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megawealth01:
Seun Osewa, the Founder of Nairaland needs to be awarded with a lifetime achievement award in the Nigerian Tech Space

Nairaland, arguably Africa’s largest forum is an online community that is ranked among the best public forum in African ranking and boasts of about 2.385 million registered users and about as much or perhaps more unregistered users. It was created in March 2005 by Seun Osewa who runs the site till date.

Seun Osewa is a Nigerian in his thirties who resides in Ota, Ogun state Nigeria.

Like almost every young Nigerian, Seun aspired to be his own boss but unlike most young Nigerians, he never backed out even after hammerings of frustrating magnitudes. Judging from the movie, ‘The Social Network’, Mark Zuckerberg may have had an almost rosy journey to entrepreneurship, but not Seun.

Nairaland was neither the first nor second project embarked upon by Seun, but he never stopped until he got it right.

Seun stands above most Nigerian big-shot site owners in so many ways, but one of which struck me is his online presence and personality. Despite the increasing success of Nairaland, Seun has continued to give customer satisfaction the greatest priority.

2.385 million Persons can comfortably constitute a country and Seun runs a site with that number of persons ­­­­­­(I will like to know how that feels). Despite the numbers, Seun continues to strike every person fortunate enough to cross his path as a down-to-earth young man.

Seun through Nairaland has provided a portal which in turn has provided jobs for a huge number of Nigerians. A friend of mine described Nairaland as the largest supermarket in Nigeria and perhaps Africa. I agree. Cars are being bought and sold on Nairaland, real estate and other properties too. Business deals are being brokered every day, (I had my first business meeting through Nairaland).

On jobs, Seun’s words on marble are timeless. “I always tell job seekers to create their own jobs, because nobody owes them a job.” He says.

The literature section is filled with potential Nobel laureates and I even noticed a new scholarship scheme too. All this and I still can’t begin to highlight all that the site does. And to think that all these was made possible because one man dropped out of school is just magical. I have no apt words to describe the man; still I would say he is a gallant African that deserves every accolade.

The politics section gives minute by minute happenings in the politicking in Nigeria, Africa and the world at large. Seun is truly a tech superhero




https://ebeanonews..com/2019/12/seun-osewa-nigerias-tech-superhero-and.html?m=1

megawealth01:
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Nigeria is a country that is very difficult to govern.

He said that no matter how hard he tries, some people would still find faults in his government. Adding that as a leader, he has to accept the challenges of leadership and learn to live by them.

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Nigeria is a country that is very difficult to govern.

He said that no matter how hard he tries, some people would still find faults in his government. Adding that as a leader, he has to accept the challenges of leadership and learn to live by them.

The president said this while fielding questions from reporters after receiving some of his aides and close friends who visited him at the presidential villa in Abuja in commemoration of his 77th birthday.

“I think I come to accept the realities of leadership in Nigeria, you can only try, it is a terrific country, no matter what you do, there are people on daily basis that look for your faults and go to the press, so you have to learn to live by that,” he said.

https://ebeanonews..com/2019/12/no-matter-how-hard-i-try-nigerians.html?m=1

megawealth01:
Nigerians cannot forget in a hurry the good governance of late Umaru Musa Yar’adua.

It was indeed a time to remember, the good moment we have lost to the current leadership.

Many NIGERIANS witnessed the unforgettable Tenure of the late Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’adua. Let's continue praying for the late President to continue resting in peace.

THE TENURE NIGERIANS WILL NEVER FORGET:

•Petrol N65

•Diesel N112



•Rice N3,500

•Cement N750

•Fertilizer N2,500

•Bag of Sugar N7,000

•Bag of Flour N6,050

May the soul of the best President Nigeria ever had continue to rest with Almighty Allah. Amin



https://ebeanonews..com/2019/12/tribute-to-yaradua-time-when-rice-was.html?m=1

sapele914:
Rubbish imagination, same yaradua that refused to hand over power to Jonathan, even though he was a living dead? The man did absolutely nothing for Nigeria, Jehovah loves Nigeria, unless Obasanjo's plan was to destroy the country, yaradua the most ineffective president in the history of Nigeria, Ernest Shonekan is numero uno.

He spent 2 years in power, half of that was in hospital in Germany and Saudi Arabia?, Same yaradua I watched on CNN in an interview with Iesha Sesay with scabbies on his neck? Like I said God loves Nigeria, Obasanjo wan finish the country with bad Belle.

megawealth01:
Gov. Badaru wants corp members to learn farming skills, donates farmland to NYSC
tiamin rice
The Jigawa State Government has opened tender for the construction of 90 Friday congregational and five daily prayer mosques, across the 30 constituencies of the state.

Isma’il Ibrahim, the spokesperson, office of the Secretary to the State Government, made this known in a statement in Dutse on Tuesday.

According to him, the Chairman, Tender Board Committee and Permanent Secretary, Administration and Finance in SSG’s office, Muhammad Dagaceri, said the bid opening is for the second quarter of 2019.

Mr Ibrahim disclosed that 200 contractors are bidding for the contracts.

He added that, the representative of the state’s Due Process and Project Monitoring Bureau, Ghali Mu’azu, said the process of selecting the contractors would be transparent, fair and just.

Commenting on behalf of the bidders, the representative of Danfatu and Sons Nigeria Ltd., Yusif Saminu, expressed satisfaction with the bid opening process.

SOURCES;

https://ebeanonews..com/2019/12/jigawa-govt-to-construct-95-mosques.html?m=1


https://dailynigerian.com/jigawa-govt-to-construct-95-mosques-over-200-contractors-applied-for-bidding/

Donaldoni:
She may end up marrying a virgin guy...

Such is life!

godlyguy:
The Enugu State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress on Monday dismissed a media report that a former President of the Senate, Ken Nnamani, had concluded plans to defect to the Peoples Democratic Party.

It described the report as a figment of the writer’s imagination.

An online medium, African Examine, had reported that the former Senate President and a chieftain of the APC was making plans to return to his former party, the PDP.

But briefing journalists on the report, the state chairman of the APC, Dr Ben Nwoye, described those behind the rumour as haters of the APC.

Nwoye described the former Senate President as a patriotic Nigerian, whom he said worked hard for the reelection of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), in the last general election.

He said that when Senator Nnamani joined the APC, he addressed a press conference and wondered why people were speculating that he was defecting.

He insisted that politics is not driven by falsehood and character assassination, adding that Nnamani had the capacity to communicate to the public about his political position.

He said, “Nnamani has remained an active and valuable member of the APC whose reasoned opinion is highly valuable to the APC both at the regional and national levels.

“Those who have orchestrated this falsehood should look for positive means of channelling their energy. Politics is not driven by falsehood and character assassination.”


https://ebeanonews..com/2019/12/apc-dismisses-report-of-nnamanis.html?m=1

ALPHABASE:
DOMINIQUE LALASTICLALA MYND44

godlyguy:
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, on Monday, indicated that he could not ask the Department of State Service to release Omoyele Sowore from custody.

The minister said in the statement that he could not take a unilateral decision on the release of Sowore without recourse to the court, where the ‘RevolutionNow’ protests convener and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare, are being prosecuted on charges of treasonable felony, among others.

This is contained in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, Dr. Umar Gwandu, who stated that Malami was reacting to “the claim that a lawyer sent a letter to the AGF requesting the release of Mr. Sowore”.

The statement appeared to be a veiled reference to the letter by Sowore’s lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), sent to the AGF on Friday to demand the release of the convener of ‘RevolutionNow’ protests from the custody of the DSS.

Falana’s letter dated December 13, 2019, reported by The PUNCH on Monday followed the Friday’s announcement by the AGF office that it had taken over the prosecution of the Sahara Reporters’ publisher and Bakare from the DSS.


The AGF’s takeover of the case was informed by the widely condemned invasion of the Federal High Court in Abuja by the operatives of the DSS to rearrest Sowore on December 6.



https://ebeanonews..com/2019/12/cant-ask-dss-to-release-sowore-malami.html?m=1

godlyguy:
That guy thing go LONG ooooo, don't ask me what?

Balaxx:
Long Ting.mk i nor talk my mind sha,nah d woman go hear am

thebosstrevor:
patricia etteh, Diezani Alison-Madueke, patience jonathan, Turai Yar'Adua, Stella Oduah, Nkechi Ejele, Esther Nenadi Usma and many more, they are as corrupt as the men

thebosstrevor:
ok

identity politics in play..politicians will say anything just to be liked

but i will write this, we have had women leaders in Nigeria and they were as corrupt as the men.

IbyOneGod:
Fake story

godlyguy:
Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai last was recently praised by former Nigeria President, Olusegun Obasanjo which many political watchers attribute to 2023 Presidential tussle... The video below clearly defined the moments





https://ebeanonews..com/2019/12/2023-obasanjo-endorses-el-rufai-for.html?m=1

godlyguy:
President Muhammadu Buhari has advised Nigerian youths to stay and advance the cause of their motherland.

The president, who was represented by Suleiman Raman-Yusuf, the deputy executive secretary of National Universities Commission (NUC), was speaking during the 44th convocation ceremony of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) in Ile-Ife on Saturday.

“It is high time that universities took more proactive roles in ensuring that graduands perform more meaningfully in the world of works,” he said.

“It is in view of this that we wish to exhort our youths to start looking inwards, stay and advance the cause of their motherland. We have no other country than Nigeria. We should remain here to salvage the country together.”

Buhari said the future of Nigeria lies in the mode and quality of education provided to the citizenry adding that the government needs support with funding education.

He, therefore, tasked universities on the need for them to increase their internally generated revenue (IGR) to enhance sustainable education.

In his remarks, Eyitope Ogunbodede, the university’s vice-chancellor, announced that the university is currently reviewing the curricular of all academic programmes, in line with current developments and standards.

Ogunbodede added that emphasis was being placed on training job creators and not mere job seekers.

He informed the gathering that the university would no longer be dependent on the national grid, as it would soon generate its own electricity.

NAN reports that event witnessed the conferment of honorary doctorate degrees on some personalities including Ibukun Awosika, Chairman of First Bank of Nigeria Plc. and Benedict Oramah, President of African Export-Import Bank (AFREXIMBANK).


https://ebeanonews..com/2019/12/stay-back-and-develop-nigeria-buhari.html?m=1

Brandstudio01:

Op you're just looking for people that climb on one one another this morning. Repent Ooo

godlyguy:
President Muhammadu Buhari has advised Nigerian youths to stay and advance the cause of their motherland.

The president, who was represented by Suleiman Raman-Yusuf, the deputy executive secretary of National Universities Commission (NUC), was speaking during the 44th convocation ceremony of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) in Ile-Ife on Saturday.

“It is high time that universities took more proactive roles in ensuring that graduands perform more meaningfully in the world of works,” he said.

“It is in view of this that we wish to exhort our youths to start looking inwards, stay and advance the cause of their motherland. We have no other country than Nigeria. We should remain here to salvage the country together.”

Buhari said the future of Nigeria lies in the mode and quality of education provided to the citizenry adding that the government needs support with funding education.

He, therefore, tasked universities on the need for them to increase their internally generated revenue (IGR) to enhance sustainable education.

In his remarks, Eyitope Ogunbodede, the university’s vice-chancellor, announced that the university is currently reviewing the curricular of all academic programmes, in line with current developments and standards.

Ogunbodede added that emphasis was being placed on training job creators and not mere job seekers.

He informed the gathering that the university would no longer be dependent on the national grid, as it would soon generate its own electricity.

NAN reports that event witnessed the conferment of honorary doctorate degrees on some personalities including Ibukun Awosika, Chairman of First Bank of Nigeria Plc. and Benedict Oramah, President of African Export-Import Bank (AFREXIMBANK).


https://ebeanonews..com/2019/12/stay-back-and-develop-nigeria-buhari.html?m=1

godlyguy:
Former Speaker, House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogora has assured Nigerians that the dark days and challenges currently facing the country will certainly fade away one day.

He admonished the people to be rooted in God and remained law abiding that the current season will vanished one day.

Hon. Dogara disclosed this on Sunday in Jos during the thanksgiving service and commissioning of Constituency office for member representing Jos South/Jos East Federal Constituency of Plateau State in the House of Representatives, Hon. Dachung Musa Bagos.

“We are all aware of the challenges in the nation, some wonder what will happen tomorrow but I want to assure you that whatever difficulties we are passing through as a nation, it is just a season and the season will pass.

“Just like Christmas will pass, the season will pass; it will not remain forever. No matter how dark the days are, a new day will break; that should be our faith, that should be our hope and we should not despair. Very soon, we will see transformation.”

Hon. Dogara urged Jos South/Jos East Constituency to uphold and pray for their representative for more wisdom, fear of God and to continue with the strides he has started.

He said frequent changes of their representatives will not give them the opportunity to produce Speaker of the House and said it was because he was reelected severally by his constituents that he became Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Hon. Dachung Musa Bagos said he will continue to render selfless services to his constituents in fulfillment of his campaign promises.

“I desire to work each day in touching positively several lives in my constituency. I took an oath to represent them well and that I will continue to do each until my tenure finish.”


https://ebeanonews..com/2019/12/nigerias-dark-daysll-surely-fade-away.html?m=1

godlyguy:
Two families in Kisumu are mourning their two children who together committed suicide 4 days after their beautiful wedding.



According to Sources, the newly married couples allegedly killed themselves because of the huge debt they incurred after their wedding. Mr. & Mrs. Odipo left a note that they were stressed & strained because the beautiful wedding they had, left them with a debt of Ksh 7.9 Million. In the letter, they also stated that they could not go to honeymoon as planned.



They blamed those who attended their wedding of coming only to feast with no gifts. ” We are embarrassed & ashamed that we could not start our new life in happiness because you people did not make us happy as we expected, ” the letter reads. A family member who spoke to The Daily Statesman said the wedding was held in a five-star hotel which he declined to mention the hotel’s name.



She also revealed that 90 % of those invited were special guests VVIPs & VIPs pointing out the two couples used to brag how their guests will bring gifts in Millions of cash money. She also said 3 choppers were hired one for each family & another for the couple.



A neighbor to the husband said he once told him during the wedding preparation that he will use all his savings to finance the wedding since his guests are millionaires who will each come with sh1.5 Million.



He added that those who attended the wedding only brought flowers & Best of Luck cards



https://ebeanonews..com/2019/12/newly-married-couple-commits-suicide.html?m=1

godlyguy:
According to Africa Facts Zone, American rapper Cardi B made a whopping $1.8 million in the 72 hours she was in Ghana and Nigeria.

Cardi took home $1 million for her performance in Nigerian and was allegedly paid $800,000 for her show in Accra which was preceded and plagued with a lot of drama last night.Though this information can't be verified as at the time of this report, we can assume she would not be paid any less, considering how big and global the Cardi brand is.



Meanwhile, Cardi B has apologized to the Ghanaian celebs whom she shunned to have a bite of khebab when they were waiting patiently to meet her in a Meet & Greet session, unbeknownst to her that such thing has been prearranged..




https://ebeanonews..com/2019/12/cardi-b-allegedly-made-18-million-in.html?m=1

godlyguy:
Miss Nigeria 2019, Nyekachi Douglas has emerged Miss Africa 2019 in the concluded Miss World held in London.



Nyekachi Douglas who competed with about 113 other beauty queens made the Top 40 cut before she also one of the Top 12.





She didn’t stop there, she made the cut to Top 5 in the competition which was won by Miss Jamaica, Toni-Ann Singh while Miss India, Suman Rao, came in third place while Ophely Mezino of France was first runner-up.



However, she has now emerged Miss Africa 2019.

More photos HERE:


https://ebeanonews..com/2019/12/miss-nigeria-2019-nyekachi-douglas-has.html?m=1

godlyguy:
The Nation Newspaper
See me eating in prison, Orji Kalu tells visitor
December 14, 2019
I didn’t steal Abia’s N7.2b, says Kalu
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THIS is a classic instance of the instability of human conditions. At the age of 20, he had become a millionaire at a time the naira was worth more than the dollar. At 26, he became the youngest Nigerian to receive the National Merit Award during the Ibrahim Babangida-led military administration in 1986.

Orji Uzor Kalu became the governor of Abia State when he was not yet 40 and ruled the state for eight years between 1999 and 2007. He capped a life on the fast lane with his recent election as the senator representing Abia North, eventually emerging as the Chief Whip in the upper chamber of the National Assembly.

But all that took a dramatic turn penultimate Thursday with his conviction by the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court which sentenced him to 12 years imprisonment for N7.65 billion fraud while he held sway as Abia State governor.


Although he has become a prison inmate since then, Sentry gathered that the reality of his new condition did not dawn on him until some of his associates began to visit him in the prison. Recall that the former governor reportedly asked the prison officials who led him out of the court after the judge pronounced his conviction: “Where are we going now?”

A few days after he landed in prison, one of his business associates was said to have paid him a sympathy visit but was shocked at the pitiable picture cut by the former governor, who was said to be wearing a pair of bathroom slippers.

“See me now eating in the prison,” a pensive Kalu reportedly told his visitor, who struggled to find the words that could console him. An erstwhile colleague of his as governor, who spent some time in incarceration, also visited him. The flamboyant ex-governor advised him to stay strong and regard his travails as another phase of life.

Sentry gathered that the former Abia State governor has been moved from Lagos to the Kuje Prison in Abuja for reasons no one could fathom.



https://thenationonlineng.net/see-me-eating-in-prison-orji-kalu-tells-visitor/?fbclid=IwAR0kU8muMZ_Zd6sfjVC1YyxcH-bbLYyVolj71soyIpF2Fi62hG1I0AXfBC0

https://ebeanonews..com/2019/12/see-me-eating-in-prison-orji-kalu-tells.html?m=1

Hedonisco:
This account provides greater clarity on the events of that fateful evening.

But aspects of the narrative provided by the assailants are clearly bogus. For instance, I'm not sure it is the couple's responsibility to pay the fool's salary as the estate electrician. That is the responsibility of the facility management department of the estate. The estate employed you, not the couple, so they have no business with you..

What I can deduce is that the idiot must have been begging them for money with a sense of entitlement, as many disgusting Nigerians do. If they see a fairly well to do person, you expect such a person automatically owes you 'help' or freebies. Why?

The sense of entitlement of many poor Nigerians is mind boggling.

I hope these idiots rot in hell.

adekolaelect:
It will take centuries before you can be librated from where you are

General0847:
So it was Buhari who asked him to steal Abia govt money when he was governor? Nwanne stop this nonsense biko.

jahsharon:
Whom are you praying to? My God is not a thief, seems your own god is.

godlyguy:
The Nation Newspaper
See me eating in prison, Orji Kalu tells visitor
December 14, 2019
I didn’t steal Abia’s N7.2b, says Kalu
FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInWhatsAppEmail




THIS is a classic instance of the instability of human conditions. At the age of 20, he had become a millionaire at a time the naira was worth more than the dollar. At 26, he became the youngest Nigerian to receive the National Merit Award during the Ibrahim Babangida-led military administration in 1986.

Orji Uzor Kalu became the governor of Abia State when he was not yet 40 and ruled the state for eight years between 1999 and 2007. He capped a life on the fast lane with his recent election as the senator representing Abia North, eventually emerging as the Chief Whip in the upper chamber of the National Assembly.

But all that took a dramatic turn penultimate Thursday with his conviction by the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court which sentenced him to 12 years imprisonment for N7.65 billion fraud while he held sway as Abia State governor.


Although he has become a prison inmate since then, Sentry gathered that the reality of his new condition did not dawn on him until some of his associates began to visit him in the prison. Recall that the former governor reportedly asked the prison officials who led him out of the court after the judge pronounced his conviction: “Where are we going now?”

A few days after he landed in prison, one of his business associates was said to have paid him a sympathy visit but was shocked at the pitiable picture cut by the former governor, who was said to be wearing a pair of bathroom slippers.

“See me now eating in the prison,” a pensive Kalu reportedly told his visitor, who struggled to find the words that could console him. An erstwhile colleague of his as governor, who spent some time in incarceration, also visited him. The flamboyant ex-governor advised him to stay strong and regard his travails as another phase of life.

Sentry gathered that the former Abia State governor has been moved from Lagos to the Kuje Prison in Abuja for reasons no one could fathom.



https://thenationonlineng.net/see-me-eating-in-prison-orji-kalu-tells-visitor/?fbclid=IwAR0kU8muMZ_Zd6sfjVC1YyxcH-bbLYyVolj71soyIpF2Fi62hG1I0AXfBC0

https://ebeanonews..com/2019/12/see-me-eating-in-prison-orji-kalu-tells.html?m=1