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Religion / Re: Stephanie Otobo: Going To Prison Was My Punishment For Having Sex With Pastor by Owiii(m): 2:27pm On Mar 10, 2017 |
Came:Trillion gbisa for you |
Religion / Re: Apostle Suleman Demands N1bn From Keyamo For Damages by Owiii(m): 10:53pm On Mar 09, 2017 |
Evaberry:Shut up your mouth and go and die |
Religion / Re: Apostle Suleman Makes First Church Appearance After Sex Scandal (Photos) by Owiii(m): 9:27pm On Mar 07, 2017 |
neocortex:Shut up 1 Like |
Religion / #istandwithapostlejohnsonsuleman# by Owiii(m): 10:36pm On Mar 06, 2017 |
BMC and marine kingdom will never prevail over this matter. Victory is sure in the name of Jesus, amen. The gate of hell will not prevail. |
Religion / Re: Apostle Suleman Reacts To Snapchat Photos With Stephanie Oboto by Owiii(m): 10:29pm On Mar 06, 2017 |
myners007:Don't mind those stupid politicians. The church of God will prevail. Nothing can stop him. He is preaching tomorrow at the ministers conference. 1 Like |
Religion / Re: Apostle Suleman Reacts To Snapchat Photos With Stephanie Oboto by Owiii(m): 10:26pm On Mar 06, 2017 |
soberdrunk:My friend shut up. Close your mouth |
Religion / Re: Apostle Suleman Reacts To Snapchat Photos With Stephanie Oboto by Owiii(m): 10:25pm On Mar 06, 2017 |
NgeneUkwenu:How dare you calling him fake. Are you not a fake human being too with this your dp? Do not judge anyone....#myonecentadviceforyouorelseyourunmad# |
Religion / Re: Photo Of Apostle Johnson Suleman And His Daughters by Owiii(m): 4:54pm On Mar 06, 2017 |
lonelydora:Amen |
Religion / Re: Stephanie Otobo: Apostle Suleman Is Innocent And I Don't Know Festus Keyamo by Owiii(m): 11:29am On Mar 06, 2017 |
Jesusloveyou:You are calling Apostle Johnson Suleman a fake man of God? May God have mercy on you for calling someone fake. I guess you're an atheist. |
Car Talk / Re: My Toyota Camry 2001 Model Recent Problem by Owiii(m): 8:53pm On Feb 23, 2017 |
Carry out a scan on the vehicle to ascertain the probable cause of jerking. |
Religion / Re: What Is "Sexually Transmitted Demons"? by Owiii(m): 9:41am On Jan 03, 2017 |
When two people, engage in a sexual intercourse, there is a transfer of blood/fluid between the both of them and as such what ever STDs the person has, the other person gets. So it is spiritually, when you sexual intercourse with someone that's is possessed by demons, whatever demons the person has, you acquire in the form of sexually transmitted demons. I have seen instances were someone's girlfriend told the him that once he has an intercourse with her and goes to work, that he doesn't see financial favour at work that day. |
Properties / Re: I Need A Room Self Contain by Owiii(m): 10:13pm On Nov 13, 2016 |
yom2:08055706985 |
Investment / Re: Nigerian Stock Exchange Market Pick Alerts by Owiii(m): 5:14pm On Nov 10, 2016 |
Where can I get a stockbroker in Lagos? I want to invest in shares. Thanks |
Properties / Re: A Newly Built Room Self-contain For Rent @ Yaba - ***CLOSED*** by Owiii(m): 7:18pm On Nov 08, 2016 |
Please what's the total package for everything. I'm interested. |
Properties / Re: Newly Built Miniflat With 1toilet/1bath At Luth Road, Mushin. (PICS) by Owiii(m): 3:32pm On Nov 07, 2016 |
Please do you have a room self contain? My budget is 150k |
Properties / I Need A Room Self Contain by Owiii(m): 7:00pm On Nov 05, 2016 |
Please I need a room self contain with tiles, running water and in a good compound in oshodi, mafoluku or yaba. Thank you in anticipation. |
Investment / Re: Nigerian Stock Exchange Market Pick Alerts by Owiii(m): 3:20pm On Nov 03, 2016 |
ihedioramma:Thank brothers and sisters 2 Likes 1 Share |
Investment / Re: Nigerian Stock Exchange Market Pick Alerts by Owiii(m): 2:22pm On Nov 03, 2016 |
Please house, I want to invest in stocks and what are the stocks to buy that will yield a good return on investment (ROI). How do I meet a stockbroker in Lagos because I had one I was patronizing them in my state.Thanks and hoping to hear from the house. |
Religion / Re: Apostle Suleman Preaches Under The Rain (photos} by Owiii(m): 1:02pm On Oct 16, 2016 |
SpitsOnYoruba:You better wake up from your slumped. God exist. For this comment, a time will come in your life, you will need God but then it will be too late because of your myopic belief. God is omnipresent, omniscience, omnipotent. Give your life to Jesus. |
Family / Re: Help Needed. by Owiii(m): 4:59pm On Sep 09, 2016 |
Mrsaniekwe:Was it a court wedding or a church wedding? |
Education / Nigerian Students Sue Alabama College For Treating Them Like Animals' by Owiii(m): 10:02am On Sep 08, 2016 |
THE NOT-SO-PROMISED-LAND Nigerian Students Sue Alabama College for Treating Them ‘Like Animals’ Alabama State University got millions to educate and house exchange students who say they were charged more and given less. Godsgift Moses, Promise Owei, Thankgod Harold, Success Jumbo, Savior Samuel, and 30 more Nigerian students came to America hoping it would be the promised land. It’s only fitting that “Opportunity is here” is the motto of Alabama State University, listed as one of America’s 100 Historic Black Colleges and Universities, and where they got full scholarships from a Nigerian government fund for four years of education. Instead of getting opportunity, they say the school took their country’s millions and used the money to discriminate against them. In a lawsuit filed last week in federal court, 41 Nigerian nationals—many of whom are now Alabama State University alumni—allege the school overcharged them for books and meals, enrolled them in classes they never took, and more, all because they were black foreigners. “They called us cash cows,” said Jimmy Iwezu, an ASU alum who claims the university intentionally mismanaged millions from a scholarship fund set up by the Nigerian government that was paid in advance for every exchange student. “I’m a black man and I’m proud to be black, but I felt discriminated against.” The 37-year-old social work grad cites the school’s self-proclaimed autonomy to do whatever it wished with the seven-figure sum Nigeria prepaid back in 2013 for some 41 students to go to the school. Attorney Julian McPhillips, who brought the lawsuit to court for the second time—the first attempt, back in April, accused the school of breaching its contract with Nigeria and was dismissed—suggests ASU violated Title VI civil rights. The students allege they were shorted their deserved monies by ASU “because of their Nigerian national origin,” according to the lawsuit. McPhillips contends ASU hammered the students with exorbitant “billing” and they weren’t “being treated like other students” when the school allegedly inflated the costs of staples like books and room and board, and repurposed the funds to pay for the school’s “bond issues” and to help front costs for “a new stadium,” and, ironically, a center for civil rights awareness. “The school acted in a really disingenuous and self-serving way,” McPhillips told The Daily Beast. While most college students are permitted to bargain shop for textbooks wherever they wish or dine at different establishments beyond the school cafeterias, the Nigerian nationals at ASU, according to the federal complaint, were boxed in. The lawsuit claims “they were not allowed by ASU to spend this money, but instead the money was credited towards certain expenses the students incurred, or towards other expenses ASU incurred that were unrelated to the students.” “The school compelled us to buy books from the book store and eat only at the cafeteria,” Iwezu said. “I tried to make them understand, ‘Hey, we don’t want to live in the dorms anymore, and we don’t want to eat our entire meals at the dorms.” He said greed trumped reason. “They want our money,” he said, adding that the surcharge to live on campus was raised specifically for him and his Nigerian counterparts. “They make us pay $3,000 [a semester] to live in the dorms, and that is more than a mortgage on homes in this area. “Enough is enough.” Back in 2013, Dr. David Iyegha, a geography professor at ASU for almost three decades, made a pilgrimage to Lagos, serving as the school’s ambassador to recruit fellow Nigerians with a mandate to attract its best and brightest to relocate to Montgomery, Alabama, for their higher education. “I went to Nigeria with one other faculty member and recruited these students to be sponsored by the Nigerian federal government,” Iyegha told The Daily Beast. Today he is withered in regret. “I feel very, very bad because I was the one who was instrumental in bringing these students to the campus,” he said. Iyegha, whose son is currently on a Ph.D. track at ASU, feels like he let down so many promising prospects. “[Nigeria] paid for everything, including their books, and all of the money is supposed to be given to the students so they can buy this or that. “But the college refused to release any of that money at all for the past three years.” While the money was prepaid and guaranteed by the Nigerian government, that didn’t grant the school carte blanche on how it was supposed to be spent, he said. “I asked them, ‘Why are you treating these kids like this? Why are you depriving them?’ and after talking to them at length, they told me they spent all the money and there is no money left.” An ASU spokesman told The Daily Beast that “since it’s pending litigation against our university, Alabama State University has no comment.” Meanwhile, the retired 67-year-old academic says he is stunned the school he faithfully served and recruited for shorted these Nigerian nationals. Iyegha said Nigeria allocated approximately $30,000-$35,000 annually for each student to attend fall, spring, and summer semesters. Those funds would also go toward books, room and board, and incidentals. Nigeria “paid in full the entire cost” for the 2014-15 year, but ASU hoarded the money instead of depositing “any excess sponsorship monies into the students’ accounts,” the lawsuit claims. The students were suspicious of the allegedly questionable accounting practices and decided to raise cain with their consulate. In a May 2015 letter addressed to ASU’s president Dr. Gwendolyn Boyd, a special adviser to the former president Goodluck Jonathan named Kingsley Kuku blasted the college for its “discriminatory practices” and for breaching its fiduciary duties. The dignitary empaneled a delegation to head to Montgomery to deal with the financial fracas and demanded that “all credit balances for tuition be carried over for each student and be used as initial deposit for the next semester fees” and that ASU refund “each student” for “all other line items.” After months of inaction, the students’ attorney McPhillips shot back in November, demanding ASU quit the “stonewall” or “continuing silence” and instead “treat them justly from an economic perspective” and refund portions of “tuition, books, room and board, especially for the summer semesters of 2015 and 2016, and all personal expenses not used.” He pointed to Nigerian student Success Jumbo, who had married and was living off-campus and deserved a refund because his government “paid for nearly two years of dormitory expenses on his behalf, even though he has not needed said expense.” In a terse response two months later, Kenneth Thomas, ASU’s general counsel, wrote back stating that the oral agreement between Nigeria and ASU supersedes McPhillips’s clients’ claims. “There is no financial agreement between the University and the individual Nigerian students,” Thomas wrote. That meant the Nigerians’ gripes were frivolous and that if there were any refunds to be had, they would “inure to the Nigerian Government and not to the individual students.” Thus, the school’s counsel wrote, “Alabama State University denies your claim.” While the legal process was underway, the Nigerian students refused to be treated like naive foreigners. They started to school themselves and enterprisingly even traded notes with other students at neighboring schools like Troy State and Alabama University. “We looked at what happens with other students when they are given refunds and compared it to our student accounts,” Kehinde Batife told The Daily Beast. “We would see a refund, but before we could do anything about it, the refund was taken out.” The now 28-year-old criminal justice graduate says he was charged for summer school he never attended, after he had already graduated. “They had me as if I was going to school this summer,” the puzzled graduate said. “I asked them, ‘I graduated in May, so where is the scholarship money my government gives to you?’” And when he called the administration out, he says school administrators quickly denounced him. “They tell me, ‘You’re a resident of the scholarship.’ So they think they can do whatever they want with the money [Nigeria] gives them… I’m not going to let them treat us like animals.” Batife, who is hoping to afford law school to one day, remains irate about ASU’s alleged underhanded tactics. “I’ve been here three years and I’m a super intelligent person,” he said. “I’m not nosy, but I ask questions, and this school thought we don’t know anything and they could do whatever they want to us. “I cannot forget about this and I’m ready to fight the school, even if it means 10 years from now I’m still fighting to get justice.” The fight isn’t about riches either. A victory for Iwezu would be for ASU to pay restitution that can then bankroll future Nigerian students’ higher education in the U.S. “I want justice to prevail, and the remaining money should go to [Nigeria’s] Treasury and make a better life for other Nigerians.” |
Politics / Re: Ghana: Fulani Elders Offered N350m To Me To Destabilize Taraba/Benue by Owiii(m): 12:25pm On Sep 07, 2016 |
vorigan: When Apostle Johnson Suleman talked about the purported plan to islamize Nigeria, people called him names. From this interview, there is a grand plan to destabilize the North Central dominated christian states. Open your eyes 6 Likes |
Properties / Re: My House Hunt Experience In Lagos by Owiii(m): 3:41pm On Sep 04, 2016 |
seyiojomu:I'm looking for a room self contain around that place. If any, do let me know please. Just sent you a pm |
Education / Re: Funaab Pg School Admission 2016/2017 by Owiii(m): 3:48pm On Aug 31, 2016 |
sayid: I tried online but it wasn't successful. Have you gone to the school to inquire? |
Culture / Re: Swede In Need Of Help With Nigerian Pidgin by Owiii(m): 10:26pm On Aug 24, 2016 |
jhswe:For example nah wetin be that.literally it means what is that? |
Culture / Re: Swede In Need Of Help With Nigerian Pidgin by Owiii(m): 1:56pm On Aug 24, 2016 |
yes. send me an personal message please. I'm willing to help. |
Education / Msc Automobile Engineering In Nigeria by Owiii(m): 5:39pm On Aug 12, 2016 |
Which university in Nigeria, offers an MSc in Automobile Engineering? I will appreciate your information please. Thank you |
Education / Re: Info Needed On Oau Master Programme by Owiii(m): 11:56am On Aug 09, 2016 |
I'm interested in the MSc programme at OAU too. I intend to study MSc Automobile Engineering, I was told that OAU is the only university that offer the course at masters level in Nigeria. |
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