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eleyi gidigan!
To be honest, nothing is as disappointing as bad English from a pretty girl.

So it has gotten to a point that we now go to South Africa for good medical care. Chai!

lhawarl1:
lol you don see holy ghost before?

Ehee nau. It dwells in the mouth of many many Nigerian pastors.

Uteghe:

That's a holy ghost smile

I saw this hotel signboard around Lawanson in Surulere Lagos and it made me laugh real hard. So all the bad bad things people do at the hotel are all part of Gods wish? lol!

Both are correct. It is ignorance and lack of knowledge that make some people correct those that use "mothering" instead of mother in the phrase. Mothering here has two meanings according to the dictionary.

1. the nurturing of an infant or small child by its mother .

2. (in rural England) the custom of visiting one's parents on Laetare Sunday with a present.

Relating it to the celebration, it is a day set aside to celebrate the act of nurturing infants and to give gifts and honour to mothers in recognition of their numerous sacrifices to their children. Mothering Sunday is a tradition of the church and not a subject for English class biko

Something is really fishy in Benue state of today. The state is under siege by elements determined to totally destroy anything good about the state. A lot of people in the state are well armed with guns because Its obvious the present day government are not ready to take drastic measures aimed at arresting the situation. In a civilised society, the state governor must have resigned for failure to deliver the littlest but mist important need of man, security!

Abeg who cursed Benue?

Nne5:
Hey hey calm down. I thought he's biafran?

Hahaha. Anyway, He is being forced by Buhari to be a Nigerian.

Nne5:


Is Nnamdi KANU a top Nigerian?

No, he is a down Nigerian. Happy now?

In time past, Kirikiri Prison in Lagos used to be the most popular prison in Nigeria but today, Kuje prison in Abuja has undoubtably become more popular than Kirikiri. The reason is not far fetched. This is because the prison has played host and is currently playing host to quite a good number of prominent Nigerian politicians, entrepreneurs, activists, crusaders to mention but a few.

Here is a list of prominent Nigerians that has slept in Kuje prison:

1. Olisa Metuh (National Publicity Secretary of PDP)

2. Abba Moro (Former Minister of Interior)

3. Charles Okah (A one time spokesperson of MEND and alleged mastermind of Independence Day Bomb blast in 2010)

4. Nnamdi KANU (Leader of the Indigenous People of Biagra, IPOB)

5. Raymond Dokpesi (Chairman of DAAR communications)

6. Umaru Fintiri (Former Acting Governor of Adamawa state)

7. Sambo Dasuki (Former National Security Adviser)

8. Olusola Amosun (Immediate past Chief of Air Staff)

9. Femi Fani-Kayode (Former Minister of Aviation)

10. Alex Baden (Former Chief of Defence Staff)

11. Uche Secondus (Deputy National Chairman PDP)

12. Lawal Isah Jafaru (Former Military Governor of Kaduna state)

13. Sule Lamido (Former Governor of Jigawa state)

14. Bala Mohammed ( Former FCT minister)

15. Andrew Yakubu (Former GMD of NNPC)

16. Musiliu Obanikoro (Former Minister of State for Defence)

There are quite a few others. Feel free to add the ones you remember but are not on the list above.

David fell, Solomon Fell, Samson fell, is apostle Suleiman different from every other human out there? Biko let's face the things facing us.

Grading system is one of the problems we have in this country. We have made it that students no longer study to know but study to pass. At the end of the day, we produce students who passed based on grade but not in actual field or practical performance.

I will believe anything said against this our current minister of sports. The man don cast many many times walahi. That's why good name is good. Unfortunately he has a track record of scandals.

Mbaise no de carry last.

I wish o......... Ladies over to you.

emitoz:
Lol... sharp guy

No be small sharp guy o.

A woman has received the shock of her life after a man who invited her to a restaurant did an unprecedented thing to her.

Paul Gonzales
A woman identified as Diane Guilmette, has been given a huge shock recently.
The woman was left with a $163 bill after her date invited her to a fancy restaurant, ordered lots of food and drink, then fled without paying.
According to Daily Mail, Diane Guilmette had joined dating website Plenty of Fish when she received a ‘very flattering’ message from a man police later identified as Paul Gonzales.
She agreed to meet up with Gonzales and the pair arranged to go to a fancy restaurant.
He ordered ‘a lot of food’, and several glasses of wine as they sat chatting on their first date, CBS 2 reports.
It was all going well, or so Guilmette thought, until Gonzales went outside ostensibly to make a phone call.
He never came back.
Guilmette said she sat at Morton’s Steakhouse in L.A., waiting for her date to come back from his phone call for 15 minutes before the reality began to sink in.

Diane Guilmette
When she realized her date was not coming back, she tried to message him on the Plenty of Fish app only to find that he blocked her.
She was forced to pay the $163 out of her own pocket.
When she took to social media to share her story, along with pictures of her date, Guilmette said several other women came forward to say that he had done the same thing to him.
Each time he had chosen a high-end restaurant and sneaked out, leaving them with the bill.
One woman, who did not want to be named, was left with a bill for more than $100 after he ‘went to the bathroom’ and never came back.
Despite the horrendous first date, Guilmette says she has not been put off internet dating, although she may be a little choosier on who she goes on dates with in the future.
Police say Gonzales is also facing two pending cases of petty theft, and is accused of failing to pay for a haircut at a salon back in February.

http://www.nownigeria.com/2016/12/13/surprised-woman-in-shock-after-lover-invited-her-to-a-restaurant-ate-expensive-food-and-fled/

Hehehehehehe

I have really done crazy things for football. I can't forget 2013 nations cup semi final between Nigeria and Mali, we had to arrange with our lecturer to write our exam in a classroom that had a television so we could watch the game as our exam was ongoing.

Then on 19th May 2012 I spent 45k on drinks for friends and family that midnight Chelsea beat Bayern at Allianz Arena. Choi, I realised what I did the weeks that followed.

All for the love of the game shaa

Well...I do not totally agree with the idea of negotiating with terrorists, it gives them too much power and belief that they can do anything and get away with it.

It is somehow an open invitation for them to continue kidnapping civilians as an escape route from their barbaric and dehumanising attrocities. Imagine the anger and acrimony in the heart of the dreaded BH prisoners rumoured to have been released in a swap deal. Security agencies should please be on a very high alert!

On a lighter note, I heard they returned pregnant and nursing mother, I hope the government also paid then in their own coin by returning one legged and one handed members to them.

More pics below

Eleven year old Nigerian pupil, Onyemaechi Christian Yobo was today recognised by Cartoon Network and it's partners, DSTV as the winner of Imagination Studios Art Competition 2016. An award ceremony was held in his honour at the premises of the school he attends.

The primary six pupil of Rosyland Nursery and Primary school emerged the best cartoonist (story category) in the 2016 edition of the annual art event. The competition is organised by Cartoon Network across all the countries in Africa where DSTV and Cartoon Network operates.

Officials of Africa's biggest broadcast media organisation, DSTV and Cartoon Network were on ground to present a galaxy tablet, an art contract, art books and materials to the winner while the sum of one hundred thousand naira was given to his school for producing the winner. Cartoon network would also open an art studio in the school as part of its effort to promote art and creativity in the continent.

See pictures below....

Joe Fortemose Chinakwe, a trader in Ogun state has been arrested for naming his dog Buhari. Chinakwe was arrested after one of his neighbours of Northern extraction complained bitterly that he named his dog after his father, Alhaji Buhari. According to Vanguard, Chinakwe told his friend to kill the dog and eat the meat as his accuser and his kinsmen reportedly threatened to kill the trader if he was released on bail. A relation to the suspect, identified as Chiedozie, said Chinakwe was being persecuted for no just cause and expressed fears that he may either be poisoned inside police cell or thrown into jail.

“Chinakwe is a lover of dogs and he names them after things that tickle him. He bought this dog a year ago and named it Buhari. Unfortunately, some Northerners, who dominate the vicinity where he resides misconstrued his intention and connived to take him up. The complainant then claimed it was derogatory because his father answers Buhari.” But a police source said “he not only named the dog Buhari but boldly wrote it on the body of both sides of the dog and was seen parading the neighbourhood dominated by Northerners with it.” Confirming the arrest of the trader, the acting Police spokesman in Ogun state, Abimbola Oyeyemi said he was still trying to get the Divisional Police Officer in-charge of Sango for details. “I have made enquiries. The man bought a dog and inscribed Buhari on both sides of its body. One Mallam lodged a complaint and when our men got there, we found out that it was true. You know such thing can cause serious breach of the peace and ethnic or religious unrest. We are charging him to court for conduct likely to cause a breach of peace.” READ ALSO: Meet self-made 16-year-old millionaire with gold Bentley (photos) He added that; “He was arrested last Saturday and we are taking him to court later today (Tuesday) or tomorrow morning (today). You know an average Northerner will feel bad over such a thing. It can cause serious ethnic crisis or religious confrontation because when you are relegating such a name to a certain person, you are indirectly insulting him.” But the spokesman said the dog will be used as evidence against the suspect; “The dog cannot follow anybody except the owner. We will use him as our evidence because he did not deny it.”

Read more: https://www.naij.com/931320-shocking-man-arrested-naming-dog-buhari.html?f&poster=22809

NwaNimo1:
He's not bowing - just positioning his ear to hear the short man.

This is wickedness in high places. Choi!

My dear Asiwaju,

I am compelled to write this open letter to you because of the state of affairs of the Yoruba nation. Firstly, I wish to acknowledge that fate has put you in a prime position to determine to a large extent the direction that the Yoruba people will go. The indisputable truth is that one may quarrel with your politics but your sagacity is never in doubt.

Even those who don’t see eye to eye with you agree that you are imbued with unusual native intelligence, uncommon people skills and unrivaled foresight. You, more than any other person, has been the game changer since the advent of democracy in 1999. It is for these reasons that I have chosen to direct this letter to you.

My singular purpose is to tug at the strings of your heart. I am not writing to appeal to partisan considerations but to see, if per chance, I can pour out my heart to you in a manner of speaking. God has blessed you even beyond your wildest imagination. You have installed Senators and Governors. You have removed Governors and even a President. You have also installed a President. There is nothing you have wished for or desired that you didn’t get. Fortune has smiled on you. Goodwill follows you everywhere you go. You have done very well- more than most men ever will.

However, there is one area that is begging for your urgent attention. This area may well define you and all you have ever achieved. This matter, in my opinion, is the only difference between you and the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo. Let me restate for the purpose of emphasis that this is the area in which the late sage and Leader of the Yorubas stand head and shoulders above you. It is the reason his name has been a constant denominator in our regional and national politics. It is the reason politicians, friends and foes invoke his name for political advantage and personal glory. It is also the reason why we can’t stop talking about him almost thirty years after his death. What will anyone say about you thirty years after you have transited?


Asiwaju Sir, you may be wondering what I’m talking about? It is the issue of legacy. According to Peter Strople, ‘Legacy is not leaving something for people, it is leaving something in people’. Legacy is building something that outlives you. Legacy is greater than currency. In the words of Leonard Sweet, ‘ What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy’. You can’t live forever, Sir. No one can. But you can create something that will. Enough of speaking in parables- I shall now speak plainly.

When destiny brought you on the scene, we were enamoured because you championed the case for true federalism. It was your belief then that the Yoruba nation will fare better under a restructured arrangement than under the type of unitary government we run while pretending by calling it a federal government. Everyone knows that there is nothing federal about our government at all. If truth must be told, the Yoruba nation has fared very badly since the advent of our new democracy. And this is not about holding power at the centre.

Let me bring this home: someone passed a comment recently that he would want Biafra to become a reality because he knows the Igbo nation will survive. That comment led me to deeper introspection as I wondered if the Yorubas can truly survive. Let me cite my first example. From Oyo to Osun, Ogun to Ondo, Ekiti to Kwara and Lagos, hardly will one see any serious industry or manufacturing concern owned by a Yoruba person. I am not talking about portfolio businesses or one-man business concerns. Most industries in Oyo State are owned by the Lebanese. The native business and industry gurus who dominated the landscape- Nathaniel Idowu, Amos Adegoke, Lekan Salami, Alao Arisekola, Adeola Odutola, Jimoh Odutola, Chief Theophilus Adediran Oni and others- are all gone with no credible replacements. I’m sure you remember the tyre factory of the Odutolas and how Jimoh Odutola was even asked by the Governments of Kenya and Ghana to set up a similar factory in their countries. Chief Theophilus Adediran # Oni , popularly called T.A # Oni & Sons started the first indigenous construction company in Nigeria. He willed his residence- Goodwill House, to the Oyo/Western state government, to be used as a Paediatric Hospital, which is now known as T.A Oni Memorial Children Hospital at Ring Road in Ibadan. This sprawling family Estate and residence was cited on a 15acre piece of land, 65 rooms, with modern conveniences, Olympic Swimming Pool and stable for Horses, etc.

People like Chief Bode Akindele started companies like Standard Breweries and Dr Pepper Soft drink factory at Alomaja in Ibadan. Broking House built by the late Femi Johnson, an insurance magnate, still stands glittering in the mid-day sun as an epitome to a rich history that Ibadan has. The most serious and only notable Yoruba entrepreneur we have now is Michael Adenuga. I say this quite consciously because most of the other names are oil and gas barons. Most of what stood as testaments of industry in Oyo State are gone- Exide Batteries, Leyland Autos and many others. In its place are shopping malls and road side markets but no nation develops through buying and selling alone- especially when you’re not actually producing what you’re selling. Hypermarkets and supermarkets have taken over because of the need to feed our insatiable consumer-appetite and foreign tastes. In one instance, an ancient landmark in the form of a hotel was demolished to pave way for a mall. That is how low we have sunk. If our past is better than our present- if we always look back with nostalgia frequently, then there is a problem.

The case of other states is not different. Osun’s case is pathetic. Ditto for Ondo and Ekiti. Ogun State can boast of some factories at Sango-Otta and Agbara axis but most of them are not owned by the Yorubas. There is no significant pharmaceutical company owned by any Yoruba except for Bond Chemicals in Awe, Oyo State- and its wallet share is very insignificant. For Lagos State, more than 70% of the manufacturing concerns and major industries in the State are owned by the Igbos. If the Igbos were to stop paying tax in Lagos State, the IGR of Lagos State will reduce by over 60%. In contrast, Sir, go to the South East and look at the manufacturing concerns in Onitsha, Aba and Nnewi. Please don’t forget those were areas ravaged by civil war a mere forty something years ago. The Igbos have certainly made tremendous progress but the Yoruba nation has regressed. I wish to state that this letter is not meant to whip up primordial considerations or ethnic sentiments but just to put things in proper perspective.

Asiwaju, I will like to also talk about the state of education in the Yoruba nation. Our education has gone to the dogs. We have a bunch of mis-educated and ill-educated young men and women roaming the streets. Ibadan, for instance, had the first University in Nigeria and the first set of research centres in Nigeria ( The Forestry Research Institute, the Cocoa Research Institute (CRIN), The Nigerian Cereal Research Institute Moor Plantation (NCRI), the NIHORT (Nigerian Institute of Horticultural Research), the NISER (Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research), IAR&T (Institute of Agriculture, Research and Training), amongst several others). Ibadan was the bastion of scholarship with people like Wole Soyinka, JP Clark, D.O Fagunwa and Amos Tutuola as residents. In the May/June 2015 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, Abia came tops. Anambra came 2nd while Edo was 3rd. Lagos placed 6th while Osun and Oyo was 29th and 26th. Ekiti was 11th, Ondo State was 13th and Ogun State was 19th. In 2013 WASSCE, only Lagos and Ogun States were the Yoruba States above the national average. If we do an analysis of how Lagos placed 6th in 2015, you will discover that it was substantially because of other nationalities resident in Lagos. For proof, please look no further than the winners of the Spelling Bee competition which has produced One-Day Governors in Lagos State. Since inception in 2001, other nationalities have won the competition six times (Ebuka Anisiobi in 2001, Ovuwhore Etiti in 2002, Abundance Ikechukwu in 2006, Daniel Osunbor in 2008, Akpakpan Iniodu Jones in 2011 and Lilian Ogbuefi in 2012). Sir, there is something seriously wrong about our state of education. From the vintage times of Obafemi Awolowo who initiated ‘free education’, we have regressed into a most parlous state.

Let me talk about roads, housing and infrastructure . The first dualized road in Nigeria, the Queen Elizabeth road from Mokola to Agodi in Ibadan was formally commissioned by Queen Elizabeth in 1956. The first Housing Estate in Nigeria is Bodija Housing Estate (also in Ibadan) which was built in 1958. The state of roads in the Yoruba nation has become pathetic. Our hinterland are still largely rural. Even some state capitals like Osogbo and Ado-Ekiti are big villages when you compare them to towns in the South East. How many new estates have been built over the last decade? Even Ajoda New Town lies in ruins.
We have abandoned the farm settlement strategy of the Western Region and only pay lip service to agriculture. Instead of feeding others like we once did, others now feed us. We plant no tomatoes, no pepper and the basic food that we require. The Indians have bought the large expanse of water body that we have in Onigambari village. The water body in Oke Ogun of Oyo State can provide enough fish to feed the whole of the South West. From being a major cocoa exporter many years ago, one can point to just a few vestiges of factories that still deal with Cocoa in the Yoruba nation. 80% of Cocoa processing industries in the South West have been shut down. The Chinese have taken over the cashew belt at Ogbomoso in Oyo State. They have even edged out the indigenes as brokers. They now come to the cashew belt to buy from the local farmers, sell on the spot to other Chinese exporters who now process the cashew nuts and import them back into Nigeria at a premium. Sir, there are only 7 major cashew processing plants in Nigeria and you can check out the ownership. The glory has departed from the Yoruba nation.

Apart from Asejire, Ede, Ikere Gorge and Oyan dams built ages ago, where are the new dams to cater for increased population and water capacity for the Yoruba nation? How have we improved on what our heroes past left us? Maybe apart from certain areas in Lagos State, others can’t even supply their citizens with pipe-borne water.

Our youth which we used to take pride in are largely a mass of unemployed and unemployable people. Have you noticed the abundance of street urchins, area boys, touts and ‘agberos’ that we now have all across the Yoruba nation? Have you noticed the swell in the ranks of NURTW (I mean no disrespect to an otherwise noble union)? Have you noticed the increase in the number of Yoruba beggars? There was a time that it was taboo for a Yoruba man to beg- but no more. The spirit of apprenticeship is dead. There was a time that people who learn vocational skills celebrate what we referred to as ‘freedom’. While that is largely moribund now in the Yoruba nation, the Igbos still practice it with great success.

The only thing we can boldly say the Yoruba nation controls is the information machinery- the press. We own largely the newspapers- the Nation, Punch, Nigerian Tribune, TV Continental and a few others. It is because of our control of this information machinery that we have rewritten the narrative in the country with the misguided self-belief that things are normal and we are making progress. A look beyond the surface will prove that this is so untrue.

We are largely divided. For the first time in the history of the Yoruba nation, religion is about to divide us further- and it is starting from Osun State. You are married to a Christian. My own father-in-law is an Alhaji. That is how we have peacefully do-existed but the fabrics are about to be torn to shreds because of poor management of issues. Afenifere has been reduced to a shadow of itself. OPC that once defended Yoruba interests has gone into oblivion. Yoruba elders have been vilified in the name of politics and partisanship. It is no longer news to see teenagers throwing stones at their elders because of their political indoctrination. Even under the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the Yorubas never belonged to just a single party- yet our unity was without blemish. Now, our values have gone down the drain.

Asiwaju, I believe I have said enough. The task is Herculean but I believe Providence has brought you here for such a time like this. It is time for the Yoruba nation to clean up its acts. What do we really want? How can we quickly right the wrongs? The Yoruba nation is in a state of arrested development. The Yoruba nation is gasping for breath and crying for help. Will you rise up to the occasion? I am aware you understand that all politics is local and charity begins at home. Our fathers gave us a proverb: ‘Bi o’ode o dun, bi igbe ni’gboro ri’. I know there are no quick fixes but I also know that if there is anyone who has the capacity to do something about our current situation, that person is you. This should be the legacy you should think of. Your legacy is our future.

Yours Very Sincerely,

By Bayo Adeyinka

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/open-letter-asiwaju-bola-ahmed-tinubu/

FORMER military presi dent, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has said the he is getting used to rumours of his death.

Speaking at his hilltop mansion after returning from Germany where he undertook a medical treatment, Bababngida said there was no need spreading rumour about death, since everybody will get ill or die.

Babangida had arrived Minna International air port last Friday in a chat tered aircraft amidst tight security. He looked hale and hearthy, but chose to wear a black caftan and black cap to match.

Amongst those seen in his entourage was his son Aminu, and Hali ma his last daughter, while the former

governor of the state, Abdullahi Kure, his el dest son Mohammed Babangida, Aisha Ba bangida, Umar Ndanusa and a former federal per manent secretary, Idris Adamu Kutawere were at the airport to welcome him.

On his death rumour, Babangida said, “as a Muslim it is written that every human being shall die and get sick”

He recalled that it was not the first time that the rumour of his death would be out in the public, stressing that he was getting used to it now, though he won dered why people were con stantly peddling the rumour of his death at the slightest news of attending to his health.

He disclosed that it was just a structural medical problem that was being ad dressed by medical experts and periodic medical check ups.

http://sunnewsonline.com/im-getting-used-to-rumours-of-my-death-ibb/

THE Inspector General of Po lice, Solomon Arase has called for calm following the extra-judicial murder of one Bridget Abahime, who was reportedly killed by a mob in Kano over alleged blasphemy.

The IGP also assured the family of the deceased and indeed the general public that justice would be done in the case. Arase in a statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, Olabisi Kolawole, an Assistant Commissioner of Police, equally confirmed that the Kano State Police Com mand has arrested two key suspects in connection with the incident.

Those arrested, accord ing to the statement in clude Dauda Ahmed and Su beiru Abubakar.

The statement read further: “In order to ensure a diligent and professional investiga tion, the Inspector General of Police has directed the Depu ty Inspector-General of Police in- charge of the Force Crimi nal Investigation and Intelli gence Department (FCIID) to deploy the Homicide Section of the department to immedi ately take over the investiga tion of the case and ensure a meticulous investigation and speedy prosecution of the ar rested suspects.

“The Inspector General of Police has also directed the Commissioner of Police of Kano State to sustain the com munity engagement actions which he is currently initiat ing with all strategic security stakeholders and community leaders in the state with a view to dousing the tension being generated by the condem nable incident. In addition, detachments of mobile and conventional police as well as the intelligence assets of the Force have been deployed to protect law abiding citizens, reassure the public, prevent the incident from degenerat ing into a major security threat and aid the Homicide Section being deployed in the loca tion and apprehension of other suspects who are currently at large.”

While condoling family and friends of the deceased, the Po lice chief condemned in stron gest terms the violation of right to life of citizens under any guise and stressed the Force’s resolve to uphold its mandate touching on criminal justice delivery in the most firm and speedy fashion in similar case and in other cases of this na ture.

“While the members of the public will be updated on prog ress of investigation into this case, they are advised to go about their normal activities and resist any temptation to capitalize on the incident to threaten national se curity as any such attempt will be firmly dealt with. The Inspector General also calls on Kano State residents and indeed, all citizens to imbibe the culture of tolerance, rule of law and peaceful co-exis tence and to trust and cooperate with the police as we strive to ensure justice in this case,” the statement read.

http://sunnewsonline.com/kano-murder-igp-sues-for-calm-assures-victims-family-of-justice/

Feranchek:
E go make sense wella o0ooo!!

Would be the first wedding where inlaws would refuse to shake hands like Amaechi and Wike.

tritt:
Olorun ma je.

4reala:
Tufiakwa! Aru

This is wickedness in high places.