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fromnigeria:
What if Angela Dorothea Merkel comes visiting No handshake talk more of a Hug.
Am watching while waiting Patiently

GMB will have commit Haram then ask Allah for forgiveness then since he can't resist Lara not to talk of a personality like Merkel.

Any physical contact with a person of the opposite gender is forbidden under Islam. This is a strict prohibition in Islam but with some exceptions. The exceptions are as follows–

1. A person’s spouse.

2. A person’s ancestors, including father, mother, and grandparents from both sides.

3. A person’s descendants, including their children and grandchildren.

4. A person’s siblings, including brothers and sisters, half-brothers and half-sisters.

5. The children of the person’s siblings and their descendants, i.e., their nephews and nieces by blood, and any children that those nephews and nieces have.

6. The siblings of the person’s father or mother, i.e, their maternal and paternal uncles and aunts (not including uncles and aunts by marriage).

7. The ancestors of the spouse, including their parents and grandparents.

8. The descendants of the spouse, including their children and grandchildren. from other marriages (in the case of the daughters and granddaughters of the wife, the marriage must be consummated).

9. Ties of breastfeeding. For example, if a person’s aunt used to breast feed them as well as their mother, their aunt becomes like a second mother, and all of her sons become like brothers, and her daughters like sisters etc.

Physical contact with anyone from the opposite gender not mentioned above is strictly prohibited. So, a man would shake his sister’s hand, his aunt’s hand, his niece’s hand, and so on; however, he would not shake his female cousin’s hand, or his uncle’s wife’s hand, or the hand of a female acquaintance, classmate, or work colleague.

missmalachi:
The issue of nig marriage is nt d bride price but d list given to u.am of d yoruba decent,bride price is usually 5k to 10k wc wil b return bak to u.d amount is immaterial compare to d list worth thousands of naira.


I await to hear d wedding wit no list given,then I wil knw tins r changin

Please take precaution before posting on forums as there are people who will rely heavily on your post.

Payment of bride price is sine qua non for a valid marriage under native law and custom.

Kingbilo:
Seriously?

That makes no sense. If you didn't give bride price in the first place how can the so called customary law join you together if you must collect it back to end d marriage..

My dear the law need not make sense. I just stated the law, its up to the op and other readers to seek legal advise if they are in doubt.

The law is clear in this area, payment of bride price is prerequisite for a valid marriage under native law and custom in Nigeria.

Let me depart a bit and like I always advise clients, there are lots of marriages in Nigeria that will fail this test and I believe they may be invalid. The implication of this is better imagined than to be experience. The validity of a marriage extends to inheritance of properties after the death of a partner. If a marriage is decleared invalid, the surviving partner gets nothing.

So there's the need to follow the custom stricto sensu. All customs in Nigeria require the payment of bride price and it must be paid for there to be a valid marriage under native law and custom. This custom has not changed overtime and just in case it has, there is no judicial notice of this as being of acceptable usage.

Make sure you pay the dowry/bride price because that is what makes your union legal under Nigerian customary law. Do not do without the bride price.

Also the bride price consideration should be monetary so it can be returned to the family if you no longer want to continue in the marriage. This is the only way to end a marriage under native law and custom.

onatisi:
it will be foolish and dumb of the incoming govt to revoke those contracts , knowing fully well that it is the existence of those contracts that keeps the nation oil revenue coming. The childish manner buhari supporters are expecting buhari to exhibit and display isn't the kind of behaviour he will display. nigeria of today is now more complex than the nigeria of 1983. Buhari will disappoint many of his followers as he will have no choice but to tread slowly,softly and gently if he dares rock the too much and too suddenly he will destroy everything.

I concur, peaceful negotiation is the key. I believe GMB is bright enough to know this and not what I've been reading here from his supporters who are still in the spirit of election

oyeludef:
the question is have d Militants been effective in protecting the pipe lines? Should buhari fold his hands and watch them lord over d nation just because dey r niger deltan? The chart below should show you how effective dey av been

I bet you this your chat is not correct, even the iocs will not accept this. Where are your sources?

lygn19:
in every battle there must be casualties at both sides, u don't stay in d creeks, neitger are u from there same as me, so I wud like to advise that u don't put salt in open wounds... if there was ever a clash between Niger delta militants and Nigerian army lemme tell u d implications;
1) the destruction of d pipeline wud make d Niger delta one of d most poluted areas in d world.
2) lives and properties of innocent people who have no business with buhari nor with Gej or d militants wud be destroyed.
3) Nigerias revenue as well as Niger delta states allocations wud ve affected.
4) Niger delta states dat are trying to develop wud withness a massive exodus of people.
5) the yorubas wud use this as a medium to move more oil companies to there regions at d expense of d region producing it.
6) Akwa ibom dats rising to become a power in Nigeria wud fall as a result of d declining oil revenue and allocations, d same way ph dat was once Nigerias fastest growing surpassing even lagos fell during d Niger delta crisis dats how it might fall if care is not taken.
7) the list goes on.
At least we know dat its not every Nigerian delta state that has militants it's just some, and it's just dat few that's enjoying from d pipeline contracts, so if anything happens these same states too wud distance themselves from militancy activities so d militants and d Nigerian army wud know where to take der madness to.

I'm sorry to say this, but to those militants, these are mere academics. They can't comprehend these. Have you negotiated with these communities previously? The Nigerian Army and law enforcement agencies are they not the same JTF or will GMB bring in the Marines?

sebali:
Fooool, as if u wont be affected by such an action.
Try 2 be more enlightened it wud help ur course.
Who do u think wud suffer more if a pipeline is blown up; buhari or d woman in d creeks. Again if it is done and leads 2 reduction of d nations revenue in turn each state gets a reduce allocation, SS states inclusive.

So count the losses and gains and tell me who gains? The faceless boys who have nothing to lose or GMB who has been saddled with lots of burdens and responsibilities that he can't even discharge 5% of.

For the boys in the creeks, one dynamite on the NCTL is sufficient, for instance, to stop production on OMLs 18,24,25,29 & Chevron's facilities, why? Because all these assets pumps their production into the NCTL which delivers crude at Bonny Terminal. Even the IOCs are not sure of what the future holds for them.

So before you post think, before you think research and in researching visit the creeks so you can comprehend that the area is a delta (please check the meaning) and not Ikeja, Aba or Lafia.

royal231:
Yourbas with mouth.... which oil una think say una go mill for there.... I dey laugh una double standards.... have u been reading the news to know what is going on in the creeks.. so you think there will be a functioning pipeline that will supply the oil when the pipeline that goes into the antlatic which is closer to the Niger delta has Been shut down ... una go construct come dey use am do una urine. ... it's not feasible in this zoo called nigeria.. upon all Jonathan did for the North you southerners won't see common sense that the northerner is insatiable and totally ethnocentric. .. imagine even the so called Christians in the north that looked the other side when boko haram started killing the ibos don't also see anything good Jonathan did for their regions. .. Niger delta good morning... soon those indegenous northern tribes being ruled by fulanis will see what we are talking about... then that will be their own good morning... as for the yorubas...do me a favour ...liberate both kwara and Kogi states before ever standing up to an ibo man

I've come to realise that the opposite of the ideal is what actually happens in Nigeria. There's no single infrastructure in Lagos, yet you want to still add more burden on the system I spend not less than 6hrs in traffic everyday in Lagos. If I spend the next 10 years in Lagos, all things being equal, I would be spending 2years and 6months in traffic.

achodave:
I need this laptop

Looks like HP Envy M6. Very lovely PC

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blank:
Port to another network.

Thanks for this advise. i will definitely do that by tomorrow morning. Many thanks

Edit: is Etisalat okay?

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SOS HELP! Please help, MTN cell broadcast service voraciously eating up the battery on my HTC M9. Please help. Any advise will be appreciated. Please see pictures for details.

What I have done so far
1. Disable Cell Broadcast Service via Call Setting, Cell Broadcast and deleting the channels and disable Cell Broadcast.
2. Called MTN 180 Call Centre to assist in disabling the services. The guys whom I spoke with said it's a network issue and that i should be patient. Guess what? I have waited for over two weeks and nothing seems to be working, no solution.
3. I took the phone and the SIM card to MTN care office around my area at Ikota Complex and at Abraham Adesanya, yes two different locations and after manipulating my phone for several hours (without my consent), no solution.
4. I have not installed any update lately so software update is ruled out since I used the same phone for over a month before the MTN Cell Broadcast started showing up its ugly face.
5. I also Googled on how to turn off this service permanently and tried every advise on the first two pages of Google returned results but to no avail. Anytime I disable it, it pops up again after few kilometres.

Why am I worried about this?
1. The MTN Cell Braodcast Service has become both a major PITA and a distraction to me in terms of work and pleasure because I move around the island and mainland frequently for meetings each day. I get several SMSs within every couple of minutes. Please see pictures.
2. The MTN Cell Braodcast Service is eating up my battery as I hardly enjoin a half day charge on a device that promised 36hrs endurance time.

Device
HTC One M9
Sense 7.0, Android 5.0.1 Lollipop

Please Help!

If any part of Nigeria is desirous of enforcing its rights to self determination, the only thing a sincere govt has to do is conduct a referendum within that part of the country. Self determination is a right if under the UN Charter.

After a simple Google search I found this -

In 1941 Allies of World War II signed the Atlantic Charter and accepted the principle of self-determination. In January 1942 twenty-six states signed the Declaration by United Nations , which accepted those principles. The ratification of the United Nations Charter in 1945 at the end of World War II placed the right of self-determination into the framework of international law and diplomacy.

Chapter 1, Article 1, part 2 states that purpose of the UN Charter is: "To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace. "

Article 1 in both the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) reads: "All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development. "

The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights article 15 states that everyone has the right to a nationality and that no one should be arbitrarily deprived of a nationality or denied the right to change nationality.

So why are you still wasting data, fighting and killing yourselves here? The black man really has a big problem, what is wrong to want to secede?

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Pls is 25 April shipment ready for collection?

mrmetoo1:
Read the paragraph I circled well, they didn't value that by themselves, it was based on the deals shell made with respect to those particular assets. This is the reason they stated that even though they appreciate the fact that it's a government to government deal, it's still grossly undervalued. They actually explained this further in other parts of the document

very well then, I've got to read the whole doc when I get to the office

[quote author=mrmetoo1 post=33185863][/quote]Thanks for the quote. Well, PwC are not experts in valuation of oil and gas assets and the valuation is usually and largely based on the hgdrocarbon reserves in the asset be it gas or oil. From my few days in the industry, it iwill be very unprofessional for PwC to just quote a value without stating the capability of the assets like the daily production (number of barrels/day), the reserves (xxm mb/d and the mscf of gas ) avaialable, the number of wells on each field and their capacity, etc. Pls note that I'm not saying there's or no fraud in the transactions.

From the first draft to the last draft, the PIB has about five versions now. Which of the versions are you referring to and what do you think was the reason why the majority of the legislative houses have been amending it and refuse to pass it into law?

mrmetoo1:
Diezani made this sound like it was a conclusive report. This is far from conclusive, they raised a lot of questions. A lot of info still being withheld. The wastage/losses though is mind boggling. Then the shell divestment deal between NNPC & NPDC too was quite revealing. Selling an asset worth $3.4bn for $1.85bn, who does that? Anyway still reading, is quite revealing and oddly entertaining.

Please which of the asset is worrth $3.4b?

within the week or next week Monday

HP/Compaq 610

very fine phone

SA

Bump

@Completely, many thanks

kishimi8:
18k

No, but call moi

CNo, but call moi

claycares:
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