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This is looking like a walkover to me. Djokovic leads 2 set to love. 6-4; 6-1

Double break to Djokovic and he leads 5-1 second set.

Djokovic leads 3-0, second set.

It's 1 set to Djokovic

First break point of the match goes to Djokovic

This is a good service game

4-3 to Djokovic, first set.

Did I hear someone say 'Genius Rafa!'?

Superb ace from Nadal to bring it to 3 all, First set

Game 5, first set 3-2 to Djokovic, game on

Google is now a super heavy-weight giant. The ventured into OS for mobile devices and we all know the impact they've made. If they can be successful in unfamiliar terrain why can't they in a more familiar terrain. Google+ is going to be a success.

Thanks. I currently use a symbian powered phone but I'm thinking of dropping it for an android device. Though most smartphones perform basically the same functions but the user experience makes a whole lot of difference. Symbian OS is at the moment lagging behind but the solid built of nokia products is still keeping me with them. I am confused between going for Galaxy S II or Nokia E7.

Tribune where art thou credibility?

Please post your response with reasons.

We will miss her for sure.

Kudos to the SF, I was expecting it would be 4-0 by half time.

ode remo:
these  igbo mudafukas.

What does that mean? Grow up please.

What can save us from the menace of armed robbers? The killing of two Corps members is not only barbaric but senseless.

ROBBERS, on Wednesday, struck at a branch of a first generation bank in Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State, killing two members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) during their operation.

Also, they attacked a petrol station in Papalanto area of the state and allegedly killed three persons.

Nigerian Tribune learnt that the bandits, numbering 18, arrived the bank at about 4.00 p.m in an unmarked Toyota Hummer bus and blew off the bank’s security door with dynamite.

The robbers were said to have shot sporadically into the air, leaving several people to scamper for safety, while some others were injured in the process.

The bandits allegedly held members of staff and customers hostage for several minutes and later carted away millions of naira from the bank.

The identities of the victims could not be ascertained on Wednesday, but the Nigerian Tribune learnt that one of the deceased corps members was working at the bank, while the other came on a visit.

Those injured during the robbery were said to have been taken to a General Hospital, Itori, for medical attention.

Efforts to confirm the incident from the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr Muyiwa Adejobi, were unsuccessful, as his mobile line was not reachable.

Meanwhile, The Kwara State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has called on the Federal Government to review the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme.

The state chairman of CAN, Reverend James Folaranmi, who made the call in a statement made available to the Nigerian Tribune in Ilorin, on Wednesday, said the review should be tailored towards ensuring safety of the corps members wherever they were posted.

He regretted the kidnapping and killing of corps members, describing the development as sad and unfortunate.

The cleric, who also condemned the spate of bomb blasts in some parts of the country, charged the security agencies to bring to book the perpetrators.

He decried the activities of Boko Haram and kidnapping of innocent Nigerians by some miscreants in the Niger Delta area, tracing the root of kidnapping, assassination and bomb blasts that have pervaded the country to activities of “enemies of progress who do not believe in the corporate existence of Nigeria but hiding under politics and religion to make life difficult for the citizenry.”

Folaranmi lamented that after Nigeria’s 50 years of independence, “Nigerians still live in fears because of a few people who are hell-bent on imposing their ideology on the majority of Nigeria, citizens.”

While urging Nigerians to have faith in the ability of President Goodluck Jonathan to transform the country and bring to an end the various violent crimes being perpetrated in some parts of the country, the cleric said what the president needed most to surmount the problem was cooperation of the citizens.

Source: http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/24332-robbers-kill-2-corps-members-3-others-in-ogun--kwara-can-harps-on-reviewing-nysc-scheme

Omo mehn, see dulling. But thank God I'm here with the greats once again. Keep the good work coming,

philip0906:
sharp dia. . .if na sey na 4 one south eastern state e been happen u for wait 4 confirmation

I ain't a bigot like you. If you don't have anything reasonable to say, you can keep your stinking mouth shut forever.

Dem don confirm the identity of the kidnappers? why people dey jump into hasty conclusion? So a hausa kidnapper cannot carry his act out in Lagos, Time for us to grow up and stop being myopic.

It looks like a mini city to me.

, a colleague closed late and was going home. They got to a check point & were ordered to alight. They queued up to be ' searched'. The security operative started touching each passenger's pocket with his rifle, ordering them to show him the contents. He declared his ID card & wallet. The next man declared a Quran. The policeman bellowed, una don reach Lagos?! The man quickly threw up his hands shouting, 'I'm a southern Muslim o'. Se e don reach that level ni?

M M M:
yes

am an example,

my parents fu-cked me up with excess and 2 much money.

Hmmm, I see,

The first thing that I (not me) discovered about UK-born, white, English undergraduates was that all of them did holiday  or weekend job to support themselves - including the children of millionaires amongst them. It is the norm over there - regardless how wealthy their parents are. And I soon discovered that virtually all other foreign students did the same - the exception being those of us status-conscious Nigerians.

I also watched
Richard Branson (owner of Virgin Airline)speaking on the Biography Channel and, to my amazement, he said that his young children travel in the economy class -even when the parents (he and his wife) are in upper class.  Richard Branson is a billionaire in Pound Sterling. A quick survey would show you that only children from Nigeria fly business or upper class to commence their studies in the UK. No other foreign students do this.

There is no aircraft attached to the office of the prime minister in the UK - he travels on BA. And the same goes for the Royals. The Queen does not have an aircraft for her exclusive use. These practices simply become the culture which the next generation carries forward. Have you seen the car that Kate Middleton(the lady soon to marry Prince William) drives?
VW Golf or something close to it.  But there's one core difference between them and us(generally speaking). They (even the billionaires among them) work for their money, we steal ours!

If we want our children to bring about the desired change we have been praying for on behalf of our dear country, then please, please let's begin now and teach them to work hard so they can stand alone and most importantly be content, and not having to "steal", which seem to be the norm these days.

"30 is the new 18", which seem to be the new age for testing out the world in Nigeria now.  That seems to be an unspoken but widely accepted mindset among the last 2 generations of parents in Nigeria. At age 18 years, a typical young adult in the UK leaves the clutches of his/her parents for the University, chances are, that's the last time those parents will ever play "landlord" to their son or daughter except of course the occasional home visits during the academic year.

At 21 years and above or below, the now fully grown and independent minded adult graduates from University, searches for employment, gets a job (could be in another city from the parents) and shares a flat with other young people on a journey into becoming fully fledged adults. I can hear the echo of parents saying, well, that is because the UK economy is thriving, safe, well structured and jobs are everywhere? I beg to differ and I ask that you kindly hear me out.  I am a UK trained Recruitment Consultant and I have been practicing for the past 10 years in Nigeria.  I have a broad range of experience from recruiting new graduates to executive director level of large corporations.  In addition, I talk from the point of view of someone with relatively privileged upbringing. Driven to school every day, had my clothes washed for me, was barred from taking any part-time job during my A-levels so that I could concentrate on studying for my exams?! BUT, I got the opportunity to live apart from my parents from age 18 and the only time I came back home to stay was for 3 months every summer, before I got married!

Am I saying that every parent should wash their hands off their children at age 18? No, not at all, of course, I enjoyed the savings that I made from living on and off at my parent's house in London - indeed that is the primary reason for my being able to buy myself a 3 bedroom flat in London at age 25 with absolutely no direct financial help from my parents!

For me,
pocket money stopped at age 22, not that it was ever enough for my lifestyle to compete with Paris Hilton's or Victoria Beckham's. Meanwhile today, we have Nigerian children who have never worked for 5 minutes in their lives insisting on flying "only" first or business class, carrying the latest Louis Vuitton ensemble, Victoria 's Secret underwear and  wearing Jimmy Choo's, fully paid for by their "loving" parents.

I often get calls from anxious parents, my son graduated 2 years ago and is still looking for a job, can you please assist! Oh really! So where exactly is this "child" is my usual question. Why are you the one making this call dad/mum? I am yet to get a satisfactory answer, but between you and I, chances are that big boy is cruising around Lagos with a babe  dressed to the nines, in his dad's spanking new SUV with enough "pocket money" to put your salary to shame.  It is not at all strange to have a 28 year old who has NEVER worked a day in his or her life in Nigeria but "earns" a six figure "salary" from parents for doing absolutely nothing. I see them in my office once in a while, 26 years old with absolutely no skills to sell, apart from a shiny CV, written by his dad's secretary in the office. Of course, he has a driver at his beck and call and he is driven to the job interview. We have a fairly decent conversation and we get to the inevitable question - so, what salary are you looking to earn? Answer comes straight out - N250,000.00. I ask if that is per month or per annum. Of course it is per month. Oh, why do you think you should be earning that much on your first job? Well, because my current pocket money is N200,000.00 and I feel that an employer should be able to pay me more than my parents. I try very hard to compose myself, over parenting is in my opinion the greatest evil handicapping the Nigerian youth. It is at the root of our national malaise.

We have a youth population of tens of millions of who are being "breastfed and diapered" well into their 30s.  Even though the examples I have given above are from parents of considerable affluence, similar patterns can be observed from Abeokuta to Adamawa! Wake up mum! Wake up dad! You are practically loving your children to death! No wonder corruption continues to thrive. We have a society of young people who have been brought up  to expect something for nothing, as if it were a birth right.

I want to encourage you to send your young men and women (anyone over 20 can hardly be called a child!) out into the world, may be even consider reducing or stopping the pocket money to encourage them to think, explore and strive. Let them know that it is possible for them to succeed without your "help".

Take a moment to think back to your own time as a young man/woman, what if someone had kept spoon feeding you, would you be where you are today? NO TREE GROWS WELL UNDER ANOTHER TREE, children that are not exposed to challenges, don't cook well. That is why you see adults complaining, "my parents didn't buy clothes for me this Christmas", ask him/her how old - 30+. Because of the challenges we faced in our youth, we are where and what we are today, this syndrome - my children will not suffer what I suffered - is destroying our tomorrow. Deliberately reduce their allowance.

I learnt the children of a former Nigerian head of state with all the stolen (billions) monies in their custody, still go about with security escort as wrecks. They are on drugs, several times because of the drug, they collapse in public places. The escort will quickly pack them and off they go, what a life. No one wants to marry them. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. - Henry Ford.
Hard work does not kill, everything in Nigeria is going down, including family settings. It is time to cook our children, preparing them for tomorrow. We are approaching the season in Nigeria where only the RUGGED, will survive. How will your ward fare?

If the present generation of Nigerian pilots retire, will you fly a plane flown by a young Nigerian pilot, If trained in Nigeria? People now have first class, who cannot spell GRADUATE. This has nothing to do with Goodluck or Buhari and unfortunately we cannot blame the political class this time but ourselves. Which Way Nigeria!, Which Way Nigerians!!
Is this how we will ALL sit and watch this country SINK in our hands?

Have a beautiful day

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I came across this article and felt like sharing it. The question is: Are rich Nigerian parents over-pampering their children?

MariaP:
The Real Cost Of Building A Six Bedroom Duplex shouldn't cost more than 1.5 million Naira from start to finish,

What's the idea behind it?

It's a privilege to have followed this thread from Page 1 to 100 without missing any of the pages. The info I have gotten on these pages have been of tremendous help and encouragement. By God's grace, I will be starting my building project soon and I hope this thread will continue to be a guide. One luv!

madoba:
Whiteroses U no well ooh  .

What we have in common is a die hard spirit, and a strong will to survive against all odds. We are not suicidal or prone to committing suicide when faced with challenges (like our counterparts in the western world like to do).

The last time I checked, somebody blew up himself with others cause he was afraid to die alone.

Can't stop laughing

Tied on number of trophies won.

Falling in love is easier.

Prison inmates get #800 as feeding allowance daily, There are millions out there who barely make #300 daily for their upkeep.