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Romance / Re: The Worst Mistake A Man Can Ever Make. by smsshola(m): 10:49pm On Jun 02, 2016 |
Hmmm dem don dey brake som1 heart oooooo |
Politics / Re: Buhari, Obasanjo, Timaya, Niger Delta Avengers And The Shame Of A Nation by smsshola(m): 9:22pm On Jun 02, 2016 |
Lenny5k: I pray they see from your perspective... like my ppu wl say agbo to feyin rin agbara nlo lo mu wa... 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Coward-in-chief - Nigerians React To Buhari's Absence In Ogoni by smsshola(m): 8:56pm On Jun 02, 2016 |
Naija sha they must talk...if he waka go there they will talk he didn't na gbege...but I believe he is not the first president in the world who cancel trip either due to reason best known to them or insecurity. |
Family / Re: PHOTO: Mrs Charity Aiyedogbon Is Missing by smsshola(m): 7:29pm On Jun 02, 2016 |
irunooboo: Shoro niyen...well u might be right I just pray she is safe whereever she is. |
Politics / Re: We Are All Biafrans: See What Atiku Abubakar Said About Biafra by smsshola(m): 9:47pm On May 31, 2016 |
Don't be deceive abeg...mama know the number of children wey she get. As for me o and my houze hold we ar not Biafra for those agitating for it I wish dem luck. If our friendship is no longer dt of mutual benefit let depart in peace. |
Politics / Re: We Are All Biafrans: See What Atiku Abubakar Said About Biafra by smsshola(m): 9:46pm On May 31, 2016 |
Don't be deceive abeg...mama know the number of children wey she get. As for me koko and my houze hold we ar not Biafra for those agitating for it I wish dem luck. If our friendship is no longer dt of mutual benefit let depart in peace. 1 Like |
Politics / Re: We Are All Biafrans: See What Atiku Abubakar Said About Biafra by smsshola(m): 9:42pm On May 31, 2016 |
Don't be deceive abeg...mama know the number of children wey she get. 2 Likes |
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: The Lagos State Government Has Started Online Registration Of Jobless People by smsshola(m): 7:33am On May 26, 2016 |
pongwa:Lol 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Breaking News: Ekiti State NLC/TUC To Start Indefinite Strike Tomorrow by smsshola(m): 12:11am On May 26, 2016 |
This is d problem wt most of the current governors majority of them don't av money but they wl embark on gigantic projects instead of them to prioritise their program, looking for the one that wl be more of ppu oriented. Imagine a governor that cannot pay 4 or 6 months salaries yet he has never forfeit his security vote . |
Politics / Re: Court Freezes Aluko And Omokore's $1.8bn Assets by smsshola(m): 10:32pm On May 25, 2016 |
Nuezha: If this is true then believe d heart of man is desperately wicked...all those money meant for millions of country only few posses it..they are wicked if the story is true sha. 3 Likes |
Politics / Re: Court Freezes Aluko And Omokore's $1.8bn Assets by smsshola(m): 10:06pm On May 25, 2016 |
Nuezha: If this is true then believe d heart of man is desperately wicked...all those money meant for millions of country only few posses it..they are wicked if the story is true sha. 1 Like |
Literature / Re: These 5 Books Helped Me The Most In Life. Let Me See Yours. By Ilegend by smsshola(m): 8:46pm On May 25, 2016 |
iLegend: @op pls can u send me d soft copy since u av them to this mail pls; sholasaba@gmail.com expecting pls. 2 Likes |
Sports / Re: This Governor Has Taken A N105 Million Loan To Watch The UCL Finals In Milan by smsshola(m): 12:05am On May 24, 2016 |
If this is true den the governor is fantastically corrupt and op he has paid his state workers salaries? |
Politics / Re: 8 Hilarious But Embarrassing Quotes Of Politicians 2010-2015 by smsshola(m): 9:17pm On May 23, 2016 |
Patience Jonathan 2014: prinsipal na only u waka come? chai chaii there is God oooo. patience Jonathan 2015: we no dey born throw away like them if any one say change stone am.. 1 Like |
Politics / Re: How I Was Betrayed At Pdp’s National Convention In Port Harcourt —sheriff by smsshola(m): 11:40am On May 22, 2016 |
Hmmm so how are we involve? |
Politics / The Rescue Of The Chibok Girls And Our Last Laugh by smsshola(m): 11:37am On May 22, 2016 |
As far as timing goes, the rescue on
Tuesday of one of the Chibok girls by a
detachment of the civilian Joint Task
Force (JTF) and the rescue, yesterday, of
another Chibok girl by the Nigerian Army, is luck
intervening to compel national uplift in a season
of nationwide depression. The far-fetched news that Amina Alli Darsha Nkeki and Serah Lukah have been rescued alive and well slipped at a time when the country is reeling from the shock of the abrupt removal of fuel subsidy: An artificial crisis the Buhari administration created by refusing, like its forbears, to pay Nigerian people – the most trivialized citizenry in the whole world – the simple courtesy of engaging them in a respectful conversation before the announcement of the disruptive petrol price regime-change. Buhari greets Amina Ali's baby The rescue of two of the 219 Chibok girls is the most positive news conceivable in this hour. It certainly does not call for triumphalism: 2 over 219 is a miserable fraction by all standards. And the joy of the two instances of release has been vitiated by the revelation that there are less than 217 girls left behind. Six of the girls, according to Amina, are beyond rescue. They are dead. But the rescue of Amina and Serah represents an important inflection point in Nigeria’s war against terror and the most vulnerable moment for Boko Haram. The death cult, true to the claim of President Buhari, has been sufficiently degraded and approximately vanquished . Its leadership has been decapitated, its fighting ranks, decimated, and its capacity to hold territory, devastated. It elicits media attention by solo suicide bombings, which are now few and far between. Boko Haram’s only viable claim to relevance is the group of girls it abducted from Government Secondary School Chibok on the night of 14th April, 2014. The terrorists have massacred more than 20,000 human beings , but their notoriety essentially revolves around their captives for two years. The terrorists consider the girls a trump card and bargaining chip. They understand that the civilized world care about the girls and want them returned at all costs. The jihadists recognize that the girls are their only real asset. And this is why President Buhari must manage this crack on the door responsibly. He will be tempted to maximize the optics of the girls' freedom to shore up his popularity. But over-exposing the girls and making trophies out of them would be endangering the lives of the other girls. And it would be providing Amina and Serah the last thing they need to recuperate from their protracted tenancy in hell. The girls do not need to be turned into instant celebrities. They need privacy. They need psychological therapy. Time to reconnect and bond again with their loved ones. The security to be the ordinary girls they used to be. What the government should focus on is the review of the insider information the debriefing of Amina and Serah would yield. It has to process the clues and use them to map out a strategy to rescue or to negotiate the rescue of the rest of the girls. Buhari’s men must move with urgency. Luck is on their side. Eleven of the parents of the girls are dead. They died from heartbreak. The pain of living with the toxic knowledge that their daughters were now sex slaves, trapped in a dense forest teeming with beasts and terrorists. The story says Amina’s mum, upon seeing her lost daughter, shouted her name, "Amina, Amina!" and locked her in a spirited embrace, obviously in an instinctive attempt to cleave with her returnee child, in body and soul. The hopes of other surviving parents are up. They are entitled to expect that their own daughters will be rescued like Amina and Serah. The suffering of those men and women is underappreciated. But they experience, in their homes, an anguish at par with the torture their daughters endure in the forest. Three weeks after the capture of the girls, Abubakar Shekau, the lunatic-in-chief of Boko Haram, appeared in a video and said that, "God instructed me to sell them, they are his, and I will carry out his instructions." Six months after, he released another video in which he reported his demonic compliance. He said: “We have married them off. They are in their marital homes." These mad rants had the most impact on parents of the girls. They feared for the worst. They have been eternally separated from their children. Their girls were lost forever. To that legitimate fear, add gratuitous self- blame: That needless but punitive guilt that results from the mind’s tendency to regurgitate the counterfactual after a prudent and good- intentioned decision has culminated in an unforeseen disaster. I wager that the parents were tormented by the nagging thought that their girls would have been leading a normal, uninterrupted life had they been directed towards other paths of endeavor that the anti-enlightenment maniacs did not judge a damnable sin. The tug of parenthood drew their hearts to Sambisa. They yearned for their kids. But they could not invade the lion’s den. They could not snatch their daughters out of captivity. This kind of restless paralysis eats one on the inside. It makes a seemingly healthy person collapse without warning. Like a tree hollowed out by termites. It was rumored that a number of the parents, resigned to the fact that the government was doing practically nothing to bring the girls back and desperate to regain mental normalcy, at some point, contemplated a forced closure. They would imagine their daughters dead, buy coffins, perform dust to dust rites, and move on. A country that failed its citizens and abandoned them to despondency must rethink itself. It must check itself and see whether it has a soul. The kidnap of the girls exposed the zero value of the common Nigerian life, the clumsiness of our security architecture, and our worst and best instincts as human beings. Before the incident, we saw a Borno State government that declined to relocate the girls even after it was warned that school was under an increasing threat of terrorist attack. On the day of the incident, we saw a Nigerian Army that was tipped off four hours before terrorists were due to strike but which failed to deploy to school. After the incident, we saw "an ineffectual buffoon" who ignored the disappearance of hundreds of Nigerian citizens for two weeks. He deigned to speak (and eventually said nothing of substance) after a Babel of voices from all over the world had formed around the #BringBackOurGirls hashtag. Of course, we saw a First Lady who summoned the traumatized parents of the girls to the State House lose her temper when a representative, Naomi Mutah, showed up. We saw Patience Jonathan order her arrest and detention: The ‘Dame’ felt slighted that only one person came to pay her homage. Again, we saw Jonathan hire Levick, for 1.2 million dollars so the Washington-based PR firm would whitewash his pathetic handling of the incident and make him likeable for re-election. We also saw many conspiracy theorists swear time and again that the abduction of the girls was a fable fabricated to deny their beloved Jonathan his natural right of re-election. They premised their cynical certainty on logistics. How could those guerilla fighters have conjured up enough trucks to pack and transport the supposed 300 girls to some forested Bermuda? Even after Boko Haram released a video of the predominantly Christian girls in face veils and reciting the Koran, evidence of their forced conversion to Islam, the conspiracy theorists called the clip a stage-managed scam. Did Boko Haram have tailors? Do they run a successful textile factory in Sambisa? And how were the girls feeding? Did they survive by picking manna from heaven? Or did Boko Haram have silos and barns with inexhaustible stock? As recently as two months ago, ‘Governor’ Ayo Fayose, the exponent of ‘stomach infrastructure’ socialism – ostensibly convinced that sustaining that population of girls would require real poultry farms as opposed to the white elephant that had earned him an impeachment the other time – asserted that the kidnap of the girls was a fairy tale. He was so sure the girls were fictional creations he was loath to grudge them hypothetical humanity. He objectified them. He said: "What is not missing, you cannot find." He said he found the protests calling for the release of the girls funny: "I was laughing when they come out with, ‘freedom for our girls’. Or is it ‘where is our girls?’" To his shame, the last laugh is not his. The last laugh belongs to #BringBackOurGirls campaigners who kept the girls alive in our memory. The last laugh belongs to those Nigerian newspapers who devoted spaces in their front pages to count the number of the days of the girls’ captivity. The last laugh belongs to the rest of humanity who showed empathy – the First Lady of the United States, the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize , everyday people who participated in the cause of the education of the girl child. Welcome, Amina and Serah. May your friends return like you did: And may we have complete last laugh! You can reach Emmanuel at immaugwu@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter @EmmaUgwuTheMan . |
Religion / Re: 10 Popular Churches In Nigeria And Their Origin by smsshola(m): 10:45am On May 22, 2016 |
Yuneehk: Jehovah witnesess or wh one? Cute pix @ur dp. |
Politics / Re: PDP Governors In Closed Door Meeting, Parallel Convention In Abuja [PHOTOS] by smsshola(m): 5:39pm On May 21, 2016 |
Y can't PDP be strong and make a better opposition? |
Politics / Re: NLC Strike: Situation Report In Your Area. by smsshola(m): 8:22am On May 18, 2016 |
NLC strike ds one worse o they are not organized at all banks open for Katsina o. |
Politics / NLC Strike: Situation Report In Your Area. by smsshola(m): 7:27am On May 18, 2016 |
The NLC strike is to go on nationwide this morning insisted by the Ayuba factions, though the Ajero Factions has agreed to form an organised committee to review the price hike and workers welfare. Pls update us on situation report in your area. |
Romance / Re: DDD by smsshola(m): 11:49pm On May 16, 2016 |
Bros sorry get strong and R.I.P to the dead. |
Romance / Re: If You Found Out Your Guy/bae Lives In A Place Like This, Would You Continue? by smsshola(m): 7:19am On May 14, 2016 |
It may be easy for the guys in the house to continue but for the ladies I doubt...to them it will be better fo a camel to pass tru the eyes of a needle. |
Politics / Dino Melaye At Anti-Corruption Summit In London: Caption Photo by smsshola(m): 10:47pm On May 13, 2016 |
The anti corruption seminar has com and gone but it left us with so many pics one of is this pls caption d pic 7 Likes 2 Shares
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Politics / Re: Woman Found Dead In Her Room With 6 Million Cheque Issued By Jesus(pics) by smsshola(m): 10:43pm On May 13, 2016 |
ikan be labeorun |
Politics / Re: Nigerian Ministers And Their Phone Numbers As Released By Sahara Reporters by smsshola(m): 10:23pm On May 13, 2016 |
Technology has expose most govt official..governance will never remain d same again. 1 Like |
Politics / EXCLUSIVE: Saharareporters Releases First Batch Of Ministers' Phone Numbers Pics by smsshola(m): 9:59pm On May 13, 2016 |
SaharaReporters on Friday published the phone numbers of 15 of Nigeria’s Federal Ministers on Facebook and Twitter as part of its efforts to enhance governmental transparency and accountability in the country. By arming Nigerians with thosecontact numbers, SaharaReporters hopes to foster greater interaction and communication between voters and their government. In April, SaharaReporters published the direct lines of members of Nigeria's National Assembly and of all the State governors. SaharaReporters will release the second batch of Minister's phone numbers in the coming days. Below are the members of the first batch of Federal Ministers:
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Romance / Re: How I Started My Life As A Street Hustling Girl, Doing Olosho by smsshola(m): 8:01pm On May 13, 2016 |
Hmmmm continue... |
Business / Re: A-must-read Book For All Businessmen.....know When Sector Is Going Comatose by smsshola(m): 9:36pm On May 10, 2016 |
oloyetomoye: Chairman see my own sholsaba@gmail.com |
Politics / Re: Jonathan On Budget Padding: Throwback News by smsshola(m): 8:55am On May 10, 2016 |
Yet no one loss their job...but in case of buhari he show dt he does not tolerate padding by replacing the MD with some else 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Is It Ok For Yoruba To Claim Omonile In Lagos But Not For ND To Claim Their Oil? by smsshola(m): 10:49pm On May 08, 2016 |
No..is d answer. But u fail to put straight is who are dos yprubas claiming omonile? How many companies has omonile chased out Lagos? I watched a program on TVc standpoint where a Niger delta man was saying omonile in Yoruba land and ds NDA is almost similar;he make a point while the omonile think the land belong to him the strangers who is well educated and exposed comes in buy his land, build on it and even make d omonile is errand boy; the omonile refuse to develop himself. I won't ask any1 not agitate for their fundamental right cos d oil belong to them..but the questions begging for answer is who has ds agitation help? whose land are dey spilling the oil to?I guess not Yoruba man land or any other part of the country. We all witness the rise of Asari Dokubo who claimed then he was fighting for his ppu but after he make the name and money he forgot the same ppu that he claimed he is fighting for, he made so much that he built university in a foreign land but not a kindergarten or nursery sch for his people..that is wickedness. I support their agitation wish they can make use of what they av positively..but not some few who claim they are fighting for masses but forget d same ppu when money enter their pocket. I think they shu also kno dt oil is not longer d bump..d price is falling every day and d glory of oil is fading. Countries ar moving away from crude looking for alternative to it. |
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