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shalomekelaka:
The Economic and Financial Crimes and Commission, EFCC, has opened up on reports that its operatives have arrested former Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, and his wife......https://www.247nnu.ng/2019/05/okorocha-and-wife-arrested-efcc-breaks.html

"Reports had emerged on Thursday that the anti-graft agency arrested the former governor and sealed his apartment in Eastern Palm University, Ogboko.

However, speaking to DAILY POST on Thursday, EFCC’s spokesman, Tony Orilade, refuted the claims, describing the report as “fake news”.

Orilade said, ”Such report that Okorocha and wife have been arrested is fake news, disregard it.”

Op! Lol! Your head o!


From the headline, you'd think Ooni was sacrificing chicken while all that happened was some man shaking shekere to announce Ooni don enter plane!

Still, it's funny, lol!

Ihedinobi3:
Regarding

"At what time was Lucifer cast down to Earth?"

This event will happen at the midpoint of the Tribulation (Revelation 12:9), three and a half years before the Return of the Lord Jesus to resurrect the Church, vanquish Satan, restore the Earth, and begin His Thousand-year reign over the whole world.

The consignment of Satan and all his fellow rebel angels to the Earth will result in the three-and-a-half-year global persecution of believers, leading ultimately to the gathering of all human armies to Israel to destroy the nation once and for all.

I was going to say 3:37 on a sunny Friday afternoon, but you got in first I see.

Some people, lol!

I prefer Sahara headlines, though no details yet.

One Day After Leaving Office, EFCC Arrests Rochas Okorocha, Wife

I'm under the impression this person is APC. It's either I'm wrong or Sai Bubu 4+4 Next Level don catch Okorocha.

Can someone educate me please, I have ignorance.

I prefer Sahara headlines, though no details yet.

One Day After Leaving Office, EFCC Arrests Rochas Okorocha, Wife

I'm under the impression this person is APC. It's either I'm wrong or Sai Bubu 4+4 Next Level don catch Okorocha.

Can someone educate me please, I have ignorance.

Stanloaded:
OMG

Lol! You mean!

leokid866:
What about your governor's, senators, house of reps members, LG chairman. If you are going to point fingers point it all around. The president is not the one that will come and fix or develop your state for you.

Twale, my teacher!

kernel01:
KEROSENE! Look at your begging brothers in the brown roof republic.

Abi na. Though we are not begging! We "brown roof" people will never be so stupid as to boycott roads and schools and electricity and be called the "boycotting kerosine state"! What you see is us "brown roof" people collecting our dividend of democracy up front.

As my teacher taught me:

leokid866:
The reason no one represents you in the Senate or house of reps is because you chose to sit at home. Closed mouths don't get fed.

MuttleyLaff:
You know me by now, that I don't and never do arguments.

Lol muttley! Of course I suit myself. However, and just so you know, I'd personally say, "argument" is exactly what you do, but I'd expect you not to agree with me while you argue that you don't.

HeyCorleone:
I don't know, who else should we blame? The common man?

You should "blame yourself"! Though, not "blame", exactly, but take responsibility instead of waiting for government to go up to heaven and bring manna down for you! Anyone with a brain should by now know they will only go to heaven and bring the manna down for themselves. Or have you seen them sending other people's children to American hospitals and London schools?

budaatum:
I don't agree. I think it is mine and every individuals' responsibility to bring this out. And we can start by curing ourselves of our individual ignorance.

We are the leaders. We just don't realise it yet, which is why we are sheep.

malvisguy212:
I perfectly understand now, am sorry . thanks for the enlightenment.

Because of you, I will add the following warning because it might mislead the lazy people.

Don't be lazy, people. Read beyond the title of the thread.

Thank you mavisguy.

obixcel:
cry me a river! keep hoping.. Why not look at how d Democrats handled the DNC servers...and how they refused to hand it over to law enforcement for examination so as to determine who hacked theirs.

I have the odd feeling that you are under the impression that I'm one of those Dem vs Rep people.

As I said, "The only issue will be, interference on who's behalf."

frank317:
Yes, if we see a need to... Right now I see no need to.

'You', 'see no need to'. I, on the other hand, look at the state of my country Nigeria and see a need to.

Read my first post in this thread and you might understand what I mean. We cannot build what Tier 4 Abini2012 is showing us without a solid foundation of understanding.

Is this your site op? What's that yellow nonsense obscuring everything for?!

AbujaBlue:
When several sailors from the McCain showed up anyway, wearing their uniforms with the ship’s insignia, they were turned away, the service member said.

Seriously? Please tell me this is joke lol!

frank317:
Why do we waste our time claiming we practicing what we know we cant do.
Let's just abolish it an face reality.

But we can practice it, if we but tried harder! And if we see a need to.

MuttleyLaff:
Nwanne, I wouldn't say it's novel, because all the information is actually out there in the open, not and never hidden. I have a post coming up, I will mention and notify you once I am finished with it. Just watch how again people like elated177, jesusjnr, shepherd00 etcetera put a button on their lips at salvo of queries I level at them

If it's not in a thread of it's own, don't bother mentioning me muttley. I refuse to wade through arguments about what grown up people choose to do with their pokers!

malvisguy212:
NONE. I Will NOT work my soul to be save because my saviour has ALREADY WORK IT.

I will work like a slave for the love of my saviour.

I do not boast of my work. I boast of God work.

thank you, I am busy now, see you later.

You only need to read the very first paragraph to understand that I have not said your work saves you, mavisguy.

"The acceptance of this free gift, believing, so to say, despite being ignorant about it, is indeed how one is saved aleluya amen,....."

Nor did I say "boast about your work":

"the work I have listed above, is not to be done where you are to be seen doing it least you be justified by your fellow humans and your head puff up or you be disturbed and asked to go and play instead."

What I did say was "work to understand" and yet, "by the Grace of God that Jesus Christ has sent you the Holy Ghost and Comforter to minister to you", otherwise, "all your work trying to understand is work in vain!"

If you cannot bother to do the work to understand this very simple short piece as shown by your misunderstanding and misrepresentation of it mavisguy, how, please, can you possibly understand the very complex writing of James, is precisely my point!

tactius:
Abeg, I am not cursing you....you have talked sense.

But try telling it to millions of Nigerians that price controls are a bad thing....and they will abuse you to high heavens.

Infact I have spent mb on this site arguing with people about this matter. I have been called 'evil capitalist', 'Buharist', PDP man, 'Wicked' etc....

But the truth is, electricity is a business, not a welfare thing.

Well, I would not argue with anyone about it. It's not as if their argument would make me go and labour in the sun so they can have electricity, or tomatoes even!

Nigerians need to read Atlas Shrugged. Except, at our current collective intellectual level, we are more likely to believe the nonsense in it and completely misunderstand the main ideas. I have hope though. Someday.

malvisguy212:
budaatum your understanding of work is faulty. How can I show that I am saved? ONLY BY WORKS (James 2:14-26).

now, what is work in this context ? is it the kind of work you describe in your post ?

I am only showing the EVIDENCE OF A SAVING FAITH .

Your understanding, is what I think might be faulty, I would please have you consider.

Who, exactly, do you intend to "show" that you are saved?

chibjohn:
You just said my mind. There couldn't have been a better analogy. I am a stakeholder in the power industry and know that till Nigeria fixes cost reflective energy tariffs and criminalises energy theft we would never have constant power supply.

Its the same with petrol. Do you know that average usage per person in developed countries is on average 1000 times a Nigerians usage.

Energy Users per Capita
Nigeria 700.7 kg of oil equivalent per capita
United States 7050.6 kg of oil equivalent per capita

They subsidise and feed us a tiny bit and we expect to grow.

It's the biggest problem facing Nigeria today. If we too have Power, we will be fat like the Americans!

DisGuy:
Where are the moderators sef! They need to come and remove all these blue pics that are derailing the thread. Cos me i yam in very sifia pain

Where

Boycott, stay at home, and you will become like the Kerosine State!

https://www.nairaland.com/5214985/okezie-ikpeazu-promises-1million-jobs/2#78856629

MuttleyLaff:
Go and sit down somewhere jor, you that runs stiff scared, hides behind lies and deceit of Leviticus 18:22 and/or Leviticus 20:13 and all.

Don't you think you should write your view in a thread of its own by now like elated has done so we all don't have to dig through nonsense to see it?

B2mario:
Oga this is not the real population of Abia, the NPC was not serious, I, myself was not counted coupled with the instruction given by MASSOB to boycott the census. Go to Abia and observe the population. Only Aba and environs is close to 1.8million.

What!? You "boycott the census"!?

What is wrong with you people!? Don't you know that if you boycott census you boycott the dividends of democracy? How can we allocate to you if we don't know how many you are?! Now see! No roads! No development! I bet no jobs or schools neither and everyone is calling you the Kerosine State!

Have you no shame in your state, or are these MASSOB your gods, deceiving you like those leaders in the North are deceiving their people and who do not allow the alimanjeris to go to school so they too don't benefit from democracy while the leaders themselves pocket all the dividends and use it to send their own children to American schools and London hospitals? In my state we will say you are giving yourself small pounded yam, except in your case, you are giving yourselves no pounded yam at all!

I have to call my own teacher leokid866, to come and help me educate you to become ex-boycotters, like I was educated, but while we wait let me tell you a secret!

When census people come to the Orolu Kingdom, we go to Kabiyesi and ask him to give us money so that we can rent hotel for them and hire transport to drive them around and feed them for God forbid hunger catch them and they leave without counting us properly! Besides, Orolu Kingdom is made up of many towns and villages apart from Ifon Osun and if we don't drive them to the outer towns and villages they will just count Ifon Osun and claim that is the population of the entire Orolu Kingdom and the allocation of the Orolu Local Government will be tiny and small!

Before we drive them to the outer towns and villages for them to count for census, we honour them at our Royal Palmy Joint where palmy for the gods is drunk by the gods and the king alone, we tell them, and so they don't get thirsty while they do their very important counting.

And when we get to the towns and villages it might be that the people there have gone to their farms leaving ghosts and chicken and goats behind. So we tell the census people that it is the custom of my people for a chicken to represent 500 people when they are working in the farm, and 1000 people is represented by one goat and a ghost is 10,000 people, so they should count the chickens and the goats and do the maths, and we will count the ghosts for them because only indigenes can see our ghosts, and when they add it all up, our population is big and our allocation is proportional big too and we get to enjoy the dividends of democracy like everyone else in my state who is doing the same thing. In fact, I hear that in Ẹdẹ their ghosts represents 100,000 people, and in neighbouring Ilobu, they count the cockroaches and the rats because they dont have as much land or outer villages like the Orolu Kingdom.

And there is poor you in Abia State, boycotting census because MASSOB told you to boycott census, and now, no jobs, no schools, no roads, no democracy dividends in your Kerosine State!

My fellow Nigerian, na wa for you o!

Abini2012:
Didn't say I smoke or smoked. That's was the school's student center abi bar and sure they were smoking

It must be outside if they were smoking. It is illegal to smoke indoors in UK unless it's in the privacy of your own home.

And I know it weren't you smoking. You sound way too smart to burn your money especially as you've just arrived and would likely still be converting every pound you spend into Naira lol. Definitely not you at ₦272 for a ciggy at ₦454.73 to a pound!

“Electricity price controls are a big problem,” says Benedict Craven, a Nigeria analyst for the EIU. “The private sector is given little incentive to invest.”

According to USAID, the main U.S. government international aid organization, Nigeria has the potential to generate over 12,000 megawatts of electricity daily. On most days, it generates around 4,000 megawatts.

Electrical Tomatoes

The emboldened is about the only bit of this that got my attention but I notice it caught no one else's.

"Price controls"! It means a product is kept at a price set by government, and in Nigeria, we know it's kept low and very likely beneath the cost at which it can be sold at a profit. Like petrol really. But we can at least claim a reason for petrol with our crude oil and our ineptitude at running refineries. Electric though!?

Imagine it were tomatoes. You invest in land and fertiliser and labour and grow them, and when you get them to the market, government sets the price. I'm absolutely certain if that price is higher than the cost at which you grow your tomatoes, you wouldn't mind much. You'd likely be delighted if it's high enough for you to make a tidy profit. And if you're fortunate and the price set is so high, you'd likely invest in more land and more fertilizer and more labour and grow even more tomatoes. But this is Naija, where the price set by government is more likely to be way below your costs so that after you sell your tomatoes, you would have lost money.

Now think, you lost money on your tomatoes. Are you going to plant tomatoes next season? If you're into the charity business or you're stupid, you just might. But if you're not and have rent and school fees for your kids to pay and you want to eat and pay the interest on a loan I very much doubt you'd be stupid enough to throw your money away growing unprofitable tomatoes!

Well, that's the case with electricity in Nigeria I'm afraid. You generate it, transport it along unreliable transmission wires, lose a large chunk of it to illegal use and theft and what you do get paid for does not cover the cost of producing it. Now tell, would you plant electricity next season? I very much doubt it unless you're into the charity business or you're stupid, of course, but somehow, I just can't imagine you'd be either.

So, what's the solution you might wonder. Increase the price of electricity of course. But come on people, increase the price of electricity so electricity planters can earn more money and plant more and sell more? Surely you must be cursing me by now, or haven't you noticed you'd have to pay more for my electric if you want it?

Ok, perhaps you're all nice civilised folks and don't want to curse me so let's try a different way of looking at this. Imagine Buhari removes the price control so I can sell my electricity at a market determined price like I currently sell my tomatoes no doubt at a profit high enough for me to want to plant more next year. Are you cursing me yet? I'm sure you would be if it was the subsidy on petrol I were talking about removing. Hell no! You'd likely stone me if you could get your hands on me!

Well, that's what this piece is saying where it says "The private sector is given little incentive to invest.” After all, I'm in the electric planting business for the money and the profit and not because I love you all as Adam Smith would say, so why give you light if you aren't paying me for the priviledge! And you wanna complain you're in darkness?!

When you pay me enough to cover my planting of tomatoes after paying for the land and the fertilizer and the labour and the interest on a loan and cover what I lose to theft and illegal harvesting, and still make a tidy profit to reinvest, I will plant 12000megawatts of tomatoes and I will sell 12000megawatts of tomatoes and even more megawatts of tomatoes than you can eat even because you would be incentivizing me to invest what you pay me in more land and more fertiliser and more labour to plant more tomatoes so I will have more tomatoes to sell you and make more money. But if you want cheap electric, keep your price controls and don't incentivize me but don't expect me to waste my time labouring in the sun just so you can have light because, like you, I ain't that stupid nor into the charity business!

Anyone cursing me yet, because I am telling you, we are too cheap!

Abini2012:
Student center, drinking, smoking and loud conversations. Too many Chinese students
Back to Euston
Euston at 9pm

Smoking? Indoors? You better not or you might be back on a plane to Naija before you can say anything at all, actually!

A £200 fine or 25% off if paid within 15 days sure would make it the most expensive cigarette you ever smoked!

Limitless72:
Dear you have a point though. But what if the mother's intention were quintessential, what if they were innocent.. You see in one way or the other we should try to understand virtually everything is relative and conventional..

You get guest de sweep and you want us to believe its innocent sweeping!?

I swear, person get sense pass that level.

All this "insufficient evidence", about Russian interference will become "evidence of Russian interference", once campaigns start proper. The only issue will be interference on who's behalf.

It will be Interesting.

stanech:
If Mueller wanted to he could have said Trump was guilty but he never one time said that I wonder why??

Judge Mueller, right?