davno: Uninvited, yet she went to sit on d best available seat. Mad woman!!!

On arrival, I saw two vacant seats besides the former deputy governor, Chief Benjamin Elue, and the speaker, Mr. Peter Onwusanya. I quietly seated [myself] and immediately, to my surprise, the MC of the ceremony publicly announced that where I was seated was not meant for me,” she said.

Common sense and courtesy should have made her know that in a high powered occasion like this especially one that you were not invited to; you dont just go and sit on any seat just cos it is vacant not particularly a seat at the "High Table"

Even our Lord Jesus said something about that in the Big Book (Luke 14:8-11)

"When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in the best place, lest one more honorable than you be invited by him;
"and he who invited you and him come and say to you, 'Give place to this man,' and then you begin with shame to take the lowest place.
"But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes he may say to you, 'Friend, go up higher.' Then you will have glory in the presence of those who sit at the table with you.
"For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

She went and sat on the chair reserved for the state deputy governor, and the security agents approached her to look for somewhere else to sit, and she ‘flared up,’ saying she is a member of Board, and who is the deputy governor. All efforts to pacify her failed, and she walked up to me and asked me if I knew she is a member of Board.

Madam should learn to give honour to whom honour is due. BTW, why is it that it is every four years during election that she remembers that she is from Delta state.

Tonjeola1:
do u ve personal system?
can take u on practical training

Thanks a lot for the offer. I am always online and I just registered with ChirsVicMall after finding knowing about them here on Nairaland.

Hello, hope I didnt come too late to the Party.

I have just about 200k that I wish to start with in this importation business. I know well about most China importation/suppliers sites such as Aliexpress, Madeinchina etc. As an IT Technician, I plan to bring in majorly Laptops and its accessories, Ipads, Smartphone etc.

But i am still skeptical about the payment aspect and quality guarantee ie getting exactly what you ordered. please, I need contacts for practical assistance in this regard.

Thank you.

gboss4sure: If APC thinks that their support for insecurity will make GEJ not to contest 2015 elections then they are just wasting their time. Ok let's put it this way, it will be very bad for any type of election to hold in this worsening security situation, let's postpone all elections till further notice till when the security situation gets better. Apc supporters una gree? The truth is APC knew they are never going to beat GEJ that's why they are scared of him contesting for a second term unfortunately they have exhausted nearly all their games and the remaining few will consume them.

By now APC strategists should have realized that this attack and condemnation tactics on GEJ is not working and it's backfiring on them. If they dont realise and adjust quickly it will soon be caught in their own words and recommendations.

Hi guys, we got to party; it's my birthday.

Sunny_bobo: The handwriting is as clear as MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.

But who will interpret it to them. Definitely not their consultants, Special Advisers , Senior Special Advisers, commissioners or e-warriors especially here on Nairaland. They sure need a Daniel.

We all know the story as told in the great book, about a strange handwriting that appeared on the wall of a government house some years ago. The Governor could not read or understand the writing himself, so he sent for all his consultants, his Special Advisers , Senior Special Advisers, his commissioners including his e-warriors on social media but it was only Daniel that could read and interpret the handwriting on the wall. Unfortunately it turned out that the meaning was not good news for the Governor but, you know, like they say; what is written is written.

With the disappointing performance and defeat of APC in Anambra and Ekiti states; an unexpected handwriting is obviously on the wall. And my worry is whether Amaechi and Rochas can find a Daniel.

If Amaechi is sure of this, why dont he conduct Local Government Elections like Delta State is doing. Sometimes, dreams appear so real that it affects the mindset and actions of the dreamer.

Like seriously, I don't understand these Judiciary guys. the way they are used and tossed about by just anybody base on interest. Is the Judiciary not supposed to be an independent third arm of the Government. Anybody runs to the court to get one injunction or the other based on their interest.

If the TWO options APC has as Presidential candidates are PDP products (We all know that Buhari is not an option) who then are the progressives, what does APC stand for and what are they opposing. After-all, the profile they are considering in picking the two of them were built in PDP. Even Tambuwal is still a PDP member and OBJ is APC Navigator

AS FAR AS WE ARE CONCERNED; APC JUST WANTS TO OCCUPY ASO ROCK AND CONTINUE FROM WHERE PDP STOPS. TALK ABOUT PROGRESSIVES OR CHANGE IS JUST IN THE MEDIA.

4tunebest: Whao! This is very creative. I could feel the Joy of fatherhood radiate through every statement in this post. Portharcourt fineboy you are lucky to have a loving dad. Please be an obedient child throughout your formative years and when you grow up to be a full-fledged man, make it a priority to take care of this wonderful dad of yours in his old age.

20 years from now, you would have been mature enough to take decisions by yourself and you would definitely experience peer pressure. Your dad wont be the perfect dad and disagreements are bound to happen; whenever you are tempted to call his bluff, just remember 20 something years ago when he came to Nairaland to show you off to the world. I hope Nairaland wont have gone into extinction by then for you to search out this topic from their data base. He is proud of you, do not disappoint him.

Powerful. Thanks alot.

Ashabie: Whaooo! What a cute loving baby....am so sure you are fotocopy of your mum...buh honey next time you see your dad bb,try and crawl to where there's basin of water and soak it for like 3 hours maybe after then it will be edible for you...my cool and warm regards to your mum,for a job Well done.

Thank you Aunty. as for the phone thing; my Mummy is in support of her husband o. The two "Love Birds" (Mummy and Daddy) has decided that I must not "eat" their phone again.

Anyway, the good news now is that they have bought my own car for me. I mean a big, 4-legged car with Gbedu (sound system) that I can drive al-around the house; from the Balcony to the sitting-room and to the bedrooms. The best part of it is that there is no LASTMA. I will tell my Daddy to upload some pics.

Chillisauce:

My kind of kid
After , wake them up and sing for them every midnight, make sure you cry and shout when you see mummy and daddy fighting in that big bed.
Infact sleep in between them so you prevent them from harming themselves .

I just hope my Daddy doesnt see this post. He will say that you are giving me wrong counsel.

Awww... This really an achievement at 6 month o...

Weldon and kudos to mummy for †ђξ 'baby friendly' stuff.... That's why you are soo healthy.. Thanks to God.

Make sure you chop efery tin chopable.. No deyy select food o.. You hear?

May you grow in wisdom,grace and might.

Thanks my Aunty. @Bolded; this morning I took my Daddy's BB phone from where he left it and I was "eating" the thing but it wasnt going. I soaked the damn thing with my saliva until it stopped working. Daddy had to remove and dry the battery; it took him about two hours before he got his phone back on again.

6months already a nairalander. No follow your papa o grin.

Cool story little one, but join your mate and continue playing.

Maybe that is number 11 of my achievements; the youngest Nairalander. Hope Seun is reading this. I expect an Award.

WOW!
The 3rd picture is kiss kiss kiss kiss kiss
I love that picture, the swag toooooooo much.
I'm proud of your parents!
God keep you for them and never allow them to be sorrowful over you.
Next time you're going for holiday, please invite me o

Amen oooo. Thank U very much. I will tell my Daddy to book a flight for U for our next family vacation, that one maybe in our village.

Happy New Year to my Uncles and Aunties here on Nairaland. My name is Dominion aka Port Harcourt Fineboy. Some Uncles and Aunties call me Chinko, Chinese, Japan etc. I am 6 months old (@Dec 27, 2013). This holiday season has been a wonderful one for me. It is my first holiday and I recorded a lot of “firsts” and other milestone achievements. The Top 10 include:

1. I traveled to Lagos for the first time. They say it is still a prayer point for many persons. Mummy took me to Lagos on 15th Dec.
2. I had my first Airplane Flight experience @Dec 15 aboard an Arik Air Flight. (If you think that isn’t anything, ask my wonderful Daddy. He is 36 years and his first flight experience was on Dec, 23)
3. I started crawling moving on all fours on the Christmas week. I could only sit firmly when we left Port Harcourt on the 15th. Now I can crawl, I mean move around on my own. Don’t ask me how fast I can go.

4. I now have two strong white teeth that came out during this holiday season. They weren’t there when I left Port Harcourt.
5. I started eating adult food. Yes, adult food. This is wonderful. For this past 6 months, Mummy has been feeding me with ONLY her breast milk not even water. She calls it “Baby Friendly” and says that the Doctors recommended it. And that it is very good for me. I don’t doubt her. Now at 6 months, I can eat Rice, Indomie, Biscuits etc and still suck. Everybody was very happy. Daddy made a video of me eating goat meat and “dealing” with chicken bone; maybe he will Youtube it.
6. I met for the first time so many Uncles, Aunties, Cousins etc that I haven’t seen/met before including Uncle Andy that came in from Europe. I had only talked with them on phone. Don’t ask me what we use to discuss.

7. I celebrated my first Christmas ever. Mummy said I was still in her belly by this time last year.
8. I celebrated my 6 months birthday (Dec 27th). So wonderful. We all went to Shoprite in Victoria Island. It was a great and enjoyable experience.
9. My Daddy bought a car; a very big car, not the type I used to play with in the house.
10. I celebrated the arrival of a new year; crossing over from 2013 to 2014. I don’t know if I should say that I am now 2 years old. You know; I was born in 2013 and I am now in 2014, that is 2 years or what do you think.

The above are my Top Ten Achievements this season; I really wish and pray that the Mod do me a favour and crown it all for me by moving this to the FrontPage. It will be a first for my Daddy, who joined this forum in 2006.

My other observations in Lagos.
1. Vehicular movement is difficult in Lagos because of the heavy traffic. I use to leave Ogba with my Mummy and her Sister; my Aunt, around 5.00am to her office in Victoria Island. We leave the office at about 5.00pm and arrive home at about 9.00pm.
2. Everybody fears LASTMA. They say that “The fear of LASTMA is the beginning of driving in Lagos”. They didn’t allow me to stay at the front seat because of LASTMA. I noticed that everybody is instinctively conscious of using the Seat belt; even public bus (Danfo) drivers and their front seat passengers.
3. Like I said; I am just 6 months old and this is my first time in Lagos, but Daddy said that things have really improved since the last time he was in Lagos which was in 2010.

Before I leave, please, let me give a shout out to my Daddy for helping me type this out and for posting it here.
Sorry, I almost forgot; pictures or it didn’t happen, right?

He said more lawmakers and PDP senators would soon defect to the main opposition All Progressives Congress (APC).

All this fight is not for the interest of the common man. They are all working for self. All this politicians ranting, they pocket federal allocation allotted to them for development and turn back to scream FG is not doing anything what about there own part

Seriously, is APC the opposition/change that we are looking for? Who exactly are they opposing? APC claim to be a ship on the voyage of change yet its crew members are all PDP drop outs, the Head Engineers (Tinubu and Buhari) are well known to us and worst still, the Captain/Chief Navigator is OBJ, assisted by the Evil Genius himself.

OBJ as we all know is PDP personified; if he is now the chief navigator of APC's ship of change? then who is APC actually opposing. PDP or GEJ.

In politics there's no permanent friend no permanent enemy but permanent interest...........and while keeping your friends close try and keep your enemies closer. hmmmm ASIWAJU...

My only problem with this is that it is all about their (both PDP and APC) own personal interest and not that of the people. Can you imagine Amaechi saying that his defection to APC is in the interest of Rivers people? We all know that it's all about his own personal political future.

My question about all this is; what exactly is the manifesto, change and ideology that APC stands for. In the US there is a clear difference between the two major parties (Republicans and Democrats). The same folks in PDP are stuffing up APC; so what's the difference.

BTW, hope they have plans to visit some persons in the south-East and South-South since it's all about Nigeria or dont we have "relevant" persons there.

2015; may God help us.

I support GEJ but I have said before that GEJ as president may not provide the capital projects and infrastructural development needed in the South-South (Niger Delta) in particular but will provide an opportunity for individuals to take their portion of the national cake that as we know comes from the region. At the end we will have many stupendously rich individuals while the region and people still remain impoverished. That exactly is what is happening now.

Former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher also described Mandela’s ANC as a “typical terrorist organization” in 1987, refusing to impose sanctions on South Africa’s apartheid regime. President Ronald Reagan did as well.

Seriously, the West is purely hypocritical. They celebrate Mandela today; even the former Aperthied rulers are celebrating him today. Why then did they allow all those things to happen. Same thing they dd with slave trade.

May God help us Africans to tell our friends from our enemies.

I really feel like crying. Wow, this great man passed on on my birthday; @least I now have something to share in common with Great Nelson Mandela. I dont know anyone in the whole world today that can be celebrated @ death like him. God rest his soul.

currently doing my service year with a dream of becoming a banker but have no idea on how to go about it. i have never even met one before. by banker, i dont mean the custormer care, tellers, account officers or any other operational office, i am referring to the real bankers who deal with financial ratios and investment of the banks money.

My own advise is for you to first become "A Banker", whether customer service, front desk teller or anything. in less than six months there, you may not be asking this question again and your experience will teach you so much more.

My only problem with Microsoft and windows right now is the annoying features of windows 8.

*Why do i have to follow a much longer process/steps to shutdown my System, thought the process/steps was suppose to be faster/shorter and where is the Log Off option, I have to add the Hibernate option by myself from the Control panel

* Why does the setting, devices and share (dont know what they call it) panel keep popping up even when you are just typing of doing just other
stuff.

* I want my usual start menu back.

Please, how easily can I downgrade from Win 8 to Win 7. Wont I have issues.

Amaechi is making point here no one is applauding him. all dis questions deserve answers. abegi LIKE this to show we support amaechi , on dis matter only o

Amaechi has always been bold and factual on all issues and that is why many of us like him. It is just that boldness is now turning to confrontation while pride is becoming arrogance and he dont seem to know where to draw the line. To make matters worse is his gang up with the Northern Governors against GEJ (We all know it is not against PDP), these kind of puts him against his people. No matter how "bad" GEJ is, we prefer him to another Aboki. I pray for him that G7 and APC will not just use and dump him.

I pity Oyinlola, from one court to another. He should negotiate a soft landing deal with the PDP just to save his face. they are all confused fellows.

Lawyers dey hammer no bi small; win or lose, lawyer go chop. I am only concerned about my big uncle Amaechi, may they not just use him against his own people and dump him. "West or North", home is the best.

From the on going it is clear gej is not interested in second term. He is now ready to play dirty and become the last president of nigeria. Inpunity and disrecpect to rule of law will sink him

aahh ahhh bros, were you expecting GEJ/PDP to reinstate Oyinlola?, if nah you U go do am?

Lesson for GEJ. No committe was set up to investigate. No House summons. Not even a query. This is the template for good leadership. When will our leaders learn?

If it was Naija/GEJ; Civil Rights Groups, APC and the other opposition parties, Human Right groups, Amnesty Int, Her Ethnic/state groups, etc including many of us here on Nairaland could have condemned the sack. As in: How will you just sack a minister based on "them say", how are you such she was the one and that it wasn't a set up. How can U just sack a minister based on a clip on Social media without investigation and a chance to fair hearing. The one-sentenced letter didnt even give any reason whatsoever.

Fighting a war (corruption) and observing the rules of engagement is the dilemma of leadership.

Please, let me ask; I pray I get a good answer cos I really don't understand it myself.

Accidental deaths are highly regrettable but sometimes i wonder why there is so much fuss about plane crash and deaths?, NASS will probe it, the presidency will be involved, Airline is banded, sometimes minister and some other high level office holders loose their job. Government gives out huge bailout funds for the aviation industry.

On the other hand, deaths in road accidents in a year is in Thousands. The above figure of 2,422 is just for 6 months not the whole year yet. That means we have about 400 deaths every month on road accidents and nothing much is being done about it. In about the same week of the Associated Airline crash that killed about 13 persons, the boat accidents on the River Niger killed scores of persons including 29 women but nothing was head about it after that day.

Hope it is not because air passengers/victims are most-likely of the rich class.

I got this on Facebook and I thought of sharing it here. I remember the wonderful thread about; why the chicken crossed the road. Enjoy.


Paul Sylvester Akpan
EVENING NEWS: Eclipse Headlines:

1. Eclipse: Boko Haram claims Responsibility

2. Don't use Eclipse to intimidate our son - Edwin Clark tells North

3. US to help Nigerian fight future Eclipse - Barack Obama

4. Nigeria Spent 500 Billion Naira on sun shades during Eclipse - Gov. Rotimi Ameachi

5. Federal Government set up Eclipse monitoring committee to be headed by Asari Dokubo

6. Eclipse minister bought 2 Armored anti Eclipse Vehicles to protect self.

7. Eclipse has weakened Nigerians confidence in your Government - APC tell Jonathan

8. Eclipse occurrence was setback to negotiations; strike continues - ASUU

9. Eclipse will not intimidate us - New PDP

10. Reps, Senators disagree over Eclipse allocation

11. You cannot use Eclipse to intimidate
Anambra Elections - Ngige tell Obi

12. Kogi state fails to acquire viewing rights for Eclipse - Kogi PDP chairman

Like seriously, I dont understand this new wave of Catholic Rev. Fathers running one Ministry or the other and organizing crusades and vigils. We Igbos have very high regards for Rev Fathers but my worry now is that some jobbers are now already taking advantage of it to deceive people. My friend used to attend one called Prof in Lagos, near trade fair along Badagry expressway. He is on dreadlocks and claim to be a former Mass Servant, he disappear for many years and later appeared as a Rev, Prophet called Prof and doing mighty miracles.

The Reverend Father (God bless His Ministry) shouldn't have allowed the Governor to use his Altar as a political campaign podium in the first place. Was he expecting that all the worshipers belonged to APGA or does he himself belong to APGA?