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Hello chikenhen,

Welcome to Nairaland! We have lots of friendly members, and we're here to educate, entertain and assist each other in various ways. Thanks for choosing to become one of us!

Seun.

Yes, aloib, you look ibo. And, trust me, someone saying you look Ibo is a badge of honour!

Freecycle Lagos Group is at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreecycleLagos

You can join the group by simply subscibing to their mailing list. I wonder if Nigerians are generous enough to give away their stuff in exchange for nothing!

Hello aloibi,

You're looking cool. And you know what? You look 1005 Nigerian (you look Ibo - does this means that Ibos and Phillipinos are genetically related? )

Being the only black in your school is ok; the Phillipinos are as good as Nigerians (if not waaay better!) We used to have a white phillipino lady here but she decided to leave for personal reasons .

Welcome to Nairaland!

Seun.

Why does the blind man need sunglasses? Maybe because he wants to look attractive in public. Ok, the blind man can simply s***** (i.e. t*** to the shopkeeper. Nice one!

Nferyn, thanks for answering my question. The law is "legalistic" by nature - an ambigous law is not useful in practice.

Anyway, my view on abortion has changed in the course of our discussion: I now believe that, when a woman no longer wants to carry a baby, she can abort it - the doctor can induce something like a miscarriage. After the baby comes out, then the doctor must try to save the life of the baby using all medical means possible.

If the baby doesn't survive, that is a successful abortion. This way, nobody has actually killed the baby - it only failed to survive.

If the baby survives, then the abortion has failed and the child must be taken care of by the mother or given up for abortion.

I used to think that abortion was ok, but now I don't support it. Instead of legalizing abortion, the state should provide better support for those who mistakenly get pregnant so they'll not want to abort the baby anymore. At this point, I think I really detest abortion because a life is a life. If the baby has the capacity to survive, why not let him/her survive?

It's funny how the statement I made up there could be easily misinterpreted.

Young ladies, we love you () but you should get over the idea that just talking to you is a special privilege.

Goodguy, I'm on your side. It's funny how young women are full of an unjustified sense of self-importance (i.e. crap) until they get married.

Yes, drbigdaddyg, it's a normal passport.

Errorneously sent to my box by olasobande@yahoo.com:
"Religious inclinations is a strong reason for taking a stand against the view.Back in the days when our grandmumies were in there teens,from my part of the country it is IMMORAL to be TASTED beore the wedding nite. The girl de- flowered brings shame to the family. Then this,after playing God, what if the pregnancy is the only one the lad would have and alas after saying I DO.... an accident happens before the 9th month. Think about this!"

They cut your clitoris. This makes sex very painful for some, while and the 'lucky' ones will only be unable to experience orgasm. It is a wicked act perpetrated by wicked and stupid people.

Imagine the damage that will be done to a marriage in which the woman can't enjoy sex with her husband because of something her parents did to her. Or a situation where the act of sex is very painful. Female circumsition if like cutting off the tip of a man's penis because you don't want him to enjox sex. The clitoris is the female equivalent of a man's penis.

Ok, I think I have made my point. Female circumsition is evil and any parent who circumsizes a child in the year 2005 deserves to be imprisoned.

In late April, scores of giant billboards and thousands of wall posters all over Lagos proclaimed the first of three days of divine miracles and healing for at least six million Nigerians - but at the end of the third day, there was more bickering over money than praise to God for mercy received.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4619733.stm (" Pastor Hinn in Nigerian money row"

Should the offence of deliberately aborting a pregnancy old enough for the feotus to be regarded as a person (25 weeks) be regarded as 1st degree murder and prosecuted the same way? With life imprisonment or execution? Can you give a reason for your answer?

I'm yet to go to Togo, not to talk of London. I hear that there's nothing spectacular about the city, that it's just like Lagos. And the houses you can get are very small, too, right?

Imagine someone using one strip of adhesive tape to cover herself underneath. That's almost equivalent to a thong, right?

Don't worry about it. THe name is good enough. Now let's see what kind of site you're going to build!

Well, some people are going to by typing "rufai.com" instead of "rufaai.com" but that can be managed, I guess.

My opinion:
- You are obssessed with the girl (this is only good if reciprocated).
- She doesn't care about you (but she's using you as a backup).

My advice:
- Get over her and make deep friendships with new girls.
- Get over her, forget about her, cut her off.

But before that, lets plan a 2 week toasting marathon with full coaching by Nairaland members. If the toasting doesn't work.

At that point in time the value of the life of the fetus should be weight against the consequences of continuing the pregnancy, e.g. not aborting would cause great harm to the health of the woman or the fetus is severly handicapped and would not have a life of value. Here one should abort only if the consequences of continuing the pregnancy would be worse than aborting

You know as well as I do that most abortions are carried out by young women who are not ready to manage the consequences of unexpected pregnancy, and this is the case I wished we would deal with first. I'm trying to simplify the debate to make it manageable, so we can draw useful conclusions instead of going around in circles.

Let's say we have an 18 year old female student, who got pregnant after having sex with her regular boyfriend. She's not ready to drop out of school to take care of her child, and her family members are not interested in any scandal. They do not want the child, and so abortion is being considered. The foetus is 26 weeks old, and so it's a person. Her health is not at risk, and the child to be born is going to be perfectly healthy.

In this case, is it right to kill this 26 week old 'person' simply because we don't feel like spending the resources that would be required to take care of him? This seems to be equivalent to the question of whether it's right for a mother to kill her new-born baby because she can't afford to keep him, right?

Hehe. And by the way, how do these thongs and so on feel on the body?

Can I say that nferyn's point of view is that:
- A fetus becomes a person when neural activity can be detected, at about 25 weeks.
- Legislation should allow women the liberty up to some time before the date at which we would reasonably expect the abortable 'thing' to become a 'person', maybe 24 weeks.

So if a woman aborts her baby at 26 weeks, it follows that she has murdered a person. Do we sentence her to death or life imprisonment for murder in the first degree?

You beat me to it! Cool goal, and I had only been wathching the match for 30 seconds or so when he scored!!

Scoreboard, for those who don't have access to Nigerian Television:
http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/t/sc/index.html

Hello,

Let's follow the Nigeria versus ZImbabwe match here. Some say it's 3pm while others say 4pm, but let's report the events live via this thread. If you've not read Chxta's I am 95% Sure That We'll Qualify post, why not read it now and join us here?

Nigeria vs. Zimbabwe: What Are Your Match Predictions?

Seun

Let's face it: unless you're married to your girl you can't expect 100% faithfulness from him or her. She can be expected to meet other men and perhaps fall in love with them and go further to acts of affection.

If you want all her to yourself, go and marry her! Where there is no ring, there is no bondage. Same applies to men.

Congratulations on the new name, though it's not as catchy as Clueboy and more prone to misspelling. Did you read Choosing a Domain Name? Factors to Consider?

What question are you really asking?