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tried doing that, but they're not offering much help

na his villa people dey pursue am. that old man wey dey look am somhow somhow

ah think guys should share this thread with their gurls. i'm sure it'll reduce the amount of money we will spend in fast foods

couldn't stop laughin when i read this topic. seems this people wanna wipe nigeria off the world map. nuclear reactor my a.s.s

there's no rewrite_module there. that might be the problem. is there any way to solve it? i deleted the .htaccess files to check if they're the source of the problem but evidently, they're not

i've noticed this trend in most churches whereby women seem to run every facet of church activities whereas the men are content with just sitting down. i used to think it was peculiar to my church but it seems its quite common.

does this mean women are more religious than men?
would heaven be more populated with the female folk?

please i need help. i've been getting a http 500 internal server error when setting up tomato cart on my website. i've tried changing the permission settings on the website but still the problem persists. any help will be greatly appreciated.

somthing like this happened during my industrial training at an oil servicing firm in port harcourt. i found out that my supervisor had been going through my facebook posts. i was like WTF!

Since that day, i began posting words of wisdom on my facebook.

no style here for people who sleep with part of their body outside the bed and the other part inside!

i've always been an avid dog lover. got 6 dogs; 2 bull mastiffs and 4 rottweilers. never a dull time at home. they eat much more than i do and require lots of care. d only down-side is that people hardly visit though i always put the rottweilers in cages and chain the bull mastiffs. i don't understand why people fear dogs so much. they got better personalities than most people

You lie down on your bed to sleep and you see yourself in another country, or flogging your boss. some people dream about climbing mount everest, while some dream about falling from mount everest.

what is the craziest dream you've had?

i'm off to place my reservation for a house there. gotta get me a pent-house suite from where i can comfortably look down on d rest of u!

wow! dead JTF soldiers are pursuing him from the land of the dead to the land of the living.

[/b]Run Ghost Run![b]

long story. we've been hearing d same old story 4 a long tym now. next topic please!

go nd ask GOOGLE

an innocent topic has been transformed into a heated debate between catholics and people of other faith. everybody seems to forget that d heavenly race is a personal issue. your pope or other leader of your church wont be there to answer on your behalf. i'm a catholic myself but i've realized that every religion on earth seeks for the same basic things. its just that we feel that our way of seeking it is better than that of others, and we sometimes try 2 get others to do things our own way. that's the reason we have all these religious wars in nigeria, africa and d world as a whole and also on nairaland.

we gotta use our heads

nigerians and their dull brains. even my 2yr-old cousin would make better prophesies than this. next topic joor!

THE SECRETS OF DANGOTE’S SUCCESS

Not a few people are intrigued with the stupendous success of Dangote and are understandably curious to know how he did it and learn one or two things from his methods. Dangote has hinged his secrets on these main cardinal points:

FAITH & BELIEF IN GOD:

Although this writer emphatically believes that whatever you believe in is your private issue and your personal business (not the way some Nigerians shove their faiths down the throats of an unwilling audience even though they fail to walk the talk themselves), the deep-rooted importance of faith (or hope) (in anything, Mark Zuckerberg is an atheist billionaire before you get carried away…lol) cannot be underestimated. Born into a devout Muslim family and raised along Islamic tenets, Aliko Dangote never fails to ascribe much of his success to his Creator. Yes, I agree to a great extent, faith is very crucial in pursuing any goal.

FORESIGHT:

One of the very best decisions Dangote ever made was leaving Kano for Lagos. Although at that time, Kano was still a bubbling commercial center and many members of the family felt comfortable doing business there, Dangote knew that the future of business was in Lagos, where he operates today and owns one of the most palatial residences in Africa. In 1977, he followed his late uncle, Usman Amaka Sanusi Dangote to Lagos when he was just 20. He thought the patriarch would oppose the move at first, feeling they might think Lagos life would corrupt him but he had to risk it any way. He said family business was good but you have no independence and one cannot make it much there so he had to map out his own path to greatness, all by himself. Dangote states: ‘Having come from a rich family does not give you an automatic license to riches. You just have to create your own idea and work hard. I have never seen any Nigerian that has really made money from inheritance. It is very, very difficult. And that is why I always encourage my own children to work very hard especially when it comes to making their own money. I am not saying they shouldn’t rely on the fact that yes, they come from a rich home. But sometimes, it can be a great disadvantage. Because there are some certain businesses that you wouldn’t like to do because your name is so and so.‘
He also said: ”I did not really inherit anything from my father, apart from maybe two buildings. I had three Benz 911 (10-tonner trucks) which my grandfather bought for me and they were working and he was keeping the money for me at that time. So by the time I came out, I had about N127,000 or so. And then my grandfather also gave me a letter to collect N500,000 as loan to be paid back in two years but there was no interest.’

In an inteview with Forbes in September 2012, he stated: …although I came from a rich home, I did not use my family’s money to reach where I am today.

My people have a saying and it goes thus: ‘Agboju logun fi ara re foshita’ meaning ‘he who depends and relies on inheritance exposes himself to the perils of poverty and squalor.’ That is for all the agbojuloguns.

Dangote also said of family business: ‘Working with the family, you hardly ever succeed because you have other children. You know it is difficult when you come from a large family.’

PASSION FOR SERVICE:

The very interesting with the Dangote story is that, like many other billionaires across the globe, they actually did not set out to be billionaires in the first place. However, they had a burning passion and desire for a dream, service or product. For Bill Gates, it was to place a computer in every house on earth, for M Zuck, it was to ensure more connection for all of humanity, for Adenuga, it was to revolutionize the telecommunication sector and link more people seamlessly while for Dangote it was to do something spectacularly great for his nation by identifying the needs, creating useful products and placing it at the doorsteps of his people. Making money was not initially his principal goal but a deep desire to have a positive and tangible impact on his immediate society. Ideas are everywhere, tap into one today and you will be rich beyond your wildest dreams. Wake up and smell the coffee, forget blood money ritual, it is disgraceful nonsense. Dream big, press on, do something revolutionary for the world and you see unbelievable wealth falling on your laps.

PRUDENCE: Okay, Mr. Bling Bling, let me quote Dangote here in his own words: ”I do not spend my money any how.” It was a few years ago while reading The Millionaire Next Door that I really understood the difference between being ‘rich’ and ‘wealthy’. Footballers like Didier Drogba, Lionel Messi (hope he don come out of hiding, Bayern no easy na…lol!) are rich while people like Warren Buffett, Carlos Slim, Aliko Dangote, Amancio Ortega and Prince Abdulwaleed al-Talal are obscenely wealthy. To get a clearer picture, have you ever wondered why footballers and all the diamond-dangling entertainers are never billionaires and many even end up dead broke after their careers?

Yes, there’s a huge difference between being rich and wealthy. That you are rich does not necessarily make you wealthy but you are obviously rich if you are considered wealthy. Rich people who are usually dependent on regular salaries or wages like footballers spend money anyhow (and unfortunately, those are the ones we see more often in the tabloids but are rarely good examples of sound financial management. Oluwamario Omobalotelli, I hope you are reading this…lol) while billionaires (the truly wealthy) are very careful and frugal with their spendings (although there are rare exceptions like Larry Ellison) and are meticulous accountants (or married to one, research has shown that most wealthy men in the US are married to women who are far better managers of financial resources and assist their hubbies in stabilizing the monetary foundation.

The koko of the tori na for una to watch who you marry. You know the interesting thing? The study also shows that many of these wives are schoolteachers, na hint I give you be that o! LOL!) Dangote is a shrewd businessman who will only splurge his money on what he can afford and is absolutely necessary. To be prudent, watch your choices, select those you walk with (use Mortein to delete the parasites) and be disciplined. Like everyone else on earth, you’ve got 24 hours in a day. Your time starts now…

HARDWORK: For some strange reasons, many people think that the life of a billionaire is all chocolate and vanilla with no kpof kpof and pior wota but the truth is that the average billionaire (I don’t mean the thieving leaders of Africa o!) is far more hardworking than you are. Yes, there is the cruise on the Caribbean, the skiing in Aspen, the daylong golfing at Akwa Ibom and all-night parties on superyachts but you also conveniently ignore the fact that billionaires do not spend everyday of the year sunbathing in Monaco or getting lap dances in Las Vegas. They work, and they work hard (and smart). Hear Dangote: ‘To start with, I don’t work 12 hours a day. I work at least 18 hours a day. On weekends, I don’t work at all.

If the laziness of some people who dream of billions every second can be converted to energy, it would power a nuclear station. You don’t spend all day in bed (unless you are making money on the bed and I don’t mean ashawo work) pinging, tweeting, gbeborun-ing and offering no useful service to humanity and still complain of ‘poor-verty’. If you are to achieve your dreams, you need to wake up first. Many people want to get something for nothing but in a Universe which abhors total vacuum and loves balance, duality and karma, this is being unrealistic.

CHOOSING THE RIGHT NICHE:

Today you hear of Dangote noodles, Dangote spaghetti, Dangote salt, Dangote sugar, Dangote flour, Dangote cement, Dangote juice and all those brands which all relate to the basic needs of mankind. Dangote said he will never dabble into a business he knows nothing or little about.

frosbel: Nigeria has a well trained army but seriously lacking in Equipment.

For example Libya will take Nigeria out very easily in a war situation.

Its sad , we have so much wealth but nothing to show for it

dude, you're talkin crap. u shld do your research properly before saying such

To explain this picture of a child cuddling his 20-foot-long snake, we have to tell a story.
Imagine you're the proud parents of a 3-month-old baby. So, small. No neck control. Tiny. Now imagine that you walk into your baby's room in the morning and you find a snake in his bed. Not just any snake, but a 2-foot-long baby python. You'd kill the thing, right? Just straight up find a shoe or hammer or whatever and beat it like you're Keith Moon and the snake is a drum.

Not Koun Samang's dad, who found a python in his baby's bed and sweetly returned it to the jungle, presumably while giving it a back massage and singing it snaky lullabies. When the snake showed up again, he did it again. Three freaking times this happened, before he just gave up getting rid of the thing and welcomed it into the family, deciding that the snake had a thing for his son.
Seven years later, Samang and the now-giant snake he named "Lucky" are going strong. Did we say "strong?" We meant "Holy crap, that's not natural. RUN, SON, RUN!"

Today the snake is over 20 feet long and could easily eat the boy ... or a dinosaur or a house, if she felt like it. But it doesn't. Samang considers the serpent his sister, which is pretty messed up considering how often they kiss ...

When not making everyone around him uncomfortable, Samang spends his days teaching Lucky sissy tricks and feeding her chicken. We'd make some snarky comment here, but we're actually not big on the idea of mocking a kid who apparently is the King of the Giant Serpents.



http://www.cracked.com/article_19515_the-6-most-incredible-real-world-beast-masters.html#ixzz2dKvUQNRv

to cut d long story short, d boi na winch, he flew on his own not on d plane. he jst needed an airport 2 land but ws unfortunate 2 land at d same time as d plane.

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You come in from a summer hike covered with itchy red mosquito bites, only to have your friends innocently proclaim that they don’t have any. Or you wake up from a night of camping to find your ankles and wrists aflame with bites, while your tentmates are unscathed.

You’re not alone. An estimated 20 percent of people, it turns out, are especially delicious for mosquitoes, and get bit more often on a consistent basis. And while scientists don’t yet have a cure for the ailment, other than preventing bites with insect repellent (which, we’ve recently discovered, some mosquitoes can become immune to over time), they do have a number of ideas regarding why some of us are more prone to bites than others. Here are some of the factors that could play a role:

Blood Type

Not surprisingly—since, after all, mosquitoes bite us to harvest proteins from our blood—research shows that they find certain blood types more appetizing than others. One study found that in a controlled setting, mosquitoes landed on people with Type O blood nearly twice as often as those with Type A. People with Type B blood fell somewhere in the middle of this itchy spectrum. Additionally, based on other genes, about 85 percent of people secrete a chemical signal through their skin that indicates which blood type they have, while 15 percent do not, and mosquitoes are also more attracted to secretors than nonsecretors regardless of which type they are.

Carbon Dioxide

One of the key ways mosquitoes locate their targets is by smelling the carbon dioxide emitted in their breath—they use an organ called a maxillary palp to do this, and can detect carbon dioxide from as far as 164 feet away. As a result, people who simply exhale more of the gas over time—generally, larger people—have been shown to attract more mosquitoes than others. This is one of the reasons why children get bit less often than adults, on the whole.

Photo by Flickr user Desiree N. Williams

Exercise and Metabolism

In addition to carbon dioxide, mosquitoes find victims at closer range by smelling the lactic acid, uric acid, ammonia and other substances expelled via their sweat, and are also attracted to people with higher body temperatures. Because strenuous exercise increases the buildup of lactic acid and heat in your body, it likely makes you stand out to the insects. Meanwhile, genetic factors influence the amount of uric acid and other substances naturally emitted by each person, making some people more easily found by mosquitos than others.

Skin Bacteria

Other research has suggested that the particular types and volume of bacteria that naturally live on human skin affect our attractiveness to mosquitoes. In a 2011 study, scientists found that having large amounts of a few types of bacteria made skin more appealing to mosquitoes. Surprisingly, though, having lots of bacteria but spread among a greater diversity of different species of bacteria seemed to make skin less attractive. This also might be why mosquitoes are especially prone to biting our ankles and feet—they naturally have more robust bacteria colonies.

Beer

Just a single 12-ounce bottle of beer can make you more attractive to the insects, one study found. But even though researchers had suspected this was because drinking increases the amount of ethanol excreted in sweat, or because it increases body temperature, neither of these factors were found to correlate with mosquito landings, making their affinity for drinkers something of a mystery.

Pregnancy

In several different studies, pregnant women have been found to attract roughly twice as many mosquito bites as others, likely a result of the fact the unfortunate confluence of two factors: They exhale about 21 percent more carbon dioxide and are on average about 1.26 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than others.

Clothing Color

This one might seem absurd, but mosquitoes use vision (along with scent) to locate humans, so wearing colors that stand out (black, dark blue or red) may make you easier to find, at least according to James Day, a medical entomologist at the University of Florida, in commentary he gave to NBC.

Genetics

As a whole, underlying genetic factors are estimated to account for 85 percent of the variability between people in their attractiveness to mosquitoes—regardless of whether it’s expressed through blood type, metabolism, or other factors. Unfortunately, we don’t (yet) have a way of modifying these genes, but…

Natural Repellants

Some researchers have started looking at the reasons why a minority of people seem to rarely attract mosquitoes in the hopes of creating the next generation of insect repellants. Using chromatography to isolate the particular chemicals these people emit, scientists at the UK’s Rothamsted Research lab have found that these natural repellers tend to excrete a handful of substances that mosquitoes don’t seem to find appealing. Eventually, incorporating these molecules into advanced bug spray could make it possible for even a Type O, exercising, pregnant woman in a black shirt to ward off mosquitoes for good.



Read more: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/07/why-do-mosquitoes-bite-some-people-more-than-others/#ixzz2cs0vRrVg

The saying goes that one person’s waste is another’s treasure. For those scientists who study urine the saying is quite literal–pee is a treasure-trove of scientific potential. It can now be used as a source of electric power. Uine-eating bacteria can create a strong enough current to power a cell phone. Medicines derived from urine can help treat infertility and fight symptoms of menopause. Stem cells harvested from urine have been reprogrammed into neurons and even used to grow human teeth.

For modern scientists, the golden liquid can be, well, liquid gold. But a quick look back in history shows that urine has always been important to scientific and industrial advancement, so much so that the ancient Romans not only sold pee collected from public urinals, but those who traded in urine had to pay a tax. So what about pee did preindustrial humans find so valuable? Here are a few examples:

Urine-soaked leather makes it soft: Prior to the ability to synthesize chemicals in the lab, urine was a quick and rich source of urea, a nitrogen-based organic compound. When stored for long periods of time, urea decays into ammonia. Ammonia in water acts as a caustic but weak base. Its high pH breaks down organic material, making urine the perfect substance for ancients to use in softening and tanning animal hides. Soaking animal skins in urine also made it easier for leather workers to remove hair and bits of flesh from the skin.

The cleansing power of pee: If you’ve investigated the ingredients in your household cleaners, you may have noticed a prevalent ingredient: ammonia. As a base, ammonia is a useful cleanser because dirt and grease–which are slightly acidic–get neutralized by the ammonia. Even though early Europeans knew about soap, many launderers preferred to use urine for its ammonia to get tough stains out of cloth. In fact, in ancient Rome, vessels for collecting urine were commonplace on streets–passers-by would relieve themselves into them and when the vats were full their contents were taken to a fullonica (a laundry), diluted with water and poured over dirty clothes. A worker would stand in the tub of urine and stomp on the clothes, similar to modern washing machine’s agitator.

Even after making soap became more prevalent, urine–known as chamber lye for the chamber pots it was collected in–was often used as a soaking treatment for tough stains.

Urine not only made your whites cleaner, but your colors brighter: Natural dyes from seeds, leaves, flowers, lichens, roots, bark and berries can leach out of a cloth if it or the dyebath aren’t treated with mordant, which helps to bind the dye to the cloth. It works like this: molecules of dye called chromophores get wrapped inside a more complex molecule or a group of molecules; this shell housing the dye then binds to the cloth. The central nugget of dye is then visible but is protected from bleeding away by the molecules surrounding it. Stale urine–or more precisely the ammonia in it–is a good mordant. Molecules of ammonia can form a web around chromophores, helping to develop the color of dyes as well as to bind it to cloth.

Specific chamberpots dedicated to urine helped families collect their pee for use as mordants. Urine was so important to the textile industry of 16th century England that casks of it–an estimated amount equivalent to the urine stream of 1000 people for an entire year–were shipped from across the country to Yorkshire, where it was mixed with alum to form an even stronger mordant than urine alone.



http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/08/from-gunpowder-to-teeth-whitener-the-science-behind-historic-uses-of-urine/#ixzz2crxFX9KJ

as my brother, flavour said, "ala dala ada adago". c as her boobs resemble 90yr-old woman own

stumbled upon this tread nd it reminded me of something dat happened to a friend of mine. d young man met a pretty gurl in a supermarket. after paying 4 her bills nd taking her 2 fastfood where he spent much money on her, he took her to his house. d guy don set to knack am wen, during the course of some small talk, the gurl began tellin him dah somtimes she feels lyk there were eyes watching her nd dah in fact, those eyes were probably watchn her now. ma guy's pinto jst fell lyk a stone. he couldn't bring himself 2 touch d gurl.
2 weeks later, he saw d same gurl in a fastfood kissin a guy, presumably her boyfriend. d guy no fit shout
some gurls claim to b mamawater jst 2 prevent u frm s**xing dem, normally after u've spent ur hard-earned money on dem

dis post ain't entirely correct though the bowhead whale part is kinda true. d pacific giant clam lives for more than 500years and they just grow bigger as they get older. the oldest discovered was 405years old. another is d glass sponge which can live for, believe it or not, more than 10,000years. so wen we humans were still busy trying to evolve from unicellular organisms, these sponges jst said f**k evolution, nd remained d same way ever since

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maah hear say d second ship is made in Nigeria

i dunno where this guy got this info from. for one, i school at futo and on dat day, i was on my way back frm school and didn't notice anything unusual.two) housas don't live there or mayb just a few of them. 3) who d f**K told u dat a blast from a bomb at dat place would affect futo or poly was it a nuclear bomb? [/b]i'm sure this bomb was just a relic from the biafran war[b]. ma man, try and confirm before posting crap on this forum

chino24: You don't know who is Roches?

He has wrecked imo state. He has used the state as a colateral to get more money for himself and his aboki cousins up north. We Igbos will rather support a non-Igbo, assuming no Igbo man or woman is contesting than supporting a clown called Roches. Although he is just bluffing, he knows that he is hated in Igboland. TUFIAKWA.

young man, you shouldn't open your mouth to bring forth such arrant toxic nonsense. where d heck do you grab such crap from Rochas' administration has blocked those leakages through which you and your kind sap government funds and i'm sure thats the reason for the animosity you hold for the man. he'll contest and win the presidential election and if you don't like it, Niger republic is not far