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These our players eh, see as them open mouth dey show over excited of just seeing messi physically. What's wrong wit them? We sent you to Brazil to play African football not to be an African star struck mofo!

This is a reminder to all those still cursing at GEJ. It is very obvious that God fights for him even without him asking from God.

Wot kinda dressing is dis?
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Great read... I agree completely

Op, thanks for sharing.

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i was born in Edo, currently live in Lagos... Also seen Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo, Kwara, Delta, Anambra, Imo, Enugu, Abuja, Kogi, Niger, Kaduna and most recently Cross River states.

All i can say is Nigeria is a beautiful country!!!

Mr. Frank Umeh is an expert in free zone logistics, custom affairs, export trade development, international trade and human resource management.
In this interview, he offered insights into how to make Tinapa the export and import hub like the free trade zones in Dubai and China. Excerpt:
What is your take on Tinapa?
Like I’ve said umpteenth time, Tinapa is a good concept. It is designed in the same fashion like Dubai free trade zone. Tinapa free trade zone is meant to create not only wealth and employment but also drive Nigeria’s economic transformation.
Tinapa has its own competitive advantage over other areas doing business in Nigeria. Its operational framework is articulated in a valid and gazetted law in Nigeria, which is the Tinapa Gazette.
In the law, Tinapa’s target market category is amply stated. The law of Tinapa considers Nigerian business community comprising traders involved in import and export activities; wholesalers and retailers.
And the law also said it is a large proportion of the target market for Tinapa free zone currently imports their goods from Europe, Asia, Middle East and it is expected that the volume within the Tinapa free zone will provide a large enough market to serve the needs of this target market which will necessarily result in substantial foreign exchange savings in travel expenses and hotel accommodation costs.
The purpose of this legal provision is to help in stopping the scarce foreign exchange that leaves the country on daily basis. Now you have the opportunity of coming to Tinapa and giving value to our naira; the travel expenses paid to foreign airlines for international flights and hotel accommodation abroad will no longer be necessary, you do everything in-house.
The say charity begins at home; Tinapa is an opportunity for us to look inwards and see how we can do things, give value to our own currency, give value to our own tourism industry, give value to our own local market among other things.
The success of Tinapa would be anchored on trade.
Tinapa is a business and leisure resort. Though business and leisure will go simultaneously but trade should be the catalyst to drive Tinapa’s growth. So, in talking about the success of the project, I will say that the management of Tinapa should focus more on how to promote trade. And when you talk about trade, you look at the inflow and the outflow. The inflow will look into the logistics, it will look into the warehousing, it will look into transportation, and it will look into the sales within the zone. Those factors are necessary for particular goods inflow.
AMCON is said to be shopping for a new management for Tinapa, what is your take on this?
I think it will be in the interest of AMCON to manage Tinapa on interim basis. They should stabilize the entire system and set standard before they hand it over to a private operator. They should appoint board members with requisite experience and professional background to manage Tinapa. The temptation of private operator pushing to its limit and the regulatory agencies truncating the entire system anytime it pleases them can only be forestalled through a controlled management. The Tinapa business plan can only work where it is set as an economic experience for the benefit of the society rather than a profit generating framework per se.
What exactly is the problem with Tinapa? Why has it not succeeded to the level it ought to?
I’ve been talking about trade activation fund for Tinapa, that Tinapa needs trade activation fund because our understanding is that trade is or should be the anchor point of the success of Tinapa. It is learnt that the new owners of Tinapa, which is AMCON has said that they are going to inject some fund into Tinapa.
I think that is a welcome development and I pray that the fund is utilized on trade or that trade gets attention when the fund is injected. If Tinapa could have adequate funding for trade and it is properly utilised, I don’t see how Nigerians can still be going to Dubai or China or wherever it is to go and import goods. Nigerians would naturally come to Tinapa to buy those goods or import it just like any other importation they do through any of the Nigerian ports.
But this time around, they can import any quantity of their needs as against going to import 100 containers to pack in their warehouses. In this case, they can simply come and take the quantity they want, pay necessary duty where required and take the goods to where they reside or where they do their business.
So, Tinapa does not really have a problem but the new owner should imbibe the passion of the visioners of Tinapa and ensure it succeeds. Whoever they pick to manage Tinapa should have the passion and drive to see the place achieve its fundamental objective. What Tinapa needs is proper funding and if this is done, one can confidently say that better days are ahead.
What role should the Nigerian Customs Service play to ensure the success of Tinapa?
Recently, there has been a little problem between the Customs and investors or businessmen at Tinapa. But I know that about two years ago when the Comptroller General of the Customs visited the zone, he made a very good suggestion that the zone management and Customs command both from where goods are being transited to the zone and the area should have an interactive forum with the support of NEPZA which is a regulatory agency for the free zone.
He said that they should be meeting regularly to balance the law as against the policy of government; to educate each other and be able to resolve areas of conflict that may be generated as a result information flow. I don’t whether that interaction as suggested by the Comptroller General was followed up, maybe as a result of several changes that have gone on in Customs. So, that idea of interaction between bodies didn’t take place; there has been a lot of information gap that has resulted in the problem that Tinapa is going through now.
I think if they could come together and try to build information flow among themselves, they will have a better relationship. Tinapa is in a territory and there is a Customs Area Command that manages Tinapa, if there is any shortfall in that management the Customs command has all mechanism to send in reinforcement to see that it operates in line with the provision stated in the gazette.
The zone management will also do its own part, same with the Nigerian Export Processing Zone Authority (NEPZA). To me, the recurrent issues going on between Customs and Tinapa could not be said to have occurred because there was no Customs command to manage the zone.
I’m not in paramilitary service; I’m not in Customs but they have all the mechanism to manage it and block any loophole which might have been exploited. Naturally, businessmen may want to take an opportunity but the Customs is there; the Customs is in all the borders of Nigeria and the idea of being there is to regulate the inflow of goods in line with what the law says.
So, let them not sit back on Tinapa, they should engage Tinapa, bring in their full apparatus and establish necessary departments or offices and work with the zone management to ensure that the vision of Tinapa is realised. I do not think that the idea of shutting down Tinapa on account of misinformation should be the best way to go.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/01/make-tinapa-work-frank-umeh-2/

Stephen Keshi's final team for the country's debut African Nations Championship campaign was released late on Tuesday night

Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi announced his 23-man squad for the country’s maiden participation at the African Nations Championship (CHAN) in South Africa.

The team will be without midfielder star Sunday Mba who reccently left for France to sign with CA Bastia in the Ligue 2.

He picked first choice goalkeeper and skipper Chigozie Agbim, defender Azubuike Egwuekwe, midfielder Joshua Obaje and forward Gbolahan Salami among the 23 players that will represent Nigeria at the 3rd CHAN.

Usual suspects Solomon Kwambe, Francis Benjamin, Kunle Odunlami, Umar Zango, Barnabas Imenger, Daniel Akpeyi and Ifeanyi Ede also make the list, but former junior internationals Abdullahi Shehu and Christian Pyagbara also make the cut, with FIFA U-17 World Cup winner Dele Alampasu expectedly joining the big boys so early.

Nigeria take on host South Africa, Mali and Mozambique in Group A of the championship reserved for senior players plying their trade in the domestic League of their countries. The competition runs from 11th January – 1st February, 2014 in three South African cities.

In his quest to win the tournament just as he did at the full-strength Africa Cup of Nations staged in the same country early 2013, Coach Keshi has picked three goalkeepers, eight defenders, six midfielders and six forwards.

Agbim, Kwambe, Benjamin and Egwuekwe are integral part of Nigeria’s A Team, while Pyagbara and Shehu played for the Flying Eagles at the African Youth Championship in Algeria and the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Turkey in 2013.

Alampasu was selected as the Best Goalkeeper as Nigeria’s U-17 side cruised to a record fourth win at the FIFA U-17 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates October/November 2013.

FULL SQUAD LIST

GOALKEEPERS: Chigozie Agbim (Enugu Rangers); Daniel Akpeyi (Heartland FC); Dele Alampasu (Abuja Football College)

DEFENDERS: Solomon Kwambe (Sunshine Stars); Francis Benjamin (Heartland FC); Azubuike Egwuekwe (Warri Wolves); Kunle Odunlami (Sunshine Stars); Ikechukwu Gabriel (Bayelsa United); Umar Zango (Kano Pillars); Bright Esieme (Enyimba FC); Erhun Obanor (Insurance FC)

MIDFIELDERS: Ugonna Uzochukwu (Enugu Rangers); Rabiu Ali (Kano Pillars); Christian Pyagbara (Sharks FC); Ikenna Hilary (Sunshine Stars); Abdullahi Shehu (Kano Pillars); Joshua Obaje (Warri Wolves)

FORWARDS: Ejike Uzoenyi (Enugu Rangers); Gbolahan Salami (Shooting Stars); Barnabas Imenger (Lobi Stars); Aliyu Ibrahim (Nasarawa United); Christian Obiozor (Enugu Rangers); Ifeanyi Ede (Enyimba FC)


http://www.goal.com/en-ng/news/5720/2014-african-nations-championship/2014/01/01/4514155/nigeria-announce-23-man-chan-squad

my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family Rest in peace sis

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RIP sir, thoughts and prayers wit ur family

Very funny...

[quote author=ndu_chucks]I am 100% certain that I wouldn't be buying any of those cars for any family member. May God punish these government official who would rather have us drive death traps instead of the luxury SUVs which they themselves enjoy.

I can bet my last naira that no DG, Perm Sec, Minister, Rep, Senator, or Economic Adviser will buy such a car for official use. Nonsense.[/quote]Why re u negative? Pls purge urself before it kills u

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Hello guys,

I am looking out for agric entrepreneural / mechanised farm training within Lagos state. I will appreciate your leads in this area.

MOD pls pardon me cos i don’t know the right section to post Agric related topic

Hello guys,

I am looking out for agric entrepreneural / mechanised farm training within Lagos state. I will appreciate your leads in this area.

MOD pls pardon me cos i don’t know the right section to post Agric related topic

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My girl kept coming. I neglected her. She kept calling me. She called me again yesterday which is why I'm writing this.
Should I forgiver her?[/quote]NO

validplanet: the woman should be at edo pdp secretariat next tuesday by 11. am

https://www.nairaland.com/1536440/pdp-rescues-go-die-widow

I want to contribute my bit if I see a genuine link. Thank u

dapachez: Will try and locate her tomorrow then give a feedback.I just hope they don't go after her. This is the worst thing a man of Oshiomole's standing can do,its so damn disppointing to say the least. He needs to be groomed on how to act in public. Smh for him

Bro any update from ur end as per locating d woman?

Is it just me? Didn't see Tinubu's name in d entire article... Op shud correct d topic

i am in and will keep an eye on ths thread.
MOD kindly move to fp for farther reach

texaco1: I think they have just realized that they have walked blindly into gej trap.

its a win-win situation for Gej right now cos they will have to work for him if they come back to PDP, and he will empower other people in their states if they elect to join APC