₦airaland Forum

some parts of it

for those of you that have not seen the consolidated summary of the 2013 Budget of the Federation of Nigerian please follow link below:
http://www.budgetoffice.gov.ng/2013-budget_details/Consolidated%20Summary.pdf

alfredo4u: It happen three days ago, my fiancee and i had a misunderstand, at the process, she now said she cant be like my elder sister that is not married at her early 30s just becos i told her i still need some time. She said is o ver btw us. This was the same girl dat brought bad boys to beat me to death 3years ago. It was God dat save me dat day.
After dat, she brought olopa(police) to arrest me becos she wants to dump me.
Now, i ve a girl out there, dat can even sacrify her life and everything on me.
What should i do pals?

pls read highted texts again and come back to ask us what u would do...


Ok so u´ve read the highlighted text. Pls tell us "what are zou still doing with that mad woman of a gf" Someone brings thugs to beat u till u almost died and followed by bribing police to beat u again and u call her ur gf. Na wah 4 u, love mots really be blind in ur case. Probably blind enough to lead u to ur early grave. Look, if u die she will look 4 anoda person to torture so u better run away and don´t come here to ask us what u would do cos u already know the answer to the question.

[quote author=Sisi_Kill]I'm almost certain your "accidental entry" into the room was not accidental.

First off you said it yourself....you have warned them that the lights should be turned off when there's no one in the room.....so shouldn't the assumption be that there's someone in the room that's why the lights were on?

Secondly who barges into someone's room without knocking. ...especially when there is a possibility someone might be in the room seeing as the lights were on??!!

Yeah, that's what I thought.[/quote]give the guy a break..

T9ksy: If only wishes can morph into horses............

If only wishes were horses, beggars would then ride

ah, Mr fix it has already started playing his card. Nigerian politics is not it...

bibiking1: There is nothing more repulsively cyclical than Nigerian politics... We have found a perfect way to ensure the relevance and sustenance of aged crimino-politicians! There seems to be no legitimate space for the youths within the system anymore, hence the pseudo-moronic outlook people like Lie-Baran Manku and Ren O'Mockery have to adorn to gain any relevance. With the way things are, if Anenih can find a magic potion to live another 300years he will still have a key political position by 2313AD

no way ma guy, it will keep revolving around these old thieves till something is done. Don't ask me what is to be done..

(yawns) we will see..

silly news

segzi cres: Who is this one always making noise about "ibo" people? Please have sense na........this affects LAGOS STATE not a certain tribe. Damn!

what is wrong with u I didn't see anywere a certain tribe of people were mentioned, looks like guilty conscience is worrying someone.

sheedy407: More tins are still hidden on y he want to back off from POPE position.

one reason is cos of all those political cardinals and bishops like Okojie

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hilarious video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycJ6FJsSUxU

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Morgan1092: A new political group with membership drawn from the nation’s crop of prominent politicians, has been formed. Chaired by the former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, the group parades an array of over 200 politicians in the country. According to a report by The Eagle Online, they include Senator Gbemisola Saraki who is the vice chairman of the group, Akin Osuntokun (Secretary), a former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Nuhu Ribadu; former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Odein Ajumogobia (SAN); and former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party,
Chief Olabode George. Others are Ambassador Fati Abubakar, Nigeria’s former High Commissioner to Ghana, Ambassador Musiliu Obanikoro; a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode and Chris Uche (SAN), Lawal Shuaibu, human rights activist, Uba Sani; Senator Umar Argungu, Olusegun Awolowo, Hon. Uche Ekwunife, and Hon. Yemi Arokodare. Though yet without an official name, the group that started with 37 members, has been meeting as a non-partisan political organization with the aim of instituting good governance and ensuring the unity of the country.
Sources stated that it has met at least five times in the last few months, in the house of a senatorin Maitama, Abuja, adding that the attendance increased with every subsequent meeting. It was gathered that at the latest meeting on Wednesday, over 200 prominent politicians were in attendance. It was learnt that the last five meetings have been used to discuss the state of the nation, especially the issue of insecurity. A source within the group said: “We are concerned about total leadership. We are concerned about the wellbeing of Nigerians and how the leadership treats the followers.”
To achieve this, the group, initially known as the G-37, has formed several committees. They include Mobilisation committee that is chaired by Fani-Kayode, with Senator Grace Bent as his deputy; the Finance committee headed by Fafa Dan Princewill; the Media committee chaired by Senator Emmanuel Onwe, with Prof Mahmud Jega as vice chairman; and the Committee on Strategy and Research with Nuhu Ribadu as its chairman.
http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/kalu-saraki-bode-george-ribadu-others-form-new-group/

Orji uzor is obviously too desperate even to use his watch dog the sunnewspaper to spread Propaganda. After this rubbish in print, how does one ever read sunnewspaper again. I mean knowing they print jargon....

[size=18pt]Ian Burston in bold push into iron ore mining in Nigeria[/size]

IAN Burston was almost killed when his parachute failed to open during national service in 1956. He walked away unharmed when taken hostage by gunmen in Istanbul in 2001. And he emerged from a prostate cancer scare two years ago with renewed verve.

Now the great survivor of the Australian mining industry is pioneering a bold push into iron ore mining in Nigeria at a time when many are jittery about the volatile price of the commodity and the hazards of doing business in Africa.

While many of his peers are content to stroll around the golf course, 77-year-old Burston is embarking on one final corporate play that will easily see him through to his 80th birthday.

"I'm having a bloody marvellous time -- I might stick around doing this until I'm 85," he laughs over lunch at his favourite Perth restaurant next to the glistening Swan River.

Burston isn't overly concerned about the dramatic fall in the iron ore price -- to below $US90 at one particularly nervy moment last month -- that has forced some big miners in Australia to scale back their expansion plans.


He predicts the price will stabilise at around $US120 a tonne, though he admits this could take some time.

And even if it drops to $US80 a tonne, as some predict, he insists he won't be worried because his planned Agbaja iron ore mine in Nigeria will still make a very handy profit at that price.

Last week, Burston's new listed vehicle, Energio, announced a maiden Joint Ore Reserves Committee (JORC) resource of 448 million tonnes at Agbaja after drilling about 15 per cent of its tenements over the past year.

It was the first JORC iron ore resource ever reported in Nigeria, which has long been dominated by the oil industry.

In a career spanning several decades, Burston has run Rio Tinto's Hamersley Iron division and held senior executive roles at Portman Mining, Aurora Gold, Aztec Mining and Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines. He also served as a non-executive director of Fortescue Metals Group and Cape Lambert.

His most recent company, African Iron, which was focused on iron ore in the West African nation of Congo, was this year taken over by South Africa's Exxaro Resources for $338 million, just 12 months after it listed in Australia.

Burston says he feels more comfortable these days doing business in West Africa, despite the risks of bribery and corruption there, than in the high-cost environment of Australia.

"It's getting bloody hard to compete in Western Australia now for two reasons -- your infrastructure is so tight, you haven't got enough ports to get it out, and we are doing some queer things about what we expect operators to cough up to establish their business," he says.

"I think we're being very clumsy. And I think by the time we find out how clumsy we've been, these other places will be up and going."

Foster Stockbroking analyst Mark Hinsley wrote in a research note this week that Energio's Agbaja project was shaping up as a "multibillion-tonne iron ore play" given its higher than expected maiden resource estimate.

He cites the project's proximity to rail and port infrastructure and Nigeria's stable government and Western-friendly mining laws as reasons for confidence.

Burston says China has actively encouraged the development of a West African iron ore industry as it seeks to bring more balance to the market after years of paying what Beijing considers to be exorbitant prices for the steelmaking ingredient.

But he is not worried that China's bid to import 400 million tonnes of iron ore a year from West Africa will drive down prices so much that it will damage the viabilty of Energio's project, which is aiming to start producing 20 million tonnes a year by 2014.

"I've done my figures on (the cost of) getting it onto the ship and it's less than $US50 a tonne," he says. "If the iron ore price goes down to $US80 a tonne, that's not going to worry me.

"Twenty million tonnes a year at $US30 a tonne is a profit of $US600m a year.

"The biggest problem we've got is every bastard who doesn't know how to spell iron ore is telling us how to do it.

"Once we are successful, then the floodgates (in Nigeria) will open, because there's no much iron there you can't ignore it."

Burston says that unlike in Australia, miners are being welcomed into West Africa through lower taxes and stable royalty rates.

"The Nigerian government is backing us to the hilt," he says. "We sit within 70km of an established heavy-haul railway line which has never been used and which goes straight down to the port -- what a break that is.

"And the local community can see jobs -- everybody wants to work. We advertised for a couple of field hands and at 4am we had a couple of hundred guys out the front, all with their own shovels and all trying to be first interviewed. We nearly had to get the police in to send them home."

Burston entered the mining industry after what he terms his Sliding Doors moment while training as a paratrooper in 1956.

The then 21-year-old jumped out of a plane but suffered shocking injuries, including a broken back, after his parachute failed to open. He later went to university and completed two degrees before getting a job with the commonwealth Department of Works in Darwin.

But, racked by pain from the accident and fearing paraplegia, he took a job at a mining company so he could live close to Adelaide, where he was able to undergo medical treatment.

From that moment on he has worked in mining.

Burston's next scrape with danger came in 2001 when 13 heavily armed pro-Chechen gunmen forced him from his room in a luxury Istanbul hotel and held him hostage in the lobby with 100 other guests.

Burston, who was then running Portman Mining, was in the Turkish capital to attend an international iron ore conference.

Tensions escalated when the gunmen shot out glass doors and windows as a warning to police to stay back. But the crisis was averted by Turkish negotiators who convinced the gunmen to surrender, ending the 12-hour drama without any casualties.

"They were all well-dressed in business suits and they had magnificent 12-gauge automatic shotguns," Burston recalls.

"But we were released on April 24, just in time to take a bus down to the Gallipoli dawn service."

When Burston looks back on his career, however, his most memorable moment was in saving an employee's career from the perils of alcoholism -- a feat that paid dividends for him in more ways than one.

"I made him take out the 'dog act' on himself and two things happened -- he never drank again and he ended up as a pillar of the community in Dampier," Burston says. "I saved his family, and if I did anything in my life, that was the one thing I prize.

"Anyway, the man's wife turned up later and told me she had been the physiotherapist for the Australian rugby team and she said, 'I can fix your back.'

"She said, 'You shouldn't be wearing that brace. If you'll trust me, I'll give you some treatment and I will fix that back.'

"It took a week. It was unbelievable. What a payback I got from saving that bloke's career -- she saved my life."

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/mining-energy/ian-burston-in-bold-push-into-iron-ore-mining-in-nigeria/story-e6frg9df-1226489484863

staicey: Funny enough, mum never grew up in naija. I even spent most of my years in naija than she did. Unless you are saying its something in their genes which i dont wanna believe

its a mentality and mostly manifests when the said daughter is unmarried and is still under the said mothers roof.

Mobbing is group bullying or ganging up on someone using the tactics of rumor, innuendo, discrediting, isolating, intimidating, disfaming, e.t.c which can be done to the victim online (social medias like facebook, icq, Nairaland e.t.c) in school, place of work, at home or neighbourhood, in cinema or public places. Typical of many abusive situations like this, the perpetrators maintain that the victim ‘deserved it.’
Mobbing has been shown in many real-life situations to have a devastating effect on the individual it touches and has a ripple like effect upon people around that individual, their families, their communities and society at large. Some examples are certain known cases where people who are mobbed have committed sicide, or are so devastated that they can´t face themselves anymore.
It is now known to contribute to isolation, physical or mental illness, depression, violent or self-destructive behavior, and mistrust. The targeted person may act inappropriately due to prolonged extreme stress.

The questions now follow as thus: Do we know anyone in our vicinity who is being mobbed? How does one help someone being mobbed? How can mobbing be stopped in our environment?
Ladies and gents now u guys come into play by giving ur input, real life situations would be helpful. Lets us learnt from one anothers expierences. Lets help eachother and other people who are suffering in silence but are not strong enough to fight back.

staicey: I no longer find this funny whenever it happens.

Hello? I just clocked 23 some weeks back and only for mum to slap me 2days back because i didnt make her coffee hot enough to her satisfaction. Wtf?
My mum loves slapping me around and this annoys me. Not that she doesnt love me because she still buys me stuffs and takes me out and for the fact that am the only issue, well...you know the rest but this case of slappings, i dont like. I've told her several times and after moments of apologies tendered from her, she's doing it the next minute


please, y'all whether singles or married, tell me if this sh-it is normal because am already loosing a hold of myself. I dont like this one bit

I might just move in with my dad or sue her!!

u got slapped at 23 yrs and u are complaining. I just spoke to someone whose mother slapped her yesterday at 28 yrs. Its must be something nigerian...

jumobi1: Why no arrest??

(laughs) easier said than done..

but i thought this said second niger bridge had already being awarded to a chinese company, how come berger is now bidding and winning (scratches head)

biggest mistake anz sensible woman who has self respect for herself would make

do u know what M.U.M.U is, that is what u are....

lashontae: Awrite peeps.
He didn't just bump into me, ya kno. He watches poledancing and keeps it a secret, I poledance and keep it a secret so we even.

I apologised and I think he should too. A man should tell the girl he's with if he wants to go watch half naked b!tches dancing.

Not interested in marrying his thick-lipped arze anyways! Lol.

Which doesn't mean I won't put him on a short leash like I do with anybody I date as long as I want to.

He's got his good girl in Nigeria, so technically, we both know what this is. He got mad cuz I tol him some other guy was prolly fukking her in nigeria. Y'all take things too serious. Lol!

And I enjoy my job too. I especially love it when nukkas make their hard-earned doe rain on this b!tch. More student loans paid off. Lol!

Ok then, i believe all has been said here. He has his gal in Nigeria but just 4king ur ass just like u are wetting his pole. I believe u both deserve urselves since the relationship is commensal enough. Just pls next time keep ur ditty linen 2 yaself cos we all don wan hear shit da happens in allya homes..

at least GEJ is now learning his place. Now he is learning that being the oresident doesn't give u ultimate power to do and undo without questions, something OBJ never learnt in office or outside it. I pity that he didn't seek advice from his brain stormers b4 making such a move. But then, which of them do so.

[size=28pt]Why is this even front page. Is this important at all. I am disappointed with NL[/size]

Knew Tinubu, the god of Lagos will be there smiling.