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I Friend of mine is Thinking of setting up a business in Nigeria but finances is the major problem. The nature of the business is agriculture. He IS looking at 4-6 million.We tries Micro Finance Company but they come usually request some outrageous requirement and interest rate with in a short period of time. Kindly Let me know the requirement and what is your interest rate?
joyce.harry@yahoo.com. Please not insult.

Jesus christ!!!!!. not again

nice

mike404: SHATAP MY FRIEND OGWUCHE (PBUH) IS CLEARLY DOING THE WORK OF ALLAH.

SEUN PLEASE ALERT SECURITY THAT THERE IS A BOKO HARAM MEMBER ON NAIRA LAND. ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE INDEED.

unmask: Most of you just use any opportunity to justify marriage.......marriage can never be better than being single. most get married just to fulfilk an unwritten law, but in the end they get to a "making it work" phase.....my advice shun marriage and live your life to the fullest......even Jesus didn't get married.....

I believe you are still a kid. Please come back in 10 years time and repeat the same thing.

WHERE ARE THE APC E-WARRIORS. WHAT HAVE DO YOU HAVE TO SAY TO THIS.

APC ARE JUST BUNCH OF LIARS. THEY STILL WANT TO WIN IN EKITI AFTER INSULTING THE SENSIBILITY OF THE EKITI PEOPLE. SO IT GOES LIKE THIS. EKITI PEOPLE VOTE IN FAVOUR OF APC; THEN THEY ARE REASONABLE AND INTELLIGENT PEOPLE BUT WHEN THEY VOTE IN FAVOUR OF THE PDP THEN THEY ARE ACCUSE OF VOTING FOR THE STOMACH. ARROGANT BUNCH OF HUMAN BEING. APC WILL NEVER WIN EKITI AGAIN. NEVER AGAIN WITH SUCH ARROGANCE FROM THEM.

BANNED KPOMO KE, HAAAAAAAAAAAAA! ABEG OO! MAKE UNA STOP AM IF NA PLAY. IT DOES NOT HAVE NUTRITIONAL VALUE, NO PROBLEM BUT EE DEY SWEET FOR SOUP. IMAGIN EATING KPOMO WITH OGBONO SOUP..

chrisbaba1: [size=14pt]Why are igbos and yorubas representing places like Nassarawa, Kano (who have really beautiful hausa ladies), katsina, Bayelsa though. I think peoples real roots should be put into consideration before allowing them represent a state. And Mrs Ogun, mehn, we have better looking ladies though.[/size]

BECAUSE IT IS HARAM FOR NORTHERN WOMEN TO BE PARTAKE BEAUTY CONTEST IN NAIJA. BOKO PEOPLE GO FIT FIND THEM.

APC SHOULD LEARN HOW TO ACCEPT DEFEAT HONORABLY, HABA!!!.

WHEN APC IN EDO STATE WON THEIR ELECTION WITH THE HELP OF THE MILITARY TO CURTAIL ELECTORAL VIOLENCE IN THE STATE, DIDNT OSHIOMOLE COME OUT TO CONGRATULATE THE PRESIDENT FOR ALLOWING A CREDIBLE ELECTION? APC IS NOTHING BUT A TROUBLE-SOME PARTY, WHO ALWAYS AT ALL COST WILL CRY TO THE HIGH HEAVENS WHEN THEY DONT WIN AND PRAISE THE ELECTION AND INEC FOR A CREDIBLE ELECTION WHEN THEY WIN. BUNCH OF SHAMELESS PEOPLE INCLUDING THEIR YOUTHS AND E-WORRIORS ON NAIRALAND WHO HAVE SOLD THEIR BIRTH RIGHT FOR A POT OF PORTAGE. EVEN AS UNA DON BUY ALL THE MEDIA HOUSES BOTH THE PRINT AND THE ELECTRONIC ONES, ALL FOR THE SAKE OF PROPAGANDA TO FAVOUR THE APC WHERE UNA DON SUCCEED REACH. RUBBISH PEOPLE.

I PITY ANY BODY( ESPECIALLY THE YOUTH )THAT WILL INSULT ANOTHER FELLOW YOUTH BECAUSE YOU ARE A SUPPORTER OF ANOTHER PARTY BE IT APC OR PDP. WHAT YOU DONT KNOW IS THAT IN FIVE TO TEN YEARS TIME YOU WILL STILL BE REIGNING INSULT ON YOUR FELLOW MAN BECAUSE YOU HAVE REFUSE TO THINK OBJECTIVELY IN THE AREA OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT.YOU HAVE REFUSE TO LOOK BEYOND PARTISAN POLITICS AS TO SUPPORT AND ALIGNED YOURSELVES WITH THE BEST CANDIDATE THAT CAN LEAD THIS COUNTRY EFFICIENTLY IN RESPECTIVE OF THE PARTY HE IS COMING UNDER. AT THIS POINT IN TIME, YOUTH EMPOWERMENT AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SHOULD BE OUR FRONT BURNER OF DISCUSSION ON THE SOCIAL MEDIA AND NOT ALL THIS RUBBISH YOU GUYS ARE SAYING HERE. THE YOUTH, ESPECIALLY THE GUYS ARE NOTHING BUT A BIG DISAPPOINTMENT TO OUR GENERATION. WE WILL CONTINUE TO WAIT FOR ANGEL GABRIEL TO COME BAIL US OUT FROM THE SHIT HOLE WE HAVE SUBJECTED OURSELVES INTO BECAUSE WE REFUSE TO THINK AND REASON PROPERLY WITHOUT IT BEING CLOUDED BY ETHNIC, RELIGIOUS AND PARTISAN FACTORS. OUR FATHERS HAVE FAILED US, WE ARE ALREADY FAILING OUR CHILDREN. GOODNESS.

MiguelMi6: Excuse me,but what is Un-african about a sensible government allowing consesnting non-threatning persons express their sexuality as they will.Come to think of it,the laws have been suspended,it still gives you headache,no arrest for gay persons.Do you for a second assume that 14years imprisonment will change a person's gayness.
If with this move,all Western nations flock to her and she develops her country,good for Malawi.What has your own anti-gay law gained you in Nigeria?

I SEE YOU ARE ONE OF THEM.

MiguelMi6: Excuse me,but what is Un-african about a sensible government allowing consesnting non-threatning persons express their sexuality as they will.Come to think of it,the laws have been suspended,it still gives you headache,no arrest for gay persons.Do you for a second assume that 14years imprisonment will change a person's gayness.
If with this move,all Western nations flock to her and she develops her country,good for Malawi.What has your own anti-gay law gained you in Nigeria?

U BE gay ABI?.I hope u nor still dey Naija sha.

The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved contracts totaling N1.3bn for consultancy services for the designs of six standard gauge rail lines across the country.

Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku; Minister of Trade, Industry and Investment, Olusegun Aganga; and Minister of Transport, Senator Idris Umar, briefed State House correspondents at the end of the meeting presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan.

Umar said the six lots totaling 4,430km were in addition to seven earlier lots approved by the council last year.

He listed the railway lines covered by the new contracts to include Kano-Dayi-Katsina-Jibiya rail line; Ilela-Sokoto-Jega-Yauti-Makera rail line; Aba-Ikot Ekpene-Ibiono-Itu(spur line to Uyo)-Odupkani-Calabar rail line; Kano-Nguru-Gashua-Damaturu/Gamborun-Ngala rail line; Calabar-Ikom-Obudu-Ogoja-Katsina Ala-Wukari-Jalingo-Yola-Maiduguri; as well as Port Harcourt-Aba-Umuahia-Enugu-Makurdi-Lafia-Jos-Bauchi-Gombe-Biu-Maiduguri rail line.

The minister said the contracts were parts of the 35 years strategic vision of the Federal Government for the rail sector.

He said the scope of work would Include detailed studies, detailed surveys and designs, identification of potential train stations and Environmental Impact Assessment among others.

He also disclosed that the contracts for the seven corridors earlier awarded has been completed and that they would soon be advertised for development.

Aganga said he reported to the council that the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation has recognised the development efforts of Nigeria and Ethiopia.

He quoted UNIDO as saying that the two countries showed the strongest and highest potential for industrial development in Africa.

With that recognition, the minister said the organisation identified with the transformation efforts in Nigeria and endorsed the Nigeria Industrial Revolution Plan.

He added that UNIDO had decided to open an investment and development office in Nigeria to fastback industrial development.

He said the organisation has only eight of such offices in the world while Nigeria will be hosting the first and the only one in Africa.

“What this means to us is that the world is acknowledging the efforts of this administration in transforming the economy,” Aganga said.
http://www.nigeriamasterweb.com/paperfrmes.html

Donmarrius: And thunder will fire whosoever that will opens his/her mouth,to question the rationale behind this demand,or even spew trash as regards this,without first questioning the impectus/audacity,with which the Northeast,in conspiracy with its other northern appendages,is rooting to coner 5% of fund acrueing to the federation account,in the pretext of 'National intervantion fund',for boko haram ravages,in their abode,despite being the architect of their own misfortune.

Let me say this,Igbos never declared war on Nigeria,Nigeria under the leadership of a kakistomoboplutocrat called Gowon declared war against Igbos.
Ojukwu didnt fire any shot,until Gowom did.hence,Igbos merely fought to defend themselves from Gowons onslaught,which was hijacked by ethnic chauvinists from the southwest and north,to commit organised pogrom/genocide,against Igbos.
Therefore,Nigeria must also reconciliate,reconstruct,and rehabilitate,Igboland.

Yes. I think this is the time for reconciliation. To calm frayed nerve and let genuine peace reign in Nigeria. I instead of other Nigerians playing the ostrich as if everything is fine.

The National Conference, an assemblage of 492 Nigerians, after three months of its original time frame with additional one month, would round off in four days time having completed the main assignment of plenary, committee work and voting on the recommendations of the committees.

Professor Bolaji Akinyemi and Justice Idris Kutigi
Professor Bolaji Akinyemi and Justice Idris Kutigi
President Goodluck Jonathan, as part of the moves to expand the space for political and social discourse; determine the future of Nigeria and create a new political direction for Nigeria, on 17 March, 2014 inaugurated the National Conference.

Besides the 492 delegates, there are six principal officers namely: Conference Chairman, Justice Idris Kutigi; his deputy, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi; Secretary, Mrs. Valerie Azinge; Assistant Secretary, Conference Proceedings, Dr. Akilu Indabawa; Assistant Secretary, Finance and Administration, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu; and Assistant Secretary, Media and Communications, Akpandem James.

Before the Kutigi-led National Conference, Jonathan, on Monday, 7 October, 2013, put in place the Senator Femi Okurounmu-led 13- member Presidential Advisory Committee on National Dialogue as a foundation to the conference.

At the end of its three-month exercise of brainstorming, the Okuruonmu committee, in January, submitted its 69-page report. Barely two months after the submission of the report, Jonathan nominated Kutigi as Chairman of the National Conference, alongside Akinyemi as Vice Chairman. Consequently, the president rolled out 492 names as delegates.

The list was made up of 37 elder statesmen, one each from the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, nominated by the president; retired military and security personnel from each of the armed forces, the police, the State Security Service and the Nigeria Intelligence Agency; traditional rulers, two per zone and one from the FCT; retired civil servants, one from each geo- political zone and the FCT; NLC and TUC whose nomination must reflect the geo- political zones and gender balance; the organised private sector with two nominations from NECA, MAN, NACCIMA, NESG; the media, professional bodies; women organisations; youth organisations, people with disability, among others.

Some of the big names as delegates include the South-south leader, Chief Edwin Clark; Dr. Tunji Braithwaite; Chief Ayo Adebanjo; Chief Richard Akinjide; Chief Olu Falae; Erelu Olusola Obada; General Ike Nwachukwu; Achike Udenwa; Chief Olusegun Osoba; Nduka Obaigbena; Chief Raymond Dokpesi; Senator Jim Nwobodo; Chief Mike Ahamba, SAN; Senator Azu Agboti; Chief Peter Odili; King Alfred Diete Spiff; Prof. Jerry Gana; Gen. Jonathan Temlong; Prof. Jubril Aminu; Alhaji Ahmadu Adamu Muazu; Arc. Ibrahim Bunu; General A. B. Mamman; General Alani Akinrinade (rtd; former Senate Presidents Adolphus Wabara, Iyorchia Ayu; Ken Nnamani; Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN; Commodore Olabode George, rtd; General Zamani Lekwot (rtd); Gen Jerry T. Useni (rtd); Sen Daisy Danjuma, Charles Edosomwan, SAN and Ambassador Hassan Adamu.

LEADERSHIP
The conference itself was a test of leadership on the part of Kutigi and Akinyemi.
The first major challenge they handled was the adoption of 70% majority vote benchmark, just as the issue almost marred the conference. The bone of contention was whether voting pattern should be by two third, three quarter or 75% of delegates. A group of ‘50-wise men’ was put in place and the matter was resolved.

As the conference continued, humour adopted by Kutigi helped to relief tension especially when delegates resorted to threats. In one instance, the Lamido of Adamawa, Muhammadu Barkido Mustapha, during plenary, told other delegates that he would pack his luggage and whatever he had to join his kith and kin in Cameroon, but Kutigi and Akinyemi placated him.

Chairman of National Conference, Hon. Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi with his gavel at Conference on Monday in Abuja. Photo by Gbemiga Olamikan.
Chairman of National Conference, Hon. Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi with his gavel at Conference. Photo by Gbemiga Olamikan.
Kutigi and Akinyemi had very firm control of plenary; they did not give room for critics to achieve their mischief on the rumoured secret agenda on the conference.
Even when a delegate, Ishaq Modibbo Kawu, raised a point of order that there were publications that Akinyemi was lobbying northern delegates to smuggle in a new Constitution, in their transparent manner, Kutigi asked his deputy to explain his own side of the story.
They understood the fact that they were leading people of different ages and backgrounds.

The confab leadership was able to handle the North and South divide by ignoring distractive points of order when voting on reports and recommendations commenced and they did not also give room for reversal of decisions reached.
To buttress the good leadership approach of Akinyemi, the Lamido of Adamawa, Mustapha, conferred on him the traditional title of Hasken Adamawa, meaning the light of Adamawa Kingdom.

According to Mustapha, in a letter to Akinyemi, the title was given to him due to the fairness, fearlessness, justness and firmness which he, the Lamido, witnessed during his three months of participating in the plenary of the National Conference.

THORNY ISSUES
Twenty committees were set up by the leadership of the conference, namely: Devolution of Powers, National Security; Environment; Politics and Governance; Political Restructuring and Forms of Government; Social Sector; Transportation; Science Technology and Development; Agriculture; Civil Society, Labour and Sports; Public Service; Foreign Policy and Diaspora Matters; Political Parties and Electoral Matters; Land Tenure and National Boundaries; Economy, Trade and Investment; Energy; Religion; Public Finance and Revenue; Immigration and Related Matters as well as Law, Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Reform.

After weeks of brainstorming at the committee level which took place with memoranda from the public, summoning of ministers, heads of parastatals, government agencies, among others, the delegates churned out reports. In the last few weeks, the reports and recommendations were subjected to debates, votes, approval and adoption with the conference, at the end, dealing with very thorny issues.

Some very thorny issues the conference dealt with include power rotation between the North and South.
Another was immunity for elected public officers.

The conference threw out the contentious issue of 6- year single tenure for president, governors; it created additional state for the South-east as well as additional 18 states for the six zones with a zone getting three new states each, just as it reverted to the old National Anthem as against the present one.

The conference also voted in favour of Modified Presidential System of Government which combines the parliamentary and presidential systems.
Under the proposal, the president elected under the new system shall exercise full responsibility for his government and shall select ministers, not more than 18 of them, from the six geo-political zones of the country.

On local government administration, the conference voted that states should own their own constitutions while the functions of local governments as contained in Schedule 4 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) have been transferred to the states subject to the power of the state Houses of Assembly to add or reduce the said functions of the local governments.
Delegates also approved the establishment of special courts like those to handle cases involving corrupt practices.

It was also agreed that hence forth anybody arraigned before the court by EFCC, ICPC and by any law enforcement agencies, the accused person will be regarded as guilty, unlike the present situation where he is innocent until proven guilty.
On the issue of state police, as controversial as it appears to be, a decision was taken that those who want it should have it.

The conference agreed that there will no sponsoring of Christian and Muslim pilgrimages to the holy lands, just as it resolved that churches and mosques will now pay tax to government.
After weeks of controversy over whether or not the Land Use Act be removed from the Constitution, the conference resolved to retain the law.

The conference also agreed that lawmaking should be on part- time basis.
There is succour for people living with disabilities as delegates voted that government at all levels should grant allowance to them which will be equivalent of government workers on grade level 06 as that would enable them employ aides to assist them carry out domestic activities.

Recommendation on the creation of a separate Foreign Service Commission was unanimously accepted by delegates.

- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/07/confab-ends-kutigi-akinyemi-handled-northsouth-divide/#sthash.I3muRs4j.dpuf

why cant the doctors go on strike to force the government to establish the NHIS SCHEME for all Nigerians . I am sure there will be sufficient funds to to manage the health care system if it becomes mandatory for all companies and individual to pay a token premium to for their health insurance scheme. This strike is a misplaced priority and at the expense of patients lives whom they have vowed to protect and save.
Doctors, I know you guys are trying and your remuneration is far below as compared to what is been paid in other countries but you guys should realized that all the stake holders in the health sector need one another and therefore is dispensable.

Please I was given an assignment by my company to look for an advert person that can advertise our services which can appear on all site on the internet. Just like Jumia and Konga who seem to always appear at every site you click on. Who are the agencies involve and how do i contact them. Does any one have an ideal of what it will cost to be everywhere on the internet? I will be very grateful if any one can suggest or tell me about it in term of the cost and duration of such services.


Thank you

Is true. I grew up to see women taking the bread winners role in the house while their husbands were busy playing jogba and drinking ogogoro. Not all of them sha but majority of dem are lazy, chauvinistic, unnecessarily arrogant and aggressive.

Nice write up. At least we still have some level headed people on this forum.

Ngokafor: ...Sadistic Nigerian males in their elements on this thread..see them foaming in the mouth for nothing..

..,why are you so pained and in so much agony because some Nigerian women have decided to find happiness with another race?...keep decieving yourselves that the world revolves around you all una hear?...sadists stay here crying as usual while these married women continues balling in their husbands houses...delutional bunch.

THANK YOU MY SISTER. FRUSTRATED FOWLS.

vislabraye: . I get one Chinese and Lebanese friend wey go like marry you. PM me.

Na course? Lebanese and chinko ke. If na play abeg stop am oo.

GHANA is treating its first suspected case of the deadly Ebola virus, the health ministry said.

The virus has so far killed more than 460 people since it broke out in Guinea in February and spread to neighbouring Liberia and Sierra Leone.

It is the world's deadliest outbreak to date and there is no vaccine or cure for Ebola.

The ministry said that it had put in place "precautionary measures" and that people should stay calm.

The case was recorded at the Nyaho Clinic in the capital, Accra, the health ministry said in a statement.

The patient and staff at the clinic have been quarantined and provided with protective clothing, it said.

The clinic was awaiting the results of blood tests to see whether the patient really had Ebola, the statement said.

"We will like to assure the general public that we have everything under control," Tony Goodman, the health ministry's public relations officer, said.

Ebola spreads through contact with an infected person's bodily fluids and kills up to 90% of those infected.

The health ministers of 11 West African states met in Accra last week promising to work more closely together to combat the outbreak.

So far, 759 people have been infected with the virus in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Most of the 467 deaths have been centred in the southern Guekedou region of Guinea, where the outbreak was first reported.

But health officials say the region's porous borders have allowed infected people to carry the disease into other countries.

I had a bad experience with Jumia so many times.That I decided to blank them off my mind, in that no matter how attractive their product is display at me, I will never be moved to click. Jumia is a fraud. I remember buying a sandals from them worth 6500+ transport 500 making it 7000. that shoes pulled off it sole, the first day i worse it on a date, i was really embarrassed. Sometimes later I saw that same shoe at Kaymu.com for 1800 and I was really mad. I tried other online shops but it turns out that what whey bring to you is different from product displayed on their site. These product really lack quality. I think there should be a regulatory body to control all these thier excesses. its better to shop from Uk online shop since our Nigerian retail shop are a reap off

APC! GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD RUBBISH

When APC came on board, we were very delighted to at least have a breath of fresh air from the shackles of the PDP. But we discovered that some of those people that have been in the PDP from the beginning and contributed to the problem of the country decamped to the APC. APC openly accepted them with open hands becasue they had one thing in their mind" TO CAPTURE POWER BY ALL MEANS".

APC does not have a clear cut ideology and their priority is not the Nigerian People but their quest to capture power by all means from the PDP.
Just take a look at the leader of the party TINUBU and his spoke man Lia Mohammed. they just criticize everything weather is good or bad. opposition are suppose to be the voice of the people and criticize government's bad policies and action when it does not favor the masses but they would rather oppose everything even when people are dying in their hundreds without bringing out any solution.Always looking for any crisis in the country to score cheap political goal. Is that the party that want to save the nation from its present state.

Tinubu with is position has his wife as a senator, his daughter as Iyalodja and his son inlaw as a member of house of reb. Haba, nai be sey by the time he win a federal sit he will own have of the properties of this country.

NOW we know the PDP are devils, selfish and lack the interest of the citizen at heart but APC coming as a knight in shining Armour to rescue Nigerian from the the problem she find herself is pretty annoying. all i see around APC is just propaganda and nonconstructive criticism. I will rather stick to the devil i know until APC put their house in order. If possible Nigerian would rather vote for a competent person who comes on board under any party with the right ideology to serve the nation.

MY MUSLIM BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN THE HOUSE. IS ISLAM REALLY A RELIGION OF PEACE? DEFINITELY NO. SHAKING MY HEAD.

Rich4god: or better still, why do some ladies prefer already made guys than those who are still struggling....

Because those who are still struggling will now realized later, when they have arrived, that the lady that has been struggling with him is not good enough for him anymore. So Guy get off your little hill and look for something to do to make a living. Responsible men dont complain about why ladies like already men, rather they would rather focus on how they will be financially ok to start a family. Men that complain like this usually have self esteem.

I am an Urhobo. This is true oo. what i know is that if the man suspect that his wife is cheating on him and he still continues to eat her food which could have been use with money collected from other men, then the husband will be affected. That why you find out that the Urhobo women rather divorce their husbands for any first before getting involve with another man.
This is why Infidelity is not very rampant among married urhobo and Isoko women. This does not happen if an Urhobo girl is married to another tribe ooo, it only happen if the when the man is an Urhobo man.