fatima04:


They are all the same but will recommend HSBC current account.

Thanks sis

Happy Easter celebration to all the gurus....abeg,


this ur guy just enta UK....which bank better make person open an account with?

Just need to know so i wont fall into unnecessarily and unsolicited charges every now and then...thanks guys

Whatspp is down

More reason I came online here...

darenyx:
Current stage of works

Your work are awesome to behold. Nice one mehn.

Guy....e be like say ori e o pe? (e be like say ur head no correct?)

You better stay with the gal. its normal to feel dt way for every lady. You should thank your star that you even mentioned that she is not beggy beggy...and she is a working too.

Na slay queen wey dem pant don turn logo benz u prefer abi....

I pity ur case o

Driggs:
I am not ready for commitments and I told my girl to chill for some more time.. I am an ambitious young man and I must own the world before I decide to marry.. My kids must chop life pass DJ Khalid pikin..

She agreed and everything is fine.. She's not a beggy beggy slayqueen.. She works with Oando. Lately, I was robbed and my belongings was carted away.. So, I had to use her phone to contact my parents so they can know I am fine until I retrieve my SIM.

Fast forward to yesterday, my mom called and asked me about the "nice girl who has been calling her and sending her massive airtime". I was dumbfounded and just hung up.. I called Lillian and she was all teary on the phone when I confronted her saying "she just wanted to be friendly with her "mother-in-law" blah blah..

That was when I flared up. It was like rubbing salt on an Okada accident wound..

She's been calling and I am not picking.. My mom's been calling too, I guess she's explained the situation to her..

A lady that is so desperate to tie me down with marriage by doing stuffs I didn't bargain for can go ahead and tie my destiny later..

Should I flee? Should I give her another chance?

fatima04:


If I am correct it takes 3months for processing but priority takes 3weeks or so. Just check the processing time for the category of visa you want for updated info.

In other news, IHS fees will increase to £400 per year because the govt spend an average of £420 on individual immigrant. UK and money

More reason I want to apply now cos the NHS will increase to £400 as from December 2018. 3 years will amount to £1200....mehn, that's a huge cost.

Thanks man

Inkredible:


Nope. I live here.

please I need to ask a question. Can someone apply for dependent visa 2 months earlier to the expected date of arrival in uk?

planning to join my partner soon in North Ireland

please I need to ask a question. Can someone apply for dependent visa 2 months earlier to the expected date of arrival in uk?

cc: justwise, DisGuy, lexusgs430 ekpotek, Brightingsus, claremont, UKmigrant, dupyshoo

Get ready to vote, because the nominations for the 2018 E! People's Choice Awards have finally arrived!

Today, E! revealed the nominees for their first-ever telecast of the E! People's Choice Awards (CBS previously broadcast the show) and there are a whopping 43 categories to vote on. Come Sept. 24, the five finalists for each category will be revealed and polls will open once again for the second round of voting.

In case you forgot, the PCAs is the only live award show by the people, for the people and with its new home on E! that is definitely still the focus…with some E! flare added in for good measure.

The revamped award show airs on Sunday, Nov. 11 on E! and you're not going to want to miss it.

Movies

*Movie of 2018*

Black Panther
Avengers: Infinity War
Incredibles 2
Deadpool 2
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Fifty Shades Freed
Ready Player One
A Quiet Place
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
A Wrinkle in Time
Ocean's 8
Mission: Impossible - Fallout

*Comedy Movie of 2018*

Love, Simon
Tag
Game Night
Blockers
I Feel Pretty
Book Club
Life of the Party
Uncle Drew
Overboard
The Spy Who Dumped Me
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again
Crazy Rich Asians

*Action Movie of 2018*

Black Panther
Avengers: Infinity War
Deadpool 2
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Ready Player One
Ant-Man and the Wasp
The Equalizer 2
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Rampage
Ocean's 8
The Meg
Mission: Impossible - Fallout

*Drama Movie of 2018*

Fifty Shades Freed
12 Strong
Annihilation
Red Sparrow
Breaking In
The 15:17 to Paris
Tyler Perry's Acrimony
Adrift
Midnight Sun
The First Purge
BlacKkKlansman
A Quiet Place

*Family Movie of 2018*

Incredibles 2
A Wrinkle in Time
Paddington 2
Peter Rabbit
Hotel Transylvania 3
Sherlock Gnomes
I Can Only Imagine
Show Dogs
Early Man
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
Christopher Robin
A.X.L.

*Male Movie Star of 2018*

Paul Rudd, Ant-Man and the Wasp
Chris Hemsworth, Avengers: Infinity War
Robert Downey Jr., Avengers: Infinity War
Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool 2
Chadwick Boseman, Black Panther
Dwayne Johnson, Skyscraper
Michael B. Jordan, Black Panther
Chris Pratt, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
John Boyega, Pacific Rim: Uprising
Tom Cruise, Mission Impossible: Fallout
Pierce Brosnan, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again
Nick Robinson, Love, Simon

*Female Movie Star of 2018*

Evangeline Lilly, Ant-Man and the Wasp
Scarlett Johansson, Avengers: Infinity War
Oprah Winfrey, A Wrinkle in Time
Sandra Bullock, Ocean's 8
Reese Witherspoon, A Wrinkle in Time
Leslie Mann, Blockers
Anne Hathaway, Ocean's 8
Lily James, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again
Melissa McCarthy, Life of the Party
Bryce Dallas Howard, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Emily Blunt, A Quiet Place
Jennifer Lawrence, Red Sparrow







https://m.eonline.com/shows/peoples_choice_awards/news/963752/2018-people-s-choice-awards-complete-list-of-nominations

Some years back, after a Sunday morning Mass in Abuja, a young and a good looking lady walked up to me. She was holding a fat brown envelope. She handed the envelope to me and said I should please pray for her.

 I asked her about the content of the envelope and what particular intention would I be praying for?
She told me that she started working just a month ago and that she came to thank the Lord and to offer the first fruit of her work for God’s blessings.
What was in the envelope was her salary for that month. Her first salary. The entire money! Everything!

In all honesty, I was speechless not for lack of words but for being unable to know where to begin. Inside me I was like: do people still entrust everything they have to God in a child-like simplicity like this? I was really moved.
In my heart, I said a prayer for her, that type of prayer that is deep down, it was as though it was the Holy Spirit Himself that was praying through me. I was feeling the answers to the prayers even before I finished praying.
Then she knelt down, I laid my hands upon her and blessed her and the money.

After prayers, I asked her to tell me how much was in the envelope. She said Eighty Thousand Naira.
Then I asked, “how much covers your transport to your work daily?”
She said “approximately N1,000 naira to and fro, Father.”
That means for 27 work days, it would be N27,000.
Then I spoke up again, “Sorry o, I am asking you too many questions, how much do you feed daily when you go to work?”
She answered “It depends. If I want to eat so well, I spend 800 naira with drinks, but mainly I spend just N500, and sometimes I carry food from home.”

So, I made the calculation in my head. Let say she spends 500 naira daily, 27 work days would be 13,500 naira.
I went ahead to enquire about her accommodation and I discovered that she stayed alone in an apartment she just rented. We made the calculation by dividing the annual rent by 12 months and we discovered that if she was to pay rent monthly, it would be N12,500.
Her monthly electricity and water bill with other fees for house maintenance was put at N10,000. On phone calls and data, we approximated it to be N5000 monthly. Her monthly DSTV subscription was around N3,600 for DSTV family bouquet.
When you put all the expenses together and subtract it from the N80,000, she would be left with N8,400 to buy food stuffs and other things in the house.

These are the expenses that she wss sure to spend every month. We had not even talked about other things like make up, doing her hair, clothes, gifts to family and even savings.
This is a huge sacrifice, in my judgement. I intentionally asked her those questions so as to ascertain the depth of her sacrifice.
I brought out the envelope, bless it for the second time and gave it to her. I looked at her countenance and I knew she was not too comfortable with my action. Then I took time to explain the Bible to her. That was when I discovered that so many people do not truly understand how God works.

When God asks us for first fruit or for tithe or for any sacrifice, it is not so that He will eat it. No! He has no need of our money. When He asked Abraham to sacrifice his only son, it was not because he liked seeing the blood of innocent children.
When He asked Abel and Cain to make a sacrifice to Him, it was not because he ate fruit or even drank blood of rams. It is simply to test how committed we are, how willing are we to leave everything to Him. Do we, like Cain, select offerings that we no longer desire and give to Him or do we, like Abel, empty everything to Him?

This lady that brought the first fruit began to understand for the first time. Right from when she put the money in the envelope to bring to God, God had already accepted her offering. The minister must not spend the money. It is just that most of us ministers are unfortunately greedy. And we use God’s name to cover it up. We often see the part of scriptures that favour our stomach.


Theologically, when you give to God, He transforms that gift and gives it back to you. The bread and wine people offer before mass are transformed to the body and blood of Christ and given back to the people to eat and drink.
The son Isaac that Abraham gave to God, was transformed to be a channel that would bring forth the fulfillment of God’s promise and given back to Abraham.

The offerings of bread and fish people brought were prayed upon and given back to them to eat and they were filled, still there was left over.
The water they filled at the wedding in Cana is given back to them as wine.

The Ugwu Kelvin that my parents offered to God, is given back to them as a priest.
The money that the young lady brought to me as her first fruit is blessed and given back to her as pure gift from heaven.

source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/08/see-what-this-catholic-priest-did/

OneCorner:
Selfish man. Because of ordinary fvck wey ur fiancé fvck u come cancel wedding.
Can’t you forgive her

OneCorner be your name truly

India has arguably the lowest Internet data rates in the world, as low as 10 Indian Rupees (about 6 U.S. cents) per one GB (gigabyte) per day.

This is due to intense competition among telecom service providers.
The competition was triggered by a provider “Reliance Jio” which launched ‘4G’ broadband services a year ago offering the lowest prices. Soon other service providers followed suit and slashed their data rates to match and survive in the competition.

Prior to Reliance Jio’s “4G” revolution, Indians had to bear with the “2G” and “3G” services at a much higher cost.
Till a year ago, a subscriber using Internet data round-the-clock had to shell out around 1500 Indian Rupees (about 23 U.S. dollars) per month for nearly one GB data per day, which, thanks to Reliance Jio, has come down to the cost of 500 Indian Rupees (about 8 U.S. dollars) for three months, including voice calls, per one GB data per day.

According to estimates, presently there are nearly 500 million Internet users in India. Access to the Internet is one of the major parameters that can directly impact gross domestic product (GDP) growth. For every 10 percent increase in Internet penetration for a country like India, GDP is conservatively projected to grow between 1.0 and 1.8 percent.
A report released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in December 2017 suggested that Reliance Jio, Airtel, Vodafone, Idea Cellular and BSNL together constituted 93.80 percent of market share of the total broadband subscribers.

Reliance Jio then had the maximum number of subscribers at 160.09 million, followed by Airtel at 71.09 million. As per TRAI data released in April 2018, in terms of market share, Reliance Jio enjoys the highest of it at 45.18 percent, whereas Airtel has a market share of 20.47 percent. Vodafone, Idea Cellular and BSNL have market shares of 14.17 percent, 9.82 percent and 5.36 percent, respectively.

India is presently the second largest telecom market in terms of subscribers base in the world, only after China. The country’s telecom industry contributes directly to 2.2 million employment and indirectly to 1.8 million jobs. Also, it contributes 6.5 percent to India’s GDP, and is the highest contributor in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the last two decades, at 1307 billion Indian Rupees (about 19.6 billion U.S. dollars).

There would be 900 million smartphone subscribers by 2023 and smartphone traffic is expected to grow 11 times to 14 exabytes (EB) in another five years, says the latest annual report by the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI).
A report by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) said that the number of Internet users stood at 481 million in December 2017, an increase of 11.34 percent over December 2016, said the report titled “Internet in India 2017”.

Urban India with an estimated population of 455 million already has 295 million using the internet. Rural India, with an estimated population of 918 million as per 2011 census, has only 186 million internet users, leaving out potential 732 million users in rural India.
COAI director general Rajan Mathews says the cheap Internet data rates has proved to be a boon for the consumers, but all the service providing companies have been losing money because of intense competition amongst themselves.

He further adds that the price war of Internet data among telecom service providers has also led to a boom in the smartphone market. Smartphones have become quite affordable and even the poorest of the poor can afford to buy.
About the possibilities of Internet data rates rising in the near future in oligopoly-like conditions, Mathews says “I don’t think there will be a price hike in Internet data in India, because if it happens, the service providers know well that the customer base will shrink.


source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/06/competition-makes-india-world-lowest-rates-internet-data/

Berlyn1:
lol

Berlyn1:
lol

I take dt as yes. make we jam for dt side bah?

Berlyn1:
am I allowed to crush on you then ?

Leave Lala n Tony alone and face us for once na.....haba

make we crush on each other jawe

#copied...


Dear Pa Buhari,

Why not come to Oshodi and see young people struggling to catch buses to their places of work as early as 4.30am. You can stroll down to Computer Village too. Ariaria (Aba Market) should also be part of your itinerary. You would have a good sight of works done by very industrious intelligent young persons.

Many young women in the Country, after their legitimate work for the day, do 'extra work' at night (what you know as the service of the 'other room') so as to cater for the needs of their immediate families. A friend of mine at the University of Lagos can provide their details if you need to meet them.

Ask Jobberman and other job assistance 'consultants'/ agents how many people visit their websites per hour.

Your cluelessness and anti-people programmes have turned most young persons to Consultants. Make-up Consultants inclusive.

We have a Country where over 3,000 youths would wake as early as 4.30 am, knot their ties and trek kilometers to apply/sit a test for just 5 vacant positions in a Company where they would be underpaid at the end of the day. Yet to you, they are lazy.

Ogbeni. While your son, Yusuf was busy jollificating and riding till he crashed a 56 million naira Powerbike with his friend; since he never worked for it, I and other young persons were at creeks of Ijebu, Ibadan, Osun, Ekiti, Owerri, Benin etc fighting in defence of democracy- that its dividends be shared among all.

God sees my heart. If I had 56 million Naira, I would send you and your cohorts out of Aso Rock in a week. No jokes.

I know a lot of graduates with ideas, who if given just 500,000 Naira would create business empires. Yet to you, they are lazy and sit-at-homes.

Have you asked yourself why Nigerians make it everywhere in the World except Nigeria? Oh! I have forgotten you can't think beyond the locus of your shadow.

We are lazy today. We accept. We want everything for free including sending you away. Many youths think that too would be free. But we are helping you to tell them it won't be free. We would chase you out. We won't sit at home anymore for freebies. Freedom is not free. We would stand now and go get our PVCs and we would show you the way to Daura come 2019.

Thank you so much for reminding us!

- Adeyeye Olorunfemi

#Takeitback.

No to sex doll.....well, wat i know sef.
i dey wait better comments

sesay:

Plz, can I have your number?

No problem man. Hope all is well sha....mail me via mailacos925@yahoo.com
Nice day ahead.

sesay:




Acos925, plz, I have a very important question to ask you. plz, buzz. it is urgent I beg.

Baba i dey hail o. ...happen?

SamReinvented:


1. NO.
2. No difference. Pick the one that's more convenient.
3. You can make payment through most Nigerian cards. I use UBA, and I had no problems with payment.

Thanks for your response. Guess i will look more into relocating then.

Hello house, pls this is my first post on this section. Am planning on applying for tourists Canadian visa via online application for myself and wife....no kids yet. I have few questions to ask pls.
1. Can one apply for tourists visiting visa and then extend the stay later on?
2. Between online and paper application, which is better?
3. How do one make the payment if its tru online application. ...is GTBank master card allowed?

Hints for further assistance. ...am a Environmental scientists by profession and wifey be Nurse. Thanks guys.

JULIE1925:


Uumm...let me find someone who can give me a lift

Your moniker and mine ehn....1925....tell me about it

booblacain:
The way the man is talking it gives the impression that he has so much reverence and awe for his Fulani overlords. Like he is damn so proud of being slave to them.

I doubt you read every word he said. i think his position is that Afonja by their character allowed Fulani to thrive in Ilorin.

In his word.....
The leader of the first set of Fulani (Alimi ) came to Ilorin as a helper so that he could assist Afonja to build an empire for himself . But in the long run , they had a disagreement . He was a man who knew the way of Allah and he taught the people the power of God and how to get closer to Him. He combined religious powers with politics and within a short period , he converted the Yoruba to Muslims and made sure they act and behave like the Fulani .

There is an erroneous belief that the Ilorin people never celebrated the egungun (masquerade ) festival . We actually did before Alimi came with his group. We used to celebrate egungun as an annual festival . Because Afonja was a kind -hearted man , he gave the Fulani freedom to conduct their Islamic activities without any form of restriction. The Fulani built mosques and established Quoranic schools. Afonja even appointed Al -Salihu as his special adviser.

The President , Afonja Descendants Union, Alhaji Olola Kasum , in this interview with SUCCESS NWOGU discusses the relationship between the Yoruba in Ilorin and the ruling Fulani


Kindly recount the encounter between Afonja and Alimi ?

It was quite a long time ago . In the course of history, Afonja, the Aare Ona Kakanfo in the then old Oyo Empire, had a conflict with the Alaafin of Oyo . Afonja was accused of undermining the king . What actually happened was that when Alaafin Abiodun died , Afonja and Awole contested the throne but Awole got it , so Afonja returned to Ilorin, his base, where he was the Garrison Commander of the northern Yoruba boundary . The tradition in Oyo town then was that a new king would tell his personal guards those he considered as his enemies. Awole told his guards to see Afonja as his principal enemy. Afonja knew that something like that would happen because he had contested the throne with a lion (Alaafin ) .
When Afonja got wind that Alaafin was preparing for war against him , he mobilised the Oyo Army under his command. It was in the process that Alaafin Awole shot arrows into the North , East , West and South and declared thus , “ Afonja will be a king wherever he goes . His children will be princes and princesses but they will serve under slaves .” It was the curse of Awole that made the Afonja lineage in Ilorin to be perpetually under the Fulani domination till today .

How did it happen ?

Alimi, a Fulani , whose real name was Jinnata , came to Ilorin from a town in Niger Republic in those days . He was actually Allahmi , meaning a great scholar. The Yoruba reduced it to Alimi for ease of pronunciation . He was a herdsman. He first settled in Nugusha and from there , he came to Gwandu . He had a child called Al -Salihu , who embraced the Islamic religion . Before then, they were all pagans . So , Al -Salihu went to Sokoto to learn under Shehu Usman Dan Fodio. He was a member of the 14 flag bearers , who were assigned to spread Islam all over the world. Al -Salihu took it upon himself to come down south and start the propagation of Islam in the old Oyo Empire, populated mainly by the Yoruba . He was of the view that Yoruba land was the only place that he could spread his religion by force . He first settled near Ogbomoso on his way to Oyo but the people of Ogbomosho consulted their oracle who told them that Al -Salihu ’s religion would grow and submerge them . They drove him and his people away and he fled to Oyo . The Oyo people also consulted their oracle , who also warned them against accommodating the Fulani . The oracle specifically told them the man would seize their land , possession and crown if he was not immediately chased away. That was how Al -Salihu left Oyo and settled at Guwo ( near Jebba) , which is 60 miles from Ilorin . It was when he was at Guwo that Afonja learnt about him . Al -Salihu performed a miracle there , which actually attracted the attention of the populace. There was a big python that was swallowing up children. They prayed to their god for help but there was no remedy. Al -Salihu prayed to Allah and lightning cut that big python into two and it died . So , his ( Al -Salihu ’s ) fame spread far and wide .
By that time , Afonja was having serious confrontations with Awule and was looking for soldiers to fight the Oyo king . So , he told some Fulani group who were already settled in Ilorin that he wanted to see their man . They went to Guwo and brought him to Ilorin . When he was coming , he came with a large number of followers and settled them in different parts of Ilorin . He put some in Idi-Ape , some in Idiakwe , and some in Okelele . They became so powerful until they invariable dominated the Yoruba in Ilorin.

What is your impression of the Fulani?

The Fulani are very aggressive, unforgiving , tactical and cunning . They plan before they act . They take you by surprise and they are enmeshed in mystic powers . I recall a story when a Fulani man was caught dropping a concoction into a well so that whoever drink it will always be thinking about him . That was what happened to the politics of Kwara State. The Fulani used their mystic powers to make other tribes in Kwara State , become their slaves. They did it to us (the Afonja dynasty) too . That was how virtually everybody became their slaves till today.

Did you also drink from the water ?

I was born in Ghana; so I didn ’t fall into their diabolical practice.
But the Fulani who live in the cities are not violent.
Those who live in the cities among them are not violent but those in the bush are very wicked and mean. Those in the bush are called the Bororos . The Fulani in the towns, who are well -bred and refined, are tactical . They would get you whenever they want to get you. They do not forgive . If you offend them , they will never forgive you until they die . They are quick to take over power . They are very clever and very cunning . They know how to trick and get somebody out of a position.

How did the Fulani become the rulers of Ilorin?

The leader of the first set of Fulani (Alimi ) came to Ilorin as a helper so that he could assist Afonja to build an empire for himself . But in the long run , they had a disagreement . He was a man who knew the way of Allah and he taught the people the power of God and how to get closer to Him. He combined religious powers with politics and within a short period , he converted the Yoruba to Muslims and made sure they act and behave like the Fulani .

How did he achieve that?

There is an erroneous belief that the Ilorin people never celebrated the egungun (masquerade ) festival . We actually did before Alimi came with his group. We used to celebrate egungun as an annual festival . Because Afonja was a kind -hearted man , he gave the Fulani freedom to conduct their Islamic activities without any form of restriction. The Fulani built mosques and established Quoranic schools. Afonja even appointed Al -Salihu as his special adviser. During a particular annual egungun festival , the Fulani Muslims were also conducting Tafsir ( teaching of Islam ) . The Muslim cleric preached against the celebration of egungun and described it as idol worshipping. The people who were celebrating egungun were not happy because the Islamic adherents were laughing at them ; so , they started throwing stones at the cleric and his members .
The Muslims fled from the spot of their open crusade and they ran to their community but the egungun worshippers followed them there . There was a big fight which snowballed into a big conflict and it consumed our area , Idi-Ape. Some people were killed .
Also , when Alimi died , there was a clamour for a system of government whereby one person , who would combine religious and traditional role , would be the ruler of Ilorin. So , the position was contested by the Fulani , the Hausa and the Yoruba . So , the Fulani Muslims , who were Alimi ’s family, the Hausa ( bag and rosaries’ makers) led by one Bako from Kano and the Yoruba , who are the Afonja descendants based in the Okesuna area of Ilorin , conducted an election.
When Alimi and Hausa people were alarmed with the threat posed by the Okesuna people based on their intimidating population , they combined their votes to beat the Okesuna group led by a Yoruba man , whose dynasty was leading the community even before the Fulani came . That was how the Ilorin royalty shifted from the original Afonja family to the Alimi family till today. That was how the Fulani came to power in Ilorin .

Is it still possible to have a Yoruba Oba in Ilorin?

It is possible now because the Yoruba are in the majority and already, there is a hybrid. The younger sister of the current Emir of Ilorin , Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu -Gambari, married my brother. She is fondly called Iya . She married the late Aare Adisa Suberu . So , my late brother was the husband of Emir ’s daughter and they had many children. Our family is very close to the palace . We are friends and we cannot fight unless there is a great reason why we should fight . We are one family. When the late Emir , Sulu Gambari, was dying , he appealed to all the Fulani to cooperate with their hosts (the Yoruba ) and told them that he gave his daughter to my brother , the late Adisa Suberu , as a bond of love and unity . Some people are expecting that we should fight and kill ourselves so that Yoruba could be Oba in Ilorin but that will never happen . We may disagree about who will be the head, but it will be a minor issue. The children of the Emir are married to us . The problem will be solved one day . The only problem is that the Fulani are too greedy and hungry for power . They want to occupy the position alone .

What stopped the Yoruba from installing an Oba of Ilorin ?

Yoruba can install an Oba in Ilorin because we are the majority tribe. The challenge we had in the past was that we were not educated but in the present era , we are highly educated. During the colonial period , the Fulani seized the opportunity of indirect rule to educate their people in Ilorin at the detriment of the Yoruba . The Emir (a Fulani ) , was the chairman of the Scholarship Board (in the defunct northern region ). He included mainly the Fulani in the list of beneficiaries . That was how the Belgore brothers and other Fulani youths in Ilorin studied both in Nigeria and abroad on full government scholarship. The Belgore brothers went to London and studied law and came back to hold influential positions . During the period , one of my brother , the late Atanda Kassum, applied for scholarship when he completed his secondary school education in Ghana but the Fulani denied him when they discovered that he was Yoruba . However , the current hybrid situation has solved the problem. We do not see ourselves as enemies any more.

Are you saying you have jettisoned the idea of having a Yoruba Oba ?

Yoruba will still install an Oba because despite the fact that we are in the majority , we are being denied a lot of things and we are dissatisfied with the present system. We and the Fulani are now blood relations . We are a hybrid. So , it will be difficult for me to kill the son of my brother. I will not do that but I will like to aspire like my brother. The Yoruba people want their own chief so that they can promote their culture, religion and tradition. We have not dropped the idea of a Yoruba Oba in Ilorin because that is the only way we can promote our culture, tradition and values . We are not Fulani but our kith and kin in the South-West see us as Hausa simply because we are being ruled by a Fulani emir.

How do you think you can achieve the agenda?

We can achieve the agenda by utilising the opportunity of the current democratic dispensation in the country . All what we need is to move for referendum and if the majority of the opinion favour a Yoruba Oba, no Jupiter can stop it .

What was the role played by the Oodua Peoples Congress to install an Oba in Ilorin?

When the late Governor Mohammed Lawal was there as the governor of Kwara State, we tried to use the opportunity since he was from the Afonja dynasty but he frustrated it because he wanted to satisfy the Fulani interest that installed him as governor. Despite his opposition , I still led the OPC on a mission to install a Yoruba Oba but it ended up a tactical error.

Will you approach Aare Gani Adams to make fresh moves for a Yoruba Oba?

Adam’s role is not to fight but to make peace and make sure that Yoruba people are not marginalised. He is to make sure that the Yoruba enjoy the good things of life. He feels that democracy has afforded everybody the opportunity to get education, become literates read and know his or her rights . So , Gani would want us to maintain decorum and take advantage of our population in Ilorin, to move peacefully , for the installation of a Yoruba Oba. He would not allow the Yoruba to be cheated and starved to death . He would also not want Yoruba to be marginalised. Adams will fight for that. So , a Yoruba man will not allow himself to be killed by demanding Oba through violent means. The Yoruba will fight back if you fight them but they will not attack anybody for any reason . We are not asking for another person ’s land , we are simply seeking a better way to preserve our forefathers’ land . If you want to take our land by force, you must face the battle. That is why we are preparing for war not that we want to engage in war . If you sit down , the enemy will kidnap you. Adams ’ function is to bring peace and unity to Yoruba land so that we will jointly fight for our rights , for our self -determination and other things .

When did you join the OPC ?

Adams , Fredrick Fasehun and I formed the OPC at the Century Hotel ( Isolo , Lagos) in 1994 . Before then, I had formed the Afonja Descendant Union. I was the Kwara State governorship candidate for the Peoples Redemption Party in 1979.

Who did you want to install as the Oba then and where is he now?

We did not have a particular person in mind to install as the Oba but we have shortlisted all those who are qualified for the position. When it is time , we shall make their names public.

What is your opinion about the current herdsmen killings across the country?

What they are doing is completely wrong. The Fulani had completely taken the laws into their hands . It is because this government under President Muhammadu Buhari is weak . Buhari is a Fulani man . There was a time he went to the West (Oyo State ) and he and Lam Adesina disagreed over a crisis between some herdsmen and farmers. Adesina asked Buhari why he , a former Head of State , was fighting a tribal war . Adesina reportedly said, “ You are ethno -centric and you call yourself Head of State. ” In the last election, people wanted to drop Buhari , that he would fight on the side of his people but some people said we should leave him ; they wanted Buhari to fight corruption. But now , Buhari is fighting corruption halfway and fighting ethnic war in favour of the Fulani . That is why many of us are saying he should go . He is not fit . He has made people hungry ; there is no petrol and people are suffering . He should go because he is making things worse. Buhari is giving a bad impression about Nigeria to the world. There can be no good government with Buhari . He should go and rest and recover well . Enough is enough .

What exactly do you think is responsible for the attacks by herdsmen?

You can attribute it to so many things . In the first place , herdsmen are restless . Farmland is not easy to come by . Government aided their activities . Government did not provide grazing land for them . They have been moving and roaming for a long time and their cows have been eaten people ’s crops . They have become lazy to have their own farm and if there is no farm , the cattle will not see food to eat. Cattle are difficult to control . You may not easily direct them ; they go astray anywhere. The Fulani are very emotional about their animals . When you touch their cows , you have touched their lives . The government has been careless and reckless for a long period . I think the government should be blamed because the herdsmen must find food for their cows . We want government to teach the Fulani people how to respect the rights of the farmers. Food is more important than cows . There are other animals that can be used to replace them . Food is very important and government must do something urgently to prevent the impending food crisis in the country . Some top government functionaries have been quoted to have described the killer herdsmen as Fulani from Niger and Chad but Buhari kept quiet . He has exhibited nepotism. He is very close to his people and he realised their aspirations but he does not address that of other tribes . The Tivs are good farmers but today they have been chased away from farms . By supporting the cows , Buhari is voting against the right of the people . What is happening is a deliberate action by the government to destroy a particular section of the country so that they will be in greater number and subdue us .

Why do you think herdsmen carry arms?

They carry arms because they are afraid of attacks . However , there is arms proliferation in Nigeria because of bad government. If there is good government, how can arms enter the country without the knowledge of the government? All these things are still a reflection of bad government. During the colonial time , were there no cows ? Why did you not see a Fulani man fighting the farmers ? It was because the government then was disciplined but the present government is not disciplined.
The government should mop up arms. Government officials at the borders must be disciplined . They must be trained to be patriotic .

As an OPC leader, where do you think they got the arms from ?

They got them from nearby countries like Niger , Chad and other places. Sometimes , trailers and big cars , imported by big men, carry ammunition .

How do you think the government can stop the violent killings by the Fulani?

Buhari has not called the stakeholders and address them . I was lucky to be one of the leaders of the Myetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria . I was their secretary in Kwara State and the Miyetti Allah leader in Afon , Alhaji Gambo, was my friend . We formed the group for the benefit of both the farmers and the herdsmen. We never struggled for them to be fighting farmers.
The government of the All Progressives Congress under Buhari is not performing . I am an APC stalwart but I believe in discipline . Buhari ’s government is the worst I have ever seen in my life. We want Buhari to go . He is weak and being controlled by a cabal that is using his government to their own advantage . We need radical and new set of people who are faultless and have no skeleton in their cupboards , who can talk and people will follow them . Not the current crops of politicians, full of questionable characters .


source: http://punchng.com/plan-to-install-yoruba-oba-in-ilorin-not-over-kasum-leader-of-afonja-descendants/

Over 50 people were rushed to various hospitals in South Africa after eating meat from a cow that had reportedly died from a snake bite.

The incident happened at Mpoza village outside Tsolo in the Eastern Cape Province.
The province’s department of health spokesperson, Sizwe Kupelo said the patients confirmed they had eaten the meat from the carcass of an animal that had died after being bitten by a snake.
He said the patients experienced diarrhoea, vomiting, headaches and stomach cramps, according to a report by News24.com.

Among those who were ill were 16 children, eight of whom had been transferred to the Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital’s paediatric ward, while the others were treated at Mthatha Regional Hospital.
Kupelo said four elderly patients were also transferred to Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital for further treatment.
Kupelo said the department was urging communities to stop consuming meat from dead animals as it was dangerous to do so.

source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/02/50-rushed-hospital-eating-cow-bitten-snake/

Mods......do justice biko!!!

nullboss:
You're are mad, Messi has the most goals in 2017.
Kane only outscored Ronaldo

Your response adequately shows that you have no brain. What has the OP done to warrant insult from you?

Its a shame!

@ukMigrant, u have done a marvellous job opening this thread. Even wen d road was rough, d thread was moving in between sections and many people are getting enlightened by various and diverse opinions on some pressing issues. Thumbs up for this. It took me 3 wonderful days to read all d pages. Lots of us are following u like a snail with its shell. So u av no worries. Enjoy life and share both the good and bad experiences. We have to learn both sides of the coin if we are to get out of this mess we found ourselves in this country.
Kudos once again.

Philipsdael:
I disagree with this info.

The name is giving to the hurricane by the scientist foresaw the pending storm

My brother, allow google to be your friend. You have been informed at the moment. don't discourage the inner man in you.

Unimaginable123:
Op, ur info on naming hurricane is different what what I have.
So where do u place Hurricane Katrina. Because CBN carried out extensive report on naming huricane Katrina, which I watched. Very different from what u presented here

Bros, at this juncture I think seeking more information will clear your doubts.

Kowor:
The good Lord knows I didn't read this. Was expecting a summary.

The topic is in education section my sister, you need to read this.

The late summer news has been dominated by hurricanes in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico: first there was Hurricane Harvey, which caused devastating flooding in the US city of Houston, Texas, and now Hurricane Irma has wheeled through the Caribbean and will strike Florida over the weekend.

One of the questions that have arisen has concerned the naming of the hurricanes. Why Harvey? Why Irma?

The task of naming the storms falls upon the World Meteorological Organisation, the highest authority of weather experts in the world, who meet on a regular basis to discuss the patterns of weather and the effects that extreme weather have.

They have created zones in which regional organisations under their auspices pick the names: Atlantic hurricanes such as Harvey and Irma are named by the United States National Hurricane Center.

When they name hurricanes and tropical storms, they go through a list of accepted names, both male and female, before choosing one.

They begin at A as the hurricane season begins, working through the Latin alphabet. If there are more than 21 hurricanes in one season, they move on to the Greek alphabet. They alternate between male and female names while skipping the letters Q, U, Y and Z.

Hurricane names can be retired if they are suitably catastrophic or destructive. Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane ever, killed over 10,000 people in Honduras and Nicaragua in 1998 and resulted in the name Mitch being taken from the register permanently. It was replaced by Matthew, though that again was retired after 2016's Hurricane Matthew which struck Haiti.

It is as yet unclear whether the names Harvey and Irma will end up retired.

Previously, hurricanes were named after the places where they struck - the Galveston hurricane of 1900, for example - or the day on which they occurred, usually using the Saints Day that was most appropriate, such as the Santa Ana hurricane that struck Puerto Rico in 1825.

It isn't always so serious: in Scotland in 2011, an extratropical cyclone (as hurricanes can be known in non-tropical areas) was named Friedhelm by weather authorities but was popularly known as Hurricane Bawbag after the Scottish dialect word for 'scrotum' or more idiomatically, for a coward.

While it was initially a joke trend on Twitter, it later was used by authorities and widely in the media, with politicians mentioning in Parliament

source; http://www.ladbible.com/news/interesting-news-this-is-how-hurricanes-get-their-names-20170908.amp.html

Can't believe you people bought this....... the attached picture is Photoshop. check very well and zoom in.

works of the naijabloggers ni

AnonyNymous:
Please don't be hypocrites, we all watch Game of Thrones and enjoy it when we see Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen) naked. . . nobody calls her an ashewo or olosho. So why attack her. . .its her industry, its not like she's having sex on camera. If a movie requires nudity to have more effect (such as Cersei Lannister's (Lena Headey) walk of shame) then why should she not act the scene if she is talented enough and paid well?

walahi..... your head is paining you.
from the 2 examples u gave....who among dem is Nigerian? Seems you forgot your culture and your root.
am sure you can't allow your sister or wife for sure a role if that happens to be their industry as u have called it.

God help us all