Energist:
Let him bear the brunt. He was the one who facilitated the loan he's currently complaining about. Elrufai booted Shehu Sani out to pave way for his crony Uba Sani who eventually pushed for the World Bank loan. The loan performance by Elrufai was quite remarkable as it's evident across the state. However his albatross was that the loan is fully dollarised. By the time the Naira was floated, it tripled in value. Mind you, the loan was dispensed at the then official rate of the CBN circa 400 Naira. And now the Naira is close to 1300. There lies the big problem.

Elrufai himself inherited about $200m from his predecessors. He couldn't pull big projects because of the paucity of funds. I believe that's what pushed him to get loans. In hindsight, I feel he should have got domestic loans may be worth 200b Naira.
Lest I forget, Elrufai raised the IGR of the state from 15b to 90b in 8 years.
In essence, Elrufai did fairly well in his steering of the state. Uba Sani so far has been woeful. His government is more about propaganda that real governance. It is said that he mostly stays at Abuja. Ask any KD resident, even traffic lights are not working. Potholes are emerging without being remedied. Let Uba restrategise and do the right things. If he feels like, he can prove the Elrufai administration. What matters to the residents is continuity of the good projects kickstarted by Elrufai.

But the midget former governor knows Uba Sani was incompetent yet put him there? Are you saying that no blames should go to him ( el rufai)?

Izuchukwu70:


Trash. They sell power bank in America and I also bought the one I'm using here in USA.

Oga I’m surprise with this statement. I used iPhone X with bad battery before coming to the US. So I came with the power bank I used in Nigeria . Men when I came here I discovered I don’t need it. I’m still using the phone and has thrown the power bank away.

Soulifting:
I have 24hours light by way of phcn solar and inverter combined. Yet I go out wit power bank cos of convenience of charging
Let's make discussions issue and critical thinking based

Which phone you Dey use abeg?

Botragelad:
You lot know people Carry around power banks even in countries with decent electricity, right?

Imagine you're in a situation where you're flat out all day with no electrical socket to plug in your phone or no time for that, or you need to be on your phone because it's crucial, traveling long distance, and there's no where to plug in. what do you do? Lol

People don't stay put all day, some people are always on the go and use their phone a lot. I don't get the point of this post. So many daft comments. It's like saying why do hospitals use solar or natural gas when there's electricity, well mate anything can go wrong and it's better to be prepared. More like a plan B, that's what power bank is for.

It's called power bank for a reason and don't give me that rubbish that this guy has no proper electricity at home.

Since I came to the US I haven’t seen power bank. And I stay out for up to 17hours

TechCapon:
no need for all these wahala. Banks are using AI Chatbots now to do all these simple tasks. Zenith bank is using ZIVA while UBA is using LEO. Just look for the AI Chatbot your bank is using and chat it up on Whatsapp. You can do anything from getting account statements, linking BVN/NIN, opening accounts, send money, buy data, etc.
I just linked my NIN just chatting LEO from UBA and under 30 seconds my NIN is linked. Good thing is when you link it to the bank you created your BVN, it gets automatically linked to all your bank accounts linked to that BVN. information is power.

abeg lemme goan eat my afang soup jor, no be me vote bulaba

But I don’t understand the maximum account balance being 300k. Plz could anybody explain that part to me.

thesicilian:

Lol
Of course
It's a donation out of necessity

She has young children ooo, for your info

This largesse was facilitated by a US based Nigerian MD


“The 93-year-old widow of a Wall Street financier has donated $1 billion to a Bronx medical school, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, with instructions that the gift be used to cover tuition for all students going forward.
The donor, Dr. Ruth Gottesman, is a former professor at Einstein, where she studied learning disabilities, developed a screening test and ran literacy programs. It is one of the largest charitable donations to an educational institution in the United States and most likely the largest to a medical school.
The fortune came from her late husband, David Gottesman, known as Sandy, who was a protégé of Warren Buffett and had made an early investment in Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate Mr. Buffett built.
The donation is notable not only for its staggering size, but also because it is going to a medical institution in the Bronx, the city’s poorest borough. The Bronx has a high rate of premature deaths and ranks as the unhealthiest county in New York. Over the past generation, a number of billionaires have given hundreds of millions of dollars to better-known medical schools and hospitals in Manhattan, the city’s wealthiest borough

While her husband ran an investment firm, First Manhattan, Dr. Gottesman had a long career at Einstein, a well-regarded medical school, starting in 1968, when she took a job as director of psychoeducational services. She has long been on Einstein’s board of trustees and is currently the chair.
In recent years, she has become close friends with Dr. Philip Ozuah, the pediatrician who oversees the medical college and its affiliated hospital, Montefiore Medical Center, as the chief executive officer of the health system. That friendship and trust loomed large as she contemplated what to do with the money her husband had left her.
In an interview on Friday at the Einstein campus in the Morris Park neighborhood, Dr. Ozuah and Dr. Gottesman spoke about the donation, how it came together and what it would mean for Einstein medical students.

In early 2020, the two sat next to each other on a 6 a.m. flight to West Palm Beach, Fla. It was the first time they had spent hours together.
They spoke about their childhoods — hers in Baltimore, his, some 30 years later, in Nigeria — and what they had in common. Both had doctorates in education and had spent their careers at the same institution in the Bronx, helping children and families in need.
Dr. Ozuah described moving to New York, not knowing a single person in the state, and spending years as a community doctor in the South Bronx before ascending to the top of the medical school.

Leaving the airport, Dr. Ozuah offered his arm to Dr. Gottesman, then not quite 90, as they approached the curb. She waved him off and told him to “watch your own step,” he recalled with a chuckle.
Within a few weeks, the coronavirus brought the world to a grinding halt. Dr. Gottesman’s husband, in his 90s, became ill with the new pathogen, and she had a mild case. Dr. Ozuah sent an ambulance to the Gottesman home in Rye, N.Y., to bring them to Montefiore, the Bronx’s largest hospital.
In the weeks that followed, Dr. Ozuah began making daily house calls — in full protective gear — to check in on the couple as Mr. Gottesman recovered. “That’s how the friendship evolved,” he said. “I spent probably every day for about three weeks, visiting them in Rye.”
About three years ago, Dr. Ozuah asked Dr. Gottesman to head the medical school’s board of trustees. She had done the job before, but given her age, she was surprised. The gesture reminded her of the fable about the lion and the mouse, she told Dr. Ozuah at the time, explaining that when the lion spares the mouse’s life, the mouse tells him, “Maybe someday I’ll be helpful to you.”

In the story, the lion laughs haughtily. “But Phil didn’t go ‘ha, ha, ha,’” she noted with a smile.
The money.

Dr. Gottesman’s husband died in 2022 at age 96. “He left me, unbeknownst to me, a whole portfolio of Berkshire Hathaway stock,” she recalled. The instructions were simple: “Do whatever you think is right with it,” she recalled.
It was overwhelming to think about, so at first she didn’t. But her children encouraged her not to wait too long.
When she focused on the bequest, she realized immediately what she wanted to do, she recalled. “I wanted to fund students at Einstein so that they would receive free tuition,” she said. There was enough money to do that in perpetuity, she said.

Over the years, she had interviewed dozens of prospective Einstein medical students. Tuition is more than $59,000 a year, and many graduated with crushing medical school debt. According to the school, nearly 50 percent of its students owed more than $200,000 after graduating. At most other New York City medical schools, less than 25 percent of new doctors owed that much.
Almost half of Einstein’s first-year medical students are New Yorkers, and nearly 60 percent are women. About 48 percent of current medical students at Einstein are white, 29 percent are Asian, 11 percent are Hispanic and 5 percent are Black.
Not only would future students be able to embark on their careers without the debt burden, but she hoped that her donation would also enable a wider pool of aspiring doctors to apply to medical school. “We have terrific medical students, but this will open it up for many other students whose economic status is such that they wouldn’t even think about going to medical school,” she said.
“That’s what makes me very happy about this gift,” she added. “I have the opportunity not just to help Phil, but to help Montefiore and Einstein in a transformative way — and I’m just so proud and so humbled — both — that I could do it.”
Dr. Gottesman went to see Dr. Ozuah in December to tell him that she would be making a major gift. She reminded him of the lion and mouse story. This, she explained, was the mouse’s moment.
“If someone said, ‘I’ll give you a transformative gift for the medical school,’ what would you do?” she asked.
There were probably three things, Dr. Ozuah said.
“One,” he began, “you could have education be free —”
“That’s what I want to do,” she said. He never mentioned the other ideas.
Dr. Gottesman sometimes wonders what her late husband would have thought of her decision.
“I hope he’s smiling and not frowning,” she said with a chuckle. “But he gave me the opportunity to do this, and I think he would be happy — I hope so.”
Einstein will not be the first medical school to eliminate tuition.
In 2018, New York University announced it would begin offering free tuition to medical students and saw a surge in applications.
The Name
Dr. Gottesman was reluctant to attach her name to her donation. “Nobody needs to know,” Dr. Ozuah recalled her saying at first. But Dr. Ozuah insisted that others might find her life inspiring. “Here’s somebody who is totally dedicated to the welfare of others and wants no accolades, no recognition,” Dr. Ozuah said.
Dr. Ozuah noted that the going price for getting your name on a medical school or hospital was perhaps a fifth of Dr. Gottesman’s donation. Cornell Medical College and New York Hospital now include the surname of Sanford Weill, the former head of Citigroup. New York University’s medical center was renamed for Ken Langone, a co-founder of Home Depot. Both men donated hundreds of millions of dollars.
But it is a condition of Dr. Gottesman’s gift that the Einstein College of Medicine not change its name. Albert Einstein, the physicist who developed the theory of relativity, agreed to confer his name on the medical school, which opened in 1955.
The name, she noted, could not be beat. “We’ve got the gosh darn name — we’ve got Albert Einstein.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/nyregion/albert-einstein-college-medicine-bronx-donation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

Raalsalghul:


From my experience, this is limited to Black African immigrants.

A significant proportion of the Asians (Indians and Pakistani) folks have their fourth generation speaking their languages, cooking and eating their delicacies and travel back home then and again.

Don't know what they do or how they do it, but we could take a cue from them.

lol it seems you haven’t traveled before. Indians see coming to the US as an achievement more than Nigerians do. I know, because here in NY, I work with Indians and in every ten foreigners you see four is likely from India. I mean they are in thousands here. My colleague who just landed contracted me to help her take pictures so to send back home.

naptu2:
There was a report yesterday that the NTA asked General Gowon to speak in Hausa. I'll quote it.




This is not true. What actually happened?

General Gowon visited President Tinubu and after meeting with the president, he spoke to journalists and said something interesting.

He said that a report had circulated that Ecowas asked him to give a press conference about the situation in the subregion but he refused. He said that the report was not true. He said that there was some miscommunication, but that he was going to do the press conference that evening. Here is a video of Gowon's visit to Tinubu and his statement after the visit.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jJiQHJhbpU?si=OEUys95iRA97Hiyx

The reason that General Gowon was asked to do the press conference is because he was one of the founding fathers of Ecowas.

General Gowon had the press conference at the Ecowas Headquarters and seated beside him was the president of the Ecowas Commission, Omar Touray.

The General read a letter that he wrote to heads of state in the subregion and he asked those that wanted to leave Ecowas to come back. He talked about their reasons for founding Ecowas, etc.

He then gave the letter to the president of the commission and asked him to give it to all the heads of state.

After giving the letter to Omar Touray, the MC asked General Gowon to translate it to Hausa. Hausa is the most widely spoken langauge in Niger Republic, one of the countries that wants to leave Ecowas. It is also spoken in Benin, Togo, Ghana and other countries in the region.

However, General Gowon said that he wasn't told that he would have to translate the letter to Hausa and that for 8 or 9 years he has only spoken English and that he can't remember how to speak it. Here is the full video.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnzX6bsMRgQ?si=_z3iYuYuZyGyFjxy

It was the Ecowas MC that asked General Gowon to speak in Hausa, not the NTA.


Ecowas knows that Gowon used to speak Hausa, but they didn't know that he has stopped. Here is General Gowon giving an interview to BBC Hausa and he spoke in Hausa here:

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/4rJY7jV3dkivrpaB/?mibextid=gtsPdC

But have reasoned why the Ecowas official would want him to speak in Hausa ?

chopnaira:
I hope PO was sent an invite LMAO

Cry me a river. Southeast has both the gas and brains to develop its power infrastructure. Go and kpai

AfroBeatDiary:
Hmmm... I'm not saying anything to slander the dead but chief Bode George told us how he and the likes of Elumelu had their money, the cbn release USD to them at a rate and they sell to the black market at a higher rate to make profit leaving the real end users with no option than to patronise the mallam and this is the genesis of inflation we're all currently experiencing.

Up until 2003 when I was in Ife, I will walk into Cooperative bank in Lagere to buy USD to settle bills, I pay in Naira over the counter and receive cash till they stopped and mandated me to open an account and just one day, they told me to go to Sabo so I'll buy from Sabo, head to GTB to deposit and someone like me became a source to source USD from the black market for the bank.

May his soul rest in peace hoping he deserves it.

You yorubas are devilish. So you just picked access bank and UBA in your malicious post and left out other dubious banks and otedola own by Yoruba

Safyqueen:
Some people can easily be brainwashed. Where do you see such a vast land 35,000 hectares in a gully Enugu state for rice farming before you talk of Fulani herdsmen destroying such a vast land at a go. Haba , this ethno-religio-tribal bigotry and inflammation cannot solve our problem.

There is ooo. But I won’t bother to convince you. If only you can’t do little experiential research by traveling down to Nara axis, you should realize how ignorant you are.

dangoteinlaw:
ambode had balls, this one here is worse than akamu. Ambode spoke against all his enemies in public but this one? Shm. And when benins are talking port boys will be forming rugged, wike himself is no match for shaibu let alone obaseki. In life identify your weakness and work on them not claiming gangster.

Ijaw are known to be cowards forget all these noise likes of tompolo and asari are making. They are all cowards. Take Jonathan for example, a president who didn’t have the gut to discipline his appointees, even women.

Whalis:

I know where you come from based on your public indecorum.
https://g.co/kgs/LThjJ6

You are a capital fool. Does that link tell you the Brit’s are presently using the imperial system?

Whalis:

Imperial as the name implies is British.

I don’t know why the ignorants argue the most. The imperial units are used by the US. Young man learn or you browse it. Tufia

kingsways:
Because Igbos hate injustice

Who’s this idiot

November1857:
Police arrest suspected ritualist, exhume decomposing body of OAU student in Ogun



https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/12/ogun-police-arrest-2-over-death-of-oau-student/#google_vignette

How could a RONU kill a RONU. 😳

psalmsjob:
I'm posting this as a response to the topic that made Nairaland front page yesterday; "See What Someone Bought With An Hour Minimum Wage In The UK £10", the link: https://www.nairaland.com/7929193/see-what-someone-bought-hour/8#127286855

UK & US ARE OVER-RATED NIGERIA IS STILL BETTER in terms of cost of living see a practical example why doing a price comparison: 1 pound to 1 naira today is N1,001 so are you saying with £10 x N1,001 = N10,001 you cannot buy everything in that basket and collect change in Nigeria today?

1 Sliced Bread = N800
2 Spaghetti = N1400
1 Gesha = N600
1 live chicken = N3,000
1 75cl soya Oil = N1,400
1 Midium size Butter = N600
2 Gino Tomato paste = N1,000

Total = N8,800 so your change is N1,200 that's if you exchange pound to naira at offical rate and buying at the most expensive stores or high brands. If you exchange at black market rate and buy at public market "days" you will collect as much as N6,000 after buying everything in that basket....that's about £6 left.

LET'S JUST THANK GOD FOR WHAT WE HAVE AND STOP LOOKING AT AND GLORIFYING ANOTHER MAN'S LAND MORE THAN OUR OWN....OUR OWN NA OUR OWN O

OLoDO. Do you earn 8k in one hour

SweetBuns:
They say that "beauty is in the eyes of the beholder", but honestly speaking there are certain calibres of men I will never go near no matter how hard they try.

To get straight to the point,

1. Short men
Oh my God.... I don't just know what to say about these sort of men. If I'm taller than you as a girl, then sorry but I can never see you as my second piece. You'll always be like a younger brother to me. No hard feelings.
Short men also have this irritating attitude whenever they see girls around, as if they're trying to compensate for their low height. And some even go to the gym and gets muscles.... But it just makes them look shorter like a 5 litre jerry can and irritating
Also, why in the world would I pick a short guy over a tall guy? I literally feel so protected and safe when I'm with a guy that is wayyyy taller than me (I'm 5'2 so my height is kinda average)... So ofc I'd want a tall man and not a mini man.
Imagine hugging a man and he's hugging your waist cause he's short ugh.
I wanna stand on my toes whenever I kiss him and strain my neck just to look at his face. No more no less.
Tall men also stand out more, they're far more attractive and I also want taller sons and daughters.
Who should the short guys date then? I dunno... But not me.
The bar starts at 6'0, but If you're like 6'2 or 6'3... I want your babiesss

2. Bald men
The only age where I think baldness is acceptable as a man for me is if he's like in his 50s or 60s. But if you're in your 20s-30s and you're already going bald.... It just irritates me low-key in a inexplicable way... Like why will a young guy have a hairline that receeds all the way to the middle or back of your head? Where did all your hair go? Gross
I also read somewhere that early balding is genetically inherited so that means my children too will suffer the same fate? God forbid.
My man ought to have a head full of hair well into his 60s, then we start talking about hair loss.

3. "Oju yo Bo" people
I didn't know the English term for this so I had to Google it. It's a Yoruba term for people whose eyes pop out of their sockets like that of a wall gecko. This is also something I don't like in my man.... I want his eyes to be like that of Henry Cahill... Neatly tucked inside and having small slit like opening.

Addition: so I just googled it and it's called prey eyes. I prefer the hunter one since it gives my man a piercing gaze and I just wanna hug him immediately.

4. Eyebrows
A man MUST have thick eyebrows. If you don't, I can't take you seriously

5. Men with bad posture

6. Men who supports man U

That last one was a joke but I'm dead serious about the rest. And I'm sure other girls will agree to some up there too.

With this your wig, in America here you would be called an ape

na2016:


Number 2 alone is trash cos most other countries don't check age per se for jobs.

Infact in Chicago here na so so middle age me and above I Dey see for office. If you are a professional and you are above 40 believe you me you can travel and still make it big time

post=126881591:
See as him hold 30 pounds with no sweats.....

20 lb is only 9kg. OLoDO

Ikaeniyan0:
But Dangote Refinery is owned by a Nigerian and dollars the Dangote Refinery will earn from all over the world will stay in Nigeria.

PH refinery will also start working in december.

Lol okay

7lives:


You haven't read about Dow theory, the dollar is already at the plateau.
Hoarders will not see it coming, I'm saying this because I know that currency speculator will exhaust their naira muscles before the government will intervene, and so they won't have enough naira, to mop up the dollar as they've always do. and so dollar will be on a free fall.
Instead of hoarding, the stupid hoarders should be selling, " no one buys into resistance", they won't see it coming.
Mind you these hoarders are playing against Jagaban o, a man of stoch market experience.
As a trader you can't continue to buy, you must sell as well, this is what Nigerian hoarders don't understand.
I hope it won't be too late when they want to sell.

You guys are just terrible. If jagaban has anything to do, you think he would have done it long ago

Ikaeniyan0:
Do that mean we are not importing refined petroleum into Nigeria again?

What he’s trying to let you know is that importation volume reduced after subsidy removal but it instead of naira to appreciate it depreciates

Ikaeniyan0:
look at the billions of dollars we spent importing refined petroleum last year 🙆

When the Dangote and PH refinery start working, it will really relieve pressure on the naira.

I really pray the refinery will work

But Dangote refinery is in free trade zone and would sell its product in dollars

SMoh247:




How will anyone support murderers of women and children

US would rather keep shut and ignore than support nonsense


Ellon musk, Bill Gates Hollywood celebs are strategically silent

You see brainwashed Africans with religious story book will start stressing



.

Just the way you were silent when Deborah was burnt to ashes. Idiot hypocrites

vincenteger:
This is the best treatment

Next time he will never thinking of raising his hands for the wife.

But the only time I nearly beat one woman was the day she insulted my mom, packed her washed wet cloth to one side to spread her own . This is a block of flats with a common cloth lines one per two flats.

ehissi:


The picture on the left was wike as Minister of State for Education under Jonathan, he was way younger then in his early 40s. The picture on the left is Wike as a minister of fct under tinubu.

He is going to 60yrs....

How’s Jonathan now? Like a stock fish? GEJ is even fresher than he used to be.

Saturnalia:


Majority of you from the East are just too daft, uncreative & predictable that the only thing you know how to do best is regurgitate senseless stale lines on Social Media just to get useless “likes” that add no value to your miserable lives.

That was how all of you, like cows were (and are still) pushing the senseless narrative of Buhari being a clone and tagged “Jubril of Sudan”.

Worrisome is the fact that there’s absolutely no distinction between your young & old, educated & illiterates in this regard, as all of you think, reason & behave alike.

Everysingle one of you seem to have been bathed with that same cursed bitter water of hatred & irrationality from your birth - yet none of you can do without trooping, in your nylon bags & bathroom slippers into that same region that you love to hate so much.

You denigrate & curse the land that nurtures you from birth and expect to be blessed or proper? Never!

This is the reason tragedy, calamity & misfortunes keep swallowing you up in your enclaves by the minute.

You cannot sow soybeans and expect to reap pineapple.

See chief jobless daft cursing a tribe that his generation down to the 100th cannot lace their shoes. See long epistle of jobless fool

nairavsdollars:
AAU Glorified secondary school. Remove UI, UNILAG and OAU, the rest are trash

Is it the same Unilag I did my MSc? Be calming down Aunty