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OMG!

How true can this be N7.4 billion, what kind of feasibility studies was done before siting the airport there in the first place. Who were those involved in the project prep. and appraisal??

Many of the responses here, shows the Political disease most Nigerians are suffering from, it is "Stockholm syndrome"

Hey ! Op
I doubt you intend to make a right decision.

The worst thinking process i suspect you have is you are viewing her with the lens of your primary school days, a lot of water must have passed the bridge.

I also feel strongly your friend can still get back to good terms with her estranged husband, if the reason for there problem is "mis-understanding" and mummy;s boy. A part of her heart still wants the come back to her husband, that she might find difficult to admit to you.

A broken marriage of 2 years needs to be deeply probed, especially when domestic abuse or wife battering is not involved.

You are not in love with her, you are only in love with the childhood memories of the two of you together.

If she honors your invitations from ib to lag, please stay off any amorous jiving with her(pent up emotions is no respecter of person)

What you should be doing is to help her see possibilities in reconnecting with her estranged husband, unfortunately that you are no longer qualified to do.

If you go ahead and confuse her to having a relationship with you, the chances that you will regret your actions is 90%. Please stay off.

Her asking you to make her plan B, is most likely she wants to make re-union with her husband Plan A, and you plan B.

If it is TRUE, Tinubu owns all the above listed properties, then he sure is a sensible thief, he has thus invested his loots in Nigeria.

If it is TRUE, Tinubu owns all the above listed properties, then he sure is a sensible thief, he has thus invested his loots in Nigeria.

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That commissioner must have attached too much importance to himself, he is a Arrow !

It is one thing to feel disrespected, it is another to slap a lady in public glare, A mental checkup might be appropriate for him

@ Ogbeche 77, your girl or ex is immature!.

Many girls are incapable of analysing their emotions or feelings.

The "thrill" of a new toaster who is two weeks old, has made some girls single handedly ruin a [b]two years old [/b]relationship. She was simply lost in the thrill, i pity her

You might re access her qualities again to see if you can still keep her, although i think she is not only immature, she is also foolish, thinking of banging a new toaster and scheduling a date makes me think she is very foolish.

You might not want to keep an immature and foolish girlfriend. Do you?

How about this? This also looks crazy

Not in anyway surprised, i knew this a long time ago, i had a friend who was a Jehovah witness, and supplied me awake magazine. Nigeria is no doubt a "poor" country mostly because it is a banana republic

I dont suggest it, never be deliberate friends with your ex.

I noticed most ladies sees nothing wrong in it, the irony is that ladies are the weakest emotionally and are the most liable to being manipulated.

To the ladies who claim they can still stay as close friend to their exes, i will advice you stay clear, it has been proven to be the cheapest way for a Lady, married or single to cheat, though sometimes unintentionally.

@ OP After 2 kids, 99% of the time, it is the woman that will be huzzling to be crowned, but your case seems so odddddddddd.

Painfully, i have to say this, Don't get married to her, even if she comes to ask for the marriage tomorrow.

To think a presidential candidate from the North west or North east CAN not win in 2015 is a state of self delusion.

Get it in to your real thick skull, it is a very likely scenario in 2015.

RE-INTRODUCING NORTHERN NIGERIA: NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
By Mark Amaza
http://markamaza./2011/...s-you-know-it/

I am writing this article mainly for the benefit of Southern Nigerians who have never been to the North, and mostly have a warped and inaccurate view of the North. I have been driven to write this out of my many personal experiences, and those of friends and family, as has been shared with me. This is mainly an educative piece about what Northern Nigeria is in reality; a complete, holistic picture of this region.
To make this piece a simple read and easy-to-follow, I am going to write it around 5 common perceptions about the North and
 debunk them:

Religious Perception: The general belief held by most Southerners about the North is that the region is not just mainly Muslim, but wholly Muslim. Whenever I meet someone from the South and introduce myself, I am correctly placed as a Christian. But once I am asked my state and I say Borno State, the next question becomes, ‘Are you a Muslim?’ This is despite my name being a very common Biblical name, Mark, which is the second Gospel. Matter of fact, I have been asked that question while attending a church programme, with a Bible conspicuously held in my hands. You could imagine my surprise at that question. This has also been the experience of a lot of friends with common names such as ‘Emmanuel’, ‘Daniel’, etc.
To start with, out of the 19 Northern states, at least 5 have a majority Christian population: Plateau, Adamawa, Nassarawa, Taraba and Benue. At least 6 more have at least 40% Christian population. These states include Niger, Gombe, Kaduna, Kogi, Kwara and either Borno or Bauchi. That then leaves only Kano, Kebbi, Katsina, Jigawa, Sokoto, Yobe and Zamfara as having Muslim populations above 60%. How then are we all seen as Muslims?
This misconception could be excused when the person has an Arabic name, as there are many Northern Christians who bear names such as Jamila, Habiba, Halima, Sadiq, and Yunusa and so on. But when the person has an obvious Christian name and is even attends church services, you really begin to wonder.

Ethnic Perception: Another common perception of the North is that we are all Hausa. My usual response to this is to borrow the logical argument of Simon Kolawole, the Editor-in-Chief of THISDay Newspapers. In an article in which he attempted to educate his largely Southern readership base about the North, he went thus:
“If out of the estimated 250 tribes in Nigeria, we can say that the South-West is mainly Yoruba with a few other tribes around Badagry area, the South-East wholly Igbo and the South-South being most diverse in the South with about 40 tribes, that still leaves the remaining 200 tribes in the North.”
How then are we reduced to one single ethnic group, Hausa? It is only the North-West that is close to being homogenous, mainly Hausa and Fulani, but with still some minority tribes in the Zuru area of Kebbi State and the multi-diverse Southern Kaduna. The North-East and North-Central is filled with tribes, many of whom I have never even heard of. For example, Adamawa State is so diverse that the largest ethnic group, the Fulani, is just 3% of the entire population. In my home state of Borno, there is a local government so diverse that from one village to another, you are likely to meet an entirely different ethnic group. The number of tribes there are so many that we just address the people as ‘Gwoza people’, after the name of the local government.
Even though we all speak Hausa as a lingua franca in order to communicate amongst ourselves as trading partners over the centuries, that doesn’t make us Hausa people as much as communicating English doesn’t make you and I English people. As a matter of fact, in the North-East, Hausa people are a minority and virtually non-existent in the North-Central region.

Intellectual Beliefs: Now, this is one belief that whenever I am confronted with, it takes me a great deal of self-control not to flip out and lose my temper. Times without number, when I tell people I am from Borno State, I am asked how come I speak such good English. What the hell? What am I supposed to speak? Arabic? The general expectation is that someone from the North is not supposed to be this learned, this well-spoken and articulate in English, this knowledgeable. I remember when a friend asked me if my mother went to school, and the surprised look on his face when I told him that my mum earned her masters’ degree over 20 years ago. There was also a time when my dad met someone at the Lagos International Airport and they got talking. When my dad told him his profession, the man, in a fit of surprise, exclaimed, ‘I didn’t know that there were professors in the North’.
I admit the fact that the North lags behind the South educationally, especially the North-West and the North-East. But this is not due to our inability to comprehend what we are being taught, but rather due to the incompetence of leadership in the region to give education its premium importance as a form of human development. We, like every other human being on the face of this earth, can excel when given the opportunity. Talent and intellect abounds everywhere. Opportunity, however, does not. I personally know of many Northerners who have excelled nationally and internationally. Daily, the story of young men like Ahmed Mukoshy, who is born, bred and schooled in Sokoto, and yet, rose above his environment to become one of the emerging forces in IT in this country in his early 20s inspires me. This is just one example among many that I could cite but for the lack of space.
I find it outright disgusting whenever people claim that if not for federal character and ‘zoning’, no Northerner would be able to compete in this country. Last week, I was shocked when a friend said only 10% of Northerners in the Federal Civil Service deserved their places on merit, and went on to add that if he had not known me personally and I were to get a job with the Federal Government, he would believe that I did not earn it on merit. The most ridiculous one I encountered was when earlier this year, former Minister of Finance, Dr Mansur Mukhtar was appointed a World Bank director. Most of the commentators on the 234Next article announcing this achievement for this Nigerian and Nigeria made the ludicrous assertion that the appointment was done to please the North, that Dr Mukhtar did not merit it. Little did they know that Dr Mukhtar had worked at the World Bank and the African Development Bank, prior to his heading Nigeria’s Budget Office on the invitation of the then and present Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former World Bank Managing Director, who also recommended him for the post of Finance Minister when she rejected former President Umaru Yar’adua’s invitation to join his government. What is even worse is that they did not care to know: their minds were already made up and could not be confused with the facts.
Geo-Political Beliefs: Another common belief among Southerners and most especially spread by Southern newspapers is that the entire 19 Northern states act and think as one when it comes to issues of Northern politics. This is one of the biggest untruths about the North. Whenever Northern Nigeria is mentioned, the people of Benue, Kogi and Kwara states do not feel it refers to them. Geographically, they are part of the North; politically, however, they and the entire Middle-Belt act independently. This can be clearly in the last elections where President Goodluck Jonathan won in 7 Northern states, even against his strongest opponent, General Muhammadu Buhari, who is a Northerner. This was something I am sure a lot of people in the South, save for the political savvy, did not see coming.
One common sight of this perception being entrenched by newspapers is when politicians of Northern extraction speak on national issues. I have innumerably seen a washed-out Northern politician, without any influence or popularity speak regarding an issue, and the next day, newspapers carry bold headlines saying, ‘North rejects this’ or ‘North plans to do that’, quoting the same washed-out politician as speaking for the entire North. I have rarely seen a Bola Tinubu speaking and being quoted as the mouthpiece of the entire Yoruba ethnic group, or a Chief Edwin Clark for the Ijaw people. Methinks this is a way of selling newspapers by capitalizing on the image of the North as one single, political force which moves in a particular direction all-together
Cultural/Social/Economic Belief: Admittedly, as people of the same region, we share a lot in common culturally and socially in the general terms: our mannerisms, modes of dressing, traditional titles (apart from paramount rulers with the exception of emirates), etc. Despite that, the Jukun in Taraba and the Kataf in Kaduna are very different in the specifics, as even the Bura and Marghi people of Borno/Adamawa States. To pick the attitude of one ethnic group in the North and attach it to all the others, is to put it mildly, a very short-sighted way of knowing and understanding the people of Northern Nigeria.

Another belief in the South is that the entire North is but an empty land mass with nothing but trees. I remember the controversy of the 2006 census when Kano State was said to have a slightly higher population than Lagos State. Many of my Southern friends called it ‘an impossibility’. In the words of one of them, ‘Lagos is so populated that when you throw grains of rice into the air, they wouldn’t land on the ground, but on people’. However, they all forgot to factor in land mass, because Lagos State is a much smaller state than Kano State, and hence has the highest population density in Nigeria, hence making it look as though it was way more populated.
There are cities in the North that have been thriving economically, such as Kano and Kaduna. As a matter of fact, Kaduna State was adjudged by the World Bank in the year 2009 as the best place to do business.

Lastly, the most retrogressive belief about the North in the South is that the entire North is a hotbed for violence. As much as we have had more than our fair share of ethno-religious violence, there are many states that have never experienced one, including states such as Zamfara, and others as Nassarawa and Benue.
I have not written this as a criticism of the people of Southern Nigeria, but rather, in the hope that this will be an enlightenment of the South about the North. It amazes me when I see that despite the fact that we have been a country for almost a century, yet, a lot of people down South know little or nothing about their fellow Nigerians in the North, but know about Europe and America.

I have also realized that we as Northerners have allowed others to say our story for ourselves, hence have given it distortions, deletion and generalizations. What has happened over time is what the writer Chimamanda Adichie, in her TED talk in March 2009, at Oxford, England, describes as ‘the danger of the single story’, where a single story of the North as a region of poor, illiterate, lazy, Hausa Muslims who do nothing but connive to lord over this country politically and kill Southerners’ has been repeated so much that it is seen as the truth. This is the kind of stuff that creates stereotyping, which in her words, ‘not that it is untrue, but that it is incomplete’.
This is one reason I still see the significance of our NYSC scheme, choked with problems as it may be. We need to know each other more. Let us override this stereotypical mind-set and seek to learn about each other with open minds and seek the complete story that gives a holistic picture of our country.

Great work corper Ime !!!, may God reward you and your future generations in Jesus name. God will restore you and you will OVERTAKE.

This kind of post should not come from an acclaimed leader, it contains lack of deep foresight, and awareness of the problems that are urgently needed to be solved. "International" airport is way remote from your needs, you need a big picture spectacle OP.

What a sad way to die, this is not the first time for such an odd event to happen, a similar incident happened at Cocoa house Ibadan, some months back. A lot of care must be taken when using elevators in public service buildings.

[b]Man dies inside Cocoa House elevator - Decomposed body found after three days
By Jackson Udom

TRAGEDY struck on Thursday at the premises of the Cocoa House, the tallest building in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, when a man, in his bid to make use of the lift facility in the commercial complex, fell headlong and died immediately.

The management of the complex and those who have business concerns within the complex were said not to have been aware of the tragedy that had befallen them. According to an eyewitness account, “the man wanted to use the lift, which is under repairs, but he stepped into an empty space which hitherto housed the lift, fell headlong and died instantly.”


It was also gathered that neither the contractor handling the refurbishment of the outdated elevator, nor the workers in the complex, were aware of the unfortunate incident, until the body of the man (whose name is yet to be made public), started decomposing with offensive odour oozing out from the ground floor of the lift compartment.


As a result of the tragic incident, the premises that houses the building is now being inundated with posters warning members of the public to stay clear of the lift area, saying: “The lifts are under repairs and it would be dangerous for anybody to either make use of it or go near it.”


When Sunday Tribune got to the premises, those who spoke with our reporter confirmed the incident but they were not ready to give further information on whether the man died as a result of the faulty and outdated elevator or he died due to his carelessness. They all blamed the management of the building for not being sensitive to the safety of members of the public who come to the premises to transact one business or the other. “Virtually everything in that building is outdated and grossly malfunctioning.


“The elevators there are now death traps. Those elevators were installed by Papa Obafemi Awolowo and since then they have always been undergoing repairs. Now that somebody has been trapped in it, may be they will do something about it.” Attempts by Sunday Tribune to get in touch with the management of the building proved abortive as none of them was available for comments.


According to a police source who pleaded anonymity, “we are yet to know the identity of the deceased and by Monday, we would invite the site contractor, because what we are hearing is that the man was one of their workers. We learnt that the man fell from the lift. The decomposing body of the man had been evacuated to the Adeoyo Mortuary.


When contacted, the Oyo State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Ms Bisi Okuwobi, confirmed the story adding that the man’s decomposing body was discovered three days after his death inside the elevator. “It is true. The man died several days before his body was found inside the elevator.”

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A great one by Akpabio, hope to see the bridge in its partial state of completion.

“I collected estacode for the workshop but I did not go…I was expecting SEC to demand the return of the estacode before I do so. It is still intact with me…’

The quoted statement shows he is a criminall, does he have to be told to return it?

Awo was the best president, Nigeria never had. A very unassuming,eagle eyed and intelligent leader. He scored 10/10 in the leadership domain. He was also not impulsive, a trait many past/present leaders do not have.

KnowAll: the youth leader of a party can even be 100 years old for all we care. The bottom line is that elders or better still the youth leaders of modern parties must be able to inspire the real and true youths of the party. It does not mean the youth leader must be one 'youngy' or some sweet sixteen. We seems to have a misconception with the word 'youth' which to all intent and purposes signifies a virile young blood but the world " leader" seems to be brushed underneath the rug in the grand scheme of things.

We should learn to take this in perspective.

You will do well if you keep your mouth shut, coz u ar only making sense to yourself

may be the reporter meant 16 sixteen

There are several laws/ instruction in the old testament that Christians don't observe any more, how come Malachi 3:10 tithe has stayed?

Funkymallam: For declaring free education, he is unintelligent?
Kai, so much for intelligence!


I dnt always say this but i think u r DAFT!

Why i might not agree with the dude who called rochas uniteliigent, i believe he has some points. Declaring free education from primary to tertiary level in this time and age MIGHT be an unintelligent decision, time will tell.

Yeeeee!, The guys real fiancee even dey pose with the old grandma. I hope the grandma live to 65 years sha.

What i sense is that PDP will at least be happy to have ondo state go to Labour party than to ACN (their major political rival). The real contest in feb 2013 will be between ACN and LP. Although baring any unforeseen situation, Labour party will have the day.

Some months back, he also won the governor of the year award from the Nigerian Union of Journalist.I know he has done a lot in the health sector of the state, apart from that, i really don't know of his other accomplishments.

I am aware in the south west after Lagos state, Ondo state gets the highest allocation from the Federal Government, being an oil producing state. I will love to get more gists of the man Mimiko from those in the state, as the expectation from him should be relatively high.

Any idea towards creation of an additional state need not welcomed. It is like digging a hole, when you are in the pit.

@OP

Are you not the same person that opened a thread few days ago asking what the lagos state government has done to warrant been praised?? !!!!

Now i think i understand.

Which of the PDP state chapter do you belong to?

Most of Awolowo's policies during the war efficiently and effectively brought an end to the war, the war could have lasted for many more years( 8 or more years)

If the war had lasted for many more years,the casualty figure of two million people would have been way more higher, the destruction would have been way more terrible.

The bitter truth is that,the war was relatively one sided, close to a genocide, the two million lives lost could have been 10 million or more, something like an ethnic cleansing.

The igbos painfully and shamefully have Awolowo to thank. A painful TRUTH.