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when the good was going well,

May be one day soon.

It is a brand, we should never allowed to be buried.

Good Old Days untill they killed it.

Nigerian Airways 747 jetliner(Jumbo Jet)

Good Old Days.

Nigerian airways with 747 Jet Liner(Jumbo Jet)

Jeffrey Tesler has been identified as the “British agent” who handled payments from an international consortium awarded contracts to build a $6 billion (£3.5 billion) gas-production plant in Nigeria

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The British Government has admitted underwriting a £122 million loan for the project, now at the centre of one of the biggest bribery scandals.

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Norman Lamb, a campaigning Liberal Democrat MP, called last night for an inquiry into the bribery allegations. “There needs to be a full investigation into how the British Government facilitated this particularly when there had been warnings,” he said. “It is startling that the American authorities are already bring successful prosecutions when the SFO has not even brought charges.”

yet same UK is fooling Nigerians by returning small change 'Alarm' stole.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4735292.ece

@ayomifull,

exactly, why I said Nigeria is the HELL on earth.

I know how it works in civilized country and it should work same back at home.

But we hate ourselves as humans

we seems to measure our happiness when we see others suffering.

it is a dead country; no HELL can be worse than Nigeria.

Yeah.

Very sad for Lehman, a 150year old Investment Bank.

The credit crunch could still affect many more investment banks. This would also have deep impact of risk taken by these IB banks.

what goes around, comes around.

All thanks to Greenspan for lack of properly regulatory framework.

simonkolawole@thisdayonline.com:
I’m ever very desperate to be positive about my country. I’m ever eager to celebrate the smallest of achievements and the tiniest of gestures, all in an attempt to catch a glimpse of a silver lining in the dark cloud hanging over the alleged Giant of Africa. But then one thing happens and the whole enthusiasm just comes crumbling, like biscuits in the mouth. Today, I’ll like to briefly discuss what has been bothering most Nigerians – the state of our hospitals. President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s medical pilgrimage seems to have re-ignited Nigerians’ anger on the state of healthcare in the country. We should all be worried. We should all be angry. I am ready to concede that some things have changed, but obviously not enough has changed to make us shout Uhuru. In fact, most of the stories you hear from our hospitals are heart-breaking. I like to illustrate the rot in this society with personal experience. I will do so again today.
Two weeks ago, my driver called me to say his father was ill. He suspected typhoid. Take him to a general hospital, I told him, because I don’t really trust many of the private clinics which often lack the expertise but would eagerly wave huge bills in the face of unfortunate Nigerians. He took the man to Gbagada General Hospital, Lagos. This was in the evening. The person who was supposed to issue registration cards had taken a stroll. The lady in sight, whose duties my driver couldn’t really define, advised them to sit down and wait because “issuing cards is not my duty”. After waiting for an hour, with his father in pains, my driver finally sighted the card issuer. Card issued, they waited for another one hour to see the doctor. The lady, who said she was not a card issuer, was obviously the one who would grant them access to the doctor, but she was busy talking and gisting on “MTN Xtra Cool” (as my driver put it). “I could not believe my eyes,” my driver said. “She must have been on the phone for 50 minutes. In the process, the doctor had resumed work. I didn’t know. It was another nurse who came to advise me that I had to keep troubling the lady before we could see the doctor.”
Reluctantly, the “MTN” nurse allowed them to see the doctor who did a good job of informing my driver that his father would need a surgery. There was a little problem though: there was no bed space, so he would refer them to Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, which I understood the Tinubu administration had turned into one of the best in the country today. Midnight, they set out for LASUTH. On getting there, they were told once again that there was no bed space, so they headed for General Hospital in Surulere. Early in the morning the following day, I called him to find out what the situation was. The same story: no bed space.
“Go to LUTH immediately,” I ordered him, and then joked seriously: “You see now, if you were a big man you would just take your father to St. Nicholas Hospital or Reddington and deposit N5 million. The operation would have been done by now. Better still, if you were a governor or a minister, you would have flown your daddy to Germany or London by air ambulance for operation.” He got my point easily because I always use him as a sounding board anytime we are going to office. I normally pour out my frustrations about the contradictions in this country on him.
LUTH was the final straw. When I called him to get the situation report, he gave me a very sad picture. “LUTH is the worst so far,” he said. “The lady who attended to us was so merciless. She said we should take our father out of the reception area, that five people had died there while waiting for bed space. We begged her and said that was the fourth place we were being rejected. She shouted on us and told us to go away, asking if we expected her to become a bed. We begged and begged but she got angrier, saying what she hated most in her life was being begged. While we were still begging, one lady brought her father who was obviously in need of urgent attention. The nurse shouted on her. Right before our eyes, the man gasped and died. No first aid. Nothing. The nurse became more agitated and told the confused lady to take the corpse out of the reception immediately. I decided there and then I had seen enough.”
He moved his father to a private clinic across the road where he was asked to deposit N150,000 before treatment would commence. Please don’t ask me how much he earns that he would have saved N150,000 to attend to the health of his father. The doctor wanted the money deposited before he could start any form of work. My driver deposited N50,000 later in the day. For the two nights the man spent there, he only received drips and a few tablets before the doctor advised them to go to one specialist centre at Ikeja. At this stage, I told my driver to move his father to a reputable private hospital on Lagos Island (I wish to withhold the name). The life of the man was in serious danger and everything must be done to save him now.
The hospital first turned them back, saying there was no bed space. But eventually, the man was admitted. My driver got a very strong hint, unofficially, that the man was in serious danger and might not survive. Surprisingly, perhaps because of the money the hospital was going to make from this case, they said they wanted to conduct their own tests before operating on the man. “Before we knew what was happening, they said they had done a scan that would cost us N60,000. They said they were going to do another scan. That’s another N60,000, not counting the other charges,” my driver told me. At this stage, he decided to withdraw his father from the hospital, but for inexplicable reasons, the doctor was never available for him to discuss with. He became desperate to withdraw his father, at least to cut his losses, but the hospital would not play ball yet the man’s condition was getting worse.
Last Wednesday, early in the morning, he received a call informing him that his father had died. Don’t ask me how much the hospital told him to pay for the five days of “treatment”. Don’t ask me how the poor boy mourned the two losses – one of his father and the other of the monumental resources that went down the drain. Sadly, the story I have just told today can represent the experiences of thousands of Nigerians everyday. Nigeria. What a country.

what a sad country.

fotodaddy,am around in vi.pls call 08058354127. Tks

wolerex,

this weekend, we try the turf in Ikoy?

let me know

FOTODADDDDDDDDDYYYYYYY,

This weekend, we got to do the '4X4' Rally.

can you give time on Saturday

you should have gone to eat 'frog leg' in the china-town restuarants. its lovely

my brother i tire o. to think that they were giving the option of either opeing their obo or deportation, and they took to open, so to dey JD come berra pass to come back to ya own country. wetin dey pursue people sef, abeg make una yarn me, because me i no even ready to move an inch, talkless to come see one idiot dey violate my right.

well said.

they agreed to be searched instead of accepting the option of deportation with written reason, which they can use against the brits in court of law.

i think there should organisation to educated Nigerians after they get VISA before they embark on the journey.

case closed.

Mustay:
SEC has already warned her

Good but not enough. She should clearly committed 419 offence.

EFCC needs to pick her  and charge her to court.

section 419 of Nigeria criminal code states:

419. Any person who by any false pretence, and with intent to defraud, obtains from any other person anything capable of being stolen, or induces any other person to deliver to any person anything capable of being stolen, is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for three years.
If the thing is of the value of one thousand naira or upwards, he is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

bluehorizo:
Standard Double room in Lagos Airport Hotel is $175,the Luxury room is $255

http://www.lagosairporthotelltd.com/rezeasy.html

Protea Hotel Oakwood Park Nigeria
Lekki Expressway/Chevron Drive, LAGOS, Nigeria

SINGLE ROOM $295

DOUBLE ROOM$340

BREAKFAST INCLUSIVE

http://www.southtravels.com/africa/nigeria/oakwoodpark/index.html

Airport hotel is one of the WORST places to stay in Nigeria. The TAP water is BROWN.

The bed cover is a disaster and smiley. Please dont even mention that hotel!

Protea Oakwood starts from $360(special rates). Called them and dont believe the crap on the website.

dewaledeyi:
bump

whats bump for?

Cant you see the price tag plus picture in post above?

seems you not really serious.

I remember Mama Africa.

I did not eat there but took picture of it.

I had dinner rather in the 'raffles'

If I want to eat Nigerian food, I go to 'Mama Eleba' at Oshodi isale.

Siena:
Nigerians do work in the UK you know, and not all Nigerians clean toilets, as people on here may be thinking.

Would you guys still play the race card?

racism is not only about black and white.

racism is also about yoruba and hausa, and hausa and ibo etc.

SeanT21:
The world is definitely comming to an end.

The world is not coming to an END.

These Nigerians are GULLIBLE and would believe anything.

We need proper education in that country.

tpia:
In fact, the whole world has gone crazy over this Obama presidency.

The fact is, this woman Okereke is a 419.

We should be alarmed to have such person to head Nigeria Stock Exchange.

When is EFCC picking her up?

Good hotels in Lagos starts from N60,000 per night. Food not included.

These hotels are 3stars as they do not match same quality as 5stars in other part of the world.

I hope new radisson would not join same price range.

Lagos is expensive, but the truth is that almost everything is over-priced. The bubble is waiting to burst!

Yes, but Lagos/Nigeria does not follow any economic theory; simply there too much money in the informal sector.

No sane person thinks the US missile defence system offers anything approaching protection from a Russian nuclear attack. The system clearly can't stop Russian missiles and is not designed to. The Russians' main concern is that the whole system reflects a growing sense of encirclement,in its own 'backyard',by pro-Western Govts and Western military institutions

Good.
Let Russia go install same defense system in Cuba to protect the carribean countries from 'Iran' and we see your US reaction.

[quote author=Nigeria1@ link=topic=161376.msg2679560#msg2679560 date=1219172352]She is not 419. It is just a business decision. And a correct one.[/quote]She is 419. Definition of 419 is clear in Nigerian Law

419. Any person who by any false pretence, and with intent to defraud, obtains from any other person anything capable of being stolen, or induces any other person to deliver to any person anything capable of being stolen, is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for three years.

If the thing is of the value of one thousand naira or upwards, he is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

It is immaterial that the thing is obtained or its delivery is induced through the medium of a contract induced by the false pretence.

The offender cannot be arrested without warrant unless found committing the offence.

They were under threat of being deported, that's why they agreed.

thats not threat; they have a choice of going back home to avoid the humiliation: they accepted to be humiliated

They should have insisted no naked search and the Brits to produced exact reason why they are to be deported.

We should stop subjecting our selves to such rubbish.

Lesson to others.

You got to be assertive without being rude or abusive.

she is not. she did what is right. It was all to get obama to like nigeria.

She 419. Ole.

She should be picked up by EFCC for damaging Nigeria's reputation

The Law is Clear:

419.         Any person who by any false pretence, and with intent to defraud, obtains from any other person anything capable of being stolen, or induces any other person to deliver to any person anything capable of being stolen, is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for three years.

If the thing is of the value of one thousand naira or upwards, he is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

It is immaterial that the thing is obtained or its delivery is induced through the medium of a contract induced by the false pretence.

The offender cannot be arrested without warrant unless found committing the offence.

She does not represent OBAMA campaign = false pretence

People gave her money  = obtain things of value from another person.

instead of posting screenshots, can you provide url of your company?

they did not want to get deported at that point. . . not after spending a lot of money in buying tickets.

well they have nothing to complain about: they agreed to be 'searched'

No law court we compensate them so long those who searched them were FEMALE.

cased closed.

She is 419.

Thats all to it.

And those banks MD, organisation that when there to donate money use the opportunity to be in good books of NSE.

It is time, we have clear LAW that if you are in the TOP LEVEL in any field; you cant be organiser(direct or indirect) of any FUND raising events.

why wont they robb his house?

when Yaradua's 12yrs old boy is swimming in bale of N500notes and playing with AK47.

She said, “Immediately we were taken into the room, we were compelled to take off our clothes. We protested but they threatened to deport us if we failed to co-operate.

They should have stuck to their point of NOT undressing.

It is that simple; NO OFFICIAL can force you to do anything against your wish.

But investigations have shown VNA had a weak argument in that regard. No clause in the MMA provides or gives it permission to carry out all its operations from the international airport(s). Instead it is an attached letter signed by Richard Branson, owner of Virgin Atlantic and Isa Yuguda who was then the Minister of Aviation, which permitted the airline to use the “relevant international terminals in Nigerian airports for all the airline’s operation.” Unfortunately, the said letter was not an addendum to the MMA, nor was it ever referred to in the agreement, and may therefore be deemed non-binding.

In spite of controlling 35 per cent of the aviation industry’s passenger traffic in the country and its dominance on key routes such as Lagos and Port Harcourt and Lagos and Abuja, the airline since it commenced flights in 2005 has consistently posted losses, resulting in an accumulated deficit of N16.057 billion in February 2007, up from N6.535 billion in 2006. Worse still, Virgin Atlantic which gave it international leverage and acceptance has been under pressure for almost a year from Singapore Airlines to dispose of its stake in VNA. Singapore Airlines acquired a 49 per cent stake in Virgin Atlantic from the Virgin Group for £600.25 million in 2000. The Asian airline has, however, been concerned that Virgin Atlantic entered into a loss making venture which is impacting on its bottom line and ability to consolidate its business with other potential flying partners.

Very clear Virgin Nigeria could go burst anytime.

Unless he is bed ridden, I see no reason why his illness should get in the way of fulfilling his duties as presidentHow much is the medical allowance as President?

His problem started before becoming president.

Even to get employment in Banks, they check your medical record, how much more a president.

Nigerians should not be made to pay-the-bill of a sick Yaradau.

We have 150million people at least, there should be 1 healthy person who can be President.

It is not difficult to stop this nonsense. But Nigerians are spineless as ever.

Kudos for sahara-reporters for on-the-spot news reporting.