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na only spain?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1343954/100-000-Islam-converts-living-UK-White-women-keen-embrace-Muslim-faith.html

Spain already has a islamic inflluence historically

true anyway.

tensor777:
Now look here Madam Tpia I get where you're coming from with this . But realistically you cannot stop people from travelling in this day and age. The main challenge is that such migration should be controlled and those with criminal intent should be dealt with.

bros, I'm not the one stopping anybody from travelling.

and if you're throwing a challenge to the countries trying to limit immigration into their domains, then i assume you have your bases covered and know what you're doing.

No matter how bad the reccession seems, there are still people who got achievements in it.
I will not discourage people from coming to Europe as long as they have legitimate reasons to come, and even if the gravity of the recession is 10 times more, the UK will still be better than Nigeria in every regard.

Is travelling overseas a right or a priviledge?

the lawmakers and by extension the people from the countries in question are telling us to slow our roll yet we keep insisting they should be ignored.

is that wise?

they will applaud when they hear things like this overseas, but shout foul if govt tries anything like it in nigeria:

Detroit converts neighborhoods into farmland

Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial might for most of the 20th century, is drawing up a radical renewal plan that calls for turning large swaths of this now-blighted, rusted-out city back into the fields and farmland that existed before the automobile.

Operating on a scale never before attempted in this country, the city would demolish houses in some of the most desolate sections of Detroit and move residents into stronger neighborhoods. Roughly a quarter of the 139-square-mile city could go from urban to semi-rural.

Near downtown, fruit trees and vegetable farms would replace neighborhoods that are an eerie landscape of empty buildings and vacant lots. Suburban commuters heading into the city center might pass through what looks like the countryside to get there. Surviving neighborhoods in the birthplace of the auto industry would become pockets in expanses of green.

Detroit officials first raised the idea in the 1990s, when blight was spreading. Now, with the recession plunging the city deeper into ruin, a decision on how to move forward is approaching. Mayor Dave Bing, who took office last year, is expected to unveil some details in his state-of-the-city address this month.

Several other declining industrial cities, such as Youngstown, Ohio, have also accepted downsizing. Since 2005, Youngstown has been tearing down a few hundred houses a year. But Detroit's plans dwarf that effort. The approximately 40 square miles of vacant property in Detroit is larger than the entire city of Youngstown.

Faced with a $300 million budget deficit and a dwindling tax base, Mr. Bing says the city can't continue to pay for police patrols, fire protection and other services for all areas.




http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/09/detroit-looks-at-downsizing-to-save-city/

The current plan would demolish about 10,000 houses and empty buildings in three years and pump new investment into stronger neighborhoods. In the neighborhoods that would be cleared, the city would offer to relocate residents or buy them out. The city could use tax foreclosure to claim abandoned property and invoke eminent domain for those who refuse to leave, much as cities now do for freeway projects.

saw some really scary photos today.

that house should be a landmark.

eg

"make a right after the elephant house, turn left when you reach the elephant" etc.

note to self: wear hijab and tie scarf when around other people's husbands. Or else wahala go dey.

sorry, i couldnt resist.

i did wonder if the househelp was trying to seduce an elderly man? It all makes sense now.

nobody is saying women dont cheat, but we all know the figures, ratios and statistics involved here.

because bad belle people break them up.

You dont care if i'm old enough to be your mother, but do you care if i'm old enough to be your grandma?


and which dayokanu are you referring to?

the one jumping into every female's bed on nl?

anyway, to answer your question: i'm too anal-retentive to make a good cheater.

only a crazy man would get himself entangled with my type.

serious.

was there really a chandelier in his guest toilet?


and, is the piece a satire?

J.J took us on a tour of his home, he was particularly pleased with the chandelier in his guest toilet and he wanted us to ‘test’ each armchair in his 100 foot living room, one of twelve living arrears in the edifice that according to him, makes the White House look like a boys quarters. He also insisted that we bend down and feel the softness of the Egyptian rug in his fourteen car garage

@jenifa





^^not to mention the light rays at that point in time [ie what you did], continue shooting through the universe at the speed of light.

being beamed to another galaxy.


i mean, doing something accidentally is one thing, doing it intentionally is another.



however, different strokes for different folks, i always say.

what looks good to you might not look ok to me, and vice versa.



i've always been a freak geek, so what gives.

make we see wetin dauda wan da oh.

when all is said and done, na here all of us go dey.

[img]http://4.bp..com/_pyIBhtN_0F4/SfIsrhxVBeI/AAAAAAAABd0/YsJwchaoHzw/s320/Oshodi.jpg[/img]

[img]http://forum.globaltimes.cn/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=36945&thumb=1&d=1282225385[/img]

^^i doubt it.

i'd rather curl up with a book instead.

less drama.

besides, i'm an SU.

Lord have mercy.

why is the lady "commandeering" three young men for herself.

are they her bodyguards or something.

there's a man shortage o, so she should release some of them.

so you studied in the UK, currently working and living in the UK and you do not want others to come as well and be like you


so you are still in the UK. yet you are discouraging others from coming?

are you following the news at all?

are you aware europe and the western world are in the middle of a serious recession which no one knows how to get out of?

you mean like cheat just for cheating's sake?


big waste of time if you ask me.

but to each his own.

not too many i can think of at the moment.

empty vessels make the loudest noise.

men with game arent megaphones.

they dont need to be.

neither do they write 100 pages of baloney.

^^bros, one of you had better go through your teenage daughter's phone.

all that one na long story, no offence.

Does one have to be in love with his wife to have a happy marriage?

no.

friends who claim to love their wives and all thatyou need to see how they beat their wives,cheat on them,lie to them,no form loyality to them at all

true observation.

btw omega25 why were you shouting.

man smith:
I SPENT OVER 2 HOURS TODAY AT THE  FILLING STATION AND AT THE END OF THE DAY WHEN IT GOT TO MY TURN, THEY RAN SHORT OF SUPPLY

hmm, may your words never condemn you.

which cursed nigerian village produced mobo444 and his sidekicks?

.

@ poster

you might just get your wish with all the secession talk making waves.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/us/politics/21brfs-SECESSIONBAL_BRF.html?src=twrhp

The triumphant e-mail arrived in my in-box a week or two ago. It announced a re-enactment of the Florida Secession Convention on Jan. 8, 2011, in the old State Capitol building, where the original event took place 150 years before.

"This will be an early event of the Sesquicentennial of the War Between the States as Florida was the third state to leave the Union," wrote the sender.

The Florida Secession Convention event is just one of many such spectacles planned over the next five years as the children of the Lost Cause revive ghosts of the Civil War. In Georgia they will re-enact the state's 1861 Secession Convention. Alabama will hold a mock swearing-in of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. People in Charleston, S.C., have organized a gala ball with period dress.

While the re-enactments will be a chance for folks to sip mint juleps and sing "Dixie," they have sparked a revival of the old debate about whether the most deadly conflict in U.S. history was fought over slavery or states' rights.

http://www.npr.org/2010/12/23/132279620/the-root-succession-fever-brings-deja-vu

as per declining to pay toll:

Toll avoidance: shunpiking

A practice known as shunpiking evolved which entails finding another route for the specific purpose of avoiding payment of tolls.

In some situations where the tolls were increased or felt to be unreasonably high, informal shunpiking by individuals escalated into a form of boycott by regular users, with the goal of applying the financial stress of lost toll revenue to the authority determining the levy.

One such example of shunpiking as a form of boycott occurred at the James River Bridge in eastern Virginia. After years of lower than anticipated revenues on the narrow privately-funded structure built in 1928, the Commonwealth of Virginia finally purchased the facility in 1949. However, rather than announcing a long-expected decrease in tolls, the state officials increased the rates in 1955 without visibly improving the roadway, with the notable exception of building a new toll plaza

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toll_roads_in_the_United_States

Tolls on the roads abroad are made on newly constructed roads - your examples are NEWLY constructed, not refurbished roads already belonging to the government. That is the fundamental difference between what LASG is trying to do and what obtains elsewhere.

all the foreign posters have stated the toll roads are on newly created routes not exsiting routes

not true.

the fact that most newly created highways are also toll roads, does not mean old roads cant be upgraded to become the same.

check toll roads in the west. Many are privately funded, and some were given out by the govt same as what LASG is doing here.





Officials debate making Route 30 a toll road

Efforts to revive the U.S. Route 30 project are running into the same problem as before: Lack of funding. But supporters believe making it a toll road could be the solution.

Committee Chairman Charles Lang told the port authority he believes turning Route 30 into a freeway would further open the county to economic development.


http://www.reviewonline.com/page/content.detail/id/536906/Officials-debate-making-Route-30-a-toll-road.html?nav=5008

btw, my reason for using the west [and malaysia] as a point of comparison in this instance, is their roads you all admire so much, while complaining about not having the same in nigeria, started from somewhere. They didnt just magically drop from the future.

Remii:
^^^^ people living in Lekki area are not alien what happens overseas, what they are asking is some equity and fairness,  these people are major income tax contributors to Lagos state, with 20% total emoluments taxation, some of these people pay more much as N5 - 8m per year, anyone who makes above N5m pays N1m to LASG, that in an area without any state public amenities apart from road. no public water etc.

Tolling should be reasonable, not three within 20 km and there should be alternative routes, so that people take toll roads by choice. that is what is obtainable in the so called "Overseas".

in the overseas I'm aware of, tolls are mandatory, not optional.

some of these people pay more much as N5 - 8m per year, anyone who makes above N5m pays N1m to LASG

same holds abroad.

the more you make, the higher your taxes.

not that i dont feel for people, but some things can be postponed, not avoided.

more about where we're supposed to be:





Stormwater Management and Road Tunnel

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ea/Smart-tunnel.jpg



The "Stormwater Management and Road Tunnel" or "SMART Tunnel",  is a storm drainage and road structure in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, a major national project in the country. The 9.7 km (6.0 miles) tunnel is the longest stormwater tunnel in South East Asia and second longest in Asia.

The main objective of this tunnel is to solve the problem of flash floods in Kuala Lumpur and also to reduce traffic jams . . . during rush hour




How SMART Tunnel works

First mode (Normal conditions)

The first mode, under normal conditions where there is no storm, no flood water will be diverted into the system.



Second mode (Most storms)

When the second mode is activated, flood water is diverted into the bypass tunnel in the lower channel of the motorway tunnel. The motorway section is still open to traffic at this stage.



Third mode (Major storms)

When this mode is in operation, the motorway will be closed to all traffic. After making sure all vehicles have exited the motorway, automated water-tight gates will be opened to allow flood waters to pass through. The motorway will be reopened to traffic within 48 hours of closure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_Tunnel

netotse:
your point was that nigerians would pay the toll if they went abroad isn't it? i'm not against the toll in any form, my point is that the way the LASG went about it leaves A WHOLE LOT to be desired, why would you start collecting a toll when there's still K-leg about the alternative route? that's my major beef with this whole issue.

^^no probs.