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The Returning officer for Kogi State, as just pronounced Kogi State Elections Inconclusive,
Due to the fact that the number of cancelled/voided votes is more than the difference of votes between the APC and PDP candidates.

Details Later......

Source: AIT

Mekwen:
Its better to celebrate oneself for saying sense & not just 1st to say.

Make it clearer Pls!

Okada Drop Me Here abeg!!

I don see Free transport to Nairaland Permanent Site



Vivian-gist Tour...

Vivian Gist?

If this Post makes Front-page enh!!

I'll quit....


































This my Damn Phone!

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She is going to return back safely..IJN
In Lasisi's Voice: End-Time Kidnappers

Bibidear:
what year did u finished,i finished 2008

Senior...Senior
2014 set

Bibidear:
hey sup,did u attend FGC ikirun

Yes...

Walkopet:
See them all,.....awon end time Nairalanders.
@Bolded, President awon End timers.

End-time Quote

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.. No be our Fault jare

For FGCIK den...Na Boo for Boo-Land

But its a Bad habit sha ooo...

Aniway..First To Comment Again...

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If you Know since when av been chasing dis FTC of a thing...
Thinking its gonna pop Cash into my Bank account..

Now I know Introvert and LadyF ax bin jobless all this while..

It feels Good sha..Sitting untop y'all..

Congrats to them....

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Should I join the Wailing Wailers?

No..I still trust Baba Buhari..

Its just a matter of time ...

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The World’s second-largest gem-quality diamond has been discovered in Botswana, a Canadian company, Lucara, has said.

Lucara’s Chief Executive Officer, William Lamb, in a statement, said the 1,111-carat diamond was second in size only to the 3,106-carat one unearthed at Cullinan mine in neighbouring South Africa in 1905, was cut into British crown jewels.

The diamond, slightly smaller than a tennis
ball, was recovered by machines in the Karowe
mine in central Botswana.

However, experts said that it was too early to estimate the value of the diamond. “I am truly at a loss for words; we are truly blessed by this amazing asset.

“Our focus, mining the south lobe has been perfectly timed with the commissioning of our recent plant modifications, enabling the recovery of large, high-quality exceptional diamonds,’’ Lamb said.

An expert in the Belgian city of Antwerp, one of the world’s main diamond trading centres, said the diamond was “of exceptional quality.’’ Christopher Gemerchak from the Antwerp Diamond Jewellers Association said that a diamond half that size was sold for 35 million dollars recently.

“The historic significance of the Botswana diamond as the world’s second-largest makes it difficult to evaluate how much buyers might pay for it.

“The value of the diamond also depends on factors such as possible cracks or dark spots, which need to be evaluated,’’ he added.

“Too large to be used as such, the diamond is
likely to be cut into 200-carat, core diamond
and other smaller ones.

“That decision will be taken by the buyer, the
diamond polisher and designer,’’ Gemerchak
said.

Botswana is one of Africa’s top diamond producers, with diamonds making up about 80 per cent of its export income.

Source: thenationonlineng.net/worlds-second-biggest-diamond-discovered-in-botswana/

eagleae7:
End time mtn

End-Time Comment

The commercial court has ordered telecoms
giant MTN Uganda to pay the sum of Shs2.3
billion (about $662,000) in damages to
EzeeMoney Limited for sabotaging its business.

Justice Henry Peter Adonyo on November 6,
2015 also ordered MTN to stop acting in an
unlawful and anti-competitive manner, which
denies other businesses an opportunity to
prosper.

Justice Adonyo said MTN should pay Shs 800
million to EzeeMoney in general damages for loss
of business. It should also pay a penalty of Shs
1.5 billion in punitive damages to deter not only
MTN but also warn other companies against
uncompetitive business tactics, reported NAN/
Reuters in a joint report on Wednesday.

It all started when EzeeMoney, which runs an e-
money business, obtained a contract from MTN
for the provision of digital transmission [E1] and
30 fixed telephone lines to carry out its mobile
money business.
EzeeMoney then contracted Yo! Uganda Limited
(YUL) to implement the service after Uganda
Communications Commission, the regulator,
approved it on December 2012, to use the 7711
short code to enable its customers to subscribe
for e-money services.

But in 2013, MTN cancelled the contract, saying
EzeeMoney was a direct competitor to its mobile
money business. Through AF Mpanga and
company advocates, EzeeMoney went to court,
saying MTN’s action “restricted and distorted
competition”.

EzeeMoney said MTN also damaged its ties with
YUL and deprived it of services of other
telecommunications operators. It argued that
MTN used its exclusivity agreements to stop its
agents from working for any other firm with
similar business, further limiting competition.
In a January 28, 2013 letter to EzeeMoney, MTN
appeared to say its business would be disrupted
if the former was given access to its platform.

“EzeeMoney is in direct competition with MTN in
the provision of mobile money,” read the letter in
part.
Justice Adonyo said the letter confirmed that
MTN was stopping services of the company
because it considered it a competitor.

“It is testified that when YUL required the
defendant (MTN) to activate the plaintiff’s
(EzeeMoney) short code on its platform, the
defendant declined to do so on the basis that the
plaintiff was in direct competition with it,” the
judge observed.

“YUL then seeing that the plaintiff couldn’t carry
out the business they had agreed together, by a
letter dated 7/2/2013, did terminate all services
with the plaintiff as YUL did not want to
jeopardize its relationship with the defendant.”

The judge also found that MTN coerced its agents
to reject EzeeMoney. One witness, Sammy
Mwathi, told the court that he was an MTN
money agent and he was restricted from dealing
with other firms in the same business by signing
exclusivity agreement.

The ruling in Uganda came at a time when MTN
Group has just suffered a $5.2 billion fine in
Nigeria after it failed to disconnect unregistered
lines.

Source:www.thisdaylive.com/articles/more-troubles-for-mtn-as-uganda-fines-telco-622-000/226059/

Cc: lalasticlala

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mazeltov:
lolzz since? U be lautech stdt?

En nah!