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I've always heard of this scenario, but I never understood how it actually happens in real life. I mean, a person has to be just colossally dumb and devoid of self-control to cheat on someone that they recently agreed to marry. It makes no sense. If the infidelity at least came after a decade or two of marriage, or maybe even half a decade, one could just chalk it up to the passion in the marriage fading away. But for a man or woman to cheat on their fiance is just silly any way you look at it.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/news/59756-oshiomhole-to-airhiavbere%3A-you-can%E2%80%99t-question-my-qualification.html

There's probably an element of light/friendly teasing in this bow, since Obama had come under criticism for bowing to foreign royalty (even though George Bush did the same thing). Or maybe Clinton feels guilty about his comments from years ago when he suggested Obama would have been carrying his bags years earlier. Otherwise it doesn't really make sense for an older former president to bow to greet a younger current president.

Hmmm . . .

Just take your lazy behind to a library one of these days and make a genuine attempt to learn about other groups. Then try talking with knowledgeable people from those other groups to learn more and correct any misconceptions you might have. Then form whatever claims seem reasonable to you. This is the approach reasonable people would take. With these things done, I might have reason to take you seriously. Until then, it would be a waste of time to engage you. And lol @ liking your own comment under an alternate account. What's even funny is the known (to those who have done any reading) letter from the mid 1600s from the king of the Itsekiri requesting more Catholic priests in which the king explicitly identifies the name of his kingdom as 'Oery' which sounds startlingly close to 'Iwere' suggesting that one of these words is just a spelling or pronunciation variant on the other. And yet you think I would actually argue about this non-issue of what the name of the kingdom really was? By the way, I never made any claim about what the extent of the precolonial Warri kingdom - as opposed to the colonial Warri district and the modern postcolonial Warri city - was but rightly noted that it was an Itsekiri kingdom. If you want to argue about its precolonial ethnic composition with no sources and references for your claims, that's a separate discussion, but I think I've spent enough time on you so go find someone else to discuss your theories with.

I thought Adesegun Musiwa was a Canadian "electricity engineer" and cartographer. I wonder if they invite Canadians as well.

I forgot about Top Cat. I watched that too. Top Cat was cool as hell. Swat Cats, Dexter's Lab and Animaniacs were also great. Also, Pinky and the Brain and Freakazoid were pretty entertaining as well.

http://books.google.com/books?id=equhkHsw57oC&pg=PA176

http://books.google.com/books?id=equhkHsw57oC&pg=PA177 (also read footnote # 73 at the bottom of the page)

GenBuhari: ^
I really appreciate your comment.
Did you read the entire thread?

I'm up to page 8 right now. I plan on finishing the rest a little later.

Extraordinary thread. Great job GenBuhari.

Akanbi_edu: Just that the Op and the writer of the article are shallow minds. You write about Islam as if it just started existing in the last hundred years. What about the feats recorded by Islam/Muslims in its 1900 years of existence? Is Islam now limited to what happened in the recent 300 years. All the development and great things they do/did in the western world, is it up to 300 years? the good thing about the muslim world is that we are getting used to your hate and no longer care what you think about us. its your problem. We shall carry on in our way of life not minding whose ox is gored. We shall not judge our morals by your standard - like democracy.

I laugh at Africans who try to convince themselves that they are better because they are christians - just because things are looking rosy in the western world now. They want to associate and feel among but they are not. We all know if China becomes the next big world power, you will convert to Buddhism and start yogaing. One thing you guys have to understand is, the muslims who understand Islam very well, never see your advances or your civilization as greater. We have our strong points and weak points, like you do and we know them.

How can you claim Islam has been around for 1900 years but then claim to be a Muslim?

Anyway, it is not inconceivable that a religion can be somewhat of a hindrance in making progress in some developmental areas even if it can be a blessing in other areas. That basic idea is not really that radical or new, but it can become controversial to some people when others start naming specific religions and their alleged faults.

maipeople: I swear when I saw this I got headache.
TWINTECH University in Malaysia is not recognise by other universites.
Most universities in Malaysia will not offer you an admission for Master degree if you present TWINTECH University certificate.
TWINTECH University is the 79th out of 80 (second to the last)univerities in Malaysia in webometrics ranking
TWITECH University has been ranked 17,596 in the world, compare it with common Auchi Polytechnic in Nigeria that ranked 2,487 in the same webomatrics scale.
Check these links below to see it by yourself.
Oh my GOD, this people are really killing us
http://www.webometrics.info/en/Africa/Nigeria
http://www.webometrics.info/en/Asia/Malaysia%20

Damn. Well I think we can safely say that the Kano State Government and the committee that appointed the Malaysian are fools and are suffering from a severe inferiority complex.

Okay, they may just be variations according to type/species, but you do see a connection between "alansasa" and "anansi" (a word for spider in some other west African languages), right?

Rossikk: But it's been 20 years since apartheid, the ratio is still heavily skewed in favour of whites, and you're still saying the blacks should wait some more years. So you must be talking of maybe another 100 years. Or is it 50? See, if the govt just allows things to 'naturally' evolve the way you suggest, you will find that NOTHING will change even in the next 100 years. The whites would keep owning the wealth and transferring same to their offspring. There are no real mechanisms in the capitalist system that ensure this supposedly inevitable democratisation of wealth you seem to be fantasising about. Direct govt action is required to effect real change.

And that's why the affirmative action policies that are already in place make sense. But with those policies in effect, gradually blacks there will be able to compete on a more level playing field and the demographics will undergo a complete reversal. I don't think that will take 100 years or even 50. Just looking at SA's demographics, I don't see how whites could continue to dominate the pilot profession when the country is 80% black when quotas could be put in place (rather than race based exclusion) and while the playing field is gradually made more equal.

Where is this 100 years crap coming from?

How could it possibly take 100 years to have mostly black pilots?

Why are you under the impression that it would take that long?

And the fact that you claim that there was "sympathy" in my comments toward the whites, even when anyone can see that my comment is not about the "injustice" or "justice" of the action, but about it being not necessary to effect the change in demographics in that field so soon and about the international embarrassment they risked, is annoying. Where in my comment are you seeing this "justice" and "sympathy" crap? Stop this ridiculous way of arguing where you just make up stuff because it's becoming a nuisance.

What does "being nice to the whites" have to do with this? It's frustrating discussing stuff with you sometimes because you see motives that don't exist. If it were up to me, there wouldn't have been whites in SA or at the very least, there wouldn't be so many of those neo-nazi like Boers there. I don't have much sympathy for those guys and I challenge you to find one positive comment I've made on them.

And I disagree with the idea that a racial quota is the same thing as employing a racial exclusion policy. If we don't agree on that, then there's not really much more to discuss.

^^^

Dude, leave the childish personal insults out of this.

I did not condemn the broader affirmative action policies in SA - they have several affirmative action policies, after all. I disagreed with this one for an obvious reason. Any way you look at it, it's embarrassing and not sensible to erect racial exclusion policies in a country where doing that in the past was such a problem and a source of international shame and condemnation. Employing racial quotas to correct past injustices is not the same as simply stopping a race outright from pursuing a profession with the country's official airline in a country.

https://www.nairaland.com/1023385/stylish-nigerian-women-traditional-attire/5#12035851

https://www.nairaland.com/1013080/origin-bantu-peoples-eastern-nigeria#11739035


Okay I was wrong, it's not all, it's just some of them. Why is that?

All the words or parts of words that were put in bold or italicized are getting messed up in old posts. Just something I noticed - and I don't think it's just me that's affected.

Dudu_Negro: I will give you an example.......alantakun - spider. Very functional! There is no where else in the Benue- Congo class of languages where this word occur or share meaning. However, if you go to Arabic you find it in there both in structure and meaning and is called alankabut. Some people say it was borrowed from Islam culture inttoduced to Yorubaland by Hausa/Fulani and Mali/Songhay, so should not the word equally exist in these donor cultures? Surprisingly it does not! That speaks volume. As you inspect words in Yoruba you continously see this pattern where words do not share structure and meaning in the Benue-Congo but are bonded securely with words and meanings in AfroAsia, whether it is Old Hebrew or Arabic.

What would you interpret "alansasa" (alansàsà) to mean in Yoruba?

Also, what would you say "ẹlẹnọ" means in Yoruba?

I have to say though, misinformed comments like yours almost make me wish affirmative action didn't exist. I know it's necessary to correct the disparities between whites and African Americans caused by past discrimination, but it kind of distorts the perception of those black people - whether immigrant or non-immigrant - that have no real need of affirmative action.

For somebody with a professional profile as accomplished as professor Oyesiku's, and somebody teaching at one of the better medical schools in the U.S. (Emory University School of Medicine), to be labeled an affirmative action beneficiary for being promoted to the chair of the neurological surgeons board even with the numerous other achievements he's had is kind of annoying. It makes one wonder what else people will attribute to affirmative action and who else people will label an affirmative action beneficiary even when there is glaring and obvious evidence to the contrary.

Thanks. At least there's one.

alanmwene: Obafemi awoolowo unversity?/////Where is that shit?
Emori university////
Abegee abegee dis na massive 419!Affirmative action quotas?

Hey Congo dude, do you know of any accomplished/distinguished Congolese scientists?

I'm asking purely out of curiosity because I haven't heard of any or come across any in any of the searches I've carried out on African scientists.

Dude, didn't I just tell you it would be a waste of time discussing this with you because you're averse to reading about other groups? The parts of what you posted that I disagree with are not even worth addressing. Keep promoting this "English creation" stuff, but move on to discussing it with others because you shouldn't expect to be taken seriously by me.