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histemple:
So Bèè kò is no longer "not like that" ?
I was thinking that "Oti o" is NO.

it's even more confusing when you add "rara"

gbosaa:
That language would be spoken where there would be too much heat with the smell of sulphur. The landlord there love incantations and Yoruba language sound like one.

Exotic language like Igbo is the language of heaven.

Angel Gabriel and Saint Peter would be like..."nwanna irutego?, kee ka imelu? Ngwa bata, Eze enigwe edozigolu gi ebe iga ebi"... I would shake his hand and grab my keys..

At the other side with lots of smoke and fumes, the landlord and his area boys would be swearing and cursing at you for not prostrating on the hot char coals.

continu!, or ma to tee!

harveyspec:
you said some cannot be solved meaning some others can be!!

a little rain in benin & some areas are already flooded, if the drainages were in place, we will not be having most of the water problems

have you considered the possibility that those areas can never be drained!
There is a place in idimu area of lagoS they where always complaining to the government about flooding during the rainy season cus there are no gutters.
They decided to construct gutter by themselves and guess what happened, the other communities where very grateful cus the gutter constructed by these complaining community only diverted the waters of the other community into their area.
During rain season now, everyone in some streets in that area goes travelling for a while! even landlord are now renting houses in other places( this was in 2010, don't know about now).

ehimeayeni:
This is the best comment I have seen on NL. Nobody blamed Obama when Thunderstorms his places in America. they even have names for the natural disasters sef. E.g Katrina

some are quick to blame osho(I'm not absolving him either), but they refuse to see other contributors to the problem.
If the government Decides to demolish houses to provide drainage, all those whose house will be demolished will automatically become wailing wailers

some will tell they gov to divert the grainage through another longer route, if he tries that, it's still this same people that will accuse him of wasting money, protecting his own people who had built houses on drainage .

harveyspec:
igbinedion started the water storm project to channel the water to the river, off course it never saw the light off the day

osho baba couldn't complete it too after 8yrs

go to GRA when it rains, you will know this is childs play. there are streets in GRA where no car has plied in years

forget all the noise the governor makes on TV

sir you might be right, no argument with that.
But my position is simple. Some floodings cannot be solved with gutters and man made drainage channels, no matter how large or how many!
There is a probability that even if these drainage you are talking about is completed, it will not work!
it will not stop the flooding!

Well...... One sure conclusion be say street hawking done end be that!

JAWBONE:
If there were proper water channels and good roads...water cannot accumulate like Benin is not a coastal city like lagos, and the ikpoba river has not overflowed its banks...this is something that could be averted

unlike some others , you just said something tangible that one can look into .
but sir, flooding is determined by a lot of other factors other than rivers, closeness to seat or lack of man made drainage .

anonimi:
Are you suggesting that we are naturally and inextricably INFERIOR to oyinbo people who mostly comply with such warnings?
Are you saying that we ALLOW leaders looters who are naturally and irrevocably INFERIOR to those of oyinbos to rule ruin us?
Thanks.



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not all oyinBo makes such warning and not all oyinBo comply to them.
I naija, even if such warnings where made, some will still not comply. There is probably one wailing wailer constructing a big house on a drainage somewhere as type this, if the government should try to demolish such structure, what you will hear is witch hunt and discrimination, even from people who are affected by the construction .

you can think from now till forever, reality does things differently

anonimi:
You obviously are ignorant of what you are talking about. And I am being very mild with you.
The worst part is that you are so proud and full even in your self-inflicted ignorance.
In the developed countries that you gleefully shared their flooding pictures to justify the Edo palaver, the state governors and LGA authorities ENSURE that drains/gutters are not blocked by CLEARING them regularly and giving stiff fines and penalties by those who dump refuse therein. Not so
Are many Edo people and other Nigerians abroad not doing such work of clearing gutters?
Is the state not supposed to have Town Planning authorities who approve and INSPECT areas to ensure the approved plans are adhered to?
What else are you ignorant of, sir



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yes, the state government is not doing its work when it comes to clearing and in some cases building drainages. but it's you that seem to be ignorant on the point I'm making. Some floodings are inevitable either the government is doing its work or not!

my statement was to show you Mr ignorant identiFier that even the people affected by flooding can also contribute to such flooding.
The conditions that determine flooding vary and most be looked at before determining who is at fault.

There are some roads in the developed world that has no gutters too, therefore gutter construction is not an absolute must in road construction.

bet this people's government did not clear their drainage too

kernel501:
Hahahahah ... Uncle!!! Due process, after recovering loots, which other process but investing the recovered loot. The economy is hitting the rock, we are closing-up on recession, having two negative fiscal returns, states are going financially insolvent, Nigeria is borrowing left,right and center and you are approving more delay. I can tell you one thing for sure, whatever was declared recovered was hyped, meaning they recovered just peanut.

Please, explain to me what you mean by due process, thanks.

sir, its spending has to be requested by law
it then has to be approved by law
the budjet approved this year does not include such.

giving states more money will only postpone their financial insolvency , it wunt solve it!
But accountability, proper allocation of resources will .

The economy had hit the rocks since the time joNa started borrowing to pay salaries since he could not pay contractors despite budgeting money for it , since he could not save when we where earning much.

anonimi:
Does this happen every year in developed countries?
Do they have blocked drains (gutters) everywhere in developed countries?
Do they build on waterways in developed countries?
Why do we make EXCUSES for these rulers looters who STEAL our money and deprive us of modern day facilities, amenities and utilities and apparently our common sense?
Then we run to developed countries to be under-employed SLAVES!
No wonder Aisha Buhari said all Edo women abroad are PROSTITUES and their people still voted DullardPoo, her husband.
Na which kain jazz be that sef

yes there are looters, but they did not bloke the drainages, neither where they the ones that built on drainages.
I'm not making excuses for bad governance , but in some cases, even good governance cannot stop flooding!

could it be that the ineffectual boffoon would have solved this particular problem if voted in? naa!

anonimi:
Can you share with us links to the flood warning issued to Edo people.
Thanks.

flood warning! For where you warn see that one for naiJa!
even if they are giving warning, will they leave, no
bet it with me, this same people will experience this same flooding next year, yet they will not heed this year warning, even if it kills them!

Enyimbamercedes:
Do you call flooding as a result of poor drainage, building over drainages or even turning the drainage into refuse dumps a natural disaster?

did you see me call it natural disaster ?
If the governor had demolished buildings constructed on drainages now, some will still attack him!

as much as some things are man made, some are beyond mans control or fault!

Swollen rivers in the US Midwest and other regions brought flood warnings for over 12 million Americans on Wednesday as scores of buildings were submerged after days of intense rain in which 24 people have died.

pictures of U.S.A and India

When flood decides to exercise it's rights, even the president of most developed countries can do nothing about it .
France and Germany

Geniro:
Look at these sai baba ediots. Mention 3 socialist programs Nigeria was operating similar to Venezuela before the crash

wailers, over to you!

kernel501:
Don't be cheap brother, why can't we touch our "presumed recovered loot", since we've recovered our so called looted treasury?

due process sir! due process!, such touching has to be approved by law!

kernel501:
Where they not the ones who declared recovered loots? or... are you saying they declared what they've not recovered?

you have shifted from budget to recovered loot. that recovered loot can't be touched for now.

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has raised hope on commencement of construction works on the Mambilla hydro power project expected to add another 3,000Mega Watts (MW) to the national grid.

The Mambilla hydro-electric power project has been footdraging since the contract was awarded to two Chinese firms in May 28, 2007, but this administration has promised to undertake the project and deliver power to Nigerians

The contract was earlier awarded to China Gezhouba Group Company Limited (CGGC) and another Chinese consortium, Sinohydro at the sum of $3.2 billion (N508 billion).
Fashola, who spoke with journalists on the sidelines of an energy conference in Lagos said the government is already finalising the procurement process on the project and it is expected to take off soon.

According to him, the Federal Government is increasingly looking into alternative sources such as coal, solar and biomass for power generation in a bid to achieve national energy security.

He said: “We will soon finish hydro power plants like the 700MW Zungeru power plant and start the biggest hydro power project, the Mambilla, which will give us in one place about 3,000MW. We are finalising the procurement now,”

The minister stressed: “Our vulnerability to gas has become apparent to the development that we are seeing. And so, one of the things that the energy mix will do is not just taking power plants closer to fuel sources, but to also help in achieving national energy security. So, we are going beyond solar to coal and to a lot of hydro.

“We will use biomass because there is a sugar processing plant and sugarcane plantation somewhere in Adamawa, and we are talking to the proprietors to see how we can use some of that also for producing energy.”

Fashola, who also advocated for energy conservation in the country said: “Beyond all of this generation of power, what is important is the demand side management, which we have come here to talk about, which is energy conservation. There is capacity to conserve between 1,000MW and 2,000MW by actions that all of us should take in our homes, in our offices, the way we build, the way we use energy.”
“We have seen that air-conditioning and kitchen equipment constitute the largest consumer of power. So, how we build our houses, how we use less of air-conditioning, how we air our homes using nature, more wind, working with our architects, how we shape and situate the angle of our house so that we conserve less energy, how we use less water by being efficient in conserving water to transfer energy to cost.”

source: m.guardian.ng/energy/government-finalising-procurement-processes-on-3000mw-mambilla-power-project/

kernel501:
The question should be, are we recovering? The answer is NO !!!, at least for now. We were told that signing of 2016 budget will ease austerity, months are gone nothing seems to be changing, rather we are touring the part of ... complete the sentence (coughing).

#SaiBuhari
#ChanjiChain

how many months have passed. so you think recovery will be immediate abi !

How can you blame the governor for natural disasters ! hope you see the pictures of what flooding does in developed countries !

CARACAS , Venezuela — In the darkness the warehouse looks like any other , a metal - roofed hangar next to a clattering overpass , with homeless people sleeping nearby in the shadows .

But inside , workers quietly unload black plastic crates filled with merchandise so valuable that mobs have looted delivery vehicles , shot up the windshields of trucks and hurled a rock into one driver ’ s eye . Soldiers and police milling around the loading depots give this neighborhood the feel of a military garrison .

“ It ’s just cheese ,”[/b]said Juan Urrea , a 29 - year - old driver , as workers unloaded thousands of pounds of white Venezuelan queso from his delivery truck. “ I ’ ve never seen anything like this before. ”

[b]The fight for food has begun in Venezuela. On any day, in cities across this increasingly desperate nation , crowds form to sack supermarkets . Protesters take to the streets to decry the skyrocketing prices and dwindling supplies of basic goods . The wealthy improvise , some shopping online for food that arrives from Miami . Middle - class families make do with less : coffee without milk, sardines instead of beef , two daily meals instead of three . The poor are stripping mangoes off the trees and struggling to survive.

“ This is savagery,” said Pedro Zaraza , a car oil salesman, who watched a mob mass on Friday outside a supermarket , where it was eventually dispersed by the army . “ The authorities are losing their grip . ”
What has been a slow - motion crisis in Venezuela seems to be careening into a new , more dangerous phase. The long economic decline of the country with the world’s largest oil reserves now shows signs of morphing into a humanitarian emergency , with government mismanagement and low petroleum prices leading to widespread shortages and inflation that could surpass 700 percent this year .

[ Venezuela declares a 2 - day workweek because of dire energy shortages ]
The political stakes are mounting . Exhausted by government -imposed power blackouts , spiraling crime , endless food lines , shortages of medicine and waves of looting and protest , citizens are mobilizing against their leaders . In recent days , Venezuelans lined up to add their names to a recall petition that aims to bring down the country ’s president , Nicolas Maduro , and put an end to the socialist - inspired “revolution” ignited 17 years ago by Hugo Chavez .

“ This can ’t continue,” said Angel Rondon , a mechanic , who now sometimes eats just once a day. “ Things have to change . ”

The rumor spread quickly on a recent Tuesday evening in the poor farmlands near Barlovento an hour east of Caracas : A truck carrying rice had tipped over and food was free for the taking . Glenis Sira , a mother of seven , grabbed a plastic bag and ran from her cinder block shack . More than 1 ,000 people joined her in scrambling to reach the village of La Fundacion before they realized there was no rice truck , only rumor.
“ We have never had this level of need, ” said Sira , one of several witnesses who described the melee .

For decades Venezuela was one of Latin America ’s more stable and developed democracies , with a middle class accustomed to the benefits of oil wealth. Economic crises in the 1980 s and 1990 s battered many Venezuelan families . But the Chavez era was marked by rising oil prices and declining poverty , leaving few people prepared for the sickening free - fall of the last few years .

Sira has long been a proud “ Chavista ,” convinced that government spending could create a more equal society . Chavez ’s government , flush with oil money and billions of dollars in foreign loans , gave her the Madre de Barrio subsidy for mothers in extreme poverty . Another program helped residents to finish houses under construction . Youths from her community received scholarships.

“ I always lived for the revolution,” she said .
But many of the welfare programs started by Chavez have dried up , and the nearest store has little more than two- liter bottles of Pepsi and packs of Pall Mall cigarettes. Under Chavez , the government established a network of government - run supermarkets that sold basic foods at subsidized prices . But inflation has put even these bargains out of reach for many people . A single kilogram of yucca — about two pounds — now costs about one - third of the weekly minimum wage .

Sira ’s neighbors hunt for deer and armadillos for subsistence and barter their meager catch . She lives off what she can grow — yams , tomatoes , corn — or what she can forage . Once a cacao - producing region, the area has been devastated by drought .
“ I ’ m a Chavista and damn it, this situation is hard ,” she said . “ That is why the revolution is being killed . Because we are hungry .”

Falling oil prices lead to cutbacks
Venezuela’s ability to produce food and other goodshas dwindled over the years as the government has expropriated private companies , expanded price controls , and otherwise discouraged private production . Corn , rice and other foods once grown domestically now have to be imported.

In the past two years , oil prices have dropped by half to below $ 50 per barrel, the economy has contracted severely , and imports have grown more unaffordable . Private companies have shut down for lack of access to government - controlled dollars to pay for raw materials. The government has so far prioritized making debt payments to avoid default while cutting back on imported products, including food. In recent days , airlines such as Lufthansa , LATAM, and Aeromexico have stopped flying to Venezuela, as the strict currency controls made it difficult for them to be paid in full
About 87 percent of people say they don ’t have enough money to buy food, according to a recent study by Simon Bolivar University .

“ We have not yet seen the climax of the crisis ,” said Luis Vicente Leon, director of the polling firm Datanalisis , who estimated that retail food outlets in Caracas lack about 80 to 85 percent of their usual products. “ Supplies have deteriorated to a very significant degree and it’ s probable that things will continue to get worse .”

Over the first five months of this year , Venezuelans have violently looted businesses — or tried to do so — at least 254 times , according to the Venezuelan Observatory of Social Conflict . The number of protests over food has risen each month this year , to 172 in May . Several people have died and hundreds more have been arrested in incidents of unrest across the country .


An endless wait for food
Transporting the nation ’s food means running a gantlet of need. On June 20 , hundreds of protesters blocked a highway in an area called El Guapo, east of Caracas , paralyzing dozens of delivery trucks . During the day - long standoff , driver Jonathan Narvaes , 32 , watched asresidents ransacked trucks carrying flour and pasta . Soldiers used tear gas to disperse the crowds .

Some wealthier consumers have resorted to having food shipped to Venezuela. Soraya Cedillo , the owner of a courier company , said that 70 percent of her customers are Venezuelans living in the United States buying products such as corn flour , sugar , powdered milk, toilet paper and tampons for relatives back home .

Two months ago, Maria Eugenia Rodriguez , a dentist and mother of two , began shopping online for products such as powdered milk, sugar and bread .
“ I buy Splenda from Amazon ,” she said , referring to the online retailer. “ Every few weeks I get a box full of staples from a courier in the States that arrives to the door of my house . ”

In Caracas , shopping lines have grown so long that they have created ecosystems of commerce. Outside the Plan Suarez government supermarket in Caracas , vendors sold cigarettes and lemonade out of rusty shopping carts one recent day to the hundreds who had lined up . To cut down on crowds , officials allow in each day only people with certain numbers on their national identification cards .
“ We ’re waiting without even knowing what they will bring today , or if they’ll bring anything,”

source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/venezuelans-are-storming-supermarkets-and-attacking-trucks-as-food-supplies-dwindle/2016/06/28/70020a14-37c8-11e6-af02-1df55f0c77ff_story.html

cooljoe:
Afta a rerun of GOT season 6 finale. All I can say is dat G.R Martin is "gorgeously" insane to even fink of ds let alone wrtiing int, such a shame i'd neva read t. Nd 4 d directors of d show, one word - spellbounding. now my wait begins

had that same thought when I read the first book , Imy pretty sure he has some mental issues, Sane people don't write stories like this .
It's a shame he has not released the 6th and seven book though!

common sense dictates that you do things properly
common sense dictates that if you are in opposition, you must be clean
common sense dictates that if you owe, you must pay!
common sense dictates that the era of Jona is over and things must be done the right way
common sense has shown that the the common sense senator has no common sense!

absky5:
The 21 blows that Jon landed ramsey is not enough for me at all........*don't ask me how I know it's 21 because I counted it*

you really wanted that guy to suffer. I wish he did not die in that episode, they should have cooked his limbs for him to eat first.

luxanne:
For reals? Then we should be looking at more war scenes in the final season - 7.

Battle for the iron throne.

season 6 will set the stage, but I don't think there will be any more wars in season 6.
though I pray for one though, where all of the freY's are killed in front of their old father

luxanne:
Or maybe not. The white walkers are already doing that, we just need more of their scenes.

How many seasons are we looking at in GOT, any idea?

7 seasons

Gbola5:
I don't think he's making an appearance.

let's wait and see, Danny is gaining too much power, it needs to be curtailed by the one who truly has a right to the throne.

Gbola5:
D'you mean Aegon ?

yes

Nihilist:
Iron islands are politically irrelevant in the show. They've been a vassal state for decades, and while they have the ships, they don't really have the fighting men. Hence both Yara and Euron looking east for support. Now that Yara has beaten him to the punch, there's nothing else to do and nowhere else to go...unless they bring out 'that thing' from the books. Now that could be a game changer. Other than that, Euron is a goner, and will be lucky if he event gets to die onscreen.

"that thing" is useless to him.

armadeo:
No. I disagree.

The dothraki recognise power not royalty. I'd it were royalty they recognised Drago would never have given viscerys a golden crown.

They recognised her power. Which the show tried to show in ep8 but did poorly at the end when she appeared out of the blues in the back of Dragon.

However they tealsied thier folly and showed us how drogin appeared in the last episode.

Shit is how did she train drogon to accept her as Lord. I understand the smaller dragons following drogon though.

her blood oozes power. what I was trying trying to say is that it's already in her gene to rule. you can see that it's not what she did that Commands respect and fear, it's how she did it. She is a perfect example of born to rule.

Gbola5:
And why not, they have a teleporting machine.

varys is not going to kings landing, he is going to look for the mad kings grandson