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And what does South America and gdp have to do with your religion? What point are you making with those?

akigbemaru:
Christians are idiots too including white Jesus, the one and I only Jesus I know was black, had dreadlock and straight out of Africa!
Anyway, I don't care about who wins between Christians and Muslims, all I care about his my own indigenious religion (Orisa nla) the only true religion of the world that never forcefully converts or use skin colors as a weapon to punish. History will tell you (blood is thicker than water. We are trying to create a "RULE BOOK" for our religion just like Bible and Koran.

God you are the best (Orisa) the corner stone left behind in the building becomes the head stone.
Come to South America and get your fact straight1
Don't tell me South America is backward ooooo.
Venezuela has 28 million people with nominal GDP of $500 billion dollars (two and half more than Nigeria with 157 million populace).
Brazil has 200 million people with nominal GDP1.7 trillion dollars

You used so many words, and your point is?

SeanT21, why you dey laugh now? No be true?

$500M? That means more money for those in power to chop from.

I don't hate the country, I hate the leaders! Personally I think we would have been better off if oyinbos had remained in power. Compare and contrast.

Oyinbo would have stolen all our oil money to develop their own country but they would also have developed Nigeria.
Nigerians HAVE stolen all our oil money and saved in Oyinbo countries helping to develop those countries and they have NOT developed Nigeria.

Oyinbo would have treated us like slaves in our own land.
Nigerians ARE being treated like slaves in their own land. What do you call treatment by the police, military and all the executive forms of authority?

Oyinbo would not have allowed us to makee our own decisions
Nigerians HAVE not allowed us to make our own decisions.

I'm not saying Oyinbos should have remained here, I'm just stating the facts. We would have been better off if they had remained.

Most times when I get to the homepage and I don't see anything new, I just leave.

dominique:
sasly i have to agree. . . if there was an exciting topic that was home page worthy, they would have put it out there. most of the time i just flip through the sections and nothing is so exciting

OK, I guess there are just no topics interesting enough for the front page then. Didn't know that

Orikinla:
Baba Sala.

Baba Suwe is just ridiculous.
He cannot act.
Put Baba Suwe on the live stage and he would not be able to prove himself as much as Baba Sala did.
Bala Sala can act.

Baba Sala is the classic comedian of all time in Nigeria.
The records are there in the archives.

Agreed, Baba Sala is the best of all time. Unfortunately, all these small children here don't know him.

All these attention seekers sef. The poster just wake up, think of how he fit draw attention to himself, cook up story, put for NL, mission accomplished.

Microsoft and Yahoo announced a partnership in Internet search and advertising on Wednesday morning intended to create a stronger rival to the industry powerhouse Google.

The Microsoft-Yahoo pact is a measured step that represents a pragmatic division of duties between the two companies instead of the blockbuster deal Microsoft initiated last year, when it bid $47.5 billion to buy Yahoo. That hostile offer was ultimately rejected by Yahoo, and its collapse and the uncertain aftermath for the Web company led to a management change and the replacement of its co-founder Jerry Yang by Carol Bartz, an outsider who is now Yahoo’s chief executive.

Under the pact, Microsoft will provide the underlying search technology on Yahoo’s popular Web sites. The deal provides a lift for Microsoft’s recent overhaul of its search engine, renamed Bing, which has won praise and favorable reviews, after years of falling further and further behind Google.

Running such a search system proves expensive, and Microsoft can now filter more searches through the Bing technology infrastructure. It expects to deliver better answers to search queries over time as well by learning from more peoples’ queries.

For Yahoo, the move furthers the strategy under Ms. Bartz to focus the company on its strengths as a producer of Web media sites, from finance to sports, as a marketer and a leader in on-line display advertising that accompanies published Web sites.

The terms of the 10-year agreement call for Microsoft to license Yahoo’s search technologies, and Yahoo will initially receive a lucrative 88 percent of search-generated ad revenue.

The advertising work will be split. Yahoo will be the exclusive ad force for premium search advertisers who bargain to negotiate rates and deals. But the Microsoft Ad Center automated search market will be used for smaller customers, whose prices for search advertising are set by the automated auction process.

Together, Microsoft, the No. 3 provider of search, and Yahoo, No. 2, will have about 28 percent of search traffic in the United States. Even so, the partnership will still trail well behind Google, which holds about two-thirds of the market. In a statementbefore a morning conference call, Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, said, “Through this agreement with Yahoo, we will create more innovation in search, better value for advertisers and real consumer choice in a market currently dominated by a single company.”

Wednesday’s agreement also ends one of the longest and most tumultuous courtships in the technology industry, finally giving Microsoft a prize it has coveted for more than three years. It forced Mr. Ballmer into a sometimes frustrating wooing of three of his counterparts at Yahoo.

Mr. Ballmer began wooing Yahoo as early as 2006 when Terry Semel was that company’s chief executive. Unable to get Yahoo interested, early last year Microsoft made a hostile $47.5 billion bid to take over Yahoo, which by then was under the leadership of its co-founder Jerry Yang.

After tense, months-long negotiations, the deal was derailed, in part by Mr. Yang’s reticence, and in part by the intervention of Microsoft’s arch-rival Google, which offered Yahoo an alternative advertising partnership. But the Google-Yahoo alliance itself fell apart in November when Google abandoned it in the face of opposition from the Department of Justice.

That left Yahoo jilted and opened the door again for Microsoft to renew its courtship, with Mr. Ballmer this time playing suitor to Ms. Bartz.

During that time, Google has continued to race ahead, gaining share in the search business, which is worth $12 billion a year in the United States alone, at the expense of both Yahoo and Microsoft.

Although Yahoo and Microsoft will continue to be dwarfed by Google in search, the combination of the two companies creates a far more powerful counterweight to Google, one that will be welcomed by many in the advertising industry, who have watched Google rapidly become the world’s largest seller of advertising with a mix of fascination and foreboding,

For Microsoft, the combination with Yahoo is the quickest way to increase use of its newly revamped and rechristened search engine, Bing. While the new service has received good reviews, and advertisers have long said that Microsoft’s search advertising system is effective, many do not bother to advertise on it because the traffic they receive from that effort is too small.

By tripling its usage through the alliance with Yahoo, Microsoft has a better shot at luring more advertisers, which, in turn, helps the company increase the revenue it earns from searches.

“This should give Bing the ability to serve up more relevant ads to consumers, and that powers paid search,” said Christopher Lien, chief executive of Marin Software, whose technology helps search marketers manage their campaigns.

Yahoo has resisted a deal with Microsoft, in part for fear of giving up control of a business that brings in roughly half of the company’s revenue. But Yahoo has also said that search is essential to its future because it provides valuable data about users’ habits, and gives the company the ability to offer marketers packages that include search and display ads, the two pillars of online advertising.

Some in the advertising industry still question the wisdom of the agreement.

“It removes a key differentiator for Yahoo,” said Bryan Wiener, the chief executive of 360i, a digital marketing agency. “You have to wonder where it leaves Yahoo in the long term.”

I was also skeptical when I heard the original song R.Kelly recorded, I believe it was with Shaggy or somebody. It made a lot more sense that the one tuface brought out. I was then wondering, if R Kelly is using the same song twice, won't he make it better the second time? Anyway, I seriously wonder why Tuface would do a thing like that, that is if he did it.

How come these moderators no longer put links on the front page? Before they used to put about 10 new links per day, now they put only about 3. Wetin them dey do sef? The homepage is now getting stale and boring

charles88:
I changed the dollar for #154 today in benin.

Wow, that sounds good, that means it'll be less in Lagos. Hopefully it'll drop to 150 by weekend

shilling:
In the same situation as you, thanks guys, at least I know there's still hope for me.

Na wa o, una plenty sef! Whatever happened? In those university and secondary school days, it was cool to know "only english" especially if you had a little phoneh to it. Now y'all want to learn your languages? LMAO!!! It's not too late, refer to my previous post ,

That means say you be Ajebota be that o, wey you no sabi speak your language 
Personally, I believe it's never too late to learn a new language, especially the ones you already understand. I started learning French 7 months ago, now I can hold conversations and say whatever I need to say. Make a pact with some people or 1 person never to speak English to you but your language. Make sure you follow and stick to the pact. Speak only your language even if you don't know what to say - we learn best by making mistakes. If you can do that consistently, I guarantee that within 3 months, you'll notice a great difference. 
I'm also in the 30s region BTW

LOL! Look for all those NL people that are constantly looking for sex in the sexuality thread. Invite one of them over to the hotel, and hand over to him, Chikena!

Send them an email or tell GTB to contact them. I had similar issues with Amazon until GTB wrote them on my behalf

For me, right now, with all the Nigerian girls around me here, the answer is a no no!! Naija girls vex for any little thing, make mountains out of mole hills and are not supportive. As one of my friends once said, tell an american about your dreams and they say "When can we start?", tell a naija girl, she'll say "What makes you think you can?" I've observed this so many times with the Naija girls in my school and I've stopped telling them things.
Also, Naija girls tend to be materialistic. Some of them want the boyfriend to do everything for them. If you don't, then you don't love them. Buy me this, buy me that, always wanting to show off to their friends "what my boyfriend bought for me". Pay for the movie, pay for the dinner, drop me here, drop me there. American girls - black, white, latino, asian - don't have these issues. Anyway, for me, until I find a Naija girl to prove me wrong, I'll continue dating Americans and eventually marry one. I no need drama for my life!

Alcatel 311

This Sheu sef na wa o! Thanks for the info

feyisan:
In all honesty I don't particularly hate the man for his past. However he must show
remose and repent.

His coming back might be to the advantage of Nigerians as his aim might be to repear the
damages he caused, win the confidence of the general populace back and receive God's favour
before the last minutes.

So, showing remorse will repair all the damage and gurantee that he won't sell us again? Didn't Obasanjo show remorse and repent? Did that stop him from leaving this country worse than he met it?

The problem is that I'm not in Nigeria

Hi guys,

Could anyone tell me how much it costs to ship a small envelope via UPS, DHL or Fedex from Naija to the US? I'm trying to find the cheapest option. tHANKS

Na so I see something for facebook. Somebody was asking about how much an engagement ring should cost, na im all them yeye girls sef rush there dey open mouth dey make noise. Most of these our Naija girls sef, too materialistic!!

There used to be a guy in the 1980s who had a music video they used to show on Naija TV Stations. The song went something like

"Belinda e eeeeee ,  Belinda. Oh oh Belinda"

His style was very similar to Michael Jackson, in fact people wanted to know if he was MJ's younger brother. If you remember this guy, I'll appreciate if you can tell me his name. I believe he was a black american (not sure though)

abhosts:
I bought dollar @ 154 this afternoon.

Where?

RICHIE BOI:
i guess your name tells what u r?

In what way, Mr. Man? I asked a simple question, no make we fight o!

Training for what?

strangleyo:
GOOD!!!

Good? When there was physical paper involved they still found a way to rig. Now it's electronic, do you know how easy it will be to rig? When the system starts counting votes from 1000 instead of 0. The only thing this will reduce is the violence associated with stealing ballot boxes and the like.