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Below is an encounter with a (rich) friend during a visit to his house sometime in 2004
Question: "What would you like to have ...Fruit juice, Soda, Tea, Chocolate, Milo, or Coffee?"
Answer: "Tea please."
Question : "Ceylon tea, Herbal tea, Bush tea, Honey bush tea, Iced tea or green tea ?"
Answer : "Ceylon tea."
Question : "How would you like it ? black or white?"
Answer: "White."
Question: "Milk, Whitener, or Condensed milk?"
Answer: "With milk."
Question: "Goat milk, Camel milk or cow milk?"
Answer: "With cow milk please.
Question: " Milk from Freeze land cow or Afrikaner cow?"
Answer:"Um,I'll take it black."
Question: "Would you like it with sweetener, sugar or honey?"
Answer: "With sugar."
Question: "Beet sugar or cane sugar?"
Answer: "Cane sugar."
Question:"White, brown or yellow sugar?"
Answer: "Ooh, Forget about tea just give me a glass of water instead."
Question: "Mineral water or still water?"
Answer: "Mineral water."
Question: "Flavoured or non-flavoured ?"
Answer: "Leave it I'm OK".
I simply got up and left.
Question: "What would you like to have ...Fruit juice, Soda, Tea, Chocolate, Milo, or Coffee?"
Answer: "Tea please."
Question : "Ceylon tea, Herbal tea, Bush tea, Honey bush tea, Iced tea or green tea ?"
Answer : "Ceylon tea."
Question : "How would you like it ? black or white?"
Answer: "White."
Question: "Milk, Whitener, or Condensed milk?"
Answer: "With milk."
Question: "Goat milk, Camel milk or cow milk?"
Answer: "With cow milk please.
Question: " Milk from Freeze land cow or Afrikaner cow?"
Answer:"Um,I'll take it black."
Question: "Would you like it with sweetener, sugar or honey?"
Answer: "With sugar."
Question: "Beet sugar or cane sugar?"
Answer: "Cane sugar."
Question:"White, brown or yellow sugar?"
Answer: "Ooh, Forget about tea just give me a glass of water instead."
Question: "Mineral water or still water?"
Answer: "Mineral water."
Question: "Flavoured or non-flavoured ?"
Answer: "Leave it I'm OK".
I simply got up and left.
Hollywood hunk Brad Pitt has been left heartbroken after his new lover Angelina Jolie was caught openly flirting and gazing adoringly at reggae and hip-hop musician Wyclef Jean. The brunette tore the actor’s family dreams apart when she reportedly fell for the solo artist and former member of The Fugees at a Haitian Relief Benefit on Long Island in New York.
The chemistry between the glamorous couple was said to be red-hot as Wyclef hit the stage in front of a star-studded crowd, which included actresses Lindsay Lohan and Meryl Streep and rock singer Jon Bon Jovi. But no-one was more into Wyclef’s performance than Ange, 30, who stunned onlookers by gazing lovingly at the singer. In fact, rarely did Ange’s gaze leave the musician as she danced seductively while making eyes at him on the dance floor.
At one point, 32-year-old Wyclef even serenaded the mum-of-two and took a sip from her wine glass, the pair getting closer as the night went on. Away from the crowds, the Tomb Raider actress was spotted in a cosy moment with the music man as they strolled together hand-in-hand.
The chemistry between the glamorous couple was said to be red-hot as Wyclef hit the stage in front of a star-studded crowd, which included actresses Lindsay Lohan and Meryl Streep and rock singer Jon Bon Jovi. But no-one was more into Wyclef’s performance than Ange, 30, who stunned onlookers by gazing lovingly at the singer. In fact, rarely did Ange’s gaze leave the musician as she danced seductively while making eyes at him on the dance floor.
At one point, 32-year-old Wyclef even serenaded the mum-of-two and took a sip from her wine glass, the pair getting closer as the night went on. Away from the crowds, the Tomb Raider actress was spotted in a cosy moment with the music man as they strolled together hand-in-hand.
A Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Asaba, Delta State has earned himself instant redeployment and a query over extortion by policemen serving under him. Policemen in his jurisdiction had extorted money from the state Police Commissioner, Mr. Udom Ekpoudom, who passed through a checkpoint disguised as "a civilian." The entire team has been arrested and detained. The police commissioner who confirmed it while briefing journalists said the DPO was sanctioned for not exercising proper control over his men. He said he had received several complaints from members of the public over the extortion of money by policemen at the end of the Bridgehead Checkpoint. According to the commissioner, he went disguised to the checkpoint in a private car and the policemen there truly asked for money from him. Ekpoudom expressed shock at the development, saying that the command was doing everything possible to check corruption among the policemen.
Now it really gets interesting. The Angolans want to beat us at our 'own' game (419). Personally, I'd ask someone like Mike Adenuga to offer the Rwandans some millions of dollars to beat the Angolans. Nothing illegal in asking a team to play well is there? Afterall Eto'o did it for Cameroon against Cote D'Ivoire.
The World Bank has ranked Nigeria as one of the least countries that are business-friendly in spite of Nigeria’s decades of economic reform.
The World Bank survey released in Washington, on Tuesday, covers from setting up a business, to dealing better with construction licenses, improving property registration, hiring new workers, paying taxes, contract enforcement and bankruptcy and access to credit, ranked Nigeria as 152 in terms of registering property among the 152 countries covered by the survey.
"Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs with far-reaching reforms streamlining business regulations and taxes, but African and Middle Eastern nations with high youth unemployment rates continue to thwart small and medium businesses with heavy legal burdens and piecemeal reforms", according to the World Bank Group.
"Doing Business in 2006: Creating Jobs", co-sponsored by the World Bank and International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, finds that such reforms, while often simple, can create many new jobs which is what Nigeria badly needs.
According to the report, "jobs are a priority for every country, and especially the poorest countries. Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs is key to creating more jobs — and more growth. It is also a key to fighting poverty. Women, who make up three quarters of the workforce in some developing economies, will be big beneficiaries. So will young people looking for their first job. The last year’s diverse range of successful reformers — from Serbia to Rwanda — are showing the way forward. We can all learn from their experience," said Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank Group.
The annual report, which for the first time provides a global ranking of 155 nations on key business regulations and reforms, finds that African nations impose the most regulatory obstacles on entrepreneurs and have been the slowest reformers over the last year. Meanwhile, every country in Eastern Europe improved at least one aspect of the business environment, and countries such as Serbia and Montenegro and Georgia topped the global rankings for most reforms enacted.
The report tracks a set of regulatory indicators related to business startup, operation, trade, payment of taxes, and closure by measuring the time and cost associated with various government requirements. For example, an entrepreneur in Mozambique must undergo 14 separate procedures taking 153 days to register a new business. In Sierra Leone, if all business taxes were paid, they would eat up 164 per cent of a company’s gross profits. In Syria, it takes 63 days, 18 documents, and 47 signatures from the time imported goods arrive in ports until they reach the factory gate.
Overall, European nations were the most active in enacting reforms. The top 12 reformers in the past year, in order, are Serbia and Montenegro, Georgia, Vietnam, Slovakia, Germany, Egypt, Finland, Romania, Latvia, Pakistan, Rwanda, and the Netherlands.
The World Bank survey released in Washington, on Tuesday, covers from setting up a business, to dealing better with construction licenses, improving property registration, hiring new workers, paying taxes, contract enforcement and bankruptcy and access to credit, ranked Nigeria as 152 in terms of registering property among the 152 countries covered by the survey.
"Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs with far-reaching reforms streamlining business regulations and taxes, but African and Middle Eastern nations with high youth unemployment rates continue to thwart small and medium businesses with heavy legal burdens and piecemeal reforms", according to the World Bank Group.
"Doing Business in 2006: Creating Jobs", co-sponsored by the World Bank and International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, finds that such reforms, while often simple, can create many new jobs which is what Nigeria badly needs.
According to the report, "jobs are a priority for every country, and especially the poorest countries. Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs is key to creating more jobs — and more growth. It is also a key to fighting poverty. Women, who make up three quarters of the workforce in some developing economies, will be big beneficiaries. So will young people looking for their first job. The last year’s diverse range of successful reformers — from Serbia to Rwanda — are showing the way forward. We can all learn from their experience," said Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank Group.
The annual report, which for the first time provides a global ranking of 155 nations on key business regulations and reforms, finds that African nations impose the most regulatory obstacles on entrepreneurs and have been the slowest reformers over the last year. Meanwhile, every country in Eastern Europe improved at least one aspect of the business environment, and countries such as Serbia and Montenegro and Georgia topped the global rankings for most reforms enacted.
The report tracks a set of regulatory indicators related to business startup, operation, trade, payment of taxes, and closure by measuring the time and cost associated with various government requirements. For example, an entrepreneur in Mozambique must undergo 14 separate procedures taking 153 days to register a new business. In Sierra Leone, if all business taxes were paid, they would eat up 164 per cent of a company’s gross profits. In Syria, it takes 63 days, 18 documents, and 47 signatures from the time imported goods arrive in ports until they reach the factory gate.
Overall, European nations were the most active in enacting reforms. The top 12 reformers in the past year, in order, are Serbia and Montenegro, Georgia, Vietnam, Slovakia, Germany, Egypt, Finland, Romania, Latvia, Pakistan, Rwanda, and the Netherlands.