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Is it compulsory to have legal representation in nigerian divorce suits?

Wud u blame men. When in nigeria almost every girl had done about an average of 2 or more abortions before they clock 25 years.

Some people are just living because its illegitimate to kill. Imagine Ibori.

Am pro life and wud not even contemplate ending the life of anyone let alone my own child.

u people are one in a million. Thanks to u all.

Please ma son is one year old and he has been completely weaned and started eating cooked food. I need advice on how to take care of his dental health. Thanks

beingme:
let the babe live

Thanks

Ideally one shud not have intimacy before marriage but practically 99.9% of the time peole including urs sincerely have intimacy before marriage.

lagerwhenindoubt:
@poster, I have a few questions (you do not need to answer)

1: how long have you been married for.
2: What is your level of financial security
3: Do you have a job that pays at minimum N50k per month
4: Does your wife have a job N50k per month

It is important to realize that while children are a blessing, they require absolute care to nurture that blessing to fruition. when we walk the streets and see Area boys and street hawkers we often wonder what their parents thought, That is not your portion in Jesus Name. Amen

There is such a concept as Family Planning and it is not a fashion statement but a critical look at the following
1: Can you sustain the growth and maturity of your first-born,usually if you are caught by unplanned events that cut your monthly sources of income when a second child is on the way. the chances are you will manage finances to prepare for a second-born and the first-born usually bears the brunt by virtue of being older. eventually the first-born will come second-place as you try to bring-up your second born. when you add your responsibilities as a bread-winner and the fact that your expectant wife will also need more attention and monies during the 9month period. you are in for a whammy if you have not planned for this
2: Considering the high cost of rent these days, you may want to plan ahead and save up for rent, because it cost me at least N120+k at LUTH (Pre and Ante Natal, Birth and Recovery+Drugs) and I don't plan on visiting soon.

E don happen, e don happen, you need to start saving fast. otherwise you will be blind-sided with events you have not planned for.
Stick in there. It comes with the territory

Am grateful for ur coments but as tolutara said money is never the problem, I Work for a big oil company and any strain on my pocket is completely out of it as I can comfortably with God's grace cater for any number of children I want, same for the medic bills. But am just concerned about her furthering her education.

[quote author=mama-gee link=topic=434492.msg5962824#msg5962824 date=1272412778][color=deeppink]Why don't you go jump off a lagoon?[/color] [/quote]While I appreciate all the sagacious advice given to me so far on the logjam av found myself, I think I least expected this from u.

Am grateful 4 all ur contributions.

Thanks Siena, I observe the Blue smoke upon start up sometimes whenever the car has been under the sun for a long while. Please if I dont fix the valve seals immediately will there be any more complications to the engine.

I have a 1999 model camry XLE ( ie Tiny light with v6 engine). I observe lately that if I leave out the car under the sun for a long time (having not started it for the whole day) and start it under the scorching sun I observe that immediately I start the car, blue smoke will come out of the exhaust pipe and dissappear after a few seconds, I c no smoke when i fire it after wards and even when the engine is hot. Please help me with valuable advice on what the problem is?

am grateful for all ur useful contributions and advice so far.

I have a one year old son and ma wife has confided in me that she has missed her period. Am envisaging she is pregnant but I dont want to believe yet. The problem is ma son is still breastfeeding and I dont think am ready for a second child ( except its the will of God) now cos I want to her to further her education. What's your advice please?

This story clearly shows that teenagers need special attetion and care to prevent them from doing silly things.

As a father, I was told that I disturbed and worried my caregivers alot when i was a child. I think my son borrowed a leaf from me. men he is quite a handful, his crying is second to none. But am very happy because he is just a bundle of joy.

[color=#006600]My message to MEND and other freedom fighters as they call themselves is that charity begins at home. If they really want good governance for their people as they continuously claim, they should hold their local leaders accountable first. But most freedom fighters are colluding with their governors to suck their states dry and one begins to wonder if they are just been used as tools for instability in the niger delta to create incitement against the federal government. Imagine what 100 billion can do for a state like Bayelsa with less than 2 million people (even this census figure is very debatable as we all know that the 2006 census was a sham like the 2007 elections). How can a governor who calls himself sane cud have the audacity to borrow 75 billion naira, a loan for that matter and not carry out any meaningful project with it. As I repeatedly say, am from Bayelsa and with all the news awash in the media and realities on ground in the state about how the Bayelsa State Governor is raping the state treasury one cud only just pray that God will come to the rescue of Bayelsans and Niger Deltans one day[/color].

Fresh fact emerged during the week how officials of Bayelsa state government allegedly fleeced the people of the state of several billions of naira under the guise of developing the state.
Besides, the sleazy details of how funds meant for the development of the oil-rich state are converted into hard currency and sent abroad by top officials of the state government was unearthed.

A source at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) explained that “it is because of the deluge of fraud and financial misdeeds that we discovered in the state that we are looking for the commissioner for finance of that state, Dr. Sylva Opuala Charles, to come and answer some questions.”

Opuala was charged along with other officials like the state’s Accountant-General, Director of Treasury and Director of Finance by the EFCC on allegation of laundering over N2.5 billion belonging to the state government. EFCC eventually declared the commissioner wanted on Wednesday.
But the state government, in a rebuttal, said that the commissioner for finance is not on the run as stated by the EFCC.

Mr Doifie Ola, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Timipre Sylva, also asked for time to be able to respond to allegations that officials of the state government are involved in mass looting of the state treasury.
According to EFCC sources, “the EFCC first got wind of the mass looting that has been going on in the state in 2009 when a whopping $40m was about to be sent out of the country into a private account. The EFCC decided to secretly follow the money and it was discovered that the money was actually sent out into a dormant account belonging to a moribund company. They sent it into the account of Bayelsa Oil Company, but we discovered that the company is not functional.”

The EFCC also discovered that certain government officials have been using five accounts the state keeps with one of the first generation banks that recently ran into trouble with the Central Bank of Nigeria.
“We discovered that they have five accounts, namely; Development Fund, Consolidated Revenue, Recurrent Revenue, Salary, and Recurrent/Expenditure. But the purpose for which these accounts are run are not strictly followed by government officials.”

The anti-graft agency officials also discovered that the “N2billion taken by the state government as overdraft from the Consolidated Revenue Account to augment salary in 2009 was not used for the purpose it was taken. Ordinarily, the overdraft should have been moved into the salary account but we are not able to trace it.”
The EFCC source also added that early this year, “N380 million was moved out of the account of the state government and sent into the account of one Sanni Maigidia, a bureau de change operator in Kano who was instructed to change the money into dollars and pay to one Abdul-Rasheed Ahmed on the instruction of the commissioner for Finance, who then handed over the money to one Yakubu Mohammed. That happened on the 22nd of January.

“Again, on the 5th of February this year, N70m was moved out of the state government account and it followed the same process. We found that fund movement strange especially as they were all heading in the same direction, ” the source added. Sunday Sun findings also showed that the EFCC discovered that the state governor released N1.8billion from the state treasury as consultancy fees to set up a micro-finance bank without its being appropriated by the state government.

“Again, we discovered that the N75billion the state got from a consortium of banks for development cannot be traced to any of the five accounts. We also found out that N1.5billion is removed by the chief of staff to the governor, Samuel Ogbuku as security vote every month.”
The commission operatives were also said to have discovered that N150 million was moved into the personal account of the chairman of the State Environmental Protection Agency, Reginald Dede, for payment for projects executed for the state government.

‘‘You wonder why such a lodgment was made and the only reason for such huge lodgment is that the owner of the account is the one that used fronts to execute the projects and he was just being paid. The said amount under normal circumstances ought to have been paid into the Agency’s coffers not into a private account.”
However in a swift reaction the state government said it had noted the declaration by the EFCC, stressing that Opuala was not running away from the law but had to stay back in Yenagoa to attend to financial matters that require his attention.

According to the overseer of the Ministry of Information, Strategy and Orientation, Mr. Nathan Egba, Opuala had not gone to report himself to the EFCC based on an agreement between the state government and the commission that he (Opuala) should stay behind so that civil servants would be able to receive their salaries.

Egba promised that Opuala would turn himself in as soon as possible so as to clear his name.
The state government said, “We however wish to state that he (Opuala) was not running away from the law. He stayed back in Bayelsa based on an agreement between EFCC and the state government in order that government business will not ground to a total halt. For instance he needed to arrange for civil servants salaries. He will however turn himself in, so as to have the chance to clear his name”
But the EFCC has punctured Egba ‘s claims, stating that at no time did it reach any agreement with the government over Opuala.

In an interview with Sunday Sun, the Head of Media and Publicity of the EFCC, Mr. Femi Babafemi, said there was no such an agreement.
“There is no agreement like that. We have written three letters to him and he has not come” he said.
Doifie Ola, while speaking to Sunday Sun, on telephone, said that the allegations bordered more on issues that has to do with the ministry of finance. “I don’t have the fact and figures now. This is close of work. The working week has ended and I can’t lay my hands on the information I need to respond till Monday. I don’t work at the ministry of finance so whatever I give you might be inaccurate.”

Meanwhile, our reporter gathered that both the Commissioner for Finance and that of Local Government Affairs left Yenagoa Friday morning by road. When he tried to confirm from our EFCC source, he was told that the Commission’s operatives were aware of the two Commissioners’ movement and were on their trail.

It is stupendously shameful that a country like Sudan cud be deporting nigerians. We are finished as a country.

I really pity for this country. The question I want to ask is whether his country home was one of the practice pitches that was supposed to be used?

[b]Am from Bayelsa state and reside in abuja. The biggest problems we have in the niger delta are our elders and politicians. All they are after is the enrichment of their pockets ignoring the common good  and betterment of niger deltans. Did any one call for a dialogue when Ibori and Alams were busy stealing monies from their state treasuries meant for the people. They never thought of a dialogue to address the abysmal peroformance of the NDDC and the Bayelsa state governor who now finds it difficult to pay even salaries. How can there be a post amnesty dialogue without the key beneficairies and actors of the programme ie the youths and the impoverished people of the region? imagine that. Those old men that have outlived their usefulness just agglomerated themselves because of their personal aggrandizement in order to enrich their fat pockets pretending to the whole world that they were serious about the amnesty implementation. I regret the loss of lives and injuries sustained as a result of MEND's recent action in Warri but they have made a bold statement that these conferences, workshops, dialogues have not translated into good roads, infrastructure, education, human capital empowerment and good governance in the region. The government should immediately implement past technical reports and the niger delta master plan. This is the time for action.[/b][flash=200,200][/flash]