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lol. Did i hear someone say Sony was 'defaming' Nigeria? As in, you think we aren't guilty as charged?

izeek:
start by getting them jobs.
i dont think anyone wants to be a thief if he has options.

I cannot understand why you people default to this generic and brainless answer as the solution to the problem. Is it only in Nigeria that unemployment is soaring?
If joblessness is the main reason, why are tens of thousands of Nigerian undergraduates and secondary school students in cafes sending scam email? Please answer.

Also, why do they persist in 419 even when they easily earn more money in one year than their banker friends do in 5 years?

Greed is the main driver.

cap28:
when will you wake from your self hating imbecilic slumber  have you even read any of the above threads or undertaken any research in this area let me say it slowly so that you can  understand this time -  HIV AIDS WAS INTRODUCED INTO AFRICA BY WAY OF MASS VACCINATIONS/INNOCULATIONS CARRIED OUT BY WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION OFFICIALS IN ORDER TO IMPLEMENT A RACIST POLICY OF DEPOPULATION OF THE AFRICAN CONTINENT (Nigeria is specifically mentioned in Kissinger's memorandum NSSM 200 as one of the target countries with high population) IN ORDER TO REDUCE THE THREAT OF ANY FUTURE RESISTANCE TO THE ECONOMIC PLUNDER AND PILLAGE OF OUR NATURAL RESOURCES - WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE THEY ARE COMMITTING GENOCIDE AGAINST OUR OWN PEOPLE AND YOU SIT THERE TALKING CRAP ABOUT "the black colour is beclouding our brains"  - no,  your "brain" is totally submerged in ignorance - even whites have gone on record to admit that this was a covert method of legalised genocide against africans so why is this not getting through to you!! jesus

please go and do some research and stop with the stupidity  http://euroyank..com/2007/07/biowar-depopulation-plans-of-criminal.html

Genocide, huh? Why don't you loonies focus on the real genocides in Darfur and the rape in Congo instead of fishing about for senseless, helf-baked theories?
You conspiracy theorists are quite pathetic, always driven by a need to make chaos out of sense.

Research? On a blog? LMAO!

It amuses me when i see people dissing Wikipedia all in a bid to appear smart.
As an online Encyclopaedia, wikipedia is an extremely valuable resource. While some cases of vandalism exist, it's reliability in most cases speaks for itself.
Funny how it's only on Nairaland i see people sneering when someone refers to Wikipedia.

As far as the topic is concerned, why would any right-thinking adult imagine HIV-Aids would be a biological weapon against black people when it's a disease that

1. Readily infects whites also
2. Is impossible to effectively quarantine.
3. Has no known cure

Seems a clear case of misfiring cerebral neurons, if you ask me.

Dunno what you guys are whining about, it's targeted at people who call a lot, not at you fellow. 10 mins daily is not that much, if you look at it.

Shitty defence, shitty teamwork. As usual we rely on individual brilliance and little on teamwork. Utter crap!

TheSeeker:
I knew this was going to fail. Just less than 2 months into the program and everything has turned out to be scam. There's nothing honest about Nigerian governments. I'll see how they'll handle this one, especially when they boys are already threatening going back to the creeks to foment more chaos. This time will not be funny.

There's also nothing honest about 'repentant' millitants already threatening to go back to the creeks at the first sign of adversity.

I can assure you, even at 50k you will not find a buyer. What greed!

A Tale of Two Countries

After world War 2, Japan's reputation was in the abyss at an all time low.
How did they fix it? By massive industrialization, a resolve to abstain from the horrors of war and a focus on economic improvement.

Nigeria has a not unfounded reputation for 419 scams. How do we resolve this? Why, by writing petitions of course!

peruso:
NO MATTER THE RATE OF PIRACY(which i;m not sure can be compared to some countries) EVEN IF IT''S SO; FOR THE FACT THAT SONY HAS MADE EVEN IF IT'S 1NAIRA OUT OF THIS COUNTRY WE  DESERVE THEIR RESPECT.

Good. By that same standard, for the fact Many Nigerians have stolen money relentlessly from tens of thousands of westerners, we DESERVE THEIR DISRESPECT.

You talk about proferring solutions, how many have you offered apart from this shameless attempt to bury your head in the sand and paper over all the flaws and cracks.

peruso:
[and mark my words we will get it one day]

Not at this rate, you won't. As we speak, hundreds of thousands of scam emails are being sent out from Nigeria.

peruso:
nigerians are watching, tbc

Isn't that what we're good at? Watching idly? Feeling no shame?

Look at all of you people thinking that railing against Sony is a way to show patriotism. Why not go out to the nearest cafe and speak to these boys doing the true damage to our country?

Eagle1:
@texazzpete
1. Dating scam etc; u know so much about these things, na wa o.

Of course i know about these things, anyone with half a brain and a reasonably keen sense of observation will know all these. When 419 is such a big menace to our reputation, only a dumbass will not take time out to learn what makes these people tick.

Eagle1:
2. Somebody you've never met promises u a mouthwatering share of a staggering sum at an effort so easy and u call it trust.

Can you please learn to read before typing? My trust comment was made when i referred to Dating scams, scams aimed at churches, charity organisations, scams centered around natural disasters like Katrina etc.
However, it's still apt in many cases, including the popular lottery scams. People are used to getting things free on the net these days, and not everyone is extremely intelligent.

Eagle1:
3. Somali pirates - please read more on this and u'll know the impact on global commerce. And of course its making headlines all over the world

Yet again you show your puzzling inability to comprehend simple written English. People KNOW that there's a serious piracy problem in Somalia. But anyone doing business with a Somalian in Brooklyn or Texas will not associate the person with Piracy.

igbo boy:
I beg to differ, Eagle1 made a very valid point, Somalian piracy is not confined to the waters of somalia. There have been instances this pirates went as far as to the waters of Yemen, kenya and even egypt, Moreover those affected are the international community, so dont try to down play it, otherwise the u.s and the world wouldnt have send their navies to patrol such water

As i said before, no one will ever take a Somali living in Aberdeen, Brooklyn or Toronto for a pirate. The effect of Somali piracy is localized. Can you say the same for Nigerian 419ers?

igbo boy:
am not condoning nigerian scammers but it definitel seems the western Media have a thing for Nigeria

1. You are actually condoning 419. Anything short of Zero tolerance is sympathetic to their cause.
2. The fact that You live in a country where all your journalists are sell-outs does not mean that all other countries' media fall in that mould. Tens of thousands of Westerners have been duped by Nigerians, and millions more have recieved 419 mails emanating from Nigeria. What do you expect them to think?

Daft article. Why does the writer seek to make a disctinction between 'ordinary Nigerians' and 'high profile Nigerians'?

Damn right there's country profiling. Do you know the high rate of defections made by Nigerians in the past? Or the number of applicants that turn up with papers prepared in Oluwole?

PS: but it's not an easy process for expats to get a NIgerian visa. It took 2 months + for the dutch parents of an expat in my office to get a visa to Nigeria and he assures me that it's pretty much standard to expect serious delays and holdup when applying for a Nigerian visa.

Eagle1:
How come there are no commercials about Somali pirates? I honestly think the media is being deliberately manipulated to make it look like scamming is a nigerian thing. Its takes 2 to tango, the scammer and the greedy idiot who believes the bullshit. This Sony rubbish is part of an agenda to deny/acknowledge our positive(individual and collective) contributions to global advancement. So sad.

1. Not every scam needs a 'greedy idiot'. Dating scams, money order scams and scams defrauding churches and charities only need a great amount of trust, not greed

2. Every human being has a kernel of greed in him, it just depends on the stimulus needed to push you over the threshold. When all is said and done, all the blame must fall on the instigator, the seducer, the initiator. And that is the Nigerian.

3. Your somali pirate analogy is rather brainless. Piracy is confined to the waters of Somalia. No-one is gonna think a Somali living in aberdeen is a pirate. Nigerian scammers reach everywhere in the western world.

I cannot order anything from Amazon and ship to Nigeria. Expansys UK turns down my credit card order for a HTC Touch Pro 2 because - as the apologetic customer rep said - '99% of credit card orders made on the Expansys website from Nigeria are fraudulent'.
Ebay sellers are EXTREMELY wary about shipping to Nigeria. Most will not touch any orders from Nigeria with a 10 foot pole.
Sony didn't do this to us. We Nigerians did it to ourselves.
Fix your bloody country first before being self righteous.

Funny how 419 glorifying music like Yahoozee, Maga Don Pay and I Go Chop Your Dollar are major chart toppers in Nigeria.

What a bunch of cowards you lot are!
You cannot petition against the ASUU strike and the Federal Govt's apathy to education
You cannot petition that Yar'Adua recieves all his medical care in Nigeria
You sure as hell cannot petition the NASS to sign the long delayed Freedom of Information bill
You cannot petition for electoral reforms. Candidates you voted for have decamped to other parties. You lot cannot be arsed to petition against that.

Now when it comes to foreign companies, suddenly we decide we can finally feel outraged! The same educated elite that are driving this movement are the same people that abstained from voting in the last election out of an overwhelming desire to protect their own skin.

As for the Sony ad, i've seen worse. And to be honest, we deserve it. When you celebrate 419 in your country, when there's little effort to curb the flood of millions of scam emails originating from your country, when your countrymen get a reputation of being greedy, unrelenting and extremely cruel fraudsters.

so create a new petition against 419 in Nigeria. but i wouldn't hold my breath.

Ah, i see where the issue comes from

I originally wrote
C:\ProgramFiles\iTunes\iTunes.exe /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1

However, you'll notice that the path is actually supposed to be 'Program Files', not 'Programfiles'. That's why you're getting the invalid path error.

So enter it like this

"C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe" /setPrefInt carrier-testing 1

Remember, you need the space between Program and Files, and the double quotes are neccessary whenever there are spaces in your path.

Run it like this again, should work.

Loopylove, my bad for the typo.

kosovo:
@all the people complaing.

all what the governor has done is to follow due process, all retired governors are entitled to those benefits, he had the right to withdraw the cars given by the formal governor because the governor was illegal so also were the cars illegal, so why the RANTS?
if you don't agree with me,, then obvioulsy you are DUMB! nuff said done.

I don't know what you're smoking, son, but i feel for you. In the spirit of christianity, i hereby offer to pay for your rehab anytime you're ready to be re-integrated in the society.

PS: When lucidity sets in, ask yourself where it's written that all former governors are entitled to three jeeps. Also ask yourself why Jeeps were given out now in his tenure. Why weren't they handed over to him during the past administrations?

adaku123:
IGNORANCE should be listed as a disability!!! You shouldn't be allowed to breed!!! Because People With Higher IQ's will not think there is anything Wrong with that Question!!!


Yes!!! What makes the beans a killer How about Information ??Fact?? Scientific Proof For It Being Fatal??

Thats how they said polio vaccine cause sterility in girls which resulted in 1500 children being paralysed and 450million dollars wasted because of Rumours!!! This isnt exactly the same thing but how about PROOF rather than i heard, they said or whatever, _sighs

+1 for you!!

Nigerians and their stupid scaremongering.

will you sell for 65k?

platinumnk:
texas i sent u another email

Just replied ya!

*Sigh*

When i saw 'wooing' i thought i'd see a girl lamenting about the lack of romantic men these days. I thought i'd see someone complaining that men aren't putting that much effort into making her feel loved and cherished bla bla bla

Instead i see someone complaining about guys not spending enough on her.

The greed is strong in this one. . .
Make your own money and stop whining  .

As far as i'm concerned, people should obey the lawas of the country they live in, or STFU.
Why should the Nigerian Government spend our taxpayers' money to 'bring these people home'? Let the Chinese govt put them to work until they can cough up the money to return back under their own steam.

PAININASS:
And the worse is that,98% of the proffesors works in more than 1 institution

Another absolutely baseless claim that merely confirms your status as an unrepentant fool.

Oluschenco:
I wonder why some people come out boldly to display their insanity.
Some professors in Nigeria earns about N321,000, is that not more than half of N400,000 you better go and re-enroll for SSCE so as to stop disgracing yourself here, Mr. Know-all. Hmmn! wonders shall never end.

Good. Now here's a question for you: Do you know how many years of hard study, massive personal development and a plethora of written and published papers it takes to become a Professor?

Forget professors for a minute. A fresh graduate with a first class degree starts off his academic career as a Lecturer Assistant. How much do you think lecturer assistants earn?
So why would any right thinking brilliant person enter academia when he'll earn less than an ordinary cashier in Unity Bank?

Here's the growth
Lecturer Assistant > Lecturer 2 > Lecturer 1 > Lecturer > Senior LEcturer > Professor

So many years of effort to earn less than a local government councillor.


And it's not all about the money. Sometimes it's about the quality and joy of the work. Arguably, South African Universities have better equipment, better infrastructure and better working conditions. So it's comparing apples to oranges to look at their salaries in absolute terms.

Excellent! i'll take two at that price.

Could you send a contact number to priyeandroid@gmail.com? Would like to discuss other possible deals with you.

Afam:
While I agree that the FG had pursued (and still pursuing) a deliberate plan to slow down the SE in terms of infrastructural development and even frustrating private sector led  projects I don't agree that kidnapping can be excused for a split second.

A crime is a crime no matter what.

Can the FG achieve its aims in the SE without the collaboration of Igbo people who masquerade as politicians and contractors who will willingly pocket what is meant for the people, go into agreements with the powers that be for their own selfish ends?

So, the FG may want to slow the SE but the only reason why they have been succeeding is that we have poisonous Igbo politicians and contractors that are implementing and supporting these policies and in my opinion they are the greatest enemies in Igbo land.

Until we are bold enough to accept this blunt truth we will be going round and round in cycles playing the blame game while conferring on these politicians and contractors one title after another.

The FG may have a good reason for their fears about Igbo progress and domination based on what happened in 1966 (and in reality any tribe or group of tribes would react the same way) but I have been searching for a good reason to justify what Igbo men are doing to Igboland and thus far I have not found any.

I agree with you 100%! There can be no excuse for kidnapping.

utotomi10:
Im still not impressed. They better shape up and listen to consumers, atleast add another analog to the thing, (Im still amazed how Nintedo DS, a useless handheld, is selling more than the PSP!!)

Simply because the Nintendo DS has had far more (and far better) games than the PSP. It's not something Nigerians can easily understand, we're usually hooked by shiny things

We need to stop glorifying crime in this country. Kidnapping in the SE is merely an attempt for greedy youths to make money quickly and illegally without considering the suffering of the families of the victims.
This has NOTHING to do with the 'revolt of the oppressed', and i dont know why a journalist will attempt to romanticise and whitewash this insidious crime.

whiteroses:
yes i heared its a hoax they said back in the day americans, british and germans are always competing and its just americans trying to proove they are something, that flag should be soggy not blowing

Sometimes it amazes me how little some of my fellow human beings know, and how eager they are to share their ignorance with the world. There's no excuse for not knowing that the space race was primarily between the US and Russia in the 60's and 70's.