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Exactly! Just when the Nigerian army has almost finished Boko haram and it appeared as if the enemies' camp was in disarray,Jonathan went and entered into a fanthom cease fire with a bunch of people who claimed to be boko haram's spokesmen. The implication? It bought the terrorists enough time to regroup and recruit more men for reinforced attacks

PapiWata:
Another armchair general in the house. Oya go there and direct operations now, if you know you can do the job better than the officers on the ground.

Like your name implies,its obvious you are under the influence of marine spirits. Not your fault

The Nigerian army will decimate them in a battle,the boko haram will retreat after suffering heavy casualties,instead of our soliders to go after them and finish them,they will allow them to retreat and regroup for another attack.
Why can't we be on the offensive for ones?

chiggiee:
thanks dear. would see which of the options above is more plausible

I somehow understand how you feel. You've seen a lot of bad girls who did really worse things still attract guys and settled down and you tend to wanna question your 'goodness'. Just hang in there and keep keeping your head on high. You'll soon look back at this post and laugh(cos by then you would have been happily married).
Also,I can bet a lot of mails will be flooding your inbox henceforth. Selah

chiggiee:
i don't club and i don't have pride. the major problem is that i work late; i leave the house as early as 6:25am and sometimes i come back by 9pm so there is really no time to socialize except on weekends (which i use for doing laundry and housekeeping). *sigh* i guess i would just have to find time somehow out of my busy schedule to socialize.

thanks for your comment. have a blessed day

I feel your pain,on a lighter note
1,if your place of work has branches,see if they can transfer you to a branch in the following:
Alaba
Aspamda
BBA
Ladipo
Coker Building material market
2,If you can move house,relocate to any of the following
Okota
Satelite town
Festac
Oke-afa
Ejigbo
Iba
Amuwo-Odofin
Ajao Estate
3,If you run a bank account,move it from that bank down the road to any of the following
Diamond Bank
Fidelity Bank
Enterprise Bank
Zenith Bank
4, Then change your place of worship to
Chosen
Assemblies of God
TREM
David's christian centre
Anglican Church
Morning mass of Catholic churches(they usually attend before going off to open shop or office)
And many others scattered allover every geographic location in Lagos

chiggiee:
ok, so my question would be "where are the right places?"

Am sure you are looking at a guy you can happily settle down with,not just for fun. If right,then you have to note the following:
1,Reappraise where you having been hoping to meet such guys. You can't be hanging out at clubs at night and expect to meet an igbo guy that is decent. Hardly will you come to such places and expect a guy that is willing to take you home to parents. Most guys coming there are coming with a mindset-quickfun.
2,Reappraise yourself and ask if you 'form',living a life that projects you as a high class chic,projecting an expensive class. You gotta understand that while that can be a turn-on for yoruba boys,its a complete put-off for an igbo guy. They just easily see you as unreal. This is as a result of their traditional values upbringing. So you might have to check yourself and see whether you'll have to come down to earth a bit.
3,Because a majority of the decent igbo guys moved to Lagos at one time or the other,they still have ties with their homes and won't flow well with any girl that has become too 'lagosnised'. For eg,a hardworking igbo boy will choose a girl that will encourage that they save and build a house in d village first over that one that want him to pay millions as rent in the 'highest brow' of Lagos,drive the costliest car but with no bucket to their name in their village. The latter might work for a yoruba guy(a typical example is D'banj living expensively in a rented house in lekki1 while P'square stayed at Omole and built their own house). And they look out for these things in their conversations with you.
Since you were born and bred in Lagos,you might not have taken time to note these things.
I wish you the best.

That's because you've been hanging out at the wrong places

During the days of IBB,Abacha,Buhari,Yaradua and the rest as heads of state,you'll always hear of alfas and imams trooping to the Aso rock(and Dodan barracks) to pray for them as well as prepare different 'mixtures' in the name of protection,power,favour etc. Sometimes we even heard of foreign alfas,imams and marabouts being brought in from foreign countries(everybody that has been around in age will attest to this). Yet in all this,nobody complained. Now the christian pastors seem to be having some recognition by the presidency and all hell want to let loose. Please,let the men of God be.

Why is it that most doctrines preached by this islam is always somewhat offensive to the conscience? Why?

Rochas is a master of window dressing. If you look beyond his showmanship and publicity stunts and go beneath,you will see that Imo people don't like him. But like always,whenever he's attending any function,he'll get his men to recruit a crowd who will get there ahead of him, take the front positions and then shout his praises at every statement.
Instead of paying the hired students the money promised them,they labelled them thugs. Sad.

This family's time of remembrance has come. Someone's about to smile on them

This was exactly what a friend of mine who was in service told me they prayed for the president. He was really enraged to hear the rumor that was spread against the Bishop in a service which he was present.
People should know that satan the enemy will do everything within his power to 'smite the shephard so that the sheep will scatter'. He intends to discredit the servants of the most high God by every way possible and to do this he will use human agents who are constantly seeking for bad news to spread against ministers of God.
One question everyone should ask himself is this; 'am I the agent the devil is using to spread the false information that will discredit God's servant?'

A pix of the interior would have helped your marketability. Or you don't have the keys?
Anyway,I've got a couple of deductions which I won't mention here to avoid your car's devaluation before the public. But I assure you that my offer is after a fair calculation of all those deductions and I think you should consider it.

Would have loved to see th pics of the interior to determine if its auto or manual.
I offer N500k. We can meet up to inspect if okay by you

My advice is simple. Do you want to be having sex with her? Marry her. Do the noble thing,go to her father's house and with your people do the necessary marriage rites. It is also necessary that you put a ring around her finger and walk her down the isle. If you don't want to do those,please let her go. She is somebody's daughter

Not on whatapp. Why can't the vehicle be displayed for public view. This raises suspicion.

No pics?
Then you aren't ready

I went to a friend of mine's office and incidentally he was at the service when Jonathan came and left narrated the whole church proccedings to me and made it clear that Oyedepo never said anything like that.
He was really enraged that such false accusations will go viral against a man of God. He really couldn't hold down his anger today cos he was in the service.
I think people should be careful in how they rush to tarnish the image of men of God.
The truth is that satan will always want to 'strike the shephard so that the sheep will scatter' and he will use everything at his disposal to discredit such shephard. The question we should be asking ourselves is this: are you the agent he is using?

Location?
I offer N600k

Location?

You people should be careful with the kind of news you project all in the bid to draw sensational news stories to your sites.
Info from even the people in the town is that there were series of attacks but they were repelled after casualties on both sides.
You have to understand that all terrorist groups thrive on sensational attention and the more you repost this,the more of a devil's advocate you make yourselves.
I just had to enter this thread to say this,naturally I stopped clicking threads and sites that bear such headlines a long time ago.

Is there any that has house as logo or aeroplane?

@Op,This is the wrong place to ask these your questions. The calibre of men and women that live and worship there(Banana Island) are not on Nairaland. So you won't get a first hand answer here

Put a price to it and Location and we can consider whether its worth calling

I saw this article/write on Femi Sowoolu's wall post which was also culled by himself from external source.

Femi Sowoolu

Culled document: In case anyone has forgotten, this is the history of the Eti-Osa LG Toll Project

THE FACTS

1. The Lekki-Epe express road was initially constructed by the Jakande administration and completed by the Mudashiru and Mike Akhigbe military administrations in 1987. The entire Lekki axis was then opened up for rapid development. Between 1985 and now, the corridor has been experiencing rapid and unprecedented urban growth as hundreds of new communities, developments and estates have developed which drew large population of low and middle income Lagosians.

2. The last administration realizing the urgent need to address the fast growing problem of road congestion conceived the idea of the expansion of the existing express road into a six-lane roadway, the construction of an alternate coastal road that will run from Ahmadu Bello way in Bar Beach, along the shores of the Atlantic ocean towards Ibeju-Lekki Local Government area. The third leg was the construction of a fourth mainland bridge, from Langbasa area near Ajah across the Lagos Lagoon to Ikorodu town and detouring somewhere to join the existing third mainland bridge thereby forming a circular road around Lagos.

3. A committee was initially set up which recommended the adoption of the PPP concept to handle the project since it was thought then that because of the magnitude of the project, the state government might have to collaborate with the private sector under a Private-Public-Participation (PPP ) model to handle the project.

4. Thereafter, Tinubu’s greed took control. He floated a company-Lekki Concession Company (LCC) to handle the project as a consortium and appointed a financial advisory company ARM as the financial adviser.

5. LCC immediately asked for 1,000 hectares of prime land as the contribution of the state government to the project. This was immediately granted by Tinubu and he released the c of o within weeks for 1,000 hectares of prime at Awoyaya, Abijo, Eputu and Sapati all in Ibeju-Lekki Local Government Area. Part of the land is now being developed as ADIVA housing and golf course project by ARM

6. The project was later jettisoned after obtaining the hectares of land and other payments from the state government and in its place; the rehabilitation of the existing Lekki expressway was adopted by the consortium. There is no basis for a toll road and 30 year concession arrangement for a mere rehabilitation and expansion of an existing road which the government could afford on its own.

7. Indeed, the Federal Government under President Olusegun Obasanjo wrote to Governor Tinubu in 2006, offering to construct the coastal road free of charge to Lagos and its people from the Lekki Free Trade Zone to Ahmadu Bello Way in VI. He also sent a letter of commitment written by a Chinese construction firm to that effect. Governor Tinubu firmly rejected this offer and instead opted to abandon the coastal road project which the concession was initially meant for and instead signed a 30 year concession for a toll road to his company.

8. The rehabilitation work commenced in late 2006 with the expansion and rehabilitation of the Ozumba Mbadiwe end to Mobil building and the 49.4km main Lekki road rehabilitation started in 2007 shortly after Fashola became Governor

9. By this time, Fashola’s crony-Dr Tunji Olowolafe was made chairman of LCC and the entire contract was awarded to HITECH. HITECH is owned by both the Chagouris and former Gov Bola Tinubu who is the Chairman

10. LCC was given a 30 year concession (note that all their concessions are usually 30 years) with no competitive bid, no competing quote and no professional evaluation. The whole thing was packaged by Tinubu and executed by Fashola for their own selfish interest.

11. To further confirm this, Tinubu has built a multi- billion naira state of the art hotel-the Oriental Hotel along the express road. Conveniently, the toll gate is located a few meters before the hotel coming from VI so that the hotel clients wouldn’t have to pay toll. Even, special entry and exit points (including a roundabout) have been constructed for the hotel and the multi-level car park beside it (also owned by Tinubu) by the construction company using tax/ toll payers’ money. Talk about creating a personal empire. One man owning an express road and a multi-billion naira hotel.

12. The 49.4km two-phased project is to cost an outrageous N50 billion which the innocent citizens and particularly the residents and indigenous communities of Lekki, Ajah, Epe and Ibeju areas will cough out over the next 30 years while Tinubu, Fashola, Olowolafe, the Chagouris and their other collaborators and their unborn generations will be smiling to the banks. A simple arithmetic shows that cost of construction averages N1billion per 1km. This did not include the 1,000 hectares of land and other costs already incurred by the Lagos state government. This must be the most expensive road anywhere in the world! Meanwhile, there will be 3 toll plazas in a 50km stretch!

13. Already, the rehabilitation work which started in 2006 has only achieved less than 2km in over 3 years; meanwhile, the consortium has only concentrated on building the toll plazas rather than first completing the two phases for the convenience of residents. Residents in these areas spend more than 6 hours daily on the road while the situation will get worse during the coming rains. This has disrupted the lives of the citizens and no proper alternate road was constructed by the consortium.

14. The entire Lekki axis hosts millions of indigenous people who are fishermen and farmers and have occupied their lands for centuries. They are largely poor and agrarian from villages like Ajah, Badore, Elegushi, Ajiran, Sangotedo, Abijo, Ibeju, and all communities in Eti-osa, Epe and Ibeju-Lekki Local Government areas. These indigenous people along with others living in the area are now being forced to pay toll to enter and exit their fatherland.

15. These people who have been subjected to economic misfortune occasioned by seizure of their lands by this government are now been economically drained by the imposition of toll gates within their communities. There has never been any consultations with the people neither was there any environmental impact assessment before the commencement of the project.

16. THE BIG FRAUD This is the biggest fraud ever conceived! (a) A road that was initially constructed by two previous administration and that belong to the Lagos State Government is now being jointly owned by Tinubu-the former governor and Fashola-the present governor through his crony-Dr Tunji Olowolafe under the consortium LCC

(b) LCC was appointed without conforming to the Public Procurement Act of 2007. There was no public bidding process, no competing bids from other consortium and the fact that the former Governor and the present Governor have personal interest is criminal in nature.

(c) LCC will collect toll from the taxpayers of Lagos over the next 30years. The amount to be collected was not subject to any negotiation or law by any regulatory agency. Which means it is arbitrary and could be changed without notice anytime through the duration of the 30 year lease.

(d) In addition, landowners and prospective builders of homes are being charged heavily as infrastructural charge, land use charge and personal income tax and are now required to pay road tax or toll. This is multiple taxation in its worst form.

(e) The people’s livelihoods have been disrupted for the past 3 years without compensation and there is no alternate road anywhere as it is in practice in other parts of the world where there are toll roads.

(f ) A concession that was granted for the building of a coastal road, 4th mainland bridge and expansion of Lekki road has now been turned into mere rehabilitation of an existing road for the same 30- year concession. This is fraud

(g) Fences are being built around the toll areas to box residents within the area. This has security and safety implications. If there is a major emergency like major armed robbery operations, civil crisis, major floods, fire incidents etc and residents need to be evacuated in a hurry; there will be major massive bottleneck at the toll plaza as there is no other escape route except through the lagoon or Atlantic Ocean. Remember the Oke-Afa mass drowning incident of 2002. God forbid!

(h) The owners of LCC have also received cash payments and land grants from Lagos state government in addition to the 30 year toll. These payments and land grants were initially made under the agreement that the 4th mainland bridge-Lekki road-coastal road would be built. It is therefore criminal to obtain compensation for a project only to turn around and reduce the scope.

(i ) Several prominent Baales, residents and associations have voiced their objections over the years but were arrogantly ignored by government and LCC. The Eti-Osa Heritage Group, Concerned Residents of Lekki-Ajah (COROLA) and other Indigenous groups have expressed reservations and berated LCC for what they considered inequitable for the residents.

(j ) We indeed wonder what the Lagos State House of Assembly is there for if it cannot raise its voice to protect its citizens. The House is indeed culpable as it remains ineffective when this entire charade is going on under its watch or is the House of Assembly another conquered territory of both Tinubu and Fashola? ~ #changeindeed

If PDP wins Lagos,this LASAA man will be the first to go.
Jimi Agbaje has been complaining to the police of how Lasaa will engage in removing his posters while that of Ambode adorn every corner of Lagos. I thought he was joking till I took time to observe and saw how true this is.
As for Jonathan,he doesn't need posters for anyone in Nigeria to know him to vote for him,even though Buhari/Osibanjo posters have flooded everywhere.

presido1:
APC gave T-shirt to come for rally while PDP gave her rapper to do same. So all the crowd at every rally are the same people.

You got it right! She is part of the same crowd at various rallies. Just pay them their 5k and party souvenirs and they are yours to rent for the day

This not the way to campaign. Its quite extreme.
These are people's husband and father. The deaths shouldn't be politicised.
Fayose should learn to exercise decorum. This is enough to turn that region against jonathan