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 Culture › Re: If You Can Speak Yoruba, Talk It In Here! by TheSeeker(m): 6:31am On Sep 02, 2009 |
E k'aale ni be yen ooo E jooo awon wo ni won n gbe'mu ni biyi?  |
| Culture › Re: Can You Name Your Son Adolf Hitler ? by TheSeeker(m): 5:42am On Sep 02, 2009 |
agathamari:Spot on but I choose to go with the genius part of him and other good things he did for Germany. . . British never had good agenda anyways, who gives a fig about them |
| Politics › Re: Debate: Is Nigeria A Failed State? by TheSeeker(m): 4:35pm On Sep 01, 2009 |
Is there any point to debate this? My nephew who's about to be born knows he's going to be born to parents from a failed state but lucky him he'll be born in a progressive state. A country where all the leaders lack fundamental common sense to guide all her affairs. A country where the leaders don't see the youth as an integral part of her citizenry. A country where there's no law A country where billions of Naira keep missing every week. A country where none of her citizens are enjoying any dividend of their stupefied democracy. A country where her citizens are used to not having social infrastructure. A country with the bizarre educational situation A country that boasts of people with pure self interests. A country with no fundamental policy A country with the most dubious legislative body in the world A country with such bad leaders that they keep replicating to further wreck the already battered image of the country. A country where nothing is bound to succeed; and the masses are basically right-less. A country where the judicial process have not, will not and cannot function. A country that owing and |
| Crime › Iraqi Woman Fears Execution, Can't Stop Thinking Of Gallows by TheSeeker(op): 4:28pm On Sep 01, 2009 |
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Samar Saed Abdullah's entire body trembles as she speaks about her impending execution. She thinks of the gallows room, the noose around her neck and that moment when she will take her final breath. My life is meaningless," she said, choking on her tears. "I can't think of anything else. The other women, we try to help each other, but we cannot escape the reality that we are on death row and they can take us at any second." The 27-year-old Iraqi woman is sentenced to die in connection with the slayings of three relatives in January 2005. She looks pale and frail, her face sallow, her eyes bloodshot. She shakes with each sob, anxiously twisting a tissue in her hands. We first met Samar in spring 2007, at al-Kadhimiya Women's Prison in Baghdad. She had been on death row for about two years, and she was terrified. Video Watch a tearful plea from death row » "I don't sleep at all on Wednesdays," she said then. "I stay up from morning until night, because that's the day they pick for executions." Samar was sentenced to death by hanging for being an accessory to murder in the killings of her uncle, aunt and cousin -- slayings that she says were carried out at their home by her husband-to-be, who remains on the loose. She maintains that she is innocent, and there are disturbing questions about her conviction. Samar has now been moved a step closer to death: to Baghdad's maximum-security prison, where there are more than 500 prisoners waiting to be executed. It's the same facility where Saddam Hussein was hanged in December 2006. CNN was not allowed to film her face inside the prison. During the interview, the wardens also seemed to make motions to try to stop CNN from broaching the subject of her allegation that she had only confessed under torture. The day of the killings is seared into her mind. "I think about it every day, every hour. I wake up with it in my head," she said. "It's the reason I am here." There was a point in time when Samar was happy, when her life had meaning and joy. She had a fiancé, Saif Ali Nur, in winter 2004. "I was so happy at the time, when he asked for my hand in marriage," she remembered bitterly. "I thought that he was honest, that he did not lie to me. It all happened in just two months." At first, her family didn't approve of the romance, but they eventually relented. One day, she says, Saif duped her into taking him to her wealthy uncle's house. He locked her in the kitchen and, she says, shot her uncle, aunt and cousin. Then, he turned the gun on her. Samar says he stole less than $1,000 after threatening to kill Samar and her family if she went to the authorities. The Iraqi police picked Samar up the next day, after Saif dumped her in front of her house and disappeared. "There was nothing that made me suspect that this was a guy who would do something like this," she said. She's filled with regret that she fell in love with him. "And now I am here in prison, and he is out on the streets, happy." Her parents sold everything to pay for her defense. They swear she's innocent. She says she was tortured by the police into confessing that she went to her uncle's house with the intent to steal. "They kept beating me, and they told me, 'Say whatever we want you to say, and do not say anything else, and say yes, I was an accomplice to this crime.' Although I had nothing to do with it. Finally, they made me sign a blank piece of paper, and they filled it out afterwards." She was tried and convicted in a single day: August 15, 2005. Court documents obtained by CNN read that "the court discussed the case file with her and she said that all that she had confessed came as a result of duress and torture." Under Iraqi law, the court should have investigated her claim that she confessed under torture. But it did not. After learning of Samar's case from CNN, former Deputy Prime Minsiter Barham Salih said Tuesday he spoke with the Iraqi Presidency Council, which promised to look into the matter. He also said he had spoken separately with top Iraqi officials, including Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, and urged for a new trial. Human rights groups say Samar's case is just one of many in which justice has failed. And they say that what makes implementing capital punishment even more disturbing is that the Iraqi judicial system does not guarantee a fair trial. . . . . . . MORE http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/01/iraq.deathpenalty.woman/index.html |
| Romance › Re: Your First Toasting And How It Went by TheSeeker(m): 4:16pm On Sep 01, 2009 |
ROFLMAO  Donpapilou and music0286 na wa oooo |
| Romance › Re: Settle Your Nairaland Romantic Disputes Here by TheSeeker(m): 3:59pm On Sep 01, 2009 |
Good morning Clerk Plat |
| Romance › Re: Do You Have Any Regrets? What Would You Have Wished? by TheSeeker(op): 3:40pm On Sep 01, 2009 |
follypimpi:Yes, I regret that she didn't exhibit her scandalous personality early enough so I can meet this wonderful, beautiful and sexy girl I'm dating right now; if she had done so earlier, maybe I'd have been married to my current girl now, maybe with kids too. She slowed that process my pretending |
| Romance › Re: Do You Have Any Regrets? What Would You Have Wished? by TheSeeker(op): 3:31pm On Sep 01, 2009 |
follypimpi:Oh another bad defeat after that game with Manchester United?  Sorry You still have Chelsea and Liverpool to meet ahead. |
| Education › Re: ASUU's Open Letter To Mr President by TheSeeker(m): 2:56pm On Sep 01, 2009 |
olalekan1:Or maybe you are one of the following: - You are a child to a politician and you think he's right to have all those stolen funds (but if he is he'd have catapulted you abroad) - You're so naive you don't know what it means to be a professor and that brings me to ask why you're going to school in the first place - You fail to tell yourself the truth and/or you don't understand what university autonomy means. It's a shame you're all fooling yourselves thinking the lecturers are fighting for themselves only. You're dying in your own confusion and there's no one to save you. If they don't sign that agreement as was agreed upon before, it means your tuition fee will be ricocheted and God helps those from extremely poor families who have more children in higher institutions of learning. Come to think of it, why should a mere, uneducated, dumbly stupid, nonchalant, unintelligently clueless councilor be bloody paid =N= 13 million every year? Doesn't that make the country look so selfish? Mind you these are professors who went to good schools in the United States and England mostly, yet, have chosen to give what they've been taught in those countries to Nigeria and what does Nigeria pay them back with? Dishonored agreement, lies, deceit? I don't like the fact that students are being allowed to suffer this but they have to, it's a price they have to pay. Stop being so selfish. If you father was a professor you would have wanted him to earn more than that. And do you know how much professors are paid in the USA and UK? Stop trying to be ignorant of the truth. |
| Education › Re: ASUU's Open Letter To Mr President by TheSeeker(m): 1:03pm On Sep 01, 2009 |
If ASUU should resume unless their requests are fulfilled, they're the dumbest union. |
| Culture › Re: Osun -- State Of The Living Spring! Identify Here by TheSeeker(op): 9:57am On Sep 01, 2009 |
BB, Oyinda and Amosexy: Does this mean all of you have been taking bribes behind my back from Gators' family without my knowledge? Now, y'all have got an 'A' in pissing me off. BB, and why would you want to |
| Romance › Re: How Will You Feel ? by TheSeeker(m): 9:41am On Sep 01, 2009 |
[quote author=rita@NL link=topic=317132.msg4458656#msg4458656 date=1251770450]Seriously you dont mind if they are 15 and they all depend on your woman ? Ah I don die !!! You must be a very generous guy. Plz take me as one of the 15 siblings to your woman , will u ? if yes >>>>>>>>>>>. . . . Uncle plz I'm goin back to school tomorrow and I need 100k for my textbooks.    [/quote]Coming at you |
| Romance › Re: Please Write An Open Letter To Your Ex by TheSeeker(m): 8:08am On Sep 01, 2009 |
I'm loving this. When was the last time I had this much fun on NL?! Please continue the second part of C2H vs FL Gators. N2D, if you push me to the wall, I'll bite you. You want me to start pulling phone calls out? Or you want me to make a diss track EM made for MC? Just don't get me upset or that heart of yours she stolen will be hijacked from her. See, I've been talking to this girl from Niger Delta; she says she wants to "spread love" to me and when she does so, I'll kindly ask her to kidnap her. Go figure. |
| Culture › Re: Osun -- State Of The Living Spring! Identify Here by TheSeeker(op): 3:14am On Sep 01, 2009 |
Nice writeup. But you missed one thing and that is: You didn't mention what part of Osun you are from. |
| Romance › Re: Do You Have Any Regrets? What Would You Have Wished? by TheSeeker(op): 2:55am On Sep 01, 2009 |
[quote author=rita@NL link=topic=305054.msg4458612#msg4458612 date=1251769351]~Hissin~ you no even get stamina,see as you dey stammer becos we wan dash you love  [/quote]Please consider me for that love in 2 years and I'll see if I'll be able to fit itTHE AMAKA:No to what? Abortion? Premarital sex? |
| Romance › Re: How Will You Feel ? by TheSeeker(m): 2:50am On Sep 01, 2009 |
Is 15 the only part you saw in my comment? |
| Romance › Re: Please Write An Open Letter To Your Ex by TheSeeker(m): 2:30am On Sep 01, 2009 |
[Quote]e don tey wey i know say u dey crazy but remember, Jesus did not come for the worthy but the unworthy and i just want to be like him stay away from C2H [/Quote] And you! Stay away from bad women! Oh did I say unitee is bad? Nah! But the mind-blowing sex I had with her is so super cool. Only reason I stopped having it with her was when a pastor (a genuine one) told me God frowns at someone sleeping with their own brother's wife. I swear I had better plans; like for example, make her have my baby in your house. Now, wouldn't that be wonderful? |
| Romance › Re: Do You Have Any Regrets? What Would You Have Wished? by TheSeeker(op): 2:27am On Sep 01, 2009 |
[quote author=rita@NL link=topic=305054.msg4458550#msg4458550 date=1251767427] Then I couldn't write,I can only read  Yes we do but a sucidial kinda love.You might wanna come visting[/quote]Suicidal love? Come visiting with who? Visiting where? Please, I beg to decline the offer But I can try when that fake amnesty Yara'die is giving out is 2 years old. |
| Celebrities › Chris Brown Says He Still Loves Rihanna by TheSeeker(op): 2:19am On Sep 01, 2009 |
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Pop star Chris Brown has admitted guilt and apologized for assaulting his then-girlfriend Rihanna in February, but he does not remember hitting the singer, he told CNN's Larry King. Looking at police reports about the incident makes him feel like he's reading about a stranger, Brown said in his first television interview since the arrest. "I'm in shock, because, first of all, that's not who I am as a person, and that's not who I promise I want to be," he said in an exclusive interview that airs Wednesday night. "I just don't know what to think. I'm just like, wow," Brown said. "It's crazy to me." Brown, 20, said he still loves singer Rihanna, whose full name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty. But, he added, it is tough for him to look at the photo showing Rihanna's battered face, the one image that might haunt and define him forever. "When I look at it now, it's just like, wow, like, I can't believe that that actually happened," Brown said. He now has to keep his distance from Rihanna, because of a judge's restraining order. "We have to be like 10 yards away from each other," Brown said. Video Watch Chris Brown and his mother discuss Rihanna's assault » The February argument began over an incident at a Beverly Hills party, according to Brown's probation report. An earlier, sworn statement by Los Angeles Police detective DeShon Andrews said the incident began when Rihanna found a text message on Brown's cell phone from "a woman who Brown had a previous sexual relationship with." The pair argued while in a sports car driven by Brown, the police statement said. It went on to describe the assault in great detail, saying Brown punched Rihanna -- identified in the statement as Robyn F. -- numerous times and put her in a head lock, restricting her breathing and causing her to start to lose consciousness. He threatened to beat her and kill her, according to the statement, and he bit her ear and her fingers. The detective said Brown sent a text message nine days later, apologizing. Rihanna's injuries included cuts and bruises inflicted by a large ring on Brown's right hand, which he used to punch her, the probation report said. Brown pleaded guilty to felony assault on June 22. A plea deal kept him out of jail. A second felony charge, making criminal threats, was dropped. He was sentenced to five years probation and six months of community labor. "It means he walks the straight and narrow for five years," said Mark Geragos, Brown's attorney. "I've grown to love this kid like a son or a nephew. I have a high degree of confidence -- I'll say it now so that you can play it back if he ever does anything -- but a high degree of confidence that he's not going to do anything like this in the future." Brown called the sentence fair and agreed that everything comes with consequences. "They want me to pick up trash, remove graffiti," he said. "I'm a hard worker, it's something I'm willing to do." Why did it happen? How did it happen? Those are questions Brown and his mother, Joyce Hawkins, have been asking. "Chris has never, ever been a violent person, ever," Hawkins said. However, CNN obtained a probation report for Brown last week that said he and Rihanna were involved in at least two other domestic violence incidents before the February attack for which Brown was sentenced. "The first incident occurred in Europe about three months before the present offense," the report said. "The victim [Rihanna] and the defendant [Brown] were involved in a verbal dispute and the victim [Rihanna] slapped the defendant [Brown]. He responded by shoving her into a wall." Another incident happened in January, three weeks before the Hollywood incident, when Brown and Rihanna were visiting her home country of Barbados, the report said. "The defendant [Brown] and the victim [Rihanna] were visiting Barbados and were driving a Range Rover loaned to them by a local dealership," the investigator wrote. "They had an argument inside the car. The defendant [Brown] exited and broke the front driver and passenger side windows of the car." Brown's mother remembers being shocked and upset when he came to her after the attack in February and told her about it. She said her husband was abusive -- and Brown knew it. "I used to be scared to go to bed," the pop star said. Brown said he is not blaming that history for the attack on Rihanna. But, he added, nobody taught him how to control his emotions and anger. Rihanna calls Brown's mother "Mom." The two have spoken and seen each other periodically since the incident. The court order that prevents her son from seeing Rihanna does not extend to Hawkins. "I let her know that I was very, very baffled, what had happened and apologized for my son, along with I'm so sorry what happened to you," Hawkins said. "And I didn't know what -- I didn't know what else to say, and I gave her a hug and she hugged me as well." Hawkins started sobbing at this point in the interview. The singer has not seen Rihanna for a couple of months, and said the separation has been difficult, especially when it comes to her dating others. "I definitely would be affected by it, but at the end of the day, I mean, we're not together, so if she's happy, I'm cool." But they will always be friends, Brown said. |
| Romance › Re: How Will You Feel ? by TheSeeker(m): 1:49am On Sep 01, 2009 |
I don't care if she has 15 siblings and she's the eldest. The way you present yourself is the way you'll be accepted. The kind of person you are is how you're going to be treated. It might not work in a few cases but trust me when you put people where they belong, it sure works. |
| Romance › Re: Yoruba Girls Love Igbo Guys A Lot by TheSeeker(m): 3:59pm On Aug 31, 2009 |
asha 80:Yes, I think so. |
| Romance › Re: Yoruba Girls Love Igbo Guys A Lot by TheSeeker(m): 3:27pm On Aug 31, 2009 |
stillwater:OK. Let me help her She worked with a boss, a Yoruba man, who said he'd have preferred to marry an Igbo girl based in Lagos (maybe for reasons owing to distance). Also that he said Yoruba women are prone to promiscuity. She used Osun as an example of where Yoruba girls prefer to get down with Igbo guys; not just that, but with the support of their respective families too. Reason being that they see Igbo guys as hardworking and can care for them. Those are what I think she said. |
| Romance › Re: Yoruba Girls Love Igbo Guys A Lot by TheSeeker(m): 2:59pm On Aug 31, 2009 |
stillwater:Did she type in Arabic?  |
| Romance › Re: Settle Your Nairaland Romantic Disputes Here by TheSeeker(m): 2:57pm On Aug 31, 2009 |
190:I'm your foe because I gave my submission? If I let you get away with it, many more people will do worse than you did. And for me to sentence you, the founder of this court, potential offenders towing the line such as you did should expect more punishment. I just gave that verdict because I thought you apologized after your crime but that doesn't justify that you shouldn't be punished. Honorable Tubabie, come and give your submission so we can get this over and done with.  |
| Romance › Re: Your Bf Lets His Friends Hears Your Teleconversation All The Time! Why? by TheSeeker(m): 2:46pm On Aug 31, 2009 |
Gabry:My advise is you tell him to refrain from it, it's for your own good. You know you're my favorite chinko? |
| Romance › Re: Do You Have Any Regrets? What Would You Have Wished? by TheSeeker(op): 2:45pm On Aug 31, 2009 |
[quote author=rita@NL link=topic=305054.msg4456855#msg4456855 date=1251725925]Do I regret it ? not really. I wish I had told him I loved him,even if it is by faking it but those 3 words never and still never comes out of my mouth.[/quote]If you couldn't say it, you could've written it on paper for him But your location spells 'militant zone'? I don't think love rocks the world in those zones, does it? |
| Romance › Re: Your Bf Lets His Friends Hears Your Teleconversation All The Time! Why? by TheSeeker(m): 2:40pm On Aug 31, 2009 |
Atreus:You just said my mind. Gabry:Stop trying to cover for him. Whether or not you say something funny, he's not supposed to put you on speaker -- that's total bullshit. How well do you know he doesn't put you on speaker on some other important issues? And do you think if he does he'll tell you? That's plain childishness. Joke or no joke, your conversations should be just the both of you alone. If you want to talk to his friends, he can put you up on hands free but anything other than that is plain childishness. I don't recall ever doing that. He needs to drop those habits. |
| Romance › Re: Do You Have Any Regrets? What Would You Have Wished? by TheSeeker(op): 2:32pm On Aug 31, 2009 |
unitee:Shut up there. Do you want me to start pulling out and posting videos of those thought-provoking and mind-blowing sex we had? |
| Romance › Re: Do You Have Any Regrets? What Would You Have Wished? by TheSeeker(op): 2:29pm On Aug 31, 2009 |
olusolami:You sound like a lighter version of a popular girl who goes around chasing and cussing James Bassey |
| Romance › Re: The Power Of Complementary/call Card. by TheSeeker(m): 2:24pm On Aug 31, 2009 |
Complimentary card doesn't work on girls only. I guess it tells a lot about who you're and what you do. It depends on why you're giving it out. If at all a complimentary card works in Nigerian girls, then it had better be NNPC, Chevron, IGI, NICON INSURANCE, NICON HILTON HOTEL, etc., and your position must be really cool on the card too; not describe you as a 'security man' in IGI |
| Romance › Re: Settle Your Nairaland Romantic Disputes Here by TheSeeker(m): 2:10pm On Aug 31, 2009 |
~checking in~ Good morning, Your Honor Good morning, my learned colleague, Honorable Tubabie Good morning, Clerk Plat. My final submission goes thus: Citizen 190 can't be granted amnesty for any reason, especially not because he was the founder of this court. In my opinion that makes him liable to answer to all charges and if found guilty, will be accorded the corresponding sentence. First of all, he violated the right of Citizen's Gabry's existence -- what I mean is she was supposed to be left alone when she clearly had nothing to do with him. He didn't provide any evidence in regards to any previous squabble; he deliberately wanted to get her upset and hurt her ego, which is a punishable offense. He talked about freedom of speech; I don't see this as that, I see it as an abuse of freedom of speech which is equally punishable. Everyone in this republic has the right to their own existence without any protruding negative remarks from anyone and the right for them to be left alone when they aren't bothering anyone or don't want to be bothered and Citizen 190 clearly violated those rights intentionally -- with a definite intent to upstage Citizen Gabry. That is totally unacceptable. His apologies to her can come after the ruling of this court on this case and Citizen Gabry reserves the right to or not accept his apologies, but, this honorable court will do everything in its power to not forestall peace and harmony in this republic. Finally, Citizen 190 should be put behind bars for 190 days with hard labor. |
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