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I ordered an Ipad-it arrived without the charger-who has one to sell? Preferably in Lagos.

Nigerian politics is played on another level. One thing that I am happy with though is that free and fair elections are now more common than before.

Happy to be back. But all my post since January don loose now. Anyway Nairaland back better and stronger. My Glo bb don suffer as I dey fresh and refresh.

People need to realise that there are still some countries in this world where laws are still obeyed.Ghana made a law that requires all foreign nationals to invest $300,000 before starting a business ( ANY BUSINESS)-Then obey it or dont run a business in their country.This is not Nigeria, where you can bribe one Oga with N10,000 and have him bend the law for you.Measure up or get out.
Personally,I know that countries with protectionist laws like this always loose out.But thats not our business, but the business of Ghanaians.America is the largest economy in the world and the richest.Its economy is $14,000,000,000,000 ($14 trillion large).The next country is China $3 trillion large.In America (where I am right now)anyone (foreign or citizen)can start a business with $0 registration.Registring a business is designed to protect you in the case of failure.And it starts at just $25. I have been operating a business here for years and registered with nothing.I only decided to register a business with $25 so as to open a business bank account.Thats why the economy is the world's largest because they encourage businesses.I doubt if the Ghanian economy is worth $2 billion dollars.
But that aside, its their country and they make any laws they want.If you dont like it, then get out.
If they were just arresting Nigerians for nothing-I would be against that.And I was a victim of that in Ghana in 2005 when all the hotels in Accra were raided ( except of course the big hotels) and foreigners especially Nigerians were arrested.It was a harrowing experience and I was in the cell for almost 6 hours.But to their credit, we didnt pay a dime to get out, most of use were released after being interviewed.But could you blame them?In the very hotel I stayed for about 2 months (then like 70 cedis or N1000 a day)-4 Nigerian armed robbers and their girl friends had been staying.They would come back every morning-order beer at the outdoor bar and in loud voices speaking Nigerian languages celebrate their overnight exploits.At that time 70% of all armed robbers were Nigerians and 95% of all 419 fraudsters=-Nigerians.

Its not just our leaders.Its virtually the whole country.People buy JAMB papers for their kids,illegally replace NEPA lines after the NEPA has disconnected them for not paying their bill,bribe a policemman who has stoped them for not having a drivers license.Bribe their way to getting theIR child into the University even when he has failed the entrance exam,drive one way-just name IT.
The only two times we had Presidents (Heads of States) who seemed ready to do business and change the country, we killed one within 6 months and overthrew the other one in 18 months.The most corrupt ones stayed in Government the longest.
Yet you saw and still see people celebrating President Jonathan as the Messaih-not because we can point to any progressive or positive thing we have seen him do in his 11 years in elected office as Deputy Governor,Governor and Vice President and over 25 years as a civil servant-but simply because he is the new President-just the same way we hailed Abacha, Yaradua and Obasanjo when they first came to office.The corrupt Policemen, politicians,port officials,lecturers,civil servants etc are not from Mars-they are Nigerias -born and living amongst us.
Nigeria will certainly change-because we have not always been like this.As recently as 40 years ago,market women could leave their goods unattended on the expressway,use stones to indicate what the price of a tuber of yam was and people would leave the money and just 150 years ago-when the people of Oyo got tired of their King (the Alafin)-they would just send him a white calabash with a kolanut and he would get their message-commit suicide or go into exile.
So Nigerians in Ghana, obey their laws or get out.In the not too distant future-they will see and experince the stupidity of their stone age protectionist laws.

If Nigeria is EVER going to shine at the World CUp-maybe not win the Cup, but at least get into the Semi-Finals we will have to stop cheating.
As long we continue to put over-aged players in our youth teams, we will not have a resovior of players to replace our ageing players.
There are countries that have players who feature in their national teams for many years even a decade-but that is because those players are good and are still playing top flight football.
Its almost impossible to replace our Super Eagles players anymore, because they are usually the same age as the ones in U17 and U20.
Having a resovior of young players may not gurantee us winning the World Cup, but it will mean that we can replace old players.
One of the goalkeepers  of the U17 Golden Eaglets in the mid 1990s was supposedly 16 years old, yet he was a classmate of my cousin at Federal University of Technology, in Minna and already had a child! The guy was not less than 30 years of age.Thats the prime of most soccer players.
Every primary and secondary school in Europe, South America and most of Asia has teams for different ages. For example in England, in every prep school ( the equivalent of Primary 1 to JS2 in Nigeria) there is the Under 10, Under 12 and Under 13 teams for all sports.

Having true under age players in the u20 and u17 means that we can get talented young players trying for top teams.
Since 1998, Nigeria has not enjoyed a single year in which we had at least 3 players in top world clubs.

In 1994-1998, we had players amongst the top 3  strikers in at least 5 countries: Yekini/Owobokiri in Portugal, Ikeba and Siasia in France, Efan Ekoku in England, Amokachi in Belgium, Kanu and Finidi in Holland amongst others.

In the past when players would fake their age, it would be by 1, 2 or 3 years, not 10 years.Not that I am condoning cheating in any form. Fatusi was actually 25 when he played in the Olympics ( 2 years older than he clamied.Oliseh was just a year and a half older than his reported age. But today most of the players in the U17 are between 25 and 35 years.So when they win the u17 world cup and go for trials and abroad, they fail simple endurance tests that an 18 year old should easily pass.

Good feeder pools from the youth teams would also help bring life to our leagues in Nigeria.

And also the school mangements have to be involved in sports development. My cousin who was an athlete in FUT.Minna had to quit the 400m team when he kept failing academic tests he missed when he went to represent the University at events.The lecturers were not interested in his excuses.

Thanks for the responses. I am in the US and get the laptops from Ebay, Craigslist,Amazon and auctions I attend.

I send laptops to resellers and have quite a number of resellers/agents in lagos,calabar and hopefully soon in Abuja.

There are two ways you can maximise this opportunity:
i) Check with any of the resellers and- if they still have the supplies, pay cash and pick up your laptop.
ii) If you intend on reselling-order direct from the US. You can do this in either of two ways:
a) Go online yourself to ebay, craigslist,amazon or any other site-indicate what you want and I can help you buy it and ship it to Nigeria.

b) Tell me the type of laptop you want and your budget and I will get it for you.

If you have someone in the US, they can also pick it up from me or I send it to them and they ship it to you.

If you check the websites that I have mentioned ( ebay, craigslist,amazon and online auctions througout the US) you will verify that the prices I have indicated are infact true. You dont even need to go through me if you can handle payments and shipping yourself. If you cant,thats the service I offer.

There is not a single laptop I cannot get for you here in the USA for a much cheaper price than you can find anywhere else and if you know how to fix laptops, then you can strike it really big as recyclying centers are filled with thousands of laptops that usually just need hard drives,ac adaptors or simple fixing.

Always available.

If you are interested in reselling laptops-we can supply you laptops at the cheapest prices possible.Take a look at some of these bottom prices:

Pentium 2s- From N5000

Pentium 3s ---From N8000

Pentium 4s---From N12,000

Pentium Ms--From 15,000

Used Dual Core Laptops ( like the HP Pavilion dv2000 from N30,000)

Brand new laptops from N45,000

If you are laptop repair expert and are especially good in fixing GPUs, we can get you non working laptops that only need soldering to get them back to life from as cheap as N8000. Some of them retail used for as much as N80,000.All that is usually needed is to solder back the GPU and put in a hard drive.Some older ones can be got for as cheap as N1000.

The Dell Inspiron 600M shown in this picture with 80GB hard drive and 768mb ram is available for N29,000.

Mail me at emmaf5542@yahoo.com for details

Good job Super Eagles.We could have done better, but we are on the right track.
This is the same Super Eagles, no one expected to qualify for the World and when we did everyone expected the world's best play Messi to score 5 goals against us.

The Super Eagles are good, we played against at least 6 of the world's top 20 players. There is not one Nigerian that ranks amongst the world's best 20 at least as of June 11, 2010.

My only concern is that we dont repeat the mistake of 2002, when we also lost 1-0 to Argentina and then went to loose to a Sweden that we should have defeated.

BBC Sport's Jurgen Klinsmann   "It was an impressive performance by Argentina, they controlled the game for long periods and could have been 3-0 or 4-0 up by half-time. It was risky, because Nigeria had chances in the second half, but they deserved to win."
16:52 FULL-TIME Argentina 1-0 Nigeria   El Diego's return to the World Cup fold produces a victory for Argentina and two clenched fists from the 1986 champion. Gabby Heinze's header proves enough - but spare a thought for Nigeria's magnificent goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama.
90 mins Commentary  
Argentina are just keeping the ball, it's frustrating the life out of Nigeria. Couple more minutes to hold out and Diego Maradona has won his first World Cup game as a coach.

49 mins Commentary  
Great movement. Lionel Messi sends the ball wide to the right to Juan Veron and his low cross is met by an onrushing Messi, who can only clip wide of the far post with the outside of his left foot. Top-class give and go.
47 mins Commentary  
Taye Taiwo whips over a cracking cross from the Nigerian left, but none of his team-mates are attacking the ball and the chance goes begging.

Bros, there is nothing too big in what you plan to do as long as she is the love of your life. My wife today was in the US for 5 years before we got married. We have been married for about 5 years now. She came to Nigeria once during those 5 years before we married.It was a 3 week visit.
The rest of the 5 years were,(letters , phone calls,emails [when sending one email used to cost N100] and chat-done during overnight browsing )-most of which was when I was a student.To keep up with the cost of sending emails and the rest as a student-i first got a part time during the ASUU strike of 1999 before I started a campus business-which years later turned to gold.
It takes a high level of communication and commitment.
I assume that you are employed by a company and don’t run your own business.
What kind of savings are you talking about? Is it the savings you set aside to pay yourself and then invest or is it the savings you set aside for emergency needs.
I would not advice you to use your investment savings to buy a plane ticket. I would have expected that you had been saving for this trip aside.
What you should do is (possibly) see if you can raise this money elsewhere. But you must contribute to her plane ticket if you can’t pay it all yourself. thats why you are a man.
And in the 21st century economy, it is not advisable to depend on one income except your Father is Aliko Dangote or Bill Gates. If you have over N200,000 in savings  ( I assuming that based on the cost of a plane ticket ) then by now you should be planning to find  a way to safely ensure that that savings is working for you i.e. money working for you. This way, you will have more income streams.
If you marry her next year, its likely going to take another 1-3 years after your marriage for you to cross over on an immigrant visa filed by her as your spouse except you have some other type of Visa or she is planning to return to Nigeria.
If you have a wife in the US who is expecting your baby, you will have to be providing part of the costs of her upkeep. And while N200,000 per month is a good salary for a young man in Nigeria. It is not much when you have to send money to your young pregnant wife in the USA.
You must contribute to her plane ticket, whether now or whenever you plan to have her come. And the sooner the better. Extended distance is not too good for a couple planning to marry.

We can supply you with laptops directly from the USA.We already supply to Nigeria amd Ghana. It may suprise you to know that you can get laptops cheaper than what the manufacturer's price.
Manufacturers usually supply their laptops barebone (with no OS or software) to retailers in the USA.This means that many retailers can offer prices lower than the manufacturer does.
And people like us can also at times offer lower prices than the retail stores by buying at discount prices from them.
If you would be interested in us supplying you-send me an email at emmaf5542@yahoo.com

Did you get the help you wanted? If not,then visit cheaplaptopwas.com or email me at emmaf5542@yahoo.com-We can help you buy anything you want on ebay or amazon or help you pay for items you have already won on ebay or if you want just show you how to do it yourself for free!

Buy laptops from us between now and July 31st and get one laptop free. Visit our website www.cheaplaptopswa.com or send me an email at emmaf5542@yahoo.com

We supply both used and brand new laptops from the USA.Delivery within 3-14 days depending on the type of shipping you choose.

The Dell Inspiron Mini 10v pictured here with the following features:

120GB Hard Drive

1GB RAM

Webcam

Bluetooth

is currently on sale for N35,000.

Acer Aspire One ZG5 -Purchased just a few months ago-it was hardly used and comes with the original box and documentation. Battery lasts almost 4 hours.

160GB Hard Drive

1GB RAM

Windows XP Home Edition

Microsoft Office

SD Card Reader

Inbuilt Wireless

Inbuilt Webcamera

Inbuilt Ethernet Port

Make an Offer before 12 Midday Sunday May 30th and it will be shipped to you from the USA on Monday May 31st and you can pick up on Tuesday June 2nd in Ikeja. If you are outside Lagos, it will be sent to you by Courier.

Highest Offer gets the laptop.Send your offers to emmaf5542@yahoo.com or call 0807 3634 330

If you are looking to make the best profit from the sales of laptops, we can supply to you at the lowest prices.

If you have an engineer in house that can fix laptops for you, we can get you dual core laptops with webcams ( HPs,Gateways,Toshibas) for as cheap as N10,000.

If you want ready to go laptops we can get you dual core laptops with webcams from N30,000 - Pentium M laptops from N18,000 and Pentium 3 Laptops from N10,000

Send an email to emmaf5542@yahoo.com for the Start Up Guide.

We are bringing in laptops at the cheapest prices possible.Whatever we dont have, we can bring in for you.

Laptops currently in Lagos

5 HP Pavilion dv2000 (webcam/dual core processor/120Gb hd)----N50,000

1 Gateway M285-E Tablet Notebook ( dual core/dvd burner/1GB RAM) N48,000

5 Dell D610 (Pentium M/40GB/512MB RAM/ DVD Burner)-------N35,000

2 IBM Thinkpad T21 (Pentium 3/40GB/256MB RAM/ CD Drive) ----N25,000

Mail me at emmaf5542@yahoo.com to buy any of these.

We update available laptops on our website cheaplaptopswa.com

If we dont have what you need, we can order from the USA and ship within 24 hours of payment. You have two choices of shipping:

1) USPS-Anything that can fit into the flat rate box is $43 to Nigeria. The Pos Office/Customs may charge you more. Laptops up to 15 inches fit into this box. If they are bigger, you will need a bigger box and shipping by USPS for this is about $80. The good side of USPS is shipping is that it is guranteed to arrive in 6-10 days.If you want it faster, its a bit more expensive.The bad is that Customs may charge you an extra N4000-N10,000.

2) Nigerian Shippers.There are many Nigerian shippers with offices in the US. We use Soverign Cargo, the best in the mid-west. They charge $4 per pound. That is about $40 for one laptop and about $70 for 3 laptops. The good point is the cost-very affordable. The bad is that while shipping is normally 3 days, it can sometime elongate to up to 2 weeks.

You can of course also choose to use DHL or Fedex and get your laptop in 2 days from the USA.

Oga Paxson don fall in love again.His madame can never allow him to reply again to this post.
Anyway I wish you the best.

What state are you in? There are many Nigerian shippers in the USA-they charge from $40 to $120 a laptop.
The company I currently use Soverign Cargo in MN charges $4 per pound, so one laptop comes to about $40l.

If your laptop fits the USPS flat rate box-all you pay is about $43 to Nigeria-but customs will likely charge the reciever some money at the Post Office.

All used, but reconditioned to like new condition.
They can be delivered to Benin via UPS or Fedex.

We can send it via ABC Transport or UPS. ABC Transport cost is about N1200.
Call 0807 3634 330 to arrange.

Oga Paxson, so what happened?How was it resolved?

I have several dual core HP Pavilion dv2000s and 6000s arriving Lagos June 4th to be picked up same day for N50,000-N55,000
RAM: 1GB -2GB
Hard Drives-120GB-160GB
All have webcams
All have good battery life

Mail emmaf5542@yahoo.com or call 0807 3634 330 to buy.

Opre26-please call 0807 3634 330 and pick it up for N50,000 or email me at emmaf5542@yahoo.com .More dv2000 and 6000s will be arriving first week of June-all N50,000-N55,000.

2 more available.

Ok, thanks.I will let you know when I have something in that region.

You said no battery.Does it come with the charger and if yes, does it boot up?

Yes, I am willing to sell for a discount-but not for N50,000.Make a higher offer.

Battery is very good.
50k wont be good.Pentium Ms with single cores go for as much as N52,000 (like the Dell D610 and HP dv1000s) and they are 5-6 years old.

This is a dual core with a webcamera just around 2years old or thereabouts.