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Biglo, whose real name is Lotanna Udezue, is an artiste and music producer, owner of the Boom Box Studio, Surulere, Lagos.

Last year, he launched an 11 track album "Delicious" with tracks like:
- "Kick A Little Game"
- "Who No Know"
- "Goodbye", featuring Maideena and 'The Coup'
- "Delicious", the title track, or course!

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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?

Yes, there are lovely girls on the site. The only way to be noticed on this site is to increase your participation after posting your stats and pictures on this thread. Wishing you the best!

Webmastering, Internet as an Industry.

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.

How to help victims of Hurricane Katrina even if you don't live in the US, courtesy of Black Looks:

A couple of useful Katrina activities even if you dont live in the US.

Katrina People Finder - they need people to help enter unstructured data into a structured database of names.

I Can Help - Real Help for Katrina victims: A forum for those who can help in anyway and for those who need help.

http://okrasoup.typepad.com/black_looks/2005/09/katrina_help.html

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?

Hello, lovely miss Chinyere. Welcome to the Nairaland Forum!

As someone from the South-South, I hope you're not a supporter of "Biafra Republic". We sympathize with what is being done to your people but we refuse to believe that violence or separation is the answer; it is never the answer!

Welcome to the Nairaland Forum!

Confirmed by foreign media:

Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has agreed to be investigated by the country's anti-corruption body after a governor accused him of taking bribes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4210368.stm

The text of Governor Kalu's letter to President Obasanjo on the 22nd of August 2005, "Working for Posterity to Judge Us" is as follows:

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[salutation],
Working for Posterity to Judge Us

I write you this letter with a deep sense of patriotism, and without any malice. As a practising Christian I detest sycophancy in whatever guise, and this is why I have always offered to tell you the truth, no matter how bitter it may be.

I may not be in your good books, even though I made huge personal sacrifice and contributed tens of millions of naira to your 1999 presidential campaign.

But my joy is that, at least, you can acknowledge that I am one of those you can count on to speak the truth to you at all times and without any let or hindrance.

It is now about four years since your administration emba-rked upon its anti-corruption crusade. Nevertheless, I regret to observe that the campaign has not yielded the desired result because it lacked focus and strong foundation ab initio.

The unrelenting resentment of the campaign by many Nigerians, including the media, is attributable to the fact that they see it as a deliberate plot to witch-hunt and muzzle perceived political enemies.

The high-handed, draconian, and commando-like operations of the EFCC and Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) so far have negated all that our democracy stands for. They do not hide their bias neither do they function within the ambits of the laws setting them up. Again, the establishment of the two institutions is a mere duplication since there are existing provisions in our legislation to handle their functions.

In any case, the most preposterous and incredulous aspect of your anti-corruption campaign is that while the media is awash with stories on the activities of EFCC and ICPC corruption is taking root daily in many federal establishments, Aso Rock inclusive. I have said it several times that corruption is rife among senior officials of government, especially those at the federal level.

It is said that a few members of the leadership of the Senate could stoop so low as to drop your name with active connivance of some of your aides to collect large sums in oil and defence contract commissions. The ignominous activities of this cabal, including the foreign accounts of some of your aides, serving and former ministers, are also well known to the international community. I would be surprised if you feign ignorance of this unfortunate situation.

Unbelievably, you have done nothing visible to extinguish this dangerous and sycophantic phenomenon. It seems you have deliberately turned eyes against the atrocities perpetrated by your officials because there is incontrovertible evidence at my disposal that you are afraid to prosecute them for fear of turning the table against yourself. I do not see why you should preach openly against corruption but deep inside you, you have a different attitude towards it.

What about the Abuja National Stadium? Why was the original design for the stadium which had a five star hotel and which contract was won by a Chinese firm discarded and re-awarded to another foreign construction company based in Nigeria without the five star hotel at five times the price quoted by the Chinese firm? There is unquestionable evidence at my disposal why the contract was awarded to the Nigerian-based foreign construction company instead of the Chinese firm.

What much do you know about the operations of the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE)? Who collected the commissions for the sale of Ajaokuta Steel Company and Delta Steel Rolling Mill, Aladja? Could both transactions have been said to be transparent?

Why have you found it difficult Your Excellency to probe the activities of the Federal Ministry of Works in spite of my allegation that the ministry stinks? It is an open knowledge that the operations of the ministry between 1999 and 2003 were a monumental fraud.

In a media appearance at the VOA last month I challenged you to openly declare your assets. Up till now you are yet to do so. By declaring your assets openly you will have succeeded in dispelling any doubts on the minds of Nigerians and the international community about the sincerity of your anti-corruption campaign.

Mr. President, you will agree with me that there are still many other questions that I would have loved to put across to you. But I have just asked these few to agitate your mind and dismiss your anti-corruption campaign as mere window-dressing.

A few other examples will baffle you. Let me ask you: Who owns Bell University and Bell Secondary School? I was shocked when you openly denied ownership of the two institutions and rather ascribed their ownership to Dr. Onaolapo Soleye, a one time Minister of Finance. I wish to put it to you, Mr. President, that I have overwhelming evidence to link you with both institutions.

Who paid for the construction of hostels and gigantic sports complex at the Bell Secondary School? I put it to you Sir that both projects were financed with tax payers money through the construction giant, Strabag, five years ago. What role did a former Minister of Sports play in the whole deal? What of the transformation of Ota, which is going on at frenetic speed? Who picks the bill? We knew all these things but deliberately chose to keep mute for the sake of peace.

The third question for you Sir centres on your tenure as Nigeria’s Minister of Petroleum Resources since 1999. Why has there not been a properly-audited account for the Ministry of Petroleum Resources since then despite the outcries by the people for this to be done? There is indisputable evidence that all the major deals in the nation’s oil sector are being handled by you through some agents. What about the leakages and the fraud at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), with particular reference to crude oil sales and the accrued commissions? What have you done to check the malfeasance?

You have at several occasions accused top government functionaries, especially the governors, of owing foreign accounts. Can you in all sincerity, Sir, swear that you own no foreign account(s)? There is evidence that you own foreign accounts, including a platinum credit card recently opened for you through which you charge your foreign account and make purchases abroad.

I fear for the ways things are going in this country under your leadership. I fear for the masses of our country which live under dehumanizing conditions. The economy has virtually collapsed, and there is no more middle class. Everything is in shambles yet we make millions of dollars daily from oil. An average Nigeria(n) lives on 60 cents (i.e N78) a day. Is this not a shame and a big scar on our collective psyche?

There is no way we can go on this way. If we continue this way then we are surreptitiously inviting anarchy and cataclysm. The patience of Nigerians is running out fast, and it behoves you to take the bull by the horns and salvage the situation before it consumes all of us.

As I said at the beginning this is a message that should challenge your statesmanship and patriotic zeal. You have an opportunity to write your name in gold if you can begin today to make amends.

You should redirect your energies to only gainful and edifying activities befitting of your exalted office instead of haunting innocent citizens just for refusing to dance to your dictates.

I am a straight forward, transparent and focussed person. I call a spade a spade not minding whose ox is gored. I have demonstrated this through my altruistic service to the people of my state.

I refer you to Galatians 6:7-8, and wish to state in my conclusion that anybody who wants to come to equity must come to equity with clean hands, and those who live in glass house should not throw stones.

You may not bother to like me, just give ear to my admonitions, and let us leave posterity to judge us.

Please accept, Your Excell-ency, the assurances of my highest consideration,
[Signed]
Source

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President Obasanjo's response is to direct the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). to investigate the matter. Here's a statement made to Thisday by Mr. Femi Kayode, from the president's office:

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We completely reject and refute the suggestion that Mr. President has committed any crime or done anything wrong. It is precisely because he is a God-fearing, innocent and honest man that he has absolutely no hesitation in referring the matter to the EFCC for a thorough investigation and he directed that the findings of that investigation should be made public.

We have nothing to fear and nothing to hide. Mr. President is as clean as a whistle and these are nothing but baseless, spurious and vicious allegations which are designed to impugn his integrety. It will not work and we are not in the least bit concerned.

I have the details of every single allegation that has been made and I can assure you they are all baseless. We will do nothing to interfere in the EFCC investigation of this matter. We will co-operate and at the end of the day, I can assure you that Mr. President will be vindicated.

I don't agree with you that the allegation can lead to appearance of guilt and neither should that be the case. An allegation is nothing but an allegation without evidence. It is meaningless and irrelevant. People make hundreds of allegations per day. The issue is: where is your evidence and how can you substantiate it?

I do not see the allegation as anything other than what it is - a vicious, well-orchestrated and well-organised smear campaign against a man that has given virtually his whole life to the service of this nation in an honest, decent and transparent way. I can assure you that after the investigation has been concluded, those that made these vicious allegations will bow their heads in shame."

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We look forward to the comclusion of this juicy story, and will keep you updated through this page. Meanwhile, your reactions to this story are welcome!

http://thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=27284 (use "nairaland" and "nairaland" if prompted for password)

This is at least partly a simply political manouvre by Governor Orji Uzor Kalu to further his presidential ambition. I hope it doesn't backfire!

Please note that the topic is most beautiful hollywood actress. Anything else will be removed.