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I've decided to activate trae_z as a mod in the Job section.
He should contact the other mod for training and all that.
Good luck!

For once, a mainstream newspaper is willing to suggest that maybe the government is lying. Kudos!

I am a man, and I disagree with the idea that we are biologically incapable of controlling ourselves. It's simply not true. Society gives men the license to behave like dogs and hide under the excuse that 'men will be men', and naturally, we take advantage of it. Women need to wise up and stop accepting silly excuses from men. You can't blame men for taking advantage.

I think it's clear where Bishop David Oyedepo made his money from: tithes, offerings, and special offerings.  There is no question or controversy about that, at all.  I went to Winners Chapel once before they moved to Canaanland, and they definitely had thousands of members even then.  If you have a congregation of just 5000 people paying you 10% of their income, that means you'll be making 500 times what they earn on average.  Sweet eh?   If I could convince every Nairalander to give me 10% of their income, I would be super rich! So that's not the controversy at all.

ogugua88:
I wouldn't leave him just yet. The way he has approached this situation already points out that he's not like other politicians who have cheated

He's a politician. He's also an actor. But he is not a liar and his remorse is not an act? Isn't that a bit naive?

To hell with the ill-advised, hasty, repressive, ineffective, and generally dumb policy!!
The enemy (Sanusi/CBN) of my enemy (corrupt politicians) is not necessarily my friend.

Interesting. Collective bargaining.

Excellent question!

Nigerians who can't afford 16k pay much less for night browsing or hourly browsing. Or they use Glo which costs just 7,500.

You don't force a three party system, because it means individuals who just want to run for local posts will have to align themselves with big parties, thereby compromising their principles. Anything that limits competition is a bad thing. Why are we so easily deceived into giving up our freedoms?

Price-fixing is silly.  It leads to shortages.  But, yeah, I don't understand how cement could possibly be a monopoly; someone should look into that.

These are wonderful promises. What do the romance mods say?

Yep. Faced the same issue in Scala.

Two wrongs do not make a right. The same power used against him could be misused against you tomorrow.

1) Laptop
2) Internet Access
3) Solar generator.
4) $1m balance in account.

Why should I not be able to form a local political party to fight for local government chairmanship in Otta?

Interesting.

I don't think your complaints are coherent. What is the problem exactly?

A lot of people are convicted on flimsy evidence in this country, so I'm not taking sides.
I want to know what poison was inside the Eclairs sweets and how they found out about it.

Subsidy or not, local refineries would be helpful if they reduce cost. We need to keep that in mind.

The same people asking me to have a strong hand will start demonizing me when I start banning people.  It's not worth it.  If none of you is willing to volunteer to be a moderator and take the heat then Ill deal with it in my own sweet time.  Moderators don't grow on trees or train themselves.

Seun, Can we ever drag you, Tim and Prosper down to a hackathon.

That's a great idea. We should do it someday. To be honest I kinda wish I was at this one, too.

[quote author=Sir-fly link=topic=666959.msg8316991#msg8316991 date=1305336569]for u maybe its not, but for lots lots of men it is the real occurance. u re so s,t,upid. [/quote]If this issue affects lots of men, then one of those men should post his true story.

So what should I do?

OAM4J:
Hopefully private owned refineries will be better managed and the efficiency will be higher than those public owned refineries.

But will they be more efficient than the foreign privately-owned refineries we're currently importing from?

Kobojunkie:
I don't believe the problem is that simple. Our local refineries have been working at about 30% or less capacity for a long while now. What is cost of production? Are our local refineries even able to produce the fuel at a price lower than the Naira 130 we currently purchase? Essentially, is it worth building more refineries at this point, or in th near future? Especially when you consider we still struggle to reach 40% capacity with the one we have.

Good observation; the answer is in the details we don't know.  I think my main point is that local production worth it as long as the local refineries can produce petrol at cheaper than the prevailing price at which petrol is being imported, even if petrol is still being subsidized by the government.  If the government is currently happy to import at 130, I don't see why they would not rather buy locally at 120 or 110 if that was possible.

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