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Nosgidi: It's high time the salaries/allowances of these lawmakers be drastically reduced.They ought to go back to "part-time basis".How will these guys be the highest paid legislators in the world considering the standard of living in Nigeria..Damn!Positive changes ought to be carried out..The cost of governance in this country is outrageous...

SECONDED...

@ aye91... your post is nothing but the truth for the Nigerian situation.
all these section ist are nothing but frauds. they claim to liberate her regions while they have done nothing for the region even now.
what has massob, odua, Mend, Boko haram and other good for nothing lip service and self centred people done other than bring more misery for people they claim to liberate.
kidnappings, arsons, robbery and other vices is the other.
the Amnesty program went a long way to show how selfish those guys were.
we should face and solve our problems as one.
corruption, lawlessness, tribalism, religious bigotry, and unfavorable or rather cheating economic arrangement should be sorted out.

ONE NIGERIA!!!!!

I see many separatists, oduduwa, biafra ND, all being happy but what you people don't know is that SNC if it ever holds would only be advisory nothing like breaking the country would result.
so you expect GEJ to sign a memorandum of break aways... After the break what else? he will fold his hands and go home?
SNC may be a welcome development but it will change little or nothing except some few laws nothing more or less.

Thank God someone is seeing the deception being peddled by the foreign media.
starvation, poverty, malaria, etc may be a reality but not the way its being shown in the CNN and BBC and all other lie-News agencies.

welcome to Nigeria @ oyibo

Mickey7: dnt call anyone a fool *freedom ov expression my friend!

I am sorry about that. I was so angry I didn't know it was in my post.

Symphony007: I really don't see this happening. Just like the UN security council permanent seat, the G20 is a closed club. They will not admitt or remove anyone. Especially for nigeria which exudes instability and whoes economy is'nt diversified or organised. Nigeria's economy right now is growing at a faster pace than south africa but it was invited. Rather than nigeria to join the BRICS..says alot why nigeria won't smell the G20.

true Nigeria does not have half as much infrastructure as S.A and Nigeria would be replacing it as the largest economy in the nearest time. imagine what it would look like when all our infrastructure is functional? I guss we would be eyeing world's largest economy.
......

Only BRF has the magic wand to make Nigeria what it should be.
Fashola for president 2015.
Police Arrest Four Cows In Lagos
Four cows and 37 butchers have been
arrested by officials of the Lagos State
Government in conjunction with the police
taskforce, for operating at an illegal slaughter
slab at Otto Awori area of Badagry, Lagos
State.
Officials of the Ministry of Agriculture and
Cooperatives, with the taskforce, stormed the
area on Tuesday and arrested the cows and
suspects.
Four vans of butchered meat were also
carted away to the Taskforce office at Alausa
where the suspects would be arraigned in
court. The four cows were taken to Agege
Abattoir.
Chairman of the illegal butchers, Adewunmi
Olaseun, said they normally slaughter about
20 cows on daily basis, adding that they also
pay N18,000 levy to officials of the Lagos
State Government and N5,000 to the Otto
Awori Local Council Development Area, LCDA,
on weekly basis.
He said the association did not know that
they were operating at an illegal slaughter
slab.
Olaseun said the meat being sold by the
butchers was not contaminated, stressing that
“the fact is that we also consume the meat at
times. So, there is nothing wrong with the
meat. We consume it. Our wives also
consume it, so it is safe for consumption. We
have the receipts of the payment made to
the government in our office.”
When asked why they attacked government
officials with charms, he said: “The charms
on us were to protect us against armed
robbers. We deal with money and we can’t
allow robbers to kill us just like that. So, it is
meant for protection against robbers.”
Another butcher, Ogundele Opeloyeru, said
they had been operating in the area for the
past 15 years, while corroborating his
colleague’s statement that they pay weekly
levy to the state government and Otto Awori
LCDA.
“We are not aware that we operate illegal
slaughter slab,” he said.
Senior Special Adviser to the Governor on
Agriculture and Co-operatives, Mr Nuraini
Funso denied that government officials collect
money from the illegal butchers.
“There are certified veterinary doctors in the
entire registered and approved abattoirs in
the state and there is a lot of danger in
patronising illegal slaughter slabs. The state
government is doing enough to eradicate
illegal slaughter slabs and abattoirs in the
state .
“Residents had been equally warned to desist
from patronising unregistered and
unapproved abattoir. The state is very must
concerned about the health of individuals in
the state. We can’t afford to allow Lagosians
to consume meat that are not screened.
They are not just ready to change. We have
about eight slaughter slabs and over 200
refrigerated meat vans. They are just
concerned about their pockets,” he
explained.
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture
and Cooperatives, Dr. Yakub Bashorun said
government has declared zero tolerance for
unwholesome meat distribution in the state,
lamenting that those who operate illegal
slaughter slabs do so without obtaining
license from the government.
“They don’t have veterinary doctors to
ascertain the health status of the animals
before slaughtering them. They have been
creating nuisance and we have to dislodge
them. Ignorance is no excuse. They know they
are operating illegal abattoir,” he stated.
Bashorun appealed to Lagosians not to
patronize illegal slaughter slabs to purchase
meat as such meat was not healthy for
consumption.
He said those arrested would be arraigned
in court and that they would be made to face
the music to serve as deterrent to others.
[]

every Northern state na boko haram state.
everywhere na Dustin.

[quote author=Doc_Miss]GREAT UNIBEN ..

Well...I believe If Lecturers are Paid Well,they'll have no reason to extort money from Students. [/quote]shut up you fool.... these lecturers are earning more than your parents who they are extorting... go and work for the money and see if its easy to be bribing Someone with 50,000 naira because he or she is under paid.
start paying their salaries now.. senseless talk.

ssii: The writer can not be more correct. This is so true, evident for all to see.
Meanwhile GEJ wants us to fight for him to continue in office .Am a ND person , but am not fooled . I will never vote for GEJ again or support him because he's my tribesman. I cannot even imagine another 4yrs of misrule and wastage .

My God!! 4 good years of wasteful leadership?
God forbid!
militants like asare dokubo, tombolo, should be trialled and jailed they don't represent us.
As for GEJ, he may be a good man, but we need one with more insight, more zeal, more political will power, creative and innovative. one who can face under development headlong without fear or favor. who can instill discipline and justice and also security..... Jonathan seems to be lacking in almost all of this characteristic..
we need a good leader. whether Hausa, Yoruba, Ibo, ijaw, where ever that man would emerge let him come.

is UBA the name of a bank?..... Diamonds bank or GTB, or Zenith...these are names of a Nigerian Bank...
I remembered sometime in December last year was the only time I had been physically angry @ a bank cashier... thanks to UBA Agbor BRANCH.

[quote author=eagle,eye]Na dia oyel money.......team One Nigeria[/quote]Niger delta militants are criminals...
they are fighting for their personal gains.

abeg make una answer me... did Mandela buy private jet after fighting for the change in south Africa?

Big Shishi: I've always wondered why this is so, my longest and best relationship lasted 3 years and thou my shorty was in love with me, i forced myself not to fall in love with her.

I hate that feeling when you can't do without another person and all other emotinal turmoil and psycological torture that comes with falling in love. I think we dudes were not made that way which is why we feel more comforable being players cause we weaker than women emotionally and don't like/know how to handle emotions,

What y'all be thinking bout this?

True talk bro.. m even having the same problem which I jst have to helplessly accept.

Have any one thought or had the idea that a single personality trait does not really define who we really are... Mr for example randomly choose three colors before checking the results and all three personality description said something which is basically true....
does anyone have same observation..?

[quote author=kingoflag]No, you couldnt get into the University because of the way you write. [/quote


[quote author=kingoflag]No, you couldnt get into the University because of the way you write. [/quote

lwkm

dhejykeane: Hahahaha, u must be dreaming.u beta wake up
Bk to d mata ds is a welcome development,wer the americans wana mak it easier the british re trying to mak it almost impossible to get in2 dier country.God bless america

God bless u but I would rather be a king in my Nigeria jungle than be a modern slave in America or whatever!!!! e nu go.

dhejykeane: Hahahaha, u must be dreaming.u beta wake up
Bk to d mata ds is a welcome development,wer the americans wana mak it easier the british re trying to mak it almost impossible to get in2 dier country.God bless america

God bless u but I would rather be a king in my Nigeria jungle than be a modern slave in America or whatever!!!! ya nu go.

[quote author=Yeske!]Hmmm! we've got our home-work to do but the Brits can shove this up their a55es for all i care.One for one.
Abuja should act fast because it seems they need us more than we need them.[/quote]definitely true they need us more than we need them, but the problem is the grand deception which I call the biggest scam of the century and how we are going to break free from all these... Aso rock and all Nigerians have to be aware and act according

I bet GEJ would not contest for 2015.
He is just trying to sanitize the PDP before he leaves Aso Rock.

I bet GEJ would not contest for 2015.

Firstly ask them scandinavians how long they lived without these social facilities then you will get the idea. I hate when people compare your country to others or downgrade the black race. well anyway realization is the first key and secondly, action.
the problem of Nigeria is not the government but the whole of its people after all, its the people that makes up the government.
start by stop offering bribe in whatever way. as Roger, for immigration as I am sure you must have settled those immigration officers before you left for the Scandinavian,
obey law and oder. take responsibility for your behavior when you break laws.
the effect of corruption and indiscipline is lack of social facilities.

smooooooth: i cant raise a hand on a woman, thats why i said its hard, but reading ur post is even harder. summarise it, just my advise.

my guy u r still a big learner... u better learn fast .

Derailing is a sign of the end time.. Beware.

I have always opined that there is a Western collaboration to enslave Nigeria in poverty and retrogression for selfish reasons.
Aids donations is one of such schemes, hypocritical foreign policy, migration laws and all that, negative publicity, unfair trade arrangements are just one of the numerous ways these imperialist are using to influence Nigerians negatively.

below is a publication from theguardian

Britain's pathetic response to the
rise of a global power
Rather than open our doors to potential
superpowers like Nigeria, we bar invited
guests and throw money at its kleptocratic
elite
'This is the flip side of our toxic
immigration debate … Each day, thousands of
Africans are turned away from Britain,
wrecking carefully laid plans to trade, visit
relatives, attend conferences.' Illustration by
Otto
Ian Birrell
Despite their military name, it is hard to
see how an eight-strong delegation from
Nigeria's branch of the Boys' Brigade posed
much of a threat to this country. They are,
after all, members of a Christian youth
group that is championed by our royal
family and had been invited to a
prestigious global event to recognise civic
leadership. But the handpicked teenagers
and their two dedicated leaders were
barred from Britain.
The group was gutted. "We are not happy
at all," Arastus Mbamoh, national secretary
of the Boys' Brigade in Nigeria, told me. "It
is very annoying and highly disappointing
for everyone." They were not alone – 43
other delegates were barred from the
international gathering this weekend at
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire . With
depressing inevitability all were from
Africa; only eight applicants from the
continent were allowed to join the
festivities.
This is the flip side of our toxic
immigration debate, with those vile "go
home" posters and racist talk of bongo
bongo land . Each day, thousands of
Africans are turned away from Britain,
wrecking carefully laid plans to trade, visit
relatives, attend conferences, see the sights
or simply enjoy some shopping. They lose
costly visa fees of up to £772 and go
elsewhere; we lose goodwill alongside
much-needed business in key sectors.
This official hostility makes a mockery of
politicians who talk of competing in a
global race as they corrode links to some of
the world's fastest developing nations. And
nowhere sums up Britain's anachronistic
and contorted view of a rapidly changing
world better than Nigeria, a country
cobbled together by our Victorian ancestors
a century ago that is emerging, for all its
flaws and internal rifts, as Africa's
potential superpower.
On one hand our leaders, who love to cloak
themselves in compassion as self-
proclaimed saviours of the poor, throw
huge clumps of taxpayers' cash at this west
African behemoth. As ministers pump
taxpayers' money into aid despite a
startling history of failure, Nigeria is being
handed the biggest increase of any major
recipient nation over the course of the
coalition. The annual bung is rising from
£142m three years ago to £305m by the
next election in 2015 – coincidentally the
country's target date to launch its first
astronauts under an ambitious space
programme.
It is daft to pour such sums into a place
pockmarked with corruption and soaring
inequality. Nigeria is one of the world's
fastest growing markets for private jets and
champagne: a bottle of Cristal can cost £600
in a club while two thirds of people
struggle to survive on less than half that
sum a year. The core issues are ones of
governance and social justice – yet we prop
up a thieving political elite that has failed
persistently to deliver public services to its
people. This is a major oil
producer that suffers crippling power
shortages and accounts for one in three
children out of school in Africa.
It is worth adding, of course, that it is
pinstriped western pimps in finance, law
and property who assist the flight of
African capital – much of it stolen – into
offshore accounts and tax havens. Little is
done to tackle this. Now one of our leading
banks is about to cut the life support that
aids millions of families through the
transfer of remittances.
Despite the kleptocracy and growing
insurgency in the north , Nigeria is one of
the continent's most consistent economic
performers, with annual growth rates of
more than 5% over the past decade and
about to become Africa's biggest economy.
This is not just down to oil – it has strong
banking and technology sectors, while
manufacturing, construction and leisure
thrive. The question is whether its energy
and entrepreneurialism can sustain a
population expected to increase fivefold by
the end of the century; if it does, it could
challenge even China.
So what is our stance towards this nation
that has strong historic ties to ours, speaks
English and can be brought to near
standstill by an Arsenal match on TV? A
sharp rise in the proportion of rejected visa
applications, according to most recent
figures. And now the government, rattled
by Ukip over immigration but impotent to
stop those coming from Europe, plans to
impose an absurd £3,000 bond on the six-
month visas favoured by most of the
142,000 Nigerians who visited these shores
last year. This discriminatory idea was,
incidentally, first floated by Labour then
initially announced by the Liberal
Democrat leader .
Yet we will need Nigeria more than they
need us in the emerging world order. Over
the past decade trade between the two
nations rose nearly fivefold, with the value
of British exports there doubling.
Meanwhile, a study last month found
Nigerians to be the sixth-biggest spenders
in our shops, which explains the Hausa
signs in Debenhams, while they spend
£300m annually at our schools and
universities. But there is nothing to stop
them educating their children in the US,
trading with Turkey or holidaying in China.
The bond proposal created a deserved
backlash in Nigeria, with fiery calls for
retaliation. Newspaper headlines talk of
two nations on a warpath – but which one
will be the loser in the so-called global
race? The African powerhouse growing at
great speed – or its former colonial master,
struggling to hold its head above water?
Britain bleats about bogus development
through aid, yet demonstrates hostility that
reeks of hypocrisy and damages both our
interests. We need to wake up before it is
too late.

Patdedon: RIP to the dead.
Their blood is on the head of our security operatives. Totally unreliable

True talk bro.. very pathetic... Goodluck please do something about security.

alutacontinua: Would he be willing to listen that you gave another guy attention in his absence Dearie, that's the beginning of the end for your relationship. You have to realise that one man's deficiencies would always be another man's adequacies. You also have deficiencies that super-abound in another lady. But i'm sure u'll want him to accept you the way you are without comparing and contrasting. Just the same way you need to stop comparing and contrasting him and this other guy, trust me, if you don't learn to accept your man for who he is and continue with this mind-set, you'll keep cheating on him.

If you have things that you're not comfortable with in him, sit down and talk like adults. If he's willing to change and compromise, GREAT! If not, decide if you can live with him like that. If you can, EXCELLENT! If you can't, MOVE ON!

If you decide to remain with him, stop wandering your eyez about and appreciate your man for who he is.

If you go with this other guy now, he'll also have a deficiency that the next guy would be adequate at. For how long would you keep changing?

wow, super matured advice.... this goes for everyone in a relationship... as a matter of fact... it is the basis of a relationship.... exploring your bad side... sounds lame to me. if your cheating u should be sure u r cheating, no excuses.

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End time tinz

end time tins

Na waaa oooo. so unfortunate we don't have a choice which country we are born into.... e.g Nigeria, North Korea,... etc

Sincere 9gerian: I just read on todays ThisDay News report that the Lagos State Government plans to issue bonds totalling N87.5 billion before the end of the 2013 fiscal year to take over the concession rights of the Lekki-Epe Expressway from the Lekki Concession Company (LCC)
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/lekki-epe-road-lagos-to-raise-n87-5bn-to-acquire-concession-rights/157543/

History of the controversies and scams

The LCC was mandated under a 30-year Build, Operate and Transfer agreement to upgrade, expand and maintain the about 50-kilometre Lekki-Epe Expressway (Phase I), and construct another 20km of coastal road (Phase II) along the Lekki corridor.

Following expansion of some portions of Phase I and despite stiff opposition from residents, toll collection began at the first toll point called the Admiralty Plaza in 2011. Users of the expanded road have had to part with different amounts, depending on their class of vehicles. The amounts rage from N50 for motorcycles to N120 for saloon cars and tricycles; N150 for Sports Utility Vehicles, minibuses and pick-up trucks; N80 for commercial mini-buses; and N250 and N350 for light trucks and heavy trucks, and buses with two or more heavy axles, respectively.

It should be noted that Phase I of the Leki-Epe was already an existing road. All LCC had to do based on the agreement was expand and maintain that section. For over 3 years, LCC with the backing of Lagos State Govt, collected outrageous fees on the road after expanding some portions of Phase I.

Toll collection began on the road when LCC had not completed work on the road based on the concession agreement. The expansion of Phase I was unending while Phase II, which is construction of another 20km of road, had not commenced.

Now, after collecting tolls on the road for over 2 years, the state govt plans to bail out or buy back the concession agreement with another N87.5billion of tax payers money.

What we know of credible concession agreements is that the concessionaire completes the project and recoups its investment by charging user fees. But it appears concession agreements in Lagos State is an opportunity to loot the state treasury and exploit the people.

Worst still is the fact that both Fashola and Tinubu have been alleged as having stakes in the ownership of LCC.

Its all LOSES for the good people of Lagos State. The project is uncompleted (not up 30% of work has been done). Payment of outrageous tolls have been going on for over 2 years and counting. And now, over N87billion of public funds will be injected into the whole scam.

While Lagosians are counting their loses, LCC and their partners in criminality are reaping bountifully.

What is going on in Lagos is unprecedented fraud. It is corruption unlimited. Are there no people of good conscience in Lagos? All people of good conscience should condemn this EVIL.

Bros if you see fraud u go fit talk?
u should be thankful u have a government who listens and try to meet the wishes of its people.
FRAUD KEE...

Sincere 9gerian: I just read on todays ThisDay News report that the Lagos State Government plans to issue bonds totalling N87.5 billion before the end of the 2013 fiscal year to take over the concession rights of the Lekki-Epe Expressway from the Lekki Concession Company (LCC)
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/lekki-epe-road-lagos-to-raise-n87-5bn-to-acquire-concession-rights/157543/

History of the controversies and scams

The LCC was mandated under a 30-year Build, Operate and Transfer agreement to upgrade, expand and maintain the about 50-kilometre Lekki-Epe Expressway (Phase I), and construct another 20km of coastal road (Phase II) along the Lekki corridor.

Following expansion of some portions of Phase I and despite stiff opposition from residents, toll collection began at the first toll point called the Admiralty Plaza in 2011. Users of the expanded road have had to part with different amounts, depending on their class of vehicles. The amounts rage from N50 for motorcycles to N120 for saloon cars and tricycles; N150 for Sports Utility Vehicles, minibuses and pick-up trucks; N80 for commercial mini-buses; and N250 and N350 for light trucks and heavy trucks, and buses with two or more heavy axles, respectively.

It should be noted that Phase I of the Leki-Epe was already an existing road. All LCC had to do based on the agreement was expand and maintain that section. For over 3 years, LCC with the backing of Lagos State Govt, collected outrageous fees on the road after expanding some portions of Phase I.

Toll collection began on the road when LCC had not completed work on the road based on the concession agreement. The expansion of Phase I was unending while Phase II, which is construction of another 20km of road, had not commenced.

Now, after collecting tolls on the road for over 2 years, the state govt plans to bail out or buy back the concession agreement with another N87.5billion of tax payers money.

What we know of credible concession agreements is that the concessionaire completes the project and recoups its investment by charging user fees. But it appears concession agreements in Lagos State is an opportunity to loot the state treasury and exploit the people.

Worst still is the fact that both Fashola and Tinubu have been alleged as having stakes in the ownership of LCC.

Its all LOSES for the good people of Lagos State. The project is uncompleted (not up 30% of work has been done). Payment of outrageous tolls have been going on for over 2 years and counting. And now, over N87billion of public funds will be injected into the whole scam.

While Lagosians are counting their loses, LCC and their partners in criminality are reaping bountifully.

What is going on in Lagos is unprecedented fraud. It is corruption unlimited. Are there no people of good conscience in Lagos? All people of good conscience should condemn this EVIL.

Bros if you see fraud u go fit talk?
u should be thankful u have a government who listens and try to meet the wishes of its people.
FRAUD KEE...