₦airaland Forum

toba:
SMH what if cuddlemii is a man? is she as pretty as the babe on my profile pixs?

I am telling you she is my wife and you are asking if she is a man? Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, plus so many guys here will drool forever if they should behold the site of my baby, am sorry but she is finer than the gal on your profile by miles.

 **Waiting for my sweerie to make me good egusi soup**

Why are you guys just looking for trouble.

@OP- are married women qualified as well, because I can see people mentioning my wife's name. Please guys stay off Cuddlemii, she is my wife and Natasha attended our wedding so she can testify. Lets respect ourselves. Thank you

Some women believe that after milking a guy dry that she has used him.

^^^Dont worry I will just cuddle you, progress is never a slow process. Oya come inside baby mi

[quote author=Natasha,, link=topic=294662.msg8763235#msg8763235 date=1311276426]wow now that's a real gentle man me likey [/quote]

ajiifixing:
I can bet an arm that by the time the robbers get caught,their names will be :

Chinekwu,Chukwuma,Ndubuisi etc.

Wanna take a bet?.

Something must be wrong with your sillly head. If you dont have anything to say you reserve the right to shut your mouth

^^^I dont even know who is Ms Potato neither have I seen that name. How can i mix you up with someone else, you are too hawwt , infact I think you should not be allowed to board a plane cos you are da BOMB. errrrm am still waiting patiently in the room sweetie

@Babe
I take God beg una, abeg make una no come scatter this our thread. As we no come sabi write English nko

[quote author=James-dman link=topic=715327.msg8761492#msg8761492 date=1311261633]~~ I don't tink Dyt dearie, will be available 4 nw, she is currently givin moi a sexy massage![/quote]

Cuddlemii:
Well your baby can handle her own biz. I used my credit card instead. I also got you something, open it. some calvin klein briefs. errrrm errrrm im not good at all those room sexy stories. i might have to implore dyt to help me out there. i can't flow like that.

Money or no money i gat my baby for life, but thank God we have enough money to spend, errrm baby you know you have to fullfil your marital duties, so please am still waiting in the room and I need you here urgently. Dont worry I will make you see heaven ok, oya come my sweet potato

Cuddlemii:
^^ Ok have a good nice rest while I trim the lawn. I also want to have a pedicure and my hair deed. Do you want anything from the grocery store? Baby where is your credit card?

Please be fast with that and come meet me in the room, my body is on fire and you need to extinguish it. Errrrm errrm sweetie, i think I left my credit card in the drawer in my office, I know my baby will always accomodate and show me love without my wallet and credit cards.

This is a very sad story. I think they should dis-arm OPC, like someone said there is every possibility they are responsible for all the crimes in that region.

You are not ready yet, what friendship? Friends with benefits? If you would like your wife to behave like that towards another man when you get married, then continue talking with her and what goes around turns around

Nice

He would have been a tailor, but he veered off and found himself in a catering school. He later combined catering with his pursuit for a first degree. Indeed, when Chindeu Chigbo, 34, proprietor of Daddy’s Kitchen was admitted to study law at the University of Abuja he was looking forward to the graduation day after which he would pick his gown and wig to begin operating as a lawyer.

But as the university teachers went on strike he learnt how to fry bean balls popularly known as Akara and later set up an outlet for it from which he bought his first car.

After his National Youth Service he became a fast food vendor, specializing in noodles; from there he graduated and started full scale restaurant business, Daddy’s Kitchen at Damijah Junction, Trans-Ekulu area of Enugu State.

Today, just after two years in the business, he has established three branches and employed 14 persons with salaries of between N15, 000 to N20, 000, as well as a well-furnished staff quarters.
The rush by customers who patronize Daddy’s Kitchen at the ever-busy Damijah Junction at Trans-Ekulu Enugu was what attracted the interest of this reporter. That evening, there was no space for people to sit; yet the queue of people waiting for their turn to be served continued to grow.
The lucky ones who had been served carried their trays proudly and struggled for space anywhere they found any.

Chigbo, who hails from Eke in Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State in this chat with Daily Sun, looks at his foray into business.
Background
“I have two degrees; I read Political Science Education before reading Law; I graduated before my 21st birthday; so, immediately after my graduation I proceeded to read Law because that was my dream course. When I was going for my Youth Service my dad, a former State Coordinator, National Directorate for Employment (NDE), Enugu State, gave me three books to read; he said ‘Chinedu forget about white collar jobs because I believe that you are going for service with the hope that when you finish I am going to make a way for you.’ That there was no way for him to make for me, that I am going to establish my own way. He gave me a foreign textbook on entrepreneurship, another book entitled ‘The Richest Man in Babylon’ and another one, ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’. So he said read these books, whatever you make from them use it and help yourself.
I started with fashion and designing.

But before then, there is one thing that I believed in, and that is acquiring skill; my dad is a civil engineer and I see him come up with structures and it thrilled me and I felt I should have a sort of technical knowledge. However, I was not interested in Engineering or construction, I was more interested in building businesses and that may have informed my decision to go into fashion and designing in the first place. I learnt fashion and designing immediately I left secondary school; I used it to occupy myself as I awaited my WAEC and JAMB results then in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State. So, when I entered the university I combined my studies with fashion and designing; but I later realized that it was a highly challenging vocation because of poor power supply and shortage of manpower.

I went to catering school following the challenges in the fashion industry. I decided to go into catering because I love cooking. When I was younger, while the boys went playing football I always joined the girls in the kitchen. So, I decided to give it a trial and I enrolled and attended Royal Institute of Catering, Agbani Road, Enugu. It was a good experience and I enjoyed every bit of it; but at a time I had to abandon the catering school when I got admission to read law at Abuja. So, I spent five years plus one year strike period making it six years at the University of Abuja. When I graduated from the school I proceeded to the Nigeria Law School, and was called to the bar in 2006; afterwards I went for my Youth Service at Osun State. After my service I returned to Enugu.
Career decision

When I was doing my chamber attachment I was with one M.O.C Okoye Chambers; so after my service I went to him. I was with him for a short while before he died; and his departure was a very serious blow to me and even made me have a re-think about the law practice. In fact, it was then I remembered what my father told me and started to think about business. I had options before me: to use my first degree, which is Political Science (Education) to teach or to continue practice as a lawyer or whether to open tailoring business or better still put into practice my catering experience.

But first I decided to try getting a job with my first degree; so I went to one private school and applied. At the end of the day they said my salary was N5,000; meanwhile I was married and I had a car already, I said no, that the money cannot even fuel my car. I also tried another law chamber in Enugu, where I worked for about a month, but the principal told me that I was not employable; I felt so bad and asked how? He said yes that I had no experience, that I need to have at least seven years experience, that I am not employable; that he is making money because he worked so hard, he had practiced for over 22 years; that he will only be paying me stipend. I thought he was joking, but after working for a month, I was expecting the stipend to come but nothing came, and I was forced to quit.

Frying Akara and buying a car with the proceed
I got my first car when I was in my final year as a law student at the University of Abuja. I established a place in Asata, Enugu, where we fried Akara with a colleague of mine. That was when we had a long strike that we stayed at home for about 11 months. We` called the place Asata Bite. It happened that I visited the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus where I used to read and I saw one woman selling Akara. I sat down, and observed how students were rushing the Akara; after sitting down and drinking a bottle of soft drink for about 30 minutes I realized that the woman was making so much money and I knew I could do the Akara better than the woman.

So, I invited a cousin of mine who also attended Federal School of Catering, WDC, Enugu and we shared the idea and agreed it would be a very good business. We visited all the places where they sell Akara in Enugu, bought samples of their Akara, went home tasted and analyzed each of them. We choose three that were the best; they were so good and we went back to the women and told them that we wanted to learn how to make Akara.

They laughed at us, but two of them were kind enough and they thought us how to make Akara.
So, we combined the experience from the women and what we learnt in school because most of these local women, their food may be so tasty, but their packaging and presentation may not be wonderful. So, we gave some professional touch to the Akara; we were also frying Irish potato, plantain, etc we also improved on the sauce because the women used to serve the Akara with stew or sometimes they cut onions, and mix with pepper and groundnut oil.

We wanted something different so we developed what we called ‘The Sauce’; we used variety of vegetables, it was very colourful; we had green beans, we had carrot, lots of vegetables, it was a very wonderful combination; if I give you the sauce and fried yam you won’t know when you finish a tuber of yam. The business was so good and interesting that when schools were re-opened I couldn’t go back because we were making a lot of money. We started with less than N3,000, but we made so much money that I returned to Abuja and told them I was no longer interested; I lied that I wanted to go and manage my father’s business. My dean then, Prof Iloegbunam asked me to go to the senate and defend my request; at the end of the day the school refused to let me go and I was forced to go back and complete my law programme. Thus we closed the business, but I made some good money and I bought my first car.

Becoming a tailor after NYSC
After working for one month in a law firm without pay I decided to make use of my tailoring skills and started to work with one Idika around the Damijah area of Trans-Ekulu, Enugu. Idika is a semi-literate man, but he is a very nice man. So, I worked under him. Some of my fellow lawyers would come to me and say how, can you work under someone who did not even pass primary school, and you are a lawyer. But I would tell them that there is nothing wrong with it that I knew what I was doing.

It was from that place I discovered that I could open up an eatery here, this place where I am now. The Daddy’s Kitchen here used to be an outlet for a popular noodle; so, I met the person who was operating it, discussed with him and he agreed that I can be making use of the place; not even the inside, but the outside. So, that at the close of business at night, I may stay outside and be cooking the noodles; because I promised that I would be buying from her as long as she would allow me to be cooking in front of the shop. But she said I had to pay, and asked how much I could afford? I said N1000 and she said I should pay for three months advance and I promised to pay the coming week. I didn’t have the money then, but I returned to the tailoring shop and worked very hard, worked day and night and before the one week expired I had raised the N3,000 and I paid.

Our Daddy’s Kitchen
Daddy’s Kitchen is ‘where daddy cooks better than mum.’ Immediately I started the eatery it appeared that doors of opportunities began to open; I stopped thinking of working in a big company or a prominent law firm as I used to when I was in school. I was then thinking of how to build a big business that I would call my own. But I must recall that when she gave me the place, I did not have enough capital to kick-start the business; so, I went to my father’s house and took the spare gas cooker we had in the house, took the dinning set we had for people to sit and eat. I had no money for a signpost so I took my dad’s drawing board and begged an artist in the neighbourhood, and he wrote my business name, Daddy’s Kitchen on it, with the slogan ‘where daddy cooks better than mummy’.

To catch the attention of customers since it was at night I brought the Christmas light we used in our house the previous December and hung it round the signpost and with a small generator from my house the signpost was lit-up. Before I kicked off I shared flyers in the whole of Trans-Ekulu, and by the time I started it was interesting. Although I did not experience heavy rush initially, but with time things were improving.
Actually, I had an encounter with noodles at the University in Abuja; I observed how people were rushing to eat noodles prepared by a Mallam and I knew I could do something better than what he was doing.

The next day I went to market and bought a lot of vegetables, carrot, peas, and green beans and garnished the noodles and to know the reaction of students I became generous and they confessed it was unequalled. As they were enjoying the noodles I went to a corner and laughed; I said to myself this is money. And today, I am seeing a lot of money cooking the noodles and people are enjoying it. I have even graduated from cooking only noodles to other delicacies; I cook rice, Egusi soup, Ora soup, Ogbono soup, then I prepare my chicken, I prepare fish, I also prepare sauce that goes with the chicken and the one that goes with the fish; and people turn out very well and they enjoy my food.

Staring the business
When I started the business, I started it with nothing, but today I have 14 employees; I have staff quarters, I have three outlets, one in Damijah, I have one in Ugbo-Odogwu and one at Campus-III, Institute of Management and Technology, IMT, Enugu. Then I have my staff quarters in Phase-Six, Trans Ekulu; it is a two-bedroom apartment and I furnished it for my female staff. I have gotten a vehicle I use to run my business, I have also employed a driver that takes my staff to their places of work and also supply the materials they need to do their work.

My food
In cooking my food I make use of professional caterers; I believe that for me to succeed I need to work with professionals; so with trained personnel like myself, I believe they will deliver as I am delivering. And I achieved these within a space of two years; you can imagine the rate of growth, it was indeed very rapid. I really thank God for everything. The interesting thing about it is that I spent 12 years in higher institution, but what is feeding me and my family, what is even giving me hope of being a very wealthy man in future is not even the education I acquired, it was a course a read for less than one year and some managerial books I read.

And I have the hope of retiring from struggling, from active service at the age of 40 years. I would then move from an operator of business to an investor; because it is when I retire that I will have the time to create wealth. And by the time I retire, I have a plan of building a structure that would be yielding not less than N20 million per annum. Business is very good and I encourage the young ones to stop searching for white collar jobs and look inwards. Let them ask themselves what they can offer to the society

Twenty-four months after he was sacked by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) over allegation of mis-management and fraud, trial yesterday commenced in the case brought against the former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Erastus Akingbola, and an aide, Bayo Dada, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The EFCC had dragged Akingbola and Dada before Justice Habeeb Abiru of the Lagos High Court in Ikeja over a fresh 29-count charge bordering on theft of sums running into about N47.5 billion.

In his testimony before the court yesterday, the first EFCC prosecution witness, Abdulraheem Jimoh, told the court how Akingbola fraudulently transferred about N2 billion (£ 8.5m) from the coffers of the bank to his domiciliary account outside the country.

Jimoh, , who is a Chief Inspector with Intercontinental Bank, said this while being led in evidence by the EFCC’s lead counsel, Mr. Emmanuel Ukala (SAN).

The Witness also informed the judge that as at the time the first defendant transferred the money in March 2009, he was the bank’s CEO.

Said the witness: “In the course of my work, I conducted investigation on five transactions linked to the first defendant. The first transaction involved the transfer of £8million , that is (£8,540,134.58) outside Nigeria shortly after the intervention of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) into the bank’s operations.”

The witness also testified that one of the Intercontinental Bank’s correspondent’s banks, Dutsche, sent a letter to the bank in Nigeria on September 3, 2009 on money laundering and asked the latter to confirm if the transaction met the requirements.

Jimoh said the summary of the outcome of the bank’s investigation showed that the transaction failed to meet the required procedure, adding that as at the time Akingbola transferred the money to his domiciliary account abroad on March 13, 2009, he did not have any credit facilities for such transactions.

Although the testimony was intermittently punctuated by a series of objection from the defendants’ lead counsel, Mr. Ayodeji Sasegbon (SAN), the witness who has about 22 years experience in the banking industry, said Akingbola perpetrated the act by moving various sums of money amounting to N2 billion from the bank to the account of one of the bank’s subsidiaries, Intercontinental Capital Market Limited.

He said: “From this account, the money was moved to a customer’s account, Megal Investment Limited, belonging to the Chairman of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Dr. Raymond Obieri. From the account of Megal Investment, the money was moved to the accounts of seven operators of Bureau de Change (BDCs) in the state.”

Sasegbon intervened again that the defence was being taken by surprise since they did not have all the records referred to by the witness but he was overruled by the court.

In his further testimony, the witness said the funds were exchanged in dollars to the tune of $11.840.427.00 (about £8.5 million).

Jimoh said the money was subsequently credited into Akingbola’s domiciliary account abroad.

Justice Abiru adjourned the matter to July 26, for further hearing.

THE fear that the three-day strike called by the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) may be hijacked by suspected members of Boko Haram may have forced labour leaders to shelve it on Tuesday night.

It was learnt yesterday that as at 11p.m. on Tuesday, the leadership of the workers’ unions was still insisting on going ahead with the action, which would have paralysed economic activities yesterday, today and tomorrow over the non-implementation of the N18,000 National Minimum Wage Act.

When the argument was on, the Nigerian Compass gathered that a security chief called the meeting at the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, to intimate the NLC President, Abdulwaheed Omar, his TUC counterpart, Peter Esele, Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, Minister of Labour and Productivity, Emeka Wogu, his Information and Communications counterpart, Labaran Maku, the Head of Service, Prof. O.A. Afolabi, and others that “intelligence sources have revealed that Boko Haram members have perfected plans to hijack the strike leading to series of attacks in some parts of the North and Abuja”.

Said a source: “The sense of patriotism of the labour leaders was appealed to and since the government had already declared that if the implementation of the new wage is not done by July 31, they should go on strike, they backed down from their earlier stand and decided to sign the seven-point communique”.

NLC Vice-President, Comrade Emmanuel Ajoku, also confirmed this in Lagos yesterday.

To him, it was necessary for labour to consider the security challenge already posed by Boko Haram.

He declared that it was wrong for anybody to insinuate that labour leaders chickened out at the last meeting.

He insisted that national interest was considered before Omar and others at the meeting agreed to shelve the strike.

He also added that with the presence of the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, in the country and the attempt to double trade with its erstwhile colonial master, the strike would have caused Nigeria a huge fortune.

Ajoku, who is also the National President of Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees (AUPCTRE), said labour’s position displayed commitment, dedication and sacrifice to the growth of the country.

He said: “Labour has always been considerate if you look at the history of minimum wage in this country. The N18,000 minimum wage issue has been on for over two years now. We gave ultimatum but it was not honoured. On several occasions, we extended hands of fellowship but were rebuffed by the government. Strike is always the last resort. Before we go on strike, we must have exploited all other alternatives.”

The labour chief insisted that there was no way labour could have betrayed the confidence reposed on it by workers.

“We also have implicit confidence in those negotiating at the Abuja axis, bearing in mind that those who negotiated were civil servants who know that the implementation of the new minimum wage will affect their gratuity and pension when they retire from civil service. So, the issue of betrayal is not there at all.

“The ethics of negotiation is such that any time an agreement is reached and acceptable to both sides, you suspend an imminent strike, and that is what labour has done. That the strike was suspended Tuesday midnight does not mean betrayal because that was when agreement was finally reached,” said Ajoku.

He explained that by August ending as agreed, if workers do not receive their minimum wage with corresponding arrears, labour will not hesitate to call out its members to the streets.

A Joint Secretary of the Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO), Comrade Abiodun Aremu, echoing Omar, said: “The new wage would be paid from August 1 while arrears would be paid not later than August 31”.

He assured workers that they would not be victimised “for any reason in any manner or form as a consequence of the implementation of the new wage”.

On his part, the National President of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), Comrade Babatunde Ogun, said the decision by government to implement the new wage for workers on Levels 1-6 was wrong.

He said that such selected implementation was illegal, going by the provisions of the Act, adding that it could disrupt decent works ethics and efficiency drive in wage relativity which could dampen workers’ motivation and morals toward productivity and effectiveness.

His words: “Government at all levels and the private sector must implement the minimum wage law and pay the wages as provided by the law. It is a law and it must be obeyed by employers in both the public sector and the private sector.

“For the government not to obey the law, it must first repeal the law. In the process of repealing the law, the government must first repeal all laws that govern payment of salaries, allowances and other emoluments to all political office holders, judiciary and others earning jumbo pay in the country. Drastic downward review of their emoluments is a prerequisite to any discussion on ability to pay or not.”

The PENGASSAN President insisted that all governors and employers of labour must implement the law.

Meanwhile, workers in Osun State yesterday shunned the directives from the NLC National Secretariat that public servants should resume at their duty posts as they embarked on an indefinite strike.

NLC and TUC leaders in Osogbo, the state capital, jointly led the industrial dispute that paralysed activities at the State Secretariat, Abere, Osogbo.

The chairmen of the unions, Comrades Saka Adesiyan (NLC) and Francis Adetunji Oladele (TUC), led other members of executive councils to lock the gate of the state secretariat and Governor’s Office.

The Deputy Governor, Otunba Grace Titilayo Laoye-Tomori, who looked obviously surprised at the development when she arrived for duty, was forced to trek to her office after her plea for understanding fell on deaf ears.

Teachers and pupils were turned back at the gates of public schools.

Adesiyan said beside the fact that they have not received official directive from the national secretariat of their unions that they should shelve the strike action, the 14-day ultimatum given to the Osun State Government within which to resolve the N18,000 minimum wage had expired.

He insisted that the workers’ union could no longer rely on lip service from government but want action taken on the wage increase.

Oladele said that Osun State government should come up with policy statement in the form of circular that will commit it to the payment of the wage from March, 2011 and ensure that the arrears were paid immediately.

However, Federal Government establishments as well as banks opened for normal businesses while commercial activities went on smoothly.

It would be recalled that official activities have remained paralysed in health institutions at local and state levels across the state following the industrial action embarked upon by the workers.

State hospitals, health centres, maternity centres and health dispensaries across the state have remained deserted for months.

In Lagos, major roads were free from the usual traffic gridlocks following the suspension of the planned warning strike.

Many workers in both the public and private sectors were not aware that the strike had been called off as the development did not get to the airwaves till after midnight.

Ever busy roads such as Lagos-Abeokuta, Ikotun-Oshodi, Mile 2-Orile-Constain, were relatively free of traffic as few vehicles were seen plying them.

However, there was still the perennial traffic jam at Orile-Iganmu bus stop caused by the presence of several policemen and members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) controlling vehicular movement.

A journey from Sango-Ota, through Mushin, en route Lagos Island which used to take about three hours on working days, took less than an hour.

Attendance in schools and offices were also observed to be scanty in Lagos Metropolis as at 10 a.m.

Even as the Federal Government is still strategising on how to meet the July 31 deadline to implement the New National Minimum Wage, university lecturers warned yesterday that it would soon embark on an indefinite strike action if the government fail to honour the agreement reached with them in 2009.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) called on well-meaning Nigerians to prevail on the Federal Government to honour the agreement to ensure uninterrupted academic session.

The union, which expressed disappointment over the issue, wondered why the government, after over two years painstaking negotiation, failed to fulfill its own side of the bargain.

ASUU president, Comrade Ukachukwu Awuzie, represented by the Ibadan Zonal Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Ajisegiri, said the union wanted to use this opportunity to call on well-meaning Nigerians to appeal to the government, adding that in as much as it wouldn't want to embark on an industrial action, it would also not tolerate being taken for granted.

In a statement tagged: ''Implementation of the 2009 ASUU/FGN Agreement: Before we strike again”, ASUU recalled that on Thursday, December 14, 2006, a negotiation team was set up by the then Minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, to negotiate with ASUU.

It added that in January, 2009, after two years of painstaking negotiation, an agreement was reached and the formal signing was to take place on May 12, 2009 but that was not made possible.

His words: “ASUU had to embark on a warning strike between 18th and 30th of May, 2009 and again on June 22nd, 2009 in a bid to get the agreement signed and implemented.”

Ajisegiri lamented that the struggle to sign the document ended in September, 2009 but the struggle for implementation still rages.

Part of the agreement signed, according to him, were listed as: Funding of Universities, Basic Salary, University Autonomy, Academic Freedom and others.

On funding of universities, the labour leader stated that it was agreed that N1,518,331,545,304.00 would be required by all regular federal universities to reverse the rot in the system between 2009 and 2011.

The money, which was meant to be disbursed as N472 billion in 2009; 497 billion in 2010 and N549 billion in 2011, was not made available by the government.

Debunking the claim that ASUU only believes in embarking on strike, he said strike had become unpopular and destructive to the system.

“ASUU is not a strike monger. That is why we are appealing to the government, Emirs, Obis, Obas and the public to appeal to the government to keep faith with the agreement which was hard earned. There is always a limit. ASUU does not go on strike, rather strikes are always fostered on ASUU,” he added.



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[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=717570.msg8758325#msg8758325 date=1311226527]" The dime stops at Orji" . hehe.

Seriously, no diff between the N and the SE. Like long lost brothers. Cane and Abel. Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Boko and Haram.[/quote]I will ask you again, who did this to you? How did it get to this level?

[quote author=Natasha,, link=topic=715327.msg8756058#msg8756058 date=1311189667]chiefcuddlemii i guess this is your own 2go [/quote]Yeah, this is our own 2go and we are enjoying every bit of it

Cuddlemii:
^^Ok Sorry for the delay. I have prepared boiled yams with scrambled eggs but I removed the yolk for your health. I add fresh pepper, tomatoes, shredded chicken bosom without skin. I prepared pepper sauce by the side as well. It sounds large but I reduced the calories in it. I squeezed fresh orange juice to go with it. You know our rule, 6 tablespoon of vegetables after meal to keep the bulge away. Enjoy!!!

What a delicious meal. You are the best cook ever. I think am gonna set up a restaurant for you so we start exporting Nigerian food, just like chinese and italians do. I really over fed myself and am going to have my nap now.

**African Queen playing at the background**

Little wonder most of our young ladies are out of shape & have big tummies. The men keep buying & these ladies are never tired of eating , lmao

^^^What are you saying?

bashr4:
i hate this woman for accepting that rubbish appointment , it wont take up to a year before they rubbish her name.

You may be right. I see this woman becoming the president of Nigeria(if there is still Nigeria) one day.

^^^Nigerian will be just fine. You really know how to take care of me i must confess and I will get you some sweet Victoria secrets again. In my next world I will still look for you

^^^I ignored him intentionally, some comments are better ignored. When a man wakes up in the morning and start admiring someone's wife even when she is professing her love for her husband you know the world is coming to an end. errrrm sweetie is breakfast ready yet?

A former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Monday said President Goodluck Jonathan won the April presidential election.

Tinubu, who is also the National Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria,however, claimed that some of the results attributed to Jonathan in some parts of the country were exaggerated.

“I believe Jonathan won the election but that the returns attributed to him in some parts of the country obviously appeared exaggerated,” he said in a paper he presented at the Chatham House, London.

In the paper entitled, ‘Democracy and the Rebirth of Opposition in Nigeria,’ the former governor added that “the inflated tally (in favour of the President) detracted from what would have been a well-deserved victory.’’

He noted that due to the unique circumstances of Jonathan’s rise to power, the public saw him as a distinctive figure.

The ACN leader warned that celebrating the election as free and fair might lead to the Independent National Electoral Commission beating its chest, thereby, short-circuiting the process of fundamental electoral reform.

Tinubu, who also took a swipe at the opposition parties, said they did not run coordinated campaigns with a unifying message.

He said the campaigns were not strong enough to effectively match the machinery of the Peoples Democratic Party which emerged victorious at the elections.

The former governor said, “The opposition believed that public disenchantment with the ruling party, the PDP, was enough to get rid of them at the polls.

“In retrospect, we made an important strategic mistake that continued to play out and weaken us throughout the campaigns.’’

Tinubu also admitted that major opposition parties began their serious work too late.

“In the end, the opposition parties danced with each other but did not embrace; our constant dancing however, confused the public and partially doused some of the public’s enthusiasm,’’ he stressed.

He attributed the security challenges in the country, especially the menace of Boko Haram, to high level of poverty, economic and social injustice, and ignorance.

Tinubu noted that the situation was made worse by the political machinations of a group of people dissatisfied with the outcome of the general elections.

He, however, expressed his “full sympathy and support’’for the President in finding solution to the disturbing phenomenon.

Tinubu said Jonathan must succeed in his resolve to tackle the menace, adding that the lingering security challenge could damage the country and the West African region.

Of all the ministers recently appointed by President Goodluck Jonathan to help him with the task of transforming Nigeria, none excites my imagination on the potential to do something to put Nigeria on a sounder footing as Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Finance Minister in Olusegun Obasanjo’s regime between 2003 and 2006.

Okonjo-Iweala, who resigned her appointment as Foreign Affairs minister in controversial circumstances shortly after she was deployed there, when she was removed as head of the regime’s economic management team, returned to the World Bank in 2007. She is leaving that institution again to serve Nigeria as Finance Minister and Coordinating Minister for the Economy. She will finally hand over at the World Bank mid-August and report for duty in Nigeria.

Ordinarily, the agreement of Okonjo-Iweala to return to serve her fatherland as a minister is commendable. For someone with a good job, and the opportunity to live in a sane environment far from Nigeria where kidnapping, armed robbery and failed roads constitute veritable threats to life, her decision to come back to the country is an act of patriotism.

We need to praise this great daughter of Nigeria who has resolved to count on the right side of history for a country that so often humiliates its best, while worshipping those who spend their every minute designing schemes to loot the treasury and further push ordinary Nigerians down the poverty slope.
The antecedents of Okonjo-Iweala are too well known to need much repetition. She was, during her first term, instrumental to getting Nigeria out of the debt trap into which we are again rapidly sinking. She got Nigeria’s $30 billion foreign debt reduced to $12 billion dollars and ensured it was paid. She also ensured publication of financial allocations to states and local governments, thereby promoting transparency and discouraging corruption. She stood firmly against corruption.

This lady’s sterling qualities are well acknowledged internationally. The World Bank president, Robert Zoellick, who described Okonjo-Iweala’s performance at the institution as “stellar” said her desire to serve Nigeria is a “truly big loss for the World Bank but a major gain for Nigeria as it works to craft its economic way forward.” He said she had worked very hard on programmes to assist poor people in developing countries around the globe, and demonstrated strong belief in Africa’s promise.” Her wealth of experience is, therefore, expected to be of great benefit to Nigeria.

Already, during her screening at the Senate, she gave a good account of herself and her commitment to the country. She told the legislators that she is coming back to help promote the welfare of Nigerians and create jobs.

One of the first things she did at that screening was the telling of home truths to Nigerians. And, what better place to do it than before our legislators who are most guilty of getting the nation into expenses it can ill afford. Okonjo-Iweala told us that the nation is spending more money than she should. Nigeria is profligate, living well beyond her income.

The Harvard-trained economist, whose ministerial nomination by President Jonathan was confirmed by the Senate on July 6, left no one in doubt of policies she would pursue when she returns from her World Bank seat in Washington DC in August.

She will be introducing stiff fiscal controls, reduce wasteful expenditure, raise standards against public corruption and balance capital and recurrent expenditure in a way that will promote development of infrastructure. Under her watch, she said, we can also rest assured that the rate at which government borrows to finance budget deficits will reduce. Definitely, Nigeria, this time, will not again fall so easily into the debt trap from which she was instrumental to retrieving the country in 2005. She has promised that the country will “live within its means.”

This, indeed, is good news for Nigerians, but the challenge is how Okonjo-Iweala will achieve this in an environment where both the executive and legislature are neck deep in profligacy.
Already, Okonjo-Iweala has been reported to be getting threat calls from corrupt politicians and businessmen warning her not to return to Nigeria for this assignment. She, however, in an interview, told Financial Times of London, that she could not give up on Nigeria.

Nigerians expect her return to help strengthen economic reforms and address economic and political interests that are opposed to change. She is also expected to reduce the 74 percent of budget currently committed to recurrent expenditure. There are fears that the lady might be isolated in a cabinet that may not be on the same wavelength with her on some of the sensible reforms she would likely introduce. In particular, she is likely to step on some big toes in her bid to try to reduce the high cost of government.

There are, however, many who strongly feel that her coming will be for Nigeria’s good. Among them are the Nigerian Economic Summit Group, the National Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) and the National Association of Small Scale Industries (NASSI), who have all welcomed her appointment.

With the support of all right-thinking Nigerians, Okonjo-Iweala should come back confident that she has the goodwill of majority of her people.
Since she has determined to return, she should strive hard to make her impact felt in areas that she has promised such as job creation, because unemployment has reportedly shot over 20 per cent. She should give much needed support to labour-intensive sectors such as agriculture and manufacturing. As she said, she should work for privatisation of sectors that can create jobs. She should keep the budget in check, and reduce its expansionary trend.

Okonjo-Iweala is coming into office at a time that the nation’s high external reserve of $62 in September 2008 has significantly dwindled, the national economy is based on a single product, power generation hardly surpasses the 3,000 megawatts mark, 20.1 billion excess crude account savings have reportedly been wiped out and legislators are paying to themselves huge salaries that the nation can ill afford, even with the recent reductions. All these call for the new finance minister to be strong and undaunted in her resolve to improve national fortunes.

The challenge before he, therefore, is to remain faithful in her resolve to pull Nigeria’s economy out of the woods. She should be mindful of the thinking in some quarters that she will be an agent of the World Bank sent to push the bank’s bitter pills down Nigerians’ throats. There are fears she will promote structural adjustment, painful belt tightening and removal of fuel subsidy. She will have to find a way to create a balance by pursuing her policies targeted at boosting the economy with a human face.

The challenge for the president in all these is to allow the finance minister to do the job she has given her. Fears have been expressed in many quarters that the president, who appears weak against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) machinery may not be able to fully back Okonjo-Iweala’s reforms. But, she should not get unduly worried before the work gets off the ground. Let her remain faithful to the policies that will lift the people out of poverty, bridge the serious infrastructure deficit and reposition the economy to serve the people better. If she does these, she will have the support of Nigerians and achieve the lofty goals she has set for herself.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan is to meet Governor Kashim Shettima, members of the Borno Elders Forum (BOEF) and politicians from the three main political parties today at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, in a bid to address the insecurity to lives and property in Borno State.

The meeting, according to a statement by the Director of Press Affairs to Shettima, Usman Chiroma, is to discuss the security challenges facing the people of Borno caused by the Boko Haram’s killings and bombings.

Besides, the Federal Government yesterday arraigned at the Federal High Court, Abuja Division, five police officers for allegedly killing the leader of Boko Haram, Malam Mohammed Yusuf and some of his followers on July 30, 2009.

The police officers include Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), John G. Abang, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP,) M. A. Akeera, Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), Mohammed Ahmadu, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Mada Buba and Sergeant Adamu Gado.

The fresh charge from the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice alleged that the five accused persons conspired with one another in 2009 and summarily executed Yusuf shortly after he was handed over to the police by soldiers who had apprehended him.

The offence was said to be contrary to section 516 of the Criminal Code Act Cap C38, Law of the Federation of Nigeria 2004 and but punishable under Section 15 1 and 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Act 2004.

However, all the accused persons pleaded not guilty to the two-count charge.

Justice Donatus Okorowo allowed four of the accused persons to continue enjoying the bail earlier granted them by the Kaduna Division of the court.

The fifth accused person, Sergeant Adamu Gado who appeared for the first time in the murder case, was sent to Kuje Prison where he would stay till July 28 when his bail application would be heard.

But despite the efforts of the government to ensure peace, a fresh bomb explosion by three suspected members of Boko Haram injured two policemen and a soldier in Borno State yesterday.

The blast occurred on a day Governor Ibrahim Geidam of Yobe State and the Catholic Bishop Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) listed some measures the Federal Government could take to ensure security in the northern part of the country.

The three suspected bombers attacked the Military Patrol Vehicle (MPV) in the Bulunkutu ward of Maiduguri metropolis.

The vehicle containing policemen and soldiers was attacked 150 metres away from the venue of last Friday’s blast that injured seven policemen at the Bulunkutu roundabout.

Confirming the attack, the spokesman of the Joint Task Force, Operation Restore Order (JTORO), Col. Victor Ebhaleme, said: “There was an attack this morning at about 7.15 a.m. by suspected Boko Haram bombers in Bulunkutu ward.”

He said that when the patrol vehicle was hit by the detonated bomb, two of the policemen along with one soldier were injured in the arms and legs.

He said all the security personnel were taken to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) for the treatment of sustained injuries.

Ebhaleme said: “Thank God none of the security personnel died in the Tuesday’s blast, but we were able to make arrests of six suspected bombers in various locations of the metropolis. ”

He said that the suspects were assisting the Joint Task Force (JTF) to identify other suspects, including the group’s financiers living in the state.

Geidam spoke yesterday in Damaturu at the Government House while addressing members of the Sheikh Ahmed Lemu sub-panel on the investigation of the post-election violence in Yobe State that claimed 15 lives and destroyed many houses in Potiskum.

He said no number of panels could bring an end to the serial attacks and clashes among the various ethnic and religious groups in the country, until the federal and state governments fully addressed the educational needs of youths.

He noted that if the youths had “functional and effective education” and jobs, they would have no time to engage themselves in the destruction of lives and property in the North.

Responding, chairman of the sub-committee, Muhammad Ibrahim, said that they were in the state to visit all the affected areas in the post-election violence, and assess the level of damage caused to both lives and property.

He said the committee’s visitation was also to make appropriate recommendations to the Federal Government on how to prevent any future ethno-religious and political violence in any part of Nigeria.

The Catholic Bishop Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) said that if the government did not check the violence of Boko Haram, other Nigerians might be forced to fight back.

They made their stand known in a statement in Abuja. The statement was signed by the Deputy Secretary-General, Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN), Rev. Fr. Peter Okonkwo.

While calling on President Goodluck Jonathan to stop treating the Boko Haram issue lightly, the CBCN maintained: “The nefarious action of the Boko Haram sect has got to a peak and if care is not taken, can set the country ablaze. Enough is enough, government should not allow the people to be pushed to the wall to avert violent reprisals.”

The body stated: “Violence, under any guise, is not the exclusive right of any particular group of people and Nigeria as a nation is greater than any religious or political group forbidding anyone from committing crime with impunity without being called to order.”

Also, Monsignor Gabriel Osu, the Director of Communications, Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, yesterday urged the Federal Government to enforce the anti-terrorism laws to ensure a peaceful atmosphere in the country. .

In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, Osu advised the Federal Government to follow the law by prosecuting those already arrested on allegation of carrying out terrorist acts.

He expressed sadness over the slow pace at which court cases were being handled in the country and urged the Federal Government to prosecute the alleged perpetrators of the Jos, Kano and Maiduguri crises.

“The crises in Jos, Kano and Maiduguri, all the people that were caught within the last one year, where are they? They are in thin air.

“The ones who went to court once or twice, they are all outside doing whatever they know best. They are shifting blame on the government, … the people too are faceless,” he said.

Osu advised the Federal Government to enforce discipline where necessary and should not withdraw the military taskforce from the troubled state of Borno.

He noted that there would be anarchy if the soldiers were recalled from Borno State, especially the capital, Maiduguri.



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Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido, has been summoned to appear before federal lawmakers on Thursday over the CBN's controversial policy proposing a daily limit of N150, 000 cash withdrawal from banks with effect from June next year.

Mr Sanusi is scheduled to appear before the House of Representatives following summons issued yesterday as lawmakers debate the contentious guideline months after it was first announced by the CBN.

The new policy pegs daily cash withdrawals from banks at N150, 000 for individuals and N1 million for corporate bodies, in a measure the regulatory bank hopes will create a "cashless economy" to help reduce cash management cost.

The proposal has aroused criticism since becoming public, with leaders of communities in the Niger Delta asking the Federal High Court in Abuja to declare the move unconstitutional.

Mr Sanusi earlier appeared before the Senate Banking committee in May where he was asked to extend the implementation date for the plan and raise the ceiling to N250, 000.

The House of Representatives approved a long-standing resolution on the subject Tuesday, summoning the CBN governor for "more information" before deciding whether to back calls for raised limits, extension of the effective date or outright rejection of the policy.

"We need more information so as to make an informed decision on the issues," said the speaker, Aminu Tambuwal.

Mr Sanusi will also seize the opportunity to speak on the planned non-interest banking (Islamic banking) - a similarly heated subject which the lawmakers took care to mention only as a sub-amendment to the main motion yesterday.

Need for information

At her confirmation for ministerial role, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala had told senators a fortnight ago that while she finds nothing wrong with non-interest banking as planned by the CBN, caution needs to be applied with the cashless economy policy.

Members of the House of Representatives questioned the plan yesterday after rescheduling the resolution for weeks, arguing that the move may negatively affect rural businesses and farmers where there are no commercial banks and Automated Teller Machines (ATM).

"This policy will affect our local farmers and traders who do not have banks in their localities and therefore not practicable during market days," said Aliyu Yakubu, who initiated the motion.

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Hope you dreamt about us?

Cuddlemii:
Babes is he your man too? Are we occupying the same shoes? Cos its obvious I joined on here after u. Anyways gud mornin to u.

Babe I am the only shoe in your closet. Natasha is my paddy

This thread na the real thing. My broda no be bad thing happen at all at all, as e be say you just dey start work, she fit born the pikin then when you don arrange wella una go come do the marriage. Abeg i no wan make you and that gal get any wahala at all, for am to stay with you when you dey waka everywhere dey find work na better person she be. No be every gal go fit do that one ooh. Abeg make you think am well

dammytex:
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As for me, please keep your virginity and be a good wife together with a good mother for our children and we live happily ever after. thank you.
Virgin ko virgin ni.

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Bluetooth and Seante1000(latest ID) should be banned with their IPs cos these guys always trigger any tribal war on NL. Alj_harem and Jason123 are pretenders and am sure they have other screen names they use to perpertuate their tribalism