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Non bikers dont and can never understand. People get killed on okadas everyday in Lagos but no one worries about that but when a young man dies doing something he enjoyed, morons come out and chat dust. when i graduate from this my tukeke, a ZX6R or YZF R6 beckons. if papa God come wan do am pass, na Panigale 1199 o!

Ride or die f00l$!

@ Cyberknight

I find it hard to believe you live in Nigeria. Your thinking is completely un-Nigerian. You must have lived in the west for a considerable peridod of time for you to be a able to reason with sense like I can see in your post. No two ways about that!

obadiah777: i am not familiar with those names

Google is the knowledge seeking man's best friend.

For every Kola Karim there is a Michael Ogunlesi and for every Michael Ogunbiyi there is Chuka Umanah

Bad belle pipu. The guy just bought a clean regular Japanese car and see all the negative vibes. If the guy come by Lamborghini Aventador nko? Una go send evil spirit after am abi?.

This guy is in showbiz man! Do you really expect him to get around on a BRT bus or okada? As a promoter or event manager, would you take May D serious if he turned up @ your office on an okada or an old rickety Lagos taxi.

Going by his choice of car, I think the boy has been very modest and smart. He could have used the same money to buy a Lagos used RR Sport that would have made him paddy with those Coscharis boys

Story story. No be Naija ni. When I was a child, we used to roll 5 children deep in the back of my dads Datsun 200L. When the older siblings grew a likkle bigger, the last born had to make do on my mums laps no seat belt or nothing.

Billyonaire: Is it only in Nigeria that accidents happens. You get the same type of incidents in places like the UK and USA so I dont understand why you are all making so much noise as if it is a big deal.

Nigeria is a developing country. You ust have to be alert and you can escape planes dropping into your house or teucks ramming into you at bus stops. Nigeria is on its way to be one of the most developed countries by 2015

In Jonathan we trust!

Abi o

Automobile #1

Make: Mercedes
Model: E200 CGI.
Transmission: 5-speed Tiptronic.
Model year: 2009.
Engine capacity / type: 1,8L I4
Max power: 184 hp.
Max torque: --- Nm.
Fuel type: gasoline.
Fuel tank capacity: 59 litres.

Insurance fully comprehensive - per annum: £450.
MOT: Nil.
Road tax: £210 per annum.
Servicing: £220 (service A) or £500 (service B)
repairs: Nil.

So my monthly expense sheet looks like this:

* Fuel per month: £150.
* Insurance: £38.
* MOT: Nil.
* Road tax: £18.
* Servicing: £19 (based on service A)
* repairs:Nil

* Total: £225 (monthly) £2,700 (annually).


Automobile # 2

Make: Yamaha.
Model: YZF R125.
Transmission: 6 speed manual.
Model year: 2010.
Engine capacity / type: 125cc
Max power: 15 hp.
Max torque: --- Nm.
Fuel type: gasoline.
Fuel tank capacity: 14 litres.


Insurance TPFT - per annum: £180.
MOT: Nil.
Road tax: £16 per annum.
Servicing: £120
repairs: Nil

So my monthly expense sheet looks like this:

* Full tank of fuel: spent about £60 in the last month covering over 800 miles cause I am a new rider but it should normally be about £25.
* Insurance: £15.
* MOT: Nil.
* Road tax: £1.25.
* Servicing: £10
* repairs: Nil.

* Total: £52 (monthly) £625 (annually).


Total for 2: £275 (monthly) £3,300 (annually).

erico2k2: These guys can decode any car, they are targetting xpenssive BMWs at the moment

That is not true. This flaw affects only BMWs most especially the E series between '05 and '11. On forums I visit, there has been two claims of an F series car been stolen and it was by tge same person who claimed his 7 series was stolen and the replacement 7 series was stolen 2 weeks later.

The cars have been going missing since last year but BMW and other car forums started pickibg up on this in Feburary. I have followed a thread on Pistonheads since April and on that thread alone, up to 20 cars have been stolen. Sheyi Adebayor also had his week old X6 stolen in the summer . The BBC did a report on this problem on Watchdog last week.

BMW have denied that their cars have flaws that make their cars easy to steal and claim that other marques are being stolen as well but how the hell do you explain 300 BMW cars being reported stolen by the Midland Constabulary between January and June 2012 compared to the just 34 BMW cars reported stolen by the same constabulary between the same period last year?

The main flaws are the dead spot in the alarm sensor which means you can carefully break the glass and slide your hand down tge drivers footwell and access the OBD port. The second flaw is the open state of the OBDII. Although EU regulations mean car manufacturers have to make the OBD ports in their cars accessible to independentvworkshops, nowhere do the EU say manufacturers should allow blank keys to be programable by connecting an £80 piece of hardware to the OBD port. Mercedes allow access to their ports too that is why anyone can buy a STAR machine, plug in and do diagnostics but it is secure. You cant programm a blank key to work through the OBD port on a Mercedes.

BMW have buried their head in the sand claiming their cars are Thatcham approved but it seems the recent Watchdog episode has made them remove their finger. They are now claiming a software update will be available in about 8 weeks. I am sure this is no consolation for BMW owners whose cars are liable to be stolen between before then.

Why stop at kneeling down? Why not lie down to show your humility? If you kneel down to pray in church, do you do the same when you pray before you eat, or do you kneel down to pray when the plane is about to take off? If you dont, that means your kneeling in church is to please man and not God.

I think it is poetic justice that the man who was the conduit between the American government and the rebels (terrorists, Al Qaeda, Jihadists e.t.c) in Libya was killed by the same group of people who killed Gaddaffi and in exactly the same manner.

I remember my boss at the bank in Nigeria lambasting me for daring not to greet him when he came in. In England, when my oga enter na so I go just dey look am. If e greet me when I dey bad mood, I go just ignore am. I dey enter lift with MD, blank am. If e wan look me funny, I go givevam screw face join. I love England!

Dont try this in Naija o! U no go last. U must carry bag, buy lunch e.t.c My branch manager even had his own personal toilet.

@ duduspace

What do you think about Scezney making the trip to Belgrade and not Mannone. I have searched everywhere to see if Mannone is out injured but no such news. Do you not think the gaffer might be rewarding Scezney's rebellion?

duduspace:
I think there should be a button to do it through my profile, I can't find it when I view your profile too, not sure if it has to do with some lockdowns on internet explorer while I'm at work, will check when I get home. Where is Log Me In when you need it? 

Diaby misses the trip to Belgrade, methinks he was rushed back a bit too soon, Gibbs is back in the squad, I hope that foot is fully healed.

I didnt find the button but I have sent you a message on Yahoo msngr. Please have a look and let me know if you will kindly oblige my request.

Regards

@ dudspace

How does one PM? I ned to send you a PM but I have been looking for a way to do it all morning.

Almunia injury puts Fabianski in goal

Lukasz Fabianski will be in goal for Arsenal at Partizan Belgrade on Tuesday night.

The Polish keeper is taking the gloves because Manuel Almunia picked up an elbow injury during the penalty incident against West Brom on Saturday.

“We have Manual Almunia out,” said the manager. “He has a problem with his elbow. He caught it when he made the penalty on Saturday.

Almunia came under scrutiny after the 3-2 defeat at Emirates Stadium over the weekend but Wenger made it clear that, but for this injury, he was not going to leave out his No 1.

“No,” the Frenchman responded. “[The keeper] is always the easy target, the easy scapegoat. But we win together and we lose together even if people think he made a mistake on the second goal.”

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/almunia-injury-puts-fabianski-in-goal

Wenger - Almunia not the only one at fault

"For what happened, everybody will criticise Almunia but if we are 0-0 at half time it is because of Almunia," said Wenger.

"Overall I believe that, defensively, everybody made individual mistakes.

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/wenger-almunia-not-the-only-one-at-fault

Wenger - The team had no electricity

"West Brom played very well but it is the usual defending we get when we play. We made really basic errors defensively if you analyse any of the goals. I just feel that from back to forward we were flat and poor.

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/wenger-the-team-had-no-electricity

Vieira:
and Wengers opinion is that he needs a better keeper.

If you cannot see exactly what is wrong with Alumnia then there is no point to this thread.

If you do not understand what an opinion is, then I suggest you check a dictionary, the Merriam Webster online dictionary is a very good one if you care to know. You cannot form opinions for others and please leave it to Monsieur Wenger to decide if he needs a keeper. If you had a bloody clue about football, you,ll be the manager of Arsenal and Arsene would be the one posting useless comments on Nairaland. Some of you guys that claim to be supporters and fans are nothing as such but are mainly frustrated people in life that need an outlet to vent their frustrations. It is plain to see that is the case as you guys are never able to form any opinions by yourselves but just jump on the bandwagon. You can never see anything good come out of the club you purpotedly support and just critisize, critisize and critisize. It was Bendtner, Theo, Silvestre, Denilson now its Almunia.

I delibrately made this thread a stand alone one instead of a appendage of the Arsenal one so as to reduce the number of vermin like yourself that come visiting. It is not your place to tell me if there is a point to the thread.

duduspace:
GBAM right on the head, he only started playing after we were 3-0 down, he was so lackasidal before that. Trust the media to descend on Almunia as usual, it is so easy for them to make him the scape goat, if Sagna will stand like a mumu  and allow Jerome Thomas go past him like that on the edge of our box or Clichy will claim to be blocking someone and open his toros like a love-peddler's kini, what exactly is Almunia to do? 

LMFAO to the higjlighted comment!

@ aieromon

We are all entitled to our opinions but the good thing is that only one man's opinion matters and that is monsieur Wenger.

@ Tkb

You have said it all, the defenders were shitty i.e were culpable in all 3 goals and the penalty conceded but yet in the same sentence you point out Almunia's errors were glaring. why call Almunia by name but not the defenders that werent up to par? double standards?

V West Bromwich Albion: Mixed game. Got down well to stop Osazes shot in the first half. Poor defending left him one on one with Osaze and he had no choice but to rush off his line resulting in a penalty. Got down well to save the penalty albeit a poor one. Very good first half. In the second half was let down by his defence once again. Anyone remember the Blackburn game? WBA's first goal was exactly the same! halfhearted defending by Sagna on the right this time, ball watching by the defenders in the box and an easy tap in for Osaze. Could have done better for the second goal but once again let down by the defence. How was a WBA player in such an advanced position to have a free pot shot at our keeper so soon after conceding. You are forced to ask why wasnt our keeper protected. Could do nothing about the third goal. Made the right decision to stay on his feet because if he had gone down and missed the ball, he would have got a second yellow card (sent off), conceded a second penalty and erased any hopes of a comeback. Again very very poor defending by the Arsenal.

It is always easy to highlight an error by a goalkeeper but Arsenal's defence made four major mistakes against WBA. Some myopic people will look back to this game and say Almunia cost Arsenal the game but that is so far from the truth. Poor defending and not the keeper cost Arsenal the game.

I do not look to apportion blame as everyone has a bad day in the office. I am only highlighting the mistakes made by the defence to point out that Almunia did not cost us the game.

Damn I spoke too soon! I was actually talking bout the first goal.whatagwan!

Schwarzer will have stopped that. We need a damn new Keeper!

@ duduspace

You get too much brain. You are one of the few Arsenal fans that I know who understands the morden game properly.

What has Reina won Liverpool, What has Given won City?

Wenger - Don't blame Fabianski for Keane goal

Lukasz Fabianski was not at fault for Robbie Keane’s equaliser during the Carling Cup tie against Tottenham, according to Arsène Wenger.

The Polish keeper has come in for criticism from sections of the media after getting hand to Keane’s shot but failing to divert the ball away from danger.

Arsenal went on to win the tie 4-1 after extra time and Wenger was quick to defend Fabianski for his performance on Tuesday night.

“You can't blame him for that goal because he touched it and when a goalkeeper touches the ball you always think he should stop it,” said Wenger

“But if he dives and doesn't touch it nobody speaks about it.

“First of all, the goal was offside and apart from that I think he had a sound game.”

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/wenger-don-t-blame-fabianski-for-keane-goal

@ Mr T_A

You think VDS doesnt 'cost you points'. The two goals you conceded against Fulham early this season went through his hands. The first goal I may accept but the second one was a tame header into the ground and then through his hands. I am not blaming VDS, all I am trying to point out is that goalkeepers are not brick walls.

@ Vieira

Joe Hart at WHL? really. What about Joe Hart at home to Blackburn; he runs 30 yards off his line, tells his defender to leave the ball, misses the ball, falls over like a mug and gifts the opponent a goal. That is far from an exceptional keeper, that looks more like Mickey Mouse. I am not sure that as a defender I would listen to whatever instructions he barks for another 10 matches or so. Speaking of biased press, because Hart is one of theirs, most people who are not proper footballing people do not even know he made this blunder becuase it was kept hush hush by big media. Imagine if Almunia made such a mistake, it would still be running in the news today. Again I ask one person to prove me wrong that Almunia has never made a blunder/ howler in an Arsenal jersey, maybe technical errors but never a blunder a la Joe Hart/ Pepe Reina. Imagine big media are calling the Spuds goal aginst Arsenal yesterday a blunder/ howler. I am not even sure if people understand anymore what a blunder is?

Just to make this thread complete I will also add the performances of our other goalkeepers when they get a game

Fabianski V Tottenham: Good performance. Did not have much to do. Maybe could have done better with the goal but he must be given credit for even getting a hand on the ball in a one on one situation where the keeper was let down again by some poor defending. I have noticed already people blaming him for the goal but a better striker wouldnt have even given him the chance to lay a finger on the ball. Van der Sar let 2 goals in through his hands earlier this season against Fulham I can t remember anyone in the press blaming him for that.

Pardon me for going on and on. The main aim of this thread is to create a blog that follows Almunia throughout the season and details his performance as honestly as possible, recording any exceptional saves, howlers or technical errors he has made.

So far so good;

V Liverpool: Good performance. He couldn’t have done anything about the goal. Mr Wenger came out this week and explained that before a keeper makes a mistake, about 5 mistakes would have been made leading up to the keeper making this mistake. This game showed how true this is because it was an error by the Arsenal players plus some shoddy defending that led to the Liverpool goal.

V Blackpool: Good performance. Not called upon too many times. Clean sheet

V Blackburn: Assured performance. He could have done nothing about the goal. Shoddy defending.

V Bolton: Good performance. He did well to push Lee wide after another defensive error. He could do nothing about the goal though.

V Braga: Good performance. He didn’t have much to do but dealt with crosses and set pieces very well when called upon. Clean sheet.

V Sunderland: Good performance. He did well to get of his marks quickly in a potential one on one situation when a Sunderland man lost his marker. He could do nothing about the goal.

Manuel Almunia is a ‘fan’ favourite at Arsenal and he is a true gentleman. He has had a lot of unfair and unsubstantiated negative press recently. I will try to keep this as short and succinct as possible but I have to give you a little insight into how the English media works.

Do you know that Manuel Almunia was being touted as a possible England goalkeeper just three years ago? The press kept spinning this story back then even though they knew there wasn’t a chance in hell for it to happen. In England, the press can make or break you (if you let them). The press is very powerful just ask Gordon Brown. In the run up to the last election you would have been forgiven if you assumed Gordon Brown was Hitler’s No 2 because of the way he vilified in the press. Every so often the sport press need a sensational negative or positive (rarely) story to move their papers.

Enter Arsenal FC. Arsenal are a very easy target for the English press for the following reasons; A very successful French manager with a sizeable contingent of fellow countrymen as players (We all know there is no love lost between the English and the French) and Lack of English players in the Arsenal team (Mr Wenger has said in the past that he doesn’t look at passports and has so far refused to pay over the odds for any average overhyped English 'talent'). The press have ended the Arsenal careers of quite a few players, the most notable being Senderos. What was his crime? Drogba scored against Arsenal every time Senderos played.

Manuel Almunia was derided and ridiculed throughout last season, the same continued throughout the close season and the story isn’t any different in the early stages of this campaign. In Arsenal's first game of the season against Liverpool, Almunia was blamed for conceding a goal at his near post. Show me that keeper who hasn’t plus David Ngog’s shot was a brilliant one. How ironic that in the same match Pepe Reina, who was touted by the same press as a possible replacement for Almunia made a big howler that you wouldn’t expect to see happen in a Sunday league game.

Manuel Almunia may make the odd technical error (again show me a keeper who doesn’t) but I can authoritatively say that in his Arsenal career, he has never made a blunder/ howler. Many Arsenal 'fans' have heard the story about Almunia so many times that they have started to believe it is as gospel. You can’t blame them, after all what choice have you got when big media continues to force feed you with the same false and recycled lies. I think this was a tactic that was once used on Prisoners of War.

On many Arsenal blogs and forums I read these days many ‘fans’ have concluded that Almunia cost Arsenal at least 15 points last season. This can’t be any further from the truth. Of the top of my head I remember two incidents last season when Almunia gave Arsenal points; The penalty save against West Ham at Upton Park and a wonder save from a Ryan Babel effort against Liverpool. In these 2 games he saved us 4 points. I can also remember 1 technical error from him last season against Birmingham where you can say he cost us 2 points.

On his touted replacements, Pepe Reina has made a blunder; Joe Hart has made an even bigger one. I wonder why Schwarzer who became Chilavert overnight has been stuck with clubs in mid table obscurity for the better part of his career. If he was such a wonderful goalkeeper why haven’t the likes of Inter, Real, Bayern or Manchester Utd come calling for his services?