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Politics / Re: Ahmed Rufai Abubakar Resigns As National Intelligence Agency Director-General by ThierryJay: 8:56pm On Aug 24 |
Angelfrost: The corruption is institutional. To be not corrupt in a Nigerian agency/Government is an anomaly. The majority not yet caught are only covering their tracks well or haven't yet annoyed the powers that be. 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Ahmed Rufai Abubakar Resigns As National Intelligence Agency Director-General by ThierryJay: 8:51pm On Aug 24 |
Angelfrost: Have you forgotten the scandal about 44million pounds found in an Ikoyi mansion some years back? It was this NIA agency that was implicated in it. A Nollywood movie was even made about it. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Fc Barcelona Fan Thread: "més Que Un Club" by ThierryJay: 8:46pm On Aug 24 |
Derumklala12: Raphina has learned to play more intelligently as a team and it has really helped his game unlike previously when he thought he was some elite Brazilian Raphidinho with only dribble cuts and wild shots/crosses to show for it. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Fc Barcelona Fan Thread: "més Que Un Club" by ThierryJay: 7:41pm On Aug 24 |
Dowsky omo aye! Lewandodo, class is just permanent. That was not an easy chance. Is it a coincidence he's come to life under his former coach? |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Fc Barcelona Fan Thread: "més Que Un Club" by ThierryJay: 6:41pm On Aug 24 |
Kilishihunter: That's my greatest wish for him. If he stays healthy, all other things will definitely fall in place. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Fc Barcelona Fan Thread: "més Que Un Club" by ThierryJay: 6:36pm On Aug 24 |
Can we trademark this kind of goal as Yamal's? It now looks like his signature goal. Messi really bathed him well. No Achilles heel in there. |
Literature / Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by ThierryJay: 9:39am On Aug 23 |
joshkke: OK I get you now. It's a personal preference of yours. 1 Like |
Travel / Re: Top 10 Airports In The World For 2024 by ThierryJay: 8:35pm On Aug 22 |
Racoon: Don't be always so quick to talk down on and disparage your origins. By that same report, no US, UK, Chinese or North American Airport is deemed fit to be reckoned as part of the World best. So much for their reputed development. Criticism should be realistic, constructive and targeted else it just becomes a farcical agenda. By the way, I expected to see Schipol airport in Amsterdam there. Very big and efficient. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Chelsea Vs Servette: Europa Conference League (2 - 0) On 22nd August 2024 by ThierryJay: 8:03pm On Aug 22 |
Make these unknowns no go wipe Chelsea with Serviette anyhow lol. Chelsea go make us discover new village territories this season. I dey observe. 16 Likes |
Politics / Re: Top 10 States With The Worst Infrastructure In Nigeria - PEBEC 2023 by ThierryJay: 7:58pm On Aug 22 |
Safyqueen: I disagree. Ease of movement is a measure of congestion & convenience and not infrastructure. Lagos has roads all over and same as FCT. Also, infrastructure is not only about roads, but includes other developed transport systems like rail, waterways, airports, then modern buildings, shopping centres and basically facilities that raise the general standard of living. I've been to Niger State Minna for example. The roads are even bad for the most part. It does not have several of the facilities that connote standard infrastructure. Maybe only one or 2 standard hotels. Pray tell, how does Niger State's most developed town have better infrastructure than FCT and Lagos according to this report? It does not make correlation sense at all. Even to say Ekiti has better infrastructure than Oyo is laughable. And why would expatriates be staying in areas with the least infrastructure?Another inconsistency. The report looks more like a list for the 10 best states with infrastructure in Nigeria even though our infrastructural standards is generally poor across all the states. |
Literature / Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by ThierryJay: 11:42pm On Aug 20 |
halogate: Great choices. I see you read a wide genre. Timeline was my best Micheal Crichton book even more than Jurassic park. It's one of my all time bests. I also loved the Woolsworth classics set - Ivanhoe, Tale of 2 cities, Treasure Island and co. Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes adventures is a literary hall-of-famer. Edgan Allan Poe is also one of the Goats. Wuthering heights by Emily Bronte is also an all time favorite of many. There was this book about Chess pieces and its historical implications in discovering immortality. The Eight by Katherine Neville. It's an epic tale of adventure, history, time travel and some intriguing theories. 1 Like 1 Share |
Literature / Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by ThierryJay: 11:29pm On Aug 20 |
Mom007: Yeah, I did back when I was serving NYSC. Had the intense Americo-Russian CIA-KGB plot intrigues. The Scarlatti Inheritance was the first Ludlum book I read but The Bourne series were the ones I enjoyed most. |
Literature / Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by ThierryJay: 10:05pm On Aug 20 |
soojar: If you've read Key to Rebecca, then you dont really need to watch the movie as in most cases movie adaptations are a significant drop off from the entertainment value you got in print. Every output from Sheldon deserves to be at the top of the shelf. |
Travel / Re: Details Of The Calabar Fatal Accident & The Victims (Photos) by ThierryJay: 9:52pm On Aug 20 |
I suspect the driver swerved the car away from his own side to make the passenger side take the collision impact which I think is why he only had minor injuries while the ladies at the passenger sides died. This is just my logical deduction and may not necessarily be true. 24 Likes 2 Shares |
Literature / Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by ThierryJay: 7:08pm On Aug 20 |
There are some novels I read as a kid whose front and title pages were already torn so I didn't know their title but were so interesting. Many years after I still have that longing to finally know them. One of them was an Egyptian setting. The main character was mostly in migration mode with some of his tribesmen through the desert region and encountered several epic challenges. One of such was that he was captured and thrown into a pit that contained a massive crocodile/s that had never been defeated, but he was able to kill the crocodile and come out of the pit. There was a lot of mention of the sun god Ra in that book. Abeg who can remember the title? 1 Like |
Literature / Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by ThierryJay: 7:04pm On Aug 20 |
abuhlawal: I really felt for Ure Chokwe! 1 Like |
Literature / Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by ThierryJay: 7:03pm On Aug 20 |
soojar: Nice pick. Have you read the "Key to Rebecca" by Ken follet? It was also adapted into a movie. |
Literature / Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by ThierryJay: 3:03pm On Aug 20 |
Wegums: Not really sure. I was like 14yrs old when I read it. Check if you can find it on oceanofpdf. |
Literature / Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by ThierryJay: 2:17pm On Aug 20 |
patchsk: That's the Lord Rydal I was referring to nah |
Literature / Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by ThierryJay: 2:07pm On Aug 20 |
joshkke: Thanks. If you look at it critically though, Harry Potter is in the same fantasy genre as the Chronicles of TC which you liked. The message in HP is overwhelmingly a battle of good against evil and the value of having friends who are there for each other through thick and thin. The "witchery" was just a unique commercial angle and I can tell you that nobody feels sympathetic to witchcraft after reading that book. By the way, first time I read HP, I spent over 24 hours continuously eating up the over 1800-pages volumes without food. No other book could have made me do that. Yeah Dean Koontz is a bit dark but what will you then say about Stephen King lol. Truly I got a bit tired of Koontz novels after a while but By the light of the moon is quite different from Koontz's regular horror vibe. It is an actual thriller and was completely hooked all through. I haven't read the COTC series. I have only come across its reference several times just as J.R Tolkien's lord of the rings. If you like epic adventure and enlightening scripts, please read Shogun. It's voluminous but worth the read as an all time classic. 1 Like |
Literature / Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by ThierryJay: 1:36pm On Aug 20 |
ObalendeCMS: Are you sure you are not referring to Time changes yesterday? Kofoworola Odu was in that story 2 Likes |
Literature / Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by ThierryJay: 1:21pm On Aug 20 |
ignisaqua: I think you meant to say Bloodline. That's the one with the assassin and boss Angel. WOTG was about a widowed doctor Ashley and an American Presidential candidate who was also in cahoots with a Russian cult. |
Literature / Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by ThierryJay: 1:18pm On Aug 20 |
Mom007: I don't even know the new generation of foreign authors again that took over from dem Sheldon, Grisham, Ludlum's set. Na only few local authors I still sabi. Times have indeed changed. 1 Like |
Literature / Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by ThierryJay: 11:09am On Aug 20 |
ObalendeCMS: Yeah. Can't forget this quote from the book - "Get rich, that's the best way to help the poor" |
Literature / Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by ThierryJay: 11:04am On Aug 20 |
Mom007: Thanks. MOTG is without a doubt one of my GOAT novels along with Bloodline but I wanted to only include one novel per author for DEI purposes (lol) so I chose the first Sheldon novel I read that totally made me feel like I was having an unending literary orgasm - Windmills of the Gods. 1 Like |
Literature / Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by ThierryJay: 10:54am On Aug 20 |
patchsk: Beyond pardon was the most emotional romance story I read. Lord and Lady Eleanor Rydal. I could visualize the scenes with the way the story was told. A true classic. |
Literature / Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by ThierryJay: 10:48am On Aug 20 |
ObalendeCMS: I have this book! Sitting somewhere in my yahoo mail since 2009. It had some really interesting concepts about bending things to your will with your mind. 3 Likes |
Literature / Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by ThierryJay: 10:19am On Aug 20 |
imagrg: True Nigeria has changed our reading culture. I started by reading novels my dad bought and read when he was in active employment. Now I don't have the same luxury. Sidney Sheldon was the best storyteller I've seen. All his novels were tremendous hits and page turners with no single dulling moment. From Master of the game, bloodline, windmill of the gods, rage of angels, if tomorrow comes, stars shine down, memories and other side of midnight were back-to-back-to-back hits. God rest his soul. 1 Like 1 Share |
Literature / Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by ThierryJay: 9:38am On Aug 20 |
Pedrocross4568: Brother, few years ago, I stumbled on a bookshop and took the opportunity to buy several classic storybooks (pacesetters and the likes) out of nostalgia. But they've been gathering dust since on my shelf, it's like I've missed that window for enjoying them and don't want to spoil it. I assume you are referring to Sidney Sheldon. He's untouchable to me. His use of short punchy sentences to create suspense and emphasis is unrivalled. Very unpredictable to the extent that he became predictable with his unpredictability. Bloodline, oh my God! 3 Likes |
Literature / Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by ThierryJay: 9:31am On Aug 20 |
Bhella5: Could not get past page 8 and I dozed off on it. Quantum physics was way more interesting. |
Literature / Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by ThierryJay: 9:28am On Aug 20 |
Iagos: Unfortunately no. But you can check "ocean of pdf" online as someone earlier suggested on this thread. |
Literature / Re: What's Your Favourite Novel Of All Time by ThierryJay: 9:22am On Aug 20 |
ruzell86: Nice. Agbo Areo was a legend of the Pacesetters series. Meanwhile there are some novels I read as a kid whose front and title pages were already torn so I didn't know their title but were so interesting. Many years after I still have that longing to finally know them. One of them was an Egyptian setting. The main character was mostly in migration mode with some of his tribe and encountered several epic challenges. One of such was that he was captured and thrown into a pit that contained a massive crocodile/s that had never been defeated, but he was able to kill the crocodile and come out of the pit. There was a lot of mention of the sun god Ra in that book. Abeg who can remember the title? 2 Likes 1 Share |
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