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Politics › Re: China And Nigeria Sign $1.1bn Deal by Watermelon(m): 3:20pm On Jul 11, 2013

Ok, my new name is Chang Wu Cheng

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Travel › Re: Emirates Wins 2013 World's Best Airline Award! by Watermelon(m): 3:25am On Jul 11, 2013

Godson201333: Oh lala Thanks cant wait and are they gonna accept dollars?,cos im gonna be there for like 8 hrs..

Guy, it seems you are planning to disappear on transit any, you are still going to enjoy Dubai airport, some malls accept dollars, some others accept Durham and pounds. Enjoy your trip

Politics › Re: An Isreali Abducted In Edo by Watermelon(m): 8:52am On Jul 09, 2013

I trust Isreali mossad in dealing with this kind of problem, they will gather enough information about the wherebout of the kidnappers and their victim, negotiate and pay some ransome to secure the release of the victim after which they will go after the captors.I doubt if they will ever go after the kidnappers when the captive is still in the kidnappers'enclave. I only pity for the kidnappers because they are working hard for the proceeds the will never enjoy.

Travel › Re: Emirates Wins 2013 World's Best Airline Award! by Watermelon(m): 9:59am On Jul 08, 2013

Emirates remains my best airline with great in flight services, enough edibles till your intestines can handle no more. Another fantastic airline is Quatar air which is slightly better than Emirates but more expensive.

Politics › Re: Imo APC Chieftains Resign by Watermelon(m): 9:35am On Jul 08, 2013

ok oh, he can form his own political party.

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Politics › Re: The Four Plane Hijackers Of Nigeria by Watermelon(m): 11:02am On Jun 29, 2013

Arrant nonsense, those lads deserve life sentence,supposing something bad happened to the innocent souls in that plane, this is a stupendous act, why not go out to fight the people that annulled the election to prove their bravery. THey are terrorists

Travel › Re: Where Are Nigerians In Australia . by Watermelon(m): 4:38am On Jun 29, 2013

$800 per month is much and you can't have much freedom in a homestead, they regulate your movements within the house and the amount of water you use and the likes, some will even demand you bath once a day to so as to minimize water use. check flatmates.com.au for accomodation but please do not pay money to anybody or into any account number until you have seen the house and signed an agreement with the owner. Other accomodation websites are domain.com.au, flatmatesfinders.com.au. wish you success with your search.

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Politics › Re: Nigerian Shot After High-Speed Chase In South-Africa by Watermelon(m): 3:57pm On Jun 28, 2013

[quote author=dayokanu]Anywhere in the world dont run for the cops else you are digging yourself in a bigger hole[/quote
Dude, please read the report again

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Foreign Affairs › Re: The Obamas' Trip To Former Slaving Port In Senegal (Pictures & Video) by Watermelon(m): 3:49pm On Jun 28, 2013

@ Jennykadry, you are not far from the truth, Africans sold their linemen as slaves to the whites and for those saying America has done nothing good for Africa should remember that many African countries receive billions of dollars per annum as aid from America with little or nothing to show for it.

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Politics › Re: Photos From Commissioning Of Mokola Flyover by Watermelon(m): 12:01pm On Jun 27, 2013

Politics › Re: 1st Female Nigerian Defence Academy Cadets ( PHOTOS) by Watermelon(m): 11:37am On Jun 27, 2013

Ok oh Jona's queens. Looking masculine

Politics › Re: The Weapons Are Hunting Rifles - Lebanese Suspects Tell Court. by Watermelon(m): 3:17am On Jun 23, 2013

This shows that the Lebanese see Nigerians as animals to be hunted

Nairaland General › Re: Maduakor Ifeanyi Aka ' Ebucca' Is A Scammer - Beware by Watermelon(m): 3:15pm On Jun 05, 2013

Na wa oh, cork and bull story, leukaemia, jaw swelling, operation, 1.3million?, this is a real scam,. Tumor biopsy and chemotherapy for burkitts lymphoma can't take more than 50,000 naira, op why are you inviting curse unto your life

Politics › Re: ActionAid - 80% Of Nigerians Not Living Above A-Dollar-A-Day by Watermelon(m): 9:35am On May 22, 2013

These surveys never cease to baffle me, lagosians alone spend one billion naira annually on owambe parties,

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Travel › Re: Fellow Naija In Sydney Let's Meet Here by Watermelon(m): 9:46am On May 12, 2013

I'm in Sydney live, mosman

Entertainment › Re: Are You Among The Generation That Used This Television? by Watermelon(m): 12:32pm On May 04, 2013

Okpuru anyanwu, mike mike ori ihe Di MMA , zebrudia, ichoku, things fall apart, Spencer, chai those good old days, mine is still available, not for sale please

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Food › Re: Foods/Delicacies From Other Tribes That You Love by Watermelon(m): 12:55pm On May 03, 2013

Akamu and akara, I love this combo die, Dunno their origin though.

Politics › Re: The Dirtiness That "Is" Nigeria by Watermelon(m): 4:28pm On Apr 29, 2013

It is very obvious that the poster has very ulterior motives for posting the above pictures, ALMOST 100% of the pictures are stale and majority of those places have been positively transformed. You can even verify that from some of Rossiki#s pictures which are more recent and the do date on which the pictures were taken boldly inscribed on the photos, and by the way the Ekiti picture is is a recent picture showing the rear area of the governor's lodge with heaps of human excreta and if the number one citizen's environs is this messed up, how much more the other parts of ekiti state.

Politics › Re: The Dirtiness That "Is" Nigeria by Watermelon(m): 4:26pm On Apr 29, 2013

It is very obvious that the poster has very ulterior motives for posting the above pictures, ALMOST 100% of the pictures are stale and majority of those places have been postively transformed. You can even verify that from some of Rossiki#s pictures which are more recent and the do date on which the pictures were taken boldly inscribed on the photos, and by the way the Ekiti picture is is a recent picture showing the rear area of the governor's lodge with heaps of human excreta and if the number one citizen's environs is this messed up, how much more the other parts of ekiti state.

Politics › Re: Tinubu’s Rousing Speech At The ACN Convention by Watermelon(m): 7:38am On Apr 19, 2013

ok oooooo

Islam › Re: 100 Admonitions from the Qur'an by Watermelon(m): 11:56am On Apr 12, 2013

YouChristians sef una trouble plenty oh, leave muslims let them be

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Nairaland General › Nigeria Has The World's Highest Percentage Of Women Using Skin Lightening Agent by Watermelon(op): 7:47am On Apr 07, 2013

Lagos, Nigeria - After carefully washing her face, legs and arms, Taiwo Solomon vigorously rubs cream over her body. She is meticulous and makes sure she covers her entire face. Soloman, 32, is bleaching her skin. She believes fairer skin could be her ticket to a better life. So she spends her meager savings on cheap black-market concoctions that promise to lighten her pigment.

This has been a daily routine for the past 15 years. Now several shades lighter she says her new skin makes her feel more beautiful and confident.

“Bleaching just makes me feel special, like am walking around in a spotlight,” she told Al Jazeera. “I am not seeking to be totally white, I just want to look beautiful. I cannot stop using the lightening agents,” she adds.

Solomon is not alone. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), [b]77 percent of women in Nigeria use skin-lightening products, the world’s highest percentage. That compares with 59 percent in Togo, and 27 percent in Senegal. The reasons for this are varied but most people say they use skin-lighteners because they want "white skin".

In many parts of Africa, lighter-skinned women are considered more beautiful and are believed to be more successful and likely to find marriage.

It's not only women though who are obsessed with bleaching their skins. Some men too are involved in the practice.

Conceptions of beauty

Lightening creams are not effectively regulated in Nigeria where even roadside vendors sell tubes and plastic bags of powders and ointments from cardboard boxes stacked along sidewalks in market districts. Many of the tubes are unlabelled as to their actual ingredients.

"An African will prefer to be called John-Philip. If you said your name was Chukwu Emeka Afongkudong they will say you are from the village. You are backward. How can you have such a name? We really look down on our culture and heritage instead of being proud of it. "

- Femi Kuti, Nigerian Musician

In a market in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, business is booming for shops selling skin-lightening products. Both local and imported products line the shelves of Rashida Lawal’s cosmetics shop.

"About 90 percent of my clients come asking for skin whitening products," she told Al Jazeera. "I sell it to them and give advice on what product is best for them and how to use them."

She says most of her customers are in a great haste to lighten their skin.

“Taking the color of your skin to different colour has to be gradual. It's not something you decide one day that 'I want to be fair, I want to be like Michael Jackson and you become Michael Jackson all of a sudden'. That is why we have to advise them first before selling it to them” said Lawal.

Rashida and her staff also mix different ointments and creams for customers “depending on the desired level of lightness”.

Famous Nigerian Musician Femi Kuti says the use skin-lightening products have given rise to their own terminology.

“When the bleaching propaganda got so negative, they had to come up with toning. Bleaching sounds too hard, now it’s toning. I don't bleach, they say, I tone!”

“They think bleaching is gege,” he told Al Jazeera, using a Nigerian term for cool.

Femi attributes skin bleaching to a feeling that foreign products and images must, by definition, be good.

“An African will prefer to be called John-Philip. If you said your name was Chukwu Emeka Afongkudong they will say you are from the village. You are backward. How can you have such a name? We really look down on our culture and heritage instead of being proud of it,” he laments.

Dangerous consequences

Skin bleaching comes with hazardous health consequences. The dangers associated with the use of toxic compounds for skin bleaching include blood cancers such as leukemia and cancers of the liver and kidneys as well as severe skin conditions.

Hardcore bleachers use illegal ointments containing toxins like mercury, a metal that blocks production of melanin, which gives the skin its colour, but can also be toxic.

Ayobode Williams, a medical doctor, says the skin bleaching agents have both internal and external effects on those who use them.

“Systemically it causes things like kidney failure because of the mercury in some of the products and it also causes eczema, skin pigmentation among a host of other infections,” he told Al Jazeera.

Dr Williams warned that sustained use of bleaching agents could cause even cancer.

Yet few seem to pay attention to these dangers. For those who bleach, staying black is not beautiful at all

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/04/20134514845907984.html

Hmmmmmmm 77% of Nigerian women use bleaching/toning cream?, how true is this?

Foreign Affairs › Re: David Cameron Standing In A Public Train (Pictures) - Humility? by Watermelon(m): 8:41am On Apr 03, 2013

Watzhup: David Cameron, Abi? Tell Obama to try that.

See Obama walking to church with his family from the white house

Politics › Re: Francisca Okeke & Eucharia Nwaichi Win L’Oréal-UNESCO Award by Watermelon(m): 8:00am On Apr 03, 2013

I can see the reason why Niogeria is stagnant, tribalism and religious bigotry.You kids should stop this [/size][size=8pt][/size][size=8pt][size=8pt][/size]tribal bashing, its seriously annoying and I wonder why Nigerians blame other nationals when they invade nairaland to insult them.

Politics › Re: Francisca Okeke & Eucharia Nwaichi Win L’Oréal-UNESCO Award by Watermelon(m): 5:14am On Apr 03, 2013

Nuzo':
Not everyone buys the idea of marriage.
However, she seem to be happily married to an acheiver in the person of Professor PN Okeke. (You know the book PN Okeke?)

Pnokeke.com

Don't mind the dumb guy, i doubt if he went to secondary school because if he did he would have come across several text books written by the Okekes.

Politics › Re: Francisca Okeke & Eucharia Nwaichi Win L’Oréal-UNESCO Award by Watermelon(m): 5:10am On Apr 03, 2013

bros856: Make them marry ooooo! they are not carrying any of those awards to anyway at old age. Family first.

Look at this mugu,what have you achieved? and for your information, prof. Okeke has six children, all professionals, (medical doctors, pharmacists, Engineer), she is also a grandmother,(8 grandchildren and still counting, do get a life please, must op publish her family details alongside her academic achievements. The husband too is a professor.

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Politics › Re: MASSOB Declares June 8 Sit-at-home, Demands Rev. King’s Release by Watermelon(m): 10:29am On Mar 27, 2013

come to think of it, much of the people murdered by king were Igbos

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Politics › Re: MASSOB Declares June 8 Sit-at-home, Demands Rev. King’s Release by Watermelon(m): 10:26am On Mar 27, 2013

Okija_juju: Umu Igbo..

What shall we do about MASSOB?! These charlatans have done more damage to us than good.
This embarassment is getting out of hand.

You took the words out of my mouth, the other time it was molestation of onitsha residents and this time around, demanding the release of a convicted murderer, this is embarrassing to say the least. Real umuigbo should distance themselves from this wayward group called massob.

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Politics › Re: MASSOB Declares June 8 Sit-at-home, Demands Rev. King’s Release by Watermelon(m): 10:20am On Mar 27, 2013

is massob blind? how on earth will anybody be demanding for the release of a murderer, smh for massob.

Crime › Re: See What A "Man" Did To His Wife (Horrible Picture) by Watermelon(m): 1:17pm On Mar 19, 2013

See nairalanders condemning this man, some might do worse than him if faced by a similar scenario that led to this assault.
That man needs to be tied and shot at a stake.

Properties › Re: "Face Me I Face You" Experience by Watermelon(m): 1:46pm On Mar 12, 2013

choi, very hilarious topic

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