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If true fash u meshed up.

There's this IGBO spirit that is unique.

That is why we are called IGBO (DEVELOPER, CONTRUCTER & PEACE SETTER

barcanista:
Watch as they sideline Amaechi after the Governorship election. Already, them don de fight for position. Laugh no go finish. As them de fight themselves, we go de hammer them the more. Their problems na double double

True talk bro

Let's be sincere with ourselves. Take a good look at the environment of Buhari.

2. TINUBU will not let his sweat be in vain thinking he can manipulate Northerners like he did in SOUTH WEST.

3.High expectation from President Elect.

4.APC are following PDP footsteps of accepting all in all and all

5.You know. ...

cozy7:
Your clearly a tiny fish, pretending to be a whale. U don't no anything about international politics. Outside Nairaland, your obviously ignorant. I've got an advise for u....SHUT UP, READ N LEARN. THAT'S HOW TO GROW.

My bro I thought you have matured.

For your information social media is not a place to brag

cozy7:
Obama is a world class Hero, who should be celebrated!
He'll not be d President forever, if it's his time to step down, I'm sure he'll do so with pride! WELL DONE SIR!

What makes him a your so World class hero.

Chai inferiority complex.

God bless Nigeria.

Let's the right people be voted in.

We (NIGERIANS) shall move to a greater hight.

TrollMan:
No, Age is not just a number. I can't date a lady that's older than me. I need someone a little bit younger than me, as to her as well. We need to enjoy our sex Life in our youthfulness. That's what I want not someone battling with menopause.

My bro please tell them oh!

It seems the weed you took is more effective than rock

daviyjones:
There is this saying guys/girls don't forget their first love because of the feeling and experience, Because of the naivity most of our relationships with them always end in break-up.
Now that we are mature/experienced can you marry that special someone regardless of your current relationship?
Be sincere your lover is not on nairaland.
Sorry guys no list this time.

Believed me I don't think it right.

Because lack of experience play in and ....

Could this be true.
Ladies come and defend.

Or.....

tobtap:
russians are strong people despite the assault on them by the europe and america...they have stood strong....and they are still the eight highest economy in the world...kudos to them

Not just RUSSIANS alone but NIGERIANS too.

Know more about your COUNTRY bro

Keneking:
Our naira would rise again...
Sai Buhari

It already rising

$1= N207

Exchange Rate for Dollar-Naira, THURSDAY 9nd April 2015

CBN $1 N197.00

OFFICIAL RATE $1 N199.05

BDC $1 N207.00

PARALLEL RATE $1 N208.00

Location Matters For BDC Market & Parallel Market

Know this pressure play a role in the depreciation of Naira value.

Source:http://nairausd..com/2015/04/exchange-rate-for-dollar-naira-thursday_9.html

Dannyset:
This is the only Minister that performed under GEJs govt. And I think he shld be retained. Bad govt is about to truncate his career now. This is why u shld be a team player, always cautioning ur colleagues when they are doing rubbish. Let's hope he get it tho cos dis is how they raised our hope on NOI then on becoming the President of World Bank abi which bank then.

I don't think so because others are also performing.

Be sincere

ugia:
I wish you luck Adesina

Not just you alone but Nigerians too

Keneking:
when him and dieziani are leaving soon

Good work pay bro.

To Dr Adesina go and make us(NIGERIA) proud.

This is strong. Can someone in the house explain this further.

For easy understanding.

Thanke

Wow this encouraging.

Better economy good oh!

ON May 28, the eve of the country’s transition to a new political leadership, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Akinwumi Adesina may emerge the President of African Development Bank (AfDB), going by his current rating among other top candidates for the plum job.


Other candidates jostling to replace Dr. Donald Kaberuka include the President, MED Confederation, Tunisia, Jaloul Ayed; Minister of Finance and Budget, Chad, Kordje Bedoumra; and Minister of Finance and Planning, Cape Verde, Christina Duarte.


Other top contenders are Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Sierra Leone, Samura M. W. Kamara; Former Vice President of Country and Regional Programmes, AfDB, Zimbabwe, Thomas Z. Sakala; and Mali’s Vice President of the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Birama Boubacar Sidibe.

Nigeria’s Chief Bisi Ogunjobi lost out to Kaberuka for the job in 2005.

One of the current vice-presidents of the bank, Dr. Mthuli Ncube had shown interest in the position but the ambition was cut short as his country, South Africa, indicated that it would not nominate a candidate this year.

Already, the candidates have been scheduled to face a panel on April 16 at the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C., to further assess their respective eligibilities for the job.

The candidates are expected to be quizzed on a range of important issues related to the bank’s future, the challenges it faces, and how their leadership would benefit this important institution.

The new AfDB’s boss is expected to emerge at the bank’s yearly general meeting on May 28, at the end of Kaberuka’s two five-year terms.

Regarded as a world class scholar, Adesina holds a PhD degree in Agricultural Economics from Purdue University (USA).

He is currently the Vice President (Policy and Partnerships) for the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), an organization established with support from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, with the goal of bringing a green revolution to Africa, and lifting millions of poor farmers out of poverty and food insecurity.

He has over 20 years of experience in African agriculture, development policy and rural development.

He won the Rockefeller Foundation Social Science Research Fellowship in 1988, which initiated his career in international agricultural development.

He has worked in senior research positions in international agricultural research centres of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research.


The minister joined the Rockefeller Foundation, New York, as a senior scientist for Africa in 1998 and later served as Rockefeller Foundation representative for Southern Africa, based in Harare, Zimbabwe (1999-2003).

Adesina was a lead organiser of the Africa Fertilizer Summit for African heads of state in 2006 and was instrumental in framing the soil health policies adopted there by over 40 African governments, the African Union the New Partnership of African Development (NEPAD), and other leading global development institutions.

In July 2007, he received the YARA Prize for the African Green Revolution in Oslo for his pioneering work with agricultural inputs and agro-dealer networks in Africa.


In 2008, he was honoured with Purdue University’s College of Agriculture Distinguished Agricultural Alumni Award, for his inspiring leadership in spearheading transformative change in African agriculture.

In 2009, Adesina was appointed into the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Advocacy Group that will drive the rapid achievement of the Goals across the globe.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon described him as an “eminent personality’’ who had shown outstanding leadership in promoting the implementation of the MDGs.

Kaberuka is viewed as a very successful president and it is therefore instructive that whoever is elected to succeed him would have to live up to very high expectations.

The bank almost shut down after losing its AAA credit rating in 1995.

Omar Kabbaj became its President that same year and tightened controls to regain the AAA status.

Kaberuka took over in 2005, and the bank made a dramatic turn-around by refocusing on the core needs of its member countries and re-strategizing.

Under his tenure, the AfDB has collaborated and often competed with other multilaterals like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, working hard to make itself relevant to and ahead in Africa’s economic, social and political development.

The bank operates under the leadership of the President, who serves as its legal representative, the Chairmab of the board of directors and the Chief of Staff . The bank invests about $8 billion yearly into Africa’s economy.

Source:http://nairausd..com/2015/04/adesina-on-course-for-afdbs-presidency.html

Youtubeis planning to launch a subscription version of its online video service, for which viewers will pay to remove its advertising.


The Google subsidiary announced its plans in an email to channel owners, while also informing them that if they do not sign up to participate, they will have to set all their videos to “private”.

The news follows the beta launch of YouTube Music Key, a Spotify-style streaming music service that will eventually sell subscriptions, as well as children’s app YouTube Kids.

“We’re excited to build on this momentum by taking another big step in favour of choice: offering fans an ad-free version of YouTube for a monthly fee,” explained the email to creators.

“By creating a new paid offering, we’ll generate a new source of revenue that will supplement your fast-growing advertising revenue.”

YouTube has not announced how much a monthly subscription will cost or a specific launch date, although The Verge claims the price is likely to be around $10 a month, while creators have been given a deadline of 15 June to sign up.

Creators clicking through to the new partner terms discovered that YouTube plans to keep 45% of the revenues for itself, while sharing the other 55% out among channel owners according to their share of viewing by subscribers.

Channel owners who do not want to take part will see their video settings changed to “private” according to YouTube. That’s the stick backing up the carrot of potentially-higher income from subscribers.

Source:http://nairausd..com/2015/04/youtube-reveals-plans-for-monthly.html

For the past two years Snapchat has been making huge job offers to students at Stanford and other top engineering schooL.


This year it's offering seniors and finishing graduate students salaries between $100,000 and $150,000, and $300,000 in stock grants that vest over four years. (That's down from last year, when Snapchat would offer students $400,000 in stock.)

Any Stanford student who accepted one of those 2014 offers is, in all likelihood, already a millionaire on paper. The company's valuation has multiplied since then.

In the fall of 2013, Snapchat turned down an offer to sell to Facebook for $3 billion. Last summer, it raised almost $500 million at a $10 billion valuation.

This year, it raised another $200 million at a $15 billion valuation.

According to several people we spoke with for a story on the life of Stanford seniors in 2015, big publicly traded tech companies like Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn regularly pay new hires out of Stanford a salary of between $100,000 and $150,000.

Those companies will offer stock grants between $100,000 and $200,000. Sometimes there are signing bonuses close to $25,000.

Snapchat isn't offering these kinds of salaries and stock grants to all new hires — just top software engineers from top computer-science programs.

A person familiar with Snapchat's offers says one reason the company has to offer so much more than Google and Facebook is that it is not based in Silicon Valley with the rest of the industry, but way down in Los Angeles.

Also, Snapchat is perceived to be as a riskier place to work.

A Stanford graduate student who turned down an offer from Snapchat for a lighter one from Facebook confirmed that those were the two reasons he took less money.

Source:http://nairausd..com/2015/04/snapchat-is-paying-college-grads-almost.html

Baba God de.

This shows that GEJ is really doing marvellous work.

Obinna Chima

Nigeria’s Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) has shown that activities in the manufacturing sector recorded an increase in February 2015, compared with January 2015.

The PMI survey for February 2015 conducted by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), was carried out between 23rd and 27th February, 2015. It covered a total sample size of 1,372.

According to the report, manufacturing expanded in the month of February as the PMI registered 53 per cent, an increase of 2.8 points from the 50.2 points in the previous month.
This indicated a growth in the manufacturing sector for the second consecutive month.

The report stated that of the 16 manufacturing industries surveyed, 12 reported growth in February in the following order: primary metal; appliances and components; electrical equipment; food, beverage and tobacco products; transportation equipment; fabricated metal products; plastic and rubber products; furniture and related products; textile, apparel, leather and footwear; cement; petroleum and coal products and chemical and pharmaceutical products.

The remaining four industries, according to the survey, reported contraction in the review month in the following order: paper product; printing related support activities; non-metallic mineral products and computer electrical product.

Furthermore, the report revealed that the Production Index registered 57.4 per cent in February 2015, also indicating growth in production for the sixth consecutive month.

“The production index for February increased more than what was obtained in January 2015.
Thirteen industries reported growth in production during the review month. These industries were:
primary metal; electrical equipment; appliances and components; food, beverage & tobacco products; transportation equipment; cement; petroleum & coal products; furniture & related products; textile, apparel, leather and footwear; fabricated metal products, chemical & pharmaceutical products, computer & electronic products and plastic & rubber products.

“The remaining three industries reported contraction in printing & related support activities; non-metallic mineral products and paper product,” it stated.

But, the delivery performance of suppliers to manufacturing organisations declined in February as the Supplier Deliveries Index stood at 43.8 percent, for the first month.

The index indicated a decrease of 7.5 points when compared with the level attained in January.

The four industries that reported faster supplier deliveries were: plastics and rubber product; appliances and components; printing & related support activities and paper products, while non-metallic mineral products reported same supplier’s delivery.

The remaining 11 industries that reported slower supplier’s deliveries were; fabricated metal products; computer & electronic products; primary metal; chemical & pharmaceutical products; transportation equipment; food, beverage & tobacco products; furniture & related products; textile, apparel, leather & footwear; electrical equipment; petroleum & coal products; and cement.

Source:http://nairausd..com/2015/04/survey-shows-expansion-in-manufacturing.html

Tekzyflex:
While in Naija we are celebrating 1000 BC of darkness.....I pity this country. My phone will soon go off.

Fall down toilet,my pool don make mata wost .Bro abegy you take am easy.

Serious what is our leaders doing to give NIGERIAN 24/7h ELECTRICITY.

Please no one should take this as an advantage to spill rubbish.

Thanke

No thing is perfect in this world.Beside who will even emerging this.

A power outage swept the Washington area Tuesday, hitting the White House, the Capitol and the State Department and knocking out electricity for thousands around the US capital.

The White House
Outages stretched from downtown Washington into neighboring Maryland, knocking power out for more than 2,500 people, according to area power companies.

Most outages were brief, but computer systems were downtown offices and access to Metro trains were disrupted.

Washington power provider Pepco said the outage was caused by a dip in voltage as a result of an issue with the transmission line.

“There was never a loss of permanent supply of electricity to customers,” Pepco said.
Electricity was back to normal by mid-afternoon and the company had dispatched teams to look into how it happened.

“Customers should be able to operate their own equipment at this time. There are no current supply problems. We have crews on site investigating the cause.”

Outages were reported at more than 2,100 premises and households in Washington, according to Pepco, and more in Maryland suburbs southeast of the capital

Major government buildings were not spared, including the White House, which lost power briefly.

Back-up generators kicked in promptly to restore lights and computers that were knocked out for several seconds, according to an AFP reporter.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said there was no indication that the outage was as a result of a security breach.

“I do not currently see a nexus to terrorism,” he told reporters.

The State Department went dark in the middle of a press briefing, which continued on for a time in the dark, a spokeswoman reading from her notes with the light from her cellphone.

“The State Department was among the buildings affected today by a power outage,” spokesman Jeff Rathke said.

“The department has continued to carry out its essential functions throughout the outage.”

Lights had returned to the building by mid-afternoon.

Power at Capitol Hill flickered on and off intermittently but was later restored, an official there said.

The Department of Homeland Security ruled out foul play, and said it was “closely monitoring the reports of power outages affecting parts of Washington, DC.”

“At this time, there is no indication that this outage is the result of any malicious activity,” DHS added.
– Portraits in the dark –

Elsewhere, several Smithsonian buildings were evacuated as they went dark, including the Air and Space museum and the American Art museum, which was closed. They later reopened.

The Portrait Gallery was also lights out, posting a photo of a darkened hall on Twitter.

“In case you wanted to see what a museum looks like when there’s a power outage,” the caption read.
Dan Kuntz, visiting from DuBois, Pennsylvania, was winding up his visit to the National Portrait Gallery when the lights went out.

“The power started flickering, and then boom,” he told AFP as he enjoyed a soda on the steps of the National Air and Space Museum, which had also been affected.

Museum staff corralled most visitors into the open-air cafeteria space, said Kuntz, who himself made a bee line to the exit and proceeded to the National Museum of Natural History, which remained open.

Several metro stations lost power and were on emergency lighting, but trains continued to run in the nation’s capital.

Metro police said on Twitter “units responding to assist at all stations affected by power outages. No elevator entrapments reported at any station.”

Power had returned to most metro depots by afternoon.

The hashtag #dcpoweroutage was one of the top trends after the cut, with some users posting photos of darkened subway tunnels and the lights-out State Department briefing.

By later Tuesday afternoon, the regional power company, Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative, said only seven people were without power in the region.

Source:http://nairausd..com/2015/04/major-power-outage-sweeps-washington.html

gists:
Keep up the good work with the true news posts. But many people like myself may be skeptical when we see .com because there are almost countless junk bloggers out there. As you said, good name is far better. Try make your own name like nairaland, ynaija, kingebuka etc (linda ikeji is just an exception). With your own name you command more respect, get more followership which leads to more advert revenue and become immune from goggle unannounced short-down. Just my opinion.

Thanks bro I am honoured.

As for my own blog, remember every thing in life start with a step. It depends on how you see grow.

Visit my blog to confirm it contents.

It unique & more understanding.

gists:
Check how credible the sause source is before you comment. Typically, I don't hold information from many ..com seriously.
In any case, I saw on Channel Discovery a few nights ago that the first skyscraper is about 50% complete. So I guess the project is still on course.

Yes I am a blogger but remember they say GOOD NAME IS FAR BETTER THAN CHEAP FAME AND MONEY.

When you visit my blog or threads you will notice my post are real.

Thanke

GboyegaD:
How many times will they unveil it?

My bro to be sincere I am wondering is it a way of government giving excuse of......

You know the rest.

makzeze:
Dollar will be how much after election?

Please keep yourself up to date.

Follow my BLOG. And be updated.

Thanke.