₦airaland Forum

and Nadal does it in some style!
final set, soderling down at 4-6 to Nadal.

Awesome stuff!

in my opinion somebody is trying to market a product here. my opinion may be wrong, pls but i am entitled to it.
Nero, Stagger and Country man are all one and the same person with many aliases trying to sell a book. ain`t nothing wrong in that but honesty has been compromised.

nobody has stopped anything. i still receive 3 daily load of lottery temptations from MTN.

i even now know the their timing schedule: 11:30 am, 2:30 pm and finally the last desperate invitation at 6:30pm.

thieving rogues!

but sir you cannot set the agenda for discuss here alone.
it is a collective decision to either flow with you or not, we are not bound to respond to your sentiments, or am i wrong, House?

so, what if he got the reprieve? we all knew he did.

what if ibori was still here

leave all these conjectures and watch your thread catch a life of its own

yeah! poster, you got it spot on.

in a crazy and warped society like ours, it is either we round up all the thieving  mofo idiots in one fell swoop or we keep quiet and look on so that we are not called silly names like selective justicer. i guess numb is the word so as not to hurt sentiments.

this numbness is killing hapless Nigerians in their hordes daily.

Will it interest you to know that Yam was placed on the Export Prohibition List by Customs?

Which effectively meant it was illegal to export Yam just like it is still illegal to export Maize, Scrap Metal etc.

But that ban had been lifted because yam is aplenty in Nigeria and there is growing international demand for the commodity.

Do you think Government is completely insensitive to have done this?

Your reasoning is tethering on the parochial side, now.

Seems you are either too confused to get the finer details raised here or you are too conceited in your ignorance to accept that you goofed, and very badly too, in your assumption that YAM EXPORT IS THE CAUSE OF HUNGER IN NIEGRIA.

And too quickly you want to digress to Rice importation to cover your tracks. What has rice importation got to do with Yam exportation so soon? But if you want to know, market forces is largely responsible for Nigeria`s importation of Parboiled rice.

Before the advent of Thai parboiled rice, we ate rice. There had always been rice in Nigeria. Cast your mind back, even those in the village ate rice every Sunday afternoon. But the problem was, the rice we ate had too much stone. It took forever to cook. It was more expensive compared to Beans. It was food for the rich, then.

In no time came the parboiled rice which had no stones, cooked faster, was readily available and the price was agreeable. Naturally, market demand soared. It became a staple food everybody can afford just the same way Noodle and Spaghetti are becoming.

Market, forced the shift, not government.

The business community had been short-sighted too by allowing the import market to bludgeon the local rice because 1) rice import was quick money (Akkad, Dangote, Churchgate, Mudallabi etc) made billions from Rice in quick succession) 2)  the capital outlay to polish or parboil rice to the standard we import is huge. These merchants failed to help develop our local rice because they was no guarantee of quick return on investment. 3) Government was busy spending oil money to bother its head about such little insouciance as local rice. 4) rice is a political tool in the hands of politicians. It is.

That rice milling factory the President just opened in Zamfara may survive in the long run only if they allow the Chinese counterpart run the mill on daily basis. Should the State government run it, it will become another comatose white project like the Jigawa Rice Miling Factory.

Abeg, leave rice matter out of this. Face the yam problem wey you bring on your small head.

na today?

all those radio presenters frequent NL to pick discussion topics lots of the time.

there are more GUESTS here than registered members, way too many.

i have heard several topics discussed here on radio.

NL is da dynamite!

118 metric tons of Yam is infinitesimally insignificant in the volume of yam cultivated in the country to make the whole of Nigeria starve.

if there is good market for Yam worldwide, Nigeria should explore it. we have enough land to cultivate all the yam,sorghum,rice, pineapple etc we want, if we want to diversify from Oil.

we should encourage any initiative that seeks to make us bend our backs to tap from the limitless economic potentials of our rich arable land, not run it down with some cynical comments of starvation.

which of the jobs is going to make you independent in the not too distant future?

you are not going to build a radio/TV station so soon at this rate? i doubt.

as a brand manager, you are likely to learn the ropes and dare to start on your own tomorrow.

given these scenarios, as an entrepreneur,  my candid opinion is WAIT, DAMN THE LOSS, LEARN, BE THE BEST BRAND MANAGER AND START YOUR OWN BIZ tomorrow.

but then again, i have to be mindful of your rising BP. it is no joking or trivial matter.

Media practice will not chase it away, neither will IT Branding. what will chase it away is a work place of independence and  rest of mind. paid employment, in infinuum, will not help too. think of doing something for yourself tomorrow.


that pay, that bigger salary, those side cuts which are aplenty in Lagos can be used to gain the much needed independence tomorrow, mark my word.

When pepper rest tomorrow, your family will say: THANK YOU DADDY FOR MAKING THE SACRIFICE FOR US YESTERDAY.

Turai:

WHATS GONNA BE IS GONNA BE

WHAT GOES UP MIST COME DOWN

WHAT`S GONNA BE IS GONNA BE

THERE`S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT.

for its rugged outlook, it is my opinion that the QX4 will probably outlast the Murano.
just take a look around town, especially in lagos, you see cleaner QX4s than Muranos around, especially of the same age bracket.

my thinking is, if you intend using the jeep for in-town running then the Murano is better suited to fill the void. but if you will be doing some bush walking and construction road mapping alongside, then the QX4 is the winner.

i just found out how fragile the Murano and FXs are. it is a story for another day.

how often do you hear this: endtime prophesies of the return of Christ? or, these are the signs of the endtime?

Sorry, the word, endtime is alien to English. it does not exist. please, pass the word to your pastor.

there is thread on this topic in the Auto Section. maybe, you want to know more, then run to that part of NL.

Moved. yes. moved.

eros:
Now this is what you call an SUV.

Speedy sales

Sorry, it is not an SUV.
it is a CUV (Crossover Utility vehicle.

but what the heck. why not just call it a jeep at the OP simply put it?

36,000KMS for a 3month old car?

was it plying lagos-maiduguri on weekly basis? pls recheck.

and Asari Dokuboh was arrested the following day after the mysterious boat was found. Badagry to Seme is just a stone throw.
any correlations between his arrest and this boat or the disappearance of Ibori??

lukkie:
I disagree with you and please stop celebrating mediocrity.

and who is being mediocre here?
one who follows dem say, dem say or another who challenges dem say dem say?

please, take time to question the things you see and hear around you before jumping to conclusions.

language is dynamic because it is a human daily tool. as we grow, so does our word range and worldview. the world has since passed the time and age when jeep was the soul exclusive brand name of the Americans. jeep is a generic word now used to describe vehicles suitable for both rough and good terrain.

it will add to your knowledge that the word came about from the acronym GP `general purpose` vehicle . if you pronounce GP you hear your self sounding JEEP. so instead of calling the vehicle GP or General Purpose, the word jeep came about to make life easy for the inventors and users. so, why should we complicate our own lives here?

SUV does not even do justices to all the range of vehicles within the category. now,we have CUV (Crossover Utility Vehicle, for the FXs, Muranos) , AUV (Armoured Utility Vehicle) and CUV (Coupe Utility Vehicle). if we are to continue with these vehicles and their variants, we will never know our left from the right.

just call them jeeps and move on.

after all, that is what they call them in american songs too. ask Joe.

pyrex, biro, are ready examples of Brand names that have metamorphosed into regular daily English today.

certain words, on account of their popularity and regular use become acceptable over time as English. the same with the word Jeep.

did you guys know that until about 4 years ago, Internet was not acceptable as a regular daily English word? if you spell the word INTERNET, you must start with the I with a capital letter. but is all changed now.

Jeep in the old Official Scrabble Players Dictionary was listed as an unplayable Scrabble word because it was a br,and name.

but it has all changed now. Jeep is now a valid word, a verb at that. and it refers to those cars with high clearance.

please, cite a new authority that forbids me from calling a Land - cruiser a jeep today.

SUV, CUV are abbreviations of the americans. we must not all be americans in our minds jare.

this guy was well loved.
NL thanks for honouring one of your own

Sorry sir, insultive is not an English word. I speak as a Scrabble champion and please, do not bother to contest this with me. thanks

Jakumo

Thanks jare. I saw them all but was too lazy to comment.

As they say, one who comes into equity must come with clean hands. Besides, the pot cannot be calling the kettle black, it must look for a better name.

omo, o ma ri iyanu Jesu
plans Esu ko le work

get up man! you have my prayers this morning

i hope they don`t come back to eat up their word by telling us that the information they had was incomplete in the first place.

we have seen enough of this stuff that turned to be balderdash.

remember the case of the seized 40`container laden with weapons? it turned out to be misplaced.

what about the MEND weapon laden aircraft apprehended in Kano?

we wait and see the outcome of this.

By Godwin Oritse & Godfrey Bivbere

LAGOS—FOLLOWING an alarm raised by the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, yesterday arrested and detained a Maersk Line vessel, ‘MV Nashiville,’ laden with toxic waste.

The crew on board the vessel and its agents were also arrested and detained, pending investigation.

The vessel was operated by American President Lines, APL, a wholly owned subsidiary of a Singapore based Neptune Orient Lines, and had in its hold, among other things, 70 storage (lead) batteries classified as Basel codeA1180 and broken televisions.

The ship’s agent, Vanguard gathered, was detained at the intelligence unit of the Tin-Can Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS.

Sources close to the Tin-Can Island Port Customs Command, told Vanguard, that the vessel actually arrived the country on 9 April, 2010 and discharged some of its contents at the Federal Ocean Terminal at Onne in Rivers State.

It was learnt that the vessel left Onne and arrived Lagos on 11 April , 2010, and that the NPA allowed it to berth at Berth 7B early yesterday.

The vessel reportedly met its waterloo following a memo from the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency, NESREA, to the NPA, which in turn alerted security agencies at the port.

Vanguard learnt that Maersk Line had earlier written to the NCS on April 12, 2010, requesting for berthing permission at berth ‘C’ of the Tin-Can Island Port.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/04/16/toxic-waste-ship-arrested-in-lagos/
Part of Maersk Line’s letter reads: “Please be informed that the above named vessel is scheduled to arrive Tin-Can Port Berth TC 7B. We shall be grateful for your usual immediate clearance and cooperation.”

Memo from NPA general manager

It was learnt that following the memo, the Customs service and other security agencies swung into action and monitored the movement of the vessel until she was arrested and detained.

A memo from the NPA signed by Malam Mohammed Bulago, General Manager, Western Ports to the port managers of the Lagos Port Complex and the Tin-Can Island Port informed them of the movement of the vessel and she was quickly granted a berthing space.

Part of NPA’s memo reads: “Please find forwarded herewith the letter from the office of the Director-General, National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency, NESREA, with reference NESREA/I &E/343/1/83, dated April 7, 2010 concerning the above-mentioned subject matter.

“You are to urgently direct respective terminal operators to monitor the vessel MV Nashville and the container UESU-463595-0 and to detain the container on discharge and inform the agency accordingly.”

Efforts to speak with both the arrested ship agent and the Customs Area Comptroller in charge of the Tin-can Island Port Customs Command, Alhaji Sadiq Sahabi, were futile as he was said to be awaiting directives from the Customs headquarters in Abuja.

It will be recalled that in 1988, over 3,500 tonnes of toxic waste were dumped at Koko in Delta State which caused unpalatable consequences on people of the area, including sudden deaths. The menace of toxic waste dumps, according to experts, has greater challenge because it is a silent killer.

Toxic waste dumps, such as used electronic products, batteries, computers, telephone handsets and used tyres, spark off huge radioactive waves which permeate the skin surfaces and blood vessels leading to the development of cancer of various kinds, high blood pressure, hypertension and heart attacks, among others.

where is you and i on that list?
when we refuse to pay taxes and dabble with our NEPA meter, what are we?
common communal thieves. all of us

i am 100% certain that those pics are not Nigerian. they are from a doco that i saw.
besides, they are damned too clean to be from our shores.
do you guys realize how bad things have turned out here?
see this scenario:
when you turn your garbage into the bin outside your house, some street scavengers are already there harvesting the best portion, all within minutes. the street scavengers are on duty on three shifts, morning, afternoon and evening and mind you everyday.
whatever gets left over, your monthly bin collector (those in GRAs are lucky to have them bi-weekly) still come and harvest the best part of your garbage.
check this out, what finally gets to our dumpsites are the worst of the (worstest) and the dregs of the earth.

i can tell you that the salvageable things in those places are scrap metals and plastics, not electrical components you saw in those pics.

THOSE DUMPSITES ARE TOO CLEAN TO BE NIGERIA.

wetin dey worry us pass wetin una dey see

those pics are not from Nigeria!
there are from Ghana.
CNN carried a reportage on it, something about recycled TVs and Computers from UK.
in fact, they are too clean and tidy to come from Nigeria of today.

besides, who has time to waste valuable photo session with garbage dwellers when OGD is celebrating his 53rd birthday?

blatant waste of exposures.