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free2ryhme: I can imagine if dis happend in nigeria

What would have happened? During Babangidä regime, Zik was erroneously reported dead and the President office released condolence message.

It turned out to be a hoax. Duro Onabule (the chief press secretary to the president) that released the statement still continued in office kampe.

In plain English, does University of Ibadan means the university belongs to Ibadan? There exist State of California in US yet it is not different from Texas State which was even an independent republic up to 1845 before it voluntarily joined the USA as the 28th state .

But like somebody already posted, legal meanings are not necessarily same as ordinary dictionary meanings.

@koruji. You are not entirely right that the constitution only listed the names of states without clarifying if they are 'of' or not. In the Schedule to the Constitution(same as where states are listed) but the one on the Oath of Office, it expressly states that Governor take oath as "Governor of _ _ _ _ State" not as "Governor of State of _ _ _ _". Same for members of the House of Assembly of a state or Judicial officials of a state's courts.

Black Peni5: DANA Air's Juju is very strong...I need to know that baba.

The first airline in the country to continue operating after an air disaster.

Nigeria Airways' F-28 plane crashed in Enugu in 1981 killing passengers on board. Its flights schedule continued even on the day of the accident. Not a minute suspension

PROUD-IGBO:
^^^On the bolded: he can do it on the streets of Enugu, Onitsha, Aba, Umuahia, Owerri, Yenagoa, Uyo, Calabar, Asaba, Warri, and Port Harcourt, so speak for yourself and your own region only.

In those listed places really? Well, he won't be killed, he will be adultnapped. We still remember one queenmother abi na queen sef for oghwasi-uku

Crownvilla: Why not eat your cake and have it? I beleive mortgages are the next big money earner in Nigeria. How many Nigerians do you think, would jump at the chance of owning their own homes via a mortgage?

This market is an untapped goldmine!!!!!!!

Back to your question, why not invest in real estate via the Stock Exchange. Right now there is only one listed mortgage firm on the NSE, namely, Union Homes. Effectively, if you buy shares in Union Homes you are killing two birds with a stone, investing in real estate and shares in one fell swoop.

LBIC recently did a PP, I suspect their shares will head for the moon whenever they are listed. A few other mortgage firms are rumoured to be close to a PP or full listing on the NSE.

Very wrong information and advise on all counts.

First, union homes is not the only listed mortgage bank. There are many. Aso savings is there, Abbey buildings society is there. Etc

Second, not only that most of the listed mortgage firms are unprofitable, they are having dwindling capital base hence the directive of CBN that all mortgage banks should recapitalized to between N2.5b and N5billion latest by April 2013

Most if not all listed mortgage banks are trading at par of 50 kobo each so no capital appreciation.

What you should have advised him on is may be to invest in listed Real Estate Investment Trust Scheme (REITS). You may read up more on that.

chucky234: Dumb beetle-headed goon like you is the reason why this country is where it is today,in a country of 150m people Maina single handedly stashed N23bn in a foreign bank accounts while the mases languish in poverty yet your combobulated brain see nothing wrong with it.
You are a disgrace to this nation,idio:t.

danny301: Brainless people like you are the problem of Nigeria...It's not the national assembly that is fooling you, i think you are a fool by birth. U type rubbish just with ur fingers without the use of brain.... Maina or whatever you called him stole 23 billion naira in a country where an average citizen lived below 1 dollar a day and all you can say is to bash national assembly members for rising against him. If Maina has other dirty secrets about the national assembly as you are stupidly saying why is running away? He should have come out with that secret.

You are actually the brainless here. Maina is the chairman of the specially constituted presidential task force that discovered the N23billion fraud. How did the hunter become the hunted. Senate was only acting on the allegation of the indicted police pension officials that maina's committee spent recklessly in the course of carrying out its investigation. E.g N1billion was allegedly spent by the committee to capture biometric data of pensioners living outside the country. Last year when Maina appeared before the senate to defend his committee, it was a shouting march reminiscent of Sanusi -senate face off. After that, he refused to honor their invitation hence the current saga.

Akpan107: N750,000 as alowance in a Month, not Salary. Now, tell me, how much do you think would be his Salary?

He does not earn traveling allowance unless he travels. Since he does not travel everyday of the month, you cannot just multiply by 30 days.

BTW, The allowance is just a sort of inconvenience allowance. All his travelling expenses will be catered for by the protocol department.

toba: U may be right but i think the ideal fast is the kind of Jesus' fast. No Food no water. Personally i feel eating or drinking water is no fast. What distinguishes us from the Muslims that eat breakfast at 4.30am and still claims to be fasting?

I think its personal depending all how we look at it. May God reward us

Muslims 'claim' to fast or they actually fast. Do I detect hint of religious intolerance here? Their Quaran says they should fast between sunrise and sunset in a specific month. That is what their God decree and they follow it. Any problem with that?

If they hit back now asking you to specifically point to bible verse(s) that give Christians different leeways they introduce to fasting like 12am - 6pm; 6am-6pm; 6am - 12noon; 6am-3pm; some sipping water while fasting; some eating only fruits; even different month of fasting among different denominations; can u take up the challenge?

I wish you peace and spiritual uplifting as you embark on your fasting and as you make efforts to draw nearer to your God as demanded by your faith.

warrior01: Yeah, you really missed something; MTN paid $285 million for only Gsm licence while your hard working Globacom only paid $20 million for all encompassing Second National Carrier which includes Gsm licence et al. so what do you think happened?

Get your story right. The deposit of $20million which CIL paid in 2001 alongside mtn and others for gsm was forfeited to federal government because it paid the balance with unacceptable conditions.

CIL transformed to glo in 2003 to get SNC licence at $285million. So glo can be said to actually pay $305m

According to the article, the question was about "the role of the opposition in the centenary celebrations" how does the long epistle given by anyim relate to the question.

soloyes: They have very strong reasons for doing that because mixed jews have always proved disloyal to the jewish state in the long run. They have to do that so as to ensure the future security of the jewish state since by so doing, only the pure breeds will continually dominate the polity.

What is the difference between this policy and hitler's policy

deletrue: Am sure you know one stark illitrate called chief Ayirimi Emami an Itisekri man, also very relation to both Ibori and Udeaghan. I was close to where he was celebrating his berth day. Do know that this chief was offering televisions, Pressing Iron, big size radio, ceiling and standing fans, gas cooke etc. as bert days gifts? Now tell me if this group of people are normal? And you are there saying Ibori should be left alone. When Udeaghan whose atrocities are far more than Ibori's time comes, you will say again that he should be left alone. No body is saying Ibori is the worst but it is turn by turn.

Apparently, it is not only the chief that is stark illiterate. BTW, who says an illiterate cannot be rich enough to celebrate his birthday on grand scale?

[size=18pt]Why emir of kano was target of terrorists[/size]

Yesterday’s convoy attack would not go down in history as the first time attempts would be made on the life of the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero. But for providence, the Emir would have been killed as far back as the 9th day of July, 2010.

On that fateful Friday, the traditional ruler narrowly escaped being killed by a lone gunman who attempted to shoot him during the Muslim Juma’at prayer in Kano at the palace mosque.

The suspect, 19 year-old Usman Abubakar, who lived in the Doraji Quarters in Kano Metropolis, was stopped by the police before he could carry out the dastardly act. One Alhaji Abubakar Batakayen who Abubakar said sent him on the errand to kill the Emir, was also arrested.

Although Batakaye denied ordering Abubakar to murder the Emir, the duo was charged with attempted murder, and they were still standing trial when Abubakar, the lone gunman, died in detention after suffering from an undisclosed ailment.

The Emir was once again targeted for violent attack shortly after President Goodluck Jonathan was declared the winner of the 2011 presidential elections ahead of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC’s), General Muhammadu Buhari.

A band of rampaging youths, under the guise of protesting the result of the election, set ablaze vehicles parked at the Emir’s palace and also attempted to forcefully gain entry into the Emir’s palace.

It took the swift intervention of the Police to curb the attack. The Emir, who was reported to be within the premises at the time, was whisked to safety while hundreds of policemen stood guard at the palace for days after the incident.

The respected traditional ruler was again to be threatened with attack on the 28th of July, 2011 when the dreaded Islamic Sect, Boko Haram, wrote to inform him of their intention to attack the palace and the city of Kano.

The sect on the same day warned the Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, that it was prepared to launch a series of attacks across the state. The letters were signed by the sect’s assistant spokesperson, Abu Zaid. [The attack was eventually carried out on January 20, 2012 in which over 300 people died]

The sect accused Bayero of conniving with security agents and some district heads to arrest its members. They demanded the immediate release of their arrested men and threatened to make Kano State more ungovernable than Maiduguri the Borno State capital.

As if to make good its threat the sect attacked the Mandawari Police Station located by Ado Bayero’s Palace, weeks after their letter. Several police officers on duty were injured as gunmen fired sporadically at the building for nearly an hour that Monday morning.

Police reinforcement later foiled what many said was an attempt to invade the palace as the gunmen who also used explosives during the attack, were beaten back by the superior firepower of the police. No one was arrested at the scene of the attack.

Following alleged security report that assassins may once again be after his life, Ado Bayero, according to reports, was forced to cancel the 2012 edition of the 700 year old annual Durbar ceremony.

It was the first time the Sallah Durbah would be cancelled in its history. Sources close to the Emirate disclosed that asides the security report, the suspension of the Durbar activities was also because of the prevailing security situation in the state.

http://thenationonlineng.net/new/news/a-monarchs-many-brushes-with-death/

The attack must have been carried out to commemorate the one year anniversary of their biggest attack on any town so far - the January 20, 2012 siege on Kano

fonzie2u: .

The statement still remains meaningless.

What are you finding difficult to comprehend there? Mini-buses were banned from most city center routes effective 15th January and it was enforced on that day
Due to public outcry, on 16th January, the government lifted the ban for 3 weeks to allow for streamlining the policy before implementing the ban again after 3 weeks.

O'baller:
On the Good side....she looks really fabulous.....on the other side...it could be that she was part of the Calabar festival mascots...

The photograph was taken at Anglican church abuja during the new year service

The questions being asked by this lawyer look more like witchunting. If it is for corruption, is he going to prosecute the case of corruption against a public official himself without involving the attorney general and icpc? And who say those offices dont have the figures akready. If it is to generate public debate to prove profligacy by Sanusi, he should have extended the question to cover the tenure of Sanusi predecessors in office so that we can compare.

Jollyzone: Never miscontrue tatoo for crest, they are quite different... In the past tribes in nigeria wear crest or tribal marks for easy identification but not tatoo

You are very WRONG. The tattoo in yorubaland is tattoo and permanent. My granny and my mum got them. My mum was octogenarian when she died. The Yoruba tattoo followed the same process as foreign ones sans machine. Many needles are bunched together and dipped into dye which are then used to make the design on the body. Herbs are then used to treat the marks for many days until the tattoo heals. Yorubas call it finfin.

Very soon we will start crediting plaiting of hair to Americans. Mental slavery

drnoel: wait make una wait. U guys are not asking the right questions. Mr Femi Otedola, who happens to be an expert in denying pregnancies he is responsible for and is now also involved in Lawangate scandle happens to be a Billionaire. He sold stationaries then in 1986 and his family was well to do (not super rich). Pls someone tell me, when from 1986 to 2012 did this man move from someone from a well to do family selling stationaries to be an oil magnate billionaire.

In 1986, Ifeanyi Uba was just a 15 years old kid. How did he become super rich now to own Capital Oil that controls almost 30% of Nigeria fuel business?

The guy embarrassed the boss more than the lady even. For God sake, how would he say such in the presence of the lady's husband who is also his boss.
What made him think that the husband didn't see it but was waiting for him to go out before drawing the wife's attention while silently hoping that the PA has not feasted his eyes on what oga paid for.

Any public holiday declared by a state must be observed by banks according to CBN policy. So how are imolites going to cope with cashless 2 weeks economy?

Postscript: see how the thread is neat. If it had been one aboki governor that declare this type of holiday, I just wonder the kind of contributions we would have.

Just a minor cabinet reshuffle. She is now special assistant on public affairs.

Jerie: As the circular dey 'oluwoleish'reach, those wey dem name dey on top don talk, if you no like am, enter helicopter go PH. Siddon there dey talk grammar. Those wey no sabi am reach you na dem dey Government House.

No be afta im don write am finish, im commissioner for information go igbajo go add oluomo title join akinrogun wey he hold before. Yeye dey smell.

Billyonaire: 2. Memo has a mistake, its spelt 'Until' not 'Untill".

At the risk of digressing from the object of the thread, to be frank, the circular is 'ungubernatorial' (to adapt Okadigbo's words)

What is "Circular Letter"? A circular is a letter meant for general circulation. Why the tautology in a correspondence emanating from a state's highest office.

The addressee section of the circular makes it look more like an internal memo within the government house. Normally it should have been routed through the office of the secretary to the state government that has the responsibility to enforce the policy since it is government-wide issue (or through the head of service if it affects only civil servants) and copied to properly named office holders. EXCO is colloquial and not an acronym known to the constitution, so should not feature in official letter especially from the governor's office.

The appropriate apostrophe before Gboyega should be the closing one since it is to show that some letters are left out before the G

The circular really look 'oluwoleish' as you said.

afam4eva: Did anyone see this?

emmatok: Is Benin and Port harcourt now SE?

The zones used for the award are not the geo-political zones. For the purpose of the award, nigeria is divided into three viz: north, south west and south east only

@OP. is that news or just an opinion piece?

A lady should cross legs at the ankles not at thighs. The pose of the woman in the picture is not elegant

crackhouse: Let me guess, prezzo's money should remain about $120,000 by now. The money don dey finish small small o.

Prezzo was not the winner of BBA. He won only a trip to USA, no dollar

Chidi4u: Remember what we call the Nigeria Press most of them are owned and operated by Yoruba's and in the South West.

Apart from Punch and Tribune, name others owned by SW

^^^ you should ask how many GMs does FAAN have. The list is for those sacked. Possibly there are many more still left in service but non-yorubas.

Did they really imprison the man for drug or this is just mis-information? Last I checked, saudi beheads drug carriers.