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On October 10, Chidiebere died in accident and you waited till October 18 to go to the accident site to retrieve the car or what was left of it and personal effects?

What a st*upid family! The police stole the money at the accident site and may also have stolen the missing money in dead guy's account. That's why encrypting and locking your device with password is very vital.

Whoever withdrew the money from the account got all the info they needed from the phone and blocked the line to prevent the deceased's family from seeing the bank alerts. The culprit could be the police or a family member.

He was probably killed. Most Israelis hate Blacks.

I could hit the one in the first photo in the night while drunk without knowing.

Seriously, you st*upid religious nuts should leave them alone! Who they want to be and what they do in their bedrooms is not your f*ucking business!

They didn't create themselves and they DIDN'T choose to be gays, nature made it so. Any educated person knows this So get an education and let them be!!

IamDino:
Thank God my comment wasn't hidden...FTC.I wonder how judgement day go be,when things like this dey happen.
God will be like I thought I made these beings males?

Did your sky god not also create gays, lesbians and transgenders?

This is what you get from an old man who was never ready or fit to be president!
Buhari started his president poorly and confused.

This man is yet to form his government after being sworn-in as president more than a month ago! And has done any significant thing than junketing around the world!

I supported this man but I'm now very disappointed!

The old man must keep fit to satisfy his young wife in bed.

Stevaz01:
this is my story ...
I went to GTB to make withdrawal with my UBA ATM because that was the nearest I could find... I wasn't sure how much my balance was.. so,i made an inquiry into my balance only to find that my money was been valued in dollars..at first, I felt disturbed thinking I had just #50 ..not until someone called my attention to the 'dollar' sign..
Well,I'm so disgruntled by this new development and I strongly feel that banks are trying to siphon me of my cash ( obviously, the exchange rate would cause a huge problem between us and I am storming GTB on monday to make my opinion known) and also, they are devaluating the naira.. a time will come when #1000 won't be enough to buy breakfast
If this can get publicized, maybe we can make hay while the sun is just coming out..I'm afraid things are really going to get ugly if this persists.
by the way, i thought CBN enforced a law restricting transactions by banks,schools,hosps, and so on with dollars? why are these institutions not heeding to the rules? what can be done to check mate this anomaly? dear nairalanders, please, have a say!!

cc lalasticlala

You didn't mention clearly how much you expected as your balance in Naira and you're here complaining and seeking advice.

Without proper details you ain't gonna get a reliable advice.

Dangote is heavily in oil business and doesn't want to lose that easy sweet oil subsidy money.

We have four refineries, two in Port Harcourt (PHRC), and one each in Kaduna (KRPC) and Warri (WRPC) and yet none is functional due to crooked oil tycoons like Dangote who make billions weekly importing oil product. These tycoons influence the intentional neglect of these refineries with the help of their corrupt political friends.

The ONLY way to eradicate this legally approved looting (oil subsidy) is by making those refineries functional again! Government pays these thieves $7 billion (1,392,650,000,000.00 naira) a year! An amount more than enough to build a massive and modern $5.5 billion refinery with 10 million ton crude oil processing capacity and still have enough cash to refurbish the four abandoned refineries, making the total of five functional refineries!

Djicemob:
My Name Is....

My Names Are...

This has caused serious arguments between me and friends couple of times so i decided to bring it to the house.English Language Gurus and Linguists,what are your take on the above phrases,which is better and grammatically correct when introducing oneself.Hopefully we can all learn a thing or two from your inputs.

Cc:Lalasticlala,Ishilove,obinoscopy

'My name is' is both grammatically and officially correct. Nobody would ask you 'What are your names?' or 'May I have your names?'
Anyone who says 'My names are' is wrong! Nobody talks like that in world except some st*upid Nigerians who claim to be "graduates".

It would be OK to say 'My first names are William Okon', but you would only say 'My name is William Okon Akpan'.

He turned it down because there's not much to loot.

APC appointed one each from the three major tribes. Good! I wish this type of balance appointments is implement in Federal level.
Unfortunately, we've a President who has given all major appointments to his fellow ab*okis. The 'born to rule' mentality is in full swing.

Joromi1:
It's a Nigerian phenomenon that when you marry at a very young age, you'll avoid the stress and pain of raising your kids at old age. If that is only reason then the idea is useless because one needs to be mature and financially strong enough before taking decisions towards that

If you're young, financially buoyant to cater for a family and in relationship with a financially stable lady you would like to have as a wife, then MARRY. I married in my mid-20s and have never looked back. It's really fun when you and your wife are young, that's when marriage is at its best.

When you have kids, you grow with them. Have you ever seen a father and son together and you thought they were brothers? or you saw a mother and daughter together and you thought they were sisters? That's one of the beauties of having kids in your prime age.

Young/prime adulthood can be considered the healthiest time of life and young adults are generally in good health, subject neither to disease nor the problems of senescence. Biological function and physical performance reach their peak from 20–35 years of age, waning after 35.

Marriage is not easy, likewise raising kids. If you're looking for a perfect and easy marriage then marriage is not for you.

This is one of the reasons why I always tell people to have courtship first before they marry the person. Courtship allows you to confirm if the person is right for you or not. Jumping into marriage is a terrible idea no matter what your parents say!

Something must have caused the man's change of behavior. I guess you won't tell us if you're at fault. You probably did something intentionally or unintentionally that made him feel fed up of the marriage. For him to bring another woman home without caring how you would feel or react, shows he's no more interested in you. In other words, the marriage is over.

No matter what you did, his actions are uncalled-for. He should have discussed his grievances with you, to somehow resolve the problem. Even if he's tired of the marriage, there're respectable ways to end it.

I don't know why you're still married him after all these. I'm still wondering why you're begging him after he cheated in your face.

Ladies, I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you know that wonderful male friend who offers you a shoulder to cry on or company when you can’t get a date on a Saturday night? The one you are absolutely certain has no sexual interest in you whatsoever? That man is a liar. That man is a cheat.

He is a con man guilty of friendship fraud. I know this because that man is me. And he’s every other man, too. I’ve always fancied my female friends. At the age of 13, I fell in love with a girl called Edith. Too shy to tell her how I felt, we stayed friends right through the hormonal onslaught of adolescence. She blossomed into a great beauty; I blossomed into a chubby guy.

We’d get drunk together and she’d put her arms around me and say the words no man wants to hear: ‘You’re like a brother to me.’
When a woman says that to a man, what she is really saying is: ‘I would never go for somebody like you in a million years.’

This whole ‘I just want to be your friend’ thing doesn’t make much sense to men. We think that if you really like a man, if you really enjoy his company, his mind, his good manners, his humor and if you’re single, why wouldn’t you want to sleep with him?

In a survey by the University of Wisconsin, 88 sets of young male and female friends were asked to rate their attraction to each other in a confidential questionnaire. It found that men - whether attached or single - were more likely to be attracted to their female friends and want to go on a date with them than the other way around.

Put simply, it means that given half a chance, most men would jump at the opportunity of having sex with their female friends. And yet, despite what these and other researchers have discovered over the past two decades, many women still believe a man can carry on a friendship with a woman, free from any thought of hanky panky.

I know sophisticated and worldly women - married and single - who will say of their male friends: ‘Oh, he never thinks of me in that way.’ How naive they are!

It would be wonderful if men could be friends with a woman without ever imagining what it would be like to sleep with them. But then we wouldn’t be men.

They say that men think about sex every seven seconds. While this may be an exaggeration, we certainly think about our female friends in ways that would make them blush.

As far as guys are concerned, friendship is merely an aphrodisiac. A man can meet a woman who is not, at first glance, that attractive or his type. But as time passes and he gets to know how funny and smart and fun she is, that woman becomes very sexy indeed — and men don’t mind the long game, like I did with Edith.

For three decades I did my duty as a loyal and devoted friend - I was the shoulder to cry on, the dispenser of tea and sympathy, hugs, advice and brotherly affection. I hid my disappointment when she gushed to me about her latest love, just as I hid my delight when it all went wrong.

I did this because what I always carried with me was hope. I clung to the belief that one day Edith might change her mind. And that day - or, rather, that drunken night - actually happened. OK, so it took almost 30 years for it to occur, but one morning I woke up in bed next to my best female friend.

In films, sex between ‘just friends’ is usually shown to be awkward and the whole encounter is portrayed as an embarrassing mistake.
But it wasn’t - for me. That night was worth waiting for and while we didn’t last as a couple, our friendship survived our little fling and I still see Edith today.

With other female friends I haven’t been so lucky. When I attempted to cross the friendship line with one woman, she slapped my face. Another said I was a ‘creep’.

My friend Linda just burst out laughing when I tried it on with her - and her reaction hurt far more than the other two. But the most disastrous encounter was with a woman I will call Amy, who I met during my university days. While I was ‘like a brother’ to her, she was like Omosexy to me. We had a 26-year friendship. I never missed a birthday or a note of congratulation when she got her degree, married her husband or gave birth to her children.

I was the perfect male friend - until her marriage broke down. Distraught at the break-up of her marriage, I did what a friend is supposed to do: I took her out to drown her sorrows. Yes, I confess that at the back of my mind was the thought that I could be in with a shot. And then many drinks later, I went and spoiled it all by doing something st*upid - like making a lunge for her.

Later, she wrote me a long letter about how I had ‘betrayed her, used her, lied to her’ and compared me to some internet creep trying to ‘groom’ her.

It seems that when a man discovers that a good female friend harbors sexual feelings for him he is flattered, but when a woman makes that discovery she feels saddened. For women, friendship is about trust. When they say they want a cuddle, they really do just want a cuddle. When a man says he wants a cuddle, he means that he will tolerate one in the hope it leads to sex.

But what is a chap supposed to do? If you hide your sexual feelings you feel like a fraud - but if you are honest and open your heart you can end up being condemned.

So can the expectations and desires between men and women who are friends ever be reconciled? Only if men realize that having sexual desire for a woman who is just your friend is fine - but trying to do something about it is not. (My success with Edith was an exception to the rule.)

Lose your self-control and you can easily lose a life-long friend. And for their part, women have to accept the fact that yes, he does think that way about you - but it’s no big deal, or it shouldn’t be. The best thing is if you can both be honest with each other, laugh it off and leave it behind. After all, what are friends for?

bushdoc9919:
The lie is in the idea that by not having people from your tribe in higher places.....you will somehow get underdeveloped.

For six years....Niger Delta was in charge....and by May 28th this year...the same problems we faced....are the same problems that we faced when we were under ''northern'' rule.

In my opinion...we should use the states to do the job they were created for...bringing government closer to the people...by developing innovative industrial economies. This can be achieved via restructuring of the education system, ending corruption and religious bigotry, and making youth development a priority(Indeed Niger Delta amnesty would not have been necessary if governors of the Niger Delta in times past had made youth development a priority,and if education had been working as it should).

It is a lie....when you think your brother being in power=development. It is also a lie to think that development comes when you get a bigger share of the national cake. There is no national cake.We all have to bake our own cake.

Thank you....and good afternoon.

I never stated that having my tribe (Igbo) in power would solve all the problems Igbos have. The same applies to any other other tribe.
That being said, it doesn't mean that one tribe should to take over all the government positions!

Nigeria is NOT a one tribe nation and ab*okis or yorubas DON'T own Nigeria! They can't even make good leaders which they've proven time and time again. In fact, ab*okis destroyed this country! They're always quick to forcefully grab political offices and yet very incompetent to lead!

Nigeria has more than 500 ethnic groups. Among these tribes, the ab*okis have had more taste of power in our political
Firmament than the other major tribes! And yet their region is the most impoverished! Ab*okis are indeed scums!

Igbos are marginalized by ab*okis and yorubas who're hell-bent on preventing an Igbo President by all means. Igbos are nation builders. We're the best in everything we do. Having Igbo Presidents would benefit Igbos and the nation as a whole, unlike the ab*oki curse on Nigerians!

So in summary, having an inclusive government where, at least, all the major tribes have equal stake, is good for the unity and progress of Nigeria, than the st*upid "born to rule" mentality of ab*okis.

Your comparison is nonsensical. Samsung Android phones beat Iphones hands down.
Iphone is over hyped and over-priced while android phone is affordable and can do far more things an Iphone does! Android phone also has more apps than Iphone!

Android OS (Operating System) is so good that it's being implemented in other devices outside smartphone, like - Android TVs, Digital cameras, Game consoles, Watches and many more, which can't be said of iOS (Iphone OS) except Watches. Chinese companies are currently building a PC and mobile operating system, based on Android.

So don't mess with Android phone. I'll only give Iphone credit for design, but who cares? What a phone can do outweighs its design.

His st*upid followers are giving him (a billionaire) expensive gifts even after extorting money from them. Dumb sheeple!

You didn't state what you were accused of, but regardless of the crime, torture is an international crime.
It's a known fact that torture forces people to confess to crimes they didn't commit. It's wrong!

If you can't present, in a Court of law, an evidence of a crime committed by the accused, then you've no right to detain the accused! And torture is a criminal offence, coercion is also a criminal offence!

Unfortunately, Nigeria is a failed, lawless State. You're lucky they didn't kill you. Celebrate!

It is not my usual wont to write tributes on this page. Today, I make an exception as I dedicate this space to one of Nigeria’s most unusual personalities, the retired Commodore Okoh Ebitu Ukiwe.

To most Nigerians who are 40 and above, he was former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida’s Chief of General Staff (or Deputy) who preferred to leave his high office rather than keeping quiet or allowing himself to be used by those who eventually frayed the fabric of national cohesiveness in their pursuit of selfish and clannish interests.

As a Royal Naval College (Dartmouth, England) -trained naval officer, Ukiwe was one of the victims of Nigeria’s political history. When the coup and counter-coup of 1966 pushed Nigeria towards the eventual civil war, he was forced to retreat to the East and fight for Biafra.

On returning to the Nigerian Navy after the war, he had lost a lot of ground in that many officers who were his junior were now wearing superior ranks. This became a major problem for him throughout his career. Due to his exceptional naval skills he often found himself going on sea drills in command of warships in the company of officers wearing superior ranks who saluted him as their captain.

It was this attribute that got him appointed as the first Igbo officer to be a member of the Supreme Military Council in 1976 and the first ever Igbo military officer to govern a Muslim-dominated Northern state (Niger State) that same year.

His keen awareness of the fact that he joined the Navy before some of his seniors and received superior training in a prestigious naval institution that trained scions of the British Royalty (as opposed to many of his colleagues who were trained in India) coupled with his own self-assured personality often put him out to others as a proud person.

He did not believe that the regional and religious supremacists that held the post-war reins of power were leading Nigeria aright, and he never failed to state his considered opinion.

Ukiwe never agreed with the notion that Nigeria belongs to any part of the country more than the others, or that the religion or culture of any part should be imposed on the rest.

This was the main reason the parting of ways with the Babangida regime started when he told the media that the regime’s plot to sneak the country into the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) was never discussed at the Armed Forces Ruling Council (AFRC) on any other decision-making forum.

When he left government in October 1986, Ukiwe decided to devote himself to efforts to restructure Nigeria and put an end to sectional domination. By the middle of the 1980s, the Northern domination of Nigerian politics was in full spate.
The West was well represented in the military and federal bureaucracy. It even dominated the economy, but it had no voice politically. The East was treated like a conquered people.

The Igbos had no political or economic clout and had to content themselves with commerce. Even though the Eastern Minorities participated in the war that put the Igbo out of contention, they also had no voice. The oil from their soil was being exploited with impunity, and the post-war leaders regarded the oil wealth as their war booty.

Ukiwe realized that the only way to address these anomalies was to awaken the various elites to take action. He kicked off a series of meetings with the Igbo elite, sensitizing them to the need for more states to be created in Igboland.
Later, the meetings were extended to build cooperation between the Igbos and their Minority neighbors, and soon enough, the Council for Unity and Understanding (CUU) was formed to unite the elites of the East, West and Middle Belt towards the push for national restructuring.
Ukiwe was the pioneer brain behind the concept of what is now known as South-East and South-South political cooperation. The campaigns for restructuring and power shift were originated from his efforts.

In fact, it was the CUU that transformed into the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), even though he later disagreed with the style of approach employed by its leaders such as Chief Anthony Enahoro.

It was Ukiwe that persuaded Chief Moshood Abiola to return from his brief exile and pursue his mandate, and he was also the key factor in getting the Chief Michael Ajasin-led Yoruba mainstream, Afenifere, to support Abiola’s quest to reclaim the annulled mandate. Before this, many Awoists were still angry with Abiola over his pro-North roles during the Second Republic.

When the North eventually ceded power in 1999, Ukiwe resumed the meetings between the Igbo and Southern Minority elites under the aegis of the Council of Eastern States (CES) which later became the council of South East and South-South (COSESS). His efforts contributed in no little measure in getting Abia, Ebonyi, Enugu and Bayelsa states created in the former Eastern Region by the military regimes of Generals Babangida and Sani Abacha.

In 2007, Ukiwe was among the presidential aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but it was an ailing Governor Umaru Yar’ Adua that President Olusegun Obasanjo chose to succeed him. Since then, he has been living a quiet life, minding his business and keeping fit by playing golf.

Some fight the ills of our society on the pages of the newspapers and television screens. Ukiwe, a deep strategist, chooses to fight silently because he believes that noise-making will alert the opponent to block your efforts.

For this, very few people know the quantum of his contributions to the remaking of Nigeria from what the colonial masters made of it to what it needs to be in order to start the journey to greatness. For many, he is not only a source of inspiration but also a teacher and a well-appreciated phenomenon.

Ochiagha, may your days be long

By Ochereome Nnanna, Vanguard Media Ltd.

Why's this on front page? Are there no better Thread?

trapQ:
fvcking retard. you lack a chromosome.

Go screw yourself.

a lot of people keep saying they knew him and his entire family even before he became mad.

even if Christ comes a second time people like you will keep doubting. YOU NEED. JESUS

bye!

I won't even reply whatever rubbish you have next to say. I don't converse with scums

I don't normally respond to scums like you either. But I have to let an id*iot know he's an id*iot.

The people you claimed "said they knew him and his entire family even before he became mad" are working for the scammer, you id*iot!
Religion is a hoax! Read my post here, to be enlightened.

Ab*okis planning the next takeover!

Lots of masturbation going on there, the cum is so huge that it blocks their drainage system!
That's what you get when you have lots of sex-starved students.

Opening a secret hooker biz there will be a goldmine!

bushdoc9919:
Stop lying please.

Where's the lie?

trapQ:
FOOL.

SHUP UP!!! didn't you just hear about the people who knew for years as a sane man and even years later after he got mad! and some even said Hus mother ran mad also.

You have been blinded to originality that you only see fake

Your dumb statement just confirmed how st*upid some people are even when told the truth! As I said earlier, most Nigerians lack rational thought, which includes you!

The scammer could have easily planted some his dumb followers there to misinform the gathered crowd with fake stories about the "mad man". It's a part of the scam!

You're the one who's blinded to "originality" and reality because you're too dumb and st*upid to think rationally! Remove your head from you dirty as*s for once!

That Stamp was used in 1959 while the one pound was 1967.

From 1973 to 1978, 1 naira was valued at GB£6.50 (US$10.40).

Today, 2,068.56 naira is valued at GB£6.66 (US$10.40).

What a shame!

I've been saying it. In Buhari, "the born to rule" syndrome is at work. He has been appointing only his fellow ab*okis.
Ab*okis and their dumb yoruba b*uttlickers destroyed this country.

Head of SSS - ab*oki
IG of police - ab*oki
Defense minister - ab*oki
Senate Speaker - ab*oki
Head of Immigration Service - ab*oki
Accountant-General - ab*oki
Acting Chairman of INEC - ab*oki
Chief of Naval - ab*oki
Chief of Army - ab*oki
Nigerian Attorney General - ab*oki

...and many more!

Ladies and gentle men, ab*okis have fully taken over Nigeria!

I knew this would be placed on front page. Nigerians are religious id*iots! How Nigerians believe everything is frightening, that's why the country is in shambles and so f*ucked up!

The fraudulent pastor planted the "mad man" there for days or weeks or even a month, to deceive locals into believing the man was mad, before his arrival to "heal" him. That way, people won't suspect anything. You know, "healing" an unknown mad man won't have much power of conviction. And I'm sure he'll repeat this scam at another location.

Nigerian pastors or "men of god" can do anything to attract more id*iots to their extortion churches and Nigerians are too dumb to think rationally. Ask yourselves this, if this scammer actually has power to heal mad people, why didn't he visit a place where lunatics are kept to heal them all? Go bring a mad man you've known for years to him to "heal", he'll either dodge or give you st*upid reasons why he can't "heal" him!

Nigerians, stop being clinically st*upid!

My boyfriend said I shouldn’t worry as I couldn’t possibly get pregnant the first time I have sex.

You claimed to be an 18 yr old student and yet you've no clue about Biology. Shame on you!
You will be the worst illiterate "student" to listen to your good-for-nothing-as*shole boyfriend who doesn't gives a sh*it whether you become pregnant or not. Either he's ignorant like you or he doesn't care about you and only wants your virgin p*ussy.

If you must have sex with that id*iot, use condom for your safety against unwanted pregnancy and Sexual Transmitted Disease (STD!)! Any educated 18 yr. old knows this.

I don't know if female condom has reached Nigeria yet, if not, then make sure he wears a good condom (there're inferior ones that burst easily). Go to any reputable Pharmacy and tell them you want the best, and don't be shy while at it.

The st*upid and archaic Nigerian conservative culture made it hard for parents to discuss Sex with their children, that's why many kids make bad and life threatening sexual choices. Sex education should be taught in Nigerian schools! We're in 2015 not 1815!

If Sex education is taught schools, most Nigerian women would have good vaginal hygiene.

Where are those st*upid yorubas who attack igbos when a caught thief has Igbo name?
St*upid tribalist hypocrites!

How much loot has EFCC returned from Nigerian political thieves who steal billions of dollars from Nigerians? None.

He was appointed because of his great credentials NOT because he's Igbo. But I commend Governor Ambode for doing so because a typical tribalist Yoruba man won't do it.