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Literature / Re: Best Biography You Ever Read by wksi: 6:05pm On May 14, 2012
gistme24: Jack: Straight From The Gut
John Francis "Jack" Welch, Jr. (born November 19, 1935) is an American chemical engineer, business executive, and author. He was Chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001. During his tenure at GE, the company's value rose 4000%.

Thank you for mentioning this. I am really proud that Nigerians are veracious readers. This is one of the best leadership books I have read. If you want to go further, you can also read " the four Es of leadership - Jack Welch" The Winning" - Jack Welch.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Manchester City Vs Manchester United (1 - 0) On 30th April 2012 by wksi: 8:27pm On Apr 30, 2012
If there is no link to watch this match online I will shot down this system now!
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Manchester City Vs Manchester United (1 - 0) On 30th April 2012 by wksi: 8:22pm On Apr 30, 2012
any link to the match
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Manchester City Vs Manchester United (1 - 0) On 30th April 2012 by wksi: 8:19pm On Apr 30, 2012
Please who has a link where I can watch online? Thanks in advance!
Education / Re: Public Schools Back In Those Days (Your Experiences) by wksi: 4:46pm On Apr 27, 2012
Yes, I was thought English language in Igbo.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: UCL: Chelsea Vs Barcelona (1 - 0) On April 18 2012 by wksi: 8:54pm On Apr 18, 2012
where can I watch the game online?
Politics / Re: Na Asuaju De Laugh Now Oo! by wksi: 1:21pm On Apr 12, 2011
^^^my bad smileythe fear of Asuwaju Bola Ahmed is the beginning of laughing in,
Politics / Na Asuaju De Laugh Now Oo! by wksi: 4:06am On Apr 12, 2011
Obj and Tinubu have changed position. Right now, na asuwaju de laugh ooo!!!
Romance / Re: The Reasons Why Men Won't Commit by wksi: 6:28pm On Feb 27, 2011
what is wrong with mrs chima is that she is an akata!! and that's how they are!! akata is always akata
Travel / Uk Court Jails Nigerian For £1.3m Scam by wksi: 3:12am On Feb 25, 2011
Always making news for the wrong reason.

The Inner London Crown Court has sentenced a Nigerian immigrant, Olaide Taiwo, to eight-and-a-half years imprisonment for stealing the identities of 350 people to claim £1.3m in bogus tax credits.

In what was described as the largest benefit scam of its kind, Taiwo 35 was said to have hijacked the identities while working as a security guard for a number of large national companies, Daily Mail reported on Thursday.

He was then said to have used the names to claim tens of thousands in working tax credits.

The report said the sentence was the highest ever for tax credit fraud. Taiwo is understood to have arrived illegally in Britain in 2003 with his wife.

Although three applications to stay in the United Kingdom failed, in 2005 he was granted discretionary leave to remain.

It was during this period that the scam by the father of two began. He submitted more than 300 fraudulent tax credit claims between June 2004 and July 2008 worth over £1m.

When he was arrested, investigators found an ‘identity thieves’ paradise’, with stacks of fake passports, driving licences and £70,000 in cash lying around his council flat in Camberwell, South-East London.

The property was littered with paperwork detailing the names, addresses and national insurance numbers of hundreds of people which he had taken from employee payroll records at dozens of companies around London where he had worked as a security guard.

They also found templates for making false passports, birth certificates, NHS cards and driving licences.

Taiwo used the identities to open hundreds of bank accounts for the benefits to be paid into, but HM Revenue & Customs became suspicious about the multiple tax credit applications and arrested him in July 2008.

They believe he was the ringleader of an organised criminal network which included his sister-in-law who worked for a job centre.

Taiwo also tried to leave the country but he was arrested again on August 6 last year.

Sentencing him, Judge Simon Davis ordered that he be deported at the end of jail term. Another member of the gang, Taiwo’s sister-in-law Olajumoke Ademuyiwa, was also found guilty of fraudulently obtaining tax credit payments in an earlier hearing.

Ademuyiwa, 42, opened the bank accounts into which the benefits were paid, but she is not thought to have used her role as a job centre worker to make false claims.

She is due to be sentenced in April. http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201102252375146
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Family / Re: Please Join Me In Praising My God by wksi: 9:56pm On Dec 23, 2010
congrats!!!!!!
Politics / Re: I am Beginning To Doubt Ribadu's Integrity! by wksi: 10:07pm On Dec 06, 2010
I suspect that Ribadu is a front to some high level politicians, and is not serious about his presidential ambition. He now speaks from all sides of his mouth. This is the same Ribadu who, in the wake of 2007 election campaign said that Tinibu's corruption has international dimension. Now not only is he being sponsored bu Tinibu, he is now trying to justify he alignment with these so called corrupt people. I think Nigeria is a hopeless state. I can not see any straight character there.

I am afraid that Ribadu will be messed up in this his clouded political outing, and it is going to be a very big dent on his image.
Politics / I am Beginning To Doubt Ribadu's Integrity! by wksi: 9:15pm On Dec 06, 2010
Baobab: Nigerian political campaigns are costly affairs that often rely on the sponsorship of unsavoury characters. Can you run a clean campaign in a dirty system? For example, will you probe your sponsors to find out the sources of their wealth?

NR: Everything about me has always been clean and this will be a clean campaign, in any case, I will not need as much money as other parties because I am not going to bribe anyone. My campaign is about winning over people with my ideas, not my money.

But I will not probe anybody. I am not the EFCC chairman here - I am a politician who is trying to get people to support me. If money is coming to change a system that needs change, why should [the source] matter? Why try to destroy this opportunity?

http://www.linkedin.com/news?viewArticle=&articleID=281643000&gid=1728147&type=member&item=36857317&articleURL=http://www.economist.com/blogs/baobab/201
Romance / Re: She Refuses To Wash His Clothes by wksi: 8:57pm On Nov 21, 2010
Well, my wife will not wash my clothes, washing machine is a must in my house or clothes would be taken to the laundry.  I will wash my shorts myself except she offers to do so for me.

My wife not washing my clothes can never be an issue for me let alone being a deal braker.
Romance / Re: Black Girls In America, Is It True That It Is Difficult To Find A Man? by wksi: 6:15am On Nov 21, 2010
@NubianQ:  Well, it may not be entirely true to say that every woman on earth or at least all the ladies that are of marriageable age now but still remain  single have had an opportunity to get married but blew it.  There is the possibility that some never had any real or apparent opportunity, but believe me, this set of people are insignificant.  The thing is that most ladies, while they are growing up (and men as well) have formulated a mental picture of the standard and or kind of man they will date and or marry.  They would be so fixated with these standards that they fail to realize when to do an appraisal and restrategize.  But, as time goes on, and the men with these standards fail to surface or surface, but have no intention of getting down, these ladies would still remain on their high horses till time seems to be running out.

One good quality of a good leader, and this also applies to individuals who plan, is the ability to deal with change. Any manager who does not recognize when to change his strategy or who cannot deal with change in line with the reality of the prevailing business climate is bound to fail!  Every thing on earth is subject to change except change itself. 

My point, ladies should, after setting these standards, be attentive to recognize the appropriate time to make a change and reconsider their priorities before it is late.  Time flies faster than anybody may think - the next 10 years is just by the corner, though it may seem too far in our thinking.

@Cyber: you write so well, and your analogy makes a lot sense.

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Romance / Re: Black Girls In America, Is It True That It Is Difficult To Find A Man? by wksi: 4:25am On Nov 21, 2010
@Cyber it's crazy here.  During the Nigerian @50 independence party in NY, there were about 3 different venues for the after celebn party that night, I attended one of the parties briefly and left for another one, in the second venue, I met 2 Nigerian ladies in their early 30s, I started a conversation with them after a 2 drinks.  Before I could say jack one of them asked me if I have a gf, I told her yes.  These ladies started lamenting, "that all good and matured men are taken! that they regret coming out that night for the party, that the hall is filed with children, one of them said that a guy worked up to her to toast her and she asked him his age, and the guy was bold to say that he is 24! that can you imagine a 24 year old guy coming to toast her? I told them that they could check the other party venue that we left, that their are significant mature guys their including some guys that flew in from Nigeria to attend the party. They broke out immediately and started rushing to the venue.  I was shocked by their reaction.

But the truth is that these ladies had one time or the other neglected an opportunity to get hooked up when they were younger, but they thought that tomorrow will never come.  I only pray that God will provide every one who sincerely needs a partner with one.

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Romance / Re: Black Girls In America, Is It True That It Is Difficult To Find A Man? by wksi: 3:53am On Nov 21, 2010
One other issue is that most African/American guys have no plans to get married.  I have met a number of them and had raised this issue with them, but most of them take the view that tying oneself down with a woman is not worth it when you can make babies if you want with as many women as you want.  I have a friend (African/American guy) who has been living with his gf for more than 5 years, and the unwritten rule is that there can be no marriage in the relationship.    Many are like that.  Thus, my point is that real akata guys have no family values and do not have marriage in their agenda, and my little observation is that white guys do not find black girls as marriage materials.  Some want to test the African "puny" in secret but would not go further than that

A good number of Nigerian guys I know in the states are ready to get married but they can't just fined a good candidate.  Black girls are not helping matters.  In NYC where I live, I have met a couple of black ladies, some are Nigerians, born in America with clear knowledge of where they come from (I mean original root). These set of ladies are so full of themselves that a serious guy who is busy may not want to waste his time talking to them.  The first attitude they would give you when you talk to them with the intention of starting a relationship is that you are looking for papers.  Especially if you are a postgraduate student who may have just spent 1 or 2 years in America.  Black guys now ignore them and look the way of adventurous oyibo friendly ladies who are all over black guys.  One of my Nigerian friends here is getting married in January next year with his sweet white lady who adores him like a king.  I have decided that in the fullness of time, I will not patronize any of our black sisters in the US because some of them have very bad attitude, unless I become lucky to meet good one.  But for the ones I have met here in NYC, no way!.  It kills me when I meet a Nigerian girl with typical Nigerian traditional name, and you are like, your name sounds "Ekiti" or "Igbo" or "Delta", and her snappy response would be "No! am from here".  One day I nearly passed out when one of the current Nigerian governors came to our school to present a paper, and after the paper, some of us who are from "Africa" went to him to exchange pleasantries, and he sought to know our names and where we came from.  It came to the turn of one of such girls I am talking about, with a typical local Nigerian name she told the governor that she is from Long Island, the governor now responded swiftly in humor, "but you do not look like them".

My point is that if black ladies think that there is a problem, they should come down from their high horses and be more friendly towards their black brothers to enhance their chance of getting hooked up.    Desperate situation demands desperate measures, and it is so sad that the ones that seem to be a little friendly are in their mid 30s and early 40s, and I bigging to wonder if they had been this nice all these while and yet remain single.

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Romance / Re: There’s Nothing More Enticing & Flattering Than A Man That Can Cook by wksi: 6:30pm On Oct 14, 2010
@De sense no hypnotism, it's because the food is very sweet. Even before the food is done the aroma alone will be making her go crazy. She told me that she love the way I steer the stuff and clean. Cooking for her is her key.
Romance / Re: There’s Nothing More Enticing & Flattering Than A Man That Can Cook by wksi: 5:33pm On Oct 14, 2010
I love cooking. I cook like a trained  chef.  Especially when the Kitchen is clean and the ingredients are right.  I am afraid I may cook better than  any woman I will marry, which may make her not to want to cook.  I used to cook for my Ex gf each time I want her to tell me all her secrets, and it worked like magic.
Romance / Re: Guys Whats Ur View On Gals With Stretch Marks? by wksi: 6:30pm On Oct 10, 2010
@I like gurls with moderate stretch marks on their breast and their back side, it looks sexy to me.
Romance / Re: Helppppp! I Am Big,hot N Shapy? But My Bf Tnkz: Helpppppp? by wksi: 10:24pm On Oct 08, 2010
@tell him straight up that you are not liking his comments about your size, and let him understand how you feel about it.  But if you think you really need to shed weight, I guess you should start doing exercises, hit the gym, it is also good for your health and self esteem.  You will be happy with your self when you look fit.  And I think it's a good sign he is showing you now, it's left for you to decide what to do.  He may not stop if you do not iron it out with him now.
Politics / Re: Education: 6-3-3-4 Has Failed – Jonathan by wksi: 6:18pm On Oct 05, 2010
@tjskii is that you on your profile?  That's soo lovely!!!!  Where are you at?
Romance / Re: Why Are Nigerian Gurls Like This (matured Replies Only) by wksi: 8:19pm On Sep 26, 2010
They know themselves. You may guess if you like. I don't want their verbal fest this afternoon. But I am sure they know what am saying
Romance / Re: Why Are Nigerian Gurls Like This (matured Replies Only) by wksi: 8:05pm On Sep 26, 2010
@poster, ask mgbati mbgati girls. They have A+ in insulting people.
Romance / Re: 99 Per Cent Of Africa Girls with Big Stomach by wksi: 7:22pm On Sep 25, 2010
too much nkwobi, isiewu and golder causes pot belly especially when it's free
Politics / Re: Show Your Nigeria To The World By Cnn Ireport by wksi: 8:12pm On Sep 15, 2010
@Kobojonkie are you from Columbus Ohio?
Romance / Re: Women's Top 9 Lies: by wksi: 3:06am On Sep 12, 2010
Inked_nerd,

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