₦airaland Forum

I remember once when Frankfurt/Main stadium pitch got flooded during a match and the restart of the second half had to be delayed for almost 30 minutes to give the pitch some time to drain - and that's even when the rain wasn't in anyway near the downpour we have in Southern Nigeria.

To me it wasn't an embarrassment. The Referee handled the situation well, quite unlike what happened during the Argentina-Honduras match

It's not always on the left finger. In Europe, Catholics wear their wedding rings on the 4th finger of the right hand, while Evangelicals wear on the left

We already have a female president - Turai. She's the de Facto president. The sick man is just a camouflage.

with this kind of display, I need a reason to watch the game of the senior team this weekend

The team lacked character. They were contented leading by a lone goal margin. The game is not over until the referee sounds his whistle.

What a shame

@ Kwejay, what do you mean by collateral? It could come in any form. If you operate an account with a bank that turns in enough money on a regular basis, that could serve as a collateral when borrowing. Same goes for borrowers who hold substantial shares in a bank.

From BBC account, the MD of Unity Bank (guess the only northerner among his peers) was spared because they "did not have sufficient capital but had enough to avoid being in a grave situation." - Tell that to a child

She's positioning herself to contest for the Presidency in 2011, should her husband not be in a physical position to contest. The rumors are already being spread around.

So Watch out for her! Really despicable

Bad strategy. It had been published elsewhere that he lost favor with some administrators because he insisted on using young boys from academies instead of overaged boys from the league.And also that some people at NFA (or is it NFF) tried to impose players on him and he turned them down.

Whoever is appointed next should never use overaged players to play during the tournament. That has been the bane of our football development

well, the final decision is yours and since you've made it, I do sincerely hope that you find the happiness that you are seeking. Though, happiness in any relationship doesn't come automatically, you have to seek it and work at being happy. Your partner will never give you happiness. You decide whether you want to be happy or not.

All the same, I wish you well and hope you take care of your daughter

So what is the latest? Are you still holidaying and thinking about it or have you already made up your mind on your next line of action?

Just being curious

This is irresponsible on the part of Adeboye. Mother Theresa would really be turning in her grave. I wonder if any of these ministers will ever walk from Capernum to Jerusalem, just like Jesus did.

I wish he would rethink this unnecessary distraction

BTW VCs are not appointed by any council or committee - they are usually elected by the senate of the university. There's element of politicking there and any Professor is qualified to apply to be the VC of any university where vacancy exists - irrespective of the University where the Professor is from.

So if the Binis are interested in "capturing" the VCship of UNIBEN in the next dispensation, the best they should do is start campaigning now - not on the pages of newspapers or in Nairaland for that matter, but getting close to those who will eventually cast their votes in selecting the final 3 candidates, whose names will then be forwarded to the Presidency by the university council for appointment - where there's no concensus candidate.

Finally, I would want to know the relative ratio of Bini Professors at Uniben to the other Professors from other parts together

How about being evicted from the hotel, 4 days into your 6 days booking? All because some politicians wanted to use the hotel for their nocturnal meeting? Was the most embarrassing experience of my lodging. I wouldn't want to name the hotel - was lucky that i got my 20K balance back

If you want to just solve a linear programming assignment, the programs like LINDO, Management Scientist should do whatever you want it to do for you, but if you want to write a program for solving linear programming, I think some who are more knowledgeable that myself have already given the hints.

Enjoy your time

Are we not forgeting something here - that the senate and house of Reps have their own standing rules. And I still recollect that they amended their rules before the 2003 elections that their principal officers must be people with cognate legislative experience.

So this automatically rules out these names we've been mentioning. Unless they can get the present senate to change the rules before the next inauguration - which I don't forsee happening.

The only alternative would be to have someone hold the position for say a year and get impeached, paving the way for whoever they annointed (Iyabo or Adedibu's son) to take over. But if reports are anything to go by, then someone from Kwara or Kogi state might be allowed to enjoy the goody for a year for Iyabo to get "enough" legislative experience before a palace coup takes place and Iyabo installed. In this case, I tip Saraki's daughter in the senate to hold the pforte.

That was a really poor job by the federal agencies to pull wool over our eyes. It was contrived by the Police to discredit the "non PDP" parties. I watched the clip on CNN and immediately laughed at such cheap propaganda.

First, the road leading to INEC isn't downhill, infact, from what I saw on TV it was even slightly elevated. So I wonder how the tanker could have rolled uphill to hit INEC building. Secondly, it was alledged to have been carried out at around 4:00am (according to IGP Ehindero in news reports). Knowing how sensitive the location is, and the thousands of soldiers, Police (both nominal and MOPOL) and the SSS guarding the street (up to almost 1 km leading up to INEC compound), it would be almost impossible for a tanker driver to get that close without being stopped and turned back or at least arrested after the act, judging from the fact that there are no filling station within the vicinity.

Finally, the account that I watched on TV showed that the Tanker was empty. Policemen were seen standing on top of the tanker and with the gas canisters on top of the tanker with the policemen.

Next time, they should do a better job that could at least provide some hollywood entertainment instead of a half-thought through shoddy job.

Of course the politicians know that Nigerians will accept (over time) whatever is throw at them, just so that we move on. We need to stand up and ask our leaders to give account. If we keep harping on "he was the most credible candidate among the northern candidates" we'll never progress.

If he was the best (he has credibility, though), why did they have to hang a burden of credibility of electoral malpractice on his shoulders? Why not conduct a transparent electoral process and let him win? Why must they drag the name of the country in the mud? It goes to show that the Federal Govt and PDP were really afraid of the other candidates and nurse some fears that if given a level playing field, there is the chance of someone springing a surprise on their candidate. Yar'adua need to clear so many things about the legitimacy of his mandate before he can be taken seriously within and without Nigeria, whether or not he's an angel. The (fair) electoral process is what gives an elected officer the power to act. Whatever decision he takes, he's supposed to take on behlaf of the people but when he's not legitimately elected, all his acts would be illegal. This is not a case of "the end justifying the means".

What we do not realise is the fact that the courts may still nullify the election(s) and call for a fresh election and by then, Obasanjo and most governors would have been out of power and may not be there to deliver the polluted mandate to him.

Besides, the earlier we start setting things aright in our country the better and easier it will get for us.

People are not against Yar'Adua per se, but the process that threw him up and the people that helped him to power. Have you considered that he was offered the Presidency on a platter of gold and there's probably going to be a payback time to the people who engineered his ascendency to the Presidency. He must have cut some deals with them, either to feather their nest or to offer some protection against some shady deals.

There will definitely be different conflicting interests and as he fights for legitimacy and acceptance by Nigerians across regions and political divide, he will have it difficult achieving anything in his early days in office, since it takes a president at least 6 months before taking proper "reins" of power. And that's where legitimacy of the electoral process would have eased the way for him. Whether or not he would turn out better than OBJ or he will go the way of the other politicians before him, is only for us to postulate. I pray that he disappoints me in my pessimism. But his work is cut out for him and if he's wise, he should start secretly reaching out to the opposition now

The Prize goes to NTA Aba. Between them and whichever other stations that come second should at least be half a century in infrastructure and programming.

This is a dummy they are trying to sell to Nigerians and the international communities to cover their tracks. Is it a coincidence that the news of the ballot papers still being in South Africa broke only after it became known that a truck load of already thumb-printed ballot papers in favor of the PDP was intercepted by security agencies?

They are trying to pull wool over our eyes. The election is already rigged and the 2 hours delay is just to make up for the lost time needed to thumb print another truck load of ballot papers before the actual sham starts they call election.

That is absolute nonsense. Playwriting is for stage and stage and movies are not one and the same. Great prose have been adapted to great movies, if in doubt ask John Gardner.

Ronkebaby. You are really a bigotted ignorant. If you remain in your locality, fixated with your idealized nonsense, how would you know about such polished great literary minds. Historically, at least within the contemporary nigerian literature, the yorubas have been more inclined to playwriting, while the Igbos dominate the prose. can you give me a decent prose written by a yoruba that's worth reading, apart from a few from Soyinka.

I was amazed when I read recently that Bayelsa State is the only state of the federation not connected to the national grid and they were complaining that something has to be done about it. I laughed at such proposal. If they knew the advantage they could get from not being connected to the national grid, their leaders would instead agitate for one or two more power generating stations to be built within the state to supply the state with constant electricity without the need to upload to the delapidated national grid.

Splitting NEPA (sorry I don't know what it is called now) up into multiple companies is good, but they have to go further than that and let smaller companies who are interested in power generation to participate.

In Germany for example, anybody could be a power generator. Even individual households with Solar panels, who at peak periods generate more than they need, upload to the national grid and are paid for the power uploaded. There are small scale industries generating power form Bio-gas from fermentation of organic waste - food rest, animal entrails and expired packaged food. We should also explore renewable energy options like wind turbines.

@ Ronke Baby and Thiefofheart,

I never said that the Yoruba films started then. I said the "mainstream" yoruba movie, implying the post Nollywood or do you prefer home video" yoruba films started off due to percieved marginalization. These are at least what I gleaned from the various publication. I am not part of the industry - unless as a movie lover. I only stand for less rancourous relationship by the practitioners within the industry irrespective of what part of Nigeria they are from.

By the way, the late Ola Rotimi, Wole Soyinka and other great literary minds that we have in Nigeria are not who they are or achieved what they have achieved because of their genetic heritage, but because they are talented and have put their talent into good use. I hope you get that!

As for Thiefofheart, you really do care about "me" if not you wouldn't have bothered to respond hahahahaha

What is the distribution system in Rivers State - that should be the question. Is the electricity generated by the Omoku IPP distributed only in Rivers or uploaded to the national Grid? If the later is the case, then there would be no significant improvement in power supply in the state. The question should rather be: Are the turbines working at the moment? If yes, then the state govt should be commended for undertaking such project that even the federal govt hasn't been able to complete despite the billions of dollars spent in that regard.

I think the project being undertaken by Prof Nnaji's company is different in that they are not going to upload their generated power to the national grid, but have already signed purchase agreement with private companies at Aba and would lay their own distribution lines to supply both to the public (who are willing to pay their rates) and the companies. That to me is a better approach to solving our energy need. I thought I would get better and educated arguments on the way out of the power/darkness logjam.

I have always believed that we need to de-centralise our electricity generation and distribution system. Power generated from Afam and Omoku shouldn't be sent to Oshogbo first before being returned to PH and environs or distributed to other areas. The cost of transmission and wastages would be higher. But if we have micro-systems, addressing the power need of the locality where it is generated and during peak periods when the demand exceeds supply, then they could get from neighbouring generation centers.

I think calling Odili a thief is premature. Besides, private companies always execute projects at far less cost than the govt. Afterall, the federal govt awarded a $8.4 billion contract for 1,300 km railline to a chinese firm, whereas, earlier in 2006, the same Chinese company completed a 1,100 km Tibet rail line (in a very rugged mountainous region that was considered an engineering wonder) at the cost of $1.3 billion.

@ orinkila,

I still believe that one cannot in all sincerity compare 2 actors and proclaim that one is better than the other, because no 2 persons can interprete a script the same way. Even the people you are trying to defend know their worth and are never involved in this dichotomy argument. They are professionals in their field and they are there to act. If you bring a script and they like it and the fees are good, the star in your film. Their being good at what they do has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with their genetic origin.

They are good not because they are yoruba actors acting in yoruba language. They are, because they have the talent, and have developed their talents. We are proud of our nigerian actor(ess)s, irrespective of where they come from. But I still don't believe that they are better than their contemporaries in the english genere of Nollywood - that is, if you accept that Yoruba films are part of the industry.

My only problem with the Yoruba films is that I don't get the whole depth, even with the subtitles - but that doesn't stop me from watching them if I go to a friend's house - though I don't really agree with the way they interprete their roles in the film, too much exuberance.

Crucify me if you want!

I think it's really stupid arguing about whether yoruba films are better than English films (in Nollywood). Your taste differs from mine and vice versa. I know the yorubas always want to "claim" the best and first in everything - that I don't have problems with.

But this argument is going too far. You can never win, no matter the position you take. I know the mainstream yoruba movie in Nollywood as we have it today started off as a "protest" against the perceived "marginalisation" by the Igbo (mostly, or so some thought) producers. Having made their point, they could at least have started making some movies in English so that genuine movie lovers like us, who are not yorubas can at least enjoy their stories. Movies are all about stories, no matter how stupid or non-professional it may seem to you, it's still a story and someone, may just find it interesting. Afterall, hundreds of films are produced in Hollywood, but just a few make it to the headlines. Just watch some tv channels dedicated to films.

So let the Yorubas have their ego massaged, and let the producers give us something to enjoy. By the way, when Tunde Kelani made the file Thunderbolt, it was an instant hit, because so many people could understand the language. If it was made in Yoruba, it wouldn't have recorded such success.

My last word, just a word of advise to Seun, who is the owner (I understand) of Nairaland. I think you should create another alias with which you can use when contributing, instead of being partisan in such topics. It doesn't make sense to discourage people with some of your postings, like some you put up in this thread.

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Under "search DVD Player" put the make of your DVD and hit the enter key and it will bring all the hacks of your DVD makes and different models - select the exact model and follow the instructions there using the remote control to remove the restrictions.

You will also find help on how to upgrade your DVD players to play both DVD+R and DVD-R formats (if it doesn't support both formats)

I thought I was the only one that noticed the new Advert. It's 100% better than that crap they used 600 million Naira to produce. The new advert is brief, to the point and one knows exactly what they are selling. They should keep it up. Some state government should withdraw their adverts too, especially Kano and Rivers - sub-standard, to say the least.

I think the young man, Gov Duke has vision for his state and he can transfer that to the entire nation if elected. What Nigeria needs are visionary leaders, who knows how to tranform "rubbish" into wealth. And I think he has paid his dues in the TINAPA project and the Obudu Cattle Ranch resort. He has single handedly kick-started the tourism industry in Nigeria.

If he comes up for election, I may cast my vote (though I don't have a vote) for him provided Prof Pat Utomi, who is my prefered candidate to rule Nigeria doesn't run.

@gbade.x

I am not in Nigeria and my dish is tuned to Astra 1C, that's why I gave the azimuths and elevations of the satelite that I know, at least that I am tuned to. And i receive well over 150 channels, most of which I don't understand what they are saying. I only used the german and english channels, which are more than enough for me.

If you go through most of those threads, you'll find one or two persons who included their email address. Write them and they may give you what you need.

Have a nice day, though