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ichommy:
The former Central Bank governor and gubernatorial candidate in Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has revealed that Imo State has received over N100 billion as special grants from the Federal Government.

Soludo said this on Tuesday in Awka, when Dr. Alex Ekwueme led some members of Old Aguata Forum to meet with some people from Anambra North for an alliance that would support Soludo’s governorship ambition at the House of Chief Mike Nwakalu.

While trying to convince them on the need to vote for the PDP, Professor Soludo, quoting Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, said that the Ikemba himself talked about the need for the Igbos to join the mainstream politics. Soludo said that Governor Ikedi Ohakim had been able to attract over N100 billion as grants from the Federal Government since he joined the PDP.

Soludo, who argued that Governor Obi had tried, said that he was better qualified to lead Anambra State than other contestants.


http://www.tribune.com.ng/06012010/news/news10.html

And we accept this as the right thing? That the money received for development of a state where tax-paying citizens reside is tied to the political party the state governor belongs to?

Absolute rubbish. Anyway, we all know the 'gains' Anambra has received from the PDP so far - Sorrow, tears and Blood!

kosovo:
Is it better than a DLC, ?
A 6 hours campaing, you call that a full game? with mediocre story, picture and graphics, 

Regarding 83, i said in today's Gaming community, Considering the name 'halo' it should have done better than that.
so don't misquote me, I have been actively following the gaming industry for over a decade, i sure know what i am talking about, 

I do not know what you have been smoking, but Halo:ODST did not have mediocre graphics. not spectacular, yes, but it had good, solid graphics.
Since when did having stunning visuals become a criteria for being a good game, anyway? Nothing wrong with the storyline either. It's not as if Resistance and Killzone have epic stories too.

As for having a short campaign, there's also immense value in the multiplayer. As we saw from Call of Duty 4 and MW2, short campaigns doesn't always translate into a bad game.

A decade in the gaming industry is just 1999. I have been a gamer since 1990. That's 19 years to you, sonny boy. Graphics isn't everything. That's why Mario Bros on the Nintendo DS is a better gaming experience than LAIR on the PS3. And that's why the DS is handily beating the PSP silly!

kosovo:
The hugely anticipated game, which is due to hit shelves in March, is set to become one of the biggest titles of 2010.

Many tip it as a 'system seller' for Sony - and now the firm has told CVG that the game takes full advantage of PS3 hardware.

UK product manager for GoW III, Claire Backhouse, told CVG today:

"The developers have worked hard to use the power of the PS3 to make GOW3 look amazing and have added features that are only possible with PS3.

"The dynamic lighting solution employed in GOW III is only feasible through the computing power provided by the Cell SPUs.

"For example, using the High Dynamic Range Lighting (HDRL) technology, the camera - when using Krato's sightline - will emulate the human retina, causing players to feel a sharp brightness when Kratos exits a dark area and enters a sunlit area, similar to how the human eye would need to adjust."


http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=230832

HDR lighting has been in use even on the original xbox. it's nothing new.
Read the article again; they say the solution they came up with is only feasible on the PS3's Cell architecture. Anyone could as well come up with an alternative method to achieve much the same thing on the 360's x86 CPU architecture.

it seems Sony keeps making a deliberate attempt to focus their first party devs on graphics, keeping them in the oven for much longer than their rivals to apply a level of visual polish that would enable such fanboyish trolling. For example keeping Killzone 2 in development for 4 years in an attempt to match the visual quality of the E3 2005 tech demo.

Truth be told, on a purely visual level both the PS3 and Xbox 360 are on par.
For example, konami have since stated that MGS: Rising on both the PS3 and 360 will look better than MGS4. yet only a year earlier, PS3 fanboys were claiming that MGS4 'couldn't be done' on the Xbox 360.

We'll see a definitive answer when Final Fantasy comes out in North America for the 360 and the PS3. At least this time the lead engine has been the PS3, so nobody's gonna come complaining about lazy developers

a1uc:
[b]"Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt"[/b]

I would not usually waist my time trying to proof to someone that seems not to know what they are talking about .


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rsSHE_2AQo

lol. i'd already told him, but i guess he deserved to have the bomb dropped on him  

Did you choose to upgrade to the higher end Core i7 or was the config just like that when you bought it? I read that on a price-to-performance ratio it was not too great to spring for the 2Ghz Core i7 as against the 1.83 820 version. and i think it's a $500 difference in the upgrade.

Couldnt you have put the extra dough to spring for a Geforce 2xx series SLI upgrade?

a1uc:
Scores without SSD

Why are the scores for the processor different from when you ran it with the SSD? an 0.3 change is no beans. Please explain.

oyb:
^^^

forgot to include this -

[img]http://www.mydigitallife.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/thinkpad_t410-468x238.jpg[/img]

seems its a detachable battery

na proposed pic , though

Yeah, similar to what HP did on on the Envy 15 series. That external battery could allow it hit that battery benchmark, especially if it's a 12 - 15 cell unit

oyb:
^^^^^^



it was good while it lasted

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2010/01/05/new-lenovo-t410-t410s-t510-and-w510-laptops-with-intel-mobile-core-i5-or-four-core-i7-processor/

any moment now, we'll be seeing the w710 series

22 hrs battery life _{more like ten} - - means no need to power my downloads with a gen

1. No Core i7 laptop will boast up to 22 hrs battery life. in fact, no core i7 laptop will reach 10 hrs even on a 9 cell battery.
2. The core i5's are about as power hungry as the higher end core 2 duos. You'd require a pretty huge battery pack to even hit 12 hrs on a latter model Core 2 Duo. i'm pretty sure those laptops are specced up to the i5 and i7s, with lower end models with Core 2 Duos that can hit that battery limit.

Besides, any laptop with that kinda long life will either lack a discrete GPU, or use a switchable solution. You'll never be able to use any GPU intensive app and hope for long battery life at the same time

oyb:
time to abuse my powers of mod and hide the thread until two years down the line    when i'm ready to upgrade again

lol
Sell you laptop and get an Asus G73 like i will

Core i7
1TB HDD (2x 500GB 7200rpm HDDs)
8GB RAM
AMD Mobility Radeon 5870 (DirectX 11 GPU!!) with 1GB GDDR5 VRAM
17.3 inch 1080p LED backlit screen
Windows 7 home premium (x64)
8 in 1 card reader, SD,MMC,MS,MS-Pro,xD,mini SD w/ adapter,MS-Duo,MS-Pro Duo via adapter

I/O Ports

   *   1 x Microphone-in jack
   * 2 x Headphone-out jack (S/PDIF)
   * 1 x VGA port/Mini D-sub 15-pin for external monitor
   * 4 x USB 2.0 ports
   * 1 x IEEE 1394 port
   * 1 x RJ45 LAN
   * 1 x HDMI
   * 1 x E-SATA



And all for $1645 = N247,000.


ships in February 2010 - and that will be my next laptop  

xtremeidea:
some people don dey lie, how can u use a 6gb ram for a 160 gb hard disk, i suspect fowl play,

make una talk true cuz me i don humble maself tell una d truth.

e be like say una don forget say photoshop dey o!!!

Try buying an SSD higher than 160gb and you'll bleed. His specs are fully in line. Do you even know what an SSD is?
That's d first core i7 desktop here so far. Good! I'll buy a core i7 laptop next month couples with a radeon mobility 5870 (a direct x 11 card) and smoke this page!

platinumnk:
where are u getting these maps of 9ja?

I need one

Sent you an email!

Mekusxyz:
2 bn annually? I doubt it. There are so many rumours and unsubstantiated stories making the rounds. 234next is one junk journalism outfit.

Seeing as how they quoted a member of the House verbatim, what exactly is there to doubt?

cap28:
not true - this is a complete fabrication made up by the FBI whose investigation techniques have aroused suspicions amongst some eyewitnesses

And where's your proof that this was made up by the FBI? So now it isnt just the CIA and Mossad, it's now the FBI too? Which other agency will you nuts rope into this grand 'conspiracy'? PETA? FERMA? NYSC
And what about the messages from Al Qaeda claiming responsibility on several islamist websites? Are they from the FBI and CIA too? If so, why would those american agencies exhort islamists to 'kill westerners and butcher the crusaders'?

The intelligence chiefs are political appointees. Why then would they have any reason or motive to 'embarrass Obama' as many of you clowns have opined? And given the inevitable roasting the CIA would receive for failing to prevent this from happening, why would they set this up?
In all crimes, a motive has to be established and so far there's no logical motive. But then again, we've already established that you clowns aren;t in this for the logic.

cap28:
you are not living on the same planet as everyone else - al qaeda is an offshoot of the mujahideen which was trained and funded by the CIA in order to liberate afghanistan from soviet occupation in the 1980's - the mujahideen was created by Zbigniew Brzezinski (former national security advisor under jimmy carter)

Jairzinho has already answered you nicely on this issue, but learn to be honourable in your arguments and accept where you are wrong. You insisted that the CIA set up Al Qaeda in the 1980s, and we all know that's untrue. You just pulled that one out from between your buttcheeks

cap28:
you shouldnt be thinking creatively you should simply be looking at factual evidence which you clearly have not looked at.

Don't make me laugh in Swahili! So you even know what 'factual evidence' means, abi? oya, tell me what the factual evidence linking the CIA and Mossad to this plot to blow up the plane. Put it in list form so i can easily tear it apart point by point.
'factual evidence'! LMAO!!

[quote author=paddy_lo link=topic=374887.msg5243750#msg5243750 date=1262570403]plot thickens^^^^. . . this story has too many holes in it to make sense. .
too many intelligience agents knew about this misguided kid for him to have pulled this off by himself. .[/quote]he didn't 'pull this off by himself', silly. he was trained and aided by Al Qaeda. I don't know how you come about your conclusions.

All i see is people trying desperately to feed their overactive imaginations. The article you posted merely says that he popped up on the radar - as did thousands of others.
All the article confirms is the key reason why Mutallab managed to slip through all the intelligence cracks: The sheer size of the databases or people under surveillance.

Mekusxyz:
What makes Agali a high profile Nigerian? Na wao! Everybody for naija is important. What has Agali achieved for himself and for Nigeria aside being a professional player among hundreds of others?

You know what i meant .

Enjoyment1:
Take this topic to the sporting section, and stop posting such here.

it concerns a high profile Nigerian apprehended in Schipol airport after checks and screening proceedures instituted post-Mutallab's suicide bombing attempt. This will only reinforce the negative impressions of Nigerians in Amsterdam, and it can be used as vindication for tough screening measures for Nigerians. As such, it belongs in the politics section.

Not my fault if your small brain couldn't get past the words 'nigerian footballer'. i'm sure if a Nigerian Footballer guns down Obama you'll be demanding that the post gets moved to the 'Sports' section.

Ask this idiotic writer if in his days of Christian 'extremism' he ever considered actions to deliberately kill 289 people in a gruesome manner.

vikiviko:
Its not possible a Footballer of his calibre i doubt won't be carrying 2 passports.

I hope its not true and he's cleared.

two conflicting statements. if it's 'impossible', why do you hope it isn't true?

look, it's already made the news. And it's simple. he was caught with fake passports. Where he spends his immediate future (athens or a dutch jail) depends on how good his explanations and excuses are

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=375694.msg5246505#msg5246505 date=1262616364]I'm waiting to see what the american govt will do about this,sweep under the carpet i guessed?[/quote]This is no breaking news, the men have been in Pakistani police custody since mid december.
And the US Government is extremely interested in the matter. There are plans underway to try the suspects in the US on terrorism charges.

However, it is worth noting that these guys - unlike mutallab- were not caught in any actual criminal act.

Why would you think the US would sweep this under the carpet, anyway?

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na wa o! Even highly placed people like this international striker dey involved in this kind of shyte?

This has to be as a result of the increased scrutiny on Nigerians travelling through Schipol Amsterdam - and the fact that they've netted a semi-prominent Nigerian so soon after commencing the increased scrutiny will make the dutch feel vindicated.

http://www.supersport.com/football/article.aspx?headline=Nigerian%20footballer%20arrested%20in%20Amsterdam&id=328306

Victor Agali, a Nigerian-born footballer for Greek club Levadiakos, has been arrested at Schiphol airport near Amsterdam for carrying two fake passports, Dutch military police said on Monday.
"At passport control, on December 27, he (Agali) was found to be in possession of a fake passport," said gendarmerie spokesman Robert van Kapel.

Upon further investigation, the 31-year-old striker in transit at Schiphol on a voyage from Lagos to Athens, turned out to have two sets of fake travel documents, said Van Kapel.

"In the one, the page with his personal particulars has been modified, in the other it was the visa," he said.

A judge will decide on Monday whether to extend the footballer's provisional detention for further investigation.

Agali has played for French teams like Marseille (1996-97), Toulon (1997-98) and Nice (2004-2005), as well as Germany's Schalke 04 (2001-2004).

On Christmas Day, a 23-year-old Nigerian was arrested in the United States for the botched bombing of a Northwest Airlines plane bound for Detroit from Schiphol.

http://www.supersport.com/football/article.aspx?headline=Nigerian%20footballer%20arrested%20in%20Amsterdam&id=328306

Victor Agali, a Nigerian-born footballer for Greek club Levadiakos, has been arrested at Schiphol airport near Amsterdam for carrying two fake passports, Dutch military police said on Monday.
"At passport control, on December 27, he (Agali) was found to be in possession of a fake passport," said gendarmerie spokesman Robert van Kapel.

Upon further investigation, the 31-year-old striker in transit at Schiphol on a voyage from Lagos to Athens, turned out to have two sets of fake travel documents, said Van Kapel.

"In the one, the page with his personal particulars has been modified, in the other it was the visa," he said.

A judge will decide on Monday whether to extend the footballer's provisional detention for further investigation.

Agali has played for French teams like Marseille (1996-97), Toulon (1997-98) and Nice (2004-2005), as well as Germany's Schalke 04 (2001-2004).

On Christmas Day, a 23-year-old Nigerian was arrested in the United States for the botched bombing of a Northwest Airlines plane bound for Detroit from Schiphol.

Mavor:
F.E.A.R. 2?? ODST?? Walahi you dey mental!!! You clearly copied this from somewhere. I can bet you haven't played half the games on this list.

he hasn't played ANY of the games on this list.

kosovo:
I have not dedicated time to it, I do not like FPS either, My friends who got the 360 complained bitterly, - short campaign, sub HD,   etc,  After failing to meet Gamers expectations and failing in metacritc, i think it deserves a spot there,

Stop trolling over a make believe friend

And ODST got 83 on Metacritic. That's a good score.

kosovo:
Hideo Kojima is probably the most legendary game developer in the business.

Wrong. That's Shigeru Miyamoto of Nintendo, the creator of the Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Star Fox and Pikmin franchise.

Believe me, even Kojima knows this.

So what record did he break?
We castigate Nigerian newspapers for their sensationalist headlines, yet we do the same thing if given the chance.

puskin:
Adams oshiomole: Deserves his mandate, not too sure about Mimiko

If the people voted for him and he won fair and square, he deserves his mandate. Simple as that.

All those castigating Sanusi are full of crap!

Na today? When some people opened a thread here in nairaland claiming to 'feel sorry' for mutallab's, I was wondering if they truly had no idea of the havoc this miscreant has caused us.
The UK authorities are merely being safe, I have no issue with the whole idea of the strip search thingy. Sure, it's degrading, but they'd rather do that than allow any potential terror threat through.

May Mutallab (Curses Be Upon Him!) reap the fruit of the chaos he and his murdering band have sowed.

cap28:
texazzpete where is your evidence to show that this attack is a terrorist attack perpetrated by islamic fundamentalists

1. Mutallab claimed from the start that he was trained and equipped by Al Qaeda in yemen
2. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack. The statement was posted online on several islamist websites. And lest you muppets think it was a CIA plot, the message also strongly exhorts other muslims to kill Westerners in the region as part of the war against the 'crusaders.

cap28:
texazzpete where is your evidence to show that this attack is a terrorist attack perpetrated by islamic fundamentalists - are you not aware that the so called al qaeda was a CIA funded organisation which was formed in the 1980's in order to wage a war against the soviets who were encroaching into afghanistan, would it be a step too far to conclude that the US govt are still exerting some level of control over this group especially since they were responsible for creating it in the first place.

Al Qaeda was not in existence in the 1980s, and has NEVER been funded by the CIA. Speak of things you know of, instead of showing off your ignorance.

cap28:
i think you are the one who is refusing to think outside the box, choosing instead to absorb and swallow the garbage being force fed to you by media whores like CNN, fox and the BBC.

I take available, verifiable data and then think creatively. YOu people on the other hand make up the base data or swallow unverifiable data as the base of all your assumptions. And that's idiocy.

Lagosboy:
Well , you are entitled to your view, i am not the only one who holds this view but the only reason you and your firends in this have called me this is simply because i am a muslim and probably the only one to be very vocal about this issue. The other muslims have probably being on the defence and i chose not to. I stick to my opinion and views and you lot could call it whatever you like but i repeat it ithat it s views like yours that silence the sane voice in the islamic world, all what you guys want are muslim aoplogist. I refuse to be one.

Now forget about me and let us go back to the issue at hand.

Sane voices in the islamic world should be preaching against a Jihad that encourages the slaughter of innocent civillian non-combatants, not blaming every attack perpetrated by islamic extremists as a conspiracy between the US and the 'zionists'.