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Says it all. She is not in control, was not in control and perhaps never be in control. In a few years it will be the police and judiciary with the whip.

uzi01:
Can someone tell this man people are been killed by some terrorist group in plateau

He spoke once and was condemned to face his congregation now you want him back in politics. Ask CAN, they are the political face of Christianity.

Neoteny:
Pigs are forbidden in 2 major religions

Cows in just 1

Pigs are dirty and disgusting

Cows are docile and likable

But I know why your sympathies lie with pigs

It's because you're an ipob swine.

Symptomatic with the way the owners of Nigeria think. They hate pigs but want others to love cattle. They want to exist on your territory and live the lives they want but want to control the lives and way of living of others on their territories. That is the summary of a racist country called Nigeria. When they cannot and are resisted, they resort to violence be it in Lagos, Onitsha or Jos.

Of course cows are 'docile and likable'. Pigs are 'dirty and disgusting'. That is the summary of Nigeria in the 21st century. R.etarded citizens. Just imagine how a human being thinks. People divided and dying along the lines of animal diversity.

In the north they implemented sharia and the 'sharia police' goes about destroying all articles of 'infidelism' including bars and beer bottles. The Federal Government has said nothing, ever. They have not asked these states to provide safe havens for the 'infidels', nor have they planned to spend 70 billion on 'beer drinking infidel colonies'... No, it is private business acting against the law and their sensibilities they say so the practicioners have counted their losses and fled those territories.

In the middlebelt, they implemented anti-grazing laws in parts and for those without laws the people have acted on their sensibilities to take laws into their hands by preventing cattle from grazing purely on economic grounds alone as it destroys their farms and where these happen have now resorted to destroy the cattle themselves, but instead of counting their losses and fleeing those territories, the herdsmen slaughter the indigenes. The response of government is to try and get the laws rexcinded where there are and arrest the 'rustlers' where they find them. In addition it continues to coerce the territoroes involved to accomodate these private intetests against their will and has pledged 70 billion to ensure that.

And just food for thought. The booze sold throughout Nigeria brings taxes and VAT (some of the highest in all industry) which all states and 'righteous' territories share while not one herdsman has ever paid taxes on their multi million naira 'investments' to the Federal Government that is hell bent on protecting them.

Folks, we need to restructure. This country simply cannot work this way. It is clearly in favour of some at the expense of others.

While massacres rage on. What is the difference. Where is the change. How will there be progress......pity.

Violence everywhere... even under the nose of the highest authorities and no one is arrested and prosecuted....because of pity party politics. Shamful and shameful.

In sane societies the police will get involced and quickly at that. Whatever the case, it is just careless and reckless, minimum.

But how come the dad even knew about the land purchase in the first place. Did she require his assistance or what because I cannot understand what concerns the husband's investment decisions with the wife and vise-versa. I want to think there is more to this story and more likely it involves the broader family, perhaps the 'sacrificial aspects of investments' which should be the only corporate decisions between both parties.

My mum bought, rented and leased at various times to further her business interests without issues with my dad whatsoever. No one ordinarily opposes this. The problem usually comes when mixing business with the pleasures of family life. For instance the woman buys a land to move the family without a lot of considerations can cause problems but as an investment, no. The average man will be pleased his wife is moving up, just like a man from humble backgrounds pleased his wife for instance opens a bank account for the first time.

..... or folks, am I missing something here because this sounds so strange to me. I mean there are women who inherit estates thoughtless of an ordinary plot of land and my kids male and/or female will be entitled to property I have.... will that be a problem to their future spouses....I don't get it. ..... or am I misunderstanding something here.

What can we say that we have not said countless times. In 2015 they said the problem of Nigeria is corruption. In 2018 how far.....Is it corruption that has led to this tragedy.

Just....wow....the artist is just awesome.... and to think I was just speaking about culinary artistry with a master baker... and the lack or limitations of it in Nigeria just yesterday.

Must get her contacts with a couple of anniversaries coming up.

I travel too often and cannot build a house or rent wherever I go so I've come to expect and accept different levels of comfort. This bickering means little to me.

Stupid, immoral couple. Crime magnets. And you come here to express your folly.

I hope the 'evidence' is used against you both in court.

Look, I keep on saying this. Yes, this government's performance is basically shambolic but where arw the alternatives.... these two. If they are viable then we need proofs. The election is just about 8 months away, where are the proofs...

Silence on policy, programs and principles does not signify honesty or ability. Critique the present then we have something to work on. If not the present government no matter how awful remains the best option.

They say he is a senator.... paid by Nigeria, ' so how can he support a secessionist movement'... Folks, there lies the root of the problem, infact all problems facing Nigeria. And even Nigerians donot know how democracy works and how a sound functional one brings unity and prosperity to a nation.

First and foremost the Senator is a 'representative of his people', elected by them to protect and uphold their interests within the structure of this country at the highest levels. So arresting him for expressing his view and actions on any matter is equal to arresting his entire constituents. This is not surprising but cleaely shows the nation is not ready to accept, tolerate or accomoate opposing views because if any debate arises it is he who will stand for them before the country.

Senator Abaribe has no choice in this matter. He has done his duty to his people as specified by law and no other individual or section can fault him on that. If the government begins to arrest representatives of the people it sets the closure of the last opportunities for dialogue and in motion the tendency for the Executive to effectively stiffle the second arm of government which has direct links with the governed aka dictatorship.

Folks who laud this today should realise first of all that the House of Assembly has enough mechanisms to correct and reprimand erring members when found wanting. The foray of the Executive into what should be internal matters undermines the power structute of 'Nigerians'.

And I will always say this. When institutions are weakened, it is the average Nigerian that picks the bill for reconstruction. It might seem right to some, the action of the present government but the facts are, that governments and agendas and movements and politicians come and go, but institutions remain. And the institutions you may have contributed to destroy today aill not provide a shelter for you when matters of your interest arise tomorrow.

That is why we often rise above issues to examine the fundamentals and often arrive at the conclusion that Nigeria needs to be restructured. After the Good Friday peace accord there have been seperatist Northern Ireland members of Parliament. Even volatile Catalonia has members in the Spanish parliament who openly and vocally support and advocate for independence at every opportunity yet are not hounded and arrested like ordinary criminals.

I don't know of any House Member from the east who does this yet the Federal Government is on edge typically trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill. It is just not wise.

And before I forget about who pays who, this is another reason I have often said that the House of Assembly should be run directly by the people. People should pay their representatives so as to do the job they are sent to do. A man owes allegiance to who pays for his services and a situatuon where the Executive holds the purse strings in the power equation makes it impossible for the 'dividends' of democracy to come. Either the funding laws are changed or the custodial laws of the nations resources are changed so that like in United States, the Treasury becomes the defacto fourth arm of government totally independent of the governing arms.

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ecgreb:
Good morning nairalanders. I have been married to my wife for more than 10 years now and we have beautiful kids. She was the first and only woman I have ever had sex with. Averagely, we have sex 3 times weekly and it has always been fun. I ensure that I carryout my manly responsibilities by providing for the family and trying to make everyone happy. Few days ago, she decline my sexual advances. Later, I ask to know why she did that and she told me that I love sex too much. I was embarrassed. She sleeps nowadays in the children room or in the parlour just to avoid me though she refuses to accept that truth. Please I wish to know ideally how many times couples here have sex with their partners weekly and how I can control my sex cravings towards her. I just wish I can stay away from having sex with her even for two months.

Idle man. Is that your vision. Please find work that places a proper demand on your reaources and sex will become as secondary as it is meant to be.

pimper24:
That's my piece published in the Guardian

Much Ado About the Education Sector

There is no gainsaying the fact that the Nigerian education industry has fared abysmally low on the global scale, yet the policy makers hitherto pay lip service to the sector. The Minister of Education recently announced the government’s resolve to declare emergency on the sector but failed to avail the public with the aim of such decision and the resultant effect expected at the end of the day. At the tertiary level, a Nigerian University has hardly ranked among the first one thousand in the various global rankings. It is a hard fact that lack of facilities in especially the public educational institutions has stalled research oriented innovations and hence, a big hindrance to necessary developments to measure up with the realities of the modern world.

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETfund) that is supposed to be used for revitalization of the public higher education sector has not yielded the expected result. Yet, despite the funds being appropriated for the sector, over dependence on the government funding still hangs like the Sword of Damocles leading to incessant strike actions in a quest to better the lots of the institutions and the general welfare of staff which is nothing compared to robust benefits enjoyed by the political office holders with far less educational heights and achievements. Several promises made amidst negotiations with the government are always hard to fulfil. Courses that are supposed to be completed in a number of years get unduly elongated as a result, with some schools “crashing the programmes” to bridge the strike gap- a very big risk for a developing country not just because of the quality of education under discuss but because the active population of the country is in school; the value system has hinged survival and economic sustenance solely on “education” thereby increasing dependency ratio in a country where sixty per cent (60%) of the citizens are said to be living below poverty line despite huge national resources.

However, the libraries still look like archives of some sort. It is surprising that most books being used in the tertiary institutions have been there since decades and neither have they been revised at least twice since ten years of publication. Some lecturers still copy verbatim from these books, type or publish and sell to students as “textbooks or hand-outs”. Some of them also pay private journals in the Europe and America to publish their articles got from such materials which they count as "publication in international journals" and use them for promotion. Talking of effective internet facilities or virtual library is like asking for too much. Some of the students have never seen or heard of some academic materials that are common among their mates even in an average academic institution in South Africa. I once visited the state library in Owerri, Imo State and the place was fantastic. There were enough books and the environment was very conducive, with staff ready to attend to requests from readers. But, how up-to-date are the materials in the library is a big question looking everyone in the face including the library staff who would wave their hands in despair at such requests for current books. In an internet age, there is no access to e library where books and articles published even today are stacked in some online stores at some good price. Though a final year university student surfing the internet on her phone for her dissertations seemed so confident; she had got enough free materials on google! How about privatising such fantastic library in a state hosting about seven different institutions of higher learning which move will give it a great heave to measure up with the realities of the times? This is one example out of numerous public libraries in the country.

Just as we are talking of deregulating the oil downstream sector, can we liberalise the higher education institutions, with some degree of autonomy given to the universities and other tertiary institutions. This will bolster research activities and engender academic innovations to a great extent. Education is increasingly being globalised and the developed countries are already running with the tide. Those that never bothered about English language as a medium of teaching are dropping the old idea due to the strategic position the language is rapidly occupying in the global scheme of things. Virtual classrooms are gaining grounds and nations running to bridge the internet gap (electricity has long been conquered). Duplexes for resident professors are disappearing for momentary hotel bills to lodge a visiting Harvard professor whose academic prowess has gained him a retainership to lecture Economics in a Nigerian university. He finishes his lectures, (an opportunity to bring down a near Harvard standard and still save some “change” for a prolific academic research) and leaves for US after fixing a date for his examination. He flies in again to conduct his examination, goes back to mark scripts and send result by email. Webinars and other social platforms are there for students’ continued interaction with the professor. If a survey taken at the end of the session among his students does not favour his style of lecture, it is time for another egg head. This time a guru from University of Cape Town could be invited. The Nigerian professor also jostles for recognition out there, in a way that he does not wait for government subvention to attain academic excellence. This trend is rapidly gaining ground in some places in Europe.

At the primary and secondary levels, sound educational laws and policies will standardise the private institutions and give proper funding to the public schools. The world stood still, astounded when a public school teacher could not read out a passage handed to her by Adams Oshiomhole, the then Governor of Edo State. Apart from revitalising the public schools, those educational inspectors that would take the classroom teacher unawares participating in his class disguised as students should be reconstituted. They will secretly check the notebooks of the pupils accompanied with necessary questions about the teacher- a criterion for the teacher’s promotion in addition to proper and thorough scrutiny of the educational qualifications of such teacher. The floating of private schools by all and sundry who could afford some capital to rent an apartment anywhere and take off should be strictly regulated.

I recall with nostalgia, the playgrounds that used to be as large as the whole Michael Okpara Square in Enugu where we performed different sporting activities and marched with pride during the morning assembly, singing heroic songs in the beautiful rhythms of bands and trumpets and feeling like patriots who are ready to die for the cause of the nation. Those are the days of non-proliferation of private schools with government conducting schools debate competitions and broadcasting it on national media, the days of dedicated teachers who will not spare the rods lest the child spoils, teachers who will not sacrifice discipline for fear of parents.

https://guardian.ng/opinion/much-ado-about-the-education-sector/

Oga, it is still the same thing. Nigerian universities are not selling anything, so how do you expect them to have money to develop. If you donot 'work', how do you expect to feed. Look at the teeming challenges facing Nigeria, how many have they managed to solve to attract funding, none. Yesterday a university was lamenting they spent two-thirds of their budget on power and they must have the mental resources under their employ to find solutions but are too lazy to think.

Their counterparts abroad attract billions from industry for solutions based research. And so can even afford to give out scholarships to the best and brightest thoughtless of being able to afford their bills.

University of Maiduguri has been hit several times by Boko haram. Are they doing any research to come up with viable solutions to helping the hapless Federal government bring the conflict to a logical end, no. If they did, they and not the Nigeria Army will get the 1 billion dollars meant for that theatre. Nigeria severely lacks ideas of governance, solutions to everyday life. Universities should be at the forefront in solution provision. They should be our national think tanks.

Itis not about moaning about how things were better in the year19 Lord Luggard when we know our rampant population i crease coupled with a retarded polity has put us here. Let them be the mental face of any change agenda.

Do you know why those innovators like Bill Gates and other internet and cybernetic gurus would always acknowledge their lack of formal education? It is because they always want to prove innovation can exist outside the academia. That is because normally innovation is domiciled there. We need to wake up in this country.

As usual for the black man, everything is about money. More and more money is symptomatic of failed vision, failed creativity and failed application. They behave like the typical lazy prospector that blames his inability to set up enterprise on 'lack of fund(s)ing', while the world is teeming with free cash seeking fertile investment ideas.

The truth of the matter is that universities in Nigeria are not and have not positioned themselves at the centre of national development.They have offered nothing to Nigeria and so remain nothing. They want to compete with higher institutions in the world that have put their custodian countries up there at the pinnacle of science, technology, humanities, the arts and even sports.

Universities in America were at the fore front of the war efforts in the United States and Britain with advanced technology developments from the high precision artillery pieces to the A-bomb without which victory will have been impossible. The academia in India, Pakistan and Iran are doing same today, why will their governments not fund them massively.

In peace time the academia are the guatantors of democracy, keeping the nation's eye on the ball the politicians kick around. Here in Nigeria our academia and learned fellows have joined in the mudpit of sectionalism, religious bigotry and crass politicking. Who will sponsor that nonsense.

We have heard of various think tanks in the States, affiliates of various educational institutions and independent bodies like the Rand Corporation who fund university research responsible for putting the country ahead of its rivals and ensuring the stability and prosperity of those nations. We have the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies in Nigeria. Tell me for heavens sake what they have been strategizing and what policies they have churned out that Nigeria remains an ideological mess with recurrent failed leadership and totally bereft of functional institutions. Apart from awarding nonsencical MNI's, what exactly does that place do.

The question is simple, if Nigerian universities will not make themselves available to this nation and p,ay the roles they are supposed tothen tjd future will be even harder for them with Nigeria galloping population growth. They may feel that their job is to produce graduates. But I tell you, secondary schools can do that with minimal additional resources. The bulk of university activity in all sane societies is the trade in ideas and expertise. That is how the best of the best get funded.

If I were a leader of this country I will divide up all the issues, challenges, prospects and visions this country faces and needs amongst all the universities we have and give them a set time to deliver concrete, workable solutions. Funding will then gravitate towards those who care to get off their butts to deliver because to whom much 'will' be given, a whole lot is expected.

Because the Nigerian academia has reduced itself to the status of classroom teachers, it is not surprising universities have become, in tne words of late dictator Sani Abacha, 'glorified secondary schools'.

Hmmm.....mathematician and economist eh.

That is a secret of life most folks miss. When your child follows in your footsteps, success of extreme levels become cheap. All his wisdom, academic prowess, grace and connections will have gone into his little girl. And I'm sure he is so proud to see the things he could not achieve in her life and career today.

Folks, if you want to live long. Have a vision beyond your generation and train your seed after you. God will guarantee you see the fruits no matter how long it takes.

My children will walk in my footsteps. They will study what we studied and professwhat we aredoing todayand by the grace of God to such a level to make them global authorities. They are going no where else. The difference between animals amd men are souls and this soul is meant for purpose, but even I have never seen the egg of an eagle grow up to become a cockrel, never.

Only sons, born of God know this secret of life.

ruggedtimi:
that's my landlady's church when I was living in koforidua, lol members of that church they act like say na dem holy pass.

What has the church go to do with the immoral acts of an individual. You talk as if the church encouraged him to commit sdultery when churches do the exact thing.

When will Africans like you think properly. Simply because a smoker goes to the hospital and gets attention, treatment for health challenges and perhaps a cure does not mean the hospitals or doctors encourage smokers by helping him. What kind of jaundice thinking is that.

Nice one.

Godless people. That is the summary of what the world has to offer.... nothing but tribulation.

As long as Lagosians are not complaining whom am I to question the destination of their taxes. I don't write cheques to that state's treasury.

Failed society. I have said more than enough about these terrible incidents. It appears we are hell bent in destroying ourselves.

rentAcock:
Darlington the Uber driver in New York needs to mind his business and stop looking for cheap fame. I think the fact that Bobrisky hasn't been arrested or hurt physically is a sign that Nigeria is slowing entering the 21st century because if this was back in the days, this she-male would've been jailed or worse, hurt. That loose skin is probably from his numerous liposuction. I don't support gayness, but to each his own. Although at the rate things are going right now, i'm afraid that a day will come when being straight will be considered a taboo.

To each his own....and you don't support 'gayness'... Why the camouflage? . Just say you do.

I don't see the value in his personality orhi5s contribution to the wellbeing and advancement society. 21st century indeed. How will his perverse sexual orientation advance this country please.

Failed patents should collect their bodies and return to God who will allocate their souls to those willing to take better care of them.

Invest in railways.....as a priority. No containers should pass through downtown Lagos. Establish a container clearing yard along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, link it by rail to Tincan and Apapa ports and run daily trains....

UncleJudax:
Solar Farm is "thinking outside the box"...lol

For them it is even more. It is thinking outside the cage.

GoTV:
Even though I'm a Christian i think Muric is right. CAN has been thoroughly politicised during GEJ's era and i won't be surprised if CAN sponsored that Falz video to diss Islam

Yes you bear a Christian name, but Christian, no. To think CAN will sponsor the works of a secular musician is proof.

For your information CAN is and has always fought for the sanctity of its institutions amd the body of Chriatians in particular. Their angst against this regime is purely about the wanton killings of Christians in Nigeria which has been going on for decades in Nigeria but has reached truly horrendous proprtions under this regime. A distant second to that is of course social justice in an increasingly lopsided state.

You don't expect them to be silent when a professing Christian Leah remains the only student in captivity of the group of abductees. It was the captors that drew the religious line, not CAN.

You don't expect them to be silent when a church was invaded and priests and worshippers were slaughtered. It was the herdsmen that drew the religious line.

You don't expect them to be silent when folks in southern Kaduna are slaughtered randomly in their villages. It is the invading marauders that draw the religious lines and openly proclaim it in every theatre of mayham they create.

Typically he has avoided these issues of concern and focused instead on that which he and his people have commanding interests, politics and who is elected and who is not. That is their interest, because without a combination of political power and coercion they cannot remain relevant. Yet they accuse others of playing politics.

Wrong post.

How I wish the runway was a rail line and the terminal the hub of an industrial park. The governments we have are just not thinking properly. When they sit in council of state meetings what the father of them all, the federal government should be doing is urging and planning for the states to spend more on rail infrastructure rather than roads. The feds will guarantee loans and the states will build interconnecting rail networks from their prime zones of production be it farm centres, processing plants, mining sites according to set developmental objectives so that a rice farmer in Sokoto can get his rice to a mill in Abakaliki and off to the ports in Lagos for export at very low costs. It will open up Nigeria to all spheres of productivity, make our goods competitive, preserve our road network and create millions of new jobs.

With this sort of plan states will be falling over themselves to connect to the network and the rollout will be quicker. As I was telling someone this week, there is no country I know with a desire to have an industrial backbone or have developed that does not have at its core, a functional cargo rail system. The most advanced country on earth, the United States depends heavily on rail for its industrial production and exports so what is a Bayelsa state in a third world country doing with an airport.

In world trade what is the volume and value of airfreight compared to land and sea freight both nationally and internationally, very small and who can afford airfreight by the way.

GMBuhari:
You intentionally forgot that Nigeria was plunged into recession and as many as 24 of 36 states owed over 8 months salary , the loans Buhari got could not have been used to build a refinery especially since the price of crude plummeted to $30/Barrel , don't tell me you forgot that


secondly , Buhari may not have built any refineries , but FG approved as much as 38 licences for modular refineries, 13 were immediately approved and 2 or 3 will be completed and inaugurated this December both located Igbo land. so that some people won't come and shout marginalization


http://dailypost.ng/2018/04/25/modular-refineries-fg-grants-38-entrepreneurs-operating-licences/
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/business/business-news/267286-nigeria-approves-13-modular-refineries-baru.html
http://punchng.com/two-modular-refineries-for-inauguration-in-december/
http://punchng.com/modular-refineries-for-delta-rivers-almost-ready-fg/

Carry your bad belle and swerve

That is your business. But if by the next elections this government has not built any refinery then you will be very silly to criticise any past government for not doing such. The short and sharp answer to failure is performance not the lame excuses you profer. Salaries is now the latest excuse. So dumb. Did Buhari, Baru or Kachikwu tell you they lack the capacity or resources to build refineries with all the recovered funds, rampamt borrowing and 'huge savings' from this and that....

Wesely01:
I still have PMB video calling Who ever pays fuel subsidy is a thief .

Indeed and it is better to have a thief you can catch than a saint you can't.... simple logic. Because I have not seen a man without sin.