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Very simplistic and from a very narrow perspective.
There are several reasons why 'sleeping on the same bed' or 'sleeping in the same room' may not be consistently practical or realistic.
One can be profession, vocation, work schedule, etc.

The world is a global village and some people are on duty round the clock making it impractical and unfair to keep the other partner waiting.
There are doctors who take calls at anytime, some categories of security personnel, and other such essential call services that have phones and other communication gadgets ringing off the hook which can practically drive your partner mad.

Then there are others who make use of the long, quiet night hours for business, studies, creativity, etc, either intermittently or for long periods of time. They may not necessarily have another room of abode but their studies or nooks could have a couch for a flash nap while they keep their eyes on the ball or their minds on the 'prize'.

There is a lot more to life than the basics marital demands of companionship or the rudimentary place child bearing has in the scheme of family life. There is no set formula for these kind of things. What is important is understanding. That both partners are in agreement with the arrangement and like the good book says the couple ensure that their conjugal rights are respected to avoid temptation.

My two cents.

blamingthedevil:
Pic: Beautiful Handwriting of Kashim Shettima

Is this your dividend of democracy.... oh responsible citizen eh.
Is this what your fellow citizens of other nations do 5 months..... just 5 months to a general election.

GavelSlam:
He's the only Nigerian guy in Cyprus not doing yahoo.

Sometimes I even doubt it.

What is 'yahoo'.?

Francis Uzoho in Old Trafford for a thorough examination.
Hope our coach and technical department will sit with pen and pad in hand to decide whether he should remain our No 1 goalie.

It happens all over the world where politics and art is forced to mix.
These people are fish out of water in such settings.
I could remember the criticism a popular soccer player attracted when he attended a presidential election in shorts and sweats.
This is the headache of a lax protocol department that has not done its job diligently.

RenaissanceGuy:
When did a human rights agency start issuing out epistles to defend politicians? Don't politicians have spokespersons for that kind of job?

HURIWA is largely discredited.

Reserve some for City na.

Okoyeebo:
Fear Government.
Yahaya Bello can decide to revoke their CofO and pay 18,500 as compensation to Dangote and there is absolutely nothing Dangote can do. It is absolutely legal.
It is better Dangote calms down and dialogues with Bello.

Oga.
Everywhere else in the world where people are not in love with poverty industry rules and businesses are the lifeline of communities/societies.
The only economic leverage government has is the control of macro-economics and its resources limited to credit.
Government in itself does not create wealth or generate income.

So you better get your head straight as to what comes first, the chicken or the egg.
If Dangote leaves the State will be worse for it, period.
It is the government that should sit and negotiate or renegotiate an obviously poor initial agreement/arrangement, or head to arbitration.

If Nigeria was a proper Federation other States with similar mineral deposits/resources will be placing calls to the company right now to relocate operations to their climes on better terms and even offering to offset the costs therein.

What happened to the Niger-Delta when the agitation peaked. Oil companies packed out and headed to Lagos leaving the local economies in tatters and now that the whole country is unstable they are all leaving the business entirely for local companies to take over and we can all see the result, rampaging oil theft leaving the government seriously short on revenue.

Leave it abeg. Big business always wins. Ghana that has absorbed scores of Nigerian Industries are not complaining. It is our government that is broke.

Mr. Ogunlewe is desperately trying to extricate his principal from the present regime at this dying hour when the horse has bolted.
In those days the slogan used to be PDP has failed.... rightly.
Now it is their turn in the spotlight, the song has changed to 'President Buhari has failed'.... not the APC.

This is the crux of the matter.
The stark reality facing Nigeria and whether this nation is willing to build a system of democracy based on values of which the cornerstone is clear. If a government fails, the party is changed.
That was the basis of the emergence of the APC in 2015 and was widely recognized as a good step and the right way forward.

This will make the concept of continuity important within political parties and all their stakeholders will be more serious about delivering good governance whether they hold offices presently or not.

I did say months if not a couple of years ago that Mr. Tinubu either speak up against the shoddy governance of the present regime or begin to detach himself from it. For if the regime became unpopular, the party will suffer for it as well. He hung on to the bitter end and now wants to abandon ship, abandon the legacy of the Buhari led government when it has set sail. How can one do that without drowning.

Too late in my view.
I have said it before and I will say it again.
If the APC is re-elected into government after 7, going 8 years of wishy-washy governance then it means the gains of 2015 have been lost, our democracy regressed and Nigerians will have appended perhaps for a long time to come, poor governance which in saner climes has grave electoral consequences.

Dottore:
I bet you the Europeans and Americans will most likely use politics to either delay or deny the certification of these Chinese made car/aircrafts because once they issue a clean bill of health to Chinese crafts, China in their usual way of doing business will outshine their competitors by demystifying the technology and making aircrafts very unbelievably affordable just like they did in home appliances, mobile phones and automobiles; Truck manufacturing and vehicle manufacturing.
Their European counterparts in these sectors are either defunct, struggling, merged or outsourcing their production in China.
Some people are shouting "It's Ordinary Drone" etc.
Drone technology is nothing ordinary. It only seems ordinary now because the Chinese has made it very affordable.

I think you need to read further and wider to see that there is nothing novel about these technologies that have been demonstrated in America and Europe since the late 90's.

Reason why they are not in commercial production anywhere in the world is the lack of framework for public deployment.

China is not the leading nation in this technology.

onatisi:
“Among the politicians at the unholy consultative meeting were Mukhar Shagari, Boni Haruna, Abdulfattah Ahmed; Damishi Sango; Senator Idris Ahmed Umar; and two former deputy governors of Kogi State, Yomi Awoniyi and Simon Achuba. They are all PDP members working for the presidential ambition of Atiku Abubakar.

the message is finally sinking into the head of the sick old man, that the north will always stand with their own most especially a man like atiku. Tinubu and APC will not face the major problem they have now and try to resolve it , the stubbornness of tinubu will cause apc defeat. Muslim /Muslim tickets will be difficult to fly now in the present situation naija is .

They don't get it.
When you want a radical shift in ideology you prepare the ground for it.
The present government has not done anything to douse religious tensions across the country.
From its genesis there were warnings that appointments and positions were biased in favour of certain demographics but the APC did little to develop capacity in other regions and religions, now the next intending candidate cannot tap from that resource and has to polarise itself even further.

Yomi Awoniyi is the son of the late Sunday Awoniyi who was once Chairman of the ACF, a position that was often reserved for northern sectional and religious minorities to forestall schisms and a fragmentation in the northern polity, the very thing this candidacy will cause.

Amongst the northern elite there will be real concerns that once this fragmentation occurs the middle-belt could delaminate and indeed chart its own political cause going forward.

So this joint faith ticket will be a real challenge, a big gamble that could potentially change the politics of the north forever. I am not too sure they will be willing to take that risk when they have two prominent northerners in the race that have a better religious and geopolitical balance.

The stakes have been raised. Side with the joint faith ticket and break up the powerful northern block or.... not..... simple. There have been a few things pushing the middle-belt out of the sphere of the northern political gravitational pull in recent years, things we are all familiar with... but this will be the biggest kick and might just be the last straw.

Tell your principal to document it, sign, seal and place in the vaults of the CBN together with the nuts and bolts of how it will be done then your talk begins to grow legs.... or else it is just the usual political promo.

.....Same old political template.
The same Tinubu worked against the national confab.....


.... and double speak
True federalism he couldn't ask Buhari to implement
Oh I forgot, Shettima said 'restructuring my foot'.....

That is why promises must be documented and appended this time.

CheapHomes1:
I feel this guy is wasting a lot of time abroad as those abroad aren't his voters except he is just going there to flex. There's a lot inroads to be made in Nigeria which he hasn't made

You can say that again.
Really cannot fathom the strategy at this time.
For me I want to hear the detailed strategies to tackle the fundamental problems of our time.
I am really thin on all these 'flesh press' shows.
My own is about issues.

Frank is driving Everton in the right direction.... and somehow has managed to improved our low budget Jay-Jay, Alex Iwobi himself, something even the great Arsene Wenger could not do...

Snapchat:
Why? Because of one league goal?

No sir. Because of 700 league goals.... SEVEN HUNDRED.

Ronaldo critics will not sleep this night....

Jay-Jay spotted.... no wonder Iwobi found his mojo...

Just like sound cannot be transmitted in a vacuum, spiritual things require a medium or atmosphere to become viable and if your spiritual atmosphere is not viable for such things they have no effect. Your belief system is key.

adeolamighty:
Iwobi! Boom! �... Goooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaal!

Anthony Boomer Gwalllllllll.......

See how United has turned Lion Casemiro to pussykato....
Hope they won't bench him to cover up.

lonelydora:
When Buhari leaves office by next year, we will all know 80% of our problems were not caused by him.

Nigerians are fantastically corrupt.

Naso. Maybe they were caused by Goodluck Jonathan.

When it is APC's turn we have all these scientific 'discoveries' and abundance of knowledge.

budaatum:
So if thieves have ever taken away something that means a lot to me, you expect me to go further than an eye for and eye and take their entire life in return do you?

Sorry, but I'm not barbaric like that! And a generator set is hardly something that should mean that much to me that if stolen I should steal a whole life in return!

Why bother with the primitive Negro that knows nothing but violence and will destroy whatever he cannot handle.

[quote author= post=117414196]Some of the awaiting trial inmates have stayed longer than the punishment provided by law for the crime they were arrested for.

If you look at a man that is caught for petty theft and you are trying him for three years, even if you convict him for that crime, how long will he stay?

How long will that fellow stay, probably six months, but without trial, he will be there for three years.[/quote]And you have the records that this number is 30 percent of the pop.

I guess the poor economy favours felons after all.

descartes400:
If you look at the picture, areas of flooding are purely water ways which begged the question; why would people build houses in water ways?

Shey, we are all seeing the consequences.

Another postulate.
Let me humbly ask this question.
Who is not on a waterway in all of Lokoja... Lagos island, Makurdi, Onitsha and other locations under threat. Is waterway a factor of location or rainfall.

If rain falls a day longer, a week longer, a month longer, for three more months till the year ends won't it redefine the location of these 'WATERWAYS', because we have all heard this saying that, 'water will always find it's level and chart it's course.

So when you are considering buying that land or processing that CofO, who do you consult for safety, a town planner, an environmentalist, geographer or a metrologist.... just asking?

Debate.... after looking at the pictures again... carefully.

twilliamx:
People should stop building on flood plains

Let us be factual here about the popular wet season lingo, 'building on water channels, flood plains, etc'.

What is the definition of a flood plain or a water channel. Is it natural or artificial, an engineering error or the effects on layman's ignorance....

Because every nation or region has high ground like Jos, Abuja, etc and every nation has low lying land like Lagos or Bayelsa.

Can flood plains be artificially created? Yes. I have seen serious engineering works to create and expand rice paddies in Ebonyi that just makes me shudder to think what will happen when rains fall a little longer than anticipated....that is the danger created because of rice.

Can they be engineering errors? Yes, the Abuja - Lokoja road had to be realigned a few years back when it was submerged during a particularly heavy rainy season. The Lokoja - Okene highway on the other hand is always submerged during the rains as we see this year too. Are we saying government too is building roads on flood plains. Government error?

Then we see the obvious, people building by the banks of river Niger at Lokoja, river Benue at Makurdi and we shout, 'they are foolishly building on flood plains'. Yes, correct, but everywhere on the world, from the Nile to river Thames, to the great Mississippi people will always build besides bodies of water for transportation, industrialization, agriculture, etc for thousands of years. Is it bad, wrong?

We are told that by 2100 most tundra ice will have melted into the sea raising sea levels and submerging most coastal cities including Nigeria's. The projections say places like Lekki peninsula, Victoria island, the Thames estuary, parts of Newyork will be gone. But folks there have government approvals to build there. Government error?

So are ordinary folks comitting an environmental crime by all these talks about building on flood plains and so called water channels or are they doing what their natural instincts dictate sometimes with government's approval. Who is at fault here.l?
Discuss.

jclassiq:
I don't think you have any sense at all. If you did, tell me if their governor is responsible for natural disasters. Why do you people not vet your thoughts on a public forum?

Pot calling kettle.
Yes the Governor is 'not the cause'.
But the governor and government is there to fashion out the solutions.
So he is responsible for the outcome.

Learn to hold your leaders accountable please especially in this election season. They are not elected to office to be some ornament on a mantelpiece, some tin-gods to bow before in holy worship every morning, but to be instruments of secure life and good living.

In this case to be a lifeboat in floods and to bring back dry land out of rivers of water. If leaders and governments are not solutions, they are not useful to us and we are better off governing ourselves and answerable to no law. That is how democracy works.

xaggar:
Try to understand the difference between flooding and river overflow.

Flooding comes from a heavy downpour. A river overflow is as a result of the river unable to contain a huge amount of water.
Dredging the river basin is one way to tackle this. Remove the excess sands accumulated over the years from the river so it can handle more volumes of water.
The deeper the river the less space its waters takes on the adjoining banks or land.

I don't think all the budget in Nigeria can clean the River perpetually. All tropical rivers have this problem of silting and as more land is being cleared for farming and trees lost to deforestation so soil gets washed into the rivers and end up silting them. That is why dams are not popular in these parts of the world. They are high maintenance.

The only way dredging can be sustenable is to create economic activity that necessitates it and thus pays for it. If Lokoja can be made a special economic zone and have industries and river ports all over the place then these facilities will care for their environment as part of the cost of doing business.

Ajaokuta Steel for instance has a large river port. All it needs to do is to 'dredge it's backyard' regularly by law and if every establishment along the river did that it will cost government nothing.

So the Federal government in conjunction with the state government should appropriate all the land along the banks of the river and deliberately stimulate economic development as an investment in environmental solutions.

morikee:
Effect of Climate Change aka Global Warming
Even here in the North Rain dey still fall which is very unsual. May God help us all.

Of course it is from the north River Niger gets it's sources both within and outside Nigeria. The River flows north-west to Lokoja, joins the Benue and transects southern Nigeria.

So until the rains stop either in the northern highlands of Mali and Burkina-faso to the west or the Camerounian highlands to the east, I'm afraid the misery in Lokoja will abide.

Alphafeezay:
My friend think very well before you put out your opinion..... so investors will come to your state and acquire your assets illegally, won't pay bills and won't honor invitations and summons? Na investor be dat abi a thief.

You might not like Bello, and I won't join issues with you on that, but please show me a state that is more accommodating to recalcitrant investors than Kogi.

And what framework was put in place, what agreements were reached and how were they handled to ensure this situation never occured.

If I am a 'partner' in a business and I am being shortchanged why can't I legally enforce my rights. If I am being owed why can't I declare the enterprise as defaulting or bankrupt. How can a partner wake up one morning and move to seal a premises. That cannot be partnership.

Partnership is where parties 'participate' in the running of business and everything is fully disclosed.

I think we have issues with government in or around business in this part of the world. The same issues we have with the oil sector involving government ownership, indegenous peopes rights and the investment of multinationals. The framework is always bad.

How can you be a 'partner' as a State and not get paid when ordinary shareholders are paid dividends. What sort of nonsensical arrangement is that.

Same with the Niger-Delta. If our silly, dull governments over the years had made the people of that region shareholders in NNPC ltd (as it is today) or any of the production companies, the agitation will have died down instantly, not a penny will have been lost to wasteful agencies like the NDDC and not a single illegal refinery will have been built.

We are too dull.
The Kogi State government should simply convert it's tax demands to equity and take the dividends without sweat instead of losing everything the way Nigeria is losing everything to oil thieves today because it cannot think properly.

JASONjnr:
Dangote should get out...


This company has never served this country...

Imagine the price of cement and other goods that he extract it's resources directly from Nigeria but we buy them as if we're importing these goods ....


Above all, I don't care how Bello will deal with Dangote, but I wish he'd make his goods favourable for us. Even Ghana buys cement cheaper.

And this will make cement cheaper abi.
Government revenue is sinking due to inflation and you are attacking the hens that lay the eggs.

Honestly the black man is just retarded. So sorry to say that but day after day one just cannot argue otherwise.

You have institutions that handle conflicts legally and in civil manner, why not use them. Why must violence always be the way out, the only option. Why is the zero sum game always the only way to the Negro.

I am certain someone is government is boasting right now, saying, 'if Dangote doesn't bow they should 'get out'.' Then they sit down and wonder at misery....

gasparpisciotta:
Just like the Chicago mob of the 50s

Have you watched the movie, 'Gangs of Newyork' by Martin Scorsese, based on loosely held historical facts but nonetheless represented what early modern American society was.

Clan warfare for dominance turned into gangland. Like Newyork'which was the harbour and gateway for migrants from Europe so are all these gangs in Lagos today, all of them non indegenous Lagosians fighting for territory and power in ungoverned spaces.

In decades to come and in a few generations 'Lagosians' will look back and wonder with regret how these shameful things become part of their subculture.