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Please do you ship items to Lagos if it is bought and sent to your address for example? And when is your next shipment to Lagos? Thanks!!

LG G4 collected thanks for the transaction!

Good to know if Friday's consignment shipped? Good for the benefit of first time customers, prospective and even established customers.

Any one have an idea of how much UBA charges for its debit MasterCard linked to their account? Just called the call centre and they swore that they don't have those spurious charges like their Africard which they say it's Visa that makes the charges. Pls ha anyone used this to pay for anhing online recently? And how much did they charge per dollar?

blym4real:
uba Africard, #204 today

I paid $150 yesterday with UBA Africard, yes, i was charged @ N204 (total of N30,655), however, when I logged into UBA Africard site, i found out i was also charged a fee of N2,417. This brings the total to about N220 per $.

Please these guys charge what they call fees with what they charge you per dollar. So in actual sense, you will definitely be paying up N220 / dollar, very close to the parallel market rates.

Guys using Stanbic IBTC @N199, is this inclusive of the fees or exclusive of it? Please verify for the house...

Disclaimer, if you do not know how to use the Flashing Menus especially for Android phones PLEASSSEE do not use. You could render your phones useless....

Take it to a professional that is conversant with flashing phones. Don't try to do it on your own.

luigiajah:
85 percent of Internet Users Use A Smartphone
Sometimes it's really painful when your device starts
malfunctioning and the last resort is to reset the
Phone. Some People Don't Know How to do that so I decided to share this.

Be careful. Resetting your phone will
erase all content stored on your phone,
including apps and games (along with
app data and game progress), text
messages, call history, music, photos
and more.

Windows Phones


To reset your phone
1. In the App list , tap Settings .
2. Tap About , then tap Reset your phone .
3. You'll receive two warnings. If you're
absolutely sure you want to restore
your phone to its factory settings, tap
Yes, then tap Yes again.

It might take a little while for the
process to complete.

To reset an unresponsive phone:
If your phone is unresponsive and you
can't reach Settings , you may be
able to reset your phone using the
hardware buttons. On Nokia Lumia
phones (and some others), do the
following to reset your phone:

1. Press and hold the Volume down
and Power buttons at the same time until you feel a vibration (about 10-15 seconds).

2. When you feel the vibration,
immediately press and hold the Volume
down button until you see a large
exclamation mark.

3. Once the exclamation mark appears,
press the following four buttons in this
order: Volume up , Volume down, Power , Volume down .
Your phone should now reset and
restart itself. (It might take a while for
the reset to finish.)

Android Phones

Each Phone Has It's restore method. The one that works for most phones.

Turn off the phone.
Hold the volume up button and power button at the
same time.

You'll See An Android Logo

Tap Any Of The Buttons On Your Phone To Reveal A
Secret Menu

Scroll Down To clear data/reset or clear eemcc (this might vary depending on the type of phone) and select it (try using volume up to select if it fails use the home key)

Scroll down to yes and select it.
It might take some time though
Your Phone Should Now Be Restored.


iPhone

Go to "Settings" Select "General"
Scroll down to select "Reset". Here you will have various options, the main ones being:
Reset All Settings
Reset Network Settings
Erase All content and Settings
Selecting " Erase All Content and
Settings" is what constitutes a Hard
Reset. Your phone will ask you to
enter your passcode, and will then ask
to confirm.


BlackBerry


There are 3 main ways to do this

Method 1 (BlackBerry Z10 and the likes of it)


Remove the battery from the
phone.You can perform a hard reset on the
BlackBerry Z10 by pressing and holding the Power
button on the top of the phone for about 10 seconds.
Reinsert the battery after a few seconds. To be on
the safe side, wait for up to 30
seconds and then reinsert the battery into the back
of the phone.
Close the battery cover. The BlackBerry
should reboot and function normally. You
may have to power the BlackBerry back on with the
Power button.


Method 2

Hold down these Keys in this order
Alt, Right Shift Key, Delete/Back Space


Method 3

Open the Options on your home screen.
Performing a full factory reset, or security wipe, will
remove all of your personal info and reset the phone
to the state it was in when it was first turned on.



Select Security Settings. In the Security
Settings menu, select Security Wipe
Choose what you want erased. Check the boxes for each of the items that you want wiped from the phone. If you want to completely erase your information, ensure that all of the boxes
are checked.
Enter the code. To perform the wipe, you
will need to enter the code. Type
“blackberry” into the box and then select Wipe.

Wait for the phone to reboot
We're working on how to format a Chinese Android
Phone, Once We Come Up With It, the information
would be shared.


http://pblc.is/kzGL

how many running hrs does this have on it?

That was how u foresaw GEJ winning presidential elections

SeverusSnape:
Just like Imo.....
Though I see PDP winning this one.
**fingers crossed**

Nuhu Ribadu looks like he is jinxed. This was the same thing that happened in 2011!!! Last minute desertion...

bettercreature:
Nuhu Ribadu’s chances of winning the Adamawa governorship election was left in tatters today, following the desertion of his Peoples Democratic Party by party bigwigs to the All Progressives Congress.

Leading the defectors was former Deputy Senate Majority Leader, Jonathan Zwingina. Othes were a former Minister of External Affairs, Idi Hong, and two serving Senators, Bello Tukur and Ahmed Barata, as well as Sadiq Haske.

They announced their defection at a press conference in Yola today.

Zwingina, who spoke on behalf of the defectors, said they decided to pitch their tent with the APC to support the party’s governorship candidate, Bindow Jibrilla.

“We are positive of the change going on now in the country; we believe in the candidacy of Bindow,” he said.

Zwingina and Hong lost in their bid to represent Adamawa Central and Southern district in the National Assembly elections held on March 28.

Earlier in the day they met with the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, who was in Yola to campaign for the APC.http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/04/09/nuhu-ribadu-dumped-2-days-to-polls/

CFCfan:
Word on the street is that Ekwunife campaigned vigorously within the grassroots of the senatorial zone, mostly courting women.
In fact, folks are saying that she would still have won even if she was in the KOWA party.

I concur. I saw her campaigns and it was obvious that she was very popular and the candidate to beat...

fajesito:
Fashola speak the truth and let the enemy be ashamed. We are not supporting GMB because you APC guys are saints but because we are tired of GEJ's government. We aren't babies I was at stock exchange building and there weren't more than 50 soldiers there. Stop this immature talk abeg

Do you drive around Lagos when the president or any of these VIPs are in town?? Most especially the Island area??

SeverusSnape:
#fasholajoker... A very big joker he is.

Is he lying? Were people not harassed on the road?? Please disprove him with facts and figures and don't come here to post sarcastic comments

runz:
200 AH 12 volts deep cycle battery.

Guy, put a price range to these products, that is the only way people will be encouraged to call. Remember you not the only one selling these things. By the way, how much is this battery?

runz:
200 AH 12 volts deep cycle battery.

Guy, put a price range to this products, that is the only way people will be encouraged to call. Remember you not the only one selling this things. By the way, how much is this battery?

simplemach:
Flavour gollibe. If this guy were to be a politician, he will be as great as GEJ and the likes of Nelson Mandela. So proud of him.

Abomination and sacrilege. Why compare GEJ to Mandela?? They r in different classes. One perceived to be corrupt the other spotless... Apples to apples oranges to oranges PLS!!!!

There's a special sort of helplessness that has recently come to define my relationship with Nigeria. It occurs to me that all over the world it is normal for citizens to feel a certain frustration directed at their governments, or at institutions within their countries - for example the Arab Spring, which brought down entire governments in North Africa, or the Occupy Movement, which emerged as a backlash against the "institution" that is Wall Street.
This is a different sort of helplessness; the vulnerability triggered by the realisation that a small group of politically powerful persons, sometimes not representing any formally constituted authority, is attempting to subvert the will of the ordinary citizens of a country.
This is a far more discrete type of helplessness than what emerges from a general, lingering, wide-angle sense of dissatisfaction with the way a country is being run.
Days, weeks, months
The first time I felt this way was in November 2009. President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua had suddenly taken ill, and left the country to seek medical attention in Saudi Arabia, without handing over power to his deputy. Days turned into weeks; weeks to months, yet no word from the president.

Inside Story - Why is Nigeria postponing its general election?
Here was my country drifting, bereft of leadership. It quickly became clear that there was a conspiracy, by the ailing president's kitchen-cabinet, and his wife, to keep the vice president from assuming office.
So when, in March 2010, an opportunity arose to join a group of friends to publicly protest against the grip of the "cabal" - as they came to be known - on the seat of power, I wasted no time signing up. We flew to Abuja, at our own expense, to march to Parliament with a list of our grievances.
The combined pressure from citizens and civil society would eventually force the legislators to decree a temporary transfer of power to the vice president.
The cabal, unwilling to give up without a fight, arranged to have the ill president flown back to Nigeria, without advance notice, and under cover of darkness. Now that he was back, we waited for him to address the nation, to explain why things had played out the way they did.
Stuck with the sick
He never did. He was in no position to speak to anyone; his barely sentient body had been flown back home simply because a group of people thought it was the only way to keep the acting president in check. A small group of people had arrogated to themselves the power to play games with the fate of a 170 million citizens.
Had Yar'Adua not suddenly died on May 5, 2010, I hate to imagine how things would have played out. In one scenario I imagined and wrote about, we were stuck with the sick, absent Yar'Adua until the end of his first term.
I didn't hesitate to join the 'Occupy Nigeria' protests that followed. For five days people in Lagos gathered at the Gani Fawehinmi Memorial Park - our own idea of Tahrir Square - to protest against the government's insensitivity.

The next time I felt that kind of helplessness was in January 2012. News filtered out, on New Year's Day, that the petrol subsidy had been removed, and that the price of petrol had subsequently risen by 116 percent.
The news caught the nation unawares. A public debate was still ongoing about the merits and demerits of removing the subsidy; there were, in my view, a number of important issues to be considered before the removal of a subsidy that was one of the few benefits citizens enjoyed from a state that had long perfected the art of abdicating its responsibilities.
I didn't hesitate to join the "Occupy Nigeria" protests that followed. For five days people in Lagos gathered at the Gani Fawehinmi Memorial Park - our own idea of Egypt's Tahrir Square - to protest against the government's insensitivity. On what would have been the sixth day, the government backed down, announced a price reduction, and then sent the military out onto the streets to break up the rallies.
A new cabal?
Three years on, I'm starting to sense that peculiar sense of helplessness descending on me again. This time the matter at hand is our rescheduled elections. The presidential election, scheduled to hold last Saturday, has been postponed by six weeks, as have all the other elections.
A small group of powerful Nigerians - a modest-sized mix of politicians and security officials - appears keen on dictating the fate of the entire country. I am convinced that there's a determined plan on the part of the ruling government to scuttle the presidential election, simply because of a strong chance that the opposition might finally end its 16-year losing streak.
It seems to me that the postponement is merely to buy some time to consider the next plan of action; which could be anything from invoking the part of the constitution that permits a declaration of a state of emergency, to forcing the election commission boss, Attahiru Jega, out of office before the elections, and replacing him with a more pliable candidate.
President Goodluck Jonathan has come out laden with reassurance, saying Jega will not be fired, that the rescheduled elections will take place, and that May 29 - the day the winner is constitutionally due to be sworn in - is sacrosanct.
I wish I could believe him. Certain people and groups within his government and his campaign organisation seem to be operating from a different script. They are stepping up a campaign to discredit the electoral body and its beleaguered boss.
Some are openly vowing that opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari will never be president. I am again hit by that deeply troubling feeling that things are out of our control as citizens; that there's a cabal out to continue from where we halted the Yar'Adua cabal, five years ago.
Depending on what happens in the coming weeks, I can see myself back on the streets of Lagos, or Abuja, like in 2009 and 2012, protesting - peacefully no doubt. Not because I enjoy protesting, but because I believe that as citizens we have the most important duty of all - that of ensuring that power never rests for long in the hands of those for whom it is a tool for subjugation, not service.

Source: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/02/nigeria-stages-helplessness-150215055309845.html

And they will not give this guy a national award!!! Its the 'corruption is not stealing people' and the looters that annually cart away the awards...SMH

There was a time some 5yrs ago or so that a bag of rice was 5k now its 10k. If they say inflation figures are reducing, then we should see corresponding reduction in the prices of these commodities? How come we are not seeing these? 5k to 10k is 200% increase o...

Don't know where these figures keep popping up from. Mmmmm....cooking figures since the time of Jesus Christ..

Location, mileage?

What of the mileage and where in Lekki precisely?

Location for inspection

Is this price excluding shipping and clearing?? Pls clarify

Kampala Police have amended the charge sheet of the 22-year-old maid, who was caught on camera brutalizing one-and-half-year-old child, from torture to attempted murder.

Jolly Tumuhirwe, the maid in the footage, had been remanded in Luzira prison by the Nakawa Magistrates Court for torture under Section 41 of the Anti-Torture Act and was set to re-appear in court on December 8.

However, Mr Fred Enanga, the police spokesperson, said in a press statement: “The charge against her has been amended to attempted murder upon re-perusal by the Resident State Attorney and the pending lines of inquiry in advanced stages.” He added: “The maid admitted to partly hitting the infant with a torch, a process that was captured in the video clip. She was further subjected to medical tests and established to be a person of sound mind.”

Mr Enanga cautioned employers to reflect on the selection criterion of their domestic staff, arguing such acts could be linked to “psychological problems suffered by maids and helpers”. Ms Mary Karooro Okurut, the Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development, yesterday commended the restraint of Arnella’s parents.

“Given the magnitude of torture meted out on their child, anybody would have picked the nearest object and killed the maid but he followed the law. We are also forwarding to Parliament the 2014 Children Amendment Act to strengthen the law on child abuse,” she said.

Mother narrates tortured baby’s ordeal

Baby Arnella Kamanzi strikes you with her contagious smile. Her charming baby white eyes and cute lips twinkle as she throws her tender arms and legs around her mother and mutters an innocent word or two. The moment a stranger holds her, those cheerful eyes get teary and a strange frown overlaps the adorable sweet smiling face. She screams and struggles to liberate herself. When her parents embrace her, the jolly face returns instantly and beams with an even brighter smile that mellows your heart.

For the last three days, baby Arnella has arguably been the most passionately discussed topic on social media. In the video, a visibly angry Jolly Tumuhirwe is seen feeding baby Arnella using a spoon, forcefully putting the spoon in her mouth and angrily barking at her while she herself partakes of her food from the same plate and spoon. The baby vomits on the floor. Tumuhirwe pauses, gathers her anger and viciously throws the baby off the couch, hitting her head on the tiled floor. She follows her, spanks her severely with a torch as the girl cries her heart out. She then kicks her and puts her entire weight on the girl’s back before dragging her to be washroom, where the recording ends.

Thus is the emotive power of the video that when Daily Monitor visited the 18-month-old baby at her parents’ home in Nalya, a Kampala suburb, the family was yet to recover from the ordeal.

Her mother, Angella Mbabazi, is still overwhelmed with emotion that a narration of the ordeal leaves her with bouts of tears, often breaking down. “Another maid had recommended her to us. She told us she was from the village (Rukungiri). It is only after this nasty incident that she told us she was actually a maid in Nakulabye before coming here,” she told this newspaper yesterday.

The mother of two said whenever she attempted to dig out her background, Tumuhirwe would shift in the couch, get sweaty and blubber a standard one-word response. Ms Mbabazi did not read between these lines that signaled danger early. She hoped one day her house-help would open up. She had only worked with them for 26 days.

As days went by, the two parents returned home from work only to find Arnella limping, with wounds and bruises. Not once, not twice. Tumuhirwe feigned ignorance and gave a standard response coated with a thick Rukiga accent, “Simanyi.”

“Whenever we returned home we would find the house clean, she would bathe the children, feed them and take them to bed. Our first born goes to school so no one could tell us the source of Arnella’s bruises. That is when we installed CCTV cameras in the house,” she shares. After fixing the close circuit television camera (CCTV), the parents again found their daughter unwell and checked the footage, only to find the horrific video of a near-hell experience.

On November 13, Mr Eric Kamanzi reported the matter to Kiwatule Police Post where he tendered in the video. The maid was immediately arrested and the case transferred to the Divisional Police Headquarters at Kira Road for better management.

Asked if she considers employing another maid, since theirs is a young couple barely in the afternoon of their careers, Mbabazi is speechless and gets emotional, falling on her husband’s chest. “It is sad. I can’t describe how I feel. We shared the video on social media so that other parents can learn from it,” she says, adding, “By the grace of God, baby Arnella is fine. She got medication and recovered. She is well and God protected her, we are grateful.”

At this point, baby Arnella innocently interrupts her, keeping her eyes off strangers, as though to cement fear for anyone else but her parents. The effect of the brutality meted out on her speaks volumes.

Source: http://saharareporters.com/2014/11/24/maid-who-savagely-beat-ugandan-toddler-face-attempted-murder-charge-daily-monitor

Thanks all for all the good work.

Billyonaire, sincere9ja, all the GEJites, APCites, TANites and PDPites in this forum please let's come out and help this soul.

May the lord bless your widows mite. Thank you all

Am really confused now. Liver or kidney or both?

Well I guess to avoid confusion let's work on the assumption that it is both. Pls babyosis, naijadeyhia and co. let's get an account no. to allow for donations ASAP. I have seen a couple of people asking for this with no response. Please let's give them asap while its still fresh in their minds b4 they spend the money.

Pls anyone that has access to media houses should come forward and let's push this story to the whole world. I will particularly love anyone with links to Punch newspapers because they love carrying such human angle stories. If they see and hear what nairaland is doing/has done, I am sure pple will be encouraged to drop their widows mite. We can all make this happen for DJ.

babyosisi:
[size=28pt]Summary and update so far [/size]


I feel compelled to let the posters who have invested time and money and emotions and still investing to know the situation of things
I apologize on the behalf of those who went to see DJ if anyone feels they didn't report accordingly,this is very sensitive but at the same time you deserve to know.

The true picture is that DJ needs more specialized care than the hospital he is at can offer him
His liver is bad and sadly it has also affected his kidneys
Transplant is inevitable and now we have two failing organs
The care after transplant is not easy,it is long and extensive
Most importantly money is needed desperately to make this happen
Lots of money
I am therefore appealing to us all to give
Ask your mother father,godfather,politician friends,banker friends and business friends to give generously
To the politicians reading,please help save the life of this young man
The people reading here are the voters
Any politician that makes this happen for us,we will let everyone hear of this good gesture.


DJ needs us now more than ever

God bless you for this update. We can see clearly now...I guess this is what we have all been asking for. Oya over to us all, we can make this happen for DJ.

Gboliwe:
Where did anybody/delegate say the doctor said there was going to be any kidney transplant? I didn't see where, someone should show me please

This is where the decisiveness i was talking about earlier comes in. We need to know what DJDOLA needs and what it will take to meet those needs.

I hope the deliberations of naijadeyhia, babyosisi et al are fruitful because i guess it could be pivotal to what the house decides...

chaircover:
ify they said UCH is on strike and they have asked inpatients to go home
Are there any other places with a dialysis machine?

there is one that advertises on Nairaland here : http://www.kidney-solutions.com/

Please i am not holding brief for them or in any way connected or related to them....

delightful1:
We sincerely apologise for any undue and unnecessary suspense we might have cause. We never intended playing any "god" as some people have pointed out nor was it our wish to play "politics" because we know what everybody on this thread has contributed in different ways. We just wanted to get a better way of passing across the information.
Yes, he is well taken care of.
The fluid in his tummy is being drained but that is not the solution to his condition.
It is not as simple as we think, it is now complicated.
Yes, he might need to be taken away from Eruwa, not because the place is not good enough (my opinion), maybe for more confirmation from other doctor(s).
Is UCH the next option?
@caracta, please stay calm dear, in the end DJ is all that matters most and nothing else.
Once again, we are so so sorry for the delay and all the "proverbs." Thank you all.

thanks @delightful1. We need to be very decisive in what we agree for DJDOLA's sake, and then what we sell to his relatives.

The question is does he leave Eruwa now and go to UCH? (not sure this is a viable option because of the strike)
Does he stay back at Eruwa and allow the doctor to treat him?
Does he get a referral to Reddington hospital (if they can handle his case)?
Does he get a referral to India? If so, travel arrangements needs to be commenced ASAP.

Like i said, pls pls & pls, we need to be very decisive in what is agreed and what is communicated to his family.

Waliyllahi:
transplant isnt dat easy...finances apart.

So what are the alternatives (according to the doc)? Is it something that can be treated/managed without transplants?

Will he eventually need a transplant? Becos if he does, better now than later...

Please make it clear for all....

marcjane:
PLS NAIRALANDERS CALM DOWN
I SPOKE WITH DJDOLA HIMSELF AND HE KNOWS EVERYTHING GOING AROUND HIM,BOTH THE DOCTORS REPORT. HE WAS SO SO EXCITED COS HIS TUMMY IS NOW NORMAL AND HE GAVE ME INFORMATION TO PASS TO YOU GUYS BUT I WAS IN SHOCK AND CONFUSED AT THE SAME TIME,THAT WHY I WROTE KEEP DONATIONS COMING,WHICH MEANS ''PROBLEM FOUND THAT NEEDS IMMEDIATE SOLUTION''.I WAS SCARED TO POST AND NOW CARACTA HAS POSTED THE INFO AND SOME PISSED HER OFF. TO ADD TO WHAT LOVELY CARACTA POSTED,DJDOLA SAID THAT THE DOC SAID HE CAN DO THE TRANSPLANT BUT IF WE WANT TO MOVE HIM TO ANOTHER HOSPITAL, WE CAN.
SO LET THE REASONABLE PERSONS DEBATE ON WHAT TO DO NEXT.
SO FOR ALL THOSE INSULTING ME EOR PUT UP WHAT THEY THINK IS SUSPENCE,ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS PEACE.

thanks marcjane. Please do confirm if its the liver or kidney or both that needs fixing.

@all, since UCH is on strike, then I suggest arrangements for India should be started now. I believe it will be cheaper and better in terms of service for all.