McDoe:

If you have tasted unemployment, you would say the move is better than nothing. Don't forget that every job in this country except very few, are slave jobs. I watched the other day on tv how young lawyers were complaining of the poor pay the receive from their bosses which ranges from N15,000-N25,000. Good job in name but no fulfilment and no good money. How do we see this? If we can ride cabs in abroad and be respected and make good money, then it behoves that we change our attitude/orientation and accord every job the respect and pay it deserves. what is important is how to keep body and soul together.

God dey

Publicity campaigns for the successful hosting of the U-17 World Cup in Nigeria heightened in Lagos on Thursday with the public presentation of the FIFA U-17 World Cup trophy to the Lagos State governor at Alausa, Ikeja, by the Local Organising Committee (LOC) of Nigeria 2009.

Speaking while receiving members of the LOC of the competition and Nigerian Football Supporters Club with the trophy at her Round House Office, Alausa, on behalf of Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN), deputy governor, Princess Sarah Adebisi Sosan, urged all residents of Lagos to come out en-masse during the competition to watch all the matches.

Princess Sosan said it was only through capacity attendance at the stadium that the people of Lagos could prove to the whole world that football was a game that was synonymous with the people of Lagos, assuring that the state government would ensure that the stands were fully filled during the competition. She emphasisedthat mobilisation of fans is very vital for the successful hosting of the championship.

She also said she was very sure that Nigeria would be hosting to win the cadet World Cup, and assured FIFA that its decision to award the hosting rights to Nigeria was a right one.

The deputy governor also charged members of the organised private sector not to sit on the fence as preparations heighten, but to buy into the competition by offering sponsorship towards a successful hosting.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/09102009/news/sports5.html

THERE are indications that some of the arms and ammunition surrendered by the ex-militants originally belonged to the Federal Government. Those arms, it was alleged, were either stolen, bought from the services or seized by the militants during clashes with men of the armed forces, the Nigerian Tribune has gathered.

According to the Nigerian Tribune source in the Joint Task Force (JTF), though some of the arms were bought by the militants at the market, most of them were “either stolen or bought from the police, military or the SSS.”

It will be recalled that some officers of the Nigerian army were jailed some months ago for selling arms to militants in the Niger Delta region. These revelations were coming five days after the expiration of the Federal Government’s amnesty to militants in the restive Niger Delta region.

It is, however, a case of discordant tunes as regards what the Federal Government intends to do with the arms recovered from the ex-militants, just as the Federal Government has reportedly set up a high-powered verification committee to examine the arms collected from the militants with a view to identifying their possible sources.

A source in the amnesty committee had said that: “In any disarmament process, arms recovered are usually destroyed; this case won’t be different. After the necessary documentation in Enugu, all arms collected will be destroyed.”

But to the JTF source, not all the arms will be destroyed. “It is not possible to just destroy all arms; remember that some of the arms recovered belong to the services, including the police, are you saying that if any arm is confirmed as belonging to the army, navy or police, such will also be destroyed? It is not possible. That is the reason why the president has just set up a competent committee to examine all arms collected and verify the source of each of the arms and ammunition,” the source said

However, Defence Minister, General Godwin Abbe, who doubles as the chairman of the Amnesty Implementation Committee (AIC), said the collection of weapons from the militants was still in progress, and that the nation would be properly briefed on what government intended to do with the arms.

The AIC may brief the press to give the nation details of arms recovered from the ex-militants, their classifications, as well as the total number of disarmed militants. It was, however, not known if the committee would tell the nation what government intended to do with the recovered arms.

“The process is still on. Until we finish with it, it will be difficult to tell you what government intends to do with the arms, or do you want us to give the arms to journalists (laughs)?” Abbe said.

Meanwhile, President Umaru Yar’Adua has directed governors of the oil-producing states to effectively key into the post-amnesty preparations, Nigerian Tribune has learnt.

The president’s directive to the governors, according to a highly placed source in the presidency, would be given to them at a meeting between the president and the governors in the next few days to work out modalities on the way forward.

“In the next few days, governors of the region will meet with the president to chart the way forward; I can assure you that one of the cardinal issues to be discussed is that of the commission to perform specialised roles, like they have in Ondo and Delta states.

“The truth is that the president has directed that the governors properly key into the post-amnesty process in order to enhance a smooth operation during the period; just wait for details after that meeting,” the source said.

As part of the measures to ensure a peaceful Niger Delta during the post-amnesty period, the Federal Government was said to be considering the immediate but phased implementation of the report of the Ledum Mittee-led Niger Delta Technical Committee.

Leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Chief Government Ekpomupolo (Tompolo), who fully accepted the presidential amnesty and formally disarmed on Sunday, had given the implementation of the committee’s report as a roadmap to peace in the region.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/08102009/news/news1.html

No.It is not ok

No.It is not ok

No.It is not ok

Nawa d ball don tear d net ooooooooooooooo

Hope still dey for Nigeria

Continued: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-330832.0.html

Nigeria will win d match 8-0

Oct 5th _{my wife}

Former Green Eagles of Nigeria's goalkeeper, Best Ogedegbe, is dead.The news was still sketchy as the time of posting.
Detail later, http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.html

Let him finish what he has started

FBS:

They shouldn't just mess up else. . .

Koboko dem

WORLD football-governing body, FIFA, says organisers of next month’s U-17 World Cup in Nigeria must use Egypt’s preparations for the U-20 World Cup event as a catalyst to help them get ready.

FIFA at one stage threatened to move the tournament from the country because of organisational difficulties.

In contrast the world body has praised planning for the U-20 World Cup, which kicks-off today in Alexandria.

“This should serve as a catalyst to help Nigeria to be ready,” FIFA vice-president, Jack Warner, said in Cairo, the Egyptian capital, on Wednesday.

“(Nigeria should) look at the organisation and look at the quality of the facilities.

“And therefore I hope that this will serve as a kind of stepping stone for Nigeria to be ready.

“As I speak to you now Nigeria is not yet fully ready. I hope that some of this (Egypt’s planning) will pass off on to Nigeria,” he said.
http://tribune.com.ng/24092009/news/sports1.html

Which test again,because NDIC test was conducted by FITC on 29/06/2009 and result not yet released.

bawomolo:

what's up with nigerian journalists and name withheld.

are they scared for their lives?

Yet to uncover the killer of Guardian editor

Kidnapping SSG?, SOS

bigmodo:

LONDON (Reuters) – In a pinstripe suit, silk tie and polished shoes, David Rowe has all the trappings of a successful London city worker, except for one stark difference -- he is wearing a sandwich board that says "JOB WANTED."

As he walked down Fleet Street, home to legal firms and investment banks, the 24-year-old history graduate showed the human face behind the "lay-offs" and "recession" headlines.

"The first 20 paces are the hardest, you feel very conspicuous, but you just steel yourself to get on with it," he said, starting a slow trudge toward the Law Courts before turning toward St Paul's Cathedral.

In previous economic downturns it was manufacturing and heavy industry that were worst hit. Now in Britain, and much of the West, white collar jobs have been culled in the financial crisis -- marketing directors on six figure salaries, IT specialists with 20 years experience.

That makes it especially hard for young men and women like Rowe trying to start professional careers. For many the corporate ladder has been pulled away.

They are left with the prospect of low paid unskilled work, if they can find it, and large debts.

"I have debts of about 20,000 pounds ($32,400), and that's not excessive compared with how much some students owe when they graduate," Rowe told Reuters as he took a break from his one-man advertising campaign.

"My dad bet me I wouldn't do this (walking with a sandwich board), that I wouldn't have the guts."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090922/lf_nm_life/us_britain_jobseeker

Lord have mercy

Play

Introduction

May God save our dear Nation

kuramo:

poster,

Please always check your facts before posting this type of sensational news.

koolchicco:

GBAM!!

@Poster.Nice and educative

THE chairman of the striking lecturers of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, Ibadan, Oyo State, Comrade Babatunde Dosunmu, slumped and fainted, on Friday, while addressing the congress on the latest development of the strike which they embarked upon on July 8.

Dosunmu was trying to persuade the lecturers to be more resolute and get their hearts together and take a firm stance on the threat by the state government that it would sack them if they failed to resume duty.

The union leader had received a phone call which reportedly informed him that his wife had died at home.
http://tribune.com.ng/19092009/news/news14.html [color=#006600][/color]

deezah:

Pardon me, he said "Believe" rather. He doesn't believe? Did Ribadu do him American wonder?? Or is it British wonder??

BUT COME TO THINK OF IT, IS IT TRUE THAT THE PICTURES COULD HAVE BEEN DOCTORED, COS HONESTLY, RIBADU DOESNT LOOK LIKE HIMSELF THERE O. JUST WONDERING. Also, how come no Nigerian newspaper carried a picture of Ribadu at Gani's house? Still wondering o. There's more to this, i dare say.

deor03:

Waooooooooh.

We are NOT safe in this country.

For all you care,

Erastus could just be at home in Lagos.

Osama bin Lade could be living in Abuja.

Lol .http://tribune.com.ng/18092009/news/news3.html

THE impasse between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government, on Thursday, took a new dimension when the State Security Service (SSS) paraded four suspects in Abuja, for allegedly planning to kidnap the Minister of Education, Dr. Sam Egwu, and his Labour and Productivity counterpart, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode (SAN), for ransom.Read the rest story here
http://tribune.com.ng/18092009/news/news1.html

blacksta:

http://www.tribune.com.ng/17092009/news/news6.html