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It is possible he graduated several years ago under 30 but hasn't served. NYSC looks at your age as at when you graduated.

pussyeater:
See as the man when dey opposite the girl in blue dey look breast! SMH for NFF

Give respect to whom respect is due. Did you see any "girl" in that picture?

ettaetta:
is polygamy not a sin?

We may need to ask why King Dave and Solo were God's most loved people in bible history if polygamy was a sin.

Businessideas:
God doesn't accept bribe.Osita Chidoka has the notorious legacy of converting a government agency for road safety into a revenue generating agency.I am sure his own investigation by EFCC is loading

Who told you that God doesn't accept bribe? Please prove it.
Nevertheless, I don't understand where bribe comes in here.

Please I can only see two children there oh. Abi you meant to write sons and grandmother?

The scammers are all over Facebook with offers ranging from Recruitment to Auction sales at ridiculous amounts.

Is that not Mercy Johnson's husband?

That is not a good sign at all.

Nothing is impossible but true atheists hardly TRULY converts completely.

Hmmmmnnm

Please what is Ize-Iyamu because Agbaje has been singing that song oh.

So the soup didn't even enter the eyes? Mtcheeeew

Dreyl:
Nope i can't do such a thing, mba.i just want to hear from others, i guess that's the reason of creating this thread.

You have made up your mind that NO is the answer and you still want us to advise you.--------Mature advice at that!

Is it how to advise you on how to say the NO so that it will look like YES?

ziinee:
'That waec result'See ur mouth.You know how many time you sat for waec before u were able to make 3 credits for a predegree.

Nonononono not everybody is like that. Some of us are genius.

Why do you think it is difficult to make WAEC? Is it because of our president?

You forgot to add that they always try to trap guys with pregnancy.

ronald4lif:
How old are you and how old is he? Do you think people consider you beautiful, average or ugly?

So you think any lady will ever accept to be average or ugly?

So why that caption "The worst guy ever" and you still need advice?

You met a guy in less than two months and you want him to change his Facebook status from single to engaged or married......have!!!!! Fear God now!

You met a guy and in less than two months you have already opened your borehole for him to drill. Plus you are always stucking him every 2 or 3 days and you want him to take you serious........Are you APC?

Lalasticlacla and Mynd44 please come and move this to FP. It is important for the new generation to understand what happened.

Oya come and wrestle with me.

talk2alabama:
lol their children don't even go for service... because they school abroad and get jobs there.... so nysc is rubbish to them...

This NYSC is just a total waste of time and money for both the graduates and government respectively. It has no relevance.

SMSguru:
Hi Nlders, my younger brother would be traveling to the U.S. However, he has only WAEC certificate. Is it acceptable in the U.S. for work or further studies?

It is acceptable for studies. As for work, the kind of unskilled job he can get with his level will require a reliable guarantor and not that WAEC result.

Alhaji Liar Mohammed come and see your products ooh

Nawa ooo

skedman:
If you repair your car excluding servicing every month with an average amount of 20,000 please place it for sale

And sell to the enemy that must not progress abi? Please fear God.

IN RETROSPECT: OJUKWU WAS A PROPHET

By Femi Adesina

I tell you, Ojukwu was a prophet, and like most prophets, he had no honour in his own country.
In December 2009, I was at Aburi, while holidaying in Ghana. We Nigerians call it A-b-u-r-i, but the Ghanaians pronounce it as E-b-r-i. For those who have read widely about the civil war that we fought between 1967 and 1970, Aburi is a significant place. This was what I wrote about Aburi, after returning from that journey:
“Aburi. Beautiful, serene Aburi, set daintily atop a hill. It is home to a botanical garden that is 119 years old. But for us in Nigeria, Aburi goes beyond just nature and its preservation. It is the town where General Yakubu Gowon and Odumegwu Ojukwu met, to try and avert the Nigerian Civil War that lasted between 1967 and 1970. They came out with Aburi Accord, which later broke down. And a shooting war started. You could see the Presidential Lodge on a hill, where the Nigerian leaders had parleyed at the behest of Ghanaian leaders. It all ended in futility.”

As one of the key parties to the Aburi Accord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, returns to mother earth today, it is also apposite to return to Aburi, and look at the letter and the spirit of the accord once again, an agreement that was violated by the Federal side, and which made a bloody internecine war inevitable.
For most part of 1966, the northern part of Nigeria, particularly, had been turned to killing fields. Non-natives, especially Igbos, were killed in thousands. Many fled, many others were displaced. There was complete anarchy in the land. The average Igbo looked up to Lt. Col Odumegwu Ojukwu, military governor of the Eastern Region, to provide leadership and direction. He did not fail. He picked the gauntlet and championed the cause of his people.

By January 1967, the drums of war were loud and clear, reverberating across the length and breadth of Nigeria. But there was a last ditch effort to prevent what was imminent. There was a peace meeting hosted at Aburi, in Ghana, by the then Ghanaian head of state, Gen J. A. Ankrah. At the meeting were Gowon, Ojukwu, all the military governors of the regions, and some top civil servants, both from the Federal side and the Eastern region. The meeting held on January 4 and 5, 1967, and came out with what is popularly known today as the Aburi Accord.

The agenda of the meeting consisted of three crucial issues: (i) Reorganization of the Armed Forces (ii) Constitutional agreement (iii) Issues of displaced persons within Nigeria.
“Let every region be semi-autonomous and develop at its own level.” Yes, that was the spirit and letter of Aburi, but which sadly became a road not taken. And is that not why we are still suffering today, living in a rickety and decrepit country that can burst at the seams any moment? The two-day meeting reached consensus that were acceptable to both sides. Among others, it was resolved that legislative and executive authority of the Federal Military Government was to remain in the Supreme Military Council (SMC), to which any decision affecting the whole country shall be referred for determination provided it is possible for a meeting to be held, and the matter requiring determination must be referred to military governors for their comment and concurrence. What does this mean in simple language? The SMC would run the affairs of the country, but not without consulting the regions as represented by the military governors. This was something akin to federalism, even under a military government.

Other terms of the agreement include that appointments to senior ranks in the police, diplomatic and consular services as well as appointment to superscale posts in the federal civil service and the equivalent posts in the statutory corporations must be approved by the SMC. What does this mean again in simple language? Equity, fairness, true federalism.

Other matters like the holding of an ad hoc constitutional conference, fate of soldiers involved in the January 15, 1966 coup, rehabilitation of displaced persons, etc, were also amicably resolved, and the conferees returned happily to Nigeria. Only for the Federal side to deliver a blow to the solar plexus: the Aburi Accord, Gowon said, was unworkable, and he reneged on all the agreements. whether we like it or not, there’s no way we won’t return to Aburi. Willy-nilly. I only hope it will be sooner than later, before Nigeria goes to grief. On Aburi I stand.

Using the Eastern Nigerian Broadcasting Service, Ojukwu played the tape recording of the proceedings at Aburi repeatedly, to educate the populace on who was playing Judas. Later, he made a broadcast in which he said: “we in the East are anxious to see that our differences are resolved by peaceful means and that Nigeria is preserved as a unit, but it is doubtful, and the world must judge whether Lt. Col Gowon’s attitudes and other exhibitions of his insincerity are something which can lead to a return of normalcy and confidence in the country.

“I must warn all Easterners once again to remain vigilant. The East will never be intimidated, nor will she acquiesce to any form of dictation. It is not our intention to play the aggressor. Nonetheless, it is not our intention to be slaughtered in our beds. We are ready to defend our homeland.”

In a piece I did last December, shortly after Ojukwu passed away, I said he was virtually pushed into war by the infidelity of the Federal side to the Aburi Accord. I still stand by that position. Ojukwu was called ‘warlord’ for many decades, but he was by no means a warmonger. He only did what he needed to do for his people–and for the country.

As his earthly remains are interred today, it is tragic that Nigeria is still submerged in the morass that Ojukwu already identified about 45 years ago. Today, bombs go off like firecrackers in the country. There is agitation for the review of the revenue allocation formula. There are strident calls for the convocation of a sovereign national conference. Even some component parts are threatening to pull out of the federation if anything happened to their ‘son’ who is now in power. Didn’t Ojukwu warn of these landmines ahead? Were all these issues not already settled at Aburi? Foremost journalist and media administrator, Akogun Tola Adeniyi, in a recent media interview, explained the Aburi Accord this way: “Let every region be semi-autonomous and develop at its own level.” Yes, that was the spirit and letter of Aburi, but which sadly became a road not taken. And is that not why we are still suffering today, living in a rickety and decrepit country that can burst at the seams any moment? I tell you, Ojukwu was a prophet, and like most prophets, he had no honour in his own country. Pity. But whether we like it or not, there’s no way we won’t return to Aburi. Willy-nilly. I only hope it will be sooner than later, before Nigeria goes to grief. On Aburi I stand.

Federal Government was perfidious and duplicitous on Aburi. It is still the same way today. That is why as Nigerians, we are most times disillusioned, dismayed, dispirited, dejected and depressed. When will change come to this land? Our hearts are getting weary.
Last December, I wrote that Ojukwu should be buried like a hero. I’m glad at the rites of passage so far, culminating in the interment today. Yes, bury him like a true hero. An icon, an avatar, deserves no less. This generation will surely not see another like Ojukwu. He fought not only for his own people, but for a true federation founded on justice, fair play, equity and rectitude. Unfortunately, he did not see the Nigeria of his dreams. Will we? Adieu the Ikemba, the Eze Igbo Gburugburu. May your soul rest in peace. Ka nkpur’obi gi zue ike n’adukwa.

By Femi Adesina
Friday March 02, 2012

(Femi Adesina is a Nigerian journalist and government official, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to Muhammadu Buhari, the President of Nigeria.) ON ABURI HE STOOD

http://www.africannewstoday.com/politics/opinion-ojukwu-was-a-prophet-femi-adesina/

EgunMogaji:
Response embedded in original post.

If you review all my responses, you will never point out any RUDE or DENIGRATING remark while contesting your views or projecting mine.

However, I will want to plead with you to stop quoting my submissions if it's difficult for you to make your points without resorting to insults.

Words/phrases like "your frankly immature submissions", "obtuse data", etc are not ones I can entertain for long.

Thank you.

EgunMogaji:
This is what you said, and it is incorrect and you're misinforming folks.

Admit you're wrong and post a link for folks to go and do their own research. You're simply adding to the fear of stigma that placed op in this predicament.

You are apparently asking me to indicate a link so that people can go and read a report submitted by another human being but it's difficult for you to assimilate my researched submission.

You can quote me anywhere that I said it is easier for a lady to contract the virus from a male carrier than it is for a male to contract it from a female carrier.

In all my experiences, I have seen couples whose husbands were negative but the wife were positive. But I am yet to see a male carrier whose wife is negative.

Talking about heightening the OP's fears, I am still wondering where you got that from my submission----considering that the OP is a male.

Nevertheless, you can educate the house, and I believe they will be grateful, instead of engaging me in a needless argument.

DICKtator:
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You are very silly!!!!

Why did you type the above before me?

Is it because you have light and fast internet connection?

Don't worry, Minister of Darkness , His Honourable Fashola would soon visit your community soon to disconnect your light and the Minister of Communication would soon disconnect your internet!!

When our able president's newly fixed ear starts working fully, I will call to tell him how you have insulted me.

Sunnynwa:
Why are you spreading ignorance?

If you don't know how to make your contributions without being rude, please don't quote me again. Thank you.

fem29:
I'm sorry but I think you guys are being silly. Are you in the process of building a house?.Do you have land?. Do you want to be a tenant forever?. In this harsh economy you are just talking about spend spend spend. Look it is better for you to use your early years to work and build so that you do not struggle when you are old.

Tell ya wifey:- honey any extra monies I have, I am using to build OUR house. If you are already saving towards
That, add the 20k that you were contemplating giving your wife to the funds. Also please cut right down on giving family money and let her know that. Thank God you have a good job but as far as I am concerned you are not yet established till you stop paying rent.

What is difficult in advising the OP without insulting the family (You really think they are SILLY) ?

Just today that Buhari entered Nigeria? What is all these?

RIP to them.