₦airaland Forum

a lot of useful economic ideas except for changing the situation and expecting positive results for the nation in the national assembly. and if the bill is passed, who will police the policers with the level of bribes that is endemic in society?


"So what is the plan?
According to most the plan for the oil industry revolves around the petroleum industry bill. The bill aims to break up the NNPCs hold on the oil industry and make it look something like this see picture 3 below."


Extraordinary Scenes inside Nigeria National Assembly


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7mtoucTT3o

the best words i've read on NL all week!


"But in its characteristic hubris, the All Progressives Congress (APC) derisively dismissed the president’s assertion, insinuating that Jonathan may have mistaken prosecution for persecution. “That the President- elect is a man of integrity is not an issue for debate, and he has made it clear that he will not be bogged down by endless probes,” the party said, adding: “However, the hands of the incoming government will not be tied by those who have chosen to play the victim and exhibit a persecution mentality. Whoever has any reason to be afraid must lay bare such reason before Nigerians.”

I need 10 Israel supporters to defend this policy. No, I'll settle for 5.


Israeli government to refugees: Go back to Africa or go to prison

By William Booth May 14 at 6:14 PM


HOLOT, Israel — As Europe struggles to stem a spring flood of migrants from Africa and the Middle East trying to cross a deadly Mediterranean Sea, Israel has begun to toughen its stance toward refugees, telling unwanted Africans here they must leave now or face an indefinite stay in prison.

Israeli authorities are sending letters to the first of 45,000 Eritrean and Sudanese refugees, informing them they have 30 days to accept Israel’s offer of $3,500 in cash and a one-way ticket home or to an unnamed third country in Africa, or face incarceration at Saharonim prison.

Israeli leaders have proclaimed that their tough approach — building a fence along its border, denying work permits for illegal migrants, forcing them into a detention center in the desert — may ultimately save lives by dissuading migrants from attempting a perilous journey. Critics of the Israeli policy counter that a country built by refugees should be more accepting of those fleeing war, poverty and oppression.

But these days, even liberal Europe is considering a more muscular approach. The European Union began a push Monday for U.N. authorization to deploy military force in the Mediterranean to stop migrant smuggling ships.

The new measures to press the Africans to leave Israel comes at a time of heightened fears among the refugees, who were stunned last month by a widely circulated video allegedly showing three Eritreans who left Israel killed by Islamic State militants in Libya. Friends and relatives said they had traveled there in a bid to reach Europe.

“We saw the video, but we thought maybe it wasn’t true, maybe it was just a hoax,” said Aman Beyene, an Eritrean asylum seeker who has spent 14 months at an Israeli detention center.

“Then we spoke to an Eritrean boy who had witnessed the killings, and we knew it was true,” Beyene said.

The 38-year-old Eritrean accountant sat at a picnic table in the dirt parking lot of the Holot detention facility, a compound of single-story cement-block dormitories housing 2,000 Africans, surrounded by a fence spooled with razor wire in the Negev desert.

Beyene spoke slowly as he recalled watching the video showing a man thought to be his friend Tesfay Kidane, 29, dressed in an orange jumpsuit beheaded on a beach in Libya by Muslim extremists. He said Kidane felt despondent being cooped at the Holot facility, so he accepted the Israelis’ offer to be flown to a third country — likely Uganda or Rwanda — and from there made his way to Libya, where he was kidnapped by the Islamic State.

Though the detainees at Holot are free to leave the compound during the day, the nearest city is an hour’s bus ride away and the men are forbidden to work. If they fail to return by nightfall, they are sent to a prison across the street.

Interviews with Eritreans and Sudanese at Holot suggest that many are still dreaming of reaching Europe through the chaos of Libya — despite knowing that more than 1,800 Africans have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea this year and others have been taken captive by the Islamic State.

“Being beheaded by ISIS or sinking on a boat is scary,” said Mutasim Ali, 28, who arrived in Israel in 2009 from the Darfur region in Sudan and has spent the past year detained in the detention center. “But you can’t really stay here, wasting your life, doing nothing.”

He pointed to the men like him who spend their days milling about in circles, staring at their mobile phones, waiting for the next meal.

Before Israel began cracking down on African migrants a few years ago, the Africans were highly visible in bustling cities, working in kitchens and doing menial labor. There are still neighborhoods in south Tel Aviv filled with Africans. Many Israelis complained they were being “invaded.”

Israel is a nation built by Jewish refugees, and those with Jewish ancestry are encouraged, even courted, to move here and provided wide-ranging assistance. A million Russian speakers came in the 1990s, and Jews from Ethi­o­pia continue to arrive each month.

But fearful that a wave of impoverished Africans, mostly Muslims from Sudan and Christians from Eritrea, would overwhelm the Jewish nature of the state, Israel spent more than $350 million to build a 140-mile fence along its entire border with Egypt. Undocumented migrants to Israel are called “infiltrators” by the Israeli government.

The steel barrier, completed in 2013, stopped illegal entry cold: More than 10,000 Africans arrived in 2012; today almost no one attempts the trip.

The fence also shut down human traffickers in the Sinai who had become increasingly sadistic, with refugees describing how they were imprisoned in “ torture camps,” where the Bedouin smugglers raped women and burned captives with molten plastic to extort relatives to send more money to free them.

As they’ve watched Europe hit by a wave of African refugees, Israeli leaders say their policies are fair.

“While there are differences between us — the migrants traveling to Europe must cross a sea while those heading for Israel have a direct overland route — you can see the righteousness of our government’s policy to build a fence on the border with Egypt, which blocks the migrant workers before they enter Israel,” wrote Israeli transportation minister Israel Katz on his Facebook page last month.

Yonatan Jakubowicz of the Israeli Immigration Policy Center, a think tank aimed at promoting “a coherent immigration policy for Israel,” pointed out many countries simply jail illegal migrants or deport them immediately, which Israel did not do to the Africans.

He said the new measures were designed to help those who have been denied asylum or have not applied for asylum to be returned home or to third countries.

“What we are saying is that Israel is not sending anyone by force to a third country,” he said.

Over the past two years, more than 9,000 Africans accepted the Israelis’ offer and departed.

“It is a form of coercion, but it is not forced deportation,” said Sigal Rozen, public policy director of an Israeli human rights group called Hotline for Refugees and Migrants, which has taken up the cause of the African refugees.

More than 300,000 Eritreans have been offered asylum around the world; more than 84 percent are recognized as refugees or offered complimentary protection in other host countries, according to the United Nations. In Israel, the recognition rate is less than 1 percent for the past six years. Only four Eritreans and no Sudanese have been accepted for asylum, Rozen said.

“Israel should do more,” she said.

Rozen said the Sudanese, who fled genocide and war, “are now waiting in line to go back,” having concluded there is no future for them in Israel.

Eritreans are more fearful. They fled a dictatorship that conscripts men and women into years of military service that human rights groups compare to virtual slavery. If the Eritreans return, the advocates say, they are jailed and tortured.

Even so, according to Israeli authorities, about 1,500 asylum seekers have volunteered to leave to unnamed third countries in Africa.

In letters to Eritrean refugees at the Holot detention center, the Israeli government promises that “money will be given to you at the airport in a secure manner. When you arrive at the third country, people will receive you at the airport and give you information about life in the country and other important information.”

Eritrean activists in Israel say they are not welcomed at all, but find their documents seized upon arrival, are shaken down for bribes and generally shunned.

Israel is reportedly in negotiations with African nations to accept more refugees and create a more transparent process — instead of the secretive one pursued today, where Israeli officials decline to discuss the voluntary returns with the media and do not tell the refugees where they are going until they are handed a plane ticket on the day of departure.

The model of paying a third country to accept unwanted refugees is a new idea. Israeli media have speculated that Israel could offer technology, favorable contracts, arms or other assistance, including cash, to countries that would accept the Africans and give them temporary visas.

Meseret Fisahaie was born in Israel to Eritrean refugees who came here in the 1970s. She works as a translator and interviewer with the Hotline group. Her relative Kidane was beheaded by ISIS.

“He was a quiet man, a gentle man,” she remembered.

Kidane worked for seven years cleaning hotel rooms and washing dishes in Tel Aviv, jobs many Israelis shun.

“I couldn’t stop him from going,” she said. “I had a bad feeling about this. People ask me now, what should they do? I tell them try to stay. Maybe things will change.”

Ruth Eglash contributed to this report.

William Booth is The Post’s Jerusalem bureau chief. He was previously bureau chief in Mexico, Los Angeles and Miami.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/toughening-its-stance-toward-migrants-israel-pushes-africans-to-leave/2015/05/14/e1637bce-f350-11e4-bca5-21b51bbdf93e_story.html

i think more banks around the globe should follow the UAE template but we know they won't because of their criminal complicity. A new administration doesn't have the resources to track down off-shore shenanigans of these looting pirates. one example, the nnpc lady thumbed her nose at journalists trying to discover the facts of her purported real estate investment in Austria a few years ago. imagine trying to track down the dealings of hundreds of crooks and 20 to 50 billion.

the best policy would be to clean up the books beginning on Democracy Day and go forward with a clean slate.



Nigeria: Dubai Banks Order Closure of Nigerians' Accounts

https://allafrica.com/download/pic/main/main/csiid/00300342:65dae7a03b41e4bde4f8d7caf2fc8a61:arc614x376:w614:us1.jpg

By Phillip Oladunjoye and Bamidele Ogunwusi

Lagos — A diplomatic row seems imminent between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Nigeria, following a directive by the country's central bank prohibiting Nigerians who do not work there from operating accounts in any branch of their local or foreign banks.

Nigerian journalist, Fidelis Mbah, disclosed this on Thursday May 7, 2015 with a series of tweets on his twitter handle, even as observers believe the move is partly to check money laundering activities of Nigerian politicians, a situation they say, has become common.

According to Mbah, those affected by the new policy include Nigerian politicians, students and business operators in the UAE.

Already, he continued, UAE banks have sent out notices to some of those affected, informing them that their accounts in the country's commercial capital have been closed without further explanation.

Continuing, he said "some Nigerian politicians have been hiding under the pretext of paying children school fees to smuggle millions of dollars into the UAE."

To signpost the seriousness attached to the directive, all such Nigerians whose accounts were closed following the policy, have been issued cheques equivalent to the amount they have in their accounts.

Also, all account holders reportedly have five working days to cash their monies or forfeit them.

Reacting, Director General of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), Muda Yusuf, told Daily Independent on telephone, Thursday night, that the decision is commendable, as must have resulted from a realisation by the UAE monetary authorities that so much slush funds laundered globally flow through Dubai, a major financial hub. This, he noted, is why there is the possibility that corrupt people would want to take money from their countries and put it there before now.

He said the decision would bring sanity to the movement of funds globally, noting that the way to curb corruption is to holistically check the movement of money.

He also noted that unlike in the U.S and in Europe where it has become difficult to move money around, all attention has been on taking such funds to Dubai. But since it is becoming difficult to take the money to there now, "we should now see how they will launder it locally.

"The tighter it is for them the better for all of us," Yusuf enthused.

Kehinde Phillip, a chartered accountant, also welcomes the development, as "it will be to the advantage of our country. Stacking money in another country will add pressure to the U.S Dollar.

"With the new measure, Nigeria will be able to conserve more foreign exchange to the benefit of its citizens," he said.

For Anor Anyanwu, former Executive Director of Mainstreet Bank, the action would affect "those who are not clean and I believed that before such a decision should be taken, the authorities in Dubai would have done their due diligence and 'Know-Your-Customer (KYC). Those whose money are clean should not fear, but those involved in illegitimate activities" are the targets.

When asked what the government of Nigerians should do as a follow up action, Anyanwu said the Federal Government can request from the UAE authorities the list of its citizens involved, "I am sure that those involved may have stolen the money from government. Though, it may take a long time to do this, considering the laws in Dubai, but I am sure the country can benefit from it too."

He, however, stated that some banks in the country also routinely conduct such KYC exercise and take drastic steps too.

Responding, Rasheed Alao, a lecturer of Economics at the Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, said the decision is welcome, at a time Nigerians are expecting the incoming government of Muhammadu Buhari to fight corruption.

http://dailyindependentnig.com/2015/05/dubai-banks-order-closure-nigerians-accounts/

wondering where they will relocate these funds?


Nigeria: Dubai Banks Order Closure of Nigerians' Accounts

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By Phillip Oladunjoye and Bamidele Ogunwusi

Lagos — A diplomatic row seems imminent between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Nigeria, following a directive by the country's central bank prohibiting Nigerians who do not work there from operating accounts in any branch of their local or foreign banks.

Nigerian journalist, Fidelis Mbah, disclosed this on Thursday May 7, 2015 with a series of tweets on his twitter handle, even as observers believe the move is partly to check money laundering activities of Nigerian politicians, a situation they say, has become common.

According to Mbah, those affected by the new policy include Nigerian politicians, students and business operators in the UAE.

Already, he continued, UAE banks have sent out notices to some of those affected, informing them that their accounts in the country's commercial capital have been closed without further explanation.

Continuing, he said "some Nigerian politicians have been hiding under the pretext of paying children school fees to smuggle millions of dollars into the UAE."

To signpost the seriousness attached to the directive, all such Nigerians whose accounts were closed following the policy, have been issued cheques equivalent to the amount they have in their accounts.

Also, all account holders reportedly have five working days to cash their monies or forfeit them.

Reacting, Director General of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), Muda Yusuf, told Daily Independent on telephone, Thursday night, that the decision is commendable, as must have resulted from a realisation by the UAE monetary authorities that so much slush funds laundered globally flow through Dubai, a major financial hub. This, he noted, is why there is the possibility that corrupt people would want to take money from their countries and put it there before now.

He said the decision would bring sanity to the movement of funds globally, noting that the way to curb corruption is to holistically check the movement of money.

He also noted that unlike in the U.S and in Europe where it has become difficult to move money around, all attention has been on taking such funds to Dubai. But since it is becoming difficult to take the money to there now, "we should now see how they will launder it locally.

"The tighter it is for them the better for all of us," Yusuf enthused.

Kehinde Phillip, a chartered accountant, also welcomes the development, as "it will be to the advantage of our country. Stacking money in another country will add pressure to the U.S Dollar.

"With the new measure, Nigeria will be able to conserve more foreign exchange to the benefit of its citizens," he said.

For Anor Anyanwu, former Executive Director of Mainstreet Bank, the action would affect "those who are not clean and I believed that before such a decision should be taken, the authorities in Dubai would have done their due diligence and 'Know-Your-Customer (KYC). Those whose money are clean should not fear, but those involved in illegitimate activities" are the targets.

When asked what the government of Nigerians should do as a follow up action, Anyanwu said the Federal Government can request from the UAE authorities the list of its citizens involved, "I am sure that those involved may have stolen the money from government. Though, it may take a long time to do this, considering the laws in Dubai, but I am sure the country can benefit from it too."

He, however, stated that some banks in the country also routinely conduct such KYC exercise and take drastic steps too.

Responding, Rasheed Alao, a lecturer of Economics at the Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, said the decision is welcome, at a time Nigerians are expecting the incoming government of Muhammadu Buhari to fight corruption.

http://dailyindependentnig.com/2015/05/dubai-banks-order-closure-nigerians-accounts/

forget about the vs this one vs that one. invest in farmland back in the village and keep gmo stuffs out.


Genesis 1:29-30


Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food"; and it was so.


Genesis 1:11-12


Then God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them"; and it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.


Psalms 104:14


He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, And vegetation for the labor of man, So that he may bring forth food from the earth,


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The Holy Quran says: ''And the earth He has put down (laid) for the creatures. Therein are fruits, date palms producing sheathed fruit-stalks (enclosing dates). And also corn, with (its) leaves and stalks for fodder and sweet-scented plants. Then which of the blessings of your lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?'' [Holy Quran – 55:10-16]

1- Chapter: 6, Verse: 141

and He it is who produces gardens (of vine), trellised and untrellised, and palms and seed-produce of which the fruits are of various sorts, and olives and pomegranates, like and unlike; eat of its fruit when it bears fruit, and pay the due of it on the day of its reaping, and do not act extravagantly; surely He does not love the extravagant

Chapter 2: AL-BAQARA (THE COW) - Juz' 1

'moses, ' you said, 'we will no longer be patient with one type of food. call on your lord to bring forth for us some of the produce of the earth, green herbs and cucumbers, corn, lentils and onions. ' 'what! ' he answered, 'would you exchange that which is lesser for what is better? go down into egypt, there you shall find all that you have asked. ' humiliation and abasement were pitched upon them, and they incurred the anger of allah; because they disbelieved his signs and slew his prophets unjustly; because they disobeyed and were transgressors. (61)



those who believe, jews, nazarenes and sabaeans whoever believes in allah and the last day and does good deeds shall be rewarded by their lord; they have nothing to fear nor are they saddened. (62)


“Eat and drink from the provision of Allaah, and do not commit abuse on the earth, spreading corruption." (Qur'an, 2:60)





"And you do not encourage one another to feed the poor." (Qur'an, 89:18)

Two Men Arrested For Stealing Tubers Of Yam In Delta State [photos] - Crime - Nairaland

https://www.nairaland.com/2302269/two-men-arrested-stealing-tubers

there's no direct quotes from mr. dangote. the article just seems like some scribe trying stoke imaginary interest. no astute businessman pre-announces his interest in purchasing an asset, as not to bid up the price. usually the public doesn't hear about deals until after the contracts are signed.

DELICIOUS


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modath:
On Yahoo news homepage

Our dirty linen is now being washed in the town square, what a pity....

What amazes me about the whole sorry Okonjo Iweala story is that under OBJ she was a SAVER/ GATHERER but under Jona she became a SQUANDERER, what happened to her dignity?

she had to tow the line and fall into place with the corrupt machine. remember the drama she experienced with a family member? she probably wanted to do right but negative forces were overwhelming. i can't say the same about that nnpc/opec lady.

third part quotes carry no weight..... just gossip column things to stir up trouble and mischief.

i love to see a woman working out to lose weight and get a nice attractive figure. kudos to ms. ike and all the other babes out there that exercise and diet.

coincidence ... last night i had a dream that i met and made friends with mrs. baba last night.... she's on my top 10 nollywood babes list.

The Honourable Governor must read nairaland.com


Niger Delta To Get Solar Engineering For Rural Electrification - Politics - Nairaland

https://www.nairaland.com/818146/niger-delta-get-solar-engineering



Solar Energy - All You Need To Know - Science/Technology - Nairaland

https://www.nairaland.com/387851/solar-energy-all-need-know





Africa's Largest Solar Power Plant To Be Built In Ghana - Foreign Affairs - Nairaland

https://www.nairaland.com/1127622/africas-largest-solar-power-plant

good youtube series....can't believe its still up and running strong for 4 yrs


01 - ANSWERS OF AN ALIEN FROM ANDROMEDA
Uploaded on Apr 10, 2011

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132 - ANSWERS OF AN ALIEN FROM ANDROMEDA

Published on Apr 6, 2015


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yuU8ddwgB0

hope it stays up for a number of years...


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Chinese builder puts up 57-story skyscraper in 19 days

By PENG PENG and DIDI TANG, Associated Press
Updated 5:49 am, Thursday, April 30, 2015



CHANGSHA, China (AP) — A Chinese construction company is claiming to be the world's fastest builder after erecting a 57-story skyscraper in 19 working days in central China.

The Broad Sustainable Building Co. put up the rectangular, glass-and-steel Mini Sky City in the Hunan provincial capital of Changsha using a modular method, assembling three floors per day, company vice president Xiao Changgeng said.

The company, which has ambitions to assemble the world's tallest skyscraper at 220 floors in only three months, worked on Mini Sky City in two spurts separated by winter weather. Its time-lapse video of the rapid assembly has become popular on Chinese video-sharing sites since it was first uploaded on YouTube.

"With the traditional method, they have to build a skyscraper brick by brick, but with our method, we just need to assemble the blocks," company engineer Chen Xiangqian said.

Such modular approaches have been used for high-rise apartment blocks elsewhere, including in Britain and the U.S. Some critics say the method could lead to cityscapes with overly uniform architecture.

Liu Peng, associate director of the engineering consulting firm ARUP Beijing, said the method is worth developing because it could become a safe and reliable way to build skyscrapers rapidly.

"But it is not perfect, and it does not meet all kinds of personalized demands," Liu said. "People nowadays want more personalized architecture."

Mini Sky City, which has 19 atriums, 800 apartments and office space for 4,000 people, goes on sale in May. The structure is safe and can withstand earthquakes, Xiao said.

The Changsha-based company spent 4½ months fabricating the building's 2,736 modules before construction began. The first 20 floors were completed last year, and the remaining 37 were built from Jan. 31 to Feb. 17 this year, Xiao said. The company has honed its technology to accelerate its construction speed from two floors to three floors a day, he said.

"This is definitely the fastest speed in our industry," Xiao said.

The company is awaiting approval for its 220-floor Sky City in Changsha.

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Tang reported from Beijing.

been a fan and wanted to smash since


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ditto with Thelma Okorie O'khaz before the bleach job

some things never seem to change ....


NNPC Has No Record Of Nigeria's Actual Crude Oil Production Per Day - Politics - Nairaland

https://www.nairaland.com/2281124/nnpc-no-record-nigerias-actual

i tried to read the entire NNPC a few years ago until i figured out it was a waste of time to finish.


KPMG Report That FG And NNPC Hid From Nigerians - Politics (1) - Nairaland

https://www.nairaland.com/844215/kpmg-report-fg-nnpc-hid/1

page 17



Monthly Production Quota

Findings

Poor data management
- No centralized location for storing
electronic copies of historical production
and allocation data. These information are
stored on personnel (individual)
workstations.


Implications

Potential loss of historical
production information in event of
staff turnover or system failure.
Difficulty in retrieving prior
documents/ reports.

Recommendations


Documents should be maintained in a central
location.
Implement procedures for ensuring effective
and timely filing/storage and back up of
documents
Ensure periodic system back-up to minimize
data losses




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Process Customer Invoice

Findings

Poor data management:
We observed that documents are not
adequately filed and some documents are
stacked in bags.

Implications

Difficulty in retrieving supports for
past transactions.
Increased risk of misplacement of
documents.
Lack of supporting documents to
present in cases where transactions
listed on invoices are disputed by
Marketers.

Recommendations

Implement procedures for ensuring effective
and timely filing/storage and back up of
documents
Explore implementing a document
management system to reduce the use of paper
in the process flow.
Timeline for filing of all documents should be
clearly defined and monitored to ensure
compliance.
Ensure periodic system back-up to minimize
data losses.


Findings

Sub optimal utilisation of technology:
Prominent usage of excel sheet for various
transactions.
Lack of integrated systems to enable end to
end monitoring, reconciliation and tracking
of transaction.

Implications

Increased risk of errors from data
transcription/ transposition.
Long cycle time for execution of
transactions.

Recommendations

Ensure speedy implementation of ERP solution
(SAP) across the Corporate Headquarters as
well as the subsidiaries.

makes me think that 3rd party colonialists, boers, and afrikaners may be influencing the black on black/brown violence behind the scenes. the old divide and conquer strategy.


“We were seven million people in Johannesburg city
in 2011. Today, we have an estimated 13 million. In
Johannesburg alone, you have taken over entire
suburbs: Yeoville, Berea, Bez Valley, Turfontein,
among many. You have even moved into rural parts
of our country that have 80-per-cent unemployment,
and there are no visible signs that you have jobs
either.

“We want to be proudly part of the geographic
construct called Africa, but we are as different from
one another as Kenyans are from Nigerians; Ivorians
from Chadians, etc.

“We are pleading with you to return to your home
countries. Go and build up those countries so that we
can all live in economic, social and political
prosperity and peace as neighbours. The genocide in
this corner of Africa will be far worse than what
happened in Rwanda in 1994. Then the entire
continent will be condemned to ashes. Is that what
you want?

“South Africans not fully employed or who were
found guilty of crimes, were recently repatriated
from Nigeria and rightly so.

“Our people are preparing for war against all
foreigners (from Bulgaria, Pakistan and Bangladesh
to Africa, north of the Limpopo) and we are all very
scared. Please go home and build Africa. Millions will
die if you don’t. This we can guarantee.”

Similarly, Samson Ojako, a master’s degree student
studying Mathematics also at the University of
KwaZulu-Natal noted that looting had been rampant
for over a week.

“Those that opened their shops were attacked by the
Zulu. During all of this, those of us on campus were
warned by the school management to stay indoors.
They said no one should leave the school premises,
especially during the weekend.”

giving Rikki credit for the effort but Oge is still the boss with the pots in the kitchen

and when did she get that phat ____?


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and boss Empress





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sometimes the flesh is weak ....


RANDY MEN OF GOD: Pastor Arrested For Impregnating 20 Women In His Church, Including Married Ones
Saturday, 7 March 2015

http://www.trendingdailypost.com/2015/03/randy-men-of-god-pastor-arrested-for.html


Pastor arrested for impregnating 20 women in his church claims God commanded him to have s*x with them – and their daughters


Timothy Ngwu says he has 13 children with five wives and his mistresses
Police arrested him for abusing members of congregation ‘on will of God’
He was reported to authorities by his wife who grew sick of his adultery.
Arrested pastor claims the married women’s husbands agreed to affairs
A mother-of-eight claims Ngwu impregnated her – and then her daughter

A 53-year-old pastor who reportedly impregnated 20 members of congregation claims the Holy Spirit ordered him to have s*x with them.

Nigerian police have now arrested Timothy Ngwu for abusing the young girls and women at Vineyard Ministry of the Holy Trinity.

Ngwu’s abusive behaviour was finally reported to the police by his estranged wife Veronica who grew tired of his adulterous behaviour – and reportedly impregnated her young neice.

A spokesperson for the Enugu State Police command told Naij.com he claims to be obeying the ‘spiritual’ urge to carry out the will of God, ‘irrespective of whether the woman is married or not.’

Ebere Amaraizu added: ‘When the woman is delivered of the baby, the child remains in the ministry with the mother for life.’

Ngwu told the same website he has 13 children with five different wives and the mistresses God’s ‘prophetic’ will told him to acquire.

He also claims he never had s*x with any married woman unless their husbands consented to the Holy Spirit’s request.

Calista Omeje and Assumpta Odo both left their husbands to live with the pastor based on these holy commands.

Mother-of-eight Odo said Ngwu impregnated both her and her daughter, whose age is not known.


And Calista – who has 10 children with her husband – said the pastor impregnated her but the baby died. She also revealed that she ‘gave’ her daughter to him.

The pastor’s brother – who did not want to be identified – said he had warned both Ngwu and his family about the self-proclaimed clergyman’s behaviour for a long time but they refused to listen.

He claims the arrest is ‘God’s wrath falling on his brother’, adding: ‘God’s anger has befallen my brother, we have severally appealed to him to stop what he was doing but he refused.

‘He has colonised our compound, bearing children with recklessness. He accused us of being jealous of him because he is doing the will of God.’

Pointing at the church’s compound, he continued: ‘Look at these buildings here… He has converted all of them to himself in the name of vineyard.

‘He sacked his betrothed wife who has three children for him and embarked on impregnating married women and young girls. Look at the whole compound littered with children of different s*x and age.’

‘All members of the vineyard are fools, how can a woman abandon her husband for another man in the name of worshiping God and practice adultery? I cannot get myself involved in this matter.

‘Let them sort themselves out with the police but I want the ministry to be shut down completely,’ he added.’

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7a nollywood ashawos(alleged) .... them earn modest money from film work but always show pics of them traveling and shopping in Dubai, the u.k., paris, the states, etc. etc. many take possession of late model range rovers. some buy or rent large mansions.

What issue is being discussed at the time this photo
was taken?

Chief of staff. "take a note to adjust the meals and refreshments budget." " N517.9m be too much for the next administration."

missclasssy:
Copy and post the photos here for us to see.

may be a made up hoax story

found more links with limited info..

http://www.informationng.com/2015/04/woman-kills-man-she-met-online-for-injuring-her-cervix-during-sex.html

http://lindaikeji..com/2015/04/pics-woman-shoots-kills-man-she-met-on.html#more

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theMusicNerd:
Its is not new that the homo-sapien female posses a rather emphasised glaetus minimus cum maximus. They volunt as a source of exhileration to their homo-sapien counterparts, however, prestissimo , I do not see the utility of this bodily constituent in the performance of bartender duties. If a can of whatever that is, is to be in its locus standi, there exists the carpals and meta-carpals to do such work.

your post entry is an impressive use of vocabulary and succinct thoughts on the topic.

i would theorize that most NL males are connoisseurs of ripe and shapely gluteus maximus pics.

the visual appreciation of these female masterpieces has endured for eons. i spent a few minutes voyeuring or perusing the website in the op and found the content extremely what might be considered risque for many's tastes but not mine.

again, we thank the universe every day for these exquisite creations.

i recently noticed the artwork from Kenya.

https://img.naij.com/n/01/1/kenyan_socialite_corazon_kwamboka_02.jpg

Emmatdayo:
This is funny, they put their big yansh to work by
placing that can on it.
Looking at this picture who’s got more potential to
Win this competition? Is it the girl with the yellow
yansh or the girl with the black and white yansh?

where's the action pics?


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20-30 more pounds to go but beautiful and making progress.


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[b]The gentleman from Côte d'Ivoire is managing old/established wealth.



Suisse Beats
Credit Suisse’s new boss is a reluctant African role model

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The Man from Credit Suisse.(Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann)
Tidjane Thiam, just named CEO of Credit Suisse, has a line he once fed a headhunter: “I am happy to interview. But you need to tell them you found someone who’s black, African, Francophone, and 6ft 4.”

He landed the job, a senior-management gig at Aviva, the British insurer, and rose quickly through the ranks. After six years, he left to become CFO of Prudential in the UK in 2008. A year later: he was CEO.

An Ivory Coast native, Thiam’s ascension to the top job at Credit Suisse, the seventh largest investment bank in the world, is noteworthy. Unlike say executives of Indian or Chinese origin, there are next to no first-generation black African role models at the very top of global businesses. Corporate America has been a tougher maze to navigate for both Africans and African Americans. There are currently just five African American CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.

Thiam admits to being a little uncomfortable with the focus on his race. But as the first black person to head a FTSE 100 company in the UK and now the first black person to head a major European bank, he also recognizes the reality of his privileged position—and the reality of racism.

“I avoid talking about it because I don’t think it’s very helpful. [The UK] has been a wonderfully welcoming place for me,” he said in an interview on BBC Radio’s Desert Island Discs in 2012. But “in every society in every place there are people who are not necessarily open minded and constructive.”

His resume is impeccable: Besides several years running the UK’s largest insurance firm in Prudential, he is an outstanding academic who attended some of France’s best schools. He hails from a well-connected Ivorian family and has work experience from McKinsey, the World Bank, and a stint as an Ivorian government minister. In 2000, he was invited by former president Laurent Gbagbo to be his prime minister. He declined.

In business, it hasn’t been all plain-sailing, particularly with his botched attempt to takeover AIA, an Asian life insurance firm in a deal valued at $35 billion, which would have been Britain’s largest ever rights issue. His company was fined £30 milion by regulators for not disclosing their plan early enough.

But Thiam overcame that dark period in his career and bounced back with strong profit growth in last two years. That is why investors in Prudential and Credit Suisse had markedly different reactions to the news of his appointment. Prudential lost £1.3 billion ($1.7 billion) in value on the news while Credit Suisse gained 2.9 billion Swiss francs ($3 billion) in value today, according to FactSet.

The swing in value under Thiam’s watch totaled $4.7 billion.

http://qz.com/359732/credit-suisses-new-boss-is-a-reluctant-african-role-model/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidjane_Thiam
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Tidjane_Thiam_-_Annual_Meeting_of_the_New_Champions_2011.jpg/220px-Tidjane_Thiam_-_Annual_Meeting_of_the_New_Champions_2011.jpg
Born 29 July 1962 (age 52)[1]
Côte d'Ivoire
Citizenship Ivorian
French
Alma mater École Polytechnique
École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris
INSEAD
Salary £8,656,000 (total compensation, 2013)[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_Suisse

Founded 1856; 159 years ago

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Credit Suisse’s choice of Thiam is refreshing
Patrick Jenkins, Financial Editor

Bank will benefit from Asia and wealth management expertise


It is the second big bank within a fortnight to appoint a chief executive — Credit Suisse’s leadership overhaul on Tuesday follows a similarly long-awaited rejig at Standard Chartered 12 days earlier. It is tempting to think the headhunters got their files mixed up.

Tidjane Thiam, named to succeed Brady Dougan as Credit Suisse chief executive, would have been a more obvious choice for StanChart, which focuses on emerging markets. He has turned the UK’s Prudential insurance group into an Asian powerhouse (though bizarrely, according to people involved, he was never sounded out for the StanChart role). Bill Winters, who will replace Peter Sands at the emerging markets bank, is an investment banking expert, just the kind of person you might line up to sort out Credit Suisse’s underperforming securities and advisory operation.

But the flipped choices are refreshing. For once, a bank has spurned a list of the usual suspects — and is being rewarded. Credit Suisse’s appointment of Mr Thiam, an insurance executive with no background in banking, has sparked an overwhelmingly positive reaction. Witness the share price, up nearly 7 per cent on Tuesday.

Credit Suisse has underperformed for years, in part because it has been less radical than others — notably local rival UBS — in unwinding its investment banking strategy in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Mr Dougan, who spent 17 years building that investment banking business before taking over as group chief executive in 2007, was never going to kill his baby.

There is widespread speculation that this is exactly what Mr Thiam, known for being clear-headed and ruthless in his strategic execution, will do.

People who have talked to the new CEO say he is reserving judgment, with all options possible. But in truth, such a radical overhaul is unlikely. For one thing, say strategic advisers, ditching the investment banking operation through a spin-off, for example, would not only be risky; it would cause ructions with regulators on both sides of the Atlantic, given the uncertainties around creating a freestanding investment bank. It would also remove a potentially important part of the group’s rationale. Even UBS, for all its retrenchment from investment banking, is still a sizeable presence in the market. There is a large grey area of revenue to be gained from linking investment banking deals to wealth clients and from selling those clients hedging products to mitigate their business risks.
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Dramatic gestures are not, in any case, Mr Thiam’s style. Over his six years at the Pru, he managed to triple the share price by being focused, rather than radical. He succeeded in Asia, already a strong business for the Pru, by reallocating resources from an underperforming UK business.

At Credit Suisse, investment banking is likely to be the equivalent of the Pru’s UK business — a unit from which resources can be diverted. Private banking and wealth management are twice as profitable as investment banking, generating a return on capital of 16 per cent last year. With a new cost-focused CEO in charge, that can only improve.

Lex
A change will do you good

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At first sight, it looks like an odd choice. Tidjane Thiam, the man from the Pru, is to replace Brady Dougan at Credit Suisse.

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Mr Thiam will instead want to home in on what he knows — Asia on the one hand; wealth management on the other. The Pru’s asset management business, M&G, is the closest proxy for the latter. Its external assets under management have doubled over the past five years. Credit Suisse’s wealth management franchise is already growing fast in Asia. Linking it more effectively to the investment bank, as UBS does, could make it a powerful machine.

If the strategic shift of direction away from capital-intensive investment banking and towards lower-cost wealth management assets is decisive enough, it may also resolve the other big question mark hanging over Credit Suisse — whether it has enough capital to satisfy regulators. Of course, as at StanChart, where Mr Winters is widely expected to launch a rights issue to buffer a restructuring exercise, a cash call may be needed as well as an altered strategy.

Whatever Mr Thiam ends up doing, it will be worth watching. A black francophone insurer, entering the conservative cloister of Zurich’s banking community, will not go unnoticed. But he will fit in far better than sceptics might suggest. He is a decent German speaker. And despite his inexperience as a banker, he is proud of the work he did as a McKinsey consultant, installing JPMorgan’s innovative value-at-risk financial control system. One person who worked with him during a recent stint as chairman of the Association of British Insurers describes him as “one of these relatively rare people who combine substance and charisma”. His new job could mark a turning point, not just for Credit Suisse but for the broader world of banking.

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just located one of the threads posted by the nl chairman and found a news article

'RUNS' Business In Nigeria: A Multi-billion Naira Industry? - Business - Nairaland

https://www.nairaland.com/761794/runs-business-nigeria-multi-billion-naira



Sex in the city: The shame of campus prostitution

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/10/sex-city-shame-campus-prostitution/

Nollywood has some gems on the topic as well as news stories in the NL archives.


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