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Dbanj, d Ejanla performin

LIVE on GhanaTV, watchin d white guy doin monkey style.
Omo ,ehnn, c Sunday Oliseh lookin fresh

victor jam: Wen an o level secondary school drop out calls a professor 'incompetent', wat do u call d secondary school drop out?

u call an engineer a o level dropout? I can d incompetency attach to ur boss and u is manifestin.

GUYSSSSS, did'nt u notice sometin? Dat money given to d father is almost 100 million naira. No wonder d papa no wan take back bench in d deal of his son. That money can change them for life if dey knw wat dey are doin. Dem go go do thanks givin on sunday. Kelechi too will be earnin sometin good in Man City.

Chaiiii, dis SR and PT sabi put on d fire for person yansh. Kudos to dem, bt i will like to spread their searchlight unto others too cos they are many. Frm dos who dont even hav a secondary school cert to dos who lied abt their degree and post degree cert. I think remember hw d former speaker Salisu Buhari was also disgrace and impeached cos of dis kinda issue.

Hmmmm, this is eye openin and scarely. My urine do get dark brownish sometym, it has happen for like two tyms now. I went to a hospital to complain to a doctor and some drugs were prescribe for me. I havent done any test yet bt wish to do. May God save us frm diseases of any kind. There is low knowledge abt this hepatitis. Government and our health workers need to do more.

Wen my mum, siblings and cousins travel to Ilorin frm Kano last week Saturday. This is wat happen.
They wake up early on saturday morning, have their bath and perform their Subh prayers. They took off to the station around 6 am cos we heard that d train usually leave kano early. Dey didnt meet any train on d ground and hav to wait for a train that was comin frm Lagos. The train didnt come on tym until around 6 pm. Imagin waitin since in d mornin. Dey still didnt took off until around 11pm. They arrive Ilorin on Monday morning. My mum and siblings regret takin d train and vow never to take train again. Even me nw am discourain frm it cos of wat dey went thru.
Apart frm d slowness of d train and d breakdown every nw and den, d service is also poor. Ticket racketin, coaches gettin over fill and others. Dont knw why we dont always get things right, and our government never want to giv us d best. Always mediocrity services. Hmmm

Chaiiii, bt dis guys don craze oooo. I was jus laffin. Pls, u guys shld stop dis, some are bitter now and almost at d point of commitin suicide. Kiriji, Ilugun, obiageli and co, pls its ok. Oti to. Yayi, Daalu.

lorretta u: don't faint o. Lol
Anyway I'm not into huge weddings myself. But he's a prince(from another tribe) and their royal family said that's how they do their things,

What could I do? It wasn't bad anyway.
It was more fun even.

wooow, so u even marry into a royal home. On d line to be a Queen, BTW, which tribe is he?

tellwisdom: Op, can i see how big your yansh is??

and u think u make sense? OP, HML

Whether we like it or not. Pre marital and extra marital sex is a sin. God is our creator and wiser than us all, dat he said we shld sex shld only happen by d married ones. God Almighty that gave us d sexual feeling, also told us and teach us hw to control d feelin. Abstenance is d BEST form of safe sex. No worry of preganancy, abortion, diseases and heartbreak. Again, gals need to be wiser and learn hw to be independent cos guys use d advantages of gals dependin on dem. They also need parental care and sex education as early as possible.
Guys, remember, u too have sisters and will have daughters, so dont do unto someone war u dont want to be done to urs.

hollyfat: Even when Fredick Kanuote of Mali won the award in 2007 at expense of Drogba and Essien you didn't see that has a disgrace to African football. Mtchew

hey listen pls, have u 4gotten that year was one of d best for Kanoute. He was among d top scorers in La liga and also won d UEFA cup with sevilla back to back wit Rafeal Benitez as d coach inwhich Kanoute was one of d best player nt only in Sevilla bt also in La Liga

Haba haba, y are some of u goin to d extent of abusin OP and his family? All cos of football. Cant u ppl just post ur comment without insults and abuse? It make u ppl look uncivilized. D OP state his opinion, u can countered it too without any abuse or insults pls.

khadupsie: So what does it mean when a guy propose to a lady o? I believe and know that when a guy gives a lady a ring they say "will you marry me" or will you be my wife" I never heard of can I engage you for donkey years.. so bro explain urself better

wat i means is that proposin does nt mean marriage. Have u nt seen where there is propose and engagement and marriage didnt later take place. Wen a guy propose, dont allow him access to ur kitty until after marriage. Many guys use dis proposin as a covert operation to have access to d gal under g.

Some guys use d notion of proposing to have free access to sex, and some gals has been brainwash that proposin means marriage. Guys are very deceitful.

A funny reply on linda ikeji blog goes like this: Engagement is when you propose to a girl you are soon going to marry. Proposing to a girl to scare away guys for some years is WITCHCRAFT

Only one of the 36 states can afford to pay workers’ salaries with internally generated revenues, Daily Trust investigations revealed—underscoring the level of dependence of the federating units on the central government.

The remaining 35 states generate only a fraction of funds they require to settle their wage bills annually. This means that without federal funds, these states cannot even afford salaries payment, not to talk of executing any projects.

Daily Trust obtained information on states’ wage bills and drew comparisons with data on their internally generated revenues (IGR), published by the National Bureau of Statistics. The result showed that onlyLagos State can pay salaries of its workers by solely relying on revenues generated internally.

None of the 19 Northern states has this much financial muscle. They all depend on federally-allocated subventions, mainly made up of funds generated from sales of crude oil that is extracted down south.

Other components of the federal allocation, shared between the three tiers of government on monthly basis, include taxes collected by the Nigerian Customs Service and the Federal Inland Revenue Service.

The data published by the statistics bureau showed that in 2010 and 2011, only seven states had IGR in two-digit billions. Lagos is the only one with a three-digit figure, while the remaining states had single digits.

In 2012, the situation improved slightly with 12 states recording double-digit figures in billions while Lagos remained the only with three-digit figures.

The implication of the low revenue generation by the states is that most of them can barely sustain themselves without recourse to monthly federal subventions.

Most states have had to take short-term bank loans to settle wages whenever there were delays in the monthly disbursements by the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC).
Speaking to Daily Trust on this, a revenue advocate said the state governments are simply too lazy to generate revenues internally because of the oil money they receive from Abuja every month.
Mr Dauda Garuba, coordinator of the Revenue Watch Institute, said “because of the oil revenue they collect monthly, state governors are no longer serious in making money for their states.”
High wage bills, low IGRs.

Daily Trust investigations show that each of the 36 states pays yearly salaries in two-digit billions, but most of them generate IGR in single-digit billions annually.

Lagos generated N219 billion in 2012, three times its annual wage bill of N76.5 billion.

States that generated more than N10 billion in 2012 are Kano, Kaduna, Oyo, Ondo, Ogun, Enugu, Edo, Delta, Cross River and Akwa Ibom.

Among states with fairly strong revenue bases are Rivers, which generates the second highest IGR of N66.2 billion in 2012, but has an annual wages bill of N96 billion.

Edo made N18.9 billion revenue but is weighed down by a salaries bill of N28 billion yearly, while Cross River generated N12.7 billion though it pays N22 billion wages annually.

Even though Kano has the highest IGR in the North, the N24 billion it generated in 2012 is not enough to pay salaries of its workers, which is N36 billion yearly.

Kaduna, the second internal revenue earner in the North, garnered N11.5 billion but which is less than half its N27.4 billion annual wage bill.

The situation with the remaining states is worse, as their annual wage bills are several times larger than their internally generated revenues.

For instance, Zamfara’s internally generated revenue is N2.5 billion in 2012, while its annual wage bill is N13.2 billion; Yobe generated N1.7 billion, and has a yearly salaries bill of N18 billion; while Adamawa’s N23 billion wage bill is five times higher than its IGR of N4.6 billion.

Even oil-rich Bayelsa State generated only N3 billion in 2011, but pays N48 billion in salaries yearly.

Nasarawa made N4.1 billion in 2012 but spends N24 billion yearly in salaries; Sokoto generated N3.8 billion in 2010 and spends N16.8 billion on annual wages; and Kogi got N3.1 billion in 2012 but it is workforce soaks up N44 billion yearly.

Kwara (salaries, N11 billion; revenue, N7.2 billion), Benue (revenue, N8.4 billion; salaries, N34.8 billion), Katsina (salaries, N14.4 billion; revenue, N5 billion), Bauchi (salaries, 26 billion; revenue, N4.1 billion), Ondo (revenue, N10.1 billion; salaries, N48 billion), Plateau (revenue, N7 billion; salaries, N20.7 billion), Kebbi (revenue, N5.4 billion; salaries N12 billion), Niger (revenue, N3.7 billion; salaries N31.2 billion), and Gombe (salaries, N14.4; revenue, N3.7 billion).

Others are Abia (salaries, N30 billion; revenue, N3 billion), Akwa Ibom (salaries, N33.2 billion; revenue, N13.5 billion), Anambra (revenue, N6.1 billion; salaries, N16.3 billion), Borno (salaries, N20.7 billion; revenue, N2.4 billion), Delta (revenue, N45.5 billion; salaries, N85.2 billion) and Ebonyi (salaries, N16.8 billion; revenue, N14 billion).

There are also Ekiti (salaries N24 billion, revenue N3.8 billion), Imo (revenue N6.8 billion, salaries N22.8 billion), Jigawa (salaries N33.5 billion, revenues N1.4 billion), Osun (salaries N22.8 billion, revenue N5 billion), Oyo (salaries N49 billion, revenue N14 billion), Taraba (revenue N3.4 billion, salaries N21.6 billion).
‘States are lazy’

Revenue Watch Institute coordinator Garuba said described the situation whereby states depend heavily on federal subventions as unfortunate because each state has the potential to sustain itself.
“It is unfortunate that the governors, particularly in the North abandoned agriculture. Every state has the potential to be self-sufficient only if the chief executive knows what he is doing,” he said.

“I still wonder why Niger and Nasarawa states can’t utilise their proximity to Abuja by creating mega cities in Zuba and Mararaba respectively. These places, if well planned, can rake in billions for the two states. But, go there, what you find is terribly unorganised slums,” Garuba added.

He said that a recent report shows that “Yobe state alone can produce beans enough to supply the needs of West Africa. But look at it today, the state is engulfed in conflicts.”

{Additional reporting from Misbahu Bashir (Kaduna), Ismail Mudashir (Kano), Adamu Saleh (Gombe), Hope Abah (Makurdi), Lami Sadiq (Jos), Garba Muhammed (Birnin Kebbi), Shehu Umar (Gusau), Kabir Anwar (Yola), Rakiya Muhammed (Sokoto), Abdulkadir Badsha Mukhtar (Dutse), Hir Joseph (Lafia), Hamisu Kabir Matazu (Damaturu), Usman Bello (Lokoja), Aliyu Hamagam (Minna), Abdullateef Aliyu (Ilorin), Victor Edozie (Port Harcourt), Patrick Odey (Uyo), Bola Ojuola (Akure), Kehinde Akinyemi (Abeokuta), Chris Eze (Yenegoa), Femi Akinola (Lagos) & Hamisu Muhammad.}

http://dailytrust.info/index.php/top-stories/13252-i-n-v-e-s-t-i-g-a-t-i-o-n-35-states-can-t-pay-salaries-without-federal-funds?tmpl=component&print=1&page

Kaduna State Governor, Mukhtar Ramalan Yero said his administration has earmarked N1 billion in the 2014 budget to train indigenous students overseas to study science based courses.

The governor disclosed this yesterday on the occasion of scholarship award to some students from the Northern states by a USA based association Zumunta Association USA incorporated under its National Scholarship (ZNS) Programme.

Yero who was represented by his Commissioner for education, Mallam Ibrahim Ali added that the State Government would also partner with the association to make education more accessible for indigent students in the State.

The governor also disclosed that over N89 million was expended in 2013 as cost of NECO fees paid for the candidates for the examination in the State.

Speaking earlier, the Chairman of the National Scholarship Program of the association, Prof. Martins Shinkut, a lecturer of Computer Science at the Lincoln University, Missiouri, said the association had been engaged in various scholarship schemes in the northern region since 1995.

He said the reasons for the scholarship award was because, “college costs a lot more that it used to be, the economy is spiraling, and parents have hard times supporting their children through higher education”.

Professor Shinkut said over several students since inception in 1995 have benefitted annually from the scholarship of N50,000 each, adding that efforts were in place to extend the gesture to other parts of the country and to subsequently review the scholarship upward.

One of the beneficiaries Miss Josphine Abarshi a student of Mass Communication from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria expressed appreciation for the rare priviledge to be part of the beneficiaries, she said she will judiciously utilize the money to justify the purpose for which it is given.

source: http://leadership.ng/news/624/2014-budget-kaduna-earmarks-n1bn-for-training-students-oversees

Please I need your opinion on something that is keeping me up at night. I met my boyfriend in November 2010 and after only four months of dating he proposed to me on Valentine's Day in 2011. I was really excited and believed he didn't want to waste time and was eager to marry me. But it's going to three years now since we got engaged and he hasn't said anything about a wedding. Every time I mention it he tells me I'm acting desperate that I should calm down that if he didn't want to marry me he would not have given me a ring. We are both over 30 so I don't understand the delay. What bothers me most is that he's not even talking about it. I suggested we get married the last week of December 2013 so we can begin a new life in 2014 but he said he will let me know when he's ready. Should I give him an ultimatum or just be patient?

NB: This question was asked by a lindaikeji member. so i bring it here Nairaland for your contribution.

source:http://www.lindaikeji..com/

Open letter to a new generation, keynote delivered by Funmi Iyanda at the ThinkOyo 30under30 awards recently. Read below...

The thing about age is, it is catching. It’s like a hysterical jester lying in wait for the fool.

I want to tell you about Mrs Okoro. Before l turned nine, school was a vaguely irritating distraction from the pursuit of happiness in play and adventure. Every school day, I’d wear my red checked dress and burgundy beret uniform and passively submitto school. l was not a rebellious child. I was a bored child who daydreamed through classes until lunch when the school served asaro and chicken with bananas and ground nuts as snacks. That was until l got to Mrs Okoro’s class.



Mrs Okoro made letters become words, words which became stories, stories which became my life. I loved her dearly, perhaps it was transference as l’d recently lost my mother but at nine, l started going to school because she was there. One day walking out the gates after school, l saw Mrs Okoro getting into a bus ahead of me so l ran across the road to get into the same bus. I didn’t bother checking for traffic. The next thing l rememberis thinking heavenlooked rather like Akoka road. I had been hit by a car and was staring up at the concerned faces of Mrs Okoro and others. The driver was distraught; he was a student at Unilag and in the moment before pain cut through my adrenalin, l remember being happy l had been hit by a grand university student not some infernal danfo bus driver.

He took me to the university health centre where the nurses gave me a large cone of ice cream to comfort me before treating me and putting me in the big university bus home. My heart was swollen with pride as the shiny big bus drove down our dirt street in Bariga. Not a dime was exchanged, no one called my father at work, there were no mobile phones and we had no phone at home. There was no need; the system took care of me. It was Nigeria 1980.

Recently on my way out of Nigeria, the Murtala Mohammed airport was thrown into chaos, people were sweating and swearing, passengers stranded as all electronic equipment had stopped working. The place stank because there was no water to clean the toilets. I watched the white airline crew walk by with barely contained derision as they gingerly sidestepped the mess. The problem wasn’t that there was no electricity at the airport, that’s normal; it was that someone had not supplied the diesel to run one of the generators.

I sat in a corner, observing people; those who fascinated me most were the band of men, mid thirties to late forties, Nigeria’s emerging business and political elite. I recognised them by their Louis Vuitton luggage, logo jacket and velvet slippers, disguising their social anxiety with an unabated desire for the pointless. Seemingly oblivious to their environment, they strutted about backslapping and rolling their r's, being cocky, rude and dismissive to everyone.

What stuck me most about these preening peacocks though, was their total lack of shame at the state of things. They are the band of new-Africa-rising, proudly Nigerian jingoists, living in a glass bubble as far removed from the Nigerian reality as you can get. For them patriotism is not a recognition of failure and a determination to redress it, but a slogan to be worn, tweeted or liked.

Later on, crammed into a rather unsanitary first class lounge, I watched them posturing for furtive young female travelling companions, clearly under instructions to pretend not to know them. The odd thing is that these are no corn farmers made good from my native Ida ogun, these lounge dwellers are very well educated and uncommonly well travelled Nigerians. A defective fraction of the immense amount of brainpower and knowledge Nigeria has produced. They help prevent their peers fulfilling their potential and a pool of brilliant thinkers, explorers, scientists, innovators and artists is lost, squandered by a nation that strangulates its best.

I often hear foreigners perplexedly comment that Nigerians are some of the best educated, urbane and confident black people they have ever met, so how come the country is so, well, Shit?

One reason staring them in the face is that, the best-educated, urbane and confident elite they delight in meeting has failed us.

The question therefore should be, what is it about the country that makes it impossible for its bright, hard working, resource rich population to organise itself into collective prosperity? What is it that turns some of Nigeria's brightest technocrats into hand wringing, head-scratching incompetents when they achieve power?

You see, Nigeria was founded as an economic proposition to collect and remit resources to the empire, with the British government entrenching a feudal, centralized, western-education-phobic elite in the North and a westernized, Judeo-Christian, anglicised elite in the south.

On departure, these elites with their distinct cultural differences but common goal of avarice became the new imperialists. Imbued with a servitude underpinned by self-loathing and a voracious appetite to mimic their former bosses, they confused westernisation for civilisation and like all counterfeiters concentrated on the surface of things. Thus, to their thinking, the more resources of the land they could coral, the more trappings of the west they could possess and the more civilised they could become.

That unwelcome process continues today.

For this elite, the rest of their kith and kin fill them with unease and even disgust and they condemn them to poverty and a passive consumption of other people’s science, innovations, religions, art and technology as though such achievements are beyond us. They also condemn their own children to future poverty not just material but emotional and cultural. Notably the stolen wealth hardly outlives the first generation.

Each time the elite is replaced, it is by a new generation similarly afflicted and culturally insecure with the same desire to fraudulently acquire a large share of the common wealth themselves.

This is self-loathing in action. It is a terminal disease.

Our common humanity and civilisation should be guaranteed by carefully protected, ever evolving structures, systems and processes, which reflect all our highest values and aspirations. Kajola ni Yoruba nwi.

The system designed by the British was to serve the big empire. It was not designed to work for us and never will.

We all know this and every so often the government of the day will propose a state sponsored jamboree to endlessly chew the curd of that vexatious issue of reform, only to artfully spit it out when the people are sufficiently distracted by the increasingly circus-like, mad-max dystopia we are living through.

The dysfunction at Nigeria’s heart remains because it serves the interests of whichever big man muscles or cheats his way into power. (Note; I said man, the system will never allow for a woman, at least not a woman who won’t do the needful.)

But what about the people? What about the youth?

The subtext of Obasanjo’s recent letter to Jonathan is what they used to call two fighting boy and boy in the streets of Shomolu. The people can sense this it is not their fight; they are as disconnected from the elite as the elite are from them.

They know their place is to submit and dream. They want to be the next big cat. They have no real distaste for those who have stolen their future; often they just want to replace them. The grudging admiration seeping through their envy fuelled whimpers of protest reveals fragile egos easily stroked by association with those who have raped them, then thrown them a bit of Vaseline and warm towels.

They desire to be the ones at the airport with the designer bags and unplaceable accent. The one’s who are gearing up to follow the path of those before them. To flaunt luxuries but live in situations so far removed from the vision of life those luxuries where designed for. When Karl Lagerfeld designs each Chanel bag he cannot possibly envisage it may end up in a place where the carrier can be dragged out of a car and raped in daylight with witnesses and no repercussions. Yes that happened. The baubles do not make us civilised, a country built on a political structure that allows the creativity, innovation, and talent of all to thrive does.

Nigeria in 1980 was by no means a perfect place but would my counterpart in Shomolu today have a Mrs Okoro or such access to public health care?

Let us sound a warning to our "betters," as they push and pull the country one way and another in their hustle; it is untenable, there will be a snapping, one, which no one can predict.

So what shall we do? What will the young intellectual elite of today do differently?

A youth cultural revolution of ideology and values perhaps? Jettison the hypocrisy, the pseudo religious, anti women, anti children, anti poor patriarchy. Turn away from the bigotry, the megalomania, and the cultural bravado. Free yourselves and your future. Speak the truth to power and each other, not just on twitter, to face. Refuse to participate in the racket, the hustle, and the lie. Be better than that which is on offer.

Thatcher, a deeply polarising figure, but outstanding leader once said;

“Watch your thoughts for they become words.
Watch your words for they become actions.
Watch your actions for they become habits.
Watch your habits for they become your character.
And watch your character for it becomes your destiny.
What we think, we become. "

Start now before you become the company CEO, the minister, the commissioner, the senator. Lead from within and without.

Abraham Lincoln once said of citizens desiring change; make me. Make your elders and leaders take you seriously. Help the few good men and women in power by showing there is a generation who can and will stand with them. Insist on the structural and constitutional changes that which will free our collective creativity, innovation, science, ideas and culture.

Civilisation is neither westernisation nor exclusive to other climes. It is building a society on values and institutions designed to protect not the strongest but the weakest as we are only as strong, as honourable, as respected and valued as the sum of our weakest parts.

Now what? My job is to tell stories with context, sometimes l don’t know the end. Write your own ending. Shape history.

source: http://www.lindaikeji..com/2014/01/must-read-open-letter-to-nigerias-new.html#more

amosade30: U may fink d motiv bhind me raising d topic is bad,bt rili it cn benefit us al..........bsds it can hlp to reduce unwanted preg,unwnted babies dumped by refuse bin,naija populatn(very importnt in ds new year) ...I try na 4 raising ds kind topic

my guy, anybody who wan to have sex shld go and marry. Dat is where sex is confine and legal. All dis methods do nt work fine, d best and d surest way to avoid unwanted pregnancy is to zip up and abstain.

For the unmarried, pls zip up or go and get married. For d married ones, condom use is d best. Drugs like postinor 1 or 2 are dangerous, dey can cause ectopic preganancy. I even heard that some pills causes cancer. Its ny everybody that withdrawal method work for, its nt 100% safe. Calendar method too can be erratic. Proper use of good condom is d best. All dis is for d married ones oooo.

Na wa oooo, dis issue realy affect both d Yorubas and d Igbos bt instead of comin together and find a solution agaisnt d marginalization, dey are busy fightin each other. No wonder, d northerners will continue to marginalize and marginalize cos dey hav understand that there is no love between d Yorubas and Igbos. We tend to downlook d Hausa man bt dey are more political sophisticated and wiser than every other tribes. Just c hw dey have been able to shut out d northern xtains despite the millions of xtains that are of northerns origin. Dey also use dem too b4, while d northerns xtains will constitute most of d foot soilders, d northerns muslims will be gettin d more senior position.
They hav also been able to hav a grip on d political structure of 9ja ever since independence.
Make una continue to det fight among una selves ooooo and d Hausa Fulani that u ppl call illitrate, aboki and lazy continue to call d shots.
Shalom.

Am back, am no 12950, atleast i tried. And d followers keep increasin every minutes.

[quote author=King_blingz]@Op the most wonderful day in a woman's life is when she does her wedding...Reverse d case n feel it wat if it was you??the best thing you can do is just lockup nd stop showing up wen eva d two of dem r 2geda even if u must b present don't make her feel guilty....let ur frend find out himself[/quote]hey, and that will be d greatest disservice. The friend will feel betrayed that his friend knws abt her past bt conceal it. If dat guy is ur brother, will u keep quiet and say u dont want to spoil show. If d friend find out, which he will find out by d way cos notin is hidden under d sun, he will nt be happy wit his friend and dat may break their friendship. The gal may have repent or nt, only God knows. Imagine, even goin to d xtent of havin sex video, ooovvvvookoooo. And y is she lyin abt her virginity? Chaiii, may God help us all.

Eto ooooooo

Krasid: I heared he's leaving stamford bridge in January.

to where? China or middle east?

Eyyyaaa, Essien yansh don glue for bench. He shld just come to Asante Kotoko of Ghana.

Hazard, that is classic

Howard webb dey try 2day ooo

Lampard, i see that .......

xynerise: Suarez never score his hatrick yet o

u wicked oooo, wetin u mean self?