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Topestbilly:


This is what you get when you create a good communicating environment between you and yours staffs, also Pay salary and wages on time.

Happy birthday great man

Note that Staff has no plural. There is nothing like staffs, it's always staff.

There is nothing like 'an high price', the correct phrase is 'a high price'. The H is not silent please, Haba.

TheGoodJoe:

The volume of the money paid, the bank receipts, the account officer receiving the payments in the bank is enough to tell if the money is a payment for pension or salary.

How will the volume of money tell you whether it is pension or not, when you do not know how much pension is allowed for ex-governors under the Kwara state laws. The witness made a statement that Saraki was collecting salary, without checking whether it was pension or salary. Also please explain how the account officer in the bank will know whether it is pension or salary? Is he the one that remitted the money?

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) continues to withhold billions of dollars in oil sale revenues from the treasury under President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, a new report said.
The report released yesterday by the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) said in the second half of 2015, NNPC’s sales of export crude, domestic crude and oil from its subsidiary the Nigeria Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) totaled $6.3 billion.


Of this amount, only $2.1 billion entered the Federation Account while $4.2 billion (N827.4 billion) was not remitted, representing 66 percent of proceeds from crude oil sales for the six months, according to the NRGI report titled “NNPC Still Holds Blank Check”.
“This was 14 percent more than the corporation’s withholdings under Goodluck Jonathan in the first half of 2015, and 12 percent higher than the share withheld in 2013 and 2014,” the report, authored by Aaron Sayne and Alexandra Gillies, said.
The latest report, which is a follow up to a previous one by NRGI in 2015, themed “Inside NNPC Oil Sales: A Case for Reform,” however said some of NNPC’s withholdings cover known costs, notably its share of joint venture operating expenses.
“The corporation has not fully explained others; especially revenues retained from domestic crude and NPDC sales,” it said.
The report said that NNPC spending raises questions about fiscal responsibility–especially at a time when public finances are stretched and the federal government is looking to fund more of its budget with debt.
Makeshift practices remain
While acknowledging some of the ongoing reforms instituted by the Buhari administration in the oil sector, the report said the plans have not yet addressed how NNPC retains revenues.
On how NNPC sells the country’s oil in two streams-export sales to foreign buyers and domestic crude allocation, the report said, “This simple two-part system has broken down, however. As NNPC’s financial debts and operational problems have deepened, it has introduced more types of ad hoc oil sale transactions to work around these challenges.”
The NRGI report, which tried to unravel where the $4.2 billion of NNPC oil sales that didn’t enter the federation account went to, found that some of the money went to pay JV cash call liabilities, rather than entering the government budget while some others were spent in an unknown manner.
“In one especially questionable case, we found evidence that NNPC has retained all earnings from the offshore Oil Mining Lease (OML) 119, a field owned wholly by NPDC that produces around 30,000 barrels per day of Okono grade crude,” the report said.
The report recommended that the Buhari government should establish a clear, legally enforceable rule governing which revenues NNPC can keep and how they can be spent.
It also advised the government to move to curb the corporation’s discretionary, unaccountable use of much-needed public funds.
When contacted for comments, the NNPC said it was preparing a response to the NRGI report. But the response did not come at the time of going to press.
Daily Trust reports that the Auditor-General of Federation recently reported that the NNPC failed to remit N3.2tr ($16bn) in oil revenues to the federation account in 2014. A week later, the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) put the amount not remitted by the NNPC between 2011 and 2015 at N4.9tr ($25 bn).
NNPC disputed the auditor-general’s claims by putting out a third set of figures, saying what it owed the Federation Account was N326bn which is still being reconciled. NNPC has also promised that a forensic audit, due soon, would validate its position.

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/new-report-says-nnpc-fails-to-remit-4-2bn-under-buhari/140490.html?platform=hootsuite

A hole in the heart in a new born baby can close on its own, most times before the 1st birthday. However, in majority of cases surgery may be needed. So basically, her case is not a medical rarity, especially if it is a Secundum.

https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/holes/types

Enugu airport was shutdown for runway renovation on 10-Feb-2010
- Enugu Airport reopened for commercial aviation services on 16-Dec-2010 after the runway extension and resurfacing. (closed for ~10 months)
- Babatunde Omotoba was the aviation minister that initiated, awarded and started the project. He was replaced by Fidelia Njeze (in April 2010) who supervised the completion of the project.
- Stella Oduah was confirmed as Aviation minister on 02-July-2011

Forwetinnah:
..to me this is double jeopardy, you can't try someone for the same crime TWICE but as usual in Nigeria anything goes especially if you step on some corrupt toes. Heard the Doctor was Tinubu's mother Doctor, apparent her affiliation to GEJ during his campaign sparked some nasty feelings and the case was reopened. Normal APC witch hunting rubbish!! The only crime I think Ibinabo committed is staying alive. Area boys dragging someone out from a crushed car wasn't a smart thing to do at all. Ibinabo's Dad is a renowned and well recognised doctor too, Dr Tunde Fiberesima. So make we hear word. An accident happened, one person survived the other died..why should the person alive be punished?

This is not double jeopardy. She is not being tried twice. She was tried by the magistrate court and found guilty. The only thing being contested is the quantum of the sentence given by the magistrate court. No new witnesses were called from the High Court to the Appeal court and none will be called at the Supreme court. The only issue in contention is whether the magistrate had the right to give an option of fine in a manslaughter case.

On the issue of it being an accident, the collapsed building in Lekki was an accident too. So no one should be arrested for it.

Hasselbaink:
You are a puke. It shouldn't be "I'm" (present tense)but "I was" (past tense). Eewu

I am marking is correct. He could still be marking the script at the time he made the post

Hasselbaink:
Are you sure you are a teacher ?

You are the one that is an olodo. "I'm" is the short form of I am. I bet you wanted him to write "Am", like most of you olodos do, lol. Am is wrong English in that context. See two examples of when 'Am' can be used correctly; "Am I doing it correctly?", "who am I?". Am cannot be used as a short form of I am, the correct way to shorten I am is "I'm".

GeniusDavid:
Moment after defeating Manchester United 2-1 FC Midtjylland staffs and players were caught on camera dancing, to one of our Nigerian jams! . Don't forget Nigerian Paul Onuachu scored their winning goal ( Shout out to all Utd Fans

Oga, 'staff' has no plural.

Dplaymaker:
. 2011. he above nineteen. about 24years. we are almost age mate. it was papilo KANU dat helped him den. I remembered him claiming to own KELECHI n taye just becos he bought us training kits.

So you are guessing his age then abi? You assume he is same age with you because he played in Taye with you. Please is Sterling same age as Aguero because they play together? I thought you had an absolute factual evidence of his age apart from claiming he is your age mate. For your information, no one cares about your failed football career. So don't go guessing people's ages just to prove you know them.

You may also Google MRI and the scientifically proven age range for fused wrist bones. Kelechi passed the MRI in 2013. You can't pass an MRI at 19 years old. That is proven science not guess work. Have you asked yourself why Ghana has failed to qualify for U17 World Cup since the introduction of MRI testing?

olukenzo:
We need better laws in this country. These guys shouldn't be able to stop agents of government empowered by the constitution with the statutory rights to prosecute financial crimes from doing so. You shouldn't be able to bar the EFCC from probing or prosecuting you!

Has anyone stopped EFCC from investigating or prosecuting anyone? How is illegal detention the same as non prosecution? The courts are open, so why haven't EFCC filed any charges?

And just like that, Netflix is now available from Azerbaijan to Vietnam and just about every country in between.

Reed Hastings, CEO and co-founder of the video-streaming company, said Wednesday that Netflix has expanded to 130 more countries, growing to just about everywhere but China. The announcement marks a huge expansion for the company's streaming service, which was previously available in 60 countries.

"Today, right now you are witnessing the birth of a global TV network," he said onstage in Las Vegas during the Consumer Electronics Show.

The new countries include South Korea, India, Nigeria, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Singapore. Hastings said Netflix hopes to reach China in the future, as well, but offered no specific time frame.

The Los Gatos, California, company had already set a goal of reaching 200 countries by the end of this year, so Wednesday's announcement comes as a surprise that Netflix was able to hit that milestone well ahead of time. Wall Street rewarded the company for the move by driving Netflix shares up about 6 percent.

"This is an amazing announcement," said Jan Dawson, chief analyst at Jackdaw Research. "We've never had a paid video service that's gone truly global before."

International expansion has become a vital part of Netflix's growth strategy, since growth in the US, its biggest market, has been slowing. Netflix currently has about 70 million subscribers worldwide, with more than half of them in the US. The company's service has been a hit with consumers around the world, thanks to its strategy of coming to new countries with its growing menu of popular original content for a low monthly price.

China still remains a key market Netflix has yet to tap, despite the company's continued mention of its interest in coming there. Netflix has previously said it would consider "modest" options to come to China, though still needs a license to operate in the country.

Netflix also won't be available in Crimea, North Korea and Syria because of US government restrictions.

On top of the China holdup, Dawson noted that Netflix will likely face a lot of upfront costs from expanding to all those countries all at once.

While mostly available in English in most new countries, Netflix on Wednesday added Arabic, Korean, simplified and traditional Chinese to the 17 languages it already supports.


Netflix has helped bring about a big shift in how and when we watch videos, resulting in more binge-watching of series and more people leaving their cable subscriptions for streaming services. Hoping to become a bigger fixture of your TV, Netflix is ramping up its list of feature-length films and growing its roster of original TV shows, such as its popular political thriller "House of Cards."

Netflix also used the Wednesday presentation to show off trailers for new Netflix series coming this year, including "The Crown," an story about Queen Elizabeth in the 1950s, and "The Get Down," which is about the birth of disco and hip-hop in New York City.

Yet, as the company has grown, so has competition. Amazon and Hulu are fierce rivals, and Google is reportedly readying a push into premium content with its new subscription service, YouTube Red. With a variety of major competitors in streaming video, cable operators now face more threats to keeping their customers, but so does Netflix.

At last year's CES, Netflix provided a much smaller announcement, coming out with the "Netflix Recommended TV" program. The new evaluation program was designed to help consumers choose smart TVs that offer better performance, easier menu navigation and new features that Netflix claims improve the Internet TV viewing experience.

http://www.cnet.com/news/netflix-goes-live-in-130-new-countries/

And all his kids schooled in London, but he is here telling us that it won't be possible for other people's kids.

Smh. Too many kids on Nairaland. I don't see any guy above 26 years discussing virginity. Too many teenagers.

soty4real:
thanks for the info. IVF is expensive. LET GOVERNMENT COME IN TO SUBSIDISE IT FOR POOR COUPLES

Infertility is not considered a disease. It is not life threatening and does not effect your normal healthy living. That is why it is not subsidized in most countries. In fact, in the US only few medical Insurance schemes cover IVF.

tpiar:
doesn't azoospermia mean the testicles do not produce sperm.

Not really. There are actually two types of Azorspermia:
A. Men who have an obstruction problem or blockage, meaning they are producing sperm, but the sperm can't get out ( Obstructive azoospermia). This represents more than 90% of Azoospermia cases. For this category of people, a straight forward Testicular sperm extraction (TESE) or PESA (percutaneous epidydimal sperm aspiration) will suffice.

B.Men who have a production problem, meaning they are not making sperm, a condition called "non-obstructive " azoospermia."
The most exciting new development in the field of male infertility is the ability to treat men with severe sperm production problems called non-obstructive azoospermia. Even though these men may have no sperm in their semen, we can now find sperm between the cells of the testicles in almost half of these cases. By using an operating microscope and doing micro dissection TESE, many researchers have been able to achieve pregnancies in half of those men in whom sperm can be found within the testicle.
Surgical retrieval of spermatozoa from testes combined with ART has given new hope to those patients previously considered infertile. In cases of surgically irreparable obstruction or in cases of Congenital bilateral absence of the vas deferens (CBAVD), Microsurgical Epididymal Sperm Aspiration (MESA) with standard IVF has been shown to yield fertilization and pregnancy. However, the results were poor and unpredictable. TESA is now a well-accepted technique in the treatment of men diagnosed with OA or NOA but requires ICSI due to the immature fertilization potential of testicular sperm. Since testicular biopsy is an invasive procedure, the efficient use of TESA would reduce surgical aspirations to a single sperm retrieval by including cryopreservation.

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-04-22/news/38736445_1_sperm-count-infertile-men-male-factor-infertility

Hope the above helps

worldgee101:
Can IVF work for a man with zero sperm count? Does IVF go wt any form of surgical operation on d part of man?

Sorry I'm replying late. Yes, there is a procedure called TESE that can be used to extract sperm from the mans testicles and use for IVF. So actually there is nothing like zero sperm because there is always sperm in the testicles, the only issue is that some men are unable to release the sperm with the semen for several reasons. You may Google TESE for more information.

In normal IVF where the man can produce sperm by masturbation, there is no surgical procedure required.

jomoh:
Actually fl@thead(@bold) the two are grammatically correct.

"H" is neither a vowel nor a consonant. It is voiceless. So you're allowed to use either of the two.

But, if we're to follow the rule strictly, the op is more correct than you.

The next letter/alphabet should determine if its "a" or "an".

In this case the next alphabet has a vowel sound so the most appropriate will be an hilarious not a hilarious but you're still grammatically permitted to use either of the two in some cases.


Example:

1. "Get me a hyacinth flower for the decoration". (correct)

2. "Get me an hyacinth flower for the decoration". (incorrect)


A hilarious costume. (correct)
An hilarious costume. (correct)

You are very wrong. An can only be used when the H is silent like in honest. You cannot say 'an house' for example. It is not every word with a vowel after H that the H is silent. There are only few words like that. The problem is that there are some tribes that find it difficult pronouncing H and hence they tend to assume that the way they speak is actually how the word is pronounced.

I will suggest that before someone comes online to posit on any issue, he should first be sure of what he is saying so as not to confuse the young students in Nairaland.

You may check out this link.
http://editingandwritingservices.com/a-or-an-before-words-beginning-with-h/

Furthermore, IVF nowadays is no longer restricted to people with fertility issues. IVF is now used for genetic diagnosis. Using the methods called Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis or PGD, couples who have hereditary genetic issues like AS/AS genotype, albinism or other genetic traits can now have children that will not carry any of those traits. Also PGD can be used for sex selection for couples who want to decide the sex of their baby. You may Google PGD in IVF.

The information is not totally correct. IVF may also entail injection of sperm into the egg. This is called Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection or ICSI. This is the most common method of IVF nowadays because it gives a much higher possibility of egg fertilization. ICSI was originally meant for couples with male fertility problems, but is now the preferred method in IVF.

Also IVF is not just for women with blocked Fallopian tubes. More than 60% of IVF cases are because of Male ferlitity issues. Note also that blocked Fallopian tubes represent only a fraction of female infertility cases.

deking:
@ $38 per barrel and 2.2million b/d considering 260 days the Govts daily earnings from oil will be

$38 X 2.2M X 260 =$21736 Million

@ N196 = $1

This gives $21736 Million X 196 = N4260256 million i.e N4.260256T

With this figures and considering the other loopholes that have been blocked this is more than a possible feat.

The government doesn't have to borrow if the price of petrol continues to hover around the 43$ benchmark.

You forgot that the Federal Government does not own 100% of the oil revenue? The Oil companies and the states also share in the oil revenue. So your calculation is wrong.

Ahmedie25:
If APC can achieved this in Bayelsa then very soon PDP will become an history in Nigeria,

You guys never learn! There is nothing in English language like 'an history', the correct phrase is 'a history'. The 'h' is NOT silent. I know some of you cannot pronounce 'h', but please don't write the way you pronounce! haba.

This happened in Malawi in September. See the main story below:

A maid is being investigated after she allegedly chopped off the hands of her married employer's baby because he refused to admit that he is the father of her child, police in Malawi said.

Chiradzulu police said that they are investigating the 19-year-old maid of the wealthy businessman, who cut off the hands of her employer’s newborn baby.

According to claims made by the maid, her employer had sex with her several times and she got pregnant.

When the businessman learned that his maid got pregnant, he made it clear that he will not take responsibility for the child and will not support her.

When the employer refused to acknowledge paternity of the child after the birth, the maid cut off the hands of his baby in protest.

She is being investigated on a charge of assault causing grievous bodily harm after the mother of the baby called police to report the incident.

http://www.worldwideweirdnews.com/2015/09/20-Maid-cuts-off-babys-hands-employer-got-her-pregnant.html

dustmalik:
In this case, he premise on saying that was on the constitution of the tribinal. In his own wordings, "the tribunal is not properly constituted ". Which is wrong and derogatory. That is contempt.

It is standard legal practice for a lawyer to challenge the jusridiction of a court and the judge is obliged to address that and rule on the issue of jurisdiction before proceeding with the case. There is nothing contemptious about that. i will advise that people who are not in the legal profession should desist from making unfounded statements on issues they know nothing about.

The contractor said he was paid N10m for the upgrade. Fashola said it was N12m, note that in his first response to the allegation he actually said N10m. The contractor in his respense included maintenance, countdown clock, mobile apps and lifetime maintenance as part of the said N10m, (http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/188050-it-firm-denies-receiving-n78-million-for-fasholas-website.html) Fashola is now saying that these were not part of the N12 abi na N10m, but were paid as additional costs.

How come the contractor, in his response, did not include all the other services that came to N78m? Or was there another contractor, apart from Info Access, that handled these additional services? If there was, what's the name of the company? Why was the company name not mentioned as part of the contract award?

asiwaju:
Fayose and the stupid Clerk of the House, Mr Tola Esan (an homosexuel)are just joking,Fayose will be impeached before june 6.

It is 'a homosexual' not 'an homosexual'. The 'H' is not silent. I know you cannot pronounce 'H' due to your lingual limitations, but please don't carry your limitations into writing. Thank you.

kasheemawo:
kikikikikikikikiki
GMB is an hero
Rotimi amachi is my role model !!!

It is 'a hero' not 'an hero'. The H is not silent.

Smoking is not a sin. In Italy, even Roman Catholic Cardinals smoke. Smoking is only a sin in countries like Nigeria where smoking has always been seen as originating from the desire to "do guy".

If smoking is a sin because 'it destroys the body' , then sugar is a big sin because it causes diabetes and Palm oil is a huge sin because it causes high cholesterol. Everyone knows that sugar is dangerous because of its relationship to diabetes but no one has come here to say it's a sin to take sugar. Same with palm oil and many other food we eat.

Buhari did not murder his father. His dad was a drug peddler who was found guilty of drug Trafficking. He was found guilty under an existing law they prescribed death penalty. It was only Bath Owoh that was executed based on the retroactive action of that same law. That was why the petitions and protests on that law related only to Bath Owoh, becauee at the time he commited the crime, the law was not in place. That was not the case for Ojuolope who commited the same crime after the law was passed and was therefore correctly executed.

So for Ojuolope's son, there is nothing to forgive. His father was correctly found guilty and executed. Its ike Anini's son saying he has forgiven those that executed his father.

Enugu state primaries is still going on at Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium with all the PDP dignitaries in attendance, Gov. Chime, Ekweremadu, Nnaji etc. Ayogu's so called primaries held in a hotel in New Heaven is ridiculous. Maybe he wants to be settled when everything is concluded.

Adedayo516:
The level of ignorance on this trend is on top notch steroids...

It's 'thread' not 'trend'.