₦airaland Forum

BizBooks:
Yes, you are right. I recently toyed with the idea of getting a new car and went to a Honda dealership. They offered me the same price - $12,000 for my 2005 EX-L if I will buy a 2011 model. Unfortunately, I didn't have the appetite to take on another car loan having recently finished paying off the one I had.

Honda is the worst hit. A few days ago, they announced a 90% decline in profits.

Decline in profits usually means a price slash.
looming recession usually means a price slash too.

Good times

Willzkid:
By the way am i the only one surprised that this same SLS, Only 2years ago served in the board of, and was the CEO of one of Nigeria's biggest interest banks,

Did Sanusi tell you that the conventional banks are being replaced by Islamic banking? Did Sanusi tell you that he considers interest banking a sin?

werepeLeri:
OP.

You are an epitome of everything bad in Nigeria - so a website tells you the direction a country is going?

and what is your beef with the website? Where is the one you have built?

The contract for that website was probably awarded for no less than N2 million of our Tax money. Why will he not be pissed?

hollandis:
[size=18pt]YORUBA PEOPLE I HATE THEM,EVERYTHING ABOUT THAT ETHNIC GROUP IS FORKED,FORKED MEN,FORKED WOMEN,FORKED CHILDREN ,FORKED POLITICIANS[/size]

Out of curiosity, let me ask you this question; does ANYONE out there love you?

Please leave the realm of laziness alone and do your own research.
As we speak, Stanbic IBTC has obtained a license to operate Islamic banking window. Do you really think this would be the case if the venture was not projected to be profitable for the bank?

I don't understand your babbling about ID cards. Don't Nigerians obtain loans from regular banks with accepted forms of personal identification (like drivers license and passports)?

I have posted links in many other similar topics on Islamic banking showing increased profitability for banks in the US and UK that offer these services. Only 5 minutes on Google will give you all the information you need. Do not allow laziness to overcome you.

Beaf:
[size=14pt]‘Islamic banking is Allah’s command’[/size]
By Tajudeen Adebanjo

Nigerian Muslims have been called upon to give Islamic banking all the needed support because it is the command of Almighty Allah.

This call was made by the Chairman, Joint Technical Committee, Lagos State Muslim Council (LSMC), Prof Tajudeen Gbadamosi during the 2011 Ramadan lecture organized by LSMC.

Speaking on the topic; “Islam and Contemporary Challenges”, Prof. Gbadamosi said that as five daily prayers, Hajj and fasting in this month are commands of Allah, so also is the issue of Islamic banking.

Quoting copiously from the Quran, the scholar reminded Muslims of Allah’s command that interest is forbidden and that those who are still charging and taking interest should be prepared for Allah’s wrath.

“Islam is a perfect, complete, comprehensive and divinely-chosen religion which is all-inclusive of the past, addresses the present and gives guidance about the future. It is for all people at all time and as Muslims, we are expected to submit ourselves wholly to Allah’s command,” he said.

Islam, he said, will always face challenges as it was done in the past because those whose past time is falsehood will not yield to truth easily.

He urged parents to give greater attention to quality education.

“Let us encourage our children not to stop academics at first degrees programme. All Islamic organisations should have long term plans aimed at encouraging quality education. In addition, there is no synergy between knowledge and good character among our children. Let us embark on integrating knowledge with good character and moral upbringing,” he said.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/15060-%E2%80%98islamic-banking-is-allah%E2%80%99s-command%E2%80%99.html

Is there really any difference between this and Pastors like Ayo Oritsejafor exhorting their congregation to vote for GEJ in the last elections?
I don't understand the rationale behind this post. For Muslims, the quran contains Allah's command and the Quran explicitly speaks against usury. Would you have made any post if any 'Man of God' had announced that "paying tithes is God's command"?

Please stop pushing this your brainless agenda of ethnic and religious division. Thanks.

labidox:
For the proponents of Islamic banking, I have a few questions for you. Firstly, from what has been dished out to the nigerian public, islamic banking product will make funds available to borrowers at no interest rate.If that is true,where will those banks make their profits from? Secondly, how will such a bank be sustained if profits are not made? and most importantly ,where will such free fund come from?

Islamic banking is not a Nigerian phenomenon. the same 'no-interest' principle is in effect in Islamic banks in the UK, in the US and a myriad of muslim nations. Please do your own research and find out how Islamic banking in those countries have been profitable. I shall not encourage laziness.

djustice:
Fashola must think we're all numbskulls.

Wouldn't it be cheaper and faster to use an RFID based system to identify vehicles so that the delay occasioned by the officer punching in the vehicle's details can be eliminated. An RFID chip on the Vehicle Licence label would simply broadcast the vehicle details to a hand-held unit with an AMOLED screen, which would display the owner's details. A quick question and answer session would confirm that the driver is either the owner or driving with the authorisation of the owner. The details could even include the owner's telephone number, to which a text can be sent demanding a return call to the holder of the unit for verbal confirmation that the driver is the person authorised to operate the vehicle.

All of this can happen in less than 2 minutes, and the driver is either arrested or sent on their merry way.

The key test, as with all things Fashola is, HOW MUCH IS THIS COSTING THE TAXPAYER

Nice idea, but why specify an AMOLED screen when any cheap LCD tech will work just as well? Any sunlight visibility concerns can easily be solved by cupping your hands over the screen . We wanna cut down on costs,

lagcity:
mumu ppl. tuface can say whatever he wants. let them prove he smoked it or leave the guy alone.

beeman80:
This is hideous and crazy.Arrest him for what? He confessed that he once USED it and so?Did NDLEA catch him with the substance?

blink182:
They are just busy bodies looking for cheap publicity

igbsam:
Hope they will arrest policemen and military men smoking Weed 2. Nonsense bunch of lazy idiots, Make dem leave my 2baba o!

You guys must be the d'umbest people alive, i swear. Even an SS3 student should be able to tell that the whole story is not meant to be taken seriously. Even if you haven't heard of Wazobiareport before, a cursory glance at the website should have told you that the 'news' there should not be taken seriously.

iBlogNaija:
Under the Nigerian Criminal Code, the act, called bigamy, is considered an offence and is punishable by law (usually a jail term of up to seven years or fine).

According to the Nigerian Criminal Code (part V, Section 370) ‘Any person who, having a husband or wife living, marries in any case in which such marriage is void by reason of its taking place during the life of such. husband or wife, is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for seven years‘.

Yeah right. Why has Obasanjo not been arrested for bigamy yet? He has many wives na.

When we complain about GEJ, all you people say is
"no matter what, he is your president for the next 4 years so deal with it!"

So now I happily remind you that Sanusi will be our CBN governor for the next 2 years. There is nothing you whiners can do about it.

JPizzy:
Well, 1 of the disadvantages associated with attenuated vaccines is the possibility of reversion of attenuation. This could give rise to vaccine-induced disease even in healthy people.
The Polio vaccine used then's a good example of attenuated vaccines. To the best of my knowledge, this was what happened in 1996.I'm not sure if the Polio vaccine in current use is of the attenuated type.

What's the link between polio vaccines and acute meningitis? Please delete this post immediately!

[quote author=okada_man link=topic=727608.msg8855291#msg8855291 date=1312477511]The problem is idiooootAs like you that cannot read.

According to the report and the timeline, Abiola was already dead before that interview. So how would he head a GNU? From the grave?

Most of the dunlop Mumu foooools here were probably not even old enough to feed themselves when this issue occurred, they did not conciously witness Abacha and Mustapha the Gestapo killer in power. And they don't bother to read papers or study history, yet they are quick to believe a known murderer!!

Now where is the evidence he was screaming about? Where is it? Shey we need to wait another 12 years, while this killer feed fat in "detention" ?

Mumus following yeye. Where the video now, show us how Ige and Adesanya were "unconciuosly complicit"

Nonsense![/quote]In a way, I agree with you.
While Abacha his mentor was in power, Mustapha was known for being the right hand of evil. This murderer has yet to answer for his crimes and yet he is now enjoying some level of celebrity status, keeping a nation of numbskulls enthralled as he weaves his lies.
How can a video of people leaving a meeting with Abubakar be positive proof of some nefarious agreement? Someone shows photocopies of cash requests and zero proof of the alleged destination yet people here are swallowing his rotten story hook, line and sinker.

Abagworo:
CLASSIFIED MATERIAL's can never be shown in a public court.A military tribunal could see that under closed door.

Military tribunal for a civillian trial in a democratic dispensation? Come let me show you where to get good quality crack from. the cheap one you're taking is addling your brains.

Beaf:
Homicidal rage? Damn!
Sir, why are you so scared like you're up to no good?

The nursing mother shot by a Police office over a mild dispute with a taxi driver, was she up to no good too?
The Igbo traders and their girlfriend that were shot by the Police, were they up to no good?
The Schlumberger staff that slumped and died after being sprayed (in front of his daughter) with teargas by cops in Rivers state, was he up to no good too?


Perhaps you'd say the people of Odi were up to no good too.

lynxnoon:
start by going tru the pages of this thread and check out the sgs2 section on xda forum
Chefs

He wants cracked apps. Xda-developers won't help him there

Guyman02:
CIA organised fake vaccination drive to get Osama bin Laden's family DNA:
Senior Pakistani doctor who organised vaccine programme in Abbottabad arrested by ISI for working with US agents
The CIA organised a fake vaccination programme in the town where it believed Osama bin Laden was hiding in an elaborate attempt to obtain DNA from the fugitive al-Qaida leader's family, a Guardian investigation has found.

As part of extensive preparations for the raid that killed Bin Laden in May, CIA agents recruited a senior Pakistani doctor to organise the vaccine drive in Abbottabad, even starting the "project" in a poorer part of town to make it look more authentic, according to Pakistani and US officials and local residents.

The doctor, Shakil Afridi, has since been arrested by the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) for co-operating with American intelligence agents.
Relations between Washington and Islamabad, already severely strained by the Bin Laden operation, have deteriorated considerably since then. The doctor's arrest has exacerbated these tensions. The US is understood to be concerned for the doctor's safety, and is thought to have intervened on his behalf.

The vaccination plan was conceived after American intelligence officers tracked an al-Qaida courier, known as Abu Ahmad al-Kuwaiti, to what turned out to be Bin Laden's Abbottabad compound last summer. The agency monitored the compound by satellite and surveillance from a local CIA safe house in Abbottabad, but wanted confirmation that Bin Laden was there before mounting a risky operation inside another country.
DNA from any of the Bin Laden children in the compound could be compared with a sample from his sister, who died in Boston in 2010, to provide evidence that the family was present.

So agents approached Afridi, the health official in charge of Khyber, part of the tribal area that runs along the Afghan border.
The doctor went to Abbottabad in March, saying he had procured funds to give free vaccinations for hepatitis B. Bypassing the management of the Abbottabad health services, he paid generous sums to low-ranking local government health workers, who took part in the operation without knowing about the connection to Bin Laden. Health visitors in the area were among the few people who had gained access to the Bin Laden compound in the past, administering polio drops to some of the children.

Its getting more difficult to trust Western Aid donors thisdays, at least the Pfizer experience is still fresh in their minds and the lies used to invade Libya for which Nigeria was tricked into signing is still ongoing.

How does this even relate to the topic at all?

moreover, you're too daft to even realize that the section you highlighted in bold font has NOTHING whatsoever to do with the CIA or the US.

Arosa:
I think what Tambuwal and Belgore are trying to say is that naija is like a baby. the western nations created boko haram, mend, and kidnapping. We don't know what we are doing cos we are babies you see. the west should stop dividing us by giving us arms to fight ourselves.

Why are you such a cretin? Which western nation created Boko Haram?

;d ;d ;d

Even Man 'o' War go batshit crazy when they are given whips and the tacit authority to flog people they think they can get away with flogging.

Now you want to arm these poorly trained folk with live weapons. Does that make any sense at all?

It's a Nigerian thing. When you make a man stand in the hot sun while he watches his mates zoom past him in expensive cars, homicidal rage starts building up.

grabdbull:
Pfizer this, Pfizer that!! You make it seem as if they just started rejecting vaccines after the Pfizer incident. For your information, they have been rejecting vaccines long before the trovan episode. Something about the vaccines "will make their children sterile, thus systematically reducing their population".

Don't make Pfizer the scape-goat.

This!

It's the 'sterility' rumour once again, not Pfizer.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=727168.msg8851106#msg8851106 date=1312441332]Na wa for una o.who didn't know that pfizer conducted an experiment on kano almajiris in 1996 ? Or are you guys still you to know what's up then ? Maybe it's an attempt to depopulate the hausas ![/quote]Pfizer used an experimental drug on Children already suffering from acute meningitis. Pfizer is a profit making entity.

This immunization campaign is being carried out by the UN/WHO to vaccinate kids against Polio.

Big difference in the two cases.

I don't know about 'depopulating hausas'. Where i served in Abia state, kids were being given the OPV too.

This is the most stooopid thing i've heard all day. And people here are actually in support of this? Have we not learnt our lessons yet?

Even the better trained (and likely better paid) police corps are a menace on the roads thanks to their weaponry. Now you want to arm the folks and set them loose on the general public?

Utterly brainless move.

This Tambuwal deserves to be flogged with barbed wire! See this cretin blaming 'developed nations'. Which 'developed nation' will aid the terrorist Boko haram? Which 'developed nation' will ship ancient Ak47 rifles and crudely cobbled together IEDs?

Let him blame himself and his corrupt fellows for the rampant corruption in the system. Who do we now blame for the 50 million naira his fellow reps collected as quarterly allowance a few months back?

A google search for 'Hitler Chemical 1' turned up nothing.
A google search for 'Chemical 1' turned up nothing remotely related to a poison

The most exhaustive list of assassination attempts (planned and carried out) on Hitler i've seen is linked below
http://members.iinet.net.au/~gduncan/assassination_attempts.html

In none of those cases is any recorded case of an attempt being made with tea


Conclusion: Mr Agoro should be castrated and flogged with barbed wire for this imbecilic story. An example must be made of all these senile, attention seeking cretins.

I think most people will remember him for his inept leadership of ANPP which helped to all but bury a once powerful opposition party.
Also, his eagerness to cast Buhari aside for a share of the national cake (foolishly falling for the 'GNU' trap) will be remembered.

All in all, I find it hard to dredge up a shred of sympathy for him at this moment.

It is nearly impossible to obtain a 1st class result purely through 'runs'.

@Ibime
I've come to respect your intellect here on NL, but on matters such as these your responses are always driven mainly by sentiments.

First you people say you want Shell out of the way. now Shell is divesting some of its interests to largely Nigerian companies and una still dey complain.

This isn't about 'consulting' or any 'illegal land seizure'. This is 100% about these groups sensing an opportunity to shake down someone for some cash. Invading premises and beating up staff on duty is just an imbecilic thing to do.

What they should be doing is to meet with representatives of the incoming companies to discuss MoUs or other sustainable development schemes.