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safarigirl:Oh really! I never knew Munya got that from the government. |
This reminded me of some company that was contacting me when I was undergoing my MSC in UK. In fact, the MD said when I get back to Nigeria I should contact him so we schedule a meeting. When I eventually got to Nigeria, we fixed a meeting date. I had to fly from Warri to Lagos. On my way to the office, I got a call from him saying he had some appointment and that we should reschedule for the next day. I told him I will rather wait till late noon. Finally, we met. After all the plenty interview and talk, he said he was going to pay me 35k per month. I just told him I will get back to him. A week later, he called me if I have considered the offer. I just replied him saying you think I will come from UK to come do a job for 35k a month when I can make that in 2 days doing menial job in the UK and I ended the call. |
lestat: rottenegg:Someone millionaire also Munya 300,000 USD the year Uti won. They felt Munya deserved it and should have won instead of Uti. |
laoak2:Everything you said is 100% on point. I wish I had enough too so I could give Tayo some. |
Rooneyboy:Most times, they use those planes for route that are not too busy. Just last Friday, I was travelling to Asaba from Abuja. I knew it was going to be that small propeller plane. On my way to the airport, I was just praying it should not be it. While seated in the airport waiting for my time to board, I sighted the plane on the tarmac and I knew that would be it and it was. I was seated by the window and throughout the flight time, I was just looking at the propeller engine if the blades will stop turning in the air ![]() |
Rooneyboy:Lol...I don't want to give 181 a try oh. especially if it is one of those small planes that uses propeller. |
Rooneyboy:Funny enough, correct me if I am wrong. Aero Contractor is currently the oldest air carrier in the country but haven't had any air mishap since 1991. |
mundus:Is it possible to change my venue? I'm due to write in Yenagoa but I want to reschedule to Abuja. I tried contacting Phillip Consulting but no response and the numbers on their website are not working. |
usecondom:For me, what is more shameless are those idiots who call themselves honourable men scaling the fence/gate. I mean, no matter how bad/wrong the situation is, there is no point jumping the gate. That is a barbarian act. Not as if they are doing it for the interest of the masses but their pockets. |
berem:Just some few question Berem: How was the millions Atiku allegedly dolled out used? Was the money spent in purchasing arms for the local vigilantes? Off course, you and I know this is illegal. If yes, were the weapons taken back from them? If no, won't they use these weapons to commit further atrocities? I really want to know how the millions was spent. |
egift:Will you shut up! |
Op why not ''New Photos of Lola Omotayo Okoye''? |
majamajic:Yes, I foresee him getting to top 10 within the next 3 years. Especially when he completes his refinery project. |
NIGERIAN business mogul, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has retained his position as Africa’s richest man with a $25 billion net worth. He has held that position for the fourth successive year. Globally, the influential Forbes Magazine rates him on the list of 25 richest people in the world. Dangote is ranked 23 up 43rd among the 100 richest persons in the world. The Nigerian businessman with interests in cement, sugar, beverages and petrochemical is said to be presently the first black man to break into the rank of top 25 richest people in the world. Mike Adenuga, owner of indigenous telecoms company Globacom, was next to Dangote on the list with a wealth of $4.6 billion, maintaining 325 position in the world, while Folorunsho Alakija, with $2.5 billion, was 687 in the world and Abdulsamad Rabiu ranks 1372 in the world, with $1.2 billion. Meanwhile, Bill Gates is back on top after a four-year hiatus, reclaiming the title of world’s richest person from telecoms mogul, Carlos Slim Helu of Mexico, who ranked number one for the past four years. Spanish clothing retailer, Amancio Ortega (best known for the Zara fashion chain) retains the number three spot for the second year in a row, extending his lead over Warren Buffett, who is again number four. - See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/dangote-now-23rd-richest-world/ |
Nice thread. Well, mine wasn't a missed flight but wrong booking. I was to travel to Edinburgh with KLM from Lagos. I asked someone to book my ticket for me as I was too busy with other things then. On the day of my travel, I decided to just look at my ticket only for me to see that I had to wait over 12 hours for my connecting flight from Amsterdam Schiphol to Edinburgh. I asked the person who booked my ticket why she had to do that. She said she did not notice the connecting time but went for the cheapest ticket. I got to the airport well on time and went straight to KLM office. They checked and came back telling me there is nothing they can do and that I should contact their office desk at Schiphol airport. Finally got to Schiphol around 5:50Am. Went straight to the KLM desk to see what they can do. I waited for close to 1 hr and a gemtleman came ad told me I had to pay about some outrageous amount for them to put me in any of the next connecting flight. I had just 100 pounds on me without my credit or debit card. I just told the guy never mind. I had to stay in the airport till 9:50pm for my connecting flight. Na so hunger wire me that day enh...I had to beg one black casual worker at the airport if he could get me tooth paste and brush or even sef just the paste, I don't mind because my mouth don dey ooze. After moving round the airport doing window shopping, nai I enter one corner crash till when my flight time reach. My brothers experience was a near miss. He was coming to Naija with Arik from Heathrow. Flight was scheduled for 12 noon. We left home well on time. Took underground train going to the airport. On our way, na so train spoil, no way to come out, time dey go before some engineers came and started working on it. They finish repairing the fault around 11:45. My guy don dey sweat remaining to shit for body. Finally got to the airport around 12:30. Luckily for him, flight was delayed for 1 hr but the boarding was over. Na so we beg before they made some calls and then allowed him to check in. Only for them to weigh his bad, it was more than 30kg....for where, who wan reason that one again. He was about leaving his bag behind with me, only for one lady to ask him to bring it and that was it. |
THE Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), says that at an auspicious time, it will honour Nigerian female junior international, Courtney Dike for her selfless and exemplary service to the nation. Dike a member of the National U-20 female team, the Falconets who played at the final of the Canada 2014 FIFA world cup stunned Nigerian officials when she refused to accept the over $7,000 dollars being her match bonuses, allowances and other entitlements. The player who is based in the United States of America with her parents was reported to have told officials of the NFF that her father had told her not to accept any financial reward because wearing the national colours was enough honour. Speaking on this rear gesture, the Chairman of the Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL), Chief (Mrs) Dilichukwu Onyedinma told journalists in Abuja that people and families like that of Courtney Dike were very rear hence the need to specially reward her because she has become a role model. “In Namibia when I met with the minister I mentioned it to him because it is a very huge sacrifice, let me say it was an exemplary behaviour coming from a footballer but why I am even more interested is because it is coming from a female footballer.” “This has shown that we have it all, we have discipline and the highest discipline you can have as a human being is money discipline so if I can have a girl who has that kind of money discipline and the parents supported her so we should applaud her and even put her on the billboards to tell the world that she is our star. She is a patriotic Nigerian”. Onyedinma who is also a member of the NFF board used the opportunity to take a swipe at some people who were said to have been running down the NWFL under her watch describing them as people who will criticize anybody as long as they were not in the position. According to her it is a big irony that at a time when everybody was celebrating the nation’s female football, some people still see reasons to attempt to diminish the rare achievement of the Super Falcons winning the African Women Championship (AWC) for a record seven times. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/well-honour-dike-fo-turns-7000-match-bonus-nff/ |
ON Thursday, October 16, 2014), the All Progressives Congress, APC, startled decent Nigerians when its national chairman, Mr. John Odigie-Oyegun, announced that the party put the cost of its expression of interest and nomination forms at the cost of N27.5 million in order “to separate the men from the boys.” Another way of saying this is ‘to separate the wheat from the chaff!’ This statement which almost immediately reverberated across the nation through various blogs and television screens was widely reported in the papers the next day, Friday, October 17. As I write now (about 48 hours after it echoed in Abuja ), neither the APC nor its national chairman has even attempted to “clarify” the very unwholesome assertion or withdraw it in its entirety. This can only mean, therefore, that the party solidly stands by such an outrageous and unsettling statement by its topmost officer. What a sad, tragic development. Now, to describe a grown man as a “boy” is to dismissively imply that he is immature, inexperienced, inadequate or, worse, irresponsible. And so, going by the statement of the APC chairman, the ability to roll out millions of naira is what qualifies somebody to be a “man” in the party. In other words, even if you are generously endowed with superlative moral, intellectual and managerial abilities, as long as you are not a multi-millionaire or have multi-millionaire friends who can throw the millions on your behalf, you are in the “progressive” thinking of the APC a mere “boy” – immature and irresponsible, and, therefore, not qualified to contest a responsible position on the platform of the party! For a party that has unduly strained itself to persuade Nigerians that it represents a healthy alternative to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, this is indeed a most devastating disclosure and horrendous disappointment! What this, once again, demonstrates very clearly is that whereas the APC has deployed enormous efforts to tell Nigerians how bad the PDP is, it has been most unsuccessful in its attempt to allay growing fears (and conceal the stubbornly reoccurring indications) that it is, perhaps, even worse than the PDP. The APC chairman made this alarming statement when one of the party’s presidential aspirants, former head of state, Muhammadu Buhari, came to the APC national headquarters in Abuja to collect his expression of intention and nomination forms. The Vanguard of October 17 quoted Oyegun’s statement in full: “Let me say that the N27.5m is to separate the men from the boys. It is quite clear. We know you. I don’t expect you have N27m under your bed. But I expected that there are Nigerians who will vouch for you any day and who are ready to stand for you any day and that is the result that we have obtained today.” Very sad indeed! If the promotion of money over natural endowments and turning its aspirants into helpless hostages to godfathers and moneybags is the kind of “change” the APC is proposing to offer Nigerians, then this country is in deeper trouble than anyone had imagined. What Oyegun was telling Buhari that Thursday afternoon was very clear: there are several moneybags out there who would readily jump at the opportunity to pay this “small change” for you, so just ask, and you would get more eager sponsors (potential godfathers) to last you a lifetime. And what happens after the elections, assuming Buhari wins? A re-enactment of the Ubah/Ngige saga in Awka, or the Adedibu/Ladoja version in Ibadan? Indeed, I would really like to see the term “progressives” completely banned in any discussion of Nigerian politics so as to save it from the egregious devaluation and debasement it has been so horribly subjected to for some time now by those claiming to represent the face of change. Buhari’s own statement at the event only helped to compound APC’s moral crises and confusion of values. This is what he said as reported in the Vanguard which captioned the story: “Buhari Took Bank Loan To Purchase APC Nomination Form”: “It’s a pity I couldn’t influence this amount to be put down … I always looked left and right in our meetings but I could not read sympathy, so I kept my trap. But I felt heavily sorry for myself because I don’t want to go and ask somebody to pay for my nomination forms, because I always try to pay myself, at least for the nomination. N27 million is a big sum, thankfully I have personal relationship with the manager of my bank in Kaduna and early this morning, I put an early call (and) I told him that very soon the forms are coming, so, whether I am on red, or green or even black please honour it, otherwise I may lose the nomination.” Now, Buhari’s supporters in the APC have tried to sell him to Nigerians as a man with sufficient principles and courage to bring about ethical revival in the country. But here is the same man pitiably lamenting his helplessness at the very first opportunity presented to him to authentic the very credentials that have been widely advertised as his greatest selling points. If he could so easily flow with the crowd (in his own party) in a policy he has publicly confessed that he found very objectionable, what is the guarantee that if he becomes Nigeria’s president tomorrow, that he would be able to tame any party bigwig who might want to run foul of the law? Would he be able to contain the habitually troublesome moneybags whom his party chairman is advising him to run to for the bankrolling of his campaign? Wouldn’t he turn to Nigerians again and begin to mournfully lament: “It’s a pity I couldn’t influence this…”. There is also the issue of his discussion with his bank manager in Kaduna. Do the regulations put in place by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to standardise banking operations in the country sanction the kind of transaction Buhari confessed he is having with his bank in Kaduna? What kind of “personal relationship” flourishing between him and this bank manager that could warrant the approval of loans for political activities without collateral? Can Buhari’s presidential run be rightly described as an “investment” except in the thinking of the APC which sees nothing horribly wrong in grossly monetizing its nomination forms and handing them over to the highest bidders? And how does Buhari hope to pay back this loan (and the several others he would take as his campaign progresses) if he wins the presidency? Is it not even unbelievable that Buhari would seek to exploit some “personal relationship” to subvert banking regulations in order to pay for his party’s nomination forms whose prohibitive cost he finds highly unacceptable? But despite these, the APC is still expecting us to take it seriously. Indeed, both the CBN and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) should show more than a passing interest in this “personal relationship” in Kaduna and how far it has already gone to undermine efforts to standardize operations in our banks. It is also very sad and disappointing that in the whole leadership of the APC, Buhari could not find a single person that sympathized with his position that selling nomination forms for N27.5 in order “to separate the men from the boys” is very outrageous. Indeed, it represents undue, immoral emphasis on money over other edifying attributes that ought to count in decent and redeeming politics. No doubt, it is another bad day for Nigerian politics. Many Nigerians daily bemoan the continued erosion of core values in our politics, and it is unimaginable that the APC, despite its noisy attempt to cast itself in the mould of a change agent, could be caught so fragrantly championing the same evils whose uprooting it has so loudly claimed as its mission. Of course, no rational being would buy the very naïve, puerile, pedestrian theory being religiously peddled by the APC (through its body language and even utterances) that even if you were the worst devil when you were in the PDP, once you decamp to the APC, you would automatically become a saint, an attainment you would immediately lose once you leave the APC again. But despite these, the APC is still expecting us to take it seriously. Well, if the party and its presidential aspirant, Buhari, really wish to be taken seriously by Nigerians, they should publicly withdraw those very grievous statements made in Abuja last Thursday and apologise to Nigerians for brazenly and callously dashing whatever bit of expectation they may have succeeded in raising in some quarters by purporting to be something new and different. That is their only path of honour. Mr. Ugochukwu Ejinkenoye, a journalist, wrote from Lagos. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/n27-5m-forms-buhari-unravels/ |
leo1234:Delta State Oil Money |
LOVE and tolerance of each others mistake and flaws. Above all, God. God saw us throughout the 9 years we dated right from university till we got married this year. |
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Ayiri Emami also threw her a lovely intimate dinner with friends and family at Del Frisco’s Grille in Houston Texas. Apart from being into oil & gas, Ayiri Emami also owns a music label called 911 Label.
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The fabulous life of the rich! Warri billionaire and Oil magnate, Ayiri Emami celebrated his wife’s birthday yesterday, Thursday 23 October, by buying her a Rolls Royce – but not just that, he went further to customize the car specially for her. In the pictures posted his wife Asba Emami looks completely speechless and surprised and we don’t blame her. A customized Rolls Royce is quite a gift. It is refreshing to see that a couple that has been married for several years can still be so in love and going to far monetary lengths to show this.
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I came across this picture and I don't know whether to believe it or it was photo-shop. I have tried analysing the flow of water on a tarmac which ordinarily ought to be flat, and also where the muddy-like water is coming from. Medview's route are Accra, Abuja, Enugu, Lagos, Port Harcourt and Yola. Lately, I have used Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt airports and I am not sure if this could be any of them. Though not too sure about Port Harcourt. If this picture is real, which airport could it be?
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THE Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, fixed December 1 to decide whether or not the former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Security Minting and Printing Company, NSMPC, Mr. Ehidiamhen Okoyomon should be extradited to the United Kingdom to face corruption charges. Justice Evoh Chukwu adjourned for judgment on a day the accused person, through his lawyer, Dr. Alex Iziyon, SAN, begged the court not to okay the extradition request, saying he would rather prefer to answer to the charges here in Nigeria. “My Lord, my client is prepared to face the music here. Firstly, he is a Nigerian citizen and wants to be tried according to the Nigerian law. We cannot guarantee that he would be given fair trial over there in the UK. Moreover, according to them, part of the offence was committed in Nigeria. You cannot just bundle any citizen from one country to another, it is a slight on our sovereignty. I urge your Lordship to dismiss this application intoto”, Iziyon pleaded. The extradition process was initiated before the court by the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, SAN. Adoke told the court that the ex-Mint boss was needed in the UK over his alleged role in a bribery scandal involving officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria, the NSMPC and Securency International Pty of Australia. The crime was allegedly committed between 2006 and 2008. Moving the application, yesterday, a lawyer from the office of the AGF, Mr. M.S Hassan, told the court that a District Court in the UK has already issued a warrant of arrest against the accused person. Hassan further tendered several documents in exhibit, among which included an affidavit that was deposed to by one Tapan Debnah, a solicitor with the Serious Fraud Office, SFO, of England, which was sworn before a Westminster Magistrate Court. The affidavit gave a summary of the allegations against the accused, the punishment prescribed for the offences and the jurisdiction of the court to try the matter. The AGF also adduced the Certified True Copy of the charge, the warrant of arrest issued by a District Judge in the UK, an investigative report on oath deposed to by one Brenda Smith White before the Westminster Magistrate Court, a photograph of the accused person for easy identification, as well as a letter notifying the accused of his success in his application for British citizenship. Hassan, told the court that the UK government earlier notified the accused in advance of all the documents that will be used in his prosecution. “My Lord that is an indication that he will be given a fair and transparent trial. Moreover he is a British citizen and as it stands today, there is no charge pending against him in Nigeria to warrant his prosecution here. All the Nigerian government wants is for him to go there and clear his name over the charges against him”, the AGF’s lawyer added. Meantime, the AGF based his application on the extradition treaty of 1931, which he said became applicable in Nigeria in 1935. He maintained that the extradition treaty is an existing law under section 315 of the 1999 constitution, adding that it has not been repealed by any law. Extradition treaty still in the grave. However, counsel to the accused person, Iziyon, insisted that the said treaty was repealed by Schedule 4 of Decree No 87 of 1966, adding, “nothing has been shown to prove that this 1931 Act has resurrected. It is still in the grave and confined to the legal coffin and, therefore, cannot confer any authority or locus on the Attorney General of the Federation”. Iziyon further contended that ‘Exhibit B ‘ from the AGF, which is a copy of London Scheme for Extradition, was yet to be domesticated in Nigeria. His argument was countered by counsel to the AGF who told the court that it was duly domesticated in section 12 of the constitution. Hassan added that section 2 of the Extradition Act provided that it should apply to every country within the Commonwealth region. After listening to all the parties, Justice Chukwu adjourned for judgment, even as he ordered further remand of the accused in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Okoyomon had in an affidavit in support of the suit dated October 7 and filed on October 10, 2014, which was deposed to by one Josephine Majebi, averred; “That I know that Nigeria is not a party to the 1931 Extradition Treaty between the United States of America and it is not applicable in Nigeria. “That the London Scheme for Extradition within the Commonwealth, 2002, does not apply in Nigeria. That I know as a fact that Nigeria is not a signatory nor has it ratified the Treaty between the United States of America and Great Britain.” Likewise, he argued that the extradition application failed to satisfy provisions of Sections 1(1) – (6) of the Extradition Act. His lawyer further stressed that the extradition application by the AGF disclosed no cause of action against his client and the AGF, who instituted the application lacked the locus standi to do so. He said there had been “no Order of the President published in any Federal Gazette applying the provisions of the Extradition Act for the extradition of persons to the United Kingdom.” “That the United Kingdom is not one of the countries listed in the First Schedule to the Extradition Act, CAP E25, LFN 2004, to which the Extradition Act, Cap 25, LFN, 2004, applies,” the supporting affidavit added. - See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/10/bribery-scandal-dont-extradite-uk-ex-mint-boss-okoyomon-begs-court/#sthash.d7Rjh3Ln.dpuf |
olaleks007:What is the size of the plot? |
MAYOWAAK:[size=14pt]Another story for the gods...dream on.[/size] |
size38:While some areas are having power shortage for some reasons, others are seeing improvement. In my area where I reside, we can boast of at least 20hrs power supply daily. Personally, I don't know how often they take the light when I am gone to work but the last time my light went off was Sunday 12th October in the morning and within 15mins, the power came back. Even my brother who came to visit me on Saturday evening and stayed till Monday morning was surprised. It is close to 3 weeks or over I last bought 20ltr petrol for my generator but the petrol is still there. |
Sweetlemon:You are damn right. It is not easy to get endorsement from the world number one brand Apple. |
100% deserved. She's done a lot for Nigeria economy. Kudos ma'm...carry on the good work. |
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