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dcraigy: Very first, sensible reply. I'm not stateless, but I have no passport or Nigerian identity documents which would enable them to deport me; should the situation arise.

With regards to some sort of electronic migrant records, they may have them. But then again, I came here before introduction of e-passports and the new point system, which involves them getting immigrants' biometrics and such, so I'm not so sure. And if their records were any good/ useful in this matter, they probably won't have problems deporting most people, as numerous sources show. Check this out http://www.publicservice.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=20676. These guys are honestly slow!

However, I'm trying to figure out how the Nigerian Immigration Service interviews people, who the UKBA wishes to deport, in order to issue emergency travel certificates i.e. what sort of question they ask them.


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vin4ever: We debated on this our youth day and I just decided to bring up the Topic on Nairaland to get your opinions, what really makes you a christian: studying the word or praying ?

templeinyou: who has glo bolt should pls tell me how to share it with FRIEND.

doofanc: Really? Christian tradition not found in the Bible? Then what makes it Christian?

The bank brought a buyer but Ifeanyi did not allow the transaction to take place. He said the bank should let him sell the product and put the money in the bank. It took him almost three weeks to sell a cargo the bank would have sold in one week. The money was put in the bank and the bank paid the other principal. While this was ongoing, suddenly N5.4 billion dropped into the account from the SDN (= subsidy) which is the sovereign debt note of this consignment as if to say the consignment came. Aig said: ‘What!? This consignment didn’t come and this man claimed SDN on it? Do you know this is fraud and you are stealing money from the Federal Government (= the poor)?

from Cosmos Maduka vs Ifeanyi Ubah

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/newsflash/how-ifeanyi-ubah-swindled-me-of-n21bn-cosmas-maduka.html

jidegirl12: Okay but sometimes don't you feel you need a breathing space? Like sincerely? Like you feel choked? I'm just being sincere like do fun things with your friends without your spouse involved?

JustifiedChild: I was in the office one day discussing with my boss’ friend. He told me how he was relating with young people like my humble self and practically announced that our generation was filled with lazy and unintelligent people.

I was slightly offended by that statement and was quick to rise to ‘our’ defense; I mean he could as well be saying I was lazy and unintelligent! He cited examples where he was discussing with young people and found out some could not spell, some who never read books of any kind and a guy who did not know that iron ore was a mineral resource ( ).

In his own words, “everybody just wants to hammer like Davido and wizkid..”.

He said even the educational system was easier for us, thanks to the various technologies we have but we are still lazy about it. Anyway, our talk was insightful and even though i hated to admit it, i knew he had points! Anyway opinions please!

vanstanzy: RIGHT, THE MAN DIDN'T JUST RESIGN BECAUSE OF ADULTERY ALONE. HE PROBABLY WAS FOUND CULPABLE IN OTHER AREAS TOO. BUT U CAN'T TAKE AWAY THE FACT THAT ADULTERY WAS ONE OF THE CHARGES LABELED AGAINST HIM AND HE DIDN'T DENY IT, OR DID HE?
WE ALL WITNESSED CLINTONS' SEX SCANDAL AND HOW HE ALMOST LOST THE US PRESIDENTIAL SEAT, SO WHY IS THIS SO DIFFERENT?

Africans Going Dutch - No Country for Old Men

"Have you ever seen a grey-haired African living in The Netherlands?" a friend once asked me. I was taken aback by this question. They are here of course. But the fact that I could not immediately think of one made me curious. Ever since, I have been looking around, hoping to find someone who fits the profile.

To most Africans, the Netherlands is not a place for the elderly. As a result, most Africans would prefer to spend their last days back home. Ageing there is considered a blessing - people grow old and attain special status. "If one has to grow old it should be in Africa!" they say. Yes, this is the sentiment, despite the fact that life expectancy in the Netherlands is 80 years, while the average in Africa is 54.

Why is that? Despite the quality of life and the high standard of living in the Netherlands, the elderly are not regarded as an added value to society. Instead, they are seen as a burden, breaking the backbone of the health care system. As Dutch health minister Edith Schippers once remarked, elderly care costs three times as much here as in Germany and twice as much as in France. The minister promoted drastic savings reforms by moving away from large institutions and encouraging home- and community-based care.

So I must ask myself: Could the Dutch system be slowly moving towards the African way? Have the Dutch suddenly realized that happiness in old age cannot be predicted by cash amounts? Rather, it is measured by the love and care of family, friends and community. People in Africa grow old and are simply content with that. This cannot be said of the elderly in the Netherlands. Here they complain of boredom and are deemed unable to contribute to society in any meaningful way. It's as though lessons learned from the past - and the voices they have to tell them - are exchanged for their pension.

The African source of knowledge is not found in libraries. It is stored for safekeeping in memories. Because they retain the oral history of our peoples, the elderly are given the same reverence that the Western world has for books. As the adage of Mali's Bambara tribe goes: If old age stops the hunter from going hunting, he must be content with telling his ancient exploits.
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AjanleKoko: Won't you even let the industry start first?

kenoxx: Hi fellow nairalanders! i am a young guy in his late twenties, a computer scientist and a radio and Tv presenter. am having some issues with ma relationship life now after i lived a very rough life in d begining. i have a good look and used that as a tool to deal with women bac then in the university. When i was in school,i met a lady that i fell in love seriously with still didnt stop womanizing. i dated this girl for 4 gud years, she knew my dirty runs and never left me. instead she overluk dem and even suport me by giving me some cash to pay some bills. Lo n Behold, after school, i came across anoda lady on one of the social network and before i cud say jack, we were both in hot love. d first lady knew about the new lady and for the first time, she fought with me and pulled out of the relationship.i am so much in love with this new lady that i neva bothered to beg the other lady. the major challenge am facing now is the issue of finances with the new lady. unlike the former one that doesnt realy bother about how much i spend on her, dis new one will make sure i spend all my cash on her on other tins..i dont want to tell her am not okay with this arrangment cuz i dont her 2 c me as a "STINGY" man so i always try 2 please her even somtimes to displease myself.
can i get candid thoughts on how to cope with this situation?

kenoxx: @ everyone, thanks 4 your candid thoughts and d constructive criticism. but i forgot to add dis to my message that i prayed about these two girls to find out who should be my wife, i got d same result everytine and that is to continue dating the new lady and i must admit that, that reason is d sole reason why i left d first lady...could those revelations b wrong too?

How could he have been so stupid?

The he in question is Vince Young, and what he is accused of being intellectually diminutive about is his finances. This hardly makes him unique among NFL players, T.O. most recently making headlines for plundering through disgusting amounts of cash. Yet the sordid details of VY’s financial state leaking out via lawsuit are jarring.

The bottom line is another NFL player is broke. The reality is somewhat uglier, the countersuit filed by his financial advisors actually includes this clause about what they believe is VY’s unwillingness to accept responsibility:

“ . . . a common occurrence as Jeff Fisher, Mack Brown, numerous NFL executives, coaches, teammates, scouts, girlfriends and illegitimate children will attest.”

What they are describing sounds very much like a guy who needed competent advisors, which is why he is suing. And while I have no doubt these advisors deserve to be dropped in the grease, as does VY, the University of Texas and the NFL, what I keep coming back to is his family.

Where the hell were they?


I was working at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram when VY was a junior in college. The paper sent me to Houston first, to interview his family, then along to Austin to interview Young. This was before the Rose Bowl win and Heisman Trophy consideration, but even at that point you could predict what was coming. He was a player on the rise. Everything seemed possible.

It is wrong to say he was can’t-miss; too many NFL scouts and execs thought otherwise. What VY instead embodied was a chance, a good chance, a chance few of us get, to realize his dreams.

The problem was his dreams belonged not only to him. His mom had dreams, as did his uncle Keith Young. He was a middle school teacher who dreamed of bigger and found that bigger by starting Next Level Sports and Entertainment Inc. with Major Adams.

Guess who was their first client?

Guess who now is suing Adams?

Guess who now is hurling awful accusations?


A 20-year-old model embarking on an NFL career is doomed to fail if he does not have the right people around him. Family is not the right people, no matter how good or loving or well-intentioned they are.

I should note I liked his mom almost immediately as we sat down for dinner my first night in town. She is one of those parents who had poured everything she had into her kid. It is hindsight to say so now, but there were red flags, mostly the use of “we.”

What was obvious, even before his senior year of college, was that “we” were all going to be working for the NFL.

It is why I hate the Hall of Fame speeches, most recently that of Deion Sanders. I cringed at the part about him making it and how his mom never had to work again — like there is something wrong with work. This is the trap, and there is nobody willing to talk about the trap or why it is a trap or why it is screwed up.

It is like they say on airplanes: Secure your own mask before helping those around you. VY’s biggest failing was not securing that $26 million in guaranteed money before helping anybody else.

Yes, we are talking about $26 million in guaranteed money.

I once asked former NFL coach Bill Parcells what his advice to players was regarding money. He was always meddling in their business, calling them into his office and giving advice too few listened to. What he told them was to bank that signing bonus for a year, live on only one game check, then after a year live on the interest from the bonus.

He said few players listened.


Most guys want guys like Adams, chartering planes and securing loans and cutting checks to themselves and never having a tough conversation about who and how many are getting checks. This is why VY is suing his former agent as well as a financial planner, basically saying they are why he is broke.

I have no doubt this is true, just as I have no doubt there is blame for Vince Young. His ego got out of control. He surrounded himself by yes men. He took every piece of sage financial advice and did the opposite thing. He was the first client of people who may or may not have known what they were doing. He involved his uncle in the handling of his money. He felt the need to pay for all of his family and friends, for cars and houses and things, the things surrounding him now as he sits in Houston waiting for another NFL team to call with a job he so desperately needs.

This sad state of Vince Young, broke and unable to pay the bills, begs the question: How could he be so stupid?

The sad and simple answer is this is what too often happens when a 20-year-old is forced to become the family patriarch.

Ayomivic: Many todays christians are going to church becaous they want to receive back their lost glory.Some believed that enemies are behind their problems and they are ready to do any thing to defeat and claim back their glory even if it will cause the life of their enemy or enemies[font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font].So, my quesion is as a christian is it good to ask for one enemy's life for you to enjoy your life? To me is very bad, the reason is that, you can not find this attitudes in the life of Jesus or the lives of early christians.

legalwealth: Let's assume that you are in a burning house and God forbid though and you have the chance to take one thing out of the house WHICHEVER pertains to you out of those listed below which are:
1.50 Million cash (what currency)
2.Your Mummy (she needs to be with her husband)
3.Your Daddy (he needs to be with his wife)
4.Your Lover (would leave me cause i did not get the money too)
5.Your 5yrs old son (would give me hell cause i did not save the money)
6.Your Holy Book (salvation is not in any book)
7.Your Certificate...(is it worth more than the 50million)

WHAT one thing will YOU pick out and WHY?

honeric01: Moyo Oyatogun
Hi there. I've been thinking of the story of the late Cynthia Osukouagu . What do you make of the story? After reading and listening to all the police had to say about the case, I felt bad. Of course being an adult, at 24, late Cynthia was independent. But it tells of the risky kind of life our young people live in this game of dating, sex and having fun. Apart from shopping for her boutique in Abuja, it seems to me the meeting with this her face book 'boyfriend' was a high point of her Lagos visit. Why should she end up in a hotel with a guy she doesnt know well? She didnt think of giving her boyfriend's name and no to anyone at home, I mean she'd been declared missing since last month. This is so risky, yet in our world of fun love and sex, thIs sort of thing happens all the time. The facebook lover even confessed to using a vibrator on her , before drugging her. They also confessed that this is the same drug they used on other girls and it knocked them off. OTHER GIRLS. I am alarmed. We need to tell this sorry over and over to our young people. Most of them take this type of risks. It doesn't always end up,this way, otherwise I don't think we will have enough space to contain the stories. But it does go wrong sometimes as it went wrong with Cynthia. REST IN PEACE CYNTHIA. What a terrible death. Pls let's up our morals once again. We have let go too much. Did u learn anything you'd like to share with me?

Onim's:
I remember those days we did social studies in pry sch,'family'...d man/husband is d head of d house they say...he provides 4d family,n d woman takes care of d home/kids yl he's away either @work or...(God knws whr).its thr even in d bible,(though i aint a scholar...)dat wen a man alows his woman tak up his duty,he takes curse upon himself...as a man,n u'r able 2gv ur wife/family,be greatful 2God...so u can earn ur respect even b4 ur children!and in d aspect of women keepin their money,thats nt entirely true...they gv the kids those smal irrelevant tins u tink they cant av...she somtyms buy her undies,wen u feel u'v spent so much u dnt v2 gv her...(e do abeg)

CHIMSKY: I dont understand all this talk about shared responsibility.Marriage has opened my eyes.I and my wife work but I pay the bills.All the bills.I am not happy with this arrangement but I realized very early that she is very touchy about money.I once asked her what she does with her salary and she wouldnt tell me.My money is our money.Evrrybody's bills are my responsibility but her money is her money.When I lost my job a while back I saw hell at her hands and my mother in law told me off completely.Now that things look better she nd MIL are all cosying up to me.
About dropping money,I drop of course.I even buy all sorts of foodstuff in bulk and give Madam money.Not really because I am happy doing it,but because of the kids.

Efemena_xy: Yeah, I remember that too. It was part of a drama series on TV. Can't recall the title though