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Abi o, which one are you self? A knowledgable mathematician or an expert? Because I don hear say you self be solid maths graduta

I think the issue here is pride, than people wanting to add value to the thread, and from what I can personally gather, the difference is in how everyone defines the term "experts"

[quote author=190_@ link=topic=802184.msg9550972#msg9550972 date=1321241213][color=RED]Count me OUT [/color][/quote]what, you think we are stupid? we never considered you to begin with, why compound your problems when you could hardly feed yourself?

[quote author=Mrs, Chima link=topic=801338.msg9542967#msg9542967 date=1321139104]It would be easier to prevent pregnancies at this time however when you are homeless and without cash there is nothing you can do but just because one is homeless doesn't mean one will not have desires to mate.

It is a tough situation to be in.[/quote]If I'm broke and homeless, i doubt sex will be the first thing on my mind, talkless of child rearing.

Name: Shock

Stat: 25, loves adventure

Eyeing: Violent

reason: sounds intelligent

Question for him: are you daring enough?

Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! has been the cry. YouWin is here. The Federal Government is not just talking. It is doing.

Apply at YouWin.org.ng let's create jobs for Nigeria

Entry closes on Friday November 4th

good thread, people should learn to network more often and not just look out for job ads.

That asides, this thread should be very useful for individuals who have a few questions or two about a certain industry they are planning to get their foot in.

This thread should be made a sticker!

Let's stop spreading false news, the streets in Kaduna is peaceful

The President is fraudulent, no wonder we rank tops on any corruption scale

violent:
This could have taken a year decades in naija i swear

This sounded more realistic

Phew!  It says "Politics Section" at the top of the page.  There is also a ''Religious Section''

When Adults can't follow simple instructions, then one begin to wonder why some lay claim to being intellectuals when they have absolutely no common sense!

This is a crazy situation i swear, my neighbor was out today to buy brooms to be a part of the ACN rally, and surprisngly, sellers were pricing broom for 500 naira a piece, ridiculous!

I have been on the look out for this user's reaction on this issue for some time, however, disappointingly, i have only been met by stark silence.

This is a call for Beaf's opinion on this issue, any other pro GEJ/ pro PDP could also contribute logical views and reaction to this

I have just read through the actual report and I consider it highly biased and misleading.

The report neglects advances in infrastructural developments and a larger chunk of the qualitative research was based on Judgments of "in house analysts". . .literally speaking, some "oyinbo" in New York or London whose idea of a Lagos is restricted to what he/she saw in a recent documentary of "Welcome to Lagos" conducted by BBC, is left to conduct ratings on the State.

this is good news!

Beaf:
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Fashola simply has no respect or sense of protocol. I pity those who see him as an ordinary member of society, he isn't. He is a governor in an opposition party, not even their presidential candidate. He has been rude, loud mouthed, self centred, lacking in protocol and wisdom and made Ribadu look like an outright fool.

If Ribadu had spoken, there would be no angry responses.

I could bring valid examples of where Jonathan has exhibited, in a manner which beggars belief,  these criteria with which you paint Fahola!

Going by the fact presented in the article and ignoring the misleading tittle of the thread as an earlier poster suggested, It became obvious to the discerning mind  that the governor was merely presenting his opinion and did not call for a debate between himself and the President, neither has he mentioned individual names nor directed his statements to any individual character.

This charade of your's is due to a blinded ignorance stemming from an innate desire to throw in defenses for Jonathan, and in the process has refused to digest the contents of the original article.

It would be much more interesting and a bit wiser if you could highlight points that directly infer to Jonathan, if you couldn't, then you are clearly the loud mouthed one here, not fashola!

“This violence must stop.” So President Obama declared the other day about the depravity in Tripoli. This “must” is a strange mixture of stridency and passivity. It is the deontic locution familiar from the editorial pages of newspapers, where people who have no power to change the course of events demand that events change their course. This “must” denotes an order, or a permission, or an obligation, or a wish, or a will. It does not denote a plan. It includes no implication, no expectation, of action. It is the rhetoric of futility: this infection must stop, this blizzard must stop, this madness must stop. But this infection, this blizzard, this madness, like this violence, will not stop, because its logic is to grow. It will stop only if it is stopped. Must the murder of his own people by this madman stop, Mr. President? Then stop it.

There are various ways in which the horror can be brought to an end. Is a no-fly zone really too complicated to negotiate? Then let NATO planes fly over Tripoli to shoot down any Libyan aircraft that make war on the Libyan population.

Is the United States really prevented by its past from deploying the small number of troops that would be required to rescue Tripoli from Qaddafi’s bloody grip? Then let a multilateral expeditionary force be raised and a humanitarian intervention be launched to free Libya from its tyrant and then leave Libya to the Libyans. Europeans, Africans, even Egyptians may join the campaign. And impose sanctions; and freeze assets; and summon The Hague. There is no lack of proposals for acting against this monster out of Tacitus. But the president is not yet interested in action. His outrage seems to be satisfied by “consultations” with our “allies and partners,” and with the Human Rights Council in Geneva next Monday. Yes, next Monday: what’s the rush? The main point of Obama’s statement on Libya was that “the nations and peoples of the world speak with one voice,” and that “we join with the international community to speak with one voice.” He is calling for words! He actually said that “the whole world is watching,” that foul old slogan of the bystander.

Why is Obama so disinclined to use the power at his disposal? His diffidence about humanitarian emergencies is one of the most mystifying features of his presidency, and one of its salient characteristics. These crises—in Tehran two years ago, in Cairo last month, in Tripoli now—produce in him a lame sort of lawyerliness. He lists the relevant rights and principles and then turns to procedural questions, like those consultations. The official alibi for Obama’s patience with Qaddafi’s atrocity is his concern for the Americans who are still stranded within Qaddafi’s reach; I was amused to learn from a friend that the spin out of the White House includes the suggestion that Obama’s restraint is actually the wisdom of the hostage negotiator.

But Obama’s statement about Libya suggests another explanation for his slow pace. This was its climax: “So let me be clear. The change that is taking place across the region is being driven by the people of the region. This change doesn’t represent the work of the United States or any foreign power. It represents the aspirations of people who are seeking a better life.”

http://www.tnr.com/article/world/84191/obama-libya-intervention-qaddafi-iran-egypt

They never learn, do they? The sooner the despots of the Middle East are consigned to the garbage-can of history, the better. I have nothing but admiration for the courage shown by the ordinary citizens of these nations. The West should be giving every possible assistance regardless of the short-term logistical and strategic advantages they might enjoy by supporting some of these despots. It's time for the West to show some gumption and put its actions before its words. The United States ought to carry an airstrike against Libyan airforce.

If the Libyan government falls, it would change the entire Middle East situation. While Tunisia and Egypt can still dismissed as outliers, Qaddafi's fall would mean no middle east dictator would be stable. What next? The house of Saud!

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what more can i say?  In the post below, you do come across as an individual whose IQ is lower than an average student's account balance

fstranger3:
^^^^

I dont understand your point.
You are a poor dude with a wife, and possibly a kid, studying in Jand?  And, you have an uncle willing to help take care of your wife pending the time you are able to do so as man and all he wants is for him to be able to shine  your wife's congo?


Am I right? If so, I dont see the big deal. There is no free akamu anywhere you know?

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nope, i think she's just wondering why you are so d[i]a[/i]ft

na wa o

Nigeria’s relentless push for war in Cote d’Ivoire with regard to the presidential election crisis in that country is getting curiouser and curiouser.
It is beginning to smack of the sympathiser who is crying more than the bereaved.

Informed public opinion needs to be brought to dissuade the Federal Government from this path of perfidy. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), led by its chairman, President Goodluck Jonathan, is backing Alassane Quattara, one of the two claimants to the presidency of Cote d’Ivoire, the other being incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo, following a disputed presidential election run-off election on November 28, 2010.

A political crisis had erupted in Cote d’Ivoire after the presidential election run-off when the Constitutional Council, that has final authority to validate/review election result by the Electoral Commission, declared Gbagbo winner, after voiding some flawed votes, while the United Nations representative in Cote d’Ivoire certified Quattara winner, based on the preliminary result of the Electoral Commission, a certification that was backed by the ‘International Community’, thus precipitating a stalemate.

Gbagbo had led in the main election with an undisputed 38 per cent of the vote while Quattara was the runner-up with 32 per cent of the vote in a
field of multiple presidential candidates. Now, the ‘international community’ is finding it difficult to accept that the front-runner could be the winner.
This, perhaps, explains why ECOWAS, the expected mediator, has turned a rabid partisan, eager to deploy military force on one of the claimants. How ECOWAS hopes to achieve peace in Cote d’Ivoire by militarily running Gbagbo out of office, the candidate who had the highest vote in the main election, and even with the threat of arraigning him before the International Court of Justice at the Hague, baffles the mind.

The United States has weighed in with the American ambassador to Cote d’Ivoire, Phillip Carter 111, warning at a press conference in Washington D.C., early February, that the window for Gbagbo’s peaceful exit was closing. The gloves are off – when an ambassador can threaten the president of his host country thus: “The window for Gbagbo to leave honourably, peacefully, with amnesty, is closing” !. We can see the truth in WikiLeaks leaks of diplomatic arrogance of First World ambassadors in relation to Third World leaders. Nigeria may turn out to be no more than a puppet, with the puppeteers pulling the strings from Paris and Washington.

Of course, I have no grouse against the Americans if installing Quattara is in their national interest. But what is Nigeria’s core interest in going to war in Cote d’Ivoire where it will put the lives of over one million Nigerians resident in that country at risk ?
What is curious in the unfolding drama is that as at the time the UN and the ‘international community’, that precipitated the crisis by their backing of Quattara were inclined to use sanctions to force Gbagbo out of office, Nigeria seems determined on a show of muscle, as regional power, to militarily flush out the Ivorian president.
According to media reports of January 25, 2011, President Jonathan’s envoy, Foreign Affairs Minister, Odein Ajumogobia, SAN, had on Monday, January 24, 2011, in a letter, appealed to the United Nations (UN) Security Council to pass a resolution authorising use of force by ECOWAS to oust Gbagbo from power. What is unsettling about the letter is its undue belligerence and braggadocio.
“Gbagbo must be made to understand that there is a very real prospect of overwhelming military capability bearing down on him and his cohorts”, Ajumogobia thundered in the letter.

But the question is : Why is Nigeria so gung-ho about going to war in Cote d’Ivoire? What is confounding in Nigeria’s aggressive pursuit of the war option is that Jonathan is generally perceived as a calm and calculative person, not given to theatrics. One wonders, therefore, in what circumstances he got captured by foreign policy war hawks.

But then, on further reflections, it occurred to me that Jonathan and Ajumogobia are both Ijaw, the arrow-head group in militia-ruled Niger Delta and was wondering that perhaps this has become an export product –[size=13pt] diplomatic militancy[/size] ! However, there are other questions begging for answers before this head-long rush to war. What is the budget for this war ? Since this is not a military regime, won’t the Senate have to endorse the presidency’s adventure? Or is it assumed that the senators are spineless lapdogs ?

Nigeria reportedly spent $12 billion to prosecute the wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone and lost an estimated 1,000 soldiers, with practically nothing to show for the sacrifices in terms of economic concessions or accommodation of Nigerians in those countries. Do we need to take that path of folly, again ?
Fortunately, the president of the African Union (AU) Commission, Dr. Jean Ping, has expressed reservations about a precipitate recourse to war, citing the example of Democratic Republic of Congo, which is yet to enjoy peace nearly 20 years after President Mobutu Sese Seko was chased from power. Also, the new chairman of the African Union (AU), President Theodoro Nguema of Equitorial Guinea, is not so keen on war, while President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has pointed out that the UN was too quick to certify Quattara as winner. The AU, at its just concluded 16th Summit in AddisAbaba, had admitted it endorsed Quattara as winner based principally on the position of ECOWAS and the certification of the ‘international community’.That makes Nigeria’s war option, as leader of ECOWAS, and backed by the West, to still remain a major factor that could sway the AU, particularly if Nigeria indicates willingness to bankroll the war. In spite of the hardship at home, Nigerian leaders love playing to the gallery, abroad. This reinforces the case that more interest groups should speak up against the war, as has been done by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Another curious aspect of ECOWAS’ handling of the Ivorian crisis is appointing Blaise Campaore, who for 23 years has been president of Burkina Faso, Quattara’s native homeland, as the community’s envoy to Europe to drum support for war in Ivory Coast. Campaore had shot to power in a coup on October 15, 1987, a coup in which his bosom friend, patriotic and charismatic President Thomas Sankara, was killed.
So much for the credibility of ECOWAS’ warriors for democracy ! And to imagine he is among the African Union panel of five presidents given one month to sort out the Ivorien mess. The other absurdity is African Union mediator, Kenyan Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, who settled for that post in similar presidential election dispute in 2007 with President Mwai Kibaki, now rooting for war in Ivory Coast.
Why not a similar accommodation of Quattara with Gbagbo rather than a push for a winner-takes-all in favour of runner-up Quattara? Shouldn’t election conflicts in Africa dictate a shift from the contentious winner-takes-all syndrome imported from the West to the embrace of the accommodative African communalism?

Meanwhile, as a Jonathan-led ECOWAS lobbies for war, it is important he is reminded that the so-called ‘international community’ also has poor impressions of Nigeria on electoral matters, especially the 2007 elections that brought him to power. The Financial Times of London had in an editorial captioned: ‘African poll season’ noted: “Were Nigeria to experience a repeat of 2007 polls, marred by violence and fraud, it would be destabilising for both country and continent”.

Four years on, and with the prospect of a repeat of the 2007 polls going by the violence and fraudulence which had trailed the party primaries, the country’s April 2011 elections are becoming a difficult pregnancy, that risks complications which could also make Nigeria the object of attention of the ‘international community’. So, the advice is : Those who live in glass houses need to exercise restraint in throwing stones.


* Olawunmi, former Washington Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) and Fellow, Nigerian Guild of Editors, teaches Media and Politics at a university in Southwest Nigeria.Email:olawunmibisi@yaho.com

Kobojunkie:
Sometimes I wonder why God made me a Nigerian . . . this is one of those rare moments! 

The minister of Justice is empowered to absolve anyone of any allegation. You can't always just deem someone as guilty by mere hearsays

OGD committed suicide when he declared war on Obasanjo.  You don't do that when especially you've got a wardrobe full of skulls, Obasanjo is called ebóra Owu for a reason!

Funny how Beaf sees no problems with a sitting President calling an elected governor a "rascal", but thinks it's aite that a kid gets locked up for insulting a governor.

Whenever issues of corruption is being discussed, it's a bit myopic to point early fingers at the executive in government. No doubt they have a large chunk of the blame, but how about the Judiciary?  The Judiciary is meant to be the third arm of the government, the last resort of the common average Nigerian.  It carries a symbol of equity and Justice, or does it just seems so?

In a country with vast population as ours, we've come to live our daily lives within the slogan space of " every man for himself", and the courts which is supposedly meant to protect citizens has now been turned to a free market where the highest bidder takes home all.  To some who are not used to the Nigerian system of doing things, how else can we explain the case of Aondoakaa who used and abused his office as the Minster of Justice to protect fugitives and pen robbers? In a sane country, Aondoakaa is meant to be sitting in jail at the moment, pity our country is no such sane environment.

Further examples of where the courts has been seriously abused can be highlighted with the recent saga of a governor who felt insulted by a statement and used the powers of his office to get a citizen locked up!! need i say more?

here's an excerpt from a lawyers statement on Justice Salami's planned '' promotion"

Mr Cyprian Ikpeama, said the forces that are plotting to remove Justice Salami from office are the same reactionary forces that assassinated the former Attorney-General of the Federation, Chief Bola Ige (SAN) in 2001 and got away with it because the Bar did nothing.



　

"It was the same forces that legitimised the brazen electoral heist of 2007.

"The same forces are not relenting. They got the outgoing Chief Justice of Nigeria, Idris Legbo Kutigi to illegally swear in Aloysius Katsina-Alu as Chief Justice of Nigeria. This was unprecedented in the annals of our judicial history. Katsina-Alu mounted the saddle and told everyone who cared to listen that even a Notary Public could have sworn him in! We clapped for him.

"The same forces recently made appointments to the Court of Appeal. The qualifications for appointment were not based on merit but either on widowhood or your Tiv connection. The head of court of appeal had no input whatsoever on judges being appointed into his court. The first set of appointments was confirmed on a Tuesday at NJC level and by Friday they have been sworn in. Unprecedented! But why the hurry?

"The same reactionary forces recently reconstituted the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee. Experienced SANS were left out and lawyers who were made SANS one or two years ago were appointed to sit in judgment with their colleagues who competed for the conferment of the award. Again the Bar grumbled and the ‘supreme forces’ had their way.

"The same reactionary forces have set into motion the process of further amending the Constitution so as to increase the retirement age of the CJN to 75. As usual when the process becomes public our NBA will look the other way as long Halliburton briefs keep coming our way.

"The climax of our ‘sidon look’ attitude has been demonstrated in the current efforts of the reactionary forces to remove the President of Court of Appeal from office. Since the move became public last Thursday, our NBA President has become taciturn. He is now silent. He will not say anything until the move is made official.

"Salami has now publicly repudiated the offer by the CJN to elevate him out of office. The whole world is now watching for the reaction of our NBA President. In a situation such as we found ourselves, no lawyer, the NBA in the least, can afford to stand on the fence. Anybody that is standing on the fence is either a traitor or an accomplice," Ikpeama said.

. . .i believe this man captured everything in such a brief, and most rational people here will agree that the forces in mention are called PDP by the average Nigerians

what are your thoughts?

Is it high time we started demanding for a Jury hearing rather than some almighty Judge who's afraid to deal with a "friend"?

hollandis:
God punish lamido,make dem come arrest me,I dey wait

if dem born you well, put your real names and address for here. it's not a pleasant sight when cowards dare

I see a ghost, she's right here, this minute

Should those who defame others on the web go scott free? Defamation is a jailable offence in the real World.

Defamation is NOT a jailable offense, it is only punishable by fine, that's why the dude shouldn't be locked up to begin with.

This should be a civil action not a criminal action.  I wonder where sir Beaf is getting his information from.

FRN vs MR XYZ if found guilty could be a jailable offense.

MR ABC vs MR XYZ if found guilty is a civil offense and punishable by monetary fines.

If Mr XYZ has refuse to pay the fines, then it becomes an offense against the FRN and thus jailable.

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@1025

I was one of those who held Beaf's postings in high regard, now, I am thinking to myself if i had been drunk the whole time