oloritinu:

armed robber no be spirit ooooooo, na person like you and me.

Shallom!!!

oyb:

no offense, but you clearly have not thought our post through

are you saying your dad's company is a company based on thievery, and therefore attracted thieves?

now you tell me, in the case of ibru, basically the owner of the company - who would a whistle blower have reported to?

you are naive if you think the world is black and white where you report your colleagues or superiors for wrong doing and ride off into the sunset everytime .

PS. I hope you know the "black or white" sentence is a figure of speech also. I don't want you asking me if what I'm saying is that those who support the stealing are "black" AKA evil, and those who don't are "white" AKA good  Okay ooo, just putting up the disclaimer cos we could go round and round with this issue.

texazzpete:

This is a sterling example of why Nigeria is in such a mess today. Truth be told, the OP is little better than the thief himself. He has twice turned a blind eye to theft and yet you people are coddling him.

If he cannot report this matter to the relevant authorities, then let him stay where he is and stop whining about it on Nairaland. if the management catches the fellow now and he confesses that the OP knew about the crimes, guess who's also gonna get the sack?

Princek12:

Which side's story are we to believe? Chineke God, can you intervene oooooooooooo!

Mad_Max:

You know our local culture. From the cradle women told the goal and validation for their existence as women is to get hitched and drop children like flies. Danged skippy you're getting married if you enter a relationship with those. I've heard with my own ears Nigerians asking a woman, 'Is that your husband?' meaning her boyfriend, with the understanding that, yeah they're getting married. Afterall, they're dating. Sorry about the heartbreak, lady. But sometimes, who's hurting seems to depend on who left whom first. But I think Mr Brownjay's said it all. We haven't heard the other side. Men aren't commitment phobes. Most of them know the woman they want to marry within a very short interval of meeting her. Ask most married guys. No one coerced them. They WANTED to get married to that woman and would've almost died if she'd left them. He shouldn't have led her on and started making wedding plans. That's shitty. But he didn't leave her at the altar. They were just plans and she sounded too needy and overly theatrical. Her life shouldn't revolve around getting married. It's important but it shouldn't be the sole purpose for her existence. My friend's mother said something when I was a teenager. I never forgot and it served me well. She said: Don't ever chase after men or make them the focus of your life. Make something of your own life. The right man will eventually come along. I found it to be true. Really sorry for your pain, lady. Sorry.

Sagamite:

Add national psyche to that.

America has a very good psyche like the Germans.

American psyche is "Be the best, boast about it and encourage/admire those that are the best".

Britain is pull down the best, support only the underdog.

China is everything you do is for the people/party.

Nigeria is being the best does not matter, just respect the biggest moneybag, no matter how he obtained the money.  

Sagamite:

The university education is US is somehow too easy and fluffy in most cases due to their lack of specialisation in the subject studied.

In the UK, the MSc is at most times not differentiated from a BSc excepti one wants to do a Phd or work in research in industry in the subject area.

chiogo:

LOL what a joke!!!
I enjoyed the video though esp. the part they were playing street wrestling. . .used to play that with my brother. Ha! I need to hurry home. 

Fela!, about the life of revered African world music star Fela Kuti, will go up against Green Day's American Idiot, Memphis, and Million Dollar Quartet in the coveted Best Musical category at the 64th annual prizegiving, which honours the best on Broadway.

Meanwhile, Grammer and Hodge, who star as a camp gay couple in La Cage, will compete against Sean Hayes (Promises, Promises), Chad Kimball (Memphis) and Sahr Ngaujah (Fela!) for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical.

The evening is sure to be a star-studded event, with Hollywood actors Jude Law (Hamlet), Alfred Molina (Red), Liev Schreiber (A View from the Bridge), Christopher Walken (A Behanding in Spokane) and Denzel Washington (Fences) pitted against each other for the Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play award.

Washington's co-star Viola Davis will battle it out in the category for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, against Valerie Harper (Looped), Linda Lavin (Collected Stories), Laura Linney (Time Stands Still) and Jan Maxwell (The Royal Family).

Catherine Zeta-Jones (A Little Night Music), Kate Baldwin (Finian's Rainbow), Sherie Rene Scott (Everyday Rapture), Montego Glover (Memphis) and Christiane Noll (Ragtime) received nods for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical, and Scarlett Johansson's Broadway debut in A View from the Bridge has earned her a nomination for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play.

Nominations for Best Play include In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play), Next Fall, Red and Time Stands Still.

The winners will be announced on 13 June (10) at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.


Tony Nominations by Production
Fela! – 11
La Cage aux Folles – 11
Fences – 10
Memphis – 8
Ragtime – 7
Red – 7
A View From the Bridge – 6
The Royal Family – 5
Enron – 4
A Little Night Music – 4
Promises, Promises – 4
American Idiot – 3
Finian’s Rainbow – 3
In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) – 3
Lend Me a Tenor – 3
Million Dollar Quartet – 3
The Addams Family – 2
Come Fly Away – 2
Everyday Rapture – 2
Hamlet – 2
Next Fall – 2
Time Stands Still – 2
A Behanding in Spokane – 1
Collected Stories – 1
Looped – 1
Present Laughter – 1
Race – 1
Superior Donuts – 1

Source:
http://www.hollywood.com/news/La_Cage_aux_Folles__Fela_lead_Tony_Award_nominations/6863607

yemmight:

@poster
But Ag Presisent never mentioned any figure yesterday @ the rally so where's your story from?

violent:

18k is damn paltry!

Jonathan’s Gift to Workers: Minimum Wage Now N18,000
•New salary to be paid from August
From Kunle Akogun and Damilola Oyedele in Abuja, 05.02.2010

A new pay package for Nigerian civil servants will be operational in three months, Acting President Goodluck Jonathan, has said. When operational, the least paid worker would go home with N18,000 at the end of every month as against the N7,500 minimum wage that presently obtains.


Jonathan while addressing workers on the occasion of the May Day celebration, pleaded with the civil servants to shelve their planned five-day warning strike scheduled to commence tomorrow, and assured them that the issues in dispute would be resolved within the next three months.
He also disclosed that he had directed the Minister of Labour, Chief Chukwuemeka Wogu, to ensure that negotiations with the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council achieves the desired results within the next three months.
“This important assignment of which I understand you are respectfully represented in the committee is nearing conclusion. The National Committee on Parameters for Wages in the public segment is also working assiduously to ensure that we have a mechanism that will make for adjustment on workers’ remuneration gradual.


“I sincerely plead with the civil service unions to negotiate with the government because of the warning strike they have presented to us. I believe very sincerely that Nigeria and indeed the rest of the society must develop to a point that workers will not negotiate for salary increase,” he said.
Jonathan said this year’s Workers Day celebrations coincide with the Golden Jubilee of the nation’s independence.
He gave the assurance that the federal government was working assiduously to address issues of employment generation, Niger Delta crisis, electoral reform, power supply and other necessities for national development.
“For me I promise honest service. I will give all my heart and mobilise every available talent of Nigerians wherever they are to meet the expectations of our people. As we are going into an election year, the issue of credible of election is top on my agenda to national liberation.


"I have taken the challenge of an inadequate power supply, peace and rapid development of Niger Delta, food security as well as overall security of all Nigerians and promoting credible elections as priorities in the concluding months of this administration," Jonathan said.
Jonathan also told the rally of thousands of workers that his government would give Nigerians free, fair and credible elections in 2011, compared with previous polls that were judged to be largely flawed by local and international observers, including the United Nations and the United States.
He also promised to improve security in the restive, oil-rich Niger Delta that has in the past three years been the theatre of kidnappings and attacks.


Jonathan expressed government's resolve to provide a conducive environment for the workforce.
He said his presence at the occasion was a demonstration of the administration's belief that to build a strong democracy, there must be a virile labour movement.
According to the Acting President, no nation can develop beyond what the collective efforts of its working population can present. "The rate and size of a country's development is dependent on the size of its economy and therefore the need for an expanded economy for the good of our people", Jonathan said.
He said there was an on-going effort by government to create a new Nigeria anchored on social justice, industrial peace and harmony, due process and the rule of law and thus called for a collective effort to achieve a solid and prosperous nation.


Jonathan promised to provide honest service on his part as government works towards ensuring transparency and accountability in the conduct of its business.
President of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Comrade Omar Abdulwaheed in his speech said the negotiation over the National Minimum Wage has dragged for several months. He said they were earlier hoping that the issue would have been concluded and that the government would announce it to the workers on May Day (yesterday) based on the agreement reached.
“In the same vein, we have followed the negotiations on relativity in the public service and the apparent lack of progress in the process. The distortion occasioned by the consolidated salary structure in the public service is not only unjust but against the principles of equity and social justice,” he said.


He pointed out that the tripartite committee had completed its work. “Your Excellency, the ball is now in the court of the executive arm to fast track the promulgation of the committee recommendations into a New National Minimum Wage Law. Nigerian workers will not accept any further delay on this matter,” he said.
President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Comrade Peter Esele, expressed disappointment that the civil servants were offered only a 10 per cent salary increment while the Police and other services got between 60 and 100 per cent.
He also called for sincere efforts to address the various problems of the country which have all contributed to hinder the country’s growth.


“TUC will support any action taken by the Association of Senior Civil Servants to address this injustice as we will not accept anything less than N18, 000 as minimum wage payable to Nigerian workers.”
The theme for this year's celebration is '50 years of Nationhood and the Working Class: Challenges of Good Governance, Unity and Credible Elections'

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=172323

.

ladi02:

You cant fake a government ID, but even if you do, your finger print will be taken, so you better use the same name each time you register

4evayoung:

@sandraa
can I meet you please?my email is on my profile

Women Protest Senator’s Marriage to Underaged
From Sufuyan Ojeifo in Abuja, 04.28.2010


The quiet marriage of former Zamfara State governor and Senate Minority Whip, Senator Ahmed Sani Yerima to a 13-year old Egyptian girl, has continued to attract condemnation by the womenfolk.
A coalition of women groups yesterday took its protest to the Senate, urging the Senate President, David Mark leadership of the Upper House to suspend him for marrying an underaged girl. 

The coalition, led by Dr. Mma Nkwocha, comprised the Medical Women Association of Nigeria (MWAN), Women Rights Advancement and Pro-tection Alternative (WRAPA) and the Global Association of Women Attorneys (GAFA).
In a swift reaction to the protest, Senators Chris Anyanwu, Emem Uffot Ekaette, Nkechi Nwaogu and Patricia Akwashiki pledged to provide support to the group in its advocacy against the act.

In addition to the call on the Senate leadership to suspend Yerima, the coalition urged his constituents in Zamafara Central Senatorial District to recall him from the Senate.
But Chair of the Senate Committee on Information and Media, Senator Ayogu Eze, said at a briefing session yesterday that those opposed to Yerima’s marriage should go to court.

According to him, “It is not the responsibility of the Senate to begin to investigate if he (Yerima) has broken the law. The Senate is not a law enforcement agency.”

Leader of the Coalition, Nkwocha had said, while briefing Senate Correspondents, that “The people who are supposed to be guarding the nation are the ones breaking the rules.

“Hitherto, Nigeria had hidden under the guise of Islam or Christianity but the issue in question is the marriage of one minor.

“Maybe because of poverty, he brought this little girl to Nigeria to complete the marital rites.

“We are calling on senator Yerima to resign because this is not the first time. We learnt that another girl that he had taken before now is turning seventeen years.

“He has kept that one aside and has come for this little one.  Are we disposable commodities?  It is unbecoming of a nation called Nigeria.

“We should be the ones advocating the abolition of child marriage…It is not acceptable.”

GAFA representative, Mrs. Chinelo Iriele, said “Nigerian women are sad because the Child Right Acts, Section 21 prohibits Child marriage.

“Section 22 prohibits betrothal of a child under the age of 13. Today one of our senators, Senator Yerima, who is a member of the highest law making body in the country, is committing the same offence that attracts the penalty of five years imprisonment or N500,000 fine or both.

“If we have a man like Senator Yerima, what happens to our bill on child abuse?  We are calling for his withdrawal because it is a shame that Senator Yerima should contract marriage with a thirteen year old.

“This year, the one he married when she was fifteen would be seventeen this year. If we allow this to go on, by this time next year, he would be marrying a six-year old girl.

“We want the people of Zamfara State to start the process that would recall him from the senate. We are not afraid.”

[size=15pt]Lydia Forson and Naa Ashorkor reply Jackie[/size]

Actresses Lydia Forson and Naa Ashorkor Mensah-Doku have finally made a public reaction to the weeklong misconception created by fellow actress, Jackie Appiah about the winner (or winners) of the Best Actress In Lead Role Award at the just ended African Movie Academy Award (AMAA).

According to them, even though they see the deliberate attempt by some people to discredit them of the hard-won award, they would rather leave everything to God than jump over the roof.

Lydia and Naa's management headed by Habiba Nelson, on Wednesday told NEWS-ONE that the two actresses are not perturbed about what Jackie has gone to tell any media house.

“We are not bothered about everything that happened,” she simply said, adding however that the truth can never be submerged by any man, and hoped the good within the entertainment fraternity would be the better judges over the sad development.

Habiba, sounding very composed over what people see as 'Jackie's gaff', said she would rather let sleeping dogs lie. To her, the most important thing is that AMAA had come out to clear the air.

“The truth always speaks for itself. Three people won. My clients, Miss Forson and Miss Mensah Doku are happy and we are grateful to God for winning. That's all that matters to us,” she added.

It is recalled that at the historic AMA Awards in Bayelsa State, Nigeria, Saturday April 10, three people were named as winners for their lead role in Sparrow Production's Perfect Picture.

However hours after the team returned to Ghana, Jackie quickly rushed to a section of the Ghanaian media, including a state-owned print media house, and granted interviews implying that she singlehandedly won the award. She repeated the claims even on television.

Her action has incurred the wrath of observers, many of who think that she was not only sounding selfish and individualist, but also misleading.

Birds have indeed whispered to News-One that the AMAA organizers intimated during the awards that the controversial award was made possible through the invaluable acting prowess of Lydia and Naa in the Perfect Picture Movie.

AMAA representatives in Ghana had to come out to clear the mess, through a prompt press statement.

The statement, dated 20th April, 2010, categorically gave out Ghana's six award specifications as follows:

AMAA achievement in sound- I sing of a well AMAA achievement in costume- I sing of a well (Mabel Germain)

Best original soundtrack - (Adablah) Best performance by an actor in a supporting role- Adjetey Annang

Best performance by an actress in a leading role – Naa Ashorkor Mensah Doku, Lydia Forson and Jackie Appiah

Best director – Shirley Frimpong Manso Ghana also got the most coveted awards of the jury award for Best Movie by I sing of a well and a lifetime achievement award to King Ampaw.

Ms. Judith Oluwole Kuwornu, AMAA representative in Ghana, told this paper that only one plaque was presented that day at the event because the jury released the names of the winners to the committee just 20 minutes to the commencement of the event, for which reason it was impossible to instantly do other plaques.

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=180613#

lizzybabe1:

Pics here: http://www.namywedding.com/dream-weddings/3

FL Gators:

Lol e be like say dude dey carry ice cube for head sha

Dede1:

Nigerians must come to grips with the fact that their country is a colonial contraption that needs serious and urgent reconfiguration.

The acts of abusing the journalists for exposing the governors they deemed honest while praising same journalists for listing the names of governors and politicians they deemed corrupt are worst than following path of apathy to Nigerian politics as do many market women and village farmers in Nigeria.

Democracy preaches the principles of the rule of law and the same law that is respecter of nobody whether perceived innocent or guilty.  The demeanors of certain peeps on this forum reiterate the fact that Nigeria is far from being qualified as an entity to study democracy talk less of practice it. 

Kobojunkie:

May I suggest you spend some actual time learning of democracy, your state constitution and maybe hanging out with some of the taxpayers who have taken it upon themselves to learn their right and what the Government ought to do for them? There is no point I continuing this back and forth with you since it is all too clear that you are willing to offer up conjecture and excuses rather than solid reasoning in the way of this issue

http://www.ipu.org/cnl-e/161-dem.htm

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-436030.0.html