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Don't worry ma, wait for Buhari and EFCC chairman abroad, when they come you know what to do. If you don't ask IPOB

That is alright, please oo they should mistake and beat a politician from another region. Well if they do, it is at the detriment of their brothers at home though

He knows very well he bought vote in benue after fulani propaganda didn't work. Though I don't see any chance of him losing to Jime.

Wailers will say because he is not a Fulani man

I can see these people are really pained. Ma what can you say about your romance with Obasanjo

I can see these people are really pained

Nigerians spend over 730 billion Naira annually on sports betting and at least two billion naira is generated daily, recent research data shows.

Data also revealed that over 60 million Nigerian punters spend over 3, 000 naira daily placing bet stakes. At least there are 50 betting sites in Nigeria with the number growing annually.

Respondents, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday, said they placed bets to generate quick and easy income, and turn their passion for football into cash.

28-year-old Fashion designer, Segun Mukoro who bets at least once weekly said that it was the fastest way to double his income and although he might lose sometimes, the wins come big.

He said, “Yes I bet and I do so weekly, especially when there is a league playing. When you have been betting for long, it’s easier to know what odds to play and what teams to bet on.

“It is a guessing game and you get better with time. I know that it is addictive but I see it as an investment, a way to double my income,” Mukoro said.

Similarly, 23-year-old Eronini Kolapo explained that he used betting to augment his allowance as a student. He told newsmen that he started for fun, at first but soon built a network from it.

Kolapo’s almost-perfect predictions made him a leader of his sport betting ring where his peers pay him extra to place ‘sure’ bets for them.

His model is not strange as website and online channels where predictions are sold to help punters maximise betting stakes, populate social media.

However, there are tons of fraudulent platforms.

30-year-old Noble Obioria sold his agro-business and combined the proceeds with his savings to purchase predictions from a fraudulent channel that swindled him.

He spent almost one million naira trying to place a ‘sure’ stake with hope of making over ten million naira in return.

He told newsmen that losing all his money helped him realise how addicted he was to betting and how much he had given to the greed and dissatisfaction that came with regular betting.

Obioria also agreed with respondents who said that the presence of betting sites and platforms online made it too easy and fuelled the desire to place stakes.

Research statistics show that over 14 million bet stakes and payments are made over the internet every day. This, however, does not affect the rate of teeming punters at offline, physical shops.

A betting shop attendant, Niyi Adejujagbe said that he gets at least 500 stakes placed in his shop daily, adding that he has a crowd of punters as early as 9 am.

He said, “People place bets here every day. They still use shops very well because some don’t know how to use the websites and other people like to see their paper bet slips.”

NAN reports that in five betting shops visited, there were only two women placing bets each a part of two male-dominated groups.

Jennifer Olisa said she enjoyed the process as she loved football and wanted to make money from it.

On the low participation of women in betting, she said women try to be more careful, especially with money.

She added that she took the risks to bet as her prediction most times, worked. However, she gets help from her male friends who had been betting for longer.

A psychologist, Dr Aimua Cole said that betting and gambling had high tendency to lead to depression in addicts, adding that it takes a toll on victim’s mental health.

She said, “Gambling addiction could lead to other serious effects, including loss of jobs, failed relationships, and severe debt.

“Problem gambling is often associated with mental health problems, including depression, anxiety, and mood disorders.”

She also decried the high advertising rates of betting sites glamourized the habit, leading more young people to indulge in the addictive act.

NAN also reports that leading betting platform Bet9ja took its advertising a notch higher by sponsoring the ongoing Big Brother Naija reality show.

This fourth season tagged ‘Pepper Dem’ designs games where housemates win Bet9ja coins with which they can purchase favours.

Meanwhile, outside the house, fans are encouraged to place bets using the links of the 25 housemates that were introduced into the show to support their favourite housemates.

Source: https://www.today.ng/technology/nigerians-spend-n730-billion-sports-betting-annually-241934/amp

The Organized Labour has accused the Federal Government of not being sincere by alleging that Labour is responsible for the delay in the implementation of the new N30, 000 Minimum Wage.

Chairman, National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission (NSIWC), Chief Richard Egbule, had accused Labour of delaying the implementation by rejecting the offer by the government but Labour has said that everything will be a product of negotiation and not giving out peanuts in the name of consequential adjustment.

President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, said that the NLC and the TUC were no longer involved on the details of negotiation on the Consequential Adjustment but the Joint Public Service Negotiation Council that will have the details.

He said, “For now, we are not part of that discussion and we will not be able to have the details.”

However, Secretary of the Joint Public Service Negotiation Council, Comrade Alade Lawal said that the information that labour was responsible for the delay in payment of the new minimum wage was not correct.

According to him, “He is being economical with the truth, he is the Secretary of the Committee negotiating Consequential Adjustment and by the name of that committee, the mandate of that committee is to negotiate the right consequential adjustment arising from the minimum wage. For someone to rise up and say Labour is rejecting what government wants to offer is not correct.

“You can’t award when you are negotiating. Two parties are there, they will look for what is appropriate. The point is they want to give peanuts to workers and Labour is saying no. That since 2011 when that one hundred naira was added to public servants not a single dine has happened to wages and you know fully well that the purchasing power of workers salary particularly those in the public sector is nothing to write home about because we have had series of devaluation.

“Then it was N160 to a dollar and now it is N360 to a dollar. We had this Petroleum price increase which was from N87 per litre to N145 per litre and there are a lot of challenges that have happened to the Nigeria economy.
” You know fully well that when they increased the fuel price, they promised heaven on earth to dissuade labour from protesting, that they were going to adjust the minimum wage, they were going to do palliative and a Committee was set up with labour participating to come out with palliative measures to ameliorate the effects of the price increase.

“You know fully well that not a single thing was done for Nigeria workers, all the promises failed. What they wanted to do was to give N5, 000 to each employer. We say why do you that because between 2011 and 2019 you want to give N5,000, we should negotiate and agree on what is meaningful and what is realistic and we have been on that. We met before the holidays and we are supposed to meet again on Wednesday and Thursday, that is the Technical Committee.

“So, for him to now come over and say that it is the labour that is delaying the implementation of the minimum wage, I think it is high time government turned its searchlight on that office.”

On the claims that the wage bill will be too much with the demand of labour on the consequential adjustment, he said, “What we are saying is that the budget is not cast in stone. We are not the ones that did the budget, they didn’t consult us, how can you put a figure before you come to negotiate? You get an answer, you now want people to work out question that will fit the answer.

“Which government will not have the money, where do they get the money that they are spending frolicking from one part of the world to another? They are telling lies. Which money will they not have? Even when they put N158 billion in the budget, minimum wage is supposed to commence on the 18th of April, meaning that N158 billion is foe eight and half months.

“So, since what you are talking about in the negotiation is about one year, so you can’t be talking about N158 billion, you should be talking about N230 billion which means you are coming up.

” He is deceiving people. The figure he is parading as the number of employees in the public service is fake, it is not correct. He said there are about 1.3 million in the public service, we are saying prove it, give us details MDA to MDA so that we can cross-check. He is playing a dangerous game. ”

Source: https://www.today.ng/news/nigeria/minimum-wage-federal-government-sincere-labour-241938/

That is right wish him quick recovery

Indians and domestic beheading.

Bloggers and fake news

I think what Religious extremists especially Muslims need is just education and education

Cute, if you can't come back with allowee come back with a woman at least

Dubai president

netpro:
I accept. May your life's work be stolen like Atiku looted Nigeria.

don't mind him

Is this a new thing? women here too have been doing it very well, though it's very very wrong

That is good somebody cannot celebrate birthday in peace because of bloggers

thesicilian:
Sometimes it's not just about what you do, it's how you do it that matters.

so Americans don't eat on a train?

idid:
Are you from another planet? Ask those profs and intellectuals in that room who have been in the struggle before you were born if they can finish what they started .

which struggle is it that buhari is killing people or we Nigerians are killing ourselves or is buhari stealing money or what Revolution is he doing was he dead in the past administrations

So how is this one news, sometimes we over rate white man's things how is eating our local food in America a problem

You guys should be sure you end what you have started

paul100:
The bible also said God is angry with the wicked everyday

so oyedepo is God?

A 14-year-old Senior Secondary School 1 of Kess College, in the Ekredjebor area of Ughelli headquarters of Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, on Wednesday, committed suicide over a failed relationship with her boyfriend.

Vanguard reliably gathered that deceased simply identified as Favour, was home alone when she carried out the act and was said to have left a suicide note at the scene of the incident stating reasons for her action.

Her lifeless body was discovered by one of her friends who had visited her to assist her (friend) in making her hair.

Giving details of the incident, a source in the area disclosed that the victim, who is an only child of her parents, had hung herself on a ceiling fan in their residential apartment.

The source who spoke on condition of anonymity, said: “It was one of her friends that raised an alarm when she saw her dangling body hanging on a ceiling fan.

“When people came into the house, they also saw a note she had written stating that she decided to take her life owing to a failed relationship with another male student from the same school she attends.”

Though several efforts to speak with the Delta State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Onome Onovwakpoyeya was fruitless as at press time, a police source at the Ughelli ‘B’ Division police station confirmed the incident when contacted.

Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/08/14-yr-old-commit-suicide-in-ughelli-over-failed-relationship-with-boyfriend

The Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari, yesterday said the Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline (NMGP) project would open new opportunities for the realisation of the most populous black nation’s gas development plan.

President Muhammadu Buhari and King Hassan VI had signed a pact to facilitate the establishment of a gas pipeline to supply the product from Nigeria to Morocco and the West Africa sub-region and further into Europe.

Speaking during a stakeholders’ engagement involving the corporation, Morocco National Office for Hydrocarbons & Mines (ONHYM) and executives of international oil companies operating in Nigeria in Abuja, the NNPC boss described the project as strategic, adding that it would provide market for Nigerians.

Source: https://m.guardian.ng/news/nigeria-morocco-optimistic-on-gas-pipeline-development/

Do what ever you want with your life leave other people's marriage to be in peace at the end every one has his/her business to face

This rape of a thing is becoming alarming. The government should place capital punishment on this crime maybe it will go down

So clean water

gidgiddy:
Other countries proscribe groups who use violence as part of their agitation

Nigeria proscribed street protesters who clash with security forces. That's why this administration is clueless. Jonathan proscribed Boko Haram because they were armed and killing people, to which Buhari said "An attack on Boko haram is an attack on the North"


Now Buhari is office, he is proscribing unarmed groups like IPOB and IMN who killed nobody because "they clashed violently" with security forces.

Protest that turns violent when there a clash with the security forces is what this clueless administration thinks is terrorism. They cant even use their brains to wonder why it is only when the security forces are there that protest turns violent

But Heardsmen who are armed and killing people will get Ruga

sir please go and research about Shiites activities in this country and edit your write up, you become advocate of Shiites because of your political differences

What kind of monsters these girls always talk about? When women are soft devils.

That is alright, but you got to lower, or jump from one Churchill to another till you are more confused than you are now.