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 Business / Re: Insult: MTN Locates West African Headquarters In Ghana by alias64: 10:37pm On Jan 11, 2010 |
Ghana as a sort of capital of Nigeria is an ideal the West would like - complaint and subservient work detail and huge customer base. Companies will continue to relocate to Ghana and rely on mass market Nigeria for profits if Nigerians do not hit them where it hurts, which is their profit margin. This MTN move and others like it are exploitative. They are a type of exploitation similar to oil companies hiring and training foreign workers at the expense of Nigerian youths and a replication (only now in Africa) of the transfer of technology fiasco which characterised trade between Africa and Europe last century.Nigerians most fight relocations like these ones, which reeks more of fashion than economic expedience, by boycotts and so on. |
| Politics / Re: Prof Wole Soyinka Speaks About Us Listing Of Nigeria On Terror List by alias64: 8:26pm On Jan 09, 2010 |
What a hypocrite. He has always dished the dirt on Nigeria to foreigners; he even has a foreign wife at home waiting to give him a hearty slap on the back. Wasn’t he the one advising Obama not to visit Nigeria? He attacks Nigeria all the time. He is a great Nigeria critic. The thing is, whether or not you believe his polemics are true or not, what is undeniable, is the fact few nationals are as openly critical of the land of their birth as Nigerians. The sad thing is that the Nigeria peoples’ oral traditions are rich with advices on how to live. Within our various culture is the knowledge that if you talk with little respect or caution about your family to outsiders, then do not be surprised when those outsiders feel at liberty to chook finger in your eyes or cuss your wife. |
| Politics / Re: Nigeria In The Top 15 Of List Of Failed States Index by alias64: 7:06pm On Jan 07, 2010 |
[b]The terror list bias against Nigeria should inform Nigerians by now to disregard such list. It was obvious before that the West act as one and use stereotypes and misinformation to segregate and control nations. They act like class bullies who form the IT group and use membership of the IT group to control and subjugate all others not in the group. If you displease the IT group then you go in their Vendetta / Ostracisation book and every other person suports them in order to be accepted or keep away from you in the hope that they do not enter the IT group's vendeta book. These lists are implements of control and mean nothing in real terms. Besides, as I began, after their lies about our terror status it would be silly to trust whatever the West states. They are dishonest. That list is no more valid than any list that you or I create. For instance, my list of duplicitous countries that also actively destabilise nations and indirectly contribute to mass deaths and starvation in Africa, has America in top ten position. [/b] |
| Politics / Re: Senate Gives Obama's Admin 7-day Utimatum To Remove Nigeria From The Black List by alias64: 6:57pm On Jan 06, 2010 |
paddy_lo Yes. However difficult the change in direction may be in the short term, including the culture shock, American action, I believe, leaves us little choice but to reconsider our alliances, the thing that America did, was bizarre and speaks only of their bad will towards Nigeria. You would think Obama formulated this particular policy with Ophra Winfrey over dinner. Any future Nigerian president, the party in power, think-tank, the whole moral and intellectual movement of the country should think beyond America. In seeking more links with China, we should not forget the neglected state of inter African trade. As for the senate action, I feel that was the right thing to do plus - although a standard procedure - it gave me a little satisfaction to hear that the American ambassador to Nigeria was invited for a dressing down discussion. |
| Politics / Re: The Dignity Of Nigerians Over Africans by alias64: 3:36am On Jan 02, 2010 |
All that coonish quaking at the boot, rolling of the eyes, sweating and shrieking, ‘America will destroy us!’, ‘this is the end of Nigeria!’, ‘kill housa, kill Yoruba, kill ibo!’ ‘whoa-is –me,’ ‘first its 419 now terrorism’, ‘Ohh Nigeria - haaaay!’ Kill your fellow blacks and tarnish the name of your forbears, spit on the land where your ancestors are buried all because of fear of potential difficulty getting into the conceited country America and yet, look, Nigeria is still standing and what’s more, it seems the boy-terrorist even spent less time in Nigeria airport than he did in Ghana airport. on this last point, bet you won't find Nigerians flooding Ghana website to insult them the way some of them flooded this one to gloat. |
| Politics / Re: The Dignity Of Nigerians Over Africans by alias64: 2:12pm On Jan 01, 2010 |
I wonder what the coonsish posters have to say for themselves now, looking back on their ridiculous rants and tirades. One poster even shrilled, [size=14pt]MEND WILL ATTACK THE NORTH ! [/size] lol Boy, what a sentiment. Presumably, a bunch of blacks should go fight and kill themselves over a bunch of over-fed, resources consuming, North Americans, who nearly got blown up by a naïve young man of Nigerian origin. Sure, a majority of the ranting posters may not have been Nigerians, but the people of Nigeria deserve and apology from the owners of this forum. This is because they failed in their duty to moderate or edit irresponsible comments |
| Politics / Re: Nairaland Quoted In Toronto Star, Canada ---congrat Seun & Nairalanders by alias64: 1:51pm On Jan 01, 2010 |
ElRazur What a joke. Anyway, here is a quote of an email I sent from their site. Quote Nairaland.com as stated in your report is not a news website. It is more or less a forum that is populated by bickering, insult trading and little intellectual debate. Well stated, ElRazur The success of this board, and I use the word guardedly, is unsurprising. One of the quickest ways to success for a black writer, creator, and intellectual is to take the prevailing assumptions about black people created in Europe and America and used them against other blacks. This board is in addition a repository, hosting racists, bigots and views of the type of people in whose financial inertest wars throughout Africa are started. This is not a board for Nigerians rather a board giving voice to none-black-foreigners to express vile views and sentiments based on age-old stereotypes and also gives voice to none-Nigerian blacks from Africa, Caribbean and America who’s potential are far less than those of Nigerians and their country. |
| Politics / Re: The Dignity Of Nigerians Over Africans by alias64: 2:11pm On Dec 28, 2009 |
People ought to know that Nigerians are dignified people and the subservient, coonish and tribal bigotry here does not represent the nature of the majority of the people in that country. 1 Like |
| Politics / The Dignity Of Nigerians Over Africans by alias64: 1:46pm On Dec 28, 2009 |
[b]Just been listening to the BBC on radio and the dignity of Abdulmutallab parents is a stark contrast to the coonish and rabid responses of the many Africans who come here to vent spleen. A BBC correspondent, sympathetically relayed the heartfelt feeling and words of the would-be-bomber’s parents to the listeners of the World Service. We learned, as is now generally known, that Abdulmutallab father grew concerned about his son’s behaviour and activities and alerted the security services of Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and America. Anyone listening could sense the great respect that apparently exists for the boy’s parents and Nigerians in general. I think this partially explains the furore and massive reporting that has followed this case (in other words, a general disbelief that a Nigerian would get up to this). The reporting on the radio and other media has also emphasised the relative youth of Abdulmutallab and often refer to him as “the boy” when, if you think about it, he is generally of the same age range as many of the other successful and unsuccessful bombers before him. Contrast this with the reporting and shabby treatment of the other failed British bombers of Somali and Ghanaian origin. Some miscellaneous Extracts from Abdulmutallab dignified community taken from routers web: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BQ1TE20091227 "Everyone knew the Mutallabs and the father is honest, generous, helpful and above all a prominent banker. I cannot see why his son should be involved in this act," Funtua resident Ibrahim Bello, 65, said, close to the Mutallab family home. Like other elders from the community, Bello said Abdulmutallab's schooling abroad meant he had been brought up outside the customs of northern Nigeria, a region with a history of moderate Sufi Islam. "My only advice to the elite is to allow their children to mingle with the children of the masses so that he will have some of the traditional morals and values that (the elder) Mutallab himself enjoyed," Bello told Reuters. [b]Anyway, thankfully no one died so my sympathy lies with Abdulmutallab’s parents I would not wish their experience on anyone. |
| Politics / Re: Nigerian Man Attempts To Detonate Explosive On Delta Flight In US by alias64: 5:49pm On Dec 26, 2009 |
alexis (m) Exactly! this should be the main concern and discreetly too. Nigeria’s image should not override the main priority, which is why people all over the world want to blow up America. |
| Politics / Re: Nigerian Man Attempts To Detonate Explosive On Delta Flight In US by alias64: 5:29pm On Dec 26, 2009 |
America is looking so frightened what a loss of prestige. America should dampen coverage of this news or they’ll simply encourage more terrorism. |
| Politics / Re: Nigerian Man Attempts To Detonate Explosive On Delta Flight In US by alias64: 5:17pm On Dec 26, 2009 |
Firstly, if this was indeed a terrorist attempt at blowing up an airline then like everyone here I’m very pleased he failed. But what a palaver! if I’m not mistaken, this is one of a number of such failed attempts of recent times. However, the coverage of this one far surpasses that of the others. The coverage could not have been greater if an alien spaceship suddenly materialised above the Whitehouse. I’m afraid this is looking like hysteria, worst like the west is frightened of Nigeria. them ‘fraid ‘o we ! Glad the boy’s dad is heading up there to sort things |
| Politics / Re: Mends Aaron Team Website Seeks For Inputs From Nigerians by alias64: 3:00pm On Dec 05, 2009 |
O-boy, are they going to get many foreign advice - both those disguised as Nigerians and not. It's a bit like some African village, of hundreds of years ago, full of muscular men, hippy women and glinting boys and girls on the beach waving happily at strange looking ships from Europe and America.  can just envisage the locusts of Africa (arms dealers) rubbing their hands in glee. How does one script a Russian ascent, let me see, ‘don’t do dialoguing, my African brothers and friends seek only the final solutions …government they do not talk ask the chechnyans. Come we have the perfect answer it cost very little and there is big rewards' |
| Car Talk / Re: Aba Ingenuity-people’s Creativity Rebuilds Banned Okada In Aba To Tricycles by alias64: 2:44pm On Dec 05, 2009 |
[img]https://www.nairaland.com/attachments/204463_Aba-tricycle_gifae567dec50b533b37acbec9bb1639c11 [/img] This and not 419 is why they hate Nigerians. [b]Absolutely brilliant. They should be encouraged. And as for deriding this thing and calling the creators criminals, young Nigerians have to be aware of one or two things. Here they are: Derisions of black people, their culture, their ways and the criticisms implicit within racists’ notion of them, are tools of foreign capitalism. Foreign capitalists – for want of a better term – use these stereotyping to turn blacks into consumers. A simple example, when the criticisms and derisions make you turn your back on Nigerian attire, you abandon those clothes and buy western clothes. In one fell swoop you deprive the Nigerian/African producers, manufactures of your clothes, and empower the Asians and European ones. Similarly, the economic propaganda that makes you hate your hair and skin colour turns you into a consumer of cosmetics produced by foreigners. Some might argue that this economic aspect is just a coincidently by-product of the ‘isms but I don’t think so. Actually as a kid in Nigeria it used to amaze me that those okada riders did not see the potential of tricyclising their motorbikes and building frames around them for grater passenger capacity. I was 16 years old and later, me an my elder brothers knocked up a crude model. The vehicle we produced was only a mock-up because the motor bike we got our hands on was not running in the first place. Our idea had been to go into manufacturing but our parents weren’t into entrepreneurship but wanted us to be doctors and lawyers. They refused to help financially.[/b] |
| Politics / Re: Yoruba Man Robs Igbo Man In Dagenham, London. by alias64: 8:49pm On Dec 04, 2009 |
Yoruba toto smell ?  Is this how low our men/women have sunk? Must be product of Ghana education because this is how they act. Where I come from only womanwraper/mamamen talk or make such statements. If women, then market-women. to all Yoruba people on the board sincerest apologies |
| Politics / Re: Nigerian Group To Facelift A Notorious Lagos Slum: by alias64: 2:58pm On Dec 03, 2009 |
Great. There should be more self-help stuff going on in Nigeria. In Jamaica there used to be something similar, only more regular – I think yearly - called Labour Day, origins in America the poor don’t have to live in degrading conditions |
| Romance / Re: What Is The Normal Height For A Nigerian Guy? by alias64: 5:35pm On Nov 30, 2009 |
That list is the biggest load of rubbish ever. I am 6ft flat and in Nigeria at school, most of the guys were taller than me. What’s more, Nigerian girls are tall. In that list, they even have the average Japanese and Vietnamese as taller than Nigerians what a laugh. I visited Vietnam and I felt as if I was in the land of the Lilliputians. What I find generally is that there often seem to be made up things about Nigeria and Nigerians its like nobody really wants to make the effort to find out about us firsthand and rather fall back on the negative things we say about ourselves to make sure anything on us has to be negative. |
| Politics / Re: The Psyche Of The Average Nigerian Under Scrutiny - pictures by alias64: 8:10pm On Nov 18, 2009 |
Poverty did not cause the filth depicted in the second picture. What caused the filth in the second picture is a break down in culture brought about by trying to provide the western values of the first picture to the masses. The poor do not have to live in filthy conditions.The so-called experts have a set of indicators used to determine poverty. These indicators are often revaluated but the last time I checked filthy conditions were not used as indicator to measure poverty. A poor man can starve in a clean environment ask the North Koreans. |
| Politics / Re: State Of Nigeria (in Pictures) by alias64: 4:02pm On Nov 18, 2009 |
[b]How ironic that the future of America is the Nigeria of today we cannot see. I watched a program not too long ago were a group of people reportedly some of the foremost thinkers in America put forward their vision of future America. The consensus was that individual, family and community self-sufficiency was the way to go. These experts in fields as divers as economics, biotechnology and architecture etc believed that environmental changes and resources issues would bring about a world whereby it was best in the interest of America to withdraw as far as possible from a reliance on international trade but concentrate on national trade. They visualised a world were individuals grew their own food, provided their own power, produced their own water by a verity of means such De-salianation, boreholes, rain water etc. They visualised the tearing down of many of these skyscrapers and the replacing of them with forests, other skyscrapers would be turned into futuristic farms managed by the communities that live in them. Not least because it could be beyond our ability but Nigeria shouldn’t be placing so much emphasis on National water supply to all homes and national electricity supply to all homes and national ambulance service and national this and national that. Perhaps like the America vision highlighted above it is not such a bad thing that people in Nigeria have sinkholes and have to find their way around things because of government incompetence but only bad because there has not been the vision to help make self-sufficiency work. Maybe we should not be looking to erect concrete jungles just superficially to be like America but looking to tear them down and instead concentrate on landscapes that incorporate buildings with the natural world. [/b] |
| Business / Re: Lagos Generates N14b Tax Monthly –fashola by alias64: 3:38pm On Nov 17, 2009 |
rethink
Too right. Exceptional people are rare. Therefore, you find that in discredited organisations normal people tend to look out for themselves, some want to grab what they can and then bale out before the rumoured collapse occurs. This could be a part of what is happening to the Nigeria polity, PLC (in other words, too many criticisms, which gives the impression of imminent disaster). Praises are not a soft option. Indeed, not only can praises be expensive but also they are psychologically necessary. Praises tend to tie individuals down to moral obligation to do well and what’s more contrary to fears that it might make such individuals complacent, the work they do increases because people who issue praises expect more. So, much Kudos to mister Fashiola |
| Politics / Re: State Of Nigeria (in Pictures) by alias64: 2:21pm On Nov 17, 2009 |
[size=18pt]US of A[/size]      Pasting images of vulnerable individuals is morally wrong, I believe. Apart from questions of decency and respect for human dignity there is the question whether we have the right, because of our ability to do so, to paste images without the permission of the individuals portrayed. Nevertheless, I post these because I feel that some people continue to abuse Nigerians and do not seem to understand that Nigerians are fundamentality offended. We are a people who value respect above almost every thing. Perhaps it is only by pasting images of oyibo - whom these posters appear to elevate to godhood - in undignified conditions that these shameless people will understand how Nigerians feel.  |
| Politics / Re: Militants Attack UNIPORT by alias64: 1:33pm On Nov 17, 2009 |
Most African wars begin abroad. Study CIA activists in South and Central America. |
| Politics / Re: State Of Nigeria (in Pictures) by alias64: 9:02pm On Nov 15, 2009 |
World Slum & Portholes Pics America:        Russia:      [img]http://englishrussia.com/forum/files/pothole_165.jpg [/img] Philippines    [img]http://aast.files./2007/08/payatas-hillside1.jpg[/img]      [img]http://www.earthlymagazine.com.ph/features/Slum.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.arrakeen.ch/asia2004/369%20%20Tondo.JPG[/img] ENGLAND: Dirty Homes:  [img]http://www.channel4.com/4homes/images/mb/Channel4/4homes/on-tv/how-clean-is-your-house/episode-information/s2-e11-mccorys-chesham/gallery/chesham-kitchen-before-lg.jpg [/img]  Potholes: [img]http://4.bp..com/_wUibFSecOQU/R6OcNhx4j8I/AAAAAAAAAEY/l6GHGJpEhuI/s400/pothole.jpg[/img]   [img]http://brucefong.files./2009/02/pothole.jpg[/img] ha,ha har |
| Politics / Re: Advantages Of Being A Nigerian by alias64: 4:40pm On Nov 14, 2009 |
Kobojunkie
If you were related to Kobojunkie or close to him wouldn’t you kill yourself? What a depressing individual, the only wonder is why, if he considers himself Nigerian and spends all day and night writing horrible things about Nigerians why he hasn’t toped himself. |
| Politics / Re: Advantages Of Being A Nigerian by alias64: 4:30pm On Nov 14, 2009 |
BADLEE Another Advantage, As opposed to paedophile blood |
| Politics / Re: All Diasporians Know Nothing About Nigeria, They Make Me Laugh When They Argue. by alias64: 1:51am On Nov 13, 2009 |
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| Politics / Re: All Diasporians Know Nothing About Nigeria, They Make Me Laugh When They Argue. by alias64: 1:37am On Nov 13, 2009 |
But dude, I am not the broadcasting my MISERIES Action speaks louder than words 12547 posts, not to mention 5 thousand more as Alias Radiant. You gotta get a life. Travel to Nigeria |
| Politics / Re: All Diasporians Know Nothing About Nigeria, They Make Me Laugh When They Argue. by alias64: 1:23am On Nov 13, 2009 |
yommyuk: Old boy! if you are unmarried, ve got two beautiful girls for u. Send one to Kobojunkie he probably spends 100% of the time watching for new posts. |
| Politics / Re: All Diasporians Know Nothing About Nigeria, They Make Me Laugh When They Argue. by alias64: 12:58am On Nov 13, 2009 |
Kobojunkie Posts: 12544 (15.858 per day) Proves my point  |
| Politics / Re: All Diasporians Know Nothing About Nigeria, They Make Me Laugh When They Argue. by alias64: 12:37am On Nov 13, 2009 |
[b]Life abroad is on the whole rubbish, lets be frank. It’s a blooming grey hell. If I had my life all over again I would live and die in Nigeria. It’s a pity that some people do not realise what life is all about, for instance they would bulk at the idea that five years spent in Nigeria is worth twenty years in many so-called developed world. When it comes down to it the most important thing I learned based on my experience in Europe is this, Nigeria/third world countries must think very carefully about what development means and what they should take or discard . For instance unless you’re very perceptive you would fail to understand that the aim of most so called developed countries is a captive and subjugated population. To achieve this, they first destroy your identity, steadily deprive you of your freedom and pacify you with promise of material things. The end game for most so called developed countries would be one were grey people are moved silently along by conveyor belt pavements, to and from work, to grey homes where they sit in front of immersive video games to inhabit colourful and stimulating virtual worlds similar to that which they have lost and which Nigeria still has. In the so-called developed world, it seems 90% of living involves watching. In Nigeria 90% of living involves participating physically. One of these days I’m going to compile a Nigerian version of the Russian Role Reversal game. [/b] |
| Politics / Re: Nigeria Pilgrims Riot In Saudi Arabia by alias64: 9:07pm On Nov 08, 2009 |
dtw_sola (m): That is what I thought until America attacked Iraq now I no longer believe they are fighting terror in Afghanistan. America is certainly spending billions if not trillions on war in distant places but it is debatable if they are fighting terror…more like spreading terror, actually. |
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