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Silly antics.
Approval from the fec means absolutely nothing.
Why did not try having it approved by nass.

@OP, how much is the common entrance fee for your daughter?

2) How much is the fees for whatever school you have them enrolled as we speak?

Apologies if this has been answered in earlier responses. Just help me as may be unable to scroll back at the moment.

jaybee3:
You're welcome

I was waiting for you or one of the usual to confirm this case.
Since I see you here, i can consider it confirmed.

GenBuhari:
You have avoided answering the question.

My friend you should stop asking people for money if you are unwilling to reveal your political leanings.

To me, the fact that you are willing to collect money from people by hiding an aspect of yourself means you are devious disloyal and unprincipled.

It is the same character flaw, that landed you in the mess you in are today.


Imagine that a person was kind enough to employ in his very (one-man) small business, and you repaid his kindness with betrayal by using his office to run a business that is a direct competitor to your employer.

So the fact you got found out and dismissed is your own doing.

I hope you learn from this experience and learn to be more honest and loyal, especially with people who are showing you kindness.

You are a certified clown.

atlwireles:
For every practical purpose, this woman has redefined the position of the Nigerian female politician. She is one great campaigner, speaking for 60 mins or more, day after day in different states without notes, reeling out PDP's agenda, programs and past works. She keeps the focus on PDP and her husband. I am quite impressed.

Impressed with stupidity and utter silliness?
Are your standards so low?

In our series of letters from African journalists, writer and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani looks at journalists' struggle for survival in Nigeria.

Nigerian journalists are typically paid wretched salaries, and even the pittance to which they are entitled is often owed for months at a stretch.

A former editor with Nigeria's ThisDay newspaper last month became something of a celebrity in local media circles after an Abuja court awarded him damages against the newspaper's publishers.

Paul Ibe had in 2011 filed proceedings against his former employer, seeking payment of outstanding monthly salaries and other allowances.

"I went to court not because of the money but because of the principle involved," he told me.

"Every labourer deserves his pay."

But it is not as if their employers expect these journalists to work without pay.

The former ThisDay editor was awarded more than $5,000 (£3,000) in damages
They just do not think that the staff's income should come from the organisation's pockets.

Continue reading the main story
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The Nigerian media has become a thriving arena for all sorts of sponsored falsehoods”


My friend, who was a reporter with one of Nigeria's popular newspapers, said her boss often justified his non-payment of salaries by saying: "I've given you a platform to make money. Use it."

He was referring to the opportunity to collect payment from individuals or organisations in exchange for publishing their stories.

Nigerian journalists are known to prowl to and fro in search of anyone whose pay will inspire their pens.

It is common for "brown envelopes" containing cash to be handed out during press briefings - a practice that has been going on for so long that many young journalists with whom I have spoken have no idea that it is unethical.

After covering an event, they linger expectantly until the envelopes stuffed with cash arrive.

Woe betide you if you fail to meet their expectations.

Whatever you read about yourself and your event, if the item manages to find space in the newspaper, will be entirely of your own making.

With this kind of goings-on, you cannot expect the average Nigerian journalist to be fair in the presentation of facts.
I know a top Nigerian politician who goes beyond brown envelopes to listing a number of editors on his payroll.

As he disburses his staff salaries monthly, he also makes payments into the editors' bank accounts.

Journalists in Nigeria can sometimes remain unpaid for months
This ensures that whenever he has any "news" to disseminate, it gets published in several media without any questions asked or facts checked.

The Nigerian media has become a thriving arena for all sorts of sponsored falsehoods.

The judicial system is equally dysfunctional, making it tortuous to win a libel case.



I wanted to pay salaries that would enable the average reporter buy a beer for himself and a friend after work on Friday, and a small car for himself”

This strikes at the very core of democracy, where the electorate, to make sensible choices, relies on the media for facts.

In 2008, I joined Nigeria's now-defunct Next newspapers as one of its pioneer editorial staff.

Founded by Pulitzer-winning journalist Dele Olojede, it was celebrated for its vehement policy against brown envelopes.

Within months of its launch, it was boldly reporting several important national stories that most mainstream newspapers would not touch.

When its reporters began garnering local and international awards for investigative journalism, Mr Olojede reminded us that most of those stories had been lying in the public domain, simply waiting for someone to report them.

"Real investigative journalism requires dogged digging," he said.

He explained during an editorial meeting: "I wanted to pay salaries that would enable the average reporter buy a beer for himself and a friend after work on Friday, and a small car for himself."

But revenue soon began to dry up.

In Nigeria, established newspapers are paid to keep big stories off the front page. Adverts are supposed to buy silence.

Often, Next would run a story in its popular weekend edition, only for editors to arrive at the office on Monday to meet an aggrieved marketing team - certain big advertisers had terminated their business that morning.

A newspaper vendor in Nigeria in 2013
It is alleged that big advertisers in newspapers run scared of stories that will upset important people
After one revelation about corruption in the oil trade, scores of advertisers instantly pulled out.

Many organisations began to distance themselves from the newspaper, for fear of being seen to be supporting the enemy of their friends.

At the time Next eventually called it quits in 2011, staff were owed more than five months' arrears.

Rumours of the newspaper's reporters accepting brown envelopes had begun to filter in, but few editors had the heart to reprimand offenders.

It is difficult to ascertain whether corruption in Nigeria's journalism emanated from pressure by the political and business elite, or if the media themselves initiated jukebox journalism.

Following Mr Ibe's court victory - which only one newspaper reported - journalists from around the country have been sending congratulatory messages, thanking him for giving them hope.

He has shown that the country's journalists do not have to put up with being used and abused by their employers.

However, it will take more than one court victory to bring an end to this kind of malpractice and create a thriving Nigerian media.

Do whatever you choose to do as it concerns the foetus. It is your call.
However, please use a condom henceforth.

Quick answer from the usual suspects pls;
Is this case verified?

Queendo:
The spirit ssys dis is a trying period. Just go for prayers of deliverance. God is abt to do sometin new in ur life.

Deliverance from what?

kramer:
Please tell me you're kidding

The lad is daft.

Ibime:
We deserve that all day long. . .

Goodnight.

My special bros, I dey find you since.
Dj , I beg give my bros WOJU (not the remix o).
Special dedication for my blues bros.

FriedPlantain:
Omoni Oboli is happily married and a happy mother of three kids, that she is flying a private jet does not necessarily equate to her dating a politician. Women (especially a celeb like her) can have powerful men as friends without necessarily having to offer them sex in return. Or are you saying every man that has helped your sister in one way or the other phucked her before doing so?


And for those of you quoting me to yarn dust, please learn to read well. The jet was not procured on her behalf neither was she dashed the jet, it was only used to transport her to her desired destination.

FriedPlantain

I agree with you but the evidence we see all around us does not tally with the picture you are painting. So you cannot blame those who insinuate such.
Afterall, we see and hear of married women sleeping around while in seemingly happy marriages.
Besides,actors in Nigeria are mostly glorified sex hawkers.

ignis:
Let somebody inform Buhari that God's servant have prophesied peace concerning this election. So he should call his boys to order and be rest assured that he's not going to shed blood as usual in this election.

Stop being daft. Buhari does not have a monopoly of violence. Asari and co are not Buhari fans.
The God of peace will visit this nation with not only peace but justice.
He will frustrate the crafty devices of all those planning evil and violence, whether they be in the south or the north.

lalasticlala:
He will ensure there’s no war by installing only those who are righteous in power,” he told his congregation.

This is not very correct.
If there is no righteous person among the contestants, will the position be vacant?
It is about time my fellow Pentecostals begin to accept the biblical truth that God can raise an ungodly king to fulfil his plan and even use him for His greater good. God is not myopic like most humans, he sees the bigger picture and is always working and aligning all events for His greater good. His will at the moment can be the ungodly.

I see he and Mimoko dancing alingo these days.
Nigerian politicians are hoes that can't be trusted.
Don't be deceived by the acronym of the vehicles they use to reach their personal greedy goals,

Collynzo9:
They said it is a sponsored program.
From Buhari to Tinubu to Peter Obi, this is very funny.
AIT is raking in the cash in this season of Propaganda.

I hope Dokpesi will remember to pay staff salary.

aresa:
Abia's IGR is N500 million and the rest of them generates below or up to just 1 billion a month.

The folks in the region are not contributing enough via taxes to help their states, they are all busy paying taxes to other states in the SW to help develop SW instead of their own states...

If I lived in Abia state, I too will not pay taxes.
That government is not worthy of any man's sweat.
I have never seen such sycophantic and clueless govt in my life.

When the devil wants to curse a people he sends T.A. Orji their way.
It cannot get worse than that lousy fellow.

Seun:
You should be an atheist, not a Christian. That is the final destination, but it requires courage. Do you have courage?

The cockiness of your unbelief is same as the type believers being described by the OP.
What daft courage are you referring to?
It takes as much courage to believe in an unseen God by faith as it takes to disbelief the incomplete evidence of a supernatural being.

Neyoor:
Wow! Asiri tuuuuuuu.



Reuben Abati, so this is how people change?


You used to be a scholar,

A mentor for many Nigerian Youths like me,

A prolific writer,

A human right activist,

An Editor for a reputable newspaper,

I even learnt you graduated with 1st class.



Now, you've lost all the fame and honour you've garnered, since you've been working for the shoeless son.


You no longer say the truth but now preaching lies to favour your master.

Funny enough some persons who knew him from the past calim he has always had these tendencies, just did not get the opportunity to exhibit them.

Ibrahim Uwais gave his parents and everyone around him the impression that he hates Boko Haram because of the “damage” they are doing to Islam — but he has now gone to Syria apparently to join the Islamic State militants. His distraught father, Mohammed Uwais (pictured) — who served as the chief justice of Nigeria from 1995 to 2006 — was still trying to come to terms with the news when he suffered a suspected armed robbery attack last weekend, although he was not hurt. Ibrahim, described as a 41-year-old “reserved and committed Muslim”, has two wives and four children, TheCable learnt. His elder wife was the head of a private school in Abuja while the younger worked with the Debt Management Office (DMO). When he took the decision to go to Syria to team up with the “jihadists” of the Islamic State, he reportedly called his wives aside and told them they were free to return to their parents. “But both of them said they would go with him,” a source in the know of the development told TheCable, adding that they took all their children with them. When the retired justice was alerted on the disappearance of his son and his family, he became apprehensive and started to make investigations. He went to report to the security agencies — who told him they would investigate the claim that his son might have gone to Syria. TheCable could not confirm the airline or route Ibrahim flew out of Nigeria or the date he left, but sources said he travelled through Turkey, which shares border with the war-torn Syria. Parts of Syria and Iraq are under the control of the Islamic State which carries out summary executions, including beheadings and death by stoning, of those accused of flouting its sharia law. The Turkish embassy in Abuja was compelled to disclose the details of Ibrahim’s movement through a court injunction, TheCable learnt. The embassy confirmed that it issued visas to Ibrahim and members of his family. The details of his arrival in Turkey were made available, while images of CCTV recordings were also said to have been analysed by the Turkish security agencies to establish their movement. Hated Boko Haram Ibrahim, who dropped out of the university and went into full-time business in his early 20s, is the most unlikely man to volunteer for the Islamic State, according to family friends who spoke with TheCable. “He hated everything Boko Haram stood for, and often queried why they would be killing innocent women and children in the name of Islam,” a source said. “With the benefit of hindsight, he was probably trying to cover up his plans. There was no way you would have suspected that he was ever going to be a fundamentalist himself.” He was a student of King’s College, Lagos, and went on to the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, “where he was radicalised”, according to a former student of Queen’s College, Lagos, who told TheCable that Ibrahim “was very popular with QC girls in those days”. A family source confirmed that Ibrahim left Nigeria with his family early February “without a word”, keeping his extended family in the dark. “The fact that he didn’t say goodbye to both parents, and the deafening silence from his end since then, seems to lend credence to this storyline (that he has joined ISIS),” he said, adding that “we are just praying for news of them, news of any sorts”. Memories of AbdulFarouk

Read more at: http://www.thecable.ng/exclusive-justice-uwais-son-claims-hate-boko-haram-joined-isis-jihadists | TheCable

Smartresult:
If both two pastors cannot have understand and keep their home peacefully how can others, this pastors and their church never solve problems, proudly catholic .

I hope you are proud of your pedophiles in cassock?

I have long lost hope in this polity of ours.
I am more interested in the writing of the author of this piece.
The lady can write for the world!!
Her grasp of written English is a class apart.
I was not particularly impressed with her first novel. I hope the second one is better.

But we should vote for GEJ that has children outside wedlock.

This woman makes me feel like denouncing my uniport acquired degree.
To believe I inhabit same continent with touts like pej, ffk and Fayose makes me uncomfortable with my African roots.
In the 21st century,this is what passes for politics?
I completely agree with Olisa Agbakoba that both PDP and apc are jokers. However the jokes of PDP are real defilement of the polity.

OLADD:
Stop this attitude of always vilifying govt functionaries for pointing out the underhand activities of the Nigerian opposition. As a private citizen, I can confirm to you (God bear witness) how there was constant power outage by PHCN in my area anytime PDP or GEJ was about to hold a televised campaign but the opposite occured anytime APC was campaigning. This is not a fabrication but verified truth. The fact that APC has been using NLC, PHCN and other bodies to sabotage and undermine the efforts of GEJ's administration is a common knowledge. Muazu was absolutely right.

You are a very funny character. I pity those who dare take you serious.

ojinuocheibi:
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What sort of cyber pimping is this?

Bekwarra:
24. Sprite or spirit chewing gum

Sprint

Who wan do runs,go do runs.
No need for excuses.

Empero1:
This copy and paste fictions . The first time I read about this same fiction was like 9 years ago and here it is today again in same format without the new author editing it . I tire for people .

The hustle is real.

datbay:
OK...try to catch them red handed first.

Then What?