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The sentence is good...provided they don't end up in prisons that could be easily burgled by their comrades. By the way, what exactly is the Ministry of Interior doing about this? When was the last time they built Standard Prisons in this country.

AjanleKoko: A lot more Nigerian wanna-be entrepreneurs need to watch the show 'Dragons' Den'

That for me remains the best program on TV. I hardly miss any episode these days...no matter how much you think you already know about business and investments, those five have a way of bringing in an angle you never thought of. Sincerely, I do recommend it for everybody interested in business.

[quote author=nu-well]Lolz. I can't understand why my mum detests, no loathes this advert. She exclaims and ,switches the channel...every time. Hehehe[/quote]Not as much as my mom does Was home visiting one weekend and whenever the ad came up, my mom kept hissing until the very end

Am surprised that no one has mentioned the terrible Ariel detergent advert where the woman goes... "I was like ah! and she was like uh!

The Egyptians brought these upon themselves. When they had the opportunity to do the right thing by picking a secularist, they played the religious card by installing Morsi, a member of a fanatic group that had been outlawed for well over sixty years. During the revolution, every Egyptian irrespective of their religion claimed oneness, but when it was time for elections, they choosed a Fanatic over a secularist (claiming he was a stooge of the millitary)...only to run back to the same millitary to help them execute an illegality. For as far as the rule of law is concerned, what happened this evening is illegal and the Egyptians have set a very bad precedence.

From today henceforth, the Muslim Brotherhood will officially become a terrorist organization; because they simply will not go down without a fight, not after they have tasted power for close to a year. The best solution would have been to extract some firm commitments from Morsi to carry out constitutional reforms (under which they could have weakened his powers) and then use the in coming parliament to impeach him. unfortunately, the deed has been done. The coptic Christians, moderates and secularists should not be deceived by all these because by the next election, all the old cracks will appear within the ranks of the opposition again. This just a circle and the ultimate beneficiary will be the Egyptian Millitary.

pistol: Revolution gone awry,
The egyptians are a confused lot.
The voted overwhelmingly for morsi and his muslim brotherhood.
Now they want him out when he has started implementing his parties hardcore fanatic ideology.

You just echoed my exact sentiments. When the Egyptians had the opportunity to do the right thing by picking a secularist, they played the religious card by installing Morsi, a member of a fanatic group that had been outlawed for well over sixty years. During the revolution, every Egyptian irrespective of their religion claimed oneness, but when it was time for elections, they choosed a Fanatic over a secularist (claiming he was a stooge of the millitary)...only to run back to the same millitary to help them execute an illegality. For as far as the rule of law is concerned, what happened this evening is illegal and the Egyptians have set a very bad precedence.

From today henceforth, the Muslim Brotherhood will officially become a terrorist organization; because they simply will not go down without a fight, not after they have tasted power for close to a year. The best solution would have been to extract some firm commitments from Morsi to carry out constitutional reforms (under which they could have weakened his powers) and then use the in coming parliament to impeach him. unfortunately, the deed has been done. The coptic Christians, moderates and secularists should not be deceived by all these because by the next election, all the old cracks will appear within the ranks of the opposition again. This just a circle and the ultimate beneficiary will be the Egyptian Millitary.

Am Guilty of number 2 and 6.

spyder880: Project: A 5 bedroom executive duplex
Client : A Nairalander
Duration: 60 days
Project cost: N8.8m (Foundation-roofing, materials and labour)
Contractor: Ckenneths Homes Nig.

This project will start this week as we arrange to travel down to the city and start work. This house comes with all the latest designs in modern building, granite, decent room arrangement with bigger bedrooms, internal plumbing and electricals, special parapet cornice, stone coated roofing tiles, everything.......

Well done oga. Just a quick question...is the N8.8million expected to only cover the cost of constructing the building's 'carcass' or it also includes the entire finishing (ceiling,tiling, windows, Wall-screeding, painting and light fittings)? Are your fees also covered in this?

If your answer to the above is yes. Please go back to your client and review the Bill of Quantity. Better still, insist that your client hires a professional Quantity Surveyor so that you can work with the BOQ prepared by his surveyor; anything short of this and you will run into debts long before your project goes half way. Because you need at least twice the figure you have quoted for you to achieve full completion of this project. Please do not rush into this project if you don't sort this out properly, because your reputation is at stake, and so is your relationship with your client.

Just read yesterday in the Nation Newspaper, that Plateau state Governor Jang, has concluded plans to sack 11,000 teachers...a case of two extremes you would say.

Great idea! guys. I remember when I first came across Crowd funding, I thought it was brilliant idea but wondered if people from other regions would be willing to fund Entrepreneurs in Africa, especially Nigeria considering the 'prevailing' prejudices about businesses originating from here...

Do the witches also have to declare their manifest before take-off?

On a lighter note...I just imagined for a second that if this happened in Nigeria: the Police will return back more than forty inmates, they will simply launch a manhunt and arrest every shabbily dressed artisan on the street and railroad them to the Asylum. Or they could even use it to threaten bus drivers whom refuse to 'settle' them.

[quote author=Sunny_bobo]This is the height of irresponsibility. A married man of Tinubu's standing looking at probably another man's wife breasts in the presence of his own wife.[/quote]Abeg no vex, its a reflex act...I also probably can't vouch for my eyes if I in his shoes (abi na seat?).

superbloke: While i'm against spreading a false 'igbo agenda' accusation against NOI, sensationalizing your thread with such a title in order to stir up emotions, knowing how unreasonable some nairalanders are when they smell any tribal tilt to a story is just disgraceful. Can't you just create your thread without all this call to war and baiting tribal warlords? I wouldn't have expected this from you. It's really shameful. Many threads have been created addressing this topic yet you choose to create another one (which is ok) but using sensitive keywords to attract attention....El rufai, war, ndigbo...that's just low.
Btw, El rufai owns premium times? Really? Just like Tinubu owns sahara reporters and leadership newspaper right? Someone here once even said that puch is controlled by the opposition just because they published negative reports of the government at a point in time. SMH

You have said what needs to be said. The Nigerian Politician is the most wicked breed of politician that can be found anywhere. He is bent on getting whatever he wants including creating chaos amongst the people he claims to serve. Our people are so gullible that they fail to realize that a politician will play politics with anything including his father's corpse, if that will help feather his nest, yet our people engage themselves in tribal shouting matches, while those that fuel this fights dine and wine together at night in Abuja.

Tomorrow, people will come on this forum to boast about how well they have traveled or how many years they have lived abroad, yet they are still carrying on with the most crude and primitive tendencies ever known to man. Our redemption as country lies not in the PDP, APC, ACN or any other tribal affiliations but in our being objective in our day to day dealings with one another. My brother is not a fellow Ibo man or Yoruba man rather he is anyone who respects me and cares about my well-being.

P.S. If this is all we do on Weekdays then why do we even bother with churches on Sundays?

Africans also have a share in the blame...we have completely entombed our own story. African History ought to be a fundamental part of our school curriculum. Our history is a lot deeper than a few pages of social studies lessons. Today, even History majors in Nigeria, have very little idea about our story.

Blackteeth: Why is everyone concluding they went there to be prostitutes? Thats a silly way of reasoning. If you dont know anything about their purpose of going there you keep your mouth shut.
Whatever reason they went there, lets just hope its for good and worths it at the end.

Even if they haven't gone there for prostitution, they will one way or the other constitute nuisance to the authorities there. Mr. Blackteeth, we can't hope that everything turns out well, because doing so, is no different from cooking stew with rat poison and hoping that it turns out delicious.

[quote author=nurus
He was from there taken to the police command headquarters where the state’s Police Commissioner, Parry Osayande, was waiting. While in the police net.[/quote]Sorry to digress, but I couldn't help noticing that the same Parry Osayande that was a Police commissioner 27years ago is still actively in Government today and is even the Chairman of Police Service Commission...Hmmm!

I personally didn’t find the ‘Oga at the top’ joke funny, but I must concede that it is out place for me not to expect other people to laugh; after all we are all endowed with disproportionate senses of humour. While some people could laugh by just hearing someone snore, others who will not laugh even at Okey Bakassi’s funniest jokes. The truth is, we are all wired differently, so I find it out of place for anyone to expect us all to respond to issues uniformly. But that is not even the issue. The issue today is that we have a very big problem in this country. Over the years, people in government have deliberately alienated themselves from the ordinary people. Every man that gets into government today suddenly draws a line between himself and the governed. He feels he is way better than them hence no longer ‘gives a damn’ about them but treats them with contempt. When Mr. Shem and other people in government blare their sirens around town, horse-whipping other motorist off the road that was built with their own money, they are also making fun of the people in their own way.

It is this climate of inequality that had been created by our leaders since Independence that has dried up the sympathy the people had for them. And the people in turn have drawn their conclusions about government people and are in fact careless about what becomes of them. This division has even taken a very bizarre dimension lately; people now jubilate when misfortunes befall any Government official, or even spread malicious rumours about them, wishing it was true. This is a very sad and unfortunate commentary on the kind of people we have become today; a monster that was created by so many years of bad leadership.
Charlie boy talked about the security problems in the country. What does he expect hapless Nigerians to do? How will ‘Concentrating on the problem’ solve it? How does he expect we ‘lesser’ mortals to solve the security problem in the Nigeria? When the moment you raise your voice too loud about the short-comings of government, all they need to do is to call you a ‘disgruntled ACN, APGA or CPC politician’ and all your arguments no matter how valid, will cascade back to the dusty earth in seconds.

Charlie boy is also part of the security problems of this country because he has also contributed in depleting the ranks of the Nigerian Police Force. There is a police truck stationed permanently at his Abuja home in Gwarimpa, with a detachment of Policemen sitting down inside around the clock. So cumulatively, it is all the Policemen attached to Charlie boy and his likes that have worsened the security situation in the country. When charley boy and his ilk has taken a large chunk of the available policemen from our streets to their homes who was he expecting to police the Lagos Airport? If he is so concerned about the security of lives and properties in this country let him first of all, go back home and discharge all those policemen at his gate, so that they can be re-absorbed into the pool of Policemen available to help police our communities. And if everyone in his social class did the same, Nigeria would become one of the safest countries in Africa.

For now, I doubt if ‘My Oga at the top’ jokes will stop. That will only happen when people in government learn to treat the governed with the respect that they deserve. Those’ Oga at the top’ jokes, T-shirts and Music that Charley boy talked about are only visible harvests of frustration, because it is not always that a man laughs that he is happy; sometimes it is because he can’t find tears to cry. Our elders say” You don’t beat a man and ask him not to cry”.

As with every discourse in this country...we tend to throw-up sentiments all over the place at the expense of simple honest logic. Those guys were not allocated oil blocs because they were Northerners; rather, they got them because they were cronies of the people in power then. Some of them were given as compensation of some sort, either for been actively involved in, or sponsoring the coups that brought the then Government to power, or for just being related to the men in power. These are yesterday issues which very few people had control over then, but they can be corrected today.

I think the Niger-Deltans deserve whatever Percentage of oil revenues or oil blocs they want. In fact I have no problem with the people of Niger Delta requesting that all the oil blocs be allocated only to their people, after all the oil we have today is exploited from their land. But I take exception to a Senator of the Federal Republic who swore to uphold the unity of this country, whipping-up ethnic sentiments just to buttress his point. He should focus more on unraveling and correcting whatever wrong his people must suffered in the allocation of the oil blocs. I think he and his fellow Niger-Delta Senators should have taken their grouse directly to the President; after all he is the one holding both the Knife and the Yam today (…if you know what I mean). Even the Petroleum Minister is also from there too.

Whatever the case is, it is the duty of the Government of the day to ascertain the circumstances under which these blocs were allocated, and thereafter revoke all the allocations that do not meet the guidelines for such allocations. And re-allocate them all to Niger Deltans if that is what the region wants.

I have no issues with DANA Air, my problem is with our Aviation Authorities that have failed in their regulatory duties. If an invigilator chooses to take his siesta in an Examination hall, then every cheat will have a field day. The National Assembly recently asked that the DG of NCAA and some of his staff be sanctioned on account of the DANA incident because it was established that certain government people were compromised hence failed to do their work, yet up till this moment nothing has being done about them. Even in the most developed countries, businesses are always looking for how best to maximize profit including cutting corners and engaging in fraudulent practices, it is left for the regulators to keep them check.

It was only a coincidence that the last plane that crashed belonged to DANA Air. With the level of Regulatory laxity in the Aviation industry in this country, I believe that even if the best European Airlines flew our local routes, it won't be long before their services become as mediocre our current crop of local Airline Operators, because government regulators here are more interested in how much patronage they can get from the Air Operators than doing their jobs.

mrrock: @since_1914
If you will, I would like to learn more about what you've said about Russian language. I mean by example.

Mr. Rock, I hope you and I don't get accused of derailing the thread. But I think you will appreciate it more if you could actually hear the words than read them. For instance in the following sentence.

у вас холодно (U vace xólodno) [size=5pt]This is spoken very passively, because it is a statement and would be said with your normal speaking tone[/size]

у вас холодно? (u vace xólod-no?)[size=5pt]But here, you drag the first 'hard vowel' 'y' and also stress the last voiced consonant which in this case is 'д'.[/size]

AjanleKoko: It's a tough question.
Because bribe-giving is simply not that anymore. It's more or less extortion these days. You would never get anything done, or even likely get sabotaged if you don't 'tip' someone, especially when it comes to doing stuff with government.

I agree that most Nigerians are corrupt. We are slaves of our bellies. Over the years, there's been a systematic dehumanization of Nigerian people, to the point where we are enslaved by our own mindset, and see no value in anything that does not yield to one's personal pocket. I honestly doubt that things can be different in the current makeup of Nigeria. Some kind of political restructuring, maybe a breakup, is what we need.

I agree with you, but our problem isn't corruption itself but 'Naked Greed'. Greasing the palms of Government officials has become almost an unstated norm around the world. Just that elsewhere, people are more disciplined and conscientious when dealing with their fellow country-men. As we speak this very moment. It is common Knowledge in China that if your relative was to undergo a surgery or any major operation in a Government owned hospital, it was in your best interest to take a 'Red Packet' to Doctors performing the surgery before hand or else, they might do a 'careless' job. The problem we have in this country is that, the effects of poverty has eaten too deep into the Brain cells of most Nigerians that the moment they sight money they want to get constipated and belch loudly before they are satisfied.

I once heard of a former Governor that has two Maybachs of different colours. Why would a normal person want to buy two very expensive cars of the same model on the same day? Why should a normal person whom is not into the Property business just buy-up hundreds of properties, just like that. Some of them have never being occupied till this day.

The truth is that Corruption will never be stamped-out completely. People only need to learn "The Art of contentment'.

By the way, I saw this hilarious cartoon a few days ago somewhere.

It is also the same in Russian language to some extent. The difference is that in pidgin English we stress the last words (syllable?) to differentiate a question from a sentence, while in Russian the stress starts with the very first word of the sentence.

My candid opinion is that the Universities need to scale-down by at least 50 percent, the number of graduates she is churning out these days. Because as we speak now we have enough white collar graduates to fill-up the available job positions ten times and over.

Unfortunately, the same can't be said of 'Blue-Collar' or technical jobs. there is a huge deficit in technical manpower across diverse fields, from the building industry, to oil and even shipping. Naturally, we would have expected companies to step in by recruiting and training their own technical workforce, but unfortunately not all companies have the patience to take this route. That is why most foreign companies prefer to fly in their own set of technical workmen.

We permanently need to set aside the thinking that a University certificate is always superior to hands-on technical Education. What matters most is what you actually do with your acquired knowledge rather just the knowledge itself.

Gabriel Suswam should stop whipping-up religious sentiments to cover-up his inefficiency, afterall he has enough money in the security vote to protect himself even against Al-qaeda. His concern should be ensuring that the needs of the electorate that voted him are adequately catered for.

My biggest worry isn't even with the banquet hall but with the outrageous sum being quoted. As a Designer, I can state here emphatically that with a third of that figure, we can Design, build and furnish a new first-class banquet hall.

The problem with government contracts is that Civil Servants and politicians just sit down in an obscure dingy office somewhere and draw up outrageous contract sums. Yet government never gets value for its money. The final output is usually medicore because nobody cares about what happens to government business. So long as they make their own 'cut'.

I will not comment about religious leaders with private jets...I leave them to their immediate congregation, and if those ones do not see anything abnormal in funding their Pastor's Jet-life, then who am I to complain. But one thing am sure of is that I will never use my hard-earned money fund any pastor's Jet cravings.

As for Businessmen, I believe there should be a temporal 'Prize' or some sort of reward for success. And having a private Jet could be one of them. If a man works hard all his life to create Billions of Dollars, the least he can do for himself is to enjoy some of the best things his money can afford him. It should only be an issue when he starts avoiding his social responsibilities in lieu of a Jet-life. But so long as he meets the social responsibilities that society demands of his 'status', then I see nothing wrong Businessmen owning jets.

If Buffet doesn't want a jet, it is not because he thinks it is bad to own one but rather because of his personality. He is a very prudent person by nature, and he is also very unassuming. But for me personally, I will find it very difficult not to own a private Jet if I were a multi-billionaire.

Guys get ready, because the ' Private Jet Era' only just begun. Coincidentally, I read an interesting article in today's 'Nation Newspaper' where some Nigerian Jet owners made a case for Private Jets, they said it is cheaper for them to maintain than their exotic cars.

There is now a Private Jet for every budget and class, starting from as low as $99,000, look up this link http://www.aso.com/ Please don't ask me if there are all Airworthy o, because I no sabi that one. My own be say as soon as my money complete I go buy my own .

I studied in Italy some years back and I had a great time living there...the food, wine, sights and the people, but I had to relocate back to Nigeria immediately after my Post-graduate because there were no jobs, even for Italians.

I think you will be making a huge mistake by absconding. Milan is an expensive city and you will have a hard time surviving without a modest job. Besides, you can't hide from the authorities for too long.

Thank God you have a visa but please do not ruin your immigration records by trying to over-stay. If you are going visiting, just do so and return back, because things are tough in Europe these days and the crackdown on immigrants is now merciless.

AjanleKoko: We had composers such as Fela Sowande, Joshua Ozoigwe, Sam Akpabot (the flutist), Akin Euba, Godwin Sadoh, Thomas Ekundayo Phillips, and Laz Ekuweme (whom I think is still alive, not sure). They have a remarkable repetoire of published music.

Laz Ekwueme is still very much around. He is presently a traditional ruler in Anambra (Oko, I think). He still conducts his Orchestra at the annual FRCN Carol of nine lessons in Abuja. I have also spotted him on a handful of Nollywood movies.

[quote author=acidosis™]I listened & watched...but I didn't see any reason for a live broadcast from Mr President.. This is something Mrs Iweala or Labaran Maku should have done...and then send to journalist.

.[/quote]I agree with you. His handlers shouldn't have allowed him to make that broadcast. He simply raised the expectations of Nigerians, whom were expecting to hear something different. He could even have made this speech from any of the flooded areas he plans to visit. It will have more effect and would even score him some measure of goodwill from the populace.

I sincerely sympathize with the President. He probably has the worst set of advisers ever made available to any President. The speech only ended up highlighting the fact that the President is yet to visit the affected areas after almost three weeks since the first flood. I am now convinced some of his own advisers are serially setting him up to fail.

I ran into Shifi, not too long ago at Ceddi Plaza in Abuja...very nice guy. I even reminded him of an interview we had with his group for our campus based magazine in Jos in their early days and he still remembers it vividly. I also asked after his peers and he said they are all doing fine. Great group they were in their in their prime. They were managed by two brothers then...the Ukpong brothers I think. T-jazz and his brother.