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omoanho:
Please check on July 31, 2008

that the reply they sent me, after i sent them an email requesting why the result is not out yet.

Now, you're talking

likeness

Calabar na fne place na!

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The fact is that:


It's not a shopping mall!

Are we all talking about what was shown yesTerday?


Fatal building collapse in Abuja
Rescue workers at the site of a collapsed building in Abuja
Eyewitnesses say 20 labourers were working on the building as it collapsed

At least two people have been killed and ten injured when a four-storey shopping centre under construction collapsed in Nigeria's capital, Abuja.

Emergency workers are trying to rescue as many as 15 people believed to be buried beneath the rubble.

Rescuers were talking to a trapped labourer by mobile phone but he is no longer answering their calls, rescuers said on Wednesday.

The building site was due to become the capital's largest shopping centre.

"We were talking to a labourer by his mobile phone, but we have lost contact with him now, his phone rings and he doesn't answer," said Civil Defence Corps commander Ade Abolurin.

The workers who survived had thrown themselves from the top floor of the wooden scaffolding, he said.

One had suffered serious spinal injuries.

Falling debris

Eyewitness Mustapha Murtala told the BBC that there were about 20 labourers working on the building as it collapsed.

There were others hawking food and water in the building at the time.

Reuters news agency quoted police as saying the number was between 40 and 50.

"There was a woman selling water in the building, she started screaming and the building collapsed," Mr Murtala said.

He said she was killed by falling debris.

The BBC's Andrew Walker in Abuja says building collapses have been common in Nigeria.

Two years ago the government promised to improve building regulations after hundreds were killed when a high-rise building collapsed in Nigeria's main city of Lagos.

Why would an uncompleted building be described as a shopping mall?


this media sef

https://punchng.com/images/July/Wednesday/pix200807303544478.jpg

what's chatomex doing?


rapping

sharrap dia

KarmaMod:
seun, just ban those who post such obnoxious stories. simple

and you demand expression of opinion too

What is it gab?

warrrever

U've vexed me

you

Ujujoan:
What I think poster, is that thats what people who have lost their virginity tell themselves. It's called 'consolation'

abi o

hmm

!!!!HISS!!!!

ogb5:
Your dad picked you from school
most people trek home from school,
so can't be forgotten in school

lmao

twinstaiye:
@mustay
A season review? Did they tell you that or you assumed? T

I assumed

What really does it look like to you?

The truth is that they need to buckle up and listen to suggestions!

You may as well be surprised Nigeria has a Minister of Culture and tourism

Lagos State government said it has acquired the London-based 105-bedroom Sunborn Yachts Hotel at a cost of 24 million euros (about 4.4 billion naira).

Commissioner for Tourism and Inter-Governmental Relations, Mr. Tokunbo Afikuyomi, said in Lagos on Wednesday that the money spent on the acquisition of the hotel was sourced from a local bank, according to News Agency of Nigeria.

"We defied the odds and won the highly competitive bid to make this history for Lagos by buying the first yacht hotel in Africa and Middle East," he said.

He explained that part of the 4.4 billion naira paid for the boat would be used to upgrade it to the specified standard.

Afikuyomi said that the hotel would be formally inaugurated at the end of August this year.

He said that the presence of the boat in the country, would enhance the chances of Nigeria, hosting major international sports events and conferences.

According to the Commissioner, the state government decided to acquire the hotel to bridge the gap in the number of hotel rooms in the state.

He said that the hotel would also put Lagos in the league of world’s big cities with five-star hotels of global standards.

https://www.channelstv.com/images/news/Hotel_Sunborn_Yachts.jpg
Afikuyomi said that the hospitality industry was very critical to the resuscitation of the Nigerian economy as it would encourage the influx of foreign tourists.

He cited the experience of South Africa, which he said, recorded increase in its tourism revenue from 47.8 billion rand in 2004 to 55.9 billion rand in 2005, rising by 17 per cent.

Afikuyomi listed Dubai, Kenya and Ghana as some of the countries that are already reaping the benefits of tourism.

He said that the state would continue to initiate Private Public Partnership (PPP) to fund tourism projects as and when necessary.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

[url=http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/business/article02//indexn3_html?pdate=240708&ptitle=Mixed%20feelings%20as%20Sunborn%20Yacht%20Hotel%20begins%20final%20journey%20to%20Lagos&cpdate=260708]Mixed feelings as Sunborn Yacht Hotel begins final journey to Lagos
From: Olukayode Thomas,
London, England.[/url]

JOY and sadness abound in equal measures, as the pride of London and Great Britain, the Sunborn Yascht Hotel, begins its journey to Lagos.

After months of negotiations between the new owners-- Lagos State Government and the management of the hotel, the ship was formally handed over to the Lagos State government on Tuesday.

For Culture and Tourism Minister, Tokunbo Kayode; Lagos State Commissioner of Tourism Tokunboh Afikuyomi, who brokered the deal; and the Managing Director, Diamond Bank, Emeka Onwuka, whose bank financed the multi-millions naira deal; it was a thing of joy that Sunborn Yacht Hotel - the world's first custom-built Yacht Hotel - in Royal Victoria Dock, near Canary Wharf, which combines contemporary class and comfort, will not only land in Lagos in a few weeks, but will boost tourism and new employment opportunities.

But for the staff of the hotel and Londoners, it was a day of sadness, as many of them will be thrown into the labour market.

As early as 10.00 am on Tuesday morning, any black face seen around Excell and Royal Dutch was percieved to be a Nigerian, who must have come to witness the formal farewell ceremony of the Yacht Hotel to Lagos.

Many of the hotel employees had started looking for jobs while a few others were planning a short holiday as they finally realised that their beloved Yacht Hotel has been exported out of their reach. It was the only one of such hotel in the whole of Great Britain.

But for Afikuyomi, the purchase of the pride of London by Lagos State government shows that Nigerians can do anything if they set their mind to do it.

Said Afikuyomi: "It was a serious challenge but at the end of the day, we achieved what many thought would be impossible. The cost is enormous. Infact, when we started the purchase, the cost of shipping it to Lagos was estimated to be around $1 million, but now with the new price of petroleum, it could cost up to $3 million."

Though owned by the Lagos State government, Afikuyomi doused any fear that the hotel being mismanaged by civil servants, as he revealed that managemant will be totally privatised.

He also revealed that it cost the government virtually nothing to purchase the Yacht, as the funding came from the private sector. He said the Yacht will berth somewhere between Marina and Lagos Boat Club.

Afikuyomi also revealed that logistics have been put in place to ensure adequate security and other infrastructure are provided for the Yacht and it would-be patrons.

The Yacht boast of spacious suites and executive bedrooms, with the majority enjoying balconies, elegant lounges on various decks, first class restaurant and relaxing bar, all conspiring to make a patron's stay a memorable one.

Kayode commended the Lagos State for its bold step in buying the facility, saying that it will not only boost tourism but provide employment for thousands of Nigerians.

The Yahct, which is expected in Lagos by September, will not come cheap. Presently its double bedroom cost 215 pounds, executive room 235 pounds and royal suite 500 pounds.

Maleeq:
The person that created the archive place an extraction password on it.

Exactly

It's also advisable to search for information on "Laptop battery care".

It helps

Governor Fashola's example
By Banji Adisa

TWO days ago at the biennial congress of the Nigeria Guild of Editors at the Oranmiyan Hall of the Airport Hotel, I had a brief opportunity to assess BRF (Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN), the Lagos State Governor at close range, more than one year into his administration of this peculiar state - the Centre of Excellence. There he was, in the midst of hundreds of editors and senior editors nationwide from the media industry, in fact a collection of the very best minds in the industry that Nigeria can boast about. Sure he was meeting most of them for the first time too. He simply came across as an unassuming, focused, hard-working and determined man who never forgets to remind you that Eko o ni baje o (it shall always be well with Lagos), a slogan he adopted for his governorship campaign.

The forum presented the governor with a good opportunity to challenge the editors to help re-brand the country in spite of the perceived lapses and social problems which are not peculiar to Nigeria. Agreed there are criminal activities and other negative acts, he counseled, there are better ways of presenting them. He likened his claims to a Yoruba saying which literally translates that if a man calls his container a carcass, so be it for others as that is the only identification. Fashola said, 'if you introduce your son to me as a thief, I will call him by no other name than a thief'. He reminded the media executives of rising cases of knife stabbing in the United Kingdom, unrelenting armed robbery and other shooting incidents in South Africa and the stressful situation in the Middle East - developments which had never stopped Nigerians from streaming to London, Johannesburg, or Jerusalem and Mecca (to perform the pilgrimage). Nigeria's situation cannot be an exemption, he further stressed his re-branding theory which he believed the editors are in a better position to do without handing the job to outsiders in the name of image laundering by a foreign public relations firm. Agreed we should celebrate ourselves but let it be on the condition that governments, at whatever level, do not abandon their duties to the people they are supposed to serve.

One secret he had been keeping was unintentionally disclosed on Monday by Chief Onyema Ugochuchuwu, a fellow of the Guild in his speech: 'Fashola was made at the Daily Times'. This, the governor admitted without clarifications, but he would have loved to keep the information under wraps. Fashola drew an applause when he tried to re-cast the headline for a story he said the editors failed to find a better angle to it, the day two senior police officers fell to armed robbers' bullets in Lagos. 'Armed robbers take over Lagos' the editors screamed to the public. But Fashola's journalistic instincts would have looked at it from another perspective like 'Two valiant police officers die fighting armed robbers'. Such was his passion for journalism, only that the legal profession in which he has also excelled got the better part of him. Even the veteran 'Sad Sam' as we know him best in this business publisher of the Vanguard newspapers observed as he presented a plaque to the governor that the standing ovation BRF got for the speech he delivered is indicative of the seriousness with which he prepared it and which he employs in administering Lagos.

I am quite aware that it's too early in the day to jump into conclusions, before you accuse me of hasty judgment. But I'll like to make a submission: the man is gradually working to change Lagos - once dubbed a concrete jungle by OBJ - for good, especially the environment. For once, the state is blessed with a man who shows the political will to face the task of returning Lagos to the path of sanity. To a keen observer, so much has changed and is changing in the landscape. It will be a disservice to the people if this mission cannot be fully accomplished for whatever reason. Already, the impression has been created in town among Lagos residents that the governor doesn't care about the status of anyone when it comes to restoring sanity to the environment.

One thing fascinates me too about the method of governance. In a country like Nigeria, we have seen a man who really believes in a two-way communication system with his people, with recent publication (full page advert) of the phone numbers and e-mail addresses of his commissioners and permanent secretaries - and his own! - to get feedbacks on his administration and officials. This system he believes gives room for accountability. The governor's number for example is 080 34301122 and his e-mail is brfgov@gmail.com. For now I am not in a position to say how effective these channels are because I have not tried them. I hope we will be in a position to continuously sing praises of this initiative, so long as we can call these servant leaders to order or to tell them what we need. I hope it works well like the toll free 767 distress call system which also got his support and has been reported to be very effective in reaching security operatives.

There is sense too in the publication of laws being passed in the state to increase the people's awareness level. For instance, how am I supposed to know that it is now unlawful for me to give alms to beggars on the road (the beggar is even more guilty of soliciting) or allow a tipper to unload its content by the roadside for an owner to continue work on that house under construction?

But if we say the governor has achieved so much, we would only be deceiving ourselves and massaging his ego. He still has a lot ahead of him. I know for example that if he succeeds in turning a greater part of the state into an eldorado and he ignored the plight of the people of Ejigbo local council development area to construct another exit route to relieve the serious pressure on the only available one through Oke Afa, he has not done much. His predecessor promised and failed woefully to deliver in eight years. Here is a road that absorbs the heavy traffic from Egbe, Ikotun Idimu, Egbeda, Igando, Iseri Osun (very pathethic), Ijegun and more. Your excellency, the people of this area have suffered long enough in silence. It is an ordeal transiting through this road every day. The chairman of the council area is helpless, if you care to know. In his domain are gullies called roads, state roads. Direct the relevant agencies to fix them today and you win the people's hearts.

I don't envy the governor because he has too many assignments that can make or mar his distinguished career. And I hear before he launched into the campaigns then, his primary constituency especially the body of senior advocates passionately appealed to him to hold the banner aloft and not tarnish the image of colleagues while occupying that exalted position. They got his word which is a bond, I learnt. I need not say more since Fashola himself knows the implication of messing up.

One thing which keeps worrying me, however, is the looming image of his predecessor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in state matters. I may be wrong but I can feel this heavily. Godfather or no godfather, someone should please tell the Asiwaju that he has had his chance and we want to see a weaned BRF take weighty political decisions in the administration of the state. Anyway, I trust BRF that he has a mind of his own.


http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/editorial_opinion/article02//indexn2_html?pdate=300708&ptitle=Governor%20Fashola%27s%20example

You are okay but how do I decipher your 'coolness level' via the pic

So moimoi with the LEAF Wins