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I was in your shoes back then n i know how it pains. But i can advise you based on the strategy i used to guess genotype before going our with a babe. Stop looking for skinny chicks. Skinny ones re prone to be AS why heavily built re mainly of AA. From shoulder too i do detect who is who. Lanky shoulders re mainly AS while built ones re AA. Try it. Good luck.

Menn..... Reminded me of the oLd good days. 'Smiles'.

Tomorrow is my bday and i am in your shoes right now but i ve a job.
Am afraid of women cos d can change even after knowing them in d course of dating them. Am really scared.

In my 2005 National Democracy Day Lecture, I strongly argued that “for sustainable democracy, fundamental changes are required in the constitution, the electoral system, the fiscal federalism, as well as a gamut of legal-institutional reforms that are developmental and capable of promoting private enterprise and competition”.

Seven years later, I feel more strongly about this point, and almost a sense of urgency to it. In the last two years, I have given several lectures on Nigeria’s dysfunctional political economy. I am glad that constitutional amendments are being debated. At least, let us start the talking. There is a systemic failure, and our institutions cannot take Nigeria on a sustainable path to prosperity.  In three articles, beginning with this one, I want to join the debate. 

The word ‘restructure’ evokes all kinds of reactions. For some, it is a veiled campaign to dismember or weaken the Nigerian federation. I disagree. While I admit that Nigeria as a country or nation has been a colossal disappointment and a textbook example of “how not to do it”, I disagree that the solution is to dismember or weaken it. 

I have three strong reasons to be a believer in one united and prosperous Nigeria. First, I am a pan-Africanist--- an Nkrumaist in terms of Pan-African unity.  As a scholar, about 60 per cent of my research and publications are on African economies. I am one of those dreaming of the second USA, the United States of Africa (with 54 states, encompassing the current 54 countries, with Nigeria as the Texas of Africa). Our destiny is tied together—the rest of the world simply sees one ‘Africa’ as if it is a ‘country’ but we think of ourselves as different. Combined, the 49 sub-Saharan African countries account for barely two per cent of global GDP (the size of Belgium with 10 million people). I see Africa’s future increasingly within the context of a more fully integrated continent. Enough of my dreams: now back to reality!Second, I am proud to belong to the “big country”, and wish that it could become the “next China”. Nigeria is Africa’s most populous and its potentially biggest economy. In today and tomorrow’s world, size matters. Europe will inevitably move towards greater ‘federal Europe’ if the euro is to survive, and other efforts towards agglomeration are going on around the world. Nigeria accounts for far less than one per cent of global GDP (indeed if Nigeria were to submerge under a volcano tomorrow, the world would only notice it as a humanitarian disaster). I cannot imagine Nigeria breaking into smaller groupings. I do not see any of the groupings that will ‘happily’ stay together under one union without its own internal contradictions and tensions as in the larger Nigeria.

Third, I am aware that the hangover of history makes any reference to the word ‘restructure’ by an Igboman to be viewed with suspicion. I hate to think of public policy in those terms but if it helps this discourse, I make bold to say that as an Igboman, I will never support anything that will threaten the unity of Nigeria. Igbos have the greatest stake in Nigeria, and therefore stand to lose the most in the event of (God forbid) any disorderly unravelling of Nigeria. An enterprising, itinerant people with huge population in a tiny land mass, Igbos (like the Jews) are in need of a large domain or market for their commerce without molestation or discrimination. They are everywhere.  Of the estimated 17 million Nigerians in Diaspora, I can bet that at least 10 million of them are Igbos. They dominate most markets, especially for motor spare parts, in Africa. Onitsha traders now suffer because of Boko Haram as their supply chains to and from many parts of the North are grossly diminished. 

There is hardly any village in Nigeria or town in Africa without an Igboman, speaking the local language and probably owning a house and feeling much at home. Without fear of contradiction, I can assert that at least 80 per cent of the Igbo elite live outside of Igboland (mostly in Lagos and Abuja), and more than 70 per cent of the investments by Igbos are outside of Igboland. I know that more than half of Anambra’s population lives outside of the state. There is hardly any former public office holder (governors, ministers, senators, Reps, etc) since 1999 who lives in Igboland. As Mallam Nasir el-Rufai was quoted as saying sometime, Igbos have turned Abuja into their ‘sixth state’, and some estimates opine that Igbos constitute 30-40 per cent of Lagos State. Even traditional marriages are now celebrated anywhere. The reasons for these are for another day. 

The point of emphasis is that Igbos have the greatest need to keep Nigeria or even Africa as one united and prosperous market. An elderly Igbo friend of mine summed it nicely: “in the 1960s Igbos fought to leave Nigeria and the rest of Nigeria refused; we lost our properties and lives; now that we have re-built them everywhere, we are going to fight to make sure no one else will leave the union: we are all in this marriage for better or for worse”. Enough said! 

Our thesis here is that a society can only prosper under conditions of ‘good leadership’ as well as a ‘good system’ that supports competition and wealth creation. So far, the dysfunctional system and its perverse incentives that make it almost impossible to make sustained progress in Nigeria have received little attention in public discourse. For three consecutive years, Nigeria has retained the 14th position in the world as ‘a failed state’ (with Somalia as number one) and many people think it is a joke. I posit that any serious discussion of public policy that ignores this issue misses the point. We believe there is a systemic failure that cannot be fixed by ad hoc ‘reforms’ irrespective of the type of leadership. 

We therefore use the term ‘restructure’ to refer to the gamut of transformations in the nature and structure of the Nigerian State and society away from the current entanglements with the pursuit of rents to re-establish the link between the state and the people/business, and to re-engineer a society where competition and hard work drive success. Let us divide Nigeria’s post-independence history into the pre-civil war (under the 1963 Republican Constitution and its provisions for competitive federalism under the regions and a revenue allocation formula that forced hard work and competition) on the one hand, and the post-civil war with its centralised, unitary-federalism, with the centre repeatedly ‘creating’ the unviable federating units each entitled to the free money from the centre. 

On literally all accounts, the average Nigerian was better off in the first than under the second: per capita income in 1966 was about $1,000 and about $1,400 in 1973 and is currently about $1,200. In REAL terms, the average Nigerian today (despite Nigeria earning over $600 billion from oil since 1973) has less than half of the income in 1966; is poorer; has a shorter life span; with poorer educational system and infrastructure. All the industries and palm and cocoa plantations and groundnut pyramids built by the regions have collapsed.Our current unproductive system was designed to keep Nigeria ‘united’ by creating a strong ‘centre’. In the process, we have neither a federation nor a unitary system (at best a corrupted unitary system). All incentives and institutions are designed around a command and control structure for sharing and consuming the lottery jackpot from God (oil rents). For fear of death, Nigeria has indeed decided to commit suicide! There is no incentive for productive governance. National politics of competition for the oil rents has assumed a life of its own. On a per capita income basis, Nigeria has the most expensive parliament in the world. Every village now wants to be a state to get its own ‘share’. Don’t talk about fiscal viability! Have you heard any state governor advertising the number of new businesses that were attracted to his state or number of private sector jobs created as ‘the’ key performance indicator? There is little incentive for such! Debate on leadership is about who will share and where he comes from. It is not about who has the best plans to create jobs and wealth. Because you don’t need any skills to share, just about anybody can be a ‘leader’. Our politics has become a road to nowhere. 

We need good leaders but equally important, we need a competitive system that allows any potentially good leader to emerge and perform. To use the metaphor of football, you need good footballers in a good pitch to have great football. If you have 10 Lionel Messis in a team but you take them to play in a cassava farm as field, their talents and efforts may come to little. In fact, because the field is a cassava farm, the ‘best players’ that would emerge could be the street urchins. Our view is that the type of leaders thrown up under a democracy and the latitude they have for creative change depends upon the nature of the legal-institutional infrastructure and the incentive-sanction system. As an economist, I understand that to change behaviour, two keywords are critical: incentives and sanctions. Both summarise what are popularly termed ‘institutions’. An individual can make a difference but ultimately it is institutions that make all the difference.  You can assemble a thousand technocrats, each with his/her ‘reforms’ and at best their positive impact will be at the margin. 

Nigeria is in a chicken and egg situation. How will the ‘good system’ emerge without ‘good leaders’ and vice versa? Leave this for our next articles! 

To prepare for life without oil, we need a new road map, and the starting point is a new constitution for prosperity! We need to understand the institutional/constitutional design that makes United Arab Emirates (UAE) produce the world class city of Dubai with little oil while other oil-producing countries of the Middle East are not diversified. We need to understand the incentive system that enables the State of Nevada in the US to prosper despite not having any natural resource in a country with oil rich states. It won’t be easy to repair the havoc oil and the destructive politics around it have wreaked on the society, including destruction of the productive elite. But the time to start is now. 

To move forward, Nigeria must review the content and meaning of its current political map; rights over mineral resources and land; tax jurisdictions; citizenship rights; fiscal responsibility and fiscal federalism; powers of the central vis-a-vis regional governments; elimination of the suffocating hands of the Federal Government on the regions; etc. It is an oxymoron to repeat the same thing over and over, and expect a different outcome. For a new Nigeria to emerge, new thinking and new ways of doing business must be in place.

Person wey go die, go die. Even if you taken am to the best hospital. Anything wey wan happen, make e happen. What's the difference?

Before it was the former Governor that held him not doing the job, he de camped from PPA to PDP through AGPA. Last month, he was blaming the Commissioners for his clueless governance. During every raining season, he will start to blame the raining season for not allowing him to work, during the dry season, he will mobilize faulty construction machines to sites with the sincere intention to delay time till another raining season. CHEIII!!!!!
What a stupid fool!!!

Yacubes: In ur own view, the best! Maybe you made a mistake usin d superlative adjective cos am sure two thing are in comparation here.

Any correlation with my submission?

Now, Nigerians can see the big difference between Soludo and Sanusi.
What the hell is the objective of this man. For a day, I never trusted this fellow. Soludo still remain the best the country has ever had. Take a look at his management of the economy, it was robust but what have we now?

[quote author=Duke_Nija]Op please don't sleep with that dude, that is if you like yourself.
Guys and $ex [/quote]Forget that thing abeg, if you aren't ready for sex then why going to date d guy. I hate this talk of no sex and you want to be close to him knowing fully well he is flesh and blood. My people say, land wey no dey like basket, make e no grow mushroom.

INNO18: well unfortunately i've never had the opportunity to goof in front of an opposite sex, cos fortunately i happen to be GAY, and i'm proud of it as unlike most of my friends i dont get turned on once i see females......... well unfortunately i've never had the opportunity to goof in front of an opposite sex, cos fortunately i happen to be GAY, and i'm proud of it as unlike most of my friends i dont get turned on once i see females.........

Guy, na wa 4 you. Change ya ways!

Serious security breach!!!

If care is not taken our Igbo Language will go on extinction. I love this. Owelle Rochas though was born n breed in the northern Nigeria speaks his mother tongue with distinction.

rofessor Barth Nnaji

By Yemi Ajayi

Professor Barth Nnaji, a world-acclaimed scientist, moved on in life Tuesday with his resignation as Nigeria’s Minister of Power. In a country where top public office holders rarely resign, his exit from the post that he had held since 2011, would shock many.

As the circumstances that led to his resignation unravel, an egregious sense of triumphalism will suffuse workers of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) who had battled Nnaji for a long time over his fidelity to the privatisation and reform of the power sector that the former minister had doggedly championed.

Nnaji came in at a critical time in Nigeria’s power sector.

The man, who made a name for himself as an innovator and one of the inventors of the e-design concept, had given his all to revamp a sector that had suffered decades of neglect under successive administrations. He was an intrepid administrator, who was not afraid to take on the entrenched vested interests in the power sector that have frustrated previous efforts to redeem a sector that remains critical to the nation’s economy.

Given the fact that he was not a newcomer to the peculiarities of governance in Nigeria, Nnaji, who was a Minister of Science and Technology under the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, and before his appointment as Power Minister, Special Adviser on Power to President Goodluck Jonathan, knew he was treading on mine fields for keeping faith with the privatisation of the power sector, a task he had started as Jonathan’s special adviser.

In 2010, the president had appointed Nnaji head of a presidential taskforce to reform the power sector. A blueprint designed to end the chronic power shortages in the country showed that the Federal Government has to fork out $10 billion yearly for the next decade for the power sector restoration in a country where, according to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), organisations and individuals spend $13 billion a year to fuel generator sets.


In his one-year tenure, he had superintended over the management of the power sector, resulting in the improvement in power generation, a review of electricity tariffs to make the sector attractive to private investors and supervised the establishment of the Bulk Trading Company of Nigeria, among other market structures necessary for the reform of the power sector.

During his tenure, Nnaji, who once told THISDAY Board of Editors that he met 2,800mw of power delivered to the grid, had planned to ensure that available capacity hits 5,400mw this year, especially with the Federal Government’s serious efforts to address the issue of gas shortages. As at June, the nation was generating over 4,400mw.

However, the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) was at loggerheads with him and had devised all means possible, including levelling what many have considered as spurious allegations against Nnaji. About two weeks ago, the union, in a statement by its General Secretary, Joe Ajaero, called on Nnaji to resign. He nevertheless, remained unbowed.

He had strived to remain above board, given the fact that before his appointment, he was a major player in the power sector. Nnaji, who founded Geometric Power Limited (GPL), a pioneering independent power producer that built the 22mw Emergency Power Plant in Abuja and is rounding off the construction of an integrated power plant in Aba, Abia State, voluntarily declared his interest in the firm, which is a member of a consortium that had submitted bids for the acquisition of Enugu Distribution Company Limited under the privatisation process.

However, since his appointment as the president’s Special Adviser on Power and later as minister, he had resigned his appointment from GPL board and transferred his shares to a blind trust.

With his resignation Tuesday, he is now free to pursue his other interests, but will definitely still remain an active player in the power sector, albeit as a private sector participant.

Nnaji, 51, was born in Enugu State. He holds a Doctorate in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the United States of America.

He vied for the presidency in 2007 on the platform of the Better Nigeria Party.

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Ratin

Maybe conflict of interest might have arisen cos Barth owes a power plant to start off soon in Aba known as geometeric power. Corruption , conflict of interest, ego, integrity protection or PDP politics might be the reason. Finger .......

Nairaland Moderators vs Ndiigbo.
Am not surprise shaaaaa

Its not bad as far as it will save lives and not give the terrorists opportunity to claim responsibility for bloodshed.

Am in .

Man Gets Mother-In-Law Pregnant

Posted by Information Nigeria in Home » Lifestyle on August 19, 2012 - 11 Comments



If Mr Tiamiyu Ibrahim, a 45-year-old mechanic, had been part of the Nigerian contigent to the just concluded London 2012 Olympics, he, probably, would have won a medal for Nigeria. The only snag is that his field of specialisation, ‘bedminton’ was not part of the sporting activities listed for the tournament. IDOWU ADELUSI, in this piece, reports the story of a man who put his mother-in-law in a family way.

MRS Aminat Ibrahim’s story appears fictitious, but it is not. The claim of the 40-year-old trader that her husband is the father of a four-month-old baby girl born by her mother leaves one wondering whether Aminat knows the weight of her claim or not.

Mrs Ibrahim said she was ashamed and rattled by the development, adding that her unrepentant mother had threatened to curse her for exposing her misdeed.

Narrating how love affair developed between her mother and the husband, Mrs Ibrahim said her mother, who lived in a village at Apomu Area of Osun State, had been visiting them regularly at Oje Area of Ibadan where they (couple) lived.

She continued, “being my mother, I had no cause to worry, moreso, when she told me that she was assisting me spiritually to become pregnant.

“I wedded my husband five years ago without issue. Sometime in February last year, my mother came to visit us and said she would stay with us for a while.

“I objected since I was not nursing a baby, but she insisted and said was worried about our childlessness and wanted to help us get over it. When I told my husband he was glad about my mother’s concern.

“Being a trader, I always leave home most times at 6.00 a.m for neighbouring towns and villages to buy yam tubers or vegetables and then bring them to the market to sell. I always leave the market at 7 p.m.

“My husband is a mechanic. He has his workshop at a place not far from our house. This enabled him to always come home in the afternoon for lunch often prepared by my mother.

“After a while, my husband would tell me jokingly that my mother’s soup was delicious than the soup I prepared.

“I did not suspect that anything was going on between them. After all, I trusted my husband, besides the woman in question is my mum and not a friend.

“In December last year, I noticed that my mother’s belly was protruding.When I demanded to know if she was pregnant, she said yes. She told me further that her man-friend in the village impregnated her, adding that she used to go to the village when everybody in the house had gone out. Our father died long ago.

“I advised her to look for accommodation elsewhere but she refused. After exerting much pressure on her to leave our house, she confessed that my husband impregnated her.

“I was dazed and almost passed out. She told me that my husband ignited the love affairs.

According to the mother, whenever she (the mother) was in the bathroom, the husband would jump in to see her nakédness, pretending to be unaware that she was in the bathroom.

Explaining further, the mother said, “each time he came home for lunch, he would play p0 *n ographic films, inviting me to join him in the sitting room to watch it.

Mrs Ibrahim added, “According to my mum, while the film was going on, my husband would come to where she was sitting and grabbed her. Even after she had freed herself from him and run to stay in the kitchen, my husband would still go to meet her and that was how he started having séx with her.

“My mother told me that she agreed to his demand since it was just to satisfy him and protect my marriage. Moreso, she never thought she could get pregnant again at 57 years.

“My mother explained further that my husband stopped going to work on Saturdays in order to stay with her at home. She told me that four attempts were made to terminate the foetus because she was ashamed but each attempt was unsucceesful.

The woman revealed that when she confronted her husband on the issue, the husband told her to take it easy because she was still childless.

Her word: “My husband told me that it was my mother who séduced him by always staying nakéd in the room knowing that he could come into the room anytime since they are living in a room and palour apartment.

“He told me not to bother him much on the matter since I don’t have any child for him.”

When asked if the “new couple” were still staying together, she said no, explaining that they had disappeared from the house and did not know where they were.

However, this reporter and a staff of Succour traced Mr Tiamiyu Ibrahim to a village in Ikire.

He blamed everything on satan, saying that he never believed his mother-in-law could become pregnant for him.

His words, “Iya yen lo fa mi mora, to ni ki nma ba a oun tage. Emi ko mo pe o lee j’asi oyun, mo ro wipe iya ti koja eni to tun le ni oyun ni.”

(It was my mother-in-law who seduced me, I never knew she could become pregnant again, but thought she had reached her menopause.)

The wife said she was disappointed by her husband’s behaviour, saying, “if he had told me he needed a second wife, I would not refuse him. Why should he be having love affairs with my own mother?” she asked.

Sunday Tribune gathered that the mother-in-law, who later gave birth to a baby girl, brought the baby to Ibadan a month ago.

She was said to have been reviled by neighbours for bringing shame on her daughter and destroying her home.

The mother-in-law could not be reached as everybody contacted said her whereabouts were unknown.

 Source: Sunday Tribune

I like the comprehensive look which the OP did but I want to correct you cos I was born , breed and presently working in Aba. Though the residents are not doing enough but the blame should go the useless Government that its not doing anything in Aba. Why are you elected as the Governor? You elected do correct the wrong of the people by making laws that mst be followed. There is no single govt presence in Aba, no single road is motor able, no single infrastructure. Where do you expect the people to take their house hold refuse to? Every year, my house pay @ least 55k plus 100k to d govt for sanitation and infrastructure levies which amount to billions of naira to d state govt. What re this money? In absence of govt help, where do you expect the resident to dispose refuse? I go like 10kms everyday cos I want to dispose refuse. The pple that re into the business cannt come to the street due to there is no road for them. This thread should have being for the Governor to sit up and stop embezzling the state fund.

I like the comprehensive look which the OP did but I want to correct you cos I was born , breed and presently working in Aba. Though the residents are not doing enough but the blame should go the useless Government that its not doing anything in Aba. Why are you elected as the Governor? You elected do correct the wrong of the people by making laws that mst be followed. There is no single govt presence in Aba, no single road is motor able, no single infrastructure. Where do you expect the people to take their house hold refuse to? Every year, my house pay @ least 55k plus 100k to d govt for sanitation and infrastructure levies which amount to billions of naira to d state govt. What re this money? In absence of govt help, where do you expect the resident to dispose refuse? I go like 10kms everyday cos I want to dispose refuse. The pple that re into the business cannt come to the street due to there is no road for them. This thread should have being for the Governor to sit up and stop embezzling the state fund.

I like the comprehensive look which the OP did but I want to correct you cos I was born , breed and presently working in Aba. Though the residents are not doing enough but the blame should go the useless Government that its not doing anything in Aba. Why are you elected as the Governor? You elected do correct the wrong of the people by making laws that mst be followed. There is no single govt presence in Aba, no single road is motor able, no single infrastructure. Where do you expect the people to take their house hold refuse to? Every year, my house pay @ least 55k plus 100k to d govt for sanitation and infrastructure levies which amount to billions of naira to d state govt. What re this money? In absence of govt help, where do you expect the resident to dispose refuse? I go like 10kms everyday cos I want to dispose refuse. The pple that re into the business cannt come to the street due to there is no road for them. This thread should have being for the Governor to sit up and stop embezzling the state fund.

I like the comprehensive look which the OP did but I want to correct you cos I was born , breed and presently working in Aba. Though the residents are not doing enough but the blame should go the useless Government that its not doing anything in Aba. Why are you elected as the Governor? You elected do correct the wrong of the people by making laws that mst be followed. There is no single govt presence in Aba, no single road is motor able, no single infrastructure. Where do you expect the people to take their house hold refuse to? Every year, my house pay @ least 55k plus 100k to d govt for sanitation and infrastructure levies which amount to billions of naira to d state govt. What re this money? In absence of govt help, where do you expect the resident to dispose refuse? I go like 10kms everyday cos I want to dispose refuse. The pple that re into the business cannt come to the street due to there is no road for them. This thread should have being for the Governor to sit up and stop embezzling the state fund.

I like the comprehensive look which the OP did but I want to correct you cos I was born , breed and presently working in Aba. Though the residents are not doing enough but the blame should go the useless Government that its not doing anything in Aba. Why are you elected as the Governor? You elected do correct the wrong of the people by making laws that mst be followed. There is no single govt presence in Aba, no single road is motor able, no single infrastructure. Where do you expect the people to take their house hold refuse to? Every year, my house pay @ least 55k plus 100k to d govt for sanitation and infrastructure levies which amount to billions of naira to d state govt. What re this money? In absence of govt help, where do you expect the resident to dispose refuse? I go like 10kms everyday cos I want to dispose refuse. The pple that re into the business cannt come to the street due to there is no road for them. This thread should have being for the Governor to sit up and stop embezzling the state fund.

donigspain: Poko

Boko haram?

Ournaija: Good question. I hope you will learn from it as am going to take the pain to tell you.

Rochas grew up in Jos and became a teacher. He had a tutorial center where kids come to learn and prepare for exams. Many became great scholars through his centre and he was recognized. The children of the rich also patronized him even the Gbong Gwom of Jos kids also patronized his center. That is why it`s easy for him to give free education because it`s his business.

Sometimes, in the early 90s IBB went to Jos and asked the Gbon Gwom of Jos to provide an educationist who can implement an educational scheme for Plateau then and he was recommended. He implemented the scheme successfully and he was given the privilege to replicate it in all the Northern states. This is how he got his way into government. He later won the contracts to supply Prado Jeeps and other stuffs across the federation. That was how he continue to grow from...............

Lesson
Whatever you findeth you hand to do, do it well, money will locate you.

this is the true story of Rochas, the writer missed some important facts here. Rochas named the school after the gwom Jos. It got through the Traditional ruler's heart. Rochas got into contracts and property business. His success secret is 'one kobo is money'. Long live Owelle.

ulonnaya21: Some of us are feeble minded. How could one cook up something that is untrue and think they can shove it down our throats. Anyway, I know enemies of Abia state are the ones behind this senseless report. You cannot stop what the governor is doing in the state, because he is dedicated to moving the state to a greater height and we are solidly behind him.

what the op said abt your boss is the only truth. Stop selling your consience for a porrage of yam.

I have 307 with the same features, with new tyres now. Bought it brand new, will sell it @ 850k. 08039622421.

ms pookie: my lil cousin serving in bauchi has debunked this,very untrue.

must u tell us that s/he is ur lil cousin?