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No MEND, nor any other Nigerian Group or politicain. . . . . .

if the article in the daily newspaper HA' ARETZ (Israel) is true.

According to supposition of the Israeli Secret Service the weapons from Iran should be smuggled
to Gaza. The ship, which cames from Iran anchored just a few hours in Lagos harbour.
An Iranian agent who was commisioned with unloading of the containers has tried to bribe the
customs officials. As a result the duty has alarmed the security and employees of the Nigerian Secret Service
opened the first container. According to the report the Nigerian Secret Service had received before tips about a smuggling of arms from Iran through Lagos.
The government will give order to destroy the weapons.  Meanwhile, the embassy of Israel in Nigeria works together with the Nigerian foreign ministry to find out more about the smuggling of arms.

thweraja10:
Tell him to check the mesage center number or call the customer care number of his operator

Yeah, the message center number was my first thought, too. but the number is right.

Dear Nairalanders,
since my husband has left Germany to Nigeria he cannot send texts to Germany, anymore.
He is using my Sony Ericsson and within Germany it has worked and it works within Nigeria also.
He is trying and trying but nothing.
He has tried many lines not only his own so I think it is something in the settings.
I advised him to check the settings what he did as he said, but again nothing.
Other family members can send texts as usual. He is really pissed off.

What may be the problem Please any advise

Dear friends,
we are moved to tears about the immense worldwide condolence
in the demise of our beloved Paul. Your words are a consolation to us,
at this moment of grief. Thank you very much!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Paella anyone?

edoyad:
we thank god for own goals o, what would we do without them.

hmm. . . let me think!. . . . losing the match?

Yeah, as like few days ago. US citizens should be very careful if they visit France and Germany, especially Berlin.

Avoid huge events!
Walk around with very opened eyes!
Avoid sights!

I guess they more and more suffer from paranoia.

I rarely have seen people who are so sensitive as like Nigerians, apart from some few.
Always feeling offended, feeling personally attacked if someone else is praised for something.

dayokanu:
Yes ajali 3 good strikers goal by Mario Gomez today.

More to come

Wow. . . . a tripple after 8 month without any Bundesliga goal? And he was the last option for van Gal, today.

I can hear that it takes a load off someone's mind.

OMG! Why is it that people see America as the ne plus ultra, always.
All that glitters is not gold! You should dig deeper instead of just scratching at the surface and
you will find alot of things which are not the ultimate. Most in social sector, health care, foreign politics, economy.

There is nothing like blessed by God. America, the Holly Land? LOL

BTW, no country in the world can write on its flag to be the Alpha and Omega.

Am I in wrong movie, or what?

It was an away match in the own country. . .

But it was great. No wahala after the match. Turks and German have celebrated together
by motorcade at the Kurfürstendamm. Big party again!!!

Current press releases from the energy industry

07 October 2010


Leipzig - The Nigerian government has concluded a contract through its federal ministry of energy for a 10 MW wind farm in the federal state of Katsina, Nigeria. The project includes 37 wind turbine generators (WTG) of the type Vergnet GEV MP C 275 kW. The Wind Park is part of the governmental strategy to improve the utility`s countrywide electricity supply system substantially.

The project is planned to be carried out in the next 30 months.


http://www.renewable-energy-industry.com/business/press-releases/newsdetail.php?changeLang=en_GB&newsid=3574

LOL, you both are really funny . . . Take it easy, guys.

hahaha. . . . . if you remember I am a Prussian and I do not share this hype as like the Bavarians.
Btw, I have my little Oktoberfest right here in Berlin. Am working on a mini mini duplicate of the big
festival at Alexanderplatz and for me it is crazy enough. All these drinking, singing and swaying to music people
dancing on tables when they are drunk. Interesting is that the majority of the guests are from abroad too and
not from Berlin.

The match against Turkey? I think it will be a hard step. Turkey is playing well and as you know some German players
not in form or injured. And there is nothing like home advantage even when they play in the Olympia Stadion in Berlin
because of the many Turks living in Berlin.

Well, I was not there, personally, because of too much work but what I have seen
on tv and heard from friends it was great as usual.
It is over since yesterday.
This year they celebrated the 200th anniversary of the Oktoberfest.
More than 6 Million people came to have fun to the fullest.

Just thought to have a look on this thread, Am glad to see that everything is still as usual

@dayokanu

Longest time. How are you doing?

Years ago, before I got to know my husband, his family and Nigeria generally, Nigeria and her citizens for me was a country from one better leaves the fingers. And why? Because everything what one found out about Nigeria only dealt with frault, corruption etc. That one finds also a lot of beauty and positive in Nigeria, one did not get to know. This has not changed much up to now even if a more positive picture of Nigeria is sometimes tried to point. The prevailing majority of the people abroad has no other possibility to inform about Nigeria, as about reports and documentations in the media. This negative picture brings so many disadvantages for Nigerians no matter whether they live at home or abroad. You know this only too well and experience it every single day.
Why not using the possibility to show Nigeria to the people like you see it and experience?
Show, what friendly, happy, honest and full of ideas people you are. The varied beauties of your country, the hospitillity, your humor. I mean not to deny the mismanagement or to talk nicely about this would be wrong. But Nigeria is more, much more and this you should also point. Make the people curiously on you and your country, so that they want to get to know more. Certainly something will change not from today on tomorrow, however if the people scratch not only in the surface, but start to dig deeper who knows what can originate from it, for both sides. To talk with each other is the beginning to understood each other. Many mistakes and prejudices could be cleared so.

@Becomerich0

I was in Ajegunle too and have lived in Olodi Apapa for a while and what I've seen comes nearly to that what
is written below.


Ajegunle, Olodi: Two faces of a twin town
By IFEANYI NWOKE

Ajegunle, a popular Lagos slum, is home to more than 3 million inhabitants from all the ethnic groups in West Africa. It is a place where you must watch your back even as you seek daily survival.

Olodi Apapa, its close neighbour, is inhabited by moderately rich people. Although, both communities are in the same locality, the people are socially separated.

Ajegunle is characterized by urban blight and high rate of poverty and unemployment. To many people, the place is a breeding ground for social problems such as crime, drug addiction, alcoholism, squalor, substandard housing and over crowding.

Indeed, in most parts of the expansive slum, hunger, disease and abject poverty are the symbols of life. Clean water, sanitation, functional drainage system, electricity and other social amenities are almost non-existent.

There are more than two million dwellers in the densely populated area of Ajegunle. About 1,200 people reside on one square hectare. A shack as small as 10 by 10 feet could house more than 10 persons . The areas mostly affected by such congestion are Amukoko, Oghonwankwo, Tolu, Alakoto and Adeolu. Olodi Apapa’s case is slightly different. This area which some people consider part of Ajegunle is a low density area. It is lightly populated and records very low crime rate and immoral activities.
In Ajegunle, people live mostly in substandard or dilapidated buildings, unlike in Olodi where there are modern, well-structured buildings. In terms of education, the children of the slum dwellers attend mainly government schools which are clustered as a result of the large number of children. In the maintenance of law and order, Ajegunle residents are frequently victims of police brutality.

Yet, in the bowel of the grinding poverty, the ghetto dwellers have evolved novel means of survival. Most families survive on as little as N120 per day. Owing to poor purchasing power, tea, sugar, garri, salt, dried vegetables, cooking oil, cooked beans, home made juice and kerosene are sold in sachets that sometimes cost as little as N5. But the case is hardly the same with most Olodi families.

Poor waste management, in the raining season, makes Ajegunle streets a long refuse dump as the flood flushes contents of stinking drainages into the street and many homes as residents helplessly watch their homes and property submerged in the flood. In Ajegunle, heaps of refuse are a common sight. Gutters, canals, road junctions and even verandas of many houses have been converted to refuse dumps, so much so that passers–by must cover their nostrils with handkerchiefs to avoid inhaling the offensive stench oozing from the waste. In a bid to survive this torture, residents sometimes have to set the waste ablaze as a means of disposal. The smoke from such an exercise is yet another source of environmental pollution.

But in Olodi Apapa, such activities are very rare. Here residents collectively employ refuse collectors who regularly visit their homes to evacuate their waste.

Another problem faced in Ajegunle today is the general decline in the level of discipline and morality. Many see the place as a decadent society where morality and discipline are easily hurled overboard. The immoral lifestyle is well pronounced among youths of the area. Their boys are always involved in criminal activities through gangs that many of them join in school and on the streets. Not to be outshined by the boys, most girls engage in house-to-house or professional prostitution, among other societal ills.
However, among Olodi Apapa dwellers, the case is not the same. Activities of children are checked by parents who make some provisions for the kids all in a bid to keep them away from the streets.
Mr. Fabian Ujunwa, who has resided in Olodi-Apapa for long, said the town is a place where there is the good and the bad.

“However the main problem with Ajegunle is that the presence of the government is not felt here unlike some of its close neighbourhoods such as Apapa where you see paved roads and well structured buildings,” he said.

According to him, the government has not been alive to its responsibilities to the residents of Ajegunle. He said that people who reside in Olodi Apapa are more affluent than their Ajegunle counterparts.
Mr. Clement Abiodun, an Ajegunle resident, says Ajegunle is where you will find the majority of the poor. “In Ajegunle, there is squalor, no access road, no public spaces and playing grounds. They have no place for social interaction or relaxation. Their streets and gutters are full of debris of all kinds, open sewage, fresh dung, heaps of garbage as well as the offensive odour that emanate from them. But at Olodi Apapa you rarely see such things,” he stressed.

He appeals to the state government to pay more attention to the infrastructural development of both Ajegunle and Olodi-Apapa.

The world cup 2010 was the last job of the octopus. Paul now enjoys his well-deserved retirement.

Well, am satisfied how it came, finally. Spain has won the cup and it is right.

Though, I had wished that one of the African teams would make it under the last four if not to the final match. But now, we all start anew and 2014 is another chance for all.

SA has done a great job. It was a really beautiful world cup. Though, as for me, I have never doubt it.

Thank you South Africa!

Igwe.:
paul has spoken

hehehe - yepp

Gooooaaaallll Khedira 3:2

hehehe, still two  

starting with yellow card. Damnn this Dennis Aogo, LOL

@dayokanu

yepp, he has! Löw is very impressed about Dennis Aogo. He is always interested in Dennis's progress and
he think he will become a very great football player.

They play again in their second jersey, the black one. I like it more than the white one.

I believe it is the main reason. I think it is a "Thank you" that they were so patient the whole time.

^^^^

right, they are on the bench, but Löw said the chance that they will play is very small

This evening we will see an other German team. Klose, Podolski, Lahm, Neuer and some other don't play because
they caught cold and they are high infected. Even our coach Löw is very ill.

Aogo will play, also Cacau, Butt, Boateng, Jansen