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Awesome! Keep it up, can't wait to this myself

You cannot fix the security in Nigeria unless you get rid of the corruption, which will never go away since 90% of us are corrupt. From the market women all the up to the presido himself, corrupt!

QuotaSyste:
First, the oil belongs to them and they have all the right in this world to do with the oil what ever they wish to without you nigerians having to complain. Did i hear you say they want to reap from where they did not sow?? And who actually own the oil and should be reaping from there as were they sow?? The hausas, yorubas?? (Igbo are part of Niger Delta).
125 militant group in Niger Delta region?? You nigerians aitn seen nothing yet. That number is freaking little. They are still coming with more bangs. It can only stop when the northerners that are reaping from where they did not sow come to table and agree for the peaceful division of nigeria. They have all the opportunities to come to table for peaceful division. Time is running out and they risk being forced to comply. Don't say MEND didn't tell you

I wonder why the Nigerian Army has not decimated these so called "freedom fighters", well continue with your kidnappings of civilians and the day will surely come. 125 militant groups numbering how many guerrilla and ill equipped men? maybe they should start like the LITE of India and start enlisting women

cescky:
thats a not an intelligent answer mr man,don't bring sentiments into the arguement
quote you source that says southerners are the only 419ners in nigeria, for your and misinformation northners are into it as well.( even with govt backing)

Yes their is even prostitution in Northern Nigeria, unfortunately more than half of them are indigenous of southern Nigeria. Not to mention that the unequivocal numbers point that such multifarious activities are hubbed in Southern Naija ie, 419, kidnapping, prostitution,

How old is you van landis? would it be able to clear at the port?

oaziz:
I don't know why people just come on this forum to criticize or destroy other people's business. This guy offered a fantastic 2008 Honda Accord for sale. It is either you are interested in it or not. Trying to breakdown the price he put on the car is ridiculous. If the car cost $26500 as Deepzone or what you call self said, how much you think he shipped the car in a container? And the clearing is not less than N500,000. If you look at it that way the cars is already N3.8million. People don't ship that type of car on Ro-Ro.

People like deepzone would need to go to the American Embassy get a visa and get their own 2008 Honda Accord totalling N2.8 Milion.

Can we just respect others business transaction?

Well said, these people should go and set-up shop, if they perceive the market is monetarily inflated,

Why doesn't DZ go thru the hassle of shipping and clearing them to naija,
Then he can sell them for 2.9 milli

NYSC doctors salaries should not be used as the standard for all doctors in naija,
But I do agree that doctors in Nigeria are grossly under payed, but so are all the other labour force sectors,

at the same time it just jerks me to hear that a banker is getting more than a doctor , its just wrong,

Whoever is saying doctors are getting payed less then 18,000 =N= is fooling themselves. obviously they are not getting what their counterparts abroad are getting, and this is very sad! but I know of a friend who is doing his practicals and he is getting over 100,000 =N=, which to me is still not very much, best bet in Nigeria is to open a private clinic, which also costs too,

He should patent this innovation before someone comes and sweeps it beneath him,

PurestBoy:
If majority of Nigerians were this honest then why are we still tag "one of the most corrupt countries in the world"

because the majority don't do shit about it, majority of Nigerians are honest god fearing people,

ogb5:
better believe it.

85% of the nations revenue comes form oil. The north does not provide more than 7% of the remaining 15% or you think they provide 10% of the nations income?
The question is what % of the nation revenue do the north consume? even if you say they provide all the non oil revenue.

so in essence, aside from oil revenue, the north compromises relatively half of the rest if Nigeria's revenue, (based on your 7% stat) ? I would have to say this is not bad considering all of the ports are also located where else but the south,

The blacks mans curse: disunity amongst themselves. We will continue to stay in bondage by our own doings

vicade:
In my school,if you go to library, too much naija peeps- from morning to night. read book like say there is no tomorrow.They even have a section of the library for themselves. but unfortunately, that is all about it. read. read. read and still come out just above average. I guess it is not by how long but by how well.

It ercks me when I hear statements like this,
I wonder how the asians acquire so much knowledge, that's right read read read

Thor:
There is genius in all countries, some countries just have a little more than the average

no asians are the biggest overachievers

@totochopper
You should take your market research and set-up shop. You can charge a better price. unfortunately its not that simple?

fail an exam twelve times they should not even allow you that many attempts

God would be angry with all of you rigt now, I know because he is my homeboy

I'm surprised that no one has commented on this article, actually am not surprised,

1.2 M? must be my vision

Please, when traveling to other parts of the world, KNOW THEIR CUSTOMS AND LAWS!

Its sad the stigma that is attached to disabled people in Nigeria,

oyb:
everyone keeps knocking yardua for his health issues

and a lot of them are ' yankee naijas'

And your right a lot of those critising our leaders are naija ninjas

sheniqua:
[s]Now I see why you people were sold in open markets. [/s]

Damn, is this not a rather gross conclusion?

blacksta:
I fail to see anything wrong with what yar adua is doing by flying to france to further our interests. Please can somebody please one my eye

thanks

Some people will always remain subjective in their analysis of our leaders

EXPONENT:
You MUST be crazy!

Africans DRIVE CABS!

The opening posters argument is flawed but MOST Africans get caught up in the American Lifestyle and DROP OUT OF COLLEGE and nowdays THEY CAN'T AFFORD IT.

Most languish in Nursing, pharmacy schools, hoping - praying they will make it through to get that "corporate job visa thingy"

In reality you will see more AFRICANS driving CABS than in school. This INCLUDES Nigerians.

but hey, they making a living - even though most people are bypassing CAB RIDES because of the HIKE in their fuel fares.

FYI: There are more African American males in Jail then there are in Colleges, what a startling statistic.
Africans value education, African Americans

Seun, there are cars on nairaland being advertised @ 350K

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-126476.0.html
Just invest another 100K to fixing her up and you will be rollin' 

Corruption eats away at the moral fibre of Nigeria. Simple that is why Nigeria is bad, until her people change her ways it will continue to be bad

No

http://www.otal.com/nigeria/nigeriaimports.htm

But hey this is Nigeria, bet me it still happens.

Wasn't there a Nigerian peace keeper who was killed in Haiti?

A Nigerian United Nations (UN) peacekeeper has been killed by rioters in Haiti protesting high food price in the Caribbean country.
The yet-to-be-identified soldier was shot dead on Saturday in Port-au-Prince where the protest forced the country's parliament to sack its Prime Minister, Mr Jacques-Edouard Alexis.
Witnesses say the Nigerian peacekeeper was dragged from his marked car and shot as he was taking food to colleagues at a police station in the capital.
In the clothing market where the police officer was killed, other peacekeepers took up positions as several stalls on both sides of the street smoldered after being set on fire, The Associated Press reported.
Witnesses said other Nigerian police officers later fired tear gas and warning shots to disperse the crowd before recovering the slain man's body. Soon after, the market stalls could be seen burning.
A Nigerian commander of UN troops at the scene, who did not want to be identified because he was not authorised to speak to the media, said the victim was a 36-year-old Nigerian soldier.
There are about 9,000 Brazilian-led UN peacekeepers and civilian police in Haiti. The force was sent in after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted in an armed rebellion in 2004
In a similar situation last year, seven Nigerian soldiers were killed when rebel forces stormed a small African Union (AU) base in northern Darfur killing some from the African Union mission.
Nigeria, a peacekeeper in the world, has sent troops to Sierra Leone, Liberia, Congo and elsewhere. It has suffered losses before, particularly when Nigerian troops helped battle rebels trying to seize the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone.
In Darfur, a Nigerian, Gen. Martin Agwai, commands the AU force of 7,000. Nigeria has one battalion, or about 800 troops, in Darfur now and has said it will likely send another battalion to join a joint AU-UN force that was to replace the current AU force.
Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, has been shaken by riots over increased food prices, and protesters have repeatedly clashed with UN peacekeepers and local police in recent days.
The peacekepers have continued to struggle for control over armed gangs.
In January 2006, two Jordanian peacekeepers were killed in Cité Soleil.
In October 2006 a heavily armed group of the Haitian National Police were able to enter Cité Soleil for the first time in three years and were able to remain one hour as armored UN troops patrolled the area.
Since this is where the armed gangs take their kidnap victims, the police's ability to penetrate the area even for such a short time was seen as a sign of progress.
The situation of continuing violence is similar in Port-au-Prince. Ex-soldiers, supporters of the ex-president, occupied the home of ex-president Jean-Bertrand Aristide against the wishes of the Haitian government.
Before Christmas 2006 the UN force announced that it would take a tougher stance against gang members in Port-au-Prince, but since then the atmosphere there has not improved and the armed roadblocks and barbed wire barricades have not been moved. After four people were killed and another six injured in a UN operation exchange of fire with criminals in Cité Soleil in late January 2007, the United States announced that it would contribute $20 million to create jobs in Cité Soleil.
Earlier Saturday in Haiti, Parliament voted to dismiss Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis, despite a last-minute announcement by President René Preval of an emergency 15 per cent cut in the price of rice.
Mr. Preval said the cost difference would be paid for by both the private sector and international donors.
Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets in the past week to protest high prices. Protesters clashed with U.N. peacekeepers as they tried to storm the National Palace in the capital of Port-Au-Prince.
At least five people were killed in demonstrations throughout the island nation.
Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, has been hard hit by global increases in food costs.
On Saturday the commander of the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti told reporters that calm was returning to the country. But within hours, a UN policeman from Nigeria was pulled from his marked car and killed in Port-au-Prince.
Mr. Préval, a former agronomist who is in his second term as president, met earlier in the day with food importers at the presidential palace and emerged to announce new measures that he said would knock the price of a 50-pound bag of rice from $51 to $43, a nearly 16 per cent reduction. In the poorest country in the hemisphere, that discount could mean the difference between eating and going hungry for many destitute families.
Rice is a Haitian staple, often mixed in the slums with chicken feet to create a flavorful stew. To reduce prices, Mr. Préval said he would use international aid money combined with commitments from the private sector to reduce profit margins.
The vote against Prime Minister Alexis means Mr. Préval must reconstitute his government, which he said he would do promptly. Mr. Alexis had managed to withstand a previous no-confidence vote but this time 16 of the 17 senators voted against him, wire services reported.
The tumult is nothing new in Haiti, a fragile country with a history of political turnover that is being held together largely through the presence of the UN peacekeeping mission. The Bush administration considers Mr. Préval's 2006 election and Haiti's relative stability in recent years to be one of its success stories, although State Department officials caution that the country remains volatile.
With the recent demonstrations, the Coast Guard has said it is on the lookout for mass emigration.
It is unclear how the president's move will affect tensions. Even after the UN police officer was killed, much of Port-au-Prince seemed largely tranquil.
Rising food prices are a global concern, with some estimates putting the increase as high as 40 per cent since mid-2007.
In Haiti, though, where the bulk of the population lives on less than $2 a day, the effects have been especially acute. In one slum of Port-au-Prince, a woman sat before a large pot of chicken feet and water recently, selling stew without rice. She said the rice was too costly.
Preval announced Sunday that the country's new prime minister would be nominated by the parliament to replace ousted Jacques Edouard Alexis, said reports reaching here from Port-au-Prince.
Alexis was dismissed by a Senate non-confidence vote Saturday for his failure to curb rising food prices and eliminating poverty.
The appointment went to the House and the Senate since no single party holds a majority in the parliament.

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=108599

AND THE WORLD KEEPS LAUGHING AT THE BLACK RACE. Toussaint and the likes must be rolling in their graves

bebure:
I don't think you should be too worried. For God's sake didn't any of you do biology in secondary school. It's not guaranteed your kids will be sicklers, it's a 50% chance if I'm not mistaken. Also, I have got an uncle who happens to be AS and he married a woman who also happens to be AS. They have had 4 kids ranging from 21 years to about 10 years of age and not one of them has been SS. Luck? Well sort of, the woman always took a screen test whenever she was pregnant to determine if the children were sicklers or not, although none of them were, if she was going to have one she would have had the option of terminating the pregnancy if she wanted to. All I'm saying is that if you love your babe and you wan marry am then by all means go ahead. What is life without risks and I don't really consider this a risk.

WOW OOO, just terminate it like that

jenju:
I only drink Pito - that delicacy of a drink. You are probably too contemporary to appreciate that drink - you people probably only know of whiskies, beers, wines and their likes.

That one na birom drink, I sabi am well sha, but I no fit drink, stick to my own culture the Acha Booze