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Bounce back Madam! No lele!

For the records, as an Official, i have been mandated by the Football Association to collect the money from Mikel and pass it across to them. Dear Mikel, kindly oblige and pay in your fine into my bank account.

MC Dumexx: Ok!

Do you have to quote the whole thread only for you to say OK? Must u be this boring?

The fact is that most of us did not get the actual thing he said initially. The media is always fond of misquoting people, in order to sell their news. What I deduce from Sanusi's explanations of his initial statement is that there is need for the govt to cut down on all the money being spent as wages of so many public officers, political appointees, etc.

My husband doesn't cry

Happy birthday " D"

May God grant her strenght and wisdom to chart a new cause for the Petroleum Industry.]

Na wa o! This award must have been paid for

delkuf: blow them away

Who do u mean?

RIP Enebeli. I hope he found time to accept Jesus Christ while u were still alive, just in case he had not done that before.

It is a nice try which I appreciate. But I sincerely hope people won't start worshipping the statue. They should remember the Ten Commandments in Exodus Chapter 20 where God instructed His children not to worship any graven image nor make any other god besides Him.

Be it Nigerians' call for Transparency or our call for accountability, dat one no concern me. All we want is a solution to all these fuel palaver. We don't want to hear the causes, what we want to hear is what you are doing to solve the problem.

You have the powers to resolve any frosty issues with oil marketers and trade unions. Pls do so and stop blaming us for asking for transparency and accountability.

If only these human rights organizAtions would stop supporting boko haram.
Nigerian youths should try and desist from kidnapping, it's all these things that give our country a bad name

Hall of FAME Mrs Folorunsho Alakija, for being a philantropist with a heart of gold, for being a source of hope to widows
https://www.nairaland.com/1118392/folorunsho-alakija-surpasses-oprah-

HALL OF SHAME: Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, for his heartless policies and advice to the government. Imagine advising govt to sack civil servants, when thousands of people are out there unemployed.

The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Admiral Ola Ibrahim, has reaffirmed the commitment of the military and relevant agencies to tackling the security challenges confronting the nation.

He expressed hoped that before long, crimes would be reduced to the barest minimum across the six geo-political zones in the country.

This is even as Admiral Ibrahim disclosed that about 16,000 spouses and dependents of military personnel had benefited from the Defence Headquarters kill acquisition programme. The essence of the programme, he said, was to equip the beneficiaries with a view to empowering them.

Speaking while flagging off the two- week programme at the 82 Division of the Nigeria Army, Enugu, he said that it was in tandem with the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the area of economic empowerment aimed at eradicating poverty from the Nigerian military and by extension the society.

The programme is being organised in collaboration with Brandedge consulting firm. The CDS, who was represented by Col. Valentine Osuji from the Defence Headquarters, said that the empowerment of every segment of society would raise more commitment to cause of nationhood, reduce crimes and ensure meaningful engagement in productive ventures.

The patriotic zeal among the citizenry would be further kindled and the rich potential of our great country would be adequately channelled to make her the true giant of Africa and a leading light in global affairs.

According to him, the empowerment was deliberately aimed at eliminating distractions and promotes greater efficiency and professionalism among the personnel.

He said the scheme, which began in 2008, would make beneficiaries self-employed and job creators. Ibrahim said the feed backs recorded in the past years made it imperative to continue with the programme.

He, therefore, advised the participants to be focused and employ knowledge acquired from the scheme to generate income and create other productive ventures for themselves and the society.

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OP, I'm tempted to think that you've joined the news casting quest.
The ban is on the use of motorcycles for commercial purposes. Private use is not banned

I'm Ibo, but I will recommend the Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka any day any time

I heard that some of those fat women get water used in washing corpses from mortuaries and use it to cook. I dont know if it's true or false. But I've heard such

Series22: what about DON JAZZY sef?

Your plans will not work.

RIP Enebeli

Revolva: Nigeria the richest people on earth and have the poorest people living in abject poverty with no hope to bridge to the middle class- and all of dem dem get oil well dey chop money wey dem no fit finish -- all these people got this position mostly via man no man , neopotism jor I no count this naija woman money jor-- I still support oprah as long as there is transparency

I've had the privilege of interacting and working with Mrs. Alakija. She's a member of my church in Lagos -Cathedral Church of Christ Marina. I can assure you that this woman is "philanthropy personified". She has touched countless lives, even people she doesn't know have benefited from her magnanimity.

Akshow: beautiful and mega rich. Abeg she get any daughter wey i fit runs? Marryin into this family na gold mine.....yeah make Una call me gold digger na Una Sabi. If you like go dig stone. Me Na diamond i wan dig

Unfortunately for you gold-digger, she has only 4 sons. Unless you would wait for her 4yr old grand daughter to grow up

I dont trust this story.
BTW, must every topic be derailed into tribal wars? Grow up Nairalanders!

since only about 90 countries are on the list out of all the countries in the world, i suppose that the countries which did not appear in the list are far worse than Nigeria. for example, Ghana is not even on this goddamned list.

In this our modern generation? Odikwa very terrible

mightiersa: Who will champion it? Who will be in the vangaurd?
My solemn questions.

Champion newspapers in collaboration with Vanguard newspapers. LOL

In as much as i really feel for the man, i can't believe that people still believe trashy stories from sahara reporters. They refused to report what the Lawyer might have done to warrant such ill-treatment. Who knows if he used insultive words to drive home his point. They cant just start being him up just like that. There is every tendency that he might have proved stubborn with his point.

In as much as there seems to be more to this story than we read here, this should serve as a lesson to us that "those who live in glasses should not throw stones"

yuzedo: Motherf(u)cking Legislooters and Presidency officials are going to pay themselves elephant bonuses this Christmas (for failure) in addition to their ridiculous monthly salaries and allowances, while Pensioners die by the day. Is it by force to "serve" in Government??!?? Triple-F(u)ck all those motherf(u)ckers mehn! Pay these niggers their gaddem entitlements you bast(a)rd leeches and crooks feasting on the commonwealth!I pay my f(u)cking taxes so it hurts like hell to see my deductions go into subsidizing the insidiously ostentatious lifestyles of these thieving politicians!
My Heckler and Koch has a mind of its own.... DON'T PISS "US" OFF!

Please take it easy, you are not quarreling with anybody, okay.
I believe the relevant authorities must have seen or heard about this man's hunger strike. Jonathan is somebody that has a listening ear and a human heart. Let us see if something would not be done about this

THE KIND OF COPY-COPY JOURNALISM WE HAVE NOWADAYS IS BECOMING WORRISOME. NOW WHO COPIED WHO?

DAILY POST
Ex-banker goes berserk, abandons home on hunger strike, because of FG’s failure to pay terminal benefits
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For Mr. Olubiyi Odunaro, former employee of the defunct Hallmark Bank Plc, life indeed has not been a bed of roses.

In a bid to make Federal Government pay his terminal benefit, the 53-year old man who claimed to have been on hunger strike since November 12, has also turned part of the garden on Mobolaji Bank-Anthony Way, Lagos into his new home. The ex-banker vowed to remain unmoved until he gets his dues.

It could be recalled in 2005 when Central Bank of Nigeria adopted a recapitalization policy for all Banks, unfortunately Hallmark was one of the banks which did not meet with the order, thus, it folded up and rendered all its employees jobless.

When Newsmen visited Odunaro in his self made home in the garden, he was caught reading a novel written by Nelson Mandela with the title ‘Long walk to freedom’.

Speaking further on the major reasons he chose to suffer himself in such manner, a dark aged man explained that he embarked on the protest to fight for his rights and that of his affected colleagues of about 14,000 people from the 14 banks that failed to meet up with the recapitalization policy. He also intend to expose the insensitivity of the Federal Government to pay the terminal entitlements.

Recalling the steps he took before the self imposed hunger strike, Odunaro said he wrote to President Goodluck Jonathan on October 24 informing him of his decision to go without food if the agencies concerned did not pay them their entitlements on or before October 31.

According to him, “I feel downcast with the turn of events in our country and I drew the passion to embark on a hunger strike from my disenchantment to the deliberate denial of common citizens’ rights.
“Before, I began this hunger strike, I sought the consent of my family members and I also underwent a comprehensive medical examination. I erected that tent with N27,000 and it is now my new home.”

Lamenting on the deteriorating condition of his health,  Odunaro said, “Though I take water at 8pm every day, It’s gradually taking a toll on me as I have started losing weight.

“But My personal doctor came to examine me on Friday and he said I am not doing bad health wise. There have been pleas from friends and other loved ones to end this strike, but I will continue with the hunger strike until the FG pays us our lawful entitlements.”

He also grieved over Federal Government’s non adherence to the  laid down procedures contained in the Guidelines and Incentives on Consolidation in the Nigerian Banking Industry

“It wasn’t our wish or our making to be out of jobs. The CBN in its own wisdom introduced the recapitalization policy and afterwards withdrew the operating license of Hallmark Bank where I worked and 13 other banks for failing to meet up with the recapitalization policy deadline.

“But, seven years on, the guidelines on consolidation which make provision for our compensation in view of the development had not been followed.

On a personal note, I even took it upon myself to get President Goodluck Jonathan informed by posting series of comments about this issue on his Facebook page.

Unfortunately, nothing has been done and many of us live a deplorable way of life with the majority unable to meet obligations to their children and other dependants.

Thirty-eight people from just three banks that I know of have died and one of the employees of Hallmark Bank committed suicide in Aba, Abia State, as a result of his inability to eke out a living”, he said painfully.

She told Punch in a recent interview that she could not remember taking part in the lottery.

Ironically my SIM card was blocked at the time. I had a code on my phone which I forgot and in the process of trying to decode it, my line was blocked.
“When he told me, I just told him to forget about it that it was the handiwork of 419 people. But later a lady called me from MTN to confirm it. I then asked her to unblock my line to convince me. She did so and it was at that point that I realised my fortune.

Who are you deceiving?
The girl is not even yet married yet her name and surname were drawn from all over the country and beyond