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muami:
The bolded nullifies the point you are making and support my view that if you attempt to breach No 10 or the White House, you would be dealt with. so whats your point?

And who has attempted to breach Aso Rock.

RE.TAR.DED CRETIN.

By the grace of God, before you are shot, you will suffer from a stroke and become paralysed. Animal.

LeoMax:
Most of the protesters are terrorists, I understood there will be strike, and even if there are proptesting, why are they burning people's shops ? They need to be arrested and thrown in jail for arson

Well thank God at least you ar enot asking that protesters be shot. But why the hell are you silent on Police shootings? ? ? ? Your pro govt stance neednt extend to support for police brutality, etc?

PointB:
My understanding is that the shooting of protesters by police is to curtail their arson and terror tactics. so my observation still stands. The protesters are now becoming glorified arsonist and terrorists. Quite sad!

You are an animal. May god punish you. Olodo rabata roboto.

LeoMax:
Why are you so upset ? Dont you welcome comic relief ? How many cars you get sef to vex too much for subsidy removal

The issue is that epic clown stating that the police should shoot to kill. By the special grace of God, a bullet will hit him soon and he will die a slow and painful death. How dare he say something so outrageious.

muami:
Only one protester shot? Thats not good enough. Anyway, you are next in line for shooting!

And all your children in future will receive the same. C.ock sucker.

^ Please go and read history jaare. There is no uprising of people in history that does not develop violent edges or that is not to some extent taken over by such actions. The question you ought to ask is what is causing this? ? ? ?

There are many forms of violence. The oppression of the poor by harsh policies is a huge form of violence. The shooting of protesters is violence. It is hypocritical to exact such violence on the poor and expect them to remain non-violent.

muami:
You are not only an intellectual illiterate but also a religious illiterate who don't even know what the 'grace of God' is.
For your info, the grace of God works the other way round.

God's grace does not work for nincompoops like you, you would dare to state that the police should have shot to kill. Are you out of your mind? Today alone, the police have actually shot and killed a protester in Lagos. And you have the nerve to post such ediotic imbecilic c.rap urging the police to shoot to kill?

You will live a miserable life. Everything that you desire in life will be ruptured and stolen from you. Your body will be torn to pieces in the most violent circumstances. You will die by shooting very soon. That is my prayer for you in the mighty name of the most high God.

And it wll come to pass. Ba.stard. You are not worthy of life.

Amen.

muami:
The police should have shot to kill. Does the govt house look like NLC secretariat?

By the special grace of God, one day VERY SOON, you will be shot to death.

^ Apparently its not true. I have deleted my OP. Apologies again. Thnaks.

^ U ar equite simply a barbaric bovine c.o.c.k sucking eeeeediot

Ok, in that case it must be my location. Apologies. I will delete my OP.

Thanks.

OP deleted.

It was just my location. Apologies.

MOD, pls remove thread.

That's not the way it works - this is not a bill. A resolution does not bind the Presidency as such: it is more advisory - however it carries both strong political clout as well as being a pointer to the Executive that the 2012 Budget will not be passed by the legislator if the Resolution is not adhered to.

Tambuwal handled it very well. Great Leadership.

Front Page News urgently pls. So as to reduce tension 2moro.

Let's see the Presidency's reaction to this.

The Federal House of Representatives has just passed a motion asking the FGN to suspend the removal of PMS Subsidy. The House also set up committees to look into the issue and invite Labour and the executive arm to a public hearing.

Just concluded emergency session first time in history on a Sunday.

Sai, Tambuwal.

what is a tribute to Hitchens doing in the Religion Section.

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^ Ageb, go siddon joor, you are a daft illiterate. Read the article. . . . .it speaks for itself!

Darrrmn! Some people DAFT OOOOOOO!

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This article is about the Grand Boubou and its variations.

The Grand Boubou/Bubu is one of the names for a flowing wide sleeved robe worn by men in much of West Africa, and to a lesser extent in North Africa, related to the Dashiki suit[citation needed]. It is known by various names, depending on the ethnic group wearing them: Agbada (Yoruba, Dagomba), Babban Riga (Hausa), K'sa (Tuareg) Grand Boubou (in various Francophone West African countries) and the English term of Gown. The Senegalese Boubou, a variation on the Grand Boubou described below, is also known as the Senegalese kaftan. The female version worn in some communities is also known as a M'boubou or Kaftan.

History
Its origin lies with the clothing worn by the Islamized Tukulor, Mandé and Songhai peoples of the historic 8th Century Takrur and Ghana Empires, and 13th Century Mali and Songhai Empires, (See Bisht and Kaftan for information on these).

The use of the Grand boubou as clothing became widespread throughout the West African region with the migration of semi-nomadic groups such as the Fulani, and traders such as the Dyula and Hausa. Comparing the Grand boubou to the various styles of Arabic Thawb suggests the Grand boubou follows an archaic template to the contemporary male clothing of the Middle East and North Africa.

The Grand boubou is usually decorated with intricate embroidery, and is worn on special religious or ceremonial occasions, for example the two Islamic Eid festivals, weddings, funerals or for attending the Mosque for Friday prayer. It has become the formal attire of many countries in West Africa. Older robes have become family heirlooms passed on from father to son and are worn as status symbols.

The Boubou has female versions in Mali, Senegal, Gambia and Guinea, whereas in other regions of West Africa, the female formal clothing has been the wrapper.

The Grand boubou as a full formal attire consists of 3 pieces of clothing: a pair of tie-up trousers that narrow towards the ankles (known as a Sokoto pronounced "Shokoto" in Yoruba) and a long-sleeved shirt (known as a Dashiki in Yoruba) and a wide, open-stitched sleeveless gown worn over these. They are generally of the same colour, and historically were made from silk, but increased understanding of Islamic restrictions on clothing meant the Grand boubou is now mostly made from cotton and synthetic cloths made to resemble silk.

Method of wearing
There is a set etiquette to wearing the Grand boubou, primarily in place to keep the over-gown above the ankles at any one time, in keeping with Islamic traditions of avoiding impurity (see Najis). This can include folding the open sleeves of the Boubou over one's shoulders, normally done while walking or before sitting down, to ensure the over-gown does not rub against the ground, or by folding/wrapping each side over the other with the hand, narrowing the gowns space toward the ankles (as done by the Tuareg). Thus, it is rare to see the Grand boubou's square shaped gown completely unwrapped.

Popularity
The Grand boubou's use was historically limited to various Islamized Sahelian and Saharan peoples of West Africa, but through increased trade and the spread of Islam throughout the region, had historically gained use among Islamized peoples in the savanna and forested regions of West Africa. Through this, the Grand boubou was historically worn by Chiefs of the Yoruba of Nigeria, Dagomba of Ghana, the Mandinka of the Gambia, the Susu of Guinea and the Temnes of Sierra Leone.

Even today, the Grand boubou is mostly worn by Muslims, although it is gaining popularity as a fashionable form of attire by Christians in West Africa, the African diaspora, and very recently, even among Bantu people in East, Southern and Central Africa.

Gender differences
Although usually a form of men's clothing, women's traditional clothing in much of Sahelian West Africa is of similar construction, though usually worn differently. The Boubou has female versions in Mali, Senegal, Gambia, and Guinea. In some places these are called the M'boubou. In other regions of West Africa, the female formal clothing has been a Boubou variant, called a kaftan, and in other places it is the wrapper and headscarf.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boubou_(clothing)

^cool

na real wah o!

I hear the church is in Surulere

Na wah o

Gbawe:
My friend , what are you doing here? is your 'lunch break' not over? Don't you realise several Aso Rock balls are waiting to be l.i.cked? Better get back to l.ic.king azz and kissing balls before you are sacked. You are lucky today is not FEC meeting day otherwise your tongue will need an ice pack to relieve soreness

lol, HOT ONE!

Beaf, just stop, please. If you feel persecuted, then silence is golden. Your posts and childish pictures above just reek of adolescence and desperation. I advise you to just give it a break.

dustydee:
Beaf are you Reno? Not that I care.

Beaf:
No, I'm not, dude.

Do you expect him to disclose his identity for all to see?

Even if he is Reno, he will not admit that here, so no point asking.

@ Beaf, you have no idea how terribly desperate you now appear with your posts. Just stop and go and give it all a rest. You are looking really really pathetic right now.

By now i think if Beaf had any shame, he should quietly retreat from thos forum and not show his sycophantic face here again. I wonder how it must feel to receive this level of public bashing and disgrace.

Poo.T.Y!

By Mohammed Salihu
Which kind of ‘friend’ will come to your house in the middle of the night to apologize for writing falsehoods about you in newspapers and explain that he was only doing it to get appointed as Special Assistant to the President on Communications? I will answer this poser shortly.

I read Reno Omokri’s articles ‘Getting better and not bitter' and ‘Again on El-Rufai and bitterness’ in response to some veritable questions asked the Jonathan administration by former FCT minister Nasir El-Rufai, I found both quite revealing: sycophantic in tone, full of lies and exaggerations, and clearly intended to be seen as the work of a very patriotic Nigerian. Both were quite frankly, utterly idiotic.

“Let me state that I do not believe that his (El-Rufai’s) piece is an accurate account of current realities in Nigeria,'' declares Omokri in his first piece. And in the second piece he went on to imply, disingenuously, that El-Rufai was criticizing the government for selfish reasons (for not getting what he wanted) by declaring ''so what happened in the intervening period? You guessed your answer right- bitterness as a result of unfulfilled expectations."

In both articles, he muddles the issues raised – even irrefutable facts about the state of our economy without providing any logical explanation. Having decided to be mischievous and misleading - just to suppress the truth, he rattled around all the valid points and analysis provided by El-Rufai. He even attributes the problems to previous governments, while suggesting that what was needed to restore the country to normalcy was for El-Rufai to keep quiet and support President Goodluck Jonathan while the mismanagement goes on.

The new crops of political jobbers like Reno Omokri are very much in the mould of Daniel Kanu’s Youths Earnestly Ask for Abacha YEAA. Reno lacks the framework to make sense of events and has therefore chosen to ignore reason, honesty, loyalty and even simple friendships. He ‘eats’ by attacking with hysterical exaggeration, any analysis that should serve as a wakeup call for his paymasters and indeed, the rest of Nigerians. Awful, but understandable

The positions most people take depend on their personal interests. And oftentimes, people have less than honorable motives in assuming the positions they assume in public. My short political encounter with Omokri was a big eye opener. When I first met him last year in the United States, he wanted us to come together to be the arrowheads for the political activities of a man he considered more fit than anyone else to manage the affairs of Nigeria - Nasir El- Rufai. I did not know why he felt that way then and why he now considers the same man to be unbecoming of a statesman.
He frantically sent me this email:

Dear Mallam Salihu,
We need to have a long term plan to change the mind of skeptical Nigerians and show them a new way of leadership. Contrary to what a lot of people believe, such a plan should be simple not complicated.


We need to build a grass root movement like the one built by Joe Trippi with the Dean campaign in The U.S and with the Tsvangirai campaign in Zimbabwe. This has to be a long term strategy. Our task is therefore to use web based tools to solidify our base which is the educated youth and middle class who see Mallam El Rufai for what he is and have a favourable opinion of him and we have to follow a template that worked well for MKO Abiola by using philanthropy and humanitarianism to penetrate the psyche of the ordinary grass root Nigerian who is suspicious of politicians in general and views MallamEl Rufai as an elitist.



My plan is simply this, to return to Nigeria sometime in the near future and use Mallam Nasir's Council for Youth Empowerment to wake up sleeper cells that I have planted over the years in Nigeria and organise them into an army of volunteers who will immediately go to disaster areas such as places which have experienced floods, building collapse, multi car accidents, epidemics (like the Cholera epidemic/Zamfara lead poisoning outbreak) etc and in the name of the Council and it's founder Mallam Nasir provide some form of community service to the victims. They will also go to Motherless babies homes and orphanages as well as leper colonies.


In the social arena, they will tour both private and public universities and organise the students to clean up their environments and renounce cultism as well as provide them with tokens such as books and condoms to reduce the risk of HIV infections amongst the student population. We will also get inexpensive eye glasses and over the counter medications from bargain stores in the U.S and give these to rural communities. This will be followed immediately by intense media spotlight which I will personally direct. The end result is that subliminally, we will affect the minds of Nigerians such that when they think of the name Mallam Nasir El Rufai, they will immediately think of his volunteers and their good work because EVERYTHING that is done will be acknowledged by my people to be done under the inspiration of Mallam El Rufai.
Regards,
Reno. "

El-Rufai has never told anyone that he has ambitions to be president. In the run up to last April’s elections, there was intense pressure from many quarters for him to contest the presidency, but he maintained that all the other contestants were his friends and would not want to run against the, especially Nuhu Ribadu. Upon hearing this, it became clear that Reno wouldn’t be sailing on the El-Rufai boat, so he quickly jumped ship, and even deleted me from his Facebook account. When I confronted him about it he had this to say:
"Mohammed,
Thank you for your email. You are my brother and I appreciate you. I was forced into the deletion because it was leading to an expose of private details. I will re add you but let us avoid getting too deep
in our disagreements.
Best regards,

Reno."

I am not surprised that Reno has become the attack dog now that GEJ is captain of the ship. When looters fear that their racket is being imperiled by a powerful figure using inspiring messages, they looters will obviously try to destroy that figure and his reputation using any means at their disposal. Reno is willing to do just about anything to get into the pot.
I urge Reno to learn from history. All men that did his kind of hatchet job got nowhere. For the paymasters, Reno can be sacrificed as collateral damage. He is being used as a pawn in their spinelessly orchestrated effort to perpetuate their sinister acts. He is inconsequential and will be easily discarded when the need arises. And as to why Reno takes particular pleasure in smearing the man he once believed best suited to be president, an email he sent to El-Rufai in October 24, 2010 and copied me will explain:

Dear Mallam Nasir,
I am playing with an idea in my mind. I am thinking of taking time off (a sabbatical so to say) and coming to Nigeria as a free moral agent to try to influence the direction of the 2011 elections. I am convinced that if I am on the ground my influence will be greater. I would want to arrange something on the ground similar to what Trippi did in Zimbabwe and organize private citizen groups and equip them with technology and skills to monitor the elections clandestinely and relay video and oral reports to the world media in real time and force the government and the INEC to be honest and conduct free and fair elections. One thing holding me back is that I will need accommodation in Abuja. I have been exploring options but Abuja is even more expensive than the U.S and landlords are demanding 2 years rent in advance. Respectfully sir, I was wondering if you could help in this regard.
Regards,
Reno.

El-Rufai was unable to pay Reno’s house rent; from that moment on, he became an enemy. Today, from the comfort of his suite at the Transcorp Hilton (paid with taxpayers’ money), Reno can come up with all the falsehoods he dreams of; he has to be seen to be doing something. I wanted to end this piece by saying something about mediocrity, but Omokri and his team aren’t mediocre. What’s going on is something different and worse: we’re seeing the desire for political positions outweighing principles; we’re seeing vague prejudice (that just so happens to serve the interests of demagogues) trumping very honest analysis.

And this answers the poser I raised at the beginning of this piece: All the insults, misrepresentations, exaggerations and outright lies being told by Reno Omokri is geared towards one thing: securing the position of Special Assistant to the President on Communications. He has confessed as much to his ‘friend’, Nasir El-Rufai!

Mohammed Salihu is an Abuja based Project Engineer and Consultant and can be reached on msalihu@gmail.com

Check the news channels o. The bastard is hale and hearty and secure still o

There isnt even anything unethical about a call for resignation. Do not ordinary citizens make such calls everyday? The prez definitely can make such a request legitimately because he is running the government and it is vitally necessary the policies align

but abeg can u not see ur blunder? Is a request for resignation the same thing as a termination procedure? ? ? ? For petes sake even ordinary citizens make requests for resignation of public officers. Do they need to go thru a termination process  to call for someones resignation? ? ? ? The only difference is that the prez's call for resignation will be heeded because of his position.

Admit u goofed on that one jaare