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Moyola:
Whatz d criteria here?

maedan:
Legends, hmm. Just what is the definition of this your legend? Is the criteria the number of posts, date of registration, or the impact and love/respect they have gained from fellow members?? I see one or two names that are deserving of some kind of recognition, but I honestly think the forum is still too young to have created/developed any "legends".

Hybrid of many factors.
Not necessarily having all these qualities but most of them combine two or more of these qualities:
-Consistency: MrCrackles etc
-Popularity: Davidylan etc
-Love and respect: Windywendy etc
-Unique personality: Becomrich
-Quality of contribution: Ibime, Loma, Biina etc

I agree with Maedan that it may be too early to tag anybody legend, but then we can still celebrate those that have their marks on this forum, especially given the fact that online foruming itself is still young in Nigeria and NL appears to be the most successful.

[quote author=tpia. link=topic=413742.msg5762141#msg5762141 date=1269480525]@ OP

do you mind removing my name from this and all future lists?

thank you.[/quote]Request granted.

This Lagerback seems to be toeing the path of Westerhof. The era of one big man or NFF forcing coach to use some players seems to be ending. If he's allowed to do his job, I think he has a lot in store for Nigerian football.

SimilaBrazil and Lesleen.

If Messi doesn't click, it's 50-50.
But if Messi clicks, Arsenal is gone.
The good news for Arsenal is Messi hardly clicks in very big games. And the bad news: He's in superb form at the moment. 8 goals in last three games.

Trying to research on both but couldn't get anything. Are you sure their IDs were spelt correctly

PS: Stumbled into something very interesting while researching past threads now. It was a 2007 thread and I can't believe the best of enemies can become the best of friends today.

Egbon Musiwa, Olohun o fun yin l'alafia o

-Obafemi
-Yak

Others are not rateable

busoye19:
Sokoto State pays #4,000 per month.

Deja vu

[quote author=Becomrich/ link=topic=418471.msg5754891#msg5754891 date=1269404254]are you driving taxi naija mini. how many of them do they kill in the USA. What is life, if you have none. I return back to naija. No country can use any law to hold me down. I leave that country and go where they treat me better.

Look after living abroad. I have learn to live. What african take from their leaders, I cant, the way they said imo state government treated one person online. To God who made me. Noman born of a man can do that to me. Not even a government. Even in Nigeria, I have friend in the army , if that happen to me, that would overthrow the government onmy behalf. You dont know anything. It shows Chief Bode George does not have friends.[/quote]becomrichh, aahhh, if dem sack me


yee, ROTFLMAO

While rushing to work yesterday I forgot my phone at home. So I was without phone all day, from 5.30 am to 10 pm, more than 16 hours. I saw 57 missed calls on my phone when I got back home. It almost generated an issue for me though as one of our consultants who was trying to reach me on my mobile phone sent a mail to one of the big bosses in the company that they needed to get something important from me and they had made fruitless efforts to contact me.

For my personal life, I think I can stay without phone for a week but to avoid my loved ones(parents etc) being apprehensive, I will have to be calling with another phone. But for my job, it will be a little difficult.

muhsin:
Assalam alaikum, brothers and sisters

Let me first of all begin by welcoming our honourable sister back to the house. You are warmly welcome back, Mukinat. I kinda fathom from your tone that something actually went wrong. But as the saying goes: all is well that ends well. May Allah, the Exalted, protect and prevent us, amin.

That aside, sincerely speaking something is wrong with this board these days. You (plural) might have noticed that as we barely see members contribute as they used to. I, in particular, got no problem with the site that could deter me to be as active as I used to; it’s something different, actually. I'm doing my best to get rid of that hindrance and come back as lively, kicking and active as ever. May Allah help me get through with that, amin.

But we really lack the true brotherhood and sisterhood we should have among ourselves. How? For example, the likes of Abuzola, Sir Olabowale, littleb, babs, etc no longer come aboard. And surprisingly enough nobody (or a few?) cares to ask of them, let alone looking for ways to invite them back, help them with the problem they face, pray for Allah to ease their tasks (if that’s what dissuade them from appearing). While our Christian brethren always ask of their folks. . .

The story goes along that line. . .

We really get to do something, please. I can't help feeling their absence. I can't, more-over, feel edgy or something very similar--thinking sth. happened/happening to them. Please Mod and Super-Mod respond to my request. Or anyone with any knowledge of those guys whereabouts. Thanks

Wa alaikum salam.
Thanks for your concern.
It's a pity and my sincere apologies that it took long long that before I also noticed. I was doing a research on NL a couple of hours ago and I realized teh alst time Abuzola came here was in February. The first thing that came to my mind was that I will call Muhsin and ask for Abuzola's no again as I had lost it with my former phone. Unfortunately, I forgot to bring my phone to office today, so I would have called Muhsin earlier. Anyways, I will give you a call, Muhsin, insha Allah to collect Abuzola's number again and speak with him.

I put a call through to Mukina too when she was away sometime ago, and she explained why she was off-NL at the period.
I don't have Alhaji Olabs' no but I have his email addy, but I must admit I didn't notice he has not been around.
Babs has been on and off in the last one year, so it's not unusual not to hear from him for some time, but the best, of course, is to ask after him even if he's away for just five days.

In any case, I admit we are not doing enough. May Allah strenghten us more.

I like Debosky's 'The man who invented grammar'. Beams assertiveness and confidence.

davidylan:
happy birthday to my numero uno enemy on NL!

Best wishes.

Reminds me of the name he gave you on NL: Dauda Nackson

mikeansy:
Okey Ndibe

Thanks.
Okey Ndibe is one of the few Nigerian writers I still respect.

Who wrote this?

superior1:
Room 101,

KiriKiri Maximum Prison,

Olodi Apapa,

Lagos

Dear Bode,

Do not be surprised that I am writing this letter to you in your fist name. The last letter I wrote to you was when you were the Chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority, and I addressed you as Chief, Commodore, Sir, All in All Olabode George. At that time I needed your help to help 'release' my goods somewhere. But now times have changed. You have lost the respect.

Bode, am not surprised at your present predicament. You and I know you are a thief, but we both have been praying one day you will repent of your 'thiefing' ways. You and I know your stealing did not start at the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA). No. It has history. It started when you were at Ijebu-Ode Grammar School, 1960 -1964. You were stealing from other students, but everybody thought, by the time you were matured enough you will outgrow it. No. You were stealing gari, sugar, kuli kuli etc. On so many occasions you were reported to your seniors but they couldn’t do anything as you always share the gari and kuli kuli with them.

You managed your way through the Royal Naval Engineering College without any suspension or expulsion. You were commissioned. And in your first posting, as Director of Weapons at the Naval Headquarters in 1987 you were adding a few extra naira and kobo to every contract/tender than graced your table. You went to the prestigeious Command and Staff College in Jaji and you cheated during examination and you are caught but used your high powered connection to excape the henious crime. You were not confident at all, then. Once you put the extra naira and kobo on contract and commit your various crime, I remember you always go back home praying hard so you won’t be detected. You were never caught. So gradually your confidence rose. And more so, as your boss at that time approved of your 'stealing' and shared some loots with you.

It was this misfortune of your confidence that we were bestowed with in Ondo State in your first major military (political) assignment in 1987. You have now grown from the small boy that was stealing kuli kuli from fellow students to a care-less military administrator. And boy you stole the state blind. And even boasting that the 'Lagos Boy' had come to teach us 'ara oke' some lessons. Not only did you steal with 'no respect', you turned 'small girls' of Ikere College of Education to tin gods by your association with them. You only needed to send government cars to Ikere and all the girls will be falling over themselves to get into the cars to journey to Akure to 'please' you, By the time they come back to the campus they were ready to slap their provost, because they have tasted of your 'wealth and power'.

The obedient people of Ondo State (of which Ekiti was part) could do nothing. Corruption was rife all over the country, so putting your hand in the state till was not at all surprising. But the scale you were doing this and with so much impunity was what enraged the people. We all kept quiet and pray that the omnipresent God will catch up with you one day, very soon.

You were 'shooed' out of the Navy. And immediately you found a 'space' in the top hierarchy of PDP, when Abubakar midwifed democracy third time around. No thanks to the money you stole from our dear Ondo State that you threw around to impress the leaders of the party. All the rest is history.

Bode, you got the post of chairman of NPA, not on merit, but compensation for your effort in ensuring your party's good showing in OODUA states. But God knew in His infinite Wisdom that the NPA job will be your final undoing because He knows how greedy you are. And greed leads to destruction. You did not disappoint anybody on the scale of your greed. You handpicked your collaborators and you started your stealing spree. Sold most of NPA properties and inflated contracts. And with all these you were still going about collecting 'dues' from your party governors in Ekiti, Oyo, Ogun, Ondo and Osun States. You have no shame, at all.

You became the toast of all ladies in the Lagos and Abuja social circuits. Your 'hat' became a symbol of riches, affluence and power, But God was only distinguishing you for a big shame that He wanted to bring on you. Because in you He saw an individual who had no love of his fellowmen at heart. A man with so much appetite for stealing.

Bode, you are a disgrace to your family, wives, ex-girlfriends, and children. You are not a disgrace to your colleagues in your party or other parties. You are one out of many of them who are draining our country dry. You are one of the big guns who parade our cities, oppressing the common men, with the money they stole. There are so many like you in all the facets of the Nigerian polity, economy etc. But it is said in our adage, eniti ile mo ba ni ole (it is the one that is caught that is a thief).

How many of our so called leaders can account for their wealth? How many of them have not dipped their hands in the public till? So many have abused their offices, stole billions and turned themselves to political gods. But we still celebrate them. Very soon, if they do not come before Justice Oyewole, they are all answerable to God Almighty.

Bode, I know you are very happy at the judgement of Justice Oyewole. I saw a smile on your face when he delivered the judgement. A mere 30 months and you are back at your old self. You are lucky. You remember the sentences handed over to the Ambrose Alis, Mbakwes, Barkin Zuwos etc in the 80s. Some had 100 years for stealing just a fraction of what you stole.

But Bode, see beyond the number of years and ask for atonement of all your sins. Your children, wives and relations will carry your shame all their years. You are more like Oyenusi of the old. Nobody, to my knowledge, bears that name anymore. Your children are lucky, yours is an English name. But from now henceforth, people will ask them, which of the Georges are you? The shameless thief or the other George?

I shall end this here, as I am beginning to realise you are hard to convince. In all these, you still nurture the thoughts that you were set up because you are a top notch of PDP? Ah! You are a dunce.

And above all an OGBOLOGBO OLE.



Ole, Wobia, Alajeju, Agba Iya.

I pray God will forgive you, for what you indirectly made to happen to my goods (and other struggling Nigerians') at NPA some years back.

See you after 30 months.

Greet all the Ogbologbos in Kirikiri.

F Falana



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Are you sure this is from Femi Falana we all know, or another one?

Oga,
Igba odun, odun kan o. . .  .coming straight to your desk now for a special 'omo ise to oga' greeting  

stillwater:
How about Grafikdon and texxazpette (not sure if that's the correct spelling).

Already on list.

Grafikdon to be reviewed.

Yeah, I got it. It solved the issue, that was why I didn't bother to reply.
Apologies for not acknowledging though.
Tahnks

It's not mandatory but like any act of giving or showing kindness and respect to one's parent as taught by Qur'an and hadith, it is highly rewarding.
If you don't do it, you have not committed any sin, except your parents were in dire need at the period and you didn't assist them when you were in position to do that with your(not necessarily first) salary.
However, it appears to have come to stay as a worthwhile tradition in many Muslim homes, but that still doesn't make it a legislation failing which becomes a sin.  I also did it of course.

I prefer Governor, but thinks minister is bigger. As a governor, you are almsot sure of 8 years on seat, but as a Minister, you can be booted out anytime.

Is this how power is or is it because I ahve not tasted one before? Because I find hard to believe what I'm reading these days. I'm trying to imagine what could cause such desperation, especially from a respected professor like Osotimehin. If it were professional politicians, I'll not be that surprised, but I'm surprised at this coming from a person like Professor Osotimehin. I'm seriously confused.

mekusxxx:
Babalola did not head any position b4 now (infact he was an unknown entity), Osotimehin did (NACA)

Correct

Beaf:
[size=14pt]‘Sanusi’s Pre-Determined Agenda Damaging the Economy’[/size]
By Renaissance Professionals, 03.22.2010

Advertising Feature

There are strong indications that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Lamido Sanusi’s seven-month old controversial reform, riddled with actions of perceived pre-determined agenda, has left in its wake a weakened national economy following the inability of banks to play their crucial intermediation roles in the economy.


Only last week, manufacturers, speaking through the Director of Tyre Production, DN Tyre and Rubber Plc, Dr. Kolapo Popoola, called on the Federal Government to “provide urgent solutions to the problems of the economy or risk catastrophic consequences”.


In his first interview with the Financial Times of London on June 21, 2009 (which CBN published recently in the national media) barely 15 days after his assumption of office as CBN Governor, the newspaper quoted Sanusi as speaking about his “plans to open Nigeria’s banks to foreign takeovers”, and his determination to sack bank chief executives, even before the commencement of the CBN/NDIC special audit whose outcomes are his determination to sell our sovereignty to foreigners.


Also recently, in an interview with The Nation, he confessed foreclosing the option of giving the taken-over banks a time frame within which to correct the observed lapses in the CBN/NDIC audit report, yet he gave Unity and Wema Banks this window of opportunity. He had gone ahead to boast that “if you are the Managing Director of a Bank and you steal money from the bank and I am Governor of Central Bank, I will remove you. All I know is that you took depositors’ money in the name of borrowing, did not pay it and brought the bank to its knees. I know only two ways to deal with you; remove you and charge you to court.”


Analysts are agreed that it is such pre-mediated acts and unguarded utterances by an officer who should jealously build confidence in the system that worsened the global recession challenges of the banks. They have also wondered how he could have come to such conclusions based on bank audits to pronounce them guilty and has continued to demonise them for cases that are pending before courts.


As alerted by a manufacturer, the Nigerian economy may therefore, be on the verge of collapse unless something urgent is done to reverse the negative trend. Economic analysts say a combination of wrong policies by CBN and political inertia has brought economic activities almost to a standstill in the country.


“Look, things are really bad. Banks have stopped lending, manufacturing activities are on the verge of collapse, several airlines have stopped flying, the telecoms sector is experiencing its lowest growth since the advent of telecoms in Nigeria, the NNPC is now the sole importer of fuel into the country, private enterprise is no longer functioning. Things are that bad,” said an economist who does not want to be named.


Recently, the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) revealed that production capacity has dropped to an all-time low of 27 per cent and despite the drop in production capacity most of the manufacturers cannot still sell the little they produce. Economic analysts say this may indicate a possible collapse in consumer demand following the massive layoff in the banking industry (including those not invaded by the CBN Governor) and other sectors of the economy since the CBN started its banking reforms.


The irony however, is that despite the collapse in consumer demand and steep fall in credit to the private sector, inflation has been on the rise indicating a more fundamental worry for the economy. "Costs of doing business have shot up for most businesses," said an economist. This is double trouble for companies as they are not able to sell what they produce or transfer the higher cost of production to consumers who do not have money to buy. Analysts also note that the massive layoff in the banking industry made the situation worse.


The Nigerian Airline industry is also in dire straits which have been traced to the current reforms in the Nigerian banking industry. Managing Director, Financial Derivatives Company, Bismark Rewane, speaking last month at the Lagos Business School breakfast forum had noted that “the global recession did not initially and completely affect the Nigerian aviation markets; until the reforms introduced into the banking sector by the Central Bank of Nigeria crept into the airlines business leading to credit crunch”.
Already, analysts are predicting that only about five airlines will survive from the current financial crisis hitting them from the 14 domestic airlines in operation. The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has revoked the licence of Afrijet, while the operations of Bellview Airlines and Capital Airlines have been grounded.


But while the real sector and other businesses are complaining of lack of credit from the banks, investigations have revealed that banks are swimming in cash which they do not want to lend to the real sector. Dealers in the Nigerian money market are said to be currently turning away deposit placements because they do not have outlets for the funds at the price they are collecting the funds. Three banks are said to be dominating the interbank markets offering very low rates for deposits since they have nowhere to lend it to.


This trend was confirmed by the CBN at the end of its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting when it complained that banks have kept N600 billion in its vaults at two (2%) per cent per annum. In a bid to encourage banks to lend, the CBN had reduced the interest rate to one per cent. However, indications are that even with the reduction, banks are still not inclined to lend to the real sector preferring risk-free government securities instead.


First Securities Discount House (FSDH) report last two weeks had revealed that the interbank market is awash with excess cash leading to huge over subscription of government securities on offer. The 91-day treasury bill auction that took place two weeks ago witnessed a record breaking 545.92 per cent subscription level, while the 182-day bill recorded a subscription level of 208.33 per cent indicating the high level of risk evasiveness currently in Nigerian banks. “Banks are essentially building cash mountains” because they are afraid to lend. They are afraid because the CBN and EFCC have criminalized the lending process and do not want to be caught in the mix,” said a credit officer with one of Nigeria’s leading banks.


Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa, a manufacturer, who is MD/CEO Neimeth Pharmaceuticals, and member of the Presidential Advisory Council (PAC) confirmed this in an interview with The Guardian, Sunday, March 14, 2010. Said he: “The new management of banks are careful; they are the ones coming to us to ask for more collateral. They don’t want to be fired or taken to court because they lent money. That is why they are asking for what people will not be able to provide. They have gone back to traditional banking when they ask for your grandfathers and grandmothers before they give loan”.


Even high level projects that banks, before the Sanusi reforms were falling over themselves to finance, are being shunned by the banks. Mr. Segun Ahmadu, the Chairman, Implementation Committee of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway concessioned to Bi-Courtney Highway Services, has disclosed that a “number of banks from South Africa and China have shown interest in financing the project”. No Nigerian bank was mentioned.


Recently, Dangote Cement had also resorted to South African banks to finance its cement plants after paying off its Nigerian bank debtors. Analysts have warned that the mutual loss of confidence by the banking sector in the Nigerian economy and as well as loss of confidence by the business sector in the Nigerian banking sector will spell doom for the Nigerian economy.


In his June 21, 2009 interview with the Financial Times of London, the CBN Governor, Mallam Sanusi, was quoted as saying that “I think the ‘autonomy’ of the Central Bank has been taken to an extreme where it’s almost an island on its own. My own idea is that the Central Bank Governor is part of government and I would work very closely with the Finance Minister.”


However, as the acting president works on injecting fresh blood into his government, analysts are quick to draw his attention to the above remarks of the CBN governor and remark that nine months after the CBN governor’s tenure, the former Minister of State for Finance, Mr. Remi Babalola, alerted the nation that government is largely unaware of the way the CBN governor was carrying out the banking reforms, which he tagged “as the spirit directs”, and committed to government’s determination to get more involved to ameliorate the largely negative effects on the economy.


Analysts therefore, wonder if it is not the appropriate time for the acting president to inject new blood into the leadership of the nation’s apex bank, a team whose goals would align with the new vigour and transparency that Dr. Goodluck Jonathan is committed to bringing into governance.

[b]Editor’s Note:
Renaissance Profession-als is a Lagos-based group of commentators and analysts on the ongoing banking reforms in Nigeria.[/b]http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=169167

What you posted here is an advertorial by that faceless group called Renaissance Professionals, and not the official position of the ThisDay.
We know who is behind Renaissance Professionals

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=417127.msg5740767#msg5740767 date=1269240414]What's the relationship between Pat Utomi (an owner of a multimillion naira non performing loan) and the Renaissance Professionals?[/quote]Ask them o

netotse:
yes, but we don't need an economist in the power ministry, the problem isn't strictly a money problem, i like ijeoma too,(dont know y she's against this NITEL sale though), but on the babalola issue we part ways, having read a number of reports doesnt give you the required knowledge or skill to solve the power sectors problems, i didnt place much stock in them, but did you hear the rumours that she was defending babalola when he first got into office cos she wanted to get a job with him(i think they've had some dealings at BPE or something).

one major part of the problem is that all you outsiders(no offense meant) think you appear out of nowhere and solve the power sectors problems without even understanding what the sector is all about, that's how bola ige promised steady light in 6months when it was(and still is) not possible in 6years.
as far back as october, i pasted it in the welcome to my office thread that the 6000MW goal wasn't going to happen, you dont expect workers to come out and announce something different from what their boss has announced do u?

@the bolded
ehenhen 
I saw the passion with which Ijeoma was eulogizing Babalola after his appointment, and after he couldn't deliver by end of the year, she wrote another piece, trying to exonerate him.
Never knew she was writing her way into a job with Babalola though

netotse:
the guy is an economist, in addition to being corrupt, he was clueless. . .what we need it to keep the pencil pushers away from the energy sector in nigeria! the man didn't help matters at all. . .

check here and here too if u want proof!

i think y'all are just saying that cos of all the noise that has been made about his having a PhD in energy economics. . .so bleeding what?

I actually based my comment on what Ijeoma Nwogwugwu, that brilliant Economist, journalist and columnist with ThisDay, who I respect so much(although we adisagree sharply on SLS)  used to write about him. Secondly, he comes across as a refined, brilliant, soft-spoken technocrat that has a great grasp of energy political economy. I'm surprised with what you said about him now.

becomricch:
Jarus, I am confuse, I dont still get that person point. The banigo I know was a born again christain. A good person.

This was a while back. And I know jonathan can not be gay and also. So I get confused with that poster , talking about the S word. Jonathan and ebitimi are men. explain.

Okay, becomrich, NL politics section personality of the year 2009, my good friend whose posts I always look out for top have a good laugh, let me explain, if you don't map me out.

You remember you asked Mbulela whether he was a male or female? Okay, he answered that why do you want to know whether he was a male or female, but he used the summary word: s-e-x, which means 'gender', not lov-e making. So by s-e-x, he meant male or female, that is, gender.

So he never said Ebitimi banigo has anything immoral to do with Goodluck.

S'oti ye yin sir? E pele. Bawo ni Canada?

[quote author=az-ekofm link=topic=68726.msg5735519#msg5735519 date=1269161843]You are misinforming the public and trying to give him a bad name ,he had an issue with AZU and he has a right to speak up and be heard ,
here's is his petition on sahara reporters

http://saharareporters.com/component/content/article/139-sr-bloggers/5412-dirty-war-over-money-tears-punch-apart-as-editor-opens-can-of-worms-on-multi-million-naira-corruption-scandal.html[/quote]. . .this post was in 2007 and predated his outburst on Azu.


Anyway, Steve has been booted out in Punch last month.

becomricch:
mbulela, who are you. Who are you.  I dont know you before. Who are you.

becomricch:
Ebitimi Banigo is a man, what are you talking about intimacy = s-e-x. Are you saying Ebitimi Banigo( man) and Jonathan (man). I dont get you.

I dont think they are gay. They have wife. I know so.

[size=20pt]I can't believe this. .  .chei, this is pure comedy


Bikomurichi no go kill person o . . . .hope u know me sha [/size]