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Best olympic opening ceremony so far. Very natural. Unlike the Beijing with too much technology. This is simplicity at its best. Showcasing history, Inspiring next generation. Splendid!

Pls, let's be objective here. I think we shouldn't blame the guy or the lady for this small misunderstanding. The main culprit here is America. US should be help held responsible for causing wahala between this loving, affectionate, sweet, understanding and caring lovers. The Magistrate should invite the US ambassador to explain why his country should be so developed to the extend dat our Nigerian lovers now resort to MUGUing each other.
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Abeg, make we hear word jare... Mimiko dis Mimiko dat. He's the best performing governor in SW, he has done wonders in akure, he's better dan all d AC governors. Tell me, what exactly are his major achievements in Ondo state generally. Apart from building bus stops, few markets and expanding less dan 3km ondo road all in Akure. Am from Ondo state and I'll tell you the guy is more of a failure. Most of you campaigning for him here are just haters and you've not actually stepped a foot in Akure before.
And for heaven's sake, is Akure the only town in Ondo state? What of Owo, Ose, Akoko, Ondo, Okitipupa etc...Even dis same Akure you all shouting of, what visible difference has taken place there since he came to power. Abeg, list am for me make I dey hear. Someone even wrote earlier dat he resides in Ikare and he can't point to one single project apart from one un-completed building. Even his own very town Ondo, he's been working on a road for the past 3 yrs without much progress.
Considering the state allocation vis a vis other SW states, then u know its more of propaganda and nothing much is really happening. Power of incumbency could work in his favour, but the ppl of ondo state are not dat stupid and he should not bank on votes from Akure alone considering ondo state is evenly populated. Abeg, allow ondo people elects whoever they believe will better serve dem and stop all dis fake campaign you know nothing about.

Done 200kmph twice. My 1st time was on M6 (Manchy to London) thank heaven those motorway police no catch me, I for land jail big time. The second time was on this newly constructed road between Ilorin-Ogbomosho with my 406. Men, that car is strong and very stable on road.

Na Wa o! thought the question was based on cities and here you have some olodocious NLanders naming glorified villages as one of the best cities in 9ja. Well, guess we need to clarify what and what makes a city before someone name him papa village as the best.

You need to clarify some few things regarding shipping your goods to Nigeria. First, are you based in canada or 9ja? What's the quantity and nature of what you shipping down. Mind you, you have no other option than sending it thru a container. Even if its a car, canada don't do RoRo. I do ship stuffs to Nigeria myself.
If you are presently I canada, just talk to few shipping agents and compare the prices,then opt for the cheapest. And once your goods get to lagos, you can always link up with reliable clearing agents to do the clearing for you.
If you need more assistant, could link you with one or two shipping agents in canada. That's if u need further assistance. Basically Montreal or Toronto... Best of luck. 214DCE1C

North Pole... Have a drink with the Eskimos

And your father in-law will mistakenly kill you very very soon.

Pls I'm in.... Good move. 100% support!!!

FASHOLA (President)+EL RUFAI (Vice President) = PRICELESS

A very reliable and rugged machine. This is my second 406 in the last five years. Very stable and well balanced on long distance. As someone said earlier, trade off after a while.... u dont want to face the electrical problems when it starts getting old.

No, i cantint

By Mobolaji Sanusi
The Nations Newspaper

Is it right for doctors to be playing activism with human lives? I doubt if anybody in his right senses will answer this question in the affirmative. However, what doctors in public hospitals in Lagos state under the auspices of Medical Guild have been doing with their on-going indefinite strike is tantamount to reducing the worth of human lives to the abysmal level of unreasonable activism.

Bare a month ago, I did a piece titled: ‘Stethoscope without humanity’ in which the doctors in the ‘centre of excellence’ were admonished not to turn themselves into an inhuman, lawless bunch that are out to hold the government to ransom at the expense of human being that need their medical skills to sustain their wellbeing. That was at a time when the doctors were on a three-day warning strike. Now, a full scale strike has been on for weeks and the doctors seem bereft of empathy for mostly the suffering masses in the state and outside it that patronise public hospitals. A close monitoring of the situation has shown that the doctors are as recalcitrant as they are adamant in their bid to continue the strike, insisting that their terms must be fully met without been persuaded by position of government.

Before some people misconstrue my stand to mean a blanket support for the Lagos state government against the doctors, it is pertinent for me to state that it is far from that. If anything, I am an avowed advocate of a better perquisites for professionals especially doctors, lawyers, engineers and pharmacists that toil more than other educated men and women before acquiring their certificates.

This position is further amplified in a country where elected and appointed political office holders (that are sadly in most cases not qualified to be described as lettered), callously fix and pay to themselves outrageous allowances and salaries that show crass contempt for the debilitating plight of the people. While this officially immoral rape on public till remains detestable and condemnable, the fact must however be reinforced that doctors must not because of this consider themselves to be more superior or think themselves as a special breed to other revered professionals that equally contribute meaningfully to the growth and development of the states and that of the nation as a whole.

There is no doubt that doctors’ services are in high demand overseas. This is because they are so crucial an element in the clinical chain but that should not be a ground to make them think that without them, heavens will fall. Nigerian doctors are free to travel to such countries in search of better work environment without stampeding the system here like the doctors employed by Lagos are currently doing.

From the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Ikeja, to General Hospitals in Gbagada, Isolo, Orile Agege and Ikorodu among others, patients are still left unattended to. The doctors in over 20 general hospitals and a teaching hospital in Lagos are breaching the Hippocratic Oath they took during their induction into the medical profession by engaging in endless strikes that give no consideration to peoples precarious health situations. In the on-going strike leading to paralysis of medical and clinical services, several cases of deaths have been reported. The medical emergency ward and the consulting rooms have either been shut or almost inactive. Unfortunately, the fate of patients in the state is hanging in the balance until the resolution of these avoidable pecuniary doctors’ demands is achieved.

The doctors should forthwith call off the strike because ab initio, the legal requirement as to period of notice of 15 days stipulated in the Trade Union Act was not served on the government before going on the strike. Were the doctors to go to court today, it is almost impossible for them to sustain an action. Then what manner of doctors are these that have no respect for the rule of law and the due process.

Doctors anywhere would be infracting on medical ethics when they play politics with human lives just to further their personal ambitions. The leader of the Medical Guild at a time when unruly medical activism in Lagos state commenced, one Dr Olaifa, is now alleged to be a honourable member of the House of Representatives from Oyo state under the platform of the ruling People’s Democratic Party(PDP).

After fomenting medical trouble believed to have been instigated by the PDP, and having garnered enough public visibility, he abandoned the ship of the Guild in Lagos to go and realise his pre-conceived personal ambition. At that period in question also, a deputy to the candidate of the PDP candidate in Lagos during the 2011 governorship election was also a member of the Guild that started this insatiable demand for money by publicly employed doctors in Lagos. Who knows what political ambition Dr Olumuyiwa Odubote, the current chairman of the Medical Guild is nursing to achieve just like others before him in that stable.

This strike is taking heavy tool on public hospitals and without prejudice, it is the doctors that one would humbly call upon to return to their duty posts. It is trite that hardly can we get a situation where all demands of employees would be met by employers. It should be known that employer/employee negotiation is give and take. It is also wrong for the Guild to also erroneously believe that it can compel the government to pay House Officers teaching allowance? What exactly are there for these medical neophytes to teach their seniors under whom they are still learning? 　And the most pertinent question to ask at this juncture is: Has the Lagos government met over 90 per cent of the Medical Guild’s requests? If yes, then the doctors if they still love their jobs should return to their duty posts if only to show gratitude to a state government that harbours 70 per cent of the entire doctors in the country.

It is against medical ethics, against morality and professional rationality for doctors under whatever guise to abandon patients they are paid to cure of afflicting ailments while they clandestinely engage in illegal private practice in the process. Nobody should blame Babatunde Fashola, Lagos state governor if he sacks these irritant doctors and replace them with thousands of qualified expectant others languishing in the unemployment market of Nigeria. The time to act officially is now

By Mobolaji Sanusi
The Nations Newspaper

Is it right for doctors to be playing activism with human lives? I doubt if anybody in his right senses will answer this question in the affirmative. However, what doctors in public hospitals in Lagos state under the auspices of Medical Guild have been doing with their on-going indefinite strike is tantamount to reducing the worth of human lives to the abysmal level of unreasonable activism.

Bare a month ago, I did a piece titled: ‘Stethoscope without humanity’ in which the doctors in the ‘centre of excellence’ were admonished not to turn themselves into an inhuman, lawless bunch that are out to hold the government to ransom at the expense of human being that need their medical skills to sustain their wellbeing. That was at a time when the doctors were on a three-day warning strike. Now, a full scale strike has been on for weeks and the doctors seem bereft of empathy for mostly the suffering masses in the state and outside it that patronise public hospitals. A close monitoring of the situation has shown that the doctors are as recalcitrant as they are adamant in their bid to continue the strike, insisting that their terms must be fully met without been persuaded by position of government.

Before some people misconstrue my stand to mean a blanket support for the Lagos state government against the doctors, it is pertinent for me to state that it is far from that. If anything, I am an avowed advocate of a better perquisites for professionals especially doctors, lawyers, engineers and pharmacists that toil more than other educated men and women before acquiring their certificates.

This position is further amplified in a country where elected and appointed political office holders (that are sadly in most cases not qualified to be described as lettered), callously fix and pay to themselves outrageous allowances and salaries that show crass contempt for the debilitating plight of the people. While this officially immoral rape on public till remains detestable and condemnable, the fact must however be reinforced that doctors must not because of this consider themselves to be more superior or think themselves as a special breed to other revered professionals that equally contribute meaningfully to the growth and development of the states and that of the nation as a whole.

There is no doubt that doctors’ services are in high demand overseas. This is because they are so crucial an element in the clinical chain but that should not be a ground to make them think that without them, heavens will fall. Nigerian doctors are free to travel to such countries in search of better work environment without stampeding the system here like the doctors employed by Lagos are currently doing.

From the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Ikeja, to General Hospitals in Gbagada, Isolo, Orile Agege and Ikorodu among others, patients are still left unattended to. The doctors in over 20 general hospitals and a teaching hospital in Lagos are breaching the Hippocratic Oath they took during their induction into the medical profession by engaging in endless strikes that give no consideration to peoples precarious health situations. In the on-going strike leading to paralysis of medical and clinical services, several cases of deaths have been reported. The medical emergency ward and the consulting rooms have either been shut or almost inactive. Unfortunately, the fate of patients in the state is hanging in the balance until the resolution of these avoidable pecuniary doctors’ demands is achieved.

The doctors should forthwith call off the strike because ab initio, the legal requirement as to period of notice of 15 days stipulated in the Trade Union Act was not served on the government before going on the strike. Were the doctors to go to court today, it is almost impossible for them to sustain an action. Then what manner of doctors are these that have no respect for the rule of law and the due process.

Doctors anywhere would be infracting on medical ethics when they play politics with human lives just to further their personal ambitions. The leader of the Medical Guild at a time when unruly medical activism in Lagos state commenced, one Dr Olaifa, is now alleged to be a honourable member of the House of Representatives from Oyo state under the platform of the ruling People’s Democratic Party(PDP).

After fomenting medical trouble believed to have been instigated by the PDP, and having garnered enough public visibility, he abandoned the ship of the Guild in Lagos to go and realise his pre-conceived personal ambition. At that period in question also, a deputy to the candidate of the PDP candidate in Lagos during the 2011 governorship election was also a member of the Guild that started this insatiable demand for money by publicly employed doctors in Lagos. Who knows what political ambition Dr Olumuyiwa Odubote, the current chairman of the Medical Guild is nursing to achieve just like others before him in that stable.

This strike is taking heavy tool on public hospitals and without prejudice, it is the doctors that one would humbly call upon to return to their duty posts. It is trite that hardly can we get a situation where all demands of employees would be met by employers. It should be known that employer/employee negotiation is give and take. It is also wrong for the Guild to also erroneously believe that it can compel the government to pay House Officers teaching allowance? What exactly are there for these medical neophytes to teach their seniors under whom they are still learning? 　And the most pertinent question to ask at this juncture is: Has the Lagos government met over 90 per cent of the Medical Guild’s requests? If yes, then the doctors if they still love their jobs should return to their duty posts if only to show gratitude to a state government that harbours 70 per cent of the entire doctors in the country.

It is against medical ethics, against morality and professional rationality for doctors under whatever guise to abandon patients they are paid to cure of afflicting ailments while they clandestinely engage in illegal private practice in the process. Nobody should blame Babatunde Fashola, Lagos state governor if he sacks these irritant doctors and replace them with thousands of qualified expectant others languishing in the unemployment market of Nigeria. The time to act officially is now

September 6

Well, I stay @ Alimosho In lagos and I can say authoritatively that I've never witnessed this level of darkness before in my life. In fact, for the past one month now, we've been degraded to one day off and one dauy on. Of the day off, its completely off and on day on, we only enjoy it for one hour.... Now imagine. Its been hell and I now resort to 1k fuel daily. Its really sad.... Really really sad!

WahWith due respect to the lagos state government and those who thinks they have done enough to deserve all the praises..

I used to live in Lagos in between 2003-2005,ogudu in ojota to be precise. i left lagos in 2005 which means that i know the situation b4 fashola came on board and the situation now.

I lived in ilorin from 2000 till 2003 b4 i move to lagos,i know what kwara looked like then and now.

I have been permanently living in abuja since 2006 till date and in between, i have visited over 15 states in Nigeria.

But truly,i do not see anything better in lagos to the other states i have visited,if compared to the resources available to those other states is considered.

What we all must know is kwara for example,receive between 2-3 billion naira from FG monthly and generate around 2bilion internally. The summation of its monthly resources is around 5billion.

Now, if the kwara state govt invested 2 billion into the state and embezzle 3billion for example,it has invested 40% of its resources. But lagos for example earn around 50billion naira monthly both from FG and internal generated funds,if it invested 10billion naira and embezzle 40billion, it has embezzled 80% and invested 20%.

the level of development you would witness in lagos that invested 20% would be higher than that of kwara that invested 40%. The Lagos state govt would praise for embezzling 80% why the kwara state govt would be seen as not working.

But my question to you is,
Can you please mention exactly what the masses in Lagos had enjoyed from the government?

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What a moronic contribution. Thot was never going to say anything until I saw this reply. Comparing ilorin to Lagos. My friend (not sure though) now u comparing a town to a state. What's d population of Ilorin compared to lagos. I live in lagos and sincerely I do visit ilorin almost once a month. Is ilorin the only town in kwara state? Ve u visited other parts of kwara... Offa and co? Only development u see in kwara is down there in ilorin as if other parts of kwara does not exist. Even there in ilorin, the only good things u see are around the GRA. That's all. I beg don't say rubbish here. Lagos with over 15M resident... U think say e easy? Do u know how many roads are there in lagos?
Pls give Kudos where its due. This man has done so well. Maintaining infrastructures costs a lot not to talk of building new ones. In terms of roads, accommodation, health, education, management,beatification etc for over 15M ppl? Pls dis man try. Some of ui self no fit manage ur family of 5 talk less of managing your street... Rubbish!!!

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Ve been hearing about this warri place a long time ago.... Most especially from the comedians on how smart and lovable warri is.... Rubbish! Though, never been to Aba before, but I was fortunate to visit Warri last year, courtesy of a cousin's wedding. Alas, I was utterly disappointed. What a very dry town. I got there on friday, hoping to leave on sunday. Man mi, I no last d whole weekend. See dryness part 1. After friday's traditional, I tried to enter town and mix up with ever articulate waffians ve been hearing all my life.... Story! By 6pm, all fuels station do close. Wahala. Clubbing, for where. Okay make I arrange one polo for nite, come see halloween eyegberes. O boy, around 10pm, everywhere don dry. Had to drive down sharp sharp to my hotel room along refinery road.

Next day, immediately after d wedding, gas up my car and revved all d way to Benin where I spent my evening having enough fun just like my las-gidi.... Will never make dat mistake again. Paddi mi, no place like Lagos!

GTB all the way. Still the best to me. Opening my savings and current account was as easy as ABC, Sincerely, i took me less than 2hrs to open my current account. For the online banking, El Perfecto! Meanwhile, i'll say the worst of them all is Oceanic Bank. Kai! worst 2yrs of my banking experience. customers service=zero, ATM= -10, They charge you for everything in this world, even for using their banking hall doors

@pcicero
Exactly, on point!

Enough said, never knew Ibos hate yorubas this much. So, most of the Ibo friends I have are just plutonic friends and deep down they hate me so much, Wow. Anyway, if Ibos hate hausas so much dat, or is hausas that hate Ibos so much that every slight opportunity, they are killed in their hundreds up in the north. And come down west they hate the yorubas this much, So, who actually do they tolerate? And to think about it, who gives a damn about marginalization in the first place. How did OBJ personally affects my life as an individual? Same questions goes for GEJ, how has his government brings succor to an average man walking down the road in SE? My brothers, every politician to himself and himself alone. Makes to difference to me. If OBJ did not improve the welfare of the yorubas during his tenure as president, how much has GEJ done to improve the living condition of the SE/SS, I beg, everyman for himself!!!

But me I no gbadun this entity called Nigeria sha, Can't we just brake up for heaven's sake!

Guys una dey try oh! Mosquitoes ke, For where? I don't even know they exist. All i do is just to get high every evening before coming home on enough bottles of guilder. Shikena! Na till morning before I realize that my unwanted tenants are high too for sucking my blood. Well, it works for me sha,

What a country! Not surprised though, 9ja police, the only legalized set of arm robbers in Nigeria. Shame!!!

Although the impact of Nigeria’s ongoing strike over fuel subsidy removal on the world oil market remains unclear, the ripples of the country’s shut-down is being felt across the member nations of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

Since January 1, when the Federal Government withdrew the so-called subsidy on petrol, sending the pump price for a litre skyrocketting from N65 to N140 and beyond in some instances; Nigeria has not been the same. And, like an infectious flu; many nations in the West African sub-region are now afflicted by Nigeria’s malady.

For example, a young Beninois man is planning to trade-in his state-of-the-art electric motorcycle for a bicycle. Now, why would a young man want to dispose at a give-away price, of an eye-catching Rabbit brand motorcycle, which he bought with the equivalent of over N80,000 a few months ago, for a bicycle?
The man, who gave his name simply as Kouassi, reached this decision after spending more than two hours last Friday on a queue at one of Cotonou’s filling stations! To make matters worse, after waiting over 120 minutes before he could get his turn at the pump; Kouassi discovered that, at the official pump price of 570CFA (roughly N200), the 3,000CFA (N1,050) he budgeted to spend on re-fuelling his motorcycle could only pay for roughly five litres.

Until the January 1, 2012 hike in petrol pump price in Nigeria, Kouassi and countless other Beninoise bought their fuel from roadside traders. Those days, at 300CFA (N105) per litre, Kouassi’s 3,000CFA normally paid for 10 litres at the roadside fuel merchants’. In the past, Kouassi needed to re-fuel every four days; but, since he could only get five litres this time, he would need to re-fuel in another 48 hours or so. Aside from having to spend more money for less petrol, Kouassi is also worried that every visit to any filling station would cost him hours as well. He has, therefore, decided to sell his motorcycle and buy a bicycle that only requires pedalling to take him wherever he wants to go.

Across Cotonou, the economic capital of Benin Republic, many roads are almost empty nowadays. Developments in Nigeria are responsible for the scanty human and vehicular traffic on the streets of Cotonou and other major settlements in Benin Republic. Along Avenue Steinmetz, and major roundabouts like Etoile Rouge and Carrefour La Beninoise as well as other roads in this city, long queues of anxious fuel buyers can be found at every filling station. And, the scenerio is similar in every other major settlement in this country formerly called Dahomey. http://www.sunnewsonline.com/

214DCE1C, Give me shout!

Funny people, comparing UK riot to Boko Haram riot. My brothers and sisters, if UK citizens riots and you happens to be a police officer, then count yourself lucky. But if you happens to be a cop trying to stop bunch of Boko Haramis from attacking you, then you'll know its a different ball game altogether.

Pl$, how many mins played?

Over my dead body, PDP ko, PDP ni! Will rather cut off my ten fingers dan vote those Poverty Alleviated Vagabonds into power. CRIMINALS!!!