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14teenK:
Just bought it today.. . Turns out mom and dad still have dat local mentality abt pets cats especially

I hope you can convince them to give him a chance. Once you've fed him, cleanedim up, andhe starts killing rats your mum will fall in love.

Why are you selling the cat? It looks abused scared and starved skinny.

whogoscam:
My position on this forum is if Seun can implement more rules to make this place safe for everyone usage. Although the management has been nice so far but Mr Seun,
1.) There should be a rule on derailing:- Someone will create an important thread and some set of people will come in and turn it into Chat room. Derailing the whole thread. It's unfair. There should be a rule on this.

Rule 1: Please post all threads in the right section, and don't derail threads by posting off topic.

2.) There should be a rule against disrespecting a nairalander:- Someone may make a comment you will see some people go out of the topic and start referring to the person wife or the person husband or parents as if the thread is in anyway related to such people. This is wrong.

Rule 2: Don't abuse, bully, deliberately insult/provoke, fight, or wish harm to Nairaland members OR THEIR TRIBES.

3.) There should be a rule against misogyny. You would see a female make a comment and guys will just leave the topic and face the 1 female with insults. How many comments will she report?

That's bullying. It's against the same rule 2 above. You can report such comments on behalf of the females. Mynd44 will deal with all of them.

I appreciate your suggestions.

Sorry. What proof do you have that you used to own the account?

olihilistic:
please can you help me change mine?

not really. Why do you want to change it?

That:
Good day, I have been making this complain for a month now , my mention doesn't work. If anyone quotes it won't reflect on my account ! Pls do something ..

your username is a common word. I can change our username to "Thatguy" or "Thatgirl" if you like.

scholes0:
Abajo!
No wonder .....

I shouldn't have said that! Not that it's all that wrong, but saying it out loud wasn't beneficial.

harmbhrosz:
really, thought some mods or programmers are working for Nairaland on full-time basis...
The way I see it, Nairaland is now bigger that you alone

We have 3 full time supermods but they have nothing to do with server issues. We have no techie apart from me though we need to.

harmbhrosz:
you guys should be fast with it pls

There are no other guys apart from me.

Rice and shawa fish. Boil both and mix thoroughly. Alternatively, mix the Bingo dog food with mashed fish or titus sardine to get him to eat it.

We are looking into it. Thanks for the reports and keep reporting!

They should not have allowed the .ng and .com.ng versions of a domain to be held by different people. They should have just allowed holders of com.ng domains to "upgrade" to .ng for a one time fee. So adomain.ng and adomain.com.ng would be aliases.

"Lend us a lot of dollars", said Nigeria, "so we can squander it on wasteful subsidies"
"Sure, but first you must sign this agreement to hold our currency", said China.
"No problem", said Nigeria. "We'll say it's part of our brilliant Economic plan"

finalboss:
this how we ll keep suffering to post ordinary comment nah wahala

Apologies

finalboss:
sorry is that the solution to it.. cause i always clear my cookies ...nd the problem is still there

no that is for a different problem. It has nothing to do with the main issue we're discussing.

walad4yhu:
Me too. i can't even access the HOMEPAGE. i had to use crook method before it opens. e.g search nairaland on google first, then click on any of the section (politics, property or romance).

Pls try clearing your cookies. It has something to do with the Google Analytics cookies.

Thanks. Im surprised that only one of my supermods noticed it.

Pls indicate the exact times when it happened so I can investigate. Thanks!

We should abolish the "official exchange rate" permanently. It is nothing but an avenue for corruption. Most developed countries don't have it.

mildflame:
Mainstream economist like who? The World Bank, IMF or who exactly?

Professor Soludo. Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. Any Nigerian economist who is respected abroad. They are largely in agreement.

How many economist foresaw the global meltdown?

First of all, here's a list of 6 economists who predicted the meltdown: interblack.com.

Having said that, you seem to misunderstand the predictive role of Economics. Economics cannot predict exactly what will happen in the future because that depends on the policies politicians chose to implement, but it can predict what will happen if they implement particular policies.

Did it have any effect on the CHINESE RUSSIAN and INDIA government?

Yes, it drove Russia into recession, [url=http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2008/09/beijing%E2%80%99s-burden-a-slowing-china-bodes-ill-for-the-world-economy/]slowed China's growth[/url], and strangled India's stock market.

Is this figure supposed to astonish us? Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. Of course the total amount we spend on fuel is quite high.

Mynd44:
If we do more of our importing from China, we will save a lot of strain on our local currency against the dollar by trading directly in the Chinese currency.

It is my understanding that we already import a lot of goods from China (alibaba, etc). Most Chinese exports are priced and paid for in dollars.

Some questions for you:
1) What was preventing us from doing more of our importing from China before we decided to borrow billions of dollars from China?
2) How exactly will our borrowing billions of dollars from China cause us to suddenly start doing more of our importing from China?
3) What was preventing us from using the Yuan to pay for imports from China before we decided to borrow billions of dollars from China.
4) How exactly will borrowing billions of dollars from China cause us to suddenly start paying for Chinese goods with the Yuan instead of dollar?

Mynd44:
Not 70% but it will take a lot of strain off exchange rates

how exactly? Can you explain in detail?

I have no problem with trade deals, but anyone who thinks this will strengthen the naira is confused. The only thing that will strengthen the naira sustainably is if we export more (or if the price of oil recovers). Our honourable president's well intentioned voodoo economics didn't work the last time and won't work this time either. He needs to listen to mainstream economists and follow their recommendations. Economics works.

If the government has them, why not let them go home?

SycophanticGoat:
On several ocassions you have also banned me for comments I didn't make.

mynd44, what's your take on it?

searchng4love:
you don't attend to this person, daretodiffer, akike and aisha96....check her posts in the romance section always abusing parents, its uncalled for to be jumping upandan with different monikers abusing people cursing people wishing people dead and at the same time insulting their parents.

cc: mynd44, Pls inform people when it's been treated.

I'm surprised to learn that people are still being abused on Nairaland without repercussions. You ahould report these rulebreakers by clicking the report button on their posts. Mynd44, what's your take on this? Are we failing to enforce rule 2? I hope not.

joseph1832:
So what do you propose?

- Abolish the official exchange rate to end forex scarcity overnight. Let people buy and sell foreign currencies at the true market price.
- Abolish price controls on all petroleum products to end the issue of fuel scarcity permanently and encourage economical use of fuel.
- Use the savings from the abolishment of these wasteful price subsidies to promote exportation of the things we can produce economically.
- Use some of those savings to provide shock absorbers to vulnerable people who will be adversely impacted as the economy adjusts.

How do you promote exportation? Provide free information to people. Remove all bureaucratic obstacles that would discourage people from exportation. Cocoa is still the largest export in Nigeria after oil. Every vacant land in the South West should be a mini cocoa farm. Also, allowing devaluation encourages exportation because it makes it dramatically more profitable.