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How about hyenas and baboons?

First I said Styl-plus, then i said 2Face. Ridiculous!

I'm really glad you've made yourself a part of us. Hopefully, this will encourage more mature, business-minded people to join the forum so the demographic composition of the forum will be more true to life.

Just 4 wives? I was thinking about something like 12!

Anyway, I'll be away for a while, so you might not see many forum updates or new editors' picks on the home page for the night.

Well, there saw a thread for the business peoploe recently.

7500 students within 10 yeard. There will be many new universities in the country by then!

Don't you want to listen to what others have to say?

That is why it should be handled by doctors, law enforcement officers, trauma counselors lawyers, and judges.

Not a forum like this where people just want to interact with others and have fun!

So how many of these people are planning to come back to Nigeria to impart their ideas? And what is to suggest that Nigerians at home will be willing to conform to these imported ideas? And how do we decide which part of what you're bringing to Nigeria will move us forward and what part of it is actually just western cultural baggage?

As an african man, I think I'm ready to take on every interested lady!

By the way, this has been the most visited topic on the Nairaland Forum for two days straight.

The voting system probably just wasn't accurate enough. Well the second girl, whose pic I posted, is my own personal Face of Eva.

Being a man, I really don't care one bit about the guy. It's the girl I'm concerned about ...

It is not so; in fact I have no further interest in this topic. This is something for law enforcement agents and trained trauma counselors to deal with.

Fox, all I want you to know before you post the picture is that these girls come with a high bride price, which must be paid directly to my account!

This is called a hyperbole, but I have no problem with you believing that it's actually true!

But friends always offend each other; it's what friends do!

A weblog (usually shortened to blog, but occasionally spelled web log) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally in reverse chronological order). Says the Wikipedia.

Examples of regularly updated weblogs owned by Nairaland members:
- Grandiose Parlor by Imnakoya
- Kazey Journal by Kazey.
- Phonerism by diakim.
- AntiNormal by shockreaction.

The compound question I want to throw to the bloggers in the house is this:
- What motivated you to start your blog?
- And what's your primary reason forcontinually updating your blog?

Your response might just motivate others to start their own blogs or update them more frequently!

Can you see why it's hard to find women to put in positions of leadership? All the talk about her achievements and all the ladies can think of is that "she needs a make-over"

What happens when you eventually offend each other? Girls and their friendships, I don't know ...

I will ask if you've turned 18.

What would you do if I logged you out right now to force you to go to sleep?

I will say "go to sleep, little princess, and daddy will sing for you tommorrow morning"

What would you do if I told you that after trying my best to save offtopic posts by creating new threads out of them, I discovered that the "bootylicious" conversation in the Marilyn Nwene thread will just have to be deleted?

I'd tell you not to take your crush - based on outward appearances - too seriously. Crushes come and go like the weather.

What would you do if I started deleting all off-topic posts on the forum?

Behavioral Science? You mean, like Psychology?

So you could, like, you tell us what makes Nigerian girls want to get disvirgined the minute they see their first period?

I don't think they are ready to roll it out to the general public. The GPRS service they have now is being sold to corporate bodies as an alternative means of getting Internet Acess. Pretty unimaginative, I must say.

Nkechi hasn't even responded to my email announcing that she's a winner in this competition. Too bad her domain name has already been registered for her.

I'd like to see her do well in her current role, then go back to the US where she can spend her money (I hear she's paid in dollars; a lot of dollars!) in peace. Politics in Nigeria is just too much of a dangerous game for my liking.

In her current role she's was handpicked; she didn't have to go against any desperate, potentially dangerous, opponents. Going for governor, VP, things like that are a bit different. Besides, the women of Nigeria, due to jealousy, will refuse to vote for her .

Pintos wins shortest profile of the century award.

Very funny.

LAGOS, 8 Aug 2005 (IRIN) - When Nigeria conducts a long-overdue national census in November, no data will be collected showing the religious or ethnic origins of its citizens.

Africa’s most populous country of more than 126 million people, split between a mainly Muslim north and largely Christian south, is frequently plagued by ethnic and religious upheavals.

The authorities fear that highlighting those divisions in a national headcount will only inflame tensions.

A meeting of the advisory National Council of State, comprising the country’s 36 state governors and former heads of state, called by President Olusegun Obasanjo in January, had advised against considering religion and ethnicity in the census.

"After exhaustive discussion, it was resolved that, as it was not on the questionnaire for the 1991 census, the issue of ethnicity and religion would also not feature on the questionnaire for the 2005 national census," the body said in a statement after the meeting.

The advice was accepted by the government; the head of the National Population Commission, Samaila Makama, subsequently justified the decision as a way of avoiding the political acrimony that has surrounded all earlier attempts at a detailed population breakdown.

"Since each religious and ethnic group would prefer numerical superiority over the other, it might be safer to ignore religion and ethnicity since there would be the temptation by each group to explore ways to have an edge over the other," said Makama.

However, rival religious and ethnic interest groups appear united in their demand that religion, and ethnicity, should be considered.

Both Christian and Muslim groups have threatened to boycott the census – a potentially massive blow to its credibility - if the government does not review its position.

Peter Akinola, president of the Christian Association (CAN) of Nigeria and leader of the Anglican Church announced in June that his members had been directed to shun the census if religion and ethnicity were not on the questionnaire.

"Any national census which falls short of that is not worth its salt and will not be accepted," said Akinola. CAN groups the major Christian denominations, including the fast-growing Pentecostal churches.

Similar threats have also come from the Conference of Islamic Organisations (CIO) - made up of 27 Islamic associations – which accuses Obasanjo, a southern Christian, of running an anti-Muslim government.

The group has said it will boycott the census if it was not designed to "reflect all necessary data concerning Nigerians, including ethnicity and religious inclinations, in order to dispel suspicion and provide accurate information."

Nigeria has had a difficult history of conducting population counts. The first census conducted by British colonial rulers in 1952-53, and used to determine political constituencies and the allocation of resources, found the north had the largest share of the population.

A subsequent count in 1962 was plagued by widespread inflation of figures leading to the cancellation of the result. Another census held a year later was accepted after bitter wrangling and allegations of manipulation, the fallout of which contributed to the political crises that resulted in the 1967-70 civil war.

Yet another attempt in 1973 was cancelled amid claims and counter-claims again of manipulation of the figures by the regions seeking political advantage.

Under military ruler Gen Ibrahim Babangida, who organised the 1991 census – the last successful exercise - the decision was first taken to remove religion and ethnicity from the categories to be counted.

That year’s census produced a population figure of 86.5 million, estimated to have since exceeded 126 million at an annual growth rate of more than three percent.

After winning a second four-year term in 2003, Obasanjo now feels confident enough to take on the census challenge.

But his six years in power has seen regular outbursts of ethnic, religious and communal violence in which thousands have died. The adoption of the strict Islamic legal code or Shari’ah by more than a dozen states in the north has upset neighbouring Christian communities, intermittently triggering sectarian bloodletting.

In the oil-rich southern Niger Delta, years of unrest over pollution and the lack of development spending has overtime translated into a political demand by ethnic militants for more local control over oil resources. In the parts of southeast Nigeria dominated by ethnic Igbos, calls for a repeat of the attempted secession that resulted in civil war are gaining acceptance.

In the north, political leaders including serving state governors are insisting that population and land mass will continue to be used as the basis for allocation of federal revenue, while at the same time insisting that religion and ethnicity should not be counted.

Speaking after a meeting of northern governors last year, Kaduna State Governor Ahmed Makarfi said states in the region would boycott the census if the two issues were included in the questionnaire.

But political leaders from the country’s mainly Christian centre and southeast, after a meeting last week in the capital, Abuja, issued a statement advising the National Population Commission to include religion and ethnicity among the issues required in the census.

"We believe that these would assist, in no small measure, in implementing any meaningful national development plan," said the statement, also signed by state governors from the two regions.

Political analysts believe the strong feelings being expressed on the coming census leaves Obasanjo with a delicate job - with potentially explosive consequences.

"All these pulling-at-the-seams of the nation by rival groups could combine with the census issue and create a combustible mix for Nigeria," analyst Ike Onyekwere told IRIN.

"In the end it is for Obasanjo to decide if he wants a proper census or one that is politically expedient," Onyekwere added.

NIGERIA: Planned census facing boycott threats, a UN Report