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Big one for ikorodu, Fashola is working some people are beefing. Wait a minute who the heck is Ademola Candide? Thought he should have named the court after the last CJ of lagos state, after all she is an indigene of Ikorodu. Anyway nice one.

Try it in the south eastern part of nigeria, they will not only take the wallet, but will trace down the home of the wallet owner with info in the wallet only to kidnap important members of the family just for ransom.

Blame it on boko haram.

Annie2gud: Thumbs up to women that married Fat hybrid Dudes.i like my men slim and PoRtable.**winks**
Rip Olubummi.ile aye .....ile aso.

Gross! we are talking about a dead person and all that you think first is your warped sexual preferences. Pls edit what you have on your mind before publishing for the public.

Our ultimate responsibility is reconciliation of souls to christ. It shows that those brethren are not truly reconcile with Christ. If you are viewing this thread, are you truly reconcile with Christ? Search your heart and make amends if you need assistance about going about we are ready and honoured to be part of your success story. Feel free to reach out.

Church Members Mistreat Homeless Man in Church Unaware It Is Their Pastor in Disguise

Pastor Jeremiah Steepek transformed himself into a homeless person and went to the 10,000 member church that he was to be introduced as the head pastor at that morning.

He walked around his soon to be church for 30 minutes while it was filling with people for service, only 3 people out of the 7-10,000 people said hello to him.

He asked people for change to buy food – no one in the church gave him change.

He went into the sanctuary to sit down in the front of the church and was asked by the ushers if he would please sit in the back.

He greeted people to be greeted back with stares and dirty looks, with people looking down on him and judging him.

As he sat in the back of the church, he listened to the church announcements and such.

When all that was done, the elders went up and were excited to introduce the new pastor of the church to the congregation.

“We would like to introduce to you Pastor Jeremiah Steepek.” The congregation looked around clapping with joy and anticipation.

The homeless man sitting in the back stood up and started walking down the aisle. The clapping stopped with all eyes on him.

He walked up the altar and took the microphone from the elders (who were in on this) and paused for a moment then he recited,

“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.

“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

‘The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

After he recited this, he looked towards the congregation and told them all what he had experienced that morning. Many began to cry and many heads were bowed in shame.

He then said, “Today I see a gathering of people, not a church of Jesus Christ. The world has enough people, but not enough disciples. When will YOU decide to become disciples?”

He then dismissed service until next week.

Following in the footsteps of Jesus Christ should be more than just talk. It ought to be a lifestyle that others around you can love about you and share in.

Laja Laba: When an engaged couple calls off the wedding, it is usually a time of sadness and anger. But one family in Atlanta found a way to turn a terrible situation into a beautiful one. Carol and Willie Fowler's daughter Tamara was set to get married at the Villa Christina catering hall, when the wedding was called off just 40 days before the event. Initially the Fowlers were upset to hear that the lavish gathering they had planned and paid for was not going to happen. Then they had a genius and generous idea: They invited 200 of the city's homeless to feast on the four-course meal that would have been part of Tamara's wedding reception.

The Fowler family called Elizabeth Omilami from the Hosea Feed the Hungry organization for her help in getting the group together. At first Omilami thought she was being pranked! Carol Fowler said that even daughter Tamara attended the event, adding, "She was also very delighted to see and know that others had an opportunity to enjoy something, rather than just allow it to go to waste." Children make up about 70 percent of Atlanta's homeless, so to make the dinner more fun for them, a clown was hired for their entertainment. The event was titled "The First Annual Fowler Family Celebration of Love," and the family says it plans on hosting another charity dinner next year. It's a great example of how you can turn any bad situation into a positive one.


Source.......http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/family-hosts-200-homeless-people-for-dinner-after-daughter-s-wedding-gets-called-off-180643590.html

Centillion likes might start my own sterling towers annual luncheon for the needy.

This is the apt thread for front page and I urge admin to do so. It is better to show love and inspire others to show love.

I am homophobic and I can never be unbiased against queers and flaming gays. Any sexual orientation apart from heterosexualism can never get my validation. Now do me a material for mod?

That is how expensive lies can be. Why am I not surprised?

I thought pascal dozie is the owner of empty hen. Okay may be the upper torso beating guys have as usual been publishing fibs.

Tinkering with security on the altar of political manuoevering shows not only gross insensitivity on the part of Mr. President but absolute insult on the sensibilities of Nigerians and service men. How would an indecisive president run the affairs of the military that often calls for boldness and decisive actions. I hope mr. President is not on a self stultifying and destructive mode. Power hungry military men could seize this opportunity and try out a coup, well may be I worry too much. God help us.

Anxiety over absence of defence minister

THERE is worry within the nation’s defence sector about the vacuum created by the absence of a substantive Minister of Defence since Dr. Haliru Mohammed Bello was removed on June 22, 2012, a clear 15 months ago. Bello was sacked at the height of the insecurity in the North.
The situation has been compounded by last week’s sacking of the Minister of State for Defence, Dr. Olusola Obada, who was the acting minister while holding on to her official portfolio as Minister of State for Defence.

In the absence of a substantive minister in such “important and sensitive” ministry, President Goodluck Jonathan two weeks ago appointed the Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, as Supervising Minister. This means that while Maku still has full responsibility to his core ministry, the spokesman of the Federal Government would also exercise oversight functions over the Ministry of Defence.

As one source put it: “What sense does it make to put a part-time minister in charge of a ministry which has control over the military assets of the nation and the fate of tens of thousands of men and women in uniform; and a nation fighting a war against terror at home and is involved in peacekeeping operations abroad? This ministry needs a substantive minister and not a visiting one.”

Clearly, the present arrangement is unknown in the history of a command-structured ministry that oversees the nation’s military. Under the ministry, the minister exercises political direction over the military and supervises the activities of the tri-service Defence Headquarters and the three services – Army, Navy and the Air Force.

The list also includes all the training and operational institutions under the three services. Ordinarily, it was a herculean task for a minister and minister of state to supervise these institutions, including the civilian wing of the ministry. Now, the worry is how a visiting minister could help drive the continuing professionalisation of the military.

The ‘aberration’ of having a Honourable Minister of State for Defence (HMOSD) in charge as acting minister for over a year and now a visiting minister is confusing for members of the military who are used to dealing with a substantive minister, who functions as the representative of the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.

While Obada was acting minister, her official title was Minister of State for Defence (MOSD). Yet, at events, she was variously addressed as Honourable Minister of Defence (HMOD), representative of the HMOD, Acting Minister of Defence or the official designation, MOSD.

A source noted that “by the nature of the MOD, it is not envisaged that the ministry would ever be without a substantive minister. It is just like a Defence Headquarters with an Acting Chief of Defence Staff, the Nigerian Army with an Acting Chief of Army Staff, a Nigerian Navy with an Acting Chief of Naval Staff and a Nigerian Air Force with an Acting Chief of the Air Staff for such a long period. The convention is that anyone acting in any of these positions is doing so because the substantive official is on leave. The military institution in Nigeria has not functioned with such acting appointments for so long.”

The HMOD represents the President and Commander-in-Chief as the chairman of the various councils for the services. They include the Nigerian Army Council, Navy Board and the Air Council. The councils act as the governing body of the services responsible for the direction of policy. It is also the confirmation body for promotion and retirement of officers. Statutorily, the Minister of Defence acts as the chairman of the councils.

Statutorily, the HMOD is also the chairman of the governing boards of tri-service institutions including the National Defence College, Armed Forces Command and Staff College, the Nigerian Defence Academy, Armed Forces Resettlement Centre Oshodi and the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON). In the long absence of a HMOD, the MOSD has been holding forth, a situation not envisaged.

And some have been worried if the decisions being reached at the meetings of the councils and boards would withstand any consistent legal scrutiny in the case of any controversial decision with an acting or visiting minister.

Obviously, the absence of a substantive Minister of Defence has stalled many decisions that require boldness which a caretaker minister would not dare touch. It was quite clear during the tenure of Obada. And in the last change of Service Chiefs, the influence of the substantive Minister of Defence was absent.

During Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s first term between 1999 and 2003, the HMOD, Lt.-Gen. Theophilus Danjuma, had a firm grip of the military. In fact, it was Danjuma who one morning in April 2001 went to Obasanjo and requested for permission to effect changes in the class of Service Chiefs. Getting the President’s consent, Danjuma installed Gen. Alexander Ogomudia in place of Lt.-Gen. Samuel Victor Leo Malu as Chief of the Army Staff, Vice Admiral Samuel Afolayan in place of Vice Admiral Victor Ombu and Air Marshal Jonah Wuyep in place of Air Marshal Isaac Alfa as the Chief of the Air Staff.

When Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwaso resigned his ministerial position as HMOD to contest the governorship election of Kano State in 2007, Ambassador Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi was immediately appointed to the substantive position, from his post as MOSD. In fact, never in the history of the MOD has a MOSD held sway for this long.

But a source told The Guardian that “the only reason the president has left this present situation in the Ministry of Defence may partly be because he wants to indirectly handle the ministry himself. This way, he delegates the operational matters to the Chief of Defence Staff and the administrative issues to the Permanent Secretary while the supervising minister provides the political cover for the activities of the duo. The supervising minister represents the interest of the ministry and the Armed Forces at meetings of the Federal Executive Council (FEC). He presents the memo from the ministry. There may actually be nothing wrong with this if it is just for a few weeks. The situation can be tolerated for now as this is no war situation. The menace of the Boko Haram group in the North-East has been brought under control.”

But another source stated: “The provision of effective leadership to the ministry will be the first casualty of the decision to leave the ministry without substantive leadership.”

For how long will the CBN continue to defend the naira?

on September 23, 2013 at 12:27 am in News

By Gabriel Omoh

Nigerians’ penchant for foreign goods has continued to put pressure on the nation’s external reserves and the exchange rate. In the last four months – April to August, a total of $14.95 billion left the shores of Nigeria as payments made by the Central Bank of Nigeria on behalf of the public.

Of this amount, cash sales to bureau de change where those who purchase foreign exchange in small quantity buy from, amounted to $2.2 billion while letters of credit for direct importation amounted to $157.5 million. Direct remittances were put at $983.7 million and sales to banks through the wholesale dutch auction amounted to $11.5 billion. Debt service/payment during the period took the sum of $93.62 million out of the external reserves of the country. Ironically, bureau de change is where the informal sector operators buy foreign exchange. The over $2.2 billion from the source went mainly to those who are now having a field day in the importation of either substandard products or contrabands.

In the week which ended 12th of April 2013, payment made for travels on behalf of Nigerians who travel regularly abroad either for leisure, business trip or medical check up through business and personal travel allowance was $6.9 million. Cash sales to bureaux de change in that week was $196 million, while payment made through letters of credit amounted to $13.37 million. Total direct remittance was $202.9 million during that same week. Wholesale Dutch auction took up the sum of $837 million. Debt service had a meager $1.17 million. In that week alone, a total of $1.257 billion went out of the country in the form of payment to foreign nationals.

The week ended 26th April followed the same pattern with a total of $1.38 billion flowing out of the country for importation and payment for foreign services. In the week ended 21 June, a total of $1.70 billion went out of the nation’s treasury as payment for foreign goods and services. The foreign exchange outflow rose to $2.05 billion in the week ended 5th July. The weekly foreign exchange hemorrhage has continued with an average outflow of $1.7 billion since the beginning of the year.

These payments are made for purchases of goods and services that are not essential to the economy. Nigerians import toothpicks, rice, second- hand cars and virtually anything under the sun. This has put tremendous pressure on the exchange rate making the naira a weeping currency. If only half of the weekly outflow is invested in local production, it will reflate the economy, increase production and the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and create employment in the country. It will help in no small measure in the nation’s quest to reduce poverty level in the country.

Rather than do this, Nigerians continue to export jobs to other countries by importing what can easily be produced locally. The few companies operating in the country have stock of finished inventories in their warehouses because Nigerians do not patronise locally made goods.

Is it not about time people were made to pay for their taste for foreign goods? From Aso Rock to the village man, every one is proud to put on made in Italy shoes, London branded suites, and in recent times, made in Korea, Japan and China. Products made in Aba, Abeokuta, Onitsha and Lagos are sold elsewhere in Africa, America and Europe yet Nigerians see them as inferior and prefer to import low quality products from Asian countries that have made Nigeria a dumping ground. When the occupants of Aso Rock told Nigerians that cassava bread and made in Nigeria rice will be the menu in the villa, many thought it was a new dawn. Several years down the line, is cassava bread or Abakaliki rice being served in Aso Rock? This is where leadership has always failed the nation.

Nigerians should recall that the naira weakness, partly caused by excessive spending prior to 2011 national elections, forced the central bank to lower the target band of the exchange rate from N145 to N155 per dollar in November that year, after months of struggling to prop it up. Pressure on the naira will worsen next year as elections loom again in 2015.

Traditionally, pre-election year is a time when government expenditure becomes very loose, pumping excess liquidity into the banking system. Arguably, this seems the case all over the world – governments tend to spend a lot leading up to elections. The naira in recent months has hovered around the N162-N163 on strong demand for dollars. It touched a 20-month low of N163.70 to the dollar recently.

It closed at N163.10 to the dollar last Monday; after it became clear the central bank would not intervene again to prop it up. By Tuesday, it had rebounded to N162.90. This has compelled the central bank to intervene, insisting that it will resist pressure to devalue the naira since it retains ample funds to defend the currency.

The naira has fallen in recent months, trading outside the central bank’s target band of N150-N160 to the U.S. dollar since June, due essentially to foreign investors booking profits on their naira assets, and on importers buying dollars.

The central bank as it looks is poised to continue to defend the exchange rate stability as long as governor Sanusi remains in charge at the expense of the nation’s external reserves. Sanusi has spent billions of dollars of foreign reserves over the past months in keeping the naira, which has lost 4.6 per cent since the year, within its target band.

But Nigerian foreign exchange reserves stood at $46.85 billion as at August ending, down by 0.23 per cent month-on-month from July.

Nothing about the central bank’s recent guidance or behaviour suggests that it is about to allow a devaluation of the naira. The bank tightened liquidity significantly in July, slapping a 50 per cent reserve requirement on public sector deposits, up from 12 per cent previously. That mopped up N1 trillion out of the banking system and although the effect on the naira was short-lived, it showed the lengths to which the CBN is ready to go to defend the naira exchange rate.

The question is; for how long will the CBN continue to defend the naira in an economy that is largely not productive but depends solely on oil export for its foreign exchange earnings?



Angels are servants to minister to Jesus, arch angel michael inclusive.

Women prefer court marriage because a lot of them know that it is usually difficult to annul, plus it scares men off from having extra marital affairs even if they do, it makes it impossible to conduct another marriage without the dissolving the first one. it is actually bigamy to marry without dissolving the first one, a crime punishable with atleast two years imprisonment upon conviction. What women fail to realize is that sauce for goose, sauce for the gander, if the men can't do it, the women also cannot do it, plus it takes only the court of law to annul marriage under the act I.e. Marriage Act. I think most women feel that court marriage protects them from their hubby cheating on them. But what of when the man becomes unbearably and deadly violent then it is the woman that will want divorce and suffer, a procedure that is slow, tedious and expensive. I think women most of the time do it out of fear and insecurity. As I see nothing smart in court marriage, marriage is marriage what matters is sinceritym

As for money, nigerians court are generally not keen on allowing gold digging like it is obtainable else where, off course only when issues are involved that maintenance becomes issue. That is even subject to the condition that the man is liquid enough, from experience and as a professional, women rarely do it for money as alimony is seriously downplayed under the extant law.

Ikengawo: with 0 federal presence the igbos have built the only state built airport in nigeria (Owerri), car factories, refineries and now an independent power grid by nnaji in Aba. During biafra, Enugu was the only city in Nigeria with constant power. The biafran army, under siege, build armed trucks before westerners, an airport, guided missles, radar, an indigenous war cannon that was scienifitcally designed to destroy modern fighter jets with sand, and the largest army in black africa. If defeated the collective nigerian after battle after battle taking city after city until the US, UK, Egypt and Russia began bombarding hospitals. Igbo land has the highest concentration of vibrant urban centers, the largest industrial clusters in west africa, the largest market in africa, the highest concentration of airports in africa. It has the highest literacy rates in Nigeria (92-98%) the highest test aptitude scores (Imo, Abia, Delta, Anambra), the highest concentration of university qualified graduates, and a lengthy academic history including partially inventing the internet. It's sons produce cars and computers, textiles, furniture, TVs, refined oil, oil products, and medicines. After being bombarded for 3 years straight and burned to the ground, the rebuilt cities (Enugu, Owerri, Nnewi, Port Harcourt) rank as nigerians most beautiful orderly and clean. Anambra is going to be home to 3 shoprites due to the affluence of it's population. Abia and Rivers are set to be the first states in Nigeria with 24 hour power. Owerri with a tiny budget have free education to the university level, a feat the Americans, British, French and Japanese haven't achieved. Anambra has the lowest debt in the country. It was reported that Anambra has more indigenous industries than Lagos. Challenge any of these claims and i'll give you sources facts and proof. Igbo land has oil and gas from Ebonyi where it was first found in the history of Nigeria to Port Harcourt, which is the richest state in Nigeria (160% richer than the national average). Marketers in Onitcha have created a movie industry that's more productive than Hollywood and world billions. Igbos are hold parliamentary spots in the UK, controlling port authorities in the US, Vice president of the World Bank, head of the New York stock exchange.

This is with 0 federal presence and a policy of neglect.

There's no portion of Africa that will be more ok if the rest of the world didn't exist than Igbo land. trust me.

What do I call this man bloody liar or unabashed spin doctor. Either way I am dazed as to how you can erect such a ginormous castle in the air. My brother talk is cheap.

Working with your scenerio off course the person can get a higher sentence at the appellate Court. More importantly before the person makes a decision that could be life altering why not consult a lawyer that could lay bare to the person all the options available to him especially the full details of the case and a pardon could also be worked out if the conditions are met before I forget to add that but stop shirking payment of consultancy fees the person should pay a lawyer before cutting corners via Nairaland. I perceive some of the posters above are lawyers as I am. You can start from there.

Fynestboi: http://economicconfidential.net/new/financial/facts-a-figures/780-top-100-universities-in-africa-only-5-nigerian-universities-listed

Oga I tire for you o, Why are you living behind time. the list on your link was that of 2011. OAU topped in 2012 and 2013 and was even ranked 8th in Africa. Be up to date next time now go clean some thing of mine.

This FFK is incredibly rude, why can't this old man make a reply without name calling and desist from outright descent into unabashed verbal barbarism. FFK need true reconciliation with Christ.

A veritable case of megalomaniac, her letter might have been one of the reasons for excluding nigerians from D.V Lottery, was her letter also the reason for excluding Peru, Pakistan et al.

This woman will kill for attention.

Nchara: These mallams go chop well well if Nigeria separates. Abuja will go to the North, so these ones na free for them to take

Perhaps you guys wanna divert your attention to Abj and leave Lagos alone, Mea culpa i thought igbos own 99.9999 % of Abuja, relax Nchara na your brothers get all those properties.

geeez: It is a known fact that Onitsha and Aba are the dirtiest cities in Africa

Enugu is also quite dirty

I don't know if it has to do with the people or their culture but the dirties cities are in the SE while the cleanest are in the North

The SW is somewhere in between

Na correct ya self they are the dirtiest places in the whole wide world not just cities.

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Apt response bros! This article is more than 2 weeks old, and one has to wonder as to the nature of his intentions in posting it now if not badbelle![/quote]International forever, okay now we have so many local biz at alaba mart carrying the appelation international yet they are as local as local can be, just like Tinapa project time will tell. These clowns take every thing to be joke, this jobless pranksters nay jokester..

Why are my brothers from the land of the setting sun so starved of infrastructures and developments, they publish archaic and regular things as big deals. Well all you need is a BRF, a little dose of BRF will heal all your inadequacies. BRF 2015 a time to correct your errors

Derinsimiola: @ kreami diva, the cost of incorporating a limited company with share capital of 1million is N60 000.
With respect to your lost incorporation certificate, you should apply to CAC for the certified true copy, the application letter should indicate your office address and the RC NUMBER of the lost certificate attach along an affidavit deposed to by you reflecting the fact that it actually got lost.

You need to get a police report also and your annual return must be up to date. You can give the work to a lawyer because if you want to do it your self you will definitely pay more.

This is so unethical the Rules of Professional conducts does not allow lawyer to advertise. So you guys should be more discreet about your anxiety ti make quick money.

bootlegaz: If not for free oil blocs handed over to these lots by former Northern Military presidents, they won't be worth close to 1million dollars. Doyin, Coscharis, Ibeto, Eleganza are the few legitimate rich folks on that list. Remove Niger Delta oil bloc and the rest is history. How many of them do you see their products on the street? There is a new presidential house help emerging, giver her five more years and she will be on that list, her name is Bola Shagaya(not sure of the first name). Otedola, Orji and the lady yorubas are calling the richest black woman on earth wouldn't survive in a corrupt free society.

Always crying foul when you guys are confronted with your superiors, oil business as far any one knows is a legitimate biz in Nigeria and for those that can't compete, it is unfortunate, those involved in illegal oil deal are being dealt with every day by the police or EFCC. The oil magnates invested time and money in the oil biz and now they are reaping the benefit, be informed that your lil quip here cannot discredit nor change that. So every body must have something to sell in the market abi to be credible as per his or his riches

lekkie073: Yoruba 9
Ibo 8
Hausa 3
Niger delta 1

Yoruba noni

Exactly they thought it is by mouth. Drawing up a sham list to prop up their passively rich, noveau riches. Yorubas are global and they are always civil about it. Extremely rich intellectually and in quid.Not even the riches in that part of the rising sun can hold up a candle to Mrs. Alakija whooping 6.4 billion dolls.