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TravelAre Cell Phones Really Dangerous To Planes? by Truequest(op): 6:28pm On Jan 25, 2008
I found this interesting especially in the light of what happened at Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport Abuja recently
Hope you'll enjoy it


As Salon's Patrick Smith notes, "Few rules are more confounding to airline passengers than those regarding the use of cellphones and portable electronic devices." I'd add the quart-sized plastic bag to that list, but I digress: Smith is right. Is it really true that something as innocuous as a Treo left on in row 32 could cause a jumbo jet to go down in flames? Let's ask Smith himself: He isn't just a pundit, he's a commercial pilot as well.

Part of the issue regarding stowing electronics at takeoff and landing, says Smith, has nothing to do with the fabled "interference," but rather the that that they can be dangerous as impromptu projectiles in the event of a sudden stop. Just ask the lady who decided to leave her tray table down and a full cup of Coke on it during my recent return flight from Vegas. Amazingly, it didn't stay where she wanted it to.

That aside, what happens in the cockpit when you forget to shut your phone down during takeoff? Most likely: Nothing. But interference is possible. Smith doesn't use this analogy, but try putting your cell phone next to a cheap PC speaker and turn up the volume. You will probably note an occasional, rapid, syncopated beeping coming from the computer speaker. If you've ever heard this before and wondered what it was, now you know: That's interference between the two devices.

Now an airplane is considerably more complicated than a $10 speaker, so the stakes are much higher should interference occur. But as Smith notes, airplanes are also designed to take this kind of interference into account. Smith himself says that he's never noted anything on the flight deck that might have been caused by a cell phone, but how would he know. Airplanes exhibit brief, oddball glitches all the time, and usually no one ever knows what the source was. (All that aside, at least two major incidents, including one crash, have been blamed on cell phones, though neither has been proven.)

The airlines don't really seem to care too much about the cell phone rule: Smith estimates that about half of all cell phones are left on during flight. My personal experience observing other passengers validates this.

Smith wisely notes that one big reason for the cell phone rules is that the potential for danger of phones ensures that people won't demand to use them in flight. Most fliers, as we know, despise this idea, but serial chatters are far more, ahem, vocal about the issue. No one wants a war over technology at 35,000 feet. Those days, however, are already arriving in Europe, as onboard cellular systems have already been approved. Will the U.S. see the same? Smith feels it's inevitable, and he's probably right.




http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/65921/are-cell-phones-really-dangerous-to-planes
HealthBefore You Use Those Nasal Sprays by Truequest(op): 4:38pm On Jan 25, 2008
I got this from an online health journal that I subscribed to hope you find it helpful

By Joseph McCaffrey, MD, FACS


A stuffy nose and sinus misery are all too common at this time of year. A lot of folks reach for over the counter remedies that may or may not help the symptoms but do nothing for the underlying cause.

Fortunately, there's an ancient practice that works great to relieve the sinus distress and improve your health without having to resort to drugs. But first I want to tell you about one over-the-counter treatment you should avoid like the plague -- decongestant nasal sprays.

These sprays work by constricting the small blood vessels in the nasal passages. As a result, the swollen mucous membranes shrink and congestion temporarily feels better. When the drug wears off, people tend to use the spray again. That's when the problem begins.

Your body very quickly adapts to the sprays, often within a few days. If you continue using them, the blood vessels will be normal size when you're taking them and overly swollen and engorged if you try to stop. The spray has had no lasting benefit and has created its own problem.

Instead of that, how about a method that has been around for over 2000 years and that modern studies (1) show is effective?

The method is saline nasal lavage -- that is, rinsing the nasal passages with a saline solution. Ayurvedic practitioners have recommended this for years and now more and more western physicians are as well.

Our nasal passages act like a filter for our respiratory system. Airborne debris, including pathogens and allergens, is trapped in a normally thin layer of mucus and cleared from the nasal passage. If the system is overwhelmed, the debris accumulates, the nasal passages are irritated and the misery begins.

Nasal rinsing helps restore balance by clearing built up material and restoring an environment that allows the mucociliary lining to do its job.

Although the lavage may seem a little odd at first, people soon become used to it.

The traditional tool is a netti pot -- a small pot, usually ceramic, with a spout that is inserted gently into a nostril to instill the solution. Many health food stores carry these. Alternatively, you could use a bulb syringe, which is available in most pharmacies.

The technique is essentially the same with either tool. First, mix a saline solution, using 1/2 to 1 tsp salt (I suggest canning or sea salt rather than the usual table salt) to 2 cups water. Some people find the solution more comfortable if they add a pinch of baking soda (not powder) since it also helps break up mucus.
WebmastersEnterprise Resource Planner (erp) by Truequest(op): 4:06pm On Jan 25, 2008
Enterprise Resource planner is fast becoming a vital tool in business processes management.

The support techies are limited in supply at least by the figures i have about nigerians in this field.

a type and the most used ERP, SAP has a centre in Nigeria, who knows how their trainings are conducted and when.

and if u have ppl who are using an ERP where they work, pls link me up.
Technology MarketEnterprise Resource Planner (erp) by Truequest(op): 4:03pm On Jan 25, 2008
Enterprise Resource planner is fast becoming a vital tool in business processes management.

The support techies are limited in supply at least by the figures i have about nigerians in this field.

a type and the most used ERP, SAP has a centre in Nigeria, who knows how their trainings are conducted and when.

and if u have ppl who are using an ERP where they work, pls link me up.
PoliticsRe: Detain Me-uwazuruike Begs Police by Truequest(m): 5:25pm On Jan 23, 2008
Why they no wan lock am now a na afraid dey catch them?
This kind man na wa ooo! While our ex govs are battling to
get bail after stealing their states dry, this man wan enter
they no gree!
PoliticsLawmaker Fights On The Street Sorry Car Park by Truequest(op): 4:35pm On Jan 23, 2008
A lawmaker in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Bolaji Yusuf Ayinla, was alleged to have been beaten up yesterday by the fiance of Ayo, a legislative staff of the House.

P.M.News gathered this morning that Ayinla, who is the Assembly Committee chairman, House Services, was beaten up at the Assembly’s car park when he challenged a man who parked at a spot reserved for legislators.

A reliable source told P.M.News that the lawmaker had asked why the man parked at a section of the park reserved for lawmakers.

When Ayinla challenged the visitor, the visitor was said to have politely told the lawmaker to learn to address people with courtesy, an action that infuriated Ayinla, who reportedly slapped the visitor.

An eyewitness said the visitor retaliated and this resulted in a fight between the visitor and the lawmaker who represents Mushin II Constituency.

The visitor was alleged to have overpowered Ayinla and beaten him mercilessly.

P.M.News learnt that on learning that the visitor is a fiance of a legislative staff, Ayinla said he would report the matter to the Head of Service (HOS), Mr. Yakubu Balogun for appropriate action.

It took the intervention of the Clerk of the House, to bring things to normalcy.

The visitor was asked to apologise to the lawmaker for assaulting him.

When P.M.News spoke with Ayinka this morning about the incident, he denied it and added: “I am a gentleman. I don’t fight.”
PoliticsRe: My Records Better Than Obasanjo’s, Says Ibb by Truequest(op): 4:18pm On Jan 23, 2008
A fairytale of two students that failed comparing their score cards!

i got 20!

he got 15!

Wot in the world is the difference, they both failed!

well, guess the point he's making is that he's not the worst, luckily for IBB, OBJ brought some respite to his soul and conscience!!!
This is sure one of the funniest post on this topic!
PoliticsRe: My Records Better Than Obasanjo’s, Says Ibb by Truequest(op): 1:49pm On Jan 23, 2008
@ Teriba
As far as murders are concerned, the murders of Dele Giwa and Vatsa were murders mastermided by Babangida. It would not surprise me if we should have indisputable facts later backing up the view that Obasanjo was not involved in the murders that took place under his regime as those murders could have been carried out by some members of his inner cirle.
Are you not being partial, remember that the image of justice is blinded human image. Lets be fair to all
PoliticsRe: Hillary Clinton Desperate by Truequest(m): 11:38am On Jan 23, 2008
Some people just take pleasure in picking hole in whatever the Clintons do.
Follow the candidates very well you'll discover that it is not fair to single out Clinton for such attack.
PoliticsRe: I Ate Children's Hearts, Ex-rebel Says by Truequest(op): 11:12am On Jan 23, 2008
why isn't he being tried in a war crimes tribunal??
He is already at the commission and it is left for them to make recomendations.

Moreso, listen to what he said,

While asking for forgiveness, Mr Blahyi says he's ready for whatever the truth commission will decide to do to him.

"I could be electrocuted, I could be hanged," he said. "But I think forgiveness and reconciliation is the right way to go."
TravelPassengers Exchange Blows In Moving Airplane by Truequest(op): 11:00am On Jan 23, 2008
In what could be described as total absurdity, two passengers threw decorum to the wind and exchanged blows as a Lagos-bound Chanchangi aircraft was taxing to take-off from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

The incident, which shook occupants of the aircraft to their marrows occured on Tuesday afternoon at the Abuja airport runway.

Daily Sun learnt that trouble started when the cabin crew and the pilot announced as the aircraft was on the verge of taxiing that all mobile phones be switched off as it is the standard practice globally. Rather than obey, a passenger was said to be engrossed in a phone call, totally ignoring the safety instructions from the cockpit.

As he spoke wildly over the phone, a cabin crew member beckoned on him to switch off as the electromagnetic emissions from the phone interferes with aircraft navigational signals. Yet, he ignored the instruction a second time.
Rather, what he did was to throw abusive words at the crew.
At this time, another passenger sitting close to him was said to have been miffed by the development and ordered the errant caller to shut up. The caller was said to have faced his fellow passenger and rained curses on him.

Within seconds, the verbal warnings snowballed into fisticuffs as both passengers threw heavy punches at each other. At this time, the aircraft was said to have approached the holding point from where the pilot ordered that they disembark the aircraft.

Expectedly, the pilots called for the immediate arrest of the duo who became unwilling guests of policemen stationed at the airport. Media officer of the Chanchangi Airlines, Adamu Ibrahim who confirmed the story on phone expressed happiness that the fighting men were handed over to relevant authorities.

“It actually happened just when they were taxing, the noise from the passengers were too much she insulted the crew member, the pilot had to stop and they left the aircraft for safety of the flight.The flight later left Abuja without them”, he said. Also commenting on the development, the Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Dr. Harold Demuren described the situation as unrully, pointing out that if such incidents were not strongly handled they could lead to forceful openining of the exit doors thereby casing a big disaster.

“It is very dangerous, it could interfere with safety. It is an unrully behaviour and this is one of the distruption of services we have been saying in aviation. It could lead to forceful openining of the exit doors and that could amount to a big disaster,” he said.
www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2008/jan/23/national-23-01-2008-009.htm
PoliticsRe: Lastma Worse Than The Nigerian Police by Truequest(m): 10:59am On Jan 23, 2008
another thing i heard was that those guys pay their own salaries in order to save govt cost, meaning those outrageous monies goes into the account used in running the outfit! am sure this also enhance the bribes they collect!!!
This is a serious matter and should be treated as such,
do you know that some times you can't even pin down the supposed offence.
You better believe it they are more vicious and wicked to say the least.
We want the road to be free, we want the traffic to flow,
we also want a lagos were law and other is kept and rights of her citizens respected.

If anyone thin lastma as it is consitituted today is ok,
I can assure you that you'll ecounter them in no distant time,
except you are one of them
PoliticsRe: My Records Better Than Obasanjo’s, Says Ibb by Truequest(op): 10:43am On Jan 23, 2008
First thing IBB was military OBJ was civilian. OBJ in Military regime killed Fumilayo Kuti.

In Civilian regime Bola-Ige, Harry Marshals, Dikibo, THousands in Zaki Biam and Odi .

I think OBJ is HIV and IBB is whooping cough.

OBJ rigged an election so massively that the winner even complained. IBB conducted an free and fair election but pocketed the results. So who is better.

OBJ that can never do anything good or IBB that can do something good but would spoil it himself. Count the number of GOV in the last election that have been stripped of their mandrakes rather mandates
This is food for thought. Lives were wasted yet till date from Dele to Bola to Harry marshal et al,
PoliticsRe: I Ate Children's Hearts, Ex-rebel Says by Truequest(op): 4:11pm On Jan 22, 2008
the whole thing is rather nerve breaking and sends chilling feeling down ones' spines
PoliticsMy Records Better Than Obasanjo’s, Says Ibb by Truequest(op): 11:50am On Jan 22, 2008
FIFTEEN years after stepping aside from power, former military President Ibrahim Babangida has reacted to the characterisation of his defunct administration as a corrupt government.
He objected to the allegation that he institutionalised corruption, describing it as a misconception promoted by the media.

Tendering some financial statistics, the former military leader compared his administration with former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s, saying: "Now, we know better who institutionalised corruption."

General Babangida was in the saddle for eight years, between 1985 and 1993. Obasanjo, a former military Head of State who was elected civilian president, also ruled for eight years, between 1999 and 2007.

According to Babangida, the comparison of income and performance analysis under the two administrations has vindicated him.

The former military president spoke with "The Peoples’ Magazine"/Pointblank News – an online news service – on his administration, his foray into politics in retirement, his aborted presidential ambition and the Yar’Adua presidency.

He said Nigeria would have gone places if his administration had access to huge financial resources like Obasanjo’s.

"What I would probably say is that I ran an administration for eight years and during that eight years, what accrued to the Federal Government was what accrued to the Obasanjo government in a year.

"What they were getting in one year, we got less in eight years. And, I know what we achieved with little amount of money in eight years.

"If I had that kind of money, maybe, we could have gone places. That, I am absolutely confident about and that is number one.

"Number two, the world is made to believe that my administration institutionalized corruption. Now, we know better who institutionalized corruption. So, I am grateful to God and maybe, history will eventually vindicate us," Babangida stressed.

Babangida who described himself as a perpetual suspect expressed happiness that, so far, nothing has been found against him.

"Perhaps, I am now the most investigated Nigerian alive. I knew very well that for eight years of the Obasanjo government, I was under investigation, and before Obasanjo, I was also under investigation. I am the most investigated person in Nigeria," he added.

The retired General maintained that he did not regret backing the candidature of Obasanjo, his former Commander-in-Chief for the presidency; although he remarked that "there are a lot of things that they did that I would have done differently".

In his view, the push for socio-economic and political reforms by the successive administrations trailed this pioneering reform programmes instituted by his administration.

Noting that these latest reforms are not new, Babangida said: "History will give us credit that every other thing people are faking about concerning reforms, we started during my administration."

Babangida revisited his aborted presidential ambition last year, explaining that he was confronted by a dilemma "borne out of principle".

"I think those targets that I have achieved or met influenced me tremendously in taking the decision I took. I was there from 1985 to 1993. I represented this country.

"But, my ascension to the exalted office was through another means; we shot ourselves into power through the barrel of the gun, but all the same, I ran the country.

"So, when I set out to aspire to occupy the office again, this time as a democratically-elected leader, I was determined also not to go below certain behaviours. I would not like a situation at my age and having been the president before, maybe, to now see me competing against somebody I considered a brother, somebody I considered a friend," he added.

Reviewing the eight-month old Yar’Adua administration, Babangida, who described the president as a meticulous person, said besides not taking decisions based on impulse, he is also a silent worker.

However, the former military president did not object to the decision by General Muhammadu Buhari, Presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and his Action Congress (AC) counterpart, former vice president Atiku Abubakar to press on with their suits at the Election Petitions Tribunal.

He said it is in the interest of constitutional development in Nigeria that agonized candidates should turn to the judiciary for justice.
PoliticsI Ate Children's Hearts, Ex-rebel Says by Truequest(op): 10:57am On Jan 22, 2008
Milton Blahyi, a former feared rebel commander in Liberia's brutal civil war, has admitted to taking part in human sacrifices as part of traditional ceremonies intended to ensure victory in battle.

Milton "General Butt Naked" Blahyi
Milton Blahyi fought Charles Taylor's forces in the war
He said the sacrifices "included the killing of an innocent child and plucking out the heart, which was divided into pieces for us to eat."

There had been numerous rumours of human sacrifices during the 1979-93 conflict but this is the first time anyone has admitted publicly to the practice.

Mr Blahyi, 37, is better known in Liberia as "General Butt Naked" because he went into combat with no clothes on, to scare the enemy.

He is now an Evangelist preacher, who prefers to use the name Joshua.

He was speaking to the BBC, after telling Liberia's Truth Commission that his forces had killed 20,000 people.

Forgiveness

Mr Blahyi said he had first become exposed to killings in 1982 when, at the age of 11, he was ordained "the traditional priest of my tribe."

He explained that when a rebellion broke out against President Samuel Doe, he had to go to war on behalf of the president, as they were from the same Krahn ethnic group.


If you have an individual admitting that he and his group killed over 20,000 people, certainly there should be a mechanism put in place for such people to face justice
Mulbah Morlue
Forum for the Establishment of a War Crimes Court
He fought against the militia of Charles Taylor, currently on trial for war crimes in The Hague.

As the traditional priest, he says he persuaded the "hesitant" political leaders of his faction to make a human sacrifice before going into battle.

"They asked me to do it in secret; but some of the sacrifices are supposed to be as a ceremony; so my boys and I made some of the sacrifices in the open."

Mr Blahyi did not say where they had found the children to be killed.

He said he thought that confessing to what he had done and asking for forgiveness could help heal the country's wounds.

"I have been looking for an opportunity to tell the true story about my life; and every time I tell people my story, I feel relieved," he said, drinking a bottle of tomato juice in the capital, Monrovia.

He stopped fighting in 1996, saying God appeared to him as he was charging naked into battle and told him he was doing Satan's work.

'Ashamed'

He is now often seen preaching on street corners and churches in Monrovia.


I could be electrocuted, I could be hanged
Milton Blahyi
"I now preach against murder and making human sacrifices," he said.

"Some people see me and congratulate me.

"Others see me and say I should not be walking down the streets of Monrovia posing proud. But I continue to tell such people I am not proud, I am ashamed."

Between the time he was ordained a "traditional priest" and the time he stopped fighting, he said, "more than 20,000 people fell victim - they were killed."

Warlord

The commission, modelled on South Africa's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission, began earlier this month.

Some, however, say Liberia's Truth Commission is too weak and argue that a war crimes court should be established - Mr Taylor is being accused by a court set up to investigate the conflict in neighbouring Sierra Leone.

Milton Blahyi
Milton Blahyi is now an evangelical preacher
"If you have an individual admitting that he and his group killed over 20,000 people, certainly there should be a mechanism put in place for such people to face justice," said Mulbah Morlue, who heads the Forum for the Establishment of a War Crimes Court in Liberia.

The war is now over but thousands of UN peacekeepers remain in the country.

While asking for forgiveness, Mr Blahyi says he's ready for whatever the truth commission will decide to do to him.

"I could be electrocuted, I could be hanged," he said. "But I think forgiveness and reconciliation is the right way to go."

He also urged other former fighters to confess their doings because "wherever they go there is a stigma on them".

But another former warlord, Prince Johnson, says he will not appear before the commission unless he is compelled to do so.

Mr Johnson, now a senator, led the forces who tortured and killed then President Doe in 1990. The video of this brutal killing is still on sale in Liberia.

He says that he has already made his peace with the Doe family but would testify at the truth hearings if they lodged a formal complaint.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7200101.stm
SportsMorocco 5, Namibia 1 N Namibia 5 Cards, Morocco 1 by Truequest(op): 6:05pm On Jan 21, 2008
Call it a game of numbers, you are not far from the truth.
Look at this Morroco scored 5 goals to Namibian's 1 goal.
Namibia collected 5 yellow cards to Morroco's 1 yellow card.

This Morrocoans are not a good ccandidate for any team at all, at not untill the last game!
PoliticsPipeline, Tanker Explode In Port Harcourt by Truequest(op): 5:09pm On Jan 21, 2008
A major oil pipeline said to belong to an Italian oil company, caught fire and a tanker truck exploded in separate incidents in Rivers State on Monday, military and industry sources said. The oil pipeline at Omoku had been ruptured before it caught fire early on Monday, the sources said. It was not immediately clear if anyone was hurt in the incident. Firefighters from the oil company put out the blaze. Meanwhile, a fuel tanker was said to have exploded on Monday morning near Port Harcourt's main oil refinery, military spokesman Major Musa Sagir told AFP. The cause of the blast was unknown. The two incidents came barely one week after the most prominent militant group in the Niger Delta, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), claimed responsibility for a series of attacks. Last week, MEND said it planted an explosive device that set a tanker ship on fire in Port Harcourt. It also claimed responsibility for an attack on a senior port official in the oil city and vowed further operations against the oil industry and related sectors. The group says that, contrary to claims that it is criminal gangs that are operating in the Niger Delta, it is working to improve the lot of the ordinary people of the region


http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/breaking_news/article01

Lets end this fued with all the resolve we have as a nation. Don't get me wrong I don't mean fire for fire!
TravelBritish Airways Flight BA38 Crashes At Heathrow Airport! by Truequest(op): 6:33pm On Jan 17, 2008
A British Airways plane has crash landed at Heathrow Airport, hitting the ground several hundred yards short of the runway and narrowly missing a busy road.

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The Boeing 777 had lowered its landing gear as it went for touchdown but witnesses have described how moments later it "dropped" out of the sky.

More than 150 people were forced to dive down inflatable chutes and onto the tarmac as emergency services rushed to the scene.

BA flight 38 came down as it was approaching the south runway of the London airport after flying from Beijing, the airline said.

Paul Venter, who was on board the aircraft, said: "We came in to land, I could hear the undercarriage come out and the next moment the plane just dropped."

Pictures of the crashed plane show the aircraft's mangled undercarriage - as if it had slid across the ground. The plane's wheels are on the ground away from the fuselage.

Serious damage is visible to the right engine and to both wings and the plane is surrounded by fire engines and a sea of firefighting foam.

The plane was described by witnesses as coming in at a "funny angle" as the nose of the aircraft lurched upwards before "belly-flopping" on to the grass. The pilot reportedly looked "pale and very drained" after the crash landing.

One airport worker said the captain, who BA said had been flying with the airline for nearly 20 years, had told him he had lost all power as he came in to land. BA could not confirm this report.

Scotland Yard said: "There is nothing to suggest at this stage that the incident is in any way terror-related."

Sky correspondent David Bowden, who is at Heathrow, said: "It looks as though, if something did go very wrong with this plane, it must have happened at the very last minute.

"No emergency was declared. There simply wasn't enough time."

Bowden added: "Air traffic control didn't know this was happening until it was too late."

Incredibly, only six passengers on the crashed plane have needed hospital treatment for minor injuries, London Ambulance Service said.

After a temporary halt to flights, air traffic controllers now say planes are taking off and landing on the airport's northern runway.

There are, however, many delays, with some planes diverted to other London airports.

The Prime Minister's flight to China was among those stuck on the runway after the drama.

On board, is Sky's political editor Adam Boulton, who said Mr Brown remained calm and joked: "Well you have got your story already then."

Sky producer Jonathan Levy said security at Heathrow was already higher than normal, both because of Gordon Brown's flight and because the Qatari royal family were due to pass through the airport.

Mr Brown's flight has now taken off safely.



http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20080117/tuk-british-airways-flight-ba38-crash-la-45dbed5_9.html
PoliticsRe: What Is All These? by Truequest(m): 6:11pm On Jan 17, 2008
to be honest the whole thing is just getting messy and messy by the day. MIND BOGGLING revelations; tufia kwa!
ComputersRe: No Internet After A Month Of Paying (Starcomms) by Truequest(m): 2:13pm On Jan 17, 2008
qeemus:
i've been waiting four(4)months now for my internet account to be activated by starcomms,each time i visit,they take down my details and yet nothing is done, i think the regulatory authourity need to look critically at this issue.
Follow my advice listen to consumer speak on Radio Nigeria 8.30 am to 9.00 am on wednesday get details on how to contact CPC. Make a repport against them and you'll be compensated.
PoliticsRe: Gbenga Obasanjo's Wife Spills The Beans! by Truequest(m): 6:16pm On Jan 16, 2008
Abeg for the gopod of this nation this thing should stop na waaooo! Now where are those crucifying Gbenga for speaking out? The woman neither denied nor rebuffed the charge.

Nigeria an her Money under "righteous Obj" hmmmmmmmmm!
SportsCapello In "tax Fraud Investigation" by Truequest(op): 6:04pm On Jan 16, 2008
Fabio Capello is being investigated for tax fraud by prosecutors in the northern Italian city of Turin, according to a legal source.
The source said the investigation had been going on for around a year and involved whether Capello should have been paying Italian taxes on money, earned from sponsors, which the coach was holding in Luxembourg.

Investigators have been looking at documents from the time Capello was coach of Roma between 1999 and 2004 and Juventus between 2004 and 2006.

The English FA issued a statement saying: "It is our understanding that the Italian tax authorities are currently following a procedure of looking into the finances of numerous high-profile individuals, especially in sport.

"We have spoken to Fabio and his advisors about the newspaper reports in Italy. They have explained the facts. They have also given their assurances that Fabio's tax payments are in order. The FA has no further comment to make."

Several top Italian sports personalities have been investigated by tax authorities including former MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi, who was probed because he was based in Britain while also spending a significant amount of time in Italy.

Capello was appointed England coach in December having won domestic titles with all four of the clubs he managed -- AC Milan, Real Madrid, Roma and Juventus.

The 61-year-old's last job was as boss of Real Madrid for a second time, where he was sacked last June despite helping the club to the championship.

As well as living in Spain for a time, he has a home north of Milan and also owns a house in Switzerland.

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/16012008/58/international-capello-tax-fraud-investigation.html
PoliticsRe: Yar’adua Accuses Obasanjo Of Wasting N1.2trn On Energy by Truequest(m): 6:15pm On Jan 15, 2008
To say that OBJ did not blame any other leader is tomake ys look stupid and lacking in intelligence. Till year 2007 OBJ has always blamed whatever went wrong on long years of military rule. Please leave this beautification of OBJ to the Pope, abeg.
ComputersRe: No Internet After A Month Of Paying (Starcomms) by Truequest(m): 4:25pm On Jan 15, 2008
@lagerwhenindoubt
I want to plead with you, not to let this matter go like that, I suggest you contact Consumer protection commission [CPC]. If you don't have the contact tune to Radio Nigeria tomorrow by 8.30am to get their details at least you will get your money back.

Those Starcomm guys are simply SAUCY I mean up and above 150%.
PoliticsRe: A Last! Ojukwu, Ex-biafran Soldiers Get Pension 41 Years After by Truequest(m): 2:09pm On Jan 15, 2008
Not just the rank Ojukwu has got the brain. I doff my hat General Ojukwu.
PoliticsRe: Will Fashola Make It To Alausa For 2nd Term. by Truequest(m): 12:52pm On Jan 15, 2008
dayokanu:
@Truquest,
Abuja is the envy of other cities because the FCT minister came down hard on illegal stuctures not treating issues with kid gloves. that is why the city is clean and sane

other wise the place would be a mad house full of shanties

Lots of people would leave Ibadan, Kwara, Aba, Calabar and Nasarawa to Lagos without any relative and any means of survival and expect the city to cater for them. That is

why we have an army of tout and area boys in the city

If I build a house on an unauthorised place e.g. a drainage and its causing flood why should I then complain if govt decide to demolish such?
I think you need to read the post you quoted again to see if your reply really tally with the post. Good
and clean environment is a great Idea and no sane person will go against it but PROCEDURE, fir brigade approach we must do it now not caring who we maim or kill.

I think it is not supposed to be else why chase khaki boys back to the barracks?
PoliticsRe: Will Fashola Make It To Alausa For 2nd Term. by Truequest(m): 11:51am On Jan 15, 2008
I believe in good governance, maintenance of Law and order but not in brutalizing helpless peasants with no one to fend for them.

While nothing is wrong with giving us a new lagos but I think there everything wrong in not giving your people a consideration before an action that will have such an averse effect on them like loss of houses means of livelihood and even their life. We all need to be alive when the new Lagos finally arrives.

On reelection I think He just have to watch it cos I would not have voted for AC in the last election cos of similar activities by Tinubu, but for the death of Funsho and the way pdp wanted to take lagos some us who would have voted Jimi Agbaje detoured and voted AC.
PoliticsRe: Obj's First Son Accused Him Of Sleeping With His Wife by Truequest(m): 11:26am On Jan 15, 2008
If this story happen to be false and is truly vomited by Gbenga i think is high time the guy should be taken care of, because Nigerians will definitely no longer wants him in there midst so as to avoid transmission of the disease.
Don't let any one be more Obasanjo than Obasanjo himself. Can I tell you Gbenga still bears Obasanjo and an unassuming young man with a life to live whoever his father may be. To remove him from the street over a case with a sworn affidavit, 'haba yaro! hankeli mana'

Though I feel sorry for that family and I feel sorry for our nation, as this is obviously not a good publicity for us at all.
ComputersRe: No Internet After A Month Of Paying (Starcomms) by Truequest(m): 9:09pm On Jan 14, 2008
Bros no bi lie ooooooooo! they are saucy and silly to say the least. Manner of approach -0% to be fair.
ComputersRe: Problem: Some Websites Not Opening With Starcomms by Truequest(m): 9:05pm On Jan 14, 2008
Starcomms is like a pain in the neck, nomatter what you do it just don't click. NCC we need helpooooo!

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