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Emortal: look this monkey man, e dey find followers wey go follow am commit suicide.

Actually, Emortal, most religious cults/groups do not lead their followers to commit suicide. Most of them strive develop thriving, financially buoyant organizations to propagate their beliefs and support their founders!

layi: If its the same beings that turn to their lower forms, then why the increase down the ladder.

My response: Some lower animals are reincarnated human beings, through the human soul transferred into them. The others are newly created animal souls. Science supports this belief because there are generally more animals than humans.

What if I respond like this:

fabian: Seun, just be sure that when you come back as a Goat, Chicken or Cow (i.e if you are lucky) I will be sure to kill you

I think you're missing the crux of the message. Those of us who believe will be reincarnated as children in the same family, but the rest of you may end up as goat meat inside buka peppersoup!

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What if I respond by saying:

layi: I would ask what proof you/science has got about humans coming back as animals.

- Do you notice that there are more animals than human beings, more lower animals than higher animals, more microscopic organisms than lower animals, and more atoms than microscopic animals?  This is consistent with the theory that higher animal forms are reincarnated as lower animal forms.
- Besides, can science prove other religions like Christianity and Islam?  The proof is spiritual, and it comes by faith and enlightenment of your soul!

layi: Did any dog, cow or goat tell U about their past life as humans?

Haven't you heard about various African tribes that believe their great leaders have come back in form of Lions, snakes, etc?  What about some Asian religions that also believe the same?  Don't you feel there must be some truth to this?  Afterall, there is no smoke without fire!  Have you been to heaven before or spoken with someone that came back from heaven?

Saintjoe: how can someone die and become an animal.

Your body dies, but your soul enters the freshly fertilized embryo of a pregnant lower animal like a goat or chicken.

I pledge to:
- Avoid responding angrily to public insults that may come my way as the Nairaland administrator.
- I pledge to employ someone better than me as a full-time administrator once I can afford it.
- Add mane features useful features and extensions to the forum to make it better for users.
So help me Nairaland!

I'm sorry, but I am not convinced by the reasons you have given. Pidgin and local languages are allowed, but you must provide an accurate, word-for-word translation withing the body of your post or it may be deleted. Mis-spelling of common words is also not allowed.

If you don't have the time to format your post properly, then I can assure you that our readers don't have the time to read your posts either. I am truly sorry for any inconveniences this might cause but I can assure you that the benefits far outweigh the costs. For every post, there are hundreds of readers; we cannot inconvenience the majority to suit a minority. This is the way it has to be.

What if I told you that:
[list][li]I believe that men, women and children become lesser animals when they die?[/li]
[li]When a human being dies, he becomes an animal such as a cat, goat, dog, cow, or hyena.[/li]
[li]However, some select human beings might come back in as children in the same family.[/li]
[li]When an animal dies, it becomes an even more primitive animal e.g. cat -> mouse.[/li]
[li]This process goes on and until you eventually become a unicellular animal.[/li]
[li]When unicellular animals die, they come back as solid matter.[/li]
[li]By eventually turning into solid matter, all human beings will eventually achieve immortality.[/li][/list]

What if I told you that:
[li]I accept it by faith.[/li]
[li]This belief does not conflict with today's science in any way.[/li]
[li]If you believe in this, you may be selected to come back as a child.[/li]
[li]But if you don't believe, you'll come back as an animal.[/li][/list]

What would be your reaction?

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Welcome to Nairaland! Please make yourself at home and post your pics for all to see!

I see. So Saintjoe is now speaking for others, heh?

I think it is better to force the few posters to spell and punctuate correctly than to try to force the thousands of readers to read what is not clear.

Yeah, we demand a picture. The newest members have refused to post their pics for reasons unknown.

Hello mosiate,

Welcome to Nairaland! Yes, indeed, I miss the Nairaland oldies, too. I wish you had used your nickname as your username.

Seun.

I had to title this thread Nigerian Pidgin after reading the definition of pidgin from the wikipedia:

A Pidgin, or contact language, is the name given to any language created, usually spontaneously, out of a mixture of other languages as a means of communication between speakers of different tongues. Pidgins have rudimentary grammars and restricted vocabulary, serving as auxiliary contact languages. They are improvised rather than learned natively.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin

So we have "pidgins" in various countries. Once your "pidgin" becomes standardized as people are suggesting, it is no longer referred to as a pidgin. It becomes a creole language:
"A Creole is a language descended from a pidgin that has become the native language of a group of people. The majority of creole languages are based on English, Portuguese, French, Spanish and other languages (their superstrate language), with local or immigrant languages as substrate languages."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_language

So the issue at hand is whether we should develop a creole out of our pidgin by standardizing it, and adopting this creole as our national language.

This seems to be a giant step in the wrong direction, considering the effort involved in standardizing a spoken language (we will have to rewrite our childrens' textbooks in pidgin) and how, at the end of the day, we will only have succeeded in making life difficult for Nigerins who have to interact with the rest of the world, as Latoya as pointed out.

So let's just stick with the same standard English that people everywhere are learning! The same English that is the language on the Internet. As someone noted, we are fortunate to have chosen English as our National language.

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So, please, we can go ahead and help this people with our time.

Ka, your posts are packed with information as usual.

Website design/development and hosting can be a pretty sweet business for someone who is:
- Basically a good businessman, and
- Technically savvy enough to manage simple web-based software, or
- At least smart enough to recognize and hire competent website developers and system admiistrators.
- Has a few hundred thousand naira in the above case, and a means of making online payments.
- Able to organize Internet access for self or (in case 3) for staff.

The beauty of the hosting (and domain name) business is that people hardly ever change their web hosts unless your customer support is really bad. For example, I've been hosting my sites with the same company since March 2004, and the effort involved in switching to a new host is enough to make me stay even if I'm a bit unhappy at times. However, small time webmasters and failed businesses may fail to pay up after the first year.

The website design and development business can also be quite sweet, especially if you're able to deal cut contracts with large companies. Companies, especially, prefer to get their website design, development, domain name and even hosting from the same company so minimize their stress. They are also willing to pay much more than it actually costs to get the job done if you're using interns or young university or polytechnic graduates, especially those on NYSC.

Domain name reselling only becomes lucrative when you have a very large number of clients, because it costs you more money to purchase each additional domain ordered. However, once a domain is set up it requires zero maintenance, so a one person operation can easily accumulate hundreds or thousands of customers if software is used to automate all tasks. People will only contact you when you screw them the way Registerfly has decided to treat me.

There you go. Three hot-cake businesses for the Internet-savvy Nigerian businessman.

Welcome to Nairaland, Yinka. Don't forget to read the rules as soon as possible! This your text formatting style is something else o!

Yes, we now have Google.com in Yoruba, but we still have a long way to go to get Yoruba versions of the other Google services, such as GMail and Orkut. In addition to that, progress with the Hausa translation of Google hasn't gone far. The image below shows the status of the Hausa and Yoruba language translation efforts:
https://www.nairaland.com/img/google.hausa.yoruba.png

If you are interested in helping Google, please visit the Google In Your Language Project Page:
https://services.google.com/tc/Welcome.html

And sign up with your google account. Please be warned that once you mark the languages you want to help them with, you will not be able to change your choice later on, so please mark Hausa and Yoruba, so that you'll at least be able to follow the progress of the translation of both languages.

And will someone go and tell Google that Ibo is also one of the major Nigerian languages?

No, J Lo is really beautiful, especially when she dresses to look fine instead of just to be half-naked. Especially when you meet her face-to-face (so I heard).

The reason we believe Lindsay Lohan's boobs are fake is because they grew overnight. And you know what? A few months ago, they became very tiny a few weeks and and after a while they grew back again.

Very good one! Where did you get it?

Lighten up, Baby-A. It was supposed to be a joke!

Don't mind that Lindsay Lohan girl o. She had barely turned 18 when she started using breast implants and showing her newly-growing breasts at every opportunity. We fell in love with her when we watched parent trap; we knew she was here to stay. The reality of hollywood is that displaying your body to get more publicity is a normal thing that everybody does. Lindsay Lohan is not particularly beautiful, but as long as I remember Parent Trap I will maintain a certain respect for the girl.

In the late 90s, the desktop publishing business was thriving; people were setting up "business centers" which were basically desktop publishing centers with a photocopying machine or two thrown in. These "business centers" started springing up everywhere and secondary school leavers and students on break started going for "computer training" to be able to work in these business centers and make extra money for themselves. (I remember being used as a graphic designer for one distressed business center during holidays; I only got paid 300 naira for 3 weeks of full-time work!)

A few years ago, the cyber-cafe business started moving like hot cake in Nigeria. To make your multiple millions, all you needed to do was to subscribe a Satellite Internet service (V-SAT), buy some fairly used computers, rent a small shop in any remote town with a thriving educational or business community, and start a cyber-cafe (Internet cafe). This was like printing money at a rate of 150 to 200 naira per hour per computer per day! After a while, it became too competitive (especially in Lagos) and cyber-cafes started to fizzle and close up, especially those with low quality PCs and unreliable networks.

Then as the GSM revolution swept the country, the phone voucher distribution and call center businesses became the new hot businesses in town. Now we have a situation where every other trader with a shop - including barbers, restaurant owners, and what have you - either sells recharge vouchers or runs a call center business. It has not completely fizzled out, however. Those who have accumulated enough capital to become major distributors of these phone vouchers are still making a a lot of money.

These 'hot cake' business opportunities are/were:
- Available to small businessmen in Nigeria with no special training.
- Highly profitable for those that ventured early into the business.

Do you know of any other business opportunities like this? Can you predict business opportunities that will be as hot as these ones in the near future? Business opportunities that will be available to Nigerian entrepreneurs who have only about 200,000 - 2 million naira startup capital?

I guess that what we can do is assure those in need of our support should they need our help. Emotional support is probably all we have to offer, and those that are bringing up the racism issue are not helping at all.

Unless you have a mobile provider that doesn't charge for text messages, it will be fairly impossible for anyone to offer such a service without eventually going bankrupt!

Instead of looking for free mobile text alerts, why not just activate a WAP over GPRS service (Glo Direct, MTN Sights and Sounds, etc) on your phone and use it to browse news sites daily?

I don't know of any "sniffers", but I know that you'll enjoy your stay on the forum.

I like the idea of giving out recharge cards from time to time, and in the past I've given out 4-5 of the 500 naira denomination, but it might be a while before we can re-initiate that.

That's not separation of religion and state. It's separation of duties in a religious government. The King of Saudi Arabia is not an Imam!

On a certain level, your question is vague because there are different definitions of education:
- Some people believe that anybody who is not a graduate is not educated.
- Others might feel that an educated man is one who speaks English well.
- Others look beyond that at the way you comport yourself, the level of your thinking.
- Others will point at the JSCE as the minimum qualification rcommended by the ministry of education for workers.
- If the woman is a professor or medical doctor, a "common" graduate or HNd holder may seem uneducated to her.
- If you are a rich man and you speak English, everybody believes you're educated .

However, the central issue is clear. You want to know if a woman should cave in and marry a woman who hasn't recieved up to her level of education. Someone who probably knows less than she does, is less exposed, more crude, maybe doesn't even speak English well. Someone she may not be able to take to social functions because he's "not up to her standards". Someone who's friends she might despite because they are too "local".

So what's your say?