But I really dont even understand how a client can move you out of your base to a site without picking up your air fare and hotel expenses..is that how you guys do work?

Once a client calls you to inspect a site outstation, he must foot, not your bus fare, but airfare. thats the fiest indiction of seriousness from his part and hotel expenses.
atleast he must be sure of recouping all that money from you before he can embark on the task of spending that money to kindnap you.

Imagine...7 posts only. Yet its on front page. If it wasnt on front page nko?

When diz mods moved it front page, how many posts? 2? Mscheew

kingkoboko:
My broda make King kObOkO advice u. I'm an artiste manager.

1) Take a leave from work. Maybe 1month.
2) Go &meet any good producer who's excellent in highlife production.
3) Promote ur song on notjustok.com, lindaikeji's blog or even here on nairaland. Take note of people's comments.
4) Promote ur song on radio in Lagos, Enugu & PH.
5) Dont b in a rush 2shoot any music video.
6) Contact me on kingkoboko.com 2review ur song
7) Do ur 2nd song
Do ur 3rd song
9) Resume work afta ur work leave is over
10) B patient for 3months. It's at dis point u'll know if u shud continue wit music.

Best advice here...am sure u just saved someone from committing suicide 3years from now

post=36082802:
All of una before me dey craze. Una no sabi advice una think say na abroad we dey here or una think say this na fairytale wey una dey talk say follow ur dreams.

Now lemme advice you d africa style.

Bros wey wan leave him job for music u dey craze u no how many jobless musicians they lagos wey dey find ur job.
Nothing like follow ur dreams for real life. Leave dream for dream land na who see were sleep well dey dream o.

But if u still say u wan leave d job sha. Abeg tell me d company I get person wey go like replace u, him don dey find work since

Now I don talk. Who get ear make e hear abi who get eye make e read

lol..this guy is a clown,,,u funny die

true

Ahmed4002:


what about the Bikers . no make ne cry oooo

Yea...thats in part 2

Flossing...enjoy ur money, my brother. U only live once

Chrissy101:
base on say me na confam waffi pessin...mai jux tell u.
lock up that place wey u dey stay oh bros..u don enter warri ? u sure? u don see waffi babe? shuooo wetin u dae yarn

Lol....u,u fine.no b u i dey talk.

Why is dis not on front page yet?

Wat are diz mods smoking?

Anyway, lovely post

Av been through several of these airports

Inchen, korea,
Chnagi, singapore
IGI new delhi
BCIA Beijing,
DUBAI International
JFK, New York
O hare, Chicago
San Francisco int
Logan, Boston
Munich int
Frankfurt Int
LONDON HEATHROW,
CDG paris..
And few more here

stan241:
This is really cool...thumbs up op but wetin warri girls do you na

Lol..nothing. just saying it as it is

So sometime late last year, and earlier this year, I happened to be in Asaba, Delta state for some personal business, which just wouldn’t wrap up on time. Within this period I was there, I also had cause to travel to several other places across the length and breadth of the state- from Warri, Ughelli, Agbor, Effurun, the University town of Abraka and Asaba itself.

It was a worthwhile experience as Delta unwrapped its allure infront of my very eyes. The place is a beautiful place no doubt. It is perhaps one of the few states in the country that is not a one city state: it has several city-towns within its boundaries, asides the capital.

This diversity gives the residents more latitude in terms of what to do and where to go. I noticed several things while traveling across this heartbeat of the nation and I bring them to you here.

1. In Delta, everybody has ‘boys’
This is a veritable source of political patronage- your ability to raise a small rag tag army of youths within the blink of an eye makes you important. ‘If I just give signal now now, you go just see 700 hundred boys assemble for street.’ This is the only way most of the men there get stipends from government- the higher your disruptive tendencies, the higher patronage you get from government or from the political elite.

2. Godfatherism, is everywhere, but in Delta it has been elevated to an art
Without a powerful godfather in Delta, you are as good as dead- you won’t get anything from that state, or oil companies, even as an indigene. Not a contract, not a job, no patronage- in short nobody will listen to you. The only way you are trusted with anything reasonable or sensitive is if they know where you are coming from, whose allegiance you bear, which big name you have behind you- ‘ah, this na Ayiri boy o,’ or ‘these na Tompolo boys’ or Clarke boy– that’s the only way whoever is infront of you is awed enough to give you audience.

While you may not work directly for these godfathers, the fact you enjoy their goodwill or can be vouched for, by them, makes life very easy for you as you try to progress in life

3. Delta is the home of the war lord
Delta is a fiefdom- every community is controlled by a fief- a local kingpin- without whose word or consent, nothing happens. Nothing happens in that community without his input, knowledge or say so. If Shell wants to embark on a project, he must be settled and appeased, if the government wants to set up a community social responsibility, he must be consulted.

If you want to put up something as simple as billboard, his boys must be in the picture, else by the next morning, you will see it pulled to the ground.

4. Delta is land of the Good, the Bad, the Ugly
Jeez, seeing a fine girl in Warri is like seeing an apparition. So, there a few fine ones, and those ones remain basically indoors, but the vast majority? Damn! While Asaba has some of the most beautiful girls in this country, Warri is the complete opposite. It is a city flush with oil money, so you will expect it to be a confluence of beautiful girls on the lookout for a fast buck, right?

Wrong. Yes, there are a lot of runs girls in that town, but majority of them are ugly. If Delta boys and girls were to act the movie- Good, bad & The Ugly, the good must be the beautiful girls of Asaba, the bad will be represented by the restive boys of the creeks, while the ugly has to be the ugly girls of Warri & Effurun.

5. Ibori’s word is still Law
Eight years after he left office and almost four since he has been doing time in Her Majesty’s jail, the Ibori influence over Delta affairs has never waned. While Uduaghan is the most hated of all Delta Governors, Ibori is the most loved, majorly because of his then propensity to dispense largesse and favors. The jury is yet to be out on Okowa.

From Prison, Ibori still decides what happens in Delta. When he anointed Tony Obuh for Governor last year, it seemed a given that the next occupant of government house would be its former Permanent Secretary. However, when Ibori pulled the plug on this Agbor technocrat’s ambition and swung support to his kinsman, Edevbie, at the PDP primaries at the last minute, it seemed a fait accompli that this Urhobo man would succeed Uduaghan in government house.

Alas, this was a feat too much for even Ibori to pull from prison at such short notice. Though Edevbie came second, Okowa picked the ticket and subsequently went on to win the governorship. The people however compensated Ibori by pushing his daughter into the lower house at the National Assembly.

6. It is our ‘oyel’ mentality waxing stronger
To the average Niger Deltan, the world should stop moving because oil is drilled from his backyard. Most of the youths there feel they should feed, clothe and live large at the expense of the oil companies, just because they have oil. That is the entitlement mentality that is prevalent around there.

It doesn’t matter whether they have gone to school, it doesn’t matter whether they have a skill, and it doesn’t matter whether they are productive. The mere fact a young man is from an oil producing community means he thinks he must subsist on the bill of the oil company, operating in his neck of the woods. Infact if he sleeps with a LovePeddler, Shell should be able to meet her 10k bill on his behalf. If the oil companies wont do it, well, then the politicians must. This is the sort of mentality that has given rise to restiveness in those parts

7. Asaba is just a ceremonial capital- nothing happens there
Asaba is merely the seat of government, for bureaucratic red tape- Warri is where it happens. This town is the nerve centre of the state and is also where the oil companies are- Shell that is. The big deals are close there, the night life is hyper there- in short, Warri is the livewire of the state.

Because the state has several major cities that are equally lively, many Deltans return to these places over the weekend to be with their kith and kin in their won neck of the woods. Asaba then becomes like Abuja- lively during the week, deserted on weekends and only shored up by traders and business men of Onitsha and the girls who cross the bridge on bikes to ply their trade in the capital.

8. In Delta, the Fear of Tompolo is the beginning of wisdom
Yes, there are several strong men in Delta, the Ayiri’s, the Clarkes, Ibori’s and the likes, but the czar of Gbaramatu kingdom tops them all. I mean, if you single handedly installed a chief executive of the largest maritime agency in Africa, are you to be taken lightly?

If you boasted clearly that Delta will be on fire if your candidate does not emerge governor, and then went ahead to bulldoze everybody out of the way and installed him as governor? If after installing this your crony as Governor, you highhandedly installed your cousin as a deputy governor, are you then, not in control of government house and the till of the largest allocation in the country bar Akwa Ibom?

Within the creeks, Tompolo’s word is law and all over Delta, his influence cannot be under estimated, even as he also successfully installed his brother as chairman of his local government council.

If you don’t believe, simply remember when the President wanted to commission the oil & gas free zone there? Remember, the security agencies, the military and state government had given the all clear to the President to come? It only took a phone call from Tompolo to the President for the President to cancel the trip.

What did tomplo say?
‘ Bros eh, if you like yourself ehn, no come here, no near here at all. Boys dey vex, blood dey dia eye. I no fit guarantee your safety o. I don teh you my own.’

The rest is history.

9. In Delta, money talks, bullshit....


Read more at: http://www.intercityadventures.com/10-things-i-noticed-while-traveling-across-delta/

Lots of people on facebook.but u can never find them on search, wthether u use their fone numbr or email

yes..agree with u.

joblessness

So, which type of coke/pop soda tastes better? Is it plastic coke? Canned coke? or coke from the fountain machine/soda dispenser?

Personaly, I think I prefer coke from the soda dispenser.tastes better on my taste buds..then i think can. Lastly its the plastic coke. makes no sense, taste wise at all.

which do you pefer? and why?

lets have your thoughts

Read more at:
www.intercityadventures.com

Hollywood i meant

El Chapo is a badt guy..the stuff of nollywood

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the most wanted drug lord on the face of the earth, must have breezed along the mile-long tunnel dug 19m underground just for him on a specially modified motorcycle or one of the two carts it pushed on two steel rails.

Guzman, the head honcho of the Sinaloa cartel, "El Chapo" is the world's most powerful drug trafficker. The cartel is responsible for an estimated 25% of all illegal drugs that enter the U.S. via Mexico.

Drug enforcement experts estimate, conservatively, that the cartel's annual revenues may exceed $3 billion. The the city of Chicago branded him the first "Public Enemy No. 1" since Al Capone.

A visit on Tuesday by journalists to the tunnel's exit in an unfinished barn near the prison that held Guzman provided a look at the last few yards that the leader of the Sinaloa cartel traversed to make his second escape from a Mexican maximum-security lockup.

Tracks guiding the modified motorcycle end two or three steps from the base of a wooden ladder with 17 rungs that he would have scrambled up. The air in the tunnel is warm and humid and fine dust coats everything.

Reaching the top, a step leads into a small basement dominated by a blue generator as big as a compact car.

Then it is six strides to another ladder.

One, two, three steps up. The air thins. The temperature drops 10 degrees.

Four. Five. Six, the last rung. One more step and Guzman stood on the dusty floor of the barn, where the digging crew had left 4-inch by 4-inch wooden beams, 8-foot- tall coils of steel mesh, gallons of hydraulic fluid, 10-foot lengths of PVC pipe and an electric disc saw.

Seven strides and the man who Mexico's government said would not repeat his 2001 prison escape stepped through a sliding steel door into the chilly night on the high plain west of the capital.

For the first time since his latest capture, on Feb. 22, 2014, Guzman was a free man.

Authorities also released surveillance video of Guzman's last moments in prison. A recording by a camera in his cell shows him walking to the bed, where he sits and appears to change his shoes.

He then walks to the shower and toilet area, behind a low dividing wall of about waist height, and simply disappears. Another video filmed after the escape shows the gaping square hole cut into what appears to be the floor of the shower.

The ingenuity and audacity of the caper was breathtaking.

Buy a piece of land a mile from Mexico's most secure prison, but in the middle of farm fields. Throw up a shoddy, concrete block structure that doesn't look out of place. Build a wall to hide the dirt. Get to work.

Experts have said the tunnel would have been more than a year in planning and building. The digging would have caused noise. The entrance was in a place beyond the view of security cameras at Mexico's toughest prison.

They also said it was clear the escape by Mexico's most powerful drug lord must have involved inside help on a grand scale.

Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong conceded as much Monday night. He announced that three prison officials had been fired, including Valentin Cardenas, director of the Altiplano prison 55 miles (90 kilometers) west of Mexico City.

"They had something or a lot to do with what happened, and that's why we made that decision," Osorio Chong said.

Still, he did not say who exactly is suspected of aiding the escape. Nor did he talk about rooting out the kind of corruption that led to the escape.

Osorio Chong said the tunnel was 19 meters (about 62 feet) below the surface and he called it a "high-tech" breach of the prison's extensive security measures, which include 750 cameras and 26 security filters.

A tunnel of such sophistication - with lights, air venting, and the customized motorcycle rigged up on a rail line - would normally take 18 months to two years to complete, said Jim Dinkins, former head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations.

"When it's for the boss, you probably put that on high speed," he said.

If anyone was capable of pulling off such a feat, it was Guzman, who is believed to have at least a quarter-century of experience in building large, sophisticated tunnels to smuggle drugs under the U.S.-Mexico border and to escape from hideouts as authorities closed in.

His cartel also has been most successful in coopting officials, said Edgardo Buscaglia, an organized crime expert at Columbia University. "By far they are the most infiltrated in Mexico's government institutions," he said.

Experts express skepticism that such an engineering project could go on undetected.

Joe Garcia, who retired this year as interim special agent in charge of U.S. Homeland Security Investigations in San Diego, has extensive experience in tunnel investigations. He said the tunnel at Altiplano was longer than any passage ever found on the U.S.-Mexico border.

To pull off such a feat, rescuers likely had intelligence on the prison even before Guzman was arrested, Dinkins said.

Designers and workers would have needed access to sensitive information such as prison floor plans and alarm and camera systems. And just the noise alone as they bored the final 30-foot (10-meter) vertical shaft directly under the prison to reach Guzman's cell would have generated some attention.

"It's not just like someone took a couple tools, shovels and pickaxes. This is a very sophisticated operation," said Alonzo Pena, a former senior official at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "How could they be there and not hear that construction was going on underneath? It's just impossible."

http://www.intercityadventures.com/mexican-drug-lords-escape-an-audacious-feat-of-engineering

victorazy:

Na lie! There is no place like that in Abuja town. I stays in Durumi and never see or heard about refuge camp there. In Durumi we have Durumi 1, 2 &3 and there is no place like that on the pic.

shatap...dnt cum n expose ur ignorance here

MadCow1:



Shame to the nation.. I didn't mince my words Sir.

My post was clear.. That camp is a displaced persons camp which the government either set up or are aware of. My point which you obviously missed is that it looks like shit. That camp can be better set up so that Atleast the persons living there don't feel like they have been abandoned.

The camp looks like the persons living there are fending for themselves and get no assistance nor government input whatsoever.

I am being real. If I was in their place, I may die of depression long before Boko Haram or malaria or typhoid kills me.

What I am saying is that an oil rich nation amongst various other natural and human resources can and should be running a better refugee camp than that. In case my point is still lost on you, below is a photo of what a properly organised and run refugee camp looks like.



That is the least I expect from the government. Afterall these people are refugees not because they chose to be but because the government failed to provide it's duty of care and security of lives and property to them.

That is what I mean by that camp is a National embarrassment and shame to the nation.

Noted...but i also didnt miss the point. You said i shd take down the pictures. Someone with your mindset should be encouraging any sort of publicity that makes d relevant authorities take note

MadCow1:
I hate those photos..

This is an oil rich nation for Bleep sake.

Internally displaced persons living in a government catered camp that looks like something that was not even thought out at all..

How tough is it to set up a proper camp shelter?

How much would it cost the government to provide marquees and spring beds or bunk beds for 5000 persons?

I can live with the fire wood kitchen, but come on, that whole place can be better set up. The Nigerian Government and the Nigerian Military and also NEMA should Bury their heads in shame.

We just blew over 100 million dollars on elections, lost over 20 billion dollars thanks to NNPC and more losses and theft in the system due to greed and corruption and yet taking care of these less fortunate ones whose situation is a direct result of the government's failure is still hard.

Seriously Op take down those pictures, they are a shame to this nation.

Shame to the nation? So you would rather those hapless people continue to live in these dehumnizing conditions just because of ego? If the proper authorities see this and come to their rescue, you think having this up is still a shame?

Be real, man!

more..

The Boko Haram insurgency has taken a toll on the socio cultural and religio-politico lives of almost all Nigerians. In the north east, nothing can ever be the same again. Families have been broken, bread winners killed, entire communities ransacked as the insurgents have imposed their surrogates as satraps.

The aborigines of those communities have fled for safety and now find themselves in various refugee camps, now called Internally displaced persons camps all across the country. At the end of the fist half of the year, there are an estimated 2million people living in internal displacement.

Refugees in an IDP Camp in Yola, Adamawa State Most of these camps are spread around Borno, Yobe, Adamawa and other places in the North east where living conditions are horrendous. There are also a few of these camps located within the pristine federal capital, and one- the Gwoza/Bama IDP right in the heart of town, just a stone throw from the Federal Secretariat in Area 1.

ICA was in this camp to see things for himself when Power Forward Africare Project took students of 5 FCT secondary schools there for community work. The Power Forward Africare project is a collaboration between the National Basketball Association (NBA), Africare NGO – a youth empowerment initiative that uses basketball to develop health, leadership and life skills among Nigerian youth.

Officials of Africare Officials of Africare & Power Forward Africare & the Students Secondary school students in FCT The curriculum incorporates leadership training and health awareness through a combination of classroom and athletic activities, with student evaluations at different stages of the initiative. In addition, each school has a coach assigned to oversee the curriculum, guide students through lessons, and monitor progress.

The Power Forward pilot program was launched in 2013 in partnership with the NBA, Africare, ExxonMobil and local school and education officials. The second season of the Power Forward pilot program include basketball games, clinics, life skills seminars and community work which took students from Bicardo, Divine Mercy and three Government secondary schools in Wuse, Garki and Karu to the IDP camp in Durumi.

The initiative provided food, toiletries, mosquito nets to the inhabitants while also engaging in sanitation to keep the surroundings clean. Several displaced persons who spoke to ICA on their condition thanked Africare & Exxon Mobil for coming to their aid. They also hoped civil society will engage more with them and government to bring more succor to their camps, while also pushing government for a quick resolution of the insurgency problem so they can go back to their ancestral homes.

More pictures after the cut...
Read more at: http://www.intercityadventures.com/inside-a-boko-haram-refugee-camp-in-abuja/

Mods why r u not moving this to front page so we can get more insighs?

nice

Good...will implement that for

www.intercityadventures.com too

Ok...

Great..