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ireneony:
More reason i don't like Nigeria churches. .

U will see an elder kneeling down to greet the so called mummy and daddy.
so pathetic

Modified

That was how one student pastor told me to kneel whenever i want to greet him n my pastor . .i was told him bluntly "i don't kneel down to greet at home..so why should i do opposite outside"
I wanted to insult him that day

The truth is most Nigerians have high service atitude

And then, they will tell you that you are respecting the anointing and not the age as if Pastors have one special oil on themselves when every believer are anointed of God.

Dreal11247:
Who can please give a detailed information about the new President of CAN? Hope he is not imposed on Christians to favor Islamic agenda?

Haba.... Fear God. He is a man of God for Christ sake and not just that, he is from a Baptist, the church with strong Biblical principles.

papayeye:
Yepa. CAN don finish. Yoruba pastors no sabi manage money. Na so so owambe party, CAN go dey do now. Chai, Naija don spoil.

Guy, it's best not typing anything than typing this. Must we always bring tribal differences to National issues? You need to make findings about this man and you'd be rest assured that a new dawn has come. I am a Baptist and I know what this true man of God had done in the Baptist denomination. God bless His church as a positive change has come.

Take my life and let it be
Consecrated, Lord, to Thee.
*Take my moments and my days,
Let them flow in endless praise.

Take my hands and let them move
At the impulse of Thy love.
Take my feet and let them be
Swift and beautiful for Thee.

Take my voice and let me sing,
Always, only for my King.
Take my lips and let them be
Filled with messages from Thee.

Take my silver and my gold,
Not a mite would I withhold.
Take my intellect and use
Every pow’r as Thou shalt choose.

Take my will and make it Thine,
It shall be no longer mine.
Take my heart, it is Thine own,
It shall be Thy royal throne.

Take my love, my Lord, I pour
At Thy feet its treasure store.
Take myself and I will be
Ever, only, all for Thee.

Vision4God:
17 unit carryover & graduated wt 1st class?
I kinda doubt ds story.
How many years did he spend in d uni? And are der no pre-requisite courses??

Anyway congrats to him

It's best reading the story in full before commenting. If you had read the details, you will understand that this is possible.

For the past 12 hours , the internet has been agog
with the end of year drama between Nigerian pop
star, Davido and his babymama , Sophie who
happens to be the cousin of magazine publisher ,
Dele Momodu.
The story has been in series , starting from the
airport drama on December 29 , 2015 to the
petition written against Davido by Sophie to
Davido ’ s lengthy open letter.
Now, Dele Momodu, who has been caught in the
middle of the whole brouhaha, has spoken , and
it’ s quite deep .
Read below …
In September 2015 , I got a call from Dr Adedeji
Adeleke, a long time family friend , telling me his
son had fathered a baby girl with my cousin ,
Sophia Momodu . I rejoiced with him as any
reasonable soul would do .
He apologised that he had not called all along
because he wasn ’ t sure if Sophie’ s baby was
going to turn out a fake one like that of two
others who had turned up at his doorstep. But
mercifully, according to Dr Adeleke , Sophie ’ s baby
passed the DNA Test by over 98 percent and he
was elated.
I congratulated him again as a proud grandfather .
He said he would like to meet me with Sophie
since Sophie ’ s dad , Uncle Jibola Momodu, passed
on years ago and Sophie mentioned me as her
cousin .
I had known about Sophie’ s baby through her
first cousin Ruth Abraham and had called to
congratulate her . I was happy when she sent me
pictures of the baby and other romantic pictures
with David Adeleke , aka Davido .
But I never contacted David ’ s dad deliberately so
as not to create the impression of begging for
marriage . Where we come from , it is the man who
approaches the lady ’ s family to plead to be
allowed to marry into the family .
MUST READ : Full text of Davido ’s open letter to
estranged baby mama
Prior to this phone call from Dr Adeleke , Sophie
had narrated to me how on the 11 th July , 2015 ,
she was tricked to Davido ’ s sister , Coco
Adeleke’ s house with her baby, Imade Aurora
Adeleke . After getting to the house on Baderinwa
Alabi Street , Lekki Phase I, Lagos, her baby was
forcefully taken from her and she was thrown out
of the premises with the threat that she would be
decisively dealt with if she ever bothered to return
there .
There were armed policemen in the premises and
to avoid what could have been a messy
encounter, instinct prevailed on her to make her
leave her breast suckling baby behind, with so
much pain in her heart.
By daybreak on the next day, Sophie was again at
Coco Adeleke ’ s house to take her baby, but she
was prevented by armed policemen from gaining
access into the house . She was again threatened
and warned never to return for the child .
READ : How Dele Momodu confirmed Davido’ s
responsible for Sophie Momodu baby
Despite the pain and trauma my cousin was made
to undergo, I restrained myself from getting
directly involved in the matter and appealed to her
to stay calm and take it easy with the Adelekes.
But after the phone call from Dr Adeleke , precisely
on September 10, 2015 , I picked up Sophie and
her mum and drove to Dr Adeleke ’ s home in
Lekki, Lagos . All through this time , I had waited
patiently to meet Dr Adeleke with questions
probing for answers .
Dr Adeleke invited two of his close friends to the
meeting namely His Majesty OBA ADEDOKUN
ABOLARIN and Mr Wale Adeeyo . We went into
lengthy discussions. His daughter Coco had
brought in the little baby and both attended the
meeting .
Sophie and her daughter , Imade
Dr Adeleke explained why it took some time to
call me and I said I understood .
Dr Adeleke said the baby was discovered to have
traces of marijuana in her during medical test and
said he believed Sophie and David were smokers
and he needed to protect the child from two
irresponsible parents, as he described them . He
told the gathering that the baby would be under
temporary custody and observation.
He directed that Sophie would come to his house
every Sunday to see her baby. Our family agreed .
He promised to pay Sophie a monthly upkeep . We
thanked him for his kindness. He promised to buy
her a car . We were grateful for his generosity . We
had dinner with him and left . David was not
present .
Sophie said she got the monthly upkeep but never
got the car and that she prefers to have her baby
back and the Adelekes can keep their money.
I called Dr Adeleke and he said I should allay her
fears. I pleaded again for patience.
I was shocked when Sophie called me desperately
and said her daughter was being taken to Dubai
by Coco . I immediately called Coco and she said
she was taking the baby for intensive medicals
and I wondered how she would pass through the
airport without the consent of Sophie but she
actually did and even sent me pictures from
Dubai.
I played it cool and encouraged Sophie to calm
down.
Sophie Momodu and her uncle , Dele Momodu in
London .
Sophie became withdrawn and extremely
saddened . The situation went from bad to worse .
She and David became aggressive enemies . At a
point , David sent messages to Sophie and using
the ‘ f ’ word against me.
His father was shocked and called him to
apologise which he did and I accepted and even
told him how much I love him .
The worst came when my wife came from London
and went with Sophie to check on the baby at
Coco ’ s house and they were literally walked out
and told they were not welcome in her house . My
wife called and I called Dr Adeleke who said they
should go to his house and wait for him .
Their meeting did not go well because my wife
asked when the baby would be returned to her
mum and Dr Adeleke went into the same old story
of marijuana abuse and Sophie said she was
ready for a test which Dr Adeleke wasn ’ t
interested in.
Dr Adeleke explained why the car had not been
bought and my wife told him the baby was the
issue and not the car . Dr Adeleke didn ’ t like the
sound of this but it was reaching a point that
some truth needed to be told that a baby cannot
be bought with money.
Davido and Sophie Momodu.
I flew to Nigeria on December 28, 2015 after
Sophie told me the Adelekes were travelling to
Dubai with her baby without her consent again .
As soon as I landed I called Uncle Wale Adeeyo, a
close confidant of Dr Adeleke and expressed our
displeasure at the way Sophie was being treated
and he promised to speak to Dr Adeleke.
When he came back to me he didn ’ t sound too
positive . We spoke several times and nothing
tangible came out of his supposed intervention.
I called Oba Dokun Abolarin but he was busy at a
wedding in Ibadan . I then called Uncle Wale again
and told him Sophie has plans to stop the trip on
the knowledge that David has collected an
American passport for the baby and the rumour
that the baby was being abducted to America. I
pleaded that we should avoid a confrontation.
I headed to the airport to alert the authorities
including Immigration and Emirates . As predicted ,
the Adelekes arrived the airport with the baby
where Immigration had laid in wait for them .
Coco came forward and was asked who the
mother of the baby was and she claimed
ownership and her passport and that of the baby
were taken away by Immigration . Her dad was
alerted and he came to the office of the
Comptroller with others to try and rescue the
passports but the Immigration stood their
grounds.
I saw him making frantic calls but he gave up
after the flight departed. He repeated the same
boast that no one could ever take the baby from
him and I told him to stop talking like God.
No one likes a fight but we have been treated
shabbily and had to stop the charade . We could
not be intimidated and everyone at the airport
expressed shock and horror at such a brazen
attempt to export a human being only seven
months old without the mother .
We thanked the officers who rescued us from a
powerful family. We are always for peace , justice
and equity. No one threatened the Adelekes with
any expose unless they were using reverse
psychology.
Personally, I’ m not a junk writer and would never
descend so low to abuse those permanently
connected to us through an innocent baby . We
love the baby like they do and such an innocent
child deserves to be protected by both families .

link: http://dasort.com/2015/12/31/why-i-got-involved-in-davido-and-sophies-babymama-drama-dele-momodu-explains-2/?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook

The introduction before this verse was on Jesus talking about John the Baptist. It's a verse that clearly talks about John the Baptist and the violent opposition faced as to the Kingdom matter. Remember, John the Baptist opposed the wrong act of Herod who married his brother's wife and because of this, it caused him his head. It was a violent attack against the Kingdom of God.

This guy is just a noise maker whose exposure is just limited to the cattle rearing region where they just sit and relax with Kunu geda. A worse picture of this had happened in the USA where Kanye West was honoured with a degree. I guess the guy is just seeking cheap recognition and also desires the national cake which he might not have even in his dreams.

hollandis:
He is not worried .He is sick just like his sick superior buhari and sick tinubu

A party of sick people and illiterates

Did I just see illiterates there? You must definitely be one. You mean the likes of Fashola, Tinubu, Fayemi, Prof. Osibanjo etc. are illiterates? I think you must be high on something.

GMB 2015

Change it is.

We've read from the scripture of how God searches the heart and not our outward appearance and how our faithfulnes is a thing of the heart and not human's view.

Over the years, series of messages have been given on how one need to make his/her heart right with God.
So, biblically where is our heart? Is it the same as the actual heart that pumps blood or there is more to it?

@Mod, kindly help make it a front page thing as I'm really interested in getting better views on this

Take my heart and let me be

People are quick to associate with the success of Unilag presently without much negative words but when it comes to other news being spread about Unilag we are quick to say products of the school are not sound, and all sort of talk like all they know how to do best is to play, party and have fun. Any day anytime, I'm always proud of the great feat this school has achieved. Thumbs up guys for this recognition brought to Nigeria.

This statement that HND holders are good in practicals is just an overhyped statement. Who could boldly say they had serious practical -i.e field work on their course? All are just the past glory of the polytechnics we used to know. The lecturer are too busy that lectures itself is difficult atimes, not to now talk of Field work. Also, the university treat deeply what the polytechnic takes on the surface. I posted this after experiencing the two system, so I'm not just posting this to hat the other. The two were established for different purposes.

Abeg make we no start to dey brag yet as we need to beg NFF and Keshi say make dem let the boys reach Brazil on time, make dem no begin dey blame jet lag for any result and that make dem no talk say boys still dey understand the game.

fredx4: Lol please which church is that? I honestly didn't know being a virgin is part of the qualifications for heaven.

Don't start this in order to gain cheap attention or support. Though Virginity is not the qualification to enter heaven but then, the Bible goes against going about sleeping with men/ladies. The Bible clearly instructs us to keep the bed undefiled. So, if the Bible says so, then pre-marital sex means going against the instruction of God which is a sin. However, I'm not in anyway castigating those who by mistake or one horrible circumstance lost their virginity as the mercy of God still speaks. I only want to correct this position of yours.

Nuzo':
Nigeria would've been far better if Jona had been this assertive from day one.

But i guess dude is trying as much as he can to make a difference in the areas of civility and due process.

I can assure you that all lecturers will be present in all schools morrow.

I can assure you that Lecturers won't resume at all. Do you know the number of Lecturers they've sacked or intending to sack, we are not talking about 400 here. The Senate of FUTO is one clown on its own as how do they intend recruiting new lecturers, from Ghana abi na South Africa dem wan go? smh.....

Nigeria with her senseless way of tackling critical issues.

Donalð Genes: 42= x/100(60) qives you 42=60x/100

Cross multiply, you have 60x=100 * 42

>>>x=100 times 42/60

=70% of ASUU memebrs actually voted in favour of the strike to end
Am i right?

Where your mates dey think of how to solve serious mathematical and technical problems, you dey here dey form James Bond on yeye calculation wey no add value to the strike.

samtin: presido GEJ is the best man for naija.... he makes sure he exhaust all options needed for peaceful negotiations.. before plan B... SOE testifies.... ASUU is abt to go down... time to ban ASUU... retarded our lives bunch of old fools

I just laugh when I see post like this. So GEJ is the man and all that FG is doing is just? Please, rethink this stand of yours as ASUU is fighting for what is right, the facilities in the universities are nothing to talk about. Imagine, during my days in school, most of the equipment and machines in the Laboratory are probably the ones bought during the time the department was established, should I also tell you about overpopulated lecture rooms? or is it the fact that lecturers are not willing to give their best due to not being motivated money-wise, even those who are ready to give their best are discouraged when the things to be put in place for a comfortable lecture environment aren't there.

Please, the government has failed woefully, masses are faced to suffer all the time while they enjoy. The FG is a total shame. Some students now run to Ghana and South Africa for studies simply because their system is far better than ours. Just of late I found out that in Ghana, that the Government are so passionate about the education system such that if the lecturers go on strike, within 2 weeks the govt. will try all best possible to resolve the strike.

Honestly, the govt. of Nigeria is a total shame.....smh

Boss13: if I were the president, I would sack all lecturers on strike and open up vacancies to interested lecturers. This time their contract will be renegotiated with bumper package.

This will separate those who have passion for teaching and those who are just there for the money. I will also increase education budget to adequately fund universities.

I believe the sub-set of lecturers who don't love teaching will capture the bad eggs who molest female students, collect money for handouts and those who punish students at all will

Na wa o... why nau?

Did you type 'sack'? Sometimes I just laugh. Where do you think the new lecturers will come from?

When I was still in school and adverts were placed in the dailies for lecturers in my department. Despite the status of my school (name witheld) and the attractive salary, not to talk of allowances, it was surprising that at the end of the recruitment exercise, only two were employed. Then my question was - what happens to the other positions not filled?

Please, don't bring up that word - sack as the end result will be automatic collapse of the system. Presently, tt hasn't collapsed and we are bothered about brain drain in the system.

See, let's find a lasting solution to the problem of the system rather than type with emotions. God bless Ghana (Yes!! God bless Ghana), could you believe their university system had to undergo reformation of a year sit-at-home? Now, what can you say about their universities?

Which way naija?......smh

engrfcuksmtin: Now we have a VC that want to stand against the high handedness of ASUU, He should open a register,anybody that refuses to resume should be issued query and subsequently be sacked. Placed adverts for vacancies and fill as many positions as possible especially the one's occupied by ASUU excos, so many lecturers will fall in line.

Abeg park well joor.... You dey block road.

Honestly, with all the recent adverts placed in papers by both federal and state universities, how many have been successful? The reason is most of the qualfied candidates are leaving the shores of Nigeria for comfort elsewhere while those that don't want to leave are now in our private universities, except if a lecturer wants to leave his current state or federal employment for a new offer which in this case can't be successful as the lecturers in question are under one body - ASUU.

I'd advise that the V.C should be claim and wait till ASUU resolves her crisis. As all his effort might be fruitless.

You are all very funny

Yesterday, I was at Aso-Rock villa...

I observed this of late, as some people love to put on wrist-watches that have stopped working. Nairalanders could you share your view or experience on this issue? Should we say wrist-watches make them complete, they see them as an one to be worn or what could be the reason?

I remember trying to correct the time on my phone and I asked a lady what the time says but to my utmost surprise, she responded immediately by saying it has stopped working.

This is no longer news as the two universities have decided to re-open school for academic activities to begin. So, students from these schools should share with us their resumption experience, academic activities on campus and the state of their schools after strike.

Over to you, EBSU and AAUA students.

A comprehensive expose on how elections are rigged in the country has been unveiled by one of the insiders in the political
process and former Cross
River State Governor, Mr.
Donald Duke. Last
Wednesday at the
Transcorp Hilton Hotel,
Duke gave a blow by blow
account to a gathering of
pro-democracy advocates,
including the Save Nigeria
Group (SNG), of the modus
operandi of State Chief
Executives and Resident
Electoral Commissioners to
thwart the mandate of the
electorate, not just in
states controlled by the
Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), but all the others.
In his opinion, it is not just
a question of replacing the
Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC)
Chairman, but getting a
critical mass to come out to
vote and ensuring that
votes count.
The Guardian today delivers
excerpts of his extempore
speech:
“LET me start this way.
Professor Maurice Iwu is
truly an enigma; he enjoyed
the limelight. He enjoyed
all the attacks, thrown and
meted at him, he remained
undaunted. I think, he
belongs to the school of
thought that believes that
bad publicity is better than
no publicity. So, even
though he was being
attacked and scolded and
all sorts of things were said
about him, he didn’t shy
away from even going to
the United States and
talking to Nigerians in the
Diaspora about his work, he
didn’t shy away from it. I
was told he organized a
rally to ensure that he will
come back to do the work
he was appointed to.
Why do I call him an
enigma? The truth is, the
chairman of the
Independent National
Electoral Commission has
little or no bearing on the
success of elections, that’s
the truth. To me, it’s
actually immaterial because
he is head of the
administration he takes the
brunt. The best he can do
is perhaps, draw up a
blueprint but the
implementation of that
blueprint is outside his
control. So, if elections are
rigged in say -Taraba State-
we don’t do that stuff in
Cross Rivers State
(laughter),
Every one looks at Iwu and
he proudly says we did this
or that. Hogwash!
Let me now take you
through the process of an
election. We have a
hundred and twenty
thousand booths in Nigeria.
At the hierarchy, you have
the Chairman of INEC, then
you have the zonal
Commissioners, then you
have the Resident Electoral
Commissioners and they are
the heads in every state
the zone as the name
implies; we have six zones
in Nigeria, so you have six
of them. Then you have the
Resident Electoral
Commissioners and there
are 36 of them of course,
and Abuja. Then for each
local government, you have
an electoral officer. Beyond
that you have a hundred
and twenty thousand
polling booths, headed by
presiding officers. The
people think that at the
end of the elections, the
PDP would just decide who
wins and who doesn’t and
announces the results. I
think the process is a bit
more sophisticated than
that.
This is what happens; the
Resident Electoral
Commissioner is usually
from another state. The
electoral officers, they move
around. They are usually
from that state, but for the
conduct of elections itself,
you would probably move
from Cross River to Akwa
Ibom or to Abia, but these
musical chairs don’t mean
nothing.
When the Resident
Electoral Commissioner
comes before the elections
are conducted- of course
when he comes to the
state, usually, he has no
accommodation; monies
have not been released for
the running or conduct of
the elections and all that
because we always start
late. He pays a courtesy
call on the governor. It’s
usually a televised event
you know, and of course he
says all the right things.
‘Your Excellency, I am here
to ensure that we have free
and fair elections and I will
require your support.’
Now, at that courtesy call,
most governors, at least I
did, will invite the
Commissioner of Police
because he is part of the
action and he sits there.
After the courtesy call, the
Resident Electoral
Commissioner now moves in
for a one-on-one with the
governor the says, “Your
Excellency, since I came,
I’ve been staying in this
hotel, there is no
accommodation for me and
even my vehicle is broken
down and the last
Commissioner didn’t leave
the vehicle, so if you could
help me settle down
quickly;’ and the governor
says, ‘Chief of Staff, where
is the Chief of Staff here?’
And the Chief of Staff
appears. Governor says:
‘Please ensure that the REC
is accommodated–put him
in the Presidential lodge,
allot two cars to him, I give
you seven days to get this
done. Then the
relationship has started; I
am going to share some of
these things with you so
that we don’t leave here
with any illusions. A lot of
us, folks who have gone
through an election or have
been elected for one thing
or another, see groups like
Save Nigeria Group (SNG),
the CLP as woolly-eye
dreamers, you have to come
down to the backsides,
since I am now a hybrid
between both. I want to
bring you both down to
backsides. Let me take you
down to what happens so
that you can change it
because if you don’t
change it, we here won’t
suffer but I think of our
children will.
We the elite, I am one of
them, we send our kids to
the best schools around
the World, when they come
back they are misfits, they
cannot fit in and so
ultimately we are designing
a system that would destroy
us in the end.
Let me take our minds back
to Somalia. Somalia is
mono-religious, mono-
ethnic; they only have clans
(but) they have one tribe.
What has happened there?
It’s a failed state because
the elite in Somalia were so
disconnected from the
people that once they had
some money, they buy
houses in England,
Washington and all those
places; they were not
investing, putting their best
foot forward and I think
that was what Pastor Bakare
was talking about. If you
want to be in a contest, you
put your best foot forward;
at the end of the day, there
was such a disconnect that
even till today, they cannot
bridge it. Let me tell you,
the last recognized
President of Somalia is
buried in Lagos- Siad Barre.
We are multi-religious,
multi-ethnic and multi-
problematic. The reason
why most people worry
about us is if we explode,
who will contain us? Let me
also say this, I know what I
am saying now is an aside,
I will go back to the
elections. When we
conducted the census in
2006 or so, the raw figures
said we were over two
hundred million; when they
went and processed the
figures it came down to
140million.
When you look at those
figures and compare to
those we had in 1991 at a
growth rate of 2.1 or
something like that, it is
really just an extrapolation,
because we were too
embarrassed to admit our
true numbers. If we get it
wrong, we will fail like
Somalia; in Somalia, half of
them are in Kenya,
Ethiopia, and a few are in
Europe here and there; who
will contain us in all of
West Africa and Central
Africa and for that it is
imperative not just for
ourselves but for the rest of
the continent that we get it
right.
Now, back to the elections,
once that relationship has
been established between
the governor and the REC,
if you are a governor who is
‘A Governor’, maybe two
nights after you just pop by
at the governors lodge and
see the REC and say ah, ‘ah
REC how are you doing? Are
you OK?’ He says, ‘ah! Your
Chief of Staff has been
wonderful. He has been
very nice to me; he
supplied me the vehicles
and everything is Ok’.
A few weeks to the
elections, the REC sees the
governor; you probably
have on the average about
three thousand five
hundred, four thousand
depending on the polling
booths in every state. So,
REC goes to the governor
and says, ‘Your Excellency,
could you please give us
the names of about four,
five thousand people so
that we can hurriedly train
them, we need them as
Presiding Officers.’ You
need experience. A good
coach is one who has
played and has lost
matches in the past?
The REC now goes down
and says, ‘we need to
conduct a training
programme for the
presiding officers and em,
headquarters hasn’t sent
us any money yet, you
know.’
And the governor is like:
‘How much would that
cost?’
REC replies: ‘N25million for
the first batch, we may
have about three batches.’
Governor: ‘Ok, the Chief of
Staff will see you.’
Now, the Chief of Staff, you
call him: ‘Make sure, that
we arrange N25 million this
week and in two weeks time
another N25 million and
Seventy-Five million in all.’
Chief of Staff: ‘Your
Excellency, how do we do
it?’
Governor: ‘Put it under
Security Vote.’
In other words, its cash, ok,
now, cash in huge Ghana
Must Go bags – some of my
colleagues will shoot me-
(turns to the audience) is
any former governor here?
(Crowd replies no!)
Good. Cash is lodged in
huge Ghana Must Go Bags
for the REC and of course,
to be fair to them, they call
their electoral officers and
say the governor has been
very benevolent; he has
given us this and that. I
say three batches because
they have them in
Senatorial districts. So, you
have one in Calabar, you
have One in Ikom and
Ogoja, those are the
headquarters of the
Senatorial districts. Each
one costs twenty-five
million. Of course, the
sums are not properly
retired. I don’t know how
much of this twenty-five
million worked. But, there
is a rapport this is going
on.
The governor now turns
round and says: ‘call me
the party chairman.’ The
party chairman appears and
the governor says: ‘INEC
requires 50 thousand
people for conducting the
elections. See to it that we
meet their needs.’ The
chairman goes and you
hear in the evening on
radio and television: There
will be an urgent meeting
of all chairmen and
secretaries of XYZ party at
the headquarters. They
should report promptly at
10am (because) matters of
urgent interest will be
discussed. End of
announcement. Now we
have texts messages, so its
easier, in no time everyone
is here.
It’s a very short meeting,
please go back and within
48 hours submit from each
local government two
hundred and fifty names of
trusted party members. So
in a week the deed is
done. The names,
sometimes even passport
photographs if required are
sent to INEC.
And the training
programme is carried out.
Let me pause a bit, this is
at party level. They are
usually civil servants. They
may be teachers, whatever,
but they are party
members. The
remuneration, for each of
them for the elections from
Abuja is 10,000 Naira for
the day’s work. But the
state in its benevolence
gives 50 to 100,000 Naira to
each of these folks right
before this election.
This is even where it gets
even more interesting. So,
you have each of the three
or four thousand polling
booths; they are manned
by party stalwarts. They are
usually party stalwarts. You
don’t send any peripheral
member. The remuneration
from Abuja has not arrived
but that of the state was
received 48 hours prior.
On the day of elections,
each polling booth has no
more than five hundred
ballot papers, that is
standard.
There is not a polling
booth that is more than
five hundred. So only two
hundred people appear
here, three hundred there,
one hundred there, fifty
there, four hundred there,
at the end of election what
happens. The Presiding
Officer sits down and calls
a few guys and says, ‘hey,
there are a few hundred
papers here, let’s
thumbprint. This is the real
election. Well, this is not a
PDP thing. I am not here to
castigate the PDP; it’s a
Nigerian thing. This process
may sound comical and
jovial, it happens
throughout the country,
whether its Action Congress
or APGA it’s the same
thing. We are all the same.
They start thumb-printing,
some are overzealous. So at
the end of the day you find
some voting more than the
number of people that were
registered to vote.
Other wise they do it, you
have 95 percent turnout.
You start wondering where
were the voters, I didn’t
see so many people. And
the election results are
announced; XYZ party wins
and it takes a week for this
paltry ten thousand Naira
for each presiding officer to
arrive.

Source: http://mobile.saharareporters.com/report/must-read-how-governors-rig-elections-donald-duke-guardian

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theoctopus: It is not the job of government to create jobs. Government's job is to create the enabling environment for companies to thrive

Please ,that's a wrong view you are trying to sell to all. The duty of our government is to both create an enabling environment fit for investors to operate in and also create jobs for the masses.

The present situation faced by our country, Nigeria is one where our government shift responsiblities to private bodies, Nitel, Nepa, even water corporation (to an extent) are dead all thanks to our government which in a way has resulted to loss of job. My question is what then does the government stand to offer the masses?

Please I urge us all to look at the Bible critically before posting anything. 1 John 5:7 says For there are three that bears record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. End of Discussion.

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What do we say of those with 2-3 bank account? Will it be a thumb for the three account or one finger to each account?

Whichever the case might be, if robbers catch person, omo na die be that....lol

How many of you feel this year's gulder ultimate search was aimed at favouring Ify, from Chidi to the background voice. If you notice the pre-final search - the search for the map, I believe there wasn't any form of fairness in it, as How do you determine that the two paths are of the same distance? It was a calculated way of evicting one of the guys, as if the race was on just one path with everyone conscious of the other, the three guys will qualify but with the way it was done, it only gives chance for one to the conscious of just the.other person. Anyway, before I begin to receive knocks it's just my view and besides there is no hatred or dislike for Ify as she really gave it.her best.

Congratz Dennis Okike, the ultimate man.

99/100:
What is there to escalate that ASUU has not escalated already?
I stand for No work no pay.Or better still mass sacking of some lecturers so as to sanitize d university system.

Sometimes you need to calm down in order not to allow emotions take control of your judgement. Honestly, if there was mass sacking as you stated what will become of the system, sanitised? I don't think so. Already, aren't we having brain drain in the system? Most of the lecturers are leaving the federal and state schools for the private while some have left Nigeria for other countries, all in the name of comfort and better pay. The system needs to be motivated. Shouldn't you ask yourself why lecturers keep on going on strike? Shouldn't you ask why the government waited till the lecturers embarked on strike? Shouldn't you ask why our universities are no where to be found in the world ranking despite products of the system doing fine internationally? Shouldn't you ask why corruption is exalted in this nation while sanity is thrown in the dust bin? I should go on and on but let me remind you our government can't be trusted any longer.

It's so sad seeing ASUU as the victim and our insincere government as the just one. I still don't know what waits us in the future, if we can't get little things right, now. ::-(