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[quote author=Sisi_Kill]Someone took a stance against something wrong and got it righted. . .and he is being insulted??!!

I give up, I'll never understand y'all. [/quote]Please don't give up yet.

It is very clear from the reactions I'm seeing here that the Nigerian situation has really eroded the reasoning of many Nigerians. Just like someone mentioned, common sense is truly not common

allahisevil: https://www.leadership.ng/nga/sites/default/files/imagecache/460x287/articleimages/typewriter.jpg

http://www.leadership.ng/nga/articles/35599/2012/09/25/national_theatre_spend_n22m_typewriters.html

In the 21st century when most of the world’s typewriter manufacturing companies have long closed shops, the National Theatre is spending a whopping sum of N22.8 million to purchase the few remaining ones.

Demand for the machines has sunk in the last 10 years as consumers switch to computers.

LEADERSHIP checks showed that typewriters are at the end of their line as most of the world’s typewriter manufacturers have closed down their plants or converted to other lines of productions.

The last standing typewriter factory in the world, Godrej and Boyce, is closing its plant in Mumbai, India. What remains are just several hundred typewriters, most of which are Arabic language models.

Although typewriters became obsolete years ago in the west, they were still common in India - until recently, reported the Daily Mail.

Typewriter sales have plummeted in the past several years: the company sold fewer than 800 machines in 2010, down from the 50,000 it produced every year in the 1990s.

“From the early 2000s onwards, computers started dominating. All the manufacturers of office typewriters stopped production, except us,” general manager Millind Dukle told the Business Standard. “We are not getting many orders now. But this might be the last chance for typewriter lovers. Now, our primary market is among the defence agencies, courts and government offices.”

Another one of Godrej and Boyce’s typewriter plants in Shirwal was shut down recently and is now used as a refrigerator manufacturing unit.

In the face of this development, the National Theatre provided for N22.8 million in its 2012 budget for the purchase of typewriters.

The item, which comes under the heading “Purchase of fixed assets – general” has other items as purchase of office furniture and fittings, purchase of photocopying machines, purchase of fire-fighting equipment as well as purchase of recreational facilities.

Kabir Yusuf, general manager, National Theatre, when asked about the item exclaimed, “Who uses typewriters these days?” He however said the money was for writing equipment.

When asked to shed more light on what he meant, he said the sub-head typewriter is the budget template under which there are other items, which he would not mention.

I think 90% of the people commenting here read only the title of this thread. I don't think they are literally acquiring typewriters as the general manager has clearly stated . The real question however is, what kind of writing equipment would they be acquiring with N22 million??

warrior01: It obvious from the report you guys are not even sure of the lies you're peddling. 'A source said this and another source said that'. can't you guys get it that what transpires in the private life of Gej's family or how many times they sleep together in a week is none of business. So sahara reporters if i may ask; how does this your stup!d gossip affect the price of garri in the market? Nonsense

The moment GEJ took the oath to be president, that's the moment he lost his right to privacy. As a president of a supposedly democratic nation, he becomes a commodity of the general public. The nation has the right to know the whereabouts and wellbeing of its president. That's how it works in sane societies. _{Although we know we don't have a sane society but at least we deserve a bit of sanity.}

psalmizt: this is what we get for having an irresponsible government that cannot fix anything other than their pockets.... Education zero, Infrastructure zilch,

Exactly my thoughts. This rubbish can only happen because the girls come from a dead country with rotten leaders.

3 years of labour and Nigerian resources (capital flight) about to be stolen by Canada simply because the girls worked for 2 weeks which in my opinion ultimately improves the Canadian economy. As for those making insensitive remarks here, just wait until a similar fate (or even worse) befalls you or someone close to you.

_{Anyway, as much as I feel really sad about the unfortunate fate of these girls, I think they look kind of funny in that picture}

Many Nigerians wicked, walahi

Simply because she's looking like a in those pictures, so many people are happily leaving venomous comments.

If she had looked elegant in the pictures, the typical comments in this thread would have been,

MODs, why is this on the frontpage?
What is our business if she opens a bootiq?
okay she launches a shoe line but how does this affect the price of

Why do we derive joy in pulling down our celebrities??

Pgent1: Abeg help me shout am 2 dia ears...marijuana is not d best thing 2 give inspiration except u wan turn 2 d likes of terry g,mallam spicy&co(i hope u know dat 2baba start makng sense when he quit egbo)

ignorance is terrible especially wen displayed with boldness. Any discerning person who listens carefully to 2baba's lyrics will certainly know where his inspiration comes from

ray amayo: THIS IS OUR NEXT PRESIDENT, SO BECAREFUL!!!!!!
the whole drinks u can see on the table cost less than 700 naira-and because he is edo state gov, he should not drink. people like u-AmBeautiful- will take one carton under one hour and u expect gov not to drink.Osho baba-carry go nothing do u, u deserve anything u want. ur hard work and committment to the people of Edo state has made u OUR NEXT PRESIDENT

It's clear someone doesn't know what a bottle of Dom-P looks like. That artist must be good cos in my eyes, that job looks more like a picture

Olu Jacobs & Pete Edochie

A little old skool clip of Olu Jacobs extorting cash from Christopher Walken

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90qY-jVIp9M?version=3&hl=en

Can someone please tell me what is wrong in buying gold especially if the person is financially capable

How does buying gold make him foolish?? Remember, gold is an asset and not a liability

How does buying gold make him childish?? btw he never denied that he was a child

I hear some people here calling it vanity but that's just a classical proof of poverty mentality

Some people say its not their business: if it's not ur business, why did u bother opening this thread? are u so jobless?

Some people keep asking why any story about davido, wizkid, dbanj etc always makes the front page no matter how silly: The answer is simple, 'they are celebrities and u are not.' Get that into ur thick skulls please

Nigerians really need to wake up from this unnecessary hate and envy bad belle towards our own celebrities. If jay-z or rozay fronts blink blinks, we praise them and say they are bosses but when dbanj buys a bentley, the next thing is a rain of insults. Anyway, thank God for a website like NL where people get to express their true personalities under the guise of anonymity. I've truly learnt a lot about Nigerians from this site.

Nigerians are bloody hypocrites. 5 complete pages of people bad-mouthing, condemning and judging the lady. What people have failed to realize is that it takes a moment for someone to repent. She's been away from the limelight for a while now; who knows if she has truly changed.

Instead of una to repent, una dey here dey happily judge another person

Genius100: Quite frankly, I really do not understand what you guys are crying about. Why are Nigerians so ignorant? You have been challenged to bring forth any reputable study that links inflation with currency denomination, no one has been able to. Yet you are here lamenting over something you know nothing about. Do you have any rational and conclusive proof of the adverse effect of this policy? If not, STFU..

As Nigerians, we are so used to criticizing and complaining to a point where we now criticize and even demonstrate for non-issues

Please, can someone be kind enough to explain to me why/how the N5000 note will destroy our economy/nation?? If the words of CBN are anything to go by, the new N5000 notes will not necessarily be in circulation; just like in the US where they have the $1000 and $10,000 bills _{(which are however not in circulation)}

If all those names listed are hated by girls, wetin dem want us to call dem again naa??

As for housing, I can't say which is more expensive cos its just too close to call. In terms of TRANSPORTATION COST, Abuja still remains one of the CHEAPEST big cities in Nigeria

Common DPO in London and people are celebrating? I thought a Kenyan man was/is the president of the US?

I think the map says it all. ,

For OPL 915 & 916 combined, I don't know how they do the maths in things like these but in my eyes, 70% falls in Anambra, 15% in kogi, 5% in Delta, 7% in Enugu, 3% in Edo

In a case like this, it's absolutely unfair to parade the pharmacists TOGETHER with the real killers on national TV

Yes selling a prescription drug without a prescription is wrong but never in my life have I been asked for a doctors prescription when buying any drug in Nigeria. Just like someone mentioned, it's just like going to arrest the seller of rat poison because a housegirl somewhere used it to poison her madam.

This old man's face has truly not changed since the last 10 yrs...

abysirius: For complete 1 year I stayed in Aba and I doubt if Aba is as terrible as u're painting it. Most especially all these areas that u mentioned. Fine, Aba has a drainage problem. But if u've been to a place like Onitsha then u will understnd that Aba is better. For your info, I stay @ Omenazu (corpers lodge). Umunghazi, Ariaria and even 'aiorun' permit my spellings, are our catchment areas where we (family house) do our monthly shopping. Aba to me isn't bad. Let me ask u: have u visited Ajegunle b4? Boundary, Alakoto, and all those places them. What will u say about those areas? Aba is okay joor. Abi na where all these lawless pple no dey sef? Na for Osusu town hallan very close to BTC I do inec reg as Aro1. So I know aba wella. Aba, I love Aba.

Its too bad that we have too many people who always come up with this sort of shallow argument. That's why our leaders in Nigeria always take us for granted.

FYI, the OP is talking about Aba and not any other place so stop making unnecessary comparisons. OR are u saying that if somewhere else is worse than Aba then Aba has no right to be fixed??. . OR maybe cos Onitsha/ajegunle are worse, then Aba automatically becomes London??

dejustice: Am sure, Abuja Hotels were not considered.

Lagos hotels are generally more expensive

[quote author=High_Chief]Am sure why most hotels are very expensive is just mainly because they had to generate their own power all day, pump water et al. So all these reflect on the amounts they charge. Nigeria should fix stable electricity and they will see the positive ripple effects in so many sectors.[/quote]
The only reason why Nigerian hotels are expensive is cos, no matter how much the proprietors charge, Nigerians will still pay (just to show off wealth)

Politicians especially are not helping matters; if u go to transcorp in abuja today, u will be shocked to find out that over 60% of their rooms are PERMANENTLY BOOKED year-in-year-out by politicians who will most likely not even spend a single night there all year round. So as a hotel owner, what would u do when u know that the demand for ur product is not dependent on the price u fix??

The OP totally got it wrong on ALL [/b]the examples he gave. Good thing he said it was [b]his opinion

Jason Njoku

forbes-10-young-african-millionaires -to-watch

http://www.jaguda.com/2012/07/13/nigerians-jason-njoku-ladi-delano-make-list-of-forbes-10-young-african-millionaires-to-watch/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/mfonobongnsehe/2012/07/11/ten-young-african-millionaires-to-watch/4/

Sprumbaba: He is not a billionaire.Dont feed us that.

He's a millionaire in dollar$. Shine ur eyes

That girl na sharp girl

It's obvious from this thread that there are lots of kids on the internet

[quote author=Africa's jolie]You call a 16years nollywood thespian omotola over hyped? you have issues o then tonto dike is wat?.One question pls is ur mother slim? just because omotola is a celeb u think u have the right to insult her meanwhile u have a mother at home.What if someone calls ur mum a hippo with the number of kids she has abeg what will you do? You jst wnt to bring genny into this matter and this is abt omot nd damilola,you must be a psycho.Your problem is as huge as the font u use.[/quote]Sometimes u really have to ignore some characters u see on NL.

As for Damigirl, she's been killing me from her Telema days in tinsel.

I see TIMAYA!. . I hear TIMAYA

Na wa for P-square oo

eleshin: [size=14pt]what's wrong in adopting one genre of music that originated from another country?[/size] I don't see that as piracy or in anyway a copyright theft cos its not a property per se.

I wonder oo

Many people commenting here clearly don't know the meaning of copyright but as for flavour, I have to be honest, he stole this one . Although those guys can't legally pin him down in court cos he changed the beat a little and also the lyrics.