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oloritinu:
i tried o my brother. that is the problem i have now. i missed the flat i wanted recently because the lanlord wants a married person and i am not. pls, if any has 3bedroom around akobo in ibadan, i am intrested.pls ,i like to the house to have water running. my budget is 120,000-150,000naira /year. please i can only pay for one year ooooooooooo.

Waw, is it the rate in Ibadan, I think I should relocate, just need a chopper

landtraza:
the one that retaliated, need one slap also. cause as AFRICAN we do our own things the AFRICAN way.It is written, a man remains de head of a woman, and a rod is for the back of the silly ones. who knows if the lady in question has miss behave, and needed some correction. i rest my case till when i hear from the horses mouth.

Excuse me I didn’t get it, what is that African Way, is it women slavery. The journalist said that she has never met him personally, she only criticized his way in playing long time ago, or you still need to hear it from a horse

Iceugwa:
What does sharia say about this. Hope they amputate that hand so that he would repeat it

In Arab countries, it is very shameful to beat a woman in open places. If you are in a market and quarrel with a woman no matter what she says if you beat her the whole Market will come on you and mostly you will be beaten

However, the Algerian football players and supporters are known by their outrageous temper, they are exactly like the English hooligans

[size=18pt]Gaza flotilla organizer: We'll sue Israel at ICJ[/size]
Aviel Magnezi
Israel News

[size=14pt]Audrey Bomse of Free Gaza movement says members collecting evidence, testimonies from passengers stopped by Israel on their way to Strip in order to make Jewish state 'pay the price for its crimes'. Civilians to file similar claim in Greek court
Organizers of a flotilla which attempted to reach the Gaza Strip in late May are planning to file a lawsuit with the International Court of Justice in The Hague against the State of Israel and the officials responsible for the raid of the ships.

In addition, dozens of Greek civilians are planning to file another lawsuit against Israeli officials over the same affair at a local court in their country.

Audrey Bomse, legal officer for the Free Gaza movement, told Ynet that the organizations behind the flotilla are working on a lawsuit against Israel with the help of 12 lawyers from countries whose citizens took part in the sail.

The lawyers are collecting evidence and testimonies from the passengers who were onboard the ships making their way to the Strip, and have even approached representatives of different countries – including the United States and Britain – and demanded that they pressure Israel to return the seized vessels. A personal appeal was made to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

According to Bomse, the organization members will also demand that Israel return other items confiscated from the passengers, including cellular phones and computers, which they said included "evidence of the Israeli crimes".

She said that the claim would be filed for the killing of civilians, inhumane treatment, injuries and damage caused to people and property, illegal deportation of the passengers, taking people hostage and robbery. She noted that the Israel Defense Forces soldiers used the activists' credit cards.

'Israel violated Greek law'
Meanwhile, more than 30 Greek citizens who took part in the Gaza flotilla are planning to file a lawsuit with the Public Prosecutor's Office in Athens against the Israeli defense minister, chief of staff and other senior officials who they say violated the local criminal law and international law by raiding the vessels.

One of the plaintiffs, Professor Vangelis Pissias, explained that the passengers planned to sue Israel for the security forces' violent takeover of the ships, for the "violent" arrests and for the property taken from the activists.

"We are not rich," Pissias told Ynet. "Israel returned our bags without the property which they contained. They sent me an empty bag without my computer. I don't know where it is, it might have gotten lost on the way – but someone has to pay for it. It's clear that we have to sue those responsible in Israel. It will serve as a message to this country that international law must be honored and that they cannot act that way."

He said he and his friends planned to continue their struggle until Israel changed its policy.

"We hope that the siege will be lifted. We don’t want to spend our tile on flotillas, but the rights of Gaza's residents are being violated and we have a responsibility, as civilians, to work to change Israel's attitude. If we have the power we can operate in other places in the world as well. We are only fulfilling our duty."[/size]
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3909855,00.html

It is the most frustrating thing in Nigeria? you feel like you are working just to satisfy your landlord

However, it like tradition or common understanding more than contracting, laws or regulations. I wish the govt can do anything, anything to stop this bloody system, but what can govt do if the landlord insists on annual payment not monthly like most of the world
It is serious problem that needs serious resolution

PapaBrowne: Way overpriced. Some creepy hotels in Victoria Island charge as high as 30k per night. The better ones can go for 50k per night.
Its horrible. In places like Dubai, New York, Frankfurt, you don't get to pay these kind of prices on hotels that are way better than those shitholes they offer on the Island

Yess indeed. Our bro asked if the hotels are overpriced NOT if their Overprices are justified or not

So, are the hotels overpriced or not? the naswer is big yes. These prices cannt make any tourism industry

I stayed in Sheraton Cairo on the bank the of Nile rever for 90$ per night, and even you cannot compare between sheraton here and there, in Cairo alone more than 5 Sheraton hotels. That is why 8million tourists visit Egypt annually spent 5billion USD, the same in south africa

Definitely indigenous coaches understand their African brothers footballers much better than foreigners, see what the Egyptian coach Shehata has done, 3 african cups consecutively

However the main point is that the coach must train his players for long time to understand the players and their skills. During the 70s the German and Italian coaches were in their jobs for over a decade

For lagerback, now you are saying the truth

tpiah:
the woman still needs to sue him and also report him to the police, FIFA and his home club.

She announced that she is going to sue him

Well done Halimi indeed.    How I wish she could make him bleed, anyway what she did is enough for now and still she is gonna sue him. But FIFA must punish this silly man, he didn’t even have reason to slap her.

Those Algerian players they have serious anger management in fact even their supporters they have serious issues, after their final match with Egypt in Sudan, they beat the hell out of the Egyptians after the matter though they won it.

I think their history against the French colonialism inherited them hard mood, they lost in their revolution over one million Algerians.

[size=18pt]Who Wins, Who Loses if Israel Ends Its Gaza Siege?[/size]By
TONY KARON Tuesday, Jun. 22, 2010
Time Magazine

Israel's announcement that it will end its prohibition on a wide variety of civilian goods entering Gaza marks the collapse of the Israeli strategy to topple the territory's Hamas rulers through "economic warfare." The Islamists who rule the tiny coastal strip will count the announcement as a victory simply because they survived the siege. So will Turkey, which backed the activist flotilla whose challenge to the siege ended in bloodshed — and set off the diplomatic firestorm that precipitated Israel's about-face. The move marks Israel conceding that its Gaza strategy has failed to achieve its goal, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu disowned the blockade on Monday, stressing in his remarks to parliament that it was a policy he'd inherited from his predecessors.

That the blockade collapsed under pressure is also an embarrassment for the Obama Administration because Turkey's more muscular challenge will be seen throughout the region to have forced a change in Israeli behavior — something that Obama's polite entreaties have failed to achieve. (The President had urged the Israelis more than a year ago to ease the siege, to little effect.) Others with egg on their faces include Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, both of whom had tacitly but firmly backed the blockade in the hope of toppling Hamas and whose diminished relevance to events in the region has been highlighted by the blockade debacle.

The U.S. as well as the Europeans welcomed the Israeli announcement as a first step toward normalizing economic life in Gaza, but they also noted that the shift would be judged by Israel's deeds rather than words. If in fact Israel changes its current blockade policy — [size=14pt]from prohibiting everything from entering Gaza[/size], except for a limited range of items on a secret list, to allowing all traffic except for proscribed military items — it would also mean giving up on the political strategy of systemically depriving Gaza's civilian population so that they would turn against Hamas. The fact that the Israelis negotiated their policy shift with the U.S. and with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who is a representative of the Middle East Quartet (the U.S., the E.U., the U.N. and Russia), is a reminder that the blockade was, in fact, part of an anti-Hamas strategy shared by the Western powers. While the Obama Administration had expressed misgivings about the strategy of collective punishment in Gaza, it never demanded a change in the Gaza blockade in the same way that it insisted, for example, that Israel halt settlement construction.

The move to isolate and pressure Hamas in Gaza began in 2006 when the movement won the Palestinian legislative elections. It intensified the following year after Hamas violently ejected Fatah security forces in a struggle for power on the streets. That was in line with the Bush Administration's strategy of seeing the region through the prism of a zero-sum conflict between radicals and moderates. The verdict of the Palestinian electorate was irrelevant to a White House that deemed Hamas as nothing more than a proxy for Iran, against which the Bush Administration was hoping to unite Arab moderates. After Hamas was voted into office, the U.S. demanded that the movement formally renounce armed struggle, recognize Israel and abide by agreements negotiated by the PLO's Fatah leadership — and demanded that it be isolated and pressured until it was ready to issue what Hamas would deem a symbolic surrender.

The same moderates-vs.-radicals outlook led the Bush Administration to back — and even encourage — Israel's attack on Lebanon in the summer of 2006 and its pummeling of Gaza in January 2008. And though the White House pressed the Arab regimes to denounce Hizballah and Hamas in those conflicts, Arab public opinion was outraged by Israel's actions. The Arab regimes, including the Palestinian Authority, that did fall in line with the U.S. simply became more isolated from their own people. In a particularly humiliating episode, Abbas was forced to reverse himself under a storm of criticism, even from within his own party, after initially opposing U.N. discussion of the Goldstone report into war crimes committed by both sides during the Gaza battle.

Despite its intention to do things differently in the Middle East, the Obama Administration immediately embraced its predecessor's Hamas boycott and conditions, for which Washington had also won the Quartet's backing. Obama's peace quest, like his predecessor's, has been based on sidestepping the uncomfortable reality of Gaza, and the fact that his designated peace partner, President Abbas, could hardly be said to be representative of all, or even most, Palestinians. Indeed, just like the Bush Administration, Obama officials began presenting the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian talks as vital to the effort to isolate Iran. The Administration has resisted moves it deems inimical to the effort to prop up the politically enfeebled Abbas. On Arab moves to promote Fatah-Hamas rapprochement, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that the U.S. would not deal with a Palestinian government that included Hamas unless the movement accepted the conditions set by the Bush Administration. Even Israeli negotiations with Hamas over a prisoner swap that would release captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit were viewed coolly by the Administration, largely because Israel concluding a prisoner exchange would highlight Abbas' weakness.

The glaring flaw in the moderates-vs.-radicals strategy, of course, is that the U.S. has been unwilling or unable to press Israel to offer a peace agreement with the Palestinians that is even minimally acceptable to any of the moderate Arab regimes, much less to their citizenry. And that dooms the strategy to failure because it removes any platform on which those aligned with the U.S. could stand against those it deems as radicals. It is hardly surprising that the polls find approval ratings for Obama's Middle East policies sharply declining in Arab public opinion. And into the vacuum of that deadlock has stepped Turkey, whose government has rejected the U.S. "with us or against us" approach, and has instead sought to build bridges between the West and its allies, including Israel, and the likes of Iran, Syria and Hamas.

Turkey has also shown a willingness to confront Israel on the issues that cause outrage across the Muslim world and to conduct diplomacy independent of the terms set by Washington — both in respect of Hamas and Gaza, as well as on Iran's nuclear program. This has prompted some to suggest that Turkey is moving over into the camp of the radicals, but Ankara's point seems to be that dividing the region on those lines has gotten the U.S. nowhere, and that progress requires integrating the likes of Iran and Hamas into systems of security and stability that recognize the intractable reality that they are stakeholders in the region's future. The Obama Administration may not like that idea, but so far, the alternatives it has promoted have gained little traction. Indeed, more than anything else, Israel's lifting the blockade in the wake of the flotilla debacle is a reminder that the U.S. and its allies are no longer setting the region's strategic agenda
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1998553,00.html?xid=huffpo-direct

@davdeaf

Do you know ever how to talk to others? Poor manners!!
So what was the result after your rubbish analysis, only the players are faulty, who chose those players. why did he accept the job if he does not have a team? It is our money and nothing else.
As long as there are some people are giving rubbish excuses, we will not correct our faults
Nonsense

After France performance against Mexico and the first 35 minutes of Nigerian performance, i believe we can do it. our players should not lose hope or concentration, France after Zidan is nothing to fear. Even we can make Big score, Ameen

Defiantly BIG YES. The man did not add anything to players, you do not see strategy, and he does not control the match as a big coach. See otto rehhagel, coach of Greece, once stupid kaita got red card he pushed in an attacker, we always saw at least three greek players attacking our goal keeper so if one miss the other would get it, he changed the match completely.
Why he kep out Obafemi Martins, we needed such player who could finish counter attack in the goal
We could have kept the match at least 1/0 if we had systematic organized defense, but the whole team fell apart

the man is absolutely stupid as Kaita

He is the most stupid player, i swear if i catch him will tear him apart. he is a profissional player in europ not a small player in road side, completely nonsense

He is absolutely real responsible man, doesnt lose focus or concentration for a second, we are proud of him. Up till now he is the best goalkeeper in the tournament. pray for him to keep focus

cotex:
The naira has been appreciating steadily against major foreign currencies since March last year when the country's central bank liberalised the foreign exchange market
As at today is 1$----N138

I do not believe so, ir would hit the head lines in news. can anyone else confirm this. pls to everybody do not state what you are not sure 100%

It will be the biggest surprise in World Cup 2010 if Algeria wins or qualifies to next, they were doinng very bad since qualified, lost all its friendly matches 3/0 to serbia, 3/0 to Ireland. In africa cup they lost 3/0 to Maly and 4/0 to Egypt, won only Cote d'voir
I do not expect much from them

I think in 1994, Nigeria played in one group with Argentina (lost 2/1) and Greece, we won them and qualified to next.
I believe history will repeat itsef 

Nigeria will win 2/0

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SO WHEN YOU CAN NOT TWIST THE FACTS YOU JUST REJECT IT

Is that much your heart is full of hatred? Such dark heart can't see light.[/size]

[size=16pt]THE DEVIL HAS NO FAITH[/size]

[size=14pt]The massacre of activists should not have been unexpected.[/size]

On May 28, three days before the raid, top Israeli military officials revealed details of their strategy to Maariv, Israel’s most widely circulated paper. The caption of the Maariv article reflected the military command’s plan to use force: “On the way to violence; one of the boats is on its way.”


Once again Israel has shown its true colors, its murderous intentions; it showed the world what a ruthless, emotionless, cold-blooded killing machine it is.

We all remember that apartheid regime had no problem when it killed an innocent American girl named Rachel Corrie, we all remember the British reporters that the IDF shot dead.

This monster defies all moral or human values

[size=18pt]Netanyahu: International inquiry panel would create problematic precedent [/size]
[size=14pt]The Prime Minister has not officially rejected the proposal by UN chief Ban Ki-moon, but people close to him say he is studying other options.
[/size](ha'aretz)

[size=14pt]
- Israel Ambassador Rejects Flotilla Clash InquiryNew York Times
- Israel resists pressure for international inquiry into ship raid
- France: EU can check ships heading to Gaza (AP) – 17 hours ago
- ISRAEL IN THE EYE OF A STORM OVER THE FLOTILLA RAID [/size]


The question now, if the massacre that they perpetrated was just an action of defense as they claimed, why would they reject an international investigation committee? What are they afraid of? What are they hiding?
It is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth

[size=14pt]France, Britain urge international Gaza inquiry
(AFP) – 17 hours ago[/size]

PARIS — The foreign ministers of France and Britain said an "international" inquiry was necessary to resolve the dispute over Israel's deadly raid on Gaza aid ships, after talks late Sunday in the French capital.

"We think it is very important that there is a credible and transparent investigation, there should be an international presence at minimum" in the probe, said Foreign Secretary William Hague at a press conference with his French counterpart Bernard Kouchner.

Kouchner added that the international inquiry was needed "because several countries are involved" in the incident.

France also proposed that the European Union could step in to help defuse the situation by checking the cargo on ships bound for the Gaza Strip as well as the Rafah crossing point into the Hamas-run Palestinian territory.

"We could very well check the cargo of ships heading to Gaza, We would be very willing to do it," said Kouchner of an EU role.

He noted that the EU had taken charge of the Rafah border crossing from Egypt to Gaza in the past.

"We could again propose that the European Union, control this crossing in a very strict manner," he said.

Hague also spoke of how the EU could "help as it has in the past" by ensuring that a flow of needed aid and economic assistance reaches Gaza, while at the same time addressing Israel's concerns that weapons are not coming into the territory.

Israel on Sunday resisted pressure for an international probe of the May 31 raid that killed nine Turks.

Israel's ambassador to Washington Michael Oren said on US television that his country rejects "the idea of an international commission."

"Israel is a democracy. Israel has the ability and the right to investigate itself, not to be investigated by any international board," he told "Fox News Sunday."

French President Nicolas Sarkozy also made an appeal in a phone call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept "a credible and impartial inquiry" into the deadly raid, the French leader's office said.

Kouchner said France has said from the beginning that it is up to the secretary general of the United Nations to choose the form of the inquiry.

"We think that it is totally in the interests of our Israeli friends to have a wide inquiry, one that is definitely international" in scope, Kouchner said.

On the issue of Iran, another major concern for Britain and France as permanent members of the UN Security Council, Kouchner said he did not expect a Council vote on further sanctions against Tehran over its disputed nuclear programme for another week, possibly Monday June 14.

He said the sanctions vote was waiting for the official response from France, Russia and the United States to be handed to the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), regarding a nuclear fuel swap deal with Iran brokered by Turkey and Brazil.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i5vV9JOsvURh_gKdQI0eMdfNrF7g

[size=16pt]Hague: Change universal jurisdiction law[/size]
LONDON – British Foreign Minister William Hague said on Thursday he intends to act speedily to change Britain’s universal jurisdiction law and that this is agreed on within the coalition government.

At a briefing at the Foreign Office, Hague was asked by The Jerusalem Post if he has a timetable for a change to the law, which [size=14pt]allows private complaints of war crimes to be lodged against military personnel even if they are not British citizens and the alleged crimes were committed elsewhere.[/size]

[size=16pt]Cameron urged to show leadership in ending Gaza siege[/size]
By IRNA,
London : British Muslims have joined a coalition of politicians, trade unionists, academics and lawyers to ensure that Prime Minister David Cameron keeps up pressure on the Israeli regime to end its three-year siege of Gaza.
“We urge you in the name of humanity to provide leadership to end this siege,” the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) said in an open letter to Cameron Thursday signed by the coalition of more than 70 others.
“This state of affairs should not be allowed to continue for a day longer and the time has come for the newly elected British government to use all its resources to bring an end to the inhumane Gaza Blockade,” the letter said.
Cameron told MPs returning to parliament on Wednesday that Israel’s killing in international waters of passengers in a commando raid on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla was “completely unacceptable.”
“It is in their own interests to lift it (the siege) and to allow these vital supplies to get through,” he said speaking as a “friend of Israel.”
In the joint letter, MCB secretary general Abdul Bari said that he also commended Foreign Secretary William Hague’s statement calling for an end to the blockade of Gaza and said he was asking the UK government “to pursue this course of action as a matter of urgency.”
According to UN statistics, around 70% of Gazans live on less than $1 a day, 75% rely on food aid and 60% have no daily access to water.
A UN fact finding mission has also described the blockade as "collective punishment", illegal in international law.
An Early Day Motion to parliament, calling on the international community to require Israel to end its siege also immediately was signed by nearly 70 MPs as soon as it was raised on Wednesday.

Beaf:
The funny thing is that the Jews aren't Christians and don't even believe anything about Jesus or the new testament. As far as belief in Jesus is concerned, Muslims are far closer to Christians than Jews will ever be.

Please Christian extemists, hug your brothers.

In myy opinion, the issue is not religious case at all, it is matter of truth and justice. We do not deserve to be human beings if we allow inhuman and brutal actions without punishment or at least stopping it

Horus:
No, no, and no, the Israelis don't have the authority to board and seize the vessel in international waters, this is a direct violation to the International Law (read the laws), this hostile action has taken place in international waters. The boat was not in Israeli waters, PERIOD and FACT.

They believe that supporting Israel in all conditions and any situation is a matter of faith, they won't be Christians if they do not support Israel blindly. We should condemn any action against humanity regardless the religion of the perpetrator, Christian, Muslim, Jew or any other faith or without faith at all. Doing good for humanity is always good and doing bad will be always bad

[size=16pt]Israeli government office apologizes for mock flotilla video[/size]

By the CNN Wire Staff

(CNN) -- The Israeli government's press division is apologizing for circulating a link to a video that mocks activists aboard a ship headed to Gaza earlier this week that was blocked by an Israeli raid.

"Due to a misunderstanding on our part, earlier (Friday) we inadvertently issued a video link that had been sent for our perusal," according to a statement from Israel's Government Press Office, which distributed the link to media outlets.

"It was not intended for general release," the statement said. "The contents of the video in no way represent the official policy of either the Government Press Office or of the State of Israel."

The video, titled "We Con the World" -- set to the tune of the 1985 hit, "We are the World"-- was put together by Caroline Glick, a former member of the Israel Defense Forces and columnist for the Jerusalem Post.

In the video, up to a dozen members of the so-called "Flotilla Choir" -- some wearing a variation of traditional Arab dress -- sing satirical verses, such as: "There's no people dying, so the best that we can do is create the biggest bluff of all."

On her blog, Glick, who briefly appears in the video, says, "We produced a clip in English. There we feature the Turkish-Hamas 'love boat' captain, crew and passengers in a musical explanation of how they con the world."

"We think this is an important Israeli contribution to the discussion of recent events and we hope you distribute it far and wide," she adds.

Nine Turkish citizens were killed Monday after violence erupted on one of six ships in a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to the Palestinian Gaza Strip. A number of other people were wounded. Israel said the passengers initiated the attack; the passengers blamed the troops.

That incident drew widespread condemnation and cast a spotlight on the dynamics of the Gaza crisis. On Saturday, Israel intercepted the final boat that was part of the flotilla, though the incident aboard the Irish-owned MV Rachel Corrie ended peacefully about 22 miles off the Gaza coast.

Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev dismissed the the video link, saying, "The GPO sends out lots of articles. It doesn't mean they like it."

Regev said he first noticed the video on the New York Times website.

"I called my kids in to watch it because I thought it was funny," he said. "It is what Israelis feel. But the government has nothing to do with it. The GPO distributes non-government items, things that we think that show our side of the story."

It was not the first time the Israeli GPO stirred controversy with its public communications on the Gaza flotilla.

Prior to the storming of the Turkish ship, the GPO sent an e-mail to journalists sarcastically recommending that while covering "alleged humanitarian difficulties," journalists should dine at one of Gaza's few restaurants.

"We have been told the beef stroganoff and cream of spinach soup are highly recommended," the e-mail said.

The message included an internet link to an old promotional video for the restaurant. The e-mail drew criticism from the foreign press and pro-Palestinian activists.

In an interview with the Jerusalem Post, GPO director Danny Seaman defended the communication, arguing that foreign media coverage of Gaza was not balanced.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/06/05/gaza.flotilla.mock.video/

[size=16pt]Call for economic boycott of Israel[/size]

Hundreds of activists from across Britain marched through central London on Saturday demanding an economic boycott of Israel to force it to lift its blockade of Gaza.
Raising anti-Israeli slogans and carrying banners that said “End the siege of Gaza,” “Free Palestine” and “Justice will prevail,” protesters also urged the United Nations to impose sanctions against Israel for not implementing its resolution calling for an end to the blockade.
The march, jointly organised by Palestinian and anti-war groups, started from Downing Street and culminated into a noisy protest at the Israeli embassy which has been a scene of violent confrontations in the past.
Protesters included activists who were on the Gaza aid flotilla controversially raided by Israeli commandos earlier in the week.
Addressing the rally at the embassy, they said the number of people killed in the Israeli raid was more than nine. Six activists, they claimed, were still missing. Ismael Patel of Friends of al-Aqsa group said the attack was wholly “unprovoked.” “No warning was given,” he said demanding an independent international inquiry.
In a statement, organisers of the march called for a public boycott of Israeli goods.

mama-gee:
[color=deeppink]But, I heard someone say that was your butt, you were actually bending down to steal your neighbour's' belongings.[/color]

When did you leave your favourite section, Se'xuality?