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Memories rushing in with Wadjo, Ace, and almost all of these songs

erico2k2:
I would suggest you re-read what OP wrote in his post, he had made a mistake by writing down his surname as first name and therfore had been chrged for a change of name,some airline like Luftanza migh cancel his ticket alltogether or rather if it was a a promotional ticket he would have lost his ticket as such ticket are non-changable or reundable,the issue is the ammount and the manner in which the go about these trapped charges are totaly rediculos

I did, OP said " on their website the indication is First name and last name. so why didnt they just say surname and other names"

Obviously, the OP is a Nigerian who read the online form and understood it as an average Nigerian will, so my comment up there stands.

Virgin Atlantic is wrong on this one, the proper convention in most British English speaking Countries is Surname and Given name or other name(check your Nigerian Passport) Lastname and firstname is an American Convention. Western Union understood that and provided for that on their forms like any serious, customer focused business/company should. Virgin did not.

platinumnk:
Mothers Day is in May
I was born on Mothers Day, May 12

Right, if you live in the US, but for those who use the British or "Anglicanized" system, it is March 14.

Dementos:
@flagator

What a very silly, idiotic and animalistic girl! Who doesnt know charley boy? What a Goat and she still has the audacity to insult him as fugly and when someone yabbed her back she felt insulted. silly twerp!

Its all these kin mumu born throw for yankee idiot naija girls that can say this kind of rubbish and analyse naija through their keyboards without knowing the 4 corners of their mother land. For this anal-wipe to say she doesnt know our Area Father and still yab him, she is dafter and denser than i imagined. Going through her other posts, na so so curse curse and yab yab for no reason trying to show she is more intelligent when she is actually stupider than most people.

FYI, Charley Boy's wife is far finer than you despite the age gap, more intelligent, more respected and more yankee than you this Muppet, so better face your class studies and disappear from Nairaland. Charley boy is a Nigerian Icon and if you dont have the decency to research on people before you call them Fugly, then you should shut that your smelly mouth and cut that talon like fingers from spoting drivel when it suits you.

silly Sh**ithead  

I think it's childish to insult people online, especially while you are hiding behind an anonymous username. BUT! I'll totally indulge myself this time by agreeing with you on this one

This is Nairaland-The Nigerian Forum. like someone did on the Sade Adu thread and got a barrage of negative replies, If you are going to make disparaging, smart-a** remarks about social icons that we respect in Nigeria, then better be ready for Nigerians to correct your F.C.K.U-up for you.

Granted, we all can't know every famous Nigerian. It is also OK to grow up abroad and not know every famous Nigerian social icon, but if your response or contribution to a discussion about them is one that betrays your disdain, insecurities, childish or infantile posturing then you will most probably get a response like the one above. Respect is reciprocal. Once again, this is Nairlaland not Centland, Shillingland or even Cediland.

Why do Nigerians have to pay for the incompetencies of these foreign companies?

I guess they believe we deal with it everyday from Nigerian companies and service providers so why bother to offer them better services.

Any serious business should know that Surname is the word for lastname in most countries with a British English tradition. Thought Virgin is a British company BTW.
Even Western Union, an American company, printed Surname on their Nigerian forms while the same form in the USA has Lastname.

Virgin Atlantic should be apologizing for not offering country specific services, rather,  they are charging Nigerians 30 pounds for their own error.  That is just plain wrong.

latepa:
mama gee which kind of songs do you listen to?

haba, folks should let this mama-gee be now.

she was probably too young when Sade released her last album, my teenie cousins don't know her too. but they are all in love with her songs now,

@mama-gee, go ahead and research her like you said. careful though, her songs are very "potent" you might just end up making some unexpected, but very well behaved babies

@ harakiri

Read the post below carefully and act! it will solve your problem.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-396243.0.html

doyin13:
LOL. . .This isn't about class at all.

This is tribalistic.

A supposed Igbo damsel being too good for a Yoruba pop star.

Jeeeez. . . Naija stoops to a new low

hmm

nethacker:
thank u jare amaka, u r being realistic
oh oh!!! wat of mariah carey?do u knw how many years she take senior her hubby?

I don't knw y some of these our 9ja ladies here on this forum r visionless and unidirectional. must u always bring your status(political or social) into your personal life.That Gene is a celebrity, and so?Does that make her a Goddess dat can't be approached?Nonsense!!   Even princesses of notable and questionable parentage r accessible,affordable but might not be available , No wonder most of u r still single @ 35  WTF  

GBAM!!

[quote author=mama-gee link=topic=410183.msg5654024#msg5654024 date=1268097077]Who the hell is Sade?

Btw, the lady in that picture looks like Taranji .P. Henson.[/quote] @ "who the hell is Sade?"

eeya, she does not know Sade Adu?, Damn I'm getting old.

Why do we even need a Sultan, an Oba, Obi or Emir?

These folks are nothing but some historical hangover, a reminder of how foolish we used to be, thinking some Man has more right than the other, The only purpose they should serve is just as an amusement, unfortunately they aren't even funny.

Your people are dying of poverty and ignorance Sultan Abubakar! can you give us some wise statement on how to solve that? have you looked out of the palace lately?

Remember Louis XVI! Sultan, Nigerians will get tired one day.

The same goes for Jonathan and all those gluttons masqurading as leaders.

Enough will soon be Enough.

If this is true, then;

This is WAR!!!!!!

It's time to go on a kolanut strike too!! no more "gworo" for the North! lets see who will blink first.

at least the South can eat fish and garri, let's see if Mallam Shutalim can do without gworo

Obahiagbon has actually toned it down. I remember his regular appearances on ITV Benin some years back, to put it mildly, he was unbelievable.  

Sky Blue:
Amusing how you dodge the points raised. I genuinely mean no offence, but please no need for stating such obvious things like 'the president does not govern alone' it dodges the issue and is a tad condenscending. I simply said you should at least be honest when arguing based on your stance and watch the use of superlatives like "best", when the system you propose is not actually searching for that.

With regards to the part in bold, I find it even more amusing that you believe a system of rotation wil not continue to put ethnic politics on the front burner as opposed to governance, credible candidates and performance. The only way I will support rotational presidency is if it is rotated among the 250+ ethnic groups, simple. So why this opposition to true rotation? What is the north? Is the north an ethnic group? Is the south an ethnic group? It is quite insulting and to be honest reeks of ethnic chauvinism (in my opinion a major cause of the ethnic tension in places like the Niger Delta) when someone says things like "let us give it to the south south this time". Is south south an ethnic group? Do you know how many ethnic groups are in the middle belt? Do you know how many ethnic groups are in the south south? So do you now see how silly it is when you say you your proposed panacea to the problem would be to say, ok, south south or wherever, it is your turn to rule, everyone from there sort yourself out and give us a candidate? This will diffuse ethnic politics and reduce tensions how?!! Unless we are ready to do this rotational thing well, please spare the excuses. What is the fear? If people really want to rotate presidency then let us do it properly.

If Nigeria is to break, a significant reason would be because of this silly and arrogant WAZOBIA attitude the country has adopted. We can rotate among everybody properly so it is truely suited to our peculiar solution and respective of everyone; or we can just have free, fair and open elections for the presidency, while decentralising power from Abuja. But please, enough with the hypocrisy and enough with the arguement that rotation is to give everybody a shot, because it isn't. Rotation is simply a means of keeping power within a select group.

GBAM!!

Sky Blue:
I completely agree with the bolded part and do believe a key to diffusing all the tension is serious decentralisation of power. Abuja is simply too imposing and powerful, overbearing on almost every aspect of a diverse and truely multicultural country such as Nigeria, States can't even generate power for their own consumption, can't recruit their own police force to suit their needs. Decentralisation would also empower people to take control of their own development and would make government more closer to the grassroots and more in tune with the citizenry.

I don't see what this has directly got to do with having a truely democratic electoral process though.

I will say it has Everything to do with it. While the idea of a truely democratic anything is difficult to define, i think a situation where local citizen-participants have a closer, greater access to their democratic institutions, leaders and systems and resources like we should have in a decentralized government is better than what we currently have.

In the case of elections, it will give us the power to provide a better system where people know who they are voting for, have better access to them, and can make local electoral laws(yes the ability to make unique local laws is critical to this too) that will better serve their local situations, this current system where the national president can decide who my local govt chairman will be and bring the power of the federation to bear on local elections is simply not working.

"Under the doctrine of collective responsibility”, said tsegba, “she as a cabinet member is incompetent to make public statement in contradiction of the collective decision of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) irrespective of her personal opinion”, said the caucus spokesman"

See these people trying to legislate or criminalize ofofo,  we should be protecting whistle blowers abeg

Is this doctrine of collective responsibility in the Constitution? or is it a part of the FEC's code of conduct? because if it is, then how come we have people deploying troops without the A.presidents knowledge? or better still everyone of them should be fired and jailed if one of them is found guilty of embezzlemen shebi na "collective responsibility"? I Can't wait for the time we will reduce the number of fools masquerading as legislators, Yeye Nonsense! 

"She got my vote for speaking out, she might have done that for her own agenda, she at least cleared the air for us all, and now we can all move on."

bilcargo:
I wonder how people in this my country reason, that is the root of our problems, even those of us suffering cant think right. Dora may have not been diplomatic about it but her statement confirms all the newspaper rumour about Jonathan not being allowed to see the President and also did it confirm that a 'cabal' are the ones behind the 'kidnap' of the President.

I am sure the people against her comments have had expired or fake drugs and products seized by her when she was at NAFDAC so the reason for such unwarranted utterances, imagine a cabal holding our president captive and a Minister coming out to confirm that even the Vice President is yet to see the president with whom they both won a joint ticket, is that not enough for us to understand the schemings in this government? I am sure if Yaardua was aware of what is happening he will kick against this idiots because they are protecting only themselves and their pockets and not the president's interest as he has proved he his a man that believes in the rule of law

Abeg forget about her not being diplomatic, she has cleared the air on the newspaper rumours and now we definitely know where this government stands, they are all keeping it quiet in the National Assembly because they know if it drags out of hand the khaki boys are watching, of course Nigeria does not lead the military again, but hey do not castigate Dora for clearing the air on issues.

Can Dora's comments be compared to that of people Uche Chukwumerije, Wada Nas to mention but a few in the days of Nigeria being a pariah nation? Who is TSAV? Such a dishonourable man at that!!

You expressed a lot of my sentiments, I believe we need more Dod eat Dog scenarios, as a Nigerian, I care less about what state secrets the PDP FEC needs to protect on this issue, and I understand Tsavs gripe, he is the same as those elites currently in power, trying to protect their turf, but I'm an ordinary Nigerian. my concern is not Tsav, jonathan, Aadonkaa or Yar'adua's ego or political interests. I need to be sure that these looters are not united in looting, so more bean spilling from people like Dora Akunyili is needed. I don't even need to like Dora.

Sky Blue:
Another reality from a different perspective is that we would finally be able to move away from ethnic politics and focus on the issues when election comes around (development). I don't care if the president comes from the north for the next 100 years, as long as it is the best man for the job that will give the whole nation development, unity, and equity. Just because you see it all through the glasses of ethnicity doesn't mean everybody else does, so please stop trying to speak for everyone. The idea of who the best man for the job is would probably be subjective, but it sure would be refreshing to have debates about who we think the best man for the job is, rather than wether the man is from the predestined ethnic group for the particular time; that way, the cream rises to the top.

It is quite ironic that Nigerians seem to have this obsession with Obama. It is funny and ironic because if Obama was a Nigerian, among the myriads of factors stopping him from rising to power would probably be ethnicity. So we could have all believed he was the best man for the job, but of course if he wasn't from the North West and isn't muslim, then he could as well go peddle his "change" message somewehere else. Yet Nigerians shouting for rotational presidency would open their mouth and shout Obama Obama America. LOL.

Your observation on Obama/Nigeria is on point, while I care less about where Nigeria's president is from, I think the issue is that we have for too long ignored the need to implement the federal part of our national name. I know it will still be troublesome, but if more powers, yes including police can be shifted to the local govts, not even states, only then, I believe, will we be able to achieve a more just, more stable society than we currently have. The influence and power exerted by the office of the president and the national executive is just too much for a society such as ours.

Nigeria is not homogeneous, that was the same fact glossed over by the colonialists, wether you look at it in terms of ethnic culture or values(although I wish it was)it will not become homogeneous in 100 years, but power can cast down to its more homogeneous parts, local govts, cities and maybe states, with greater control over their local resources, while we leave basic monetary, national defence and foreign policy to the national government. This will make that office less attractive and hopefully give regular citizens greater access to their leaders. I believe this will improve accountability, provide better checks and balances, and provide some profitable internal competition, it is not fail proof, but it will be a good start.

hmm, Trouble dey sleep jeje

Han Han! wetin sef, kilode gan, na by force to sing? we are yet to recover from the last abuse o! Aunty 'motola please shelf this one, Biko, abeg.

violent:
She has done nothing to me, i just don't like this sudden idea of "I am saint amongst them" attitude, why work for a government whose ideology and root spells of corruption? in many words, she can qualify as an "hypocrite", where was she all along?. .

If she doesn't like the system, let her quit and join the likes of Falana and Soyinka's in the fight!. . .

she stays in well furnished office building, well furnished apartment, bark out orders, get recognition anywhere as "Minister for Information", receive jumbo pay and ridiculous allowances and then come out and tell us "the government is corrupt" plsssssssssss not all Nigerians are idíots.

Nkojo Iweala resigned when she discovered that she couldn't play the ball game any longer, i think Dora needs such people as mentors

You are right. Although I prefer this Dog eat Dog scenario to a situation where everyone is united in silence and corruption, but you are right.

Hapless, poverty stricken, Over abused. No water, no light, no security, no emergency services, poorly educated, voiceless Nigerians who can't even afford to fall sick, deserve some Compassion too.

blandyne:
Both ways, i really don't see what's the problem. I live with my parents and my sisters. They all have seen me unclothed.

@Blandyne, In Naija there is nothing wrong with that my sister, dont mind those "Amercanised" Nigerians, if they've lived in what we call[b] face-me-i-face-you[/b] before in naija they will know that a daughter walking around the house with only her towel is not an issue- enough space no dey to dey form privacy

The issue is that the poster got owned by a fraudster. The "daughter" is the Naija wifey period,

"lol--- he married you for his green card--- you must be desperate for a manliness. Enjoy the love triangle my dear


His daughter is his wife, and his son is his brother."



WORD!!!

cultey:
Is this authentic?

Let me know before I start rejoicing that Bob Marley is my long lost Uncle.  

Yes! since the beginning of common sense and putting one and two together. In the absence of a library, Google is your best Friend.

bola09:
Interesting comments, Now, I do not intend to hold brief for Octogenarian like Lukman but I recalled when he was the Energy Minister during Babangida's regime. That was the only period in my adult like while living in Nigeria when power supply was close to been steady.  
I think sometimes we are too critical of our leaders without been deferential to the person's capability. For him to continue to serve at his age and, for all succeeding presidents to keep calling on him, he must know something. Again, I am just as frustrated as anyone else about the snail pace of Nigeria progress but sometimes, we are too aggressive in the way we speak of each other.

I understand the sentiments about undue criticism, but in this case, I think we are being too soft on these laggards,

I'm glad you remember the IBB days. I do too. You are also aware that this same Lukman has served  more than twice as "Petroleum something" I wouldn't mind his long service if his ministry, which oversees 90% of Nigeria's revenue has anything to show for the massive profits administered by them in the last 45 years. but NO! we keep getting worse, No fuel, no refinery, little local input, the same sucking up to western and middle eastern interests for 45+years! Lukman's generation of leaders are a total disgrace!!

I disagree with you on the IBB years, I remember those years too, It was the beginning of unbearable power failure in Nigeria, I was old enough to remember that the TVs stopped becoming a gathering place in the evening for Nigerian families, i.e we could no longer keep an appointment with our favourite programs and series because NEPA went from tolerable to Totally inept, and it has continued till today.  

The point is that Lukman and his ilk have done nothing but waste their generation and are currently wasting mine. Lukman is no Larry King who got old on the job and continued to deliver, Lukman is an example of what is wrong with leadership in this Country -a class of elites(of all ethnic group) who proved through their acts and Careers in Govt. and public service that maintaining the status quo for their own benefit is more important than the livelihood and the advancement of the average Nigerian. Good riddance to bad rubbish.  

There are better Nigerian managers of human and natural resources within and outside Nigeria willing to serve with dignity.



At least he was bold enough to resign, unlike that fool called Aaodonkaa, 

Mai Suya:
He has already given a 'simple proper apology'. Moreover, this is issue is quite different from looting or maiming or killing; it simply borders on libel. A simple retraction of the inflammatory statement and an apology should suffice - which, I am aware, AGF has done. All we are saying is that we're sick of this soap opera; there are far more important things they should be doing

Libel you said? Mr Aondoakaa made a libelous statement against Dora, that is Dora's argument, and only Dora or the court can determine what a proper apology is, but to me, Aondoakaa has more to apologize for, he lied to us as Nigerians, he swore to defend the law of my Country but he's done nothing but manipulate that same law.(this is not the place to go over his shameless role in the Ibori saga) he refused to stand with the Nigerian people and ensure a smooth transfer of power, thereby creating a constitutional crisis and risking the total breakdown of law and order.

Mai Suya, this "Soap opera" will not end in Nigeria until we all start demanding accountability from our leaders and start holding them responsible for their comments, rhetoric and actions, that will deter them from acting with impunity. BTW, state sanctioned looting, maiming and killing is a natural progression from the kind of irresponsible leadership we condone with our nauseating calls for forgiveness.

okunoba:
@Babapupa, u dey embarrass me as a fellow Yoruba man, y u dey bring ethnicity into the issue just because people they call a spade a spade. Lagos is a slum, hell on earth, period. Eco oni baje, Eco to ti baje patapata, how we fit fix am na him be the issue.
I have being to the Eastern part of Nigeria and there is no doubt in my mind the cities are alot better than the Western cities. Never being to the North so can`t say much about it
Surely better days will come to Eko ile, Fashola is a positive start.

WORD!! I tire for people and their yeye ethnic stupidity. Do your own survey.

Why all these pleadings for forgiveness? or are we talking about another Aondoakaa? when are we going to learn to hold people accountable and embrace the idea of responsibility? hen?
This same man just a few days ago was bold enough to make claims he can't defend, he rubbished the character of a fellow Nigerian and lied to the public he swore to serve.

Now, we can't even demand a simple, proper apology from him? there is something wrong with this our collective National/societal mentality, we forgave Gowon, we "Thruth and reconciliated" IBB(even when he told us to go to hell), forgave Abacha and his family. forgave Abubakar, forgave Obasanjo. I bet we will forgive the next fool to loot, maim and kill Nigerians enmasse. there is something wrong with the Nigerian worldview, we are our own worst enemies. Nonsense!

Why has this man not committed seppuku? why?!!

In societies where real leaders have balls of steel and hearts filled with honour,  Aoadonkaa would have resigned.

Unfortunately, this Is Nigeria where political leaders are a bunch of idealess sissys and pu**ys. Dora is a small exception(although I'm yet to forgive her for leaving NAFDAC for Information).

This Aoadonkaa fool has proven once again that our country and culture has a along way to go. Very sad.

Jonathan demoted him and he stayed on?!! to prove what!!? That our Culture is sick? and Nigerian men have no Honour? and will do anything for money?

if this story is true, then it is a shame, but why I dey surprise sef?