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hi people, please be honest with me, what exactly is the fault on this phone?? i ordered an Alcatel pop 4 plus and I've been advised to go for this instead but with the kind of comments am seeing lately on here, am not sure anymore...please convince me!....HONEST convictions please

claycares:
Alcatel is a very good phone brand and the idol 4 has interesting specs for the price. The only drawback i discovered is the Chipset Qualcomm MSM8909 Snapdragon 210 CPU Quad-core 1.1 GHz Cortex-A7 GPU Adreno 304. It can't handle multitasking or heavy applications properly. Hope this helps?

yes, thanks man

Jholland:
Okay, I haven't really heard of the phone but its not advisable to go for unknown brands because spare parts,though I was kinda intrested in it my myself since I think its high time I change my phone, but I was reading through the specs and was like okey its kinda cool till I got to the camera and was like wtf!!! 8mp? In 2016!!!!! but somehow the sec cam compensated me kept scrolling till I gat to the battery and I just went Bleep IT!!!!!!!!!

i know right? thanks

somebody, anybody, just please review the phone...am in a very big dilemma here

Am looking to buy a mid range phone, was checking Konga and i saw this phone. the name is Alcatel Pop 4 Plus. The specs are nice but am still in doubt whether or not to go for it. Pls has anyone used it ? i'd really appreciate your HONEST reviews... thanks

olaitankazeem9:
But According To Some Reviews They Say The Ba3 Is Not Removable...Not Arguing, Just My Opinion

take this from someone that has actually used the phone: it is removable

Congrats Watford you just signed a 27 years old chap. Good thing it's for 5 years by which time he'll retire ( if you are lucky)....This is the reason Pan African countries would never a major tournament => Age cheat

babeface3:
pls how do i buy the screen of this phone. The phone fell down and had the screen shattered. Any idea where I can buy the screen?

No, sorry

STFUand4kMeHARD:
Bastardss, with all this killings and diabolism during elections? They should create the enabling environment for youth to grow economically and stop giving silly impression of care. 30yrs ni, 10yrs ko.
Mtcheeeeew

Later people like you would complain about a 70+ man being our president. You are not given the chance: complain, You are given the chance: still complain...Nigerian youths and ungreatfulness

07016924843...please add up

Okay first of all am not a fan broadcast messages on social media cos there are usually unnecessarily long and annoying as they tend to preach, blackmail, swindle and even scam readers. but surprisingly i received one today and decided to read only the first paragraph only to find myself still reading after 5 minutes....it's so nice i had to come here to implore a larger audience to read and reflect on it. Here goes:


It all started as freedom propaganda.
The lie was told so subtly that we didn’t notice.
To gain popularity, they convinced us that it was all about gender equality. Then they preached to us, saying it was a human rights and child rights agenda.
To draw the attention of women, they hid under Women Empowerment Campaigns.
We saw everything they did as part of civilization. Because of this, we applauded them and blindly sang their praises.
We were so blind that we did not notice when they went from equality to role reversal, and from ‘rights’ to ‘wrongs’. They told us it was all a matter of understanding. I mean, if she earns more than he does, why can’t she be the head while he submits?
They told us we had the right to our bodies. They told us that if the guys can do ‘it’ anytime with anybody, so can the girls. They introduced free love, and ‘friends with benefits’, and convinced us that we were just exercising our rights to enjoy our bodies. We agreed. Which youth wouldn’t?
When we complained about STDs, they introduced condoms, and even started sharing it to us free of charge in our secondary schools. They told us that
from the age of 16, we had the right to do whatever we wanted to. This made us to start seeing our parents and school teachers as toothless
bulldogs as they no longer had the right to discipline us. Talk of sweet freedom!
When we complained about teenage pregnancies, they told our parents to educate us about contraceptives as early as possible. Then they introduced the reformed sex education in our school as a guise to give us more condoms.
Some of us still got pregnant, and we complained yet again. So they decided to legalize abortions. This was in a bid to help us. You see, they really cared about our future, and wanted to ensure that we live a free life.
Abortion made sense to us. So we accepted it. I mean, why bring a child you don’t want or can’t take care of into the world? We felt a bit guilty because it seemed like murder. But they told us not to worry. According to them, what we were doing was merely taking out an unwanted foetus, and
not killing a child. Yet again, we accepted it, and got pacified.
They said that we weren’t supposed to be accountable to any deity, religion, our parents or the society. Next, they told us we had the freedom to do what we wanted with our lives, so far as we weren’t hurting other people or trampling on their rights.
Almost immediately, we stopped regarding God. We rather chose to play football, hang out, or watch
seasonal movies on Fridays and Sundays.
We also decided to experiment with homosexuality. It seemed like fun, and they encouraged us. When we told them that the society frowned against
our choice, they legalized it and told us we can get married too.
We decided to go further and experiment with drugs. They frowned against it publicly, but we still had access to it. Moreover, we were minors, and the law enforcement agents couldn’t really punish us.
We looked for role models and they gave us Hollywood stars with multiple divorce stories, musical icons addicted to drugs/alcohol, and sports stars with numerous extra marital affair scandals.
They told us, that those celebrities were successful and free and we should aspire to be like them. Some of us started pumping iron, getting tattoos, and injecting steroids in order to look as manly and as ‘successful’ as our role models.
We started seeing fidelity as a sign of weakness. And just like our ‘role-models’, we started going after everything in skirt.
We equally tore off pictures of our successful and ‘sexy’ looking role models off celebrity magazines, and pasted them on our mirrors. We started dieting
like mad so we can lose weight and look like them. We noticed that they hardly wore any clothes, so we followed suit.
When we became bored, they introduced us to their clubs and night parties.
They told us to throw caution to the winds and just have fun. Even when some of us got raped, they encouraged us to shut up and keep having fun.
Some of us became addicted to alcohol, but we were told not to worry that it was one way to prove our manhood, so we continued.
At a time we noticed that we had lost our will. We had become their slaves without knowing it. We noticed that we didn’t have any reason to live
again, and life was no longer purposeful.
In the bid to look sexy, some of us became victims of anorexia nervosa.
Those of us in relationships found it impossible to be faithful. Many started contemplating suicide. Many more had STDs. Some of us experienced series of psychological traumas and mental breakdowns. A lot more dropped out of school as a result of unwanted pregnancies, drugs, or an abortion that went wrong.
At this point we saw our future get dashed before our faces. We started looking for whom to blame. After a fruitless search, we had to admit that we didn’t even know who ‘they’ were. Then reality dawned on us.
We remembered our fathers telling us that “unlimited liberty is slavery in disguise”. We also remembered when our mothers told us that “freedom without checks and balances is tantamount to advanced bondage”. By then it was too late for us. We had bought ‘their’ freedom lie.
Maybe for you, it is not yet late. Then please don’t be deceived by their lies and evil propaganda. Do not be swayed by their subtle message of freedom.
They’re all lies! We can prove it with our relationships, drug addictions, unwanted pregnancies, violent tendencies etc.

Beware, and please warn other youths and teenagers so the menace will not colonise all of this generation.

*****
lalasticlala, mukina2, Mynd44 and other mods i don't know if this is the right section. if not kindly move it to the section and possibly front page

which kind hungry thread be this?? everybody just the beg for likes. Shey the likes na money? abi who like don help?

blueto:
Mister naysayer, don't be a fabulist! goofy means absurd, silly. How did I use it wrongly?

You are just indicting me of what you are culpable of. I am not susceptible to anomia so rescind you farcical averments.

If you opine that my lexical expression is a defect then you must be an indocile naysayer.

For the “boastful” insinuation, go and check the Bible and ascertain how multitudes revolted against Moses and how God dealt with them.

To be logical and pragmatic, you can appraise political section and see how someone will vindicate the president on his reprehensible malfeasance and ascertain the copious “Likes” he will record, and I presume an idem circumstance for GEJ.

You incipiently said you stopped reading my reply from the prime phrase. how did you ascertain the entire reply that incited you to reply?

No commendations for being paradoxical bro.

Please abdicate from detraction. It is a perversion.

whatever man...that's my thought, it's well supported by facts and am sticking to it. Opine what you want.

blueto:
yes, jettison it. being a detractor of your own country is a peccadillo. Yes, the commentator did a “botched” job, but preferring a foreign employee and “barring” ours is totally goofy, how do we provide a prerogative for them improve if they are impeded? expressing pessimism is consummately ludicrous.

Yes, You attained copious quantum of Likes and Traffics, sublime!, but, at what expense do you enjoy such execrable enravishment? I purport your “Likes” is a result of how you entertained the web surfers with your comical substantiation inducing amusement.

This is why I partially believe in consensus. The world might be prevaricating, But I won't!. I prefer to be distinctive and maintain probity and rationalization with the aim of “not following multitude to commit sin”.

I feel compunctious for not transcending beyond trying to refute the 2 points you provided. I perceive that is why some people are expressing dissatisfaction with the “counter thread”. And I have learnt something from that.

Concerning my lexical expressions, It started long ago, and I have been known for it. You are at liberty to read my antiquated posts for substantiation if your are skeptical.

Apologies for the deferred reply, I later went offline yesterday.

bla bla bla...you have a problem communicating fluently or should i say anomia (in your own words) ... do you even know what goofy means and when it should be used?
Any way, i stopped reading your reply at the first sentence
I wasn't trying to be boastful when i mentioned likes and traffic, I was only citing the fact that if i got that much like then there's a consensus that NIGERIAN COMMENTATORS ARE WACK. I mean there's no way 250 people can be wrong...i don't have anything against you but if this is how you talk in reality then i think you need help.

blueto:
The essence of this thread is to dissenter and refute the points raised by the Original Poster(OP) of this thread https://www.nairaland.com/3011016/why-nigerian-commentators-should-not , of why he believes and assents that Nigerian commentators should be barred from commenting during our international matches.

I want to use this medium to beseech the OP and Nigerians with similar mindsets to jettison Xenocentrism (the belief that products, styles, or ideas of one's country or society is inferior to those that are practised and originated elsewhere). This is why most Nigerians prefer the “alluring” commodities, ideologies and culture of foreigners above theirs.

The two points stated by the OP as to why he maintains the belief that Nigerian commentators should be thwarted from commenting are: The case of them being Subjective in their approach, and the display of incompetence and anomia (difficulty in finding the correct word to use).

The issue of them being subjective is universal, even the European commentators are also culpable of such attempt. I watched the Champions League Final between Chelsea and Bayern Munich and the commentators were obviously expressing their supports for the English team(Chelsea) by saying “Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!” anytime a Chelsea player scored during their penalty shoot out, since the full-time failed to produce the winner. If the British could not reprimand their commentators for being bias and subjective, then why should we reprimand ours?
You can watch the highlight here to answer for all skepticisms and inquisitions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xibKxX9iS5E .

The issue of them display incompetence can be resolve via formulating policies such establishing a vocational institute for out current and potential commentators to acquire assiduous training on commenting exercise.

They should ditch the mindset of appointing commentators base on their ability of to talk much, and being profound in Sports. They should be thought and made to imbibe the valid mechanisms of commenting.

Here is an encouraging comment from a Nairalander:
.

Condemning ourselves is not a prerequisite for maintaining development.

Dear reposter,

I am the OP you're countering. Haven read your work, I'll sincerely tell you it's a total waste of time and thread.

As much as i could slay you in a counter-counter thread, i am not willing to waste resources on you.

if the support of mediocrity and gross unprofessionalism is jettison Xenocentrism, then you my friend are a hypocrite. Jettisson xenocentrism my foot...

Just so you know i got additional traffic and likes after you counter thread meaning you made little or no impact with your unnecessary use of grammar.

Please heed to this guy's advice;

SirLewis:
You just wrote an unnecessarily long prolix that's completely op(out of point). I read carefully the thread you claim to be countering and i did not find any part where the op claimed our local commentaries should be discontinued, he only compared it with foreign commentaries and gave a good example to support his claims that local commentators should polish themselves. You just grabbed the nearest dictionary and jumped on the wagon to defend home without any fuel. Next time when you attempt to counter a thread, make sure you have good understanding of the claims you intend to counter and give valid reasons to support your dissenting opinion. And lest I forget, being verbose with the use of vocabulary is not a good way to communicate, it neither makes you appear "smart or intelligent" on the contrary you make yourself an object of laughter especially when the opinion you're trying to pass makes no sense. If by chance you're a newly admitted law student still passing through the phase of euphoria and pride, step down from your high horse because being a lawyer is not simply about churning out every word in the dictionary as you'll soon find out for yourself.

blueto:
The essence of this thread is to dissenter and refute the points raised by the Original Poster(OP) of this thread https://www.nairaland.com/3011016/why-nigerian-commentators-should-not , of why he believes and assents that Nigerian commentators should be barred from commenting during our international matches.

I want to use this medium to beseech the OP and Nigerians with similar mindsets to jettison Xenocentrism (the belief that products, styles, or ideas of one's country or society is inferior to those that are practised and originated elsewhere). This is why most Nigerians prefer the “alluring” commodities, ideologies and culture of foreigners above theirs.

The two points stated by the OP as to why he maintains the belief that Nigerian commentators should be thwarted from commenting are: The case of them being Subjective in their approach, and the display of incompetence and anomia (difficulty in finding the correct word to use).

The issue of them being subjective is universal, even the European commentators are also culpable of such attempt. I watched the Champions League Final between Chelsea and Bayern Munich and the commentators were obviously expressing their supports for the English team(Chelsea) by saying “Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!” anytime a Chelsea player scored during their penalty shoot out, since the full-time failed to produce the winner. If the British could not reprimand their commentators for being bias and subjective, then why should we reprimand ours?
You can watch the highlight here to answer for all skepticisms and inquisitions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xibKxX9iS5E .

The issue of them display incompetence can be resolve via formulating policies such establishing a vocational institute for out current and potential commentators to acquire assiduous training on commenting exercise.

They should ditch the mindset of appointing commentators base on their ability of to talk much, and being profound in Sports. They should be thought and made to imbibe the valid mechanisms of commenting.

Here is an encouraging comment from a Nairalander:
.

Condemning ourselves is not a prerequisite for maintaining development.

Dear reposter,

I am the OP you're countering. Haven read your work, I'll sincerely tell you it's a total waste of time and thread.

As much as i could slay you in a counter-counter thread, i am not willing to waste resources on you.

if the support of mediocrity and gross unprofessionalism is jettison Xenocentrism, then you my friend are a hypocrite. Jettisson xenocentrism my foot...

Just so you know i got additional traffic and likes after you counter thread meaning you made little or no impact with your unnecessary use of grammar.

Please heed to this guy's advice;

SirLewis:
You just wrote an unnecessarily long prolix that's completely op(out of point). I read carefully the thread you claim to be countering and i did not find any part where the op claimed our local commentaries should be discontinued, he only compared it with foreign commentaries and gave a good example to support his claims that local commentators should polish themselves. You just grabbed the nearest dictionary and jumped on the wagon to defend home without any fuel. Next time when you attempt to counter a thread, make sure you have good understanding of the claims you intend to counter and give valid reasons to support your dissenting opinion. And lest I forget, being verbose with the use of vocabulary is not a good way to communicate, it neither makes you appear "smart or intelligent" on the contrary you make yourself an object of laughter especially when the opinion you're trying to pass makes no sense. If by chance you're a newly admitted law student still passing through the phase of euphoria and pride, step down from your high horse because being a lawyer is not simply about churning out every word in the dictionary as you'll soon find out for yourself.

give this man a medal!

binhozie:
line up
that will thrash Egypt


.................................... C.Ikeme

Shehu. ........Oboabona ......Ambrose........Amuzie

....................................Mikel

....................Etebo

.,........................................ Iwobi


V. Moses.............A. Musa .............S.Moses

and Siasia should stop blaming the defenders for conceding that goal he should have shored up his defence towards the end planned his sub's better Aminu for iheanacho was unnecessary it should have been Moses for iheanacho then you can cap Iwobi and still have one sub to use Azubuike okechukwu or orji or echejile should have come in to kill time and shore the back. I don't know if he was even watching the opponents they brought in One midfielder and 2 strikers and not all like for like sub's and ur busy bringing in forwards
he better learn Oboabona and Ambrose were not in the u23 tournament and the same thing happened then in the group stage twice

there's no way Nigeria would beat Egypt without Iheanacho

eDoc:
what of the part where a ball kicked way over the goal post and the commentator was saying,we don't have an airline if not nigerian airways would be sent to retriveve the ball(i'm paraphasing)

if it was an egyptian that kicked the ball,it seemed we need to send egyptian airline to get the ball.

yea this one too was very annoying. Trying to make a very lame joke

eDoc:
He passed the ball to azu..ighe...azu..iga..azu,i and my sister were just laughing.

at this point i was like wtf is he saying??

LastMumu:
I see nothing wrong with them using Olajumoke's pictures. Her grass to grace story perfectly fits the theme of the church program and mere seeing the pictures alone would make any reader understand the message they are trying to pass across.

true true your mumuness no be here

sotadegrt:
sir, please, i don't mean to rubbish ur work but i am kind of confused here. Do not u think u shouldn't have used the apostrophe sign in ur ONES? Lyk, i am of the opinion dat u shud have typed thus; d 'ONES' i missed instead of d 'ONE's' i missed

ya that's true...thanks man I'll correct it

hope4nigeria:
Op u make me happy this morning when I saw this post! That comentator was a moooorooon, OMG, I was very angry, infact he was the curse of nigerian predicament. You forgot where he said "egyptian seen today, you see them no more" at that point, I nearly broke my TV, Thank God I didn't brake it.

my pleasure

ADENIKETINA2015:
Your signature is inspiring!

Thanks. Yours is true

skysailor:
After giving the three minute extra time.... The commentator was like

"if u ask me three minute is a long time in football but a very long time in basketball "........... Abeg wetin bring basketball for soccer now

The match dey annoying but na d commentating dey more annoying

i taya o

HRich:
Are you dreaming? He had played two competitive friendlies for Nigeria sir.

that statement is credited to the commentator not me

hifaif1:
Lol!!! They should just allow them watch the game silently and with their biasness like thousands of other Nigerians. They have become nuisances!!!

Nice thread, bro!!!

thanks man

zizi4real:
Listen to Spanish commentators then you will understand nigeria is still ok lol

nah, you only feel Spanish commentary is poor cos you don't understand the language

Obamina:
No sir, they are not being lackadaisical about their jobs, i feel they are on a learning process and they will get better too. John Champion never got it right at first. There are better and more respectful ways of correcting them if that's what you intended to do than to bring them on a social media like this(lets protect ourselves, no b only Nigerians dey nairaland). Whatever happens to Nigerians and Nigeria, you ain't left out. Nobody knows it better sir. Goodmorning boss

options like? let me guess; go to his house and tell him he did a great job?

tosyne2much:
Na u dey the best position to show her around

haba you don old pass me for here now...if this was 2go you for the veteran now

yawgirlfriend:
LoL
#In0Lamide's voice #
Every Level has been a Hit back2back !!

New here tho, who's showing me.around?

hello new girl, as much as I'll like to i think tosyne2much and lalasticlala would do a better job

Melkizedek:
Can Jim beglin pronounce azubuike correctly? Butt licking Nigerians.

not entirely correctly but he'll do it and even spice it up with some swag. like Ajiboye in 2007 under 17 world cup, the commentators kept calling him Ajiboy