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What model of 360 is it? Arcade? Pro?

avia:
Dude even at comp village a used sells for between 55-60k nuthin else
N u can't even trust the piece

This is all intact complete like new
Used sparingly by an expat

P.s din say its the final price negotiations r welcome

Then the computer village option would be a better deal at the price. And lest you forget, this is 'used' also.

If this could go for N45k i may be tempted to buy it.

I just heard from a friend of mine that the dead doctor was his Uncle. Funny how the world can be such a small place.

As far as i'm concerned, Justice has been served. How can someone prescribe a fine of N100k for killing a human being, a breadwinner in his own right. Is that fair?

PS: Since when did being a 'single mother' let one off the hook when a serious crime is committed?

I'm beginning to get a bad feeling about this woman.
No, it isn't about the sensationalism seeking headline. It's the lack of logic in her words that concern me

Everyone knows India has teeming slums. But at the same time everyone knows that India has one of the largest and fastest growing economies in the world. And their mastery of IT is top-notch.
Similarly, while South Africa has a high crime rate, they have efficient systems put in place. Plus they are not yet known for exporting their crime to other countries.
Did she just attempt to classify an entire country (South Africa) by the actions of a fallible Vice President (sleeping with a Prostitute)? Has she forgotten the manner Abacha died?
Speaking about the US, does it make sense to blab about isolated cases of school shootings when every year tens of Nigerian students are killed in Cult related activities. This year alone several have died in UNIBEN.


I'm beginning to revise my opinion of this woman. Pity.

Let's have your phone number. No reason to haggle price on an open forum

See people whining about an 'unfair sentence' whereas someone was killed!
How do you want the family of the doctor to feel?

This is what i mean when i say the problem with Nigeria doesn't come from the leaders only. Here are people (who often rail against the leaders) shamelessly supporting wrongdoing. How can you support payment of a fine when someone died?

Then there's someone calling for her to pay only a '6 figure fine'. WTF?!

Ex Inferis:
@Texazz


since Appulo went down taking Installous with it, Mega 4 Installer seems a better app. originally the author was asking for a one-off fee of $12, but now he's gone donationware.

the best news:

1. its free
2. comes with MI patch
3. works better than Installous
4. sleek UI
5. the apps are in a central server as against installous' linking to file servers!

Must confess i'd never heard of Mega4 installer before. Will try and grab it today.
Not sure about the push on Yahoo being an actual, real time 'push' service. Then again, there's so much i don't know

The E71 looks cool, though. Looks like something i might get. Perhaps i can get a trade + cash on top deal with flyuche .
With the Appstore easily eclipsing N-Gage, any incentive i'd have had to hold on to the N96 seems to have evaporated. Not even remotely tempted by the 5800.

My HTC Tytn is back to life! Changed the screen and the keyboard now, so it's darn near perfect.

meexteriox:
By my simple calculation, you were probably born in early nineties, hmmmmmmmmmm, no wonder.
That is not an excuse for your intellectual and historical malnutrition, stagnation and atrophy.
You should endeavour to read historical literatures, because they abound.

1966 + 23 = 1989.
So how did you come about 'early nineties'?
Before you accuse someone of 'ineptitude', make sure you yourself don't look like a dolt. This is simple math that i could do in Primary school.


[quote author=onye_ngbu link=topic=148690.msg3642611#msg3642611 date=1238012314]imagine a 'pupil' coming here to comment on biafra war too.

I have been wondering who is the slowpoke with that stupid name, 9jaganja .

My bad, you are not an slowpoke, you only have some growing to do.

Hope your mum is aware you are using the internet.[/quote]He's 20 years old. If at 20 years you and your peers considered you a 'pupil', that doesn't mean you must extend the same disservice to anyone else.
At 20, he's old enough to marry, to vote, to drive and legally drink alcohol. He damn well is legally entitled to express his opinion on a public forum without being heckled by a geriatric screwball like yourself.

I know nothing about this 9jaganja fellow, but as you can tell i'm really irked by your reply.

KunleOshob:
The source of this story is very unreliable, it is a soft sell and little known newspaper called "NEXT". I am quite certain they are just making up this story based on speculation to sell their rubbish paper. The real bribe takers are yet to be named.

PS: is it possible the three different rulers who reigned years apart collected bribes for the same contract

I haven't seen this same story on other papers, so you may very well be right.
What i know about NEXT is that they are an online only paper at the moment, though they intend to go to print eventually. Kinda strange they'd take a controversial stand at this stage.

thegame:
while i wait, i rock my e71. its just repping me though its common and expensive. people just keep buying the blackberry killer. with this phone, blackberry is bleeped up

E71 a 'blackberry killer'?. Do you really think the keypad is all there is to a blackberry?

Read it here

http://www.234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/National/5395403-146/The_Halliburton_bribe_takers__.csp


Sorry, too long to paste!

Seun:
It takes time to grow a winning team.  Have patience with Amodu!

You can bet that this is the same tired excuse Amodu is going to trot out today.
This is not about 'winning team'. This is about a bunch of players unwilling or unable to play like committed professionals.

some of the most important things you can do for Nigeria are
1. Obey the laws
2. Pay taxes so there's money to build the country
3. Pay utility bills so there are sufficient funds to maintain and improve infrastructure
4. Take a stand against corruption


I cannot understand where this mindset that most of the 'bad mouthing' comes from Nigerians in diaspora. A large number of Nigerians on ground are equally dissatisfied with the state of the country and are extremely vocal too.

lynxnoon:
huh! is d 60k for 5800 or Iphone?

Neither. It's an N96.

@flyuche
75k last. 60k for an N96?! I laugh in yoruba

I hate it when i see people parroting the same stupid mantra all the time. Not all the victims of 419 are from the 'pay xx money to get xx money'. Do you know how many tens of thousands of innocent victims have fallen prey to the love scams, the inheritance scams and even the 'donate to my church' scams?

It is entirely stupid to make this assumption. No matter what goes down, it's the 419ers that are giving Nigeria a bad name, not the victims. Isn't image laundering the sole purpose of the rebrand nigeria campaign?

flyuche:
@tex. What's your price? I'm interested.

lol. I know you're in Port Harcourt too

Price is 80k.

lol
Funny how no one seems to talk about the Nokia N96 anymore. I have one in my possession and i'm desperately trying to sell it off.

I've used the Nokia 5800 and while it's got some cool features, it's a far cry from the 'iPhone Killer' it was supposed to be.

bawomolo:
The pope is living on borrowed time. Islam and Pentecostalism are the fasted growing religions in Africa and latin America respectively. He is just making these ridiculous statements to get attention. Catholics would lose their strongholds in no time.

Is this what the Church of Christ is all about now? Competition for 'strongholds'?

spikedcylinder:
This preaching for abstinence is rather ridiculous. Look around you, there's SEX everywhere and its not changing anytime soon.

Better to preach safety than abstinence. Something Mr Pope is yet to understand.

Better to preach absolute safety than likely safety. That's something YOU are yet to understand.

@Richyblack

You need to calm down and stop demonizing people who just want to see law and order reign in Nigeria once more. As far as i'm concerned, the guy was occupying an illegal structure and the fact that successive governments did nothing to curb this does not mean it's right.

RichyBlacK:
This is the Nigeria people live in today. Very bold to confront yam thieves but unbelievable timid, to the point of subservience, when it is time to confront those who have stolen billions of dollars!

Shame on Nigerians for allowing this form of oppression on the poor!!!

So no shame on Nigeria for allowing people to flout laws and site shanty huts in unauthorized sites, eh? Would happily accommodate a pickpocket simply because people have stolen billions?

Kobojunkie:
Well, in the same Lagos, if you bought a piece of land and left it empty for a long time. If it happens that someone else occupies that land during that time, I believe after a certain period, the occupier can claim that land. The space Ibrahim occupied may have been illegal 31 years ago, but the fact that he was ALLOWED by every government in that state since then to continue to illegally occupy it, raises the question of the illegality/or not of his occupancy.

'allowed' ? More like 'turned a blind eye'.
Please remember that this is government land we're talking about.

[quote author=**osisi link=topic=252059.msg3633666#msg3633666 date=1237844187]The problem with Nigeria is lawlessness
From top to bottom.
Like Richie pointed out,where was the govt when Maroko residents pitched their tent there?[/quote]Good job identifying the problem. So why are you sympathetic to lawlessness in this regard?

[quote author=**osisi link=topic=252059.msg3633666#msg3633666 date=1237844187]Like Richie pointed out,where was the govt when Maroko residents pitched their tent there?
Where was the govt when Pa Ibrahim started his "forknizing" business at that spot in 1978?[/quote]Not the same govt in power now, is it?

[quote author=**osisi link=topic=252059.msg3633620#msg3633620 date=1237843659]so whose fault is it?
if his structures have lasted 31 years who the fried fish is Fashola to wake up and destroy them without a ready alternative.
all this agbero justice is leading us no where.
This is a father of young children for heaven's sake[/quote]It goes like this - An order is sent out to demolish all the illegal shanties in the area so development can take place. Are the demolition men going to start asking for length of time the shanties have been there? As far as a responsible state government is concerned, the hut should not have been there in the first place.

Calling for compensation is sending a wrong signal. What stopping this scenario from playing out a hundred times in a hundred different places, ensuring the Government shells out hundreds of millions of naira in compensation payments? Why does he have a better claim to state funds than all the hundreds of market women evicted from Oshodi and Yaba roadside markets?

RichyBlacK:
One question for this defender of inhumanity: Was it illegal when he built his small shed in 1978?


As far as the structure was operating for over three decades, the structure is de facto legal! Hence, the morons running Lagos State should compensate him!

I don't understand how Nigerians use every bone in their body to support injustice when it affects "others", but scream like barbie dolls when the same injustice affects them.

By your logic since successive governments in Lagos have turned a blind eye to Agberos, therefore agberos are legal!

I have the moral high ground to complain when injustice affects me, as i'm not involved in any illegal acts. Not in my housing, not at work, not the way i drive. . .NOTHING!

Kobojunkie:
You mean the same America where those who made bad decisions (took out loans they could not afford) are right now having the government bail them out using tax payer’s money? You mean this same America where people with kids get more attention (section 8, food stamps and other benefits) from the government courtesy of the tax payer?  Well, considering you are against aiding the poor with tax payer money, I doubt you will want what we have here in Nigeria.

I never said i'm against aiding the poor. i'm against pandering to the demands of law breakers with taxpayers' money!! If fashola wants to go into any anti-poverty drive, fine by me. But no strident calls for compensation of illegals with my money  

and as you well know, the American public gets more say in how money is spent than here in Nigeria. Several Senators opposed the bailout packages simply because their constituents strongly opposed it.

RichyBlacK:
A clear conflation of the definite and the probable. The definite reality is that Jubril Ibrahim has been illegally dispossessed of his, until recently, legal source of income. The probable reality is that Jubril Ibrahim will be forced to take up arms.

illegally dispossessed?! WTF?! Did you really just say that?
No one ever said his source of income was 'illegal'. His location was illegal. He is free to move anywhere else he can (legally!) and resume his trade there.

And you're wrong. He isn't 'forced' to take up arms. If every Nigerian with a sob story took up arms, where would we be?

We have a choice. Either drag this country of Neanderthals kicking and screaming into the 21st century, or stay here and wallow in mire. Kudos to fashola for making the right choice.

agabaI23:
Why talk about his having seven kids? he never complained before his job was destroyed.
Even if he has 2 kids, it will still be difficult to feed them without a job.

Abegi. Like it is easy to turn from the giver to a begger.

And people wonder why i'm so cynical these days.
Welcome to Nigeria. Get away with an illegal act for some time and eventually you start feeling you're in the right!

Now answer this question: Just because he had been staying in an illegal shack since 1978, does that suddenly make it legal?

asha 80:
Rubbish talk.

You wouldn't know an intelligent conversation even if it bit you in the arse.

agabaI23:
Which taxpayers? how many people pay tax in nigeria?

Maybe YOU don't pay taxes. But i do. You see how the American people are up in arms about the AIG fiasco? They have a very real connection to their money and they insist it's spent well. Maybe if we had a similar attitude in Nigeria things would have been a lot better.

udezue:
The sad thing is that it is the poor who suffer all the time. If he steals a shoe he will get burned while Obasanjo, IBB, walk freely like nothing is wrong.

Stealing is stealing, pure and simple. Besides, in most cases the person whose shoe is stolen feels the pain far more than whatever IBB et al have done to him.
What's more painful to a struggling, orphaned student - Obasanjo's theft or his lecturer that forces him to buy handouts of N5000 before he can pass?


[quote author=**osisi link=topic=252059.msg3633442#msg3633442 date=1237840736]Yes the govt should have provided them with legal structures and charged them rent for it.
That's what soceity ought to do
The country has the money to do so
You don't go demolish peoples sources of livelihood just like that.
There's something like low cost housing
low cost stores are not unheard of.[/quote]That's OUR money, paid for by our taxes, obtained from our sweat. Why should we be thrilled for the Govt to compensate these people?

By the way, even the low cost housing and stores are still far out of the financial reach of people like this vulcanizer.

There are reasons why we're in this shithole we find ourselves today. And one of them happens to be Nigerians' lack of appreciation for the concept of 'taxpayers money'.

Why should taxpayers' money be used to 'compensate' people who were breaking the law? Why should Fashola be derided for not showing a 'human face', when he's merely doing what we all need: zero tolerance to illegal acts?

Most people complaining here are outside the country. How many of them have attempted building shanty huts in public areas overseas?

It is irresponsible to insist that Fashola compensates these people. If the guy wants to go into armed robbery, that's his lookout.

Even if Dora did a decent job in NAFDAC, does that make her good Presidential material?

As a columnist said in Sunday Vangard, the 'rebrand Nigeria' campaign shows a lack of creativity and imagination.

spikedcylinder:
You said it yourself (or was that Kobo? ), humans are weak and can hardly subdue sexual urges. In respect to that, even though Africans are "highly religious", they cannot follow everything written in the bible through.
I don't think the pope should have said anything about condoms or whatever. Promote abstinence as you must but don't say condoms increase HIV risks. I'm basing this on the article posted in the link on this thread.

What the article said was that the Pope used the words 'aggravates the problem'. What i infer from this is that he's referring to the vigorous condom campaign, and his concern that such blanket guarantees of safety from condom usage may spur youths to be more sexually aggressive, thus leaving them more susceptible to HIV.

I can share a personal experience to buttress my point; a colleague and I were working in Bonny and he started talking about going out to find a woman to sleep with. When i reminded him that Bonny has one of the highest population of HIV carriers in Nigeria, all he said was that he would use condom! In such a high risk area, why tempt fate even with condom usage?


I don't subscribe to his point of view on condom usage, but that doesn't mean i can see no good intentions in his stand.

spikedcylinder:
Madam, I don't need to pick up a bible before I know that a Pope is a very influential figure in the lives of millions of people and whatever he says usually informs the decisions of these people.

The man came to Africa (the bedrock of HIV Aids) to say that condoms increase the risk of HIV AIDS and you think he was doing his "religious duty"? . He may have meant it figuratively but this is Africa and people hardly think outside the box. They assume: "The pope says using condoms will give me more diseases, why should I bother to use it"?

Fine, he's a religious leader and his religious beliefs state that contraceptives are a big no-no but is that a realistic thing to preach in present day Africa? Think about it.

Whether you like it or not, the Pope is about to be responsible for more deaths in Africa.

Oh I almost forgot - " ".

Where exactly did the Pope say those words.

The irony of the situation is that you do not realise your words contradict themselves. So on one hand, the Pope is so influential that his words will make people stop using condoms. On the other hand he lacks influence so his call for abstinence will not make people stop indiscriminate sex, right?

spikedcylinder:
I doubt if I care about catholics enough to hate them.

There's something really wrong with this statement. treat human beings for what they are worth, and not based on their religious denomination. If Catholics cared nothing for Pentecostals, Anglicans treated Latter Day peeps with disdain and Jehovah Witnesses couldn't give a fig about Baptists, where would we be today?