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I don't have a problem where or how they spend their money but i have a problem with the bad image the country will be getting when the almighty sun newspaper and other British media start fishing for information about the 'group' and their background!!! the papers will be looking to trace their history (financial, marital, educational blah blah) and if they don't find it, they will add one plus one together sharp sharp!

and you can bet theyve started already!!

his Bank has issued me a notice to contact anyone in possession of a) a football club and b) a creeping sense of panic and desperation. Hence I am contacting you with regards to ensuring a happy and amenable swap. Just send us your bank details and football club and we will deposit £400m (or £480m, or £350m, depending on etc and so on) into your account. In return, you must give up this ridiculous notion of hiring Kenny Dalglish, Terry Venables or David O'Leary and, instead, give Newcastle hero Kevin Keegan his job back. We have a further £75m to deposit in his account so he can blow it on tat like he did at Manchester City. Oh, and he has to sign Yakubu, 'because he's Nigerian.

If you wish to achieve this goal with me, kindly get back to me on my private email address: NigerianConsortium@hotmail.com.

Regards

Nigerian Consortium

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/sep/23/newcastleunited.premierleague

could be the former governor ilorin, ex- governor, deceased, north central, click click

_{no wonder that bank opened a branch there}

I like the way this Nathaniel is getting his publicity sha, I'm sure they will settle for a smaller club when they are really ready
this is just to get those 'big boys' interested, someone that raised £350 can surely raise £400, i think he's just lookng for £50m to buy Watford or one of those 

p.s they still have to pass the 'fit and proper' test 

[url=http://soccerlens.com/copy-of-nigerian-consortium%C2%B4s-official-bid-for-newcastle-united/12429/]copy of the official bid[/url]

I thought i was the only one, and whats with movistar not showing decent movies
funny thing is they've been in the business for so long you'd think they'll be ahead!
they dont even have a website!!!


I wonder why channels is not broadcasting on Sky

is it a crime to ask questions in naija or what?

Ask the school or academy, what your options are after your course
Speak to the admission team about course content
Ask them about employement after your course, if they have links to the industry
i'm sure they will i read somewhere about the shortage of skills/students in nigeria
Ask them (the school) about past students and further career paths you can take after your course
_{p.s by the time you finish your course might have the B.sc or B.tech title}

what course were you looking to study in university prior to this one

good luck

Siena:
Another reason why it's best to be upfront and transparent.

Why would he lie, that his distant cousin was his brother?

A lying priest setting a bad example.

I dont see it as lying per se, it's more of a cultural thing, nigerians and perhaps africans are likely to address relatives,friends and so on as brothers,cousins and so on even though they are not related

LAGOS, Nigeria: They speak in the clipped tones of the British upper class or the soft drawl of southern California. They boast degrees and work experience from elite overseas institutions. And now they're coming home.

Nigerians who left their homeland to seek riches abroad are increasingly returning as Africa's biggest oil producer rides an energy bonanza that is opening up unprecedented opportunities.

Abiola Lawal, 41, is part of this "brain gain."

He was earning a six-figure salary with business software giant SAP AG in southern California before he returned to Nigeria in 2005 after 17 years abroad, joining a major Nigerian energy firm, Oando PLC, as chief strategy officer.

"There are lots of 30- and 40-something-year-olds who are CEOs in this country, and that would never be in the States or the U.K. because the experience pool is much deeper there," said Lawal. "In the States I will have opportunities, but not at the level we are getting them in Nigeria, and that's the reality."

While most of Nigeria's 140 million citizens are deeply impoverished, some parts of the waterfront commercial capital of Lagos are becoming mini boomtowns.

With petrodollars strengthening the economy and the government deregulating key industries, Nigeria's telecommunications, banking and energy sectors are growing at double and sometimes triple digit rates, with stock prices to match. The overall economy is forecast to grow at about 9 percent in 2008.

This growth has created a growing appetite for internationally business savvy recruits. Many companies now organize career fairs in major cities in the U.S. and Europe, seeking to personally woo Africans with overseas training and work experience.

For many Nigerian expatriates, it's a tempting proposal: the chance to contribute to the development of their country while enjoying compensation packages that often include fast-track promotion, housing, a maid, a car and a driver.

No firm figures exist for how many Nigerians educated or working overseas are coming home. But recruitment companies report hundreds of applications for each job they advertise and up to 85 percent of the applicants are Nigerians working in the West.

Shola Ajani, who runs recruitment company Maximise Potentials, says that in the last three years the company has placed 700 Nigerian expatriates in professional jobs in their homeland. Their portal, nigeriajobsonline.com, has a database of some 10,000 Nigerians living overseas who have registered their interest in repatriating, he says.

Nigeria has always seen some of its diaspora return home, a process kick-started by the end of three decades of military rule in the country in 1999. But brain gain "has taken a new dimension in the past year," as the economy booms, says Ade Odutola of another recruitment site wazobiajobs.com, which has grown nearly threefold in the past year. "We are seeing greater awareness of the opportunities in Africa by Africans in the diaspora."

Word is spreading fast. Internet communities such as the Move Back Club put new "repats" in touch with those hoping to make the move.

Recruitment companies say brain gain is running at the highest levels in Nigeria. But they say flagging Western economies are pushing more young professionals toward other fast growing, if sometimes volatile, markets such as South Africa and, more recently, Ghana.

The contrast between the often high-living ways of repats and other rich elite — such as politicians and oil tycoons — and the circumstances of ordinary Nigerians can be jarring.

Misuse of government funds and widespread corruption has left Nigeria's infrastructure crumbling. Few people have access to reliable electricity, decent schools and health clinics or flushing toilets.

In the few comparatively posh sections of Lagos, high security gated compounds have sprung up, roads have been resurfaced and glistening shopping malls opened. The elite can be seen quaffing champagne and dining on sushi in air-conditioned restaurants while outside, beggars and street children guard their immaculate SUVs.

Nigeria's government isn't complaining. It has set up groups such as the "Nigerians in the Diaspora Organisation" to encourage Nigerians living and working overseas to come back and share their skills.

"These people are interested in staying and rebuilding their homeland, not just seizing the opportunity and then leaving back for overseas," says John Ejinaka, a senior consular official involved in the multimillion dollar effort. "It's a great opportunity for all of us."

Erabor Okogun, a 34-year old business consultant, studied in Britain and held a job with Transport for London, the government body that runs London transport system. He returned to Nigeria in 2003 to work for the Transnational Corporation of Nigeria PLC — a vast conglomerate with interests across the hospitality, energy, telecommunications and trade sectors.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/21/africa/AF-FEA-Nigerias-Brain-Gain.php

a feel good article for my fellow nigerians-i know you need it!!

Redfox:
Msc is definitely less stressful to Bsc.u have to note that Msc is strictly research-inclined,defined mostly by your ability to comprehend the course work on your own with little classroom aid,it is relatively more interactive.one advantage is that it allows u the time to do other things,hey!with Msc u are more relevant in the macro-market.keep up.

some Msc courses are available as taught programmes depending on where you do your course

how come Nigerian universities don't post their course content online?

http://www.absuportal.com/ this website is dreadful!!

you think say I go tell you?

we planning a big one alams big belly

Ibime:
lol. . . we will withdraw from the political process when the Hausas, Igbos and Yorubas do likewise.

ha! so you'll continue to enjoy the cake like everyone else
_{na naija man kill am na naija man go bury am!}

Ibime:
hmmmm. . . .abi the deaths caused by environmental problems and polluted water and air, the dead fish, periwinkles and subsequent loss of local economy, the lung cancer, the PDP election clashes that created all this mayhem. . .  and the miscarriages. . . Ken Saro-Wiwa, the 2000 dead Ogonis and hundreds of Odi's. . . .the internal displacement of 80,000 Ogonis. . . . . is that not blood?. . . no, it must be plasma. . . plasma TV, that is!

I heard that Ijaw Youth Congress submitted a petition to the UN, warning all countries not to buy Nigerian oil period. . . according to them, it is blood oil. 

when will ijaw youth start campaigning for their tribesmen to quit the PDP party, that way they know their own people are not contributing to the problems of the region

Insightful contributions? bloody hell, willy2 should take the crown if you call those 'insightful' abi na me just miss english class

we are just waiting for mobilization fee

_{once baba sikira donates his bus we are off to abuja}

yemmyse:
Oh my God!

Thinking about it, these guys don't export anything not even groundnut. They don't work in foreing lands. I get the feelings that they contribute 0% of Nigerian's Forex Income. And am quite sure there contribution to Natonal Income is also around the neighbourhood of zero.

Incredible. Pure classic case of Monkey dey work, baboon dey chop.

and by the looks of it, monkey go continue to dey work and occasional complain(anonymously online of course)
and baboon go dey ever chop-with the mantra-in the interest of peace, fairness and equality

Yea what happened to it, i just spend the last 10mins searching for a particular post!
and No!, I couldn't use the 'your posts' button

Can you restore it? If no, please why not?

good question

_{he's not a genius after all}

Mwah! Glad I could help

it's always refreshing to hear/read the facts at last!

thanks
boyscout and richy for enlightening us jare

do you have satellite map to prove your point?

so who are these many Nigerian that regard him as JFK? 

why didnt Aremu Obasanjo cancel our membership,
i think he even collected some $m grants from the organisation early last year sef!

Infact why aren't your legislators opposing the membership,
I can't remember that last time anyone talked about it on the floor
all these bickering over irrelevant issues online is immature!
take to the street let the people know your stance instead of
acting like some cattle herders are controlling your life!

I still think Ojukwu should replace him

you save the scanned image

go to start>all programs>accessories>paint>open.select scanned image>select text(the big letter A)
draw a rectangle where you want the text to go> superrobot blah blah

lucabrasi:
i agree with the age restriction, but having said that,sticking with the villagers as you put it is the essence of being a traditional ruler, dyu know oba of benin will not leave benin till he leaves this world? that is the price to pay for being an oba,besides the state government pays them salaries based on what category of oba they are and sharp obas amongst them use their influence to shape political outcomes in their domains not necessarily rigging, they also attract development to their domains by giving chieftaincy titles to eminent people which comes with a hefty price tag plus developmental commitments from the recipients they also have the power most times to make eminent indigenes contribute for needed projects , chicken sacrifices and the likes happen only in the stone ages or smthing not the present day nigeria, the thing is that people have reduced the the whole thing to the mundane, imagine the ooni of ife who is supposed to be the spiritual head of the yoruba supporting one political party or governor over an

# opponent,hustling for oil blocks ,cotracts,allfin of oyo,the igwes e.t.c hustling for oil blocks, thats why they don't command any iota of respect, like the oba aderemis of yester years, t[b]he fact thathe has to send money to nigeria out of his own pocket to get a well fixed in his town shows he is not fully in touch because even if his towns people are mechanics and welders,a whole town will no be as impoverished to the extent of not being able to contribute a few hundreds of thousands naira[/b]

is it me or Dis Dude chats so much fraff!!

grafikdon:
Nigeria is known for 'hero' worship. I am not surprised anyone would elevate such a cold blooded sadistic, malefic murderer to the level of JFK. Nigerians have no idea the magnitude of agony that was averted due to his much deserved death. Good riddance to bad rubbish! Now if we can just remove that abomination from our currency. . .

yea let's replace it with Ojukwu!!

_{you think the usa will flog us for being part of the oic?
wetin concern iya basira with our association with oic for goodness sake
sometimes we spend so much time thinking about mundane issues
that we don't have energy for the real issues!!}

Vieira:
Blacks are genetically disadvantaged when it comes to swimming.

We generally tend to have denser bone and muscle structure than whites, hence making us less bouyant and need to use far more effort to generate the same speed as a less dense person.

I doubt if we will ever have a lot of world class swimmers.

It is like starting the race with weights on our backs!

this has never been proven!
there are some AA swimming in the USA teams they usually do the relay though
one thing thats obvious is that blacks generally don't have access(economically) to swimming facilities unlike
basketball courts and football fields where you don't need any sort of 'signing up' or parental support
unlike swimming where most athletes start at the age of 7, train for 4-5 days in a week

is there any evidence Ijaw people can dominate swimming if we have the facilities?

living in a riverine area is not an automatic guarantee they will come tops even in nigeria!!

you need more than that!

bawomolo:
lots of GM cars are sold in the UAE, china, dubai and many other countries.  the chinese and indians definitely have no problem buying american cars, same for the UK.

erm why are they not popular in Europe? is it because they look like oversized square box

_{Wal-Mart owns Asda}

Most/All universities accept Nigerian degrees for masters, some have accept 2'1 only whilst some accept 2'2

Considering the Fg is looking to make HND certificate equivalent to BTech and so on
I think its not a bad idea, plus its better than staying at home wasting money for different admissions


Just make sure the schools you are applying to have their courses accredited before signing up
you can always check with the NUC/NBTE to make doubly sure!!!

dont go the way of dorben poly
those guys re patient o, I will kill the rector(s) and all the officials
burn the whole place down then run to ghana

dayokanu:
Back to the question has anthing good ever come out of the UK?

yea FOOTBALL 

if you consider they size and population of the UK to the rest you'll get your answer really

I want to give a shout out to all my Saudi Arabian brothers and sisters and all my brothers and sisters from all the countries that have oil, if y’all could please send me some oil for my jet I would truly appreciate it.

Cooperate nigeria can capitalise on this or even our wannabe big boyz, imagine otedola or one of them sending him
3 ship-load

I thin MERCY should get a good photographer or an exotic photographer _{like me}  

Then you will know what Sexy is! its a shame she aint got a good manager or PR Person!

She need her own website!