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A naira to a rand is 23naira

However, a naira to a dollar is above 300..

Did you knw why a Rand to a naira is low? because we dnt demand for it!

Did u knw why a Rand to a dollar is low? because they dnt demand for it that much...


What sane country spends dollar as if it's her currency?

The crux of the Eto Igbe Ayo food palliative programme is to supply food items to 100,000 women resident across the state. Eligibility to be a beneficiary is to be a holder of the Ondo multi-application smart card, the Kaadi Igbe Ayo. The essence of using the card is to ensure only residents of the state benefit from the initiative, because over the years when social services are put in place in Ondo state, residents of neighbouring states flood the state to hijack such initiative targeted at Ondo state residents, thereby shortchanging the residents who should be the direct beneficiaries.

No doubt the hunger in the land calls for emergency attention of any serious government to take action in order to salvage its citizen from starvation, and not pretend that all will be well after payment of workers’ salaries which is not even enough to feed the family again with this present condition of the country. One would not but agree with Governor Olusegun Mimiko that “hunger is a desperate situation that needs desperate attention” and this calls for the intervention of government in order to avert deaths in the land resulting from hunger, an offspring of a collapse economy.

It will not be out of place to state that it is only a government that understands the magnitude of the problem presently ravaging the land that can tackle it and proffer a solution the way the Mimiko-led government is doing in Ondo state with the food palliative programme, by not shying away from the fact that monthly salary alone could no longer meet the needs of the people.

As expected naysayers and the politically jaundiced have gone to town to ascribe political meanings to the laudable initiative which has also been adopted by the Oyo state government few weeks after it was initiated in Ondo state. If caring for the people and saving them from the throes of death is apolitical, then wouldn’t it be safe to ask that politics be played in this line? Rather than playing politics of destruction and falsehood.

Apolitical or not, Sulaiman Olayinka, a resident of Ikare-Akoko and an excited beneficiary of the food palliative programme, full of joy as she receives her portable bags of the food items, described the initiative as a great and commendable programme for the needy, “at this critical time when people are lamenting and dying of hunger, it is a great step by the government to secure the future of our children, it is when you eat that you and your family can live at peace, in good health and also think about how to give your children a better future.”

Omotadowa Roseline is another beneficiary who said she has always believed in the programmes of the State Government, noted that “I was so happy when I heard it on radio that the governor is distributing food items to those who have Kaadi Igbe Ayo, I knew it was real when it was announced and not a deceit. It will have a very great impact on the family, because presently many parents don’t even have any means to feed their children with a cup of rice.”

jennifer10066:
where the heck is her breast?!

jennifer10066:
where the heck is her breast?!

Phantomstranger:
Thirded

saintikechi:
With our oil money they built the abuja to kaduna high speed train, and they are commissioning a cassava grinding machine in niger delta. Who is fooling who ?

Green Mile actor Doug Hutchison was 51 when he married 16-year-old Courtney Stodden, a move that drew a lot of criticism (and even death threats) from the press and public alike. 35 years younger than her hubby, his teen bride is a television personality and aspiring country singer.

One of the most famously controversial May-December romances is that of Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn. Previn was the adopted daughter of Allen's longtime girlfriend Mia Farrow (so he was basically her stepfather). Farrow and Allen separated in 1992 after she discovered nude photographs of 20-year-old Previn taken by the famous director. With an age difference of 35 years, Allen and Previn were married in 1997.

Britain's biggest age gap couple split

Wrinkly romeo Brian Sadler has ditched his 21-year-old lover because he gets out of puff during romps.

Friends and family were stunned when pretty Kay Brooks announced she had fallen for the balding OAP, who at 70 is nearly 50 years her senior.

But their jaws hit the floor when he said HE was dumping HER, in the shock announcement last year.

In March 1977, michael Douglas, who was 32 years old at the time, married 19-year-old Diandra Luker, the daughter of an Austrian diplomat.They had one son, Cameron, born in 1978.

irunoko:
ARE YOu serious. So assuming you have a 19yr old daughter who came home one day and said daddy Brown I don't want to go to school again I want to marry,not just marry marry her fathers mate you'll be happy abi
There's something you need to realise.hapiness has nothing to do with your marital status ANd so sometimes as a parent you have to say NO to some stupidities your children come up with which will cause temporary unhappiness because you see the bigger picture of hapiness and fulfilment for the child
Also at 19 your mates are developing their careers and life and you're talking about marriage.really? If the likes of dangote married at 19 will he have focus to develop his career
Like seriously Mr Brown.YOU should know better

UIA04:
The price for recklessness and not cutting your coat according to your cloth

Why acquire a liability with loans?

maggilove:
When many nigerians are still struggling to eat one meal in a day. Na wao

Controversial #SaveMayowa campaign

In July 2016, a Nollywood actress, Toyin Aimakhu, initiated a social media campaign, tagged “#SaveMayowa,” requesting her colleagues and members of the public to raise money to save the life of an ovarian cancer patient named Mayowa Ahmed.

The campaign was initiated to raise funds for the victim to undergo surgery in a foreign hospital.

Soon after the campaign started on an online crowdfunding platform, gofundme.com, several Nigerians started responding so as to save the life of the victim, with donations reaching over $100,000 (N30m) within few days.

However, there were reports that the #SaveMayowa campaign was allegedly a scam after Aimakhu said she got to know that Mayowa’s case was beyond treatment.

Aimakhu alleged that the patient’s family were using the victim’s condition to defraud the members of the public, thus sparking a controversy on the social media.

According to reports, Aimakhu said she got to know that doctors at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital who were handling Mayowa’s case had said they refused to give the family a referral for treatment abroad as no hospital could save her because her cancer was already at stage four.

The LUTH officials reportedly told the family not to bother to go for further treatment as it was not necessary.

The campaign added a new twist after the founder of Lifestake Foundation, Aramide Kasumu, who was involved in the fundraise, alleged that the family of the victim lied that only N30m had been raised while indeed around N85m had been raised.

Kasumu, in a video posted online on his social media page, also accused the victim’s family of deceiving the public.

Following the controversy, Aimakhu alleged Mayowa’s family were using her bad state of health to defraud Nigerians.

She also accused the family of cutting everyone off after the money was raised.

Toyin said “When I got wind of Mayowa’s sickness, I was moved to tears and immediately sought to know how I could help, hence my on-the-spot video which went viral as my genuine intervention.

“Indeed, I was overwhelmed by the quick response of well-meaning Nigerians to whom I will forever owe a debt of gratitude. But all this changed yesterday, Thursday, July 28, 2016 when I went to the hospital in the morning to check as well as follow up on Mayowa. Her brother had told everyone to leave them alone because they wanted privacy.

“Although I was shocked at the sudden change in attitude, especially the tone of communication, I still did not suspect anything was amiss. However, on my way out, I received a call from one Aramide Kasumu of Life Stake Foundation, who would later claim the whole Mayowa Ahmed fundraiser was a scam. Importantly, she wanted to know the extent of my involvement and in her words, ‘so that when they were giving their reports, I would not be roped into it.’

“She went further to state that the family deceived everyone in the first place by raising funds for Mayowa despite the fact that her case was helpless and the hope of her survival was near impossible. She seemed to know so much, I reckoned.

“Upon hearing this, I was appalled and in a bid to clear my name, I went back to the hospital in palpable anger and demanded explanations from all concerned. Perhaps, I overreacted when I went into a rage of anger over the matter with the Chief Security Officer. I then alerted the police, who invited the parties involved to the police command.”

However, Mayowa’s family also accused Aimakhu of demanding for part of the money and requesting they foot her bills to fly abroad with Mayowa, alleging that their refusal was what enraged the actress.

The family said they didn’t want to give up on their daughter and had contacted some doctors in Dubai for treatment.

They said Mayowa had been misdiagnosed by many hospitals in the country and they had sought funds for an alternative and better diagnosis abroad.

They said, “The funds raised are solely for Mayowa’s treatment and for no other reason. We await her visa to commence the journey as we are in touch with the doctors abroad and they are awaiting her arrival. We appreciate the contributions made by Nigerians on this journey.

“We have been misled by the so-called top hospitals in Nigeria which have only helped to make the issue worse. We require every support to help to give our dear Mayowa another attempt to regain her life and leave the remaining as God has ordained.”

Meanwhile, the hospital management said they would investigate the controversy surrounding Mayowa’s case, while the Lagos State Police Command, on learning about the issue, had frozen the bank account opened to raise money for the victim pending when investigations are concluded.

The command’s spokesperson, Dolapo Badmos, said in a statement that the state police commissioner, Fatai Owoseni, “directed full investigation into the report that the ‘Save Mayowa Campaign’ is a fraud” and that the report of the investigation will be made public.”

The statement added that Kasumu and two members of Ahmed family – Mr. Iwaloye Seun and Mrs. Zaneen Ahmed – had earlier been invited to the command’s headquarters for questioning.

It said in part, “…subsequently, the command has placed a red alert on the bank account opened in the name of Mayowa as it has been frozen while effort is ongoing to contact the managers of Gofundme online account so as to ensure funds raised through that platform is not fraudulently diverted.

“Investigation will be extended to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, where the patient is currently undergoing treatment.

The allegations surrounding the case are that doctors at LUTH had told the Ahmed family that Mayowa’s ailment had reached a terminal stage and therefore could not be treated, but that the family had continued to raise money in spite of that.”

A dark-complexioned middle-aged woman carrying a baby on her back approached our correspondent on a sunny afternoon last Thursday at a motor park in Iyana-Ipaja, Lagos. In her left hand was an A4-size brown envelope with an inscription, “Motherless babies’ home,” while on her right hand was a church-like offering bag. It contained a few naira notes.

After some moments of eye contact, she finally asked our correspondent, “Wouldn’t you also give our sick children some money? They need your support; anything you have, please give them. They need to be taken to the hospital for treatment. I am one of the women taking care of them and we have been going out to solicit for funds to give better life to the kids.”

After discovering our correspondent wouldn’t budge, she intensified her sermon. She obviously wasn’t going to give up.
Due to her persuasion, our correspondent asked whether she could give the address of the motherless babies’ home she was representing for a possible assistance in the future.

At this juncture, her morale dropped.

“But why asking for an address when there is an opportunity for you to give? There is really no need for you to come. Just give to the children and you will see what God will do in your life. We are not asking for much; give any amount you have now. These children need support urgently,” she said, now turning aggressive.

Seeing that her appeal was yielding no fruit, she left, on to another passenger.

Few minutes later, a man pushed a young girl to the park in a wheelbarrow. The girl was apparently ill, a part of her face covered with bandage. She was paralysed, couldn’t utter a word, except that she gestured with her hands.

The man carrying her wore a crumpled brown shirt and a white ‘Damanga’ cap, with a white badge which read that the girl he was pushing was suffering from paralysis and she needed help.

Though the girl got some help that day from some compassionate passengers, it was in the pocket of the man pushing her that the money went in; unfortunately, the girl looked too frail to demand any form of accountability from him.

Eventually, the money might not be used for the purpose for which it was collected, according to Saturday PUNCH findings.

The findings showed that when sick people such as the girl make some money while begging, they are usually being ripped off in the end by the people who carry them about.

Our correspondent also learned that oftentimes, the guardians of the sick people are the ones who enter into a partnership with the care assistants to carry their sick people around and any money made in the process would be shared between them.