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Stylz69:
It is NOT COMPULSORY for you to purchase your insurance from the vehicle licencing office. Fact is the insurance they sell is worthless and the only use is for you to complete your papers. Secondly, they rely on the ignorance of drivers to sell these fake insurance knowing drivers rarely make claims especially on 3rd party policies. When I renew my vehicle particulars, I only pay for the vehicle license. I go online and buy my 3rd party insurance from reputable insurance companies and print off my policy and attach. It is still the same 5000 naira for the 3rd party and I least I have the peace of mind knowing my 3rd party cover is genuine. Dominique, the 5000 does not go to the government; it goes to the crooks selling the worthless policies. How can you claim on a fake policy? Is there even any number to call in the event of an accident or any outlined process for making a claim?

Can you let me know how you go about procuring yours online?

searchiing4love:
I BLAME THE SELFISH FARMERS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY FOR THIS DESPERATE MOVE BY THE FG. WHY ARE PEOPLE SO STINGY WITH EVERYTHING? WHY CANT FARMERS AND COMMUNITIES ALLOW THE FULANI CATTLE HERDERS TO GRAZE THEIR CATTLE IN FARMS AND BUSHES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY? WE HAVE MASSIVE LAND MASS BUT STILL IMPORTING GRASS TO FEED COWS DUE TO FARMERS GREEDINESS. THE FULANIS ARE NOT BEEN TREATED FAIRLY IN THIS NATION BECAUSE NO OTHER TRIBE CAN REAR CATTLES IN LARGE QUANTITIES LIKE THEY DO TO FEED THE NATION. WE SERIOUSLY NEED TO APOLOGIZE TO THE FULANIS AND ALLOCATE SEVERAL HECTARES OF LAND TO THEM IN EVERY STATE OF THE FEDERATION

You must be a product of quota system. It shows in your reasoning.

You as a Fulani, what is wrong with ranching? You have a vast expanse of land in the north, why not use it to ranch your goods (cows).
If you as Fulani needs to transport your goods(cows) to any part of Nigeria, why don't you truck them? Rather than causing mayhem all over the country.

How can i block telemundo from my GoTv. Please I need answers

chinchum:
Sorry to say, this is bullshiit, with all due respect mr Fidelis.

Dont reinvent the wheel, i am no hater.

Nigeria needs INNOVATION, not trying to compete with oyinbo, you will never win, this piece of metal is PLAYING TO THE GALLERY.

We NEED LOCAL TECHNOLOGY TO VERY PECULIAR LOCAL NEEDS.
How about designing cheap but efficient and effective local threshers for our maize and rice farmers ?

How about moving scarecrow for rice farms to scare birds from eating up? e.t.c


Designing planes, helicopters, and excavators in a 3rd world country in 2015 is not harnessing your technology to suit pressing needs.

Your head need to be examined. All you and your ilks like to do is to criticize destructively.
What have you innovated?
It is people like you in power who kill such laudable innovations all around Nigeria. And that's why Nigeria will not move forward technologically.

Government should provide grant to such people to continue with their research.
People had built drones Nigeria albeit a prototype. Instead of wasting billions of naira in buying drones from Israel and the rest, why not call these people together and commission them to build one for Nigeria.

We are running from pillar to post begging to be sold arms and ammunition to fight BH, while we have people in Nigeria who can produce such things, but they are not encouraged due to the fact that they came from the wrong ethnic group.

Ezekiel Izuogu came with his own indigenous car, but it was suppressed, and his research was stolen by the state.

As long as people in in government and in the society have this your mind set Nigeria will not progress. You should ask yourself, why are people from the east agitating for self determination?

midolian:
So?

Even in the U.S constitution, there are errors, let alone Nigerian ministerial list that was hastily typed and submitted. The word "Pennsylvania" is spelled with a single "n", "Pensylvania" in the U.S constitution.

Another mistake, though less obvious, is a common one even today: the word "it's" is used in Article 1, Section 10, but the word "its" should have been used.

The most common mistake, at least to modern eyes, is the word "choose", spelled "chuse" several times. This is less a mistake than it is an alternate spelling used at the time. The word is found in the Constitution as both "chuse" and "chusing"....etc
http://www.usconstitution.net/constmiss.html
I guess these errors are the reasons for the economic "backwardness" of the U.S. Today. *laughs*

You guys better look for errors that are powerful enough to increase fuel price, take away food from your table, reduce power supply and increase insurgency...

Sometimes I wonder how some people reason. The document was was typed using a word-processor must likely MS Word which has a spell checker.

Those supporting this mistake will certainly fail in their classes if they make this silly mistake and will not get employed if this mistake is found in your resume.

I am a die hard supporter of President Buhari, this is not his mistake although in a way it is (he should have proof read the document) nevertheless whosoever typed that list should be removed/SACKED from his staff. This is an embarrassment to the country as a whole.

To all those supporting and justifying this blunder this error. shame on you.

SLIDEwaxie:
Na who no gey work wey wan assassinate that impotent and worthless vulture?


Stop carrying fake news. His importance has faded away with the past corrupt administration.

No one hardly remembers or hear his name. His time don pass. Make he no dey try insert his name for book of remembrance jare.


Don't quote me o

How did you know that the news is fake?
You are now the judge and the jury?

I really don't like insulting anybody but i will make an exception in your case.

You and your likes are very stupid.

May whatever you are wishing him happen to you alone.

On second thought, I suspect that your a muslim, and i will like to use this opportunity to ask other muslims of like mind to desist from insulting Pastors. You do not have any right whatsoever to criticize any Pastor/Rev/Bishop/Pope.

You are bitter with him for calling your brothers to stop killings Christians in the north.

linearity:
Most of your assertions are incorrect, Obama does not have congressional authorization to go to war in Syria, hence he is operating in very limited capacity citing previous authorizations as cover...but the GOP has challenged him on that and threat to take him to court for him involvement in Syria without congressional approval, Obama then turn around and sent congress a war authorization bill, for more than 2-3 months now, the GOP is sitting on that bill.

Obama is operating within a very fine line, his hands are tied, the GOP want war with Syria but they do not want Obama to get the credit. If it were a Republican President, Assad would have been no more by now...all Obama needs now is for Russian to escalate it to a point where Americans and America are in direct threat, then Obama can act to protect America without congressional approval.

America is a true democracy, where the powers of the President are in check and there are clear, and distinct separation of powers among all three arms of government. One arm is not a rubber stamp for the other and we hear and read about their differences every single day...the same cannot be said about Russian, Russian is run by a dictator and the Parliament in Russian rubber stamps anything and everything Putin wants....but if America is directly threaten, even Republicans will rally around Obama and give him all he needs.

Can you kindly point to any incorrect assertions in my post.

If Obama cannot stop the escalation of ISIS, we have to support Putin in his efforts to annihilate ISIS terrorists.
Iraqi security forces lost 2,300 Humvee armored vehicles when Islamic State overran the northern city of Mosul in June 2014, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Sunday in an interview with Iraqiya state television. .

Coupled with previous losses of American weapons, the conclusion is simple: The United States is effectively supplying Islamic State with tools of war the militant group cannot otherwise hope to acquire from its patrons. In addition to the Humvees, Iraqi forces previously abandoned significant types and numbers of heavy weapons to Islamic State.
For example, losses to Islamic State include at least 40 M1A1 main battle tanks, as well as small arms and ammunition, including 74,000 machine guns, and as many as 52 M198 howitzer mobile gun systems.

It is with this intention Obama did not order boots on the ground at the initial stage when ISIS was merely a ragtag rampaging terrorists without any country of their own.Now they own vast swathes of Syria, Iraq, Libya and Tunisia. The Telegraph correspondent reported that the Obama administration is blocking attempts byits Middle East allies to fly heavy weapons directly to the Kurds fighting Islamic State jihadists in Iraq, Some of America’s closest allies say Obama and other Western leaders, including Cameron, are failing to show strategic leadership over the world’s gravest security crisis for decades. If the Americans and the West are not prepared to do anything serious about defeating[Isis], then we will have to find new ways of dealing with the threat,” a senior Arab government official told the Independent newspaper. “With [Isis]making ground all the time we simply cannot afford to wait for Washington to wake up to the enormity of the threat we face,’ he said.. Only last week,according to media reports, "U.S.-trained rebels in Syria handed over American-supplied vehicles and ammunition to an al-Qaeda linked group, the Pentagon said Friday.

So the Obama administration not merely supplies arms, ammunition and tanks, but also trained Syrian rebels who join the rank of ISIS terrorists. This is the secret behind the success of ISIS. No wonder Obama does not like Putin's decision to wipe out ISIS, since he is mainly responsible for the strength that ISIS enjoys today.

1k001: The origin of an advantage is somewhat irrelevant in the sense that it already exists.

Similarly blaming a state or any government does not change the clear disparity in educational attainment. What is clear however is that encouraging more education does and will increase the development of the local area.

While i don't necessarily agree with the current methods, one must admit that at the very least it is a recognition of and an attempt to remedy the disparity. The hopeful result being that more role models for educational attainment are created in these areas. Most agree that students who have no role models around find it difficult to challenge themselves de novo to achieve more than their parents or peers.

Personally I would be more in favour of implemented universal primary and secondary schooling, better quality teachers, better quality environment and materials etc

Ultimately you are right that there is no political will to change the current situation. Hopefully we can make that change happen in the future

If the northern government are sincere in their pursuit of giving their people quality education, I will suggest like you wrote employing quality teachers no matter the part of the country they come from, support them, pay them well so that they can deliver. Implementing “universal primary and secondary schooling” are all mnemonics.
I may not know how the system works (traditional) in the north, I want to belief that if the traditional and religious leaders will make a law for parents to send their wards to school, things will change.
But I found out the emirs and the elites will send their wards to the best schools (even aboard) and yet brain wash the followers that western education is SIN. The masses have to wake up to see that their leaders are deceiving them. They should not bask in and take pleasure in being labelled “disadvantaged” and wait for federal government to do everything for them.

1k001: Well there is the federal character principle that applies in govt and its quangos. You are right that we need merit to progress but the way our country is structured it will be difficult to implement. Nigerian merit is based on proximity to the village of the leader

With the kid in Anambra that got 138, s/he needs less support to progress generally speaking. The '4' form Zamfara on the other hand needs more of a push. Like it or not we need to target resources to increase the general literacy of an area. The flipside is what we have now in the North East where one can argue that lack of education has encouraged the spread of BH

My brother you wrote about targeting resources in those "disadvantaged" areas. In the "advantaged" areas, did federal government commit more resources than those of "disadvantaged" areas?

I guess it has to do with mentality not religion. By encouraging this practice to continue, the federal government is inadvertently killing education system in those parts of the country.

I agree that lack of education is a contributory factor to the spread of BH in North East, but who is to be blamed? The state government of course! You cannot bring the best out pupils if they do not and cannot challenge themselves. There has to be competition.
I refuse to belief that northerners are dull, no sir! But the government and their elites are encouraging and perpetuating mass illiteracy because it suits their purpose of continuous domination of their people.
Northerners in the south compete with their counterpart and to a large extent do well. Their parents spent a lot of money in sending them to both public schools and private schools.
I will advise any northerner who wants his/her ward to have quality education should send them to the south.

1k001: What this is is an affirmative action

wikipedia - Affirmative action or positive discrimination[1] (known as employment equity in Canada, reservation in India, and positive action in the UK) is the policy of providing special opportunities for, and favoring members of, a disadvantaged group who suffer from discrimination.

The areas that have lower scores is to encourage more people to take up education and hopefully go on to improve the general literacy rate in the local area

The above does not follow. Who disadvantaged those States? Who discriminated against those northern States?
In essence it is the states in south that are been discriminated against.
How do you encourage meritocracy?
How do you encourage hard work?

How do you explain to child in Anambra that got 138 that he/she will not get admission while child in Zamfara (Male(4) Female(2)) does. How fair is it to you?
Where is justice?

This goes to the root of the problem we have in Nigeria – “quota system”. Until the government decides to do things by merit Nigeria may found herself lagging behind in every facet of live in the committee of nations.
If they want to do quota system in education, they should also replicate it by the same measure, in admission to NDA, employment into federal and State parastatals, government agencies etc.

superior1: @ Seun, I observe you have this way of promoting topics about 'Pastors' and news that makes one wonder if you have any problem with Christianity. Your FP thread on Christianity appears to favor issues that ridicule it.


SEUN, THE CHRISTIAN GOD FIGHTS ANY WHO CHALLENGES HIM

I concur with the above.
Many of the malicious accusations against some Men of God in most cases make FP while the rebuttal of such accusations does not.

Seun, I wish to propose that you make it as a rule that anybody who is not a Christian nor a Muslim should desist from posting comment and participating in any discussion regarding same. Let Christian topics be discussed by Christians only and let Muslims discuss Islamic matters only. Christians should not participate in Muslim discussions that is peculiar to them, ditto Muslims. Atheists should neither participate in Christian nor Islamic discussion. There had been occasions where these three groups insult each other while participating on topics that they do not have any knowledge of.

It is of note that people can go to a great length to defend their religion and it's leaders from insult and disrespect, but not many may do so when their tribe or their leaders are insulted or disrespected. In Nigerian, people are sentimentally attached to their religion and as such should be accorded due respect.

obailala: The first step towards solving a problem is accepting there is a problem.. the bolded statement above is part of the genesis of most of our problems...

#my neighbor has no right to scold my kids
#my brother/sister has no right to scold talk less of spanking my kids
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Fast-forward a couple of years and the kids turn into monsters.

If Nigerians must live in the US or anywhere else, then the citizens of that country reserve the rights to criticize us especially when we misbehave. 70% of mail scams in the world today originate from Nigeria or Nigerians... Coming up with the argument that scammers also exist in other parts of the world is absolute rubbish.. we are talking of statistics here... when a single country makes up a huge percentage of scammers worldwide, we have no choice but to accept it when they label us scammers... we ought to be ashamed of ourselves and look inwards to solve our problems or redeem whatever image we still have instead of picking on those outsiders who are bold enough to criticize us..

...and to address ur claim that Nigeria isn't in the top 20 in cybercrime, I suggest u do a little research and educate urself on the categories of cybercrime that report talks about

My Brother your reference to my reference is Non Sequitur. Diplomatically and otherwise another country be it their government or it's citizen do not have the right to criticize nor correct another country in anyway. It is only us (Nigerians) that reserve the right to bash ourselves and which we have been doing on this and other forums and we will continue to do. We have issues I agree but not to let somebody who has bigger issues to talk down on us.

I challenge you to show us your source of statistics to prove that 70% of mail scams originate from Nigeria or are from Nigerians.
Now which ever category of cyber crime you Google, American will always come out on top. Let me ask you a question. Which electronic crime on earth did not originate from US?.

By accepting this labelling from this woman and by her assertion, you are a scammer, a car jacker, a kidnapper.

OYINBOGOJU: There is no lies in the statement above.

If what she wrote is true and if you a Nigerian then that means you are either a kidnapper or a pirate or a scammer or car jacker. Pick your choose!.

OYINBOGOJU you think like them (the oyibos you think you are). You are suffering from complex.

No matter how bad things may be in Nigeria, no outsider has the right to criticize us. With respect to criminally, Americans are number one.

OYINBOGOJU, can you tell us which department in unilag run credit card fraud as a major?

I will like use this medium to call on unilag alumnus and the community to rise up to the challenge and sue this lady for all her worth.
If we continue to keep quite, this rubbish will persist as such we must speak up and take action.

Am based outside Nigeria. Every time I go to work, on the streets, at terminals, I suffer prejudice for been a Nigerian. Guess what AM VERY VERY VERY PROUD TO BE A NIGERIAN.

OYINBOGOJU if you do not know the import of what she wrote, then I guess I have to educate you. She meant ALL NIGERIANS ARE CRIMINAL. and by extension you are a criminal.

Between, somebody made reference to this link http://www.enigmasoftware.com/top-20-countries-the-most-cybercrime/
Is Nigerian in top 20?

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Tolexander: This is a nice developement!madam should watch her words cos this may be used against her by the other african countries in the future if she's still nursing the ambition of becoming the world bank president.

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Othe African countries opinion does not matter in this regard. Last time she contested for the post, despite the support she got from African countries, which country in particular made her to loose the election (selection).

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babe_online: Nigeria is not the only country in the world.

When Nigerians stop been criminals, you all will stop being mentioned for horrible things.

#truthisbitter

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If you are a Nigerian, which i doubt you are then you are a criminal. Simple logic.
How can somebody classify a nation as criminals because a couple of people committed criminal acts.?

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Phema: So, now what do you want to do? He stares at women, so what? Did he have an £rection while at it? How does starring equal cheating? That he's married doesn't make him blind. It only means that he sees the beautiful creatures of God but has chosen to stick to one.

I honestly feel you are insecure for reasons best known to you. Either because you feel you are no longer beautiful after having kids and fear he would cheat or you're just plain insecure.

I tell you, if you continue whinning and nagging him cos of this, you will only be making it worse. Now he will not only stare, he will act on it!

Lastly, if something this infinitesimal is causing such problems in your home, then I fear you are not ready for marriage. People are battling finance, infidelity, childlessness, inlaws etc and still holding on and you are here putting funds away "just in case" because your man starred?

No wonder some "Western marriages" break up for the silliest of reasons.

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True talk. Plain and simple!!!!!!!!.
Listen my Sister, you are bothering yourself over nothing. I do look and my wife sees me and sometimes we make a joke out of it; she does not have any issues with it. Looking does not equal to doing. My candid advice to you as a married man is to ignore him or simply make a joke of it and move on. From what you wrote he still love you and that is what matters. Please do not drive him to these girls by nagging him to death.

iamdsam: This isn't an insult but a factual fact. A lot of Nigerians are scammers.

How did you know that lot of Nigerians are scammers?
Does it mean you are a scammer also ?