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Who are these bush people calling a Versace symbol illuminati?
Haven't you guys heard of versace? It's A designer label.
I'm not supporting his lavish lifestyle though but PLEASE quit calling everythng "illuminati" it's becoming embarrassing!
*rolls eyes

26-30

OP you should have made it 18-24 then 24-30
or something like that.

There are a lot of under 21s here

solomon111: I know you were yoruba.
Your bigotry shines through you.
Yet you were claiming cross-river/calabar in another thread just to prove a point.
Smdh.

solomon111: I know you were yoruba.
Your bigotry shines through you.
Yet you were claiming cross-river/calabar in another thread just to prove a point.
Smdh.

So because I did not mention any Akwa-Ibom or Cross River person I am not from there ba?
Not everybody sees the world through their home towns you know. Especially not me. I give pay everybody their dues regardless of where they come from and I couldn't possibly care less. one of the reasons why my fiance is not from my region.
Nansense!

ATM-CARD:
.So urs is 2 b watching??Y didn't u contest?Seems u dn't hv d required qualities?Plz am just ASKINGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

Lol! which kain question be that? Is that the issue here?

2s£xy:
sweetlemon? abi my eyes dey deceive me ni? after u say u no go come nairaland?

Lol! I'm back and better. Start getting used to that

Afam4eva: You're saying just to give credence to Miss Bayelsa's victory. I'm sure the judges that allowed Miss Imo to reach the final knew that she had that size of bosom. let's not narrow this down to bosom. There's no where that it's stated that one must have big bosoms to win a beauty pagean and like someone pointed out, Agbani had little bosoms. I think Ash also has little bossom. Priyanka Chopra also has relatively small bosoms. I can't go on and on. This is not a Miss Bootylicious contest, so i don't know why you're mentioning front and back Go and check the history of the Miss world winners and tell me how many of them have measurable amount of bosoms. I can't believe i've mentioned bosoms more than ten times today just to prove a point.

Gosh! Where did I say big boobs here o? I said there must be flesh there, meaning moderate size. Google the pictures of all the women you mentioned here and compare their boobs to Miss Imo's. You just want to argue and I'm tired aleady. I have told you guys the fact. just accept it.
Cheers

Afam4eva: There's a difference between having boobs and being curvy. You can be curvy with any size of boobs as long as it relatively proportional to your body size. Miss Imo was thin and having boobs bigger than the one she has will make her look awkward.

The bottom line is that beauty queens are not flat chested. They have to have reasonable flesh there.
Chikena!
You cannot be flat chested and curvy at the same time. Do you know the meaning of the word? It means having flesh in both front and back.

Donvitalis: I hear yu..yu don win oo

lol!

Afam4eva: I'm surprised that you keep naming Bosom. This is the first time i'm hearing bosoms being associated with a beauty pageant. Lol

Miss Bayelsa is fine but her beauty is not out of this world neither is that of Miss Imo but i would pick Miss Imo above her. As a matter of fact i was tipping Miss Adamawa cos she was the winner in our Beauty pageant(Miss University Nigeria).

But it's the truth. Have you seen any boobles Miss World or Miss universe. (esp Miss universe) I know people who are into these things so I know. Haven't you heard of Miss World/ miss universe contestants having implants and removing ribs to look curvier?
Miss Adamawa was prettier than Miss Imo. Very pretty girl. I saw her earlier pictures and I tripped!

Bros Peter: Please this is not meant as an attack on the Yorubas.
Sorry to ask this but has any body of Yoruba extraction ever won a beauty award? Don't get me wrong, monkey wey no fine him mama still like am. Even though they may lack beauty but I still believe they give the best head. They suck it like they haven't eaten in days. I like my Yoruba girls die,chei!! They tend to make love like they are making a baby, I love dem die.

My goodness! Omowunmi Akinifesi, One of the most beautiful queens ever in Nigeria is proudly Yoruba!!!!!
Na wa for you!

Donvitalis: Yu mean this??

I guess that's a recent picture. She was bigger when she won. Please google her older pictures.

[quote author=Donvitalis][/quote]Agbani is very slim but she has boobs. Please check. She has more boobs than Miss Imo

Adejoro74: Politics and leadership (for good or bad): Obasanjo
Wealth and business acumen (whether real or fronting for others): Dangoge
Literature: Achebe: most roundly accomplished and most read literary giant
Sports: Kanu Nwanko
Highest degree: Ndubuisi Ekekwe: holds two PhD degrees and contributing to Africa's IT development in ways no other Nigerian has
Selflessness (as far as the eye can see): Dora Akunyili
Service to their people: Awo and Ojukwu
Religion?
Culture?

Politics : Bola Tinubu. In terms of being the most intelligent player in the game
Literature: Wole Soyinka
Religion: Pastor Enoch Adeboye. he leads a size of congregation that most pastors can only dream of
Culture: ?

Afam4eva: Can you sincerely tell me one striking feature that Miss Bayelsa had? Is it her face, height, carraige, poise or intelligence? I'm judging these girls with every variable possible.

Her face. She has universal looks. That is she has a face that looks foreign and at the same time looks Nigerian.
Her skin. Haven't you noticed how flawless it is??
And who said she is not intelligent?? "fearful and fearless" is gramatically correct. Please google the two words and how they can be used for more information.

Miss Imo might have had more confidence, but she didn't have boobs! And I don't believe she was facially prettier.

Afam4eva: You got your fair complection from you mum's side cos Akwa Ibom people are not known to be fair like Calabar people.

Lol! yes it's from my mum's side

Afam4eva: I never specicfically mentioned a height. How many ladies are up to 6ft anyways? I also didn't state that 5'7 is not the minimum required height but in pageants, the taller the better. Btw, I need to go checkout the height of Miss Bayelsa cos i don't even think she's up tp 5'8.

Btw, Ashwarai may not be that tall but she has the face and body to makeup for that.

Exactly what I'm saying. Miss bayelsa had more boobs than Miss Imo who was just too flat to win a beauty pageant. like I said, 5 ft 7 is now the minimum height for pageants

imsu.boi:
please where are you from?

Oron in Akwa-Ibom State. But my mum is from the main Calabar town in Cross River

Afam4eva: The only major difference between beauty pageant and modelling is in the facial department. In modelling, you need not to have a fine face. Body is more important but in pageant, it's face and height

Is Aishwraya Rai (not sure of the spelling) 6 ft tall? I don't even think she's up to 5 ft 9! Please I'm into the beauty/modeling world. I do photography modeling because I'm not talk enough or have the right bone structure for the runway.

Facial beauty, skin, boobs and small hips are necessary for pageants while height and bone structure with broad shoulders are necessary for the runway. Height used to be important during Bianca Onoh's time. But it's no longer necessary. 5 ft 7 is now the minimum required

iheneme: Did anybody notice Miss Kwara? That babe fine die!

I don't think you noticed Miss Kogi, or maybe you are mistaking Kogi for Kwara.
Miss Kogi was the most beautiful dark skinned girl there, followed by Miss Kano

Texas.Cowgirl:
Akudo looks below par.......not to even talk of average.
I've seen better looking street hawkers in Lagos.
You've of to be kidding me
Is skinny without shape now the defining term for beauty?

Thank you!
Beauty pageants are different from modeling. You MUST have boobs and small hips to win. Miss Imo was just too small in those areas and trust me, it will not heighten her chances at international pageants

Texas.Cowgirl:
Why are Ibos so frustrated that an ibo girl( miss Imo) didn't win? This is bad sportsmanship.

If I recall clearly, yobo's wife looked just as fake with her fake contact lens, but y'all didnt see that then. Let me not even get on Munachi

Don't mind them!
shouting Ibo up and down. let them stroll into my grandfather's compund in calabar! We don't just have facial beauty, we also have bodies to die for. Freshly baked bodies wrapped with smooth skins! Is it because Akwa-Ibom/Cross Riverans don't make noise?
Abegi!

Some people ehn!
Now let's take all your queries one by one.

1. This is the first time a Miss Bayelsa is winning a pageant hosted in Bayelsa state. So drop all this your "home state advantage" talk

2. Is Aishwraya Rai (not sure of the spelling) 6 ft tall with a slender frame and wide shoulders? Most Miss worlds and Universes do not necessarily have the model look. That's why most of them marry wealthy men after their reign.

3. "Fearful and fearless" means that the person is watchful and humble while being bold and courageous. Therefore the term is grammatically correct!

4. People are always complaining about MBGNs. I remember people criticizing Munachi and Adaeze. Bottom line. People just like to criticize. I watched that pageant. The only person I can say was cheated was miss Kogi. That girl should have been in top 5 instead of Miss Kaduna!

5. Back to Miss Imo, although she had carriage and the perfect model look, she doesn't have bosoms. Miss Adamawa is even prettier that her, I saw old photos of her before the pageant. A necessity for beauty pageants! Trust me, I know that. Most of the contestants this year were flat chested. That's what spoiled their chances.

6. Fine, Miss Bayelsa's carriage wasn't so good. But that is something that can and will be worked on. All the winners are usually put through finishing school. By the time you see her in public again, you will be proud to be a Nigerian.

Miss Bayelsa is a VERY pretty girl who has the advantage of having foreign looks. That's just the koko

ferhyntorlah: Babe, how you enjoying honeymoon?

lol! Not yet. Some things I'm working on at the moment plus I want all my family present on my big day (some stay abroad) waiting for everybody to be free to fly down here.

Na wa for una o! how can you call a naturally light skinned girl fake?

Please both are beautiful in their own ways. But Miss Nigeria has more poise sha. Something MBGN will later have after undergoing finishing school.

BTW that pic of MBGN does not do her justice. She's prettier than that

Some people ehn!
Now let's take all your queries one by one.

1. This is the first time a Miss Bayelsa is winning a pageant hosted in Bayelsa state. So drop all this your "home state advantage" talk

2. Is Aishwraya Rai (not sure of the spelling) 6 ft tall with a slender frame and wide shoulders? Most Miss worlds and Universes do not necessarily have the model look. That's why most of them marry wealthy men after their reign.

3. "Fearful and fearless" means that the person is watchful and humble while being bold and courageous. Therefore the term is grammatically correct!

4. People are always complaining about MBGNs. I remember people criticizing Munachi and Adaeze. Bottom line. People just like to criticize. I watched that pageant. The only person I can say was cheated was miss Kogi. That girl should have been in top 5 instead of Miss Kaduna!

5. Back to Miss Imo, although she had carriage and the perfect model look, she doesn't have boobs. Miss Adamawa is even prettier that her, I saw old photos of her before the pageant. A necessity for beauty pageants! Trust me, I know that. Most of the contestants this year were flat chested. That's what spoiled their chances.

6. Fine, Miss Bayelsa's carriage wasn't so good. But that is something that can and will be worked on. All the winners are usually put through finishing school. By the time you see her in public again, you will be proud to be a Nigerian.

Miss Bayelsa is a VERY pretty girl who has the advantage of having foreign looks. That's just the koko.

jmoore: Money Money Money, it brings out the real character of a man.

I'm telling you! Never take the words of a common man serious until he tastes money and power.

The piece is really an eye opener. What goes around really turns around. When Abati was writing this, he had no idea that it will become useful today......and that he would have decamped!
This life!
Prof. Wole Soyinka has been right aferall

I just saw this piece on face book. I guess this fits in the missing puzzle. Just thought to share it here because I'm not sure if it has been put up here before.

DAME PATIENCE, OUR PRESIDENT'S WIFE: AN OPINION (WRITTEN BY DR. REUBEN ABATI IN THE GUARDIAN OF THURSDAY 27TH AUGUST 2010)

DEMOCRACY is readily associated with freedom: the freedom to be free in many respects and increasingly in Nigeria, many of our compatriots, particularly persons in positions of privilege and authority confuse this with the right to be disagreeable. The sober truth is that democracy is about rights and responsibilities, a democratic dispensation therefore cannot be a licence for disagreeable conduct as a norm; just as the possession of power in any form does not guarantee the right to be reckless or to ignore the etiquette required of office holders. Anyone in the corridors of power, either by chance or right, or appointment, is expected to behave decorously.

Dame Patience Jonathan, as she is now referred to, our President’s wife, failed the test this week in Okrika, Rivers State. It is trite knowledge that there is a critical difference between Yenagoa and Abuja, and a world of difference between being the wife of a Deputy Governor/Governor/Vice president and being the wife of Nigeria’s No 1 citizen. When people suddenly find themselves in such latter position, prepared or unprepared, anywhere in the world, they are taken through a crash programme in finishing and poise and made to realize that being the wife of an important man comes with serious responsibilities lest they sabotage the same person that they should be supporting.

If Dame Patience went through such re-orientation, the course was incomplete. This week, we got a feedback drawn from her visit to Rivers state to launch her NGO – the Women for Change Initiative, when she ended up in Okrika, her home town. This homecoming became an egoistic show-off as she openly contradicted the state Governor, offering him unsolicited lessons on how to develop the Okrika water front and school system, in addition to pointed comments on the use of the English language. The Governor had reportedly insisted that his administration must demolish some houses which adjoin the schools in Okrika in order to create a proper learning environment. Dame Patience disagreed.

She then gave an unsolicited lecture on the land tenure system telling the Governor: “I want you to get me clear. I am from here. I know the problems of my people so I know what I am talking…” The Governor tried to explain his administration’s policy and the larger public interest. The Dame reportedly cut him short: “But what I am telling you is that you always say you must demolish; that word must you use is not good. It is by pleading. You appeal to the owners of the compound because they will not go into exile. Land is a serious issue.” Wao! “that word must..is not good.” We must all commit that to memory as we re-learn Practical English according to Patience Jonathan!

If it is in the place of the President’s wife to teach a state Governor how to run his state, it is definitely not in her place to veto a state policy (the reason the governor used the word “must”), not even her husband has such powers. It seemed as if Dame Patience Jonathan was determined to impress her kith and kin. She told them she had directed the governor not to demolish their houses. Then, she left straight for the airport obviously having overstayed her welcome and having behaved like a bad guest. She was scheduled to visit the prisons to grant amnesty to some inmates (is that really her duty or something that should be in her itinerary? ); she was also meant to commission some projects. The face-off between her and the governor put paid to all that.

On the eve of her arrival, a group which calls itself “the Okrika Political Stakeholders Forum” and “the people of Kirikese” had actually placed an advert in the papers welcoming “our amiable daughter and sister…to Rivers state and your home town Okrika.” They also brought up the issue of “the land reclamation and shore protection project at Oba Ama, Okrika being undertaken by the Rivers state government.” (Daily Sun, August 23, 2010, p. 2). Either on the strength of this advertorial or private consultations, Dame Patience must have felt compelled to be a partisan stakeholder and intercessor. She needed to put Rotimi Amaechi, the state Governor in his place and that was what did. She recommended “pleading,” – that advice is actually meant for her. A state Governor is a duly elected official; and in a Federal system, he is not answerable to the President, and nowhere is the president granted the powers of a Headmaster over state governors. In Okrika, Dame Patience behaved so impatiently and spoke to Governor Amaechi as if he is on the staff of the Presidency. It may not be her fault though. Amaechi caused it all by bringing himself to such level by undertaking to debrief Dame Patience about his administration’s programmes and activities in the misguided hope of getting cheap political endorsement. He should have asked his wife to attend to her. On the issue of land, Dame Patience should be reminded that the Land Use Act, Section 1 thereof, says the state Governor holds the land in trust for the people. Land matters in the state are beyond the ken of the wife of the President!

The wife of the President of Nigeria, or a state Governor, or a local council chairman, is not a state official. The same applies to husbands if the gender is reversed. He or she is unknown to the constitution or the governance structure. Recent history has however made it a convention to have the spouses of persons in such positions under the guise of providing support, play some ceremonial roles. This has been routinely abused. Under the Jonathan presidency, Dame Patience Jonathan even got a special allocation in the original budget for the 2010 Golden jubilee anniversary whereas she has no official, financial reporting responsibilities! The international standard is that spouses in these circumstances must not only appear but be seen to be above board like Caesar’s wife. They must not misbehave like Marie Antoinette.

When Cherie Blair, wife of former British PM, Tony Blair started buying up houses, apartments and antique furniture, the public raised questions. It didn’t matter that she was a professional in her own right, a Queen’s Counsel with a traceable source of income. There were also questions about the scope of Hillary Clinton’s influence during her husband’s Presidency: Americans wanted to be sure that it was the man they elected that was in charge, not his wife. A couple of weeks ago, the American public was up in arms against Michelle Obama and her poll rating dropped drastically after a visit to Spain where she and her daughter reportedly stayed in a $7, 000 a night hotel.

Much earlier, Nancy Reagan was also the butt of public criticism, with people asking: who is she? And this is not a female thing. In Britain, Prince Phillip, the Queen’s husband, is constantly criticized for putting his foot in his mouth. He once said for example that “British women can’t cook.” He told a visiting Nigerian President, all dressed up in babariga (name withheld): “you look like you’re ready for bed.” During a state visit to China, he told British students: “if you stay much longer, you’all be slitty-eyed.” Prince Phillip’s supporters insist that he is honest, but the majority ask: how is the Queen coping with such a man who is perpetually saying something offensive? There may be persons who defend Dame Patience’s aggressive style, but some of us ask: how is the President coping?

Since Dr Jonathan assumed office, he and his wife have been practically on the road. The Dame has travelled from one state to the other, under the auspices of the Women for Change Initiative. In every state she tells the women to vote and “make sure your vote counts if you like my husband.” Is she now a partisan politician? The Jonathans must be told that Nigeria does not have a co-Presidency. We have only one president and his name is Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. And by the way, what does Dame Patience Jonathan do for a living? She obviously does not have to deal with the challenges of rotation and zoning in her home, unlike the three wives of the Adamawa Governor, Murtala Nyako for whom zoning and rotation have become topical subjects or the wives of South African President Jacob Zuma – that is why she can afford to be so meddlesome!

When she misbehaves as she did in Okrika, she creates the impression that her husband is not in control of his own home. First ladies are prominent figures but their conduct is an eternal subject of public interest. In Nigeria, there was Victoria Gowon, there was also Ajoke Muhammed: dignified and restrained. There was Maryam Babangida – she was influential but no one could accuse her of verbal recklessness; Mrs Abdusalami Abubakar was a court judge, totally self-effacing, No major social party was complete without Mrs Stella Obasanjo, yet she controlled her tongue. Mrs Turai Yar’Adua was described as the power behind the throne and she proved that during the period of her husband’s illness but she was carefully reticent. At the state level, there was Remi Tinubu in Lagos state and Onari Duke in Cross River state who have both conducted themselves responsibly in and out of office. The new First Lady likes to travel, party, and talk outside the script. People are beginning to learn to read her lips in order to understand her husband. Dame Patience must not push her Goodluck.

supaeagles: [/size]nice and smart write up ....[size=7pt]
(Btw if I have more then 1 ID, does it mean I could have MPD?? .... jk)

supaeagles: [/size]nice and smart write up ....[size=7pt]
(Btw if I have more then 1 ID, does it mean I could have MPD?? .... jk)

Yes it means you have multiple identity syndrome. Your other personalities are kept bottled-up until given a chance to be unleashed. This may or may not be a big issue unless the other personalities are nasty.

ogb5: I think we are both saying the same thing. People may live their fantasies online, but offline, they may not be able to live the way the want to.

Just imagine your moniker, sweetlemon, you obviously want to be sweet, but think of the load of people you have broken their heart, will they think of you as being sweet.

Very funny!

I don't pay for goods ordered on-line until I see them with my eyes.

I don't know about Konga but Jumia delivers goods before payment. I prefer them although some of their delivery men are rude and delivery can take up to 10 days depending on the value of the goods.