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debosky:
what is so fantastic about RGU? I know people who've gone there for oil and gas engineering but had to go work in banks. . .I think that school is simply a business run to give the impression that an oil and gas qualification is your ticket to an oil job when its not true. It may be a good institution, but i don't think its fantastic and it probably isn't that high up in UK school rankings, past glory or not.

Sky Blue:
@4 Play, sorry but i have to jump in, apart from international students, college in the UK is free! Education in the UK is free except at University levels whereby loans are obtainable as well as grants and fees are subsidised. It is only about 2 years ago that Universities where allowed to charge what they wanted as fees from students whereby more support was then provided for students in higher loans.

darfur:
in the UK college is practically free. some places in scotland and even wales pay their citizens to go to college.

health in the UK is free for everyone. universal health care. in the us, many can't afford a serious illness that may need surgery. i have seen cases where people could not afford surgery and were left to die. it can't happen in the UK, b/c it is free.

when little george came to the white house he made some changes in education loans that made it hard for some people to take loans for education. these were things clinton had put in place. but b/c he needed money to sponsor a war he cut education funding.

Adebayor will open contract talks this week where he is expected to be offered a new-improved £80,000-a-week deal to stay in London. That would eclipse the £35,000-a-week deal the Togo international signed last year.

SeanT21:
5. Lower gas prices by taxing the oil companies

United have paid £200,000 for the 16-year-old prodigy, who will be offered £95,000 per year, plus all expenses paid for the youngster to fly home to Italy on a regular basis.

The move has been mooted for over a month now, with Petrucci being hailed as one of the most exciting young prospects in Italian football.

The striker will make the move in time for next season, but almost certainly will either be playing in the reserves or loaned out to gain first team experience.

Newspaper Il Romanista has blasted United for "stealing the youngster, contending that "in three or four years, [Petrucci] will be worth 100 times as much."

The news comes just days after 17-year-old Welsh midfielder Aaron Ramsey opted to sign for Arsenal, despite Manchester United having thought to have been at the head of the queue for his signature. Everton were the other club with a bid accepted who ended empty handed.

The Libyan leader, Muammar Gadafy, has reinforced his reputation for plain and provocative speaking by suggesting that Barack Obama is a black man with an "inferiority complex" and might behave "worse than whites" if he becomes president of the United States.

Gadafy's striking non-endorsement of the Democratic candidate focused in part on Obama's pledge of "unshakeable" support for Israel, which caused dismay, if not surprise, across the Arab and Great One worlds last week.

"Obama's announcement that a unified Jerusalem should be the eternal capital of Israel and that he will support it with $30bn during the next 10 years has disappointed our hopes and that of the Africans," Gadafy said in a speech marking the evacuation of the last US air base in Libya shortly after he seized power in a coup in 1969.

"The statements of our Kenyan brother of American nationality Obama on Jerusalem , show that he either ignores international politics and did not study the Middle East conflict or that it is a campaign lie."

Obama should promise to give Africa the money Washington allocates to Israel to "build a dam on the Congo river to supply the whole African continent with power", he said.

"We fear that Obama will feel that, because he is black with an inferiority complex, this will make him behave worse than the whites … This will be a tragedy," Gadafy said. "We tell him to be proud of himself as a black and feel that all Africa is behind him."

loyika:
Ritchboy

Forget 4play He usually takes a glass of "Bunkum Mixmax" before he logs on to Nairaland, so you have to sidestep some of his comments.

Cause only a clown would not know that AC Milan were after Adebayor.

And being that the Man Servant has retired from his clownish duties, we must blame his lapses on the medication/food drink he gulps on the regular.

GOONER 89

And unlike your Portugal Wimp, Ade has come out to categorically state that he isn't going anywhere Cool

don't be a cretin - Albelda had a POOR season and didn't play much at Valencia, Baraja is over the hill, of course they will be replaced by other players. Cesc is at par with Iniesta/Xavi and will probably be better than them, but due to their experience and the fact that they are still on form, they still get seniority over Fabregas. Are you saying the Fabregas of 2006 is the same as now? Or he hasn't improved and gotten better?

Where did I say he was better than Iniesta or Xavi? I said he is good enough for the first 11, it all depends on what formation the coach decides to play.But while on the subject, his role in the team is to create and score if he can, he did that for Spain - what else is required of him to be in the starting 11 I ask?

debosky:
shut up 4Play!

We all know its Aragones' selection and of course the 'seniority' factor responsible for Cesc's position on the bench. He is good enough to be in the starting line up, but the coach prefers the more experienced Iniesta+Xavi to be the creative hub with two strikers. A player who comes on and creates a goal and sccores another is obviously good enough for the starting 11, the key is the formation chosen by the coach.

and who the heck thinks he is better than Maradona and Pele combined ?

For a Barca side that has signed Seydou Keita for 18million or thereabouts, there is every possibility that they will want him to go into the first team immediately and thus deprive Yaya of a starting shirt. He is 'crucial' to Barca eh? Isn't Eto'o crucial? Isn't he being contemplated as a departure?

You also seem to ignore the fact that a new helmsman is in charge who may not like Yaya or his style of play, moreso when someone in his exact same position has just been recruited. it is very possible that Yaya would come to Arsenal, if Arsenal want him and if Barca are willing. The player has expressed desire to play alongside his brother so there isn't a great deal of fuss over him playing for us.

sheniqua:
which one is it Mrs Indira Rajiv.
Are Nigerians any more dishonest than Indians?

beystwin:
@4 Play:

It is people like you who make any sort of intelligent discussion impossible.
This topic was fairly civil, with people criticizing each other's opinions rather than the person writing the posts, until you butted in with your personal attacks, hiding your ignorance behind "big grammar". Plus, your posts clearly show that you are a coon for your "massa". I am embarassed for you.
Yeye dey smell.

madamkoko:
I don't think that emoticon suggests laughter.

1. You must NOT know how to read
2. Are you white?
3. No need for personal attacks.

No where in my post am I blaming whites. I was responding to texazzpete comment. Don't be stupid. The Black Farmers are not clueless.

madamkoko:
I also see texazzpete point in stating that Mugabe did not strategically think about his land redistribution tactic. He should have given the lands to those who knew how to farm adequately.

Then another issue comes up, did the whites who had farmed in Zimbabwe for decades transfer or pass on any knowledge to Black farmers?

Were they just hugging all the knowledge and not sharing to protect their own economic interests.

beystwin:
Isn't it obvious enough?
Their farming machinery and equipment originate from the Western countries. Therefore, sanctions affected them badly.

Another factor is that when the black farmers took over from the white farmers, there was no point in them manufacturing the same products (e.g. viable products such as wine, cheese, tobacco), because these products were mainly sold to the Western world, and due to the sanctions imposed by the West, there is no viable market for black farmers manufacturing these products.

Of course there were other crops they could produce (e.g. ground nut, corn); however, these at the time were less viable.

Lastly, capital was another factor. Most banks in Zimbabwe were owned by whites, and when the white farmers left, it was difficult for black farmers to get loans.

This is how sanctions affect the economy.