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I'm just chllin o fine girl 

how things for your end <sub>(are you running from the law ? haba, now you live in YCN  )


I'll be leaving  and be back soon. abeg no vex</sub> 

404 meat ke ? I dey fear you ooh 


_{GNature is packing his luggages and belongings and leaving this thread for the 404 meat lovers}

soulpatrol:
snakes on a plane. hated it!

I hated it too . I just can't understand why Samuel L. Jackson would want to be in such a mediocre movie like that.

Have a safe trip babasin. Please keep a low profile and take pictures to share with your nairaland family

Brymore:
@ ThiefOfHearts

I know how to get twins. If you are interested, we can talk business. LOL

LMAO. This dude is crazy

Damn PDF ! You are so good

PDF:
On April 1, you proposed to your fiancee and 22 days later, u are on nairaland posting your picture and number asking for girls who are interested.

Really nice pictures there Mariory.

Abuja airport looks really nice - great infrastructure.

Only God can keep Yar'Adua from being sworn in on May 29, 2007.

In my opinion, Buhari, Atiku and others couldn't have won even if the election was fair and legitimate.

Did anyone see the actual voting break down per state ? I have looked everywhere, but can't find anything.

What if Yar'Adua doesn't retain Ribadu's services in his government ? This is not impossible you know.

I just watched the clip, what a nice song !   You must really love the song to have it as your signature 

ah, my sister, give me the 411 ooo, who is the special someone on Nairaland that you were dedicating a song to ?

<sub>there are "unconfirmed' rumors that you have the hots for Genial  





don't you think you are an onijogbon ? i kind of think U. R.  (just kidding)</sub>

The new airport local terminal is all thaaaaaaaaaat

Pedro getting impeached ? For What ?

Is there a difference between the executive and legislative arms of government at the state levels in Nigeria ? If so, how can anyone justify Pedro's impeachment ?

To me, the state legislatures are nothing but rubber stamps of approval for their executive branch of governments in Nigeria. It is going to be extremely difficult for us to progress as a nation without the executive branch having any oversight and that is (for the most part) what we are practicing in Nigeria.

tellmemore:
First thing.
He should get medical treatment if he is to see the end of his first tenure.

lol. Can't argue with you there.

Actually,  he should

               1. continue with this policy of attaining 40,000 MW of electricity
               2. Finish privitizing all public utilities
               3. Appoint competent technocrats like OBJ did with Soludo, Okonjo-Iweala, El-Rufai etc
               4. Complete all these road and water projects scattered all over the country
               5. Professionalize the Nigerian Police
               6. Embark on reforming the Education sector
               7. Continue fighting corruption and not getting politicians off the hook
               8. Continue to reach out to the people of the Niger Delta.   

                  amongst others

   But the first thing he needs to do is get a thorough medical check-up like @tellmemore said 

Tinubu with 16 foreign accounts !! (pre or post May 29, 1999?)

Kai, our politicians are really trying 

OBJ has to wait till after May 29th because tinubu still enjoys immunity as a seating governor.

And what about Tony Anenih, Adedibu, Andy Uba, Sule Lamido, Bode George & co, why isn't OBJ going after them ? They don't even have immunity, so they should be his first priority.

Selective justice.

really nice picture there debosky.

I hope they manage it properly.

We are in a new dawn in Nigeria with these private funded initiatives (this and tinapa)

Long live Nigeria !




Apartment complex at Ikoyi, Lagos

Onijogbon 

come oh ikamefa, this your signature na really one of a kind 

"Werengato,wa lee blanu mi oh!
Meda ooh sin win we be in"

Could you please help translate ?  I think the second line means "don't mind that crazy person", but the first line nawaya 

opuro

I don't have access to NTA here, that's why

I thought OBJ fans would like to read this 

SOURCE:   

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/3/story.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10434308

Shopping spree in Lagos as malls finally arrive in Nigeria


Nigeria's middle class can now enjoy retail therapy closer to home.
In the old days, for some, going shopping in Nigeria meant going to London.

Now Nigerians, at least in Lagos, can go to the country's first shopping mall and parade past air-conditioned shops of clothes and jewellery, or sit in a coffee shop, sipping a latte or cappuccino. The centrepiece is a South African Shoprite supermarket - again Nigeria's first - where the middle classes can buy ordinary things such as biscuits and pre-packed beef.

Not far away, on the edge of the street, are the old shops - open-air markets where women sit with little piles of tomatoes or onions on the ground in front of them. Nearby, in the open air hang slabs of meat feasted on by flies. Until a few years ago, these markets and a few family stores were all that was available as shops.

Elements of the old Nigeria are still visible at the Palms Mall. The Shoprite manager, Andrew Mweemba, complains that containers of perishables regularly get held up at the port. The local electricity supply is too unreliable, so the whole mall is powered by generators, which puts prices up. But, says Mweemba, they are hitting their targets and controlling costs.


They are planning several other malls in what must be one of the last countries in the world to enjoy retail services the rest of the human race take for granted.

This is probably the most visible sign of a new Nigeria, a country that is becoming more in tune with the rest of the planet. Its cause is the growth of a young middle class, many of whom have returned from London or New York to work in the booming financial services industry.


The Nigerian "Big Bang" started in 2001 with a free auction for Nigeria's mobile phone licences. Stung by a global reputation for corruption and fraud, President Olusegun Obasanjo's government started to reform the banks, reducing their number from 89 to 25, and supporting businesses that wanted to do things according to international standards.


In the old days Nigerian business people were simply agents, getting contracts from the state or acting for foreign companies. Nigeria produced little except oil and gas, and its exceedingly rich elite stayed rich because of connections, not competence.

Osaze Osifo, 39, who worked for HSBC in London, is typical of the new generation. He and six other Nigerian professionals are setting up a US$300m ($407m) equity fund in cool, glass-panelled offices with a view across the lagoon and out to sea. They have international businessmen on to their board to make sure everything is done in accordance with international business practice.

"It is not just local people and people coming back from overseas," he explains. "Nigeria is where it is at. The hotels are full, and the merchant banks are beginning to arrive." What encouraged people like him to return was the business space opened up by the economic reforms. Obasanjo picked a business-minded team to run the economy and the national bank, and appointed a brave young police officer to run the anti-corruption body, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Its spectacular investigations and arrests of prominent people have helped to persuade outsiders that you can do business in Nigeria without being corrupt. The sale of mobile phone licences in 2001 was the start of the new era, according to Osifo.

The business tyros are challenging the old oligarchs in business and, inevitably, in politics. "More and more people in Nigeria have too much at stake.

"They have something to fight for, and they don't want their businesses ruined by the reputation for corruption," says Osifo.

Lagos also used to have a frightening reputation for robbery and violence, but that too has subsided. Ten years ago the biggest companies on the Nigerian stock exchange were subsidiaries of multinational corporates. Today, the three richest companies are all Nigerian. Its top 10 banks, most of them new, have announced returns of between 14 per cent and 38 per cent on shares.


Nigeria's richest business man, Aliko Dangote, turned 50 last week. A manufacturer of everything from cement to orange juice, he is reported to be worth US$8bn ($10.8bn) - and may not be the richest man in Nigeria. Some of the oligarchs may be richer, but not for much longer.

mactao:
Hey y'all
Some children are senseless - or maybe their parents didn't drum it into their heads not to talk to strangers.
I'm 14 and I have a phone and I don't go about talking to anyone I see or give my number to anyone that asks. Teach your kids, and you'll be proud of them.

Exactly ! That was the point I was making in my previous post.

   Yar'Adua's Record as Katsina State Governor - Reuters 

KATSINA, Nigeria (Reuters) - The poor farmers, camel herders and market traders of far northern Katsina state give their governor credit for new roads and schools but few are so impressed that they want him to be Nigeria's next president.


   Umaru Yar'Adua, who is little-known beyond the remote expanse of semi-desert he has governed for almost eight years, emerged as the ruling party's presidential candidate last month.
   This makes him the front runner to succeed President Olusegun Obasanjo at the helm of Africa's most populous country and biggest oil producer after elections in April.

   Back home in Katsina, there is little enthusiasm.
   "He has tried. But in my village we still have no water and no power," said Dalha Tasiu, a subsistence farmer, as he loaded jerrycans of brown water from a stagnant reservoir onto an ox-drawn cart. He was taking the water home for drinking.


   Asked who he would vote for in April, Tasiu did not hesitate: "Buhari," he said.
   Muhammadu Buhari, a former army dictator who is also from Katsina, is a top opposition candidate. It was much easier to find Buhari supporters than people who would vote for Yar'Adua.

    Elders say this is partly because the governor is reclusive.
    "He has kept to himself. People complain that they don't know him, they don't see him. He is not accessible," said Ibrahim Coomasie, a respected state elder who knows Yar'Adua.


   Many Nigerians are convinced Obasanjo backed the discreet Katsina governor so he could continue to pull the strings after the elections, but Yar'Adua's supporters and critics in his home state agreed that he would be no puppet.
   Opponents called him headstrong while loyalists preferred the word resolute. Civil servants said he was a micro-manager who had ultimate control over what went on in every department.

   Born in 1951, Yar'Adua comes from a famous political family.
   His father was a minister in the first government after independence and his older brother was number two in Obasanjo's military regime in the late 1970s. Umaru Yar'Adua was a chemistry teacher until he went into business, then politics, in the 1980s.

   MIXED PICTURE

    Katsina is a traditional, Muslim state and one of the poorest in Nigeria. Farmers grow millet, sorghum, or beans in tiny plots dotted around the flat, barren landscape. They live in mud-brick villages, mostly without electricity or water.
   More than a quarter of children die before their fifth birthday, according to the state's statistics from 2004.

   Against this backdrop, Yar'Adua's record as governor offers a mixed picture. Everyone agrees he has built new roads and added much-needed classrooms to many schools, but critics say his administration has been disappointing in other key areas.

   Yar'Adua says food security is a priority for Nigeria, but his government has not delivered it to Katsina. In 2005, foreign aid workers fed thousands of severely malnourished children in emergency camps in Katsina for months during a food crisis.

  Almost no irrigation projects have come to fruition, while potable water remains in short supply. Even in the state capital, the taps run dry daily and residents rely on young boys who push carts loaded with jerrycans of water from boreholes.


   The Jibiya dam and reservoir were built more than 15 years ago but not a drop of water flows through the network of cement irrigation canals because there is no fuel to run the pumps.

    State government officials said the dam was a federal project and therefore it was not up to them to deal with it. But local farmers said the state government should have stepped in.
   
   VALUE FOR MONEY?

   Katsina's budget grew during Yar'Adua's time, as did other state budgets, thanks to high oil prices that boosted Nigeria's export revenues. The state's projected spending in 2006 was 41.3 billion naira ($322 million), 30 percent more than in 2005.

   Yar'Adua's opponents said there was not enough to show for the money spent for eight years and the priorities were wrong.
   
The state government headquarters, a sprawling complex of air-conditioned offices powered by generators, is the most expensive project completed by the administration to date.


    The total cost was $29 million, of which $17 million was contracted to Lodigiani, a company chaired by a cousin of Yar'Adua. The top civil servant in the state ministry of works -- also a cousin of the governor -- said the contract was signed before Yar'Adua's time and he just revived it when in office.

   State house of assembly members complained the government had never presented audited accounts as required by law. The state finance commissioner said these would be ready soon.


   The general hospital in the state capital boasts a new dialysis unit, but health workers questioned whether this was a priority in a state facing acute problems in basic healthcare.
   They said the addition was perhaps connected to Yar'Adua's own health. He suffered from a severe kidney condition a few years ago although friends say he has recovered.

The BBC has confirmed it - Yar'Ardua has won the election.

 
The ruling party's Umaru Yar'Adua has won Nigeria's controversial presidential election, according to official results.
But European Union observers says the polls were "not credible", with more than 200 deaths in the past week.

The two main opposition candidates have told their supporters to reject the results and want a re-run.

Mr Yar'Adua gained 24.6m votes, while his closest challenger Muhammadu Buhari had 6.6m, the election commission says.

lol aloib. Same to you 

Abeg, no vex. Na the long distance factor 

D truth,

I know, but truth is also bitter you know.

ikamefa:
you hungry?  

the food is so enticing no be small  

@4play na waa for these your pictures oooh



_{nice akara}

haba

david, where are you getting these pictures from ?

Damn that looks soooo good.

sisimose:
yam and garden eggs with plantain and fish

yummy

4 Play:
It is safer there  

lol. The opposition can't tamper with them there  

ikamefa:
let them be what ever they want to be as long as there is enough garri for the common man on the street

ikamefa loves garri so much    Good point my sister, good point  

nnenneigbo:
hardly anyone voted for fear. vote no vote, makes no difference to the eventual winne.

Sad, but so true