₦airaland Forum

Today's Guardian attributes the killings to 'kala-kato' an off shoot of the 'Maitatsine' sect (of the 80's) and says it was sparked off by the arrest of their leader.

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If he had gone to school in Nigeria where the teachers beat you for the simple reason that they saw you looking happy


I schooled in a Nigerian public secondary school where it was illegal for teachers to beat up students. The usual punishment was grass cutting.
Not that it wasn't done but it was rare (hardcore cases).

In catastrophes of this magnitude there is usually enough blame to go round.
Yar'Adua, The Minister of Finance, Sanusi, Soludo, Bank MD's, Their boards of directors, External and Internal Auditors, defaulting debtors, Bank staff and even our economic system (capitalism) are all responsible to varying degrees.
There's no point in trying to place the entire blame on one particular individual (after all this isn't someone's water pot that got broken).

Ndeewonu:
Corrected:

@COOLG
I hope you know what the EDW was meant to do. I hope u know that it was to be a short-term window and NOT a perpetual line, which most of these stressed banks converted it to. As good intentioned as EDW was, all those were small matters compared to the ATTITUDE of the then CBN pilot (Soludo). He was not policing the system enough..

As he pointed out, it was only one of a number of steps, another being the audit he initiated.

Soludo's atititude of under-regulating was a was a world-wide trend. During the boom it was generally held that markets should be self regulating and government intervention should be reduced to the barest minimum (unless they were enemies of free enterprise). As the private sector grew the economy they won people's confidence and were granted greater powers/leeway all over the globe.

When the recession arrived people ran crying to Big Brother (the government) begging for help. The world's economic view swung back to greater regulation and Soludo's attitude changed accordingly, hence the audit.

He made some mistakes, yes, we all did. But to blame him as the direct cause of the mass sack currently going on in the banking industry is stretching logic a little too far. When a CBN governor sneezes financial markets lose a few points. Sanusi ran into the market screaming "fire". He wasn't wrong but he should have been more subtle.

Maybe things wouldn't be so bad if Sanusi had exercised such restraint.

For several months at the beginning of the economic meltdown the US Government (George Bush) refused to use the word recession even when the economic indices clearly showed this because they realised it would cause panic and worsen the situation.

I think it's unfair to blame Soludo considering the problem is basically worldwide.
Banks had too much money and were being pressured to make adequate returns to investors and so invested in high risk ventures that promised corresponding high returns (bending and breaking some rules in the process).
This behaviour would have won them accolades in the not too distant past, however they did not forsee the recession.

Soludo is an economist and served in a time of economic boom. Sanusi on the other hand is a veteran banker serving in a recession. Both individuals would therefore have different styles and areas of emphasis. However, but for Soludo's consolidation there probably wouldn't have been banks worth rescuing we would just have had another set of failed banks and lost depositors funds.

Personally I think Posterity will judge Soludo more kindly. The Banks did well during the boom. Sanusi on the other hand doesn't seem to be able to handle the recession. By his own admission a good percentage of the banks were healthy as at the time of his audit, now even the healthy banks are laying off staff.

And before someone comes up with the moronic opinion that the banks were over staffed in the first place, let's remember that these guys spend on the average 12 hours per day at work WORKING.

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Nchara:
Enugu is taking shape. Together with its rolling hills and breathtaking landscape, it is a city to watch. Kudos to the governor. He is working silently unlike others who invite the press to come and see what they are doing.

Maybe the others are making noise because they have something (however little) to make noise about.
I was in Enugu last week, after about 21 months, and noticed only minimal changes. The major change being the demolishing of the archaic bus stop shelters and construction of modern looking ones, which are rather flimsy (the Nokia types you find on campuses like UNILAG & UNN; traffic on campus is less compared to what you find on urban city center roads) unlike the sturdy ones in PH (which I also visited last week, after 18 months, and I could see significant changes; and yes they do have more income/oil money).

In addition pot holes on existing urban roads have been filled  up and the dualization of Agbani Road is on going although at snail speed (but faster than HITECH on Lekki-Epe Expressway). New Modern Buses (Lagos BRT type, they even have the same colour) and taxis have been introduced. The Enugu WiFi is on ground, as for coverage, I couldn't find it in Idaw River Layout, Achara layout, or Gariki. I was made to understand that along that axis you'll only find it in Maryland.

The State University (ESUTECH) has been out of session  most of the year as its staff embarked on two strikes due to unpaid salaries. At the time of my visit they were being owed 5 months. This is an Institution that did not go on strike from 2001-2008 (They do not join ASUU strikes).

Ex-Gov Chimaroke Nnamani may have corruptly enriched himself at the expenses of the state during his tenor but everyone could point out  projects he executed, even if they claim they were mainly in Nkanuland. As for Gov Chime, I believe he has  a plan and it is only fair to judge him after he submits his exam papers at the end of the term.

And yes, Enugu is a beautiful place (it's where Anambra-rians go to hide their money ). It's great to have people hyping it.

If she hasn't given you reason to suspect her relax.
Or you might as well be worried about who she sits all day in the office with, who is in the pool car with her, who she sits with in the bus (there's a post about smooching in the bus), your relatives (male) who visit in your absence, the gynecologist, pastor, etc etc etc.

A lot of it tallys with what I've heard elsewhere.

Why don't you just add "avoids making his opinion in an unambiguous and unequivocal way" to your analysis, and let's leave it at that.

What is and what is not incest is determined by where you're from. Some societies allow 1st cousins even siblings to marry, some draw the line at 12th cousin, and for some others potential spouses should be from different clans.
Abraham & Cain married their sisters, a lot of Pharaohs married their siblings, similarly lots of European Monarchs married relatives (Royal blood can only mix with royal blood!).
So you should ask your grandfather if such marriages are allowed in your place of origin.
However if inbreeding is practiced repeatedly, it can lead to exposure of recessive, deleterious traits (it also enhances desirable characteristics within a population).

I am sure that article specified that the study was with respect to a particular location.

Thanks.

One of my professors once told me never to score anyone 100% since it means there's no work left to be done; but considering you said the avatar would give you just a little glimpse of who I am, , 

canuck:
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Pix Summary: A close up frame of the face of a robot
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It's actually a guy in a powered exoskeleton.

Originally I saw your deductions as another form of hocus pocus (like astrology).
And now my eyes are spinning from starring at all the avatars you've analysed trying to see what you see.
So please could you do me?

Have you watched the movie "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle"?

If you look in your primary four basic science text book you'll see a list of the food classes and examples of each (eg fish is protein).
Then proceed to your mama put and select the appropriate combination.

You should ask your husband to tell her off, if you can't do it.
Install a peep hole on your door and keep your door locked, if there's a burglary-proof keep it padlocked 24/7 (that's what I do - when I moved in someone authoritatively informed me "here we are all one family we enter each other's house"). When you see her knocking don't open, you can always sweetly claim later that you were sleeping, or in the toilet/bathroom, or you were praying or you had your sound system on and did not hear her knocking.

The Earth is definitely getting warmer, however it is still being contested if this is due to human activities or natural factors. However reducing the emission of green house gases would make a (small?) difference.

This is horrible. We could get to a stage were everyone is a potential victim (like Mexico).

oge4real:
Sperm cell is just a component of semen. It is a cell with its own morphological characteristics. When immersed in a hypotonic solution, it tends to swell and subsequently burst. When in a hypertonic solution, the spermcell tends to shrink thereby losing its mobility and ultimately, its viability. However, if the solution is isotonic, the cell definitely will maintain its morphology for a duration of time which will depend on the viability of the donor sperm cell.

Therefore, the salinity of the pool should be put into consideration knowing fully well that body sweat will definitely increase the salinity of the pool. How many peole use the pool per day? How often is the pool water changed? This is an important factor because if you have more people depositing sweat into the pool, it may get the water to reach a physiological saline point with a subsequent rise in the pH.

Chlorine is supposed to be an essential component of pool water, but who was there to ensure that the water was properly chlorinated? Even if it was, the alkalinity of urea, excreted from the body will neutralise the Chlorine, hence the requrement for constant change of the water in public pools.
Another angle to this case is that expert witnesses are usually invted to explain the possibility of the case, and no attorney would take up a case knowing that it is virtally impossible to win.That means , they would have sought for expert advice on the matter. The only hitch I see in the case is the ability to prove that the pool management was negligent in maintenance and that there were many people using it at the same time with her girl.

Have you also put into consideration the volume of a "dose" of semen as compared to the volume of the swimming pool? What is the probability of a swimmer who is female and of reproductive age coming across a sperm cell when the semen has been so diluted? There is certainly  a good reason why semen is so concentrated. Or did all  the male guests at the hotel contribute  a quota (maybe some group masturbation orgy).

Then remember that the sperm cells have to swim through (waters that are more turbulent than they are used to in) the  olympic sized swimming pool ("Average swimming speed of sperm: 8 inches per hour"- Bates, Karl Leif. New Breed of Fertility Therapy. Detroit News. 12 February 1996), not necessarily in a straight line, under UV radiation (etc) coming from the sun, dodging other microbes that may find them palatable (if they can survive in the pool so can other more hardy protozoans) and get to this lady, who just happens to be in the right stage of  ovulation, with enough strength to pulverise her bathing suit, enter her vagina and chart the course up her reproductive canal and fertilise the egg without getting lost going up the wrong fallopian tube.

There must be a practical reason why semen is deposited inside the female reproductive system, despite this not every "deposit" results in fertilization. You see why it is hard to believe? The ancients who used to claim "a snake crawled up into me,  " or "Zeus came down and,  " were certainly smarter. What would we hear next? Semen now in aerosol form, please wear a biological hazard suit.

she shouldn't have to ask.
think of what it would cost you if you had to hire someone (maids, baby sitters, nannies, cooks etc) to do all the work she does.

Because "till death do us apart" is a very long time

bodsibobo:
What's your uncle's daily withdrawal limit? N100500?

isn't it obvious that his uncle's withdrawal limit is N100,000 and the 5 N100 debits are ATM transaction charges.

the moral of the story (replies most posters have given) is that GTB is the most popular bank on nairaland (among youths?) and you mess with them at your own risk.
Even if this particular case is false, situations like this can occur in any bank in any country, some weeks back sarkozy's (french president) account was hacked.

PepERSprAY:
Or give Bankole the benefit of doubt. I think Keyamo is making frivolous claims to distract Bankole from doing his job as a civil servant and honorable speaker.



_{'Honorables' do not embezzle money. That's why the have 'honorable' attached to their names.}

In Heaven? Even legislators from "the foremost democracies" have been indicted for corruption.

PepERSprAY:
At least am now vindicated that these are bunch of wild female cats on heat running around looking for any opportunity to quarrel. They cannot read and comprehend before they open their mouth because they are more interested in making wide remarks. I have tried my possible best to stay off this Tpia for sometime now because there is something in her acumen that doesn't sound right to me but I cannot press it because am obliged to be civil at all cost, thanks to Seun. I may just recoil to my cyst and continue living my life irrespective of their retorts. There is life outside the cyberspace after all.

Looks like you are the one creating an atmosphere for quarrels

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bioye:
Does being Bankole's relative disqualify anyone from making objective and productive contributions to the discussion?

PepERSprAY:
I wonder o.

No, but when a person's views sound so obviously biased you want to set the records straight.
Even as we argue that Bankole is innocent until proven guilty, why don't we also give Keyamo the benefit of doubt