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ronalmagic10: Some of you are just plain silly! Watch the video again and tell me what she was selling by the roadside? All I saw were goods that were still packaged. I don't think she was trading anything there. I know the place ( mission rd) very well and there's construction of road there with soldiers around to guard the white men. Not only did he say, ' you are a widow, go and die!' but he also said, ' your husband is the type that kill people on the road'. He said the latter when the woman told him that her late husband was a policeman and he just died recently. The woman was not selling on the road. Fact. So what was her crime?

I'm sure the man died on duty and the family were not compensated. May God not let evil visit those of you supporting adams before you admit that he was very wrong. If you live in Benin, you will know that a lot of rubbish are just happening. I just don't have the strength to type

Well said my brother. Some people on this forum have eyes but cannot see, ears but cannot or refuse to hear. The woman was not selling by the road side neither was she hawking. In the video, she said the barrow or vehicle dropped her wares by the road side because it could not climb the pavement, and people had been told not to but anything on the pavement. Please listen and watch the video carefully. HABA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

rudedough: Seriously IDGAF. She shouldn't be trading on the pedestrian.

Sentiments aside, these road side traders are killing SMEs nationwide. It doesn't matter if you're poor, a widow or desperate, you must be mindful of the law.

A roadside seller pays little or no rental but an SME pays rental and utility. Their capital expenditure reflects on the prices of their goods.

That is, a road side seller can sell an orange for N20 Naira and make maximum profit while a shop owner will sell the same orange for N30 and make very minimal profit.

But who's going to buy the same orange for N30 from the shop when you can buy it cheaper at N20 from the roadside seller?

They're killing SMEs period.

Let's skip the emotions and look further. The Governor may be wrong with his choice of words but he's angry and everyone should frown at road side traders.

But why in the name of popsicle do Nigerians like anything illegal?

OP,
The woman in question is not hawking neither is she an hawker. Please watch and listen carefully. And for your information, road side hawker gives the average Nigerian a viable alternative, compare to the gullible SMEs. Hawkers and SMEs buy for the same market, while road seller is interested in average returns on the orange, the gullible SMEs is interested in Marginal returns on the orange.

The argument given by gullible SMEs' is - we employ worker(s) and pay salaries and Xs and Ys. Research has shown that the road side hawkers are catalyst to employment creation in industries.

The action of the comrade governor is totally disgusting, insensitive and disrespectful to the average hardworking women in Nigeria. This is the situation where the men and women NGOs' in Nigeria must rise up and fight for this woman. If you Listen to the woman and her demonstration(s), it clearing shows that she is not an hawker has claimed. Please watch and listen carefully.

The governor has lost it, and shame on him.

Imagine mak som1 dey inside ds moto and piss dey piss am seriously, na to bring "UNCLE" comot and send de yellow water down. Or gedigedi shit hold you for up, dat na serious kasala, persin go shit anoda persin head bi dat. Come ooooooo, if head on collusion happen for up, how will our yellow fever (traffic warden) measure line. Anyway, with ds kan moto, no more where ya paper again.

Na serious issue.

phreakabit: Wish I could agree for the sake of sanity and peaceful co-existence, but I'd telling an absolute lie if I said we were intellectually compatible or equals.

Hello phreakabit, I don't know what ethnic group you belong too and I care less about it. Can you tell me what people from your ethnic geographical space can do and others cannot do and do better? Look Unseen powers rules the sun by day and the moon by night, none of these powers had come out to tell the other that it is better or more intellectual than the other. The day has never told the night that it better or intellectual than the night, neither had the cloud above told the ground, that because am up there, it is better or more intellectual than you below.

Our leaders both past and present have succeeded in planting the seed of ethnic discords among the various tribes and ethnic groups and rather than we uprooting these seeds of discord, we are watering it and passing the baton discord to generations coming after.

OP, you can be highly intellectual than your peers and people from same ethnic geographical space. You will always meet your equal and even far superior from other ethnic groups as well.

Why is it so difficult to criticize each other opinion(s) without exhibiting ethnocentric attitude and disposition? For those who are ethnic bigots, I want you all to know that no tribe or ethnic group is more superior over other. Lets' have constructive criticism on the forum.

What is the cost of this stuff now?

Why must we bring ethnic coloration into every national issue(s)? We need intellectual discussants on national issues and not ethnic/tribal bigots.

WARNING!

This article contains stories that most ‘church people’ don’t want to address. So, if you are one of those living in denial and covering up crap going on in the church, this is where you should stop reading. Thanks for stopping by.

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Now, for the rest of us, please sit down and switch on your open mind. I want to talk about something I have kept bottled up inside for longer than necessary. I have also decided to use real names, as my defense for any accusation of slander is justification. I tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but. However, feel free to throw your doubt around but know that I am past the shaming game (where victims of abuse are shot down by blame) I am no longer a victim but a survivor who is sharing her experience to help others caught in same web of abuse, guilt and shame. We only get to live once right? So here, it goes…


I recently came to know this event too was abuse (recently here means about 6 months ago). It has literally been eating me up having to drive by another billboard advertising preachers, or hearing his name, or even trying to ask about the validity of the entire salvation story and whether or not there is a God that truly watches over his people. That being said, I’m just going to say it as it is. This is a recap of my affair with Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo of COZA (Common Wealth Of Zion Assembly) Abuja chapter. This affair I have come to know as a form of abuse as you would see the different elements of abuse very present.

I met Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo many years ago. I was getting bored of the church I was attending and someone suggested COZA. At the time, I had never heard about it. My friend said, go there, I’m sure you would enjoy the word. But he also gave me a strong warning. He said he would advice that I remain a member only and not join the workforce. I agreed. The first time I attended COZA, I felt it was my church and decided I was going to plant my ass there. About eleven months had gone by and I was still attending the services quietly and faithfully. I really did like the church. One day a worker in the church approached me that the senior pastor wanted to see me.

Me? I thought. Why would the senior pastor want to see me? Not the second man but the head nigga in charge? Ok na! I started to think my sin was oozing so bad the pastor could tell I needed Jesus. (Poor old me.) I saw him at the end of the second service (they had two services at the time) and he said to me that he would like me to work with him. I knew I had no intentions of becoming a pastor so I had to ask in what capacity. He said he’d like for me to join a department, preferably the Pastoral Care Unit (PCU).

A few weeks later, against my friend’s advice not to join the workforce, I was a PCU member. All of a sudden, I had some status in church. I was ‘somebody.’ Dress had to be on point, hair, shoes and what not… As workers, we were literally trying to outshine each other or so it seemed. Anyways, I felt like I was a privileged member of an elite circle. Hehehe. (It did feel good though, for the most part.)

About a year after joining the workforce, I was on my way to London for a Masters degree program that would last two years. As was the rule for workers travelling, I wrote to say I would be away for 2 years and Pastor Biodun Fotoyinbo asked that I keep in touch by sending him my number and email when I had settled in London so he “makes sure I continue in the faith” because according to him, people loose their faith when they leave home and he wanted to make sure I didn’t. So, on that note, as soon as I got a phone line in London, I was sure to call ‘my pastor’ to say I arrived safe, had settled in and also gave my phone number.

We had spoken a few times especially when COZA started to stream online. I always watched and would give feedback on quality of production and share a little bit on the challenges I faced settling in a new land. One evening, Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo called me that he was coming to London and needed me to help him make some hotel bookings as the person who was meant to do it couldn’t get it done (this was rather strange as I had never been involved in his travel itinerary) Later that day, he said it had been sorted and my help would not be required but that he would like me to arrange a cab to pick him up from Heathrow. I was happy to help my pastor from Nigeria and even saw it as a privilege. (I would later come to learn that all of this was a calculated attempt to hatch a plan that I suspect was set in motion when I was asked to join the workforce.)

The cab guy was there to get him the next day and when he arrived, he called to ask why I didn’t accompany the cab to pick him up (again, this was strange but I stopped my mind from overanalyzing the situation as I knew I had no business with his visit to London) About two hours later, he called me and said he would like to see me. When I arrived his hotel, I called from the reception but he asked that I come upstairs. I got to the room and tried to stop my mind from thinking why I was going to his room. As he opened the door and invited me in, I had to speak to my heart to stop its palpitations. My better judgment asked me not to go into the room but the kind of reverence I had for Pasotr Biodun Fatoyinbo bordered on fear and I steeped into that room.

“Care for a drink?” Asked Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo.

“No sir,” I said.

“You don’t have to be shy Ese, even if it’s alcohol, feel free and order what you want.” I wasn’t sure I heard my pastor asking me to order alcohol. I imagined it was a test and ignored the voice inside that was saying, “I’d have henny and coke please.” He proceeded to ask how I had been coping in London and if I was a committed member of any church. He also said he thought there was something special about me and wanted to know that I had not strayed from my faith. I really thought he had heard I was doing something I shouldn’t while in London but tried my best to focus on the conversation instead of my straying thoughts. He kept telling me to relax and feel comfortable with talking to him. After a few minutes, he asked that we go to the roof of the hotel as his room was a pent suite and had a connecting door to the roof.

While there, he sat on a reclining chair and asked me to come sit on his laps. This was a bit awkward for me and I froze for a moment as I asked why. He said he had told me to feel free with him and loosen up. I found myself strolling to sit on his laps. At that moment, I felt like a little girl who was experiencing something her mind couldn’t fathom. He asked me to kiss him and all I could think about was seeing him preach on the pulpit back in COZA Abuja, Nigeria, which was my home church. He again said ‘feel free Ese.’ And asked again, that I kiss him.

A few hours later, let’s just say, we were rolling under the sheets. It felt as though my mind had paused. I am not saying I was jazzed, (although it’s possible I was in some trancelike state and didn’t know it but I just was so afraid that I couldn’t say or think otherwise.) That was the beginning of this affair. A sexual affair that went on for a little over a week, DAILY!

I can hear somebody’s mind thinking, ‘well, you weren’t raped.” And I remember a pastor I opened up to when I couldn’t take all the mind games asking if I seduced him. No, I didn’t seduce him and no, I wasn’t raped but I felt trapped in this affair. Come to think of it, how could I have seduced him when I wanted nothing from him? I mean, I was too busy minding my business in London trying to get through with my masters program and I was overly comfortable. And even if I wanted to seduce anyone, it wouldn’t be a married man, not to mention a married pastor.

What I couldn’t reconcile the whole time, was how the same person who preached against the very things we were doing (i.e drinking in pubs, fornicating, committing adultery) was the same person endorsing and encouraging it.

At some point, I got really confused about what Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo and I were doing that I had to ask how he handles it. I will never forget what he said to me. He said and I quote, “I will teach you a level of grace that you don’t understand.” My mind couldn’t fathom that somehow grace was enough covering for not just fornication on my path, adultery on his path and the many lies that was bound to follow what we were doing that was clearly abominable. I somehow dealt with the thoughts and fears that followed on my path. He had said to me that he wanted me to be his girlfriend and he would take me around the world and spoil me with money and things. Somehow, money had never been one of the things that motivated me (I am from a home where all my needs have been adequately met) In all my ‘badness’ through finding myself, I never did things I did for money but more of rebellion against rules and authority.

Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo also said to me that he had a dream where I exposed what was happening to the media. Said it was all over the place and that people were calling me the girl that caused chaos in COZA. He also said I should remember the bible said to “touch not God’s anointed.” I immediately started to rebuke the devil and said I could never do anything like that. I was almost swearing with my entire family as I thought really I had touched God’s anointed by submitting my body to be used. Little did I know at the time that all of these were ways to mess with my mind and even manipulate my thoughts.

Fast-forward a few months later, I was back in Nigeria and my church had become uncomfortable. Anytime I sat in church and listened to Pastor Biodun preach, I felt shame. I finally sent him a message saying I wasn’t comfortable anymore. I was confused and needed to talk about what had happened. He said I should meet him to talk and I did. It was a really weird meeting for me especially when he tried to kiss me at our meeting. I finally realized at this point that he couldn’t help me. I thought God was angry with me and I couldn’t pray so I decided to withdraw completely from COZA. This was the beginning of my mental torture. I couldn’t talk to my family because already, I was the only one attending a different church and somehow my mom never liked the idea. As the days went by I tried to use drinking and smoking to cover up the deep shame and guilt I was battling with. But as soon as the high was over, the thoughts came back and I felt stuck like I couldn’t move forward.

I felt I had to talk to someone and I decided to speak to my then good friend, Ernest Akale but unfortunately for me, Mr. Ernest did not have the capacity to hold what I said to him. He broke down completely the days that followed and I found myself having to pause how I was feeling and what I was struggling with to help my friend be strong. After a while, he withdrew from not just me but his then fiancé and friends. I had to then tell the fiancé what had caused it (she suspected we were having an affair so I had to clear the air) To my surprise she was a lot stronger than her man and told me to suck it up (I’m paraphrasing). She said if she were me, she wouldn’t leave the church but stay to torment Pastor Biodun and collect money from him. Ok! That sounded extreme for me, as my intention was not to blackmail but to heal my broken self. Anyways, I finally found the courage to speak to my then unit head who said he was going to talk to Pastor Biodun but didn’t have the liver to do so. Before long, the story was spreading and naturally getting twisted.

I went to a new church and it seemed like the COZA bug had chased me there. The pastor would always refer to COZA as some example and each time that was done, it seemed like a spear was thrust through my chest. One day, I broke down in the service and started crying uncontrollably, as I couldn’t take another mention of COZA and the pictures it painted in my head.

Very long, boring story cut short, for the last 5 months I gave the whole church thing a big space and break. I wasn’t sure I believed in God. I wasn’t sure I understood what it meant when people said ‘Jesus saves” and I definitely wasn’t sure how to deal with the mental torture that was affecting not just me but my relationships with family and friends. I was very unstable, fearful and worst of all guilty. I got a chance to talk to Pastor Folarin of COZA Lagos Chapter, popularly called Pastor flo about everything. I made an effort to reach out to him because I realized the right thing to do was talk to an elder in the church and seek some sort of remedy to a wrong I believed had been done me. Instead, Pastor Flo said, Pastor Biodun had confessed to him and they had ‘talked’ about it and somehow that was supposed to be Ok. He asked what it was I wanted coming to talk to him about it when I did, I told him I realized what happened between Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo and I was wrong and not just that I felt abused and manipulated. I also said I thought it was wrong for Pastor Biodun to go on preaching without taking time to deal with his personal character flaws. I said I thought he was danger to all the young women that attended the church. Come to think of it, maybe he meant if I wanted something monetary or material (as someone had suggested when I opened up to her) but the truth is, I never wanted his money (or is it the church member’s money.) All I wanted was to meet with him and have him accept that he misled me, betrayed his wife and the church he pastors. I wasn’t the only lady in COZA who had been a victim of his sexcapades and manipulative patterns but I was the one who could come back after months of struggle with not just my faith but also my affair with him. And I wanted to set things right. I wanted to talk to Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo maybe for closure and I felt like I needed an apology because he played the “touch not my anointed” card to keep me locked in guilt, shame and fear when all along it was a calculated plan and I dare say, it started when he asked me to join the workforce.

Not to mention the audacity to talk about teaching me a level of grace I didn’t understand. I had no intention of understanding a grace that would permit me to go on doing things that were wrong and what’s worse having to carry the burden for almost a year.

Different surprising advises came up in the weeks that followed the rumour making rounds. I was told to hush because Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo had been a cultist in the past and could send people to shut me up. All my so-called friends in COZA withdrew from me and treated me like I had the plague. What was worse was Pastor Flo finally saw my then pastor to ‘talk’ about what had happened with Pastor Biodun and lied that it happened once and was a mistake. My question then became, ‘do these people even care how broken I had become?’ ’do they care about the emotional and spiritual welfare of the people they were pastoring?’ The sad answer was NO. Most of us old members of COZA kept leaving but they couldn’t care less. What was important was to keep growing the church and having more and more cars with stickers that read “More than enough.” Back then, I always felt horrible when I saw another car drive past me with the sticker. I was breaking, I was struggling but no one could help. All they could do was ask me to hide so Pastor Biodun’s goons don’t hurt me. And then the interesting one was if I had evidence to prove my claim. Let me just say here that, it isn’t a claim, it’s a confession to free me from all of the guilt and shame I have had to live with for no reason at all. (That being said, I have evidence to prove all I have said here, the latest being a 58 minutes recording of my meeting with Pastor Flo a few months back)

This is my confession and I cannot begin to describe how much weight has been lifted off of my shoulders just pouring the truth out about what went down. So, to all my ex COZA friends gossiping about me, get your facts right. To those who said they’d help me deal with the pain but didn’t, I forgive you, I have learnt how to deal with it and I am doing just fine. To those who fear for my safety saying Pastor Biodun would send people to shut me up, I really have gone past fearing for my life. To live is gain and to die is Christ (or how does Paul say it again?) And to the only person who ever supported me through it all, thank you, I am learning to be brave. Please don’t think I am perfect in all of this but in line with living my authentic life and putting all forms of abuse behind me, this is where I press the stop button and stop the bleeding. This is where I break the silence and call the church to stand up for what it has been commissioned to do. If you will not enter the Kingdom, please don’t stop others who are trying to enter.

I still remember when I used to nurse the idea of digging up emails, text messages, hotel billings (as once I used my card to pay for his room when his master card failed to work) to prove there was an affair. It was pathetic. Why for the love of heaven was I trying to dig up evidence? I am satisfied setting the record straight. I am ready for any shaming or bashing that would follow because the truth is, because of what I have suffered and come through, I am really not moved by what people say or think about me anymore. I am a stronger woman and a damn abuse survivor seeking to connect with other victims of abuse to show them how to deal with the shame, hurt and guilt and how to come out stronger. Turning their mess into their message.

I am Ese Walter and I have gone through all forms of abuse from family, boyfriends, my ex pastor and some strangers not to break me, but so I stand and so I qualify to help victims. My scars have qualified me and when all is said and done, I will still be standing. I AM WOMAN, I BEND, I DON’T BREAK!

Cheers to the freaking weekend!!!

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Following a viral video (after the cut) showing the Nigerian policeman pictured above asking a civilian for N25,000 bribe, the officer has now been arrested. Below is a statement by the Nigerian Police Force:
The Policeman involved in the unprofessional and shameful act as seen in a video clip currently in circulation on the social media has been identified. He is a Sergeant with Force Number 192954 (Name withheld) attached to the Lagos State Command Motor Traffic Division (State MTD).
He has been arrested and currently in detention awaiting the commencement of his orderly room trial (Nigeria Police version of court). The Inspector General of Police IGP MD Abubakar has directed the Commissioner of Police Lagos State to ensure that the orderly room trial is concluded in record time.

The IGP therefore reiterates his assurance to the public of his zero tolerance to any form of corrupt practices involving any Police officer.

He equally advises citizens to take advantage of the use of the Nigeria Police Force’ complaint email address; policemonitor@npf.gov.ng which guarantees their confidentiality in forwarding all manners of complaints of unethical conduct involving any police officer or security agent for necessary action.

Inspector General see turn unsuspecting Nigerians to mobile ATM machine. Wetin you go do to this your boy now?

The senate resolution is not yet a law in Nigeria, it is just a proposal. 2/3 members in the house of representatives must support that passage of the proposal before it can be enshrine in the constitution. Our prayer will be that house of representatives vote against the proposed amendment of the senate.

The constitution give us the powers to recall our representative from either the senate or house of representative when we feel they are no longer there to serve their myopic interest and not electorate interest again. It is time we know how to invoke this section of the constitution against any of the dishonourable senators and representatives.

It time to start acting the act and not talk the talk on these child molesters. Lets take a clue from Egypt and act now, to save our land, children and generations to come from theses "POLITHIEVCIAN"

There is serious unemployment in this nation, the Federal and State government need to do something urgently. See healthy able bodied men and women who should be at their work places(Offices, Workshops, Farms and Markets) shouting and carrying placards for public officers (elected or appointed) that care less of their welfare or that of their immediate families. I'm 100% sure these people are not doing this because of the love for the state or the stage actors but for the NGN1,000; NGN2,000 and NGN5,000 they have been promised.

They fail to understand that the politician they are crying and rooting for, fights in the open but discuss how to share the state resources among themselves in the inner inner chamber of their secret offices.

Seriously an idle hands, minds and brain are readily available tools in the hands of "POLITHIEVCIANS".

Allowing the protest to be stage shows that the commissioner in Rivers State is partisan. He told the world that protest would not be allowed in the state, yet anti-Amaechi protest was allowed even with police protection.

The CP is definitely dancing to the tune of some powerful individual in the state. What a shame!!!!!!

Obama had problem with the republicans for a long time, Michel Obama was never quoted to have said a word against any of the republican senators. Blair had a running battle with the house, his wife was never quoted to said a word against the house oppositions. For the 18 months l stayed in Ghana, during the term of President John Kufor, his wife was never in the public domain misusing state's resources and causing or instigating mayhem. In Kenya when President Kibaki and the opposition leader Odinga had a serious misunderstanding, their wives were never seem in the public domain Aggravating the tension. In Nigeria, during the Abatcha and June 12 wahala, Mrs. Maryam Abatcha, was not seem going after the oppositions wives and children to make the scores even.

President GEJ must curtail the excesses of his wife, she should be stopped from foraying into political and state matters. She must take a clue and emulate other first ladies.

Why the fear? Once you have a good offer, don`t think about it twice resign an leave. The company will get her lawyers to write you, telling you to pay the bond amount on or before a specific date or you will be taken to court. Bros, ignore the letter and their threats. I had a similar experience, the indian company, with a Nigerian as the HR Manager, told me to pay back about 2.2 million because breached my employment exit agreement, which indeed was breached. What l did when I got the letter from their lawyer was to -
1. Identify all the areas the company has breached the employment agreement
2. Collate all the electronic mails and hard copy letters that relates to bonuses, benefits and allowances that the company had not fulfilled
3. Got a lawyer and handed over all the necessary documents to him including their 2.2 million demand letter and paid 50% of the lawyer's fees. You don't need a big time lawyer, but a good one.

My lawyer made me to understand the following -
A. It a civil matter which can last for a long time.
B. If the company want to go to court on the issue, the company must pay 10% of the amount some demanded to the court and they have to pay their lawyer as well.
C. Even if the case was decided against me, l can tell the court this is the amount l can afford to pay on a monthly basis.
D. If the company is owing me, the court will also direct them to pay me or net it out from the amount being demanded.

Having provided all what the lawyer needed, l went to sleep, because correspondence thereafter was between the two lawyers. At the end, no kobo was paid.

Don't exercise any fear. Your indian employers will never go to court

@Poster,

I feel your pain and effort you have made to make your marriage work. However, the success of your marriage and keeping the marriage rock solid is in your hands not your wife's; agreed you're the head of your family but your wife is the neck and the head cannot stand without the neck. Poster, you need to be more matured and save your marriage from collapsing, if your wife refuse to say sorry for whatever she might have done, go ahead and say sorry to her, you need to stoop sometimes to win for the sake of your kids and their future.

As regards family intrusions, you guys allowed it from the inception because you as the head failed to address during your courtship and immediately after your marriage. In Africa settings, Families will want to know how their sons and daughters are fairing especially when they are newly married, no harm in that though, but you need to define the limit of their inquisitions and know how to keep a sealed lips to certain information, you guys failed in this regard and the reason your marriage is having problem.

@Poster, you need to take time out with your spouse, go to a secluded area with your kids, have heart to heart talk about your marriage, define the limits for family intrusion and information, let your children see and feel the family bound.

This I believe would rekindle the love between you and your spouse. Please don't make separation/divorce a final option to resolve issues and challenges in your marriage

Well guys,

Don't let us be fooled by the antic of Gaddafi. Questions need to be answered to prove that the son and 3 grand children were killed -

1. Why was the face of the son killed not shown to the whole world when the corpse was displayed on the libyan state TV?

2. According to the spoke man, Gaddafi and his wife were both in the building when the bomb blasted and yet Gadaffi and the wife were not hurt. Is this possible?  Report from military analyst says, there is no way a bomb of such nature, destroying such a fortified mansion and Gaddafi and his wife will escape without a scratch.

Guys, from all the analysis I have listened and read, Gaddafi is only trying to get the sympathy of the world and has decided to employ such a lying tactics.

Why are Nigerians easily carried away. Whats the shout all about, pick any average boy on the street of any state, give him the assembling manual and he will assemble the 3-wheelers.

Our government goes to India, Burma, Vietnam, Bangladesh etc, import a glorified keke (bicycle), assemble it and then we are making noise, that the governor has performed excellently. Brazil, that does not have half of what we have in terms of resources; manufacture and assemble luxurious Buses - (Scania, Macropolo etc), someone is assembling a bicycle and they are shouting that he has done well.

THIS IS A DISGRACE!

Leadership ki ni? I laugh externally because na only Oyo dis kan absurdity fit happen.

The man does not deserve best failed governor award talkless Leadership award. The man failed more than failure!

It is unfortunate that my car owners take their car to various workshops where manual wheel balancing and alignment are carried out on the cars. I took my car to one of such workshops and my car came out worse of. I struggled to put the car straight with the car when I drove it out of the workshop. I had to call someone who direct me to where I could do the alignment and wheel balancing digitally, and the rubbish down manually was corrected. And to my surprise the cost was very reasonable.

Anyone that loves his/her live and car, should do their alignment and balancing digitally.

Adeyemik

More Shots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is there a governor in Ogun State? What can the governor point to, to be his achievement since he became a governor in Ogun State over 6 years ago? What has Akute and its neighboring towns done to deserve the neglect? There is no presence of government in this area at all. From Ojodu Abiodun - Akute axis, to Berger - Akute axis, to Ishaga - Akute axis, Giwa (Agbado) - Olambe - Akute axis, what you see are just sign posts saying " Welcome to Ifo Local Government area", thereafter nothing else. What has happened to all the federal allocation given to Ogun State for road development? Where has the money budgeted for road development and maintenance gone too?

A stretch of road divides Akute (Ogun State) and Ojodu (Lagos State), while Lagos is developing her own area (Ojodo) in terms of road development, electrification, pipe borne water and construction of school, Ogun state has abandoned Akute and it adjoining towns. Ogun state cannot hold claim to any development in that area, whatever, that has been achieved, was done through communal effort. Hardly can you pass through any street in the area without you seeing street entrances man by the street residents collecting tolls from motorist, done with a view of generating fund to develop their roads.

The last major road development in the area was done by Marwa, when he was the governor of Lagos state. According to him (Marwa), he embarked on the road development in Akute and its environ, because Lagos has its water corporation situated in Akute and it would be ideal to develop the road there to facilitate ease of movement of material and personnel to their water generating station in Akute. The road (Yakoyo- Alagbole - Akute) Marwa constructed over 15 years ago is still the only motorable in the entire area.

Gbenga Daniel constructed Ojodu Abiodun-Ishasi-Akute road, the road started given way and heading to it former state just barely three months after its construction. Infact, while Gbenga Daniel was commissioning the road at Ojodu Abiodun, people were being ferried by canoe across a small river along that road because the bridge of the newly constructed road caved in due to a fairly heavy downfall some couple of days before the commissioning. Yet OGD went ahead to commission a very shoddy road construction rather than reprimand the contractor and the supervisor that supervised the construction.

Today, all the roads in Akute and its environ are in a very bad state and the people leaving in the area are suffering and smiling (According to Fela). Driving from Victoria Island to Berger (Lagos Ibadan) during the peak period (5pm on Monday) takes less time than from Berger to Akute, a distance of about 5KM. You drive on this roads with stress and it causes you to visit your Mechanic at least one every two month.

It may interest you to know that Lagos pays Ogun State royalty for her water works situated in Akute, why can't OGD use part of the royalty received from Lagos to develop these area and give the people a sense of belonging.

Ogun state should cede Akute to Lagos if you think your government cannot develop the area. The area cry for development.

An happy marriage is tending towards hitting the rock because the wife says it is too stressful but the man no she must provide it.

This is a couple where the husband work while the wife is a full time house wife. The husband is used to taking daily prepared fresh soup when he gets back from the office and the wife have been doing it religious. Of a sudden the wife started complaining that she can't be making it everyday that it is too stressful while the husband insisted that she must cook it for him.

The man's argument is that she is a full time house wife, and everything needed to making the soup are already bought and refrigerated (she need not go to the market), the children school is just 10 minutes drive away from their house, yet the wife is saying she can't do such again.

Dear forumites, why could this woman be complaining and the husband insisting?

Should her husband pound yam for her? I will like to know your views.

Hi All,

Less than three (5) months to the completion of a five year course in OOU, my brother was informed that they won't be legible to go for NYSC because they course of study has not been accredited. I want to know when course accreditation became a yardstick\condition to going for NYSC and what is the way forward to ensuring that he serves.

Thanks.

Dear Sis,

There is no where in the world that two wrongs ever make a right, also there are some spoken words that are worst than being slapped or beaten. Slapping a woman in her present state was equally an irresponsible act and condemnable to the high heavens.

Contemplating abortion because of a small misunderstanding would be worse than all that your husband has done to you, it is tantamount to killing and you have God to answer to. Have you thought of what would happen to you if the aborting process develop complications?

If your husband is not ready to make the move to apologize to you, you take the bull by the horn, go apologize to him and in the process let him know that he was wrong in slapping you (after apology). Let peace return to you marriage.

Peradventure, you have anyone (friends, family etc) suggesting that you should leave him, look they are deceiving you and can be best classified as "UNFRIENDLY FRIEND" not interested and envious of your happiness. You will be surprise if you leave, one of those friend of your (if any) will end up being his wife.

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Bros,

Promise72 don yan you the koko. Na Toyota, Honda naija people dey crazi for ehen.