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BetaThings:
And I reckon that
1. This happens only in Ekiti state
2. there is no longer separation of powers because Jonathan can now sack aides of David Mark

Isn't this Nigeria, where 7 people are more than 19 people. Amazing!

Meanwhile another news had it that Fayose Sacks Speaker, Deputy Aides: www.nairaland.com/2002272/fayose-sacks-ekiti-state-house
What amazes me in the news is the number of aides that surround the speaker and deputy. Absolute waste of resources

It's crazy man.

Meanwhile another news had it that Fayose Sacks Speaker, Deputy Aides: www.nairaland.com/2002272/fayose-sacks-ekiti-state-house
What amazes me in the news is the number of aides that surround the speaker and deputy. Absolute waste of resources

englishmart:
I blame the mods.. They move everything that speaks for or against pdp and apc to fp. In order to promote argument. Without even bothering to confirm the story....

www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/fayose-sacks-speakers-aides/

Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose Monday sacked the political appointees of the leadership of the Ekiti House of Assembly.

In a statement signed by Secretary to the State
Government, Dr. Modupe Alade, said,”the political
office holders attached to the Speaker and Deputy
Speaker in Ekiti State House of Assembly are hereby relieved of their duties with immediate effect.” Fayose

The affected political office holders are, Wole Olujobi, Special Adviser (Media) to the Speaker; Ojobamikan Dele, Special Adviser (Political) to the speaker; Lawrence Awelewa, Special Adviser (Special Duties) to the speaker;Omirin Wande – Special Assistant to the speaker on Youth Matters; Orija Samuel – Chief of Staff to the Speaker
Sanmi Adeeko, Personal Assistant to the speaker;
Taiwo Oluwaleye, Special Assistant to the Dep.
Speaker on Media Matters and Adedipe Esther,
Special Assistant to Majority Leader on Media Matters.

According to the statement, all government
properties in the possession of the affected
appointees should be handed over to the Clerk of the House with immediate effect.”‘

Meanwhile, one of the affected aides, who seeks
anonymity ,said, “‘the Governor lacks the power to
sack aides of the Speaker and Deputy who are
appointees of the House of Assembly Service
Commission which is a separate arm Government.”

Just imagine the number of aides and unnecessary political appointees that surround the speaker. Waste of resources!

After securing a vital 2-0 win over the Red Devils of
Congo in Pointe Noire last Saturday in what was a
must win match for the African champions in a CAF
Africa Cup of Nations qualifier, Super Eagles coach


Stephen Keshi has thanked the Nigerian fans for their support to the team.

But despite the important win over the Congolese,
the 52-year-old coach has admitted that the Super
Eagles are not playing at the level they should be at
the moment.

The former Nigeria captain also admits that the
African champions should be way ahead of where
they are at the moment.
“I want to thank all Nigerians that have been praying
for this team, for the success of this team. We don’t
belong where we are now, we should be much better
but lack of understanding is not making us advance.
Some of us are still behind, but I thank Nigerians,” he
told Hot FM.

The former Hawks of Togo coach did not leave out the
players, as he also thanked them for giving
‘everything they have’ in getting the three points.
“I also want to specially thank the players; they gave
everything they have because we couldn’t leave
Congo without the three points, we had to get them.
Most especially in the second half, I was very proud
of them,” he posited.

Keshi also went on to praise the Nigeria football
Federation and the Federal Government, for playing
key roles in ensuring Nigeria’s qualification to the
Cup of nations.
“And with the support of the NFF also, and of course
the federal government. It’s been key to ensuring we
qualify for the next edition. It’s all about every one of
us, it’s our country and I thank everybody. It’s not
about Keshi and that’s it,” he concluded.


www.sl10.ng/news/articles/categories/news/stephen-keshi-thanks-nigerians/192671

What impact has the emergency rule made to curb insurgents attack on the people?


Political crim cum cram cum

Bro, admit it, you have just lied about not lying. Lolz

iamchiddy:
Point of correction, i dont lie

I have heard that shoki dance but I don't know the singer until now. Thanks to NL and OP.

Much blame should be directed to the cl*uless SUG who invited him without thorough approval of the school management. Nevertheless, the management wouldn't have gone to such extent if he were to be Lara George, Tope Alabi and d likes.

Redeemer University = Advanced Secondary School

It's strange to know that there pple who still take time to read articles like dis, the fact u specifically mentioned Self service and kind hearted lie attest that took time to read and decipher the article. More power to ur elbow!

meelorlah:
Nice article... who doesn't lie? Certainly everybody does at some points. Self service lie o, kind - hearted lie o even white lie....All na Lie. But d frequency and ease with which some peeps lie is a way too Much,I don't know how they manage to do it.When they construct and conjure stories ehn...u call Satan himself a learner.

The same way I was speechless when I was told, and that's exactly y I created dis thread. You have a good suggestion. Thumbs up!

tohpahz:
Now. Am at a l0ss of wrds. . Buh i think u should ask her frankly y she's jealous. . Then u knw what to do from there.
Buh gals sha!

mkpakanaodogwu:
Ok

Ok?

Was this a result of Stomach Infrastructure Concept.

Political crim cum cram cum, political higi haga cum gaga tua gaga. Lolz

You may just be right? But, I will need to be tutored on this 'Romancius Aparthack'.

SMALLPENIS:
Simple, she's gay and is just dating you cause its the norm in the society...... Or
















She doesn't know the reason and importance of love due to the condition called Romancius Aparthack

Are u the person in question? *smile

Taleeysun:
God knows best

Revealed by a Facebook Friend and Old NYSC Mate.



I need your candid ADVICE.


There was this lady I meet 2 years ago during the peak time of my tertiary school days, I didn't take much time to propose to her because she was so charming and amazing, but she always say 'God knows best'.

We are friends and I guess we are both comfortable friend zoning each other because I have been having girl friends along side her for those months and days as our relationship isn't 'intimate'.

We are always comfortable to be around each other because we normally get lost in deep conversations(the normal talks) and in fact I'm often happy when she's around me.

Everyday, I talked to her about moving our relationship beyond friendship but she keeps telling me 'God knows best' (i.e, she neither say 'YES' nor 'NO')

I can tell you on good authority that she doesn't have a BF has she comfortable friend zoning guyz (she has so many of them), then I assume she have a problem of making a choice.

To be honest, I love her so much and I'd be proud if she end up been the mother of my children but she often tell me she can't find a love life easy. Out of my unending love for her, I invited her recently and told her about my marital plans for the nearest future but I wasn't surprised she told me she can't find a love life and suggested I should look for an alternative if it won't work out with her.

Recently again, I invited her for an outing and she came with her best friend she's use to tell me about but we've never had the opportunity to meet, it was fun because her friend was so lively and friendly, in fact I enjoyed the outing like never before because of the presence of her friend.

Because of her friend friendly nature, I use to exchange word with her on BBM and calls as well. So, she became jealous that I'm getting too close to her friend. Honestly speaking, I'm beginning to like her friend and I'm sure her friend feel same way towards me.


The question is;

Why is she jealous?
Does that mean she loves me?
Should I propose to her friend?
What could be the outcome of proposing to her friend?

Don't forget she told me to look for an alternative.

Note: Derailers, trolls and English Language lecturers should kindly keep off

W/salam,
You r spot in the end but I will take you more seriously if you can reframe this "
The Islamic Section of Nairaland is a Potential
Security Hazard. They may be planning a Jihad
there and we wouldn't know." Implore the NL exec to have a rethink.
Tbh, I don't comment on muslim section bcoz it's insane if I must have that inscription on my profile b4 I comment.

MadCow1:
A'salam Aleikum Brother Msmon..

I have nothing against muslims just what the Nairaland execs are doing with the Islamic section. The problem with Islam today is tolerance and isolating them cant possibly be the solution. CHristians put up with way worse shiit from Atheists than Muslims do, but you dont see anybody having to accept Jesus to enter the Christian section..

If Nairaland must protect religous freedoms, then it should do it for all religions equally without bias.

Whats good for the Greece, is Good for Uganda.

From my findings, Seun monopolised that sections to muslim alone because of growing abuse and attacks on muslims on that section. It's really unfortunate that the state of insecurity in this country caused us to get suspicious of ourselves even our brothers instead of being our brothers keeper.
The last time I checked the bible, didn't Jesus said we should love our enemies, pray for those who cursed us?

I want to humbly request Oga Seun to have a rethink on that section once aagin.

FYI, I'm a muslim, I'm proud and I'm not a terrorist!

MadCow1:
This thread isnt about the terrorists...

iKid.. iKid...






Just my way of protesting the glaring bias of protecting the Muslims and shielding all their activities from the rest of Nairaland. Them Niggas could be recruiting more Mujahadeens in that section of Nairaland and Nobody would know. For you to have access to the Islamic section, you must Accept Mohammed as your lord and Personal savior.

Spot on with you post, u r absolutely right. I have stayed a year there and I second ur opinion with audacity.
In as much as u r right abt ur comment, I think you should have a rethink about your signature. You sound to me like a very objective person b4 I noticed ur signature. OR lemme ask u; what ur understanding of jihad?

MadCow1:
When I opened the Thread on how Pathetic Benin City looked when I last Visited it, people attacked me..




I am sorry but from the perspective of a visitor into Benin City, I cant for the life of me understand what the hype about Adams Oshiomole is all about..


NO ROAD INSIDE THE ENTIRE GRA AND OTHER INNER PARTS OF THE CITY WAS GOOD NOR HAD GUTTERS apart from Airport Road and those othe Major roads.



The City looked really poorly governed.. Buses were stopping and loading in the middle of the road.. Sellers occupying the road and reducing a two lane road to 1 lane.. Abi na the traffic light ehn put be the dividened of Democracy?!

poor sanitation on roads outside that Airport Road area..


Pfft.. I wonder what that Nigga did to deserve all the Praises he gets from his supporters.. Comparing him to the former governor isnt enough.

Not only in Education sector, you can add health, social amenities, infrastructure e.t.c. The appalling nature of all this sector is really alarming in Edo state.

Atiku want to always be in the spot light by choosing to talk and keep talking, I don't think he need to teach a whole political party to run things through the media or talk about his achievement or involvement.

Maybe Atiku will need to get a copy of '48 Laws of Power' By Robert Greene. NEVER TALK MORE THAN NECCESSARY.

Atiku is prone to say nonsense in the long run.

Why is it that anyone who carry beard is a suspected terrorist?. It's absolutely unfair, even my friend in NYSC kits was suspected at every junction and check point when we travelled from Benin to Bayelsa.

Wait a minute! We should prepare for AUSTERITY?. I'd rather say they should prepare, because an average Nigerian is going through austerity.

17 November 2014 , Source: Premium Times

Nigerians should brace for tougher economic times
ahead, the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,
has said as crude oil prices slipped to a four year low on Wednesday.

New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) December
WTI oil futures sold at $75.20 per barrel on
Wednesday, down $1.98, from $74.96 per barrel the
previous day, the lowest level for a most-active
contract since September 2010.

Though the price of sweet crude, the blend of oil
export from Nigeria, rose marginally at the close of
trading on Wednesday to $76.96 per barrel, it has
already crashed below the $79 per barrel benchmark approved in the 2014 Appropriation Act, concerns are mounting that tough times are indeed ahead.

At the end of the Federation Accounts Allocation
Committee (FAAC) meeting for September, Federal,
States and Local Governments were only able to go
home N603.5 billion allocation after they resolved to borrow about $2.76 billion from the Excess Crude
Revenue Account to augment shortfall in revenue
generated during the period.

The Federal Government had attributed the declining revenues to the fall in prices at the international oil market.

After drawing from the ECA, Minister of State for
Finance, Bashir Yuguda, said the balance in the
account had dropped further from part from drawing from $4.1 billion to about $1.34 billion at the moment.
But Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala said in Lagos on Tuesday that the economic indicators show there are tougher times ahead.

Though she said the country's External Reserves rose from $36.6billion at the end of June to $39.48billion by October 16, and the balance in the Sovereign Wealth Fund at $1.55billion, accruals from oil exports have been poor.

According to her, Nigeria would begin to feel the
impact of the dropping oil prices at the international oil market, which commenced since the first half of the year.
"The country must brace up for tougher times
ahead", she said. "We need to review our
expenditures and build economic buffers through
budgets that would be based on modest oil prices."
She underlined the importance of a sound macro-
economic management to Nigeria at this time,
particularly the need to plug all revenue leakages.
"We have not yet seen the impact of the falling oil
prices in Nigeria. It will start this month. We have to
drive the non-oil revenue base to be able to weather
the storm that is coming," the Minister said.
The minister said the fall in the prices of export
commodities such as gold, iron ore and agricultural
produce such as cocoa, cotton and coffee was bound to affect most African economies, which relied on commodity export for the sustenance of their economies.



www.allafrica.com/stories/201411170158.html/?viewall=1

Bro, I respect u a lot!
I'm following you!

Horus:
He is a human first

Can u just imagine?

Tymax:
Just look at these folks blaming the guy for his detention. If you have never been bullied by the military or police, you should be grateful. In this country, anybody can be picked up, detained and tortured by brutal soldiers or policemen. By the time your "connection" sets you free, some damage may have been done without any hope of compensation.

Maybe you should visit prisons around the country and see for yourselves. Most, I repeat, MOST of the inmates have no cases against them, they are awaiting trial. Some have been like that for 10 years or more. Sadly, the judicial system is very sluggish and reluctant to release these victims.

Many police stations have innocent people locked up in their smelly cells. Young people who landed in police wahala because of various highhanded police raids. They remain in custody for days until they make bail. If not, it's prison straight.

What about those languishing in guardrooms in cantonments across the country just because they wouldn't stand for the harassment on public roads?

Just pray you don't fall into the hands of our lawless security personnel. Our soldiers view civilians as peasants or even dogs. They are quick to label us "bloody civilians". It is no wonder that the US, based on allegations of human rights violation, has the excuse to withhold assistance.

PUBLIC NOTICE:

This guy need to be banned permanently from this forum for this ugly comment, while everyone seems to have wise up, you still chose to be clueless and senseless. Look at you comment once again!

Since July 31st 2013, you are yet to create a single thread on this forum, and more that 60% of you 176 posts is tribalistic and sentimental in nature. So, you are neither useful to yourself nor this community.

While we all Nigerians are preaching unity and peace you chose 'Double Standard'.

You deserve an award for the most clu*less man in d world.

Your posts www.nairaland.com/koikoi2/posts

koikoi2:
Is he a Christian or a Moslem? If a Christian then God will fight for him but if a Moslem, then he's a potential terrorist.

I received a broadcast message on my bbm dis morning; who lied most in a relationship? And I was like what kind of question is this, tbh, I lied to my gf more 10 times within 5 minutes yesterday. I don't often like to debate on that topic because we are all culprit like u av rightly said.

aristocrazzy:
Lying is obviously the most frequently committed sin and has no special committers .
Let's face it everyone lies . Only God fit give you the actual measurement.

Among Adults, Is Age Linked to Frequent
Lying?

In our diary studies, we found that the people we
recruited from the community told fewer lies than
our college students did. Does that mean that older
adults tell fewer lies? Not necessarily; our community sample differed in many other ways from our college students. For example, 81% were employed, and 34% had no more than a high school education.

In a separate study, Serota, Levine, and Boster
(2010) asked a national sample of adults how often
they had lied in the previous 24 hours. They found
that as age increased, the number of lies decreased.

However, they did not include a measure of
opportunities to lie.
We cannot yet say this for sure, but it is likely that
over the course of their adult years, people tell fewer lies. Now it is time to follow the same people for years, and get them to keep recording their lies the whole time.

Good luck with that!

Frequent Liars and their Relationships

Participants in the diary studies rated separately the quality of their relationships with people of the same sex as themselves and with people of the other sex.

They indicated, for instance, how warm, satisfying,
and enduring their relationships tend to be; how
much they and their friends understand one another; and the quickness with which they make friends.

People's descriptions of the quality of their
relationships with people of the other sex had
nothing whatsoever to do with how frequently they
lied. It was different for same-sex relationships,
though. People who had higher-quality same-sex
relationships (not just sexual ones) told fewer lies
overall, and especially fewer self-serving lies, than
people with same-sex relationships of lower quality.

Men and Women: How Do They Compare as
Frequent Liars?

In the broadest strokes—averaging across all kinds of lies—men and women are equals in their proclivity to lie. That's what we found in our diary studies. But when we looked more closely at different kinds of lies and different kinds of targets of lies, that's when the sex differences showed up.

Consider two kinds of lies—self-serving lies and kind- hearted lies:

Self-serving lies are the ones people tell to make
themselves look better or to spare themselves from
embarrassment, punishment, or blame, or from
getting their feelings hurt. You know the kind: You
claim to have performed better than you really did or you deny that you did something bad or
embarrassing.

Kind-hearted lies are told with the intent of making
another person look better or feel better, or to spare
them from embarrassment, punishment, or blame, or from getting their feelings hurt.

"You look great!"
"What a terrific dinner!"
"I know just how you feel."

Now consider four different combinations of liars and targets:

1. Men lying to men
2. Men lying to women
3. Women lying to men
4. Women lying to women

In three of these combinations, people tell many
more self-serving lies than kind-hearted lies. In one
of the four, people tell just as many kind-hearted lies as self-serving ones. Which is it? Take a guess, then read on.
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Kind-hearted lies are most likely to be exchanged
between women. In contrast, when men were
involved—either as liars or as targets—self-serving
lies prevailed. There were anywhere from twice to
eight times as many self-serving lies than kind-
hearted lies.

I came across this article while I was surfing the internet and I feel compelled to share the information. It's noteworthy that the article is a bit long but you won't regret reading it

Happy Reading!

That's what my research, and others', suggests. For
example, in one set of studies my colleagues and I
conducted, two groups of people—77 college
students and 70 others—kept diaries every day for a week of all of the lies that they told and all of their
social interactions lasting at least 10 minutes. The
college students lied in one out of about every three
of their social interactions; the other people from the community lied in one of every five. Over the course of the week, only 1% of the college students, and 9% of the people from the community, claimed to have told no lies at all. (Yes, my first thought was, They are lying about not lying.)


Even though my best guess is that everyone lies, it is clear that some people tell lies more readily than
others. In my diary studies , for instance, the lie-
telling "champ" told 46 lies over the course of the
week—close to 7 a day. Who are these people who lie much more frequently than the rest of us? I'll set
aside the clinically diagnosable in this post, and just
consider everyday liars. Do they share certain
personality characteristics? Are there gender
differences? Does age matter? Is the tendency to tell lots of lies linked to the quality of your relationships?

The Personality of a Liar

In the diary studies, all participants filled out a
number of personality measures. We used that
information to see if certain personality types are
especially prone to tell a lot of lies.
When I posed the question, "Who lies?" did a
stereotype pop into your mind? Did you guess that
frequent liars are more likely to be manipulative and scheming people as well? If you did, I'm not going to tell you to abandon your preconceived notions:

People who are more manipulative (as measured by
a Machiavellianism scale and a measure of Social
Adroitness) lie more often than people who are less
manipulative.

Manipulative people tend to care about themselves,
so you might also think that liars are generally
people who do not care about other people. But
that's not totally true. Frequent liars can also be
people who care too much about other people. What
they care about, in particular, is what other people
think of them. This personality type describes people who are always worrying about the impression they're making on others: What will she think if I say that? Will he think I'm a total loser if I do this? This is the impression-management personality type, and these people tell lots of lies, too. Interestingly, though, these people know that they lie more than others do. That's noteworthy, because like the citizens of Lake Wobegon, the participants in our diary studies believed that, on average, they were above average in honesty.

Guess who else lies more? Extroverts. Here's where
it mattered that we kept track of people's social
interactions and not just their lies. If we only counted
lies, then extroverts would have many more
opportunities to lie than introverts, because they
spend more time around other people. So instead, we
looked at rates of lying—the number of lies people
told relative to the number of opportunities they had,
and extroverts lied at a higher rate than introverts,
although the difference was not substantial.

Why do extroverts tell more lies than introverts?

I think it is because the little lies of everyday life can
make social interactions run smoothly. Extroverts are
versed in social niceties, and practice them so often
that they probably do not even realize how often they
are lying. In fact, we found some evidence for that
among the college students. At the end of the week,
when the extroverts saw the total number of lies they
had told, they said that they were surprised at how
often they had lied. (We don't really know for sure,
though, why extraverts lie more, so feel free to share
your insights.)

The results for one other personality trait are totally
obvious: That trait is responsibility, as measured by a
scale of the same name that identifies people who
are responsible, honest, ethical, dependable, and
reliable. Responsible people were less likely to tell
lies than less responsible people—especially the
kinds of lies that are self-serving.