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Marrying her would have solved all this issues. You wouldn't need to publicize your affairs on forums plus, what makes you think everyone else don't have their own issues? There are no perfect matches in relationships only those who can be adults about it and those who can't.

Krucifax: The first answer to this is that in all three cases, there was terrible loss of innocent life. However do not try to condemn JTF with an underhanded dig in your write. The Baga siege,is more significant because Baga was a community which harbored a terrorist group that held the whole nation to ransom.

I do not in any fashion support the killing of women and children(that was a national disgrace)however you must also apportion blame proportionately. The JTF team got to Baga in the wee hours of the day,surrounded the village and asked any Boko Haram affiliates to surrender themselves. How did they respond to JTF? With AK47s and RPGs(Rocket Propelled Grenades)! What did you expect JTF to do? Respond with bad language or ask them to calm down??

They opened fire on a Nigerian military force and JTF simply returned the favour. The collateral damage is however regretable but it was unavoidable. So in summary i have no criticism of JTF under the circumstances,they did what they had to do!! Fact.

What words will convey the hate in my heart as I'm forced to reply this?... Do you live in Borno? Have u ever been to Baga? Have you any idea what life is or has been for us these past 3 years? You spew your ignorant bull shit from a dark corner of your miserable world while the plain reality of another's pain makeS no sense to you. How did baga harbour terrorists? Were u there? The mothers,fathers,children...which of them dId you know? Wretched Naira lander you too will die while peope cheer...you too will bleed while people gloat....u too will cry while people laugh...then will you feel what I feel replying you

This is a damn lie. I live in maiduguri and such a flagrant lie is repulsive even to christians. If boko haram were targetting churches I tell you than not one would be standing in maiduguri. Ever wondered why you never hear of sunday bombing iin maiduguri but you hear JTF hilux vans being blown up almost daily? Churches are not their targets cos if they were no sunday will pass without some sad news following it. Situations is bad,yes but we don't need lies to make a point. Peace

Fatdon: Na wa o! :-just finished reading one of his books. EAT THAT FROG.

Eat that frog was by brian tracy. Guess u read it upside down

drnoel: U guys need to get the picture here. Its 20 students of UNIMAID that were slaughtered by these mad men. Look to make it clearer 20 students that are not from Borno or Maiduguri. They killed other people's daughters and sisters.

Guy,read up 'signature comment' and accept ur ignorance. Which UNIMAID are u talking about? Are there only 20 student that wear minis? No be by force to comment,oga so I advise u watch a grasshoper sleep or STFU

Its a damn lie jor. 20? Where? Which street? Which house? What name? Vanguard get ur act right abeg. Hyperboles and exaggerations. I live in Maiduguri,...nothing like that happenned. Sides,who wears 'miniskirts' in their houses @ 1am? In a town where even a ghost doesn't roam outdoors beyond 8:30pm?

Ramcie: Also, men should plzzzzzz avoid putting on NET SINGLET. It's kinda ugly and weird. Electronic traders are fond of this.

lol...love this post...ROFL..spot on,spot on

[quote author=st-kris]There is no such thing as 'too much freedom'
Freedom should be an unlimited right, provided it does not impede on the freedom and rights of others.[/quote]Complete paradoxical nonsense. How can u in one breathe say 'unlimited right' and then say 'as long as it doesn't infringe the rights of others'? There is such a thing as too much freedom. Try parenting and find out

a1solution: Though i am yet to believe this news. If this news is true I wud advise FG to arrest the pple mention by this sect immediatly, because for Boko Boys to trust them, signifies they are their sponsor. Thats my opinion

The way people talk out their a$$ amazes me. Even a child knows in every negotiation(hostage,terrorist, )the government sends in someone that the bad guys would be more likely to talk to. That doesn't mean the mediator is on the bad guy's side. These guys(evil as they are) have saved us the trouble of finding mediators and have listed them for us(by the way all of them are well known people to sane,balanced unbiased nigerians. With no links with the sect what so ever). That means on the nigerian side,we have Dr. Ali Monguno,buhari.... And the boko side we have sheikh so so so....
The Negotiations can be televised,the government will have a say thru the above mentioned elders. I think this is a step forward if pursued sincerely. And before you post any daft rebuttals,I live in Maiduguri, and the person with the tight shoe knows precisely where (and how) it pinches.

Cheers

SimonAndal: Killing the guy doesn't bring the girl back. An eye for an eye makes the world blind!

Killing him is to serve as a deterrant to others not to bring her back. Or put in crude language, wait till your mother(or any loved one) is killed before chanting '....makes the whole world blind'

@tigerratore u rock. Help a brother out,ma pin is 23728328

eyoniggar: Itachi is already manipulating Kabuto to show him the seals on how to undo the Edo Tensei, I think in the next episode, if Kabuto reveals the secret, Edo Tensei will be stopped, if not, the 5 kages will die, Oonoki is already out of Chakra, Mei, Gaara, all seriously whooped,Raikage almost crushed by susano,only for onok to save him,they really dont have much tricks left to defeat Madara at this moment.

One thing is certain,Uchiha Itachi is the greatest doujitsu user ever. Insanely intelligent and devastatingly efficient

SageNaruto: who is ur favorite Naruto character?

The Ultimate Ninja, Uchiha Itachi

[quote author=Sisi_Kill]More stable? I don't know about that.

For #1. . .hmmm, this is a very tough one. The simple answer is because America is GEOGRAPHICALLY LARGER thus has more people than England but that's too obvious naa, so I think I will say because the queen shares her wealth with her subjects.

For #2 - I am not sure this is right oh. Can we see some evidence of England's vibrancy? (The Queen's shiny crown does not count)

For # 3. . . Here's your answer

Will we ever have a black prime minister?
There’s no educated ethnic middle class in this country to counter the black 'street’ stereotype, writes Lindsay Johns.

On Any Questions recently, Chuka Umunna, the Labour MP for Streatham – black, mixed-race – was introduced as “the black British Obama”. If only… Much as I like the guy, and think he’s doing a good job in his – and my – constituency, it was a spurious comparison.

Obama is a Harvard-educated, intellectual heavyweight with formidable oratorical prowess, drawn from an educated black American middle class. That middle class dates back decades, forged in the civil rights era and buttressed by the black church. Umunna, the New Labour poster boy and scourge of the bankers, is an anomaly; there is no equivalent pool of black middle class to draw from in this country. We are incapable of producing a British Obama at the moment. Black Britain’s middle class is, at worst, in real terms, non-existent, and, at best, nascent. If it exists at all, it is in its infancy.

Just take a look around. Black people figure prominently on billboards and on our TV screens when it comes to less celebral worlds, like sport and music. But where are the doctors, intellectuals and engineers? On TV – usually a fairly good social barometer –when was the last time you saw a black middle-class couple advertise a product? Do white racist advertisers not want to feature black people for fear of alienating white consumers? Or does this glaring lack of diversity just hold a mirror up to the lack of black, middle-class consumers?

The chronic dearth of educated, black, middle-class professionals in this country explains the mess we are in today. If there were a sizeable black middle class, perhaps there’d also be less racism – like that displayed by the celebrity hairdresser James Brown, whose recent vitriolic, N-word peppered tirade at black TV presenter Ben Douglas at the Baftas showed the worst sort of bigotry in Britain today.

On the British arts scene, depictions of black, middle-class realities are practically non-existent. Most worrying is the exponential increase, over the last 10 years, of black British theatre, now almost exclusively “the theatre of the ghetto”. “Street” patois, histrionic hip-hop hand gestures and plots revolving around the tedious staples of council estates, guns and drugs are the norm. And when was the last time you saw more than three black people in the audience at a non-black play at the National Theatre?

When it comes to film, Noel Clarke’s successful Kidulthood and Adulthood focused exclusively on the pathologies of the “You get me, blood?” ghetto underclass. Likewise, radio. When the new BBC radio station 1 Xtra was set up a few years ago, the thinly veiled rationale was to placate the black demographic with “urban” pirate radio-style “street” music. In short, give them what we think they want.

But hang on a minute. Where was the black Radio 4 equivalent? Don’t black people in this country want intelligent news, current affairs, drama and cultural programmes, too? Or are they only reserved for educated, middle-class white people?

On TV, black British protagonists – like Luther, the BBC detective played by Idris Elba –are a recent and rare phenomenon. How psychologically debilitating this must be for young black people, to be devoid of balanced, fair, let alone positive, portrayals. Black America, with its educated, middle-class depth in numbers, is 30 years ahead of us. Think of The Cosby Show, a hugely successful middle-class family sitcom, whose patriarch was a black doctor. What do we get in the UK? The Crouches, whose father-figure worked on the London Underground.

So is middle-class, black America the promised land for the educated black British? For all its many problems, America offers far more opportunities than Britain does right now. Hence the trans-Atlantic brain drain, which speeds up year after year: novelist Caryl Phillips and poet Fred D’Aguiar left for America years ago, as did actor Idris Elba. Playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah has just gone to be the artistic director at a theatre in Baltimore.

Over here, “black”, “working class” and “street” are still seen as synonymous terms. Black conservative commentators, like educationalist Tony Sewell and former teacher Katharine Birbalsingh, are constantly demonised by the left for “selling out”, for being “coconuts” and Uncle Toms. But their presence on the public stage demonstrates the long overdue growth of the black British community. Black Britain is slowly maturing, albeit at a snail’s pace. The once clear-cut, Manichean polarities of black-left and white-right are no longer valid.

In America, there is a huge black “ghetto” underclass. But, there is an equally huge, educated, black middle class, out of which sprang Obama and other leaders – the dynamic Mayor of Newark, Cory Booker, and the Mayor of the District of Columbia, Adrian Fenty. Both, like Obama, are Ivy League-educated lawyers by profession, who have gone on to hold public office. Black American lawyers, accountants, politicians, novelists, intellectuals, airline pilots and even astronauts – for the most part lacking here – are positive role models, counterbalancing destructive messages of black “hood” culture.

Britain has no really prominent black intellectuals to speak of, save LSE professor Paul Gilroy and theologian-turned-TV presenter Robert Beckford. Lenny Henry and Rasta chef-cum-Dragon’s Den victor, Levi Roots, are perhaps the closest thing we have in the public consciousness. It’s ironic that the most high-profile and eloquent media commentator on black Britain, Bonnie Greer, is herself a black American. Likewise, Katharine Birbalsingh grew up in Canada.

Cast your minds back to the BBC Newsnight coverage of Obama’s election victory. Who did Jeremy Paxman interview about what this momentous occasion meant to black Britain? A black politician, academic or journalist, surely? No. Cockney rap singer Dizzee Rascal. The fact that Rascal managed to give a good account of himself is incidental. The preposterous decision to interview him as the representative of black Britain speaks volumes about the mentality of the white British media.

In America, I can discuss medieval Latin poetry with my African-American, Ivy League-educated friends, then go to a nightclub and dance to Beenieman. In the UK, it’s either medieval Latin poetry or Beenieman. And even the medieval Latin poetry is pushing it. Black British classicists are rarae aves.

So why is the black British middle class so tiny? On one level, it’s a simple matter of chronology. Black people (in real numbers) only arrived on these shores in the 1950s and 1960s. Working-class communities, with varying degrees of cultural emphasis on the importance of education, have only had roughly 50 years to establish themselves. Throw in the undoubted influence of hostility and racism towards these immigrant communities, and we begin to understand why there are so few black, middle-class people in Britain. America’s educated black middle class has been built on hundreds of years, not just a mere half-century.

Until we reach a critical mass of educated, black, middle-class people, black Britain will always be handicapped by glaring under-achievement. And it will be both stymied and sabotaged by the careerist, loony left. With their hallowed position as self-appointed “community leaders” – in reality, demotic rabble rousers – they pin all of black Britain’s woes and failings on “endemic white racism” and the Establishment. They never encourage some degree of personal responsibility for the community’s empowerment, or lack of it. The crass stupidity characterising many of black Britain’s dashiki-wearing community leaders often does more harm than good.

I passionately love this country, I’m very proud to be British, and realise that America is far from being a racial panacea. But I can’t be bothered to wait another 20 or 30 years for a sizeable black British middle class to develop, flourish and thrive; to wait until there are more than a handful of people with whom I can have the kinds of conversations I value, without having to explain myself constantly – whether it’s patronisingly downplaying my level of education or playing up to limiting cultural or racial assumptions. It is as if Britain, white and black, doesn’t know how to treat black, educated, middle-class people. Rather than being embraced, they are viewed with suspicion and distrust on both sides.

In America – one of the most viscerally racist countries in the world– there are far more opportunities for educated, middle-class, black people than here in the UK, one of the most tolerant and progressive countries when it comes to race. Will the first black British occupant of Number Ten turn up any time soon? I seriously doubt it.

* A version of this article first appeared in the 'Notting Hill Editions Journal’[/quote]Couldn't have said it better myself(seriously,lol). Impressive

Is it coincidence that the fall from grace of the Nigerian educational status started with the rise of entertainment in our society? Is it far fetched to see the corelation between mass media and mass failure? As maxwell jordan puts it " the government doesn't want your kids to be educated,they don't want u to think too much...cos u get in the way of 'important' people by too much thinking. Theu want the human mind to be entertained not educated." When every final year student has a facebook account,when every final year student follows big brother,when every final year student knows barcelona's bench warmer how can we complain about dwindling exam scores failures en masse. Come off it,the hypocrisy is sickening.

Avicenna: I am a regular poster in other threads except religion. I have followed most threads here without ever commenting. I must say,I came here confused and ignorant about my former religion-Islam. But Nairaland religious section opened my eyes. I searched,researched and after deep reflections, I concluded that all religions are fraudulent and the notion of a almighty God is flawed and won't hold up to rigorous scrutiny.
I used a new I.D to post this because I still remain in the closet. As a religious leader of some of my peeps, it will come as too much of a shock. Their reactions may be harsh. The reason I posted this is that some people are also atheists but due to a fear of being ostracised,they remain quiet. I want you to know you are not alone.

Nice decision but consider this for a minute. I am a muslim. I loose nothing in being one. Here is my logic for u "rational" peeps. If I am right and you are wrong about the after life we'll soon find out. I gain everything and u loose everything. If u are right and I am wrong about the after life,we'll both never find out. Cos we'll just go into oblivion....I lose nothing,u gain nothing too. Understand?

@call me:u r so ignorant I feel disgusted writin this.but to correct what the airhead wrote,once u revert to Islam all persons r equal.a muslim of 80 yrs is buried exactly thesame as a muslim of 80 seconds.did "call me" not think that islam started sometime so at a point all muslims were converts so how were they buried if converts hav it different.ask any christian that has lived in muslim areas if what I write is false.is u r islamophobic just say so or shut d hell up.I hav christians in my family,why havnt I forced them to accept islam?just sickenin to hear grown ups spewing poo while reelin in ignorance.

siony man;thanks in advance
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All i see in it is an attempt to stir the ex's emotion.yes, abit of 'this is what u missed' but its also to tell urself u r attractive and the fault wasnt from you, whatever the reason,Oscar Wilde put it best, the opposite of love isnt hate, its indifference,

Hilarious exchanges, lol.
@ reed ;in case u can't handle the overflow of love i've got a great umbrella maself,
@omolola, is that really u on ur profile? dark room but beauty seems to shine thru.

@OKX thanks man ur links really kicks ass.
not really a mayan maself;3dsmax cuts if for me but a really good post nonetheless. cheers mate

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Love is actually easy to say if u dont mean it, especially hen its a means to an end, But really "i luv u" puts u vulnerable(especially when no reply)  ouch!