Gbenga?...............Yes........Dat's My Name!

I have never regard london as a jungle until today when i came back after about six months of my leave. I have exiled myself since i did not have any considerable accomodation and source of living. Manchester is my solace, i have found a resting place in Manchester and the atmosphere seems loving. This weekend is Touns wedding (for those who dont know, Toun is my God-mother and we met on the VSO/LIVa program in Nigeria. I am particularly excited about it as i took a weekend leave from mcdonalds so as to be able to attend the ceremony.

My first shocker, life seems to be very bus....i felt like i was in oshodi, everybody was minding their own business, and the sounds of train was enough to reming me of the shouts of touts at ojuelegba and oshodi market. Having retired in front of Dayo israels PC, i reflected on the issue at the train station at Euston. Two moslems cladded in a turban and white flowing gown entered in thesam carriage as me. A surge of fear crept down my spine as the thoughts of the horror that happened on July 7 refresh in my mind. I have no negative or hostile thoughts about muslim(to be honest) but i felt a inner sense of danger as i consider that i will be meeting more people with thesame attire on the public transport throughout my weekend in London.

N.B london is a multiracial,multireligious city and there are so many moslems living there than i have experienced in manchester. I must aadmit that i know a lot of peace-loving muslims and i have always respected their courage and way of life. However this article does not in anyway reflect the way i feel about moslemity. its just a paranoia i felt in the underground tube.

With the likes of SBUcareer on nairaland, i have suddenly developed a interest in software development. I have, on many occassions been put off by voluminous vocabularies in JAVA and C++ text book, but with the recent tutorial topic posted on Nairaland( by me) tagged Java Programming for dummies, I have been leaning the basics myself although with a bit of difficulties, but at least in the next one year(with hardwork) i will be able to beat my chest as a trainee software developer.

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SBU, More grease to your elbow

Attached is my first JAVA program

It is quite saddening that a lot of Nigerians are defrauding citizens of the western world through the internet. I have read many cases of this over the Nigerian online Newspaper but avent actually thought about blogging on it. The deal is to meet white people off the internet, gain their trust by chatting them up over a period of time( sometimes six months), and then demanding money from them.

Some out of generousity(depending on the rappot between them) willingly give money and this conpeople takes more and more until they suck them dry. Another case is through the use of big names in Nigeria like Chairman of the EFCC, Nigerian president, NAFDAC woman(thats what i call her), Mike Adenuga to con people into believing in business dealings and , and some of this people out of greediness and make money rich quickly has willingly accepted the 419 claims and when they are conned out of their money runs to EFCC. I wonder why EFCC doesnt think of extraditing them to Nigeria and charging them with aiding and abbetting the swindling of the Nigerian Economy.

I use to think white people are intelligent when it comes to fraud, but i think they are the dumbest i've ever found around. Never deal with any company in Nigeria without finding out their authenthicity from the Nigerian Embassy in your state, or the Corporate affairs commission.

Check out this link for the newest i found http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2006/feb/14/national%20-14-02-2006-001.htm

Augustine Eguavon is the chief coach of the Nigerian Team during the African Cup of nations 2006 in Egypt.  Eguavon who has once been a Nigerian international player himself was assisted by samson siasia and got Nigeria through to the quarterfinals of the tournament before loosing to Ivory coast with a goal scored by Didier Drogba.

There was a lot of criticism about Augustine Eguavons decision of first 11 line up for the game, with putting inexperienced players like  Sani Kaita in the defensive midfield, Starting Kanu and putting Osaze odewingie in the midfield instead of John Utaka. I personally would say that the performance of the eagles was based on levity on the side of Eguavon ( i dont blame him), but i think he tried his best experimenting with the players he has.

Wether Nigeria was destined to stay in the third position for the last two nations cup finals, i dont know but at least we made it to the third place this time around again.

For those of us who think that Coach Eguavon filed inexperiences players, what if the likes of kanu, okocha, utaka, and the more popular names play  and we lost?, i bet we will all say 'eguavon has filed old and tired legs'.....................what do we do now?, i personally think we should give him time to develop a team. Instead of hiring a foreing coach, why dont we use the precious money to train him abroad and get him to sign a five year contract and see how he goes from there. I wonder how the development of a team, coach and technical crew can be possible if the Football association is in a total confusion.
Do we get this?