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Ye, egba mi o. . .Genuflect is listening to something other than RAP/Hip-hop and FL Gators is not listening to Wale

Shocking!

My padi b4 b4, Dr Kit dey vex cos dem don evict im darling Princess. .

[quote author=N95-2 8GB link=topic=368044.msg6045279#msg6045279 date=1274019135]How would not talk again?  When you have shot your own foot, rubbish, am even tired of such people like you that make noise around and yet you do the same sh**t. You just got served![/quote]Sharap jare. . . .at least he doesn't go around bragging & making noise about it like you do.

Congrats to Enyeama.

@ OP
All the moderators on Nairaland are men and women of integrity. Look elsewhere for your impersonator.

12large:
semid4life keita is totally rubbish, against argentina we need someone that can defend but can also pass long ball but am sorry keita is useless is all the department except man marking, he should not even be in the team at all

In your miserable and pathetic life, never you mention my name in your post again.

4llerbuntu:
pls where and when is ep 22

4ller, na u of all people dey ask this question? U suppose know sey na monday nite dem dey show am 4 yankee so by Tuesday the episode go dey online 4 download.

Iyineda:
I know this is unlikely but what do you guys think of a 3-5-2 formation for the SE? I got the idea from the following article: http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Sport/Football/5568207-147/lagerback_gambles_on_talent_and_fitness.csp
This would be the line-up:

                  Enyeama

          Apam   Yobo   Afolabi

Odiah      Mikel     Etuhu      Taiwo
               
               Odemwingie (c)

            Martins       Obasi


With this formation, our midfield, which lacks creativity, is more compact and dense. Taiwo would have more freedom going upfront with Afolabi covering him. Odemwingie can be a creative midfielder if he is given the chance. I noticed during Angola 2010 that although Amodu played him on the wings, he often took the liberty to stray in the middle and dictate the game.

Regular subs: Nsofor - for one of the 2 forwards or for Osaze if he isn't performing,
Haruna - for Etuhu if we need more attacking pace,
Kanu - for one of the 2 forwards if we need to control the game/slow things a little.

No Kaita?. . . you must be the wackest cyber-coach on Nairaland

Manchester City's Nedum Onuoha Open To Nigeria Call-Up; Defender keeping options open,
By Will Ashwell

Manchester City defender Nedum Onuoha is leaving the door open for a Nigeria call-up amidst reports he turned down the chance to play for his home country.

The England Under-21 international maintains he hasn't closed the door on the Super Eagles, despite the Nigerian Football Association declaring Onuoha had declined a chance to be called up for Nigeria at the World Cup finals.

"I'd rather be first choice at my team first before I start an international career," Onuoha told Sky Sports.

"As I say I want to sort out my club career first before thinking about my international career," he reiterated.

Onuoha moved to clear up why he chose to turn down a chance to link up with Nigeria ahead of the World Cup.
"I said to the manager of Nigeria it wasn't the right time for me but from there there's been all sorts of outrage in Nigeria and, before that, people saying I'm turning my back on England," he added.

"But I am trying to get it to a point where I play enough games and play well enough for me to have the option to be selected by either. So I'd rather get to that position first before I start making a decision."

Onuoha maintains he was not waiting for an England call-up and he does not regret turning down Nigeria at his point in time.

He continued: "I was in shock to be honest because that wasn't the case. That was never my reason for making the decision.

"I don't think it will be a moment of regret because I believe if I'm able to play to my potential and good fortune then in the future I will have another try at another World Cup and I'd be in better shape going into it because I'll be a better player and a better person and in a better position to be doing that."

http://www.goal.com/en-india/news/140/world-cup-2010/2010/05/16/1926744/manchester-citys-nedum-onuoha-open-to-nigeria-call-up

@ topic
This Nedum guy must be dumber than[b] DUMB[/b]. I also do not want to see him play for Nigeria EVER. Good Riddance to bad rubbish!

No long thing. . . .i just dey manage

toluxa1:
You see baa. This is the Nigerian mentality. That is why dem dey take us do Mugu. Abroad if you load $5 recharge and any bleep up happen, you fit sue network wella. I know a guy who did just that. He loaded $5 to make A VERY IMPORTANT CALL (as he claimed) and the money just disappeared. Long story short, dem pay am about $50,000 damages o (or thereabout, can't remember). This happens over and over again here in Naija.

Tolu, so when u go sue your own lol?

[quote author=tayo_ast link=topic=444416.msg6043150#msg6043150 date=1273961789][color=#B03060]semid pls stay on topic.
dont make me toss your [i]a[/i]ss[/color][/quote]Tayo. . .for your mouth ehn? No worry, I go catch u for corner

Last nite - P-Square

Thank You Mr DJ - Yvonne Chaka Chaka

kentblues:
me i wan sue etisalat,dem tell me say if i register for etisalat community,den com text my club name to 5353, say i go dey win 25 naira 4 every goal wey my club score,my broda no b small ting, i com do dos tings,2 days befor chelsea play wigan,God com do powerful miracle,chelsea com score 8 goals!, u know say etisalat no gimme dat money.

Na becos of N200 u wan sue them?

[quote author=mama-gee link=topic=446240.msg6042988#msg6042988 date=1273958970][color=deeppink]Are they volunteers who were chosen to take care of the fourm or simply people who were chosen[/color][/quote]Didn't you take spelling lessons in elementary school?

[quote author=mama-gee link=topic=415788.msg6043049#msg6043049 date=1273959897][color=deeppink]^^Sounds better and logical to me. [/color] [/quote]Are you saying you'll soon become a moderator? Oh. . .sorry I forgot. All you have to do is call Seun and you'd become a moderator

Off topic
Rokiatu, do you change your profile pix everyday?

[quote author=mama-gee link=topic=415788.msg6042852#msg6042852 date=1273956897][color=deeppink]I would have done the same myself if I were the supermoderator. [/color] [/quote]Aaaah. . .the day you become a moderator is the day I leave Nairaland

[quote author=mama-gee link=topic=445210.msg6042829#msg6042829 date=1273956474][color=deeppink]I'm not playing any support striker or any bullsh*t you call it.

I have just noticed you enjoy bringing people down with your sarcastic replies and it really puts me off.

Instead of posting your opinions or you don't post at all and leave the thread, you enjoy dissing the poster and its simply not cool.[/color][/quote]Lol. . . someone is still smarting from been called a buffoon

obinna5000:
@semid4lyfe
I saw that story in today's Punch newspaper. We have not been given full details about the movie like the cast, crew and storyline.
Lets see how it goes.

Yeap. . .I also saw the story in today's punch. That was what prompted me to go online to get the story. Here is the PLOT

Legacy is a psychological suspense thriller that tells the story of two brothers in conflict.

''Malcom Gray'', a highly trained Special Forces soldier, has gone AWOL after being captured and tortured for months in the Balkans. He books himself into a New York hotel room, from where he calls a journalist promising to reveal damaging information about his brother, Senator Darnell Gray. Confined to his hotel room, he is visited by a series of people - firstly his colleagues from the special ops unit, then the female journalist to whom he gives the evidence about his senator brother, and finally he is visited by his ex fiancée who has broken his heart by marrying his brother. They each want to help him but his resolve for revenge is unbreakable. Tormented by guilt over his own actions as a soldier and by the personal and political betrayals of his brother, Malcolm‘s paranoia is like a pressure cooker. On the verge of violence from moment to moment, Malcolm‘s grasp on reality is gradually called into question. It is only in the last scene that his intentions are finally revealed,” Harcourt said.


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Here is a review: It ain't flattering I'm afraid. . .

Bottom Line: Idris Elba can't carry underwritten, uncinematic psychodrama all by himself

NEW YORK -- A would-be star-making vehicle crashes in "Legacy," Thomas Ikimi's stage-ish expedition into political paranoia that rests fully on the shoulders of Idris Elba. Muscular as those shoulders are, Elba can't invent convincing psychodrama where an underwritten script fails to -- and in the attempt, he chips away at the esteem he earned playing Stringer Bell in "The Wire." Elba's name may move some units on video, but distributors aren't likely to find it enough to justify a theatrical release.

Eighty percent of the film's budget appears to have been spent on the opening sequence, which is about the only thing shot away from the movie's one-room main set. We join Elba's Malcolm Gray and his black-ops crew (including "Wire" costar Clarke Peters) mid-mission, as their search for an arms-dealer's stash turns out to be an ambush.

Cut to months later, when Gray, having apparently escaped captivity after gruesome torture, moves into a seedy hotel room and sets up something of a base camp. If his mysterious requests to have everything delivered to his door are aimed at keeping a low profile, they fail -- soon Gray's fellow soldiers find him, and he invites others to visit, like an ex-fiancee (who, believing he was dead, married Gray's U.S. Senator brother) and a journalist who rightly suspects that brother to be hiding dark secrets. Dark as in "Dark Hammer Operations," the assassination squad Senator Gray ran and Malcolm is now prepared to expose.

But are those visits real? Midway through the picture, Gray starts experiencing moments of freakout that cast doubt on practically every encounter; by the movie's end, the reality of each scene is so much in question that we wonder why we should care what the characters do or say.

"Legacy" has the look and feel of a television production -- it might have built up some B-movie steam had writer/director Thomas Ikimi sent the scarred vet on a score-settling mission rather than delve exclusively into his psyche, but the faith cast and crew apparently have in Ikimi's story is misplaced: The script never moves beyond its building-block cliches to sell us on whatever it is -- guilt, fear, trauma -- that has pushed Gray down this path.

As a result, the scenes of inner turmoil on which Ikimi places increasing weight -- with Gray dousing his head in the sink, trying literally to shake away disturbing memories, and making interminable videotaped confessions -- play like bad acting-school exercises and help doom this apparent attempt to turn an up-and-coming actor into a full-blown star.

Production company: Black Camel
Cast: Idris Elba, Eamonn Walker, Monique Gabriella Curnen, Clarke Peters, Richard Brake, Julian Wadham
Director: Thomas Ikimi
Screenwriters: Thomas Ikimi
Executive producers: Idris Elba
Producers: Thomas Ikimi, Arabella Page Croft, Kieran Parker
Director of photography: Jonathan Harvey
Production designer: Gordon Rogers
Music: Mark Kilian
Costume designer: Harriet Edmonds
Editor: Richard Graham, Thomas Ikimi
Sales Agent: Thomas Ikimi

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film-reviews/legacy-film-review-1004086273.story

toluxa1:
From the story, I dont think the guy is an 'ordinary' guy o. He might be a Layer or something. Not just anybody can stand up and sue MTN for 210M.

True! Poor man nor dey sue for Naija. . ._{but make e nor be say im lawyer dey take style open office on top im head o}. . .

toluxa1:
I dont understand what you mean by these as I see nowhere in the report where it states that he invested alot of money in the promo. He played it but doesnt mean he 'put too much stock' in it.

By stock, I mean he attached too much importance to it and not money. Anyway, me thinks he must have spent some substantial amount of money playing the yeye game for him to resort to this course of action. . .Shey u never see people wey come on top Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and talk se dem don spend over 50K before getting on the hotseat? I mean. . .it's senseless for him to sue if all he spent playing the yeye promo isn't much coz the legal expenses he'll incure from the case alone is going to be humongous.

Make una nor blame the guy too much o. . .shebi na person like am hammer $1M for etisalat promo

Me wan sue emptyN for the poor quality and lack of durability of their sim cards. . . . In the last I year, I've had 3 sim card registration failures (on the same sim. . .imagine doing a welcome back for a welcome back sim, lol). In fact, the most recent was last week Friday and I just went to the E-center to do a welcome back today. I've had my Zain and Etisalat sims for like forever and I've never experienced such with the sims. I'm beginning to think emptyN deliberately lowered the quality of their sim cards so they can have people do welcome back, lol.

On a serious note, me thinks the guy was greedy & gullible AND put too much stock in the promo but still, he has a good case. Why should emptyN shift the goalpost in the middle of the match. .? or was it stated in the said promo that the rules could be changed at any time?

DADDY SHOWKEY BETRAYED ME AFTER PREVENTING MONKEYS FROM despoiling ME IN THE JUNGLE – Princess

Did you expect to be evicted from Gulder Ultimate Search, Celebrity Showdown so soon?
I didn’t expect it. We didn’t even know what the task was going to be like. When they said we should start breaking our pots, I was scared, because I don’t know how to throw an object at something else.

Didn’t you take it out on Daddy Showkey for breaking your own pots?
Yes, I did. Normally when I cooked, I always gave him extra meat. Before we left for the task that morning, I had even helped him wash his clothes. When we got there and the task required us to break pots, Weird MC said she was not going to participate. They said it was a game and we had to play it. I knew that Daddy Showkey knew how to throw things, so I begged him not to break my pot. But that was in vain. He broke all the three pots! I was so upset. I didn’t really take it personal, but I was upset. I don’t tell lies. I don’t pretend to be friendly with somebody when I am not. I was very friendly with Daddy Showkey.

he said he didn’t do it on purpose
That was what he said. That was why I was upset with him.

Are you saying he actually targeted your pots?
He did. He even said he made a mistake by breaking Obesere’s pot. He said he was targeting my pot. But he came to me and claimed it was a mistake, but I told him not to patronise me. I might be younger than him, but I am not a fool. Obesere’s pots were broken by different people, but just one person broke my own pots. This was the same person that was laughing and playing with me before the task. I didn’t expect him to do what he did. He should have been diplomatic. Even if he wanted to evict me, he should have allowed at least one other person to break one of my pots. He aimed at my pots and he broke all of them.

Were you friendly in the camp?
Oh yes. He used to call me Her Excellency while I called him my personal bodyguard. Monkeys would have despoiled me in camp. He was the one that chased them away. I was not happy with what he did.

Wasn’t it just a game?
When we were going to the camp, we were not told that we were going to perform very physical exercise. When we noticed that it was going to be physical, we knew a woman was not going to win the game. They told us that it was going to be more of an intellectual game like puzzles, riddles and stuffs like that. But it didn’t turn out that way. I told Daddy Showkey that he broke my pots because he knew that I would have given him a stiff competition if the game was mainly intellectual. He is very strong. He wanted to evict his intellectual opposition first, so that he would be left to deal with physical opposition. Of course, he is stronger than Dare and Emeka.

And who do you think will emerge the winner?
Weird MC is the only female left in the competition now. It has been very tedious. It wasn’t what we expected. I hope she tries her best to win. It will be nice if she wins. If she doesn’t win, I wish all the others luck.

Who was your close buddy in camp?
Everybody was my friend.

Including Muma Gee?
I knew Muma even before we went to camp. We had our differences. In camp, she said some unprintable things. We used to be very close, but later, due to some things, we fell apart.

Many people believed that all the ladies, except Weird MC, ganged up against Muma Gee.
That was not the case. She probably had issues with some people. Nobody went there as a group; we went there individually. Ganging up against her was not applicable at all. But there were some things she did that were not acceptable to everybody.

Like what?
There was a day she called everybody together and said she wanted to make an announcement. She said it was important and that we should leave everything we were doing. We all ran towards her and asked her what the problem was. Do you know what she said? She said somebody had used her disinfectant. Can you imagine? We were all upset. It was so rude. I thought she had something important to say to us. The fact that somebody used your disinfectant should not be enough reason to call a conference. She did funny things sometimes. I call them funny things because I had known her even before then. It might be difficult for those who didn’t know her to understand her. She wears her make-up 24 hours, even at night. But because I knew her, I saw it as her nature. I know her well. She is the type that can wear six sets of clothes in one day. She says it brightens her up and gives her an aura.

Were you allowed to bring make-up into the jungle?
No. We were told not to bring make-up because of bees. A bee stung me. It was just a simple instruction, but Muma was so used to her make-up. That is her personal style. If you are meeting her for the first time, you will not find it funny. For the sake of our collective safety, we were told not to do something, yet one person disobeyed the instruction. There is a probability that there would be friction all the time. The first task that we were given was to look for a place to settle. They asked us to sit in a boat. Some people were not used to water and boats. I was comfortable with it because I swim. But that didn’t mean I should dive into the water. We were told to sit down till we found our clue. But Muma stood up in the middle of the sea and started dancing. She was rocking the boat. A lot of people got scared. Even the guy that was rowing the boat had to tell her to sit down. These were some of the instances. We all have our bad sides. But it is wrong for somebody to act as if she is holier than everyone else.

At one point, all of you were mad at her. What really happened?
She said something horrible. The things she said were edited. They only showed people’s reaction and I don’t think that was fair enough. What she said would have broken many homes. It would have broken someone’s marriage. I don’t want to talk about it. Chioma tried to correct her, but she said she didn’t want that kind of correction from her. We argue. We are adults. But if I offend you, you tell me and I will apologise. God knows that what Muma Gee said that day was horrible. I was so angry. Chioma was even the one that came to me and said it was okay.

What is this thing she said?
I cannot say it. It is not printable. It is not good for kids and adults. It is a very vulgar and improper thing to say. I am sure she is sorry for what she said. She might have been trying to cast a joke, but it came out the wrong way.

Would you say Chioma was acting her quarrel with Muma?
Some of those things were mere acting. If Muma Gee said Chioma was not acting, then she is not being truthful. If we didn’t go there to argue and quarrel, what would viewers be watching? Let us be factual. Viewers needed to watch us. We were in front of the camera all the time. We needed to do most of the things for the sake of the cameras, because we knew that people were watching us at home. If we were not acting, I am sure some people would have left the first day. The arguments kept the show going. It is just that some parts that led to some incidents were edited. We were friends in camp. We had quarrels and we settled them. If Muma and Chioma did not argue, they would have been pretending.

Is it true that Muma Gee said you ladies were envious of her?
That is a joke. I am not sure she said that. Why? Why should I be envious of Muma Gee? Is it because I am big, bold and beautiful? Anyway, I am sure she was not referring to me, if she actually said it. Since you asked this question, I have tried to call her and her phone is switched off. I am not sure Muma said that. No way! Of course, she couldn’t have been referring to Funke who didn’t even know who she was until we got to the camp. Maybe she was referring to the guys. Personally, I am not sure she was referring to me. I am sure she did not say that. She wouldn’t dare. I am vouching for her.

I read in a recent publication that Muma called Chioma a demon. Do you also perceive Chioma as a demon?
I feel so sad about that article. Muma said Chioma acted like an animal towards her. That is uncalled for. It is not good. If we say we are good people, how can you call somebody a demon? When you are fighting someone, leave a space for reconciliation with that person. I learnt Muma said that even if she eventually bears children tomorrow, God will not let them be friends with Chioma’s kids. That is very bad. Why do you have to turn it into a generational squabble? Has it turned to the kind of fight between Osama Bin Laden and America? No squabble should go on forever. I am not happy with Muma for calling Chioma a demon. Chioma is selfless. Muma is a very liberal person. I know that people are trying to capitalise on the squabble they had in camp. We should not call ourselves names so that when we make up, we can make up very well.

Let us leave Gulder Ultimate Search aside. Is it true that you caused a man to be deported from England because he had an issue with his wife?
If you read the article well, the writer said she hadn’t spoken to me or the person involved. I think the writer said some people said something about the matter. That is just a personal issue. But it is a fact that I am in the United Kingdom most of the time. But I don’t need to call the police for anything because I don’t know their number. As an educated person, you cannot have an issue with your wife and a third person invites the police and they deport you. The guy in question came to Nigeria to promote his music album. I rendered some help to him. I learnt they said he left his pregnant wife. But the wife has been delivered of the baby since and I was even the first person he called to tell me that his wife had put to bed. It is very annoying. Gossip is gossip. Most of the things written in gossip columns are never true.

http://www.punchontheweb.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201005155293859

Nigerian directs Hollywood movie

Thomas Ikimi may not be known in Nollywood, but in Hollywood, the Nigerian movie director has made a name for himself as the first Nigerian to direct a Hollywood movie.

According to Paris Harcourt of Paris Harcourt Media Consulting, London, organisers of the movie launch, ‘Legacy’ will be released in Nigeria later in the year.

Life and Beat gathered that the movie will be showing next at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, followed by the American Black Film Festival in Miami.

Talking about the movie , Harcourt said ‘Legacy’ is a psychological suspense thriller that tells the story of two brothers in conflict.

”Malcom Gray, a highly trained Special Forces soldier, has gone AWOL after being captured and tortured for months in the Balkans. He books himself into a New York hotel room, from where he calls a journalist promising to reveal damaging information about his brother, Senator Darnell Gray. Confined to his hotel room, he is visited by a series of people - firstly his colleagues from the special ops unit, then the female journalist to whom he gives the evidence about his senator brother, and finally he is visited by his ex fiancée who has broken his heart by marrying his brother. They each want to help him but his resolve for revenge is unbreakable. Tormented by guilt over his own actions as a soldier and by the personal and political betrayals of his brother, Malcolm‘s paranoia is like a pressure cooker. On the verge of violence from moment to moment, Malcolm‘s grasp on reality is gradually called into question. It is only in the last scene that his intentions are finally revealed,” Harcourt said.

http://www.punchontheweb.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201005151254065

V3 forever on torrent. . .u nor dey tire?

Treasure hunt: Subscriber Sues MTN, Demands N210m
By Mike Odiegwu, Calabar
Saturday, 15 May 2010

A subscriber in Calabar, Cross River State, Mr. Obi Osaje, has dragged one of the leading Global System for Mobile telephone providers, MTN Nigeria Communications Limited, to court over the company‘s treasure hunt competition.

The subscriber, among other things, is asking MTN to pay him N210m as damages.

Already, a Calabar High Court has fixed May 19, 2010 to begin hearing on the suit which borders on allegation that the company violated the rules of its concluded treasure hunt competition.

Osaje, who participated in the competition, is asking the court to declare him the winner and to order MTN to pay him damages for tort of deceit.

Specifically, the plaintiff in the suit is ”claiming the sum of N10m only being the grand prize for the competition” and ”another sum of N200m only being damages in aggravated terms for the tort of deceit, psychological trauma, worries and anxiety the claimant was exposed to.”

He is also seeking a ”declaration that the action of the defendant, its agents, servants and workmen in throwing open the MTN treasure hunt competition, an intellectual exercise, only to turn around after the end of the duration of contest to adopt other methods such as lucky dip approach; and in refusing to publish the phone numbers and scores of the competitors including the claimant herein.”

MTN had in October 2008, made open and published to members of the public a very enticing competition called ”MTN Treasure Hunt” which made its debut as an intellectual exercise for an opportunity to win prizes through entry to a premium rate short code 77777.

The competition was said to have been premised on strong assurances that the participant with the overall highest score at the end of the game would win the grand prize of N10m while those with daily and weekly highest scores would win daily and weekly cash prizes respectively.

http://www.punchontheweb.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201005152571829

Brilliant!