shymexx: Lmao... The guy isn't bankrupt - he still cruises around London in big whips with one of my big naija uncles... Heck, he's now a top don hustling everywhere and getting paid on the low...#LowKey

He might not be as rich as he was when he played for Chelsea, but the doozy is still richer than at least 80% of Nigerians...

His lifestyle and women messed him up but he's still getting paid...

Big ups to the great Celestine Babayaro of Chelsea - I started supporting Chelsea in Sec. because of him, Tony Andre Flo, Ruud Gullit, Zola, Le Saux, Dan Petrescu, Chris Sutton, Jimmy Flyod Hasselbaink, Leboeuf etc... Then we later added Vialli, Didier Deschamps, George Weah, Marcel Desailly etc..

Really you sure you were not supporting shooting stars of Ibadan Tony Andre Flo??

I know the writer and i must say I always feel she was more mentally stable than i was.... She seemed to possess the ability to camouflage her BPD .... I am a rolling stone to be honest, and around me are hail stones..When i say Nigeria is a mad house i know what i mean... No one can be mentally stable in a country like this

Please do you have Lenovo ThinkPad SL510 battery? Let me know... 08063461739

Jakumo the great! You have awoken from your hibernation to find out the world has moved faster than you anticipated post-hibernation... The Apala you so love and adore has been replaced by funny sounding steps like 'azonto' and 'etighi'.. We do not wear three piece traditional attires (Agbada) to parties anymore, one has to force his corpulent self into tight fitting jeans and skimpy shirts, lest we are spoken off as grandfathers while still in our prime. I plead with you to show some restraint to the rather demeaning riposte to your earlier comment from our younger friends... They have little patience for intelligence these days... I implore you to adapt quickly...

Please more importantly, always remember to pay your reverence to 'our' oga at the top! Welcome brother!

@peterodemwingie "Why is Keshi such an ass-hole? Leaving me out of the team is corruption in football... hahahaha.. I laugh for Nigerian football"...

4hrs later

@Peterodemwingie "So because he won the AFCON he can now decide to drop his best players... Nonsense...

8hrs later

@peterodemwingie "Will play for Russia instead... who needs African football anyway"

The best i can do is 50k sir... call me on 0806 346 17 3 9

I am willing to pay 48k tomorrow morning if you are willing.

If only they had sense enough to steal big, they would have had the option of a plea bargain with the market women! Nigerians learn...learn!! Always steal BIG.... Be stealing panties there!! Nonsense

There is nothing more repulsively cyclical than Nigerian politics... We have found a perfect way to ensure the relevance and sustenance of aged crimino-politicians! There seems to be no legitimate space for the youths within the system anymore, hence the pseudo-moronic outlook people like Lie-Baran Manku and Ren O'Mockery have to adorn to gain any relevance. With the way things are, if Anenih can find a magic potion to live another 300years he will still have a key political position by 2313AD

*coughs* Why always them?

The Mapster!! Becomerich the greatest Mapomeji alive... I greet thee!!! Your vocabulary seems to have added some flesh since the last time i graced your presence!! But your maps remain the same!!! There would be no Nairaland political section without you

Of course in no time, Recluse O'mockery would label Amanpour a misguided half-sister!

Uhmmm... Is it on these our bad roads he wants to 'roll' in his Bentley? I wish him luck though!

Been smoking since 2000 and honestly i have given up on conscious quitting. Nothing even scares me anymore, i watched that video and i felt like a cigarette! I really need to stop but i know it won't just happen overnight.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9804632/Tesco-beef-burgers-found-to-contain-29-horse-meat.html

Horse meat has been found in burgers on sale in British supermarkets. Tests on beef products sold in Tesco, Lidl, Aldi, Iceland and Dunnes Stores uncovered low levels of the animal’s DNA.
In Tesco Everyday Value Beef Burgers, horse meat accounted for approximately 29 per cent of the meat. The supermarket announced last night that it was removing all fresh and frozen burgers from sale immediately regardless if they had been found to contain horse meat.

Tim Smith, the group technical director of Tesco, said: “The presence of illegal meat in our products is extremely serious. Our customers have the right to expect that food they buy is produced to the highest standards.”

An investigation was carried out by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland. The Food Standards Agency, working with the Irish authorities, established that mainland Britain was part of the area affected.

More than a third (37 per cent) of the products tested in Ireland contained horse DNA, while the vast majority (85 per cent) also contained pig DNA.

Horse meat and pig DNA was found in 27 beef burger products. Another 31 foods, including cottage pies, beef curry pies and lasagnes, were analysed, with 21 testing positive for pig DNA.

Traces of horse DNA were also detected in batches of raw ingredients.

The findings raise concerns about “the traceability of meat ingredients and products entering the food chain”, investigators said. They are also likely to prove worrying to practising Jews and Muslims, who may have unwittingly eaten pig, which is forbidden in their culture.

The beef burgers containing horse DNA were produced by two processing plants in Ireland, Liffey Meats and Silvercrest Foods, and one plant in the UK, Dalepak Hambleton in North Yorkshire. They were on sale in Tesco, Dunnes Stores, Lidl, Aldi and Iceland.

In nine of the 10 beef burger samples, the levels of horse DNA were very low, however.

Prof Alan Reilly, the chief executive of the FSAI, said: “While there is a plausible explanation for the presence of pig DNA in these products, due to the fact that meat from different animals is processed in the same plants, there is no clear explanation for the presence of horse DNA in products emanating from meat plants that do not use horse meat.”

An FSA spokesman said: “The FSA has been made aware of the survey results in which equine DNA was identified in some beef burgers and is working with the Food Safety Authority in the Republic of Ireland to investigate the issue. However, at this stage it is not believed to be a food safety risk.

“We are aware that investigations are ongoing to ascertain how or why horse meat was used in the products.”

A spokesman for Aldi Ireland said they were moving Oakhurst Beef Burgers from sale. Only its Irish branches were affected.

Iceland, whose own branded quarter-pounder burgers were found to contain traces of horse meat said they would be 'working closely’ with suppliers to find out how it happened.

Liffey Meats said "minute traces of non-beef DNA" had been found in the company's beef burgers. It blamed the contamination on "imported ingredients".

A spokesman said: “We sincerely regret that any product produced by the Company would not conform to the highest specifications and sincerely apologise to our customers”.

Silvercrest, another company found to have supplied burgers containing horse meat said: "Although the products pose no risk to public health, Silvercrest has taken immediate action to isolate, withdraw and replace all suspect product.

"Silvercrest has never purchased or traded in equine product and has launched a full-scale investigation into two continental European third party suppliers who are the suspected source of the product in question.”

Nothing like a good 'ol Horse burger!!

http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/01/10/contrite-nigerian-don-recants-claims-on-hivaids/

The controversy trailing the alleged discovery of a herbal medicine capable of curing the dreaded HIV/AIDS by Nigerian academic, Prof. Isaiah Ibeh, Dean, School of Basic Medical Science of University of Benin (UNIBEN), took a twist Thursday, following the recanting of the claim by the professor.
Professor ISAIAH IBEH: RECANTS AIDS/HIV claims

Professor ISAIAH IBEH: RECANTS AIDS/HIV claims

In a five-paragraph statement made available to journalists in Benin City, Prof. Ibeh expressed regrets over the publication of his acclaimed discovery of a drug that could cure
HIV/AIDS, saying that the publication was a misrepresentation of what actually transpired.

“The true position is that some observations of our Research are preliminary and the research is still ongoing.

“I am very sorry for the embarrassment this has caused the University of Benin and Professional Colleagues, realizing that there are procedures of reporting such Scientific result,” he said.

Meanwhile, the UNIBEN management has further distanced itself from Prof. Ibeh in an official pronouncement.

A press statement signed by the University’s Public Relations Officer, Barr. Harrison Osarenren, said as a reputable institution, well rooted in the promotion of research and development, it considers the publicized claim an embarrassment, bearing in mind that there were
laid down procedures for disseminating academic breakthroughs.

The University while appreciating Prof. Ibeh’s efforts, pointed out that his procedure did not follow laid down protocol said, adding, “for the avoidance of doubt, the said claim by Prof. Ibeh is a research exercise which is still in its infancy stage and therefore, on-going.”

The UNIBEN management maintained that until all the appropriate scientific processes have been duly followed in the research, it could not make any pronouncement on the research.

The National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Thursday also debunked the claim, with its Director-General, Dr Paul Orhii, saying Ibeh’s claim was capable of misleading the public, especially those with the virus.

“There is no known treatment anywhere in the world now; no known cure; there are medicines that can contain HIV and AIDS but there is no known scientifically approved cure for HIV and AIDS.

“I want to categorically tell you, to avoid any doubt, make it abundantly clear to you that NAFDAC completely disassociates itself from the claims for a cure of HIV and AIDS made by Prof. Isaiah Ibeh of the University of Benin.

“The agency wishes to state that this herbal drug, which is claimed to have undergone a series of successful tests has never been presented to NAFDAC for evaluation of efficacy and safety.

“And as you know, we are the agency that has the mandate to make quality pronouncement on drugs that are to be used in Nigeria; we have never evaluated this drug.’’ ·

And yet again, HIV/AIDS has unanimously defeated its challenger in demeaning fashion!! Hip! Hip!! Hip!!! Hurray!!!!

http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/01/10/contrite-nigerian-don-recants-claims-on-hivaids/

The controversy trailing the alleged discovery of a herbal medicine capable of curing the dreaded HIV/AIDS by Nigerian academic, Prof. Isaiah Ibeh, Dean, School of Basic Medical Science of University of Benin (UNIBEN), took a twist Thursday, following the recanting of the claim by the professor.
Professor ISAIAH IBEH: RECANTS AIDS/HIV claims

Professor ISAIAH IBEH: RECANTS AIDS/HIV claims

In a five-paragraph statement made available to journalists in Benin City, Prof. Ibeh expressed regrets over the publication of his acclaimed discovery of a drug that could cure
HIV/AIDS, saying that the publication was a misrepresentation of what actually transpired.

“The true position is that some observations of our Research are preliminary and the research is still ongoing.

“I am very sorry for the embarrassment this has caused the University of Benin and Professional Colleagues, realizing that there are procedures of reporting such Scientific result,” he said.

Meanwhile, the UNIBEN management has further distanced itself from Prof. Ibeh in an official pronouncement.

A press statement signed by the University’s Public Relations Officer, Barr. Harrison Osarenren, said as a reputable institution, well rooted in the promotion of research and development, it considers the publicized claim an embarrassment, bearing in mind that there were
laid down procedures for disseminating academic breakthroughs.

The University while appreciating Prof. Ibeh’s efforts, pointed out that his procedure did not follow laid down protocol said, adding, “for the avoidance of doubt, the said claim by Prof. Ibeh is a research exercise which is still in its infancy stage and therefore, on-going.”

The UNIBEN management maintained that until all the appropriate scientific processes have been duly followed in the research, it could not make any pronouncement on the research.

The National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Thursday also debunked the claim, with its Director-General, Dr Paul Orhii, saying Ibeh’s claim was capable of misleading the public, especially those with the virus.

“There is no known treatment anywhere in the world now; no known cure; there are medicines that can contain HIV and AIDS but there is no known scientifically approved cure for HIV and AIDS.

“I want to categorically tell you, to avoid any doubt, make it abundantly clear to you that NAFDAC completely disassociates itself from the claims for a cure of HIV and AIDS made by Prof. Isaiah Ibeh of the University of Benin.

“The agency wishes to state that this herbal drug, which is claimed to have undergone a series of successful tests has never been presented to NAFDAC for evaluation of efficacy and safety.

“And as you know, we are the agency that has the mandate to make quality pronouncement on drugs that are to be used in Nigeria; we have never evaluated this drug.’’ ·

So here is a hearty cheer to HIV/AIDS for winning this one again!! Hip! Hip!! Hip!!! Hurayy!!!!!

Well he deserved it!

Not sure i have had any reason to be this active on a thread on Nairaland since the crash of the stockmarket in 2008...I am upset...It is 2:32am and i am assuring Chibuzor Eze that he would wish for death if he does not pay the Ilorin man's money by Thursday 27th Dec before 12:00pm. The good part is none of you greedy people would have the indignity of being scammed again. Please let us be wary of others like him. The only reason why i am taking this personal is because i spent almost 3 hours reading this, but gladly i have already disturbed others by my anger and Chibuzor or whatever his name is, will redden the earth. I am a man of my word
Merry Xmas guys

Really what news is there in this? We are at war and this is a feature of war!

Ile-Ife:
20-25 years each would have done justice.

That would have ben too much.. remember if the victims were not greedy they would not have fallen in the ditch! So lets be rational

on garri we stand! G-force forever

If really you spell this way then he was right to 'dumdb' you, and i sort of think he is coming to 'dumbd' you even more

deport them! Quickly

He should just DIE!

There I was in a car with four interesting individuals. It had been a long hot day and going back home was such a relief. I was sandwiched in the backseat of a very modest car, the Kia Picanto (a contraption designed as a cross between the local ‘keke NAPEP’ and Hitler’s Volkswagen Beetle). Counting the driver and passenger upfront, we were five inside the mobile matchbox. My fellow occupants all had one thing in common; they had become cynical about the chances of Nigeria ever being a nation one could be proud of.

At the wheel was Cynic A, who was greatly disillusioned about the organisational structure upon which Nigeria was built. According to him, he had grown weary of trying to change Nigeria and was only waiting for an opportunity to defect to the money-making political sector. Next to him was Cynic B, who came across like one who was never quite a believer in the Nigeria project. Unlike Cynic A, Cynic B was born a Cynic. Cynic C sat to my right and he seemed to echo what all the other cynics had to say; it appeared nothing quite interested him in the talk about reforming Nigeria. He seemed more interested in how much, in Naira terms, our beliefs would bring us. To my left sat ‘Cynimus Prime’, the biggest cynic of them all! He had this long-suffering look on his face that troubled the looker; the look of a man who was still upset with the Late Gen. Ojukwu for losing the 1967 Civil War. He was a man of very few words but when he spoke, I sensed the weight of his words make the car swerve. Yet, inside this potpourri of cynics was I, the unrepentant optimist.

Me: So what do you guys think of the Malian coup? I believe that the weakened government at the centre deserved what it got. It should have acted more decisively against the Touareg uprising in the North…

Cynic A: A coup is a coup and there is nothing good that can come out of it.

Me: Sometimes I wonder if a coup could happen in Nigeria, a revolutionary coup that would cleanse the land of all these mischievous politicians.

Cynic A: Be careful what you wish for, the class of people that currently have that capability to carry out a coup in Nigeria have all been corrupted, so there really would be no going forward, just a brutal retrogression.

Cynic B: I will only support a coup if I personally know the person carrying out the coup... at least I can get a top political position in the new government.

(All laugh except me and Cynimus Prime, who is scowling and looking at his blackberry.)

Cynimus Prime: So you want to tell me that you are still one of those who believe in the Nigerian dream? Do you have money? Don’t you know that to effect a proper change within the polity, or even carry out a revolution as you call it, you need good money? Don’t go and use hunger to kill your family because you want to be an activist o!

Cynic C: Abi o… What is important is the tummy! I am sure that Nigerian woman who tried importing half the Columbian heroin stock into the US understood the importance of the tummy.

Cynic B: Seriously, the best thing to do now is to enter into the big political parties. That is the only way we can effect any form of change in the polity. Me I cannot join sha, I have a son who calls me daddy.

Cynic A: The risk is that one would get corrupted by the system. I mean, take a look at Reuben Abati!

Cynimus Prime: And what is wrong with him? The man has done the right thing for his future. Everyone who has ever done any form of selfless act for this country has been ridiculed. I mean, can you even remember anybody we can truly call a national hero? This country grinds and destroys every iota of heroism in one. I believed in the struggle for a better Nigeria a long time ago, (looking straight at me) and I once had the kind of infantile optimism you have now, until the harsh realities of the peculiar Nigerian situation hit me hard. If you want to be Jack Bauer, suit yourself. When the betrayal and hunger come, I hope it won’t be too late.

Cynic C: You have said it all. Ol’ boy better face the truth and quit this “I will reform Nigeria by force”. Everybody in this car was once like you. Even the youth are no better now. Where is the group that was shouting about light? They have vanished and yet the light is still awful. Do you think they just decided to go underground by themselves? I suspect they were monetarily convinced to abandon their project.

Cynimus Prime: (once again looking at me) there are only two types of activists here in Nigeria; those that have been compromised, and those that have not been fortunate enough to be compromised. Clearly you belong to the latter group. Just keep making noise, you will have your shot at compromise.

At that point, I felt like a big hole had been uncovered in my heart. It was terrifying just hearing these young men (Not the PDP defined ‘youth’, but real young men in their 30’s) talk so gloomily about Nigeria. As I alighted from the vehicle, I knew my belief had been trampled upon. They had made me realise I was a broke noisemaker, and that Nigeria would most likely not change from my efforts. It was a disheartening experience. For a second, the evil side in me wished the oncoming BRT bus speeding like a maniac because it was on ‘its lane’ would take out these four ‘wicked’ people.


http://www.dailytimes.com.ng/opinion/cynical-quartet

I like the fact that they are having this physical conversation under a controlled environment. If you notice properly, the elderly man walking into the scene with his hand raised is a certified International street fighting technical adviser, and from he has a gold star from the Ibadan arm of NURTW. The lanky man in the middle is a proud member of the Dembe club of Boko Haram, i mean.,.,., what other credentials do you require from them to be assured that this was only a peaceful demonstration of democratic values in Nigeria?

Becomerich!!! After all these years you still have not changed!

Becomerich!!! After all these years you still have not changed!

i miss becomerich