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This Report in the UK Guardian describes the what I think is a Scam by Fake Pastors preying on the ignorance of poor uneducated folks
The big problem with this scam are the victims are kids a lot of them lose their homes or even their lives.


"Some parents scrape together sums needed to pay for a deliverance - sometimes as much as three or four months' salary for the average working man - although the pastor will explain that the witch might return and a second deliverance will be needed"


Story: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2224553,00.html


Pictures: http://www.guardian.co.uk/observer/gallery/2007/dec/09/witches?picture=331488389

Video: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/video/2007/dec/09/video

It seems it would be a lot less confusing for folks if they  just renamed the currency

If  a few people  in this forum are confused about it imagine the average man on the street

Imagine explaining your N100  today is worth  N1  August 2008

I think most people would get it if  they just said we going to have a new currency

N100 =  1 Wazobia

I guess similar to  what  the EU did when  countries converted to the Euro.

As for the impact  it should have little  to no impact  on the average nigerians standard of living or the value of there investments . We just  wont need a wheel barrow anymore to cart all that naira around plus the pleasure of of exchange parity with the dollar   1USD =  1.25 Wazobia something we havent enjoyed since the early eighties.

Well its a start but a whole lot more cleaning house is order. Especially if this is what was really going on in NNPC.

"Nigeria's penchant for producing crude oil far in excess of the quota periodically assigned the country by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has been exposed as racket intentionally orchestrated by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the oil companies, to enable top officials of NNPC to continously fleece the coountry of several billions of dollars.

In fact, documents available to Saturday Sun indicate that between 1999 and 2002 alone, the NNPC officials allegedly diverted over $4.5 billion, smiling to their banks with well over N502.2 billion"

Full Article: http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2007/aug/11/national-11-08-2007-001.htm

Even if half of this article is factual. It's pretty to easy to see who the real Giant of Africa is

http://www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine/hattingh260607.html