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Car Talk / Re: List the Cars you Have Owned and Post a Photo of your Current Car by knotty(m): 2:39pm On Mar 23, 2012
Hoe come nobody here has ever used DATSUN 120Y aka SHALAAKE

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Business / Nigeria’s Mobile Toilets Pioneer, Otunba Gaddafi, Dies At 50 by knotty(m): 8:10pm On Mar 21, 2012
Waste to wealth entrepreneur and pioneer of mobile toilets in Nigeria, Isaac Durojaiye aka Otunba Gadaffi, has died aged 50.
Durojaiye, who would have turned 50 on April 3, 2012, died on Tuesday in a private hospital in Lagos.
There was no information about the cause of death.
He was the CEO of Dignified Mobile Toilets, which pioneered the hiring and sale of mobile toilets in Nigeria.
He was widely known for elevating the disposal of excreta to a corporate venture, unlike in the past when it was dominated by bucket carriers.
He had worked as a bodyguard to the late politician, Chief MKO Abiola.


http://www.punchng.com/news/nigeria-mobile-toilets-pioneer-otunba-gaddafi-dies-at-50/#comments
that was a true entrepreneur
Phones / Re: Offensive Airtel Ad: "Millionaire At 29, That's 5 Years Too Late" by knotty(m): 2:55pm On Mar 18, 2012
if you are not a milonaire by age 25, you have lived a miserable, slow, useless and wretched life, that is the impression i get from that yeye advert.
another strong message to the youth to make it by anymeans possible and in good time too.
Education / Re: Is This Sentence Wrong? by knotty(m): 11:20am On Mar 18, 2012
The sentence seems prim and proper to me. I also see no reason to water down the grammatical structure employed in the construction. Oga, carry go, jare
Amos Tutuola said so.
Politics / Re: LASTMA Official In Free-For-All Fight (Photo) by knotty(m): 4:38pm On Mar 16, 2012
i am certain none of the two combatants know thet state of their health.
A blow to any body part may be enought to dissipate life out of the other. Then, you become a murderer over one needless street fight.
HBP is a killer waiting for someone to take the rap.
Business / Re: Whats The Fastest Selling Commodity In Nigeria? by knotty(m): 3:00pm On Mar 16, 2012
Salt
Sugar
Rice
Perhaps, in that order. Tell me, which home, no matter how remote and poor that doesn't have them?

Dangote isn't so rich for nought. He did his research.
Health / Re: When Are They Resuming The Selling Of Nicosan? by knotty(m): 2:12pm On Mar 14, 2012
somebody please say something
Politics / Re: Behold, Nigeria's New Police Uniform - See Pix by knotty(m): 10:06am On Mar 14, 2012
Cant the money spent on that ragtag be used on decent intelligence apparathus? We are just a wasteful bunch.
Politics / Cessation Of Encylopedia Britannica Printing by knotty(m): 10:01am On Mar 14, 2012
The end of an era... Encyclopaedia Britannica ceases its famous print edition http://bbc.in/AbM7yV #BBCClick
Crime / Police-corporal-shoots-inspector-over-sharing-formula-commits-suicide by knotty(m): 6:34am On Mar 07, 2012
It was a day of rage in the Rivers State Command of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF). A corporal broke a tradition. The tradition of taking what the superior offers without questions. There was a little “gift”, not bribe or highway collections from motorists.

A gift. A customer who came to a generator-selling company at Trans Amadi Industrial Layout, Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, had dashed the policemen guarding the company some money. After the policemen had greeted the customer with such clichés like “your boys are loyal”, Öga we are here-o”, “shun sir (with straightened arms) etc.

When the customer left, the policemen -- three in all -- had to share the cash gift among themselves. As it is, the inspector, being the most senior of the team, had to do the sharing.

But after the sharing, the corporal, name withheld, not only grumbled quietly, he complained about the sharing formula used by the inspector. In his opinion, the sharing ratio was unfair and undermined his share greatly. In his protest, he threatened to reject his share if the inspector did not review the sharing formula.

The latter refused, insisting that he was showing acts of insubordination for a corporal to be questioning the judgement of an inspector. Soon after, a push came to a shove. And an argument ensued. The altercations began to attract the attention of passers-by and those nearby. As the argument increased, their voices also got louder and louder. Tension began to build up. Efforts by some to intervene only worsened the tempo of the brewing feud.

In no time, the anger of the corporal boiled over. He removed his AK 47 rifle which had hung on his right shoulder all the while. Nobody expected what followed next. Not even the inspector. The only thing that confirmed the unexpected was when the gun roared and a hot bullet flew out of it, hitting, thankfully, the inspector on his legs. The corporal aimed at the legs, perhaps to just disable him. The gunshot changed the atmosphere, as many bystanders fled the scene, for their dear lives.

Still raging with seething anger, the corporal drank in the implication of his lethal anger. But he would rather not give anybody any opportunity to be mocked, harassed, questioned or arraigned, not sure whether his victim would survive or die from the gunshot.

He chose to take the lead. To die before any other harm will come to him. He raised the gun again, pointed the nuzzle at his chest, and as many shouted “hei, hei, hei”, he pulled the trigger, and the hot bullet obediently rushed out, hitting the corporal right at the middle of his chest. He fell. The gun also fell. But for a while, nobody drew near. Everybody, it seemed had his/her heart in his or her mouth.

Everybody stood transfixed, wondering how a little gift could draw such hot blood.

They were rushed to the Teme Hospital run by the Medicine Sans Frontieres (MSF) at Mile One in the town. Police authorities who sent text messages to journalists on the incident said the corporal refused medical treatment. He was said to have fought medical personnel who wanted to treat him. Left to his deadly wish, the corporal soon bled to death, right there in the hospital.

Commenting on the incident, the state’s police spokesperson, Ben Ugwuegbulem, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), said the corporal, whom he described as a Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) committed suicide.
Ugwuegbulem wrote in a text message to journalists that: “At about 09:00 hours a police corporal attached to B Operations department while on duty at Plot 278 Plantgeria Coy, Trans Amadi Industrial Layout, Port Harcourt, shot and wounded on the leg an Inspector of Police working with him in the same beat.”

The spokesperson said that there was no history of acrimony or animosity between the duo before the incident.

As at last night, THISDAY gathered that the shot inspector is responding to treatment. But determined to unravel the full details of the unfortunate incident, the state Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has commenced investigation into the incident.

Meanwhile, the AK47 rifle used by the NCO to commit the crime has been recovered.

The state command which still appeared in shock over the incident said, last night, that it would release the identity of those persons involved in the “show of shame”.

Efforts to trace the home and background of the dead corporal was unsuccessful as his identity remained shielded by the police authorities, his body had been deposited at the morgue as at last night.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/in-p-harcourt-police-corporal-shoots-inspector-over-sharing-formula-commits-suicide/110838/
Health / Re: Best Dental Clinic In Lagos, Nigeria? by knotty(m): 9:05pm On Mar 06, 2012
Schubbs all the way, man. I am accustomed to the Apapa one and i can affirm that they have the right stuffs there. It may be pretty expensive though but what use is money if it cannot serve you?

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Religion / Re: My Favorite Hymn by knotty(m): 10:50am On Mar 05, 2012
Standing on the promises of Christ my King,
Through eternal ages let His praises ring,
Glory in the highest, I will shout and sing,
Standing on the promises of God.

Refrain

Standing, standing,
Standing on the promises of God my Savior;
Standing, standing,
I’m standing on the promises of God.

Standing on the promises that cannot fail,
When the howling storms of doubt and fear assail,
By the living Word of God I shall prevail,
Standing on the promises of God.

Refrain

Standing on the promises I now can see
Perfect, present cleansing in the blood for me;
Standing in the liberty where Christ makes free,
Standing on the promises of God.

Refrain

Standing on the promises of Christ the Lord,
Bound to Him eternally by love’s strong cord,
Overcoming daily with the Spirit’s sword,
Standing on the promises of God.
Travel / Re: Driving From Lagos To Abuja by knotty(m): 6:32pm On Mar 02, 2012
Apache77 has said it all. The only details he missed is the number of sudden unexpected portholes/cratars that will appear to you in most unexpected places.
For that reason , please, do not travel at night. Those cratars have a way of skipping around the road at night.

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Politics / Re: Photos Of National Funeral Ceremony Of Late Dim Chukwuemeka Odunmegwu Ojukwu by knotty(m): 2:27pm On Mar 02, 2012
moscoleee:

[size=8pt]berried as a king[/size]/
blackberry influenced his berrial
Health / When Are They Resuming The Selling Of Nicosan? by knotty(m): 10:06am On Feb 27, 2012
http://www.burumo.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=418:sickle-cell-sufferers-in-nigeria-get-reprieve-as-xechem-resumes-production-of-sickle-cell-drug-&catid=29:headline-news&Itemid=62

ickle-Cell sufferers in Nigeria get reprieve …as Xechem resumes production of sickle cell drug
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Nigerians suffering from Sickle-Cell disease can now heave a sigh of relief as one of the drugs used for its management becomes available again in Nigeria.
Xechem International pharmaceutical company, will resume the production of Niprisan, a sickle cell drug, in Nigeria in 30 days’ time, Mr Roberts Orya, Managing Director, Nigeria Export-Import Bank (NEXIM), has said.
Orya said the bank had committed more than N700 million to achieve the objective.
On Oct. 4, 2005, the European Medicine Evaluation Agency approved the production of Niprisan (Nicosan) by Xechem International Incorporation, for the treatment of sickle cell disease.
Investigations reveal that Xechem International was forced to stop the production of the drug due to its inability to repay a syndicated loan by NEXIM, Bank PHB and Diamond Bank for the purpose.
Orya said NEXIM was committed to the production of the drug to address the plight of those who suffer from sickle cell anemia in the country and in other parts of the world.
He said, ``NEXIM’s commitment is total as we look at it from the perspective of the social and economic gains’’
Orya, however, revealed that the bank would focus more on saving the lives of the many Nigerians suffering from sickle cell anemia, than on the monetary gains.
He said that an Interim Management and Evaluation Committee set up on the ``NIPRISAN Project’’, would soon be inaugurated to look at the modalities for the production of the drug.
Nicosan is made from four botanical species indigenous to Nigeria where it is manufactured.
Health / Re: Does Alcohol Affects The Brain? by knotty(m): 3:30pm On Feb 20, 2012
when i am high, i am soberly reflecting on things affecting my life
when i am sober, i am high on cutting edge octane adrenalin pummeling me thru the day.
Alco does nothing, perception does everything.
Politics / Re: Bola Tinubu Returns From The Uk (picture) by knotty(m): 8:56am On Feb 16, 2012
this is certainly an old picture
Religion / Re: Have You Praised Him Yet, Today? by knotty(m): 8:22am On Feb 16, 2012
thank you lord
Fashion / Re: What Wrist Watch Do You Use, Flaunt It, If You Can by knotty(m): 6:04pm On Feb 15, 2012
Porsche Design, a pleasant gift
Politics / Re: Boko Haram Kills 7 In Borno: Were Thisday`s Editors And Proofreaders Too Killed? by knotty(m): 11:55pm On Feb 13, 2012
hey Aboki, hold it there.
When clans in Ebonyi decided to decimate one another, nobody called the north into it.
But when you make ethnic cleansing trans-nationality, be sure people will cry out.
Life is precious across whatever borders. But don,t expect others to define its sanctity for you when you don't value yours.
Politics / Boko Haram Kills 7 In Borno: Were Thisday`s Editors And Proofreaders Too Killed? by knotty(m): 7:07am On Feb 13, 2012
Gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram had laid siege on historic town of Old Maiduguri, neighbouring town to Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, killing seven people between February 12 and Sunday morning.

The killings in old Maiduguri within Jere local government area of the state was followed by a deafening bomb blast and subsequent exchange of gunfire between members of the dreaded Islamic sect and soldiers around the popular Gamboru market within the Maiduguri metropolis.

It was gathered that the gunmen crept into old Maiduguri at about 9p.m. on Saturday and killed a Chadian, whose name remained a mystery as at the time of filing this report alongside with his wife.

The killer equally slaughtered another man, a Shuwa Arab, in the same neighbourhood just moments after the killing of the Chadian couple.

Just when the neighbourhood thought the last had been seen of the killers and they had gone to bed, they were visited again as they sent an Islamic scholar and three of his students to an early grave.

Eyewitnesses said the killers were in the neighbourhood at about 12midnight Saturday when the popular Islamic scholar and three of his teenage students were killed.

In the incident at the Gamboru market area, it was gathered that there was a deafening bomb blast at about 1am yesterday. The explosion was visited by sporadic exchange of gunfire between the sect members and the soldiers attached to the Joint Task Force (JTF).

The residents of the area[b] could not however disclosed [/b]the number of casualty, one of them insisted that those killed were evacuated before break of day.

Some of them who spoke anonymously to THISDAY said they got to known that the corpses were taken to the morgue of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH).

A source at the hospital who revealed that corpses were deposited by soldiers early morning Sunday, however, could not state the number of corpses deposited.

When confirmation was source from the spokesman of the JTF, Lt. Col Hassan Mohammed on the killings he advised that the police should be approached for information on the issue.

But on the bomb blast at the Gamboru market area, he said "no news like that has come to my knowledge so I cannot confirm anything.”

When the Borno State Police Commissioner, Simeon Midenda was called on his phone for confirmation by journalists, he said he was away in Abuja on official duty and advised that the Police Public Relations Officer, Samuel Tizhe, who was on ground should be approached for information.

But an attempt to get him proved abortive as his mobile was switched off when[b] call was placed on it last night[/b].

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/boko-haram-kills-7-in-borno/109181/
Family / Re: How Long Is Too Long For An Inlaw To Stay? by knotty(m): 11:01am On Feb 08, 2012
safarigirl:

^^Op said 'troublesome' in-laws, that's Ǟ lotta baggage, btw are you Ǟ guy or lady?
Show where TROUBLESOME showed up in the poster,s sentence.
I am a father and husband who has had in laws stayed over and who will still have them visit anytime again.
Family / Re: How Long Is Too Long For An Inlaw To Stay? by knotty(m): 9:37am On Feb 08, 2012
most of you are talking as if you have never hung with an in-law before. When you visit your blood brother/sister in their marital homes, what do you think you are? A bloody lecherous hanging in-law.
While it is not  be encouraged, live in/visiting in-law culture is a part and parcel of us. is the extended family culture alien to us in modern day Nigeria? i guess not.
Politics / Islamic Fanaticism And The Rest Of Us: Seen From A German Perspective by knotty(m): 8:57am On Feb 07, 2012
forwarded, pls

A German's View on Islam
A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism. 'Very few people were true Nazis,' he said, 'but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.'
We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that Islam is the religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the specter of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.
The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor-kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.
The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful Muslim majority, the 'silent majority,' is cowed and extraneous.
Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.
The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians -- most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet.
And who can forget Rwanda , which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were 'peace loving'?
History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points:
#1 -- Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence.
#2 -- Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up, because like my friend fromGermany , they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.
#3 -- Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late. As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts--the fanatics who threaten our way of life.
#4 -- Lastly, anyone who doubts that the issue is serious and just deletes this email without sending it on, is contributing to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand. So, extend yourself a bit and send this on and on and on! Let us hope that thousands, world-wide, read this and think about it, and send it on - before it's too late.
If we are only for ourselves what are our lives for? Make a difference; make the world a better place.
Phones / Re: Do You Like The Porsche Designed Blackberry? by knotty(m): 1:05pm On Feb 03, 2012
There is a generator embedded inside the phone. Once NEPA goes of, you plug it to your eletricity mains, pronto, Power flows into your home.
it will even power your AC/Inverter

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Politics / Re: Boko Haram Attack On Naibawa Police Station Of Kano State by knotty(m): 9:23pm On Jan 29, 2012
Politics / Re: Boko Haram Attack On Naibawa Police Station Of Kano State by knotty(m): 8:07pm On Jan 29, 2012
Negro, i dare to relinquish that role to you.
Please, come to Macedonia and help us.
I do not possess the news coverage savvy of Amanpour, i dont know how to dodge bullets, please, come here and photograph for us and you are sure to get a Pulitzer award for the Photo of The Year.
IRS leaves Lagos 7:30am tomorrow morning, are you coming
Politics / Re: Boko Haram Attack On Naibawa Police Station Of Kano State by knotty(m): 7:55pm On Jan 29, 2012
exceedingly sure
There are 2 police stations in naibawa; one close to Zenith bank which had already been bombed and this one close to the motor park which was bombed today.
Politics / Boko Haram Attack On Naibawa Police Station Of Kano State by knotty(m): 7:49pm On Jan 29, 2012
Naibawa Police station has been under attack all evening long, yet, no word about it.
Who is on top of this situation please?
BH wreaking havoc as usual.
Politics / Re: Femi Fani Kayode,s Exchange With A Friend On Fb by knotty(m): 11:25pm On Jan 27, 2012
TWO MINUTES AFTER FFK DELETED THE POST

FIVE MINUTES LATER HE DELETED ME AS FRIEND ON FB
Politics / Femi Fani Kayode,s Exchange With A Friend On Fb by knotty(m): 11:25pm On Jan 27, 2012
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Very well said, i want to begin to look at you as the new because u still look young and you are very intelligent, however i am odds with that reasoning, perhaps because you served under another wasteful government where the vice and the president exposed their dirty linen in public. I am not one taken to sycophancy sir, i also suspect we might see you in 2015, or maybe not. Are you able to tell us using the luxury of your facebook page what you achieved as Minister of the Federal Republic during your tenure and why the allegations against you are not true. I am sure we have so many like me who will like to know sir. That said, excellent piece as always!
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Femi Fani-Kayode
@Adegbesan, young man, this posting is not about me but about our country and in any case who appointed you as the judge over me or anyone else? If you want to know about my achievements when I was in public office four years ago please go and ask your father (if he is still alive) or go to my website and read up on it. Meanwhile I have nothing to prove to you and neither do I care what u think of me or the government that I served. Do yourself a favour and think about what is happening in your country today and where it is heading rather than obsessing about me and what I may or may not do in 2015. Even though you are still very young make your own contribution to national affairs and try to focus on the message of others rather than being fixated on the messanger. I assure you that your problems in Nigeria are much bigger and greater than FFK or OBJ. We have had our time, let's see what you will do with yours.
Politics / Re: Panic At Pdp Secretariat Over Explosion by knotty(m): 5:19pm On Jan 26, 2012
A luxury bus tire busted in Kano yesterday with a thundering explosion in tow, come and see scampering, who wan die??

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