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engineerd: And you are a dummy!!!!

Really? am I? thank you you are a rocket scientist...pls fix Nigeria smart man

engineerd: Well with the way she lived her life deriding others, i doubt if there will be any flowers on her grave! She won't be missed!

You are so wrong...and short sighted.

masonkz: Please shut the hell up. Not everyone is a Christian. And for all we know, she died a happy woman at a ripe old age of 81! Not many Nigerians at that age are strong enough. So better keep hoping to last that long instead of hating on someone that people have come to like the world over, including those she disses on TV!

A bi o...every one in my family are either Christians or Muslims and everybody knows am a spiritualist that don't believe there is an Heaven waiting to receive me at my end...Nigerians stop all this God this and that not everyone believes God exist...hypocrites...I pray I can get to that age and who cares how many surgeries as long as I can afford and is save...with all this religious bigots in this country...we have one of the worst, corrupt,countries in the world...please let one of u born against enter an Ebola isolation center I dare you;go lay your hands on the infected to receive healing...I DARE PASTOR ADEBOYE,TUBERCULOSIS JOSHUA, and all other swagger pastors like Paul Adefarasin, Chris the womanizer and wife abuser. I DARE YOU ALL TO TAKE THE GOSPEL TO LIBERIA...am sick and tired of what religion as done to this country,

KiKatanga: You both live in extremely poor pseudo-failed states. Stop throwing stones at each other.

If that's what u think then simple...you re wrong Nigeria with many many challenges her economy has been stable for straight 15years. Pls tell me any African country that came close not even Egypt

bastien: Nonsense, Same design for all there fone, same spec



I will leave ma tecno unless I see fone wey dey scan virus for toto and ebola

Oh pls not funny...very low joke

doug: think before you talk. if you don't know about the subject then keep your stupid opinion to yourself. only fools talk about what they know nothing about.

You are the greatest idi-ot and stup-id religious goa-t head.

A patient suspected of suffering from the deadly Ebola virus left quarantine in Monrovia to search for food at a local market carrying the weapon he used for his escape. The video shows him being chased and finally being caught by doctors. He is forced back into an ambulance while scared and angry crowds watched on.

One local woman said care for Ebola patients was so inadequate they were not even being fed.

“The patients are hungry, they are starving. No food, no water. The government need to do more,” she said.

WATCH!!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-JZEaeOmfE

driving a volkswagon golf until 2005 that we bought her a BMW
X3 and she still refused to drive it for many months until she was begged to use it so that we can be blessed.



All you mugus that go give churches your money and believing God will bless you, you people think God is BABA IJEBU...lotto...think, how can the creator of the universe need your money to bless you. Most religious people Christians and Muslims you people don't think at all...PITY SHAME PITY PITY...

alotofgrace: oh mr. thinker?
Is Nigeria not part of UN, Commonwealth, Ecowas? who interfered in the issue of boko haram

Mr unthinker? so you think Nations gather together at the UN to play games? comparing the UN to FIFA( the game of football federation) not UNITED NATIONS...o de osi

maestroferddi: I am personally astounded by the developments in this country. The degree of bitterness and intolerance are getting pretty worrisome.

Granted, the government in power has a lot to do to meet the expectation of the electorates that voted it into power. But then we have to draw a line between a constructive opposition and sheer unreasonableness.


In other climes, opposition elements make their mark by complementing the party in power. In other words, they, as a watchdog of government, provide constructive opposition. They praise the government when it makes positive progress and provide constructive criticism when the government falls out of line.

From the foregoing, the opposition duly earn their respect and recognition.
Infact,the opposition conduct themselves as a credible alternative. Put in another way, the opposition demonstrate, by their action, that they be could entrusted to form a broad-based government without jeopardising the common good.


The case of Nigeria is pathetically unfortunate. We have a situation where the major opposition party practically see nothing good in whatever the government does. It is as if the main opposition party viz APC is pre-set willy-nilly to denigrate and disparage all actions of government.


I am constrained to ask whether this tendency is purely an African thing; where you must denigrate and malign your counterpart even when doi so is at the detriment of the common good...

The All Progressives Congress (APC), Nigeria's main opposition party, I believe, has not covered itself in that much glory over the past few days. One would have expected some level of appreciation and commendation for the growing democratic culture in Nigeria as witnessed by the free and fair elections in some states in the past few months.

Instead, all one hears are a cacophony of discordant voices.
Now, I am beginning to comprehend why Julius Nyerere asserted that African culture abhors opposition...

Really? Then you don't know anything about politics...The major job of an opposition is to oppose...even when you think the government is doing great the opposition feels they have a better way...

SLIDEwaxie: error 404

Any body that have the interest of our nation at heart will never vote Mr Jonathan...When we're in school no teacher will promote you to the next level if you didn't do well in previous level ...I have nothing against Mr Jonathan I can see he's a very good man and a loving father. But he has no place in government...obviously the few successes he has are due to people around him.

SuperMartins: Hmmm..Nawa oo, u running to infect pple in d same bus,pple ur sweat touches while trekking to ur safe haven,den u get to xchange plesantries,den u get to d house u escaped to and hug dem....Nawa...hope dis tin doesn't get to Edo! Any1 who has gt dis and tries to escape to Edo,May u collapse on ur way here! AMEN!! Dats like Suicide-distribution nau,u jxt wana spread it

Collapse on the way? I read the virus is more powerful when the incubator dies...and it can be transmitted when the person is really sick.So for someone to run away from quarantine is bad but not that bad

alotofgrace: for why kwa?
i hope the Naija govt can see these!?

this is what happens when you attach ursef to an external body for supervision, like
"MASTER CARD LOGO ON [size=18pt]NATIONAL IDENTITY CARD[/size]"

wetin consyn them with our mata?

Why do some people talk without reasoning... If you don't want them in your matter then leave FIFA...THAT SIMPLE...FEDERATION OF FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION...and yes they ve got rules and regulations.

Lilimax: I read this write up somewhere and decided to share it using this medium:

Dear Nigerians, the reasons for mass failure of our teenagers in public exams are not far fetched.

1 FACEBOOK,YAHOO,TWITTER,MYSPACE and generally browsing on the internet instead of reading their books

2 ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE and EUROPEAN FOOTBALL LEAGUES, it is easy for an average nigerian teenager to know the tha names of all chelsea players but same youths cannot tell you the square root 25 in mathematic. Worse still is that these days instead of seeing inscriptions like UNIVERISTY or SCHOLARS on the exercise books, what you see are pictures of paloma,Drogba,Beyonce,Omotola etc

3 DSTV,Home video and african movie magic, watching television and films endlessly.European champions league,English premiership,Barca,Blues,Chelsea,MANU etc

4 GSM and BLACKBERRY, the average Nigerian teenager uses the latest and expensive gsm phones just to show off that they belong, when they are actually nothing.

5 GSM TEXT LANGUAGE, I will not be surprised to see students write words like ur(for YOUR), 2moro( For tomorrow) in their EXAM sheets

6 QUEST FOR CHEAP FAME AND WEALTH, The goverment,electronic media(tv and radio) and companies have not been helpful at all. The average nigerian youth especially the girls want to BE silver Birds most beautiful Girl and get cheap money and fame(Nobody has remembered all the previous miss world,but we still remember MOTHER THERESA),they want to win IDOLS WEST AFRICA, they want to be in NOLLYWOOD, they want to be TWO-FACE, they want to win maltina street dance ,they want to win starquest and GULDER ULTIMATE SEARCH

Warning is that wealth gotten by vanity shall DIMINISH.
7 The new craze of TALENT SHOWS: Suddenly The only talents our youths now have are music,dancing,acting and stand up comedies, they no longer have talents for maths,physics and entrepreneurism.
Check out the list:MTN PROJECT FAME,BIG BROTHER,STARQUEST,MALTINA DANCE HALL,AMBO,GUILDER,IDOLS WEST AFRICA,PEAK TALENT HUNT ETC…What a bad distraction
It is only COWBELL that sponsors national mathematics competition and give scholarships to outstanding students in UME exams

Please stop being sentimental, all you all blaming the TV, Media houses, Diamond bank e.t.c...Please blame the parents,bring up your child the way they should and after a while they won't depart from your instruction...Parents chasing money and neglecting their children...with all the successes we're recording among our entertainers and sport personalities 90% of them cannot speak english nor make sense when they open their mouths.

CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME...'Aboran oro lanso fun omo aluwabi to ba de nu e adi odidindi' (Yoruba)

Emmalot121: They are playing like shit.Wetin girls dey find for football.Like my favorite comedian once said'if ladies want something,give them a load of it,then you will treat their f.uc.k up.' GERMANY WIN!!!

You're just a re tard, no sane person will utter this nonsense

Output Sparks Scrutiny as U.S., Nigerian Officials Suspect Saltpond Is Used by Smugglers to Transship Stolen Nigerian Crude.

Details :

A small oil facility off the coast of Africa appears to be sending lots of crude to Europe, raising questions by Nigerian and U.S. authorities about whether some of it is pilfered Nigerian crude that they say is increasingly making it to global markets.
Ghana's government inaugurated the Saltpond platform back in 1978 to pump oil from an offshore field. In its heyday, the field, located seven miles off the country's coast, produced more than a million barrels a year. That has dwindled to just over 100,000 barrels over the course of 2013, according to Ghana's finance ministry.
But since last August, three tankers picked up more than 470,000 barrels from Saltpond, transporting it to an Italian refinery near the port of Genoa, according to port officials, ship-tracking services and port records.
All the activity at Saltpond has ratcheted up scrutiny of the facility—which also includes a storage tanker—and its possible role in the market for stolen Nigerian crude. For years, Western companies operating in Nigeria, like Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Chevron Corp., have lost millions of dollars a month to bandits who tap onshore oil pipelines and siphon off crude.
Some U.S. and Nigerian officials suspect Saltpond is one of several destinations that smugglers use to transship stolen Nigerian crude, effectively laundering it by making it appear to come from a legitimate source outside of Nigeria.
The platform's operator, which denies wrongdoing, and Nigerian officials say the facility has a legitimate contract with Nigerian authorities to transship oil that the country's law-enforcement officials have confiscated. But those volumes are small, according to the Nigerian government, raising questions about the origins of the rest of the oil the platform has loaded onto ships. The Saltpond platform, meanwhile, has been a destination for at least one vessel connected to Nigerian oil theft, according to ship-tracking services.
In recent years, executives and officials estimate that as much as 80% of Nigeria's stolen oil is being shipped out of the country in small tankers. Where it goes, though, has long been a mystery.
"Tankers often will come twice a week to load [stolen oil in Nigeria] and will go abroad," a senior U.S. official familiar with the issue said, referring to international smuggling and not to Saltpond. "But it's extremely difficult to investigate the final destination."
U.S. officials said Washington is probing Saltpond as part of a broader inquiry into how Nigerian oil gets stolen and laundered. Washington has in recent years strengthened ties with Nigeria—Africa's biggest economy and one of the world's biggest oil exporters—and has set up a working group to liaise with Nigerian officials to help curb the smuggling.
Emmanuel Oware, general manager of Petro-Marine Consult Ltd., which specializes in ship cargo inspections and is based in Tema, Ghana, said small vessels that have loaded what he called "unofficial" oil in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta frequently come to discharge at Saltpond. There, the Nigerian crude is mixed with Ghanaian oil, he said.
"It comes from Nigeria, but it gets a certificate of Ghana origin," he said.
The oil is then transferred to larger tankers, according to Mr. Oware, who said he inspected a transshipment at Saltpond last year.
The majority owner of the Saltpond platform, Lushann International Energy Corp., a private company based in Houston, doesn't dispute that some of the oil it loads onto tankers comes from Nigeria. But Lushann's owner said the company purchases the crude legally from Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the authority with primary responsibility for cracking down on oil smuggling.
The company says the EFCC sells crude that it seizes in its pursuit of oil theft. "The only crude we take from Nigeria…has been seized by the government," said Quincy Sintim, Lushann's owner and president, in a telephone interview. "We have invoices that we pay to EFCC Nigeria."
Mr. Sintim said Saltpond's production had never been higher than 200,000 barrels a year since his company took over in 2000, and declined to comment further.
Jarrett Tenebe, the owner and head of Fenix Impex Nig Ltd., a Nigerian oil-trading firm, said he had been selling confiscated Nigerian crude oil to Saltpond on behalf of the oil ministry, but said the quantities were small.
Dorothy Bassey, head of public affairs at Nigeria's department of petroleum resources—the oil ministry's regulatory body—said Fenix only loaded "about 2,000 barrels" of confiscated crude oil since late 2012. It is unclear how much of that was sold to Saltpond.
Fenix is Saltpond's only provider of EFCC-confiscated crude, according to Mr. Sintim.
The provenance of the other oil that made its way to an Italian refinery over the course of the past year, however, isn't clear. Three cargoes, listed in shipping documents as "Saltpond blend crude oil," went to Genoa's terminal for delivery to Italy's Iplom SpA refinery, according to shipping and port records and officials.
Two cargoes, unloaded in August 2013 and February 2014, carried about 340,000 barrels altogether, according to Genoa port officials. The third tanker, unloaded on April of this year, carried 132,000 barrels. Together, that's more than four times the platform's 2013 output of around 100,000 barrels, according to the Ghana government figures.
Giorgio Profumo, Iplom's president, confirmed his refinery had received crude labeled as coming from Saltpond but said he believed the cargoes were legitimate because they are approved by the Ghana authorities.
Ghana's customs and petroleum regulator didn't return an emailed request for comment and couldn't be reached over the phone.
Saltpond, meanwhile, has been a frequent port of call for at least one vessel connected with Nigerian oil smuggling. The Akshay is a tanker co-owned by Ajay Bhatia, an Indian national who was sentenced in an Nigerian court in May in absentia to 15 years in jail for oil theft. The Akshay traveled three times between Nigeria and Saltpond in the four months before the ship's seizure by the Nigerian navy, for allegedly carrying stolen crude, in November 2012, according to shipping tracker service IHS Fairplay.
Two other vessels partly owned by Mr. Bhatia also travel frequently from Nigeria to Saltpond, according to vessel database FleetMon.com and to some of the ships' crew members.
Asked about the Akshay and other vessels co-owned by Mr. Bathia, Mr. Sintim said he would look into those tankers' activity at Saltpond but didn't respond when contacted again.
A lawyer for Mr. Bhatia declined to comment. Mr. Bhatia didn't respond to numerous calls, text messages and emails.


—Andrew Grossman and Joseph Palazzolo in Washington contributed to this article.
Write to Benoit Faucon at benoit.faucon@wsj.com and Drew Hinshaw at drew.hinshaw@wsj.com

wikifiki: HAHAHAAHA! Are you a Nigerian?

Yes I am Nigerian but I left the Hotel by 6:30 hoping to make it for my meeting 7:30

Oh thank you for this topic am in Lagos for Nigeria-South Africa chambers breakfast meeting, told my cousin I needed a cheap hotel on the main land for Max amount N6000 he got me dis hotel called City Hotels in Iyana Ipaja Road, Orile B/Stop Agege. .. Story short am still stuck in traffic at 9:30 trying to get to the island

This article was written by a Nigerian lawyer based in the UK, I do agreed with some of his stances on the issuing of a Nigeria travel document to questionable citizens. But I don't think Nigeria will just surrender a Nigeria passport to just anyone in the name of sport.

Please get ready there are army of Nigerian children born abroad and that have never set foot on the continent of Africa talkless Naija.

By Rashid A. Balogun

A rejected tiger cub is doomed. The lawyer might say, why would a tiger reject its own cub? This piece concerns how Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) breached the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in order to reject our home grown athletes (youth and senior ones) for illegal aliens issued Nigeria’s passport without ever stepping foot in Nigeria. This is sad indeed.

How can we be standing knowing that our national pride and distinction is under threat? Nigeria’s system of governance is a democratic one, where the government and its citizens or potential citizens’ rights are defined in the constitution. That constitution must be protected against any breach of its provisions by Nigeria’s President as a duty based on the oath of office he swore upon assumption of his position under the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution. (The oath is clear: “… that I will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”). And as the Commander-in-Chief of the nation’s Armed Forces, failure to protect such constitution is tantamount to dereliction of duty which is very serious.

The President’s assignees, in form of Ministers are also under a duty to protect the constitution under the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution against any breach with the same consequence of a dereliction charge. The issue of this writing concerns the issuance of Nigerian Passports to certain individuals who are not Nigeria’s citizens by virtue of the constitution. Copies of some of the issued passports are readily available on various online newspapers along with a link to youtube video evidence of Lindsay Lindley allegedly referring to herself as Lindsay Weyinme so as to avoid Nigeria’s immigration scrutiny.

To set the scene of breaches of the relevant constitutional provisions, this writer will begin with the Citizenship Act provision within the constitution followed by existing facts and rest with recommendations. Such recommendations cannot fall short of cancellation of those passports issued. The relevant section of the constitution is section 26 because the individuals were not born in Nigeria. Also, 15 years of residence in Nigeria eliminate any of those individuals to be entitled to apply for naturalisation.

Citizenship Act (Chapter III of the Constitution of Nigeria) is clear about who could apply for Nigeria’s citizenship.

Section 26. (1) Subject to the provisions of section 28 of this Constitution, a person to whom the provisions of this section apply may be registered as a citizen of Nigeria, if the President is satisfied that -

(a) he is a person of good character;

(b) he has shown a clear intention of his desire to be domiciled in Nigeria; and

(c) he has taken the Oath of Allegiance prescribed in the Seventh Schedule to this Constitution.

(2) the provisions of this section shall apply to:

(a) any woman who is or has been married to a citizen of Nigeria; or

(b) every person of full age and capacity born outside Nigeria any of whose grandparents is a citizen of Nigeria.

The Available Facts

(A) There was no record that any application was made by any of these individuals to be registered as a citizens of Nigeria to the President of Nigeria and there was no record of FBI criminal background check performed in the USA to establish the good character of these persons nor was there any check by the former Inspector General of Police as alleged;

(B) There was no intention by those individuals to domicile in Nigeria permanently because to do so is a conduct tantamount to renouncing US citizenship and these individuals show no such intention.

“ … However, a person who acquires a foreign citizenship by applying for it may lose U.S. citizenship. In order to lose U.S. citizenship, the law requires that the person must apply for the foreign citizenship voluntarily, by free choice, and with the intention to give up U.S. citizenship. Intent can be shown by the person’s statements or conduct.”;

(C) There was no oath of allegiance made by any authorised minister in accordance with the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution; and

(D) There was no verifiable corroborating evidence that these individuals have parents or grandparents who are (were) citizens of Nigeria.

The names, dates, places Nigerian passports were issued to them are:

SNAthlete Nigerian nameDate Place of birth

1. Jelks Mark Amaju 20th June 2014 Calabar

2. Denby Nichole 1st October 2013 Washington DC

3. Simmons Robert Tuoyo 26th June 2014 Washington DC

4. Akins Tyron Toritseju 2nd June 2014 Washington DC

5. Hamadjam Soudi Yaya 22nd February 2014 Calabar

6 Monzavous Edwards Not available yet

7. Lindsay Lindley (now Lindsay Weyinme). She said her uncle just married last month to get Nigerian passport.

The Nigerian Embassy in Washington DC, USA and Calabar were used for the issuance of these passports and the problem in the country that was ranked as the most corrupt nation which is facing security challenges at this time is the credibility of our Ministry of Interior, former Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ministry of Foreign Affairs in preventing this national security breaches. Of course, in some quarters people might say maybe the President is aware of all of these happenings but such suggestion is highly unlikely if these ministers weren’t aware.

The culpable people are those individuals at the AFN but the Ministers and the Inspector General of Police are under a duty based on oath they swore by virtue of the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to protect the Constitution.

By virtue of the duty or obligation imposed on the IGP and the Ministers as well as President Goodluck Jonathan, the followings are recommended:

Those Nigeria’s passports must be cancelled and withdrawn;

All individuals (including officers at the Embassy in DC and Calabar) involved in the procurement of these Nigeria’s passports must be prosecuted and banned from holding any public office;

And AFN officials must be separately probed of all its activities.

•Dr. Balogun, CPA, LLB(Hons.), LLM(London)

dlarge: Three wise men from East.....doro_boss

Yea Yea, I hear you wise men from the East...but uses the western culture and lifestyle to survive...Let your wisemen sing in all eastern language let's see how wise they'll get...Leave your tribalism lets embrace our country...

eaglechild: This is great news!!!!
But I hope she was tested before discharge.

This brings so much hope and a lesson for all.

The earlier one presents as a contact the better chances of survival.

What a dumb question...why would they discharged someone from isolation if virus still dey her body...Ebola no be joke...but with better treatment it can be killed

Copy of the alert

Pavore9: May the Lord be Praised! No matter how gloomy it maybe, His Glory will shine forth!

Please let's stop deceiving ourselves... We're created in God's image yet as humans we don't like associating with unsuccessful people, check throughout history God uses extraordinary men and women...not mediocres...so we're responsible for the gloominess.

freda506: Lol. Even OAPs are guilty. Their accents are not traceable to any country in the world.

Men thank you for making me laugh with all that is happening...this was very funny

jaybel: Yes the almighty corporate begging has
suddenly become a national malaise. You
see people begging at the bus stops with
reckless abandon. In some cases you find
the same persons playing out the same
scripts all the time. ‘’Excuse me sir, I need
some money to complete my fare’’. For
how long will you keep completing our
fare? Don’t get me wrong, they are
genuine people who could be in a fix and
definitely needs help. But you and I know
that some Nigerians adopt this measure
as a means for daily bread. Another brand
of this is the series of begging among
security men in corporate offices like
banks. There is almost no bank you
walked into without a security guard
approaching you for money. You here
‘’anything for the boys’’, ‘’guy give me kola
na’’, ‘’anything for the weekend’’, or giving
you a hand shake unnecessarily.
Do you agree or have more experience to
share?

Oh my God I spent 3weeks when in Nigeria I was in Port Harcourt and Lagos, the practice of Security personnel asking me for money drives me crazy...everywhere banks, churches, My hotels, arhhh

IGBOSON1: What was South Africa and Ghana position? Anyone?

South Africa 8th

He drops his wife so he can have time with the other madam Diezani Alison...but I don't think our slow presido can handle that Volcano of a woman

Conocophillips must really be loosing money,valued less than $2 Billion even fake Doctor called Dre's beats worth more than an oil well

Olucheye: My Only Question Is This; How Does One Enter Into The Play Of The Oil&Gas Industry.

Read your Bible and believe...joking...many ways you can start by selling diesel or look for a need in the industry...But asking on ur Nairaland I know is not of them

OXYGEN01: Ebola n boko haram combined in mumugeria. That's wayy serious. God is eradicating foolishness from the earth.Mumugeria with its large resources is still classified as one of the poorest countries in Africa thanks to foolishness n stupidity.

Am glad you're aware of Nigeria resources, world poorest? Well open for debates...They are poor yet they've cellphones,fuel them generators...

DebohBaron: Such a shame!?
Requested for a meeting with another fellow president and he was declined!!
Very sad!!

Anyway the minister for trade and investment should be among the delegates nah..

No is not a shame, this happened all the time especially when the other president is making wrong moves that hurt his people....Remember last two years Obama refused to see Isreal Benjamin Netanyahu...Jonathan has no influence Obama could use, it's all about image which Jonathan lacks