₦airaland Forum

Orikinla: Blaming the churches for the traffic gridlock is from an ignorant person.
The road is is not a modern road.

The problem is not the state of the road. The gridlock will remain no matter how modern.

Fhemmmy: Heavily taxed cos their members are driving on the roads?

Yes. They should be taxed - heavily!

AjanleKoko: It's a tough one sha.
The majority of Nigerians have voted for church as their major preoccupation. And it's not like the churches are building on the roads itself. You could have built a major shopping mall or another Alaba market on that axis, and it would generate the same amount of traffic. What would you do then, close the market?

The government should just do what they should as government - charge the church occupants some sort of land use charge or tax, and use the revenues to expand the rods, build flyovers or something that can provide some sort of escape. Or even build alternative routes. You can't penalize people for doing church if they choose to. Just make them pay one way or another.

Interestingly, Igbokwe is an APC chieftain, and those are the two states in power in Lagos and Ogun. So he and his fellow politicians should put their thinking caps on. Shikena

You're right!

AjanleKoko: Spot on.
Case in point is Deeper Life building a gi-normous structure in a highly-congested residential area like Gbagada.
[size=16pt]Who are the Council officials who gave them approval to build that type of structure?[/size]

I wonder oo.

Winners Chapel was chased out of Bermondsey by Council officials. Well, that na Obodo Oyinbo

eGuerrilla: Who is going to stop the continued encroachment on a major artery by these faith-based ministries?

I tire oo

List of [size=16pt]partnered[/size] institutions
http://www.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/About-Us/International-Office-and-Linkages/List-of-Partnered-Institutions




FAQ - Frequently [size=16pt]Answered[/size] Questions
http://www.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/Misc/FAQ

^^

Gbawe: I back your clamour for the establishment of world class institutions of higher learning that can rival the best in the World but we need to situate issues properly in relation to what is being discussed. No State is able to send students to Oxford, Harvard et al and bypass the strict admission criteria these Universities uses to ensure they remain elite congregation grounds of the finest scholarly minds from all corners of the World.

These students, of their own freewill, applied to Harvard, Oxford et al for admission and got it on merit. Fayemi is helping them financially to ensure they achieve their dream. [size=23pt]Imagine if the many multimillionaires connected to politics and governance sponsors one or two promising Nigerian students to obtain the finest education available? I personally find this a laudable philanthropic effort that should inspire us all.[/size]

Maybe you need to tell us why Fayemi wasn't this philanthropic before he became Ekiti governor.

We aren't fools.

Boy Alinco the fine boy with funny cap/style.
Pa Jimoh with his scrotum head
Papa Ajasco with his yeye belle
Miss Pepeye and her cleavage.




Great!

Pukkah: I have stated it on this forum a couple of times that people don't know the real Sanusi yet.

The hullabaloo generated by the dramatic hounding of Ibru, Akingbola and others, to the applause of the public, kind of provided a cover for Sanusi.

The real man will be unveiled when he leaves the seat.

Hmmmm. . . .

He basically hunted down some Christian banking czars. Now I know better.

naptu2: Testimony of Colonel Roland Emokpae




Professor Femi Odekunle [Tell, August 31, 1998:20]



Comrade Shehu Sani, a Northern Nigerian human rights activists arrested
for the 1995 phantom coup on the account of his human rights activism
[TheNews 7 Sept. 1998:15, 18].



Col. Ronald Emokpae [Tell, April 12, 1999:24].



Chief Yomi Tokoya, a suspected coupist released on July 15, 1998 [The News 7
Sept 1998:19]



Ambassador Walter Carrington, former US Ambassador to Nigeria [Tell, March 29
1999:25]

That interview was touching. I mean that of Prof Femi Odekunle. I read that edition of TELL. Mustapha asked him: "who is up now and who is down? I am talking while you are up, sit down." ETC.
With all your Southern education, who is up and who is down. ETC.

He whipped the living hell out of the Prof.

naptu2: Omenka, Biu, etc.

BIU. That name still scares me gan. Haa! Monster!

naijababe: Where is Mukina?! Please ban Dayo jor

@ Ola, this phoenix is still ash o e never rise

Okay. Wake me up when d tyme come oo

debosky: @ Ola

I don't know why you're even paying attention to such garbage. Even those that can't coach a sober man to walk in a straight line are now claiming to be 'analysts'.

The economy is hard - everyone needs to make money, hence the explosion of garbage blogs everywhere.

Ogbeni Fredoo - oro e tin koja be careful o. Sora ko ma lo di alakora.

Hahahaa. You're right. Gooners for life. To quote Naijababe: Rising from the ashes like the phoenix.

naijababe: Hehehehehehe. E ti ri nke ken

Well, I'm more plastic than Eleganza these days. If dem win, fine. If dem lose, fine. Na Wenger sabi. Yeye manager.

Chai! This article don finish my club oo. Wenger, you see your life so?

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/the-rundown/seven-ways-cheer-arsenal-fans-205801964.html

It was a traumatic weekend for Arsenal, getting booed during their 2-2 Emirates Cup draw against Napoli, then suffering Drogba-inspired heartbreak against Galatasaray.

And all the while they continued to spend their massive transfer war chest on nobody at all.

If the increasingly frazzled fans are like this in pre-season, we at The Rundown genuinely fear for their health once that actual proper football gets under way.

So here are some ways to cheer them up.

In the early years after Arsenal stopped winning proper trophies, they were still good for a pre-season tournament victory sparking misguided hopes that Arturo Lupoli or Jay-Emmanuel Thomas was the heir to Henry. Now they can't even win their own event. [size=14pt]So stop inviting decent sides like Napoli and Galatasaray and play the Emirates Cup against Totteridge & Whetstone Under-12s[/size].

^^Totteridge & Whetstone? A small area with a small station on Northern Line? And Under-12s again. Egba mi ke.

Idolys: @ Ola, please which of these is correct:
(a) I was the one who called you on phone yesterday.
(b) I am the one who called you on phone yesterday.

B


If in present-participle format, then use "was".

[size=18pt]The future of advertising agencies
Omnipotent, or omnishambles?[/size]
Omnicom and Publicis are combining to try to stay on top of a rapidly changing industry, but sheer size will be no guarantee of success

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CROSS-COUNTRY deals in the advertising industry can be painful affairs. Look what happened to Guy MacKendrick, the young executive sent by his London-based agency to oversee its acquisition of a New York rival, in “Mad Men” (yes, it is now compulsory to refer to the hit television series in all articles about the ad business). The staff throw a party to celebrate the takeover, and a drunken secretary drives a lawnmower through the office, shredding Mr MacKendrick’s foot.

On July 28th, however, there were no bizarre gardening accidents as executives of two real-life advertising firms toasted their merger with champagne in Paris. Maurice Lévy, the boss of the French Publicis Group, and John Wren, the head of its American competitor Omnicom, toasted the birth of Publicis Omnicom, which will overtake British-based WPP as the world’s largest advertising and marketing agency, with combined 2012 revenues of $23 billion and a market value of $35 billion.




To placate French fears of foreign domination of one of the country’s most prominent companies, for the time being the combined firm will keep headquarters in both Paris and New York and be listed on exchanges in both cities. Mr Wren and Mr Lévy will serve as joint chief executives for two-and-a-half years, after which Mr Lévy will become non-executive chairman and Mr Wren will continue alone as boss.

This is no love affair, but there are reasons for mutual attraction. Publicis has more exposure to emerging markets and digital advertising (on websites, mobile devices and the like), the main sources of growth for tomorrow’s admen. In return Omnicom provides Publicis with scale—it is the bigger of the two—and a solution to its succession problem. Mr Lévy, who is 71, has been trying to find a replacement for years. He proposed the merger when he met Mr Wren at a party in New York.

There are risks, of course. Some advertisers who are great rivals—such as Coke and Pepsi, or AT&T and Verizon—will find their accounts being handled by subsidiaries of the same group, and may need persuading not to take their business elsewhere. There may be transatlantic cultural clashes between the “berets” and “bow-ties” at executive level; and creative people lower down may also balk at working for such a vast conglomerate.

However, scale also promises to bring big benefits. Messrs Lévy and Wren predict the merger will help them cut around $500m a year in costs, and some analysts think it could be even more. And by combining the two firms’ “media buying” divisions, which purchase advertising space in bulk, Publicis Omnicom may be able to negotiate better rates for their clients. Overall, the combined group will be responsible for about 20% of advertising spending worldwide, and up to 40% of ad slots at some publishers and television networks, reckons Brian Wieser of Pivotal Research Group, which studies the industry.

Perhaps the greatest rationale for the merger is the inexorable rise of digital advertising. Last year online ads were worth $88 billion, or 18.3% of global advertising spending, up dramatically from 2006 (see chart). Advertisers like them because they can be aimed more precisely at a target audience (with a particular demographic profile and browsing history) than, say, television or radio ads. They also get a better idea of whether anyone is actually looking at the ads they are paying for.

[size=15pt]Internet killed the agency star

Advertising agencies used to be indispensable when it came to advising clients where best to place ads. They miss those days even more than they miss those three-martini lunches. Now, a host of technology firms, like Adobe, Salesforce and IBM, offer analytical services and software to help advertisers achieve the best bang for each buck.

Big internet firms like Google and Facebook can provide a wealth of data about their vast audiences: this is encouraging many advertisers to deal with them directly to book slots, rather than going through a traditional ad agency’s media-buying division. Google alone now controls around a third of all online advertising spending, according to eMarketer, a research firm. A few advertisers are doing without ad agencies altogether, creating their own campaigns and slogans.

Online advertising is getting speedier and smarter. Many online ads are now bought and sold automatically with “real-time bidding”. In days of old, ad executives would ring round various publishers to find good rates, and then consult the client before placing the ads. Now, advertisers can specify which sort of audience they want to reach and how much they want to pay, and use ad “exchanges” to buy space on websites that fit their requirements, all in a fraction of a second. Michael Rubenstein, the president of AppNexus, one such exchange, say this has improved ad-buying in the same way that eBay was a big improvement on garage sales. It brings price transparency, efficiency and precision to a notoriously fuzzy industry.

All these developments make the future role of the advertising agency a lot murkier. Omnicom and Publicis are trying to take part in this technological revolution, operating “trading desks” that buy display ads for their clients on the new exchanges. But some big advertisers, such as Procter & Gamble, a consumer-goods maker, now operate their own trading desks. Media websites are increasingly, as Google does, selling their slots directly to advertising clients. Ultimately, predicts the head of advertising at a big American news firm that already sells a lot of its space through real-time bidding, “We are not going to need the agencies.”

So far real-time bidding is still a small part of the online-advertising business—around 19% of online display ads in America are now bought and sold in this way. But it is growing quickly and may account for 29% of them by 2017. And it is only a matter of time before digital radio, outdoor and television commercials start to be sold this way too. Paper posters on billboards, bus shelters and elsewhere are rapidly being replaced by electronic screens which can be updated instantly, and thus sold via real-time bidding.

To stay relevant, the agencies will need to transform themselves into “advertising platforms”, says Michael J. Wolf of Activate, a consultancy: this means providing clever technology to their clients to automate the buying process. The problem is that tech companies may prove much better at providing this. But at least, by getting bigger, the merged Publicis Omnicom will improve its chances of success: “You need a big base to make the most of the technology investment,” says Paul Zwillenberg of the Boston Consulting Group.

Being the world’s largest agency group could also, in theory, help Publicis Omnicom persuade clients that it could negotiate better rates for ads with Google and Facebook than they could negotiate for themselves. In practice, though, some of the biggest and most profitable ad clients may feel that they are strong enough to fend for themselves.
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Math Men

The talent for creating memorable and persuasive ad campaigns will always be in demand, and not all advertisers will be capable of doing it for themselves. So the agency business will not die out. But, as Wall Street traders found when their trading floors were automated, the move towards buying ads on exchanges will mean that their margins are squeezed and life gets a lot tougher.

Publicis and Omnicom are betting that sheer size is their best chance of surviving in this harsh new climate. But to complete the merger—which they hope to do by early next year—they will need approval from antitrust authorities in more than 40 countries. They may try arguing that the large market share of the combined group should be overlooked because so much of their business is going straight to Google and other digital giants. Penguin and Random House, two merging book publishers, made a similar argument last year about Amazon: it seemed to work.

Assuming the deal is allowed, it is likely to intensify the ad industry’s consolidation. Last year Dentsu, a Japanese advertising firm, bought Aegis Group for $4.8 billion. WPP, not used to second place, may seek to regain the top spot by making acquisitions. Its boss, Martin Sorrell, said further big mergers in the industry were “inevitable”. However much the traditional agency groups bulk themselves up, their glory days will not return. The glamour of the “Mad Men” era is in the past; these days the power is increasingly in the hands of the “Math Men”.
http://www.economist.com/news/business/21582510-omnicom-and-publicis-are-combining-try-stay-top-rapidly-changing-industry

fr3do: What fuel does it run on?

Diesel.

pro01: It can't be bigger than that of my supreme bo$$ (Emperor Roman Abramovich), the aptly named Eclipse, which cost over $1b.. . .equipped with anti-missile defence systems, submarine, 2 helipads, anti-paparrazi laser shields, heated swimming pools, etc. etc etc. E go vex me if any yatch overtake him own as the world's biggest yatch. Baba Olowo Chelsea can never be outdone.

Sorry bro. Read this:

Sailing into the record books: The £400m, 590ft super-yacht that's going to put Roman Abramovich's nose out of joint

New mega-yacht took four years to design and build and is largest in world
Called Azzam, it has been built for a mystery client whom some say is Saudi
Chelsea owner Abramovich's 533ft Eclipse now just second-largest in world

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2304579/Azzam-The-400m-590ft-super-yacht-thats-going-Roman-Abramovichs-nose-joint.html

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/04/05/article-2304579-191CB1B9000005DC-591_634x393.jpg

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/04/05/article-2304579-191CB1C9000005DC-217_634x424.jpg

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/04/05/article-2304579-0D72E67B00000578-484_634x342.jpg

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/04/05/article-2304579-191C6847000005DC-628_634x416.jpg

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/04/05/article-2304579-191C66D6000005DC-125_634x286.jpg

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Another one:

AN European


A European

Which one ni?

Answer: A European

In JSS3, Ola read a book, written by Tai Sholarin's wife, Sheila (?), and she did justice to this. According to this Mama, the word "European" does not start with a vowel sound! Hmmm. That it starts with "yoo". My fav Oxford dico 'says' it starts with "j". Well, bottom line is both are consonants.

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/European?q=european


I dey go manage moi bored skull outta here, o dabo. #Kurukere tinz

Hellooooooooo

Bored outta moi skull ni o jare.

So, let's discuss "pregnant by" and "pregnant for".

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2273811/Tammy-Paterson-Married-mother-fell-pregnant-college-tutor-hanged-herself.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2232981/Father-s-relief-finding-runaway-teenage-daughter-turns-nightmare-moments-later-s-pregnant-delinquent-adult-boyfriend.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2232981/Father-s-relief-finding-runaway-teenage-daughter-turns-nightmare-moments-later-s-pregnant-delinquent-adult-boyfriend.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2213039/Coronation-Streets-Tracy-Barlow-claims-pregnant-young-lover-Ryans-baby.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2213492/Cesar-Ernest-Alcivar-39-sex-girl-11-discovered-pregnant-going-hospital-stomach-pains.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2292815/Bronx-teacher-Felicia-Barahona-32-got-pregnant-student-lover-telling-didnt-like-condoms.html



This boredom yii sha.

Goodboy2012: • Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) said: “He who fasts solely for the sake of Allah, has all his previous sins forgiven.

REALLY? Just like that? Hey, Bode George oo, make you go fast oo.

Deols, abeg no ban me oo

[quote author=1�£¥£D�C¥CLOPS™]Chelsea fc "benfica & barcelona"[/quote]Wrong! It's Benfica and Bayern!

Kingsteve: Westham United

How much was Chelsea FC bought for, by Ken Bates?

1 British Pound Sterling!

emiye: The worst thing that can happen to Nigeria's democracy is a one party state, it is obvious many dont realise this.

I will support other small parties taking over from PDP within states, but as long as they stay too small, they will be subsumed by the "BIG" PDP.

At the moment, any similarly "BIG" OPPOSITION PARTY WILL DO,It might not have the best of ideologies,but it has a long term positive effect on democracy and governance.

Okay, Emiye Baba

naijababe: Forex Lagos Seminar?

Are you for or against?

Register your vote here.

Mama ni yen

[size=23pt]Alainikanse Pe'rijo Congress (APC)[/size]

OAM4J: Picture: WTF? Arsenal boss buying bread instead of players!!

Arsene Wenger’s bid of £1.33 for a bread roll has been turned down by a local bakery in north London. The bakery is firm on demanding £1.50. Another bid from the Gunners’ boss is expected very soon.

https://www.mixturesport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/1006030_554989274537713_617499518_n-255x340.jpg

[quote author=Nuzo']If you think otherwise, pls carry out a research in the comfort of your kitchen to confirm. Pour out coca cola and pepsi out in different glasses, mix the glasses up and drink.[/quote]A research in my kitchen? heheheh

The so-called media circus Coca-Cola have around their products really worked/works. haba! Also, there is something called presupposition.

Just read this:
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/formula.asp

And, from Bloomberg:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-27/pepsico-may-boost-marketing-budget-to-take-on-a-surging-coca-cola-retail.html




Abeg, free me jare

[quote author=Nuzo']As for the KFC 11 secret herbs, I've been opportuned have a friend whose restuarant has become so busy cos of the secret spices he uses. There are expensive tho. [/quote]It is really a well-kept secret to the extent some chef in KFC, Bodija, Ibadan outlet, is in the know. What a secret!