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napoleon77:
I thought the post was about the richest men? Is Alakija a man?

Thumbs up, jare. The op probably took shekpe before posting this..

I just tire for Naija reports. What is so difficult in naming the FIVE banks if these so-called experts know what they're talking about?

godlyguy:
I am a very big boy those who know me outside this forum can affirm that... I would have showed you the screenshot of the over 5m units of FBNH that I loaded but doing so would sound and look childish to me... I trade in millions... GROW UP!

THE BIG SMART GUY

Congrats for confirming your absolute childishness to the whole house. Bomboy!

About the 9 faces, there are four faces in the centre, one at the right over the fence and four on the left around the bird.

neoclassical:
I woke up this morning with the news that FCSC has shortlisted lists of successful candidates in the ongoing recruitment exercise by the Commission in various Federal Ministries.

Succinctly, I have a friend who studied Business Administration with 3rd Class, while I have Msc and Bsc (2.1) all in Economics. Both of us applied for the same position (SGL 09) in the Ministry of Trade & Investment. Perhaps, to my greatest perplexity, this guy's name was shortlisted while mine was conspicuously missing. Just a few minutes ago he opened up to me that the father made "some calls" on his behalf prior to this time.

For your information, we are of the same age bracket, applied for same position, from the same State. So what criteria could have been used to disqualify someone with Msc and Bsc (2.1) and someone with a 3rd Class was selected.

Holding other factors constant, I am so happy for him and I am so expectant that mine is coming. But this has kept me in an awe position, as the whole scenario depicts lack of correlation between merit and success in this entity called Nigeria.

WHAT A COUNTRY? So help us God!

Such a sad development, all things being equal.

But to rain a little on your parade bro, lemme just say that if you used the same quality of grammar which you used in making this post for your FCSC application, then it's possible their HR unit got suspicious of your claimed 2.1 and MSc.

Joseph Benjamin's omission is unforgivable o.

Whether Dr Jamila Suara likes it or not, she'll eventually go. That is certain.

omenkaLives:
Typical. So difficult for them to red good counsel.

I am not better than Emma pitiful.

Now you you can run along and go tell your teacher I said so.

If this was your idea of 'good counsel', I'd rather take a mouthful of insults from Fayose. At least, with him I'd be sure of what I am getting and with no lies masquerading as truth.

omenkaLives:
The comments so far gladens my heart and are an indication why I feel the Yorubas are indeed very tolerant people. Very commendable stuff worthy of emulation.

The victim is Yoruba and the name of the murderous officer is Kalu...

Were this to be the other way round, we would have had a full blown tribal crisis in our hands.

Nairaland wouldn't have been able to contain the hostilities between Igbos and Yorubas.

It would have been called Genocide against "biafrans".

Emma Pitiful would have issued a "powerful" statement on Ladio Biafla.

We would have been reminded how dangerous it is to date a Yoruba guy, etc.

This is how messed up Kanu and his foot soldiers have made these guys. Their minds have been twisted beyond redemption.

God rest her soul, and may God help us overcome the scourge of ethnic intolerance, amen.

See pot calling kettle black. Are you any better than 'Emma Pitiful'?

ProfDumbledor:
As we anxiously await cabinet shake-up by PMB, here are candid recommendations for sack:

1.Yemi Adeosun: the worst ever minister of finance. Naive, clueless with a false sense of achievement.
2. CBN governor: confused, naive and incompetent
3. Fashola: too busy doing absolutely nothing. He doesn't have a clue at all. He should be stripped of power and housing ministries.
4. Yemi Osibanjo: Was amazed when he blamed forex crisis on corruption n pipeline vandalism. He doesn't have a clue about the economy and therefore should be removed as the head of the economic team. A more competent technocrat should be appointed.
5. Udo Udoma: a disaster and a square peg in a round hole. Shouldn't have any business with budget and national planning. Ben Akabueze should replace him.
6. Customs boss: a disgrace to customs. A man with an ethnic agenda.
7. DSS boss: another man with an ethnic agenda. DSS is now an enemy of the people.
8. Babachir Lawal: an arrogant, clueless and corrupt grass cutter.
9. Education minister: lol. A career accountant heading such an impotant sector. No wonder education in Nigeria is in coma.
10. Health minister: a reverred classroom professor but definitely incompetent in managing the health sector. Old, slow in action, divisive and unreceptive to new ideas.

My recommendation for a change is Bubu himself. As long as he remains there, even an Einstein would look like a dullard.

LuvSwollenPussy:
Your criticism sucks badly as well. All you had to do was state the right word in your quote with a constructive intent and not feeling superior without stating the right word. Simple!

C'mon, man! You're rather too sensitive. You should be able to take a little ribbing once in a while.

Back to the original issue: CARELESSLY could have been a better choice of word than the one you ended up using.

Cheers.

LuvSwollenPussy:
They capture the upsskirt of women sitting indiscriminately

How does one sit INDISCRIMINATELY?

Bros, your English sucks badly.

Freeze seems to have finally met his match...in the gutter.

Lordsocrates:
My best friend in school is Igbo, I love all humans, just hate the attitude of majority of you guys.. My best friend knows it, i tell him..

If you hate the attitude of a MAJORITY of Igbos, then you hate Igbos regardless of whether your best friend back in school was Igbo. Except you're one of those who deceive themselves by lying to themselves.

Lordsocrates:
Even whn the guy called his dog ur name, couldn't u hv small sense to learn from what that happened across the world whn sum1 did a cartoon On Mohammed ?

The thing Igbo people dnt know is that with the life they live, they risk Other Ethnicity killing them on no just cause.
In South Africa the drug has led to Xenophobic attacks
In Lagos the want to be kings in another mans kingdom
In Oron here in AkwaIbom State an Igbo man Wants to be the Market chief.
In the north an igbo man wantz to name his dog Mohammed, knowing that just a cartoon of Mohammed resulted in a huge crisis.

Cant you guys respect other people, their religion, culture, traditions and cultures...is that too much to do ?

Hey coward, just come out and say you hate Igbos instead of this stupid waffling.

"...The University of Nigeria (UNN) was the FIRST full-fledged indigenous and first autonomous university in Nigeria..."


Hail Varsity of Nigeria, My Alma mater
Hail her and rejoice for the sake of truth
Where young men and women do seek knowledge
Hail her and rejoice for the sake of knowledge
Where the nation’s potentials do brook in the nest
Hail her and rejoice for her noble ideals
Hail Varsity par excellence our dreams come true
Hail her and rejoice for the giant awakes

All join:

My Alma mater, My Alma mater
Noble are thy goals and thy ideals
And great art thou in Science and in Arts
In other realms of learning
Thou art all sublime.


Hail Varsity of Nigeria, My Alma mater
Hail her and rejoice for her lofty plans
The Varsity that is sited on soft green hills
Hail her and rejoice for her beauty’s sake
Hail Varsity of our glory, the pride of our land
Hail Her and rejoice for her light will shine
Hail Varsity par excellence our dreams come true
Hail her and rejoice for the giant awakes

All join:
My Alma mater, My Alma mater
Noble are thy goals and thy ideals
And great art thou in Science and in Arts
In other realms of learning
Thou art all sublime.

Mortiple:
Festus Keyamo has evolved from being a freedom fighter to a brainless politician cum APC apologist.

Nobody should take him serious anymore.

Did you just say "freedom fighter?" Abeg, you have apologize to the real freedom fighters for mentioning Keyamo's name near their own. Keyamo is a political tout not even fit to be called a charge and bail lawyer.

Jesusloveyou:
If it was river state, wike would have protect the notorious criminal.
God bless the police,
God bless imo state
God bless buhari.

Keneking:
No money again but lastma officer dey for front dey clear road
He is walking freely on a Sunday after receiving communion
Someone PMB sacked upon resumption of office
Somebody that can not walk or work freely in Anambra State
He is in Lagos where he stacked abi stock Anambra's money
Useless politician from the East of Niger River
Where Basketmouth has reached, him (Peter) has not reached...
If an election is to be conducted today between the duo, Basketmouth would surely defeat him...nonsense

E pain am reach bone. Peter Obi, why you no gree dash this one money during your tenure nah?

M.O.M - Maker Of Magic

I love you from here till the end of the earth and back, mom!!!

Obu onye ga kpo mama, nwa!!!

Obu onye ga bu mama, nne!!!

Mama mu, ihe dinma ka'm g'emere gi ooooo

Onye oma, onye oma onye oga diri nma, onye oma!!!

Organs:
My People its all these I,I,I or We, we we that is responsible for all our wahala, there are brilliant people everywhere, what makes a country like America strong is the togetherness and joint effort and not the selfishness and i or we are better than them attitude that led Nzeogwu to draw first blood and led Ojukwu to a stupid war and partly responsible for so many ills. What most ibos lack that the North has (which the North is actually loosing) is sincerity. A Nigerian an an Ibo man, just got executed in Malasia/Singapore on Friday, worry about that also and stop all these stupid senseless boast that does you no good and leaves you with nothing beating of empty chest, stupid hope on the biafra mirage, bad economy, rogue leaders and a confused suffering and smiling lifestyle.

M.U.M.U.

sonssyo:
who is that extra extra large man in the third picture!!!!

Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu.

Did Fabregas also play in Rio?

Ndi uchu.

A New Home and a New Religion in Germany[/b]

Among the Iranian refugees filling European church pews

BERLIN—When I first met Mattias in July at a refugee shelter just north of Berlin, he went by the name Mohammed. He had arrived in Germany from Iran the previous fall, along with thousands of other asylum-seekers—sometimes up to 10,000 arrived in a single day. After the German government assigned him to this shelter, he converted to Christianity.[b] “I wouldn’t say I was a Muslim” before, he told me. “I didn’t go to a mosque for an entire year. Now I am going to church every week.” He expects it will take about three weeks to get off his church’s waiting list to be baptized. Perhaps once he’s more settled in Germany, he’ll be able to change his name legally to Mattias, his chosen Christian name.

We sat together in a sparse dormitory room at the shelter with three other Iranians who had converted from Islam to Christianity. They attend a Protestant church together, but asked that I not provide the exact location nor give their full names. Two of them said they became Christian while living in Iran. Another, like Mattias, had converted after arriving in Germany as an asylum-seeker.
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A Tour of Berlin, Guided by Refugees

Throughout Germany, the pews of churches like theirs are filled increasingly by asylum-seekers. Though two umbrella church organizations told me that they couldn’t provide exact statistics or comment on the nationality of the asylum-seekers attending church, Christoph Heil, a spokesman for the Protestant Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia—which includes 1,300 parishes—confirmed the pattern. “Normally we don’t count the number of asylum-seekers who are baptized because we don’t differentiate between who is an asylum-seeker and who isn’t, but [asylum-seekers asking to be baptized] appears to be a new trend,” he said.

Muslim converts to Christianity that I spoke to in Germany cited the redemptive power of Jesus’s story, and disillusionment with Islam. It’s also worth noting the more earthly forces potentially at work: Germany does not grant refugee status to Iranians as easily as it does Syrians and Iraqis. Around 27,000 Iranians applied for asylum in the EU in 2015, with Germany hosting the overwhelming majority; according to Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, 60 percent of Iranian requests for asylum received positive answers that year. Iranians seeking refugee status must prove that if they are sent home, they stand the risk of being persecuted for their beliefs. In Iran, that often means Christian converts.

During conversations with newly converted Iranian asylum-seekers, it struck me that being born again after arriving in Europe was not only an act of faith, but a practical matter: Europe is largely Christian, after all. Some converts, like Mattias, weren’t particularly devout Muslims to begin with anyway. “There are asylum-seekers looking to get baptized who have converted in their home countries and others are getting in touch with Christianity now after seeing a certain way of life in Germany," Heil said. "They ask themselves, what is the root of this way of living, [of] freedom and democracy."

At his shelter, Mattias and three of his friends, who all appeared to be in their 30s and 40s, pulled a metal folding table into the middle of the dorm room to prepare for lunch. One of them told me he hoped Donald Trump would become president of the United States, since he’d heard he was a Christian. Before we ate, another of Mattias’s friends prayed as we bowed our heads, giving thanks for the food. “In Jesus’s name, Amen,” he said. “Amen,” the others echoed. Then we dug into rice pilaf from a frying pan.

The man who led the prayer said he had converted to Christianity in Iran after getting hold of a smuggled Farsi-language Bible. “Before it was just theoretical to me, but now I can see it and feel it by my pastor’s kindness,” he said. Another said he converted in Iran because of an old neighbor who had been born Christian. Christians, he said, “were kind people. In Islam, the person who does the killing and the person who dies yells Allahu Akbar,” he said. “In Iran,” he noted, referring to the Arab occupation of Persia that began in the seventh century, “we became Muslim by force.”

A week after that meal, I visited Trinity Lutheran Church, which also hosts a large Iranian congregation. A pale, yellow, sterile-looking structure set just off a residential street in Berlin’s southwestern Steglitz neighborhood, it appears modest compared to the grand churches of Europe. On the lawn out front, some of the Iranian congregants greeted each other with smiles and overzealous, welcoming handshakes. Others shuffled inside, their eyes averted. Notices written in Farsi were posted all over the church.

The pastor at Trinity is Gottfried Martens, 53, an affable man with a salt-and-pepper widow’s peak and kind smile. He explained that Trinity’s sister congregation in the adjacent district of Zehlendorf had been helping new migrants adjust to life in Germany since the 1990s, adopting a welcoming stance that eventually turned his church into a destination for Iranian Christians seeking help. Once a few Farsi speakers began attending, more arrived. In 2013, Trinity began its service focusing on “refugee work,” in Martens’s words, providing translations in Farsi and English during services and other church activities.

Before the service began that day, I talked with Saeed, another Iranian asylum-seeker. Up the stairs and past the Iranian ushers, we poked our heads into the nave. There were few seats available, so we crowded into the choir loft along with the other stragglers. There appeared to be around 300 people in attendance, mostly Iranians, but my translator pointed out that a line of men seated behind us included Hazaras from Afghanistan—also current or former Shia Muslims—like the Iranians. Only a dozen or so in attendance appeared to be German. A woman in the front pews still wore a hijab.

During the service, much of which was translated into Farsi, the Iranians and Afghans tried to follow along in the church bulletin, concluding each section with a hearty, accented “Ah-meeen” (familiar to the Iranians and Afghans from Muslim prayers) that filled the sanctuary.

“Do you want to go take communion?” Saeed asked when people began lining up in the center aisle after the sermon. I told him I would stay seated, since I didn’t know how to cross myself, which, naturally, confused him: earlier, I had told him that I was a Christian. He was a new believer, steadfast and eager about the outward signs of devotion like partaking in the sacraments, crossing himself at the appropriate times, and eating pork. The outward trappings of Christianity I grew up with in a non-denominational church in rural Maryland, by contrast—using euphemisms rather than cursing (darn rather than damn), voting Republican, eating Chick-Fil-A, and doing nothing remotely Catholic—were difficult to explain.

After the service ended, the Iranians and Afghans gathered downstairs for a meal of rice, lentils, and cabbage salad. Asylum-seekers had often complained to me about the German food at their shelters, which they found bland. But the church’s lunch menu seemed tailored to their tastes. During the meal, one Iranian man was filling out a baptism questionnaire that asked for his personal history. It soon turned into a group activity. “How do you write ‘engineer’ in German?” he asked the crowd that had surrounded him.

Martens made an announcement shortly thereafter, saying that a handful of members of the congregation had recently been granted asylum and residency visas by the German authorities. “We’re happy they were awarded asylum and then came back to church,” he said with a quick smile. Everyone clapped.

Several weeks later, I returned to the church. I could feel a sort of happy chaos in the air that contrasted to the despair prevalent in refugee shelters I’d visited elsewhere in the country. Germans and asylum-seekers hung around drinking tea as children ran around playing; their arts projects hung across one wall. The church provides what is essentially pro-bono social work for refugees, assisting them with housing and other needs as they navigate Germany’s complex bureaucracy. People there were taking an active role in changing their situation or that of others, receiving a healthy dose of Christian optimism along with it.

Martens said his congregation was “lucky” to have its pews filled with asylum-seekers from the Muslim world. Being around them, he said, brought meaning to his life. “It’s such a job to be together with these wonderful people who have risked so much for their Christian faith,” he said. “I can hardly imagine [working] in a normal German congregation anymore.” His church currently counts some 1,000 baptized Iranian and Afghan members with 300 on the waiting list, he said. Before someone is baptized, he must pass a kind of Christian entrance exam by taking classes on what it means to believe in Jesus Christ as the Messiah. It’s one way of making sure people aren’t just becoming Christian for the visa, to ascertain whether “they really understand what the Christian faith means,” Martens said. “I know Germans who would fail as well,” he added.

People in Martens’s congregation have, in a handful of cases, had to appeal their legal deportation decision. In one district, Martens said, a woman who determines refugee status “simply does not believe that Muslims can become Christian.” He takes this as a personal affront.

“If there are so many [converts] then this can’t be true. I cannot help it,” he said. “There is a Christian awakening among Iranians and Afghans on a large scale. That’s something that these German atheists cannot understand at all. Why don’t they come here for just one Sunday and then they will know better?”

Read the original report here:
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/10/christian-refugee-iran-germany-merkel/504092/

I just saw this at SMN. All the Morgan Capital account holders here, abeg is this true?

"However, Nairametrics has also been informed by sources with knowledge of the matter that a post no debit order has been placed on the bank accounts of Morgan capital thus, preventing clients from withdrawing from their brokerage accounts."


http://nairametrics.com/alert-nse-places-morgan-capital-account-on-no-debit/

Obasanjo has always been a highly envious, greedy and wicked man. Doesn't matter how much elephant he is carrying on his head he'll still be eyeing with malice another man who has a mere cricket on his palm.

HtwoOw:
I converse with reasonable people only, but who knows where you'll say something like this and they'll bombard you with sticks and stones, so for your sake I'm yelling you this. During campaign, crude still sold for around 100$ per barrel and this was a projection that could have been actualized

During campaign creek rats were not blowing up pipelines. At $40/ barrel and less than 60% capacity, if you expect budget to be fully implemented then, your bunk in hell is reserved at the bluish white corner

Haba Malam. Why are you this generous, nah? Get your facts right. During the campaigns, crude oil actually sold for around $500 per barrel. Besides, the militancy in the ND only started yesterday just because of Buhari. And to make matters worse, crude is today selling at $10 a barrel instead of $50. No mind those yeye people who are unwilling to blame the previous government for everything while making excuses for this government for everything. Dem head no correct at all at all.

odiks:
Mr President, please replace him with PROF BARTH NNAJI. No mind these Yankee people

Prof. Nnaji is unavailable either. He's too busy right now building Geometric Power in Aba into a world class genco.