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Crystalng:
One of the requirements is that you must have secured admission in UK universities. I have 3 admissions already from Coventry University, University of Sunderland and University of Strathclyde.

Is this a must before applying?
Thought you can apply for admission alongside the scholarship

Yes.
I'm in.
Who has started the application?
Any hint for the essays?

OP, great job you're doing.
Pls send me a copy of the book.
Bioemmanuel94@gmail.com

Pls OP, where did you get the birds?
From a poultry or roadside seller.
Thought you started with 100 birds, how come they are 79?

okwabayi:
Good. Now create a poem urging the Federal Government to make the process have an online facility. If it was the same voting process as the BBN competition more than half of Nigeria's population will get involved.

I promise to do that in two weeks.

Watch out for that.

Today is celebrated as Democracy day in Nigeria. True Democratic process in any country is hinged on the ability of its citizens to vote and the credibility of the electioneering process that produce a leader that more than averagely represents the voice of the people.

Here's my little gift to Nigerians as we celebrate our Democracy day. A poem urging us to get our PVC.

It is around that time of the year again
When politicians seek for electoral gain
Heaven on earth they promise during campaign
My simple advise is that you get your PVC.

Elections for now may seem far away
But the power in our thumbs will keep bad politicians at bay
Our votes is our loudest voice, hence I say
Please, please get your PVC

Our votes don't count some people say
And thus they've have been ignorantly part of the decay
With our votes we can chart the course of a new day
Remember once again to get your PVC

Others say we don't have a viable opposition
But that is not enough proposition
With time we may have a better option
But you prepare and get your PVC

The government of the day claim they've done their best
The next elections will put their claims to test
Maybe we need another to do the rest
But you can only have a say if you get your PVC.

Happy Democracy day.

By Dagunduro Emmanuel

ruggedmallaam:
so, this man never die

No, as you can see.

Get well soon Sir.

The use of motorcycle locally called 'Okada' is an integral and important part of Lagos life and hustle. The economic capital of West Africa is faced with few problems, and as with many developing megacities around the world, fast and effective transport is a big issue.

With a lot of people moving from one point to another, transportation is a huge business in Lagos. Despite the presence of the common yellow danfos, the state-owned Lag bus, and startups like Uber and taxify, motorcycles still remain core at the centre of transportation in Lagos.

Transportation via motorcycle is fast (at least from the Nigerian perspective), as they face lesser chance of total standstill during heavy traffic. They can also get to certain places cars would have a tough time getting to due to the poor road network. Even private car owners sometimes park their cars depending on the situation of things to use motorcycles facilitate their movement.

Visiting Lagos for the first time, or as a regular Lagos resident, these are the 10 most common types of motorcyclist in Lagos.

1. The swift one.

This one is a superman on the road. He runs with recklessness like he has a spare life at home. He is not afraid to overtake any vehicle not paying attention to traffic rules, and expertly knows how to dodge potholes or is not scared of them.

He usually puts on eyeglasses to help him cope with the opposing wind and dust forgetting that you are behind him. You feel tired and used up if he carries you over a very long distance.

While on a trip, he is already thinking about his next trip, hence his unnecessary speed. 
His swiftness is often triggered by the sight of a lot of passengers waiting for taxi or motorcycle at bus stops
He is also called last traffic bender.

2. The sluggish one.

Most people patronise motorcycles in Nigeria because of their speed and ability to manoeuvre their way through traffic congestion.

This motorcyclist is however not aware of this fact. He obeys almost all traffic rules and most importantly the traffic speed rule. He is just too slow for the typical Lagosian or his young passenger who is most time in a rush to get to his destination.

The passenger is usually undecided on how to tell him to increase his speed. When his passenger summons courage and tell him to speed up, he reminds them of the fact that speed kills. He may buttress his fact with a true or false story of a recent accident involving an overspending motorcyclist.

Most of the time if you probe more you'll realise he has just started the trade, or you would have seen, he is an elderly man carefully hustling to make ends meet.

3. The popular offender.

Under normal circumstance, a commercial motorcycle in Nigeria should have helmets for himself and his only passenger. But things in this part of life are a little distorted. A typical motorcyclist will carry two passengers with no protective helmet whatsoever.

The one in this category not only break this law, he sometimes drive against traffic, don't have one or two necessary permits, over-speed and may be involved in minor accident. However, the good thing is that his passengers are covered. He has paid his illegal dues on that route and are therefore good friends to all major traffic officials on their way. He is therefore un-arrestable. He has his territory, outside that territory, he is vulnerable.

4. The unfortunate one.

This one has refused to pay his dues on the road, and is therefore a target of the traffic officials.

The traffic officials wait for him to break just one rule and they pounce on their ideal offender.

If you are the passenger when he's caught, that maybe the end of the trip.

At first, he will try to argue with the traffic officials.

They (the officials) will tell him his offence, and then tell him to follow them to follow their office, or they remove his key.

On getting to know his offence, he becomes apologetic. He becomes free only if he pays the official fine or grease the palm of the officers. But for some grave offences or with strict and no nonsense officials, he will have to get to their station or office for proper punishment.

If the point of stop is in a place where you can't easily get another motorcycle, then your precious time is wasted. The funny thing is that he may decide to collect money for the uncompleted trip.

5. The fresher or ignorant one.

Usually this one has just started the trade and hasn't taken his time to fully know the routes and bus stops within his trade zone.

So when an intending passenger approaches him and price is agreed, he ends the negotiation with something like, "do you know the specific place"?. Some passengers ignore this important pointer and board the bike.

The easiest possible scenario is when the passenger fully knows his destination and directs him all through. Sometimes I feel like deducting some part of his money as I participated in his learning process on the job.

The journey however, becomes complex and daunting when the passenger doesn't know the actual place he is going. Then you begin to see both the motorcyclist and passenger(s) ask random people about direction to their destination.

Another twist to this type of journey is that the motorcyclist may change his asking price after seeing that the price previously agreed is way lower compared to the service he has rendered. This is one of the most common cause of argument between the passengers and motorcyclists in Lagos and Ogun states.

6. The talking one.

This one is just a talkertive who is vast on a lot of issues and won't mind sharing his thoughts with his passenger(s).

Most times, the discussion starts from transportation issues and digresses to political, family, financial, sports and relationship matters. The good or sad part (depending on your view of the conversion) is that the discussion ends when the passenger gets to his or her destination.

7. The ultimate searcher.

In most states in Nigeria, and Lagos to be precise the law is that motorcycles should only carry one passengers. But the economic situation in the land won't allow that for motorcyclist.

Except for some highbrow areas where the motorcyclist will bill high, and carry only one passenger, most motorcyclists will want to carry two passengers. If the first passenger is lucky, the motorcyclist gets his second passenger at close proximity, then he is saved the stress of incessant stops. If the reverse is the case, this motorcyclist will stop at the sight of any group of people to scout for his missing passenger. This ultimately slows down the speed of the journey.

8. The tipsy one.

Despite the wide campaign against drinking and driving in Nigeria, it is an open secret that a good number of transporters still flaunt that rule.

It is very difficult to notice the tipsy motorcyclist at a glance. But after boarding the bike and conversing with him, you begin to smell alcohol. Most times they don't get high but you can always sense instability in the way they drive and talk. They are also called the risky ones.

9. The choleric.

This motorcyclist is that hot tampered one whose mouth is his biggest asset.

One of the most popular and age long believe in Lagos is that 'the shouting side is usually the winning side'. This man knows this so well.

At any slight provocation, he flares up and is difficult to calm down. He rains abuses on other road users (car drivers, fellow motorcyclists and pedestrians) who pass their bounds by trying to hit him or are too slow for his liken.

Even when he's the wrong one, it takes wisdom, display of affluence and legal force to calm him down to admitting his fault. Very often his passengers beg him to concentrate on his driving, and apologize to other road users on his behalf.

10. The corporate one.

This is the best and almost perfect one. He is everyone's choice. He obeys almost all the traffic rules, is patient despite the annoying state of the Lagos traffic, has his complete papers and licences. He talks when he is supposed to. He dresses decently and generally his character is in alignment with his outlook.

The sad thing is that he is very difficult to find.

Source: https://medium.com/@bioemmanuel94/ten-types-of-motorcyclists-you-will-find-in-lagos-9b87183783f2

They can't be Nigerians..... So I rest my case.

All these doctors treating his son, when some poor Nigerians can't afford just ordinary Nurse Titi.

All is not well with Nigeria.

One of the rarest expression of love. Marrying her when he knew she would die.
RIP to her.
Bravo to him.
Not in my country though. Can never happen in Nigeria. The Man's family no go gree. They will think he is mad.

Pls, when will the immigration office in Ikeja open for work.
Asking because nothing much happens in most government offices for the first few days of the New Year or after a long holiday.

jidetunk:
I did mine 27k

Where? And how long did it take before you got it?

Time and only time will tell.
Only that our security system is messed up. The guy may still wander around despite being wanted. abi no be Naija,
Ask Maina..

Thanks man.
Was only kiding though.

Jakumo:
Oga no go sick o. Na old Baba doctor when get white biya-biya, dem go send to treat you.

Big big money man dem, don book this woman down already, so ya hand nogo reach am lai-lai.

I'll love to buy it... But my pocket is doing ojoro...

Beauty and Brains.. wishing you greater and better things.
pretty doctors like this make me wana sick small..

Another cool way to steal funds

Plus have they kicked off already or it is my eyes that is seeing double @ Territory on January 30,2017.

Pls all the gurus in the house,
I'll like to go for my passport sometime this week, but what I have is the Local Government of origin certificate. Can that be used in place of the state of origin certificate?

Truth is there's little or no difference between both parties. The only irony is that the Buhari administration is making the GEJ regime look better.

Garba Shehu used to be a journalist I respect so much, but as usual, once they become a political appointee, they lose some sense of sane reasoning.

Waiting for Lai Baba to talk .....

He is the greatest ever.

It is the time for international matches, and 17 Real Madrid players have been called up by their countries for national assignments. A number of the Real Madrid players called have impressed with their national team. and one of such is Ronaldo.

Though currently serving a five match ban at club level, the 32 year old led by example scoring a hat-trick as Portugal boost their chances of securing a World Cup ticket with a 5-1 win over Faroe Islands.

His first goal was from a scissors kick, and that was his fifth hat-trick for Portugal. Ronaldo captained the team to their 2016 European Championship triumph in France and is undoubtedly Portugal
greatest and most successful footballer.

Here are a number of stats and figures from Ronaldo's international career:

- Ronaldo made his senior debut for Portugal on 20 August 2003.

- He is Portugal's most capped footballer with 145 senior appearances as at 03 August 2017. The next player after him is another Real Madrid legend in Louis Figo with 127 caps.

- He is also Portugal's highest goal scorer ever with 78 goals. That is an average of 0.54 goal per match.

- He is the youngest player to reach 100 caps for Portugal at 27 years, 8 months and 11 days. (On16 October 2012).

- With his 78 international goals, Ronaldo has scored one more goal than Pele for his country.

- Ronaldo is the second on the list of Europe's all-time top scorers for country. Only Ferenc Puskás with 88 goals lies ahead of him in Europe.

- Ronaldo is the fifth all-time leading international goalscorer.

- 39 of Ronaldo's goals have come at home, 27 away and 12 at final tournaments.

- He has scored in 54 games. Portugal won 45 of them, drew four and lost five.

- He has scored four hat-tricks and also scored four goals in a match against Andorra on 7 October 2016. He has scored 13 braces.

- He holds the record for most matches played in World Cup for Portugal, having played in 13 World Cup matches.

- He also holds the record for the most matches played in European Championship finals for Portugal. He has appeared in 21 matches at Euros. (2004 , 2008 ,2012 and 2016).

- He has scored nine goals at the European Championships, the highest for his country.


The downside:
- Ronaldo has never scored against France, Spain, Germany, Italy or England.


All stats correct as at September 3, 2017.

Source: http://www.realmadridfocus.com/2017/09/checkout-impressive-cristiano-ronaldo.html

The biggest news on the night is that Cristiano Ronaldo is on the bench for the game. The duo of Bale and Benzema start upfront for the Los Blancos.

New signing Theo Hernandez makes the bench.
Here's the Real Madrid starting eleven:
Keylor Navas; Carvajal, Ramos, Varane, Marcelo; Casemiro, Kroos, Modric; Isco, Bale, Benzema.

And a strong bench it is:

Real Madrid substitutes:
Casilla, Nacho, Theo, Mateo, Asensio, Cristiano, Vazquez.

All three Manchester United new signings start the game. Victor Lindelof partners Smalling in defence, while Matic starts in midfield.

£75m, Lukaku leads the line for Jose Mourinho's side that have the likes of Carrick and Blind on the bench.

Manchester United starting XI: De Gea, Valencia, Lindelof, Smalling, Darmian, Matic, Herrera, Pogba, Mkhitaryan, Lingard and Lukaku.

Manchester United substitutes:
Romero, Blind, Carrick, Fellaini, Mata, Martial and Rashford.

Jose Mourinho is yet to win the UEFA Super Cup in his glittering managerial career, while Zidane is in the race to win the Cup back to back. After last year's win over Sevilla.

source: http://www.realmadridfocus.com/2017/08/confirmed-starting-eleven-real-madrid.html

Baffao:
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Yes, you can say that again.

Baffao:
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Yes, you can say that again.

Real Madrid have lost their position as the most valuable football team in the world, dropping two places to third in a new list released by financial magazine Forbes .

Real Madrid, ranked as the most valuable football team in the world for the last four years, have now been overtaken by Manchester United and Barcelona in the latest ranking.

Europa League winner, Manchester United is the world most valuable football team, with an estimated worth of $3.69 billion. But were ranked third on the Forbes' annual list of the world’s most valuable sports team.

NFL side Dallas Cowboys, with an estimated worth of $4.2 billion is the world’s most valuable sports team, while American Baseball side New York Yankees, with an estimated $3.7 billion, ranked second.

Barcelona, with an estimated worth of $3.64 billion is the second most valuable football team in the world, but forth most valuable sports team in the world.

Real Madrid, estimated at $3.58 billion is the third most valuable football team, and fifth most valuable sports team in the world.

Here are top 7 most valuable football teams in the world according to the latest Forbes ranking:

Team. Value
1. Manchester United $3.69 billion
2. Barcelona $3.64 billion
3. Real Madrid $3.58 billion
4. Bayern Munich $2.71 billion
5. Manchester City $2.083 billion
6. Arsenal $1.93 billion
7. Chelsea $1.845 billion

Source: http://www.realmadridfocus.com/2017/07/real-madrid-drop-to-third-as-most.html