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Politics / Russian Wonder!! Man Accused Of Stealing An Entire Road! by Starlett: 12:47pm On Aug 03, 2013
A Russian man faces up to two years in prison for stealing an entire road, the Russian Interior Ministry said this week.

The man, a 40-year-old resident of Syktyvkar, the capital of Komi Republic in the Northwestern Federal District, admitted having stolen 82 reinforced concrete slabs that make up the roughly 1-mile road linking the village of Parcheg with the Vychegda River, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported Thursday.

Police uncovered the highway robbery when they pulled over a convoy of three heavy trucks carrying the slabs, which they said had been removed with a manipulator, an industrial machine that combines a bulldozer and a forklift.

The Interior Ministry valued the slabs at 200,000 rubles, or about $6,095.


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While it's unusual for an entire road to vanish, Russia's recent history is filled with thefts of other infrastructure, especially bridges, which are valued for their metal.


Most recently, a bridge over the Nozma River in the village of Frolovo, northeast of Vologda, was stolen in June — with a trail of tractor tracks leading to the culprit's home, the Interior Ministry reported.

The man, who authorities said painstakingly dismantled the bridge with a welding torch, could also face up to two years in prison.

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/02/19839063-russian-man-accused-of-stealing-an-entire-road?lite=&lite=obinsite
Foreign Affairs / Obama Mistaken For A Waiter In 2003 by Starlett: 5:19pm On Jul 21, 2013
Six Years Before He Was President, Barack Obama Was Mistaken For A Waiter



President Barack Obama’s remarks regarding the George Zimmerman verdict brought light to the fact that he once dealt with racial discrimination before he was the leader of the Free World.

This led to the resurfacing of a piece written by Katie Rosman of the Wall Street Journal in 2008 about an incident in 2003 when Obama was a state senator.

Rosman recalls going to an event to celebrate the release of Sidney Blumenthal’s book, The Clinton Wars.

The incident was one she would never forget. She wrote:

Standing by myself I noticed, on the periphery of the party, a man looking as awkward and out-of-place as I felt. I approached him and introduced myself. He was an Illinois state senator who was running for the U.S. Senate. He was African American, one of a few black people in attendance. “We spoke at length about his campaign. He was charismatic in a quiet, solemn way. I told him I wanted to pitch a profile of him to a national magazine. (The magazine later rejected my proposal.) “The following year I watched as he gave the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, and then won his Senate seat that fall. On Tuesday, Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States.”

Incredible! She approached a humble Barack Obama, who would, within six years, be the President of the United States. Here’s where it gets weird:

What I will always remember,” Rosman wrote in 2008, “is as I was leaving that party … I was approached by another guest, an established author. He asked about the man I had been talking to. Sheepishly he told me he didn’t know that Obama was a guest at the party, and had asked him to fetch him a drink. In less than six years, Obama has gone from being mistaken for a waiter among the New York media elite, to the president-elect. What a country.”

Yup, that’s the sort of scrutiny many face just based on their complexion and appearance. Those who ignore race relations issues are part of the problem.


http://www.africaeagle.com/2013/07/six-years-before-he-was-president.html shocked

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Science/Technology / Re: Goat With 2 Heads Delivered In Ilorin (photo) by Starlett: 4:29pm On Jul 18, 2013
Only grouse I would have with this report is the reference to Dawodu Area as an "Islamic village". What exactly does that mean? Only muslims reside there or that the village has said the shahada

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Politics / Re: Aero Contractors Aborts Abuja-lagos Flight10 Minutes After Take-off by Starlett: 2:31pm On Jul 17, 2013
SO,
N'Landers, was anyone on this flight? Can we know exactly how it happened last night?
Politics / Re: Evans Bipi, Patience Jonathan's Thug, Goes To Aso Rock by Starlett: 2:30pm On Jul 17, 2013
Well, we do know that [b]Well, we do know that [/b]Well, we do know that Bipi was at Aso Rock and spoke with State House correspondents.

Looks like the latest act in the recent trend of the Presidency recognizing election losers and according them the honour due to the winner.

Chai!
Politics / Aero Contractors Aborts Abuja-lagos Flight10 Minutes After Take-off by Starlett: 2:26pm On Jul 17, 2013
A Lagos-bound Aero Contractors Boeing 737 has had to make a quick return to Abuja Airport a short while ago just minutes after takeoff.

The 8:45pm Flight AJ 136 took off in a wobbly manner just after 9pm, but barely 10 minutes into the air, the pilot announced to the scared passengers that he was returning to Abuja on account of a technical fault connected with a door.

It was a scary moment as the shaking plane made its way back to Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport. Upon landing, the crew announced to the passengers that Aero engineers would prepare another plane to complete the journey.

But some of the passengers scampered off the plane in fear and relief. Some others remained on their seats, waiting to board the replacement aircraft.

http://saharareporters.com/news-page/aero-contractors-aborts-abuja-lagos-flight10-minutes-after-take
Politics / Re: Agbakoba Threatens To Sue NASS With Suit Over Ecclesiastical Court by Starlett: 9:45am On Jul 17, 2013
Well,
the muslims don't seem to know anything about separation of the State from religion. They believe the two are one and the same. That's why they won't mind establishing of Ecclesiastical courts if Christians ask for it. They equally wouldn't mind the establishing of "Christian" banks, if such a thing were agitated for by Christians.

Question we should ask ourselves is whether our collective good purpose is really being served by all these.
Politics / Re: Website Attack:fg Checkmates Gay Activists by Starlett: 11:24pm On Jul 05, 2013
Good one by FG
Politics / Re: TINUBU Organises Christian Prayers For Late Mother,politics Or Spiritual Need ? by Starlett: 2:27pm On Jul 05, 2013
While it is the simple truth that Christians have NO BIBLICAL BASIS for praying for the dead, we may not rule out the fact that a funeral crowd is still one of the best crowds a preacher can hope for. Some pastor could still accept to come there and direct his message to the living who still have a chance to repent and serve God. Should we then condemn such a pastor as being motivated by love of money?

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Politics / Re: Attah's Response To Akpabio by Starlett: 3:20pm On Jul 04, 2013
[b]
These perceived inadequacies saw him moving from one ministry to another. In the time that he was in my cabinet, he had served in three different ministries. None of those ministries was the ministry of works.

It is not possible, therefore, for him to have been the one to fix the federal roads in my state and, with his own money for that matter. Furthermore I cannot think of any one policy drive in my government that can be attributed to Barr. Godswill Akpabio.

Besides, in the six years that he was my commissioner, the number of memos brought to Council by Barr. Godswill Akpabio can comfortably be counted with the fingers of one hand.

[b]

He was this incompetent and you retained him for SIX GOOD YEARS This is a huge inditment on your humble self, if you don't know. It then means that he was obviously serving a purpose for you which certainly had nothing to do with good governance. Please take your regrets elsewhere. Leave Nigerians and 'Landers to grapple with the challenges of today. Like political godson like political godfather!

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Entertainment / Re: African Youths Write Dstv Over Imoral Bba Show! by Starlett: 7:51pm On Jun 28, 2013
Long overdue. I heartily concur!
Entertainment / African Youths Write Dstv Over Imoral Bba Show! by Starlett: 7:51pm On Jun 28, 2013
A group calling itself, 'African Youth' has written to Biggie crying foul about the housemates' behavior Here's the message;

We African youths wish to ask DSTV to give us a BBA where African Youths are rewarded for creativity and hard work, thereby promoting entrepreneurship and not this morally-loosed show where single parents who can’t keep their relationships go into the house to show their sagging breasts and addiction, mixed-up with ill-mannered people and get rewarded, producing international prostitutes and gigolo. Haba!

Promoting immoral sex is “unafrican”. The BBA is all about immoral behavior and that is why it attracts lots of fans. You can’t be making money at the expense of your viewer’s lives. If you don’t do something about this, a time will come when the seeds you are sowing into the lives of African youths will germinate to hunt you and your generations yet unborn. There seem to be no single morality lesson to learn than sex and immorality.

DSTV has the best entertainment programming available from across the globe with superior technological innovation that provides unforgettable television viewing experience! If we call BBA entertainment then our sanity, morality and desire for the growth of the African youths needs to be questioned.

How long does it take to imbibe a habit? 21 days; and BBA runs for 90 days!!!, subtly making people become addicted to bad habits.

We say “NO” to such TV reality shows without moral value!

From,

Forward-Looking African Youths.

http://www.africaeagle.com/2013/06/a-message-to-dstv-from-african-youths.html
Politics / Re: Igbo Vs. Yoruba By Michael Egbejumi-david by Starlett: 10:40am On Jun 28, 2013
I thought we all loved one another in this country?. If not, how then could we imagine that one day, we'd be a nation?
Politics / Happy Birthday! Lagos Governor Babatunde R Fashola Turns Golden! Wish Him Well by Starlett: 9:05am On Jun 28, 2013
Fifty hearty cheers to the Golden boy today, as Uncle BRF himself turns 50!
Let's pay tribute to the man who has worked hard for the past 5 years to help make Lagos better.
Politics / Re: Igbo Vs. Yoruba By Michael Egbejumi-david by Starlett: 3:34pm On Jun 27, 2013
ilugunboy: The guy is talking about YOU, don't look sideways...I mean you! .....yes YOU..!!!!

grin grin grin

Or anyone who wants to find the culprit can look at the mirror, I guess. They'll sure find the culprit there!
Politics / Re: Igbo Vs. Yoruba By Michael Egbejumi-david by Starlett: 10:48am On Jun 27, 2013
Very thought-provoking article. Hm... Bows head and sighs deeply. But rumour has it that moderators of most of these internet forums actually secretly enjoy these diatribes for the sole reason that they attract more followership and readership, leading to higher ratings and possibly more revenue. Seun, can you comment on that gross allegation? wink

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Politics / Igbo Vs. Yoruba By Michael Egbejumi-david by Starlett: 10:46am On Jun 27, 2013
Another 419 practitioner contacted me via my Netlog account today. Like most people, I have become used to getting loads of 419 solicitations through my email. But lately, the 419 boys have invaded my social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc) accounts.

It is becoming quite common now to get 419 messages from some ‘friends’ on my friends-lists. These people have ruined my enjoyment of social media. There was one such message I recently got from a ‘friend’ on LinkedIn. The chap calls himself a Pastor. I was so disgusted I was compelled to respond to him. I informed him that he and other 419 email peddlers’ contribution to modern technology is in its ruination. These people are spoiling my delight, and curtailing my full participation on most social media.

Regrettably, some Nigerian commentators – specifically, Igbo and Yoruba tribal warriors - are also beginning to wreck my enjoyment of Saharareporters and other Nigerian internet-based discussion forums.

Every other article, every other published interview is invariably reduced to an Igbo vs. Yoruba tribal cleavage, even when it is clear that most of the jingoists are completely out of their depth as regards the matter under discourse, or have not much clue as to what the referenced written piece is about.

Really, it doesn’t matter what the subject matter is; sooner or later, the Igbo and Yoruba tribal warriors arrive and pollute the whole place.

It could be a write-up on the dearth of rainfall on the Appalachian Mountains; before you know it, the whole matter would degenerate into an Igbo vs. Yoruba mudsling. A dishevelled Yoruba commentator would limp in and might weigh-in with a post that the rainfall in Yoruba land is better than what obtains in the Southeast, or vice versa. Before very long, inelegant and sophomoric insults are being lobbed between the tribal warriors. A proper analysis, a sensible/enjoyable discussion of the write-up is completely derailed. This has become the unfortunate pattern.

The goal sometimes appears to be to see who can spill the most bile, who can be the most uncouth. Often, anonymous nincompoops will unleash crude insults and unintelligent diatribe at redoubtable persons who have over many years made great names for themselves and have brought accolade to the country through their hard work, talent and abilities. Some of these tribal maulers take perverse delight in hauling abuse at illustrious men and women and other high-achievers - persons to whom they could ordinarily not hold a candle; persons they cannot carry their sandals or even jockstrap – before turning the vitriol on themselves.

I’m not sure, but it does appear that most of the tribal warlords are domiciled outside Nigeria. And I don’t quite know what effect that very fact has on their psyche.

I often get the impression that the feeling of dislike between the two groups is fairly deep and I’m not even certain of the genesis of such hatred, such bile. However, a lot of the combatants tend to reference the civil war of 1967, Awolowo, and starved children. Other times, it appears the animus might also be rooted in the manner Zik and some of his NCNC compatriots got bounced from the leadership of the Western House of Assembly back in 1951. Still, sometimes, it seems the enterprising commercial nature and success of the Igbo is a sore point.

Whatever. But giving the level of venom thrown back and forth between these tribal warlords online, I sometimes wonder whether some of these people might actually deliberately harm each other in real life. It often seems to me that an Igbo worker might deliberately sabotage his Yoruba colleague’s effort at work if the chance presents itself, and vice versa.

Ironically, these two nation-groups are Nigeria’s most dynamic. They are great tribes. They have contributed immensely to our collective development and progress. However, the constant bickering of some of them, their juvenile posturing, their insult-fest, is fouling up our local cyberspace and spoiling the fun for the rest of us.

Moreover, over the years, due to migration and movement, educational pursuit, and the NYSC scheme, there has been, and continues to be a lot of inter-marriage between these two great peoples. But I wonder today what some of the offspring from such union make of the hang-ups of some of their adults who persist in dressing one another in clumsy and garbage tribal stereotypes. I can only imagine the confusion of some of those youngsters.

But the internet tribal warriors are not paying any attention. They revel in their nuisance. They toss about their oxymoronic phrase du jour: ‘educated illiterate’ like it is candyfloss. All sorts of degenerate stereotypes are hauled at each other to prop-up a warped point of view. Paradoxically, most of them fail to see – or are too thick to realise that their very action, their utterances are actually injurious to whatever tribal cause or honour they assume they are championing or defending.

And so, just as I have learnt to skip most unknown emails and those unsolicited ‘kind greetings’ messages I often get on my social media pages, I am beginning to learn to give some Nigerian discussion forums a wide berth because of Igbo/Yoruba incessant and obnoxious display of tribal pettiness.

Come to order boys, or you are proving right Samuel Jonson when he pronounced that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel…

demdem@hotmail.co.uk
Twitter:demdemdem1

http://saharareporters.com/article/igbo-vs-yoruba-michael-egbejumi-david

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Crime / Re: 4 Convicts Hanged In Edo by Starlett: 11:10am On Jun 25, 2013
Speechless.
lipsrsealed

Speechless.
Politics / Re: A Tale Of 2 Water Works.....pics by Starlett: 10:37pm On Jun 22, 2013
Interesting analysis
Family / Re: How Often Do Your Wear Your Wedding Ring? by Starlett: 8:27pm On Jun 19, 2013
Fhemmmy: I never leave home without it

Same with me!
But I hardly wear it when am home, though. So, it's more like the defining part of my dressing, if you like.
Politics / Re: Soyinka - The Village Mourners - A Must-read Bombshell by Starlett: 1:50pm On Jun 19, 2013
wellmax:

My favorite paragraph, but who's WS referring too na?

Methinks he refers to those who for some reason, are giving him "knocks" for not showing up at Achebe's funeral. Gist of some of their unsavoury comments may have reached the ears of WS much the same way it got to him about the White ram gift. lol. We Africans need to grow up in some respects. I wouldn't blame our culture for this one, but rather some "atavistic" worldviews of a bigotted few!

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Politics / Soyinka - The Village Mourners - A Must-read Bombshell by Starlett: 10:55am On Jun 19, 2013
Nigerians who are old enough will surely recall the source of the above title. For others, I ought to narrate its origin. Fortunately, early this year, I delivered a lecture at the University of Ibadan, where I made a passing reference to the true owners of that copyright. Here is the relevant section:

“At the passing of a short-lived dictator, his successor decreed two weeks of mourning, two weeks during which the nation went into a coma. Even the television and radio stations closed down – nothing but martial and funereal music was played, while churches and mosques took over the abandoned air-waves to drown the nation in suras and canticles of lachrymose outpouring. A very sharp group quickly formed something that was called the National Mourners Association – clever lot! While the nation was quarantined and bogged down in the orgy of lamentation, they were touring the world, sponsored by government, to take the gospel of anguish to every corner of the world that boasted a Nigerian diplomatic mission.”

Yes, that was at the death of General Murtala Mohammed. But now, we turn to address the latest progenies of that association, operating in a different clime and context, but cacophonously enmeshed in variations on that ancient tune.

When that day comes that individuals encounter hostility over their sensibilities in dealing with loss in their own way, privately, away from public eye, with or without symbolic public gestures, then we are witnessing the end, not simply of plain civility, but of civilization, and the enthronement of Fascism. It is not the intolerance and excess of a moment’s excitation, but of a cultivated arrogance and will to imposition, one that attempts to dictate the private responses of others to shared events. Once again we are confronted with the Nigerian phenomenon of the egregious appropriation of what is not on offer and thus, is not subject to dispute. Where frustrated, these claimants reel out chapters from their Book of Imprecations.

Let it be stated here, for the avoidance of doubt, that I am a solid believer in the collective rites of Farewell. I believe in Ritual. Humanity is often assisted to reconcile with loss in a collective, and even spectacular mode. The choice to participate or not, however, belongs to each individual, including even those who arrogate to themselves the mission of imposing on others their own preferred mode of bidding farewell. These self-righteous clerics are dangerous beings, especially where they flaunt the credentials of secular learning and gather in caucuses of presumed Humanities. From the herd, the mindless Internet fiddlers for whom the landing of a planetary probe, or a medical breakthrough is simply distraction from fraudulent internet mailing, nothing less is expected. What menaces the collective health of society is when the deserving highs of intellectual application of the former, become indistinguishable from the loutish low of the latter.

I do not pander to the expectations of the sanctimonious. I can absent myself from any event, for reasons that are personal to me. I can absent myself as the result of a mundane domestic situation, as legitimately as from a visceral rejection of occupancy of the same space, at the same time, in the same cause, with certain other participants. I may absent myself for the very reason of my disdain for that breed which is certain to cavil at the very fact of my absence. Such specimens pollute the very space they claim to honour. Sputter and rage they may, but even the most illustrious of that ilk cannot control that choice, neither will they be permitted free passage to encroach upon, and abuse the private spaces of human responsiveness.

I shall speak to them directly: your psychological profile is commonplace. It is not the honour to Chinua that agitates you, no, it is your own self-regarding that seeks to be reflected in the homage to a departed colleague. It does not take a psycho-analyst to recognize this phenomenon of greedy acquisitiveness, even of immaterial products. Like emotional parasites, you feed off others, but you have never learnt to value what others give, or be thereby nourished. I recognize you, atavistic minds – was it not your type that once disseminated an unbelievably primitive accounting for Chinua Achebe’s motor accident? Here goes the story, for those who seek light relief from ponderous unctuousness:

What happened was that I found myself unable to return to Nigeria for a Colloquium in honour of Chinua’s sixtieth birthday. My dramatic mind immediately scrambled for some striking manner of compensation. So I telephoned a business friend who had some agricultural connections in Delta State and told him: find the chunkiest, spotless ram in Delta State – all white or all black, but a thoroughbred of striking physique. Find a leather pouch, tie it to its neck with the following message and deliver it at the venue of the Colloquium. I no longer recall the exact dictated wording, nothing inspirational, just the usual felicitations and injunctions to turn that ram into asun for general feasting.

Those who attended the event will recall the grand entry of the gift - as reported by one and all, including the foreign visitors, and Chinua’s reported reaction, seated on the podium. He shook head and said, “Typical of Wole”. The ram was then led off to meet its destiny at the hands of the gathered. (As a side note, it was I who took a gift away from his seventieth at Bard University – a sobering flash of time past that resulted in my ELEGY FOR A NATION. I had that poem re-published to mark the day of his funeral.)

Our story is only beginning. On the way back from that celebration, Chinua had his accident and was flown to the United Kingdom. At the first opportunity, I made my way there and called up the High Commissioner, Dove-Edwin, who was certain to know the hospital location. It turned out that he also planned a visit that afternoon, and he agreed to give me a ride. We waited – I was joined by two others – waited, and waited, then a phone call came from him that the visit had been called off. The High Commissioner would explain why, on arrival – over a promised dinner, as compensation.

That explanation was this: Dove-Edwin had received communication that some of “Chinua’s people” – a university professor among them, who was named – had pronounced publicly that “Chinua should have known better than to accept a spotless ram from his enemy” – yes, that was the word used – “enemy”. I verified this report from various other sources. Later, an alternative diagnosis surfaced: “Chinua had been too long away from the chieftaincy politics of his hometown, otherwise he would have realized that the title that he took was coveted by some others – and these were deeply steeped in traditional psychic combat”. In short, those rivals “did him in”. Both diagnoses competed for dominance for a while, petering out eventually.

Before the promotion of that alternative cause-and-effect however, Dove-Edwin had re-scheduled, and we had a most bracing, optimistic afternoon with Chinua. Yes, our patient was eventually told the cause of the earlier postponement, and he had a good laugh. On my return to Nigeria, I could not wait to take the opportunity of a public lecture to invite all desperate enemies to please send me their rams of choice – spotless, spotted, piebald, striped or nondescript – so I could treat starving writers to free meals in my home for the rest of the year. And I promised to taste a piece of each ram before serving.

Yes, it is that same breed that continues to sow poison in the minds of the susceptible. Alas for you, it so happens that some of us insist on our own way of commemorating, of being there, even when absent. You, by contrast were never there, however ostentatiously you position yourselves at the event, or at vicarious gatherings to denounce, attribute sinister motivations, and inseminate hate against those whom your pedestrian vision cannot see. Your very loudness proclaims your absence. You were always absent. You will always be absent. So, this communication is not really meant for you but for those potential almajiri – whose minds you corrupt daily with your jeremiads in that accomodating madrassa known as Internet. As a teacher, I lament your failure to use the opportunity of the passing of a revered writer to turn your younger generation in enlightened directions. You have chosen instead to coarsen their sensibilities and breed in their minds misunderstanding, suspicion and above all – hate!

You will have understood by now how I have come to view you as no different from the homicidal clerics who arm youths with kerosene and match, cudgel and knife, a few Naira in their beggars’ bowls, and dispatch them to set fire to structures of comradely cohabitation, of reflection, of mind enlargement, and destroy communities of learning. Your gospel of separatism goes beyond the geographical – in which I have not the slightest interest! – but the humanistic. The difference is in the weapon – in your case, poison, mind corrosion. The means – Internet, and its wide open, undiscriminating generosity. That is where you lay spores of poison, and doom future generations to a confinement of human relationships within the darkest corners of the mind.


You are beyond pity. Kindly absent your selves from my funeral, when that event finally intrudes.
Wole SOYINKA
http://saharareporters.com/column/village-mourners-association-wole-soyinka

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Nairaland / General / Re: Man Commits Suicide In Onitsha.(pictures) by Starlett: 10:45am On Jun 19, 2013
How could such a thin-looking rope sustain his weight?
And how come the point of anchor of the rope on the tree is not that visible?
Other aspects of the picture look like genuine suicide by hanging, though. i.e, no foul play.

Did he leave a suicide note? This is sad and my thots go out to his family.

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Sports / Re: Echejile Disqualified As First Goal Scorer Against Tahiti by Starlett: 10:36am On Jun 19, 2013
In that case, FIFA should also review Oduamadi's wrongfully disallowed goal and include it in the final tally, making 7-1 in favour of our great SE!
Politics / Re: Kenyan President Orders Deportation Of Nigerians Involved In Drug Trafficking by Starlett: 11:20am On Jun 18, 2013
Problem is the use of the word or description "suspected", which means that these guys don't even need to have anything on you per se. It means that even the slightest suspicion is enough for them to deport you without recourse to the court and justice system there. Sounds to me like the Kenya police have got tacit approval to illegally deport hordes of foreigners (may not be targetted at Nigerians only), particularly those who're doing well.

My advice to my fellow brothers over there is this: Make the necessary preparations just in case. Have your emergency contacts memorised, form a stronger network in the Nigerian community there, and if you can, simply sell off your assets and COME BACK HOME. There are enough investment opportunities in Aba, Adamawa or Abraka for any hardworking honest Nigerian.

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Politics / Re: APC Zones Presidential Slot To The North by Starlett: 11:09am On Jun 18, 2013
I nor talk am? I've said it emphatically to many that my problem about APC is that they will end up fielding a presidential candidate of northern extraction - which would tilt the 2015 elections in GEJ's favour. Why? Simply because Nigerian politics is yet to transcend the level of tribal and sectional sentiments. Besides, we're even more divided now than we were in 2011 when southerners massively voted GEJ and the North massively voted for Buhari.
Now, if APC truly wanted to give PDP a run for it's money at the polls, all they need to is to field a young dynamic Southerner (perhaps even from the South south) who would challenge both PDP and GEJ point for point on how best to preside over the sorry state of our affairs and economy in this trying times. Unfortunately, they won't do that; rather they're going to zone it to the north, knowing fully well that following the evil atrocities committed by BH and the tacit indifference/politicking by the so-called "northern elders", your average southerner is not prepared to vote in any northerner for a long long time to come.

Eiyaa. GEJ, na u chop from this one! angry

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Sports / Re: Nigeria Vs Tahiti - Confederations Cup: (6 - 1) On 17th June 2013 by Starlett: 8:35pm On Jun 17, 2013
Nigeria 69%
Tahiti 31%
Politics / Re: June 12 20TH Anniversary: Drop Your Thoughts by Starlett: 2:45pm On Jun 12, 2013
kingsle66: I Thought they said igbos should forget the war?? Why can't yorubas forget june12 ? undecided

Whhaaaat?? Whoever said that? Nobody should forget the Biafran war, please! Not even those who fought on the Nigerian side. Else that would be a sure way of going down the path to another civil war speedily.

See guys, we can afford to learn from history without allowing the scars to blind us from the opportunities of today.
That's my take.
Politics / Re: June 12 20TH Anniversary: Drop Your Thoughts by Starlett: 2:13pm On Jun 12, 2013
talk2macs: Abiola was anything but a hero, He was elevated and destroyed by the military

Any proof of the first part of your comment?
Politics / Re: June 12 20TH Anniversary: Drop Your Thoughts by Starlett: 1:53pm On Jun 12, 2013
safarigirl: I wasn't born as at then, I'm just tired of people beeching on about an event that is as old as a University graduate. It's like Biafra, e don happen, stop crying about the past and look ahead, how come the Aba women's riot hasn't been overflogged like this? Wasn't it also a historical turning point in our political history? Na every June 12 una go dey talk of 'death of democracy' and people go dey drop epistle on the matter like sey na their papa dem win, yet una go just post finish go sleep until next June 12, nothing achieved. Abeg we get match today, make we talk the one wey we dey alive to see presently.

HIstorical events can never be forgotten simply because those who are around today weren't eye witnesses. No nation does that and prospers. No way. and for your info, Safarigirl, the Aba women's riot hasn't been forgotten at all. It's still a reference point in History classes and labour struggles. Point is, you can never tell who's going to be inspired by what historical event and arise to do something different in our generation!
Politics / Re: June 12 20TH Anniversary: Drop Your Thoughts by Starlett: 1:51pm On Jun 12, 2013
Mistade Regal:
Who told you he is the man? Don't you know he hates Christians?

For real? The same man who died singing Christian hymns

I think we can take it for granted that Abiola died for Nigeria's good. He chose to stick to a popular mandate rather than renounce it and enjoy his money peacefully. What we don't know is if he would have equally made a good leader. we don't know if after 2 yrs in the saddle, his whole attention would have been turned to re-election politiking, and if after 8 yrs in the saddle, he would have started sharing GMG's to NASS members in a 3rd term bid. But perhaps such low life attributes can only be associated with those who didn't win a popular mandate like MKO did.

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Politics / Re: June 12 20TH Anniversary: Drop Your Thoughts by Starlett: 12:24pm On Jun 12, 2013
REHOZIBAH: It so curious dat d response page 4 dis subject mata hasn't reached 20 or mor

Its obvious dat majority of 2day's NLers responders r youths who probably wer not around or too juvenile to recall wat happened during d June 12,93 struggle

Dats y dey feel a sense of triumphalism wt d present state of events in our country

Dey kno no beta cos dey grew up to kno n adopt ethnicity,religious intolerance n divide n rule tactics of d present occupiers of Federal powers(not individuals but d reactionary elites)

Dats y it always pains me 2d marrow seeing an ibo xtian lampooning a hausa muslim,n a yoruba guy calin an ibo man derogatory names cos d plan of d elites is seriously working

Dat is to kip us divided amongst ourselves wyl dey laff us to derision in d inner sanctum of dia palatial mansion

I fully participated in d activities of June 12,93 from d Onipanu-Jibowu axis of Ikd Rd

Evri nigerian irrespective of tongue n creed rose up in unison against d maradonic IBB regime

Even d Hausas wer veri livid abt ao tyns bcame n wer supplying us wt food stuffs wc our mothers then cook to bring back to us on d exp rd wyl daring d military

Even d military wil tel us wat dia orders wer n tel us 2 do as if dey r repelling us cos dey didn't wnt to shed any innocent blood until wen it bcame obvious pipo wer nt prepared to back down b4 d military bcame tough n started killing pipo n shooting in2 our midst

Several leaders came arnd 2 cheer us up

Ndubuisi Kanu,Arthur Nwankwo,Gani Fawehinmi n several odas

We wer 1 united pipo not lik wats obtainable 2day

June 12 was a watershed,notin can ever compare wt it!


Touché! Well spoken. But my concern is that even if we weren't that old then, how about other historical events that all eye witnesses to have long passed away, but are still being debated and analyzed by people today. WHY CAN'T WE EQUALLY STUDY JUNE 12 even if for the historical benefit?

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