Oh the richest pastor in the world with a humble beginning! But come to think of it, didn't he start building his wealth from the money taking from his congregation? No wonder Jesus said: "It will be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God"

Mansion in the village is often considered your retired age home, a cocoon and a refuge when all the hazzles in the city stop. A nice place to enjoy the rest of your life quietly and peacefully in a natural environment. Waking up every morning listening to the birds singing and enjoying the night sky view of thousands of stars and the shinning moon before you finally go to bed.

Nigeria won't disintegrate because of the arrest of a common criminal.

Good! At least we won't be exposing ourselves to Ebola in Equatorial Guinea!

Cheap propaganda! how many politicians are in Nasarawa?

Shame on you with all these negative comments about the deceased man and the innocent lady banker. The man might have died naturally of heart attack. Do you all know what type of death you all going to get when it's your time eventually? Please respect the dead in order to console the family left behind. I wish his soul rest in perfect peace.

Now bring Sweden on

He was lucky that the lady did not agree to marry him. She could have killed him later in the marriage

It should have been better if they train people to sort out the electricity problem at Aso Rock so that GEJ can stop using Generators 24/7

There is no crime in expressing your dissatisfaction over what you think is wrong with Jonathan for him to be able to mend his ways. That is exactly what the people in Diaspora are doing. If all you jobless people in Nigeria can't see anything wrong with a government tha takes pride in glorifying itself with 80% of the country's graduate unemployed but prefers to publish a roadmap of what is to be done after three of its four years in office. If you people in Nigeria can't see that the current move to change the presidential term of office from four years to six years translates into dictatorial tendencies, people in Diaspora are not so dumb not to recognize this.

Desola: Nigerians are predominantly fraudsters Abegi!

Why are you so bitter about your country? You must be a fraudster yourself because I know majority of Nigerians are not, but just a tiny minority like it is the same in every country. It is high time we ceased destroying our reputation by our own self.

Let's create a forum where gaffes made by bungling officials should be posted. Seun, our oga at the top should think seriously about this.

Former convicted Chairman of the Board of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Chief Olabode George has approached the Supreme Court, asking it to set aside judgment of the Court of Appeal, which confirmed the judgment of a Lagos State High Court in Ikeja, which he was convicted to two years imprisonment for contracts splitting and inflation in 2009.

George, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), alongside five others were convicted and by Justice Joseph Oyewole and have since served their two-jail term but the six convicts still believe there was miscarriage of judgment and therefore approached the apex court to declare them innocent of the crime they were convicted of.

Other convicts in the matter include Aminu Dabo, O. Abidoye, Abdullahi Aminu Tafida, Zanna Maideribi and Sule Aliyu.

When the matter came up for hearing yesterday, the six convicts, through their respective lawyers, asked Justice Tanko Mohammed-led 5-man penal of the apex court justices to grant them extension of time within which to file regularised their appeals having filed out of time.

The court granted the applications and adjourned the matter to September 26, 2013 to allow parties time to file applications for consolidation of the six different appeals, as well as hear the matter.

Source: http://leadership.ng/nga/articles/49511/2013/03/08/bode_george_5_others_ask_s_court_set_aside_conviction.html

Get a tracker fitted to every flashy car and stickers displaying this. The tracking operation should be managed by a private security firm and subscription paid monthly. This will deter any potential car snatchers if they know they could be caught.

I hope they brought enough Ghana-must-go bags to the pitch

The answer to the problem is a good rail network linking all the major cities in the country. All over the world, the bulk of transportation and distribution of goods is done through a good network of rail system.

I won't say anything!

How could they be stranded when most of them own private jets

Anybody with the full list of all the 149 Awardees? This is to let us know who and who deserve the awards

Visitors from Nigeria are the UK's fourth biggest foreign spenders, ringing up an average £500 in each shop

High local prices and middle class desires are driving Nigerians to London in search of bargains, from pants to steaks

On her twice-yearly visits to London from Nigeria, Victoria Appiah stocks up on everything she needs for the next six months. "I basically only do food shopping back home," she says, standing outside Marks & Spencer's flagship store in Marble Arch, central London. "It's not that you can't get these things in Lagos, but everything here is much more reasonably priced.

"If you want cheap products, Chinese-made have taken over in Nigeria, and you can't always vouch for quality."

Thousands of Nigerians agree. Visitors from the West African nation are the UK's fourth biggest foreign spenders, ringing up an average £500 in each shop where they make purchases - four times what the average UK shopper spends.

Holidaying or visiting relatives abroad is increasingly open to millions of middle class Nigerians, with the number of visitors to the UK increasing by more than 50 per cent to 142,000 a year in the decade ending 2011, according to the Office for National Statistics. In a country projected to become Africa's biggest economy next year, and the world's fifth most populous by 2050, businesses at home and abroad are cashing in. In Debenhams' Oxford Street branch, signs in Hausa, one of the official Nigerian languages in the country's largely impoverished north, direct shoppers to items on sale. This year, the shop said that Nigerian customers were its biggest overseas spenders.

Daily flights plying the lucrative route between Nigeria and the UK have ballooned in the last decade. British Airways permits almost double the normal baggage allowance for the six-hour haul.

In some cases, Nigerians are literally using their deeper pockets on sprees. Shola Obadeyu wore a heavy duffel coat while queueing in Heathrow for a flight back to her sweltering home city of Abuja. "I can save [airline] baggage space by putting small things like vest tops and underwear in the pockets," she said as she queued with other passengers, almost all struggling with bulging suitcases. Back in Abuja, Obadeyu sells wares bought in London "at prices that don't kill you".

Others are tapping the market. A mushrooming middle class snapped up 10m microwaves last year. Big name brands from Apple to Zara have sprung up to feed those aspirations.

The African-based discount supermarket giant Shoprite is pouring $205m into its current three outlets in Nigeria, while the US hypermarket Walmart sees scope for 50 outlets in the country.

On a recent trip back from Europe, Marie Claire Lienou lugged 50kg of frozen meat in a freezer bag back to Nigeria. "You can't compare [Shoprite's] prices here with their prices in Europe. For 10 steaks there I can buy two here. You just pay what you have to for the convenience and guarantees," she said, pushing a trolley laden with relative luxuries such as bagged salads.

"Nigeria is very crowded, traffic is terrible, fakes [wares] are everywhere. The only thing I'll buy from the market is fresh bulk vegetables, because there are no fake tomatoes," she added.

Being middle class in Nigeria isn't cheap. In a brightly lit KFC across the shopping centre, Taiwo Edun, an engineer, treated his girlfriend to crispy chicken and chips, a luxury beyond the reach of many at $20 (£13) a pop.

"I don't consider myself in the super-rich class, I'm not chartering flights for my friends to go on holiday like some Nigerians can. But I can come here maybe once a month," he said.

The widespread corruption and infrastructure woes that plague Nigeria - including daily power blackouts that are smoothed over by millions of generators - push up the costs of running businesses here, keeping most dependent on informal, market-style retail.

Abrupt plans to introduce a new 5,000 naira (£20) note worth five times the current highest bill have caused an outcry, with market sellers saying it would drive up prices.

On the back of one of the notes will be Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, mother of the Afrobeat singer Fela Kuti. Ransome-Kuti made her name as an activist with a mass protest against policies that increased prices for market women.

Meanwhile, those who can afford it continue to see a better deal abroad. The country's central bank throws billions of dollars into propping up the naira at artificially high rates, hurting millions of local exporters and encouraging Nigeria's shopping exodus.

Indicating her clutch of M&S carrier bags, Appiah said it was her five-year-old grandson's favourite shop.

"As long as the weather is not too cold, Nigerians will be shopping in London," she said.

http://odili.net/news/source/2012/sep/12/820.html

karpentar:

sorry, but that's the bitter truth. we declare false ages to win under 17, 20 world cups...when it comes to fair competion with no age limit, we fumble

How dare you accuse these hardworking people of faking their physical conditions! You are everything that is wrong with Nigeria. Do you know how much trouble they went through to become a world class athletes inspite of their physical challenges?

An average Nigerian is a bigot. How on earth do you enjoy deriding others by labelling them disabled. Special abilities means doing something that is difficult for the average person to achieve. I am very proud of our brother who has just won gold. What an achievement!

vanariso: Pls stop referring to these these guys as "disable" athletes/persons... its wrong, misleading and demeaning..but u all guys all listen to comments on international TV!!!! Must it be crushed and engraved into your brains? Gosh...pls call them guys with "special abilities"......Its shows how unreasonable and irrational we truly are..even the educated are so foolish,inflexible and uncultured.....Nigerians......huh!!

Thanks for letting people know about these terrible prejudice against these wonderful fellow beings who are in no way different from the so called 'abel bodies' except for their physical conditions.

They are only physically challenged but not disabled as people wrongly refer to them. Their mind-set is more focused and more prepared to achieve whatever goals they set for themselves.

Al Shapton is also a pastor but that doesn't prevent him condemning politicians and their cronies when they err. Declaring self-rule within a constituted sovereign is treasonable and must be condemned. Whwt else do they want? They currently get the lion share of the national cake, their ex-militants are busy wasting our billions abroad under the guise of reforming them. Their governors are the most corrupt. Their ex-leaders are the one doing oil bunkering that amounts to economic sabotage. How far have they hekp themselves? You people should open your eyes and minds before you start criticising the man of God blindly.

Olodostein:

God doesn't play dice.

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Or Russian roulette!

Get rich quick or die trying.

ATLAS LOGISTICS

Nigeria is bleeding profusely well to the point of unavoidable death.