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 Romance › Re: Playing The Gender Card by DeepZone(op): 7:21pm On Oct 12, 2008 |
That's just emotional blackmailWhenever women wants to play the gender card, being the smarter gender, they paly it smart but men can play daft gender card sometimes that even a retard will not buy. "oh baby, I'm so hard now in that if I don't do it in 5 minutes, the sperm will congeal and block my peewee and may require a surgery to open up again"  |
| Romance › Re: Playing The Gender Card by DeepZone(op): 7:10pm On Oct 12, 2008 |
Nah . . . I just play the legend cardWharreva! When you take a woman out on a shopping spree just to get in her pants, is that not gender card? When you pacify a broken hearted woman to get a pass into her life, is that not gender card? Men play the gender card more than you think. |
| Romance › Re: Playing The Gender Card by DeepZone(op): 7:09pm On Oct 12, 2008 |
if u stroke his ego, make him feel invincible. . . he'D do u favours and let u hav ur way. . . everybody is happy@HR, will you detect that act whenever a man is trying to do it just to get something from you? |
| Romance › Re: Playing The Gender Card by DeepZone(op): 7:07pm On Oct 12, 2008 |
don't call it selfish funmi,its all about being wiseHannibal is a thong eater and that one is more than gender card, it's called gender slavery. |
| Romance › Re: Playing The Gender Card by DeepZone(op): 7:04pm On Oct 12, 2008 |
It's not only selfish . . . it's stupidDon't you do it sometimes to get sex?. |
| Romance › Re: Playing The Gender Card by DeepZone(op): 6:51pm On Oct 12, 2008 |
mine is more like an emotional blackmail sefKeep confessing. |
| Romance › Re: Playing The Gender Card by DeepZone(op): 6:50pm On Oct 12, 2008 |
I do and i am not ashamed of it!Say it sister I think its a woman's prerogative. . . I don't think its dishonest, just one of d perks being femaleWill you accept it's selfish? |
| Romance › Re: Playing The Gender Card by DeepZone(op): 6:47pm On Oct 12, 2008 |
I do too eventhough I know it's quite dishonestDo you believe that honesty and transparency are the bedrock of every succesful relationship? |
| Romance › Re: Playing The Gender Card by DeepZone(op): 6:45pm On Oct 12, 2008 |
Darling my arms are so tiny, can you help me turn that pounded yam? Make sure it's big ooo!!!  Do guys also play the gender card? |
| Romance › Playing The Gender Card by DeepZone(op): 6:37pm On Oct 12, 2008 |
Do you play the gender card sometimes in your relationship to get favors? How effective is it? Don't you think it's a little bit selfish? |
| Politics › Okogie To Falae: You Have No Right To Condemn Yar’adua by DeepZone(op): 5:57pm On Oct 12, 2008 |
OKOGIE to FALAE: You have no right to condemn Yar’Adua By INNOCENT DURU Sunday, October 12, 2008 The Catholic Archbishop of the Metropolitan See of Lagos Archdiocese, Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie has criticized the former presidential candidate of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) in the 1999 elections for saying that President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua did not plan to be the president of Nigeria. •Okogie The Ondo born chief was last weekend reported to have said that the president did not have a blue print for revitalizing the economy because he never planned to be the president. Speaking to Sunday Sun last weekend after this year’s Children’s Day Rally with the Cardinal at the Catholic Church of Ascension, International Airport, Ikeja, the vocal cleric questioned the rationale behind Falae’s statement. Cardinal Okogie opined that for the president to have ruled Katsina State for two successful tenures showed he was ready to take up a bigger challenge. “How could he say that he is not prepared to rule the country? That is questionable. After all, he was a governor for two terms in Katsina State. You cannot tell me he is not prepared to rule. If he were not, why leave him there for two terms? It is a kind of promotion. Apparently, after sometime of going round in search of his successor, Obasanjo felt that was the man he thinks can do the job and he picked him. If am looking for somebody to take over from me, I would look for the right person I think can do the job before God and man”. On Yar,Adua’s perceiced slow approach to tackling national issues, he explained that various leaders adopt different strategies in handling issues saing the former Katsina governor should not be judged on that. “I can’t judge the president for saying that his slowness is to avoid quick fix in carrying out his plans. Everybody has his own way of doing things. Some believe I have only four years let me rush things. Others may believe that even though they have four years even if it is for a day, let them do what they can. I think that is what Yar’Adua is doing. Some even alluded that it could be because of his health but I don’t know, am not a doctor, I just go by what I see.” He averred that the problem with governance in the country is not about slow approach to handling issues but the greed of the nation’s leaders which makes them siphon public money while in office. “The bane of our society today is that once the politicians get to position, the very first thing they want to do is steal money; they want to get as much money as they can make. They look beyond the interest of the nation and the people they are representing. They start planning elephant projects that will never work. Anybody that has the chance to be at the helms of affairs must try to use the opportunity because opportunity once lost can never be regained. That is what is exactly happening to a good number of our leaders. On the nation’s 48 years of existence, Cardinal Okogie regretted the neglect of the youths stating that, “the country is not serious about the feature of our youths, we are 48 years now but won’t those who gave us the independence sit down and laugh at us? “Look at Ghana, they are doing something good, they are learning from our mistakes. They have discovered oil now and are very careful. The first thing they are trying to do is to develop their infrastructure and not start sharing money. Did Nigeria do that?” http://odili.net/news/source/2008/oct/12/510.html |
| Culture › 100,000 Expected At Onitsha Ofala by DeepZone(op): 5:56pm On Oct 12, 2008 |
100,000 expected at Onitsha Ofala BY EMEKA ANOKWURU Saturday, October 11, 2008 Residents in Onitsha, the commercial town of Anambra State are in a celebration mood as this year's Ofala festival gets underway. Consequently over 100, 000 people, including natives, local tourists and blacks in the Diaspora are expected at the popular Ofala festival sponsored by MTN Nigeria. According to fillers from the festival organising committee, everything has been put in place to make the grand finale of this year's Ofala, coming up this weekend, something to remember for a long time to come. The source confirmed that sons and daughters of the communities and the entire Igbo race are already arriving for the grand finale. According to Onitsha indigenes, the essence of the festival, which is one of the most surviving traditional ceremonies of the Onitsha people and the Igbo race, is to mark the climax of the new yam festival, which is an occasion for family re-union and merry making. It is also a time when the Obi of Onitsha makes his traditional outing, during which he inspects his subjects and rejoices with them for loosing no one after eating the new yam. According to a source, the involvement of MTN has lifted the festival and this year's event is bigger than the previous ones. “We hope they will continue to support us in the years ahead,” he said. High points of this year's festival include a road show that would go through the major streets of the city, age-grade dancing competition, football competition, courtesy visit to the Obi of the land and a luncheon. Before the grand finale, the Obi is expected to go into a four-day spiritual "retreat", during which he would invoke and commune with the ancestral spirits and gods of fertility. He would emerge from the 'retreat' on the great festival day to join his people in giving special thanks to the god of fertility. During the four-day pre-Ofala retreat, the Obi abstains from all forms of worldly pleasures. The Ofala is a ceremony, which every Onitsha person, both home and in the Diaspora, eagerly looks forward to. It is a home coming of sorts for the sons and daughters of the ancient city who use the opportunity to evaluate their performances and take stock of the previous year and project into the future. This year's Ofala festival will mark the sixth of its kind during the reign of Igwe Alfred Nnaemeka Achebe on the Onitsha royal throne. http://odili.net/news/source/2008/oct/11/501.html |
| Sports › Samuel Peter Loses Title To Klitschko by DeepZone(op): 5:54pm On Oct 12, 2008 |
Samuel Peter loses title to Klitschko 10.12.2008 Sunday, October 12, 2008 Samuel Peter yesterday lost his WBC heavyweight belt to Ukranian boxer, Vitali Klitschko after an eight round technical knockout. The 37-year-old Klitschko - elder brother of IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight champion Vladimir - added the WBC crown to the family's collection having last fought in December 2004 before a knee injury led to his temporary retirement. Peter, dubbed the "Nigerian Nightmare" with a record of 30 wins and now 2 defeats, managed just once to defend the title he won against Russia's Oleg Maskaev on March 8 and never threatened Klitschko. The Nigerian made a good start and caught the Ukrainian on the shoulder in the first round with a heavy shot as he took advantage of Klitschko's low guard. But Klitschko, who boasts the highest overall knockout ratio of any heavyweight champion with 36 wins and now 35 knock-outs, caught the Nigerian with several shots to the face in the second round. In an impressive build-up, the Pussycat Dolls sang and five former heavyweight champions - Evander Holyfield, George Foreman, Joe Frazier, Mike Tyson and Lewis - all sent video messages of support for Klitschko. And the Ukrainian was rarely troubled as he constantly landed telling punches while Peter rarely made telling contact. Having promised their mother they would both be world champions at the same time, Vitali then fulfilled his side of the bargain with several damaging combinations and at the end of the eighth round Peter signalled he had endured enough. |
| Politics › Obama Woos Nigerians In Us by DeepZone(op): 5:51pm On Oct 12, 2008 |
Obama woos Nigerians in US From Laolu Akande (New York) DEMOCRATIC Party candidate, Senator Barack Obama, is mobilising Nigerians in the US to in turn mobilise the Nigerian community there to vote in next month's American presidential elections. This is coming as efforts to get out people to vote has extended actively to Nigerians who are also American citizens and are eligible to vote. Specifically, a clarion call has gone out from the Obama campaign to the Nigerians who are supporting the Illinois-state US Senator to ensure that all Nigerians who are citizens of the US are registered to vote in the historic elections, in the hope that an overwhelming majority of such votes would be cast for Obama. In an email circulating on Nigerian web and Internet sites here in the US, Barack Obama noted that "the stakes in this election have never been higher, and there's something each of us can do right now that will make a big difference." Indeed, the stakes are high in the first US presidential poll that would be featuring a black candidate at the general election even as a leading US political analyst Dick Morris explained that two forces are seemingly driving the last weeks of the elections. Morris, who served former President Bill Clinton as political adviser, noted that the first force is propelled by Americans' quest for change and a complete dissatisfaction of the US Republican Party's eight-year control of the White House. The second force is propelled by what he called the fear of the unknown by some Americans, who say they do not know Obama well enough and are confused what to do. This situation as well as the uncertainty of the various polls has ignited get-out-the vote efforts especially by the Obama campaign, which was able to turn out significant new voters during the Democratic Party primaries. Already, the Obama campaign has recorded over one million new voters, who have registered to vote next month. In an email that went on earlier in the week to all his supporters in the US, the presidential hopeful is asking his Nigerian-American friends to make "phone calls to potential supporters in key battleground states," in the presidential elections. Some of those states are Pennsylvania, Florida and Ohio - all still regarded as a potential toss up in the elections. US-based Nigerian activist and public commentator, Dr. Baba Adam, who is also the chairman of the PRONACO-US, is circulating the email he received from the Obama campaign among the Nigerian community. He is doing this online including on naijapolitics.com, and other active and political websites where US-based Nigerians normally exchange ideas and debate national, international and political issues. Members of the US chapter of the Action Congress (AC) were also being mobilised by Adam, who is a leading member of the party here in the US. According to Obama, supporters of his presidential bid like the US-based Nigerians should "get your own short list of voters to contact, and we'll give you everything you need to make successful calls." He added that, "what each of us does - or doesn't do - in the next few weeks will determine the outcome of this election." According to Obama, in the email that he personally appended his name to, "millions of folks are tuning into the debates and paying attention to this race for the first time." "Voters are looking to see which candidate will change this economy so it works for middle-class families. And the most effective way to reach potential supporters is to share our message of change with a personal contact." The first African-American presidential candidate of a major political party in the US urged his supporters to "take this election into your own hands as we head into this crucial final stretch." In his message to Nigerians, Dr. Adam asked US-based Nigerians to "please, pass-on this reach-out email from Sen. Obama campaign to all your friends and family who are eligible to vote - and let each one of us call at least one person." He added that "in many of the states - the deadline for registering to vote in the November 4 (exercise) is closing fast," stressing that Nigerians in the US, who are eligible to vote, should participate in get-out- the-vote efforts and be "part of history." http://odili.net/news/source/2008/oct/12/5.html |
| Crime › Nigerian Prostitute Loses $.36m To Mistress by DeepZone(op): 5:49pm On Oct 12, 2008 |
MOSCOW SEX MARKET Nigerian prostitute loses $.36m to mistress • Pushed down three-story building By LUCKY NWANKWERE (Just back from Moscow) Sunday, October 12, 2008 Are you a woman being lured to Moscow, the Russian capital, for prostitution? You had better watch it. You may be heading for an early grave. Moscow is not the best of places for the profession, particularly for blacks. If you dare, you may learn too late, in the hands of a certain group of Russian youths popularly called the ‘skin heads.’ •Maduekwe, Foreign Affairs Minister Photo: Sun News Publishing * More Stories on This Section advertisement At the time of filing this report, arrangement had been concluded to smuggle three Nigerian girls back to the country from Moscow. They will be returning empty handed after spending nothing less than one and a half years each in Moscow. Indeed, one of them would be arriving with a serious health problem, having being thrown down from the third floor of an apartment where she had been invited to keep a date with a client. For the rest of their lives, they would have cause to be thankful to God and the Nigerian Embassy in Moscow headed by Major-General Timothy Shelpidi (rtd) for saving their lives. The girls, like many others in the city, had been taken to Russia by a powerful clique (made up of Nigerians and Russians), which specializes in trafficking Nigerian girls for prostitution. In keeping with the practice, they were on arrival, handed over to a ‘mistress’, a Russian who deploys them as sex machines, while she smiles to the bank with the proceed. Madam collects the money, the girls provide the sex The girls are kept under lock and key and used daily to satisfy the sexual cravings of men. Clients make bookings for the girls through the ‘mistress.’ And none of the girls knows how much each client pays to ‘madam’ to sleep with them. Yet they are taken away to provide sexual satisfaction to men who had paid to the mistress, and returned whenever the task was accomplished. This is a daily routine for the girls. They don’t touch the money and are not allowed to think for themselves or step outside their confines without the knowledge and approval of the mistress. The most dangerous aspect of the business is the multiple rape they are subjected to by some of the clients. The Nigerian Ambassador to Russia, Shelpidi, said if only the girls knew the danger inherent in the business, they would never allow themselves to be deceived into coming to the country. One of the girls had gone to keep a date with a client only to discover that she was to serve as sex machine to several clients, not one, as she had thought. Multiple sex partners According to an account, the Nigerian girl was still wondering what was happening, when more of the men began to emerge from the wardrobe in the apartment. She reportedly protested that she would not allow herself to be subjected to the harrowing experience of multiple sex partners. Flung down from third floor Angered by her insistence not to ‘co-operate’, the ‘skin heads’ threw her down from the third floor apartment. She miraculously survived but not without serious injury, which even affected her spine. She is among the other two who escaped from their mistresses to the Nigerian Embassy for protective custody, waiting to be brought back to Nigeria. While lamenting the inability of the relevant authorities back home to fish out the members of the clique and bring them to book, Shelpidi said the lives of more Nigerian girls would be put at risk except concrete steps were taken to stop those behind the shameful act. Madam confiscates $36, 000 The ambassador said the girls ran to the embassy with only the dress they were wearing, nothing more. One of them reportedly claimed that she fetched over $36,000 (about N4.2 million) for her mistress in the last one year, but was not given a dime. The envoy also decried the difficulty in hosting the girls in the embassy, pointing out that a lot of money had gone into feeding and providing them clothing materials. Since there is no grant to the embassy for contingency, he explained that the staff of the embassy had resorted to contributing money to take care of the girls in the spirit of being their ‘sisters’ keepers’. The envoy said he said he had contacted the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) for possible assistance to fly the victims back to Nigeria. http://odili.net/news/source/2008/oct/12/509.html |
| Celebrities › Failed Concert With Busta Rhymes Costs P-square $200,000 by DeepZone(op): 5:45pm On Oct 12, 2008 |
What a loss! • Failed concert with Busta Rhymes costs P-Square $200,000 Saturday, October 11, 2008 Barely one month after United States’ top female musicians, Anita Baker, disappointed Nigerians fans when she failed to perform at a concert in Lagos, another international start has done the same. As a result, the Okoye brothers and music wonder boys, P-Square, who broke into international limelight a few years back with a special brand of music, are paying the price for this. https://odili.net/news/source/2008/oct/11/sun/buster-rhymes.jpg Busta Rhymes Indeed, the two brothers have suffered huge financial losses resulting from a business misadventure between it and the British rapper, Busta Rhymes. The deal was a concert, tagged, “Da Independence Blast”, where P-Square and Busta Rhymes were billed to perform on September 30 in Asaba, Delta State “to celebrate Nigeria’s 48th Independence anniversary as well as promote peace in the Niger-Delta”. According to Kiss Events Planners, promoters of the failed concert, all necessary arrangements had been concluded weeks before the date. The firm said that hotel reservations, in Lagos and Asaba had been made as well as flight bookings for Busta Rhymes and his crew, as well as Nigerian artistes, among others. It was gathered that Busta Rhymes did not show up in Nigeria nor sent a word of regret, thereby causing the cancellation of the concert. According to P-Square, Busta Rhymes refused o come to Nigeria because his agent failed to pay his full advance performance fees – as agreed. An official statement by Peter Okoye, published in a website, says in part: “… I was surprised to learn, upon reaching UK a few days to the concert, that the agent had not paid Busta Rhymes his full advance fees even after we (P-Square) had paid over $200, 000.00 (N23 million) weeks before scheduled date of the show. Men of integrity Unlike the current norm in business, in which investors engage in cutthroat bulk-pass to avoid blame and attendant responsibility, the P-Square group however, has shown itself to have a rare virtue – integrity. The Okoye brothers, despite their huge disappointment and the possibility of not ever retrieving their money from the agent, have demonstrated an uncanny grace, at concert day at Grand Hotel, Asaba by refunding the N5, 000 ticket fee to everyone that turned up. The gain Just a few days after suffering a monumental business fiasco, P-Square is on the verge of achieving a zenith rise at the international level. From far away Geneva, the world headquarters of World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), the influential global body of WIPO has nominated P-Square, among a few other Nigerian musicians, for its prestigious award. According to WIPO’s published statement in Geneva, being merely nominated by it in any category is equal to winning the OSCAR or the Grammy award in the actual sense! On what possibly attracted WIPO to P-Square, as a possible winner group, the global body said a couple of factors were responsible, chief of which is that P-Square has been consistent in its music genre, and that their last album sold over an estimated seven million copies, thereby putting them in the league of the world’s best-selling artistes. The full list of Nigerian nominees (in music) and their categories, according to WIPO are: Seun Kuti (Afrobeat); Asha (Folks music R & B); P-Square (R & B African Hip-pop: Pasuma (Fuji) and Yinka Ayafele (Juju). Meanwhile, Tee Mac Iseli, President of the Performing Musicians Association (PMAN), while reacting to these nominations, in a speech during the recent Federation of International Musicians (FIM) 19th Congress in South Africa, said the Nigerian musicians have indeed come of age and are a force to reckon with all over the world. http://odili.net/news/source/2008/oct/11/505.html |
| Nairaland General › Re: Olabowale, Please Forgive Me by DeepZone: 7:51pm On Oct 11, 2008 |
I need a comprehensive apology from Olabowale for all the insults he has given me on this section and for his involvement in getting me a gag order. Lol, I am 12 seconds away from changing my name to Plus_Deepisha. |
| Investment › Stock Market Crisis: Bailout Fund Hits N1 Trillion by DeepZone(op): 5:30am On Oct 11, 2008 |
Stock Market Crisis: Bailout fund hits N1 trillion - As 4 more banks inject N400bn Friday Ekeoba and Odidison Omankhanlen, Lagos Friday, October 10, 2008 REPRIEVE may have finally come the way of investors in equities in the Nigerian capital market as four more banks have agreed to inject additional N400 billion as bailout funds into the market. This followed a meeting between the Chief Executives of First City Monument Bank (FCMB), Bank PHB, Oceanic Bank and Access Bank Plc and the authorities of the NSE to work out modalities on how to save the capital market from dipping further. Each of them agreed to contribute N100 billion as the first six banks that had earlier agreed to inject into the market as Market Makers. Though the chief executives refused to confirm the latest development, investigations by the Nigerian Tribune revealed that they were committed to the bailout programme. Confirming this development, Mr. Sola Oni, Principal Manager on Media at the NSE said the exchange was holding discussions with some banks as part of the measures to stem the ongoing market meltdown. He, however, refused to comment on the amount each of the banks had agreed to inject into the market. He also said that the exchange had not picked any financial institution as a market maker, stressing that the present effort was aimed at looking for a way out of the downward trend in the market. “All that I can say is that the NSE is collaborating with some banks on how to move the market forward, all the issues of appointing any of them as Market Makers is speculation. That is what one of the national dailies misconstrued as denial when I was quoted,” he said. Market maker, according to the rule, is under obligation to stabilise the market by ensuring continued liquidity, operate within the established bid and offer spread of a maximum limit of three per cent, subject to review. An expert and former professor of economics, Chris Odezie, while speaking on the market, said “ordinarily the exchange needs to have revived itself but when this is not forthcoming, the government ought to have come in by way of fund stabilisation.” Odezie, who said the government stabilisation should have been the best option, noted that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) needed to restructure itself as the transactions on the NSE had outgrown the commission’s operations and regulation. http://odili.net/news/source/2008/oct/10/617.html |
| Family › Re: Man Flees Home After Wife Delivers Quadruplets by DeepZone(op): 5:27am On Oct 11, 2008 |
Will you blame him? Things are very difficult in Nigeria and there is no welfare system to help subpar families get through a situation like this. God help Nigerians. |
| Family › Man Flees Home After Wife Delivers Quadruplets by DeepZone(op): 5:26am On Oct 11, 2008 |
Ekiti: Man flees home after wife delivers quadruplets Written by Gbenga Ariyibi Friday, October 10, 2008 Mr. Kunle Adesanya, the father of quadruplets who were born at the Emure General Hospital in the Emure Local Government Area of Ekiti State last Monday, has fled from home. The mother and the children are at the State Specialist Hospital, Ado-Ekiti. They were reportedly relocated to the hospital after birth. Mrs. Funke Adesanya, 24, delivered a set of four baby girls as the first children of the family at the general hospital. To ensure adequate care, one Mrs. Cecilia Ogundare, funded the transfer of the babies and their mother to the specialist hospital. It was learnt that Adesanya, a school certificate holder, on learning that his wife had delivered the quadruplets, went into hiding. The children have since been kept in the incubator at the intensive care unit of the hospital while scores of people thronged the place to see the babies. Speaking on the condition of the babies and their mother, the Chief Medical Director (CMD), Dr. Patrick Adegun, described the babies as a “wonderful set” of quadruplets. Adegun said the children and their mother were in good condition. The wife of the state governor, Mrs. Olukemi Oni, during her visit, appealed to the father of the quadruplets to come out of hiding to take care of the babies. Oni had during the visit donated money for the upkeep of the children and described them as God’s gifts. “I want to appeal to the father of the quadruplets to please come out from hiding and not to abandon these babies here. “I want him to appreciate that some people are outside there looking for children,” she said The mother of the babies, who is also a school certificate holder, pleaded with the government to provide jobs for her and the fleeing father to take care of the babies. http://odili.net/news/source/2008/oct/10/305.html |
| Literature › A Child Of Nigeria’ Wins Nobel Prize For Literature by DeepZone(op): 5:24am On Oct 11, 2008 |
‘A Child of Nigeria’ wins Nobel Prize for literature By Paul Ohia with agency report, 10.10.2008 The highly respected Nobel prize for Literature has been won by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, a French writer, who lived part of his childhood in Onitsha, Nigeria, and even wrote a book named after the town, recollecting his memories of the city on the banks of the Niger. https://nigeriaworld.com/images/news/big/international/eu/france/clezio2-300.jpg French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio speaks during a news conference in Paris October 9, 2008 after he won the 2008 Nobel prize for literature. (Benoit Tessier/Reuters) Nice-born Le Clezio moved to Nigeria with his family at the age of eight when he commenced writing. He wrote his first works – “Un Long Voyage” (A long journey) and “Oradi Noir” – during a month-long journey to Nigeria. His father had been positioned as a doctor in Onitsha during World War 11. During his stay at Onitsha, he also made a list of seven of his forthcoming books. French President Nicolas Sarkozy in a statement hailed the laureate as “A child of Nigeria and Mauritius, a teenager in Nice, a nomad of the American and African deserts, Jean-Marie Le Clezio is a citizen of the world, a child of all continents and of all cultures.” Ironically, the region of Nigeria that inspired the writer has produced great writers such as Chinua Achebe, late Cyprian Ekwensi and just recently, Chimamanda Adichie. While conferring the prize on him, the Swedish Academy which decides the winner of the coveted 10 million Swedish crown ($1.4 million) prize, praised the 68-year-old’s adventurous novels, essays and children's books. “His works have a cosmopolitan character. Frenchman, yes, but more so a traveller, a citizen of the world, a nomad,” Permanent Secretary of the Academy, Horace Engdahl, told a news conference to announce the laureate. Underlining his international credentials, Le Clezio, who describes himself as French and Mauritian, answered questions in English, French and Spanish at a Paris press conference. In the past, Doctors Without Borders, a humanitarian organisation formed in Nigeria by French Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner, also won the Nobel. According to the Swedish Academy's web site, Le Clezio studied English at a British university and taught at institutions in Bangkok, Mexico City, Boston, Austin and Albuquerque, among others. Le Clezio also spent long periods in Mexico and Central America and married a Moroccan woman in 1975. Since the 1990s he and his wife have shared their time between Albuquerque in New Mexico, the island of Mauritius and Nice, the Academy added. The author said he believed French culture was a melting pot of influences. “The French language is a result of a mix of cultures. It has received contributions from every corner of the world. That is what is wonderful about French culture. It is a place of encounters.” Le Clezio's first novel was “Le proces-verbal” (The Interrogation), written when he was 23. It went on to win the Renaudot prize in France. Seen as an experimental writer in the 1960s, Le Clezio was preoccupied by themes including the environment and childhood. His big breakthrough came in 1980 with “Desert”, which the Academy said “contains magnificent images of a lost culture in the North African desert, contrasted with a depiction of Europe seen through the eyes of unwanted immigrants. “A great traveller, he embodies the global reach of France's culture and values in a globalised world.” Even early on, Le Clezio stood out as an ecologically engaged author, an orientation that is accentuated with the novels Terra amata (1967; Terra Amata, 1969), Le livre des fuites (1969; The Book of Flights, 1971), La guerre (1970; War, 1973) and Les giants (1973; The Giants, 1975). His novel, Desert (1980), fetched him a prize from the French Academy. This work contains magnificent images of a lost culture in the North African desert, contrasted with a depiction of Europe seen through the eyes of unwanted immigrants. The main character, the Algerian guest worker Lalla, is a utopian antithesis to the ugliness and brutality of European society. During the same period, Le Clezio published the meditative essay collections L'extase matirielle (1967), Mydriase (1973) and Ha• (1971), the last of which shows influences from Indian culture. Long stays in Mexico and Central America in the period 1970 to 1974 were of decisive significance for his work, and he left the big cites in search of a new spiritual reality in the contact with the Indians. He published Voyage de l'autre c™tÎ in 1975, the same year he married Jemia. The book gives an account of what he learned in Central America. Le Clezio began the translation of the major works of the Indian tradition, such as Les prophÎties du Chilam Balam. Le r_ve mexicain ou la pensÎe interrompue (1998) testifies to his fascination with Mexico's magnificent past. Since the 90s Le Clezio and his wife share their time between Albuquerque in New Mexico, the island of Mauritius and Nice. All but one of the prizes were established in the will of 19th century dynamite tycoon Alfred Nobel and have been handed out since 1901. The economics award was established by Sweden's central bank in 1968. http://odili.net/news/source/2008/oct/10/208.html |
| Culture › Re: Beautiful Faces Of Africa by DeepZone(op): 9:10pm On Oct 10, 2008 |
Seal https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/People3_SvG.jpg Sealhenry Olusegun Olumide Adelo Samuel (born February 19, 1963 in Paddington, London) is a British soul singer and songwriter. His name Olusegun means "God is victorious". Known professionally by his first name, Seal (pronounced see-ell) is known for his numerous international hits and his marriage to supermodel Heidi Klum. Childhood and early life Seal was born Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adelo Samuel in Paddington, a district of the City of Westminster in inner London, to a Nigerian mother and a Brazilian father. He graduated with a degree in architecture, and worked in various jobs in the London area. Seal got his famous characteristic facial scars as a result of discoid lupus, which, additionally, caused some hair loss. Early career After a short time singing in local clubs and bars, in the 1980s he joined Push, a British funk band, and toured with them in Japan. In Asia, he joined a blues band in Thailand for a while before separating from the group and journeying throughout India on his own. When Seal arrived back in England, he met Adamski, a producer who was impressed by him. He was given the lyrics of the song "Killer", which was a huge hit in 1990. |
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She's 34 but her face is so wrinkled she looks like she's been taking jizz on the face since she was 10. And with her hair like that . . .Which wrinkle? Where are they?  |
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https://www.onlinenigeria.com/member/images/content/ozolua.jpg Miss Modupe Ozien Ozolua was born in Benin City, Nigeria in October 10th 1973. She is the youngest of four siblings born to Chief J.I. and Chief Mrs. M.S. Ozolua. She had her early education in Nigeria, attending University of Benin Primary and Secondary schools, and Queen Idia Girls College in Benin City. Her secondary education was completed at Apata Memorial High School, Isolo, Lagos. After her secondary education, Miss Modupe Ozolua left for the United States of America. She went to South Western College, San Diego and Devery International University, Los Angeles, California. In both schools Miss Ozolua was on the Dean's list for being a student with exceptional performance. Modupe studied Graphic Design and Business Administration. She was also recognized in the 1994-1995 edition of the NATIONAL DEAN'S LIST. This is a publication that list all the acclaimed students all over the United States of America, that constantly make the Dean's list in their universities. Her interest in Cosmetic and Reconstructive surgery was awakened after she went through some Cosmetic Surgery procedures. As a woman born in Nigeria, she knew the importance of a woman wanting to look and feel good about herself. And hence, she decided to make Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery available in Nigeria. Miss Ozolua was still residing in Los Angeles with her husband and son when she initially opened Body Enhancement in Lagos, Nigeria. From Los Angels she ran her office in Lagos. Making regular trips to attend to clients. |
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| Politics › Re: I Have $5000000 I Dont Know Where To Keep It by DeepZone: 8:34pm On Oct 10, 2008 |
Ask any Yoruba or Hausa/Fulani politician, they are specialist in hidding stolen wealthYou can as well explain how this ibotic letter below found it's way to my email box. Subject: OFFICIAL LETTER FROM FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FBI |
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asin low class vs. no classwhatver the class is. Hunger can make you perform wonders. |
| Family › Re: Jilted Man Bathes Girlfriend With Acid by DeepZone(op): 5:25pm On Oct 10, 2008 |
I think women should always see the warning signs at the beggining of a new relationship.Especially stuff about his previous relationships.I would have run at that highlighted statement just points to what kind of man he for that that to ven cross his mind.True talk. |
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