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Let each person answer their papa name. Yoruba is Yoruba, Ewe/ewa/eweko/ewele/were is ewe/ewa/eweko/ewele/were. Please leave us Yoruba alone. Just leave us alone for gods sake. We dont want some dirty, stupidddd, cultureless, ugly people diluting our pure heritage.

We the best!

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Good call. you never argue with Kobo. She is always here; thanks to SSI, unemployment and yahoo 2.0.

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Yeah, I like your tactics. Divert attention away from Ribadu, your uncle and ACN's legacy of failure and propaganda.Lets just focus on GEJ's mistake. Nice startegy my man. When BH kills people in the North, its PDP's fault. Tinubu's imposition of candidates, PDP's fault. You went to Surrey because you werent good enough for Oxford, again PDP's fault. Bad roads in Osun State, PDP is responsible. Your wife gave you girls, instead of boys, na PDP cause am. Wife leaves you because you are always online defending ACN, PDP na hin cause am. You have BPH, again it is GEJ's fault. Fashola's 'kuruna' is getting worse, well, who else to blame other than PDP. Bad nightmares, GEJ's fault. Tinubu bankrupting Lagos, PDP is the problem. Your answer to every problem is either PDP or GEJ. I hope these ACN guys are paying you well because it would be a tragedy of unequaled proportion if it turns out you only get peanuts for the amount on time you put into defending your boss online.

Kay-Dee:
In the spirit of bipartisanship, members of different political parties can work together, the different political parties are not @ war with each other.

WTF is bipartisanship? FYI, we have ONE party in Nigeria. The rest are mere factions, of the main party, engaged in self interested and violent struggles for power and recognition with other factions.

The Nigerian Woman Who Sold Two Necklaces And Never Looked Back

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Abimbola Balogun: "If I look back, I would say I am humbled"

Six years ago Nigeria's Abimbola Balogun - affectionately called Bimbo - was a frustrated graduate, trained in petroleum marketing but coming to the sad realisation that it was going to be very difficult for her to get a job in the oil industry.

So at 29 she went out on a bead stringing course. She says that she just wanted something that kept her busy until "the real thing came" and she found a proper job.

"Now the beading has overshadowed the real thing," Mrs Balogun told the BBC series African Dream. And she exploded with laughter. She has, indeed, many reasons to be happy.

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I knew I had to be different from every other beaded jewellery designer so I went online”

She started her business with an investment of just 400 naira ($2.5, £1.6) which bought her enough beads to make two necklaces.

She sold them for 5,000 naira - more than 1,100% profit - reinvested the money and never looked back.

In a country where there are so many people in the beading business she separated herself from the pack by making high-end products with special gems. And for inspiration she started looking at design websites.

"I knew I had to be different from every other beaded jewellery designer so I went online," she told the BBC Africa's Victor Okhai.

Now Mrs Balogun runs two outlets in Lagos, has a weekly television show about jewellery and trains other beaders. Her company, Bimbeads Concept, is now worth around five million naira and has five employees.

Pride in African colours
Mrs Balogun is aware that in Nigeria, like in many other parts of Africa, women are becoming increasingly proud of their local cultures.

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Abimbola Balogun


Age: 35
Higher National Diploma (HND) of the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), Nigeria
Started Bimbeads in 2006
Her company has five full time employees
Vice-president of Beaded Jewelry Designers Association of Nigeria
Studied Entrepreneurial Management at the Lagos Business School
Good quality colourful beads - including precious and semi-precious stones - that match their outfit are preferred by many of them to expensive gold or pearls. To a great extent that is probably why her range has had such an appeal.

"My designs are different because they are customised… They are designs that are uniquely and individually crafted," the entrepreneur explained.

She says that she knew very little when she started out but has learnt everything on the job.

She has also continued studying. After starting her business, she got a scholarship from the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Woman Initiative to study Entrepreneurial Management at the Lagos Business School.

Mrs Balogun also talks about the importance of networking and of women working together to achieve success.

She speaks at mentoring and motivational events and is a member of a number of organisations, including the Nigeria Network of Entrepreneurial Women (NNEW), a platform of Nigeria Employers' Consultative Association (NECA).

"I started by calling myself a mobile trainer. So I was going from one house to the other, training people and earning some money but when I joined NNEW I was advised to take the bold step to get an outlet which I did," she said.

"Of course, I was scared. I had the fear of failing but the passion kept me going."

High-profile clients
She later moved to a bigger place and opened a second outlet, also in Lagos.


According to Mrs Balogun, her designs are "uniquely and individually crafted"
"My products cut across all classes of people: Lower, medium and the upper upper class," Mrs Balogun said.

According to her, she has some very high-profile clients, including wives of governors and kings, and women in politics.

Mrs Balogun added that her weekly slot in the TV programme Every Woman's World has also helped to increase her clientele.

"That actually was one of the things that made me popular," she explained.

She said that the major problem she has encountered is that in Nigeria "everybody wants to reckon with the successful, nobody wants to give the growing ones a chance. If your name is not there, if you're not one of the first three top designers, then you're nowhere.

"With consistency, passion and hard work I was able to overcome all of that," she said.

Now her dream is to add - like precious beads to a necklace - new outlets to her company and expand across Nigeria and West Africa.

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The Golden Rule: A New Way to Defeat Nigerian E-mail Scams

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Yesterday afternoon, a man I don’t know, named Ben Mutumba, sent me a kind note.
“I represent a group of miners here in Uganda-Kampala and we have a large sum of gold for sale https://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/email-scammers-illo.jpg
in a cheap affordable price.Please if interested get back to me for more information.”
I am interested, so I replied to him and asked for more information.
I then called and spoke with him on the phone.

He told me that he’s selling the gold for thirty-eight thousand dollars a kilogram,
which seems like a pretty good price. He gets the gold from a mine in the Congo and wants his customers to come and inspect it before they buy. He said that he also has customers in South and Central America and Australia. But no one in the United States. “That’s why,” he told me, “I want a very good customer who can buy something for America.” He promised a good hotel in Kampala, a meeting with a government official, and a chance to test the gold to make sure it’s real.
Earlier this week, Microsoft Research, a think tank run by the company, published a white paper titled “Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria?” Many of the scammers, the report notes, are indeed from Nigeria. But they lie about lots of things (like “we have a large sum of gold”). Why not also pretend to be from a place that is not known for e-mail scams? Why don’t they make the whole scheme seem a little less ridiculous at the outset? Why don’t the scammers say they are from some place more plausible, like “New Jersey”?

The report’s answer, which involves a lot of math, is fairly simple: scammers only want really gullible people to respond to their initial query. These scams are complicated—they involve lots of negotiations, charm, and conning. Many of them fall through. If Mr. Mutumba sends out fifty thousand e-mails, it’s going to make his life much easier if his claim is so ridiculous—and so easy to debunk through Bing or Google—that only ten, and not a hundred, potential suckers respond. Scammers, like the rest of us, have other stuff to do. Or as the report, which is packed with charts, says, “For a single attacker the return is given by (1). This is maximized when dE{R}=dfp = 0.”
That counterintuitive conclusion has deservedly received a lot of press. But Microsoft didn’t commission the report as a thought experiment, or just because they want to stifle conniving West and East Africans. They did it, Frank Shaw, a company spokesman, told me, as part of “broad efforts to ensure that people’s experience online is safe and secure.” The real conclusion of the report is that wasting an attacker’s time is a good way to discourage future attacks.
There is a long history of people taunting and fuddling Nigerian e-mail scammers. Ron Rosenbaum has written about counter-hoaxers, people who play along with the attackers and ask them to do ridiculous or demeaning things (like carve wooden keyboards) to prove that they deserve trust. That, to a small degree, is what I was doing when I began corresponding with Mr. Mutumba. According to the white paper, mass application of this tactic—by humans, or perhaps by bots—could slow the scams.

But the implication of the report is broader, and it gives us a new way to think about cyber security and game theory. Normally, we try to thwart thieves by making stuff hard to steal. But maybe we should put more effort into making stuff irritating to steal?
Imagine a hacker trying to break into a corporate network. Often he’ll guess at a password; if he’s wrong, he’ll find out immediately. Or he’ll probe some potential weakness in the network’s security and quickly learn whether he’s gained access. But maybe he shouldn’t be told his password is wrong. Maybe he should be pulled into what he thinks is the corporate network until, an hour later, he realizes he’s wandering around a cul-de-sac. In certain situations, it makes just as much sense to build trap doors and honey pots as it does to add locks or firewalls. If a thief knows you’ve got lots of safes filled with paper, and only one filled with cash, he might not bother spending time trying to crack them.
It’s been a good week for Microsoft. They’ve announced a tablet that people like and a new phone operating system that’s going over well. And they’ve actually solved one of Mutumba’s concerns, too. As he told me during our conversation, when I asked why I had to fly to Kampala and look at the gold, instead of just wiring money: “Security is the most important thing to understand.”


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Ibo people, their motor should be: There is nothing Otokoto cannot build.

why is Mikel's father dressing like a Yoruba man. is he jumping ship
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Spurs to Europa

The African boy wins it

3: 1 in favor of bayern

God Bless Bayern Yoruba >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ibo

Inked_Nerd:

The only thing i gagged on was my vomit when I first saw your face

WHose face? Tpiahs face or Fstrangers

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WHen you saw him naked, did you scream or you just went straight to work gagging on it?

Retardeeen outsmarted by a drug addict . . . rofl

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You my friend is an impostor.

Inked_Nerd: I have a former "friend" who had a beautiful head of golden locs. I used to love running my hands through his hair and pulling all the curly golden brown hair on his head then watching them spring back. And his hair was sooooo soft. He had waist length locs that were very neat. I'd post pics but I don't think he'd want me showing pics of him on this site

Were the golden locs on his head or in his pubic area?

OP you actually look responsible, just a lil DIRTY and UGLY.

shymmex: My parents moved back to Nigeria 3years ago, and I'm not a "Nigerian wannabe," bruv. I was born in Lagos, and my family is from Epe. I'm just as Nigerian as you or any other Nigerian out there.

Trust me, you are not Nigerian at all. You are different from Blazay and I. Learn to live with your real self instead of trying to pass as some thing you are not.

Blazay, what do you know about Politics?

Get back to Romance jo.