"APC has been bad to you" but APC has never ruled your state at the Guber level. You voted your conscience ma. Your state has only and always have PDP and APGA elected Governors.

fergie001:
During the recently conducted Anambra Guber, a viral video emerged showing women, in particular a woman rejecting moves to sway her at the Anambra election with ₦5000, supposedly to vote for a particular Party.

They were heard saying “we don’t want APC, they’ve been bad to us”.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VBOr4epoYM

Governor Willie Obiano rewarded her with ₦1M today at a special thanksgiving mass to appreciate God for a peaceful, free and fair election.

Governor-Elect Chukwuma Soludo, Deputy-Governor-Elect, Onyedikachukwu Ibezim, and other APGA faithfuls were present.

This was shared via facebook by Adichie Izuchukwu.

Fahdiga:
The worst election rigger the world has ever seen

Have you ever heard of a certain INEC Chairman called Maurice Iwu? 2007 elections that ushered in Yar'adua was one of the worst in the history of this country. You will never find a breakdown of the results of that election anywhere. You should google him.

MikeMicheal:
BLOODY CIVILIANS!
Can't wait to be recruited, I will show you all pepper.

Pikin wey talk say when he grow up, na the head of duck him go dey chop no know say, the head of duck no go allow am grow up.
(Literal translation of a Yoruba proverb)

All Police pension funds is maintained by Police PFA. He probably came across old documents when the funds were still with other PFAs. Stanbic IBTC Pension will still refer him to Police Pension.

UDUJ:


The father's PFA is Stanbic IBTC Pensions. The dude said it earlier.

So sorry about your loss.

The Nigeria Police Force has its own PFA. It is a closed PFA for only Police Officers. The expectation is that the Police Command should have contacted his next of kin about the process for accessing his pension funds. Do you know if you or your mum is the next of kin?

Check the Police PFA contact their details at http://www.npfpensions.com.ng/ and contact them. They should be able to help you.

All the best.

Truthagent:
Good evening great people of nairaland, I decided to table this issue here because I believe someone here must have an experience with this kind of situation.

I lost my dad recently, he is police man and he was in service for a long time . Just few years remaining until retirement, my dad was the kind of person that doesn't disclose much about his place of work, even to my mom. I was going through his phone today when I saw the RSA messages, I don't know anything about it. I am already making enquiries from other people, but any help from here will be much appreciated. The bank is stabic ibtc

I think it's unfair to think Ajimobi wasn't rich enough to acquire this property. You even said he's not an investor or a businessman. Do you know him personally to say that?

Ajimobi was an MD/CEO of a major oil and gas company in Nigeria at the peak of his career. I'm not talking about this kwe kwe oil companies out there. He was MD of a MAJOR oil and gas company. Google it to confirm.

Since leaving his position as MD, as he being playing around and not managing his wealth?
I'm not here to defend him, just to set the records straight.

Our political bias shouldn't becloud our sense of reasoning. This info is out there too. It wasn't manufactured. You can Google it.

fairfora:
When Governor Makinde took office, he was said to have discovered massive fraud perpetrated by his predecessor's government and called for an in-depth investigation. One of the Late Ajimobi's assets under investigation is the Agodi 's Mansion. Here's the video of the Mansion( below).

I wonder what the man still wanted at 70. Our politicians are super greedy. Awaye malo kan ko si...which literally means everyone born of man must die, wondering why they still keep amassing so much even at old age as if they would live forever. This man wasn't an investor, neither was he a businessman. The money used belongs to the Oyo People. This was one of the reasons the party's supporters never liked what makinde is doing to their man.



https://mobile.twitter.com/SaharaReporters/status/1277736517818093569

femi4:
Look at this fool, how many people driving in Nigeria can afford driving license?

You are judging from the cost of the car, you don't want to know how some people eventually became a car owner

Comprehensive insurance in Nigeria is a scam.

Sense and reasoning is seriously misplaced on Nairaland! Too many idiots here . . . SMH!
You can afford millions to buy a car but cant afford few thousands to do insurance? As little as N5,000.00! But you can carry same car to a club/bar and pop bottles to the tune of N50K. And then you drunkenly damage someone's fence and complain the money for insurance is much. You and stupidity are not only neighbours but bedmates. Infact, stupidity is screwing you in the arse.

femi4:
That insurance is not cheap to do

And it cheaper to pay the entire cost of fixing the fence?
Bros, you don't need to exhibit your stupidity in public all in the name of writing comment.

It costs, at most, 5% to do a comprehensive insurance. If the car cost N2million, the man would pay N100K as premium.

Take a closer look at that fence and the damaged car, the fence alone will gulp 100K wile the car, if not written off due to damaged engine, would gulp at least double of that (i.e. 200K). If he had insurance, he wouldn't worry about any payment as the insurance company would bare the expenses for the fence and the car (safe whatever excess is negotiated).

Did you know?

If the man had third party insurance, his insurance company would have borne the cost of erecting the fence. If he had comprehensive insurance, his car would also be fixed in addition to erecting the fence.

Oga,
what you saw is someone trying to exploit the programme. The true programme does not require filling of form. Registration is done via an app designed by purpose. The agents are in markets registering people. The only conditions attached are:
1. Being a petty trader.
2. Owning a bank account with BVN. This is used to validate the name supplied with the account number.

bedspread:
I saw the form given out to the people to fill before having access to the form..

PVC number is a requirement!!

You can DECIEVE yourself
Not GOD

Naija needs more of these. The rate of traffic violation is high amongst even those saddled with upholding the law.

Culled from the Punch newspaper
http://punchng.com/army-officers-stop-white-man-policeman-from-breaking-traffic-law/amp/

A Twitter user, Tracy Sylvester has narrated how a some Nigeria Army personnel stopped a white man, aided by policeman from breaking traffic law.

On her Twitter handle, Sylvester, @tracysyl said, the incident happened at Egbeda area of Lagos on Sunday,”I was at a particular bus stop just before Egbeda, there was mad traffic on one side of the road and the other side was pretty free. Apparently, the person in a black Mercedes GL class couldn’t take it anymore.

So, as soon as they got to a road cut, a policeman came down from the passenger’s side of the Mercedes, stopped some cars and they diverted to the free road.”

Their attempt to take one-way met with some resistance, as “it wasn’t up to 10 seconds they did that, the Mercedes got blocked by a black Lexus.”

Na wa o!!!

If you reside in an estate or an organized community, you will easily relate with the topic. I used to wonder what the "heck" people gain from active participation in these associations. Beyond the need to develop the estate or community and present a common front to the government for agitations, there is more to it than meet the eye.

Some of these associations are reputed to have millions in their bank accounts. From the ones in the suburbs of Agege, Alimosho, Mosalasi etc to others in the high-brow areas like Dolphin, VGC, Oniru etc, the situation is the same. Seemingly gentlemen and ladies battle for leadership of these associations just to be in control of the resources residing in the bank accounts. Asides the resources, the leadership of these associations have access to the government of the day, and a lot of them utilize the opportunity to corner juicy contracts for themselves.

I stumbled on the registration letter of the Chairman of of the communities in the outskirts of Lagos. The Chairman had been accused of several things including having an affair with a married female resident. This is by the way. Whatever a man decides to do with his life is his problem as long as it is by mutual consent. So, the Chairman resigned amidst the controversies.

Will his resignation letter be accepted by his community? Time will tell. Next Saturday is the when the association meets. this is when the fate of the Chairman will be decided.

PStacks:
Monkey dey work baboon dey chop kind'a work.

they once helped me get a job with Stanbic IBTC ilupeju as a call center consultant (contract staff).

u wont believe not once but every month d bank pays them 120k to pay me since the bank didnt engage me directly and i was outsourced to the bank from workforce. You wont believe they remove 50k to pay me 70k every month.

If it were one off, it would'a been okay... but every month tufiakwa.. they outrightly turn u to a wage slave

I said what nonsense and honourably left the job. Why should I be a contract staff in my own country, then I remembered there are no labour laws in naija.

Did you ever ask them what they did with the remaining 50K?

Did you know out of the 50K, they pay your:
1. Tax (PAYE) to the State Government
2. Health Insurance to HMO
3. Overheads for the individuals that support you within the business.

All these are paid monthly, by the way!

Rest in peace Billy Graham.

Source; https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/21/us/billy-graham-obit/index.html

(CNN)Evangelist Billy Graham -- a confidant to presidents, a guiding light to generations of American evangelicals and a globe-trotting preacher who converted millions to Christianity -- died Wednesday at the age of 99, his spokesman confirmed to CNN.

Graham passed away at his home in Montreat, North Carolina, spokesman Jeremy Blume said.
The skinny preacher with the booming voice evangelized to nearly 215 million people over six decades and prayed with every US president since Harry Truman.

Several presidents, including Lyndon Johnson, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, relied closely on his spiritual counsel.
He was tall and handsome, with a disarming aw-shucks demeanor and a Southern twang to his voice. But Graham's influence, historians say, was monumental. Some called him "America's pastor," others referred to him as the "Protestant pope."

Graham is reported to have persuaded more than 3 million people to commit their lives to Christianity and his preaching was heard in 185 of the world's 195 countries, according to the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.

"He was probably the dominant religious leader of his era; no more than one or two popes, perhaps one or two other people, could come close to what he achieved," said William Martin, a former historian at Rice University and the author of "A Prophet with Honor: The Billy Graham Story."

The creation of a ministry
Graham built his ministry by bringing the gospel message of tent-revival preachers into the modern media age, using any tool at his disposal -- from telegrams to telephones to satellites and the Internet -- to "win souls for Christ."

In doing so, Graham formed a bridge between the itinerant preachers like Dwight Moody and Billy Sunday who once crisscrossed the country in search of lost souls and contemporary Christian pastors like Joel Osteen, Rick Warren and T.D. Jakes.

"He saw himself as using new media to deliver a very old message," said Randall Balmer, an expert on American religious history at Dartmouth College.

That message, as Graham said during thousands of altar calls, was that salvation is offered to one and all, black and white, rich and poor, men and women, sinners and saints, so long as they believed in Jesus.

Crusades and cathedrals
Avoiding the types of public scandals that befell other prominent preachers was key to Graham's long-running success, said Martin.
In 1948, at the beginning of his rise to fame, Graham and his tight circle of traveling evangelists gathered in California and catalogued the sins that had destroyed the careers of other Christian preachers. Money, sexual temptation and hubris topped the list.

Their pledge to avoid all three came to be known as the "Modesto Manifesto" and was later adopted by other ministers looking to avoid public disgrace.

In return for his scandal-free life, Americans regularly put Graham at the top of "most-admired" people polls. In 2013, he tied for fourth among most-admired men with former President Bill Clinton. It was his record-setting 57th appearance in the top 10, according to Gallup.
"In my favorite poll, I believe it was the Ladies' Home Journal, he was chosen second only to God in achievements in religion," Martin said.
Missionary work

Graham began his missionary work in 1944 by speaking at rallies for the Youth for Christ Campus Life ministry.
Five years later, he branched out on his own, holding a tent crusade in downtown Los Angeles. Originally scheduled for three weeks, the crusade drew such large crowds that it was extended to seven; a radio disc jockey, a small-time mobster and an Olympic athlete were among those who accepted his altar call under the "Canvas Cathedral."

The next year, Graham founded the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
The crusades, which soon became the signature feature of his global ministry, frequently blended well-known hymns, preaching and patriotic displays.

"His sermons contained just the right mix of patriotism and reproof," said Molly Worthen, a religious historian at the University of North Carolina. "He urged Americans to stand strong against 'godless communism' but also criticized American hubris."

Graham told an audience in Charlotte in 1958 that, "We have an idea that we Americans are God's chosen people, that God loves us more than any other people, and that we are God's blessed. I tell you that God doesn't love us any more than he does the Russians."
Graham's crusades mobilized hundreds of volunteers not just from his own evangelical movement but also from liberal Protestant congregations and Catholic parishes.

His inclusive message -- he said that theological differences were less important than Christian comity -- angered some fundamentalists, who fulminated when he shared the stage with Catholic or liberal Protestant ministers.

The traveling messenger
Graham was seldom still, holding crusades in more than 80 countries, according to Martin, often for weeks and months at a time. He missed the birth of his first daughter, Virginia, because he was away on a preaching trip, the biographer said. At other times, he failed to recognize his own children because he had been away from home so long.

Graham led a 12-week crusade in London in 1954 and a 16-week revival in New York in 1957, which drew tens of thousands to Madison Square Garden.

At the time, Graham praised New York's religious diversity, saying, "Almost every religion you can think of in the whole world is represented." His "last crusade" in June 2005 in Queens, New York, drew a total of 230,000 people.

In addition to his traveling crusades, Graham hosted a weekly Sunday radio program called "The Hour of Decision" and wrote an advice column, "My Answer," that was distributed by Tribune Media Services. In 1956, he founded the magazine Christianity Today, a leading publication among evangelicals.

Presidents and critics
William Franklin Graham Jr. was born November 7, 1918, and raised on a dairy farm near Charlotte, North Carolina. He said he made a personal commitment to God in 1934 after hearing an evangelist preach in the Southern city.

He graduated in 1940 from the Florida Bible Institute, now Trinity College, with a bachelor's degree in theology. Graham was ordained that year by a Southern Baptist church in Florida. A few years later, he took over a Chicago radio program, "Songs in the Night."

While in Florida, Graham met relatives of V. Raymond Edman, president of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. After they told Edman how impressed they were with Graham's preaching ability, Edman arranged for him to attend Wheaton.
Graham graduated in 1943 with a bachelor's degree in anthropology.

At Wheaton, he met fellow student Ruth Bell, his future wife. She was the daughter of the Southern Presbyterian missionary and surgeon L. Nelson Bell, and Ruth had spent her childhood in China and Korea.

The couple married in 1943 and moved to Montreat, North Carolina, two years later. They had five children: Virginia Leftwich, Anne Morrow, Ruth Bell, William Franklin III and Nelson Edman.

Graham was said to have enjoyed the recognition that came with providing counsel to several U.S. presidents, and he also became a de facto chaplain to Washington's elite.

Graham urged Dwight Eisenhower to run for president in 1952 and served as an unofficial adviser to the former general after he was elected. He also became close friends with President Lyndon Johnson and preached at the former president's funeral. President George W. Bush credits Graham with helping him change from a lukewarm Christian with a fondness for beer to a serious and committed evangelical.

Critics accused Graham of becoming too involved with politics.

His association with President Richard Nixon led to embarrassment in March 2002, when tapes of private conversations between Nixon and Graham revealed the evangelist joining the president in making anti-Semitic remarks. Graham apologized.

"After Watergate, Graham understood that he had been used to support Nixon and his policies when the White House was more interested in his support than his love," said Martin, the biographer.

Some critics also charge that Graham was not active enough during the civil rights movement.
But during at least two crusades in the early 1950s in Tennessee and Mississippi, Graham literally removed the racial barrier -- taking down the ropes that separated blacks and whites -- according to Martin and Cliff Barrows, Graham's longtime music and program director for the Evangelistic Association.

"Billy himself went and took the rope down and said, 'We don't have segregated meetings, whatever their reason for segregating them. They can sit wherever they want to.' And he took a stand for his belief that every man is equal before Christ and the gospel was for everyone."
At his Madison Square Garden crusade, Graham asked the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to deliver a prayer. Although Graham preached that racial segregation was unbiblical, he was criticized by some civil rights leaders for not being more involved in the movement.

A week after the deadly bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963, Graham told fellow evangelicals: "We should have been leading the way to racial justice but we failed. Let's confess it, let's admit it, and let's do something about it."
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Among the honors bestowed on Graham were the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, in 1983; the Congressional Gold Medal in 1996; and an honorary knighthood from Britain for his contribution to civic and religious life.
Former Presidents Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter were on hand for the dedication of the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte in June 2007.

In addition, the Billy Graham Center on the campus of Wheaton College has an archive, museum and library dedicated to the study of evangelism, as well as an Institute of Evangelism and other efforts aimed at promoting evangelistic work throughout the world.
The love of his life

In 2005, Graham opened up to CNN about his wife, Ruth. "I don't think I could have ever married anybody that would have been more helpful to my work and ministry than she has been," he told Larry King.
She died in 2007 at the couple's home in Montreat.

"Ruth was my life partner, and we were called by God as a team," Graham said in her obituary. "No one else could have borne the load that she carried."

Ruth Graham was buried at the foot of a cross-shaped walkway in the Prayer Garden on the grounds of the Billy Graham Library. The couple had agreed that they would be buried side by side.

Asked what he'd like people to say about him when he died, Graham said, "I want to hear one person say something nice about me and that's the Lord, when I face him. I want him to say to me, 'Well done, thou good and faithful servant.'"

Britain's Prince Harry and American actor Meghan Markle are engaged, according to a statement from Kensington Palace. The wedding will take place in spring 2018.

"Prince Harry has informed Her Majesty The Queen and other close members of his family. Prince Harry has also sought and received the blessing of Ms. Markle's parents," the royal household announced in a statement on Twitter.
The pair became engaged earlier this month and will live at Nottingham Cottage at Kensington Palace, the statement continued.

More details about the wedding will be released in due course but they will make an official engagement appearance on Monday afternoon before taking part in a broadcast interview which will air in the evening.

The palace also released a statement on behalf of Markle's parents, Thomas Markle and Doria Ragland.
"We are incredibly happy for Meghan and Harry. Our daughter has always been a kind and loving person. To see her union with Harry, who shares the same qualities, is a source of great joy for us as parents.
"We wish them a lifetime of happiness and are very excited for their future together," the statement ended.

Harry's brother, William and his wife, Catherine, who also reside at Kensington Palace, shared their joy at the impending union on Monday.
"We are very excited for Harry and Meghan. It has been wonderful getting to know Meghan and to see how happy she and Harry are together," they said in a statement.
Monday's announcement ends persistent speculation over when the 33-year-old prince -- who is now fifth in line to the British throne -- would propose to the actor.

Harry and his fiancée made their public appearance at this year's Invictus Games.
The pair were introduced in July 2016 by mutual friends in London, Markle confirmed in September. Markle is best known for her role on US hit show, Suits as well as her philanthropic work.
The 36-year-old LA native spoke of her royal relationship for the first time earlier this year telling Vanity Fair: "We're two people who are really happy and in love."

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/27/europe/prince-harry-meghan-markle/index.html

Congrats George Bush Sr.


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Former President George H.W. Bush is now the longest-living president in U.S. history at the age of 93 years and 166 days.
Bush on Saturday surpassed the previous record held by Gerald Ford, who lived to be 93 years and 165 days old before he died in December 2006.

Jimmy Carter, the second-oldest living president, is 111 days behind Bush and 165 days behind Ronald Reagan, who currently holds the third spot for longest-living president at 93 years and 120 days.

The milestone was pointed out on Twitter by Gabe Fleisher, author of the "Wake up to Politics" newsletter.

Bush has faced several health scares in recent months, including two hospitalizations for chronic pneumonia and one for bronchitis.
Last month, he joined the nation's four other living former presidents for a hurricane relief concert in Texas after parts of the state were devastated by Hurricane Harvey. During the ceremony, he was honored by his son, former President George W. Bush.
Later in October, Bush was forced to apologize after several women came forward to allege that he inappropriately touched them during photo opportunities.

In the statement released through a spokesman, the former president acknowledged that he "patted women's rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner."

"To anyone he has offended, President Bush apologizes most sincerely," Bush spokesman Jim McGrath said.
Bush was elected to the nation's highest office in 1989 after spending two terms as vice president under Reagan. He was defeated in the 1993 presidential election by Bill Clinton.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bush-41-becomes-longest-living-president-in-us-history/ar-BBFCAnr?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp

It is actually possible to have an embassy in a country and process your visa through another embassy.

Visa processing is cost intensive. It requires staff and equipment. It's a way of saving cost that some countries employ. In fact, it's common with Schengen countries. Some Schengen countries who have embassies in Nigeria still process their visa through the common and popular countries.

Hope this helps to clarify.

mansakhalifa:
IRAN! C'mon,man,Iran has a functioning embassy in Nigeria. Abuja to be precise. So why would you need to head off to the Pak Embassy to get an Iranian Visa? What do you mean by "if you are able to secure an Iranian Visa through the Pakistani Embassy"? I don't understand. Please elucidate.

Oloju Kokoro.....

The blueprint for this project was done by a Multinational Consulting firm I worked for. This was done between 2005 and 2007 during the tenure of Engr Funsho Kupolokun. The submissions then have been gathering dust in the archives on NNPC.

There was no political will to implement the project then. This project could have been commissioned years ago and the benefits derived multifold.

In fact, the biofuel project can also use sugarcane as feedstock.

walearoy:
Filling or Fueling? ayam not understanding

How will you understand?

Papiikush:
In Nigeria, there are no benefits to third party insurances. Your money has been embezzled by "Baba alayes"

Where do you do your insurance?
With Agberos?

Superiority of argument!!!

Who are you?

What mandate do you have?

What is the source of your mandate?

Who gave you the mandate?

Answer these questions, and then you have a platform to talk.

Else, you are just another rabble-rouser.

I'm surprised you are not behind bars yet.

She is 24 years old.
She acted her first movie in 2011. 6 years ago. She was driving a friend's car at 18 years old.
This girl is a born liar.
She is like 32 years, at least.

lumydee44:
No guardrail to prevent the car from going over? We can avoid so many disasters. It's like we like to live on the edge, play with fire like building a shop under a powerline, some even go as far as using the rigging as pillar.

Of course, there was guardrail. You will be surprised to learn what our people did to the guardrail.
The guardrail is usually stolen and melted to make spoons and all sorts.

That is Naija for you!

AlamienDagash:

Study hard, learn from others you will make it one day.

Day of joy, it was, the day I met you my one and only

Oga, you overspeed when you drive above the official speed limit of the road you're plying.

If the speed limit is 100km/hr, overspending starts at about 105km/hr. There's a 5% margin.

There's also underspeeding. A friend of mine, in the US, was stopped by the Police for driving at 45miles/hr in a 60miles/hr highway.

engrrichie92:
When people say "overspeeding is dangerous"..what exactly are they referring to?
The max have done so far is 100km/h(and i dont even stay on that for long before i press my brake jejely) and yea.you can call me a novice, im like 3 -4 months old in driving

But then i really wanna know..while im thinking the max that should be done on a free highway is 100km/h..some "expert drivers" made mockery of me saying 100km/h is too slow especially when the road is really free

So guys..From what speed on the speedometer is considered overspeeding?..because if you ask me a 3month old driver, anything on the other side of the speedometer is a no no for me(max 100km/h)

Cutehector:
Ike gwuru..




There will be a time when attempting suicide will be a crime..

A crime punishable with death penalty.

This handle funny die.