₦airaland Forum

Benoxvals:
Could someone please explain to me how this work cuz Benin and Togo has been enjoying steady power supply for so many years and Nigeria has been sloppy in that regard,
so how could they be us for help?
How could Nigeria be their main source of electricity generation whereas they are still struggling in power/current sectors??

now we know were all the electricity went during the time of jonathan....

Sweetyie:
My woman, my everything

you black-women have a tough time finding good role models,heyyy...??

i dont know,about this women that we have,,,my hearth is always telling me,they are all very evil...

Iamsynord:
Korea son turn one ?? I think say na north Korea and south korea

i think she is south-korea,or else she would be in miltary uniform if she was north korea....

aresa:
[s][/s]


While Nigerians are moving forward to better things and better future, your own portion in life remains hatred, bigotry, bitterness, bleak and uncertain future..


Don't worry about Nigeria, you just worry about your biafra village..

you mean atlantic ocean straight(Biafra)...the funny thing is,in china they would be locked up,their organs harvested and sold to improve nigerias gdp....they are a threat to nigeria,this is how the chinese deal with threat to their nation....

holychild87:
U guys speak like u never went to sch even if u did go u never went to a better school, before a president sits the name palate is arranged and u sit according to country, u nigerians amaze me no wonder if u guys eventually travel out u either do drugs or Internet scam SMH

abeg dont vex...abeg,,,,,,,we nigerians are natural born comedians....we compete against each other,who is the best idiat in nigeria....abegi,dont mind us,and get too angry with us....

look how they are looking at buhari,they know buhari dont give a shiit about them........

mrklock:
KEEP CALM!! BUHARI IS GONNA END THIS INSURGENCY.
HYPOCRISY IS WHEN GOODLUCK SPENT OVER FIVE YEARS BUT COULD NOT TOTALLY FINISH BOKOHARAM AND YOU EXPECT BUHARI TO TOTALLY FINISH THEM IN 3 MONTHS.
or didn't you read where its reported they rode on Bicycle during GEJ time they drive TANKS. so kudos to PMB
and finally RIP to the dead. the days of BH is pretty numbered

heavens... .....they were even driving tanks and had anti aircraft guns mounted on toyotas....i saw the videos an youtube....


but i must say,shekau is a clown and comedian,i couldnt stop laughing everytime he was talking in a video.... ...i just couldnt take him serious....toooo funny.....

passionate88:
Na now you know all these things ba? More excuses on the way.

this is no excuss...this are facts and numbers printed in paper....nothing is free in this world...everything cost money...

was Jesus christ black or white??

this thread is to gather what all black-people believe...
just say what you think...

christinie:
God is God of all. Don't act as if He will let you use his name to curse people because He won't.


God is God, God is no man.



Whom God has blessed no one can curse.

how do you know that god blessed anyone?? ........did god told himself who is blessed or not??..

wait,wait,,,,,,,,,,,,,,waiiiiiiiiiiit..................................was jesus christ black or white??.........................

he is saying,death-sentence will be soon generaly implemented......

Laredojohn:
BH attacks with vehicles, motor bikes, bicycles, they still can't pull them down, they would attack with camels next and still get away with it. Are they human beings at all?? God help Nigeria

yea...well...its just the way it is...we will have to get used to this incidents and always defend ourselves.......

babestella:
Which command centre?

It's all propaganda, which army moves her command centre to a war zone? They just said it to hoodwink Nigerians and we bought into the propaganda, now we can all see what's happening. Boko Haram everywhere.

Abeg next base joor.

you are an idiat...you think our army cannot move their command were ever they want in west-africa??.....hellllllllllloooo...news flash::::::: nigeria is in the au(african union)...nigerian army can move their command were ever they want,in the ol african-continent.........

nikkiking:
Where were the soldiers

the problem is nigeria is big...you can not be everywhere at once.....this will need muuuuuuuuuuuuuuch more bigger police and army...that would be extremly expensive....you have to pay the people,nau................

take america for example...they give so much amount of money to their military,like the rest of world combined.....imagine that...thats why they have a debt of 15trillion dollars and rising......soooo...dont blame our military,they are doing their best,with what they have.....

hahahahaha....i would like to see that in pictures...hahahahahaha....sorry---- i know its not funny....

shot him...i tell you,the day nigeria brings back general death-sentence..,,,,1million nigerians will die in the first month.......

Oladimejjy:
picture daa

pictures for what??...cant you imagine people falling from a building...??.....and the end result??----thunda fir.....forget it....

what,??..a new buildt house collapsed??....those responsible should be shot!!.....madness.....

what is this??..list of criminals and looters??....good,good,,,hand the list over to efcc....very good......

this igbos think,they can out-smart us...let the propaganda wars beginn,,,their shall be no biafra in nigeria....period...

Uncleodi:
Really!!

ohhhh yes...the colonialits dont want blacks to know this facts....this fact is well hidden....

Claire Gatinois

Tuesday 3 June 2014 10.04 BST

There was no doubt about the firm handshake, but the smile looked a bit forced. The date was 17 November 2011, the place Luanda. Pedro Passos Coelho, the Portuguese premier, had just completed talks with the president of Angola, José Eduardo dos Santos, sealing an agreement that was both a boon for Portugal and deeply humiliating.

Six months earlier, Portugal, verging on bankruptcy, received a €78bn ($100bn) bailout from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. In exchange Lisbon agreed to radical austerity measures, leaving the population poorer and sapping the welfare state. In a curious reversal of fortunes, the former colonial power was in poor shape, but its ex-colony, finally at peace, was awash with oil dollars.

Angola was a Portuguese colony for more than 400 years. It gained its independence in 1975 after a long struggle, but a devastating civil war ensued, only ending in 2002. Dos Santos has been in power since 1979 and the country now enjoys growth rates of between 5% and 15%. Portugal, heavily in debt and struggling to climb out of recession, finally exited its bailout last month.

"Maybe Angola will colonise us now," says Vasco Lourenço, the head of Associação 25 de Abril, an organisation that is trying to preserve the spirit of the 1974 revolution. Forty years ago he was one of the young army officers who took up arms to end the Salazar dictatorship and colonial wars.

The conflict has moved to another front, all about the economy, and Angola seems to have gained the upper hand. "Angola is looking for recognition and makes it very clear where the money is, sometimes to the point of humiliation," says French historian Yves Léonard. In February, when the cash-strapped government in Lisbon raised the possibility of selling 85 Miró paintings, an Angolan millionaire, Rui Costa Reis, offered to buy them. Well-off Angolan families are now the only people who can afford to shop on the capital's upmarket Avenida da Liberdade. They are investing in luxury apartments at Cascais, a fashionable seaside resort, and buying up companies hastily privatised by the authorities. They – and the Chinese – are the prime beneficiaries of the "golden visas" that the government has promised to anyone investing €500,000 ($650,000) in the country.

In a detailed survey, O Poder Angolano em Portugal (Angolan power in Portugal), Ceslo Filipe, the deputy head of business magazine Jornal de Negócios, has charted the extent of Angolan assets in Portugal. According to his calculations Angola has invested between €10bn and €15bn, with a wide range of interests: in the media (Impresa), energy (Galp), banking (Banco Comercial Português, Banco Português de Investimento), building and agrifood. Dos Santos and his entourage have played a leading role in these investments, according to Filipe. Meanwhile, the president's son, José Filomeno de Sousa dos Santos, now heads Fundo Soberano de Angola, controlling assets worth about $15bn.

These investments do not always make financial good sense, according to Filipe. He has doubts about the Portuguese press, for example, which is struggling. But for Angolans this is familiar territory and it represents a form of revenge too. Investing in the media and banking brings Luanda greater influence. The Portuguese are unhappy about this situation, even bitter at times. Many wonder whether the papers will still dare criticise Angola.

Portugal is locked in a hypocritical silence, says Pedro Rosa Mendes, a former journalist turned writer. It is hard to disregard the fact that Lisbon welcomes with open arms funds from a country with a shaky record on human rights. "Angola is one of the world's most corrupt countries," says João Paulo Batalha of Transparency International. Last year it put Angola in 153rd position, out of 177, for its lack of transparency. But Angolan money is a boon for the Portuguese economy, in desperate need of liquidity. "The crisis has created a climate of fear," Batalha adds, noting that Portugal is by no means the only European country to turn a blind eye when accepting funds of doubtful origin.

"Portugal is in a tricky situation. It needs Angolan money and must also watch out for Portuguese residents in Angola," Filipe explains. About 100,000 Portuguese nationals currently live in the former colony. Much as with Brazil in the past, many young Portuguese, dogged by unemployment at home, see their future in Angola.

The country's predicament does seem to warrant political pragmatism. "Angolans have purchased a great deal, particularly the media and newspapers; but so have the Chinese. Should we have misgivings? We had to sell and no one in Europe wanted to buy," says Eurico Dias, the national secretary of the Socialist party. "Our two countries are partners," says Miguel Frasquilho, deputy leader of the centre-right Social Democratic party in the Portuguese parliament.

Some would say the word "partner" is a bit feeble for the links between the two countries. Léonard asserts that a special relationship has developed out of "Portugal's extraordinary capacity for mixing and cross-breeding". There are certainly few people who do not have a friend or relation somewhere in Luanda, Cabinda or Benguela. The oil industry in Angola is dominated by US, British or French companies, but many Portuguese work in construction and public works. The respective elites are on good terms too. Coelho spent the early years of his life in Angola and all the way through the civil war prosperous young Angolans studied in Lisbon, Porto or Coimbra. One way or another, there is little likelihood the two countries will go their separate ways just yet.


notes::: This article appeared in Guardian Weekly, which incorporates material from Le Monde

Ejaisky:
Why? Because I want him to fail woefully.

why??....

MKO4ever:
I thought they said "two wrongs don't make a right"
It was wrong for the police to have killed the innocent guy---First wrong
Now another killing to make a second wrong

white-people say that...because they dont want to pay for the wrongs they did to the black-race...but,they will still pay,they may escape the judgement of the black-race,but they will never escape the judgement of god....god never forget or forgive................you must pay for your sins!!!