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Fhemmmy:Hi Fhemmmy, can you pre-order for a Toyota Avensis? I know its more of an European brand. Need your cost to land a 2010 full option Avensis. Thanks |
lastpage:I just liked your post above... I concur with all you have said on this thread. |
Someone wants to chop his own money before Feb 2015.... ![]() |
Horus:The girls are fuuuuaaaaainnnnneeee, damn!!!! |
Let her accept this challenge first- http://newsdiaryonline.com/oby-ezekwesili-challenges-fg-to-a-public-debate-of-the-facts/ ... Voodoo economics! |
calculusx:You got mail... |
calculusx:I just checked my personal email, nothing from you oooo. Hope you sent to the right mail? Because the email I registered with on Nairaland is a dummy email as such I wont be able to receive any mail. |
calculusx:Hello Mr. Calculusx... I am trying to get in touch with you. Just dropped you a mail via your contact page on your website. Kindly respond. Cheers |
Gorrbachev:The supposed "Lagos is no mans land" igbos are the only noise makers... The sensible ones know the deal. |
Jonathan's cabinet is just filled with comedians and intellectual frauds. You have the crude robbers ala Wike, Obanikoro, etc and the pen robbers ala NOI, Aganga, Adeshina etc. Very soon the average Nigerian will be liberated. |
Apologies... Topic already posted on the forum. Mods kindly merge comments with the previous thread and delete this. |
I have argued times without number that the bokoharam spokesman- Shekau's accent doesn't sound like someone whose arabic/na hausa sounds like his 1st language. He sounds like someone who picked arabic/hausa as a second language. To me he sounds very much like a southerner. Just my thoughts.... |
beopened: I wish i didnt have to reply you but for posterity sakesHow I wish Seun can update the like function so that we can see monikers who like our post. I liked every post of yours on this thread. You are well grounded in intellectual politics- you just won a fan. |
ayusco85: The Ozone layer never depleted, the west (U.S and co) just came up with the global warming hoax just to cut down the chinese growing economy which was mostly powered by hydrocarbon (coal and crude oil).10 Gbosa for the man wey sabi.... All the ozone layer talk is just politics. Have you seen Al Gore lately? The clown is fat as f*&k; living large off 'green'. |
poiZon: the only stella we knw for nairaland na STELLA ODUAH, DASALLbleeping illiterate. She just schooled your ass right there but your pride won't just allow. |
I was about starting a thread about TAN until I saw this. Just can't stand their silly adverts. They have bought all advert slot on prime time in all TV stations. It is a sad story for the Nigerian youth! Sent from Nokia 3330 |
A road map to the auto industry partnerships The auto industry has a very confusing family tree. The past few years have seen partnerships, sales, separations, bankruptcies, and entire divisions killed off, making it difficult to keep up with who owns which car brands. As automakers slim down to become more profitable and efficient, a number of changes have been made in recent years. We have seen storied names, such as Hummer, Mercury, and Pontiac, fade away into the history books. We have seen others, such as Chrysler, Jaguar, and Volvo, find new international corporate parents. And some, such as Aston Martin, remain in flux. To help clear up some of the confusion, we present a basic road map to navigate who owns which car brands among the major automotive companies that sell in the United States. Of course, the list is definitely subject to change. BMW owns: Mini and Rolls Royce. Fiat owns: Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Dodge, Ferrari, Jeep, Lancia, Maserati, Ram and SRT. Ford Motor Company owns: Lincoln and a small stake in Mazda. General Motors owns: Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, and GMC. GM owns a controlling interest in Opel and Vauxhall in Europe and Holden in Australia. (The U.S. Treasury Department is in the process of selling off the remaining GM stock holidngs.) Honda owns: Acura. Hyundai owns: Kia. Tata Motors (India) owns: Jaguar and Land Rover. Mazda mostly independently owned (Ford has small stake) Mitsubishi is independently owned. Daimler AG owns: Mercedes-Benz and Smart. Nissan owns: Infiniti. (Nissan, in turn, is owned by Renault.) Saab is owned by National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS). Subaru: Owned by Fuji Heavy Industries with Toyota a minority partner. Tesla: Toyota is a minority partner. Partnership with Daimler AG. Toyota Motor Company owns: Lexus, Scion, Daihatsu and Hino Motors, with a stake in Fuji Industries (Subaru's parent company) and Isuzu. Volkswagen owns: Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, and overseas-brands SEAT and Skoda. Volvo is owned by Chinese-automaker Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, aka Geely. Source- http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2009/06/car-brands-who-owns-what/index.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was surprised to find out about KIA being owned by Hyundai. In Nigeria the two brands are in competition with each other while Toyota and Honda are just a step ahead. What's your thought on car brands of same family being in direct competition? |
plaetton: A god fearing person is usually a superstitious person, a pretender, a fake who uses the camouflage of religion to hide his or her true character.Gbam!!! I rarely take anyone who displays the God-fearing badge serious either in business or romance. They always turn out to be the direct opposite of what they claim. I will really like an extensive debate on this topic. |
Hello guys, Trust you all are having a great week. There are questions that keep bugging my mind and I will seriously like to hear your views on them. 1. Who is a God-fearing person?... Who is a God-fearing man or woman? 2. How do you recognize a God-fearing individual?... What are the characters of a God-fearing man or woman? 3. How do these characters or if at all a God-fearing individual shape your decision is selecting a spouse? I keep hearing both male and female giving the above condition in selecting a spouse. The idea of a God-fearing individual is quite bogus and I will really want to learn how the married guys/ guys courting who had gone through this selection process achieved it. Please your mature contributions will be appreciated. |
Hate or love him, no one can deny that BAT is highly cerebral... |
The absurdity of Nigerian leadership... GEJ is a corrupt pig in a fedora hat! Sent from Nokia 3330 |
Nigeria.... The more you look, the less you see. Sent from Nokia 3330 |
@Barcanista sure understands Lagos State party politics very well. kudos!!! Sent from Nokia 3330 |
Why are they protesting in Lagos? What's wrong with them booking flight tickets to Abuja... Funny set of people! Sent from Nokia 3330 |
Hello Nairalanders, I have been a part of the Nairaland community since 2006 but recently decided to re register on the site. I will be running series of publications, opinions , and debates on the need for we- Africans to look inward in developing Africa (Africans Invest in Africa series). This is a step in re-igniting our sense of patriotism to the motherland and the need for us to curb an imminent threat that stares us in the face and may become a reality if cautions are ignored in the nearest future. The Threat- "The Scramble for Africa- Economic re colonization of Africa". Please read the below publication. Your opinions and debate will be highly appreciated. [size=14pt]Land Grabbing in Africa, The New Colonialism[/size] May 28, 2014 — The silent recolonisation of Africa is happening on a mass scale. To address this issue, the first Africa Conference on Land Grabs is set to take place in South Africa on 27–30 Oct. 2014. Land is the source of life and death, but it might not always be with us. https://2rxax5inm6sma94zqz2y91348.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2014/05/Land-grab-protests-in-Senegal-2012-Photo-Ndimby-Andriantsoavina-760-x-445.jpg Land grab protest in Senegal, 2012. Photo: Ndimby Andriantsoavina One of the reasons South Africa’s apartheid system is said not to have vanished with the swearing in of Nelson Mandela as President is the question of land. The colonial system was complete in places where land ownership was taken away from the colonised, and decolonisation remains incomplete if the land does not return to its rightful owners, those who were brutally and slyly dispossessed. Tragically, a silent recolonisation on a mass scale is happening through further dispossession in areas where the original colonisation had not been complete. The new colonisation is dressed in the language of economic development and fighting poverty but its interest is the satisfaction of the needs of multinational companies for markets and land to grow food for export – to satisfy the food needs of their primary market while depriving Africans the satisfaction of their needs. Land is the source of life and death Land is not just a material possession. The 1997 Church Land Conference in Johannesburg was indeed accurate in noting that land is and should be above commerce and politics, that land is the source of life and death, like a mother who gives her children sustenance without which they would perish. As Andile Mngxitama reports in The Chimurenga Chronic April 2013 edition, land is always with us, it gives us life and when we die, it takes us back. In the same article, Andile narrates the story of Sipho Makhombothi, the founder and now deceased leader of the Landless People’s Movement, who left instructions that on his death, he should be buried near his ancestors, on their and his land. Militant members of the movement indeed honoured his wish and buried the activist on the land, in defiance of guns and dogs belonging to the White ‘owners’ of the same land. Two years after the burial, Makhombothi’s body was exhumed under court order. Andile reminds us that “Makhombothi’s bones – landless in life, landless in death – still scream for justice across the fields and plains of Mpumalanga.” The effects of colonial era land grabbing are not only visible in South Africa. Kenya’s tale of land-owners and squatters, of political families that own entire counties as rewards for political deals with the ‘departing’ colonialists remain an open sore during electoral campaigns. The case of Namibia, where residents of European countries still own huge chunks of land native Namibians have no access to is another sign that decolonisation of the land is still far from reality. https://2rxax5inm6sma94zqz2y91348.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2014/05/21st-Century-African-land-rush.jpg Repossession was bad for Zimbabwe. Really? The case of Zimbabwe’s repossession of hitherto-White farmer owned land is perhaps the most known attempt at the decolonisation of the land. It has been heavily criticised by Western media and branded as an act of an almost mad and senile man, Robert Gabriel Mugabe. The neo-liberal capitalist in the true imperial fashion has preached that the repossession is bad for the African. Food shortage in the country has been blamed on the repossession, despite the fact that the White farmers used to export more food than they supplied to the Zimbabwean market when they owned the farms. The thirst for land by extreme capitalists is insatiable. Thus, parts of the continent that had almost survived the original land colonisation have to be recolonised, and those where the land was effectively ‘stolen’ consolidated. Protests in Uganda Since the end of active hostilities in Northern Uganda, the war has turned to the land. With residents migrating to camps for protection and refuge, most of their land remained bare alongside communally-owned land. With ‘commercial’ farmers like the Madhivani group and the discovery of oil deposits beneath much of this land, the post-conflict period has seen new forms of land conflicts emerge between the commercial farmer and government on one hand and residents who do not want to part with ownership of their land. The government claims it wants the land on behalf of the commercial farmer to grow sugarcane, and consequently the economy, but some critics think this is a disguised attempt at disenfranchising the people, especially that oil deposits have been reported to be in plenty beneath the same land. The resistance against this recolonisation has taken on conventional and non-conventional methods. Women in the Amuru district – where the land grab machinery has invested both sly and direct intimidatory means – undressed in protest against political leaders, an act considered the most severe expression of displeasure and discontent. The wrangle continues. It is a big political issue, accusations of bribery of politicians by the corporate monsters are rife, but there is still hope that the people may prevail. In Southern Uganda, in somewhat dissimilar circumstances, the people objected to the award of the Mabira forest-land to another sugar plantation-farmer in 2007. A huge demonstration in Kampala, that saw some Indians and Asians victimised by the demonstrators and some of the demonstrators gunned down by the army and police expressed the mass disapproval of the government plans. Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi, the reigning king of Buganda, where the forest is located, offered his own land to the sugar-cane grower in return for the forest, but his offer was rejected. On paper, it was reported that the land grab was stopped, but some press subsequently reported that some parts of the forest had been grabbed and were being used for sugar-cane growing anyway. https://2rxax5inm6sma94zqz2y91348.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2014/05/Land-Grabs-The-Facts-1000-x-707.jpg The African Union is complicit The language of development and economic production is rife in the land grab justification. Like the 19th century colonisation, the new wave of land grabbing is allegedly well-intentioned. It is also well-planned, in the same way the 19th century colonisation was well hatched by European powers of the time. Ironically, the African Union is complicit in this new plan. The core plan comprises the G8′s “New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Africa” and the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). According to the African Centre for Bio-Safety, “opening markets and creating space for multinationals to secure profits lie at the heart of the G8 and AGRA interventions”. The Centre has labelled the plans as a new wave of colonialism. The plans include the harmonisation of laws across Africa to favour foreign direct investment in agriculture, ease land ownership laws to favour foreign multinational companies and allow the use of genetically modified seeds. All this compromises the ability of the majority small-scale farmers, the so-called subsistence farmers who grow food for their own consumption and a surplus for the market in order to continue producing for their own consumption, not to mention the market. Dis-empowering such people means controlling their lives and turning them into consumers of products they can’t produce. The use of genetically modified seeds enables multinational companies to collect royalties from farmers who use the seeds, thus destroying the seed varieties cycles that have proved sustainable on the continent for time immemorial. https://2rxax5inm6sma94zqz2y91348.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2014/05/Turning-food-to-biofuel.jpg Turning food to biofuel The recolonisation plans are already working. A report published in April 2014 by UK campaigning group World Development Movement (WDM) titled Carving up a continent: How the UK government is facilitating the corporate takeover of African food systems showed that “huge tracts of land in African countries with access to the sea and high economic growth are being targeted by corporations such as Monsanto and Unilever with help from the British and American governments”. According to the report, agreements signed with key African countries Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal and Tanzania expose huge tracts of African land to a risk of being grabbed by multinational companies under the guise of fighting poverty and food insecurity. As the African Centre for Bio-Safety reported, huge projects such as the ProSavanna project in northern Mozambique are already displacing farmers from their land and imposing large-scale production structures for export. They add that “actual farmers are separated from the land and the only realistic option for a livelihood.” Like the 19th century colonisation project, some African entities are cooperating in this new wave of colonialism; latter-day governments, to wit. They are the ones signing these agreements and lending their coercive machinery to the multinationals to evict small-scale subsistence farmers from the land. The faulty development mantra that the market is a fix for all needs – including basic needs – does not consider the fact that most African populations, as reported by The Guardian (UK), are “fed by smallholders as opposed to corporate farming, which tends to focus on exports and rich markets.” Like 19th century colonialism, the New Alliance strategy focuses on using Africa as the production grounds for the consumption needs of Western markets. The food security and sovereignty of African local populations is of no concern for the multinationals and the foreign governments funding their activities in Africa. Controlling their lives and turning them into consumers of products they can't produce In 2012, Human Rights Watch reported that the Ethiopian government had forced tens of thousands of people off their land, and given it to ‘investors’. The BBC reported the land was bought by Chinese and Saudi Arabian ‘investors’ who intended to grow more than one million tonnes of rice on it, to export to their countries. In Liberia, a community in Grand Bassa county is resisting the encroachment of Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO), a British palm oil company on their land. Around 169,000 hectares had allegedly been allocated to the company by the government, without consulting over 7,000 people of the Jogbahn clan who have lived on the land for several generations. Skirmishes involving the company’s security unit and the Liberian Police Support Unit have not shaken the resolve of the people to defend their land, and as of May 2014, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the Liberian President, has promised to halt the grab, although the company has not acknowledged the presidential statement. As a result of the increasingly deteriorating situation, the first Africa Conference on Land Grab is being organised, scheduled for 27–30 of October 2014 at the Pan African Parliament, South Africa. The conference will feature various speakers who will focus on a range of country case-studies of land grabbing in Africa. One hopes that a feasible resistance strategy is hatched to halt the recolonisation of the continent. https://2rxax5inm6sma94zqz2y91348.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2014/05/Photo-Meags-Fitzgerald.jpg Photo: Meags Fitzgerald Source- http://thisisafrica.me/land-grabbing-africa-new-colonialism/ |
Good for the lad! I hope his work permit is sorted out fast. EPL is going to be interesting this season. How I wish Berlusconi will just sell my club to a willing investor. Can you imagine AC Milan not playing any continental games this season?? Its really a sad story at the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza. And why the hell was Seedorf sacked to usher in a tactless Inzaghi? whyyyy ?!!Enough of my rant. FORZA Milan! Sent from a Nokia 3330 |
Ahead of the 2015 general elections, the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, Catholic Archbishop of Abuja diocese, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, among others, will on Monday and Tuesday meet in the nation’s capital to deliberate on best ways to ensure a successful conduct of the election. The Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja made this known in a statement issued by Rev. Fr. Patrick Alumuku, the diocese’s Director of Communications, in Abuja.Sultan Onaiyekan religious religion The statement said President Goodluck Jonathan was expected to declare the conference open. Expected to attend are state governors, national and state legislators, the judiciary, religious and traditional leaders, professionals, academics and leaders of thought, civil society, media, as well as critical stakeholders. Others include Dr William Vendley, Secretary-General, World Council of Religious Leaders, Sheikh Shaban Mubaje, Grand Mufti of Uganda and co-chair, African Council for Religious Leaders and other religious leaders across Africa. The statement added that the conference, with the theme “Interfaith Understanding and Cooperation for Responsible Politics,” would hold a symposium on religious extremism in Nigeria. Similarly, a statement issued by the Sultan in Kaduna, said the event was aimed at ensuring credible and peaceful electioneering process in 2015. “The conversation that it will generate is considered apt for setting the mood of the nation as we step into the threshold of another electioneering campaign. “His Eminence, John Cardinal Onaiyekan and I, as well as other members of the Interfaith Initiative for Peace, will be happy leading the conversation towards a better Nigeria,” the monarch wrote. A communiqué is expected at the end of the conference, while a workable resolution will be adopted towards peaceful electioneering period ahead of the 2015 general elections. However, President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, DailyPost gathered was not officially invited to the conference. Under normal circumstance, the Warri-based preacher by virtue of his position as the official head of Christians in the country, should participate. Speaking to DailyPost Monday morning, a media practictioner operating from Abuja, lamented the non-invitation of Oritsejafor. “Can you see how they are mixing religion and politics,” the source who did not want his name revealed, asked rhetoretically. “Why would such gathering of respected religious leaders and prominent persons, meet and not invite the president of CAN? Is he not a stakeholder? It’s just unfortunate. I was discussing this matter with some of my colleagues before you called.” Asked why Cardinal Onaiyekan did not insist that the body extends invitation to Oritsejafor, the source replied: “You see, Cardinal Onaiyekan is one of the biggest problems Christians in the North have. He gives us away cheaply to our Muslim friends.” “The Muslim North see him as a soft man, so they rather have him attend any meeting than the president of CAN, who speaks his mind regardless of how revered the indvudual is.” “I believe they left him out because he (Oritsejafor) might disagree with them on some of the agenda. But this is not the right thing to do.” In a chat with DailyPost, a functionary in the office of CAN General Secretary, Rev. Dr. Musa Asake, said he was not aware of the conference. “Where and when is this event holding please?” he quipped. After our reporter answered, “In Abuja sir,” he said: “Well, I don’t think CAN President was invited, perhaps because it is an initiatve of the Catholics.” When informed that a number of key stakeholders from within and outside the country were invited for the discourse, the official responded: “I am sure the (CAN) president would attend if he got an invite.” - See more at: http://247nigerianewsupdate.co/oritsejafor-snubbed-as-sultan-onaiyekan-others-meet-over-2015-elections http://dailypost.ng/2014/08/11/oritsejafor-snubbed-sultan-onaiyekan-others-meet-2015-elections/?keepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=600&width=850&caption=DailyPost+Nigeria |
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