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well, I took United to Nigeria last week and it was O.K, except the fact that they stopover in Ghana and everyone has to leave the Plane, file into a waiting room in the Accra airport, wait for 30 minutes or more for more passengers from Ghana to continue the trip to Lagos. They were quite efficient and on time with good on-board service.

Typing your username here will not make you any money online for sure

Thanks Dad! Sweet! no need to explain how a couple million dollars found its way into my account.

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More pics of Osubi airstrip, Warri

Airport road warri on a rainy day

Took this pictures last week

Arnold1:

New Sheraton Hotel @ Ikoyi, Lagos


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Nice pictures, I'm actually staying at this hotel right now, quite an impressive hotel.

Aki (chinedu Ikedieze) at MMA2 Lagos this morning

Did immigration find your lost passport? or you mean a new passport to replace the lost one?

What a genius Gbenga Ashiru is! I guess he will set up a committee and come out with a seven point agenda on how to reciprocate.

kadman:
Correct me if I'm wrong (and I might be),but where in the article does he say he's Nigerian ? I thought he was posing as a South African diplomat.

In The full show on NBC there was a scene where his jail mug shot photo and his NIGERIAN PASSPORT with his real name was displayed.

Yeah, I just saw the show. Mr Jeffrey Grant the diplomat A.K.A Kenneth Ojua. It's amazing someone could be so bold to try such a ridiculous scam while living in the U.S. This is not helping Nigeria's image at all.

http://www.greenvilledragnet.com/shocka-nigerian-email-scam-originates-in-greenville/

The shocker would have been if any of the children had an ounce of DNA from her.

frankkky:
@oncolour,with all due respect your comments are contradictory,first you say i might as well ask people to keep their kids at home what kind of talk is that?!!! and then u say yes there are  indeed hackers who can indeed get at your information on fb,i think you should read through my post again,i am talking of online issue and information posted on fb and not about the physical movements of our children.of course life  itself is a risk but we must be carefull in all we do, and yes if going out at certain times is risky i will keep my kids indoors,the point i am making here is that we should be carefull the way we share private information or even comments on fb .

I am not saying you do not have valid points, in fact you are very much correct on the aspect of putting unnecessary information (Home address for example) and those that make idiotic comments on Facebook that can get them in trouble with the law or even their employers. The point I was trying to point across is that telling people not to post their kids pictures or personal pictures on Facebook is not the issue, since Facebook was created to share your pictures in the first place. The issue is controlling the privacy settings so that not every Tom, Hitler and harry can access your page. I made the statement "you might as well ask people to keep their kids at home" to illustrate the point that even going out with your kids involves risk and if you say because i don't want strangers to see my kids pictures on Facebook, are there no strangers outside when you go shopping or visit the beach or wherever you go with your family? ( hope you get my analogy this time). The same way when you go out with your kids you watch over them, that is the same way you use the privacy and security settings on Facebook to keep your page safe.

These old pictures of Nigeria looks like a country about to become a super-power in few years time. If only the regions had remained the way they were, with the central government having no concentration of powers things would have turned out really different in Nigeria. West doing their own thing, East doing their own thing, north doing their own, there would have been no need for a civil war, each region will be innovative and look inwards to sources of wealth, anyways it's too late now.

frankkky:
i just watched a documentry tittled "the dark side of facebook"honestly we should be very carefull the way we share private information and pictures on facebook especailly pictures of our kids,if possible dont even post pics of your kids on fb, let them decide when they become of age if they want their pics on the socail network,the truth is nothing really gets deleted on facebook,no comments nothing and those things you think are private are really not as complete strangers can have access to your life and seemly innocent comments can be twisted and taken out of the contxt of meaning and even be used against you tommorow,na wah o,remember facebook is first and formost a business and the more you share the more they make money so its even in their interest that you share all your privare information,please my people be warned o and be very carefull,protect your family!!!a family was completely wiped out by a serial killer on fb,when questioned by the police he said he gathered all he needed from the facenook profile of his victim!!!!wait for this the killer was not on even on the friendlist of the victim neither was he registered on facebook.pls my people be warned,hackers can get any information on social networks once posted!!!

You can as well tell people to not allow their kids to step out of the house. Putting your family pictures on facebook is not the issue, there are privacy settings that allows only the friends you added on facebook to view your pictures, and if as you claim the guy was not on their friends list and he somehow hacked into their facebook then facebook or no facebook any serial killer can monitor a victim by standing in a public park, shopping mall, grocery store, anywhere. As long as you don't put your home address on your facebook profile, and you monitor the people you add as friends then the issue you described above is completely random. I am sure you have heard of the phone hacking scandal rocking the U.K, anybody can hack your phone and listen to your voicemail or messages by just knowing some basic hacking skills. Your emails are not safe either, so do we stop using technology because of random threats? All it takes is common sense by following simple privacy rules like this http://www.wikihow.com/Protect-Your-Private-Information-on-Facebook

How can you write a story about a new airport opening to commercial flights and not a single current picture of the airport as at THE TIME OF PUBLICATION   I see a picture of the airport in March and no picture in July or even June. What kind of newspaper is that? I'm sure they have a reporter based in Asaba or Benin or Warri, so none of them could take a one or two hour bus ride at most to take some pics? na wao.

Nice to see a survey that we are not placed among the worst.

Anybody with some info?

From the NIS website

Can any one tell me what the procedure is for getting the E-Passport in Lagos? I thought there was a passport office in Ikeja? but I only saw Ikoyi and Festac on the Nigerian Immigration Service website for Lagos. Also the website says payment for the E-passport can only be made online, no payment allowed at the office or anywhere. Can anyone who has done there E-passport recently in Lagos verify if you can make payment at their office? and also how long does it typically take to get the E-passport done in lagos?

That's a bit confusing. If you travel to the U.K with your America passport, all good, but if you use your Nigerian Passport to leave the U.K, how will the U.K immigration know you left? there will be nothing on their system to indicate the "American" that came visa free actually left they will only have a departure for a Nigerian. I guess you need to find out more from the experts.

I must say Paris is a lovely city to visit on vacation. I enjoyed my time there. Like Jesoul said walking is one of the best ways to enjoy Paris, from the Lovre to eiffel tower and numerous restaurants and shopping places, its a tourist delight. Don't forget to take one of the cruises on river seine too. Since you have kids coming along it would be worthwhile taking the train to disney land in Serris (about 45 minutes or so from Paris). The train passes through nice little cute towns, and serris is a beautiful little city too, I'm sure your kids and even you and your wife would not forget the experience.

You can take a look at the lonely planet guide on Paris for names and locations of restaurants and other things to do in and around Paris.

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/france/paris/travel-tips-and-articles/1595

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Na wa o. People get time sha

What is keeping them? if populated states like Lagos can announce the results in one day why not Delta state?

This is why free and fair elections are very important. You know you can only remain in power when you perform not by kissing a godfather's a.rse

[quote author=we_dee link=topic=653679.msg8197472#msg8197472 date=1303685500]i've been an avid reader on this forum but i don't really post much. there is a lot of tribalism on this forum. the tribalists on this forum gives us nigerians a bad name. This is my list of tribalists first 10.

1. ystranger

2. abu maryam

3. ileki-idi

4. kobojunkie

5. ezecuhe

6. alj uhce

7. udezue

8. onlytruth

9. dem people

10. andy uweh


Please  Mods, look into the comments of these people. They are not portraying a good image of us.

Other posters can add their own lists. but these ones are commanders of tribal wars here on nairaland[/quote]Very good observation.  One thing these guys fail to understand is that trying to defend your culture or ethnic group by insulting another persons culture is re.tarded.

wow! vicjustice I hope you copied and pasted that!

That is the problem with the Islamic religion, too many violent messages in their so called holy book which justifies most of the atrocities being committed by their followers. It would be virtually impossible to live in peace with so much Muslims in Nigeria, we really need to go the way of India and Pakistan.