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Who is the richest footballer in the world? Meet the mega-rich Brunei royalty in Leicester City's ranks


The 20-year-old Leicester academy midfielder is the most valued player in the world, though he has yet to make a senior appearance for the Foxes
When you try to think of the world's wealthiest footballers, it's natural to have your mind immediately flit to the likes of Lionel Messi, Neymar or Cristiano Ronaldo – or perhaps simply a formidable player playing for a top-class European club.

Alexis Sanchez earns £350,000 per week at Old Trafford and is the highest-paid player in the Premier League , while Aaron Ramsey will be paid a handsome £400,000 per week at
Juventus.

In reality, the world's richest footballer just so happens to be 20-year-old Leicester reserve player Faiq Bolkiah. The nephew of the Sultan of Brunei, the enigmatic youngster is worth an estimated £15 billion ($20bn) – blowing Ronaldo's estimated net worth of between £200m and £250m out of the water.

Bolkiah has been plying his trade with the Foxes academy, having first signed a three-year professional contract in March 2016. He has yet to make a first-team appearance with Leicester, however, and little is known about his involvement with the reserves set-up.

Regarded as a talented midfielder, Bolkiah – who was born in the Los Angeles and could have chosen to represent the U.S. national team but opted to play for Brunei – started his youth career at AFC Newbury.

In 2009, he joined Southampton 's esteemed youth set-up and stayed there for four years before making the move to Arsenal after the Gunners offered him a trial in 2013.

With the Gunners' youth team, Bolkiah competed in the 2013 Lion City Cup and bagged a goal. It was with the Arsenal academy that he caught the attention of
Chelsea , who offered the forward a two-year deal that he signed. After just one year with the Chelsea reserves where he presumably got frustrated with a lack of game time, he moved to Leicester on a three-year deal in 2016 – where he remains to his day.

Full details about Bolkiah at Leicester are scarce, having only featured for their reserve side and never even being named as a substitute in a first-team fixture. There is little to no information about the player on the official Foxes website – there's not even a roster for their academy side - though a visit to his Instagram, which is his only official social media page, offers more details.

He boasts 122k followers and describes himself as a professional Leicester athlete. According to his bio, he is sponsored by Nike and is active within the team – posting semi-regular photos of his training with the Leicester second string.

He has also made his full international debut with Brunei, first representing his country at Under-21 and U-23 levels as well as the 2015 Southeast Asian Games . He bagged his first senior international goal in that tournament, scoring in a 1–2 defeat to Timor Leste, and has since earned five more senior caps.


Despite never having made a senior appearance at club level, he's probably already made more playing for Leicester's reserve sides than Ronaldo and Messi have earned during their entire footballing careers.
The Sultan of Brunei's brother – Bolkiah's uncle – reportedly spent roughly £7 billion across 15 years as the head of the Brunei Investment Agency.

Prince Jefri Bolkiah is known to have spent up to £35m per month on luxury items such as cars, watches and white gold pens. He boasts an elite car collection that includes Bentleys, Ferraris and Rolls-Royces.

One of the most notable of Prince Jefri's splash-the-cash moments is when he flew the late Michael Jackson over to perform a private solo concert for his 50th birthday .

Prince Jefri has earned a reputation as a notorious playboy over the years with young Faiq Bolkiah sharing of a large chunk of his lavish wealth, but in fairness to the Leicester youngster, he remains humble and keen to focus on his football career because his pure love of the sport and not for the glamorous lifestyle so associated with it.

"My parents have always been supportive in helping me to achieve my dreams of being a footballer," Bolkiah said about his burgeoning career via the Mirror .

"They trained me hard both psychologically and physically through my childhood years, so I have to say they are my role models."
More cursory glimpses into his Instagram show a life devoid of the flashy cars and luxury apartments that his uncle seems to be fond of, and time will tell if his talents as a footballer match the status of his family's wealth.

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source: https://www.goal.com/en-ng/news/who-is-the-richest-footballer-in-the-world-meet-the-mega/u8klsu5mxen91tkuyy5apm9la

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Reporting live from Auchi, Edo state.

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No sign of Inec at all,i mean the whole Auchi and I heard there will be no election in ward 2, I'm still wondering why

Gbemishile1:
I will just sit and watch the drama as it unfolds
See whether yorubas will be stupid enough to atikulate
Igbos are ready to fill our ears with all the lies in the world just to see their igbo men get a taste at the vice president
Yorubas are at an advantage now.we have a Yoruba v.p and hopefully after buhari's tenure we will have a Yoruba president.
Yorubas-please be wise

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Raheem Sterling used social media to criticise the coverage that black players receive in the media after he was berated by Chelsea supporters in Manchester City's 2-0 defeat at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.

Chelsea and the Metropolitan Police launched an investigation in order to establish whether Sterling was racially abused in the incident, with the club vowing to take the "strongest possible action where necessary".

The England international posted a message on Instagram along with pictures of newspaper articles regarding Manchester City team-mates Tosin Adarabioyo - who is on a season-long loan at Championship club West Brom - and Phil Foden, pointing to the different way in which the media covered the duo choosing to buy houses for their parents.


"I am not normally the person to talk a lot but when I think I need my point to [be] heard I will speak up," Sterling wrote."

Regarding what was said at the Chelsea game, as you can see by my reaction I just had to laugh because I don't expect no better.

"For example you have two young players starting out their careers. Both play for the same team, both have done the right thing which is buy a new house for their mothers who have put in a lot of time and love into helping them get where they are.

"But look how the newspapers get their message across for the young black player and then for the young white player.

I think this is unacceptable, both innocent, have not done a thing wrong but just by the way it has been worded.

"This young black kid is looked at in a bad light. Which helps fuel racism and aggressive behaviour, so for all the newspapers that don't understand why people are racist in this day and age all I have to say is have a second thought about fair publicity and give all players an equal chance."


https://www.foxsportsasia.com/football/premier-league/994412/sterling-hits-out-at-media-coverage-of-black-players/amp/

Those of us that are familiar with video games will know that the NEXT LEVEL is always harder.... Keep your next level to yourself man, is their no media houses in Nigeria that you always choose to address situations affecting Nigerians abroad? Only that is a sin against Nigeria and Nigerians.

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This year, in the three days that the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education examination was held, more than 30 candidates became mothers. On day one of the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examinations five girls sat for their papers from hospital beds after giving birth.

With every new headline about a candidate giving birth public uproar grew. Teenage pregnancy was fast morphing into an epidemic. Or was it?

Public reaction has so far suggested that this is a new phenomenon. Something like: “The kids are ‘doing it’, how is that possible?”

“Teenagers have been engaging in sex for decades. It is inaccurate to think that this began recently,” says Angela Nguku. Angela, the executive director of White Ribbon Alliance (WRA), a non-profit whose work revolves around women and reproductive health, understands teenage pregnancy like the back of her hand.

“Society has buried its head in the sand and convinced itself that teenagers aren’t having sex. Yet for many young people it is life as usual,” she says. Indeed, for some young people sex is the guilty pleasure that has become the norm. Leah*, now 19, first had sex at age 11. She is among quite a few Kenyans who credit their first sexual experience on the infamous ‘cha mama, cha baba’ childhood games.

“I was going through puberty and we mingled freely playing childish games. There were tense moments we’d experiment sex with boys out of curiosity,” she says.

One experiment led to the next and before she knew it Leah was in too deep. “I couldn’t stop; I couldn’t say no to boys who approached me,” she says.

All the while her staunch Christian mother barely asked questions. Her father, she says, was too busy ‘with work’ to detect anything.

“I even had this sick fascination of just staring at him knowing that he was clueless about what was happening right before him,” Leah confesses.

“Puberty for me arrived with confusion, curiosity and mystical pleasure. I am not sure if I could have gone through it in any other way,” she says.

That mystical pleasure landed her in trouble in form two: she fell pregnant with a boy she had been seeing.

“All had been well until that moment,” she says. “Carrying the pregnancy to term would have outed her.”

Leah had grown to believe that sex was to be done and addressed in secrecy. “I discovered sex on my own: no one told me what it was and how it was done. I realised sex is not a topic to broach publicly,” she says.

Leah kept quiet; utilising every opportunity a boy asked her out. But then she realised it was going to be herculean to keep the pregnancy secret for long. Leah did what some classmates recommended: abortion. “I did it at a clinic not far from home,” she says.

The ‘doctor’ used crude instruments and she is lucky she didn’t die. It was a horrible experience. “... but it was worthwhile because I was not prepared to be a mother and I did not want people to know that I was having sex,” Leah claims.

Her mother, however, discovered when word went around the estate. Distraught, her mother confronted her.

“I couldn’t deny it because she could have easily asked me to UnCloth and she would have gotten the evidence as I was still healing,” she says.


And then her mother did something Leah never imagined her doing: She took her to a gynaecologist to receive Depo-Provera injections- a form of contraception.

“It was the first time my mother and I were both aware of my body and my sexuality,” Leah says.

In Kariobangi, Nairobi, where Leah has lived for the better part of her life, it is not entirely unheard of that a mother seeks contraception for a daughter.

“This is a hardship area: families here are struggling through life. Parents would want to avoid the (addition) of an extra mouth to deal with.”

Leah tells The Standard that many of her age mates are on contraception. Susan, 17, is now a mother of one. She had to drop out of school to be a mother and now whiles away days nursing her daughter.

Susan cites peer pressure and the taboo tag on sex by society as the main reasons why teenage pregnancy will continue picking new statistics.

“The first time I discovered sex I was 13. I had been friends with some two girls who told me it was sweet and I needed to try out,” Susan says.

Her first few trials, she says, wasn’t as enjoyable, “though some level of gratification was achieved.”

The problem was that Susan did not stop. “Sneaking and sleeping around sort of became part of my life,” she says. Susan is now using contraception. Her mother did not trust her to stop at baby number one. “She hauled me to a doctor who placed me on IUD contraception,” she says.

Susan adds: “It was part of an unwritten contract: I continue enjoying the roof over my head and in return I avoid bringing her shame and more mouths to feed.”

Professor Philomena Ndambuki, an educational child psychologist at Kenyatta University, says that as long as parents continue to treat sex as a taboo subject while allowing children to interact with sexual imagery unsupervised, we should brave for more teenage pregnancies.

“It is a problem that cannot be blamed on any one person but parents occupy a vantage position through which they can influence a lot that happens in their child’s life,” She explains.

In March this year WRA launched ‘Girls not mothers’ campaign; to educate everyone in society regarding what has been happening. “From what we have gathered so far this problem can only be solved when all stakeholders are called to account. Blaming the teenagers alone or parents alone won’t solve the problem,” Angela says.

Tabitha Mutheu, now 20, says being pregnant as a teenager is a pit she wouldn’t want her daughter to fall into.

Her own experience, at the age of 16, threw her off the kilter.

“Suddenly,” she says, “I found myself at the deep end of life: struggling to feed my daughter and having to drop out of school at form three when I was a year away from sitting for KCSE.”

Tabitha is still bitter about everything that transpired. She just doesn’t know who to blame.

Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu. Photo/Twitter/GOVONDO

Sequel to the payment of six out of the seven months salary arrears to Ondo State workers, organised labour in the state has revoked its planned strike.
The labour unions had threatened industrial action due to backlog of salaries despite the N20 billion Paris Club refund the state got from the federal government.

Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and Joint Negotiating Council (JNC) had demanded that Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu should pay workers’ salary arrears or face the consequences of indefinite strike.

Chairman of NLC, Tayo Ogunleye, Soladoye Ekundayo of TUC and Abel Oloniyo of JNC gave the state government seven days ultimatum to pay the arrears with the refund.

Ogunleye told journalists in Akure yesterday that the government had paid six out of the seven months arrears, pledging to defray the remaining before the end of January 2019.

He noted that the leadership of the organised labour had not compromised on the strike but only negotiated with the government on the welfare of workers.

He, however, expressed displeasure that government waited for an ultimatum from the labour unions before performing its duty.

Meanwhile, the chief press secretary to the governor, Segun Ajiboye, noted that the present administration inherited seven months arrears of workers’ salary from its predecessor.

According to him, the last time former Governor Olusegun Mimiko’s administration, which terminated on February 24, 2017, paid salaries was August 2016.

“Akeredolu has vowed to clear the arrears and prioritise the welfare of workers. Today, he has kept to the promise; in less than two years in office, he has paid six months arrears out the seven months inherited.

“The governor does not view the payment of salary as achievement; rather, he sees it as a responsibility of government.

“Only arrears of December 2016 is yet to be paid. By the end of this year, workers in Ondo State would have collected salary for 15 months – 12 in the year and three arrears of past years,” Ajiboye said.

Source:

https://guardian.ng/news/labour-cancels-planned-strike-in-ondo-as-governor-pays-six-month-arrears/

Tension has gripped the people of Ondo State ahead of the 2019 general elections, as members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) openly manifest their unbridled influence in the political sphere.
After the inauguration of Oluwarotimi Akeredolu as governor on February 24, 2017, the duly elected state executive of NURTW was overthrown. Mr. Jacob Adebo, the present state NURTW chairman, toppled the leadership of Ariyo Adetula, after which he pitch tent with the new government and party.

The last time the union unleashed a reign of terror in the state was in 2009, during the six-year administration of late Dr. Olusegun Agagu. Under Dr. Olusegun Mimiko’s two-term administration from 2009 to 2017, he was able to put a check to excesses of the NURTW and refused to meddle in their internal affairs and politics.

In 2013, the NURTW state chairman, Obayoriade Oladutile, aka “Die the Matter” was sanctioned for ticket racketeering and his deputy, Apostle Omobomi Ajisafe took over from him. But of recent, the relationship between the state government, and the union has become cozy and ‘jobs’ were made available for the boys. For instance, during the last state congresses of the APC, thugs were unleashed on members of the party who elected Idowu Otetubi as state chairman, during which they stripped the lawmaker representing Idanre/Ifedore Federal Constituency, Baderinwa Bamidele naked.

The Guardian gathered that some NURTW members were picked to hold party positions in the last congresses, while Adebo decided the results of some congresses, especially in Akure and some parts of Ondo Central Senatorial District. It became clear what their roles were when NURTW members, in their numbers, mobilized to disrupt impeachment proceedings of the state Assembly on Friday November 9, 2018, assaulting lawmakers, Assembly staff and journalists.

The Assembly had some leadership issues to deal with, during which 18 out of 26 members allegedly sacked the Speaker, Bamidele Oleyelogun and his Deputy, Ogundeju Iroju for offences ranging from gross abuse of office to financial impropriety. They were replaced with Olamide George and Abimbola Fajolu as speaker and deputy respectively. Oleyelogun and his faction have since fled the state, laying claims to the leadership of the House from ‘exile’.

According to a member of the NURTW, who pleaded anonymity, the union was alerted that the lawmakers had begun an impeachment process against Governor Akeredolu. He disclosed that the leadership of the union received distress calls from a loyalist of the governor and they sprung into action to frustrate the impeachment process.

“We didn’t know what was going on in the House of Assembly initially until when the chairman called us that he got a call of some lawmakers wanting to impeach Akeredolu. He said he was asked to send his boys to chase out the lawmakers.“So the chairman ordered us to send everybody out of the House. He (chairman) said we should not allow the lawmakers to sit so that Akeredolu would not be impeached. But we later discovered that it was the Speaker they impeached,” the NURTW member said.

Even at press time, a contingent of NURTW members were still stationed at strategic points along Igbatoro Road, where the Assembly Complex is located, guarding the nine lawmakers, who insisted that Oleyelogun remains Speaker; thus holding plenary sessions since the impeachment saga. For the record, the Governor sent a bill for the reordering of the 2018 Budget to the House under the leadership of the embattled Speaker, Oleyelogun, and it was read on the floor of the House attended by nine lawmakers together with numerous NURTW members occupying the watchtowers.

The factional Assembly leaders, George, Fajolu and the Majority Leader, Olugbenga Araoyinbo, raised alarm over threats to their lives and assaults in the state by thugs and NURTW members. From exile, the lawmakers, in a petition sent to the Inspector General of Police and the Presidency, accused the Governor, the state Commissioner for Police, Gbenga Adeyanju and the state chairman of APC Ade Adetimehin of abuse of authority.

According to them, the Commissioner of Police and the state chairman of APC said Governor Akeredolu gave the order to “evacuate and flush” all lawmakers who were behind the impeachment of the principal officers.
Without mincing words, they accused the Commissioner of Police of high conspiracy by standing aloof without making any effort to stop the attack on them, Assembly staff and journalists.

The lawmakers confirmed that the NURTW chairman, Adebo was invited through telephone calls to disrupt the House proceedings and plenary session.
Adebo commandeered the attack with “not less than two hundred thugs who came with different sizes of gun, axes, machetes, charms, cudgels, broken bottles and other dangerous weapons and immediately started shooting uncontrollably, sporadically inside the Assembly Complex attacking everybody violently.

“They destroyed several vehicles and even structures worth millions of Naira, beat up people, as we speak honourable members, staff and visitors to the Assembly Complex are hospitalized in different locations across the state receiving treatment as they battle for survival.”The lawmakers have been absent in the subsequent sessions after the impeachment attempt, for fear of being attacked. They have demanded the arrest of the NURTW chairman and investigation of involvement of Governor Akeredolu and the APC chairman, Adetimehin.

However, the state Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr. Yemi Owolabi, denied involvement of the Governor, stating that his boss did not meddle in the Assembly fracas. Olowolabi, who described the leadership tussle as mere squabble of the House, noted that impeachment is an inherent right of the lawmakers, whom he said, have

Meanwhile, a social critic and leader of Concerned Ondo State Youth, Wande Ajayi has warned the state government against the relationship with the NURTW, saying: “Dabbling in internal politics of NURTW is synonymous with swimming in unwholesome trouble.”Ajayi said: “Our Governor should have taken a leaf from his predecessor who nipped the excesses of NURTW in the bud immediately he was sworn in and vehemently refused to patronize them.

“This, to a large extent, is responsible for the peace recorded in the state in the past eight and a half years. The once volatile union had to dance to the tune of Dr. Segun Mimiko. They even had their election at the Dome! “Unlike when they would declared a curfew by themselves in previous years when a date is announced for such poll. For Gov. Akeredolu to patronize governor them again one wonders why.

“But then we remember they were the ones used to ‘take over’ APC’s Secretariat during the primaries. The Governor is rewarding thuggery when he should have invested in more productive ventures.”Staff of Ondo State House of Assembly are worried that government is shielding the assaulters. The workers have refused to resume and recognise Oloyelogun as Speaker, but the Governor is alleged to have threatened not to pay their salaries if they fail to resume.

In a letter of protest written to the Clerk of the House, Mr. Bode Adeyelu, by the Assembly union leaders, they complained that, “despite the leadership of NURTW openly accepting and taking responsibility for the attacks, no single prosecution has been effected.“It is obvious they are above the law and have the full backing of the Governor. If over 40 armed Policemen could look on as NURTW members attack journalist and Parliamentary staff, one wonders who is safe in this state.
“Will the Governor continue to encourage brigandage and thuggery for selfish reasons despite his oath to protect us all

The PDP Zonal Publicity Secretary, Mr. Ayo Fadaka said, “these developments are happening now because of the obvious low capacity in governance of Ondo State currently.”Fadaka noted that the impeachment of the Speaker, Oleyelogun and his Deputy, Iroju, are peculiar happenstance in any democracy across the world.

“We are of the view that the House of Assembly is an organ of government that must discharge its functions without this undue interloping actions of the drivers union. “The drivers union as a pressure group must know its limitations and not overstep its bounds under any circumstance,” he said.

A pressure group in the ruling party, Concerned Ondo APC, under the leadership of the former Deputy Governor and BoT member of the party, Alhaji Ali Olanusi has condemned the involvement of NURTW in Ondo politics. The group, made up of party stalwarts and former state chairman of the party, Isaac Kekemeke, said patronage of the union by Akeredolu-led administration is dangerous to the sustainability of democracy in the state.

The APC elders urged the Governor and party leadership to desist from supporting the union and using them as thugs to repress any dissenting camp or opposition to the Aketi team. They warned that the foray of the union, alongside other similar groups into the politics spells imminent disaster ahead of the 2019 general elections.

Source:
https://guardian.ng/politics/how-nurtw-found-its-ways-back-into-ondo-politics/

ipobarethieves:
handiwork of the pigs

You're very stupid sir, I don't know why you people hate dissent, so anybody who oppose the present government is a pig? Your big head is powered by a fish brain.

Goodluck Jonathan has stated that Nigeria's economy slipped into recession after he left office because of the "Malicious Propaganda" deployed by the All Progressives Congress, APC. Former President claims that it tore the country's economy to 'Shreds'.

Jonathan wrote this in his newly launched book, 'My Transition Hours'. PoliticsNGR gathered that Jonathan also wrote that the narrative of inheriting an empty treasury was false.

“Recall that the opposition and their sympathisers and campaigners, both local and international, with their malicious propaganda, tore our economy to shreds, threatened our stability and existence as a nation and intimidated our citizens, all in the bid to take over power.

Rather than forge a coalition and build on the momentum we had gathered when they eventually took office, they went on a persecution spree and vengeance mission. That the country slipped into recession soon after we left office was a self-inflicted injury caused by misplaced priorities. The narrative of inheriting empty treasury is a blatant lie.

Also, the excuse of the collapse of world crude prices does not hold water. This is because the Fourth Republic took off in 1999 with crude oil selling for less than $20 per barrel and a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth at 0.58 per cent, according to National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) figures. Yet, the economy maintained a steady growth from that year, peaking at 15.33 per cent in 2002 when the average crude oil price was about $25.

It is also instructive that the oil and gas sector constitute about 11 per cent of our GDP. There had to be a wider causative factor than just the fall in world crude prices.

“It also amounts to standing facts on their heads to continuously claim that recession was caused by so-called mindless looting. The truth is that the opposition, in a bid to undo our government, became its own undoing when it got to power, because of the burden of justifying deliberate misrepresentations.

There is wisdom in the saying that if you win a prize and get the crown, don’t go around destroying the person who previously held that prize; it will lose its value.

Even after winning the election and forming the government at the centre, the blame game continued. When two brothers fight to death, it is the neighbour that inherits their father’s wealth. And we have seen neighbouring nations like the Republic of Benin and Ghana reaping from the capital flight out of Nigeria.”

He said with the calibre of people he had in his government, no one could say they were clueless.

“Just consider that my minister of state for health, Dr Muhammed Ali Pate, is now a professor at America’s Duke University, as well as a Senior Adviser to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation based in Washington DC. My minister of Agriculture, Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, is now the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB).

My Co-ordinating minister, Mrs Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, is the chairperson of the Board of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) and the African Risk Capacity (ARC). She also sits on the board of Twitter and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, just as she is a Senior Adviser at Lazard and a Director at Standard Chartered Plc in the United Kingdom, amongst others.

My minister of communication technology, Dr. Omobola Johnson, is currently chairperson of custodian and Allied Insurance Limited as well as the Global Alliance for Affordable Internet. And it is not just members of my cabinet. Others who served with me in different capacities are also soaring on the world stage.

A good example is Ms. Arunma Oteh, who I appointed the Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Under her steady and skillful direction, Nigeria’s equity market grew in metric proportions, and by the time I left office in 2015, the market had tripled in size to $150 billion in value. Two months after I left office, Ms. Oteh was appointed a Vice-President and Treasurer at the World Bank.

With such personalities on my cabinet, no one can factually say we were ‘clueless’ or inept. The evidence of performance is simply overwhelming. We gave Nigeria an impressive and steady GDP growth rate at 6.7 per cent per annum.

We were officially cited as the third fastest growing economy in the world by CNN Money in 2014. We eradicated polio and guinea worm and became the first nation in the world to defeat the Ebola virus, such that the then richest man in the world, Bill Gates celebrated us for our prowess in the health sector. We reduced our food import bill by 36 per cent.”


Source:
https://www.tori.ng/news/111206/president-jonathan-finally-reveals-what-caused-rec.html

pyyxxaro:
Nairalanders make una celebrate with me oh


I just returned from 6months Ban


Seun I nor know wetin I do when una ban me for 6months oh

Hope it's not that you collected oga seun wife?

Why can't we campaign for and/or vote into power one of these younger minds?