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@OP, you got it partly wrong. This couple probably were students in 2004, but i can tell you that to some extent both are from middle class families. If you have your pic while in school and your not hungry 10 years later, compare both pics of yours
You can only say that the girl isn't in the class of the type that are available nowadays, but back then there was some element of true love
Ask around, what kind of guy has a mobile phone in 2004. Not a poor boy oo. So the pic you see today is not just because of love, they both saw potentials in themselves

greenleed:
it's currently sold for 120,000

And this will accommodate how many laying birds at a time?
Where is your location?
Does it include cost of transportation?
Is there an additional cost for setting it up?
How many of this do i require on a 60 X 100 ft plot of land?

Kindly revert

RichYoungNigga:
In Nigeria ??
In this Buhari regime ??

I will advice you to buy some goats with the money, at least the goat can give you kids and you can sell the kids and triple your money

This guy has made a load of sense, but a lot would just ignore

** if you have some space in your compound, consider raising broilers for christmas, your experience might open you up to a future business (not necessarily agric) thereafter

Why do people complain about the high fees paid by students of private institutions?
You hardly find all these there. See halls of residence, same goes for one Med School in the east
I am sure most parents who send their wards to some of our institutions hardly see what they go through all in the name of 'quality education'
This a'int normal in this age and time...We've got a long way to go
The VC isn't going to fund the projects from his pocket. It's either government increases allocation or the students pay more....It is well with Naija

I can relate to this very well, my current land lady lives in the UK, she asked her brother to build her house and the guy did as expected. Today she is practically rebuilding the while house. Changing lights, rewiring, changing windows, erecting 'pillars' etc. Sometimes its better to chop suya with your money than asking a relative build for you.

CAPSLOCKED:

IT'S A MERE COMIC BOOK.. .. THE WORLD IS REALIZING THERE'S NO NEED FOR IT.

The way of the Cross is foolishness to those that are perishing.

Funny how these so called 'achievers' go about brandishing some CV and the youths see them as role models. Little wonder someone said behind many successes is a crime. Same goes for the highly revered lawyer whom people never knew was pallying judges. Sincerely, people should celebrate themselves irrespective of ones level or status cos there really are very few achievers cum role models in the true sense of it

saints2:
Are you for real?? You mean you can do this if you are a doctor? Maybe you need to read the story once again..

Then tell them o go home and come back when the beds are free.

zibi2:

. Bad Belle. You can't dispute his achievement

Copied from one of the most brilliant writers on zukerville.

In 1999, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu was elected Governor of Lagos State. His then party, the Alliance for Democracy (AD) produced all the governors of the South West.
By 2003, Tinubu was the only governor left in the AD. He was under pressure to decamp but he stayed. He built the party and it became stronger.
For the eight years that he ruled Lagos, he hired several guys to work with him. I think he carefully picked them. Apart from using them to work in his government, he also groomed them for the future.
Eight years down the line, see where those Tinubu guys are today -

1. Prof Yemi Osinbajo, SAN was Tinubu's Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice. He is today, Nigeria's Vice President.
2. Rauf Aregbesola was Tinubu's Commissioner for Works. Today he is serving his second tenure as Governor of Osun State.
3. Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN was Tinubu's Chief of Staff and successor in office. He is today Nigeria's Minister of Power, Works and Housing.
4. Alhaji Lai Mohammed was Tinubu's first Chief of Staff. He is today, Nigeria's Minister of Information.
5. Babatunde Fowler was appointed by Tinubu as Chairman of the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service. Today, he is the Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service.

At the National Assembly, there are countless "Tinubu boys" who have occupied and are still occupying seats till today.
Since 1999, the Tinubu camp has produced almost 98% of the members of the National Assembly from Lagos State.

Forget politics, this man is a political enigma.
Rewind to 1999, I am sure most of us have forgotten the names of the People who were elected Governors then. Some of them have gone out of circulation. Some are gasping for breath politically. Indeed, most of them are no longer relevant today.
Who still remembers Mbadinuju of Anambra State, Jolly Nyame of Taraba, Mohammed Lawal of Kwara, Segun Osoba of Ogun, Attahiru Bafarawa of Sokoto, Achike Udenwa of Imo, Victor Attah of Akwa Ibom, Orji Uzor Kalu of Abia? That one has lost two consecutive senatorial elections.

But Tinubu has not only managed to remain extremely relevant, he has continued to control Lagos politics 100%. Not only that, he manages to carry his boys along and today they occupy critical positions in our national life.

Take it or leave it, Tinubu is today, Nigeria's most powerful politician. It didn't just happen by chance. He worked very hard for it. Very very hard.

The hallmark of a true leader is not just the ability to rule well but also the ability to nurture and groom his associates.

Cc: Lalasticlala
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A former Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has expressed support for President Muhammadu Buhari’s effort at tackling corruption, saying graft remains Nigeria’s biggest impediment to achieving Sustainable Development Goals.

Speaking on September 30 as a guest lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, United States, Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala said the president was confronting corruption “head on” and was setting the example that would directly help root out corruption in other sectors of the government.

“The new president of the country who is just taking office has made it the central plan of his administration to fight corruption to root it out, and he sets about restructuring some of the key agencies where things are happening, setting example,” the former minister said at the 2015 Holts Lecture of the Pennsylvania University Law School.

“I think with that when you see example in one place, it sends the message about what should happen in other places. I think this is being confronted head on. And I think and hope that with what is going on and what we tried to do in the previous administration, bringing more transparency to way of doing business.

Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala said with “the example being set by the president” she was hopeful Nigeria will get rid of corruption.
The former minister discussed Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs, and how illicit financial flow could impede the post 2015 development agenda, especially in developing countries like Nigeria.

Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala said although funds needed for SDGs are huge, blocking illicit financial flow could help free up the needed funds.

Eighty per cent of the SDGs are infrastructural goals which require $6 trillion in funding for the next 15 years, Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala said.

She said current global funding for infrastructures stood at $1.7 trillion, and 60 per cent of the SDGs and their funding are to be borne by developing countries – justifying why corruption must be confronted.

Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala said as minister, she made efforts to improve transparency and fight corruption in the government, but regretted allegations of corruption directed at her after leaving office.

She also hinted that her decision to join the Goodluck Jonathan government — after serving in the Obasanjo government – may have been mistaken.

“When the opportunity came to go for it for the second time, I went, perhaps unwisely, but I went because no one will fight this corruption for us, we have to do it ourselves….,” she said. “But having left government, I have come under attack with people saying she’s done this or that, trying to join you in the group of the corrupt.”

Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala commented on Mr. Buhari assigning the petroleum ministry to himself.

“I think the president has the prerogative to do a lot of things, and this is not the first time in our country. President Obasanjo was also the president of Petroleum Resources in his time. I am not saying this is the best way or best practice but I am just saying for our circumstances it is not the first time,” she said.

“If that will bring more clarity, more openness, more transparency to the way the oil sector is done no problem, it’s ok. But if it will not, we have to ask questions.”

She lamented the failure of the Nigerian National Assembly to pass the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, a failure she blamed on vested interests.

“This bill has the power to transform the entire petroleum industry where there is a lot of corruption,” she said. “And with that we would have commercialized the oil company (NNPC), made it open up its books but the heavy lobbying by both the domestic vested interests and the international vested interests blocked this.”

Source: Premium Times

As Nigerians continue to react to Vincent Enyeama's retirement, Chief Adegboye Onigbinde has called on the Nigeria Football Federation to comb the country towards finding quality goalkeeping talents.

The 32-year-old pulled the curtain on his international career, 13 years after making his debut for the Super Eagles.

According to Onigbinde who discovered him and later took him to the 2002 Fifa World Cup where his awe-inspiring displays earned him the No.1 jersey, Enyeama stands out among his peers and has served the country very well.

“Enyeama is a grown up man and if he feels he has had enough, we should congratulate him for the services he has rendered and wish him all the best,” Onigbinde told Goal.

“When I started recruiting for the Super Eagles for the 2002 Fifa World Cup, I went to watch a game between Enyimba and Julius Berger in Abeokuta, he stood out in the game and I invited him to the Super Eagles.

“There were some good goalkeepers’ qualities that I saw in him which most in the Nigerian league do not have, so I made up my mind that he was going to be in my team.”

With fingers pointing at coach Sunday Oliseh who has been held responsible for the former Enyimba goalkeeper’s decision, Onigbinde said Nigeria should stop crying over spilt milk, rather the NFF should start hunting for better goalkeepers for the senior national team.

“The incident in Belgium wasn’t Enyeama's first trouble with the national team, and I guess this time around, there are some certain things he does not like about the national team set up and decided to quit. If that is the case, I think he has made the right decision,” he continued.

“This is not the time to lament his retirement, instead we should look for how we can look for his replacement and that depends on the NFF.

“We don’t have a well-structured football developmental programme in Nigeria, and this gets me angry. If we had one, we wouldn’t have been wailing over one player’s retirement.

“And should we not get things right by developing football from the grassroots, we will have cases in the future where you will see one player holding the country to ransom.

“This could have been a wild goose chase if I never tried it. Between 1984-85 when I was national team coach, there was no single foreigner in my team and we won the silver medal at the 1984 Africa Cup of Nations in Cote d’Ivoire.

"In 2002, I started from home and that was what brought players like him, [Femi] Opabunmi, [Peter] Odemwingie and even [Joseph] Yobo. That should be the approach of the NFF now to get a better replacement that would stand the test of time,” he concluded.

Source: Goal.com

Bodily exercise profits little. That little is part of life. I used to have the same orientation too that sports is unGodly, the questions are why and how?
1. Does sports take you away from God?
2. Does it make you a bigger sinner?
3. Does it take the place of God in your life?

If your answers to the above questions are in the affirmative, think of other non-church activity that you are engaged in that does not have the same effect on you

If you faint in the days of adversity, your strenght isnt enough. If you cant manage your sports with your spiritual life dont do it

Atmmachine:
She's representing her Yoruba people.
Dirty tribe.

Yes, dirty but not the ritualistic fraudsters that you and your folks represent. Eranko lasan lasan.

superstar1:
This is a lie from the pit of hell.

$8bn already left between January and now and the remaining $3bn can also leave by end of October. The effect on the money market can be reversed by CBN reducing CRR From 31% to 15-20%.

We need to make our bond more local content driven than foreign investors driven. That is the strength of China.

You seem to have a lot of time to spare. Many on this forum are literate but not educated in finance and economic matters. They pick a statement and just run their fingers on their phones, without any understanding of the issue. Take a trip around the world and see what is happening all over. We will only go south if the folks at CBN are sleeping. Anyways, the last time I checked, the current helmsman of CBN is a Jonathan appointee.

I laugh in Spanish, four years quietly running out... Next?

Assuming i dont have up to what most banks/investment banks require as the minimum entry point. Does mutual funds (e.g money market funds) offer the same excitement (returns) as the treasury bills?

Masters at the game kindly respond

realone2012:
At least they ain't as bad as Ecobank.
Ecobank should be the worst bank in the whole world..

. You beat me to that. Thought it was only in my mind

adebayo201:
Op... where's your source -

SR - Sahara Reporters

Commissioners of Finance and Accountants General of the 36 states of the federation on Tuesday distanced themselves from claims by the former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, that they were part of the decision to withdraw and spend $2bn from Nigeria’s excess crude oil revenue account last December.

Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, and his Kaduna State counterpart, Nasir El Rufai, had, after the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting in Abuja on Tuesday last week, accused Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala of unilaterally approving the withdrawal of about $2.1 bn from the $4.1 bn left in the Excess Crude Account (ECA) last November “without authorization”.

But in a swift reaction, the former Minister had vehemently rejected the accusation, describing allegations linking her to the allegations as “false, malicious and totally without foundation”.

Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala’s reaction, conveyed through a statement by her Media Adviser, Paul Nwabuikwu, said all expenditures from the ECA “were discussed at meetings of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) attended by finance commissioners from the 36 states”.

“It is curious that in their desperation to use the esteemed National Economic Council for political and personal vendetta, the persons behind these allegations acted as if the constitutionally recognized FAAC, a potent expression of Nigeria’s fiscal federalism, does not exist,” she said.

But in a stern reaction on Tuesday in Abuja, members of the FAAC, under the aegis of the Forum of Commissioners of Finance, disowned the former minister, describing her claim as “misleading and far from the fact”.

“It has come to our notice the statement credited to the former Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Honorable Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, that the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) approved the withdrawal from Excess Crude (Foreign) Account the sum of Two Billion U.S. Dollar ($2,000,000,000.00),” the commissioners said.

“This statement is far from the fact and is misleading,” the statement said.

The FAAC meeting for November 2014 ended in confusion when the then Minister of State for Finance, Bashir Yuguda, could not explain how the balance in the ECA had dropped from $4.1 bn at the end of October to $3.1 bn.

Prior to the October FAAC meeting, Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala had told reporters that the balance of the ECA stood at $4.11bn, while the country’s external reserves rose from $36.6bn in June to $39.48billion as at October 16.

Regardless, the then Chairman of the Forum of State Commissioners of Finance and former Ebonyi State Commissioner of Finance, Timothy Odaah, had denied knowledge of any decision to withdraw from the account, insisting that none of its members was aware of the withdrawal.

“No state knew how the $1 bn difference reported in the Excess Crude Account balance, between October and November, came about,” Mr. Odaah told reporters then. “The discrepancy has been noted for discussion at the next FAAC meeting. It calls to question how transparent the management of the excess crude revenues has been.”

Till the end of his tenure, Mr. Odaah, who later claimed reconciliation was ongoing with the Finance Minister, did not reveal his findings.

However, several months later, Mr. Oshiomhole stirred the controversy afresh last week with the allegation that the former minister was economical with the truth about the country’s finances.

Mr. Oshiomhole had lambasted Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala over her claims that Nigerians knew what the three tiers of government usually collect through the State Finance Commissioners who usually attend the monthly FAAC meetings.

The power to take money from the ECA, Mr. Oshiomhole argued, is vested in the NEC, an institution created by the constitution, and not State Finance Commissioners, who are not known by the constitution.

In disowning Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala, the Commissioners’ Forum pointed out that the law setting up FAAC, which predates the ECA, “cannot approve withdrawal and has not done so in the past.”

If anything, the Commissioners said, records of FAAC meetings show that members have always queried the activities on the ECA, and therefore did not decide any withdrawal.

Although the Commissioners said they observed the withdrawal of $2bn from the ECA in December 2014, the then Minister of State Finance and Chairman of FAAC, Mr. Yuguda, had explained during plenary that approval came from former President Goodluck Jonathan.

The withdrawals were to help pay subsidy claims to oil marketers, who had threatened to stop importing petroleum products.

“FAAC did not and could not have approved, nor took the decision to withdraw the sum of Two Billion U.S. Dollar ($2,000,000,000.00) from the Excess Crude Account,” the Commissioners said.

Kachisbarbie:
walahi...
The thing pain me.

He was telling me, 'see how she just bone her face, her expression is epic, even when her husband said...her Excellency, she just moved her lips like say e no sweet her. Who buy her the sunglasses? '

I said 'nkem, shey na me and you dey here...how would I know who bought her the sunglasses bikonu '

@kachisbarbie i too gbadun your comment

tplacid:
Am a Yoruba boy and I always say this, the Igbos are gifted with technological prowess and they are very industrious too......this is just one example of so many where an Igbo man builds something from scratch. You can read up on another Igbo man Philip Emeagwali.(There won't be internet without him)

This doesn't mean Yorubas and Hausas don't have their strengths too but there is something VERY unique about the Igbos.

I imagine a Nigeria where there is absolute love among all the major tribes of this republic so we can be the envy of others.

God Bless the Igbos
God Bless the Hausas
God bless the Yorubas, Tivs,Kanuris, etc (please don't be offended if I didn't mention your tribe........lol)
God bless Nigeria and the whole world.

You have the internet, please read about the fraud called Emeagwali, http://saharareporters.com/2010/10/18/how-philip-emeagwali-lied-his-way-fame You can also check other sites that talked about him. Stop living in a fool's paradise

EggovinMma:
I understand we have done so much for ourselves! But we must not IGNORE a chance to our collective wealth because of pride. Please. It makes no sense, it's infact a foolish attempt to put up smiling face, when we have chances to achieve more .The Yorubas and hausas under APC are gonna be sitting comfortably in the NA, where are the IGBOS? ?? Damn it hurts! Please I am not really happy about this, to say the truth. This time, we no try for ourselves.

Sensible post, late but not too late... If we don't forget the ills of the past, we would have no friends (Yoruba Proverb), The igbos have been badly indoctrinated about the civil war and this hatred for the Yorubas and Hausas is causing them more pains than they realise. Imagine not a single Igbo man in the new ruiling party, National Assembly, you can't say that about other regions.. The earlier you embrace realities and learn to move on irrespective your past feelings the better for you...

You have confined yourselves into the corner of the minority at least for the next 4 years, anyways, i see some people "borrowing common sense" and learn to see ourselves as Nigerians

macfarland:
I told people that this change mantra thing is just bulshit. Watch...Nigeria will still remain the same! No change is coming...rather negative change. The alliance between CPC and ACN was just the key thing predicated on returning power to the northern born to rule. Yorubas realize they can only be relevant in scheme of things if they align with the north. Now with APC they have succeeded. So southeast and southsouth will remain a conquered people in the Govt of Buhari. The change that is coming is buhari to concentrate development in the yoruba states and the north like he did during the era of his ptdf. He will appoint chief of army staff hausa man, chief of defence staff hausa man...chief naval stal one yoruba man..chief of air staff one middle belt guy..police head hausa fulani...petroleum minister hausa fulani...agriculture minister hausa fulani...SSS DG hausa man..then he will find way settle Amaechi with one yr after which he will push Amaechi out of the power equation with the advisers of his hausa brothers. But the last straw that will break the camels back will be Buhari trying to militarize the southsouth when he stops the pipeline security contract given to Tompolo and use military to intimidate the southsouth and MOSOB guys...then he will renew oil mining licence of TY Danjuma and his northern cronies...reward oil contracts to empower the north and give Tinubu an oil block...go to Delta state to scrap the Oil and gas Park in Gbaraturum Kingdom...these are the changes you will see...One naira can never be equal to one dollar...Nothing is going to change but there will be one day that will be a day of Reckoning says the Lord of Host!

Lamentations of a frustrated man.... You have an option, RELOCATE!!!!

ignis:
Infact no president has ever done it in Africa. ..
Goodluck Jonathan is the first and only... Nigerians and the world at large will forever respect him for that.

Sorry, you are wrong. Check Senegal & Ghana, their presidents lost and left
Obasanjo & Abdulsalam as military rulers handed over to Civilian government when they had the power and the army at their disposal...
No big deal about GEJ's act. All these accolades are just to boost his ego and not to allow him space to have a rethink..
Shikena

Is this a proof that they were hired?
http:///SRNPmIsVhp

PrettyEmy:
Are they guys who can actually accept to date a girl without sex and will still stay faithful?
Please be sincere, I really wana know this

Oh yea! I dated my wife for seven years without sex, we are married for 11 years now!!!

Jostico:
if i may ask,wati you win or achieve as a footballer?

Never heard of "The Prince of Monaco"?