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In the words of Rodney King " Cant we all just get along"

I'm no football manager but after watching Arsenal this weekend it a no-brainer that the team can do without Denilson and Bendtner.

Constitutional Reform. No sense building on a wobbly foundation. We need true federalism.

These politicians are moon-walking all over the place, they will make Michael Jackson proud.

Ha! this thought actually crossed my mind. Envy leads to animosity.

I support this 1000%.  Hope other major cities in the country organize a similar event.

That is because these men lack any Hobbies and interest outside of filling up their belly with food, smashing young women and plotting on how to deprave ordinary Nigerians. Perhaps they should consider, Golfing, horse riding and clay shooting, Sailing, Charity events etc

Wow! listen to grown men and women still believing in concocted myths.  In America ive seen people eat the most absurd combination of foods and people don't die from it, for instance Pineapple+ HAM+ Mozzarella cheese-tomato sauce+ bread consumed all in one sitting.

I don't care much for Atiku, but he did found a University in Yola state, http://www.abti-american.edu.ng/index.htm

I think he would've done a heck a lot better than Yaradua.

Gbosa, well done Banky W.

Aesthetically, the green and white stripes is an eyesore.

We need more cultivated, free-thinking, cosmopolitan city planners in Nigeria.

You guys just prove one thing - you are all bush people and i dont meand people of George Bush, I mean people born, bread and raised in the bush with cow milk, and I dont mean Cowbell Mil, I mean the raw mik coming from the breast of the cow, and I dont mean the type of Beyonce's breast now, I mean, the dirty, murky, ugly breast of the cow itself. What is the big deal in someone seeing a female boobs moreso when the said lady is dressed and not with anything revealing, but a goatie bearded nigger with protruding stomach is trying to peep and to see beyond the veil while his dic k below makes an outstanding salute. Tell, me, instead of you guys to berate the man for being so foolish and ugly, you are here all surprised. Now, why do I call y'all bush people Becasue if you have travelled abroad, you will by now bw tied of seing boobs, celebrity boobs, what is the big deal in that ne You want me to count how many cele boobs i have seen, touched and even sucked? You all are realy bush people, now get that ugly thing out of ma ma ma faceeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

LMAO

Does this draw mean no World Cup for us?

This team needs a playmaker as bad as I need air.

From observing this thread, i noticed 2 types of people,

1.You have your level headed, logical and rational folks, who agrees that Ibra is blessed with talent and is capable of doing damage but also recognizes that Berbov is less talented but a highly effective and a more consistent player.

2. Then you have your emotional and sensitive junkies who just spew gibberish without being thoughtful i.e "This is pure blasphemy, why on earth will you compare a mediocre striker like berbatov to the legendary Ibra?"


Regardless of whether Ibra can pull a rabbit out of a hat or not , bottomline is Berbov is a much more effective player on the pitch and the numbers dont lie, check the records.

trust typical illiterate nigerians to base their world views on someone's personal opinion.

Please point out exactly what in my comment makes me an illiterate.

Nigeria is the only place where one stupid citizen of another country wakes up and write junk and nonsence about Nigeria and the only thing Nigerians will do, instead of telling him to go back and write shit about his country - the only thing they do is to idolise this man who only came to Nigeria or Lagos for a few days and then makes his stupid conclusion - so now - Lagos is more dangerous a place to live in than any other parts of the world or what is new in what he as said? Lagos is more dangerous than Johanessbourg, or what is he talking about - he goes to J'burg- he sees his white headed brothers, he goes online and cries J'burg is the best place to live in the world - but  he writes shit about Nigeria, and Nigerians hail him and spend their time debating all the nonsense he writes - and this man is just a nobody in his country - just like themselves.

Who cares is they come to Lagos or not, stay there, stay in your little corner of the world, where there is no crime, where there is no over population, where crime is at its lowest, stay there, who gives a damn anyway? And all what these arm chair critics do is to give accolades and push downs to a place they themselves ran away from, a place they havent been in 20 or more years, and they seek we to listed and share their opinions, how can we listen to such shit? Not all of us are fools, some of us are still reasonable to know when someone is making sense or not - like in this case- the writer made no sense and obviously - he wrote or said nothing new.

He may be a stupid citizen from another country but that doesn't negate the fact that he is 100% correct.   As a matter fact, for the most part, Lagos is dangerous, Lagos is crowded and most parts of lagos is ugly.  Learn to accept the truth.  6 out of the 12 "Dont go there" locales he mentioned were American towns or cities.  So you cant really say he is biased.

The two rail lines are the Red Line (Agbado to Marina) and Blue Line (Okokomaiko to Marina). Both are projected to carry more than 1.6 million passengers per day.

I have a bit of reservation about 2 lines dumping 3 million people in marina, the designers should take note of certain realities 1) Marina is not the hub in lagos anymore. How will 3 million people travel from marina to VI where all the actions are. [size=8pt] If the designers don't get this right we might end up with a bigger nightmare.[/size] 2) On a positive note the arrival of the trains in Marina might trigger a relocation boom of most bank from VI to Lagos Island. But I do not see that happening in the short term, as lagos island has been neglected for almost 2 decades now.

Business traffic and real estate tend to improve and grow near rail lines, so I doubt they will "end up with a bigger nightmare".

Ripped directly from RonPaul.com, this may answer some of questions about the US financial crisis




Henry Ford once said, “It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”

Are you confused by all the talk about monetary policy, fiat money and inflation? You’re not alone. Bankers and politicians have worked hand in hand for many decades to obscure their activities from the public. They hide behind elaborate structures designed to inflate the money supply while creating the false impression that they are looking out for our best interests.

Inflation is a very simple concept to understand: More money = less value. It seem contradictory but it’s very straightforward.

For illustration purposes, join me on a brief journey of the imagination. One beautiful morning, you wake up and realize that you own twice as much cash as you had just last night. Magic money elves entered your home and bank account and simply doubled your entire cash assets. You’re now twice as wealthy (or half as poor as the case may be).

But you soon realize that the same thing happened to everyone else in the country. The money supply (total amount of money) has doubled! It’s just a one-time event and your regular income remains the same… you just got lucky this one time. It’s okay to dream, so stay with me.

What happens next? If you’re like most people, you probably start spending. You buy things you always wanted to buy but couldn’t afford. You pay back some debts. You buy stocks. In other words, you put the new money into circulation. So do most other people in the country.

Demand for many products increases because a lot more people can afford them now. Consumers are buying so much stuff that some shortages occur. To protect themselves against these shortages, shops and businesses decide to increase their prices. They know that once prices go up, fewer people will be competing to buy the same products, and the situation will be back to normal.

As a side effect of these higher prices, shop owners start earning higher profits than usual. They have more money in their bank accounts, which allows them to increase their spending. They will invest in new stock or expand their business. They might pay out dividends to their investors and bonuses to their employees, allowing these people to buy more products as well. This additional demand puts even more pressure on other shops to increase their prices.

A few weeks later, prices of almost everything have gone up. Suppliers and manufacturers are faced with the same threat of too much sudden demand from their clients so they too decide to start charging more.

You went on a one-time buying spree and look what happened! Your income stayed the same, but after a few weeks you can suddenly no longer afford the products you used to buy all the time because all prices in the economy have gone up.

Naturally, you demand a higher salary from your employer. If you’re self-employed or in business, you have to charge your customers more money just so that you can maintain your standard of living. Everyone else is in the same situation. Higher prices keep spreading throughout the entire economy, and it’s getting more and more difficult to make a living.

Can you see how this lucky one-time incident which at first seemed so exciting was extremely harmful not just for you but for the entire country? You briefly had a good time but now you’re worse off than before. In our story there are now twice as many dollars in circulation, but your income remains the same and each dollar you earn is worth only about half as much as it used to be. You’re really hoping for those money elves to come back.

Let’s stop dreaming and look at the reality of things. What if I told you that these “money elves” do exist and that they spring into action not just once in a lifetime, but every couple of weeks? And that they repeatedly give money to their closest friends, but not to you? That prices are going up because the total amount of money in circulation increases, but that you’re missing out on all the fun?

Well, that’s inflation at work. Who benefits from inflation? Only those who are at the top of the pyramid and receive all that new money directly from the source. As you might have guessed by now, the source is the Federal Reserve, and its recipients include the government which “borrows” a lot of new money each year, without any intention of ever paying it back. Another beneficiary these days are failed banks that are being “bailed out” for the good of the “economy”, or defense contractors that receive money to build up our military so we can have a constant presence all over the world and fight never-ending and unnecessary wars.

What, then, is fiat money? It’s exactly what we just talked about: money that can be inflated or increased at the push of a button at the say-so of a powerful person or organization. Nowadays most dollars are just blimps on a computer screen and it’s extremely easy for the Federal Reserve to create money out of thin air whenever they want to.

If our money were backed by gold and silver, people couldn’t just sit in some fancy building and push a button to create new money. They would have to risk their lives and assets to find a suitable spot to build a gold mine, then get dirty and sweaty and actually dig up the gold. Not something I can imagine our “money elves” at the Fed getting down to whenever they feel like playing God with the economy.

As you can see, inflation and fiat money are very seductive and beneficial to those at the top, and very dangerous to everyone else and the nation as a whole. That’s exactly what Henry Ford was talking about. He knew that every country that relies too much on fiat money is ruined sooner rather than later.

There is only one possible solution to the inflation problem: Stop creating money out of thin air. But we’re already in such a mess that the only way to have a real impact on the money supply is to increase interest rates so that people pay back their loans and borrow less money from the banks, which decreases the amount of money in circulation. However, higher interest rates might very well crash the economy. So the Fed’s current “solution” to overcoming inflation is… creating even more of it.

Fiat money is a dangerous addiction. Even if the Fed found a way to stop inflation, as long as the current system persists the temptation will always be there to resume pushing the easy money button. That’s why we need to get back on the gold standard and eliminate the Federal Reserve altogether.

But that won’t happen “before tomorrow morning” or even this year. Ron Paul believes that the first step towards monetary freedom is to allow open competition in currencies. Once gold and silver are allowed as legal tender and can be sold without sales tax, everyone can use them to store their wealth and to pay for the things they want to buy. The Federal Reserve will finally have a very compelling motivation to stay honest and maintain the value of the dollar because if they don’t, they will simply lose all their customers.

Ron Paul has been an advocate of the gold standard and open competition in currencies for many years. He is the Federal Reserve’s most outspoken opponent in Congress and has frequently questioned Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke about the Fed’s actions.

Join the Ron Paul Revolution and help us put the Fed where it belongs: into the history books and out of our financial lives.

Just wanted to thank the contributors of these photos, these photos are one of the highlights of my day when new ones are posted.