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For years, there’s only been one passenger waiting at the Kami-Shirataki train station in the northernmost island of Hokkaido, Japan: A high-school girl, on her way to class. The train stops there only twice a day—once to pick up the girl and again to drop her off after the school day is over.

It sounds like a Hayao Miyazaki film. But according to CCTV News, it was a decision that Japan Railways—the group that operates the country’s railway network—made more than three years ago.

At that time, ridership at the Kami-Shirataki station had dramatically fallen because of its remote location, and freight service had ended there as well. Japan Railways was getting ready to shut the station down for good—until they noticed that it was still being used every day by the high-schooler. So they decided to keep the station open for her until she graduates. The company’s even adjusted the train’s timetable according to the girl’s schedule. The unnamed girl is expected to graduate this March, which is when the station will finally be closed.
People are tipping their hats to the Japanese government for making education a top priority. “Why should I not want to die for a country like this when the government is ready to go an extra mile just for me,” one commenter wrote on CCTV’s Facebook page. “This is the meaning of good governance penetrating right to the grassroot level. Every citizen matters. No Child left behind!”

Even if u r an ardent tribalist, must u b a stupid one, it was clear to all DAT they were not allowed to pack their goods, ur govt too is not denying dat fact.

bro never vex abeg,,am not in anyway related to Ambode..am just here to place my view....i still doubt the fact that they were not allowed to pack their goods before the demolition of the shops.[/quote]

Netflix not for Nigeria!, data is too expensive

We on nairaland are planning a free Photoshop graphic tutorial by all adobe Photoshop gurus on nairaland. Coming soon here in Lagos watch out.

This is unbelievable man's inhumanity to man, this is a photo of soldiers of the Nigerian army torturing civilians. Torture and even killing of civilians by military men is very common in Nigeria, people are tortured by soldiers for flimsy reasons such as stepping on their boots, arguing with them, obstructing them in traffic or even having a little personal or business argument with an officer of the military could make them unleash their uncultured and heartless boys on you. And this cases go unpunished as the govt does not do much About it

Just throw away their modem, and count ur loss instead of recharging and incurring more loss, 'telling u from experience

Being privileged to be born on new year's day (January 1st) , we deserve a legitimate right to make make a wish for the new year:
I wish dat God grants our Country Nigeria peace did yr.
I wish dat God grants our president the wisdom to rule with love and respect for all citizens of the country.

Any price more than =N=31,000 let them go and die ! In oshiomole's voice.
I got the zero, zero 2. Problems I face includes
1: replacement parts not easy to get even @ their office, they would always tell u parts r not in stock.
2: battery drains too fast

So what is d difference BTW their peaceful march and the peaceful march Of biafrans

bettercreature:
You are very naive because of something that was deployed less than 72hours,they did not deploy it to shoot down air craft,it was deployed to pass flight information to alies and monitor the movement of Russian jets

Whose dis dat av bin speaking off-point?. Can anyone in d house pls help did dude out

I Believe she'll come home safely

Nothing is impossible for God to do!, may HE forgive u of any intentional or unintentional trespass and make u whole and strong again, get well soon!. We love u

Common guys! "FISHING WITH DYNAMITES/EXPLOSIVES" is common in many parts of d world, although illegal for environmental reasons. The guy might actually av bin ignorant of d intentions of the buyers who offered him =N=150k

Dis ur DEAR DEVILS will surely not go unpunished

emmanuel596:
All na Igbo people work
December has come and they really need to buy that big black jeep to go and show off in the village no matter how stuppid it looks Igbo people no send as long as u cm home with a big black metal that has four legs.......#proudly akwa ibom

Seun better do something about all this little kids on Nairaland whose parents are so careless that they don't monitor what their kids watch, do or post online , they are really messing up dis site which is supposed to be for matured minds with meaningful contributions.
Boy better run off from this site and go to some other children's site suitable for ur age!!. Wonder how some parents could b so careless to let their wards run loose

Op ,he hasn't officially bin named yet, its just based on d fact DAT d rule book says that in a situation like dis the longest serving vice president takes charge and it falls on Hayattou. But remember he is still under IOC ban. And no one knows if he is going to accept the position due to the predicament (ban) he finds himself, and if he does accept it would b very complicated for FIFA working with IOC under hayattou's leadership

There is a fire outbreak in one of the of d offices @ d topmost floor of the 3 stories complex of Skye bank at Ojuelegba. This night 9pm
The fire service are currently trying to put it out,but the appalling situation is they don't av a ladder that can reach d 3 stories office window .and for unknown reason the complex can't be opened.
Though their response was very fast and the firefighters are really gallant and committed to containing it

Saw this young lady all decked up celebrating the national independence anniversary

What Yoruba actors go through in trying to measure up with their Igbo counterparts in Bollywood:
Pix 1 : baba suwe
Pix 2: actress wunmi on her way to jail

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topsyking:
year 5 is blood m

For those calling their achievements blood and drug money . we haven't forgotten Ibadan and baba suwe and other actors and actresses caught in the act

Year 5

Year 3

Year 1

Shocking: Cut-off point into Federal Unity Colleges for Yobe is 2, Taraba, 3, Anambra, 139 (See full list)
Posted By TheScoop on June 8, 2013
Ruqqayatu

by Dare Lawal

The trend which is a permanent fixture in Nigeria, in which Northern states are allotted very low cut-off marks for entrance into Federal Unity Colleges, while those in the South are allotted higher cut-off marks is still in place and continues
This is a 2013 report as the Federal Ministry of Education’s documents on the cut-off marks for the various states reveals.

Whereas, a pupil from Anambra irrespective of gender is expected to score at least 139 to gain admission into the schools, a male pupil from Yobe and a female from Zamfara is required to score only 2.

Students who score above the cut-off are automatically eligible for admission on merit.

The Education ministry advised parents to check the results of their wards which have been posted on notice board of all Unity Colleges throughout the Federation.

Below is the full list of the cut-off marks for all 36 states of the federation, as well as the FCT.



Abia – Male(130) Female(130)
Adamawa – Male(62) Female(62)
Akwa-Ibom – Male(123) Female(123)
Anambra – Male(139) Female(139)
Bauchi – Male(35) Female(35)
Bayelsa – Male(72) Female(72)
Benue – Male(111) Female(111)
Borno – Male(45) Female(45)
Cross-Rivers – Male(97) Female(97)
Delta – Male(131) Female(131)
Ebonyi – Male(112) Female(112)
Edo – Male(127) Female(127)
Ekiti – Male(119) Female(119)
Enugu – Male(134) Female(134)
Gombe – Male(58) Female(58)
Imo – Male(138) Female(138)
Jigawa – Male(44) Female(44)
Kaduna – Male(91) Female (91)
Kano – Male(67) Female(67)
Kastina – Male(60) Female(60)
Kebbi – Male(9) Female(20)
Kogi – Male(119) Female(119)
Kwara – Male(123) Female(123)
Lagos – Male(133) Female(133)
Nassarawa – Male(58) Female(58)
Niger – Male(93) Female(93)
Ogun – Male(131) Female(131)
Ondo – Male(126) Female(126)
Osun – Male(127) Female(127)
Oyo – Male(127) Female(127)
Plateau – Male(97) Female(97)
Rivers – Male(118) Female(118)
Sokoto – Male(9) Female(13)
Taraba – Male(3) Female(11)
Yobe – Male(2) Female(27)
Zamfara – Male(4) Female(2)
FCT Abuja – Male(90) Female(90)

Aaah! FOWLER? !!, and u want to fight corruption, I know dis Tinubu's cash machine very well ooo!

This fish has a rare look. U may just av wasted d last of an extinct specie

Ostensibly propped by forces or reasons that were undoubtedly questionable, Ezekwesili rode on the back of the global outcry that followed the alleged abduction of over 200 students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, by insurgents of the Boko Haram sect on June 14, 2014 to constitute a pressure group, #BringBackOurGirls, with the sole objective of calling for the rescue of the innocent young girls from the grasp of their abductors.
To rub it in, Ezekwesili rallied a handful of Nigerians in Abuja using the famous Unity Fountain on the busy Shehu Shagari Highway, a stone throw from Aso Rock Presidential Villa, where immediate past first citizen, Goodluck Jonathan, administered the country’s affairs from, as their meeting point for all the propaganda the #BringBackOurGirls group ran against the Jonathan administration and the country’s military often painting them as incompetent of dealing with the insurgency question.
There were times too that the group staged questionable road shows along the busy Shehu Shagari highway close the seat of government, ostensibly testing the will of the government of the day. In the social media too, Ezekwesili led a rigorous campaign against the same government calling the sitting president then all kinds of unprintable names. Not even clarifications by relevant agencies of government as to efforts being made towards fighting insurgency and consequently securing the release of the Chibok girls meant anything to her.
As many were to later observe, it was as if Ezekwesili had morbid hatred for anything, be it statement, broadcast or policy that had Jonathan’s imprimatur. She simply was impossible. An instance was when she tweeted to the world that Nigerian security officials stopped her from travelling out of the country for an international event she had to attend. Even when within minutes Ezekwesili was aboard her flight to Europe, she did not see any reason to retract that embarrassment she gave to the government of her country.
She was to carry her crusade further when she somewhat abandoned the #BringBackOurGirls forum and started commenting on political matters. The focus also was the outgoing Jonathan administration. And to underscore this, one month after the former president left office, Ezekwesili still will not let him enjoy his retirement in peace.
An example was Wednesday last week when obviously for want of relevance in the emerging President Muhammadu Buhari administration, she declared that the current situation in the country was not better than what the nation was in the years former President Shehu Shagari held sway.
She made this remark at the annual Public Service Celebration, which held at Ikeja, Lagos.
Hear her: “We have found ourselves in a situation where every sector is in a precarious situation. We are operating on uncertainty and it is most difficult. Our economy has taken a nose dive, and I ask how it is possible for Nigeria to find itself in this embarrassing situation.
“We were faced with similar economic conditions like that between 1981 and 1982 during the regime of former President Shehu Shagari.”

What next?
Ezekwesili’s current venture into political commentary has since raised many questions as to what she really wants. Nigerians now wonder why she suddenly is not making comments on the abducted Chibok girls. Some too are curious about her sudden closeness to the Buhari administration, even as more query her relationship with Obasanjo.
On the #BringBackOurGirls forum which she obviously no longer associates with, the questions on most lips these days as captured in social media include the following, which have prompted questions from local and offshore commentators asking if the Chibok girls issue was not a scam designed to embarrass the then Jonathan administration out of power:

* How come all of a sudden we are no longer hearing Oby Ezekwesili campaign for their release? Did something get mixed up along the line? Because it is on record that the army said the Chibok girls were NOT among the rescued girls.

* The wife of the president on Thursday evening held a dinner with the mothers of the missing girls; so if indeed they have not been found, why is All Progressives Congress, APC, backtracking?

* Maiduguri Airport which had been closed for over two years on account of Boko Haram violence was reopened yesterday amidst the violence which has been upbeat since PMB took over. Is there something Shettima isn’t telling us?

* I am not aware of any school even in the educated south where there is close to 300 students enrolment for physics exams. How much more in the village of Chibok? Does that add up?

* What mode of conveyance was used to move over 200 students? Does it sound even plausible? Considering that if they were using buses, they would need about 15 to do so

* Does it make sense to assume that some girls escaped from BH camp running faster than bloodthirsty insurgents who have shown no qualms in killing? Especially when they are armed and know the terrain against little girls who have no idea where they are or where they are headed? With no supplies or direction!

* WAEC has a duplicate of exam photocards of their candidates; how come these photo cards have never been made public?

* Has anyone imagined the logistics of keeping over 200 prisoners talk less female prisoners without the knowledge of the entire world?

* Even el-Rufai and the current leadership in APC have suddenly lost their tongues… Can someone explain these?

* The mantra by this administration before it came on board was that it will end BH menace in one month. And that any insurgency that lasts more than 24 hours has the government complicit in it. Well, it’s more than 2 weeks…. Wouldn’t the same standard apply here? I would also have wanted to see some action that will convince me that something significant will be happening in the next 12 days to rescue these girls and end in the insurgency as promised…. Or are you asking us not to hold the government by its promise?

* While President GEJ was not present during this abduction, he is bound to listen to the report of his security chiefs. Thus he cannot officially hold a position different from his security chiefs. He takes responsibility for their position as the Commander- inChief. Whether or not he is convinced is now his personal opinion. However, we must also remember that it was on record too that the former NSA raised alarm on the complicity of members of the security agencies and government in the BH saga so it becomes difficult to separate fact from fiction.

* If the Chibok girls were scattered or profiled, the man promising one month to rescue and end the insurgency MUST have known of the scattering and the locations and how to coordinate such rescue in 30 days. He must also have known the infiltrators in the security agencies that will carry out this operation and how to cage them. If not I will be as aghast as you would, if sincere, on the basis of such pronouncements.

* I am happy that hapless girls are given a voice by international crusaders however I am worried that international crusaders switched off as soon as the elections ended. Can’t they continue till they see to the end of their crusade? It makes it grossly suspect, their timing in deciding to end their campaign for violence against women.

* I am 100 per cent for women empowerment, gender equality and violence against women. Even my closest friend has a song on it in which I might lend my voice to down the line…. I am peeved however that the rise and fall of this campaign seriously coincided with the 2015 general elections….
Finally let me ask you this, “Would you stop campaigning if your daughter was kidnapped by BH because Buhari won?”

Obasanjo’s connection
In pondering the Ezekwesili saga, Nigerians are not losing sight of the close relationship between Obasanjo and his former minister.
While some hold that their relationship was purely that of a pleased principal always wanting to associate with an aide that did him proud while she served under him, not a few others hold that beyond that since Obasanjo wanted Jonathan out of Aso Rock this year, he may have propped Oby in her #BringBackOurGirls crusade. Her recent reported lobby for a ministerial appointment in the Buhari administration is said to have the backing of Obasanjo as pay back for her propaganda against Jonathan on the Chibok girls issue.
Not too long ago, the media was awash with pictures of Obasanjo and his “hardworking” erstwhile minister together. Though some interpreted the uniqueness of the photograph in rather weird and somewhat unimaginable manner, most did not rule out a strong bond between the two. The particular photograph was one of the many from the album launch of the former president’s book, ‘My Watch.’ The document went viral and so far, many people have been talking about it. Various reactions have been trailing the photograph as to whether Obasanjo was supposed to be as intimate to the former Minister of Solid Minerals and Minister of Education, Obiageli Ezekwesili.
“It could have been for good or otherwise,” said one observer a fortnight ago.
But many are not lost on the fact that given the morbid dislike for Jonathan while he was president both shared, and with their shared dream of a Buhari presidency coming to be, it is now incumbent on Obasanjo to present Ezekwesili for ministerial appointment to Buhari as one Nigerian who can rally support and needed understanding for the new administration. Already, the lobby has started.

Source:: http://nigerianpilot.com/oby-ezekwesili-madam-bringbackourgirls-abandons-crusade-lobbies-to-be-minister/#.dpuf

Let her get him arrested by the police . DAT will definitely stop him if truly if he has s video
And dat can b done without d knowledge her own man

Stop giving false reports pls, did pix has bin on nairaland for yearss, it was about d flood of 2012/2013 in most part of d country and dis pix is from anambra

Wonder why none of dis ritualists is ever caught, and why d police never seem to be able to bust dem thru any form of security intelligence. They always show up after members of d public get dis hideouts