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Afam4eva: Who won pls?

See this one... you never sabi front page ehn All these mod sef

Whilst we must all condemn the criminal tendencies of some of Nigerians in the diaspora, permit me to say that the Dailymail newspaper campaign of calumny against Nigeria and Nigerians in the UK is getting to a level if hatred!

This paper never seems to report any good news about Nigeria and Nigerians in the UK. Where Nigeria born British citizen excel, they always pay blind eye and refuse to acknowledge Nigeria. The case of the imafidons still echoes till today.

In any case, I stand to condemn all those who soil the name and image of Nigeria by their criminal tendencies.

gratieao: If it were GEJ that did this, the whole world would have words like" GEJ is clueless, daft, oponu, bigot etc but because its a Yoruba man doing this, you won't hesitate to expose your usual stup.idity even when you appear like a mo'R'on

Did GEJ not declare 3days of mourning for Mandela in Nigeria? So what are you on about.. .?

If you governor could not draw inspiration from somewhere to remember Mandela is His own way,who is to be blamed? I know my commorade Governor will no doubt do something like the rascal!

If you do not know, this has another positives because when tourist google places of interest to visit with names like Mandela, Osun state will show up and that will get people reading about Osun state and never know what can spring up from there.

4Wilywily: You and i know that the power of Satan is a powerless Power, Children of Satan was harassing an innocent woman, just because they want to have her job and continue Embezzling , but God knew that Stella have done no wrong, so he sent his holy spirit to protect her. Now God have shamed Children of Satan by given them a big Slap on their faces.
To Children of Satan hear what God said 'Touch not my anointed'

May you and your children not become victim of the negligence of Oduah if she was never complicit in what she is been accused of, if not, this December will be the beginning of birth pains for you.

Nigerians are not interested in stupid tales by moonlight stories! Fix the airport and give Nigerians a good airport that meets their today and tomorrow needs.

If only we had such a long epistle before the public criminal perfected her hideous crime to steal over N300 million in form of VIP cars, I am sure someone would have shouted ole before they completed the transaction.

atlwireles: I don't understand what you mean by Akwa Ibom contributing zero to the national coffers.

Do you know how much Akwa-Ibom collects from the national coffers every month? Where do you think much of that money comes from? Oil, tax receipts of all sorts, and PAYE taxes.

It is obvious that the low IGR shows there is virtually no economic activity, and much of the income comes from civil servant taxes, oil comapnies royalties and no much from SMEs.

atlwireles: Uduaghan is probably more productive than most people think

Uduaghan productive? Nah who curse you! Chei....

Delta State has gone backward since Uduahgan took over to the extent that people now prefer to come to Benin to enjoy their weekend and do their shopping.

Delta state has gone to the dogs, if not Delta state's IGR should be ranking in N150bn yearly or even more.

noblezone: That the Anambra election was rigged is the report of the Nigerian Media dominated by the "opposition"!

You think the world still revolves around your village? If you do not know, the whole world saw what happened in Anambra first hand so your blah blah opposition news media story is arrant nonsense.

Onlytruth: Good. I'm particularly happy that Nigerians have come to understand the power of ICC over these mass murderers at home.

I wish I can send some money to this group.

Hehe... see how people who call themselves mature think..

slimghost: @OP. What tribe is ibo? I have never heard of them before.

ibo are across the niger bridge to the eastern confluence of river niger in a place called Nigeria..

How insensitive can the OP be that on a day the World contemplates on the death of Mandela, you are posting rubbish about white hating blah blah.

Sometimes you just have to wonder what manner of beings live amongst us.

ba7man: I'm currently at MMIA. I SMH for what I'm seeing here.

Why not provide us with pictures? Picture they say speaks more than a 1000 words

CFCfan: Over $500 million will be used for the 5 terminals.

Lagos MMIA alone require about $2.7bn worth of investment to make it an international airport that would serve the country and indeed West Africa for another 3 decades!

Nigeria has the money, but lack visionary and purposeful leadership.

Adindu peter: Why does ngige find it difficult to believe that he will always lose with Apc in Anambra?

Wait until FORENSICS show Peter Obi that the world has moved beyond bigotry and imposition of candidates!

Wait until Obiano's rigged votes is reduced to 50,000 votes and declared not to have secured the required number of votes.

Nigerians, let be honest with ourselves, even if you do not want a particular candidate or party to win an election, at least show that by following a transparent process, and sticking to the one man one vote democracy not Obiakpodemoncracy.

ifyalways: One would expect, Oshimole being a one time labor leader,to handle things differently and efficiently.

You should know that Oshiomhole is the least of the governors who would want to compromise the positions of workers, ask the teachers in Edo State, if in the history of that state any teacher was ever promoted to Level 16 in the civil service and getting paid allowances close to those os a permanent secretary in the ministry. All this happened when Oshiomhole took over.

I am sure the differences will be resolved soonest. If only someone can post details on reasons for the strike other than the blank news that salaries have not been paid, something I know is completely untrue, and most likely it is all about allowances, gratuities, etc.

In any case, I am sure the national leadership of NLC, TUC will have contacted Oshiomhole to get this resolved soonest.

Click on link to see video of real trail!


Amazon is testing a delivery service that uses drones to deliver packages within 30 minutes of an order being placed.

Dubbed Amazon Prime Air, the service uses 8-propeller drones about the size of a remote-controlled airplane to transport shoebox-size plastic bins from fulfillment centers to customers' homes. The service, which still requires more testing and clearance from the Federal Aviation Administration, could take to the skies as soon as four to five years, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told Charlie Rose during an interview Sunday on "60 Minutes." (Disclosure: "60 Minutes" is produced by CBS, which also is the parent company to CNET.


The little unmanned aerial vehicles rely on GPS to deliver their cargo, Bezos explained during the segment (see below), which included an Amazon film of the drones in action.

"I know this looks like science fiction -- it's not," Bezos said.

In fact, aerial drones already deliver packages in China, and a textbook rental start-up in Australia will deliver its packages by drone to Sydney customers starting next spring.

Amazon said in an FAQ that the FAA is working on creating rules governing use of unmanned aerial vehicles.

"One day, Prime Air vehicles will be as normal as seeing mail trucks on the road today," the company FAQ said, noting that safety was a key concern. "Our vehicles will be built with multiple redundancies and designed to commercial aviation standards."


Source: http://technews.effectlabs.com/post/2013/12/05/Amazon-testing-drones-for-deliveries.aspx.

atlwireles: On a positive note, one could see a trend of improved revenues from most of the states especially those in South West,

The most improved states are clearly not the southwest but the southsouth. With Edo and delta almost doubling their IGRs between 2010-2012.

I really do not have time to flog a sea horse. The numbers are there for all to see and by looking at the states in each regions ith improved resources, you can tell which region has improved the most.

My Edo state has improved, yes, but in South South, states like Akwa Ibom is contributing zero to the national coffers considering her potentials.

These PDP agents will never rest, the widow said she does not need your money so go and use it to pay the striking workers! Nah by force

atlwireles: Dude, that was a great spin

Great spin at what? Or are the figures in the link you posted not a true reflection of what I said?

Some of you just talk without reasoning. You seriously think Oshiomhole will go and donate Edo State money in a book lunch just like that?perhaps, the OP should tell us the full story before anyone can blame the governor.

For much as I know, any luncheon concerning the Oba of Benin goes towards a community action project like building the motherless homes and skilled acquisition centre.

OP, you have told us half of the story, now tell the world all that transpired in the book lunch and let people judge for themselves.

My people, it is obvious that some states contribute very little to the national confers yet take out so much! Imagine my Edo State generates more revenue that Akwa-Ibom state!

Despite the billions Akpabio has received from the national allocation, He has failed woefully to turn the economy of the small state around.

How come Anambra,Abia, Jigawa and co generates peanuts? If these states are not economically viable to generate enough revenues to pay their bills, then they should file for bankruptcy and we will merge them with other states!

Even Enugu! Wow...how come he IGR in most Eastern states are so low? With shops all over Anambra, surely, the state should be collecting a minimum of N2Bn every month! If Edo State that used to be called civil servant state has largely turned it around and now generates on average N1.8Bn monthly, then Anambra and Enugu can do likewise.

Another picture from the IGR is the toll boko haram evil has taken on the revenues of Yobe State.

On a positive note, one could see a trend of improved revenues from most of the states especially those in South West, however, it would have been better if these improved revenue reflects in the people and society by way of new roads, schools, hospital, etc.

Abia has no IGR data, Oji has finished the people of Abia

The many replies on this thread castigating the op says a lot about Nigerians. Some think diversity visas lottery is only for DEVELOPED nations, whilst others are stereotyping.

Diversity visas lottery is a deliberate programme by governments to bluster their population with people they think would fill the missing jig saw in their economy. It could be skilled work force as in the case of Canada, or race balance as in the case of the United States, or highly skilled imbalance as in Australia, and New Zealand.

So then, tell me why Nigeria as a developing nation cannot have a diversity programme to address some of the imbalances in the nation space? I am sure several of the Indians would gladly jump at the offer of having a free pass to work for the multi nationals in the country, and also set up their own businesses.

Creativity can only be found in the hands of those with a visionary heart - omo_Tier1

a THIEF THEY SAY HAS NO SHAME..... what a man! 8 Years has revealed the true character He truly is.

ontarian: John 13:34. A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another even as I love u.
Mark 12:29-31.
29) and Jesus answered him, the first of all commandment is, hear o Israel, The Lord our God is one Lord.
30) and thou shall love The Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
31) and the second is like, namely this, thou shall love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Christians must learn to tolerate one another. Heaven and hell are all real. That much is certain. Jesus came for a purpose. To reconcile us with the father through his blood. He gave us two great commandments. Non of these talks about heaven and hell. Both commandments talk about love.

So why are we condemning ourselves? We all know what the scripture says in the book of Romans 8:1.( there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit).

Our duty as Christians is to go into the world and preach the gospel. Not to criticize different denominations. As long as we are all different, we must as necessity, have different opinions and understanding.

Our doctrines may differ, but we are one body in Christ. If we study the book of 1 Corinthians 12, we will realize that the same spirit give unto men different gifts/talents. All under one Lord. Jesus.

Love ur neighbour as urself. It is very simple. If ur neighbour is a Muslim, luv him. If he's a pagan, luv him. If he is a murderer, luv him. If he's from a different denomination, luv him.

It is all about luv. In 1 Corinthians 13:13, Jesus made it very clear. Faith, Hope and love abideth, but the greatest is love.

Love all u can. You will never go wrong with love. North, South, East and West, let's all stand together in love and build our nation. When we stand together, we all win. God bless Nigeria.

You know, it is so easy for us to talk about love, but the truth, no man can love except He be given the nature of God which is love! So you must first be reconciled to God, having His nature, then you can freely love.

youngprofdguru: The Catholic Church is rooted in the bible so are her doctrines… Mary, that extraordinary creature of God is at the same time the mother of my God and hopefully yours as well. As one Saint puts it, “If Mary is not your mother, then the Devil must be your father”. Do you really count yourself among the generation of people that will call her blessed? (Luke 2 ) Can you be numbered among those who will be privileged to behold Mary as their mother? “Woman, behold your son, Son, behold your mother”

Can the Rev tell us where in the bible it is written that Mary is the mother of God? How can Mary who was born of the flesh be the mother of God?

It is a shame that rather than show us clearly what the bible says about what will cause people to go to hell, the Rev went on a long epistle really about nothing new.

Why is it not enough that Roman catholic worship Jesus? Why would they not 'Honour' David?

Only time will tell when the truth begin to expose the lies beneath the surface.

Ada Nri1: We dont worship Mary. We worship Jehovah God through the sacrifice of the holy mass. Which Jesus Christ commanded us to do when he broke bread at the last supper. It is unfortunate most people don't understand Catholicism hence they attack it. We honour Mary because she brought forth our redeemer into the world.

So why then do you not honour David? Or Abraham through whom the "seed" came?

nolia66: Pls u al shld stop dis hate 4 d catholic faith,at d end of d day,we won't b judged by d church we attended while on earth,all God has asked 4rm us is 2 love one another n follow his commandments..dnt let d ignorance of 1 man lead us 2 sin,cos dats d only tin dat can take us 2 hell

No body hates the Catholics, certainly not me, rather, people are only asking you to educate them about the doctrine your practise! Instead you Catholics proving your beliefs from het scriptures, many of you are hiding behind articles written by priest and some old hashed tales.

Why is it so hard for you to explain with the scriptures what you believe? If honouring Mary is something the bible tells us to do, then show us where it is and we can all learn.

Most people are asking honest questions and wanting to learn more, but like the secrecy that have surrounded Catholic Church for hundreds years, you all are lip sealed.

When I get questioned about my faith and believes, I make reference to the bible and explain myself and every true Christian should be able to.

2 Timothy 2:15 " Study to show yourself approved unto God, as a work man who need not be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth".