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Wallade:
I read from Deuteronomy 28: 15 - 68. I did not see where poverty was mentioned.

Poverty is the state of being extremely poor. It is the state of insufficient in amount. This is part of life and not a permanent phase in Life.

Ojuntana:
Stephen died poor

Paul died poor

Peter died poor

I guess they were not anointed

Wallade:
Book of Deuteronomy, chapter what? Verse(s) what?

Wallade:
Check the definition of success and poverty? They are two different things. They don't mean the same thing.

You need to show me a bible passage that qualifies poverty as an evidence of sin in our life.

Maxymilliano:
Lazarus must have been ungodly to be poor

treatise:
Those Christian fundamentalists that gave him unbridled supports from Nigeria should sit back and watch will unfold soon.

Amumaigwe:
In case you just returned from the space, this will help

*PETER OBI RELEASES HIS FULL PROFILE AS MORE NIGERIANS PREVAIL ON HIM TO RUN FOR PRESIDENCY*

NAME : Mr. Peter Gregory OBI, (CON).

CONTACT DETAILS

*22 Niger Drive, GRA, Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria
*Tel: 08034051000
*E-mail: poanambra@gmail.com

DATE OF BIRTH : 19th July 1961,

PLACE OF BIRTH: Onitsha, Nigeria

NATIONALITY: Nigerian

MARITAL STATUS: Married with two children

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ATTENDED

· Christ the King College, Onitsha (W.A.S.C.)

. University of Nigeria, Nsukka (B.A. Philosophy)

· Lagos Business School, Nigeria (Chief Executive Program)

· Harvard Business School, Boston, U.S.A. (Mid to Mid Marketing)

· Harvard Business School, Boston, U.S.A. (Changing the Game)

· London School of Economics (Financial Mgmt/Business Policy)

· Columbia Business School, New York, U.S.A. (Marketing Mgmt )

· Institute for Management Development, Switzerland (Senior Executive Program)

· Institute for Management Development, Switzerland (Break-Through Program for CEOs)

· Kellogg Graduate School of Management, U.S.A. (Advanced Executive Program)

· Kellogg School of Management U.S.A. (Global Advanced Mgmt Program)

. Oxford University: Said Business School, (Advanced Mgmt& Leadership Program)

. Cambridge University: George Business School (Advanced Leadership Program)

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

· Governor, Anambra State of Nigeria (2006-2014)

· Honorary Special Adviser to the President on Finance (till May, 2015)

· Member, Presidential Economic Management Team (till May, 2015)

· Vice-Chairman, Nigeria Governors’ Forum (2008-2014)

· Chairman, South-East Governors’ Forum (2006-2014)

. Former Chairman: Board of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

· Former Chairman: Fidelity Bank Plc.

· Former Chairman: Guardian Express Mortgage Bank, Ltd.

· Former Chairman: Future Views Securities, Ltd.

· Former Chairman: Paymaster Nigeria Plc.

· Former Chairman: Next International (Nigeria) Ltd

· Former Director: Guardian Express Bank Plc.

· Former Director: Chams Nigeria Plc.

· Former Director: Emerging Capital Ltd

· Former Director: Card Centre Plc

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS/ORGANIZATIONS

· Member, Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG)

· Member, Nigerian Chartered Institute of Bankers

· Member, British Institute of Directors (IOD)

MEMBERSHIP OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEES

In my capacity as the Governor of Anambra State, I served as a member of:

*Federal Government Committee on Minimum Wage

*Federal Government Committee on Negotiation with Labour on Subsidy

*Federal Government Committee on Mass Transit

*Federal Government Committee on Natural Resource

*National Economic Council Committee on Power Sector Reform

*National Economic Council Committee on Sharing of MDGs Funds

*National Economic Council Committee on Accurate Data on Nigeria’s Oil Import and Export

*Agricultural Transformation Implementation Council

*Sub-Committee on Needs Analysis of Public Universities in Nigeria

*National Economic Council Review Committee on the Power Sector

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

2015: Golden Jubilee Award from Catholic Diocese of Onitsha for outstanding contribution to quality healthcare delivery in St. Charles Borromeo Hospital in particular and Anambra State in general, on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee celebration of the hospital.

*2014: Nigerian Library Association Golden Merit Award for remarkable improvement of libraries in Anambra State, exemplified by our Government's construction of the Kenneth Dike Digital State Library, remarkable upgrade of the Onitsha Divisional Library, and provision of library facilities in secondary schools across the State.

*2014: Champion Newspaper Most Outstanding Igbo Man of the Decade.

* 2014 The Voice Newspaper (Holand) Achievers Award for Outstanding Example in Leadership and Governance.

*2013: Silver Bird Man of the Year (with Governor BabatundeFashola of Lagos State).

*2012: Business Hallmark Newspaper Man of the Year.

*2012: The Golden Award on Prudence – by the Methodist Church of Nigeria as the Most
Financially Prudent Governor in Nigeria.

* 2012: Leadership and Good Governance Award by The Ezeife Leadership Foundation Award for restoring peace and harmony to Anambra State.

* 2012: Best Performing Governor on Immunization in South-East Nigeria – by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

* 2012: Outstanding Financial Planner and Manager – by the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion for my resourcefulness and creativity in governance.

*2011: Zik Leadership Prize.

*2010: ICT Governor of the Year – by the West Africa ICT Development Award.

*2009: Champion Newspaper Nigeria’s Most Trustworthy Governor Award.

*2009: Thisday Newspaper Most Prudent Governor in Nigeria.

*2007: The Sun Newspaper Man of the Year Award.

**The Nigerian MDGs Office/UNDP Best Governor in the Implementation of the MDGs in Nigeria

INTRODUCTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL AND OTHER MAJOR CHANGES IN NIGERIAN POLITICS

*He was the first gubernatorial candidate in Nigeria to legally challenge to its logical conclusion, his governorship electoral victory that was denied him. He won in the Courts and reclaimed his mandate.

*He was the first Governor in Nigeria to legally challenge his wrongful impeachment and was reinstated by the Courts.

*He was the first Governor in Nigeria to seek the interpretation of tenures of Governors when INEC allowed elections to take place in Anambra State when his tenure had not expired; the election already concluded was cancelled and he was allowed to complete his tenure.

*He was the first Governor to serve a 2nd term in both the new and old Anambra State, that is, almost 40 years after creation of the State.

*He was the first Governor, whilst still in Office, to be appointed a Special Adviser to the President.

*He was the first serving Governor to be appointed into the Presidential Economic Management Team.

*He was among the first Governors to be honoured with a National Award in 2011, while still in office.

*Though the only Governor whose political party was in government in only one State, he was elected Vice-Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum twice.

*Though the only non-PDP Governor in the South-East (made up of 5 States), he was elected by the other 4 PDP Governors as their Chairman for 8 years rather than the usual one year.

FUNDAMENTAL ACHIEVEMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF ANAMBRA STATE (PARTIAL LISTING)

1. Anambra was the first State to commence Sub-Sovereign Wealth savings, the first of its kind in Sub-Saharan Africa. At a time many other Governors were leaving huge debts, I left the equivalent of $500 million Dollars in investment as well as local and foreign currency, including $156 million in Dollar-denominated bonds.

2. For the first time in the history of Anambra State, Ambassadors and High Commissioners of notable countries such as United Stated, Britain, Russia, European Union, South Africa, Belgium, Israel, the Netherlands, Canada, among others, visited the State. Before my tenure, Anambra was practically a pariah state blacklisted by the Diplomatic Corps and international development partners.

3. Development partners such as UNDP, UNICEF, the World Bank, DFID, the European Union etc., which hitherto were not in Anambra State started working with the State. Anambra was consistently adjudged one of the best states in development partnership and commitment to reforms for good governance.

4. He was recognised as Best Governor by the Millennium Development Goals Office (OSSAP-MDGs) and the UNDP in the implementation of their programmes in Nigeria.

5. The Nigerian Debt Management Office (DMO) rated Anambra as the least indebted state in Nigeria. In spite of visible and measurable achievements recorded in various sectors, the State under him did not borrow or raise bonds for her various projects.

6. The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria rated Anambra State as the most financially stable state in the country.

7. The State's ground-breaking return of schools to their original owners - Voluntary Agencies (Churches) on 1st January 2009, and subsequent partnership with the Agencies in Education, saw the State move from 24th position out of 36 States to Number One in National Examination Council (NECO) and West African Examination Council (WAEC) examinations for three consecutive years. This made the World Bank to commission a study, led by the renowned Prof. Paul Collier of Oxford University, on this revolutionary partnership and phenomenal achievement.

8. The State also entered into strategic partnership with the Churches in the Health sector. This symbiotic relationship resulted in a tremendous boost to health care because of the services offered by health institutions owned by Voluntary Agencies, while the State restored grants to the agencies and made available to them more than 50 million Dollars in various types of support.

10. Through partnership with the Church in the Health sector, his Government funded the transformation of -:

a: Iyienu Hospital, Ogidi;
b: Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Ihiala;
c: St Charles Borromeo Hospital, Onitsha;
d: Holy Rosary Hospital, Waterside, Onitsha; and
e: St. Joseph Hospital, Adazi-Nnukwu.
His Government also built the Joseph Nwilo Heart Centre in St. Joseph, Adazi-Nnukwu, where heart operations are now being performed.

11. His Government won the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (1 Million dollars) as the best-performing state in immunisation in the South-East. With complementary funding from our Government, they used the money to build 10 Maternal and Child Care Centres across the State, particularly in rural communities, in partnership with the Churches.

12. The State was the first to procure and distribute more than 30,000 computers to secondary schools, including 22,500 from HP. The Managing Director for Personal Systems Group HP Inc, Mr. FabriceCampoy described the deployment as the biggest of such projects in the Middle-East and Africa.

13. Anambra State Government provided Microsoft Academies to more than 500 secondary schools, which the Head of Microsoft in Nigeria (Mr. Ken Span) described as the biggest such deployment in Africa so far.

14. The State provided Internet access to more than 500 secondary schools, which the CEO of Galaxy Backbone (Mr. Gerald Ilukwe) characterized as incomparable to any in the country.

15. More than 700 buses were provided to secondary schools in the State by our Government.

16. Boreholes were provided in schools all over the State.

17. Numerous classrooms were built in all the 177 communities of the State.

18 As part of the efforts to turn around the economy of the State, a number of companies were attracted to build their facilities in the Anambra State. A case in point is SABMiller, the 2nd largest brewery in the world, which built their first Green Field facility in the State, which is today one of the most successful facilities they operate globally.

19. A number of other companies followed the SABMiller initiative and were all supported and encouraged under our Government; a good example is INNOSON Motor Manufacturing Company, from which our government bought more than 1,000 vehicles.

20. Anambra State for the first time started close collaboration with recognized government security agencies (the Police, Army, Navy, Department of State Security, Civil Defence, among others), offering them various types of support including provision of more than 500 security vehicles. The improvement in security was phenomenal, such that the former IG of Police (Abubakar Mohammed) lauded Anambra State for not witnessing any bank robbery in my last three years in office.

21. To further enhance security, Anambra State provided at least one security vehicle to each of all the 177 communities in the State as well as various organizations such as markets and Churches.

22. His Administration conceived and built, from scratch, the first state-owned Teaching Hospital, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu teaching Hospital, Awka.

23. His Government commenced the planned development of the Igbariam Campus of the ChukwuemekaOdumegwu-Ojukwu University, including the fencing, construction of internal roads, electrification, construction of the Faculty of Law, Auditorium, Administrative Block, Faculty of Agriculture, Management Building, among others).

24. His Government attracted the World Bank support on erosion - National Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) - to Anambra State.

25. His Government was the first to do Poverty Mapping in Nigeria, as a guide for the effective implementation of our poverty-alleviation strategies.

26 His Government, for the first time, undertook the aerial mapping of Awka as well as the production of Structure Plans for Awka Capital Territory, Onitsha and Nnewi.

27. During his tenure and with his Government's support, Anambra State became an oil producing State.

28. He built the first Secretariat Complex to house State Government Ministries that were hitherto scattered around the State.

29. His government commenced the development of the 'Three Arms Zone' comprising Government House/Governor’s Lodge, Legislative Building/Speakers Residence, and Judiciary Building with Chief Judge’s Residence.

30. By the end of his tenure in 2014, more than twelve (12) health institutions, including two hospitals, had secured accreditation; when we took off in 2006, no health institution in Anambra State was duly accredited.

31. Anambra State was the first to undergo national peer review, which scrutinised State Governments for good governance, through the State Peer Review Mechanism (SPRM), an initiative of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum in collaboration with the DFID.

Simeony007:
United's problem is spiritual!!!

How can we say that
Mourinho
LVG
MOYES
ETH
OLE

are not all good?

EMIOMOADEOYE:
In what year was that

Omawumi17:
This is Iwo local government in Osun State

lebete3000:
See this one complaining of goat price, half goat here in Lagos na 33k, full goat 70k.

This Lagos no be better place to live aje!

Emmahunk:
Two siblings aged 21 and 23 years stunned the University Community and entire Anambra State as they both emerged with DISTINCTION in Medicine.
DR. IGBONAZOBI, Martins Jnr. (23) and
DR. IGBONAZOBI, Hillary Uzoma (21).
recently got inducted into the noble Medical Profession @ COOUTH, Awka with Dr. Hillary (21) emerging as the best graduating student.
It was a moment of utter awe as the young doctor Hillary addressed the University Community in an epoch speech in the presence of the Vice Chancellor, the Provost of the Medical School, their proud parents and general public who all stood in unfathomable awe of this feat.
Reacting to the this great achievement, their father, Dr. Martins Igbonazobi who is the Medical Director of Sahel Savannah Hospital, Auchi said "We give God all the glory and I can't thank my wife, Chinyere enough for the extra time she devotes to the family ."
Most astonishing of this awesome feat is that this is coming at a time when children their age are more interested in the get rich quick syndrome that has taken over our society.
Give it up to these siblings.

StarGeneral:
This Malta, I'm still researching about the visa. I just don't have the time to run around for visa right now so I want a place I can easily get Visa without much stress. Right now, I may settle for either Rwanda or Vietnam. When I spend like 6 months there, I will come back to apply for better country.

Ophyl:
Please I got an admission to international European university malta, please how legit is the school, and if legit, how is residency and citizenship like.

Please help out thank you

Bigkoko:
This people matter tire me ohhhh! . na them sell land, use the money run owambe package, still get mouth dey shout go back to your south yeast..lol Mkae them just tell us say, the land wey them sell dey pepper them for body, we fit understand...

Bigkoko:
As we post here, someone somewhere in Ikare or Okitikpukpa is planning to sell their ancestral land because thevoice of ebi pa waooo is now louder than the voice of custom!

Oga Chukwudi seeing longer term prospect in runnibg his Obioma business in Ikare & environs seriously want to be a land lord. Now, our dear Obioma is carrying his sewing machines looking for customers every day including on Sabbath day..something Oga Chukwudi should not be doing. his wife, Lolo Adanne, understands, quickly start farming pepper, ugu, cocoyam just to help her odogwu who wants to be a land lord in a foreign land. Both of them will succeed because one free loader called Kunle has been dreaming of free money. As if the universe has heard Chukwudi prayers, then Iya Kunle suddenly die, that is years after baba Kunle died.

Kunle decided to sell the land sharp sharp before his brother living under the bridge in Lagos find. In his hurry, he sells it for peanut to Oga chukwudi who borrowed money from his village man Ikenna, promising to be paying small small.

Tomorrow, same fellow, will still turn round to shout South yeast should go back to their Dot nation!!!


We have many Kunles and Chukwudis on nairaland!

DyshApp:
The pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as gasoline, has decreased compared to a few weeks ago. Based on recent survey, the pump price was observed to be between N1120 and N1,125 at petrol stations, as opposed to N1400 and N1500 per liter in prior weeks.

The survey revealed that, despite having a comparatively lower price than other stores run by independent marketers in the city, major marketers like the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd.'s outlet off Itam junction, in the outskirts of Uyo, have fewer customers waiting in line to purchase their goods, the Whisler Newspaper observed.

A similar experience occurred at other gas stations along Aka Etinan Road, where gas was sold without significant pressure. Godwin Ekpo, the chairman of the Petroleum Product Monitoring Committee (PPMC), pointed out that steady fuel sales at stations designated by the NNPC and some major marketers have increased supply, which has resulted in lower prices among independent marketers. Legit.ng reported that filling stations nationwide are expected to adjust pump prices again following the crash in fuel landing costs in Lagos, Edo, Port Harcourt, and other states.

The landing cost of freighting fuel to Nigeria fell to N935.94 per litre, and aviation fuel crashed to N1,117.48 per litre. A report by the Major Energies Marketers Association of Nigeria (MEMAN), published on Tuesday, November 19, 2024, also indicated that the landing cost of diesel dropped to N1,071.8 per litre, calculated at the exchange rate of N1,659.37 per dollar.

The report disclosed that the landing cost comprised multiple factors, such as finance charges calculated at an annual rate of 32% over 30 days, freight costs over 10 days, and the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) fees covering mooring and towage.

Read up more updates on the fuel crash

nairalanda1:
Well it isn't that tax isn't accounted for, it is also that the revenue from tax in Nigeria is not enough for a country our size.

That's why Nigeria borrows..and has been borrowing long before 2015. It's our leaders way of not facing reality. That includes tinubu and buhari especially

nairalanda1:
In the same saner climes, the tax rate is very hefty compared to Nigeria, yet that is how they get the cash for all the things needed for saner climes.

Take the UK. If you are living in a citeh in the UK, you pay something called council tax which can be as high as 400000 naira or more monthly. And no, not everyone earns that much to pay, so..


Nigeria, only 30% of people pay tax to government. Most don't or they pay money to suspicious entities that do nothing. Oil money is not enough for 2 million people.

If government raised taxes, taxed the 70% not paying, ended illegal mining and cut subsides to raise the cash needed, you guys will call them oppressive.

So they borrow.

Kelvin3476:
Don’t consider Taiwan now until trump assumes office

StarGeneral:
Exactly my headache...

StarGeneral:
Good morning, guys. I'm totally fed up with this country and I must relocate permanently latest, February, 2025. I work from home.

I need a good country where I can relocate to either Africa, Asia or Europe... Good country pls!

Thanks all

NB: I don't want to go through school.

Sirchiboy:
Good day guys abeg which country I fit apply for with 4m.
Recently sold my car I use to do uber after one year of unproductive journey in the business.
I decided to sell it off.
I wanted to do business but am not business inclined.
This country don tire me.