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[quote author=Mad_Max link=topic=310800.msg4446263#msg4446263 date=1251552469]Lol No2 why are your eyeballs bulging? He's telling the truth: Na una liberate South Africa? You sent troops there to bust Mandela outta jail? Nigerians died in all those decades of riots when black SAs fought 'the System' and invented the fist salute? They lifted a finger when the irreplaceable Steve Biko was murdered? I know a lof of Nigerian musicians sang Free Mandela on Nigerian TV: Na dat wan topple apartheid?
Still, a terrible country,SA. So full of hate.[/quote]Now thats some funny talk(the highlighted line)  . ROFlol .

So true

darznets:
Hey guys , i can confirm to you that i actually saw the Man U/ Arsenal advert on AIT during the Liverpool/ Aston Villa match, it was shown during the half time break severally. I believe the local stations will show the match.

Thanks darznets

So there you go ObamaUS, If they dont reactivate you, just catch the match on Silverbird, NTA, AIT, DBN, etc.

ekoboy:
I know HITV payment is good. infact its better than DSTV. I have a friend who used their online the other day and it worked perfectly for him.Try putting your smart card on another decoder first. They call it boosting. They say some of their decoders have that problem when u don't use it for a while, so use it on another decoder first. Their payment is one thing we can commend HITV on.It was really smooth when i was still using it. Unfortunately this increment in price has mademe to forego them atleast for now.

Thats good to know. At least they have some good points.

Lets not count the chickens yet.

I watched the Liverpool vs Astonvilla match on silverbird too but I dont remember seeing the advert for the Manu Match(Maybe it came on when i stepped out during half time).

But I would want to take my neighbour at his words so lets watch and see

ObamaUS:
@soloqy, thanks bro, i dont think the local stations have the right to show the matches,

You know the EPL gave the local stations right for one match per week.

Now a neighbour says he saw the advert for the Manu vs Arsenal match on Silverbird during the Liverpool vs Aston Villa match.

If only Fabregas didnt pick up that knock.

If only Eduardo didnt take a dive against Celtic, he would have been in the right frame of mind for this match.

If only Arsene Wenger can keep his head and field the strongest team.

Dang, I have already started talking like we did last season and the two seasons before.


&& But I have a feeling, ooo, ooo, that 2day's gonna be a good day, that 2day's gonna be a good good day aa. &&

Up Gunners.

ObamaUS:
HITV onliine payment is pure rubbish, i made payment online with my GT bank card and into their GT account ditectly and i was sent an email that the transaction was successful,

More than 24hours later,i have not been connected and i did it purposely to watch MANUTD/ARSENAL game today, God help them if i miss that match today,i would just break the HITV smart card and that would be the end of HITV in my house,

HITV is the worst cable TV i have ever seen in my life, their customer care no is always engaged, it takes eternity to get them and when you eventually get them,their morally bankrupt staff are so clueless,

Besides the sport channels,all other channels are nonsense, u cant check the next programme they have, To me,NTA is better than the whole HITV sef, I AM SO ANGRY

Morally bankrupt? That would be taking it too far. Maybe they are a little overwhelmed and undertrained.

Take it easy bro. I heard the match would be available to the local stations but am yet to confirm.

If your smartcard doesnt get activated before then, try checking the local stations.

@zulus

Don't you know when to quit the nonsense?

Yours has become a childish bickering and am sure the other south africans that have made comments on this thread, have become embarrassed for your sake. This was never a SA vs Nigeria 'mine is better than yours' thread.

You have so reduced it to that.

Get a life dude.

@switched

I disconitinued the use of the DSTV decoder cause i had a problem with it. Was lucky it turned out the card wasnt married to the decoder afterall.

So right now am using the Strong decoder. I think that since other channels can show on strong decoder, any other channel added(BBA channel) should show as well.

On the Big Brother, yes i got the text asking subscribers to indicate interest before they can watch it.

You remember what happened in the other BBA and the public outcry against it? They are now making it clear that BBA is rated 18 and not suitable for some people and thus, people would have to send an sms indicating interest before the channel would be enabled on their smart cards.

I think they are on the right track so people wont sue them for showing it or raise the kind of noise that followed the Ofunneka saga.

You will find out that its not easy to stay away from a show or programme on tv if its easily accessible to you but if you have to request for it, it may help those struggling with the idea to stay away.

After the ofunneka saga and the naked and sordid images people are posting about BBA in other threads, I too am struggling with the BBA concept and idea and so haven't made up my mind yet whether to request that it be added for me or not. Maybe before SEPT. 6, i would have made up my mind.

Am scared to even think of the things that the housemates may do in the house in this season's show since it seems the worst behaved person in the house usually gets to win.

Anyways, just heard they wont be having shower hour again where viewers ogle at naked flesh  . Thats a step in the right direction. Keep my fingers crossed

pek:
i believe you dont know what you are talking about or you are doing this deliberately to spite dstv. since hitv got the 80% right to show epl in nigeria, ss3n was created solely for nigerian viewship. if matches are advertised,  they will tell you that it excludes nigeria. so,  i dont see the basis for your outburst. secondly, the matches they show to you are the ones they have to show nigerians.

My brother , he has exposed himself as to his real motive for the thread.

Is there any football lover in Nigeria that does not know the current situation as regards the EPL in Nigeria? Even pre-teens have an understanding of the issue.

Even after i clearly explained things to him and even pointed him to where he can go watch all the football, he refused to highlight the part where i explained but instead, called me a cover up from DSTV. That alone exposed him for what he is.
Like i said earlier, its a pathetic ploy by hitv and its staff to clutch at straws on their way down.

^^^^^^
Yes, the few times i watched go tv, there were fun things to watch. Dont know what their issue is with removing that channel.

What is the VUZU channel about?

alright

phreakabit:
@ Soloqy

No disrespect at all dude, but can you read or are you just learning how to? I never said anything about patriotism, as a matter of fact i am anything but patriotic, After all the so called leaders got us into all this mess, All i am advocating for is some SS3zissh! is that too much to ask for, Besides we only get to watch the crappy matches never the good ones

Is it possible for someone to be this slow at comprehension? Read through dude and stop being stupid. They are showing you the matches they have a right to. You are the one who cannot read cause I have posted almost an epistle to you on why you are not watching all EPL MATCHES . Goodness me, where did you come out from?

phreakabit:
@ soloqy

Honestly pardon me if i am wrong, but after a close observation of your write up, i think you are an attempt by dstv to cover up their dishonest acts. I don't see why a fellow Nigerian who is subjected to the same treatment ,would some how want to protect the interest of dstv with no form of personal gain involved.

I don't know why you bought yours, but i bought my dstv some years ago solely for sports when ss3 was still available to Nigeria,but for some stupid,unexplainable reasons they just had to yank it off and replace it with ss3Ni, yes i watched the 3 matches you mentioned but you cant deny the fact that a whole lot more matches are showed on ss3. I mean we all know Nigerians are crazy about some sports than some other sports why the hell would they give us sports stations with rugby and F1 car races over the main soccer station ss3, for goodness sake if people work their asses off to make money and pay this high fees charged for cable tv which is relatively cheaper in South africa. Then i think they do need equal if not superior quality given to those in South africa and other countries in the southern region

@phreakabit

Are you kidding me? Are you in this country at all? Did you even read through what i posted?

Dont you understand that there are broadcast rights and previledges which is gotten by making payments to original content owners?
Even a 10 year old in Nigeria now knows that DSTV dont have the right to show some EPL matches in Nigeria.

Surely you must have heard(from friends and colleagues), read(from newspapers and nairaland), seen(on tv for crying out loud) or imagined this issue before. I find this totally unbelievable unless you dont live in Nigeria.

If you were a football lover as you claim, then surely you must know the situation with DSTV VS HITV and EPL in Nigeria.

And since you totally ignored my earlier explanation to you(very concise) on why you are not watching all the EPL on DSTV, i have come to the concluson that this your topic is just a pathetic attempt by Hitv to clutch at straws on their way down.

You guys should stop playing the patriotism bullshit and do what is right. You dont expect me to take the whole load of crap that hitv dishes out at 6k and keep smiling because its owned by Nigerians.

And for the record, i used to be one of the main supporters/promoters of hitv on this forum.

darznets:
I wonder why HITV would rather spend money on a full page advertorial in the papers for what is so useless rather than spend such to acquire content. They keep going to the papers everyday threatening everybody, is that the way to build a business?

Today's advert is about their denial of any sub-licensing agreement with CTL, I wonder how many times DSTV goes to the papers for such mundane stuff.

I think the owner of that Hitv is just an arrogant person. But pride and arrogance as they say, goes before a big belly-up.

For many years that DSTV hold the right to the EPL, not once did we hear that they clamping down on veiwing centres, i think HITV should learn that something is wrong with their business model, if the subscribers are not renewing their subscription and its not becos they have an alternative in viewing centres not beocs they feel short-changed, we are wiser now and know what we want.

If they loose ( which i know will definitely happen) the rights to the EPL the way they are going, thats the end of that company called HITV.

Thats the truth, I would not pay for that Hitv subscription again. As the days go by, they give one no choice than to detest them the more. I will keep watching the DSTV. We thought Dstv was the monster from hell but we have seen the emergence of the Leviathian of biblical proportions in Hitv because at the way they are going, any addition of two or three more channels on hitv, they will hit 10k or more subscription fee. Just in two years of operation.

Toyin Subair should wake up from his slumber and realise that you cant coherce 9ja pepole is settling for less, the HITV as it presently is grooooooooosly substandard for our level

Especially when you watch DSTV, you really begin to wonder why you should accept anything less. Hitv are losing out on time because as many as experiment to switch and watch dstv for a while, find it hard to go back to the HI-pertension that is HItv

@switched ,

My brother how you dey? For the hitv suggestion, you can see i clearly added a caveat to it. . Make no body come back to this thread and blame me for his Hitv woes.  .

I read from the other thread, that their Champions league coverage is a mess with terrible pictures. And of course, some of their staff came in to say, the people complaining should also take a look at SS6, SS10 and ESPN, that they too have bad pictures like their Hi sports channels.

And am like: What are these guys on? How could they be so blind to the blatant truth of their deficiencies. I have since looked at the SS6 and  SS10 again and still wondered out loud: Really what are these Hitv guys on?

The Spanish La Liga starts on Saturday the 29th of this month. I didnt see any advert saying it would be any earlier than that.

They have the La Liga and its starting on Saturday. When you dont see it on the appointed date for it, then you have the right to sue them. Its like someone giving you a cheque to cash tomorrow but you go and try to cash it today then call up the person to complain.

For the EPL, they advertise for Nigerian viewers, the three matches per week that they are legally allowed to show. I watched Manu matches two times now on DSTV, watched Westham vs Tottingham , Mancity vs Black burn on DSTV. Just get the times right and you will get to watch.

They also have the full EPL package and Champions League for other countries and SA so when they are advertising the matches that are not for viewing in Nigeria, you see it clearly written at the bottom of the screen: "Excluding Nigeria" . Look well and you would observe .

On another note, if you live and breathe football, then for now, you should go get Hitv(caveat emptor).

igbo boy:
Sology go back to the village, Anuofa di ka gi

The scripture says that a fool answers a matter before he hears it.


*Edit*

I just realised from the profile that this is a teenager looking to be heard.

Ok, igbo boy, you can still be heard/read by making contributions without first spewing out insult like your friend omofola.

Just learn the right things the right way.

@ sology

Lost sheep, lost shepherd or whatever it maybe, am sure you already got my point.( My point being,  why Nigeria if nothing is wrong) like you have written; why don''t you turn yourself into Jesus christ and save Nigeria from corruption, Nollywood and so on like the whole world have been accusing us of it would be so nice to see you crucified.

Reads through, shakes head at the sheer banality of her post and moves on with hands in pocket.

omofola:
@ sology

If you have anything against Nigerians ,why don't you come out with it because you are obviously against everybody that sees that the movie makes no sense, is there anything bad about that? Whatever situation we find ourselves, we will always have a way to survive, that is why Nigerians are very intelligent and strong.

No matter what type of image we have portrayed to the whole world no one is perfect and we are not proud about  the situation of corruption in our nation. That is obviously the reason why south Africans are jealous of Nigerians, we are survivors and it's a pity that 2 African countries should be against each other so much after all the support that Nigerians both young and old gave to south Africans during their hard times.

Sology, you are obviously a very good example of the lost shepherd but the difference is that by the time you come back, you will never be welcomed with open arms.

Now, this is one clueless sisi.

Did anyone tell you that soloqy needs arms to run into? Or do I look/sound like one of your letter-writing boyfriends?

My own comments have been based on the fact that every movie that has a Nigerian character or story(Not just South African movies), depicts Nigeria in a bad way.

My point being,  why Nigeria if nothing is wrong.

Just go ahead and put your neck in the sand like an Ostrich and dont face the real issues here. Better still, lead the protest match to hollywood or SA.

By the way, if am a Lost Shepherd as you say, what in the world do you expect the sheep to do?

chiogo:
The 'negative depiction' in Phat girls is petty compared to this one. They insinuated that Nigerian men are fat and Nigerian women prefer their women to be that way. Really stupid. I had some Americans asking me if it's true.  It's all a matter of individual preference.

My sister , pls quit rolling with such people that would ask such a question after a movie. They cant be very smart people, really.

chiogo:
what's your point?  

Would also like to know the bad depiction in Phat girls.I believe thats what Seun was trying to ask.

The question is, why Nigeria if there is nothing terribly wrong. The list goes on:

Season 4 of Lost. It was Nigerian drug smugglers pretending to be priests, who crashed with their plane filled with drugs on the Island. And of course, Mr Eko who was depicted as a murderous drug peddler who later repented.

Africaine:
What is this poster saying sef

There is no bank that is clean  even the so called GTb,and how come someone is mentioning Zenith bank? where they more or less drive thier girls into glorified prositution all in the name of deposit?

Let me make this clear,am not a banker as a matter of fact am a pharmacis,but it is wrong for you to put everyone together just because of some bad eggs,am sure if u flash your light on the so called banks,you'll find some of the traits in all of them.

I happen to know alot of oceanic staff,and i have been had cause to deal with alot the bank and I have found them professional,meticulous and right on point.

@poster,GTb dey pay you for this debasing of another bank? abeg if u live in a glass house dont throw stones, Mr Gtb

@Africaine, No GTB did not pay him to do anything.
Cant you people just get it? Its not possible for everyone to talk so well about GTB if they are not doing something right.
Look at all the threads about banking, you have people recommending GTB. How many people are they going to pay to demarket others or promote them?

People should just take it as the GOSPEL truth, GTB know something(about banking) that the others dont.

I bank with GTB. It was so good I had to open a second account and moved my little funds from another bank over to them. So PLS enough of 'GTB is behind the demarketing' each time someone recommends them.

Back to the topic, the poster did not call Mrs Ibru names. He only mentioned that she was kind to a fault(thats what i deduce from his post).I didnt feel any malice nor bile from his letter. Rather it was a cry for help that obviously comes from his hope for the future of the bank.

shesi:
i quite enjoyed that movie. infact i might see it again.

i suppose if you set out with the notion that the producer is anti-nigerian, then you will find several parts of the movie to support your theory.



the director was making the movie for an international audience so he had to use themes foreigners would be familiar with. Nigerians are regarded in the west as the most notorious african group.

immigrants are usually the more crass under-world operators in any country. you see my point in the writers decision to make those characters nigerian. and the names and all. how many times have you seen a russian gangster named vladimir in a movie? why? cus vladimir is immediately thought of as a russian name.

seriously its just a movie. a sci-fi one at that. besides, it doesn't portray the south africans any better.

My points exactly. It just had to be Nigeria. Like I said earlier, when everyone is seeing us in a bad light, then its time to look inwards.

Then someone said I should go and preach elsewhere and not here .

ThiefOfHearts:
I havent seen tears in the sin. Did they use real  Nigerians?

They used a couple of Nigerians. I saw two igbo names at the movie ending credits.

At the end when they(the igbos) finally made it to the Camerounian border, some old lady was chanting in igbo.

Its Tears of the Sun, by the way : http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/tearsofthesun/index.html

Never mind what they wrote as the Synopsis(Conflict in Central africa). Its a movie that starts with a news story that a president(Igbo) was murdered(in Lagos) by some soldiers determined to wipe out his family and by extension, his tribe.

ThiefOfHearts:
That's exactly what Im saying

Wolverine already used Lagos in their movie

Let them leave Nigeria alone for the next 5 years

lol at that. How did you come about the length of time? Whats the significance?

Funny though.

ps
You forgot 'Tears Of the sun' with Bruce Willis. About Nigeria too(Igbo problems with Northern soldiers).

stalliontp:
RSA made a good point. Majority of Nigerian movies sux big time!except for few. long hours or rubbish, no sense behind most of the scripts.Very poor job of directing, sing one useless and valueless song for 10 minutes,  I wonder how people could sit through those movies.I once had a girlfriend that does nothing but watch these retarded movies, that freaked me out. I am Nigerian and i am not interested in witches spewing lizard all the time, its getting too old, most of the endings can be predicted 1 minute into the movie, come up with something ingenious plz and bear in mind that there could be foreign audience.

lol at the bolded part. I hate those Nollywood movies and dont watch them. But I see ladies consume the stuff like their is no tomorrow and am amazed.

I guess they introduced the singing part to their movies not too long ago.

Why try to be like the Indians and Bollywood? I recently came across one of those scenes, while searching for something to watch on tv.

It was so embarrassing.

Gekko:
This a sci-fi fiction based flick, i highly doubt most people will walk away from the film thinking Nigerians are cannibals[b]. After watching casino, goodfellas, godfather etc I certainly did not conclude all Italians are mafias.[/b] I would've prefer if the Director did not use the name "obasanjo" in his narrative, its a little too close to home.

Good pointer there

omofola:
What the hell are you talking about, how old are you? There should be age restrictions on this forum. Nonsense !

I bet you think that having something to say about only Romance issues makes you old enough.

Or which part of the post got you so worked up? You have a boyfriend who is a 419 or fraudulent letter writer? Am really curious to know why the outburst.

The truth is usually a bitter pill to swallow. Live with it.

They have not been able to handle the people using their own network, talk less of attacking FTA users.

Still watching my arsenal matches at viewing center and catch any other football DSTV has in my home.

After watching Arsenal, Chelsea, Manu, Liverpool, which other matchup would you care to watch?

Thats why i would never pay that 6k.

@smokie

You made a lot of sense in your comments on this issue.

@my ppl, I ask the question again, what do you guys expect? Really, what other people in Africa would have been perfect to use in that story?

When holywood makes a movie about organised crime in America, they use Italians and the mafia.

The reputation of a people or a person, goes before them.

Yes, it can be embarrasing to watch your people being portrayed in such a terrible light but its the reality of the issue and we have got to live with it till we clean up our act.

Look around in this Nairaland for instance, we still have people glorifying 419 and fraud letter writting. Everyone wants to be a billionaire overnight and thus, can do anything for money.

Its not a time to get selfrighteous or antagonistic towards the people that make movies that depict us in a bad light.

The anger should infact be directed inwards and prompt everyone to hate corruption and evil much more than we are doing right now.

If everyone,(foreign governments, foreigners, movie makers) all keep portraying us in a bad way, then surely something is wrong with us. The world did not just decide to be against Nigeria. Nigerian people have given the world no choice than to be wary and suspicious of them.

beeswax:
I beg to differ (still respect your opinion though) Ovie, [b]Tamara & Riola were the only ones who did MJ's songs in their own way and to me it worked. The rest were busy "copying" the king of pop and failed miserably

At least we agree on one person that did it right , Tamara.

tarila disappointed me, after last weeks performance i was expecting so much this week
didnt see goodness, hope she's gone for good

I dont know how it happened, i just noticed she wasnt in the line up when i tuned in. Did she leave on her own or what. Maybe i missed that part.

steve, shim & the angelic voices have gotta go, sheesh!!!!!
dont understand wat jon was up to on that stage, he made a mockery of "dont stop till u get enuff"
the king of pop must be turning in his casket [/b]

Steve definitely should leave next but shim should stay a little longer. She has a good voice but she is very dull and uninteresting(though very pretty). She needs to be a little livelier.

Jon overestimated his vocal abilities in choosing that song. I mean, it was like listening to a kid making a scratching noise on a metal surface. Eeeeeehhh .

Angelic voices? Well, i always felt they have an advantage over the rest cause each of them can find their range in any given song and thus remain comfortable in undulating points of a song.

Enough of the MJ memorials already. 

Seems every singing reality show feel they must dedicate an episode to MJ.

People just cant sing MJ's songs. MJ's songs are MJ's songs and if anyone must sing them, then they ought to sing it in another way. Any attempt at doing it like MJ brings failure and thats what happened on saturday.

The only ppl that did theirs well were Tamara, Tarila and Shim.

Dont know why the guest commentators were going on about how well Ovie and Riola did . In my own opinion, they both did the MJ's songs a dis-service