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CelebritiesKing Sunny Ade To Perform At RCCG by lajoshua(op): 7:57am On Oct 26, 2016
The National Headquarters of the Redeemed Christian Church of God will on Sunday, October 30, hold the 2016 edition of its Praise Mega Jamz, featuring juju maestro, King Sunny Ade.

The event will hold at the Main Auditorium, RCCG National Headquarters, Throne of Grace, Redemption Way, Ebute Meta, Lagos.

The RCCG Assistant General Overseer, Administration and Personnel, Pastor J.F. Odesola, said in a statement on Tuesday that the programme was put together to appreciate God’s grace over all the saved souls including King Sunny Ade who became born again on January 1, 2011 at the RCCG National Headquarters, Ebute Meta.

According to Odesola, the event is also to commemorate King Sunny Ade’s 70th birthday.
To share the stage with KSA at the events are other gospel musicians such as Ayan Jesu, Perfected Praise Singers, Rivers of Living Water, Oasis of Life, RCCG TOG Orchestra and others.
“The programme will start at 7.30am. We urge the general public to join us on this date to fellowship with Christ,” Odesola said.

source:http://www.voiceofaudacity.com/2016/10/king-sunny-ade-to-perform-at-rccg.html

WebmastersRe: How To Add More Cross Columns To Your Blog by lajoshua: 7:14am On Oct 26, 2016
benzems:
How to add latest news widget on blog
on breaking news widgets on blog
could you chat me up on bbm I've got a few things to say about your blog... getting a custom domain and others stuff.. my pin is on my signature.
RomanceRe: See A Girl Who Committed Suicide Because She Was Pregnant For Her Lover (photo) by lajoshua: 8:06pm On Oct 25, 2016
KingCheezyPuff:
[color=#00cccc]I'm rude!!!! undecided when you keep trying 2 say I look like this lady ,she don't look like me!
It's a bit insulting no slighting of her appearance intended.
And there's also the fact she's deceased.
~~
So excuse me if I'm not displaying my manners undecided
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Alright sowi.... you don't see it do you??... from the beginning it was meant to be a shade.. like I was pulling your legs.. do you get ?? so calm down dear
Nairaland GeneralRe: Kenyan Woman Hires Helicopter After Car Broke Down by lajoshua(op): 7:19pm On Oct 25, 2016
slimthugchimee:
optimone load of crap

waste of space, time and human body undecided


go find some to fill your scrutinzed empty school undecided


rubish thing undecided

RomanceRe: See A Girl Who Committed Suicide Because She Was Pregnant For Her Lover (photo) by lajoshua: 7:16pm On Oct 25, 2016
KingCheezyPuff:
[color=#2ecc71]don't correct my spelling undecided
And don't link me 2 tragic stories.
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i didnt mean to 'link' you to it...it was an on the spot stuff..when i saw her picture you just popped up in my head. my bad, but still you are quite rude. undecided undecided

Nairaland GeneralRe: Kenyan Woman Hires Helicopter After Car Broke Down by lajoshua(op): 7:10pm On Oct 25, 2016
slimthugchimee:
its still none of my business undecided undecided

Nairaland GeneralRe: Kenyan Woman Hires Helicopter After Car Broke Down by lajoshua(op): 7:08pm On Oct 25, 2016
Benita27:
Her money... her life... she can do whatever she chose to. grin
Even the way some nairalanders brag here seun no dey even talk. grin
Exactly dear...slimthugchimee nairalanders are noisemakers grin grin grin grin
RomanceRe: See A Girl Who Committed Suicide Because She Was Pregnant For Her Lover (photo) by lajoshua: 6:57pm On Oct 25, 2016
KingCheezyPuff:
[color=#00cccc]Boy!!!/ undecided you havin' site problems?! She don't look like me [/color]
you know I'll pretend I didn't see "boy"...and girl it's sight. gerrithuh

Nairaland GeneralRe: Kenyan Woman Hires Helicopter After Car Broke Down by lajoshua(op): 6:38pm On Oct 25, 2016
slimthugchimee:
so hows that any of our business undecided undecided

Nairaland GeneralRe: Kenyan Woman Hires Helicopter After Car Broke Down by lajoshua(op): 6:36pm On Oct 25, 2016
Benita27:
Africans are gifted with bragging mentality...Those bashing her would have done same if in her shoes.
abi oo...lalasticlala grin grin
Nairaland GeneralKenyan Woman Hires Helicopter After Car Broke Down by lajoshua(op):
A Kenyan woman has become the talk of town after she hired a chopper when her vehicle broke down in the middle of the road .
The lady by the name of Corletta Okila sensing her expensive vehicle will take long to be repaired decided to call an Uber chopper to come and pick her up . see also
She took to Facebook to share her tale while snapping photos .
“So our car broke down in the middle of a highway and we had to call Uber chopper we ’ ll be home in 10 minutes thank God # ujaluo itatumaliza, ” Okila posted on Facebook .
Her recent antic has attracted serious debate online as many people the cost of hiring a helicopter which is quite expensive should have been used to help the needy in the society and not something to be used for bragging .
see pictures below

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PhonesWhatsapp Rolls Out Video Call Feature by lajoshua(op):
New beta versions of WhatsApp’s Android app now include a major feature: Video calls.
It’s as easy as you might imagine: pull up a contact in the app, tap the call button and choose ‘Video call’. If the other person has a version of WhatsApp that supports the feature, it’ll launch a FaceTime-like call; if not, you’ll be notified that your contact needs to update their app.
The feature was first spotted by Android Police , which reported that video calling had become available on WhatsApp’s recent beta builds for some users. I tried installing version 2.16.318 (451462) on a couple of different Android phones and found it to work just fine.
Call quality was fine, but I noticed a bit of lag even on a 50Mbps Wi-Fi network. Of course, WhatsApp is likely to address that; it asked for quality feedback on video calls, so hopefully it’ll take that into account before making the feature available on stable builds.
With more than a billion users already on its network, WhatsApp could effectively ruin the game for Google’s single-purpose app Duo , which only does video calls at the moment.
For that matter, Facebook-owned WhatsApp has been steadily improving its product in the past few months, adding features like user tags in group chats , the ability to
draw and add stickers to images a la Snapchat and support for placing calls and composing messages with Siri on .iOS devices. It’s even testing a public chat feature that could become available in the near future.

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CelebritiesRe: Photo Of Wizkid And Olamide That Got People Thinking by lajoshua: 3:52pm On Oct 25, 2016
bloggers shaa... issokay let's hear what uncle lai has to say

PoliticsRe: Fayose Blasts FG, Miyetti Allah Over Threat On Ekiti People by lajoshua: 3:22pm On Oct 25, 2016
fayose my guy... lalasticlalagrin

CelebritiesRe: Doris Simeon Stuns In Agbada For Movie Premiere by lajoshua: 3:11pm On Oct 25, 2016
nice.... but no one does it like my first lady sha ..Aisha Buhari.. I've come to love this woman recently she exudes class

PoliticsRe: Lagos Set To Launch Economic Team After Named 5th Largest Economy In Africa by lajoshua: 3:10pm On Oct 25, 2016
good good... what does uncle lai have to saygrin

CelebritiesRe: Lola Alao Strikes Poses With Kogi State 1st Lady As She Empowers Kogi Youths by lajoshua: 3:08pm On Oct 25, 2016
ohh is this not this religiously confused lady**no offense**...

FoodRe: Shocking!!! See The Two Scary Kidney Like Things I Found Inside A Paw Paw by lajoshua: 3:02pm On Oct 25, 2016
This front page game is strong oo.. well over to you lalasticlala.grin

RomanceRe: See A Girl Who Committed Suicide Because She Was Pregnant For Her Lover (photo) by lajoshua: 3:02pm On Oct 25, 2016
Presh900:
[color=Purple]cc:KingCheezyPuff[/color]
hahahaha see casting
PhonesRe: Breaking: Video Calls Are Going Live In Whatsapp. Updated by lajoshua: 2:56pm On Oct 25, 2016
oh my!!! mark has really got his game on
RomanceRe: See A Girl Who Committed Suicide Because She Was Pregnant For Her Lover (photo) by lajoshua: 2:53pm On Oct 25, 2016
chaiii... she looks like one babe on nairaland with the moniker: chezzypuff or so.. can't really remember

PoliticsRe: Breaking News: Niger Delta Avengers Blow Up Chevron Export Pipeline by lajoshua: 2:50pm On Oct 25, 2016
nawa ooo.. e be like say this myn.d guy get plenty enemies oo.

PoliticsRe: Elderly Woman From Maiduguri: "Anybody Who Goes Against Buhari Is A Boko Haram" by lajoshua: 2:46pm On Oct 25, 2016
eheenn en... mummy mummygringrin

Science/TechnologyGood Riddance To Nepa:five Ways To Charge Your Mobile Without Chargers by lajoshua(op):
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The fire-side charger
What charges your phone while warming your soup? It is a BioLite’s CampStove. A portable stove for the outdoor gadgeteer, this nifty contraption uses the heat from a campfire to generate electricity by way of a thermoelectric generator, which then powers a fan to create airflow for improved combustion.see here
Surplus electricity is sent to the USB port for use in charging electronic devices.
Basically, plug in your phone, sit around burning wood and toasting marshmallows for a while and, after around two hours, your empty smartphone will be back to life.
The BioLite CampStove might not be the most useful phone charger in the market, but it certainly works and you have to give its creators points for out-of-the-box thinking.
The sun
If you’re really keen on using fire to charge your phone, you may just want to consider going all out by using the sun
You know that massive ball of burning gas at the centre of the solar system. Well, it turns out that it throws off astonishing 400 trillion watts on regular basis – roughly the amount of energy it will take to power 500,000 years of our current civilisation in a single second. And, yes, that includes charging phones. Of course, harnessing the sun’s rays is the tricky bit — which is why we can be thankful for the Solio Bolt Solar Charger + Battery Pack from the aptly-named Better Energy Systems.
With its on-board battery and rotating solar panels, the Solio Bolt charges can charge USB-powered gadgets ranging from smartphone to MP3 player, e-reader and cameras.
The maximum voltage is 5V; but there are a few more ingenious ways to recharge your batteries. On average, a smartphone will take around three hours to go from zero to full.
Hey, who could dislike a gadget whose slogan tells us to just ‘Plug into the sun’?
A piece of fruit
What could be more appropriate than charging an iPhone with an actual apple (or more subversive than doing the same with a Samsung Galaxy)? Well, provided that you’ve got the right tools, a bit of time and, presumably, some fruit you’re less than keen to eat, it can be done.
Essentially, what you’re building here is a circuit – like the ones you used to put together in science classes – using a regulation vegetable battery, created by sticking strips of zinc and copper into your fruit or root vegetable of choice.
The electricity comes from the oxidation of zinc, with the organic matter serving as a conductive barrier, and the copper (in the form of a penny) completing the circuit.
One fruit/vegetable will generate around half a volt of electricity, with stacks of alternating layers of vegetables, zinc and copper creating a lasagna-like battery series, each set adding to the total voltage.
It might be a cool experiment, but it’s by far the least efficient phone charging method on this list (which is presumably why it hasn’t been commercialised).
As science enthusiast, Theodore Gray performs an experiment. This is explained in his book, Mad Science 2: Experiments You Can Do At Home, But Still Probably Shouldn’t: “To charge an iPhone I had to rearrange the battery into six stacks of about 20 apple/penny slices each, with the six stacks connected in parallel to increase the current capacity. Even so it charged the phone for literally about one second, just long enough for it to come on and display the charging symbol.”
The wind turbine
Do you think the term iFan applies only to a person who camps outside the Apple Store the night before a new model iPhone is released? Think again.
The iFan’s wind turbine approach to charging allows users to harness the ‘green’ power of the wind to energise their smartphones.
Designed by ‘3D interior and exterior designer, Tjeerd Veenhoven uses a modified computer fan.
The charging process takes around six hours – but enthusiastic (and fit) callers can speed it up by attaching their iFan to a bicycle.
The hand-crank
Desperate smartphone users will get around 30 seconds of talk time per minute of cranking the BoostTurbine 2000, with the potential to crank all the way to a full charge. At 2000 mAh, you won’t be able to effectively charge laptops or tablets, but phones, MP3 players and other 5V personal electronics should all work effectively.
Eton’s BoostTurbine 2000 is a purveyor of hand-cranked emergency devices – mainly flashlights, radios, and the sort-geared toward outdoor enthusiasts and survivalists.

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PoliticsCattle Grazing:fct Bans Cows From Streets by lajoshua(op):
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has initiated a fight against cattle grazing and roaming in the Abuja city centre.
Ministerial Task Team on Environment under the Chairmanship of Squadron Leader Abdullahi Monjel, has been inaugurated to keep the animals off the streets of Abuja.
Cows
The ban on cattle movement in the city came amidst protests by residents that the animals constitute nuisance and threat to lives.
The FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Bello, has met with members of the Miyatti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, FCT Chapter on the matter.
At the meeting held in his office, the minister directed the association to nominate some of its educated young men to be part of the committee.
He reiterated that herdsmen must move their cattle out of the Federal Capital City because there is no way, such animals can co-habit with the residents.
Malam Bello emphasized that even for safety reasons, cattle should not roam on the streets and highways in the city and this is not because the government wants to prevent cattle breeders from raring cattle in the Territory.
“You have to understand that when Abuja Environmental Protection Board says cattle should not roam the city, it is not because they want to prevent cattle breeders from raring cattle in the FCT. Basically, it is just for safety. It is for safety of your cattle and above all, safety of the citizens.”
According to him, “In a modern city, it’s not possible for animals and vehicles to move together on the roads because this could cause accidents which in some cases could be fatal, and it is our duty to protect lives and property”.
Malam Bello said that the FCT Administration has moved a step further to even identify new grazing reserves that will cater for their requirements.
“A total of 33,485 hectares have already been earmarked for grazing reserves to cater for about 7 million herds of cattle comprising of Paikon Kore 8,500 hectares; Karshi 6,000 hectares; Kawu in Bwari 9,000; hectares and Rubochi in Kuje which is 9,985 hectares,” the Minister revealed.
Malam Bello noted that the critical issue is compensation for the farmers that are there but assured that his Administration will work together with the National Assembly to resolve that amicably.
The Minister remarked that the FCT Administration may even reach out to the host communities to work out a situation where compensation does not have to be in monetary terms because of the large expanse of land involved.
“Nothing should prevent the communities that are there and the Fulanis living together because you don’t always have to move people away,” he stressed.
The Chairman of the FCT Chapter of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, Malam Yahaya Isah, promised to continue to interface with the government to promote peaceful co-existence.


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EducationImportant Information For Prospective Youth Corps Members(see Details) by lajoshua(op):
I got this on a whatsapp group and thought my dear blog readers should hear about this first. This information would be handy for those about to embark on the National youth service. See the information after the cut.
" *NYSC Special ANNOUNCEMENT!​*
Good afternoon house members, dis information is 4 all d awaiting corps.
you will be asked to choose the state of your choice, but it must be a state outside your geopolitical zone. So you can check out this for you to know where you can serve and where you are free to choose. If your own state fall under southeast, it means you cant serve in southeast. this will guide you on what to do........
SOUTH EAST-5​ States =(Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi , Enugu, Imo).
SOUTH SOUTH- 6​ States=(Akwa-ibom, bayelsa, cross river, delta, edo,rivers).
SOUTH WEST- 6​ States=(Ekiti, lagos, ogun, ondo, osun, oyo).
NORTH EAST- 6​ States=(Adamawa, bauchi, borno, gombe, taraba, yobe).
NORTH WEST- 7​ States=(Jigawa, kaduna, kano, katsina, kebbi, sokoto, zamfara).
NORTH CENTRAL- 6​ States=(Benue, kogi, kwara, nassarawa, niger, plateau).
NOTE:​ feasibility study shows that there shall be 7 geopolitical zones, which lagos shall be referred as one, but abuja shall be under north central zone.1​. Prepare Your Mind:
First and foremost, you need to prepare your mind that you uare leaving home for a regimented life in the camp. Life in the camp is deliberately made stressful so as to prepare you for any challenge that may confront you outside the camp.
You will not find it too comfortable, It’s a camp and not your Father’s house! Just be ready for anything.
2.​ Itemize All Your Needs Using A Scale Of Preference
(very important ones first):
1. Very Important Ones
a. Statement of Result
b. School ID Card
c. Passport photographs (30 copies, Surplus is better than
inadequacy)
d. Call-Up Letter (DO NOT laminate it please)
e. A Clear Bag file (To house the above items)
NB: Get 10 photocopies each of items A,B, and D above.
The copies may be surplus.
2. Important Ones (For your Convenience)
a. Stapler, pin and office gum (will save you the stress of
‘borrow-me’)
b. Two or three white T-shirts and shorts (You will be
given two sets but you may not like the quality)
c. Two or three pairs of socks and a white rubber tennis
shoes (for rainy days)
d. Bathroom slippers and Dettol
f. Two plastic buckets (You can buy it in the camp but it
will be more expensive) and a permanent marker
g. Sponge and its case, bath-soap and detergent
h. Bedsheet, towel and wrapper and two pairs of casual
wear
i. Mosquito Net (not compulsory)
j. Handkerchiefs (very important especially for those that
sweat)
k. Waist bag (very very important for housing your phones,
ID Cards, Handkerchief, biros, etc)
l. Novels
m. Small-sized Torchlight/Rechargeable lamp (small one
please)
n. Your ATM card(s)
o. Cooler cup and spoon
p. Phone and charger
q. Beverages
r. Ladies could add any other few conveniences. I believe
you understand me
s. Money! Money! Money! Hold good cash please
depending on how you spend
3. Go Early:
Please, no matter how close the camp might be to your
street, enable to go early. If you are posted to a far state,
go the day before the camp opens. They will allow you in.
Going late will make you go through registration stress. Be
warned!
4. Screening:
The screening starts at the gate, where your loads are
open and thoroughly search. They don’t want you to bring
in prohibited items like iron, knives, bombs, etc.
5. Registration:
The first registration will certainly be for hostel/bedspace,
where you;ll be given tags to identify with. Then the paper
registrations proper follows. try as much as possible to
make everything available. Look out for information
pasted on walls. Follow instructions strictly.
6. Your Kits:
During the registration, you will get all your kits (shirts,
shorts and shoes). Use the marker to write your Code
Number (CN) on them ‘sharp-sharp” You will also be
given a tag that will show your CN. That will be your ID
Card temporarily. You take it everywhere in camp. You will
be given a meal ticket. Misplace it and forget about NYSC
food.
7. Duration:
You will be in the camp for 20 full days. The 21st day is
the day you will be leaving the camp.
8. No Room For Casual Wears:
Immediately you have your kits, only your T-shirt and
shorts with the tennis shoe are allowed on you. No room
for casual wears. Parade/marching training starts
immediately. The soldiers will not give you breathing
space at all. You will have the first one that same Day
One. Watch Out! people could be fainting on the Parade
Ground. You won’t faint, calm down… So eat well. It’s the
stress that causes their fainting.
9. Morning Regimented Programme:
A small trumpet wakes you at 4am. Everybody gathers at
the Parade Ground (PG) at 4:30am. You have your praise,
worship and prayer the Christian and Muslim ways. After
the morning admonitions, by 7am, breakfast follows! After
eating, you will be called out again for the series of
programmes lined up for you. Then you have your lunch.
Rest a little and you are out again for evening parade.
Then later your dinner. This will repeat itself everyday
perhaps except on Sunday.
10. Hate The Food And Feed Yourselves At Your Costs:
You may not like the food. You can always go to the
Mammy Market (MM) i.e the Camp Market to fill your
‘tank’ with delicacies at your cost.
11. Stealing:
Stealing is prevalently prevailing at the Camp. This is
‘legalised’. They can steal anything. Be wise.
12. Soldiers:
Please i beckon on you all to respect and obey them.
although they are not permitted to beat you, however, they
can punish you. No walking, its all jogging when they call
you. Don’t prostrate or kneel down greeting a soldier. Do it
the soldier way. They could be friendly anyway.
13. Allawe:
Your first allowance (#19, 800) will be given to you in the
camp, and it will be in cash. All other ones will be through
the bank. You will also get Bicycle Allowance.
14. Photography:
Photographers are going to be everywhere ready to snap
you, please be prudent in spending.
15. By Now Your Done With Camp And Going To Your
Place Of Primary Assignment:
You will be posted from the camp to where you will work.
The place you work in is called your Place of Primary
Assignment (PPA).
Hear this: most Corps members, I mean about 90% of the
Corpers will be posted to schools (especially primary and
secondary schools). Only VERY FEW will be posted to the
universities, polytechnics and Colleges. Please! Don’t
lobby for your posting. Don’t pay anybody for assistance.
Pray rather than pay. Gone are the days when Corps
Members are posted to Banks and Co. Receive the
shocking or expected postings as you receive your letters
with joy. It’s a clarion call to service; that’s what dey call
it.
16. Transportation Out Of Camp:
When you get your Posting Letter, the first place to go to
is your PPA. If you are identified with the Fellowship in
camp, you may first report at the temporary lodge they will
provide.
Then you could report at your PPA later same day or the
following day. Please, when you leave the camp, home-
sweet-home will be on your mind, having been used up in
the camp. But please, don’t go home straight.
Please! Very few of your employers (i.e. PPAs) will send
down vehicles to convey you from the camp to their
workplaces.
Private and some Govt higher education institutions do.
The Fellowship too make arrangement for you at your
cost. Commercial transporters will likely be
available at the gate too. Be wise.
17. Accommodation At PPA:
You don’t know anybody in Benue or Kogi! Where will you
sleep on the first day? The Fellowship may give you a
temporary accommodation pending the time you will have
to get yours. You could be lucky if your employer gives
you a room. Many of them don’t give Corpers
accommodation anyway. So be prepared to rent one at
your cost. Your first ‘allowee’ which you received in the
camp is already going down!
18. Clearance:
This is why you don’t have to go home straight. Your
registration (clearance) at the NYSC Office in the Local
Govt you will be posted to is important. Failure to
complete it before going home is the beginning of your
problem.
He may begin to have problems with his subsequent
monthly allowances. Do all registrations first. Then you
can take permission to go home. Long process! You will
know why it’s so. Well, I hope these few tips will go a long
way to help you.
In order to ensure a seamless registration process, printing
of call-up letters and so on, prospective cor[truncated by WhatsApp] "
All the best to prospective corps members.

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Christianity EtcRe: Oyedepo Dressed In Sudanese Traditional Outfit While In South Sudan (Photos) by lajoshua: 9:25am On Oct 21, 2016
Ebal:
Bishop David Oyedepo Dress in Sudanese Traditional dress on a foreign mission to South Sudan

The founder and presiding Bishop of Living Faith Church World Wide, also known as Winners' Chapel,
David Oyedepo was at Juba South Sudan as people lifting their wheelchairs miraculously up high in the air.To God be all the glory.

http://ebalsblog..co.uk/2016/10/david-oyedepo-dress-in-sudanese.html
heyy ebals checked up on your blog.. great work you have going there. well wanted to comment and advice on a few things. I'll say you get a custom domain for your blog preferably (ebalsblog.com), it will help ease reference to your blog and help you get approval of advert conpanies which can earn you money fron the blog.
The good news is we @voiceofaudacity do purchase and integration of custom domains for blogs. i can also help with a good template and work on a few plugins to give your blog a better user friendly interface. we do search engine optimization among othrt things. chat me up on bbm lets make it happen my pin is on my signature
PoliticsRe: Adichie: Buhari Has Disappointed Nigerians by lajoshua(op): 2:13pm On Oct 20, 2016
Aufbauh:
Instead of saying Buhari has disappointed Nigerians,I think it is better to say he has disappointed the irredeemable Ipobians.

I don't know what these people really want?
Right from pre-election,you keep denigrating this man through to his assumption. Same old wailing precepts.
This old wailing lines are counterproductive as it's one sided rhythm tends to engender unquestionable support for Mr. President.
party affiliation and tribal sentiments aside if you read what she said you'll see she's making sense . FYI I'm not of igbo ethnicity. cheers
PoliticsRe: Adichie: Buhari Has Disappointed Nigerians by lajoshua(op): 2:12pm On Oct 20, 2016
Einstyn:
Can someone make sure this gets to d president's ta£le? Thanks in advance
I think oga lalasticlala can help us with thatgringrin
PoliticsAdichie: Buhari Has Disappointed Nigerians by lajoshua(op): 1:27pm On Oct 20, 2016
Award winning Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, says president Muhammadu Buhari threw away the chance to make “real reforms” in the early days of his administration.
In an article written for the New York Times , Adichie opinionated that Buhari’s archaic economic ideology and the seemingly selective corruption war had led to a “declining hope” in his government.
She stated that Buhari had, in many situations, appeared disengaged, stating his “tone and demeanour” were reminiscent of 1984 when he was a military head of state.
Adicihie stated: “For the first weeks of his presidency, it was said that civil servants who were often absent from work suddenly appeared every day, on time, and that police officers and customs officials stopped demanding bribes. He had an opportunity to make real reforms early on, to boldly reshape Nigeria’s path. He squandered it.
“Perhaps the first clue was the unusually long time it took him to appoint his ministers. After an ostensible search for the very best, he presented many recycled figures with whom Nigerians were disenchanted. But the real test of his presidency came with the continued fall in oil prices, which had begun the year before his inauguration.
“Nigeria’s economy is unwholesomely dependent on oil, and while the plunge in prices was bound to be catastrophic, Mr. Buhari’s actions made it even more so.
“He adopted a policy of ‘defending’ the naira, Nigeria’s currency. The official exchange rate was kept artificially low. On the black market, the exchange rate ballooned. Prices for everything rose: rice, bread, cooking oil. Fruit sellers and car sellers blamed ‘the price of dollars’. Complaints of hardship cut across class. Some businesses fired employees; others folded.
“The government decided who would have access to the central bank’s now-reduced foreign currency reserves, and drew up an arbitrary list of worthy and unworthy goods — importers of toothpicks cannot, for example, but importers of oil can.
“Predictably, this policy spawned corruption: The exclusive few who were able to buy dollars at official rates could sell them on the black market and earn large, riskless profits — transactions that contribute nothing to the economy.
“Mr. Buhari has spoken of his ‘good reasons’ for ignoring the many economists who warned about the danger of his policies. He believes, rightly, that Nigeria needs to produce more of what it consumes, and he wants to spur local production. But local production cannot be willed into existence if the supporting infrastructure is absent, and banning goods has historically led not to local production but to a thriving shadow market.
“His intentions, good as they well might be, are rooted in an outdated economic model and an infantile view of Nigerians. For him, it seems, patriotism is not a voluntary and flexible thing, with room for dissent, but a martial enterprise: to obey without questioning. Nationalism is not negotiated, but enforced.
“The president seems comfortable with conditions that make an economy uncomfortable — uncertainty and disillusion. But the economy is not the only reason for Nigerians’ declining hope.
“Since Mr. Buhari came to power, villages in the middle-belt and southern regions have been raided, the inhabitants killed, their farmlands sacked. Those attacked believe the Fulani herdsmen want to forcibly take over their lands for cattle grazing.
“It would be unfair to blame Mr. Buhari for these killings, which are in part a result of complex interactions between climate change and land use. But leadership is as much about perception as it is about action, and Mr. Buhari has appeared disengaged. It took him months, and much criticism from civil society, to finally issue a statement “condemning” the killings. His aloofness feels, at worst, like a tacit enabling of murder and, at best, an absence of sensitive leadership.
“Most important, his behavior suggests he is tone-deaf to the widely held belief among southern Nigerians that he promotes a northern Sunni Muslim agenda. He was no less opaque when the Nigerian Army murdered hundreds of members of a Shiite Muslim group in December, burying them in hastily dug graves.
“Or when soldiers killed members of the small secessionist pro-Biafran movement who were protesting the arrest of their leader, Nnamdi Kanu, a little-known figure whose continued incarceration has elevated him to a minor martyr.
“Nigerians who expected a fair and sweeping cleanup of corruption have been disappointed. Arrests have tended to be selective, targeting mostly those opposed to Mr. Buhari’s government. The anti-corruption agencies are perceived not only as partisan but as brazenly flouting the rule of law: The Department of State Security recently barged into the homes of various judges at midnight, harassing and threatening them and arresting a number of them, because the judges’ lifestyles “suggested” that they were corrupt.
“There is an ad hoc air to the government that does not inspire that vital ingredient for a stable economy: confidence. There is, at all levels of government, a relentless blaming of previous administrations and a refusal to acknowledge mistakes. And there are eerie signs of the past’s repeating itself — Mr. Buhari’s tone and demeanor are reminiscent of 1984, and his military-era War Against Indiscipline program is being reintroduced.
“There are no easy answers to Nigeria’s malaise, but the government’s intervention could be more salutary — by prioritizing infrastructure, creating a business-friendly environment and communicating to a populace mired in disappointment.”

source: http://www.voiceofaudacity.com/2016/10/adichie-buhari-has-disappointed.html?m=0

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PoliticsEpic Picture Of One Of The Freed Chibok Girl As She Reunites With Her Mother by lajoshua(op): 6:31pm On Oct 18, 2016
This very epic picture brings tears to my eyes... I'm hopeful the rest of the girls will be found..

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PoliticsDonald Trump Look Alike Seen At Obalende This Afternoon(photos) by lajoshua(op): 4:49pm On Oct 18, 2016
Donald trump's look alike as seen at obalende today... do you think they are related?? gringrin

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