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fratermathy:
I stumbled across a video of a white woman who can speak Urhobo fluently like someone who grew up in the village. She was speaking it with pride and all the features of a native speaker were there. I don't know her or where she grew up but I found the video fascinating. I am aware that there are many whites that can speak Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo. But this is Urhobo, a language that many of its people hardly speak (refer to my post on the dearth of Urhobo language), and so it is very intriguing. See video below:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf5glkJddSE



Urhobo people: Speak Urhobo today! Learn Urhobo if you can't speak it yet! Be proud of your culture and identity! Don't let someone else be proud of it on your behalf!

Urhobo Wadoo!!! Mesiaghware o!


**NB: Urhobo is a language spoken by the Urhobo/Isoko people of Delta State, Nigeria.

Bishop:
___Rights, wrongs, and rule of law in Africa.
If this were a movie, I can only give you a trailer…
When we set up the company in Nigeria, all 22 shareholders had to sign an agreement governing our relationship, known as a Shareholders Agreement. This was April 2001.
The purpose of a Shareholders Agreement is to protect the shareholders’ investment in the company. It sets out the shareholders’ rights and obligations and regulates the sales of shares in the company. It also governs how a company is run and seeks to establish fair and transparent relationships between shareholders. Any company with more than one shareholder should ideally have such an agreement.
Among the most important issues for us was to ensure legal compliance with two specific provisions:
1. What do shareholders do if they want to sell, transfer or dispose their shares in the company and get out?
Answer: They must first offer them to another member. They can only sell them to an outsider if the other members either decline or fail to pay within 30 days.
2. How do shareholders resolve any disputes between members involving the company?
Answer: Any aggrieved party must ask for Arbitration (rather than go to court). According to our Shareholders Agreement, a three-member international commercial arbitration panel had to be appointed by The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court of Nigeria. The decision of this panel was to be final and binding on signatory parties to the Shareholder Agreement.
When the other shareholders, led by Delta State Governor James Ibori, decided to throw us out of the company, they did two things that violated the provisions in our Shareholders Agreement, as well as Nigerian law:
1. They “cancelled” our shares and removed our name from the share register of the company. No one has power to do this except a court and usually only the highest court in a country, as it is tantamount to expropriation of property rights. They did it anyway and dared us to go to court. We did, and it took us exactly 10 years to reverse what they did. The judges of the courts of Nigeria were harsh in their criticism of this decision by the other shareholders. They called it “disgraceful.” It was a form of gangsterism!
2. They did not offer us the right of first refusal. Instead they offered their shares to a third party (a company from the Middle East) without first offering them to us as an existing shareholder. Of course, in their minds, it was not necessary because they had first “cancelled” our shares.
___There’s no legal right for other shareholders to say, “We no longer recognise you as a shareholder,” then hold private meetings and make resolutions as if you don’t exist. (Protection of shareholder rights is sacrosanct if we want to mobilise investment and see the people of our continent prosper. Otherwise the whole investment climate is thrown up in the air!)
To right these wrongs, we first had to approach the Chief Judge of the Federal Court of Nigeria. Her name was Hon. Justice Ukeje. She inexplicably refused to grant our request for nearly five years. When she retired in 2008, we petitioned her successor Hon. Justice Mustapha. He granted our request and appointed a three-member international panel of legal experts to serve on the Tribunal. Two of them, including a retired judge, were Nigerian. It took him less than three months to make the appointments, for which we have waited nearly five years!
This Commercial Arbitration Tribunal was constituted under the auspices of the UN Commission for International Trade Law. The Tribunal ordered all the shareholders to appear before them with their lawyers.
It took almost four years of hearing evidence and arguments from lawyers and financial experts. We counted that there were more than 50 lawyers involved in the case, many of them from Europe and the United Kingdom, as well as leading lawyers from Nigeria.
The Tribunal issued its ruling on 22 December 2011.
To be continued. . .
by Strive Masiyiwa

to read more of these interesting interview click on the link above

joeace2020:
You people are irredeemable. So since your grandfather was a criminal...It essentially means you are a criminal. Religious fanatism is the gateway to intellectual death!

majekdom2:
and it wasn't revealed to apostle Paul or the Pope

rem44:
Abeg my people make una follow me see wetin I dey see.Is this fashion or madness?


Source: http://www.trezzyhelm.com/2017/03/see-what-is-written-on-back-of-trouser.html?m=1

coolebux:
This deep-freezer and kemi olunroyo are like separated twins
Bunch of noisemakers

PetrePan:
Where is her tommy?

pressplay411:
Once lost a very lucrative job cos I goofed at this question.
It became my anthem .
Nice one Op.

BUGOFF:
Can u teach me all there is to know about this bitcoin thing, pls?
I hv no idea but am interested.

omoruyivictory:
show us where we can make free bitcoin

Venzal:
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Let's create a Fiverr Gig That Sells This Service:

Gig Title



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TAGS



Gig Extras

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You can have something like this:





So that's that on email marketing.

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If you have questions, feel free to hit me up or drop them here.

Tomorrow, I will talk about online reviews.


Until then, stay cool. Stay happy and stay winning.

Chikelue2000:
All dis money wey FG de recover, recession should be over by now. FG owes us all explanations

slurryeye:
I don't know about Nigeria, but I know in Canada, you can't drive an unregistered car. Even if you are moving the car for the purpose of exporting it, you need a temporary license known as transit license. I'm sure the same goes for most organized society. But anything goes in Nigeria

skydiver:
Thanking you for calling ALL the Belgians wicked! I am married with a nigerian women I was many times in Nigeria, I never say Nigerians are wicked or bavoons.
We are all human, me, you everybody, how you ever want a peacefull world with that mentality you have?
Last but not least: go back to Nigeria nobody say you MUST stay in Belgium

ehie:
More like concerned citizens trying to defend themselves from el rufais brothers. One day this govt will fail and everyone in it will pay the price.karma is a bytch

Bolustic:
^^^
Going by your logic, GEJ should have been the head of UI Zoo instead of governing human beings @ Aso Rock and Bayelsa.

Going by your flawed logic, only social scientists would make good politicians and administrators.

rockstarB:
Please I want you guys to advice from a reasonable and typical Nigerian point of view. I said in my previous post that my upcoming artist boyfriend was adamant about going for a label audition, cos he believes that after shooting his video big labels will be looking for him.

There's assurance that this new label will sign him, he has gone for their audition and they were really into him. Just yesterday, he started Gisting me about how some big bros and artist like him kept on discouraging him that he is too big for a small label, what if big labels come knocking after the video? Is that not a lose?


He doesn't have money to put the video on big stations o! Only Hip TV and he was like they would put "this unsigned artist..."

I am not thinking in line with his frnds cos I believe that he can build himself and become known so far the label keeps promoting his songs and video. A bird at hand they say is better than ten's in forest.

Pls if you were in his shoes what will u do? Get signed by the new record label or hope to get signed by big one after your video shoot.

Mods, Airforce1, pls I would like this to be on front page

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I watched kanu and Co play so they are Berra.