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Ayekotoo: Forbes magazine has released yet another ranking of the 21 richest Nigerians. Surprisingly, the richest woman in Africa, Folorunsho Alakija, worth $600 million (N97 billion) is missing from the list.
According to Forbes, the value of shares held in quoted companies, size and market share of their companies, number of companies they own and its assumed value and the impact of the companies on the Nigerian economy were the yardstick used in compiling the list.

Full list:
1. Aliko Dangote – founder of Dangote Group, Richest man in Africa and Richest black man in the world.

2. Mike Adenuga – Conoil, Equatorial Trust Bank, Globacom

3. Femi Otedola – ZENON Oil and Gas

4. Orji Uzor Kalu – Slok Group

5. Cosmos Maduka – Coscharis Group

6. Jimoh Ibrahim – Nicon Insurance, Global Flee

7. Jim Ovia – Zenith Bank, Visafone

8. Pascal Dozie – MTN Nigeria, Diamond Bank

9. Oba Otudeko – Honeywell Group Nigeria

10. Sayyu Dantata – MRS Group

11. Umaru Abdul Mutallab – former Chairman First Bank Plc, Mutallab Group

12. Samuel Adedoyin – Doyin Group

13. Dele Fajemirokun – Chaiman Aiico Insurance, Xerox Nigeria, Chicken Republic, Kings Guards etc.

14. Cletus Ibeto – Ibeto Group

15. Raymond Dokpesi – Daar Communication,.AIT,

16. Tony Ezenna – Orange Group

17. Molade Okoya Thomas – Chairman CFAO Nig and other six french companies

18. Ifeanyi Ubah – Capital oil and gas

19. Leo Stan Ekeh – Zinox Computer

20. Fola Adeola – GTBank

21. Ade Ojo – Elizade Motors Nig LTD, Distributor
of Toyota cars


http://premiumtimesng.com/arts-entertainment/144713-richest-african-woman-folorunsho-alakija-missing-from-forbes-list-of-21-richest-nigerians.html

Baybe: Seriously, what's with the fake American accents . They are presenting to a Nigeria audience and not American audience, why change your accent? It's getting annoying.
Some even make use of the accent when speaking pidgin English, Smh

Dollarjunkie: Life can be tough. As my mother used to wryly remind me, “No one gets out alive.” We all have plenty of less-than-perfect moments. Not even the most gifted, telegenic and charming people live every day in the sunshine. The same is true for entrepreneurs. Just as “bad things happen to good people,” every great entrepreneur regularly stares down the barrel of failure.

Graham Weaver, the founder of Alpine Investors and a frequent visitor to my business classes, reminds would-be entrepreneurs that the only failures they should fear are the ones of character and effort. It’s an uncertain world, and there are only so many things you can control. Even when you’re giving 100% and doing your best to be an honorable and ethical leader, things go wrong.

What you can control is how you deal with those setbacks. However stressful failure can be, if you pick yourself up and get back on the horse, you’ve passed the real test. And when you do, you’ll start to see more silver linings than you expected. In pushing through failure, you’ll learn who your real friends are – the ones who know what you’re made of and believe in what you’ll do next. You’ll discover reserves of energy, persistence and confidence that you didn’t know you had. And you’ll feel a new sense of creativity, the ingenuity to solve hard problems, that might have remained fallow without the challenges.

One way I’ve prepared for my own unanticipated, but nonetheless certain, failures is by memorizing these 10 quotes:

1. "What does not destroy me, makes me stronger." – Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900

2. "Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance." Samuel Johnson 1709-84.

3. "Sweet are the uses of adversity." – William Shakespeare, 1564-1616

4. "When it’s darkest, men see the stars." – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882

5. "Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." – General George S. Patton, 1885-1945

6. "When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water." – Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790

7. "A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind." – John Neal, 1793-1876

8. "Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm." – Anon

9. "He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity." – Ben Jonson, c.1573-1637

10. "Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well." – Jack London, undated.

One last quote I always keep nearby is this one from Theodore Roosevelt -- about the value of “daring greatly”. It's an excerpt of a speech he gave at Paris’s Sorbonne in April, 1910:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

It’s nice to remind yourself that anyone who fails at trying to do something great is in pretty good company. This group knew that the best dreams can often temporarily disguise themselves as nightmares – better to press forward and leave the fear behind.

Written by Joel C. Peterson.

Culled from
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130907072209-11846967-10-quotes-all-entrepreneurs-should-memorize?trk=tod-home-art-list-small_1

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jidsoon: A lawyer with a Lagos-based legal firm, Tope Alabi and Co, located on 77B, Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Ikeja, Lagos, western Nigeria, has dragged the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, to court over the new driver’s licence and number plate introduced by the Federal Government.

Joined in the suit filed at the Federal High Court in Lagos on 9 September are the National Assembly and the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Justice Alooma Mukhtar.

According to the motion on notice and motion ex-parte made available to P.M.NEWS by the lawyer, Tope Alabi, the court is to determine whether the National Assembly, as the first defendant, has power to legislate on the production and issuance of driver’s licence and number plate under section 4 of the 1999Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended.

Also, the court is to determine whether the provisions of the FRSC Act that empower it to produce and issue number plate and driver’s licence are not inconsistent with the provision of section 4 of the Constitution; and whether the defendants along with their agents, servants or privies are right in directing the registered vehicle owners including the plaintiff to re-register when the existing registration is valid and subsisting.

The plaintiff also wants the court to determine whether the defendants along with their agents, servants or privies are right in directing the holders of valid driver’s licences and number plates, including the plaintiff, to renew same when the existing driver’s licences have not expired.

Among the reliefs claimed by the plaintiff are: A declaration that the defendant, the FRSC, lacks the powers to legislate on the issuance of number plate and driver’s licence under section 4 of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 2011; a declaration that by virue of the provisions of section 4 and 5 of the 2011 constitution of Nigeria, the production and issuance of number plate and driver’s licence is a residual matter within the exclusive legislative and executive competence of the states.

The plaintiff are also seeking a declaration that the defendants whether by themselves, agents or privies whatsoever or howsover described lack the powers in cracking down on those still using the existing registered number plates on their registered vehicles; and an order of perpectual injuction restraining the defendants whether by themselves, agents or privies whatsoever or howsover described from cracking down on those still using valid driver’s licences pending the time within which same will expire and due for renewal.

While speaking with our reporter, Alabi said FRSC’s claim that one of the reasons for the introduction of a new number plate and driver’s licence is because the old number plate and driver’s licence are easily forged is baseless.

The plaintiff opined that some fraudsters were caught recently with a large number of the fake new number plates and driver’s licence.

—Bamidele Olowosagba


http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/09/11/lawyer-sues-frsc-over-new-drivers-licence/

dewale2k: Source http://premiumtimesng.com/news/144533-cabinet-reshuffle-jonathan-appoints-wike-interim-education-minister-maku-oversee-defence.html

adaobi123: I'm definitely number 4. A lollipop

adewasco2k: Apple's keynote media event for the iPhone 5s and 5C will be held today September 10, 2013.

Millions of people around the world are already turning their attention to Cupertino, Ca., where the keynote address by Tim Cook is expected to take place at 10 a.m. PT i believe that's 6AM right? //please guys correct me

There are already a lot of rumors about the new devices,
like:
Price- Apple to release a very cheap phone
Security- finger print scanner
Design/Features- a gold iPhone or champagne color, 12 megapixel camera with dual-LED flash, dual core A7 processor.

The iPhone 5S device is rumored to release 10 days after today's event.

As we all know Apple normally releases a new mobile firmware in line with a new iPhone, so the iOS 7 is expected to release today also.

There are speculation of an official live stream on apple events site but if non there are alot of other coverage which i will share.

All iDevices lover and haters are welcome!

Personally i think iDevices need a new GUI, the present one is stale....i hope they are not coming with same interface

hombre: Source: http://www.ynaija.com/ynaija-investigates-fake-hymens-for-sale-how-women-in-abuja-are-getting-their-virginity-back/

Sleekbaby: Nawa oo, wot type of attire s ds, hp he is nt a gay.

Nuriya: Check out Ice Prince & French Montana with extra vocals from EME's Shaydee... Very nice reggae joint... His sophomore album Fire Of Zamani is still scheduled to drop before the end of 2013. Enjoy.




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amnestylaw1: Since it is now a fashion for guys to post their ''Baby Bathing Acts'' in pictures , I hereby follow suit.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3MCvX7Q-a0

infonubia: http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/yemen/bride-8-dies-of-injuries-on-wedding-night-in-yemen-1.1228706


My Take

I get really upset when I hear stories of older men taking these children as brides. I mean, how low can you stoop? I cannot but think about the #ChildNotBride saga in Nigeria and how many young children have been given away under such circumstances and yet, we have some people in our society who are absolutely okay with such pediophilic practices?

Some might say 8 years is too young but 13 is okay. There are numerous stories of young girls (13 year-old included) that have suffered similar fate as Rawan. Unfortunately, for every story that is reported, there are several hundreds that are untold.

As a society we should frown against such practices and we should do all that we can to protect these young girls.

What's Your Take?

Let's hear your take on the story...Looking forward to it!

Rap maestro: U sure say no be bribe sha?

Jenams: Is dis suppose to be a joke or sometin? U want to spoil her marriage because she had a tin or two wit u. Are u ok?

Lolaabokoku: :oMyob= mind your own business ok

Dondav: Nice and Romantic... I love it