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A Hindu group in India is taking healthy living to the extreme - with plans to release a soft drink made from cow's urine.

It might not sound appetizing to non-Hindus, but it is claimed the fizzy beverage will help fight a number of diseases, including cancer.

Of course, a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down - with the bovine urine to be mixed with other products, such as aloe vera and gooseberry.

The wee tonic will undergo laboratory tests in the coming months, according to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), or National Volunteer Organisation.

"Cow urine offers a cure for around 70 to 80 incurable diseases like diabetes. All are curable by cow urine," said Om Prakash, the head of the RSS cow protection department.

"It is useful for the whole country and the world as well."

The group have not yet specified a release date for the drink.

Many Hindus believe the animals' urine to have medicinal properties and it is often drunk at religious festivals.

In the past, the RSS group has campaigned against foreign imports such as Pepsi and Coca Cola, considering them a tool of Western imperialism.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090212/twl-holy-cow-hindus-plan-wee-drink-3fd0ae9.html

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=236077.msg3493883#msg3493883 date=1235147932]A Military government(Idiagbon-esque) would go a long way to instil discipline in Nigeria.
Before they were toppled, things were beginning to shape well.
Citizens were orderly and had they been allowed to complete their transition to a democratic government we woulda been better off.
I cannot see the difference between OBJ's regime and the previous Military governments. He was worse than Abacha.[/quote]The same discipline Arogundade could not instill into his naval ratings, when a civilian was being ridiculed and undressed on the streets of Lagos last year?

Or the same discipline Babaginda, Abacha et al could not instill, to keep their hands off the nations wealth? Please say something more relevant. There were clear differences between OBJ's regime and that of Abacha. No more were journalists rounded up and thrown into random jails for speaking against the Government. OBJ was on the verge of extending into his stay into a third term, our ''democracy'' ensured this was not to be!

Yes, some of the things obtainable during the military era were still obtainable with OBJ and even with this present administration, however, there have been clear moment of respite for the citizenry. I remember early in those days, you dare not pass through the houses of some those Army Generals, if you would not be subjected to frog jumping in respective of your gender.

Our present day ''democracy'' has totally erased the memories of such horror amongst numerous others from our thoughts.

Why must the peaceful religion continue to be vilified? What do you Christians stand to gain? I have not seen where Jesus ever rebuked another religion for his own religion.

What is your problem?

Becomrrich:
The western type of democratic govt is the best for africa and Nigeria. the problem we have in Nigeria can only be solve if we remove the yorubas from nigeria and have them in republic of benin.

Britain never consider culture or history in nigeria why they were thier. Take for example kwara and kogi state, why the hell where they part of northern region. When they should have been in the western region.

We have to correct the structure mistake to have true democratic govt in Nigeria.

In the case of Ghana or the USA. You would see a define majority. In Nigeria there is no define majority.

Look in Ghana the asantic people are majority and the democracy in ghana is sure away that asantic have only rule 2 times. The fear of ethnics domination is lower in Ghana because the asantic people can easy give power to other group without the fear of getting back power.

In the case of the USA. the same with the white population. The white in the USA are not scared that since Obama a black man is in power that he would be able to manipulate the system and could make sure only blacks are elected in power. That is not possible. The fear by white people is not there, because they know they are the majority and they can kick obama out anytime they want.

The same issue in Nigeria. We do not have a clear 50% majority ethincs group like Ghana or the USA. so the fear of ethnics domination and tribalist runs our politics. But if you remove the yorubas. It would change that. And would make the hausa/fulani the majority and the fear of domination is remove and they would be able to share power without the fear of the power not returning back to them.

Your reasoning is worrisome. Even from the US perspective and the Nigerian perspective. You have committed serious fallacy in reasoning and writing.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=236077.msg3493647#msg3493647 date=1235144995]How do i rant??
Democracy in Nigeria has continued to make some people richer and some others poorer.
There's no middle-class in Nigeria. . . . .It's either you are very rich or extremely poor.
At this point, i don't mind a military government.

Nigeria will be 50 years next year. Thatz how long.[/quote]So a military government is the solution to our problems? During the military era, were the rich not getting richer? Your reasoning is more worrisome. Military government that has placed Nigeria in the level of retardation and mental slavery for years, you are advocating for in these day and age? I suspect you delight in mental slavery and dictatorship.

Oh well, every man to his thoughts.

Kobojunkie:
Amazing, isn't it? We have yet to get even the basics in place for a democracy but some believe it has not worked. Mind boggling!!!

The exact phrase I just needed! When the tenets of a true democracy have not yet been understood, and to some peeps, they think we are already basking in democracy, I cannot help but wonder how indeed mind boggling it is!

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=236077.msg3493564#msg3493564 date=1235143873]We have tried this democracy thingy far too long for it to work.[/quote]The way you rant at times

For how long have we tried this democracy for it not to work? 300 Years?

asha 80:
If after the biafran war progress was not brought into nigeria what makes you think another was is going to bring progress into nigeria   More like another war will bring the eventual collapse of nigeria.

I do no think so. It is easier to destroy, than to build. If what we have on ground is not working, development is not staring at us vividly in the face, why continue with the system? Is there any point to it?

nuzo:
This was your comment: It was more of a question to the message than a statement. So, why blame me for commenting according to what you put down.
Maybe next time, you should try hard to convey exactly your thoughts in your comments. Im no prophet.

Sir, maybe next time, you should request I make clear my thoughts with my comments rather than corner my inputs into a box. I would have gladly obliged doing that. If you had paid note, I had an emoticon expressing ''an indecision'' to my statement which meant that my input was not conclusive and still a subject of deliberation within me.

Oh well!

Cheers.

nuzo:
Your comment shows that you dont know anything about the Biafran/nigerian civil war unlike Rwandans.

Typical Nigerian! Quick to open his gob and spit out nonsense. If we had the Biafran war, what progress has it brought unto us unlike what is obtainable with Rwanda today? Has it made any lasting realization on the need for development in Nigeria?

While I share your sentiments on Reuben Abati and his penchant for land acquisition and brown envelopes, I am quick to remind myself, that it is not about the messenger, rather it is about the message. Spare yourself the same thought.

Was the message well delivered? YES!

Probably Nigeria should tow the line of Rwanda before we realize the true state of failure existing in the country?

Tatase:
I think our situation in Nigeria or in other former colonies is difficult because of course in principle, we know that democracy is a good idea (and besides we already did the dictatorship thing and that didn't quite work out so let's leave that in the past). But at the same time, it's not really our culture to be democratic: power has always gone along wealth and connections and alliances and not necessarily public opinion, and besides we can't seem to pull it together as a people and put tribal differences aside for the sake of progress.

When we talk of DEMOCRACY, is not in our culture to be democratic, I agree with you. Given, from where Nigeria is coming from, DEMOCRACY adaptation is not an easy task to embrace. We are more or less as a country, just ten years into ''democracy'' and yet we are so anxious to be at par with WESTERN WORLD such as the US. Years of military rule has not helped this country in whatever means or capacity. Rather retrogression has been the order over the years. Corruption has eaten deep into the nation, and it seems like a mirage if it ever leave us.

If we go back to the early adoption of DEMOCRACY, history makes us to know, that, the Ancient Greeks were the first to adapt democracy. Early adaptation by the Ancient Greeks revealed that; Women and Slaves were not allowed to talk, and have a voice in the Assembly. They were not even regarded as citizens. Only Males were given this honor and regard. Is the Athenian Democracy of then, different from the Democracy obtainable with Nigeria - Africa (In general) today? NO! Cultures, religion, tribalism, sectarianism, greed, corruption have prominent voice over freedom of every citizen to be heard and make an input, which DEMOCRACY in its true and pure form entails.

In the UK, it is a parliamentary sovereignty of Government, which seems to work well with them. How far such a system would be sustainable is a matter of time to tell. In Nigeria, it is a system of the: a. Executive, b. Legislative, and c. Judiciary. In all sincerity, this is realistic and workable. Nigeria maybe 48years⁺, but just like how democracy has been adapted by various countries, and suited to their own taste, it is time Nigeria truly identifies that voices which suppress the freedom of the true electorates be destroyed.

Tatase:
We're so focused on the drama between tribes: The Yoruba people are always this and that, the Igbo's always want such and such and the Hausas always do this or the other, and as for the minorities like myself, we either just sit like we don't belong or take disruptive actions to get attention and then take whatever political bones the party in power is willing to throw us even as we talk smack about other tribes. And the sad thing is as long as we can't come together as one people, no single political system is going to work for us: Western Democracy or otherwise.

You are very right once more. But in my own opinion, it is best we find what flexibility in democracy can be adapted by Africans - Nigeria. Democracy creates room for flexibility. The democracy obtainable 508BC is not the same democracy obtainable in America or other Western World of today. Every nation has defined democracy to suit their own development over the years. Until we realize that, every voice deserves to be heard and not suppressed in Nigeria, we would continue to see the woes subsistent with democracy.

Taking a retrospective look at Nigeria within the last ten years, are the electorates allowed suffrage? NO! Even when we had the one of the most ''transparent'' election in Nigeria, it was destroyed sadly. Until we realize that, democracy is a the government held by its respective citizen within a free environment, truly fitted with the African culture, and not dictated or controlled by Western power, we would continue to wallow in our state of despondency in finding solutions to our problems.

Tatase:
Because the truth of the matter is that we're all working against each other and trying to sabotage one another so that this person from this tribe can be in power or that person from that tribe doesn't have the opportunity to steal as opposed to the thief from our tribe. So I don't think the problem is really with our ruling style. I think its with us. And thats where I disagree with Moonstone. The point is that yes the West has a lot to answer for, but at the same time, we need to move on and realize that blaming them is not the point or the solution. We as a country are what we are, like it or not, Nigeria is not and will never be made up of one single tribe and we need to figure out how we can come together as a country and make it work. Like I said, the problem is not with democracy, it's with us and how we let our personal arguments with one another change what democracy should be.

The West have nothing to answer for. We are truly accountable for our deeds and actions. If we are this exposed, and yet we cannot find our bearing and still think the West are accountable, then Africa will never develop. The tasks to making democracy work is in our hands, as electorates. If we have to make it work, it is possible.

Blistering Barnacles!!!!!

Is this a sort of essay writing competition? I never knew there were writers like this.


Quite impressive. Let me digest the whole thread, and I will be back with my epistle!

@ Kobojunkie,

After perusing the thread, I just noticed your rejoinder to me. My apologies for the late antiphon. Do you mean to say, posts are deleted on facebook as well?

I have not noticed that on the Dap Lam group on facebook. And again, while on facebook, I got the personal and official email contact of Dimeji Bankole from his group page, whom I earlier mentioned, and he replied my mail. So facebook in itself, has great propensity for networking with our current and potential leaders.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=176871.msg3485894#msg3485894 date=1234999703]And how does that affect the price of fish??
Lemme rephrase. . . .how does that affect your mother's menstrual cycle??
This is between Talkshit and Sauron, leave Alfie out of this. . . . .He did not condemn your mother to abject poverty.

You are the frustrated herbivore here. . . . .U jumped into something you know nothing about to so be prepared to face my wrath.
Thanx for admitting i attended school while you were snatching wallets on the streets of Lagos.
Don't take your anger out on me. . . .I am not responsible for the sorry state you have found yourself.
If life is so hard for you to live, tie your belt around your neck and die slow.[/quote]Seriously, if you are this celebrated with your bag of baby babbling insults, I wonder what kind of life you live in reality.

You think of yourself as an internet warlord? I am shrinking in my boots. What a mis-calculated idiot you are.

Next time, think well before you replay your scratched CD of words to faceless beings on the internet.

I can see your imbecilic tantrums are begin to emanate. I do not want you getting into a fit.

What a blockhead!

Am out of here. Need to catch my sleep.

Thank all for the fun and love. Sorry I resume to other forum as stated earlier.

Goodnight.

debosky:
I am curious talksmith joined the forum only to diss Sharon, just at the SAME moment that MT and Sharon had a fight. In a matter of seconds you've learned how to insert quotes and are using smileys like you've been here forever.   Fishy if you ask me. Post under your regular ID if you have the balls.

Nairaland is powered by SMF. It is easy to navigate with it, if you are intelligent enough with the internet, and moreover, Nairaland, is not the only forum using SMF which is free to download and apply if you intend having a forum or you have one.

Why must it be this difficult to comprehend?

tope2000:
u must be going senile
This what happens wen ppl use multiple IDs
Cus i remember u said when u were MT

Of a truth, you are irredeemably daft!

MT and Sauron had been going at each for like two days now. I came on this thread today, and your low IQ will not help you reason.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=176871.msg3485846#msg3485846 date=1234999023]U have been spewing balderdash all day with little or no mother wit in your system.
It seems you were born feet first which subjected your dome to some abnormal temperature from ya mother's alleyway.
If stupidity sells for 1 kobo, you are a billionaire in dollars.

Nursey school? Have u ever been to the four walls of any citadel of learning??
Look at this dingbat claiming nursery school when you are a product of a cheap drunk Bleep.
If your mother wasn't working the streets of Ojuelegba, the drunk of your father wouldn't have made a waste of space like you.

Ask your mother that question.
She is a cock junkie and i used to feed her habits.
Bring it on.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[/quote]Too many babies trolling the internet these days. No thanks to the like of Alfie the 13year old boy who brings bastards into this world to offend the mind of the sane. Babies rearing babies. What a disaster!

If you are frustrated with life, bullied while attending school, why take out your anger on the internet? Get a SHRINK fast!

Silly drone!

tope2000:
Lmao. . . . . and u had the audacity to call sauron TOUT
U must be an agbero in naija, i swear

Jeremy Clarkson should have been referring to you as the ''one-eyed naija idiot.'' Where have I used the word ''tout'' in all my grammatical vexations?

Did you go to school at all? You are a disgrace to ~Sauron~.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=176871.msg3485809#msg3485809 date=1234998438]I don't blame you. . . . I blame your crass illiteracy and the appaling abject lack of pedagogy.
Right now, the weight of the corrupted and venal balderdash imported into your cerebral cortex has caught up with you
You've been reduced to a bumbling idiot with shit for brains and a shocking degree of cranial decay.
If you marry a fool like you then expect to produce tomfools.[/quote]My goodness!

You think of yourself as a pundit with insults? Sorry you missed it all the way man! Now who has been spitting hogwash and incessant inanity all evening?

You only became vibrant on this thread when vituperation became the order of the day, no thanks to your idiocy. Talking to my parents with insults is puerile nonsense. I last did that in my nursery school days.

Do you have anything worth of substance other that? OBVIOUSLY NOT SO.

What a loon!

tope2000:
OMG
That word has been over-used on this thread, u shud really come up with ur own cuss seriously
You know what when you are done with this thread go another and bash them there. . . . . .Ok? Good boy
Ode

Ok, you want to play the yoruba lingo with me?

Ti aja ba siwin, o ma mo oju ina!

Won t'eba were fun ni ale yi ni? Abi iru apoda eyan wo ni eleyi ke? N'kan osu e da e lamu ni?

oponu oshi.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=176871.msg3485766#msg3485766 date=1234997635]Just another heap of fuckery from a child suffering from acute mumps.
It's not hard to see you are impaired in normal, social and occupational functioning.
How did it get this far?? Your father's poisoned testicles coupled with your mother's ovarian cyst PLUS poverty stricken environment acting as a catalyst.
Your pedigree needs help.

And he keeps disputing Arrow and slowpoke are the same after intensive tutoring.
Your brain cells have suffered a serious meltdown.

U put your parents where they belong, in the GRAVE!!!
Pinheads like you should not be allowed online but then that is one of the many disadvantages of the internet.
person!!![/quote]Mr Simpleton,

Why not act your name as written above and go finger your privates as expected. Must the whole world know that Nigerians like you imbecilic in composition still exists? Please the world has moved on to more intellectually discussions than the foolish verbiage you keep repeating like a scratched CD.

What a goon!

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=176871.msg3485721#msg3485721 date=1234996841]Troglodyte, gerbil and rodent in the same sentence even shows how stupid you are. . . . .

Where did you crawl out from?? Look at this scapegrace talking about vocab. . . . .
Do u even know the meaning of the word?? U challenged Arrow and slowpoke are the same thing in the 21st century??
I think you are the sperm your mother should have swallowed with a glass of STAR lager beer.
Sauron has been dealing with pest-natured bastards like you since the fall of man in Eden.[/quote]TalkSmith, is not in your league!

slowpoke: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/slowpoke

Arrow: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Arrow

You might have been a celebrated fool here, but I put you where you belong. The TRASHCAN!

tope2000:
Name:  TalkSmith
Posts:  4 (N/A per day)
Position:  Active Poster
Date Registered:  Today at 10:28:06 PM
Last Active:  Today at 11:24:47 PM

Are u tryin to tell me that u just joined tonight and the first thread u came on was this one??
And the first thing you did was to attack someone?? i expected u to be neutral on this thread being a newbie
so forgive me if i think MT is also TalkSmith   if you are not MT then u guys have some connections together.

My apologies for barging in. Is there a rule that newbies cannot post on any thread on this forum? Are you mentally handicapped? Please set me straight here if I am in the wrong though.

theopops:
Please don't stop. Talksmith, you be English teacher?

No sir.

I just happened to have been trained by some of the finest minds in the art of that lovely language. I was rather gob-smacked when a ninny named ~Sauron~ decided to make noise with his loquacious baloney.

That boy needs to learn what tautology means. My apologies, if I do that this evening, and I move back to other forum to continue my pilgrimage.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=176871.msg3485659#msg3485659 date=1234995940]Ur intelligence makes a gorilla look like Einstein.
Arrow= Pussy/weakling/vagina. Moronic= slowpoke/idiot/stupid.
Moronic Arrow is stupid pussy.

Must u steal ma words and play them back to me??
If you have not been smoking your pubic hair you shouldn't be playing ma words back to me.
Homo Erectus of your kind can never know the true meaning of a troglodyte. . . .I am not trying to be rude, just putting things straight. [/quote]Blue Blistering Barnacles!!!

Troglodyte is your word? Are you the Captain in Tintin of yester-years? Your foolishness knows no limitations!

When gerbils and rodents of your type roam around, you begin to think, you are all that! Sorry to cut your foolish feathers, I am TalkSmith! I deal with rancid or fetid mouthed idiots. Sorry you had to be my pet-slave this evening. Now go back and play with your lexicon. I will still teach you how to get it straight.

I sleep with vocabs and skylark it all around. QED!!!!!

tope2000:
MT will soon go offline and talksmith is be online soon
its so obvious

Just let it go, u guys are worse than females - haba since yesterday

Please spare a moment to reason. It does not hurt the brain, rather it strengthens it. MT and TalkSmith are mutually exclusive beings.

That I picked on ~Sauron~ (A Villainous Name) does mean I am MT. Or is this how y'all reason on this forum?

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=176871.msg3485588#msg3485588 date=1234994854]You are an idiot. Are u MT's sibling??
slowpoke is different from being a Arrow.
Bunch of half-baked graduates. I am sorry for the future of Nigeria.

You are still a dork. He said "loose canon" instead of "loose cannon".
I won't be surprised. A family of pillocks will exhibit the same characteristics. [/quote]I will spare you some grammar lessons this evening.

slowpoke:
1. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment.

Arrow:
1.  a man who is a stupid incompetent fool.  

So pray tell me, what does a ''moronic Arrow'' imply?

When troglodyte of your precision are released on the internet, chaos and foolishness becomes the order of the day! Evident to that, is how this thread has churned out. No thanks to your garrulous being!

Kobojunkie:
OK. . . .  Is there an AD somewhere promotiing this thread or something? Roflmao!!

Am sorry, what this question meant for me?

Well, I got on this thread, no thanks to stumbling on it from facebook. As for barging into the feud between MT and ~Sauron~, I just felt to make it clear, where he goofed with the language.

In respect to the thread, there is no point addressing the issue, since the main discussant relevant to the thread has left.

Even Dimeji Bankole, the current speaker of the House of Representative has a group page on facebook. It is time Nigerian leaders become responsive to the voice of the masses.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=176871.msg3485377#msg3485377 date=1234990702]MT[b](Moronic Arrow)[/b] [/quote]Sir Grammarian, the words in bold is a classic example of tautology. Do not be so quick to malign others, while you wallow in a deep sea of ignorance. To skylark with words, does not imply intelligence.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=176871.msg3485377#msg3485377 date=1234990702]Ma puppy of 6 months will not write "cannon" as "canon". [/quote]Can you spot the error with the word in bold? I doubt it! Get your punctuations right Mister!