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Has Ogbeni Aregbesola taken care of the BASICS of education already such as

* Adequate ratio of teachers:students
* Total enrolment of all children in schools i.e. no kids roaming the streets of Osun STATE during school hours
* Adequate ratio of classrooms:students
* Adequately paid teachers

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, on Tuesday, called off the scheduled 2014 budget presentation to the joint sitting of the National Assembly, hinging his decision on the resolve by the House of Representatives to raise crude oil benchmark to $79, in differential to $76.5 passed by the Senate.
It will be recalled that the president, in the 2014-2016 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP), proposed $74 as benchmark for barrel of crude oil, but both Senate and House joint committees, after conducting legislative action on the document, recommended $76.5 as benchmark of crude oil for 2014.
However, at the committee of the whole, the Senate passed $76.5 figure for crude oil benchmark for 2014, while the House passed $79 figure last week Thursday.
The development means both chambers had to meet again and agree on the differences in the crude oil benchmark, through conference committee to be raised by the lawmakers.

More from: http://www.tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/news/lead-stories/item/26750-jonathan-calls-off-budget-presentation-abruptly-%E2%80%A2over-benchmark-disparity-%E2%80%A2our-position-%E2%80%94reps.html

Those who may want to delude themselves that the national cake is not made up of Niger Delta crude oil revenue should take a good note of this.

Pukkah: Just as I admitted up there, the problem with Nigeria could sometimes be so confusing and perplexing. But I'm sure the problem is very fundamental and getting more complex with each passing day.

On the 'free pass' or shielding that people are giving their local thieves and looters, what comes to my mind is that the people are indirectly saying that they are fed up with the 'Nigerian arrangement' and of course, something must be done about that arrangement in order to get 'Nigeria' working.

Two options come to mind:

1. A return to true fiscal and political federalism. Let's have a true federation in every sense of it. The federal government should bother only about common issues like currency, army, foreign policy, etc. The regions should have total control on their resources while they pay a token to the central purse to maintain it. The federation as we have it now is very faulty and has failed.

Why is the FG worrying about water, housing, intra city roads, power, local policing, schools, etc. As you can see, the FG has put so much load on itself. Why should robberies and housebreaking taking place at the same time in Saki, Gusau, and Eket be the headache of someone that is sitting in Abuja?

2. Break up the country and let people or the ensuing nations go their separate ways. If they want to come together again, after staying apart, the terms can be negotiated. And if they don't want one another again, the new nations would still be within West Africa sub region with free movement of persons and cargo. Honestly, I don't know the practical way to achieve this peacefully and quickly.

No matter what happens, something fundamental must happen to the current structure of Nigeria. Honestly, the people have become fed up and lost faith in the country.

Good points you have made up there!
Very good points!!!

However that is not likely to happen anytime soon.
Why
The "progressive opposition" leaders who were mouthing true fiscal federalism are against national conference and do not want autonomy for the LGAs.
Why

They cannot endure any meaningful scrutiny of what they are doing even in their "progressive" states and LGAs, which will happen when their is true fiscal federalism and the people's taxes fund directly the governments unlike now that most are doing monthly almajiri begging bowl ritual in Abuja.
Have you wondered why regional governments performed much better before the January 1966 coup

^^^^^^
That is why we need to share ideas and inform ourselves more about what is going on in order to understand what the possibilities are rather than simply pointing at some remote federal government and president while giving our local leaders who collect money from Abuja on our behalf a free pass.
What do you think

obadiah777: scripture says be as wise as serpents. and the book of genesis tells us serpents is the most subtil ( cunning creature ). so the lord allows us to be cunning to survive as christians. has nothing to do with lack of faith

So true!
BTW, are the so-called god of men not also being cunning with their twisting the scripture and emphasis on the Old Testament to keep their congregation in bondage of fear and trap of guilt despite the liberating words and works of Christ

Pukkah: I agree that so much attention is on the FG and I want other tiers of government to also be held accountable.

But have you asked why this is so?

1. The FG takes 52% of the federal revenue. The Ministry of Petroleum Resources is also under the FG. Of course you know what this means.

I know it means MORE RESPONSIBILITY for the federal government in protecting Nigeria's territorial integrity, foreign relations AND supporting the states and LGAs in carrying out their CONSTITUTIONAL responsibilities in the educational and medical sectors such as through the UBE funds, Almajiri schools etc.

2. The FG-led law enforcement agents are the ones that are constitutionally empowered and funded to fight corruption including in the states and LGAs.

Did you read about youths protesting in Jigawa because their governor's sons were arrested for laundering money stolen that should have created employment through better equipped & staffed schools & hospitals etc
Do you recall how similar shows were staged for Ibori, Saraki etc?

With the way Nigeria is constituted, what do you expect the people to do apart from usual talking?

They can follow the example of this community at the least:

FOR allegedly participating in the kidnap of Prof. Kamene Okonjo, the octogenarian mother of the Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Ezi community in Aniocha North council of Delta State has ostracized the entire family of one of the suspects from the town (names withheld).

Mrs Okonjo, the wife of Prof. Chukwuka Okonjo, the Obi of Ogwashi Uku, Aniocha South Council was abducted on December 9, 2012 at the palace by a gang of kidnappers numbering about 10 which included the son of the sanctioned family.

The traditional ruler of Ezi, Obi Mohanye 1, who spoke at the weekend after a meeting of the Obi in Council, said the decision to banish the entire family from the town was as a result of the role played by their son whom, he insisted had severely damaged the reputation of the entire community.

He said the decision was to show the world that t[b]he community was very upset by the suspect's action and that the decision to sanction his family was to serve as a deterrent.[/b]

The royal father said it was unbelievable that the suspect's parents could not control or monitor the 22 year-old boy who was building a house for them and bought a car for his brother when he had no visible means of livelihood.

The Obi disclosed that the decision became important owing to the increasing cases of crimes among the youths in the community, maintaining that to curb the ugly trend communities must wake up to their responsibilities.

He warned that any family member who indulged in such ignoble act would face the same sanction, adding that the town crier would convoy the decision to the entire community.

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php/news/national-news/138871-community-banishes-family-over-son-s-role-in-kidnap-of-minister-s-mother

But we will most likely not do that as we see those local representaTHIEVES:

-governor,
- state assembly lawmakers,
- SINators,
- federal legisLOOTERs,
- LGA chairmen & councillors along with their
- countless Special Assts & Advisers

in different offices as stealing from the national cake aka Niger Delta oil revenue on our behalf as they share us crumbs therefrom for which we are very grateful even as they abandon their CORE responsibilities and bamboozle us into thinking it is all the fault of the president

We deserve the leaders we get (or don't get) at ALL levels!

So he was really shot in the head and he survived
And no details of how he survived from whatever town/location he was shot?

Why do I feel this is like that story of some GO driving 300 kms without fuel despite passing so many fuel stations
Penterascals will obviously do anything to sustain their tithes and seed sowing business racket.

pistol: Capital intensive infastructuralal projects will give the growth curve a leap but it won't necessarily drive employment and reduce proverty...it is normally the service sector.
But can we afford to increase our service sector,increase personnel cost and neglect infrastructure development.
Can both go hand in hand?

Yes......if there is much reduced stealing at the state and LGA level so they can employ teachers, nurses, doctors, other health workers, monitors etc to deliver on their responsibilities in these sectors.

Furthermore the ongoing re-focus on agric will generate employment but it won't happen overnight and we need to be ready to work just as the government needs to reward hard work and not just those who are rich by any means possible.

BabaAlabi: Improvement In the power sector-None
Improvement In Security-None
Improvement In Education and Health-None
Improvement on Paper-YES.
Yet paid laptop boys who would willingly sell their family for 20,000 are screaming fresh air!!
#NigeriaPleaseWakeUp

You surely need to wake up first before you advise others.
How much of the responsibility of states and LGAs in the education (primary, vocational/technical & secondary) as well as in health (primary health centres & general hospitals) have they carried out successfully and adequately
I hope you are sharp enough to see the link with employment generation and impact on security.
Let us continue to sit down there and keep expecting the president to DO ALL while our governors and LGA chairmen are looting us blind

olatiler: Bro am gonna advice u to wait and let the ppl of osun make the complain then we gonna believe ur apostel, even though I wasn't around I read all Nigeria news everyday and 30 minutes was much for me to visit this great Site NL and I keep on seen many thread open by osun ppl talking about latest development in their community

Development such as cultism by secondary school students due to Aregberascal's lopsided focus on education

https://www.nairaland.com/1519276/cultism-4-injured-secondary-school

owolabifunke14: Cultism in secondary school,the boys are doomed for life

Maybe not.
They will be ready almajiris for Aregberascal's APC to recruit for political cowboy adventures such as he tried to do in Anambra before the police arrested them in Imo.

This is obviously the effect of the neglect that the CORE requirements of education under Aregberascal's maladministration has caused. Focusing on yoyo, shine shine initiatives without adequate attention on the QUALITY and QUANTITY of teaching & extra-curriculum activities as well as adequate monitoring service can only lead to catastrophic outcomes.

olatiler: Did u read it in INEC news portal that those guys are fake INEC observers too? #justasking

That is not INEC's job. The police simply reported that they arrested them and what was found on them.
Try another spin, you hear?
I just dey pity the good people of Osun state whose money Aregberascal is using to do John Wayne cowboy adventure in Anambra via Okorocha's Imo. Meanwhile BASIC services in Osun state are neglected.

eggheaders: Get over it, he is a prominent member of this forum going around a ban.

Wetin be the moniker of this "prominent member"
Abi you think sey na everybody be mugu with una Osun Defender and abusidiqi sauce to which your agents have direct access to update their web sites. Whatever happened to INEC's web site for such vital statement

The desperation of APC to confuse those who are not smart to decipher truth from propaganda is alarming. I guess it is a sign of the loss they are afraid will be their portion at the polls today.

Jman06: I know one of the students.Thank God she was not seriously injured!
Fashola! renovate public schools in lagos and save our youngsters from hardship

Can you get pictures of the school showing the damaged railing to make your post more real

BTW I thought Lagos has been governed by excellent ACN/APC administrators, Tinubu & Fashola for almost 15 years. Did I miss something

gratiaeo: Nigeria have institutionalized corruption

Yes we all have institutionalised corruption.

The judge, prosecutor, EFCC etc involved in this case are ORDINARY folks whom we celebrate in various ways just as we do our own petty corruption too.
How many of our relations, friends, acquaintances, mosque/church/shrine fellow congregants etc do we know who are living BEYOND their legitimate income yet we say NOTHING to discourage them

igbeke: who is dat dude in d pix?
na thug ni?

He was one of the Honourable Representatives of the Kogi people in the National Assembly for four years when Madam Foluke Etteh was Speaker before she was disgraced out of office despite his support and replaced by Bankole.

Donmams: Idiot. Dino Melaye has better fishes to fry than this small matter. That is why he went after armoured thief stella.

Better fishes indeed. The guy needs to make his own money na from his sponsors.
Charity obviously does not begin at home (Kogi) for our Honourable anti-corruption crusader.
Na the MUMUs wey dey follow am na dem I pity wella.

Is this not the state where Dino Melaye is from and he was one of their Honourable Representatives for at least four years, right


https://www.mikeangelonews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/melaye.jpg


Let's hope he will lead a protest in Lokoja against this INADEQUATE sentence for the crime against Kogi people.

[quote author=Adeniyi A.]to an average Nigerian, being smart could mean being sharp, dubious, lawless, corrupt and other vices[/quote]That is the average Nigerian's understanding of being smart, which is why we are the way we are all over.
Meanwhile that may be labelled as being street smart or having street credibility such as Tinubu and IBB.
They are both very smart crooks who know how to psyche up their people and audience while playing and preying on our selfish greed to their personal advantage as we are left poorer despite their sweet words.
That is what we are used to and praise, worship, idolise & adore!!!
Heard the phrase/song Smooth Operator

ngozievergreen: Simple ques, how many received it in osun?

Don't expect any response from these ACN/APC confusionists.
Did you notice the way justhelp has been running around like some head-less chicken since I asked him to simply point out where the cost of the tablets Aregberascal bought from his son in his long SOURCEless story
They are used to spinning LIES, DISTORTIONS and outrageous promises to the gullible Area Boys, Agberos, Almajiris etc that form the bulk of their supporters who ask no questions but swallow it all- hook, line & sinker.
Hence they do not focus on the BASICS of quality education for all children in their states and LGAs.
That way their gullible supporters can remain in their pitiable educated illiterate status.
Sad!
Very sad!!
Very sad indeed!!!

anselm791: So how come nobody likes the president? Are you trying to say he's not smart? Tell us now o!

Or it takes really smart people to appreciate another smart person and we may not have the critical mass of smart people yet in Nigeria hence we are the way we are.
You must have heard that a one-eyed man leads blind people.
What do you think

maclatunji: Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are not mine. I am only sharing what I discovered and found interesting. I thought it nice to share.

Now that is smart.
Not like some posters here who post and try to pass it off as theirs only for another to post the link later.

maclatunji: I agree with you, there are many ways the article/collection can be improved on. You could list reasons why you think being smart is cool.

justhelp: So you cant read and comprehend shame on you. go back and read it again the prize is there. fool

You do not know how to LIE obviously.
You need to get fresh lessons from your political idols that you are promoting here.
If the price of the Opon Imo itself is in your long story WITHOUT source, simply point it out.
How can that be so difficult for someone who is not foolish like you claim to be

justhelp: The governor had called some students present at the event who confirmed that the average cost of a textbook for SSSE students is between
N1,000 and N1,500. With this, the governor said: “We have been able, through the support of the citizens of Osun, to develop an innovative device, and we put in that Opon Imo 56 text books for 17 subjects being taught here.

“That was what we purchased for N200 million. “Aregbesola and his team of endowed people have saved Osun people N8.2 billionn with the introduction of Opon Imo alone. “Must I be commended or condemned?”

This is why I call these ACN touts a bunch of scammers and fraudsters that should be aptly called Smooth Operators or maybe even Smooth Criminals.
Aregberascal is giving the impression here that the SOFTWARE/CONTENT of the textbooks which costs N 200 million should be compared to the N8.4 billion UNVERIFIED cost of textbooks that he WOULD have supplied to the students.
Where is the cost of the HARDWARE/tablets itself for the same number of students to whom the N8.4 billion books would have been distributed
Our Looters-in-Power (LiPs) playing us clever-by-half games

nogames: Even with the link that shows contrary to your claim, you people still go ahead and propagate lies..
Open OMO does not cost N8.6b instead it saves Osun state governmnent N8.6b..
http://www.channelstv.com/home/2013/06/03/opon-imo-will-save-osun-n8-4-billion-of-textbook-procurement-costs/

Even your link says it WILL save the "state of Osun" N8.4 billion, which you have DISTORTED to N8.6 billion.
Why

Meanwhile, can you tell us how many tablets Aregberascal ordered from his son and what the cost is?
Since Tinubu has turned Lagos state to his family EState, his Osun satellite THIEF is slowly emulating him

okpara ugo: Hahaha, funny but the leaders we talk about are also Nigerians...

Wicked blood runs in most of us. The things we do on our small desks give rise to the rot in the system. How many people here do things right in their offices ? Maybe 5%... So stop complaining...

The north is the highest beneficiary of the Nigerian entity! The north has the best roafds in Nigeria. The best maintained roads in Nigeria is Abuja-kaduna axis..

Yet they only contribute agriculture and negatively violence. Yes, they feed the nation because Ibos have refused to farm. On my own, i have experimented and discovered that Ibo land can grow yam, plantain, banana, onions, melon fluted pumpkin and any crop you can think about. How many plantations exist in the east and we talk of youth unemployment. Yes, our leaders are blind but their followers are more blind...

Thanks for your intelligent post.

haibe: We really need fashola to become president, in two years nigeria will become at least like Ghana.

I just wish that fashola man will contest for presidency, people go too vote for am.

Na joke be this abi na wetin?
Person wey nor fit govern the WHOLE Lagos STATE na im you wan promote to president


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/LGA_Lagos.png

If your aspiration/expection level is so low for PUBLIC SERVANTS do not believe that others are like you.
SMH!!!

enigmang: My main problem is who can be held responsible for : for example the searching of bags by hand. is it the immigration abi custom boss, or FAAN or the aviation minister.. or the president himself...
Because they all cannot argue that they dont know or see this things going on.. A simple directive from any of the persons in charge will have this stopped immediately.....

But really do they still search all bags by hand??

Is the highlighted portion a joke or what
You think the workers at the airport do not have directives on how to do their work or what exactly?
How many ministries, department and agencies (MDAs) of the federal, state and LGAs do you have people who actually work and EARN their pay
What work is the:

- LGA Chairman & Councillor
- State legisLOOTER
- SINator & representaTHIEF

plus all their Special Assts., Special Adviser etc for YOUR constituency doing for the humongous pay they receive every month
So why should ANY REASONABLE person working for the SAME government do any serious work for peanuts?
Abi na who wan be mugu for the Looters-in-Power (LiPs)?

chukwudi44: Bros what percentage of the national income does the sw even contribute? If to say na una get oyel pesin for no hear word again!!

Negligible. Very negligible.
We are all sharing the monthly federal allocation of the national cake like almajiris.

Meanwhile when we had cash crops like cocoa in the west, cotton & groundnut in the north etc the federal government did NOT collect the revenue directly to share with the Niger Delta hence the gross under-development there until recently.

@ OP,

How many of us know people in our family, friends, acquaintances, mosque/church/shrine fellow congregant who RECEIVES and SPENDS money way beyond his salary and/or for doing next to nothing such as our numerous politicians and political office holders and jobbers

How many of such people have we ADVISED to work and earn their pay just as we do in our own places of work & business.
The MMIA is still part of our country, Nigeria the last time I checked so let's stop the pretense and hypocrisy.

emmasege: When did he lecture in UNIPORT?. The media has misled the public in this regard referring to him as a former University don, ASUU member etc. I have read and listened to his profile over and over, there was nothing like GEJ lecturing at UNIPORT. Is it all PhD graduates of a university that end up lecturing there. He only earned his PhD but never lectured there. Rather, he was a lecturer at RIVERS STATE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION and i think there is a difference btw a University and a college of education. One would have expected him to correct this, but since it boosts his personal profile and ego he would rather keep quiet.

Kindly show us where

* GEJ said he lectured in UNIPORT
* GEJ was asked if he lectured in UNIPORT and he did not respond.

Otherwise:


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omonnakoda: James 1:27

27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

Thanks for the above passage, which I have added to my favourites list.
It is also noteworthy that James is the brother of Jesus.
Shalom!

Thought this interview excerpt may be relevant for those who asked about the quality of his work in OMPADEC, particularly coming from someone who now criticises the president for almost everything.

How I withstood pressure and got Jonathan employed at OMPADEC

A Nigerian critical of the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan today is the Convener of the Committee of Concerned Northern Professionals, Politicians, Academics and Businessmen (CCNPPAB), Dr. Junaid Mohammed. Ironically, the same Junaid, who was a former member of the House of Representatives in the Second Republic , highly recommended and fought for the appointment of the President at the defunct Oil Mineral Producing Areas Development Commission (OMPADEC). Barely 19 years after, the same Junaid thinks otherwise of the President. In this interview, our Managing Editor, Northern Operation, YUSUF ALLI, the critic opens up on how he met President Jonathan.

How did you know President Goodluck Jonathan? Where did your path cross each other?

In short, I met President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan exactly early 1993. I met him in the cause of my work as a federal commissioner in the then OMPADEC in Port Harcourt . It has been renamed as the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). So, recruitment into OMPADEC brought me into contact with President Jonathan. We went to Port Harcourt as a skeletal group comprising only commissioners. This means we had 14 staff, apart from the secretary who was a Federal Government appointee. So, we had to start recruiting people.
In the method of recruiting, the former Chairman of OMPADEC, Albert Horsefall again violated not only the constitution but violated Decree No. 23 of 1991 of OMPADEC. He put employment into OMPADEC as a proportion to the oil that is being produced in an area. Producing oil an in area does not guarantee you that the area is the kind of area that produces engineers or doctor. If you have no doctors in the area and you produce all the oil in the Niger Delta, you could not be employed.
So, we found ourselves in a very serious manpower situation. Areas where we have the manpower to come and carry out the projects and execute them were not available. At the same time, areas that were producing the oil hugely so to speak could not unfortunately produce the manpower that was necessarily for the maintenance of the infrastructure that we are trying to put in the Niger Delta. In one of such, there had been earlier recruitment, but there had been a lot of backlash and complaints. So, people especially among the Ijaw were complaining that they were grossly under-represented and they said some of the people who said they were Ijaw were not Ijaw and did not come from the areas which have now been renamed Bayelsa after the creation of the state.
So...eh…
I took that into consideration and reported to Babangida and Gambo that there were a lot of complaints after the last recruitment exercise. We were about to start another recruitment when the name of President Goodluck came to my attention. I realised he came from a very under-developed area in terms of educational attainment. I also realised that the area is a huge producer of oil in the local government. I had two friends who are Ijaw. There was late Sam Ikikoro who said there is a young Ijaw man. I asked further, he said they are regarded as Ijaw and they speak Ijaw but they are a small tiny clan or group within the Ijaw group. I asked whether Jonathan comes from that local government or not he said yes. I said okay.
Then I also asked a close friend of mine, an engineer who had settled in Ghana and finished at Ahmed Bello University , Paul Abiu. I said do you know this man (Jonathan)? He said no, he did not know the man but he knows this local government. It is definitely an Ijaw local government. When the issue of recruitment came, I found out that in short- listing the names of applicants, Horsefall said he had an appointee.
I objected to that and insisted that the recruitment was an opportunity to redeem our image as a responsible organisation which is strictly speaking a Federal Government organisation belonging to all the people of Niger Delta. When the name of Goodluck Jonathan came, Horsefall said he had a better appointee, he introduced another name of his cousin. I said I would not accept. That was the beginning of the fight we had and it went on into so many areas and the activities of OMPADEC until the very end. Horsefall was defeated because majority of the commissioners in OMAPADEC then agreed with me and he had no alternative than to recruit Jonathan.
The fight came between me and Horsefall and the fight lasted until the very end of OMPADEC when it was dissolved by the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha. The important thing is that there was another boy who is now late, he is an Ijaw man. His name was Joe. Joe and Goodluck wanted to come and thank me and even come with their community. I said I didn’t want to see them because what I did was to satisfy my conscience. I believe Horsefall had done injustice by putting too many Kalabari at the expense of Ijaw people.
So, Jonathan knew what you did?
Very much. In fact, he thanked me well for that gesture, which meant nothing to me. As far as I am concerned, it is not for me asking Jonathan for compensation. It is not my business to come and see Jonathan. It was only lately I knew that one of my brothers happened to know him and they are close. That has nothing to do with me and I know I have seen him several times at OMPADEC. As far as I am concerned, my idea of public service is that you do what you can and regard politics as public service. I believe whoever is the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria must learn to listen to criticisms because the country is not his personal matrimony. Nigeria belongs to all us, whether he is my brother or somebody I knew, Goodluck or Horsefall, he has a responsibility to listen to us.
Are you saying your bitter criticism of Jonathan is not personal?
Absolutely no. Jonathan knows better than anybody. Even each time some people tried to incite him against me, he will look and say Dr. Junaid was my boss and that has been the case. As far as I am concerned, that has nothing to do with me, I have never had any quarrel, not even an argument with him when I was in OMPADEC where we worked together.

That would be how many years?

The relationship started in 1993 and we are now in 2012. So, what is the big thing?

If you knew of good qualities of Jonathan and you recommended him for a job then, why is that you don’t seem to agree ….

(Cuts in) I recommended him to be an Assistant Director, I did not recommend him to be the President of Nigeria. These are two different things. If I were to assess him as an Assistant Director, Ecology, that is a different matter. If I were to give assessment now as a president of the country, it would have been a different assessment.

From: http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/saturday-magazine/weekend-treat/interview/48605-how-i-withstood-pressure-and-got-jonathan-employed-at-ompadec.html

[quote author=gcfr.com]Good question.. I really don't think they re making any profit yet, even if they re, it won't cover the cost of d adverts they re currently running.. I think they ve a long term plan.[/quote]Just like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc and even Seun's NL.
Build the platform, get the traffic and the ads will follow.

We need to STOP looking at everything on the cash & carry basis of Here & Now.
Life is a marathon not a sprint!

That is part of the reason why we Africans have NOTHING that we developed, produced & continuously improve among what we use daily.
That is sad!!!