The English media hype about Spurs has got the better of you. They play long ball up to Crouch with RVV running in for scraps. Modric is their best player but he doesn't get the ball enough. Harry is a master tactician they have people believing. My prediction for next week is 2-1 to Real. Bal sug.

He is right about one thing, Africa is the future.

@ Lennon You're worse than i thought (and a Spud fan)

Would have been a score draw if the ref wasn't blind. Chelsea are still in it.

Prediction for tonight Chelsea 2 2 Man Utd

@ Tuujiye. Waar Alex has been out for a long time. I will be very surprised if he plays. Inter haven't been good defensively since Jose left. Bayern missed some major chances but Schalke finished their chances. Still think the keeper is dodgy. Great goal by Stankovic. Glad Spurs got thrashed (I made the 4-0 prediction on my fb ). English media hype made Ngonge believe they actually had a chance

LooooL@Ngonge Go on fill in the blanks

I'm reluctant to ask for further details NG heh Since we are having a pet gripe day don't you get annoyed when people keep bringing problems but no solutions? Supposed engineers spend a while explaining a problem but when you say ok whats the solution they look at you dumbfounded. Nuune, shaqadii way bilaabantay.

Bal waram Juxa waayo the Pirate pic? Are you their new chief negotiator? Ngonge xaguu ka dhacay baryahan? Fahiima must have a day off (again). CL is enjoying a long lunch and Ibti has no internet access heh Oh, and JB is making his 5th coffee

These many states are actually a good thing. People need a central authority and a sense of statehood. They would be in a worse situation if these mini states didn't exist. The future for any Somalia will be based on what is happening now not what was happening before. This is progress shekh Nuune.

Great pics.

^ 1. Click on 'embed' in the youtube video 2. Tick 'use old embed code' 3. Copy the code 4. Paste on here

Al Jazeera has so many great documentaries. Heres another about the Omani/Zanzibari connection (in Arabic)

Discuss................

Tuujiye, still think David Luis is the best thing since sliced bread?

Hello Ms DD. How are you? I need a holiday+sleep+new fitness regime.

JB, please tell us what the present was dee. I'm suspicious lol

Welcome back Buuxo

Tolow maxaa laguu so diray?

Horrible result. Carroll is out of his depth. Can't believe we paid all that money for this *****. Arsenal are running around as usual so far.

@ Ngonge Nuune, there are many water companies. Maaxda has the largest share and furthest reach. Available in Djibouti and even Xamar before the Ethio invasion. Waar macaa Iraaq baa lo diri jiray when Daallo was operating cargo there.

^I just think there should be a debate on this. Somalis are business minded people but is it ok to have labels looking the same as a competitor? Geel_jire;707847 wrote: which is different from copyright. copyright deals with a creative work of authorship such as a book, play etc. trademarks deals with company logos, names, and short phrases e.g "Just do it" for nike is trademark. but the trouble with trademarks is that to enforce your trademark against another company you have to register your trademar, how that would be done in somalia/land I dont know. and the other problem is that if you dont actively protect your trademark against dilution you lose it. for example 'kleenex' is commonly used to describe tissue paper even though it is only a specific brand of tissue paper ... the trade mark is so diluted that it is no longer enforceable. and you can have similar/identical company names if there is no risk of the customer getting confused .. or one company unfairly benefiting from the good name established by a competitor through quality and hardworkd. that is why the Apple computer had to settle a lawsuit with Apple music (the company that produced the beatles) , when Apple computers entered the music game (itunes) after that lenghty lecture waan haraaday ... how have you been doing my fellow nomads ? My bad. Trademark it is. Welcome back.

The mother of a murder victim broke down in a Dubai court and demanded “is this justice?” as her son’s killers were jailed for just seven years. The dramatic scenes unfolded at Dubai Court of First Instance yesterday as the two Somali men were sentenced for premeditated murder. Prosecutors had asked for the death sentence in the case, where the men stabbed a friend with a broken bottle in a row over a stolen phone. However, Judge Fahmi Monier handed down the prison sentence instead, which sparked the mother’s outburst. “Is this justice?” she yelled through her tears. “There is no justice except that of God. Why not death, my son is gone, he is gone, and all they get is seven years. Is this Dubai Justice?” Policewomen surrounded the mother and asked her to keep quiet as she became hysterical. She was eventually escorted out of the courtroom. Under UAE law, the charge of murder can result in the death sentence. But the judge said he had decided on seven years after considering all the circumstances of the case, although he did not elaborate. The court had earlier heard that the defendants, also Somali, and aged 24 and 26, got into a fight with the victim in the Naif area. The defendants claimed the victim had stolen a mobile phone in Ajman by using one of their IDs, which resulted in the police arresting the innocent man. “They said that they were drinking in a flat when they insulted the victim and fought with him. He escaped but they chased him,” a police officer said. The defendants had denied murder and are expected to appeal. Dubai Public Prosecution has also said that it will ask the appeal court to increase the sentence. ali.shouk@7days.ae

Somaliland Plans to Enforce Compliance on Tax, Double Revenue By Sarah McGregor March 31 (Bloomberg) — Somaliland may double revenue collection this year as it enforces tax compliance among the country’s 40 biggest businesses and richest individuals, the Finance Ministry said. The autonomous region expects government income to total $100 million this year, even after the government slashed tax rates and abolished other levies, Vice Finance Minister Warsame Said Abdi told reporters in the capital, Hargeisa, yesterday. As of Jan. 1, payroll and sales taxes fell to 5 percent from 12 percent, while income taxes dropped to 10 percent from as much as 25 percent, Abdi said. “Somaliland people aren’t tax-oriented,” he said. “What they give to the government is seen as a loss. We are trying to educate them. We’ll use it to build schools, hospitals.” Somaliland, a former British colony, declared independence from Somalia in 1991 after the fall of dictator Mohammed Siad Barre. While no country has yet officially recognized its independence it has remained largely free of the clan warfare, kidnappings and assassinations that have plagued Somalia. Somaliland’s government relies entirely on taxes for its budgetary expenses and is debt-free, Abdi said. Foreign assistance is not channeled through the government, he said. The World Bank is helping to train tax officials and the United States’ aid agency this week agreed to build 10 state revenue centers across Somaliland, Hassan Jama Mohamed, the Finance Ministry’s public finance management coordinator, said in Hargeisa yesterday. Revenue Loss The loss of annual revenue from Telesom, the country’s biggest telecommunications operator, alone is about $25 million, because of authorities failing to enforce the domestic tax laws, according to Abdi. “We haven’t had the capacity to do the auditing or enforce the existing laws,” Mohamed said. The government is counting on improved revenue collection this year to pay for a doubling of salaries for civil servants, the police and military and a free primary-school education program introduced at the start of the year, he said. –Editors: Paul Richardson, Karl Maier. http://somaliland247.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/somaliland-plans-to-enforce-compliance-on-tax-double-revenue/

The Prem is back. BIG weekend!!!