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How to discuss an issue in Nigeria

1st Speaker: I will use all my power and connections to provide good services to people.

2nd Speaker: You are an id1ot. Which connections? Which power. You are very stup1d. Goat!

3rd Speaker: The Ist speaker is bought by those in power. He is a stooge of those with connections.

4th Speaker: The second speaker is an id1ot. Why should he insult the 1st Speaker?

. . .And fight breaks out between the supporters of 2nd and 4th Speakers.

Then a free for all fight.

I no gree.

Where is Alobam - Phyno (Playmaker)

Garllado - Run town (Toped the chart for close to 6 months)

haaaa, this is a bad

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Denn:
been long we saw you here...hows prep?

going good amigo, I do come around to read comments. how's yours?

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Chokomate:
Kelechukwu clap for yourself then, since you applied alone you should go alone or are you looking for who you will share transport or accommodation cost with? I think you should deep hands into the grant you might get in 6months time, run the expenses with it, then replace it later. The only thing you need to do now is pray you are selected for the mentoring program. All the best bro.

Applied alone? should have taken you along? Well, the summit is for existing businesses (i assume you are a rookie) and, no I'm not seeking to share any expenses with anybody as I'm in Abuja. we have a handful of people from this thread here, I counted three already. wish you rainbows and balloons

bizhub:
Sheraton 9am today !!

chief, are you at Sharaton yet? many Nairaland members here already.

Ikandah:
I just came across this info and decided to share it with you, especially those with existing business. There is a grant advantage attached to the programme for excellent performance. www.nationalsmesummit.org The sky is our limit!

sorry I'm updating this late, I have been busy, I applied for this wen oga ikandah posted it and got selected, the summit is tomorrow, anybody else coming?

Most parents know that disciplining kids is no easy task. And it doesn't get any easier when your kids are adorable, too adorable to scold. In a new viral video, a father discovers his two sons covered in paint. Dad starts to reprimand the tikes in the usual manner saying, "Who's idea was this? Did you think this was a good idea?"

Then the wheels come off, and dad can't keep a straight face and breaks out in laughter. One of the boys appropriately asks, "What is funny?" Dad can't keep it together, especially after the boys ask if they have paint in their hair.

The video was uploaded to YouTube on Monday, where it has been viewed more than 3.5 million times so far! Hey dad, at least they are already in the shower for easy cleaning.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVDNNoEk4PI

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A worker fell screaming 11 stories from the roof of a bank building Friday morning onto a moving car, crushing its roof and sending shattered glass flying into the street, police and witnesses said

The man suffered critical injuries, but he was conscious, and the driver was not injured, police said.

Witnesses described seeing a blue streak and the man's shadow as he fell and then hearing shattering glass as he hit the car and then rolled onto the ground. The roof of the car, a green Toyota Camry, was smashed in, and the rear windshield shattered.

Bianca Bahman, who was on the corner where the man fell, said she looked up to see his shadow and ran for cover.

"As he was coming down, he was definitely screaming," Bahman, 31, a pre-medical student at San Francisco State University who was on her way to the gym, said. "It all happened so quickly. It was so instantaneous."

The man, identified by police only as window washer, was moving equipment on the roof of a bank building in the heart of San Francisco's financial district and not on a window-washing platform when he fell, San Francisco police Sgt. Danielle Newman said. The platform was on the ground at the side of the building, and cables were hanging from its sides. It was not clear whether the man was setting the platform up, but he was working with a partner, police said.

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Police look over a car that has a caved in roof after a window washer fell at least 11 stories onto …
Sam Hartwell, 56, of San Rafael, said he was walking to the building the man fell from for a meeting when he saw something blue falling.

"I heard the loud thud and the shattering of the back of the car," he said. "At that point, I realized it was a body."

He and about 20 other people ran to the man, who was on his back. The man was lucid, though he was bleeding.

"He understood we were with him," Hartwell said.

The bystanders, who included a nurse, put clothing on the man as they waited for the ambulance.

View galleryPolice and citizens look over a car that has a caved …
Police and citizens look over a car that has a caved in roof after a window washer fell at least 11 …
Hartwell said of his reaction, "It was utter, immediate shock. How do you react to something like that?"

Dozens of people gathered around police tape after the accident, as officials cleaned up blood, glass and a shoe that were lying in the intersection. The driver of the Camry did not want to comment, Newman said.

The man worked for Concord, California-based Century Window Cleaning, said Peter Melton, a spokesman for the California state division of occupational safety and health.

The company was cited for one serious violation and three other violations in 2008, one of them related to instructing window-cleaning employees in the proper use of all equipment provided to them, and supervising the use of the equipment and safety devices to insure that safe working practices are observed, according to federal records. The company was fined more than $6,500, though the fine was eventually reduced to a little more than $2,700.

A call to the company was not immediately returned.

Recent incidents involving window washers show the dangers of the job.

Last week, the collapse of a World Trade Center scaffold left two window washers dangling from the nation's tallest skyscraper. The workers were trapped 68 stories above the street when a cable suddenly developed slack on Nov. 12.

The workers held on to the teetering platform for two agonizing hours. One called his wife during the ordeal, fearful that it might be his last opportunity to speak to her. Firefighters used diamond cutters to saw through a double-layered window and pulled the men to safety. They were not injured.

Last month in Irvine, California, two window washers stuck for hours near the top of a 19-story high-rise were pulled to safety by members of a search-and-rescue team.

It was unclear how the workers became stuck on the side of the office building near the San Diego Freeway. Neither worker was injured, authorities said.

Also last month in downtown Oakland, California, two window washers were stranded outside the 19th floor of a high-rise for nearly two hours before employees inside realized they were in trouble and called for help. They also were not injured.

http://news.yahoo.com/window-washer-survives-11-story-fall-california-195846062.html

Because he didn't support APC y'all calling him names, bunch of hypocrites.

cocoduck:
FAT lie, the udara tree is not like any other tree, it has a big, long and almost smooth trunk, and the branches are very high for even giants let alone kids, you think its is like the guava tree?

You should know that not all Udala tree is 100yrs old. there is one in my father's compound and my little cousins conveniently climb it, even the very old trees has outgrowths, deep scars and other materials that makes climbing it easy, the only reason my cousins don't climb the one at the farmland area is because of those yellowish ants that stings. before u dismiss someone's contributions as a lie ask some questions first. u sound uncut.

swagwu:
in my place udara hasn't lost its value because most udara trees are owned by the community so its no personal property....i miss NSK xo much....

in my place children climb the tree and pluck it! imagine, when I was young nobody dare climb Udala or Ukwa tree, this days na freestyle something.

I enjoyed the yam search so much, I always look forward to it anytime I went to the village.

Agunze Azuka Onwuka wrote:

Growing up in my hometown Nnewi, we had a custom
similar to a passage read in the Bible in church today:
Deut 24:19 - "When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. (King James 2000 Bible).

In our case the practice was limited to yam, the king of crops. After harvest, any yam tuber missed out belonged to whoever found it. After the first rain, forgotten or broken yam tubers in the soil began to sprout. We little boys (or any adult who cared) would visit farms with machetes and sacks searching with eagle eyes for yam tendrils emerging from the soil. Whoever saw a yam tendril first would point at it and shout: "Kpata m ji!" That confered ownership to him. He would bend down and dig up the yam with joy and pride. If the owner of the farm passed by at that time, he would not say anything to the boys. His son could even be among the searchers. The best he could do was to be more careful next harvest. But it was impossible not to miss out some yam tubers during harvest.

It gave boys great joy to find and own these yam tubers. I kept mine in my father's barn, well tied artistically to poles. I did not allow anybody to eat any of them. During the planting season, my dad allowed me to plant my yam tubers in a part of his farm, and I paid a special attention to those yam tubers.

A similar custom was that concerning the udara. It was a taboo to climb an udara tree or pluck its ripe fruits (even by the owner). The ripe fruits must be allowed to fall by themselves, and whoever picked them owned them. As early as 4am, people would take lamps and torches and visit udara trees known to produce sweet fruits. Early birds would go home with basket or basin filled with udara.

These were customs our forefathers put in place to ensure that the poorest or orphans had something to eat, even if they were surrounded by stingy kinsmen.


Our forefathers were wise!

newacca:
Coolkizzy, how is it bro? Youwin4 app will soon be opened. I want to star from where I left. I want to know where I got it wrong in the second stage of Youwin3.
I am directing this to you because we are in the same industry : beauty and personal care.
My question: are you employees on commission i.e pay per performance or they are all on fixed salary. In my case, only the receptionist is on fixed salary.
While this might not be the reason I was chosen as an alternative in the second stage, I am trying to know where I got it wrong. Though, I figured out I made a slight mistake on the spreadsheet but I've learnt my lesson, in competition like this, no chances are left for any mistake.
I would be looking forward to hearing from you and every other member with similar experience.

One of the risks associated with with our kind of business is high employee turnover, to mitigate this risk employees are placed on a merger BASIC salary while they earn by commission, this will make them relaxed and patient when the business suffers teething problems, first three-four months.

that was how I reasoned and that was what I told youwin, hope this helps

The tribe I come from, you cannot have sexual relationship with your cousin let alone marry her, its a sin against Ana/Ani (soil), even your relations, so long as there is someone alive that knows and can explain the blood ties between you and a very distant relation, sexual relationship and marriage is forbidden

and he declares!!!!! long live Nigeria, long live Jonathan!!!

I challenge any Nigerian politician to replicate what President Jonathan did! more than 30mins articulated speech without reading it off some paper.

I love my president!

Your views no matter how freely expressed cannot send you to prison or exile under my watch. Long live Jonathan!

they put their lives at fire front for us to have peace, yet some people will come here and incite violence with their tongues, people that can't kill a fly.

Even those that don't know this man is shouting fraud, listen to his recent cds he is a full supporter of the GEJ administration, you want him to support the people that succeeded in almost eliminating the Catholic church up North?

Why I hate APC so much? They are filled with propaganda and evil vendetta, once you are not with them you become the witch.

Rev. Fr Ejike Mbaka is a man whose words holds a lot of water east of Nigeria and for him to say this, APC should forget south east totally.

Learn from Chimaroke and Ohakim, don't insult / disrespect God's institution for politics sake.

omoteamac:
O tii n shi eere!!

go play with your mates outside.

Ezi ofia

omoteamac:
you too fit talk nau...make e no be like say you day,we no observe you..aa tiii rii eee...!

I get ultrabook for 15k you want?

shift abeg.

chaloner:
nawa oooo, we go steal am come give u ?

very soon he will come here and start crying after being scammed, I'm sure those scammers must have called him and offered a core I7 for 20k

Denn:
^^^^
Further update on the account number debate.

Youwin has mandated all banks to send in a weekly report of all accounts opened.

Reports are sent in every Friday.

If you don't go to the banks, no account is opened for you.

I got the above information from my relationship officer in my designated bank.

Oga there is no debate here, you are not assigned to access bank so you don't have access to correspondence with our officers. I'm not saying what I'm not sure of, you can confirm from others assigned to access bank.

The money will arrive sooner than expected, Access Bank has generated account number for everyone. In their words "to meet up with Youwin deadline" all you need do is go to the bank and file all the required document and you will be given access to your access bank account.

Also got from a reliable source that the Youwin 2 third tranche is paid out, so this is our time! all the best guys.

bongo2011:
I got this mail from Youwin ome minutes ago. I guess disbursement will be soonest.

Dear Mr ............,

Following your validation, complete registration of your business with the Corporate Affairs Commission and collection of your certificate, you are required to open a corporate bank account in the name of your registered business. This account will be used to disburse the YouWiN! Grant funds for your business.
Kindly visit the nearest bank branch from the list below with the following (originals and photocopies);
a. CAC certificate and supporting documents which include particulars of shareholders and directors where applicable or a partnership deed duly notarized by a commissioner of Oath to show ownership of majority shares by 51% and above).
b. YouWiN! Legal agreement.
Please note that you are to open the account as the ONLY signatory as you will be fully responsible for managing the grant funds.
The bank that you are to open a corporate account with is:
Diamond Bank
You can contact the desk officers listed in the attached link below for any clarifications or questions regarding your corporate account opening.

which state?

No be only succumb

lagtech:
Working on it as promised and will do.

still waiting sir, its weekend already

brilliant writeup, only people like you are permitted to blog.