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thanx man,been watching the ministerial platform on nta though. dat bloody info minister is enthustiastic. he is calling for peace.he shud tell dat to bk.

abeg am more interested in the debate.who knows if nta will televise it

i guess as always some people have to come here and shoot off their mouth without thinking deeply.

dmainboss:
Nigeria and Nigerians are so full of lies and propaganda. Instead of them to commit their effort to producing quality, they produce crap and try to do propaganda.

1. Nigeria does not do movies. They do home videos. There is a big difference. So please stop saying we have a movie industry not to talk of competing with Holywood.
2. Nigerians dotn even watch the so called crap. The highest selling movies in Nigeria right now are American series like 24, Legend of the Seeker, Spactarcus and Pillars of the earth. Nollywood is crap that only a few illiterates watch.
3. The problem is not money because I have many of these guys as friends. Amata was given $500, 000 to shoot Amazing Grace and he still produced a sub-standard crap. If you give a Director money to produce movie, he will first remove his share which can be as much as 60 percent of the whle money before he does anything. We are not ready for serious business
4. A typical Nigerian home video does not sell more than 20, 000 copies. Go find out. Ghana movies have taken over because they are far better
4. All the movies we produce in a year does not gross as much revenue as 1 regular Hollywood movie

We are just blowing hype here in Naija. We should stop deceiving ourselves and start building a new future

i mean seriously who wrote this scrap?
i had recourse to watch some nollywood movies recently and i had to commed them alot,i had to write a review for a wbsite and i watched Kunle Afolyan's "Figure", Tade Ogidan's "Madam Dearest" and i could not but praise almost all aspects of the production, right to to the plot, camera shots etc. SO praise them and patronise them, its not like you even know how to handle a camera. nonsense

guys, i would have asked her out but the truth is that, i tried it like two years back with another girl and it backfired with my friend accussing me of snatching his babe,. now i dont want a repeat

Splendid, can we get more?

Guys, while insulting yourselves, you should realise that this is a serious issue for me

tellwisdom:
Devilmaya, bro have you been admitted in a psychiatric school before?? #School i mean bro

no i have not been admitted into a psychiatric home, am perfectly sane thank you

seedord247:




You need to go back and ask the school for Immediate refund.

am alraedy requesting for the refund

uy, thats where we school, not that she is from there, or am from there

In Kwara State

190smh:
wherz my gun

why do you need your gun? Hope its not for me!

cjfavour:
Pointb,the removal will bring inflation.price of goods and commodities will rise and will nt go down as they want us to believe. Why don't you tell the president to expose those that are sabotaging the subsidy programme?proecute and jail them? Ask him what they've been doing with the little money they have now. Look at our roads,death trap. Its only in corruption that our rating is increasing.we're 191 out of 192 countries with bad road.can u beat that? These men simply want more money to loot. [/b]Open your eyes and forget about the 5000 naira they're paying you [b][/b]while they siphoning billions OUT OF THE COUNTRY.They dnt keep d money in 9ja thereby devaluing our currency. a dollar is equal to N154. How much was it b4 this PDP men took over power in 1999?

Can you please let me know who is being paid 5000 naira.

Am in a rel dilemma here cause of what a girlfriend of mine told me yesterday. Whe i say girlfriend, i mean a friend being a girl, . Yesterday i was at her place to see her close friend when we got into a sort of discussion. Background analysis, she was to receive her call up letter yesterday, so i believe this influneced her to speak out. She told me jokingly but plainly that she had been waiting for me to ask her out from our hundred level days. And that she was pissed off when we got to 400 level and i asked another girl out. Said that she was quite happy when the other girl dissed me off. But thing is this, when we were in 100 level, my friend was asking her out. When we were in 400 level another friend of mine was asking her out. So what do i do?

As the records put it, he is the first President to link up with the Nigerian electorates through Facebook. I have been thinking about this for sometime now and i feel that the time is ripe for we the electorates to pass across our message, our fears, our hopes and our dreams to the President Goodluck Jonathan. I propose to paste the link to this thread on his Facebook Wall and let him realise the extent of all our aspirations and fears. To send a clear cut message to him of what we, the people he is serving want. Thank you all as you add your voices to this, but please i would like to beg everyone posting to refrain from foul languages, insults but rather precise points and arguments for and against some of the Presidents policies.

I will start with the subsidy. Mr President, while your proposal to remove the subsidy is commendable, because it will saves us some much needed money, the timing is bad, because there are no options on ground right now to cushion the effects that the subsidy removal will have on the nation. Already there are speculations of a massive showdown if the proposal is carried out. To forestall mishap, i would like to propose that your removal of the subsidy be gradual as you put in place the much needed options that would cushion its effect on the masses.(refineries etc)

I recently read about your trip to Australia for the recent CHOGM held there. There have been accolades poured your way and i pray that you have both grace and strength to continue.We know you have the interest of we nigerians at heart and this is why i will ask you to monitor closely the proposed privatisation of the assets of PHCN. Recently there have been accusations that there are on going efforts by unpatriotic nigerians to frustrate your efforts,please do not allow them to succed.
These for now are my contributions Mr. President. God bless Nigeria

eGuerrilla:
Government policies can limit or prevent new competitors from entering industries through licensing requirements, limits on access to raw materials, pollution standards, product testing regulations, etc. -- http://www.enotes.com/small-business-encyclopedia/barriers-market-entry

no doubt about that but right now its the TUC and the Urban Development bank that signed this agreement. And we also should understand the cycle of authority and responsibility. For instance,is it the job of the president of a nation to determine who to award the contract of garbage bins to? or where they should be gotten from. Something tells me that half the people who post things on nairaland are civil servants with barely enough to do. Thankfully they understand the workings of government.
Take this for instance
Price tags scare power investors from Discos
Thursday, 10 November 2011 00:00 BY OUR REPORTERS
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Analysts fear privatisation programme may suffer stillbirth

A significant number of the credible bidders hoping to acquire the soon to be privatised distribution assets of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) are turning their backs on the process after the government mounted huge obstacles by way of unrealistically high price tags placed on the Discos, Business Day has learnt.

An analyst following the privatisation process closely, said in most cases, the price tags set by the Federal Government are as high as two and half times the topline valuation arrived at by international experts who have participated in similar power privatisation programmes around the world.

Government documents seen by Business Day showed that the Abuja Distribution Zone carries the highest price tag of N95 billion and it is followed by Ibadan at N76.6 billion and then Ikeja and Benin Distribution Zones at N73 billion each.

Others are Enugu N69.7 billion, Kano N56 billion, Eko N55.7 billion, Port Harcourt N54.7 billion, Kaduna N51 billion, Jos N45 billion and then Yola, with the least valuation of N31.4 billion.

Investors who pull through to be named preferred bidders, must pay 24 per cent of the winning bid price in 15 working days, and pay up the balance in no more than six months from the date of their bids being declared winner.

There is yet another daunting roadblock ahead. Government insists that winners must commit to making additional investment in the region of 80 per cent of the winning bid, to restore life to the enterprises and ensure their commercial viability.

“At such unrealistic valuations and aggressive demand for extra investment, Nigeria may well kiss good bye to any credible chance of selling these power assets and fast tracking the delivery of more power to the people,” a senior British investment banker told Business Day yesterday.

Another analyst who spoke to Business Day, described the development as curious and offered three possible explanations.

According to the Nigerian analyst, “One possibility is that some people in government are deliberately planning for a failed privatization, like in the case of NITEL, so they can then sell off the assets to their friends, or they simply do not want the privatisation of the power assets to succeed, so that government may once again open the door to frenzied public spending on power with the attendant corruption. Finally, it may well be that government is sincere but has been badly advised to set such unbelievable price tags.”

To get private investment into its power sector, India set as its main objectives, the transfer of power assets to private investors, enthroning higher efficiency to spur better supply, sustainability of the sector, post privatization and the creation of quality jobs and in the process it adopted the incentivising private investors by a less aggressive valuation and allowing successful investors a fairly long window to pay for assets won.

Industry players in Nigeria wonder why the government here has chosen to ignore well-tested tactics and has instead opted to tread a path that has consistently failed in the past, to produce the desired results.

“We do not see real residual value in these assets and as such there is no realistic basis to support the valuation that the government is putting on the table”, said a leading consultant working in the power sector. ‘Even if you look at the assets from the point of view of future earnings, there is no chance that the pay back time will be less than 20 years. If this is the case, there is no way any international lender will be involved and if you were to find local funding, at today’s lending rates, that is simply a recipe for disaster.”

He said there was some demonstration of patriotism on the part of Nigerian entities involved in the privatisation process, but warned that their foreign technical partners are telling their Nigerian partners that the valuation does not make sense.

According to the consultant, “the government has to re-think this approach, otherwise, it will go the way of NITEL, refineries and Nigeria Airways.”

The valuation for the discos, it was learnt, was done by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Council (NERC). It is based on expected revenue that is linked to a tariff of N25, and when subsidy is incorporated, it will be N22.

The regulatory and privatisation agencies are aware of the bidders response to the valuation. They hope to bring down the valuation by bringing down the tariff, from N22 to N18 or N19.

They are also aware that the firms interested in the discos are local firms, and may have peculiar funding structure, since they may have to access local banks for financing. They promised to look into the payment structure in this context, a source close to the BPE and NERC told BusinessDay.

According to the source, one way they want to address this payment structure challenge, is for winners to take 51 percent of the stake, rather than 70 percent, and thus mean less initial outlay.
http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/news/76-hot-topic/29605-price-tags-scare-power-investors-from-discos
this tells me that while the man himself is willing, the people around him are his problem

and just as i expected the dimwits we have on this site are already blaming jonathan. i mean seriously there is a difference between those who signed the deal and the FG but as expected those never do well, never see well will shift the blame on jonathan. When you are to get married and don't have money,please blame it on jonathan, infact blame your present predicaments on jonathan. I pray for you oooo. And can we please get somebody to change the title of this thread,its not the FG that actually signed that deal

Maybe if those of you who are criticising would bother to remove the veil covering your eyes, you would see that djustice stated his point. Why don't you try same and stop needless banterin

its a good thing because here in idanre ondo state,there is 24 hour light supply.there was a time when they cut the supply for six hours.i went to get fuel and was about putting the gen on,when the light was restored,had to use the fuel four days later. Anyways,today marks almost three years i posted last on nl,and i must say that some people have still managed not to disappoint me with their behaviour.its either they are pessimistic attitude.if we have people exhibiting nepotistic ideals and other bad things on a mere website,what about real life.am not preaching but i hate to even think of these people as patriotic to any country or cause

Well am a student of unilorin so how can i help and whats the competition all about.

well done guyz,am happy to see you preparing hard and it reminds me of myself 3 years ago,praying and hustling. heed to this advice,read widely,dontfocus on just your area of specialzation cos questions might come out from any area. may you all gain admission this year.

@Becomrich, i have been following all your post. Makes for interesting reading but you don't seem to know the history of the yoruba race, else you would not suggest all that you have been suggesting. Benin republic was formerly known as Dahomey who were subjects to the Yoruba empire. So its virtually impossible. And Nigeria has no reason to face another civil war except you are going to instigate one yourself

luvola, i have been tracking you, and now that i have gooten you, nothing will stop me from sending farouk to you. Compliments man.seriously i miss our banter. Waddup wit you?

becomrich;:
The truth is Nigeria is a terrorist nation. It is my country. but we are really one. Please find out the meaning of the word. And the USA should send troope to save the lifes of Yorubas. And here is it, why is the USA looking at Yemen when really it was a Nigeria plan to bomb the USA.


The issue is if you dont remove the yorubas, edo, delta and bayelsa state into benin republic, you would have problem. And America can create a military zone between the two country.s And we are calling on president Obama to protect people lifes. Our people lifes, to send the troope to Nigeria, take us out of the terrorist zone.

We need the 20,000 troope to protect the yorubas, edo, delta and bayelsa from terrorist. They are going to be on our land and not coming to the north. So it is none of your business you.

Really this is preposterous, to even think that your parents are nigerians, hold it a min, i guess you are one of those bastardised idiots who parade themselves around as nigerians with the green passport. I dont mean to insult you cos i have barely started but Nigerians are no terrorist. We are a great nation and good people. No other country can boast of having the amount of ethnic groups we have and still stay united so, never ever in your life till you go back to school for your "o" levels call Nigerians terrorist

hedges007:
Sometimes i feel irate about America sanctimony or hypocrisy. Richard Reid, The British shoe bomber convicted of trying to blow up a transatlantic flight in USA Dec 2001. I damn to ask, why is Britain or UK not black-listed? why did they treat the case in isolation? Why has UK enjoyed impunity? Some people said that, America Action of black-listing Nigeria as a Nation of concern in terms of Terrorism is inevitable but regretable, but why the double standard? They are always quick to point accusing fingers, and name calling, with jungle-justice while there are more criminals and terrorits and terrorits affiliated groups in Europe and America. Let them spare me all those bullshits jare. Jus 2 weeks ago, CHINA warned Britain it risks harming diplomatic relations between the two countries after Downing Street condemned the execution of Briton Akmal Shaikh for drug smuggling in China. But China never black-list UK, even though the suspect was executed.
We are far better off, we are not a terror to any nation and if we want to be a terrorist no nation can match us because we are the most intelligent black race in the world. Nigeria on a watch list, is a mistaken identity. I would rather walk with my shoulder high in accurate dignity in my home land, than subject my backside to in-human treatment of America bullshits. I keep wondering why some of us are jus left-eyed, We keep critisizing our Government and people with every opportunity we hav on any forum (especially online like this one). We keep lending hands and providing derogatory information indirectly about our people and Government to unscrupulous haters and intending enemies of our fatherland unconsciously. However, sometimes, some of us do make sense with our constructive critisms, but i do ask myself, how many countries dare wash their dirty linens outside like we always do?

this is the bitter truth.

namski:
@hedges007 abeg leave this your Nigeria being the most intelligent black nation in the world. Where do you draw your statistics from? We are the most intelligent yet ruled by goats.

thats because when the intelligent refuse to rule, the "wise" fool takes it as his birth right to rule

tunnex190:
@by.dot, yes you ought to have. He can definately play n-gage games on his phone. Though, not all n-gage games, some do play on 6600, and it won't play on 6630 or 6680. It varies on phone platform jwo.

@devinmaya, to play n-gage game on your phone, you'll need to install
1. Ngage libs
2. All ngage main system
3. NgageMan
4. Xplore
5. Zipman
please get those softwares on sharemobile and get back to me.
Please note: More links to download ngage games at the previous pages

thanks @tunnex190 nbut what main ngage systems do i need to download? color fix ? i need to know what exactly to download.thanks so much for your help,really appreciated

@xreal truth is u would not recognize d truth even if it were staring hard @ u in the face or if it were perched on ur nose

Luvola,u jst got 2 d main reason dat u ve been mudslinging.i pray dat ur friend is admitted ok,but u ve to stop being abusive.when as students we antagonise ourselves like dis wat wud happen when we grow older and take charge of this nation.i cant even start to imagine.

@ritchman you are right am not quite well and i have a ton of insults waiting to be offloaded, a right thinking individual would see that i also talked to him.man dont make angry this good day okay

@ritchman yo man thats too much.even if you have cause to insult him you should go rapping on his family let alone his mother,you seem to lack home training
kosovo why all this mud throwing, whats wromg with you shameless guys?

leaves are just like plantain leaves, funny thiong is where i leave which is not far from the market, its sold quite cheap.20 naira

you see luvola, am beginnig to get this feeling that you are retarded.Am i the person who made the ratings.A normal person would see that "
Top 100 Universities and Colleges in Africa by 4icu.org Web Popularity Ranking" is right on it.just pray that i dont catch you online,else we would know who the real dullard is.table tennesse,Fool

2009 University Rankings
Top 100 Universities And Colleges in Africa

Top 100 Universities and Colleges in Africa by 4icu.org Web Popularity Ranking

1 Cairo University
Egypt

2 University of Cape Town
South Africa

3 University of Pretoria
South Africa

4 Mansoura University
Egypt

5 Helwan University
Egypt

6 University of KwaZulu-Natal
South Africa

7 University of the Witwatersrand
South Africa

8 The American University in Cairo
Egypt

9 German University in Cairo
Egypt

10 Zagazig University
Egypt

11 Tanta University
Egypt

12 University of Ghana
Ghana

13 University of Dar es Salaam
Tanzania

14 Assiut University
Egypt

15 Alexandria University
Egypt

16 Minufiya University
Egypt

17 South Valley University
Egypt

18 Benha University
Egypt

19 Al Azhar University
Egypt

20 Minya University
Egypt

21 University of Namibia
Namibia

22 Université Française d'Égypte
Egypt

23 University of South Africa
South Africa

24 Universiteit Stellenbosch
South Africa

25 Ain Shams University
Egypt

26 University of the Western Cape
South Africa

27 University of Botswana
Botswana

28 University of Johannesburg
South Africa

29 Rhodes University
South Africa

30 Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
South Africa

31 Universidade Eduardo Mondlane
Mozambique

32 University of Ilorin
Nigeria

33 University of Nairobi
Kenya

34 Misr International University
Egypt

35 Université Cadi Ayyad
Morocco

36 University of Mauritius
Mauritius

37 Makerere University
Uganda

38 Sudan University for Science and Technology
Sudan

39 Fayoum University
Egypt

40 University of Khartoum
Sudan

41 Université de Batna
Algeria

42 Université des Sciences et de la Technologie "Houari Boumediène"
Algeria

43 Université de la Reunion
Reunion

44 The British University in Egypt
Egypt

45 Pharos University in Alexandria
Egypt

46 Addis Ababa University
Ethiopia

47 Université d'Alger
Algeria

48 Modern Sciences & Arts University
Egypt

49 University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar
Senegal

50 University of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe

51 Université Senghor
Egypt

52 MISR University for Sience and Technology
Egypt

53 Higher Technological Institute
Egypt

54 Université Mohammed V - Souissi
Morocco

55 Kafer el Shiekh
Egypt

56 Kenyatta University
Kenya

57 October 6 University
Egypt

58 Ashesi University College
Ghana

59 Université de Ouagadougou
Burkina Faso

60 Akhbar El-Yom Academy
Egypt

61 Sohag University
Egypt

62 Université Hassan II - Mohammadia
Morocco

63 Université Abdelmalek Essaâdi
Morocco

64 Université de Tunis el Manar
Tunisia

65 Sinai University
Egypt

66 Nahda University
Egypt

67 Université Mohammed V - Agdal
Morocco

68 Future University
Egypt

69 Egerton University
Kenya

70 University of Zambia
Zambia

71 Université de la Manouba
Tunisia

72 Ahfad University for Women
Sudan

73 North-West University
South Africa

74 University of the Free State
South Africa

75 Walter Sisulu University for Technology and Science
South Africa

76 University of Port Harcourt
Nigeria

77 University of Technology, Mauritius
Mauritius

78 Polytechnic of Namibia
Namibia

79 Al Akhawayn University
Morocco

80 Université Saad Dahlab de Blida
Algeria

81 United States International University
Kenya

82 Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Ghana

83 Strathmore University
Kenya

84 Université Abou Bekr Belkaid Tlemcen
Algeria

85 Université Badji Mokhtar de Annaba
Algeria

86 Lagos State University
Nigeria

87 Obafemi Awolowo University
Nigeria

88 Central University of Technology
South Africa

89 Academiat Addirasat Alulia
Libya

90 Vaal University of Technology
South Africa

91 Université Abdelhamid Ibn Badis de Mostaganem
Algeria

92 Université Mentouri de Constantine
Algeria

93 Université Ibn Zohr
Morocco

94 Kigali Institute of Science and Technology
Rwanda

95 Université des Sciences et de la Technologie Mohamed Boudiaf d'Oran
Algeria

96 University of Agriculture, Abeokuta
Nigeria

97 University of Malawi
Malawi

98 Uganda Christian University
Uganda

99 Ahmadu Bello University
Nigeria

100 University of Limpopo
South Africa



And the school is a government agent because they are visionary?
This thread is plain stupid,it ought to be deleted


Last update: 19/07/2009

yeah, now luvola you my friend are demented, a mistake that should be dealt with, honestly am getting scared for the students of unilorin cos a fool who is yet to stop using diapers has decided to take the hate campaign to their doorsteps.I have also observed something you have failed to mention your school's name cos even you are ashamed of your bloody school.Man i advise you to seek help from a psychiatrist