Why it may take eternity for Nigeria to move forward

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This is not a prophesy. It is not a statement from someone that has lost hope in Nigeria, rather it is coming from a die hard optimist about the greatness of this country Nigeria. But in being optimistic one must not forget to be realistic.

Nigeria is indeed blessed with abundant natural and human resources even though it is sad to note that we have not been able to use these resources to transform Nigeria into a country where every Nigerian will be proud to associate with.

From power supply to the state of our roads the story is the same, so much decay even in the midst of plenty.

It is easy and more convenient to blame the government but in reality is the government the building or structure we see everyday or is the government made up of people?

The issue of blaming the government for everything is becoming rather too convenient and in my opinion overrated.

How many Nigerians have the courage to accept their mistakes when they make them? Even with hard evidence and proof you will need a miracle to see the average Nigerian agree that indeed he has goofed. Rather, energies will be expended on diverting the issue (as owning up to the mistake is certainly out of the question) and when he is not getting his way with the diversion he/she goes personal and begins to attack your person.

Now I ask, is it wrong or criminal for one to make a mistake? If it is not, then why do we prefer to go through the very difficult task of justifying our mistakes rather than acknowledging them even if we do not want to correct them?

Now, the people in government are Nigerians, friends, sons, daughters, fathers, husbands etc but they are still Nigerians.

How do they take decisions concerning Nigeria? How do they arrive at conclusions on what ought to be and what ought not to be?

Would it be possible that a simple task of agreeing to a mistake could be responsible for the state of that road that is decaying by the day?

Could it be that the person truly believes that everything is fine with Nigerians when in reality things are not?

Could it be that these people in power simply surround themselves with people that will tell them what they want to hear as against what they should hear?

I refuse to believe that someone will see white and call it black for no reason. Is there a good reason why as a people we will rather dwell on falsehood, lies, misinformation than dwell on facts and truth?

While I will remain a die hard optimist for the future of this great nation I cannot but go to bed everyday wondering why our people find it hard to accept responsibilities of their actions especially when they make mistakes.

The irony of it all is that those who are guilty will always be the ones accusing others of the very mistakes they are denying.

As for the led, what do we do? Criticize our leaders based on wrong actions while appreciating their good works or praise them when they do the wrong things and abuse or dismiss anyone that points out mistakes or issues just because the people in question are our friends, colleagues, relations etc?

Even though the later is the norm today I will rather die an unrepentant optimist than join this bandwagon that is headed nowhere….

Is it fair to blame Nigeria for the world's fraud woes?

I recently read an article, where many Nigerians were upset about a series of stories done by CNN. The reason they were upset was because they felt that the story depicted that all Nigerians were corrupt. This made me reflect that there are many of out there - who when a fraud is discovered - seem to automatically classify it as being of "Nigerian" origin.

This evening, I came across a story from the Online Journal: "New version of Nigerian phishing e-mail scam promises jobs, riches, poker and great lunches" - which is essentially calling "phishing" a Nigerian scam. After reading it, I started to understand why Nigerians might find some of this offensive. To read the article: Click Here.

This inspired me to do a little digging.

Since I've done a little research on phishing, I decided to refer to the Anti Phishing Working Group and their most recent report (May), which coincidentally reported a "all-time" record of recorded "phishing attempts."

Nigeria isn't even listed in their "top-ten."

According to the APWG:

"In May, Websense Security Labs saw a continuation of the top three countries hosing phishing websites. The United States remains the on the top of the list with 34.1%. The rest of the top 10 breakdown is as follows: China 15%, Republic of Korea 8.17%, France 3.94%, Germany 3.38%, Japan 2.65%, Malaysia 2.59%, Canada 2.37%, Italy 2.02%, and Brazil 1.7%."

If the APWG is correct - then how could phishing be called a Nigerian scam?

Advance fee - which is also referred to as 419 - has taken on many forms and is a worldwide problem. A lot of it originates in Europe, Canada and even the United States. Lottery scams - which are one form - seem to be coming from Canada, or Great Britain and Romance scams from Eastern Europe are a huge issue.

Recently one of the bogus tools, used in advance fee scams have been counterfeit, or altered money orders. People are tricked into cashing these items and wiring the money back to a "fraudster." According to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service - they are being produced (the counterfeit items) in Eastern Europe and West Africa. So far as the altered items - they seem to be produced in the U.S. Prison System and are used primarily in Romance Scams.

I did mention West Africa - but only as one source - and Nigeria is only one of the countries in West Africa. So far as the "other sources," we can look to points of origin that aren't even anywhere near Nigeria, including the United States.

Interestingly enough, what many term as "Nigerian Fraud," wasn't invented in Nigeria and can be traced back to 1588 AD - what what is known as the "Spanish Prisoner Letter."

Another fact - which many of us - fail to "recognize" is that Nigeria is doing something about their problems with fraud. In fact, some might argue that they are pursuing it more "aggresively" than in many of the other countries mentioned in this post.

In recent years, Nigeria has led a very public campaign against corruption within Nigeria. President Olusegun Obasanjo formed the Economic & Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which has been extremely aggressive in fighting fraud in Nigeria. Recently, they were taken off a money laundering "blacklist" and for a list of stories - where they have made an impact - link, here.

There is little doubt that Nigeria realizes it has a fraud problem and that there are "good guys" over there fighting the "good fight."

They key to winning the war is for the "good guys" to work together and go after those who are bad.

So far as the rest of us - the next time we run across a scam on the Internet - perhaps we should take a deeper look at it's point of origin. Not only is it unfair to blame the world's fraud problem on Nigeria, but it confuses efforts to bring forth resolution.

The Little favour of Appreciation

Itz a beautiful Monday Morning, itz the beginning of another working week
We probably had a wonderful weekend last week and we just can't wait for this week
Itz someone's birthday somewhere, it someone's anniversary somewhere. Itz a beautiful beginning of a wonderful week.
Itz still morning and we're probably just waking up or we're at work or somewhere, but I know that if you can read this post, then you're alive.

The Question is "Did you Appreciate God for making you breathe the free air today?
For making you wake up on the right side of the bed.
For making you to be in today's populace
A lot of people wished they were here but they couldn't make it.
I know you've probably heard this before, and you're hearing it again
Just a short prayer to express gratitude for being the man you are today will do you no harm.
Itz a little favour that is extremely profitable to our soul.
If we thank God for what he has done, he'll definitely do more
But if we wake up without thanking him, then itz like we're saying we woke up by our power. Itz the Picture of an Ungrateful who'll definitely need more.
If you've haven't prayed Today, just close your eyes wherever you are and say a short prayer of Appreciation to God for making you be the man and that you are, and the man you hope to be.
Let us make it a Life duty.
Peace

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on the miracle of flight

The miracle of flight never ceases to amaze me. Its not that the physics of the thing are beyond my grasp; I have read enough about why and how it happens to understand the basics of what goes on when air rushes above and below an aircraft wing at different speeds. I have read a little about aerodynamics and lift, but I tell you that it still baffles me sometimes to the point where I can only conclude that its simply a miracle. I know that the engine turns, the ‘plane moves forward, and when it races faster than I could possibly run, magic happens and the whole show leaves the ground, to conduct the next stage of the act high up in the sky.

You can’t tell me that its not a major miracle when you see all one billion tons of Boeing 747 taking to flight as easily as any of the birds which have the benefit of flight, some of them no bigger than my fist. Contemplate for a second the entire process of launching a huge flying machine, several tons of its own weight bolstered by the mass of a few hundred souls and their baggage, and enough fuel to make the entire process possible. Launching, not just to hop into the air for a few feet, but for actual sustained flight. Amazing? Yet it does not stop there, because these huge beasts somehow manage not only to stay aloft for hours on end, travelling faster than you or I could possibly comprehend in groundspeed terms, but they actually propel themselves miles above the ground. And then, more often than not (thank the good God) the process of complex magical voodoo is reversed and brought to completion when aircraft, passengers, fuel and cargo come back to firm earth. If that is not magic, I don’t know what is.

I am living a miracle at the moment. As I write, I am on a plane, headed home to Nigeria. Not only am I flying, but I am doing so rather comfortably, which is probably not right. I’m in a bed, admittedly not a huge one, but it’s a comfortable bed nonetheless, flat, with room to stretch out; being served food and drink. All of this while watching a movie, miles and miles above the ground where my home and all I know are firmly rooted. Down the aisle, a handful of guys are at a bar, drinking and chatting like they would in most bars in any city around the world, which is a tad odd. I’m not sure I know anywhere else where perfect strangers would be talking and drinking within such proximity to my bed! In fact, where it not for that bar and the occasional turbulence that we rocks us from time to time, shaking up the juice in my glass in the process, it might well have been possible to pretend to be anywhere else on earth rather than up in the air, supported by physics, the rushing wind and the voodoo magic of flight.

Yet, all of this takes place within a miracle that’s guaranteed to deliver me to hot and sweaty Lagos before the sun comes up fully across this part of the Atlantic Ocean. If I had any sense, I would be afraid of this mechanical beast that can somehow make such magic possible. Yet it all feels so natural. In truth we have come very far since that day on Kitty Hawk Beach when the Wright brothers (who actually sold bicycles for a living if memory of random trivia serves me right) took to flight for the first time, in what was no more than a few seconds of barely controlled hopping which barely lifted man and machine off the ground.

Can you imagine the ridicule and scorn they would have had to endure from those who knew of their plans? Imagine Noah, who built his Ark in preparation for a flood that did not come for 150 years. What would we have made of him today? Then picture two brothers daring to think that they could make their winged contraption fly! I would have laughed too, wouldn’t you? You can rightly accuse me of understatement when I say that I imagine they would have been thrilled to their souls when they realised what one of them would have first known, he whose task it would have been to convince his brother that man could fly, even though he had neither wings nor feathers to lift himself off the ground with.

We’ve come a long long way since then, mankind. The history and story of flight is one of heroic achievement that’s seen the development of the jet engine, long-haul commercial flight (who was it that famously claimed that it would not be possible/economical to have commercial aircraft flying people around the world), supersonic commercial airliners and planes that can fly faster than the speed of sound? Did I forget to mention warplanes that can do amazing aerobatics, the Antonov 225 aircraft that can seemingly swallow whole cities, and of course the space shuttle that has somehow managed to launch specially selected individuals far beyond what our unaided eyes can see.

I tell you, flying is magic, whether you accept it or not. Its just magic that we take for granted, so we forget to marvel at it. Just picture how it all comes together, engine, rudder, wings, flaps, propulsion, control surfaces, ailerons, fuselage, undercarriage – isn’t it amazing how all these pieces come together so seamlessly? Statistically, flying is one of the safest means of transport there is, and that itself is another reason to wonder. As far as I’m concerned, each airplane is as magical as a flying carpet, only infinitely more comfortable, and blessed with pilots who can take control. I didn’t see Ali Baba controlling a rudder, or controlling flaps and that’s scary.

If you are reading this, then I have come down to earth, in an aeroplane flown by a skilled, well-trained pilot. I have just experienced the miracle of flight yet again, and I was completely blown away by it. Flying is magic, and I am spellbound. If you're reading this, then its because i arrived safely at home, and I thank God.

Africa doesn't want to be saved

Last fall, shortly after I returned from Nigeria, I was accosted by a perky blond college student whose blue eyes seemed to match the "African" beads around her wrists.

"Save Darfur!" she shouted from behind a table covered with pamphlets urging students to TAKE ACTION NOW! STOP GENOCIDE IN DARFUR!

My aversion to college kids jumping onto fashionable social causes nearly caused me to walk on, but her next shout stopped me.

"Don't you want to help us save Africa?" she yelled.

It seems that these days, wracked by guilt at the humanitarian crisis it has created in the Middle East, the West has turned to Africa for redemption. Idealistic college students, celebrities such as Bob Geldof and politicians such as Tony Blair have all made bringing light to the dark continent their mission. They fly in for internships and fact-finding missions or to pick out children to adopt in much the same way my friends and I in New York take the subway to the pound to adopt stray dogs.

This is the West's new image of itself: a sexy, politically active generation whose preferred means of spreading the word are magazine spreads with celebrities pictured in the foreground, forlorn Africans in the back. Never mind that the stars sent to bring succor to the natives often are, willingly, as emaciated as those they want to help...

Rest of the story.

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Nobody attended his funeral and his grave was never marked with flowers, but few in a Yorkshire police force would ever forget the name of David Oluwale.

David Oluwale lived a largely anonymous life.

Like so many of his fellow Nigerians, he embarked on the journey from Lagos in 1949 with little more than the clothes on his back and dreams of a better future in Britain.

It wasn't to be. As the ship he had stowed away on docked in Hull, Oluwale was arrested and after spending his first days on foreign shores in Armley Prison, Leeds, for the next 20 years he would be passed between the prison service, the police and High Royds psychiatric hospital in Menston.

While a few would have recognised him as the man whose home was the shop doorways of Leeds city centre, when his body was recovered from the River Aire on May 4, 1969, it appeared to everyone concerned the end to what had been a pitifully lonely existence.

A few days later, when his remains were lowered into a common grave with nine others, it seemed he had lost his long struggle for recognition. But 18 months after his death his name became the focus of a court case which saw two Leeds City Police officers charged with his manslaughter and which shook the force to its foundations.

"At the time there were a lot of rumours about what had really happened to David Oluwale," says Kester Aspden, a former history of crime lecturer at the University of Leeds, who has spent the last two years trying to pull together the fragmented pieces of Oluwale's story.

"But if it hadn't been for a young police officer called Gary Galvin, who decided to report what he had heard to his senior officers, he would have been a forgotten victim of his generation and those who hounded him would have only ever had to answer to their conscience.

"People have described Galvin as a recruit who hadn't been broken in, who didn't understand that you put your colleagues before everything else, but having talked to his son, it seems that throughout his life he was a man of very strong principles."

On Galvin's testimony, a major investigation was launched which resulted in Insp Geoffery Ellerker and Sgt Kenneth Kitching being charged with manslaughter, perjury and grievous bodily harm. While the pair were eventually only convicted of a series of assaults on the vulnerable and mentally ill Oluwale, what emerged during the trial was a picture of a society struggling to adapt to the influx of immigrants whose papers of British citizenship meant very little in 1960s Leeds.

"It says something about how seriously the police took the allegations that Scotland Yard officers were called up to investigate the allegations," says Aspden, who was inspired to write Oluwale's story after discovering a charge sheet relating to the case in the National Archives where an unnamed officer had entered his nationality simply as "Wog".

"However, having gone through all the documents relating to the case, I'm not convinced justice was ever really done. While Ellerker was sentenced to three years and Kitchen was jailed for 27 months, the jury never got to see all the evidence. The idea the abuse may have been racially motivated was never addressed and I just felt that now I could maybe get closer to the truth than they had in 1971."

Oluwale died 12 months after Enoch Powell had delivered his now infamous "Rivers of Blood" speech. In Leeds, like Britain's other major cities, immigrants were widely looked on as second-class citizens and those like Oluwale who ended up on the streets were, says Aspden, regarded as little more than "human rubbish".

In the early 1960s, Oluwale emerged from an eight-year stint in High Royds psychiatric hospital where he had been sent after complaining of hallucinations during yet another spell in prison. Despite bearing the physical and psychological scars of electric shock treatment, he became one of the first guinea pigs of care in the community.

With no friends or relatives, he relied on hostels to provide a roof over his head. When they eventually turned him out following complaints by other residents, he was forced to find shelter in shop doorways, a move which brought him to the attention of Ellerker and Kitching.

"Traders were putting pressure on the police to rid the city of nuisances and Oluwale was one of them," says Kester. "It was a very parochial force and there were stories of how they used to bundle him into the back of the a patrol car and drop him off in the middle of the night in woods outside the city centre boundary.

"Some officers told of how Kitching had urinated on Oluwale while he slept and on the numerous times they arrested him they didn't spare any force.

"It was a case of clearing up their patch and they didn't care how it was done."

Unfortunately for Oluwale, he was always drawn back to the city. While details of his death are scant, what is known is that in the early hours of April 18, 1969, he was seen running away from two men towards the River Aire. The post-mortem revealed not only that he had died from drowning, but that shortly before his death he had received a wound to his head.

"It's hard to tell the story of someone who fell off society's radar," adds Aspden, whose book Nationality Wog: The Hounding of David Oluwale has just been published.

"At the time, no one went to his funeral. When Scotland Yard launched their investigation just seven people came forward to say they knew him and when Interpol tried to trace his family they drew a total blank.

"However, people were much less defensive than I thought they would be. What I wanted to do was show that what happened to Oluwale was part of a much wider social picture, it wasn't about raking up the past for the sake of it.

"Kitching died alone in 1996, but I did try to contact Geoff Ellerker in the hope of getting his side of the story. He didn't wish to speak and I know that he died not that long ago. What happened to Oluwale was horrific, but those officers were also a product of the society in which they lived. Leeds was a city which had zero tolerance policing before the phrase had even been coined.

"Ellerker had his life ahead of him when he was found guilty and the prison sentence finished his career. Even if you can't feel sympathy for him, I think you have to feel for his wife and the knock-on effect it had for his family.

"Despite some reservations, I knew I had to tell this story and I think what happened to Oluwale was symptomatic of a wider British belligerence to immigrants at the time.

"Leeds celebrates its 800th anniversary this year and understandably there will be much emphasis placed on how it has become a multicultural society, but it's worth remembering that it was a painful process and one which wasn't without victims."

While the case caused few ripples outside Yorkshire, it did cast a shadow over the Millgarth station. As the city surged forward into the 1970s, demolishing the back-to-back terraces and welcoming the motorway links to the south and west, many were happy for the fallout from the Oluwale case to be buried under the rubble.

"If the case happened today it would change society and David Oluwale's name would probably be being mentioned in the same breath as Stephen Lawrence," says Aspden.

"It's easy to see why people wanted to forget, but I think we have a duty to remember if only so we can make sure history doesn't repeat itself.

"What happened to Oluwale says a lot about how we deal with difference. Society may have changed, but there are still some groups who find themselves being made scapegoats and it would be a brave man to say something like this couldn't happen again."

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All about Obasanjo: Facts ignored and Mischief perverted!!

All about Obasanjo: Facts ignored and Mischief perverted!!

By Frisky Larr

It remains a baffling mystery to my limited faculties of reasoning how facts and events still continue to be obscured at this intermediate level of a long-drawn battle. Before being temporarily thrown off this coveted and highly glorified chitchat podium of public view in the aftermath of a consuming workload, I was able to advance my views in one last essay. I chastised my compatriots who jump aboard a bandwagon without a clear view of clandestine agenda and the overriding interests (that are mostly personal) of those who bear the flags of hate and destruction.

Atiku Abubakar has suddenly disappeared from center stage and the extended arms of passengers in the bandwagon still persist in striking their hammer on the glowing iron. Facts are ignored. Mischief advanced. Worse still, mischief itself is also subjected to perversion.

Against the wisdom of all academic teachings as embodied in the philosophy and psychology underlying experiences in practical politics (courtesy of Political science), Nigeria has become the first country in the universe to upgrade a Vice President from the role of an Assistant and Deputy to the hitherto unknown office of a Co-President.

Most often, arguments have been advanced that a political environment like Nigeria’s in which a President was evidentially seen to have subjected his own Vice President to abuses, humiliation and oppression, leaves no other choice but resistance on the part of the oppressed. A Vice President is thus perceived and presented as doing well to fight back as best he can to restore his personal honor. Good enough.

Unfortunately however, in the primitive wrestling ring of traditional societies, the longer a fight lasts, the more obscure and extended the boundaries of the improvised ring become. Democratic philosophy all over the world provides for a head of government. In a situation, in which a single party fails to secure an outright majority to form a government, coalitions are formed. In coalitions, hierarchy is defined by the proportional strength of parties in popular vote. The head of government is undivided with absolute integrity. While the head of the second largest party in a coalition provides the deputy head of government, the head of government in a unitary administration has the enviable privilege of picking a deputy of choice. In neither of both cases can the power of the head of government be usurped.

In Nigeria where a single party had an outright majority, the exigency of a coalition and a marriage of convenience was out of question. Olusegun Obasanjo picked Atiku as a running mate not vice versa. The ensuing government was headed by Olusegun Obasanjo not by Atiku. While Obasanjo’s allegiance to Atiku is logically a matter of choice, Atiku’s loyalty is by all benchmarks of rational reasoning, nothing short of an obligation. If in the course of time, the President were found to have strongly deviated from agreed principles (party or personal), the Vice President would quit and open up a new chapter on a different terrain. But unfortunately, this does not apply in Nigeria. In the corridors of all functioning democracies all over the world, Nigeria simply became a laughing stock, as the exacerbated illustration of everything that a democracy should not be. A Vice President in a unitary government (not a coalition government) joins a different party and remains a Vice President even with a constitution that mandates a President to pick him from the same party. “Learned” and “incorruptible” judges of a Supreme Court (the highest instance of domestic jurisprudence) perfect this ridiculous reasoning and tell a cock-and-bull tale of moral and legal justifications.

As I once opined, the trick was easy to see. All these instances were driven by just one motive. Kill Bill.
Obasanjo has however, finally learned a lesson that he picked a Vice President (or a Vice President was imposed on him), who weighed far beyond a mere deputy. A Vice President who would not have dared to go that far without the strength of support that he had in crucial organs of the democratic institutions and at the corridors of major powers on the global scene.

While events unfolded, I was one of several prophets of doom.
I saw a rapid drift towards destruction and anarchy. I saw the roof burning. All because a Vice President insists on a President (his boss) capitulating before him and falling on his knees. Thank goodness, there was neither doom nor calamity.

Having been recklessly permitted to run for the elections in the dying minutes by our “incorruptible” judges of the Supreme Court, who did not seem to care a damn, about social peace and national integrity, the chronicle of imminent disaster began to run an independent course. Even though it was not difficult to see that Atiku can never win any election in today’s Nigeria (rigged or not), he insisted on being a sole opposition candidate against a more credible Buhari and Pat Utomi. When this failed, he pushed for an election boycott, which consequences would have stirred up anything close to a civil war. It took Buhari’s wisdom and foresight nurtured by personal ambitions to stop Atiku’s push for a do-or-die agenda. This agenda failed and the rest is not yet history.
Attempts were made by unknown cowards to bomb the headquarters of INEC in this modern age of heroic suicide bombings to pre-empt the feasible conduct of elections. Another failure. Then the Nnamani card was played.

Only at this point in time did the scope of foreign involvement in the advancement of all the scenarios that have hitherto unfolded, become clearer to behold. The daily newspaper “Nigerian Tribune” reported how foreign intelligence agencies informed Obasanjo of plans to install Nnamani as head of an interim administration. The Nigerian Tribune pointedly identified countries whose sources provided this intelligence by referring to contacts made between the Nnamani camp and the embassies of the United States of America, the European Union and Great Britain. This story has not been refuted till the present moment. Given the credibility of non-denial, it was further reported that Obasanjo was acquainted with facts from foreign intelligence that some “incorruptible” judges of a Lagos High Court were on the brink of serving an injunction on INEC to prevent an announcement of the results of the Presidential election. This report was also not denied. The result was that INEC who initially sought a calmer atmosphere and method of declaring election results then hurried to the Press to forestall any unsolicited injunction by “incorruptible” judges.

In the light of all these developments in the run-up to the elections and thereafter, many wise and prudent Nigerians expected free and fair elections. Wise and prudent Nigerians who contributed en masse to the verbal lynching of Olusegun Obasanjo and all he stood for. Wise and prudent Nigerians with an insurmountable reservoir of celestial wisdom that did not care to turn the psychological table for once and view issues from Obasanjo’s perspective are now surprised that the elections were not served on a silver plate and handed over to Atiku. Obasanjo and his PDP are now being subjected once again to the vicious punches of co-thieves subdued, while foreign forces have made a radical U-turn upon seeing the brutal and naked consequences of fighting Atiku’s reckless battle to the point of no return.

The prospect of an unstable and disintegrated Nigeria that was quickly advancing and staring everyone nakedly in the face was enough to ring the alarm bells in Washington and Downing Street to whistle Atiku back from his popular trail of destruction. Obasanjo is being vehemently chastised as if he had stolen a fortune from God’s own sacred cows. The victory and smartness of a thief that is popularly hated over a thief that appealed to popular sentiments against his rival has now translated into the making of a saint out of the rival thief that was outsmarted in broad daylight.

While Washington and Downing Street are well aware of the extraordinary social-psychological circumstances that preceded these elections, they were smarter than several Nigerian bandwagon passengers of the zombie fame, to understand where the buck stops and call off the trail of unforeseeable consequences. Yet Nigerians have not understood that it is about time to draw the bottom line. They fail to understand that the daily cry of foul and endless insults on Obasanjo and his PDP is now badly saturated by the mere fact of its chorus-type incantation.

After all what has Obasanjo done so badly that no one else has superseded before him? Is it failure to fix roads or failure to restore electricity? Failure to restore water supply that all started a steady trail of failure since 1980? Killing of political opponents for which he is suspected and never proven as a culprit? Now I hear that there was far more to the killing of Bola Ige than ever met the eye. I hear the names of Sunday Afolabi and Amisore, whoever they are. Stories of greed and a drug lord that was being investigated by Bola Ige.
Stories that are never proven much like Obasanjo’s involvement in the killing of Bola Ige. I guess its time to tread a bit softly. There are issues for which Obasanjo can be held guilty and in contempt but this wave of cyber and verbal lynching is beginning to exceed every bound of decency.

One renowned investment banking, securities and investment management company Goldman Sachs recently released figures on the Nigerian economy. Nigerian Gross Domestic Product has more than doubled since 2002 to an average of 7.3% from less than 3% in preceding years. The agricultural sector has witnessed tremendous growth. The overall economy is now “much less vulnerable to adverse external shocks”. The debts of the Paris club are now history. London club is positively rescheduling. The ratio of debt to GDP has dropped miraculously to 3% as of December 31st 2006 compared to 60% in the nineties. Inflation currently stands at 8%. The banking sector has been so positively restructured that every Nigerian is today proud of the Zenith Bank’s expansion to the United Kingdom. A feat that was possible only in the good old eighties. Today Zenith Bank is being traded to handle Nigeria’s foreign reserves, which have grown in excess of $40 billion since Obasanjo’s assumption of power.

Failure in the restoration of infrastructure does not necessarily stand for the destruction of the infrastructures themselves. If succeeding governments did not destroy all that was inherited in 1980 when Obasanjo first handed over power to Shehu Shagari, a lot would have been different today. Today, everyone talks as if Obasanjo has destroyed all these infrastructures in the first place. Records also have it that the Obasanjo’s administration tried and failed to revamp the energy sector out of sheer incompetence. But that is not a crime given the gravity of crimes that were committed unpunished before his reign. Today people seek to hold Obasanjo responsible for inventing corruption in Nigeria despite the successful work of Nuhu Ribadu and his EFCC.

While I will have no problem with the ordinary man in the street who does not understand what GDP’s 7% stand for and rather yearns to have good roads, water and electricity, I continue to be a vehement enemy of pseudo intellectuals with every level of academic qualification, who stand as illiterates to pronounce that Obasanjo’s administration failed the nation across the board.

My greatest wish for the incoming administration is to henceforth ensure and secure party discipline amongst legislators and at all levels and amend the constitution to reflect the spirit of scientific logic in our democracy. In one sense, the PDP deserves to be commended for refusing to return a huge number of senators and representatives for re-election and instead allowing another breed and batch of politicians to take command.

One positive aspect of the harsh and extreme criticisms experienced so far, will definitely manifest in the Yar A’Dua regime. The improvement of infrastructure will gain priority over all other government policies and a lot will definitely improve. I will choose to bet and hang my neck far outside the window claiming that the next four years will seek to correct a lot that went wrong in the past eight years. The pledge to continue the reforms commenced by Obasanjo is a pretty good start.

The sole prerequisite is that nothing goes wrong at the military end. No matter how much military intervention is chastised, we have all been witnesses in recent times to how positive military intervention can be if the role is constructive and focused. A look at recent developments in Turkey will throw more light on this lesson and message. Whenever the intensity of my workload permits, I will definitely elaborate on this issue in my very next essay.

Lagos Business School climbs in global rankings

Lagos Business School (LBS) yesterday made history as the first of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa to attain world ranking.

According to a list published yesterday by the Financial Times of London, the school was ranked among top 50 business schools worldwide in the area of open enrolment executive education programmes.

The prestige accorded the Nigerian school could better be appreciated when put in proper perspective.

These days, many newspapers and magazines compile rankings of business schools, but those of Business Week and the Financial Times stand out.

While Business Week focuses on American schools, the Financial Times is considered by many to be the pre-eminent international ranking.

The Financial Times is reputed to adopt rigorous modalities in its exercise and its compilations are based on data from schools participants in the programmes and third-party sources. Many business schools all over the world are known to work very hard to be included in its list.

To gain insight into the significance of being included among the best 50 providers of executive open enrolment programmes, it is useful to consider how many and how good are the schools that did not make the list using the following statistics:

* the total number of business schools in the world is estimated by the top accreditation agency to be around 10,000; new ones are created literally every week;

* in the UK alone, there are over 100 business schools; only four of them managed to be included among the top 50 worldwide in open enrolment programmes; and

* a country as economically powerful as Germany has no school in this ranking; only an Italian school is included; and there are no schools from Eastern Europe or Russia. Even more significantly, not a single Asian school was included, even though India, China and the Philippines have a good number of very well respected schools.

The journey of the Lagos Business School began 15 years ago with the launch of the first executive education called the Chief Executive Programme. Since then, the school has grown to become one of the best in sub-Saharan Africa.

LBS has striven to deliver quality management education in a continuous and constant way. The school was designed to meet the acute need for management training in the country that arose as a consequence of the rapid industrialisation that took place in the country in the late 80s and early 90s.

A business school of international standard that offers management courses relevant to the Nigerian environment was thus established. It also had to be a school that would strengthen values and ethics in people, business and the society.

Rankings

The Encounter

In this online conversation, I was Autummi, the immacuate, extremely cute and innocent girl on a covert mission to know who the 419er actually is. Randomly, I buzzed someone and here was the unedited conversation we had:

autummi (11/05/2007 14:42:46): Hi...

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:42:56): Hi

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:42:57): asl plz

autummi (11/05/2007 14:43:15): 21/f/LOS

autummi (11/05/2007 14:43:22): and you..

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:43:29): 22/m/nig

autummi (11/05/2007 14:43:34): are you truly a lover boy?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:43:35): what do u do for living?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:43:43): sure i do

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:43:49): looking for a true Love

autummi (11/05/2007 14:44:05): I am a high school student

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:44:15): same as me

autummi (11/05/2007 14:44:31): Well, I just broke up with my bf 2weeks ago

autummi (11/05/2007 14:44:40): really?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:44:46): really

autummi (11/05/2007 14:45:11): thats cool

autummi (11/05/2007 14:45:17): wat do you do in school?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:45:26): accounting

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:45:27): and u?

autummi (11/05/2007 14:45:46): business studies...

autummi (11/05/2007 14:45:55): thats is really great.

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:46:00): oh cool

autummi (11/05/2007 14:46:03): coincidence? ??

autummi (11/05/2007 14:46:29): why dont you come to the US to study, it is really a nice place

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:46:30): how?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:46:59): but i dont have the money

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:47:07): but i dont mind if u will help me out

autummi (11/05/2007 14:47:21): accounting is just next dept to mine

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:47:36): sure i know

autummi (11/05/2007 14:48:05): i am just a student, I dont have that kind of money

autummi (11/05/2007 14:48:19): if i did, maybe i will be willing

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:48:24): but u can raise me out of it

autummi (11/05/2007 14:48:41): how?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:48:55): by helping with little money

autummi (11/05/2007 14:49:20): tuition is over $7,000 here

autummi (11/05/2007 14:49:31): thats a lot of money

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:49:50): ut u can help me with just little

autummi (11/05/2007 14:49:54): so I can really see how I can help

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:50:17): how will u help meout?

autummi (11/05/2007 14:50:23): cant

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:50:41): why?

autummi (11/05/2007 14:50:47): I have lots of student loan to pay

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:51:05): so u dont have anyto helpme with right?

autummi (11/05/2007 14:51:59): i dont even know you!!!!!!!

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:52:20): well with time i know u will get to know me better

autummi (11/05/2007 14:52:55): i hope so

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:53:22): so forgetu dont even know me

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:53:28): help me out if u will

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:53:33): Godwill helputoo

autummi (11/05/2007 14:53:37): how can i do that?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:54:13): just letmeknowhowmuch u can send me and i will really apprciate it from u

autummi (11/05/2007 14:55:56): the only money i have is $500 to keep till next week

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:56:16): ok how much can u giveme out of it

autummi (11/05/2007 14:56:17): so if send you some, then I will be very broke

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:56:58): know u wount God qill surely help u too

autummi (11/05/2007 14:57:19): I will be broke.

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:57:34): know u wount

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:57:44): okai can u just help me wiht just 150 dollars?

autummi (11/05/2007 14:58:55): No way! I wont have enough money to keep me

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:59:03): ok

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:59:07): what of 100?

autummi (11/05/2007 14:59:31): let me see

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:59:42): plz i need it

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:59:58): plz wait brb

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:00:04): give me just 10min

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:26:48): Babe am here

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:27:06): i guess u still tehre?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:27:08): THERE

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:27:28): WERE ARE U BABE?

autummi (11/05/2007 15:27:58): hi u are back?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:28:17): Yea am back

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:28:30): so how about our conversation

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:28:35): \?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:29:28): ARE U GOING TO GIVE ME THE 100NDAOLLR

autummi (11/05/2007 15:29:38): well, i really dont see how $150 can help you with schooling here

autummi (11/05/2007 15:29:46): and I am very sure it not that urgent

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:30:33): WILL U BE ABLE TO GIVE IT TO ME OR NOT

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:30:42): well can u plz call me rifght now so ic an hear from u

autummi (11/05/2007 15:31:25): waz num?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:31:35): my phone number

autummi (11/05/2007 15:31:47): yeaa

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:31:58): will u call me right now?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:32:24): will u call me right now?+|

autummi (11/05/2007 15:32:25): may be later.

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:32:37): why not now

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:32:50): well my number is.......... +2348033123485

autummi (11/05/2007 15:33:13): Did u say it is GHANA?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:33:27): no west africa

autummi (11/05/2007 15:33:35): where is that?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:33:41): nigeria

autummi (11/05/2007 15:33:53): JESUS CHRIST!

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:34:02): what happen

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:34:24): tell me

autummi (11/05/2007 15:34:31): i dont know wat to say

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:34:37): why?

autummi (11/05/2007 15:34:46): we are told to be afraid of Nigerians

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:34:57): hey not someone like me

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:34:59): okk

autummi (11/05/2007 15:35:10): well how do i know?

autummi (11/05/2007 15:35:23): can I see a pic of you?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:35:26): call me and confirm

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:35:42): yea is in the image box like urs

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:35:44): brb

autummi (11/05/2007 15:36:13): I cant see anything

autummi (11/05/2007 15:49:09): catch yaa later.

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:50:11): am hear

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:50:15): where to?

autummi (11/05/2007 15:51:03): just going for a p

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:51:16): PLZ TALK WITH ME LITTLE

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:51:17): OKK

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:51:34): I STILL NEED UR HELP AND I DONT REALLY KNOW IF U GOIGN TO HELP ME OUT

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:51:46): I JUST WANT U TO BELIEVE ME

autummi (11/05/2007 15:52:18): how do i sent it?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:52:22): OK

autummi (11/05/2007 15:52:30): Just $100

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:52:47): wIll sent it through western union money transfer

autummi (11/05/2007 15:53:34): that is expensive. I'll pay huge commision

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:53:44): not really

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:54:49): just sent it with this following infor....... .....name. .....Lizzy Paul, address..... ...210 ikorodu road, zipe code.....23401

autummi (11/05/2007 15:55:04): I can do international wiring if you dont mind

autummi (11/05/2007 15:55:32): It will cost only $5

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:55:57): and i will like u to get abck to me with the following info........ ..sender' s name, address, MTCN, TEXT QUESTION AND ANSWER

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:56:16): PLZ SEND IT WITH THAT INFOR THROUGH WESTER UNION MONEY TRANSFER THAT THE ONLY WAY I CAN GET IT HERE

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:56:19): OKK

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:56:21): PLZ DO

autummi (11/05/2007 15:56:53): who is Lizzy. your gf?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:57:07): NO MY REALL SISTER

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:57:11): WE ARE TOW

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:57:13): OKK

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:57:18): SHE IS MY SISTE

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:57:30): BUT SHE IS MARRIED

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:57:31): OKK

autummi (11/05/2007 15:57:57): you stay wiht you married sister?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:57:57): plz send it with that name

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:58:10): no i dont stay with her, is at alone

autummi (11/05/2007 15:58:25): I cant send any money to no wife of yours!

autummi (11/05/2007 15:58:34): You are cheating me.

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:58:58): how do u mean for God sake

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:59:03): i cant do such to u

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:59:16): i have not been though that way to cheat poeple

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:59:18): okk

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:59:23): just believe that

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:00:02): talk to me babe

autummi (11/05/2007 16:00:09): No.

autummi (11/05/2007 16:00:28): i will send it to you not your gf..

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:00:36): ok

autummi (11/05/2007 16:00:37): You have a gf dont you?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:00:53): know i have none cosa i dotn have there time

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:00:57): believe that

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:01:19): well send it to this........ .......STEPHEN BISI

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:01:35): WHAT ABOUT THAT

autummi (11/05/2007 16:01:47): thats ok

autummi (11/05/2007 16:01:52): what address

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:01:58): SAME ADDRESS

autummi (11/05/2007 16:02:06): No way!

autummi (11/05/2007 16:02:20): to your gf?

autummi (11/05/2007 16:02:30): you are cheating me!!!

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:02:32): NO I GOT NO GF

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:02:35): WHAT U TALKING ABOUT

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:02:47): COMMON ABBE WHY SHOULD I DO THAT TO U

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:03:19): OK USE MY ADDRESS..... ......... .54 COCA ROAD ALLEN AVENUE

autummi (11/05/2007 16:03:24): But that is the address of your gf

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:03:36): SHE IS NOT MY GF SHE IS MY SISTER

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:03:38): OKK

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:03:41): BELIEVE THAT

autummi (11/05/2007 16:03:45): it is a lie!

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:03:53): U MEAN AM LIEING/

autummi (11/05/2007 16:04:17): i was cheated upon once and i cant play games anymore

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:04:35): AND DO U THINK I CAN EVER CHEAT U?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:04:40): PLZ AM NOT LIKE THAT

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:04:42): OKK

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:04:48): JUST BELIEVE ME

autummi (11/05/2007 16:04:58): can I have your phone number to tell you when i finish?

autummi (11/05/2007 16:05:07): dont expect it today.

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:05:17): OK YEA......... ......... ....+23480331234 85

autummi (11/05/2007 16:05:21): as from saturday

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:05:25): SO WHEN SHOULD I EXPECT IT?

autummi (11/05/2007 16:05:32): saturday

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:06:03): SO I SHOULD EXPECT IT BY SATURDAY RIGHT!!!!!!! !!

autummi (11/05/2007 16:06:20): yeaa...

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:06:36): DO U KNOW THE INFOR U GOIGN TO GIVE ME BY TEN/

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:06:39): THEN

autummi (11/05/2007 16:06:53): but you can give me your bank details and let me try international wiring to save me some cash

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:08:01): MY BANK DETAILS IS NO MORE FUNCTIONING JUST PLZ SEND IT TO THE INFOR I GAVE U

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:08:04): OKK

autummi (11/05/2007 16:08:25): I need to save money.

autummi (11/05/2007 16:08:33): dont you get it?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:08:45): NO JUST TRANSFER IT WITH WESTERN UNION TRANSFER

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:09:03): IT WILL GET HERE AND I WILL GET IT SEFE RIGHT HERE

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:09:04): OKK

autummi (11/05/2007 16:09:42): i want west. un. to be my last resort

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:09:56): WHAT DO U MEAN?

autummi (11/05/2007 16:10:30): i want to save money.

autummi (11/05/2007 16:10:46): transfer fee for western is high.

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:11:13): NO IS NOT HIGH........ .PLZ JUST SEND IT LIKE THAT

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:11:19): TRY UR BEST AND HELP ME OUT

autummi (11/05/2007 16:11:33): Well am the one paying the money.

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:11:45): AN DTHAT WHY AM BEGGING U ON IT

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:11:55): SO PLZ SEND IT WITH WESTERN UNION

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:11:55): OKK\

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:13:12): WILL U DO THAT WAY FOR ME?

autummi (11/05/2007 16:14:53): so I will send it to shannon mccullough in llen avenue, nigeria?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:16:30): OK DO IT

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:17:02): SO WEHN SHOULD I BEEN EXPECTING IT?

autummi (11/05/2007 16:17:49): saturday.

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:18:01): WHICH IS TOMORROW RIGHT?

autummi (11/05/2007 16:18:10): what should i use as passwor?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:19:41): WELL USE IT AS THE TEXT QUESTION ADN ANSWER WHICH IS.......... .......WHAT IS MY NAME AND THE ANSWER SHOULD BE MCCULLOUGH

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:20:29): AND GET ABCK TO ME WITH THE......... ...... MTCN NUMBER, SENDER'S NAME, Location, amouth send and the zipe code

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:20:31): okk

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:20:49): and the test question and answer

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:20:51): okk

autummi (11/05/2007 16:21:13): this

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:21:20): yea

autummi (11/05/2007 16:21:51): goood...

autummi (11/05/2007 16:22:07): Please, tell me... do you have a gf?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:22:15): have u witten every thing down

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:22:28): i swear i ahve no gf cos i dont have time

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:22:30): okk

autummi (11/05/2007 16:22:54): Should i trust you?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:23:05): yea that what i want from u

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:24:47): i guess u know tomorrow is saturday

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:24:49): /

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:24:51): ?

autummi (11/05/2007 16:24:59): I want to...

autummi (11/05/2007 16:25:16): but Nigerian men are difficult to deal with

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:25:17): to what?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:25:28): plz ciunt me out am not like that

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:25:29): okk

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:25:53): just count me out cos am not what u think

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:25:55): okk

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:27:12): plz wait for me just 5 minutes

autummi (11/05/2007 16:27:14): ok love

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:27:17): okk\i will be right back

autummi (11/05/2007 16:27:19): see you 2moro

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:27:28): are u sending it tomorrow?

autummi (11/05/2007 16:27:47): yes. I will

autummi (11/05/2007 16:27:54): $100

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:27:56): ok I Love u babe

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:28:00): yea i know

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:28:14): have written everything down?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:29:00): will u call me tomorrow if u ahve gotten it send?

autummi (11/05/2007 16:29:18): yess

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:29:43): i guess u know what to do after u ahve send it

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:29:52): u know the infor u will provide for me

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:29:54): ?

autummi (11/05/2007 16:34:23): I am off to classes

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:34:55): ok see u tomorrow after u ahve send the money

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:35:26): plz i will be waiitng to hear from u by tomorrow

autummi (11/05/2007 16:35:33): ok...

autummi (11/05/2007 16:36:07): by the way, does 419 still pay?

autummi (11/05/2007 16:36:27): this is how you spoil Nigeria's image abroad.

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:36:33): what do u mean?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:36:50): weting u too dey do online with another person's pictures

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:36:59): Omoale

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:37:02): dey go jooo

autummi (11/05/2007 16:37:11): Well..you will be getting a visit from the EFCC later today

autummi (11/05/2007 16:37:22): you can run, you cant hide

autummi (11/05/2007 16:38:00): Stealing and stealing online.

autummi (11/05/2007 16:38:11): Now you aare in our net.

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:38:35): so u are EFCC agent right

autummi (11/05/2007 16:38:40): You will get a visit

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:38:54): and u are using soemone else pictures

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:39:11): men crazy is wrong with u

autummi (11/05/2007 16:39:13): just go to our office on Awolowo road and report urself

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:39:28): na u be colomental

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:39:38): craze dey worry u

autummi (11/05/2007 16:39:57): if you let us use our resources to come get you, the trouble will be multiplied

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:40:06): shaa na ur own picture be that way they there\thief

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:40:08): ole

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:40:13): carry am gop

autummi (11/05/2007 16:44:06): You will get a text message from EFCC, and it will be in your own good to report or your entire household will be arrested

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:44:58): e bi like say u no even no who u dey follow talk abi?

autummi (11/05/2007 16:48:28): Untill you stop doing scams online, EFCC will continue to pursue you.

Soon afterwards, I sent this text to his mobile using EFCC as sender’s name( using special means)

Dear Online Scammer, you have been invited to report to our Lagos office at 15A Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos . In your interest, please report.

As soon as he got the text, he signed off. And am sure he would be restless for the next few days or perharps weeks till the episode wears off and he is courageous enough to have his bath and go to the cybercafe once more.

Going back home

I have been busy trying to fix up lose ends. Guess what? I am going to Naija with me girlfriend and we are so excited. Looking forward of taking the best pictures and enjoying me long stay.

I will be plying between Abuja and Lagos.To keep your posted when i'am back. You might not read from me in long while but i will be back.

Save Ajah!

This is a save our soul appeal to the Federal Government of Nigeria to rise up to its constitutional duty of protection of its citizens living in Ajah Town Eti-Osa Local Government Area of Lagos against a warlord who has been terrorising the law abiding citizens for over five years with the active connivance of the Lagos State government.

The warlord has burnt down over 50 shops along NEPA Road and around the Akinyemi Shopping Complex in Ajah. These burnt down property were shown by a number of Television House but to date neither the Lagos State nor the Federal Government has deemed it fit to make a pronouncement on the matter. This is not a surprise as a commission of inquiry set up specifically on Ajah communal crises submitted its report about a year ago without any Government White Paper on it.

A looming cloud is imminent now as the warlord has promised to burn down the Ajah Ultra Modern Market as a prelude to the burning down of the town itself during the elections (April 14 and 21, 2007), taking advantage of the period when there will be no movement of vehicles. The warlord carried out such dastardly acts in the past and he got away with them, as such many people have already been moving out of Ajah Town enmasse, since they have no confidence in the police or security agencies as presently constituted.

Indeed, save for a handful of ill-equipped policemen at the Ajah junction, there is no police presence in the town and the recurrent violence has not shown the state and federal authorities the need for a robust police or military presence on a permanent basis. The question is, how can an individual hold a community of over 300,000 people to ransom, killing, maiming, burning and destroying valuable property with impunity in a country like Nigeria?

Nigeria spends millions if not billions of naira on peace-keeping operations in the past in Sierra Leone and Liberia and is currently involved in Darfur, Sudan and is even contemplating going to Somalia, but here in Ajah, Lagos there is genocide going on and thousands of people are being displaced and hundreds have been killed without any protection from the state or federal government. Usually the police will come with a show of bravado after the destruction and killings.

The question once again is: who will protect Ajah Town against the warlord? The citizens await the answer from the Federal Government of Nigeria now before it is too late!

Who is the greatest Nigerian?

Greatest Nigerian
Please send us your greatest Nigerian.
Comments will be appreciated.

To me the Greatest Nigerian is Brother Fela Anikulapo kuti.
Musician,africanist,composer,radical,singer,spiritualist,Black president
fighter and also son of a witch.

There are also others from Obafemi Awolowo,Azikwe,Obasanjo,Murtala Mohammed
Ernahoro,Shehu shagari and many more.

Winner to be published on this Blog.

Leaders that should be removed from office

1.Blair Uk

2.Mugabe Zimbabwe

3.Puttin Russia

4.Ghadaffi of Libya

5.Konte of Ginuea

6.Kim Yong South Korea

7.Bush U.S.A

8.Obasanjo Nigeria

9.Fuare Eyedema of Togo

10. Josph Kabila of Zaire

Most 419 attacks aren't from Naija

Source

With all the frustration, anger and effort put into stopping the Nigerian 419 scams and others of that nature, it seems to be a common misconception that most phishing occurs in poor areas of the world. On the contrary, it seems most malicious activities on the net around the world originate in the United States. Symantec is touting a figure of 31% as the percentage of attacks in the U.S. Worldwide, with China and Germany in second at 10% and 7%. Beyond that, the U.S. has the most malicious servers as well: The company also found that 51 percent of all known servers used by attackers to buy or sell stolen personal information, such as credit card or bank account numbers, are located in the U.S. Why the U.S., which has strict laws governing crimes of that nature? While it may be easier to get away with those crimes in emerging countries, the U.S. may be an ample place to launch these attacks from due to the large number of available servers. Co-lo hosts are everywhere, and prices are (relatively) cheap. It still puts things into perspective, though, when most effort seems to be going in to taking down phishing rings in other parts of the world.

10 leaders i will remove from office

1.Blair Uk

2.Mugabe Zimbabwe

3.Puttin Russia

4.Ghadaffi of Libya

5.Konte of Ginuea

6.Kim Yong South Korea

7.Bush U.S.A

8.Obasanjo Nigeria

9.Fuare Eyedema of Togo

Last eight in Champion's League

So the final eight of the world's "greatest" football competition contains: three Premiership teams with one decent striker between them, a load of Spaniards facing a stretch for being thugs, a team unable to score in 180 minutes against a defence organised by Gordon Strachan, some other chancers from the sub-SPL Serie A, the worst Bayern Munich side for nigh on five decades, and PSV. The state of it! The state of the Champion's League!

If there's ever been a time to replace the pomp and ceremony of Handel's Zadok the Priest as the tournament song with the theme tune from Spike Milligan's Q, now's the time.

Still, things could be worse. At least some of the clowns who got knocked out this week won't be befouling European football any longer. Check out this pathetically lame whine from Real Madrid's Roberto Carlos (who Chxta thought had retired from football sometime around 2002, but in fact clearly only did so at 1945 last night). "The ball bobbled off the surface and bounced just in front of me," went the stupid excuse for letting Bayern's Roy Makaay score the fastest-ever goal since European football began in 1992.

"The pitch wasn't in a good condition and it was a real shame. We didn't concede the goal because of a lack of concentration, it was because the ball bobbled when I got it." Whatever you say, Carlos, whatever makes you feel better about yourself...

But if Madrid's inability to bugger off with good grace was a complete embarassment, you could have set an atomic clock by Ged Houllier's post-defeat nervous breakdown. "Success against Roma would have given us a psychological boost for the future," the hapless Lyon coach quietly sobbed, as he pressed his boot on top of a shovel and serenely cut a 4x12ft hole in the turf to lie himself down. "Now we are still looking for that confidence and enthusiasm we have been badly lacking!" At which point he adroitly leapt into his freshly dug hole and entreated Chxta to bury him alive. Sadly, I was unable to help poor Ged, as I too elected to jump into the grave in the hope that a passer-by would sprinkle some soil over our heads. How else, after all, can I hope to avoid the unbearably loud whining sure to start reverberating from the mouth of Thierry Henry any time now?

Nigerian Gay Law Passed!

What do you think?
Please send us your views and comments.
Should Homosexuality be allowed in Nigeria?

"I am a staunch supporter of the Nigeria gay law been passed banning same sex marriages and also the practice" Ad

Lets save the Nigerian morals and cultural values for the generation unborn. Homosexuality is alien to us. The roots of homosexuality can be traced back to boarding schools and seminary's in Nigeria. When a group of teenagers are separated from there source of sexuality leads to this behaviours.

We lust and love our women also otherwise. History will prove me right.

Nigeria new notes

Reading the BBC news online,i stumbled on the Nigerian new notes and the new law banning gay culture in Nigeria. I am glad Nigeria is going through some changes which the citizens are really longing for. I know the European community will contribute to spread the acceptance of Homosexuality while they are banning Muslims from wearing headscarf. Even the early Christians wore headscarf's. To view the notes BBC New Nigerian Notes

The Nigeria notes are really stunning and forge proof which gives the country a further step in fighting organised crimes been perpetuated by the Mafiosos,Well no currency is 100% forge free.

Well the most interesting expect of the new notes is that the Arabic text in the former notes where not included in the later which gives me the joy to write this post. That a foreign language is in scripted in an Africa currency is a colonial misdone. I'm looking forward to reading an Arabic text on a Dollar some day or otherwise. Why must there be an Arabic or English language in an Africa currency? I ask and hope i will gets answers.

Language or culture is not holy and should not be treated as such. Languages,culture and religion are a thing that should be limited to a certain group of people. That Nigeria is a English speaking country does not do the country any good. In Japan,Germany,Belgium,China and other well to do nations they do not feel attached to a foreign language or see there language as been inferior. I hope England will include a Yoruba or Swahili language in their currency someday.

What is a Language? Language is a organized sound and tongue spoken by a group of people or tribe. That the Arabic,English or French language is writing in an African currency dates back to colonization. What as the Arabic,English or French language done in bettering our lives in Africa? None.

That the three major languages in Nigeria has been in scripted in the new currency which gives a sense of belonging,that an African should be proud of it culture and tradition. I hope other Africa Nations will learn from what from this.


Living a Europe as taught me a lot than a learnt in my 12 years of schooling in Africa,You learn more from travelling. In Holland the second largest majority,the Turkish people which counts for about half a million people are not giving the priority to practice there culture and language. Why cos a stronger culture or language must precede. Which comes to the point that the Europeans are also scared of what they did to their colony's.

Not forgetting about the major reason i am writing this blog the new currency. I hope you all have a wonderful time using it and if you have a issue using the new currency just drop a comment on this blog.

Naija girls masturbation experience

18+ My masturbation experience


I luv the way Naija's are blogging and freeing there minds on taboos and unspeakable thoughts. I've read several blogs from Ayoola in Lagos,Adunni's place,Bella Naija,Calabar gal,Chxta's world,Exschoolnerd Nilla and others not mentioned.


Often i wonder if Naija babes masturbate or still view it as a taboo,i barely read about such experience. Lol, i know they do and it's no big deal .Masturbation gives women control over there body and sexuality how it responds to sexual stimulation's. Gals and women masturbate in a lots of ways by using therehands,fingers,toys or objects while men by stimulating there cocks. Many gals get their most intensive orgasm while masturbating. I luv masturbating and i discovered it by accident. If you masturbate fill free to share your experience or fantasy here on this blog.

When i masturbate i tend to get really visual or play with my fantasies. Sometimes i think of my boy friend taking me from the rear while I'm stroking my clit. Sometimes when i masturbate i just pull my nickers to the side or to my kneels while I'm stroking my swollen lips and spreading my juice around my cunt...When i masturbate is always like the first time i had sex,my heart will be pounding and every touch is
amazing.


I was lying in bed one night thinking about him and I got this warm feeling in my that was unbelievable! It starting throbbing. I sat up in bed, spread my legs apart and started rubbing my clit. It was the most wonderful feeling I had ever felt!



Typing this my juice is up to my thighs. Can't wait to masturbate again hopefully after typing this post. Do you have any masturbation experience or story? Your comments,stories or experience are welcome. I've got a lot to share on this topic with you all...

Driving rules in Lagos

Lagos is often acclaimed as the most exciting city in Nigeria in which to drive. Who would argue? For those of you who think that driving in London or NY is stressful, herewith, for newcomers and visitors, are a few basic rules of the road for driving in Las Gidi:

First of all, know the battalion to which you belong. There is an unending and vicious road war in Lagos. In the first battalion, are motorcyclists known in Nigerian as okada. They have a pact with suicide avoid them at all costs.

In the second battalion are commercial bus drivers. Their buses are known by various names including - danfo, molue (literally translated "I will beat you"), bolekaja (means "Come down, let us fight), kabu-kabu, etc. As these names imply, they are not the smartest species on the face of the planet. Avoid them. What a bitter experience? I don't want to cry again. I almost did 2 days ago!

In the third battalion are the "guys of the siren": escort riders, Bullion vans, trailers, etc. They have immunity against death. Besides, they get a medal for every scratch, and a certificate of bravery for every bash. No need to tell you to stay clear of them. The Men in black even with empty bullion van, I am not making empty threats, be guided!

In the fourth battalion are private guys like me. All we have at our disposal are big talk and empty threats - we have no rights. Sometimes we employ what is called "ogboju"(bravado) to get by. Due to frustration of being home late or at work. We are a pound in flesh in getting our ways in traffic too. What a mess! There are no gentlemen again in Lag?

Further rules:

1. When in doubt, accelerate.
2. Never drive behind a person whose head doesn't reach the top of the steering wheel.
3. Danfo drivers believe they are immortal. Don't yield to the temptation to teach them otherwise
4. Taxicabs should always have the right of way, unless you are bent on suicide.
5. Get used to okada riders saying things like: "Komot ya skrap fo rod" (Get your jalopy off the road), "Oga u wan mek ai dryv ya moto?" (Do you want me to drive your car?). It is normal, and we just ignore them. These days okadas are heavy duty machines too because they carry multiple passengers. Husband and wife. I believe They don't complain of overload as long as the woman is in the middle.
6. Never, ever, stop for a pedestrian unless he flings himself under the wheels of your car.
7. The first parking space you see will be the last parking space you see. Grab it. Survival of the fittest u may say!
8. Learn to swerve abruptly. In Lagos, potholes (and sometimes car-holes) are put in key locations to test drivers' reflexes and keep them on their toes. I saw one man fishing in one of the potholes, that tells u how deep it is.
9. There is no such thing as "one-way"in Lagos. Expect traffic from any direction at all times.
10. Never get in the way of a car that needs extensive bodywork.
11. There is no such thing as a short-cut during rush-hour traffic in Lagos. Everybody might be inclined to take that 'short-cut'.
12. It is traditional in Lagos to honk your horn at cars that don't move the instant their bumpers are not touching the next car.
13. When asking for directions, always ask at least 3 people. Lagosians claim to know every inch of the city - even areas they've never been.
14. Use extreme caution when pulling into service lanes. Service lanes are not for breaking down the traffic, but for speeding, especially during rush hour.
15. Never use directional signals, since they only confound and distract other Lagos drivers, who are not used to them.
16. Similarly, never attempt to give hand signals. Lagos drivers, unused to such courtesies, will think you are making obscene gestures to them. This could be very bad for you in Lagos.
17. Hazard lights (popularly called "double pointer") is not, (as commonly supposed) used to indicate a hazard. It is a warning to you that he is a bonafide Lagos driver, he's headed 'straight' and as such, will not stop under any circumstance. Take him extremely seriously especially if he backs it up with a continuous blast from his "horn".
18. At any given time t, do not stand on the zebra crossing expecting traffic to yield to you, else you will have to explain to the on coming traffic whether you look like a zebra.
19. Speed limits are arbitrary figures posted only to make you feel guilty.
20. Remember that the goal of every driver is to get there first by whatever means necessary.
21. In Las Gidi every spot is potential bus stop. FRSC and LASTMA knows that too. It is in their constitution.
21. Above all, keep moving. Even with a flat tire.

Good luck, you'll need it!

140 million

Originally done by Chippla

For every French Person, there are two Nigerians

Eleven weeks ago, a colleague of mine asked me how many people there were in Nigeria. "No one knows," I replied to which everyone around laughed. "On a more serious note" I said, "estimates range from between 130 million to 150 million." "Wow," he said, "that's about twice the population of France." "O, yes. And not just that," I said, "it's still growing, and rapidly. And by the way, a census was conducted some months back, the results of which are being eagerly awaited."

About a year and a half ago, while working in the Nigerian capital city of Abuja, this blogger objected to the fact that the Nigerian government decided to leave out ethnicity and religious affiliation from a list of questions to be asked in a census that was (at that time) being planned. Statistics obtained on ethnic identity, it was argued, could go a long way in policy formulation vis-à-vis, providing better healthcare, understanding migration patterns, intermarriages, etc.

Good enough though, the Nigerian government stuck to its guns, despite opposition from certain quarters in the country. It left both religious affiliation and ethnicity out of the census questionnaire. And if the discussions in the Nigerian blogosphere (which is largely made up of middle to upper class, and well educated young men and women) over the census are anything to go by, Nigeria (unfortunately) currently sits on an ethnic keg, typified by deep mistrust amongst the various ethnic groups.

The Devil is in the Detail

In the third week of March 2006, people living in Nigeria (citizens and foreigners) were given a couple of days off to sit at home to be counted. The BBC reported that the perpetually busy and clogged streets of Lagos resonated with an eerie silence. The Nigerian Civil Liberties Organization deployed tens of thousands of monitors to oversee the 'government organized' census, according to the BBC, with about one million enumerators going around, counting people and collecting data on people's occupation, educational background, income, dwelling and access to clean water and electricity.

In early January 2007, the census results were released. The official population was put at 140,003,542 or 140 million for short (as obtained from the website of the Nigerian National Population Commission). Few appeared surprised by this. After all, it correlated quite well with previous estimates both by the Nigerian government and the Untied Nations. But the devil truly lay in the detail, for the moment the breakdown of the census figures was released, hell was let loose both in mainstream Nigerian media and in the blogosphere.

There happened to be two main bones of contention: (1) the fact that there were slightly more males than females in the country and (2) the fact that states in the North appeared more populated than those of the South, with the North having a higher overall population figure. Key was the fact that Lagos State (in the South) appeared to have a meager 9,013,534 people compared to Kano's (in the North) 9,383,682. This happened to be the second census in a row in which the population of Kano State ended up being higher than that of Lagos State, albeit by a small margin. What this blogger cannot do is provide any hard evidence whatsoever for or against these claims by the Nigerian Population Commission. But what he can do is provide a few thoughts, leaving you the reader to draw your own conclusions.

North and South

As a point of note, this blogger does not recognize the existence in Nigeria of a monolithic North and a monolithic South. Rather, he subscribes to three major zones in Nigeria: the North, the Middle Belt and the South. The South itself is deeply fragmented into a South West and a South East. In the eyes of most Nigerians, the Middle Belt is (unfortunately) seen as a part of the North. So, for the purpose of this discourse, and for it alone, we'll stick to the imaginary image of a monolithic North and a monolithic South.

Analysis: What Others Think

Just before the census, it was well known that several Nigerians traveled to their hometowns, against the advice of the Federal Government. In the opinion of Akin, a Nigerian-British blogger, there was likely greater mobility in the South than in the North. He writes:

"This can seriously skew the [census] numbers [of Lagos State] since non-indigenes probably make up the majority of the residents of Lagos State. There might be other reasons why the fertility rate and population demographic presents a higher figure in the North than in the South; however, exploring those ideas can be too subjective for appropriate discourse."

The blog Chxta's World, authored by a Nigerian, while rejecting the official census figure (its author believes that the real figure should have been close to 200 million people, given that several inhabitants weren't counted), poses a thought-provoking question to Nigerians who come from the South of the country:

"Suppose it is true that the North is really more populated than the South? Let's at least give it a thought. I think most of us are so prejudiced that once things do not agree with our expectations, we look for all sorts of ways to discredit them."

Chxta's World's author also personally attests to the fact that parts of Lagos State were emptied before the census, as their residents left for their hometowns, probably to boost the numbers there. It also poses loads of other arguments one of which is the fact that Lagos State is still much more densely populated than Kano State, going by the census figures.

The blog Just Thots By A Naijaman focuses on the higher population figure of Kano in comparison to Lagos, referring to the Kano figure as "wuruwuru," a Pidgin English word which could be translated as 'immense deception.' However, its author gets it all wrong when he states:

"Since 1991, Jigawa state has been carved out of the old Kano state…[which means that Kano State has had an]… amazing growth rate of 143.83% in less than 15 years."

Jigawa State was created on August, 27, 1991 (having been carved out of Kano State). The 1991 census was held for three days in November 1991—three months after Jigawa State was created—according to C. Haub, writing in the journal Population Today¹. The annual growth rate for Kano State, according to the Nigerian National Population Commission is 3.3%, which is very consistent with the national average. Thus, the arguments presented by the author of Just Thots By A Naijaman on the population growth rate of Kano State are inaccurate.

Analysis: What this Blogger Thinks

To begin with, it must be stated that this blogger has no expertise whatsoever in demography. Thus, what is presented here are logical arguments based on data available and known facts. First of all, the argument that lots of people left Lagos before the census seems quite credible. Estimates for the population of Lagos State range from between 10 million and 15 million—the United Nations put the year 2000 population of Lagos at 13.4 million. Thus, the census likely underestimated the population of Lagos, not deliberately, but because hundreds of thousands, and possibly a couple of million people left the city to their hometowns.

With regard to Kano State, it is nothing short of preposterous for people (both in the mainstream media and blogosphere) to argue that it is a sparsely populated state, without providing any evidence other than ethnic sentiments. Population estimates—both by the Nigerian government and National Geographic—have consistently shown that the Kano axis is the most densely populated in the North of the country. Despite the fact that the census figures reveal a similar absolute population value for both Kano and Lagos, Kano State is still much less densely populated than Lagos and some states in the South East of Nigeria.

In the figure below, the population density is plotted for each of the 36 states in Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory (popularly called Abuja) based on the 2006 census data. Population density is defined as the number of people per square kilometer. This blogger chooses to call it 'population perception' because it is what one perceives the population of a given place to be when on the ground.

Observe that Lagos dwarfs every other state, with almost 2700 people per square kilometer. States of the South East come next (Anambra and Imo States having almost 900 and 800 people per square kilometer, respectively). Kano State has a population density the same as that of Rivers State—470 people per square kilometer. And to no one's surprise, the states of the North of Nigeria have the least population density with just 42 people per square kilometer in Taraba State and 88 people per square kilometer in Kebbi State.

While some people (both in the mainstream media and the blogosphere) have argued that the North of Nigeria cannot be more populated than the South, few have bothered to rationalize the population perception figure. It confirms that the North is sparsely populated, but due to its larger land area, it has a higher absolute population figure. While I am not arguing that the census figures are immaculately correct, I dare to say that they cannot be dismissed as utter rubbish.

From a pictorial point of view, the images below show what population density (population perception) would look like for a select number of states using computer-generated aerial images of settlements. Each house represents 20 people, and each plane, a square kilometer. Observe how the population perception increases tremendously from Taraba State to Lagos State using this pictorial representation.

The so-called North makes up 79% of Nigeria's landmass, 21% being considered South. And according to the 2006 population figure, the North accounts for 53.6% of all people in Nigeria, while the South accounts for 46.4%. If one plays around with the figures, one sees that the census results reveal that, on average, for every 10 people found per square kilometer in the North, there would be 33 such people in the South.

Analysis: The 1991 Census

Like the 2006 Nigerian census, the 1991 census was also controversial. That time around though, the population of Nigeria was much smaller than expected—88.9 million. Yet, the population densities (or population perception) of the states tally quite well with the results obtained from the 2006 census, when a uniform national growth rate is taken into account. The Federal Capital Territory (Abuja) experienced the greatest growth rate of any state between 1991 and 2006—9.3% according to the Nigerian National Population Commission. This can largely be explained by mass migration. At the time of the 1991 census, Abuja was still a giant construction project, a month away from being declared the official capital of Nigeria.

Note that six additional states were created between 1991 (after the census) and 2006: Ebonyi, carved out of Enugu; Bayelsa, from Rivers; Ekiti, from Ondo; Zamfara, from Sokoto; Nassarawa, from Plateau and Gombe from Bauchi. Thus, the 1991 and 2006 figures can't simply be compared directly.

Conclusion

According to the Nigerian National Population Commission, the country's population is growing at an annual rate of 3.2%. The mainstream Nigerian media and the blogosphere have either largely overlooked this (save for a statement from the Nigerian president telling people that high population growth rates are detrimental to economic growth), or some have been so busy settling never-ending ethnic scores that they fail to see the disastrous consequence of such a growth rate.

All societies and nation states need to maintain a certain population growth rate (or at least keep their current population figures stable). In parts of Western Europe and in Japan, populations are (unfortunately) shrinking. Places like Germany and Italy will have noticeably fewer people half a century from now. In much of Africa though, population figures are rising.

While a growing population assures the older generation of the presence of young people to look after them and meet their needs, truth be told that Nigeria cannot afford a growth rate of 3.2% per annum. It is simply too high!

The blog Demography Matters puts this in clear perspective when it states that this shows:

"...clearly what an important problem continuing high fertility is. It is far from clear what is going to happen to Nigeria during the next few years, but one thing is sure, it won't be serious economic growth and development, however good the policy mix that is deployed (and the political instability that is almost inevitable makes good policy hard to expect). The preponderance of children will ensure that."

While Nigerians argue over whether Kano State does have more residents than Lagos State, they miss a vital and key issue: exceedingly high population growth, which literally wipes off the effect of any form of economic development. This is something all Nigerians need to think about and if the government is really serious about making life better for most people, it must fight not just corruption, but this unsustainable and potentially disastrous growth rate.

The shift from agrarian to manufacturing and service based societies should compel people (especially those in cities) to have fewer children. Agrarian societies of the past were largely dependent on the availability of manual labor. Thus, people needed to have as many kids as possible. Not in cities or towns of today, where people keep having lots of children, a large number of whom they cannot care for. At the current annual growth rate of 3.2%, Nigeria's population would double to 280 million in just 22 years time!

¹ C. Haub, Nigerian Census Surprises Experts, Population Today, Volume 20, Issue 6, June 1992, Page 3.

Another mail from a scammer part 2

Beware of such mails.

An email i recieved from a wealthy family wanting to do business with me
With all that amount of wealth they possess all there generations will never have to work.

Which has lead me to ask some qusetions and i need amswers.
Why do they want to do business with me?
With all that amount of money your generations don't need to work again.
I need answers please. Take your time and read this letter from a scammer based in Ivoor Coast but uses a land phone based in Rwanda.


From;Madam Nary Mesah
Tel;00225 08006902.

My Dear,

It is my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I and my Son Musa intend to establish in your country.Though I have not met with you before but I believe one has to risk confiding in succeed sometimes in life.
I can confide on you for the brighter future of my children since you are a human being like me. There is this huge amount of Fifteen Million five hundred thousand united states dollars. ($15.500.000.00) which my late Husband kept for us with a Security Company here in Abidjan Cote D'ivoire before he was assasinated by unknown persons.Now I and my son Musa decided to invest these money in your country or anywhere safe enough for security and political reasons.

We want you to help us claim and retrieve these fund from the Security company and transfer it into your personal account in your country for investment purposes in your country in these areas:
1). Telecommunication
2).The transport Industry
3). Five Star Hotel
4). Tourisem

If you can be of an assistance to us we will be pleased to offer to you 10% Of the total fund. You can call my son Musa for more explanation on this number: 00225 0800 6902.
I await your soonest response.

Respectfully yours,

Mrs Nary Mesah.PLEASE DO REPLY ME WITH THIS PRIVATE MAIL: narymesah@aklan.com

Football mad...

An Argentinian teenager is suing a River Plate-supporting tattooist who inked a big penis on his back instead of the Boca Juniors logo he asked for. "I could not see what he was tattooing because he didn't have a mirror. I only saw it when I got home and showed it to my parents," sobbed the unfortunate young man.

When shall i see my home

Oh my home.Oh our home. When shall i see my home×2? I will never forget my home.It's sounds like a song but not in a go-slow in Naija,is like you are in diaspora and longing to see your home. This was a journey i took and i was not close to the borders yets...

Buses,okada men and molue drivers are the pilots,while conductors are co-pilots. while the police men and maja maja will be emigration officers... They will scan the airbus(molue) for country ban goods and illegal immigrants(one chance/armed robbers). As if that is not enough,you have to provide a valid travelling document(driving license) with a valid visa for every road block.

If your visa is not valid(bribe) they will delay your flight for another hour,while this issue is been resolved your visa fee has expired and you can apply for a new one. If you don't agree with the procedures,they might invite you to there emigration office(police station).At there office your application will be checked and results will be sudden,oga why you self no dey co-operate..

By this time your airbus(molue) is accumulating a parking fee at there office parking lot and your passengers are longing to see there home,with there access luggage on board and there will be fumings.

In the airbus (molue)there will be a range of class, market women,students,job seekers will be in second class and the well spoken and mannered are in business class. "Who are you talking to" yells a man in a tailored suit clutching a briefcase filled with fake document. Do you know who i am? Look at this useless man. Don't mind him he's nobody.

By this time the pilot(driver) has gotten clearance to to resume his flight. The passengers all exhausted and hungry will be longing for a hold up so they can buy some snacks from the road side stewards(hawkers),offering you the best food and valuable gadgets all tax free shopping on board...

Hey dem don steal my phone o, yells a man in the business class in a better voice. Who steal my phone if i no see me phone wahala go happen o. From the cockpit came a sound you are not allowed to have gsm on you on this flight because it can interfere with the navigation system.

Suddenly after the gsm issue has just been resolved we landed in a Vietcong's booby trap. It was an ambush and we where forced to break the journey.

There was a long silence and i could here a man chanting something in tongue. I thought we were been jacked till a heard a voice commanding everyone to get down. Get down before i count three,,,one,,two,teeree the airbus was deserted. I could hear screams, hey my luggage oh eh my Ghana must go. Jesu,jesus,jehovah,holy mother save me oh...Everyone called on is saviour but we where only in the hands of emigration officers(police men)

All they wanted was just a lift to the nearest bus stop
I nearly did it in my pants my legs were shaky
I am regretting this journey

I was not close to the borders yet neither was i on a BA flight to England. I know how they search Naijas this days and your documents are always spooky in there eyes. My encounter was even worse than a BA flight you have ever heard. Back to my flight home i hope to get home on time.

The congestion of Lagos traffic can be solved by implementing a policy of carpool ,time sharing and creation of other means of transportation.Lagos can have it's own tube,trams and train connections,also drainage system that will help solve it's traffic jams.
A new driving qualification for every car owner. Police will fine anyone that's break the driving rules and in case of bad driving licenses should be withdrawn.

There are no traffic boards or they are very few that has to be improved on. The driving standard should be improved and periodic checks should be carried out annually for used cars,new cars after four years..

The population of Lagos is alarming that it needs a better solution to his traffic problems,productive hours is lost daily in this hold ups. The police can't respond to a distress call and commuters spend more hours on the road than planed.

My next journey will be on camel.

Blacks are not attractive?

This is a subject that was been discussed on yahoo.Hope you will enjoy it.

It is often said that the victors are the ones who write history. Well what applies to history also applies to our collective sense of what is beautiful or fashionable. The refined noses, slender firm bodies, and ivory skin that you see ubiquitously appearing on all fashion magazines, that informs the population as to what is aesthetically pleasing, are images that are created by the rich and elite.

These rich and elite are at the stations in life that they are in because their white ancestry was successful over foreign nonwhite populations; both economically and militarily. Hence, they get to define the standards of what is acceptable and what is not. Naturally, it follows that they will formulate what we consider to be beautiful, after their own image. I will have to be honest with you.

Though I am cognizant of how they shape my opinions, I still can’t help but find white women, and women of Latin descent that conform to there physical ideal, to be the most attractive.

I don’t find black women attractive unless they are mixed and have Caucasian like bodies and facial features (i.e. Halley Berry). That goes to show you the power of the media. Posted by an anonymous

Naija man searching for his paradise.

A Naija man will always search for his paradise.Migrating till a finds a better place that suit him,a place he can adjust to easyly.Still writing about the top 10 things you must do,see or places you must see. I came up with an idea 10 places a Naija man must see,be or live. Here is a top 10 list i made up.

1. Amsterdam
2. Banjul
3. Canada
4. Eko
5. Ireland
6. London
7. Madrid
8. Mauritania
9. Houston and
10. Italo

Freetown to Bo town

Thus far in the unit, we have focused on the movements of Africans from Africa to other parts of the world. However, the movements between Africa and the rest of the world do not occur in only one direction. At several periods in history, Africans and people of Africa descent have migrated back to Africa. In this activity, you will learn about the return to Africa and the founding of the African countries of Sierra Leone and Liberia.[Map: Colonial Africa] The "back-to-Africa" migrations that resulted in the formation of these two countries came from highly organized efforts in the Nineteenth century on the part of Africans in the diaspora to return to Africa.
Africans in the Americas and Europe continued to return to live in Africa in somewhat smaller numbers throughout the twentieth century. For example, there were a number of African American missionaries who moved to Africa. Moreover, when African countries became independent in the 1960s and 1970s a number of African Americans and Africans in Britain immigrated to these newly independent African countries. Ghana, which became independent in 1957, was one of the most popular destinations for Africans from the diaspora. For example, Professor W.E.B. Du Bois, a very important African American scholar and civil rights leader, was among those who immigrated to Ghana in 1958. He remained in Ghana until his death in 1963.
Most recently, when South Africa became independent in 1994 after a long period of struggle against Apartheid, people of African heritage in the United States, Canada, and the West Indies moved to South Africa.
After you have read the information included in this section of the module, please read and respond to the questions and complete the activities at the end of the activity.
I. Resettling in Africa: Sierra Leone [Map: Sierra Leone , Info on Sierra Leone]
As we learned in Activity 4, many American slaves and slaves from other parts of the world came to London in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to find freedom. This group of blacks became the first to be resettled in Sierra Leone, a country in West Africa. Two main reasons explain why whites organized and financed the resettlement of blacks in Africa. First, the former slaves lived in poverty and were considered a social problem for the government. Second, a group of men who believed that slavery was wrong wanted to help create a free, black community in Africa.
An English botanist (a scientist who studies plants) had been to visit Sierra Leone to study its plant life, and sent back reports about the country to the English government. The reports said that the country would be good for farming, so the government decided that it should repatriate (return to the place of their birth) the former slaves to this country. Four hundred and eleven immigrants left England in February 1787 and arrived in Sierra Leone on May 14, 1787.
Sierra Leone, consequently, has a unique history. Most of Africa's 54 countries were colonies of European nation-states from the late 19th Century. Sierra Leone became a colony of Britain nearly 100 years earlier in the late 18th Century. This means that Sierra Leone became a colony of Britain just after the thirteen American colonies gained their independencefrom Britain.
Sierra Leone was also different in another way from other African colonies. Britain formed the colony to be a home for freed slaves from North America. The first freed slaves returned to Africa from Canada in 1787. In 1808, the British government outlawed the slave trade. In aneffort to stop the Atlantic slave trade, the British navy intercepted slave ships from Africa which were heading across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. The slaves freed from these ships were taken to Sierra Leone. Tens of thousands of freed slaves captured from slaveships or groups who returned from North America (many coming from the West Indies), settled in Sierra Leone during the 19th Century. Only one other African country was founded by freed slaves from the Americas, Liberia, a name taken from the word liberty, Sierra Leone's neighbor to the south.
If you have seen the movie Amistad, you may remember that at the end of the movie the slaves freed from the ship Amistad were sent to Sierra Leone.
Based on this information we can see why the capital city of this colony was called Freetown.
For most of the 19th Century, the colony of Sierra Leone was limited to the area along the coast and nearby hinterland. Hinterland refers to an area to the interior of the coast. Since the freed slaves came from many different parts of West Africa, North America and the WestIndies, they spoke different languages. In Sierra Leone, these settlers developed a new language based primarily on English but with many words and phrases from African languages. This language is called Krio. By the end of the 19th Century, the descendants of the freedslaves became known as the Creole community.
Although the freed slaves who settled in Sierra Leone played an important role in the history of the country, most Sierra Leoneans are descendants of ethnic groups that have lived there for hundreds of years. Long term inhabitants of a given area are called indigenous people. Native Americans are the indigenous population of the United States; the main indigenous ethnic groups in Sierra Leone are the Mende and the Temne. Both of these ethnic groups spread across the boundaries of Sierra Leone into neighboring Guinea and Liberia.
As you can imagine, relationships between the new immigrants from North America and the West Indies and the local Temne peoples, who lived in the coastal regions near Freetown, were not always good. They were educated and Christians and felt that they had an obligation to covert and "civilize" the indigenous peoples. The Temne, not surprisingly resisted efforts by the returning Africans to take control of the coastal areas that had belonged to them for many years.
Towards the end of the 19th Century, two important changes took place in Sierra Leone. First, British businesses and the British government became interested in expanding their control into the interior of the colony. Secondly, as a result of this expansion, many Temne and Mande peoples from the interior moved to Freetown and the coastal region.
British business companies were interested in taking advantage of agricultural and mineral resources offered by Sierra Leone. In the early part of the 20th Century, colonial officials encouraged the production of palm oil, cocoa beans (chocolate) and coffee. In the 1930s, diamonds mines were opened. Later bauxite (mineral from which aluminum is made) and rutile (gemstone) were found in deposits large enough to be mined. These raw materials became the basis of Sierra Leone's export economy. However, the vast majority of the people made theirliving as small scale farmers, growing rice, casava, and groundnuts (peanuts).
In the first century of colonial rule, the British allowed the Creole (freed-slave) community to participate in the administration of the colony. However, by the beginning of the 20th Century, as they expanded colonial rule into the interior, the British reduced political participation by Sierra Leoneans. The British colonialists, as they did elsewhere in West Africa, instituted a system of indirect rule. [See Module Seven B African History and Module Ten: African Politics] In this system, the colonialists appointed local chiefs and headmen to help them govern. While this system helped traditional rulers to maintain some of their power, it did not allow for the majority of Sierra Leoneans to participate in governing their own communities orcountry.
During the time of colonial rule, Christian mission societies began to build schools. Through these efforts, and with some support from the colonial government, a system of elementary and secondary schools was built in Sierra Leone. At independence in 1961, approximately onethird of the population was literate, could read and write in either English, Mende or Temne. These efforts were complimented by Islamic schools, which taught students to read the Q'uran (Moslem holy book) in Arabic. In spite of the low levels of school attendance, Sierra Leonehas a proud history of higher education. In 1827, Fourah Bay College was founded by the Church Missionary Society. This college was the first English-media college in all of West Africa. Indeed, for almost 100 years it was the only college in British governed West Africa which offered degrees. Students came to study at Fourah Bay from as far away as Nigeria and Ghana. On April 27, 1961, Sierra Leone gained its political independence after nearly 160 years of British rule. All of Sierra Leone's neighbors in West Africa also gained their political independence from either Britain or France between 1957 and 1962.

My Sex Post

This is my own response to the furore created over Overwhelmed Naija Babe's post. I'm doing this simply because I hate the hypocrisy that has trailed the original. To the people she tagged (those on her blogroll), I think you are all fucking cowards. You all visit her blog for fun, you all voted her in Taurean Minx's awards, and y'all are now leaving her to bear the brunt of religious nuts alone? Show her some support in real terms. Do the shyte.

1.) How old were you the first time? 17

2.) Name of your first? Ebo

3.) Good or Bad? Bad. Due to my inexperience, she made me feel like a wimp, and laughed at me a lot after that. Didn't go near another woman for a year after that.

4.) Name of the worst and why? Refer to previous response

5.) Name of the best and why? A girl known as Vivian. Whoever trained her did an excellent job.

6.) Weirdest place you ever had sex? Upstairs lecture theatre, Faculty of Social Sciences UNIBEN.

7.) Favourite Position: Missionary. I'm pretty conservative.

8.) Ever fake an orgasm? How? I'm a guy.

9.) Would you admit it if the person asked? Refer to above

10.) Favourite time of day to have sex? Conservative. Night time.

11.) Most times you have had sex in one day? There was this crazy girl I went out with in my UNIBEN days. There was a time she came over to visit. To make a foolish story short, I missed lectures for 2 days. Amebo people, I can't give her name. She's married now. Can' be held liable for someone else's divorce. I'm already heading for trouble on the ground of this post...

12.) Same person? Yes.

13.) Ever fantasize about someone other than the one you’re with? Yes. I was once in an embarrassing situation. Myself and U went on a date, and a girl I had a minor fantasy about came around. U caught me ogling her.

14.) Restrictions during sex? If I ever get back to this rather unfamiliar terrain of discussion, we might talk about that.

15.) Accessories? Au 2πr

16.) What? What?

17.) Done it in the rain? Shower


18.) Done it in a car? No

19.) Had a Threesome? No…. not interested


20.) Want to have sex now? No.

Tag all who read this. We have to show people that you can't impose your ideas on anyone. Convince them, yes. Impose? Never!

Top 100

As Nigerians we need to learn to look beyond oil and gas. Notice that of the top 100 paying companies in the world, not one is an oil and gas firm...

The list...

10 things a Naija must do before death

Walking in book store today,i say a book with things you must doe before you die. After interpreting does things i came with 10 things a Naija must do before they die...

1. Write a blog
2. Live in Lagos
3. Scam a mugu
4. Ride a flashy car
5. Live in the western world
6. Build a house in your village
7. Throw a larvish party at 50
8. Be born again before it's too late
9. Father enough children as you can
10. Be corrupt as you where before you go into politics

Europeans not christains anymore!

It is often said that the victors are the ones who will always write history. Well what applies to history will also applies to our collective sense of what is good or bad!Is the church dead? Probably when you will be reading this the church service will be over. Following news around the world it's seems the church is old fashioned. Churches and religious houses are been sold to business men for financial reasons in Europe.The churches deserted and neglected now night clubs,hotels,museums and sex attraction centers in Europe. As the former church goers are now too old or weak to occupy there ones shinning benches, In America homosexuality is tearing the church apart talk less of the congress! Churches are been divided and Bush locked in jihad (holy war) with the Muslims in the name of terrorism. Slavery that drove the African Americans into accepting Christianity was purported to divert there thoughts away from the devils that possessed them(colonial masters).Slavery,looting,raping in one hand and Christianity in the other.Back to Europe, Churches are now multifunctional also serves as grave yards and ceremonial venues for the elites and monarchs.The prayer clocks still louds but not been listened to! Sunday's are now shopping days with malls,attraction centers and markets filled with lots of people. Do they forget is Sunday? No, They've broken are from the God-in Dutch it's called "van god los" and they condemn Muslims for not doing same! Headscarf's are been banned and circumcision are been condemned! The practice of Homosexual is embraced and encourage. They call Muslims terrorist and result to the provocation of Islam while they brainwashed Africans and sniffed life out of it in the name of the lord. Back to Africa we where forced to accept Christianity,Islam,Judaism and all other artificial religions! Religion to me,goes with a race and it should not be exported or coaxed on other weaker cultures.The same churches that are exporting Christianity to China and other parts of Africa are been funded by the churches in Africa mostly, Churches in Africa are now miracle centers,they deliver you from unseen evils and economic failures most especially in Nigeria. Everyone is a man of God and the African roots are been discarded with scorns.African names and traditions are been lost, Pastors now fly commercial jets and cruise around in 4wheel drives drives.Church's are now personal properties and hereditary is allowed. Pastors are now been flown in from overseas for miracle seminars and the sheep's flock to see them.Expecting to delivered from there burdens and black forces always trying to pulling them down. Where this pastors from people barely don't know them but beceause they are white we tendend to like them, There are positive sides to it as well.What happened to our ancestors that where not coaxed to accept foreign religion and names? Are they in hell? I guess you won't fall for that. In the name of Christianity and quest for raw materials for there industry generations where been destroyed.You hear this in Nigeria if someone dies of malaria they say "na god give na hem dey take back". The mortality rate at birth between Africa and a developed world is big. Why is it so? Is religion or science the cause? We'got to figure things out ourselves and rediscover our selves, Too many examples to mention. Why don't we speak our or write with our mothers tongue? Why is an African religion not been accepted and recognised, Are we not holy? No western country teaches African language at there schools, Yet we embrace there culture,language,name and religion as been superior.Back to the Vatican city, why do Africans invite spiritual leader's from overseas to Africa? They can't better our lives,they can only add to the damage. What can the pope or imam do to better our lives? Africans have resorted to religion to exscape starvation and hunger, What we need is too work hard the more.Churches in the western world preaches about the community and fellowship while African churches preaches about salvation,heaven,hell and wealth, Nigerians have resorted to religion due to the lost of trust in the system, As you reading this Buddhism is encroaching Africa,Europe and America as well. The exportation of culture and religion goes forth. That's an African he will always prefer foreign culture and religion."A stronger culture and religion will always dominate weaker ones" Adebisi. But we can use our senses to determine our views and ideas. We are been brainwashed by the local TV,radio and media houses that we are weak. The media plays an instrumental position in shaping our views. Western TV and journals portrait Africans as lower than animals from CNN,BBC and there regional stations. A friend of mine stops using the cable!Growing up this kids will see Africans as been low and there views are been shaped.Once asked a friend if we were been colonised by the China,India or irak majority will stick to the religion that came with it. If Nigeria/Afrika was developed today the churches will loss it customers because they will be occuppied with jobs and careers.They will be enlightened and see religion this religions as been artificials and they will stick to there's. jus my thought's Goodnite

Blacks are not beatiful?

This is a subject that was been discussed on yahoo.Hope you will enjoy it.

It is often said that the victors are the ones who write history. Well what applies to history also applies to our collective sense of what is beautiful or fashionable. The refined noses, slender firm bodies, and ivory skin that you see ubiquitously appearing on all fashion magazines, that informs the population as to what is aesthetically pleasing, are images that are created by the rich and elite. These rich and elite are at the stations in life that they are in because their white ancestry was successful over foreign nonwhite populations; both economically and militarily. Hence, they get to define the standards of what is acceptable and what is not. Naturally, it follows that they will formulate what we consider to be beautiful, after their own image. I will have to be honest with you. Though I am cognizant of how they shape my opinions, I still can’t help but find white women, and women of Latin descent that conform to the Aryan physical ideal, to be the most attractive. I don’t find black women attractive unless they are mixed and have Caucasian like bodies and facial features (i.e. Halley Berry). That goes to show you the power of the media.
Posted by an anonymous

Mails from a scammer! updated daily

Best wishes !
On the second day of 2007 i placed an adverts on a classified ads site and the followings are the details.I was testing a site out that i placed an advert to check is functionality and the following (scam)emails i got from a buyer to be.
Me:(seller)Are u in need of xbox 360 20GB to replace your old xbox contact me for a good price
Law:(buyer)HELLO DEAR,that is a lovely item i will pay the sum of 70 GBP and extar 30 GBP for the item, for international postage,........ email me asap as will proceed the transaction.
Me:ok
Law:(buyer)Thanks for your mail, I live in United Kingdom but i'm currently on course in Germany, i want the item sent abroad to my son's schooling address below:
Me:(seller)OK. Just thinking loud! Why can't he buy an xbox in Germany and send it to his son and secondly Christmas is over.
Law:(buyer)I want to buy the item for him as a Christmas gift, i will make an immediate payment via Bank Transfer Or Pay pal, Which ever is convinet for you, pls send me your Pay pal Address or your Bank Details so that i can make the payment.
Me:(seller) want to read more? I will be posting my reply very soon!

Grrrr!!!

This is sick. I am so afraid to switch on the TV. Yes, he is executed and the chapter is over. Who wants to know the blow-by-blow account of the execution? Apparently people are curious and media outlets are more than happy to dish out.

One more thing – next time someone complains about how Palestinians were dancing on the streets after hearing 9/11 attack, I would remind them of dancing Americans and smiling reporters after Saddam’s execution!! Both are celebrations of death!!

And, FOX News has proved me right once again. Almost-convicted-liar Oliver North, disgraced former NY Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik and other hosts with saliva dripping from their mouth over Saddam’s execution video…!!!

Ok, enough – I can’t take this anymore…Where is my CD collection on classical music?
Peace.

Who do you blame?

I just got this in my email from a friend. Now who do you blame? You can't blame the fire service just yet, THE FIRE HAS NOT STARTED! Why are people going to fetch fuel just four days after hundreds died in a similar incident?

Its happening again! Just a few hours after the Abule Egba burst pipeline claimed hundreds of lives, there is another case of burst pipeline a few km away from the other incident. This time its at Ipaja. They are having a field day now as the place has not yet exploded. Some one please help!!! Now where is the fire service????

You can't cheat an honest man

This will make good reading of someone can get it through to Brian Ross...

I was reading through ebay’s forum this morning and was especially attracted to ebay scams from Nigeria. On the Internet today, the word “Nigeria” is almost always attached to scams, when e-commerce is involved. And why not? There has been too many tales of people being cheated of their money or goods, by such scammers. According to Wikipedia,

These scams have come to be associated by the western media with Nigeria due to the massive proliferation of such confidence tricks from that country since the early 1990s, as well as the reputation of the country for corruption.

419 doesn’t make this better either. Stories of hidden riches looking for people to help bank them abroad are the bait, and gullible/greedy westerners are victims.

Well, back to ebay. The experiences I read this morning were quite insightful. Someone using the alias, rickjforbes, while giving advice, said something that striked me: “You can’t cheat an honest man“. I believe this and understand it this way. The scam popularly refered to as 419 is basically an “advance fee fraud” that is based on the greediness of the “victim”. It would take a very dishonest person to fall victim.
All the variants of 419 listed on Wikipedia are based on the greediness/gullibility of the willing victim.

• Invitation to visit the country
• Credit card use through IP Relay
• Romance angle
• Auction overpayment, fake check
• Fake escrow
• Western Union scam
• Lottery scam
• Classified advertisement scams
• Escort scams
• Black money scam
• Rental scam
• Bulldog puppy scam

There are so many indications that such attractive offers are scams. Huge sums of money are almost always involved. For example, you receive an email or text message that you have won $20,000 in a lottery. You are then asked to send $1,505 as administrative fees or something like that. Now, you would clearly know whether you staked lottery or not. If you didn’t stake any lottery, the only reason you would expect to get something for nothing, is dishonesty.

I am not holding fort for scammers and never will. My point here is simple: You can’t cheat an honest man (or woman ).

When will we ever learn?

A small spark in an environment filled with volatile gases will cause a lot of deaths.


Oct 1998: At least 1,000 killed in Jesse, Delta State
Mar 2000: At least 50 killed in Abia State
Jul 2000: At least 300 killed in Warri
June 2003: At least 105 killed in Abia State
Sept 2004: At least 60 killed in Lagos
Dec 2004: At least 20 killed in Lagos
May 2006: At least 150 killed in Lagos

Now this: Pipeline blast in Lagos kills hundreds...

24 things we've learned from Nollywood

1. Every problem you have is spiritual.

2. In every romance movie, someone must die.

3. It is possible to hit a person without actually touching them!

4. Anyone who gets hit by a car dies immediately.

5. Poisoned food always tastes better.

6. The best way to make money is by visiting a 'Babalawo' and give an offering of a relative or close friend, sleep with an 'arizto' or join a cult. One movie I watched, a guy gave his mother's heart. Very disgusting.

7. One of a pair of twins (identical or not) is born evil.

8. There is never an end to your suffering, except through death!

9. With a pastor ... all things are possible.

10. A movie can be titled anything... such as:

*The boy is mine,

* Face me, I face you

*Two rats,

*Spanner

*Calculator

*Igala

*Ijele

*Igodo

*Igudu

*Shigidi

11. A movie has not started if at least one actor or actress has not 'shelled' or twisted her lips and rolled her eyeballs.

12. You are in love... you want to take your girl out, the best place you take her to is...

*Mr. Biggs/Tantalizers: where you'll most probably see an ex while
feeding each other.

*The beach: where it is imperative that you ride a donkey and carry her playfully.

*Or the best: take her to buy some new clothes

13. Rita Dominic is the main character of every new movie. There's no escaping her these days, be it she's a great actress, she's hard to avoid.

14. Gun shots and knock-outs sound the same!

15. Sometimes the title has absolutely nothing to do with the movie and other times, once you read the title and see the poster you know it all!!! (Also the soundtrack gives you a headache because it just narrates the whole story repeatedly - so much for suspense and intrigue!)

16. A love story has not been produced if it does not have one or two
of the following actresses-

* Stella Damascus Aboderin

* Stephanie Okereke

* Genevieve Nnaji

* Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde

* Rita Dominic

17. The police are extremely 'efficient' unlike their counterparts in
real life.

18. An actress can wear the same hairdo for more than a year and even
in longer flashbacks.

19. It is permissible to wear dark shades at night!

20. When you are shot in the chest, it really doesn't matter; your head will be bandaged! Same for your legs!

21. When advertising a movie, you really should shout because... people
are deaf?

22. When you are extremely poor, you will still be able to afford- very good furniture, T.V., but you won't be able to send your kids to school.

23. Your gateman must be inefficient and comical. He MUST dress like a retard, be rude to all your visitors and never mind his business.

24. My personal favorite- the bad guy either dies or gets caught by
none other than the police- LOL!!!!!

Many Sides of Yaradua by Mahmud Jega

Amidst the darkness shrouding our new "President to be", a friend forwarded this to me which I thought I ought to share....

Many sides of Yar’AduaBy Mahmud Jegammj...@yahoo.com

The fourth transformation in five decades of Nigerians’ understanding of the meaning of “Yar’adua” is in the offing. For many generations until the mid-1950s, Yar’adua was synonymous with the old Yar’aduwa quarters in Katsina town. But for 20 years from the mid-1950s, the name was most associated in Nigerians’ mind with Alhaji Musa Yar’adua, the Tafida and later Mutawallen Katsina, the powerful NPC chieftain who was Minister for Lagos Affairs in the First Republic. From 1976 until two weeks ago, most reference to Yar’adua in Nigerian politics and the news media referred to the late Major General Shehu Musa Yar’adua, Tafidan Katsina, Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters in 1976-79 and, more seriously, one of the greatest politicians to walk the Nigerian soil in 1988-97. Now, beginning from yesterday and for the foreseeable future, most references to Yar’adua would refer to Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’adua, Mutawallen Katsina, Governor of Katsina State until May next year and, most probably, President of the Federal Republic afterwards.
In the wake of yesterday’s rather efficient conclusion of the PDP national convention and his victory over 11 other aspirants in the first ballot, many Nigerians are likely to see Alhaji Umaru Yar’adua as a stooge, who was picked out of the blues, very late in the day, and was railroaded to the nomination with a combination of EFCC threats and other hard tackling of his opponents and other party chieftains. The corollary to that is that, if and when he makes it to the presidency, Yar’adua is expected to reign while Obasanjo and his greedy cabal continue to rule.
That is many people’s fear, but for me, having reported on the politics of the Yar’aduas in the last 15 years, the reality could turn out to be very different from the appearance. Many people like to think of Umaru Yar’adua only as General Shehu Yar’adua’s taciturn, soft-spoken, low profile junior brother. Certainly, it is doubtful if Malam Umaru could have achieved so much prominence in politics if he was not the son of Mutawalle Musa and the brother of Tafida Shehu. However, anyone who thinks of Umaru as a passive, pampered passenger on the bull-dozing Yar’adua political train in the last 5 decades has got another thing coming.
In the late 1970s, when General Shehu, as Chief of Staff, was busy meddling in NPN affairs and [according to Alhaji Umaru Dikko] was negotiating to become Shagari’s Defence Minister, Alhaji Umaru was a die-hard PRP supporter in the old Kaduna State, and he built up a strong personal following of his own among zealous PRP cadres. I know this for sure, because in 1990-91, my editors at Citizen Magazine sent me to Katsina many times to report on the heated SDP gubernatorial primaries and the subsequent elections. Unknown to many people outside Katsina, there was a lot of tension within the state SDP, caused by General Shehu seeking the presidency while Alhaji Umaru was seeking the governorship. While the party’s elders were more keen on the General’s presidential aspiration, the younger, rank-and-file members were much more keen on Alhaji Umaru’s guber ambition. They said if one of them must give up, it was the General who should give up. Most of them were old PRP men who couched their position in ideological terms, but their most important reason must had been that a governor is nearer to them than a president would be.
Besides, they told many stories about Alhaji Umaru’s extreme dynamism in politics. Unlike the General, who mostly operated in smoke-filled board rooms, Alhaji Umaru was a tireless grassroots mobiliser in those days, who easily outpaced all his coterie of zealous campaign workers. I reported in Citizen that time a story I picked up about how Umaru led one 72-hour non-stop operation to visit every hamlet in one remote corner of Katsina State. At about 4 o’clock in the morning on the third day, according to the late Alhaji Ali Ruwa, with the campaigners near collapse, they pleaded with Umaru to end the tour because the only hamlet they had not visited had only a dozen people. But the SDP candidate said he must visit it, and he ploughed through the sand in the night, alone, while the rest of the team sat down to rest. He had not slacked a bit by 1998, when PDP was formed. That year, I reported in the New Nigerian Weekly about the gruesome one-month operation leading to the formation of the K-34 organisation. Some of the participants told stories of how Umaru Yar’adua led them to visit almost every important political figure in any locality throughout Katsina’s 34 local governments, thousands of people in all, often going for days without sleep. In the end, he put together the powerful K-34, which teamed up with Alhaji Lawal Kaita’s PDM to form the state PDP, and to overwhelm it. An interesting coincidence in this story was that it was General Aliyu Mohamed Gusau who, not long after Abacha died in 1998, told Alhaji Umaru to prepare to reclaim the gubernatorial mandate that he controversially lost to NRC’s Alhaji Saidu Barda in 1991. There is no doubt that Yar’adua, not Barda, won that election. Don’t forget that the election petitions tribunals in 1992 admitted that the vote tally was falsified in one local government, corrected it and lowered Saidu Barda’s winning figure to only a few thousand. The only reason why the whole result was not upturned was because when Umaru’s lawyer Chief G.O.K. Ajayi applied to contest the results of two more local governments, the panel said he did not so apply before the deadline.In any case, a year later, I personally overheard two Katsina NRC chieftains arguing about who claims the credit for rigging Barda into power. At issue was Governor Barda’s heavy political dependence in those days on Alhaji Wada Nas. So one of the NRC men said, “Barda listens to Wada Nas more than us because he thinks it was Wada who rigged the elections in Funtua and earned victory for him. What he does not understand is that we were the ones who actually did the rigging in Funtua, not Wada”.
Last week, Umaru Yar’adua made a statement during a campaign visit to Damaturu. He quoted the Qur’an and said, “Allah gives power to whom He wants at the time He wants”. It is a favourite phrase of his. In the course of an interview in 2001, when I asked him about the 1991 elections, Umaru Yar’adua said, “In 1994, my daughter was admitted to the University of Maiduguri, so I took her to Maiduguri and stayed overnight in Alhaji Maina Ma’aji Lawan’s house. [Maina won election as governor of Borno in 1991, on SDP’s platform, the same time that Umaru was defeated]. Something happened in the house that day that made me to wake up in the middle of the night and offer two raka’ats’ special prayer to Allah, to thank Him for not allowing me to win the election of 1991”. What was it that he saw, Alhaji Umaru refused to say. Someone should ask him again before he disappears into the State House.

When he finally became governor of Katsina in 1999, Umaru Yar’adua promptly introduced his rather severe sense of humility, simplicity and openness to the state’s governance. I know, because in 2002, he hosted us to a dinner at the Government House. We were served plain white rice with two pieces of meat, and I could not help thinking that the food in my own house was tastier than the governor’s food. The following day, when I interviewed him for two hours at his official residence, there was power failure. To my surprise, no standby generator was started, and both the governor and myself were sweating profusely as we did the interview. At one point, Alhaji Umaru was so drenched in sweat that an aide handed him a handkerchief.
I therefore seized the opportunity to ask him why he had no generator, why he was seen at the Friday mosque praying under a tree and not inside the mosque, near the Emir of Katsina, why his food was not tasty, and why he was seen driving a car and stopping by the roadside to buy a cigarette. Alhaji Umaru gazed at me closely, perhaps wondering if I was as foolish as I looked. Of course he knew me a bit, because in 1995, I was the editor of the Sentinel magazine when our publisher, General Shehu Yar’adua was arrested by Abacha. Umaru Yar’adua then took over overseeing the magazine for a few months, before it collapsed.
Anyway, he gave an answer that I reflected on for some time and which, when it was published, drew several remarks on the internet. He said, “You see, I have been praying under that tree for the last 18 years, and I am not about to change now just because I became the governor. As for the other things you mentioned, my concern is not really for myself, but for women and the children. I do not want them to get used to something, only to lose it some day. As for me, even if I wake up tomorrow and there are no cars or anything, I can adjust, but women and the children find it very difficult to adjust to such changes. This is what makes many public officers to steal money in order to be able to maintain such facilities for their wives and children when they are no more in office”.
He did many other things, such as forcing the state Finance Ministry to reveal its accounts on radio and television every month and to listen to public comments on it. In 1999, Umaru Yar’adua made public his declaration of assets; I remember he mentioned a house in Katsina and another in Kaduna that were both given to him by his senior brother.It was around that time, in August 1999, when we were part-time research assistants at the Shehu Yar’adua Centre, then based in Kaduna, that Malam Ibrahim Sheme told me the story of what happened when center’s director Jackie Farris gave him thecentre’s cheque book to take to Governor Yar’adua in Katsina with a request for him, as aco-signatory, to sign “two or three” blank cheques so we could be paid. It must had been traumatic for Alhaji Umaru, to be asked to sign blank cheques. He silently pushed away all the files on his desk, began to furiously sign the cheque leaves until he finished the whole book, then turned over the last leaf and said, “Is that all?” He then pushed the book back to Sheme. In Katsina in those days, Umaru Yar’adua also began the controversial policy of accumulating money in state government coffers before any contracts were awarded. For nearly a year into his rule, he did not initiate any projects, saying he must have the money in hand to pay first. Of course some people alleged that he was only accumulating the money so as to shore up Habib Bank’s reserves. When I interviewed him about this in 2002, he said it was because governments in Nigeria had greatly helped the spread of dishonesty in the society by not living up to their own obligations. He said if government signed a contract with a citizen, he did his own part of the bargain and government failed to pay him in time, it sent a very bad signal throughout the society for others to follow. Hence his resolve to award contracts only when he accumulates the money to pay. That is why, during this PDP campaign, I saw some Yar’adua ads saying KTSG has N6 billion in its coffers today.Still, when he finally started to embark on projects, he did some wonderful ones, especially in the educational sector. An NTI Kaduna review team that inspected educational facilities built in Katsina under Yar’adua flatly stated that they were amazed by what they saw and that it was the best in Northern Nigeria. That’s in one sector; I don’t know about any others. Yar’adua often has some down-to-earth explanations about projects he embarks on. In 2001, when he rebuilt one broken bridge without repairing the road that led to it, he said it was because all his predecessors said they could not repair that road because of the cost of doing the bridge. He therefore resolved, he said, to do the bridge, so that some future governor would have no excuse not to do the road!I am not sure that Alhaji Umaru Yar’adua has sustained the very high moral and ethicalstandards that he set for himself and for Katsina State nearly eight years ago. I have not been visiting or reporting from Katsina in recent years, and some of the stories coming out of there are not sweet. Let’s mention two. Many Katsinawa tell stories about some of the business moguls very close to Alhaji Umaru Yar’adua, and they are controversial, to say the least. He also got very negative publicity in recent weeks inthe manner he handled the state’s PDP governorship primaries. Yar’adua at firstsupported, then unceremoniously dumped Speaker Aminu Bello Masari, who is very similar to Alhaji Umaru in simplicity, humility and relative honesty. Was it an order from Obasanjo, as many people now allege?Anyway, when all is said and done, many Nigerians are not going to vote for Alhaji Umaru Yar’adua because of his own personal qualities and weaknesses, but according to their perception of whether he will be an Obasanjo front. Which is just as well, for when the Yorubas rose in unison and rejected Chief Obasanjo’s presidential aspiration in 1999, they did not do so because they thought the man had no qualities, but because Northerners selected him. Obasanjo did not turn out to be a Northern stooge. With luck, if Alhaji Umaru Yar’adua also makes it to the State House, he may not turn out to be an Obasanjo stooge.

European explorers or illegal immigrant? Choose 2006 AD

"Immigration is a phenomenon" colonel Ghaddafi. it's been since the evolution of species.Nature has played a significant role by aiding species to migrate in search of foodstuff,water and a habitable environment-supported by the food chain...
based on evolution theories that life began in Africa with the early occupants migrating to other parts of the world namely Asia and Europe.Back to the evolution studies it struck me that species migrated and sometimes they do return to there normal environment a time too many.
While Europeans discoverers and sailors where been sponsored by there state to explore and dominate the world from Australia,Amerika,Asia and covering Afrika.They where heroes in there days and in this present times.Which drew my attention to the Afrikan explorers with no names trying to discover Europe with there rikket boat,no navigation,no flag,no weapons and gun power on board.Still they are called illegal immigrants for exploring there world. Maybe they left too late many a times.
While Europe and Amerika are building trenches to keep explorers out of there territory. 5million illegal immigrants has settled in the US for the past five years in Europe a lesser figure. The 1st world citizens migrate at easy while they make it difficult for the 3rd world people.trenches will not solve immigration,but it might hinder it.
European union is expanding at a great speed meaning doors and borders will be opened to member states free for goods and people.When will the third world be included in the free trade and movement of people in the first world.A scheme could be set up to enable students,workers and others to be able to migrate with the availability to go back home and return with no barriers.Africans that do migrate fleeing wars,warlords and hungers should be giving a recognition if accepted in there country of destination.
The first world makes up to 40% of migration,China 20%,India10% and the rest divided among other nations.Immigration can be a lesser issue if proirity is been giving to it,instead of turning blind eyes to it. Immigration laws as been tightened in Europe and Amerika why they migrate at easy. The curses are far lesser than it's blessings,immigrants who migrate are ready to do odd jobs and chores not been occupied.Even flip burgers and do illegal jobs to own a daily bread.
Immigration should be accepted and made easy by implementing a standard.

Obasanjos profile

Net worth: Undeclared(stashed in various bank accounts) Source:farming Age:69 marital status:widower Hometown:Otta farm Education:war college

Rumoured to be very powerful in Nigeria and longest ruling president in Nigeria.Former prisoner at alagdon close and best friend to IBB.Future plans to rule Nigeria forever but he didn't succeed.

Said to love anything in skirt and loves corruption.With all he has looted he wished to end his career as a student.Lets hope he will not be probed in the future.Wanting to plant a friend as next president to minimise his chances of been investigated.Wil he return to his Otta farm or the classroom?

Helped by his best friend to jump bail and next to the seat of power.Later turned to worst we've ever had.He could be impeached very soon.Once born again but now stealing from Government and he's now on EFFCC list of most wanted.

Family

The earthly angels God gave us
People we Love, people we care for
they uphold us when we excel
but cover our shame when we fall,
They rejoice with us in time of Joy
and cry with us when we mourn

People who will be there when you need them
people to support you when you stumble
People we call brothers and sisters
people we are connected by blood
people that express unconditional love
People we sometimes ignore
people we provoke

Our family is not only our brothers and sisters
but those that truly love us for nothing in return
people who would never stab you in the back.
our friends and people we trust are a part of our family

The connective force between family members is nothing but LOVE
The Love expressed is the identification code of members
Our family is the first school we attended
the first playground we played on
As family members, it is our obligation to Love
and be Loved

28 Nigerians arrested for Drugs smugglng

On Sunday the Schiphol police and custom officials of the Hollands international airport has arrested 32 in connection to drugs smuggling.That's the largest amount ever on a plane,it's a record said the officials.28 Nigerians and the rest from Ghana,U.S.A and Liberia.All believed to detained at Schipol prison.

The drugs where found in there bodies and some in their baggage's,the substances where swallowed,which can only be detected by a scan.

It's was a joint operation said the authorities because It was a 100% control on the plane that's normally for planes coming from the South America countries.

The flight was from Casablanca and it's believed to be a new route for the gangs.

Also this week the Dutch police smashed a gang of eastern European gang which deals in drugs.The police recovered a pistol,7 kilos of hard drugs and €60,000 in contact cash in the building.

Why is IBB not in prison!

Why are we always voting criminals to office? Why are the ARMY generals and political criminals always ruling Nigeria? Why are we so gullible? Why do we sell our votes for a loaf of bread? Why is there hunger in NIGERIA? Why is there always gas scarcity? Why can't we fight for justice? Who killed Fela's motha,m.k.o,Abacha,Dele giwa to many to list, Why can't we reason? Nigerians why are we so religious? Is it because of our economy or unseen evil forces always trying to pulling us down.Why do we give all we have to our religious leaders? Why don't we start paying tax and we all can benefit from it instead of paying tithes?Why are the religious leaders living in Villa's and the worshippers in SHANTY TOWNS? Why do we always cast out evils? Do they really exist? I doubt!!!why don't we work harder and put our economy back on the rails? Why do embrace witchcraft instead of technology.If u are not rich why not work harder? Why is there no basic facilities in the country? Why do give titles to individuals? Why call some people OGA or MADAM? Why do we have low esteems? Why do we mishandle our children(flog)? Why must student be abused by their teachers? Why are we not developed? Why don't we've clean drinking water? Why are we so dependent on crude oil? why can't we industrialize our economy? Why is there no electricity? Why is the transportation so bad?If your business is not booming why not look for the cause? Instead seeing a bush doctor, If u're sick why not go visit a doctor.?Why do we always accuse our neigbhours of wicthcraft? why're we always jealous? Why do prefer the best in everything yet we don't have the resources!!!WHY don't we tell our leaders all to RESIGN,because they've failed us, Why is IBB not in PRISON? why must ATIKU succeed OBJ? Why is LAGOS so trashy? why do we have to import energy? why is the country not functioning? Why can't we change our mentality? OBJ has been around since THE BIAFRA ERA, Why can't we fight for a change? Why do always set a class(OGA)? Why do we've SLAVES in our homes(house GIRLS AND BOYS)? Why do kill each other in name of religion????Why can't OBJ be impeached? Why are there so many politicians not been investigated? Why don't divide NIGERIA? Why are there so many churches in LAGOS? Why where we colonized? Why did we sell our brothers to slavery? why do our leaders always stick to power? When is JESUS coming back? I need answers please .....

Things You Wouldn't Know Without Movies!!

-It is always possible to park directly outside any building you are visiting.

-A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.

-If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you bump into will know all the steps.

-Most laptop computers are powerful enough to override the communication systems of any invading alien civilization.

-It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts - your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.

-When a person is knocked unconscious by a blow to the head, they will never suffer a concussion or brain damage.

-No one involved in a car chase, hijacking, explosion, volcanic eruption or alien invasion will ever go into shock.

-Police Departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their total opposite.

-When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each other.

-You can always find a chainsaw when you need one.

-Any lock can be picked by a credit card or a paper clip in seconds, unless it''''s the door to a burning building with a child trapped inside.

-An electric fence, powerful enough to kill a dinosaur will cause no lasting damage to an eight-year-old child.

-Television news bulletins usually contain a story that affects you personally at that precise moment you turn the television on.

Coup de'tat in Lagos.Bolggers arrested!

Fellow Naijas!!! We the armed blogger's of the Federal republic of Nigeria has taken over the seat of power at Aso rock. Controversial writer Bloggers will be arrested or advise to seek political refuge in Ghana-resistance by Internet cafes and yahoo boys will be crushed. Protesters will be arrested and be jailed.ADC airlines can resume there operations and Molue drivers are to be blamed for the last plane crash..All potholes in Lagos and Ajegunle will be filled. Check points will be abolished and bribe will be a thing of the past. All bus stops and area boys will be abolished. Kerosene price will be cheaper and smuggling will be dealt with.Computer village will be destroyed and any resistance will be dealt with by the air force,army and Naija delta militant. More jobs will be provided for the jobless men. Agejunle will developed and be deleted from the list of third world countries.Tinubu will be removed from office by the Area boys and girls. Nepa will be sold to Cameroon and Nigeria will be importing oil from Congo. Hold ups will be a thing of the past,NYSC will be fused will be police and crime rate will be reduced. Teachers and doctors will get an increase in their salary's. House rent will be increased.Sleeping under the bridge will be legal and rents will be collected annually. Nigerian economy will be privatised and the Talibans and Ijaw militant will be investors. All men will be circumcised and Churches will be paying tax. There will be minimum of one church in a street...You are warned to join lagos blog to post your thought andbe faithfull to the blog. Election will be held soon..ssssssssssssss.Radio switches off.

Just to unwind

Should Nigeria be divided?

It was a big business when Afrika was occupied and colonised by the then western powers,the Queen of Engeland,all royal families in Europe,rich business men where all involved.The wealth was so enorm that the country was built on it. The wealth is still roaming in families and business....

The state of NIGERIA was founded for a selfish reason. It was almagated in 1914 solely to derive more raw materials and to generate customs duties for the benefit of Engeland by colonel Lugard!Nigeria was never a state dus and someday it will sieze to be.The failure of the state has been forseen by the then Governors and Administrators of the Lugardarian goverment.But Lugard saw a vaste amount of wealth and natural resources, Rubber,groundnut,timber and palm oil were shipped in millions of tons. The basic foundation of a successful state are Religion,ethnic and geographical settings, There has to be oneliness in a state or it will not stand. This are the rocks that Nigeria as a Nation lacks, We are not united as a state.All this has happened in the developed world and still to be developed.Western Europe,America,Asia, and still going on in Eastern Europe, Well Eriterea has succeed in breaking up form Ethiopia? Pakistan from India, Belguim from Holland and Taiwan is still on it, Ireland from Engeland, South korea form North korea, Spain from France, USA was also divided but was unified by the barrel of gun.Slovak rep form Czeh republic.Serbia from Montenegro republic. USSR splitted into 15 seperate states by the 1991 belavezha accords. United provinces of central America dissolved into 5 countries,namely El savador,Nicaragua,Costa Rica,Honduras and Guantamela after member states declared independence in 1841. Yugoslavia dissolved into 5 states in the nineties, Belguim is a two state (Vlaams and Belgie) adminsterd seperately but fused at the head as a state.The seperation of Nigeria is the beginning of the seperates states progress, The states could be administered and governed seperately or be unified via a central government, Igbos in BIAFRA.Hausa's ín the Fulaniland and the Yoruba's in the YORUBALAND.Minority ethnic clans will be governed and administered by it self and could be fused at the head as a state(practised in belguim).History will prove me right, At your service,

Does the detribalised Nigerian exist?

Let me do an Ayo here:
1. Who or what is a 'detribalised Nigerian'?
2, Does he/she exist?
3. Is it possible?
4. Is it necessary?
5. What makes a Nigerian 'detribalised'?
6. Can a 'tribalist' be at the same time a 'nationalist' or are they a contradiction in terms?
7. Why for instance is a 'nationalist' some kind of hero, whereas a 'tribalist' is seen negatively, as in some kind of bigot?
8. Can anyone here claim to be 'detribalised'?
9. Can you even know whether or not you are 'tribalistic', or should it be for others to say?
10. Do you find you naturally take sides with your 'tribesman', even when he/she is talking absolute nonsense - against 'those people'?
11. What, if any, are the advantages of being 'tribalistic'?
12. Do you have a moral right to cry 'racism!' if you are a rabid 'tribalist' yourself?


Obasanjo is an example of a “de-tribalised” Nigerian. He hates poor people from every corner of the country.

A resounding majority of Nigerians are “de-tribalised”. It is just that the minority are noisier. With their noise, they elevate ethnicity beyond its proper level in the scale of importance. This takes ethnic sentiments and other primordial attitudes out of their real contexts.

Most people that are prejudiced are just mainly ignorant and chronically incapable of reason. As soon as you apply logic to the “arguments” of prejudiced folks, those arguments collapse like a pack of cards. Therefore to be a “tribalist” requires the suspension of logic.

It is not possible to be a “tribalist” and a “nationalist”, unless the nation is made up of just one ethnic group. A “nationalist” theoretically puts the interests of the nation at the top of the agenda, while a “tribalist’s” main concern is his ethnic group. Pushing the agenda of one ethnic group excludes others and therefore opens the person up to charges of discriminatory behaviour. By extension, to champion the cause of one group involves a sort of ideology which entertains notions of supremacy of the ethnic group over others. It calls for the rallying of folks from that group under one banner and thrives on creating the sort of divisions that stoke ethnic hatred. So people that cover themselves in this garb usually evolve into fascists and bigots.

Of course, I can claim to be “de-tribalised”. I never subscribe to notions that I cannot back up with logic. I am not an ethnic chauvinist, not particularly for any lofty reasons, but because it doesn’t make sense.

“Tribalism”, just like racism, is a pattern of behaviours and attitudes. Sometimes the perpetrator is aware that he is a bigot, sometimes the bigotry is unconscious and unwitting. In the latter category, people at the receiving end would be aware of this before the perpetrator.

“Tribalists” and racists are birds of the same ignorant feather. So a “tribalist” has no moral standing to condemn a racist.

It is also pertinent to note that some of the most “de-tribalised” Nigerians are members of the ruling elite. For them ethnic division is just an instrument for controlling the populace.

Ignorance is not bliss

The Homerton Hospital and several thousand homes in Hackney are suffering a serious power cut today.
It started in the early hours.
The hospital is relying on its emergency generator... their spokeswoman told us they desperatly need to get the power back on.

I find it interesting that as at the time of my writing, none of the main stream media (BBC or Sky) are talking about this little issue, a blackout in London, which has been on for the last 7 hours now. It was the first thing I heard on the radio when I woke up this morning (I am addicted to LBC 97.3), and it is from them I heard it.

Now, the objective of this post is not to laugh at the British about a power cut, which is a rare enough event around here, but to use this incident to point out one of the failings in Nigerian society.

According to the LBC reporter who is covering the issue, the utility company responsible have been working feverishly to ensure the return of power. On another front, they are preparing themselves for the barrage of lawsuits that would surely follow as a result of blackout. There will definitely be clamour for compensation as a result of lost business, emotional trauma, loss of heating, and a lot of other things associated with lack of electricity in the 21st century.

Compare this to Naija.

NEPA (PHCN nowadays) will off the switch, no one will cough. Even when someone does cough and goes to the nearest NEPA office to make a complaint (maybe after a week of no power), the kind of treatment he would get would be rude at best, and it may take NEPA officials another 3 weeks to come and even look at the problem. And that is if you are lucky. If you are not, the neighbourhood would have to raise funds to either bribe NEPA, or find a good electrician to 'tap' into another area's power supply. The result of that would be extra load on Area B's power, and both neighbourhoods will suffer.

When NEPA finally turn on the light, you hear great whoops of 'Up NEPA!'.

Wich kain lyf bi dis?

Nigerians are on the average (and that includes the 'educated' people) too ignorant (or too scared, or too selfish) to realise that electricity is our right! You can sue NEPA for not doing their job, just as you can sue someone for defrauding you. Giving you a power bill once a month when they don't provide satisfactory power is tantamount to fraud. All it would probably take is one successful lawsuit, and NEPA will sit up. Problem is that the length (and cost) of a lawsuit makes that option quite unpalatable.

The announcement just came over the radio, the lights are back on.

Richest Nigerian

Prince Abakaliki Of Nigeria

Net Worth: $2.8 billion Source: Telecommunications Age: 37 Marital Status: Single Hometown: Lagos, Nigeria Education: Yaba College of Technology, B.S.
The first son of the late KING SANI ABAKALIKI, the former head of state of Nigeria; presently under protective custody as a political refugee. Despite his confinement and rumored physical and psychological torture, PRINCE ABAKALIKI does have a broadband Internet connection and keeps busy sending out countless e-mails to complete strangers who he hopes will cooperate with him in a mutual transaction. Specifically, PRINCE ABAKALIKI wants to get his hands on his share of his father's estate ($50.000.000 US DOLLARS) which has been deposited in a fund with an unnamed foreign security company. Once a trustworthy stranger has opened communications with PRINCE ABAKLIKI, he will send a LETTER OF AUTHORITY to them, so that they may clear the fund and invest the money for him. For their services, the lucky stranger will receive 30% of the $50.000.000 US DOLLARS. New member.

Christmas in Lagos

It's 5December and Santa Claus in coming to town and all the hustling and bustling of the of the festive season. I have to buy a gift for my girlfriend cos on that you exchange gifts and presents.It's a long tradition that Santa Claus comes from Spain to Holland/Vlaanderen and also U.S.A

White Christmas is always wanted cos it's so cosy when it's white at Christmas and you watch through the window too see it's snowing.And in Afrika it's hamattan which i like very much.It's makes dawn fogy and it's very cold you don't want to take your bath.
It's a folk that long long time ago a kind hearted man named Nicholas gives gifts to kids on his birth on the 5Th of December in the ancient Turkiye.After his death he was made a saint and the tradition began.
some I'll like to be in New york for the Xmas and new year and be part of the fiasco on time square.I don't really believe in Santa Claus but it gives a feeling of the festivity coming ahead.I've planned a New year eve party with two of my friends and they will be coming with their girlfriends.
The mean issue is to spend the night with my love ones around me and to reflect on the past year.I will make 2007 my year and work on my mistakes in 2006.

I'll be writing more about the festivy month and the coming new year.

Nigerian church

The rate that churches are been born in Nigeria is alarming,with a church or two on the same street.People has choosing to seek refuge in lord in face hardship,unemployment,unseen evil forces,witchcraf and economic failure.nairalandmarket is my our contribution to the economy,where you can place free adverts,cars,eletronics,gsm,cloths,general goods.The nigeria version of ebay.
Why can't we face our economic failure and work hard to fix our country,hard work is the root of success and not by sleeping nights at the church.Religion is a big business says BBC in Nigeria,with millions of worshippers and a lot of fortune and miracle seekers.
All i can say is that you can believe in what ever you want too but by giving all your money and time to going to church will not the situation.I have read books about millionaires and economist and they never mentioned religion.If you want to be financially liberated you've to work extra more.
I'm not against religion or what so ever.Look at the Europeans that brought us salvation they have deserted the religion.What makes us to be a church goer? When you fill you be oppressed by spiritual or physical forces.
Why do we believe some much in this nonsense spirituality that does not exist.

Nairalandmarket has come to offer solutions to joblessness and create market where you can sell ur goods and services.Nairalandmarket coming soon

Leaders of tomorrow

What are we doing to ensure that they have a bright future,tomorrow will surely come and the future looks blank.When i ever i see young kids on the news and around i get a feeling we're not doing enough.

Afrikan youths are exposed to difficulties growing up,as kid all they need is love and affection from there families.Child slavery should stop as i'm writing this blog.I read news online from BBc afrika and i gets to see pics of Afrikans kids with dreams.

The slum school won the picture award last year on BBC.I see future and determination in this kids.They've got no food,cloths,toys and other life neccesities and they are determined to be something in the future.Pilots,doctors,teachers,farmers and all profession you can imaging,they;ve dream't all about it.The future is around here and we've got to give them a chance to fullfil there dreams and ambitions.

why can't we change our mentality towards our youths and the young ones by preparing them for a better future.No more street kids,sexual explioted kids and stop child trafficking.

The youths are the leader of tomorrow

December1st 2006

World aids day? What does that means? it's a day hiv was first record in the united states.Exactly 25 years aids was discovered in the gay community in America.
Today it's eliminating the potentials manpowers in this fragile continent.I see BBc,cnn and all other world media's and all i see is disgusting and heart troubling.
40million people affected with aids and majority is from the third world country.I don't call Afrika third world but a continent undergoing difficult times.Afrika will be developed and powerfull someday,cos it's got the potentials,resources,manpower and Afrikan science and civilization will be explioted.

web teachings

You might sometimes wonder how web programma's go to work.You can know the tricks and know hows but a good knowledge can be very handy.
Swichting thru webpages use:alt+tab
Allowing popups:hold down the control key and klik on the popup or link.
Working with CSS has been cool,use css to change fonts,letter types,colours and headings on ur site and blogs.
HTML is as easy as ABC jus do some pratice and follow online courses.
CMS can be used to update pages,images and other updatings on the web,very handy and it's easy to use.
Xhtml is jus a little different from th HTML,all you need to do is close all tags/> and use small caps in ur text.

Britian loses millions to Nigerian scammers!

What a weekend ! I'm still experimenting with my xbox and it's really fun to have. I played a racing game,what's the name again.Last nite i went to the city for a walk cos i've been in doors for the whole week working on me Laptop and doing some renovations in me house.
woke up this morning and i turned to the News. Nigeria scammers milking Britons,Russia spy poisoned and Nigeria aviation industry escaped another air disaster.All to many for a weekend.I'll love to see Nigerians change there attitude of always seeing scamming as a way to riches.
despite all the millions of dollars been scammed there is no significant changes in the life of the citizens. All they do with the money is bogus living,driving Lexus and Benz.That will not change the economic situation of Nigeria.
We need industrialization,we need something solid to build our foundation on. The secret of success in life is hard work.No matter what u do,try to work harder cos you always rip the benefits. The more the scamming continues the more genuine business investors and trust in the Nigeria society dwindles.
Nigeria needs to make a new start with hard work on it's mind.

me website is coming!

me website is comin soon! I'm glad am hositing next week and lookin forward to getting and ftp password.I'll need an FTP totransfer me html code to the webserver.
The coming week i'll be downloadin lots and doin lts of computer work too. It's use to be an hobby now i want to earn money with it but it's going to be cool. I've got a lots of stuff to do on me site.I will be working on the layout and some HTML changes will be added.
It's sounds interesting and chalenging undertaking this stuffs,i hope it will be fruitful.Can't wait to see me site running,but lots of stuff need to be done.ME wibesite will be me first enterprise on the business sector and i'm optimist it will be succesful.
I jus postdated a mail to me webserver provider and i've not heard from them,it seems fishy. It's weekend and i'll probably wait till Monday. I was suppose to hang out with a friend tonight but me tired man,talk to him on msn or maybe skype him.

Bod Geldof

I'm sick of seein Afrikan's dyin and hungrin on Tv and on the dailies. can't we write bout Africans living a better life and having a good tyme. Bod Geldof ones said we hate see Afrikans living like us,shopping and and eating ice creams in the mall.
I barely see any positive on Afrika been positive,hunger,Aids,drought,warlords,dictators and other striken diseases like hurricane sweeping accross Afrika. I'm a lover of documentary's,me favourite tv station is the Gc.
Schools in Europe don't teach about what they did to Afrikans,400years of slavery is no crime. The berlin conference of 1884-1885 was to divide and rule Afrikans. They came with ships and guns. Genocide was been committed by Leopold forces in The Congo.
Afrikans where defenceless and there was no mercy. The Dutch Vice premier even praised their VOC ship that was responsible for slavery trade and forced handling. U can't talk about the Nazi's occupation nor the concentration camps,You could be jailed for refusing to acept this facts that where committed against the Europeans. While the ones against Afrika is history been taught alone in a dilapidated shanty scools in Afrika.
There are other Afrikans but the media has no interest in it. Afrikans leaving in a betta standard than the Europeans,common it doesn't sound cool. They prefer to see Afrikans in caves and huts riding on a tigers back...