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robosky02:
After all super eagles were 5th Best ranking team after BEFORE USA 94

We were fifth in the second edition of the FIFA Rankings in April 1994. We were placed fifth arbitrarily because we were the African Champions, so it was assumed that we were the best from the fifth continent.

Germany and Denmark, or was or Sweden, were the strange teams ranked around and above us at that time.

As soon as the USA 94 World Cup ended, our true best ever rankings was 9th in 2006 or thereabouts under Christian Chukwu, if I'm not mistaken.

Benwems:
Go and seat down. A lot of medical doctors are doing care job here in UK. Even the ones that have passed their licensing exams and have their license. It’s not always greener at the other side.

You don't mean it!

I know many doctors do not get jobs within the first 4 months of passing PLAB 2, but I had no idea that doctors do care jobs (as opposed to 'shadowing' at hospitals in UK) while expecting COS/Tier 2 visas.

I'll presume this affects medical doctors who emigrate as students or as spouses of students. I don't know.

I probably never heard his name. What occasioned his brief service as Acting Governor?

bestman09:
Nobody stays at home because of Nnamdi Kanu, rather we stay at home because of the unknown gunmen. The government could not secure the state and the citizens. It is not by issuing orders, they should rather implement the orders by making sure that everywhere is secured

This is what the government should address. 👍🏻

Our gentleman President is keeping his word:

Day 1, hit the ground running.
Day 2, continue running.
Day 3, don't stop running.

We may have with us our most prepared and most civilian democratic President. This is certainly a lot of "hands-on" governance.

He certainly isn't as "sick" as incapable of ruling Nigeria, at least as of this moment. It appears he may not have wanted to walk the distance to the NSO office but also didn't wish to invite the NSO to his own office.

He is taking charge and coming to terms with the vastness of his Villa.

I think it is sexist and inappropriate to consider any public official - regardless of gender - SOLELY on the basis of gender, as against character and experience cum accomplishment review.

I think the President-elect may be rewarding Senator Akpabio for his commitment to his Presidential bid.

Remember that Akpabio was the first of all the APC Presidential Candidates to step down for Tinubu on the night of the APC Primaries.

After he did, previous speakers like Dimeji Bankole and others, who hadn't previously stepped down during their address to the electorate, returned to the rostrum to announce that they were similarly stepping down.

I remember the panache with which he announced that he and his '1200 delegate votes for his uncommon transformation' or something in that line, would be 'collapsing their structures for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu' to raptorous applause from the delegates.

He deserves this one. We all hope their reign brings uncommon transformation to Nigeria.

Akwa Ibom Ayaya!


This piece is dedicated to my best buddie, Gabbie Akanieyene and my god-daughter, his daughter, Uya Imai, of Ibiono in Akwa Ibom State.

This is a poorly conceived University management decision - and my reason for stating this isn't because I do not acknowledge the driving and traffic problems that had led to this, but because it is a primitive approach by the University.

It only tells how lowly the standards of education and consequently the governance/administration of same, has descended in Nigeria. Short-sighted, quick-fix, hurried management decisions like this should not emanate from what should be the Ivory Towers of Nigeria. LAUTECH is ordinarily a third or fourth-generation Nigerian university and a first-generation Nigerian State University, if I am not mistaken.

What happens when you ban all students from driving cars is that you would have to check if every car driven in the school is by a visitor or staff.

In that case, do you deprive working-class postgraduate students from using their cars - as the release did not distinguish between classes of students.

Would you deprive children of university staff e.g professors, who are students of the university, from driving their parents cars e.g to pick their siblings from primary or secondary school on campus premises?

Would you deprive university staff who are junior lecturers and also postgraduate STUDENTS from driving their cars on campus - where they are students and lecturers at the same time?

How would you ask everyone driving into the school gate for studentship? How do you differentiate students from other schools, or other young people coming for inquiries and driving their cars from LAUTECH students if the former do not bear such educational means of identification card?

The university management and council should ordinarily be infallible, so to speak. LAUTECH may have dropped the ball with this sweeping ban. It leaves a metallic taste.

What is the implication of this, please?

Would it mean that APC Kogi would have to repeat their primaries OR does it mean that APC Kogi can no longer nominate candidates for the Governorship election if the time for that with INEC has elapsed.

Wordsfrombimpe:
This your assumption of a cheating partner dey make me laugh

You failed in the assumption

If you can’t tear your woman clothes you are not ready for sex

If you can’t scatter the house or the place when fucking

You are not having correct sex

Nothing wrong in tearing your woman clothes and buying her a new one

Some women want that in their sex life

This is why communication is key

If you no wan tear am allow the ones that will do it in their marriage

Let them do it biko

Or you no sabi bdsm oga

Our people say Ìgbẹ̀yìn ló ma yé olókú àdá

You sure know what that means. BDSM is certainly foreign to our African Culture - and such extreme kinks are indubitably unviable in healthy relationships.

Can you, for example, imagine your parents involved in such? Almost no real African child can imagine it.

You wanted answers for your survey. You shouldn't interrupt your respondents. You aren't a married man. You should learn.

ChngedChnges:
Lol life is beyond words. There are unexplicable things that happen that there are no words to bring them to the understanding of men until it is being experienced.
Note: Being taken care of and a man being a sole provider is a natural instinct in every woman and man.

I understand you're talking of a balanced inter marital relationship but the truth is, is it really feasible in our world today or just on paper and the internet. We had something close to that during the days of our forefathers but with the tempo things are moving in our current world, lol it's well.

I hear you talk about sexing the wife by touching her right spots. Its good and fluent on papper but in reality it only works in the first few trials. Next attempt, She'll see it as you're trying to manipulate her by shutting her up with romance.

I have many talks but am tired of saying them out

Bro, e no need. Apparently, this female OP is hurting over a cheating spouse or partner - and is unwilling to accept the realities of the average man's multiple involvements despite being freely offered the multiple causes - by men, who should be the only gender respondents (and married men too) in this study.

In fact, the bolded above is so funny. Bimpe wrote 'tear her clothes, touch her body'. That's almost animalistic, if you ask me. Anyone who can regularly do that is capable of not only marital rape, but rape of anyone anywhere. How can you shred the clothes of an angry woman and grope her - even if she is your wife - because you want to achieve what?

You see Bimpe jumping on every answer she is uncomfortable with, responding as though Married Men who are replying have cone to her for some counselling.

Wordsfrombimpe:
Na that woman wey never ready for marriage

If you find your husband talking dirty words you need to hear to be manipulative

It should be a turn on

Some women need proper serious sex education

When faced with inalienable fact, she responds that some married women need 'serious sex education', whatever that means.

It is as though the single ladies who often translate to married women later on required 'serious sex education' when they were serving 'the thing' hot-hot to their male partners per unit time until they got married and retired into other demands of life and family.

This is much unlike the men - who ironically bear the larger financial burden of the relationship before marriage and even after marriage in almost all cases.

omoadeleye:
You have sense, so because of regional inclusive he should jeopardise his case choosing an incompetent?

That's why labour party are myopic, they don't even know what they're following they are just following it blindly.

I do not think it is about competence. I think all ethnic groups in Nigeria have great professionals across board. I also think that there are tens of thousands of Igbos who are APC card-bearing members since the last party registration.

I fear that it might be a situation where legal professionals from that ethnic group do not want to be seen as acting against the interest of the particular ethnic group. That level of tribal sentiments would never help the ethnic group.

You cannot intend or wish to lead a people whom you have not allowed to buy land and flourish amidst you, when you do same everywhere else in the world. Underline 'buy land', not 'rent land'. You cannot impress it upon your people not to associate with the rest of the country - by refusing to sell land to people from outside your communities.

It cannot be true that there is no Igbo lawyer who is knowledgeable and a loyal party member of the APC, or who might even be a Senior Advocate. However, I fear that such lawyers may be unwilling to be seen as advancing a case against their local or tribal interest. Doing so should only make the ethnic group a lot more ostracised.

Hold on.

Why does it look to me that all these lawyers are either from the 3 Geopolitical Zones in Northern Nigeria or the South West?

If that is true, it would suggest that there is no South Eastern lawyer in the team - where the biggest complainants, Labour Party and Peter Obi, are from.

It would suggest something really Tribal.

This is very bad. The lawlessness and impunity in this society virtually cuts across all divides.

Yet this majority of the citizens of the country claim, or appear to be overly religious yet our people seek to exploit and fleece at the earliest opportunity!

It is a shame.

Obi didn't meet the Ondo State Council of Obas.

If his advisers told him so, they LIED to him.

Those people are Akure chiefs. That's not the State Council of Obas. Obi would come third in Ondo State, after BAT & Atiku.

The value of the Nigerian currency is sawdust.

2.5million naira, that's possibly the ENTIRE ANNUAL SALARY of a PhD holder or a Medical Doctor, cannot buy an 18 year old used vehicle? When the country still has a policy against the importation of cars older than 10 years? A country with no healthy credit or loan structures - not for housing nor transportation?

This country has descended into the darkest abyss of failure. When education and knowledge cannot offer security, the society falls into absolute chaos.

That's what we have now - and very unfortunately. That's why our people are ESCAPING, aptly called 'jakpa'.

fkj950ax:
There is no way Tinubu will be refused a visa to the USA.

The visa regime in place is to refuse visa to any applicant seeking to travel to the US, where the Consular Officer IS NOT SURE the said applicant will return to the home country AFTER concluding the stated reason for the trip. Financial capability of the applicant to fund the said trip is also assessed.
Tinubu is currently contesting for political office which means he can demonstrate easily his intent and willingness to return to Nigeria.
Tinubu can also demonstrate financial capability to fund the trip.
All of this is based on the assumption he applied for B1/B2 visa - which also covers healthcare purposes.

We need to engage in ISSUE BASED POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS. Slander and mudslinging won't win elections.

Thank you for taking time to write.

Might we also remind this audience that Tinubu is said to be a Green Card holder with dual citizenship and thus cannot be denied a US Visa - which he is not likely to need anyway?

Suffice to say that the names in any PCC is a window into the type of government and governance that would take place if the party wins.

Obidients should thus be critically analysing the Labour Party PCC. I do not see saints there. I see some semblance of political bigwigs who have largely fallen out with the two major political parties.

It tells me that there is no single individual that is or can be Nigeria's MESSIAH. We are what we have made ourselves to be.

This may ultimately affect the Peter Obi Presidential aspiration.

Igbo people must unite behind one candidate ahead of the elections and show Nigeria that they are united, not only behind that candidate, but respect the laws that govern all Nigerians in all states of Nigeria.

They must also show warmth to Nigerians of other tribes and ethnicities as a Presidential campaign should be seen as a sales project. Very few nationalities are more adept at trade than the Igbo. This is the time to convert that inherent skill into delivering an Igbo man in Aso Rock.

As it is, that isn't looking very clear and we are 4 months to the elections. By this time in 2015, Buhari already had an unassailable public appeal across the North as well as the South West.

Obi currently doesn't seem to even have the South East where he is from.

Atiku and Tinubu seen to currently be at each other, neck in neck, in the real campaign to win States. While the Wike/Ayu situation is tearing PDP; Tinubu's age, health and Freudian slips aren't helping APC.

I see a rerun happening when the elections happen with Atiku winning most states of the North but without National Spread APC winning most in the South West, some South South and minority North Central/North West but not meeting 25% in 24 states also

.What I do not know is how this IPOB/ESN would help Obi to win the South East States which are indeed governed by APC & PDP & APGA currently!

Jephet:
If we're being honest, this calls for a more sober reflection than celebration. Thank God for their freedom

You are absolutely right. It is a terrible situation. The President & Commander in chief, a retired military General and former Head of Military Government, is the one 'celebrating' release of hostages by internal terrorists within the country!!!

We are [currently] a failed people in a failed state under a failed leadership. We should be vehemently resisting this situation and aggressively changing same at the earliest possible time through the ballot.

I empathise with Mr Vice President, really.

A case of 'use and dump', despite being very intelligent, by an old cargo retired soldier.

Unfortunately, he can't become President at least for the next 4 years, by which time he would be nearly 70, weakened and incapacitated by age. His time away from leadership would also have left him losing touch with key indicators by the time he may think of running in the future - like Bubu looking lost in Aso for 8 years because democratic leadership is different from the military one he ran as a 38 year old.

We were made to believe that Bubu quashed Matatsine in the 70s and would do the same with Boko. Unfortunately, we hoped on a lie - forgetting the key indices that were no longer the same over time as compared to the 70s & 80s. Now, Nigerians die in dozens and are kidnapped in large numbers daily with almost nothing being done. It is the most insecure time for us as a country, despite being led by a ex- military man with extensive local and international training (from several decades, which is now of little value, apparently).

Like Alex Ekwueme before him, PYO cannot aspire for any other role in government aside Presidency, and may thus be stuck forever, speaking and writing English, but being unable to effect the changes that he enthuses and knows - bar what he effected during his 4 months reign as Acting President.

May God bless him. I empathise with him, regardless.

Johel:
This ain't necessary tho.

I agree. I almost didn't write.

But as you may note, I have a long history on this website and felt compelled to douse the many comments suggesting that some other diabolic or fetish or criminal activity happened - something your medically exposed comment seemed to quite underscore, in R/O-ing a differential.

I empathise with this situation and the family of the deceased. I indeed appreciate your initial contribution and apologise it offended you.

I hope you understand me better.

Kind regards.

Johel:
Nah...TB doesn't just kill instantly,TB has its own process before killing a body..Heart failure...uhmm yeah,due to some toxic substance intake perhaps, spiritual attack?...well,I dunno...buh I think it's poison from a drug or food.

I know this case.
I am bound by ethics not to write any details - but your contribution here may be overthinking it all.

'Common things happen commonly'.

The news article particularly leaves out a number of important details that would have made it a lot easier to discern for a medic, from the outside, that is.

May his soul rest in peace.

madridguy:
OBJ showed him pepper. R. I. P Tafa.

More like Nuhu Ribadu showed Tafa pepper during the investigation and trial.

The Nigerian top police officer was brought to court in handcuffs. They dealt with the man and rubbished him.

That's why it is a terrible thing to dine with crooks. There's no honour amongst thieves. They'll always mess themselves up. It is better to be scrupulous and straight. Nobody - not your enemies or even friends, would find it easy to slur you!

Who did we offend in Nigeria to be blessed - or cursed - with leaders like what APC & PDP are offering our 220million souls in this country?

The person or thing should kindly have mercy. We are begging for liberation. Our men and women are dying daily in their dozens and nothing looks like hope in the horizon...

Hello Shady,

Thanks for this feedback. I appreciate it.
However, if you read what I initially wrote, you may realise that I accommodated your sentiments - for its veracity.

Mr. Fashola as well as Prof Osinbajo were in and around governance and administration at high levels - both being Senior Advocates of the Federation - before they were voted into political offices. Both had worked as members of State cabinets in Lagos State, for example, amongst other roles.

I hope I am better understood.

Kind regards.

Shaddymie:
Fashola was never in politics before he became the governor of Lagos state and he's my favourite among them, osibanjo too was never in politics before he became the vice president, so I see no reason why funke akindele can give it a trial as well

This whole thing is becoming a charade. This is with all due respect to Ms Akindele's person.

However, a Deputy Governor candidate in one of the two major political parties, in fact the known opposition party in Lagos State - is as good as a Governor.

It isn't something that is done as an after-thought. Such role has to be filled by a person who has been in, about and around governance and who understands his/her role in delivering excellent service to the populace at the level and functionality of a State Governor.

As far as I know, BankyW fits that - if it comes to a popularity contest on the strength of fame in the entertainment industry as a leverage to tilt electoral victory in the PDP's favour - than Ms Akindele. Banky had been in the political 'trenches' for at least one cycle, and understands the dynamics of same. This 'emergency' politician in Jenifa reeks of unpreparedness in the PDP camp.

Running a small to medium-scale NGO in Lagos is a world apart from running the governance of Lagos State, the second largest economy in West Africa after Nigeria as a Country, from Alausa.

George700:
Name of football manager pls?

It is a simulation computer software.
Here is its website: https://www.footballmanager.com/games/football-manager-2022

Regards.

There are rumours of Ronaldo & Neymar joining Chelsea.

I had bought them into Chelsea in Football Manager. The combo was marvellous. It would be awesome to see it in real life!

Thanks for sharing this. I stand enlightened.

othermen:
Ok. If you have ACCA in Nigeria, you also have to be a member of ICAN before you can derive the full benefit of your certification. In order for ACCA to become ICAN members, they have to write some ICAN papers as well. So it is not an upgrade as such in terms of superiority or inferiority.

In the UK, you can practice with the ICAEW. With your ICAN membership , you don’t have to write any exam to gain the ICAEW. In most countries, you just have to write very few of the locally developed syllabus such as Advanced Taxation in order to become a member of their local chartered accountancy body. It's not exactly so with ACCA. You don't have to write any such locally developed syllabus to become a member of ACCA or ICAEW. Most ACCA holders don't even have the advantage that comes with being a member of the ICAEW because they wrote the international variant of the ACCA and so cannot reach the pinnacle of their career say as audit partners if they choose to practice in the UK. They needed to write the ACCA UK variant in Advanced Audit and Strategic Business Reporting.

Even if you are a member of ICAEW; if you are interested in becoming ACCA, you would write the same number of papers that ICAN members needed to obtain the ACCA certification. ICAN is a member of IFAC and CAW among other global chartered accountancy bodies.

A CPA holder is useless in most of EUROPE and most of the world. Most countries are IFRS compliant however ACA is not an upgrade or superior to CPA despite you having to write ICAN papers in addition to your CPA in order to practice in Nigeria.

Most countries have similar arrangements. So the CPA holder does not know the accounting and audit standards that are prevalent in much of the world (IFRS and ISA) . So there is no superiority or inferiority as such. It’s only normal and expedient what is obtainable and it goes either ways.

In fact, none of the big 4s have their headquarters in the US or in Canada. It’s the same way you have the Nigeria office, that you have the US office.

Universal recognition is the better basis. CPA is superior in the USA or Canada. In Nigeria, ACA is superior. In the US, you can have CPA from a state and you will not be allowed to practice in another state in the US. For global universal recognition, IFRS and ISA are most prevalent. Which is the core of ICAN and ACCA; but of Coz, the a significant % of the top 500 companies are in the US.

Is the CPA more rigorous?
How rigorous it is, will be in the course content or in the elaboration of the course content and how easy it is to pick marks.
To write ACCA or ICAN averagely requires 3000 hours while the CPA test itself requires an average 150 hours. The CPA exam itself has 4 sections which is Audit, business environment, Financial accounting/reporting, and regulation... and 50% of all of the exams is multiple choice.
Of coz, one easily sees that this is just like a level in ACCA. So, other exams that they should write, it is expected to have been examined in their prior qualifications which is called the ‘masters degree equivalent’.

The rigour in ACCA or ICAN, is that you having a masters degree is not sufficient to get you such exemptions that the CPA would suggest you have. CPA has less processes and defers what you may find in ACCA to a CFA. And in no way, am I trying to diminish how rigorous the CPA exam is.

Generally you have more graduates and educated fellows than had decades ago. MSC and MBA are no longer scarce as more people have the opportunity of obtaining it. However, being a chartered accountant is always relevant; in most private organizations, it would project you further.

It is ignorant to compare ACCA/ICAN or CPA with CFA. The scope of the former is much wider. The CFA is chiefly for finance; it’s scarce and so very valuable. The reason why the CFA is scarce is besides being rigorous, the exam is very expensive. In a highly credentialised nation like Nigeria, you would have many CFA if the cost of the exam is very affordable and more accessible; but the CFA has high barriers of entry and so has retained its value significantly. However, despite such value, you cannot use your CFA anywhere in the world to become an audit partner. The organizations that needs CFA’s are very minimal in numbers and you would not earn the opportunities that being a chartered accountant affords by being a CFA. Anyone can be an accountant and anyone; even a medical doctor can be a financial analyst. However, there are certain regulations that requires strictly the consent of chartered accountants.

There is no need to convince anybody really of the relevance of acquiring professional certifications; if you are entering labour market, you would come to appreciate what advantage it may afford sooner. Most of the contents is in response to those diminishing ICAN and even the ACCA.

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/i-inherited-n127bn-debt-from-obi-obiano/

I inherited N127bn debt from Obi– Obiano
18th October 2017

By Obiora Aghadinuno


The governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano has revealed that contrary to the sanctimonious posturing of his predecessor, former Governor Peter Obi, the state was saddled with a huge domestic debt of N127 billion when heleft office in March 2014.

Speaking in the Governor’s Lodge, Amawbia, Governor Obiano explained that his silence over the debt his predecessor sought to tie his hands with had been mainly because he did not want to allow his regime to be distracted at inception. He explained that he wanted to concentrate on the delivering his promise of good governance to Ndi Anambra.

According to him, the N127 billion debt came mostly from the 101 road contracts that the former governor hurriedly awarded at the dying minutes of his regime without making any provision whatsoever for them in order to create probles for his administration from the very first day.

Obiano listed other disingenuous designs by his predecessor to make sure that his regime never really took off. He mentioned the last minute employment of 6000 workers without provision for their welfare as well as the various hotels and independent power projects which he had no plans to complete.

He however revealed that he has quietly completed 51 out of the 101 roads and assured Ndi Anambra that the remaining 50 would soon be completed.

Obiano’s revelation came on the heels of the growing inconsistencies in the figures being thrown up by Obi which have left many discerning observers wondering just how much the former governor actually left behind.

They point at Obi’s sudden volte-face from his earlier declaration that he handed N75 billion cash to his successor and his declaration at the flag off of the PDP campaign in Onitsha yesterday that the actual amount he handed over was N48,626 billion.

While delivering an address that has been mostly cdismissed by political analysts as suicidal, Obi was caught on camera saying “when I was leaving this place, we left in savings N26bn. We set aside for important projects, N23,629 billion. If you put the two together, it will come to N48, 626 billion.”

The former governor’s contradictory accounts of the exact amount he bequeathed his successor leaves huge gaps in the emerging narrative of dubious accountability and an even more doubtful integrity.

This becomes more so in the light of the revelation that in Obi’s so called N75 billion handover are embedded all manner of moribund and toxic assets which he cleverly reported as profitable investments in the handover note.

For instance, Obi’s reportage of the 16.5% equity stake in emenite, a fibre cement roof and ceiling manufacturing company set up by the premier of the old Eastern Region, Dr M.I. Okpara, which was shared between the five states that made up the as part of the trumpeted investments he had handed over to Obiano is nothing but pure fraud.

Observers also complained that it speaks volumes about Obi’s vaunted integrity to realize that he also reported that he had invested the sum of N3.5 billion in Interfact Beverages Limited, when in reality what he invested was N1.4 billion only. This followed Obiano’s announcement that his administration would soon revise the discrepancy to reflect the actual equity stake of the state in the company.

Other dead bodies buried in Obi’s handover note include the N9 billion involuntary investment in the Nigerian Independent Power Project, conceived in 2004 by the Obasanjo regime which the Federation Account was charged to fund on behalf of the 36 states. One wonders how this investment could have found its way into Obi’s phantom savings that he handed over to Obiano in cash.

Other components of Obi’s “famous” N75 billion cash handover include the N4 billion estimated value of the land resources of Anambra State on which the oil installations of Orient Petroleum Resources stands which he “cleverly” converted into the state’s shareholding in Orient Petroleum Plc and quickly reported as his own wise investment while in actuality, the only investment in the company when Obi handed over was the N100 million invested by former governor Chris Ngige who also issued the C of O for the land.

Another embarrassing falsehood reported as part of the N75 billion cash handover is the Federal Government refund to Anambra State on the repair of federal roads in the state which stood at N10 billion during Obi’s regime.

It smacks of utter mischief to report this debt owed the state by the Federal Government as a part of the cash handover as the Federal Government has yet to clear the debt while the Obiano regime has responded to more distress calls on federal roads in the state, pushing the debt overhang now to N43.8 billion to date.

Indeed, Obi’s ill-advised decision to speak up on the actual amount he left his successor has blown up on the faces of his admirers who cringe at the embarrassing inconsistencies in his accounts which now dangles between N75 billion and N48,626 billion.

At this rate, many political observers bet that Obi may not have any reputational capital left by the end of the current electoral campaign in Anambra State.