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POTUT:
I disagree with you.
Nigerian leaders are empty-headed while Nigerian citizens are empty-willed.

Now, that's a better distribution of the emptiness.

igbo boy:
nna your rant is senseless, go to school.

All you are doing here is justifying the unjustifiable. like i said in my previous post it is not only muslim going through whatever excuses you are coming up with, be it corruption, poverty, lack of education etc

Ok lets talk about the ego/kudi since u brought up corruption,, who don steal the most from the coffers of naija? No be una for north and the Yorubas (via obj)?

Onyocha:
a disintegrated nigeria would mean a smaller and[b] less powerful[/b] and influential nigeria that can be easily dominated and its wealth would be up for grabs.

igbo boy:
my guy no talk if u no get anything reasonable to add,

muslim go say na education, but are they the only ones that have illiterates? Besides al-zawhari na doctor

muslim go say na poverty, but are they the only ones that have poverty? besides osama was from a rich family so is mutallab

the problem we all know is in the book itself, its in the ideology, its in the teachings, OZUGO

Onyocha:
Nigerians be smart and beware.

the north is full of muslims and it is muslims that these un-islamic boko haram has being targetting and killing.i doubt how someone who claims to be northerner and muslim can kill fellow notherners and fellow muslims.that does not make sense to me.there is something fishy here!

Nigerians be smart enough to realize that boko haram can be the invention of the CIA and the mossad.if you're well informed you will not ask how can americans support and nurture an "islamist" group.the CIA nurtured the "mujahideen" and Bin Laden in afghanistan to fight the soviets.they created bin laden and made him rise to who he was and what he became known for.later when he turned to bite the hand that fed him,his tongue was cut-off in the name of the same terrorism they taught him.

the same americans have given a deadline of 2015 for the disintegration of nigeria as one entity.this is the time nigerians must be wise and read very carefully between the lines.something dirty from the outside is being brewed for Nigeria.the west led by america have plans for nigeria.suddenly a foolish group that started as a movement against western education (a move that islamically does not even make sense since islam teaches its adherents to gain knowledge) is rising to fame as a force to reckon with.you can see that the words of this group is now source of news for western medias.the western media would be used to execute the plan if this group is a CIA invention.

they have a group in the north causing mayhem and panic and they also have ways to make the south ungovernable.i do not see the reason why any northerner would want to make nigeria "ungovernable" by spreading chaos in his own backyard and against his own people.those words are not issued from the balls of boko haram.those words are bigger than boko haram.someone big outside nigeria must be pushing them to say these things with heavy money being put into play.

these are my 2 cents from what ive read so far and observed.i may be right 100% or i maybe wrong 100%.lets be careful.dont jump into conclusions.these are times we should be united and prove the 2015 deadline wrong and dead.otherwise we will suffer for it to execute the plans of the foreigners.our lives and properties and our country will waste if we are not careful and united in these difficult times.

adeibi:
LWKMD,
I no sabi your own type of warri o u no even sharp sef.
U still dey type CV when others are already making direct contact.
U go soon know say warri too dey carry last.

kabukabu50:
How dum.b is this guy^^^^^^


Really?You make a sorry excuse of  a man,

Hello,they are both cheating,doesn't matter who started it, so they both need to open up together, its batbrained dudes like you that believe its ok for men to cheat,but women to stay loyal to their cheating husbands

Fhemmmy:
Will she be allowed to do same to you, if you cheat on her too?

Kobojunkie:
Newsflash, the reason this is forgotten, and then we wait till the next, is because the commander in chief REFUSES to do his job. You may not like it but that is the truth.

In Nigeria, the federal is in charge of/in control of the police. So when security goes to hell, you wonder why the Federal is not doing a good job at securing the people. I know we like to DENY this, especially when we feel partial to one politician or another, but that is the reality of things here. 800 people died in a country where

a) it is KNOWN FACT that elections usually turn DANGEROUS
b) there were signs and information available prior that there would be riots on the streets
c) The responders did not respond with full force from the beginning.

The world knows what the problem is . . . . we know what the problem is . . . denying it will not change that.

Kobojunkie:
I have no idea what the response above means!

Kobojunkie:
WOW . . .  I am against numbers 1 through 4 as I feel all those who get involved in all that nonsense are id-iots seeking relevance online. #5, I will definitely admit to be a major issue --- we tend to FORGET easy-- we sit back to wait for the NEXT HAPPENING to scream again in horror as if we are doing it all for the first time but through #6-7  , are you for real?

Wylout:
@ Kobojunkie::::  You might feel cool about seeing things outside the box but i personally dislike you for reasons beyond words!!!
I've tried to overlook your previous posts on other threads and i've concluded that you have no value for human life.
Watch what you say or write on a public forum!

Just this week alone we have a list of killed and kidnapped.wondering about those whose story we never hear and are silently creeping to their graves.

sayso:
Just my thought,checked all the world news but no information.

EKENEA:
Ryan Giggs branded 'dirty dog' after being accused of eight year affair with brother's wife
Published 23:04 05/06/11 By MirrorFootball


He was already facing shame and humiliation after his secret fling with Big Brother star Imogen Thomas became public knowledge.

But yesterday love-rat Ryan Giggs stood accused of the ultimate act of betrayal - following sensational new claims that he had an eight-year affair with his brother Rhodri’s wife Natasha.

Relatives were last night stunned by the latest seedy allegations surrounding the Manchester United legend – once regarded as one of the most clean-cut characters in football.

Gigg’s disgusted aunt Joanna Wilson stormed: “He’s just a dirty dog.”

Joanna, sister of Ryan and Rhodri’s father Danny Wilson, said: “He has no morals. It was one thing having an affair with Imogen, but this is said to be with his brother’s wife, for God’s sake.” Speaking at her home in Ely, Cardiff, she added: “I could almost understand if it was someone else, another footballer’s wife – then so what? But not with his own sister-in-law.

“And it went on for such a long time. It is horrendous and we are all gutted for Rhodri.”

Joanna, 49, said she also felt sorry for dad-of-two Giggs’ unsuspecting wife Stacey saying: “She should kick his a*** and take him for every single penny he’s got.”

It was also revealed that some family members are now asking whether Ryan, 37, could be the father of his own nephew – Rory and Natasha’s son conceived in the middle of her affair with the multi-millionaire player.

A source close to the couple said: “Rhodri had no idea what was going on and of course there are now questions who the real father is.

“That’s what everyone will be asking. He looks just like Rhodri – but then the two brothers also look very similar.”

Natasha, 28, is now expected to have a DNA test to determine the father.

Even after the birth of his own children, Giggs is said to have continued to see her in secret and reportedly slept with her as recently as April 9.

Natasha, who married Rhodri, 34, last year in Las Vegas, claims she met Ryan in March 2003 in a Manchester nightclub and they slept together next night after arranging to meet up.

It was the same night she also met Ryan’s brother Rhodri, who she began dating later that year.

But she says Ryan continued to pursue her for sex, sending her graphic text messages and even sleeping with her while his wife Stacey was pregnant and shortly after he became a father.

Natasha told a friend how she met the star in hotels in the Manchester area as well as in empty houses and flats that she had access to through her job as an estate agent. One source said last night: “You’d think that Ryan and Natasha would have knocked it on the head when they both had kids – but apparently not.”

Even their closest friends were in the dark over the alleged affair. Michelle Mellor, whose actor husband Will was best man at Rhodri and Natasha’s wedding, says they had “no idea” what was going on.

Yesterday it emerged Natasha only decided to come clean all after confronting Ryan about his relationship with Imogen – an affair he tried to hide behind an ill-fated injunction.

After she challenged him, he is said to have sent her a text saying: “What the f**** u going on about? This has been the worst 2 weeks of my life!!!”

Natasha reportedly told a friend: “His response was completely selfish. But then I’ve discovered that Ryan only ever thinks about out himself. I honestly thought he felt a lot about me and respected me—but clearly he didn’t. Our relationship was just about sex for him.” She says she was deeply hurt when he found out he was having and affair with Imogen, adding: “I know that sounds strange, but he wasn’t just cheating on Stacey – he was cheating on me too.”

Over the weekend Natasha is believed to have confessed all in a note to Rhodri before going into hiding. A family friend said: “Rhodri is devastated – he just can’t get his head round it.

“Natasha just wrote him a letter and disappeared, she didn’t even tell him face to face. Rhodri says she’s ruined his life – everything has changed for him now for the worst.”

According to the friend, Giggs has called Rhodri but is still claiming the alleged affair never happened. The friend said: “Ryan called him but he’s still denying everything at the minute.

“Rhodri is disgusted with him.

“Natasha was at her son’s birthday party on Saturday and then didn’t return with the kids. She’s left the country and it’s Rhodri who’s been left to deal with all the fall-out on his own.”

Natasha told a pal: “It’s important to me that everybody knows about what really happened rather than believing rumours.

“Ryan and I have already had an affair for eight years. It’s a terrible secret I’ve had to keep for too long now. I don’t want it weighing on my conscience any more. I don’t want to have to carry on lying.”

She admitted: “I still have feelings for Ryan which I don’t want, but I’m starting to hate him now too. If he contacted me now I don’t think I would even reply.”

Giggs could not be contacted yesterday and a Man United spokesman said they had no comment.

Celebrity publicist Max Clifford said he was representing Natasha and had been approached by on behalf of Rhodri by one of his friends, too.

Giggs was awarded an OBE in 2007 and named BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2009. In an interview he once said: “My family is the most important thing to me.”

His previous lover Imogen wrote on Twitter yesterday: “I just wanna curl up and die today.”



Read more: http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Imogen-Thomas-sex-cheat-Ryan-Giggs-of-Manchester-United-branded-dirty-dog-after-being-accused-of-eight-year-affair-with-brother-s-wife-Natasha-Giggs-

Ekpoma1:
Are u kidding? Nigerians like deceiving themselves. If u were to be there, u would be dancing 'alata' and 'makossa' 2geda by now. Rubbish. The fact is that u are not there is y u are bashing.

Ekpoma1:
I don't why you people are wasting your time bashin. 2 be sincere, if any of you guyz were 2 be among those legislature, i bet u would be dancing 'alata' by now.

Onlytruth:
Jumbo pay: Lawmakers to earn N338.6 billion

A Daily Sun special report on the irrestible pay package that makes the National Assembly so attractive that politicians are ready to kill for a seat there.

From MODESTUS CHUKWULAKA, JAMES OJO and ISAAC ANUMIHE, Abuja
Friday, June 03, 2011

Those bickering over the jumbo pay of outgoing federal lawmakers may have to wait for the real shocker: The 469 incoming lawmakers will earn N338.6 billion in the next four years, investigations have revealed. For, Daily Sun can authoritatively report, it will cost the country at least three hundred and thirty-eight billion, six hundred and forty-five million eight hundred and forty-five thousand, five hundred and ten naira N338,645,845,510bn in taxpayers’ money to keep the 469 members of the incoming seventh National Assembly in office for the next four years.

The amount which covers salaries and sundry allowances to be earned by the lawmakers does not, however, factor in the deferential pays and other perquisites that go to the principal officers of the two chambers of the federal legislature. It does not also include expenses incurred on duty tours and estacode. It is also silent on the unverifiable lump sums that come from ‘oversight functions’ and ‘lobbying’.

Instructively, however, only a meager N18.245 billion is the actual salary projected to be paid the legislators over the period. The rest of the jumbo pay would come in the form of the quarterly allowances the two chambers of the legislature approved for themselves last year. They christened it, “running cost/quarterly allowance.” The breakdown of the allowance which comes down to N42 million and N45 million for every Rep and Senator respectively would see the members of the Green Chamber earning an additional N168 million every year, a figure that translates to N672 million for the four years such a lawmaker would stay in office.
For the Red Chamber, it comes to N720 million per Senator.

Incidentally, what would reflect on the pay slips of the lawmakers would be the statutory salary which when added together, comes to a not-too-paltry N18.245 billion for the two chambers in four years. Of this amount, N4, 881, 394, 960 will be spent on the 109 Senators while the remaining N13, 364, 450, 550 will be spent on the maintenance of the 360 members of the House of Representatives.

In line with the remuneration package for political, public and judicial office holders approved by the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) from July 2009,  a Senator earns an annual emolument of N8, 206, 920 while a member of the House of Representatives takes home N6, 352, 680 per annum.
The cumulative emolument of a Senator for the four years will, therefore, come to N32, 827, 680. In addition, each of the 109 Senators is expected to pocket another N11, 145, 200 in allowances described by the RMAFC as non-regular, and are collected one off as the case may be, at the beginning of the tenure.

The total annual emoluments comprise the basic salary which is N2, 026, 400 for a Senator and N1,985, 212.50 for a Rep, plus a number of regular allowances for vehicle maintenance and fueling, personal assistant, house maintenance, domestic staff, entertainment, utilities, constituency, newspapers and periodicals.
The non-regular allowances include accommodation (N3, 039, 600 for each Senator); furniture allowance (also N3, 039, 600); and vehicle loan (N5, 066, 000). Besides, each Senator is entitled to an annual leave allowance of N202, 640 or N810, 560 in four years.

In effect therefore, it will take N44, 783, 440 to maintain a Senator in the next four years or N4, 881, 394, 960 to maintain the entire 109 members of the Red Chamber as the Senate is referred to. In the House of Representatives, a member who is entitled to N6,352, 680 in annual emolument will earn N25, 410, 720 in four years, plus non-regular allowances totalling N10, 918, 668.75 as well as four years leave grants of N794, 085.  What this means is that each Rep will earn N37, 123, 473.75 in the next four years.

The non-regular allowances of the members of the House of Representatives include an accommodation allowance of N2, 977, 818.75; a furniture allowance of another N2, 977, 818.75; and a vehicle allowance of N4, 963, 031.25. At the rate of N198, 521.25 per annum, the leave allowances of each member of the House in four years will come to N794, 085. Added together, therefore, a Rep is expected to earn N37, 123, 473.75. In other words, the 360 members of the Green Chamber will take away N13, 364, 450, 550 from the national coffers in the next four years.

Besides, allowances have also been made for the severance gratuity of each lawmaker after a successful tenure. Each Senator and Rep will smile home with 300 per cent of his annual basic salary as severance benefit.
For instance, the Senate President will earn N7, 452, 727.50; his Deputy and other Senators will get N6,927, 500.25 and 6,079, 200 respectively. In the House of Representatives the severance gratuity as approved by the commission include N7, 431, 330 for the Speaker, N6,861,102.75 for the Deputy, and N5,955, 637.50 for the rest of the members.

There is also an annual leave allowance of N202, 640 (which comes to N810, 560 in the four years).
It is usually to this statutory salaries from the Revenue mobilization and allocation commission that the lawmakers readily refer enquiries about their pay package. It is on this ground that the Senators will tell whoever cares to listen that no Senator earns more than one million naira per month, and they are always armed with their pay slips to confirm it. But that usually is not the whole truth.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/june/03/national-03-06-2011-001.html
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i cant just understand why a nation chooses to be so irresponsible!
when i look at these figures rather than get surprised, i only get bored with the billions and millions. it would be better they move up to trillions  
. these are still not the real figures, wait till inflation, low GDP, fluctuating foreign exchanges and interest rate jargon enter the story, then the true figures will emerge. how on earth can allowances not be reflected in pay slips? that means TAX-FREE CASH .
these days, i dont go hating anymore, you just dont realize how much people are invloved in this shi.t until you see that the net is spread wider than the eye can see, an uncle, a brother, a father, a nephew, a wife, the list is endless who depend on the cash rain their son brings home.And when a relative just wins a public office, thats like winning a billion dollar jackpot.  . we shall see when the OIL FINISHES

shilling:
I have to agree with that!