When the likes of Mpele comes on to tell it to us the way we are, some will be shouting ban him! ban him!
The sad aspect is that in a country as big as we are, with all human resources it is endowed with we can only
present touts and mediocres to the world. How will you and I claim that we are sane.
Just two days ago I was a fraud suspect for trying to use my own prepaid mastercard , note prepaid not credit card. God help us

Gamine:

AAh Thank God

Now those mainland people can stop whining in my ears

and those cab drivers have no excuse!!!

Thanks for bringing us back to the topic. Spending 3 to 4hrs to the Island, One can now heave a sigh of relief

That this work is concluded before the scheduled date is commendable

Nice one boy, Keep it up and cool, as you still have a long ladder to climb to get to the academic peak of your dream

The Minister of Transportation, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke, this morning, in Abuja, announced that the 3rd Mainland Bridge in Lagos would be re-opened to the public at 12 midnight on Sunday, 28 September, 2008.

She made this disclosure at a press conference in her office where she also announced that the carriage-way of the bridge will be resurfaced next year. She also stated that about N762 million naira was spent on rehabilitating the bridge.





http://thepmnews.com/2008/09/26/3rd-mainland-bridge-opens-fully-sunday-midnight#comment-28069

[center]South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) has chosen Kgalema Motlanthe as caretaker president[/center]


South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) has chosen a caretaker president to replace Thabo Mbeki.

Sources within the party have named deputy leader Kgalema Motlanthe, an ally of party leader Jacob Zuma.

Mr Zuma said on Monday the decision would only be formally announced when parliament meets - on Thursday - to vote on the appointment.

Thabo Mbeki resigned on Sunday over claims of political interference in a corruption case against Mr Zuma.

He denies the allegations but said he was stepping down at the request of the ANC in the interests of party unity.

In his first comments on the case, Mr Zuma said it was one of the most difficult decisions in the ANC's history.

But Archbishop Desmond Tutu said he was "deeply disturbed" by Mr Mbeki's forced resignation, saying the interests of the ANC had been put before those of the nation.

"Our country deserves better. The way of retribution leads to a banana republic," he said.

Mr Zuma, however, promised a smooth transition.

[center]ANC to nominate interim president [/center]

South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), is due to nominate a caretaker president on Monday to replace Thabo Mbeki.

Mr Mbeki formally resigned as president on Sunday, at the request of the ANC.

But he has denied accusations of political interference in a corruption case against his rival, ANC leader Jacob Zuma.

Correspondents says it is not yet clear who the party will chose to be the interim president of the country.

The BBC's Peter Biles in Johannesburg says the party could nominate the parliamentary speaker, Baleka Mbete, but that the deputy leader of the country, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, is directly in line to take over from Mr Mbeki.

In a televised address on Sunday night, Mr Mbeki said he had handed a resignation letter to the speaker of the National Assembly.

He said he would leave his post as soon as a new president was chosen.

The ANC has since been at pains to say that it wants Mbeki loyalists to remain in their posts in the interests of stability, says our correspondent.

The main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, has said Mr Mbeki had been the victim of a power grab by Mr Zuma.

Party leader Helen Zille said it would a "miscarriage of justice if Zuma was to get off the hook due to a legal technicality"

Sad enough in the neighbouring Zimbabwe Mugabe loose election and refuse to leave rather he wanted the whole nation to boil over.

On Yaradua I still hope he will take a cue and ,
Don't let him close my station like he did Channels Tv

joshjosh:

knowing africans this may just be the begining of the reduction or destruction of the ANC as a party which may be a good thing. i can't see him and his wing of the party working for the people that sent them parking.

this will never happen in nigeria. nigerians almost look indebted to our "theives leaders".

this is a beautiful thing that people on top should know power don't belong to them.

How I wish this is not true but sad to agree that it is

Thabo Mbeki cites economic strides in televised resignation announcement today, the beauty of this story is that it is happening in Africa. The resignation has cleared the way for long time rival Jacob Zuma to run for president.

I shared this with a couple of friends and they all agreed that it is real. But it will take lot discipline to stop by on my way to work amidst hold up to refill my car.

I read this and think I should share it with you;

A petroleum expert has revealed how car owners can get the maximum value for their money each time they fill their vehicles.

Vehicle owners can get more of their money’s worth for every litre of petrol, if they fill up early in the morning when the ground temperature is still cold, says Ramesh Patel who works at the Marian Hill Pipelines, Durban, South Africa.

“Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground.

“The colder the ground, the denser the fuel, when it gets warmer petrol expands, so buying in the afternoon or in the evening, your litre is not exactly a litre,” reveals Patel, who has been at the petroleum work for about 31 years now.

The expert says that in the petroleum business, the specific gravity and the temperature of the petrol, diesel and jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products play an important role.

“A one degree rise in temperature is a big deal for this business,” he notes, adding that “service stations do not have temperature compensation at the pumps.” Another important tip to cutting petrol cost, Patel says, is to fill up when your tank is half full.

“The reason for this is the more fuel you have in your tank, the less air occupying its empty space.

“Petrol evaporates faster than you can imagine. Petroleum storage tanks have an internal floating roof. This roof serves as zero clearance between the petrol and the atmosphere, so it minimizes the evaporation.”

The petroleum specialist also counsels vehicle owners not to fill up, if there is a fuel truck pumping into the storage tanks, when they stop to buy.

“Most likely the petrol/diesel is being stirred up as the fuel is being delivered, and you might pick up some of the dirt that normally settles on the bottom,” he says.

http://thepmnews.com/2008/09/10/how-to-save-money-on-fuel

GoldCircle:


kini big deal

Kin Gi Be ni big deal

youngies:

Yea, the last time I checked Odege Mbeki is a city north west of kandahar - Afghanistan, 20 miles off Bahgdad, land ying 30 degrees of the Dead sea



What the heck is odege mbeki? Is that another specie of African tropical snake?

I no fit laugh, can you see how much of ourselves we know. See where this guy went Kandahar, Afghanistan!
Let me ask again does anyone know the Aljiri people?

Does anyone here know a city called "ODEGE MBEKI"

Secretz:

This post hasnt carried enough air.

Just don't understand

Secretz:

but poster according to your post, did he "escape" assasination as you claim?

If I were you, since you have so much questions about the post, the link is there to get clarity as I had not added any word of mine.

davidif:

[size=28pt]ONE NIGERIA FOR LIFE.[/size]

[size=18pt]LONG LIVE THE GREAT CITIZENS OF THIS GREAT NATION.
LONG LIVE THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA[/size]

That's the spirit my dear, thumbs up.

The police in the United States have uncovered a ‘white supremacist’ plot to assassinate Democratic Party presidential candidate , Senator Barack Obama, barely 48 hours to the delivery of his acceptance speech at his party’s convention in Denver, Colorado.

Several persons have been arrested with guns and ammunition while heading to the convention venue, the Daily Mail of London reported today, saying the arrest of the suspects was done on Sunday.

One of the suspects told authorities they were going to shoot Obama from a vantage point using a rifle erected 750 yards away from the convention grounds.

Police arrested 28-year-old Tharin Gartrell, after he was spotted driving erratically near Denver, where Mr. Obama is due to speak at the Democratic Party convention on Thursday.

Officers recovered two high-powered rifles with telescopic scopes, camouflage clothing, walkie-talkies, wigs, a bulletproof vest, a spotting scope, licenses in the names of other people and 44 grams of the drug methamphetamine.

Police alerted federal officials because of heightened security surrounding the Democratic convention, Dudley said.

‘Clearly, we found there are federal implications, otherwise we would not have notified them,’ Detective Marcus Dudley said. ‘The weapons clearly would cause great concern.’

Police went to a nearby hotel to contact an associate of Gartrell. But that man, identified as 33-year-old Shawn Robert Adolph, jumped out of a sixth floor window to escape detectives. Adolph broke an ankle in the fall and was captured moments later.

Sources say he had a handcuff ring and was wearing a swastika, and is thought to have ties to white supremacist organisations. A third man - an associate of Gartrell and Adolph - Nathan Johnson, 32, was also arrested. He told authorities that the two men ‘planned to kill Barack Obama at his acceptance speech’.

Johnson, along with his girlfriend, Natasha Gromek, are also under arrest on drug charges.

The Secret Service, FBI, ATF and the joint terrorism task force are all investigating the alleged plot.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office has scheduled a news conference for later today. The U.S. Attorney in Denver said it does not believe there is a credible threat to Obama or the convention.

‘It’s premature to say that it was a valid threat or that these folks have the ability to carry it out,’ said a U.S. government official familiar with the investigation.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing. U.S. Attorney Troy Eid said the case was under investigation.

‘We’re absolutely confident there is no credible threat to the candidate, the Democratic National Convention, or the people of Colorado,’ Mr Eid said in a prepared statement.

Nobel literature laureate, Doris Lessing, had earlier predicted that “If Barack Obama becomes the next US president, he will surely be assassinated.

“Obama, who is vying to become the first black president in US history, would certainly not last long, a black man in the position of president. They would murder him,” Lessing, 88, had told the Dagens Nyheter daily.

Lessing, who won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature, said it might be better if Obama’s Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, were to succeed in her bid to become the first woman president of the United States.

“The best thing would be if they (Clinton and Obama) were to run together. Hillary is a very sharp lady. It might be calmer if she were to win, and not Obama,” she had said.

Hillary Clinton, during the Democratic party primaries, while explaining why she was staying on the race for a long time even when it became obvious that she was losing, said: “my husband didn’t wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June.”

“We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June, in California,” she continued. “You know I just don’t understand it.” Many misunderstood this as death wish for Obama.

http://thepmnews.com/2008/08/26/obama-escapes-assassination-4-suspects-arrested-rifles-recovered

This is serious!!!!!!!!!!

DRANOEL:

instead of complaining and posting insignificant maps about why not go back to your village and initiate the break away of the south for a southern autonomy

I don't believe that most of the posters meant the bad things they are posting, I think some are actually showing how versed they are on Nigeria and things concerning her. So please don't take it on anybody, we will survive this storm.

Kobojunkie:


If you notice, it is not just coming from one side. It is from both sides meaning that this intolerance is not limited to people of one tribe but affects all tribes. Until we start educating ourselves as a people, we will have to continue dealing with the same and when I say educating, I do not mean obtaining scholarly degrees and what not, as you can see that many of those spewing hate in here are educated minds as well. We do not have a general understanding of what it means to respect every humans right to an opinion/view. We start there and maybe miracles will happen.

That's exactly my worries, they are educated minds, decision makers and people of influence. One educated mind in any region with educational disadvantage can mean thousands of other illiterates because whatever he says is viewed as the best. That's why we the 'elite' have to tone down and begin to look at each other more constructively, this will help us see the hidden goodness we have over looked all this while.

Back to where I left off, take a look at the people living with you, are they all smart? Never go wrong? I mean they have their faults but you accomodate them, live with them. Those same people could start irritating you if you begin to dwell on their faults and short comings. Believe me this thing is real, it happens.

Kobojunkie:

So, no need to deal with the hate, all we need to do is start saying nice things in public even if when we are in our closed spaces away from the same, we plan to kill the same? If saying nice things were the only solution, we would have rid the world of evil by now but you and I know there exists even in the same house people who speak nice things of each other with their tongues but plot to kill the very same in their hearts. I don’t think God says SAYING NICE THINGS is solution to animosity that exists between people of different creed/gender/religion etc.

This to me is a situation where we have people of same/different tribes hating/harboring some sort of bitterness against the other. Usually the one group blames the other for one issue or another. We have the same problem exists AMONG Yoruba’s, Ibos etc. So it is not a surprise that it exists between the south and the northerners (who, by the way, are not all Hausas). The political situation in the country has more to do with it than anything else and I believe when people start to recognize the fact that the blame for the problems in the country does not lie on one tribe or another but on government simply being inept, the focus will shift from the north/south to where it ought to be and maybe we have progress then.

Can we say we are dealing with the hate judging by the way we have handled issues on this forum? Don't get me wrong I'm not out to win an arguement. Like I said I pointed out rather than deal with the hate we are fueling it to say the least. In this forum we have topics like "why do south hate north", "to hell with your oil north tells south" this things are not good for us.

On your second paragraph , I think we agree on something there, it is the government, that is the issue.

Kobojunkie:

What good does it really do is if we decide to say good things ( LIE THROUGH OUR TEETH) about any one tribe when we have nothing but hate for the same within us?

If we begin to say good things about one another I can tell you that we will begin to see those good we talk about those people. I know what I'm saying every tribe has some wonderful trait that are very good, to be fair. I also know that after creation God said that all his creatures are good.

Not a chance in hell based on factual evidence but we could had been good neighbours and partners to each other, where everybody knew their bounderies, limits and strong points. No nothing brings progress more than mutual respect and not through forced respect.

Mutual respect is exactly what I'm preaching here my dear Eziachi

I for one do not hate northerners and respect everyone's right to life BUT it is evident that the individuals who inhabit that region of Nigeria be it the Elite class or the masses have a very different view point in life in regards to their way of life

My dear I love your response but can I tell you from experience, the masses have no problem. They simply respond to what the elite tell them. It is the elite that knows what goes on in government, it is the elite that forge figures, it is the elite that tell them that so and so because he is from xyz tribe he is less a human. I mean elite from North and South. I believe we can tone it down and chart a new course for our people by saying nice things about each other. Some of us good things about the Arabs, others say good things about the Americans why not about the Hausa, Igbo, Ijaw, Urhobo and Yoruba man. Honestly, we can change it is possible to say good things about one another.

morpheus24:

Your comments by the way sound very politically Elitist!

I'm just like you my dear there is no difference, I'm not that kind of elite neither do I
belong to any party. I'm just you, repeating for emphasis

Dear elite Nigerians,
What I'm about to write now is purely my opinion as regards the HATE MESSAGES
we have been dishing out on this forum. Yes I called you an elite because if you
are like the majority on the street, you will not have the articulation to comment
on issues the way you have been doing.

What you don't know is that is that we are surreptitiously spreading HATRED, I
have travelled round the country to know that simple comments can ignite fire
that will leave hundreds dead if not thousands. Have you considered the damage
some of the things you have posted about the Northerners have done to their pride.
What of the post against the Niger Deltans, The Easterners and Westerners.

I cannot forget Gideon Orkar's coup in a hurry. Some of us maybe we find it easy to
say what we say beause we live in our own enclosure. But have you considered your
relatives who live in the midst of those people you speak against.

Finally, remember that other nationals visit this forum, are you not disturbed that you
an elite make them to see us as easy prey, because a single broom is usually easy to break.

I therefore[b] I appeal to Seun to check what some of us post on this forum for the good
of our nation and for the good of us all. God bless Nigeria and her people[/b].

No basis for comparison as far as I'm concerned.
These are different men with diiferent approach
to issues. Am I pleased with either of them? NO.

Eziachi:

I don't regard myself as a prophet neither any intent to be one but when I wrote the above quotes/predictions few days ago about the arrest of Bode George, not many will took me serious. since I wrote what will happens after the arrest, how many of them haven't happened and also in that order?
Did you see the crowd of Nigerian slaves that came to the court to hail his bail? The next is his civic reception and chieftaincy title and then life goes on.

mhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! How true this things can be, I still hope that he will not get out of court without being indicted.

naijaking1:

Despite all the atrocities committed against the Igbos by the Niger-Deltans during and after the civil war, despite the "abandoned properties" in PH, despite deliberate sabotage of the their Igbo cousins, and despite continued demonization of the Igbos by some in ND today; it's always true that you can't always tell your friends when you're having a good time. Your friends, and relatives are for good times and bad times too.
Ohaneze knows that despite these ill-feelings, the long term goal of Igbos and their ND cousins are mutually assured based on proximity, culture, and religion.
I still remember some ND leaders who rose to power proclaiming the Igbos more distant than other Nigerians from Kano and Sokoto states.

One person must take the initiative and as expected the elder should and that is what Ohaneze has done. You can't separate yourself from you.
On the militants yes what they are doing might not be the best but are we going to continue like this? I think there should be an end and one of the ways is thru dialogue and assuring the militants that they have been forgiven. I think that will be a way forward.

Be wary of those guys asking you to send them mails; scammers are everywhere be warned. But for Niger delta I will say go it is your father land

For the Nigeria blood that runs in you, you have no reason not taking the job.
Just try as much as you can to spice your grammar with some broken English,
If you can do that you are home and dry.