₦airaland Forum

ALmost spoilt by another episode of a recurring confrontation with someone at home.

Hello there,

Out of the 3345 current members of this forum, only 853 of us (about 25%) have posted at least one message. I feel that the forum will be a more interesting place if more of us would try to post our own replies or new topics.

For those who have never posted, I want to ask "how come?"

Seun.

Welcome to Nairaland, the web home of all Nigerians and friends of Nigeria all over the world and from other planets in the Galaxy!

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And why can't you guess what he's thinking?

If you've been following the news, the EFCC has admitted to having a hand in this arrest. They could not prosecute him here because of his immunity from prosecution as a Governor, so they decided to hand him over to the Britons. The Nigerian government has not asked for him to be handed over because, as a Governor, they can't prosecute him here.

Happy birthday to you,
happy birthday to you,
happy birthday to you queen2
happy birthday to you!

hot-angel, how exactly do you know that nothing is coming to your area?

hot-angel, you're in Texas? You need to move away from the area today! Please, convince your dad and mom as soon as possible.

I agree with Vexxy, I think it would be really irresponsibile for those who have the opportunity or means to leave not to do so. Not after reading about the damage done by Hurricane Katrina!

Have they left the area? If they are the type of people that'll say "no, this is my home-town and I'm staying", I think the best thing you can do for them is to convince them to leave now!

"More than[b] one million people have begun to evacuate[/b] the Gulf Coast of the United States ahead of Hurricane Rita. The storm, which has been upgraded to Category Five, is heading towards Texas with winds of 165mph (265km/h).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4269994.stm

Nairaland members in the path of the storm should let us know so we can pray for them and check up on them after the storm. I'm hoping for the best possible outcome, but I guess the lessons learnt from the Katrina tragedy will make this new one less deadly.

I'll use it to buy women's wears in bulk and then sell them later for a healthy profit.

If your aim is social change, to encourage people to use bicycles more for the their health and the environment, then maybe you can set up an [b]NGO [/b]which can lobby the government for favorable policies, and publish advertorials in the media urging people to go for bicycles.

Then this NGO can sit to decide if it's necessary to promote the setting up of bicycle factories in Nigreria!

https://www.nairaland.com/img/dokubo.jpg
Comprehensive BBC Profile of Asari Dokubo

"Asari is a burly man of 5 feet 10 inches (1.78m). He is soft-spoken and an easy-going person who is passionate about his convictions, especially, on matters he views as injustice. He is given to fits of anger.

"In 1992, Asari attempted to get elected into the Rivers State House of Assembly but failed. In 1998, he sought to be elected as the chairman of Asari-Toru local government area but lost again.

"Asari was a founding member of the Ijaw Youths Council, IYC, becoming its first vice-president in 1998. In November 1998, the IYC issued the "Kiama Declaration", demanding control of the oil resources from the Niger Delta by the people of the Niger Delta.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3713664.stm

"The dominant image of Asari Dokubo, the Niger delta insurgent leader, that is gradually emerging in the media in Europe and the United States is of a frivolous and self-serving young man. It is mentioned, suggestively, that he drives a luxury four-wheel drive, that he has retainers at his beck and call, and that his home in Port Harcourt is a palatial mansion.

http://okrasoup.typepad.com/black_looks/2005/01/asari_dokubo_in.html

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- A militia with a history of violence in Nigeria's oil-rich south threatened to blow up oil installations if the government did not release its leader, after he was reportedly arrested Tuesday.

Dozens of soldiers and police arrested Moujahid Dokubo-Asari, the main militia leader in Nigeria's south, at his office in the oil city of Port Harcourt, said his lawyer Uche Okwukwu.

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/09/20/nigeria.militia.ap/

Rivers State Police Command yesterday arrested one of the leaders of the Ijaw youths movement and Chairman of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteers Force (NDVF), Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo over alleged threats to blow up oil installations in the Niger Delta area.

His arrest has been greeted with protests in Port Hacourt yesterday by Ijaw militant youths. The youths had earlier yesterday given the Federal Government 72-hours ultimatum to release Dokubo failing which they would start attacking from today, foreign oil workers found in the swamp and creeks of the Niger Delta.

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=28832

Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, was arrested on Tuesday in Port Harcourt and flown to Abuja for questioning by security operatives.

Police sources disclosed that Dokubo is being held in Abuja “in connection with his threats to blow up pipelines”.

http://www.independentng.com/news/nnsep210501.htm

I have always been concerned by the way this man has been saying he wants to break up Nigeria, and now he is under arrest, and his people are threatening to instigate more of what they know best - violence and terror in the Niger Delta region.  The violent showdown we can expect in the next few days was bound to happen sometime, and I hope the authorities have planned this well.

What's your take on this?

Well a car can't achieve that, but if you give me a remote controllable fighter jet I'll be very happy .

What would you do if you ere denied Internet Access for a month.

until I looked up and saw the waiter coming at us, with a broad smile on his face

Well, we have some upcoming Nairaland initiatives in this area. Watch out!

What about all the other celebrities that routinely perform these operations? MJ's case doesn't prove anything but that maybe he had an incompetent plastic surgeon.

Layi heard about the new 6-9-3 system on radio and provided a link to the National Tribune which also says it's 6-9-3: "pre-basic 6 years, Basic — 9 years and Post-Basic — 3 years". Kodewrita, are you sure your source more reliable than a National Newspaper?

would likely be of higher quality and cheaper

No, it cannot be of higher quality and cheaper at the same time, unless you are using better technology than the foreign manufacturers, or you're manufacturing in much greater quantities. And I saw lots of shiny new bicycles at Agege area in Lagos at one time when I was thinking of getting one, but what stopped me is that I couldn't really see myself using it very often! So really I don't see the market!

"The Federal Government has scrapped primary and secondary schools nationwide from the next academic session to give way for the new 6-9-3 Universal Basic Education (UBE), which would kick off nationwide in September next year." (layi's source, the Nigerian Tribune)

Are they crazy?

Congratulations, ajuma, on your 16th brthday!

What's sick about it? At least he's being honest! Doesn't that count?

How do you expect a man that has been sleeping with whomever he likes, whenever he likes (before marriage) to suddenly become a one woman man after marriage? Is that really a reasonable expectation? I don't understand how people can condone premarital sex but frown against extra-marital affairs or this seemingly clever idea of open marriage!

This is big news, Layi, and we need the following information, in detail please:
- How exactly did you learn about this? Tell us everything!
- What does each stage of the 6-9-3 system represent? How will it work?

This is really big news for education in Nigeria, and we seem to have beaten the Newspapers to it.

Will Smith says he has 'open' marriage with Jada Pinkett Smith

U.S. actor Will Smith says he and his wife have an agreement that they can have sex with others provided they inform each other first.

"Our perspective is, you don't avoid what's natural," Smith told Britain's Daily Mail. "You're going to be attracted to people. In our marriage vows, we didn't say "forsaking all others. The vow that we made was that you will never hear that I did something after the fact."

"If it came down to it, then one can say to the other, 'Look, I need to have sex with somebody. I'm not going to if you don't approve of it -- but please approve of it.'"

Smith said he was forced to admit he had sexual feelings for other women when working on his film "Hitch," in which he stars with Eva Mendes, whom he described as "freakin' gorgeous."

Despite that attraction, Smith says his second marriage is still solid.

http://www.realitytvworld.com/index/articles/story.php?s=1001905

Open marriage is when a wife tells her husband,
"Look, I know that you have trouble keeping little junior to yourself whenever I am not around and you see these young things in skirt. And I'm not a saint myself; I would like to see what other men have to offer in bed. So why don't we go ahead and have sex with other people? As long as you don't impregnate another lady it's ok with me, and I myself will make sure get pregnant by another man!"

From the wikipedia, "An open marriage is a marriage where both parties agree that they are permitted the right to have sexual relationships outside the marriage, without regarding this as sexual infidelity."

In this day and age when sex is everywhere, people are finding it difficult to stick to their marital vows; when it seems that 'old fashioned' values about sex being restricted to marriage only are no longer realistic, would you consider an open marriage? (At least, in an open marriage, you would know when your spouse is sleeping with someone else and be able to protect yourself.)

Do you know that Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith (his wife) have an open marriage?
(and maybe that is why they are not divorced after all this time?)

World Bank rates Nigeria second poorest nation

Yet another World Bank report has put Nigeria at the top of the world's poorest nations. The new publication released at the ongoing United Nations summit offers new estimates of total wealth including produced capital, natural resources and the value of human skills and capabilities, which show that many of the poorest countries in the world are not on a sustainable path. It cites Nigeria as an example of resource-dependent nation, which could have produced capital five times higher than it did in 2000, if only it had made a moderate effort to save.

The document: "Where is the Wealth of Nations? Measuring Capital for the 21st Century" launched by the World Bank listed the top-10 richest countries and top-10 poorest countries Sub-Saharan Africa dominates the latter, with Nigeria standing on the ninth position before Ethiopia, which has the lowest level of total wealth. Switzerland heads a list in which the top-10 performers are all Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. European countries-of which two are Scandinavian-dominate the list and non-European economies are the United States and Japan. Madagascar, Chad, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Nepal, Niger, Congo Republic, and Burundi are ahead of Nigeria in ranking. Their wealth per capital varies from $5,020 to $2, 859 while natural capital stood between 265 per cent and 42 per cent. The produced capital of the countries was put between 180 per cent and 6 per cent, and intangible capital 64 per cent and 39 per cent. Figures for Nigeria's wealth per capital are $2,748, natural capital 147 per cent, produced capital 24 percent and intangible capital is minus 71.

You need to think with the mind of a mean woman to understand the joke .

On the box, it said "3 to 5 years" is the key. Or are you blonde, hot-angel?

But we have so many brands of imported bicycles in Nigeria, but they are used by only a small group of people - hunters, ice cream vendors, kids on holidays, people in rural areas.

What's the advantage of having bicycles that are made in Nigeria? Doesn't this seem like a solution in need of a problem, seeing that there's no scarcity of bicycles nor are people complaining that the currently available ones are too expensive?