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Foreign AffairsRe: Imagine Being In Traffic For 13 Days! by 4Play(m): 11:48am On Aug 30, 2010
It's a symbol of an economy that is overheating and faces a growing probability of a crash.
PoliticsRe: Nigerian Student Achieves Best 2010 Gcse Results In Uk- 15 A* by 4Play(m): 7:26pm On Aug 27, 2010
Great, but can she cook? huh
PoliticsRe: Nigerian Professor, Dubem Okafor Kills Wife, Self In Us by 4Play(m): 8:16pm On Aug 19, 2010
Depilot:
May her soul rest in peace.
Not that she deserved to be killed, but reading through the story, I started to ask myself that what was she doing wrong to drive these men crazy? Was she doing anything to make them jealous and go crazy? Did it make her feel good when men became crazy about her?
Believe it or not, some women get kick out of making their men go crazy.

Again, I'm not trying to throw blame at anyone, but we can all learn one of two things from this terrible situation.
May their souls rest in peace.
Very stup-id line of reasoning.
SportsRe: Germany vs Nigeria [2 - 0] @ U-20 Women's World Cup Final by 4Play(m): 11:20pm On Aug 18, 2010
The 'girls' are not shagable!
BusinessRe: Nigeria Exchange Rates To Dollar-history by 4Play(m): 11:09pm On Aug 18, 2010
I posted this article a while ago
Perhaps the most important promise made by the new military leaders was to reopen stalled talks with the International Monetary Fund on rescheduling Nigeria's unmanageable foreign debt, now estimated to be $22 billion to $25 billion. Half of all Nigeria's annual oil revenues ($12.4 billion in 1984), which account for 95% of its total export earnings, are believed to be sucked up by interest payments on the debt. Moreover, as the world price for crude oil has declined over the past four years, Nigeria's revenues have been cut in half. Buhari had been seeking an IMF loan of $2.5 billion to $3.5 billion to help deal with the growing economic crisis, but he had refused to accept the international agency's demands that Nigeria first devalue its currency, the naira.

During the 1970s, on the strength of its oil revenues, Nigeria launched ill- planned, multibillion-dollar public works projects, such as the construction of a proposed new capital city at Abuja and numerous petrochemical plants. When the country's foreign debt ballooned, many of these were left unfinished. Once Africa's leading food exporter, Nigeria became a net importer as farmers abandoned the land for the promise of lucrative jobs in the oil industry. As a result, shortages of basic commodities quickly developed. The Shagari regime's tolerance of corruption only added to the country's woes. In 1983 alone, according to Oil Minister Tam David-West, $1 billion in petroleum was secretly diverted from state oil terminals to foreign tankers, with Nigerian businessmen and politicians taking the profits. Some reports say $1 million a day was skimmed from the public treasury. Transport Minister Dikko reportedly amassed a $1 billion fortune, much of it outside the country.
[url]http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,959779-1,00.html#ixzz0wzu6PiHj[/url]

When you reach the point where half of the Govt revenues are spent on debt repayment, you can forget about maintaining parity with the dolllar. Who borrowed all that money and failed to protect the country against the eventual collapse in oil prices? Blame Shagari, OBJ, MM & Gowon.

even our CBN governor was blaming IBB for introducing SAP the other day. . .which is kinda silly to me cause sanusi should know better

Bottom line there are lots of things I blame IBB for. . the needless killings and so on,  .and his inability to drive an industrialization vision like suharto of indonesia
Sanusi was probably playing to the gallery. IBB was a thieving murderer but Nigerians err in thinking that because he happened to be President when the bill for our earlier spending binge had come due, he was somehow to blame for the economic collapse. It's like Americans who now blame Obama for economic problems he inherited.
BusinessRe: Nigeria Exchange Rates To Dollar-history by 4Play(m): 10:36pm On Aug 18, 2010
We had an overvalued currency in the 70s. Following the oil price crash in the late 70s and early 80s, the Naira had only one way to go, down. Those who blame IBB are clueless. This country was bankrupt when IBB took over and we had no choice but to devalue.

Stop getting emotional about exchange rate parity, which can be fixed with re-denomination anyway, the real issue is maintaining a sound economy and sometimes that can be done by encouraging a weaker currency, ask the Chinese.
Nairaland GeneralRe: I Am Pursuing A Phd At Mit, But I Still Think I Am Dumb by 4Play(m): 7:29pm On Aug 16, 2010
[quote author=*Hauwa* link=topic=495680.msg6582493#msg6582493 date=1281982945]gerrot there, grin grin who toldest you amu all abt food huh grin

how now ogaga[/quote]This girl don spoil finish! shocked
PoliticsRe: 'We Don't Allow Nigerians In Here' - Port ElizaBeth by 4Play(m): 8:45pm On Aug 15, 2010
@Honeric01

http://www.timeslive.co.za/sundaytimes/article602047.ece/We-dont-allow-Nigerians-in-here?commentsPage=true

It's not really any different from what the average Nigerian says about people who don't belong to their own ethnic group.
FamilyRe: Baby Sienna's First Birthday Party! by 4Play(m): 8:39pm On Aug 15, 2010
Just saw this thread. Congrats Sienna.
PoliticsRe: 'We Don't Allow Nigerians In Here' - Port ElizaBeth by 4Play(m): 8:36pm On Aug 15, 2010
There is more.  grin
It is the right of any establishment to reserve the right of admission. If they don't want you for any reason - tough luck, go elsewhere.
The resturant must have good reasons for banning Nigerians as no buisness will turn away good money.

No doubt there are some good Nigerians but in general they have a very bad reputation for drugs and fraud. Ask yourself how you'd feel if your daughter said her new boyfriend was a Nigerian with an almost new BMW?

A couple of jokes I heard in an English pub in the 90s:
<What do you call a Nigerian with a BMW? - A drug dealer!
<When a Nigerian dies we bury them 12 foot under because really deep down they're not that bad!
I must say, I can understand both sides. Nigerians have a bad name all the world. I'm just asking myself the question WHY? Why don't they stay in their country and sell drugs to their own citizens? I'm really sorry for this doctor to be classified as a "common" Nigerian. Dr. you are welcome in our country!
95% of Nigerians in SA who claim they are doctors, professors etc are bogus with BullShoooot qualifications.
They are in SA with criminal intent. He was there to case the place for a robbery.
Send his black aaasss back to Nigeria
Did you think that South Africans have an obligation to protect criminals instead of purging them, did you think we don't know about the relationship Nigeria had with the apartheid regime, Nigerians are hated all over the world and there are good reasons for that, they are known for feeling inferior to white, they / you are to blame for that.

We have no obligation to keep you here, we owe you nothing. You are criminals and sex slaves, and we have no business putting up with that. Take your cr@p back to Nigeria. NO SOUTH AFRICAN WANTS TO LIVE IN NIGERIA.

We don't want association with baby farm runners and slave breeders. Baby farms is where Nigerians force slaves to breed slaves by impregnating and selling those babies to slavery as soon as they can walk. Who wants to be associated with you children of satan? No one in his right mind. Stop imposing yourselves on us we have a country to take to the next level. You chose to destroy yours and are now looking in all directions for others to build it.

No one is going to build Nigeria for Nigerians who are practically begging boers to move to Nigeria to work the land and feed starving Nigerians. If you are hard workers as you would like to believe, why dont you work your land and feed your people. Nigerians are lazy scums who are heavily involved in crime to do anything legitimate and productive.

Your dead head of state who was kept in the specially built mogue for months while you were lied to about his condition, killed many Nigerians for their kidneys. If your doctors are so good why dont they go and save the 144 Nigerian women who die each day due to complications related to child rearing. More and more Nigerians are born overseas, some make their way to the world in a trashy way of showing their heads in airport tarmacs, leaving other passengers disgusted. We are not sharing our country with you,you have Nigeria, what makes you think SA belongs to you?. South Africans do not want Nigeria to belong to them.

You mention xenophobia - have you forgotten the xenophobic attacks you had in 80s where you forced out just over 3 million foreigners mainly Ghanaians?. You must have thought that we are clueless about that and the fact that thats the cause of the rift between Nigerians and Ghanaians.

Nigerians and Zimbabweans are the last lot to point fingers at South Africans about xenophobia. No foreigner wants to live in Zimbabwe because Zimbabweans make the lives of foreigners a living hell, speak to Malawians and Zambians about Zimbabweans.

In Zimbabwe, a Zimbabwean does not get arrested for assaulting a Nigerian, because Mugabe specifically ordered Zimbabweans to beat Nigerians up and drive them out of that country. Mugabe was right, no country should ever embrace Nigerians. Mandela was speaking for himself, he had no right to sell our country out like that but fortunately he does not own SA, meaning the sale was null and void. You cannot sell a property that does not belong to you, its the law.
PoliticsRe: 'We Don't Allow Nigerians In Here' - Port ElizaBeth by 4Play(m): 8:24pm On Aug 15, 2010
From the comments section of the article:

What is this so called doctor doing here, dont they have stinking Nigerians to treat back in Nigeria, a country that had a dead man for a head of state, a dead man that raided and killed people for their kidneys. Just like their negro brothers, Nigerians are in the business of imposing themselves on South Africans, no one invited them to come here, Nigerians are hated all over the world and no nation wants them and rightfully so. SA is no different. What was that fake doctor doing at Cubana when there are filthy Nigerian restaurants to go to. Nigerians disgust other diners, they come out of the toilet, hands not washed, and bury their hands in food and lick fingers. Cubana is right.

I would rather die than be treated by a Nigerian so called doctor. Nigerians are dying back in Nigeria, there is no medical care in that hellhole that is why their corrupt elite and politicians go overseas for medical care. Where did this fly-by-night doctor get his qualifications?

This is not a doctor, he is a fake that bought his certificate from whatever Nigerian university. He is a scammer and a drug pusher.

Mandela and his "SA belongs to all who live in it" rubbish fooled a lot of people. Nigerians do not belong in SA and SA does not belong to Nigerians or any other foreigner for that matter. The obsession with our country is disgusting, Nigerians are criminals that fact is known the world over, they are Jews' drug peddling boys, male prostitutes and sex slaves.

I want them out of my country and they are leaving, they are going to countries like Austrialia, Canada, USA to ply their drug trade and male prostitution there. They never go back to that sewage plant they call home country.

No South African wants to live in Nigeria, why are the unlikable Nigerians in SA.

Cubana security did the right thing to keep Nigerians out, they must have had an experience with these tyre lip scums.

To that piece of UK based trash that is here to lecture us about good Nigerians, telling us that she is married to one, stay where you are, we don't miss you or any other black South African who dragged his or her @$$ and went to subject him/herself to modern day slavery in foreign countries. Trash attracts and breeds trash, stay where you are, your cheap @$$ is not a ticket for that Nigerian scum to come and live here, he will soon realise that he made a mistake riding you to buy SA citizenship, many regret going that route because they ended up killing the trash and landing up in jail. Cheap thighs attract cheap dipstick.

Black SA achievers have no need to leave the country, only failures leave to work as modern day slaves in Europe, USA, Canada, etc, that is proven by the fact that when you failures come back you don't get the positions your peasize brains tell you you deserve, because you don't know half of what you think you know. You know NOTHING compared to those you left behind, thats because you are liars who are employed to turn helpless whites and change their soiled adult nappies and linen. Dying settlers, young and old, do No1 and No2 on the same spot like they did in the caves.
PoliticsRe: Nigeria Disburses $4.7 Bln To Govt, Plans Wealth Fund by 4Play(m): 8:05pm On Aug 13, 2010
ABUJA Aug 13 (Reuters) - Nigeria has withdrawn $3 billion from its windfall oil savings, $2 billion for the payment of July allocations to the three tiers of government and $1 billion to be set aside for a proposed sovereign wealth fund.

Account General Ibrahim Dankwambo said the excess crude account, into which Nigeria saves oil revenues above a benchmark price, contained just $460 million after the latest withdrawal, down from around $20 billion in early 2007. (For more Reuters Africa coverage and to have your say on the top issues, visit: af.reuters.com/ ) (Reporting by Camillus Eboh; Writing by Nick Tattersall)
http://af.reuters.com/article/nigeriaNews/idAFLDE67C1JV20100813?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=nigeriaNews&rpc=401
PoliticsRe: The (Sanusi/Saraki's) Takeover Agenda - Erastus Akingbola by 4Play(m): 7:43pm On Aug 12, 2010
@Paddy Lo

Fraud is a loaded work as it implies criminality but its clear that these banks, fraudulently or innocently, overstated assets and understated liabilities. It could be a genuine mistake as these banks thought there were valid grounds to believe their assets were worth more than current market valuation.

We're having the same problem in Europe with valuing sovereign bonds on banks' books. The US has suspended mark-to-market accounting so their banks can continue to carry impaired assets on their books at par value. Banks' balance sheet are inherently opaque but there is a lot of deception going on and I tend adopt a very skeptical view accordingly.

PS: How is that oil trade going, I have taken quite a pasting shorting commodity stocks in the month of July. Still think we're due for a massive correction in equities and commodities, oil should follow suit unless some Middle-East crises ignites.
PoliticsRe: The (Sanusi/Saraki's) Takeover Agenda - Erastus Akingbola by 4Play(m): 7:05pm On Aug 12, 2010
I remember we had a debate here in 2008 about whether banks were cooking their books, this was before the truth came out. Ibime and I thought it was smoke and mirrors, Debosky begged to differ. If Paddy Lo was using NL then, I'm sure he would have been on the side of the believers(given his penchant for believing Naija stats)
PoliticsRe: The (Sanusi/Saraki's) Takeover Agenda - Erastus Akingbola by 4Play(m): 7:00pm On Aug 12, 2010
[quote author=paddy_lo link=topic=495589.msg6562914#msg6562914 date=1281635631]@Ibime

. . just look at the book value of both stocks. . .
If FBN has a book value of only N6.82 and ppl are paying N38/share for the stock. . .then thats a problem. . .
[/quote]What if people are paying that because FBN was growing assets at breakneck pace, at least they claimed to be doing so and the market believed them. Asset growth was 43% p/y, wasn't it?

ICBN had a credibility gap then, compared to many of its banking peers.
PoliticsRe: The (Sanusi/Saraki's) Takeover Agenda - Erastus Akingbola by 4Play(m): 6:51pm On Aug 12, 2010
Believe me, they often give erroneous figures. Not necessarily their fault as asset prices fluctuate and the ultimate source of information on a company's balance sheet is usually the company itself.
PoliticsRe: The (Sanusi/Saraki's) Takeover Agenda - Erastus Akingbola by 4Play(m): 6:38pm On Aug 12, 2010
If Ibime's figures are correct, the market was signaling that something is wrong with ICBN's publicized balance sheet in 2007, at least, compared to its peers. There was a credibility gap even then.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Manchester United Fan Thread: Red Devils' Zone! by 4Play(m): 9:16am On Aug 12, 2010
Evra should keep his mouth shut. It seems he has a case of logorrhea.

I heard this Portuguese guy can play in midfield. We still need an established midfielder like Ozil to the cut the dependence on the oldies like Scholes. Haven't lost hope yet that we can sign him.
BusinessRe: Nigerian Naira Weakens As Dollar Demand Grows by 4Play(m): 10:04am On Aug 08, 2010
oyb:
nope , soludo devalued the naira during his tenure.
Soludo did not devalue the Naira against the dollar unless you mean Soludo caused the plunge in oil price that we saw in 2008. The exchange rate depends on the demand and supply interactions between the various currencies.

When dollar revenues fell precipitously because of the oil price crash, dollars became scarcer in Nigeria leading to the CBN dipping into the foreign reserves, depleting it from +$60bn, to defend the Naira against the dollar.

Nigerians' fixation with exchange rate means that we assign blame wrongly. Soludo's ''fault'' was that he didn't throw more dollar reserves at the market to keep it at N110 to 1USD, which is what we did in the last oil price crash, in the early 80s. It's a basic misunderstanding of economics to think that the Naira's loss of value must be stopped at almost all cost.
PoliticsRe: Fasinro To Take Over At Stock Exchange ! by 4Play(m): 9:08am On Aug 08, 2010
Sounds eminently qualified for the position.

Yvonne Fasinro

Yvonne is a Senior Vice President at JP Morgan Chase, one of the world's biggest financial services institutions with assets worth $1.1 trillion and operations in more than 50 countries.

She is currently the Europe , Middle East and Africa head of Business Risk for the Private Bank.

She is an Ernst and Young trained Chartered Accountant and also holds a BSc in Economics.

Yvonne joined J P Morgan in 1994 and in that time has worked in the Private Bank for the last 6 years. Prior to this she worked in the Investment Bank in a variety of roles in the Fixed Income, Credit and then Equity and Equity Derivatives Businesses.

She serves on the board of Fate Foundation UK and the board of AMOS Recruitment and Training Ltd.

She is also actively involved with several charities including acting as a Life Counsellor of the NSPCC, a mentor for the Princes Trust and a supporter of U-Turn.

Yvonne is married to Kunle and they are blessed with a daughter, Morenike.
http://www.thechampions.org.uk/award05_yvonneFas.htm
PoliticsRe: Jimoh Ibrahim: I’m Bigger Than Richard Branson by 4Play(m): 9:06am On Aug 08, 2010
Richard Branson is only one individual and he is doing only one business which is aviation
So Branson's conglomerate is exclusively focused on the airline business? What is it about Nigerians and hubris? This man's prominence is only due to fronting businesses in the first place.
PoliticsRe: Nigerian Scientists Find Cure For Banana Disease by 4Play(m): 3:50pm On Aug 07, 2010
Who are the Nigerian scientists involved in this discovery? Dr Leena Tripathi, for instance, is Indian. Very sad bunch.
Christianity EtcRe: Obama Thanks Satan, Could This Be True? by 4Play(m): 8:41pm On Aug 04, 2010
Very sad bunch you lot are.
PoliticsRe: Un Rates Onitsha Among World's Fastest Growing Cities by 4Play(m): 7:31pm On Aug 03, 2010
Fastest growing is not necessarily a positive comment. It may be the fastest growing slum in Nigeria for all we know.
Foreign AffairsRe: French Authorities Removing African Immigrants (depressing Video) by 4Play(m): 7:28pm On Aug 03, 2010
The police response was disproportionate but you can't help but wonder why anyone takes their baby to such a protest to be effectively used as a human shield or to garner sympathy.
PoliticsRe: General Kills Kidnapper by 4Play(m): 7:24pm On Aug 03, 2010
See a comment from someone who has watched too many movies
Posted by Robin Hood on Aug 03 2010

Nice one General but I think 6 bullets on 1 man was overkill and not smart in the light of circumstances. You could have slugged him with 2 and 1 foreach of his other colleagues who would not be execting it. That is why you and your orderly were shot at. Anyways big Ups.
SportsRe: Germany vs Nigeria [2 - 0] @ U-20 Women's World Cup Final by 4Play(m): 6:50pm On Aug 01, 2010
@buzugee

People like you who support Nigerian players who engage in fraudulent alterations to birth records to gain an advantage show their true colours. If you had any modicum of decency, you will condemn cheating in all its manifestations, but since you have a putrid and criminal mindset, you view supporting these cheats as a mark of ''patriotism''. Perhaps, it's congenital, maybe you were immersed in a culture of fraud as a child.

Youth competitions are a way of identifying talents who will wear the nation's colors for years to come. If you allow older players to fraudulently get through in place of youngsters, you are engaging in a self-defeating exercise. That idi-ots like you even ask how Nigeria suffers from this charade is telling, a toxic combination of idiocy and criminality.
SportsRe: Germany vs Nigeria [2 - 0] @ U-20 Women's World Cup Final by 4Play(m): 6:14pm On Aug 01, 2010
Great win for Germany. I wonder when Nigerians will learn that age-cheating is counterproductive. Only the age cheats themselves benefit, the country suffers for it.
Car TalkRe: Behold The Made In Nnewi,nigeria Cars! by 4Play(m): 10:59am On Aug 01, 2010
Siena:
^^^ I'd still like to know which parts of these cars were made in Nigeria. I mean being specific, not merely posting links. Parts like engine blocks, pistons, crank and camshafts, transmission cases, valve chests ets.

Which were made in Nigeria?
This plonker is debating using facts . . . Nigerians don't like facts, they prefer emotions.
Foreign AffairsUAE Ambassador Backs Strike On Iran's Nuclear Sites by 4Play(op): 12:23pm On Jul 25, 2010
Iran and the United Arab Emirates are embroiled in a furious new row after the latter's ambassador to Washington publicly expressed support for a US attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.

Yousef al-Otaiba commented bluntly that the benefits would outweigh the short-term costs of military action. "We cannot live with a nuclear Iran," the envoy said at a conference in Aspen, Colorado. "I am willing to absorb what takes place at the expense of the security of the UAE."

Tehran hit back swiftly with a warning from a leading MP of a "teeth-breaking" response to these "harsh and crude" remarks and a possible ban on Iranian travel to the Gulf state, which does billions of dollars of trade annually with Iran.

The UAE foreign ministry called the reported comments "inaccurate and taken out of context", but they were recorded by the Atlantic Magazine, which organised the conference. The ministry insisted that the UAE wanted a peaceful solution to the crisis over Iran's nuclear programme.

The spat follows Iran's decision to scale back economic relations with the UAE after Abu Dhabi implemented the latest UN sanctions punishing Tehran for ignoring demands over that programme.

The row also underlines wider nervousness in the Gulf about Iran, though the UAE is the most hawkish of its neighbours and has been in dispute with it over three islands since 1971.

Controversy erupted in nearby Kuwait recently over an alleged spy ring for Iran's Revolutionary Guard, and there are concerns elsewhere about Iranian subversion against the Sunni Arab monarchies.

Otaiba was quoted as saying that he "absolutely" wanted the US to use force to halt Iran's nuclear programme.

"Countries in the region view the Iran threat very differently," he said. "I can only speak for the UAE, but talk of containment and deterrence really concerns me and makes me very nervous. Iran doesn't have nuclear power now but … what makes me think that once they have a nuclear programme, we are going to be able to be more successful in containing them?"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/07/uae-envoy-iran-nuclear-sites

The sooner the US realise Iran needs to pummelled militarily, the better for all of us. If Iran keeps rebuffing entreaties to it, the US has to take decisive military action.
Foreign AffairsRe: Proposal To Ban The Burka In The Uk by 4Play(op): 10:23pm On Jul 20, 2010
donspony:
Talk about arguing blindly.

Whats the difference between that and balaclavas undecided
You're obviously being obtuse. Your argument will make sense if there was also a call for the ban of the hijab(which covers the hair but not the face)
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Chat Up Line by 4Play(op): 8:04pm On Jul 19, 2010
If you're a world-class footballer who raked in £80m in earnings last year, time-consuming tasks like chatting up a woman with class and manners need to be dealt with as swiftly as possible. Every minute spent dishing out compliments could be spent signing sponsorship deals or playing keepy-uppy with Maradona.

When it comes to chat up lines, Cristiano Ronaldo is just as efficient with them as he is with a ball.

To seduce a waitress, who has since been revealed as the mother of his baby, while on a trip to LA, Ronaldo used the killer line, "Me, you,f##k-f##k." Good God.

One of his 'close pals' revealed the footballer's technique to the Daily Mail:


“Ronni looked the girl in the eye and said extremely directly, ‘Me, you,f##k-f##k .’ That’s typical Ronni – he pretends his English is terrible when it suits him, and he comes straight to the point. It was just yet another one-night stand and Ronnie assumed he would never see her again.”

After the unnamed waitress got in touch with Ronaldo's agent to let him know she was pregnant, the footballer took a DNA test, the result of which he found out during the World Cup. Ronaldo has since reportedly given the mother of his baby £10million in return for her staying anonymous and granting him full custody of the child.
http://current.com/news-and-politics/92553567_cristiano-ronaldos-chat-up-line-revealed-and-its-a-gem.htm

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