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I think we don't learn in this country, initially everyone hard the impression that, as soon as Buhari enters, miracle will happen and we will all start enjoying, one year on and the suffering is in 100 folds.

Now everyone is talking of signing budget as if as soon as he puts his signature on the paper fuel queues will be no more, the price of things will drop, Nigeria will become a bed of roses.

God forbid, but I will not be surprised if by this time next year APC will have new stories to tell us why the budget performed below average.

Lower your expectations and hope for the best

Greatness nobi by height

The police, DSS and army will pretend to be unaware now, when villagers try to challenge the Fulani vampires the authorities will immediately swing into action arresting every living thing in the village and giving credence to the term used by Kanuists to describe this country.

After service today , walk straight to him, hold his trouser and start shouting "I will never let u go unless u stop hating". It works like magic. Thank me later

By Tobi Soniyi
The Supreme Court has affirmed the death sentence handed out to a farmer and father of five, James Afolabi, by the Kogi State High Court and the Court of Appeal.
In a unanimous judgment delivered on Friday, a five-man panel of the apex court held that there was no basis to disturb the concurrent finding of the trial and lower courts in their previous judgments.
Afolabi, from Kogi State, was convicted and sentenced to death by the Kogi State High Court, Lokoja in 2012 having been found guilty for the murder of a Fulani man, Abubakar Mohammed.

The court relied on Afolabi’s confessional statement to the police, where he claimed to have shot Mohammed on the chest for straying into his (Afolabi’s) yam and cassava farm on February 27, 2009.
The Court of Appeal, Abuja on March 22, 2012 dismissed his appeal and upheld the decision of the trial court, a decision he appealed to the Supreme Court.

On Friday, Justice John Inyang Okoro, in the lead judgment in the appeal marked: SC/181/2012, held that although the prosecution could not produce an eye witness at trial, it provided sufficient evidence, through its witnesses, “which gave vent to the confession of the appellant.
“And in any case, this court held in Mohammed v State (2007) 11 NWLR (pt 1045) 303 at 230 paragraph F that where an accused person confesses to a crime, in the absence of an eye witness of the killing, he can be convicted on his confession alone.
“For all I have said, I hold a strong view that the court below was on a strong wicket when it upheld the conviction and sentencing of the appellant upon reliance on his confessional statements,” he said.

Justice Okoro also sided with the lower court in concluding that the intention of the appellant was to kill the victim.
“In the instant case, the appellant states emphatically, in Exhibit D (confessional statement), adjudged to have been freely and voluntarily made, that he aimed his gun at the chest of the deceased at close range and shot him.
“It was his further evidence that the deceased fell down and could not move again. At that point, he ran to the village head and reported that he had killed a man.

“In the circumstance, did he intend to kill the man? I had earlier stated in this judgment that a person is taken to intend that natural and probable consequences of his act.
“So, when the appellant aimed his gun at the chest of the deceased and shot it, did he intend to keep him alive? I do not think so. At least he intended to cause him grievous bodily harm.

“And, in view of the force of a gunshot aimed at the heart, the engine room of a man’s life, it can safely be concluded that the appellant intends to kill the deceased on his action, the report he made to the village head notwithstanding.

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Confused set of ppl. Confusion everywhere in this land. Tufiakwa

Think home campaign is beginning to yield results...I pray air peace sets a standard in services, something rarely seen in our local airlines.

Dusting powder as lubricant ? probably she gets too wet and needed to be dried a bit because thats the only "lubrication" dusting powder can do. I smell lies!!!

TB Joshua is encroaching on his market share..nothing personal, purely business.

By Francis Igata ENUGU—The Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Emene, Enugu State, has been approved for international flight operations to and from Atlanta, United States of America; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Johannesburg, South Africa; Mubia, India and Gwuanzuo, China.

This revelation was made yesterday at the closing ceremony of Enugu State maiden investment summit by the Chairman, Air Peace, Allen Onyema, who equally announced that Air Peace had been appro-ved as national carrier into the five countries by the Federal Government.

Also, delegates at the investment summit stood still when Chairman, Peace Mass Transit, Dr. Samuel Onyishi, announ-ced plans to build a mega medical city in Enugu State in collaboration with foreign partners to put the state on the map of medical tourism in Africa.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/akanu-ibiam-airport-cleared-flights-usa-china-others/

MOHAMMED Hayatudeen, the intelligent and well focused founding chief executive of the defunct FSB Bank, a few years ago made a passionate appeal to the Nigerian political leaders which unfortunately fell on deaf ears.

Hayatudeen told the political class that the country would leapfrog developmentally if they see the six geopolitical zones as development centres rather than platforms for pushing sectional and divisive interests which at the end of the day leave the overwhelming majority of the Nigerian people shortchanged. Not even the media or development-oriented organisations helped to spread the Hayatudeen gospel.

Most of our political leaders are obsessed with power for its own sake, or what Professor Pat Utomi of the Lagos Business School calls power without responsibility. This is why in spite of the fact that citizens of northern extraction have been leading Nigeria since the greater part of our independence from Britain in 1960 the North lags far behind the South in all human development indices (HDI) like access to education, healthcare, etc.

One top government official who is most likely to move in a different direction is Malam Nasiru el Rufai, governor of the strategic state of Kaduna who has been the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory as well as the director general of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE). Like thousands of other Nigerians, I watched on Channels Television with acute interest the two-day investment summit in Kaduna which the state government organised from Wednesday, April 5 to Thursday, April 6, 2016. el Rufai characteristically spoke eloquently and with conviction, disclosing that the state could give South Africa a good run for its money in terms of huge gold deposits.

This revelation must have come to most Nigerians as a pleasant surprise because the only business in the state known to most Nigerians is textile. Interestingly, the well-spoken governors of Bauchi and Kebbi states attended the investment summit where the Dangote Group announced the decision to invest $10m in tomato business in the state and Olams of India followed two days later with laying the foundation stone of a $150m investment in livestock. It is good that leading northerners took the summit seriously. Yet, one state from which Gov. el Rufai can learn so much is Anambra in the South East geopolitical zone. Anambra has made tremendous success in attracting investments in the last two years but for some reason this fact is unknown to most Nigerians.

Set up only two years ago as a one-stop investment organisation, the Anambra State Investment Promotion and Protection Agency (ANSIPPA) should serve as a model for not just state governments keen on diversifying revenue sources in an era of dwindling resources from petroleum, but also the Federal government whose Nigerian Investment Promotion Council (NIPC) has by all accounts underperformed since inception. Mandated to bring two billion dollar investments by 2018, ANSIPPA had by the first quarter of 2016 exceeded the target by some $300m, with agriculture alone accounting for 40% of the investments. Some people may think that the stupendous performance of the Anambra State investment agency may have to do squarely with the fact that the state has probably the highest number of millionaire businessmen and women in the country. But this is misleading.

Why were investments not flowing into Anambra when Peter Obi, a successful businessman, was governor? Until now, business people from the state were paradoxically investing everywhere except their home state. The first factor responsible for the ANSIPPA success is internalising what Adam Smith famously called the profit motive and communicating it to investors. Businessmen and women are not driven primarily by patriotism or altruism but by profit motive. Smith has told us that neither the farmer who makes food available to society nor the butcher who gives us meat is guided by selflessness but profit. In the process of trying to make money for themselves, they provide critically needed products and services.

If erstwhile President Olusegun Obasanjo had borne this fact in mind he would succeeded in attracting key multinationals in his first term in office when he embarked on almost non-stop foreign trips in search of foreign investors. He was innocently telling business executives like Sir Christopher Gent, CEO of Vodafone of the United Kingdom, the world’s largest mobile phone operator, “to come to Nigeria to help us”. Sir Christopher was to state while retiring in 2003 that if he had known that Nigeria was such a huge market for telecoms business, Vodafone would have invested in it, rather than allow small players like MTN of South Africa and Econet of Zimbabwe/ South Africa to corner the market. If humanitarian or patriotic sentiments were the basis of serious investments, Cosmas Maduka of Coscharis would not have invested so massively in his home state of Anambra in the last two years. As every business analyst in Nigeria can testify, Mr. Maduka is a starry-eyed investor, who is not swayed by sentiments. In other words, he is investing in Anambra State because he has been convinced by ANSIPPA that he would make good profits.

The second factor for the success of the Anambra investment agency success is the quality of persons driving ANSIPPA. Gov Willie Obianor, a former investment banker, resolved from day one not to make ANSIPPA a haven for political associates or sycophants. The board is headed by Dr. Cyril Enweze, an economist who was until recently the number two man in the African Development Bank (ADB), having worked at the IMF which he joined straight from Cambridge University and later attended Columbia University in New York. Also on the board are Ifeatu Onejeme, a former executive director at United Bank for Africa; Dr. Ifediora Amobi, who worked under Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala at the World Bank; Ambassador Uche Ajulu-Okeke, Nigeria’s counsel general in South Africa; Solo Okonkwo, a former economics professor in the UK and now secretary to the government; and Greg Obi, an ex chief executive of Manny Bank who is finance commissioner. The management is headed by Joe Billy Ekwunife, an accountant and retired top investment banker. The third factor for ANSIPPA’s success is security, an issue of interest to Kaduna since the 2000 riots over Sharia law and worsened by the Boko Haram menace and a new spate of kidnappings. Anambra was until recently bedeviled by armed robberies and kidnappings.

Ending this menace is a key achievement of Obiano who recognises, like any other investment banker, that capital is a coward, and goes to only places where it is not likely to be threatened. The next factor is availability of infrastructure. While most Nigerian government officials consider the provision of basic infrastructure an end in itself, Obiano regards it as a means to an end, that is, it must be linked to economic and social development, leading to enhanced living standards of the people. Both Obiano and el Rufai obviuosly belong to the Hayatudeen school of thought which believes that Nigerian political leaders should see their areas as development centres instead of platforms for divisive and sectional politics. The duo represent a paradigm shift. A new generation of thought leaders is evolving in Nigerian politics. Mrs. Jaluchi Chikelu, a marketing executive, wrote fromLagos.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/investment-el-rufai-and-anambra-investment-challenge/

chimah3:
I'm not a story writer, so i will just go straight to the point and i need the best advice from experienced persons.

In January, i opened a mini fast food restaurant which though stressful, pumps in enough profit for me daily. Months later i got something bigger taking me out of my location for the rest of the year and maybe even more and i don't have a family or trustworthy friend around who i can hand it over to manage or carry on from where i stopped. And the option of employing a manager is not an option, because if you have employees, you will understand by now that this people are just after their own benefits and interest and not yours. And instead of a group of individuals running down a business i have successfully built, I'm considering selling it off.

What advice do you have for me, for those in the field, wrong or okay decision, how do i go about selling it off, how do i find a reliable and interested individual??

I am looking for where to open one in Abuja, yours might be good shut cut for me, lets discuss. drop contact

FoxyFlow:
Petrol stations all over the nation's capital are opened and are currently selling the premium motor spirit (PMS) for the official price.

I believe Ibe Kachikwu lived up to his word.

I am talking about the Oando filling station close to prince and princess estate, Kaura district Abuja and the other NNPC mega station located along games village road.

What about your area?

Source...: Eye witness

Op I just passed the 2 mentioned stations, are they selling ? Yes! No queues ? Terrible LIE, the NNPC queue is causing traffic along the Games Village road, the Oando queue is already hitting the Gaduwa junction.

olatade:
Any slowpoke who shouts PDP !!! POWER in 2019 thunder fire am. It took PDP 16 solid years to mess up the country. In 10months they now want magic in solving the problems they left behind. Amadioha fire all you.

PDP blamed military, though most of the PDP members held one position or the other during the military regime, 16 years after APC is now conveniently blaming PDP though half of them were somehow connected to PDP or held public offices for the referenced period, years to come they ll all move to a new platform and APC will become object of blame.

In all these, the losers are the masses, especially people like you that are totally blinded by your support to those that care less about you.

Do our leaders ever get embarrassed by anything ? Tufiakwa!

Does wizkid have issues with growing old? Linda is growing wiz is growing ,,what's with this old this old that .

nduchucks:
These people were not protesting. They were arrested for law breaking activities - they have no business taking the law in their own hands.

Are u by any means suggesting they should have simply watched a repeat of Agatu? Aren't nonsense. I am unaware of the number of people arrested for Agatu massacre .

What a country, protesters are arrested while murderous vampires receive pat on the back...at times I am forced to use the Z word for Nigeria.

omoyemirally:
As far as u get wat he meant. Its ok. We are not oyinbos. So we are all learners.

So if you have a son in primary 6 and u ask him to write a letter his uncle explaining what happened in school today and the young lad ended up writing something like this, u ll simply shake his hand and say he is not oyibo.

If I hear ....

I heard that last night 10000 big mosques out of no where just appeared in Nkanu in Enugu State, in fact as at this morning, information coming from our source who has requested his name not to be mentioned as he is not authorized to speak on this matter is that everyone is now a Muslim.

Inefficiency awona inaefichansi ...

The most "stupidest" of them all is that Igbos dont like themselves....there is no place that Igbos find themselves and they fail to form a union, village meeting, town meeting etc. Always bonding. I dont understand that nonsense of Igbos not loving themselves.

gabinogem:
Tax the religious centers not the poor... this Foolish government will not learn.

God bless you

Happy birthday to the Iroko of Nollywood!!

Akwa ugo!!!

How does Sanusi survive this heat??

Eebrahym:
How much is the ransome

U wan pay

Try naijadomain. The best of the best

The babe kukuma no dey read or speak English so whatever they are writing aren't for her dazall.

In normal climes u actually agree on all terms, sign contract before payment. That contract becomes the authority under which payment is being made.

In Nigeria they keep shouting just pay if u like it o else somebody else will pay.

I was forming obodo oyibo while looking for house in Abj, nobody was even ready to show me the draft agreement not to talk of signing before payment.

Mean!

jmichlins:
when you import raw materials from scarce forex at 300/$, pay workers and buy diesel to power your factory not forgetting bank interest and tax, you can choose to sell for free and we will rush. Even if they sell the car at 300k you will not buy you know why? you no get money