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@ poster,
Pray you recover the car soon.

You are getting a brand new Limited Edition PS3,  with a wooping 160Gb hard drive, a Blue-ray multimedia Remote control for the ps3, a Gold plated  HDMI cable, and 2 Ps3 games.

Package contains:   


GAMES:

1. Fifa 2008
2. Hulk (2008)


*PLAYSTATION 3 GAME CONSOLE 160GB
* 1 Dual shock 3 SIXAXIS wireless controller
* Blue-Ray Multimedia remote control
* AC power cord
* Audio/Video cable
* USB cable
* Gold Plated HDMI cable

All original packaging and accessories that comes with the PS3 

All items in mint condition. N85K firm


Contact me on 08033767266   or

kizzyaka:
[size=14pt]SOLD[/size]
Hey Chuck it has been great doing business with you. I hope your trip back to Abuja was okay.
Kizito

Yeah, had a fine trip back. Was great doing business with you too. Have a safe trip back,  All the best!

Thanks all. Item SOLD

inspired_m:

Im highly and lowly Interested,

Seriously the Price is a bit high, Brand new is about 65k, Come down on your Price and we can Deal.

Ive Offered my Price to you Via SMS just now.

Inspired, I got ur txt and i sent you a reply. I have also tried calling the number so many times, its always off

otikpoko:
Nice price.Why do you want to sell it?

Selling cos I also have an Xbox 360, so decided to do away with this then upgrade HDD and games library of Xbox. Ths system is in perfect working order

Bump!



Inspired, where is your 'high interest' ?!

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inspired_m:
When was the PS 3 Bought and what is the Present Condition, Any Scratches ? what is the final Price too, I am Highty Interested.

The machine was bought November and hardly played. There are no scratches on the matching whatsoever, its like New, Just the carton damaged by the kids who used crayon on it!

Mr. Inspired call me to discuss further.

Like new PS3 for sale. This PS3 is used but in excellent condition and barely used.(Find pictures attached) No issues exist at all. Direct 220V power consumption.
I am also selling it with an extra controller and 3 solid games.



Included are:
GAMES:

1. Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA 4)
2. Spider man 3
3. Tomb Raider Underworld (latest)


*PLAYSTATION 3 GAME CONSOLE 80GB
* 2 SIXAXES wireless controller
* AC power cord
* Audio/Video cable
* USB cable


All these for 75K.

Contact me on 08033767266 or chuckndee@gmail.com[b][/b]

Whats the price of the 32''

List the price here or email me now: chuckndee@gmail.com

@ poster,

I totally go with what 'prittigrrr' has said.

You just included yourself one way or the other
lol!

Left-Handed U.S. Presidents:

James A. Garfield (1831-1881) 20th
Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) 31st
Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) 33rd
Gerald Ford (1913- ) 38th
Ronald Reagan (1911 - ) 40th
George H.W. Bush (1924- ) 41st
Bill Clinton (1946- ) 42nd


Left-Handed U.S. Politicos:

Senator Bill Bradley, Rhodes scholar, basketball star
McGeorge Bundy, presidential advisor
Benjamin Franklin, statesman/publisher/scientist
Steve Forbes, businessman/publisher
Jean-Marc Froidevaux ?, Suiss politician
Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Supreme Court Justice
Senator Daniel Inouye
Anthony Kennedy, Supreme Court Justice
Brigadier Gen. Lee Hsien Loon, Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore
Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense
Col. Oliver North, White House aid
H. Ross Perot, businessman
William Perry, Secretary of Defense
Nelson Rockefeller, Vice President
Senator Hugh Scott
Robert Wagner, New York mayor
Henry Wallace, Vice President
[Senator Bob Dole - switched to left due to injury]


Left-Handed Musicians

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, composer
David Byrne (Talking Heads)
Glen Campbell
Vicki Carr
Natale Cole
Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
Phil Collins (Genesis)
Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins)
Dick Dale (guitarist)
Don Everly (The Everly Brothers)
Phil Everly (The Everly Brothers)
Bela Fleck, jazz musician
Glenn Frey (the Eagles)
Eric Gale, guitarist
Noel Gallagher (Oasis) (?)
Errol Garner, jazz pianist
Judy Garland
Crysal Gayle
Kevin Griffin, guitarist & lead singer (Better than Ezra)
Thomas Hedley, vocalist/musician
Jimi Hendrix
Isaac Hayes
Tony Iommi, guitarist (Black Sabbath)
Albert King, guitarist
Melissa Manchester
Chuck Mangione, trumpet
Martina McBride ?, country music singer
Paul McCartney (the Beatles; Wings)
Christie Marie Melonson (opera)
George Michael (Wham!)
Peter Nero, conductor
Joe Perry ? (Aerosmith)
Robert Plant (Led Zepplin)
Cole Porter, song-writer
Sergei Rachmaninoff ?, composer
Maurice Ravel ?, composer
Lou Rawls
John Lydon a.k.a. Johnny Rotten (Sex Pistols / Public Image Ltd.)
Rich Szabo, trumpeter
Seal
Ringo Starr (?) (the Beatles)
Paul Simon (Simon & Garfunkel)
Tiny Tim
Rudy Valee
Lenny White, drummer
Paul Williams, song-writer

Left-Handed Artists

Albrecht Dürer
M.C. Escher
Hans Holbein
Paul Klee
Michelangelo
LeRoy Neiman
Raphael
Leonardo da Vinci (RH paralyzed?)

Left-Handed Actors

Don Adams
Dan Aykroyd
Eddie Albert
Tim Allen
June Allyson
Harry Anderson
Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor
Herschel Bernardi
Robert Blake
Matthew Broderick
Bruce Boxleitner
Carol Burnett
George Burns, comedian
Ruth Buzzi, comedienne
Sid Caesar, comedian
Keith Carradine
Khaled Chahrour, Egyptian actor
Charlie Chaplin
George Gobel, comedian
Chuck Conners
Hans Conreid
James Cromwell
Tom Cruise
Quinn Cummings
Daniel Davis
Bruce Davison
Matt Dillon
Marty Engles, comedian
Olivia de Havilland
Robert DeNiro
Michael Dorn
Fran Drescher, comedian
Richard Dreyfuss
W.C. Fields
Larry Fine ? (of the Three Stooges)
Peter Fonda
Greta Garbo
Terri Garr
Paul Michael Glaser
Whoopie Goldberg
Betty Grable
Cary Grant
Peter Graves
Mark Hamill
Rex Harrison
Goldie Hawn
Joey Heatherton
Tippi Hedren
Jim Henson, puppetteer
Kermit the Frog
Rock Hudson
Angelina Jolie
Shirley Jones ?
Gabe Kaplan
Danny Kaye
Diane Keaton
George Kennedy
Nicole Kidman
Lisa Kudrow
Michael Landon
Hope Lange
Joey Lawrence
Peter Lawford
Cloris Leachman
Hal Linden
Cleavon Little
Shirley MacLaine
Andrew McCarthy
Kristy McNichol
Steve McQueen
Howie Mandel, comedian
Marcel Marceau, mime
Harpo Marx
Marsha Mason
Mary Stuart Masterson
Anne Meara, comedian
Sasha Mitchell
Marilyn Monroe
Robert Morse
Anthony Newley
Kim Novak
Ryan O'Neal
Sarah Jessica Parker
Estelle Parsons
Anthony Perkins
Ron Perlman
Luke Perry
Bronson Pinchot
Joe Piscopo, comedian
Robert Preston
Michael J. Pollard
Richard Pryor, comedian
Robert Redford
Keanu Reeves
Don Rickles, comedian
Julia Roberts
Mickey Rourke
Eva Marie Saint
Telly Savalas
Jean Seberg
Jerry Seinfeld, comedian
Christian Slater
Dick Smothers, comedian
Brent Spiner
Slyvester Stallone ?
Terence Stamp
Jessica Steen
Rod Steiger
Alan Thicke
Terry Thomas, comedian
Emma Thompson
Rip Torn
Peter Ustinov
Brenda Vaccaro
Karen Valentine
Rudy Vallee
Dick Van Dyke
Graham Walker a.k.a. Grumbleweeds, English comedian
Wil Wheaton
James Whitmore
Treat Williams
Bruce Willis
William Windom
Oprah Winfrey
Mare Winningham
Joanne Woodward
Keenan Wynn
Stephanie Zimbalist

Left-Handed Athletes
SOCCER

Jans van Breukelen (soccer)
Dan Burbott (?) (soccer)
Johan Cruyff (soccer)
Willem van Hanegem (soccer)
Hernan Medford (soccer)
Pelé -Edson Arantes do Nascimento (soccer)
Diego Armando Maradona (soccer)
Romario (soccer)
Hugo Sanchez (soccer)
Richard Witschge (soccer)
CRICKET
Alan Border (cricket)
Alistair Campbell (cricket)
Denis Compton (cricket)
Saurav Ganguly (cricket)
David Gower (cricket)
Gary Sobers (cricket)
OLYMPIC SPORTS
Francis X. Gorman (diving)
Greg Louganis (diving)
Mark Spitz (swimming)
Bruce Jenner (decathlon)
Nikita Kohloff (wrestling)

I recently came across this writeup and quite consider it very true and interesting. People, please read and share your views here.




The Gaming Culture And The Future Of The Nigerian Youth
Terver Atsar

There is a culture which is fast evolving in Africa, Nigeria in particular, which is taking its toll on the Nigerian youth. It is what I call the ‘gaming culture’. It is a relatively new phenomenon that promotes a seemingly harmless but dangerous mentality that depends on luck, chance and to some extent, wits for instant fame, wealth and probably some joy in life. This culture is promoted majorly by the big names in the manufacturing industry and lately the majors in the telecommunication industry, in their ever increasing quest to dominate the market through propaganda and what marketers call positioning.

Positioning simply means placing an organisation’s product or trade identity side-by-side with a popular or accepted ideology, concept or icon in order to tap from the goodwill of the icon. For example, Nigerian Breweries PLC, over the years has sought to promote its Gulder brand as a beer for the ‘strong’- a beer that gives ‘power‘ for action (whatever this means). So, in addition to several stunning adverts, in which a heroic figure (Michael Power) performs some obviously impossible feats to the admiration of credulous fans who are in turn lured to go for a Gulder, and in all probability end up in the gutter instead of the expected hall of fame, Nigerian Breweries for the past three years or so has been sponsoring a game called the ‘Ultimate Search’. Participants are put in a jungle where they are expected to locate a hidden treasure. The lucky person who finds the treasure becomes an instant ‘millionaire’. Harmless, isn’t it?

Globacom, in what they claim to be an attempt to compensate their faithful customers, have supposedly given away hundreds of new cars to ‘winners’ who participate in the reload-and-win promotions. Customers are encouraged to load as much credit on their phones as possible to increase the ‘chances’ of winning. Needless to say, while the operator rakes in billions of naira through this promotion, at the end of the day some few winners emerge from some curious ‘lucky’ draws. Those who don’t win are encouraged to try again in subsequent promotions and the cycle continues.

These games come in various forms and concepts. It could be in form of beauty a pageant, a lottery, lucky dip, scratch and win (under crown caps) or reality shows. All these have one thing in common, that is, they are games, reliant in the main on luck. An exception however needs to be made of reality shows and beauty competitions in which talent also plays a role. Even then their gaming nature cannot be disputed.

In Nigeria, where it appears we have been endowed with the peculiar anointing to excel in the wrong things and everything that has negative impact, this culture has been taken to ridiculous levels lately. All sorts of pageants have been introduced in Nigeria ranging from the normal to the bizarre. From the Miss Nigeria or MBGN, we now have Miss Nollywood and The finest Girl in Nigeria. Almost every industry is craving to have a beauty contest is its name. Miss Banking, Miss Insurance, Miss Hospitality, Miss Radio& Television. And very soon we may be having our girls lured to come out and contest for weird pageants like, the ugliest girl in Nigeria, the dumbest girl in Nigerian or The fattest girl in Nigeria. 

In the area of reality shows too, we have not fared badly. Since 2003 when Bayo Okoh returned from Big Brother Africa in South Africa without the crown, we have had Big Brother Nigeria, Next Movie Star, Street to Star, Amstel Malta Box Office and it’s still counting.

But what is wrong with all these seemingly harmless games? To the ‘lucky’ few who happen to ‘win’ in these competitions, there could hardly be anything better or worth doing. What with the sudden fame and wealth? Who does not want to be a star?

Perhaps the well known evil of beauty contests and reality shows especially the Big –Brother-Model, is the promotion of nudity with attendant negative impact on moral sanity. It was this perception that caused the riots in the North in protest against the plan to host the 2002 edition of the miss World competition in Kaduna in November of that year. Interestingly Christians were targeted in this violence as if beauty contests are a Christian religious rite. But the reason is not farfetched. If the contest were planned for Lagos, there would have been approbation from the people of the south, who are predominantly Christian instead of protest. This is a silent query on our loose Christian values.

But that was just a diversion; I was trying to highlight the subtle dangers innate in the booming gaming culture. Our younger generation is gradually brainwashed with a different value system: A value system that dovetails with the fast-food-syndrome. We want fast fame, fast money, fast success, fast certificates, everything fast and just at the scratch of a card. Success in life is taking a different meaning. You don’t really need to excel in anything to become a star; one only needs to win a game. Success is now a gamble!

Unfortunately instant stars also vanish instantly and that is why one could scarcely count a beauty queen that has created any impact on national development beyond the one-year pet projects during their reign, which also vanish at the end of their tenure. No wonder the Bible says in Proverbs 31:30 , beauty is vain. Come to think of it, the women who are creating positive impact on our national life are not the beauty queens. The Ngozi Okonji-Iwuelas, the Dora Akunyilis, the Farida Waziris, are all the product of diligent scholarship and many years of hard work which the gaming culture tends to downplay.

Nigeria has indeed produced real stars in various fields of human endeavour but none emerged through gambling. Great men like, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Chike-Obi, Sunny Okosun, Ernest Okonkwo, Bishop Idahosa, all of blessed memory, did not emerge through winning a lottery or a reality show. If Chief MKO Abiola was alive, he could have born me witness that real wealth (and of course fame) is created by great hard work and vision rather than winning a game that transforms one into an instant millionaire.

Cases of examination malpractice, 419, drug addiction and smuggling, prostitution on our campuses (they call it RUNS for style) and even armed robbery among our youth could be traced to this gaming culture. Our students want to pass examinations instantly without effort; so they cheat. The young school leaver, who graduates through cheating must also make fast money through 419 or do drugs and armed robbery because indeed he has nothing to offer society. The female students also want instant cash so they go for RUNS.

Our youth must be reoriented to understand that life is not just a big gamble. The era of hard work and academic excellence should not be antiquated. Their models and mentors must be chosen wisely. For example, a wise girl should rather make Professor (emeritus?) Grace Alele-Williams her mentor, than Agbani Darego because being a beauty queen is not a career. Instead of struggling to win every lottery or enter reality shows, the wise youth should understudy the lifestyles of successful businessmen like Aliko Dangote, Mike Adenuga, Bamanga Tukur and make one of them his models. Society must also strive to recognise and reward diligence over and above instantaneous and effortless prosperity, which is the root of corruption.

Unfortunately today an average schoolboy or girl is more likely to respond eagerly to an invitation to participate in a reality show than a writing or science competition! If this trend is not halted, then the future of our youth is in serious jeopardy.

Those who hunt instant fame and wealth through the gaming culture would only wake up belatedly to realise that, it’s a mirage. Promoters of these shows do it for what they could gain from the participants and fans and not vice-versa, even though they paint the picture of the former. It is part of the whole game. The more you look the less you see.


Link to articule:

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/guest-articles/the-gaming-culture-and-the-future-of-the-nigerian-y.html

Oh my!

I just lack the right words to define her!, I heard her music in a vehicle while traveling and i tot it was Macy Gray only to be told it was a Nigerian. Well i just have to think of ONE word and its, CUTE!!

Big ups to her.

I love your music sista!

Well said Mufasa!!!

Ahead, ahead !!

Peps, Can anyone confirm if the MTN 3.5G speed is FULLY aatainable in Abuja. i stay around Kado estate and i am looking to purchase there service?

Thank you.

Wats free thats 100 naira??

Thank you javaprince for the advice you have really shade sum light on the issue.

@javaprice,
man, thanks for your views here on this NIIT issue, i have been going through what you said and it appears to be true. i am looking into taking the exam too, but i do like to know what takes, from the way you sounded it appears its a big waste of time and funds. Now I would like you to enlighten me more on the best way to go about getting certified please. I do really appreciate it. Pls email me: chuckndee@gmail.com

Thanks and look forward to hearing from you.
Dee

Hey peps, I have been happy going through this tread as thats all i can do at the moment as i am in Nigeria and don't really know where, how and when i can lay my hands on the PS3 version of GTA IV, I can say i am a dedicated fan of the series having played from GTA London to San Andreas , to Liberty city stories on PSP
Since i can't lay my hands on the game yet, i have dedicated more time in reading reviews all over the net and boy!, that game is da bomb!!,
The reviews have all been great and almost all have said more good than bad of the title.
There is a rather interesting review i came across and i quote from a very amusing part of the review (and annoying to me). these were the exact lines from his review:
"As much as it is a driving and shooting game, then, "GTA" is also a puzzle game, going on dates to bowling alleys and comedy clubs, hanging out with your pals at bars and pool halls, keeping up with a surfeit of text messages and e-mail (even deleting Nigerian spam)."
Haba! must we Nigerians always take the fall for every bad detail to any issue, this really hurts seeing that the majority of Junk I get in my regular email is 99% oyinbo crap!!

Anywayz, here is the link for the full review guys: http://machinist.salon.com/feature/2008/05/09/gta_review/


Happy gaming to you all out there who already have GTA IV, i dey envy una nobe small!!

You are so much welcome Saddick and Gods blessings too!!

Hi saddik,
Those DOPC guys are so not into it, the contacts they have on their site doesn't help anyone at all, it took me over an hour to locate their office at the Argadez crescent since the plot number didn't exist, I am not sure of the correct number again as its been a long time i tracked it down. Anyway, here is a number of one of the customer care ladies there, you can call her for your inquiries:
07032868695, name is Lilian.

Hope this helps. have a lovely day

hey all, i got 2 brand new and fully unlocked apple I-phones up for grabs. Its the 8 gig version and its going for 95k.
Works on all networks in nigeria=MTN, CELTEL, GLO etc.

Any one interested can hit me up on 08033767266 or chuckndee@gmail.com

Please Can someone, anyone, forward a copy of the gmat to my email box:

chuckndee@gmail.com

I really need a copy of this soonest, BIKO, PLEASE, DOO, ABEG, KPELE!!!!!

Hi Plaque,
sorry but i sold out the wiis and psp. What i have now is just the pda and an Arcos media player(has a 30gig HDD, wifi and plays mp4s)

Let me know if you want this and thanks for looking

Looking at current standings, I do pick Arsen Wenger.

Though he is my coach any time any day!!!

Hi All, i have 3 brand new nintendo Wiis for sale each comes with Wii Sports CD and i can also throw in a few other games too.
I also have the following available for sale:

1. PALM TUNGSTEN E(slightly used)---Comes with all accessories and an extra full wireless keyboard==N20k

2. Sony PSP with accessories(1 gig Sony Magic gate memory card, 2 psp games, 1 UMD movie)==25k

3. Nikon Coolpix 4600 Digital camera--45k


You can call me direct on 08033767266,08052421607(chuck).
Thanks for looking.