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Ezeama400:
Video of the prayer of the faithful in Igbo language at the Pope’s Christmas Vigil Mass yesterday at the Vatican yesterday, December 24.

One of the intentions during the Prayer of the Faithful at the Christmas Vigil Mass celebrated last night by Pope Leo XIV in St Peter’s Basilica was read in Igbo language, recognising input from Igbo members across the Catholic Church worldwide.

An Igbo couple also joined in carrying the gifts to the Pope during the Eucharistic Procession.


https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1AYpYTU2BL/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Nothing new here! Igbo is used in parts of the mass all over the world........especially Igbo songs and hymns!

jmoore:
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https://www.facebook.com/61577986553693/posts/pfbid02dgZ4jVb7VG8MmSfys8XCwuN6DjqQ9KMvKgrnBFATaAqkhkyHpPKpRahLwwa9G9Qdl/?app=fbl

Oga go and complain to the regulatory commission....you have more than 90% of power availability....yet you complain

bolaayenimo:
When will Alhaji Kashim Shettima who promised to handle insecurity do same?

You wanna a dead vice president??

miracle002:
Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/12/2023-election-i-regret-supporting-tinubu-makinde/

They want to dissipate and divide opposition votes....ronu sophistry! You gotta give it to them.....my own is make tinubu restructure Nigeria.....
Cos fulani will destroy and roll back the few good things he has achieved!

Glimpsetv:
A Nigerian lady has taken to social media to express shock and confusion after discovering that several ShopRite outlets in Abuja were shut down.

According to her, she first visited ShopRite at Silverbird Galleria, only to find the store completely closed. Thinking it was a one-off issue, she proceeded to ShopRite at Jabi Lake Mall, but met the same situation — doors locked.

Still hoping to shop, the lady then headed to ShopRite at Novare Gateway Mall, Lugbe, but was left stunned once again as the outlet was also shut down.

Clearly disturbed by the repeated closures, she took to social media to ask the big question on everyone’s mind:
“I went to ShopRite Abuja and it was shut down everywhere. Has ShopRite finally closed in Nigeria?”

Her post has since sparked massive reactions online, with many Nigerians sharing similar experiences, while others speculate about rising costs, economic pressure, and possible store shutdowns.

As of now, ShopRite has not officially announced a complete exit from Nigeria, but the growing number of closed outlets has left shoppers worried and searching for answers.
👀 Is this just restructuring… or the beginning of the end?
Cc: Nlfpmod


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9HzwFai7d8?si=rBP5XQ-cbMDKsgyW

The end began years ago! The real shop rite left 4 years ago........the one thats battling for life na Ronu shop rite!

nairavsdollars:
Ambassador-designate Femi Fani-Kayode looking young and fresh in latest Christmas pictures

Old age has come..! Yeye man

mactoni91:
Just incase Nigerian politicians have compromised him....

Na their way now......

Compromise all compromisables!

abuzz33:
I saw that online and lo and behold it has been removed.

From ANSIPPA link I understand they have 86 shops ranging from 19sqm to 168 sqm and have so far rented out to Market Square, Kilimanjaro, Pizza Jungle, Medplus, Miniso, Pointek, Nett Pharmacy and Living Plus.

https://ansippang.substack.com/p/awkas-new-heartbeat-ikenga-mall-and

It has provision for 4 cinemas with 661 sqm sitting 400 people.

Considering that the developer Sundry Foodd spent 4.5 billion on the project (which was half built by the Obi administration) with returns spread over 25 years, it means they got it for a song. 180m in debt per year for roughly 7,000 sqm of lettable space works to 26,000 per sqm per annum and less considering Sundry Foods owns Market Square and Kilimanjaro which take up around 25% of total feasible area.

I expect that like Onitsha Mall they will adjust their rental rates away from typical mall rents which in Lagos is dollar linked at $800 - 1,000 per sqm per annum or N1-1.5m to realities that Awka is a much smaller economy and price at 150,000 - 200,000 per sqm per annum depending on the size of the store. A large branded retailer with a 100 sqm shop can bear N15m a year while a small pharmacy would be willing to pay N5m for a 25 sqm space. That's the only way they fill up the 80 shops remaining and draw in crowds of shoppers.

The experts in government corridors are not likely to see it that way.....

The virtue signaling crew in government will convince Soludo that that will tantamount to throwing away govt funds.......even in yankee and China most govt projects are heavily subsidized......you should see how local and state govt give away grants...tax holidays to attract investment...........we have to understand that investment brings workers and consumers which ultimately means more internally generated revenue............foot traffic is needed in that mall and Anambra generally.........


We need to attract our people back home to stay...live ...work and prosper! I hope Soludo reads your post.!

leicestercamper:
The beautiful thing about the Ikenga mall is that it combines both indoor and outdoors. The shops in the front can easily be accessed without going into the mall. It’s quite a unique mall, it’s going to be profitable because it’s a whole big place that has combination of eateries, cineplexes, pharmacies, restaurants, upscale shopping like market square, etc. it’s a whole lot of mix use that will attract a lot of people for different purposes.,

good! that puts my mind at rest!

On a more optimistic note ........The newly registered Ibeto seaport seems to be finding its feet as the xmas season ends! reports suggest that more and more importers are using the facilty! I am impressed with the business acumen of Ibeto........he has turned an otherwise dormant cement terminal into a viable container terminal! at least our people in the east now have an alternative to Lagos! I asked AI Perplexity,,,if its possible to ship a container from the USA and the result was a big YES...............its like Maersk is using ibeto seaport like an off taker for east bound shipments ...............Containers are being trans shipped from Onne and even Lagos ports! good news for our business men!

leicestercamper:
Ikenga mall Awka, the southeast largest mall. No competition at all

The final look of the Ikenga mall is quite impressive but I have my fears about its long term profitabilty and viabilty for potential tenants.......! Indoor malls have seen their best days even in consumer mad united states.........nearly 75% of the indoor malls in america in 1985 have failed or gone bankrupt.......the ones that have not been demolished have been turned into mixed use developments ....residential,hotel,services .....etc!

Strip mall development is cheaper to run and gives each retail tenant a shop facing the main road instead of all shops being cooped up in an indoor arena that costs an arm and a leg to illuminate and cool!

The nnewi mall should be redesigned as much as possible to be open air ...with shops facing the mainroad or at least with public facing entrance doors...just my suggestion!

kudos sha!

K8

pacino26:
I think the wide margin can be attributed to the fact that the Russian side have the advantage of retrieving their dead from the battlefield with ease. The territories they attack usually fall under their control within a very short time. I have been following up especially with History Legend unbiased analysis and I will say both sides are having kia ratio of 3:1 in some battles. Most of these casualties arising from drone attacks on personnel. In all both sides are not having it easy and this war like many others will end in the negotiations. Russia contrary to MSM media reports on their meat wave tactics, deploy their personnel only to mop up after encirclement of target locations. Their assault teams barely exceed 8men at a go.

Contradiction full your rant !

Salewa97:
Kanu's case is purely political.

If not, how come the politicians who committed more grievous crimes are still roaming about freely.

The likes of Kanu, Sowore and others should be celebrated as they are not giving up on their quest for a better Nigeria

Kanu did not commit any crime...neither has IPOB been decreased a terrorist organization outside Nigeria! Not in any western.....Asian ...
African nor Islamic nation!

gabicon:
Kidnapping is not about any group in particular, it has been shown to be a very lucrative venture, and the Nigerian spirit of milking any lucrative venture is in play. The problem is, there are no enforced consequences to kidnapping in Nigeria, until we fix that, we go no where.

Which other ethnicity is being funded by NSA to take out kidnappers.........is OPC being funded to take out yoruba nation.....

mariovito:
Nsa will soon say they were authorized government agents

The level of infiltration of national institutions these fulani goons have achieved is incredible.........no wonder they are like ghosts...........Tinubu has to act fast or these ppl will take him out! They are everywhere.......

dederocs:
State and local police is the only way.

I wonder why some clown and saboteurs will be talking of politicking when lives are being lost, it defies common sense.

Life is the most important thing, we need state police to protect lives, protection of lives is number one on government priority, it is above any other considerations...so if state and local police can help us stop this jihadists infiltration and terrorists killings and kidnappings, why are the governors not starting it, when Tinubu already gave the green light...we have the wrong people as governors.

Tinubu has not done anything about state police..........its establishment must be done as an act of parliament! We can abuse privileges but State police is a must! The FG must fund it by reducing its shareholders of state revenue!

Kuginzi:
https://leadership.ng/ribadus-office-admits-giving-arms-to-vigilantes-in-kwara/

Nigerians like to make simple things complex.......why arm non state actors .....when you can establish a formal and recognized State police!

Northern fear and interest is destroying this country! I have never heard of a federation without local police and state police....................

That's is how the useless jihadi fulani Buhari used uzodimma to decimate innocent Igbo youth in the name of fighting IPOB..........Uzodimma....you go still retire as governor...........your destiny is prison!

Bestmanfornow:
Anambra state is the only state in Southern region that made the top ten list

Low taxation.........can even get cheaper if Soludo thinks out of the box! Foodstuffs from Benue and Anam......fit reach Onitsha thru Niger and Omambala rivers!

Ofunaofu:
https://dailypost.ng/2025/12/16/promotion-of-tinubus-adc-suspended-over-bad-precedent-concerns/Please

I am really surprised at the reckless abuse of power by the lagos based Agbadorians in power.......they are just misbehaving like kids in a candy shop! They are grabbing everything in sight and stuffing them into their mouths and armpits.......what an uncivilized bunch of people!

Flangelo12:
This is too low for Dangote.

You dey sniff soak away fumes? So its okay for one man to spend the nations money ...5 million dollars just for secondary school education alone!

oz4real83:
is it not a shameful thing that a country of over 200 million people can't produce a quality team that could defeat DRC Congo even if all their squad is filled with ineligible players?

That NFF chairman piniki or is it Pinocchio is an agent sent to destroy our football! Get Segun odegbami and other football legends to rescue our football.......let them be technical consultants........whilst we look for capable hands to run our football

lawani:
Everybody have what they do in their land. In Ilesa here a farmer producing 5 tonnes of cocoa per annum apart from yams, cassava and etc will not go and do another thing. Cocoa is six thousand dollars per tonne. A Hausa farmer doing beans, onions and maize making thirty million naira a year will base on that. Small time farmers in the North come to the south during dry season for seasonal jobs does not mean they are poor. They always return to their farms and overtime they become wealthy. Somebody in the east doing palm oil, cassava and yams will stay there. All states have civil servants too paid similar wages. Total wealth of a state is to do with population and not much else. Nowhere is idle and most states are over ninety percent indigenes.

Rubbish analysis..........so Nigeria is richer than China abi? Because we are busy doing subsistence farming......Nigeria is a crappy poor backwater....including Lagos and south east!

abuzz33:
While we are celebrating mini airport lounges and shopping malls built on 8 plots of land, here is what intentional leaders are doing in Addis Ababa:

- City Masterplan
- Power projects
- Electric buses and trains
- Green spaces
- Business Districts
- Industries


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRC243t3jkc



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oxwBIq2Cco

its incredible what ethiopia has done in its capital over the past 2 years! Soludo is eminently capable of carrying out the same town planning revolution in Anambra but he is hampered by a relatively weak cabinet and paucity of funds! I wonder if it is possible for him to learn a thing or 2 from the enugu governor in area of revenue generation........I suspect that Enugu state may have employed the services of lagos state revenue officials............the truth is that Lagos has by far, the best revenue generation formular in the country! Let us learn from others when we are lacking ..........no harm in that

TimeManager:
The President came in and filled the slot for SE in the Supreme Court bench. Before the President came to power, SE had only one slot representing the region. The President established the Southeast Development Commission to address decades long of complaints of marginalization and rehabilitation. The President ensured that a Southeastern is elected the Deputy Speaker. Right now, Mr President has gone a step further to break the glass ceiling to establish an Army depot in the South east, such a decision that would have been unthinkable in the past for a region that rebelled against Nigeria.
You need to look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself if hating the President is not actually you hating on yourselves.
God bless President Tinubu, God bless Nigeria.

-Kiss the truth!

if Tinubu wants to bury Peter obi.....let him release nnamdi kanu! Kanu is 1000 times more popular in southeast than any other igbo politician~

Lukuluku69:
Nothing to fret about, the aides are just talking anyhow. Let the NPA spread the activities of the Ports. Don't discharge consignments meant for the East and South South in the Lagos Ports area, discharge them in proximity to their destination.

It is simple as that.

We can manage our instrastrucures better that way but I would have thought the fretting would come from those in the Haulage business and not from Government Officials unless of course they own the Haulage and Logostics company.

Of course they do! They are invested in Cotonou ports........the inefficient Lagos ports means more business for their cotonou investment! Economic sabotage all over

Racoon:
I don't agree there is a concern about decentralization of the Nigerian ports away from Lagos because the NPA have previously made moves to open up the Warri and One port too. However, the delay has been political consideration and failure to adequately dredge those portals of economic development.

Dey play...same ports that bigger oil vessel and gas carriers ..visit everyday to haul crude and gas!

It's all about Lagos holding on to an unearned advantage! Do you know the amount of cargo has lost to other countries due to the inefficient ports in Lagos?

MartinCorridon:
"General Gowon - Came, Saw and Conquered "

That should be his epitaph.

and sold his Plateau people to be slaughtered by his fulani allies! una no well!

LibertyRep:
" Special Technology "

These guys aren't the regular Almajiris or angry. cattle rearers whose cattle were rustled as they made us believe.

These guys are probably sponsored by the 'big boys' as being alleged.

When the govt is ready, they'll remove the glove and get the job done.

But no, those of them who benefit or hope to benefit from the chaos will want it to fester.

una still they decieve una selves abi? your APC government is a coven of bandits and boko operatives and sponsors ! dey play