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Technology Market / Re: Brand New Laptops At Amazing Prices by exago(m): 4:38pm On Nov 19, 2010
Last price

COMPAQ CQ56-102SA
AMD SEMP 2.2GHZ PROCESSOR, 2GB RAM, 320GB HDD, DVDRW, 15.6'' SCREEN, WIN7 HOME, WEBCAM - N76,000.00
Technology Market / Re: Brand New Hp And Dell Desktop Systems And Hp Servers with Accessories For Sale by exago(m): 4:11pm On Nov 19, 2010
thanks for once your patronage
Technology Market / Re: New Dell Projectors For Sale by exago(m): 4:08pm On Nov 19, 2010
thanks for once your patronage
Technology Market / Re: New Dell Projectors For Sale by exago(m): 4:08pm On Nov 19, 2010
thanks for once your patronage
Webmasters / Re: Facebook Email by exago(m): 2:18pm On Nov 18, 2010
holydante:

@ the risk of sounding weird, so many privacy-invading-inventions all over and we are all over and super excited. gosh, when it happens, we may not know,

zionic:

Repent y,al, the end is @ hand

People just dont stop and think at times. . . . . . . Where is all this heading to. One day all of this info will be put to use, pray it does not hurt you then

Yes, Repent
Business / Re: Why Do We Have To Switch Off Our Cellphones Before We Enter Nigerian Banks? by exago(m): 1:51pm On Nov 18, 2010
What I do is switch off to go through the security door, then switch back on cause I cant start memorizing all the string of account numbers saved on my phone. Think Gtb is ok when it comes to such.
Travel / Kwande Volcanic Eruption: by exago(m): 1:23pm On Nov 11, 2010
Kwande volcanic eruption: Victims lament their woes, lampoon state govt.
By Peter Duru, Makurdi

Residents of Makurdi are now living in fear following reports of uncommon happenings at the mountainous Mkomon community in Kwande Local Government Area of Benue State where a volcanic eruption claimed two lives while property worth millions of Naira have also been destroyed.

The latest incident in Mkomon is the fourth in the series of eruptions in the rather forgotten community some six hours drive from Makurdi most of which is done by motorcycle popularly known as Okada.

The first eruption in the community occurred as far back as 26 years ago in 1984 followed by others in 2005 and 2009. Unfortunately nothing was done by way of an indepth study to pre-empt further occurrence until the latest incident.

But unlike the case a few days ago, the earlier eruptions recorded in the mountainous community did little or no damage at all to inhabitants of the area that also borders Cameroun Republic.

The community of predominantly farmers consisting of Ityuluv-Niev, Injor Niev-ya and Iwa Niev-ya natives has been devastated and cut off from the rest of the world, no thanks to a volcanic eruption that was preceded by heavy tremor that saw rocks crashing down from the hill and destroying farmlands and houses in its wake.


The eruption site.

Narrating their ordeal to newsmen who thronged the community to see things for themselves, the kindred head of Mkomon, Chief Gabriel Aja, explained that on November 4, 2010, the entire district was terrified by a heavy vibration never experienced before.

Chief Aja who conducted journalists many kilometres around the disaster sites also grieved over the loss of his 30-year-old nephew, Mr. Shaaka Aja, who died in the incident alongside a teenager.

He said: “We could do nothing but just leave our fate to God”, adding that the magma emitted from the eruption has not only polluted their only source of potable water, the KIPAM Stream, but that crops and houses worth several millions of Naira have also been destroyed.

Chief Aja’s tale was also corroborated by a former chairman of Kwande local government, Akombo Ande Akombo, who lamented the neglect of the people by the State government in spite of repeated eruptions in the community.

He intimated that he had written several memos to the Benue State Government on the need to take action on the incessant occurrences and also requested for the construction of the only road leading to the area but all pleas fell on deaf ears.

The reaction of the Commissioner for the Ministry of Water Resources and Environment, Mr. John Ngbede when contacted on Saturday over the incident seem to give credence to this allegation. He merely dismissed it with a wave of the hand saying: “It never happened. In fact, I am busy with the thanksgiving service for the Governor holding on Sunday, let’s see what we can do on Monday”.

But unfortunately nothing has been said by the state government on the matter and no move was made to alleviate the suffering of the affected people yet the incident has continued to attract attention from within and outside the state.

When Vanguard Metro called at the office of the Executive Secretary, State Emergency Management Agency, Mr. Adikpo Agbatse, he was said to have travelled abroad.

Meanwhile, a geologist with the University of Agriculture, Mr. Abagyegh Ingyorokogh, has described the emissions at Abelakpa Mountain as a “function of geological forces” within the earth crust where magma substances boil, thereby forcing the earth to crack.

Mr. Ingyorokogh further said the magma could travel a long distance and cause great havoc depending on the space of the crack on the mountain which is occasioned by tensional forces under the earth.

The geologist who suggested that an indepth scientific research be carried out around the mountain to determine the level of volcanic threat to the lives of the people, called on the Federal Government to construct protective demarcation lines around the mountain and also evacuate the people from any looming future occurrence.

Also commenting on the incident, an environmentalist, Mr. Hyacinth Vaatyough, with Environmental Space Agency, Abuja said it was a volcanic slide, warning the people against drinking water, including rain water, likely to have been contaminated by the magma.

Meanwhile, as the community continue to live in fear of the unknown they have also made a passionate appeal to the state and federal governments to come to their rescue since the only available bridge in the community had been cut into pieces and water gushing from the eruption sight has also flooded parts of the community.



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/11/kwande-volcanic-eruption-victims-lament-their-woes-lampoon-state-govt/
Technology Market / Re: Phones For Sale With Pictures Inside by exago(m): 3:08pm On Nov 03, 2010
anyone with the nokia c2 and nokia c1.
Travel / Chinese Companies 'rent' White Foreigners by exago(m): 2:31pm On Nov 03, 2010
Chinese companies 'rent' white foreigners http://www.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/06/29/china.rent.white.people/index.html?iref=obnetwork
By Lara Farrar, for CNN


For rent in China: White people

Beijing, China (CNN) -- In China, white people can be rented.
For a day, a weekend, a week, up to even a month or two, Chinese companies are willing to pay high prices for fair-faced foreigners to join them as fake employees or business partners.
Some call it "White Guy Window Dressing." To others, it's known as the "White Guy in a Tie" events, "The Token White Guy Gig," or, simply, a "Face Job."

And it is, essentially, all about the age-old Chinese concept of face. To have a few foreigners hanging around means a company has prestige, money and the increasingly crucial connections -- real or not -- to businesses abroad.
"Face, we say in China, is more important than life itself," said Zhang Haihua, author of "Think Like Chinese." "Because Western countries are so developed, people think they are more well off, so people think that if a company can hire foreigners, it must have a lot of money and have very important connections overseas. So when they really want to impress someone, they may roll out a foreigner."
Or rent one.

Last year, Jonathan Zatkin, an American actor who lives in Beijing, posed as the vice president of an Italian jewelry company that had, allegedly, been in a partnership with a Chinese jewelry chain for a decade.

Zatkin was paid 2,000 yuan (about $300) to fly, along with a couple of Russian models, to a small city in the central province of Henan where he delivered a speech for the grand opening ceremony of a jewelry store there.
They have not told me what my name is today. I think it is Lawrence or something--Beijing actor pretending to be a New York architect

"I was up on stage with the mayor of the town, and I made a speech about how wonderful it was to work with the company for 10 years and how we were so proud of all of the work they had done for us in China," Zatkin said. "They put up a big bandstand and the whole town was there and some other local muckety-mucks."
The requirements for these jobs are simple. 1. Be white. 2. Do not speak any Chinese, or really speak at all, unless asked. 3. Pretend like you just got off of an airplane yesterday.

Those who go for such gigs tend to be unemployed actors or models, part-time English teachers or other expats looking to earn a few extra bucks. Often they are jobs at a second- or third-tier city, where the presence of pale-faced foreigners is needed to impress local officials, secure a contract or simply to fulfill a claim of being international.

"Occasionally companies want a foreign face to go to meetings and conferences or to go to dinners and lunches and smile at the clients and shake people's hands," read an ad posted by a company called Rent A Laowai (Chinese for "foreigner"wink on the online classified site thebeijinger.com. It continued: "There are job opportunities for girls who are pretty and for men who can look good in a suit."

People like Brad Smith. When Smith -- the nom de plume of the Beijing-based American actor -- answered CNN's phone call on a recent morning, he was standing outside a meeting room at a Ramada Inn in Hangzhou, a city about 100 miles outside of Shanghai. Today's job: Pretend to be an architect from New York and give design plans for a new museum to local officials.
"They have not told me what my name is today. I think it is Lawrence or something," said Smith -- unlike some jobs, no fake business cards were given to hand out.

Earlier that morning he went over his script with his Chinese "business partners" at a Kentucky Fried Chicken. "It says, 'Good morning distinguished leaders. It is my privilege to participate in this program'," said Smith, who asked that his real name not be used for fear it could jeopardize future jobs.

If Smith is asked a question, he is told to pretend to answer as his "translator" pretends to understand.
Occasionally, these jobs can go awry. Smith said 18 months ago Beijing police showed up at his apartment after a financial company he worked at for a couple of months in Xi'an, a city in western China, allegedly swindled millions of yuan out of clients.

"That company said I was the guy in charge," he said. "I didn't even remember the company's name. After that, I decided I was never going to use my passport again with these fake companies. The small gigs are much less dangerous." Sometimes companies will hire Caucasians simply to sit in the office a few hours a day near the window where clients and customers can see them.
White women are also a hot commodity, sometimes to pose as phony foreign girlfriends, or, in the case of Vicky Mohieddeen, to pretend to be an oil tycoon.

Mohieddeen, who is Scottish, took a job in 2008 to attend what she describes as some sort of "oil drilling conference" in Shandong province for 300 yuan ($44). Several busloads of foreigners, with nationalities ranging from Pakistani to Nigerian, were trucked to the event, she said. They were greeted by brass bands and feted with a sumptuous dinner.
"I was like, 'Yeah, we have a lot of oil in Scotland.' I didn't know what to say. It was a bit nerve-racking. We were guests of honor of the vice mayor. We were put in a nice hotel. It was quite fancy."
For Mohieddeen, who had just arrived in Beijing at the time, the experience, albeit bizarre, was an introduction to a side of China most foreigners will never see.

"It is part of what China is all about, you know," Mohieddeen said. "There is quite an elaborate fantasy world going on here where if everyone buys into it, it does not matter if it is the truth. Those kinds of experiences give me a fuller understanding of the way the culture works."
Career / Chinese Companies 'rent' White Foreigners by exago(m): 2:04pm On Nov 03, 2010
Chinese companies 'rent' white foreigners http://www.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/06/29/china.rent.white.people/index.html?iref=obnetwork
By Lara Farrar, for CNN


For rent in China: White people

Beijing, China (CNN) -- In China, white people can be rented.
For a day, a weekend, a week, up to even a month or two, Chinese companies are willing to pay high prices for fair-faced foreigners to join them as fake employees or business partners.
Some call it "White Guy Window Dressing." To others, it's known as the "White Guy in a Tie" events, "The Token White Guy Gig," or, simply, a "Face Job."

And it is, essentially, all about the age-old Chinese concept of face. To have a few foreigners hanging around means a company has prestige, money and the increasingly crucial connections -- real or not -- to businesses abroad.
"Face, we say in China, is more important than life itself," said Zhang Haihua, author of "Think Like Chinese." "Because Western countries are so developed, people think they are more well off, so people think that if a company can hire foreigners, it must have a lot of money and have very important connections overseas. So when they really want to impress someone, they may roll out a foreigner."
Or rent one.

Last year, Jonathan Zatkin, an American actor who lives in Beijing, posed as the vice president of an Italian jewelry company that had, allegedly, been in a partnership with a Chinese jewelry chain for a decade.

Zatkin was paid 2,000 yuan (about $300) to fly, along with a couple of Russian models, to a small city in the central province of Henan where he delivered a speech for the grand opening ceremony of a jewelry store there.
They have not told me what my name is today. I think it is Lawrence or something--Beijing actor pretending to be a New York architect

"I was up on stage with the mayor of the town, and I made a speech about how wonderful it was to work with the company for 10 years and how we were so proud of all of the work they had done for us in China," Zatkin said. "They put up a big bandstand and the whole town was there and some other local muckety-mucks."
The requirements for these jobs are simple. 1. Be white. 2. Do not speak any Chinese, or really speak at all, unless asked. 3. Pretend like you just got off of an airplane yesterday.

Those who go for such gigs tend to be unemployed actors or models, part-time English teachers or other expats looking to earn a few extra bucks. Often they are jobs at a second- or third-tier city, where the presence of pale-faced foreigners is needed to impress local officials, secure a contract or simply to fulfill a claim of being international.

"Occasionally companies want a foreign face to go to meetings and conferences or to go to dinners and lunches and smile at the clients and shake people's hands," read an ad posted by a company called Rent A Laowai (Chinese for "foreigner"wink on the online classified site thebeijinger.com. It continued: "There are job opportunities for girls who are pretty and for men who can look good in a suit."

People like Brad Smith. When Smith -- the nom de plume of the Beijing-based American actor -- answered CNN's phone call on a recent morning, he was standing outside a meeting room at a Ramada Inn in Hangzhou, a city about 100 miles outside of Shanghai. Today's job: Pretend to be an architect from New York and give design plans for a new museum to local officials.
"They have not told me what my name is today. I think it is Lawrence or something," said Smith -- unlike some jobs, no fake business cards were given to hand out.

Earlier that morning he went over his script with his Chinese "business partners" at a Kentucky Fried Chicken. "It says, 'Good morning distinguished leaders. It is my privilege to participate in this program'," said Smith, who asked that his real name not be used for fear it could jeopardize future jobs.

If Smith is asked a question, he is told to pretend to answer as his "translator" pretends to understand.
Occasionally, these jobs can go awry. Smith said 18 months ago Beijing police showed up at his apartment after a financial company he worked at for a couple of months in Xi'an, a city in western China, allegedly swindled millions of yuan out of clients.

"That company said I was the guy in charge," he said. "I didn't even remember the company's name. After that, I decided I was never going to use my passport again with these fake companies. The small gigs are much less dangerous." Sometimes companies will hire Caucasians simply to sit in the office a few hours a day near the window where clients and customers can see them.
White women are also a hot commodity, sometimes to pose as phony foreign girlfriends, or, in the case of Vicky Mohieddeen, to pretend to be an oil tycoon.

Mohieddeen, who is Scottish, took a job in 2008 to attend what she describes as some sort of "oil drilling conference" in Shandong province for 300 yuan ($44). Several busloads of foreigners, with nationalities ranging from Pakistani to Nigerian, were trucked to the event, she said. They were greeted by brass bands and feted with a sumptuous dinner.
"I was like, 'Yeah, we have a lot of oil in Scotland.' I didn't know what to say. It was a bit nerve-racking. We were guests of honor of the vice mayor. We were put in a nice hotel. It was quite fancy."
For Mohieddeen, who had just arrived in Beijing at the time, the experience, albeit bizarre, was an introduction to a side of China most foreigners will never see.

"It is part of what China is all about, you know," Mohieddeen said. "There is quite an elaborate fantasy world going on here where if everyone buys into it, it does not matter if it is the truth. Those kinds of experiences give me a fuller understanding of the way the culture works."
Religion / Re: The Holy Rosary Is A Powerful Prayer by exago(m): 12:41pm On Oct 23, 2010
Job 33:23
"Yet if there is an angel on his side as a mediator, one out of a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him.

Galatians 3:19
What, then, was the purpose of the law? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come. The law was put into effect through angels by a mediator.

Galatians 3:20
A mediator, however, does not represent just one party; but God is one.


But who is that Mediator. . . . .

1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus

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Sports / Re: Nigeria's Damola Osayemi Has Been Stripped Of Her Women's 100m Gold Medal by exago(m): 3:38pm On Oct 13, 2010
Pray for Nigeria
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/commonwealth_games/delhi_2010/9078690.stm

She might just be innocent. . . .
Sports / Re: Nigeria's Damola Osayemi Has Been Stripped Of Her Women's 100m Gold Medal by exago(m): 3:25pm On Oct 13, 2010
Religion / Re: Why Do Some Christians Hate To Pay Their Tithes? by exago(m): 3:15pm On Oct 04, 2010
"I'm giving the Levites all the tithes of Israel as their pay for the work they do in

the Tent of Meeting. Starting now, the rest of the People of Israel cannot wander in and

out of the Tent of Meeting; they'll be penalized for their sin and the penalty is death.

It's the Levites and only the Levites who are to work in the Tent of Meeting and they

are responsible for anything that goes wrong. This is the regular rule for all time.

They get no inheritance among the People of Israel; instead I turn over to them the

tithes that the People of Israel present as an offering to God. That's why I give the

ruling: They are to receive no land-inheritance among the People of Israel."
Numbers 18:20-22 (The Message Bible)
Politics / Re: Picture Of Nigerian Army Anti-bomb Squad Inspecting Bombed Car. by exago(m): 1:17pm On Oct 04, 2010
Who said they are the bomb squad, just because they are in uniform and at the bomb site does not make them that . . .
Technology Market / Re: Hp Pavilion Dv6 C/w Windows 7 Professional Preloaded 4gb Ram, 250 Gb Hard Drive, by exago(m): 9:28am On Sep 28, 2010
how much. . .
07030160500
Politics / Re: Jonathan Asks Un To Combat Small Arms Proliferation ! by exago(m): 9:14am On Sep 28, 2010
Start with Aba. . . .
Politics / Again!aba Banks Go On City-wide Protest Over Robberies by exago(m): 8:57am On Sep 28, 2010
All Banks in the Good city of Aba embarked today on a Protest due to the recent robberies. The Protest Might last the whole week.
Phones / Faf On Mtn Happylink by exago(m): 5:08pm On Aug 12, 2010
Does FaF exist on the Mtn HappyLink, since I'm on extraconnect wont fancy migrating at all if this feature is none existant
Crime / Aba: Police Is Asking Banks To Provide Equipments by exago(m): 9:23am On Jul 27, 2010
Aba: The Police is asking the banks to Provide equipments for them to fight crime.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-485436.0.html
Politics / Re: Politician Donates Vehicles To Police ! by exago(m): 8:44am On Jul 27, 2010
While in Aba the Police is asking the banks to Provide equipments for them to fight crime.
Properties / Prime Office Property For Sale In Lagos Island, Lagos State. by exago(m): 4:30pm On Jul 20, 2010
PRIME OFFICE PROPERTY FOR SALE IN LAGOS ISLAND, LAGOS STATE.


This property is available for outright purchase.

LOCATION: Strachan Street, Off Igbosere Road Lagos Island.

PREMISES: Fully functional purpose built serviced office block on eight floors with 3 no. out-houses.

PLOT SIZE: About 900 square metres.

FACILITIES AND SERVICES:   
    -2 no. Otis lifts with capacity for 8 persons or 630 kg per lift cabin.
    -300 kva. 3 phase electric transformer
    -350 kva. diesel generator
    -fire detection and fighting equipment.
    -industrial borehole with 2 no. water pumps.
    -central air-conditioner with 14 no.  10 horse power condensers, compressors  and accessories.
    -electric panels and gear switches.
    -2 no over head steel water tanks.
    -surface water storage tanks.
    -surface steel diesel storage tank.
    -ample vehicular parking space.
    -24 hours security services.

TITLE:Land Certificate (free from all encumbrances).

PRICE:N350, 000, 000. 00 (Three Hundred and Fifty Million Naira Only) net.

For further discussion and inspection, Please call:

    BLESVIC PROPERTIES LIMITED
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Politics / Re: Governors Criticise Gsm Firms Over Kidnapping by exago(m): 3:58pm On Jul 20, 2010
My point is that we don't need to go to the moon to have this in place.
With a little push from our regulators/legislators and the like we can make things happen instead of celebrating Mediocrity
Politics / Re: Governors Criticise Gsm Firms Over Kidnapping by exago(m): 3:37pm On Jul 20, 2010
Mobile phone tracking tracks the current position of a mobile phone even on the move. To locate the phone, it must emit at least the roaming signal to contact the next nearby antenna tower, but the process does not require an active call. GSM localisation is then done by multilateration based on the signal strength to nearby antenna masts.

Mobile positioning, i.e. location based service that discloses the actual coordinates of a mobile phone bearer, is a technology used by telecommunication companies to approximate where a mobile phone, and thereby also its user (bearer), temporarily resides. The more properly applied term locating refers to the purpose rather than a positioning process. Such service is offered as an option of the class of location-based services (LBS).
Family / Re: Is Marriage Now Old-fashioned? by exago(m): 4:51pm On Jul 19, 2010
Thelmabee:



Love in Marriage is indeed a 'Decision',  . Not just a Feeling.


Right on. . .
Politics / Re: Monarch Sacked As Journalists Are Freed by exago(m): 1:15pm On Jul 19, 2010
Thank GOD they are free whether the police or bandits freed them is secondary. . .
Business / Re: GTB Bank And Their Checking Balance Rule by exago(m): 6:10pm On Jul 16, 2010
Try talking to your account officer to know why they took such measures
Properties / Iba New Town Ojo by exago(m): 2:15pm On Jul 16, 2010
EXECUTIVE THREE BEDROOM BUNGALOW WITH 3NO. FRONTAL SHOPS AND FIRST FLOOR ONE BEDROOM FLAT OFF ARATUMI-ISASHI ROAD, IBA NEW TOWN, OJO, LAGOS.  
PRICE: N15, 000,000.oo

(FIFTEEN MILLION NAIRA ONLY).

 

PLEASE CALL:

BLESVIC PROPERTIES LIMITED
08033009150, 08055158032,
Politics / Re: Babangida Campaign Takes Delivery Of 500 Cars by exago(m): 2:11pm On Jul 16, 2010
what is he bring on board. . .

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