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Johnnyessence:
Waoooooooo finally bill gate is in Nigeria, he didn't show up in dangote's daughter wedding. now he's in Nigeria discussing issues pertaining to Africa and Nigeria. you are welcome.

geoinvestor:
Bill gates has made enough money, now he has stopped investing and has appointed experts to manage his respective companies while he(bill gates) is busy tackling world diseases. But Dangote has made a lot of billions, and in spite of the poverty in his country, he has not created a foundation to fight poverty and unemployment. Dangote is busy amassing all the wealth in the country at the expense of the poor masses.

#Black men are too greedy, they will never stop making money!

naptu2: The Dantata/Dangote family have always been involved in charity work. However these deeds often go unnoticed, because of the family's principles of maintaining privacy and lack of flamboyance.

Al-Hassan Dantata was passionate about education. He backed the establishment of a western style school in the Dala area for hausa (I.e non-fulani) traders' children in the 1930s and established the Dantata english and arabic school in 1944.

Mariya Dangote (Aliko Dangote's mother) donated a hospital, which she built at Rijiya Lemu, to the Kano State Government in 2003.

Aliko Dangote has made the following charitable contributions:

2.5 billion naira to the national fund for flood victims in 2012. 430 million naira to Kogi flood victims. 100 million naira to Sokoto flood victims. $2 million to Pakistan's flood victims. 120 million naira to fight famine in Niger. 600 million naira to women empowerment and free school feeding schemes in Kano State. 500 student capacity hall at Kano State University. 10 million naira annual scholarship for Benue students. $2 million to African Young Leaders fellowship in conjunction with the Forum For Young Global Leaders. $1 million towards education and women empowerment in Tanzania. 1 billion naira to states suffering from the Boko Haram insurgency. 1,000 bed hospital in Kano. And many more

He established the Dangote Foundation which is the philanthropic arm of the dangote Group where yearly he spends millions for worthy causes such as contributions to educational and healthcare institutions, sinking of boreholes and giving of scholarships.

The Dangote Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have jointly pledged to donate huge sums of money towards the eradication of polio in Kano State.

He also established the Dangote Academy.

godspeed:
Thanks naptu2. Please I need the link to Mike okri's omoge.
Thanks

TheDevilIsALai:
It's currently in the Caribbeans offering tours between idyllic Islands.

It is being operated by a company domiciled in the Cayman Islands under the name BOREMI Ventures

DeLaRue:
This can't be true.

Sunborn Yatch has no engine and an engine cannot be retrofitted.

It can't move by itself. It has to be towed from location to location.

The idea that it is '...offering tours between idyllic Islands...' is impossible.

It was towed to and from Lagos.

jaymichael:
Our online encyclopedia. I always trust you to set the records straight all the time. Como estas bros?

edogirl2:
Sorry, this is way longer than necessary, but with nairaland, it is sometimes necessary go long.

I was very much involved with the Yacht in question - right at the highest level. I had meetings with very high level officials of the bank that financed the purchase, and as such had access to tons of real and genuine information and documents concerning this yacht. I know the names of the owners, and I was on the yacht up to a few weeks before it was sold.

I can tell you a lot about this yacht.

BELOW IS THE 100% TRUE STORY OF THE YACHT!

______ The 'Princess' Sunborn yacht hotel was constructed around 2002 by Sunborn International Finland.

______ Sunborn International placed and managed the Yacht in London docklands up till 2007 or thereabout.

______ Around 2007, a Nigerian team made up of a former AD - turned PDP (?) Senator and his partner bought the yacht.

______ Purchase price was ridiculously above true market value and transaction was financed by a local bank (name withheld).

______ By & large, the loan was secured on the yacht itself! No other security!! - very common amongst banks during the Soludo bubble.

______ The Senator was able to use his lingering contact with ACN govt in Lagos, to get the then Lagos State commissioner
for tourism to throw govt embrace around the project on the basis that it would boost tourism and raise Lagos's international profile.

______ On the day the yacht arrived in Lagos, thousands of Lagosians and several state officials and the said commissioner were there before TV cameras smiling and basking in the glory of this new toy that would catapult Lagos's international standing to new heights.

______ Unfortunately, by the time it arrived Lagos, the owners had spent so much buying it, they had nothing left to run it. And the bank would not lend a kobo more! To make matters worse, the two buyers fell out over how to take the business forward.

______ Few months passed, then years. Now the yacht was becoming so badly degraded that it risked becoming a health hazard.

______ With AMCON on the rampage, and rumour sipping out about the shoddy nature of the financing of the yacht purchase, the financing bank, wanting to avoid public embarrassment, decided to exercise its right to sell.

______ By mid-2012, the bank put the yacht up for sale.

______ The senator protested placing warning notice in some national newspapers against anyone buying. But he couldn't pay the bank what he owed it, so the bank paid no attention.

______ After several months on the market, the bank found an Asian buyer. The Yacht was quietly towed out of Lagos I believe on boxing day 2012 with most people getting wind only after the yacht was out of Nigerian waters.


Based on what I know, the yacht cost around N4.5 billion, but the bank got back less than 20% of that money.

Moral of the story

1. Lagos State did not invest one kobo in the yacht and so Lagosians have lost nothing
2. Tinubu had nothing to do with this yacht
3. This was a private project that failed largely because of financial incapacity, greed and infighting between two owners
4. The big loser was the lending bank which got back a fraction of what it lent and has no prospect of getting more from the debtors.

2012 Annual Reports and Accounts - diamondbank

Apr 17, 2012 - Sun born yacht hotel. 

The non current asset disclosed as held for sale is a mobile hotel "the sun born yacht" purchased in February 2008 by the Group's former subsidiary, diamond Capital Limited. Assets of diamondCapital were transferred to the bank in 2011 on sale

JackBaueress1:
Sweet mouth of Tokunbo Afikuyomi. At the end, the ship became an eyesore and it was towed away.

Nigeria mentality!

naptu2:
Another masterpiece from Professor Pius Adesanmi. He is so good that it's hard to choose which of his articles is my favourite, but here are nine fantastic articles that he wrote.


Letter Of Gratitude To Senator Iyiola Omisore (2010)
https://www.nairaland.com/562153/letter-gratitude-senator-iyiola-omisore


And It Came To Pass (2009)
http://saharareporters.com/2009/07/08/and-it-came-pass


And It Came To Pass II (King Jona's Miracles). (2013)
https://www.nairaland.com/1272098/king-jonas-miracle-pius-adesanmi

General Buhari: A Whole Former Head Of State! (2014)
https://www.nairaland.com/1923568/general-buhari-whole-former-head


Was God Angry the Day He Created The Nigerian? (2015)
http://saharareporters.com/2015/09/30/was-god-angry-day-he-created-nigerian-pius-adesanmi

I May Renounce My Canadian Citizenship By Pius Adesanmi (2015)
https://www.nairaland.com/2800523/may-renounce-canadian-citizenship-pius#40990338

Professor Pius Adesanmi On 2face's Planned Protest. (2017)
https://www.nairaland.com/3606883/professor-pius-adesanmi-2faces-planned#53352613

El Rufai, Tambuwal & The Retraining Of Fish. (2017)
https://www.nairaland.com/4168907/el-rufai-tambuwal-retraining-fish


"The Tragedy Of Lagos" By Professor Pius Adesanmi". (2018)
https://www.nairaland.com/4403812/tragedy-lagos-professor-pius-adesanmi

godspeed:
Hi everyone

Kindly help me with the YouTube link to ayuba's bubble and omoge by Mike okri.

Thank you.
cc naptu2

Spiritualism:
Professor of English, I get you. It was a mistake. I omitted opportunity.

I like nairaland because it offers people to express their mind without insulting people.

naptu2:
Another masterpiece from Professor Pius Adesanmi. He is so good that it's hard to choose which of his articles is my favourite, but here are nine fantastic articles that he wrote.


Letter Of Gratitude To Senator Iyiola Omisore (2010)
https://www.nairaland.com/562153/letter-gratitude-senator-iyiola-omisore


And It Came To Pass (2009)
http://saharareporters.com/2009/07/08/and-it-came-pass


And It Came To Pass II (King Jona's Miracles). (2013)
https://www.nairaland.com/1272098/king-jonas-miracle-pius-adesanmi

General Buhari: A Whole Former Head Of State! (2014)
https://www.nairaland.com/1923568/general-buhari-whole-former-head


Was God Angry the Day He Created The Nigerian? (2015)
http://saharareporters.com/2015/09/30/was-god-angry-day-he-created-nigerian-pius-adesanmi

I May Renounce My Canadian Citizenship By Pius Adesanmi (2015)
https://www.nairaland.com/2800523/may-renounce-canadian-citizenship-pius#40990338

Professor Pius Adesanmi On 2face's Planned Protest. (2017)
https://www.nairaland.com/3606883/professor-pius-adesanmi-2faces-planned#53352613

El Rufai, Tambuwal & The Retraining Of Fish. (2017)
https://www.nairaland.com/4168907/el-rufai-tambuwal-retraining-fish

The Tragedy of Lagos

@pius_adesanmi

Lagos state has the most opaque finances in Nigeria because she has been run since 1999 by cosmopolitan minds who need a progressive veneer for crude and conspicuous consumption. Other personal slave plantations such as Kwara, Delta, and Imo, are less opaque because the Emperor has no burden of pretending to be a progressive.

For instance, Okorocha openly parcels out Imo state's finances to himself, sister, daughter, son-inlaw, and intends to emulate Bukola Saraki by carrying the state's treasury to Abuja to continue in the Senate while a quisling superintends over the state for him. Imo state's finances do not need to be as opaque as what we have in Lagos because Okorocha is crude and unrefined and does not need the pretext of cosmopolitan, progressive sophistication like Tinubu and his boys in Lagos.

All over Nigeria, wherever the leaders are free to be brutes in the state of nature, the finances are usually more accessible. James Ibori and his boys in Delta are like Bukola Saraki and his boys in Kwara or Okorocha and his boys in Imo. Ibori, Uduaghan, Okowa - diseducated brutes who have no burden of civilization. They need no opacity in the finances of Delta. They are free.

Kogi under the late Abubakar Audu was a crude personal slavery plantation and there was no need for opaque finances in Lokoja either. For all his unprecedented worwority, Governor Yahaya Bello will not be able to extend the cruel fate of Kogi as one man's and one family's personal slave plantation like Lagos, Imo, Delta, and Kwara. The dynamics of Kogi do not conduce to a family who is not from the majority ethnic nationality in the state owning and operating her as a personal slave plantation. So Kogi will continue to be a crude property of transient adventurers with no need for opaque finances.

The fact that Lagos since 1999 has been run by well-read cosmopolitan minds with ostensible left-leaning and populist sensibilities - Tinubu, Fashola, Ambode - is instructive and should sensitize us to a grave danger. Lagos has remained a fundamental puzzle for those who have applied themselves to study her - how can Nigeria's most sophisticated state be one man's personal slave plantation since 1999?

Those who are puzzled by the tragic irony of Lagos miss the fact that nothing is more dangerous than the sophisticated, cosmopolitan mind that has decided to work against the common good by personalizing the Commonwealth.

A cosmopolitan mind that is set on this course - as has been the case in Lagos since 1999 - has enough intellectual fire power to pass off pure wind, puff, and powder as solidity, enough cerebral resources to make unquenchable greed and corruption and brazen personalization of the resources of the Commonwealth appear to the people as mutually-shared prosperity.

A cosmopolitan mind set on the course of crude exploitation and personalization of the resources of the state has enough cerebral matter to understand the power of identity myths and narratives. This explains why these sophisticated minds have constructed mythologies of the self for the Lagosian. The Lagosian has been screaming "Eko o ni baje," "Eko baje ti," and "Gedegbe l'Eko wa," with more gusto since 1999 than ever before in his history.

The louder he has screamed these mythologies of the self, the superior self, the busier Alpha Beta and Tinubu's numerous other technologies of personalization of the Commonwealth have been. The mythologies of the self constructed for the Lagosian are, in fact, diversionary mythologies of superiority.

So long as the Lagosian is chanting these mythologies of the self, he is distracted and looking down on the “bush man” from Ekiti, Osun, Oyo and other parts of the bush interior of Nigeria - don't even mention my poor Kogi! - and feeling superior. This superiority complex blinds him to the tragedy of his life as a citizen of Lagos. He does not know that the bush people of Ekiti are freer than him because they are not as enslaved to one man and one family as he is.

Investment in superiorist mythologies and other soporifics applied on the people by well-read cosmopolitans have guaranteed their ability to perfect their strategies of financial opacity in state transactions nearly unchecked for twenty years.

Lagos is Africa’s biggest crime scene. Because of the size of her economy, it is the closest Africa now has to Mobutu Sese Seko’s Zaire in terms of state capture by one person. Only this person is not crude like Mobutu and has played a sophisticated politics that has glued an entire ethnic nation to his persona as their liberator, hence they are totally hostile to any scrutiny of the man.

Part of me thinks that resistance by mainstream Lagos and the Yoruba at large to any serious scrutiny of Tinubu’s personalization of the finances of Lagos is due to the fact that folks have bought so deep into constructions of his persona as their liberator and hero that they are afraid of what they’ll find. Letting go of identity mythologies has never been easy in the history of human civilization.

In terms of the obligation to scrutinize, it must also be noted that Tinubu and his boys have largely co-opted the entire intellectual base of the southwest into their project and narratives. This explains why this sort of state capture could go on for so long without rigorous intellectual challenge in a region which houses the bulk of the social sciences in Nigeria. No southwest intellectual has seriously interrogated project Tinubu since 1999.

But you are always going to be as strong as your weakest link. Ambode is less read than Babatunde Fashola. In the long chain of Tinubu boys, he is one of the least sophisticated. It is therefore no surprise that he is the one threatening to undo an architecture of slavery, exploitation, and personalization of the state that has been twenty years in the making.

With his gra-gra and woolly-headed over-taxation and over-levying, he has finally applied a much-needed shock therapy to Lagosians. Folks are finally starting to wake up. Folks are finally starting to smell the coffee.

2019 is pregnant. For the sake of Lagosians, I hope it gives birth to freedom from slavery.

naptu2:
Women's football was not really taken seriously in the 1970s and '80s. What came to people's minds when you said "women's football" were comical matches that did not really comply with the rules of the game. They were novelty games that were played for comic relief, rather than real competitive matches. The situation was the same in most countries, but women's football was serious business in Scandinavia.

Then in 1989 FIFA decided to create a women's world cup (the first tournament was held in 1991) and Nigeria also decided to take women's football seriously.

So women's football was included in the 1989 National Sports Festival in Lagos. I went to watch most of the matches.

There was a huge gulf in class between the teams from Lagos, Bendel and Rivers and the other teams in the competition. Lagos, Bendel and Rivers were far better than all the other teams and none of the other teams could compete with them. The other teams looked like jokers.

Spectators who didn't think that women's football could be as interesting as men's football felt justified when they saw most of the teams play, but were totally shocked when they saw Lagos, Bendel and Rivers. Their players were very fit, trim and athletic (unlike players from other states). They could run, dribble and shoot very well.

Word spread quickly and the arena was always full when these three teams were playing. They beat the other states by 4 or more goals margin. Why were these three states so much better than the others?

Well, I didn't find out until the first women's national team, league and FA cup were organised in the early 1990s. Basically, these three states already had good female football clubs and the state teams were made up of players from these clubs.

Lagos State was basically made up of Jegede Babes players, Bendel State was the same as Ufuoma Babes of Benin and Rivers State was represented by players from Larry's Angels. These three teams dominated nigerian female football in the early 1990s.

XD3G:
Rocket goal?!

That was a lob.

khalids:
That was a nice goal......But has the definition of "ROCKET CHANGED"

1. a cylindrical projectile that can be propelled to a great height or distance by the combustion of its contents, used typically as a firework or signal.

Desire Oparanozie ‘creates’ three goals in epic comeback against PSG Ladies

April 03 2017
by Mansur Ibrahim

https://www.thecable.ng/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Oparonozie-Desire.jpg

Super Falcons forward, Oparanozie Desire, was in terrific form last weekend as she scored a goal and provided two assists to help En Avant De Guingamp stage an epic comeback against PSG Ladies.

PSG Ladies were leading 3-0 in the first half but EAG Ladies fought back in the second half to end the game in a draw.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATcMsLKRyoM

Opanorazie scored in the 82nd minute after creating the chances that led to the first and second goals.

EAG is currently sixth while PSG is third in the female Division One table.

Donjazzy12:
Nobody was watching in the stands!

naptu2:
@ bold, I call it the "Stadium illusion".

I attended a match a long time ago in which the stadium was almost three-quarters full. I took pictures during the game and posted it on the internet. Someone who saw the pictures was complaining that the stadium was empty. His complaint made me angry, but I looked at the picture again and understood what happened.


I'm going to explain this using Nigerian terms.

Stadiums usually have a covered or VIP section, two sections behind the goals and a fourth section that is known as "Popular Side" in Nigerian English.

The covered section usually has the best seats and is usually closer to the main entrance, while the Popular Side usually has the worst seats and is usually further away from the main entrance.

Most people prefer to sit near the VIP section, especially when the tickets are not too expensive.


I was seated in the State Box, which is in the covered section, 90% of the spectators were also seated in the covered section, but my camera was facing the Popular Side which was empty. Therefore it looked as if the stadium was empty, even though it was not.

It seems to be the same scenario here, because you can hear the chants of the supporters, which means that the stadium is not empty.

Desire Oparanozie wins WSU Goal of the Month – February 2018

March 16, 2018 in GOTM, News

WSU GOAL OF THE MONTH: DESIRE OPARANOZIE

We asked you to vote for your favourite WSU Goal of the Month for February 2018, and the big majority of you voted Desire Oparanozie as your winner.

Watch Desire Oparanozie’s spectacular long-range lob again now!

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Desire Oparanozie scored the stunning strike for EA Guingamp against Paris FC in the French Women’s Division 1 match.

This impressive lob in the 89th minute was Oparanozie’s second goal of the game, having scored EA Guingamp’s equaliser in the 27th minute.

From the centre circle, Desire Oparanozie sees the Paris FC goalkeeper off her line before unleashing the fantastic lob on target from distance!

Desire Oparanozie’s long-range strike beat Dominique Janssen, Georgia Stanway, Erika Vázquez, Dzsenifer Marozsan, Saray Garcia, Natasa Andonova and Claire Lavogez. Click here to watch all eight of February’s finalists again. Thank you for all your votes!

Final Results for February’s WSU Goal of the Month:

1. Desire Oparanozie (51%)
2. Dominique Janssen (17%)
3. Georgia Stanway (13%)
4. Erika Vázquez (9%)
5. Dzsenifer Marozsan (4%)
6. Saray Garcia (3%)
7. Natasa Andonova (2%)
8. Claire Lavogez (1%)

Thank you for voting