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mojounited: Eigth wonder: Is A’Ibom bridge the longest in Africa?
From JOE EFFIONG & AMAOWO UDOFIA
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Which is the longest bridge in Africa? Niger Bridge; Wrong. Third Mainland Bridge? Wrong. Etebi-Enwang Bridge; Correct. And it is in Akwa Ibom State and has already been tagged one of the wonders of the world. If the Third Mainland Bridge with only 11.82 km in length can hitherto wear the gold medal as the longest bridge in Africa, the Etebi-Enwang Bridge with a total length of 21 Km would not only send Third Mainland Bridge to a distant second position, but would also compete stoutly with the Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd Bridge for a bronze medal as the third longest bridge in the world leaving first and second positions unchallenged to Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Southern Louisiana, USA with 38.42 Km and Donghai Bridge in China with 32.5km.

The Akwa Ibom state commissioner works, Mr Don Etim, who went on inspection of the wonder bridge on Monday, said that the construction of the bridge which is part of Etebi-Enwang Road, started in 2008 and the Etebi -Enwang axis would lead to the proposed Ibaka sea port in the state. The Etebi-Enwang road cuts across Eket and Mbo local government areas of the state. Etim said the construction of the road and bridge had been a great challenge to previous administrations because communities in the area had no roads that is why the Akpabio administration had to up the area. He said the contractors working on the project were all screened, as projects of such nature are not to be carried out in flimsy ways.

The principal consultant of the project, Mr. Victor Annang of Mega Projects International, said the challenges encountered the construction has been enormous. owing to the nature of the soil in the area, as such a beacon pile bridge was a suitable option. This, coupled with the addition of two more bridges, he said led to an extension of the completion time of the project to 2013, rather 2011. . .

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djustice: First it was over N800k. Now, even with the bill in their very faces, saying N91k, they still have to make it 6 figures, to make it more sensational. God will punish all of you one by one for the wickedness in your hearts towards this woman. She may not be innocent ofor all we know, but the evidence does not support your wild claims. By the way, before you start with your yeye ethnic prejudice, I am Yoruba, omo ile Kaaro O ji ire, for sure. Not Ibo. So don't even start that one.

afam4eva: Innoson should fight with them.

oradee: the irony of it all is this...we have come to realise that we value things we purchase with high price tags.
A man wld pamper his 2012 Range sport compared to a tokunbo car he bought at a cheap price.
So its assumed that if he pays highly for the bride price, he wld treat her likewise.
The definition of marriage Mr Zubi isnt bordered on whether u paid highly for the bride price or not...
*some men do have a crazy way of thinking*

ZUBY77: I know where this thread is heading. Women vs men but i still have to spill it.
When a man go to the market and buy a goat or a dog, he owns the animal. When a man buys a house or a piece of land, he owns it but when a man goes to a woman and pays bride price, ladies will start to shout that he doesnt own her. They will remind us that this is 21st century as if we forgot. I am not saying a man should maltreat his wife or even his dog but ladies should get it.
You are all for sale and when we buy you, we take you to our own families.
Let the war begin.

brown3: because we knew we can deffend our investmen where ever we re in the world, so we dont care. With all the boko haram gra gra we re stil and we wil continue to deffend our investment in the north. Well d hausas want to collect d little place d IGBOS have left for u guys. One day u will wake up and found out that u re homeless. Wit all the yoruba killings in there homeland by hausas, yoruba leaders will never speak up. Useless tribe.

thirdi: Please I need some clarification. Bought a house and my neighbor is claiming that he will destroy the wall if I do not allow him to raise the fence from my side and put pillars as we both own the wall. The wall was built by the man I bought the place from.

Oga Lawyer please give some legal insight to this issue

ambyzown: Am I surprised at your response? Hell No. What else should I expect from an uncivilized, uncouth and benighted nonentity, seeking relevance through free online media such as this.

Go take another look at the invoice, and you will find (if your incompetent brain can comprehend it) the following charges indicated there.

1. N78,700.00 for first course
2. N90,500.00 for second course
3. N91,400.00 for desserts

If you add these up, you will surely get N245,500.00

Please go get a life.

Oluchia: Nigerians!!! We all need to get rid of our bitterness. Is the probe supposed to be on the Capital Market or on how much she spent on a meal in Transcorp? Poverty has realy eaten deep in us that we cannot reason objectively once its money issue and the NAS knows this. That is why they're using this whole saga to incite Nigerians and divert their attentions from the real issues on ground. Nairaland is evident of that fact.

crusifis: u guys dont understand what is happening
hausas have taken over the north - fact
conquered kadunna from d indigenes - fact
coonquerd kogi, kwara, jos - fact
conquered ogun. and about conquering lagos.
like all wise armies, take out all d weak positions (yourubas and middle belt)then face the stronger enemy (ibos)
ibos be warned, hausa are about forming a blackade on us, get ready FOR WAR, IBO AND PROUD

Beaf: Is it that I hate ACN and Tinubu that is making you call me a bigot? Lol!
You are a fool. Maybe in your crazy World, people will soon start getting accused of bigotry for hating PDP too.

PHUCK ACN, PHUCK TINUBU and PHUCK AREGBESOLA.

It takes a fool to claim another person is a bigot because they dislike a political party. Especially when that political party see's bigotry and fascism as legitimate campaign tools. You have spent you youth listening to a xenophobe like Aregbesola so you think it is normal to express yourself like a fool too.

Again, just so you don't miss it; PHUCK ACN.

Nematode.

Beaf: Are you so pained at the words I used on bigots? Dry your tears and stop being a dunce, cos thats what bigots are. You people make me sick.
You are an 1DIOT, thats what makes you a bigot. Low self-esteemed, low IQed, foolish, hateful and with a d.i.c.k the size of a pimple that makes you hate others; especially the small minority guy you slap, only to be stunned with a bazooka-like left-right combo they makes your crooked lil legs quake and your phucking large belly wobble. These things are astonishing and painful to bullies who find bigotry attractive, people like you sir.

Fool.

Beaf: Well said OP.
There is a degree of smallness (mind and outlook) to anyone that is an ethnic bigot. I took part in the thread you noted, and it is incredible how anyone could have switched it to bashing between Yoruba and Igbo; yet the fracas was between Hausa's and Yoruba's.
The way many people respond to threads on NL, makes one wonder if they are either idiots or were brought up in the gutter by idiots. It is impossible to fathom the mind of anyone that can wake up to insult an entire ethnic group and to do so as a matter of instinct, not even provokation (which itself is an inexcusable reason).

I blame the moderators for allowing such rubbish to fester, indeed I believe that most of these vacant, bigotted fools are moderators.

jimmysho: pls help me check shomuji adebayo olujimi

akinmax: I doubt if the OP understand the basic of what the Sanusi cashless economy is really all about.Is not about ATM or cards.ATM cards short coming has always been there which is not particular to Nigeria alone, its a global thing.Cashless economy simple mean an electronics alternative to physical cash.There are other means to settle payment Mobile money,internet Banking,vending,etc.What we should be asking for is an improvement on our infrastuctures rather than remain in stone age.The advantages far outweigh the shortcomings both on the short-term and long-term.ATM/card theft, ATM machine problems are hurdle in a journey that need continuous improvement not a destination .Mind you,with the new chip card security features it is practically impossible to clone the card.

EzeUche: Sharrap!

I think this be divine justice.

victorazy: For the second week running, confusion has had the better of the Force Headquarters of the police in Abuja. While it has not got over the helicopter crash that killed DIG Haruna John and three other senior officers last week in Jos, Plateau State, yesterday was a different turn in the event of things.

The day that started normally later ended in confusion as the last batch of Assistant Inspectors-General of Police (AIGs) came back to the offices they left.

The return that looked like a hijack of the offices, was said to have been at the behest of the Presidency.
As the ex-AIGs came back, they all headed to the offices from where they left the service. Even those of them that served at the zonal divisions were also there in their official uniform.

The drama took the police headquarters unaware as the story making the rounds was that since the AIGs had challenged their ouster, they possibly got orders from powerful offices for their return pending when the matter would be resolved.
During the drama, those who got to their former offices and met some other AIGs already posted there, ordered the new occupants to leave immediately.
But for those whose offices were still unoccupied, it was a smooth sail as they simply got back into the saddle as if they were never out.

The situation, according to a reliable source, forced the serving or new AIGs to take the option of leaving and planning to get back to where they were promoted while serving as Commissioners of Police.
But another dilemma is what becomes of them as the positions they left had been filled either by newly-appointed state commissioners or those in charge of units and formations.
In the first week this month, four AIGs were among the 40 senior officers between the ranks of Deputy Commissioners of Police and Commissioners of Police forcefully retired.

Seventeen officers who had served the 35 years statutory requirement were also retired formally on March 1.
But regarding the other officers, the Police Service Commission (PSC), led by retired DIG Parry Osayande, had asked them in writing to tender their voluntary retirement letters. Many of them, who felt there was no reason for such coercion by the PSC, resisted it.
However, some of them gave conditions which included promotion to the next rank while they accepted to apply for voluntary exit.

One of the contentions was what they called illegal and inappropriate promotions of some junior officers to DIG position and never deserved, by order of hierarchy, to get such quantum leap in promotion.
While the brouhaha festered, the aggrieved officers had petitioned President Goodluck Jonathan, the leadership of the National Assembly and the National Security Adviser (NSA), calling for a reversal of the order for their retirement.

That was the last ditch as the PSC had insisted that the affected officers write a committal so as to shift the liability of an illegal retirement out of its doorsteps. They had feared that if the PSC served the officers letters ordering their retirement, they might have valid legal claims against the PSC. As coercion did the job of making them commit in writing to leave the service, they noted in their petition that they were forced out.
The officers complained in their protest that Osayande, rather than bringing reforms in the police as expected, is causing confusion.

They challenged their forced eviction and asked the President, NASS and NSA to order a reversal.
But what could not be immediately ascertained by Press time was whether President Jonathan or any of the other officers ordered them back to their posts pending a final decision.
The returnee AIGs, according to Daily Sun sources, were not in the mood to talk to anybody or give details of what informed their stepping back to office by storm.

Also the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), DCP Sola Amore, refused to pick several calls to him. Even a text message sent to him at about 6.32pm yesterday intimating him of the intention of the caller and the need to reply, never yielded any positive dividend. Till Press time, Amore had not got back to the caller or replied the text.
However, another very senior officer and one who works closely with the Acting Inspector-general of Police, Mohammed Dikko Abubakar, at the headquarters, who picked his call, declined any comments. He could neither say yes or no, but just directed D

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charity00: How does an adult who finished SS3 but never took WAEC go back and take it?

You can't go back to secondary school if you are over 25 can you?

So what do you do if you want to sit for the WAEC and you haven't been in secondary school for 6 or 7 years?

mustspin: ^^^^ you need to learn how to read and comprehend

strangerf: You sound like you would have agreed with the international community that Nelson Mandela was a terrorist. It is the likes of you that would sell Nigeria to the lowest bidder all in an attempt to make your slave masters happy. Shame! Shame!! Shame!!!

TRADEMARK: Off course and what is your point,mister?

TRADEMARK: The secret of an enduring music career is to have songs in quality and quantity.Both of them(d'banj & Jazzy) has nothing to offer again.its so obvious,y'all know Entertainer album was released in 2008,and four good years he has not been able to drop another 12-tracks or so.D'banj knows he can't be up there forever,he is sincere with himself especially after the efforts in Mr Endowed & Scapegoat didn't give him the anticipated success he yearned for.In the New Era,D'banj devised ways to help himself by doing the kanye alliance,what do you expect,no more songs in the 'arsenal' nah.But comparatively D'banj will fair better.he might decide to quit music in a couple more years,he is already successful and thats just so okay for the average ability he possesses.On the other hand Don Jazzy will have to start from the scratch cos all the other remaining artistes are just average and below,he might also decide to do production for 'outsiders' too buh i think it will be hard for him to rediscover the spark again.Wande has already been cloned by wizkid,that boy is an exciting verson.LOL.and am not sure about him again especially after he dropped his 3 weak singles.I can only admit it is a New era which ironically mean the crash and fall of the Mo'Hit Empire.i wonder why the Boss is telling us he is donating his production credits to Orphanages,the sympathy won't help him at all cos he is not a selling brand.what am sure is that a new music culture is emerging,and this is an Innuendo of a lot of things to unveil.