₦airaland Forum

MMMw:
you are systematically mad

He is geometrically and asymetrically mad.

hucienda:
She came to consciousness of the public in "I Need To Know", peaked and plateaued at "Jenifa" and is currently flogging that same far-spent horse in the eponymous series.

Happy 41st, Olufunke.

Sad-u-see, when are you going to start. your own life? @55?

It may not be easy for people like you, you can always force yourself to see positive things in people.

jay2pee:
Believe this white lie at your own peril

Take it easy. No be everyone go be like all the people you know!

JeetKuneDo:
Let's hope other states including LASG will learn from this instead of building drains with no covers. Road dividers with dirty zebra colors, roads without proper street and traffic lights, roads without sidewalks , roads with no landscaping around.

Pretty sure some governors will be looking at all of these, but instead of attempting to emulate what they're seeing by attracting investors, they'll be busy looting the "federal allocation" handouts they're getting so that they too can buy their own Pearl Tower apartments.

Let me also remind "dem dem" that based on what I've heard from a reliable source, gala sellers won't be allowed there. Just giving y'all a heads up before you scream marginalization when your asses are deported






First of all, this is a privately funded project by the Chagoury group and many other investors. Even the LASG isn't involved in the funding. I've told you clowns several times that Lagos doesn't need any nonsense oil money. The state is choked with too many investors willing to invest due to her huge market and strategic location

Secondly, you're from potor republic. You should have added "palm" to it or "epo pupa" to make it easy for folks to understand what you meant. This is the oil they have in that part of the country. Please let's always endeavour to make things clear when posting. Thanks

https://sc01.alicdn.com/kf/UTB8WtjjXSnEXKJk43Ubq6zLppXam/Red-Palm-Oil.jpg

Laugh wan kill me o!

Zeze06:


Instead of asking the man for a job as "personal assistant" to help him carry the phones....

Monitoring powers from hin village nor go gree am.

Cinkq:
Diezieni might not be that clean ,but she is not also as bad as the media is painting the whole thing. While serving under gej, She offended people who are now finding it difficult to forgive her and they are all out to teach her the lesson of her life.

[continuing on your line of thought]

...and all the so called properties being discovered are mere photocopies!

Right?

Tajbol4splend:
Please can you lay emphasis on that number 3?

That is the faith in earnest expectation that He will always be there. Things may look bleak as it was for the young guys facing the Nebuchadnezzar's furnace, but God will ultimately will not let down z
His own.
What you claim you have got will be tried and tested, you know.

Tajbol4splend:
Please can you lay emphasis on that number 3?

That's faith in earnest expectation that He will always be there. Things may look bleak as it was for the young guys facing the Nebuchadnezzar's furnace.

Tajbol4splend:
What actually does "Giving your life to Jesus" mean? Explain please

Accepting your spiritual lost status-
Admitting you can't do anything to save yourself.
Joyfully recognising His death on the Cross and Resurrection as the way to make it Heaven.

and. in appreciation of Him...
Submitting your self- ambition, focus, fantasies, now and future to the dictates of Jesus Christ

Whoeppme:
Right from time Our president buhari no dey gree hear word. Stop stop no advance again he no gree hear abeg tell me why BUHARI no go get EAR PROBLEM?

Boko Haram are our brothers, don't treat them like terrorists!

So say a hero looking for votes.

You now know the far-reaching effects today

How I wish Gen. Ihejirika also played deaf!

Chisom460:
nice ..... but this wasn't a war..Nigeria didn't officially declared a war..... just a major conflict...

What then is a war?
Male and female sleeping and romancing on a bed?

Mynd44:
"In his defence the General claimed in the heat of battle he was unaware he had crossed into Chadian territory."




Nigga has a sense of humor.

Yes some are saying he only has NEPA certificate.

I ask:

what benefits has their Master's degree done to Nigeria?

Mynd44:
"In his defence the General claimed in the heat of battle he was unaware he had crossed into Chadian territory."




Nigga has a sense of humor.

Yes some are saying he only has NEPA certificate.

I ask:

what benefits has your Master's degree done to Nigeria?

northvietnam:
if not for BVN

BVN or not, the righteous are still standing for what's right.

Emeskhalifa:
When God decides to pic ur call but your phone is dead.

U think say na God go come down com help u?? Smh

Calls are also picked by Satan! Ability to discern and say NO is a great wisdom.

Emeskhalifa:
When God decides to pic ur call but your phone is dead.

U think say na God go come down com help u?? Smh

Calls are also picked by Satan! Ability to know and say NO is a great wisdom.

Goodluck Jonathan And The Ostrich Game By Peter Claver Oparah
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan - remember him? He is the same man that was offloaded off power here some two light years ago. He is still the bumbling man perpetually living in denial, even in the face of egregious evidences of failure. He is still the same person who said he went to school without shoes yet when asked to declare his assets, after some few years in power, he declined and thundered ‘I don’t give a damn!’.
BY PETER CLAVER OPARAH
AUG 14, 2017
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan - remember him? He is the same man that was offloaded off power here some two light years ago. He is still the bumbling man perpetually living in denial, even in the face of egregious evidences of failure. He is still the same person who said he went to school without shoes yet when asked to declare his assets, after some few years in power, he declined and thundered ‘I don’t give a damn!’. He is still the same man who, as president, shocked the nation when he declared the stealing is not corruption, wondering why people were making comparison between ‘ordinary stealing’ and ‘corruption’. He is still the same fellow who harvested tremendous, unparalleled revenue in a providential oil boom and frittered the hefty accrual, which exceeded the combined revenue made by all previous governments before his. He is the same man who gave no damn that his cronies and those of his party men freely and impudently raided the national treasury and salted away mind-bugling amounts under his pernicious watch. He has cut a mark for himself for always burying his head in the sand when you expect him to be a man. He plays deaf and dumb in the hefty indiscretions and corrupt acts that have been linked to his men and subalterns. He creates the mien of an inscrutable man who lives with unimaginably corrupt people. He does not betray any qualms trading this paradoxical picture because his favorite pet must be an ostrich.
Last week, Jonathan made a cameo appearance at a PDP meeting and as he was wont to do since he was offloaded from power, devoted the entire time he was on their stage, beating and dancing to his own drum. To him, he was the best thing that happened to Nigeria. He said that when he was here, the country was awash with bountiful blessings; everybody was secure, food was aplenty, inflation was nonexistent, corruption was exterminated, poverty was banished, etc. You will wonder which country Jonathan was rambling about. You even wonder if life was as bountiful as he tried to make it look, why was Jonathan voted out by millions of enthusiastic Nigerians just two years ago even in the face of very desperate measures he and his hirelings took to stick to power? Perhaps, to Jonathan, Nigerians made a mistake to end his ‘glorious’ era and of course, he must have been talking to a country living in regret for voting his golden era out.
Let’s be clear. Jonathan has every right to bolster his image, especially in the face of the humbling he received in March 2015. With the horrific picture of wanton and egregious plundering that happened under Jonathan, assaulting the public space since he left, it was just charitable that he said, tongue-in-cheek that his regime failed to plug all loopholes for corruption. That means that he plugged some loopholes if we are to believe his moonlight revelry. That he even made that admittance was an afterthought especially in the light of the horrendous evidences of corruption that has continued to waft out from his regime. To Jonathan and his disciples, to whom he was directing his feel-good epistle, that was a cheery story, but to millions of Nigerians, still reeling from Jonathan’s gargantuan misrule, those were stories for the gods. Fact is that try as he and his cronies may wish to, Jonathan ran a brigandage where tremendous providential resources that would have lifted Nigeria from its present atrophy, were salted and stolen by his unconscionable cronies while he looked on. Truth is that Nigeria had enough resources to take it to the zenith of development under Jonathan but he presided over a total despoliation of the country as his moonlighting lasted.
A nation that understands its onions would have, by now, be calculating the costs of the brigandage and vandalism which Jonathan supervised in Nigeria for nearly six years. For that period, Jonathan harvested enough resources to take Nigeria into the first world when oil, the mainstay of our economy went as high as over $120 per barrel and Nigeria exported over 2.5 million barrels every day. Jonathan inherited a rich foreign reserve of well over $64 billion and an Excess Crude Account in excess of $12billion. In the period when Jonathan was president, no new roads were constructed. The ones that were existing decayed out of existence. No new railways were constructed. No model hospitals were constructed. No new airports were constructed. Unemployment soared to the extent that it took a call for recruitment of 3,000 staff by the Nigerian Immigration Services for millions of Nigerians to fill all stadia and open spaces in the country after being extorted of a compulsory fee running into billions of Naira. In the ensuing stampede for space, over 20 of these youths were trampled to death and no one got employed in the long run. Inflation? It was a soaring affair as the rate of inflation climbed to a double digit when Nigeria was swimming in billions of petro dollars. What more, Jonathan left power with the country’s power generation capacity at below 1,000MW, and 23 states clearly on the throes of anarchy as several months of unpaid workers’ salaries threatened to unleash violent crisis all over Nigeria as Jonathan and his band left power in 2015. Jonathan’s ‘sound economic team’ told awe-stricken Nigerians before the March general election that it had to borrow nearly half a trillion Naira to pay federal civil servants’ salaries. Yet, crude oil sold for $60.30 the day Jonathan handed over; a price it had never reached for the period Buhari has presided over our affairs yet Buhari not only released a huge bailout to clear the hefty amount of salaries states accumulated in the oil boom era of Jonathan and has followed it up with periodic releases to make the states solvent. As for security, yes, Jonathan is so shameless as to flaunt a situation where he was living in perpetual scare of Boko Haram in Aso Rock, which made unchallenged constant bloody raids in the nation’s capital after seizing a fifth of Nigeria’s territory. It is as bizarre as it is tragic! While he surrendered the security of Nigeria to Boko Haram and sundry other gang lords, his National Security Adviser was sharing a huge sum of $2.1 billion voted for security to all manners of PDP aficionados.
I am not trying to rebut the torrid of humongous claims Jonathan and his cronies continue to make to dupe our senses. Rather, I want to just take a peek at the persona of Jonathan; a simpleton who relishes playing the ostrich in his delusional feeling that Nigerians are afflicted with short memory. Fact is that Jonathan and his reveling PDP compatriots know that they are living a lie of what they really represent in Nigeria and what Nigerians think of them. They know the horrible place they occupy in the hearts of Nigerians who are still smarting from the vicious liabilities of the PDP era. They know that even as they try to take chance with Nigerians’ memories that everybody knows the ignoble role the PDP and Jonathan played in this country. They know that Nigerians know the hefty cost, the wasted opportunities and the missed chances we incurred when Jonathan and his men were vandalizing the country to the bones. They know that Nigerians know that Nigeria would have become great if we had an accountable leadership that utilized well the close to N100 trillion oil earnings, the hefty $64 billion foreign reserves, the $12 billion Excess Crude Account which Jonathan and cronies looted and ran Nigeria into recession. Perhaps with the exception of Venezuela, no other major oil producer ran into the kind of storm Jonathan and co ran Nigeria such that when oil prices crashed as President Buhari was taking over, every other oil rich country dipped into its rich savings to mitigate the effects. For Nigeria, everything was stolen; courtesy of Jonathan and co who ‘didn’t plug all loopholes of corruption’. Pray which one did Jonathan plug? Nigeria is where we are today because Jonathan and his lickspittles where were his exclusive cheerleaders as he makes his naked dance, ate our yesterday, our today and our tomorrow when bizarre stealing replaced statecraft.
However, if PDP feels Nigerians have forgotten where the present rain started beating them, they have a huge opportunity to stage a referendum of the Jonathan regime. This they will do by presenting him for the 2019 presidential contest. Yes, if they believe in the lie they told themselves and those whose senses they have looted that Jonathan did very well, let them put Jonathan on their ballot for 2019. Not that it matters who they present for 2019 but putting Jonathan on the ballot will help them get a clearer picture of how Nigerians feel about the regime vis-à-vis the present regime. Jonathan should spare what remains of his saliva and throw his hat into the ring if he and what remains of PDP believes in the lies they regurgitate to themselves that he did well in power. Let the PDP simply exhume Goodluck Jonathan and present him to Nigerians on its 2019 ticket as the best they have for the presidency on the mantra that he did so well for the six years he was here and let Nigerians vote, if in real terms they have forgotten the lessons of March 28, 2015. That is the best way to walk one’s talk than indulging in self-delusive revelry of futile creation which Jonathan and his hirelings have made their favorite pastimes, since they were dismissed from power.

Peter Claver Oparah writes from Ikeja, Lagos. You can reach him at peterclaver2000@yahoo.com
http://saharareporters.com/2017/08/14/goodluck-jonathan-and-ostrich-game-peter-claver-oparah

Abum Ozubulu. Je suis Ozubulu

But weep not Ozubulu.

Chickens always come home, to roost.

We have troubled South Africa. We have sent criminals to it. They have reached there and menaced the society. And they have brought back drug and blood money.

We will pay . We must pay.

When ever they react, we cry xenophobia. But we have been more than just nuisance there. We have sown drugs, guns and banditry in their land. They will reap the fruits. They are reaping plentifully. But we will reap a million times more than them.

Boys leave the village and return with bags of money and we clap. They donate to the village and donate to the church. And they become role models. They build mansions and they become sign posts.........turn left after the white and red castle.

They are not thieves. They are made chiefs.

We ask no questions. We refuse to ask questions. We know the answers. We don't want to know! They are businessmen. They are philanthropists. They are children of God........ I wish I had a son like him'.

They will come back. They, their guns, the drugs and their violence.

Weep not Ozubulu. Someday it would be someone else . And it could be a holy message from Malaysia.

rhektor:
What is this one saying?

The same thing they have been saying for almost 18 years that you lack the capacity to understand.

In ten years time, you will still be expressing the same ignorance.

rhektor:
How about Toronto Canada?
Just asking

Why do you choose to continue to embarrass yourself?

Get information and you will be free. after more than fifteen years you are still not clear: University of Lagos and Lagos State university are two distinct schools in Lagos and someone ignorant May think both names refer to the same school That was the same issue with tinubu error in Inec documentation that time.

Nigerian Leaders Are Never Divided By Ethnicity, Religion When Stealing Money - Osinbajo
According to the Acting President, claims of marginalization are principally driven by selfish interests, which have given rise to false narratives.
BY SAHARA REPORTERS, NEW YORK
AUG 03, 2017
The Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has stated that Nigerian leaders are never divided by ethnicity or religion when it comes to stealing the country’s resources. Professor Osinbajo said this on Wednesday, in Abuja, at a seminar organized by the Institute for Security Studies. The seminar, which had “Unity in Diversity” as its theme, addressed the raging claims of marginalization by certain sections of the country.

According to the Acting President, claims of marginalization are principally driven by selfish interests, which have given rise to false narratives. One of such false narratives, he said, is that a single ethnic or religious group bears greater responsibility for the country’s challenges or that one is superior to the other. In challenging the version of events, the Acting President said his experience is that Nigerian leaders are very united when it comes to looting the treasury.
“I have found and I have repeated this several times that whenever you look at a charge sheet, that is a sheet where people have been charged with an offense, especially those who have served one way or the other in the Federal Government of Nigeria; charged with stealing or corruption, you will never find one ethnic group alone represented. You will always find an equal representation of the ethnic groups.

*There is complete unity in this business of stealing. You will also not find one religious group, you will find that there is nobody arguing about religion when it comes to these matters,” he said*.
To support his claim, he added that the country has triumphed only in instances where attention was not paid to religious or ethnic differences. For example, said the Acting President, there is no focus on religion and ethnicity when the country’s football teams take to the field. The collective goal, he explained, is the outcome of the match. He advised Nigerians to extend that attitude to every aspect of national life.
“I want to say that that is exactly where we should be as a nation today. We should just be telling ourselves – just win, just score; it does not matter where you are from so long as you are in government or wherever you are, just win for this nation and we do not want to ask questions of where you are from,” he counselled.
Professor Osinbajo also challenged the view that countries cobbled together, like Nigeria was, are doomed to fail, describing holders of the view, especially those describing the country as a “mere geographical expression” as pseudo-intellectuals.
“Those who say so do not know that even the expression, ‘mere geographical expression”, used in relation to a country was not first used in relation to Nigeria. As a matter of the fact, it was the German statesman Klemens von Metternich, who used this same expression for Italy. He simply summed up Italy as a mere geographical expression exactly a century before Nigeria was born. Italy is still a mere geographical expression, but still a nation. So, we must not be misled by those in some pseudo-intellectual way suggest to us that the mere fact that we did not deliberately, one day, hold a conference to come together means that we should not or cannot stay together. Indeed, we can,” he argued.
He equally contended that most countries of the world came together by some accident of history or forced to be together, adding that the wise ones among such have decided to remain united.
The Acting President warned that it is a false assumption that an ethnic group is better taken care of if one of its members runs the government, saying the country’s experience has shown that no ethnic group has necessarily fared better socio-economically because one of its own is in power.
“There is no fact to support that whatsoever and that is how it has always been,” he argued.
He warned that those who level charges of marginalization against other sections or religion do not do so out of selfless love for their areas of origin. He explained that when people from certain zones say their zones have been marginalized, what they are saying is that they should be given government appointments because they hail from one zone or the other.
“Whenever people make these charges of marginalization, it is usually self-serving. I sat with the President once when two members of the National Assembly came to him and said we, referring to states in the North, have been marginalized. They went on to explain why. They mentioned some states had no senior ministers. One of them said: ‘Kaduna had no senior minister; the only minister is the minister of state’. He mentioned also Sokoto, even Katsina. Then he mentioned another group and he said, all these people have senior ministers, some groups in the South have senior ministers,” he recalled.
Professor Osinbajo said he responded before President Muhammadu Buhari responded, telling the federal legislators that there was no consideration, at the time the appointments were made, about whether or not they wanted to appoint a senior minister from one area or the other. His response, he said, was not well received by the National Assembly members. The Acting President reasoned that if one looks at any particular situation, one can invent a narrative to suit a personal or sectional agenda.
Once, he said, he was visited by a group, which complained that being a pastor, he should be taking care of the country’s Christian community. The group, he said, told him that the cabinet was loaded with Muslims to the disadvantage of Christians. When the group’s claim was put under scrutiny, revealed the Acting President, it was discovered that there were two more Christians than Muslims in the cabinet, which currently has one more Christian than Muslims.
Professor Osinbajo said he was astounded by the development, which he said also aroused suspicions in him that *many of those pushing religious agenda have no commitment to their faiths*.
“The impression is that the moment a person is appointed, it is almost as if these are militants for their religion. Many of them do not even subscribe fully to their faiths in any way,” stated the Acting President.
Professor Osinbajo rejected the view that that hate speech is part of freedom of expression and should be condoned. He warned that condoning hate speech will be a grievous error by any group of people. According to him, every major catastrophic human conflict, including of the genocidal variety, was sparked by hate or extremist ideology, especially hate speech.
“We must do something about hate speech; we must control hate speech and we must insist that it is not acceptable at public discourse of any type whether it be on radio or social media. We cannot allow the promotion of hate speech,” he stated.
He pointed at the sentencing of media owners to lengthy prison terms by the International Criminal Court for the promotion of hate speech, which led to the Rwandan genocide in April of 1994.
In response to the clamor for the dismantling of the country, Professor Osinbajo none of the parts being proposed as stand-alone nations can be as viable as Nigeria, even if they survive.
“None of them would be more viable, none of them can be as successful as a country such as this coming together. The other day at the AU (African Union), I was listening to some of the comments from several African leaders and I was whispering to the gentleman next to me that Rwanda is one of those countries that is celebrated for good governance, celebrated for a few things and even its economy. But *when you compare the entire Rwandan economy, you will find that Lagos’ economy is six times bigger* and Lagos is just one state of out 36 states,” he said.
The Acting President said he has continued to state this view everywhere he has gone. He argued that by its population, size of its market and combined resources, Nigeria’s potential is even far greater than the potential of most countries of the world.
He called on Nigerians to be courteous to one another in words and actions, so as to ensure that passions are not inflamed in a way that could lead to insecurity. He also stated that the country needs to social justice seriously, adding that poverty is a ready recipe for a variety of social problems.
“Very many poor people mean that there is a pool of individuals, who have no stake in society, and so it is our business to ensure that people have a stake in society.
"I think that we have a duty to ensure that we deal seriously with issues of poverty and social justice. That is why for the first time in the history of this country, when we were thinking through budgeting, we looked at the questions of social interventions and the social investment programs,” he explained.
The total outlay for social investment in the 2016 budget and in the current budget, he said, is N500 billion, which is the largest single item in the budget. Allied to social investment in promoting social justice is the fight against corruption. Professor Osinbajo described corruption as possibly the worst evil Nigeria has experienced or will experience, saying it is the single reason that resources are not evenly distributed.
“The fact that someone cornered the resources for themselves is what accounts for where we are today, economically. I think that we understand it for what it is. Many a times, people find excuses of every kind to excuse corruption and it is so for religious leaders, political leaders who look for all sorts of reasons to justify corruption. Someone is taken to court and they say the reason he is taken to court is because he belongs to another political party. Why don’t we ask the question, did he steal? If he did, then he should be in court anyway, there must be justice. That is the first question we must ask,” the Acting President reasoned.
While admitting that the country has made mistakes, Professor Osinbajo said those wishing for a replay of the three year-civil war that the country fought in the 70s are ignorant of its harrowing effects.
He noted that those who witnessed the war will not wish its horrors on their worst enemies. The Acting President added that those who only read or heard stories about the war have no sense of how it was and are largely responsible for the incendiary statements that are currently the fad. He advised Nigerians to remember that a repetition of the tragic mistakes that led to the war would be catastrophic for the country

LordOfNaira:
How many times does he walk compared to the times he rides in his luxury cars?

So your immature minds concludes that those who don't rarely walk as exercise will suddenly become excited to want to walk km?

Did you really go to school at all or you have allowed prejudice to wipe away your positive reasoning? Even the illiterates even know what is the cause of heart attack/ cardiac arrest.

For your information there is no a day that Adeboye will not go on self night prayer walk
Hardly!

Cunnilingus:
Nigerians and exaggeration of numbers. You know wetin be 200000 people

Are you pained and tormented by that number? It's probably going to be the least that will finish up the Marathon.

hopefulLandlord:
come on Adeboye, you don't need all these for good health when you can always pray good health into your life, after all you drove from Ore to Lagos on empty tank

You don't have to expose your ignorance and deep-seated hatred no this forum - Adeboye, like millions of exposed Christian are carrying out one of the Biblical advice that bodily exercise still profits

nextprince:
Did you read the report? Just asking.

If you didn't, pls do, but if you did, then do again, but slowly the second time.

The nitwit can't help himself. He is so designed. He will never read talk less of understanding

A former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, on Wednesday, said Lagos will become Africa’s third largest economy in a very short time.
Mr. Obasanjo made this known at the book launch of a book titled, “Making Africa Work”, co-authored by the former president and three other authors.
The other authors are Greg Mills, Director of Brenthurst Foundation; Jeffrey Herbst, President of NEWSEUM and Dickie Davis, a retired major general.
The former president said the Lagos State government is working towards making the state an economic hub, which he jocularly said would come to fruition before he passes on.
Mr. Obasanjo, who is the chair of Brenthurst Foundation, disclosed that plans are underway for the foundation and Lagos state government to make the state the third largest economy on the continent.
“(Even though) People said I look like someone who is in the departure lounge,” Mr. Obasanjo said, “Lagos will become the third largest economy before I take my boarding pass.”
The former president also said that Africa is not a poor continent, adding that the continent is only poor by choice.
He enjoined Africans to focus on wealth creation and job opportunities, saying the continent should complain less about poverty.
“Africa is poorly managed,” he said, adding that, “We are poor by choice (and) we will also get out of that poverty by choice.”
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http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/238973-lagos-will-become-africas-third-largest-economy-i-die-obasanjo.html

daewoorazer:
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This government is good at taking paracetamol after wake-keep

#zanga[/color]

Do you understand what you wrote?

Nigerian aboard Ethiopian Airlines allegedly slumps, dies of high grams of drug in body
ON August 2, 20177:21 PM/IN
News/ BY Tony/ Comments
By Vera Samuel Anyagafu
Fresh facts have emerged detailing how one Mr. Sylvanus Amachukwu Godwin, a Nigerian national with Passport Number A06011089 aboard an Ethiopian Airlines Flight 606 en-route Addis Ababa to Guangzhou, China allegedly slumped and died of high grams of drug in body.
Indications are that the late Godwin may have died of some drug in his body system but the airline authorities are yet to conclude investigations as to the proper cause of his death.


In a telephone conversation with Nigerian Consul General to China, Ambassador Wale Oloko, Godwin’s death was announced to the consulate when the aircraft landed at the Baiyun International Airport in Guangzhou, China. The consulate was informed that the Nigerian collapsed while in the flight and though first-aid measures were administered on him, he unfortunately died before the aircraft could reach China.
It was also learnt that the corpse has been taken to the Aviation Hospital’s mortuary within the Baiyun International Airport complex for expected post mortem to determine the cause of the sudden death.

Ambassador Oloko noted that the Mission is not restricting investigations on its part and has gone ahead to advise the management of Ethiopian airlines to use the information on the reservation system to reach the family of the deceased in Nigeria, with a view to arranging the repatriation of the body in line with the international aviation regulations, on the fact that the incident took place inside the aircraft and before disembarkation.

Moreover, the Consul General also said that the airport and Ethiopian Airlines authorities are insisting on a comprehensive post mortem examination and the Mission believes they are doing so in order to avoid and or exonerate the management from potential liability.
In light of the fresh development, Nigerians are urged to understand the dangers of drug trafficking and the negative impact on the country’s image.
This is necessary, following the backdrop of the many reported incidents of Nigerians that have been arrested at the airport upon arrival on Ethiopian Airlines flights with drug in their system.

Over 500 Nigerians Rot In Chinese Prisons
It is sad to know that over 500 Nigerians are serving jail terms in Chinese prisons. According to sources, an estimate of 535 Nigerians are presently rotting in Chinese prisons for various offenses which also includes drug related offenses.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/08/nigerian-aboard-ethiopian-airlines-allegedly-slumps-dies-high-grams-drug-body/

FG bars foreign professionals without Nigeria certification
ON August 2, 20178:00 PM/IN
News/ BY Adekunle /
Comments
–Declares state of emergency on science and technology
—Gives 3-yr tax rebate to pioneer industries in Nigeria
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru
ABUJA – THE Federal Executive Council, FEC, Wednesday approved a new policy that for any foreign professionals to practice in Nigeria, they have to be registered and certified by all the necessary regulatory bodies.

This is as the Federal Government has declared a state of emergency on science and technology to boost technological acquisition for the industrial growth of the country.
Meantime, to attract foreign industries, the Federal Executive Council has approved tax rebate which will serve as an incentive for pioneer industries operating in Nigeria.
Briefing State House Correspondents after weekly FEC meeting at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa Abuja, the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu said, “We agreed that from now on, any person who wants to practice any profession that has anything to do with science, engineering and technology, medical doctors, accountants, quantity surveyors just to mention but a few, that first they have to be certified by appropriate regulatory bodies in Nigeria.”
The Minister said that FEC in its deliberations approved policy that will help to change the direction that will be taken as a nation, a direction that will be very useful in helping to start looking inwards to produce the things that the country needs as against depending on outside to import our requirements.
He said, “Some of the highlights will involve where we have bulk purchases major items that will bring into the country those who normally would have supplied from outside the country will now come to Nigeria and establish their factories to produce in Nigeria.
“By doing so, they will offer job opportunities to our people, tax will be paid to government, wealth will be created and most importantly, Nigeria will now acquire the necessary technology that will help us build capacity.
“This is very important in our building our local capacity. There are so many areas that this new policy has coved because the aim of this new policy is to make sure that in the next ten years, Nigeria firms will be in a position to carry out very complex jobs. A sort of jobs that we don’t currently have the expertise to do in the country.
“And for such jobs, we will rely on foreign expertise and foreign firms for now but when they come, they have to work with Nigerian firms so that these Nigerian firms will understudy them and this will be from the conception to the commissioning.
“That is the only way that we can hope to acquire to acquire the necessary technology to build our local capacity because our aim is like in the next ten years like I said we will be able to have own domestic firms, Nigerian firms to carry out all these jobs.
“And in about 20 years, we want to see Nigerian firms competing with the very best in the world.
“So, the Federal Executive Council, accepted to declare a state of emergency for science and technology and this is very important because even the economic recovery and growth plan 2018 to 2020 recognizes the cardinal place of science and technology in driving this recovery and growth plan of government.
“We are not looking for transfer of technology because we know it will not happen, what we are looking for is acquisition of technology and we are interested in building our own capacity.
“We are convinced that we can do this and we believe that with the approval given to this policy once implemented, we will be in a position to acquire technology.
“This policy is a very comprehensive policy. We will pay a lot of attention to training. We will make sure that we have all the artisans we need, all the technicians that we need so that once somebody is building a house, once you get up to finishing of that house, you are most likely going to bring people from outside country. Many of them come from our neighbouring countries. This we will not allow to continue. So we want to build the requisite manpower.
“We will also use the Ministry of Interior to help us with a new classification in our immigration policy. Those areas that we lack expertise as of now, we will use that classification to bring in those who have such expertise particularly from African countries.
“Then we will also be working closely with Nigerians in the Diaspora because many Nigerians outside the country have a lot of skills which we need at this time particularly in order to implement this policy, we will be working with them.”
FG approves tax rebate for pioneer industries
Also briefing journalists, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Okechukwu Enalema said government has approved tax rebate for pioneer industry to establish in the country, noting that the policy was to serve as an incentive to attract new investors.
The Minister said, “FEC approved a memorandum that was presented to amend the list of pioneer industries and products that will enjoy pioneer status going forward.
“As many of you know the pioneer incentive scheme is governed by ye Industrial Development Income Tax Relief Act and the whole purpose is to give tax holidays to industries we consider pioneer.
“Pioneer doesn’t mean that they are new it only means that they are not yet mature, we want those industries to grow. We want to attract investment in them and you will find that this covers a wide range of industries and those tax holidays ranges from three to five years.
“The pioneer list was last reviewed by the Federal Executive Council in 2006, so you could see that this was long overdue.
“On doing the review, special attention was paid to the ERGP to capture the current realities that will help to implement the plan to make sure we attract the kind of investment, industries and players that will help to implement and realize our objectives in the ERGP.
“I should also point out that there was multi stakeholder engagement, private and public sector in arriving at the industries that will be included in the pioneer incentive scheme.
“In terms of the recommendations approved by FEC today: we have tried to remove all ambiguities in the definition of industries by reclassifying industries according to the international standard in industrial classification which is the global standard which is also the standard that is used by the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics.
“The other thing we also did is to agree that the pioneer list will be reviewed regularly every two years, biannually so that just that if things come up, we live in a fast changing world and we are being responsive to our world. In the case of additions to the list they will be effected immediately, for deletion of industries that we consider mature there will be a three year window that will be allowed for those that are already investing in that industry that were enjoying pioneer status to carry on till the end of that three year period.
“Against this backdrop, we then approved 27 industries that were recommended for addition to the pioneer list today.
“We also recommended and it was accepted by the Council that mineral oil prospecting which is governed by the Petroleum Profit Tax should not be part of the pioneer industries list which is really industries governed by the Companies Income Tax Act.
“It was also accepted that given the success we have achieved in cement which are now net exporters, maybe that is an industry which we could say that we are now where we want to be in terms of maturity even though there is still a lot of scope for the application and the use of cement and you know that will continue. We already have critical mass in cement
“The scheme will ensure that it will not deprive us of revenue. It is an incentive to make people enter your market, new enter industries, invest more for people who are already here. It will increase our tax base over time.”
FEC Approves 27 New Industries For Pioneer Status
The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved 27 new industries and products to enter into the pioneer status to give tax holidays to them for three years, to enable them to grow and expand investments.
August 2, 2017

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BuariCopyPaste:
Stupid act from the pauperized journalist.

The stupendously rich leaders have refused to live by example but you are there forming Mr integrity on empty stomach.

Buhari lied his way to Aso rock, Fashola embezzled millions via website design and borehole drilling, Tinubu acquired the whole of Lagos...the list is endless.

Can someone remind this dolt the penalty for false whistle blowing cos the table will surely be turned against him.

How I wish you you would be jolted to a positive consciousness that it would have been better than this for you if there are there are no people who decided to take to cover up things.