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Mr x Cork:
I should be appreciated for my Nairaland contributor!

ROTFLMAO! Ishi azu don come again.
I appreciate all NLers.

vorosmartm:
Musiwa!!!, can i please have some of your weed, you definitely have some good iish there. [b]BTW, which university graduated an illiterate like you? [/b]You are a clear specimen to prove our educational system is comatose. Peace bro, and speak Yoruba if English is too technical.

Gotta laugh at the bolded jor! But, seriously, BCR is an intelligent and well-informed dude.

appletango:
i see. then next time you should pick your words with consideration, otherwise you run the risk of being considered ignorant and foolish. kinda like gej.

Yes, sir. And you, too.

^^^ ok. thanks.

Ujujoan:
Exactly!

I get people asking me embarassing questions like 'Did you enroll for JAMB'?

Most times when I complain, people tell me to count my blessings. Maybe a time will come when I'll appreciate looking younger than my age but now, it's just annoying!

Somebody was asking me to do something for her two days ago. when I hesitated she said I had no excuse because secondary schools are not in session, lol. I told her I'll help her because my school is still on strike.
She gaped at me. "Strike?"
"Yeah."
"You're no longer in the secondary school?"
I just laughed. But I'm seriously beginning to enjoy it. Once people get to know my real age, I become automatically interesting. An enigma.

follow this link to see for yourself: 
http://lindaikeji..com/2010/12/unbelievable-chinese-workers-build-15.html

appletango:
then what, pray tell, were you referring to??

Her nationality, sir!

appletango:
she's black

I wasn't referring to her skin.

Bawss1:
OK lets see. When it concerns GEJ the reports are inaccurate but when it comes to Shell they are correct? Yes?
Nice one

Do you need wikileaks to tell you Shell has been milking this country?

reckless:
GEJ has shot himself on the foot. [b]Is he now saying the US ambassador lied? [/b]Why would she lie? The man has exposed his idiosyncracies for whoever cares to see.

Lekwa arguement! So the US ambassador is now God?

Why would she lie?

Why won't she lie? Oops, she's white! White people don't lie!

Time and experience has made Buhari a defeatist.

She, therefore, called on Abia to take advantage of its vast potentials in human and natural resources to expand its frontiers of development, adding that the new development agenda could be achieved without relying solely on money but by “proactively and creatively” locating and utilising resources needed for development.

Who/what is Abia if not T.A Orji?

muhsin:
Fame:

Chief Raymond Dokpesi; the name, although already famous, wasn't known beyond the Southern Nigeria boarders. But now, after his unfazed support for IBB's presidential bid and his directorship of the man's campaign organization, widens across Nigerian soil. Everybody, not until recently after the emergence of Atiku as the so-called Northern consensus candidate, talked about him (Dokpesi).

You just gave [political] fame a new, ridiculously pitiable name. Kudos! The disparity between fame and notoriety is still there for even the blind to see!

JAMES IBORI ------- HALL OF SHAME.
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-563712.0.html

PATRICK OBAGHIAGBON -------- HALL OF FAME for his ability to speak his mind ”legislative rascality and parliamentary gambadoism” , and fooling all the senators with his[b] ”unreserved apologia.”[/b]
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-556251.0.html

Will come up with more names later.

Hi all. Please I noticed a slight lump on my left nipp le, and when I touch it, I feel a little pain. What could it mean? bre*ast cancer? Does it happen to men? Please I need your sincere reply.Thanks.

[quote author=Musiwa, link=topic=564952.msg7299030#msg7299030 date=1291856736]Bankole network from primary to university are in England, except if Jonathan want to be prime minister of UK.
[/quote]Lol, your weed supplier must really know his onions.

41 years ? Jay-Z is no longer a kid o! The next birthday gift should be a coffin

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/14605-alao-akala-commended-on-excellent-performance

Oyo State governor, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, has been described as a wonderful administrator whose outstanding performance is unprecedented in the history of Oyo State.

Chief Isiaka Adeola, the chairman, Ido Local Government Area of Oyo State, gave this commendation in Ibadan, on Monday, while commissioning Aba-Okeladeokin and Okose electrification projects, executed by his administration.

According to the council boss in a press statement signed by his information officer, Alhaji Kunle Kareem, Governor Alao-Akala, successfully touched every part of Oyo State in terms of people-oriented developmental projects most especially road construction and sanitation of environment.

Chief Adeola explained that power supply was an important and indispensable factor to rapid social and economic development of the nation.

This, according to him, propelled him to embark on this important project in order to boost commercial activities of the area.

Chief Adeola, however, emphasised the need for political leaders and the entire members of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Ido Local Government and Oyo State at large to work together and foster unity among themselves in order to ensure the party’s success, in the next general election.

He also enjoined the people of his council to fully participate in the forthcoming voter registration exercise.

http://www.thisdayonline.com/ (Can't get the direct source link, the problem is from THISDAY's website)

Did President Goodluck Jonathan describe himself as “inexperienced” at his meeting with former US Ambassador to Nigeria, Dr. Robin Sanders, in his days as acting president?

In a leaked cable sent to the US by Sanders after the February meeting, she wrote: “Jonathan noted that the Northern politicians would always be uncomfortable with him as president, and he understood the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) picked him as Yar’Adua’s running mate in 2007 because he represented the Niger Delta,  “I was not chosen to be Vice President because I had good political experience,” he said. “I did not. There were a lot more qualified people around to be Vice President, but that does not mean I am not my own man.”…

In a response yesterday, presidential spokesman, Mr. Ima Niboro, said the accounts of the meeting as published on WikiLeaks website are “largely inaccurate”.

He wrote: “The point to be made is that the accounts of meetings between President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and US diplomats are essentially third party narratives, and are largely inaccurate.

“The President, in those tempestuous days during which the nation tottered on the brink, held meetings, and then more meetings, with different groups, the diplomatic community inclusive.

“The President met with different diplomats and special envoys who offered different suggestions on a way out of the impasse that our late leader's health had imposed on the nation. We note that this account is largely silent on these suggestions.

“Instead, what is served up is an unfair account severely impacted by selective perception and individual expectations.”
He said the president had held many political and administrative positions in the past and could not have described himself as inexperienced.

The statement continued: “How can it be said that a man who had been a Deputy Governor, an Acting Governor, a governor, a Vice President, and then Acting President could have described himself as “lacking in administrative experience”. That the President holds a Ph.D, was a lecturer for 10 years, and was an Assistant Director at the defunct Oil Mineral Producing Areas Development Commission, do not make the statement less rankling.

“This only goes to show that the report itself is a souped up version of the standard conversation that takes place in such meetings. We find this account as wholly unfortunate, and we are only employing the best of diplomatic finesse in that statement!”

Meanwhile, Shell has denied a report in a British newspaper claiming the European oil giant secretly placed employees in key areas of the Nigerian government to gain intelligence about activities in the oil-rich Niger delta, where Shell has operations.

Shell’s top executive in Nigeria told U.S. diplomats that Shell had inserted employees into all the main ministries of the Nigerian government and knew “everything” that went on within each, the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper reported, citing U.S. diplomatic cables released along with a cache of other sensitive U.S. communiques by the website WikiLeaks.

According to the cables, the dispatches from Washington’s embassies in Africa also revealed the oil firm swapped intelligence with the U.S. about militant activities in Nigera, the Guardian report said.

But Shell, in a sharply worded response to Upstream Online, an oil and gas industry news publication, blasted the report as false.

A Shell spokesman also shot down the report in an e-mailed statement to FuelFix.
“The Guardian’s assertion that Shell has somehow infiltrated the government of Nigeria is absolutely untrue, false and misleading,” the spokesman said.

But he added, “We cannot comment on the alleged contents of the cable, including the correctness or incorrectness of any statements it allegedly contains.”

The Guardian also reported that Wikileaks cables show oil giants putting the squeeze on Venezuela as president Hugo Chavez tries to stave off economic catastrophe.

http://www.thisdayonline.com/

Construction giant, Julius Berger, made its aircraft available to the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua to be flown from Germany to Saudi Arabia in September 2008, the latest diplomatic cables published on the whistle-blowing website, WikiLeaks, revealed yesterday.

The cable, written by former US Ambassador to Nigeria, Dr. Robin Sanders, quoted Shell's regional executive vice-president for Africa Ann Pickard as making the disclosure while discussing Yar’Adua’s health at the time.

The cable read: “Pickard agreed that the President's health is a guessing game. She said that in her recent meetings with Yar'Adua he seems alert but drawn in the face and frail. She reported that a Julius Berger (protect) contact says that the President was not in danger of dying soon but has serious ailments from which he will never fully recover.

“Pickard shared that Berger provides transportation including planes for the President and has reportedly flown in doctors and technicians to attend the President (reftel). She said, for instance, that her Berger contact confided that they flew the President from Germany to Saudi in September 2008. Additionally, the Berger contact thought the President would not return to the Villa offices, as they were moving the President's personal things out of the Villa.”

Other revelations from the latest cables, four of which were published yesterday, are:

•Pickard said a lot of “interesting” people were lifting oil even with no knowledge of the industry, suggesting a series of corrupt practices.

•A businessman and close associate of the late president was accused of smuggling but was said to have been told by Yar’Adua to clean up his act. He was called Yar’Adua’s “Mr. Fix It”.

•International Oil Com-panies (IOCs) have been making moves to influence the contents of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) to suit their purpose.

•Former Attorney-General of the Federation, Chief Michael Aondoakaa, was accused of demanding gratification before signing documents.

Sanders’ dispatch read: “Pickard said that Nigerian entities control the lifting of many oil cargoes and there are some "very interesting" people lifting oil. Oil buyers would pay NNPC GMD Yar'Adua, Chief Economic Advisor Yakubu and the First Lady Turai Yar'Adua large bribes to lift oil. Pickard also reported an instance of the Attorney General Aondoakaa allegedly soliciting a $20 million bribe to sign a document. The International Oil Companies (IOC) are quite concerned about the "very flawed" new petroleum sector energy bill. The IOCs will be asking U.S., Dutch, and U.K. COMs to convey points on the bill to GON policymakers.

“Pickard said that Nigerian entities control the lifting of many oil cargoes and there are some "very interesting" people lifting oil (People, she said that were not even in the industry). As an example she said that oil buyers would pay Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) General Managing Director Yar'Adua, (Note: not related to President Yar'Adua. End Note) Chief Economic Advisor Yakubu, and the First Lady Turai Yar'Adua large bribes, millions of dollars per tanker, to lift oil. The IOCs control the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cargos, so GON actors do not have the same opportunity for illicit gain. Pickard also said a former associate of hers (protect) had told her he had been present when Attorney General Aondoakaa had told a visitor that he would sign a document only if the visitor paid $2 million immediately and another $18 million the next day.”

Political Counsellor Walter Pflaumer who worked in the US embassy sent a cable on the alleged close relationship between businessman, Alhaji Dahiru Mangal, and Yar’Adua.

Pflaumer did not disclose the identity of his close, writing: “XXXXXX alleged a close association between President Yar,Adua and Katsina native and rumored smuggler Dahiru Mangal. XXXXX claimed Mangal is the President's "Mr. Fix It," taking care of "anything filthy" Yar'Adua needs done in addition to smuggling items for several wealthy Nigerian businessmen through Niger into Kano. Another Kano business contact corroborated XXXXXX 's allegations, but observed that Mangal no longer deals openly in illicit activity since Yar'Adua named him a special advisor earlier this month.

“Kano real estate entrepreneur and longtime Mission contact XXXXXX told PolOff February 10 that Katsina native Dahiru Mangal, who XXXXXX contends deals in illicit smuggling of goods into Nigeria, is also known as President Yar'Adua's "Mr. Fix It." XXXXX alleged a close association between the President and Mangal, dating to the former's tenure as governor of Katsina, and claimed the latter remains to this day Yar'Adua's "go-to man" to accomplish "anything filthy that Yar'Adua needs done."

“Mangal, XXXXX said, is also the "go-to" for any wealthy Nigerian, who wants to import "just about anything" into Nigeria. He declined to state whether Mangal smuggled weapons, drugs, or persons into Nigeria.”

On October 20, 2009, Deputy Chief of Mission Dundas McCullough wrote: “Pickard said the GON [government of Nigeria] wanted the National Assembly to pass the [PIB] by November 17 in order for the GON to be able to announce it at the upcoming CWC Gulf of Guinea Conference in London November 17-19. She said that if the House passes the PIB in the coming weeks, “we need to move quickly” to obtain any necessary changes before it becomes law. Fortunately, she added,

“We are working with the House and the House appears to want to work with us.” She continued that if the Senate passes the PIB, “We aren’t worried.” Unfortunately, she explained, “We think the Senate will pass a bad bill” but it won’t really matter. She added that she would be at the Nigerian House and Senate later that day and would let the Embassy know if there were any unexpected developments.

“3. (C) The Ambassador asked if Shell had had engagements with the GON outside the National Assembly, such as with the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank of Nigeria. Pickard said, “We are meeting with them at all levels.” She noted that an IMF team headed by Charles McPherson was in Abuja to look at the PIB and that Shell would be meeting with them as well. In contrast, she said, “We are worried about the World Bank’s political agenda and it is not clear what their agenda is.” She said the World Bank was working on how to make the IJVs “bankable” so that they would be able to go to international and domestic banks for financing.”
Efforts to reach Tanimu and Aondoakaa last night were unsuccessful as calls to their phones were unanswered.

Seun:
Who should be the mod?

Orikinla is good. If you're considering making it two, then I could also be useful.

Go and "sex her" first, then I'll tell you the dangers, if any.

Lol @ disvirgin. Is disvirgin the opposite of virgin?

StephenP was last active on 27 October, na wa o! And you guys should give us two moderators here, please. Some people have turned this place to Nairalist.com.

Why not Adamu Ciroma or Shehu Shagari, then?

I'm licking my lips, harmattan is here.

^^ . . . And the thread made front page when it was a little over ten pages, I think.WARNING: Peruse your write-up before posting, modification is impossible on this [Education] section.

Mai Suya:
DAMNNN!!! 26 pages+. . . how come i didnt know about this thread?

Why the h*ll didn't it make front page?

hope it's not too late to subscribe??

You didn't know about it because you were busy fighting Ojukwu, Emeagwali, GEJ and the rest of my Igbo brothers, lol (joking). However, you can still subscribe by bringing a large bundle of kebab (suya) as subscription fee. Deal?

lovejo:
this journalist is definitely from arsenal or man utd.

This poster is definitely sinking with Chelsea. When you guys were wasting your goals at the beginning of the season you thought global meltdown was for Wall Street alone, lol. It's caught up with you guys now. Ntoooooo!