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This guy is an idiot, when someone says the truth about your country, and you are one of the people that are fantastically corrupt which is the reason why Nigeria is going to hell right now.

Buhari and Babaginda think that all Nigerians are fools trying to defend this criminal that looted Nigerian funds. Lying to Nigerians is not the change we voted for.

Nigeria and Switzerland have agreed a deal for the latter to return more than $300 million of funds confiscated from former Nigerian military ruler Sani Abacha.

Abacha - who led Nigeria between 1993 and his death 1998 - is suspected to have looted up to $5 billion of public funds during his reign. He was investigated for corruption during his lifetime and some of his assets have been frozen posthumously. Abacha’s son, Abba Abacha, was charged by a Swiss court with money-laundering, fraud and forgery in 2005 and spent more than 500 days in custody.

In 2006, Luxembourg ordered that the funds, held by the younger Abacha, be frozen. The Nigerian government agreed a deal with the Abacha family in 2014 to reclaim the late ruler’s assets in return for dropping a complaint against the younger Abacha.

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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari was elected largely on an anti-corruption ticket and has pledged to reclaim billions of dollars of public funds lost to corruption, which has long plagued the West African nation. Nigeria is ranked 136th out of 168 countries in Transparency International’s 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index and Nigerian information minister Lai Mohammed said in January that 1.34 trillion naira ($6.8 billion) in public funds had been stolen by government ministers and bankers between 2006 and 2013.

In a statement issued on Tuesday on behalf of Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the Nigerian Presidency said that Osinbajo had met with the Swiss foreign minister Didier Burkhalter and other Swiss representatives to finalize the return of $321 million. Osinbajo said he would “guarantee that returned assets will be used in the interest of the people of this country.” Switzerland has already returned more than $720 million of the stolen funds and it is believed that Abacha may have stored up to $2.2 billion in European bank accounts.


Late Nigerian military leader General Sani Abacha, shown in this September 1993 file photo, is suspected of looting billions in public funds during his five year reign.

Meet the Nigerian Princes of College Football Recruiting

By Sanjay Kirpalani , National Recruiting Analyst Feb 1, 2016


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Before he embarked upon a basketball career that ultimately helped him get drafted into the NBA, Ejike Ugboaja’s future resembled one that most of the kids in his home country of Nigeria still face today.

Sports were his way out of a nation that's still grappling with economic and social hardships that leave most children with few options other than avenues full of negative consequences.

One decade after leaving Nigeria, Ugboaja is making it his life’s work to ensure more kids from his homeland get the same opportunity.

“I came from a less fortunate background. For me to do this is something I’ve always wanted to do: to give back to my home country,” Ugboaja told Bleacher Report recently. “When I was drafted into the NBA, one of my main goals was to find a way to give back to Nigeria. When I got that opportunity, I just was fortunate to find a way to make

“I asked him, ‘are you sure?’ He said, ‘Bro, I think I will do it,’” Ejike explained. “So he gave it a try. For me to see how quick he came around, I was like, ‘damn, this is amazing.’”

Odogwu eventually landed a scholarship to the University of Miami as an offensive lineman. He will be a redshirt junior this fall and is currently the starting right tackle for the Hurricanes, per Ourlads.

Buoyed by the interest in Odogwu from football coaches during his recruitment, Ejike and Henry started the process of attracting football coaches to come and help them teach the game at their annual summer camp.

Odogwu’s success inspired kids in Nigeria to learn more about the game of football, and Ejike’s camp quickly became the event that helped to bridge that gap.

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“It’s surprising to me because it’s taken off so fast. We never expected it to grow this much this soon,” Ejike said. “I was thinking basketball was the one thing that everyone would warm up to. But when Sunny switched to football, a lot of people saw the progression he made in football. They see that his future is now in the game of football.”

Getting their athletes to the United States is a mission in and of itself.

Henry, who is an adjunct professor at Ohio Mid-Western College and teaches business and marketing classes, also worked as an educator and admissions counselor in Nigeria.

As he explained, he routinely worked hand in hand with the U.S. Embassy in clerical matters—which has aided the brothers in helping kids earn visas for entry into the United States.

“I started dealing with those [visa and paperwork] issues,” Henry said. “I figure out the details on each kid and what grade they are supposed to be in, and I work with each school in verifying paperwork and figuring out the proper area to place them academically. Sometimes when colleges have trouble figuring out the translation of the transcript, I help them sort that out.”

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Richards notes that because of their typical two-year visa statuses upon entering the country, in most cases, the only way they are eligible to compete in prep sports in the U.S. is for them to attend private schools. In most cases, the school helps locate a host family. In some instances, Henry and Ejike use their resources and connection to find a host family for the kids.

“The majority [of the Nigerian athletes] that come over have to be enrolled in a charter school. That’s why a lot of them end up at private schools,” Richards explained. “Most of these kids are 16, 17 or 18 years old and starting their junior year of high school. To go through the whole [host] process is strenuous, and by the time they get done, they are already done with high school.”

While eligibility concerns are prevalent with foreign athletes in the recruiting process, the problems that arise have more to do with language and academic classification than the kids’ ability to thrive in a new learning environment.

“These kids are very academically enriched, believe it or not,” Richards said. “Some kids can speak four, five or six different languages. [Most times] when they go to take the test at schools on where to place them [eligibility-wise], they are beyond being a freshman or a sophomore.”

Still, even when kids are able to make it to the United States and graduate to being on the doorstep of making their dreams come true, another set of challenges awaits them.

I will rather have Buhari who started this conversation whether he is doing it right or wrong, now Nigerians are paying attention. Remember the days where it was easy to chop government money, now the conversation has changed.

anonimi:
Sun is the same newspaper that Femi Adesina was Editor oh.
Abeg tell us something else o jare.

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Soooo what, it doesn't make a difference to me, these people that are crying foul are very stupid and ignorant.

I feel sorry for these Nigerians that will defend any of these corrupt people, knowing that there are corrupt judges too that accept bribes to exon orate some of these thieves. The impact will reach all Nigerians, it doesn't matter what tribe or state that they find themselves. Most people are criticizing Buhari for his war on corruption because they said he is fighting one party. I disagree because regardless of the party each person has a tracer which will eventually be discovered. Rome was not built in a day, one by one they will fall, because if APC eventually moves out of Aso rock. The war continues so no one is spared, but we have to start somewhere or we ALL WILL STARVE TO DEATH.

Port Harcourt (Nigeria) (AFP) - Bright orange flames flare upwards from a pencil-thin chimney at the Port Harcourt Refining Company, sending thick black smoke into the white clouds above Nigeria's southern oil hub.
On the ground, workers in boiler suits and hard hats inspect the tanks, valves and gauges around the metal pipes that stretch up, down and across the facility.

In the hush of the control room, away from the hiss of steam and hum of heavy machinery, the refining process is monitored closely on a bank of computer screens.

PHRC boss Bafred Enjugu sees it as a sign that Nigeria -- Africa's biggest oil producer -- is finally "domesticating" the refining of crude into products, thus improving its energy security and ending a reliance on costly imports.

The talk is of job creation, national pride and the chance to help revive an economy badly hurt by the fall in global oil prices as well as providing fuel for the increasing demands of a growing population.

"To give up on the refineries is like giving up on Nigeria. That's how strongly I believe about it and we can't afford to do that," the PHRC managing director told AFP.

"We can't go home and tell our children that we have failed to provide the right platform to take off."

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The Port Harcourt refinery is Nigeria's oldest, built in 1965, nine years after oil was found under the marshy soil and creeks of the delta, where the Niger river runs off into the Gulf of Guinea.

The Port Harcourt refinery is Nigeria's oldest, built in 1965, nine years after oil was found un …

Refineries in nearby Warri, and Kaduna in the north central region, were built in the years that followed, while a new plant was added to the same site in Port Harcourt in 1989.

In recent years, however, the facilities have been more idle than operational.

OPEC-member Nigeria instead sent much of the 1.8 million barrels of crude it now produces daily to foreign facilities, buying back refined products such as petrol at market prices.

By the end of Goodluck Jonathan's presidency, just how reliant Nigeria had become on imports became clear when a dispute between marketers and the government caused a crippling fuel shortage.

Muhammadu Buhari, elected on an anti-corruption ticket, replaced Jonathan in late May, days after the blockade was lifted, and vowed to end years of graft and mismanagement.

Less than a month later, the state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), of which PHRC is a subsidiary, said all four refineries would resume operations.

Buhari, who accused Jonathan and his predecessors of having "run down" the refineries since the return to civilian rule in 1999, then sacked the entire NNPC board.

A probe was ordered into "mind-boggling" sums of oil revenue allegedly diverted into private accounts, and a Harvard-educated lawyer was named to run the NNPC and make it commercially viable.

Ops i can see that you want to answer every different point of view making it seem like you have all the answer to courtship, relationship and how it is suppose to go down. First of all as a man or a woman you have to define what type of relationship you are seeking from a person . Some people just want to learn about the opposite sex, who tells you that whoever dates you must marry you. How do you know if you are compatible with the opposite sex. Who tells you that every person whether man or woman straight out wants to go to the altar. Dont make it seem that dating and learning of the opposite sex is not beneficial because we all learn from each other
If you dont believe in dating that is fine with you and people like you are the once that meet these monsters who beat and abuse women because they were swept off thier feet by the word i want to marry you.

Toks2008:
When a man shows interest in a lady and tells her that he would love to know her better,most times in his heart this is exactly what he is saying: "Hi lady, can i get to have a taste of your goody-bag and have the feel of your body to know if you are good enough in bed and decide if i should keep you for long or dump your ass in a jiffy because i don't really care whether we end up together or not".

I honestly don't believe in dating and even as courtship sounds more reasonable,it is still not really necessary and i will try to list logical reasons why ladies should avoid this lie from the pits of hell called dating or courtship and i hope you learn a great deal from this.


1. A man usually knows if there is a huge possibility of marrying you or just want to use you to pass time the very first day he sets his eyes on you and a man who is really interested in a purposeful affair with you will give you the sign almost immediately with the body language except you refuse to be vigilant.

2. Many Men use dating and courtship as a means of exploring you sexually and probably after he realizes that your bosoms are not as firm as he wants them to be or your sex performance is below what he wants or after he has really used you to his satisfaction then he tells you it can't work out because his mum does not want him to marry from your tribe or just brings up any lame excuse and decides to walk away to get another lady to "date"

3. An Angel can turn to a demon: Many people have argued that dating period is a period where you will know the type of person you have but this assertion is very funny because a good person can turn terrible and most times even if the person seems bad many ladies will still go on and marry him with the hope of changing him.

4.Dating and courtship is a disguised miniature marriage because in many cases when a guy starts dating or courting you,you will be doing some stuffs that wives do and i keep wondering why they still see the union as dating or courting when he is practically having all the benefits he should get from a wife hence the need to continue dating and courting and dating and.. until you suddenly realized you have spent your honey years married unofficially to a man who will probably dump you to marry another lady still in the name of dating.

5.A thousand years of courtship is no guaranty that you will know the man and until you two stay under the same roof as man and wife,you will never come closer to knowing who he really is so why waste your years dating and courting.

6.Most of the marriages of our parents are great examples as most of our parents hardly knew each other before getting married yet many of them had a lasting and loving union but these days despite the celebrated dating and courting culture,many marriages hit the rock.

7.A good union is not hinged on the number of years both of you spend sleeping with each other in the name of dating or courtship but its in learning to love whoever you choose to marry and making up your mind to be with him against all odds.

8. I believe that for a man to ever propose an affair to you then he must have found you good enough to have to himself and for a decent lady to agree to an affair with a man then she is definitely ready to be with the man except she is a slut so why waste time fooling around with each other all in the name of getting to sleep with each other in the name of dating and courtship?

9. A sexless date or courtship is the ideal form of courting where both of you try to know just a peripheral detail about yourselves hence once sex comes in then its no longer dating but unofficial marital union.

10.The responsible and matured guys at heart knows the type of woman they want and do not get involved in baseless dating but simply go for the lady of their choice and marry her.

If you are not ready to marry a lady,don't make advances towards her just to waste her years sampling her and if you are a lady,stop fooling yourself thinking you are dating him whereas you are just giving him your body to be used and probably dumped and understand that dating and courtship are just facade from the pits of hell aimed at destroying the lives of ladies by becoming single unmarried mothers,losing their lives through abortions and many have contracted deadly diseases all in the name of dating.

Lets face it,a year of sexless courtship should be enough and one year is not too much to deprive yourself of sex in order to know that guy better and if a man does not start the process of marrying you within a year then it means you are either dating a small boy for the sake of having sex or you are probably with a man who is not sure he wants you.

I know that all the sermons in the world will not bring sanity to the facade of dating and courtship and if any lady sees this piece and shoves it aside,my advice to such is to continue to serve herself on the alter of sexual ecstasy for as many guys as possible in the name of baseless dating or courtship

My humble opinion and i hope this helps.

I swear if this was me when I finish with that pastor he will never put his leg back in that pulpit. Nonsense

My guy, you ve made it here in the usa and you ve struggled to be here up till now, and you ve also mentioned nigerian economy and iran oil because the worst hasnt even started as you noted. Have you thought about the advantages of working for companies in usa, the pensions, the retirement packages that are guaranteed, hear me guaranteed. As an engineer you can triple the amount that you mentioned and you can invest in nigeria from usa, ask a lot of people who has investments in nigeria how they did it. If i were in your position, am already thinking about what my future will hold if i finally retire, usa has a solid future, nigerian is still struggling to curb corruption and pensions, retiirement packages are not guaranteed. If you finally complete your engineering and and economy improves in nigeria then you have the opportunity to use your foreign expertise and knowledge believe me if you want to return to nigeria , you will definitely get a job that you are looking for . that is if the economy improves, but with the condition of things right now, i will not even think about making that move.

Somebody is trying to discourage people who want to hustle their way to a better life, but who is listening??.

lol some people self and there write up.

kilode100:
I no dey for her mind biko.

Forgive and wife her jare.. It's one of those things.

Or,
Can you swear you didn't yansh another babe for that seven months??
Some women can't stay that long without serious hammering, so she relieves her herself, what is the harm?

Some people sef.

People bashing this development bringing bible and end things here will be the same people that are wicked towards there neighbors, if given the opportunity they will steal, corrupt and commit other wicked atrocities in Nigeria where no one is safe. Lets God be the judge of all humanity and not any of you.

The Nigerian man's mentality, that is why every person that is elected is looking out for his own pocket

DONBROTHER1:
I hope they will give us our share when the money arrive.


heading to take tramadul that will cause me to sleep for three month till when the money will come.

cryptic99:
he has a daughter?

Na the new way to go na.

Hotels.ng founder Mark Essien


Hotels.ng, which claims to be the largest hotel booking site in Nigeria, has raised $1.2 million to expand across Africa. Investors include EchoVC Pan-Africa Fund and Omidyar Network, a venture capital firm launched by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.

The site will launch new operations in Ghana first, says founder Mark Essien, and then move on to all of West Africa before tackling the rest of the continent. It also plans to focus on its mobile platform, since many consumers in Africa access the Internet exclusively through their smartphones.

Users performed more than a million hotel searches on the site last year, while 70,000 new customers signed up. Hotels.ng’s growth in its home market hinges on two factors: Nigeria’s Internet penetration rate, which is the highest in Africa and still increasing rapidly, and the government’s investment in its tourism industry, which is expected to contribute 5.8 percent of its gross domestic product by 2024.

This means that other hotel booking companies have set their sights on the country, including Jovago, which was launched by Rocket Internet in 2013, as well as international platforms Agoda and Bookings.com.



Essien says that by focusing exclusively on Africa, Hotels.ng is able to offer more inventory than its competitors. The site is also able to adapt to the needs of consumers in regions where there are few stable Internet or phone connections, with phone-based and messaging-based reservations accounting for more than 30 percent of Hotels.ng’s entire bookings.

“The hotel booking space in particular—even though it was a big market abroad—did not exist in the entire Sub-Saharan African market. After looking into the market, I understood the operational challenges that prevented it from existing, and then set about to solve them,” says Essien.

“We were able to solve them, and the day the site went live, we were dealing with a 100 calls a day. Since then, the business has kept growing—down to us raising one of the biggest Nigerian tech rounds in recent times.”

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's outgoing government has agreed to pay a debt of $800 million to resolve a months-long fuel crisis crippling the economy days before the inauguration of a new president in the country, oil suppliers said Wednesday.

Chaos reigned Tuesday at Nigerian airports where most flights were cancelled. Foreign airlines flew to other African countries to refuel. Cars and other vehicles formed queues two and three deep blocking roads for more than 2 kilometers (a mile) outside of gas stations. Attendants turned away people carrying yellow cans to buy kerosene for cooking. There was none.

Banks started closing at lunchtime on Monday and cell phone companies warned they would be forced to shut down service countrywide for lack of diesel to fuel generators.

Nigeria — Africa's biggest oil producer— generates more than 2 million barrels of petroleum a day but imports the refined product because its refineries are not maintained. A woeful national grid that offers only a few hours of electricity on a good day failed to generate any electricity recently because of shortages of thermal gas to fire its generators. That leaves all businesses and homes that can afford it dependent on diesel-powered generators. The country frequently suffers fuel shortages, but the disruption caused by the latest is unprecedented.

President-elect Buhari's party accused President Goodluck Jonathan's administration of sabotage to ensure it inherits "a nation in crisis."

Months of backlog mean the shortages still will be biting when dozens of presidents and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry are scheduled to arrive for Friday's inauguration.

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria said the finance minister agreed Monday to pay them $800 million. It said companies started distributing oil Tuesday and unpaid tanker drivers stopped striking.

There was no immediate statement from the finance minister, who accused the suppliers of holding Nigeria to ransom over the disputed debt, bemoaning "so much fraud allegations and scams in this business of oil marketing."

Nigeria's government, hit by halved prices for the petroleum that provides 80 percent of its revenue and a massive slump in its naira currency, has been borrowing to pay salaries.

Suppliers, hit by tightened credit lines and naira repayments to pay dollar debts, worried they would not be paid by the incoming government of Muhammadu Buhari, who has pledged to fight endemic corruption.

Buhari's party accused the outgoing government of President Goodluck Jonathan of sabotage to ensure it inherits "a nation in crisis."

2015 The Associated Press

Thats the attitude you have towards these idiots, this is why things are not getting better because of people thinking like you. We know there are bigger fish to catch but we have to strt somewhere to cut off the tail of a snake and not make it ok to commit fraud and get away with it.

shakazuldadon:
Leave hustling boys jarreeee

Agaraw23 want compare his life and experience with others living abroad, one thing that people learn living abroad is how to be disciplined which reflects on most of thier behavior, there word is thier bond, i dont know how many people in nigeria will tell you something and you believe what they are telling you, they believe in there own lies.

agarawu23:
just collected my resident permit card today and will be visiting nigeria august after 2yrs leaving my nation and a topic came my mind and will like to share with my fellow NL who have ppl overseas.

though i may not include some of the reasons but I am 100% sure of my own but you can include yours if you have.

jobless without a stable job:- yes, how can someone who is not eating 3 square meals remember ppl at home? this month he/she works and next month no job again and house rent ,water ,light etc are there to balance up.

Fraudster:- forget this kind of ppl and loose hope in them because they will never come home due to their crimes been committed within the country and he can't even near the airport if he is a wanted criminal. Abroad no be 9ja o ones they have your biometrics ,even if you bleach from black to green dey will get u.

Prodigal lifestyle ppl:- before you make up your mind living in abroad ,u must open your number 6 (brain) because life is too sweet abroad and this group of ppl spend there savings clubbing, partying,smoking, drinking and prostituting just frgt this kind of ppl dey can never remember home even if you tell them there parents are abt to die.

Illegal migrants:- 78% of Nigerians living abroad are living illegal ,majority came with 3weeks, 2month, 1month visas but will not have the chance to renew there visas until they finally meet up with the country requirements and mind you if you don't make the steps early enough, just forget visiting police station if you dont want to be deported. so this are the kind of ppl that spend more than 10years without visiting home.

The marriage scammers:- these group of ppl will never visit home because they have forcefully marry a citizen of the country dey reside just to get residence permit. oyinbo wife no be like nja o if you mention say u wan go your country ehh be ready to spend some weeks in jail

that's all I can write for now due to my experience and what I am seeing with my two eyes.

may God crown our hustle (Amen)

As far as there are no jobs in this wretched country, scenes like this will be normal just like in the middle east.

Unfortunately there will be more of this until the youths can work and earn a living. Those rich people that feels untouchable especially the politicians will be touched one way or the other.

Wow i didnt know that people are still sending cars to nigeria with the dollar and naira exchange and the amount of money to ship and get the car from the wharf. Not talking about the price of the vehicle.

If this guy is not bothering anyone, why should they bother him, let who is not a sinner throw the first stone.

The same people that was happy when he won the africa cup of nations are quick to forget.

(Reuters) - A health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who provided care for an Ebola patient there has tested positive for Ebola in a preliminary test, the Texas Department of State Health Services said in a statement on Sunday.

The health care worker reported a low-grade fever Friday night and was isolated and referred for testing, it said.

"We knew a second case could be a reality, and we've been preparing for this possibility," said Dr. David Lakey, commissioner of the health service.

(Reporting by Jason Neely)

Tunder fire you stupid idiot, you know there are Nigerians that live here too. ANUOFIA

DGKN: Wow.. Good news.. I happy 4 dem.. Best news eva

All these churches in Nigeria are bunch of frauds, i say frauds, i will rather dash my money to a beggar in computer village than give my hard earned money to these so called pastors in Nigeria. They have divided family, failed marriages because of their fake visions and caused broken hearts with thier fake prayers and yet nigerians keep flocking to them like a blind sheep.

I thought he said he sees visions, how come he wasnt able to see this one in his dreams. Bunch of fraudsters operating in Nigeria.

LMAO America is way more better than europe, the problem with a lot of police incident is resisting arrest getting into confrontation with the police when you are suppose to do simple commands that is directed towards you. I dont know the full story in this case but most of the times i have been stopped by the police, show that your a human being just like they are, because they are afraid of their lives too, they dont know if you have a gun to hurt them, put you hands on the drivers wheel or raise them to show that you dont posses any guns. If you follow simple instructions then you have diffused the situation, they can even let you go with a warning or the worst scenario is to give you a ticket for whatever violation they stopped you for. There are some over zealous police men, they are every where but trust me most of these police men are good police men. Unfortunately few of them give other cops bad names.

Btruth: This is one of the reason I still prefer Europe to America. Americans, especially the racist among them (be it white or black) cannot be trusted with gun. They worship guns like a small god.

Why are you spreading false information?

GenBuhari: [size=28pt]

All the Ebola hyteria is being whipped up by America to test experimental vaccines on Nigerians.

By September this year they may start the vaccinations, the vaccine will then start killing more people, which they would report as further Ebola deaths and make even more panicked Nigerians rush to get the vaccine.

This message is very important!

Do not take any experimental vaccines!!

Ebola (if it exist at all) is not airborne and therefore no more contagious than hepatitis. All you need to do is continue taking your usual precautions against all contagious illness.

There are news reports that locals in the area of so-called Ebola hotspots in West Africa are accusing the European/American run Ebola medical centres of bringing and spreading Ebola- that is very telling!

They are probably already testing the vaccines in those countries on people who merely have something like malaria and who they have deliberately "diagnosed " as having Ebola. When the patient dies the call it an Ebola death.

Dont fall victim to Ebola hoax

A word is enough for the wise


Perspective:

Influenza and Rabies kill far more people every year around the world yet there is no hysteria[/size]



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