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Is people like you I pray everyday for heaven to wipe out of our midst...if you don't have anything to say just shut...ode

Desola: Nigerians are predominantly fraudsters Abegi!

Please learn how to spell properly...computer these days have auto complete try and make use of it...your spellings are so disturbing

Sweetapple007: Now this is the legal wife as far as christernity is concern, his other wives re adultere. Pathetic

The main reason why Nigeria is backward is because of these kind of public officers...And how they attain their positions amazed me, mediocrity and lack of vision rules the day...If competent people can replace all this half baked leaders then we can begin to talk about reforms.

I just landeded in Moscow and this is their welcome message for me.

27 February 2013 | Issue 5078
The Moscow Times
The risks of doing business in Russia are on par with those in Nigeria and Romania and can negatively affect sales, Coca-Cola said in a report issued to its investors.

Complex regulation, inconsistent state policy and conflicting decisions between national, regional and municipal authorities increase business costs, Vedomosti cited the company as saying in its report on Wednesday.

The company also noted that legal ambiguities pose a risk that is peculiar to Russia and Nigeria. In addition, these two countries also have large-scale corruption in common, dulling the competitive edge of U.S. companies in light of their obligation to adhere to U.S. anti-corruption legislation.

Legal ambiguities mean, first and foremost, a rising scale of expenditures in connection with complex regulations, the report said. Lower consumer demand is also foreseen as a problem, with the report warning that consumers are less likely to spend on products that are not essential.

Coca-Cola's main competitor, Pepsi, has also highlighted business risks in Russia. After last year's presidential elections, the company warned investors of political instability and civil strife having a negative impact on financial results.

Some of the companies' findings have been supported by Russian companies. In October 2011, the Russian steel company Evraz cited Vladimir Putin's re-election as a risk factor that could lead to political tension and protest, which would reflect poorly on the investment climate.



Read more: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/coca-cola-puts-russia-on-par-with-nigeria-for-business-risks/476137.html#ixzz2M6IOLVav
The Moscow Times

I read alot of comment on this thread...If this is the way most Nigerians think...I can bet no future...very very sick people with their blind faith...So because Goldie don't live to your own standards she is evil. or because u dnt like KIm K. d whole nation in short is going to hell...ok ooo

I still don't know why some of us Nigerians talk foolishly like you just did....May Almighty God help us

seanet01: Funny lies.
This SSS are really jobless.
They have been brainwashed by CIA and M16 into believing Iran has some issues to sort out with them.
Awon ode buruku.
Sultan trying to claim he did not know anything about boko haram.
Thank God am A Yoruba man.
I don't fall for gibberish.

Too many confusions around beliefs but one thing I know for sure is that we all believe in something based on what that believe can accomplish for us...If what you said was true, then what is the purpose of Christianity?...The Japanese worship a god that you don't know nor understand but does that make then an idol worshipers? who on earth know the true and only God... ideologies,religions are the source of poverty and backwardness of my countries...The bible says God can never be comprehend nor understand,God according to the bible can never be analysed...but one thing am so confidence about is the love of my parents,my children and some family friends.I make mistakes,lie,commit adultery some times but I make amend and move on...we are all the same...

why would you even talk like that...this is one of ours...yes people die everyday but this one of our celebrities a talented young woman... common...

9jacrip: Some people seem to be taking this Goldie's passing very personal/to heart.
FYI, so many people died around the world today so her death isn't a big deal/exceptional.
Drop the rose, say the R.I.P and move on, simple!

I am really sorry I was thinking when I posted that message...I take it back please am really sorry...

omo_to_dun: Instead of insulting the poster, you should have explained why he was wrong instead of praying for him to die. God is not an assassin. Prayers are not meant to be used to ruin other people's lives.

As much as his words were hurtful, they were true. I'd rather suffer injustice in the hands of a South African police than a Nigerian Police.

what does politics got to do with the obvious...

ebamma: Another PDP mouthpiece don join us, thanks for the epistle,which level u dey u be thieving priest or thieving politician?

CHRISTIANS LIKE YOU MADE ME BECOME AN ATHEIST...

jammyng: The parents should be thankful because their children have been taught the true way of life.

SOME PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE JUST PLAIN RETARDS...I PRAY EVERYDAY FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU TO DIE IN THIS COUNTRY AND ALL WILL BE WELL..CAN YOU IMAGINE THE B.S FROM YOUR MOUTH,,MUMU

playah P: I'd prefer the treatment they got from the S.A police to the treatment you'd get from the nigerian police force!!.... If we don't treat ourselves right in our country; no country would treat us right!

We africans are fond of treating foreigners(especially the white folks) better than we treat ourselves!!.....

B.S...WHAT THE HELL..HALF GHANAIAN MY FOOT...SOUTH AFRICANS HAVE ISSUES WITH NIGERIA PERIOD...I LIVE AND WORK IN CPT...AND THEIR MEDIA BROUGHT THIS MALTREATMENT ON NIGERIANS...HALF GHANAIAN KO,HALF JORDANIAN NI..OLOSHI...

Chartey: If this really happened, then it should be condemned totally. I must add though that some Nigerians have this "too-known" attitude and are kind of proud when in other African countries. I've seen this first-hand and explained to lots of people that not all Nigerians are like that. Funny thing is, when i tell people I'm half-ghanaian, they tell me that's the reason I'm not like that.
One thing is certain though, South Africans have issues with Nigerians.

Naledi14: coming from an African thats not of Nigerian descent i think it has to do with how Nigerians interact with other Africans its almost fashionable amongst Nigerians to be rude but i must say some Nigerians are not like that all there are some very nice Nigerians out there. the image Nigerians project to other Africans is that you all need us more than we need you. No man is an Island.

Tswana woman please how many Nigerians do you know to arrive at your statistic of good and bad?...All south Africans are good right..Hai Suka...

Highly propaganda...I mean,I work in the media in South Africa and majority of my South African colleagues see this article as perfect...

bknight: Propaganda.

Guys I really want you opinions on this article written by a south african journalist...I feel this article is just wrong

Engen: Nigeria's African Cup of Nations victory over Burkina Faso
has a deeper political meaning, writes Percy Zvomuya.

Nigeria’s African Cup of Nations victory over Burkina Faso means they have more than two – and I don’t just mean balls. I am taking liberties with a quip by former Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough who, while referring to Sir Alex Ferguson's failure to win two European Cups, said: "For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls" (Ferguson has since won two European Cups).

The Super Eagles have finally landed the Cup that has eluded them for 19 years (Ghana, Egypt and Cameroon have a superior record). But the victory must feel empty – the Nigerians would have preferred beating Bafana on home soil. Indeed, at a press conference Nigeria's coach Steven Keshi said this is a trophy they should have won in 1996, when the Nigerians withdrew from defending the cup they had won in 1994.

Nigeria and South Africa are fierce rivals. The rivalry is rooted in the advantages that numbers and wealth bring. At 162-million, Nigeria is Africa's most populous country; South Africa is, of course, the continent's economic fulcrum.

Many would agee that beating the plucky Burkinabes is not as sweet as beating Bafana, the continent's cheese boys (we have the richest soccer league). From a geo-political point of view there is something deflating about the final. A meeting of Egypt and Nigeria (north Africa vs sub-Saharan Africa); Cote d'Ivoire and Nigeria (Anglophone vs Francophone Africa); Nigeria vs South Africa (numbers vs wealth) would have held more interest. The dream meeting of Nigeria and South Africa in 1996 (that never was) was embodied in the dialectic of the saintly Madiba against the evil soldier Sani Abacha.

But perhaps my fascination with grand narratives or neat binaries is preventing me from seeing the obvious.

The opposition of Burkina Faso and Nigeria provides a compelling binary. At their best (or worst), the two countries are embodiments of two different philosophies: one of self-sufficiency and self-determination and the other of kleptocracy and decline.

Post-colonial legacy
Burkina Faso was formerly known as Upper Volta, the colonial name bequeathed on the tiny state after the river that runs through it. In 1983,maverick and revolutionary Thomas Sankara seized power as a 33-year-old and promptly changed the country from Upper Volta to Burkina Faso (Land of Upright Men). His anti-imperialist stance was inconvenient to the French, for whom the concept of decolonisation never really meant much.

His impressive resumé includes planting millions of trees to halt the southward march of the Sahel, outlawing female circumcision and linking the north and the south of the country by a rail network. He was betrayed by his friend Blaise Campaore, a lackey of the French, who had him murdered. A week before he was killed, he said: "While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas."

So the Burkinabes' meeting with Nigeria is perhaps appropriate. Blessed as it is with petroleum and numbers, Nigeria's equals in the world should be Malaysia, Brazil and South Korea. Yet it remains a country with shocking levels of poverty, the face of misrule and corruption.

It's only in the last decade that Nigerians have shown signs of breaking with the negative that had become synonymous with the country. For decades they were ruled by corrupt soldiers who pillaged the country. None exceeded the murderous Sani Abacha who stole up to US$4.3-billion when he was in power between 1993 and 1998. He died suddenly in 1998, of a heart attack, in the company of prostitutes.

The last time we hosted the final, in 1996, Nelson Mandela, then president, was involved in a diplomatic spat with Abacha. Abacha, in a moment of childish pique, withdrew the Super Eagles team as a snub to Mandela. Madiba had been vocal in his condemnation of the execution of Ken Saro Wiwa in 1995 and other Ogoni activists fighting Shell's pollution of their homeland.

Giants
That final wasn't just a meeting of political giants (Abacha and Madiba) but some of the best soccerplayers at the time. Bafana boasted the likes of the technically gifted Doctor Khumalo, the solid defender Neil Tovey; iconic defender Lucas Radebe (who would later captain Leeds United); striker Chippa Masinga, overlapping defender Mark Fish; striker Shaun Bartlett and others. Nigeria's giant striker Rashidi Yekini (African player of the year in 1993); former Chelsea left back Celestine Babayaro; the colourful Taribo West; winger Finidi George; wingerDaniel Amokachi; and defender Stephen Keshi (Nigeria captain) and several others.

The records show that South Africa has won the trophy just once while Nigeria has lifted it thrice. It is the kind of statistic that stokes up the fire for the next meeting of the two giants.
http://mg.co.za/article/2013-02-12-deep-read-nigeria-and-burkina-faso-more-than-just-a-soccer-clash

Nigeria's African Cup of Nations victory over Burkina Faso
has a deeper political meaning, writes Percy Zvomuya.

Nigeria’s African Cup of Nations victory over Burkina Faso means they have more than two – and I don’t just mean balls. I am taking liberties with a quip by former Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough who, while referring to Sir Alex Ferguson's failure to win two European Cups, said: "For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls" (Ferguson has since won two European Cups).

The Super Eagles have finally landed the Cup that has eluded them for 19 years (Ghana, Egypt and Cameroon have a superior record). But the victory must feel empty – the Nigerians would have preferred beating Bafana on home soil. Indeed, at a press conference Nigeria's coach Steven Keshi said this is a trophy they should have won in 1996, when the Nigerians withdrew from defending the cup they had won in 1994.

Nigeria and South Africa are fierce rivals. The rivalry is rooted in the advantages that numbers and wealth bring. At 162-million, Nigeria is Africa's most populous country; South Africa is, of course, the continent's economic fulcrum.

Many would agee that beating the plucky Burkinabes is not as sweet as beating Bafana, the continent's cheese boys (we have the richest soccer league). From a geo-political point of view there is something deflating about the final. A meeting of Egypt and Nigeria (north Africa vs sub-Saharan Africa); Cote d'Ivoire and Nigeria (Anglophone vs Francophone Africa); Nigeria vs South Africa (numbers vs wealth) would have held more interest. The dream meeting of Nigeria and South Africa in 1996 (that never was) was embodied in the dialectic of the saintly Madiba against the evil soldier Sani Abacha.

But perhaps my fascination with grand narratives or neat binaries is preventing me from seeing the obvious.

The opposition of Burkina Faso and Nigeria provides a compelling binary. At their best (or worst), the two countries are embodiments of two different philosophies: one of self-sufficiency and self-determination and the other of kleptocracy and decline.

Post-colonial legacy
Burkina Faso was formerly known as Upper Volta, the colonial name bequeathed on the tiny state after the river that runs through it. In 1983,maverick and revolutionary Thomas Sankara seized power as a 33-year-old and promptly changed the country from Upper Volta to Burkina Faso (Land of Upright Men). His anti-imperialist stance was inconvenient to the French, for whom the concept of decolonisation never really meant much.

His impressive resumé includes planting millions of trees to halt the southward march of the Sahel, outlawing female circumcision and linking the north and the south of the country by a rail network. He was betrayed by his friend Blaise Campaore, a lackey of the French, who had him murdered. A week before he was killed, he said: "While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas."

So the Burkinabes' meeting with Nigeria is perhaps appropriate. Blessed as it is with petroleum and numbers, Nigeria's equals in the world should be Malaysia, Brazil and South Korea. Yet it remains a country with shocking levels of poverty, the face of misrule and corruption.

It's only in the last decade that Nigerians have shown signs of breaking with the negative that had become synonymous with the country. For decades they were ruled by corrupt soldiers who pillaged the country. None exceeded the murderous Sani Abacha who stole up to US$4.3-billion when he was in power between 1993 and 1998. He died suddenly in 1998, of a heart attack, in the company of prostitutes.

The last time we hosted the final, in 1996, Nelson Mandela, then president, was involved in a diplomatic spat with Abacha. Abacha, in a moment of childish pique, withdrew the Super Eagles team as a snub to Mandela. Madiba had been vocal in his condemnation of the execution of Ken Saro Wiwa in 1995 and other Ogoni activists fighting Shell's pollution of their homeland.

Giants
That final wasn't just a meeting of political giants (Abacha and Madiba) but some of the best soccerplayers at the time. Bafana boasted the likes of the technically gifted Doctor Khumalo, the solid defender Neil Tovey; iconic defender Lucas Radebe (who would later captain Leeds United); striker Chippa Masinga, overlapping defender Mark Fish; striker Shaun Bartlett and others. Nigeria's giant striker Rashidi Yekini (African player of the year in 1993); former Chelsea left back Celestine Babayaro; the colourful Taribo West; winger Finidi George; wingerDaniel Amokachi; and defender Stephen Keshi (Nigeria captain) and several others.

The records show that South Africa has won the trophy just once while Nigeria has lifted it thrice. It is the kind of statistic that stokes up the fire for the next meeting of the two giants.
http://mg.co.za/article/2013-02-12-deep-read-nigeria-and-burkina-faso-more-than-just-a-soccer-clash

Men...this is so Sad. I've got two daughters blacks and they go to one of the best schools where we live...but am so scared in this world...why are black people hated all over the world always at the end of racism even in their own countries.

Luvlagos: @ngwana.mobu you are so on point, it is extremely sad that has happened to the poor guy nobody should be treated like that, we all deserve to be treated fair. It paints a very bad pic of SA
But all Nigerians commenting here, have you ever asked your self should you ever have a chance of asking an average South African about Nigerians what will their answers be? Xenophobic
Attacks in most cases are carried out by uneducated South Africans & it's a pity that majority of Nigerians you see in SA are also not being great ambassador of Nigeria either, 90% of Nigerians in SA are doing nothing but hustling, if you go to Hillbrow , Kempton park you will see nothing but Nigerians selling drugs in broad daylight, when you drive through & you happen to slow down you will be amazed at how they start approaching your car, you will also be shocked that there are always police cars in the vicinity chatting to them & collecting bribe, if you go to Pretoria you get a lot of hard working honest Nigerians with boards hustling for clients for their Salons, lots who owns stores e.t.c And a few educated Nigerians who are professionals especially doctors, accountants, bankers are really trying to change the normal perception about an average Nigerian that South African are so used to see everywhere. Not everything you read & hear is true but it is irritating & embarrassing that 90%of the time when there is a drug bust, credit card fraud & scams it's always Nigerians involved. Nigerians are not the only nationality in SA but it just happens that those who are here are really not flying the green & white flag high, you have people from all the world, Africa but you will hardly hear anything bad about them, if you go to the airport cargo section you always see Nigerians sending coffins home & they will still be arguing about money right there, so my fellow Nigerians I hope you will understand why Nigerians are looked at that way in South Africa.
We have lots of good Nigerians & but the bad ones are outnumbering them in SA & that is the sad truth.

How dare you say 90% of nigerians living in SA are criminals...I have lived in Sandton for 7yrs Married to a south african...d truth be told south africans hate themselves hw can dey love anyone else, hw many Nigerians do u knw...MAKING UP STATISTIC BASED ON HATRED...u re mentioning Hilbrow,Yeoville...do u knw hw many Nigeria live and own houses in SANDTON,MIDRAND,CENTURION,BASSONIA and THE GLEN?...HW dare u call us criminals.... and pls tell me where a drug dealer plight is trade in broad daylight in Johannesburg, unless u re a junky too...PLS STOP DAT NONSENSE...D truth be told u south africans knw u can never in a long time match Nigeria's people kind heart ted,peace loving nature and u will forever wonder wat makes dem happy all d time in ur own country where u no nothing but miseries and hardships

genxris: Grammarians in the house please where has your grammar landed you? It's unfortunate we live a fake life in Nigeria,we claim to know the language more than the owners of the language. I was watching FIFaA world best player award on T.V aand I saw prominent personalities from all over the world addressing the world in their native Spanish,Portuguese or french tounges because they can't speak english but in Nigeria even those that passed their ssce through miracle centres are opening their dirty mouth to judge the first ladie's grammer.
She doesn't speak queens/polished english..AND SO WHAT

So difficult to have a conversation with a lot of Nigerians with this kind of mindsets

charlsecy4: Intelligence and good diction are NOT necessarily related!

Here we go...I see a lot of good Africa doctors here in the US with bad diction, can't even communicate their intelligence so sad...

slimyem: I still find it difficult to believe she's actually a Bsc holder with her very poor diction.

did I hear you say diction? most of us in Nigeria have such bad diction,and the sad thing is they don't see it as such when you bring it up they criticize you and say English is a borrowed language.

ENGLISH= perfect but Nigeria: pafect
ENGLISH= praise Nigeria: prase
ENGLISH= Angry Nigeria: andgry
ENGLISH= Sweet Heart Nigeria: sweet tat
etc.......

Most times when I come on this blog(Nairaland) I really don't want to sign in talkless of commenting,but this thread is so dear to my heart,i have lived outside Nigeria close to sixteen years and all these reports are troubling and I have come to a conclusion that they are propaganda to demonize and demoralized average honest Nigerians working abroad and trust me we are very many.

Nigeria remains the most popular black nation on earth and is been used as a tool to point out the flaws of the black generation,so if you think the talk down and negative news about Nigeria is about the country then you making a big mistake.

There is a battle that no one wants to talk about in this generation, which is the battle of the 'RACES'... the most obvious one's are the one between black and white in the western world.

Do you know NAIRALAND is one of the biggest blog on earth,a blog where Nigerians scatter all over the globe visits and talk about one thing ''NIGERIA ISSUES'' no other country have a blog as successful as nairaland and trust me there are alot of blogs. I can go on but don't let me bore you....
The battle is between BLACK AND WHITE...RICH AND POOR....SOPHISTICATED AND NON SOPHISTICATED

If you love Nigeria then let's build it up not tear it down....I don't care how bad this country is one man can make a different just by doing things differently,Russian, China have done it...my people let's do it time is running out...Be the change you want to see, let's do it we don't need to be violent but be pragmatic and focus in our approach. Let's get read of mediocrity we see in many Nigerians...let's start Now we can do it...Naija koni ba je ooo...Peace

JUST ONE WORD: BIS,part of the world I live I spend so much money acquiring data on my Iphone just to sync my files on dropbox..but blackberry I pay little for a whole month on data...

Tata Madiba

This country called Nigeria and its people...So religious and Superstitious...The whole aim of Television is for information and lately entertainment...Relax and enjoy your life and stop all this superstitious...devil,luminati,and so on...God is not going to judge the world on any human standards but His standard...

This is going to be my last post on this thread...I live in South Africa and I can tell you guys don't belive Henry Okah,he his wife live a life of deceit.He orchestrated the Abuja bombings,these guys are all thieves they never have any good intentions for Nigeria,Henry Okah is a big lier he is pathetic I was in johannesburg court on his last appearance,there are enough evidence to put him away for a long time...HENRY OKAH is a terrorist.

Please can I have the Email address..

2buff: I still wouldn't trust a Nigerian any farther than I can throw him.
My issue is not with the country, but with the people and their mentality.
They never seem to fail to affirm the stereotypes people have of them.

I wouldn't entrust them with something I know I can't afford to lose.

I can see why?? Then why do yÓu border your self commenting on a Nigerian blog...I sense insecurity...generalization

@Bandit C.
Frankfurt

Dis shows how foolish you are, I pray u don't die in with all this hatred the Yoruba's don't even care abt you

What the Hell is wrong with you people, You want good country YET you don't want to pay for it, everything good comes with a price, LEAVE THIS WOMAN ALONE MONKEYS, you will remain delusional and poor, FUEL SUBSIDY REMOVER A GOOD MOVE, PLEASE WE NEED A CHANGE IN NIGERIA