₦airaland Forum

Freiburger: Nigeria and i've got my reasons.

slimdiggi: Mehn! Imagine you loose 5000# note,na craze be dat o!

BizBooks: The facts are coming out gradually. Before today, all I knew about Fela's mother's death
was what I heard from Fela himself. In narrating the incident through his music, Fela left
out the portions that are damaging to him. For instance, he never mentioned the fact that
his boys started the whole commotion. Also, he never mentioned the fact that at least one
Police Officer or maybe more was killed in his compound that day.

If it is true that a Police Officer was killed at Kalakuta Republic that day, then one can
understand why the Police and Army stormed his compound. That is nothing new in Nigeria. If
a Police or Military Officer is killed in your street, you better vacate the area as soon
as possible because they will be coming back for blood as they did in this instance. It has
happened many times before in different parts of Nigeria.

So in effect, the attack on Kalakuta Republic was not premeditated as some had suggested.
The Police and Military did not wake up that day and decided to attack Fela's residence as
many of us thought. Also, somebody here stated that the attack was approved by Theophilus
Danjuma. In the absence of concrete evidence, this is highly doubtful in light of what we
now know. If you kill a Police or Military Officer, they do not need permission from anybody
to come for you.

Callotti: Is it only internet that you can use to compare Nigeria to New York?
Yes, nothing good however small can be associated with Nigeria.
Your internet speed is false.
Unless you have never used internet service in Nigeria.

taharqa: Shee some of u guys have been saying that Amnesty was the signature(some say ONLY) achievement of the Yar'adua's regime? Oya na, see achievement ni!!...by the way, why is it paining some people sef? Who get the Oil in question? Abi those ppl who own more than 90% of the oil wells in another man's backyard get 10 heads? So if the argument is not about the Appropriateness(or otherwise) of the Amnesty itself and how we "negotiate" differences in this country, I dont see why anybody should be disturbing him/her self. Compared to others these monies small jor

SmoothCrim: Nigerian donkeys are in every country looking for food!! Lazy ugly criminals!!!

timmy1999: Which kind talk be that...sey peacekeeper dey live there....I said any nigerian living there

Whymee: Fine, why should I pay PHCN bill when my prayer was part of the raw materials used in generating the power, GJE pls explain?

Perhaps try sending your electrcity bill to him for payment!!

Remii: i love this country, some are on internet ranting while some are already finished planing our lives 5 years ahead of us. Cabal always win, very interesting

dein77: And you think Nigerians havent prayed enough to have overcome? This is pure abuse of religion. Show me a nation that believes in docile prayers, then I will tell you that nation has problems of bad leadership and abjetc poverty.........

Fhemmmy: Good question and yet even mention someone as the owner . . .

berem: why is it only the south that you find oil? are there no traces of oil in the north? what happened to the chad basin? am just curious!

Toktee: what id card,cos the last time i check nigerians dnt have a define id card unless those working with state,federal and local gvtment,maybe na school id card

manny4life: Look, that's why I said his calculation is wrong.

First, there's a difference between revenue and income although both are earnings. What the world bank said is, "lives on $2pd" which is net income, NOT revenues.

Secondly, like I stated, he claimed "102million phones", which I said is "VAGUE", because 102million phones doesn't state the true/actual number of subscribers. Hypothetically speaking if one subscriber has 2phones, technically, that's 51million true subscribers and you can evaluate the subscribers base upon the WBG figures.

Thirdly, he said "The world bank tells us that 70%(112 Million) of the population lives on lass than $2 a day which equates to 9600 Naira per month." How can you equate 70% of true population (lives), against number of phones, rather than subscribers? Secondly, if it's on subscribers level, that's still @ 63.75%, if we recalculate and adjust the 63.75 to 70% (about 6.25% points) to other variables, we can see his calculation is way off course.

Fourthly, he claimed "Now is it possible that poor people spend an average of 10% of their in come on calls? Dem never chop. Never pay rent. Never buy cloth. But get to spend 10% of their income on clothes. 2 dollar per day my foot." How come does he use the word "AVERAGE", then again, say "the poor", isn't the average supposedly "Wealthy" + "Rich" + "Average" + "Poor" + "Beyond Poor and Homeless"/by all these variables? If he wants to go by "POOR" index, like someone suggested, that's a totally different calculation altogether. A different survey should suggest different income levels as against cell card purchase.

Fifth, he said "I've been going around asking bike riders how much they earn on average daily and it is between 3000-6000 Naira daily in the south south! 2 Dollar per day my foot." I can't stress this enough, this is their revenues, NOT income. Don't these folks have fixed/variable + overhead expenses? Come on now, this isn't the true state of things, if we have to calculate things, LET'S BE HONEST WITH OURSELVES.

gbadexy: These chinese people are behaving like the former soviet union.
I doubt if the chinese government and indeed the chinese people see these competitions as an ordinary event, I feel they are bent on being the strongest economy and country in the world and they are seriously competing with america in all aspects.
I can only wonder what pressure there athletes, beauty peagents , etc would be on.
China is trying to make a statement, but whatever it is they are doing back at home, it is producing good results.
Lastly, its not as if the chinese people that participated in previous olympics and beauty peagents were different from these present crops, rather it shows that a determined and disciplined leadership can make the people sit up and attain there inherent potentials in all aspects of life.

Nuzo':
Just like Nigeria and other multi-ethnic countries of the world, China has over 40 ethnic groups and if you are not watchful enough, you will mistaken their looks as the same.
However, the people Xinjiang ethnic group are largely muslim with Caucasian and persian decent. They could be easily differentiated from the populous Han and other Chinese ethnic groups.

Congratulations Miss Yu. Ni han pia le.

onila: she wowo

born2fuck: All spirit of illuminaty out in jesus name ......fire!fire!! Fire!!! On your nairaland gossipers