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OPPPPP[i][/i]. We are tired of waiting!!!!!!!

marlockj:
Guy that's not insult.

Let's be real,how do u xpect Rita to pay the rent.

From Wat we read,the Op live 100% on Rita,from cloths to food,shelter.Wat else do u think a human can do without demanding for anything.


If only Op was able to pay, Bt ha condition was critical.

To me I don't blame Rita or Op.Bt to me Rita ha to look for resources to pay the rent.

She even gv Op 3k,wich Op rejected.to me is wrong for Op to hv rejected that.

A person who harbour you for that long,without getting anything in return,the Op should hv known dat sooner or later the resources of the habourer will b chairs,since it was divided into 2.

And besides if u knw hw girls treat their fellow girl u will knw Rita really tried,do u knw Wat it means for a girl to let a girl wear ha dress.

to me should even tnk Rita for everything

I can't agree more with you on this. OP needs to be grateful to Rita. She squat you that long and also feeding you. Where were you expecting her to raise money for her accommodation, she is a student, she needs all the money she can get too. To accommodate you for a session and few weeks isnt a joke you know. I hope you will always be grateful to that girl because she bailed you out when you most needed help and stabilizing. My 10k advice op. However, i am enjoying this your gist.

[font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font]THIS GIRL IS NOT SERIOUS. WHO IS HER MATE SELF. jUST BECAUSE I WAS FOLLOWING HER READING SHE BIGIN DO YANGA. SEE IF YOU DONT CONTINUE NOW OP, I WILL DISOWN YOU OOOOOOO.

[b]TonyeBarcanista:
Eltruth? RIP Man..... sad
Well, this dude hated you when he was alive , you don't need to show love and respect to your enemies after they die, after all they might have hated you more to wish you dead.

I have respect for the dead but the man who hates me I also hate with passion.
Let him go and spare us of another response from a zombified figure.

Rip bro etruth - we will all go down at some point , no pains and no joy about your fate it's our destiny.

THE STATEMENT above was made by a nairalander called truckpusher in respect of a fellow nairalander who lost his life in road accident. Do you think is the most stupid posting you have ever read.

Like if you think so, share if you don't.

Truckpusher:
Well, this dude hated you when he was alive , you don't need to show love and respect to your enemies after they die, after all they might have hated you more to wish you dead.

I have respect for the dead but the man who hates me I also hate with passion.
Let him go and spare us of another response from a zombified figure.

Rip bro etruth - we will all go down at some point , no pains and no joy about your fate it's our destiny.

You are getting award for the most stupid and foolish post I have ever read on nairaland

Culled from Vanguard newspaper

Things to know about Prince Abubakar Audu (Oct. 1947 – Nov. 2015)

on November 22, 2015 / in News 8:16 pm / Comments

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Prince Abubakar Audu, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the just concluded Kogi state election which was declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, reportedly died, on Sunday, 22nd November, 2015. Here is a brief biography of the deceased foremost Kogi politician that you need to know.

abubakar

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Prince Abubakar Audu, was the first Executive Governor of Kogi State was born on 27th of October 1947, to the family of his Royal Highness, the late Pa Audu Oyidi, Orego Atta of Igala Land and the paramount ruler of Ogbonicha-Alloma in Ofu Local Government Area of Kogi State.

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Prince Abubakar Audu (born 1947) was twice the Governor of Kogi state. His first tenure was from January 1992 until November 1993 and the second from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2003.

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He began his career as a bank worker, later proceeded to London from 1975-1978 where he studied banking and personnel management, obtaining professional qualification as a certified secretary, and as a Fellow of the Association of International Accountants of London, as well as fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Industrial Administration of Nigeria.

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Late Audu’s banking career lasted for a total of 25 years, which he spent with First Bank – formerly known and Standard Bank.

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He made history as the first training officer of African descent and also as one of the first black senior management staff of Standard Chartered Bank in London and New York.

In 1991, he was appointed Executive Director of FSB International Bank PLC.

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He joined public service in 1986 when we has appointed as Commissioner for Finance and Economic Planning in the Old Benue state. He served in this capacity until 1988 when the cabinet was dissolved.

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He contested on the platform of the National Republican Convention (NRC) and won the election held in November, 1991.

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He was subsequently sworn in as the first executive governor of Kogi state in January 1992.

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In 1998, democracy was again re-introduced and Audu, now with the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP), was elected again with over 700,000 votes while his opponent hardly recorded 50% of the vote cast. He was sworn in on 29 May 1999 as the 2nd Executive Governor of Kogi State.

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He reportedly died, on the 22nd November, 2015, while seeking re-election on the platform of Nigeria’s ruling party, the All Progressives Congress

tallfish145:
I graduated in 2012 and had my NYSC in 2014 but since then getting a meaning job has been a major challenge for me. Though after my NYSC,I opened an hair dressing salon for my wife in my hometown but after few months,she asked if we can relocate to abuja(where we met). After so many pressures from her,she moved to Abuja sometime in March,2015 and i later joined her in April after she secured an apartment i paid for. I stayed idle(after many job search) for two months before i got somewhere(through nairaland). As a graduate,i was earning 20k per month and transportation to work in month cost about 9-10k. Due to stress,i left the place after 3months. Now,this is November, no job and my wife is threatening to leave me,for reason that she hasn't experience hardship when she was alone. Please advice me on what to do friends.

You graduated in 2012 you served in 2014, and you are already married. Are you that jobless and vision less. Now you want us to pity you. I am sure that girl pushed you to marriage. Bale nta Igbo, iyawo nta ogogiro, Omo GBA Owo ita esi ni e fe esu labule. Meaning, Eze sells Indian hemp, his wife sells shepe( kaikai) their son is a tout and you are saying you Dont want trouble in the village. Yeye they smell.

TonyeBarcanista:
Yeah, a lot of maladministration

I thought by now you would have grown up. Obviously, considering the way you turned back just before the election and the way you have been throwing tantrums all over nairaland obviously you dont worth be given a thought to. You are so full of ignorance and i hope you dont die of ignorance. You postings on nairaland are now been treated with scorn. Wise up boy.

oake:
Scammers every where! Sorry bro for your loss. I understand the annoyance you transferred to the young lady, but it is also possible that was also a scammer. May God help us. I will advise that you publish this so called "Engr Ben"s number to teach him a lesson.

I wont publish his number. That is taken it too far.

castroevans:
I can imagine how u feel but that's life. Bad people actually give the good one's a reason not to help. Let me narrate my ordeal I had with a lady.
She came to the company where I work to execute her job and also seek for consultation. The company's policy is "on no account should a client pick up his/her goods without 100percent payment. After the execution of her job it was time for payment (friday), she came up with a story of how her client wanna cancel the contract if she does not complete the installation before Sunday. She shed tears right in my office, (yes I know of contracts where a client would tell u to use ur money to execute the job and u get paid after execution and that was her situation).
Out of sympathy, I called a junior staff, gave him my atm to withdraw 90k (her said balance) to pay for her after an agreement of cheque to b given to me. Weeks later I called this lady, I kept hearing one story to another, after a while I was told she travelled to south Africa. To cut the long story short, that was how I was swindled.
Life goes on irrespective of what u go through.

What a story.

I have got help in places i never expected, so i am always ready to help. But this particular case was just so annoying.

I really didn't want to post this experience that I had some days back on my trip to Lagos from Abuja on the 30th of Oct, 2015. But with my last conversation with the scammer I thought I should in order to free myself from the bottled up annoyance I feel at such a despicable fellow.

I work in Abuja away from my family in Lagos, thus the need to always travel intermittently to see my children and wife. On this particular occasion being end of the month i was very lean on cash since I was yet to be paid and traveling to see my family after 2 weeks of being away will cost me much including to and fro money for flight ticket. So i booked an Aero flight for 4.30 p.m. but a day to the flight I got sms that it has been shifted till 8pm. Well no qualms, the most important for me at that point was to get to Lagos and see my family, couple with the fact that I had promise my children to take them out for pizza treat that night so i was really looking forward to the trip.

On getting to the airport, the flight was delayed for another 1 hour due to bad weather condition. At nine pm we heard the announcement to proceed for boarding. While seated in the plane with the door locked ready to fly we observed that the light and the air conditioners keep tripping off and we became scarred. Suddenly a young man stood up and started screaming that he does not want to stay inside anymore that he was uncomfortable but the pilot wouldn't open the door and the inside of the plane became chaotic. Finally reasoning prevail the door was opened and many of the passengers ran out of the plane that they wont fly with it anymore that night. After an address by the pilot on the tarmac guarantying our safety some still insist on not flying that night any more. Even me I was in dilemma over what to do. However, the pilot explanation of what happened sound very logical and those who are familiar with flying corroborate it. Nevertheless, it takes a strong minded fellow to close his or her eyes to take the decision to fly even if the pilot sounded logical.

However, where I was standing a fellow that missed flying in the ill fated Dana flight by following his instinct and some spiritual philosophy came near me and was telling me the story of how he missed dana flight and how he had a dream that he was in a plan that collided in the air with another one on monday night, because of that he will not be flying that night but take the offer from the airline to fly the next morning 7am, I made up my mind to fly that night because i dont want to be in another plane with a dreamer of air collision (lol) but that help me to make up my mind, after praying strongly for direction to take.

Finally, the plane took of at exactly 11.15 p.m and we landed by 12.15 am, to a thunderous clapping by the passengers for the pilot. We disembarked and by the time we were done with our luggage and clearing it was 12.30 a.m. My wife was supposed to pick me up at the airport, but since it was late I had to cancel that arrangement with the plan to pick a taxi at the airport. However, I didn't have enough cash with me so I needed to do atm withdrawal, so i got 10k with the plan to use 3k for taxi since i don't live too far from the airport and in my mind 7k for Saturday morning runs for little things like fueling generator for the house, going to car wash in the morning to clean my car since i had not being around for 2 weeks and other petty things.

now to my scammer, I was waiting for a taxi outside MMA2 and by now it was almost 1 a.m, when this man that was well dressed in a native with a cap to match walked up to me in the presence of some other passengers and narrated a story of nobody to pick him up and it is late so the fellow to pick him up couldn't come again and he does not have atm card, i should give him 5k for a taxi, he will make arrangement to send it to me first thing in the morning. I felt embarrassed for him because he was well dressed, and for the fact that I had the same story except that i had atm card to use, that he also narrated his story in the presence of others. He looked like someone I saw in the plane, but now that i think about it i am no longer sure of that. So I gave him 5k with the agreement that he should send back my money to me Saturday morning. Now to me, I have a policy, I don't lend out money that I can't forgo. So in my mind 5k is small but it is still my money. There are times that i have met people who missed their flights at the airport without any cash that i have paid for their tickets and base on their stories and appearance you can tell genuine stories, the few times I did I got my money back with a thank you.

But this particular case not a call to say thank you or even make arrangement to return my money. So I placed a call to him Saturday afternoon he never picked, later in the evening, he picked my call and said sorry my dear i have been busy in meeting all day i couldn't pick or return your call, but don't worry let us leave everything till Monday, I will send you your money, before i could say anything i heard a click, I checked my phone he had cut off. I shrugged it off, but i was wondering, i am sure this guy can't be older than me, but i find it offensive that he was using endearing words like " my dear on me like a young friend soliciting for help from him.

Monday came in, I had forgotten about it, by mid day I remembered, I placed a call to him and he wouldn't pick. Later he picked and said to me, you know what my dear, i will send someone to your office in Abuja to give the money to you. So i said to him, you don't need to send any body to my office all you just need to do is ask for my account number and credit it with the amount. But he said not to worry, when he is ready he will call me, and I asked him, so when you knew you didn't have the money or intention to pay back why did you lie to me that you will return it Saturday morning with so much confidence and braggadocio? So i told him I wont call him over the money any more. I cut off. He never bothered to call me again then I also let go.

Fast forward to Wednesday afternoon in Abuja, I couldn't do any online transaction on my account, couldn't make payment for things or anything and I was so furious with my bank because I later learnt it was due to BVN that i had done since last year, that i had even given them the number since January this year, I was out of cash so I went to the bank and wanted to use counter check since i didn't have my check book and atm will not work, so they insist that I can't make any withdrawal except my BVN is mapped to my account even when it was not my fault.

Well i returned to my office in Frustration and cursing the bank, however, they promised to fix it that day. Later in the day I placed a call to the bank and got a confirmation that BVN restriction has been lifted off my account but I should get to the nearest atm to confirm. So I left the office, to ATM across my office, though I also needed cash. I made my withdrawal and as i was turning alas I was faced by a young lady who claimed she got stranded and will appreciate money for cab, that instant, I remembered "Ben" yes that is the name he gave to me and when I called it, true caller identified him as engineer Ben. And painfully i looked at the young woman in the face and I said a resounding no, She said just 1k will be enough and I still said no, and walked away. I felt bad with myself, that i could be mean enough not to even want to check out the genuineness of her situation all thanks to Ben, and right there and then, I needed Ben to either apologies or pay back my money because I cannot continue to close my yes to help someone in need in case the situation is real.

So i called him and he picked the phone guess what he said to me, Bros shey i have already told you that i will pay you next week monday, why are you calling me and he cut off, to make matter worse Thursday evening by 10.30pm I was already asleep when a call came through on my phone it was Ben, I was furious, but he made the most annoying statement I have heard of recent, he said to me sorry i am just calling you to tell you I wont be able to pay you by Monday anymore, So i asked him, is this why you are calling me in this ungodly hour. Please don't ever call my phone again and I will appreciate it if you get off my phone now. So I cut off.

So in all, probably Ben stay around airport and be scamming people of money, he could be making up to 30k per day on a good day that market is good and he comes across sheepish people like me. A man that is probably in his mid 30s if not close to 40 years old.

My Story

yes oooo fall

The rise and fall of Bukola Saraki…… Saraki left the PDP for personal reasons……not because he wanted CHANGE. This is evident in his behaviour since APC became victorious. APC trusted Saraki, jilted Belgore just to please Saraki. APC asked both Belgore and Lai Mohammed to relinquish the state leadership to Saraki. While Lai choicelessly agreed, Belgore left APC because ‘I can never be in the same party with Saraki talkless of him leading me’…..Raji Fashola spoke and appealed to his bosom friend Belgore not to leave APC but the latter sought Fashola’s understanding on the fact that Saraki is not a human being and that APC will regret having Saraki in its fold. APC openly celebrated Saraki. Saraki nominated every single political appointments in Kwara……saraki rise and fall
he took over the structure of the APC in Kwara. APC narrowly won Kwara with just over 100k votes above the PDP. Race for Senate Leadership began. This slot would have naturally gone to the SE had Ngige or other experienced APC senatorial candidate won but APC NASS conflict’s foundation was laid by the rejection of the party in the SE! Therefore, 3 major lucky contenders were jostling for the Senate President position……Lawan from NE, Saraki and Akume from NS all wanted to fill the vacuum created by the SE.
Buhari and APC preferred Lawan from the NE instead of Tinubu’s friend Akume and Atiku’s choice Saraki. Tinubu being a smart man quickly asked his friend Akume to step down for the Party’s and President’s choice Lawan. Akume, another reasonable politician agreed! Tinubu is not just a driver, he also know when to accelerate and when to march the brake!!!!!!! Atiku and Saraki kept on accelerating even when it was obvious that the duo have approached the zebra crossing!!!! A warrior that knows how to fight that does not know how to run when necessary will eventually perish in the battlefield! Saraki and his pushers became arrogant and resolute to disgrace the APC and the President …. All appeals by leaders of their party did not hold water.
Saraki said he wanted due process……therefore, the party organized a primary election to please him……Saraki lost the election and instead of staying within his team and agree with the APC Senators decision, he betrayed the APC and teamed up with the PDP to steal the hard earned victory of the APC through the back door. He wanted SP even if heavens will fall.



He eventually stole it while 95% of his colleagues were away, he joined the PDP to ridicule CHANGE. He did not stop there, he made the PDP DSP!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ha! What wickedness What a deadly traitor?? The party was battling with the humble pie and sought further reconciliation by asking Saraki to give other leadership positions left to its preferred choices, at least to calm nerves and save the party from national disgrace…but Saraki once again injured the party and announced his own preferred choices behaving like ‘IGE ADUBI’ who cares less whether or not his mother or father died on the day of his birth!

The intention of Saraki became very clear to APC……he wants to APC to fail, disgraced and destroyed……he has gone back to his former husband…PDP. But the concern of Buhari is different from the APC’s…….Buhari wants to eradicate corruption but how can Kwara Corruption King lead from the senate Number one priority of Buhari administration has been ambushed by thieves from the NASS…..Buhari, a soldier and a war tested veteran will not give up the fight to eradicate corruption in Nigeria. His preference for Lawan has nothing to do with politics but with policies! Saraki obviously has constituted himself to be a clog in the wheels of CHANGE.
He has become the arrow head of Business as Usual in a government of CHANGE! Therefore his book of remembrance was opened. His judgement became expedient…..Since he wanted to be one of leaders in the government of Change, he must be thoroughly searched. Buhari the first leader has been searched…….Osinbajo the second leader has been searched…..so why will Saraki the ‘third’ leader avoid search? You cannot eat your cake and have it!!!!! For those who said why saraki? Keep your mouth shut. Saraki wants to be number three and therefore, his cupboards must be opened, we must know his condition and fitness……if he passed this current test, then CHANGE will admit him but if he fails……CHANGE will purge him…….. This is not a joke! CHANGE has come to Nigeria and he who must come to equity must come with clean hands! And that is what we mean by Common Sense Revolution!
CULLED FROM Ayoade Lanre Bex

Mystical888:
Hello House,

I'm in a dilemma concerning my househelp and Nanny.

I've noticed she has developed a relationship with the neighbours which I'm not comfortable about.

She isn't a live in hand but has been with us for 2 years now.
She is a woman in her early 40s, a Yoruba Christian who stays not too far from my place.

She helps with housechores when we are away at work.
Her job role is to:-

(1) prepare the kids and take them to school every morning.

(2) Return to the house and do housekeep.

(3)Take the kids home after school hours.

(4)Prepare lunch for them and help them with their home work.

Her hours of work is between 7am and 7pm when she resigns to go to her house.

My daughter has told me how they've gone twice to watch TV next door in the home of both neighbours. (Nanny took them there).

Should I be worried about this development or is it part of the growing up phase for the kids?

Seems she isn't challenged enough with the workload and what does she do when she's at the neighbours.

Madam, for me I will never leave my entire family open to all sorts the way you have done. Considering the fact that your children are being raised by another woman who spend more quality time with them than you do. they will definitely imbibe her values. But be as it may, because of economic situation you need to work.
My observation in all this is that, you have not even discussed your observation with the nanny. See it is easy to fire employee but getting good replacement is always a challenge. So take it easy.

rather than assuming the woman is not challenge enough as per tasking, i will advise you have one on one with her

TonyeBarcanista:
I'm compelled to write this piece not to spite President Muhammadu Buhari but to cure his misconception of ministers. Earlier today, Mr President was quoted to have made a statement that suggest that ministers are not to relevant in the running of government. According to President Buhari


UNDERSTANDING Ministers and Civil Servants Roles:
Ministers:
Firstly, we have to appreciate the purpose of ministers of the federation. We all we agree that all political parties and candidates standing for elections come with their own program and agenda. These programs are highlighted in their respective document called their Manifesto. The Manifesto is usually in concordance with the overall ideology of the respective parties. When a party's Presidential candidate get elected, he assemble a team of men and women of intellectual standing and believers of his vision to help formulate policies, supervise implementations and defend these policies before the public to actualise the vision and fulfil the President's electoral programs. These group of people are called Ministers. The loyalty of the ministers are to the occupant of the President's office, the country and in most cases the ruling party. Ministers sit and deliberate on policy issues and strategy with the president

Civil Servants:
Every country have a workforce that carry out day-2-day activities of the government in power. We all agree that it is impossible for every government to come on board with their own workforce every 4-8years, hence the country provide for a 'permanent' workforce that will work with every administration. This workforce is called the Civil Service. They are non-partisan career people. They are not to help any political party or candidate formulate policies but are to work with every ruling party and administration to IMPLEMENT policies. They are technocrats and bureaucrats. Their loyalty is not to the ruling party or individual in power but to the "Office of the President" and the Country. They have NO business deliberating on policy issues and strategy with the president or his party. They only take instruction. Let's see a case study...

Case Study: Petroleum Ministry
In the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, there is the Minister, the Permanent Secretary and career Civil Servants, and other agencies and department (eg NNPC, PPPRA etc) under the ministry.

The Minister sit with the President to formulate policies and programs for the sector in line with the President's agenda. S/he prepares budget for the ministry, see to the implementation of this program/policies (supervision) and is answerable to the President, the party and the public. Statutorily, S/he is the Chairperson of the NNPC. She also supervises other department and agencies under her ministry on behalf of the President.


The Permanent Secretary is the Account officer of the ministry and most senior civil servant(rank) in the ministry. S/he is responsible for the implementation of the Minister's policies/program. S/he is the head of the ministerial tender board BUT any contract approved by the board has to be countersigned by the minister (to ensure that they are in tune with the Minister's/President's agenda). He/she is not a member of the Cabinet, neither can S/he replace the minister as the Chairperson of NNPC except S/he resigns and is appointed minister thereafter.


The roles of the minister and permanent secretary are distinct and straight forward. The importance of ministers cannot be over-emphasised. It is instructive to note that Nigeria is not an isolated case when it comes to ministers/permanent secretaries. The United States for instance have Under-Secretaries, which is Nigeria equivalent of Permanent Secretaries, and Secretaries which is ministers equivalent.

Contraty to Buhari's perception, ministers are not for 'noisemaking', neither are they meant to 'fill space' except the incompetent and clueless ones. Without cabinet ministers, a country will be likened to one on 'Auto-piloting'. More importantly, our constitution provide for offices of Ministers just as it provide for the offices of the President and Vice President.

To be fair with the President, his perception of Ministers is inappropriate. I wonder what prompted him to utter such statement when he was a former minister under the General Olusegun Obasanjo military regime between 1977-79. Is he trying to say that he was a 'noisemaking' minister in General Obasanjo cabinet?


May God Bless Us All

You are becoming pathetic with each passing day. I really pity you as your wailing days are numbered.

obstead200:
I am not tribalistic. But I can swear, from my own encounter with them in the work place, that you must be a Yoru.ba man. They are the pple who view issues in the twisted way u do.

So back to the topic. Right thinking pple have said it all. Keep envy, ego and jealousy aside. Just do the job u were hired and being paid to do.
God will surely uplift and reward u in due time.

You are not tribalistic but you concocted this kind of tribalistic statement putting a particular human behaviour to certain set of people. What you have just done is called cognitive dissonance.

tonychristopher:
Now I really understand your plight ....what of d you do afterwards the guys

You are just loading your mind with negative thoughts which will never do you any good. You better leave behind tribal sentiments and focus on making your life better wherever you find yourself. Be it amongst yoruba igbo or hausa

obstead200:
most of u guys getting worked up over my statement, pls remember I only expressed a personal opinion based on my experiences.
I admit that my opinion might be somewhat biased and akin to stereotyping. But it is still my personal experiences. Don't crucify me for it. I am not saying that all Yoruba behave that way. But everyone I ever experienced behaving that way (I even have current experiences) are all Yoruba.

Make Una no vex. I only shared my personal experience

You are damn myopic in your views. You are even sounding like the OP. Even your narration of your experience in the so called multinational you work sounds very arrogant. Why are you so fixated on tribe. If you are not careful colleagues will read through your thoughts and will label you as such. Please grow up.

This guy needs to watch movie about gianni versace life and business after death and read about his life to understand work place. The sister asked him what he does in the company, that she has all the technical expertise and supplies contact. After his death she was left to manage the business and it took the grace of God and other family members to rescue the business from going under.

Brother, please like others have said, you have issues with pride, you are arrogant and without business knowledge, rather than focus on performance delivery you are focus on taking over you predecessor's job, you are focus on spiritual attack and warfare at work. If continue with this mind set you will never be successful in life. I have seen it happening to many people in places of work.

Be humble

What we need to be doing is not just changing who holds power, but changing the way we conceive of power. There is the power we’re all familiar with — power over. But there is another kind of power — power from within.” (Starhawk, 1979)

President Muhammadu Buhari has already won the psychological war on corruption – the fear of repercussion, at least, is palpable. Everybody is now scared of stealing and everyone is talking about the war even when not asked. The Nigerian atmosphere is evidently charged with the new spirit of the times. The battle of the minds was won without firing a shot.

The next and the main battle front is not only in government offices, but in all strands of the Nigerian tapestry; in banks, churches, mosques, schools, taxis, fuel stations, market stalls, hospitals, the media, sports, security system and even the Internet.

Let’s not derail the discourse here; Buhari has gotten all Nigerians to talk not only about, but against corruption, publicly. Nowadays it is fashionable for known corrupticians to buy airtime and talk against corruption on television—to act holy and to dissuade public angst and condemnation. But Buhari knows these persons just like every other Nigerian does. To pretend not to know a thief even when caught until the thief defends himself and proven guilty is one of the funniest lies we’ve been forced to accept. But that is the bullshit about the rule of law. But I’m not against the rule of law—after-all bullshit can also be used to grow flowers.

My point is that the particular aspect of the Nigerian rule of law that protect known corrupticians who looted our patrimony is bad bullshit. It is painful to know that these corrupticians are everywhere, and like the shrew, deviously poisonous and constantly spraying their odious stench. One hopes the recently inaugurated Itse Sagay committee will give the needed teeth and close the loopholes in the Nigerian legal system before these same bad eggs encircle the President. Delay is dangerous.

Buhari is a disciplinarian and everyone knows he came to clean the Aegean stable. Few days after his swearing in, his brother-in-law was forced to repent, a certain refinery announced its readiness to start production, a certain former minister publicly returned fleet of cars and certain amount of cash and others are running to take refuge in foreign hospital on phantom medical stories, and most recently, a self-claimed whistle blower rattled the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the very ombudsman saddled with watching over our commonwealth, of stealing over a trillion naira. The fear of Buhari has grip Nigerians such that the Nigerian police was begging applicants not to pay bribe for the upcoming recruitment. I think Buhari has successfully mobilised the nation against corruption; the war is half won!

The first challenge that stared at Buhari’s administration were the renewed severity of terror attacks, long queues at filling stations due to round-tripping and other sleazy deals that surrounded the management of fuel subsidy, and the perennial power outages. Buhari’s responses were swift and surgical; he immediately engaged the stakeholders of the power and the petroleum sector and extracted an understanding that restored normalcy to those critical sectors. Today, no Nigerian can deny noticing improvements in the service deliveries of those sectors. On Boko Haram, Buhari briskly rallied countries of the Lake Chad basin to put a multilateral force to confront the terrorists. After relocating the military command centre to Maiduguri and appointing new service chiefs. The military started recording success. From Borno to Adamawa, territories after territories are being recaptured from the terrorists; the plights of the internally-displaced persons are being ameliorated.

Apart from several official visits to the IDP camps by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the First Lady, President Buhari ensured the released of the monies that were earmarked for the welfare of IDPs but kept away by the past administration for reasons yet to be explained. Such intervention was not only enjoyed by the mostly northern IDPs, in the Niger Delta, apart from the recent exploits of the Nigerian Navy pulling down bunkering sites even the ones behind Rivers State Government House, Buhari came to the rescue by fast-tracking the clean-up of Ogoniland. He followed it up by appointing a brand new coordinator to articulate the Amnesty Programme to its true intention. In the South-East, Buhari’s attention was immediately drawn to the overly politicised Second Niger Bridge commission by the Goodluck Jonathan administration. Initially Buhari’s order for a review of the contract was misunderstood by those who felt they are about to be deprived of that strategic infrastructure. But the fact remains that the President was not only nosing for probity, but to ensure the completion of its construction.

Within this period also the Buhari administration has released funds for the sports sector to enhance their preparation for the next Olympics and sundry competitions. The recent mauling of the Angolans in the final of the 2015 Afrobasket by D’Tigers cannot be unconnected with the Buhari push. The President knows that aside being a tool for providing youth employment, nothing conjures national integration than sports; not even religion.

On the diplomatic scene, Buhari has been at the top of the game. His trips to the Chatham House and the White House were not show trips, these were deft engagements at its best given the calibre of those two countries in global affairs and the attendant benefits Nigeria stands to reap. His earlier invitation as an observer to the 2015 G20 summit, the Lake Chad region engagement against terrorism, the recent visitation by the UN Secretary General is a pointer to Nigeria’s blistering arrival at the international stage.

While I will not encourage praise singing Buhari to start playing god in office, it is unfair to brush aside his efforts especially at this take-off stage. Our knowledge of the aviation comes to mind: ask any pilot, take-offs are always itchy, and they require steady hands and deep concentration and calculations if the plane must manoeuvre the clouds. That is when it is compulsory to wear seat belts. Nigerians must buckle their seat belts and pray for Buhari to dominate this fog of a cloud.

I sincerely salute those criticising Buhari. He needs more of criticisms if he must remain focused. Criticism is a major ingredient of civil rule; it draws leaders’ attention to the other opinions, especially to how followers perceive governance. It helps leaders in formulation of balanced policies. But criticism can also be negative; geared not towards redress but to poison the system and pull down the leader. The recent tirades on Buhari’s appointments are gradually becoming poisonous. Yet again we are relapsing to our different ethnic choirs while still singing the change song. Buhari is not oblivious of the Federal Character principle. But he should make haste to fix his entire team so that his policies, actions and body language can easily be explained to the masses to avoid being constantly misunderstood by the governed. The whole idea of the All Progressives Congress machinery acting as government’s mouthpiece is not politically correct. There should be a line between podium tirades and articulating government policies and actions for public acceptance. Public engagement is different from campaign oratory. The masses too should learn to trust their leaders and first flush their minds of the mentality of seeing government as the oppressor and always playing the victim, weeping parochial tears instead of standing up for collective good. The ‘we’ versus ‘them’ mentality is what weakens people’s strength and hinder them from achieving popular goals. Let’s watch Buhari’s next moves. I stand to be corrected.

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jboi08:
La Badi hotel is a 4-star Hotel on Beach road, Accra. We spent our Honeymoon @ La Palms hotel, which share a lot of characteristics with La Badi, their services is excellent as expected but we were turned-off by the dirty beach both hotels share. I gathered that cleaner beaches can be found @ Takoradi. Collect pamphlets from holiday & tour services @ the arrival of the Accra airport.

This is interesting. I guess dirty beaches are synonymous with most west african countries. I av never really been a fan of any west african beach. However, i was thinking that the luxury hotel rate that the hotel charges the mgt should be able to clean up their environment..
To bad.

I will be spending 4days at Labadi beach hotel, in Ghana to mark my tenth year wedding anniversary. Does any body have info about the quality of service in the hotel and is it really a luxury hotel as claimed and other info i may need as to enjoy my our stay.

bruno419:
I m happy for this boy

If this is true then it is a very irresponsible behaviour. What right do you have to denial the boy right to his privacy. Did you seek is opinion before you posted his entire life without hidden anything. If he even gave you the nod, does he know the total implication of exposing is entire life to the world at such young age. Oga think of others before your actions

onismate:
http://www.hovabuzz.com/frontline/1028-shocking-encounter-i-had-meeting-my-oga-where-i-went-for-interview

Your Oga is just a wicked and mean man who does not want others to move on in life, chikena

I will share mine. Married 9nes shud come oooo

Prayer is good. But sexual life can become boring at a point

ifeoluwasegun:
Sorry m not concerned though, I just wanna say...
Happy Wedding Anniversary!

Thanks

What has that got to do with it?

Prayer

This year august will make 10years that i have been married. But our sexual life has been very fantastic. We can't wish for a better sexual life.

So nairalanders what do you do to spice up your marital sexual life?