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No man/woman is a fountain of knowledge. You get to know more as you aspire for more. God bless this house. PEACE.

Adufesco: Huuurrrraaaay!!! Happy new month to you all my frds & pals here, am happy to see the last month of this years. Dec. Infact i can't wait to share my testimony with you all this month Cheers!!!

Pal, i can't wait to hear your testimony also.

Gbabe 2: Good afternoon peeps.I am really thankful to you guys.I must confess u guys are doing a great job.@Kemzone,Adesojiaderemi,temmytamy,gentiger and everyone you are all wonderful people.
I had my interview this morning around 9.15am to 9.19am and it was a pleasant experience and divine favor of God at work.

Congratulations!

Please nominate/mention a credible Nigerian that can lead this country out of her current mess.

From my side: Babatunde Raji Fashola

You:

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/12/the-president-we-need-in-2015/

Last week, my friend and neighbour Dr Kingsley Kola Akinroye (KK), was formerly presented to a diverse but select crowd of expatriates and Nigerians as the Honorary Consul of Finland. It was the peaking of a romance that started about 15 years ago, and which hopefully, will still have many peaks.

As a young doctor who had chosen cardiology as his area of study, he had gone to Finland to find out how a country which at a point, had one of the highest heart diseases in the world, turned itself around to becoming a country with one of the lowest heart diseases. He had been intrigued by what he found in this tiny, rugged country and that fascination kept him going there again and again. Hence the beginning of what, hopefully, will be a mutually beneficial relationship.

Two months ago, in exchange for a book on Collin Powel which I cherish, my friend had given me a book on Finland. I didn’t think at that time that it was a good deal. After all, I had come across such PR books during my years of travel. But this book was different. For one, it was written by an outsider who had been fascinated and assimilated by Finland. An intellectual, he was able to explain the feat that forefathers of Finland who transformed the country, had performed, in management terms.

Finland is a tiny country that has been made cold and unfriendly by nature. It is also a country with very few natural resources. But what it lacked from nature, was more than compensated for in men and women who are fiercely patriotic and courageous.



Twice, it fought wars that many people thought it could not win. One of them was with Russia, a sprawling, powerful neighbour that wanted to swallow Finland up. To end the war, Russia demanded a hefty sum as compensation. Finnish leaders preferred to ‘pay the price of freedom’ even if it meant working their collective fingers to the bone. Finland eventually paid Russia off by producing superior goods that could be marketed in Russia and never looked back after that.

Today, Finland is one of the most prosperous European countries and as usually follows, one of the least corrupt in the world. Its strength has been in education and research and has some of the most advanced research institutes in the world. An average Fin, according to the book, has a logical, analytical mind.

So why am I bringing this up? What has Nigeria to learn from the Finnish example? Its education, education and education. The lesson here is that the future of the world does not lie in oil, gold or such natural resources any more. It is in education. President Obama of the US recognised this four years ago when he made re-educating Americans a campaign promise. He reiterated it again during the last campaign. For America, he said, to compete and take jobs back from China and the Asian countries, America must have higher training and higher skills which in the final analysis, mean higher education.

At home, our ‘leaders’ are still busy fighting over revenue allocation. Neighbours – Anambra, Kogi, Rivers and Bayelsa – are fighting themselves over newly discovered oil. Instead of fighting over what is under the ground, why don’t we develop what is over the ground – the human resource? Instead of fretting over depleting assets, why don’t we worry over renewable assets – the human brain?

As it is, many countries in Africa have discovered oil. Worse still, our two main markets, America and China are looking inwards. On top of it all, the rest of the world is moving away from oil to cleaner, more renewable forms of energy.

If certain leaders don’t want to move ahead, then we should leave them behind. This is the time to forget tribal, religious and political affiliations and come 2015, choose a competent, visionary leader from any corner of Nigeria who will put education on the front burner.

Would it be possible, for example, for our new President, to pick the best five universities now and make them centres of excellence with a mandate to be among the world’s top 50 in five year’s time? Let the country’s brightest and best, irrespective of state of origin, be enrolled in these universities.

Let them be run by highly acclaimed Nigerians picked from anywhere in the world, who are driven by excellence and the need to leave a legacy (it should still be possible to find a few I hope) Let the academic and administrative staff be the best we can muster. Then let these universities be the yardstick for the others.

In the mean time, let the clamour for a new man in Aso Rock begin; A man who will have the vision to prepare our young ones for the challenges of the knowledge driven 21st century.

Let the social media, the Save Nigeria Group, and other Civil Societies begin to look for a man (or woman) that most of us can back, not because of his religious, tribal, or political leaning but because of his intellect, passion and vision.

Tactically accusing Ngozi for denying her of cheap money.

2015 smelling.

naptu2: Joseph Ayo Babalola (founder, Christ Apostolic Church).

My spiritual model. Please do you any detail on him though i Google some materials on him i enjoy your post if you have any.

You make me remember my days @ St. James Pry School, Ilorin.

naijababe: ONWARD notebook! Yay!!!

O - Ole
N - Ni
W - Wale
A - Aji
R - Ruler
D - Dada

E - Ede
X - times
E - Ede
R - Rashidi
C - Coni
I - Iya
S - Segun
E - Elere
B - Boolu
O - Odabo
O - Odabo
K - Kayode

Personally am not a fan of GEJ but virtually everyone here has castigated this man Ok. GEJ is bad, accepted! What is is the way forward? Who do you think can lead this nation out of this self-inflicted injuries among the northerners hobnobbing with OBJ or which among the opposition party has a credible candidate that can stand this monster called PDP which GEJ will definitely manipulate to earn its ticket (primary election)? Mind you the alliance between ACN, CPC and ANPP cannot stand the test of time because each of leader of the opposition parties has a personal and selfish agenda. So many questions begging for answer but i see no one answering them. If we can get answers to these question then our worries are half solved. God bless Nigeria!

abesin01: just had my interview about an hour ago.Thank God and all the forum members for their support .I must confess I gained alot from the forum.

The only question was my job description and why I didn't continue working where I served.There after she congratulated me and gave me my collection slip.
I wish others awaiting interview success.Thanks for your prayers.

Congrats bro.

Godhelpmeooo: ur visa is approved in JESUS name.go and claim it.GLORY!!!

Hi pal. U sound like a Winners' Chapel member (am one also), if so i just want to say 'It is well'. Glory!

femijck: Hope we wont be force to take d 666 sign b4 we go fit enta US oo bkos obama don say startn frm march 13...GOD HELP US

It is a rumour that has been confirm to be a lie. Use Google and you will discover that what they are calling 666 is Obamacare to give less privilege people more access to healthcare. Shikena.

U see what bad leadership of our nation is causing? Another terror group? Not again.

naptu2: Thanks very much.

Politics is what you make of it. If "all political leaders belong to cults", then you can become the first non-cult member to be a political leader. Remember, Obama is the first black man to become President of the United States.

Wow! I love your answer. You just gave me courage instead of the discouragement i have been facing from people around me.

Good job and God bless you. Am diligently following your posts. Tanx.

KJV

DV 2014, I know i will come back here to testify to the glory of God in Jesus name. Amen. America here i come.

bobshina: Thank God. I finally landed in America with my family yesterday & d xperience was so wonderful. We don't hav much problem at port of enty- JFK airport NY, we join d queue for immigrant and we are 2nd on d queue. I gave d Immig Officer our PP & d Yellow envelopes. She checked to see if we've tried to open d envelopes. Thereafter, she opened the envelopes one after the other. took our finger prints and snap us. she then inputs some info into the system and finally stamped our PP.She then took us into the main room where she led us to a man. she gave our forms(contents of d yellow envelopes) to d man and d man gave us a form to put our fingerprint on it and signed it. Everytin took us less than 15 minutes in d airport.
Note: D yellow envelopes should never be opened pls. It contains all ur documents u've already seen : form ds 230, original police report, medical report,and d fotocopy of ur birth cert or NPC cert. ur 3 2x2 pasports collectd from u during the interview at lag. so, its all what u've already seen.

Once again Thanks to this great forum for the wonderful info shared by every1 for d benefits of all of us. I'm proud to b a Nigerian. God Bless 9JA.


Thank you all and GOD BLESS.

Congrat. i will join you guys soon IJN.

naptu2:

I see. The other day the Oba of Lagos support the assertion of Oba of Bini in his new book that Oduduwa came from Bini kingdom. I was so surprise why a Yoruba Oba will support such statement but now i know better. The Oba of Lagos came from Bini so he was supporting his kith and kin

Good job OP. I have more incite into the political history of Nigeria and the very cunny politics of this nation.

Please naptu2. Can you confirm that all political leaders belong to cults? I want to join politics in the nearest future (Governorship to be precise) but people keep telling me that i must be ready to belong to a secret cult, is it a 'criteria'?

Tanx.

Please speak your native language to your child it never a vernacular English is the original vernacular (strange).

yuzedo: One BAAAAAAAASTARD girl asked me to give her my first salary (true story)....
I didn't even know where her audacity was coming from. Whether she licked juju and the babalawo said anybody she talks to would obey her.
Hmmmmmm...... God save us o! I was tempted to denigrate her ancestry but i held my peace. That incident made us stop relating and she deleted me from her network.

First salary? Bought suit, gave my dad his "cut", gave people that i needed to give, put a chunk in savings, and the rest to see me till the next pay day..
My first NYSC salary went almost the same way.. Tokens for aunts, etc. Bought a bottle of wine for my great godfather and put mint bills in an envelope and went to see him one evening . He thought i was coming to plead for a job or something i'm sure, when i revealed my mission he almost had heart-attack! He was so excited, he started narrating his children's histories, he sang national anthem, told me the story of jaja of opobo, all the people he has helped in life and who remember him, who won WWF royal rumble season 1995, engine specification of peugeot 505! Lol! Infact he started dialling his son in the states, i was so embarrassed! I love my godfather shaa...

Yeah, i think i tithed too... Na dat time i still dey tithe...

Why did stop tithing? Pls continue and God 'll bless you real good.

A day will come that this country will be great again with all living in plenty and prosperity so anyone that attend a church will be seen as a man who has come because he wants to serve the true God not a MOG (man of god) then this men enterprise will end? But the bible make it clear that judgment will begin in the house of God in the last day that mean more deadly and wordly MOG will come as sheep in wolf skin but brethren shine your eye.

Jah bless!

Sir, what if you re-marry and the women do not give you a child?

I think you can adopt a child while you await your due season.

Jah bless.

OBJ, pay day at hand

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/lead-stories/51285-alleged-genocide-odi-indigenes-to-drag-obj-fg-to-world-court

INDIGENES of Odi in Bayelsa State have concluded plans to file a suit against former President Olusegun Obasanjo at the International Criminal Court (ICC) over what they call the genocide of November 20, 1999.

Sources close to the community told the Nigerian Tribune on Wednesday that the people of Odi have been working with some local and international human rights bodies to collate their data for some time now.

Source said that the people have also contacted a number of lawyers who would present the details before the United Nations (UN) Court.

A source close to the Odi community said in Abuja that the people of Odi have been able to marshal their points in the suit which will also involve the Federal Government of Nigeria.

A source said that as the head of the Nigerian government at the time of the invasion, Obasanjo is the primary target of the suit and that he would be charged for crime against humanity.

Already, the people are said to also be angry with the Federal Government for failing to rebuild the community after the invasion of November 20, 1999.

It was gathered that the community had, during the Obasanjo administration, contacted Human Rights lawyer, Mr Olisa Agbakoba, to help secure compensation from the government for the troops’ invasion of the community in 1999 and that till now, the government has failed to respond.

“We are dragging Obasanjo before the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. That is a fact I can confirm to you. As for the lawyers that will handle the matter, I will leave that out for now,” a source in the know said, adding that details of the crime committed by federal troops during the invasion were pathetic.

“When the troops invaded Odi on November 20, 1999, the different groups that worked on the site counted 2,284 deaths. The deaths included the aged, women and children. When the late Senate President saw the scene, he said there was nothing to say but that it was like a civil war,” another source said.

The source further added that reports which are available to the government had confirmed that none of the militants who perpetrated the killing of soldiers and policemen was hurt during the raid and that the militants only relocated to different parts of the Niger Delta after the attack.

The source said that the leader of the militants believed to have perpetrated the attack on security operatives, Ken Niweigha, now late, was not hurt during the operation by the government troop and that he relocated afterwards to Delta State.

“Our people are seeking two things, conviction of the former president for crime against humanity and compensation from the Federal Government for the destruction of Odi. The details are ready with pictures but we don’t want to pre-empt the International Court,” a source close to the community said, adding that the names of the victims and their pictures have been compiled for onward transfer to the United Nations.

The source added that the suit will be filed before the end of the year.

The community is also said to be claiming that rather than help stop the problem of militancy in the Niger Delta, the invasion of Odi only aggravated the problem and that as of the time of the attack, no militant camp was operating in the Niger Delta.

“After the attack, militant camps sprang up across the Niger Delta. For instance, the leader of the militants that attacked the soldiers and policemen, Niweigha, relocated to Okporpoza and joined Tompolo to form Camp Five, Asari Dokubo and Atake Tom established camps in Rivers while General Boyloaf established a camp in Bayelsa. We are going to include that all the deaths recorded after the formation of the camps are also part of the war crimes of Obasanjo,” the source said.

The troops had been deployed to the community following the killing of soldiers and security operatives by the Niger Delta militants who used the community as their base.

Although the matter had not been talked about for some time since the action, it was resuscitated on Sunday night by President Goodluck Jonathan during a media chat where he described the invasion of the community as a failure because it did not achieve its intended purpose.

But in a reaction, Obasanjo had faulted President Jonathan’s claim which he described ‘factually incorrect’ and borne out of misinformation.

Speaking through Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, his spokesperson, the former president had explained that the deployment of soldiers to Odi actually stopped the killing of soldiers with impunity by the militants and was thus a mission accomplished.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/lead-stories/51282-11-nigerians-make-forbes-africas-40-richest-list-dangote-leads-again

FOR the second year running, Nigerian business mogul, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, tops the 2012 edition of Forbes Africa’s 40 Richest list.

He is also the 76th on the list of billionaires in the world, with a net worth of $12 billion from $10.1 billion in November 2011.

According to Forbes, most of Alhaji Dangote’s net worth lies in publicly-traded Dangote Cement, which operates in 14 African countries.

Nicky Oppenheimer of South Africa, again, emerged the second richest, with a $6.4 billion fortune, down $100 million from the previous year.

The coveted Forbes list features 12 Nigerian business moguls, including Mike Adenuga of Globacom, who ranks fifth, with a net worth of $4.6 billion from his telecoms and oil companies.

Jim Ovia ranks 19th, with a net worth of $825 million, while Abdulsamad Rabiu, who heads the BUA Group, ranks 21st with a net worth of $675 million.

Top fashion designer, Chief (Mrs) Folorunsho Alakija, one of the two women on the list, ranks 24th with a net worth of $600 million from her efforts in the oil sector.

Also on 24th is the 73-year-old former Nigerian Defence Minister, General Theophilus Danjuma, with a net worth of $600 million from the oil sector, while the 68-year old former banker and Honey Well Group founder, Oba Otudeko, ranks 25th with a net worth of $575 million.

At the 27th position is Mohammed Indimi with a net worth of $550 million from the oil and gas sector.

At 82, O.B. Lulu-Briggs also makes the list on the 31st spot, with a net worth of $500 million from the oil sector, while on the 37th position is Sani Bello, former Nigerian military governor from Kano State and a one-time ambassador to Zimbabwe, with a net worth of $425 million.

Standing tall at the end of the list is Hakeem Belo-Osagie, the 57-year-old Harvard-trained petroleum economist, with an estimated $400 million net worth from the oil sector.

If you are called to serve from above no power or occultism can stop you. Confirm.

I once told my dad that i love to contest for governorship in my state in the nearest future, he told me i cannot because i don't have hard heart and cannot join cult. I laugh because i know one day i will serve my people in that post without bowing to any god. Confirm.

That is their own opinion. Most of these people have never visited Africa neither Nigeria once. I once read how two British guys who want to come to Africa were scared off by their family not to come to Nigeria because there are many lions here that can devour them, those guy rebel and came to Nigeria and enjoy themselves travelling with power bike across West Africa. So the lesson here is that this statistics are completely wrong, null and void.

ode remo: who is the mumu here , taking panadol for babalastman headache, they over saddled him indeed. cant he unsaddle himself? was he saddle with that newsawtch mag. he bought, oh ,what of that university he shouldered in sao tome and principle. obviously this is going no where cos of eeedioti.c effc approach to corruption but one day go be one day for this country.

Pal. U are missing it ooo. Nah Jimoh Ibrahim buy Newswatch magazine and owns a private university in Sao Tome and Principle. We are talking about Wale Babalakin here who owns Bi-Courteny not Jimoh Ibrahim who owns Global Fleet Oil. Tanx. No offense please.

I belief despite Wale Babalakin non-concomitant to his job he has stepped on power toes.