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Education / Re: Agony Of 2.2 Bachelors Degree With Masters Degree by ThundrCork(m): 3:09pm On Jul 31, 2017 |
Even the 2.1 or first class is no guarantee 1 Like 1 Share |
Business / Re: Award Under The Growth And Employment (GEM) Project by ThundrCork(m): 4:48pm On May 06, 2017 |
femzo: femzo not everyone feels comfortable dropping his number here. please provide a contact email some of us can send numbers to so you can add us. I am also an awardee...did my induction in 2016 currently have 18 courses under activity on my dashboard |
Business / Re: Award Under The Growth And Employment (GEM) Project by ThundrCork(m): 7:09pm On May 05, 2017 |
femzo: femzo i sent you a pm |
Adverts / Re: Video Tutorials On Computer Skills /packages by ThundrCork(m): 8:23am On Apr 17, 2017 |
Ok |
Politics / Re: I Am Now In Charge Of 2trillion Pounds World Economy Market by ThundrCork(m): 4:20pm On Apr 16, 2017 |
I need that shit you are smoking |
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: New - International Grants, Scholarships and Business Funding Opportunities!!! by ThundrCork(m): 12:50am On Apr 16, 2017 |
Tjanks 1 Like |
Phones / Re: Ntel Internet Speedtest Abuja by ThundrCork(m): 12:09pm On Apr 15, 2017 |
lagbaja3: quite sad! I started this thread initially impressed with their service. i have long switched to glo. i dont know what network will ever get it right in Nigeria |
Business / Re: Latest - International Ideas & Technologies for Business by ThundrCork(m): 10:55am On Apr 14, 2017 |
Cool 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Suicide Watch: Rear Admiral Commits Suicide by ThundrCork(m): 6:39pm On Apr 05, 2017 |
He didn't commit suicide as a junior officer until now. Something ain't right 6 Likes 1 Share |
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: job by ThundrCork(m): 1:31pm On Apr 05, 2017 |
For this recession even those with jobs are broke |
Politics / Re: Why Can't We Have Light by ThundrCork(m): 9:17am On Apr 05, 2017 |
Because everyone is corrupt |
Business / Re: Call An Upholsterer Today For Your Upholstery Work by ThundrCork(m): 1:49am On Apr 03, 2017 |
Really nice 1 Like |
Business / Re: Betting Ideas And Amazing Secrets (maximize your profit) by ThundrCork(m): 1:43am On Apr 03, 2017 |
I am in |
Business / Re: New Project: 52 Weeks / 52 Business Start-up Ideas For Nigeria by ThundrCork(m): 1:40am On Apr 03, 2017 |
Nice 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: Your Letter Didn’t Say I Should Appear In Uniform, Ali Tells Senate by ThundrCork(m): 12:33pm On Mar 16, 2017 |
8 Likes 3 Shares
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Car Talk / Re: Photos Of Keke Made & Assembled In Gombe State by ThundrCork(m): 12:57pm On Mar 14, 2017 |
cool |
Car Talk / Re: How To Increase The Resale Value Of Your Vehicle by ThundrCork(m): 10:51am On Mar 13, 2017 |
useful |
Politics / Re: Buhari & Nigeria Have Exactly 11 & 13 Mths Left respectively by ThundrCork(m): 11:49am On Mar 10, 2017 |
Mr Seun i think it is high time to close this thread. their prediction has embarassingly failed. they have scammed some evil politicians of' their ill gotten money. its time for them to face themselves and start killing each other. afterall its all they desire - to kill! 1 Like |
Career / Re: I Outshined My Employers, Now I'm in Trouble by ThundrCork(m): 10:40am On Mar 10, 2017 |
MathsChic: Dear one, i meant i will like to meet you if you are a lady because some people pretend to be females here. i hope you understand? |
Politics / Re: Buhari & Nigeria Have Exactly 11 & 13 Mths Left respectively by ThundrCork(m): 8:14pm On Mar 09, 2017 |
FSBoperator: i dont expect you to be polite in your reply. you are angered because the truth seems like an albatross on your neck...idiot never mention me again and fvckoff |
Politics / Re: Buhari & Nigeria Have Exactly 11 & 13 Mths Left respectively by ThundrCork(m): 8:06pm On Mar 09, 2017 |
FSBoperator: Oga dont be deceived, no such thing will happen. The president is very much healthy. have you noticed that militancy has reduced to a great minimum? electricity is steadily growing? The president to me is rather outsmarting the situation he found himself by temporarily relinquishing power to create stability. A smart move if you ask me. You think the presidency is not smart enough to pay the media to make it seem like the president is in a critical situation so as to calm those guys and corrupt politicians causing distability? as long as you dont see a video of the president will surely make you doubt his health status which is exactly what he wants. |
Career / Re: I Outshined My Employers, Now I'm in Trouble by ThundrCork(m): 7:15pm On Mar 09, 2017 |
MathsChic: chai....never been this impressed with a comment coming from a girl on nairaland. please hope you are really a girl ooo because i will like to know you pass nairaland |
Phones / Re: Message MTN Staffers Just Received Now by ThundrCork(m): 4:26am On Mar 04, 2017 |
I wont be surprised if other telecoms companies are sponsoring this protest just to take over MTN's market share. MTN has consistently dominated the market 1 Like |
Family / Re: My Wife Has Turned Me Into A Punching Bag – Abuja Man Cries Out by ThundrCork(m): 6:56pm On Feb 08, 2017 |
Missyetty:sarcasm |
Foreign Affairs / Russia, China Sign Deal To Bypass US Dollar by ThundrCork(m): 1:10pm On Feb 08, 2017 |
In a symbolic blow to U.S. global financial hegemony, Russia and China took a small step toward undercutting the domination of the U.S. dollar as the international reserve currency on Tuesday when Russia’s second biggest financial institution, VTB, signed a deal with the Bank of China to bypass the dollar and pay each other in domestic currencies. The so-called Agreement on Cooperation — signed in the presence of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is on a visit to Shanghai — was followed by the long-awaited announcement on Wednesday of a massive natural gas deal 10 years in the making. “Our countries have done a huge job to reach a new historic landmark,” Putin said on Tuesday, making note of the $100 billion in annual trade that has been achieved between the two countries. Demand for the dollar, which has long served as a safe and reliable reserve currency in international transactions, has allowed the U.S. to borrow almost unlimited cash and spend well beyond its means, which some economists say has afforded the United States an outsize influence on world affairs. But the BRICS countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, a bloc of the world’s five major emerging economies — have long sought to diminish their dependence on the dollar as a means of reshaping the world financial and geopolitical order. In the absence of a viable alternative, however, replacing it has proved difficult. For its part, “China sees the dominance of the dollar in international trade transactions as a remnant of American global dominance, which they hope to overthrow in the years ahead,” said Michael Klare, a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College. “This is a small step in that direction, to reduce the primacy of the dollar in international trade.” Some have been tempted to view Tuesday's deal in the context of Putin's showdown with the West over the crisis in Ukraine. After the U.S. and Europe imposed sanctions on Moscow for its annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, Putin may have finally made good on promised retaliation against what he views as Western hegemony in Russia's near abroad. “Breaking the dominance of the U.S. dollar in international trade between the BRICS is something that the group has been talking about for some time,” said Chris Weafer, a founding partner of Macro-Advisory, a consultancy in Moscow. “The Ukraine crisis and the threats voiced by the U.S. administration may well provide the catalyst for that to start happening.” To be sure, the Russia-China bank deal is mostly a symbolic step. Liza Ermolenko, an emerging markets economist at Capital Economics in London, said that the deal was still “a very small one, in the grand scale of things,” and that it wouldn’t change Russia’s reliance on the dollar “overnight.” Most of Russia’s export contracts in the oil and gas markets are still priced in dollars, she noted, and on a wider scale, replacing the dollar with the ruble is much too risky to even consider. Likewise, even though China has agreed to the gas deal, which could see over $450 billion of Russian natural gas flow from eastern Siberia into China over the next 30 years, Russia is not in a position to abandon its ties with Europe. "From the commercial standpoint, Europe is the most profitable market for Gazprom,” said Mikhail Korchemkin, the founder of Eastern European Gas Analysis, who has consulted for Gazprom, the Russian state-owned gas company. "Exports to China can generate a small profit, [but] only if the government makes it free of taxes and duties.” But the bank deal is another indicator that Russia and China are in the middle of a wider rapprochement, which analysts say is premised not on ideological alignment but on a mutual desire to undercut the U.S. in their respective spheres of influence. Both countries are wary of President Barack Obama’s “pivot east,” a recalibration of U.S. foreign policy away from decades of war in the Middle East and toward the fast-growing economies of the East. Cynical observers have interpreted the shift as an effort to contain China. "This is a marriage of mutual strategic interests, not a marriage of love," said Klare. “China wants energy and weapons from Russia, and Russia wants diplomatic backing and cash. It’s a quid pro quo.” Yet even if China feels threatened by U.S. encroachment, it is Russia that is desperately pursuing closer ties with China. Putin may have gotten the better of the Western powers in the showdown over Crimea, but at the cost of growing geopolitical isolation. Under intense pressure to demonstrate Russia's avowed independence from the West, he has repeatedly threatened that he could simply shut off its natural gas pipelines to Europe and find new markets for Russian energy exports. Separate from that political posturing, the Russian imperative to find new markets for its energy exports is nonetheless very real. Energy demands in Europe have plateaued and may even decline in the long term because of stringent environmental regulations. “If Russia wants to continue to be a petrostate, it has to shift marketing of its exports to Asia," said Klare, who noted that Western energy conglomerates like ExxonMobil have begun doing the same. “We don’t want to push this too far and see it as a formation of a new, global anti-American bloc that is starting a new Cold War,” he added. "This is market-driven more than it’s political." Source: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/20/russia-china-bankdeal.html |
Politics / Re: Buhari & Nigeria Have Exactly 11 & 13 Mths Left respectively by ThundrCork(m): 9:50am On Feb 06, 2017 |
GBTYO: Prediction appears to be accurate....i commend the OP. Quite sad though! |
Investment / Re: Bet9ja: N21million Won With N1,000 by ThundrCork(m): 4:39pm On Feb 04, 2017 |
stanleyalpacino: It was meant to be no matter what he chose 1 Like |
Career / Re: Salary Job VS Doing Business, Which One Is Better? by ThundrCork(m): 12:27pm On Feb 03, 2017 |
LordHiffy: best comment 2 Likes |
Business / Re: Solutions To Economic Recession In Nigeria by ThundrCork(m): 6:20am On Feb 03, 2017 |
If you can change the mindset of Nigerians 90% of the problem is solved. No matter how you devalue, corruption will persist. |
Business / Re: Turn Your BUSINESS Around In This Recession by ThundrCork(m): 2:02pm On Jan 25, 2017 |
Give us your list of verifiable clients |
Business / Re: Want To Be A Billionaire? Let's Solve One Of These Problems. by ThundrCork(m): 9:36pm On Jan 20, 2017 |
I want a potato peeler that would also cut the potatoes ready for chips autimatically. It should not be bigger than the regular home blender. Anyone who can make such a machine should come and take my money |
Politics / Re: Boko Haram Attacks Military Location In Damaturu, Kills Captain, 5 Sold by ThundrCork(m): 10:18pm On Jan 08, 2017 |
This war isn't over yet 4 Likes 1 Share |
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