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@Ajanlekoko
Does that work?

@cecegorz
congrats. . .

me i just yawn a lot(yawning helps to relieve the pressure on your eardrums) although it doesn't make much of a difference, my ears usually 'pop' and then the pain and the high-pitched whiney noise disappears

lol. . .toh. . .may the best man win. . .

@Razur
we've finally seen the mails that Jarus sent to the guy, and i'm sure at the very least, you'll agree with me that if it was you that sent that mail to the guy nothing would make you apologize. . .that's what i was driving at when i asked you the question up there^. . .so can we please drop the 'threatening' thing? una just dey clog up my "updated topics" for nothing now. . .haba!!!

[quote author=Akanbi_edu link=topic=538478.msg7010838#msg7010838 date=1288017290]Saraki is the best of those PDP crooks contesting for president. No doubt about that.[/quote]based on the interview i cant disagree with you, but i know people that wont touch anything that has to do with this man with a 10-foot pole.

spikedcylinder:
I agree 100% with the first part of your post.
The second part however, can backfire. You have not met some ogbologbo kainwain women. They will scream the roof down. Women that have the energy of a thousand demons. The kind of man that is the OP will eventually be the one begging her by the time she has started with her tantrums. You never jam.

because y'all are women y'all tend to believe y'all are the ultimate. . .there are also ogbologbo kainwain men too, make she scream the roof down or manifest whatever type of spirits she wants to manifest, the guy wont be moved. . .make she hold your shirt, you'll remove it and walk calmly away. . .when you know all she wants you to do is lose your temper why do you have to give her what she wants? two can play any game

chaircover:
Back to topic jare. You are right, there are some correct omo alata women who will give the man a run for his money and for each night he refuses to touch them she tears one of his TM Shirts and for each time he refuses her food she scratches him with an oyo tribal mark on his face.

The TV gets thrown off the balcony of the first floor and the AC is torn from the wall and thrown on top of the *&*^%^$$$ car! 

But thank God that these types of women are an endangered specie like the giant panda so not many of them are walking around. Hopefully the poster isnt married to one and with a battle of wits he will win this one.

and there are also men that can watch her do all that and not move a muscle and you know something? they aren't as endangered a species as the alata women. All it takes is a man that realizes that she wants a reaction and is determined not to give her one, he might be crying inside but what the heck? we're used to bottling our emotions(heck if there was a drink called he-motions it'd trump coca cola hands down )

that said, the shirt-tearing thing scares me, do you actually know someone like that? IMO it's more scary than the tribal mark or TV thingy, those are peaks. . .but tearing a shirt every night he refuses to touch her? that's the kind of woman nightmares are mad of.

@El razur
out of curiousity, if someone told you your tone was threatening, would you apologize?

i just received the cold shoulder from an FRSC fellow at DSTV office cos i asked him if he knew the procedure for renewing drivers' license o. . .dunno why some people carry chips on their shoulders.

@thread
i'm tired of hearing hausa around me all the time. . .haba, one would think english wasn't the official language if you stepped into abuja by mistake!

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16920&Itemid=46

i must confess, !this is the best interview out of all the aspirants so far

LouisThoro:
Omoooo.

D bobo deleted my posts and banned me, as if he will get a medal for that!

el razur told you mods cant ban. . .

of which your screenshot had me in stitches o. . .but you sef, why you go dey insult someone's parents? who you be?

@volvoS60
from your response it's clear you dont like BB and feel it should be off the airwaves well tough cookie. of which, why do you use phrases like 'make you understand that BB does not deserve a millisecond'. . .seems like you're a tad opinionated

if your survey was unscientific, dont you think it's best you keep your findings private seeing as they dont hold any water?[size=5pt] have you read freakonomics? wonderful books, it presents different ways of interpreting data.

Are you aware there was a time when a nigerian girl was manhandled on BBA, and the senate took the matter up, they also complained about the shower hour and we all know what happened(well you prolly dont sha. . . )

the Zimbo dude got 300,000dollars from mugabe with him(mugabe)requesting copies of the tape saying that they cheated to favour nigeria(despite the fact that their contestant is known to have insulted mugabe as well as screaming f**k africa on more than one occasion). . .

Uti did nigerians proud simple and short, Africans all over the continent watched the show and decided that uti was worthy of the 200,000 dollars dont you think that this might just have a positive effect on nigeria's image? at the very least, it's an '' to the other countries, telling them that naija people still run things.

one more thing, if there was BB europe and the european public was as crazy about it as the nigerian public, do you want to tell me the governments would ignore it?(let's forget america cos we all know obama would definitely holler at the person).

as per the conjectures thingy, maybe saga might be in a better position to explain to you. . .it's more his thing

[quote author=xoxo, link=topic=210004.msg7008564#msg7008564 date=1287993835]Refusing to take blame is one aspect, its worse wen they blame on u for things absolutely their fault. I wonder how I am responsible for things happening on my boss's system all the way from my office. Its so wack n so frustrating, but since he's the boss wat can i say.[/quote]welcome to 'Welcome To My Office', tell us a bit about you now. . .dont just jump into the fray like that. . .

@busybody
no matter how much you insult me, i'll always love you. . .

@v3
nice to have you back. . .

make i just note this post just in case. . .

as in, the people in my office, would rather vote for babangida than Jonathan, when i mooted Ribadu the answer i got was 'that silly man'. Someone today saw a poster when we went out and he said 'this guy cant even win house of reps election sef he wants to be president' and these are educated hausa people o. . .

P.S. their candidate is Buhari. . .

yep i am. . .

you need to come up north and hear what northerners say about Ribadu. . .you think buhari would leave CPC and support Ribadu?. . .you guys fail to understand how things work up here. . .northerners aren't fickle.

@gbawe
the only area in which ribadu can claim to surpass jonathan is the corruption-thingy.

so because he spent a couple of years chasing corrupt politicians, he expects to be given the key to the nigerian economy? i bet he doesn't even know jack about the economy of his own state. . .what does Ribadu know about governance? or policy? his own does not pass i fought corruption, what knowledge/experience does Ribadu have that would serve him as president?

I sure as hell dont want a president that'll be crying 'it's not fair' and interrupting journalists up and down the place . . .(OBJ did enough interrupting)

@olafolarin
where in nigeria are you? _{if you are in nigeria that is. . .}

cos i live in the north and i can tell you no one has time for Ribadu, hell if you hear some of the gist about him that goes around sef. . .Ribadu is far more popular in the south-west than he is in the north, why do you think he's always attending one function or the other in the south?

The only candidate outside PDP that can claim anything remotely resembling a cult following in the north is Buhari. Ascribing political following to Ribadu in the north is like saying Wole Soyinka can win a governorship election in ogun state!

everyone knows EPPs are a scam. . .what does he mean by 'making it a true grid and not a radial system'? he should give us specifics with numbers. . .this mis-yarns he came to misyarn reveal him to be more of an illiterate than i thought he was. . .

VolvoS60:
I've gone through some of the posts/replies on this thread and i don't know what to to think anymore. Honestly. I hope to God that those who 'commended' Mr. Jonathan (for 'congratulating' Mr Uti) were only trying to be provocative, trying to get people to say something about the topic. Because if indeed so many people truly believe there's nothing wrong with Mr. Jonathan (or his aides or whoever) spending valuable time on Big Brother (instead of getting down to serious business), then we are truly 'men (and women) without a country'.

It is sad that there are people who cannot be bothered to vote in any LG, State or Federal elections, and yet these same people campaigned feverishly for the 'candidates' in this big brother nonsense. These people can recite from memory all the inanities that Uti and friends kept mouthing from day 1 of the BB series. Yet they do not have the slightest idea what any of the candidates for elections in Nigeria stand for, their party manifestos etc. And what's worse, these people do not care.

But they can be excused. They are the expendables. The real danger is when a country's elite has lost its way. When the winners of shows like BB are getting appointments with senate presidents, presidential congratulations, etc., then its clear the end isn't far off. There's a disturbing trend here. I was very alarmed when a few years ago, Beyonce Knowles & Calvin Broadus (aka Snoop Dogg) came to Nigeria to perform, and the then senate president (and other members of Nigeria's power and business elite) were among the adoring fans.

Nigeria has very serious problems. Her politicians should fix them instead of cavorting with misguided youths. Its the least they can do to justify their overinflated wages. Time is running out. Enough Said.

feel free to articulate said candidates and their manifestos(i'm sure you cant, cos they dont exist). . .in your haste to sound wise you commit the same faux pas that many before you committed: assuming that GEJ or his aides watched BBA, the news was all over the news papers hombre. . .sadly, that mistake puts paid to any claim you might have of possessing above par intelligence as it would seem you have problems deciphering what the word 'briefed' means.

and oh yeah, what's the BBA demographic? how do you know they dont vote?. . .feel free to bury yourself

@saga
the dude was just throwing about conjectures. . .you shoulda noticed, but you obviously dislike the whole BBA idea so intensely you're willing to let someone negate the very principles upon which you stand

P.S. the zimbabwean president gave the zim contestant USD300k, (since he lost to naija), y'all need to relocate over to zimbabwe fast and bash the dude too. . .

@Reference
The simple God-Honest truth is that Ribadu is not a statesman, he lacks knowledge, all he has is potential, going to the senate or anywhere else would give him the much needed exposure. . .the alternate post is not a form of compensation, heck he hasn't done anything deserving of compensation.

http://www.nigeriapowerreform.org/downloads/

the longer we wait, the more expensive it becomes, read the roadmap, there's something they calculated called 'cost of unserved energy'. The private people will bring the money in immediately, it's not one company, it's many companies, all with their individual financial arrangements. The problem with electricity in nigeria is more FG than PHCN. . .

obj added(through NIPP) something around 4000+(i think it's more). . .you know something, you're mentioning sums, but you're not saying where they will come from, until you can say where the sums will come from all you're doing is arm chair economics. one more thing, you do know we have to spend on gas infrastructure as well right? that's a sector of it's own, where naija wan tiff the money from?

The quality of life will increase, productivity will increase, industrial activities will pick up, i think it's safe to say the cost of living will reduce. . .eventually

as per the tariffs being too much for the masses, it's going to be an inclined sliding block meaning, the more electricity you use, the higher your unit cost.

mukiliscious. . .happy birthday!

when there's no power to drive industry where do you want the jobs to come from?

OAM4J:
I like your argument and I agree with most part of it except that the bold does not justify some of yours and OP's concerns.

These people in the bold that you consider crucial for winning elections are the one that are least concerned about articulation and oratory ability.

Their main concern is; Who among them is not a thief, honest and sincere enough to give them the better Nigeria the crave for?

Although I will also be the 1st to accept the fact that NR need to do a lot more to convince and win the heart of these set of people.

the okada man cares about corruption and all? . . .guy, the okada man will vote for the person that he connects with, forget all this corruption-talk. . .the person that spits the tightest juice(in whatever language), ribadu has to get the masses resonating with him and he's going about the wrong way, all the 'naming ceremonies' and the likes that he has been attending up and down the place only serves to alienate him from the masses. The dude should meet with all the market women and touts in the states he visits and talk about things they experience daily, that's when he will have started. . .

sholasys:
Having knowing this, why would you say in your previous post that "They have the population, and by extension, electoral advantage" (i.e ilorin city). If you understand kw politics very well, you would know that majority in ilorin city are outsiders and they wouldn't vote for Saraki & candidate in a free and fair election.

how many of them would vote in the first place(i mean the outsiders)?

hercules07:
@netotse


We can get to 20,000MW by adding the megawatts small small, say you target adding about 1000 to 2000 in the next couple of years, then add small again, I am not asking the government to add 16,000 MW at a go, that will be impossible. I can bet you that if the government delivers 4000MW today, most households will have power for about 12 hours a day.

On the transmission, we are not serious, my solution to transmission is very simple, imagine having a power plant that can supply 4000MW in lagos, build the transmission to supply lagos with the 4000MW and push excess to the national grid.
The transmission should supply local needs first before pushing it to the national grid, that way we save on transmission cost.

you really need to read the roadmap, all these things have been addressed there. how long do you want nigerians to wait before the get electricity? you're thinking with a view to avoiding private money not with a view to providing electricity for the people, there's no way you can supply electricity without making use of OPM(other people's money) name the countries in the world that supply all their peoples' power needs by themselves without any help.

Do you know what it means when people say power is capital intensive? it means that you'll spend 1billion dollars to build a 1000MW plant, which will take at least 30months to complete and then it'll take you 10 years to break even(we're not talking profit yet). . .how many governments do you think can afford to be tying money down like that when there are other sectors that the money can be used in?

your idea of regionalized generation is to be implemented in the roadmap but you still need a grid to increase the efficiency and also for redundancy.

if we weren't so behind your idea might have been more plausible but a situation where on average we spend more than double whatever the private sector might want to charge on private generation simple rubbishes your idea, cos if you dont pay the money to PHCN, you will sure as hell pay it to the diesel importers.

before i answer your question, we're at 4000MW now, how do we intend to get to the 20, 000. it will take 16bn dollars to build gas stations totalling 16000 MW, and we aren't counting the gas pipelines, and transmission lines etc etc. . .where does the govt want to steal that money from?

if it sells at just above cost price, it will make enough to pay salaries and all maybe to maintain one or two power plants every year, but it wont make enough to build new infrastructure. . .

it's clear you haven't read the roadmap. You should try reading it.

this is a quote from the report. . .

With hindsight, given more than a decade of experience with FGN reluctance to approach tariff-setting on an economic basis, the Bank should have kept the clause to provide a safety net to help NEPA meet the project's financial objectives.

meaning, PHCN(then NEPA) wasn't the problem, the federal government was the problem, the federal government was setting tariffs while it was PHCN incurring the expenses.

and as per the trusting the worldbank. . .we really dont have a choice do we?

and i'm attaching one of my favourite pics for your viewing pleasure.

@hercules
the power sector is capital intensive and has long leadtimes, any government that aims to do all the spending that the power sector requires is confused. . .i repeat FG cannot fund the power sector alone and still carry out other activities, (their words not mine. . .)

as per the tariffs, do you want me to point you to a wordbank report as far back as the 80s where it is explicitly stated that one of the major problems with the power sector is the governments refusal to charge economic tariffs?

the FG lost out on 1billion dollars of world bank funds specifically for the power sector because they were playing politics with the power industry. . .now, the gap between our requirements what we have on ground is too large to be bridged without private investors.