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[size=20pt]I LOVE THE STARVING GAZANS LOL[/size]


SURELY STARVING. CAN WE STARVE LIKE THAT HERE IN NIGERIA??

@Davidylan, you couldnt have done a better Job, but remember it was written they shall hear but not understand, look but not see.

@Cohomology, yea u sure love the bible. I wonder if its the one u wrote

@Travelista

ignorance is so bad. anti-semite worse. You see most of the world (including you) will never stop hating Isreal, and no matter how much u hate them, they are still God's people. Please mind how you talk and check your facts properly. Even archeologists have worked in that land Isreal and seen their culture and ppl existed more than 2000yrs but because u r anti-semite, i guess u r most wise.

@ Davidylan Thanks for trying to educate her. You didnt waste your time at all.

Looking at history and comparing to current situation
1. Isreal has fought many wars with her arab neighbours and at all incident was provoked.
2. Some of Isreal neighbours dont agree Isreal has right to live.
3. Hamaz (the gov in gaza) wants Isreal destroyed.
4. The flotila was attacked by Isreal in international waters after it refused to obey instruction regarding gaza blockade.
5. Beaf and other NL want Isreal condemned and blockade lifted.
Well ,
6. The world condemns Isreal, Isreal lifts blockade. Ofcourse Syria and Iran will rearm Hamaz. Hamaz will pick a fight. Isreal will definitely deal with Hamaz, Isreal will bomb gaza back 20yrs. In its "disproportionate use of force" Isreal will send tanks into Gaza, retaking it and ofcourse many Hamaz bullet proofs(women and children) will be wasted, last time it was about 1000. With the blockade removed, am estimating 18,000. and ofcourse Isreal will feel more need for the blockade and puts it back with stiffer rules. Work done ZERO!!!

With the blockade Isreal is helping Gazans

There is no need debating this, Isreal is doing what she has to do to survive. God is behind them all that u guys are yapping is story. It continues, all the countries and UN can do is condemn Isreal and you come to nairaland to talk, thats all. Isreal still lives stronger daily.
You guys should find something better to do.

Too bad for IBB, lwkm.
He is surely getting to his destination , madness.

Some1 should advise the Federal Government to insist the Super eagles play the June 12th world cup match with argentina in on a sad note to remind nigerians of the evil this moronic IBB can visit on a nation unfortunately Nigeria.

princekevo:
My brother, that is all bullshi.t are these the weapons you are talking abt or was there anyother weapons meantion by any other news?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/10195838.stm
Oh, C'mon, this is an Israeli Commandos we are talkin abt here if you understand what that means. How can the above listed be a resistance weapon that would lead them into killing 10innocent civilians on board? Mind you the convoy vessel must have at least securities which explains the fact of the 2guns found on board.

menawhile this is the comment from a lady(a civilian) onboard the ship

This jst  like a military man shooting you aside(ordinary civilian) becoz you resisted him with a mere stick

Try and resist a military man anywhere in the world with a stick and a knife, i guess u didnt read knife there ,

chidichris:
when odi community was attacked and killed, no many of us commented or condemed that action but it is great to see how many of us iranian president's wanna bes are calling for isreal to be wiped out of the map.
assuming we have agreed on this call, who will bell the cat? maybe nigeria?
i laugh over someone calling on international communities to intervene. how many times have international communities intervened in the palistan/isreali problems and what are the outcomes?
it is important we apoproach this matter from the root. a man whose house is sourounded by enemies is always on the lookout.
palestan(hamas) has been asked on several occassions to recognise isreal and their right to exist which they unconditionally rejected.
if isreal has no right to exist, then palestan will not have to peace of mind.
i hope the parties involved are not as surprised as uninformed nigerians.

WORD!! i keep saying there r so many wishful nigerians in NL

[quote author=na2day! link=topic=454471.msg6123298#msg6123298 date=1275301521]I'm not condoning what Israel did!, in this informatn age, we definitely need to separate fact from fiction. I've been following these developments for some weeks now, are u aware dat one of the sponsors of d flotilla is muslim brotherhood? an organisatn known for d support of some terrorist organisations. The aid convoy was specifically planned to put israel in a bad light and i'm sure they must've put up a serious fight to maximise casualties, d israelis commandos should've boarded with stunguns. To some of u saying israel does not want peace, remember they gave gaza back and all they got in return was hundreds of qassams raining on their cities! please give israel a break, those protesters knew what they were getting into, they were used as pawns.[/quote]Gbam!!! i wish they could see from your name that its not today.

@poster, when someone threatens to kill u, you should report to police, but here there is no police, u deal with it. Palestinians shouldnt expect isrealis to still hold back and look on while they want isreal's destruction. Thank God Obama now knows how far, waiting for his condemnation (which may not come, as against his first months in office). Who knows the contents of those boats?? Peace activists with knives?? yea jihad activists with peace knives. maybe rubber knives.

@Tadeus

Thanks for your little answer or what ever it is u just did. Nigerians are very loud wishers, if wishes were horses ,

If i may ask, for whom are you all writing this?? Are you writing it in hope that by writing it things will get better (Say maybe God will come to NL and see all your wishes and grant u that)?? Yeye nigerians, they are still decieving themselves. It wont change by writing all that here. Talk talk talk.


i hope i didnt dash some hopes??

Greatest Nigeria!!!!! Great Nigeria !!!!!

PapaBrowne:
How much do you think the bank makes on the 5 Million deposit You think that the money automatically becomes the bank's own??
FYI, the money belongs to the depositor and the average maximum COT that can accrue to the bank from that amount is actually just 25k using the standard 0.5% rate.

So if the bank will make only 25k on COT(in most transactions there would be no COT) from the 5 million you brought in, then I think that if they give you 25k, they are been way too generous!!

Nigerians and una"suffering worker" mentality!! If I had my way, I will hardly employ any Nigerian workers!!!

You wrote exactly my mind. Also Remember that the COT if applicable might be only once as some ppl open accounts and leave it dormant, but the bank will keep paying the 25k monthly. Its not a matter of resigning or saying nigerians dont have feelings.
The truth is that Nigeria is a very hard environment for business to survive. So businesses are paying what they can to survive. I realised that unlike papabrown most of the posters arent looking at this issue from business owner's point of view. Though i feel its wrong for the worker to finance his marketing drive from the same 25k salary.

Can all this stop IBB?? But truely, the guy no get shame.

ladi02:
Dude, you are the one talking rubbish, the same way you can come here and encourage people to vote for IBB is the same way i can ask people not to vote for him. You wonder why the country is not moving forward, but when we have people like u the country doesnt need enemies!

Your response doesnt come across like someone that has the interest of the country instead someone that is tribal or money induced, dont worry with time we will kick you bloody malos out of the country, backward thinking morons!

Gbam!!

Adding insult to injury

Onlytruth:


Look, I believe in a Nigeria that works. I don't believe in the one that does not. I also hate an unjust Nigeria, even if it turns out to be "heaven" for some, not for me.

If you think that my belief in a Wole Soyinka presidency in 1998 was infantile, then your opposition to an IBB president today is (for lack of a better word) naive.


Yes, after restructuring! I don't see any other person capable or willing to do it from the north. You would even be most naive to assume that the north will not get back the presidency next year.

You think he will restructure?? What will he restructure?? please tell me. Its incredible that some nigerians could be thinking how you are thinking. No wonder some believe nothing good can ever come out of nigeria. Same old sh.i.t. Onlytruth pls wake up. stop dreaming!!

Onlytruth:
^^^
You may not believe it but I'm actually looking for the solution to Nigeria's problems.
You cannot have a carnival in the middle of a war. What you do first is stop the war, then you can throw a huge party.
Most people here are thinking like I was in 1998 when I was wondering why Wole Soyinka could not become president. Instead it was a criminal in jail called Obasanjo that was dusted up. That was the real Nigeria then, this is the real Nigeria now. We do not have a system that can produce an Obama. Not yet. After restructuring and some serious rectifications, we will then have an environment for that. Right now, it is utopia.
If you cannot follow this logic, I cannot help you.

have you not heard the saying, "aim for the Moon, if you miss, you might hit a star"?? I dont believe in what you said above. And what makes you think IBB will do what you are insunuating?? What gives you that assurance?? If you think he has changed, or will offer anything better than those torture of eight years, you are seriously day dreaming. Nigeria has people that can take this nation to greatness, IBB is good, unless ofcourse Nigeria is doomed, just as many have said here.

Onlytruth:
You are the teenager, trying to shut up your father.  

I wont waste my morning discussing with you, your logic defies reason. You are damn right!! i will shut my father up if he acts or reasons or speaks like a teenager.
He whom the gods want to destroy, they first make mad. You are a symbol of everything wrong with this entity called Nigeria.

@kobojunkie, save your strength, dont argue with teenagers.

@Onlytruth and ur like, "Just shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up !!!!"

Nigeria is truely incredible!
A people deserve the leaders they get ,

Na wa ohhh!!

@bk,
Sorry oohhh!! you are a pity!

This is a big april fool.

Its not on www.ewtn.com. i wonder which other news source has it??

@ poster what can you do or have you done to correct it??
If the answer is nothing, then shut d f.ck up!!

NL is filled with whinners that arent doing anything to change the status quo. All they do is complain!!
I dont think Nigerian movies are the best they can be, but if you wont do anything to change it, then shut up! Same goes with everything in Nigeria.

Remii:
yes, the same Bob D did elaborate Ovation edition for Abacha family, not to talk of supporting musical concert to support Abacha's continuity in power,

That is y he can authoritatively say a curse is on Nigeria, the curse is on him first. There is no curse on me oohh. I reject it. Its on YOU!

Beaf:
The House of Reps and Senate are our highest law making bodies, their word in law supersedes yours by an incalculable margin.

I wonder oohh!!

cap28:
i was under the impression that the appointment of jonathan WAS in breach of s 145 of the constitution because power was not transferred by way of a written letter by Yaradua nor was it transferred  by way of a declaration by Yaradua's former cabinet - so perhaps Yaradua's cronies have a point.

Their point is always confusion and thieving, of course they always have a point. But does their point serve the interest of nigeria??

What would change nigeria --- Nothing except break up!
When will nigeria change --- Never except it breaks up!!
How will nigeria change ---- When nairalanders quit cowardise, stop hiding under anonimity and take actions, not writing rubish on NL forum. Just talk talk talk them sabi.

Mind u am not an apostle of break up but its the sad truth.

monkeyleg:
Real prostitue that man, he really stands for nothing

I agree with you man. Its hard to find any nigerian that stands for anything now, especially the politicians.

@mokeyleg,
Didnt he know the MO b4 joining AC, the guy is desperate and confused. I thought he was also forming mega party??

Pirates late Thursday attacked a Turkish cargo ship off the coast of Nigeria, near Lagos, injuring three crew members, Turkey's state-run news agency Anatolian reported yesterday.

According to the agency report, about 10 pirates with automatic weapons boarded the ship named Ozay 5, robbing the crew of money and cellphones but fled after the ship began making distress calls. The ship's cargo was not damaged in the attack.
Two of the injured crew were Turkish and one was Nigerian, Anatolian, quoted the Turkish Maritime Under-secretariat in Ankara as saying.

In a written press release, the Turkish Under-secretariat of Maritime Affairs confirmed that Ozay-5 was attacked on Thursday night by at least eight sea pirates.

“The pirates seized all cash money, mobile telephones and other valuable items in the ship. The pirates and the crew members began fighting with each other when a crew member pushed the alarm button of the ship.
“The sea pirates left the ship after spraying bullets on the personnel saloon. There were no major injuries or mass property damage in the ship. The injured crew members have been taken to a hospital in Lagos. Their injuries were not life threatening,” the Turkish Maritime Affairs Agency said.

There are fears in the maritime sector over the rising status of Nigeria among countries with high rate of pirate attacks.
Latest report from the International Maritime Bureau Piracy Reporting Centre in London, United Kingdom shows that Nigeria is now next to Somalia in the list of countries whose waters have been invaded by pirates.
Specifically, the IMB report showed that only 20 percent of the attacks carried out around the Lagos waters are reported.
It said: “Nigeria ranks second in attacks with 40 reported incidents including 27 vessels boarded, five hijackings and 39 crew members kidnapped.

“The bureau explained that approximately 100 unconfirmed incidents occurred in Nigeria last year.
“Under-reporting from vessels involved in incidents in the Nigerian waters remains a great concern,” it said.
It was learnt that the reported attacks were just the tip of the iceberg as many operators are reluctant to file reports due to commercial pressures or fear of reprisals.

“While only 20 attacks were officially reported to IMB in 2009, information received from external sources indicates that at least 50 per cent of attacks on vessels, mostly related to the oil industry, have gone unreported,” said the bureau.
The International Maritime Organisation agency also added that piracy in West Africa rose, saying shipping in Tema, Ghana, Benin and in the Lagos and Bonny River areas of Nigeria, was risky.

The bureau director, Pottengal Mukundan explained that in Nigeria, “there were 13 reported and 24 unreported attacks in the second quarter of
2009, mainly against vessels supporting the oil industry.”

Across the continent, marauding sea gangs have attacked many ships off the East Coast of Africa in recent years, winning ransoms of millions of dollars.
Overall, the IMB said 78 vessels were boarded worldwide last year, “75 vessels fired upon and 31 vessels hijacked with some 561 crew taken hostage, 19 injured, seven kidnapped, six killed and eight missing.”
Mukundan also noted that while Somalia was getting some media attention for its problems, a worrying trend had emerged off the coast of Nigeria.

He recalled that in October 2009, a product tanker was attacked off the coast of Lagos by six pirates armed with knives and guns.
“Unlike Somalia, Nigeria has an effective central government and the strongest navy in the region. What is worrying is that there appears to be no political will to combat the problem of piracy off their coast, despite the country being a major oil exporter and the country’s economy being heavily reliant on imports of other goods,” Mukundan said.

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=169557

Second to Somalia now soon we go overtake them!

I wonder why we waste time replying to this.

A DEAD MAN is nothing but DEAD. it will be nice to see a resurrection shaa, the guy don turn to dracular??

”I open a new chapter in the history of Nigeria and the Commonwealth, and indeed of the world”
- Late Prime Minister, Abubakar Balewa, Independence Broadcast to the Nation, October 1,1960.

”I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know; the only ones among you who will
be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve” – Albert Scweitzer.

Nobody can say exactly which constitution is working the actions of the Nigerian government since the eclipse of the Obasanjo third term aspirations.

We were not sure where it is written in the Nigerian Constitution that, a serving Nigerian President, or for that matter, an Acting President, must appoint a battalion of surrogates, mainly those who helped him win elections, into the executive seats of Federal Ministers.

After these years of over flowing oil income what have we to show for it? Why do we need more than forty ministers and deputy ministers?

At the end of the day, who makes those appointments and what are the parameters and considerations leading to those appointments? Secondly what exactly is the job description of these Ministers and their Deputies?

Apart from attending long winding conferences and attending Executive briefs, approving heavy estacodes for their ever traveling trains, awarding contracts to party stalwarts, relations, girl friends and etc., we are not sure, and we keep wondering what these Nigerian ministers really do from 9am to 5pm on a daily basis.

If the Nigerian Minister of Works and Transportation is alive and breathing , then who is ex Minister Anenih, and why are most of Federal roads like the roads in Katanga? And there is always a senior and junior minister living in Roman opulence in Abuja.

Why don’t the Ministers depart Abuja for once, and troop down to the killer Ore – Ondo road, and other bad federal roads, camp there until the jobs are done? Where are the Nigerian senior and junior ministers of health when the the Head of State disappeared on health grounds?

Hon. Nigerian Minister of Health, can you point to a village health care center built by your administration any where in the country? Minister my foot! Who is the Minister of Power? I figure he is enjoying the best of Abuja.

The Honorable is not embarrassed by the Nigerian peculiar power situation. In a most disturbing feature, the Washington Post recently disclosed that, Nigeria is the greatest importer of generators in the world.

Understandably, we are without restraints emitting carbon monoxide and slowly poisoning and killing our oxygen and environment. Who is the Nigerian Minister of the Environment and what are his antecedents before his appointment?
Who is the Spokesperson for the Government?

The Minister of Information or the Press Secretary to the President? And when is it important to talk to the people on behalf of the government? When there is a major commissioning of a landmark project, like the announcement of a new modern Railways, the commissioning of new Agricultural project aimed at improving the production of staples to stem mass hunger in the country.

An announcement of that nature would include the capture and the persecution of the insurrectors and religious savages, kidnappers, who have held the nations’ security agencies at ransom.

The Minister of Information is only relevant and can therefore speak on development projects and win the peoples approval of the government which is seen as tacking those issues which are of maximum value to the citizens. Incidentally, and automatically the value laden communication enables that responsible Government carry the people along.

Otherwise, the infantile issues of the President using the rest room or the details of how he presides over his battalion of Ministers are not within the purview of the citizenry. We are not interested.

Elsewhere,the Nigerian Embassy in Washington, like the NTA International are at this moment selling the false impression and portraying Nigeria as a Muslim country.

Over eighty percent of the NTA programs show bias and depict northern Nigerian peoples culture and civilization with very few pictures of other peoples ways of life in that federation.

This type of running order is detestable, as the leading Nigerian American population according to the US census figures are not Northerners. Who is incharge of NTA and who is the Commissioner of Information?

On the other hand, the Nigerian embassy as of yesterday, is still hanging on its large reception wall the face of Umoru YarAdua as the President of Nigeria. That has been overtaken by the events of the last fortnight.

A savvy Foreign Minister sees and projects himself as the reliable window of the country, he represents. In times of national impasse, he should, by all intents and purposes be held, to be credible.

If Christian Ambassadors cannot serve in the Muslim world namely; Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Morocco, Kuwait, Yemen, Tunisia, Algeria, etc, then do not send to Christian America, Ireland, Netherlands, Italy, England, South Africa, Muslim Ambassadors who will on Fridays close down their mission. Nigeria is a Christian country, also a Muslim entity, but a predominantly pagan society.

Ask the Egbusi Shrine of the Ijaw nation, the apostles of the Yoruba …meta lo-kan worship, and please read again two Nigerian literary deities: Achebe in the Arrow of God, and Cyprain Ekwensi’s, A Passport for Mallam Ilya. That is why it is always safe to call the whole contraption a secular federation.

The former Nigerian Foreign Minister like the Oil Minister have had their best days in the past. They are like most of the forty -two ministers, been in government for all their lives. If according to Bola Ige, ministerial appointment in Nigeria, is rather an assignment for those who want to ”come and eat ” the Lukemen, Ojos, Egwus, the Hon. Lames and the businessman Alieros should all call it a day. For one thing, we know that the former Attorney General is not coming back.

Which ever constitution you would like to reference from ; Mr. former Attorney General is from Benue. Already seated as the Chief Justice of Nigeria is Justice Katsina Alu. The President of the Senate, the highest law making body is General David Mark. All the three are from the Middle Belt region if not from the same state. The principle of federal character faults his recall.

Seriously, if the Acting President rides the moment and decides to carve out his niche he will not only appoint missionaries but should go ahead and cut down to only thirteen the number of the ministers. These important ministries are;

Finance, Justice, Health, Education, Defence, Power, Works and Transport, Agriculture and Water Resources, Foreign Affairs, Internal Affairs, Economic Planning, Industries, and Environment.

What else can anybody say is the significance of a Nigerian Minister at this exigent period of our national life? My dear country men, Nigeria if you don’t mind, may not need the services of these type of officers. The Acting President is into more action since he fired all those Alibaba ministers. The world has not come to an end!!!

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/03/22/jonathan-and-the-forty-alibaba-ministers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+vanguardngr%2FdIeb+%28Vanguard+News+Feed%29

And the world will not end!

Tadeus:
I agree with you, but can this mark trully care gadafi madness, yes our esteem senate president can do that by putting an end to jos killing and other crisis in Nigeria. Constitution permitt Senate president as a third citizen to make decision that will protect the interest of his citizen if Mr president and vice president fails to do so.


Mark should try to defend himself by putting an end to this calamity. This is the only way senate president Mark can use to convince his citizen. Mark is the only hope for us now, let wait and see what he will do to stop this problem.

I said the later (Ghadafi) can cure the former , not the other way round .

harakiri:
Apart from hired security guards (who are well known informants), security dogs (which are not bullet proof), high fences and "Bendel insurance. . .which other "deadly" means would you recommend?

Security guards are out of the question cause they r often part of the problem. It depends on the level of protection and what u r protecting. High fence and and then Dogs are the first line of defence. The dogs are meant to alart you, giving you the so much precious minutes or seconds needed to activate the second or third lines of defences.

Its best not to "gather ant infested firewood" do that and you may need only the first line of defence. Trust me it works!

Both men are mad , though i think the later is in a better position to cure the former of his madness

harakiri:
I'm curious though. . .is there anyone here that has a licensed gun in Nigeria who has been forced at some point to kill a robber without any backlash from police?

If you find urself in such situation and you know your right and have a good lawyer, there would be no backlash. I know some cases as such.

@Topic there are many other ways of defending ur hood apart from owning a gun. killer dogs are one of them. But there are some other more deadly ways that you can control and wont fear any backlash from the police or authorities.

This is getting interesting by the day ,