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The one who stood by me - Ama. Any concept of value that fails to recognize the intrinsic worth of an intangible/immaterial offering/sacrifice is at least partial and evil at best. And, of course, the most timeless and invaluable assets remain intangible assets. 

Nonetheless, Zara deserves to be accorded loyalty deserving of a good associate cum friend, but to take the place of Ama in oneness is both unthinkable and unpalatable. 

To the man who will wittingly take to unconscientious act for the love of materialism, shame unto you.

Your limited understanding of the word "skill" shows brightly in your write-up. Unfortunately, the majority of the world population share in your myopia.

The skills that matter can be learned at any given time and under any condition - in fact, it is usually easier to learn them when at the lowest ebb in life.

Soft Skills vs Hard Skills, and Skill vs Resourcefulness:

Soft skills - the skills that matter and that can be learned at any given time. These skills are personal qualities and traits that impact how you work, and they are transferable to any type of job. Those who mastered them become resourceful, provided that there is grit. Show me a resourceful person and I will show you an occupationally and financially timeless person. All resourceful people are softly skillful - have soft skills - but not all hard skilled people are resourceful - being competent and having the ability to complete a work in a particular career line shouldn't be mistaken and equated to resourcefulness.

Hard skills - they are skills that are job-related competencies and abilities that are necessary to complete work. They are often applicable to a certain career. Bitter truth most people do not know, or can't be discernible enough to relate with, is that the easiest way to remain stagnant in life and/or live unfulfilled life is being hard skills compliance - when you are not a genius in the specific lines of discipline you have acquired the hard skills. A genius shouldn't be mistaken and equated to someone that has acquired a hard skill(s) in a particular area of discipline.

Hard skills without soft skills cannot make you resourceful, but soft skills alone, which do not require all the time and money in this world to acquire, can make you resourceful - of course, soft skills plus grit. And all that you need to have an astronomical rise in life, regardless of where you are presently is resourcefulness.

The reason why the most successful politicians aren't necessarily those that have PhD in political science, or studied political science formally, is because they are resourceful. The same analogy is applicable in the medical, business, etc. world. I am not in any way discouraging anyone from acquiring hard skills - I have some myself - but, I knew earlier enough in life that they are best acquired for bragging rights and not for astronomical financial and occupational rising.

Aim to be resourceful instead of killing yourself to acquire a hard skill(s), especially when fully independent with a lot of responsibilities around you.

He isn't, at least not when someone like HRM, Obi, Dr. Emmanuel Efeizomor 11 of Owa- Oyibu Kingdom is still around. He was crowned a king in September 1959. The Onigede of Igede-Ekiti, Oba James Adelusi Aladesuru II, was even crowned in June 1959.

It's obvious that you lots have been deceived by the name of the bank "National Bank of Kenya" and have equated and mistaken it for Kenya's central bank, which is the equivalent of the central bank of Nigeria.

National Bank of Kenya is just a commercial bank. It isn't a big deal, citing their equity value, that Access Bank, as a giant in its own right, is able to acquire it wholly.

Only people who have almost seen it all and unpretentiously believe that money is just a means to an end, but not an end itself, will understand and appreciate her position and decision respectively.

Besides, the economic policies of the current administration in the country notwithstanding; it's easier for an average Nigerian (or a legally resident foreigner) who is resourceful to accumulate wealth with limited means in Nigeria (as a developing country with vast needs) than in the USA and other developed economics in general.

You don't have to belong to the ruling party or like the leader in charge and his economic policies to see that opportunities abound.

In fact, at the risk of sounding thoughtless, citing the plight of many people in the country, the new economic policies have created new avenues for a new generation of wealthy people to emerge. And of course, only the resourceful people will maximize the opportunities.

cococandy:
Because her husband is not an insecure bum who tries to dim her shine

If he was another type of man, the moment she brings up the topic of traveling for a business meeting (which I’m sure she does often), he would have started whining about how he won’t have anyone at home to cook for and clean up after him.

Then he’ll bring it to nairaland and y’all will advice him to divorce her or keep side chicks because how can a married woman be gallivanting all over the world. It’s her fault bla bla bla.

Then Any woman who supports her will be a bitter feminist who wants to emasculate men.

Now both of them are reaping the benefits of her being a liberated woman and you guys are full of praises. Meanwhile you’re not connecting the dots that the lifestyle you guys actually want for her women wouldn’t allow a woman like Ngozi to thrive.

Your penchant for yapping trash and always trying hard to vilify men, especially the ones on this forum, isn't only nauseating but a sign of engrained bitterness in you. 

If Dr NOI were to be a nobody like you and your type, I am certain that she would've brought her husband's adulterous scandal to this forum for advice, and of course, you and your ilk would've told her to leave her marriage even when you bumpkins do and endure worse conditions in your various marriages and relationships.

I'm not surprised that the congregation of bumpkins that used to beef me that I was always hard on you, and of course them, whenever I call you lots out for your crass and sententious demeanours, and pettiness in general, are now the ones that have been mocking you directly and indirectly since the past many days you came up with your latest seemingly genuine episode without making any concerted effort to extend a feasible help to you. Bunch of pernicious, unscrupulous, and hypocritical elements. 

Anyway, if it weren't for one thing, I would've, in my usual magnanimous way, said let me cater for your financial needs at this juncture.... your penchant for self-deceit is repulsive.

Kizzygentle:
What baffles me is how young she looks ... some people are just blessed..I just dey imagine how proud her husband must be and her children... in this life try to be ontop so your children can be proud of u ..

From different mentions, seems she isn't married nor have children ... she is already an accomplished woman career wise, let her crown it up with a family ... she has really tried ..

She's happily married!

MS2471:



Frank Mba is a PR man, is he rugged enough to handle an election

One of the best Police PR spin doctors

But

Can he handle opreational command

Even Opetodolapo is now an SP, but a provost marshall

Can they still load a magazine and fire a riffle, do they remember Nigerian criminal code and penal code





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He's always been a versatile cop. He's worked in many challenging Police Units and Departments in Nigeria, cutting across Investigations, Operations, Administration and Public Relations - just that the latter made him more popular to the masses.

Any just and experienced Nigerian traveller knows that it has always been possible in every Nigerian embassy anywhere in the world - especially within the working hours and days. There's no difference between American emergency passport and Nigeria ETC.

You like lying to yourself, and that has always been your major problem. Every gullible person reading through this your submission will think that you're either a virgin or have had sex only once without knowing that the reverse is the case.

For an instance, you've done vagina tightening before, your word on this forum in one of your now deleted monikers not mine. So, you can see that you personify oxymoron.

There's nothing wrong in one choosing to marry, marry late, or not to marry at all. But there's everything wrong in one resorting to self-deceit and sententiousness in general. Sententiousness and self-deceit made you to make this post, which isn't necessary - quit them and hypocrisy in general for your own good. Self-righteous bumpkin!

This is an exhibition of small-mindedness at its peak. The way small-minded people have always projected themselves, or seen their reflections, on others unjustly is irritating. She ought to know that she isn't a standard.

MrSly:
First of all know the meaning of the phenomenon "Delta" before arguing foolishly; at least you would learn that delta is not a political expression but a geographical expression. I can no longer continue the explanations because obviously you know nothing and you are not aware of it.

Wonders shall never end. Lol. Bumpkin that knows next to nothing. Come on scram and direct your further mention(s) to your fellow illiterates.

MrSly:
Please the name is already proper the only thing improper is that Clark does not know the meaning if Delta. He sees Niger Delta as a name for South South States. What is a Delta? Knowing that and the location of these states mentioned will educate you more. Most politicians are dumb and daft.

You and your ilks, not him, are the ones that do not know the meaning of Delta - Niger Delta - under the Nigeria political expression. The way bumpkins like you and your likes like overrating yourselves is both funny and irritating. Now tell me how the latter states in the following quote: "This is particularly true now that oil has been found in other parts of Nigeria including Anambra which is already producing 0.9%, Bauchi, Gombe, Nasarawa, Kogi, and Lagos States." can be defined as "Delta" under the Nigeria political expression.

His submission might not have been properly articulated and carried an undertone of self-absorption, he has a point nonetheless. A better approach should be to rename NDDC something like Oil Producing States Development Commission (OPSDC) in order to accommodate both Niger Delta States and non-Niger Delta oil producing states. NDDC, as a name, isn't encompassing.

The reason why she left you is obviously because of your lack of commonsense, as evident in your petty submission herein. You thought that she would remain naive and docile till eternity. It's a good thing that her elder sister was able to help her see through the bigoted, smothered, and oppressive scallywag that you're and discard you with alacrity.

Bumpkin!

This isn't new, even though the tensile strength of bamboos cannot be compared to that of iron steels and are prone to insects attack and melting on contact with water in the long run. Some of the not-too-tall buildings in places like India, China, USA, etc., are built with bamboos in place of iron steels.

The authentic political Maradona of the Fourth Republic.

creativehubb:
Mumu you be African woman

I wonder why some of you don't know or believe that it is not every black person in America, or somewhere else in the world, that has African ancestry - Africa has never been the only black race in the world.

Anyone who has chosen to crucify the lady that reported him is needlessly sentimental, especially if she had cautioned him once privately, but he persisted with his laziness/carelessness. Both employee and employer owe each other covert and overt mutual diligence.

It's not going to help naira against the dollar; in fact, the negative effect will outweigh the positive effect by all indices.

Abolishing domiciliary account, and paying recipients of foreign remittance in dollar, will go a long way to help naira. A country like ours that has always been having a deficit in balance of payment has no business encouraging or enabling private and corporate entities to operate domiciliary accounts. Banks are the major beneficiaries under the current arrangement.

Each one's reality differs. So, don't allow all these bumpkins here to cause bad blood between you and your dear friend. He could have spoken and advised you based on his own reality, and even if his present reality changes for good tomorrow, it shouldn't make him a liar and your enemy in general.

Your best bet at this juncture should be to create your own path and encrypt it.

Jewessgratitud3:
Sorry poverty doesn't run in my bloodline. My dad worked hard to give us a very good life. For your info, my mom was a full time housewife during her time and my dad told her to stay back and help him raise Godly and. decent children and we were comfortable and still are.

To raise children in the heart of ikoyi in the 80s
up to 2000s na beans? Where were your parents then?, Let me guess... In the village farming.

My dad set a standard for us no be me go come lower the standard. Tufia!

Abeg shift.

It is always amusing seeing people like you who were former residents of the demolished Maroko community, a slum inhabited by poor people, claiming Ikoyi brought-up. Keep quiet with all these bragado riches talk. Your parents neither lived at the heart of Ikoyi nor raised you and your siblings at the heart of Ikoyi. People like you can only deceive your ilks.

You and your parents were victims of the then Colonel Raji Rasaki's led State Military Government in Lagos's forceful eviction of the poor Nigerians that were living in the now demolished Maroko community, which has been transformed and is the present day Lekki Peninsula. It used to be one of the poorest and most deadly shanty towns in Lagos state, and Nigeria in general.

Maroko was below sea level. It was after you and your likes were forcefully evicted that it was filled and became Lekki Peninsula. All of you that lived in the then community were forcefully evicted from your homes apparently to save you from the slum-related diseases and avoidable death.

In fact, as recently as a week ago, I was discussing with the former president IBB, on whose supervision the then Colonel Raji Rasaki acted, an issue about the compensation the former residents like your parents tried to get in the Nigerian court system some years ago that failed because the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights recently raised the issue again based on a subsisting filled communication by Debevoise & Plimpton, etc.

Your replacement certificate in this regard will be regarded as fake, like that of president BAT, the very moment you use the service of another third party vendor apart from "paradigm," which is your school accredited vendor - an institution/organisation always allows its accredited vendor access to its DE and other essential working datas. Some of you always strive to be too clever by half, forgetting that someone of us too aren't mere subject of the West but stakeholders.

Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA), empowers institutions to use the services of third-party servicers. The same HEA, however, makes clear that agreements to administer “any aspect” of an institution’s participation in the Title IV programs fall within the scope of the Department’s TPS oversight authority. 20 U.S.C. § 1088(c).

Citing the above, the refusal of the CSU rep to admit expressly under oath the authenticity of the certificate president BAT submitted to INEC simply proves that it wasn't sourced from the CSU accredited TPS vendor and indeed fake.

I don't hold a brief for any of the parties involved, so no bumpkin should quote me to yarn nonsense.

​A simple affidavit of oath rather than forging the certificate would have saved president BAT this self-inflicted ridicule.

​A simple affidavit of oath rather than forging the certificate would have saved president BAT this self-inflicted ridicule.

Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA), empowers institutions to use the services of third-party servicers. The same HEA, however, makes clear that agreements to administer “any aspect” of an institution’s participation in the Title IV programs fall within the scope of the Department’s TPS oversight authority. 20 U.S.C. § 1088(c).

Citing the above, the refusal of the CSU rep at the court yesterday to admit expressly under oath the authenticity of the certificate president BAT submitted to INEC simply proves that it wasn't sourced from the CSU accredited TPS vendor and indeed fake. He technically avoided pronouncing it fake, literally, for the reasons I will not like to state here - I do not hold a brief for president BAT's opponents.

As it stands now, I know technically what president BAT can do to gain a favorable judgement from the supreme court and retain his seat as the president of Nigeria or his main opponent AA can do to nullify every form of technicality that president's BAT legal team can employ and have the supreme court to either nullify the election or declare him the outright winner.

On a general note, left for me, on a personal and compassionate basis, I would say, President BAT, as a long-standing associate, should be forgiven by all and sundry and allowed to pilot the affairs of the country for at least the next four years. He means well for the country, regardless of the pockets of wrongs his administration has done so far.