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spyder880:
Someone sent me an MTN VTU for recharge of N1000, it was very useful, every little helps.

. Not from me prof Spyder. But I will appreciate your response to my question. Everyone says you are the one who can assist. A range will do na. Thanks in advance o.

This is very educative and interesting. Thanks a million to all you guys. Can someone please advise on how much (a range) might be required to erect a bungalow of two flats of 4 and 2 bedrooms (same as two 3 bedrooms) in IBADAN. I will appreciate your answers as I am currently on it ( about 30 percent done) and plan to go home to try and complete it. So "Prof Spyder", Steo, Ogbefi, Prince et al please help.

Was this actually reported by a newspaper? The grammar dey give migraine.

I hate the fireworks! I hope the break favours Federer though.

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Davidbanky:
I think †н!$ game is a boost for nadal , Have not seen him play †н!$ long since 2009 at d semis against fernando verdasco,†ђa† was 5hrs 14mins,not up to 2days later he defeated federer,i think nadal can handle anybody now,not at his best yet but he's is coming gradually,he just knows how to bounce back after a not too good year against novak

Seems that you did not watch the match. This was not a good performance from Nadal to be sincere. He was able to steal the win only because Berdych dropped his level after the second set. Nadal was too passive for the first 3 sets and only started attacking when he was leading 2 sets to 1. Against any of the top guys he would have gone long time. I hope the FED comes with his a game and Nadal will be white-washed.

That's it. The dream semi final match is here. I hope the FED thrashes Nadal in 3 straight sets.

Berdych level has dropped by about 10%.

femzy:
If Berdych loses this match; he ll have himself to blame. He has been playing and serving so well; he could have sealed the 2nd set in that break.

Inded. He has given back the break. Shame!

I can't imagine a top player of Nadal status to be this passive. Standing up to 4 meters behind the base line to receive second serves of average speed of 140kph. What a shame!

Nadal is too passive. Sorry dude, he doesn't deserve to win this one.

Nadal is having his hands full as expected.

Wozi has been eliminated in straight sets by Clijsters. Not surprising a bit though. Kim is a real fighter.

I side by Berdych to upset Nadal, I pick Fed over Delpo, Djockovic over Ferrer, Murray over Nishikori. Can't wait for the fireworks to start.

lafile:
Quarter Final Pairings:
Thomas Berdych V Rafa Nadal
Juan Martin Del Potro V Roger Federer
Andy Murray V Kei Nishikori

Still awaiting the results from Djokovic/Hewitt and Gasquet/Ferrer.

Still cant believe the Japanese guy knocked out Tsonga. was tipping Tsonga to do great things this season. Never too late though. Is Del Potro about to repeat his feat from 3 yrs ago? He hasn't been the same since his injury, but isn't playing badly. But beating The Fed might be asking a tad too much. Would be interesting to see how Murray handles Nishikori. Wont place any bets on that one. I'll place bets on Nadal beating the inconsistent Berdych. Cant seem to warm up to the guy. Last Q4 pairing is definitely Djokovic v Ferrer. Cant wait for the fire in that match.

Nadal will surely have his hands full against the dangerous but inconsistent Berdych. It can get to 5 sets and at that point anything is possible. What fire will be in Ferrer v Djockovic match? At best Ferrer takes a set and no more. I can't wait for the Delpo vs GOAT match though.

Corruption.

For the first time since this 4th republic, I feel that my state has a real gorvenor in every sense of the word. Oyo o ni baje o. May the good Lord grant Ajimobi the wisdom and courage to direct the affairs of the "pace setter" state.

Dotman01:
ajimobi to the right side of agodi. . . . akala to the left side in uniform. . . lmao!

Hmmmmmmm, tricky. You'll have to clarify. It actually depends on where you're coming from.

This is pure ingenuity! Classic.
I enjoy it.

GEJ/PDP are scared to death. This is desperation of the highest order.
God pass them. Whether they like it or not, revolution will happen.

BB ALL THE WAY.

I am from Oyo state and I am in full support of the BB ticket.

Very cheap to have: A vote only for two men of integrity.

BB ALL THE WAY

bb all the way

I dey laff ooo - in Izon

Empty threats. Odechukwu will have his hands full if he tries anything funny with his main opponents. If he rigs and thinks that Nigeria will be governable for him, then he is being completely disillusioned.

Anyway, he's tried several times to intimidate Buhari with state's police and we all know what has been the outcome each time.
Or wasn't Buhari not warned not to campaign in Ibadan and Jos? The man rightly ignored him and nothing happen. So we've been there before.

If he rigs and there are evidences, he will have no choice than to have another Yemen + Bahrain in his hands.

Mumucious indeed.

Hmm, Beaf would have been ok but he is intellectually blind to do a good job.

Jarus is miles ahead.

Did his warning against people using his name to campaign contain this particular one?

Inna Lilahi wa inna ilahi rojiun.

RIP

The issue here is not about her accent. She could have been pardoned on that if it was the ONLY problem.

The main problem is her ability to MURDER the English language at any given opportunity.

I would like any of her advocates here to tell us, sincerely speaking, if they will be proud to say "that's my first Lady" seeing her on an international channel like CNN murdering English.


You may want to read this:

Patience Jonathan's Peculiar Grammar

Farooq A. Kperogi

March 20, 2011

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Nigeria’s First Lady “Dame” Patience Jonathan has by now securely established well-deserved notoriety for herself as someone who is compulsively incapable of stringing together a single sentence that is not a comical ridicule of the English language.

There is probably no public figure in Nigeria’s recent history who has publicly and mindlessly murdered basic English syntax with as much recklessness and regularity as “Dame” Patience Jonathan, whose middle name is now “umblera” on account of her widely publicized, laughably consistent mispronunciation of “umbrella” (the People's Democratic Party’s icon) when she stumped for her husband recently. (Watch the "umblera" video below).



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Although I have been greatly entertained by the First Lady’s hilariously uneducated speech mannerisms and solecisms, I used to be one of her greatest defenders during informal conversations with my friends. I had frankly thought that she had not had the privilege of getting a formal education, and so I had attributed her rib-tickling gaffes to illiteracy. I had challenged some of my friends if any of their illiterate sisters, suddenly thrust to the limelight, could do better than “Dame” Patience Jonathan in public oral delivery and grammatical correctness.

You can imagine my outrage when I discovered that the First Lady actually earned a National Certificate in Education (NCE) from the Rivers State College of Arts and Science in 1989 and a bachelor’s degree in biology and psychology from the University of Port Harcourt, her husband’s alma mater, in 1994. But what is even more scandalous is that she was a high school teacher for many years. Hmm. What did she teach her students? And in what language did she teach them?

The Nigerian cyberspace—what I christened “Cyberia” in one of my academic writings—has lately been agog over the First Lady’s humorously embarrassing grammatical and pronunciational somersaults. That’s how I got to know about this. Her “umblera” (mis)pronunciational salvo is undoubtedly her most popular. It has drawn tens of thousands of eyeballs on YouTube, inspired several creative spoofs and remixes and is, I am reliably told, a hit ringtone among Nigerian mobile phone users. (I wonder how the “Dame” sings Rihanna’s hit single “Umbrella,” especially the “ella, ella” hook; I can’t wait for someone to do a spoof of that!)

Other hilariously egregious errors attributed to the First Lady include the following: “My husband and Sambo IS A GOOD PEOPLE”; “the president was once a child and the SENATORS WERE ONCE A CHILDREN”; “my fellow widows” [she reportedly said this while addressing widows. We know whom to hold responsible if President Jonathan drops dead!]; “the people sitting before you here were ONCE A CHILDREN”; “it is not easy to CARRY SECOND in an international competition like this one”; “the bombers, who BORN them? WASN’T it not a woman? They were ONCE A CHILDREN, now A ADULT, now they are bombing women and children making SOME CHILDREN A WIDOW”; “my heart feels sorry for these CHILDREN WHO HAVE BECOME WIDOWS by losing their parents for one reason or another”; “We should have love for our fellow Nigerians irrespective of their NATIONALITY.”

Four things are clear from these statements. First, the First Lady has clearly no sense of subject-verb agreement—much like her husband. Second, she doesn’t know the difference between “child” and “children.” She evidently never listened when her teacher taught “singular and plural” in her primary school. Three, she obviously has no clue that “fellow” is used to refer to people who share a commonality with you, so she doesn’t realize that by calling the widows “my fellow widows” she means that her husband is dead, too. Four, she has not the vaguest idea that “widow” is not an all-purpose word for people who have lost their loved ones. That’s why she (correctly) uses it for women whose husbands are dead AND (incorrectly) for orphans, i.e., children whose parents are dead.

I can forgive her use of the Nigerian Pidgin English expressions “carry second” [place second] and “born” [gave birth]—and her misuse of the word “nationality” when talking about Nigerians who actually all share the same nationality. After all, her husband, who claims to have a Ph.D. in zoology, recently said at a political rally that we are“diverse in terms of different human species.” If a putative Ph.D. in zoology (the branch of biology that studies animals, including humans) doesn’t know enough to know that all humans belong to the same species, why should we expect a less educated, grammatically challenged “Dame” to know that all Nigerians belong to the same nationality?

But, seriously, the stupefying ignorance of Nigeria’s First Family provokes many troubling queries. If the president and his wife, who should be our role models, can’t even obey the most basic rules of our national language (which, by the way, they, like all of us who went to school, learned from elementary school to university) why do we express phony outrage in the national media every year when we are confronted with data of mass failure in English in school certificate exams?

We expect our kids to pass “O” level English in high school, and we collectively wail hypocritically when mass failure is recorded in school certificate exams. We also, as an official policy, expect our kids to pass “O” level English as a precondition to even read Nigerian languages in our universities. But we lower the standards—and expectations— when we assess the performance of our political and public leaders. Suddenly, we remember that English isn’t native to us. What galling double standard!

I recently had an argument with a passionate defender of the Dame’s habitually unenviable grammatical and speech aberrations. My interlocutor advanced the sadly familiar infantile argument that the First Lady's foibles should be excused because English isn’t our native language. But a single question I posed to her shut her up. I asked her if she would honestly want her daughters to imitate the Dame’s speech mannerisms and indefensible grammatical imperfections. She was quiet. When I pressed her further, she shamefacedly said “no.”

But a First Lady is supposed to be a role model for young girls. So I wondered aloud: if you don’t want your girls to grow up to be like “Dame” Patience Jonathan, why should you defend her consistently embarrassing slips? You got it: hypocrisy!

The excuse that English isn’t our native language and therefore shouldn’t be the basis for judging the public address of public figures is just downright silly and duplicitous, especially for a woman whose first name is an English word (is there no word for “Patience”—and, for that matter, “Good Luck”!— in Ikwerre or Ijaw?), who bears the English title “Dame” even though she has never been conferred that title by the Queen of England (who language she has formed a habit of murdering), and whose people’s “traditional” sartorial symbol is a colonial felt hat handed down to them by English colonialists!

(For the record, I have no problems with the Niger Delta's symbolic fedora; I only have a problem with people who ignore its obvious colonial origins but rail at people who insist on a basic proficiency with the English language, another hold-over of our colonial encounter with England).

The First Lady has three options. One option is to speak to us in Ikwerre (which I am told is her native language) and get an English translator. The second option is to address her audiences in Nigerian Pidgin English, which she speaks quite proficiently and which most Nigerians understand. The third, and perhaps best, option is for her to remain silent. She doesn’t have to speak in public. A popular aphorism says, “It’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

Beaf is no more than a F.O.O.L. Period.

^^^^^^ Low lives: Jakumo, Paddy_lo, Andrew Uweh. Pathetic is the word for you all.

We've said it here before that those who live in a glass house do not throw stones.

Now the presidency camp realised that they have bitten more than they are able to chew so are now on face-saving mission.

And Instead of provideing answers to the issues raised by Buhari's camp they are "appealing" to opposition camps to thread softly as if they didn't start it.



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The Presidency Monday again pleaded with political opponents of President Goodluck Jonathan to conduct issues-based campaign and desist from mudslinging and peddling falsehood against persons, especially the president and his wife, Patience.

The appeal followed a publication imputing corruption against the First Lady on an allegation that she had already been cleared by former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, who is also the presidential candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).


A statement from the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Ima Niboro, regretted that General Muhammadu Buhari was allegedly attacked in a statement by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign team and in response, his campaign organisation resorted to “outright use of falsehood” to tarnish the image of Mrs Jonathan.

According to Niboro, the most embarrassing aspect of the allegation was that it had been widely reported that Ribadu denied ever investigating the First Lady.


He said that every Nigerian was aware of the stance of the president on campaigns which is to centre on issues and avoid personal attacks like the mudslinging the opposition had resorted to.

Niboro said: "Our attention has been drawn to a statement in the media today in which the spokesman for the Muhammadu Buhari Campaign organization regrettably sought to cast aspersions on President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, over a matter that was laid to rest last year.


"Responding to an unfortunate statement from the PDP presidential campaign office which was certainly not authorized by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan who abhors all forms of political mudslinging, Mr. Yinka Odumakin sadly chose to ignore facts that are of common knowledge and invoke falsehood, spurious insinuations and accusations.


"Mr. Odumakin cannot claim to be unaware that speaking with journalists on September 15, last year Mallam Ribadu who is now a presidential candidate himself, said as follows: 'I never handled a case against Patience Jonathan, never; it’s a lie. You know it is so sad because in our country this is how we go about maligning people. But today thank God I am not in his government. So, I can open up and talk. If I were to say it earlier people would have thought that I was looking for job from President Goodluck Jonathan. I am not looking for anything. But the truth must be told.”


Continuing on the words of Ribadu which cleared the First Lady, Niboro quoted him: “The case had to do with a lady and a man who lodged huge sums of money in the bank. The EFCC was alerted by the bank and an investigation was carried out. It was found that they legitimately earned the money through contracts executed in the state.


"All the reports in the media were lies. For instance, it was initially reported that N70 million was lodged into the bank. Later, it was reported that the money ran into millions of dollars. Such was the extent of the lies. We never handled a case against Patience Jonathan.”

He quoted reports from The Nation of September 16, 2010 and THISDAY of September 17, 2010.


He wondered how any reasoning mind could, after such widely publicised clarifications on the matter, still go ahead as if on a vengeance mission to publish falsehoods against an innocent person.

^^^^^^ But he went and had his rally. Una no get balls.

BB all the way. No shaking. Una go fear fear.