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TonyRazor:
Okada Rider's Daughter Scores Highest In JAMB, Gets INNOSON N3m Scholarship

https://twitter.com/innosonvehicles/status/1655634528080125962

This cannot possibly be correct…
Renal-Failure Omokori told us the highest JAMB scores come from the North!
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casualobserver:
After a 3 term deputy senate president disgraced the country with human trafficking, some people want us to reward the Se with senate presidency

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Abegi, what sort of DUMB logic is this?!

After Ibori was jailed in the UK…
You’re still “rewarding” the South South with same Senate Presidency.

In fact, some would contend that…
After Tinubu “disgraced” the nation with drugs-proceeds forfeiture, you “rewarded” him with President-Elect!

Meanwhile, only in a corrupt nation like Nigeria (and among corrupt Nigerians) is what should be a call to SERVE the common folk of Nigeria treated as a “reward” - obviously because so Nigerians know that it is most often the quickest avenue for self-enrichment (and so many of you are okay with it). It’s said no-one can ride on your back unless you’re bent over, and many of you are eager to grab your ankles!
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Okealaaye:
Senator Ike Ekweremadu needs our prayers at this time, not mockery. Whoever the author of this photo is, is a heathen. That we too are not in prison today is not because we're perfect; it's only by grace. The travails of a parent are surmounted only by the mercies of God. May God see Senator Ekweremadu through, Amen.

Abegi, speak only for yourself…
Personally, I am not in prison because I have NOT committed a crime.

Of course, we can pray for him…
So long as same folks also remember to pray for the VICTIM of his crime.
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eepeepook:
After that, the closet racist surely washed his hands clean. Leave those colonizers, all they want is their gain.

Frankly, a Nigerian/African ripping off his own people is far worse than any racist (“closet” or otherwise)….
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dyera:
The man refused to step down for 20 years for another man to become senator in his constituency.

ezechi242:
very wicked and greedy politician....tufia

Some of you Nigerians seem far more concerned with “chop-I-chop” SHARING of loot than with the actual crime he committed…smh
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Enemyofpeace:
Na only God know how LIFE evolves. See picture of King Charles III & Sen. Ekweremadu some time ago. One is now King of England while the other is now Prisoner in UK. Nobody knows tommorow, jaré

The vicissitudes of life…

These days, one will be sitting on the royal throne at Buckingham Palace…
While the other will be sitting on a porcelain ‘throne’ at His Majesty’s Prisons!
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EduTechTainMent:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1654746980906684416

ABSOLUTE RUBBISH! Using outliers as if the norm…
REALITY is that Northern Nigeria has virtually become the World’s Capital of (out-of-school kids and thus) Illiteracy!
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Pacesetter2021:
for some,yes.

It's all about what rocks your boat.

Not sure some folks understand the concept of “achievement” but…

Living in the US is NOT “an achievement” even if it rocks everyone’s boat…
Rather, it’s just a domicile and most people who live there is due to the “accident of birth”.
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frank33:
Hi guys. I really need some advice on this please.

We are a family of 6 and I want to relocate my family from Onitsha to Abuja in order to hopefully have a better life and expose to kids to more.

But I am bothered by the uncertainty of this move.

Is this this good idea?

If you live or have lived in Abuja can you please advice me on where we can live and afford an average life in Abuja in terms of accommodation, feeding and transport.

Also what kind of business can one start up in Abuja as a newcomer with about 10m to survive.

BEST WISHES bro…
But please do not add to the slum population of Abuja, which is beginning to fall apart.
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post=122929905:
A Nigerian Man, Citizen Nagaziman, shared a photo of a beggar, asking why she chose to get pregnant again when she can't take care of the child she already have, Reports.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0NnvgBDRvSAas7GHqTFc8UjKWLqTKB5M3dfyEFqhg6NgvGHzVrrZxSLEqALDxqMqrl&id=100001644295293&mibextid=Nif5oz

he said in a Facebook post, As Sighted By on Thursday, May 4, 2023.

See His Reaction As Obtained By Below:

The POOREST Nigerians seem to have the MOST kids…
But no wahala, because they’ll tell you it’s a “blessing”!
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MiztaDynameek:
Out of all the countries mentioned na only Nigeria no get steady light. No be shame

juvewalex:
We never get light finish, you are still selling it to Neigbouring countries and you are being owed by those countries, how do you recover your debts except you will disconnect them .

In the case of Nigeria, when you are billing us exorbitantly, how did you think people would pay such bills willingly without electricity being supplied to them and you think you could be smiling to bank for cash out .

A lot is wrong here .

Reality is you get what you pay (or don’t pay) for…
Nigeria has the CHEAPEST electricity rates in the world - not counting the cost of STOLEN power and VANDALIZED assets.

Nigerians are truly WEIRD folk…
They will protest and refuse to pay for grid electricity, and then spend MILLIONS MORE on generators, diesel, etc. SMH
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Abuja1914:
Let's not give ethnic colouration to the victory of our Councilor elect from Markwort and New Zealand ward of Derby City Council.

It will interest you to know that majority of his support base are Yoruba students and residents in Derby.

Let's be guided and wish him greater political pursuit.

Even assuming that you undertook a personal census of his support base, one could say exactly the same thing about the Labour Party in Lagos - until the likes of MC Oluomo, Dele Alake, and the rest of the PRIMITIVE TRIBALISTIC DEMAGOGUES intervened.
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BreconHills:
True. But I have a confession.

One of first set of permsecs class of 60- 79 told me that they carried some responsibility for the debacle in the 60's and 70's. The military leaned heavily on them ( but military people are contrary to what most people think - highly intelligent) But the permsecs over taught them and they could easily have instead steered them to some sandboxes but for their own naivety regarding human nature their briefings exposed loopholes that the likes of IBB would later weaponize.

Hindsight is always 20:20

Anyone from our parents (or grandparents) generation will enlighten you that Nigeria was at it most promising peak (and was labeled as “The First Black Power” on a TIME magazine cover story) when the so-called “first set of permsecs” were influential in the affairs of the state.

It was when Murtala Muhammed came to power and immediately set about dismantling the civil service hierarchy “with immediate effect” (starting with the so-called “super permanent secretaries” cadre epitomized by the likes of highly-educated and capable technocrats such as Philip Asiodu, Ahmed Joda, Allison Ayida, etc.) that the degeneration and overt-politicization of the public service and sector first set in - which was then subsequently entrenched by the “quota system” policies (first introduced in education by Prof Jubril Aminu, and which subsequently spread like cancer throughout the public sector) and “federal character” bean-counting, each of which often derogated merit.

We now have ended up with a contraption of a “nation” wherein (for example) even appointments to the nation’s most important law court, the Supreme Court, is done on the basis of quotas and geopolitical representation. SMH
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Tboi4real:
Nigeria population is jus 2 much imagine if all nigeria who are outside the country should return

Nigeria would likely be a MUCH BETTER country…
Population is NOT a problem, but the (lack of) PRODUCTIVITY of the population. Nigeria presently carries too much DEADWEIGHT!
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Eriokanmi:
Consequence of bad leadership. In the 80s, Nigeria was a choice destination for studies. There were Indians schooling in our secondary schools and universities. My dad's friend was the Head of international students who came from South Africa to study in those days at UI. He said people were turning down the idea of schooling abroad in those days. Thabo Mbeki's younger brother schooled in Unilag. What has really changed How are the mighty fallen

Those “Indians” were mostly Nigerian-Indians…

As for South Africans, the Nigerian government granted hundreds of scholarships to SAs to study in Nigeria and elsewhere (and of course, Mbeki lived in Lagos, among other SAs). In fact, the Nigerian government granted thousands of Nigerian PASSPORTS to SAs because that’s the only way they could travel during Apartheid, which is why the current anti-Nigerian xenophobia in SA is sadly ironic.

As for Nigerians going to study in Sudan, it’s for one of two reasons: (1) for Islamic and/or Arabic Studies, or (2) people who couldn’t get into Nigerian universities or for the courses they want. It’s NOT because tertiary education in Sudan is better. IT ISN’T!
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Hotwest:
They should release the lion to the jungle as they can't Carter for the lion

Nice sentiment…
But some Nairalanders will just promptly hunt it down and eat it.
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BRIMBRAM:
Mary the Mother of Jesus Christ was a teenage girl, so, so young of around 12 to 14 years old compared to her husband Joseph of around 85 years old. So?!

So you’re setting stall by the (alleged) standards of over 2000 years ago…
No wonder Africans remain mired in backwardness and underdevelopment. SMH
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damilola4162:
Source: https://newspremises.com.ng/95-year-old-man-marries-teenage-girl-in-abuja-communityphotos/

PEDOPHILES all over Nigeria….
But most especially in the North! SMH
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Odewaleadesoye:
•’My politics also died when Umaru died’

VANGUARD

RIP, dude seemed a decent chap…
But this Turai woman was POWER DRUNK!
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kettykings:
We are talking about retirement to luxury, that was why I said he will retire to normal life, N20m can't buy a luxury car. I am not I'm support of or advocating for retirement to luxury for governors particularly when pensioners are owed

Ok, I get you now…
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kettykings:
What kind of car can N20m buy, okezie Ikpeazu is last man standing and should be removed from the list of those retiring into luxury to those retiring into Normal life

It will buy a better car than MOST Nigerians can afford…

US states like California and New York have a BIGGER GDP than the GDP of the entire Nigeria itself, and yet their ex-governors do not get even a single car (much less every 3 years) upon leaving office. Anyway, it’s said that no-one can ride on your back unless you’re bent over, and the sad reality is that so many Nigerians are so eager to grab their ankles for rapacious politicians. SMH
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Agbadocassava:
She’s a British woman with a Nigeria origin nothing else.

adeniyi65:
Fact.

My parents knew her dad, Lawrence Anionwu, who was a Cambridge University graduate and a lawyer in Jos…
I searched Wiki, and he was also the first Nigerian permanent secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during colonial rule.
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Jubrilv:
People's President......

Exactly! That’s why he’s sitting on a chair while the “people” sit on the floor…
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hdaveyork:
In a tweet on his official handle, the All Progressives Congress, APC chieftain further alleged that some legal practitioners have been flown to the country to do the job.

The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo has alleged plots by the opposition parties to legally stop the inauguration of the president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu before May 29.

The Minister, however, ascribed the move and reactions it preceded as illiteracy, saying some unscrupulous characters are taking advantage of those he termed “nattering nitwits”.

He wrote,

The President Election Tribunal had fixed Monday for the commencement of the hearing of the petitions filed by the opposition parties seeking to truncate the victory of Tinubu.

Meanwhile, preparation for transition is in top gear as President Muhammadu Buhari is set to hand over power to Bola Tinubu on May 29.

Festus Keyamo, Senior Clown of Nigeria…
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hdaveyork:
Tinubu, APC NWC meet, favour Akpabio as Senate President, Tajudeen as Speaker

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Daily Post

Darn! Orji Uzor Kalu has suffered…
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Illuminatiship:
Akpabio when thief and efcc still dey on him matter wan do senate president? Apc is a Big curse.

But there’s honor among THIEVES!
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kowema:
Exactly!.
Cus which on is "what is kidney"?.
There's no way he'd be booted out of Naija with all that expenses including time without due checks which would in turn involve him physical and mentally.

I'm of the opinion the guy played his own game too!.

It’s not beyond the pale of reason that a street hawker in Nigeria doesn’t know what a human kidney is…
There’s a reason the Ekweremadus paid Evelyn Agbasonu, a secretary at the hospital, 1,500 pounds to act as a translator.

Anyway, it all legally irrelevant…
The ONLY relevant issue in the case was whether there was FINANCIAL INDUCEMENT for the organ transplant.
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nony43:
My own is they should bring the boy back to 9ja. That boy went to the UK with Medical visa . So he knew what he went for.

The UK is not sending him back so that you Ekweremadu supporters can kill him…
Unlike the Nigerian government (and so many Nigerians) they value ALL human lives.
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Zonefree:
Imagine paying meagre 4.5M Naira for a human kidney. This Ekweremmuo is very wicked and stingy. You're referring your daughter's donor as "that guy"

That 9 years is too lenient in my opinion.

sonature1:
In all this, that Dr. Obinna Obeta deserved to get the worst jail term. That dude ought to get at least 15 years imprisonment. He's the perfect definition of wickedness and greed.

I believe 10 years is the MAXIMUM penalty…
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jaybenugo:
I Will Follow Yar’Adua’s Footsteps In My Administration – President-Elect, Tinubu

https://igberetvnews.com/1444403/will-follow-yaraduas-footsteps-administration-president-elect-tinubu/

I hope he doesn’t mean to “follow Yar’Adua’s footsteps” to an early grave…

Anyway, while Yar’Adua seemed a decent enough chap…
He was known as BABA GO-SLOW for good reason! We don’t have the luxury of time to rescue Nigeria!
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ufotunang:
... that means ekerewemadu did not tell the UK embassy in nigeria about any kidney transplant and the boy been the kidney donor .. that means ekerewemadu lied to the UK embassy in nigeria

Actually, it seems the UK High Commission did grant a visa for a possible transplant…
However, the RELEVANT legal issue in the case was NOT consent, but whether there was FINANCIAL INDUCEMENT for the organ.
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