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@easy4beno

I got your mail and I've replied.
Please send pics of interior and other pics too to my e-mail ola.oh_la_la@yahoo.com.

Also confirm in mail if body have been worked on

Cheers please reply b4 close of work today

@easy4beno

I got your mail and I've replied.
Please send pics of interior and other pics too. Also confirm if body have been worked on

Cheers please reply b4 close of work today

@nyrol1

I just sent you a mail. Please reply. Thanks

Thanks.

I just replied your mail.

What year is this car, what colour and what's the mileage. If you got pics, please send to ola.oh_la_la@yahoo.com. I'm interested in buying this car.

I would have loved to buy this van if it was already sitting here on Naija soil. There are too many conditions involved that may cause hitches and delays. Why don't you bring it down first and then add on your costs and sell at cost+freight+clearing+others?

do you only ship fromk the u.s.? I would like to ship some goods from South Africa. Can you?

I'm very interested. Please send pics to ola.oh_la_la@yahoo.com

Has this car undergone body repairs? It looks like it's resprayed. I'll pay you =N= 250k cash today for this car. I'm very serious and the cash is sitting in my drawer now in the office. E-mail me on ola.oh_la_la @ yahoo.com

In this World, there's 2 types of people: those who chase reality, and those who chase the shadow.
If your beef is solely because a visiting whiteman had them to make an observation of our mega city, then you're chasing the shadow, and by implication our country would never improve with your mindset.
I challange us to fix the problems and see if anybody makes "derogatory" comments about our country again. Unfortunately, you the shadow chasers know that we can't fix the problem, not in this lifetime, so it's easier to blame anybody and anything except ourselves.

Abegi!

You want me to post here 101 problems that are "derogatory" about America? And indeed many other countries?

Methinks someone with a mindset that 'we can't fix the problem, not in this lifetime' is really the "shadow chaser"

Have you been to Lagos lately

I still maintain that the guy is a foolish man.

If he had boarded a flight from Southern Africa and the landing is approached from Epe-Lekki axis, the idiot would have seen colourful roofs of houses and complexes sizes of which I'm sure he doesn't live in in his America, oluriburuku, omo ale.

He should have gone to film New Orleans when the flood covered them up!

Foolish man, oloriburuku omo ale

so when the pilot and the cabin crew tell the passengers to switch of all electronic devises until after landing and the aircraft comes to a stop, he's busy filming from his phone or whatever. If na black man do that now they'll say he's jeopardizing the lives of other passengers!

The guy should be arrested and given the 'terrorist's treatment'

RE: BUSINESS DAY. - 4th January, 2009

It appears it gets only worse for Nigeria and her battered image after the US authorities last night listed her among six other nations whose nationals and air travellers are now to be subjected to more stringent pre-travel scrutiny. The fresh scrutiny follows the Christmas day failed attack on a Detroit bound plane by alleged Nigerian plane bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and it further puts the searchlight on Nigeria which has now been without a president for about 42 days. This new measure will affect Nigerians and other travellers landing today at any United States’ airport. Other countries listed with Nigeria are Pakistan, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Yemen and Cuba. The move will come as a serious blow to Nigeria which had been hoping that western countries will not visit the attempted crime of Abdulmutallab on innocent Nigerians. Nigerians had for long suffered discriminatory immigration controls in western countries over what is perceived as large scale drug trafficking and advanced fee fraud (popularly called 419). Minister of Information and Communications, Dora Akunyili, had only last week pleaded with the international community to spare Nigerians from undignified treatment over the incident, saying the wrong of one man should not be visited on the entire country. But one senior western diplomat, who spoke to BusinessDay last night described the move as a slap on the face of Nigeria, one which, he said, will leave an indelible mark. According to the diplomat, “This is not just about the alleged Nigerian plane bomber, Abdulmutallab. The world sees the Abdulmutallab incident as a reflection of the failure of governance, as part of a worrying trend. “This US move must be taken as a strongest message yet that the world expects Nigeria and her government to rise up to her obligation as a regional power. “For almost 41 days you have been without a truly functional government to offer hope and assurance to a watching world and now the US is showing clearly that it is losing patience. After all, Nigeria is not the only country whose national has been listed among alleged terrorists. “It’s amazing how things have changed for Nigeria. Not many remember that only a few years ago, Nigeria was presented as a model by the world which granted her unprecedented terms that wiped away her huge foreign debts. Today that seems like a century away. The reality is that the world does not hate Nigeria. When you do well you will be rewarded”, the diplomat said. The US government said the tougher screening rules for passengers arriving by air from Nigeria and the other six countries are being introduced because they are deemed to have links with terrorism. The new measure will involve what the US authorities called “pat-down body searches and have carry-on baggage searched.” It is coming on the heels of President Barack Obama’s promise “to act quickly to fix flaws” in the US security system.



Upon all the prayers that we pray in this country, is God really on our side?

This Dele guy is just a big fool. It's gutless people like him that give we yorubas a bad name. I had written him off long time ago!

@bidemi12

I laughed so much when i read your post to the extent that water was pouring out of my eyes. Omo, like it or not it will affect it. But still if you get good history God fit de you side. Best of luck.

LOL!   Na wah being a Naija o! We no even dey sure whether God dey our side again, eh?

I started smoking in December 1985 and I smoked for 23 years. I was a damn heavy smoker then in the university doing over a pack of twenty per day. Later when I graduated I started doing about two packs per day.

My brother it hasn't been easy but I thank God that I stopped smoking June 2008. The most important thing is the desire to quit which you already have and ensure that you occupy your mind and time with a lot of other activities that you can not combine with smoking. Avoid hanging out in places where you'll be ENCOURAGED to smoke. The next one might be funny, but Go To Church. You'll be surprised how it helps (not particularly spiritually alone) but it helps you too.

Yeah, there might be one, two or three times you'll go back to it, but you'll notice that gradually, you start forgetting about it and immediately you realise that you're not addicted after all, then you've reached the turning point.

I wish you all the best. Yes, you can do it!!

@lara4luv

Magodo Central?? To where? I used to live in Magodo and was working in Lekki after second roundabout. Used to leave home by 5:30 a.m.  Magodo is close to Shagamu, Ijebu and Ibadan.

On a serious note it's a cool place to live if you are self employed or work in Alausa.

Was the government expecting otherwise? Do the government think that they (MEND) have become 'BORN AGAIN' after signing the ceasefire?

I laugh!!   

who no know go know!!!

@ kuramo

Anyone seriously planning on applying to do an MBA should think again.

Recent indications are that come 2010 and for the second year running, tens of thousands of overqualified MBA's will graduate with nowhere to go and work.   A few will land jobs in investment banks but the majority of those dreaming of lucrative jobs with big companies will be disappointed.

In fact a lot of new MBA holders will go crawling back to their old employers if they have been lucky enough to have been employed before embarking on an MBA, they will in effect be doing pretty much what they were doing before for the same money. That is the effect of the global recession.

One then has to question whether an MBA is really worth all the money it costs . If there is a decline in the myth surrounding an MBA, maybe it's a good thing , it will cut the supply of pretentious bullshit ideas about business at source.

I beg to disagree sir!

Would you say because there are so many "charge and bail lawyers" littering our high courts doing affidavits et al should mean no one should go to school again to read law?

My brother, I am SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING DOING AN MBA any time from now and my belief is that even if every third person on the street has an MBA qualification, one simply needs to proof him/her self in any situation one finds oneself. You may even end up becoming an entrepreneur thereafter!!! The MBA will definitely make you a better one!!!

@ poster

Why not consider a part time MBA or even a distance / online MBA. These days, its the way to go. That way you get to do your MBA and keep your job, and if you have the strength, you can get married too at the same time. 

MEN DON'T LIKE TALL WOMEN; YEAH, WE JUST LIKE LONG LEGS!

Right so he shouted and shouted eh? Rubbish. It's about time he started experiencing what the ordinary citizens suffer as a result of the corrupt political class.

As an aside, I wonder why the governor of Akwa Ibom didn't fly from his 'ultramodern' airport that was just commissioned with fanfare? Why did he have to go by the 'terrible road' to Calabar to catch a flight?

One wonders who these rogues think they are fooling.

lol!


'ori t'o m'a j'eko sun, k'o ni ranti ti window'

Dele Momodu; Please Up Your Game, Your Sh*t Is Weak!
Firstly; I cannot begin to tell you how terribly upset I am that I wasted 10 minutes of my life this morning reading the utter tripe of an article you submitted to ThisDay as your column last week.

Please break my heart and tell me you got paid for writing that steaming pile of dog poo? I stopped reading your nonsense a while ago but I somehow got sucked into reading this one.

But it's not all your fault. I blame Mr Nduka Obaigbena who seems to be unsure whether he wants ThisDay to be a serious newspaper or a light entertainment magazine. If your column was published in The Daily Star in between the pictures of the naked page 3 girls, I wouldnt much care. But you seem to want people to take your column seriously, which is what I have a problem with.

Dude, if we want to hear an allegory about the hunter and the antelope, we would watch Tales by Moonlight. We certainly dont want to pay N150 for a newspaper for us to listen to you talk to us as if we were impressionable children listening intently to the gentlemen who just returned from a sojourn abroad regaling them with tales which stretch the truth to breaking point.

I think you should be a bit more humble, your life is NOT that interesting. You need not tell us details of how you and your wife and child slept on a single bed in London. What you might have considered squalor at the time is to die for many children all over the world today. Besides what you went through is part of what forges the character of any man. You ate chicken in Cotonou? Really? I am happy for you.

Besides the majority of Nigerians who come to live and work in the UK almost always have exceedingly humble beginnings. It's the way the society is designed in case you hadnt noticed. The UK is not given to producing millionaires overnight unlike Nigeria. People are expected to work their way upwards on the social ladder.

We also do not care if you only ever met Madam Cecilia only once or thrice. In any case we have no way of verifying this information. However if you choose to make this information public, then I have a right to disbelieve it. So I am telling you now that I think you have met Mrs Ibru at least 15 times and that Intercontinental has advertised in Ovation in the past. What are you going to do about that?

Again, we do not care if you bought a second hand Bentley at 42. If you had friends who were jealous of you on account of that, then I suggest you upgrade the kind of friends you keep. What does it cost to drive a brand new car in the UK? If I wanted to drive a 2009 car today in the UK, I could do so by tomorrow, all I need to do is prove I can meet the monthly payments and I will drive away with the car dealer thanking me profusely. I cannot imagine any of my friends being jealous of me if I decide to buy a second hand Bentley. Stop fooling yourself, a second had car is never a sign of success in the UK.

I also notice the sly attempt to paint yourself as a martyr right up there with Dr Tai Solarin and Madam Due Process, Oby Ezekwesili. Nice try Bob Dee, pull the other one.

So now in your eyes all the bank MDs only made mistakes? Do you obtain your wisdom from the back of danfo buses in Lagos, you know the ones where they write 'nobody is above mistake'?

You talk about Sanusi going overboard and beyond his mandate. You then spectacularly fail to tell us what the said mandate is. Dude, you are not allowed to do that. If you are going to accuse the man of acting beyond what his powers allow or even counter to the national interest as you allege, you gotta back it up with facts. And what exactly do you mean by historical dialects? I know you studied Yoruba in University but seriously, get a grip.

Mr Dele Momodu are you saying that the impeachment of Governors [in the middle of the night as you claim] were all acts of scapegoatism?? Whatever it is you are drinking, I suggest you cease and desist from drinking it forthwith. It's clearly too strong.

For the first time in the history of Nigeria, there was a reckoning for politicians who felt they could get away with riding roughshod over the will of the people by brazenly rigging elections. Do you know that names like Palm Kernel, Michael Jackson, Iron etc were discovered on the ballot to have voted for Dr Olusegun Agagu in the 2007 elections in Ondo state? Are you saying that cheating to win an election is ok? Do you know of any serious democracy where rigging an election is ok?

In your view only a 'benevolent and visionary dictator and clear headed visionaries' can rid Nigeria of corruption. Wow. Dude please make up your mind are you a democrat or thugocrat? I dare say if a dictator were to appear on the scene in Nigeria today, you would be one of the first batch of people he would go after because of your specialty in glorifying all that's wrong with Nigeria. Please dont start feeling too cool with yourself just yet.

You talk about Sanusi not giving the bank MDs the opportunity of redemption. Gracious me, do you want a microphone and pulpit so you can deliver your 2009 version of The Sermon on The Mount? You dont even think they are guilty, so to slyly canvass for redemption for them is downright bizarre.

Dude, do you know that one of the best ways to fight corruption is to let people know and see that justice will be done if you are corrupt? If these MDs are guilty of the very serious crimes they have been accused of, do you have a problem with them doing the time for it? They are not poor men, they can hire the best lawyers to defend them AND they will get a chance to defend themselves in court which is very crucial. Mind you, a 'benevolent and visionary dictator', as you suggest, would probably just throw them in jail and leave them to rot there.

You say the government is a pathological debtor. Show me a country where the government is not a debtor. If the government stopped borrowing from the banks, how many of them do you think would survive one day? I am certain that you wouldnt know a government bond if it landed on your lap, stroked your chest hair and called you 'Bob Dee'. But remain ignorant if you wish, just dont spread the disease in your columns anymore.

You said the western govts rolled out 'workable packages' compared to our theatre of the absurd when dealing with the financial crisis. I will only slightly tolerate your ignorance as you appear to be suffering from what is called a 'fatal conceit' , trying to talk about something you couldnt possibly know anything about.

But I will give you just one example; At the height of the credit crunch the UK govt forced Lloyds TSB to takeover HBOS. HBOS was dead to all intents and purposes at the time but Lloyds was doing pretty ok as it hadnt taken on the kind of risks HBOS had. Over what has now come to be known as the most expensive glass of champagne ever, the deal was struck and Lloyds Banking Group was born.

So far this year, Lloyds has had to make writedowns of £13bn as a result of that unholy marriage that was orchestrated by the government. Not only that, it was revealed that Lloyds will have to close as much as 550 branches of Halifax it inherited with all the attendant job losses. When all those people lose their jobs, they wont pay any income tax. They will also start collecting benefits increasing the cost to the government.

If that's what you call a workable package, then please get in touch with me, there's a bridge linking Ikorodu and Lekki I want to sell to you for a good price.

You claim foreigners were not invited to take over the banks in America when they were teetering on the brink of collapse. Really? When Lehman Brothers went kaput, Barclays and Nomura were the vultures who were called in to split the carcass. Those banks are American I take it?

Ever the heard the name Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan before? Well he was the Abu Dhabi Prince who bailed out Barclays last October when the bank was doing everything possible to avoid taking a bailout from the UK government. He invested £7bn for an 11% stake in the bank last year and that literarily saved them from damnation. He also owns Manchester City Football Club for your information.

Dude, the world has changed. These days you take money from where you can find it. Do you have an idea of just how much the US owes China? The Hummer vehicle brand was sold to Sichuan Tengzhong by General Motors when it needed to raise cash. I could go on and on.

You throw about some Latin quotes in a bid to look smarter than you really are. You talk about the Nemo dat rule in relation to Sanusi, claiming he should not or could not have sacked the MDs. Mr Wannabe lawyer, I have news for you; Under Sections 33 and 35 of The Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act of the Nigerian consitution, Sanusi has the powers to sack bank MDs. So your nemo dis or nemo dat sh*t is weak! There is a reason why we have that law in Nigeria. It's because bank MDs sit tighter than Gaddafi in Libya, other than sacking them, there's almost no other way to remove them when they have been found to have done wrong.

You also quote the audi alteram partem rule which effectively says no one should be condemned WITHOUT being heard i.e due process must be followed. Except I am missing something, NONE of the bank MDs has yet been condemned, and they are currently getting a chance to be heard. So why are you wetting your pants getting overly excited?

These bank MDs have been accused of very serious crimes of borrowing people billions of naira of shareholders money without so much as taking a kolanut as collateral. Please keep quiet and let the whole drama play out. Life goes on, they will get their day in court and plenty more facts and evidence will be revealed. And I repeat; they will have access to the very best lawyers in the country, something the majority of Nigerians can only dream of.

Mr Momodu, you do not have a right to play fast and loose with the facts because you have the priviledge of a back page column in a national daily. As a journalist and member of the 4th estate, you have a duty to inform the public of the facts and as much as possible only give an opinion after you have throughly checked the facts.

At your level, ignorance is very dangerous and expensive, moreso in a country like Nigeria with all our myriad problems.

Your sh*t is weak dude, you need to up your game big time!

gbam!

@cyberG,

Nna meeeen! Na wetin? You dey vex well well o! But sha, na true you talk. If only people can see the truth of this matter.

@ letustalk

There would be no room for discrimination because the word "online" or "part time" would not be written on your certificate.

Any more question would be appreciated.

Yes, they do not write "online" or "part time" on your certificate, b ut nowadays, some employers do ask what manner of MBA you studied.

Would a full time MBA be more acceptable than an online one?

I'm interested, please can you post pics? Whats the mileage?

I need a good runner for =N= 250k. Anyone got any??

Some 419 guys here are rubbing their hands in glee!

I tell you! I was just thinking the same when you posted my thoughts. I hope this guy doen't come back to post any unpleasant experience he gets in their hands.

Quote from: RichyBlacK on Yesterday at 02:34:21 PM

Nigeria has the most useless government humanity has ever had!

Seconded, all indices pointing towards the fact that Nigeria is a FAILED state what a shame

Everyday, I get more and more convinced that Nigerian rulers are demonic bastards!!

Bros,

I'll take this car off you for =N= 120k. last. Think about it and get back ASAP b4 I change my mind.

I'll remember ( and I already do so everytime I pass through) him as the yoruba leader who ruled Nigeria for eight years and never fixed the most important stretch of road in yoruba land THE LAGOS IBADAN EXPRESS WAY

This Bode George sef no dey shame! Still dey make noise in prison. Does he have children at all? I hope they are all covering their eyes in shame. Awon omo ole! 85bn. Haaa, ko ni da fun bobo yen meeeen! That money alone can solve all the major roads in Lagos State.

How many times will they award themselves big money to repair this same road. Imagine taking 30 months to fix a road meaning that it could take 30 years to construct a totally new one. How long will we continue to watch these politicians steal all the money?

Hmmmm!

I took a cab recently from Ogba to Adeniyi Jones via ACME. That portion of the road around Steel Industries has been in the same terrible state it has been as far back as 1990 (20 YEARS) when I was working somewhere around there. I asked the cab driver why the road hasn't been fixed and he said matter-of-factly " We have demons as leaders ruling us in Nigeria.

I'm begining to agree with the guy.