chatinent: Markurdi is a place to be. It is the capital of Benue state in Nigeria. It is said to be The Food basket of the Nation.
. [img]http://3.bp..com/-iPod9XK9oMw/UESbInC4erI/AAAAAAAACsA/EmkndQ0Hb0A/s1600/farmnet.jpg[/img] . While coming, you will experience these things: . 1. You will notice they still use mud huts. It's cultural. Their mud houses are round shaped and a bit dwarfy to normal house sizes. . 2. They sell only roast yam along. You will find people selling roast yam along, they'd be pursuing you to buy it like tomorrow were history. . 3. Garri market. I wonder if this is where they supply garri from to the world. They are good in garri production. You'd notice they sell it much. . 4. A police check-point with a military personnel. If you are studious, you will notice almost all police check-points have a military personnel accompanied with them. Maybe, to curb disobedience. You know, the Nigerian police force are not respected here in Nigeria. . 5. It looks deserted. The environs look like what Moses trekked in the Bible, no wonder he had to take off his shoes. . When you are in Markurdi, you must experience these:. .
6. Pigs are domesticated. Pigs are domestic animals over there, they go around like pets. . 7. You use pigs to pay dowry. Reliable sources confirmed that in parts of Markurdi, pigs are used as part of paying a woman's dowry. . 8. You must meet sb who speaks your language. Yes, it's true. Markurdi is in central Nigeria, therefore, almost all tribes may be found there. . 9. Admiration. Seriously, they admire new comers easily! Little wonder I made many friends! . 10. Seems peaceful. The place is serene. Well, let's say the place I stayed. . 11. Phantom Thieves. We were cautioned that they have spirit thieves who would deal your valueable; I mean, Mr Nobodies. Well, theft is everywhere. . Origin:http://chatinent.com.ng/index.php?act=ST&f=46&t=449&st=0#entry892 .
Dont ever write what you say in Nos 3 again. Don't let the Ijebus attack you.
BlueBrothers: The recent directive by the Nigerian Communications Commission that all telecoms operators must henceforth give a 14-day window to subscribers, after the expiration of their monthly data subscriptions, to exhaust their unused data bundle before rolling over, is a regulatory directive that would excite many Nigerians. Emma Okonji reports
There are myriads of complaints from telecoms subscribers that service providers do not give them enough time to exhaust their monthly data subscription plans before they are either disconnected or forced to roll over the excess data bundle to the next month after purchasing another monthly data plan. To address this concern, the Nigerian Communications Commission recently issued a directive to the telecoms operators.
‘Year of Telecoms Consumers’
NCC, the telecoms industry regulator, penultimate week, issued a directive that all telecoms operators must allow a 14-day window, after the expiration of the 30 days data plan, to enable subscribers completely use their current monthly data subscription plans, before rolling over the unused data to the next month after purchasing a new monthly data plan. The decision of NCC to address the ubiquitous complaint by subscribers is in line with its resolve to always protect the interest of telecoms consumers. The resolve followed the regulatory body’s declaration of 2017 as the year of telecoms consumers.
Although the directive may likely affect the revenue stream of telecoms operators, especially the smaller operators, they have no choice but to comply with the regulatory directive. This is more so as no service provider would want to violate the regulator’s directive, for fear of sanction.
Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Professor Umar Garba Danbatta, penultimate week, directed all telecoms operators in the country to henceforth give customers a 14-day grace period to exhaust their remaining data after the expiration of the 30 days validity period for monthly data subscriptions. The monthly data subscriptions of all the telecommunications operators in the country give customers a 30-day period to exhaust their subscriptions or rollover unused data by subscribing for another 30 days data before the expiration of the previous one.
Danbatta gave the directive in Minna, capital of Niger State, during a telecoms consumer forum organised by the NCC. He was represented at the event by Hellen Obi.
Danbatta advised the consumers to call NCC on the toll-free line, 622, if their complaints were not resolved by their network providers, assuring them that the commission will take up the matter and resolve it, where the operators failed to do so.
“NCC has mandated all network providers to give their subscribers 14 days of grace after the 30 days expiration of their data, if they still have data left and cannot recharge, to get their data rolled over,” Obi said.
According to Obi, “The commission, which is the independent regulatory authority for the telecommunications industry in Nigeria, declared year 2017 as the year of the telecoms consumer in recognition of the importance of the consumer to the phenomenal growth and development in the telecoms sector.
“The year of telecom consumer, which was formally launched by Danbatta, is in tandem with the 8-point agenda of the commission, aimed at protecting, educating, and empowering consumers towards ensuring sustainable growth and further development in the telecom sector.”
Obi said the consumers’ forum was organised around the country to educate consumers on their rights and privileges in the relationship with their service providers.
She revealed that the NCC had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Central Bank of Nigeria, which mandated the CBN to advise the banks on enlightenment of their customers on fake messages that often requested them to send their bank verification numbers or account details.
Equal Protection
Looking at the implication of the NCC’s directive on data rollover and the 14 days window, Chairman of the Association of Licensed Telecoms Operators of Nigeria, Gbenga Adebayo, said the telecoms service providers had to comply with the directive, since it is a regulatory directive. Adebayo, however, raised some salient points, which in his views, must be addressed by the NCC to protect the telecoms operators from running at a loss, just the same way NCC is protecting telecoms consumers from what is perceived by many as the excesses of telecoms operators.
“Telecoms operators have no choice than to comply with the directive, but the bottom line is that NCC is protecting the consumers at the detriment of the service providers, in relation to the 14 days compulsory window for data rollover,” Adebayo said. “The smaller operators will definitely lose money in the process because they spend so much money to maintain their networks.”
He explained that the NCC needed to understand the large number of subscribers that would benefit from the directive, who usually have unused data at the end of the initial 30 days validity period of their data bundle subscriptions.
According to Adebayo, “Directives of this nature will underscore the importance of the data floor price that was suspended by NCC, following complaints from the same telecoms subscribers that the NCC is protecting. In protecting the telecoms consumers, NCC must also balance the situation by revisiting the suspended data floor price, which seeks to fix a new price cap for data services across networks.”
He said if NCC must enforce the 14 days window on data rollover, it should also consider the reintroduction of the suspended data floor price in order to cushion the effect of the loss of revenue that operators would face based on the directive.
Data Floor Price
Data price floor is one of the regulatory safeguards normally put in place by the telecommunications regulator to check anticompetitive practices, particularly, by the dominant operators. It is a minimum price on data services as stipulated by government or the regulator.
Giving reason why it was introduced in the first instance, Director, Public Affairs at NCC, Mr. Tony Ojobo, said the introduction of price floor for data services in the country was to address market distortions, unhealthy price wars and value erosion that could threaten the concerns of the service providers.
NCC had on November 1, 2016 written to the mobile network operators on the determination of an interim price floor for data services after a stakeholder’s consultative meeting on October 19, 2016. As at November 1, 2016, the industry average for data tariff floor for dominant operators, including, MTN Nigeria Communications Limited, EMTS Limited (Etisalat), now 9mobile, and Airtel Nigeria Limited, was N0.53k/MB. But the interim price floor as introduced by NCC, which was to commence with effect from December 1, 2016, seeks to increase the industry average for data tariff from 53k/MB to 90k/MB.
But the smaller operators/new entrants, like Smile Communications, Spectranet, and ntel, charged different rates. Smile Communications charged N0.84k/MB, Spectranet charged N0.58k/MB and ntel charged N0.72k/MB.
Considering the initial rate of 45k/MB, which MTN charged, and the new rate of N90k/MB, as contained in the interim floor price for data services, which was supposed to take effect from December 1, 2016, MTN went ahead to inform its over 61 million subscribers that it would increase data tariff with effect from December 1, 2016. The information to MTN subscribers, which was sent via Short Message Service, otherwise known as text message, raised a lot of dust among subscribers across networks, who started calling on NCC and the operators to rescind the decision on data tariff hike.
Following the complaints from subscribers, NCC decided to suspend any further action in that direction till date.
Adebayo says if NCC must enforce the 14 days window on data rollover, it should also revisit the suspended data floor price, which seeks to increase data tariff.
Need to Protect Telecom Consumers
Protecting telecoms consumers has been the utmost priority of the regulator, little wonder NCC declared 2017 as the year of the telecoms consumers. The commission has vowed to protect the consumers.
While launching the year of telecoms consumers in Lagos a few months ago, Danbatta said consumers were the reason for the great feat attained in the telecoms industry since the inception of Global System for Mobile Communications in 2001. He said consumers had spent their hard earned monies to pay for telecoms services over the years and they are the reason why the operators are still in business.
Danbatta said he would do everything possible to protect the consumers, which, obviously, is behind the 14 days window for data rollover, among other incentives for telecoms subscribers.
Topgainer: Most likely he was taken to the mortuary alive but unconscious and regained consciousness there just as they brought the body for embalming. They cannot resurrect any dead mosquito let alone a dead person. They should take the prayers to the other corpses at the mortuary. Subject that jamboree to thorough investigation and see the claim to the resurrection of the dead Wokoma David, fail woefully. Even the wife knew her husband was sleeping but the church marketers so quick to attribute the powers that Prophet Ibiyeomie lacked to his ministry are there in their numbers promoting the franchise. T.B. Joshua with all the powers he professes performed a stunt on a 'dead' man in his Church but the clips proved beyond doubt it was staged. Since then, he never replayed that clip and he has not staged another like that one.
The operatives of Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested four members of two fraud syndicates operating in Ikeja, Maryland, Ojodu-Berger, Agege and Oshodi parts of the metropolis.
The members of the syndicates, three male and a female were arrested in two separate cases of fraud on Thursday and Saturday in Ikeja and Oshodi.
The first group, comprising of Chinasa Sunday, 44 and Osadebe Aigbe 30, were arrested in Ikeja after several days of being under the surveillance of RRS Undercover team for defrauding a lady of the sum of N85,000.00.
Their victim, Grace Enitan, had reported at the RRS Headquarters that a syndicate of four men picked her up in a taxi and duped her of N85,000.00 while she was heading to Ikeja.
Investigations revealed that Chinasa Sunday and Osadebe Aigbe were involved in the scam while their ring-leader, identified as Martin is on the run.
The victim In their confessional statement to the Decoy team of RRS headquarters after their arrest identified the two suspects and their respective roles in the scam.
Chinasa while pleading for leniency explained that he joined the syndicate after losing his job in February, 2017. He explained that they picked up the suspect in Olowopopo Way, Ikeja, adding that her role was to monitor their victims while the scam lasted.
The second syndicate members were arrested yesterday after a failed bid to swindle a food seller of over N120,000 and dispossess her of her jewelry in Oshodi.
The victim, identified as Rukayat Aderinwale was accosted and hypnotised by a syndicate of five members before dispossessing her of a purse containing N120,000.00 and her mobile phone.
They were leading her away to another location when the lady regained her consciousness and called out to RRS officers stationed nearby.
The officer arrested one Sunday Atanda, 56, living in 13, Pero Street, Agege and a 58 year old Fausat Tijani, a pure water seller in Akala, Mushin, while three other members of the syndicate escaped.
In his confession to the police, Atanda gave the names of other syndicate members as Kayode, Shina and Lateef. He added that the syndicate only operated on the road.
He stressed that what they wanted to achieve was to dispossess the mother of three of her money, phone and jewel. He maintained that he joined the team to raise money to feed his family.
He disclosed that the team operated in Agege and Oshodi, adding that Lateef is their ring-leader and he dictated when and where the syndicate would operate every day.
Confirming the development, Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Olarinde Famous-Cole said that the command is reinvigorated to make Lagos inhabitable for criminals.
He added that investigation is on-going to arrest other syndicate members.
WHO IS A SLAY QUEEN? A slay queen is a girl with brains & not the one with heavy make up on. She is not the one who seeks for attention on social media. She is the one who uses tenses correctly and appropriately. Not the one that has to shorten every word because she doesn't know how to spell. She is a girl with a skill... She is the girl who respects her relationship or marriage. She is never heard but seen . You know her from what she does and not what she says. She is not the most expensively dressed but she is the most decently dressed. A slay queen respects the sanity of womanhood. She carries herself with much dignity. Having so many likes on your pictures doesnt make you a slay queen, wearing heavy makeups doesn't make you a slay queen, looking like a flower girl, a dog or a polio victim doesn't make you a slay queen either. Most of these so called Snapchat/IG girls are empty inside. They keep on regretting a lot about their past but pretend to be happy outside their home. Stop boasting about the number of men that want you, stop boasting about the number of likes/ reactions you get on your pictures, stop boasting about the number of followers you have on IG, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat et al. Remember that cheap articles have more buyers. Build yourself into the woman that people will always respect and admire. Never follow the crowd but be yourself. Be bold but humble, be Godly, be hard working, respect your relationship or marriage, be ambitious but contented, dont make men your priority in life but build yourself into the woman that men will always want to take home to their mama , not the one they only want to take to hotels and clubs. Don't allow the number of likes, reactions and followers on your social media platform validate your existence. Trust me, if you just trap a man with your body, he will go one day because more pretty girls are becoming adults on a daily basis. Let men fall for your personality and not your bedmatics. No, I'm not saying being trendy is trashy, but do you also slay in your academics? Did your boobs get you grades or your brains? Having a selling point is good, but let that selling point be that which can never go out of fashion. Let it be something that will always attract the right kind of people with corresponding attitudes to you.
easyboss1: The bad state of the Lagos/Abeokuta expressway has posed more threat to lives, businesses and economy than doing them any good. In an exclusive report on the state of the road on Saturday Dailyfamily show to you, the stress families are facing on a daily basis.
One of the dividends of democracy is to enjoy some basic social amenities and infrastructural provisions and in the event where a ruling government is not meeting up to the provision of the needed infrastructural need as promised in election manifestoes or as enshrined in the Constitution, then there may be the need to ask questions.
The dilapidated state of the Lagos/Abeokuta Expressway has been of a major concern to families, workers and business owners commuting the road on a daily basis. The fact that it is a link road connecting two states in the southwestern region of the country is a good reason why it should be considered a major project. But as at the time of this report, it is in a wrecked state which now calls for an urgent intervention of the federal government.
According to the United nation’s Millennium development goals, the environment must be sustainable and aid the commuting of human goods and services hence the stressed need to ensure this road is fixed.
The bad state of this Federal government road is gradually getting worse as the days unfold. Although a look at a recent appearance before the Senate, of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the honourable Minister for Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola said the Lagos, Ota- Abeokuta Expressway will be considered for dualization. But then, extending beyond the second quarter of the year, this promises seems to be a long and awaited one.
The increasing menace the road is causing and the huge economic returns been loosed to the bad state of the road has even caused concerns for traders commuters and transporters.
In this exclusive report with DailyFamily a transporter plying the Ifo area of Ogun state to Iyana Ipaja axis of Lagos state that the resulting effect of the bad road has been more of a loss to them than gain.
In his word he said.
“The bad state of the road has reduced the number of trips we go per day. Instead of going three trips per day, some of us have reduced it to two. He further stated that the bad state of the Sango Otta road caused some people to get to their final destination at 12 midnight last Friday and it shouldn’t be like that”.
Further stating how important the road is to his survival the transporter who pleaded anonymity said;
“This road is our source of livelihood, and when the road is bad, there will be an increase in transport fare”.
He also added that;
“The bad state of the road is a threat to pregnant women as the potholes affect the well-being of their pregnant state”.
In another chat with a vegetable trader who identified herself as Mrs Adegbola, she said the traffic congestion is too much. and it affects customers from getting to patronize them on time while some eventually wouldn’t show up at all due to the unbearable stress encountered on the road. She further stated that hold-up at Iyana Ilogbo and Owode side of the road is just too much up to the extent that walking becomes difficult and at times to cross to the other side of the road likewise becomes an issue”
“It affects customers from getting to patronize us on time while some eventually wouldn’t show up at all due to the unbearable stress encountered on the road. She further stated that hold-up at Iyana Ilogbo and Owode side of the road is just too much up to the extent that walking becomes difficult and at times to cross to the other side of the road likewise becomes an issue”.
Another trader, Mrs Oluwaseunfunmi stated that while the road was in its good form there were many sales but whenever rain falls, sales automatically drops.
ollaxworld: Because none of them ever practiced with 2D in their elementary school
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dannytoe: Our politheifians wont stop sending their children to US & UK for studies, meanwhile the way Akpabio they look that girl, for him mind.......banana fall on you!!
Amagite: Remember the elderly couple 70-year-old Murphy Wilson and 67-year-old Lucinda Myers whose engagement photos went viral recently proving its never too late to find love?
Well, the love birds officially got married on Saturday, July 29. According to their photographer, Murphy and Lucinda exchanged vows at the very place where their love began, the First Seventh-day Adventist Church in Huntsville, Alabama.
“He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.” Proverbs 13:20 KJV
“Keep company with the wise and you will become wise. If you make friends with stupid people, you will be ruined.” Proverbs 13:20 GNB
— A dangerous lover is somebody whose relationship with you will truncate your destiny, jeopardize your future and pull down the four pillars of your life. — A dangerous lover is anybody that claims to love you with all his or her heart but your relationship with him will not profit your relationship with God your health, your marriage and your purpose.
TO AVOID DANGEROUS LOVER DO THE FOLLOWING:
1) KNOW THE TRUE DEFINITION OF LOVE “Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.” Song of Solomon 8:7 KJV — love can be romantic or authentic — Love is not sex, sex is not love — Love is not just a feeling
Love is an unconditional emotion from the heart mixed with kindness and compassion, which makes you be ready to serve the other party and make the sacrifice even when it is not convenient. 2) KNOW DANGEROUS LOVERS 1) Parasitic lover: Lazy, not ready to work but to live on you and suck YOUTO your bones. 2) Kill and go lover: Just interested in sex, sleep with you and dump you for another catch. 3) Bazaars lovers: — ready to shower gifts on you. — gives you what you need and do not need just to take you to bed, sleep with you dump you and hurt your heart deeply. 4) Wounded lover: Was just jilted by ex-lover. — wounded and need healing, — may not even trust opposite sex. — want somebody besides them to prove a point and spite their ex. — looking for opposite sex to deal with to revenge the way they where treated. 5) Nicodemus lover: — Does not like to be seeing with you. — Does not want you to tell your friends, parents, pastos, mentors about his relationship with you 6) Pendulum lover: Unpredictable, blows hot and cold in love. You can’t predict his or her mood, unreliable, inconsistent, undependable — Fights you for no reason — Keep malice and is unforgiven — cut off the relationship several times only to beg you to start again. 7) Master lover: Commander in Chief of family forces, dictator. He or she wants to be totally in charge of your life Suffocating lover: Possessive, jealous. — Will not allow you to talk to anybody — Want to know where you are at every time — Always accusing you on unfaithfulness.
3) MEET THE REAL LOVER AND STAY WITH HIM. “Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.” Isaiah 49:16 KJV — JESUS IS THE LOVER OF YOUR SOUL — JESUS IS THE ONLY LOVER THAT CAN NOT DISAPPOINT —- JESUS IS THE TRUE LOVE THAT CAN LEAD YOU TO GENUINE LOVER http://www.dailyfamily.ng/how-to-avoid-a-dangerous-lover/
Great post here easy boss. dailyfamilydotNG really doing great with their family related topics and discussion. I dey feel dem like kilode.
alienhumam: I spent four years in the university without a girlfriend, because am afraid to approach girls. I don't want to be rejected. people gossip about me that am gay. because am always in company of guys. even my male friends are even accusing me of been gay, which I know am not. The even joke with me with jokes like I can't sleep in one bed with you and so on.
Now what I need is advice from Nairalanders on how I can get a girlfriend that can love me. Because very soon I will be going to national youth service. am depressed because of my situation I need help.
O GA OOOH. You should go and cry to God for help. Or simply go to MFM for serious prayers.
alienhumam: I spent four years in the university without a girlfriend, because am afraid to approach girls. I don't want to be rejected. people gossip about me that am gay. because am always in company of guys. even my male friends are even accusing me of been gay, which I know am not. The even joke with me with jokes like I can't sleep in one bed with you and so on.
Now what I need is advice from Nairalanders on how I can get a girlfriend that can love me. Because very soon I will be going to national youth service. am depressed because of my situation I need help.
Ahahaha at your age, you have none? O ga ooo. You should go and cry to God for help.
alienhumam: I spent four years in the university without a girlfriend, because am afraid to approach girls. I don't want to be rejected. people gossip about me that am gay. because am always in company of guys. even my male friends are even accusing me of been gay, which I know am not. The even joke with me with jokes like I can't sleep in one bed with you and so on.
Now what I need is advice from Nairalanders on how I can get a girlfriend that can love me. Because very soon I will be going to national youth service. am depressed because of my situation I need help.
Ahahaha at your age, you have none. O ga oooh. You should go and cry to God for help
tosyne2much: The irony of it is that, not every lady can be corrected subtly, it requires violence to actually correct some women.
I know of a woman who only gets on her senses when her husband unleashes a round of beating on her
Don't tell me you brawl with your woman to correct her. Don't tell me you do that. @pressy, please tell give this man some useful tips from your DailyFamily site oooh
chuksbaby: Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike was spotted sleeping during a State Banquet in Rivers.The banquet was in honour of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt General Tukur Buratai at the Government House in Port-Harcourt on Thursday night.
Family › Re: “I Can’t Wait For My Parents To Die, So I Can Inherit All” - Guy On Twitter by Niftyrules(m): 12:50pm On Oct 18, 2017
Suffocating lover: Possessive, jealous.