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Barcelona actually signed Enyeama this season.



In my Football Manager 2012 game that is.

Would be quite interesting if that happened in real life.

Is any still available pls?

Only peeps who do not listen to full albums but depend on radio airplay and music videos will say D'banj is a better artiste. The best songs from Tuface dont even have music videos, trust me. He is the boss.

freetowns: I know some of our kids in Nigeria here lack respect and training but u cant compare with raising kids in d west, Absolutely NO WAY!! That the kids do not respect elders or zebra crossing is just the tip of bad orientation. Being someone who lived in the West with family before returning home, kids raised abroad is anoda ball game. They truly respect those in authority like Teachers, police, wardens but have no amount of respect for their own parents!! Just tell my last son u wuld inform his teacher abt his bad bhavior at homeand see how he begs.

I rather my children grow up where they can have a solid identity than somplace whr sum1 will never cease to remind them that they are not true citizens but borrowed regardless of their birthplace and having tax paying parents.

I believe I have everytin to make my kids life here better and also instil family values in them. I want kids who will always remember me in my old age not like what i witnessed with the old caucasians in Europe. Life of loneliness in a care home!!

My kid brother was born and grew up in the UK with my folks who also live there. He is not disrespectful. Reason? You can't live with my dad and not have manners or learn to respect your parents. Besides, what is the essence of respecting your parents only to tell the rest of the society to go screw themselves. That is why our society is the way it is. Kids are saints at home but a menace in the society. Your kids caring for you in your old age is dependent on the amount of time you also devote to them in their formative years. If you abandon them to go chase after money, they will do the same when they have their own families, irrespective of their geographic location.

Hhm, it sure didn't take long for this to become another tribal bashing thread. This bridge could have been anywhere in Nigeria, nay, this kind of bridge can probably be found in every state in Nigeria, yet we gather to bash each other and claim false superiority. Nigerians, I hail una o!

DonColz1: President of Nkerefi Town Union, Mr. Joseph Mkpume, said before the town could decide on the action to take, the driver of the truck connived with some people and evacuated the truck and cement.
“If we, the villagers, had been smarter than the driver, we would have held him, the truck and the goods, and ensure its firm comes to fix the bridge,” said Mkpume.
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And I'm guessing these people who connived with the driver are members of that same community. When will we learn to do what is right in the interest of all instead of pursuing our own selfish interests? Nigerians, una well done o!

I laugh in Cantonese. The first lady who hold a non-constitutional office is now summoning "democratically" elected governors. It is well.

freetowns: Hmmmmmmm. This step u are about to take is surely a mind boggling one. I just relocated bck to Nigeria and so far am not regretting it one bit. Remember is not easy to raise kids abroad. Yes they can hv d best of education and all. But character and orientation can defo go sour with kids raised abroad.

All I can say is this: it is ur decision but make the right one for d good of ur sanity.

And you think the majority of our kids here are well-behaved with good character and orientation? That we bow or prostrate to greet our elders, call them sir/ma and so on does not mean we are cultured when the average Nigerian youth (16-40) doesn't know that he should slow down for pedestrians at a zebra crossing. They will respectfully insult your for correcting them when they do wrong. Many are chasing riches without any plans to work hard for it. Majority are so lawless.

Those values we cherished are long gone. Was in a BRT bus sometime last year and kids in school uniform wouldn't even stand for an old woman. I had to give up my seat for her. They just went on chatting.

bugativeron: @diasporan thanks for your response and encouragement. I took time to take my wife thru it yesternite. Though she has never been in support of our leaving nigeria. When we newly got married she wanted to travel to canada to be delivered of our 1st child she was denied visa cos she wasnt working but she was so cross because she had her early primary sch in canada and couldnt understand why she was denied. Since then she has been anti travel. But I definitely know 2 things. That 1, God need to be thoroughly consulted and that my wife must fully buy into this lofty idea. Funny enough she has always agreed with me on all issues but she is a bit reluctant now. But I guess because she is always scarred of changes.

Just like you my wife and I were all for raising our kids in Nigeria when we just got married. Our reasons were that we wanted them to know our culture and true African values. We didn't want them to grow up in societies where they didn't believe in God and banned talk of God from schools and work. But in recent times I have asked, "where are the so-called African values?" Do they still exist in this country where all we seem to worship is money? Where corruption is the norm. Where the average Nigerian constantly seeks to exploit the next man. Like I said in my earlier post, we live in a lawless country and I don't want that for my kids.

We are very religious, but it hardly translates to our daily life. I would rather they grow up in a country where people still respect the law and know there will be repercussions if they break the law. I will take it upon myself to teach them about God in these formative years. My wife has now bought into the idea and hopefully God will make everything work out. I wish you the best as well.

At OP: I honestly feel you. I've been having these thoughts myself in the last one year.

Contrary to what some peeps here think, it's not about how much you earn. We live in a society where both the rich and the poor do not truly have peace. We all hide behind high fences topped with barbed wires or broken bottles. Whether you drive a weather-beaten jalopy or a bugatti, you still have to contend with massive potholes, craters and yam ridges, even on our so-called 5-lane expressways. The rich run abroad to treat simply headaches while the poor die from preventable diseases. This is not life. This is no way to enjoy your hard-earned income whether it is 5,000 or 500,000 a month.

The most worrisome part for me however, like the OP stated is the future of my kids. This is not the kind of society I want them to grow up in. I grew up in a Nigeria where people still knew right from wrong. A Nigeria where people frowned at criminality no matter how minute. People obeyed things as simple as traffic laws. Now we are so lawless that it is scary. We now applaud and celebrate criminals. People don't even seem to know what is right and what is wrong anymore. We drive on the wrong side of the road and think it is absolutely normal. We defend and rationalize glaring criminality. Even a thief caught in the act can go scot free if he knows his "way".

This is not the kind of values I grew up with, and it certainly isn't the kind I want my kids to adopt. Even in western countries where we say their kids tend to be unruly, they still know that if they break the law, they will do the time. In Nigeria we brazenly break the law and no one even notices. I love Nigeria, but I worry for it's future.

biafranqueen: Like I've been saying while we fight for party and tribe they are popping champagne and living the high life together OP how is he odd man out check your bank account next to those players in the pictures #nigeriansarefoolingthemselves

@the bolded: My very thoughts exactly! We keep ourselves busy fighting over tribe and religion. Igbo this, Yoruba that, Hausa this, while our politicians are united in the collective looting of our commonwealth! NAIJA PEOPLE, I HAIL UNA O!!! Lagbaja was spot on when he called us 200 million mumus.

Choi, laughter don kill me for this thread o!


Mods, please move this to jokes section because that is where it belongs.

My little bro won a wristwatch from Trebor Luckies back in the late 80's. Who remembers that? Trebor Luckies!

kliq: Interesting fixtures


Olympiakos
Atletico
PSG
Galatasaray
Real Madrid
Dortmund
Arsenal
Barcelona .....to advance to the next round

Dude, pass me some of that ish you are smoking. It's surely got you high.

Mukina, you nor dey update at the speed of light again? Abi your hand press pause?

Mukina..., mukina..., you still dey alive?

KingMEXX: Bendtner to the rescue!!!! Hahahaha

bwuhahaha, joke of the season.

mukina2: you nor well i update all matches in real time

Yeah righhhht...

As Tonto Dikeh no dey dis list, na fake. Poko, abi na gbaguan she dey talk sef?

internetpo: soon and very soon. the idea is there but no one/ producer wants to risk it yet.
They are all comfortable in their comfort zones.

I plan on entering that virgin industry soon. Not even cartoons but 3D flicks like Hotel transylvania or funding nemo.

For ur info. kids watch cartoons (TV) more than adults and there is a serious dearth of local content here.

I wish you all the best with that, but would like to let you know that it takes more than you and a couple of friends working on your macs to put together a feature-length 3D animation. Just check the credits of the movies you mentioned and tell me if you can assembly that many animation professionals here in Nigeria.

[quote author=dotcom_na_me_na_me]Now now we go know who be boss in England

Barcelona vs Arsenal

Chelsea vs Madrid

Dortmund vs Man United[/quote]Sorry, Dortmund and United topped their groups and can't meet.

It's obvious a lot of people that are commenting don't know the technicalities that goes into producing a feature length animated movie, and that includes the OP.

If you were even talking 2D, I would say maybe even though it has its own challenges, but photoreal 3D is another cup of tea. It is a capital intensive venture (yes, OP it's not a chicken change project) and even more developed countries in Europe are beginning to outsource their animation work to Asian countries (China, Japan, Singapore) because of the cost involved.

We live in a country where steady power is a myth. The endless days required to render an animated movie frame by frame requires uninterrupted power. Now how much do you think you will spend on diesel, petrol or inverters if you where to do that here? Another factor is that we don't even have enough manpower with the know-how to do the job. Just visit Aptech to find out how much their animation course cost and you'll know it's not something many can afford. And even they don't teach something tangible in my opinion. That simply means you have to go abroad and spend a fortune to train as an animator.

If you now go surmount all these challenges and find a wealthy investor, how do you make the returns on your investment? Even the best of our cinemas cannot guarantee a good return, not to talk of DVD sales. Most animators I know do it for the passion, but cannot clearly and boldly chart a course as to how to make megabucks from it. That's the simple truth.

Here are some animated stuff done by Nigerians:
3D


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYhKcBZiSI8&feature=share

and for 2D


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP08xhuF7E8

repogirl: 'Free fall in the past five years?' I hate all this propaganda bullshit targeted at a government that is really trying its best despite serious and deliberate opposition from jealous id!ots hiding behind a nonsensical cause!

Madiba was right in his assertions but then it should not be misconstrued and used to target this present government! Nigeria's free falling began a long time ago, like madiba said, from our DICTATORS and their DICTATING ERA...... Not just five years ago!

And where on this thread has anyone laid the blame at the feet of this present government? It's not all about GEJ my dear.

mavinc4u: there is power in every spoken word. we are the cause of our problem. can't we just see good things and say good things about Nigeria so that it would start from there. We use our mouth to condemn the country and expect it to be good. the tongue is fire and can be used to decree anything and it comes to pass. The Bible says our mouths have creative force. death and life are in the power of tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit so learn how to say God bless Nigeria. if everybody wakes up to say God bless Nigeria before their morning and night prayers, tell me if God will not bless Nigeria and make it a better place to live.

Oh please spare me this. For how many years have we been saying "it is well, e go beta" while things get worse? Sometimes, we Christians like to live in denial. Did you not see how in the Bible God condemned his own people with strong words when they went astray? Did the prophets in the Bible speak only positive things even when the people were corrupt? We need to condemn what is wrong until Nigerians truly repent and turn from their evil ways.

[quote author]''Educate children of the poor, so that they can get out of poverty. Poverty does not breed confidence. Only confident people can bring changes. Poor, uneducated people can also bring change, but it will be hijacked by the educated and the wealthy."[/quote]Herein lies one of our greatest problems. This is why our elections are easily rigged. A small pack of rice and groundnut oil or just N500 can make poor folks sell their votes in a hurry. This is why strikes and protests don't achieve much, because after a week people are hungry and want to return to earning their daily survival pay. This is why the get rich syndrome has gripped the whole nation; because the gulf between the rich and the poor is so wide that the rich man is almost like God in the eyes of the poor.

Sadly, our leaders know this and continue to devise means to improvish us so they and their generations to come can continue to dominate us.

ojeffo: See as Manu n Chelsea dry gin fans dey celebrate Arsenal draw...dts d lowest of descent for both clubs

Story. Man Utd is 13 points behind you, yet you cant take your eyes of us.

I think someone needs to slap some sense into this Doyin Okupe dude. I'd nominate the President himself to do us the honours. Okupe's job is to make the President look good. This political jobber is doing the exact opposite.

[quote author=Mr Mac-10]Edin dzeko,asmir begovic,miralem panic,zvejdan misimovic the only Bosnian players I know let's not underate thus guys remember Greece from 2010[/quote]We were all over Greece and strolling to victory before Sani Keita's rush of blood to the head.

russianmob27: Aregntina fuckkkk 2002, 2010, 2014

Dude, you seem to have forgotten 1994. Abi dem neva born you then? :p

I kinda saw this coming even before Oshiomole made his peace offering. I just thought to myself when some peeps were applauding PDP's gesture that "What if this woman rejects their offer and proclaims Oshiomole her governor irrespective of the insults? After all PDP's Lucky Igbinedion reigned supreme for 8 years."

Alas, here we are today? It was a risky move on the PDP's part because it could blow up in their face too. Not a well thought out political move in my opinion; and yes it was a political move. They should have just located the woman covertly and then make their offer on the spot with a big ghana-must-go instead of inviting her over in the manner they did.

Afam4eva: See dem see dem, dem don start. So, now GEJ calling his political opponents rascals is now worse off than Oshiomole telling a widow to go and die? You guys should fear God.

Er, I believe Mr. President also told millions of Nigerians who wanted him to declare his assets that "HE DOESN'T GIVE A DAMN" about what they wanted him to do or not, even though it's constitutional.

Just saying o! No need for a retort. Long live Mr. President. Long Live the Federal Republic of Nigeria!

76Naira: He used wrong words and was judged for the wrong act.
He apologized and was also judged for an empty apology.
Now he has made an attempt at restitution by making an apology and a useful donation to the offended and he is still judged.

Well, some people would still have to go & ... after all.

Bro, the thing tire me o! We are the same people that will complain that our leaders don't apologize or resign when they mess up, yet when they do apologize, we ask them to shove it up their a$$. What exactly do we want?

In Eminem's voice: "If you never said something hurtful in anger, please stand up, please stand up....

[quote author=akah.p]u must b very stup1d 2side evil. Wats not xo applaudible if actualy dis is tru. Kan u in ur sane mind tel me y...[/quote]So, you can't simply express your opinion without insulting people? If Oshiomole had simply said "madam, pls you cant trade here. Pls pack your stuff" would he be in this mess now? Now you tell me, how many widows & orphans have you insulted here today?