₦airaland Forum

Omooba77: We need to respect other people's culture...No abuse please
Like in India,the bride's family even pay the bride price to the groom..........

osystein: Nigeria has two satellites in orbit, and will be launching a third very soon, the third one is locally built.

edunwosu: Yinkaolu, i like your spirit and the change you want to bring.moreso i am coordinator of nigeria youth on facebook and am also Exective Director of Good Governance Nigeria.
here is my web address
www.goodgovernancenigeria.org
And to know who is talking to you please check the board members on the website.my name is Chinedu Nwosu,
I suggest that you start looking for a partnership with other youth organisations.
And i want you to know that i am ready to work with you.
Email me on Edunwosu@gmail.com
We can talk on phone on a way forward.
08039664549.

ijawman4all: You are now denying ur father. You think I don't know that u are the son Dr alakija of the university of ibadan and ur name is celestine stop lying joor

ijawman4all: @peistein where have u seen God if not through his servants. God gave u a brain because he believes you make use of your descretion. That ur father is a lecturer doesn't mean you would not tell him the truth.

Before it falls down the memory hole, it should be noted that the online US edition of the New York Times marked the sad passing of the great Nelson Mandela with this odd headline: “Nelson Mandela, South African Icon of Peaceful Resistance, Dies”. (They’ve since changed it to “South Africa’s…Moral Center”, which sounds like a place FIFA could have held business ethics conventions during the last World Cup.)

“Icon of Peaceful Resistance” makes it sound like Mandela was an advocate and practitioner of nonviolence. He wasn’t. Apartheid was above all a socioeconomic system of structured viciousness: the whites were not going to give up their advantages without a fight. The struggle against Apartheid was necessarily bloody. The symbolic force of an “icon”, no matter how noble its martyrdom, could not have defeated Apartheid. It had to be defeated at the cost of lives. Mandela always knew this.

Mandela founded and ran Umkhonto we Sizwe, the paramilitary wing of the ANC, which carried out armed resistance and a bombing campaign. The bombings mostly targeted high-profile pieces of property, but were nevertheless responsible for many civilian deaths. Umkhonto we Sizwe also executed collaborators.

Botha would have freed Mandela in ‘85 if he’d agreed to renounce armed struggle; Mandela courageously refused. On his release in 1990, Mandela repeated:

“The factors which necessitated the armed struggle still exist today. We have no option but to continue. We express the hope that a climate conducive to a negotiated settlement will be created soon so that there may no longer be the need for the armed struggle.”
He was right on both counts.

Don’t think he wasn’t reviled for it. In the eyes of many among the Western elites, Mandela was a Soviet-dominated terrorist until the day he walked out of jail, and into iconicity. Reagan put the ANC on the State Department terrorist organizations watch-list; this wasn’t undone until 2008. Reagan vetoed the South Africa sanctions bill, and was overridden — not before Jesse Helms fillibustered the override vote.

Then there were even more charming expressions of Western antipathy to Mandela’s violence, like this poster produced in the 80s by the UK’s Federation of Conservative Students, which I will reproduce without further comment:

Poster by the UK’s Young Conservatives (thanks to @sarahlicity)
But in American bourgeois fantasy life, the only good liberation struggles are Gandhi and King, and if a struggle does not match that mythologized template, could not have matched it, it will be roundly condemned while it is ongoing, and if it happens to be successful (despite us), its history will be rewritten.

The dialectic is a familiar one — familiar and a little sad. There is a way in which the myth of peaceful resistance is flattering to the oppressor and disabling to the oppressed. It’s as much the oppressor’s narrative as anyone’s. “You ought not to fight us with more than the image of your own broken body,” it says, “for we who oppress you are good and rational — most of the time. We have the same interests as you, and understand that you enjoy the same basic rights. We, your rulers, simply need to have our consciences pricked from time to time.” By couching the antipathy as a mere moral lapse, the oppressor is permitted simultaneously to deny the actual material basis of the social division and hence the necessity for a struggle for liberation that is more than merely symbolic, and to perform a mental splitting-off from its own identity of those aspects of itself it can now pretend were inessential deviations from its rational, humanistic core. Just as the United States broadly did with the benighted South of Bull Connor and the Klan. As if the story of American racist oppression was one of mere regional ideological peccadillo and not one of the founding principles of the whole nation’s economic structure. As if the story of Apartheid were simply those nasty Afrikaners and their gauche racism. They’d probably lived in Africa too long and allowed its “tribalism” to rub off on them, and so deviated from the European universalist norm. Still, one of us in the end, eh?

That’s the funny thing about colonialism — even when it’s visible, it appears only in ideological garb flattering to the oppressor.

In fact, this is such a reflex that the Times probably wrote that headline without a second thought, and it was only after a few thousand derisive tweets that they remembered that there is occasionally such a thing as real history, and they quietly changed it.

IGBO-SON:
^^^They said '.....the same way you use your ATM card', so i'm assuming that at worst you'd just have the same security issues as any you may presently have with your current cards.

This is even safer in the sense that, as well as a PIN number, your picture and bio-data will also be on the card.....and if the ATM facility on the ID card works with the soon to be introduced fingerprint technology the CBN is planning, then it would be of no use to any thief or opportunist!

Problem solved!

chimex38: With d traffic in lagos... Why ban skatin...afterall no death has been reported.

vizman4i: the reason why Hausa no Go rule us again...we the IGBO'S have learn a lot,from our mistakes ...all the while they have been tribalistic and me we are never losers we have the wisest in the whole Nigeria...Hausa wants make APC win for the heart of the IGBOS so that they will capitalise the winning of GEJ from there they have lost it all...bet me APC will never rule any IGBO ...RATHER LABOUR PARTY will...IGBO NDI NWEM, IHE ANYI CHORO BU KA ANYI NATA HA IGBO ,NATA KWA HA UFODU ALA NDI O'FEMANU (YORUBA),NA UFODU ALA NDI BIKO HAPUM SORRY BOKO HARAM(HAUSA)...COME 2015 WE ARE WINNING THE LAND AGAIN...IGBO NDI WEM OBUGI OTUWU EEE...

awodman: Some opposition lawmakers and those loyal to the G-7 governors are planning to boo him...

Meanwhile according to ChannelsTV..the president has sent a letter to the NASS which was read by the Senate President.In the said later,he asked that both Chambers of NASS meet to harmonize their position on the Oil benchmark before he can present the budget