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I make you an offer of N1.3m, please let me know if u are game.

Cheers.

@ Poster,

Sometime last year, I was in your shoes. My mum went to pray about my partner then and she came with negative reports. Before then, I had a dream that I didn't bother to seek meaning to because I was in love and because I reasoned that my dreams hardly come true. To cut the story short, my mum's stance prevailed after several family meetings and personal prayers that I did with some of my friends who are prayer warriors. My mum was right! But before I yielded to her stance, we didn't talk to each other for months. It was that bad.

Today, I am glad that I listened to her advice. I am in a new relationship that will lead to marriage in a few weeks from now and guess what? My mum is all for it. She loves my new fiancee like her own daughter and the irony of it again is that she is not from my tribe and we'll be travelling miles for the wedding. Something my family will never do before. When I met this new lady, everything, I mean everything fell into place. I am experiencing the difference between this and the former. This is my own story.

My advice: In my own case, your mum must tell you what the issues are (if she really mean well for you) like my mum told me in clear terms. Then, go to God in prayers. Get some fervent brothers/pastors to pray with you. You will find out if your mum's reasons are genuine or not. Now let me warn you, do not be tempted to assume that you can pray through the unpleasant reports (if thats what it turns out to be). My brother, learn from the story of King Saul in the Bible. It is best to obey than offer sacrifices or pray about situations that you can avoid.

Please do not disregard your mum's advice. Get her to speak in plain terms and pray on your own.

Good luck!

Viper, ,

Beware of this Rabbit man, he seems to be interested in every Naija used car, lol!

If u will do N1m, I will deal. Will holla u to discuss.

Hi Eghehibor,

Was this car first used in Nigeria? if yes, how many Nigerian users? If no, when was it first used in Nigeria.

If you answer this question satisfactorily, I will deal.

Cheers!

N.B: Same goes for your advertised Land Rover,

More pictures please! Lets know what the interior looks like.

Can you provide the mileage?

Very disappointing!

How can he want to leave a club that has showcased him at the biggest stage?

I am a Man Utd fan, I will miss Rooney if he leaves but he can go f*ck himself for all I care! We will do just fine without him.

So the Igbos have become pawns for IBB and Atiku on the Presidency chessboard

Yes, there seems to be undue advantage here but it won't be easy to prove.

Besides, how can a court of law upturn an act of the National Assembly except where it clearly condradicts the consitution of the Federal Republic which is not the case here?

Please lawyers in the house should emlighten me.

@ Poster:

Are these cars in Nigeria and available for inspection?

Any reason why the owner wants to fling this, one month after registration?

Where is the location?

Are you game for N1m?

If Bankole does not have a skeleton in his cupboard, he would, as a show of humility, submit his luggage for a search. At least he was not the one being subjected to pant down searching, but only his luggage. I want to believe that the British government exemptions are to individuals and not their luggages.

Have we also tried to imagine the scenario that the luggages must have been carried by the Speaker's aide and therefore seen as being part of the aide's before Bankole comes in to identify them as his? It is arguable as to whether the luggages warrant a search or not in that case.

The guy's actions these days call for concerns!

Only one term? IBB

Only an insane man would believe him on that!

Why would people let OBJ's personality becloud their senses as to see the truth in what he said about the rogues in the National Assembly of Thieves?

Wasn't OBJ correct about the high level curroption in the N/A? Please lets discuss the issues and leave the personality of OBJ out of it!

Plot by the National secretariat ir not, plot by godfathers or not, ALL CANDIDATES MUST EMERGE THROUGH PRIMARIES (according to the new electoral act) and so no consensus candidate.

So the Governors who from experience always have control of the grassroot marceneries might pull surprises at the primaries. It is very difficult to beat an incumbent Governor or his sponsored candidate in his party primaries.

So, this is not business as usual. No be yams again!!!

@ Eziachi

Guy, do u have a problem reading english or u simply can't comprehend what you have read??   If you let me know your problem, I may be able to help you honestly.

Now, let me warn you, don't try to rain insults on me. I am an elder and I suspect that I may be older than you. You may want to prove me wrong that as an Igbo man, you've got some respect for elders!

As a parting shot, please help tell the elders of the Edomobi family to wade into this loss of affection among their children. It is an embarrassment that should not happen where there are elders!!!!!!!!!!!

I am not surprised at this public show of shame by Dora's family.

I will say this without bias, Igbo people are not known to have respect for elders! Otherwise, the elders in their family (if they have one) would have nipped this in the bud.

Having said that, this clearly shows why an Igbo man cannot be trusted with the Presidency of Nigeria. They bring each others down at every opportunity to do so and it is worse when money is involved. They are so full of mischief!

This Engr Emeka had better know that he failed to get my sympathy. I am an admirer of Dora's courage and dearing strides!

I don't know what this fuss is about! And I'm sure that IBB is being malicious!

Lets even agree that the PDP consitution says there must be zoning and rotation or whatever, it does not state expressly what the frequency will be. It follows therefore that if there was zoning of the presidency to the North in 2007, there can as well be zoning to the south in 2011 - 4 years after, yes, 4 yrs after!

So IBB should go and get proper meaning to the english in their nonsense constitution!

DUMB QUESTION!!!!

Has any country ever won the world cup by fluke? Spain won 6 of 7 matches, scored 8 and conceded only 2 goals and somebody is still asking question if they are deserved winners?

Rooney, Torres, CR 9 et al may have performed below expectattion but they didn't miss an empty net from within the 6 yard!!!!!!

YAKUBU is undoubtedly deserving of this award.

NkemJuliet:
Mine is July 15,July is a wonderful month,July 13 Wole Soyinka,July 14 Prof. Dora Akunyuli,July 16 Osaze Odewingwe, July 19 Nelson Mandela,we have really wonderful people born in the month of July,

@NkemJuliet,

Am here with you babe! Mine is the great July 15th as well.

Who are GJ's advisers?

Corruption, lack of planning, nepotism, mediocrity, quota system, padi-padi  are the in-thing in all government MDAs and by extension the Nigerian system! It is not an NFF problem, it is a Nigerian problem. Our current level of football is just an indication of the grave situation we are in as a nation.

Why can't this guy just suspend all government ministries, departments and agencies for 2 years  and re-organize them too. Everything in Nigeria needs a re-ordering

Who even says two years will be enough to re-build our football??  To get back to the grassroots, pick boys from secondary schools and get them to play professional football in 2yrs?


• Will the ban remove corruption from the blood of our administrators?
• Will it remove quota system? Will it train our local coaches to world standard?
• Will it build football academy in all states of the federation in two years?
• Will it improve the funding of our local league and ensure living wage for local players like what is obtainable in Egypt, Tunisia, SA?

We don’t need a sorcerer to tell us the problems, we all know them. There are policies written several years ago that have rot on the shelves in various government departments. All we need is sincere and painstaking implementation.

I hope Goodluck is ready for the outcry that will follow this draconian act and the injury this will do to his 2011 ambition because as far as I'm concerned he has started loosing points!!!

desolo:
for me i think we should disban all the so called super rubbish, and i know lagerback will not stay so we should turn to samson saisai give him long contract to develop new super eagles team, hand the captain ban to enyeama and pick few from this team say 3 or 4 ready to learn. with that i belive next nations cup and world cup will be great for us

Desolo, I agree with you absolutely.

Clearly, the coaches have not been the problem of this team. Those guys are a bunch of junks! I am not persuaded that even a Murinho would achieve anything with these set of players. They are just technically poor!

Imagine, does Obasi need a coach to tell him how to tap in a re-bound? Do our midfielders need to be told by a coach how to block spaces, mark spaces and win balls? Do our strikers need any coach to tell them how to make off-the-ball movements? These guys are supposed to be professionals!

Like Adokiye always say, they should have learnt the tricks and technicalities at a tender age in which case it would have been part of them. They are now too old to learn these things.

Now is the time to rebuild a new team from the scratch and the man to do that should be SIASIA.

fuke:
My take on Pastor Joshua is this.

If he performs miracles as people say and the white people even
come to him, he should just continue because I believe those miracles
will not be possible without Gods approval. God can work through anybody.
I have seen very drunk people prophesing correctly. Now when he says
he is in the flock of Asimolowo, Okonkwo, Ajiboye he has to prove it.
You do not practice law in court without going to law school.

As for this biography, I have 2 little problems.

1. let somebody from that school, a teacher or a student corroborate this.
Pastor Joshua himself should have named a witness to add credibility to his story.

2. I was born in 1955 and I did not meet white men working in my town. If pastor Joshua
was born in 1963, it is very unlikely he met white men at Arigidi in Former Ondo province
like Efon Alaye where I come ffrom.

i rest my case.

Mr Fuke, please don't be decieved by miracles. Even the devil can do miracles. If you are a Christian, you must have heard of the story of how Moses's rod turn to snake in Pharaoh's palace. Also, in that palace and at that scene, Pharaoh's men had their rods turn to snake too even though Moses's snake swallowed theirs. But the fact remains that they also got their rods turn to snakes, yet they don't serve God but mammons.

Jesus referred to John the Baptist as the greatest of all the prophets before him, yet John the Baptist did not do a single miracle, he only preached the word - the bitter truth.

I believe in Miracles, all I'm saying is that it is not a proof that God is the one working it. Devil can do miracles but cannot only give salvation. Please don't be carried away!

Even our Lord Jesus Christ had a testimony of going to the Synagogue with his parents as a lad, learning and asking intelligent questions. He learned from the scribes of those days even though he showed great wisdom. JESUS is supposed to be our model as christians

Notwithstanding the fact that I don't follow Ashimolowo, he made a lot of sense. The Bible says we should not judge yet it encouraged us to search all things and hold on to the one which is the truth.

Who were TBJ's teachers and even his students at the sunday school where he alleged to have taught?

Who were his classmates in school?

How did he get to the Bahamas?

Whether TBJ is true or fake is a personal opinion to anyone. However, we should encourage ourselves to be very discerning of things JESUS warned us about in Matthew 24 (particularly verses 5 and 11)

This question should not have arisen at all.

Or are we talking about an Amodu that lost to the Ghanian under 21 after conceeding an early goal and failing to devise the right tactics to get an equalizer in 75 minutes of football? Or the Amodu that played 3 defensive midfielders against an Essien-less and harmless midefield of the Ghanians? Please Please Please, there shouldn't be any comparison at all!

Again, I wonder why people are faulting Laggerback's tactics in the Argentina's match. Have we forgotten that the Argentine's strength in the attack was to be taken care of by the weakest part of our team - the defense? Only a dumb coach would throw caution to the wind and not adopt the tactics Laggerback did at the start of the match. As we saw during the match when the defense gained considerable confidence in the second half, he saw the need to become more adventorous and introduced Kalu Uche in place of injured Taye Taiwo even after introducing pacy Osaze and aggressive Martins.

Abeg, the tactics was right, else we could have counted more than 10 goals!

ALL:

I don't think we should conclude easily that this husband is one hell of a person. He possibly has a genuine and constructive reason why his wife should not be at the wedding.

Take for instance if his wife have always talked about a guy she dated (probably in the University) in the past who now resides in the US and would possibly attend the wedding. The husband does not need a soothsayer to know that they (wife and ex) would hook-up and possibly ignite the memory of those old times. You need not be told what would happen between them. It would take a lot of discipline that the guy does not think his wife possesses. This is just a possible scenario.

So, the woman needs to talk with her husband to understand his stance. I do not want to believe that the guy's just unreasonable.

I am not a lawyer but i feel compelled to add a few lines to this debate.

I think the problem of low pay after many years of hard studies in school is not peculiar to Layers. The problem really is about "one man business" where the motto is to maximize profit as much as possible. They advance all sorts of argument like "you are learning", "get more experience" etc.

Sharing from my personal experience, I studied Civil Engineering and only bagged my B.Sc after 7 yrs (5 academic yrs plus ASUU strike). I studied hard to make a 2.1. During my undergrad days I did my mandatory 6 months IT with one notable Civil Engineering consulting firm in Ibadan. In fact I joined that firm because of their reputation. They were paying 2,000 naira per month (in 2003) and that was just about how much the principal partner of that firm spends on recharge cards in a day. I was sent to an out-of-station site in Ogun State without site allowance and was left to the mercy of the contractors I was supervising. This was a project that raked in N59m in 2 weeks and our budget for execution was just N18m. When the principal partner came to site and I complained, he said "It is a privilege to be doing IT with his firm and that I should consider the experience and forget about much reward". After that IT, I made up my mind that if I'm ever going to practice engineering, I would never do so working for a consulting firm (glorified one man business). The unfortunate thing is that the Principal Partner of that firm is the current President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers. The highest paid staff in his firm as at 2003 was one 15yr experienced Engr who was earning 18,000.00 naira a month! Can you imagine that this man still had the gut to complain at one forum sometime ago that he doesn't know why intelligent, young and bright Engineers are dumping the profession for banking?? I have lost count of how many people I have convinced to forget about that profession and use their brains to get to the top. Today, I am a banker and I have no regrets about dumping that profession.

So guys, the wicked salaries and wages are not peculiar to lawyers, it is about how Nigerians run a one man business. They make you work hard for less while they maximize profit.

@ Poster,

You need to do some mathematics to put some variables in perspective. You need to quantify the following:

A. Gains of leaving your present job

i. Proximity to your family
ii. Job satisfaction
iii. Less stress: light traffic, good closing time
iv. Reduced expenses: free medical bill, free accomodation, less car maintenance cost, less fuel consumption (gen and car)

B. Losses arising from quiting your current job for the Enugu job

i. Salary cut (quite easy: 160k)

You will need to put value to all items under A (i - iv) and then do Total  B - Total A. If your answer is positive, then stay in Lagos. If negative, then pack your bag and head for Enugu. This is the quantitative analysis of your situation.

Now here is my qualitative analysis:

i. About 80% of the people in Nigeria do not have job satisfaction (my perspective) and honestly speaking job satisfaction would not put gari on your table. Only money will.

ii. 160k salary reduction is no yams. Is your wife ready to give up all the goodies you send to her and your child just to have you around her? What about families who depend on you - i mean your brothers, sisters, father, mother, friends, relatives etc?  Will they stop asking you for money just because you now have a 90k job? Or do you spend your money alone?

iii. You can still satisfy your passion for media in Lagos. There are so many media houses in Lagos. If you are so good and talented, it won't be long for one of them to find you and offer you a job with a decent pay.

iv. Your wife will soon finish school and can join you in Lagos.

V. Finally, Lagos is where you can nuture your brains to achieve utmost personal and career development more than what Enugu will offer you. the best in media profession are in Lagos and they will challenge you a great deal to continue to strive towards professionalism and perfection. You may end up being a local champion in Enugu.

The choice is still yours to make. I wish you all the best.

paddy_lo:
Did u read the article that naijaking1 posted?

If u did u will notice 2 things straight away

1). .In more civilized countries there is no way on earth sanusi would have passed a confirmation in the senate after making such remarks attributed to him in his write up
2). .Your CBN Governor is more interested in writing about women,religion and politics than actually writing about Economics

If that does not bother u. . .then u are not being honest
and i think in a multi ethnic,multi religious country like ours with so many problems,that guy should not be at the helm of a sensitive position like that
He should be seen to be neutral. . .and professional,but he comes across as neither. . thats a problem

I agree with you 100%. Sometimes, I wonder what sort of country we are. How Sanusi got the job above other qualified Nigerians still beats me. Apart from being a northerner and the fact that "it is their turn", there is no other sensible reason. If the guy likes, let him cry from now till tomorrow, there is no dissociating the northern agenda from what he did.

Now to what he did. Are they needful? I mean are there things that need to be put right like cooked financials, false profits, insider abuse in Nigerian banks? I will say Yes. But did he choose the best possible means of dealing with this problems? I will say NO!

Let me make my point about Sanusi's failures by using this analogy: [b]After carrying out a series of test on a patient, a Neurosurgeon founds out that the problem is that some foreign substances are mingling with the brain and causing some troubles that may likely get aggravated if not corrected. He sets out to carry out a surgery to remove the foreign substance so that the brain can start functioning well. Because he was more concerned with the speed with which he had to carry out the operation, he threw caution to the wind and did not exercise due care in seperating the foreign substances from the brain. He damaged the brain (a delicate and important body organ) in the process even though he succeded in removing the substances. At the end of the operation, he left the patient worse off because the damage to the brain had caused a nervous breakdown to the patient. Then, some friends of the Neurosurgeon came forward to defend him for carrying out the operation saying there was a problem and the only feasible solution was to operate the patient at that time. As tenable as that sounds, the fact remains that the patient is worse off after the operation. [/b]

Sanusi is not different from this Neurosurgeon. I really do not blame him, i blame those (maybe Late Yar'adua) who offered the job as technical as that of the CBN Governor to a Sudan-trained Islamic scholar whose only life ambition is to be the Emir of Kano.

mike oscar:
@Labiyemmy,

No, not the second . He is actually the fourth(4th)

1. General Aguyi Ironsi-July 29th 1966 (Military Coup)

2. General Murtala Mohammed-February 13th 1976 (Military Coup)

3. General Sanni Abacha-June 8, 1998 (Heart attack??)

4. Alhaji Shehu Musa Yar'adua-5th of May 2010 (Pericadiatis)

You are also wrong man!

First, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa died as head of state in January 1966 (then, prime ministers were commander in chief of armed forces and head of state while the Governor General, Zik, was Head of Government under a parliamentary system).

Secondly, The man who died on 5th of May 2010 is Alhaji Umar Musa Yar'adua. Please note the name in bold.

What next for Nigeria?

Well, from history, those who always get elcted as President are the dark horses in the race. Surely, Jonathan will choose a VP who will be the Presidential candidate in next year's election. Judging from the fact that OBJ calls the shots here, my instincts tell me he would use Jonathan to stamp his golden boy - Nuhu Ribadu as VP. Ribadu will contest the 2011 presidential election and win. This is the easiest route to presidency for Ribadu, OBJ has had this in mind since 2007 but the atmosphere then was not right.

Apart from wishful thinking, there has been prophecies that the man who will clean Nigeria of our enduring mess would be the son of an aristocrat from Adamawa State, you see, everything points to Nuhu Ribadu.

Please prepare for a Nuhu Ribadu VP! Those who says he has no political base should just watch out.

Finally gone to rest. What a tragic end to a seemingly unassuming and innocent man! R.I.P. Umoru.

This continues to prove that God rules in the affairs of men.

Now all the distractions may now end. Cabals, where are you?