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They complained of piracy to the NY District Attorney, and the DA's office acted accordingly. If this complain was made in Nigeria, I am pretty sure that the Nigerian authorities would have failed to act in the interests of Nollywood.

Coolabbie:
Hmm, So d coup plotters who are responsible 4 d dilapidated situation of d country are also among d beneficiaries of dis bonanza? Does dis mean dat anyone who perpetrates a coup shall be entitled 2 a pension of dis magnitude? *runs 2 d barrack 2 talk 2 soldiers*

Tell me oooo

Military leaders benefit from pension law
By Emmanuel Ogala
November 4, 2010 02:24AM
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The National Assembly yesterday brought an end to the controversy over whether past military heads of the federal government should be entitled to pension by approving what amounts to an enhanced pension package for the men through the joint passage of the ‘Remuneration for former presidents, Heads of State, Heads of federal legislative Houses and Chief Justice of the Federation Bill 2010 (SB 153)'.

Currently, the Constitution provides pension for only the president and the vice president, which, according to the 1999 Constitution, will be equivalent to the salary of the incumbent president. However, the new law introduces the Chief Justice of Nigeria, the Senate president and his deputy, and the Speaker and his deputy, into the league of past leaders to benefit from the pension.

Past leaders to benefit from the act include Yakubu Gowon, Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Babangida, and Abdusalami Abubakar.

The law, however, restricts anybody who has held two offices that are eligible for the perk to only one - the highest of those offices which s/he has held in order of national precedence. Thus, Olusegun Obasanjo will have to choose whether he would want his pension to be paid as former military ruler or as a democratically elected president.

Initially excluded

Military heads of government were initially excluded when the Senate passed its own version of the bill, with the senators saying the enhanced pension scheme was meant to honour only democratic leaders. The thrust of the bill had been to ensure that only democratically elected former presidents are entitled to benefit from the pension package for former presidents.

"This is to discourage other unconstitutional means of getting into power. The only way recognised by the Constitution is through ballot, and not the barrel of a gun," David Mark, the Senate president, had said at the passage of the Senate version of the bill in March this year.

Members of the House of Representatives, however, were of the opinion that this group of past leaders should be included. The past leaders were grouped under the name of ‘Heads of the government of the Federation' in section 4 of the Act that was passed by the Reps.

The clean copy of the Harmonised Bill, approved yesterday and soon to be forwarded to the president for signing into law, supports the House version by listing the retired soldiers as qualified for the new package.

The Senate president, who was himself a retired soldier, and would benefit from the law as Senate president, expressed his gratitude to his current colleagues for passing the law.

Happy days for past leaders

Only past leaders who were impeached are excluded by the law from earning pensions.

"For the avoidance of doubt, the benefits stated in this bill shall not apply to persons removed from any of the offices referred to in this bill by the process of impeachment," the bill stated.

It further states that these past leaders shall be paid an amount recommended from time to time by the Revenue and Mobilisation, Allocation, and Fiscal Commission and approved by the National Assembly as upkeep allowance, in addition to the pension entitlement contained in the 1999 Constitution. This upkeep entitlement is expected to be reviewed (upwards) from time to time, but subject to the approval of the National Assembly.

There is also a provision in the bill which entitles the family of deceased ex-presidents and vice presidents to an annual payment for upkeep of his spouse(s) and education of his children up to university level. However, this spousal upkeep allowance will cease the moment the last spouse of the deceased passes on.

Re-presented

This legislation - excluding the past military leaders - had been passed by the last session of the National Assembly and presented to the then President Olusegun Obasanjo for assent. He, however, did not sign the act into law. The bill was, therefore, re-presented to the current session of the National Assembly for passage and representation to the president.

NEXT had, on January 4, reported the plan by the Senate to review the pay of all former leaders. In the initial plan, the former leaders' package would have been increased from N250 million proposed in the 2010 budget to about N2 billion.

Chairman of the House of Representatives committee on appropriation, Ayo Adeseun, said the money was meant to take care of the former leaders' pension, medicare, yearly vacation abroad, offices, and general maintenance. Allocations for former leaders' welfare began in 2005, when a total of N140 million was set aside for them in that year's budget. Subsequently, the following allocations were made - N105 million (2006), N24 million (2008), and N250 million (2009).

However, no allocation was made in the 2007 budget, although it might have been integrated into another item under the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF). Until 2008, when the allocation was brought under the office of the SGF, it was treated under the Presidency or State House.

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Bus collision kills 33 in Nigeria
By the CNN Wire Staff
November 3, 2010 7:00 a.m. EDT
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
The crash occurred in northern Nigeria
The buses caught fire
(CNN) -- A head-on bus collision killed 33 people in northern Nigeria, a federal official said Wednesday.
The collision between the two passenger buses occurred on Tuesday in Yobe state, according to Kassem Bisi of the Federal Road Safety Commission.
One bus was on its way to Maiduguri and the other was headed to Jos from Maiduguri.
The buses caught fire after the collision.

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I hope he is tested for Adisa

As for me, I will burn my Nigerian passport and post the video on you tube.

ebe like say the poster don kolo

Aloy+Emeka:
Too bad you think that way but you are not her God. So far, Omotola is doing good in her career and who knows what tomorrow may bring. She could be the 1st Nigerian star to be on Larry King and Jay Leno. If God can bring Omotola this far, He can also make her go beyond the sky.

You are right, bro! God can bring anyone far, and "there is no telling what God can do." That was just my own biased opinion, considering I am a Genevieve fan, save for the baby daddy drama and her gold-digging ways. But you are right.

Honestly, Genevieve's talent and arguable global appeal is God-given; she is a star, period. Omotola has to labor for her marginal Nigeria appeal, at best, and it is undebatable that she is not global. Omotola is not, and will never be, on the same level as Genevieve, even though she tries exceptionally hard to do so. Omotola still has that omo alata suave beneath all that make up and pose. Once an omo alata, the saying goes, always an omo alata. Like the elders say, applying lipstick on pig does not automatically change that pig; it is still a doggone pig.

Oprah, I repeat Oprah, will never invite Omotola to her show; it just will not happen. Even though I have my reservations about Genevieve, her concealing the identity of her baby daddy and her gold-digging Abacha, I cannot help but acknowledge her star appeal. Hey, she is on CNN Connect the World.

story story. why is there not a picture of the snake? this may be another ploy to scam unsuspecting people out of money. very soon, many people will think the pastor is so powerful that he should be given money to deliver them from their spiritual ills.

All these Northern malos and their sharia nonsense. I am sick of it. Nigeria really needs to split. How can one part of the country be governed by a completely and radically different law than another part of the country? What happened to the so call unity? Useless cattle rearer malos. Let them live and die by their own sharia laws.

How will you say someone should not hug another person! Ehn!

benimeogu:
See how magnificent  Abuja looks, no other part of the country can be compared to the beauty of Abuja - The North capital of Nigeria.
I think its time for the South East to wake-up from sleep, we deserve some fairness and equity in the distribution of our resources.
We need the River Niger wharf we need international Airports in South East, We need Good Roads and we want PresidentGoodluck as president in 2011.
Enough is enough for  the injustice in Nigeria against the South East.

I concur. They used oil money from the South East to build Abuja, and the area from which the money came looks like chaos.

Yoruba dudes are specialists in credit card and wire fraud; Ibo dudes are specialists in smuggling cocaine; Hausa dudes are specialists in embezzling money. Division of labor at its finest.

I hope the guy rots in jail, for I am sick of all these bastards whose actions have tarnished Nigeria's reputation. I hope the Nigerian govt. arrests and locks up all the Cyber Cafe thieves.

The poster does not realize that Nigerians in the diaspora are responsible for most of the world class developments back home. Or do you think a Nigerian not in the diaspora, who has adapted to living under third world conditions, will think of creating a first world business or infrastructure. From the broadband cable recently wired from Europe to other businesses, it is diaspora Nigerians who are responsible for it.

The problem with Nigeria is the same ole thing: Illiteracy and a generation of leaders who have failed us. The previous generation, the Babangida generation, are all fools. To call them corrupt is to give them credit they don't deserve, for they could have still been corrupt and at the same time fixed our infrastructure. They are all fools who are thieves; they just stole money and fixed nothing. More diaspora Nigerians will come back home if there is stable electricity, clean drinking water, and decent roads on which to travel.

Tinubu is Fashola's papa in the Lord.

I think two men can share the same bed as long as their backs face each other. One persons back should not face another persons front, in case of incasity.

LeoMax:
Thats what happens to men of a certain age who dont have a woman by their side. Go get [b]ashawo each nite. Am sure the fellow will leave the bed for the sofa. And why the fuc(k) did you mention the price of the bed, You think you are rich ? Its Nothing. Get a girl, simple.[/b]

Why ashawo now, bro? Make d guy go get regular chick instead of ashawo.

Slyr0x:
Can Two Men Share The Same Girl? YES . . . So yCan't they share the same bed. . .       #Just_Saying

Tell them

For me, it depends on the size of the bed, the demeanor of the other male, the familial relationship, and whether it will be a repeated, daily occurrence. In your situation, though, it appears it is a king size bed and a daily occurrence, and that the other guy has a demeanor that is apparently repulsive to you. As such, I will not continue to sleep on the same bed with him, particularly since you are not related to him by blood.

Unlike my several Nairaland brethren, I don't subscribe to the notion that you have wronged your husband to cause him to act badly towards you. And, for argument sake, say you did offend him, he his nevertheless obliged to communicate your wrongdoings to you. That he has refused to do. Your husband has probably met and fallen in love with a lady who is taking care of his needs for you, and he his too timid to communicate to you that he wants out. Again, it is particularly worrisome that he has refused to communicate with you, which signals his disinterest in resolving any marital or personal problems that may exist. I will suggest that you run for your life.

The primary goal of living is to strive for happiness. That being said, if staying in that misery has deprived you of happiness, which I presume it has, then please leave and find happiness by yourself or with someone else. It is not by force to be married, abeg!

Eko

Ilu ogbon

Eko oni baje lai lai oooooooooooooooooo

Ki awon haters lo be si inu ogunpa

ki awon haters lo p'okun so

ki awon haters lo kudanu

nitori Eko oni baje.

I guess at the end of the day, toto is valued by how much a willing mugu is willing to pay for it. I am sure there are mugus out there who have bought cars worth more than $4M to phuck even a diseased-infested toto.

She should have been modest and asked for a Kia or Okada motorcycle, but no, ole girl wants a FX 35. God punish her.

kenosky:
@Olaolufred or wateva u call yourself, why do you think this is more common in the Southeast? Afterall, the dude said this whole stuff occured in Lagos. Why do we always bring ethnicity into such matters?

He moved them to Lagos from their base in Port Harcourt. Even though the events occurred in Lagos, the culprits are likely from the Southeast. They just brought their Southeastern okrika ways to Lagos. That's all.

dayokanu:
Banom,

I wont be harsh with you.

I case of next time, Find the fair market value of toto per round and divide by 4m the value of the car.

If the market value na 500Naira (Because of living expenses in Abuja)  Now divide 4m by 500 that would give you 8000. You can use MS excel for your computation

Tell her she has to drop toto 8000 times before she go see any car .

And must make sure the quality of the yanshing does not reduce till the 8000 time.

If by 7500th time she complains of tiredness or she isnt giving 100% then you would have to start counting all over

Do you have a PhD in mathematics or economics, or both? Because this your fair market value theory plus depreciation theory on yansh is serious ooooo.

The girl is a gold digger. Since realizing that prematurely asking for the car backfired on her, she has resorted to change her stance: that she was just asking as a test. Now, her plan is probably to wait it out, feign that she is your girlfriend, in hopes that it will eventuate into getting the car from you. Trust me, she will ask for the car later.

My advice is to have fun with her, and don't even think of wifing a trifling biatch like that.

The pictures on page 1 say it all. In these days, with the way many women attires are being made, that is, designed to adhere to every conceivable crevice of her body, it is disheartening for a married man to come home to his wife wearing wrapper. The married woman needs to buy thongs and sew her outfits, even if traditional, to reveal the contours of her body. It is crazy out there, for prudent married women know that a man is moved by what he sees, and they will dress right to give that man what he wants and needs to see to maintain his sanity, and to even remain faithful to her, his wife. In sum, it is well  known that a man will seek outside that which he finds wanting in his house.

gididi:
America should sit down with this yeye alert. Two of my friends were shot driving along Peachtree rd in Atlanta last month .  One Yoruba and Edo guy for nothing.  Just stop for traffic light and bang!bang! and wake up in Grady hospital.
There is no day in atlanta , new jersy,washington or new york you wont hear somebody's death from gang or drug business.

You can run your mouth all day; America is still substantially safer than Nigeria. In America, you can drive with confidence at anytime of the day or night. You can even drive, for example, from Atlanta to New York all night without fear that armed robbers will attack you. And even in the rare incident that you become a victim of armed robbery, you can best be assured that it will be thoroughly investigated, and hopefully the culprits will be brought to face the wrath of the law.

Granted, as there is no society completely free of violence, yes there are still robberies and home invasions in America, but no way near the blatant kidnappings and korokoro armed robbery being perpetrated by those hooligans in Nigeria with impunity. Sadly, the Nigerian police, although understandably underfunded and ill equipped to investigate crime, does practically nothing to abate these melancholy.

MrPrsdent:
waste of public funds

tell me about it

Alao Akala has done it again: he has not only spent N800M ($5.5M) of the state govt.'s money on sending pilgrims to Hajj but also campaigned at the camp at which the pilgrims gathered before commencing their journey to Mecca. He is apparently trying to use state money to woo voters in his next campaign for governor. Now this is what I called foolish use of government money by incompetent officials. This is the same Oyo state that has experienced little to marginal infrastructural advancements in the last 25 years; yet it spends all that money on sending pilgrims to Mecca.


Akala campaigns at Hajj camp
By Jide Jegede
October 19, 2010 01:29PM
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Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State seized the opportunity of a send-off programme for pilgrims to Saudi Arabia in Ibadan, the state capital, to campaign for re-election to office next year.

Over 1,000 of the 1,508 people for the pilgrimage were sponsored by the state government, while the bulk of the rest were sponsored by local government councils in the state. Each pilgrim costs approximately N800, 000 to perform the Hajj this year.

Speaking at the send-off programme held at the Hajj camp, Olodo, Ibadan, Mr. Alao-Akala said if the intending pilgrims could woo 10 voters each to vote for him in the 2011 elections, he would be much closer to victory.

“If these 1,500 and another 1,500 that will be going to Jerusalem bring along 10 each to vote for us, then we will be here again next year to do this kind of programme for another set.

“As you are going to the holy land you will pray. Pray for the peaceful co-existence of the country and that of the state. Pray for us to return to power in the next election and encourage another 10 people to vote for us in the election,” he told the crowd.

He admonished them to be good ambassadors of the state as they perform the hajj, adding that they would not be identified as individuals there, but as members of the state’s contingent.

“Remember the sons of whom you are. When you get there, you are no more on your own. You carry the image of the state. Do not spoil the name of Oyo State. Make sure you don’t engage in any activity that will tarnish the good image of the state,” he counselled.

Stressing the need to delay shopping till few days to departure from Saudi Arabia, the governor reminded them that they would have to visit many places and buying things at the very beginning of the adventure could burden their luggage.

New leader

The governor announced the appointment of the state’s commissioner for commerce and industries, Kola Balogun, as the leader of the contingent.

In his speech, Lukman Busari, the state’s chairman of pilgrim welfare board (muslim wing), praised the governor for trying his best to assist the board in discharging its job effectively.

Mr. Busari said that the first batch of the pilgrims will leave on Tuesday for Lagos, where they would be till the early hour departure to Mecca on Wednesday.

He said the board has arranged for Boeing 747 aircraft to reduce the batches of airlifting the states contingents to three, instead of the usual eight or more, adding that the final batch of the pilgrims, which is the third batch, will leave the country on November 1.

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Mobinga:
Which one did you take?? Cocaine or Cannabis?

Indian Hemp, maybe!

OvieE:
The fact is that entire Nigeria is not safe. Nigeria is like a war zone country. People will prefer to travel to Iraq than Nigeria.

I don't know about that one oooo. I think  I will take my chance in Nigeria than Iraq. At least in Nigeria, you don't have to worry too much about suicide bombings and and roadside IEDs. Then, I may be wrong, because I don't know what's up with those malos in Kano who sympathize with Al Qaeda, who are against anything Western, and who are calling for Nigeria to be an Islamic state with Sharia laws. They, like their Al Qaeda counterparts and Mutallab, may think that seventy two virgins await them upon their strapping a bomb in their underpants, blowing and killing themselves and innocent civilians.