I am keeping my bet on Asafa Powell. That dude has been highly forthcoming for a while now.

Falcons had the game today. Outplayed Germany, but when it came to scoring that essential goal, the zeal and passion was lacking.

Oh well 2012 is the next stop now.

The opening ceremony was simply breathtaking. Never seen such perfect coordination of movement and people as the Chinese displayed yesterday.

Fireworks display was out of the ordinary. It was a well done job.

I was just going to make a thread for him.

So so sad.

I love his act and great sense of humor.

You will be missed Bernie.

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doitall:

Well,

I've been reading this forum quite a while, i never felt like writing anything untill now.

I am not a nigerian, not even an african but i had the luck to have a good friend that is a nigerian. I went so many times to nigeria with him for holiday's, and yes we had a good time overthere,

I really think Houstons comment is correct. The first time I arrived in Lagos I was really shocked by what I saw. I've travelled all around the world but what I saw in nigeria was unique. The majority of these pictures isn't a representation of what i saw in the places i've visited (Lagos, Warri, Benin City, Auchi, ). Sure, these nice places exist in nigeria, but if they are a blessing to the people is another thing.

It's like a mirror reflecting the materialistic character of nigerian society.

Materialistic you say ?

Let me give you a typical funny example:

The bigger your mobile phone the more respect you get from people, nobody care's you're using a 500 usd blackberry to flash your friend instead of calling him, just to save credit, it's putting the 500usd phone on a table in a drinking parlor what counts. I even saw guys carrying a mobile phone not even containing a sim card,

I also find nigerians wealth very unequal divided: What do you think that a foreigner as myself thinks when he sees a governor driving in a 150000usd SUV filled up with flatscreen tv's escorted by police driving in 250usd peugeot 504 wrecks made in the 1970's. Shouldn't it be more fair if that governor drives a car of 30000usd and buys the police some descent equipment with the remaining 120000usd ?

This is just an example on small scale, but if you put this example in perspective with the few very nice buildings and the rest of the poor infrastructure you might be able to get my point.

I find Houston's comment the comment of a potential people's leader instead of the comment of a fool.
Well i can write so many things of my experiences in Nigeria that you all get tired.

To finish my post one last thing. Does this mean that i didn't find anything good overthere, absolutely not. I think nigerians are one the most loving people in the world. The nightlife in Lagos is great, your Suya is wonderfull and you're beer taste's ok but many important things concerning its citizens are terrible.

Maybe i'll write down more of my experiences here one day, if i'm not hated by my comments allready

workingirl:

[table]Well,

I've been reading this forum quite a while, i never felt like writing anything untill now.

I am not a nigerian, not even an african but i had the luck to have a good friend that is a nigerian. I went so many times to nigeria with him for holiday's, and yes we had a good time overthere,

I really think Houstons comment is correct. The first time I arrived in Lagos I was really shocked by what I saw. I've travelled all around the world but what I saw in nigeria was unique. The majority of these pictures isn't a representation of what i saw in the places i've visited (Lagos, Warri, Benin City, Auchi, ). Sure, these nice places exist in nigeria, but if they are a blessing to the people is another thing.

It's like a mirror reflecting the materialistic character of nigerian society.

Materialistic you say ?

Let me give you a typical funny example:

The bigger your mobile phone the more respect you get from people, nobody care's you're using a 500 usd blackberry to flash your friend instead of calling him, just to save credit, it's putting the 500usd phone on a table in a drinking parlor what counts. I even saw guys carrying a mobile phone not even containing a sim card,

I also find nigerians wealth very unequal divided: What do you think that a foreigner as myself thinks when he sees a governor driving in a 150000usd SUV filled up with flatscreen tv's escorted by police driving in 250usd peugeot 504 wrecks made in the 1970's. Shouldn't it be more fair if that governor drives a car of 30000usd and buys the police some descent equipment with the remaining 120000usd ?

This is just an example on small scale, but if you put this example in perspective with the few very nice buildings and the rest of the poor infrastructure you might be able to get my point.

I find Houston's comment the comment of a potential people's leader instead of the comment of a fool.
Well i can write so many things of my experiences in Nigeria that you all get tired.

To finish my post one last thing. Does this mean that i didn't find anything good overthere, absolutely not. I think nigerians are one the most loving people in the world. The nightlife in Lagos is great, your Suya is wonderfull and you're beer taste's ok but many important things concerning its citizens are terrible.

Maybe i'll write down more of my experiences here one day, if i'm not hated by my comments allready [/table]


I'm sorry but wherever you come from, there are materialistic people and there is a gap between rich and poor. Even in America, there are people living in unbelievable poverty and many are homeless. When you are comfortable its easy to point fingers at others just trying to live a comfortable life. No one chooses to be poor and many try to change their circumstances, and some may place a high importance on material things but this behaviour is not unique to Nigerians.

We are all very aware what the government is and is not doing, thanks for pointing it out. Infact please maybe you can tell us how we (here on nairaland) can reduce the divide between the governor and the police man.

Also I suggest next time you go to Nigeria you experience it a 'non-material' way because I am sure your friend was not a police officer.

Why the double personality?

Facebook is the main thing.

I love it and I use it for social and educational purposes. I love the fact that I can get to see different pictures of my friends from all over the world on it, see who is who, where my friends @ and what they are up to.

I remember when I had a project to do with some of my other colleagues and we were all in various cities, I just opened a group exclusively for us, invited our project supervisor to join as well and every member of the project team, so whenever anyone has an idea, or stumbled on a weblink of interest, we would post it on the group site and everyone can look at it, update one another on the latest we have done so far.

With the addition of facebook chat, I am so delighted that I can speak with my friends and family all over the world.

If you are not on facebook, you are not living in this world!

Can you have double feelings at the same time? One must be lust and the other a genuine feeling.

I will allow you to figure out which is which though.

Are those breasts natural or man made?

Gamine:

@Feu

it is surely possible to have sex with an HIV-infected person and not get infected.

I do not know the number of men she might have sex with, but within 6 years as a lady, I do be inclined to think that it would have been more than 3 men.

Her first sexual experience was with the use of pills-contraceptives, which implies that Cort must have had sexual intimacy with her without the use of condoms.

How feasible and reasonable is it that every other guy she has had sexual contacts with (after Cort) used a condom, and they never got the virus from her?

I still hold on to my assumption that something somewhere is wrong with the story.

Gamine:


Fast forward six years to 1989. Aged 22, Alison becomes very ill. Doctors can’t seem to figure out what’s wrong with her. Finally, one doctor makes a frightening diagnosis: Alison is HIV positive.

She contacts her previous boyfriends, urges them to get tested. They’re all HIV negative so she traces back farther. To her first sexual partner, Cort. Now she finds out he was bisexual and has since died of AIDS.

How is it possible that all previous boyfriends tested negatively and yet it was only her first boyfriend that had the virus? Are you implying Cort was the only man she ever sexual intimacy with, and none of her previous boyfriends had such intimacy with her again? Why would she then urge all previous boyfriends to go for the test?

Something is definitely spooky about the story.

yettidear:

Hi guys,

Though i am new i would really appreciate answers to my questions(even old members can benefit from questions asked by anyone new or old).It was a colleague at work that referred me to the travel section,it was only the jobs section that we check together until i gisted him about my traveling & i wanted some answers.

i got to know that no one is getting paid on this forum for giving advice but na beg i beg oo.Please help,


i actually got two admissions into 2 universities in the UK,one for Telecoms(unconditional),the other for Petroleum Eng.(Conditional).The latter condition was that i take some mechanical courses(about 3) which i didnt do well in my undergraduate studies,i had E's in the courses.though i finished with a 2:1


The course i really want is the Petroleum Eng., i did Industrial Eng. in Sch. My problem now is that i don't understand all the conditions. is it advisable to go for Petroleum with the conditions or should i just relax & go with telecoms(which is not related to my field 100%)?

Please guys help,, Please also evaluate it from the Visa application point of view.

Thanks

Do you have any work experience in the Telecoms sector? What do you stand to gain from studying Telecommunications in the UK?

While you are at liberty to do what is referred to as SWITCHING, you must have shown an appreciable level of consistency with your career to give validity of reasons for wanting to switch. In the UK, there is what is called the Continuing Professional Development (CPD), that shows a consistency of your career path. With a background degree in Industrial Engineering, I would suppose, pursuing a Masters in any industrial related engineering sector should prove very convincing to the ECO.

However, I would be rather harsh on you here, as you seem not decided on knowing what you want to do, and you would rather seek that anonymous individuals should make-up your mind for you.

All the best.

F-People totally adore you

E-your popular

u-You are really chill.

I think it is true.

It is a crazy world out there.

Who is she?

Good luck to her though.

brownbonno:


@poster,
I am sure your application will have a positive outcome.
If your husband course will last for another 12 months,your will be given a dependent visa for 12+ months which will entitle you to work.With your qualification/experience and possible proof that you will be able to secure a job in the UK(Print out from Online job agencies that suit your qualification and experience) will help.
Secondly,with a total of 800K (naira) in your account is a boost and a proof that you will not be a burden to the state(recourse to public funds).
Third,your past visa denial maynot be revelant in this case because of changes in your circumstances since the last refusal.
Lastly,the ECO will bear in mind Article 8 the right to family life when deciding your application,provided their proof that the marriage exist.
Wish you the best

While there might have been a vicissitude to case of the applicant, the onus is the applicant to show beyond reasonable doubt that the application is genuine and true. Article 8 does not have bearing on the case of the applicant here.

Another gross error you have made here is that past visa denial do have relevance to the case, as all previous application by the applicant has been in the category D status of UK immigration. This application she intends to make now is subject also to a Category D visa. This application will therefore be weighed on her past immigration application and if there are loopholes. . . . . . REFUSAL.

Who intends to sponsor her at the moment?. . . . . . Her husband who is jobless in the UK?. . . . What is his economic status in the UK? How does he obtain his funds? Is the funds sufficient enough to cater for himself and his wife?

While there is the Paragraph 77 upon which the applicant can hinge on for her application, there is also NOTHING stopping the husband from traveling back to Nigeria to see his wife. Which is why I asked earlier on, has the husband ever returned to Nigeria to visit his wife?

This is a clear case of visa refusal. No point dancing on fictitious theories of UK immigration rules.

IncaGold:

Unfortunately, this happens to be one of the few times I've my mouth wide open. You started out well by offering some good advice (i thought you was sane then) until you decided to pick on me! Poor you, I really don't have your time and think u just ignore my messages and move on with your sad and boring life. Of course we all see things differently, but denying a person help simply because the person is new aint right. Loser!

I would not tow in the line of mud-slinging with you. I am not going to be persuaded with your cheap vulgarities.

I started out sane with my response to somebody else, when it got to you, I became insane right? That should tell you where your thinking faculty lies bruva.

That you see a blind man on the street everyday, do you give your money to every blind man on the street? (Use your thinking faculty to reason that out man) As you mentioned to Megastu to mind his own business, apply the same theology to a post that was not directed at you.

Enjoy man!

tolapo:

Many thanks to various response but my advice is that anybody that don't have any positive answer/advice that will help should not make any unfair response like akolawole(at least you should just honour the respect i gave you by directing the question to you ),tyreal (bear it in mind that individual problems differ)) and the issue of new member or not i believe it is out of it as a matured mind.

I have OND in accountancy, i work as an account officer in one registered private firm that deals with importation, supplier and hiring of Agricultural equipment, heavy duty parts with a salary of #51.5k per month after tax, and i also have a kiosk where i sells recharge cards, i have about #800k in my salary account and another savings account,

As for my hubby, though he has his own private accommodation, NI, pay telephone bills,bank account , but the issue is that he does no work and if i should include all these the ECO might want to see his source of income like payslip or so. Please more encouraging advise is welcome

How does your husband survive? How does he obtain his money for paying his utility bills? Would his funding be able to cater for your expenses in the UK? If you can sufficiently show how he obtains his fundings from his Uncle, it would be nice.

If not, I do suggest you apply for a visit visa of six months at the moment. You have been refused three times, for a student visa and it is not a good indication on your immigration credentials with the UK embassy. Has your husband ever returned to Nigeria to visit you while still studying in the UK?

IncaGold:

@poster,
THANKS, BUT NO THANKS! wonder who appointed you their solicitor and advocate. So what if the people don't have anything to contribute in other sections?
It's a pity, just because you want to curry favour doesnt mean you should be blind to the truth.
Mind you, i also respect his (or their decision) but I still maintain my stand that the response to tolapo, just because she's new aint fair at all. See you, begging for a reply to your mail!!!!
Mister man MYOB!

Guy, do you expect everyone to reason the way you do? I DO NOT THINK SO.

Learn to shut up once in a while and mind your own business as well.

How I am going to complete my survey latest by Wednesday this week.

It is going to be hectic, but I will pull through.

Hannibal:

Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez!!!!!!!!!
Did u attend a village school??

hahahahahaha

Village school? My cousin used to read: Eze goes to school.

ibkaye:

hehehehehehe!

Called the phone, is not going through. Do you have an idea of the meaning thereof?

I once had a crush on my family friend.

Gamine:

LOLLOL.

Fine! people will believe in what they have to!

Yes, I guess that is what makes the world an interesting place to live in.

When are you getting married, maybe I will use you as part of my case studies.

Chat2MeBac:

Stop crying dread, Did I say u made love to her? God forbid,

Olodo? hmmmmmmmmmm, let me go consult my yoruba teacher, brb

Phew! What a relief.

Olodo. . . let me call my friend to ask what it means then.

Queenisha:

Men can be dogs
woof woof!!

I thought it is the norm that men are dogs and women are bitches

Chat2MeBac:

Explain what Olodo, u being in love with your cousin, na be sin?

Please what is the meaning of Olodo?

I had crushes for my cousin not that I made love to my cousin

Gamine:


@Feu.

yup, i do not believe in luck

believing in Luck is like believing in Some Fairy godmother.

pity marriage is scary to you, not everyone is supposed to be married anyways

Pity you do not believe in luck, not everyone is supposed to believe in it anyways.

I believe in luck, and it has worked for me over the years.

Dr Kitaun:

joblessness . . . .

Supported.

Queenisha:

does this guy know his picture is being analysed here.
This is so childish

Seconded.

Gamine:

Scary to those who believe in "Luck"

So you don't believe in luck?

Marriage is scary to me still.

Chat2MeBac:

Abomination!!

How can you please explain to me?

Nice profile pictures except one.

Silly topic.