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vexxy:
Awe, this is so sweet!

Welcome, Pintos! You were greatly missed!

V

I've always loved the little Saint, who when God said,
'' You can have anything you ask for, ''
replied,
''My Lord, please when my shadow falls behind me , let whatever it falls on be blessed''
Vexxy dear, I thank God for all the thousands of people like you, who are always blessing others.
Thank you and bless your Soul.
One Love & Peace.

Missworld:
Stop stealing my heart Pintos.

MY HEART WILL GO ON (Celine Dion)

(Titanic theme)

Every night in my dreams I see you, I feel you
That is how I know you go on.
Far across the distance and spaces between us
You have come to show you go on.
Near, far, wherever you are,
I believe that the heart does go on.
Once more you open the door
And you're here in my heart,
And my heart will go on and on.

Love can touch us one time and last for a lifetime,
And never let go till we're gone.
Love was when I loved you, one true time I hold to
In my life we'll always go on.
Near, far, wherever you are,
I believe that the heart does go on.
Once more you open the door
And you're here in my heart,
And my heart will go on and on.

You're here, there's nothing I fear
And I know that my heart will go on.
We'll stay forever this way,
You are safe in my heart,
And my heart will go on and on

Missworld:
Dear, life goes on even if I'm dead. I have too many important things to worry about now and that means less time for sadness. No lies, the wound is still there, it's still very fresh, hard to live with it, hard to think about but with people like you, Vexxy and others my days are somewhat bright once again.

DECLARATION OF LOVE (Celine Dion)

''Dreamin', dreamin', dreamin'...

You are my knight in armor
The hero of my heart
When you smile at me, I see
A true world go up
The river is getting deep, believe it
You're all these arms of mine wanna hold
All wrapped up with a river
Baby, I'm giving you this heart of gold


So listen up--it's you I trust
I feel magic ev'ry time that we touch
I pledge allegiance to the heavens above
Tonight to you, baby
I make my declaration of love

Just like Juliet
Belonged to Romeo
You can stay prepared that
I won't be letting you go
In the heat of the night, so right
You taste my sweetness on your lips
I'll make it better than you ever dreamed
And the rest of your life will be just like this, baby


Declaration of love, declaration of love...

In the heat of the night, so right
You taste my sweetness on your lips
I'll make it better than you ever dreamed
And the rest of your life will be just like this, baby''

Greatpeter:
I would like to steal pintos' love.

GreatPeter, no way!
you be my broda sha
Brothers don share lovers, please.

Today is ''world's stealing day............?''
So tell me 1 thing u would like to steal and from who?

You are my Rainbow

Just to say a big thank you to all the folks of Nairaland,
who cared and prayed for me during my 'break in transmission'
Missworld thank you very much .
And to Greatpeter and Baby-A.........good pals.
And to Nairaland Administrator, may he grow in 'wisdom and God's guidance' that this dream is not killed by him and his enemies alike.

Oh you are indeed Missworld.
I really want to let you know that
there's this place in my heart
where your finger prints still rest
its the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me..............

Naijalife, Oshe gon go ni [PARDON MY YORUBA]
You did a good job though, but need to build up more confidence in your public/media talks.
Thank you for taking such giant steps to the world of show biz and publishing.
I am so proud of you. Thank you gurl.

Great song Nike.......
you can imagine the filtering from my Bang and Olufsen [B&O] Beolab 2500 Active Speakers

AND NOW PLAYING:


TONY CHRISTIE (f/ Peter Kay) LYRICS

(Is This The Way To) Amarillo


Sha la la la la la [X3]

[Verse]
When the day is dawning,
On a Texas Sunday Morning
How I long to be there
With Marie whos waiting for me there
Every lonely city
Where i hang my hat
Aint as half as pretty,
As where my baby's at

[Chorus]
Is this the way to Amarillo?
Every night ive been hugging my pillow
Dreaming dreams of Amarillo
And sweet Marie who waits for me
Show me the way to Amarillo
Ive been weeping like a willow
Crying over Amarillo
And sweet Marie who waits for me

Sha la la la la la la [X3]
And Marie who waits for me

[Chorus]
Theres a church bell ringing
hear the song of joy that its singing
For the sweet Maria
And the guy whos coming to see her
Just beyond the highway
Theres an open plane and it keeps me going
Through the wind and rain

[Chorus]
Is this the way to Amarillo?
Every night ive been hugging my pillow
Dreaming dreams of Amarillo
And sweet Marie who waits for me
Show me the way to Amarillo
Ive been weeping like a willow
Crying over Amarillo and sweet Marie who waits for me

Sha la la la la la la [X3]
And Marie who waits for me

Sha la la la la la la [X3]
And Marie who waits for me
[till fades]

KANYE WEST

Gold Digger

WesleyanA:
pintos i didn't make that up. i copied (stole) it from somewhere.

That is a sign of creativity. .......appreciating good things

WesleyanA:
pintos.... you actually remembered that

my mum told me and warned me of any other kiss ........that i can never get the real thing again...............her prophecy has come true.

I can't really remember my first kiss.................
........but one thing i know is that, my mum was the first person who kissed me with genuine love, after the midwife presented me to her on my first day on earth.........what an experience.

WesleyanA:
[b]P[/b]ut
[b]I[/b]n
[b]N[/b]ickel
[b]T[/b]o
[b]O[/b]perate

How smart, I hear you,
Well done Babygurl.

Greatpeter:
Latoya?

You almost got it, try again and goodluck.

£1000.00 only

That is a mild word to use.
How then will you feel if you are charged to Court accused of being a pedophile?

If i am not blindfolded , i will definitely read it too.
After reading it what will you do?

Where Seun go?
This is a free advert.
[move]Remove it quick quick or pay to keep it[/move].
Thank you.

What will you do if an underage beautiful princess like Hot Angel or Nike sends you
an open love letter in nairaland?

Seun:
An anonymous young scientist posted this extended list of suggestions:

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LIVE CHATTING
If you can put live chatting in your site like yahoo it will attract people. We Nigerians likes chatting with each other. It will enable all the members interact with [each other] easily and make friends. We can also use it to ask ourselves question concerning we Nigerians.

PUTTING PICTURES IN YOUR SITE
If there are pictures on the site it will make it look more beautiful. Not too much pictures, maybe advert pictures. Take yahoo as an example (go for adverts so that you can make more money).

ELECTIVE POSITION
If you can have 3 or 5 elective position it will be great so that we the members can vote for our leaders (later you can start collecting money for it). You can give these leaders small jobs to do, maybe making them take some decision with you like punishment for offenders (you should think of a way that you and [the elected members] can interact more frequently and easily).

GENERAL NOTICE BOARD
This should be a news board where every body can get the latest news, good news. Let it be that you alone can post news there, news like directing us to a site for what might interest us may be job opportunity like latest news in Nigeria etc.

MARKET PLACE
There should be a marketplace where people can buy and sell in naira. You can also have free download here.

AWARD-GIVING
Do not for get to award some of your members who do good (the result of the award could be increasing their tenure that is when taken money from people to be a member)


FUTURE
In future, you can form groups e.g. technology group, religious group, health group etc which ever way you want it. This group can have their own heads too so that every group they can discourse how to improve Nigeria.


NOTE:
*You should not allow "anyhow" topics anymore!

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I'm impressed by this young scientist. I'm impressed that he took the time to think and type all of this out. What are your reactions to his suggestions?

Beautiful contribution, interesting and challenging.
I just wonder how this project is maintained financially and i feel if something is not done urgently to keep it, we might get up from sleep one day and find this dream gone.God forbid.
I appeal to all users of this project to make sacrifices to keep it going.........maybe pay a paltry subscription fee of N20 monthly for those in Nigeria, and $2/£1 for those in US, Europe and others.
This fee entitles each subscriber to his personal website, where he can post his pictures and other personal information, plus an email address.
However those who are not members can have limited access to the site .
Members should also attract adverts for a commission to be mutually agreed with the site administrators.
We should also have a hard core s-x thread restricted to adult membership at a higher subscription fee. The world over it is a money spinner, believe it or not.
Seun keep working hard, more palm oil to your armpit!

I hereby place a prize tag of ......
.......for anyone who on one guess can say rightly my Love in nairaland

Chairman of APA, Chief John Onwubufo at a news conference in Kaduna at the weekend urged the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate, Mr. Peter Obi who was declared winner by the tribunal to stop celebrating as the PDP is only using him to achieve their political game plan. He said the party will dump him as soon as they finish with him.

In the same vein, a group of Igbo students in the north under the aegis of the Confederation of Igbo Students (CIS) has queried the rationale in quashing the election of Dr. Ngige after about two years and three months in office pointing out that the judgment was not based on law, but for political reasons.

However, Chief Onwubufo alleged that the tribunal awarded victory to Mr. Obi because he agreed with PDP to implement all the programmes of Gov. Ngige’s estranged godfather, Chief Chris Uba and his cohorts.

According to him, Mr Obi allegedly agreed to implement among others, the "re-appointment of Dr. Okey Ude as the deputy governor and the payment of N3 billion to the self-styled godfather of Anambra politics, Chief Uba for his election expenses in 2003.

"Obi agreed with the PDP to ensure that Dr. Ude, the impeached former deputy governor be brought back. He also agreed to appoint Uba's nominees into his cabinet as well as review the contract for the Governor's Lodge upwards from the original N2 billion.

"The so-called judgment is not based on law. It is a political judgment and the people of Anambra State should not accept this plot to bring back the scavengers. When PDP National Chairman, Senator Ahmadu Ali said Ngige would meet his waterloo, it was because he knew about the outcome of the case at the tribunal.

"We don't know why the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo wants to hold the people of Anambra State in particular and the Igbo in general down. If the election of Dr. Ngige was rigged, it means the election of Obasanjo was also rigged because all the 2003 elections results in Anambra state were written on the same table.

"We will also like to warn Mr. Peter Obi to know that the people of Anambra state and the entire Igbo race will not forgive him if the whole state is plunged into chaos again because of his inordinate ambition to rule, not to lead his people.

"Obasanjo and PDP are the cause of the trouble in Anambra State and the whole trouble is because of the president's personal relationship with Chris Uba the self confessed rigger of elections for the PDP in the South East.

"We are aware that the whole essence of persecuting Ngige is because he refused to allow political jobbers in the state to loot the treasury.

"In 1999, Obasanjo told those who sponsored him not to expect to recoup their money because he would not pay back from the national treasury. Why is he supporting political jobbers to loot the treasury of Anambra State", he asked.

CIS, in its own statement, which was jointly signed by Mazi Chibuike Ugwu, Chairman and Mr. Chris Oha, secretary, described the judgment as retrogressive, stressing that Ngige had transformed the lives of the people of the state and was "the pride of the Igboland".

According to the CIS, the drafting of thousands of armed mobile policemen to Anambra state on the eve of the "jaundiced" judgment showed that the ruling PDP Federal Government was privy to the outcome of the judgment " and this development is very bad for the future of the judiciary in the country."




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Anambra: APGA is a late comer
By Amanze Obi [amaobi@yahoo.co.uk]
Monday, August 22, 2005

Those who try to assume the moral high ground whenever the political debacle in Anambra State comes up for mention are merely idling away. Morality has no place any more in the Anambra saga. What counts is how much sagacity that each actor can bring to bear on the issue.

The moral or ethical dimension made sense at first. That was when the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) of Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu- Ojukwu which was supposed to make a very impressive showing in Anambra, Ojukwu's home state, was able to impress it upon the public that it was rigged out everywhere in the South East states, particularly in Anambra. The overriding sentiment which APGA held on to then was that Odumegwu-Ojukwu's party should, at least, have been allowed to hold sway in his own state.

This position was, to a large extent , well received then, at least in South East circles. Since it was a well known fact that votes were merely allocated to political parties or individuals at the 2003 general elections, some observers felt then that what was good for the Alliance for Democracy (AD) in the South West should have been good for APGA in the South East. The president's party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) muzzled AD out of the way in five out of the six states presently controlled by AD. PDP merely allowed AD to retain Lagos. In the same vein, since the PDP was believed to have wilfully denied APGA victory in one or two South East states, it (PDP) should have been gracious enough to allow APGA to win at least one state, the most fitting being Odumegwu-Ojukwu's Anambra.
But the issue of who should have won the gubernatorial elections in Anambra State was soon to pale into insignificance when APGA maintained a low profile in the unfolding drama, while allowing the PDP to convert the situation in Anambra strictly into its own affair. When this happened, the argument no longer bordered on whether PDP lost the election to APGA. Rather, the focus was on how Chris Ngige, the Governor of the State, was brought into office by certain forces. At this point, whatever sympathy APGA had in the Anambra elections withered away. And with that development, all moral considerations were thrown overboard.

APGA did not just abandon the moral argument, it also did little or nothing to sustain or amplify the struggle at the political level. What it did instead was to abdicate its responsibility to PDP. The battle which APGA was supposed to wage on all fronts became PDP's. It was because APGA stepped aside that the PDP deployed all the energy it could to decimate itself in Anambra State. APGA watched with indifference or unconcern while Chris Uba and Ngige battled each other. Ngige was abducted, chased out, bullied, attacked and generally harassed by certain forces in PDP represented by Uba. Anambra State was severally set ablaze in the desperate bid by certain powerful elements within the PDP to see Ngige out of office. Several injunctions were sought and obtained on whether Ngige should remain in office or whether his security details should be restored or not. Judgments were given for and against in the Ngige-Uba debacle. When the courts were not holding forte, socio-cultural and religious groups were there to broker peace. South East governors, Ohaneze leadership, the Catholic Church in Anambra State, Anambra professionals, World Igbo Congress, and many more, were interested in the matter. None of these yielded any positive result.

Since the octopus called PDP was out to ruin the political career of Ngige, many thought that the governor would capitulate. But, somehow, he held on to power in a manner that has surprised everybody. When the PDP leadership apparently got tired of him, they decided to expel Ngige from the party, leaving him as a political orphan. While all this was going on, APGA watched with glee from the sidelines. But when it became obvious that Ngige's expulsion from the PDP had taken nothing out of him, the party began to evolve other ways of caging him.

This was how the absent- minded APGA was reminded of what it ought to be doing. APGA was reminded that the battle should have been between it and PDP, not between PDP and itself. APGA was reminded of the need to resurrect the case it filed at the Election Petitions Tribunal against the PDP over the 2003 governorship elections in Anambra State. The party which appeared to be asleep all this while was made to realise that Ngige needed to be pushed out so that its candidate at the elections, Peter Obi, could take over from him.
But the lacuna which APGA failed to fill earlier is haunting it now. Analysts are wondering what the situation in Anambra State would have been like today if PDP succeeded in ousting Ngige.

Would PDP have thrown out Ngige so that APGA's Obi would take over? This could not have been the case. The PDP was merely out to remove Ngige so that another member of the PDP would succeed him. The party did not fight the two-year fruitless war for the sake of APGA. It is therefore disappointing that APGA, the party that should have seized the day long ago, is just waking up from slumber. APGA, the party that should have taken the initiative on how to end the era of Ngige in Anambra has realised too late that it abdicated its responsibility and, in the process, allowed Ngige to gather a lot of steam. Today, the governor is firmly rooted in the battle. He is no longer an easy nut to crack. For APGA therefore, the battle is going to be a tough one. It has, through its deliberate acts of omission and commission, conceded a lot of ground to Ngige. Its latter day attempt at neutralising the governor may therefore turn out to be a futile exercise.

Perhaps, APGA needs to be reminded of the fact that Ngige's battle with PDP has equipped him so well for the faint-hearted jab coming from APGA. In the course of the Anambra debacle, a member of the House of Representatives from the state, Jerry Ugokwe, has invented something called ECOWAS Court in election matters. When he lost at the Appeal Court, the court recognised by the Electoral Law as the final court of jurisdiction in election matters, Ugokwe resorted to ECOWAS court. The overall objective is to hold on to the seat until probably his term of four years expires. Should this turn out to be the case, the other contender who went to court to challenge him would have waited in vain to take over from him.

That was a clever move. Or what do you think?
Now, Ngige's case has not been heard by the Appeal court. But the man is preparing our minds for eventualities. He has alerted us of his readiness to go to ECOWAS court should he lose at the Appeal court. He has alluded to the precedent already set by Ugokwe in this matter.

Herein lies the helplessness of APGA. Should this matter be decided in favour of APGA at the Appeal court, Ngige would, like Ugokwe, take recourse to the ECOWAS court. And since Ugokwe got there before Ngige, the world would expect Ugokwe's case to be disposed of first before that of Ngige. All this, no doubt, would eat more into the time left for the disputed four-year tenure to end. Ngige may use the Ugokwe device to stay on in office, and this will translate into the fact that APGA is, indeed, a late comer in the Anambra saga.

Anambra: APGA is a late comer
By Amanze Obi [amaobi@yahoo.co.uk]
Monday, August 22, 2005

Those who try to assume the moral high ground whenever the political debacle in Anambra State comes up for mention are merely idling away. Morality has no place any more in the Anambra saga. What counts is how much sagacity that each actor can bring to bear on the issue.

The moral or ethical dimension made sense at first. That was when the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) of Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu- Ojukwu which was supposed to make a very impressive showing in Anambra, Ojukwu's home state, was able to impress it upon the public that it was rigged out everywhere in the South East states, particularly in Anambra. The overriding sentiment which APGA held on to then was that Odumegwu-Ojukwu's party should, at least, have been allowed to hold sway in his own state.

This position was, to a large extent , well received then, at least in South East circles. Since it was a well known fact that votes were merely allocated to political parties or individuals at the 2003 general elections, some observers felt then that what was good for the Alliance for Democracy (AD) in the South West should have been good for APGA in the South East. The president's party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) muzzled AD out of the way in five out of the six states presently controlled by AD. PDP merely allowed AD to retain Lagos. In the same vein, since the PDP was believed to have wilfully denied APGA victory in one or two South East states, it (PDP) should have been gracious enough to allow APGA to win at least one state, the most fitting being Odumegwu-Ojukwu's Anambra.
But the issue of who should have won the gubernatorial elections in Anambra State was soon to pale into insignificance when APGA maintained a low profile in the unfolding drama, while allowing the PDP to convert the situation in Anambra strictly into its own affair. When this happened, the argument no longer bordered on whether PDP lost the election to APGA. Rather, the focus was on how Chris Ngige, the Governor of the State, was brought into office by certain forces. At this point, whatever sympathy APGA had in the Anambra elections withered away. And with that development, all moral considerations were thrown overboard.

APGA did not just abandon the moral argument, it also did little or nothing to sustain or amplify the struggle at the political level. What it did instead was to abdicate its responsibility to PDP. The battle which APGA was supposed to wage on all fronts became PDP's. It was because APGA stepped aside that the PDP deployed all the energy it could to decimate itself in Anambra State. APGA watched with indifference or unconcern while Chris Uba and Ngige battled each other. Ngige was abducted, chased out, bullied, attacked and generally harassed by certain forces in PDP represented by Uba. Anambra State was severally set ablaze in the desperate bid by certain powerful elements within the PDP to see Ngige out of office. Several injunctions were sought and obtained on whether Ngige should remain in office or whether his security details should be restored or not. Judgments were given for and against in the Ngige-Uba debacle. When the courts were not holding forte, socio-cultural and religious groups were there to broker peace. South East governors, Ohaneze leadership, the Catholic Church in Anambra State, Anambra professionals, World Igbo Congress, and many more, were interested in the matter. None of these yielded any positive result.

Since the octopus called PDP was out to ruin the political career of Ngige, many thought that the governor would capitulate. But, somehow, he held on to power in a manner that has surprised everybody. When the PDP leadership apparently got tired of him, they decided to expel Ngige from the party, leaving him as a political orphan. While all this was going on, APGA watched with glee from the sidelines. But when it became obvious that Ngige's expulsion from the PDP had taken nothing out of him, the party began to evolve other ways of caging him.

This was how the absent- minded APGA was reminded of what it ought to be doing. APGA was reminded that the battle should have been between it and PDP, not between PDP and itself. APGA was reminded of the need to resurrect the case it filed at the Election Petitions Tribunal against the PDP over the 2003 governorship elections in Anambra State. The party which appeared to be asleep all this while was made to realise that Ngige needed to be pushed out so that its candidate at the elections, Peter Obi, could take over from him.
But the lacuna which APGA failed to fill earlier is haunting it now. Analysts are wondering what the situation in Anambra State would have been like today if PDP succeeded in ousting Ngige.

Would PDP have thrown out Ngige so that APGA's Obi would take over? This could not have been the case. The PDP was merely out to remove Ngige so that another member of the PDP would succeed him. The party did not fight the two-year fruitless war for the sake of APGA. It is therefore disappointing that APGA, the party that should have seized the day long ago, is just waking up from slumber. APGA, the party that should have taken the initiative on how to end the era of Ngige in Anambra has realised too late that it abdicated its responsibility and, in the process, allowed Ngige to gather a lot of steam. Today, the governor is firmly rooted in the battle. He is no longer an easy nut to crack. For APGA therefore, the battle is going to be a tough one. It has, through its deliberate acts of omission and commission, conceded a lot of ground to Ngige. Its latter day attempt at neutralising the governor may therefore turn out to be a futile exercise.

Perhaps, APGA needs to be reminded of the fact that Ngige's battle with PDP has equipped him so well for the faint-hearted jab coming from APGA. In the course of the Anambra debacle, a member of the House of Representatives from the state, Jerry Ugokwe, has invented something called ECOWAS Court in election matters. When he lost at the Appeal Court, the court recognised by the Electoral Law as the final court of jurisdiction in election matters, Ugokwe resorted to ECOWAS court. The overall objective is to hold on to the seat until probably his term of four years expires. Should this turn out to be the case, the other contender who went to court to challenge him would have waited in vain to take over from him.

That was a clever move. Or what do you think?
Now, Ngige's case has not been heard by the Appeal court. But the man is preparing our minds for eventualities. He has alerted us of his readiness to go to ECOWAS court should he lose at the Appeal court. He has alluded to the precedent already set by Ugokwe in this matter.

Herein lies the helplessness of APGA. Should this matter be decided in favour of APGA at the Appeal court, Ngige would, like Ugokwe, take recourse to the ECOWAS court. And since Ugokwe got there before Ngige, the world would expect Ugokwe's case to be disposed of first before that of Ngige. All this, no doubt, would eat more into the time left for the disputed four-year tenure to end. Ngige may use the Ugokwe device to stay on in office, and this will translate into the fact that APGA is, indeed, a late comer in the Anambra saga.

I cant rejoice yet nike.
Let us watch and see

She called me yesterday and told me she will take me back.
I even spoke with her sisters.how nice

my baby took me back but dont know how serious she is.........i have got reason to live again