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Justice Yetunde Idowu of the Ikeja High Court,  Thursday, has asked the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA,  to pay Nigerian comedy actor, Babatunde Omidina, commonly called Baba Suwe, N25 million  as compensation for unlawful detention and breach of right.

Baba Suwe who was granted bail November 4, had gone to court to seek redress over an alleged suspicion of ingesting substances believed to be hard drug and detention in the custody of NDLEA for 24 days.

Justice Yetunde Idowu also asked the NDLEA publicly apologies through two national dailies within 21 days for unlawful detention and breach of right of the comedian, Baba Suwe.

johnsonnna:
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IN apparent response to calls for amnesty for the deadly Boko Haram, President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, stated that government was prepared to reintegrate and rehabilitate those who took arms against the state provided they lay down their arms.

The President who renewed earlier calls on those who chose to live on the fringes of the law to retrace their steps as government is prepared to work with them to facilitate their reintegration and rehabilitation, however, warned that they should also be prepared to face the wrath of the state should they fail to lay down their arms.

Ph boy:
Hmmmmm! think twice, Phd is not a meal ticket, I work in dubai in an oil servicing company with alot indian guys,  about 4 of them are with a Phd cert,   but i still earn much higher than them with my first degree from FUTO,  If your main aim of going for a Phd is to earn bigger pay in the old industry,  just have it at the back of your mind that this is not a sure deal,  Anyway congrats on your achievements so far,

quest55:
99% truth + 1% poison is still poison. Your summaries are biased and misleading but worst of all  FALSE.

Grassroot:
Belief is a very powerful force, and if you choose to join any religion, the best approach is to completely believe -- close your mind. Only that way can you find relative happiness. Because, if you continue to search for this truth by seeking peoples opinions, you would end up in total confusion because everyone has a personal concept of truth. This is what JW help you do. They give you logical explanations of the bible, call it truth, and ask you to shun whatever. To be sincere, you would be very happy if you are able to accept this. As a JW, you would be confined to their teachings and you are not "scripturally permitted" to consider other beliefs. If you dont have that kind of mind, I mean if are "humble" enought to receive instructions from the society without questioning, you would be happy as a JW. As a JW, even if you question, you must do it within the confines of the society's teachings, or you risk being disfellowshipped.

I'll advise you to read the books: Crisis of Conscience and A Search for Religious Freedom. IMO, they would give you objective history abt JW. If after reading, you are willing to continue. You would be very happy as a JW. I must warn you because they might be dangerous books. I doubt if any true JW can read such books since they are classified as apostate doctrines. But if you are a true seeker of truth, you would want to know about the history of what u consider truth. Reading them will give you two sides to the story and you can make your choice. I'll restate it in clear terms, the moment you agree to be a JW, you close your mind to all other teachings. Have you ever wondered why JWs cant attend other churches? (they can be banned for this act). And if you decide to leave, you risk your happiness with guilt that many cannot recover from.

That said, JW are fine people and they are "cleaner" than most other churches. I dont think they are perfect.

oyb:
you need to ask your fellow expats

i suspect you're indian. link up with the indian community

ryanvn:
Dear My Friends!

Could you tell me know the avg cost of living for a person per month in Lagos?

Include:

- cost of renting house
- cost of food
- cost of tranfortations.
- ect,,

Thank you very much!

brg
Ryanvn

cap28:
western international banking corporations like the world bank and IMF  loan money to third world countries to enable them carry out multi million dollar infrastructure projects - the only problem is the loans come with various conditions attached eg: devaluation of your currency, privatisation of govt owned companies which are then sold to foreign investors at grossly reduced prices, the loans also come with massive interest rates which always go up never down so that borrowers sometimes never repay what they borrowed in the first place - this is known as debt slavery or debt peonage - which is a cunning way of keeping african economies enslaved economically.  Nigeria is currently adhering to the conditions of the various loans they borrowed many years ago - loans which they repaid ten times over - there is no way out of this mess apart from refusing to honour these conditions - this is why okonjo iweala was sent in by the US to ensure that nigeria implements the conditions that they signed up to when they borrowed all those loans - she is a stooge and traitor.

tobiecxs:
Subsidising the petroleum sector is not in any way beneficial to the growth of the economy, subsidy is only a means of masking our problems; like feeding from hand to mouth. Subsidy may be beneficial only if there are functional domestic refineries that are being protected from international competition. Where is the sense in subsidising imported petroleum?
Subsidy also prevents foreign direct investment in the subsidised sector, except you expect the goverment to subsidise a foreign company.
Nonetheless, subsidy appears to enhance a more effective allocation of resources to households, the removal of subsidy will most likely result into increased corruption as the allocation of resources will be tied up with the elite citizenry.
The situation of subsidy removal in Nigeia is a case of being between the devil and the deep ocean.
Good luck Nigeria

stagger:
So you want to tell me that companies like Michelin that moved to Ghana did not do their homework, or that me that wants to take my business to where I will not be subject to buying expensive fuel to generate power because my government cannot provide it in order to stop losing business is probably silly, abi?

Or that the Reverend father who owns Songhai farms in Benin Republic is silly for taking his business there when all the banks and governments in Nigeria he approached for funding in 1985 refused him, right?

HMMMM!

mrjingles:
Ignorance in action is terrifying, the posts on this thread have convinced me that out problem is EDUCATION! The number of misguided and ill informed posts here makes my eye water.

ubong ekpe:
Pls NL b4 your react to any treat, do your home work well. stop abusing people.

Am  a Nigerian  like u guy working in private sector. Have not benefit from any government  either the present or the past one, so am not supporting one, but i want to make the following clear.

- The three refineries are all working at their optimal capacity. I have been to these refineries at least 3 to 4 time in the last 2 months, so the problem is not fixing the refineries, but their out put can not meet with Nigerians consumption rate, that why we are importing. Also remember that we are not a capitalist economy but rather a mixed economy, but the government want to move into a socialist economy, by so doing the private sector will be the major controller of our economy where price will be determine by the force of demand and supply. so it will be the responsibility of the private sector to build the refineries as is done in most socialist economy in the world.

- Secondly i want state here that i support the removal of the subsidy, we should be able to embrace change, every great economy in world pay one price or the other, for instance like China. Just imagine for every liter of fuel we are buying the government is paying  almost 80 naira to the importers, who will not even want our refineries to work so that they can continue to enslave both the government and the masses. So this is what is going to happen at the initial stage, like the coming of gsm, a Sim card was almost sold at 30k while Nokia 3010 was 40k+, but Sim card are almost free, with 27k you can buy the lowest grade of BB, why is this so, because the force of demand and supply are in place. With the subsidy gone the fuel will be sold at 150 naira per liter at the initial stage but with time we will be buying fuel at 18 to 20 naira per liter, the private sector will be force to build refineries to reduce the cost of importation instead hiding under the umbrella of subsidy to make their huge profit . they will be room for competition and the three refineries will be privatise like the case of NI TEL.

igbogolo:
I am still working on the cost of fuel to the pump were crude oil refined and processed in Nigeria. My rough estimate is N43 naira.
My calculations show that we are over paying for fuel by about 50%  even at N65 per litre. [/b]So, i am inclined to believe that there is really no subsidy in place in the first instance.

I think petrol is very expensive in Nigeria even as we have no amenities, no social net, nothing.

For those that voted Jonathan and not PDP, please continue to smile and suffer. A man who wants to remove increase fuel prices at this time is simply clueless!

Eighty-eight Nigerian graduates were among the 2000 graduates who participated in the 27th convocation ceremony of International Islamic University in Malaysia; 51 Nigerians graduated with PhDs, 36 bagged master’s degrees and one earned a bachelor degree.

One of the Nigerians, Khadija Adedoyin Opatokun, who graduated with M. Ed. education administration, earned the best master’s student award of the Institute of Education.

Trafficking of under-aged girls from Nigeria to Saudi Arabia is now in the rise, Executive Secretary of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and other related Matters (NAPTIP) Mrs Beatrice Jedy-Agba has said.

She also said that “Available statistics indicate that 60% of the prostitutes in Turin, Italy and Antwerp in Belgium are Nigerian girls.”

Speaking before the House of Representatives committee on Diaspora yesterday, Mrs. Jedy-Agba said her agency has uncovered new route of trafficking under the cover of pilgrimage.

“It appears from the report of our staff who have participated in Hajj operations that there is an increased trafficking activity under the cover of the annual pilgrimage. Traffickers have devised an insidious plan to desecrate the Holy Land of Mecca with trafficked victims,” she said.

The NAPTIP boss said the agency has identified two major trafficking routes – the Lagos-Cotonuo-Moussa- Ouagadougou-Mali route accounts for about 75% of trafficked victims to Europe and the Sokoto-Bori Koni in Niger Republic and Katsina Maradi-Niamey-Agadez-Libya.

She told the committee that there was increase in internal trafficking at the border towns of Calabar, Port Harcourt, Uyo Badagry, Benin, Kebbi, Sokoto and Maiduguri, with about 8million children at the risk of being trafficked.

Reports equally showed that there are large numbers of Nigerian women regularly taken to other West and Central African countries of Gabon, Cameroon, Ghana, Chad, Togo, Benin, Niger, Burkina-Faso and the Gambia for sexual exploitation under the guise of taking them abroad for employment opportunities.

A recent fact finding mission conducted by the agency confirmed the existence of many brothels in Bamako, Mopti, Kayes, Sikasso, Gao, all in Mali populated by young Nigerians between the ages of 14 and 17 years being used as sex slaves,” she said.

Rep Abike Dabiri-Erewa (ACN, Lagos), who chairs the committee, promised that the National Assembly will look into the possibilities of amending the constitution to ease the process of domesticating international protocol on human trafficking.

A Nigerian accused of trying to bomb a US-bound flight on Christmas Day 2009 is changing his plea to guilty, his lawyer has told his trial in Detroit.

The attorney told the second day of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's trial that the 24-year-old would admit terrorism and other charges.

Mr Abdulmutallab caught fire when a bomb sewn into his underwear failed to detonate fully, prosecutors say.

Nearly 300 people were on the flight to Detroit with Mr Abdulmutallab.

If convicted of the most serious charges, he would face a life sentence.

The former student faces a series of charges, including attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction.

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which is based in Yemen, said it was behind the attack on the Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam on 25 December 2009.

uau:
@pato405

i am not making sense because this is the truth.

i will do my PHD.this is not the problem.what i am saying is to tackle the rot in the system.

u are a typical nigerian that likes acquiring big degrees but with empty upstairs.

i tell u that if PHD holders can make use of their research knowledge, then unemployment will be greatly reduced.

instead they take pride in dumping their thesis in a bookshelf and be showing to students.

i can tell u that the only thing a PHD knows very well is to be able to write well.

alot of PHD holders are pursuing me now for me to help them write their PHD thesis application software.

i personally will not aid anyone because if i do this, i will be contributing to the rot in the system.

i respect PHD holders that are in academics and also doing private practice.

how can u explain university churning out PHD holders in computer science who cannot even develop a software to compute results for students.

i bet u go and check any exam officer,u will see him/her using microsoft excel to compute results.some even do manually.

it is a shame!!!