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@coola... angel is joking. that marriage is not possible in 9ja.
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Posted: 2006-06-02 00:10:44
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@pxth, i was just about saying d same thing.. Marrying a +ve guy is already like signing an extended death certificate..
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Posted: 2006-06-02 08:33:00
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@coola: the best way to ensure the safety of our power plants is to ensure development in the delta, with direct benifits tied to the power generated in form of infrastucture. if a set % of the money generated goes there instead of sitting in govt coffers 1st (then swiss bank accounts after) power would be steady.
@amby: its still a baby company!!!! please translate your presidential language!!! when you say "highly subsidized" does that mean 60%+ or 6%+?
@pxth: remember, when we share the podium after we collect our Nobel Prizes in 3 or 4 categories, i'll be retiring to my yacht at the end of the day while you willbe flying back home on a economy class seat! (or the vice presidential jet, which ever comes 1st!!!) nice joke btw
@angel: straighten these guys out!!! does love conquer all?
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Posted: 2006-06-02 10:56:19
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@ Coola, Aids no dey show for face, just pray that when you really fall in love (not nigerian love o), that she doesnt turn out to be positive, cos you never can tell, the power of true love, you might suddenly want to study medecine!
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Posted: 2006-06-02 11:08:12
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@angel: that was a cop out answer!!!! the question is if YOU were in love with someone and he told you he was HIV+ (doesnt matter how he got it) will YOU marry?
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Posted: 2006-06-02 11:33:51
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@Abu, YES I WILL!!! simple and short. "Remember you said "in love" this means am already going out with this person, before i find out, am in love, so i will not leave, rather will help out the best i can, we are all going to die some day, most of us dont know when, so lets live the best out of the time we have.
[ This Message was edited by: Angelgirl on 2006-06-02 12:01 ]
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Posted: 2006-06-02 12:49:30
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hello all pls enjoy this joke that a friend sent to me
OBJ, Atiku and Soludo are flying on the presidential jet. OBJ looks down and says: "I can throw down a N1,000 note and make one person happy. ATK says to him "I can throw down two N500 notes and make two people happy.Soludo laughs at them and says: "I can throw down five N200 notes and make five people happy. The pilot looks at the co-pilot and tells him: "such arrogant people! I can throw three of them off the plane and make 180 million people happy!!!!!!
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Posted: 2006-06-02 17:24:51
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On 2006-06-02 12:49:30, Angelgirl wrote:
before i find out, am in love, so i will not leave, rather will help out the best i can, we are all going to die some day,
You are first Nija babe that I have ever heard say that! My sister, I think your Dad will disown you.
@Mamba Someone just told me the fee for LBS MBA and I nearly fainted. Shebi na there you de? U carry o...
@all Any comments on PNF's favourite dude Fani-Kayode's Ministerial nomination? And please, no cussing
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Posted: 2006-06-02 19:31:24
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@Abu... what's up? another gprs blackout? let's move to page 411. PNF guys whither?
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Posted: 2006-06-03 21:24:27
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Hi all, I'm not Nigerian, but have been reading parts of this thread with great interest. I have noted the concern regarding HIV/AIDS. There have been some quite interesting developments following the UN summit. There are positive developments (as noted in the below article.).
There have however also been dire predictions made by other organisations, that cases of infection could reach 100 million within a relatively short period of time.
"After days of intense talks, government envoys at a UN AIDs summit agreed Friday to try to reverse the pandemic by 2010, with a near tripling of current moneys and the inclusion of high risk drug users, homosexuals and sex workers for prevention and treatment, according to a top UN official on Friday.
In a related development, France, Brazil and Chile announced a plan to raise up to 2 billion dollars a year for the global fight by new taxes on airline tickets, sports and pharmaceutical companies. The money would be used to purchase anti-AIDS drugs.
"We are setting a new direction," said UN General Assembly President Jan Eliasson, who steered the 191-nation assembly to establish the controversial Human Rights Council in March - and said the experience helped him negotiate the political declaration on HIV/AIDS.
Although some of the nearly 1,000 non-governmental organizations that participated were dissatisfied, UN officials said the groups played a key role in influencing some of the decisions and provided a "new dynamic."
ActionAid International, for example, one of the highest profile groups, said it was "outraged" that specific vulnerable groups like intravenous drug users, sex workers and homosexuals were not mentioned in the declaration.
But Peter Piot, the director of UNAIDS, said the declaration, which mentions "vulnerable groups" without going into specifics, included those groups by providing for UN money to be used to purchase sterile hypodermic needles for drug users, and to include homosexuals and sexworkers as recipients of help.
The final declaration was to be issued later Friday at the close of the three-day conference.
Eliasson and Piot said that "difficult" financial commitments had been made - to increase the average annual spending from an average of 7.2 billion dollars a year to 23 billion dollars a year by 2008 in order to reverse the disease by 2010.
Next week marks the 25 years since the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that leads to AIDS was identified. During those years, more than 25 million peopled have died, and another 40 million people have become infected by the virus.
Unlike most other diseases that have provoked physical immunity in the general population after some time, AIDS has confounded the historic pattern and also eluded the search for a vaccination, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, this week in a telephone interview. The only effective means to control it is prevention,
Treatment is expensive and despite increasing acceptance of generic production in developing countries of high price drugs, the costs are beyond the reach of many poor countries that are worst affected.
The European Union said it favours making use of "the largest possible scale" of flexibilities allowed by an international convention on intellectual properties, and asked that anti-retroviral treatment not be taxed under trade agreements.
The Austrian minister for social security and consumer protection, Ursula Haubner, speaking on behalf of the EU, said anti-retroviral treatment and other paediatric measures should be rapidly expanded if the infection trend is not broken.
"We have obligations to make efforts to mitigate the enormous social and economic impact of the pandemic," Haubner said.
She said the EU and its member states have contributed "considerably" in the global fight against AIDS, and formally recognized last year that AIDS has become a "problem."
The world's giant pharmaceutical companies have been reluctant to share patents to produce some treatment drugs, but some of them have allowed countries like India to manufacture generic drugs before the patents expire.
Piot said the document, to be issued later Friday at the close of the three-day conference, will brand AIDS an "unprecedented human catastrophe."
It contains strong commitment by governments to demand more government accountability in implementing AIDS programmes - a key demand by ActionAID.
The tax plan by France, Brazil and Chile would take in up to 2 billion dollars a year to buy AIDS treatment drugs drugs. Details have not been made public, but 14 countries have joined the plan.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Friday's agreement amounted to a "wonderful day for the poor, sick and vulnerable."
"From this year forward, I pledge that our spending on HIV and other communicable diseases will increase to at least 100 million euros per year," Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern told the UN General Assembly.
A dozen heads of state and more than 50 government ministers attended the meeting, though the US refused entry visas to the health ministers of Iran and Cuba.
US First Lady Laura Bush renewed her government's five-year commitment to spend 15 billion dollars, starting in 2003, to combat AIDS in 120 countries. The programme, known as the Emergency Plan, has provided treatment to 560,000 people, the US says.
"With increasing contributions each year, the American people are on track to meet or exceed this commitment," she said.
In Thailand, where about 500,000 people have died of AIDS and an equal number are infected with HIV, Deputy Prime Minister Suchai Chareonratanakul said the country is determined to provide universal access to treatment, care and support for high-risk people.
Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem reported that the epidemic has killed more than 10,000 Vietnamese and more than 310,000 others are infected.
"The challenges facing us, first and foremost, include access to preventive services," Khiem said.
By J.T. Nguyen, Dpa
© 2006 DPA
http://www.playfuls.com/news_[....]read_By_2010_Triple_Money.html
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