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Johnpaul88: @usmsam
This is what i call going out & getting exposed & thinking in the right manner.

Not how Sagamite goes to Uk only because he could afford it but learns absolutely nothing there. Some of us here in Naija are even more exposed in thinking than he can ever be.
What a shame!

Better come home to join in the mess you like Naija to continue to be in!

The only thing he seemed to have learnt there very well is how to call everyone who cares to listen, 'person'!

Johnpaul88: If a heterosexual parents raised a kid like me who's clearly 'complex', why then do you infer that raising kids that will develop a 'complex' is mutually exclusive to gay parents?

A gay child will be gay regardless of who raised him. I do not believe gays are nutured because no one nutured me!

When someone who's not created as gay, sees two men kissing or Zap.i.ng, he's naturally irritated by the sight, hence he cannot feel attracted to it, no matter the pressure! But once you see that one that succumbs latter, he's been gay all along. He's been pretending not to be.

When i was still a little boy & still sleep in my parents room, i use to see them kiss & do all sort of things married couple do, but i still ended up as gay. It never influenced me.

So using this argument, i think the same goes for gay couples. If the child they adopted is not gay, there is absolutely nothing the child will see the parents do, that will change him to gay. If he
became gay afterall, it's not because he had a gay parents!

I used myself as example to avoid unnecessary abstraction & to bring this issue home, settled once & for all!

usmsam: Oh and P.S. to Nairaland: I understand how the administrators can breed hate on this forum. If it is okay to allow homophobic comments then you guys should be alright with tribalistic and racist comments too. Why discriminate? It doesnt matter if you agree with the comments or not. Hateful comments towards a set of people is still wrong and people should have their comments removed and banned for them.

ccollins: Lol, you are failed with all the tantrums as usual

ccollins: @ sagamite, accepting a rational view as to homosexuality does not undermine its evaluation or makes it an abeyance as to the norms of the society. Seems u do not know the power and key essence of the minority campaigns.if homosexuality is accepted in more civilised countries of the world. What is contrary point as to an obnoxious outcry against homosexuals right..... It just mere disillusionment as to a critical issue which is widely raised world wide... I still ask why prostitution with negative effects that can pass std and aids has not been throughly condemned and is well praticed in nigeria but a more sane and less-troublesome lifestyle of the homo are frowned upon

beryl04: You are the reprobate.just take a close look in the mirror and you'll be disgusted at what u see.

atuks: It is estimated that, if nothing is done, half of 6000 plus languages spoken today will disappear by the end of this century. With the disappearance of unwritten and undocumented languages, humanity would lose not only a cultural wealth but also important ancestral knowledge embedded, in particular, in indigenous languages. “The death of a language is like the burning of a library.”
Ethnologist lists Nigeria as having 15 endangered languages,
According to the study of a research carried out in 2007 in Imo and Lagos state to test Igbo competency level of three age groups , aged 1-5 and,6-11,and adults, a grim picture awaits the language . The report shows that seventy percent of children between 6-11 years and ninety percent of children aged five years and below were unable to speak Igbo language . The Igbo language will likely become extinct in the next fifty years.
Many Yoruba adults and young elements – wittingly or unwittingly have declare a ceaseless war against their own language as it is their common enemy .
Ngugi wa thiong ‘o a popular Kenyan novelist said “for me enslavement is knowing all the languages of the world ,but you don’t known your own” Empowerment is when you know your own language and you add other languages to it
The way forward is too urge us all to start speaking in mother tongue to our children at home, we should promote our language and encourage our children to speak it .

scribble: not to hold brief for sagamite. but he is the only one speaking with any sense on this thread. sadly his penchant for the term person draws away from the crux of his point for some. But to others it merely helps buttress his point.

some people try to spin what is black and call it white, and that is annoying to some people who are also very intelligent and feel their intelligence is being played upon, thus the resort to the derogotary term.

people who try and say yorubas are angry dont get it. I dont see why Yorubas should even care if not that they're forced to live with the ilk of people like Oduah. We quickly bring our erring politicians to order. We voted PDP out enmasse. Only one state in Yoruba land has a PDP government.

I voted for Buhari last election because I felt PDP was crap.

I WILL vote for Jonathan in 2015 if he gets power right and deals with corrupt nematodes like Oduah, Madueke etc.

But if he doesnt i will not dare pless umblella.

I dont care what tribe my president or minister is from. I just dont want them to be screwing me in the butt at the expense of my tax naira and our shared patrimony.

Johnpaul88: Once I found out that a poster arguing against & criticising gay, does in essence not live in Nigeria & that he lives in country where he/she enjoys in full effect what that liberal country brings, i shall no longer dignify him/her with a reply!

This is utter contradiction!

If you love the condition our country Nigeria is in, why then do you flee?

Oyibo land does indeed not wipe off the shameful gutter mentality of some black Africans! Some live & die with 'em not minding he's lived with the Oyibos!

cjrane: Yes! I have a very good job in an oil servicing company in PORT HARCOURT, NIGERIA!

Mind you, i visit Rosedale, Maryland and Raleigh, North Carolina both in the USA, at least twice every year for vacation.I will live in Nigeria any day than be a dish washer,trash picker and taxi driver like you. Just to live abroad! You are one of those Nigerians i see in airport uniforms sweeping around the airport each time i visit many countries. Yet, they will be forming "I live abroad!"

Have you been able to go to school in that god forsaken country you reside?Answer me! Look at your use of English ! "person" Even SS 2 students here in Nigeria write better English than you do. It may even be Goa,India that you call abroad! I saw how they used Okada as taxi in that place and the village roads they called "Highway" and i cried why Nigerians should live in such places just to "go abroad" Even Opobo town is more developed than Panaji or is it called panjim their state capital there! Yes, You cannot have my standard of living,so go back to your dish washing job!

By the way, have you paid your child support for that useless lady that gave you papers?

Most of you abroad should come home a do something better with your lives, than living as animals, illegal immigrants and criminals just to form that you live abroad.

Wilywily1: The problem with the Yorubas is that they are somehow Confused, they thought that Nigeria is going to be theirs, but there is a wind of Change blowing, the reason they became uneasy

[size=18pt]Why Oxford University Couldn't Survive Without Philanthropy[/size]

You shouldn’t need a first in maths from Oxford to figure out that your ancient, inadequately subsidised alma mater urgently requires the support of private donors — and that your money is as good as (almost) anyone’s, says Josh Spero

It started with the Led Zeppelin concert.’ Unlikelier sentences have been spoken, but probably not in Oxford.

Professor Nick Rawlins is sitting in his office overlooking Wellington Square talking about the recently announced £26 million gift to the university by Mica Ertegun, the widow of Ahmet Ertegun, Atlantic Records founder and promoter of the Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin and the Zep. The money will endow 35 scholarships for humanities graduates at a time when the sciences, seen as more practical or valuable, receive more philanthropic funding.

£1 million from the concert at the O2 was donated to Oxford by the band and ‘that got Mica Ertegun thinking she’d like to come to Oxford. She came to Oxford and she fell in love, not just with the buildings but with the people.’ It must be rare for donors to walk through the door. ‘There are several days when no multimillionaire comes to ask me if they can help,’ he laughs.

If the multimillionaires aren’t coming to Oxford, then Oxford has to go to them. With income which doesn’t nearly meet its expenditure on teaching and research, with capital funding decapitated, with medieval buildings and 21st-century challenges, philanthropy is not just desirable but also essential. Take undergraduate education: it costs £16,000 a year for a student in the tutorial system of one-on-two classes, but fees and government support only cover £8,000. The new fees of £9,000 barely replace the teaching grants removed, and Oxford and its colleges have pledged to expand their already generous student support programmes. There is a shortfall in the undergraduate current account of £77 million this year.

Not to be too gloomy, Oxford Thinking, the university’s major fundraising campaign, has reached £1.3 billion in eight years, £50 million over target. Still, ‘without philanthropy, we would be in truly dire straits,’ Professor Rawlins says.

Across the city, Sean Rainey, head of the development office at Magdalen College, takes a longer perspective but reaches the same conclusion: ‘Philanthropy is the reason we’re here. Everything about this college is the result of philanthropy. Everything we do from having students here, having fellows teaching, the buildings we sit in, is a direct result of philanthropy. Philanthropy is all-pervasive in this institution. It’s the reason it exists and without we would struggle to survive. That’s not wishing to be melodramatic — it’s the truth.’ Like many colleges, Magdalen was founded by benefaction, in its case the gift of William of Waynflete, bishop of Winchester, in 1458.

It has to be said that it’s hard to believe Magdalen could be in quite such danger as we sit in the State Room, where members of the Senior Common Room can retire for coffee. From our finely embroidered wingback armchairs, past walls hung with French tapestries, frames holding First World War medals and a vivid Sassoferrato Virgin, we can see Magdalen’s front quad and, beyond, the quiet quad I lived off for three years, with its kempt lawn and unruly gargoyles. The reason it’s all so pretty, Rainey says, is that to keep the college — heritage site that it is — in good repair costs £1.8 million each year, over a tenth of its expenditure. It faces making losses over the next few years without a greater endowment (already one of Oxford’s biggest).

Perception is a problem, says Kirsty MacDonald, head of the development office at Wadham College. While wealthy alumni tend to be well-disposed to their old universities, ‘the downside to being Oxford or Cambridge is that people think you’ve got lots of money and the reality is that most colleges don’t.’ Wadham’s endowment provides a quarter of its turnover every year. ‘We wouldn’t survive without it,’ adds MacDonald.

cheriphyom: Mehn, ilorin,,,Poverty for naija,,naija dey kill creativity, even though you are creative, how will you finance yourself. Pele , God dey.

cjrane: It does not make sense to engage a complete lunatic and a low life. Just ignore the mad man and pity his frustration with everyone insisting he must speak English.It would have been better for him to type in yoruba,but he knows you won't waste your time reading anything in a substandard language.
So, he will still come back and type fvcktard! That is the limit of his English and expression.

[size=18pt]Moody’s: Elite universities dominate philanthropic fundraising[/size]

Elite UK universities receive a greater share of philanthropic donations than their peers in the US, a new report has revealed.

The report, from credit rating agency Moody’s, found that the result was likely to be an “increasing disparity of wealth”, as donations are focused on the top-ranked institutions.

The study – ‘UK universities increasingly tapping fundraising’ – found that, in 2012, the universities of Oxford and Cambridge received around 45% of all UK universities’ philanthropic income.

By contrast, Harvard and Stanford – the two most successful fundraisers in the US private university sector – received just 15% of donations to that sector. Meanwhile, the universities of California and Texas topped the public sector league table, receiving 18% of donations.

The report also found that, since 2005, philanthropic income has grown much faster in the UK than in the US, although this is from a much lower base.

In 2012, UK universities grew gift revenue to a record £774 million, up from £676 million in 2011.

Moody’s analyst Pranav Sharma said: “Universities with less private support and smaller endowments will be challenged to keep pace with their wealthier counterparts.”

He added the donations will become an “even more critical component of funding” for universities’ financial aid, academic programmes, research efforts and capital projects.

kandiikane: I am actually the first person who has the rights to do so. Senile person, no I see you are still tongue phucking the asses of your white masters in peckham.

kandiikane: Dont tell me you are against homosexuality.

Sagafuckface, long time, i see you are still spewing nonsense on homosexual threads. Just come out of the bloody closet already.

lynk106: yeah. He strikes me as a self-hating closet homosexual.

Subom1: Gbam, thank you! That was such a stupid comment. I weep for some people!

usmsam: You see what I talk about. You bash people left right and centre with your evil hearts. When people are not used to a something or people, they condemn or even kill, because they don't understand. When white people discovered Africa, they condemned us as monkeys/barbarians before they turned some of us to their slaves. They justified slavery using the old testament and did as they liked. Gay people remind me of those days. You don't need to be in support of homosexualism but you need to have a heart. Even if these people chose to be gay, how does that affect you? Nigeria has way too much going on to be obsessed with this tiny thing. If we get rid of all the gays in Nigeria, will it still stop the fact that Nigeria is a hellhole with no leadership or direction in the future? All of you need to get your priorities right and leave these people alone.
My $0.02

nejifresh: @Sagamite

You are a BLOOODDY fool.. Bye

sCun: It is ''supposed''.
Product of a failed education system.

ladionline: ^^CREATE A FORUM FOR KIND, THEN EXTEND THE GAYVANGELISM GOODWILL TO OTHER INORDINATE DESIRES THAT MAY COME TO WIN WESTERN SYMPATHY IN THE FUTURE. SO YOU CAN BECOME GAYPHET. NIGERIANS DON'T LOVE? YOU SOUNDLIKE A VICTIM OF HATE ON THE LOSE, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? CAN YOU REPENT OF ETHICAL SACRILEDGE? WHAT IS THE WORD FOR GAY IN ANY NIGERIAN LANGUAGE? IF YOU ARE FREE FROM 'MENTAL SLAVERY', WHY NOT PUSH POLYGAMY FROM NIGERIA TO THE WEST? START THE LOVE THIS WAY.

sCun: so who owns the land right now?

usmsam: My comments as the OP of this thread may seem homophobic, but I am quite the opposite. I have no opinion of gay people because I don't think it is any of my business what 2 people do on their own free time. I would really like this new law to succeed because I hate the way homophobia has spread throughout our society that it is even applauded. Many Nigerians do not love with their hearts and they call themselves Christians or Muslims. We spread hate much more than love or joy which is not what the teachings of God said. Ever wonder why we won't progress as people? It is because we do not love our country people like we are all a big family. That is why a politician will gain an official post and only think about embezzling money for his family but not think about the millions of people his action will affect just because he was selfish.
We need to curb this attitude of hate and spread peace and love. I would like to extend my hand to gay people in Nigeria and say that I hope for joy and happiness in your lives.

sCun: Can you stop mentioning my name please? Thank you

chineloSA: See this airhead called Sagamite. Did I reject to learn?? All I said is you should stop insulting people because we have different experiences and different financial institution from different countries. I then said please state your point without insults

You are an ignorant airhead that thinks things work similar in different countries. I dont even have the energy to engage with you. You have shown some hooliganism traits. My mama told me not to engage with your kind.

Go sleep jaaare

chineloSA: Yabaleft wowo

See you are still rude and arrogant. If you know as you claim " Mr Chief Economist - SLGA ,educate us.

I wont stoop to your level. I am sure while you were studying your Kitchen Economics there was a module called Rude - RUDE300, you are so good in being rude more than anything.

chineloSA: Abeg, all those Mr Knowitall, please stop insulting us if we differ in opinion to you. If you are some Chief Economist in your village, its good for you.

But all we said here is through experience and also different financial systems surrounding us in respective locations.

So please, respect everyones opinion and experience and tell us about your experience and stop insulting trying to prove you are financially astute

kodewrita: Subject above refers.

Which is more financially intelligent of the two? which would you rather do and under what circumstances?