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Naija newspapers and their awards! These news organizations charged banks hefty fees for ads and goodwill messages for making it into bank of the year, IT bank of the year, and most improved bank categories. Newspapers connived with banks to dupe Nigerians, now they are coming back to shower praises on the same guy-SLS who exposed the banks. Same newspapers that convicted him SLS in their editorials and columns

U guys need to grow up. Marriage is a continuum and dating pales in comparison to living together under one roof. She who wants to stop a fight, should first quench finger pointing. Enough said

typical NLs, attacking some1 who provided  a seemingly credible info without any information. If you have any useful information, pls post it so as to enable someone make a  better decision. This forum is faceless and anonymous.

Marriage is a continuum not a project,

Most guys wouldnt mind, unless they are committment bound. Most guys dont seek for fellow guys' opinion before going into a relationship, while most women would ask for a lot of opinions from almost everyone close to them.

If not washing their would-be husband's clothes would make them more powerful than Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama, so be it. Last time I checked Michelle and Clinton did more than than for their men. Since these women are lawyers, did they all go to Harvard and Princeton? These women do not really understand what marriage is all about. Relationship in no brother/sister to marriage, but sort of a relative,

Did Abuja and Lagos get built by sons of the soil or FG?

So how do companies find out that thier past employee has broken an agreement?

If it's impossible to enforce this policy of not allowing their graduates to get job abroad, how is it possible for companies to enforce non-compete agreement with their past employers?

Aba is a Devil's lab in Nigeria. There is no one in-charge. Kidnappers and Armed robbers are in in-charge

How come this con man is classified as a Nigerian while he was born in America?

Nigerians and their religiosity.  If all your assumptions  are true on why non-believers are doomed, has it ever occurred to you that  most non-believers  like Scandinavians are having it better than Nigerians?   I do not want to be told of good life after my death in Heaven, I want to live it on earth,

Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You seem more verbally challenged than arithmetic, as SLS was reffering to overhead cost in particular not the entire budget of the NA. How did the overhead cost represent 25% of Naija budget?

A CBN governor who is arithmetically challenged, Celebrating mediocrity. NASS member are thieves in my book, but that does mean that SLS should not cross his facts before making that speech. As a CBN governor, he showed no leadership, but kept blaming someone for his miscalculation. What's so hard in working out the percentage of NASS bugdet out of Naija's budget? Did his outsource that job to his PA? He acted to be on higher road, even when he got his figures wrong, Two wrongs cannot make a right.

www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/southsouthwest/ct-met-dolton-shooting-1201-20101130,0,525269.story

chicagotribune.com
Graduate student shot, killed at his south suburban home
Brother found body in family's driveway in Dolton

By Lolly Bowean, Tribune reporter

5:41 PM CST, November 30, 2010
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At only 21, Olubusayo Awomolo was so focused on obtaining his master's degree in mechanical engineering that he hardly did anything besides go to class and study, his father said.

His quiet life and single-minded devotion to school made it all the more difficult for his family to comprehend how Awomolo could be gunned down Monday evening in the driveway of their Dolton home.

"My son is gone," said Wale Awomolo, as he stood surrounded by friends and family Tuesday in their south suburban home. "He was a very, very, very quiet boy. I'm hoping the police will be able to tell me why."

Olubusayo Awomolo was a master's degree candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he also received his bachelor's degree, officials there confirmed.

He grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, and joined his father and siblings in Dolton in December 2002, his family said. He graduated from Thornwood High School, then made it his mission to finish college.

"He was all academics," said his sister, Arinola Awomolo. "He was very quiet, easygoing and nice. He was an amazing brother."

He was returning home from the Chicago campus when a group of men approached him, Wale Awomolo said he learned from neighbors.

Although some neighbors said they heard the shooting and at least one saw several men go up to his son, no one called police, Wale Awomolo said. The man was discovered by his older brother, who was coming home and found him lying in their driveway in the 15500 block of Ingleside Avenue.

"My son said he saw a body and he called 911," Awomolo said. "He thought it was someone drunk or someone sleeping. Then we found out it was my son. I said, 'My God.'"

According to Dolton police Chief Bolden Jones, Olubusayo Awomolo was shot and killed between 7 and 7:45 p.m.

Police have no one in custody and are asking anyone with information to come forward, Jones said. "The most important thing is to find out what happened to this young man and who did this," he said.

On Tuesday, friends and family sat in the living room of the Awomolo family's modest brick house struggling to understand the tragedy. The boy's mother sat on the couch, crying quietly while friends hugged and comforted her.

"This is terrible. You never think this could happen in a neighborhood like this," said Adeyemi Adesuyi, a family friend. "We should be our brother's keeper and look out for each other."

Margaret Taiwo, the victim's aunt, said just thinking about what happened to her nephew made her angry.

"We want people to know this is very bad," she said. "People should not be afraid to call the police. It could have been their child. If he got help, he could be in the hospital right now, recovering. But he was left there. Only God knows.

"I pray, whoever did this, will not rest."

His friends and family described Awomolo as a bookworm who spent most of his time on his laptop computer. On his MySpace page, Awomolo said he liked to play video games and read war stories.

"He was a best boy," Adesuyi said. "He did what you asked him to do and he was very focused."

lbowean@tribune.com

The fat cats who ruined their country,  who chose useless war over economic growth,  the lords and barons who evaded taxes, folks who bailed out their friends  are now blaming immigrants. UK is not Germany where manufacturing drives the economy; and college education is not really needed to get a job, but in UK,  the economy is knowledge driven. A less educated population is an express ticket to economic stagnation.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101120/ap_en_ot/us_theater_michelle_obama_fela/print


NEW YORK – The audience at Thursday's performance of "Fela!" on Broadway got an extra thrill when an unannounced guest arrived — the first lady.

Michelle Obama and six girlfriends stunned theatergoers when she arrived at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on 49th Street to catch the Tony Award-winning musical about Fela Kuti, the Afrobeat artist and Nigerian political activist.

"When the audience realized that she was in the audience, they just went nuts," said Stephen Hendel, who co-conceived and produced the show. "People started standing up and applauding, saying 'We love you!' and 'We love you, Michelle!' It took a minute or so to get the audience to settle down."

The musical features dancers mingling with the audience and the first lady's group was seated along Row G, where many of the dancers cross over. The Secret Service asked the dancers not to change their performance but to give Obama some extra space.

Hendel was one of only few people who knew ahead of time that the first lady was coming. The cast was only told 20 minutes before Obama's arrival. She and her friends arrived shortly after 8 p.m. as the overture was ending.

The audience also cheered wildly when the musical made reference in the first act to one of Kuti's nicknames: Black President. Said Hendel: "The whole place just exploded."

At the end, the first lady's group gave the musical a standing ovation and Obama stayed to greet and congratulate each sweaty member of the cast as they passed. "She was hugely gracious," said Hendel, who watched the night's performance with his wife, Ruth, also one of the show's producers.

"It's a wonderful feeling that this show would have Mrs. Obama come to it."

Broadway shows have lured Obama before. She and daughters Sasha and Malia attended performances of "Memphis" and "The Addams Family" in March. And she and her husband saw "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" during a date night in 2009.

"Fela!" was nominated for a Tony Award as last year's best musical. It won for Best Choreography, Best Costume Design and Best Sound Design. In addition to the Hendels, it is also produced by actors Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith and hip-hop star Jay-Z.

A production opened this week at London's National Theatre with Sahr Ngaujah, who originated the title character on Broadway. The Broadway run, which features Kevin Mambo in the title role and Patti LaBelle as his mother, ends Jan. 2.

The politicians include in their will " I dont want to die in Nigeria"

Econet/ZAIN is a mobile experiment for branding

FELA " For 1990  dem say dey go us give light, water and food."  20yrs later we are still waiting for NEPA/PHCN  to power our lives. Bola Ige promised us that we would have power in 2000, 10 yrs later; we are still talking about electricity. Bottom line, Nigeria is incapable to have stable electricity. If JEG meant well for Nigerians, he should have used the energy focused on acquisition of presidential jets on building power stations. Never mind, Nigeria is a place where politicians are not held accountable by their words.

How many guys at 25 are financially stable for marriage in Naija?

This Woman doesnt have better things to do? Naija politicians always choose the silliest thing to do.

Moneygram and Western Union!!!

Shina Peters is clueless. He doesnt know that the ship has left him. It's like NOEL GALLAGHER  of OASIS who said that JAY-Z was bad for Glastonbury and threatened that he would pull out if Jay-Z was included.

"I wish for you a hundred years of success but it's my time
Cheers, toast to crime." Jay-Z.

Shina, it's time for TUFACE, you had ur time. Make u go find work  another work do.

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
John Lenon

I think you got the question turned up side. Men get rejected everyday by women. If a man sets to talk to a girl, it's built in that man's thinking 75% of the time he's not going to be lucky. I get turned down by women everyday and most time, I see it as a hobby i.e let me try and see if she's going to turn me down'. Now, dont get it confused when a man has been given a green light by a lady and he has spent some money on the lady and the man is trying to recover his investment

Quite scared how Naija brain works: so a dead/infected/rotten whale washes ashore in Nigeria, uninformed people jump on it for poison food, and here an "educated" Nigeria is blaming a Spanish judge somewhere in far away Europe for everything  
Me, I no understand-o

Japanese brains are also included because they feast on whales washed ashore.  If there were no biological or scientific examinations, how did you reach the conclusion that the whale was infected?
I bet you have not been to a local meat  market and see  how meat is prepared? Most of those places are filthy like trash dumps. Cow dung, human feaces, urine and burnt tires . I bet you have never considered the health implication of eating meat that might have been charred with toxic tires and all other rubber materials?

This alaba mkt boys don find their way again
Leave Alaba mkt out of this boy. Go play somewhere cos these Alaba boys you really hate are not in the same league with you , dont shoot at the same basket, dont with hang with the same folks , so how are they on your way? By the time you figure out these questions, they- Alaba boys- are already at the finish line with flag waving,

Reuben Abati  is an egghead. He's talking as if the west wouldn’t colonize it if it were 100KG of uncut African Diamond? What happened to Western respect for human rights when her -company Tranfigura chose an African country as a dumping ground for its toxic residue from oil. Where is western consciousness in every day gas flaring and oil pollution in Naija Delta? What did Abati  say when Spanish judge ordered that a 17th century shipwreck discovered by Odyssey Marine-USA  be returned to Spain as its rightful owner- because it contains over $500 million in gold. So putting things in perspective, $500 million in gold is huge to a westerner; while in the same vein, a whale washed ashore is worth more  to a hungry Lagosian. Kapish, ?

I will take access to your bank account over any P/W unless it's the P/W to your wealth that authorizes me to spend your money/owo/ego/kwudi the way I like.

@Marvix
,do you know what Sanusi said in 1999 when Obj was made president go to the link Jarus provided, Sanusi attacked his people from the north for denying Ekhueme the presidency by conniving with the Yorubas to see the Ekhuemes presidency as a biafran agenda and then preached compensation for Abiola as a reason why the presidency should go to the Yorubas, but guess what the Northerners then laid aside all rules to ensure Obj became president, now all rules laid by them will also be set aside to allow a Niger Deltan become president in 2011.

Sanusi is a detribalised Nigerian with a mind of his own, he is a very fair commentator who would not fabricate information to win an arguement

This guy argues with emotions not fact. That North was denied access to education by the Brits? The same Brits that fell in love with North because of their indirect rule. The same Brits that lived in the north? The same North that was represented by Sarduana, Belawa and Co? There was nothing Sokoto Caliphate or Fulani front in the way "north" presented itself in Naija's political history. The same north that opposed Tony Enahoro's motion for independence? Did you read Akanu Ibiam's letter to the Brits during the war?
Back to my point, it's only in Sanusi's mind that a minister can overrule his boss; never mind the point that IBB was a blood thirsty general in Naija Army. He implied that Olu Falae and Idika Kalu could have overruled IBB. He is holding brief for the entrenched political elite from the north. The Brits went away 50yrs ago and he's still making excuses for the political class who has not allowed their peers access to education. He premise was that southerners dominated power like northerners. This guy does not know what a priori statement means; because the northern class dominated Nigerian political more than any other region in the country. His inequality of thought is mind blowing; because he, SLS is holding bank CEOs responsible for the havoc they wrecked on Naija’s banking system, but failed to see IBB as a CEO who presided over a conglomerate called Nigeria. Why didn’t he-SLS- hold Chief Financial Officers of the troubled banks responsible instead of their CEOs?

You talk about Babangida and the economy. Who were the people in charge of the economy during Babangida era? Olu Falae, Kalu Idika Kalu. What state are they from in the North?
This man is really an affront to historical fact and intellectualism. It's either he's suffering from acute amnesia or alzheimer's  disease to deny that north has not dominated Nigeria even when 1966 coup was called an Igbo coup. Fast forward to 2010, north is claiming that it'  their birthright to produce Nigeria's next president. The whole north is clamoring for this, not Sokoto Caliphate or Fulani.
So Sanusi believed that Olu Falae and Kalu Idika Kalu ran Nigerian economy and IBB was just watching? So his juniors and employees at CBN can draft and implement economic policies without his approval? What's his understanding of leadership or being in command?  IBB ruled with decree and overruled anybody who provided contrary opinion that did not meet his expected outcomes. Can SLS vouch that IBB was never in control of Nigeria's oil money?