leokid866: You also forget this is no longer 1967. We have all grown, also you guys calling for war never participated in the civil war or experienced it's horrors. But if you want it come get it. We would be waiting.
On the contrary, the situation is still the same as 1967. The south east is not prepared for war They lack the arms and trainings to sustain a war. They are yet to form both international and national alliances. The neighbouring tribes still will not support them. The other major tribe the Yorubas are their arch enemy. Even the Israel the love to compare with, has the full backing - military, political and otherwise, of the United States.
Bringing war to a high density, highly congested and highly isolated region like the South East will be an act of madness. A simple 3 month air, sea and land blockade would see people dying of starvation.
panafrican: 1. Does the Universe have boundaries? It not, why is it infinite? 2. What was here before the beginning ? 3. Where are living species( including humans) from ? 4. Is there any life beyond Earth?
1. It must have boundaries. Since it is expanding and the expansion is decelerating, it means it's gravity is slowing the expansion. Since gravity is acting on the whole universe, it must be a defined space.
2. There things that are known and there are things than are unknown, but there are categories of things that are unknowable. What was before the beginning is unknowable. 3. Read Charles Darwin's origin of species. A short answer is evolution and natural selection. 4. Possible but we may never know. The vast distances involved and the finite speed of light makes interstellar travel during a lifetime impossible.
What concerns the general public with his gratitude. Has he forgotten the road to Otuoke? If he wants to show gratitude to Jonathan, why not go to his home and prostrate for him and pledge his soul to Jonathan for bringing him out of poverty.
Was he the only person that is grateful to Jonathan?
OyinbowithaTan: All of his businesses did not file for bankruptcy, 4 out maybe hundreds. And it says nothing about personal finance.
Can you list the maybe business you are aware of? If it says nothing about personal finances, why was he selling off personal property to offset company debts?
Please watch the YouTube video I posted of Ivanka's confessions of their personal indebtedness. If you don't believe anybody, you should at least believe Trump's daughter.
Bridget95: Bros,you should be worried about the Sharp rise of high profile crime and insecurity in the entire country, you should also be having headaches about the indebtedness of Nigeria 11billion in 2015 to 24.billion dollars in 2019
And Reno and you guys should not be worried about these things you listed too, instead of disturbing us with Jonathan this and Jonathan that every day?
OyinbowithaTan: Trump has never filed for bankruptcy. 4 LLC's he controlled did, 91', 92', 2004, 2009. 3/4 were related to the Atlantic City stuff. In commerical real estate development this is not unusual.
Yes, personally he did not file for bankruptcy, because he took no personal loan, but for all the businesses you run to file for bankruptcy says something about your state of personal finance not to mention your state of competence. Here are his (company) bankruptcies;
In 1991, Trump's Taj Mahal located in Atlantic City was in debt for billions of dollars. As a result, Trump's corporation filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The Bankruptcy court allowed Trump to reorganize his corporate debts and allowed the casino to keep operating. Trump did surrender half of his ownership interests in the Taj Mahal. He chose to sell his yacht and airplane to help make loan payments.
In 1992, Trump filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on his Trump Plaza Hotel in Atlantic City. At this time, Trump owed $550 million on the Trump Plaza Hotel. As part of the restructuring, Trump gave Citibank a 49% interest in the hotel. He was given a lenient repayment plan. Trump was able to stay on as CEO but he had to give up his salary.
Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts filed for bankruptcy in 2004. The corporation had $1.8 billion dollars of debt. Trump reduced his share in the company to 25% thereby surrendering his control of the corporation. The corporation received lower interest rates and another loan to upgrade the properties.
Abbeybailey: Boy, I know your lips are now deep Orange in color from licking the Orange a#s of the pig. Comparing Uber, Twitter and other multi billion $ conglomerate to a con man who has been conning people for decades but people don't pay him any attention until he starts conning Americans via his presidency. That's what get Americans curios against him. I knew when he started his con and fake Trump University but millions of us couldn't give a fvck because there are gullible fools in America who will fall for his scam but he starts conning and dividing my beautiful country, that's when I and Tens of millions of Americans starts our resistance movement and i bet you this aberration and abomination will go away latest by Jan 20 , 2021 and you will still be in your hideout in Nigeria reading the Book of Lamentation according to Trump.
Sorry to say, but you guys are in serious trouble. You should never have allowed a narcissistic con man anywhere the presidency. Trump will never give up power easily and is prepared to destroy the country to hold unto power. If the Democrats attempt impeachment, he will rally his based - white nationalist and gun rights advocates to violence to disrupt the process. If he looses the next election, he will not accept defeat and still divide the country along racial, class and party lines. Only God can help you guys out of your present predicament.
obixcel: More TDS being fed to the Sheeple. They must eat daily and their appetite continuously increases. It is a horrible disease that's spreading fast. Check dis out: In the late 80s the stock market crashed and there was an economic slowdown. By late 1990 there was a recession and there was really no sign of improvement until late 1993. It was the 1990-93 recession. What happened at that time was people were losing everything they had gained during the Reagan years, and it was awful...there were people jumping out of windows it was a mess. Trump lost money around that time, but he was able to pull himself out bankruptcy. He was able to do this before the economy improved in late 1993. There are not many people who could lose everything, then become millionaires again as quickly as he did. It's funny cos In 1995, after he recovered financially, the same New York Times had him on the front page celebrating him, calling him the 'come back kid'. Now they've recycled the same old news story in order to drag him through the mud. Media manipulation.
Does the red quotes make any sense, even to an autistic? Trump lost everything (and even declared bankruptcy) in 1990 because of the 1990 -93 recession, but by 1993, even before the end of the recession he had already recover all his losses and became a millionaire. How?
roundman: Why not, he made you a very rich man beyond your wildest imagination,who know you before if nor be jonathan.
Reno is behaving as if he is the only person that had ever been appointed into political office by a president. All the people appointmented by former presidents or heads of state had moved on; ie IBB and OBJ. Even the GEJ he is disturbing us day and night with, he was not the only person GEJ appointed into his cabinet, people like Okonjo iweala, Diezani Alison, Stella Oduah, and loads of people who had better appointments had moved on with their lives, but reno prefers to live in the memory of the past. So where is he following Jonathan to? Will he follow in to his village? Jonathan as former president is being catered for by the Nigerian state for life. I doubt he will need anyone to follow him.
mysticwarrior: pls I need you to demystify me on the difference between the German army and the German military, are they separate entities? Why didn't they planned ahead before declaring war on Germany? They needed to build alliance to brace courage against Germany and that was why Churchill was happy when the US joined the war. Wait did you just say "Britain has never lost a war"? My friend you shouldn't by commenting here because you don't know history, Britain lost the American war of independence. It takes courage and bravery comes first when engaging a war, A brave man will not look at the size of your army and tremble, and that is what made the Fins defeated the invincible soviet army in the winter war.
You are getting things mixed up, there is a difference between fighting on foreign lands and fighting on home soil. The British had never been conquered on home soil. The previous world powers had made many attempts but failed, only Caesar came close. The afghans and the Ethiopians have also never lost on home soil. They are resilient enough to always eventually drive away invaders. The fins defended their homeland against a bigger invading force, there is no way the fins would defeat Russia as an invading force inside Russia.
mysticwarrior: then why declaring a war on Germany when they knew they couldn't confront the German army?
I never said they couldn't confront the German military, I said they could not confront the German military at that time. They need time to plan and prepare, they need time to build their military complex and most importantly, they need to build alliances. That's was why Churchill worked tirelessly to bring in the Yankees on their side. The happiest day for Churchill was when Roosevelt declared war on Germany. It's all about winning and not bravery. There is a reason Britain had never been conquered or lost a war.
mysticwarrior: were the Germans the ones who was supposed to be attacking the British in the first place? It was the British cowards who declared war on Germany but were too terrified of the German army, they couldn't even matched their army to German soil for a direct confrontations against German formations, what a display of cowardice.
I always tell you guys that you do not fight wars based on emotions. How did you expect Britain to directly confront a German war machine that had been preparing for over 5 years. Cowardice is fighting a war you cannot win.
mysticwarrior: I don't know if you are a christian, Muslim, Buddhist or Hindu, but whatever you believe on will bless you for this post, the British stand no chance against the German army, attacking Britain instead of the soviet union would have been successful considering the formidability of the German army then.
As I said you hold tenacious unto a false idea. Yes the British stood no chance against Germany in a ground offensive, but a naval war was another thing altogether. The Germans Kriegsmarine stood no chance against the Royal navy. A channel crossing would have simply resulted in the drowning of millions of German military personnel and equipments.
OyinbowithaTan: How is it a false idea when it was a plan?
You hold onto this idea that Hitler could have successfully invaded Britain. An invasion without naval and air superiority at that particular time would have been suicidal.
OyinbowithaTan: Germany assembled lots of ships and barges, many large enough for tanks. It was called Operation Sea Lion.
Stop holding tenaciously to false ideas. Operation sealion was a planned invasion of Britain. It was abandoned because Hitler did not see the possibility of its success. Read more here;
Operation Sea Lion, also written as Operation Sealion[2][3] (German: Unternehmen Seelöwe), was Nazi Germany's code name for the plan for an invasion of the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War. Following the Fall of France, Adolf Hitler, the German Führer and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, hoped the British government would seek a peace agreement and he reluctantly considered invasion only as a last resort if all other options failed. As a precondition, he specified the achievement of both air and naval superiority over the English Channel and the proposed landing sites, but the German forces did not achieve either at any point during the war, and both the German High Command and Hitler himself had serious doubts about the prospects for success. Nevertheless both the German Army and Navy undertook a major programme of preparations for an invasion: training troops, developing specialised weapons and equipment, and modifying transport vessels. A large number of river barges and transport ships were gathered together on the Channel coast, but with Luftwaffe aircraft losses increasing in the Battle of Britain and no sign that the Royal Air Force had been defeated, Hitler postponed Sea Lion indefinitely on 17 September 1940 and it was never put into action. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea_Lion
OyinbowithaTan: They could have invaded Britain after Dunkirk, if they kept armor, artillery, and tanks engaged. They pulled that back and went the bombings.
How will they get the armour, artillery and tanks across to Britain? Germany did not have the equipments and facilities for a naval invasion.
Even Spain that had far superior navy failed in its attempted invasion of the British island.
Read this;
In January 1939, Plan Z was ordered, calling for surface naval parity with the British Royal Navy by 1944. When World War II broke out in September 1939, Plan Z was shelved in favour of a crash building program for submarines (U-boats) instead of capital surface warships and land and air forces were given priority of strategic resources.
The Kriegsmarine's most significant ships were the U-boats, most of which were constructed after Plan Z was abandoned at the beginning of World War II. Wolfpacks were rapidly assembled groups of submarines which attacked British convoys during the first half of the Battle of the Atlantic but this tactic was largely abandoned by May 1943 when U-boat losses mounted. Along with the U-boats, surface commerce raiders (including auxiliary cruisers) were used to disrupt Allied shipping in the early years of the war, the most famous of these being the heavy cruisers Admiral Graf Spee and Admiral Scheer and the battleship Bismarck. However, the adoption of convoy escorts, especially in the Atlantic, greatly reduced the effectiveness of surface commerce raiders against convoys. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegsmarine
aribisala0: Jackie Collins is even more popular but no where as popular as the author of Harry Potter Series
SO CLEARLY
The Nobel Prize is NOT a popularity contest. It is an award by academics to their peers. A scholastic award which us mere mortals do not often understand. How many times is it that many people hear the name of a Nobel prize author the first when he wins the prize but would have heard of Jackie Collins, Jeffery Archer, Robert Ludlum and So om?
Wole Soyinka gained acclaim as a Playwright and Essayist not a novelist though he wrote novels too. Wole Soyinka is a thinker not a writer of literary popcorn. The Man died was not written for enjoyment or entertainment . It is a serious work requiring the reader to exert themselves.
It is clear you have no idea what you are talking about if you need to compare Soyinka and Achebe.
They did not operate in the same Arena. Wole Soyinka was more involved with THEATRE. He wrote plays. He directed them and acted in them He was involved with a theatre company and I believe put up a performance on Independence day 1960.
So I do not see how their paths cross for any comparison.
Soyinka covered the entire spectrum of Literature. Poetry, Novel, and Theatre written and practice.
The truth is that Achebe wrote novels and some poetry which was mostly pedestrian and populist stuff and not particularly like to impress his academic peers. As far as novels go I think Ben Okri is way better
That's my annoyance with reno and his supporters, they argue on issues they have no idea about, forming experts. A person is nominated by academic professors and his peers from around the world , and people who had never published a poem before are questioning their judgements. That's what I call arrogance in ignorance.
mysticwarrior: you are right, the German army didn't matched for an all out invasion against Britain, it was only the German Airforce who carried out air raids and bombing s in London and other British cities in 1941. If the German had invaded Britain with the same force, temper and might they used against the Soviet union the then Great Britain would have been reduced to little Britain.
False. Britain had more superior navy than Germany. All the German had were U-boats submarines to disturb enemy ships and submarines. The U-boats submarines were not even effective in enforcing a blockage of the Atlantic and Northern sea. Russia on the other hand is not an island, and so does not require a naval force to invade. The German had superior ground forces and equipments.
OyinbowithaTan: Hitler was obsessed with the East the USSR, it was personal. The Nazis probably could have invaded Britain after Dunkirk. It was some sort of personal Commie vs Marxist weird fucking ideology.
A full invasion of Britain would have been a very risky endeavour, primarily because of the British Navy was superior to the German navy and the harsh and unpredictable English channel. He just did not have the naval power or equipments for the crossing of the English channel. He tried to weaken the British military installations and will power by bombing Britain for 57 consecutive days, but at the end of the day he withdrew and faced Russia instead.
Abbeybailey: You wonder why the Orange Pig wouldn't release his taxes as it is expected of all presidential candidates and presidents ?. So much in there to reveal his con and confirm that he's not a billionaire as he claimed. All his properties are mortgaged to the hilt. The Congress can subpoena any American to release their taxes and we have to follow the law but the pig is suing the Congress so that they wouldn't see his shady financial dealings. Waiting patiently for his lapdogs on Nairaland to show their ignorance again about a country they know absolutely nothing about.
Exactly! He can't release his tax returns because he was not paying any tax. Why? Because we was dead broke and depended on Russian money to survive and give an impression of being rich. In fact he was a billionaire in reverse, as he owed banks billions of dollars. Here is an interview with Ivanka Trump where she actually tells the truth about of the family's state of brokeness.
In this interview Ivanka confessed that the father pointed to a homeless man in the street and said that man has 8 billion dollars more than me, meaning that at that point, he was 8 billion dollars in debt.
How he overcame an 8 billion dollars debt to become a billionaire in less than 2 decades obviously involves something very shady.
I still say it, you guys have chronic psychological issues, that is connected to the fear, envy and jealousy of Afonjas. You can't go a single day, sorry a single hour without thinking of Afonjas.
Sincerely speaking, you must think yourself more learned and intelligent than the Nobel Committee for Literature who picked Wole Soyinka over thousands of others.
Nigerians have this overbloated ego and false sense of importance. Small time you will say Einstein is trash and knows nothing in physics.
BotherMleeper: Those puny telescopes will only gaze upon objects already identified hundreds of years ago.
This is a case of attempting to reinvent the wheel
E surprise me o. I opened the tread hoping to see an abservatory only to see a tiny telescope. Is it this tiny telescope that will be housed inside that dome building that resembles an observatory?
kinharold: He can think of building a Dry Port because Amaechi has focused on and ensured that the Northern Rail-lines are functional. Or was it hell Rufai that did the Rails from Lagos to Kaduna?
So Amaechi in 3 and a half years, designed and build the northern rails from kaduna to Lagos. Amaechi must be super human. Find out who designed and first awarded the Lagos Kaduna rail line.
oyoirabor: so people will wake up and start building ports without government permit/approval?
Talk less and reason more!!!!!
Senseless question. People can't wake up and start building even houses without government permit/approval?
Did any SS billionaire seek for approval to build ports and was refused by the FG? Did not some governments or private people build airports in the East?
kabarka: El rufia will use govt money to build kaduna port . Eastnerner billionaires will build the eastern ports with their money.
WHAT A ONE NIGERIAN
Ports are business ventures and not charity service. If kaduna port is not commercially viable, it will not survive. If eastern ports are commercially viable, eastern billionaires will make more money.
Everybody pursues what interest them, if ports are priority for el rufai, he is free to build one, same for eastern billionaires and governors.
PrecisionFx: Stop making daft statements. Why didn't FG shutdown tincan port n also convert the other port in Lagos to a naval base (just like they did to Onne seaport).
Why should the east need a concession Why should eastern governros be doing an exclusive job of the FG should open up the seaports n river ports in eastern Nigeria n allow dem to work. Simple.
Are you guys condemned to a life of wailings and excuses. Most of the ports in the SS was just wasting away before the FG put them to alternative use. Jonathan was in power for close to 6 years, if the SS ports were being sabotaged by the FG as you guys are propagating, why didn't Jonathan revive the ports? You ate telling me that the governors bear no responsibility at all in the welfare of the people. So if the FG refuse to do something vital to the survival of the state, the governors should simply do nothing.
PrecisionFx: Piracy and Militancy ....Why hasn't the piracy and Militancy in the Niger delta killed the export of 2 million barrels of crude oil daily from that same Niger delta Use ur sense.
There are 6 seaports in nigeria, And there are about 3 or 4 river ports in Nigeria namely Onitsha river port, Oguta river port in imo state, Sapele river port, Okrika river port in rivers, there's also a river port in Kogi state.
Do u still need to be cleared? Militancy my ass.
First of all crude oil vessels are super tankers and are huge compared to ordinary cargo ships. Secondly oil tankers are heavily guarded by the Nigerian navy and even armed guards on board. Finally, what will pirates steal from oil vessels? Except maybe they want to steal the whole vessel. How many oil tankers have you ever heard that has been hijacked?
Cargo vessels are another thing entirely. They are the targets of pirates, as they sometimes carry valuable goods.
Ferrying goods through the gulf of guinea would attract extra insurance costs and possible extra hazard allowance for crew.
horlique: do you know that using Calabar or warrior is nearer to major international vessels than Lagos.. we are just practising a terrible tribalistic governance ..
Please explain. How is calabar or warri nearer to major international vessels than Lagos for vessels coming from Europe and the US?