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@ poster, where are u located, what do you do i.e schooling or working?

@190, i only made d above comment so i can picture her environment and probably understand what is influencing her decision.

Ebenezer Obey sang years back "ko si ogbon to le da, ko si iwa to le wu, ko si ona to le gba to le fi te aiye l'orun o", (there is nothing one can do to satisfy the world), WTF, NDI-UWA (world people). leave d chick alone.
She DO, una go cry say she DO, she no DO, na same una go say she no DO! haba!

@ poster, where are u located, what do you do i.e schooling or working?

i would say this is not new and not exclusive to nigeria.
secondly d lady involved is a MUMU. do people still fall for "i have goods coming in and i need your help". her banker bro sef na OLODO! looking for free money were him no work put?

EFCC, ICPC, NDLEA, NAFDAC, OPC, EGBESU, AREWA, BAKASSI BOYS should be let loose on all of them.          E-diots!!!!!

Pardon my asking but how old are u?, i dont seem to understand it when pple that lived over 15 - 20years of their lives in nigeria (Nur, Pry, Sec sch), travel abroad and after like 5years say they are not used to the nigerian way of life, they dont trust their people and all the plenty cock and bull story. to me that is crap. this is your country,those are your people. whats the fear all about? except your people were of questionable character even before u left the country

The Senate, on Thursday, significantly advanced legislation on a new bill seeking to establish a social security system for Nigerian unemployed and aged.

The bill is sponsored by Anyim Ude (PDP, Ebonyi State). The bill proposes to set up a social security system that will enable the government pay out N15 000 or at least N10 000 monthly to unemployed graduates and persons above 60 in Nigeria.

Mr Ude, 69, was inspired to draft the bill after listening to contributions of a Senate motion on the corruption of the National Poverty Eradication Program (NAPEP) in February last year.

"It is estimated that over 70 per cent of our people live below poverty level and that is why I agree with the passionate suggestion -- that day , that the Senate should devote one week of its session to address the issue of poverty and corruption in this country." Mr Ude said.

"This bill is another opportunity to put smiles on the faces of the aged and unemployed.

"Our children have no access to basic health care and education, unless their parents have money. Our system has made no provision backed by law for the unemployed, the destitute, the poor, and the aged. These crops of people are on their own, without hope or future. Some of them take their frustration out on the society by engaging in social vices and the society pays dearly for this," Mr Ude argued in his debate.

He added that even though it will cost the nation money, Nigeria will be better off as exemplified by the benefits other countries are reaping from similar systems.

He cited African countries benefiting from the scheme to include: Malawai, South Africa, Kenya, Mauritius, Botswana, Republic of Seychelles, and Libya.

The bill proposes that the beneficiaries of the system will be unemployed graduates of the colleges of education, polytechnics, and the universities, and people above 60 years.

The cost

The bill suggests two wages scenarios: a minimum of N10 000 and a maximum of N15 000 monthly. According to Mr Ude's estimations, based on a population growth rate of 2.5 per cent per annum, the scheme would cost the nation N77 billion in the next five years, starting from January next year, if the government decided to pay every beneficiary N10 000.

If the government decides to pay the maximum N15 000, it will cost the government N111.6 billion for five years.

He estimated that in 2011, it will cost the government N12.6 billion or N17.7 billion if they pay out N10 000 or N15 000 respectively. In 2012, it will cost 13.4 billion or 19.0 billion. In 2013, the scheme will cost 15.1 billion or 22.0 billion. In 2014 it will cost 17.05 billion or 24.96 billion. Arguing in favour of the bill, Uche Chukwumerije (PPA Abia State) said that it will require only a fraction of the loot politicians and past leaders robbed the nation of to run the scheme.

Pessimistic senators

Although the bill was accepted by majority of the senators, some were pessimistic and sceptic about the practicability of the recommendations of the bill. _{those bastards that make more money than some states are thinking it wont work, fools}

Kabiru Gaya (ANPP Kano State) argued that it is too expensive for the nation._{but easy for you to approve a 100% increase in your salary. EWU} He said that considering that Nigeria produces about 70 000 graduates annually from the three categories of tertiary institutions in the country, the expenses will be too much.

Nicholas Ugbane (PDP Kogi State) argued that although the idea is good, it might be very difficult to distinguish the intended beneficiaries of the scheme.

"Do we have a reliable and dependable statistics of the unemployed? _{now that is where we have d problem}. Can we identify a Nigerian?" he asked. "The idea is laudable but the kind of system we have will make it difficult to run." Others, however, argued that the cost of not instituting the social security system is higher than the cost of running it. They also argued that the possibility of corrupting the system should not deter the bill.

"You cannot rule out fraud, but the fear of fraud cannot overrule the importance of the bill." Bassey Ewa-Henshaw (PDP Cross River State) argued.

The bill was later committed to three Senate committees who would organise a public hearing on it and report back to the Senate for passage into law. It is, however, very unlikely that the bill will be passed into law before the expiration of the present Senate because the committees working on the bill were not given a time limit. High priority was not placed on the bill and the Senate has only one year left in their tenure.


http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5576198-146/story.csp

i deserve a crown

From all i have read, the woman is a major factor. but hw many women these days are willing to work with their husbands on 40k per mnth? now ladies ans this "WILL U MARRY A MAN THAT EARNS 40K PER MONTH?"

am sure u will get so many pple that falls under that category. why dont u give more details on the qualities u want/admire in a guy. that would really help. e.g AGE range.

Anyways i am 1st on the list, lol

Live updates - Yar'Adua's return
By Elizabeth Archibong
February 24, 2010 12:28PM
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Updates as they happen

1220 - Secretary to Federal government, Yayale Ahmed announces that FEC meeting has been postponed. Private meeting to hold between Jonathan and Ministers by 1400. so that they can cook d lie properly before we are served

1153 - Senate goes ahead to conclude debate amending section 145 of the constitution without any mention of President Yar’Adua’s return.

1135 - Jonathan is waiting, trying to avoid embarrassment by staying away and waiting for the president who is taking eternity to come out

1134 - Senate makes no reference to the president's return and continues session on amendment of Section 145 of the Nigerian constitution. However various groups are seen fervently huddling together during recess.

1131 - A security detail is guarding the president’s chair to ensure Acting President, Goodluck Jonathan does not sit on the chair. na wa o. c plan

♦One hour after the weekly cabinet meeting of ministers was supposed to have commenced, there is no sign that it would hold, as all the ministers have stayed away.

Neither the Acting President, Goodluck Jonathan nor his aides have also turned up. This is very unusual, as they (the Acting President and his aides) always keep to time in past meetings. Mr Jonathan had locked out some ministers from past meeting for lateness.

However, aides to the ailing President, Umaru Yar'Adua who returned to the country, early this morning were seen at the chambers. Mr Yar Adua's (Aide-de-Camp) ADC, Mustapha Onoedieva
and Chief security Officer Yusufu Tilde were seen at the council chambers for a while earlier today, but they also left.

No presidency official is willing to talk yet.

President Umaru Yar'Adua returned to Nigeria early this morning, and was carried from the airport in an ambulance. A terse report on Nigerian Television Authority this morning said he has been taken to a ‘clinic.'


http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5531463-146/live_updates_-_yaraduas_return_.csp

first time on an airplane was when i was born so there was no experience
my first conscious experience on a plane was just normal. it was from calabar to lagos.
read so much about being on a plane so i wasn't so thrilled

would suggest u learn to love his friends and try hanging out with them.
hanging out with guys is so much fun.

Ujujoan:
How can you celebrate Val without money    
She can always do the spending!

women dey gree spend?
i thought they had the belief that the guy must do the spending. they only receive and hardly give

CONSPIRACY THEORY.

i just dey see Prison Break and 24 playing out in the happenings in the country.

which season we dey sef?

finally, how this one come take concern us?

gidig:
Take my advice, if it is a Yoruba wedding, just swing from side to side with a smile on your face and you are home and dry. to make it very effective, both you and your spouse should agree to simply dance that way, focused on yourselves. It is your wedding and not a dancing competition. There is no evidence anywhere in the world that couples who dance vigorously at their weddings have a happy marriage. If you are putting yourself under pressure because of what people expect you do on your wedding, that is not a good sign. It is your life! If you dont want to be 'sprayed' with naira notes at the wedding, dance to your favourite western romantic song and you are home and Dry.

IN summary, it is your wedding! YOUR WEDDING!

or you could go for the normal marching style. LEFT RIGHT,LEFT RIGHT.

anyways its you day do whatever you like with it. am sure one way or the other, the dance spirit would come in and you wont realise when you begin to GINGER YOUR SWAGGA. lol

As for me, i don't really know how to dance but that day I GO TRYYYYYYY!!!!!!.
getting tipsy helps. i know a couple of people that have done that to help them get through the wedding and it worked but i DO NOT advice it

Dear Mrs. Clinton: With all your years in politics, foreign affairs and the resources available to the United States government, I do not think there is anything about Nigeria that I need to tell you. You have read about it and you have been there to see for yourself. You know who the big players are in the country’s world of corruption and you know where they have stashed their stolen wealth. You have openly, and presumably diplomatically, condemned corruption in the country, During your August 2009 visit to Nigeria, you made overt references to the fact that Nigeria’s problems are rooted in its failure to deal with corruption. Just today, while addressing state department employees during a town hall meeting, you again seized the opportunity to tell the whole world about Nigeria’s failure to address the legitimate needs of its people and how such failure is gradually turning the country into a breeding ground for all sorts of undesirable elements. On behalf of millions of Nigerians, I thank you and the Obama administration profoundly for the above efforts. However, there is so much more to be done.

More than ever before, there is an urgent need to increase the pressure on Nigeria’s corrupt-beyond-redemption political class in order to prevent a total breakdown of law and order and possible civil war. If U.S. diplomatic history provides any clue with respect to conflict resolution, it is that a break down of law and order in Nigeria will force the US to make gargantuan human and material commitment to Nigeria and the Sub-region: a situation that is unnecessary in light of the options available, a situation that neither ordinary Nigerians nor the United States want; a situation that would create a refugee problem of a magnitude not seen in recent human history and be destabilizing to West African, European and North American countries.

In order to prevent Nigeria from descending into a civil war or several civil wars as is more likely to happen because of the country’s ethnic and tribal configuration, urgent steps must be taken to effect immediate and long term changes in the country. Nigeria is where it is today mainly because of the “elements” in charge of the country and their devious device which they have christened government. Permit me to suggest we are requesting the urgent assistance of the Obama administration in putting in place a no-visa list consisting of Nigeria’s leading government officials and their private sector collaborators. The no-visa list should at the very minimum contain the following:

• The country’s current leader (whoever that is) should be limited to the United Nations and Harlem the way Fidel Castro was during his 1960 visit;
• all past leaders and governors;
• all current state governors with the exception of one or two who are doing their jobs;
• all past and current federal ministers and state commissioners;
• all past and present lawmakers at the federal and state levels
• all past and current local government chairmen/chairlady and the elected councilors who assist them in looting their respective treasuries;
• past and present managers of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, and other leading government corporations;
• past and present MD/CEO’s of all banks in the country;
• all past and present ambassadors of the country for their roles as agents of an evil regime;
• all previous and present police and military officers beyond the rank of Major or its equivalent;
• all judges from the magistrate courts to the Supreme Court of Nigeria for their roles in accepting bribes and perverting the course of justice;
• the present chairperson of the EFCC for her role in legitimizing corruption;
• the children and wives of those on the no-visa list;
• all known enablers of corruption not caught by the above list.


A serious consideration of the above list will show that 99.99% of the individuals who have destroyed Nigeria and stolen the people’s commonwealth will be found on the list. Having them on the no-visa list hurts no one but the crooks themselves. I believe in the list and given the power to implement it, it is exactly what I will have in place. Realizing that I do not have the power to implement the list and given other considerations, the above list maybe unwieldy and may lose the desired effect. Consequently, I will suggest a more pragmatic list made up of the following:

• Umaru Yar Adua and Goodluck Jonathan;
• all the current governors
• immediate past president and governors, especially those indicted or convicted for corruption (i.e. Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida, Lucky Igbinedion, Orji Kalu, Peter Odili, and James Ibori – ignore the Kangaroo court discharge);
• all current federal ministers and state commissioners, particularly, Michael Aondoakaa, Dora Akunyili, Ojo Madueke and Rilwani Lukeman;
• all current senior officers of the police and armed forces
• all current managers of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Power Holding Corporation of Nigeria and other leading government corporations;
• Aliko Dangote, Mike Adenuga, Dahiru Mangal and all Nigerian billionaires because there is no legitimate Nigerian billionaire (those who want to argue their cases should be asked to submit their income tax returns for examination);
• The judges and justices of the Federal, Appeal and Supreme Courts for their roles in accepting bribes and perverting the course of justice;
• The current chairperson of the EFCC, Farida Waziri;
• The current officers of the National Assembly, including the David Mark, Dimeji Bankole and Jubril Aminu who has been indicted in the Siemens bribery scandal but is still angling to become the vice president in the event Goodluck Jonathan becomes the president of the country;
• The chairpersons of all the banks indicted by the Central Bank of Nigeria, including Cecilia Ibru and the coward called Erasmus Akingbola who claims to have accumulated assets of over $2 billion (N322 billion) dollars with a monthly salary of $10,000 (N1.5 million). An eye should also be kept on below-rader crooks like Chukwuma Saludo – former Central Bank governor, Jim Ovia of Zenith Bank and Tony Elumelu of Uba who are just as corrupt as the indicted ones;
• Some traditional rulers and pastors for their roles in providing recognition to corrupt politicians in exchange for part of the looted funds;
• Including Journalists who have sold their souls in exchange for Abuja land and other pecuniary benefits will force them to return to their basic responsibility of holding government accountable to the people;
• The children and wives of all those on the list because they school and live in the west with monies looted from the ordinary people of Nigeria;

This list is not exhaustive and no such claim is being made here. I have included in the list those I have been able to remember. There are few individuals on the above list who have demonstrated over the years that they are not corrupt and those individuals should be exempted. These individuals are not difficult to know, Nigerians know them and the US should have no problem in exempting them from the no-visa list.

Once again, the average Nigerian will agree with the US government that the individuals on the above list are the reasons why Nigeria has been on its knees since independence and any restriction of their abilities to trot the globe will reduce their money laundering abilities, their bloated sense of importance and arrogance lacking of empirical support. It will also limit their ability to travel overseas on holidays or medical treatment when they have destroyed hospitals in their own country – Ghana will benefit from increased tourism from this group of Nigerians!

Thankfully, I do not have to convince you about the efficacy of a no-visa list. The US and Britain have demonstrated that having politicians on a no-visa list is an effective tool in the reform of institutions and the fight against corruption, hence these governments’ decision to employ it against Kenyan politicians who refused to support reforms. In creating the US, and hopefully British no-visa list for Nigerian politicians specific accomplishments like support for the passage of genuine election reform laws, Freedom of Information Act, Whistle Blower law that will involve Nigerians in the war against corruption and compensate them for exposing corruption and a genuine war against corruption and election rigging should be attached as conditions for reconsideration.

In case you are wondering why I believe blacklisting Nigerian politicians will do the magic that nothing else has been able to do since independence, below are my reasons:

• Despite their public ranting, most present day Nigerian politicians are cowards; who when faced with the slightest threat to their vaunted sense of self-importance and life of luxury will be prepared to sell their parents for pennies – do what is necessary - to maintain their status quo;

• Flying to US, London or other European countries for vacation or medical treatment is a status symbol for the country’s corrupt politicians and their family members. Depriving them of this ability to show-off to the victims of their crimes (ordinary Nigerians) will force a rethink on their part;

• Nigerian politicians make thousands of unnecessary trips to the US, Canada and Europe every year supposedly to attend conferences. These conferences do not benefit Nigerians because Nigerian politicians are not interested in learning how to run a good government, the very antithesis of their modus operandi. Some of the politicians, if they ever show up at the conferences, do not have a good enough command of the English language to understand the discussions and the others do not even bother to show up. But they all remember one thing and that is to create fake hotel invoices after staying with friends, add to them other dubious and padded expenses and submit to the government for payment. Those who are in charge of payment do not question the figures because they get a cut from it. The above will not happen if the politicians cannot travel to the US, Canada and Europe;

• Nigerian politicians often use official trips to the US, Canada and Europe as covers for moving looted public funds into foreign countries and into legitimate businesses and the banking system (sometime in 2006 the US government seized $170,000.00 belonging to Andy Uba, an ordinary adviser on domestic affairs to then president Obasanjo). Andy Uba who was broke and almost destitute in California before May 1999 smuggled the money into the US aboard the presidential plane). Denying them visas will make it difficult for them to practice their trade;

• Nigerian politicians spend a lot of the money they steal buying lavish mansions in the US, Canada and England. Depriving them of the ability to travel will ensure that they can no longer enjoy these mansions;

• Denying visas to the children of those on the no-visa list will ensure that their children will be unable to spend looted funds attending the best universities in the US, Canada and Europe, while their parents have ensured millions of Nigerian students are either at home due to strikes over unpaid salaries or forced to take lectures in classrooms with leaky roofs. Almost everyone on the above list have their children schooling in the US, Canada and Europe with looted public funds, some of which were meant to fix, upgrade or operate local academic institutions (the minister of Education, Sam Egwu, spent N50 million of stolen funds to celebrate his birthday at a time when Nigerian students had been at home for months and wished him dead);

• Denial of visas to those on the no-visa list will force some of them to keep their looted funds closer to Nigeria for easier detection or risk being duped by intermediaries (thieves often do not trust thieves because they often dupe each other).

• Depriving indicted and convicted politicians of visas will better reflect the American and western concept of equal treatment. Ordinary Nigerians indicted of petty crimes or with criminal records cannot obtain US or European visas, yet politicians who have stolen billions from those they were supposed to lead obtain visas and travel to the US and London frequently without qualms. One is sometime tempted to join those who say the US does not care how a Nigerian politician got his money as long as it benefits the US economy. Orji Uzor Kalu, the immediate past governor of Abia state recently granted Nigerian newspapers an interview from London, England regarding the disappearance of Yar Adua. Yet, this individual is facing trial in Nigeria for stealing over N2 billion naira;

• Including bankers on the list until they put in place transparent and auditable measures to combat corruption will hasten the implementation and enforcement of anti-money laundering programs and force investors into seeking out honest bankers to lead their banks and take charge of their investments;

• The selective inclusion of politicians and their civilian collaborators on the no- visa list will reduce their prestige and influence within the Nigerian polity and create breathing space for the few who will work for the good of the country if the proper environment is allowed to exist. It will deny the corrupt of solidarity while enhancing the reputation of the minors who may not have crossed the Rubicon or point of no return in their involvement with corruption;

Madam Secretary, I can go on and on about the benefits of a no-visa list for Nigerian politicians and their collaborators but I do not think I need to do so because your government is already employing this technique in a less corrupt society like Kenya where the level of corruption is a child play compared to Nigeria. I have tried to highlight the benefits of it in the Nigerian context and I am confident that your office will give this request the due consideration is deserves. It should be borne in mind that in the event of war, the whole world is going to find it very difficult containing a nation of about 150 million people with over 250 different languages and a complicated web of tribal preferences.

I will end by thanking you for your anticipated co-operation in this matter.


Regards,




http://saharareporters.com/articles/external-contrib/4959--madam-secretary-hillary-clinton-please-blacklist-the-following-nigerians.html

what happens to text message?
i send as much as 50 in a day.


[s]_{but they have learnt to use the sms again boys these days o}[/s]

wat hapens to sms? i fit send 50 n above in a day. bt ladies don dy use sms against men. una knw nw

i think its time we sell our world cup ticket to ZAMBIA. we won't mind the entire team keeping and sharing the money amongst themselves.
this is a very boring and uninspiring match.

Make i ask o! Hw many rooms dy dis house wey we dey talk of? Whr d chdrn them go slp? Slp togeda jare

Ujujoan:
3. This one really thorws me!! In my town, we beileve that this particular specie of Snakes - Pythons (The big, long and black snakes) are our ancestors. They don't attack us and we NEVER kill them. I remember one time when I was really young, we found one of those snakes 'sunbathing' right in the middle of our compound. While everyone of us ran for cover, my Granny gently walked up to the Snake and entered into a conversation with it   

As if that was not enough, the Snake lazily crawled away after their 'conversation'!   

When we asked her what she said, she claimed to have pleaded with it to go somewhere else that we were all scared!   

I remember thinking how weird it was that I was 'related' to a Snake!   

i remember something like this happen to me when i was @ the uni in OKIJA. was living off campus then. we woke up in the morning to bath and when my friend got into the bathroom, he saw this snake he screamed and ran out.(make una come see shout and run.). we were about to kill the snake with everything we could lay our hand on (stick,stones). the old lady in the compound saw us and asked what we were doing. we told her and she WARNED us never to try it that the snake was never to be killed. she goes into the bathroom and says whatever to the snake and that it should never return. True to it, the snake crawls out through the water channel, oh boy c yoruba man for ibo land now. enough fear

U guys shld b hapi,they are helpin us contribute to d Haiti funds since our govt doesnt want to.
But joking aside,wetin dis boys no go use their brain think? Na wa!

there is this young guy of about 11years in JSS1 attending one of them muslim skools in d SW (family resides in lagos and frm nursery skool, himslf and siblings av been attending muslim skools)
the guy can defend the reason y Iraq, Iran, Al Qaeda n all the like are attacking the western countries
and he sees nothing wrong in it cos he says their teacher in Skool told them the western countries are doing wrong to the Muslim nations.
if at this age, the young guy already has this notion, who knws?/

wetin concern us? if u like comeback, if u like die there. na u sabi.
u r stil forming innocent now and attacking the govt that made and fed u
with stolen mandate and evry. na when them catch u we go know everything u thief
and where u hide them, NONSENSE!!!!!!

@ ichommy, what is so funny in the fact that someone lost his dad on a road.
i think you should learn to use 'LOL'.

my bad road spots in nigeria

OKIJA - AWOMMA
BENIN - ORE
WARRI -PATANI
UMUAHIA - IKOT-EKPENE
OWERRI -PHC
ABA - PHC
IBADAN TO ILORIN

like someone suggested, we could do a book on these songs o

here are the ones i can remember

1) one,two buckle my shoe
three, four knock at the door
five,six pick up sticks
seven,eight lay the straight
nine, ten a big fat hen

2) i have a little cough sir
in my little chest sir
anytime i cough sir
it gives a little pain sir
cough cough cough sir
that is it again sir

3) tick says the clock
tick tick
what you have to do
do QUICK

am sure u guys have listened to "Don Jazzy's song THIS IS LAGOS"
The part Mode 9 sang

"Welcome to lagos the city of HUSTLERS everybody is in a hurry,traders and Customers. if you are not careful,u are goin to part with ur cellular".

Na only 4 lagos u go see well dress man/woman dey beg 4 cash.that he or she has been robbed or sumtin.
i met some guy at Eko hotel roundabout sayin he came from badagry to Vi to drop his CV and didnt have enof money to go bak home. i come pity d guy cos i knw as d tin b to dey find work. gave him 500. the guy next to me in d bus was furious and was like i just gave u 200 and u said it was enof to take u home with the little u had

For those that are still virgins or those that did not get to "know" themselves during their courtship,honeymoon is a good getaway for them to rest after the wedding stress and also to , If you have the money,take her some place nice. For others,asides takin d time to rest after d wedding,whats d essence? Na only d MOON part una dey go for cos una don chop all d honey b4 weddin shining d congo n straffin urslves

Nice 1. Am realy impressed.
ADAKE DAJO- D SILENT JUDGE
Kabio-osi- no 1 questions u.
Arugbo ojo- ancient of days
Eli-my God n Father.
N.B- D topic says names for God. Pple are including d names of JESUS n HOLYSPIRIT. Dnt mean to spoil d thread,jst an observation.