₦airaland Forum

firstclassmumu:
na NMS student na

i know the boy

his elder sister is my side chick

who ask you??

ur name says it all sha

pressplay411:
The venue of the protest just presented itself.

Uhmmmm nice thought...wld really love to be part of the protest.... can gather people who are also ready....

would have to skip my 10am lectures tomorrow for this....


Mr Lai Mohammed, hope I won't be bounced back at the entrance by those ur human lions?



My name is Afeez, am a Muslim and not a terrorist.

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""the urhobo-isoko has an overwhelming majority and yet is sidelined in its own state""










What's with this set of people and sidelining??..... feeling sidelined even in your own state.......... I laugh at bia**a

ban importation of vehicles to revive production of vehicles



this man still get sense at all??






what measures has he put in place to boost local production??



as if we can PRODUCE vehicles locally till he go and meet yaradua!!

A NIGERIAN making Nigeria proud...










#SayNoToTribalism

Governor Nyesom Wike;

Leaders and people of Niger Delta will always strive to defend the unity of Nigeria, because to them, the country remaining as one indivisible entity is ‘non negotiable’ and of paramount importance, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said.
Speaking in Sokoto when he paid a visit to Sultan Muhammad Sa’ad at his palace, Wike said the interest of Nigerians and Africans will be better served with Nigeria remaining as one ‘strong and united nation.’
Said he: “Let me first of all sincerely thank you, our father the Sultan, for what you are doing for this country, working tirelessly to ring peace and to bring unity to the people. So for all of us this is what is meant by one Nigeria.
“We cannot run away from this country. The unity of this country is very, very paramount. The unity of this country is non-negotiable. I am from the Niger Delta, from Rivers State to be specific so I cannot see us in a divided country. No way. We stand for the unity of this country,” Wike added.
According to the governor, his administration has put a lot of time, resources and energy to protect national assets especially the ones in Rivers State.
“In Rivers you hardly find pipeline vandalisation. We are working at all times to protect national assets in our state. In my state, I am governor for all the people living in the state. I am not a governor of a particular political party, but a governor for all the people of Rivers State.”
While commending the Sultan for his leadership of the Muslim community in Nigeria, Wike said he was in Sokoto to felicitate with his colleague, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, who gave out his daughter in marriage on Saturday.
He equally dispelled the notion that his relationship with Tambuwal had political connotation, saying has been his friend for a long time, “long before politics defined who we are now.”
“Tambuwal is my friend for a long time. If anything affects him, it affects me also. If he gives out his daughter in marriage, I have to be here to support him. If any problem happens to him, it affects me as well.
“Your Eminence I am here to seek your royal blessing. You have blessed me before, that is why I am growing. So let me wish you a prosperous new year ahead,” he added.
In their remarks, both the host governor and Sultan implored Nigerians to live in peace with one another, and wished their countrymen and women a year full of happiness and blessings.


source: http://m.guardian.ng/news/count-niger-deltans-out-of-agitation-to-divide-nigeria-says-wike/

CC; lalasticlala

THE 49 LIARS: A REBUTTAL

“They have no knowledge of such a thing, nor their fathers. Grievous is the word that comes forth from their mouth. What they say is nothing but falsehood.” (Q.18:5)


If I were a Professor of English, I would have begun by repudiating the authors of the verbiage that generated this rebuttal, circulated on Wednesday and Thursday (December 28 and 29, 2016) with sadistic frenzy in traditional and new media, as deranged, reckless, mischievous and psychopathic nincompoops. But as I am not, I would only take recourse to the Prophet’s statement when he was unjustly persecuted on the day of Taif: God forgive them perhaps something good will come from their future generations.


In spite of the allusion to Prophet Muhammad’s approach, I would not have condescended to dignifying the defamatory statements issued against my person with a response on three counts. The first count is that one would not bite a dog simply because a dog has bitten one. The second is that the issue was claimed to have been reported to the EFCC, which has the means to take the right course of action after establishing the prima facie of the case brought before it. The third is the need to thwart the Satanic objective of distracting me from the national assignment which they protested against but failed.


Nevertheless, given the avalanche of text messages, mail and phone calls I have received from all over the world, I realize that if I do not set the records straight, at least for those who believe in me and what I represent, like Dr Mahfouz Adedimeji of the University of Ilorin, whose appreciated intervention was on point, I might not be fair to them. Secondly, the assassins did widely circulate and celebrate the “destruction” of the “victims” beyond the EFCC and across nations. I therefore deserve to be heard through the same routes.


In a period when common sense is no longer common, it would not be surprising that some people would not take effusions that are bereft of an iota of sense with a pinch of salt. So, the vituperations that “the 49 liars” and their mentors directed at me more than four years after I left office as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin are explained thus:


The Pension Act of 2004 provided that 7.5 per cent of emoluments should be deducted from staff salaries and remitted into their pension accounts with Pension Funds Administrators (PFAs). Most universities, including the University of Ilorin, based the calculation of 7.5 per cent on basic salary and transport allowance. This was the case between July 2004 and December 2006 before I became Vice-Chancellor. I know no PFA and if salaries were deducted and saved in employees’ accounts, I would not be the beneficiary.


Then, from January 2007, the Government that is matching the employees’ contribution with another 7.5 per cent directed that the deduction should be based on Consolidated Pay. Some universities were compelled by the fake and fraudulent campus hyenas not to comply with the directive of 2007. About two years into my tenure, my attention was drawn to the new decision which was of course advantageous to workers whose higher sum was being equally matched by the Government. I convened a meeting of stakeholders including the Unions on the Government directive and all parties agreed not only to commence the higher savings (which Government doubles rather than double lower contributions) but also to double the difference for a certain number of months to ensure full compliance with effect from the stipulated January 2007.


I summoned the Ilorin representatives of all the PFAs to reiterate the date of compliance from when higher matching additions from Government should also be credited to each contributor’s account. Any averagely educated person would understand who the beneficiaries of the compliance are, who for their tomorrow sacrifice a part of today’s comfort rather than the unreasonable agitators who insist on consuming tomorrow. Some universities under the spell of some club crawlers do not comply to the eventual disadvantage of their unfortunate retirees and perhaps to the advantage of clever PFAs. If those who parade doctoral degrees cannot understand this simple logic, may God save Nigeria from the anarchists.

I as Vice-Chancellor complied and I believe few other universities did. How that would benefit me personally baffles me.
The subsequent introduction of IPSS made deductions by the university unnecessary. Government was making the deductions from the source and crediting the PFAs and these ignorant characters believe that my successor should also be nailed on behalf of the Federal of Ministry of Finance. If what was being deducted at the University of Ilorin had been abnormal, IPSS would have corrected the abnormality, common sense dictates. When grey areas arose, clarifications were made with the PFAs. For my own pension deductions, I also had to approach my PFA to be on the same page with them regarding my contributory pension.


Those who compare the contributions of two Professors based on different interpretations of deduction suffer from selective amnesia more so when Professors are of different levels. Some Senior Lecturers even earn higher Basic Pay than some Professors based on the number of years they have spent on their ranks. Why did they hide this fact as a possible factor for disparity in intra-university or inter-university disparity? Why would supposed academics who teach research methods not start from PENCOM for authentic information before unilaterally declaring UNILORIN guilty and celebrating insubordination?


I am extremely selective in accepting gifts from even personal friends. My needs are limited and my legitimate income is sufficient to spend on my volunteer work. I have never in my life collected bribe, inflated contracts, extorted anyone nor accepted gifts beyond “Thank You greeting cards” from any contractor, dead or alive.


As Vice-Chancellor, I started the practice of publishing the financial transactions of the University every Monday in a publication circulated far and wide by hand and online. This has happily been sustained by my successor to-date. Those who have skeletons in their cupboards don’t choose to publish their financial details. I am aware many universities don’t do so till today and the charlatans who make frivolous allegations against me should mention their mentors who do so.


Information Technology is good to determine the quality of the hirelings assembled to assassinate my character. The only one I faintly know among them led his pastor and his father-in-law, a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, to me in order to mount pressure on me to offer his wife, the Vice-Chancellor’s daughter, a temporary appointment as an Assistant Lecturer. I bulged to pressure out of deference to the father-in-law (because the Department could do without an additional lecturer) and the man of God. But soon thereafter, this character became a strong advocate of withdrawal of the power of temporary appointment of the Vice-Chancellor!


I do not claim perfection as it is the exclusive preserve of the Almighty Allah but I dare say I stand on a higher moral pedestal than “the 49 liars” and their masters. God will continue to keep them busy and they shall continue to lament their failure at the University of Ilorin and in life precipitated by their own inner insolvency. The barking of dogs does not affect the flight of a plane.
This statement is just to re-assure my admirers that the allegations against me are like pure wind with no solidity. I remain who I have ever been by the special grace of Allah, the Almighty.


Lastly, my explanation does not foreclose the possibility of legal action against the authors of the campaign of calumny against me and their willing collaborators. For the latter, I hope they will have the shame of publishing my rebuttal and if they don’t, I still believe it will reach all the right audience, anyway.
I rest my case for now and season’s greetings to you all.


Signed
Prof. Is-haq O. Oloyede, OFR, FNAL



As copied from Mahfouz adedimeji blog

https://mahfouzadedimeji.com/2016/12/31/the-49-liars-a-rebuttal/

cc: lalasticlala

make una kill urself on top tinubu o

Jagaban kuku dey there dey watch una for 3d
"ipadabo abija wara biekun"

make una kill urself on top tinubu o

Jagaban kuku dey there dey watch una for 3d
"ipadabo abija wara biekun"

Oga Mimiko wan buy Nigeria

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Nd thats whatvi call *class*

it's a pity some of the graduates opposing this are primary school teachers collecting 20k per month!!!

nd their bigman uncle abroad is doing same bus conductor overseas sending money back home.




its only in nigeria bus conducting is seen as a dirty man job.......

"sagesse who is currently based with her family in Cameroon"


so it's true the monster was not a Nigerian afterall....

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is it just me or who else is thinking that

chidinma okeke herself should be the one arrested

MR malik,

President Obama is the president of USA and not the president of Kenya nor your household president!!!!!

FTC for the first time in how many years!!!! i don hammer




Seun what next?... wen and how do i send my acc details..


INTROVERT, LADY F, how much seun dey give u..make i know how i go celebrate reach

thats how unknown men that don't even have a voting card or even Nepa bill will be deciding the fate of the masses.........

if its me now, the mumu police officer and frsc officials would enter the car anyhow and be asking me for their one year salary...........


sometimes it pays to ignore the law....

No hope for Naija again!!!..... i don surrender

OYEGUN......





.....u hear

Looking at Facebook’s Director of Strategic Partnerships, Ime Archibong, one sees the figure of a Hollywood honcho; the type who keeps you glued to the tube in a box office thriller-crime movie. With his huge, tall frame sitting on a well built macho body, Archibong could have passed for another Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallion of Rambo fame.
The difference, however, is that Archibong plies his trade in Silicon Valley and not in Hollywood. He directs activities at Facebook and not on a movie set. He leads the team focused on accelerating Facebook’s product strategy by establishing partnerships, driving product integrations and unlocking new business opportunities with leading companies across multiple industries and sectors.
Call him Zuckerberg’s deputy and you would not be far from the truth, because they seem to be Siamese twins in fashioning new ideas that have transformed Facebook into something much more than a social media initiative. The fact that they are beside each other at every trip and event Facebook is expected to play active part, says it all.
When he decided that, Vanguard was the only newspaper in Nigeria he would give one-on-one interview, prior to his coming to Nigeria alongside his boss, Mark Zuckerberg, he opened up on how Facebook sees Nigeria and what benefits the multi-billion dollar company can derive from the visit.
“One of the things I had walked away with having spent time with many Nigerian young entrepreneurs and ecosystem partners I have met over time is the energy in their hustle. It really inspired me.
“I knew some of them who studied in the United States and decided to come and settle in Nigeria. But they are doing something really interesting in the ecosystem. I was really blown away by their dedication to transforming Nigeria.
“Despite the challenges prevalent in the environment here and indeed on the rest of this continent, there is still a lot of creativity coming out from this part of the world. I sit and scratch my head looking at the geniuses that come out of here despite the conditions and wondering what they can do in better conditions.
In a non personal capacity, I also want to learn and understand what is on the ground. It is an opportunity for Facebook to add value to what they are trying to do. More importantly, it is part of a listening and learning process for us to really appreciate what is happening around from fellow tech minds”, he added.
However, he also revealed another side of him that is not known to many; Archibong is a full blooded Akwa Ibomite. But in his entire adult hood the tech expert has only visited his country, Nigeria, twice.
For him, it is an exciting experience and he relished the idea of home coming like a toddler could relish his Christmas clothes: “I am happy to be home. We are doing some sort of town hall meeting with some tech entrepreneurs and developers and specifically sharing Facebook’s ten year road map with them. I have been in Nigerian a few times, my father is from Uyo, Akwa Ibom but he grew up in Aba, Abia State; my mum is from Enugu, so we spent a lot of time going back and forth when we came home for the holidays in those days.
“During my last visit, we were able to work in Nigeria and launch an internet.org initiative in Nigeria; that was the first time I was here by myself. So this second coming is so important to me in so many ways” he added.
Archibong is truly a big boy both in body size and in terms of portfolio he controls at Facebook. As the Director of Strategic Partnerships, he leads the team focused on accelerating Facebook’s product strategy by establishing partnership, driving product integrations and unlocking new business opportunities with leading companies across multiple industries and sectors. He also supports the Internet.org team, leading their global partnerships work with developers and content creators that will accelerate the next 5 billion people coming online.
Prior to joining Facebook, Ime was an Advanced Technology Business Development Professional at IBM, focused on licensing IBM’s global portfolio of storage research technology. He started his career at IBM as a software engineer in the Systems and Technology Group before transitioning to the corporate strategy team, and then eventually the business development team.
Ime holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Yale University and a MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Archibong is one of Silicon Valley’s 40 Under 40 Tech Diversity launched in 2015, in partnership with theREGISTRYBayArea.com, to highlight the underrepresented role models and achievements of the wide range of people who make the tech industry brilliant.
“40 Under 40: Tech Diversity – Silicon Valley” is a unique recognition of the outstanding achievements of 40 diverse leaders from underrepresented ethnicities, under the age of 40, in the Innovation Economy.
They are viewed to have a heightened focus in the tech industry to embed diversity into their companies, services and products, as well as their working practices.





source : www.vanguardngr.com/2016/09/meet-ime-archibongthe-nigerian-runs-things-facebook/

one man just sneezed and everyone is going agog like this............. articles everywhere....

The asiwaju they dont know does not lose at the end!!!!!!


many are there to testify!!!!! ask OBj, GEJ,ex- Convict bode george nd others...

wise man.... carefull with his words... even though yhe interviewer was tryin to pull his legs
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i live at the back of that building, that building is for royal fm ilorin situated at tanke oko odo.......... dunno ow this is pertaining to mtn.... OP can u clarify....

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