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Goddex: Good. GEJ till 2019.






























I can't wait

wait till 95years old lady gets pregnant..

[quote author=niggadee]George Zimmerman's wife has called police to her father's house, saying the former neighborhood watch volunteer who was acquitted of murder threatened her with a gun.

Lake Mary Police Chief Steve Bracknell says Shellie Zimmerman called police shortly after 2 p.m. Monday.

Bracknell says Zimmerman hasn't been arrested and officers are at the house trying to determine what happened.

Shellie Zimmerman filed for divorce last week.

In the divorce petition, Shellie Zimmerman says she and her husband separated a month after Zimmerman was acquitted of any crime for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin last July.[/q

The arrival of karma ..zimmy sure you ready

emperorchedda: Pride goes b4 a fall

true that

Zlatan Ibrahimovic has revealed how Oguchi Onyewu, the American defender of Nigerian descent, broke his ribs in a fight when both of them were at AC Milan.

The revelations are included in a biography by the Swede, that is being serialised by British paper, Daily Mail

Serious

- I had issues with Oguchi Onyewu, a guy in my team. He was an American the size of a house, and I told a mate in the squad: ‘Something serious is gonna happen. I just feel it.’ Zlatan wrote.

- Onyewu resembled a heavyweight boxer. He was nearly 6ft 5in and weighed over 15 stone, but he couldn’t handle me. He accused me of trash talking, but that wasn’t true.

- People trash talk me. I’ve heard so much over the years: ‘F****** gypsy’, stuff about my mum — all that stuff. I retaliate with my body, not with words.

Trash talk

- I told Onyewu I did not trash talk, but he just kept on. He shushed me with his finger. Then he did it again. I saw red. I didn’t say anything, not a word. That b****** was going to find out how I trash-talk!

- The next time he got the ball in training, I rushed towards him and jumped up with my feet and studs out in front — the worst type of tackle. But he saw me and leapt out of the way.

- As we both crashed to the ground, my first thought was: ‘S**t! I’ve missed!’ As I got up and walked away I felt a blow to my shoulder. Not a good idea, Oguchi Onyewu.

Head butt

- I headbutted him, and we flew at each other. We wanted to tear each other limb from limb. It was brutal. We were rolling around, punching and kneeing each other. We were crazy and furious — it was like life and death.

- Afterwards, the weirdest thing happened. Onyewu started praying to God with tears in his eyes, making the sign of the cross. This felt like a provocation, and I got more furious.

- I was stopped by my team-mates, and I suppose that was a good thing. It could have turned out nasty.
- All the time, I was thinking: my chest hurts,’ so we had it checked out. I’d broken a rib in the fight.

http://www.futaa.com/football/article/onyewu-broke-my-ribs-in-a-fight--ibrahimovic

guys scores abeg i just dey wake up..aghaowa play

Ebig22: wetin concern me and se.nonsense.if they like may dem no qualify

who be this? u mean 9ja or malawi

mrsolutionm: Super eagles go dance azonto and sekelewu on pitch dat day

Davido is the refree

Freedani: I pray the eagles win but does loosing 1 0 tp Bostwana mean the eagles will win them?

i bet you 10bucks eagles will win with flawless victory due to the provocation their coach caused..mind game tinz

Thank you lord i made frontage ...God bless you MOD

The Flames of Malawi will be heading to Calabar for Saturday’s crucial World Cup qualifying match against the Super Eagles without the desired morale boosting result they hoped for having suffered a 1-0 defeat in their last tune up game against the Zebras of Botswana on Tuesday.

Botswana’s Jerome Ramatlhakwane scored the lone go six minutes into the second half to hand the hosts the slim win over the Malawians.

Experiment

Volunteer coach Tom Saintfiet tried new combinations among them Foster Namwela and James Sangala at the back while Robert Ng’ambi played as a supporting striker behind Atusaye Nyondo , in his trademark position at Platinum Stars in South Africa where he is scoring a lot of goals.

Flames leave Botswana Wednesday for Ghana where they will proceed to Nigeria on Thursday.

http://www.futaa.com/football/article/malawi-lose-to-botswana-ahead-of-eagles-clash

BedLam: Good they are giving us notice.

Lol..take note

Power grid

By Chineme Okafor in Abuja
Nigeria’s overall generation capacity is expected to drop to 2400 megawatts with the shutting down of the 480 Mw Okpai Combined Cycle Turbine operated by the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC), which will reduce available power on the grid by 300mw.

The imminent shut down for scheduled annual maintenance of the plant located in Delta State is expected to last for about five days, starting from August 31 through September 4, 2013. It was announced yesterday in a statement from the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) in Abuja.

TCN said in the statement that the exercise was intended to improve the performance of Nigeria’s electricity grid that would also result in nationwide electricity load-shedding, it added that the country’s grid network would be better for it upon completion.

“The management of Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) wishes to notify the general public that Agip Okpai Power Station in Delta State will shut down its plants for scheduled annual maintenance between 31st August and 4th September, 2013.

“Consequently, grid generation will go down by 300MW resulting in load shedding nationwide. This exercise is intended to improve grid performance and equipment stability. TCN regrets inconveniences that its esteemed customers will experience during this period,” the statement explained.

The shut down suggests that Nigeria’s current electricity generation capacity may just be around 2400MW, having lost part of it generation capacity some weeks ago to issues of severe gas supply leaks along the gas supply channels in the Eastern part of the country.

Precisely on August 10, the Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo had announced that three power stations in the East; Afam IV, Afam VI, and Rivers Independent Power Plant (IPP), were shut down as a result of gas constraints arising from condensate issue on the Trans National Pipeline (TNP), putting total generation lost from the stations at 624MW.

He has also noted that Olorunsogo power station was also down due to low gas pressure as a result of which 89MW of power was lost, while low head water elevation was equally limiting generation at Kainji and Jebba hydro stations to one unit each.

Nebo stated that the total grid generation as at then was 2628.6MW, adding that with this low level generation, management of the grid was currently a big task, necessitating a nationwide load shedding and that measures would be taken to fix the problem.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/power-generation-may-drop-to-2400mw-as-agip-shuts-down-okpai-station/157721/

NIGERIA ABUJA METRO COMPLEX

Location : Abuja, Nigeria
Site Area : 160,900 ㎡
Gross Area : 1,155,800 ㎡
Plan : B3F, 70F

New starting point for the new city.
Abuja Metro Complex including railroad and light rail transit station, terminal, offices, hotel, department store and shopping center presents new city scenery with and green nature and great history to provide easy transportation.

Design : EREH A&U (EREH GROUP MEMBER)

how about the diasporans,I m totally in despite i graduated here and got a job here but still prefer sharing my knowledge in naija. 15095392602

pri3stess: Where Maldives dey self.

visa free for nigerians..if u no be muslim stay back home jeje..those guys are sometin else

what is SA?

Gbaragbara: I wonder what a country like nigeria that suffers from chronic power outages will be doing with tall buildings anyway. holy sh1t! I have my own experience to talk about walahi

can some1 pls knock dis dude the Bleep out.

[quote author=eye4eye]Can someone tell me what the Governors in Southeast have been doing in the last 8 years compare to what Fashola and other SW governors doing? I don't see people from SE posting any pictures of developments going on in the East. Only AC governors are delivering dividends of democracy to their people in the south.[/qu



they are on vacation in dubai ..celebrating birthday and so on ...awon ode , while thier citizens in diaspora face racism daily called bongo bongo land homo sapien

“It is work in progress, it is not finished yet but so far so good”, he says

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Thursday undertook an inspection tour of the on-going construction of the Light Rail Mass Transit (Blue Line) and retrofitting of ferries at the Mile 2 Jetty, expressing satisfaction that although there has been some delay, there has also been significant progress in the projects.


The areas inspected by the Governor included the National Theatre Terminus and interchange for buses and Park and Ride, the four-kilometre of tracks being laid from Orile to Mile 2, Mile 2 Terminal and Works Yard for the Lagos – Badagry Expressway project.


The Governor also visited the Mile 2 Jetty Terminus where he inspected retrofitting work being carried out on five 80 – seater Aluminum ferries to be deployed for subsidized water transportation by the Lagos Ferry Services Company.


Fielding questions from newsmen after the inspection, Governor Fashola said in spite of the delay, substantial progress has been made especially on the terminals at Costain and Mile 2 which, according to him, were just concrete the last time he visited but are now advancing rapidly to finished work.


The Governor, who said the contractors attributed the delay to adverse weather, noted, “When we came here earlier this year, I was told that the section from Costain, Iganmu to Mile 2 would be completed by the end of July. I filed that in my head and I decided yesterday was end of July and I should come and see the progress here. Some progress has been made clearly”.


“You can see the rail project has advanced. They have covered more track lanes, about four kilometres of track has been laid. About eight kilometres have been logged preparatory for more track lanes”, the Governor said adding, “You could see people at work, welding, casting and we also visited the works yard for the Badagry Expressway where we have about seven kilometres of concrete beams for drainage already precast and ready to go once the sand-filling and the preparation is done”.


He further disclosed, “The section of the rail from Costain to Marina now is under consideration for award; that is another five kilometres, if you add that to the one from Mile 2 to Costain, that is eight kilometres. If you add that together that is 13 kilometres of rail road”, he said.


Governor Fashola, who was conducted round the project by the Blue Line Light Rail Project Manager, Mr. Li Bing, further disclosed that the contractors would start asphalting the Mile 2 bound section of the Lagos - Badagry Expressway, from FESTAC Gate to Trade Fair, by the end of August while the same work on the Trade Fair bound section, from Mile 2 to Trade fair, would commence by September.


Describing the project as a transport as well as an economic solution, Governor Fashola declared, “And you see thousands of Nigerians working on those sites; so for us it is a transport solution and also an economic solution, a job creation solution. So many things are involved there”.


Commenting on the progress of work at the Mile 2 Jetty, Governor Fashola, who recalled that during his earlier visit to the Jetty, there were several dilapidated and abandoned boats sunk in water, said five of the boats have been lifted out of the water for retrofitting and three have had advanced retrofitting work while the other two were being cleaned.


“The engines are on their way so we are on course. I think about two or three of them should be ready to start operations by the end of this year and the last three should be ready by the first quarter of next year with our Lagos Ferry Service”, the Governor said, explaining further that the Lagos State Ferry Service Company would be fully owned by the Government “to work and subsidize ferry service for middle level and poor commuters, somewhat different from what the private operators, whom we are also licensing, would be providing”.


According to him, “We are expecting more private operators to bring in more ferries; we have granted more licenses, I think we have about 59 operators and 110 ferries on the waterways. We are expecting some ramp up gradually. You remember about three years ago we started with just about six ferries now we have about 109 ferries. The ridership has also increased to about 1.8 million per month”.


He explained that one of the boats, a flat pontoon just imported from Europe, would be ferrying vehicles alone across the waters for car owners who do not wish to drive adding that a second one was being awaited.


“Each of them can carry eight vehicles. That is the first one that has been delivered; we are waiting for the second one which is being shipped from Europe. It will also give choice to people who don’t want to drive; they just put their vehicles on the pontoon and ferry them across to their next destination”, the Governor said adding that the jetties were being designed to allow the roll-on roll-off type facilities to enable such people to just drive in at the entry point and drive-off at the exit point.


On the seeming uncontrolled commercial activities on the Mile 2 section of the Lagos Badagry Expressway, Governor Fashola said it was one of the problems of urban renewal pointing out that people should not be prevented from earning their living legitimately just because Government was undertaking urban renewal.


“The problem of urban renewal includes that people have to be managed. Life cannot stop because we want to do urban renewal. People also have to survive. Those people are earning a living in a legitimate way, so we respect that so long as they do it while respecting that commuters also have to move”, the Governor said.


He, however, explained that all the rail stations have shops in them adding, “It is when all of this has been put in place that all of the trading in the fullness of time will leave the road and we will be on to a much more orderly and much more organized society and economy”.


“The problem is as a result of what we are doing at the same time. In terms of transportation, we are implementing about five major solutions at the same time. It is not easy. It has been possible so far with the cooperation of the people who have continued to trust, who have continued to sacrifice, who have continued to contribute. I do not know any city in the world today that are operating five major transport solutions simultaneously, I don’t know any”, Governor Fashola said.


Thanking all public servants, the contractors and all Lagosians for dedication to work and cooperation, Governor Fashola, who named the projects to include the Badagry-Mile 2 expansion, the Mile 12-Ikorodu expansion, the Lekki-Epe Expressway expansion, the ferry terminals and the rail project added, “I don’t know of any city that is doing that at the same time”.


“So, I must thank all of the public servants and the contractors who, in spite of the large population of people having to be moved, adjusted, working at night; it has really been a very exciting journey so far. I remember the Lekki-Epe Expressway when we started and the traffic gridlock. But the pain is easing off gradually. So it is work in progress, so far so good but it is not finished yet”, the Governor said.


Accompanying on the inspection tour were the Commissioner for Transportation, Mr. Kayode Opeifa, his Physical Planning and Urban Development counterpart, TPL Olutoyin Ayinde, Special Adviser on Works and Infrastructure, Engineer Ganiyu Johnson, Special Adviser on Public-Private Partnership (PPP) and recently nominated Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Ayo Gbeleyi, Managing Director of the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), Dr. Dayo Mobereola, Managing Director Lagos State Waterways, Mr. Yinka Marinho, Managing Director, Lagos State Ferry Sevice Company, Mr. Babatunde Williams, among other top government functionaries.
HAKEEM BELLO


http://www.lagosstate.gov.ng/news2.php?k=2871

Truckpusher: It's a shame being a Nigerian at this time of our history......smh

come few yrs you go regret this thing wey you type so.

After rushing to cap Nigerian target, Sidney Sam for a friendly in the United States last term, Germany may have used and dumped the Bayern Leverkusen midfielder having omitted his name from the squad for Wednesday ‘s friendly against Paraguay.

The Nigeria Football Federation as well as Super Eagles Coach had indicated interest in having Sam join the Nigeria national team and on the eve of travelling to Germany to talk to the player, Sam was handed a call-up to the German National team.

Twist

In a twist of event however , Coach Joachim Loew on Thursday named a powerful 21-man squad to kick start their preparations for the 2014 World Cup and effectively snubbed Sam after allowing him make only a cameo appearance in the United Sates friendly .

Germany squad:

Goalkeepers: Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich), Rene Adler (Hamburg)

Defenders: Jerome Boateng (Bayern Munich), Benedikt Hoewedes (Schalke 04), Mats Hummels (Borussia Dortmund), Marcell Jansen (Hamburg), Philipp Lahm (Bayern Munich), Per Mertesacker (Arsenal), Marcel Schmelzer (Borussia Dortmund)

Midfielder: Lars Bender (Bayer Leverkusen), Sven Bender (Borussia Dortmund), Julian Draxler (Schalke 04), Ilkay Gundogan (Borussia Dortmund), Sami Khedira (Real Madrid/ESP), Thomas Mueller (Bayern Munich), Mesut Ozil (Real Madrid/ESP), Lukas Podolski (Arsenal/ENG), Marco Reus (Borussia Dortmund), Andre Schuerrle (Chelsea/ENG)

Forwards: Mario Gomez (Fiorentina/ITA), Miroslav Klose (Lazio/ITA)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBdx_5VT4cU

there is a lot to talk about,Don't know where to start from

you minority you're jew.I'm not a JEWWWW!!!!! HAHAHAHHA

Chillisauce: Very embarrassing. I liked the way it ended though. I would have stabbed the guy if I had a knife.


Racist as s holes!


Even worrisome that ppl like this still leave in this planet.

true talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCS6OHRPTRw

Absa Group Limited office



Absa Group Limited, one of the ‘big four’ consumer banks in South Africa acquiring majority shareholding in Barclays Bank, its parent company’s African assets yesterday indicated interest to enter the Nigerian market.

The financial institution said the move would boost its presence across Africa.

“The bank needs a competitive advantage before it can enter Nigeria, Africa’s second-largest economy and biggest oil producer,” Bloomberg quoted Absa’s Chief Financial Officer, David Hodnett, to have said in an interview in Johannesburg.

The lender could take advantage of its experience in corporate banking, he added.

Chief Executive Officer, Absa, Maria Ramos also told investors in Johannesburg the bank planned to spend 1.25 billion rand ($127 million) by 2015 on refurbishing branches in Africa,.

The bank said last December that it would buy the bulk of Barclays’s African assets in an all-share deal worth 18.3 billion rand.

The economy of Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation with more than 160 million people, is set to grow 7.2 per cent this year, compared to an average of 5.6 per cent for the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, according to the International Monetary Fund.

Absa is not looking at any of the nationalised Nigerian banks, Hodnett pointed out.

The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), set up by the federal government to buy bad debts from banks, is seeking to sell the three banks its acquired in 2011 next year.

The banks are Keystone Bank Limited, Mainstreet Bank Limited and Enterprise Bank. They were acquired through a bridging process after an intervention by the regulators. Already, financial and legal advisers to the transaction had been selected by AMCON.


http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/fg-to-take-appropriate-steps-over-uk-visa-bond/154958/

Former Governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu



Former Governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, has given the Lagos State Government a seven-day ultimatum to apologise to the 67 persons of Igbo ethnic nationality allegedly deported from Lagos to Onitsha in Anambra State or he would head to court to defend their interest.

Kalu said there was no law in the country, which empowers a state or governor to deport any Nigerian to any part of the country.

In a statement made available to THISDAY Monday, Kalu said there was right to freedom of movement for every Nigerian as enshrined in Section 41 of the 1999 Constitution.

While describing the action of the state government was lawless and vexatious, the former governor equally condemned it in strong terms, saying it threatens the corporate existence of the country.

Besides, the former governor argued that it was an open secret that the Igbo contribute about 55 per cent to the Lagos economy.

“It is appalling to learn that the deported Igbo were even detained in Ikorodu for about six months before their illegal deportation.

“They were taken to Onitsha in four buses, escorted by anti-riot policemen," he said.

One of them, Osondu Mbuto, a trader from Ohaozara in Ebonyi State, was on his way to his shop on December 18, 2012 when he was arrested by officials of the state’s Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI) and detained for no reason until he was deported in his father's land.

“The reaction of the state government that the Igbo were deported to reunite them with their families was the worst insult to any race.

“Governor Fashola's Special Adviser on Youths and Social Development, Dr. Enitan Dolapo Badru, said: ‘The end result is to reunite them back with their families.’

“What an affront against the collective will of Ndigbo or any other race in Nigeria to live and do business in any part of the country?

“The action of the state government is not only wicked but a clear breach of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended.

“To worsen the matter, most of those deported are not even indigenes of Anambra State. Is Anambra State now a dumping ground for any act of illegality? Is Lagos State Government above the law of the country? If not, can it operate another set of laws without recourse to constitution amendment? Is it not a travesty of justice that officers of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) were even used for this illegal act against the Nigerian state? Was the supervising officer, who allowed the deployment of the policemen, not told that they were going to be used for the deportation of Nigerians they were paid by tax payers' money to protect in their fathers' land?

“The action is a gross infraction to the rights of the deportees to dwell in any part of Nigeria without discrimination. With this wicked, crude and primitive deportation, I just wonder why a component unit of Nigeria, under the authority and supremacy of a constitution would choose to be lawless in such an unconstitutional conduct. Not even under the military would such an action have happened.

“Even if a criminal offence was committed, the place to take them to is the court, not for them to be deported. The action of the Lagos State Government is lawless as it is vexatious and I condemn it in strong terms because it threatens the existence of our country. All patriotic Nigerians should say no to this xenophobic action of Lagos State Government because it usurps the powers of the federal government and disregards our constitution.

“I demand a public apology from the governor within seven days to all those illegally deported and a repeat of such an act must be stopped or I will head to court to defend the interest of the Ndigbo in Lagos. Enough is enough.”


http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/kalu-threatens-to-sue-fashola-over-forced-relocation-of-igbos/154823/

[quote author=pro01]And what about landlords who do not and cannot provide clothes lines at the back of the house due to limited space and whatnot? What should the tenants do?

Have you not seen some houses in Lagos where there isn't even enough space to park a motorcycle, let alone space for clothes lines; some of these houses have over a hundred inhabitants with little extra space for anything.

You think someone living in a big enough compound, with designated clothes lines in the backyard would prefer to hang their clothes on the fence? That is the problem with some of us: we are so self-centred and smug that we do not take time to empathise with other people's situations. Reminds me of the Okada ban imbroglio. Because some of us are privileged to have private cars, we think the millions others that do not have that privilege - who would suffer the hardships associated with that policy - should go to hell, even when there are clearly no alternatives.

I assume that many of the "educated" people condemning this senseless policy here do have clothes lines in thier houses, and do use them. However, they are fair-minded and sensible enough to know that the majority of Lagos residents live in houses where there are no clothes lines, or where the available ones are not sufficient to serve all the residents because of limited space. What should they do? Spread their clothes in their living rooms?

In a poor and underdeveloped country such as ours with limited options, why should a serious government waste valuable time and resources on enforcing this, of all the more pressing problems facing the populace?
[/quo

I really don't know why you people cease to amaze me,There are 36 states in nigeria,52 countries in africa if am not mistaken and 196 countries all over the world.. Kindly relocate to a place that could meet up to your standards and obey the law of any land you meet yourself..if you know shanghai ,tokyo ,moscow or newyork is too expensive for you move to a cheaper location and whenever you want to go to an urban area you can easily transport yourself there for sightseeing...Must you live in lagos due to your retarded complains of poverty.A city that is working toward been a megacity and due to your own problem of backwardness and issues of your landlord we should all wait for you to meet up..

niggadee: fashola is too obsessed with this western culture,mentality and gadget. we are african we need to keep it real like our forefather

Obsessed with western culture you're so delusional,what is your forefather's mentality? poverty and backwardness right?SMH

Imanuelle: I wanted to write something , but then, seun's 21 commandments pops out.


No wahala .

seun is a dictator A.K.A GADAFFI

Kzinne: u must b jokin

y na , testimony for pyongyang