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Great man but all of you forgot to say the man really enjoyed himself with the young girls of campuses in Ondo, etc with the former governor Segun Agagu. Anyway RIP.

Yes but even if he performed wonder again, I will never cos I know that that will be deceitful so that we can vote him again.

D SAME PLACE MY FATHER LOST ALL HE HAD IN THE EARLY 80s. WE WERE LIVING IN D PLANK MARKET. D FIRE STARTED THEN AT MIDNIGHT ON D SAWMILLING SAWDUST AND BEING NIGHT WE NEVER KNEW UNTIL IT WAS FEW PLANK HOUSES TO OURS. AS A BOY OF ABOUT 5 OR 6YEARS, I STILL REMEMBER MY LOVELY T-SHIRT I LOST TO D FIRE. THANK GOD IT'S ALL STORY FOR ME NOW. PRAISE GOD.

Wole Soyinka Takes Swipe At Profligate Patience Jonathan In “First Ever” Valentine Message

Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka today added his voice to a protest by Nigerian women who are outraged by the proposed allocation of N4 billion in public funds to build a so-called “Mission House” in Abuja for Nigeria’s First Lady, Patience Jonathan.

Mr. Soyinka, one of the world’s most outspoken writers, registered his outrage in the form of a Valentine’s Day message addressed to Mrs. Jonathan.

Numerous Nigerians, among them Nigerian women who organized a protest march, have condemned the spending of such a colossal sum on the ego-driven, wasteful project of President Goodluck Jonathan’s wife. Mr. Soyinka’s message is meant to be delivered to Mr. Jonathan alongside other letters by protesting women.

The professor of literature called on spouses of all Presidents of African Nations to dissociate themselves from the
proposal to squander billions of naira on a selfish project Nigeria’s First Lady is set to embark on.

Mr. Soyinka’s letter is reproduced below:

A St. Valentine’s Day Card on the Occasion of Women’s March Against Connubial Corruption.

A Valentine Day Message should be brief, so I must plead for understanding for this departure from the norm. In any case, I deplore the slavish adoption of foreign saints of whatever shade, color, or religious persuasion. However, the coincidence of dates for women’s intervention in yet another egregious conspiracy to drain the Nigerian treasury, mounted in the name of a high-flying member of your gender,
strikes me as a call to break the mould and submit myself to the call of Saint Valentine.

A Yoruba proverb goes thus: Ti a ba ma a j’opolo, ka je eyi to l’eyin. (If one must eat a toad, then go for an egg-bloated one). If I must send a Valentine card for the first time in my life, then let me do so on a grand scale. I have therefore elected not to lend my affection to any one individual, but the entire bevy of First Ladies
of the African continent – and that includes First Male Spouses. What, after all, is to stop these male consorts from developing ‘pet projects’ and setting up Missions? Even if they number no more than one or two, there is a saying that goes: What is sauce for the goose is also sauce for the gander.

A mind-boggling fiscal misappropriation – Four Billion Naira, no less! - is being attempted in your names – openly, in an attempt to institutionalize an illegality through a debasement of the democratic process. It is no longer secretive but in-your-face, and damn public opinion! Your names have been invoked as the ultimate beneficiaries, and thus, you are vicariously implicated. In the name of St.
Valentine and the love I bear for you all, please dissociate yourself from this display of shameless avarice. I shall not go so far as to ask you to denounce what you probably know nothing about, but if you ever get to hear of it, distance yourselves from the gross impropriety. I implore you in the name of all local equivalents of St. Valentine: continue to serve humanity within and outside your borders, but without self-interest. Assist this nation in crushing the increasing acquisitive impudence of individuals and institutions that do not exist in our constitution, yet insist on fattening on national resources.

The enthronement of vulgar preening and opportunistic consumption is complicating the battle of a principled minority on critical social issues. It gets in the way of sanitizing society, and has become an expensive distraction. When you visit in your personal and/or professional capacities, or as consorts to your spouses, we would love to love you, respect and honor you. It will be painful to watch you dodging a rain of rotten eggs and tomatoes in place of flower petals and bouquets. There is no such thing as an African First Ladies Mission in the Nigerian appropriation list. Any claim remotely like it is the conspiracy of sycophants, jobbers, masters of impunity, a desperate clique that unfurls a continental umbrella as cover for private aggrandizement. Please, do not be a part of it. The people of this nation are fast losing patience.

Yours in unstinting love, this St. Valentine’s Day of Two Thousand and Thirteen, Wole SOYINKA (A Public Service Retiree)

THIS IS JUST ONE OF D REASONS I HATE D VALENTINE CELEBRATION. THOUGH D GOOD DEFINITION IS CHERISHED. MY PASTOR HEARD ABOUT A GROUP IN EUROPE WHO ARE CAMPAINING MASSIVELY FOR ABOUT 1MILLION TEENAGE GIRLS TO BE DISVIRGINED. A CONDOM PRODUCING COMPANY SAID THEY MAKE 30% OF ALL THEIR YEARLY SALES TODAY ALONE. UNWANTED PREGNANCY WILL COME UP TODAY, ILLICIT AFFAIRS ALL AROUND. WHICH WORLD IS THIS?

mutaalim: What a decent, seemly, decorous and comely billboard that the picture translate what they are advertising gone are those days

Not today where one want to advertise Engine oil, you will see a yellow ................ on the billboard i don't know the relationship btw an engine oil and a yellow..........

Regards

Thanks guy. Did you say yellow for engine oil or a half naked lady advertising engine oil. What has nudity got to do with advertising an ordinary gadget.

TELL CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NIG (CAN) THAT WE (XTIANS) ARE FOR PEACE AND WE WOULD KILL ANYONE 4 ANYTHING. HE WILL SOON BE TOUCHED TO GIVE HIS LIFE TO JESUS.

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YES HE WAS BORN FOUR TIMES COS HE DIED AND CAME ALIVE 4 TIMES.

Someone should tell me how this lady or girl has influenced or impacted his or her life, then I will justify her front page appearance.

advocate666: And this is the man with PhD in applied mathematics? Dem dash am the degree or was it honorary?

U must be a gay or lesbian to have said this. you will soon be caught.

Uhmm. i know this woman very very well. My office is just few houses to her house. A serious retired trouble maker she is. Goes around the street looking for trouble. Her look alone is scary. I mean every word of it. U don't want to have as a neighbour even if u are not a church talkless of being a mosque.

AH WHY NOW? NO PROBLEM, SINCE MINE IS ALMOST IN NIGERIA, I WILL DIVERT IT TO BENIN AND FROM THERE OPERATE IT. NO PROBLEM FG.

My children are just 2years and 8months old. I sleep in a room with the older child while my wife with the other child in another room. I was recently advised to make sure I sleep in same room with my wife and take the little children to the other room alone. What is ur view cos i feel the children are still too small to sleep alone?

mutaalim: Well, if the person say Alihamdulillai (All Glory to Allah(SWT)) is my duty to say to Yarhamkallahu(May Allah have mercy be with you) and the person have 2 reply back by saying Yahdikumllahum (May Allah Guide YOu)

All these because someone sneezed. May God have mercy. If the person then defecate beside u. wetin go happen.

Then it means that football is in spain but the money is in england.

stjudas: Since its Jesus birthday and not her's, I'll buy her a holy bible; preferably New King James Version, a rosary and a daily devotional.

Rosary? what has dat got to do wt d season. U guys should stop deceiving urself. It is not biblical... so don't raise dis again. Thought i was going to get great suggestions when i opened this topic.

MY BEST ARE MY 2 CHILDREN, JESULOBA AND JESULONIMI, THEN MYSELF.

WORST ARE DAVIDO, GOLDIE, COSSY, DBANJ, ETC FOR CORRUPTING THE MINDS OF D YOUTH.

GOD AND JESUS.

RudySmith: and yet that "super footballer" cannot win the world cup with Argentina? I thought that since he had so many records or what not, he could win a match just playing himself against 11 players. NONSENSE!

na bad belle go kill you. he is just 25years. Will u kill urself if he wins d coming world cup? people win world cup even at 30yrs.

[quote author=~vicky~]Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland

This magnificent castle is typically medieval, perched atop a rocky crag, giving it an amazing vista of Scottish hills. But inside the empty halls and narrow streets of Edinburgh, there are the echoes of the dead. At least, that’s what has been reported. Hot spots for specters include the castle’s prison cells, the South Bridge vaults and Mary’s King Close, a disused street used to quarantine and eventually entomb victims of the plague. There are also reports of ghost dogs, a headless drummer, and the bodies of prisoners taken during the French seven-year war and the American War of Independence.

https://sphotos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/576811_366829423352885_517910038_n.jpg[/quote]LIARS LIARS LIARS LIARS... I was in Edinburgh early this year and i took a picture within this premises. People still gain access into this edifice with about 15pounds for tourism. Lovely place to behold on a hill in the city of Edinburgh in Scotland. Crowd troops into this place especially when it is opened for tourism which is done almost on weekly basis.

[quote author=Okija_juju]WTF is this shiit about?! There is no place in the world where Cable Television is Pay-as-you-go..

If you cant afford Cable TV, stick to fhucking public TV... [/quote]U are the shiit here on nairaland. They do it south africa, so why not nigeria? may be u are one of their staff or contractor. U are both thieves.

[quote author=Okija_juju]If they make that mistake, some people go use 5000 Naira 'credit' in 1 year.. They will only put on their DSTV on match days or Big Brother eviction Sundays..

I dont support this rubbish.. DSTV is a luxury not a necessity.. If a man cant afford Cable TV, then he should watch NTA.. [/quote]But DSTV do pay as you go in Souh Africa. why not Nigeria? May be cos of people like you who believe suffering and cheating are normal.

She left me for my dad at age 2 and my brother at 4. did not even bother to look for us and when we grew up and become ok, she is angry that we don't come look for her. MY DAD ANY DAY ANY TIME.... MAMA..NO. Just for heaven sake.

After NYSC, got a job in oshodi from dopemu (10,000), left after 2months, later got a job 30k in lekki from dopemu, later increased to 58k but now in ikeja just 15mins drive from my house wt a job of 136k and various yearly bonus amounting to about 300k. what a progression...

LET THEM GO BACK TO D VILLAGE.. YEARS BACK WHEN MY FATHER COULDN'T FIND HIS FEET IN LAGOS, HE PACKED ALL HIS FAMILY TO THE VILLAGE. TODAY I AM BACK IN LAGOS BIG AND BETTER. GOOD JOB, GOOD FAMILY AND GOOD FUTURE. IN THOSE DAYS IN VILLAGE I DID FARMING WTH DAD & SIBLING, WENT TO SCHOOL AND GRADUATED BEING D BEST IN MY TERTIARY EDUCATION. HIGHWAY OKADA RIDERS SHOULD GO HOME AND START A NEW LIFE LIKE MY DAD AND HIS FAMILY.

acidtalk: JUSTICE FATIMAH ABDULSALAM ABUBAKAR.


The most Exposed, Learned, Composed, Educated and Articulate.

While her husband ruled, she still went to the court room to perform her duties. She Never started any nonsense Pet project just to siphon money.

Did I forget to mention she is the PRETTIEST of them all?

That woman is the Booooom!!!

i think i will agree with you. she was the best.

TITHE IS MEANT FOR GOD'S HOUSE OR TO GOD'S MINISTERS. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE USED FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF GOD'S HOUSE AND HIS MINISTERS' WELFARE. MINISTERS WHO USED IT WRONGLY FACE GOD'S JUDGEMENT.

IT IS NOT MEANT FOR THE POOR. GIFTS, YOUR OFFERING OR WHATEVER U WISH MIGHT BE GIVEN TO THE POOR BUT THE POOR BECAUSE OF THEIR STATUS SHOULD NOT TAKE THE PLACE OF GOD'S HOUSE AND HIS MINISTERS, HENCE TITHES ARE NOT MEANT FOR THEM.

IYA NGBALI: I don't want this one,I want the one I can stay in my room and withdraw money from my account.

then use ur internet banking or u ask GTB to get u an ATM in ur room.