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Thanks I will try that as well, will report back

Withdrawing cash is not the problem. Most people looking for cards are not going to travel. They want to shop online.

The problem with the first bank and ecobank cards is that no-one will accept them for payments online. Yes they are mastercards but cause you are shopping from Nigeria (IP) address or you will ship to Nigeria most merchants wont touch your transaction. Check out this site www.naira2u.com, they give you a Visa and Mastercard as well as a U.S. shipping address and then there are merchants in the US that accept naira through them, there is a post from one of such merchants advertising here on nairaland, look for it.

By 2007 I dare not guess how many impeachments will have occurred?

In Anambra State, Chris Ngige stole the mandate against the wishes of the people yet when he refused to honor the devils bargain, the only people he could turn to save him was the same electorate and in return he had no choice but to perform. Could it possibly be the requirement for preforming, a GUN to the head? Ngige is now afraid to misstep because he knows one mistake he will be fed to the sharks.

Oyo and Balyesa challenge us further; why do you sympathize with governors that plundered their states for personal gain and once they stopped sharing the goodies their Godfathers arranged for their removal? Why are you all crying foul.

Are we crying fowl because the justice was not done, or are we crying foul at the loss of predictability? It must be the latter because we know the earlier is retribution. Let me share a quote from the great Ghandi, “There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall”.

Cry not, another thief is gone; as it has been done to them will it be done to others. The saga continues but there is a lesson here.

When you beat a man, pour water on him, lock him in a dark room and tell him he is of no value and everyone else stands there and watches like television, the man accepts his fate because no-one will help him.

When it is your turn to be beaten, water poured on and locked away in a dark room, you will of course express no surprise that everyone is looking at you like it is television.

One day everyone will be beaten, water poured on them and all locked up. One day one will escape and he will have children who will see those being beaten, water poured on and locked up and will ask why?

At that time the question will be, what is this Oyibo talking about? My Diasporan friends take heart, those that wonder why you think and act this way, know not better.

Seun meant (read between the lines) that when he leaves Nigeria he will be able to express himself better on the subject
Seun, I can arrange your Visa, now Speak

If you read the Governor’s request for OBJ intervention and OBJ’s response that it is too late for him to intervene, you come away an impression that is difficult for me to even express.

Where is the SYSTEM? First of all Ladoja’s problem is a state problem, it is a problem of the governors and legislators in the state, it is not a Federal problem, nor OBJ’s problem, he should simply say that it a state problem and leave it alone, it leaves me with the concept of an overbearing Federal government.

On the part of the Ladoja and legislators, if he does not agree with what they are doing, he should take the legislators to court to stop the impeachment process if he can prove a case the courts will rule. It shows a lack of faith in the system or maybe there is no system at all.

If giants fight and feel hopeless, what is the common man on the street to do? Nigeria each day looks like a Kingdom and what the King wants, the King gets despite any denials.

Instead of postulations why not express you opinion and compare the results with others that have voted on a third term for OBJ?

Now it is clear that baba wants to go, the whole subject becomes mute.
let's talk about his possible sucessors.

Kaylala, maybe you should give up that occupation, now that you know what it is

nferyn, our differences in opinion may be cultural. You have merely woken me to another possibility; prostitution may not be a bad thing after all by your logic, it is just another job.

Every society/culture has it concept of decadence, in Belgium it may be perfectly acceptable to be a prostitute (just another occupation), I wonder if that is so; I have seen the girls in the glass rooms as I walked the street of Antwerpen. I guess it is a sanctioned behavior. I have also seen kids in Lausanne that are allowed to take drugs and smoke marijuana in a particular park as long as they do not sell it or leave the area. When I was in Amsterdam, I saw that people were allowed to take marijuana.

In the Nigerian society where this post is directed, Prostitution is seen as debasing oneself and not acceptable. This is not to suggest that there are no prostitutes; just that people do not wear it as a label. And to your suggestion that there are no hard laws, there are laws against prostitution in many countries of the world including Nigeria and there is also a moral law that I have posted.

I appreciate your response and it made we wonder if you think we are just a bunch of backwards folk that haven't quite accepted the reality of the times that we live in. In the Nigerian society, you cannot equate Prostitution with being a janitor, driver, garbage collection even shit collector (we still have those); it is just not acceptable. I have heard it said that they perform a useful service in society but the question was, "Will you marry a Prostitute".

With the connotation of the word and our so called cultural inhibitions, I have suggested that within the context of our society a prostitute is not a first choice for a wife, I need not repeat my reasons. I also left it open for the individual based on their level of emancipation to make that a personal choice.

Sorry I have not taken up the technical issues in your discussion but I get paid to do that kind of work and will not spend hours on it just to prove a point. I wonder if that makes me a prostitute. No, not by my definition.

I don’t know the guy, I’m sure he is a nice man, haven’t seen anything to the contrary, neither did he post anything here that requires a comment that’s why I left the issue alone. By the way where’s Seun he's been very quiet, has EFCC come for him with all the crap we are talking here?

Akolawole is so reasonable. What happened?

PDP Chief Resigns, Rejects Third Term Agenda
Written by Jonathan Elendu
Thursday, 05 January 2006

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Semantics, Semantics, Semantics

Prostitute pros.ti.tute [próstə toót]
1. somebody who receives money in return for sexual intercourse or other sex acts
2. somebody who uses a skill or ability in a way that is considered unworthy, usually for financial gain.
3. to use a skill or ability in a way that is considered unworthy, usually for financial gain,
4. to work as a prostitute or offer somebody else for sexual intercourse or other sex acts in exchange for money

Encarta
Thank you Dictionary.

As for your choice, good God, that’s your choice.

You will not find me in the spectators chair, if IBB says he will run and (we don’t want him) we will work against him, if OBJ says he wont go, we will also work against him. Just you wait and see 

If he continues as gentleman he just might get a favorable review in the history books

Life is not a movie

I think you will agree with me who needs to lighten up?
First as you suggesting that it was OBJ’s policies that caused a double digit growth in external reserves? If you do, some of us are not easily sold on such fantasy. I agree that it was put to good use reducing the debt burden, however there are also other national priorities that need to be addressed such as health and wealth.

You will not read any post of mine where I offer any candidate be it Akinyuli, Kalu, Duke etc, even though some of them have demonstrated their patriotism beyond doubt. On the other hand to suggest that it is the messengers that botched the initiatives is to pass the buck. Who appointed and keeps the clowns subverting OBJ’s efforts or he is not responsible for those he hires?

So Femmie are you suggesting that no-one else can rule Nigeria but OBJ? Please stop smoking that stuff, its affecting your judgment and vision. Please read my thread on what OBJ should do somewhere else at Nairaland. His time is almost up, he had better tell us who he will like to succeed him then we can decide if we like the person or not. As for IBB, he’s a Nigerian and can put himself up for election like everyone else and when the time comes, we the people will decide. A little faith goes a long way; if you sit in your house on Election Day, don’t blame anyone for the result.