I have B.Agric.

Mrval20:

Thanks a lot for contributing.
But does that make one a sinner? I mean aside logic, can this be considered 'lying' from a religious perspective?

Am not allowed to judge though, but if I may for the sake of this thread, I'd say its lying. James 4:17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

You ain't being truthful by giving a false impression to people. Even though you desire not to answer a question directly and give an impression, the onus is on you to correct that impression by answering that question correctly at that point. If not, I'd vote that to be a lie. Thanks.

My LGA not included in this controversial activity. I pray for Peace.!

MultiChoice has prayed a Federal High Court in Lagos to decline jurisdiction in a suit seeking an order of the court to restrain the Cable television service provider from implementing the 20 per cent rise on DStv and Gotv subscription rates which began on April 1, 2015.
The company through its lawyer, Mr. Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN), filed a preliminary objection to the first class action filed by two Lagos-based legal practitioners, Osasuyi Adebayo and Oluyinka Oyeniji, on behalf of themselves and all other DStv subscribers across the country.
Aside seeking the order of the court to bar MultiChoice from going on with the hike, the plaintiffs also want the court to compel the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, to regulate the activities of MultiChoice so as to prevent what they described as arbitrary increment in subscription rates.
They categorically called for the implementation of the pay-per-view scheme in Nigeria, whereby subscribers would only pay for programmes they watched, as is being done in other parts of the world where MultiChoice operates.
But canvassing his argument at the Tuesday’s proceeding, Onigbanjo maintained that the plaintiffs had no cause of action, adding that a court did not have the power to regulate the price of services that a business was offering to its customers.
He drew the attention of the court to MultiChoice’s conditions or terms of agreement, particularly clauses 40 and 41 which states that “Multichoice Nigeria may, from time to time, change the fees payable to Multichoice Nigeria for the Multichoice Service by way of general amendment.”
According to the Senior Advocate, “My Lord, the country, Nigeria operates a free market economy; neither the government nor the court can regulate prices. How do you now say, for instance, that one bread is more expensive than the other and then ask the court to order the baker of the more expensive bread to go out of the market?”
He further argued that there was no existing law in Nigeria empowering the NBC to regulate the prices of services that satellite television operators in the country were offering to their customers.
“The NBC Act does not say that any satellite television operators in the country cannot increase their prices.
“I therefore humbly ask that the plaintiffs’ suit be struck out for being grossly unmeritorious. We will not be asking for cost because they are our subscribers,” Onigbanjo submitted.
Justice C. J. Aneke adjourned the matter till May 21 to rule on an application filed in objection to the suit.
Earlier at the proceeding, counsel for the plaintiffs, Yemi Salma, had reminded the court that there was a pending application for committal filed against the Managing Director and the Public Relations Officer of MultiChoice, Mr. John Ugbe and Caroline Oghuma respectively.
Salma said the said committal application asking the court to jail Ugbe and Oghuma for allegedly disobeying an order of the court should be taken first before any other thing on Tuesday.
Aneke had on April 2, 2015 made an interim order restraining MultiChoice from implementing the 20 per cent increment in subscription rate on DStv, pending the determination of the suit; but the plaintiffs alleged that the order was shunned.
“My Lord, the application for contempt must be taken first. My Lord, this position has been severally adopted by the court, even by the Court of Appeal,” Salma said.
But in opposition, Onigbanjo said the jurisdiction of the court had been challenged and that that had to be settled first before the court could even make any order.
Besides, he reminded the court that the matter was specifically adjourned for the hearing of his client’s preliminary objection, arguing that the court did not have the power to overrule itself.
He argued, “My Lord, a court without jurisdiction that goes on to act, does whatever it does in futility. If a court does not have jurisdiction, where does the power for committal come from?
Aneke upheld Onigbanjo’s submission and consequently heard MultiChoice’s premilinary objection ahead of the application for committal.

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye has openly condemned homosexuality, saying it is an immoral act and against the will of God.
The Pastor who made his position known via a Facebook post said he was in a particular country and the misconception was that he hates Homosexuals. He however said that he does not hate any human being, but that it was wrong for a man to be married to a fellow man instead of the normal practice of man and woman as instituted by God.
Adeboye said that the problem is that the natural order of procreation instituted by God may be expunged if the practice continues.

donphilopus:
These people just wanna render this man persona non grata Politically. He has just 24days to go. The impeachment is aimed at crippling his already dwindling Political career! Anyway, nice job!

Nice job.?!

The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has blamed President Goodluck Jonathan’s defeat in the hands of Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) in the March 28 presidential elections to his tacit endorsement of the hate campaigns targeted at the APC candidate by the president’s team.
It also accused close associates of Jonathan, who handled his campaign, of shutting out the party leadership from the campaign.
National Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh, said this at a press conference in Abuja on Monday.
The PDP spokesman pointed out that the erroneous belief by the Jonathan campaign team that it could denigrate a respected statesman, who has a cult followership in the North, instead of dwelling on issues, cost the party critical votes in parts of the North.
Metuh equally said the campaign for the sacking of the NWC, which was being orchestrated by some of those responsible for the party’s woes, was immoral and illogical.
He said: “For those of us in the North, where the type of campaign that we generated made it impossible for our leaders in the North to garner support for our candidates because of the hate campaign that was generated, we are not answerable for it.
“While I am not holding any excuse for them, we cannot be held accountable for issues that were generated that worked against our candidate in the North. This is clear, all Nigerians knew what happened”.
Responding to allegations that members of the NWC award themselves N30m each, Metuh said, “We state clearly that we have not been given any money; rather this NWC generated billions of naira from the sale of forms from where we funded our candidates for the governorship and state assembly elections in all the states of the federation in addition to funds released to key leaders, including NWC and BoT members, to prosecute the campaigns in their various areas.
“The NWC is willing and ready to make this account public in line with the Freedom of Information law”.
Metuh explained that several attempts had been made to present the NWC in bad light following the party’s defeat at the polls, recalling that in the attempt to discredit the NWC, “these elements” pushed out series of misleading information to the unsuspecting public – among them the mismanagement of the presidential campaign funds, which led to the poor performance in the polls.
He said this had formed the basis for the calls for the NWC members to resign.
Metuh added, “When this wicked and baseless allegation was debunked by the NWC, which publicly clarified that it was not involved in the handling of the campaign and its funding, and that such were exclusively managed by the Presidential Campaign Organisation appointed by the President, these divisive elements in their desperation, came up with another allegation, claiming that the leadership embezzled funds belonging to the party”.
The publicity secretary, however, said the crisis that greeted the use of campaign funds is over following a meeting of all parties concerned on Sunday.
He said the meeting, which was chaired by President Jonathan, succeeded in finding an amicable solution to the problem.
“We are happy to announce that the leader of our party, President Jonathan, the PDP governors and other key stakeholders of our party including governors and legislators-elect are deeply concerned about this development and have intervened to ensure the desired stability in our party”, he said.
Mr. Metuh said with the crisis over, the party is now poised to reclaim the Presidency in 2019 and that there are no more talks of any resignation of NWC members.
“There is no crisis in the national leadership of the PDP. The National Working Committee under the Chairmanship of Ahmadu Adamu Mu’azu is duly elected and is fully in control of the administration of the party until the expiration of its tenure in March 2016 in line with the provisions of the constitution of our great party.
“We are not only in office, we are in power”, he said.
Mr. Metuh further called on all PDP members across the country to close ranks and work together with their leaders at all levels and make themselves partners in progress in rebuilding the party.
“What we need now is to eschew all personal and private agenda and join forces to reinvent our party for the task ahead”, he said.

The Niger State House of Assembly was turned into a theatre of the absurd Tuesday morning when lawmakers broke the padlock on the gate used by the Police to prevent them from sitting to commence impeachment proceedings against the Governor Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu.
Apparently aware that those who want him out are 21 out of the 27-member Assembly, which meets the two-third majority required to carry out the impeachment process, the governor tried to ensure that the lawmakers did not gain access into the assembly.
But even when they lawmakers were able to force their way into the Assembly they found that the mace and the Clerk to the House of Assembly were nowhere to be found.
This put the process on hold.
The unrelenting members, however, vowed to continue sitting despite the fact that the Complex was brimming with security operatives.
The Police had in the early hours of Tuesday locked the gate to prevent coming in or going out by members and staff of the House.
This, supposedly, was to prevent the members from forming a quorum to move for the impeachment of Aliyu.
Angered that their members were locked out, some members of the Assembly, who were inside stormed, the gate and ordered the most senior officer guarding the gate to open it.
But the police officer, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, said he was not with the keys of the gate.
To this end, the legislators, after pleading with the DSP to no avail, got a stone and proceeded to break the padlock.

newtelegraphonline.com/aliyu-stalls-impeachment-bid-locks-out-legislators/

A friend of mine is posted there too. She's wondering how and where to start the journey from. She stays in Rivers.

Great. Any idea where the company is located, so interested persons can drop there applications.? Thanks op

Wow nice. What's the location before I call...?

Welcome to the website of the National Assembly. Here, the world is red and grey. But I cannot promise you that the page is very colourful – at least, not as colourful and flamboyant as what the ‘honorable’ lawmakers regularly wear.
Besides, the site is poorly updated. For instance, as of Monday night, there is no information on the results of the just-concluded election. However, it is not a bad place for people looking for resource materials. For one, it documents the bills passed in the last few years.
From 2011 till date, the National Assembly has passed a total number of 37 bills, reveals its website.
With a few of them passed before the inauguration of the outgoing administration, it implies that fewer than 37 bills were successfully passed by the seventh Assembly.
Some of the bills passed by both chambers – the Senate and the House of Representatives – according to the website, are the Appropriation Bill (2014), the Pension Reform Act (2014), the National Assembly Service Commission Act (2014), the National Assembly Service Act (2014), the Transfer of Convicted Offenders Amendment Act (2013), the Terrorism Prevention Amendment Act (2013), the Appropriation Act (2013) and the Appropriation Amendment Act (2013).
Others are the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act (2013), the Court of Appeal Amendment Act (2013), the Federal Capital Territory Appropriation Act (2013), the Hydro-Electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission Amendment Act (2013), the Money Laundering Prohibition Amendment Act (2012), the Niger Delta Development Commission Appropriation Act (2012), the Appropriation Act (2012) and the Federal Capital Territory Act (2012).
There are also the Supplementary Appropriation Act (2012), the Universities Miscellaneous Provisions Amendment Act (2012), the Tertiary Education Trust Fund Act (2011), the Industrial Training Fund Amendment Act (2011) and others.
As of Monday, the website operator had yet to update the site to include the 2014 appropriation among the documents the outgoing House of Representatives has successfully treated.
The lower chamber had, on Thursday, passed the 2015 budget.
Besides the budget, which is still awaiting the Senate’s endorsement, no other bill has been successfully treated and passed by the Assembly this year.
And apart from those made by the current Assembly, the website lists additional 182 acts passed by the previous legislative sessions, making its archive a relatively robust resource centre.
Comparatively, the lawmakers are leaving behind hundreds of unfinished bills. According to the site, the Senate will hand over 370 bills to the next session, with some spending over a decade in its files.
The recent bills that have yet to be trashed or passed are the Central Bank of Nigeria Amendment Bill (2014), the Charted of Public Administration of Nigeria Bill (2014), the Nigerian Council of Food Science and Technology Bill (2014), the Counselling Practitioners Council of Nigeria Bill (2014), the Defence Corporation of the Nigeria Act Amendment Bill (2014) and the Nigerian Electricity Management Authority Bill (2014).
Also, the House of Representatives is sitting on 607 bills, including the Nigerian Career Advice for School Children Bill (2014), the Nigerian Metallurgical Industry Bill (2014), the Non-Governmental Organisations Regulatory Agency of Nigeria Bill (2014), the Family Support Trust Fund Act Amendment Bill and the Nigerian Development Bank Act Amendment Bill.
The Assembly’s site lists public petitions as essential legislative documents of the National Assembly. Checks by our correspondent show that only five of such documents have been documented on the site under the current administration.
The Assembly opened with a petition by one Martin Nwabuwa, seeking the intervention of the House of Representatives in his retirement, which he considered unlawful, at John Holt Nigeria and the payment of his benefits. According to the site, the petition, filed on February 7, 2012, was referred to the Committee on Public Petitions. Three years after, those who visit the section are left with questions on the outcome of the plea.
The other four petitions, sponsored by different members of the House of Representatives on behalf of the petitioners, end with remarks similar to that of Nwabuwa. Nothing is said about the current status.
Yet, the complete documents are not accessible even though they, supposedly, have been uploaded on the site.
This appears to be a major challenge affecting the online resources of the Assembly. The documents are not downloadable.

www.punchng.com/i-punch/a-visit-to-national-assemblys-website/

To the one you TRUST.!

not used a window phone before. I think windows phones has windows operating system and apps and might support android apps

Just so we Nigerians will know what we are expecting. Congrats General Buhari.!

1) Stabilize oil prices at $100 a barrel
2)To reduce fuel price to N45 a litre
3) Provide free education to all Nigerian children
4) Pay the poorest 25 million people N5000
every month
5)Generate 40,000 megawatts of electricity in 4
years
6)Pay youth corpers for one more year after
service
7)Provide one meal a day for all Nigerian
students
Provide 3 million jobs in his first year
9)To make N1 to be equal to $1
10) Build 4 refineries in 4 years
11) On Boko Haram
Buhari, who was the military ruler from
December 31, 1983, to August 27, 1985, first
of all speaks on the main challenge which
Nigeria faces, Boko Haram.
During the election campaign Buhari frequently
assured Nigerians that he would stop the
insurgency:
“Our government will bring to an end the
menace of Boko Haram terror that is plaguing
the society. Nigerians are turning into refugees
in their country,” he said during a rally in
Adamawa. “What we save from the fight
against corruption and leakages, we will invest
heavily in education, infrastructure, equipment,
and teachers. The best we can do for our
generation and future generation is to give
them qualitative and quantitative education. An
APC government throughout the country
definitely will do that.”
Professor Yemi Osinbajo, who is Buhari’s
running mate, said that if elected they will
personally lead the war against Boko Haram:
“Fighting insurgency requires the Commander
in Chief to lead from the front by providing
leadership.”
“Instead of politicizing the issue, APC will
galvanise all support and ensure that the threat
to the territorial integrity of the country is put
on check, and General Buhari will ensure that
the entire nation is mobilized irrespective of
party affiliation to solve the problem.”
Speaking recently at Chatham House in
London, Buhari promised that if he wins, the
world will stop worrying about Nigeria:
“Let me assure you that if I am elected
president, the world will have no cause to worry
about Nigeria as it has had to recently; that
Nigeria will return to its stabilizing role in West
Africa; and that no inch of Nigerian territory will
ever be lost to the enemy because we will pay
special attention to the welfare of our soldiers in
and out of service, we will give them adequate
and modern arms and ammunitions to work
with, we will improve intelligence gathering and
border controls to choke Boko Haram’s financial
and equipment channels, we will be tough on
terrorism and tough on its root causes by
initiating a comprehensive economic
development plan promoting infrastructural
development, job creation, agriculture and
industry in the affected areas. We will always
act on time and not allow problems to
irresponsibly fester, and I, Muhammadu Buhari,
will always lead from the front and return
Nigeria to its leadership role in regional and
international efforts to combat terrorism.”
12) On corruption
As Buhari had a rare reputation as a fighter
against corruption during his time in charge of
Nigeria from 1983-85, a lot of his promises
connect to it.
The APC presidential flag-bearer said it was not
only a civic duty but that every Nigerian was
morally-bound to sustain the struggle to rid
“this country of the prevailing corruption”.
He stressed that he would make sure that those
who steal public money are made to return it,
noting that the fight against corruption will
form a major focus of the APC government.
Buhari said despite his mature age he feels
“spiritually strong enough and physically agile
to give every sacrifice in our bid to salvage our
dear nation from imminent economic and social
disintegration.”
“On corruption, there will be no confusion as to
where I stand. Corruption will have no place
and the corrupt will not be appointed into my
administration. First and foremost, we will plug
the holes in the budgetary process. Revenue
producing entities such as NNPC and Customs
and Excise will have one set of books only. Their
revenues will be publicly disclosed and regularly
audited. The institutions of state dedicated to
fighting corruption will be given independence
and prosecutorial authority without political
interference.”
He also added: “We will stop corruption and
make the ordinary people, the weak and the
vulnerable our top priority.”
13) On youth unemployment
Nigeria is the most populous country on the
continent and the problem of youth
unemployment is very crucial.
General Buhari has promised to create one
million jobs for Igbo youths in the southeast
when he becomes the president.
He stated that he will realise this through coal
deposits:
“We are banking on huge coal deposits located
at Amasiodo, Inyi and Leje axis of Enugu Coal
belt. We are going to award contracts for
mining and construction of coal-fired power
plant, unlike PDP that since 1999 promised to
revamp the coal fields and 16 years after,
nothing has been done.”
The APC’s presidential candidate speaking on
the issue at a rally in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state, last
Thursday, promised to provide the country’s
residents with 3 million jobs annually and
handle the lingering issue of unemployment.
14) On economy
“On the economy, the fall in prices of oil has
brought our economic and social stress into full
relief. After the rebasing exercise in April 2014,
Nigeria overtook South Africa as Africa’s largest
economy. Our GDP is now valued at $510 billion
and our economy rated 26th in the world. Also
on the bright side, inflation has been kept at
single digit for a while and our economy has
grown at an average of 7% for about a decade,”
Buhari stated.
Buhari said that the Nigerian economy is too
reliant on oil and gas. He claimed that the
development of the agriculture sector and the
revival of the textile industry would contribute
to helping the economy move forward.
During a presidential rally in Owerri, Imo, he
promised that industries will also be revitalised
while soft loans will be given to small and
medium enterprises, aside from other
infrastructural development.
Buhari promised party supporters in Brinin
Kebbi that “ending current epileptic power
supply will boost the economy and attract
domestic and foreign investment.”
15) On the Nigerian Army
Muhammadu Buhari has promised to
restructure the Nigerian army and the Nigeria
police force, if elected.
He said that the need to restructure the army
and the police became necessary because
Nigeria’s enemies had become more
sophisticated in the use of weapons.
“Our army and police will be highly equipped
with all the required weapons, educated and
uneducated youths will be employed through
different programmes that will be created by
our administration. We will rebuild our
educational system and employ youths not on
sentiment and god-fatherism. We will as well
find ways of restrengthening the country’s
economy.”
16) On religion
Buhari is from the North and his faith is Islam.
But as he said, he not a religious fanatic. The
APC has also denied all the allegations on the
ex-general’s religious bigotry:
“Buhari had been a military Head of State in
Nigeria and had the power to make a decree
and it will become a law in Nigeria. At that time,
he did not make any attempt to Islamise Nigeria
neither did he Islamise Nigeria. Is it now that
you need the National Assembly to put a stamp
of approval on what you do that he will come
and Islamise Nigeria?” said the party.
When he met with Catholic bishops Buhari
vowed not to Islamise Nigeria:
“For me, the issue of religion was, and should
always, be a matter of personal conviction. This
personal conviction approach to religion has
defined my work and interactions all my life,
including my tenure in office as military Head of
State. The religion of all those I worked with was
never a factor in their progress or in what
happened to them. All that mattered then, and
should still matter today, are competence,

Location please

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has
confirmed that it has approved the contract tabled
before coach Stephen Keshi.
NFF president Amaju Pinnick speaking to
newsmen in, Uyo, Akwa Ibom on Wednesday
revealed that the 53-year-old- though has yet to
sign the dotted lines- now has a new two-year
contract approved.
“Keshi has not yet signed a new contract (as
Nigeria coach). We had an executive committee
meeting of the NFF (on Wednesday) and the
technical committee submitted a report on Keshi’s
contract situation,” Pinnick said.
“The contract has been approved (by the executive
committee of the NFF) and we are good to go.”
Keshi is now expected to sign a new deal in the
coming days.

Many of us try, but often fail, to get eight hours’
sleep each night. This is widely assumed to be the
ideal amount – but some experts now say it’s too
much, and may actually be unhealthy.
We all know that getting too little sleep is bad. You
feel tired, you may be irritable, and it can contribute
to obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart
disease, doctors say. But too much sleep? You don’t
often hear people complaining about it.
However, research carried out over the past 10 years
appears to show that adults who usually sleep for less
than six hours or more than eight, are at risk of
dying earlier than those sleep for between six and
eight hours.
To put it more scientifically, there is a gradual
increase in mortality risk for those who fall outside
the six-to-eight-hour band.
Prof Franco Cappuccio, professor of cardiovascular
medicine and epidemiology at the University of
Warwick, has analysed 16 studies, in which overall
more than a million people were asked about their
sleeping habits and then followed up over time.
Cappuccio put the people involved into three broad
groups:
• those who said they slept less than six hours a night
• those who said they slept for between six and eight
hours
• those who said they slept for more than eight hours
His analysis showed that 12% more of the short
sleepers had died when they were followed up,
compared to the medium sleepers.
However, 30% more of the long sleepers had died,
compared to the medium sleepers.
That’s a significant increase in mortality risk, roughly
equivalent to the risk of drinking several units of
alcohol per day, though less than the mortality risk
that comes from smoking.
But can it really be true that getting nine hours’
sleep is worse for you than getting five?
There are different ways of looking at this.
Cappuccio was aware of the possibility that people
sleeping too long might be depressed, or might be
using sleeping pills. He corrected for this, though,
and found the association was still there.
His own theory is that people who sleep for more
than eight hours sometimes have an underlying
health problem that is not yet showing in other
symptoms.
So, it’s not the long sleep that is causing the
increased mortality risk, it’s the hidden illness.
But not everyone agrees. Prof Shawn Youngstedt of
Arizona State University carried out a small study
involving 14 young adults, persuading them to spend
two hours more in bed per night for three weeks.
They reported back that they suffered from
“increases in depressed mood” as Youngstedt puts it,
and also “increases in inflammation” – specifically,
higher levels in the blood of a protein called IL-6,
which is connected with inflammation.
The participants in the study also complained about
soreness and back pain. This makes Youngstedt
wonder whether the problem with long sleep is the
prolonged inactivity that goes with it.
He has now been carrying out an experiment where
long-sleeping and average-sleeping adults are asked
to spend an hour less in bed each night. The results
will be published soon, he says.
Anyone studying sleep has to contend with a number
of difficulties. One is that it’s often not possible to
measure sleep very accurately.
“We tend to rely on very simple methods of asking
people on average how many hours they sleep a
night. It has to be taken with a pinch of salt,” says
Cappuccio.
“Naturally, you have to rely on your memory, and…
you don’t know if you’re reporting time in bed or
time asleep and whether you’re accounting for naps,
and so forth.”
Apparently we have a general tendency to
overestimate how long we’ve been asleep. And when
it comes to quality of sleep, all experts seem to agree
it could affect your health, but it’s even harder to
measure than how long you sleep.
Another caveat is that babies, children and teenagers
all have different sleep requirements than adults.
But if it’s the case that less than six hours of sleep is
too little for an adult, and more than eight hours is
too much, what is the ideal amount – what do our
bodies want?
As we’ve reported before, there is a lot of evidence to
suggest that until the late 17th Century people did not
sleep in one long uninterrupted stretch, but in two
segments, separated by a period of one or two hours
in which they prayed, read, chatted, had sex, smoked,
went to the toilet or even visited neighbours.
That may be more natural than the current tendency
to sleep – or try to – in one stretch.
Putting this question to one side, and focusing on the
total number of hours spent asleep, Cappuccio says
three-quarters of people in the Western world sleep
between six and eight hours a night on average, the
range associated with the best results in terms of
length of life.
But can we say that eight hours are better than six?
The magic number, according to Dr Gregg Jacobs, of
the Sleep Disorders Center at the University of
Massachusetts Medical School may actually be seven.
“Seven hours sleep keeps turning up over and over
again,” he says.
He points, for example, to the National Sleep
Foundation’s annual poll of a random sample of
adults in the US
“The typical adult today [in that poll] reports seven
hours of sleep. And that actually seems to be the
median sleep duration in the adult population around
the world. That suggests there’s something around
seven hours of sleep that’s kind of natural for the
brain.”
But if you enjoy sleeping, spend a lot of time in bed
and feel good, you’re probably just fine. There’s no
hard evidence that extra time asleep, or just lying
down and relaxing, is going to kill you.

You don't need any practical steps or rules to overcome it, you just need to know the truth-Christ and you'd be free. God bless you sir.!

Thanks. Didn't get the location.?

That's a big loss. RIP to the dead.

He defected yesterday and just today this big program has been planned and executed. He has even sown a PDP native over night. Planned.!

Clubbed to death? that's a big lie. I was along that street on that Monday not Tuesday, police came and rescued her even though the intention of the mob was to kill her. Her rescue by the police stirred anger and disappointment on the residents, it also caused serious hold up on that street. Didn't post it here since because I didn't snap her as an evidence.

Nutase:
Why are you complaining here......did d lady tell u the policy is a NL policy. channel your complaint to cbn website.

Going through this thread, I believe you've been enlightened in a way. That's why I brought it here.

Ralphlauren:
That's the practice in every sane country.

You have to go to your issuing bank to get another card. It is for your own security and there are other various reasons for this.

For example, your card may have been retained due to suspicious activity on your account and it's only your issuing bank that can investigate this and resolve the problem.

Suspicious activity like trying to make withdrawals? We know CBN meant good for the populace but sometimes this policies should be better weighed before implementation.

Nigeria and policies, especially this CBN. Got my UnityBank ATM card retained by a SkyeBank ATM machine around waterlines in PH. Even though somebody had advised me not to go for the card again because they won't give me back I still decided to make a try because it sounded strange to me. When I got to the customer care table of SkyeBank and asked for my ATM card, the lady there said "am sorry we can't give you the card back, we would destroy it that's the new CBN policy". I told her that was harsh na and immediately she said "when we started it at first it was hard for us but now we must do what is required of us.
This policy is really harsh, imagine I travelled abroad and left my wife with my ATM card to make withdrawals and now its been retained, its really not a comfortable policy.

A former Minister of Aviation, who is also the
Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples
Democratic Party Presidential Campaign
Organisation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has said he has
changed the mind he had concerning President
Goodluck Jonathan.
He, therefore, slammed the All Progressives Congress
for running newspaper advertorials with his
renounced and outdated views about the President,
describing the action as a measure of the opposition
party’s desperation.
Fani-Kayode said in a statement in Abuja on Sunday,
that the resort to such childish and dirty tactics by
the APC would not distract him from his present
assignment of selling the candidature of President
Jonathan to the electorate and the Nigerian people.
He also vowed to expose the APC presidential
candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), as
incapable and unfit to rule Nigeria.
Fani-Kayode said, “The APC have resorted to
buying full page adverts of outdated quotes about
President Jonathan from old essays written by me
when I was in their ranks.
“This proves the measure of their desperation.
Needless to say I renounced those views about
President Jonathan long ago and since then I have
returned to the PDP and have given my unflinching
support both to him and the party.
“I shall continue to do so because I regard the APC as
an evil party and their Presidential candidate, General
Muhammadu Buhari, as incapable of and unfit to rule
our country.
“All the old and outdated quotes, I cannot change
that, and I shall not be deterred or distracted from my
present assignment by such childish and dirty tactics.”
He wondered whether the APC has forgotten what
Nasir El-Rufai once said about Buhari being
”outdated and unelectable” and what asiwaju Bola
Tinubu once said about Buhari being ”obsessed with
power, wicked, sadistic and unreliable.”
Both El-Rufai and Tinubu are staunch members of
the APC.
Fani-Kayode said, “Better still, have they forgotten
what Buhari himself once said about Tinubu and his
ACN governors as being ‘corrupt, treacherous,
unstable and unreliable?’
“Clearly the APC has an obsession with me and my
words (past, present or future) and let me assure
them that I shall continue to focus my guns on them
over the next two weeks regardless of their paid
television and newspaper adverts about me.
“I shall continue to expose them for the violent men,
heartless cultists and dirty ritualists that they are to
the Nigerian people.
“At the same time, I shall continue to intimate our
people about the excellent work that Mr. President
and the PDP have been doing over the last few
months and years and why I believe that he deserves
a second term.”
He added that all the sponsored adverts in the world
cannot stop or change his mind on the need for
Nigerians to elect the President for a second term in
office.
He said that the APC should spend the next two
weeks before the March 28 Presidential election in
sober reflection and prepare for the crushing defeat
that, he said, they will face at the polls rather than
bother about what I said or didn’t say about Mr.
President in the distant past.

Amidst the positive contributions of social media, we can't rule out the negativities attached especially in Nigeria and politics. Really awkward.!

The Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) on Friday said the level of the
Permanent Voters Cards( PVCs) distributed to
voters so far had reached 81.22 percent.
It also said out of the total of 68 833,476
registered voters at its disposal, it has successfully
distributed a total of 55 904,272 PVCs,
representing 81.22 percent to their respective
owners.
These were contained in a statement, by Kayode
Idowu, Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman,
Prof. Attahiru Jega.
In the latest update, released by the commission,
Kano and Lagos states, were seen still leading
other 34 states and the Federal Capital Territory,
Abuja, with the highest number of PVCs
collection.
While Kano State has recorded 4 112,039, in the
PVCs collection, Lagos State trailed behind with 3
767,647 respectively.
But in terms of percentage in turn-out of voters,
Zamfara, Gombe and Jigawa States topped other
States of the Federation with 95 percent.

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