It's an unfortunate incident. That's all I can say. WHo knows if it's related to VP Atiku's current challenges?

Another new website that will help your cause is this one - www.nigerianbloggers.com

Nigeria 5, Algeria 2. 5 - 2 at the tail of the match!

"Former youth international goalkeeper Sam Okoye has died in Iraq, where he had gone on trials. Okoye’s friend, Tonex Chukwu told KICK OFF that the 25-year-old former Rangers goalie died after being ill for four days."

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/sports/2005/sep/02/sports-02-09-2005-004.htm

"Former Rangers of Enugu goaltender and Enyimba of Aba second choice keeper, Sam Okoye is dead.
Daily Independent learnt from officials of the Aba side that Okoye slumped while on trial with an unnamed Iraqi club side."
http://www.independentng.com/sports/snsep010501.htm

May his soul rest in peace.

Kingdom

Pintos has said "bye" to the forum and I am not to blame for his saying "bye". When he said "bye" I said safe journey and deactivated his account for him. He made no attempt to protest the deactivation so I assumed he's ok with it. Abi? I'm tired!

I have unbanned him a while ago. While he was banned, he made no attempt to contact me by email to be unbanned.

Hello lexyflexy. Welcome to Nairaland!

Thirty-eight persons, who specialised in forging anything under the sun, were yesterday paraded in Lagos by Acting Inspector General of Police, Mr. Sunday Ehindero. The suspects were arrested during a raid of the notorious Oluwole area of Lagos, by a combined force of four security agencies.

Stunned by the range of recovered forged documents, including 4,000 Nigerian passports, 50,000 assorted foreign cheques, 10,000 blank British Airways tickets and 10,000 United States Postal Money Order, the police boss said Nigeria would have been better off, if the skill, creativity and imagination exhibited by some of the young suspects had been channeled to other lawful endeavour.

On display were forged bank statement of accounts, several stamps and seals, various International passports, forged blank marriage certificates, death certificates, certificates of Incorporation of Companies, forged certificates of occupancies, International driver's licences, Postal Orders, foreign bank cheques, fake United States dollars, Printing plates for various foreign bank cheques, forged university degrees and NYSC certificates.

Also recovered were 1,500 foreign passports of countries such as Chad, Libya, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau, Congo, Cameroun, Senegal, Switzerland, Gambia, South Africa, United States, Jamaica, Costa Rica and Ghana.Ehindero also mentioned the seizure of 500 computers, Customs documents, seals and stamps, photocopiers, binding machines and wraps of weeds suspected to be Indian hemp.

Pointing out that Oluwole area of central Lagos has, over the years, been notorious as criminal black spot where all forms of stolen and forged documents are openly traded, Ehindero, who addressed reporters and police officers at the officers mess, Onikan, said: "The last few years had witnessed the detriment of our national image, a high preponderance of forged documents emanating from Oluwole being used in complex advance fee fraud, scams, fake cheque scams, immigration scams etc in several foreign countries particularly in Europe, North America and Asia."

http://www.efccnigeria.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=535 (click for more information)

Thirty-eight persons, who specialised in forging anything under the sun, were yesterday paraded in Lagos by Acting Inspector General of Police, Mr. Sunday Ehindero. The suspects were arrested during a raid of the notorious Oluwole area of Lagos, by a combined force of four security agencies.

Stunned by the range of recovered forged documents, including 4,000 Nigerian passports, 50,000 assorted foreign cheques, 10,000 blank British Airways tickets and 10,000 United States Postal Money Order, the police boss said Nigeria would have been better off, if the skill, creativity and imagination exhibited by some of the young suspects had been channeled to other lawful endeavour.

On display were forged bank statement of accounts, several stamps and seals, various International passports, forged blank marriage certificates, death certificates, certificates of Incorporation of Companies, forged certificates of occupancies, International driver's licences, Postal Orders, foreign bank cheques, fake United States dollars, Printing plates for various foreign bank cheques, forged university degrees and NYSC certificates.

Also recovered were 1,500 foreign passports of countries such as Chad, Libya, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau, Congo, Cameroun, Senegal, Switzerland, Gambia, South Africa, United States, Jamaica, Costa Rica and Ghana.Ehindero also mentioned the seizure of 500 computers, Customs documents, seals and stamps, photocopiers, binding machines and wraps of weeds suspected to be Indian hemp.

Pointing out that Oluwole area of central Lagos has, over the years, been notorious as criminal black spot where all forms of stolen and forged documents are openly traded, Ehindero, who addressed reporters and police officers at the officers mess, Onikan, said: "The last few years had witnessed the detriment of our national image, a high preponderance of forged documents emanating from Oluwole being used in complex advance fee fraud, scams, fake cheque scams, immigration scams etc in several foreign countries particularly in Europe, North America and Asia."

http://www.efccnigeria.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=535 (click for more details)

All the information you need can be gleaned from the following EFCC press releases.

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40,000 Passports Seized in Oluwole Raid

Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Sunday Ehindero, yesterday said over 40,000 Nigerian Passports, including official ones, were recovered during the recent raid on Oluwole, a notorious area in Lagos Island noted for document forgery and counterfeiting.

The IGP, who made the disclosure while briefing the press in Lagos said 1,500 foreign passports, including those of Libya, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Congo, Guinea Bissau, Cameroon, Senegal, Switzer-land., the Gambia, South Africa, United States, Jamaica, Costa Rica and Ghana were recovered. Also recovered from the raid were about 50,000 assorted foreign cheques and over 500 printing plates.

Other seizures made, according to Ehindero, include over 500 computers, about 10, 000 blank British Airways tickets, about 10, 000 United States Postal Money Order and blank certificates of occupancy.The IGP said 115 suspects were arrested. Seventy-seven of the suspects, he said, were later set free for lack of sufficient evidence to warrant their detention.

Ehindero said the police, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the State Security Services (SSS) combined to conduct the Oluwole raid aimed at dismantling the notorious criminal black spot, where all forms of stolen and forged documents were openly traded in Central Lagos.

According to him, President Olusegun Obasanjo, who was concerned with the threat to security by the nefarious activities going on in the area had directed that a committee, comprising of the Police, the FCT Minister, SSS, Immigration and the EFCC clean up the area and other similar locations, where counterfeiting and forgery were prevalent in Lagos.

You girls don't know beauty! Halle Berry is respected and looks ok but she's too old to be the most beautiful, sorry!

Now I'm going to show you the true face of beauty in hollywood:


Jesica Alba is it. She makes a very good "tough girl".

hot-angel: no spoilers, please!

AAccording to the Yahoo Movie mum, the stealth movie is an average movie (C rating). I always listen to what the movie mom has to say!

Men pretend to be Casanova's to get to women: They succeed.

Men pretend to be rich and successful and have other female admirers. After many attempts, they might eventually succeed.

Men pretend to be "nice guys" to get to women: They succeed.

Nice guys don't get to women. Rich and successful cassanovas pretend to be also caring and they usually succeed!

Men pretend to be "bad boys" to get women: They succeed.

When a nice guy pretends to be a bad boy to get a woman, this is a win-win situation. Nice man gets nice woman who would have fallen for a "bad boy" and they live happily ever after. or the rest of their lives, each time she needs a little more "bad boy", from him he gives it to her!

What is so hard about being who you are?

You get rejected by several women and then you get smarter. Women reward those who pretend to be what they are not by paying them attention, so the men go right ahead and do what works!

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http://del.icio.us/nairaland/blog

Check this link for my personal collection of Nigerian blogs on Bloglines:
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Hope this helps?

Another Question: If NTA is one of the organizers of the show, then surely we'll be seeing a lot of ads on the various NTA network channels programmes and such as the NTA news. So at what time can we look out for your ads?

Welcome to Nairaland!

I want to assure you that you will be taken very seriously by members of the forum when you start participating in this forum in a way that assures us that you're not here just to promote your programme.

Seun.

Please tell us more about the organizers of this show.

Forget it, he will not come back. They are all headstrong.

He was banned for saying "bye bye" to the forum.

Forgive me for not being such an astute judge of character, but I'd love to contribute here.

Vexxy, Greatpeter - genuinely good people. That's the highest compliment I have.
hot-angel - seems smart for her age.
nike4luv - loves peace, loves friends.
Latoya - proud of who she is, what she has, what she dreams to become.
Imnakoya, Jiten - respectable bloggers who decided to join us and participate, despite having their own blogs, knowing how young one of are, and what some detractors were saying. I am forever in their debt.
obong, kazey, bioye, Ka - business-inclined serious-minded posters. Assets.
gina34, DE-KING - consistent, peaceful poster who don't draw too much attention to themselves.
people I haven't mentioned - it's 4:12am and I'm sure I have missed some very important people.

Voters US voters dissapointed in the US politicians for letting Katrina happen like this

Are you kidding? It's a daily ritual.

TPBM is having fun.

Hello there,

If you're married, you probably share the same religious faith with your spouse; you go to church, mosque, or religious meeting-place together and take your children along. You probably have prayer time once in a while or every day.

Now let's say you've been running your Muslim household, Christian family, or family of believers in whatever you believe for a while. You've been teaching your children in the path you believe they should go.

Then one day one of your children (probably your teenage firstborn) says "I have given my life to Christ" (and you're Muslims), or "I'm not going to church anymore" (and you're Christians) or "I don't believe in God anymore" or something along that line. Something that is contrary to all you've taught your child to believe in religion, faith, spirituality. Your child rejects your family religion!

How would you respond?

Hello there,

For those of you who are married or planning to get married, I want to know what you'd do if your child comes home one day and announces "I thinkI'm gay".
Your girl says, "I'm attracted to other girls/women, and not men".
Your boy says, "I'm attracted to other boys/men, and not girls.".

How would you react? I want to know!

However, I wouldn't advice this, because the cost of using this service equivalent to the cost of calling an MTN number, and you are billed per second (or per minute) for a service that is quite slow.

That's roughly 40-50 naira per minute you'll be spending just to browse, compared to 100 per hour for a cyber-cafe, so I'll would advice you to just find a reliable cyber-cafe in your area and use it for now! What do you say?

MTECH Mlife offers such a service, and you can connect to their service via and GSM network with CSD support. In Nigeria, that will be MTN, Vmobile and Glo-mobile (MTEL users like me don't have that option!)

MTECH MLife Settings:
WAP CSD [Helpline: 08032092013 or mlife@mtechcomm.com]
Name: Mlife
IP address: 192.168.077.153
Port: 9201
Username: mlife
Password: mtech
Phone Number: 08039002000
DNS/IP: Auto
Proxy Server Address: 192.168.077.153
Proxy Server Port: 9201
Connection Type: Dial Up/Analogue
Enable PPP Extensions: Yes

From GoSmartMobile

Thanks for your suggestion! Actually, I have the Avant browser installed. It's pretty fast but lacking in features. A registered version of Opera would have been the best browser choice for me, but for the fact that it doesn't support the use of a custom User-Agent string.

Administrator, ban this user or else I'll quit!

- Ra.

I'm simply going to transfer my domains to another registrar.

Yes, the website is a low quality site even by Nigerian standards.