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Autos / Re: Volkswagen Touareg 2009 by styrax(m): 2:07pm On Jan 20, 2011 |
Please send details to millicentakunna@gmail.com Im highly interested Thanks |
Autos / Re: 2006 Vw Touareg (registered)- Pix Attached-1.8m (Price Further Lowered) by styrax(m): 10:11am On Jan 02, 2011 |
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Autos / Re: Buying from COTONOU made easy by styrax(m): 11:02am On Dec 26, 2010 |
Hi, Volkswagen Touareg 2005 and 2008; how much will you get each of these for from cotonou. regads |
Autos / Re: Volkswagen Touareg For 2.1 (obo) by styrax(m): 11:14pm On Dec 25, 2010 |
hi, is the touareg still available? |
Politics / Re: Jonathan Flags Off Pdp Online Registration ! by styrax(m): 6:56pm On Aug 11, 2010 |
the site is here www.pdpregistration.com |
Career / Re: Welcome To My Office by styrax(m): 5:35pm On Apr 19, 2010 |
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Health / Re: Where To Go If You Are A Victim Of Clinical Negligence by styrax(m): 5:24pm On Apr 19, 2010 |
@beneli spot on, this cannot be more timely, sure to get a call from here soon |
Politics / Re: Churches Attacked In Malaysian ‘allah’ Dispute by styrax(m): 11:05am On Jan 10, 2010 |
^^^^funny! |
Politics / Re: Churches Attacked In Malaysian ‘allah’ Dispute by styrax(m): 8:54am On Jan 10, 2010 |
styrax: Please If anybody knows alternative name for God in Arabic, I am really curious, want to know, |
Politics / Re: Churches Attacked In Malaysian ‘allah’ Dispute by styrax(m): 1:23am On Jan 10, 2010 |
I thought God=Allah=Jehovah=chineke=olorun How can some people lay claim to 'God'? Its a really deep problem |
Politics / Churches Attacked In Malaysian ‘allah’ Dispute by styrax(m): 3:00pm On Jan 09, 2010 |
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/world/asia/09malaysia.html?ref=world By SETH MYDANS Published: January 8, 2010 Three Christian churches were attacked with firebombs Friday as tensions rose in a dispute over whether Christians could use the word “Allah” in this largely Muslim nation. Later in the day, small crowds rallied outside two major mosques in the capital, in a growing protest over a court ruling that overturned a government ban on the use of “Allah” by Roman Catholics as a translation for God. The government has appealed that ruling, insisting that the ban should remain in force, and made no move to bar the unsanctioned rallies, as it commonly does. But a police helicopter hovered low over the front of the city’s central mosque, drowning out the words of the speakers on its balcony. “Allah is only for us,” said Faedzah Fuad, 28, who participated in the rally. “The Christians can use any word, we don’t care, but please don’t use the word Allah.” Despite escalating political rhetoric and the early-morning violence, the rallies of 200 to 300 people were far smaller than the thousands predicted by organizers. Hand-lettered signs reading “Please respect the name of Allah” remained in a stack on the ground where Ms. Faedzah had prepared them. Though Malaysia is 60 percent Malay and Muslim, sizable minorities of Chinese and Indians practice Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism in this country of 28 million. Ethnic and religious politics have grown more intense since the government suffered severe losses in a general election last March. Much of the reverse came at the hands of minority voters who were disturbed by the government’s increasingly conservative Islamic tone. The government has appealed and has been granted a stay of the High Court ruling on Dec. 31 that allowed a Catholic newspaper to use the word “Allah” in its Malay-language editions. The word has been widely used as a translation for the word “God” in Malay-language texts and services, particularly among Christian indigenous tribes in the remote states of Sabah and Sarawak. It is also the common word used to describe the Christian God in Arabic-speaking countries like Egypt and Syria and in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, whose language is a variant of the Malay language. During the current dispute, many Muslims here have argued that the use of the word by other religions could confuse believers and tempt them to convert from Islam. Prime Minister Najib Razak condemned the attacks on the churches Friday and defended the government against accusations that it had at least tacitly sanctioned the violence. “We have always been very responsible,” he said at a news conference. In the first attack, shortly after midnight, the police said that a firebomb had destroyed the ground-level office of the Metro Tabernacle Church. They said that worship areas on the two upper floors were undamaged and that no one had been injured. Two other churches were attacked by arsonists before dawn, with only one of them sustaining minor damage, according to the police. |
Career / Re: Medical Doctors' Forum: Let Us Know You! by styrax(m): 12:21am On Dec 05, 2009 |
@beneli sorry, was at the movies, went to see the worst movie of the century 'New Moon', please if they drag you to watch it, close your eyes! its not worth seeing. Check your mail box. Wish you a great weekend. |
Career / Re: Medical Doctors' Forum: Let Us Know You! by styrax(m): 6:06pm On Dec 03, 2009 |
beneli: Well said. I am a medical doctor based in lagos somewhere in Ikoyi, I am into General Practice and I do a lot of software development, I have a number of completed and ongoing work in and out of medical practice. I would have asked for your email initially but you know how these things are, trust is a big issue and nobody wants to be spammed. We can carry on this discussion via email styraxsystems@yahoo.com. Thank you for the copyright angle, right on it! |
Career / Re: Medical Doctors' Forum: Let Us Know You! by styrax(m): 8:59am On Dec 03, 2009 |
beneli:Doing things a little differently, using help of technology to make health available for subscribers while "roaming" using programmable EMV compliant smartcards that have sizable memory to contain holder's biodata, detailed medical history and secure link to extended medical records and imaging on hosted servers. So instead of declaring primary care providers, subscribers can walk into any participating care provider and be attended to without being subjected to rigor of extensive clarking and what-not, also will help to reduce frauds in claims by care providers and the rest of that. Just acquired the necessary hardware and did extensive software coding to bring up a unique solution for nigeria health care and insurance. I quite understand, similar things are being used extensively in europe especially germany and france. Of course can go into too much details than this, otherwise i will be sounding like a nerd. so what sayeth thou? |
Career / Re: Medical Doctors' Forum: Let Us Know You! by styrax(m): 11:34am On Dec 01, 2009 |
@beneli beneli:We share common interest in entering nigeria's hmo scene, i have this novel idea that might interest you |
Politics / Re: Would You Vote For Yaradua To Be Re-elected? by styrax(m): 5:53pm On Oct 11, 2009 |
@ de wise 01 You look cool in that pix, but is the pix really necessary. Your point noted though, |
Politics / Re: Honest Visa Application by styrax(m): 10:01am On Oct 11, 2009 |
^^ bull shit what?! |
Travel / Hilarious: Honest Visa Application by styrax(m): 9:49am On Oct 11, 2009 |
By Victor Ehikhamenor October 9, 2009 03:51AMT NEXT 234next.com To whomever it may concern, I wish to apply for a visa to your country. Let me be upfront with you, if you grant me entrance to your country I am not coming back to Nigeria anytime soon. As usual, scan my documents with your sea-blue eyes and perfect white fingers, they are all genuine. I have three masters in various fields, but who is counting. I have a wife (not through arranged marriage, as you can see from the elaborate wedding album I have included in this application) and we have legitimate children here in Nigeria but don't worry about how they are going to cope in my absence. Let me deal with that separation anxiety and trauma. I am being honest with you, because I don't want to be the butt of your drinking jokes in highbrow Ikoyi and Victoria Island gatherings. Truth be told, it is in your interest to grant me and many other Nigerians visas and let me tell you why. - The exorbitant visa fees you are charging me and thousands of Nigerians will go a long way to help your sagging economy and secure your job here in Nigeria. I don't think you really fancy eating McDonalds' happy heart-stopping meals instead of your fresh organic salad, imported steaks, Thai food or Italian a la carte that you enjoy in Lagos. - When I get to your country, with my numerous degrees, I am willing to take jobs your fellow citizens abhor and feel are beneath their blue-blooded feet. I will flip burgers and wash dishes with bare hands. I will accept a security job in a run-down, gun-toting, hard-drug-infested, needle-sharing and high school dropout neighbourhood. - I will happily work the graveyard shift in your nursing and old people's homes, helping the aged parents you left behind. I will be responsible for prolonging the life of your really old parents, because I will change elderly diapers, wipe their wrinkled brows. I will turn and reposition them to avoid bedsores and make sure they take their medications. At social recreation I will tell them sweet tales about the Africa they don't know and will never know. I will tell stories about a country that treats their children with human kindness and tropical warmth. But I won't say a word that while they are abandoned in a lonely nursing home, eating pureed food and drinking awful tasting Ensure, you feast regularly on three course meals in four-star restaurants, swigging SWAN water and VSOP. I will not tell your parents that you have servants tending you and your dog in a spacious seaside house, while they have only me to take care of them and eight other geriatrics in an overcrowded facility. I won't tell your aged mother that you have a gardener who replenishes your vase every morning with fresh roses, lilies and orchids while she stares at a sagging basket with a fake-plastic fig tree all day long. The secret of your lush life in my country is safe with me. - I will not pose any security risk in your country. Your citizens can sleep with both eyes closed, because I will never engage in a course that will not benefit me directly. Nobody is going to convince me to tie a bomb round my Nigerian chest and blow myself to pieces. You have lived in Nigeria long enough to know we are not suicide happy and we do not partake in non-economically viable adventures. - In trying to regularise my stay and wriggle out of the "illegal immigrant" stigma, I will marry one of the many single mothers left to their woes by a non-present prison happy boyfriend. I will rent her a nice apartment and stepfather her children, while my children here yawn and gape at the Western Union line. I will remove her from the welfare list, less headache for your taxpaying citizens. I know I have told you earlier that I am married and polygamy is probably unlawful in your country. But technically, my Nigerian wife and children are not resident in your country, and your law does not cross the Atlantic Ocean like captured slaves. - In filing my papers, I will make one of your quack lawyers richer. - Your Internal Revenue department is free to overtax me, your police can harass me, your immigration officers can detain me despite my legitimate documents of lawful marriage and co-habitation, my employers can deny me promotions because of my accent and skin colour, my boss who has only high school certificate can correct my English language, your country can dehumanise me and see me as a tree-living National Geographic creature. I won't blame you because my visionless leaders compromised me. Thanks for your anticipated co-operation, and please remember you have more to gain by granting me this visa. http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Opinion/Editorial/5467976-147/EXCUSE_ME:_Honest_visa_application_(HVA).csp |
Politics / Honest Visa Application by styrax(m): 6:05pm On Oct 10, 2009 |
By Victor Ehikhamenor October 9, 2009 03:51AMT NEXT 234next.com To whomever it may concern, I wish to apply for a visa to your country. Let me be upfront with you, if you grant me entrance to your country I am not coming back to Nigeria anytime soon. As usual, scan my documents with your sea-blue eyes and perfect white fingers, they are all genuine. I have three masters in various fields, but who is counting. I have a wife (not through arranged marriage, as you can see from the elaborate wedding album I have included in this application) and we have legitimate children here in Nigeria but don't worry about how they are going to cope in my absence. Let me deal with that separation anxiety and trauma. I am being honest with you, because I don't want to be the butt of your drinking jokes in highbrow Ikoyi and Victoria Island gatherings. Truth be told, it is in your interest to grant me and many other Nigerians visas and let me tell you why. - The exorbitant visa fees you are charging me and thousands of Nigerians will go a long way to help your sagging economy and secure your job here in Nigeria. I don't think you really fancy eating McDonalds' happy heart-stopping meals instead of your fresh organic salad, imported steaks, Thai food or Italian a la carte that you enjoy in Lagos. - When I get to your country, with my numerous degrees, I am willing to take jobs your fellow citizens abhor and feel are beneath their blue-blooded feet. I will flip burgers and wash dishes with bare hands. I will accept a security job in a run-down, gun-toting, hard-drug-infested, needle-sharing and high school dropout neighbourhood. - I will happily work the graveyard shift in your nursing and old people's homes, helping the aged parents you left behind. I will be responsible for prolonging the life of your really old parents, because I will change elderly diapers, wipe their wrinkled brows. I will turn and reposition them to avoid bedsores and make sure they take their medications. At social recreation I will tell them sweet tales about the Africa they don't know and will never know. I will tell stories about a country that treats their children with human kindness and tropical warmth. But I won't say a word that while they are abandoned in a lonely nursing home, eating pureed food and drinking awful tasting Ensure, you feast regularly on three course meals in four-star restaurants, swigging SWAN water and VSOP. I will not tell your parents that you have servants tending you and your dog in a spacious seaside house, while they have only me to take care of them and eight other geriatrics in an overcrowded facility. I won't tell your aged mother that you have a gardener who replenishes your vase every morning with fresh roses, lilies and orchids while she stares at a sagging basket with a fake-plastic fig tree all day long. The secret of your lush life in my country is safe with me. - I will not pose any security risk in your country. Your citizens can sleep with both eyes closed, because I will never engage in a course that will not benefit me directly. Nobody is going to convince me to tie a bomb round my Nigerian chest and blow myself to pieces. You have lived in Nigeria long enough to know we are not suicide happy and we do not partake in non-economically viable adventures. - In trying to regularise my stay and wriggle out of the "illegal immigrant" stigma, I will marry one of the many single mothers left to their woes by a non-present prison happy boyfriend. I will rent her a nice apartment and stepfather her children, while my children here yawn and gape at the Western Union line. I will remove her from the welfare list, less headache for your taxpaying citizens. I know I have told you earlier that I am married and polygamy is probably unlawful in your country. But technically, my Nigerian wife and children are not resident in your country, and your law does not cross the Atlantic Ocean like captured slaves. - In filing my papers, I will make one of your quack lawyers richer. - Your Internal Revenue department is free to overtax me, your police can harass me, your immigration officers can detain me despite my legitimate documents of lawful marriage and co-habitation, my employers can deny me promotions because of my accent and skin colour, my boss who has only high school certificate can correct my English language, your country can dehumanise me and see me as a tree-living National Geographic creature. I won't blame you because my visionless leaders compromised me. Thanks for your anticipated co-operation, and please remember you have more to gain by granting me this visa. http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Opinion/Editorial/5467976-147/EXCUSE_ME:_Honest_visa_application_(HVA).csp |
Politics / Re: Would You Vote For Yaradua To Be Re-elected? by styrax(m): 2:45pm On Oct 10, 2009 |
In everybody's interest yaradua shouldnt seek to be featured in the next election; stagnancy on our part, churg-strauss on his part. Well thats what the complex syndrome he is suffering from is called and its like being caught in a dead-end alley, no escape, |
Celebrities / Re: P-Square Finally Opens Up About Landlord by styrax(m): 12:09pm On Oct 10, 2009 |
Do people still do business like that, committing over 5 million naira based on verbal agreement?! This is serious |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Champions League: Arsenal - Olympiakos, 2-0 OnTuesday September 29. 2009 by styrax(m): 2:59am On Sep 29, 2009 |
the last couple of times arsenal had to play three consecutive home matches,something always went wrong |
Properties / Re: Quarry, Granite ... cheated? by styrax(m): 5:56pm On Sep 23, 2009 |
@ajileko before the truck tips, ask them to level the granite inside the bucket, then tape measure the length and breadth of the bucket after which you will dip an iron rod right through the centre of granite while standing on it, mark where the granite reaches on the rod, then do your calculation, what you want to get is the volume which is (length x breadth x height). Once the volume of what they bring to you is known, then getting the mass (weight) is easy since the density of granite is constant and density is Mass divided by volume. You know your volume and your density so multipy the two to get the mass. Will be glad to help you further, if need be. @all Why breathing down each other's neck on top what?! |
Celebrities / Re: Michael Jackson Died: Cardiac Arrest by styrax(m): 11:06pm On Jun 25, 2009 |
TMZ reported it, but still not confirmed. Its shocking; lawsuits, bankruptcy, cardiac arrest, inevitably death. sad for such an iconic personality |
Autos / Re: Whats Ur Pick - Honda Eod, Nissan Altima, Toyota Camry. All 2003 Models? by styrax(m): 10:29pm On Jun 21, 2009 |
Honda EOD |
Fashion / Re: Boys And Girls That Sag: Do You Find It Disgusting? by styrax(m): 8:33am On May 24, 2009 |
graaah!!! |
Family / Re: Woman Gave Birth To Twins By Different Fathers by styrax(m): 10:45am On May 22, 2009 |
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Properties / Re: VISTA GREEN GARDENS, IKORODU... by styrax(m): 6:07pm On May 13, 2009 |
they are two different parcels going for different prices. Parcel A is 750,000 Parcel B is 550,000 ambassagegroup.com for more info |
Autos / Re: 2000 Jeep Garand Cherokee Limited. Premium Value For Money by styrax(m): 8:13pm On Oct 14, 2008 |
this is not too pleasant |
Autos / Re: Free VIN/Chassis Number Checks For All by styrax(m): 2:59pm On Oct 14, 2008 |
Please help with this VIN 1N6SD11S5PC363709 Thanks |
Autos / Re: Car Mp4/Mp3 Player with 2GB Inbuilt Memory (Memory Slot) for up 500 Music Files by styrax(m): 7:47am On Sep 13, 2008 |
I need one how do i place the other, pay and get delivery? Im presently working out of lagos. Ib to be precise |
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