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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Seems you don't get it. People like Obi are economic gurus. They understand financial management. How to handle failed, run downed entities and bring them pass the green line.
Now, you have to understand, an entity that is in debt, failed will first have to be revived, just as a sick malnourish, almajeri is first given a bath, then fed.
Anambra was in debt, Peter cut expenses, paid all the debt, including pension of over 35b. Then faced important issues such as education, healthcare which is the foundation. Don't say he his not build basic infrastructure such as roads etc to open up communities to make trade thrive. Peter laid the foundation and then left money in savings.
Unfortunately 8 years is the tenure for a governor. In every business after stabilization, you then spend on infrastructure. Obi stabilized anambra financially and had to leave after 8 years of which obiano took over. He took over a vertically debt free state with sound account balance to be able to then complement the development of the state.
But you must know that he over blew it as the state is now drifting towards the debt pit.
You spend on infrastructure but as in any business you maintain your debt/ credit balance.
You as a businessman, will you have eg 20m in your account and use 20m to build your house?
Obi will rather save 20m and use 5m to build the house. Grow the balance to 40m and use 10m to complete the house. That is how you grow things!
We are not aboki that will chop all today and say Allah will provide for tommorow!

Are you a student of uniben?

Denkpology:
This is what Igbo men are doing in the South West

Oga, Igbos will be and continue to be in the south west. This is Nigeria and Lagos was once the capital of the country, now the commercial capital.
Either you like it or not, you personally cannot go to eg iyana ipaja, ayobo, Ikeja, lekki and point at a land to gbesele! Claiming to be a Yoruba man! Heavy slap will wake you up!
You must pay to get land just as any other Nigerian and you know what cash is king!
Let you "akin" and "okoro" go and contest for a nice plot of land in lekki etc. You meet with the seller "tunde" and offer 500k, okoro offers 2m. I assure you okoro will be sold that land! Vice versa.
So all these your SW talk to an extent is bull. Nigeria is a free country. And if you don't like it, move to Benin Republic!

ayoolataiwo:
I don't get it,ain't we in the same continent with this same set of brains.The only our naija politicians know best is how to milk dry our country perfectly.I swear we're far behind in this country.This administration really draw us back by 50years.We need to liberaliberate ourselves from this backwardness

Egypt raised electricity production to ove 20,000 in few years. We are still at less than 3000, despite billions and many years.
"Are we cursed or are we the cause"
That is what this aspirant I watched asked that got me thinking.
If you are chanced kindly watch this interview with an open mind.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1MBePKIfI0

beejay85:
Sadly irrespective of his age,he will claim assylum..for possible political persecution..
FFK's article a few weeks ago is enough evidence that the political class "will be waiting for that stupid boy to enter Naija"
So assylum is sure for him

Asylum after lies? I doubt it as he has lost all credibility. He will be deported or at best giving asylum in the recent arrangement with Rywanda

FreeStuffsNG:
Hmmm. This article below is a reminder again. Do not outsource your role as a father.


EKWEREMADU: Between Fatherhood and Ambition


I recall having this conversation with my wife during the week when the case of Sen. Ike Ekweremadu came up and I was completely in an incandescent shock that this man actually has a sick daughter yet has been all over the place attending political meetings for his political ambition instead of taking time out from the highly demanding world of politics to sort out his daughter's pressing health needs.


He was all over the place during the PDP  primaries, he lost the PDP gubernatorial primaries for Enugu state then started planning to decamp to APGA, then APC , reportedly taken to APC national Chairman by HE Uzodinma, Imo state Governor, when APC stalwarts in Enugu APC, led by their state APC Chairman, Chief Ugochukwu Agballah, outrightly rejected him. 

He eventually lost and , unlike previous election cycles, Senator Ekweremadu is not returning to the Nigerian Senate.He lost on all the political fronts.


Sen. Ike Ekweremadu was all over the place so much that it appeared like he did not follow through on the health and lifestyle choices of his children.


He did not follow through on what I believe is more important than his political ambition; the life of his daughter and a family at the low ebb of the apprehension of losing a child  to kidney failure.


Ike Ekeremadu was so consumed by his political ambition that he had no time and seriousness to do due diligence and background check on the character they got him as a donor for his daughter , I doubt if with his PhD, he even had the time to follow through and read up to ask the right questions from the professionals,  understand the risks and benefits of why it could be better for one member of his family of six to donate to the daughter instead of a stranger and seek help to find out if there are some of the tests which can be done on the stranger here in Nigeria before bundling a total stranger overseas. 


He was so consumed by politics that when the 22-year old donor went rogue and was allegedly scheming behind him to deny his age and report Ike and family to UK police, it probably escaped his detection and intervention soon enough so he can be the first to report to UK police and then return the donor to Nigeria for him to immediately restart the process of getting alternative donor(s) for his ailing daughter whose life was more important to him.


He forgot that he was first a father and husband before becoming a Senator,Deputy Senate President and SSG. 

He forgot that he will finish as a father and husband.


I compared Senator Ekweremadu to Joe Biden and I believe that he could have followed the Biden example. Then in 2015 , US Vice President Biden had a dying son and had the opportunity to contest in his party's primaries to emerge against Trump for the US Presidency but Biden stepped down from that race in order to support his dying son.


At a point, Biden was to sell his family house before Barack Obama intervened and offered to pay for the treatment. Biden's boy made his Dad promise him that no matter what happens, Biden must not give up his life long ambition to be US President, Biden's boy, Beau Biden later died. Biden grieved without the guilt of abandoning his son for his political ambition.


 In 2021, years after his son had passed on , Biden contested and won. There are many Nigerian politicians (and professionals) who will do like Biden but not like Ike.   


Family is so important that we even need the approval of a sick dying one before we place anything above their life


That is the lesson Ike missed and was almost about to lose from both ends as his wife who takes care of the daughter remains in prison until July 7 and now August 4.      


Last two Sundays ago was Father's Day , I really truly hope that fathers used that day to reflect and understand the real responsibility of fatherhood. It is the hardest job for a man but it gives the greatest reward if you do your best at it.


As a father , I have realized that it is not possible to outsource that role of a father and not pay heavy fines.  


May God heal that Ike Ekweremadu's daughter and may God help the Ike Ekweremadu family in this their difficult time. I know it is a difficult place for them. 

May God help all fathers to realise that "your child is your responsibility". 


That you pay all the bills and have a devoted and responsible wife/mother of your child won't still make up for your negligence. 


Your child is your responsibility and not even your ambition can replace what you will miss if you neglect your role in the life of your child. 


This a lesson to all fathers: Do not behave like Senator Ike Ekweremadu who was literally chasing rats around the house when his house was on fire.


May God help us all to succeed and may our children not develop kidney failure. May our labour of love and sacrifice be rewarded in our life time and when we are long gone, Amen.
Sunkanmi Vaughan is a Lagos-based Pharmacist and Author.

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Whats your point? He should stop all he is doing because his daughter is sick? Is he the doctor to treat her that he will abandon all to stay with her in the hospital?
Assuming he had resigned from the senate or absenteed himself, you will still talk! This is a case of left or right, he is wrong in your eyes.
You have no right to judge him, I rather we all face our own personal matters, as he faces his.

Moni must lost naa, no be naija again

1stGenAmerican:
Lies. It depends on if there is an Extradition Treaty and the capacity of that treaty. Do proper research, the US complies with extradition orders all the damned time. If I go to a country that has an extradition order with the US and commit crime(s) and return home, once the other country charges me with the crimes and contacts US authorities, they’ll hunt my ass down and hold me in Federal Custody while the country I committed the crime in arranges to transfer me to their custody.

You guys should read a book and educate yourselves instead of repeating things that you see other uninformed people type on this board. You’re spreading ignorance that yet another uninformed person will see and repeat, leading to a large population of uninformed/misinformed people.

You seem to be either naive or ignorant.
I'd suggest you read about US double standard rule. Better still the Anne Sacoolas issue between the US and its strongest ally, the UK.

heendrix:
I look at folks campaigning for Atiku, Tinubu and Obi and I just laugh, especially OBIdient folks who are the most violent

y'all campaigning for these men should just get a life and come to the reality of the fact that these demons don't intent to release power especially now that the voice of "it's the South's turn" is becoming massive and is sweeping thr the nation. And there you have bandits freeing more foot soldiers, then to the incessant kidnappings and collection of ransom in multi millions and y'all campaigning feels all is gonna go well 2023??

Y'all should rather channel that energy into learning basic weapon handling and shooting skills so you don't looseguard and are caught unaware

Wonderful!!
On a lighter note, where will your proposed weapons come from? Abi we should calve sticks to the shape of weapons, maybe take toy guns from our kids? Or we should learn how to handle guns from watching Rambo, better still learn how to wash and clean weapons from YouTube.
Or you know where they sell? If you do whisper it here.
On a serious note, gov will never give Nigerians the license to own weapons.

Pastor don de pass em boundry ohh

I hear boffins have 1 mouth, 2 eyes, 2 ears, just as any normal person.
But when you see or hear them, you know what they are.

This man na Nigerian?

Na wah.
Any Nigerian child that finds his way into the UK system should run very very far from trouble. Seems they don't appreciate the advantage they have. Millions of Nigerian youths will gladly take their place and excel, Expecially those from very poor homes that will never have the opportunity to show their potentials.
Hope the charges against this young fellows are are revisited. It will be a waste of academic excellence they seem to have.

This Reno is truelly jobless.
Folks should just ignore him.

Axis313:
It's still unbelievable that a country headed by a retired military head of state is at the mercy of bandits and terrorists.
Nigeria has never had it this worse,security wise under previous administrations,it's a mystery how the man attain the level of Major General in the army.
For the bandits/terrorists to have the audacity to attack the president's convoy meant the common man is on his own,our security is in the hands of God.
Assuming that if baba was in the convoy,na so those bandits go just delete am.His nonchalant attitude is what is giving those idiots audacity to cause may hem and now,it is happening to him.

Bros, any gov that wants to tackle the issue of security can dow that and succeed swiftly.
Will this rubbish have happened during the babangida, abacha or objs time? Even during Jonathans time, this wount have happened!
Afterall, when Jonathan saw things were getting out of hand with Boko Haram (possibly instigated by those that said an attack on Boko was an attack on the north), what did he do? Jonathan brought in executive outcomes south Africa to deal with the menace! Within 1 month of their offensive, the recovered territory the size of Belgium form Boko Haram! Our troops were then placed to hold recovered land.
But of course baba and apc canceleled the contract saying it was a disgrace to Nigeria army, that he will lead from the front.
Anyway, hopefully when Tinubu enters next year, he will solve the problem of insecurity by recruiting 50m youths into the army, feed them agbado in the morning, cassava and garri in the afternoon and then kunu and fura in the evening. Voila! Problem solved!

blazingblender:
Seems we should start arming ourselves

Goverment go gree?
Anyway, I have my sharp cutlass, one by my bed and the other in my booth.
At all at all na em bad.

kponkedenge:
You'd be surprised that if a competent administration enters, you'd find out that this figures they are claiming here isn't even as close to what we are actually spending on the subsidy itself.

I keep saying that EFCC isn't doing enough to curb the out-of-control corruption going on in this Buhari's administration.

If we are lucky enough to have another party aside APC win the 2023 elections, the level of corruption that will be uncovered in this administration will be jaw dropping.

Bros now the corruption now knows no bounds. Free for all chopping is what is going on, why? oga at the top seems to be ignorant, unconcerned or overwhelmed.
Those days when the chop, they hid it from public eyes. I know one man that chopped then, nigger never painted his house. Fear will even catch some to chop because of the though that authorities will come for them later.
The reverse is the case now, imaging a sitting agf, cbn gov, ministers etc paying 100m, 50m etc in the open, without fear!
Eg, What work has amechi done since he was odilis houseboys till date to enable him pay 100m?

Him don go do busy bodi for Senegal while bandits de ravage kuje

CommonSense1967:
Very funny, but you didn't say this when you were asking Buhari to extradite Abba Kiary...

Thanks for you compliment ie being funny.
I will never advocate for a Nigerian, African or anyone else to be extradited to the US. Never!
Why? The US is heavily biased, they boss, intimidate others to, but will never send their citizens to other countries.
Will America extradite a US citizen to Nigeria?
Even the US lady that killed a young boy riding his bike in the UK was not extradited. No us citizen was sent to Iraq for trial despite all the proven murders.

Holdup!!
Is kuje not in Abuja?
What stops them from storming the villa?

CommonSense1967:
Allen Oyenma is a wanted man, but Buhari is protecting him because his a Fulani.
And the Nigerian press is complicit in their silence on this criminal.
meth cannibals won't talk about this one..

Just as George Bush is a wanted man, infact all American presidents and their staff are wanted people. Ask Iran, Iraq and many other countries their judiciary have made pronouncements on.

Vulturereloaded:
What exactly is the offense? This is just like using BTA forex meant for traveling to do business. Its still your money.

Worst case scenario, they seize the money in the company account.

Seems only you understand from all the comments I have seen.

Godoverevery:
If you were clean your father won't negotiate with them rather he will come to the station with a lawyer.

It very easy to know fraudulent people they are always scared to there balls when they see policemen.

Am very sure this a young boy who is into crypto investment promising people ROI....fraud

A pastor giving bribe to policemen......the boy is so foolish and ridiculing his father by posting this.

You possibly do not live in Nigeria, you don't have grown kids or you are simply naive.
Any wise Nigerian parent will do exactly what his father did, first to Save his sons life, after life is secured, you can then go after the hoodlums aka police officers.
One very big man once told me that at police checkpoints back in the day, he behaved himself like a mumu, why? Before he would call his paddy who was then head of state ie babangida, the police and soldiers on the road would have dealt with him already! Abiola learnt the hard way!
In the present Nigeria, never drag with police with guns especially if you are alone. Many have lost their lives!
Survive that moment you don't have the advantage, then come back for them.

Maforgreats:
for this case, It seems it's scam POS merchants

I first thought so, but on further Enquiry, he has never patronized pos merchants. Besides on their campus, they have only 1 pos operator(He has never patronized). It will be folly for the lone pos to start defrauding students as it will be too obvious.

As in you earn 10k per month?
What state is this?

Two02:
Safety is very important I don't understand how a primary school would have a swimming pool, I've never bought the idea. They might say it's for physical and health education and development, but it doesn't change the fact that sufh idea is a very foolish one, even as an adult I'm so scared of water bodies, it scares the hell out of me, I wouldn't lie.

If I were to advice swimming lessons should be for teenagers and not five year olds. The swimming instructors must be dealt with for their negligence to duty. This is a very terrible incident. I don't understand why teachers of nowadays are so negligent.

Besides that I believe primary schools shouldn't have swimming facilities. I won't allow my child play in the bathtub talkless of swimming pool. Even if primary schools where to have swimming pools there should be an instructor there, I don't even support primary schools having storey building structures talkless of swimming pools

Thats your choice. The school I am associated with has a pool and that is one of the attractions of the school.
Infact when swimming classes are missed due to eg rainfall, cold weather, parents complain bitterly, the kids are also upset.
The issue here is that of safety. The pool is located in the open, in front of the school in plain view, it is gated. There is a professional swimming instructor with his assistant that takes the classes. Asides that teaching assistants are always on ground to monitor the swimming pupils.

Laughable.
Kids here in naija have not gotten admission, it is now those from abroad that will get?
I thought Russia offered them opportunity to continue on the mainland?

Fews weeks ago, my pikin at school received alert, all the money in his account had been wiped out! As he was a lamenting, 2 other students entered his room shouting that their accounts has been cleared too!
3 different banks, but the common factor is that all the transactions were done at "Apple store". Ie online, possibly to buy gift cards, itune etc.
We blocked his account. One of the other students went to the bank to complain, his mother meanwhile sent him small money to hold body. As he got to the bank to complain, the bank asked him if he had done a new withdrawal, he said now. Haba! The crooks had taken the small kudi the mother sent again!
How do these fraudsters know when a deposit is made into the account that they are able to take it out before the owner?
Anyway, the only way they got my son's account is possibly one of their hall mates took pictures of the front and back of their cards, sent it to his person to carry out the fraud.
Guys if possible, scratch out one 2 or 3 numbers from you atm card, or at worse use tape to mask your numbers.

When he bends his mouth to the left, know he is about to unleash a monumental lie.

Greattestman:
My youngest sister is about 16-year-old.She was raped by a neighbough who's in his 30s.

We all went to church but she came home early to cook.This man called her into his room and unwear her dresses, all her struggles were to no avail.The case is with the police right now but I'm pissed.

Report at the gender unit at CP office if you are in Lagos.
Has the police taken her to general hospital for test? That ought to happen immediately, to build up a case. Secondly, the fact that she is 16 means she is a minor, that is major case apart from the rape!
Furthermore, you need to make sure she is administered pep. Ie at general hospital, she has to be administerd pep against hiv incase the man has the virus.
You are working against time because pep should be taken immediately, if it stays more than 24-48 hrs it will not work!
It will be given to her free of charge.
Oboy, get up for your sis asap! Make sure she gets pep.

juman:
The woman can sue him and get money.
If he fail to present evidence to court.
But the man should be able to bring just one text message between them to prove his case.

Hmm, 90% of cases in naija that require suing is not worth it.
A honest lawyer that does not want to just chop your money will advice you better.
Ok, assuming the woman sues the man, ie 2 poor people possibly without valuable assets. How do you claim your awarded damages? Besides how will they pay lawyer?
Even while suing companies, better lawyer will ask you if it is a company with viable assets, eg factory premises they own office complex, about the owners etc. Not briefcase company that can disappear at the blink of an eye.