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She made history last year when oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Corporation, SPDC, appointed her its first female Executive Director in 70 years of Shell operations in Nigeria.
Married to one-time Chief of Naval Staff who was at various times governor of Imo and Enugu State, Admiral Alison Madueke (retired), Diezani whose name means “Look before you leap” comes from the creeks of Bayelsa State and like an Amazon, she is poised to wear fatigues and arm herself with a blueprint she believes will bring immediate succour to the troublesome Niger Delta Region in order to urge all militant factions in the area to lay down their arms and stop kidnapping three-years-old kids.

A graduate of architecture and current External Affairs Director, SPDC, Mrs Allison-Madueke shares the story of her marriage, highly successful career, and her thoughts on why successful women must also succeed both in the bedroom and the kitchen…

How well has your name, Diezani, ruled your actions?
My name was actually put together from scratch by my father in 1960 at the time I was born and it literally means “Look before you leap”. It probably did nothing for me in my early years when I wasn’t aware of its true meaning. We have a saying in architecture – form follows function – and as I grew much older, the meaning of my name began to play itself out; form has actually followed function.

What were the early years like?
I grew up in the newly built Shell residential camp in Rumuomasi, Port Harcourt in Rivers State. My father was one of the first set of senior staff Nigerians to be hired by Shell in the late 1950s. It was a pretty idyllic childhood (her family was one of the first five Nigerian families in the Shell camp. I went to the Shell Nursery and Primary Schools, spent afternoons at the swimming pool, joined mum’s tea parties, et cetera. But we also had a feel of the other side of life. My father made sure we visited and saw the village life in Yenaka on quite a number of occasions. We would drive up at the weekend, crossover with a pontoon and take the short forest walk to the village and spent time canoeing to the sand bank in the middle of the river.

It was dad’s way of ensuring we didn’t forget our roots and the kind of life he had, which was hard considering the fact that his mother died only a few weeks after he was born into a polygamous household. It was for him a struggle, but in that struggle, he was the only one of his brothers who sought to go to school even though they laughed at him. He persevered and became a most respected teacher in the area; canoeing from one community to the other to teach. He got a colonial scholarship to study Statistics and Mathematics in the UK.

That was not quite long after he married my mum. My mum joined him, he did his masters and when he returned it was with the intention of becoming the village headmaster; he was that passionate about making impact on people’s lives. But at the time, Shell was trying to recruit Nigerians with the right qualifications into senior positions and so hired him.

What was his full name?
Well, at the time he died, he was His Royal Highness, Chief Frederick Abiye Agama, the Ogbotom Edede of the Epie Atissa Clan in Bayelsa State. The Epie Atissa Clan includes Yenagoa, the state capital. My father was instrumental to the creation of Bayelsa State. My maternal grandfather, Chief Nelson Kemeninabokide Porbeni, the Etonkepua of Kabowei Kingdom was from Abari in Patani LGA of Delta State and he, along with other Ijaw leaders of his time started the campaign for an Ijaw State as early as the 1970s. I am quite proud of my family heritage, not just of royalty, but most importantly, of service to the people and the communities we lived in.

Which other schools did you go to?
After my early education in the Shell camp and in the aftermath of the civil war, I continued at Hussey Model School. Around 1968, we returned to Port Harcourt where I attended the Township School and in 1970, I went to Holy Rosary Government Girls Secondary School. I finished my WASCE in 1975 and went to the Federal School of Arts and Sciences in Mubi, Gongola State(now Taraba) for my A’ Levels. In 1977 I moved to the UK to study architecture. At first I thought I would do Fine Art because of my creative streak.

But my grandfather, the late Chief N. K. Porbeni, patriarch of the Porbeni family and one of the last of the great Warri chiefs, travelled all the way from Warri to tell me in no uncertain terms that my father hadn’t spent all that money on my education for me to study Fine Art. In fact he brought me to tears that day. The structured part of me sat down, thought it through and I realised that Fine Art on its own would not satisfy me holistically. Architecture combined well the potentials of my structured and creative sides.

How much of that training have you put to use?
Although I started my training in England, I moved to the US and did a five-year professional course in architecture at Howard University after which I interned there in the US. After awhile I didn’t feel professionally challenged enough with drawing side of architecture, so I moved into construction management and then on to facilities maintenance and management, which also catching up in the United States. I ended up working for the Planning and Development Department of my alma mater, Howard University and worked as a project manager in the major ongoing restructuring and development programme that the university had embarked on at the time.

While doing this, it was suggested to me that Shell in Nigeria could do with my sort of expertise in facilities and maintenance management in particular. I was encouraged to apply and I did. I was employed into the estates area of operations in the Lagos office of Shell. This was in 1992. I worked in estates till 1997, but switched jobs with increasing responsibilities, pretty much all the civil infrastructures in Lagos, Abuja and Jos as well as acted as an architectural consultant on various projects in the eastern and western divisions of Shell.

At what point did you move into external relations?
While I was managing all these civil structures of Shell including residential areas, I came under the notice of the then Managing Director and his wife, Mr and Mrs Brian Anderson. Mrs Anderson particularly discovered that apart from managing very well the infrastructural issues in the house, when she hosted social functions, she could discuss them with me and leave the additional responsibilities for me to handle particularly from the public relations perspective. She would ask me to be present at the different functions as they travelled around the place and leave the networking of ambassadors and other dignitaries to me.

As a matter of fact the gentleman Mark Moody-Stewart who became the next Chief Executive of Shell Group Worldwide and who had previously worked in Nigeria had come visiting. I recall that after a particular function given on his behalf, I was coming down the stairs in the house, he was remarking to the Andersons about the success of the function and the efficiency of that “wonderful public relations lady they had”. The Andersons looked at each other, looked at me and then said to Mr. Moody-Stewart that I was actually Head of Civil Infrastructures.

He said no, that was not right. Thereafter, the MD strongly suggested to the then External Affairs Director who happens to be the current MD and Country Chair of the Shell companies in Nigeria that I be moved to external affairs.

So I found myself in external affairs. But whilst they had expected me to go into public relations and become a face of the company, I made it very clear that I preferred a more cerebral role. The newly created Corporate Issues and Crisis Management Unit had just evolved in the Shell Group worldwide, especially here in Nigeria given the Ken Saro Wiwa incident and similar challenges that involved the image of the company. I became the Head of the unit here, so I developed the first ranked list of priority issues; reputation issues, et cetera. I did this from 1997 to 2002 and then left for Cambridge University for my MBA, using the prestigious Chevening scholarship I had been awarded four years before by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the British Council here.

Getting the MBA was of course another proof of your structured life, no doubt?
Well, yes. After the MBA, I returned to Shell Nigeria – I was indeed away on sabbatical. I’d had useful discussions with the company and was asked to consider moving into the joint venture department, which handled the various joint venture partners the largest of which of course is NNPC. Shell operates the largest joint venture with the Nigerian government (NNPC). Total and Agip are also joint partners.
My brief was again to head a new unit of Shell here as Head, Strategy and Planning of the joint ventures.

By 2004, I became the Lead Joint Ventures Representation Adviser and key facilitator of all the major approvals initiated from the various joint ventures and line departments of Shell. I was in Lagos. It was from that job that in early 2006 that I was informed that the Shell Petroleum Development Corporation had appointed me to become the first female Executive Director in the history of the company in Nigeria.

Given these professional exploits and maximal career commitments, how did you squeeze in and manage marriage and motherhood?
I suppose I have never really seen myself as a high-flying career woman. Even throughout my years in America, people saw me as an ardent professional. Yes, I work very hard and often throw myself into whatever responsibilities I’m asked to handle, but I always saw myself as a woman looking to settle down and have a robust family very much like the one I grew up in. Unfortunately, through no fault of mine, I didn’t meet my husband until I was 39, which is late in any culture. In fact at that point I think my family had pretty much given up on me and marriage. (Laughs).

So how did you meet your husband?
Out of the blues I met Admiral Allison-Madueke (rtd) who had lost his wife three years previously in a medical operation. At first, I didn’t think anything would come of it, but it happened so very quickly; in exactly two-and-half months of meeting him and going out on a dinner date in 1999, we had gone to the registry and gotten married. Later we went to my parents’ church, the church I grew up in - Christ Church in Port Harcourt and blessed the marriage in July. I immediately inherited five fully grown children whose age range at that time was from 10 – 18. All of us made major adjustments and I threw myself into family life and tried to balance it with work as best as I could. I’m really pleased to say that in a pretty short time, we all pulled through together. The children and I grew, fought and loved as a family and today, we’ve all bonded well.

With them all grown up now, how do you feel?
I am so proud of all of them. They now range from 18 – 28 and I had a little boy in 2001 who is now six years old. His name is Chimezie. My eldest daughter who is 28 is married to a lovely man, Uche, in the United States. They have given us two grandchildren and I was there both times when she put to bed, to support her. Our next daughter, Ngozi is 26. She returned earlier this year and is working in an engineering firm in Lagos. Like her sister, she also has her masters in Systems Engineering. Number three, Uju is 23. She finished her masters in Public Health Management last year at George Washington University. She told us she wasn’t challenged enough and so she has gone on to study Medicine at the Ross Medical University in Dominica. Number four, Ogonna is turning 21 this month (July 2007). He is in his third year at the University of Maryland, USA. Number five, Chima just turned 18. He is in pre-university college and he wants to study engineering too.

And our little boy, Chimezie is just going on to Primary II. It is a full family and I think that God just blessed me even though I married late; He gave me pretty much a ready made family and children pretty much the ages mine would have been if I had started at what man would call the right time. God has blessed me with a husband who is extremely supportive of every venture that has come my way without feeling threatened in anyway. I look back and I see that God never makes mistakes when He plans for you.

You grew up mostly in Port Harcourt and Warri, so how much of a Bayelsan are you?
I grew up as a Rivers State indigene as we all did who happen to be Bayelsan now (that is before Bayelsa State was carved out of Rivers). My father was quite instrumental to the carving out of Bayelsa State. We all take great pride obviously in identifying with our own state. There are indeed many Bayelsans, like me, whose marriages and careers took them out of Bayelsa for a long time. But that does not mean that I have been any less concerned about the developmental and infrastructural issues in Bayelsa as well as the whole of the Niger Delta Region. I am a Bayelsan by birth, my father is a Bayelsan and my heart obviously resides in Bayelsa. I am also the granddaughter of Chief N. K. Porbeni and I spent many a holiday in Abare in Patani LGA, Delta State. So you see, my roots stretch across important parts of the Niger Delta Region in terms of knowledge and passion for the area.

What is your take on the many problems that bedevil life in the region?
My heart bleeds to see the lack of development in the Niger Delta Region over the decades. I have told many professional colleagues over and over that we cannot afford to sit on the fence. I will never sit on the fence when there are life-changing decisions to make. If you have a passion for change then you should put yourself up for service to your country and to your people.

So much militancy and hostage-taking is sucking in the region, what is the solution in your
opinion?
The neglect of the Niger Delta Region didn’t happen overnight. It has grown and grown and become a cumulative neglect and it has now got to the breaking point. Therefore, it is quite understandable why the militants rose in arms against the neglect. Indeed, let’s face it; had they not done so, the country would not have sat up to address this neglect and the plight of the area; not just the Nigerian government, but the international community as well as. However…

(Cuts in) So where should we go from this breaking point?
At this point where three-year-old kids are being kidnapped, it has become quite another thing and government must gird its loins and show real intent at this time. The solution to the Niger Delta quagmire is a two-way thing; government needs to go in and deploy hard core developmental infrastructure in the region and mobilise the work as quickly as possible within a period of few months. (Voice rises with passion). They need to open up roads, railways, marine and maritime services to mop up excesses of unemployed labour.

We need to string together major dredging contracts across the region and align with NDDC to implement them. We need to get indigenous contractors and the militants themselves involved in helping to coordinate some of these projects and we need to do it in the shortest possible time. At the same time, we need to look towards the petroleum industry, the resource that sits under the very feet of the indigenes of the Niger Delta. We need to revisit the various legal parameters that govern that industry; the Petroleum Act, the Joint Operating Act, Production Sharing Contract all need to be revisited and reworked. Government has not done that for over 15 years.

We need to also look again at the Nigerian Content Bill and distil it further into what we would consider a Community Content Bill aligned directly with the needs of the Niger Delta, across the region. We need to take the Land Use Act, revisit and rework it in a focused and deliberate way to pave the way for the opportunities for what I call Equity Indigenous Participation of the peoples of the Niger Delta in the oil and gas industry. And the only way all these can be done is for government to execute a focused and deliberate programme to make it happen.

Would government find enough expert human capital to devolve to in the region in order to encourage this equity indigenous participation?
Oh yes, I think we have enough Nigerians and Niger Deltans that can take up the slack in terms of equity indigenous participation. There are enough young companies and the not so young ones that can string together to give themselves enough financial standing to take on the technical and financial prowess needed for farming out some of these marginal oil fields and other areas of endeavour within the petroleum industry.

One firm may not be able to do this but there are ways of doing this; trusts can be set up, cooperatives can be set up to merge communities across the region. They would form cooperatives and be incorporated into companies. Believe me there are all sorts of schemes that can be looked into to make this happen if government is willing and purposeful.

What you are proffering sounds a bit like what Prof. Charles Soludo did with the banks. The same thing that led to the recapitalization of insurance companies, yes?
I suppose it is a similar panacea, but really the truth of the matter is the banks and insurance companies are systems that are already highly ‘expertised’ for want of a better word to put it. But to bring immediate succour to the Niger Delta Region, we’ve got to start somewhere, and fast too. We already have the right tools on ground.

What we need is to be given the right governmental support and support systems as I’ve identified. And I tell you, it can certainly be done. Beyond this, I think we have been seriously and progressively short-changed as a nation in terms of core developmental infrastructure especially in the areas of roads, railways, aviation, electricity, health and education. If we get our base infrastructure right, everything else will begin to fall in place.

Do you think the place of the Nigerian women is still in the bedroom and the kitchen?
Interestingly, I suppose I am still one of those women who feel there is absolutely nothing wrong with a woman excelling in corporate and public service and yet should ensure she does her best to excel as a wife and mother. In our culture, it would be foolhardy for any woman to set out to excel in service at the total expense of her family. One must balance the two. When I mentor younger women, I teach them that the higher you rise, the more homely you should become. There are times I would actually come home after a few days trip around, and spend the entire weekend to cook various dishes to be frozen down for my husband during the course of the week so that he can enjoy my own home-cooked meals as much as possible.

I expect every woman to try to make her home a very inviting and comfortable haven for husbands and children to return to daily, no matter what it takes, otherwise their personal success as women won’t be complete. And it is in this regard that I raise my hands and doff my hat for all Nigerian women who have excelled both in enterprise and politics as well as being celebrated home-makers; women like Dora Akunyili, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Oby Ezekwesili and Nigeria still has many more like them in the executive, legislature, judiciary and the private sector.

Whatever I apply myself to; it is with a vision that I may be remembered as one woman who worked hard to bring a better life to the greatest number of people and communities of our country as possible, in a way that they’ve never been impacted before.

swiftycool:
@gohome SHARRAP there! what are u feeling like and what if u served and are as useless to the nation as u are? i also served but i believe people who can contribute 2 dis nation however their profile be should be given a chance. Not everybody in govt is there to chop money like u think, some actually want to really serve. . . but then, u'll need a brain to realise that
a typical mumu's argument is "other nations are doing it" Nonsense.

and you think a daddy's girl, a daughter of a shell don ( remember ogoni 9) a wife of a military governor during Abacha that got magical promotion in shell, who studied achi is the only person that can serve effectively as a petroleum minister, .Niaja!

We were taught comprehension right from nursery school to university level, i believe you have at least past primary school ( although from your reasoning level, I wont be surprised), i still cant understand why you couldn't get what i said. profile or no profile, other nation or no other nation, thats not the case, you are missing it. What i am saying is the law is the law. I only made reference to the US so you understand that a country that preaches and gives everybody the opportunity to become anything no matter what country you are from and who you are have laws such as these and keep it. I hope you are getting it, let me explain futher, If you are in a country where income tax is 50%, no matter how dumb you think the tax is, its the law, if you default , it amounts to stealing, So if you think NYSC is dumb, my brother, its the law aii? and the law is the law.

J12:
Of course. Oluchi used to be a bread seller. But I've never seen a beautiful girl hawking before.

see your mouth like say yu fine, >>>>>>> I hav neva sn a, yada yada yada,  beautiful girls my sister hawk,  miss world rating sef (those fulani girls,  damn )

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swiftycool:
i never said its not d law, but that it is a dumb law made against the advancement of Nigeria. There R thousands of Nigerians technocrats in diaspora respected by US $ UK govt willing 2 solve Naija problems but cant contribute due to lack of useless Nysc cert, while a toilet cleaner with school cert is gladly accepted because d law doesnt apply as he is not a graduate, so how can we get d best

stop ranting,  its the law and its not dumb. This same thing apply in every country. from Israel to china,  from the Uk to the US. There are also thousands of United States citizen that are respected even in space but because they were not born in the states they cant become president. If you want a portfolio, serve,  its that simple. after all we that served we no get two heads.

Dis Guy:
there is no sanction for people employed in private firms without NYSC so there's no real reason private firms cant employ without the certificate

and you said you are 50?

Dis Guy:
leave my age alone foool! Ive got grey hair, I should be chief in your village by now, in fact call me Youth Leader henceforth!

doesnt it make sense?
If I own a private business, why should an NYSC be a prerequisite for people I'm looking to employ?

but this is what you said, [size=15pt] I used to think NYSC is only compulsory if your looking to work in the civil service or government job [/size], or dont you understand the meaning of what you said. Did some1 type it 4 you?

Dis Guy:
sounding like you are gunning for a post with the govt.

I used to think NYSC is only compulsory if your looking to work in the civil service or government job

Dis Guy:
give or take 50, i should be older than KnowAll younger the Ol' G Buzugee

You'd hear most people's main advice about NYSC goes something like: it's good in case you get an appointment or a govt job almost as if everyone wants a public sector job

a medical report should be enough for an exemption certificate

they say a fool at 40 is a fool forever, you are 50, hmmm, a 50 yr old thinks of the bolded

Dis Guy:
sounding like you are gunning for a post with the govt.

I used to think NYSC is only compulsory if your looking to work in the civil service or government job

How old are you?

ZnO:
Her issue is rather old. It came up during her first stint as a minister. The senators passed her because you do not need to be a graduate to be a minister. Moreover it is not a civil service position. IT IS AN APPOINTMENT. Ban NYSC now. It is a useless piece of adventure.
El Rufai, when he was minister of FCT employed two others -as his assistants- who did not undertake the NYSC and craftily placed them on contract instead of permanent civil service position. Dieziani is a big fish.

and yet the same senate is saying if she had gone through without NYSC, then is was an oversight. ZnO,  you sound like a young man trying to rant NYSC to its grave ( still wondering how Diezani skipping NYSC is related to banning it), oh maybe you have not serve thats why.  I perfectly understand. But like the law says, in other to hold a public office, you need NYSC. We have other qualified people that can do the job and have served. If she really wants to help this country she can still serve. After all I have seen 50yr old serving.

ypad:
We don't seem to get the message. She was 27yrs when she graduated 1987 and came back to Nigeria in 1993 at the age of 33yrs. how can she serve at that age?
Probably she was not able come back immediately after graduation due to
No money to keep body and soul moving and needs to Struggle to get money for ticket and other expenses back home.
or she proceeded for her masters and work for few years to help her self out etc.

do you know what exemption is?
Dont you see folks that are over 40 serving?
Have you even served

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Niajahhhhhhh[/size]

I cant believe how silly nlanders can be. silly might not be the word,  it might just be most people here are babies or act like one. The law is clear,  and i will put it in layman's terms if you graduate at the age of 30 or below you MUST serve simple. If she produces a discharge certificate or exemption by any means just like they said bankole did, then shes free,  if she can't then she should be arrested tried and convicted,  2000 naira or no 2000,  jail term or no jail term, she should be labelled a convict

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kcjazz:
You have a problem with her father?
All  I am saying is, the Senate approved her before now to be a minister? Why didn't anyone see it then. I would think the corruption claims hanging on her head or her link to Shell (per wikileaks) would be the focus. And sorry she can't and won't be jailed, in fact she will be approved next week. Stop posting what you know nothing about.

if she broke the law my brother and shes caught, she will be convicted,  stop thinking like a baby.

Flyboy Zee:
She should be arrested and prosecuted because she has broken the law. If they make her serve now even in Maidugari (Boko Haram infested), she has all the resources to buy herself any form of protection and as such may not feel the effect of what a corps member is going thru.

Moreover, I'm very sure that who ever breaks the law gets purnished. Abi no be so? She don break law, make them arrest her before she run go abroad o! If person thief and them catch am, them no go say make im return wetin im thieve, instead them go arrest, prosecute and purnish am if found guilty. Abi no be so? Then why ha own case go dey different. Whats good for the goose is always also good for the gander. I rest my case.

sabi boy

kcjazz:
You are joking right?
This is 1993 we talking about, she could have stayed in Howard or USA but she chose to relocate to Nigeria under a military government to work. NYSC is good but chill, it is all this patriotism "hot blood" that makes soldiers act like animals. She left obodo oyibo to serve her country in a different capacity and it paid off cos now she is a minister, a good growth if you ask me.

We have folks in the Senate who never went to school talk less of graduate and they are senators.

mumu,  why didn't she stay. she should have stayed to clean toilets and take bulls from the white man like so many of us do. You are one of those inexpose bunch that think obodo oyibo is heaven

Seun:
She skipped a year of bad rubbish and was able to move forward in life. Good for her! Let's emulate her.

i am disappointed in you seun.

kodewrita:
We can all read I assume. She graduated at 27 and returned in 1993 when she was already 33. The crime is that she supposedly did not get an exemption. Fact is that she was no longer eligible as at the time she returned.

Document forgery doesnt apply. She may have been employed as expatriate nigerian. You do not know the terms of her contract and as such cannot comment on such.

Fact is that she would most likely pay a fine and thats the end of it.

Go and read what the law says and stop thinking from your backside

laoak2:
I guess some people are being paid to do dirty job on naira land, she might have done something bad by not observing the compulsory NYSC , looking at it from the light of today,  she might have been killed or got involved in a bomb blast, i feel , she has done more worthy work than the silly NYSC. Even Salisu Buhari did not go to jail for fake result.

When we Nigerians learn,  people like you keep moving us in reverse direction with speed. tomorrow you will open your dirty mouth to complain about nepa,  like i said b4,  its so simple,  you dont want to serve 9ja, its not by force. Forfeit the portfolio. its not a do or die affair ,  After all people like OKONJO Iwealla and the NYSC 8 that served their father land are no fools.

kbdrim:
there was even a pack of cigarettes on the list for a friend of a friend that married an ibo girl, what for?

temmytanny:
I paid 500k for my akwa ibom gurl but that includes total cost of the traditional wedding

[size=20pt]500k?[/size]o boy, how much did you use to organize the event, i am getting scare, even akwa ibom gals are expensive

Mrs.Chima:
(takes a huge poo and walks off)

Dont walk off rabbit, Keep talking, someday you'll say something intelligent  
, Your so narrow minded when you walk your earings knock together , its all still a joke remember?

Mrs.Chima:
You wish you can eat a pig BROKE ARSE HUNGRY nigga.  Go change into your other name cowardly the beast.



Hmm.  Whoever said MEN can take it like steel SURE THE HELL LIED.   

ahh, why the hate na, its the internet, i dont take anything serious on the internet, i tot you knew bera

Mrs.Chima:
DUH biatch.

sharrrap Pig,

Mrs.Chima:
No NIGGA, YOU get a life.  YOU are on this thread CRYING like a lil BIATCH.  This is THE INTERNET and it isn't that damn serious.  Don't get mad at me BOO BOO.  

What makes you think i am serious B*tch,

Mrs.Chima:
[size=22pt]LMAO@more guilty ones protesting   [/size]


Damn OP!

[size=20pt]get a life, [/size],  if those are the 10 most disgusting tins boys do,  then i want to be disgusting,  coogar has said it all

its calabar by far
j town next,  b4 the riot
abuja,  seriously it is
asaba,,, very serene

remember,  we are talking romantic

turnoffs
1. gidi,  any part of gidi is a turn off,  lekki ( wait for the rains to start) beach (filled with criminals) Bagdagry ( take you forever and mile2 holdup to get to the fun place) Ikoyi (fast becoming commercial just like VI) I wont even mention surulere ( Mosquitoes ehh) or Festac ( filled wiv osheres)

2. Aba,  No town smells bad beta than this town

3. Onitsha,  Full of criminals

4. Lafia,  very small and noisy

5 Ibadan,  I hav not seen a town that wont just upgrade.

9jarocks:
Are these pics recent?

Guy you sabi! See how people just de waste comments, I have a picture with JZ too ohh

tpia@:
^^you need a dna test to see those babies are from different parents?

Stop being senseless, Never make decisions by assumptions, what is wrong with confirming with a DNA?[size=16pt] NA WA OH[/size]

deadie:
Your post should rather read "Nigerians believe stupidly". Cos you have to be s.tupid to swallow this.

i still maintain ma statement. bigger wonders have happened. instead of agreeing or disagreeing propose a DNA simple.

tolu001:
Nonsense story, whosoever believe this badly concocted story is actually suffering from concussion.

The woman is planning to ripoff the gullible public and in turn sporadically increase her church population

[size=16pt]why are you getting all worked up,  a simple DNA can confirm if those babies are hers. Nigerians doubt stupidly[/size]

Babasessy:
IN a strange manner, a woman has delivered a set of  seven babies within a space of 11 months, three males and four females.

The woman, Mrs Precious Donatus who lives in Aguda, Suru-lere, Lagos, gave birth to her first child in August, 2009, after 11 years of childlessness but the baby died five days later.

Ten months later, Mrs Precious conceived and delivered the seven babies within intervals of one month . When Saturday Vanguard visited the home of the family, the husband Mr Donatus Ogbonna, a business man from Imo State  was at home.

He told Saturday Vanguard that at birth of the first baby, they  did not know that would be the beginning of her journey to delivering seven babies.

Narrating her story, Mrs Precious told Saturday Vanguard that the first baby died after five days of birth adding that “immediately after putting to bed the first baby, the doctor told me that there was another baby in my womb.”

The babies are :first baby, August 25 2009, Amarachi (died after five days); second baby, May 6, 2010 (Conqueror, female); third baby, June 3, 2010, (Chizitere, female); fourth baby, August 16, 2010 (Ekpereamaka, male); fifth baby, September 19, 2010, (Fineseed Angel, female); sixth baby, October 19, 2010 (Evidence, female); seventh baby, January 13, 2011,( Flourish, male), eight baby, April 2, 2011, (Ebenezer, male) .

                                                                              http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/06/woman-delivers-seven-babies-in-11-months/








[size=20pt]Woman Delivers 8 Babies in One Year[/size]
     
Last updated: 05/29/2011

A 38-year old woman, Mrs. Precious Ogbonna recently in Lagos claimed that she had “miraculously” given birth to eight children within a period of one year.


Ogbonna, who claimed she was barren for 12 years before the first of the babies came, told newsmen that more babies were still kicking in her belly.


She said she had the children in Owerri, Imo State between May 6, 2010 and April 2, 2011.
She, however, said the first baby died five days after birth.


“I have been expecting God for the past 12 years. I pray for people they conceive, you know, but what about me, people will be saying such a thing, you know, my own linger while I pray for people they conceive and my own is not forthcoming. I kept on believing God.


“A day came God told me that He is going to bless me. So, I kept on praying. Finally I took-in in 2009. after nine months, I gave birth to a baby girl, but the baby died five days after.


“Before that, the women in the church, they were the people bathing me, bathing the baby. One day they came, when they came, they bath me and the baby, they use wrapper to tie my waist. When they were going they ask me to pray for them.


“While praying for them I got ministration to untie the wrapper which I did immediately but I don’t know why God asked me to untie it; and I was taking anti-biotics, taking peppery things, thinking that there is no more baby.
“So it was when that one died, we buried the baby, I was still receiving kicking. So I called one small girl, Masoma by name.


“I called Masoma because the people that were bathing me said my tummy was so strong. They said I should pray; the woman that has been expecting fruit of the womb for a long time, then the baby died I cried like a kid, I did not question God.


“Then when I asked this baby to come and pray for me she just laid hand like this and said ‘mummy you are still pregnant’. That made me to go to scan. So I went to scan and after the whole thing they told me that I was pregnant. I was surprised; I started glorifying the name of the lord. I said may be God want to do it that way.”


The Owerri-born woman, who is the Pastor of Holy Ghost Power Salvation Ministries, said the children, four girls and three boys, were born on May 6, June 3, August 16, September 19 and October 19, 2010.


She said the other two were born on January 13 and April 2, 2011.


Ogbonna gave the names of the children as Conqueror, Treasure, Great-Praise, Fine seed, Evidence, Excellent-Flourish and Ebenezer Donatus.


She said her husband, Donatus, a furniture maker based in Owerri was happy with the birth of the miraculous babies, despite the challenges they brought to the family.


“My husband is happy about it. It has affected me on my own because I am still a student, I am a pastor too. But although I have some people that do help me in the house.


“People have been helping us, individuals, church members; they have been providing food for them. I spent a lot every month, six, seven hundred thousand naira every month because they take SMA Gold; each carton N26, 000, and so they take 10 every month.


I don’t bosom feed them. That N26, 000 times ten cartons is five hundred and something thousand. Then their pampers and other things”, Ogbonna added.


She said anybody waiting for the fruit of the womb should be patient.


“Any person that has problem should believe God, that one day God is going to wipe away his or her tears because long ago, I cried every day. People will be saying many things – you cannot give birth, this that, you know.


“It was really sad on me but now I am a happy mother.”


She is presently on a visit in her friend’s house, Florence Ibe at 8B, Brown Street, Aguda, Surulere, Lagos which has turned a Mecca of some sort as people have kept trooping into the house to see the babies.


But Dr Emeka Amaechi of the Federal Medical Centre, Ebute Meta, Lagos, said: “it is not medically possible.’’


The Chairman of the Aguda Surulere Community Development Association, Mr. Nike Agbeleye, described Ogbonna’s claims as suspicious.


“I was not allowed to speak to the woman. It is the woman I wanted to ask how come, how is it possible to get a baby in a month’s interval”, Agbeleye said.
Source: http://www.nigerianobservernews.com/29052011/sundayobserver/4.html

Well, this may be medically impossible but very possible by God. Congrats madam.

which story should we believe?

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