on the miracle of flight

The miracle of flight never ceases to amaze me. Its not that the physics of the thing are beyond my grasp; I have read enough about why and how it happens to understand the basics of what goes on when air rushes above and below an aircraft wing at different speeds. I have read a little about aerodynamics and lift, but I tell you that it still baffles me sometimes to the point where I can only conclude that its simply a miracle. I know that the engine turns, the ‘plane moves forward, and when it races faster than I could possibly run, magic happens and the whole show leaves the ground, to conduct the next stage of the act high up in the sky.

You can’t tell me that its not a major miracle when you see all one billion tons of Boeing 747 taking to flight as easily as any of the birds which have the benefit of flight, some of them no bigger than my fist. Contemplate for a second the entire process of launching a huge flying machine, several tons of its own weight bolstered by the mass of a few hundred souls and their baggage, and enough fuel to make the entire process possible. Launching, not just to hop into the air for a few feet, but for actual sustained flight. Amazing? Yet it does not stop there, because these huge beasts somehow manage not only to stay aloft for hours on end, travelling faster than you or I could possibly comprehend in groundspeed terms, but they actually propel themselves miles above the ground. And then, more often than not (thank the good God) the process of complex magical voodoo is reversed and brought to completion when aircraft, passengers, fuel and cargo come back to firm earth. If that is not magic, I don’t know what is.

I am living a miracle at the moment. As I write, I am on a plane, headed home to Nigeria. Not only am I flying, but I am doing so rather comfortably, which is probably not right. I’m in a bed, admittedly not a huge one, but it’s a comfortable bed nonetheless, flat, with room to stretch out; being served food and drink. All of this while watching a movie, miles and miles above the ground where my home and all I know are firmly rooted. Down the aisle, a handful of guys are at a bar, drinking and chatting like they would in most bars in any city around the world, which is a tad odd. I’m not sure I know anywhere else where perfect strangers would be talking and drinking within such proximity to my bed! In fact, where it not for that bar and the occasional turbulence that we rocks us from time to time, shaking up the juice in my glass in the process, it might well have been possible to pretend to be anywhere else on earth rather than up in the air, supported by physics, the rushing wind and the voodoo magic of flight.

Yet, all of this takes place within a miracle that’s guaranteed to deliver me to hot and sweaty Lagos before the sun comes up fully across this part of the Atlantic Ocean. If I had any sense, I would be afraid of this mechanical beast that can somehow make such magic possible. Yet it all feels so natural. In truth we have come very far since that day on Kitty Hawk Beach when the Wright brothers (who actually sold bicycles for a living if memory of random trivia serves me right) took to flight for the first time, in what was no more than a few seconds of barely controlled hopping which barely lifted man and machine off the ground.

Can you imagine the ridicule and scorn they would have had to endure from those who knew of their plans? Imagine Noah, who built his Ark in preparation for a flood that did not come for 150 years. What would we have made of him today? Then picture two brothers daring to think that they could make their winged contraption fly! I would have laughed too, wouldn’t you? You can rightly accuse me of understatement when I say that I imagine they would have been thrilled to their souls when they realised what one of them would have first known, he whose task it would have been to convince his brother that man could fly, even though he had neither wings nor feathers to lift himself off the ground with.

We’ve come a long long way since then, mankind. The history and story of flight is one of heroic achievement that’s seen the development of the jet engine, long-haul commercial flight (who was it that famously claimed that it would not be possible/economical to have commercial aircraft flying people around the world), supersonic commercial airliners and planes that can fly faster than the speed of sound? Did I forget to mention warplanes that can do amazing aerobatics, the Antonov 225 aircraft that can seemingly swallow whole cities, and of course the space shuttle that has somehow managed to launch specially selected individuals far beyond what our unaided eyes can see.

I tell you, flying is magic, whether you accept it or not. Its just magic that we take for granted, so we forget to marvel at it. Just picture how it all comes together, engine, rudder, wings, flaps, propulsion, control surfaces, ailerons, fuselage, undercarriage – isn’t it amazing how all these pieces come together so seamlessly? Statistically, flying is one of the safest means of transport there is, and that itself is another reason to wonder. As far as I’m concerned, each airplane is as magical as a flying carpet, only infinitely more comfortable, and blessed with pilots who can take control. I didn’t see Ali Baba controlling a rudder, or controlling flaps and that’s scary.

If you are reading this, then I have come down to earth, in an aeroplane flown by a skilled, well-trained pilot. I have just experienced the miracle of flight yet again, and I was completely blown away by it. Flying is magic, and I am spellbound. If you're reading this, then its because i arrived safely at home, and I thank God.

Africa doesn't want to be saved

Last fall, shortly after I returned from Nigeria, I was accosted by a perky blond college student whose blue eyes seemed to match the "African" beads around her wrists.

"Save Darfur!" she shouted from behind a table covered with pamphlets urging students to TAKE ACTION NOW! STOP GENOCIDE IN DARFUR!

My aversion to college kids jumping onto fashionable social causes nearly caused me to walk on, but her next shout stopped me.

"Don't you want to help us save Africa?" she yelled.

It seems that these days, wracked by guilt at the humanitarian crisis it has created in the Middle East, the West has turned to Africa for redemption. Idealistic college students, celebrities such as Bob Geldof and politicians such as Tony Blair have all made bringing light to the dark continent their mission. They fly in for internships and fact-finding missions or to pick out children to adopt in much the same way my friends and I in New York take the subway to the pound to adopt stray dogs.

This is the West's new image of itself: a sexy, politically active generation whose preferred means of spreading the word are magazine spreads with celebrities pictured in the foreground, forlorn Africans in the back. Never mind that the stars sent to bring succor to the natives often are, willingly, as emaciated as those they want to help...

Rest of the story.

National Wog

Nobody attended his funeral and his grave was never marked with flowers, but few in a Yorkshire police force would ever forget the name of David Oluwale.

David Oluwale lived a largely anonymous life.

Like so many of his fellow Nigerians, he embarked on the journey from Lagos in 1949 with little more than the clothes on his back and dreams of a better future in Britain.

It wasn't to be. As the ship he had stowed away on docked in Hull, Oluwale was arrested and after spending his first days on foreign shores in Armley Prison, Leeds, for the next 20 years he would be passed between the prison service, the police and High Royds psychiatric hospital in Menston.

While a few would have recognised him as the man whose home was the shop doorways of Leeds city centre, when his body was recovered from the River Aire on May 4, 1969, it appeared to everyone concerned the end to what had been a pitifully lonely existence.

A few days later, when his remains were lowered into a common grave with nine others, it seemed he had lost his long struggle for recognition. But 18 months after his death his name became the focus of a court case which saw two Leeds City Police officers charged with his manslaughter and which shook the force to its foundations.

"At the time there were a lot of rumours about what had really happened to David Oluwale," says Kester Aspden, a former history of crime lecturer at the University of Leeds, who has spent the last two years trying to pull together the fragmented pieces of Oluwale's story.

"But if it hadn't been for a young police officer called Gary Galvin, who decided to report what he had heard to his senior officers, he would have been a forgotten victim of his generation and those who hounded him would have only ever had to answer to their conscience.

"People have described Galvin as a recruit who hadn't been broken in, who didn't understand that you put your colleagues before everything else, but having talked to his son, it seems that throughout his life he was a man of very strong principles."

On Galvin's testimony, a major investigation was launched which resulted in Insp Geoffery Ellerker and Sgt Kenneth Kitching being charged with manslaughter, perjury and grievous bodily harm. While the pair were eventually only convicted of a series of assaults on the vulnerable and mentally ill Oluwale, what emerged during the trial was a picture of a society struggling to adapt to the influx of immigrants whose papers of British citizenship meant very little in 1960s Leeds.

"It says something about how seriously the police took the allegations that Scotland Yard officers were called up to investigate the allegations," says Aspden, who was inspired to write Oluwale's story after discovering a charge sheet relating to the case in the National Archives where an unnamed officer had entered his nationality simply as "Wog".

"However, having gone through all the documents relating to the case, I'm not convinced justice was ever really done. While Ellerker was sentenced to three years and Kitchen was jailed for 27 months, the jury never got to see all the evidence. The idea the abuse may have been racially motivated was never addressed and I just felt that now I could maybe get closer to the truth than they had in 1971."

Oluwale died 12 months after Enoch Powell had delivered his now infamous "Rivers of Blood" speech. In Leeds, like Britain's other major cities, immigrants were widely looked on as second-class citizens and those like Oluwale who ended up on the streets were, says Aspden, regarded as little more than "human rubbish".

In the early 1960s, Oluwale emerged from an eight-year stint in High Royds psychiatric hospital where he had been sent after complaining of hallucinations during yet another spell in prison. Despite bearing the physical and psychological scars of electric shock treatment, he became one of the first guinea pigs of care in the community.

With no friends or relatives, he relied on hostels to provide a roof over his head. When they eventually turned him out following complaints by other residents, he was forced to find shelter in shop doorways, a move which brought him to the attention of Ellerker and Kitching.

"Traders were putting pressure on the police to rid the city of nuisances and Oluwale was one of them," says Kester. "It was a very parochial force and there were stories of how they used to bundle him into the back of the a patrol car and drop him off in the middle of the night in woods outside the city centre boundary.

"Some officers told of how Kitching had urinated on Oluwale while he slept and on the numerous times they arrested him they didn't spare any force.

"It was a case of clearing up their patch and they didn't care how it was done."

Unfortunately for Oluwale, he was always drawn back to the city. While details of his death are scant, what is known is that in the early hours of April 18, 1969, he was seen running away from two men towards the River Aire. The post-mortem revealed not only that he had died from drowning, but that shortly before his death he had received a wound to his head.

"It's hard to tell the story of someone who fell off society's radar," adds Aspden, whose book Nationality Wog: The Hounding of David Oluwale has just been published.

"At the time, no one went to his funeral. When Scotland Yard launched their investigation just seven people came forward to say they knew him and when Interpol tried to trace his family they drew a total blank.

"However, people were much less defensive than I thought they would be. What I wanted to do was show that what happened to Oluwale was part of a much wider social picture, it wasn't about raking up the past for the sake of it.

"Kitching died alone in 1996, but I did try to contact Geoff Ellerker in the hope of getting his side of the story. He didn't wish to speak and I know that he died not that long ago. What happened to Oluwale was horrific, but those officers were also a product of the society in which they lived. Leeds was a city which had zero tolerance policing before the phrase had even been coined.

"Ellerker had his life ahead of him when he was found guilty and the prison sentence finished his career. Even if you can't feel sympathy for him, I think you have to feel for his wife and the knock-on effect it had for his family.

"Despite some reservations, I knew I had to tell this story and I think what happened to Oluwale was symptomatic of a wider British belligerence to immigrants at the time.

"Leeds celebrates its 800th anniversary this year and understandably there will be much emphasis placed on how it has become a multicultural society, but it's worth remembering that it was a painful process and one which wasn't without victims."

While the case caused few ripples outside Yorkshire, it did cast a shadow over the Millgarth station. As the city surged forward into the 1970s, demolishing the back-to-back terraces and welcoming the motorway links to the south and west, many were happy for the fallout from the Oluwale case to be buried under the rubble.

"If the case happened today it would change society and David Oluwale's name would probably be being mentioned in the same breath as Stephen Lawrence," says Aspden.

"It's easy to see why people wanted to forget, but I think we have a duty to remember if only so we can make sure history doesn't repeat itself.

"What happened to Oluwale says a lot about how we deal with difference. Society may have changed, but there are still some groups who find themselves being made scapegoats and it would be a brave man to say something like this couldn't happen again."

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All about Obasanjo: Facts ignored and Mischief perverted!!

All about Obasanjo: Facts ignored and Mischief perverted!!

By Frisky Larr

It remains a baffling mystery to my limited faculties of reasoning how facts and events still continue to be obscured at this intermediate level of a long-drawn battle. Before being temporarily thrown off this coveted and highly glorified chitchat podium of public view in the aftermath of a consuming workload, I was able to advance my views in one last essay. I chastised my compatriots who jump aboard a bandwagon without a clear view of clandestine agenda and the overriding interests (that are mostly personal) of those who bear the flags of hate and destruction.

Atiku Abubakar has suddenly disappeared from center stage and the extended arms of passengers in the bandwagon still persist in striking their hammer on the glowing iron. Facts are ignored. Mischief advanced. Worse still, mischief itself is also subjected to perversion.

Against the wisdom of all academic teachings as embodied in the philosophy and psychology underlying experiences in practical politics (courtesy of Political science), Nigeria has become the first country in the universe to upgrade a Vice President from the role of an Assistant and Deputy to the hitherto unknown office of a Co-President.

Most often, arguments have been advanced that a political environment like Nigeria’s in which a President was evidentially seen to have subjected his own Vice President to abuses, humiliation and oppression, leaves no other choice but resistance on the part of the oppressed. A Vice President is thus perceived and presented as doing well to fight back as best he can to restore his personal honor. Good enough.

Unfortunately however, in the primitive wrestling ring of traditional societies, the longer a fight lasts, the more obscure and extended the boundaries of the improvised ring become. Democratic philosophy all over the world provides for a head of government. In a situation, in which a single party fails to secure an outright majority to form a government, coalitions are formed. In coalitions, hierarchy is defined by the proportional strength of parties in popular vote. The head of government is undivided with absolute integrity. While the head of the second largest party in a coalition provides the deputy head of government, the head of government in a unitary administration has the enviable privilege of picking a deputy of choice. In neither of both cases can the power of the head of government be usurped.

In Nigeria where a single party had an outright majority, the exigency of a coalition and a marriage of convenience was out of question. Olusegun Obasanjo picked Atiku as a running mate not vice versa. The ensuing government was headed by Olusegun Obasanjo not by Atiku. While Obasanjo’s allegiance to Atiku is logically a matter of choice, Atiku’s loyalty is by all benchmarks of rational reasoning, nothing short of an obligation. If in the course of time, the President were found to have strongly deviated from agreed principles (party or personal), the Vice President would quit and open up a new chapter on a different terrain. But unfortunately, this does not apply in Nigeria. In the corridors of all functioning democracies all over the world, Nigeria simply became a laughing stock, as the exacerbated illustration of everything that a democracy should not be. A Vice President in a unitary government (not a coalition government) joins a different party and remains a Vice President even with a constitution that mandates a President to pick him from the same party. “Learned” and “incorruptible” judges of a Supreme Court (the highest instance of domestic jurisprudence) perfect this ridiculous reasoning and tell a cock-and-bull tale of moral and legal justifications.

As I once opined, the trick was easy to see. All these instances were driven by just one motive. Kill Bill.
Obasanjo has however, finally learned a lesson that he picked a Vice President (or a Vice President was imposed on him), who weighed far beyond a mere deputy. A Vice President who would not have dared to go that far without the strength of support that he had in crucial organs of the democratic institutions and at the corridors of major powers on the global scene.

While events unfolded, I was one of several prophets of doom.
I saw a rapid drift towards destruction and anarchy. I saw the roof burning. All because a Vice President insists on a President (his boss) capitulating before him and falling on his knees. Thank goodness, there was neither doom nor calamity.

Having been recklessly permitted to run for the elections in the dying minutes by our “incorruptible” judges of the Supreme Court, who did not seem to care a damn, about social peace and national integrity, the chronicle of imminent disaster began to run an independent course. Even though it was not difficult to see that Atiku can never win any election in today’s Nigeria (rigged or not), he insisted on being a sole opposition candidate against a more credible Buhari and Pat Utomi. When this failed, he pushed for an election boycott, which consequences would have stirred up anything close to a civil war. It took Buhari’s wisdom and foresight nurtured by personal ambitions to stop Atiku’s push for a do-or-die agenda. This agenda failed and the rest is not yet history.
Attempts were made by unknown cowards to bomb the headquarters of INEC in this modern age of heroic suicide bombings to pre-empt the feasible conduct of elections. Another failure. Then the Nnamani card was played.

Only at this point in time did the scope of foreign involvement in the advancement of all the scenarios that have hitherto unfolded, become clearer to behold. The daily newspaper “Nigerian Tribune” reported how foreign intelligence agencies informed Obasanjo of plans to install Nnamani as head of an interim administration. The Nigerian Tribune pointedly identified countries whose sources provided this intelligence by referring to contacts made between the Nnamani camp and the embassies of the United States of America, the European Union and Great Britain. This story has not been refuted till the present moment. Given the credibility of non-denial, it was further reported that Obasanjo was acquainted with facts from foreign intelligence that some “incorruptible” judges of a Lagos High Court were on the brink of serving an injunction on INEC to prevent an announcement of the results of the Presidential election. This report was also not denied. The result was that INEC who initially sought a calmer atmosphere and method of declaring election results then hurried to the Press to forestall any unsolicited injunction by “incorruptible” judges.

In the light of all these developments in the run-up to the elections and thereafter, many wise and prudent Nigerians expected free and fair elections. Wise and prudent Nigerians who contributed en masse to the verbal lynching of Olusegun Obasanjo and all he stood for. Wise and prudent Nigerians with an insurmountable reservoir of celestial wisdom that did not care to turn the psychological table for once and view issues from Obasanjo’s perspective are now surprised that the elections were not served on a silver plate and handed over to Atiku. Obasanjo and his PDP are now being subjected once again to the vicious punches of co-thieves subdued, while foreign forces have made a radical U-turn upon seeing the brutal and naked consequences of fighting Atiku’s reckless battle to the point of no return.

The prospect of an unstable and disintegrated Nigeria that was quickly advancing and staring everyone nakedly in the face was enough to ring the alarm bells in Washington and Downing Street to whistle Atiku back from his popular trail of destruction. Obasanjo is being vehemently chastised as if he had stolen a fortune from God’s own sacred cows. The victory and smartness of a thief that is popularly hated over a thief that appealed to popular sentiments against his rival has now translated into the making of a saint out of the rival thief that was outsmarted in broad daylight.

While Washington and Downing Street are well aware of the extraordinary social-psychological circumstances that preceded these elections, they were smarter than several Nigerian bandwagon passengers of the zombie fame, to understand where the buck stops and call off the trail of unforeseeable consequences. Yet Nigerians have not understood that it is about time to draw the bottom line. They fail to understand that the daily cry of foul and endless insults on Obasanjo and his PDP is now badly saturated by the mere fact of its chorus-type incantation.

After all what has Obasanjo done so badly that no one else has superseded before him? Is it failure to fix roads or failure to restore electricity? Failure to restore water supply that all started a steady trail of failure since 1980? Killing of political opponents for which he is suspected and never proven as a culprit? Now I hear that there was far more to the killing of Bola Ige than ever met the eye. I hear the names of Sunday Afolabi and Amisore, whoever they are. Stories of greed and a drug lord that was being investigated by Bola Ige.
Stories that are never proven much like Obasanjo’s involvement in the killing of Bola Ige. I guess its time to tread a bit softly. There are issues for which Obasanjo can be held guilty and in contempt but this wave of cyber and verbal lynching is beginning to exceed every bound of decency.

One renowned investment banking, securities and investment management company Goldman Sachs recently released figures on the Nigerian economy. Nigerian Gross Domestic Product has more than doubled since 2002 to an average of 7.3% from less than 3% in preceding years. The agricultural sector has witnessed tremendous growth. The overall economy is now “much less vulnerable to adverse external shocks”. The debts of the Paris club are now history. London club is positively rescheduling. The ratio of debt to GDP has dropped miraculously to 3% as of December 31st 2006 compared to 60% in the nineties. Inflation currently stands at 8%. The banking sector has been so positively restructured that every Nigerian is today proud of the Zenith Bank’s expansion to the United Kingdom. A feat that was possible only in the good old eighties. Today Zenith Bank is being traded to handle Nigeria’s foreign reserves, which have grown in excess of $40 billion since Obasanjo’s assumption of power.

Failure in the restoration of infrastructure does not necessarily stand for the destruction of the infrastructures themselves. If succeeding governments did not destroy all that was inherited in 1980 when Obasanjo first handed over power to Shehu Shagari, a lot would have been different today. Today, everyone talks as if Obasanjo has destroyed all these infrastructures in the first place. Records also have it that the Obasanjo’s administration tried and failed to revamp the energy sector out of sheer incompetence. But that is not a crime given the gravity of crimes that were committed unpunished before his reign. Today people seek to hold Obasanjo responsible for inventing corruption in Nigeria despite the successful work of Nuhu Ribadu and his EFCC.

While I will have no problem with the ordinary man in the street who does not understand what GDP’s 7% stand for and rather yearns to have good roads, water and electricity, I continue to be a vehement enemy of pseudo intellectuals with every level of academic qualification, who stand as illiterates to pronounce that Obasanjo’s administration failed the nation across the board.

My greatest wish for the incoming administration is to henceforth ensure and secure party discipline amongst legislators and at all levels and amend the constitution to reflect the spirit of scientific logic in our democracy. In one sense, the PDP deserves to be commended for refusing to return a huge number of senators and representatives for re-election and instead allowing another breed and batch of politicians to take command.

One positive aspect of the harsh and extreme criticisms experienced so far, will definitely manifest in the Yar A’Dua regime. The improvement of infrastructure will gain priority over all other government policies and a lot will definitely improve. I will choose to bet and hang my neck far outside the window claiming that the next four years will seek to correct a lot that went wrong in the past eight years. The pledge to continue the reforms commenced by Obasanjo is a pretty good start.

The sole prerequisite is that nothing goes wrong at the military end. No matter how much military intervention is chastised, we have all been witnesses in recent times to how positive military intervention can be if the role is constructive and focused. A look at recent developments in Turkey will throw more light on this lesson and message. Whenever the intensity of my workload permits, I will definitely elaborate on this issue in my very next essay.

Lagos Business School climbs in global rankings

Lagos Business School (LBS) yesterday made history as the first of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa to attain world ranking.

According to a list published yesterday by the Financial Times of London, the school was ranked among top 50 business schools worldwide in the area of open enrolment executive education programmes.

The prestige accorded the Nigerian school could better be appreciated when put in proper perspective.

These days, many newspapers and magazines compile rankings of business schools, but those of Business Week and the Financial Times stand out.

While Business Week focuses on American schools, the Financial Times is considered by many to be the pre-eminent international ranking.

The Financial Times is reputed to adopt rigorous modalities in its exercise and its compilations are based on data from schools participants in the programmes and third-party sources. Many business schools all over the world are known to work very hard to be included in its list.

To gain insight into the significance of being included among the best 50 providers of executive open enrolment programmes, it is useful to consider how many and how good are the schools that did not make the list using the following statistics:

* the total number of business schools in the world is estimated by the top accreditation agency to be around 10,000; new ones are created literally every week;

* in the UK alone, there are over 100 business schools; only four of them managed to be included among the top 50 worldwide in open enrolment programmes; and

* a country as economically powerful as Germany has no school in this ranking; only an Italian school is included; and there are no schools from Eastern Europe or Russia. Even more significantly, not a single Asian school was included, even though India, China and the Philippines have a good number of very well respected schools.

The journey of the Lagos Business School began 15 years ago with the launch of the first executive education called the Chief Executive Programme. Since then, the school has grown to become one of the best in sub-Saharan Africa.

LBS has striven to deliver quality management education in a continuous and constant way. The school was designed to meet the acute need for management training in the country that arose as a consequence of the rapid industrialisation that took place in the country in the late 80s and early 90s.

A business school of international standard that offers management courses relevant to the Nigerian environment was thus established. It also had to be a school that would strengthen values and ethics in people, business and the society.

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The Encounter

In this online conversation, I was Autummi, the immacuate, extremely cute and innocent girl on a covert mission to know who the 419er actually is. Randomly, I buzzed someone and here was the unedited conversation we had:

autummi (11/05/2007 14:42:46): Hi...

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:42:56): Hi

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:42:57): asl plz

autummi (11/05/2007 14:43:15): 21/f/LOS

autummi (11/05/2007 14:43:22): and you..

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:43:29): 22/m/nig

autummi (11/05/2007 14:43:34): are you truly a lover boy?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:43:35): what do u do for living?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:43:43): sure i do

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:43:49): looking for a true Love

autummi (11/05/2007 14:44:05): I am a high school student

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:44:15): same as me

autummi (11/05/2007 14:44:31): Well, I just broke up with my bf 2weeks ago

autummi (11/05/2007 14:44:40): really?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:44:46): really

autummi (11/05/2007 14:45:11): thats cool

autummi (11/05/2007 14:45:17): wat do you do in school?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:45:26): accounting

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:45:27): and u?

autummi (11/05/2007 14:45:46): business studies...

autummi (11/05/2007 14:45:55): thats is really great.

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:46:00): oh cool

autummi (11/05/2007 14:46:03): coincidence? ??

autummi (11/05/2007 14:46:29): why dont you come to the US to study, it is really a nice place

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:46:30): how?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:46:59): but i dont have the money

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:47:07): but i dont mind if u will help me out

autummi (11/05/2007 14:47:21): accounting is just next dept to mine

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:47:36): sure i know

autummi (11/05/2007 14:48:05): i am just a student, I dont have that kind of money

autummi (11/05/2007 14:48:19): if i did, maybe i will be willing

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:48:24): but u can raise me out of it

autummi (11/05/2007 14:48:41): how?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:48:55): by helping with little money

autummi (11/05/2007 14:49:20): tuition is over $7,000 here

autummi (11/05/2007 14:49:31): thats a lot of money

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:49:50): ut u can help me with just little

autummi (11/05/2007 14:49:54): so I can really see how I can help

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:50:17): how will u help meout?

autummi (11/05/2007 14:50:23): cant

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:50:41): why?

autummi (11/05/2007 14:50:47): I have lots of student loan to pay

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:51:05): so u dont have anyto helpme with right?

autummi (11/05/2007 14:51:59): i dont even know you!!!!!!!

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:52:20): well with time i know u will get to know me better

autummi (11/05/2007 14:52:55): i hope so

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:53:22): so forgetu dont even know me

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:53:28): help me out if u will

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:53:33): Godwill helputoo

autummi (11/05/2007 14:53:37): how can i do that?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:54:13): just letmeknowhowmuch u can send me and i will really apprciate it from u

autummi (11/05/2007 14:55:56): the only money i have is $500 to keep till next week

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:56:16): ok how much can u giveme out of it

autummi (11/05/2007 14:56:17): so if send you some, then I will be very broke

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:56:58): know u wount God qill surely help u too

autummi (11/05/2007 14:57:19): I will be broke.

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:57:34): know u wount

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:57:44): okai can u just help me wiht just 150 dollars?

autummi (11/05/2007 14:58:55): No way! I wont have enough money to keep me

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:59:03): ok

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:59:07): what of 100?

autummi (11/05/2007 14:59:31): let me see

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:59:42): plz i need it

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 14:59:58): plz wait brb

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:00:04): give me just 10min

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:26:48): Babe am here

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:27:06): i guess u still tehre?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:27:08): THERE

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:27:28): WERE ARE U BABE?

autummi (11/05/2007 15:27:58): hi u are back?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:28:17): Yea am back

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:28:30): so how about our conversation

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:28:35): \?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:29:28): ARE U GOING TO GIVE ME THE 100NDAOLLR

autummi (11/05/2007 15:29:38): well, i really dont see how $150 can help you with schooling here

autummi (11/05/2007 15:29:46): and I am very sure it not that urgent

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:30:33): WILL U BE ABLE TO GIVE IT TO ME OR NOT

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:30:42): well can u plz call me rifght now so ic an hear from u

autummi (11/05/2007 15:31:25): waz num?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:31:35): my phone number

autummi (11/05/2007 15:31:47): yeaa

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:31:58): will u call me right now?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:32:24): will u call me right now?+|

autummi (11/05/2007 15:32:25): may be later.

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:32:37): why not now

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:32:50): well my number is.......... +2348033123485

autummi (11/05/2007 15:33:13): Did u say it is GHANA?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:33:27): no west africa

autummi (11/05/2007 15:33:35): where is that?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:33:41): nigeria

autummi (11/05/2007 15:33:53): JESUS CHRIST!

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:34:02): what happen

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:34:24): tell me

autummi (11/05/2007 15:34:31): i dont know wat to say

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:34:37): why?

autummi (11/05/2007 15:34:46): we are told to be afraid of Nigerians

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:34:57): hey not someone like me

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:34:59): okk

autummi (11/05/2007 15:35:10): well how do i know?

autummi (11/05/2007 15:35:23): can I see a pic of you?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:35:26): call me and confirm

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:35:42): yea is in the image box like urs

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:35:44): brb

autummi (11/05/2007 15:36:13): I cant see anything

autummi (11/05/2007 15:49:09): catch yaa later.

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:50:11): am hear

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:50:15): where to?

autummi (11/05/2007 15:51:03): just going for a p

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:51:16): PLZ TALK WITH ME LITTLE

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:51:17): OKK

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:51:34): I STILL NEED UR HELP AND I DONT REALLY KNOW IF U GOIGN TO HELP ME OUT

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:51:46): I JUST WANT U TO BELIEVE ME

autummi (11/05/2007 15:52:18): how do i sent it?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:52:22): OK

autummi (11/05/2007 15:52:30): Just $100

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:52:47): wIll sent it through western union money transfer

autummi (11/05/2007 15:53:34): that is expensive. I'll pay huge commision

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:53:44): not really

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:54:49): just sent it with this following infor....... .....name. .....Lizzy Paul, address..... ...210 ikorodu road, zipe code.....23401

autummi (11/05/2007 15:55:04): I can do international wiring if you dont mind

autummi (11/05/2007 15:55:32): It will cost only $5

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:55:57): and i will like u to get abck to me with the following info........ ..sender' s name, address, MTCN, TEXT QUESTION AND ANSWER

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:56:16): PLZ SEND IT WITH THAT INFOR THROUGH WESTER UNION MONEY TRANSFER THAT THE ONLY WAY I CAN GET IT HERE

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:56:19): OKK

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:56:21): PLZ DO

autummi (11/05/2007 15:56:53): who is Lizzy. your gf?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:57:07): NO MY REALL SISTER

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:57:11): WE ARE TOW

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:57:13): OKK

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:57:18): SHE IS MY SISTE

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:57:30): BUT SHE IS MARRIED

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:57:31): OKK

autummi (11/05/2007 15:57:57): you stay wiht you married sister?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:57:57): plz send it with that name

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:58:10): no i dont stay with her, is at alone

autummi (11/05/2007 15:58:25): I cant send any money to no wife of yours!

autummi (11/05/2007 15:58:34): You are cheating me.

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:58:58): how do u mean for God sake

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:59:03): i cant do such to u

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:59:16): i have not been though that way to cheat poeple

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:59:18): okk

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 15:59:23): just believe that

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:00:02): talk to me babe

autummi (11/05/2007 16:00:09): No.

autummi (11/05/2007 16:00:28): i will send it to you not your gf..

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:00:36): ok

autummi (11/05/2007 16:00:37): You have a gf dont you?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:00:53): know i have none cosa i dotn have there time

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:00:57): believe that

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:01:19): well send it to this........ .......STEPHEN BISI

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:01:35): WHAT ABOUT THAT

autummi (11/05/2007 16:01:47): thats ok

autummi (11/05/2007 16:01:52): what address

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:01:58): SAME ADDRESS

autummi (11/05/2007 16:02:06): No way!

autummi (11/05/2007 16:02:20): to your gf?

autummi (11/05/2007 16:02:30): you are cheating me!!!

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:02:32): NO I GOT NO GF

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:02:35): WHAT U TALKING ABOUT

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:02:47): COMMON ABBE WHY SHOULD I DO THAT TO U

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:03:19): OK USE MY ADDRESS..... ......... .54 COCA ROAD ALLEN AVENUE

autummi (11/05/2007 16:03:24): But that is the address of your gf

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:03:36): SHE IS NOT MY GF SHE IS MY SISTER

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:03:38): OKK

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:03:41): BELIEVE THAT

autummi (11/05/2007 16:03:45): it is a lie!

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:03:53): U MEAN AM LIEING/

autummi (11/05/2007 16:04:17): i was cheated upon once and i cant play games anymore

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:04:35): AND DO U THINK I CAN EVER CHEAT U?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:04:40): PLZ AM NOT LIKE THAT

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:04:42): OKK

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:04:48): JUST BELIEVE ME

autummi (11/05/2007 16:04:58): can I have your phone number to tell you when i finish?

autummi (11/05/2007 16:05:07): dont expect it today.

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:05:17): OK YEA......... ......... ....+23480331234 85

autummi (11/05/2007 16:05:21): as from saturday

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:05:25): SO WHEN SHOULD I EXPECT IT?

autummi (11/05/2007 16:05:32): saturday

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:06:03): SO I SHOULD EXPECT IT BY SATURDAY RIGHT!!!!!!! !!

autummi (11/05/2007 16:06:20): yeaa...

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:06:36): DO U KNOW THE INFOR U GOIGN TO GIVE ME BY TEN/

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:06:39): THEN

autummi (11/05/2007 16:06:53): but you can give me your bank details and let me try international wiring to save me some cash

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:08:01): MY BANK DETAILS IS NO MORE FUNCTIONING JUST PLZ SEND IT TO THE INFOR I GAVE U

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:08:04): OKK

autummi (11/05/2007 16:08:25): I need to save money.

autummi (11/05/2007 16:08:33): dont you get it?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:08:45): NO JUST TRANSFER IT WITH WESTERN UNION TRANSFER

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:09:03): IT WILL GET HERE AND I WILL GET IT SEFE RIGHT HERE

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:09:04): OKK

autummi (11/05/2007 16:09:42): i want west. un. to be my last resort

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:09:56): WHAT DO U MEAN?

autummi (11/05/2007 16:10:30): i want to save money.

autummi (11/05/2007 16:10:46): transfer fee for western is high.

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:11:13): NO IS NOT HIGH........ .PLZ JUST SEND IT LIKE THAT

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:11:19): TRY UR BEST AND HELP ME OUT

autummi (11/05/2007 16:11:33): Well am the one paying the money.

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:11:45): AN DTHAT WHY AM BEGGING U ON IT

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:11:55): SO PLZ SEND IT WITH WESTERN UNION

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:11:55): OKK\

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:13:12): WILL U DO THAT WAY FOR ME?

autummi (11/05/2007 16:14:53): so I will send it to shannon mccullough in llen avenue, nigeria?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:16:30): OK DO IT

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:17:02): SO WEHN SHOULD I BEEN EXPECTING IT?

autummi (11/05/2007 16:17:49): saturday.

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:18:01): WHICH IS TOMORROW RIGHT?

autummi (11/05/2007 16:18:10): what should i use as passwor?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:19:41): WELL USE IT AS THE TEXT QUESTION ADN ANSWER WHICH IS.......... .......WHAT IS MY NAME AND THE ANSWER SHOULD BE MCCULLOUGH

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:20:29): AND GET ABCK TO ME WITH THE......... ...... MTCN NUMBER, SENDER'S NAME, Location, amouth send and the zipe code

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:20:31): okk

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:20:49): and the test question and answer

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:20:51): okk

autummi (11/05/2007 16:21:13): this

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:21:20): yea

autummi (11/05/2007 16:21:51): goood...

autummi (11/05/2007 16:22:07): Please, tell me... do you have a gf?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:22:15): have u witten every thing down

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:22:28): i swear i ahve no gf cos i dont have time

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:22:30): okk

autummi (11/05/2007 16:22:54): Should i trust you?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:23:05): yea that what i want from u

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:24:47): i guess u know tomorrow is saturday

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:24:49): /

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:24:51): ?

autummi (11/05/2007 16:24:59): I want to...

autummi (11/05/2007 16:25:16): but Nigerian men are difficult to deal with

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:25:17): to what?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:25:28): plz ciunt me out am not like that

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:25:29): okk

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:25:53): just count me out cos am not what u think

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:25:55): okk

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:27:12): plz wait for me just 5 minutes

autummi (11/05/2007 16:27:14): ok love

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:27:17): okk\i will be right back

autummi (11/05/2007 16:27:19): see you 2moro

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:27:28): are u sending it tomorrow?

autummi (11/05/2007 16:27:47): yes. I will

autummi (11/05/2007 16:27:54): $100

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:27:56): ok I Love u babe

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:28:00): yea i know

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:28:14): have written everything down?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:29:00): will u call me tomorrow if u ahve gotten it send?

autummi (11/05/2007 16:29:18): yess

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:29:43): i guess u know what to do after u ahve send it

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:29:52): u know the infor u will provide for me

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:29:54): ?

autummi (11/05/2007 16:34:23): I am off to classes

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:34:55): ok see u tomorrow after u ahve send the money

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:35:26): plz i will be waiitng to hear from u by tomorrow

autummi (11/05/2007 16:35:33): ok...

autummi (11/05/2007 16:36:07): by the way, does 419 still pay?

autummi (11/05/2007 16:36:27): this is how you spoil Nigeria's image abroad.

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:36:33): what do u mean?

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:36:50): weting u too dey do online with another person's pictures

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:36:59): Omoale

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:37:02): dey go jooo

autummi (11/05/2007 16:37:11): Well..you will be getting a visit from the EFCC later today

autummi (11/05/2007 16:37:22): you can run, you cant hide

autummi (11/05/2007 16:38:00): Stealing and stealing online.

autummi (11/05/2007 16:38:11): Now you aare in our net.

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:38:35): so u are EFCC agent right

autummi (11/05/2007 16:38:40): You will get a visit

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:38:54): and u are using soemone else pictures

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:39:11): men crazy is wrong with u

autummi (11/05/2007 16:39:13): just go to our office on Awolowo road and report urself

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:39:28): na u be colomental

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:39:38): craze dey worry u

autummi (11/05/2007 16:39:57): if you let us use our resources to come get you, the trouble will be multiplied

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:40:06): shaa na ur own picture be that way they there\thief

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:40:08): ole

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:40:13): carry am gop

autummi (11/05/2007 16:44:06): You will get a text message from EFCC, and it will be in your own good to report or your entire household will be arrested

shannon mccullough (11/05/2007 16:44:58): e bi like say u no even no who u dey follow talk abi?

autummi (11/05/2007 16:48:28): Untill you stop doing scams online, EFCC will continue to pursue you.

Soon afterwards, I sent this text to his mobile using EFCC as sender’s name( using special means)

Dear Online Scammer, you have been invited to report to our Lagos office at 15A Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos . In your interest, please report.

As soon as he got the text, he signed off. And am sure he would be restless for the next few days or perharps weeks till the episode wears off and he is courageous enough to have his bath and go to the cybercafe once more.

Going back home

I have been busy trying to fix up lose ends. Guess what? I am going to Naija with me girlfriend and we are so excited. Looking forward of taking the best pictures and enjoying me long stay.

I will be plying between Abuja and Lagos.To keep your posted when i'am back. You might not read from me in long while but i will be back.

Save Ajah!

This is a save our soul appeal to the Federal Government of Nigeria to rise up to its constitutional duty of protection of its citizens living in Ajah Town Eti-Osa Local Government Area of Lagos against a warlord who has been terrorising the law abiding citizens for over five years with the active connivance of the Lagos State government.

The warlord has burnt down over 50 shops along NEPA Road and around the Akinyemi Shopping Complex in Ajah. These burnt down property were shown by a number of Television House but to date neither the Lagos State nor the Federal Government has deemed it fit to make a pronouncement on the matter. This is not a surprise as a commission of inquiry set up specifically on Ajah communal crises submitted its report about a year ago without any Government White Paper on it.

A looming cloud is imminent now as the warlord has promised to burn down the Ajah Ultra Modern Market as a prelude to the burning down of the town itself during the elections (April 14 and 21, 2007), taking advantage of the period when there will be no movement of vehicles. The warlord carried out such dastardly acts in the past and he got away with them, as such many people have already been moving out of Ajah Town enmasse, since they have no confidence in the police or security agencies as presently constituted.

Indeed, save for a handful of ill-equipped policemen at the Ajah junction, there is no police presence in the town and the recurrent violence has not shown the state and federal authorities the need for a robust police or military presence on a permanent basis. The question is, how can an individual hold a community of over 300,000 people to ransom, killing, maiming, burning and destroying valuable property with impunity in a country like Nigeria?

Nigeria spends millions if not billions of naira on peace-keeping operations in the past in Sierra Leone and Liberia and is currently involved in Darfur, Sudan and is even contemplating going to Somalia, but here in Ajah, Lagos there is genocide going on and thousands of people are being displaced and hundreds have been killed without any protection from the state or federal government. Usually the police will come with a show of bravado after the destruction and killings.

The question once again is: who will protect Ajah Town against the warlord? The citizens await the answer from the Federal Government of Nigeria now before it is too late!

Who is the greatest Nigerian?

Greatest Nigerian
Please send us your greatest Nigerian.
Comments will be appreciated.

To me the Greatest Nigerian is Brother Fela Anikulapo kuti.
Musician,africanist,composer,radical,singer,spiritualist,Black president
fighter and also son of a witch.

There are also others from Obafemi Awolowo,Azikwe,Obasanjo,Murtala Mohammed
Ernahoro,Shehu shagari and many more.

Winner to be published on this Blog.

Leaders that should be removed from office

1.Blair Uk

2.Mugabe Zimbabwe

3.Puttin Russia

4.Ghadaffi of Libya

5.Konte of Ginuea

6.Kim Yong South Korea

7.Bush U.S.A

8.Obasanjo Nigeria

9.Fuare Eyedema of Togo

10. Josph Kabila of Zaire

Most 419 attacks aren't from Naija

Source

With all the frustration, anger and effort put into stopping the Nigerian 419 scams and others of that nature, it seems to be a common misconception that most phishing occurs in poor areas of the world. On the contrary, it seems most malicious activities on the net around the world originate in the United States. Symantec is touting a figure of 31% as the percentage of attacks in the U.S. Worldwide, with China and Germany in second at 10% and 7%. Beyond that, the U.S. has the most malicious servers as well: The company also found that 51 percent of all known servers used by attackers to buy or sell stolen personal information, such as credit card or bank account numbers, are located in the U.S. Why the U.S., which has strict laws governing crimes of that nature? While it may be easier to get away with those crimes in emerging countries, the U.S. may be an ample place to launch these attacks from due to the large number of available servers. Co-lo hosts are everywhere, and prices are (relatively) cheap. It still puts things into perspective, though, when most effort seems to be going in to taking down phishing rings in other parts of the world.

10 leaders i will remove from office

1.Blair Uk

2.Mugabe Zimbabwe

3.Puttin Russia

4.Ghadaffi of Libya

5.Konte of Ginuea

6.Kim Yong South Korea

7.Bush U.S.A

8.Obasanjo Nigeria

9.Fuare Eyedema of Togo

Last eight in Champion's League

So the final eight of the world's "greatest" football competition contains: three Premiership teams with one decent striker between them, a load of Spaniards facing a stretch for being thugs, a team unable to score in 180 minutes against a defence organised by Gordon Strachan, some other chancers from the sub-SPL Serie A, the worst Bayern Munich side for nigh on five decades, and PSV. The state of it! The state of the Champion's League!

If there's ever been a time to replace the pomp and ceremony of Handel's Zadok the Priest as the tournament song with the theme tune from Spike Milligan's Q, now's the time.

Still, things could be worse. At least some of the clowns who got knocked out this week won't be befouling European football any longer. Check out this pathetically lame whine from Real Madrid's Roberto Carlos (who Chxta thought had retired from football sometime around 2002, but in fact clearly only did so at 1945 last night). "The ball bobbled off the surface and bounced just in front of me," went the stupid excuse for letting Bayern's Roy Makaay score the fastest-ever goal since European football began in 1992.

"The pitch wasn't in a good condition and it was a real shame. We didn't concede the goal because of a lack of concentration, it was because the ball bobbled when I got it." Whatever you say, Carlos, whatever makes you feel better about yourself...

But if Madrid's inability to bugger off with good grace was a complete embarassment, you could have set an atomic clock by Ged Houllier's post-defeat nervous breakdown. "Success against Roma would have given us a psychological boost for the future," the hapless Lyon coach quietly sobbed, as he pressed his boot on top of a shovel and serenely cut a 4x12ft hole in the turf to lie himself down. "Now we are still looking for that confidence and enthusiasm we have been badly lacking!" At which point he adroitly leapt into his freshly dug hole and entreated Chxta to bury him alive. Sadly, I was unable to help poor Ged, as I too elected to jump into the grave in the hope that a passer-by would sprinkle some soil over our heads. How else, after all, can I hope to avoid the unbearably loud whining sure to start reverberating from the mouth of Thierry Henry any time now?

Nigerian Gay Law Passed!

What do you think?
Please send us your views and comments.
Should Homosexuality be allowed in Nigeria?

"I am a staunch supporter of the Nigeria gay law been passed banning same sex marriages and also the practice" Ad

Lets save the Nigerian morals and cultural values for the generation unborn. Homosexuality is alien to us. The roots of homosexuality can be traced back to boarding schools and seminary's in Nigeria. When a group of teenagers are separated from there source of sexuality leads to this behaviours.

We lust and love our women also otherwise. History will prove me right.

Nigeria new notes

Reading the BBC news online,i stumbled on the Nigerian new notes and the new law banning gay culture in Nigeria. I am glad Nigeria is going through some changes which the citizens are really longing for. I know the European community will contribute to spread the acceptance of Homosexuality while they are banning Muslims from wearing headscarf. Even the early Christians wore headscarf's. To view the notes BBC New Nigerian Notes

The Nigeria notes are really stunning and forge proof which gives the country a further step in fighting organised crimes been perpetuated by the Mafiosos,Well no currency is 100% forge free.

Well the most interesting expect of the new notes is that the Arabic text in the former notes where not included in the later which gives me the joy to write this post. That a foreign language is in scripted in an Africa currency is a colonial misdone. I'm looking forward to reading an Arabic text on a Dollar some day or otherwise. Why must there be an Arabic or English language in an Africa currency? I ask and hope i will gets answers.

Language or culture is not holy and should not be treated as such. Languages,culture and religion are a thing that should be limited to a certain group of people. That Nigeria is a English speaking country does not do the country any good. In Japan,Germany,Belgium,China and other well to do nations they do not feel attached to a foreign language or see there language as been inferior. I hope England will include a Yoruba or Swahili language in their currency someday.

What is a Language? Language is a organized sound and tongue spoken by a group of people or tribe. That the Arabic,English or French language is writing in an African currency dates back to colonization. What as the Arabic,English or French language done in bettering our lives in Africa? None.

That the three major languages in Nigeria has been in scripted in the new currency which gives a sense of belonging,that an African should be proud of it culture and tradition. I hope other Africa Nations will learn from what from this.


Living a Europe as taught me a lot than a learnt in my 12 years of schooling in Africa,You learn more from travelling. In Holland the second largest majority,the Turkish people which counts for about half a million people are not giving the priority to practice there culture and language. Why cos a stronger culture or language must precede. Which comes to the point that the Europeans are also scared of what they did to their colony's.

Not forgetting about the major reason i am writing this blog the new currency. I hope you all have a wonderful time using it and if you have a issue using the new currency just drop a comment on this blog.

Naija girls masturbation experience

18+ My masturbation experience


I luv the way Naija's are blogging and freeing there minds on taboos and unspeakable thoughts. I've read several blogs from Ayoola in Lagos,Adunni's place,Bella Naija,Calabar gal,Chxta's world,Exschoolnerd Nilla and others not mentioned.


Often i wonder if Naija babes masturbate or still view it as a taboo,i barely read about such experience. Lol, i know they do and it's no big deal .Masturbation gives women control over there body and sexuality how it responds to sexual stimulation's. Gals and women masturbate in a lots of ways by using therehands,fingers,toys or objects while men by stimulating there cocks. Many gals get their most intensive orgasm while masturbating. I luv masturbating and i discovered it by accident. If you masturbate fill free to share your experience or fantasy here on this blog.

When i masturbate i tend to get really visual or play with my fantasies. Sometimes i think of my boy friend taking me from the rear while I'm stroking my clit. Sometimes when i masturbate i just pull my nickers to the side or to my kneels while I'm stroking my swollen lips and spreading my juice around my cunt...When i masturbate is always like the first time i had sex,my heart will be pounding and every touch is
amazing.


I was lying in bed one night thinking about him and I got this warm feeling in my that was unbelievable! It starting throbbing. I sat up in bed, spread my legs apart and started rubbing my clit. It was the most wonderful feeling I had ever felt!



Typing this my juice is up to my thighs. Can't wait to masturbate again hopefully after typing this post. Do you have any masturbation experience or story? Your comments,stories or experience are welcome. I've got a lot to share on this topic with you all...

Driving rules in Lagos

Lagos is often acclaimed as the most exciting city in Nigeria in which to drive. Who would argue? For those of you who think that driving in London or NY is stressful, herewith, for newcomers and visitors, are a few basic rules of the road for driving in Las Gidi:

First of all, know the battalion to which you belong. There is an unending and vicious road war in Lagos. In the first battalion, are motorcyclists known in Nigerian as okada. They have a pact with suicide avoid them at all costs.

In the second battalion are commercial bus drivers. Their buses are known by various names including - danfo, molue (literally translated "I will beat you"), bolekaja (means "Come down, let us fight), kabu-kabu, etc. As these names imply, they are not the smartest species on the face of the planet. Avoid them. What a bitter experience? I don't want to cry again. I almost did 2 days ago!

In the third battalion are the "guys of the siren": escort riders, Bullion vans, trailers, etc. They have immunity against death. Besides, they get a medal for every scratch, and a certificate of bravery for every bash. No need to tell you to stay clear of them. The Men in black even with empty bullion van, I am not making empty threats, be guided!

In the fourth battalion are private guys like me. All we have at our disposal are big talk and empty threats - we have no rights. Sometimes we employ what is called "ogboju"(bravado) to get by. Due to frustration of being home late or at work. We are a pound in flesh in getting our ways in traffic too. What a mess! There are no gentlemen again in Lag?

Further rules:

1. When in doubt, accelerate.
2. Never drive behind a person whose head doesn't reach the top of the steering wheel.
3. Danfo drivers believe they are immortal. Don't yield to the temptation to teach them otherwise
4. Taxicabs should always have the right of way, unless you are bent on suicide.
5. Get used to okada riders saying things like: "Komot ya skrap fo rod" (Get your jalopy off the road), "Oga u wan mek ai dryv ya moto?" (Do you want me to drive your car?). It is normal, and we just ignore them. These days okadas are heavy duty machines too because they carry multiple passengers. Husband and wife. I believe They don't complain of overload as long as the woman is in the middle.
6. Never, ever, stop for a pedestrian unless he flings himself under the wheels of your car.
7. The first parking space you see will be the last parking space you see. Grab it. Survival of the fittest u may say!
8. Learn to swerve abruptly. In Lagos, potholes (and sometimes car-holes) are put in key locations to test drivers' reflexes and keep them on their toes. I saw one man fishing in one of the potholes, that tells u how deep it is.
9. There is no such thing as "one-way"in Lagos. Expect traffic from any direction at all times.
10. Never get in the way of a car that needs extensive bodywork.
11. There is no such thing as a short-cut during rush-hour traffic in Lagos. Everybody might be inclined to take that 'short-cut'.
12. It is traditional in Lagos to honk your horn at cars that don't move the instant their bumpers are not touching the next car.
13. When asking for directions, always ask at least 3 people. Lagosians claim to know every inch of the city - even areas they've never been.
14. Use extreme caution when pulling into service lanes. Service lanes are not for breaking down the traffic, but for speeding, especially during rush hour.
15. Never use directional signals, since they only confound and distract other Lagos drivers, who are not used to them.
16. Similarly, never attempt to give hand signals. Lagos drivers, unused to such courtesies, will think you are making obscene gestures to them. This could be very bad for you in Lagos.
17. Hazard lights (popularly called "double pointer") is not, (as commonly supposed) used to indicate a hazard. It is a warning to you that he is a bonafide Lagos driver, he's headed 'straight' and as such, will not stop under any circumstance. Take him extremely seriously especially if he backs it up with a continuous blast from his "horn".
18. At any given time t, do not stand on the zebra crossing expecting traffic to yield to you, else you will have to explain to the on coming traffic whether you look like a zebra.
19. Speed limits are arbitrary figures posted only to make you feel guilty.
20. Remember that the goal of every driver is to get there first by whatever means necessary.
21. In Las Gidi every spot is potential bus stop. FRSC and LASTMA knows that too. It is in their constitution.
21. Above all, keep moving. Even with a flat tire.

Good luck, you'll need it!