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It shows Jonathan is not the messiah that the pple have been waiting for.

The man smiles on casually as Nigeria is led to waste.

Dont mind the lot. They always seem to be looking for reasons to resign thereby causing instability in govt. Why contest in the first place if you really dont like the position.

Fortunately in Nigeria we dont have this kind of instability. Certainly not when you have risked life and limb including all your saving and IOU to win an election.

'Club girl' is a new name for a girl doing an old thing. She may not even have seen the inside of a club before.

Bonita:
You are not serious right? Dictate ke? As in we are done. What part of we are just friend won't he get? If he wants to get in bed with me, then, he would have to continue the relationship on my terms. As in, I have friends and I don't get in bed with them and he is not an exception period. From what you are saying, it means he wants to be friends with benefits ( as in I don't have anything to do with my life).
What do you think?

I think you would have succeeded in turning the table from a woman who hates to a man who hates when a relationship ends!

If you used to get down like 3 times a week you can downgrade to once a week that way there will be no hard feelings.

That is not a date. That is statutory r.ape. If the 15yr old means anything to me I will hang the man by his balls (I know how) and have the girl locked up in her bedroom.

Bonita:
Pennywise, you have a point at the bolded statement. I don't think we should be enemies. Infact, I would like my ex to keep in contact with me than not calling me at all.  But, what I will not accept is you trying to get in bed with me. Men and women can be evil sha. I know every relationship should not end in marriage. That is the reason why you should make sure you and your partner are on the same page. You can't carry on a 4 years or more relationship with a girl and not expecting her to think it might/will end up in marriage. Therefore, tell whomever you are dating what your intentions are to avoid bad feeling at the end.

Most guys wont accept that because they will feel it is wrong for one party to dictate the terms of their continued interaction. Which makes sense. Dont you think?

@OP
You 've a point. Some of the anger is misplaced and unnecessary however. You should be able to remain friends even when relationships grow cold. Relationships that grew cold are known to come alive again. So, why the anger?

Some guys dont make things easy the way they let go. They should learn to provide soft landing when they lose interest in a relationship.

The pain the girl feels sometimes is not because the relationship ended-usually the signs are always there long before. It is how they were let go. Guys should learn to be smart about this. Vice versa.

It was a 2 paragraph response that did not require research of any kind, so why do I need to copy and paste?

I am glad it is not what I tot. I have seen a 'glamorous' mod rearrange and delete posts on a thread owing to failure in commonsense and logic over a very simple matter. I will be happy to see that post thanks and BTW its in my profile- which means this has to be a thread-specific spambot.

AjanleKoko:
^^By the way, you didn't seem to understand my point. There is nothing wrong with private sector being involved with distribution. Not generation though. Nigeria has to be strategic about allowing foreigners access to our natural resources, whether oil, gas, or uranium.
I'll still say that, being directly involved in these sectors at a macro level is different from reading about them on the pages of newspapers. A lot of our sentiments are based on the lack of information or experience of the subject matter.
I'll give you a few examples from the telecom sector:

1. Are you aware that MTN and Glo routinely cut each other's fiber cables to disrupt service on each other's network, until NCC had to step in not too long ago?

2. Are you aware that at a time, Glo offered to terminate international calls at N5 to all the PTOs (CDMA and other FWA operators), only to demand for 1bn bank guarantees, which they routinely cashed in without resource to reconciliation on a monthly basis?

3. Are you aware that some operators routinely buy up each others' SIM and RCV stock,  and routinely destroy them, in order to ensure only their products would be available in trade?

Now, while we should encourage foreign direct investment and private sector participation in the consumer market (that's basically the operator service in telecom, the downstream sector in oil and gas, and the distribution services in power), the nation must be extremely careful when it comes to wholesale business (carrier services in telecom, upstream sector in petroleum, power generation in the electricity market). Government cannot hand over power generation 100% to foreigners or the private sector to manage. That would mean direct access to our resources, gas, or maybe uranium in the case of nuclear power. The original mismanagement problems have to be corrected, and the role of the private sector must be clearly defined.

That's just my position. After all, I work in the private sector, so why would I be defending government? I've always worked with multinationals, and I can assure you, they are never interested in the long-term development of any region where they operate, more of their own short-term interests. We just need to fix our government. Handing over the nation to the private sector is not a good solution.

Your knowledge of these matters is not in doubt and I respect that.

What is also not in doubt is competitors trying to undo one another-that is why we have a govt, for regulation and law enforcement.

What I have said all along is that the nuclear option should be removed from the table for 1001 reasons. But private concerns and foreigners should be encouraged to participate via other means in power gen, transmission and distr -all areas the govt have failed woefully to deliver.

I wonder which has more strategic security significance between unfettered access to a country's gas/oil reserve, telecommunication, infrastructures (name it state House and all- they were built by foreigners who still have their blueprint) and access to power generation/distri.

Finally we did not have to fix the govt (like you recommended) to get telecoms to work. Then why do we have to do that to get power?

Thanks

Obscenity

@OP
That will be putting us in the league of Brazil, China, Indonesia etc. The question is are we truly worth of that categorization?

AjanleKoko:
I'll safely assume you are not a professional in either sector. Who said the competition in the telecom sector is healthy?

You dont need to be an electrical engineer in order to put up a light bulb. I believe you can safely assume that much.

AjanleKoko:
Let me do my best to explain my point of view.
When the telecom liberalization started, the major idea was to ensure private sector participation, in order to increase the nation's footprint to the consumer. NITEL could not be the only operator selling service and managing infrastructure at the same time. Good idea, abi?

So licenses were sold, and the idea was that NITEL would still carry the local interconnect between operators, and international traffic, and the private operators will focus on connecting subscribers and not worry about connecting to other operators.
However, things did not quite work out. NITEL was already crippled by government neglect, same as PHCN is today. So the operators suffered, and NCC decided to appoint a second national carrier, Glo.

What did Glo do? Rushed into mobile and started to engage the other operators in breakneck competition. Forgetting that, as a second national carrier, they should provide the other players with service. As at today, all the other operators are connecting directly to each other for local interconnect, and terminating to foreign carriers, meaning billions of dollars in revenue lost to foreign carriers like Belgacom.
Why do you think no operator wants to touch Glo-1, but are waiting anxiously for Main One?

My point? Government incompetence at managing NITEL and PHCN does not make it right to hand over strategic national assets to foreigners. Our power and communications cannot be 100% in the hands of foreigners, as a sovereign nation. Nobody does that anywhere, rather they look for the best way to protect the assets while ensuring good unbiased competition in the marketplace. Nigeria's own policy of trying to cash out of everything, or sell to their proxies, is just as sick and idiotic as the original mismanagement that brought us here in the first place.

None of the above contradicts the fact that the cost of acquiring a sim card crashed from N21,000 (yes, I paid that much) to next to nothing when Glo became operational. Everyone seem to have forgotten about the per min billing rip-off that the foreign operators held on to for a long time due to 'tech issues involved' that Glo saved Nigerians from. Added to that are the numerous value added services to get consumers attention and patronage by all the networks.

Your argument veered towards Glo the national carrier when you saw clearly I was referring to Glo the operator. Such tactic work when you are dealing with a minor or NL intellectuals.

Ajanlekoko, I dont believe you removed my post. This one-

Quote from: AjanleKoko on Yesterday at 06:38:32 PM

I'll safely assume you are not a professional in either sector. Who said the competition in the telecom sector is healthy?

You dont need to be an electrical engineer in order to put up a light bulb. I believe you can safely assume that much.

Quote from: AjanleKoko on Yesterday at 06:38:32 PM

Let me do my best to explain my point of view.
When the telecom liberalization started, the major idea was to ensure private sector participation, in order to increase the nation's footprint to the consumer. NITEL could not be the only operator selling service and managing infrastructure at the same time. Good idea, abi?

So licenses were sold, and the idea was that NITEL would still carry the local interconnect between operators, and international traffic, and the private operators will focus on connecting subscribers and not worry about connecting to other operators.
However, things did not quite work out. NITEL was already crippled by government neglect, same as PHCN is today. So the operators suffered, and NCC decided to appoint a second national carrier, Glo.

What did Glo do? Rushed into mobile and started to engage the other operators in breakneck competition. Forgetting that, as a second national carrier, they should provide the other players with service. As at today, all the other operators are connecting directly to each other for local interconnect, and terminating to foreign carriers, meaning billions of dollars in revenue lost to foreign carriers like Belgacom.
Why do you think no operator wants to touch Glo-1, but are waiting anxiously for Main One?

My point? Government incompetence at managing NITEL and PHCN does not make it right to hand over strategic national assets to foreigners. Our power and communications cannot be 100% in the hands of foreigners, as a sovereign nation. Nobody does that anywhere, rather they look for the best way to protect the assets while ensuring good unbiased competition in the marketplace. Nigeria's own policy of trying to cash out of everything, or sell to their proxies, is just as sick and idiotic as the original mismanagement that brought us here in the first place.

None of the above contradicts the fact that the cost of acquiring a sim card crashed from N21,000 (yes, I paid that much) to next to nothing when Glo became operational. Everyone seem to have forgotten about the per min billing rip-off that the foreign operators held on to for a long time due to 'tech issues involved' that Glo saved Nigerians from. Added to that are the numerous value added services to get consumers attention and patronage by all the networks.

Your argument veered towards Glo the national carrier when you saw clearly I was referring to Glo the operator. Such tactic work when you are dealing with a minor or NL resident intellectuals.

AjanleKoko:
I'll safely assume you are not a professional in either sector. Who said the competition in the telecom sector is healthy?

You dont need to be an electrical engineer in order to put up a light bulb. I believe you can safely assume that much.

AjanleKoko:
Let me do my best to explain my point of view.
When the telecom liberalization started, the major idea was to ensure private sector participation, in order to increase the nation's footprint to the consumer. NITEL could not be the only operator selling service and managing infrastructure at the same time. Good idea, abi?

So licenses were sold, and the idea was that NITEL would still carry the local interconnect between operators, and international traffic, and the private operators will focus on connecting subscribers and not worry about connecting to other operators.
However, things did not quite work out. NITEL was already crippled by government neglect, same as PHCN is today. So the operators suffered, and NCC decided to appoint a second national carrier, Glo.

What did Glo do? Rushed into mobile and started to engage the other operators in breakneck competition. Forgetting that, as a second national carrier, they should provide the other players with service. As at today, all the other operators are connecting directly to each other for local interconnect, and terminating to foreign carriers, meaning billions of dollars in revenue lost to foreign carriers like Belgacom.
Why do you think no operator wants to touch Glo-1, but are waiting anxiously for Main One?

My point? Government incompetence at managing NITEL and PHCN does not make it right to hand over strategic national assets to foreigners. Our power and communications cannot be 100% in the hands of foreigners, as a sovereign nation. Nobody does that anywhere, rather they look for the best way to protect the assets while ensuring good unbiased competition in the marketplace. Nigeria's own policy of trying to cash out of everything, or sell to their proxies, is just as sick and idiotic as the original mismanagement that brought us here in the first place.

None of the above contradicts the fact that the cost of acquiring a sim card crashed from N21,000 (yes, I paid that much) to next to nothing when Glo became operational. Everyone seem to have forgotten about the per min billing rip-off that the foreign operators held on to for a long time due to 'tech issues involved' that Glo saved Nigerians from. Added to that are the numerous value added services to get consumers attention and patronage by all the networks.

Your argument veered towards Glo the national carrier when you saw clearly I was referring to Glo the operator. Such tactic work when you are dealing with a minor or NL resident intellectuals.

The whole idea of generating power from nuclear plant in Nigeria should be shelved indefinitely. We can utilize the same resources for other means of power gen that is safer and just as reliable.

The president should be wary of advisers with fantastic proposals meant just to corner a certain amt in budgetary allocation. The way things are in Nigeria, it is laughable, dangerous and irresponsible of any govt to pursue this course. Acquiring the technology is hardly the issue. But we lack the basic minimum requirement in probity and accountability. Before you know it we are going to start cutting corners in its installation and maintenance and the consequences is better imagined.

AjanleKoko:
The mobile phone sector wasn't privatized. It was liberalised, and the private sector was allowed to participate.
Government can't just sell licenses in the case of power. It has a more significant environmental impact, and there are security implications. We can't just put power generation in the hands of the likes of an MTN. Distribution, sure, but not generation. Even in the developed world, that's not the case.

I have a problem understanding your point of view.

Which is better for the economy (even the security) of this country between a regular uninterupted power supply from a foreign owned company and the perennial darkness we have in the hands of Nigerian operators? If your concern is internal security shouldnt telecoms that is already in the hands of these foreigners be more paramount?

My primary concern is that our policy makers may be thinking exactly the same way. Which means the healthy competition b/w local and international telecom operators Nigerians benefit from daily can never be replicated in the power sector.

mode9007:
thank god she is not here with with, so no fear, 

Dey go. I know you. E not reach u do

Missy B:
Comments are capable of making Guys c[i]u[/i]m?

Which one you dey form self

Missy B:
Prolly, You might want to start by challenging Yourself/Your desire.

1 -Make up Your mind not to . . .
2 -Try not to, regardless of how strong the urge seems.

Missy B take it easy b/4 this guy cums on his keyboard

mode9007:
any solution to be problem then,

What she is saying is that you are finished. But I dont think so.

izeek:
i  will expect that will age comes maturity, prove the saying right pls.

Is there sth this slowpoke is trying to tell us? I cant seem to understand. BTW this is the correct spelling of your name-ISAAC

mode9007:
pls can someone help me, do u think am fast becoming a sex addict and any tip pls, cos I can seem to be with my girl friend without having sex with her, just last month she was with me for 15days and believe me no day went bye without us having sex a least 3days (though on my advances), the other half is that i don't cheat on her,

Shut up. Nobody asked u abt cheating. If you get a chance u will in a heart beat.

Having said that, It is not a problem provided it doesnt get in the way of work or school if you are a student. Or you dont spend all your salary or allowance in pursuit of your fantasy or picking up stds that could endanger ur life.

It is true and every one knows that corruption is the reason why Nigeria cannot meet her energy needs. But we can by-pass official corruption not by changing Nigeria (we leave that to God almighty) but by simply privatizing power generation, transmission and distribution.

@OP
The problem is that 18yr old hawker will give you hawker kids- certainly they cant get the kind of breeding a bank mgr's kids gets-many other issues can arise from this. Some are social others economic.

Secondly when you have cash flow issues (and believe me it will come) all you get from your wife is a hawker's assistance rather than a bank mgr's. Other multiplier issues can result from this also.

At some point matrimonial sex will not mean so much as it did in the beginning. So the hawker's advantage and the sacrifices therein will be lost.

Anyway, good luck and I hope you both live happily everafter.

Should this topic be in food or sexuality? Really!

[quote author=Aloy+Emeka link=topic=460933.msg6194918#msg6194918 date=1276263140]Except that you don't have the visa and guts to contract HIV. [/quote]Visa? No problem. HIV? Why dem they see condom

@OP
Now there is a good reason to visit SA for 'world cup'.

@OP
Watch it. This kind of thought has led many before you to jail. You are in a stage where you can only hope for opportunity s.ex. Soon you could start having sex on demand. You have not reached there yet.

Until then, be wise. Stay away from girls. Nothing has more potential to extinguish a young man's destiny than carnal thought.

otukpo:
5 years only?

It is a slap on the wrist. My guess is that they will be out in 2and half years for good conduct. Money don lost.

Ujujoan:
Well if he's not attracted to me, then he's defintely impotent!    

You do know your worth alright. Go on girl.
[quote author=frank3.16 link=topic=459333.msg6176188#msg6176188 date=1276014848]i hear some girls say they feel respected when a guy does not touch them at night. this just reminds me of how dumb some girls are.

how about allowing urself to reson constructively, ask urself questions fro the first time in your life and draw reasonable conclusions.

for all i know the guy could be scared(liverlesss), not interested, feeling the the time is not yet ripe, or perhaps something about you might have turned him off, or playing you the reverse psychology. he could be sleeping the whole night in delima.

respect has got nothing to do with it. if u are not sexy enough to make a man's jumbo stand up, then u shouldnt consider urself a woman.

making a move by the guy is one thing, and u accepting is another. but please dont condem hin because he made a move, he was just being a man.[/quote]A girl comes to spend the night with me and I dont touch her that first night. That relationship is dead and buried. Absolutely no hope for it.

^^^
That is harsh. He may not be attracted to you at all. Even when you think he is.

@OP How I wish sometimes I can be that kind of guy. Try not to embarass myself

Why is this busy thread dead all of a sudden. Anyway let me go back to my movie.

spikedcylinder:

I am happy the ladies in the house agree with me on this one. What was she to do with an absentee incapable husband