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I noticed that quite a number of guys had strong objects compared to the women, please I did not say every. Some women agreed to having separate accounts, but I think the guys were more. Secondly, many of the guys that agreed to a joint account had a lot of caveats, eg "only for running the house and paying school fees" etc etc. Working on the generalisation that many men earn more that than their wives, it seems to me that those stand to loose more have the more foreboding attitude, I wonder why.

I am personally disinclined to it because I like my independence too much. But I can see the logic in having a joint account for running the house. So I asked an older relative - early 40s, I parley with this question and this was his answer : "The way our house is run is thus: I pay for all things except food, that's her contribution to the home. When she runs into financial stress, like now that she is building a house in her name, I assist her when I can and that's ok for us. When I run into financial whahala, she assists me too. Our house runs fine not dysfunctional and I trust and love her very much"

I think I like the sound of that more than the joint thingy, she maintains her independence and I mine. Just that I am not sure how that would work in the situation where both incomes are required to maintain the home. Maybe she would write me a bill and I would issue a cheque every month, mmm - that's me 2kobo

Interesting list, but how could you put Hagi ahead of Zidane? Zico, without Socrates or Junior? Rivaldo no Baggio or Ronaldo (Brazillian)? Tigana, No Platini or Abedi Pele? Henry No Van Basten or George Weah?.

When it comes to the most skill full legends of the game, in no particular order :

Pele, Maradona, Cruyff, Ronaldhino, Ronaldo(Brazil), Zidane, Romario, Platini, Baggio, Socrates, Zico, Junior( infact that 1982 Brazil wc team minus the keeper!),
Mario Kempest, Roger Miller etc,

Wow, it looks like atiku's agents are already putting on a tour de in force!

ohhh, na for london sef, no wonda. If yu wan see correct, fine, heavy chiks just nija come nija na so ya eye go de do wa wa all de time. Forget this lot!

Living in the same house with in-laws is a bad start babe, I guess you'll have to grin, bear and push until you and your husband get your place. As for pleasing everyone first b/4 you, it just looks that way b/c he is living with his family and he has to share the attention with everyone. I just hope that you are not the me me me type, then it would look worse than it actually is

I think continuing to see /give llifts to/from work to the girl he cheated is very insentive of him.

Option 4, the Toshiba is the best option. I have been using one, the dual core 1.7mhz proc is the bomb

For most cars, don't know much about hybrids, it depends on the size of the engine. As you would espect a 1.4 engine is more likely to burn less fuel per mile than a 1.8 engine. The diesel cars are quite efficient, you get more bang for your buck, but I don't know how common they are in Naija. The VW and the Audi TDi are quite fuel efficient. You can get up to 50mpg which is about 80k with 4litres on the highways, not bad going,

BMWs are excellent driving machines, you noticed I did not use the "car". I had one and it was on of the most pleasurable driving experiences I have ever had, maybe the Audi is a touch better on long stretches, but around corners etc, the BMWs are the bomb. However, the parts and maintenance is expensive and may need specialist attention for servicing. For Nija, I would advice the good old peejo b/c of easy access to parts amd mentainance!! funkybaby mentioned toyotas, I can attest to their near lengendary reliability, but I don't know how easy it is to get hold of parts and maintain them! That's me 2pence

This is quite a sad sad story. JT was my school father in sec sch, he was such a nice guy and was liked by eveyone. I can't remeber anytime he punished me for any of my many transgresions in those days. I always got off with one warning or another. I and many of the other boys always hung out in his corner as he gave us gist and taught us karate I have followed his career as an actor as best as I can, now I wish I had a chance to thank him/see him again. I will always have very fond memries of JT. May his soul rest is the most perfect peace, Amen.

2.2 degree is affectionately called the drinking man's degree, pls no disrespect intended to those who worked very hard to get the 2.2. But it usually the case that guys/gals hang out and party then end up with 2.2, when in reality there are 2.1 or 1st class candidates. These are the ones that you will find excel when they get into the work place irrespective of their degrees. However, I really think that there is no justification whatsoever for someone with average intelligence to pop out of uni with a 3rd class. Even party must get limit!

@LadyLova

You write:

but I'm Christian and I fear GOD

How can you then reconcile the statement above with what you are doing!! If you are doing your thing just do am, no put God name for thier abeg!!

@saintchux
You are making a man of God powerless.

So O' now it's the girl's fault abi? Nothing to do with his plucky baba!! Truth be told, the guy is taking advantage of girl via emotional blackmail, fear of being alone etc. etc, What's probably happening is that whenever he falls out with his wife or feeling riske, he uses the girl as his shock absorber, which could explain he infrequent tasters :-)

Can you really change your man? I stumbled across this article in times online, about how two women who were able to change their husbands by applying their business/boardroom skills in their relationship to fix their husbands and in return their marriage. They first kicked out the husbands, then when the husbands begged to come home, they applied these rules/skills aimed at making the men help out at home, getting jobs to help with finances planning kids holidays/homework etc, One of the male responders to the book called it another man-hating book!! Is this another ploy for women to control men? ;is this the" marriage is a partnership" issue; equality of women? How to DEAL with bad/irresponsible husbands? I don't know. However, I think the role of the modern man with regards to his involvement in the home is changing. But this applying rules/kicking out etc, to change the man sha, e get as e be?

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17909-2208916,00.html

I'm not an expert, but I'm just wandering, mmmm, if yu deflect light round an object (bend light), what happens to the reflected light? Won't there be some sort of losses (energy dissipation) or distortion of the light. Won't it cause a hazzy, would it affect the colours of other objects it hits down stream to give away what it was hiding in the first place? mmmm??

Fortran can be suitable for scientific programming, indeed it was designed for it (Formula Translator). As for matlab, it depends on what you are trying to achieve, if you want nice graphs etc, to present your result, then go for it, but it will cost you - a lot besides the syntax is very similar to C. There are so many other good options than may prove more useful after your scientific programming days, principally C/C++, Java ( except for the massive overhead) etc, You an achieve the same results with these languages. C/C++ share an extensive math library for many of the basic functions you will need. I think many of the engineering software, at least the underlying algorithm, is still written in C because of its speed advantage.

Everyone has a price, even oshom. The promise of millionsand the allure of power to shut him up. Gov or president my arse!

Why are you all painting this woman to be a saint Is she not a member of the obasenjo cabinet that wanted the 3rd term? As far as I am concerned she is part and parcel and party to the third term plot. I wonder if she has made entries in her book keeping for the money used to bribe those pro 3rd termers in her position as finance minister! Abeg commot jare

ps: I forgot, Almunia was absolutely rubbish. How can a world class goal keeper be scored at the near post twice within 15 minutes haba!. The saves he made were routine saves any half decent goal keeper should have made. That first goal by eto-o was so painful, near post habba :-((

Henry did not believe, that's my opinion. If only he had believed Arsenal would have won. As for Mr wenger and his substituions, taking off fabregas for flamini!!!! He needed somenone to hold unto the ball not tackle and fight, we already had gilberto doing that job. And He should have introduced reyes as soon as barca equalised. All in all i'm still depressed, very depressed :-(

Whatever people think of entrepreneurial skills and thinking out of the and lots of ideas etc, the government has an important part to play in job creation in Nigeria. Let me digress a bit, what if you had this business ideas etc and you implement it but the populace have no money to patronise your business?? How would you make money. There need to be a some amount of disposable incoming flowing around for businesses to flourish not so? Back to my main point about the government. The government has offered no infrastructure to encourage business in Nigeria. There are many factories who are suffering from the burden of high cost of power, running their own gen sets, to be competitive with count ires in Asia/south east Asia. If there are not competitive, how can they recruit more people. Obasenjo has just bought a new presidential jet while many of people in the civil service have not been paid or had a pay rise for years? In fact they are thinking of retrenching 20 thousand people!! A new stadium was built in Abuja when the money could have been put towards a refinery or power station. We are now in a position where the cost of crude is very high and countries like US and China are  beating a path to our door step, why can the government not use this as an opportunity, instead of just selling crude to them, establish an agreement where by these countries can build some of their factories, I'm not talking about plastics and all those fly by night products. I mean factories that can aid real technology transfer, microchips, PCs, pharmaceuticals, etc, which brings high tech jobs and other high end support services to Nigeria. And with such incentives/opportunities/technologies available you will find even more entrepreneurial activities emerging.  In what way has this government invested in technology of any sort. The current universities are under funded yet there are starting new ones! The government has a very important role.

I read somewhere in this thread about Okonjo iweala or whatever, forget that woman, she is an obasonjo apologist. There are many very capable people men/women out there who can do the job just as well if not better without the taint of "Grand Mamber of the Obasenjo cabinet" What makes you think she was not party to this thirde term plot. Did she not stand to benefit, if she was so clean not "corrupt" why did she not resign in protest. Abeg jare, None of those ministers, governors etc. etc, should be alowed back

@ ono

Cool

Ono, it is a shame that it appears that you have taken my use of metaphor literally, I can only hope it was a joke and that you have indeed heard the phrase "cornered/trapped animal" in reference to behaviour.

Afeni, I should be surprised but I'm not really because anything concerning Nigeria is often considered along tribal lines. What else could explain some of the things that you have written which smacks of insensitivity and outright tribalism. I wonder if you have ever been to the nigerdelta to see the plight of the people, I wonder if you have ever seen mothers give their children contaminated water to drink b/c that's what is available. But there are asked to understand these things while Mr Presdo launches a new jet. Nigeria's wealth come from the neck of the woods, but they are the some of the most maligned people in Nigeria. Yu talk of Abacha's time but conveniently forget about Ken Saro wiwa, ohh lest I forget he was not from the right tribe, so it doesn't matter. The struggles of the Niger delta have been going on for a very long time, MEND is just a new, maybe militant face. People in other parts of Nigeria are suffering I do not disagree, but in that Nigerdelta this is compounded by environmental disasters, military suppression (regularly) , inter-tribal strife etc, I could go on and on, but you have to go and see this for yourself to believe it.  The plight of the people in those camps in somalia do not hold a candle to what I'm talking about.

And if anybody thinks that MEND will just go away or it can be delta with etc., then they have another thing coming. This is not 1967 things have changed. Russia has been battling with chetchnya (sp), look at Iraq the mighty us cannot  subdue the militia. If the Nigerian state wishes to engage in guerilla warfare they can go ahead and lock horns with them.  The only way forward is through dialogue and respect of their views and condition,

Granted this is not the right way to about things, but now they can now be heard in far far away places, even very important places. Obviously they have tried to reason with this government but to no avail. This guys have been pushed to this action. Do not get me wrong, I don't condone or agree with violence. But when the government is busy chasing this their Third Term Agenda, which for these people mostly likely means a continuation of their plight, given that nothing has changed for them in the past 7 yrs, why are we surprised at the escalation of the violence? Now we are dealing with trapped animals, it will get worse not better,

This is not the work of any anti third term anything. Those pro TTA must have tried/threatened to close AIT down and it has backfired. There is no smoke without fire. Obj and his cohorts are destroying naija one mighty chunk at a time. Now we hear of oil industry execs being shot on the street and yu think this has nothing to do with the third term!!

Anyone that was in any doubt about the unlawful, better still, crooked, pursuit of the Obj's third term should now be rest assured. There is no smoke without fire, They will try anything to stymy this nascent "democracy" including gagging and threating the press, i'm not surprised. I expected it.

A degree opens a lot of doors for, but the certification/experience can possibly get you in the door quicker. I suggest you do both. While in school, you can still pursue the certification/summer jobs in that area. In my small experience, I have hardly come across very senior IT/mgmt execs without a degree, so a degree might also bode well for futire career progression

Prosperity gospel is being heavily advocated especially in the mostly black churches. Even the churches that claim that they don't preach it, slyly promote it. There seem to be almost a race to build the biggest church, have the largest turnover, the most concregation, collect the most offering and promise the most salavation, the most blessing, etc, Sometimes i feel i'm at a sales convention, If yu don't give yu are made to feel guilty or that yu could miss yur blessing?? I once went to a church were the concregation was asked t o bring their WHOLE salary tha month and soe it into the church, needless to say that was the last time i went there, I don't about you, but ti think that too much emphasis on money is spoiling it for me.

I hate, hate and hate it very much when I compile and run code on the emulator usually with vsudio and it works, then when I run it on the darn hardware it doesn't work or I get all sorts of timing problems or worse still it works on one chipset and not another. Thread locks arrhhhhh, . Casting up types 8bit ints to 16bit ints, infact casting as in general has caused me enough wahala from mem leaks, object slicing to mem fragmentation, I could go on and on, I'm beginning to wonder wether I like this work sef :-(

It's seems ok ont he surface, but the thought of knowing that my friend has, mmm mmm, my wife to be would be just too much, I think