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netmillionaires:
Correct. YOU ARE RIGHT. Can I breath now?

Contrary to your worship of Nigerian “big men”....
You do not need their (nor my) permission to breath.
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No Nigerian “big man” here...

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netmillionaires:
YOU ARE RIGHT... Can I breath now?

Wrestling with the basic function of breathing?

Of course, I was always correct but that was hardly the point...
Educating and enlightening a segment of the population was well worth the discourse.
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Freemanbobble:
Boss make we try forgive am. Maybe na stefflon don pussyyy when he dey bang dey shark am for body
Burna boy and tuface are the only talented artiste in Nigeria

The rest are dog shittt

But I be vex for Burna boy o when them Ask am say why do Nigerians love you

He come reply say na because say them love am outside Nigeria na im make Nigerians love am
Very rude response

Him nor know say without us the world can not recognise him

Anyway i Don forgive am sha

Burna NEVER said that. It was just the twisted work of clickbait bloggers...
In fact, Burna was actually pissed about it (see his interview on the Breakfast Club).
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udomoh:
Ada Priscilla Nzimiro, the first medical doctor from igboland, Eastern Nigeria, her life and times. Ada Nzimiro birth, education, occupation, legacy and death.

To some it was a tragic story, while to me, it was a case of unfinished greatness and a feat that paved the way for the liberation and educational emancipation of the African women in general and the Nigerian women in particular. Becoming a certified medical doctor as at 1950 in a then world and society full of male chauvinists and sexists is not an easy feat. She deserves to be in Nigeria’s hall of fame.

So what do you know about Ada Priscilla Nzimiro, the first female igbo medical doctor?

Below are the few things I was able to gather from scanty sources on the internet and the library.

1. Ada Priscilla Nzimiro was born on the 30th of April, 1923 in Port Harcourt Nigeria.

2. Her parents were Richard Okwosha Nzimiro (father) and Mary Nwametu Onumonu (mother)

3. Her father was the first Mayor of Port Harcourt in 1956 and died in office in 1959 while her mother was described as a “wealthy merchant” that traded in palm oil, salt and European products.

4. Mary Nwametu Onumonu (1898–1993), was a wealthy merchant, political activist, and member of the NCNC who galvanised Igbo women for the Biafran war effort in 1967 and lost all her landed properties in Port Harcourt after the war due to her role in trying to divide the country.

5. Historians were able to trace her family roots or lineage to Oguta, present-day Imo state.

6. She enrolled for university for education in 1945 in Scotland after her secondary education in Nigeria.

7. She attended medical school, had medical training and earned her Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MB ChB) in 1950 at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.

8. She was the first woman from Igboland to graduate as a medical doctor.

9. She died tragically just a year after graduation on the 22nd of March, 1951 at the age of 27.

10. She barely practised medicine for 1 year.

11. The cause of her death was described by historians as “unnatural” yet undisclosed causes.

12. Her sudden demise came as a rude shock to her family, friends and well-wishers

13. She was buried a month after in Oguta, present-day Imo state.

14. She was neither married nor engaged while alive. She had no child.

15. Ada Priscilla Nzimiro parents in their benevolence established two schools at Oguta in 1945, one of which is William Wilberforce Academy (WWA), remamed Priscilla Memorial School to honour her memory and preserve her legacy and feat in medicine.

16. As the first female medical doctor from her region, Nzimiro inspired many young women to pursue medicine as a career.

Conclusion: Though she died too early and couldn’t fulfil her promising medical career, she paved the way for the liberation and education of many women dominating different fields of knowledge today. #Respect to an Amazon#

Her picture and the school named after he in present day Imo state below�

https://nimedhealth.com.ng/2019/08/07/ada-priscilla-nzimiro-the-tragic-story-of-the-first-igbo-female-medical-doctor/?amp

Don’t think that’s why she lost her properties in PH....

Rather, all Ibos lost (or more precisely, were deprived of) their PH properties under Diete-Spiff’s “Abandoned Properties” doctrine, although I think some Ibos may have regained some of their properties years later.
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ZOO!
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GOOD!
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netmillionaires:
I give up on your reasoning. U just like twisting two completely different scenario together.

Anyway YOU ARE RIGHT. Can I breath now?

Wrestling with the basic concept of an analogy?
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How’s that military camo?

Yet they will see Wizkid in army-green camo and not do jack (except beg him for money). Anyway, on another thread some NLers were arguing that it is OK for military people to do as they please so long as they had ‘warned’ you, and that some privileged Nigerians has more rights than the rest of the population, so I am not completely surprised at these sorts of behavior. SMH
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OlujobaSamuel:
Then the govt owe us a duty of transparency by disclosing the details of the contract with Primero.

Totally agree...
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netmillionaires:
Mind you, Dangote can go abroad and ask you to leave the STREET (capitalized so you don't come talking about wrestling with issues again) in front of his residence. Nobody can start setting up instruments in front of your apartment without been questioned (not even a news broadcasters) that is why news companies go about with branded implements to for easy identification. If the people living in that street aren't convinced about your mission in the area they will call the cop on you.

Pure comedy...
Even Trump cannot stop people protesting on the sidewalk in front of Trump Towers.
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netmillionaires:
Me wrestling with issues? when I am not a wrestler. Still trying to be sensational and trying to sound educated. I will drive and park a petrol tanker in front of your house since it is public property.

LAWFUL/designated activities right? The point is what constitutes lawful/designated activities. Keep on parking in front of people's house until you come across people who know their right. Are you even aware that Lagos once pass a law to stop people from parking on the road/street? It got to a stage that they start to tow cars from the street. The reason why it is not been enforced now is because most lagosians do it and confiscating thousands of people's car is tasking and will be seen as anti-people especially when most people with cars don't have compound where they can park their cars.

I will give you cases where residents called police on people who park on the street and the people were told to remove the cars. I am talking about Europe not Nigeria o. I can even give you names of streets in the mainland where you will be told point blank that you can't park your car since you want to make it rich people palava. When I am driving in and I spot you in an unfamiliar car parked in front of a building close to mine (not my building o. just and adjacent building), what I will do next is park, walk up to you and politely ask you what you are doing there. The earlier we all take it serious, the better for the country.

It is normal to park in front of establishments like banks, hospitals, churches as it will be assumed that the owner of the car is there to conduct business so these organizations have to put NO PARKING signs in front of their buildings to let people know that parking isn't allowed. Private residence on the other hand need not put a notice as it is normal for people to not park in front of the building unless you have something doing in the house. So people are expected to know without been told. That we do it in Nigeria doesn't mean it is okay.

If anything happen to your car in that street, who will you question first? People on the street especially the house in front of which the car is parked right? So people has a responsibility to watch over your car but no right to tell you not to park there Abi.

Mind you, Dangote can go abroad and ask you to leave the STREET (capitalized so you don't come talking about wrestling with issues again) in front of his residence. Nobody can start setting up instruments in front of your apartment without been questioned (not even a news broadcasters) that is why news companies go about with branded implements to for easy identification. If the people living in that street aren't convinced about your mission in the area they will call the cop on you.

Next time I will only tell you YOU ARE RIGHT and move on.

Still wrestling with basic concepts...
Obviously, if it’s against the law/public notice it is by definition unlawful. Duh!

9jaRealist:
So if the person driving in front of you on the street could be a “kidnapper or assassin” you can stop people driving on the street?
The front of your property is PUBLIC space, and in the absence of a PUBLIC notice by the authorities, can be used as parking space.
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Nonetheless, the proper way to seek redress is to get the authorities to take action...
Which is why the LASG (under your own example) tows away cars rather than beat up offenders. Duh!

Only in a lawless society (apparently populated by a largely lawless citizenry) that Nigeria increasingly has become do people take the law into their hands and have supposedly educated people cheering them on and arguing that their status entitles to them to greater rights and to control public spaces. As the saying goes, a man cannot climb your back unless you are bent over. Many Nigerians like you are eagerly grabbing their ankles as eager ACCOMPLICES in your own oppression. SMH
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OlujobaSamuel:
Can an investor also take up buses to ply the lane solely for commercial uses?
If no, then the masses is the one financing major part of the investment.

No, just like a private DISCO can not operate another DISCO’s concessioned area...

There are 14 planned BRT routes (Abule-Egba to Oshodi is presently being developed), and each BRT route will be subject to public competitive bidding (hopefully, there will be several bidders, just as with the GSM licensees and the DISCOs), but the very essence and concept of the BRT (with emphasis on “rapid”) is that it effectively acts as the road equivalent of the light rail system. And just like the rail system, the government builds the hard infrastructure while (ideally) a private concessionaire operates rolling stock (and pays the govt a percentage of the revenue derived effectively as ‘rent’ for the use of the public infrastructure). This is NOT unique to Lagos or Nigeria.
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blackboy:
A step to frustrate the buses. They should be entitled to use the BRT lanes. This is unacceptable.
Could BRT scheme belong to ...

GidiWoodsMan:
LASG has modified federal roads, using state government money, to restrict approximately a third part of the highway network for the use of a private business concern.

One would expect all commuter buses to be granted access to the BRT lanes for the public good, but alas, the lanes remain empty for the most period because the concessionaire does not even have financial heft to operate at reasonable capacity, while the rest of us struggle and waste productive hours in traffic occassioned by the considerably narrowed highways.

Nigeria is a place where government officials implement such bizarre and patently stupīd policies that you start to wonder whether we are still living in the medieval period.

neonly:
Rubbish instead of then to allow d buses to ply d road they are busy forming BRT dis people are just enjoying monopoly(tinubu),
Why can't d buses ply d same BRT road at least it belongs to d government or is it because it was Ambode project rubbish pple even d so called BRT is not enough for d ppl

These buses were NOT procured to be BRT buses...
Instead, they were procured by the LASG to eventually replace the rickety Danfo buses on most routes.

Perhaps Danfos would still exist in the underserved and/or semi-rural outlying areas of Lagos, but the primary aim of acquiring these high-capacity and more environmentally-friendly buses (they will run on CNG) was to replace Danfo in most of Lagos. At least that was the plan under the Ambode administration, but not sure if that’s still the plan since Ambode’s ouster.

Ambode decided that instead of throwing Danfo drivers and conductors into the unemployment market they would be trained/retrained to operate and maintain these new buses (in conjunction with the NURTW) under private operating companies, and that has been responsible for the delay in the take off of the services since the first batch of 800 buses (out of a projected 5000 eventually) were procured.

In addition, the supporting and maintenance infrastructure for these buses had to be put in place first. This includes the Intelligent Transport System (ITS) that will enable commuters track buses and plan their journeys (as well as ultimately purchase tickets) online, the bus shelters and terminals, the 3 maintenance depots at Oshodi, Yaba and Lekki (including the assembly plant at Awoyaya-Lekki).

Finally, it’s crucial that Nigerian governments (and frankly Nigerians in general) learn to respect the sanctity of commercial contracts if we are serious about attracting much-needed private capital and investment (both domestic and foreign). Primero, following a successful public bid to operate the BRT route (out of the envisaged 14 routes) took a Sterling Bank loan followed by the Securitization offering this year to finance operation of this concession. No serious govt should change the terms of the concession midway into its operation.
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megafaraday:
Good one. We need to see more of them on the roads as they appear parked somewhere now

They are still developing the Intelligent Transport System to be used...
And are training/retraining the bus drivers, conductors, maintenance staff, etc.
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OlujobaSamuel:
The only thing I discovered in the write-up is that we the public are the one that set-up and financing still financing brt buses in Lagos, yet we know nothing about their operations.
I think interested investors should be allowed to have their own brt franchise also and also determines their price.

No, the public did not...
Of course, the govt financed the BRT lanes.

But Primero financed the acquisition of its buses with a Sterling Bank loan...
And resorted to the capital market this year with a Securitization offering for additional buses.
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alphaNomega:
I hate government-enabled monopoly

Primero, Dangote, etc

Dangote is NOT a monopoly...
The DISCOs are monopolies, but an example that sometimes monopolies are necessary.

Meanwhile, Primero (just like the DISCOs) are only a monopoly on designated routes...
Lagos plans to develop 14 BRT routes, and each route is subject to a public competitive bid.
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damiBJ:
Infact I weak....God bless u. u can't try DAT in abroad....but in niaja....tooo much of home video is really killing the reasoning of guyz.

Bros, you’ve clearly never been abroad if you think that abroad if you park OUTSIDE of (but NOT on) someone’s property the person is free to get a couple of thugs to beat you up. If there’s a SINGULAR difference between ‘lawless’ Nigeria and the more civilized advanced Western countries it’s the notion of EQUALITY before the law. Sadly, it seems that most ordinary Nigerians are COMPLICIT in their own oppression.
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netmillionaires:
See logic! I can't laugh. Stop been sensational with the truth. You can't twist anything here. By your logical reasoning, Just because it is a public road and no "No herding" Fulani herdmen can walk their cattle on it too and ignore safety because they have rights. Why is there "No parking, loitering, and/or waiting" and yet there is no "no driving" sign on our road? Na question I ask o.

We are talking about parking in front of private residence and this one is talking about driving.

Go and park in front of Dangote house and say because there is no "No parking" sign, you a
re free to do anyhow. Everyone has a right to what happens in front of their house. Go figure that. When they call police on you just try and put up a fight you hear.
When you go abroad, go and park in front of people's private apartment and when they ask you to remove your car just put up a fight and see whether the police wont be call on you.

Not quite the point you are trying to make here...
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netmillionaires:
See logic! I can't laugh. Stop been sensational with the truth. You can't twist anything here. By your logical reasoning, Just because it is a public road and no "No herding" Fulani herdmen can walk their cattle on it too and ignore safety because they have rights. Why is there "No parking, loitering, and/or waiting" and yet there is no "no driving" sign on our road? Na question I ask o.

We are talking about parking in front of private residence and this one is talking about driving.

Go and park in front of Dangote house and say because there is no "No parking" sign, you a
re free to do anyhow. Everyone has a right to what happens in front of their house. Go figure that. When they call police on you just try and put up a fight you hear.
When you go abroad, go and park in front of people's private apartment and when they ask you to remove your car just put up a fight and see whether the police wont be call on you.

You cannot park in front of people’s apartments abroad (or even in Nigeria) because that’s PRIVATE property, but you can certainly park on the PUBLIC STREETS surrounding such property (with the caveat yet again that you cannot block ingress/egress to the property).

You seem to be wrestling with two rather basic concepts: (1) the area OUTSIDE your fenced property in front of your property is PUBLIC property; and (2) the public’s use of PUBLIC spaces still has to be for LAWFUL/designated purposes (thus you cannot go and build a house on Third Mainland Bridge nor pitch a sleeping tent on the sidewalk outside the rear-admiral’s house).

Meanwhile, as I have said severally, just because so-called Big Men can get away with impunity in ‘lawless’ Nigeria does not mean that it is lawful. Thus, Dangote CANNOT go abroad and have someone ejected from the street or public property in front of their fenced property. If you watch foreign news, you will see reporters camping with their equipment in front of people’s property but not on the property.
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pinkygurl:
You jobless fellow.less than a year on nairaland & you have already spent 25days & 5hours.not like you are a nairaland shares holder or are here advertising any goods and /or services.you are MORE UGLY

Yet more childish gibberish...
Beginning to suspect you are not just HORRIBLY UGLY on the inside. SMH
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Jakumo:
This reassuring statement is appreciated sir, though I will add that doctors who graduated from Nigerian medical schools do not simply commence practice in the UK, USA or Canada without first undergoing a series of intensive and exhaustive accreditation examinations before being permitted to practice outside of Nigeria. I have personally encountered medical doctors and lawyers who make ends meet in the USA driving taxi cabs and lecturing in high schools and junior colleges, illustrating that the career path you describe is by no means automatic and free of impediments.

Furthermore, graduates of Nigerian universities seeking employment in the West do encounter significant skepticism and close scrutiny, in their quest to enroll in graduate programs, though standards may be somewhat more lax in countries like Poland, whose own academic credentials are viewed with a jaundiced eye even within the European Union.

It’s the same for graduates from EVERWHERE else...

It is NOT unique to Nigerian medical school graduates, and even local (US/UK/Canadian) also take SAME exams. It has NOTHING to do with the quality (or the purported suspicion) of Nigerian certificates. In fact if there was any such suspicion they would not have been qualified to take those board exams. It’s not like any person (including US, UK and Canadian citizens) can just show up and take board examinations.
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The leaders of tomorrow...
Nigeria is perpetually doomed!
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Kolping:
This woman is being economical with the truth about her upbringing in Nigeria. She was not brought up in a poor family. She has also obviously leveraged her husband and his family connections to rise in UK politics.

Kemi Badenoch grew up in Nigeria and the United States of America before returning to England as a teenager. She was born to a father who is a medical doctor who owns/owned a hospital in Lagos and a mother who is an academic, now a Professor of Physiology at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos and former President of the The Endocrine and Metabolism Society of Nigeria (EMSON) - Olufeyisipe Adefunke Adegoke.

Kemi met her husband at their local Conservative association in 2005. She married Hamish Badenoch in 2012, an English man whose family is in the British peerage and who works for Deutsche Bank. Until recently he was a Conservative councillor in the London Borough of Merton. He is the Chief Operating Officer (COO), Global Markets UK, Deutsche Bank, London.

Nigerians are often the worst thing to happen to Nigeria...
Many seem to love to de-market Nigeria to embellish their own stories.
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Newmans:
You know she is no longer a Nigerian you are still referring her as a Nigerian.

Fellow. Nigerians I'm given out this my opinion to our FG that any Nigerian coming in to this country from abroad must be de radicalized or reorientated before he or she is allowed into this country. God bless Nigeria.

She will ALWAYS be a Nigerian (and so will her progeny)...
Regardless of what the passport says, the genes remain Nigerian.
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Madam Minister, Nigeria laid the foundation for your achievements...
Perhaps if you grew up in the UK, will take life for granted and drop out of school.

Whatever we become is built upon ALL of our life experiences...
And it’s NOT happenstance that Nigerians in the UK on the average outperform the population.
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pinkygurl:
You too share your own pics let's see what you look like.attention seeker. toke ass licker

Yet more silly childish insults...

Meanwhile, whatever you may look like (don’t actually care)...
You’ve already established that you are a VERY UGLY human being. SMH
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MoneyMan5:
There are a lot of Ignorant Nigerians on this forum

This is the Bill Board World Charts not African Billboard!

https://www.billboard.com/charts/world-digital-song-sales

Thanks! Arrogant ignorance is the worst...
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toprealman:
Who cares bro.....people in Africa do it the African way. We no send them

Thank you! As if 1.2 billion Africans is not enough relevance...
Sadly, there are still some desperately seeking Massa’s validation.
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temmypotter:
These guys above me though

In a sane country, the brilliant chap would have gotten all the neccesary assistance to ply his brilliance at the very top flight.

And for the silly comments above, the lot of you are probably frustrated empty headed dudes struggling to graduate with a pass even, what nonsense!

Nothing against the kid, but...

It is the local educational system that fostered his academic excellence...
Nigeria will never rise if every brilliant prospect is immediately shipped abroad.
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Jakumo:
Unlike university degrees from Ghana, as a regional example, Nigerian college diplomas are regarded with a lot of suspicion outside of Nigeria, simply because it is a well known fact that university degrees are very often PURCHASED by students who would otherwise have barely made it through high school, talk less of college.

Thus, any student who really is academically gifted would be best advised to seek that golden fleece in the West, meaning either Western Europe, Canada or the United States, whose institutions of higher learning are renowned and well respected globally. The truth is sad, but plain to see.

With all due respect, that’s just nonsense...
Once the US Embassy authenticates that it’s not forged, the substance of the certificate is NOT an issue.

Thousands of Nigerian university graduates have proceeded to graduate programs in the West...
And thousands of doctors educated in Nigerian universities are practicing in the UK, US and Canada.
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philip0906:
The @bolded are highlights of genuine rape cases...For those senile peeps making noise that rape cases are difficult to prove, here you have it.
1. Witnesses
2. Police report
3. Hospital report
4. Her mother
5. She shouted

Guess what? she's only 14...But she knows she has been defiled. The onus is on the authorities now, to follow up. If in 10 years time, she comes on twitter and instagram to claim rape, she has evidences (documented) she can always reference to back up her claims...She didn't go to twitter or instagram. From the story, she's probably from a very low income family.

Unfortunately, those that say they're woke, learned and well to do...think that twitter & instagram noise is the way to go

Rape is NOT one-size-fits-all...
There’s NO one standard set of facts, evidence or proof.
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