₦airaland Forum

phantom:
dude, i am going to say this one more time, do yourself and those around you(including your loser yoruba step dad,your "doorknob" of a mother and of course your real dad) a favour, get a sawed off shot gun, stick it way up your behind so you can feel it in your throat, shed a tear for your wasted life, then PULL THE TRIGGER.

hahahahah, I almost choked on my breakfast reading this. . Bros you are COLD O! Haahahahahahahahhahhahahahhhehehehehehehehehehhhehehehehhahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, The dolt deserves whatever inhumane treatment his forefathers got from the hands of racist whites and rednecks.
Son of a Biiiiii!tch!

abadaba:
Monkey, would you at this time shut up that stinking mouth of yours?. It has been running everywhere the Igbo is mentioned. Shut up now.

thank you for this very response to this loose canone.
Everytime she makes a comment, she strengthens the maxim that "a lizard in Nigeria can't turn to a crocodile in America". A dunce will always be a dunce whether in Naija or in the US.
Every time that gurl opens her mouth, I am reminded of the effect of stale fart. What a senile Bimbo!

abadaba:
Monkey, would you at this time shut up that stinking mouth of yours?. It has been running everywhere the Igbo is mentioned. Shut up now.

thank you for this very response to this loose canone.
Everytime she makes a comment, she strengthens the maxim that "a lizard in Nigeria can't turn to a crocodile in America". A dunce will always be a dunce whether in Naija or in the US.
Every time that gurl opens her mouth, I am reminded of the effect of stale fart. What a senile Bimbo!

udezue:
Its amusing how Yorooba folks on NL got the nerve to us situation in Aba to judge over 30 million Igbos when not 1 Yorooba city have ever gotten recognized or received award for being clean. Owerre, Enugu, Abiriba towns have all gotten recognized for its cleanliness. Its even more amusing because in and outside Nigeria the Yorooba are known to be very dirty and my stay in Yorooba dominated areas like Mafoluku, Ajao Estate, Oshodi, Lagos didn't help matters at all. Until you can clean up your own dirty cities and get ppl to see as clean not dirty and disgusting u have no right to bash the Igbo because of 1 damn city. Aba is just 1 city with its own unique problems. Like EzeUche said its an industrial city so expect dirt. What Aba needs is a correct city manager who can handle its sanitation and figure out a proper method of tackling the issue. Due to the industrial nature of the city I will never expect it to be as clean as Enugu, Owerre, Calabar or Abiriba but Aba can do better than this. They need to start encouraging ppl to go into recycling. Provide bins all around the city for ppl to dispose plastics, papers, cans, for recycling. Provide bins for ppl dump trash and create waste management companies solely for picking up trash that are put out for pick up by residents. Have trash field outside to dump trash and go through it to collect the ones that can be recycled. Not only will they be able to clean up the city but this will create jobs as well. Make it a punishable offense by fine if caught littering and if fines are not paid the person should be sent to jail and spend maybe a week helping to clean up the city before he or she can be released. Like we say "Don't mess with Texas" we should start our own "Don't mess with Abia"

udezue, as much as I agree with some of your views here, I dont think tribal jingoism and bigotry help your points. When you make comments like this you make numbskulls like that idiotic bbk capitalize on it to spew his vomit on Africans & Nigerians in particular in guise of supporting a tribe against another.
Respond to any bigotry based on the individuals, dont generalize and dont insult a whole tribe because some eeeedioooot that hardly knows his left from right has done so or because one ignorant retard in America with an identity problem and a badly bruised ego is ranting and whining.
Pls, let us try to be mature and tactical in the way we defend/criticize one another as Nigerians so that Morons like bbk with zilch knowledge wont hide behind that to insult our intelligence as Africans in the guise of hating the igbo tribe.
No one city in Nigeria does not ve sanitation problem we all know that.
And contrary to the impression of some overzealous journalists that like to indulge in needless exaggeration and rubbish journalistic embelishment that serve no purpose but to confuse. Aba is a commercial city and seeing dirts and dumpsites in market areas does not equate to claiming that the whole city and its streets are lined with refuse and dump sites. Neither is it dirtier than the commercial areas in lagos, waste management is a problem in virtually every Nigerian state, it is just that it is pronounced in some states than some other.
So nwanne,it would carry more weight if you leave the tribe and curse out the individual to oblivion like we did that American vagabond(bbk). He aint responding much cos he knows I ve exposed his antics and the more he posts the more Nigerians are convinced that the thug is in disguise insulting everyone, hence they put him in his ghetto place and curse him; "wyo momma" . . Lol

[quote author=bk.babe97y link=topic=665643.msg8317875#msg8317875 date=1305358920]You should get a piece of paper, a pen, AND A BRAIN. . . .

Then write: NOTE TO SELF : AVOID ANYTHING BKBABE97Y RESPONDS TO!!!

How foolish are you idiotas? Fo*ol if I'm Bkbabe how then am I "hiding behind another user i.d"?! You think I'm the usual, typical, cowardly Ibo man?! I've used the same name to murder your betters so who the fuxk are you? "The majority on this forum" dont like my rants? Now, who would that majority be Mr.Psychotic Ibo man? Always touting your monkey selves as the "most populous" anywhere you go. I bet if the average Ibo man on NL had his way he'd have wrested away a part of NL from Seun in the name of secession! Criminals and beasts, the average Ibo man!

Is it a must that I like you? Like how filled up with illusions of grandeur are u gorillas? So, if I wasnt gonna exalt the Ibos I shoulda refrained from responding to a post, but if I was gonna heap praises on you and  yalls evil ways (i.e if one of your Uncles killed one of your sister-in-laws in Dallas) then itd have been ok to respond? GTFOH, U monkey!

You dare me to say what I  say in front of an Ibo man? What proof do you have that I havent had more than my share of breaking a few Ibo jaws?

Aaaah! You didnt think of that did u? Keep munching on human limbs homie, its your game and I aint hating.

Monsters![/quote]fool you dont have to try so hard to make it look like your disdain is for the Igbo tribe, we all know your real intention is not the Igbo but Africans who you now blame for all the misfortunes that has plagued your miserable existence. I can understand your feelings of inadequacy, you were never a recipient of a real fatherly love and care, you prolly one of those brats that shout down their momma, you have got no real family, you are just another dumb nigger with a low self esteem.
Nigger go smoke a joint and chase biatches, that's all you bunch of ignorant niggers with brains the size of a walnut do all your lives. .lol
You always struggle to make sense like a challenged kid, it does not matter what you say or think, nobody cares, you are dumb and ghetto.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=665643.msg8311202#msg8311202 date=1305268071]Refuse takes over Aba. . .stick to the topic of discussion.[/quote]is this pair gay(bluetooth so in love with bbk)? Negro prolly gets a hard on from following his gay boyfriend, Bbk Lol. . I bet bluetooth wants to stick it in your a$s, he keeps following you around like a smelly shyiiiiiit to a$$. Abi u wan lay d guy for American visa? Hahaha. . U be proper dunce if dat na ur hope cos bbk still leaves off his momma and cant keep a decent job. He is a bonafide liability to momma, he would rather smoke trees and get
lifted than work his lazy a$ss to earn. Little wonder he spends his useless time prowling on cyberspace and trying to get busy doing nothing.
And hey Mister Bluetooth the dumbo, I know you are craving for dsame spotlight as your gay boyfriend but sorry, you dont matter and are not worthy of anybody's time.
Feel free to your stick your dyyyiiick in BBk's mouth, who knows, you might be lucky to get a mention in my next post if you fcckkk it harder and make him come. . Brouhahaha. . .

[quote author=bk.babe97y link=topic=665643.msg8308673#msg8308673 date=1305231321]Struck a nerve? In your dreams Cannibal!

As usual, typical Ibo man, the best you could do was fabricate stuff. I quoted you just to show how much of a liar the typical Ibo man is. . . . he doesnt mind lying to justify a point. But, hey, we know your type already. Youre Ibo arentcha?!

Even here in the States all the Ibo man does is whine, whine, whine like he's some Egyptian belly dance or somn. . . . lmao!

Ibos better than African-Americans? Yeah, in the cannibalism dept. maybe, but not in much else![/quote]Nigger, so you are going to deny you never said anything about your Momma fxcking a yoruba man that steered your miserable and desdtructive bound life around? Hmmmm. . . You will also lie that at some point you did not claim to be yoruba until even the yorubas were embarrassed by your crass dumb claims of being one of them and yet you could not fit in the scheme of things.
Liers should have good memories my dear. What next are you going to deny? That you were not a product of a baby-momma or that you are not from a disfunctional family? Come on nigger own up! It shows both from your relationship with the female folks and Africans.
You ve got issues my boy and dont ever consider youself a man cos you wouldn't know nada about that. . . Now dogg run along and meet em nigger on the bloc, if you are lucky, you might meet them taking a puff of that shit lazy a$s niggers high themsekves with.

gossipmama:
@ okunoba, thanks for your advice, i guess baby.ke should copy that

typical of a nigger, always out of sorts and call their females ho's. I bet at some point you ve prolly called your mum a ho or a b!atch, cursing is like 2nd nature.
Abeg no come start all that Nigger moment ish for biko, wait till you meet your kinds on ghetto streets.
American Vagabond!

[quote author=bk.babe97y link=topic=665643.msg8308174#msg8308174 date=1305226268]Lmao. Anyways, as a typical Ibo ure expected to lie. And you wonder why I despise you guys. . . . . . .[/quote]oh my! I prolly struck a nerve there, I bet you hate to talk about it.
For your information, I am a proud okoro Igbo man and I love kicking your lame a$$, Uncle Ruckus.
I was hoping you were going to keep running your mouth, abi nepa don take light for your head? See this black monkey wey wan dey claim for Nigerians like he is any better. Put an average Igbo man and an average nigger in a place, give them thesame opportunity, the nigger will still find a way to complain and whine about how the system is deliberately designed to keep you down while thesame Igbo man turns the opportunity into positive results and better his life. No wonder the popo is always in your case you lazy bunch of never do well negros.

[quote author=bk.babe97y link=topic=665643.msg8307813#msg8307813 date=1305222802]Sh*iyyt was so hard to read. Incoherent rambling! Couldnt get past the first line without skipping, still couldnt do it. What happened to commas and full stops? Or, didnt they teach you this in your Ibo Elementary School?[/quote]lol. . Dumbo, what do you know about punctuations and writing?
You think I am one of those dumbos in your family that can hardly write? I am posting from my phone, if you can write this much and make sense like I did then education would not ve been easted on you. But you and I know the truth, even with your uncle "dash me" desktop, write like $hitts and struggle all the time to make sense and sound less ghetto.
Anyway, it was not meant for your dumb a$$ to read, me and you no dey for dat lvl, I was actually exposing the b!atch in you and your stupid antics.
You speak for yourself and only you, dont claim to love the yorubas you barely even know about them. They have way better yoruba individuals here to defend anything said about them. You can stop the disguise and come out clean, Nigger!

okunoba:
@bk.babe97y, It`s a pity to see a fellow black brother writing horrible things about fellow blacks that have done him no harm. Remember that these nasty stuff you write about Igbo people is similar to what many white American write about Black Americans. We Nigerians have enough problems we don`t  need an outsider to add more to it, if you can`t help us progress then leave us alone. What we need are black Americans that want to contribute to the upliftment of the black race, what you are doing is following in the foot steps of the white supremist that take pride in putting down the black race. When you insult the whole Igbo race you are also insulting all of us as Nigerians because we are alike more than you realize. If you love and respect the black race, please refrain from putting us down.

We are one people with the same dream and aspirations, we all want a better Nigeria and Africa at large. We hope that someday someone like you can come and contribute to the progress of our nation, instead of writing derogatory stuff about our people. We need all hands on deck. "Help the weak if you are strong"

Brother, I wish you would stop talking to the edioooot like he is got some brains. Those of us that know the american thug know he is all air and no substance, just another angry Nigger trying to blame his shortcomings on Africans but wont come out openly to admit it.
Let me kick you some fact about the tout, he is not Nigerian, whatever he claims to know about Nigeria and her people is from the gibberish he reads here on NL and some googled up nigerian stories in addition to the tales by moonlight tales the Hot Nigerian fcking his slutty mum tells him before he bumps and grinds his mum.
He is from the lowest of the lowest class of the American social class, he is a bonafide ghetto kid and was raised there. I ve seen him post about his very sad, disturbing and painful upbringing in another thread, how his hit and run daddy(he never knew) left his slutty mum(who wouldn't) and how her new Nigerian boyfriend stood like a father in place. He confessed with his own mouth that he would ve turned cold by now if not for the man(even though I disagree with the fool, Me think, he will die just like another dumb black nigger in the american slums sooner than he thinks).
Most of what the retard boasts about having; from cash to cars and jewelries aint his, prolly owned by thesame Yoruba step-dad, hence his false sense of getting justice for the yoruba race. .LoL.
Lastly and make no mistake about this, the nigger aint educated, at least not up to the tertiary level. That he can write average english is because Americans speak english, nigger is dumb dont get carried away by the southern american slangs and lingos, nigger is dumb and very ghetto. He has got no class and is not better than any average Nigerian living in Nigeria.
Next time you want to address him, do it like you are talking to a dog, a lower being with no self esteem,respect and brains. He has a false sense of himself because he was born in America but we all know that America is not all that hollywoods cream and glitz they like to portray in movies, they ve got shiiits, misfits and many never do wells which he represents, even with their millions an average ghetto raised nigger is more likely to go to jail than anyone else. A majority of them are all macho-gusto and no brains, no wonder the white men thought it neccessary to keep them in a leash and segregate them in the worst places in america for them to bread and kill themselves. Bbk represents this group of unfortunate black Americans, they are angry at Africans and Nigerians especially cos we are succceding where they could not succeed and re-defining the black history and even teaching them.
Deep inside, the igbos are not his real problem, they just represent how he loathes Africans, they are his best bet to venting on Africans without being labelled an African hater.
Check most of what he says, although he makes it look like he is against the igbos, one can easily decipher the intent of what he says, they are usually the opinions they ve of Africans generally be you igbo or yoruba.
People should learn to see the b!ach in him, he cant come out openly and talk about his hate for Africans, hence his igbo bashong disguise, at least the yorubas will think he is fighting their cause and prolly support his effort to curse the other tribe.

[quote author=bk.babe97y link=topic=665643.msg8306145#msg8306145 date=1305209685]Ibos are just dirty and destructive by nature!

Give them NYC and they'll turn it into Aba in less than 24hrs!

Filthy, lying, deceitful, nasty pigs! As Evil as evil gets. Beasts![/quote]. . .let amadioha impregnate the slut that gave birth to this genetic garbage with an octet of bushbabies and plague you with acute mental disorder.
Look at this product of a careless one night stand at one of the clubs in those american ghettos claiming to be worth anything. Go and brag to your fellow dumb Niggas shooting and robbing ppl on the streets,fool. Your only claim to being yoruba is that the b!atch you call a mother now 4ckks a yoruba man who your confused soul mistakes for a father-inlaw. Yeah, I know, you prolly woulda been another coke sniffing, dumba$$ nigga if it was'nt for him, so you think, but guess what, you aint any different, you are a typical angry black American nigger who is looking for whom to vent his frustrations on. Since nagging about the whiteman aint productive anymore these days , your next targets are Africans. But because your baby-momma mother is fckiiiing a yoruba guy, you wont curse them however, s your grudge against africans still stays sacrosanct, the Igbos seem to be a perfect cover to still have your bite of the African meat since they(igbos) and the tribe of the guy fuckkkking your sluuttty mother are always at eachother's throat on NL, you disguise your hate for the African ppl in the vail of supporting one tribe while you take the chance to curse, swear and trash talk about africans and get support from Bonafide !ediots like Bluetooth(who is too dumb and bigoted to look beyond his parochial obsession and see your antics) who for all we know is another jobless kid with no real life besides the one he lives on NL.
Your only saving grace and reason you can come up here and spew your smelly guts is because of the Nigerian that fccccks your mum real good and in between,  tries to instil some African moral values in you. I bet the moment he stops fckkkinng the b!ach you would revert to stereotype and prolly end up dead in a gang shoot out on the streets and be another dead dumb nigger acting on impulse and no brains.
Before you open the filthy hole in your face to vomit the gibberish in your guts about a tribe you know nothing about or a place you ve never visited, may be you should take a sec to quiz your miserable existence and see if you are any better than the tribe you lamely term as savage.
Dont you think it is folly for a kid of your kind, with no real family or values, no real father figure,(i bet you ve prolly done time in a juvenile facility b4) living in the ghettos in the US comparable to Ajegunle in Lagos to come up in here and talk like your life is the best thing since Marthin Luther King Jnr.
You are so quick to talk about your money's worth like you ve got some low-self esteem(whatever happened to buying chains and gold plated spinning rims to help your ego) and indulging in $toooopid ego-boosting rides is the only way you get your respect.
It is obvious you are angry at Africans, trash talking about the igbos is just a disguise for the real hate you feel towards Africans. I have dealth with a lot of your kind, closet African haters like you both at work and in social circles. Be sure about one thing dumbo, Africans are going to keeping coming to the Americas in their numbers and take your jobs while your lazy a$$es continue to depend on food stamps and stipends from your government. Dumb Niggaz like you will rather smoke weed, indulge indiscriminate sex than sqaure up to their responsibilties, the closest you lot get to being men is shooting eachother aimlessly.
Just as your dad turned your slutty mum to a baby momma, you will do thesame. Address your own issues before jumping to separate in a fight between two tribes of dsame country that dont give a rat a$$ss if you dropped and just died.
Anuohia!

SEFAGO:
I said that in my mind though. I just decided not to type it  . But I do have my criticism of Chi Chi but it has nothing to do with smarter but more of a difference of opinions. Cannot remember what they were but I watched the video a long time ago.

Definitely smart, dont see any reason why I shoud compare myself to her. Thats low self-esteem man. I only hammer on emeagwali and God almight formula Professor.

I would marry her if not that she was significantly older than me, not my type- she does lack attack and behind (And you understand how much Yoruba men love big bakassi)

But as for Achebe. I have evidence that he might be part Yoruba.  

Moreover, its a false presumption to argue that he is igbo based on the fact that he is smart and detribalized. More like a significant exception to a rule than the a generalization of the rule.

. . . Tell me the truth, how many times have you unknowingly disgust the ladies with your cockiness? Dont lie, I can bet on it that you must have had some experiences talking so brashingly confident especially with the ladies. . .you are so annoyingly intelligent and cocky even when you dont try. . .lol[quote author=EzeUche_ link=topic=663029.msg8287164#msg8287164 date=1304964054]I almost fell for this bait that he left me. It was quite teasing to see this, but I managed to fight back the incredible urge to fire back at SEFAGO. At least SEFAGO understands the brilliance of both Chimamanda Adichie and Chinua Achebe. With time Adichie will find her place amongst the African literary giants before her. She is still quite young and has time on her side. Any man will by lucky to marry such an Igbo gem.[/quote]. . .hahahaha. . I bet you wont be holding back for long when SAFEGO starts inudating us with "facts" to prove his claims of Achibe having some Yoruba ancestry whether he wants to argue that based on the fact that only a yoruba man can be that smart or not is anybody's guess.

SEFAGO:
Rhymz, my guy wetin I do ya now?

I dont remember us fighting in the past , But if you wanna fight, I get time today oo

I like Chi Chi a lot, she is definitely one of the smartest people though not as smart as Achebe. Achebe is just pure genius. Me thinks he has a bit of Yoruba ancestry in him to be honest.

Hahahahahahah. . . I was hoping you would say, "I like Chi Chi a lot, she is definitely one of the smartest people though not as smart as ME". .
The las sentence is hilariously teasing, expect to hear from Ezeuche and co. .lol

Somebody made a point on another forum where this topic was being discussed and I want to relate it to my first post on this topic. The problem is not entirely listening to one side of a story or basing opinions or passing judgement on the premise of such, we have to consider that most times the side of the story that forms these one-sided opinions are usually the dominant story irrespective of the efficacy of the story. As long as that is the dominant part of the whole story of course people will naturally damn the other side that hardly gets mentioned or talked about. It is just like what we see and hear from world mainstream media like CNN, BBC, Aljazeera etc-whether their own side of the story is right or wrong, true or fictituos, one-sided or the whole story, one thing is certain, and it is the fact that the whims and caprices of the sources is what will form a majority of the people who look up to these sources for information. At this point, I wont be too fast to label anyone who falls in this category as petty, uneducated, unexposed or even uninformed; we have to also blame sources and their intents too cos even having the whole story is not enough as the source could as well spin the story depending on its intents.
I believe people with balanced views(which by the way are very few to come by) are those of us that make extra efforts to get these other side of a story and have the courage to question or scrutinize the intents of these sources before forming our opinions.

SEFAGO:
LOL

Hilarious Ajanlekoko

Jeez I was about to get the ball rolling for a thread derailment session until I saw that

loll. . . I guess you know you are guilty as charged.
You are in the intellectual group that will talk about the school she attended and compare it to the one you are currently attending. .hahahah. . .I must confess when I read that part, SAFEGO just instantly came to my mind. . .lol.

Another way to feed Tinubu and company. What is the whole essence of such a wasteful project when we have far more pressing needs in Lagos state begging for limited resources.
Those of us arguing for such a project probably dont live in Nigeria or even have experienced how horrible the road network in Lekki-epe-aja area is, one can spend hrs on the roads there for a distance that should not take more than 20min drive. The area is so much in lack for basic amenities and the government of BRF thinks siting an international airport there is the number one priority; I see another Tinapa mess in the making.
The more ridiculous is the timeline for the completion of the project; one year? How na, unless of course they are going to present us with 3D graphics of the airport that has increasingly become popular these days with Naija's state governments and administrators.
This will just be one huge white elephant project that will be abandorned half-way and nobody will use it.
Fashola wan begin do us ABRAGADABRA, the more you look the less you see. . .hmmmmm

APGA= 15,334
PDP=11,588
APGA (Rochas Okorocha) Wins in
Ohaji-Egbema Local Government Area
Mgor Okpala Local Government Area-
Returning Officer- Prof. Madu
Aniegbu
No of Registered Voters= 72,066
Total Valid Votes= 27, 662
Rejected Votes=1,639
APGA= 17, 370
PDP= 9,237

# Some male protesters attacked by
soldiers, dispersed in Oguta LGA.
Twenty minutes later, a defiant crowd of
women protesters, daring soldiers
marched to the INEC office in Oguta
calling for the cancellation of the
election.
# Election materials are yet to be
distributed in Oguta Local Government
Area but there are protesters calling for
cancellation of the election, alleging plot
to draw the election into the night to
perfect rigging.
# Numerous cars, buses and trailers with
many passengers and passers-by are
stranded at the security barricade on
Onitsha road, which is the entry point to
Mbaitoli Local Government Area, in line
with the enforcement of election
monitoring directive issued by the
security agencies.
Mbaitoli Local Government Area is one of
the councils where the supplementary
election is taking place today.
# In spite of police deployment of 10, 000
men to the election, there was no single
police or security official at Polling Unit
008, Orodo Ward A, which is adjacent to
an INEC office in Mbaitolu.
# Impressive voter turnouts in the Imo
State supplementary election but many
of the voters are disappointed by the late
commencement of the exercise in some
areas.
# The Nigeria Army apprehended over
120 suspected political thugs in Mbaitoli
and Ngor/Okpala LGA's between 5:20am
and 6:30am today. Sagir Musa, a
lieutenant colonel and assistant public
relations unit of 81 divisions confirmed
the arrests.
The thugs were in buses from Onitsha
and neighbouring states. Preliminary
findings indicate that they had been
documented and handed over to the Imo
State police command.
As at 11.30am, accreditation was yet to
commence in Oguta and Mbaitoli Council
areas. It was, however, not certain why
the election processes had not
commenced.

My Take on this is simple: Rochas is more Likely to get his mandate from the courts than from this illrgal re-run ordanized by INEC.
I come from Ngor-Opkala and since the announcement of this supplementary elections, there have been many cases of bribery by the PDP to rally the youths of the LGA to vote for Ohakim.
Yesterday, My Uncle who is a chieftain there told me how Ohakim gave the head of each village kindred the sum of #150,000 to rally the youths to vote for him. You all can confirm this from Maria Egwu's Elder Brother who happens to be the only judge in Umuohiagu, he has the custody of the money.
I see a trend here; thesame method that was used to box in Agbaso is thesame method being deployed here. The catch is to ensure that Rochas participate in the supplementary elections, they rig him out and at thesame time spoil his chances at the court cos it will be argued that his participation in the illegal re-run was tantamount to admitting that the ground for a supplementary elections was supported by him and his part. On that ground his chances might be compromised. His best bet will be to concentrate on going to court and disqualifying the re-run as the electoral act does not make any room for such a conduct, it is illegal and can be challenged.
Situation in Imo state is very dicey, with the level of desperation shown so far by the Ohakim camp, they will stop at nothing to remain in Douglas house.
Imo state is in a volatile situation right now and people must desist from doing anything that will put the state in chaos, some Ohakim supporters here have been indulging in deliberate lies and falsification of facts, these paid agents mist realize that the betterment of the state is bigger than their undividual greed. We all know Ohakim is bad news and will stop at nothing to remain there and pay off the huge debt this election has incurred him with the state's treasury. This is not the time to short change your future with a few thousand naira, there is more to life than immediate personal aggrandizement.
As for those of us who have been giving few thousand naira bills to vote for ohakim, my advice to you all is that you take the money and vote the best guy.

toks2009:
All i know is that until obama's dead body is shown to the rest of the world,i remain doubtful.

lol. . . .hahhahahaha. . . . The body of OBAMA? Guy U dey vex o.
By the way, news just reaching on from white house spokes person says The President has decided that the Images are too gruesome and wont be released as it may spark off security problems.

cardoso111:
It is a shame for Africa,AU in essence to encourage this kind of killing.Why is Lybia singled out?Egypt,Tunisioa,Morocco,Yemen all experienced this turmoil.The question is why is Lybia case different?Oil. The USA under the guise of NATO called UK na France to side them to take over Lybia!
While we all know that Gaddafy has overstayed ,should wiping out be the next thing to do.Let AU stand up or sit up to their duty of watching over Africa

Brother, the AU are not in support of the NATO air strikes, even amongst the UN security member, Russia, China,India,Brazil and I think Tunisia were not in support of a resolution that will see the use of military action by way of air strikes. Tunisia which is a membes of the NATO alliance vehemently disagreed to the use of force in that manner even the arab league who had initially lent their support by backing the UN resolution immediately withdrew their support when it was clear that NATO was itching to do more than just guarding the airspace over libya.
A lot of us Africans have failed to understand the politics at play beyond Gaddafi use of brutal force which I do not support though but it must be pointed out that that islamic fundamentalist with help from western intelligence instigators usurped the genuine opportunity for change for the Libyan people and turnes it into an armed insurrection. The opposition in Benghazi was nothing like a peaceful protest, it was an armed rebellion that could only be squashed by the use of force. Why do you think they have been able to sustain the war if actually they were mere civilizians as the west media like to claim, they have been getting military support in exchange for oil from western powers. Benghazi and some of the neighbouring town like misarati have got oil wells and are in controll of the rebels.

IfunanyaCHI:
@ cap28. its very obvious that you are not informed at all about the happenings so far in Libya and your comments are just mere sentimental rubbish. from all indications you will observe that US does not even want to intervene in the situation until recently. must we throw all our blames to US always just because they intervene on issues concerning their allies. HABA my friend, where were you when GADDAFI was killing his own people, where were you during the post conflict elections in Nigeria an Elections that even the international community adjudged to be free and fair, where were you during the Somali, Liberia, Senegal crisis. the problem here is not US Government, the problem is the sit-down syndrome of African Leaders, who put their selfish interest first against their citizens, who think that Government is their personal business, if i were you, i will just keep calm and stop throwing fire and brimstone to a person who has nothing to do with the misfortune going on in African Countries and also my friend, you mustn't be abusive in expressing yourself to the public, it doesn't show a sense of maturity.

thot has just said exactly what I was trying to say to people like you with a good heart to feel for the innocent people dying in the cross fire between Libya and the opposition forces but with a deep misunderstanding of the morally bankrupt politics at play in the game.
The opposition in Benghazi was a full scale war against the government, you can't be protesting with serious arms, missiles and other assault weapons and expect the government to listen to you, that right there was a full scale war and unfortunately, Gaddafi responded with brutal force until they had to cry for help.
Of course, I as well want Gaddafi to go but I dont think it is in the hands of a few western power to decide that; the west has no moral standing to take the lead to that effect.
Any military decision to protect the innocent people of Libya caught up in the cross-fire must have the involvement of the right faces, forces from the Arab league and AU should be seen to lead the pack with support from the western powers. The fact that Turkey(which has the largest Army after the U.S amongst the NATO member alliance) vehemently disagrees with france over the use of military action against Gaddafi removes any credibility that NATO was going to Libya to protect innocent people and not to serve the interests of the member countries France(which is in the forefront of this military mission) the U.S and the UK who have led the NATO military air strikes.
It is even contradictory for the western powers to argue that NATO's involvement in Libya is to protect civilians when back in London, Washington and Brussels their leaders openly trumpet regime change in a sovereign state in another region.
How is dropping bombs on said targets a means to ensure protection of civilians, there is no such thing as smart bombs eventually those bombs will find their way to killing the innocent civilians they claim to be protecting.
What is going on in Libya today is a civil war that has some tribal sentiments to it as well. When it was announced that some of Gaddafi's generals and supporters had betrayed and left him, he came out and vowed that he would ensure that there were no defections again, he did this by trusted tribes men and loyalist in key military position and of course increased their pay too. While it is often ignored in the mainstream media, Gaddafi is very popular in his part of the country and the opposition mainly the rebels are from the other part.
It will be difficult for the west to convince the people of Libya, especially the ones on his part of the country that they do not have other ulterior motives besides their claim of protecting them, these same powers hitherto have had strong economic, political and social ties with the regime of Gaddafi now want to remove Gaddafi in the guise of protecting them. Of course they will at some point ask if they can be trusted.

While I may not support cap24's malevolence on the United States, I agree with most of what he is saying with regards to NATO's involvement in Libya. Even amongst the 28-member alliance, there is a serious disagreement as to the kind of military operation NATO was to undertake on Libya. While it was said that NATO's military operation was to ensure that Col Ghaddafi respects the no-fly zone, making an assasination attempt on Ghaddafi's life and killing his son and three grand childrien was not in the purview of the UN certified military action.
That Gaddafi will at some point give it up is an unavoidable fact he will have to face but dropping bombs on him to eliminate him is an error that will only swing undeserved sympathy to the man and re-enforce the belief that the western powers want Gaddafi out only to mount a puppet that will do their bid and ensure uncontrolled access to to their oil wealth as is the case in Iraq today. That the western media is trying to paint Gadaffi as a Devil that is killing his own people is nothing new, they like to tell one side of the story especially when it favours their own cause.
Gadaffi may have been the longest president but his leadership achievement to an average Libyan is not in question. Different forces including the western powers want Gadaffi out for different reasons not neccessarily because they want democracy.However, the problem with the opposition is there is no consensus on how the libyan people should be led after Gaddafi leaves government, the only binding force amongst the various oppositions is the wish to see Gaddafi leave the government. That is why western powers must thread with utmost care and sensitivity not to escalate the problems as the issue at stake is an internal conflict that will not end by merely getting rid of Gaddafi else this will be another issue of Iraq. At some point the thesame people will resent them for worsening their problems, the U.S now knows better than to rush and single handedly shell a sovereign state and think that will solve the problems, how Gadaffo leaves government is very vital to the stability of libya because unlike what they(western media and intelligence) will like us to believe, Gaddafi is still very popular and liked by at least half the population of Libya.
People must learn to form and base their opinions beyond the deliberate propaganda that is peddled by mainstream western media.
It must be noted that the pro-democracy movements that started in Tunisia and spread to Egypt is very different from the opposition movement in Lybia today.
While the western media conveniently like to use terminologies like pro-democracy demonstrators or non-violent demonstrators to give the false impression of the kind of movements that have overthrown the regimes of Mubarak and Ali in Egypt and Tunisia, they fail to identify the extremely diverse make-up of the rebels fighting against Gaddafi's government.
While some may be calling for democracy in Libya, others want something entirely different-from momarchy loyalists who want a return of the monarchy system of government to the islam fundamentalists that want a state governed by the dictates of the Koran and sharia- all these ppl make up the opposition.Unlike the demonstrations in Tripoli which was inspired by the democratic movement that had hit Tunisia and Egypt, which was comprised of students, professionals and intellectuals waving the Libyan green flag and protesting and calling for a democratic government and an end to Gaddafi's regime, the one that ensued in the Benghazi was anything but a peaceful protest.
Immediately following the first day of protests in the capital city of Tripoli the government clamped down hard and things seemed quiet for about a week in early February. By the middle of February protests sprung up outside of the capital, primarily in the second largest city of Benghazi, which has since been the focus area of the corporate media. The protests in Benghazi differed from the earlier non-violent protests that occurred in Tripoli. The Benghazi protests included the attacking of government institutions. The burning of government buildings quickly distinguished these protests from what was happening in other parts of North African and the Middle East. The news media continued to call the protestors “non-violent” and “pro- democratic,” even as the protestors themselves acted contrary to those descriptions. The terminology is important, as it is used strategically to form public opinion.

This week we recognize the 8th
anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, an
illegal war of occupation that continues
to this day. The grounds on which the
Iraq war was based turned out to be a
batch of lies coaxed up by top officials in
the United States government. The U.S.
Secretary of State – General Colon Powell,
introduced these lies and manipulations
to the United Nations at the request of his
boss President George W. Bush. Eight
years later and under a new
administration, another U.S. Secretary of
State makes arguments supporting
military action against what would be the
fifth country currently under attack by
U.S. military forces. Libya can now be
added to the exclusive list of nations
being bombed by the United States and
her allies, which also includes Iraq,
Afghanistan, Pakistan and the occasional
bombing of Yemen. (This list does not
count the dozen or more nations
currently being victimized by U.S. covert
actions and state sponsored terrorism.)
To better understand the complex and
dynamic circumstances involved in the
Libya situation requires an
understanding and analysis that goes far
beyond what is reported in the
mainstream media. This article will be
one of a three-part series that will
attempt to shed some light on the
situation and fill in some of the voids that
are a result of a well designed
misinformation campaign against the
Libyan government and perpetuated by
U.S. and European intelligence agencies.
“ Part 1” focuses on who the Libyan
“opposition” or “rebel” forces are. “Part 2”
talks about some of the confusing and
contradicting language that is being used
by Western media outlets, Al Jazeera, and
even many of the independent
progressive media sources here in the
United States. “Part 3″ focuses on the
question “why Libya?” as opposed to
Yemen, Bahrain, and other non-
democratic regimes facing domestic
opposition in the region.
The conclusions I make are not merely
speculative. Much of what I will be writing
draws on both my personal knowledge on
the subject, as well as correspondence
with Libyan friends who are currently in
Tripoli and Benghazi. My contact in
Benghazi is a University Professor who I
met while visiting Tripoli a year ago as
part of a delegation led by former
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. For
safety, I agreed to conceal this person ’s
identity and will not specify which
information came from this source,
although in some cases it may be
obvious.
Part 1: The Opposition Forces?
As I sit to write this article from the safety
of an American café in Anchorage,
Alaska, bombs rain down on cities and
towns all across the North African nation
of Libya. I can hear reports from one of
the corporate news stations on the
television here. As I look up at the screen I
see a close-up of Libyans cheering, while
in a small window on the upper right side
of the screen there are far off images of
bombs and missiles causing explosions
on what appear to be Libyan targets. I
suppose the message here is similar to
the visual messages that we were fed 8
years ago as we saw Iraqi ’s cheering their
new occupiers driving in on tanks and
heavily armored humvees.
One of the questions regarding the
Libyan unrest that has yet to be
answered by any of the news agencies is
– who exactly are these Libyan rebels?
The western media, with help from Al
Jazeera, has done a remarkable job
portraying the unrest in Libya as a
popular revolt. The anti-government or
opposition forces have been referred to
by various titles, including “pro-
democracy protestors” and “non-violent
demonstrators” to sell the image of them
as a continuation of the pro-democracy
movements that began in Tunisia then
spread to Egypt. However these terms,
while still being used by some media
outlets, fail to correctly identify the
extremely complex and diverse makeup
of the rebels. While some of the
protestors are calling for democracy in
Libya, that is not necessarily the
consensus among everyone in the
opposition.
For instance, we can begin to understand
who this opposition group is by first
looking at what flag they are flying. It
seems as though the flag of the
opposition has been widely accepted by
the rebels. What is not talked about in the
media, and even among progressives, is
what this red, black, and green flag with a
crescent in the center actually
represents. First of all, it is the former flag
of Libya that was introduced after
independence under the rule of King Idris.
Idris ruled the monarchy after
independence until 1969 when he was
overthrown by the military under the lead
of a young Colonel with a Pan-Arab/
Nassarite ideology. (A monarchy is far
from a democracy and monarchs are still
ruling in many parts of the Arab world.
Their rule is passed through hereditary
and sometimes marital relations.)
Following the overthrow of King Idris in
1969, the flag was changed from the red,
black, and green to a red, white, and black
flag with no religious symbols. In 1977
the revolutionary council led by Colonel
Gaddafi introduced a new flag. The
Libyan flag, which still flies today, is a
simple green flag. Libya is the only nation
represented by a single color flag with no
symbols.
The issue of what flag the opposition
forces are flying is of extreme importance
because it says a lot about who they are
and what they want. If you recall, during
the Tunisian and Egyptian uprising, the
protestors flew their national flags, which
suggested that although they wanted an
end to the dictatorial rule, they still
identified with the nation in its modern
form. At the beginning of the uprising in
Libya, there were green Libyan flags
being flown by some of the youth,
students and professionals who make up
what can be considered the
“ intelligencia” class. These were the very
first protestors who where clearly
inspired by the democratic movement
that hit North Africa, starting with
Tunisia and spreading to Egypt. I
remember the first image I saw regarding
a demonstration in Libya was online at Al
Jazeera English. The demonstrator, a
young man who looked like he was in his
mid-twenties, was on camera demanding
Libya live up to the country ’s official
name the “Great Socialist People’s Libyan
Arab Jamahiriya.” [The term Jamahiriya is
Arabic for “a state of the masses," which
is another term for the governing
structure known as a “direct democracy."
A direct democracy refers to a system
where the masses of the people are
involved in the decision making through a
process of councils starting from their
local community reaching up to their
national government. It differs from a
representative democracy where
individuals elect candidates to speak for
and represent them.]
Immediately following the first day of
protests in the capital city of Tripoli the
government clamped down hard and
things seemed quiet for about a week in
early February. By the middle of February
protests sprung up outside of the capital,
primarily in the second largest city of
Benghazi, which has since been the
focus area of the corporate media. The
protests in Benghazi differed from the
earlier non-violent protests that occurred
in Tripoli. The Benghazi protests included
the attacking of government institutions.
The burning of government buildings
quickly distinguished these protests from
what was happening in other parts of
North African and the Middle East. The
news media continued to call the
protestors “non-violent” and “pro-
democratic,” even as the protestors
themselves acted contrary to those
descriptions. The terminology is
important, as it is used strategically to
form public opinion. In “Part 2″ of this
series I will go further into the biased
news reports and terminology that was
used to shape the discourse and raise
sympathy for the opposition forces.
What should be understood about the
opposition forces in Libya is that they are
not made up of any one particular group.
In actuality, the opposition is made up of
a coalition of groups that only really have
one political view in common, ending the
40-year rule of Gaddafi. However, the
problem facing the opposition forces is
that there are differing beliefs on what
should come after to replace Gaddafi ’s
regime. Just because they all want
change does not mean that they all agree
on what that change should be. For
instance, the intelligencia class was
demanding democratic reform, not
necessarily the overthrow of the
government. They advocate living up to
the true meaning and mission of a direct
democracy. Ironically enough, this was
also part of a critique leveled against the
Libyan government by Gaddafi himself, in
2008 and again in 2009 when he called
for the reforming of the government due
to a failed bureaucracy and corruption.
(Another issue that will be talked about in
the second part of this series is the fact
that the media refuses to recognize the
actual government of Libya that is and
has been in place prior to the unrest. If
you only listen to the corporate media
they would have you believe this 70
something year old man was running
every government entity in the country.)
The next group that participates in the
opposition coalition is based on partial
tribal alliances that would like to see the
entire government of Libya overthrown
and possibly the re-instatement of the
monarchy. This group is rather powerful
and is not new to Libya. They are
strongest in the town of Benghazi and
they have a history of being in cahoots
with foreign intelligence agencies. This
element of the opposition has been
funded and armed by foreign intelligence
agencies in the past and even attempted
an uprising against the government after
a 1996 massacre in a local prison where
inmates took hostages and held a prison
revolt, but were ultimately killed by prison
guards. The exact number of killed
prisoners is unknown but some reports
claim to be as high as 1200.
Family members of the slain prisoners
have on several occasions protested the
massacre. Opportunistic anti-
government forces in Benghazi
attempted to exploit these protests with
the intent to start a popular uprising, by
rallying people around this prison
massacre. This brings us to the next
group and probably the best organized
prior to the current uprising. This group is
made up of educated professionals who
feel Libya should be modeled after
western capitalist nations like the United
States. Prior to the civil unrest these
power hungry opportunists where never
able to amass any considerable amount
of support from the Libyan masses. When
they tried to use the prison massacre
protests to ignite the people of Benghazi,
the Libyan government quickly
suppressed the protests. This segment of
the opposition continued to organize
both inside Benghazi and internationally
under the title the “Libyan National
Council”.
Mahmoud Jibril
The leader of the Libyan National Council
is a man named Mahmoud Jibril. Jibril has
close ties with the United States, Britain
and France. It was reported last week by
several news agencies that Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton had a brief meeting
with Jibril while she was in France. French
officials are also watching over Jibril and
protecting him from harm upon reports
that Colonel Gaddafi put up a reward of $
400,000 to kill Jibril. Jibril is believed by
some to have been on the CIA payroll
dating back to when he studied and then
later taught in the U.S. prior to working in
the Libyan government. Jibril is an ex-
patriot who worked high up in the Libyan
government. Some believe that his CIA
ties were discovered and the cause of his
quick exile to Europe. It must be noted
that Mahmoud Jibril and the Libyan
National Council does not represent all of
the anti-government forces in Libya.
There are many who will not follow him
because of his close ties with European
and U.S. Intelligence agencies.
The third group that contributes to the
opposition is the fundamentalist Muslims
or what the media calls Islamists. This is
the religious sector in Libya that would
like to see a government lead by Shari ’ a,
or the law of the Quran. This segment has
also made its objectives very clear over
the years, they wants to take over the
country. The most popular of the Islamist
groups is known as the “Fighting Islamist
Group in Libya”.
At the beginning of the unrest Gaddafi
came on television and accused al-Qaeda
of being responsible for the unrest. He
said that they drugged the youth in order
to gain their support. Many thought this
to be an absurd accusation and a
desperate attempt to demonize the
young protestors. It may have been a sign
of desperation, but it certainly was not
unfounded, at least the al-Qaeda part. As
for the drug accusation I can only assume
Gaddafi was confused as to why the
students would come out against him
after all he had done for them and the
country. Making the university system
open and free to everyone, or
government sponsorship of students to
study abroad in the US, Europe and in
parts of the Middle East was a product of
his (Gaddafi ’s) leadership. He knows the
Islamists did not have that big of an
influence on the youth and students, so
in his mind, they must have been
drugged. How he came up with the
charge of drugs is not quite clear to this
writer, but what is clear is that al-Qaeda
has been active in Libya and conspiring
against Gaddafi for over 15 years.
On November 10, 2002 an article
appeared in the Guardian, the U.K.’s
largest daily newspaper, exposing a plot
between the MI6 (British Intelligence)
and an active al-Qaeda cell in Libya. The
article charges MI6 with paying the al-
Qaeda cell to assassinate Colonel Gaddafi
in 1996. The al-Qaeda cell attempted to
carry out the assassination attempt, but
was obviously unsuccessful. The details
of the plot are not completely clear,
however al-Qaeda members attempted to
kill Gaddafi by throwing a grenade at him
while he was visiting the town of Sirte.
During an intense gunfight, the Islamists
and several civilians where killed.
There are multiple Muslim
fundamentalist organizations active in
Libya. It is not clear whether the Islamists
are al-Qaeda, or part of another group if
any, or if they are just fundamentalists
who want Shari ’ a law imposed. On
November 3, 2007 the BBC and other
press agencies reported that the
“ Fighting Islamist Group in Libya” merged
with al-Qaeda and this was substantiated
through a recorded message by Ayman
al-Zawahri a senior leader in al-Qaeda at
the time. But regardless of their particular
affiliation, what is important to note here
are that their ultimate objective conflicts
with the pro-democracy youth, the tribal
loyalists of the monarchy, and the
opportunistic Libyan National Council. I
have to assume that for the purpose of
working together against the Libyan
government, the Islamists put their
differences aside temporarily.
Finally, you have the masses of people
who, for the most part did not belong to
any of these groups but where caught up
in the excitement and the possibility of
change and freedom. I am told that this is
the largest portion of the opposition.
Many of these people have legitimate
dispute with and disdain for the
government. They just want to live in
peace free from fear and repression.
Some have even served in the Libyan
military and are applying their training to
what has turned into a civil war. This
group includes those in the police and
military forces that sided with the anti-
government forces.
I have also been told that some of the
former soldiers in Benghazi would rather
be loyal to the Government, but they fear
for their safety and therefore feel that
they must go along with the opposition.
This touches on another issue that I will
discuss in “Part 2″ of this series, that is,
the fact that a large portion of the Libyan
society is loyal to the government and
Gaddafi, whereas the western media
would have you believe the opposite.
I have pointed out roughly five
completely different groups that make up
the anti-government forces. I refuse to
call them “pro-democracy” forces
because they are not all for a democratic
society. I also cannot call them “non-
violent” protestors because the only non-
violent group among them is the actual
“ pro-democracy” youth. I was told that
some of the students and youth
protestors have been pushed out of the
opposition because they continually
argued for non-violent resistance and
opposed taking up arms against
government forces. They understood
clearly that they were no match against
the military and that foreign intervention
would be required to save their lives if
they turn the struggle into a civil war.
Other forces within the opposition,
mainly within the tribal monarchy
supporters along with the opportunists,
dominated the opposition politically and
forced the armed struggle on the masses
in Benghazi and other small towns. In
Benghazi many of the youth leaders and
activists have given up because many of
the internal conflicts have resulted in
fighting within the opposition and many
of them left the opposition and the
country in fear for their lives. This is not
fear of government forces, but rather of
violence perpetrated on them by
members of the opposition. In other
words, there was a segment that was
following the Tunisia/Egypt model, but
they were forced to abandon that model
or leave the anti-government ranks.
There where other conflicts between the
youth/students and the supporters of
the Libyan National Council, such as the
issue of the Council ’s leader, Mahmoud
Jibril. The youth do not trust him and
believe he is an opportunist who will
ultimately serve the interests of the
west. They compare him with Hamid
Karzai, the U.S. -installed President of
Afghanistan. As with the youth of
Tunisia and Egypt, Libyan youth are not
willing to settle for anything less than a
true democracy, free of dictators and
neo-colonial rulers.
The youth also oppose the request for
foreign intervention. They understand
what comes with that intervention and
how it is applied. However, the majority of
the opposition forces are very hopeful, if
not convinced, that support from the U.S.
and Europe will lead to a victory against
the Libyan military and ultimately the
end of the Gaddafi regime. The Libyan
National Council fully supports the
foreign intervention because they know
it is their ticket to power in the post-
Gaddafi Libya.
The question that will need to be asked in
the near future is what promises or deals
did Mahmoud Jibril make in return for
Western support? If the U.S., U.K., and
France achieve their goal of toppling the
Gaddafi regime, will they install their man
Jibril with mass Libyan support or will
they do it regardless of any Libyan
opposition to the Libyan National
Council? All of this is conditioned on how
far Western involvement in Libya
extends. The British Defense Secretary,
Liam Fox, recently suggested that
Gaddafi is a target, while U.S. President
Obama said that Gaddafi was not a target.
Either one of them is lying or they have
different objectives.
About the Author:
Troy Nkrumah is a Pan-Africanist with a
long history of social justice and anti-
imperialist activism. He began as a
student organizer in Los Angeles and San
Francisco. He is currently the President/
CEO of the Anchorage Urban League and
an outspoken advocate for Human
Rights. Troy has traveled extensively
throughout Africa and Latin America. He
traveled to Libya at the end of 2009 as
part of a delegation lead by former
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. Troy
has studied, taught and written about
Africa and the anti-colonial struggle. He
holds a Bachelors and a Masters Degree
in International Relations. He also has a
Law Degree and has worked in Tanzania
for the United Nations at the Rwanda
Genocide Tribunal.

esteduca:
You could do a great service to us foreinarialanders by explain the concept at the base of this. Thank you!

Well, I want to assume that you are italian and as such a european. I am an African to the core with cultural idiosyncrasies and tradition entirely different from that of a european or an American. I can easily understand in thesame breath if my 15yr old cousins living in the US and UK greet me like that or even call me by my name without any of the prefixes(uncle, aunty, brother etc, ) that our culture demands a younger person use when addressing a senior one. However, it will be condescending and presumptuous of any young person who was born and raised in Nigeria and knowing the cultural affinity that is attached to this african or will I say Nigerian Etiquette to look in the face of an elderly person and get so brazenly casual to the point of addressing he or she like that.
I mean, for God sake if the kid understands the implications of such greetings and goes ahead to do so, it removes any doubt that he/she is not trying to be insulting or condescending.
And pls dont even start with any lecture to prove otherwise cos that in it self will only make you come across as trying to be disrespectful to my own cultural creed and traditional values.likewise, It will be folly of me to argue against european customs or traditions that I may not neccessarily like; one man's meat is another man's poison.

It will depend on the tone with which it was said. If sounds condescending, he or she can be sure to get a hot slap to remind her that my beards and deep voice have come off age. However, if it is said out of innocence i may not mind the first time but if it continues like that, she gets the treatment too, no kidding.
I dont even entertain a younger person addressing me as "My Dear". . . .I find it a little condescending too. My Dear unto which lvls na, na Me dey yansh u or wat?

Tobe1988:
1Emmy,

I did not call anyone a fool. I simply recited a saying that was necessary to use towards a commenter who called me an . Please read all the posts geared towards me before making accusations that are baseless. I will repeat again, that I am not a paid spammer. Also, I received tons of emails, texts, and FB messages to vote for Rochas on election day. Is he a spammer as well then? Please do not throw stones in glass houses.

Guy what exactly is your point, are you here to make a point or complain for ohakim. Need I remind you that people are entitled to their opinions and it is not in your place to tell us what Ohakim has done or has not done neither does it behove on you to puncture holes on anyone's claims here. They say opinions are free but facts are sacrosanct, if you have got proof of Ohakim's wonderful works in Imo state, lay them down here and stop clutching at straws. I have been in Imo state as a student for the past 5 years now and I fail to see any serious initiative of the Ohakim government that has imparted on the lives of imolites. Besides his unruly and ignominuos public roforofo with different people from Bishops, Rev Fathers,Journalist to even nigerians in other states, he is not popular with an average imo voter. Everyone one of them has something bad to say about him, His clean and Green initiative was a side distraction that in actual sense did not mean anything to the people that were looking employment and skills aquisition. Most of the road project he claimed to have done are laughable. Owerri which is the state capital can only boast of two major roads; douglas and wetheral, imagin! No wonder even traffic along those two roads is always terrible, one would have thought the dude will at least build fly-over bridges to offset the heavy traffic of the two roads, instead he wastes money beautifying roads that are already in good condition and neglecting the ones that need repairs, expansion and dualization. Even the IRROMA project is a phoney, it is just an avenue of siphoning money and making his cronies rich. Owerri as it stands today is an expensive place to live yet it does not have a viable economy that can sustain the high cost of living there.
I dont even want to start with how he has systematically run down the state University with his mafioso style of negetiating with an equally compromised ASSU member. The man finally agreed to their demands after over 6 months strike, only to rob peter to pay paul by hiking the sch fees to over a hundred per cent.
I am from Umuohiagu town in Ngor-Okpala one of the four LGAs INEC has ordered a re-run and I know that in a free and fair election there Rochas will beat by a wide margin, even Ararume will flaw him by virtue of the Chief Ujunwa factor but I wont be surprise if on the 6th they cook up numbers there too.
I am not even interested in the debate and politics of who is better for the job between Ohakim and Rochas, my grouch is the desperation of Ohakim to win at all cost even when it obviously clear the people's mandate have been given not to him.
Ohakim lacks the intellectual capaicity and initiative to come up serious developmental plans that can move the state forward besides decieving outsider with 3D computer graphics of roads that were never built and industries that do not exist. What Imo state needs now is to tap into its strength which I feel is tourism and give IMO state a viable economy that will bring ppl all over nigeria to the state and earn them revenues. Arguing about bringing Imo state politics to mainstream politic to me is dumb and stupid. Like that will pay the bills and put food on the table.
Ohakim Enough is Enough!

mrjingles:
Its obvious many of us do not understand this policy, we are using "dugbe market" analysis. No need commenting further on this, it would be a dialogue of he deaf.

Anyways you guys can vent away while the train moves on. Instead  of you "young intelligent Nigerians" on NLand to think of how to key into this you are busy making meaningless comments. "those saying something is impossible are interrupting those busy DOING the 'impossible'.  When chinese and south africans take over the market you will start grumbling about "foreigners taking all our money" I dey go jare.

Mr man stop talking like you are the most intelligent authority on the matter and every other person that does not agree with you is dumb.
Like I have said before, the policy is a nice idea but the implementation is going to be shitty. Many people have said it here already that even in developed countries where it has been seen to work, there are no such laws forcing people to do cashless transctions and putting ridiculous penalties instead of incentives.
Of course we need change but it must come as a gradual process else it will be resisted and fought against. What Sanusi and his gang are asking us to do is not even achievable in 4 years let alone one year. His policy plan is not even in sync with the power plan( a major consideration as the technology uses electricity). Our internet network here is so shitty that when you have many people on a network, the whole thing crumbles to a halt.
Then again you have to worry about how safe it is doing huge business transactions online, this technologies come with their own set of wahala. The technology is relatively new to nigerians and unscrupulous internet savvy fraudstars can capitalize on it and turn you financially bald in a split second of a button push, where will such victims get their money back, through the present legal frame? Please Mr! We dont even have laws that will cater for such loses or even protect people's money through insurance and all that.
They did not even start with sensitizing people through adverts, campaigns, incentives and special privileges for subscribers. That way people would ve been introduced to it gradually and make a gradual transition when they see the ease and benefits of the system.
Some of us talk of ATMs and I just laugh, more than %75 percent of those trasders/market women and men do not use ATMs, many stopped using it after they lost huge sums to it, my Dad was a victim too.
And for your information, since Sanusi came in, it has become very neccessary for a lot of up and moving serious business minded people to keep a large chunk of their money in the house for quick business transactions, coming up with such a drastic policy will only worsen the problem and the banks will suffer even further.
The way he is giving order on how people's money should be deposited and withdrawn, he will end up having money out of the banking system in a space of months when this kicks off. It will be a monumental disaster that will turn ordinary folks against him, this is money we are talking about here.
And dont fool yourself ebanking will not significantly cut financial crimes like money laundry, it will even make it easier and seamless as cyber crime agents they will tell you it is easier and safer way to launder money without the fanfare of going to the banks and expose yourself to the risk of being seen or recognized.
All that big talk of sophistory is not for your average Nigerian trader and market people who make up the bulk of account holders in banks. Rome was not built overnight!

[quote author=Nwa_Nimo link=topic=657483.msg8236592#msg8236592 date=1304199631]My Igwe is a poor man -
Its embarrasing. . . .[/quote]lol. . Your igwe that cant even feed unless the FG dishes out pittance of our natural cake to him. His probably a few thousand Naira rich and could easily lose it in a swift second if he aligns with the wrong politicians.

I think sometimes a lot of people over estimate the british monarchy probably because of their colonial reach in the past but un this present day, I strongly doubt if the Queen as a monarch can actually boast of thesame level of wealths of most of the monarchs in the middle east have and are still acruing as we speak. The Sultan of Brunei alone not even talking of his family empire is worth over $22billion and sits on a family empire that is worth well over $120billion, the king of Saudi Arabia for instance owns 1/10th of the world's oil reserve not to talk of the entire family's wealth, the king of Thailand is another extremely wealthy monarch.
No doubt the British monarchy is of course very wealthy too but I strongly doubt it is in the Arab leagues.
In terms of political powers, you and I know Queen Elizabeth II has powers that she dares not to use or she will see the abrupt end of british monarchy like it happened in fiji. Most of the honour and respect that is accorded her is just based on respect and symbolic gesture to preserve the british monarchy tradition. But what she says or do politically can never have thesame effect as say the Saudi king, the sultan of Brunei, the king of the UAE with respect to the internal politics of their countries and the world at large. The queen of England commands the kind of respect the Pope(whom also is a monarch by the way) commands, people are not bound by any law or constitution to follow what they say but of course they can get the world's ears.