazing finding, given that China now has the second-largest number of billionaires in the world after the United States and might some day have the most. You would think that, with so many Chinese families catapulting to higher status within a society that is itself seeing historic gains, China would be a great place to be born in 2013.
The statistics are a reminder that, for all of China’s astounding gains, those gains have not benefited all Chinese equally. About half of the country is still rural and 128 million are still below the poverty line. Even in the big coastal cities, the rising cost of living, stalled political freedoms and worsening income inequality mean that the next 20 or 30 years may not be prosperous for a lot of families.
So, if you’re a Westerner fretting about American decline or European collapse, then if nothing else, know that your children have still lucked into one of the best deals in history: being born in the right place at the right time.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2013/01/where-to-be-born-map3.jpg

these people have no conscience at all - and you can see if from the way they think, viewing corruption only from the legal perspective and not the moral perspective. n small time, gej is going to be asking on his livechat what message his body language is sending

[url]http://www.oddfootball.com/mario-balottelis-sister-abigail-gives-obafemi-martins-a-Mouth Gig-public/[/url]

Many have complained about the love for anything under skirt by Super Eagles striker, Obafemi Akinwunmi Martins who plies his trade at Levante in Spain. Those who know him too well swore that when it comes to the game of ‘womanising’, Obafemi is ‘Lionel Messi’ in that regards.
What Italian media are reporting about the Nigerian player may not be too pleasant. According to what was reported, Obafemi and ‘bad boy’ Manchester City and Italian striker, Mario Balotelli’s sister, Barwuah Abigail, are both in a sizzling romance.
That is even not the problem even though Balotelli is reported to kick against Obafemi dating his sister, but the problem is that both lovebirds chose to publicly do what they should have done inside in a confine outside. Obafemi and Abigail were pictured having a ‘wild’ love play openly some days ago when the Nigerian and his girlfriend saw each other.
In one of the pictures, Abigail was captured as if she was giving Obafemi ‘nodding’ while she bent in that suggestive position. Also in one of the pictures, Obafemi seems to have responded to the ‘game’ as he embraced Abigail from her backside while both played love games together outside.
As at this moment, it is not clear whether Balotelli has reacted to the incident.
According to information gathered by Nigeriafilms.com, the relationship between Obafemi and Abigail dated back to when the former Newcastle United Nigerian player and Balotelli were at Inter Milan as team mates.

truth is
1) it will be stupid for hospitals to treat patients in nigeria without having the guarantee the patient will pay
2) you can't expect govt to fund emergencies in public and/or private hospitals in nigeria, it is an avenue for massive looting and very unwise
3) a large number of nigerians are so poor and broke that they can afford to pay in emergency situations.
Question is "what then can be done in this situation?" i am a strong advocate of "people taking responsibility for their health"- a situation which seems not to be the case in nigeria. anyways, here are some of my thoughts in getting medical service in emergencies

1)on a community scale , people should form "[size=16pt]health emergency cooperatives"[/size]. this should consists of a group of people, say 20, which contribute a certain amount each, and use the same hospital where the doctor is one of the signatory to the account. rules on how to contribute , spend or recover debts should be set by the members
2) on a govt scale, people should form "health emergency cooperatives". this should consists of a group of people, say 20, which contribute a certain amount each, and govt should coordinate this and issue some sort of id card to each of the members of the cooperatives. with respect to rules of contributing, spending and recovering of debts, govt should set a framework within which the cooperatives have some flexibility to do some thing
3) on the govt scale again, govt should sshould provide a framework for people to have personal health insurance and govt should also contribute to this cost. for example, there can be a health insurance companies which you should register with, and pay a certain amount monthly to for a certain period (or which you hand over some sort of guarantee) which should be able to guarantee the repayment of your emergency health bills. and you should be able to get your insurance money back minus admin charges (in case you don't have to use it after a certain period)

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i know there are many ways by which govt can help people take personal responsibility for their health ,but since this does not have any political gain, there is no political will to do it

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To: BBC Hard Talk
15 questions for President Jonathan

We the citizens of Nigeria, request that veteran Journalist Mr Stephen Sackur interview our President, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. It has become necessary at this point in time, to find out where Mr President is taking our country to. We trust the abilities of BBC Hard Talk, we also hope that our request will be granted.

We have extracted some of the listed questions from Premium Times Nigeria, these are questions yet to be answered by President Jonathan. Please find the questions useful and add yours hence it is a matter of great importance to us the citizens of Nigeria.

Here are 15 questions, please add yours in the comment box as you sign this petition

1. Why has your government proved incapable of addressing the fuel scarcity problem across the country?

2.Why did you claim in your October 1 broadcast that Transparency International had endorsed your administration’s fight against corruption when the contrary is the case? Why did you also refuse to apologise to Nigerians after you realised you were wrong?

3.The Malabu oil deal dredges the shame of a nation directly to the corridors of the presidency. Why did you as President, without the National Assembly’s approval, authorize the transfer of $1.1bn from a Federation account into the account of Malabu Oil, a company with falsified registration details, and owned by a man convicted in France for money laundering?

4.Why has the President not ordered anti-corruption agencies to probe the Malabu scandal and if found guilty prosecute the persons that could have duped Nigeria?

5.What do you say to those who say your leadership of the country has been at best inept and ineffective, and that your administration has not been able to tackle any of our national challenges? (Corruption, electricity, broken infrastructure, unemployment etc).

6.You were severely criticised by Nigerians after you said on June 24 that you don’t give a damn whatever anyone thought about your refusal to publicly declare your assets. Is that still your position on this important matter, or are you reconsidering your stand?

7.As the leader of the PDP, which dominates the two chambers of the National Assembly, why has the party continued to allow lawmakers earn obscene but illegal allowances in the guise of office running cost?

8.The National Human Rights Commission has an important role to play in our country. But the work of that Commission is being hampered by the refusal of your administration to inaugurate the Board about a year after it was constituted. What is responsible for the delay in inaugurating the Board? Why has your administration reduced the commission to a toothless bulldog?

9.You hinted a few days ago that the deregulation of the petroleum industry is irreversible. It was suspended last January to enable government put in place the necessary conditions that would make it succeed. Does government think it has now done enough to contemplate the speculated plan to remove fuel subsidy and hike the price of petrol?

10.The Lagos-Ibadan federal highway has finally become one of our national shames, and a lot of Nigerians are dying on that road every day. The road was concessioned to Wale Babalakin’s Bi-Courtney three years ago but has been unable to fix it. When will your administration do the right thing and save the nation the daily carnage on that expressway?

11.Your administration has come under criticism for setting up committees almost every week. Why does the government set up panels and committees for tasks that can and should be performed by law enforcement and other regulatory agencies, and when you know that the reports of those committees won’t be implemented? We also like to know how many reports of government committees in various sectors are currently before the presidency and what the deadlines for their implementation are.

12.What is the reason for your reversal of the Transmission contract awarded to a Canadian firm, Manitoba. Was due process not followed in the award? If not, has anyone been sanctioned for violating due process?

13.Why have you insisted on retaining the petroleum minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, despite her indictment both by the House, Senate and even executive committees set up by your administration?

14.Why did your government honour Mike Adenuga with a GCON few weeks after the Finance Minister and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, mentioned his company, Conoil, as one of those guilty of fuel subsidy scam and responsible for fuel scarcity in the country?

15.Several reports, including one by the EFCC, indicted three former Presidents – Sani Abacha, Abdusalami Abubakar and Olusegun Obasanjo for sharing in the Halliburton bribery money along with some other top government officials. Abacha is dead and some officials have been arraigned in court. When is your administration arraigning Obasanjo , Abdulsalami and Gaius Obaseki, a former NNPC GMD, who couriered part of the bribe money to some beneficiaries?

i don't know if this petition thingie actually works but no harm in trying to find out

[size=18pt]area boys, Yahoo boys and, recently, Blackberry boys[/size] - classic

[size=18pt]TODAY IS NOT NUHU RIBADU'S BIRTHDAY[/size]. his birthday is 21-11

Ikengawo: so far GEJ. I also think he has faced the most challenges since Gowon so he gets extra credit (Boko Haram, floods, subsidy, PHNC privatization)
He's also been the least powerful of our presidents. Ministries and departments like the CBN are more independent, the Senate is more independent as it as ever been, he's not a big wig in his party and opposition is the strongest it's ever been, so dealing with the problems are harder for him.

your statement/criteria for giving it to gej is obviously wrong. talking about challenges, gej has not seen half of what obj saw. how many times did obj have to deal with fuel subsidy removal, who started phcn privatization, maybe you are forgetting about the sharia crises, and the niger delta militants obj had to deal with, try to remember how many times have the senate began proceedings to impeach obj (as opposed to the mere threat they are giving gej), ooops, you are also forgetting the opposition he had to deal with in the armed forces too, not forgetting the many natural and man made disasters he also dealt with. but despite these challenges, obj still made remarkable progress in many areas. i must say here that obj's govt was not fully democratic though, more of a para-military democratic govt.
bottomline, every president that will govern a country like nigeria will face all these challenges you listed, and they re not exclusive to gej, however, obj handled all those challenges better, and was able to make some remarkable progress despite these. so, i will give it to obj

every pastor in the churches will preach about signs of end times ,and cite the hurricane as an example

honestly, efcc is rubish.
[size=18pt]the catholic church is not obliged legally to return any donation made to it by any private individuals, however they are morally/spiritually obliged to return any stolen money donated to them.[/size]

so, if i am the legal adviser to the church, i will allow efcc to go on with their wild-goose-chase, because i am sure they have no case. after i have defeated them in court, i will return to them the remaining money after my court expenses have been fully deducted.

[size=18pt]on the one hand, i wonder if these people really have brains
on the other hand, i commend them for suing instead of going out and about, killing others in their revenge mission.[/size]

his facebook address
https://www.facebook.com/adeola.thomas.9

take 1 minute out to send him a personal message addressing him as a thief

doubting if efcc really has lawyers?
-does the argument of paying tithes with stolen money will help convict the man? so, why bring it up as an argument?
-catholics do not pay tithes, and so, saying he paid tithes to catholic churches is a flawed argument
-it is however a good information for nigerians to know he donated stolen money to churches so as to know the height of hypocrisy

[size=16pt]still wondering which part of nigeria's law gives soldiers / police to assault anybody that offends them[/size]

really bad but this has happened in some other places too
follow links below

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-15775920

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2189791/Air-France-pilot-asks-passengers-chip-fuel-unscheduled-landing-Damascus.html

[size=16pt]the reward for handsomely rewarding violence (in the name of watever) is more violence[/size]

justwise: The students themselves have the share of the blame as well, why pay so much in fees and refused to turn up for lectures? How can anybody cope with lectures and assignments if you can't speak or write proper English language?

typically, the students make part payments of their school fees in order to get their immigration papers sorted, with the hope that the money they are gonna make while working will be much more than the down payment they made to the school. while some of these phantom students come to the uk primarily to work, majority of them came to uk to study, but had to drop out because the the high cost of living and the school fees.

of course, there is the internal tension and conflicts, but the yorubas have found a way of curtailing its degeneration into something really big.

i am especially thrilled by the fact that the role of religion in politics is not very significant among them, for instance, in lagos, we had jakande(muslim), otedola(xtian), tinubu (muslim), fashola (muslim). the gov of ondo state /which is predominantly christian) is a muslim (mimiko), osun state had a christian gov and deputy governor at the same time (oyinlola, erelu obada) . . . .


the only fear i have is that the polarization of nigeria along religious lines may damage the balance the yorubas have been able to keep over the years.

if it is true that the minister of state for foreign affairs said this "most Christian-populated Islamic nation in the world", then, what the hell is he still doing in govt, doesnt mr shoeless know how to kick?

[quote author=Okija_juju]Then you must be missing the point!!

I never denied being racist!!

If I catch a whiteman on the streets of Naija at night without the popo being by him, I will personally mug him.. And should he act a fool, I might just kill him.

You dont want me to give you my history with whitefolks.. I am also very well travelled. These animals are not worth having mercy on..

[/quote]totally got your point- you are exhibiting defensive racism (which in some sense can be worse than offensive racism). so, whatever insult you hurl at the racist applies to you too (think about this)

[quote author=Okija_juju]The truth is that you white folks deserve to be beat down...

I was in Ghana a few years ago and was visiting one of the slave castles in Cape Coast.. While on the tour, I heard a white man whisper to his his fellow group "No wonder we were able to take them as slaves" and they all burst out laughing heartily!!

Just the other day in Port-Harcourt, a whiteman was driving with a Mobile police escort sitted in front and was being an arsehole.. Driving so rough as he would never do in his own country.. Anyways, his cup ran over when he tried to bully me.. Unfortunately for him, I was in a bad mood and driving my run around vehicle.. Long story short is that I intentionally ran into him.. Trust his low Life Nigerian Mopol to try and cause a scene.. I simply sat in my vehicle and radioed for a van of Mobile police men.. When he saw my own police, the arrogance in him disappeared..

Fhuck white people..

When I was in Canada, Myself and a white guy applied and interviewed for the job of a sales person at a furniture shop.. Mind you, I was a graduate and the whiteboy wasnt.. Whiteboy gets the job with pay and sales commision.. I also get the job but would only be paid based on myu sales..

At the Canadian U.S Border, My parents were arrested for entering the U.S illegally.. All explanations fell on deaf ears until a Black border police came and listened to them. Then he lifted their passports and saw that they had U.S H1 visas into the U.S and that the illegal crossing thing was a silly mistake that could have been easily resolved.. Meanwhile, the useless white immigrations man had already entered it into the system.. So now whenever my Parents have to be in the U.S again, they would have to explain why they entered the U.S illegally when the had the highest type of Visa shy of a permanent resident..

The most racist countries in the world include BRITAIN, the entire former Soviet Union and South Africa.
[/quote]can you please tell me how what you wrote here is not racist too?

Donxavier: Race is the idea that the human species is divided into distinct groups based on INHERITED physical and behavioural differences. Britanica Online Encyclopaedia. I said earlier their are myriads forms of discriminations. There is a difference between Racism,Ethnicity,Tribalism and the likes. The OP isn't interested in Ethnicity which you seem to be more interested in. He wants to know about Racism and Racist countries. An Hausa man hating an Igbo man is not Racism even though they seem similar and may bring about the same consequences. The difference is in the ideology.

simply put, a race is a genetically-differentiated population, and several factors precipitates this (over several centuries in the past) such as tribe/language (people of different tribes dont inter-marry), geography (population living on mountains are genetically different from populations living in valleys), occupations (fishing, farming, cattle-rearing), culture (e.g. diet patterns over centuries) . . . . that is why it used to be easy differentiate yoruba, hausa/fulani, gwari/nupe , igbo just by looking even when they are not wearing anything which is peculiar to their tribe. for instance it is a general notion that fulani are slim and lanky, igbos have fair complexion, nupe/gwaris have some dentition, yorubas are stouts . . note that this is no longer as easy as it used to be because of modernization, inter-marriages, changing diet patterns, makeup etc.

Bottomline, tribe in no small measure help determine the race, and it may not be a bad idea to use tribe as proxy for race

obj never talk anything for public ooo, and see as all men dey panic, na wa oooo

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