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Samtoby:
Don't know what else to qualify u than a fool, a Yoruba person will understand what i mean by Tor.. But clearly u are one Awesome Fool

Okay thnkx

Dharniel:
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Chai! L8r this one too will be jumping and doing FTC. Not knowing he has no idea of the article above.
Very bad 4 our democracy

Just in case

neutrotoba:
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Dharniel:
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C these ppl.

Also check the mumu below

Samtoby:
Tor...

All in the name of FTC

ABUJA, June 15 (Reuters) - Nigeria's new leaders will meet the head of a leading global watchdog on corruption to see how billions of dollars in oil revenue leakage can be curbed.

The head of Oslo-based the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is expected to meet Nigeria's president or vice president this week, its local arm said on Monday.

Stamping out corruption was one of the main pledges of new President Muhammadu Buhari's campaign.

Clare Short, the head of EITI, has come to see how its recommendations can be implemented and help with long-term reforms. The intiative sets global standards for openness in the natural resources industries.

The executive secretary of EITI's Nigerian arm (NEITI) said last week that over $7.5 billion between 1999-2011 still needed to be recovered from oil and gas companies in Nigeria.

"The amount represents clear cases of underpayments, under-assessments of taxes, royalties, rents...which have not been adequately addressed in the past," Zainab Ahmed said.

NEITI has suggested selling the state oil company's stakes in producing joint ventures to fix its budget woes, a call echoed by many in the new administration, as well as scrapping the expensive and graft-riddled fuel subsidy.

The government relies on oil sales for the bulk of its revenues but there has been little oversight of how these are handled.

Central bank governor Lamido Sanusi was sacked under former president Goodluck Jonathan after he said that up to $20 billion in oil revenues between 2012 and 2013 had not been remitted to the government by the state oil company NNPC. Buhari said he would re-examine this allegation.

Ahmed also said NEITI audits showed that some $11.6 billion of dividends between 1999 and 2012 from the government's investment in the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) company were not remitted by the state oil company.

"NNPC was unable to provide any evidence that the funds were remitted to the federation as required by law," she said.

NNPC said the issue of reconciling accounts had been raised at a previous Inter-Ministerial Task Team and would be discussed at one this week. The team was designed to implement NEITI's findings.

NEITI has also said the sale of eight oilfields to NNPC's upstream arm in 2010-2011 should be reviewed, as they were sold at $1.85 billion of which only $100 million was remitted to the federation account in February 2014.

Before his sacking, Sanusi also criticised some of these deals for being awarded non-competitively to companies that supplied no services.

source:http://www.trust.org/item/20150615171643-9neba/

barcanista:
#SayNoToHomosexuality

I used to think ppl like barcanista used to read an entire article b4 commenting. But this just proved me wrong. Check the time the article was posted and check barcanista's time of comment Bad 4 our democracy

VANCOUVER, B.C. — On Tuesday, the U.S. will meet a Nigeria team in the Women’s World Cup that has won new fans with its entertaining play in this tournament. But the Super Falcons have also been affected off the field by their country’s increasingly harsh stance against homosexuality.

Last year, Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan signed a new law that made it a criminal act to be involved in homosexual behavior or be a member of a gay club. Gay marriage is also outlawed. Those who break the law face a jail term of up to 14 years. Several countries and their diplomats have publicly criticized the Nigerian law, including U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

“Nigeria is a society that’s very conservative and deeply religious,” a Nigerian who’s connected to the women’s soccer team told SI.com this week, requesting anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the topic. “The north is deeply Muslim. The southeast is deeply Christian, and the southwest is split Muslim and Christian. So you have this very religious country with strong cultural ties and beliefs.”

The Nigerian source named two players in his/her opinion who would be on Nigeria’s current World Cup team if they were not thought to be publicly gay. What’s more, the source estimated that over the years 30 to 40 percent of the Nigerian women’s team has been gay or bisexual—mostly on the down-low—adding that it’s not possible for a player to be publicly gay to the media and wider world in today’s climate.
Here’s what might happen to a [Nigerian] player who comes out and says, ‘I’m gay’: You barely can go home anymore,” the Nigerian said. “Even if you have a couple people in your family who say, ‘Don’t worry, we like you and trust you,’ we are still communal at heart. So now your parents, your brothers and sisters are going to go back to the village, and people are going to point at them and make snide stories and talk. Your family gets put into songs. That’s the kind of stigma attached to being gay in Nigeria.

“If a player comes out and says, ‘I’m gay,’ then the trouble doesn’t just start and end with the player. It goes all the way back to the family: parents, sisters, brothers, cousins, everything. One person just sparks off a chain reaction. That’s why it’s so tough.

“You probably also saw the legislation banning homosexuality. If any [legislator] takes something about [passing laws against] homosexuality to the assembly it gets passed almost unanimously. You probably get one or two voices opposing it, but generally it gets overwhelming support. That’s the kind of society we live in. It’s a crime to be gay. It’s a 14-year jail term. That’s national. If you see someone say ‘I love this guy’ on Twitter and someone hashtags it #14Years, that’s what they’re talking about.”

When I asked Nigeria coach Edwin Okon on Monday how he handles Nigeria’s anti-gay laws with his gay players, he said this: “I don’t know what you mean by ‘homosexual.’ I don’t deal with personal lives. I think of the game proper. I don’t think of my players’ life. I only think of what they do on the pitch. That is what concerns me.”
Nigerian federation officials deny that any players have been kept off the national team due to their sexual orientation. But in 2013, as the Nigerian government began cracking down on homosexuality with anti-gay legislation, a revealing statement came from Dilichukwu Onyedinma, who’s currently the head of the Nigerian women’s soccer league and an official in the Nigerian soccer federation.

“We don’t tolerate lesbianism, and we always discuss it whenever we meet,” Onyedinma told a Nigerian paper. “We always warn clubs and club chairmen to please tell their players to desist from it, because any player that we pick for national competitions, and we hear a little story that is involved in that, we disqualify the player.”

When her quote was first publicized, Onyedinma denied that she had said it. But the Nigerian paper then posted a recording of her saying it on YouTube.
Just before the 2011 Women’s World Cup, then-Nigeria coach Eucharia Uche told The New York Times: “The issue of lesbianism is common. I came to realize it is not a physical battle. We need divine intervention in order to control it and curb it. I tell you it worked for us. This is a thing of the past. It is never mentioned.”

Before the World Cup, I brought up the homophobia that the Nigerian team faces with U.S. forward Abby Wambach, who’s gay. “It makes me sad, really sad,” she said, “because I’m afforded all these rights that other people in the world aren’t. I’m sad that there are other women in the world who feel the exact same way as me, and they can’t be or are scared to be themselves and feel confident and comfortable in their skin.”

The Nigerian source said any investigation by FIFA into the Nigerian federation’s treatment of gay players would be hard-pressed to produce results. “How would you investigate something like that?” the source said. “Players won’t come out and say, ‘I’m gay.’ And the coach won’t say, ‘I dropped so-and-so because they were gay.’ So it’s hard to investigate.”

source: http://www.si.com/planet-futbol/2015/06/15/uswnt-nigeria-homosexuality-policy-womens-world-cup

Mtchew! U call this flood?

K

I keep telling those guyz to link the two bridges in that junction

booqee:
caught in the act!

Dear u grab! Evri bady wants to hit FP! So I gats to do that

Eyaaah! Who break the girl head! Naija I hail thee!

NEPA dey craze 4 my area op. den no wan take light oo

Pls add source. Abi na u snap am?

I doubt if those fellas above me read the write up.

Pinshure or i don't bliv.
All those there are with their shoes Na

A former military head of state, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, says the leader of the defunct Biafra, the late Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, underestimated him by thinking that he (Gowon) would never go to war.

Gowon, who led Nigerian forces to defeat Ojukwu’s army during the Nigerian civil war from 1967-1970, said this at the Diamond Jubilee Lecture of the Foursquare Gospel Church in Nigeria in Lagos on Thursday.

The former head of state said he was known to be a ‘Born Again’ Christian and Ojukwu, who was the then premier of the Eastern Region, thought his region could secede from Nigeria without consequences because he thought Gowon would not want to go to war.

He said, “During the crisis, my colleague and brother, Emeka Ojukwu, said, ‘We know Gen. Gowon, he is a Christian and he would not like to fight. Do you know the first thing he puts in his suitcase? His Bible; and that will make him not to engage in a fight’. I think unfortunately, he was proved wrong.

“As a Christian soldier, it was my duty to keep my country together.”

Gowon said he was happy that the new generation of Nigerian leaders were also putting the unity of Nigeria above their political ambitions.

He said despite the predictions that Nigeria would break up in 2015, the elections went on peacefully.

He also commended President Goodluck Jonathan and the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, for the conduct and outcome of the election.

Gowon commended the church, particularly Foursquare Gospel Church in Nigeria, for its role in nation building.

He said, “During the civil war from 1967-1970, it was the prayers of the people of God and the military that helped to keep the country together. It was God that helped to stem the tide of coups so that we could enjoy democracy today.

“Even when many predicted the break-up of Nigeria by 2015, the effective prayers of the people intervened and the elections were peaceful. As an observer, I was impressed by the turnout and camaraderie of all Nigerians.

“I said if the elections could be this peaceful, the end would be glorious. And didn’t it become glorious? It did by the act of good leadership in both parties and the acceptance of the outcome of the election even though it went against one of them.”

Also speaking, the Vice Chancellor, Mcpherson University, Ogun State, Prof. Adeniyi Agunbiade, said the church must be active in nation building.

He, therefore, urged all Christians to show the world the way.

“The church is more than just buildings and edifices; it is the lifeline of any society. It is a unique solution that should inculcate change. The church plays a very significant role in the society. It is meant to be the salt and light in the society, being the only organisation in the world with such high morality level,” he said.
Source: http://www.punchng.com/news/ojukwu-never-imagined-id-go-to-war-gowon/

DahtzFestjayz:
Shuga gurl!

Y thou has taketh my space?

Oya Mods do the needful

ikwoche:
I read your first lines, I started boiling. Then I saw the other part. Since I decided to reply you, I changed my insults to informing you on my thoughts

mayorbaron:
God pls give this punk brain. making jokes why some people keep giving their lives for our security.

Gwazah:
God have protected u so much so that u have no experience on what is going on in Maiduguri so u are free to use the incident and joke, there is no harm in that.

Ndkings1:
Has anybody ever told u that u ar an idiottt and a daft??

Sulemanmathew:
we r talking abt life and death and u r talking nonesense. Think more than 2 times b4 u write or speak nxt tym. Do u think it is easy to b a soldier. I am sure u r a bloody civilian.

hamilton62:
Excuse me, does life really hold its worth before you, no i don't think so?

jimmy101231:
Everything is scarce in this country Fuel,Electricity,Water and Even common Sense

Easy on me hypocrites! My comment was never given to display a 'I don't Care' attitude. Lyk I said in my comment do not use the opportunity to hurl insults at me. My prayers goes to those who have lost their loved ones. But it's not a must i say it so the world must know.

kennygee:
So this is all you had to say?



Since e no be news again to dey hear of suicide bomber for Naija, na to dey monitor if post go enter FP now.

See pot whey dey yab kettle! U no get anything to comment tooo!

I guess those killed where only trying to rush and render help and later tell the press I saved them first
It's just 4 fun oo! b4 some ppl use the opportunity go dey yab now.
Anyway I smell FP

The United States Consulate-General in Lagos on Thursday trained about 85 Nigerian women on how to be financially independent in their homes and other socio-economic engagements.

The One-Day Seminar tagged, “Take Charge of Your Financial Future” was specifically organised by the Consulate to expose young and middle aged to the processes of becoming financially independent.

The Consulate-General’s Public Diplomacy Officer, Mrs Rhonda Watson, said the training was part of the US government’s commitment to the empowerment of Nigerian women.

Watson, “This programme is another demonstration of the US government’s interest in empowerment of Nigerian women.

“We believe that women empowerment is critical to the development of any society, and that when women are empowered the family and the society would be empowered.

“We want Nigerian women to also be rich and be in the forefront of peace and development in their homes and communities.”

Watson urged Nigerian women to desist from “self-limiting beliefs”, but to begin to create and work hard at their visions.

She also advised them to also begin to embark on some concrete actions that would make them achieve their visions in life.

The US official added that it was also imperative for the women to develop themselves through training programmes, as well as reading widely.

A guest speaker at the event, Mrs Nimi Akinkugbe also enjoined Nigerian women to begin to take charge of their financial dependence, especially with the country’s current economic challenges.

Akinkugbe said there was currently a dysfunctional relationship between women and their finances, adding that it was important for women to act fast.

A particiant, Mrs Wummi Saanu, a caterer, said the programme had further exposed her to the processes of becoming more financially independent and being able to support her husband and family.
source:http://www.punchng.com/news/us-trains-85-nigerian-women-on-financial-independence/

President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday explained why he went to court to challenge the results of the presidential elections, he lost in 2003, 2007 and 2011.

Buhari, who stated this when Delta State All Progressives Congress members visited him in Abuja, said that he took the decision because he believed Nigeria must be free.

Buhari, who contested and lost 2003, 2007 and 2011 presidential elections, said, “Going through the court is not easy, both materially and physically, and I maintained that consistency because my view about my country is that Nigeria should be truly free.”

He condoled with the delegates over the killing of some people during the last general elections.

The president-elect stated, “I understand why many of you, who were denied the opportunity to choose those you want to represent and lead you are taking the line I took in the last 12 years – in line with our constitution.

“Whether you get it or not, the most important thing is that you believe in the system and you should continue to try until the system is perfect.

“I express my condolence to you for the people murdered and I assure you that my objective of remaining consistently in partisan politics is to make sure that Nigerians are given their inherent right to choose whoever they want to lead them,” he said.

The president-elect said that he would never support anybody who undermined that right of Nigerians.

He added that arming unemployed youths and sending them to kill their own people was the worst thing anybody aspiring to leadership could do.

According to him, he would concentrate on what Nigerians would be proud of, adding that Nigerians would be respected globally.

Buhari said that the first objective of the APC would be security, adding that insecurity destroyed the economy.

The leader of the delegation and the APC governorship candidate in the state, Otega Emerhor, alleged that the PDP disenfranchised the people of a Delta and the South-South at both the presidential and governorship elections.

He stated, “ As our submission to the tribunal in respect of the governorship and state assembly elections will demonstrate, in truth, the majority of Deltans were ready for the change you represent and were geared to vote massively for you and APC.

“Unfortunately, a grand design executed by the PDP in the South-South and South- East and particularly in Delta, Rivers and Akwa Ibom made sure that no proper elections took place.”

He alleged that result sheets were confiscated and results fabricated, adding the PDP resorted to violence and intimidation.
Source: http://www.punchng.com/news/why-i-challenged-past-presidential-elections-buhari/

Summer1:
Your topic said 10 yr old and ur write up said 13yrs old..quite confusing

Bros Na Sun Glass u take read the write up?

Dancing Shoki with pants on! She be Fela?

agarawu23:
as u can see I am still viewing the topic

So u must comment first before reading bah? All in desperate effort to do FTC

temitemi1:
These yeye law BREAKERS are loosing their minds everyday . GEJ my HERO! FAYOSE my ROLE MODEL!!!

Your programmer must have mistakenly created a Continuous Loop while programming you! You need to be Debugged and Recompiled!

agarawu23:
this ekiti drama know go end

I bet u didn't even read the whole story

The 19 All Progressives Congress lawmakers in Ekiti State have alleged that the ‘Stop and Search’ order of Governor Ayodele Fayose over the cases of kidnapping in the state was a plot‎ to track them for kidnap to stall his impeachment.
The lawmakers in a statement by Speaker Adewale Omirin’s Special Adviser on Media, Wole Olujobi, said they had uncovered an alleged plot by the governor to ‎engage the Government House security men on major roads in the state to conduct ‘stop and search’ operations in a frantic search to track them for kidnap.
The lawmakers condemned such operation as “unwarranted assault,” particularly as the cars targeted in the operation would be mainly dark grey Toyota Camry cars, which is the brand and colour of their official cars.
But Ekiti State Government has described the allegations by the APC lawmakers as “evil, wicked and insensitive,” saying it was a clear exposure of the culpability of the party in the kidnapping of residents of Ekiti State.
The lawmakers said, “We are in possession of a report that the governor is exploiting cases of kidnap in the state to break the nation-wide ban on roadblock ordered by the Inspector General of Police to raise some teams of security men working in the Government House to be on our trail to take us out of circulation.
“As we speak, the security men and thugs are in possession of our photographs to identify us after stopping us. They have been told to specifically be on the look-out for dark grey Toyota Camry cars, which are our official cars, to identify us for kidnap to stall his impeachment.
“Part of the instruction is that all vehicles with tinted ‎glasses must be stopped for identification. All our cars are tinted and so that will create the excuse for stopping our cars just to hit their targets.
The lawmakers urged leaders to caution the governor while also urging the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, to put his men on the alert to stop the activities of criminal gangs bent of frustrating his ‘no roadblock’ order across the country.
But Fayose in a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said he would do everything humanly possible to protect lives and properties of Ekiti people.
According to him, what is expected from genuine lovers of the State is to cooperate with security agencies, and not politicisation of every efforts of the government by the APC.
Explaining that the security measures complained of by the lawmakers were resolutions of the Ekiti State Security Council meeting that took place on Monday, he added that the APC in Ekiti State was living up to its real identity as a congregation of evil minded people,
“Only wicked and evil people, whose agenda is to make Ekiti State ungovernable will kick against these measures that are aimed at securing the lives and properties of the people.
“Most importantly, it is on record that Ekiti State is always made ungovernable whenever the APC elements lose power, and the unfortunate criminal activities that we have witnessed in the last few days cannot but be traceable to the plot by the APC to discredit the government by presenting it as incapable of securing lives and properties in the State.
“From past experiences, organised crimes have become the major tools used by the APC elements to make Ekiti State unsafe whenever they lose power to the PDP.
“It is important to note that all these organised crimes ended the very first day the APC elements regained power in the State,” the statement said.
source: http://www.punchng.com/news/apc-fayose-disagree-over-stop-and-search-order/

hefty4real:
TWO OLD MEN DECIDE THEY ARE CLOSE TO THEIR LAST DAYS AND DECIDE TO HAVE A LAST NIGHT ON THE TOWN. AFTER A FEW DRINKS, THEY END UP AT THE LOCAL BROTHEL THE MADAM TAKES ONE LOOK AT THE TWO OLD GEEZERS AND WHISPERS TO HER MANAGER, "GO UP TO THE FIRST TWO BEDROOMS AND PUT AN INFLATED DOLL IN EACH BED. THESE TWO ARE SO OLD AND DRUNK, I'M NOT WASTING TWO OF MY GIRLS ON THEM. THEY WON'T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.' THE MANAGER DOES AS HE IS TOLD AND THE TWO OLD MEN GO UPSTAIRS AND TAKE CARE OF THEIR BUSINESS. AS THEY ARE WALKING HOME THE FIRST MAN SAYS, 'YOU KNOW, I THINK MY GIRL WAS DEAD!' 'DEAD?' SAYS HIS FRIEND, 'WHY DO YOU SAY THAT?' 'WELL, SHE NEVER MOVED OR MADE A SOUND ALL THE TIME I WAS LOVING HER.' HIS FRIEND SAYS, 'COULD BE WORSE I THINK MINE WAS A WITCH.' 'A WITCH ??. . WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU SAY THAT?' 'WELL, I WAS MAKING LOVE TO HER, KISSING HER ON THE NECK, AND I GAVE HER A LITTLE BITE, THEN SHE FARTED AND FLEW OUT THE WINDOW..... TOOK MY TEETH WITH HER! '


By Hefty4real

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