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Romance / Edo,lived In Italy B/4. Could She Have Been In Ashewo Buisness by mowapa(m): 5:52pm On Nov 02, 2011
My good pal is in romance with this lady who claimed to have lived in Italy in the past, the indices is there that she may have been in "business"in the past while there, she is from Edo,never told me what she did there, other than she was a student.

How do you extract the truth? if anyone here has an answer.
Education / Nigerian-students-in-ghana-pay-n155.billion Annually As Tuition? by mowapa(m): 5:04pm On Oct 31, 2011
According to the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Malam Lamido Sanusi, 71,000 Nigerian students in Ghana currently pay an annual tuition of N155Billion to Ghana. Meanwhile the whole government budget for all Federal universities in Nigeria annually is a N121Billion.

OMG!!! This is a properous deal for educators in Ghana and bad for Nigeria economy
Politics / Re: Who Is The Worst State Governor Ever In Human History? by mowapa(m): 12:37pm On Oct 29, 2011
I guess no one here ever heard of Alhaji Sabo Bakin Zuwo? research him,


Late Sabo Bakin Zuwo started as a junks dealer and was said to be of Nupe origin but reliable oral source indicates that he was “Bamange” from Bade area in Yobe State. His government was a child of necessity because the NPN controlled Federal Government was tired and fed up with the uncompromising Rimi despite the fact that they emulated him in the salary increase and the abolishing of the obnoxious poll and cattle tax.

The NPN knew that they did not win Kano, nor the PRP but they were hell bent to ouster Rimi, so they settled for the lesser devil Sabo, who formed a government of pedestrianism and political thuggery. It was alleged that Governor Sabo smouldered millions of Naira under the carpet within the scope of two months of his inauguration.

An apocryphal story has it that late Sabo Bakin Zuwo who had a party member as his running mate for the governorship election “played to the gallery of ignorance with miscategorization that has its history in a seeming lack of perception of what the “noun-phrase” a running mate” means” to run after. Hear him in his familiar expletive: ‘Don’t mind him! He is always running after me”. And “You guys (pressmen), you always say we don’t have mineral resource in Kano: we have Coca Cola, Fanta, Mirinda and a newly invented one Sipirit (Sprite)”

SABO BAKIN ZUWO’S LEGACY

Sabo carried his party’s stalwarts on board. He even appointed an effeminate/transvestite as a Commissioner. It is said that brave man smiles in the face of adversity but unmanly and cowardice, Governor Sabo wept openly at the face of the Tribunal Judges.

He appeased the Emir by dethroning all the four Emirs and Emirate Councils his predecessor created based on historical importance and antecedents of the four areas.

As the Chairman of the then Senate Committee, he insisted on investigation of the missing of the N2.8 million in the Ministry of Petroleum Resources under the then Minister of Petroleum Resources General Muhammadu Buhari, and Sabo’s insistence might have caused him a jail term of about 150 years imprisonment concurrently after the demise of the second Republic.

Remember the Buhari regime which brought the irrational de facto seven days (April 28 th -6 th May 1984) currency changeover, in which the northern peasantries, who did not know how to open/operate Bank Accounts, and did not loot the local, State or national treasures, were covetously deprived, crippled, dispossessed of their wealth earned with their palsied hands, and left to reek with poverty by a regime, which felt nothing more satisfactory than to leave the citizenry without a kobo but only to queue up for essential commodities to survive from the “Buhariyya famine”.

Twenty (20) months of that regime produced violent assault on human rights. The prisons were overcrowded with people who were presumed guilty. Politicians, Businessmen and Public servants were arbitrarily arrested and incarcerated without trial not so much for their wrong doings but for political reasons.

Decree No2 (State Security Detention) signed on February 9 th 1994 but made retroactive to the date of the coup, detained the President Shehu Shagari and the Vice President Alex Ekwume and Ten Thousand Politicians. Sabo Bakin Zuwo. Abubakar Rimi and Solomon Lar were among the ones found guilty of corruption and embezzlement.

Decree No4, the “Public Officers Decree (protection against false accusation) made it an offence to publish any statement which is; false in any particular material” or likely to bring the government into ridicule or dispute”. Two journalists working for the Guardian Newspaper, Tunde Thomson and Nduka Irabor, were jailed for a year by Special Tribunal for “falsely reporting” on the posting of a Nigerian Diplomat to London. The publishers of the Newspapers were fined N50,000.00. Under the Decree, false publication is an offence but truth is not a defense where the publication is adjudged to have ridiculed the government or brought in to dispute.

In July 1985, Buhari Government banned all public debates about Nigeria’s political future, declaring them to be in contravention of the State Security Decree Detention of persons of January 1984, which banned all forms of political activity. And subsequent upon this, the reserve of goodwill that has heralded the military assumption of power was now spent, the initial euphoria evaporated into ultimate disenchantment. The ubiquitous presence of the Nigeria Security Organization (NSO) was menacing. Economic depression was manifest everywhere and political insecurity became serious.
Career / Re: Ekiti Senior Citizens Get N5,000 Monthly Allowance by mowapa(m): 2:00pm On Oct 28, 2011
So it's alright for a State that is almost broke to spend 100,000,000 million monthly on social security? how do you select who is qualified to receive such money,since most cannot produce a birth certificate to prove their age. This gesture will only benefit party supporters
Foreign Affairs / Heir To Saudi Throne Dies In The U.s. Aged 85 by mowapa(m): 12:44pm On Oct 22, 2011
Why do our political leaders go to Saudi seeking treatment, when the Saudis go to America to seek treatment when they ail?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2052117/Heir-Saudi-throne-Crown-Prince-Sultan-bin-Abdel-Aziz-dies-US-aged-85.html
Religion / Re: Do God Speak To You by mowapa(m): 2:00pm On Oct 18, 2011
The only people god speaks to are reetards and demented lunatics. Abraham was a reetard. Anybody claiming to be a descendant of Abraham is a reetard

If this been the case,why do we have people claiming being spoken to by God in deciding worldly issues?
Religion / Do God Speak To You by mowapa(m): 1:39am On Oct 18, 2011
Do you believe that God speak to you in any form,and would you kill your child if you believe God has spoken to you to do so?
Politics / In Nigeria, A Cop Takes On Cops by mowapa(m): 4:24pm On Sep 29, 2011
When Mr. Agbonika took control of his station about four years ago, saying bribe-taking wouldn't be tolerated, nearly half of the 350 officers asked for transfers, he says.



[center]WORTH READING[/center]




http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903895904576546491366328436.html?mod=WSJ_World_RIGHTTopCarousel_1
Politics / Burial: Keep Your N25m, Isholas Tell Oyo Govt • I by mowapa(m): 5:13pm On Sep 28, 2011
I just read that the family of late former governor of oyo state refused a 25million donated towards the guy burial, una think say dis people dey well so? why should state money be used to bury person that most likely helped themself to state money while alive in the first place. or am i being naive?


http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/28849-burial-keep-your-n25m-isholas-tell-oyo-govt--its-unfortunate-govt
Politics / Re: Un Diplos Gone Wild In Nyc by mowapa(m): 9:03pm On Sep 21, 2011
As of today sept 21 2011, the Rwanda frac exchanges for $10,000 = 6,017,339.24. alot of money in that country where university education cost  Band 1:Rwf 1,200,000

source
http://www.nur.ac.rw/spip.php?article869

"WE" need to get our priority straight
Politics / Un Diplos Gone Wild In Nyc by mowapa(m): 8:03pm On Sep 21, 2011
While the populance are struggling,we still have some World "leaders" living above the average income of their citizens,just like this one from Rawanda. I DOUBT HE LIVED LIKE THIS BEFORE BECOMING pRESIDENT. this equate to income for 14 people in Rwanda for a year


http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/un_diplos_gone_wild_in_nyc_RTRbSHxyi3mtFxLoUAhYEM?utm_campaign=Post10&utm_source=Post10Alpha


Rwandan President Paul Kagame is living in luxury during the United Nations General Assembly, staying in the $16,000-per-night presidential suite at the Mandarin Oriental.

Kagame’s rooms have “panoramic views of Central Park, the Hudson River and the Manhattan skyline,” says the hotel’s Web site. Rwanda’s average annual income last year was $1,150, according to the World Bank.

Kagame, whose reps didn’t get back to us, is one of many world leaders with spending sprees on their UN agendas, despite the dismal global economic climate.

Saudi leaders are at The Plaza, sources said, and a group of them headed to the hotel’s Warren-Tricomi salon yesterday for grooming.

Moroccan Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi Fihri was dining at Harry Cipriani, as were dignitaries from Nigeria. “They have the Secret Service scout the area and then call up giving a fake American name like ‘Wilson,’ ” a spy said.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/un_diplos_gone_wild_in_nyc_RTRbSHxyi3mtFxLoUAhYEM#ixzz1YcCvSz5X


http://www.mandarinoriental.com/newyork/?kw=mandarin-oriental-new-york&htl=MONYC&eng=goog&src=ppc&lid=1 hoteL SUITE here can feed more people in a year

http://www.cipriani.com/locations/new-york/restaurants/harry-cipriani.php             site where nigeria delegation hobnob with the Egyptians,
Politics / Re: Obasanjo Visits The Family Of Slain Boko Haram Leader by mowapa(m): 6:05pm On Sep 16, 2011
Not necessarily, no money can quell boko-haram's demands. They haven't kidnapped anybody for ransom. Their demands are based on ethnicity and religion, it has nothing to do with corruption, besides the so called people sponsoring them want Government and not money!!!

The only way Nigeria Govt conducts diplomacy is to throw money at the most important people in the aggrieved party, go ask Okah how much ge got?(300m?)
Politics / Re: Obasanjo Visits The Family Of Slain Boko Haram Leader by mowapa(m): 1:34pm On Sep 16, 2011
I foresee money exchanging hands,the boko head family go chop up grin, bombing don pay
Phones / Re: How True Is It That 09141 Is A Killer Number? by mowapa(m): 9:32pm On Sep 15, 2011
America defence industry will pay top $$$$ FOR THIS TECH, imagine no need to lose a soldier life when you can make a call to Taliban leader, Ewu mumu people.
Music/Radio / Re: MC Loph Is Dead (The Man Behind The 'Osondi Owenu' Remake) by mowapa(m): 10:01pm On Sep 14, 2011
Victims who die such awful, needless deaths on our road  are innocent, and their loss bewilders even the best attempts to make sense of it, but one day God will ask "our" leaders what was accomplished with our oil money.
Politics / Re: Today Is Babangida's Birthday: Say Something Nice To Him by mowapa(m): 5:07pm On Aug 18, 2011
HERE IS YOUR ANSWER: why wish HIM WELL


IBB’s presidential ambition is disastrous’

Chief Gani Fawehinmi (SAN) says former military president Ibrahim Babangida’s presidential ambition is not only an exercise in futility but also an affront to Nigeria, in this interview with Emmanuel Ukudolo, in Lagos. Excerpts:

IBB has picked his presidential nomination form. People are rooting for him and he appears set for the Villa. What do you think?

IBB does not have the credentials to be the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for several reasons. By virtue of Section 137(1i), anybody who has been indicted for embezzlement, for fraud by any commission of inquiry, by any administrative panel of inquiry set up by the federal government is disqualified.

What panel are you referring to?

In 1994, a panel was set up under the leadership of Dr. Pius Okigbo. One of the members of the panel is the present Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Ufot Ekaete. This panel reported on the 29th of August 1994 in a 352-page document. In chapter seven of that document, IBB was accused of mismanaging by corrupt means US$12.4 billion of our windfall as a result of the Gulf War. He set up spurious accounts and awarded spurious contracts on behalf of the federal government of Nigeria without contract documents.

Instead of putting the money accruing from the windfall in reserve of Nigeria abroad, he did not do that. He did not put it in our Federation Account. He created spurious accounts and he was the only one authorizing. He even went to the most abysmally horrible extent of buying television sets for $11.4 million and all sorts of things categorized in chapter seven.

By decree in 1987, he set up MAMSER (Mass Mobilization Social Justice, Self Reliance and Economic Recovery), headed by Professor Jerry Gana. He pumped into it N8 billion, the result of which we know. He set up Directorate of Food Roads and Rural Infrastructure (DIFRRI); Nigeria lost N32 billion, and then the strength of our currency. When Babangida came to power, N1 was fetching one dollar and 40 cents. By the time Babangida left office in August, 1993, he had destroyed our currency. Nigeria was then using N36 to buy just one dollar, a reversal of fortune.

But some say Babangida had no option under the circumstances he met at the time than to introduce currency devaluation and the other economic policies he initiated…

Babangida inherited from Buhari on the 26th of August 1985 20 kobo per litre of petrol. In the eight years Babangida was there, he increased the pump price five times and ended up at 70 Kobo. Do you want to talk about how Babangida made Nigerians mere spectators of the economic activities of the country instead of being participants? Interest rates rose abysmally to 25 and 30 per cent to take loans from the banks.

In March 1992, Babangida further destroyed our currency and economy by devaluing our currency by 100 per cent. At that time, they should have known that there would be devaluation so they scooped billions at the expense of the ordinary Nigerian people.

There are also insinuations that Babangida’s association with the deaths that occurred during his regime is mere allegation that is yet to be proved

Babangida killed more people than any other regime in the history of this country. Murder was his stock in trade. Do I have to start with Vatsa and co.? Do I have to mention Dele Giwa? Dele Giwa was assassinated for investigating Gloria Okon’s connection in respect of drugs with his wife, Miriam. He had to resort to the murder of Dele Giwa. I have fought that battle for years. I am still fighting that battle. Very soon, I will be in court.

Do you think Babangida had a hand in the Ejigbo Hercules plane crash?

In 1992, do you remember what he did with the Hercules C-1 Air Force plane when 145 innocent, young, dynamic, prospective military leaders were massacred, when they took off from the airport? Babangida called them here for training in Lagos and they were set up. They took off here and ended up at Ejigbo. They suffocated to death. Young officers.

What is your view on the Babangida political transition agenda?

The man transited for eight years, he transited to no destination. He set up a transition programme and amended it 32 times in a period of eight years and ended up scuttling it with annulment of the June 12 presidential election, the fairest and freest election in the history of this country.

But his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), does not seem to have any problems with his qualification for the 2007 polls.

The declaration he made that day that he wanted to contest as president was a declaration of disaster.

If by hook or crook he becomes the flag bearer of the PDP in the presidential election, never, I repeat, never will that man be the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, because Nigeria will be thrown backward. God will not want him. He destroyed us once; he will never be given the opportunity, by the grace of God, to destroy us.
Crime / Re: Mob Attacks ‘human Parts Eaters’ by mowapa(m): 3:28pm On Aug 04, 2011
FALSE ALARM PEOPLE!!!  IT WAS COW MEAT grin[size=8pt]
Business / Re: Happy 50th Birthday: Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi-31/07/2011 by mowapa(m): 12:31am On Aug 02, 2011
Wishing You Long Life Sanusi, it takes courage and perseverance to serve in Naija
Autos / American FLOOD and ACCIDENT Cars Find Second Life In Nigeria by mowapa(m): 5:02am On Jul 24, 2011
i came across this very intresting article written by an American writer and would like share it with NL, about the dump Nigeria has become with Cars from USA, buyers beware of most imported vehicle.



On March 29th, near Duxbury, Massachusetts - a small town of about 3,000 people 35 minutes outside of Boston - a 2005 Toyota Corolla was flooded by water, ruining the vehicle's electronics and littering it's beige interior with bits of grass and dead leaves.
Soon after, the flooded car was sold at auction, but it didn't end up in a scrap yard, and it wasn't dismantled for spare parts.
instead, the ‘05 Corolla came to Lagos, where it sits on a side street in Surulere, awaiting repairs and a second life carrying its new Lagosian owner.

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5734936-146/american_cars_find_second_life_in.csp
Celebrities / Re: State Burial For Christy Essien-igbokwe by mowapa(m): 4:54pm On Jul 07, 2011
She deserves nothing less


obviously!! but do we need a 20 man committee and sub-committee to plan a woman still considered to have died at her prime burial?, nah living people want chop,no be dead person, AND that is the truth!
Celebrities / State Burial For Christy Essien-igbokwe by mowapa(m): 6:40pm On Jul 05, 2011
As a 20-man burial committee led by Pastor Obika Romeo will be inaugurated tomorrow, P.M.NEWS can reveal that the late Chief Mrs. Christy Essien-Igbokwe will be accorded a state burial.



http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2011/07/05/state-burial-for-christy-essien-igbokwe/




My issue is,why the need for 20-man committee?. How hard is it to bury a person in the ground?
Foreign Affairs / Happy 235 Yrs Usa by mowapa(m): 7:30am On Jul 04, 2011
happy fourth of July to the greatest country in the modern world.

what will Nigeria look like in 200yrs from now?
Hopefully ethnicity would have eased to matter in our society
Nigeria will elect a politician with an agenda,rather one based on rotation.
SHORTAGE OF WATER AND LIGHT will be acient history by then?

Crime / Federal Govt Spends 2 Billion Everyday On Security by mowapa(m): 2:19pm On Jul 02, 2011
An interesting observation is the fact that the government said the problem of power shortage is a priority, yet the Ministry of Power only got N91 billion as total appropriation in 2011, while the National Security Adviser (NSA) controls and will spend N208 billion (recurrent - N51 billion, capital N59 billion, and another N98 billion for the amnesty programme!).

This amount does not include the Defence budget. The Defence Ministry will get N348 billion, while the Police will get N309 billion. In other words, though Nigerians have never felt so insecure in recent history, the NSA, Police and Defence will spend a combined N865 billion - more than N2 billion a day, weekends included! This does not include the 36 states’ so-called security votes. Even state assembly members and local government councillors now have security votes. Clearly their security is more important than ours!




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This year, every Nigerian - all 162 million of us - man, woman and child will “pay” the sum of N27,685 each to help run the Federal Government.

What we cannot afford, government will borrow on our behalf to pay for its activities. That is why the Federal Government, on behalf of you and I will spend the sum of N4.485 trillion (over N4,000 billion) in 2011.

This is against the backdrop that our entire oil earnings for the year cannot pay the generous salaries and allowances of politicians on the one hand, and the meagre pay cheques of other public sector workers on the other, while infrastructure and unemployment are barely getting attention.

When you walk into a government office to request a basic service, the member of staff you meet may not even bother to reply to your greeting and barely has time to listen to you; the policeman that should protect you on the road block, stops you and demands for bribes and has no qualms shooting dead any motorist that refuses to give him N20; the customs officer at the border who is supposed to stop smuggling takes a bribe and actually connives with the smugglers to bring in banned products into the Nigerian market, while harassing the traveller entering Nigeria with two new pairs of shoes; the hospital staff member that, contrary to every professional oath, refuses to attend to dying patients because they are on strike; the soldiers who get so bored that they occasionally go on a rampage, using policemen for target practice.

With live ammunition, of course; the politician who rigs himself into office then proceeds to loot the treasury: these are all the people whose standard of living we are spending nearly 75 per cent of the 2011 budget to pay for - and borrowing some after spending all our collections from oil and taxes!


It will cost nearly N2.5 million this year on average to pay for the salary and upkeep of each of Nigeria’s nearly one million federal public sector workers – in the police, civil service, military and para-military services and teachers in government schools and institutions.

Whether this amount justifies the service that is rendered is left for Nigerians to decide. In all, the 49 line ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) specifically mentioned in the 2011 Appropriations Act will each cost an average of N49.49 billion to run.

We elect a total of 360 members to the House of Representatives and 109 senators to make laws and enhance good governance by checking and balancing the excesses of the executive arm of government.

For this privilege, the 469 members of the federal legislature and their support staff at the National Assembly will spend N150 billion this year.

It is worth noting that the National Assembly only passed eight bills as at the end of May 2011. So assuming that they manage to pass another seven bills before the end of this year, it would cost the Nigerian citizen an average of N10 billion to pass a single bill! This implies that to pass the 2011 budget (which allocates N150 billion to the National Assembly), Nigerians paid N10 billion.

An even more interesting statistic is the cost of maintaining every legislator every year. It works out to princely N320 million per legislator per annum. At this rate, every four-year stint at the National Assembly works out at N1.28 billion per legislator. No wonder machetes, guns and thugs are used at will to "win" primaries and the elections.

How many new businesses can achieve a turnover of N1.28 billion within four years with a net tax-free profit in excess of 50 per cent? Is this social justice?

For the National Assembly, even the amount of N150 billion above is just what we can see easily but is not broken down for further analysis or accountability.

There is a bit more hidden all over the Appropriation Act - another N1.595 billion was tucked away for "In-lieu of accommodation for the Seventh Session of National Assembly" and another N200 million for "Funding of House Resolution Mandates." What these two provisions mean is best explained by those that legislated them and the executive that will release the sums! What is clear is that none of these will ever be accounted for or audited!

Last week, I wrote about the cost of justice. I got a few things wrong because I did not appreciate fully the unique role of the National Judicial Council (NJC) in the administration of the nation's judicial system. My friend and former classmate, Mrs. Maryam Wali Uwais, clarified this and educated me, for which I am grateful.

The NJC's budget of N95 billion covers the salaries and allowances of all judges of superior courts of record in Nigeria - that is state high courts and their federal equivalents, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. The NJC also funds the overheads of all the Federal Courts only - the Federal High Court and the appellate courts, as well as the salaries and allowances of all federal judicial support staff.

The state governments are responsible for the salaries of all other judicial staff (magistrates, support staff, etc.) and the overhead costs of all courts within their respective jurisdictions. It is therefore slightly more complicated to compute what it costs to keep our entire judicial system running without adding up all the budgetary allocations to the judiciary in all 36 states. We will return to this sometime soon.

An interesting observation is the fact that the government said the problem of power shortage is a priority, yet the Ministry of Power only got N91 billion as total appropriation in 2011, while the National Security Adviser (NSA) controls and will spend N208 billion (recurrent - N51 billion, capital N59 billion, and another N98 billion for the amnesty programme!).

This amount does not include the Defence budget. The Defence Ministry will get N348 billion, while the Police will get N309 billion. In other words, though Nigerians have never felt so insecure in recent history, the NSA, Police and Defence will spend a combined N865 billion - more than N2 billion a day, weekends included! This does not include the 36 states’ so-called security votes. Even state assembly members and local government councillors now have security votes. Clearly their security is more important than ours!

The point of these statistics is to show how expensive governance has become and how little Nigerians get in return. And the unproductive portions of our national budget have been rising rapidly in the last four years, to the detriment of capital investments in infrastructure and human development.

Four years ago in 2007, the entire federal government budget was N2.3 trillion; today we are spending N4.485 trillion.  In 2007, statutory transfers amounted to 102 billion naira or 5 per cent of the total budget. Today, transfers amount to 418 billion or 9 per cent of the total.

This year, the Federal Government will spend N495 billion or 11 per cent of the budget on debt servicing compared to N326 billion or 14 per cent it spent the year we finally exited from the London Club debt. More telling is the N1.05 trillion or 46 per cent for recurrent expenditure in 2007 against the N2.425 trillion or 54 per cent government will spend this year. Just four years ago, capital expenditure accounted for 36 per cent (N830 billion) of the budget.

This year, the amount for capital expenditure has fallen to 25 per cent (N1.147 trillion - out of which N1.136 trillion is the budget deficit - that is to be borrowed!).

To the uninformed eye, the figures may seem to represent increases in all aspects, but to what cost, and to what effect? Apologists would want us to believe that the astronomical increase in the cost of government services can be explained by inflation, but even taking into consideration the high inflationary trend (thanks to Jonathan’s profligate campaign year spending), statutory transfers in the budget has gone up by a whopping 310 per cent; debt servicing has a 52 per cent increase; recurrent expenditure has gone up by 131 per cent, while capital expenditure has increased by 39 per cent over four years. In real terms however, and accounting for inflation, the total budget has increased by 33 per cent with recurrent expenditure going up by 58 per cent while capital expenditure has actually reduced by 6 per cent.

Facts and figures do not lie. Every figure used in this analysis came from official government records. What is the justification for allocating such huge amounts to running the government when a staggering 30 million Nigerians are unemployed? Only N50 billion has been budgeted to create employment, forgetting that money by itself does not create jobs without a well thought out plan to stimulate small and medium scale enterprises and the creation of appropriate regulatory environments.

What are the strategies to ensure that these funds are not diverted? How many jobs will be created this year or in the next four years? Are our priorities right?

All these come down to the questions: Will government’s N4.485 trillion budget make life any better or even provide security for Nigerians?  Can we feel the impact of this huge spending? Is the cost of governance justified? If we do not have the courage to ask these questions, we will be doing ourselves a disservice and endangering our people's future[/flash]
Autos / Re: Could This Be Right by mowapa(m): 1:10am On Jun 26, 2011
Good deal.

REALLY
Autos / Could This Be Right by mowapa(m): 9:27pm On Jun 25, 2011
Am being quoted as clearing charge this amount for\

2007 camry 400,000
2004 crv 375,000
2008 accord 450,000
2009 yaris 650,000


ANY ONE WITH BETTER IDEA HOW MUCH IS RIGHT.would loke to know pls
Politics / Re: South West Governors Shun Yoruba Unity Forum Meeting by mowapa(m): 1:15pm On Jun 24, 2011
I HAVE A VOICE, ALBEIT A LONELY VOICE. NEITHER TINUBU NOR AWOLOWO SPEAK FOR ME.
                                                     claim back your voice omo yoruba
Jokes Etc / Re: Brain Teaser Q by mowapa(m): 7:39pm On Jun 23, 2011
SOLUTION

1. 26 - 63 = 1 (In other words, 2x2x2x2x2x2, which equals 64)



2. Take the chicken over first. Go back and bring the grain next, but instead of leaving the chicken with the grain, come back with the chicken. Leave the chicken on the first side and take the fox with you. Leave it on the other side with the grain. Finally, go back over and get the chicken and bring it over.


3. socks. If the first sock is black, the second one could be black, in which case you have a matching pair. If the second sock is white, the third sock will be either black and match the first sock, or white and match the second sock
Jokes Etc / Brain Teaser Q by mowapa(m): 8:23pm On Jun 22, 2011
1. By moving one of the following digits, make the equation correct. 62 - 63 = 1

2. You have a fox, a chicken and a sack of grain. You must cross a river with only one of them at a time. If you leave the fox with the chicken he will eat it; if you leave the chicken with the grain he will eat it. How can you get all three across safely

3. You have 12 black socks and 12 white socks mixed up in a drawer. You're up very early and it's too dark to tell them apart. What's the smallest number of socks you need to take out (blindly) to be sure of having a matching pair?


LETS SEE HOW FAST U SOLVE THIS
Nairaland / General / Re: Three-year Old Cancer Patient Needs N15m To Survive by mowapa(m): 1:53am On Jun 19, 2011
where una dey now, if na to say make una come jolly, money go flow,
Nairaland / General / Three-year Old Cancer Patient Needs N15m To Survive by mowapa(m): 1:41pm On Jun 17, 2011
[center]NLANDERS!!! SHOW YOUR GENEROSITY AND GIVE THIS CHILD A CHANCE AT LIFE[/center],      any amount you can spare

A three-year old boy, Farid Oyeleke, who is suffering from recurrent fever and neck swelling as a result of cancer of the blood would need N15 million and perhaps a stem cell transplantation to survive.

"The boy's sickness started about six months ago when he started running high temperature. He was treated in many clinics but not much progress was recorded and he is currently receiving treatment at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH)," his father, Oyebode Oyeleke, said.

According to Mr Oyeleke, "Initially we started treating malaria and typhoid but the ailments persisted and once he got slightly exposed to cold, he started coughing so much so that even an adult that coughs like that will not feel comfortable." He added that four months ago when his son's body temperature got so high, it became glaring that his medications were not effective. "We were admitted at a specialist hospital in Offa, in Kwara State for about a week. The temperature came down, we then came home but two weeks after that, the temperature really increased. He was also coughing. We attended another clinic at Offa for another treatment but it got worse." Mr Oyeleke narrated that it was only when his son was taken to UITH that the doctors diagnosed his ailment as cancer of the blood, adding that the doctors proceeded to transfuse blood into his son.

"The doctors recommended he has high chances of survival if he is treated abroad preferably India because of the advancement in medicine, and affordable range. We need about N15 million for the medical bill and other expenses to be incurred for the treatment."

Cancer of the blood

According to one of the doctors at the teaching hospital, Olasunkami Adegboye, "the child has cancer of the blood and cannot withstand any stress of infection" Dr Adegboye also said that "there are three major aspects of the management: remission induction, then you consolidate on that and then subsequent maintenance that will take for two or three years' treatment," he said.

The ill boy's father has made an appeal for Nigerians to come to his aid. He lamented, "I am appealing to Nigerians, public and private establishments, organisations, non governmental organisations and international agencies to please assist me save the life of my son. I do not have the means to cater for the expenses. I am just a farmer and people know how difficult the economic situation is in the country. I do not have the money and I do not even have the means to raise the money on my own." So far, the family has been able to raise only N500,000.

Donations: Donors can pay their donations into these accounts: Oyebode Oyeleke, United Bank of Africa PLC, No. 00120020020991 and 00120520119683
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Why my people harsh like this? una no even send d small boy!! yet we go dey hala everyday say our leaders no care, as if individually we look out for each other,
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