₦airaland Forum

chriselena:
Anyway, everyone has his/her own opinion, but from my view point, I have never seen a perfect country.

These are the opinions of some people and they use the media to amplify and impose their opinions on other people.

A lot of foreigners are so uninformed about Nigeria and Africa.

Left to me, I'll advice African governments to invest in media in the US and Europe so as to brand Africans better in the eye's of their people

The one we were shouting "Good People, Great Nation" sometime ago. It should have been backed by plenty good stories published in
foreign media, instead we were busy promoting it in Nigeria

If you ever want to know what happens in a movie but don't have the 1-2hrs to watch
it. Just read it up on wikipedia or IMDB.

If its an action movie, you may not get much otherwise you'll get enough information to
render watching the movie useless.

A bunch of websites try to tell you the story while leaving the juiciest parts for you to find
out when you watch the movie but not some others

Do you still feel like watching a movie after reading the plot online?

For example, one of my favorite movies this year.

Limitless _{starring Bradley Cooper}

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limitless

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219289/synopsis

Read and tell me if you still wanna watch it.

delpee:
According to those who watched the 1 hour version of the video ( i didn't have the nerve to watch any), she resisted initially and was slapped and pushed into submission.

what you are saying is that the Trailer does not represent the events  properly.

You haven't even watched any yourself. still hearing them say

I reserve further comments till i see the longer one.

Ileke-IdI:
You do realize that the video was recorded before the media got into all this.

What i mean was that the reports were exaggerated. I expected to see a struggle like 2 or 3 guys holding her
while 1 raped her but it was far from it.There were no weapons and she had some opportunities to attempt an escape.

Why don't concerned people use all this energy to find the girl instead. Lets hear what she has to say.

it looks more like a case of 2 to 3 boys renting a girl only to end up being 5 in number. The truth won't be far
from that.

BetaThings:
All the men talk about ladies not saying what they mean is meaningless in a law court
Why should the court accept your reading of what she means instead of what she actually says

Nooo oh, correct lawyer can't say that one.

Mentioned it cos of the way the media were reporting the incident that she begged them to kill her instead. I actually
thought it was more violent than it actually was.

We all also need to stop trying to play detective. The pictures going around now i understand are the guys that were supposed
to help track down the alleged rapist and are not the rapists.

Funny country, if Nigeria wasn't a rich country we'll be no different from somalia

Kx:
I did nt quite understand the story?
How did the matcheted guy get into the hall?
Was the hall the school LT or library?
Or was he a member of the cult?

Got me wondering too.

Pukkah:
What did it look like?

Well, A good lawyer can argue that she was expecting some kind of intimacy before going there. maybe she just
got more than she was expecting.

Girls sometimes don't say what they mean. If she really wanted them to kill her instead of Desecrating her, why didn't
she fight them until they killed her in the process.

Why would sane guys also commit a crime, video it and distribute it. even a guy who claims to be studying law.

BBDelta:
@Maximip, Na God go help people like you who have live in darknes for too long and the only kind of light they know is lamp or probably 20 watts bulb, there is something called hallogen light, or high power searchlight, stop promoting the evil act, and the fact that there have been some form of beaucracy in the prosecutiion of the act, think positive and let justice been done. If you do not see violation, then bring out your sister so that these animals who do the same thing to her and we will not be bothered.

you sound like you sell lightbulbs  Relax! no fighting.

If the lady totally felt violated, why has she not spoken to the media about it since her face is all over the internet already. I least she should be
fighting for some payback for what they did to her.

My argument is based on the 10min video. For those who have not seen it, it's on www (dot) naijapals (dot) com

I don't blame the ministers and VC's downplaying any crime in the video cos i'm sure they must have experiences something similar which
wasn't violation.

Please lets hear the girl's and guys sides of the story before we start asking for people to be shot or burnt

The 10min video didn't look like 100% rape

With a good lawyer, they have nothing to worry about

They'll walk free after which they'll sue Linda Ikeji's blog and Nairaland



BTW, i use to hear bout rape stories like this all the time happening in various campuses.
Just seeing it on video for the first time. If ladies involved don't come out, then we have
no rape case (ie its not rape)

Interesting read

Once upon a time, over twenty-eight years ago, somewhere in Mogadishu, Somalia, a woman gave birth to a healthy baby boy. The child was given the name Mohammed. Three years earlier, in 1980, somewhere in Ghana, another woman gave birth to a healthy baby boy. The child was named Kweku. At the age of eight, Mohammed left Djibouti (where he was based after his birth) for England to join his father Mr. Farah who was based in the UK at the time. Likewise Kweku also came to England at the age of eleven in 1991.

Life in England and education: Mo (as he was later called) attended Feltham Community College in London where he struggled academically, but excelled athletically. Kweku on the other hand attended Ackworth School, a private boarding school where he excelled academically. He was appointed the Head Boy of the school in his final year. Kweku later attended the University of Nottingham, where he obtained a degree in e-commerce and digital business.

Achievements: After their education, their careers took different paths. Mo became a long distance runner specialising in the 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres races. At the commencement of his career, Mo was an average runner achieving an average placing of seventh in various races at the European and World Athletic Championships between 2005 and 2009.

Three years after graduating from University, Kweku Adoboli secured a job at the blue chip Swiss investment bank UBS. Kweku was very hardworking and extremely intelligent. Within a couple of years of joining UBS in 2006, he rose through the ranks eventually attaining a position as a Director of ETF Trading , earning a seven digit pay packet. Kweku was well loved by his colleagues and was a star trader.

What Kweku achieved in the trading room of UBS, Mo began to achieve on the racing tracks of Europe. Between 2009 and 2010, Mo Farah won three gold medals at the 3,000 metres, 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres events of the European Athletics Championships.

Worldwide fame: The year 2011 was a watershed year for these two hardworking Britons of African descent as the year brought them worldwide attention. At the 2011 World Athletics Championship, which took place in South Korea, Mo competed in the 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres events. Mo won a silver medal at the 10,000 metres event and his crowning moment came on the 4th of September 2011 when he won the 5,000 metres race beating America’s Bernard Lagat. By this feat, Mo Farah became the first British athlete to win a global gold medal at 5,000 metres and a medal over 10,000 metres.

Exactly eleven days later on 15 September 2011, Kweku Adoboli was catapulted onto the world stage as it was revealed that he was alleged to have lost his employer $2bn as a result of a rogue trade. The amount lost by Kweku was the biggest loss ever accrued by a single trader in British financial history. Kweku made headline news all over the world and his face was adorned on the front pages of the tabloids, the broadsheets and the financial newspapers. Kweku was eventually arrested and has been charged with fraud. As at the time of writing, he is yet to be convicted.

Analysis: Mo and Kweku are both British citizens who have spent 70% and 64% of their lives respectively in England. They are also products of the British sports and financial institutions respectively in addition to the British educational system. Although they are of African descent, they are British by culture, citizenry and fame.

However, at the peak of their fame, one notices an asymmetric treatment of their recognition as Britons. While most people have recognized Mo as British, the reverse is the case for Kweku who has been widely described as African.

To illustrate my point, I highlight below references in the press to both Kweku and Mo at the peak of their fame: 04 September 2011 to 05 September 2011 - “Great Britain’s Mo Farah crosses the finish line to win the 5,000m title at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu” - AP

“Few British athletes have sacrificed more to win, and he was elated with what he had achieved” - Guardian

“Mo Farah claims place among British all-time greats with World title triumph”

- Daily Mirror

“Brendan Foster believes Mo Farah is Britain’s greatest ever long distance runner”

- Daily Mail

“Patience, patience, patience. Those were the last words of advice Mo Farah received from his American coach, Alberto Salazar, before he went to the start line for his 5,000 metres final. Britain must give thanks that the Londoner is a good listener”

-Daily Telegraph

“Mo Farah became the first Brit to win a global 5,000m title and then roared: ‘Bring on 2012’ “- The Sun

“well done for all in Britain”

“Mo got the tactics just right in the 5k. Up there with the best of British distance running and a great guy.”

15 September 2011 to 16 September 2011

“From Ghana to the City: the rise of a trader who had it all”- The Telegraph

“Adoboli, British-educated and of Ghanaian descent, did not enter pleas to the charges when they were set out at the magistrates court”.- Guardian

“The Ghanaian, who was privately educated in Britain and is the son of a retired UN worker, is accused of being responsible for the biggest loss ever accrued by a single trader based in London” - Daily Mail

“Adoboli appeared before City of London Magistrates’ Court this afternoon. During the fifteen minute hearing, the well-built Ghanaian was handed a tissue from the clerk as he wiped a tear away”.- The Sun

“Vickers, silver-haired and a knighted academic, is a far cry from the 31-year-old party-loving Adoboli of African origin. Still, they are in the spotlight this week and inextricably linked.”- Business Standard

“Educated at an exclusive school in a picturesque patch of English countryside, Ghana-born trader Kweku Adoboli was known to neighbors as a polite and well dressed young man who mixed grueling hours in London’s financial district with a lavish social life in the capital’s nightspots.” - AP

And here are comments from a number of blogs:

“Thought so when I heard his name, looks Nigerian, fraud and scams are endemic to these people, I always used to tell my clients never accept payment from Nigeria except in hard cash.”

“The bank that trusts a Nigerian employee (Kweku Adoboli) with money is a bank that’s about to go out of business rapidly.”

Conclusion: As the saying goes, “success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan”. Could this explain why Mo Farah is referred to as British while the public forgets his Somalian roots and why Kweku Adoboli is referred to as Ghanaian, Nigerian or African and his British affiliation is easily forgotten?

Would Kweku have been referred to as Ghanaian and not British if he won the Nobel Prize for Economics? Would Kweku have been referred to as African and not British if he found the cure for cancer? Would Kweku have been referred to as Ghanaian born and not British if he won the Olympics 100 metres final?

Or

Would Mo have been referred to as British and not Somolian if he was found to be a terrorist? Would Mo have been referred to as British and not African if he failed a drug test? Would Mo have been referred to as British and not Somolian born if he was a serial killer?

http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/analysis/commentary/27501-kweku-adoboli-every-criminal-is-nigerian-african

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@yawa
Got the draft

each dept should also have a lead

project manager too can now proceed to give a more detailed design in
collabo with the dept leads

I'm In

PHP (CodeIgniter)

CakePHP if I have to.

speechless,

The smart people in this country knew this GEJ guy wasn't any good for the country.

Johnpaul2k2:
Goodluck is still the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hug transformer if you like

When his tenure is over, lets see who'll be hugging the transformer.

pdozie:
Everyone in Nigeria is potentially weak, indiscipline and corrupt. i hold no brief for Jonathan for not meeting up to expectations, but there is no one that doen't have his weaknesses. While we cast stones to our leaders try and reflect on the followers too.
Few days back I read how a frustrated vendor could not get his payments processed because he is yet to greese elbows in the parastatal to ensure his file didnt go missing. (These elbows are not our presidents but followers)
This morning while coming to work I expereinced on many occassions where so called educated gentlemen drivers jumped the line and followed "one-way". many others would not stop at traffic light not minding the cars in  opposite direction. Not to talk of commercial buses that will stop in the middle of the road to pick passengers thus creating long queues of "hold-ups". Are these not followers? Yet we expect our leaders to perform wonders when we are not doing the little we can.
Many of us eat in commercail buses and litter the road with wastes. Say you throw a banana peel and an okada skid off on it and slams down on the road. Who is responsible should the odaka man die? The president? or LATSMA or FRSC? No! Its all of us that are indisciplined, who cannot do the little things we should.
Remember, the fact that everyone does it and goes free is not an excuse to make it right!!
Let us criticize our leaders objectively while we also criticise ourselves.

All these little things you specify here revolves around the leadership of the country. If that is in order, these things will fall into place and not the other way round.

HaHaHa,

And beyonce talk say girls run the world

In ya dreams, we don see dem finish.

@Da Doctor.

Nice write up, you 're 99% correct but I would think the school/lecturers have more power in putting an
end to this trend by refusing the ladies and making their "thing" of no value in the educational system.

Walala:
What is the job outlook for MBA graduates in Nigeria. I just completed mine here in USA and I am thinking of moving back home but it seems like the market has died down. So why would anyone get an MBA anymore?

I personally think the goal of any a MBA is to create jobs and not looking for a Job. I don't have a MBA so I may be wrong. There are lots of business opportunities for people who have MBA should be sensitive to and take

To the guys always trying out/installing one new ROM or the other,

How do you enjoy/use the phone when you keep doing that all the time

Fayimora:
[size=15pt]why use a game engine when you dnt understand the basics? Anyways to do anything effective interms of collision or motion in general, you have yo remember your physics. Go back to your physics and see what happens when 2 balls collide. Inspect everything. Hint: What happens to the distance between them ?[/size]

All this experimentation has already being done by the people that created the engine. For Example when you create your objects in an enging, you can just assign any physics property you want it to have without necessarily knowing how it works.

How a metal/ball/wood/human being should react when it hits another object has already been integrated, you just have to choose.

it's just like saying "why use c++ when you don't understand how it's being compiled to machine language". Sm1 has already done that work so you can spend your own time on greater things.

Pheeque:
@addict, You have a point.I guess i'd start sharing the little things i can do with html canvas then.

This is Nigeria,brov.If u dont mention monetary gains,you are on your own o!.
Anyways,that's beside the point.It seems that you have experience creating games,i'd really appreciate it if you could show me a SIMPLE(emphasis on simple) efficient collision of to balls' detection algorithm.it doesn't matter if it is in another language as long as you use programming constructs present in most languages such as the Math object.
The ones i could lay my hands on are waayyy to complicated for your average web developer.

@xterra.just sent you the book,

Why bother yourself with that when a game engine would easily take care of all that for you, leaviing you to worry only about the design of the actual game.

lacewiggal:
im a pharmacist practicing in the states desperatey thinking of returning home soon to serve my fatherland. but i was looking at salaries  and they range from 60,000- 120,000 naira per month!!!!!! isn't that a form of modern day slavery? everyone knows d suffering that pharm students pass thru in school so why the low pay? less than 1000 dollars per month kwa? tufia!!!!! lol  pharmacists in the rest of the world mostly make 10- 12 times that amount per month, should we continue to perpetuate dis slavery or stand up for our rights!?

Anything can happen in Nigeria, that's something you should think about. Levels quickly change here. How many people in Nigeria get rich from salary.

@topic

Na today, with our president's attitude to security, Robbers would soon even start using apache helicopter to assult the building first.

WAITER! WAITER!!

_{*rubbing stomach*}

I'll like to have some Roti, paneer kofta and tandoori chicken

wetin you mean by that? my body dey cause tsunami

small thing, my head dey break rock

not sure of the prices in nigeria, but it should be
around

1- Samsung Galaxy S 2 - N100,000
2- LG Optimus 2 - N90,000
3- HTC Wildfire S - N48,000

sway112:
Hi guys , I'm new to the android world and I will need your advice on which android phone I shud get and also there prices and probably where in lagos I cud get them, I have BB bold 2 but I want to dispose it, this pinging poo is driving crazy , pls help

Depending on how much you want to spend on this adventure.

1- Samsung Galaxy S 2
2- LG Optimus 2
3- HTC Wildfire S

just my own opinion, compare with other.