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The loss of the speakership is a terrible loss to the average non-ACN SWesterner

in what way?

sentimental value, more or less.


i really dont see what the big deal is, though i could be wrong perhaps.

but i dont think so.

[quote author=BABE! link=topic=687082.msg8490265#msg8490265 date=1307670916]The sight of Jolie and Depp was enough to keep me going.[/quote]


you're very generous with the two of them in that movie.

abi na your love for johnny depp.

it would be sheer wickedness for a parent to deny their child meat [protein] while hoarding the same.

if they can afford it [ie they're not poor] but just do so out of plain cussedness, then na mental problem be that.

most children need sneakers- however there's a difference between $500 sneakers and $30 sneakers.

if the parent wears $5000 shoes then why ask your child to wear $5 ones.

^^the scenery was ok [passable] but the plot was wack.

the tourist was a weird movie.

some films give the actors a bad rap. The tourist is one of those.

angelina herself was stiffer than anything and the total lack of emotion between her and johnny had to be seen to be believed.

i guess action movies are her mode.

i dont see where he mentioned marriage in that quote.



he probably has problems with females chasing him, since he's so hot, and a celebrity as well.

so yes, he might be in many quandaries on the dating scene.

Love is what you make of it in positive and healthy way and not your ability to show the world you can date or marry someone of another ethnic group

thanks for this post.

i've long gotten tired of addressing the avalanche of whatever here.

it's not good because they're indirectly promoting sharia standards in banking , that way.

must people be conservative before they can dress decently?

any bank that cashes in on this trend, and sets acceptable dress codes for it's female staff, might just hit a jackpot because there are quite a number of people who would prefer to not see public nudity all the time.

are these the same banks where i heard the staff used to start the day with prayer and praise worship?

the article mentions engineers as well.


i wonder why doctors arent also included.

i guess the incentives for foreign doctors to practice in nigeria might not be there.

there's a global recession and besides, the pay in nigeria might be better than what the foreign pilots could make in their own countries.

so, coming to nigeria would give them an edge especially since they're foreign.

i'm not sure, but ofada rice might be healthier than long grain.

dont quote me however.

Sagamite:
Abi o.

Somehow, to some people, it is a crime to provide items for your kids that are good quality but cheap. You must spend thousands of dollars for a shirt for them.

^^no need to go off the deep end although of course it's a free world.

yes, imo it's highly distasteful to have an unnecessarily extravagant lifestyle while expecting your kids to live like paupers.

there are better ways to show your child the value of money.

technically, most of them arent nigerian diaspora per se, because there was no nigeria during the period in question.

if they were born in america, or outside the shores of nigeria, i'm not sure why nigeria has more right to claim them than other african nations, or america/europe as the case may be.

so, i think the thread title is misleading.

most times it does, especially in africa.

i think it's about the current fad for asia.

yet these people DO NOT like blacks.

from what i read somewhere on nl today, it seems west africans are trying to take over the vacuum in some of the asian drug routes which were controlled by middle easteners.

is asia the new europe.

maybe the author needs to be ignored, though i'm not sure.

obasanjo never replies any of his critics. Instead he justs starts laughing in a funny manner and everybody backs off afterwards.

he should let us know as soon as he starts managing them.

can someone explain the link between the writer of the article and tinubu, because i dont get it.

party affiliation? Or did tinubu come out publicly to say he told the author to write that article.

in addition, the writer was unnecessarily rude and very insensitive.

if youths of today no longer know how to address their elders without sounding like jagudas [ie motor parks touts], then nigeria is indeed in deep trouble.

who will repair NEPA ?

good question.

is there a problem?


they want to marry- nothing wrong with that as far as i know.

what's wrong with them praying for a husband and getting closer to God accordingly. Many single young men also out there looking for wives nah.

Nne Blessed Art THOU, For You Have Done No Wrong"! Chai. . . Okoro blokos no sweet pass Edo blokos o! So, this is what you have been h-enjoying eh kwa

lmao.

una no go wound me for this place sha.

if you're wearing a $1000 shirt while your kid is wearing a $1 shirt, that's ridiculous.

if you need a rolex to seal key business deals [where appearance is important- say you're meeting with a middle eastern oil magnate], then that's different.

but if the rolex is for showoff and nothing more, while your kids are wearing 50 kobo watches,  then that's just frivolous, imo.

@ the whole matter

whatever.

does that lower the cost of fuel.

Set the standard you want your children to follow.

Dont use expensive designer stuff if you dont want them doing the same.

Katsumoto:
The fact that you can only mention Ife as the only Yoruba town settlement lends credence to many unhabited places in Yorubaland. You can not compare 19th century Yorubaland with 11th century Yorubaland. There is a huge difference. If yoruba people were settling in NEW towns in the 19th century, why is it so difficult to accept that Oduduwa's descendants settled in new towns in the 12th/13th/14th/15th/16th/17th centuries?

The onus is on you to prove that there were established communities in ALL 16 kingdoms founded by Oduduwa's descendants. As far as oral traditions and evidential history is concerned, Ife was the first organised town. This however, doesn't preclude the presence of people in other parts of Yorubaland. We know Ife people settled in Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Owu, Ijesa, Ugbo (Ilaje), etc.

i mentioned ife and ijebu.

of course that doesnt in any way imply it was limited to those two towns only.

the onus isnt on anyone to prove anything.

if you have links to your assertions, then let's have them.

in the 13th-17th centuries, ife already had a thriving culture . Culture is not static, and for it to have reached such a high level of recognition, there would have been supporting towns which buttressed the ife one. Not a wilderness- much better to dispute the sizes of adjacent areas.

Check the dates for the nok civilization which preceeded and influenced ife to some extent.

X factoria

in the 19th century, many new towns were founded by the yoruba , as i mentioned before.

You yourself gave the same date for sagamu so where is the contradiction here.

The reason why there was so much unpopulated land compared to the general population at the time, was due to the wholesale emptying and destruction of towns by the slave trade.

The refugees and survivors of the various wars and raids settled in new towns further south from where they were before, and closer to the coast.

The figures from the 19th century do not in any way butress the claim that oduduwa's descendants ruled over vast tracts of wilderness populated only by themselves. I would really like to see any links to this assertion. From the ife example we see there was an indigenous population there prior to oduduwa's arrival, and this population already had links and info on him or his region even before then.

The charges are frivolous.

I wonder what's really going on.

Are we ever going to act like educated people in that county.

Festus keyamo?

Yes, that's it.

They were both typing simultaneously from the bed.

Or while one of them was sitting on the other's lap.

Maybe stephen p sitting on the girlfriend's lap like the guy in that photo which pops up every now and then.
So, it does happen.

Oduduwa himself met people in ile ife when he got there, likewise the ijebu region was already there prior to the period under discussion. Same applies to many of the principal towns in yorubaland besides places like ibadan and abeokuta which were founded due to war raids and the like.

@ x factoria

i'll check the history of sagamu but notwithstanding, it's erroneous to claim most of the kingdoms were empty when oduduwa's descendants settled there.

Lokoja was founded by a white european but that doesnt mean there were no people in the area before then.

During the times of the yoruba civil wars and the fulani onslaught, there was a lot of mass movement of people founding new towns afters the old ones were sacked. Many places in ekiti for example were founded this way. The settlers moved close to existing towns and set up new ones in forests previously used for hunting and the like. Abeokuta itself was also founded within a particular period, as was ibadan in 1829. Oyo has also shifted capitals more than once.

Very little evidence exists to support the claim that oduduwa's sons went to rule over empty land with the subjects consisiting of only their wives and slaves. If anyone can prove that's what happened, kindly provide the rest of us with your sourc or links.