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The GLO contract is a small fry in comparison to the brand "basketmouth", i just hope the brand "basketmouth" is not negatively affected in the long run. Social Media has such power.

munky: I think we have a long way to go in Nigeria. So just because Utomi is a member of ACN, then he is an efulefu. By the way, is Delta State part of Igboland? at least listen to his plan and policies before castigating him. Nnamdi Azikiwe won elections in the old western region based on his oratory and political skills.

The civil war happened 40 years ago, its time we moved on. I am an igbo man and the truth is that Yorubas and Igbos are very much alike in their aspirations. we all want to live peacefully, make money, enjoy life and be merry. So why all the politics of rancour.

In Anambra state, the town where the state university is located is in perpetual darkness. Igbariam is not even connected to the national grid. students live solely on generators. This can never happen in the south west. And they have a Governor. Dr chris ngige is not a saint, so am not going into whether he should win or not. However, the people should vote for policies and manifesto and not propaganda.

In Abia state, the clown in the government house is a monumental failure. He is enjoying himself because he is in PDP. Rochas is trying his best, the only governor in the southeast to declare free education. Even the great Zik didnt do that. Still, hes been castigated because he joined APC. Ebonyi state is never in the news, the state is one of the worst in Nigeria based on Human Development Index but the governor is not troubled because he is in PDP.

Enugu state governor is a good example of a performing governor that quietly goes about his business.

my point is judge Amechi, Ngige, Rochas, Utomi and the rest based on their policies, dreams, aspirations and achievements.

Even Mandela forgave his white oppressors for the good of South Africa.

Thanks

Only few people have the brain power to comprehend your objective submission.

Dez80: Hmmmm!
I shld be out of d country b4 it erupts in 2015.

True talk

What I can deduce from this is how humans complicate simple instructions

OPEN LETTER TO PASTOR E.A. ADEBOYE AND PASTOR W.F. KUMUYI COME TO MACEDONIA AND HELP US
By Bayo Oluwasanmi


Dear Venerable Pastors:
After a lot of inner turmoil concerning the situation in Nigeria, I decide to write you this open letter. Each time I visit Nigeria I experience a deep inner threat as to the direction of the country.
I have deliberately addressed this open letter to the two of you
out of more than dozen Nigerian Pentecostal and Charismatic Preachers with Mega Churches both at home and overseas. Three of you including Pastor Tunde Bakare in my view, are the only influential men of God in our country that Nigerians hold in awe and high esteem.
Pastor Bakare is not included in this letter because he is already a proven combatant in the war against oppression, corruption, and injustice that have become the trade mark of the Nigerian ruling class. You’re a target of this letter in order to conscript you as it were, into the people’s army of non-violence to be soldiers in the long running battle of oppression that has decimated Nigeria as well as her citizens.
Fifty three years ago, Nigeria became independent after a century of British rule. October 1, 1960 became a momentous occasion and a beacon of light and hope to millions of Africans and other oppressed people in the world.
Fifty three years after independence, Nigeria remains a symbolic elephant casting off the colonial yoke; and today is being replaced with a new authoritarian yoke of a representative democracy.
Since independence, the antecedents of Nigeria’s crisis has acquired a drama all its own. The historical genesis of the Nigerian crisis is well known to you. Therefore, I don’t intend to bore you with annoying repetition.
Just as the prophets of the eight century BC under the mandate of “thus saith the Lord,” deployed their Gospel of Liberation to fight religious, political, social, and economic injustice and oppression in their hometown and far beyond the boundaries of their land; so also you’re called to take up the mantle of the struggle in today’s contemporary Nigeria.
Like Apostle Paul, who initiated, instigated, encouraged, and fought for the oppressed in the Greco-Roman world, and championed the gospel of freedom, likewise you must NOW respond to the Macedonian call for help!
I’ll like to remind you that to fail to confront when confrontation is required for the freedom of the oppressed represents a spiritual as well as moral failure. To confront or criticize is a form of exercising leadership. It is nothing less than an attempt to influence the course of events human or otherwise. When we confront or criticize someone it is because we want to change the course of the person’s life.
The two of you are highly regarded for your enviable humility. The paradox of being humble is the more humble one is, the more one is awed by the fear in exercising leadership with activism: Who am I to influence the course of human event? By what authority am I entitled to decide what is best for my country or the human race? Who give me the right to dare to believe in my own understanding and then to presume to exert my will upon Nigeria? Who am I to play God? That is the risk.
For whenever we attempt to influence the course of the world, of humanity, we’re thereby playing God. To act is to play God. Yet, we also know that there is no alternative except inaction and impotence. Within this consciousness the apostles of old assumed the responsibility of attempting to be God and not to carelessly play God, but to fulfill God’s will without mistake.
I’m troubled by your deafening silence and inaction to the subjugation, repression, oppression, exploitation, injustice, and impoverishment of the poor by the greedy and corrupt ruling class. I realize that siding with the poor against your friends in government may not be most politically correct thing for you to do. But your inaction is coming at the cost of our God given freedom and the pursuit of happiness.
Many Nigerians remain confused about the ways religion relates to government and the way politics intersects with religion. For this reason, some people actively discourage political participation and most will remain silent.
I believe the church should be involved in political activism with the primary objective to fight tyranny of government whenever and wherever it exists. Some pastors see themselves as religious leaders. They believe the role of the church is to focus on the spiritual needs of their congregation and perform charitable works to aid the needy. To this group of pastors, the social-political activism I’m calling for amounts to dangerous radicalism.
I’m the least qualified to stress to you the importance of discipline of theological reflection: it causes one to constantly aware of God’s hand and leading in every aspect of life. It is expected therefore that you should lead from a posture of being led.
If I may ask, what role if any, do you see for yourselves as religious leaders in a political society with tyrants, oppressors, thieves, and wolves as rulers who are installmentally devouring the very sheep you’re called to shepherd and save? The twin expectations of your discipleship are serving the spiritual needs of your congregants while at the same time serving the “outsiders.” This is the meeting point of interaction between religion and public life.
The challenge before you now is to go where you would rather not go – to lead the people to confront the tyranny of the majority in Abuja – Aso Rock and the National Assembly. This is the challenge of “somebody else will take you” by Jesus to Peter:
“In all truth I tell you
When you were young
you put on your belt
and walked where you liked;
but when you grow old
you will stretch your hands
and somebody else will put a belt around you
and take you where you would rather not go.” (John 21:18)
Soon after Peter has been commissioned to be a leader of his sheep, Jesus confronts him with the hard truth that the servant-leader is the leader who is being led to unknown, undesirable, and painful place.
Just like Jesus told Peter that he would be an old man being led by others to place he would rather not go, so also Nigerians are pleading, urging you to be willing to plunge yourselves into the indescribable crisis of political, economic, and social injustice destroying the multitude of the Nigerian poor caused by the ruling class. To be in the forefront leading the poor, confronting a tyrannical government to end its wickedness in high places, I believe will be the high octane attention and expectations of your discipleship.
As you well know, the way of the Christian leader is not upward mobility the mantra of the world, rather the downward mobility which ends on the cross. The Christian leadership I’m calling you to embrace is not a leadership of power and control, but of powerlessness and humility. By powerlessness and humility I do not mean a weak leadership position that renders Christian leaders as passive victims. It is not Christian leadership without spine who let people make decisions for them. It is a Christian leadership that is “radically poor, journeying with nothing except a staff – “no bread, no haversack, no money, no spare tunic” (Mark 6:. The “radically poor,” leadership allows you to be led and suffer with the poor.
I understand that there is the temptation for you to be relevant to your congregation and to influence the new converts to the Lord as in what you can offer in terms of their needs and their desires, etc. You don’t need to be relevant leaders only to your congregants. I believe now is the time for you to adopt a radically counter-culture tactic: to be like Jesus you must give your power away, divest yourselves of human privilege and status, and practice the downward mobility of Christ.
It is now – this is it – the opportunity for you to radically redefine the meaning of your spiritual leadership. It’s time to put off the yolk of Mega Churches and ally yourselves with the oppressed poor of this nation so that you can make impact and be more relevant to the 99.9% poverty stricken Nigerians.
You are positioned and privileged to be the Christian leaders of the future (and the future is now) who are called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but your own vulnerable selves. That’s the way Jesus came to reveal God’s love.
If you’re sick, you need a competent doctor, if you are poor, you need a competent politician, if there are technical problems, you need competent engineers, if there are wars, you need competent negotiators. Is Nigeria a sick nation? Yes you bet! Are Nigerians poor, no doubt. Do we have competent politicians from the president to governors to federal, state, and local government legislators? Absolutely not!
God and ministers have been used for centuries to fill the gaps of incompetence. It happened in the Bible. It was replicated in the United States. And of course it was duplicated in South Africa and elsewhere.
Needless to remind you, Nigerians are hurting, they are sick spiritually and physically, they are hungry, they are homeless, they are jobless, they are useless, they are hopeless, they are helpless, they are pulverized by extreme poverty, neglect, abuse, and disuse. These Nigerians are extended families of your congregations – mothers, fathers, wives, husbands, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, cousins, uncles, nephews, and nieces.
You will find God’s charge to Prophet Isaiah instructive and compelling to mobilize, organize, and lead the masses like Martin Luther King Jr. and other clergy men of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Reverend Leon Sullivan (Lion of Philadelphia), Bishop Tutu, Albert Luthuli (author of the bestselling book Let My People Go) and other preachers too many to mention.
Isaiah, one of the greatest prophets in Jewish history and one of the most powerful models in the Bible was known in his days for his uncompromising convictions, and clear vision that drove him to continue speaking out despite the unfaithfulness of his people. His convictions teach us about avoiding ungodly compromise. Isaiah furnishes a beautiful case study of a leader who led from vision that brought about national reforms.
Listen to God’s mandate to Isaiah:
“Cry aloud, spare not; Lift up your voice like a trumpet; Tell My people (the wicked, corrupt Nigerian rulers) … To loose the bonds of wickedness, To undo the heavy burdens, To let the oppressed (Nigerians) go free.” …”If you take the yoke from your mist, The pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness, If you extend your soul to the hungry And satisfy the afflicted soul, Then your light shall dawn in the darkness, And your darkness shall be as the noonday … And you shall be called the Repairer of (Nigeria) the Breach, And restorer of Streets to Dwell in.”
Evangelization is good. Planting churches all over the world is desirable. But God delights not merely in his people going without some daily staples, but in loosing the “burden of wickedness” and undoing “heavy burdens” of the oppressors in government.
God is calling on you to fight the destructive agenda and oppressive attitudes of the ruling class. Ethics supply the foundation of our values. Values supply the power that drives leadership. Moses led without compromise because his life was controlled by his popularity with God, not popularity with people.
It’s time for you to leave the theological elite world of popularity to experience and tell the Biblical story of Jesus and his compassionate and loving kindness to the poor and the oppressed by leading the protest and agitation against the oppressors of God’s children.
Nigerians remain shackled in many ways to the past and face a difficult and unpredictable future. They are living a suffocating existence. Here is my suggestion on what you could do to help free Nigerians from oppression, injustice, and poverty:
Form a non-violence and Civil Rights organization of Christian leaders patterned after the Southern Christian Leadership Conference founded in 1957 by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other Baptist ministers. The organization will fight on behalf of the poor using the non-violent method – civil disobedience – the idea of not cooperating with evil system:
(a) Organize a poor people’s campaign to address issues of economic justice – economic bill of rights for poor Nigerians.
(b) Set up mobilization committees to end unemployment and corruption, to fight for decent housing for the poor, voting reforms, education reforms, judicial reforms, police reforms, and infrastructures.
(c) March on Abuja for jobs, social welfare, and social security for senior citizens, and provision of 21st century hospitals.
As leaders of the proposed organization, you should maintain policy of not publicly endorsing any political party or candidate. This would allow you to look objectively at the parties and be the conscience of all – not the servant or master of any of the parties. The parties have not served Nigerians well.

The record of non-violence/civil disobedience has been very impressive. Successful precedents of non-violence include Mohandas K. Ghandi’s challenge to the might of British Empire and Dr. King’s objection to White America racism. They used and relied solely on the weapons of truth, soul force, non-injury and courage.
Just like Ghandi and King had been influenced by Jesus’ teaching on nonresistance to evil force so also as Christian leaders you should follow their examples and make Nigeria a better country. Revolt against injustice is not only honorable, but it is imperative.
One of the greatest remedies for our own suffering is serving others. Servant-leadership becomes a solution for both the one serving and the one being served.
Venerable Pastors, consider this: your righteousness on this matter will answer for you in time to come!
Sincerely,
BJO

http://www.globalreportersvienna.com/2013/12/open-letter-to-pastor-ea-adeboye-and.html

andyanders: I don loose my SUVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV

Yippe i don win SUV

RIP Madiba You lived a good life.

What makes the towel dirty is the hair cream. No soap can totally clean off the hair cream we use except we shampoo wash the hair each time we bath. The towel will be less dirty if we don't dry our head ( hair) with it.

Social media is such a powerful medium, this is a proof. We can actually use social media to really effect changes in this country ref government as did with Arab spring.

A classic case of he who the gods wants to destroy, they will first make mad.

Like i keep saying common sense is dead. Too much books seems to be mutually exclusive with common sense.

These guys thinks we are already a developed country.

Common sense is no longer common.

This is just to put everybody on alert about the newly installed traffic lights around ikeja roundabout and inside GRA. The lights became operational this weekend and it is no a palatable experience. The lights stops you for 2 minutes and turns green for just mere 18 seconds.

If the traffic these lights caused on saturday and sunday is anything to go by, then this week ikeja and the surrounding environs is going to be locked down.

It is obvious common sense has taken flight and it is no longer common.

if you are passing through or have business around ikeja, get ready for mother of all traffic except the LASTMA official overrule the light or they are not working.

Good luck.

PERMIT me to begin this contribution by quoting a portion of an essay that I wrote on September 26, 2011 which was titled ‘’On Goodluck Jonathan, David and Goliath’’. The portion reads as follows:

‘’A few days ago from the sacred pulpit of the hallowed chambers of the National Christian Centre in Abuja and in the presence of the entire leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan proclaimed as follows: ‘’I am not David... I am not a general... I am not a lion... I will defeat the Goliaths in our land’’. These are deep and instructive words yet I do wonder whether Mr. President understands the spiritual and practical implications of what he is saying.

If he says that he ‘’is not a David’’ how can he then possibly slay the ‘’Goliaths in the land?’’ If he says that he ‘’is not a general’’ how can he be an effective Commander-in-Chief who commands the respect and confidence of his army and his officers? If he says that he ‘’is not a lion’’ how can he overwhelm the animals in our jungle that seek to destroy and ravage our land? The lion is a noble and courageous animal that defends its pride and family and protects its own. That is why it is known as the ‘’king of the jungle’’ and that is why our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Himself is known as the ‘’Lion of the Tribe of Judah’’.

Every king worth his salt must have the spirit of the lion and the warrior in him to a certain extent. It is a fundamental pre-qualification for good quality and inspirational leadership and that is what distinguishes the pretender and the usurper from a real king. May the spirit and weakness of Ahab not be our President’s portion even though his words seem to have ensnared him. History proves that weak kings and weak leaders always pull down and destroy great empires and strong kingdoms.

If you have any doubt about that consider what happened to the Roman Empire under Nero, Claudius or Caligula. If you still have any doubts after that then read up on Russian history or watch an excellent old film called ‘’Nicholas and Alexander’’ about Tsar Nicholas the 1st, the last Tsar of Russia and how his strong-willed wife and his consistent display of weakness shamed and brought down imperial Russia, destroyed the 300 year-old royal dynasty of the Romanovs, led directly to the First World War (which in turn led to the Second World War and then later the Cold War), caused the communist revolution, led to the Russian civil war, resulted in the murder of his whole family and ended in the establishment and creation of the most evil and godless empire that has ever ruled half of the world – the cold and all-powerful Soviet empire.

That is what weakness, prevarication, inconsistency, cowardice, emotional slavery, inexplicable fear and the celebration of indecision can do. Worst still you don’t boast about such qualities because there is nothing to be proud of in them. Always remember, whether you are a king or a subject, that courage is the greatest of all the virtues. This is wisdom. Would someone please tell our President’’.

Once again please take note that the contribution that I quoted above was part of an essay that I wrote on 26th September 2011, almost two years ago to the day.

With the killing of 91 children by Boko Haram in Damaturu a few days ago, the slaughter of 140 Nigerian troops by Boko Haram in Borno State last Friday, the massacre of 41 school children in Borno State by Boko Haram two months ago, the mass murder of no fewer than 7000 thousand Nigerians by Boko Haram in the last three years and the raging war that is going on in the northern eastern part of our country between Boko Haram and our military today those words and that counsel that was offered two years ago seem even more relevant today than it was even at that time.

The carnage that we are witnessing in our country today has come as a direct result of the manifestation of weakness at the top. When a President tells the world that Boko Haram are his ‘’siblings’’ whom he ‘’cannot move against’’, as he did earlier this year, he is asking for trouble. When a President keeps offering Boko Haram amnesty even when they kept rejecting it and whilst they were murdering his people, as he has been doing for the last three years, he is asking for trouble. When a President installs and supports a party National Chairman who describes Boko Haram as ‘’freedom fighters’’, as he did earlier this year, he is asking for trouble.

When a President announces to the world that he is ‘’not a lion or a David’’, as he did exactly two years ago, no-one should be surprised when his people are killed like flies before his very eyes. May God bring us a real leader that can save our nation and may He take away this one who feels no pain and has no empathy when Nigerian blood, nay even the blood of innocent children, is shed with impunity. Under the tenure of our ‘’lamb’’ President more innocent Nigerians have been slaughtered by terrorists than at any other time in the history of our country except during the civil war.

What a mess, what a record. I continue to ponder about one thing though – would the President have been so unperturbed and detached from the whole thing if the children that were killed in their school yesterday morning had been from his Niger Delta area or from the East. What a tragedy. Whether Christian or Muslim, northern or southern, these are only children and they are Nigerian children each of whom is entitled to the full protection of the Nigerian State. I have said it before and I shall say it again, Nigeria has become an abattoir of human flesh and blood under the tenure of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and all those who support him should bury their heads in shame. The blood of all those innocent people is on his hands because he swore to an oath before God and the Nigerian people to protect them from such evil. Instead of getting on with his job and doing so he has spent the last few days boasting to the world about ringing the bell in the New York Stock Exchange and receiving irrelevant, illusionary, self-serving and absurd commendations for absolutely nothing from President Barack Obama. May God deliver us.

Permit me to make a painful observation here. I was thoroughly appalled about the fact that when our lamb President was asked about the latest round of killings during his live ‘’Presidential Media Chat’’ programme on Sunday evening he not only told a lie to the world by claiming that only ‘’21 or 22 students were killed’’ at a time when the BBC and CNN had confirmed that at least 45 bodies had been found (more were to be discovered later) but he also failed to express his condolences to the families of those that had lost their loved ones. He made the same omission when he failed to commiserate with or express his condolences to the families of the 140 soldiers that were killed in Borno State some days ago whilst fighting Boko Haram simply because they ran out of bullets during the course of the battle.

By way of contrast not only was he quick to offer his condolences to the government and people of Kenya for the terrible carnage that was inflicted on them by Al Shabab recently when 68 people were killed (I guess that to him Nigerian blood is not as expensive or as important as foreign blood) but he was also quick to offer the Kenyan government military assistance. If President Uhuru Kenyatta decides to accept his offer let us hope that our lamb President will give enough bullets to the soldiers that he will send. Our boys are deeply courageous fighters and they certainly deserve that much. They also deserve to have a Commander in Chief that inspires them, that watches their back and that gives them the very best. May the souls of all those that have been killed by Boko Haram in the last three years rest in peace and may the Lord take the leadership of this nation from the lamb and give it to a lion king.

To be continued

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/columnist/134789-fani-kayode-a-president-without-balls-

According to what i heard, that plane had been on the tarmac for over a year idling away. The sponsor of the flight approached one of the airline that offer charter services but the price quoted made him run to Associated Airline despite having existing relationship with the former. They were able to save some millions of naira but at what cost.

Annie2gud: Thumbs up to women that married Fat hybrid Dudes.i like my men slim and PoRtable.**winks**
Rip Olubummi.ile aye .....ile aso.

I will refrain from calling you a wasted spermatozoa.

Tell him to watch National Geographic Wild. (Nat Geo Wild). Nothing convinces more than those animals in their design and intelligence, that there is a higher power responsible for such amazing creations.

Obviously his brain is perforated

i don't blame Access Bank, i blame the useless regulating authorities who choose to condone this crooked behavior. That's how it works if you can get away with wrong doing, you will do it.

Nightmare on elms street

neyshed: @4p let me follow u for twitter

@ neyshed, so sorry, i dont have a twitter handle ( i know, it's weird)

i have followed this bossboy drama from the other forum and i have this to say. I understand people's need to win considering the economic issue out there which everybody is feeling and making people desperate to the extent of now begging bossboy and thus making them look like bossboy is their only hope and this shouldn't be so.
Bossboy ability to forecast bankers often is a gift but when you now start feeling that without you, people cant win baba ijebu because one way or the other your gift has been praised to high heaven and you feel there is none like you, well think again. History shows that people like you becomes very irrelevant sooner than they think.
People has been begging you for over a month, people has defended you from those who bad mouthed you but yet you feel they don't deserve to partake of the gift you have.
Am not against your YB forum but even a person with a heart of stone will at a point just treat people who have begged and pleaded, and give in.
I know they will still defend you by yabbing me for this write up but does that mean you will still be human enough to help them, prove me wrong and treat people nicely. Afterall if people win it doesn't stop you collecting your winning.
Enough said.

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hello guys,
please i noticed something from the charts being sold every monday, the lotto key.
The aspect of working plans under lotto school, i would like to know if anybody have an idea how they get the keys. the key plus the total.
I would appreciate if anybody knows how that key is derived because it drops numbers 75 to 80 percent of the time.

The same reason some customers choose to remain with MTN.

Let's assume you are staring death himself in the face with the certainty that he has come for you, what would your last statement be.

Just like Noah in his days.

No airline in Nigeria can be profitable with the business model they are presently operating, coupled with the crass corruption going on in that industry.
Most floaters of airline business in Nigeria are those who one way or the other in time past has stole public funds and for whatever reason believe floating an airline business is the best way to launder the money and turn it over into a legitimate funds due to the perceived volume of passengers it tends to transport.
Where professional runs the industries in developed countries it is known that for a short haul flight (which all flights within this country falls within)you don't use a wide bodied jet engine planes to commute short distance of an hour because no flight in withing nigeria is more than 70/80 minutes. Turbo propeller engine planes are what is being used for short distance air travel within countries that are not so big like Russia, USA, Canada and Australia to name a few.
The only local airline which has display this knowledge of professionalism is overland airways, all planes in their fleet are propeller planes.This has enable them operates in states of the countries where other airlines with jet engine planes couldn't have, places like Akure, Ibadan, Ilorin, Asaba and many more such route are being planned.
Now are they making profit? i can't say with absolute certainty but from the number of planes it has come to acquire over time, it seems to be growing.
It is for a fact that these propeller planes are lot cheaper to maintain than their wide bodied jet engine counterparts which gobbles at the airline's bottom line thus making them cut corners and thereby endangering peoples lives.
As long as Nigeria is the same square kilometers and any aspiring airline operators choose the way of jet engine planes to fly it's airspace, it is a loss making venture with absolute certainty.
My submission.

Can somebody tell me how stupid we Nigerians are? A south African company by the name MTN rolled out a promo advert with the caption scratch =N=200 naira and win a brand aeroplane, and nobody in their right senses in NCC, marketing association of Nigeria deem it fit to call MTN to order to remove this insulting advert.
Another telcom company will soon come up with scratch =N=50 and win a country.
I give up.

I have a baseball bat in my car, have flashed it twice at different attackers and they respected themselves, maybe cos they are just with knives. I also have a taser 1,000,000 volts, never had cause to use that yet. I also have a knife under my car seat. Presently trying to get a pepper spray. Lagos is a jungle and one has to be prepared. I know all these are of no use in the face of a gun, yet to have that experience and I do pray i dont, but regular hoodlums with knives will definitely get a fight from me.
The police will not protect you so whatever you can use to prtotect yourself that its not illegal please use.
Chances that one day, you will be accosted by these thugs as long as you live in Lagos is more than 50%.