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People,Kindly vote for my boy on MTV Base advance warning,His Name is GI JOE and you could do that by visiting www.mtvbase.com/advancewarning and cast your vote,alternatively you could vote with your mobile by sending the word GI JOE TO 33970 on the Zain Network.
Counting on your support.

IFE, Where do i begin
is it from the lovely food @ schi kabab or spices as it is now known
or the ambience @ dayo rounda's place
or the weed from alfred or sir kay jenjen
or is it payin for girls hairdo @ ola gold
or coming from Quaters in the mornin n branchin @ egins b4 going to class
or is playin poker @ SUB with SB
or FORKS N FINGERS @ SUB WHEN i AM BROKE N MA CLUB CHIEF MUSTNT KNOW
OR MARKIN ATTENDANCE FOR MOZ 101
OR TAKIN MA CARRYIN CARRY OVER COURSE @ MOREMI
OR LOOKIN 4 A QUICKIE @ SPORT
Great Ife! Great Ife!!
Africa's most beautiful campus
Conscious, vigilant, progressive
Aluta against all oppressions
Forward ever, backward never
For learning and culture, sports and struggle
Great Ife! Hey!
I love you!
There is no other Great Ife in the Universe
Another Great Ife is a counterfeit
Great! Great! Great! Great IFE!

otuwe:
ever heard of Fortis Bank? ? ?


go figure that out

There is no global Banking Institution in Nigeria.GT Bank borrowed money from people ,list am as bonds on LSE,we begin jubilate,Bank PHB na get offshore branch in any Financial capital,una dey talk of Global Bank.

Fortis sef no be Global bank,It is limited to Western Europe and as such can be said to be a regional bank.when u talk of Global banks u mention CITIGROUP,HSBC and Barclays

lewis hamiton all the way.for mclauren it is victory

VOLTRON , CAMRY 2007

@militia,na wa 4 you oooo,we know say na Oprah give u hope when u 1st enter yanks,dat no mean say make u dey use ur left hand describe ya papa door mot.

I totally agree with you.

Ashewo 10 10 kobo, na him she be.small time dem go begin talk say she get money past Aliko.I go start petition to NBC say make dem ban hin program on cable n satellite stations in Nigeria. yeye woman.

In an interview with Billy Bush, re posted by MSNBC, among other news agencies, Oprah admitted to using cocaine. "Years ago I had a woman on my show who was talking about drugs and how she was addicted to her boyfriend and I had used drugs in my 20s with this boyfriend and I was more addicted to the boyfriend than I was to the drugs," she revealed.

You know what Oprah, I'm gonna make this short and sweet. You did it. Nobody forced it on you. Don't blame others. You always preach on your show about being honest, and taking responsibilities, so do just that and stop blaming the addiction on your boyfriend.

Oprah who she be ? she sabi book reach aluko n agbe of Ekiti.Ogun punish am.
make una read wetin perosn wey know get talk about her shallow thinking

By TRACY MCLELLAN

Another instance of the gruel that passes for culture in the United States was Oprah's fiftieth birthday celebration, an orgy of conspicuous consumption, unbridled greed, and insatiable hunger. It's been almost a week now that I saw it and I still can't get it out of my mind, nor get away from the nausea it engenders. Just as the crony capitalists probably write off on their taxes the bribes they pay to our politicians as charitable contributions, the birthday bash is probably also a tax deduction.

The party resulted in two one-hour shows. The first was before a live studio audience. The second was a weekend-long, behind the scenes look at a post-taping party, dinner for 50 close friends atop the Sears Tower, and a weekend gala at an estate in Santa Barbara.

The primary hosts were her friend, Gayle, at her sycophantic and saccharine best, and John Travolta, of Scientology fame. That religion's only apparent functions are to take psychological profiles of random passers-by on the streets, and sponsor $5000, one-night luxury cruises, probably also another tax dodge. Travolta opened the ceremony with a toast worthy of Shakespeare. Oprah hung on every word, teary-eyed and trembling, and softly moaned Travolta's first name.

Entertainment ought to be put in its compartment next to others in a rich cultural life. Being engaged in the political process as a handful of thieves and crooks loot the country, and the world teeters on the brink of apocalypse comes to mind. Instead, ours has become a society that reveres entertainers and celebrities above and to the exclusion of all else.

I kept my eyes peeled for the celebs there to beware a future emotional investment in their art or craft, such as they are. It was a disgusting display of avarice and cupidity. It's not worth naming them all, but special mention ought to go to Diane Sawyer, "Di" to Oprah, former Nixon speechwriter and Henry Kissinger consort, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, and Toni Morrison

If it was just an excuse, I give props to Maya Angelou for begging off sick. She did however send a poem, which was read aloud by a succession of the hoity-toity. The whole thing was not read on the air, unfortunately, so it was difficult to ascertain the context of the line that essentially extolled Oprah as being "able to swim effortlessly in an ocean of substance." Jay Leno arrived in a stretch-limo. Celine Dion sang in Santa Barbara, as did Tina Turner in Chicago. Since the broadcast I have heard that Oprah gave Stevie Wonder a $400,000 Rolls Royce for attending.

The amenities and party favors were worthy of Dennis Kozlowski. Ten thousand flowers were flown in, from all over the world. A four hundred-pound cake was flown in from California. Invitations were made of handmade imported silk, with individually inscribed calligraphy, and stuffed with "historic" photos of Oprah. With not a trace of narcissism, when Oprah received hers, she ordered one hundred more for family and fiends.

Wolfgang Puck too arrived by airplane to cater a dinner from a kitchen built especially for the occasion in the building that houses Oprah's studio. Thirty more chefs were also employed. More guests and trinkets also arrived by airplane, including lobsters straight from the ocean the day before.

I didn't know there were other kinds, but a master party planner saw to every last detail, scurrying around like a construction foreman, and when she was around, attending to Oprah like a drone to a queen bee. He oversaw party preparations, left fist tucked against the back of his left hip, right hand in the air, with pinkie protruding as if a fish caught on a hook. Among other fabulous perks was a rare, satin table skirt, festooned with a cover made of silk, hand-adorned with 100,000 beads, imported from India. Dinner menus were hand inscribed with calligraphy.

A construction crew of 400 "bettered" an already opulent Santa Barbara estate for the party, themed "gold, gold, gold." Chandeliers were imported from Europe. More flowers were imported from Holland, Ecuador, and Hawaii. The walls were decorated with TVs made to appear as rare paintings. Upon seeing the dinner table, Oprah exclaimed, "it looks like it was set for Louis XIV himself." In a toast to her Santa Barbara hosts over her birthday cake, Oprah lauded them as deep, wise, and strong, apparently three synonyms for fantastically wealthy.

The coup d'gras was a club assembled, please God tell me this isn't true, over a huge swimming pool. Apparently so big they didn't want to drain it, scuba divers were deployed to cobble and weld together a foundation of girders, posts, and poles for a dance floor, finished with laminate flooring. My guess is that the floor was in the garbage within a week.

Perhaps you could ignore this gluttony in a more perfect world. But half the world's population, three billion people, exists on two dollars a day. Twenty-five thousand children die daily of hunger and related easily preventable causes. There's plenty of food to feed earth's six billion inhabitants, it is rather a problem of distribution, and an unequal distribution of the world's wealth and resources. It is precisely that some have way too much, and most way too little, that is most responsible for engendering wars, strife, and bloodshed. In light of the unimaginable destructiveness of modern weaponry, the earth can simply not tolerate war anywhere.

These parties occurred simultaneously as the United States is waging and funding wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Colombia, the Occupied Territories of Palestine, and who knows where all else. Not one word, not even a gesture of acknowledgement of these crises was uttered, as is typical of Oprah's shows.

About a month earlier, Oprah had taken her entourage to South Africa to bestow on some of its destitute, shoes, clothes and other Christmas gifts. I was very moved by the show and thought that shows like that could redeem the soap operas, the home remodelings, the particulars of cosmetic surgery, in a word, the distraction that is typically the moral, spiritual, and cultural heft of her show. Now I know that the South Africa show was about Oprah, and not the desperate in South Africa. Oprah thinks she does well to occasionally condescend to the wretched in charity. She would do well better by exercising justice and divest and strip herself of ninety percent of her wealth.

This then is the state of American democracy--ever vigilant, with perfect equality, justice, and peace for all.

Tracy McLellan can be reached at: tracymacl@yahoo.com

As much as there are world class Nigerian dot coms needing the neccessary venture capital funding,it might not be eureka yet,reasons been that the few venture capital entity operating funds for Nigeria dont see dotcom ventures in Nigeria providing a 33% MRI within a financial year.
Actis is the largest venture capital operator in Nigeria with its $300 million EMAP 2 Fund,its criteria for investing in a business is the business must have a strong business plan that would guarantee a return of 35% .That is why its investments are limited to property development,banking,telecoms and FMCG entity.
The dotcom startups are not fully on ground in Nigeria,we do have a few nigerian centric web sites,agreed do they have the clout to generate enough revenue to keep their ops running ?
Unless owners n business development execs of Nigerian websites come together to form an allinance,the future might look bleak.

36 KINIWU FC OF IWO.I was on my way to ileife a few moons back when I saw this bus embrossed with a lion head and the letters 36 KINIWU FC OF IWO.
36 LIONS INDEED

TO the best of my understanding I THINK THERE ARE NO ISPS IN NIGERIA,WHAT WE HAVE ARE BANDWIDTH RESELLERS.Should any one have an idea of a bandwidth reseller <isp> offering mobile broadband within Lagos @ a resonable price Holla

M_nwankwo,
I am not the owner of autotraderng.com,I happened to use the service and I found it very helpful and over the cause of using the sites ,I met with the guys that run the service and I made the same comments u made on here.Their response was the cars they list is certified preowned and the cars are not wreakages or salvages hence the dealers list @ a premium.

person wey drink 4 bottles of star go claim say hin dey live under $1 ,na yeye people ful this nation

check civic center on ozumba if u can afford wat u ask of

IFA ba agbomiragun is a true yoruba religion with solutions of todays problem,believe it or not.pointer is the yoruba language

THe boy no get money,small boi level wey gbenga say make hin do hin no fit,if hin get money make hin carry hin baby go caverton and hire chopper for a panoramic view of eko,after make hin sail from tazhan jetty go wande's place @ the la campaigne tropicana,stay over night and sail again to Ologoro island on the fringes of Benin republic.
If hin fit do am then hin baby no leave 4 life
hin think say romantic place na 4 mouth

People forget things easily,Aliko started out as a cement and haulage truck business man in 1980 with 1 million naira which was £1million ,27 years later he built the biggest cement plant in the Africa with $ 1.9 billion,From 17 MB911 trucks in 1980 ,he has over 250 MACK trucks worth around 600 million dollars.This was a suger importer in 1997,in 1999 he built the largest the sugar refinery in Africa,we all both his shares when he sold 20 %.This is a man that employs in the region of about 7000 people directly and more indirectly more than some state governments.
This is the scion of the DANTATA Dynasty and when u take a bt groundnut pyramids in social studies,DANTATA was the Groundnut itself,so for his grand son to say he might be the richest black man is no understatement.
Some1 said he is ruthless,Oprah too was ruthless,ask those that knowshe is ruthless ,forget the glamour Miss goody two shoes u see on TV,how did HARPER became No1 in America.
Someone said he bought refinery for cheap , of what use is the refinery if it cant be dismantled and sold @ owode onirin,dem sell dem no sell Fuel price no come down so if dem like make dem sell.@ least we no dey hear of TAM worth millions of USD AGAIN.
Thank God say we still get DANGOTE,WE WOULD HAVE BEEN OVERRAN BY INDIA
idiot people wey dey complain abt dangote go eat agege bread in the morning made with dangote flour,drink coke mixed with dangote sugar,cook 4 nite with dangote salt,go party hassle 4 DANSA,rent HOUSE wey be say na DANGOTE CEMENT DEM TAKE BUILD AM N VERY SOON BEGIN USE DANGOTE PHONE.MAKE UNA NO THANK AM,
A man dat believes in AFRICA'S BIGGEST MARKET SHOULD BE AFRICA'RICHEST
up dangote up nigeria

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