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Bullhari007:
Op you are a fvcking liar Ibadan will never be complete without this picture

life is indeed difficult for the blind....so u can't see any beauty in what u posted....it shows where they are coming from, where they are and where they are going to.....go to some European cities and u will understand what I'm saying....u think if they had demolished their old structures they will still be able to shoot those old movies for u....movies like Spartacus, GOT etc.....

PUNCH EDITORIAL :

Many states get money simply for contributing practically nothing! According to the Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun, Lagos State alone generates 55 per cent of the VAT collected in the country, followed distantly by the Federal Capital Territory, which chips in 20 per cent. This means the contribution from the remaining 35 states of the federation is just 25 per cent. Adeosun, at a meeting of the Progressive Governors’ Forum in Birnin Kebbi in Kebbi State, put the VAT returns from Rivers and Kano states at six per cent and five per cent respectively. And when Rivers’ and Kano’s total of 11 per cent is added to that of Lagos and Abuja, making it 86 per cent, it means the remaining 33 states jointly make a paltry contribution of just 14 per cent.

In fact, Lagos has so much potential that the state government is realistically setting a target of making it the third largest economy in Africa. This is a state that accounts for 70 per cent of maritime trade in the country and hosts 60 per cent of industries that help generate the VAT that is shared among all the states. Aside from accounting for 86.2 per cent of Companies Income Tax in 2008, according to the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Lagos is also the manufacturing hub of Nigeria. The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, recently noted that all the 214 people who paid up to N20 million each as tax per annum were resident in Lagos. He went on to add that, of the 914 who paid between N10 million and N20 million tax, only two were resident outside Lagos. Those two are domiciled in Ogun State. Figures from the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria also indicate that the Ikeja Industrial Zone alone – not even the entire Lagos – accounted for 55 per cent of goods manufactured in the country in 2016. This also means sustenance of jobs for Nigerians from all parts of the country.

However, the setting becomes very provocative when it comes to the sharing formula. For the month of February, for instance, while Lagos got N6.14 billion, reports have it that Kaduna State, whose contribution was put at mere one per cent, got N4.23 billion, just as Kano and Rivers got N1.66 billion and N1.33 billion respectively. The question then arises, how did the state with one per cent contribution end up getting more than the bigger contributors? Where is justice in such a system?


VAT, a tax levied on goods and services consumed, is shared among the three tiers of government, with the Federal Government taking 15 per cent, while the state and local governments share 50 per cent and 35 per cent respectively. With the present LG structure in the country, the Northern section of the country is placed at an unduly advantageous position because it has by far the greater number of LGAs. These are LGAs created based more on land mass than on human population.

The country was deliberately structured that way during the military rule to give that part of the country an undue advantage when it comes to revenue distribution, not generation. An often cited example is that of Lagos and Kano states, which started off with the same number of LGAs at the 1967 state creation, only for Lagos to still remain at 20 LGAs while Kano, despite Jigawa State having been carved out of it, now has 44 LGAs. Even Jigawa, the sister state, boasts 27 LGAs, while efforts by Lagos State, which is indisputably the most populous in the country, to increase its number of LGAs have been met with deliberate frustration.

Besides, when a bill came up at the Senate last year, highlighting the special status of Lagos, it was promptly thrown out without senators batting an eyelid. Oluremi Tinubu, the sponsor of the bill, had sought the setting aside of one per cent of accruals to the Federal Government from the Consolidated Federation Account for the funding of the peculiar challenges of the state as a former capital of Nigeria. Those who threw out the bill conveniently forgot that an investment in Lagos is also an investment for Nigeria because Lagos, the economic capital of the country, has become a home to many Nigerians, regardless of their state of origin. Interestingly, when a bill for the creation of a North-East Development Commission came up at the same Senate that rejected the Lagos bill, it was overwhelmingly passed. The commission, ironically, will draw its funding for the next 10 years from VAT, the burden of which is borne chiefly by Lagos. The same attitude of contempt was displayed when the lawmakers slashed the budget proposal for the repair of the dilapidated Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

Added to this brazen injustice is the inclusion of the 12 Sharia practising Northern states in the sharing of VAT on alcoholic beverages. Hisbah, the Sharia law enforcement agencies in these states, regularly confiscate and destroy alcoholic drinks. In 2001, a group that called itself the Independent Sharia Implementation Committee destroyed more than 600 crates of assorted beer. On November 27, 2013, the Hisbah destroyed over 240,000 bottles of beer in Kano. In January 2015, the Kano State Hisbah Board said it destroyed 326,151 bottles of beer. This is outrageous.

It is wrong and unjust for states to have an entitlement to a share of other people’s efforts rather than a reward for their own efforts. The reality of the present is that Lagos, as a former capital of the country and the economic livewire, deserves special treatment to continue to drive the economy. Many federal institutions and roads exist in the state which should not be abandoned. It is the treatment such as Lagos and the oil producing states of the country are facing today that is fuelling the ongoing campaign for the restructuring of the country. Wealth is not sitting there waiting to be shared; it must be constantly created. There is no way a country mounted on a tripod of injustice can stand; it will surely collapse unless urgent steps are taken to address these obviously dangerous contradictions. As the great American president, Abraham Lincoln, once said, there is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man’s brow.

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Mynd44

oladeebo:
op! don't go yet! elaborate to us, the word: penkelemesi!

That's "Peculiar Mess"

By Onigegewura;

When next are you going to be in the city of Ibadan?

One of the places you must endeavour to visit in the historic town is Taj Mahal in Oke Oluokun. That’s the residence and final resting place of Alhaji Adegoke Adelabu, the Lion of the West.

Adelabu needs no introduction. He was the afternoon star that scared the elderly. He was the morning dew that drenched both friends and foes. More than fifty-nine years after his death, he refused to be forgotten. For those who are not familiar with Penkelemesi, please read Onigegewura’s You know Penkelemesi! But do you know Ebullition? to know more about this legendary personality.

Gbadamosi Adegoke Adelabu died at his prime. He died when his sun was at its zenith. It was a death like no other. It was not the death of an individual. It was not the loss of a family. Adegoke Adelabu’s death was a national tragedy. Ibadan stood still. Lagos was stunned. Nigeria went into a state of shock.

How did Adelabu die? Was it an act of God? Was he killed by his political opponents? Was Adegoke a victim of political conspiracy? What was Adelabu’s business with his Lebanese friends? What actually happened on that fateful day in 1958?

If there was a politician who understood the psychology of his people, it was Adegoke Adelabu. He was a master in the art and science of political psychology. And like the consummate politician he was, he spoke the language of the people. He was a compound polyglot. His Yoruba was flawless. His English was impeccable. Adelabu was not the one to mix Yoruba with English in the same sentence.

Though small in stature, he was intellectually a giant. With his brilliance, he dazzled and dwarfed his peers. According to Bola Ige, Adelabu was “a short man, but with boundless energy, he always seemed to be on the move, he went on foot from village to village. He dressed and appeared like a rustic villager. He never seemed to smile, not to talk of laugh. His Yoruba was devastating in pithiness and sarcasm. He knew how to leave every audience with a phrase that could not be forgotten.”

Coming from Chief Bola Ige, who himself was a wordsmith, that was an eloquent testimonial. If any evidence of Adelabu’s mastery of language is required, you need look no further than Penkelemesi and Ebullition.

The final journey of the grassroots politician did not start in 1958 when he breathed his last. It actually started three years earlier in 1955 when Adelabu was appointed the Minister of Natural Resources and Social Services. The appointment was indeed a giant leap for Adelabu, who started life from a weaver’s shed.

His Lebanese friends, the Younan family, saw his appointment as a golden opportunity to market the Penkelemesi brand. It was decided that textile materials bearing Adelabu’s image and name be produced and sold. It was expected that the cloth would also serve a subtle campaign strategy for Adelabu who was aiming to become the premier of the West.

When the first shipment arrived, neither Adelabu nor the Younan family, expected what happened. They had expected sale to be slow and gradual. To their pleasant surprise, the Penkelemesi fabric became an overnight bestseller. It became the social uniform, not only in Ibadan but throughout the Western Region. According to Iya Agba, textile merchants were using the cloth to sell other brands. You must buy another brand before aso penkelemesi could be sold to you.

It was no longer aso ebi. It became aso ilupeju – a global uniform. It was used for weddings, naming ceremonies, funerals, housewarming and every form of social function. Tailors were praying daily for Adelabu. There was no tailor in Ibadan that did not get one or two yards to sew.

The Younan family did not wait for the stock to run out before the second shipment was ordered. It also recorded massive sale. This time around, Idumota traders and Onitsha merchants joined the bandwagon. The Lion of the West was the toast of the moment. He was not only a successful politician; he had also demonstrated that he was business savvy.

With the 1956 elections approaching, and with his rising political profile, Adelabu was sure of victory at the polls. He was a master strategist. As a populist leader, he gave people what they wanted. In areas of Ibadan where the indigenes were in the majority, Adelabu ensured that natives were the candidates of his party. In non-native areas, the Political Genius, fielded non-natives. It was a strategy that never failed him.

He was confident of becoming the premier. His business partners were also confident. It was decided that in addition to the penkelemesi cloth already in the market, a special cloth should be ordered for his inauguration as the premier. The cloth was indeed special. It showed Adegoke Adelabu as the Premier holding the keys to the Western House of Assembly! It was going to be a hot cake.

To finance the project, Albert Younan obtained a loan from African Continental Bank. ACB was one of the big indigenous banks in Nigeria then. The bank became distressed in 1991 and was taken over by the Central Bank of Nigeria. It was later revived and was one of the banks that formed the present day Spring Bank. The bank even had a football club. I can see elderly people reading this nodding as they remember ACB FC of Lagos!

Adelabu had however not taken into consideration the political wizardry of Obafemi Awolowo. As fate would have it, it was Awolowo who became the Premier. Adelabu became the Leader of the Opposition. Of course you know that it is the Premier and not the Leader of the Opposition that would hold the key to the House of Assembly.

You want to know what happened to the cloth already ordered. You are not the only one. The management of ACB also wanted to know. More importantly, the bankers wanted to know how the Younans were going to repay the facility. Yet the cloth could not be sold as Adelabu did not become the premier.

Albert Younan found himself in a financial jeopardy. The bank was writing to him everyday demanding repayment of the loan. The cloth was in the warehouse, unsold. Adelabu was in the House, but not as the premier. This was not an ordinary matter. Ohun ti o mu bale ile wo aso iyawo re lo si oja, oro ti kuro ni se ko si nkan. Mewa nbe. Whatever made the husband to wear his wife’s dress to the market place has gone beyond 'I hope there's no problem'.

On March 24, 1958, Younan sent a desperate message to Penkelemesi. It was a plea for help. The bank was on his neck. He had been given a final deadline by the bank. Adelabu decided to assist his friend by following him to the head office of the bank in Lagos to plead for further credit.

Adelabu woke up very early the following day. In addition to the meeting with ACB in Lagos, he also had some issues to discuss with Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh. He decided to use the same stone to kill two birds. He had just finished his morning prayers when he was informed that Albert Younan was outside. He bade his family farewell and promised to be back before evening.

The journey to Lagos was uneventful. The management of the Bank was happy to receive a politician with the stature of Adelabu. He was assured that his request would be considered. Younan was happy. Adelabu was happy. He went off to see Okotie-Eboh.

It was on the return journey to Ibadan that the unthinkable happened. It was on a straight stretch of road between Ode-Remo and Iperu. Albert Younan was the one driving the ash-grey Peugeot saloon car. Adelabu was seated beside him. Two of Adelabu’s aides were also in the car.

Without warning, the Peugeot collided head on with a light yellow Austin which was on its way to Lagos. The force of the collision was such that the Austin somersaulted and came to rest upside down facing back the way it had come. The Peugeot cracked under the impact. It burst into flames.

Ha! Ikunle o! Travellers who witnessed the accident rushed to the aid of the victims. They successfully extinguished the fire. Of the four passengers in the Peugeot car, only the driver, Albert Younan, was alive. Though he was injured, he was still breathing.

The driver of the yellow Austin was unharmed. It was as if he was not the one who drove the car. His two passengers were however not as lucky. The two Britons in the car, who were representatives of the Royal Exchange Assurance Company, sustained slight injuries. All of them, the dead and the injured, were quickly rushed to Shagamu Hospital. It was at the hospital that it was discovered that Penkelemesi, the Lion of the West, was one of the dead.

It was late in the evening that the news reached Ibadan. It started as a rumour. No one believed it. It could not have been Adelabu. Penkelemesi was a survivor. He was a fighter. He would never allow death to take him. Even if he was involved in an accident, the Lone Star would be unscathed. Bi Sango ba n pa Araba, bi o n fa Iroko ya, bi ti igi nla ko. If Sango, the god of thunder strikes at Araba tree and dismantles Iroko tree, he must respect the baobab tree. Adelabu was baobab. He was beyond the reach of Sango.

It was not until the following morning when his death became the headline news that reality dawned on his teeming followers. Tragedy Strikes screamed the Defender newspaper. Adelabu Is Dead announced the Daily Times.

Anthony Enahoro, as the Leader of the Western House of Assembly, proposed an extraordinary adjournment as a tribute to the dead Leader of the Opposition. In his moving tribute, he said: “We did not agree with him or his methods, and he too, did not agree with us or our policies. Nevertheless, he was a tireless and doughty fighter who stood firmly by the things he cherished, and it may be that when the history of these times comes to be written, that is one attribute of Alhaji Adelabu which will be remembered better than any other.”

Chief Obafemi Awolowo saluted the man who had keenly desired to take his place as Premier of the West. According to him: “Alhaji Adegoke Adelabu was, in his lifetime, and ever since he entered into politics, a fighter first and last, with all the characteristics of a fighter. He was fearless, formidable, forthright, often caustic, and uncompromising.”

It was a day no one who witnessed it would ever forget. Lanrewaju Adepoju, the redoubtable Yoruba poet, in a recent album, observed that Ibadan had never mourned anyone the way it mourned Adelabu. More than 75,000 mourners assembled to pay their final homage to the People’s Hero. According to an eyewitness account, the crowd was so dense that that it took three hours for the funeral procession of over fifty vehicles to move from Molete to Oke Oluokun where he was to be buried.

Kingsley Ozumba Mbadiwe presented a coffin to the family on behalf of his political party, the NCNC. It must have been a special coffin. I remember that one verbal abuse that was popular in the West when I was growing up was to describe someone as having ‘long head like Adelabu’s coffin’. Do you remember? Olori gboro bi posi Adelabu!

Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the Leader of NCNC, was not physically present at the funeral but he was represented by top notchers of the party. He later came to pay his last his respects to his very distinguished lieutenant. At the graveside, Azikiwe announced that NCNC would provide scholarships for all of Adelabu's 15 children. He also donated 100 pounds to the family.

Adelabu was not mourned by only the NCNC and the AG. On behalf of the Northern People Congress, Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello and Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa sent two top Ministers: Muhammadu Ribadu and Inuwa Wada to pay condolences and pray at the grave of a fellow Muslim.

Adegoke Adelabu was dead and buried. But the Lion of West did not die alone. His supporters took to the streets. They paraded through the city and stoned public buildings, including Mapo Hall and the courts at Oke Are. By evening of that day, three people had been killed in various parts of Ibadan.

It was speculated that Adelabu was shot by his political opponents. An editor of a newspaper claimed that he saw Adelabu’s body riddled with bullet holes and that the car he was travelling in was deliberately crashed to make it look like an accident.

This claim was however without basis. Unknown to many at the time, Adelabu’s corpse did not arrive Ibadan until late in the morning of March 26 because a postmortem was being conducted to determine the cause of his death. The autopsy was witnessed by Chief Joseph M. Johnson, one of Adelabu’s friends. Johnson was the first and the only non-indigene to serve as the Chairman of Ibadan Council.

Adelabu died on Tuesday. He was buried on Wednesday. By Friday, all hell broke lose. Reports of murders and violence began to come in by Friday evening. One account put the number of death at sixteen. Another account sighted by Onigegewura recorded eighteen riot deaths. All the victims were said to be members or supporters of the Action Group. By March 30, more than 300 people had been arrested. Many of them were taken to Ilesha and Abeokuta prisons since Ibadan prison was already full.

It was also speculated that Younan had crashed the car deliberately in order to commit suicide as a result of his financial challenges. This was however denied by Albert Younan who insisted that there was no special cloth printed for the 1965 election and therefore no financial loss. He claimed that he went with Adelabu to Lagos for unrelated business.

The family of Adegoke Adelabu did not appear to be convinced. The family filed a civil suit against Younan and Sons Limited and the Royal Exchange Assurance Company. Their claim was for the sum of one hundred thousand pounds for negligence of the two drivers which led to the death of their breadwinner. The trial judge was My Lord Justice Samuel Quashie-Idun, a Ghanaian. His Lordship later served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

In his judgment, Justice Quashie-Idun held that no case had been made against the insurance company. His Lordship however found Younan and Sons liable. The firm was ordered to pay 6,030 pounds as damages to Adelabu’s children and 350 pounds as costs.

Younan and Sons appealed the judgment. Their appeal was successful. The Federal Supreme Court reversed the decision of the trial court on the ground that the plaintiffs who sued as Administrators of the estate of Adegoke Adelabu had no capacity to bring the suit.

At the time, the Federal Supreme Court was not the final Court of appeal for Nigeria. The apex court was the Privy Council in Britain. Adelabu’s family appealed to the Privy Council. The appeal was pending when the parties agreed to settle out of court. The firm of Younan and Sons agreed to pay the family of the Lion of the West the sum of 3,000 pounds.

On the political front, a bye-election was conducted to fill the seat hitherto occupied by Adelabu. Adeoye Adisa, a young lawyer who had returned to Ibadan two years earlier from his law studies in Britain emerged the winner of the bye-election.

Adegoke Adelabu died more than 59 years ago. He died at a tender age. He was 43. He was however able to cram into his short life what many who lived up to a century could only dream of achieving. At the time of his death, he was holding three critical posts. He was the Leader of the Opposition in the Western House of Assembly. He was the Chairman of the NCNC Western Working Committee. He was also the chairman of the powerful NCNC-Mabolaje Grand Alliance. Almost six decades after his last breath, his footprints are still indelible on the political landscape.

In recognition of his achievements as a nationalist, politician, orator and mass mobilizer, the government of Oyo State in 2016 listed his Oke-Oluokun residence as one of the tourist sites in Oyo State.

I hope the next time you are in the city of Ibadan, you will find time to visit the Taj Mahal.

May the soul of Gbadamosi Adegoke Adelabu continue to rest in peace.

I thank you for your time.

Mynd44

Nice one OP

iLoveConductor:
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My bad. Afonja is not a tribe or religion.

According to Oxford, Afonja is the state of commenting on social media with fear, cowardice and slavery in a way likened to the daft Afonja of the ancient days who sold Illorin (and wanted to sell[b] Ibadam[/b] as well) to Fulani Northerners for a plate of ewedu.

You are welcome

Blood of Zachariah...... Funke, Funke, Funke a o ti e ti jade.

easyzworld:
What curse sir!?

bros me sef wan ask o

tosyne2much:
I swear that guy na craze him... The guy just go find evidence from nowhere

Bros when I saw it, the only thing I could say is ghen ghen......How did he dig dip to find that.......we need more of this guy in the police force......

How things with u bro, make I come celebrate Christmas for ur side cos people no sell fowls for our side o

tosyne2much:
So you dey observe every of my movements shey?

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ikp120:
Lolzzz



Or are you married now?

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virtual7:
OK tnx,just that I don't want to be entering transport. And want to stay alone at d kona, how much for a room at d mayo Dada?

call me tomorrow on this number so that we can talk well....

virtual7:
please how much did u get a room at d Kona village

I didn't stay in Kona, I stayed in mayo-dasa. I rented a room and parlour self con with a friend at #70k. Its expensive then because house is very scarce due to the influx of people from Adamawa and Borno because of boko haram. I'm not sure of the price now but u can stay in mayo Dasa, its not far to Kona.

Anton LeVey author of the Satanic Bible and high priest of the religion dedicated to the worship of Satan. Some of his famous quotes are “There is a beast in man that needs to be exercised, not exorcised”. His dying words were “Oh my, oh my, what have I done, there is something very wrong…there is something very wrong….”
Robert Ingersoll: “O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul!” (Some say it was this way: “Oh God, if there be a God, save my soul if I have a soul, from hell, if there be a hell!”)
Napoleon Bonaparte, the French emperor, and who, like Adolf Hitler, brought death to millions to satisfy his greedy, power-mad, selfish ambitions for world conquest: “I die before my time, and my body will be given back to the earth. Such is the fate of him who has been called the great Napoleon. What an abyss between my deep misery and the eternal kingdom of Christ!”
Sir Thomas Scott, Chancellor of England “Until this moment I thought there was neither a God nor a hell. Now I know and feel that there are both, and I am doomed to perdition by the just judgment of the Almighty.”
Charles IX was the French king who urged on by his mother, gave the order for the massacre of the French Huguenots, in which 15,000 souls were slaughtered in Paris alone and 100,000 in other sections of France, for no other reason than that they loved Christ. The guilty king suffered miserably for years after that event. He finally died, bathed in blood bursting from his veins. To his physicians he said in his last hours: “Asleep or awake, I see the mangled forms of the Huguenots passing before me. They drop with blood. They point at their open wounds. Oh! That I had spared at least the little infants at the bosom! What blood! I know not where I am. How will all this end? What shall I do? I am lost forever! I know it. Oh, I have done wrong.”
David Strauss, leading representative of German rationalism, after spending a lifetime erasing belief in God from the minds of others: “My philosophy leaves me utterly forlorn! I feel like one caught in the merciless jaws of an automatic machine, not knowing at what time one of its great hammers may crush me!”
In a Newsweek interview with Svetlana Stalin, the daughter of Josef Stalin, she told of her father’s death: “My father died a difficult and terrible death. . God grants an easy death only to the just. . At what seemed the very last moment he suddenly opened his eyes and cast a glance over everyone in the room. It was a terrible glance, insane or perhaps angry. . His left hand was raised, as though he were pointing to something above and bringing down a curse on us all. The gesture was full of menace. . The next moment he was dead.”

Whether all these quotes are true or not, I cannot say for sure. Some God-haters today will deny that such things were ever said. I am not a personal witness to them, but none of them would surprise me. Don’t wait until YOU are in the place these people were before you decide to believe in a Holy God who requires that you humbly accept His terms of salvation.

Voltaire famous anti-christian atheist: “I am abandoned by God and man; I will give you half of what I am worth if you will give me six months’ life.” (He said this to Dr. Fochin, who told him it could not be done.) “Then I shall die and go to hell!” (His nurse said: “For all the money in Europe I wouldn’t want to see another unbeliever die! All night long he cried for forgiveness.”)
Thomas Hobbs political philosopher “I say again, if I had the whole world at my disposal, I would give it to live one day. I am about to take a leap into the dark.”

Sir Francis Newport, the head of an English Atheist club to those gathered around his deathbed: “You need not tell me there is no God for I know there is one, and that I am in His presence! You need not tell me there is no hell. I feel myself already slipping. Wretches, cease your idle talk about there being hope for me! I know I am lost forever! Oh, that fire! Oh, the insufferable pangs of hell! …Oh, that I could lie for a thousand years upon the fire that is never quenched, to purchase the favor of God and be united to Him again. But it is a fruitless wish. Millions and millions of years will bring me no nearer the end of my torments than one poor hour. Oh, eternity, eternity forever and forever!, Oh, the insufferable pangs of Hell!”

David Hume, atheist philosopher famous for his philosophy of empiricism and skepticism of religion, he cried loud on his death bed “I am in flames!” It is said his “desperation was a horrible scene”.
Caesar Borgia: “While I lived, I provided for everything but death; now I must die, and am unprepared to die.”
Thomas Payne the leading atheistic writer in American colonies: “Stay with me, for God’s sake; I cannot bear to be left alone , O Lord, help me! O God, what have I done to suffer so much? What will become of me hereafter? “I would give worlds if I had them, that The Age of Reason had never been published. 0 Lord, help me! Christ, help me! …No, don’t leave; stay with me! Send even a child to stay with me; for I am on the edge of Hell here alone. If ever the Devil had an agent, I have been that one.”

Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has expressed disgust at the alarming rate of the current economic recession, lamenting that if proactive measures are not applied by government and the citizenry, the effects would soon degenerate into a civil war scenario.

The governor who stated this in a media chat with Saturday Sun at the weekend, noted that it not only government but Nigerians had a lot of proactive roles to play in mitigating the dehumanising effects of the recession.

While suggesting strategies the citizenry at all levels could adopt in surviving the period, the governor expressed the need for people to cut down on luxuries and make do with whatever is available within the limit of their income.

Aregbesola also stressed the need to patronise local materials, especially agricultural produce, to boost the country’s export profile in order to strengthen the naira against the dollar.

According to him, there is no need for people to insist on eating rice, which has become too expensive even though some people cannot afford it.

He noted that even the people of China, who are the largest producer of rice, have stopped depending largely on rice.

Aregbesola said it was high time people resort to developing more appetite for other staple foods, such as plantains, cassava among others. “Plantain is even healthier and more nutritious than rice. It is edible in different versions. Why must we keep on pursuing rice?” Why can’t we develop plantain and promote it internationally? Aregbesola asked.

The Chinese have realised that the energy required to produce a kilogram of rice is more than the energy that goes into the production of a kilogram of other carbohydrates.

“So, why must we insist on rice as if there are no options?”

The governor also spoke glowingly on the various strategies his administration has adopted to help the people of the state, especially the school children, the youth among others survive the recession.

He enthused that the school children feeding programme was still ongoing.

“Our school children eat eggs twice in a day. They eat chicken, fish and beef. With each meal, they also eat fruits. We don’t import any of them. Women go to our local markets in Osun here and buy them. With this you can be sure that the food sellers no longer suffer as they used to suffer. Indirectly, they are benefitting from government,” he said.

He also explained how his people-oriented social service programmes boost the economy of the state.

“Whatever money we spend on these food items and other commodities goes directly into the local economy,” he added.

He added: “If you move round the state of Osun, you can no longer see the kind of miseries you see in some states due to hardship. Here you hardly see harried and bitter youths in the streets. Not less than 20,000 youths have been engaged for public work such as sanitation, traffic control, medical emergencies among others to keep them busy and useful to themselves and the society and we pay them stipends. This has done a lot of wonders here.

“Besides the youths, we also give N10, 000 lifeline monthly to elderly citizens in the state that are vulnerable and in deplorable conditions that can not help themselves. We engage a professor from Obafemi Awolowo University, (OAU), Ile-Ife, who was able to discover them. These are people that are only waiting for death even though their time has not come.”

Sun News



http://sunnewsonline.com/economic-recession-how-my-people-are-surviving-aregbesola/

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EUREKA! I FOUND IT!

I have been wondering what our Distinguished Senators and Honorable Members of the House of Representatives use the billions of Naira they cream off taxpayers in the name of constituency allowance for.

Unlike Archimedes, I was sitting on the WC downloading the pounded yam, efo riro and orisirisi I uploaded from an African restaurant last night, while browsing through the streets of Zuckerbergville when I found it.

A brief recap of Archimedes story will suffice.

Legend has it that Archimedes once ran through the streets of Syracuse naked yelling, “Eureka!” because he had discovered an amazing scientific principle.

King Hiero had given a craftsman a certain amount of gold to make him a crown.

When the crown was presented to the king, he suspected the craftsman of stealing some of the gold for himself and adding silver to the gold in the King's crown.

The king asked Archimedes to find out if the craftsman stole some of his gold without destroying the crown.

According to the legend, Archimedes decided to take a bath at the public bathhouse and ponder the problem.

As he stepped into the tub, water overflowed onto the floor and the brilliant Archimedes realized he had his answer. He leaped out of the tub and ran off to the king to tell him the news, yelling, “Eureka! Eureka!” which means “I’ve found it!”

Any student of Physics here? Of course, you know that was how Archimedes Principle and the theory of upthrust with which he resolved the issue of the missing gold was propounded.

Sorry I digressed. Back to what the members of the National Assembly do with constituency allowance.

Step forward Senator (Mrs) Fatimah Raji Rasaki for recognition!

As I was sitting on the WC in the loo downloading some bolus of hard shit and combing the streets of Mark Zuckerbergville, I saw 2 pictures of a PUBLIC TOILET.

On critical examination of the pictures, I noticed Pix (2) have a bold inscription:

"DONATED BY: FEDERAL MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT PROJECT 2009" While Pix (1) have the inscription: "DONATED BY: SEN. RAJI RASAKI."

Ladies and gentlemen, if you're lost, I'll level up with you in a minute.

Here is what I found!

A PUBLIC TOILET constructed by the Federal Ministry of Environment in 2009 was R-E-P-A-I-N-T-E-D in 2016 and showcased as CONSTITUENCY PROJECT by "Distinguished" Senator (Mrs) Fatimah Raji Rasaki, a serving Senator from Ekiti State who have also had the privilege of serving as former First Lady of Ekiti and Lagos State when her husband, General Raji Rasaki served as the Military Administrator of both states.

E-U-R-E-K-A! I just found out that a "Distinguished" Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria use hundreds of millions of taxpayers money she collects quarterly as constituency allowance to repaint public toilets!

Yeye dey smell!!!!

The minute well being.

Take a spoonful of rice and set it on fire. What happens next will make you tick.

China remains the largest rice producer in the world. The Middle Empire harvests more than 200 million tons of rice a year and a large number is exported all over the world.
However, cooks and consumers must be cautious: not only does this food contain pesticides used in Chinese agriculture, but according to The Korea Times, rice can also be manufactured artificially. The potato starch is mixed with plastic (synthetic resin, for example) and then takes the form of a grain of rice. The grains are then steamed with a typical rice flavor. Doctors sound the alarm against the consumption of this artificial product: three solid portions apparently contain as much plastic as a small plastic bag. An alarming fact!

With these simple tricks, you can determine whether your rice is natural or stuffed with plastic:

The water test


Pour a tablespoon of raw rice into a glass filled with cold water and mix vigorously. If the rice falls to the bottom of the glass, everything is fine, if on the contrary it floats on the surface, be vigilant, because it surely contains plastic!

The fire test


Using a lighter and a match, burn a handful of rice. If it catches fire and smells of burnt plastic, you know what to do! Do not eat it!

The mortar and pestle test

When molding a few grains of rice with a mortar and pestle, the powder should be quite white. For artificial rice, you will notice a yellow discoloration instead.


The mold test


If you want to be sure that you do not risk anything with your cooked rice, put a small amount into a Tupperware and leave it in a warm place. In a few days, mold will have to appear, otherwise it is that your rice is artificial.

This is how to get it right if the rice you buy is natural or artificial.
Show these different tips to all your friends so they do not take the risk of eating plastic for dinner ❗
#culled

Call to Reason!

You're living in an unkempt single room and you're complaining about a man who cannot change the economy of your country in one year.....You need to repent.

During your NYSC your monthly feeding allowance from home did not stop and you cannot boast of a saving of 50k after service (and you did not do any personal CDS or project)......You're part of what is wrong with this economy.

You're a graduate of Electrical Engineering and you're paying an Electrician to fix an electrical fault in your room for the third time.....Can you employ your kind if you be an Employer?

You paid 80k for the WAEC exam of your son Who cannot write an informal letter correctly and you're Happy he made all his papers.....Part of what you paid for is your future disgrace o.

You studied Agriculture and you don't know how to plant cassava....Wait, what were you doing in school for 5years?

You know more than 30 names of football players in the English premier league and and you can't state the course code and title of the 10 courses in your current semester....Tor.

You're 30 years old, your parents have been car owners for the past 10 years and you don't know how to drive....Hmmmmm.

If we all would personally use common sense to it's fullest strength, we will surely be better than we are as a person and as a Nation.

Every problem in this country is traceable to an individual who needs an *Encounter With Common Sense*

Encounter with Common Sense....


#copied

*D KITCHEN, D LIVING ROOM & D OTHER ROOM*

Real women belong to the kitchen, the living room and the other room (To their husband). The kitchen and the other room is the woman's territory. Any other role she plays in the society is good but secondary (To her husband).

Do not, in pursuance of relevance in the outer world abandon your territory. (The way to a Man's heart is through His belly) There are hungry ladies roaming about looking for abandoned territories to colonize.

Do not leave the rulership of the kitchen to the maid because that is d only way to d other room. The housemaid too wants to get into that other room.

Before u start claiming *"I don't belong to the kitchen and the other room"* ask yourself, Do I even have a kitchen and other room to belong to?

cc: Mynd44

tosyne2much:
Bros I throway salute oooo... Long time

baba NLA, I throwey salute o.....no mind me I dey always come here but no as before and na to only read comments...I have being busy...how things na....I know u gentle soni wan be like y when I grow up sir

This is not my portion.


1) Put your wife in a room & lock it.
Put your dog in another room & lock it !!!
Open both rooms after 2 - 3 hours & see who is
Happy to see you, and who will BITE you !
( advised not to try this at home as these stunts
were performed by professionals; who are now
divorced; and living happily with their dog!!)
Don't laugh loud ----
The extended version says...


2)
Put your husband in a room & lock it.
Put your dog in another room & lock it !!!
Open both rooms after 2 - 3 hours & you will be
happy to see your dog waiting for you.. but you'll
be angry looking at your husband sleeping like he
never slept before!!!


3)
Always keep your spouse’s picture as mobile
screen saver.
Whenever you face a problem, see the picture &
say: "if I can handle this, I can handle anything!"…
Superb Attitude for Life!!


(4)
If wife wants husband’s attention, she just has to
look sad & uncomfortable.
If husband wants wife’s attention, he just has to
look comfortable & happy.


(5)
A Philosopher HUSBAND said:- "Every WIFE is a
‘Mistress’ of her Husband…
“Miss” for first year & “Stress” for rest of the
life…"!!!!


(6)
Million Dollar Truth:
If Saturday and Sunday doesn't excite you, then
change your Friends.
If Monday doesn't motivate you, then change
your profession.
If Monday is too exciting, and you are dying to
get to work, then you should change your
spouse!!


(7)
Do you remember the tingling feeling when you
took the decision to get married?
That was common sense leaving your body.


(
Generally a man does not go to the place again
where he has been cheated once…
But many people still go to their in-laws place..?


(9)
Pappu: Dad, l got selected for a role in a play for
annual day!
Dad: What role are you playing?
Pappu: A husband!
Dad: Stupid, ask for a role with dialogues!


(10)
Man outside phone booth: “Excuse me you are
holding phone since 29 minutes and you haven’t
spoken a word”.
Man inside: “I am talking to my wife”


(11)
A very intelligent girl was asked the meaning of
marriage..
She said- “sacrificing the admiration of hundred
guys, to face the criticism of one man".


(12)
Position of a husband is just like a Split AC, No
matter how loud he is outdoor, He is designed to
remain silent indoor!


(13)
Best one ad by a married man on OLX:
"For Sale – Wedding Suit, used only once by
Mistake"

Daniel2289:
There's no better help than for u to go the Bank u operate n lay d complains to them.

bros the guy is a scammer but the disturbing part is disturbing me with messages....I just want people to disturb him too

you are one old momma....and ur lips be like fake ponmo

Nairalanders a beg help a brother out. A scammer had been sending me messages about my BVN and I replied by cursing him but can u believe he had been sending the same text since then. I have received more than 20 text messages now. This is the number +2348135787801. Please help me in flashing him and if u have credit send him curses cos this guy is frustrating me pass my beans wey dey on fire.




This is the text


Dear Customer,Due to the BVN validation in compliance with CBN bank directives,your ATM card has been De-activated call our help line on +2348135787801




Please nairalanders do everything in your power to frustrate his life. I dey hustle how I go chop another fool wan take my money. Please help a bro out.

nonny1212:
guy u are not sure. am still blazing mine.

I am bro....I am very sure

How can MTN give me 1GB WOW and tell me this morning that I have exhausted it when my phone is telling me I haven't even used up to 100mb. MTN stop this Scam.....no be by force to copy others do awoof...... If u no get the mind do am abeg stop....I started using it last night and everything is gone this morning? God Punish the Devil....

AngelAhnie:
It pays to be hard working

I'm okay, you?

I'm also good jare.....

AngelAhnie:
African Polish where have you been brother?

fine gal, I'm always here just that work dey do person strong thing....how are u beauty?