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mizzbouqui:
That's not true, I bought my fones with my hard earned money, I love pleasing myself when I can

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You love pleasing yourself when you can?

No one should eat cucumber served in your house.
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gohzieh:
AutoJoshNG nice one. Anyway a good car is a good car regardless of the 'name the whites' tag it.
I deal on cars and the first day I tried to verify a flooded or accident free vehicle, it cost me about 7 dollars which is not cheap comparing exchange rates. When buying a car, there are some major stuffs you look out for especially body and chassis wise. Others are secondary.
Bros I bought a Camry 2011 XLE 3m at 2013 When the dealer checked the vin, oyibo say Na faulty airbag. But it was branded as scrap.
I had to call 4 mechanics to check for accidents but none but till now my client is still flexing his car. In other words a good car is a good car

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If thieves vandalize the inside electronics of a vehicle, the insurance company will tag it "salvage" because it meets a certain criteria and they don't want to get involved in the murky water of trying to fix it. That means, salvage doesn't mean that a vehicle was involved in a collision. The key thing is to find out what kind of salvage the buyer is dealing with.

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AutoJoshNG:
The benefit of doing a VIN check in Nigeria before you purchase a car can never be overestimated. It will help save your hard earned money and most importantly your time amongst others. I have always known that some of us would do anything to sell our cars. However, the extent of this malicious act has grown from unreasonable to unfathomable.

You won’t believe what my eyes have seen as I am currently trying to get a 2007-2010 Camry for a client. The issues vary from flooded cars, rolled back mileage and extreme accidents to jalopy cars that look picture-perfect online. The car that drove me to the brink was a 2009 tokunbo Camry on OLX for N2m which looked good enough coupled with the usual hype from the seller.

Nevertheless, something seemed amiss because the price was too good. As usual, I requested for the car’s VIN to determine its history before going for a physical inspection. The disastrous history report revealed it was sold as scrap/destroyed car in USA and shipped to Nigeria 4 years ago, but the seller misrepresented this car to be a clean tokunbo, despite the fact that it has been registered and used in Nigeria for 3 years.

These same reasons compelled me to start importing all my client’s cars from the USA and Canada in 2011, it has been cheaper and less stressful as the entire process from purchase to delivery is usually done from the comfort of my home. Fast forward to 2016, looking inward has become inevitable due to the sky-high dollar exchange rate. Therefore, clients with constrained budget have to settle for tokunbo cars while some prefer the Nigerian used cars.

Finally, when a deal seems too good to be true, then you need to be more careful e.g when the price is too fanimorous, the low mileage is not commensurate to the age of the car (e.g a 2001 model regular car will hardly have a mileage of 75,000 miles), when the seller wants you to take the car after paying 60% deposit while the balance will be spread over 3-6 months (in this case, the car is probably a Nigeria used car presented as tokunbo and it’s not worth more than your initial deposit so the balance you’ll be paying is extra profit to the seller) etc.

Let’s all make Nigeria great again.

http://autojosh.com/1-step-you-must-never-skip-before-you-buy-any-car-in-nigeria/

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VIN number is only as good as what was reported to insurance companies or DMV. But it is better than nothing in some cases. Also you need to know that the term "salvage" as used by insurance companies is a mere technical jargon.

I rely on 2 things: OBD II scanner and my eyes.
OBD II for internal problems. Eyes for external issues (if you know exactly what to look for). In Nigeria, some people take their mechanics. Sorry to say, a lot of mechanics do not even know how to inspect a vehicle.

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Roasted?

The guy or the corn?

GurlFriend:
Watch the horrible video of the actor getting burned alive while the director films on


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p44DoQgUi-E

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3rd degree fire burn. I am thinking of possible smoke inhalation. Why is this guy on simple mask? He should be on higher FiO2 (100%). Non-rebreather mask should be more appropriate. SMH.
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MadCow1:
Buhari is a racist...




He has appointed an Igbo Man again.

Buhari hates Whites and Asians?

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Moving violation is one of the biggest source of revenue for cities all over the world. From parking tickets to speeding tickets, some cities are able to squeeze money out of distraught citizens. In some cases, there are motorcycle cops hiding in obscure locations waiting for offenders.

Like they say, driving is a privilege and not a right.
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Floating!

Euro, yen, pound sterling, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand dollars are also being decimated by the US dollar.
Naira is not alone.

The only saving grace lies on the US Fed. If they shift their monetary policy, US dollar will nose-dive and only then will succour come to naira and other currencies.

Until then, enjoy the inflation.
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Everyone sounds intelligent as an outsider. NOI was with OBJ and GEJ, what is her legacy other than supervising the massive looting of the commonwealth?

When Abacha was the C-in-C, OBJ criticized and proffered a lot of solution that Abacha went for his jugular. Years down the line, OBJ became the president and was equally as bad, if not worse than Abacha.
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It is the path of least resistance that will not involve the use of brain power.
Brain-- the part of human anatomy that God put in most Nigerians just for decoration and storage but with no processing capabilities.

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Belarium:
I will still try to explain for the benefit of people reading.

We are comparing our salaries and benefits to people in Congo, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea. These people are being serviced by Nigerian made money. These countries are also being run mainly by our Naija ppl. But their government policies are stronger and BHI will not date mess up there. But they can mess up in Naija and get away with it because of course we love bribery. And that is what has been happening. Some Nigerian ppl in leadership positions have been bribing the people who should stop this rubbish. Bribed and ended the first union.


As for no work no pay directives, go to BHI yourself and find out, they have already done that last week. The union locked up the port harcourt offices for one whole week. Nobody can enter or go out. The company had to retract the no work no pay email threats they sent out

The people who work here have suffered for over 12 years and it's high time the music changed.

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We finally agreed on the same thing.
BHI is looking for ways to cut costs and solace came through in Nigeria with the active connivance of the Nigerians in upper management positions.

Your problems are centered on those Nigerians. Black on Black crimes are always the worst and folks wonder why every other race treat Blacks with derision. No matter the organization, black folks are the ones that will readily and easily throw their own under the bus. You have identified the real problems. So find the solutions.
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Jarus:
Maintenance. Buying all these cars is not as much poroblem as maintaining them. All these celebrities that hit big jobs and buy these fancy cars, find it difficult to maintain. Crazily expensive parts etc. Problem getting capable mechanic to fix. They keep doing trial and error and you get frustrated after spending money. If you no chop well, you will end up spending all your life income on those cars.

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People are talking because this one made the news.
Go to mechanic workshops around Nigeria, you will see numerous high end vehicles abandoned there. Some people buy vehicles because a particular brand name is en vogue. One transmission problem or engine problem could send the owner back a couple of millions if you add the "trial and error" of mechanics in Nigeria.

I have seen people go through frustrations with their cars in developed countries because of dealerships' inability to troubleshoot and fix their car problems. One can only imagine what mechanics in Nigeria will do to such vehicles. Folks buy very expensive vehicles and drive it once in a month because of the cost of maintenance. What's the point buying such a car? Just for a bragging right?

They look good while on the road but what the owner is going through is what most admirers do not know. I know a few people who had abandoned cars at a mechanic workshop somewhere. Like I always say, cars are pain the rear end.
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The same as saying...Don't put burglar proof in your house because of fire outbreak.

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Adaure4ever:
One Of My Deep passionate dreams is to see a well developed South East Geopolitical Zone.
South East comprise of 5 states, Abia, Enugu, Imo, Anambra, Ebonyi and for this states to be developed, they need to be centralized and united in planning.

Number 1
Setting Up A South East Developing Cooperation(SEDC) that will be sponsored by the 5 SE Governors and will have their branch offices in every states in the south east.

Number two
Opening Up A Joint saving Account Of The 5 SE States where
a) a deposit of atleast 200million per state governor will be made every month.
200million x 5 states=1 Billion per month
b)50million per month by the 15 senators in South East.
50million x 15= 750million per month
c) 10million per month by the 30
Federal house of reps from South East.
10millionx 30= 300million per month.
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NOW ADD THEM UP TOGETHER= 1 Billion plus 750million plus 300million= 2 billion,50million naira.
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Then if SEDC realise approximately 2 billion per month, multiply it by 12month= 24billion naira.
Multiply the yearly 24billion naira by 10years = 240Billion naira.
Thats means that 240billion naira will be in South East Development Cooperation(SEDC) account in just a span of 5years upon establishment.
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- With 240billion invested in South East, will it not develop the Geopolitical zone the more, make it a hot investment zone and attract Igbo business men back.
For example,
- 1. If Akwa Ibom state completes its seaport, SEDC can build a Light Rail project from Aba to The seaport in Akwa Ibom, in order to boost up a close importation and revive south east economy.
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- 2. SEDC can build a multipurpose industrial park in Nnewi, investors are on ground to key into the project.

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- 3. SEDC can pull investors to invest in Enugu Coal inorder to Power up the South East. Enugu coal can serve the 5SE states in constant electricity for up to 100years.

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- 4. SEDC can launch and build an Agro-industrial and processing zone in Ebonyi state inorder to tap into their Agricultural potential and create jobs.

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- 5. SEDC can turn Owerri into an Educational and Tourism base in SE.
A University that will be international standard can be built in Imo and the tourism potential of the state harnessed like the oguta lake.
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- 6. SEDC can fix SE federal roads by itself.
IGBOS, We are a unique people, let us look inward and develop the south east.
We are on our own in this country- Adaure4ever

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To contribute money is not the problem.
The question is: Who will be managing the money? Looting, contract inflation, nepotism are lurking and wont be caught lacking.

The politicians know the answer. That's why none of them will contribute to the project.

andyanders:
Don't worry about them.They will visit you and then we shall wait for your decision.I hope you are who you are- woman, and you love what they do to women, you will have their experience.

Well said.

raayah:
I hate rapists, but I hate jungle justice and murders. If we had an accountable justice system, maybe cases of jungle justice would be reduced.

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Badoo's problem is solved once and for all.

If we had an accountable justice system...if we had a billion dollars...if we are immortal. If if if. Wishful thinking does not solve problems. Face reality and act accordingly. Well, the residents did and Badoo is a goner. Kudos to Ikorodu residents.
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Belarium:
You are the one not getting it at all. Countries that are running at losses are paid much better than Nigeria who is providing the money. And no, the salaries and bonuses are not signed off at the head quarters . They are decided locally . Even if it's it an international corporation, the Nigerian leadership has a lot control on how the staff are treated and not the headquarters. You are trying to sound smart but unfortunately you keep going off point. I will leave you at this as you have no single idea of what you are taking about.

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You know what you are talking about? If you got it figured out, why are you people picketing and protesting? It is called denial. Salaries and benefits are decided locally but MUST be signed off by the headquarters. If someone in New York gets paid $10k/month, do you expect them to pay same amount to someone in Nigeria? The benefits are decided locally to cut costs. That's all.

The reasons you enumerated for the protests are based on fantasy. The company pays you what they think you are worth. Why do you think the people that do the heavy lifting are the ones that get paid the least?

The funny thing is that you folks chose the wrong time to protest. Some of you need to be laid off if not for anything else for being stu.pid. Ranting on nairaland will not solve the problem. What does the Labour law say? Why is the law being abused? What are the repercussions? What is the solution? These are what you people should have analyzed before embarking on senseless protest. If BH puts out a memo that "no work no pay", all of you will quietly walk back into the so-called slave ship.

If I were you, I will find way to tap into the oil industry without being an employee. Otherwise, your fate will be same in many years to come. Don't forget that you are an employee, you are just a number. You are very expendable!
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Belarium:
The money in Nigerian banks are not supposed to be wired back to the foreign bosses. That is Nigerian law. The foreign bosses have taken their 60 percent. The remaining money should be used to take care of the Nigerian part. Only the Nigerian leadership can decide how it's spent. Unfortunately they will rather declare it as profit and smuggle it abroad so that they can get promoted but it's illegal

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Thinking about Nigeria will give migraine to any rational being. I have always proposed that the minute anyone gets a good paying job in Nigeria, they should dedicate at least the first year salary in setting up alternative source of income.
Laws in Nigeria are easily broken by foreigners. As a matter of fact, it is the law gatekeepers that encourage them to break the laws after they get some kickbacks.
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herzern:
Op.....lemme explain

you own a viewing centre....A boy came to play ps3 worth of 5000 naira...yhu switched on your generator and he played till his satisfaction
Later on...The Parent came and said the 5k was stolen by the boy.......will yhu return it??
The truth is....you rendered the service already....there is nothing you can do about it.....Products can be returned but Services...mba!

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It depends on who comes to collect.

If the boy's father is an army colonel that come with his boys to collect, you must pay.

Nigeria came with EFCC. Doyin must return his loot.
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Belarium:
Bros you are quoting Internet, I am talking for raw undoctored knowledge. Leave matter for Mattaias. All other Baker Hughes offices are making a loss. Nigeria is not making a loss. The money baker hughes has in Nigerian banks that they are trying to smuggle out has been stockpiling for years since the oil wind fall. Moreover Baker hughes just collected 3.5 billion dollars from Halliburton as pay off for failed merger. Other baker hughes countries are running at a loss but not Nigeria. Nigeria is their best country in the world.

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You still don't get it. Do you?

Baker Hughes is a corporation with subsidiaries scattered all over oil producing nations. Their annual financial statement is for the whole. Baker Hughes Nigeria may be the only profitable one since last year but that will be used to offset the losses in others. Layoffs will not spare the workers in Nigeria even though they lay the golden eggs. The salary and benefits structure are signed off by headquarters. Workers in Nigeria may get annual bonus, if necessary but in dire economic situation like this, Bakers will not pay out. The money that you mentioned stranded in Nigeria banks is being prepared to be wired/repatriated back to the bosses in Texas. Bakers Hughes Nigeria will only get part of the fund for their operating costs.

There are many ways of making money in oil. Sorry to tell you but the enginners and workers in the field are getting peanuts and that's why they are where they are today. An average oil related engineer that makes $3000 equivalent in a month in Nigeria believes that he is banking.

You may work for BHN but you don't seem to know or understand anything about the corporation other than doing your job and getting paid at the end of every month.

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Ali could have used less than $1m of that money and sought help for his son.

Now that he is dead, his nemesis will blow the $80m in less than 10 years. He may end up like a lottery winner --dejected and broke.
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Belarium:
Baker Hughes Nigeria is not bleeding. It's one of the most if not the most profitable Baker Hughes office in the world but the workers are paid the lowest of the lowest salary. This company has almost a billion dollars in Naija wey dem fit carry leave this country . They are looking for how to smuggle it out. Money that according to Naija law must be spent in Naija. Leave matter for mattaias abeg

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Baker Hughes 2016 Q1

Net sales. $2.67b
Gross profit. $12m
Pretax income -614m
Net income. -981m
Income before nonrecurring items. $-199m
Income from recurring items. $-782m
Income before Depreciation
(Depletion Amortization) $-559m
Earnings per share diluted net. $-2.22


Do I need to post all the previous results in the last two years? Oil companies and oil servicing companies have been adversely affected by the fall in oil price. Believe what you want even when data and facts staring you in the face point to the contrary.
Baker Hughes Nigeria is still a subsidiary of the Baker Hughes domiciled in Texas. Everything is treated as a whole.

I am only interested in their rig count data every friday.
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EduRegard:
A new chorus has taken over the nation. The song of "Education does not guarantee success". I can precisely say that you must have come across it either from your close associates or those in your far edge.

There are a good number of people who often say "Education does not guarantee success". This article will unveil them.

1. The Illiterate.

The illiterate, as they are known, are ignorant of the power of education. The predominance of them see years spent in school as a waste of time.

2. People With Financial Crisis.

Another category of people who often say "Education does not guarantee success" are those who can't afford to send their children to higher institution or the victims of these parents. They say this to console themselves.

3. People who give up when seeking admission.

The indolent people have never run out of excuses. They always have something to say to defend their inabilities. After they could have applied for admission for a number of times and couldn't make it. They end up saying "Education does not guarantee success".

4. People with poor grades.

Students with low grades are often scare of their chances of graduating well. They mostly have the phobia that their certificates will be inoperable. A good clause they used to soothe themselves is "Education does not guarantee success".

5. Those who succeed without education.

Let me first congratulate this category of people for their achievements. This set of people at times discourage people from going to higher institution because of their success without the effect of education. They won't use those who make it with education as examples but only themselves. Like the first category of people I mentioned above, they also see education as a waste of time. They constantly say " Education does not guarantee success".


According to me, It is true that education does not guarantee success but it is one of the prerequisite of success.

SOURCE : http://eduregard.com/5-categories-people-say-education-not-guarantee-success/

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Obviously, you don't know the meaning of education.

Education is not limited to classroom alone.



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Let them keep admitting these islamic knuckleheads into their country...

You reap what you sow.
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All the latter day "textbooks cram and vomit" proponents of devaluation have gone mute. Prescriptions by IMF are always for enslavement. I watch keenly as this plays out. Inflation will get worse. Tighten your belts.

Spirit1: Save your breath. Most of the folks you are trying to educate still live under mommy and daddy. Perhaps, one or two textbooks they stumbled on in the library, they will start arguing over issues they have little or no understanding about. The best approach is to let them continue entertaining their ignorance.
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Baker Hughes has been bleeding for years.

Oil price is retracing and I expect more pain and lay-offs ahead.

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teesugar:
I like her so much for her confidence in her body and herself. See, its not easy to be plus size and get clothing stuffs slim people get easily. Its not an easy task at all. So, whenever they are lucky to get something that is their size, they quickly grab it whether it fits them or not. Talking from experience

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You see confidence.

I see someone who will be a difficult intubation unless with a glidescope in an emergency situation.

She should continue working on her weight.
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Law Enforcement Agencies around the world attest (if you follow some of their crime diaries) that the greatest crime fighting invention is the social media. All they have to do is grab cups of coffee, sit back and watch people snitch on themselves for a few "likes" and clouts.

Remarkably, it is worst among black folks.
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Electronzeez:
Bros , for someone like me that don't like selling any luxury I bought ,if I have this car ,I am not going to sell it .

I will enjoy my 58 million till it stop moving shey na my money .

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Watch the video. Stuff are not top-notch already. Go to youtube and watch videos of 2010 vehicles and how they were hyped to high heavens. Today, most of them are 1/4th of the original hype because they failed to perform up to expectations.
Oyibo has a target end users. Companies and high networth individuals lease them (good tax write off) for 2-3years making minimum payments while the dealers service them. In other words, they are not paying $104k listed price. Kudos to the ones in Nigeria that can comfortably afford it. But the owner doesn't have to show the public that he/she can easily be hustled by carmakers
The owner may be someone who likes to show off. But who shows off in a BMW?
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Lol. Watching the test drive video, a lot of things are not working already. Low battery on remote key fob, unresponsive controls. Your basic $30k Toyota comes with a better reliable technology. A car with such a price tag should not have all these minor bugs. Who compiled and tested these programmes? SMH. The ipad interfaced with the system will add a hefty price markup.

There is no reason whatsoever that any car should cost more than N10million. The only reason may be if the vehicle is customized to Level 4 bulletproof. N58m for a BMW 7 series? Let the lease be over and you will snap same car for N5m or less.

Register same car in Nigeria, drive it out on the "beautiful", flood prone Nigeria roads and nobody will be willing to pay N20m for it. Then and again, cars like this are for suckers with high disposable income.
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Buhari is a bad joke forced on Nigerians. It seems that Nigerians keep selecting one bad leader after another. I don't want to dwell on GEJ's incompetence as articulated and indicted by his wife when she said, " if your pikin fail exam, you no go let am repeat the class? Vote Goodluck". What a campaign statement! Only in Nigeria.

The fact that elections in Nigeria throw up candidates like Buhari and GEJ while intellectual juggernauts are busy being armchair critics shows that Nigeria has a long way to go. In 2019, another dullard will show up, entice the masses with meaningless phrases, get voted in and the cycle continues.

If in doubt, go back in time. The same problems Fela sang about in the 70s are still here. In other words, no progress has been made. The future is bleak.
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I never knew that Omarosa is a Nigerian-American.



She could be dramatic sometimes a few most times.
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