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1.5-2 plots of land needed for a hotel.
Any of these Areas: Surulere, Oregun, Ikeja, Airport Road axis.
Registered and undeveloped preferably. But could settle for one with a ramshackled building to be knocked down but good pricing.
Thank you.

I kind of agree with her fashion sense (dresses, cake, make-up)
Especially the 1st. Sits Perfectly on her.

They both look happy, nice and stress-free.
Nice wedding pix. Not like Mercy Johnson's that almost harassed me out of the page (everything, to the colour choice, was just loud)
Thumbs-up Poster! Thx for sharing!

Very true Rev. Tutu.

Aside oil, Bush junior was also carrying out Bush Senior's agenda that he started during the gulf war.

Wow!
Simply lovely!!!
Beautiful family pics they have there.
The younger has such a cute smile.

Johnsinia: .
I pray u do nt find urself in a situatn were ur billions can nt do anytin 4 u, all u wil b doing is running frm one praya house or d other 4 prayas. Then, u wil knw dat praya is wat ve kept u alive al ds years n nt ur money. Do i need 2 remind u dat wat u just postd is blasphemy against God, and dat u wil b judged by ds on d last day.

swing4real though used the word "fool" too often for comfort but he made very vital points. Infact, his use of the capital letters in HIM" is a clear indication that he reverences God.

Rather I think you are the one who is blasphemous and has no respect for God instead, in the way you were dishing out judgement and playing God in your last sentences.

I find it very sickening to hear the president abuse the act of praying the way he does; and also the way he takes the people he governs for granted. We didn't put him there to ask us to pray for us.

If what we need to overcome Nigeria's problems is prayers, then who needs a president?
To even think that we pay this man to vomit this shit!
Lord!!! This is trully a govt of Jona for Jona by Jona.

Hmm!

soft-touch:
When MTN changed their 3GB Internet subscription to N7,000 per month, then I knew this company got internal problems, when they came with promo to WIN airplane, it became obvious, that whoever get "leg should run".

True!!!!

mikuz: Oga police

Na Which Kind Yawa Bi Dis Iyeah…(2ce)
mmh… Mmh
verse 1
i Was Driving Wasn't Speeding So Fast
i Just Dey Go Jeh Jeh I No High
see This Honey
she Was Looking So Fly
as I Dey Try To Step Up To Her
then She Said Hi
comon Baby Make You Step Into My Car
me I Go Take You To A Place Way
you Go Like I No Lie
make You Sit Back Relax And Feel Fine
cos Seriously I Get Plans
then All Of A Sudden See Them They Ma Coming
they Tell Mi Make I Stop But I Don'tKnow Why
who Be That The Police
they Took My Papers From Me
and I Say Sir
why You Do Me So….
chorus
oga Police Iyeah!
wetin Be Dis Iyeah!
yai Just Dey Stress Me Dey Vex Me
na Which Kind Yawa Be Dis Iyeah!
why You Doing Dis Iyeah!
ooh…no
see Wetin I Dey Miss
oga Police Iyeah!
wetin Be This Iyeah!
you Just Dey Stress They Vex Me
na Which Kind Yawa Be Dis Iyeah!
why You Doing Dis Iyeah!
ooh… No …ooh…no!
oga Police! Iyeah
na Which Kind Yawa
be Dis Iyeah!
mmh!…mmh!
mmh!...Mmh!

verse 2
na So We Dey For Beer Parlor
just Dey Jolly
with A Friend From America
way Get Money
and For My Front Ishiewu
and Turkey Different Kind Of Shayo
we Dey Make Eye Duty
plenty Bobos Just De Make There Noise
heeyh!
enough Chickitos Just Dey Make
their Choice….One More Plate
as I Dey Hail My Guy Begin Dey
wash My Hand Eeh….
i Just Dey Start, Yeeh!
then All Of A Sudden See Them They Ma Coming
everybody Start To Run
but I Don't Know Why
who Be Dat Dey Police
they Put Their Handcuffs On Me
then I Say Sir Na Wetin I Do
chorus
tell Me……..
na Wetin You Go Do For This Life
way Police No Go Come Harass You
i No…. No…. Ooh
even Though You Be Superstar
them Go Still Come Embarrass You
tell Me……
na Wetin You Go Do For This Live Way
police No Go Come Harass You
oga Police Iyeah….
wetin Be This Iyeah
na Which Kind Yawa Be This Iyeah?
no…..No…..
na Which Kind Yawa Be This Iyeah?
no, No, No, No, No, No, No, No...
(Chorus And Ad Lip Til Fade)

Thank you for those lyrics.
They told stories which made them interesting.
Tho I'm a psquare fans but I think they need to pay more attention to the content of their songs which is one of th reasons why I'm a big fan. I find them very decent and entertaining.

Genny looks good and wears the appearance of a nice girl.
But she isn't as bold as Omotola when it comes to fashion. She just plays it too safe which I find very boring.
Any girl could have matched that dress which those Genny's shoes but only the adventurous would go the Omotola way.

So it's Omotola for me.

You left out his other very popular expression, "and they got married effortlessly"

What would be the terms of business?
Could you pls post pictures of some of the clothing.

No contact?

For the sake of his career, I really hope that DBanj gets it right with Kanye.
He just tries too hard!
I'd rather he took it easy, and pushed his name than Kanye's

Saw this piece on the net and thought I should share with all.

- By Chinedu Ekeke

Nigeria’s Senate president, David Bonaventure Mark, is deeply troubled. And his present state of mind is justifiable. The criminal empire which prince he’s one of is at the verge of crumbling, or so he thinks. He’s eyeing the kingship of the empire in a few years from now. He wants to rule and reign in the kingdom. He has amassed enough wealth and bought enough souls to make this possible. He dreams of joining the league of candidates for prison who became presidents of Nigeria in the last three or so decades.

But the turn of events, especially since January this year, has jolted him. It doesn’t seem as though he would have any smooth ride to the kingship he so much covets, neither would he have the rest of mind to consume the millions he has so far amassed. He recently heaped the blame on new media or social media. The credibility he has sought to build in the last thirteen years hasn’t even taken off the ground, to his utter dismay. Millions of Nigerians don’t see any reason to take him seriously. He knows – or thinks – social media is responsible for this.

Last Thursday, while declaring open a two-day retreat for Senate Press corps in Umuahia, Abia State, he said there was a need to check the use of social media as Nigerians were using them to demean their leaders. Hear him: “We need to change our attitude on how we report things about our country and we should emulate the foreign reporters who never report negative things about their countries.” So Mr Mark wants to sponsor – and pass - a legislation that would impose restrictions on the use of social media in Nigeria. Once that is done, his confidence in the empire will rebound, and his hopes of assuming the kingship will come back to live.

Again, Mr Mark is justified, because, you see, there’s so much money can buy; and there’s even much more plenty of money can buy. The more money you make without working, the more you want to spend without sweat. He pays himself N600 million from Nigeria’s treasury in one year. That isn’t heavenly or biblical year. It is earthly year as we know it; twelve calendar months, the one within which Barack Obama, the United States president, earns N60 million.

What Mr. Mark pays himself in one year is the salary of a US president for ten (yes, ten!) good years. What Nigeria’s number three citizen takes home, legally, in one year, is what the number one citizen of the world’s biggest economy, and only remaining super-power, earns in ten years. Because no president stays beyond eight years in America, it means what David Mark gives himself as earnings in one year is what will pay at least two American presidents – one for eight years and another one for extra two years. That means before Mark concludes his four year term, he would have amassed enough money from our treasury that will pay United States presidents for forty years! You see why he has to checkmate social media? You can’t have access to such amounts of free money without being sensitive to any avenue through which opposition rears its envious head.

Interestingly, what Mark is supposed to be doing to be taking such a humongous amount home every year is the same job the United States Vice President combines with his official job as the Vice, and for which he earns less than one-tenth of the money Mr Mark allocates to himself. Actually, it is the president of the US, not his Vice, who earns up to one-tenth of Mark’s annual bazaar. So for taking home N600 million for doing nothing, why will David Mark not feel threatened by social media?

It is even more annoying because years before now, nobody knew how much of injury his avarice –and those of his ilk - inflicted on the nation’s treasury. It was easy for him to buy up the entire mainstream media peopled by brown-envelope-seeking journalists and editors in a hurry to join the resource-grabbing frenzy of those who rule Nigeria. His Ghana-must-go bags were handy for willing media people who had no regards for the sacred role the society, and their jobs, had thrust upon them. Today, Mark can’t control what gets into the new media. He can’t control the number of people who read just a tweet, or Facebook post or blog post, detailing how much David Mark grabs monthly from the purse of a nation in pathetic poverty. He can’t control who reads this piece or who doesn’t. He can’t pull down this website or the other ones linked to it through which this piece will be read by thousands or millions of Nigerians. And this is why he is troubled.

There is also the conscience – or even emotional - side to his discomfort. He hates the poor, and gets angry at the sight of any poor person enjoying whatever he (Mark) considers a luxury. Most of the people who attack him and his tribe of nation-killers on social media do so with telephone which, years ago, he had declared wasn’t for the poor. The society-made super rich which Mark loves dearly can’t say anything wrong about him on social media. They are all colleagues in the nation-wrecking industry. Clearly, it is those “poor” ones, or those who should be poor but have somehow risen above it, that criticise Mark.

As Babangida’s minister of communication, he told whoever cared to listen to perish the thoughts of making telephone available to Nigerians. He stated, clearly, that telephone wasn’t for the poor. It was for the rich, eaters of hundreds of millions of naira from Nigeria’s commonwealth. Today, the senator watches even roadside mechanics clutching their phones, reading the internet and seeing how much of a curse to them this government has become. If you were Mark, you’d be troubled too.

He saw the shape of things to come from social media last January. The OccupyNigeria protests jolted him and his co-travellers. Forget the lies they took to the market of how opposition hijacked the protests, he knew that the power of social media was at work. But for lack of patriotism of the labour leaders who sold the protests to Mark and his government, the government would have been brought down. And since then, he has watched the social media project himself and the government in their true picture: enemies of the Nigerian people. He saw the Arab spring and how social media swept away his mentors in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and others. The senate president has stomached enough. He isn’t going to take it anymore.

It is a paradox that the same society which David Mark has so much undermined sent him to the Senate to represent them. It is even more shocking that the same Mark was made the president of the Senate, the nation’s symbol of democracy. Yet it is more paradoxical that the head of the institution which should bear the torchlight of democracy is the first person who has openly demonstrated his desire to outlaw the right of the people to freely express themselves.

Mr Mark’s ingratitude deserves a special mention. Here’s a man who was part of Babangida’s gang that collapsed Nigeria’s economy while their private economies, represented by their numerous bank accounts, blossomed. This is the same Mark who failed as a communications minister. Isn’t he supposed to be serving a lifetime in jail? Instead, he bulldozed his way through our polity and just happened in the senate. And for not taking a punitive action against him for his failure, he has got emboldened to punish us.

David Mark has always represented darkness in Nigeria. The senate he leads, which is an effective retirement house for former state treasury looters, has represented everything a nation’s senate should not be. While the lower house rose to the defence of Nigerians during the fuel subsidy protests, Mr Mark and his senate looked the other way round just to preserve the darkness which so much benefits him. While the lower house set up committees upon committees to perform their constitutional oversight functions on federal government ministries, departments and agencies, Mark’s senate chose silence which darkness brings.

He is preaching how reporters should follow their foreign counterparts. Unfortunately, the Senate president, like the other “leaders” in Nigeria, does not read. That raises another question: what does he do with the newspaper allowance he pays himself? If he reads American or British newspapers, then he would understand that a vibrant media will always question their leaders.

But let’s even assume Mark is right about foreign reporters not reporting the negatives about their countries; and we choose to emulate them, has Mark emulated the same foreign countries in insisting that politicians only earn realistic and sustainable salaries? Part of what he wants us to report is that he doesn’t pay himself ten times the salary of the US president, or that he hasn’t made efforts to frustrate, through his senate, the demand of Nigerians that subsidy thieves be prosecuted. Mr Mark hasn’t seen anything yet.

I understand he is a Christian. I would refer him to an interesting portion of the Bible. It is John 1:5:

“The light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehendeth it not.”

New media is the light of the 21st Century, it is shining forth and forcing darkness to give way.

In the coming days and weeks and months, we would know who gives way between David Mark and social media. But I am convinced it won’t be the latter.

http://www.facebook.com/alapinni/posts/10151132570242174

ITbomb: I had asked myself all those questions, but what I see is what I take and appreciate.
I have light 18 hours and I dont care whether Transmission problems are tackled or not. We all know the problem was not availability of power but saboteurs in the system. The saboteurs are being pushed out and they are organising protest march. but the goodnews is that the strangled power has been released to the public.
I wont mind paying the PHCN bill of 12k this month.
When NOI talks about creating 10,000 jobs and improve macro economy, I dont need to listen untill when I see my neighbor employed , then I know they have created jobs.

Hmm!
A very selfish view point!
Who really is your neighbour here? The man who shares same block or neighbourhood with you? That certainly is a restricted way of looking at it, don't you think?

Anyway, my view about this whole power-improvement matter is that you don't judge with what happens in your tiny area which doesn't make up to 1/1,000,000 of areas in Naija.
I just liken to the kind of prayer I hear some Nigerian Christians say. that, even if fuel were to go for a 1000naira per litre, it won't matter to them as long as they can afford it. That I consider to be selfishness at its peak and shouldn't be displayed or even condoned by anyone.

afam4eva: Poor people in Africa have no class. They just want everyone to know that they are wretched.

You are so right!

I received it too.
Wondering what it's supposed to mean.

Acidosis: in own too much self abeg. .e just carry government and Lagos for head like say na him property.

If you live in Lagos and you do not think that Lagos is your property too, then you need to have a rethink.
It belongs to us all; and that is the reason why you must demand some explanations from anyone, whether a govt official or an ordinary citizen, who does not uphold the law of the state. same applies to Nigeria as a whole.
Until we begin to have this mindset, there might be no hope for this country.

Decryptor: GEJ will see it as nothing! Afterall he's a fisherman. All he'll do is remove his "shoes", sit on a canoe and tell us "Fellow Nigerians, we are on top of the situation" while munching his "cassava bread".

Really funny!
You just added laughter to my day.
Thank you!

I only hope that it's not another ploy to siphon more money since it's coming from our very own Ministry of Environment. Everything is suspicious in this country now.

My deepest condolences

I hope this isn't true, eh.

Pondering whether it would make me feel odd to publish this again on Nairaland has rather left my heart aching more because how else am I going to help raise 6mil naira to save my very good friend, George Egbuchulam, who is lying helplessly in the University College Hospital bed in Ibadan, waiting to undergo a kidney transplant. I like to keep private things private, but how private is raising 6mil if I can't afford such a huge amount. Poor George! In me, he can only boast of a friend who doesn't have the financial strength to foot this. What a pity! I know that the saying, "there is power in number" is so valid in this situation. Pls let's put our resources together to save George. 1000naira or $8 from 6000 people can afford him this surgery. The cost was formerly 2.5mil naira but in the course of the dialysis, his condition was reassessed which changed the figure to 6mil naira. We don't want to carry the burden of regret if he died when we could have saved him. He is presently on kidney dialysis for 3 times per week which lasts 4hrs/session. Pls help save George!

Thank you.
http://ibcitypost./2012/07/07/savegeorge-the-true-story-of-a-dying-young-man/

[quote author=Julieccentric][/quote]Was shocked too.
But couldn't believe my ears on one those episodes when she said boiled yam was to serve as an appetizer. How not to be!
She fall my hand sha.

Pictures, pls.

kombats: for ikotun in lag light dey 4 16hrs a day. Phcn dey try nw adays

Is it the same ikotun that I live in or another?
Cos here, it is rationed and when it ones turn, you can hardly predict when

Rossikk: ^^You mean for lazy uncreative people with nothing better to do with their time than run to ''massa oyibo'' to vilify their country?

I have a cousin who started a tiling business in Enugu with under 50,000 naira two years ago. He learnt how to do it off a free ebook on the internet. Today he's built a Duplex that's better than that Al Jazeera presenter's tiny flat in Doha.

Nice to hear that your cousin built a duplex out of a two-year old tiling business that got a less than a 50k start-off capital.
You see, I hold nothing aagainst being entrepreneurial but the fact remains that Nigeria is a real jungle. I have tried my hands on a few businesses, even while in the university but I can tell you that you don't get to swim in a pool of profit (to afford a duplex) unless you soil your hands a bit. Anyway, I can tell you I don't live my life that way irrespective of the impossible situations around me.

And who says I should be looked upon as a senseless and lazy person if I actually desire to work for another esp if I have earned the right qualification and experience. Infact, for some who desire to be self-employed and do not have a source of raising funds could, first of all, work for another to save enough money to start their own.

Kobojunkie: The Stream ‏@AJStream
"What we have in Nigeria is the survival of the fittest," says Omoyele from @SaharaReporters, "Nigeria has become a jungle."

Agree.
the fittest here meaning "the connected".

@ Jarus .
It's not a scam.
I'm a graduate of the University of Ibadan just as I suspect that other posters are. or maybe, they are still students.
But you see, George just graduated in 2010 same as me, so the set of students there still have his face very fresh in their minds. Moreover he stayed back in Ibadan after the NYSC Last February.
I'm sure if you searched on Facebook for university of Ibadan, you would find that several members have sent out one broadcast or the other because everyone is making an effort to raise funds for the surgery. It's an emergency.
Pls help if you can. You can check the links I posted too.
Thank you.

I don't usually do this but there's a life at stake.

George Egbuchulam has been my friend since our University days. A very intelligent chap. Pls help! He needs your help! We need your help! I need your help!


He is on kidney dialysis in UCH. He needs money for a kidney transplant and that will cost 2.5mil. Nothing is too small.

On no account would I use the name of Mr George Egbuchulam in any scam whatsoever. From the Department of English where he graduated from in 2010, to the Department of Theatre Arts, and Kuti Hall where he was a master chess player, the person of George can be confirmed. Pls, he needs our generous donations to survive.

And to uites(university of ibadan students and graduates), behold a clarion call to save a brother,#1000 from 2500ppl and prayers will save George and get his kidney transplant done,just a thousand naira into Chimezirim Egbuchulam FBN, 1233010142434; FBN NUBAN number :
3020722444 OR Acc numbr:0018310939 Unity Bank. #save George#

Thank you very much.

http://www.simplyfizzle..co.uk/2012/07/will-you-help-me-save-george.html, http:///sG2LQ29b,
or http:///SpxJUlRJ