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Why is nobody showing interest in this car.Its a good buy-I have had one in the past.Is Nissan no longer popular with Nigerians?

@ NKC,I did not remove the poll but it somehow disappear mysteriously.Here it is again.

There was a debate between me and some  friends on the  effectiveness of using the nairaland forum to sell / buy goods, particularly cars, hence this [thread].  Your response will be appreciated,

Nigerians here , Nigerians there, Nigerians everywhere.Cancun- Ilu awon kokoye. Abeg be careful there o.

Hun, nkan be.To start with ,most people seem to agree with the idea of the mom kicking the daughter out.To me this idea seem easier said than done.The might be a curse and unless it is broken, it will run its full course.Back @ home I actually know a lady that was doing almost the same thing to her mom then.Of course ,the poor woman was helpless.Not only was not physically strong enough to throw her daughter out, she also lacks the courage/ guts to do it.According to her she can't stand to see her suffer.Ironic?
I tend to see this issue more from a spiritual approach than any other approach.

The girl needs deliverance

ELDORADO, Texas (April - Until the raid on their compound last week, the woman and girls of the Yearning for Zion Ranch spent their days caring for its many children, tilling gardens, and quilting, dressed in pioneer-style dresses sewn by their own hands.
Many women and children who lived on a polygamist compound in Eldorado, Texas, have told authorities of a life isolated from the rest of the world. Some 401 children taken from that compound are now in state custody as authorities investigate claims of abuse. Above, church members gather at temporary housing Monday.
But it was no idyllic recreation of 19th-century prairie life, authorities say. Since last week, they have interviewed members of the polygamist sect looking for evidence that that girls younger than 16 were forced into marriages with older men.

Five miles off the highway, beyond a double gate, the group's members live lives that are isolated even for the scruffy West Texas prairie. Their 1,700-acre ranch is like its own city, with a gleaming temple, doctor's office, school and even factories.

"Once you go into the compound, you don't ever leave it," said Carolyn Jessop, who was one of the wives of the alleged leader of the Eldorado complex, but who left the sect before it began moving to Texas in 2004.

By Monday, state authorities had taken legal custody of 401 children, saying they had been harmed or were in imminent danger of harm.

The raid on the compound founded by jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs started with a call from a 16-year-old who alleged abuse.

Authorities were looking for evidence that the girl, who allegedly gave birth at 15, was married to a 50-year-old, and for records related to other mothers aged 17 and younger. Even with their parents' permission, Texas law forbids girls younger than 16 to marry.

Some 133 women left the ranch voluntarily with the children and were being housed at a historic fort here while authorities conduct interviews. Dressed in ankle-length dresses with their hair pinned up in braids, the women milled about Monday as the children played on the fort's old parade grounds.

State troopers were holding an unknown number of men in the compound until investigators finished executing a house-to-house search of the ranch, which includes a cheese-making plant, a cement plant and several large housing units. They initially had difficulty getting access to the 80-foot white limestone temple that rises out of the brown scrub, but were searching it Monday.

Jessop, author of the polygamy memoir "Escape," said the women dedicated so much time to raising children and their chores because the community emphasized self-sufficiency: Members believe the apocalypse is near, and they will have to start over when the world is destroyed.

They were not allowed to wear red — the color Jeffs said belonged to Jesus — and were not allowed to cut their hair.

They "were born into this," said Jessop, 40. "They have no concept of mainstream society, and their mothers were born into and have no concept of mainstream culture. Their grandmothers were born into it."

Children's Protective Services spokeswoman Marleigh Meisner said each child will get an advocate and an attorney. But she said they would have a tough time adjusting to modern life if they are permanently separated from their families.

Tela Mange, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Public Safety, said the criminal investigation was still under way, and that charges would be filed if investigators determined children were abused.

Still uncertain is the location of the girl whose call initiated the raid. Authorities were looking for documents, family photos or even a family Bible with lists of marriages and children to determine whether the girl was married to convicted sex offender Dale Barlow.

Barlow was sentenced to jail last year after pleading no contest to conspiracy to commit sexual conduct with a minor. He was ordered to register as a sex offender for three years while he is on probation.

Authorities hoped to determine whether the teenager was among the church members being interviewed at Fort Concho, a 150-year-old fort built to protect frontier settlements.

Attorneys for the church and church leaders filed motions asking a judge to quash the search on constitutional grounds, saying state authorities didn't have enough evidence and that the warrants were too broad. A hearing on their motion was scheduled for Wednesday in San Angelo.

"The chief concern for everyone at this point is the welfare of the women and children," said FLDS attorneys Patrick Peranteau. He declined further comment before Wednesday's hearing.

State troopers arrested one man on a misdemeanor charge of interfering with the duties of a public servant during the search warrant, Mange said.

"For the most part, residents at the ranch have been cooperative. However, because of some of the diplomatic efforts in regards to the residents, the process of serving the search warrants is taking longer than usual," said DPS spokesman Tom Vinger.

Attorneys for the church and church leaders said Barlow was in Colorado City, Ariz., and had been in contact with law enforcement officials there. Telephone messages left by The Associated Press for Colorado City authorities were not immediately returned Monday.

The FLDS church, headed by Jeffs after his father's death in 2002, broke away from the Mormon church after the latter disavowed polygamy more than a century ago.

The group is concentrated along the Arizona-Utah line but several enclaves have been built elsewhere, including in Texas. In 2003, the church paid $700,000 for the Eldorado property, a former exotic animal ranch, and began building the compound as authorities in Arizona and Utah began increasingly scrutinizing the group.

Only the 80-foot-high white temple can be seen from Eldorado, a town of fewer than 2,000 surrounded by sheep ranches nearly 200 miles northwest of San Antonio.

Jeffs is jailed in Kingman, Ariz., where he awaits trial for four counts each of incest and sexual conduct with a minor stemming from two arranged marriages between teenage girls and their older male relatives.

In November, he was sentenced to two consecutive sentences of five years to life in prison in Utah for being an accomplice to the rape of a 14-year-old girl who wed her cousin in an arranged marriage in 2001.

The investigation prompted by the girl's call last week was the first in Texas involving the sect.


[b]Source:[/b]http://news.aol.com/story/_a/details-of-sect-life-emerge-after-raid/20080404201909990001

Well I think we should ask ourselves this one question before we rule out that all those aboard the plane are dead – If your loved one is on that plane, will you just assume he / she is dead just like that without checking out this lead? Well I know someone that has a relative on that plane.

Good job  mademan112

This is a sign that town planning has failed in our major cities. Churches/mosque are not suppose to be located in residential area. If you happen to come across the plan of Lagos for instance, we have areas that have been earmarked commercial/industrial etc
But due to the inefficiency of our town planning officers/ corruption, anything goes these days.
Back to your question, it is not an easy task to move from one house  to another and I doubt if you and your neighbors  can make the worship place go away, however, you may consult with elders in your  area and make them reason with you.They can approach the authorities of the place of worship reduce their level of noise.If this approach does not work(which I very much doubt) you just have to tolerate them till you move .

anyone?

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Whats going on guys.Where are people with business acumen?

Asking price for van is N1.5m and the truck N1.6m

Can anyone give me an idea how much this Van goes for in Naija.Its a 1992 Dodge Ram Van B350
No seats please.Other details:
Body Style ;Van
Exterior Color; White
Interior Color Gray
Engine ;8 Cylinder Gasoline
Transmission; 4 Speed Automatic
Drive Type; 2 wheel drive - rear
Fuel Type ;Gasoline

NB
    These vehicles will be in Lagos in about 45 days

Does anyone know how much a plot of land go for @ Agaloke area of Apata in Ibadan.
Urgent please.

Samuel Peter of Nigeria stopped Russian Oleg Maskaev in the sixth round, pummelling him with 12 unanswered power punches to force a stoppage and claim the WBC heavyweight title on Saturday.

The 27-year-old Peter improved to 30-1 with 23 knockouts, while the 39-year-old Maskaev dropped to 34-6 when the fight was halted with four seconds left in the sixth.

Click on the link below for more details
http://www.rte.ie/sport/boxing/2008/0309/peters.html

Can anyone please help check this vin#3N1CB51D45L546738.Thank u

Can anyone please help check this vin#3N1CB51D45L546738.Thank u

Any ANST members /AWS CWIs in the house.Lets meet here please to share ideas.

Damn! PTH you too much.Why u finish my brother just like that.Anyway,back to the discussion- I got nothing to contribute.I just feel like crying for motherland.

The Nigerian government has stretched the resources of both the middle and lower class too thin to the extent that it is practically impossible to survive in the land that flows with milk and honey.

Dear, watch out for whom u share room with ooooo.Best wishes.

I would say I ve got two step mom but could have had more.The first I remember stepped in before I clocked ten.My mom had been sent packing before then but my fire-brand, no nonsense sister will not let her have peace in the house.Finally she packed and left.A second one, if I am right tried to step in several years later.By that time I was in my late teens and  had a little fire in me too which my sister gave to me before she left home.Anyway I did not give her peace any she fears me a lot.More than once I ve overheard her telling my dad that she is affraid for her life.I was her living nightmare .She finally left too.

My dear bro, I will tell you this ` a bird in hand is worth two in the bush `.If you are sure about meeting your target at the bank month in and month out without stress, take the banking job. Otherwise just take your engineering job jeje.

Viperman,
Mail me @ ndt364@yahoo.com

Kolo mentality.End of discussion.

What happens if your spouse did not work through out the year.And again if u are filling married is it going to be $600 x 2 even if your spouse did not work fr that year.

Its not that our engineers are not competent so to say but they are lacking in some areas…… . It is a fact that our educational system is failing and the whole world knows it. No business man, in his right thinking sense, will want to employ such people to man such sensitive areas. It is not that their foreign counterpart  have seven heads or something , in fact Nigerians are one of the most intellectual people in the world however things just don’t add up for them. I work for a US based firm of engineers and I have seen them in action, the tools they use, the way they think, it’s quite different to what our engineers can do. But I must warn you - our engineers are capable of much greater things given the right training/atmosphere.

And like some contributors have rightly said ,98% of the guys that come to naija as expatriates skilled labores.Most of them only have High school education and then undergo apprenticeship .Our people need to stop seeing oyinbo people as gods because they are white.

Five years later , the horror of the events of  01/27/05 lives on.With several people dead and many more wounded.Are these unfortunate citizen not entitled to any form of assistance from the government.No doubt that govt of the day behaved irresponsibly .

did u school at iree poly? u look like someone i have meet

I am impressed!!!!!!1

Let’s play a game here. Choose 4 numbers between 1 and 35 and then choose another (second one) number between 1 and 35 again. In all you should have a total of 5 numbers For example, my fours numbers(not real ones) for the first 1 through 35 are 1, 8, 13 & 18.My bonus number for the second 1 through 35   is 8.

If all your numbers matches mine (which is kept secret) then you are a winner.

So what are your numbers?

Let’s play a game here. Choose 4 numbers between 1 and 35 and then choose another (second one) number between 1 and 35 again. In all you should have a total of 5 numbers For example, my fours numbers for the first 1 through 35 are 1, 8, 13 & 18. My bonus number for the second 1 through 35   is 8.

If all your numbers matches mine (which is kept secret for now) then you are a winner.

So what are your numbers?