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erico2k2:
Talk true, who collects levies and taxes there. govt or youths?

Who should collect taxes there- government or youths
As I said, if government cannot do what it is meant to do, why should it exist?
Please tell us.

Chubhie:
That's our Venice.

Nigerians making light of serious situations as usual.
Then complain for being called fantastically corrupt shithole people led by a lifeless dullard.


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erico2k2:
Nop not at all and far from it, the youths who collect monies from all them shos selling building materials should roll their sleeves and wear shots, get shovels dig 100 feet of gutter to link the water to the channel already built by govt to divert this water from the road, if you have been to that location you will find out the water is flowing from the community unto the road.

Should we discard the government completely and have anarchy
Why does the government collect taxes, levies, rates, fines, penalties and other IGR revenues from the people in addition to the monthly federal allocation?
If the government cannot do its work, why should it continue to exist


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erico2k2:
Nop, the govt built teh road in good faith, People decide to build in the natural ways of water in that area, ie youths sold lands where they should not have plus the gullies were all built upon. This is and ongoing issue,plus the flood is and has damaged commercial activities at that jct.

The summary of your post is that the government is as irresponsible as the people.
So let them/us all suffer for our irresponsibility

Note this is a federal road. Do not forget someone died last year due to protest F sars opened fire. Even if the FG fixes the road, the water has nowhere to go, some houses need to be brought down as in destroyed to return the normal flow of water.ALl the youths need do there is dig gutter on the Right, there is a deep channel less than 100 feet, why can't the youths mobilise to dig that gutter, it won't take a week.

The youths should pressure the local government to do its job for which it receives millions in allocation monthly plus the IGR raised from the people.
Do you understand that


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Prudent5217:
Uncle before you talk about tax or no tax do you wait for the government to clean your house when it’s dirty.

Is a personal house the same as public space, such as gutters, roads, roadside bushes

Prudent5217:
I reside at Nkpolu first and foremost the Drainages are poorly kept and full of dirt how do you expect the water to flow properly when the indigenes cannot mobilize and clean the drainages Nkpolu is so unkept

Why do the indigenes pay taxes?
Why is allocation from the FGN collected by the local and state governments on their behalf?
Do you know what you are talking about


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erico2k2:
Madam, use your brain, sometimes its great to comment about stuff you know, do you live there? ask the people who live there where the water comes from and if the road has always been like that. I blame the residents there and the people who refuse the right of passage to flood control measures and youths selling land where flood control measures should have been dug!

So government has no role of authorising people to build and monitoring for compliance?
Should we just scrap the government and live in anarchy

nototribalist:
you want me to post Los Angeles flood here for you?

It's a riverine state what do you expect when it rains heavily, desert sand?

It floods massively for days/weeks every time it rains in LA and every year

Commentor:
Rivers state is a s.hit hole.

...made up of shithole people

Juliusmalema:
Lamentations of Silas not Solomon

So the flood started today, or of recent. it has been a known issue just that it shot overboard this time....

Finally we have no government In this country because inviting them they will see as an avenue to steal and do sub standard work


I think the community should take pro active step first in solving their problems before calling agents of next level.

IGBOSON1

Please how is the government different from the people?
Is the government made up of foreigners, aliens or what
Don't many Nigerians steal and do sub standard work in their own corners?

Omoslim26:
It beats my mental comprehension to see people generalize crime so u are telling us dat there no Nigerians doing legit business in S/Africa or dat dey are no S/Africans doing drug or illegitimate business intelligent people know dat no tribe,religion, country has d monopoly for crime s/Africans are animals in human skin they are beasts y do u have security agencies if not to curb crime but dis bastards result to profane jungle justice on our people on any slight provocation and u if u are a Nigerian den I am ashamed to av u as a countryman

Our president generalised crime for all Nigerians abroad and we still asked him to continue. So

Flets:
Nigeria's president has warned his fellow citizens to stop trying to make asylum claims in Britain, saying that their reputation for criminality has made it hard for them to be "accepted" abroad.

Muhammadu Buhari, the tough ex-general elected last year, said those who had joined the migrant exodus to Europe were doing so purely for economic reasons rather than because they were in danger.

He added that because of the number of Nigerians imprisoned for law-breaking in Britain and elsewhere, they were also unlikely to get much sympathy.

"We have an image problem abroad and we are on our way to salvage that"

"Some Nigerians claim is that life is too difficult back home, but they have also made it difficult for Europeans and Americans to accept them because of the number of Nigerians in prisons all over the world accused of drug trafficking or human trafficking," he told The Telegraph.

"I don't think Nigerians have anybody to blame. They can remain at home, where their services are required to rebuild the country."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/nigeria/12143510/Nigerians-reputation-for-crime-has-made-them-unwelcome-in-Britain-says-countrys-president.html

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Bet9jaVirtual:
after putting in long hours to work, they just throw you out and pay you peanuts.

That’s why I urge every growing youth out there to learn handwork. Incase, they sack you from work, you can use that to maintain you and your family.

Too many lazy youths carrying certificate of attendance in a university, which they call degrees, and feeling entitled to wear shirt, tie & suit to be paid.
Stupidity unrivalled.
Most of them need to go to a vocational school and learn skills instead of wasting time and money saying that they are on campus.


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chiedu7:
God forbid, we can never call on allah.

Do you know something that Apostle Paul did not know

22 Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.
23 For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+17%3A16-34&version=NIV

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This thread is in response to naptu2's comment on his diary thread

https://www.nairaland.com/822196/it-begins-me/172#80091260:

This is also true of Christians. Many Christians in Nigeria do not know that the word Allah simply means God in Arabic and that the word has been used by Arab Christians and Arabs of other faiths long before Prophet Muhammad was born.

While this is generally true, there is an interesting case in Malaysia that runs against this fact.

Malaysia's highest court backs a ban on Allah in Christian bibles

Muslim activists celebrate as judges reject Catholic church's argument that Arabic word has been used for centuries in Malay-language literature to refer to the Christian God


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/23/malaysia-highest-court-allah-bible-ban

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Buckubuck:
You have good table manners.
You don't talk while you're eating

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majamajic:
Na wa oo

100 days in office is around the corner

only one that impressed me so far is Lagos state Governor

Please what has SanwoOlu done to impress you so far
What has he achieved?


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seborrhic:
Shameless scam of a SAN.

It is not really his fault.
The corrupt rogue lawyer is feeding fat on our commonwealth so he cannot say the truth.


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doris00:
Sagay said, “I’m not aware of the reason because my answer must depend on the reason. I’m going to find out. Let’s put it this way: if there is a good case against him, then it is withdrawn, it’s not justified.

“One really needs to know the reason; I don’t want to start condemning him without finding out why. But if there’s a good case and that case is withdrawn for political reasons, I cannot support it.

“That’s all I can say, but there may be a justifiable reason which I don’t know yet. So, I’m not going to condemn (the Federal Government) yet without enough knowledge of the circumstances.”

Who is this corrupt rogue trying to deceive with his lawyer talk

naijapips04:
The Nigerian presidency on Tuesday said that the case of the alleged certificate forgery of the Honourable Minister of Finance Kemi Adeosun was not a corruption matter.

Mrs Adeosun was alleged to have forged a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) certificate after an investigation by an online newspaper, Premium Times.

Professor Itse Sagay, chairman of Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) had said the minister should not be sacked because ‘she’s damn good’. He further claimed it is irrelevant if she didn’t do the mandatory youth service.

Femi Adesina, a presidential spokesman on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily, stated that the case was not a corruption matter. He further noted that Professor Irtse Sagay’s comments were his personal opinion and not the stance of the President.

‘It was a personal comment, that is not the position of the Government and Professor Sagay has a right to his opinion.

“It will not be down the aisle of Professor Sagay to advise on that matter because it is not a corruption matter so to speak.”

Section 13 of the NYSC law prescribes punishment for anyone who absconds from the scheme or forges its certificates, while eligible Nigerians who skipped the service are liable to be sentenced to 12 months imprisonment and/or N2, 000 fine.

Section 13 (3) of the law also prescribes three-year jail term or option of N5, 000 fine for anyone who contravenes the provision of the law as is alleged Mrs Adeosun has done.

Subsection 4 of the same section also criminalises giving false information or illegally obtaining the agency’s certificate. It provides for up to a three-year jail term for such offenders.

Sources have claimed that the Presidency could be considering granting the minister clemency for the forgery case ‘in view of the great works she has done for government — bailing out the country from recession and stabilizing the economy.’

However legal practitioners have countered that, saying only after a conviction can anyone be granted a pardon.

https://guardian.ng/news/adeosuns-alleged-certificate-forgery-not-a-corruption-matter-presidency/

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OboOlora:
Baba enter Harvesters for Gbagada, u go nack ur preek go pain u, Na aboniki u go use rub am

After service, just approach any girl walking that u can drop her off. Then stop by at coldstone n order pizza n ice cream, then ask her to follow u so u can enjoy it

Make sure ur AC is on full blast so her clit0ris would be having hiccup as u drive home

The rest as they say is history!

Na real harvesters

Rextizz:
It's still the same story you are reading online..

Okay then.
Many thanks for your confirmation as I thought that you may have a fresh angle to it.
Cheers.

Rextizz:
I had a cousin in the school then that gisted me everything, he was in 400 level by then.

You should share what you remember from your cousin's gist.
Datsall.

Rextizz:
Mehn just like yesterday, I remember everything vividly.

What exactly do you remember

dejio42:
I watched a yoruba movie about this. 5 years back. Neva knew it was history

RIP Afrika

We are all heros OP

Thanks for this bit. I just googled it and got this:

The massacre

On the night of 9 July 1999 a number of student groups held a party at Obafemi Awolowo University. The 'Mirror Online' reports: "members of Kegites Club on the campus, Man O’ war members, and various other student leaders— both former and incumbent, gathered at the open ground between Angola and Mozambique Halls." Later in the night many of the party-goers began occupying the cafeteria of Awolowo Hall whilst others returned to their halls of residence to sleep.

At between 3:00 and 3:30 am (now 10 July 1999) a large number of cultists (reported to be between 22 and 40) of the confraternity arrived to carry out a preplanned assault on the university with the intention of carrying out the assassinations of several prominent members of the student union. Allegations that these assassinations were sponsored by the university's vice chancellor, Wale Omole, remain to this day but it is unclear if this is the case. It is said "one of the cultists, Kazeem Bello, aka Kato, confessed that Wale Omole had a hand in their July 10 dastardly operation."

Upon arriving at the university the cultists "drove through the main gate and proceeded to the car park next to the Tennis Courts in the Sports Center. They disembarked there and went on foot along a bush path to Awolowo Hall, where they violently interrupted the gyration, firing guns and also wielding axes and cutlasses."

Although the order of the events that followed vary from account to account (in terms of who was killed in what order) it is clear that following the assault 4 people were left dead, another died from gunshot wounds later, one more survived from a gunshot wound and "Twenty-five others received minor injuries, which were sustained during the stampede out of the Awolowo Hall cafeteria and later on during the attack."

The Mirror Online reports: "The victims, which included the then Students’ Union Secretary General, George Yemi Iwilade, (fondly called Afrika); 400 level medical student, Eviano Ekelemu; a graduating student, Yemi Ajiteru; 100-Level Philosophy student, Babatunde Oke, and Ekpede Godfrey were gunned down by the “marauding beasts” in Blocks 5 and 8, Awolowo Hall." Prof. Roger Makanjuola writes: "Tunde Oke was still alive but died on the operating table. Four others, George Iwilade, Yemi Ajiteru, Efe Ekede and Eviano Ekelemu, were brought in dead. Eviano Ekelemu bled to death from gunshot wounds to the groin and thigh. The other three died from gunshot wounds to the head."

During the attack several accounts state the members were heard to be "shouting, “Legacy, come out!”" referring to the suspended Students’ Union President, Lanre Adeleke. Additional targets of the attacks are described also. Prof. Roger Makanjuola's account states the same and he also writes: "During the course of the incident, the attackers also shouted the names of “Afrika”, George Iwilade, and “Dexter”, the Chief of the Kegites, demanding that they come out."

Of the targets of the massacre Lanre Adeleke (Legacy) managed to escape by jumping from a balcony after hearing the gunfire. “Dexter”, the Chief of the Kegites, also escaped unharmed. George Iwilade (Afrika), the Secretary-General of the Students’ Union and a Law student was not so lucky. Upon entering his room the "shot him immediately in the head. Then they smashed his head with their axe to make sure he was dead".

It is reported George Iwilade (Afrika) was the only successfully assassinated victim. "Afrika, who was said to have carried out the arrest (relating to the incident on Saturday, 7 March 1999), was mercilessly butchered while the other four were just unfortunate victims"

Prof. Roger Makanjuola gives the order of events as been: "They first entered Room 184, where they shot and killed Efe Ekede, a Part II Psychology student. In Room 230, they shot Charles Ita, a Part II Law student. A group of the attackers then shot Yemi Ajiteru, a Part II Religious Studies student, through the head in the corridor outside the Kegites’ headquarters. In Room 273, they found George Iwilade (Afrika), the Secretary-General of the Students’ Union and a Law student, and shot him through the head, along with another occupant, Tunde Oke, a Part 1 student of Philosophy, who was shot in the abdomen.

When the attackers got to Room 271, the room allocated to the suspended Students’ Union President, Lanre Adeleke (Legacy), they found that he had escaped. Legacy was in his room when he heard the first gun shots..... The band of thugs proceeded to Fajuyi Hall on foot, where they shot and killed one more student. That individual, Eviano Ekelemo, a medical student, was certainly not a student activist, but they shot him anyway.". However, the order in which the victims were killed varies in various testimonies by a number of witnesses.

Prof. Roger Makanjuola's account of the cultist's escape is: "The murderers left Fajuyi Hall on foot and went through the bush path behind the Hall back to their vehicles. They drove to the Students’ Union building, which they ransacked. They returned to their vehicles and drove out of the University through the main gate. The security staff, having heard gunfire, fled for their lives. Thus the exit of the marauding thugs was unchallenged."


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obafemi_Awolowo_University_massacre

Cults gone wild! A campus suffers from the rise of cults, and the students suffer from terror and murder. Can the administrators overcome the challenge of the cults?

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dominique:
I remember the story even though I was still in secondary school at the time. My sister gained admission into OAU two years later, all jambites were made to watch a documentary about the slain students with lots of gory photos. Cultists were the ones running the school before Afrika waged a war against them. Sadly he paid with his life but peace returned to the institution. Very few people will make that kind of sacrifice this day and age.

Continue to RIP Afrika

Do you think that more people would make that kind of sacrifice in a preemptive manner if the documentary is shown regularly, monuments erected in the school after them, streets/buildings named after them etc


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pacificman:
die for nigeriaschool at your own risk

If others did not die, would you have the freedom to do anything today
Please mind what you say and how you say it.

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IYANGBALI:
don't mind them

Please see above.

LadySarah:
Her pregnancy,her problems.

Do you know what it means to be a celebrity
When she was hugging the limelights, and making tons of money therefrom, who asked her?
Shiioorrrrrrrrr!


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RiyaGoddess:
Haaa see my dream SUV ooo. I'm so much in love with the 5th generation let me not fast forward to the 6th. Whenever I see the 5th d thing always do like say I never see motor for my life. Op you no mention the cost. How much Who will sow it into my life eh Iyanu ma sele. What God says He will do,He will do it. He will not shake. He will not shiver. Awamaridi ni olorun wa. Onaa la fun wa loni... Only serious persons should read my signature biko. Good morning FAM

Are you handicapped, disabled or both because I don't understand that bold part
Can you please explain? Thanks.


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joseph1832:
I believe this will fly over the head of the federal government.

Because the head of the federal government is a dullard, always looking lost


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nototribalist:
Buhari is a thief and murderer

Blood and flesh did not reveal this to you. It was revealed by the spirit boss


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charlesELIKIBA:
and were did you read this is a new stadium?....this was an expnasion and renovating work. oh god

Many thanks boss for pointing that out as the headline and opening paragraph did not indicate that it was a renovation/expansion work.

Bensondrums:
Excitement as Samuel Ogbemudia stadium takes shape

As construction at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium reaches advanced stage with the laying of the canopy cover, residents in Edo State have lauded the Governor Godwin Obaseki-led government for its commitment to sports development.