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Chei! who be propounder of one man one wife?

I see why some guys no wan gree settle down...abeg,i no fit vote, they are all buriful

The National theatre, Lagos should also be in this category...it's the only building with unusual architecture in Nigeria.

mollytinrox: If you want to teach, and you read a biology-related course, send me a pm. A school I know has been advertising since october. I can send you the address and the details.

Please, let me have your email addy.

Thanx.

...And her recent picture

simple; i hear you!

Never knew this would make the front page, i posted this earlier but, the moderator(s) ignored it.

https://www.nairaland.com/1116569/veteran-yoruba-actor-akin-ogungbe

Anyway, Sleep well Pa Ogungbe

Reports have it that veteran Yoruba theatre legend, Pa Akintola Ogungbe is dead. The iconic actor, as we gathered, died this morning. Pa Akin Ogungbe was popular with the epic film, 'Ireke Onibudo'.

According to reports, his death was confirmed by a popular Abeokuta, Ogun State-based actor cum producer and director, Segun Ogungbe this morning. He was aged 78 before his death.


http://www.nigeriafilms.com/news/19665/54/veteran-yoruba-actor-akin-ogungbe-78-dies.html

Eko oni baje o

Ogunlana Drive and Adelabu Street, Surulere.

Oshodi Heritage Gardens

Oshodi before and Now...who says LASG focuses only on highbrow areas?

greatgod2012: He has forgiven d woman of course, but it will be very difficult for him to forget such a thing, d man can only forget if he suffers from "memory loss".......i dont know d medical term.

Amnesia.

Dem-All-crazy like the name of government we practice here.

Nairaland...an assembly for electorates!

Draconian!

If such harsh punishments are meted out to criminals, then the human race will soon go into extinction.

Psychological problems are the main causes of crime and that is why we have the rehab centers and prisons (not Nigerian type of prison where criminals become more notorious after serving their jail terms.

In Sigmund Freud's Psychoanalytic theory, the mind can be divided into two main parts; the conscious and the unconscious. The conscious mind is the aspect of man's mental processing that he can think and talk about rationally while the unconscious mind is a reservoir of feelings, thoughts, urges, and memories that are outside of our conscious awareness. Most of the contents of the unconscious are unacceptable or unpleasant, such as feelings of pain, anxiety, or conflict. According to Freud, the unconscious continues to influence our behavior and experience, even though we are unaware of these underlying influences.

Freud further posited that human personality is composed of three elements and these three elements known as the id,ego and superego work together to create complex human behaviours.

The Id
The id is the only component of personality that is present from birth. This aspect of personality is entirely unconscious and includes of the instinctive and primitive behaviors. According to Freud, the id is the source of all psychic energy, making it the primary component of personality. The id is driven by the pleasure principle, which strives for immediate gratification of all desires, wants, and needs. If these needs are not satisfied immediately, the result is a state anxiety or tension. For example, an increase in hunger or thirst should produce an immediate attempt to eat or drink. The id is very important early in life, because it ensures that an infant's needs are met. If the infant is hungry or uncomfortable, he or she will cry until the demands of the id are met.

However, immediately satisfying these needs is not always realistic or even possible. If we were ruled entirely by the pleasure principle, we might find ourselves grabbing things we want out of other people's hands to satisfy our own cravings. This sort of behavior would be both disruptive and socially unacceptable. According to Freud, the id tries to resolve the tension created by the pleasure principle through the primary process, which involves forming a mental image of the desired object as a way of satisfying the need.

The Ego
The ego is the component of personality that is responsible for dealing with reality. According to Freud, the ego develops from the id and ensures that the impulses of the id can be expressed in a manner acceptable in the real world. The ego functions in both the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious mind.

The ego operates based on the reality principle, which strives to satisfy the id's desires in realistic and socially appropriate ways. The reality principle weighs the costs and benefits of an action before deciding to act upon or abandon impulses. In many cases, the id's impulses can be satisfied through a process of delayed gratification--the ego will eventually allow the behavior, but only in the appropriate time and place.

The ego also discharges tension created by unmet impulses through the secondary process, in which the ego tries to find an object in the real world that matches the mental image created by the id's primary process.

The Superego
The last component of personality to develop is the superego. The superego is the aspect of personality that holds all of our internalized moral standards and ideals that we acquire from both parents and society--our sense of right and wrong. The superego provides guidelines for making judgments. According to Freud, the superego begins to emerge at around age five.

There are two parts of the superego:
1.The ego ideal: includes the rules and standards for good behaviors. These behaviors include those which are approved of by parental and other authority figures. Obeying these rules leads to feelings of pride, value and accomplishment.

2.The conscience: includes information about things that are viewed as bad by parents and society. These behaviors are often forbidden and lead to bad consequences, punishments or feelings of guilt and remorse.The superego acts to perfect and civilize our behavior. It works to suppress all unacceptable urges of the id and struggles to make the ego act upon idealistic standards rather that upon realistic principles. The superego is present in the conscious, preconscious and unconscious.

The Interaction of the Id, Ego and Superego
With so many competing forces, it is easy to see how conflict might arise between the id, ego and superego. Freud used the term ego strength to refer to the ego's ability to function despite these dueling forces. A person with good ego strength is able to effectively manage these pressures, while those with too much or too little ego strength can become too unyielding or too disrupting.

Instead of the government enacting law that will reduce over population through crimes,the government should focus more on establishing more rehabilitation centres and upgrading our prisons.Perfect societies are not societies without crime but societies with good crime management.

reference:About.com Psychology

My wall post on facebook when the news first broke:

Saraki had the whole of kwara state in his grip just as Adedibu had oyo state in his, he was so influential that he wielded respect in the nooks and crannies of the "state of harmony".The godfather of the kwara politics ensured Muhammed Lawal lost his second term bid to his son, Bukola Saraki.

The second republic senate leader however, failed in his attempt to impose her daughter, Gbemisola Saraki on the people as the outgoing governor already had his own successor. An outsider would see this as power play between the father and son but, one who understands how politics is played in Nigeria would know that Bukola was stylishly picked as the head of the saraki dynasty by his dad knowing that death could call anytime.

Today, he has started his journey to where the likes of Tunde Idiagbon, Muhammed Lawal, Kareem Adisa and other kwara strongmen who once had the opportunity to make things right in the lives of the common men are. What the family owes him now is keeping his body away 6 feet under the ground in a building that can't match the one he stayed all through his life. A befitting burial obviously might come up but, only God knows the befitting reward for mankind.

Life and times of Olusola Saraki and other late godfathers is enough to serve as lesson to all living godfathers and oppressors. Nobody sleeps in two graves at a time and no matter how rich they are, they will not be buried in the sky.

Kenny Rogers-Island in the stream

Tosin Martins- Olo mi

Ebenezer Obey- Baby mi jowo

Celine Dion- My heart goes on

Akon- Blame it on me

Akon- Lonely

Michael Jackson- Speechless

Tuface- African Queen

Mack Anthony- I love you

Celine Dion & R Kelly- You are my angel

Paul Play Dairo- Angel of my life

Keisha Cole- Heaven sent

Carlos Santana- Maria

Celine Dion- Power of love

Joe- I wanna know

Whitney Houston- I will always love you

The press theory in operation in this part of the world today is AUTHORITARIAN. Journalists are always at the whims and caprices of their employers who are either politicians or businessmen benefiting from the government of the day and he who pays the piper they say dictates the tune.The owners of media outfits control the content of their papers thereby, compromising objectivity.

To me,Nigeria does not have an independent press so, the WATCHDOG responsibility of the press cannot be achieved. Another point is that our journalists are too lazy to engage in investigative journalism especially in this computer age where it is easy for them to sit in the comfort of their offices and lift unverified stories online and publish same...My lecturer calls this kind of practice "Armchair journalism"

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LESSON FROM THE US ELECTIONS

1. PATRIOTISM: All Americans in front of the white house held/waved the American flag as soon as the result was announced. A guy displayed
placard with the inscription 'America is working'...The Nigerian flag would have been exchanged for either bunch of brooms or umbrella here and the inscription 'America is working' would have been 'Goodluck Shamed his enemies'

2.SPORTSMANSHIP: Mitt Romney nev
er waited for 24 hours before accepting defeat and congratulating Barack Obama neither did the republican party declare 'observing the outcome of the election before taking possible action'...Here, the loser would have gone to the tribunal before the result is declared and even when court uphold the election of the winner, no congratulatory message will be sent across.

3.RESPONSIBLE MEDIA: Throughout the election period, US based CNN, the BBC, Aljazeera, Fox News and all other notable media around the world were all pre-occupied reporting situation across America...Our Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) would rather televise the osun oshogbo festival or the Argungu fishing festival.

1. PATRIOTISM: All Americans in front of the white house held/waved the American flag as soon as the result was announced. A guy displayed
placard with the inscription 'America is working'...The Nigerian flag would have been exchanged for either bunch of brooms or umbrella here and the inscription 'America is working' would have been 'Goodluck Shamed his enemies'

2.SPORTSMANSHIP: Mitt Romney never waited for 24 hours before accepting defeat and congratulating Barack Obama neither did the republican party declare 'observing the outcome of the election before taking possible action'...Here, the loser would have gone to the tribunal before the result is declared and even when court uphold the election of the winner, no congratulatory message will be sent across.

3.RESPONSIBLE MEDIA: Throughout the election period, US based CNN, the BBC, Aljazeera, Fox News and all other notable media around the world were all pre-occupied reporting situation across America...Our Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) would rather televise the osun oshogbo festival or the Argungu fishing festival.

I can only answer the question if the op can tell me why the child's first language is called mother's tongue and not father's tongue

Nadia Buhari

musKeeto: Ube and corn...
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Chei! I looked at the options and didn't see this.

Bill Gates might wear a suit made of material of 1 dollar and fifty cent per yard and a poor Nigerian wannabe might empty his bank account to purchase a footwear for fifty thousand naira.

Does this makes Bill Gates a 'low life fellow' or the Nigerian an intelligent man? Hell no! it's unfortunate that love for material things has beclouded our thinking that we are always quick at jumping into conclusion that those who don't give a hoot about material things are low class people.

If the world agrees on one definition of 'success', I know Nigeria's definition will differ as ours will see unsuccessful people as those who don't use our kind of phones,wear our kind of clothes and drive our kind of cars.

what a ridiculous thought!

Why una hide my comment? na wa for these moderators o.

I served in taraba in 2008/2009. We were 6 posted to the state in my department and we all agreed to move together but, unfortunately, we could not co-ordinate ourselves as some settled for flight instead of the road transport we earlier agreed to use.

Myself and one other colleague decided to leave together and we made jibowu our meeting point. The camp was scheduled to open on Monday and having known taraba to be a long distant, we left Lagos on saturday. At jibowu, we joined a night bus to onitsha. We got to onitsha in the morning and booked another bus to Adamawa because, there wasn't straight bus to Jalingo.

The hours spent within Benue State alone was enough to travel to some states from Lagos and return that same day. For the first time, I saw the river benue, passed through katsina-ala, gboko, makurdi and wukari (yam market). A long journey though, i have never traveled that long distant by road in my entire life as my feet got swollen as a result of sitting all day.

We arrived Jalingo late in the night and everywhere was quiet, all we could see were achaba riders (commercial okada riders)and each of us waved down one to convey us to the family house. I wasn't too lucky as my luggage was too heavy for the bike man to move at a fast pace.Others with light luggage left me behind and the bike man (an hausa guy who doesn't understand english) took me to taraba state NYSC secretariat instead but, luckily for me, we met someone who spoke to him in hausa to take me to the family house.

The family house was (don't know if it is still) an uncompleted building with a church beside it. It has rooms both for ladies and guys.Corps members on ground received us and gave us where to put all our belongings.Brought out my waste bag,my bucket (i brought it from Lagos) and my torch, got some water and took a shower.After the shower, i retired to the room i shared with some other guys and for the first time,i passed the night in far away taraba.

We woke up very early the next day, freshened up and we all headed to the camp. At the entrance,we were all asked to put all our luggage on the head and from that period, i knew i was in for it.

(to be continued)

Mambilla Plateau, Taraba State.

nas 00: Believe me, Nigeria has got a road that falls into this eerie category.

The long, tortuous, and very steep ascent into Mambilla Plateau from Gashaka in Taraba State will absolutely take your breath away. Infact, first timers are strictly advised to hire a driver familiar with the terrain at Gashaka before embarking on the ascent, because once any vehicle falls into the bottomless gorges, not a single body can be retrieved. Na auto burial be that!

..And for the records, Mambilla plateau is the highest point above sea level in nigeria.

[quote author=morufoye]Bros, you beat me to that, i had my primary assignment in maisamari, a community on the mambilla plateau...driving through the mountain requires great skills. Even, people of the area ply the mountain with their rugged 'four wheeled' mambilla jeep.

You are absolutely right, mambilla is the coolest region in Nigeria.

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Fallacy!!!!!