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Travel / Re: Thanks To God! I Didn't Get Deported From Uk---my Appeal Was Allowed. by Time2Think(f): 6:48pm On Mar 06, 2011
OP

How can you have a visitor visa for two years? in this same UK we all live in?
Politics / Re: The Buhari You Didnt Know - For Those Under 30 Years Of Age On NairaLand. by Time2Think(f): 6:22pm On Mar 06, 2011
I billion crowd cant wipe away history even in 1 billion years, brother.

2003, 2007, 2011 - there will always be crowd. LOL
Travel / Re: Thanks To God! I Didn't Get Deported From Uk---my Appeal Was Allowed. by Time2Think(f): 6:21pm On Mar 06, 2011
you better close this thread and delete all your stories before you expose yourself further.
Travel / Re: Thanks To God! I Didn't Get Deported From Uk---my Appeal Was Allowed. by Time2Think(f): 6:16pm On Mar 06, 2011
^^^

Seriously. You should be deported. You are opening yah own yanch here.
Politics / Re: Maiduguri, North East Standing Still For Buhari by Time2Think(f): 6:15pm On Mar 06, 2011
Do you seriously think all these people will vote for BB?
Travel / Re: Thanks To God! I Didn't Get Deported From Uk---my Appeal Was Allowed. by Time2Think(f): 6:12pm On Mar 06, 2011
dont be too happy. Wait till oyinbo gets tired of you and reports you to the border agencies. The import of this is? Do a crime so you can get a residence permit?
Politics / Re: Your Veiw On Gej's Door To Door Campaign by Time2Think(f): 5:32pm On Mar 06, 2011
seanet02:

Dumbo. What has he got to say when somebody ask "WTF Have your Party done in the Past 12 years" yeah will he talk about 24 hours of darkness or the Celebration of Corruption at Lagos? What do you expect him to say? OLODO

Bomb thrower.
Politics / Re: Wikileaks Astonishing Accusation:A Former vice president Voted Illegally 4 Times by Time2Think(f): 5:28pm On Mar 06, 2011
These kind of reports just continue to strengthen the resolve to support GEJ.
Politics / Re: The Buhari You Didnt Know - For Those Under 30 Years Of Age On NairaLand. by Time2Think(f): 5:19pm On Mar 06, 2011
^^
Exactly. Rubbish because you cant say anyone of it is a lie.

LOL. I bet you werent born in 1985 from the way you post on NL.
Politics / The Buhari You Didnt Know - For Those Under 30 Years Of Age On NairaLand. by Time2Think(f): 5:06pm On Mar 06, 2011
Buhari's administration 1984 - 1985

1. Made 53,000 government workers redundant between those years, reducing educational subsidies.
   
I remembered we use to have what we called bursary back in time. Once you get to higher institution, you get paid your bursary allowance, Buhari put an end to the Bursary Allowance. How many of you supporting him today knows about the bursary allowance. None, you were too young.

2. Reduced the number of local government from 1000 to 301.

How many of you under 30 years of age remember this?

3. Rice, sugar, salf and toiletries became essential commodities, sold at controlled prices.

Before Buhari came to power - a packet of St. Louis sugar used to sell 5kobo while a tin of Peak milk used to sell 15kobo - when he was thrown out in 1985, ask your elders how much inflation jerked up these prices.

4. Buhari expelled 700,000 foreigners- illegal immigrants- , claiming they were a burden on the Nigerian economy.

5. Many notable second republic governors and national assembly members were tried and sentenced to looooong terms of imprisonment, leaving out Shagari and Ekwueme, the head and the vice. Such was the Buhari notion of equitable apportionment of guilt and/or responsibility.

6. Attempted to "crate" Umaru Dikko" back to Nigeria, the British Government un covered the plot and led to a strain between the UK and Nigeria.

7. Death sentence to drug pushers - killed two in the process.

Judicial murder, the execution of a citizen under a retroactive decree. Does Decree 20 ring a bell? If not, then, perhaps the names of three youths - Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26) do. To put it quite plainly, one of those three, Ogedengbe - was executed for a crime that did not carry a capital forfeit at the time it was committed. This was an unconscionable crime, carried out in defiance of the pleas and protests of nearly every sector of the Nigerian and international community religious, civil rights, political, trade unions etc. Buhari and his sidekick and his partner-in-crime, Tunde Idiagbon persisted in this inhuman act for one reason and one reason only: to place Nigerians on notice that they were now under an iron, inflexible rule, under governance by fear.

8. The "NSO" was used to hunt military divisionists, in military tribunals, no jury with constitutional provisions.

9. Long prison terms for tampering with postal stamps, examination mal practices - currency trafficking, illegal produce export etc.

On currency trafficking, Fela Anikulapo languished in goal for years, sentenced under that very draconian decree.  His crime was being in possession of foreign exchange that he had legitimately received for the immediate upkeep of his band as they set off for an international engagement. A vicious sentence was slapped down on Fela by a judge who later became so remorse stricken at least after Buharis overthrow that he went to the King of Afro-beat and apologized.

10. Buhari outlawed strikes and lock outs - no unionism of any kind

11. Decree on national security which enables the security personnels to slam anyone in jail for 3 months, renewable without trial

Speaking the truth was not what Buhari, as a self-imposed leader, was especially enamoured of. Ask of Tunde Thompson and Nduka Irabor both of whom,  faithful  to their journalistic calling, published nothing but the truth, yet ended up sentenced under Buharis decree. Mind you, no one can say that Buhari was not true to his word. "I shall tamper with the freedom of the press" swore the dictator immediately on grabbing office, and this was exactly what he did. 

12. Decree that allows for closing of media houses and cowing of the press if you write anything considered to be negative to government or any of governments personnel or personality.

What precisely was Ebenezer Babatopes crime that he should have spent the entire tenure of General Buhari in detention?  Nothing beyond the fact that he once warned in the media that Buhari was an ambitious soldier who would bear watching through the lenses of a coup-detat. Babatopes father died while he was in Buharis custody, the dictator remained deaf to every plea that he be at least released to attend his fathers funeral, even under guard.

13. WAI brigade- empowered the police to use this to intimidate the populace.

14. Confiscated travelling passports of Nnamdi Azikiwe and Papa Awolowo, denying them their trips abroad

15. the regime's attack on religious leaders, such as "Oba" Okunade Sijuwade, the Oni (king) of Ife, and Alhaji Ado Bayero, the Emir of Kano. The regime placed both leaders under house arrest for six months for an "unauthorized" trip to Israel.

This royal duo went to Israel on their private steam and private business. Simply because the Buhari regime was pursuing some antagonistic foreign policy towards Israel, a policy of which these traditional rulers were not a part, they were subjected on their return to a treatment that could only be described as a head masterly chastisement of errant pupils. Since when, may one ask, did a free citizen of the Nigerian nation require the permission  of a head of state to visit a foreign nation that was willing to offer that tourist a visa.?

16. Buhari need one remind anyone - was one of the generals who treated a Commission of Enquiry, the Oputa Panel, with unconcealed disdain. Like Babangida and Abdusalami, he refused to put in appearance even though complaints that were tabled against him involved a career of gross abuses of power and blatant assault on the fundamental human rights of the Nigerian citizenry.

17. Recall, if you please, the judicial processes undergone by the septuagenarian Chief Adekunle Ajasin.  He was arraigned and tried before Buharis punitive tribunal but acquitted. Dissatisfied, Buhari ordered his re-trial. Again, the Tribunal could not find this man guilty of a single crime, so once again he was returned for trial, only to be acquitted of all charges of corruption or abuse of office. Was Chief Ajasin thereby released? No! He was ordered detained indefinitely.
Politics / Re: April Poll:congrat Nigerians,buhari Won!: But,but,but! by Time2Think(f): 4:33pm On Mar 06, 2011
Genbuhari3:

You are sick, not dreaming. Just like Ghaddafi is going crazy because of change that is happening in Libya, you are finding it hard to come to terms that Buhari is almost there. he is not a coup plotter my friend, he was called to lead after the coup, IBB is still alive! Ask him!

funny
Politics / Re: Wikileaks Astonishing Accusation:A Former vice president Voted Illegally 4 Times by Time2Think(f): 4:30pm On Mar 06, 2011
Bintus2much:

I had always believed in Jonathan before he became president but with all his poor performances and misconduct that are beginning to come to light now he is nothing to write home about.

Examples? Try and convince us not to vote for GEJ.
Politics / Re: Maiduguri, North East Standing Still For Buhari by Time2Think(f): 4:28pm On Mar 06, 2011
Even if GEJ goes to these cities. These same people will go there again and again, same if it is Ribadu. No be Northern "fifu"?
Politics / Re: Your Veiw On Gej's Door To Door Campaign by Time2Think(f): 4:22pm On Mar 06, 2011
Dullards.

In developed countries, there are always door to door campaign. Shows the reason why GEJ is ahead of his detractors.

He knows what to do.
Politics / Re: What Sort Of Country Is This? by Time2Think(f): 12:14pm On Mar 06, 2011
^^^
about my mother. She is dead.

I am sure dead people deal with people like you on their own. Expect to join them soon, thats the way they revenge.
Politics / New Book Sheds New Light On Lincoln's Racial Views-send Black To Central America by Time2Think(f): 12:11pm On Mar 06, 2011
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_lincoln_colonization

By MATTHEW BARAKAT, Associated Press – Fri Mar 4, 4:04 pm ET

McLEAN, Va. – Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address has inspired Americans for generations, but consider his jarring remarks in 1862 to a White House audience of free blacks, urging them to leave the U.S. and settle in Central America.

"For the sake of your race, you should sacrifice something of your present comfort for the purpose of being as grand in that respect as the white people," Lincoln said, promoting his idea of colonization: resettling blacks in foreign countries on the belief that whites and blacks could not coexist in the same nation.

Lincoln went on to say that free blacks who envisioned a permanent life in the United States were being "selfish" and he promoted Central America as an ideal location "especially because of the similarity of climate with your native land — thus being suited to your physical condition."

As the nation celebrates the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's first inauguration Friday, a new book by a researcher at George Mason University in Fairfax makes the case that Lincoln was even more committed to colonizing blacks than previously known. The book, "Colonization After Emancipation," is based in part on newly uncovered documents that authors Philip Magness and Sebastian Page found at the British National Archives outside London and in the U.S. National Archives.

In an interview, Magness said he thinks the documents he uncovered reveal Lincoln's complexity.

"It makes his life more interesting, his racial legacy more controversial," said Magness, who is also an adjuct professor at American University.

Lincoln's views about colonization are well known among historians, even if they don't make it into most schoolbooks. Lincoln even referred to colonization in the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, his September 1862 warning to the South that he would free all slaves in Southern territory if the rebellion continued. Unlike some others, Lincoln always promoted a voluntary colonization, rather than forcing blacks to leave.

But historians differ on whether Lincoln moved away from colonization after he issued the official Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, or whether he continued to support it.

Magness and Page's book offers evidence that Lincoln continued to support colonization, engaging in secret diplomacy with the British to establish a colony in British Honduras, now Belize.

Among the records found at the British archives is an 1863 order from Lincoln granting a British agent permission to recruit volunteers for a Belize colony.

"He didn't let colonization die off. He became very active in promoting it in the private sphere, through diplomatic channels," Magness said. He surmises that Lincoln grew weary of the controversy that surrounded colonization efforts, which had become enmeshed in scandal and were criticized by many abolitionists.
As late as 1864, Magness found a notation that Lincoln asked the attorney general whether he could continue to receive counsel from James Mitchell, his colonization commissioner, even after Congress had eliminated funding for Mitchell's office.

Illinois' state historian, Tom Schwartz, who is also a research director at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Ill., said that while historians differ, there is ample evidence that Lincoln's views evolved away from colonization in the final two years of the Civil War.

Lincoln gave several speeches referring to the rights blacks had earned as they enlisted in the Union Army, for instance. And presidential secretary John Hay wrote in July 1864 that Lincoln had "sloughed off" colonization.

"Most of the evidence points to the idea that Lincoln is looking at other ways" to resolve the transition from slavery besides colonization at the end of his presidency, Schwartz said.

Lincoln is the not the only president whose views on race relations and slavery were more complex and less idealistic than children's storybook histories suggest. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were both slaveholders despite misgivings. Washington freed his slaves when he died.

"Washington, because he wanted to keep the union, knew he had to ignore the slavery problem because it would have torn the country apart, said James Rees, director of Washington's Mount Vernon estate.

"It's tempting to wish he had tried. The nation had more chance of dealing with slavery with Washington than with anyone else," Rees said, noting the esteem in which Washington was held in both the North and the South.

Magness said views on Lincoln can be strongly held and often divergent. He noted that people have sought to use Lincoln's legacy to support all manner of political policy agendas since the day he was assassinated. And nobody can claim definitive knowledge of Lincoln's own views, especially on a topic as complex as race relations.
"He never had a chance to complete his vision. Lincoln's racial views were evolving at the time of his death," Magness said.
Politics / Re: What Sort Of Country Is This? by Time2Think(f): 11:53am On Mar 06, 2011
You are so cheap. Do you know how much GEJ pays to su ck his balls? You need a dog to suck yours at that price.
Politics / Why Acn Is Jittery In Lagos - See Crowwwwwddddd At The Pdp Rally In Lagos. by Time2Think(f): 11:52am On Mar 06, 2011
http://www.channelstv.com/global/videos.php?vid_shows=nat_1245

Despite ACN having rallies in Lagos same day as PDP, see the mammmooothhhhhhhhh crowd. ACN will have to rig like they did in 2007 to win Lagos again.

Watch the video.

If you insult or curse or call names. Just know that all the names and insults and curses goes on your ugly head in one fell swoop. Gbam.
Politics / Re: Bb Rally In Port Harcourt. Any Update? by Time2Think(f): 11:38am On Mar 06, 2011
I still dont understand what this Pastor man is doing with this Sharia man.
Politics / Re: Bb Rally In Port Harcourt. Any Update? by Time2Think(f): 11:38am On Mar 06, 2011
Solomon227:

Then u are still a caveman living in d stoneage

Is that the best answer from someone living in London. Tell me where you live in London let me come and slap sense into you.
Politics / Re: Whats Luck Got To Do With It: How Jonathan Helped Himself by Time2Think(f): 11:33am On Mar 06, 2011
LOL

Where is Oshiomole to say all these thrash again?

Only dummies will believe things like these, and it seems they are all over NL.

dummies and m.o.rons believes everything.

Hilarious.
Politics / Re: Wikileaks Astonishing Accusation:A Former vice president Voted Illegally 4 Times by Time2Think(f): 11:30am On Mar 06, 2011
silly.
Politics / Re: What Sort Of Country Is This? by Time2Think(f): 11:27am On Mar 06, 2011
a lot of people are so idle here. Maybe u get yur daily bread from NL.

LOL. Others are busy making good their life, you are here talking thrash on NL. Pity.

Confession ko - confusion ni.
Religion / Re: Why Pastor Chris Miracles May Be Fake. by Time2Think(f): 11:24am On Mar 06, 2011
LoveKing:

I want us enlightened people to talk about Pastor Chris miracles and why they make be fake.

We are not talking about how verified the results are but how it looks like a stage managed or occultic affair.

What i deduce is this: Pastor Chris seems to waste alot of time around the subject and he throws the crowd into frenzy. So if you are in that hypnotic state you cant really 'see' whats happening behind the scenes. If it was Jesus, would he waste that much time? and would he parade himself in flowing garbs and shining hair to perform these so called miracles? Jesus preached Salavation but Pastor Chris hordes miracles.

so what do you think about his fake miracles?


what is there to discuss when you have already judge them fake?
Politics / Re: What Sort Of Country Is This? by Time2Think(f): 10:55am On Mar 06, 2011
Yes: I am.

So what? Go and eat rat poison. Who cares if you know and if the entire world knows?

Now that you know, then go and get your price. You will also be surprised beyond your wildest imaginations if I tell you I know who you are and your entire family. Do you want me to post your pictures, old woman?

Eat rat poison if you like.
Politics / Re: Bb Rally In Port Harcourt. Any Update? by Time2Think(f): 10:42am On Mar 06, 2011
I still dont understand what this Pastor man is doing with this Sharia man.
Politics / Re: Pdp Wants Sympathy Votes By Bombing Themselves. by Time2Think(f): 12:31am On Mar 06, 2011
mtcheeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwww

sympathy vote? from a state they control? na wa o. some people are really riffraffs.
Politics / Re: What Sort Of Country Is This? by Time2Think(f): 12:29am On Mar 06, 2011
You obviously knows nothing about what you are writing on.
Politics / Re: Your Veiw On Gej's Door To Door Campaign by Time2Think(f): 12:26am On Mar 06, 2011
Na wa o. What is insane in the method?

These are the type of things we read that make us believe the opposition throws bombs.
Politics / Re: Your Veiw On Gej's Door To Do Campaign by Time2Think(f): 12:25am On Mar 06, 2011
Na wa o. What is insane in the method?

These are the type of things we read that make us believe the opposition throws bombs.
Politics / Re: Your Veiw On Gej's Door To Do Campaign by Time2Think(f): 12:24am On Mar 06, 2011
Na wa o. What is insane in the method?

These are the type of things we read that make us believe the opposition throws bombs.
Politics / Re: Al Jazeera Tv Profiles Saharareporters by Time2Think(f): 12:22am On Mar 06, 2011
This is quite a damnation on Sahara Reporters from Al Jazeera. Can you see the smile on the face of the Al Jazeera lady when she said Sahara Reporters absolutely falsified the story about the Turai case? Its like saying, I now have the opportunity to damn you and expose your lies. Whats SR happy about publishing such a high caliber lie to the whole world. How many of such lies are we being bombarded with daily on the face of Sahara Reporters and hundreds others on the face of the internet? It is a shame on Sahara Reporters - only fools will continue to take them serious after hearing the damning part of this report and story- they lied once, they will forever lie and cook up stories.

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