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Nigerian banks are armed robbers. Sending money from US directly into my account in Nigeria is always N20 difference.. If dollar is 350 in Nigeria, my agent sends into my account at 330. How they do it I don't know. If ATM is paying you N186 per dollar then that means our present govt is worst than armed robbers, CBN is a terrorist

abiolert:
sorry my brother. hopefully when the economy of this country improves please return home, for there is no place like home. Happy Valentine bro.

Definitely bro and happy Valentines day to all nairalanders

While nairalanders in Nigeria will be having a lovely valentine, I am thousands of miles away from my wife lonely and so cold. Baba God this was not part of the hustling plans. Just few minutes to vals day and it will be as low as - 25.

How many times will this post surface here or online.

Pop singer Céline Dion's representative said Friday that Dion's brother has cancer and doesn't have long to live, even as funeral arrangements were announced for Dion's husband, who died a day earlier.

Kim Jakwerth confirmed reports on the prognosis of Dion's brother Daniel.

Le Journal de Montréal says Daniel Dion is 59 years old. He is one of the 14 Dion siblings. His sister Claudette Dion told Le Journal that it's a matter of days or hours for her brother. She added that he has cancer of the throat, tongue and brain.

Dion's husband, René Angélil, died Thursday after a long battle with throat cancer in the suburban Las Vegas home in Henderson he shared with Dion and their three children.

Francine Chaloult, Dion's publicist, said the service for the 73-year-old will be held Friday afternoon at 3 p.m. at Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal. Angélil wanted to have his funeral at the same church where he wed Dion over two decades ago, Chaloult said.

Angélil died Thursday morning in his Las Vegas home at the age of 73. He had been fighting throat cancer. (Jacques Boissinot/Canadian Press)

"He will be remembered as a gentle man, generous and kind, an unprecedented visionary, a modern Pygmalion, a Renaissance man," said Chaloult. "[We] have lost a conqueror and a man of great substance and influence. He is now a part of the collective memory of the music industry, be it in Canada or elsewhere in the world."

The Quebec government announced late Friday that it will be a state funeral.

Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard said Quebecers will be able to celebrate Angélil's contribution to the province's culture during a wake on Thursday between 2 p.m. and 9 p.m in Montreal.

"We have all been touched by the death of René Angelil," said Couillard in a statement.

A celebration of Angélil's life will also take place Feb. 3 in Las Vegas at Caesars Palace Colosseum.

Basilica Notre Dame Montreal
The couple married at the Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal over two decades ago. (Sabrina Marandola/CBC)

Angélil was born in Montreal on Jan. 16, 1942, to a Syrian father and a Québécois mother.

He started his career in entertainment as a singer in the early 1960s before quitting to manage up-and-coming Quebec artists including René Simard and Ginette Reno.

Angélil began managing Dion in the 1980s and helped her reach international stardom.

© The Associated Press, 2016
The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/celine-dion-brother-cancer-rene-angelil-funeral-1.3406593

A former captain in the Nigerian army remembers the day he faced Boko Haram - and found that his weapons were defective.

Jefferson (not his real name) jumped off the truck and flung his bulky frame onto the sand and shrubs beneath him. He raised his head and scoured the terrain. The 30 soldiers who had just arrived alongside him were taking fighting positions - some diving, others crouching.

They were in Mongonu, a town in northeast Nigeria's Borno State, to provide reinforcements for a military convoy that had, earlier that morning, been ambushed by Boko Haram.

Many of the town's 20,000 inhabitants had fled; others had been incorporated into the Boko Haram frontline - terrified human shields protecting the 200 or so members of the group who were now attacking, determination etched onto their faces, sophisticated weaponry in their hands.

But as Jefferson caught his first glimpse of the fighters, it was surprise, not fear that he felt.

"They were not what I expected," he recalls now, describing how many of the men had the kind of light skin, curly hair and fine facial features normally associated with indigenes of Chad or Niger or other countries along Nigeria's northern border.

And the ease with which they fired their Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPGs) made it immediately clear that, far from being the mob of ragamuffins he had envisioned, these fighters were well-trained and highly efficient.

Just a few weeks earlier, in June 2013, Jefferson, a captain in the Nigerian army, had assumed duty as the commander of a 'garrison quick response force' in Borno. It was his first posting to the troubled northeastern region, which, at that point, had already endured more than four years of Boko Haram attacks.

And this was to be his first encounter with the infamous fighters.

The captain quickly overcame his surprise and prepared to attack.

But things did not go according to plan.

"The first shock I got was finding out that the firing pin of my rocket propelled grenade was damaged," he says.

Then, when he and his soldiers discharged their mortars, all they got for their efforts was a hollow kpoi sound. Their weapons had expired and were, effectively, useless.

They quickly discovered that some of their raw ammunition had no links and the charges for their equipment were broken. Wrapping them in the masking tape he always carried around in his kit proved ineffective.

A training session had been taking place in their barracks when the news of the Boko Haram ambush had reached them. They had grabbed as much ammunition from their stores as they could before heading out to battle - never imagining that it would be defective.

But now, here they were, being attacked with weapons intended for use against aircraft with nothing but small arms with which to defend themselves.

Jefferson recalls how one veteran soldier, a grey-haired, wrinkled man under his command, threw away his gun and broke down in tears, declaring: "Oh God! Oga, what is this?"


Analysts say Nigeria's military is underfunded and poorly equipped in its battle against Boko Haram.

Source: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/my-nigeria/2015/09/remember-day-confronted-boko-haram-150914121936847.html

cutestcee:
New level? I'm only saying that if we harness the level we are now, we will achieve great things. We need encouragement. That's all

I can see you are a joker waiting for Nigerian government.
A government that does not have bearing
A government that misplaced the nation's budget
A government that pretends to obey the rule of law but are tyrants.
An unreasonable government
A nation with one party system (the ruling party ) every pdp member now join APC and celebrate it with a new bride.

cutestcee:
Nigeria is already innovative. We only need our leaders to encourage creativity and innovation

I never said Nigerians are not innovative, I only prayed for a new level of innovation. Read very well before you post comments.

While most Nigeria leader and people in power want generations coming after them to go through the same hardship they went through, the western world is busy trying to make things easier for themselves in all aspects of their lives. Lord please bestow upon we Nigerians a new level of innovation.

cardoctor:
This is naija. 250 years remaining for us to get it right.

1000 years to get it right. If you believe in a geographic location called Nigeria, you are a joker. You better start believing in yourself.

Indeed a nice info for a novice

By Bayo Adeyinka

My dear Nigerian Youth,

I am very angry and that is why I am addressing you. You are the source of my anger and I want to vent my spleen- maybe not at you directly- but at the arrogance of your ignorance. Of all nations of the world, you are to be most pitied. Do you still wonder what you have done?

You don’t have an Ivy League education but with the little below-standard education you got, all you could do with it is to write a petition against someone with the benefit of an Ivy League education. You can’t even run your personal economy as you’re almost always and perpetually broke yet you arrogate to yourself superior knowledge about the nation’s economy.

You sit in front of a computer and rant all day through social media but with every click, you make money- not for yourself- but for Mark Zuckerberg. With every megabyte of data you spend complaining and maligning, you make stupendous bucks for Etisalat, Glo and Airtel.

Over the next two years, the number of Nigerian millionaires will jump by 47% but most likely you will not be among because you are too busy whining and complaining. And yet about 60% of Nigeria’s 170m population are below 35 years. Oh, what a waste!

By the way, Mark Zuckerberg was 19 when he started facebook. Africa’s youngest billionaire, Ashish Thakkar, is 31. He escaped from the Rwandan genocide and relocated to Uganda where he started an IT business. Collin Thornton, who made his millions by fixing bad computers and setting up Dial-a-Nerd, is 35. Adam Horowitz, an 18-year-old entrepreneur, started 30 websites in 3 years before he became successful.

The only thing you have ever started is an online petition. Have you heard of Jason Njoku? He’s 33 and the founder of Iroko TV. He received $8m investment into his company just a few years ago. What he does? Sharing the same Nollywood films that you spend hours to watch online. He didn’t just hang around waiting for Buhari to make something happen or blaming Jonathan for not making anything happen.

Kamal Budhabhatti was deported from Kenya but while on the flight, he thought of the opportunities in Kenya. He found his way back after 6 months and today his company is valued at $30m. He’s 36. Have you heard of Chinedu Echeruo? Apple just paid $1b for his app. He’s a Nigerian like you and all he did was attempt to fix a problem.

But for you, the only thing you attempt to fix are your nails- and your hairdo! Chinedu moved to New York in 1995 and found it difficult to navigate the city with ease so he developed HopStop to fix the problem. Stop listing all the problems- we know them already but what are you doing about them?

Awolowo was 37, Akintola was 36, Ahmadu Bello was 36, Tafawa Balewa was 34, Okotie-Eboh was 27 and Enahoro was 27 at the time of independence of Nigeria. In 1966, the first coup was led by Kaduna Nzeogwu (29) and stopped by Murtala Mohammed (28), TY Danjuma (28), IBB (25), Sanni Abacha (23) and Shehu Yaradua (23). It brought in Yakubu Gowon as Head of State at 32 and Obasanjo at 29. You are in your 40s and you still sag your trousers.

Of course you know Linda Ikeji. You’ve spent hundreds of hours on her blog laughing and commenting while she smiles her way to the bank. She’s just built a house for her father in the village- just by you clicking on her gossip and sharing. Your day is not complete without a stop by at her blog. She was as broke as you are but she turned a hobby into a business. Are you that void of understanding?

You think the politicians have any regard for you? That is why I referred to the arrogance of your ignorance at the beginning of this diatribe. You have a false estimation of yourself. You have an over bloated ego. You are only as good as an election ticket- pure and simple.

You are only good to used and discarded like a used ballot paper. Who keeps a used ballot paper anyway? That is why they only remember you every four years. You are like a menstrual pad that is only useful during the menstrual period. Are you hurt? Okay, let me help you. Have you heard of Prof Olusola Adeyeye before?

He is a Senator of the Federal Republic at the moment. But before he became a senator, he was popular on facebook. Even more popular than so many latter day facebookivists. I was one of his many followers. He put up posts after posts and pander to populist thinking. Then he was elected and one of the first things he did was to deactivate his facebook account. Yes, you read me right. Deactivate. How many times do you still see El-Rufai’s tweets? No longer regular? That is how it will dwindle until he disappears totally. I’m not limiting it to the aforementioned alone and this is not about any party. They are all the same.

Yet you falsely believe your future is in the hands of one politician. You will grow grey hair with that belief. And by the time you wise up, you’re on your way to the grave- not with a life expectancy of less than 60 years in this clime. Can you see you have wasted your time? And possibly your life? See, people have been complaining since independence. And they will still complain in 4 years. Will you be among them?

I agree with my friend who said Nigerian youth need mental detoxification. And maybe I should add that you need a brain transplant. Let me give you another example. I’ve watched you try to pull some people down when you don’t like their face- or their comments. You report them to facebook. And they get pulled down. Momentarily. Just momentarily.

Do you know why? Facebook knows those people draw traffic. Their posts get huge numbers of comments. And with every comment and click, someone is making money. Will you allow your best customers to leave? That is why though facebook pulled down Adeyinka Grandson’s page, he was given a facebook fan page in return. Yes, a fan page. You need to get a job and you need to get a life. There is life away from facebook or social media.

If you’re not making money from social media and you sleep on it, you’re merely existing- you’re not living. I have seen some of you take selfies and pose in all manner of ways as you paste your photos on social media. Are you a photographer or are you selling something that we don’t know? You’re unemployed because you’re unemployable. You don’t have skills. Sorry, the major skill you have is that of pointing out the problems and debating about them. That’s a no brainer! You can’t even diagnose the problems properly.

You think Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala is your problem? You are a self-inflicted problem. You are afflicted with yourself and by yourself. If you’re looking for the reason why you are the way you are- look no further than your mirror. Instead of occupying Nigeria, you should occupy your brain. The only witch chasing you from your village is you. It’s time to stop bewitching yourself.

Stop whining about lack of electricity or fuel. Do something about it. Every adversity has a seed of opportunity embedded in it. Create something. Invent something. Start something. Read up a book. Write a book. Take advantage of the present situation. Nigeria is a huge market. Nigeria is a virgin market. Waiting for you. Unleash yourself. Release your passion. Follow your potential. Invent your way to prosperity. Stop waiting for government- government only needs you when they need your taxes. Don’t depend on welfare. People who depend on welfare don’t fare well.

You think you lack capital? No, the problem is not lack of capital but lack of ideas. Just today, two men stepped into my wife’s office selling the new portraits of Buhari and Osinbajo. That’s someone grabbing an opportunity and seizing the moment. I have a friend who started out by offering after-school lessons to kids on her street- now she has a school.

I know a lady who was indigent and self-sponsored on campus. Each night, she soaked beans and made ‘moin-moin’ in the morning for sale on campus. I bought out of the moin moin as well as some other students and that was how she paid her way through University. Not prostitution. Have you heard of Ayodeji Megbope? She started her business with the last N1,000 she had on her by making moin moin. She is the CEO of No Leftovers.

I have shared the story of ‘Akara Ayo’ and invited him to talk to us before. He left his banking job to start a business frying Akara (bean cake) in Ibadan. And added some innovation to it.

Start a snail farm. You can start it with less than N100,000. I started it with nothing- I just picked up snails in my compound and raised them. In a couple of months, I had raised close to a thousand. You have a car and you are complaining you don’t have a job? Convert it for car hire. Take it to the airports and see how people will hire it for the day. Liase with good hotels and place it at their disposal. I met a young man in Calabar who charges N1,500 per hour for the use of his car. There is something in your hand that can give you the future you want. The best moment to start is now.

For God’s sake, just do something!

NB: This is just an article to stir up and challenge people

smilycj:
A validation test is carried out to ensure you where the person that actually wrote the first test. This is usually done at company premises under supervised conditions. Which role did you apply for and when did you take the first test?

Thank you for the response. I definitely need to prepare harder.
I applied for Junior Ordinary Seaman. I took the first test on 19th February.

Please can anyone explain what they mean by validation test. I have a validation test on 5th of may 2015.

The United States currently has over 2200 fighter planes.
Currently the USA has:

AIR FORCE FIGHTERS

F15C 222 Will stay in service until 2025
F15D 22
F15E Strike Eagle 219 [Being upgraded and will stay in service until 2025]
F16 C/D 983
F22A 186 [Fifth generation stealth fighter]
F35A Lightning II 47 [Fifth generation stealth fighter]

MARINES
F18 A/C/D 149

NAVY
F-18 A/B/C/D 433
F-18 E/F 565
F-35 Lightning II 4

At the end of 2014, Lockheed Martin and industry team had delivered 109 operational aircraft to the U.S. and partner nations since the program's inception. The USA could get 1700 to 3000 F35s. The US procurement of fifth generation fighters is currently set to far exceed the combined fifth generation jet procurement from Russia and China.

In 2014, Russia had over 750 fighters.

Russia will get 126 new fixed wing military aircraft in 2015. Some will be bombers.

At the end of 2014, China had about 1900 combat air force aircraft, (includes fighters, bombers, fighter-attack and attack
China has over 1060 fighter jets and interceptors.

aircraft), 600 of which are modern (generation 4 or newer).

China has 253 J-11 fighter jets that are based on the SU-27K

China has 15 J-15 fighter jets which are a variant on the J-11.

The Shenyang J-16 designed and manufactured by Shenyang Aircraft Corporation, China. This is a multi-role fighter/bomber variant based on the J-11BS with longer range and upgraded avionics, the concept is similar to F-15E Strike Eagle. There is currently 1 prototype flying and 24 have been built. The J16 is a copy of the Russian Su-30MK2.

China also has a stealthy version (J-17) of the Su-27. There is also an aircraft carrier version of the Su-30 (the Su-33, obtained from Ukraine) that is now being produced as the J-15.


France has about 283 fighter jets.
UK about 100 fighter jets.
Germany about 100 fighter jets

Source: http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/02/usa-has-more-fighter-planes-than-russia.html

Holy crap, it's real! Behold the first glimpse of Paul Allen's crazy space venture: The largest airplane in history, a 385-foot (117-meter) wingspan beast designed to carry and launch a giant rocket to space, with a combined weigh of 1,200,000 pounds (540,000 kg)! Check out the mind-blowing photos.


But first, watch this video to observe the tail sections on the twin fuselage.


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

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/first-photos-of-the-largest-airplane-ever-now-in-manufa-1688085252

Some JAMB cabals are trying to frustrate Nigerian youths. please stop JAMB NOW http://saynotojamb..com

OP listen carefully i will always remind my wife that i am the head cos you women at times seem to forget this when you open your mouth and yarn nonsense.
Go to the Lions den, its just a lion that is controlling the Territory. The same thing applicable to lizards only one red head lizard controls the territory and this animals in control will fight with their last breath if any male tries to encroach their territory.
It is a man's nature to always want to have this assurance he is in control. The earlier women realizes that, the better it is if you want to live peacefully with a MAN.

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Home sweet home, I resume work anytime before 12 noon and i close by 8.00pm,though its a personal business. I go straight home cos its already late and i can't wait to see my little boy and share how my day went with my loving and caring wife. even when we quarrel, i still find it difficult to stay out late. My mind will always be at home.
Also when i was not married, i will always go home after work, i don't see any profit hanging out and drinking away my future.

Please attend Christ Miracle Church Mission (CMCM) Ado Ekiti. A place where genuine men of God exists. God bless u

Super Eagles coach, well done, u are a man of wisdom by seeking and trusting in God most high

https://www.nairaland.com/1192022/afcon-2013-finals-prophecy-prophet


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iAT-_92bYs

Prophet Peter Adebisi Abiola of Christ Miracle Church Mission (CMCM). I see Nigeria sitting on the second sit out of Four,Burkina Faso sitting on the first. But God says we must DE-Throne Burkina Faso by prayers and we will overcome.
He Instructed the super eagles coach to go into his room this morning and do as God has instructed him to do, after confirming he has done it through a live phone call on the alter, we went ahead to DE-Throne.
I am posting this to tell us we still have true Prophets in Nigeria.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iAT-_92bYs

We av already celebrated in church cos Prophet Peter Adebisi Abiola of christ Miracle Church Mission (CMCM) has prophesied victory today and super eagles have taken their place by winning. Watch the prophecy video at today's service.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iAT-_92bYs

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Odunnu: You should live in the 18th century