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Maybe u should also ask us, if u can sleep with him[color=#990000][/color]. He has told you to do it , do it and be very carefull this time or u will be DISENGAGED.

Pls and Pls, lets forget that assssss, hol, (Yak) If we keeep calling him or making comments about him , he will look important. He is the worst loser of the Century.If i am his coach, i will end his contract, period.

We should all pray to God for guidiance and protection from Temptation of women that are everywhere, office,church,school market places, the kind of seductive dresses they put on. They now prefer married men, even men of God survive by the grace of God. May God help us.

Try TRIUM and you will see the difference.

With our population, we are africans market. Thrid world market for every goods. Just try and bring up idea or new good product and u are already a milioniare

Naija beautiful country, i love my country jare.

@ skyndyp, NO MIND THEM. LETS TALK IN PRIVATE.I NO DEY FIGHT ANY PERSON, ABI DEM WANT MAKE I SHOW DEM JANDAM STYLE?

@skyndyp
They are warning me because am expressing the lo, i have for u. Is it a crime to lo, ?
I will never give up.

@skyndp
I want even begin toast you. You are a preety sweet girl.and,

@nellaluv,
i like yaahh.

You look prettier than her. Serious

Sweetmum, you are really sweet. I think i like you. You can make a wonderful friend.

Why must he(GO) buy a private jet, when 50% of the church members are hungry, jobless,houseless name it. You pay heavly for parking,spend so much on flying one man. Now demonstrate your kindness to humanity by giving to God, when u give to Haitian's, u give to God. 50kUSD is peanut compared to what God has blessed the church with. Asking your church members to refund it is not christen announcing it to the world is Ungodly.
God bless us.

let me help aloy emeka, kobojunkie and co with more pictures:






God save nigeria

Those long breads are not Naija breads pls. So the pics are NOT NAIJA PICTURES. GUY MAKE U TAKE UR TIME OH.

Hello,
Just thought you might find this view interesting.

Cheers,
Yashika.

Princeton Lyman said at the Chinua Achebe Colloquium held at Brown University.

To watch the video, you can also visit:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqMXoA1jfDs

Princeton N. Lyman, the former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria and South
Africa, delivered a very poignant speech on the panel titled "The Nigerian
State and U.S. Strategic Interests" at the Achebe Colloquium at Brown
University on December 11, 2009.

Lyman suggests that rather than continually emphasize Nigeria’s strategic importance, it would behoove us to consider elements that might eventually lead to Nigeria’s irrelevance on the international stage.

Princeton N. Lyman, Former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria and South Africa,
speaks on the panel "The Nigerian State and U.S. Strategic Interests" at
the Achebe Colloquium at Brown University on December 11, 2009,
Providence, Rhode Island. [See Notes 1 & 2]

TRANSCRIPT OF SPEECH (TAKEN DIRECTLY FROM THE VIDEO SPEECH)

Thank you very much Prof. Keller and thanks to the organizers of this
conference. It is such a privilege to be here in a conference in honor
of Prof. Achebe, an inspiration and teacher to all of us.

I have a long connection to Nigeria. Not only was I Ambassador there, I
have travelled to and from Nigeria for a number of years and have a deep
and abiding vital emotional attachment to the Nigerian people, their
magnificence, their courage, artistic brilliance, their irony, sense of
humor in the face of challenges etc.

And I hope that we keep that in mind when I say some things that I think
are counter to what we normally say about Nigeria. And I say that with
all due respect to Eric [SILLA, SEE NOTE 3] who is doing a magnificent
work at State Department and to our good friend from the legislature,
because I have a feeling that we both Nigerians and Americans may be
doing Nigeria and Nigerians no favor by stressing Nigeria's strategic
importance.

I know all the arguments: it is a major oil producer, it is the most
populous country in Africa, it has made major contributions to Africa in
peacekeeping, and of course negatively if Nigeria were to fall apart the
ripple effects would be tremendous, etc, But I wonder if all this
emphasis on Nigeria's importance creates a tendency of inflate Nigeria's
opinion of its own invulnerability.


Among much of the elite today, I have the feeling that there is a belief
that Nigeria is too big to fail, too important to be ignored, and that
Nigerians can go on ignoring some of the most fundamental challenges they
have many of which we have talked about: disgraceful lack of
infrastructure, the growing problems of unemployment, the failure to
deal with the underlying problems in the Niger-Delta, the failure to
consolidate democracy and somehow feel will remain important to everybody because of all those reasons that are strategically important.

And I am not sure that that is helpful.

Let me sort of deconstruct those elements of Nigeria's importance, and ask
whether they are as relevant as they have been.

We often hear that one in five Africans is a Nigerian. What does it mean?
Do we ever say one in five Asians is a Chinese? Chinese power comes not
just for the fact that it has a lot of people but it has harnessed the
enterpreneurial talent and economic capacity and all the other talents
of China to make her a major economic force and political force.

What does it mean that one in five Africans is Nigeria? It does not mean
anything to a Namibian or a South African. It is a kind of conceit.
What makes it important is what is happening to the people of Nigerian.
Are their talents being tapped? Are they becoming an economic force? Is
all that potential being used?

And the answer is "Not really."

And oil, yes, Nigeria is a major oil producer, but Brazil is now
launching a 10-year program that is going to make it one of the major
oil producers in the world. And every other country in Africa is now
beginning to produce oil.

And Angola is rivalling Nigeria in oil production, and the United States
has just discovered a huge gas reserve which is going to replace some of
our dependence on imported energy.

So if you look ahead ten years, is Nigeria really going to be that
relevant as a major oil producer, or just another of another of the many
oil producers while the world moves on to alternative sources of energy
and other sources of supply.

And what about its influence, its contributions to the continent? As our
representative from the parliament talked about, there is a great history
of those contributions. But that is history.

Is Nigeria really playing a major role today in the crisis in Niger on its
border, or in Guinea, or in Darfur, or after many many promises making
any contributions to Somalia?

The answer is no, Nigeria is today NOT making a major impact, on its
region, or on the African Union or on the big problems of Africa that it
was making before.

What about its economic influence?

Well, as we have talked about earlier, there is a de-industrialization
going on in Nigeria a lack of infrastructure, a lack of power means that
with imported goods under globalization, Nigerian factories are closing,
more and more people are becoming unemployed. and Nigeria is becoming a
kind of society that imports and exports and lives off the oil, which
does not make it a significant economic entity.

Now, of course, on the negative side, the collapse of Nigeria would be
enormous, but is that a point to make Nigeria strategically important?


Years ago, I worked for an Assistant Secretary of State who had the
longest tenure in that job in the 1980s and I remember in one meeting a
minister from a country not very friendly to the United States came in and
was berating the Assistant Secretary on all the evils of the United States
and all its dire plots and in things in Africa and was going on and on and
finally the Assistant Secretary cut him off and said:

"You know, the biggest danger for your relationship with the United States is not our oppostion but that we will find you irrelevant."

The point is that Nigeria can become much less relevant to the United
States. We have already seen evidence of it. When President Obama went
to Ghana and not to Nigeria, he was sending a message, that Ghana
symbolized more of the significant trends, issues and importance that one
wants to put on Africa than Nigeria.

And when I was asked by journalists why President Obama did not go to
Nigeria, I said "what would he gain from going? Would Nigeria be a good
model for democracy, would it be a model for good governance, would he
obtain new commitments on Darfur or Somalia or strengthen the African
Union or in Niger or elsewhere?"

No he would not, so he did not go.


And when Secretary Clinton did go, indeed but she also went to Angola and
who would have thought years ago that Angola would be the most stable
country in the Gulf of Guinea and establish a binational commission in
Angola.

So the handwriting may already be on the wall, and that is a sad commentary.

Because what it means is that Nigeria's most important strategic
importance in the end could be that it has failed.

And that is a sad sad conclusion. It does not have to happen, but I think
that we ought to stop talking about what a great country it is, and how
terribly important it is to us and talk about what it would take for
Nigeria to be that important and great.

And that takes an enormous amount of commitment. And you don't need
saints, you don't need leaders like Nelson Mandela in every state,
because you are not going to get them.

I served in South Korea in the middle of the 1960s and it was time when
South Korea was poor and considered hopeless, but it was becoming to turn
around, later to become to every person's amazement then the eleventh
largest economy in the world. And I remember the economist in my mission
saying, you know it did not bother him that the leading elites in the
government of South Korea were taking 15 - 20 percent off the top of
every project, as long as every project was a good one, and that was the
difference. The leadership at the time was determined to solve the
fundamental economic issues of South Korea economy and turn its economy
around.

It has not happened in Nigeria today. You don't need saints. It needs
leaders who say "You know we could be becoming irrelevant, and we got to do something about it."

Thank you.
Comment;-
You can say in your mind, it's a plot and open conspiracy, Yes, TRUE as it may sound, it is working because we NIGERIANS have no clue that we are indeed on a JOURNEY TO AN OBLIVION OF GLOBAL OBSOLESCENCE. Hope it sinks.

yme, ( and the house) pls can anyone tell me what kind of business on can run or do with 300-500k in a place like ph.

Men, see the idiot one on one in company of ur wife. Threaten him that if anything happens to ur wife, failing exams or whatever, He should expect his death, finish. Let a top school governing board know about it.

Timaya, is the Bomb. Egbere papa one of Naija. U want try?

agabaI23:
You be mamiwater?

Bros , how can i be a mamiwater, i dey work drilling oil for some Dudu in Mzambique offshore.

Young man, thats was good. But you said 10 things and u ended up telling us 9. Pls where is the 9th one.

Imagine, i dey somewhere in Indian Ocean , thats where i will spend it.