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Congratulations

^^And BH?

I dey laugh ooo

POSER.


This is the first step in helping someone to help themself.


This is the first step in helping someone to help herself.


This is the first step in helping someone to help himself.


This is the first step in helping someone to help itself.


This is the first step in helping someone to help themselves.


Which one, please?

POSER.



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If your child is thinking about a gap year, he can get good advice from this website.


If your child is thinking about a gap year, she can get good advice from this website.


If your child is thinking about a gap year, it can get good advice from this website.


Which one, please?

Contumely:
Question:
Excuse me young lady. Are/were you not the one I saw at the market?

Use "were".

Because you're not SURE.

Contumely:
Another question:
My name is Emeka.
He said that his name is/was Emeka.

The rules are changing, my brother. Decades ago, you would say "was" (examined as a reported speech).

But, today, "is" is correct. Also, because this is a true statement (my name is Emeka), the present tense is allowed.



PS:
Sorry, Contumely, I have had enough of these questions NOW! Thanks.

Contumely, u go kill me oo

800billion?

London Estate agents are waiting

AUTOLOGICALITY:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2011/09/autologicality?fsrc=nlw|newe|09-26-11|new_on_the_economist

The link below is from a country touted as a direct example of what a litre of petrol should cost:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/6900319/Free-computers-for-deprived-families.html


Free computers.

I am really SMH

Ilekokonit:
Petrol Sells For N5 Per Litre In Venezuela


Venezuela has not increased Petrol prices in the last 20 years


Venezuelans consider cheap gasoline a birthright. A previous government's effort to raise prices in 1989 triggered riots that left hundreds, possibly thousands dead.



The cheapest petrol in the world!
Robert Powell takes a look at the countries with the lowest prices at the pump,


10. Algeria: Algiers — 20p per litre

Algeria is one of the Africa's biggest oil producers turning out an average of 1.2 million barrels a day. This flood of oil has pushed down petrol prices in the country to 20p per litre, more than six times cheaper than the average pump price here in the UK.

The country's petrol supplies also played a vital role in the recent battle against Colonel Gaddafi in neighbouring Libya. With petrol production in the war-torn country running dry, rebel fighters relied on smuggled fuel from Algeria to power the final push against the corrupt dictator. Hurrah!


9. Oman: Muscat — 20p per litre

Oman's petrol prices also stand at just 20p per litre. Like Algeria, the Arabic state is drenched in oil, stepping up production in the last six months to 878,000 barrels every day.


8. Egypt: Cairo — 19p per litre

Egypt is something of a transport hub when it comes to petrol. The Suez Canal — a vital supply line running across the east of the country — carries an estimated one million barrels of oil from the Persian Gulf every day.

That's why at the peak of the country's revolution against former President Hosni Mubarak, oil prices began to climb, amid fears that the unrest would interfere with the Suez supply route.

But while this oil price rise pushes up petrol costs here in the UK, the rate petrol is sold at the pump over in Egypt remains relatively low, at just 19p per litre. But with the country's government still anything but stable, it's anyone guess as to how long costs will stay this cheap.


7. Qatar: Doha — 15p per litre

Prior to the discovery of oil in Qatar, the small Arab emirates' economy was mainly built on fishing and pearl hunting. Now the country's national petroleum supplier accounts for 70% of the government's revenue. Recent high oil prices have made per capita income in Qatar amongst the highest across the globe while petrol prices are the seventh lowest at just 15p per litre.


6. Kuwait: Kuwait City — 14p per litre

Kuwait is tenth largest oil producer in the world and its supply is thought to account for 10% of global reserves. But nevertheless, the government subsidises both public transport and petrol bringing prices down to just 14p per litre.


5. Bahrain: Manama — 13p per litre

Compared  with its Middle-Eastern neighbours, Bahrain has fairly limited oil supplies. However 60% of the country's economy is still rooted in petroleum refining, which has grown strongly over the last ten years. The country is at fifth in the rankings with an average petrol price of just 13p per litre.


4. Turkmenistan: Ashgabat — 12p per litre

The UK government taxes petrol to the high-heaven, while in Turkmenistan they give it away — literally. Every driver in the Turkic state is entitled to 120 litres of petrol for free every month. If they exceed this, the pump price is only 12p per litre.


3. Libya: Tripoli — 9p per litre

As I mentioned earlier, petrol supplies in Libya have dried up recently owing to the closure of several oil plants in the midst of unrest in the country. But when pumping at its prime level, the country is the ninth largest oil producer with an average petrol price of just 9p per litre.


2. Saudi Arabia: Riyadh — 8p per litre

Saudi Arabia is the largest exporter of petroleum in the world. Domestically fuel prices sit at around 8p per litre. Yet only half of the population can take advantage of these low rates; as women in Saudi Arabia are banned from driving due to a religious fatwa (Islamic law) imposed by conservative Muslim clerics.


1. Venezuela: Caracas — 2/3p per litre

Yes, to get hold of the cheapest petrol in the world, you'll have to travel all the way to the South American country of Venezuela. Petrol is just 2-3p per litre in the socialist republic — that's around 54 times cheaper than prices here in the UK. So if you have a 70 litre fuel tank in your car, you could fill it up in Venezuela for around £1.50. While In Britain it would cost you a whopping £95.

Prices are kept low thanks to subsidies from the country's left-wing government.

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/The-cheapest-petrol-world-yahoofinanceuk-978605645.html



Venezuela has not increased Petrol prices in the last 20 years

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-370643.0.html

Why is it not easy for people in those countries to smuggle the product across their borders? Because they have responsible governments.

Why is petro so cheap in those countries? The product is a God-given resource and the owners of the land are generously rewarded with subsidies.


Also, they refine the said product locally.

I think Iran (not sure here) only sells refined products not crude.


So, why must Nigerians pay for the idiocy that pervades their corridors of power? Because some Western countries-based Nigerians think so 

Contumely:
Another question I asked before with no answer:
My students, One of the things I thought yesterday is/are figures of speech.

Did you mean "taught?"


"IS" and "WAS" are CORRECT.

Contumely:
Sorry, I was trying to know which of the tenses was correct as in My students, is/was figures of speech.
So should it be is/was.
Thanks for your help.

Sorry just noticed this


So, it's no longer "IS/ARE?" It's now IS/WAS?


Hmmm

billante:
@naijbabe Of course govt must use subsidy money to build speed trains and constant electricity etc so dat your hyper inflation theory can't fly!!! Already d electricity jinx is now being broken! I had 20hrs of light today!!! we are progressing to development I had in mind when starting dis thread

ROTFLMAO

Contumely:
Sorry, I was trying to know which of the tenses was correct as in My students, is/was figures of speech.
So should it be is/was.
Thanks for your help.

IS

billante:
@ola one Am in nigeria bro!! Ikeja to be precise!

Full time or part time?

naijababe:
billante - Are you serious or just being disingenious?

Why do we need subsidy, what exactly is the govt subsidising? I'll humour you. Your govt subsidise the cost of refining petroleum, a subsidy which need not exist at all. Now, the same govt continue to spend untold amounts of money on turning around your refineries so that the subsidy can disappear but it so far all monies  has been swallowed by the invincible monster.

Finally, i'll be over the moon when your govt removes the subsidy and pay you your jumbo salary that you desire so much. Just don't complain when your danfo trip from Yaba to Marina that costs you 100 naira now costs you 400 naira abi your Danfo driver does not deserve a jumbo pay too? Once, your pepper seller, pure water seller, mechanic etc increase their rates in order to get their jumbo pays too, we'll se how far your jumbo pay will take you.

SSMH

Thank you.

They are somewhere safe, where everything works, thousands of miles away, yet they want hardship for Nigerians.

Because they intend to invest in Nigeria very soon. I don't know why they haven't relocated. Bet they can't stay longer than 3 months

O ga o.

In the UK, your life isn't necessarily dependent on petro. Train are there. Canals are there.

People in Nigeria have no options

WARNING:

Nigerians, don't ever elect anyone raised abroad as your leader. Never! Never! Never!

Those raised abroad don't understand what you endure on a daily basis.

Don't be fooled even if they have 20 degrees.

In the UK:

Healthcare is free.

Education is free for your children in the UK

Transportation is free for school children

Housing is subsidized.

ETC.

I don't understand how those who grew up in the West, enjoyed and still enjoy all amenities therein would argue in favour of policies and measures that are anti-progress and ill-thought out.

SMH

Contumely:
Must tense correspon in a sentence no matter the situation?
Thank you.

NO.

This statement, for example, is correct:

it’s thought he may have collapsed from shock

Contumely:
Another question I asked before with no answer:
My students, One of the things I thought yesterday[b] is[/b]/are [b]f[/b]igures of [b]s[/b]peech.

[b]F[/b]igures of [b]S[/b]peech

Contumely:
I asked this question on page 57 but it wasnt answered:
UNIBEN has started its/their exams.
It/they would have postponed it.

The statements are CORRECT.

Contumely:
If I knew I wouldIf I knew I wouldn't be asking.
Must tense correspon in a sentence no matter the situation?
Thank you.

Not a convincing argument. Sorry!

Hooooooooray!

Page 98. At last!

^^Stranger?!

Contumely:
Okay thanks.
Could you please explain

Nice one, Contumely.

Could you please explain why you used "thought" instead of "think?"

1025:
i have taken my time to study the likes of prof. morris iwu, prof. soludo, prof. Jega and now prof. Nnaji and i have come to terms that what we have here in nigeria as professors are mostly naughty professors. we have professors that reason like goats and dogs.

Why do we like this "professor" title? They are not lecturing in any university, are they? They are not in charge of any research institute, are they?


They are politicians. . . . they are businessmen.

Professors? Sorry, they are ignorant!

WHERE'S KATSUMOTO?

[quote author=isale_gan2 link=topic=590933.msg9208504#msg9208504 date=1316822905]Lol. Thank you thank you!

One of my best copy and paste jobs. [/quote]You shared it so thank you.

semid4lyfe:
Prof, this one wey u dey post with another ID, shey spambot do you sumtin ni?

Chei! I no sey you dey lurk ni, you bin around.

Well, na Seun's bot ban me oo, for this thread.

^^Iconic, brilliant, legendary.


Thank you