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She gave him a hard question because of his story!

Rwanda and Angola. Two countries that I know nothing about, except that they are synonymous with war. The fate of the Nigerian national team is in the hands of Rwanda!!

The caps lock issue is one that has been debated on the Internet for many years. The rule of etiquette that has arisen out of that debate is that posting messages in all caps is wrong on message boards, forums, e-mail, mailing lists, chat rooms, and all online communities. Posting in all caps is equivalent to shouting, which has no place in any place where people are tying to discuss in a civil manner.

From the Wikipedia, "Because capital letters are supposed to be used for shouting, posting a forum message entirely in caps is a sign that the poster is a newbie or a troll. More experienced users will sometimes jocularly use all-caps and misspelled phrases to make fun of newbies." link

"Typing in all caps is considered yelling or screaming online. Those who type in all caps are perceived as lazy and not being considerate of those who will have to read their e-mail. Various studies on the topic reflect that it is more difficult and takes longer to read text that is typed in all caps." link

These are the reasons for this rule. I can assure you that anything you write in all caps is painful for others to read. Don't you realize this?

Hello,

Many of us have enthusiastically endorsed the Pidgin English we speak in Nigeria:

IAH: "Pidgin English isn't hard to read at all. Infact, it makes whatever you are reading more interesting."
obong: "IAH, you're right. pidgin is very sweet, reading and speaking."
Scorpio: "[Google in Yoruba is ] really cool though, but I would've
preferred it if it was in pidgin - everyone would be able to relate too"
obong: "Universal Declaration of Human Rights ... Nigerian Pidgin English Version" (link)"

Others are more skeptical:
trae_z: "Pidgin English is a pain in the ass when reading, especially voluminous reading, but its cool all the same to speak and to write in"

Imnakoya believes that Nigerian pidgin might be suitable s Nigeria's common/official language. He asked,
"What are the short comings of pidgin English as a common language in Nigeria? Already, it is the unofficial lingo...why are we deceiving ourselves with this queens english that is only well spoken by few?"

Should we restructure our educational system around pidgin English, a language spoken and understood by the majority, in place of Queen's English? Or should we just improve the quality of English Language education? Will it be a step in the right direction, or a terribly misguided step?

Looking forward to your opinions.

They have been sending me domain renewal notifications despite the suspension of my account.

The rules are available here: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-1026.0.html

A concise but more comprehensive list is available when you click on the POST button.

Some rules remain unwritten but you can infer them from my actions.

This is a feedback thread which you can use to motivate us to move forward. Not to tear us down, but to move us forward by sharing your feelings about the various rules.

Actually, this is not true. I am not a joker, I am the CEO . Such is life.

Update: This is a joke, a joke, a joke please! Yes, there are people younger then me who are managing 50 year olds, but it is intended to be a joke.

Actually, my argument is that Nairaland criticism should go straight to my private box, but feedback should go to the various threads available in the Nairaland.com section

Please I hereby apologize if you feel that the way I've expressed my frustration is not palatable.

Ok, I have created a new thread for those of us who feel that rules are too strict:
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-1637.0.html

Hello,

It seems to be a general consensus among even the most cooperative Nairaland members that some of our rules are too strict. I have created this thread as a forum for gathering information from our users about:
- What rules are too strict.
- Why you think those rules are too strict.
- How the rules can be ammended to make them more palatable.

I am also interested in helping users to understand why the rules are there in the first place, which I haven't done until now. Let's take advantage of this thread and use it to move the forum forward.

Seun.

Adults should behave like adults.

And remember, there is a PM facility on this forum which you can use to educate me with your wisdom if you so desire. I am not Obasanjo who can only be reached through the papers. It is silly and irritating for people to post messages meant for me on the main forum and be asking "I hope Seun is reading this".

Since we are all are mature and working adults, let me ask you a question. When you want to deliver a message to your boss at work, do you post it on the departmental notice board or do you go to his office? Why do you think the Internet is any different?

I think musa is happy because he's managed to win something in the programme!

It's an unfortunate incident. That's all I can say. WHo knows if it's related to VP Atiku's current challenges?

Another new website that will help your cause is this one - www.nigerianbloggers.com

Nigeria 5, Algeria 2. 5 - 2 at the tail of the match!

"Former youth international goalkeeper Sam Okoye has died in Iraq, where he had gone on trials. Okoye’s friend, Tonex Chukwu told KICK OFF that the 25-year-old former Rangers goalie died after being ill for four days."
https://www.sunnewsonline.com/images/Okoye-01-03-2005.gif
http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/sports/2005/sep/02/sports-02-09-2005-004.htm

"Former Rangers of Enugu goaltender and Enyimba of Aba second choice keeper, Sam Okoye is dead.
Daily Independent learnt from officials of the Aba side that Okoye slumped while on trial with an unnamed Iraqi club side."
http://www.independentng.com/sports/snsep010501.htm

May his soul rest in peace.

Kingdom

Pintos has said "bye" to the forum and I am not to blame for his saying "bye". When he said "bye" I said safe journey and deactivated his account for him. He made no attempt to protest the deactivation so I assumed he's ok with it. Abi? I'm tired!

I have unbanned him a while ago. While he was banned, he made no attempt to contact me by email to be unbanned.

Hello lexyflexy. Welcome to Nairaland!

Thirty-eight persons, who specialised in forging anything under the sun, were yesterday paraded in Lagos by Acting Inspector General of Police, Mr. Sunday Ehindero. The suspects were arrested during a raid of the notorious Oluwole area of Lagos, by a combined force of four security agencies.

Stunned by the range of recovered forged documents, including 4,000 Nigerian passports, 50,000 assorted foreign cheques, 10,000 blank British Airways tickets and 10,000 United States Postal Money Order, the police boss said Nigeria would have been better off, if the skill, creativity and imagination exhibited by some of the young suspects had been channeled to other lawful endeavour.

On display were forged bank statement of accounts, several stamps and seals, various International passports, forged blank marriage certificates, death certificates, certificates of Incorporation of Companies, forged certificates of occupancies, International driver's licences, Postal Orders, foreign bank cheques, fake United States dollars, Printing plates for various foreign bank cheques, forged university degrees and NYSC certificates.

Also recovered were 1,500 foreign passports of countries such as Chad, Libya, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau, Congo, Cameroun, Senegal, Switzerland, Gambia, South Africa, United States, Jamaica, Costa Rica and Ghana.Ehindero also mentioned the seizure of 500 computers, Customs documents, seals and stamps, photocopiers, binding machines and wraps of weeds suspected to be Indian hemp.

Pointing out that Oluwole area of central Lagos has, over the years, been notorious as criminal black spot where all forms of stolen and forged documents are openly traded, Ehindero, who addressed reporters and police officers at the officers mess, Onikan, said: "The last few years had witnessed the detriment of our national image, a high preponderance of forged documents emanating from Oluwole being used in complex advance fee fraud, scams, fake cheque scams, immigration scams etc in several foreign countries particularly in Europe, North America and Asia."

http://www.efccnigeria.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=535 (click for more information)

Thirty-eight persons, who specialised in forging anything under the sun, were yesterday paraded in Lagos by Acting Inspector General of Police, Mr. Sunday Ehindero. The suspects were arrested during a raid of the notorious Oluwole area of Lagos, by a combined force of four security agencies.

Stunned by the range of recovered forged documents, including 4,000 Nigerian passports, 50,000 assorted foreign cheques, 10,000 blank British Airways tickets and 10,000 United States Postal Money Order, the police boss said Nigeria would have been better off, if the skill, creativity and imagination exhibited by some of the young suspects had been channeled to other lawful endeavour.

On display were forged bank statement of accounts, several stamps and seals, various International passports, forged blank marriage certificates, death certificates, certificates of Incorporation of Companies, forged certificates of occupancies, International driver's licences, Postal Orders, foreign bank cheques, fake United States dollars, Printing plates for various foreign bank cheques, forged university degrees and NYSC certificates.

Also recovered were 1,500 foreign passports of countries such as Chad, Libya, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau, Congo, Cameroun, Senegal, Switzerland, Gambia, South Africa, United States, Jamaica, Costa Rica and Ghana.Ehindero also mentioned the seizure of 500 computers, Customs documents, seals and stamps, photocopiers, binding machines and wraps of weeds suspected to be Indian hemp.

Pointing out that Oluwole area of central Lagos has, over the years, been notorious as criminal black spot where all forms of stolen and forged documents are openly traded, Ehindero, who addressed reporters and police officers at the officers mess, Onikan, said: "The last few years had witnessed the detriment of our national image, a high preponderance of forged documents emanating from Oluwole being used in complex advance fee fraud, scams, fake cheque scams, immigration scams etc in several foreign countries particularly in Europe, North America and Asia."

http://www.efccnigeria.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=535 (click for more details)

All the information you need can be gleaned from the following EFCC press releases.

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40,000 Passports Seized in Oluwole Raid

Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Sunday Ehindero, yesterday said over 40,000 Nigerian Passports, including official ones, were recovered during the recent raid on Oluwole, a notorious area in Lagos Island noted for document forgery and counterfeiting.

The IGP, who made the disclosure while briefing the press in Lagos said 1,500 foreign passports, including those of Libya, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Congo, Guinea Bissau, Cameroon, Senegal, Switzer-land., the Gambia, South Africa, United States, Jamaica, Costa Rica and Ghana were recovered. Also recovered from the raid were about 50,000 assorted foreign cheques and over 500 printing plates.

Other seizures made, according to Ehindero, include over 500 computers, about 10, 000 blank British Airways tickets, about 10, 000 United States Postal Money Order and blank certificates of occupancy.The IGP said 115 suspects were arrested. Seventy-seven of the suspects, he said, were later set free for lack of sufficient evidence to warrant their detention.

Ehindero said the police, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the State Security Services (SSS) combined to conduct the Oluwole raid aimed at dismantling the notorious criminal black spot, where all forms of stolen and forged documents were openly traded in Central Lagos.

According to him, President Olusegun Obasanjo, who was concerned with the threat to security by the nefarious activities going on in the area had directed that a committee, comprising of the Police, the FCT Minister, SSS, Immigration and the EFCC clean up the area and other similar locations, where counterfeiting and forgery were prevalent in Lagos.

You girls don't know beauty! Halle Berry is respected and looks ok but she's too old to be the most beautiful, sorry!

Now I'm going to show you the true face of beauty in hollywood:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b3/Sin_City_Jessica_Alba_poster.jpg/220px-Sin_City_Jessica_Alba_poster.jpg

Jesica Alba is it. She makes a very good "tough girl".

hot-angel: no spoilers, please!

AAccording to the Yahoo Movie mum, the stealth movie is an average movie (C rating). I always listen to what the movie mom has to say!

Men pretend to be Casanova's to get to women: They succeed.

Men pretend to be rich and successful and have other female admirers. After many attempts, they might eventually succeed.

Men pretend to be "nice guys" to get to women: They succeed.

Nice guys don't get to women. Rich and successful cassanovas pretend to be also caring and they usually succeed!

Men pretend to be "bad boys" to get women: They succeed.

When a nice guy pretends to be a bad boy to get a woman, this is a win-win situation. Nice man gets nice woman who would have fallen for a "bad boy" and they live happily ever after. or the rest of their lives, each time she needs a little more "bad boy", from him he gives it to her!

What is so hard about being who you are?

You get rejected by several women and then you get smarter. Women reward those who pretend to be what they are not by paying them attention, so the men go right ahead and do what works!

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Hope this helps?

Another Question: If NTA is one of the organizers of the show, then surely we'll be seeing a lot of ads on the various NTA network channels programmes and such as the NTA news. So at what time can we look out for your ads?

Welcome to Nairaland!

I want to assure you that you will be taken very seriously by members of the forum when you start participating in this forum in a way that assures us that you're not here just to promote your programme.

Seun.

Please tell us more about the organizers of this show.

Forget it, he will not come back. They are all headstrong.