Hooooooooray!

Page 98. At last!

This guy didn't make the list either.

Best Ogedegbe 1954-2009

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More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Ogedegbe
More Nigerian Footballers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Ogedegbe
The current national team: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria_national_football_team

I know some don't like Wiki, but it has the basics, plus linking to more data within a topic is seamless.

List is from 2004.  He hadn't made an impact yet. 

I remember Messi didn't even play at the 2006 World Cup.  Like Theo Walcott for England, he was just another much-talked about young footballer- at the time.  I still remember the cameras panning to him sitting there, watching helplessly as Argies fizzled out at the quarters against Germs.  Lol.  I remember one of my faves, Juan Roman (the Iceman ) Riquelme shooting a free kick that went to Ayala, leading to a goal, allowing Argies to even up with Germany and making it to Penalty Shots. . .  Anyway, that's just off the top of my head. I could have some facts wrong.

Riquelme took a corner kick and Ayala nodded it into the net before Blacck , Borowski and Klose combined for Germanys equalizer

Oh, yeah.  I remember now.  The Germs were desperate to equalize.  Klose is a dirty dirty player.  He kneed the Argie goalkeeper, Arbondazieri(sp?) in the kidney, and took the guy out of play, leading to them being able to equalize against the replacement goalkeeper.  I had that game on tape and watched it a few times too.  That's one thing about some strikers.  They're not just these pansies who are just so weak and just there to run away from hard-tackling defenders. They also go in for the kill, usually against the goalkeeper. 

That was also the match where you can clearly see what an utter butthead Mascherano is.  He ticked off the referee so much, you could see the ref making dubious calls against the Argies just cos of that brat's obnoxiousness.  Memorable match. 

And Germany's next match, the semi against Italy was tremendous. 

2006 World Cup was a good one, o jare.  2010 was a dud.

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Felt bad for Zidane and France though.

Sorry o.  Couldn't resist this odd picture of Messi. 




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The Iceman Cometh.  So, here's the footballer with ice water running through his veins, Juan Roman Riquelme, crazy Argie, and Boca Juniors player.

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More footy.  Here's a Letter To NYTimes Editor from an obviously insane impassioned football fanatic.   It's from several World Cups ago, but we're happy to deliver a replica, by virtue of the digital age.  We thank Al Gore for the gift of the internets sha. 

Soccer and Nationalism
Published: July 8, 1998

To the Editor:

Re ''Soccer Savagery'' (Op-Ed, July 2): Tunku Varadarajan's characterization of the reaction of the English toward David Beckam, the English soccer player who was given a red card expulsion in England's loss to Argentina in the World Cup, is not accurate. Poor Mr. Beckam will not really be lynched by an irate mob of pub owners and nannies. But the severity of the criticism against him is understandable, considering the importance of the event.

The World Cup is not only the most important sporting event in the world, it's the single most important world event, period. Reactions are sure to be heated, as passions run high. Journalists like Mr. Varadarajan detract from the benefits of historic meetings of nations on the playing field by playing on fears of nationalistic violence.

(anon.)
Washington, July 2, 1998 
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/08/opinion/l-soccer-and-nationalism-766089.html?ref=letters


Etc.
A warning to all other football fans about choosing your mates/spouse very very care-fu-lly.  Abo oro lan so fun omoluabi. . . 
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-475740.128.html

Mehn, I should be an advice columnist. lol.  ::I hope I didn't break them up. . . anyway, if I did, serves him right; imagine expecting good advice from NL. pfft.:: 
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-475740.128.html#msg6405378


Note to self: Give equal time to Argies' bitter rivals, Brasil, very soon. 

AjanleKoko:

Silly list. No Lionel Messi

mind you, it says 2004. by then who knows messi

U.S. Quietly Supplies Israel With Bunker-Busting Bombs
By THOM SHANKER
September 23, 2011

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has quietly supplied Israel with bombs capable of destroying buried targets, like terrorists’ arms caches or perhaps sites in Iran suspected of being part of that nation’s nuclear weapons program, American officials said Friday.

The administration’s transfer of bunker-busting bombs, first reported in an online article by Newsweek, began in 2009. American officials who confirmed the shipments spoke on the condition of anonymity, because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. They declined to comment on the number of bombs that had been supplied to Israel or on their capabilities.

Israel had sought this class of weapons for many years. In 2005, the Bush administration notified Congress of a pending transfer to Israel of bombs designed to destroy buried targets. “This proposed sale will contribute to the foreign policy and national security of the United States by helping to improve the security of a friendly country,” a news release from the Defense Security Cooperation Agency stated.

Subsequent notifications of plans to sell Israel different models of bunker-busting weapons were sent to Congress by the agency again in 2007 and 2008.

But the weapons were not given to Israel at the time. Pentagon officials were frustrated that Israel had transferred military technology to China. And there were deep concerns that if the United States supplied bunker-busting bombs to Israel, it might be viewed as having tacitly endorsed an attack on Iran.

In the interim, Israel developed its own bunker-busting bomb, officials said, but the American variants were viewed as more cost-effective.

George Little, the Pentagon press secretary, declined to comment on the reports of a weapons transfer. “We’re not going to comment on these press reports, but make no mistake about it: the United States is committed to the security of Israel and Israel’s ability to maintain its qualitative military edge,” Mr. Little said.

The issue is so sensitive that Israeli military officials asked the United States not to release documentation of the arms transfers, even if requested under the Freedom of Information Act, according to American officials.

The arms transfers could help President Obama’s political standing among Jewish voters. Israeli-American relations have been bruised by a variety of political and geopolitical matters, and efforts by the administration to strengthen the Israeli military may convince some voters that the president is sufficiently supportive of Israel.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/world/us-quietly-supplies-israel-with-bunker-busting-bombs.html?src=recg

Russian President Fires Finance Minister for Insubordination


The icy exchange between Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev, second from right, and Aleksei L. Kudrin, his finance minister, left, was broadcast on Russian television.

By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ
September 26, 2011

MOSCOW — President Dmitri A. Medvedev fired Russia’s longtime finance minister for insubordination on Monday after the two had an icy confrontation on television that revealed the fault lines in a government where disagreements are usually kept strictly under wraps.

The finance minister, Aleksei L. Kudrin, openly questioned the president’s competence in economic affairs the day before, announcing that he would quit rather than work for Mr. Medvedev, who is to become prime minister next year in a leadership swap with Vladimir V. Putin.

Mr. Kudrin has been an essential player for more than a decade on the governing team that was initially put together by Mr. Putin when he was president. Mr. Kudrin’s departure could be a major blow to the government at a time when Russia’s economic troubles are growing. Foreign investors say he is a cheerleader for privatization and other reforms and that his leadership has helped avert financial instability.

“If you think that you have different views from the president on the economic agenda, then you can write me a corresponding letter of resignation,” Mr. Medvedev told Mr. Kudrin at a televised meeting of officials in Dimitrovgrad, Russia, on the Volga River. “Answer here and now. Will you write the letter?”

Mr. Kudrin, looking stung by the president’s threat, responded that he would seek the advice of Mr. Putin, who is now the prime minister, before giving an answer.

“You can seek advice from whomever you want, including from the prime minister, but I am president for the moment, and I make these decisions myself,” Mr. Medvedev said. “You need to decide very quickly and give me an answer today.” He then added: “No one has abolished discipline and subordination.”

A few hours later, Mr. Medvedev’s press secretary announced that Mr. Kudrin had been dismissed on Mr. Putin’s recommendation. Under the Constitution, the prime minister must approve such dismissals.

The confrontation appeared to be an effort by Mr. Medvedev to reassert his authority two days after he announced that he would cede the presidency back to Mr. Putin after presidential elections in March that Mr. Putin is sure to win. Under that agreement, Mr. Medvedev would become prime minister. Some analysts have predicted that Mr. Medvedev will lose the confidence of top officials in the coming months as they move to align themselves with Mr. Putin after years of uncertainty over who was actually running the country.

Mr. Kudrin made his initial criticisms of Mr. Medvedev over the weekend in comments to reporters at a meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington. He called Mr. Medvedev’s military spending irresponsible and criticized him for failing to address deficits in the country’s pension fund.

“I do not see myself in the new government,” Mr. Kudrin said.

Analysts said that Mr. Kudrin had perhaps hoped to become prime minister himself after serving for more than a decade as finance minister.

Whatever his reasons for criticizing Mr. Medvedev and affirming his loyalty to Mr. Putin, Mr. Kudrin exposed rifts within the ruling elite that some analysts said could undermine the so-called ruling tandem that had long been presented to the public as inviolable.

“This is not a split, but it is a test of the system’s strength,” Aleksei Makarkin, a political analyst in Moscow, told the Interfax news agency. “If they end up fighting over this issue, then it will be a crisis situation of a political nature.”

Indeed, after Mr. Kudrin’s remarks were published by Russian news agencies, aides to the country’s top two leaders offered contradictory responses. Mr. Putin’s press secretary, Dmitri S. Peskov, told journalists that Mr. Kudrin would remain on Mr. Putin’s team. But Mr. Medvedev’s press secretary, Natalya Timakova, said the finance minister’s departure was under discussion.

“Anyone who doubts the course of the president or the government can openly appeal to me with a proposal,” Mr. Medvedev said at the meeting on Monday. “But I will put an end to any irresponsible chatter — up until May 7,” he said, referring to his last day in office.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/world/europe/dmitri-medvedev-fires-aleksei-kudrin-russian-finance-minister.html?ref=world

Hmmm.  Just thought it was a cool-sounding song.  Then, I read the lyrics.    

Used the artistes' original video because one of them, Brian Burton a/k/a Danger Mouse, had this to say about his work: "Musically, there is no one who has the career I want. That's why I have to use film directors as a model."

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWBG1j_flrg

BROKEN BELLS, "The High Road"

We're bound to wait all night
She's bound to run amok
Invested enough in it anyhow,
To each his own
The Garden is sorting out
She curls her lips on a bow
I don't know if you're dead or not
To anyone

Come on and get the minimum
Before you open up your eyes,
This army has so many heads
To analyze, 
Come on and get your overdose
Collect it at the borderline
And they want to get up in your head, 

[Chorus]
Cause they know and so do I
The high road is hard to find
A detour in your new life
Tell all of your friends goodbye

The dawn to end all nights
That's all we hoped it was
A break from the warfare in your house
To each his own, 
A soldier is bailing out
And curled his lips on the barrel
And I don't know if the dead can talk
To anyone, 

Come on and get the minimum
Before you open up your eyes
This army has so many hands
Are you one of us?
Come on and get your overdose
Collect it at the borderline
And they want to get up in your head

[Chorus]
Cause they know and so do I
The high road is hard to find
A detour to your new life
Tell all of your friends goodbye

It's too late to change your mind
You let laws be your guide,

It's too late to change your mind
You let laws be your guide,

It's too late to change your mind
You let laws be your guide,

It's too late to change your mind
You let laws be your guide, 

http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858810745/2/ASC/#73015974205

There's gonna be more Stevie Wonder before we're done here.   "Ribbon in the Sky," below.

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Hadn't seen the above video before, although I know the song, "Send One Your Love."  Is the pretty lady next to Stevie the one for whom he wrote all those 70s/80s love songs?  Great burst of creativity!  I know she looks nothing like Syreeta(sp?) the singer to whom he was married for 2 years. See below ("Lately". 

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No idea Stevie wrote and produced this Aretha song, "Until You Come Back To Me."

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTnCHP-9Wdo

While I procrastinate completing Aiye lyrics, I will repost my earlier transctiptions here.  It's not perfect, so wherever you spot mistakes, let me know.  I want to use the transcript later, so I would like it to be error-free. 

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Sikiru Ayinde Barrister, Omo Naijiria
(1a - Video courtesy of EgbaAlake)

Gbogbo yin ni mo ki ni ti'le to'ko oooo
Omo Naijiria mo ma n ki yin oo

Gbogbo yin ni mo ki ni ti'le to'ko
Omo Naijiria mo ma n ki yin oo

Mo bere lori Eko Fedira
Eko ile ogbon
Eko ile ola
Eko ile owo
Eko ile oro

L'abe Adeyimika Oba wa
Kabiyesi Oyekan Oba toto o
Baba Kolawole Oba baba e Oba

Eko aromisa legbe legbe
Legbe legbe
Legbe legbe
Aromisa legbe legbe
Eni to de'ko ti o ba gbon
Ko ni towun r'amerika o
Ko gba be lo si Washinton
Ko gba be re New York City o
Ko travel around the world
Ko nitowun o tun da ri bo wasile
Shaka lodaju po ni towun o tun legbon mo oo
Omo fedira mo ma n ki yin o

Mo gba be titi lo'de Mushin Ajina
Ilu Alhaji Fatayi o
Omo Irawo ni Mushin omo olola
Fatayi omo Alhaji - Haji Wahabi mi Irawo ni Mushin
Omo Alhaja Fatayi Alhaji mi olola
Oko Kikelomo omo tonton
Oko Shade Alhaja mi olola
Baba Fatimata mi o omo jeje

Omo o ni Mushin Ajina
Wo wo ye
O wo ye
O wo ye sese ni ba

Atonda da'sho fun eyan o tun dasho f'egungun
Atonda o ku didin ire
Subulade o ni je o ri'ja oun
Chairman managing director
Irawo Block Industry ti n be ni Ketu
Fatayi omo o ni Mushin Ajina de o
(Omo o ni Mushin Ajina de o)
Haji Londoner
(Omo o ni Mushin Ajina de o)
(Omo o ni Mushin Ajina de o)

Mo ma gba'be titi lo de Itire ile
L'abe Onitire o
Kabiyesi Oba baba e Oba
Omo Itire ni tile toko
E ma ba mi toju Counsellor o
Commissioner l'ola Buhari
Alade omo Abuleshowo

Mo gba be titi lo de Isolo
Labe Arolafade Oba wa
Kabiyesi Disu mi Akande o
Akanni Ade omo Faronbi o

Life patron fun Fuji Exponent
Awo Haji Commander Ayinde
Fuji Exponent Ayinde nko o
??Omo eja lo mi fun Amodu

Omo Onikoyi mate
Ikoyi mate ti o ni ku
Sa ma Onikoyi mape lemo loju ogun
Ilu Prince Faronbi mi
Alhaji Karimu omo sansan o
Oko Moriamo Oko Nimatalayi oko Abeke
Baba Afusatu mi o omo olola
Baba Muyideeni baba Adisa
Baba Yisa a mi o omo olola
Baba Sikiru mi o omo jeje

Ilu okola won Adibu
Nle oko Alhaja
Alhaja mi Adihun
Oko Alhaja Risikiatu
Oko Alhaja Muyikatu
Ashikeshora (lo??) mi olola o
Oko Lawon Adibu
Baba Gamodin baba Idaya
Omo oludegun erin o gojo loju ogun
Ala sasa Alasa redi ija

Omo onitosin Ajina de o
Omo oni Mushin Ajina de o
Bami toju Haji Fatayi Irawo oniMushin Ajina de

Oko Lawal Adibu omo'le o ton o se yaju
Nle omo le ana o se yaju o
Omo'le ana o se yaju
Ilu Haji Shakiru mi
Omo Aregbesola
Oko Alhaja Amotayo
Aja Londoner mi olola o

Nle Baba Bolanle
Omo Aregbeshola mi ni' Isolo o
Ni'solo sa ni'le omo olola
Awo Memudi ni Idimu
Memudi mi Alamu
Olohun funmi oko Ganiya
Baba Suleimana mi omo olola
Omo Bayidimu mi o eko Balonla
Awo Haji Commander Ayinde
Nle awo Pele mi Adisayere

Awo Jimmy Radio mi
Walijimo Ati mi olola
Omo Alimi ni omo jeje
Eda me je o ri ibaje laye

Omo Awori won ma ma ngba fe
(Omo Awori mo man ma gba fe o)
Awo Amao n Ghana
(Omo Awori won ma ma n gba fe o)
Awo New Observer
(Omo Awori won ma ma n gba fe o)

Elegbe mi mo kuro ni Isolo
Mo gbera o di Okiki
L'abe Okiki Alawun
Omo Adobishe Okuro o ran mo nise fayati
Oni ponpo da aja ajantan
Okiki jare dangan
Okiki jare gbe ji abi gbogbo bi jare jare
Awo Kabiyesi onigbakan o
Enigbakan gege
Kabiyesi Lawali Oba toto o

Mo gba be o d'Ota
Iganmoda omo afeleja
Afikoti yotun eda gbangban kanyaju ketu
Omo bo nile o sun a pe le nkole eni titi
Bi o ba j'oko ajale
Ki i se bi to le
Bi o ba j'oko ajale
Bo pe titi orun ama mu onile lo
Gbogbo won l'Ota mo man ki yin o
Ikomede afeleja
(Ikomode afeleja)
Ikomode afeleja
(Ikomode afeleja)
Afikosi yoju eda afi ponpo jon yoju Ketu
(Ikomode afeleja)

Titi lo de Ajileke
Adileke de Badagry o
L'abe Oba Akram
Kabiyesi mo shi fila pade o

Titi lo de Ipo Okiya
Ilu Bolarinwa mi o Chief Abioro yakubu Ishola
Alhaji Fetinlayi olola
Omo Alhaja mi olola
Oko Alhaja Muyiba Olola
Muyibatu mi Oyinbo Alasho wa ni
Baba Alhaja Lawin
Chairman managing director

(??) tan twice in Nigerian limited
Abioro managing director

Hotel Conc(??) ni Ido Iroko
Awo Olusegun omo Ogundele
Oko Karo o mi o omo olola

Awo ogunkorobiti korobiti
Ogun korobiti korobiti
Meta logun meta nire
Ogun onile wa majaja
Ogun onile ajeje eyan
Ogun olegagbana agegi non mu
Olusegun omo ogundele
General Manager mi o Ayinde . . .

~ Lyrics transcrbed by isale_gan2, 20101222 ~

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Sikiru Ayinde Barrister, Omo Naijiria, cont.
(1b - Video courtesy of EgbaAlake)

Omo egbado won ma n ma gbafe o
Omo egbado won ma n ma gbafe o
Omo egbado won ma n ma gbafe o
Omo egbado won ma n ma gbafe o

Ilaro ni mo gba de Aiyetoro o
Ilu Haji Lasisi
Omo Kuledo mi o Isola
Omo Adelakun mi o Isola
Oko Afusatu mi o oko Risi o
Lasisi omo Kuledo Aidi
Ogogo go ku ori
Oku oloye oku lejo
Oku leko jan da akano ku lejo
Won she bi kuku lo ku
Barrister Prince Awo Haji Commander mi Ayinde

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Mo gba be o di Ikorodu ile
L'abe Kabiyesi oba
Oba Oyekusi Salawu oba olola
Ayongunrin mi omolola
Haji Bayiti lahi mi ololola

N'Ikorodu eluku mede
Eluku mede mede
Eluku mede mede

Omo Elu
Omu Elu
Omo eluku me
Omo eluku me . . . de mede mi o
Kirumole wafeleja
Omo akeni gbo
Keru o ba ara ono
Omo asale jeje bi eni wipe ko r'obinrin ri
Age mo ni koriji koriji koriji
Koriji koriji koriji koriji koriji koriji ese
Ko sa kodu o pe meji
A be be luku mede
Ejoji ko e gbo do wo
Ejoji to ba foju wo oju e nla ti fo

Akinju Ijebu ti fo ko eja pena
E toju Bola Oyekuti mi olola
Awo ki telumi jewu mi olola

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Omo eluku mede
Mede
Mede mede mede
Mede
omo eluku mede
Mede
Mede mede mede
Mede
Nle omo akenigbo
Nigbo
Keru o ba ono
Ono
Omo asalejeje
Jeje
Bi eni pe ko r'obinrin ri
Rin ri
Ade mo ni kori ki ko ri ki ese
Ese
Kori ki ko ri ki ese
Ese
Ko sa ko du won pe meji
Meji
Aje felukumede
Mede
Ejoji kan o gbo do wo
Woo
Ejoji to ba bo ju woo
Woo
Oju e lan ti fo
Ti fo

Gbogbo omo Ikodu oriwu e to ju alhaja jarianatu mi olola
Jarinatu oyinbo alaso
E to ju aya baba ibeji
Baba loke mafi ku yawa e sa amin o

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Mo gba be o di Odogbolu
Odogbolu lo de Ikenne
Ilu Obafemi Awolowo o
Ko se lu baba Ikenne
Baba Olusegun Lawyer
Baba Oluwole Director Oyinbo Eleko
Omo Ikenne Ereke ni bi o gbe so
Omo afi wure foso . . .

~ Lyrics transcribed by isale_gan2, 20101222 ~

Just found more of Omo Naijiria album has been posted.  Here's the video; I'd like to find time to transcribe those lyrics as well, to complete that set.  Meanwhile, enjoy. 

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Another Nairalander posted the following list of Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Barrister's Music Catalogue.  Thank you, Olawonder! It will come in very handy.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-569456.128.html#msg7358156

"VOL.2 : ALAYINDE MADE O"
"VOL.4 : ITAN ANOBI RASAQ"
"VOL.5 : ALAYINDE NKIYIN"
"VOL.6 : ORI MI EWO NINSE" (1975)
"ORI MI EWO NINSE"
"VOL.7 : ORISA BI IYA O SI"
"VOL.10 : E JE K’AYINDE GBAIYE" (1977)
"VOL.11 : BISIMILAHI" (1977)
"VOL.12 : OMO NIGERIA" (1977)
"IYA LAJE OF LAGOS" (1978)
"AMUDA WA SUKURA" (1978)
"FUJI REGGAE SERIES 2" (1979)
"EYO NBO ANOBI" (1979)
"AWA O JA" (1979)
"FUJI DISCO" (1980)
"OKE AGBA" (1980)
"AIYE!" (1980)
"FAMILY PLANNING" (1981)
"SURU BABA IWA" (1981)
"ORE LOPE" (1981)
"E SINMI RASCALITY" (1982)
"IWA" (1982)
"ISE LOGUN ISE"(1982)
"EKU ODUN" (1982)
"IJO OLOMO" (1983)
"NIGERIA" (1983)
"LOVE" (1983)
"BARRY SPECIAL" (1983)
"MILITARY" (1984)
"APPRECIATION" (1984)
"FUJI VIBRATION ’84 ‘85" (1984)
"DESTINY" (1985)
"SUPERIORITY" (1985)
"FERTILIZER" (1986)
"OKIKI" (1986)
"AMERICA SECIAL" (1986)
"ILE AYE OGUN" (1987)
"MATURITY" (1987)
"BARRY WONDER" (1987)
"BARRY WONDERS @40" (1988)
"FUJI GARBAGE SERIES 1" (1988)
"FUJI GARBAGE SERIES Ⅱ" (1988)
"CURRENT AFFAIRS" (1989)
"FUJI GARBAGE SERIES Ⅲ" (1989)
"MUSIC EXTRAVAGANZA" (1990)
"FUJI NEW WAVES" (1991)
"FANTASIA FUJI" (1991)
"NEW FUJI GARBAGE" (1991) [UK version]
"DIMENSIONAL FUJI" (1993)
"THE TRUTH" (1994)
"PRECAUTION / CANADIAN FUJI" (1996)
"INFERNO" (1996)
"OLYMPICS ATLANTA ‘96" (1996)
"PROPHECY" (1998)
"ADIEU M.K.O ABIOLA" (1998)
"DEMOCRACY" (2000)
"MILLENNIUM STANZA" (2000)
"FUJI MISSILE" (2001)
"FUJI BOOSTER" (2001)
"REALITY" (2004)
"CONTROVERSY" (2004)
"PRECISION" (2004)
"WISDOM & CORRECTION"
"IMAGE & GRATITUDE"

Winding down to page 100, when thread will likely go on lockdown. . . Some more memories for you. 


E-BATTLES, SOME EPIC  
Isale v. DK
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.1312.html#msg7857666
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.1344.html#msg7857946
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.1504.html#msg7958741
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.1408.html#msg7877098

Isale v. PhysicsMHD/DUD/OPP* (*"u down with OPP? yeah u know me."
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.1184.html#msg7826399
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.1312.html#msg7852779
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.1728.html#msg8050779
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.1760.html#msg8060462

Physics v. Fstranger
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.1376.html#msg7867021

Fstranger v. NB
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.1536.html#msg7980095

Fstranger v. . . . Everybody Loves Fstranger
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.1312.html#msg7852709
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.1216.html#msg7847928
etc

Kilode v. Katsumoto
Katsumoto v. NB v. Kilode
NB vs. Kilode/Katsumoto/Isale/Wenger 
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.1920.html#msg8199490
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.1920.html#msg8200281
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.1952.html#msg8201613
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.1952.html#msg8201143

Isale v. Katsumoto
Pages 24-104 


OAM4J IS THE MOD WITH THE MOSTEST
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.2080.html#msg8266457


THERE ARE NO AJEBOTAS IN THIS ROOM, NO SIR!
ONLY AJEPAKIS ALLOWED WITHIN 10KM OF THIS THREAD!  
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.1600.html#msg7980979
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.1600.html#msg7981133
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.1600.html#msg7981204
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.1632.html#msg7981294
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.2016.html#msg8203886
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.2208.html#msg8300621

NOSTALGIA
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.2176.html#msg8299452


GRAND ENTRANCES
Ajanlewolfie
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.1792.html#msg8080135

Ola Olabiy
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.1920.html#msg8197101


Stopped at page 70.  I'll review remaining pages and add a few more links. 

Old song; dated video; a cameo of a popular U.S. TV actor whose name I can't remember- sitting behind the "it" girl, he offers her a drink or something but she was too enthralled with our singer.
Tony Terry, When I'm With You
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Even older song; very moving; thought it was such a romantic love song, until I read the words; still good.
Kenny Loggins, Heart to Heart
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A breezy pop song; heavy sampling of Tom Tom Club's big hit from way back.
Mariah Carey, Fantasy
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98 pages. this must be in the guiness book of record or someting  wagwan isale_gan2 whappun luv . speaking of tony terry. that brother could blow. saw him on TV recently. apparently anita baker, who didnt know him, heard the song somewhere, and said to herself, this song needs a video, who sang this song ?. she looked for him, found him, and then gave him $50,000 of her own cash to go make a video for the song. TRUE STORY

All right, my broda.  I could say so many things to you, but I will hold my peace until later - can't stick around until later anyway.

But, man, how hard was it for you to find this?  I shall return to print all your lame-o excuses.  https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-769937.32.html#msg9240570

Well, you can start reading from where you left off - page 6 or something and meticulously analyze every post - every single post. 

You have 2 pages to drop all the nuggets gems you promised.

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"yesterday my gf asked me; who is Bob Marley; now i'm single. Bob Forever"    
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The person that posted this should be   

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/world/american-strike-on-american-target-revives-contentious-constitutional-issue.html?ref=middleeast

Judging a Long, Deadly Reach

WASHINGTON — The killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen struck on Friday by a missile fired from a drone aircraft operated by his own government, instantly reignited a difficult debate over terrorism, civil liberties and the law.

For the Obama administration, Mr. Awlaki, 40, had joined the enemy in wartime, shifting from propaganda to an operational role in plots devised in Yemen by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula against the United States. Early last year, officials quietly decided that his actions justified making him a target for capture or death like any other Qaeda leader.

But a range of civil libertarians and Muslim-American advocates questioned how the government could take an American citizen’s life based on secret intelligence and without a trial. They said that killing him amounted to summary execution without the due process of law guaranteed by the Constitution.

That argument was pressed unsuccessfully in federal court last year by the American Civil Liberties Union and Mr. Awlaki’s father, Nasser al-Awlaki, a former agriculture minister and university chancellor in Yemen. A federal judge threw out their lawsuit, noting that the younger Mr. Awlaki had shown no interest in pursuing a claim in an American justice system he despised.

On Friday, Jameel Jaffer, the A.C.L.U.’s deputy legal director, said that the drone strike, which killed Mr. Awlaki and another American, Samir Khan, violated United States and international law. “As we’ve seen today, this is a program under which American citizens far from any battlefield can be executed by their own government without judicial process, and on the basis of standards and evidence that are kept secret not just from the public, but from the courts,” Mr. Jaffer said.

Robert M. Chesney, a law professor at the University of Texas who specializes in national security law, said he believed that the killings were legal. But he said it was “plenty controversial” among legal specialists, with experts on the left and on the libertarian right deeply opposed to such targeted killings of Americans.

The administration’s legal argument in the case of Mr. Awlaki appeared to have three elements. First, he posed an imminent threat to the lives of Americans, having participated in plots to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner in 2009 and to bomb two cargo planes last year. Second, he was fighting alongside the enemy in the armed conflict with Al Qaeda. And finally, in the chaos of Yemen, there was no feasible way to arrest him.

Critics noted that the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution states that no one shall be “deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” In ordinary circumstances, a trial and conviction would be required before government officials could order an execution.

No public legal process led to Mr. Awlaki’s becoming the first American citizen to be placed on the C.I.A.’s list of Qaeda-linked terrorists to be captured or killed. Officials said that every name added to the list underwent a careful, if secret, legal review. Because of Mr. Awlaki’s citizenship, the decision to add him to the target list was approved by the National Security Council as well.

The legal debate is complicated by the fact that precedents involve the military detention of Americans who sided with the enemy during World War II — not the killing of Americans in a highly unconventional war against terrorists.

“What’s tricky here is that many people don’t accept that this is a war,” Professor Chesney said. “I don’t think there has ever been a case quite like this.”

It was, of course, Mr. Awlaki’s very American qualities — his fluency in the language and culture of the country where he spent half his life — that made him such a dangerous radicalizing force.

The American-educated son of an American-educated Yemeni technocrat, Mr. Awlaki embodied the puzzle of radicalization: How could an American citizen reach the point of calling in eloquent English, via the megaphone of the Internet, for the mass murder of his fellow citizens?

His eerily calm religious justifications for violence, recycled across the Web for years, had a profound impact on a small number of young Muslims in the United States, Canada and Britain. In a score of plots since 2006, investigators discerned Mr. Awlaki as an important influence — his written, audio and video sermons stored on hard drives, e-mailed among conspirators and treated as a clerical imprimatur for their deeds.

Mr. Awlaki was born in 1971 in Las Cruces, N.M., where his father was a graduate student in agricultural science. He moved to Yemen with his parents at the age of 7 and attended school in the conservative Muslim country, where he later told friends he had been thrilled by tales of Yemeni men fighting the Russians in Afghanistan.

At 19, he was sent back to the United States to attend Colorado State University. He completed an engineering degree, but by then had discovered his knack for preaching. He became the imam in mosques in Denver, San Diego and the Virginia suburbs of Washington, and collections of his sermons became best sellers on CD. He showed a moderate face to the public; the nature of his contacts with at least two of the future Sept. 11 hijackers remains a mystery.

Though Mr. Awlaki denounced the Sept. 11 attacks, he was angered by the government investigations of Muslim organizations that followed. He moved to London in 2002 and eventually to Yemen, where he was imprisoned in 2006 and 2007.

After his release, he created an English-language Web site, blog and Facebook page that drew tens of thousands of visitors, putting out a message that grew steadily more approving of anti-Western violence. He first came to broad public attention in November 2009, after he praised as a hero Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army major accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood in Texas.

Unlike Osama bin Laden, whose convoluted Arabic-language Web messages struck many Western Muslims as foreign and strange, Mr. Awlaki’s unaccented English, sprinkled with colloquial Americanisms, often hit its mark. He leaves an ineradicable electronic legacy, on CD and on the Web, and for those drawn to jihad, his death in an American missile strike may give his story a new gloss of martyrdom. 

Related:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/world/middleeast/anwar-al-awlaki-is-killed-in-yemen.html?hp

buzugee:

98 pages. this must be in the guiness book of record or someting  wagwan isale_gan2 whappun luv . speaking of tony terry. that brother could blow. saw him on TV recently. apparently anita baker, who didnt know him, heard the song somewhere, and said to herself, this song needs a video, who sang this song ?. she looked for him, found him, and then gave him $50,000 of her own cash to go make a video for the song. TRUE STORY

That is why I like you, Badagry.  You know something about EVERY-THING!  And a lot about many things.    We should get along like. . .  a house on fire (?), but alas 

Have a good sabbath, my Broda.

P.S.
About Anita Baker. I remember watching a TV feature/interview, about a tour she was on, where she was feuding with her band, and just about everyone had been alienated by her.  I don't know if it was simply that she was just so demanding as an artiste, or just a personality flaw where she didn't get along with anyone.

One more thing on her, I could never find enough info about her past life.  I heard through word of mouth, an unverified rumour about how a previous marriage/relationship had ended (not the husband with whom she had 2 boys after she was already successful o).  Can't repeat it because I never saw this "charge" in the press anywhere.  But if you listen to her song, "Fairy Tales" and you've heard this rumour, it'll give you the heebie jeebies.    You also can't find too much biography on her in reputable places.  I respect that; she didn't seek the limelight much - just made great music. 

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BTW, ahead of COMPOSITIONS, I would consider RHYTHM OF LOVE her seminal work.  She went into a period of being a stay-at-home after that and was not heard from again for a loooong time after.  She later released a self-published album which was, frankly speaking, as a fan, very disappointing.  I just saw on Wiki that she released an album this year?  Will check that out today. 

Some sentiments similar to what you hear fron Naijas.  Anyway, I still favour a movement in the other direction.  Yes, it starts with me.  
I wonder who emigrates more - Naijas or Russkies? 


Putin’s Eye for Power Leads Some in Russia to Ponder Life Abroad
MOSCOW — “Time to shove off” is the name of a Web site for people who are fed up with life in Russia, and it is becoming a catchphrase for those dismayed by the newly announced plans of Vladimir V. Putin to keep a grip on power for perhaps two more terms as president.

“A year ago I told all my friends who were leaving that I would never do that, no way!” wrote a magazine editor named Yevgeniya Lobacheva in a posting on another Web site. “But I have only one life. Twelve years! I will be 43!”

Mr. Putin has already been in power for 12 years — the first eight as president, the past four as a prime minister with de facto executive power. Now, the prospect of what many Russians are already calling a “period of stagnation” has set off a new wave of declarations of nonallegiance to a nation where corruption and an inflexible top-down system are squeezing off options for change and personal advancement.

“I want to live in a country where I don’t need to break the rules to live in comfort,” said Stepan Chizhov, 29, who markets board games like Monopoly and is preparing to leave for Canada with his wife next summer.

“I just don’t want to have to fight the system,” Mr. Chizhov said. “I want the system to be a comfort to me. I want to live easily. And there’s no possibility in Russia in the next 20 years to follow the laws, follow the rules and live in comfort.”

Lev D. Gudkov, director of the Levada Center, a polling agency, said that about 50,000 people leave Russia every year and that this number could grow by 10,000 or 15,000 in the future.

“There will be a dark and depressive mood in society,” Mr. Gudkov said. “The situation is uncertain, there is a growth of anxiety, a feeling of stagnation and degradation.”

Some analysts are already calling this the sixth wave of Russian emigration — the first began in 1917 after the Bolshevik Revolution, and the most recent is considered to be the post-Soviet departures of the early 1990s.

In defining this sixth wave, Dmitri Oreshkin, a political scientist, said in an often-quoted article this year: “It’s basically just those who in the 1990s, because of their youth and innate optimism, believed that freedom would finally come and Russia would become a normal country. The Putin decade sobered them up.”

Twenty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, many in the educated middle class, who had hoped to be part of a maturing, modernizing society, feel themselves instead being tugged backward.

“This past haunts us,” said Andrei Zolotov Jr., deputy director of the international service of the RIA Novosti news agency, “this fear: what if they close the borders? That is one of the fears in the background.”

Indeed, it may be Russia’s history of emigration that gives rise to an ingrained emotional response to adversity: time to shove off.

Most people who say this do not really mean it, said Ilya Klishin, 24, a blogger and journalist, calling their remarks “depression multiplied by fatalism and driven to the absurd.”

In a blog post titled, “I will not leave,” he wrote: “How can I surrender my country to insane ghouls and watch from a safe distance as it dies?”

The departures are particularly damaging because they are sapping Russia of its most qualified people, experts say. Those who leave are three times more likely to have higher education than those who stay, Mr. Oreshkin said.

President Dmitri A. Medvedev, who is expected to swap places with Mr. Putin as prime minister after an election in March, has complained repeatedly about a brain drain and has said, without offering specifics, that the government should create “favorable conditions” for scientists and others to remain. . .

More here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/world/europe/putins-eye-for-power-leads-some-in-russia-to-ponder-life-abroad.html?ref=world

Interesting.  Just happened upon this.  Coincidentally, it's about an immigrant in New York. 

Stuck in Bed for 19 Months, at Hospital’s Expense



ON Jan. 4, 2010, Raymond Fok was changing trains on his way to kidney dialysis treatment when he collapsed on the Canal Street subway platform. Emergency medical technicians examined him and took him by ambulance to the nearest hospital, New York Downtown, near the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge. Workers in the emergency room recorded that Mr. Fok’s speech was slurred and that he was lurching from side to side when he walked.

“He was a very typical hemorrhagic stroke,” said Jeffrey Menkes, the hospital’s president. From the emergency room, the hospital admitted Mr. Fok to the intensive-care unit on the third floor, where workers tried to find out more about their patient — not just his medical history, but his insurance or Medicaid status, his address, his Social Security or taxpayer identification number, the location of family members.

Once his condition had stabilized, the hospital moved him to a regular room on the fifth floor, where staff members expected to treat him for 7 to 10 days before discharging him to a sub-acute-care center for rehabilitation, the usual regimen for stroke victims.

Nineteen months later, Mr. Fok, 58, greeted a reporter from his bed in Room 516, eager to have a visitor. In the previous year and a half, perhaps 100 or more patients had come and gone from the room’s other bed, but Mr. Fok had gone nowhere. “Yes, I remember you,” he said. “John, right?”

The price of his treatment: $1.4 million.

And who was paying for it?

“The government,” Mr. Fok guessed, though he was not sure. “The hospital is losing money.”

In a city with a large immigrant population, it is not rare for hospitals to have one or more patients who, for reasons unrelated to their medical condition, do not seem to leave. At Downtown, where a bed costs the hospital more than $2,000 a day, there are currently three long-term patients who no longer need acute care but cannot be discharged because they have nowhere to go. The hospital pays nearly all costs for these patients’ treatment. One man left recently after a stay of more than five years.

They are the forgotten people in the health care system — uninsured, usually undocumented, without resources and stuck in the system’s most expensive course of care. Some are abandoned by or estranged from relatives; some belong in rehabilitation centers, where care is much cheaper, but because of their immigration status they are not enrolled in Medicaid or Medicare, so the places will not take them. For hospitals, some of these patients, like Mr. Fok, come in as medical cases and then quickly become puzzles for detective work.

Mr. Fok released the hospital to discuss his treatment, which involved every department of the staff, from laundry and food services to psychiatric care, social work and community outreach.

“The first two or three months was a hard time,” Mr. Fok said from his hospital bed, the left side of his face still partially frozen from the stroke. He had a tattoo around one arm and two lumps on his bare leg where the dialysis needles removed and then returned his blood three times a week. He has spent 23 years in the United States, but his English remains rudimentary.

In the beginning, he said, “always I thought, how long before I go out? Because when you wake up in the same room every day it’s the same thing, ‘When I can get out?’ It’s always depressing. But day by day, day by day, you don’t need to worry about what will happen, because when you wake up it’s always the same room.”

RAYMOND FOK was born in Madagascar and grew up in Hong Kong, where he became a police officer. In 1988, he brought his wife and two young sons on what he told officials was a vacation in New York, and then never returned. Mr. Fok left some question about his reasons for overstaying the family’s tourist visas, repeating that he had feared Hong Kong’s approaching handover to the Chinese government, though at the time this was nine years away.

In New York he found a job at a vegetable market in Chinatown, earning $5 an hour to feed a family of four — and soon, with the birth of his daughter 18 years ago, five. A friend helped him rent an apartment in a heavily Chinese section of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and taught him to navigate the subways. But the friend refused to help him apply for permanent residence, Mr. Fok said.

Eventually he landed a job driving a truck for a Chinese-owned company in New Jersey, at $400 a week, off the books, with no insurance benefits, he said. He had a driver’s license and bought a car to commute.

“Make a life, pay rent, support a family,” he said. His wife worked in a laundry on Delancey Street. His sons went to school and later found jobs in bodegas or bagel shops. It was enough.

But driving was stressful, with no extra pay for overtime, and he lived on fatty foods consumed on the go. When his kidneys failed, an emergency-care provision in Medicaid paid for dialysis treatments, though he was otherwise ineligible for coverage.

Much more here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/nyregion/stuck-in-bed-for-19-months-at-hospitals-expense.html?hp
Reader Comment: "Hospital food for 18 months? This is a clear violation of his civil rights."

It's not great quality, but special cos it's such a rare thing.
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Stevie Wonder, "As"

As around the sun the earth knows she's revolving
And the rosebuds know to bloom in early May
Just as hate knows love's the cure
You can rest your mind assure
That I'll be loving you always
As now can't reveal the mystery of tomorrow
But in passing will grow older every day
Just as all is born is new
Do know what I say is true
That I'll be loving you always

(Until the rainbow burns the stars out in the sky)
ALWAYS
(Until the ocean covers every mountain high)
ALWAYS
(Until the dolphin flies and parrots live at sea)
ALWAYS
Until we dream of life and life becomes a dream

Did you know that true love asks for nothing
Her acceptance is the way we pay
Did you know that life has given love a guarantee
To last through forever and another day
Just as time knew to move on since the beginning
And the seasons know exactly when to change
Just as kindness knows no shame
Know through all your joy and pain
That I'll be loving you always
As today I know I'm living but tomorrow
Could make me the past but that I mustn't fear
For I'll know deep in my mind
The love of me I've left behind
Cause I'll be loving you always

(Until the day is night and night becomes the day)
ALWAYS
(Until the trees and seas just up and fly away)
ALWAYS
(Until the day that 8x8x8 is 4)
ALWAYS
(Until the day that is the day that are no more)
Did you know that you're loved by somebody?
(Until the day the earth starts turning right to left)
ALWAYS
(Until the earth just for the sun denies itself)
I'll be loving you forever
(Until dear Mother Nature says her work is through)
ALWAYS
(Until the day that you are me and I am you)
ALWAYS
(Until the rainbow burns the stars out in the sky)
ALWAYS

We all know sometimes lifes hates and troubles
Can make you wish you were born in another time and space
But you can bet you life times that and twice its double
That God knew exactly where he wanted you to be placed
So make sure when you say you're in it but not of it
You're not helping to make this earth a place sometimes called Hell
Change your words into truths and then change that truth into love
And maybe our children's grandchildren
And their great-great grandchildren will tell

I'll be loving you
Until the rainbow burns the stars out in the sky--Loving you
Until the ocean covers every mountain high--Loving you
Until the dolphin flies and parrots live at sea--Loving you
Until we dream of life and life becomes a dream--Be loving you
Until the day is night and night becomes the day--Loving you
Until the trees and seas up, up and fly away--Loving you
Until the day that 8x8x8x8 is 4--Loving you
Until the day that is the day that are no more--Loving you
Until the day the earth starts turning right to left--Be loving you
Until the earth just for the sun denies itself--Loving you
Until dear Mother Nature says her work is through--Loving you
Until the day that you are me and I am you
Now ain't that loving you
Until the rainbow burns the stars out in the sky
Ain't that loving you
Until the ocean covers every mountain high
And I've got to say always

(Until the dolphin flies and parrots live at sea)
ALWAYS
(Until we dream of life and life becomes a dream)
Um ALWAYS
(Until the day is night and night becomes the day)
ALWAYS
(Until the trees and seas just up and fly away)
ALWAYS
(Until the day that 8x8x8 is 4)
ALWAYS
(Until the day that is the day that are no more)
ALWAYS
(Until the day the earth starts turning right to left)
ALWAYS
(Until the earth just for the sun denies itself)
ALWAYS
(Until dear Mother Nature says her work is through)
ALWAYS

Until the day that you are me and I am you
Until the rainbow burns the stars out in the sky
Until the ocean covers every mountain high
Until the dolphin flies and parrots live at sea
Until we dream of life and life becomes a dream
Until the day is night and night becomes the day
Until the trees and seas just up and fly away
Until the day that 8x8x8 is 4
Until the day that is the day that are no more
Until the day the earth starts turning right to left
Until the earth just for the sun denies itself
Until dear Mother Nature says her work is through
Until the day that you are me and I am you

Well, I just have to say: They've ruined Google for me!  Thanks a lot! 

"what happened to google cached"

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web+Search/thread?tid=59fd52d9126b27b3&hl=en

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x793962

Where  is page 99 already?  It says "page 99" after each post I make, only to discover we're still on 98.  All those posts spam-bot won't release is what's doing it!    BTW, if you click on the NL "print" option, it not only displays all 99 pages on one screen, but it also shows all previously spam-botted posts.  I know this cos I had a few posts in my profile that are still not visible in this thread.  Thanks a lot Mrs. Spam-Bot!


Okay, so while I was researching a totally unrelated topic, this came up about Nairaland:

NairaBrains: Technology
Is Nairaland.com gradually dying?
September 30, 2011   
Before Now Nairaland was the most popular and trafficked site in Nigeria owned by a Nigerian (Seun) according to alexa. However over the past few months things have changed, Nairaland has lost its grip and is now trailing Vanguard News website. Though alexa ranking is largely incorrect, any frequent Nairaland user would know the site is no longer as before in terms of volume of interaction and comments.

What is the cause?
I think the rise of Facebook, 2go, Google Plus and other Social Networks has taken its toll on Nairaland. Nairaland has also refused to innovate. Seun may have strong reasons for refusing to add new features to Nairaland but when you don’t innovate, you stand a risk of going into extinct. Nothing is as constant as change, people want to use things that are easy, interactive, personalized and engaging hence the shift from Forums to Social Networks.

Despite the drop, Nairaland is still the most popular site when it comes to interaction, breaking news etc among Nigerian.

Many Nigerians still like Nairaland including me, Seun should find a way and develop a unique social Network based on pattern of interaction between the current users and run it parallel with current Nairaland site with option for users to opt into the new service. The new service should be structured in a way that current Nairaland features will still be prominent but increasing interactivity and socialization.

Its not going to be easy but I strongly think its necessary!

http://nairabrains.com/2011/09/is-nairaland-com-gradually-dying/

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Moved. Again! Oh well. I was kinda expecting it. This is def a record. I'll take it!

1) Foreign Affairs, to
2) Travel Section, to
3) Nairaland, to
4) GENERAL section, ♫ where he lays his gentle head ♪



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