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Ours is a jobless growth economy, says Utomi

http://thenationonlineng.net/new/ours-is-a-jobless-growth-economy-says-utomi/

Does Patrick Obahiagbon communicate with his boss and subordinates in that atrocious English Language he speaks? Or, is he just a ceremonial Chief of Staff?

It so bad that you are experiencing this before marriage!

The mistake Nigerians keep making is that they are expecting Technological Revolution from our Professors at diverse Citadel of learning in Nigeria. This is a big mistake o!

We have more Political Professors than Real Professors now.

Give our Lecturers/Professor;
*Project money and they will buy Prado Jeep.
*Research Grants and they will buy Rolex Wrist-watch.

They want to dull lecture rooms till they clock 75years.

Those ladies that invented Urine-Powered Electricity Generators are still in secondary school.

Thanks to Google search engine, Wikipedia, many students knows more than there Lecturers who still go about with 1971 developed lecture note! In some of these lecturers notes, they still have it there that there is no water on Planet Mars.

It is in the Nigerian academic world that you'll experience the worst enmity and bitterness, they hate themselves; they only unite to fight for more money.

Instead of this one to chop me, e better make "Chidi" of the Lloyds dishonourable Assembly use their mace knack me well well. At least, I fit survive that one.

Oga "Lloyds", where you dey? Abeg, come flog me with una Assembly mace oh. After all, na you go first run go radio station say na me plank you. You can lie...

People, please advise Oga Chidi to come with his mace. At least, I fit go hospital if na una mace but, this one na him 'belle' him wan put me. Where is Chidi the mace Player?

Tufiakwa!

Do not say No when you Mean to Say Yes

See Wetin Maltina Dance All Don Cause O...LOL

Azuist: Y are u pple doubting this young girl's age, have u seen the Dad's pics @ 19(when he played U21), he looked 30+ so its in d family.

I have in my possession a Complete Football Magazine published in November 1993,yes 1993, where Julius Aghahowa was stated as a player for NEPA FC of Akure!

Some Niger Deltan are also in Boko Haram : Revealed Ex-militant, 4 Others Arrested for Arms Supply to Boko Haram.

By Jude Okwe in Calabar

An ex-Niger Delta militant, Anietie Etim and four others who allegedly specialise in buying arms in Bakassi Peninsula for supply to the Boko Haram insurgents in the north have been arrested by the Police.

Other accomplices in the gun running business include Lawal Bako, Abdullahi Isa, Umaru Haruna and Alhaji Ahmadu all from Taraba State. They carefully constructed a special tank at the booth of an Audi salon car where they conceal arms for shipment to the north.
Also, the Police foiled the sale of a 13 year old boy, Richard Bassey for N1.5 million by a man simply referred to as Gentle Moses, 20, of Ididep, Ini Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State was arrested at Bogobiri, Calabar while negotiating to sell the boy.

According to the Cross River State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Kola Shodipo, luck ran out on them when they were arrested following a tip off. Recovered from them while negotiating to buy some AK 47 rifles was N300,000 cash, an Audi 80 [EA 80 ABC, Abuja] and a Mercedes Benz 190 [PU 854 AAA, Lagos].

Shodipo while parading the suspects who had confessed to the crime, described Anietie Etim as the link man at Ikang community in Bakassi Local Government Area who sources for the arms for sale to buyers. He said Etim owned the Mercedes 190 car and has no visible means of livelihood except crime.

He commended the gallantry of his men and warned criminals to stay clear of Cross River State as the police under his leadership was not prepared to allow the state become a fertile ground for robbery operations and other crimes. He assumed duties in the state a few months ago.

But THISDAY gathered that four other members of the gun running syndicate escaped arrest and were being trailed by the police. The Audi car had an extra tank constructed for fuel so that once they take off from Bakassi they won’t stop to re-fuel till they get to their destination.

Also arrested is a gang of armed robbers who on July 13, 2013 robbed ‘B’ System Supermarket at No. 14 Diamond Hill, Calabar where they carted away cash and other valuables. Similarly, on July 20, 2013 at about 8.30 pm, a pharmacy shop on N0. 75 Ndidem Usang Iso Road, Calabar belonging to one Babatunde Busari was robbed with cash and High lander Jeep taken away.

Shodipo said four robbers took part in the operation using a Golf Car but “upon information and grim determination to smash this deadly gang, my officers and men set out to work and the following robbery suspects who took part in the above cases were apprehended on July 24, 2013.

“They are Hopeman Etim, 22; Edem Effiong Ettah, 21; Ofem Odinta, 21; Edmond Ubi Arikpo, 27 and Okorn Okorn Obla. The first two suspects reside in Calabar, the third in Abi Local Government Area and the last two in Ugep, Yakurr Local Government Area.”

Items recovered from them include one locally made pistol and Catridges; one High Lander Jeep; 20 assorted handsets; two unregistered Qlink motorcycles; two flat 32 inches screen TV [LG and Samsung]; two electric welding machines and one Fireman generator.

The police have also arrested a student of Army Day Secondary School Eburutu Barracks, Calabar, Godwin Udo Ekpo, 20, who conspired with his secret cult friend, Francis Jonah, 19 of Technical Secondary School Ikot Effanga Mpka, Calabar to stab to death Boniface Odinaka, Labour Prefect of Ekpo’s school following a little fracas in the school.

Ekpo told journalists that he collected a dagger from Francis to stab Odinaka and blamed it on the devil saying he did not know what came over him to commit such a crime. Ekpo and his friend Francis belong to Sky Low and Vikings Cult groups in Calabar respectively.

The police commissioner said all the suspects will soon appear in court while a manhunt has begun for those on the run.

While Nigerian governors were busy meeting and strategising non-stop on who should be the next chairman of the Political Billionaires’ Club, popularly known as the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), the Ruler of Dubai – a state in the United Arab Emirates – was busy unveiling plans to build three world-class hospitals and 40 new clinics to promote “medical tourism”. His Highness Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum said the plan was to build hospitals comparable to any medical facility anywhere in the world. They will also build five-star hotels next door to the facilities for the relatives of patients. The objective is to add another dimension to the Dubai story – trade, travel, real estate and now medical tourism. That is vision. That is leadership.

About the same time in my dearly beloved country, our multi-billionaire governors and other politicians were meeting day and night and night and day over who controls the meaningless Political Billionaires’ Club. Their disagreement was not about building world-class hospitals and world-class schools. It was not about fixing the potholes that litter our roads all over the federation. It was not about ending infant and maternal mortality. It was not about making Nigeria a land of trade and tourism. It was not about turning Nigeria to an exporter of mobile phones, like South Korea, or dairy products, like the Netherlands. The goal of political power, as far as they can see, is intrigues. Politics starts and ends with elections. Development is a distraction.

Now, with all the emotion and passion being exerted in the polity in the past few weeks over the NGF election, I will not be surprised if many of these politicians end up with high blood pressure and stroke by 2015. Well, I’ve got news for them. By then, Dubai will hopefully have opened one of their world-class hospitals, complete with the best equipment and the best medical personnel the world has to offer. Nigerian politicians can go there to receive treatment after the elections. With no world-class hospital in Nigeria, Dubai will eagerly welcome our leaders with open arms. After all, are these chubby-cheeked politicians and their fronts not the ones buying up the choice property in Dubai while millions of Nigerians remain homeless?

He died a fulfilled man

David Cameron vowed last night to ‘export’ gay marriage around the world as he held a party to celebrate the passage of legislation in Britain.

The Prime Minister told a gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender reception in Downing Street of his personal pride at legalising gay marriage.

Addressing an audience that included BBC presenter Clare Balding and her partner, the former newsreader Alice Arnold, Mr Cameron boasted that Britain was now ‘the best place to be gay, lesbian or transgender anywhere in Europe’.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2377175/I-want-export-gay-marriage-world-says-Cameron-speaks-personal-pride-party-celebrate-new-legislation.html

A jailed rapist has lost an appeal to be able to stay in the UK and will be sent home to Nigeria.

Ekene Anoliefo, 38, claimed deportation would breach his human rights because he had a cousin in the UK.

He was jailed for 12 years - later reduced to nine in 2009 for the rape of a 19-year-old woman in Aberdeen.

His appeal was heard by Mr Justice Blake, who said the public interest in getting him out the UK outweighed his right to respect for his private life.

Anoliefo - the son of a Nigerian politician - pretended to help the woman before holding her captive in his car and then raping her on a bed at his flat.

At the time of sentencing the judge described the attack as "particularly brutal and degrading".

He was ordered for deportation last December and now, after an appeal to the Upper Tribunal, Immigration and Asylum Chamber, has failed in his human rights bid to stay.

Lawyers for the rapist had argued that he had lawfully lived in the UK for four years as a student and had hoped to be granted indefinite leave to remain once he finished his studies and found a job.

Anoliefo argued that he had a cousin in the UK as well as a girlfriend from the country- who had not seen him since 2008.

Rejecting his appeal, Mr Justice Blake said a more substantial private life would need to be shown in a case where someone had not previously had indefinite leave to stay in the country.

He said: "It is unfortunate that permission to appeal was granted, since this appeal is wholly without merit.

"It is obvious that, where a claimant has been convicted of rape and the conviction upheld on appeal, and certainly any rape with the aggravating features identified by the sentencing judge, even if there were private life to be weighed in the balance, no properly self-directing judge could have done other than to have dismissed the appeal on the basis that the public interest manifestly outweighed it."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-23438005

The intention is most welcome development and applauded. But let me say this, frankly specially i see no sense whatsoever to ban for life these footballers. This is no justice at all. It's unthinkable to do this to innocent soccer players who are owned and dictated to by the club managements. Yet you ban them for life and punish these clubs and their officials in what i will call peanut justice. This is totally a miscarriage of justice, and it ends up to be even more damaging and disappointing than the criminal act itself, if you really consider the defense i am making for this poor players. This is similar to what happens in the Armed Forces where officers are given less penalty because they were simply obeying orders from the above. I think the President of NFF Alhaji Maigari should try as much as possible and ask these people to have a rethink. Else this is an embarrassing discharge of justice.

collynzo2: ^^^List out the members of that group and tell me who amongst them is a good coach.
That group is made up of mere TV analysts.

For the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, the TSG will be made up of the following six internationally renowned football experts: African football legend Abedi Pele (Ghana), former coach of the French national team and current Technical Director of the French Football Federation,F.F. Gérard Houllier (France), CAF Football Development Director Abdel Moneim Hussein (Sudan), head coach of the Costa Rican national team Rodrigo Kenton (Costa Rica), former head coach of the Hong Kong national team Kwok Ka Ming (Hong Kong), and Holger Osieck (Germany), former Canadian national team coach and the assistant coach of Franz Beckenbauer during Germany's victory at the 1990 FIFA World Cup.

Please identify any mediocrity in the above names.

collynzo2: You are a too! Do you know the difference between a political appointment and a real one? Who is he training or coaching at FIFA? Twät

The TSG's(Technical Study Group) priority is to observe teams in matches and training sessions. Initial impressions are fleshed out in a series of in-depth conversations, with the objective of prompting discussion and an exchange of views.http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/footballdevelopment/technicalsupport/technicalstudygroup/index.html

[b]LESSON TO BE LEARNT:[/b]If you are not a good coach,you cannot be a member of the TSG.

dare2think: Money that should be used in traffic management and maintenance has been used to pay international school fees or used in buying car gifts for girlfriends or build mansions.

The politicians forget that their children and loved ones will use these roads too.

Their time will come.

Over-speeding causes accidents as well.

collynzo2: While Oliseh is busy pulling down Keshi with destructive criticism. It's not by being a TV analyst o!

Ignoramus,Oliseh got an appointment with FIFA a couple of moths of back as a member of the technical committee for age-grade competitions.

ikedaniel15: Finally, first to comment....

Are you using Charles Babbage's analytical engine?

laughterclub: GUD,BUT HOW MANY NIGERIA PLAYERS WIL HIM HELP TO SECURE A PLACE IN EUROP? BLACK COLOUR WITH DEVILS HEART,WHITE HEART WITH ANGELS COLOUR.UPS 4 FINIDI.

Why are you being judgmental?Are you a failed footballer?How well do you know him?

[quote author=Okija_juju]Shey on stage!!!

His family posed with them Banky W and co, snapped picture and left abi!!


I didnt see them the day after NLC was bribed and the Soldiers entered the street.

I didnt see Bakare, his wife nor his 5 children when we were defying the Police, being peppered with teargas, being arrested and killed.

Whilst himself, Soyinka and other Politicians and celebrities used the protest to further their careers, the real Nigerians were dying on the streets. Or have you forgotten that Nigerians lost their lives during that campaign..






My borther... Let Them go and Protest!! The rest of us protesters are either too injured or have collected amnesty!!

_{We shall no longer be used as pawns in the hands of all these politicians..}

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I thought Nigeria was the only hotbed of superstitions in the the world.A rare occurrence of a congenital defect has turned men into nitwits.

yomip3t: I HOPE HIMSELF AND HIS FAMILY SHOULD LEAD THE TEAM....

Are you deliberately uninformed or being cynical?His wife and five(5) children were with him at Ojota during the fuel subsidy protest in January 2012.

So so true

So so true

COUNT ME OUT OF THE POLITICS OF HATRED
This is an official statement from Prophet T.B. Joshua. My attention has been drawn to an online article headlined ‘Pastor T.B. Joshua Revealed As Man Behind Al-Mustapha’s Release’ written by Sahara Reporters.

This article is from the enemy. They should not drag me into the issue of politics. If I was ever to go to Aso Rock, I would go publicly. I have already told you how I met Al-Mustapha. Don’t put words in my mouth. I explained that I got to know him many years ago when a petition was addressed to General Bamaiyi who was the then Chairman of the NDLEA. I spent nine days with them for investigation and they found the whole thing to be a fabrication.

From there, I was taken to see the president where I met Mustapha. I was able to reveal to them who I am by telling them what was to come as a prophet. I told him that he would spend several years in prison and would be finally released which no one else had ever told him. That is why you saw him coming here as his first port of call. Where there is no vision, people perish.

It is therefore very malicious for Sahara Reporters to attach any political meanings to Al-Mustapha’s visit. At no time did I tell President Jonathan that his political fortune rested with setting Al-Mustapha free, neither did I ever suggest that Chief James Ibori, former Delta State Governor be brought back to Nigeria to assist the president in the 2015 presidential election.

Count me out of the politics of hatred.

https://www.facebook.com/tbjministries

Chiidi: HUSBAND MATERIAL

Every lady is a wife material.It depends on which particular material you want.

In his reaction, Serving Overseer, The Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, threatens to mobilise Nigerians to storm the National Assembly if the controversial resolution of the Senate on child marriage is not reversed immediately.

Bakare, who spoke in his Sermon, Separation is Inevitable, in his church in Ogba, Lagos, on Sunday, believes the federal lawmakers have lost all moral grounds to make rational laws for the country.

Bakare, who is also the Convener of Save Nigeria Group, also challenged the lawmakers to name any of their children, who has been given out in marriage at the age of 13, wondering what could have motivated the Senators to propose such “immoral amendment.”

“Yerima has polluted the Senate and his colleagues have joined him to tell us that what we have in the National Assembly are pedophiles. The Senators must come out to tell us how many of them have married out their 13-year-old girls. Why should any sane person be legislating on how a 13-year-old should be married out in this age when such children should be in school?

“I want to call on the House of Representatives and state Houses of Assembly to reject this clause completely. I also want the Senators to know that I will mobilise Nigerians and we are going to storm the National Assembly if this evil clause is not expunged from the constitution immediately. A constitution that cannot be bent will break.”

Bakare also led his congregation to pray against what he described as the “insatiable sexual appetite” of the lawmakers, calling on God to “dry up their uncontrollable libido.”

http://omojuwa.com/2013/07/bakare-threatens-to-mobilise-nigerians-against-nassembly/

Another tax burden for the people of the UK