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So so sad for the poor among us. Am not completely supporting the govt even though they may be trying to encourage local production but why should a 15% increase in cost of wheat make the Bakers increase the cost of bread by 20% when other costs involved in baking the bread are still constant? Is Wheat the only factor in making bread? Is there no way these prices can be regulated since they have turned themselves into a cartel?

bakjal: Mr Orji!u should be ashame of urself to refer to Action Congress of Nigeria as a non Igbo party...Or perharps dats y d south is far better dan d east!!!

What did u score in your Geography

shymmex: But seriously, why do Igbo leaders turn every critique into tribal crap?

Anambra Governor vs El Rufai = The Governor turned it into Hausa/Fulani vs Igbo

Orji guy vs Tinubu = The coward wants to turn it into Yoruba vs Igbo...

These people are sissies and wussies!!!

I can see where the tribal warriors on NL got the trait from...

I believe its their mere personal defence tactice, it has nothing to do with Igbos.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the National Association of Legislooters Wives (NALW) Oyo State Chapter. Aka: Women of Calibre. Their Chief Matron is Nkoyo Ibori, wife of the Ex-Gov of Delta State. They are presently undergoing an international seminar at Queen's Land on how to aid their husbands in doing what they know how to do best.

This is a good idea because our local producers must be aided to grow but since the govt is the largest consumer in our economy, it should first experiment the idea with itself. Let our govt first ban the consumption of foreign goods and services in govt houses for official matters. For instance,

let them only purchase Locally Assembled Patrol Trucks for the police and other Security Agencies.
Let no contract be given to any company that has no base in Nigeria.
Let govt officials only fly Nigerian airlines.
Let our Govt officials only seek medical treatment in Nigerian Hospitals.

By the time our govts both Federal, State and Local patronise only made in Nigeria goods and services and our local producers are able to meet the demand, then Nigerians can be enjoined to toe the footstep of our govt. It will be foolishness for the govt to ban foreign goods in the name of aiding the economy while our Ministers, Senators etc and their households fly to Paris and London for shoppings and holidays.

Its time to patronise "Made in Nigeria" more before it collapses.

Some people just refuse to learn.

Economic Growth is like a man who owns a booming business, his business may be the fastest growing in the market but his nuclear and extended family may still be in poverty.

Economic development on the otherhand is like when the owner of that fastest growing business uses his income to rescue his family from poverty. Whether the family benefits from their father's wealth or not, the business of their father will still be adjudged the fastest growing business by his customers and other people in the market.

By all calculations, Nigeria is growing but whether we are developing is a different ball game.

I can remember when these people were given a notice sometime last year.

Lagos to demolish Ilaje waterfront shanties
By Miriam Ndikanwu 18/08/2011 17:49:00
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Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola

Lagos State Government on Thursday issued a quit notice to residents of over 500 clusters of shanties on the Ilaje lagoon, in Bariga Local Government Area of the state.
The state Commissioner for Waterfront Infrastructure Development, Prince Adesegun Oniru, who gave the order while addressing the over 2000 residents said it was imperative for the government to demolish the structures as the area constitute serious environmental nuisance and security threat to the people of the state.
Oniru explained that government could no longer fold its hands and allow the situation to degenerate, adding that the shanties which is quiet visible from the Third mainland Bridge constitute eyesore to foreign investors and visitors visiting the state for the first time.
He said, “We have come here to warn you to leave this place; we would not come back here to warn again. The bridge you see there is an international link bridge, and we do not like the eyesore these shanties are creating here, we do not want them near the bridge anymore. The entire area has been bastardised with the shanties in the water and we would remove them if you refuse to move”.
He revealed that the state had earlier issued warning to the dwellers to leave the area, saying that their continuous stay on the lagoon posed security as well as environmental threat to the state.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news-update/16441-lagos-to-demolish-ilaje-waterfront-shanties.html

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Why didn't they turn their back on Mr Joseph when they were taken into the church before the robbery? This is medicine after death.

This thread is closed, OKey?

@ Efemena XY, we share same opinion and in addition to that I believe the young boy is a victim of circumstance and throwing his condition to his face is not a way to be a "mother". She did a great job starting from where her own mother stopped but this current situation is about to make a mess of all her efforts especially because if the young boy were to be her biological son, she wouldn't give up on him at age 13.

If I were the PDP guy, I'll conceed defeat and congratulate Adams which will make him enter the history book as the first to do so in the country. No reasonable person can cry rigging here with the number of Militarymen PDP(FG) sent to that state. But Adams needs to apologise to INEC for his accusations even before the voting started.

Thirteen years ago, his mother abandoned him on a refuse dump. But he was lucky. An old woman was on time and she witnessed all that transpired. She picked the child and took him home to nurse. August 2007, the old woman died and her daughter took the lad to live with her. Now, there is a problem, a big one.

A few days ago, the lady, Mrs. Omowunmi Oriami, dragged the boy, now 13, to Festac police station in Lagos. She told the police that she came to sign off on the boy because, with him, her life was in danger. Mrs. Oriami is in her late 30s. Her mother, the old woman, had named the boy, Emmanuel.


She told the police that since she took over the custody of Emmanuel, she had not seen any good in him. She said the boy is speedily turning into a dangerous criminal. So, she had come, not only to hand him over to the police to save her own life, but also, may be, police could do anything to pull him back from the path he was treading. To formalize her request, she approached the police with a withdrawal letter.


Mrs. Oriami narrated how Emmanuel became a member of the family. “Emmanuel was picked up by my mother at birth and has kept him till she died in August 2007.” According to her, 13 years ago, while her mother went to dispose of some garbage in her Ketu, Lagos neighbourhood, she heard the cry of a baby and she went closer to discover that there was a young lady trying to breastfeed the baby. She waited by the side, with the thought that the young woman might be mentally unstable. After breastfeeding the baby, she noticed that the lady wrapped it in a blanket, dropped it and murmured a word, as of prayer, and turned to leave.


“When my mother saw her leave, she rushed after her and dragged her back. It was then she told her that she was about to travel to get married and that if her husband gets to know that she had a baby, the marriage would not hold again. Then I was the only child of my mother, so she promised the girl who introduced herself as Ifunanya that she would take care of the baby if she would come and breastfeed the baby regularly. I saw her come severally.


“Then she came one day and told my mother that she could no longer come as people suspected that she was actually coming there to take care of a baby. She said that she wanted to concentrate on her new marriage and we never saw her again nor do we know how to trace her. My mother adopted him and named him Emmanuel. He grew with us till my mother died and I took him in to live with me and my family.”


The problem now is, according to Mrs. Oriami, “ever since my mother died and I took him in, I have had no peace. He has been involved in all kinds of criminal acts, like child molestation and absconding from home frequently. And each time, I will go about looking for him with fear that, if any of this happens to him, I would be accused. That is why I brought him here to sign off his custody.”

After listening to her, Festac DPO, CSP Usman Ndandabo, shattered by the story of Emmanuel, ordered that proper investigation be conducted to ensure that this was not a case of child trafficking. He told Saturday Sun that the child would be handed over to one Evangelist Jacinta Nworie, pending when a permanent custody would be secured. “I am grateful that this woman was wise enough to bring him to the police, rather than driving him away. Most of the criminals out there are victims of circumstance that end up surviving the hard way. I pray that with constant correction and love, he can still be useful to the society.”

But the lad had an opportunity to state his case. Emmanuel, who speaks good English, said he wants to be a pilot, even if it means going to steal to achieve that. The boy insists that his life changed when the old woman, whom he knew as mother, died.


[b]And why is he always on the run? He said: “My life has never remained the same ever since the woman I grew up to know as mother died. It was then I knew that I was picked from the garbage. Any little offence I commit, my aunty (Mrs. Oriami) will remind me of my history and threaten to send me back to where I was picked. I am sorry that I have been a bad boy; it’s just that I find peace hanging out with some of these street boys. Most of my friends do not have home or parents and they tell me that one day, I would be thrown to the streets. That is why I decided to learn how to survive out there, in case that time comes.”


Asked what he was told about his mother, Emmanuel said: “I was told that she dumped me because she wants to marry again. She is heartless because even if she does not want me, she should have dumped me in front of my father’s house or even in a Catholic church. I heard that most of the Rev. Fathers in the church were dumped. Maybe today, I would have a better life. She has no excuse for making me suffer and I hope her husband finds out the kind of person she is.”


Would he want to look for her and trace his roots? He said: “I am not interested. All I want is for God to raise a helper so that I can actualize my dream of becoming a pilot. When I become a pilot, I will fly away to a new country where no one knows my past and would rob it on my face. I don’t want to end up like my father who got my mother pregnant and ran away.”

Bothered by his last response, Emmanuel was asked if he knew that, with the kind of friends he is keeping that he might end up like his father. He shouted: “God forbid! I am in primary six, but we have been taught about sex. I promised myself that, although I hang out with these boys, I will only allow them teach me the way to survive, not the way to get small girls pregnant.”[/b]

Meanwhile, Emmanuel was handed over to Evangelist Jacinta Nworie who has promised to accommodate him pending when an alternative would be provided. Evangelist Nworie said that she was moved to accept him, after listening to his pathetic story. “I have decided to take him in and enroll him in a school, pending when a permanent foster parent would be found. If his perception about life cannot be corrected, then we risk breeding another criminal for the future.”

http://sunnewsonline.com/national/article/picked-garbage-13-years-ago-0

Am tempted to believe the child, I don't know about you.

Agbara is not a city but an industrial estate with several Multinationals though. Take away the industrial estate which is less than 500 metres from Lagos and what remains is not equal to a town. Sango/Ota is more of a city than Agbara but not among top 10.

antitpiah: ^^^ WHo gives a shyt about your stupiddd schools in Nigeria. I am talking about correct schools like LSE, NYU and other correct schools abroad. To hell with you and your Naija schools.

You sound too proud and pompous, which of the schools above did you attend?

I was filling a certain form of recent that asked me this question, it was then it occured to me that I've only been to Anambra, Lagos, Ogun, Delta, Enugu, Rivers,"Abuja" and passed through Imo, Bayelsa, Edo, Benue, Kogi and Ondo.

Am yet to know how the core North looks like, thanks to the internet though.

991: It is better the world should know me as an atheist, than for God to know you as a hypocrite.

Meaning you believe there is a God somewhere?

Everybody is busy complaining or applauding, the question should be what can be done to reduce this trend? If you ask me I'll simply say "Imagine a Nigeria where people are celebrated based on merit? It begins with you and I.

But then, why should I be surprised when parents are even sponsoring the malpractice for their kids.

I don't know why UNN does not trust its own printing press which does an excellent job. I also don't know if it's a norm elsewhere but I noticed while there that departments print their question papers outside instead of using the department's printer. It's a big lesson for them and sad one for Post-JAMBites.

faithin9ja: The odd and even number started in 1977 in time for the FESTAC 77, it was meant as temporary solution. Odd & even was the brain child of the first OBJ regime.Then all Federal ministries where on the Island, whilst in 1976, the state capital was moved from Lagos Island to Ikeja when the 19 states were created.

I was already in secondary school then, so make una greet me properly

Am hearing this for the first time.

So what made them bomb UN building, poverty too? I dey laff!

Can you imagine how people whose relatives are in that camp will feel on hearing this rumour, may God judge the originator accordingly!

I need David Mark to educate this Aboki on the Doctrine of Necessity. How can thesame govt that promised to protect the Corp members now see their possible death as sacrifice to the nation? Why did GEJ refuse to sacrifice for Nigeria by refusing to merely visit those states yet they want a young man or woman to live there for a whole year? By his logic the constitution makes it compulsory to post Corp members outside their state of origin but the constitution did not say that Corp members MUST be posted to war zones. This is the height of inhumanity from a Youth Minister.

As for me, I just use my MTN line to receive calls and make calls with Glo. Who no get sense?

Am not a pessimist but am having an issue with this statistics. There are about 7 Billion people in the world, does it mean that atleast 1 in every 7 persons in the world own a Computer?

In the suit Dangote alleges that Ibeto and his co-defendants colluded to give Ibeto companies an unfair advantage by reducing his tax exposure on bulk cement imports to 5% only. Dangote claims this contravenes a presidential directive issued on July 8th 2010 which ordered importers to pay 20% import duty and 5% Value Added Tax.


The plaintiff asked the court to order the Federal Government to recover the duties and taxes owed by Ibeto and to obtain a further refund of N 7.8 billion paid the company by the government as a result of an earlier court judgement.

When did Dangote become the Attorney-General or an Activist that he is now the one to determine who should refund money to the government and who should not? If he loves the progress of Nigeria this much why didn't he reduce the price of his cement to benefit the poor? Its unfortunate that his dream of becoming the richest man in the World is under threat and Obj is no where in sight to rescue him as usual. Ibeto better be careful because if dangote losses this legal battle he may resort to illegal battles. Capitalists and greed are cousins!

@ spyder880, Am proud of your zeal, I've followed you from the first page and still asking for more. Bravo!!!

Does it mean that even the soldiers that were deployed to this state are helplessly unaware of plans for these killings? Where is our almighty SSS? Can't they gather intelligence and prevent these huge bloodbaths?

If Farouk is guilty why hasn't he been arrested? If Farouk is innocent why hasn't he sued Otedola for defamation of character? Am watching out for new episode of this mega movie.