Jamaican Proverb -" Pig ask ‘im Mumma wha mek har mout’ long so; Mumma sey, ‘No mind pickney, yuh a grow, yuh wi see"

Meaning
The pig asked his Mother why her mouth was so long; Mother said, ‘Don’t worry child, you are growing, you will see.’ Meaning: Eventually children will learn about the challenges of life.

indadi:
My Dad called me this evening to tell me the essence of praying. The thing is that I don't believe praying solves anything Atleast to me. the day I stopped believing and started working more on myself, I found out that things started getting better for me than those who goes to the Church and Mosques.

When I think about a lot of things I have read and what I have experienced I feel like I have always been deceived all my life.

The Pastors and Prophets with their fake miracles or the Boko Haram and their suicide with the reasons of going to heaven to get virgins.

I currently live with them though I plan on moving to my own place by the end of this year or early next year.

I really want to tell them in a polite way so they can accept my way.

My Dad won't accept this, as he believes that it is God or nothing.

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What does the OP have to say about Psalm 35, Psalm 69, Psalm 109 ...just to mention a few?

Use Excel FV Function

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRYpCax-bS0

Corsodyl toothpaste and Corsodyl mouth-wash is what you need. I'm not sure if its available in Nigeria.But if you can get them your problem will be solved instantly.

I came across this 2 links where it says the mouth-wash costs about ₦ 1,225 Naira & ₦ 1,149.75 respectively

http://www.thedrugstorelimited.com/shopping/Product-Corsodyl-Daily-Defence-Mouthwash_259.aspx

https://www.malbopharmacy.com/mouth-wash-rinse/142-corsodyl-original-mouthwash-200ml.html

Goodluck!

So Obama was a military man before becoming US President?..

it's strange and inexcusable that a VP is being locked out of security meetings....what an insult on the VP office, if the story is true !

In discussing this very volatile issue, let me make one point very clear. I speak from a very informed perspective. This is not just one of those social commentaries.

I worked in the downstream petroleum sector for about 36 months as legal counsel and this was at the peak of the subsidy crisis. I handled and prepared critical documents, advised on transactions and participated in the subsidy scheme as a staff of the one of biggest indigenous players in the sector. I have a perfect understanding of the system from the point where these products are negotiated and bought from refineries abroad to the contract for their shipping....from arrival at the Port in Nigeria to the inspections and the final destination at designated tank farms, so I speak with authority. When the subsidy probe started, I also made several submissions to the National Assembly Committees and also was at the EFCC during the investigations.

Weak and reactive leadership is a disaster to any organization that has it. The hallmark of great leadership is the ability to identify risks and institute effective risk management systems. No organization in this world can survive uncontrolled hemorrhage of scarce resources.
The subsidy scheme became an issue under President Obansanjo. It was under him that the concept of petroleum importation became full blown. For reasons best known to the wily Owu Chief, our four refineries were left to rot while our country relied on fuel importation. That policy remained the biggest disservice former President Obasanjo did to this country.

However, as bad as that policy was under OBJ, there was still some level of sanity and control. At no time under OBJ did subsidy payments exceed 190 billion Naira annually. There were stringent measures that controlled the participation of companies under the subsidy scheme.
Just before OBJ left office, he sold two of our refineries to Dangote and Otedola, a measure that would have worked if fully implemented. It is beyond doubt that the private sector remains the best economic and commercial managers. Government is a cesspool of waste and corruption.

When late President Yar'adua took over, he rode on a staccato of uninformed voices to reverse the sale of the refineries. He reversed the sale but did nothing to bring the refineries back to work. He continued to run the subsidy scheme and kept the restive sanity in the system. As at the time Yar'adua died, Nigeria's subsidy burden was about 230 billion Naira per annum.
Now for the uninformed, the petroleum subsidy scheme is a system where the federal government, on a bid to reduce the cost of fuel paid by Nigerians chooses to pay the difference between the landing cost of petrol imports, the prevailing price of the commodity at the international market and what is actually sold in Nigeria.

For instance, if the landing cost of petrol in Nigeria is, say, N 115, and after adding lightering charges and other logistics costs, the price of petrol should be N147, the federal government asks the marketers to sell at N97 and decides to pay the marketers the difference per litre.
Now enter President Goodluck Ebelechukwu Azikiwe Mainasara Jehoshaphat Effiong Jonathan!Under him, subsidy costs jumped from 200 billion Naira to over 1.2 trillion in the first two years of his government.

Why? What happened?

Did the population of Nigerian triple within that period or did the number of cars quadruple? Was there an industrial revolution? The answer is simple. Again, I speak from an informed position.Due to weak regulatory regimes, the downstream sector became an all comers affair. Every Tom, Dick and Harry entered the business. Companies with no verifiable addresses, no tank farms, no vessels, no financial structures, no bank guarantees all became fuel importers. It was a bazaar. It is only in Nigeria that such bizzare things can happen. Emergency millionaires were made in days. Time and space won't allow me to give you details of the unbelievable things that happened. Every top official of the federal government became an emergency fuel importer or middle man. Importation licenses were hawked openly. All you needed was for the PPPRA to give you a license to import. You could sell it for millions just outside the door.

Now there is a complex web that links the Petroleum Ministry, the DPR, thE Navy, the NPA, NIMASA,PPPRA, DMO, CBN and Commercial Banks in this fraud. Documents like the sovereign debt statements and the sovereign debt notes flew about and our money kept disappearing. From about 30 companies in the scheme, the number shot up to 300. Monthly, billions of Naira were paid out to people who have never had any contact with a Jerry can of fuel in their lives. No verification, no authentication, nothing. Money was being paid with reckless abandon. Dr Okonjo Iweala and Mrs Alison Madueke were all there watching! It got so bad that some people will arrange with ship owners......take a two day hire of an empty ship, move it to Lagos Port, berth it there. Officials of the PPPRA, Petroleum Ministry, DPR will come there to inspect an empty vessel and certify that the empty vessel carried 10,000 metric tons of petrol, collect their money and walk away. The vessel simply sails away and three weeks later, close to 6 billion Naira will be paid as subsidy when not even a single drop of petrol was brought in.

It was when the government saw that it could no longer sustain that level of waste that GEJ made that attempt at removing subsidy which was stoutly and rightly rejected by Nigerians. If you recall, the call for the probe of the Subsidy fraud didn't even come from the Presidency. GEJ never called for any probe. Neither did Alison Madueke nor Okonjo Iweala. The call for probe was triggered off by the submissions of Senator Bukola Saraki on the floor of the Senate when he took time to tell the sad story of the biggest fraud in modern Nigeria called FUEL SUBSIDY.Nigerians should ask GEJ to tell us how our subsidy burden jumped from 200 billion to 1.4 trillion in two years.

Between 2008 and 2013, the PPPRA was about the most corrupt government office in Nigeria. People who worked there lived like Emperors. They spent dollars like there was no tomorrow. Only the privileged found their way there. Each time I went to their office in Abuja then, I left with a heavy heart. This country is in serious trouble.The only time sanity came to that sector was when GEJ brought Reginald Stanley, former Group General Manager of PPMC who also headed the London Branch of the NNPC into the picture. Reginald Stanley cleaned up the PPPRA, redeployed close to 80% of the workers and rejigged the subsidy program. It was then discovered that more than 60% of the funds paid as subsidy in the last three years were paid wrongly and fraudulently.That was when the subsidy probe started. Out of the over 300 companies that were collecting subsidy, it was found that not up,to 30 were really importing fuel. Close to 700 billion Naira were stolen in the subsidy scheme. Till date, not a single person has been convicted.

Again, throughout the five years that GEJ ran this country, not one single attempt was made to even find out what is the problem with our refineries.And yet, people say I shouldn't blame GEJ! Who should I blame?

by Kabiru Dutse

Tallesty1:
If I were in your shoes I will collect the link to the site that has her secrets.

Absolutely correct!

You need to see what public information is held about the lady you want to marry....too important to ignore...

1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying alone.
8. It’s OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present.
12. It’s OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don’t compare your life to others’. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don’t worry; God never blinks.
16. Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
17. You can get through anything if you stay put in today.
18. A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.
19. It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don’t take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Overprepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: “In five years, will this matter?”
27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone everything.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn’t do.
35. Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger.
36. Growing old beats the alternative – dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood. Make it memorable.
38. Read the Psalms. They cover every human emotion.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back.
41. Don’t audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
42. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
43. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
44. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
45. The best is yet to come.
46. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
47. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
48. If you don’t ask, you don’t get.
49. Yield.
50. Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift.

http://shebrand.com/step-up-45-life-lessons-five-to-grow-on/

A Yoruba adage says: Ese girigiri ni ile anjofe Erin ku ao renikan, anjofe ku ko ri eni sin.

Translation:There is a multitude of leg in the house of a free-giver, the elephant died no one came ,the free-giver died and there was no one to bury him. Meaning that when it is sweet people will rally round you and when it is the other way round you are on your own.

I read it somewhere that this Yoruba family were trained by Igbo kidnappers who are the masters of the trade...

NigerMan1:


You are correct my friend.

But the problem is most Yorubas LACK this virtue. Believe me if this family were Igbos the entire social media will by now AGOG with insults, name callings and generic tribal bashing.

In fact this thread would be reaching PAGE 30 now filled Yoruba bashing.

Also the entire markets, homes, streets and offices in Yorubaland will be busy INSULTING, Deriding Igbos over this incident.

Majority Yorubas are basically brought to HATE Igbo people and to look out for negative things about them.

Now this is a new dimension in kidnapping - a whole family kidnapping kids for ransom!!!

And they are YORUBAS!

Use the traditional learning method popular in Europe : Look, cover, write, check.

There is no solution to this question.

This is because the addition of odd numbers always results in an odd number, but 30 is not an odd number.

Eggcelent:
The blame game won't help the PDP. Washing their dirty linen in the open will rather weaken the party even more. Whatever they want to say to one another should be done internally. Nigeria won't benefit from having only one dominant party. PDP needs to remain strong for sake of our democracy.

Absolutely correct

I would say GEJ has fufilled Obasanjo's assignment...

@OP,

First, the amount you are currently earning is really not much in comparison to your earning potential in the US i.e 75,000 Naira is less than $400 a month. In the US you can earn more than that in a week alone, if you are not lazy. So from the earning perspective US is certainly appealing.

In terms of education and training for your career and personal development, the US will advance you exponentially in a shorter time and with less frustration, if you are a determined and focused person.

So no argument, US is a better location than Nigeria; at least for the above reasons.

However, in order to function and get the best of the US your need your presence in the country to be regulated; otherwise you will regret ever leaving Nigeria.

These are the practical questions you need to ask:
• Is your sister living in the US legally?
• What type of a lifestyle is she living? Is she married? Have kids? Working or on State Benefit?
• What type of permit is she planning to get you, and what is the certainty that it will be successful?
• Are you planning to leave Nigeria on a visa bearing your name and legally issued visa?
• Regularisation of your stay has to be done before your visa expire, so why do you need to HIDE, at least before the visa expires?
• Under the scenario of 'hiding' what are you supposed to be doing in-doors for 6 months?


Your sister is the best person to direct the questions to. Afterwards do your due diligence based upon her responses. If you cannot find satisfactory answers to the above survival’s questions then I will advise you to romantically hug and kiss your 75,000 Naira job until GOD open up better opportunities for you in the future.

Take care and may GOD guide you into the right path for your life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYjoreVoIq4

You need to register the copyright for this writeup...it's unique....

Keenysbojan:
The Geographical map of a
woman.
Between 18 and 20, a woman is
like
Africa. Half discovered, half-wild,
naturally beautiful with fertile
deltas.
Between 21 and 30, a woman is
like
America. Well developed and
open to
trade, especially for someone
with cash.
Between 31 and 35, she is like
India. Very
hot, relaxed and convinced of her
own
beauty.
Between 36 and 40, a woman is
like
France. Gently aging but st...ill a
warm and
desirable place to visit.
Between 41 and 50, she is like
Yugoslavia.
Lost the war, haunted by past
mistakes.
Massive reconstruction is now
necessary.
Between 51 and 60, she is like
Russia,
Very wide and borders are un-
patrolled.
The frigid climate keeps people
away.
Between 61 and 70, a woman is
like
Mongolia. A glorious and all
conquering
past but alas, no future.
After 70, they become like
Afghanistan.
Everyone knows where it is, but
no one
wants to go there.


that is Genevieve for you

Germany is going to win

GEJ says: Brazil must set up a committee to look into this humiliation....

Sometime I think that Jonathan’s advisers are actually working for the opposition. At every turn they give him so much bad advice that I think they are working for his enemies. His decisions are so loaded with very naive and expensive mistakes.

How can you tell a distinguished, international, and famous banker to resign over a letter which leakage you cannot evidently trace back to him?

Where is the proof that Sanusi leaked the letter to Obasanjo? A letter that was sent in September and has been lying around for months with no action taken on it, not until Obasanjo mentioned it in his letter.

It is interesting that:

• Stella Oduah who arrogantly ignored due process to obtain cars worth N255 Million can keep her job.
• Stella Oduah whose academic record is dubious can keep her job
• Alamieyeseigha who stole from Bayelsa till the state became dizzy can be pardoned
• Those who are responsible for the missing $49.5 Billion or $10 Billion dollars need not be queried

But the Governor of the Central Bank with few months left to retire can been asked to resign with “immediate effect and automatic alacrity” because of a leaked letter.

Absolutely!

Symphony007: As president to preserve the grandure and efficacy of your office and influence on others, you have to pick your fights carefully. Fights you know, you can win. Pres. Jonathan in asking for mr sanusi lamido's resignation did a massive miscalculation. It makes one wonder what his advisers are there for.
You do not need a rocket scientist to tell you that sanusi lamido sanusi will not resign the governorship of the central bank five months to the end of his term. Five months to the end of a very consequential governorship. A term that saw the most radical shake up of the nigerian banking sector ever. Five months to the end of a term that made sanusi lamido appear on the time's most influential people's list. Everybody will agree that sanusi lamido's term has been really monumental, the man impacted his nation and in doing so stepped on many toes. Who can forget when the national assembly almost lynched him for saying they consume 25% of the national budget. Sanusi lamido ushed nigeria's economy into a new era and got international recognition and awards for it.
And after that consequential term as governor of the central bank and only five months to go, the president asks sanusi to resign. Sanusi will never do that. Doing that will be catastrophic for him. It will be the equivalent of sanusi leaving office on crawling rather than with heads held high. The manner in which he lives office will evicirate his record and affect his future endervors. You do not expect a man who has built a sterling career in banking from the private to public sector to live office in disgrace because of a petty and unproven letter leaking allegation. The president whatever his feeling should have endured 5 months for sanusi to go and then pick whoever he wants to succeed him. But he picked a fight he won't wins as sanusi will never leave office crawling after his great service, rather, with head held high.

@OP,

Are you not the same person who started the topic below?

Could you be the person needing this advice instead of an imaginary friend?

Just asking, no offense intended.

https://www.nairaland.com/1579552/please-advice

@Sincere9gerian,

Your avid and unwavering support of GEJ is indicative that you are Reuben Abati.

Having gone through most of your topics/comments it is inconceivable that you are not Abati..

Anyway, go on soun...man must wack (earn a living)...

Sincere 9gerian: If you ask me, GEJ should remain president of Nigeria till 2040. But if that is impossible, I can manage till 2019.

The consensus out there now is that GEJ is the best president Nigeria ever had, atleast in the last 3-4 decades.

This govt has given Nigerians, irrespective of ethnic or religious divide, a FRESH AIR that is sincere, progressive, dependable, sustainable, refreshing and most importantly, that can be SEEN.

God bless our president, all those working with him and all those that are working FOR the PROGRESS of my fatherland!

Shame on the nay sayers, cynics, tribal/religious bigots, enemies of progress and sabotuers!

Controversy is once again ‘rocking’ Aso Rock.

A YouTube video suggesting the Presidency recently flew to Kenya with seven private jets has got many chatting on social network already.

The 19-second video clip shows a Kenyan woman (addressing a group of Journalists during a press briefing in Nigeria), mocking President Goodluck Jonathan‘s December 2013 trip to the East African country for its Independence celebration. ‘Your president visited our country with seven private jets and that’s never happened before’, said the Kenyan woman (who is yet to be identified).


Source: http://www.nigerianeye.com/2014/01/did-president-jonathan-really-take-7.html



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ACoYwwKlqw

It's interesting that President Umaru Yar'Adua left Nigeria on 23 November 2009 for medical treatment too exactly 4 years ago....hmmmm

digospel2:


It is true that Jesus is no longer in the grave but the power that raise Him from the death can be contacted at the tomb. Elisha died, buried and rotten but many years later the anointing in him raised the death . President Jonathan is simply contacting power for better performance and continuity.

Even Oritsejafor himself know that this is all a joke.

A President who needs prayer to perform his duties is like a student looking for prayer to pass a major exam without any study programme.

Pure unadulterated comedy.

It doesn't take much prayer to know what needs to be done to fix the situations in the pic below

Jona boy! I like your game...religiously on your knees everywhere while:

(a) The looting of the nation's resources goes on (Stella Oduah etc..)
(b) University students of the nation are wasting away at home doing nothing (ASUU strike etc..)
(c) There is still no established structure of Social Protection/Safety Net from hunger, homelessness, illiteracy, disease etc
(d) Electricity is still unstable in 2013

Jona, if I were you I will get up from my knees and take bold and practical actions that will positively affect Nigeria for generations yet to come .

But not this stupid photo opportunities with sycophantic and selfish religious leaders who are fighting for what they can gain for themselves, so they can live comfortably at the expense of the poor, weak, and helpless masses.

Only the religious fools will believe this trip/pictures serves any national purpose .

iterator25: If this is true, I'm coming back home

Gullible Nigerians! So you left Nigeria because home and car loans were not available?

Anyway, if this news is true then it is because of 2015 and nothing else.

This is political trick called appeasement i.e using material concessions to buy vote.

The policy will never take off and if it does it will last only but a few months.