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I assume you haven't used an X-Box before. 'Halo' is definitely the best video game of all time! The only video game better than 'Halo' is 'Halo 2', but I've not played that one yet. I have a 'Halo 2' trailer that is just too sweet. I'll post some screenshots when I have the chance.

For ladies, the best Video game is probably 'Sims 2'. Most of us guys will rather be blasting away at aliens than babysitting computer characters, though.

Choose one of the following:
- I can give this 'Mobile Phone' forum a new name: 'Communications', 'Telephony' or 'Phones'
- I can move topics like this to the 'Technology' Section.

Which would you suggest?

AYA: ... GPRS is a "layer" running over the regular GSM network.

I'm learning this for the first time, AYA. So how come GPRS data transfer is faster than GSM? How can a layer running over GSM have more capabilities and, in particular, speed?

I think the answer is 'No'. I miss AYA a lot.

That's an interesting question. I have no idea where the money goes. Does NCC use all this money for its regulatory activities? Is telecom regulation really that expensive?

Mamba, I never thought of the WAP issue. Thanks!

This forum is very young and insightful comments like yours are very much appreciated. I'm going to temporarily ammend the rules to accomodate people browsing from their mobile phones. The long term solution will be to have a filter than transparently converts 'sms language' to English.

From now on, members are permitted to use 'SMS language' if posting from a mobile phone.

Sexually Transmited Diseases.

Well, "my" Arsenal boys deserve to have some competition!

Chigzy: But I want to have my own kids. Well at the moment I do.

Chigzy, if you want kids so badly I can set you up. Just come to my apartment very late in the night dressed in a certain manner and I'll do the rest

On a more serious note, I think the issue at hand here is this. There are some men who exhibit the bad traits you are describing, and there are some who don't. Just choose the one who understands your point of view and agrees with your way of seeing the world.

@Trae, is rock the same thing as hip-hop?

Well, whatever, I do not like hip-hop. The only rapper I would voluntarily listen to is Eminem (though I liked the 'Fresh Prince of Bel Air' much better) And I don't like 95% of rock music either; the only rock musician I've ever enjoyed listening to is the young Avril Lavigne.

Successful Businessmen are usually much, much richer than music/movie/TV stars, and yet they often have long, healthy marriage. Bill gates, the richest man in the world, is quite happily married. If you look at the divorce rate among the 40 richest people in the world, it is not much different from the divorce rate in the general population.

If rich businessmen who are hundreds of times richer than Puff Daddy can stay married, why can't Puff Daddy stay married? No, the problem is not their money. When you subtract the expenses of their celebrity lifestyle, how much do they have left? And do they even know how to manage the money?

I think the problem is the stress level of their work. Afterall doctors are reputed to be the professionals with the highest divorce rate. Maybe they have no time to develop emotional maturity.

Our soccer fan[atic]s,

You can update this thread from time to time when something interesting happens in the match! As you know I don't usually follow club soccer, but I'm watching this thread and if I stumble accross any relevant web links I'll participate too.

I think public schools are a joke., and it's not only in Nigeria. You get what you pay for. These days even 'market women' send their children to private schools.

The problem is that, as a parent, there is nothing you can do to hold officials of the school accountable. If you withdraw your child in protest, the space simply goes to the next available child. they lose nothing. Ra, I'm afraid that there is nothing that can be done to solve the problem.

Perhaps the public schools should be sold off one at a time to enterprising businessmen. Government should then sponsor research into ways to reduce the cost of running schools in Nigeria, so that they will be able to charge lower school fees.

If Goverment doesn't do it, enterprising young men or corporate bodies eventually will.

The fact that this thread exists just goes to show how price-sensitive the working class Nigerian is!

Oh, and by the way, if they continue disobeying the order they wil be fined 1 million naira more per day!

Mamba, when you give a gift to your girlfriend or signficant other, isn't all matters is whether she likes it or not? And if you can get a gift that she likes for 0 naira, isn't that just splendid?

Having said that, Jerry's gift was more of giving her the opportunity to witness the sunrise, and it did not cost him 0 naira. It must have cost him 36 naira if he was on MTn pay-as-you go with per minute billing!

Mamba, I love your reply!

I have been in mambas future "School of Hustlers" for roughly two years.

Primary School: Mothers Joy Nursery and Primary School, Ogun State.

Junior Secondary School: International Secondary School, Ifako (ISSI).

Senior Secondary School: Home Science Association Secondary School, Alakuko.

Ibrahim privately wrote:[list]
[li]"Our president, Retired. General Olusegun Obasanjo is working assiduously through the fighting of corruption in our country. President Obasanjo is been accused in the first place for poor performance and ineffectiveness of leadership.This happened during the petroleum price hike in Nigeria.[/li][li]"The president left the country for peace reconciliation in another country at the time we really need him to settle the Nigeria Labour Congress strike action, the first one of which lasted for nine good days. The hike in petroleum product became a tremendous '[I]wahala[/I]' in Nigeria."[/li][li]"Presently, my support for Obasanjo is the total war against corruption."[/li][/list]

It is possible that those marriages did not work as well as you people are saying. People tend to look at the past through rose-colored glasses. The fact that a marriage does not end in divorce does not mean it is working. Or is it?

Parents are not necessarily unbiased judges of character; it is quite easy to have children and grow up without learning some basic things. However, if they are going to [I]meddle[/I] in your marital life then maybe things will turn out much better if they are in full support of your spouse. Which is the case if they are the one that picked him/her!

Trae: I mean what else could you want in life?

He has all these wonderful things yet he can't hold on to a wife.

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I'm also interested in this information. Is it possible to build up my muscles without actually spending precious hours in the gym? I mean, there's no gym near our house; using a gym regularly will drain both time and money. So if there's a way to get built-up while sitting in fromt of my computer, I want to know!

From Technology Times:
[I]"The Nigerian Communications Commission, in line with section 53 (1) of the Nigerian Communications Act, has on April 7, 2004 issued a Direction to Globacom Limited demanding the payment of a penalty of 34 million Naira to the Commission for flagrantly refusing to reconnect certain private telecom operators 24 days after the expiration of the seven-day period within which to comply"[/I]
(NCC Head of Public Affairs, Dave Imoko)

The PTOs in question are XPT, ITN and Disc Communications Limited (Discom).

A lot of Nigerian TV stations show foreign comedies (typically American) from time to time. Others get to watch these comedies on locally available digital satellite TV. What are your favorite foreign comedies?

The comedies I love the most are:
'Friends': Joey the struggling actor, Rachel the pretty thing, Ross the professor and 'most married man' in the show, Monica the control freak, Chandler her 'joker' husband, and Phoebe, the massage therapist and author of the infamous 'Smelly Cat' song.

'Dharma and Greg' 8.30pm every Friday on STV (Silverbird Television). I love Dharma because she accepts everybody and everything. Greg because Dharma's antics haven't driven him crazy - yet!

'My Wife and Kids' In my opinion, the only black comedy that is actually funny - sometimes.

The Comedies I don't like that much:
'Martins' I hate most black comedies.
The 'Bernie Mac' Show: Did I mention hating most black comedies?

I used to love classical music; used to play 'Beethoven's Fur Elise' over and over on my PC!

Now I prefer songs like 'I will Always Love You' by Whitney Houston, which can only be rendered by performers with a lot of vocal 'range'! Songs like Marvin Gaye's 'I Heard it through the Grapevine' which appear to be meaningful (even though they're really meaningless!)

When I was young, I used to listen to kids songs like "It doesn't matter what you look like ... the outside is what others see, but the best place to look is right inside!" (Colby's Missing Memory) and songs from Kids Sing Praise videos. Maybe that's why I'm such a softie today, if Ra's theory is correct ...

Formerly 'National Electric Power Authority'
Also known as: 'Never Expect Power Always'
Now 'Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN)'

Allafrica:
[I]"The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), yesterday named the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), as the new government incorporated body that will take over all assets and liabilities of the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA), preparatory to the full privatisation of electricity generation and distribution in the country."[/I]

Does it really matter?

The phone probably has the ability to operate like a walkie-talkie (direct transmission of radio waves between one phone and another)