₦airaland Forum

Niyinficient:
U can't compare Fatai Rolling Dollar's era to Wizkid...there is more money in d industry now compared to den..moreover FRD made some errors in his career and do u now compare a boss to a servant? (with due respect to rekaddo) Wizkid is his own boss

Ar u saying Rekaado is now richer dan Wizkid? Dont forget Wizkid is d highest paid pespsi ambassador in the whole of West Africa, I bet if don Jazzy has d kind of endorsement Wizkid has! I stand to b corrected.

Fatai contemporaries includes Sunny Ade.... And he made more mistakes than Fatai but achieved success

Niyinficient:
U can't compare Fatai Rolling Dollar's era to Wizkid...there is more money in d industry now compared to den..moreover FRD made some errors in his career and do u now compare a boss to a servant? (with due respect to rekaddo) Wizkid is his own boss

Ar u saying Rekaado is now richer dan Wizkid? Dont forget Wizkid is d highest paid pespsi ambassador in the whole of West Africa, I bet if don Jazzy has d kind of endorsement Wizkid has! I stand to b corrected.

Nope. Reeked can't be richer but it is not always about how much you earn but what goes into investment and don't jazzy can't allow this guy to go to waste flaunting chains and cars on Instagram, that is what I mean.

I'm yet to see any post where he pose beside a car or showed off a watch and those boys are following in his footsteps.... No everlasting champion only current champs..... Make hay while the sun shines

Funshorrh:
heey...betcha set ur fact straight,i bet your article up there is based on ur assumption.
Is it not now that's linda is just coming up and prolly the money she got in the dasukigate ish.. She's a blogger and so bleeping wat,. How much does she make per month bfore she recieved the grace of dasukigate. Hope u knw all the endorsement wizkid has, plus the recent glo signing?. the highest paid pepsi ambassador in africa. Google is ur friend anyway for more info

So Linda was invited by the efcc, never read this anywhere, thanks for the info? When is her date with the court or she made a refundrefund?

sunshine1974:
Dammy crane is a gentle guy jare......abeg make him go burst bottle for Olamide head weds him go live to see the nxt minute.

The guy wasn't allowed to lay his hand on wizard before club owner reconciled them... Wizard can't do he'll in a cage with that dude and survivesurvive.

Niyinficient:
Bros, u fall my hand sha....so usef blive saygrade A artiste like Wizkid no get house fo. him home City! Kai!

Even Rekaado wey start music less dan 2yrs ago don build him own house....

Wizkid na small pikin wey quick jam money.....free d guy and aunty mi Linda....

Your reason doesn't add up otherwise Rollingstone wouldn't have waited for Fashola to hand him a key to one of the government estate,afyer many years in the limelight.

As for Reekado, he has a mentor who is not into hype and needless publicity... Don jazzy

tpiah01:
Linda is over 30 and single. The director is over 30 and single I assume.

If they have no religious beliefs that prevent them from doing so, why is it news that they slept with each other? Was a crime involved?

Director of what, his starboy label, finance or video?

Virus777:
Illiterate Wizkid. Venting his anger on the wrong person. Ranting as if Linda is the reason for his fake life. With all your gra gra you can't even afford a house in Lagos. And you have the guts to throw tantrums at Linda who's hundred times richer and the owner of a mansion in Banana Island. Yes, she's a mere blogger but she can afford to buy you hundred times over.

Kid, take a chill pill. While you're at it find a new flat to rent.

Linda should just make this boy LIB ambassador make him settle with him landlord

fistonati:
What is this government up to, thinking its an expert when its obvious its a learner but failed to admit so. Nigerians failed to choose transformation but opted for chain.

The government was very foolish to have danced to the tune of propaganda by claiming there was no need for subsidy.

Independent importers then left importation to the government while paying NNPC in naira... It is the cause of the current scarcity.... As they could not continue the with the facade, for long.

jaxxy:
Don't think he can't afford it bt rather he has a better option or probably fedup cos most landlords increase there rents anyhow cos they know u a celeb. Don jazzy faces such till he paid off his mortgage.

Taa... He lived in Nicon immediately after his Mohit issue.... He has since moved to Lekki, his own property same as Dr. Sid who got his on mortgage

Damjoy:
I knew Linda was a liar, but I never knew her gene was full of lies

See how you have waved your ignorance like a flag.... Agents are not just those ones you meet when looking for face me i face you or flats.... Agents Acts in all capacity on behalf of the landlord..... I lived in an apartment I never met the landlord who IA a colonel, in the Nigerian army

Integrityfarms:
Na Agent get house abi na Landlord?

Fake story

Go and read up agency, in law.... An agent has the power r of attorney... He can do whatever the landlord is supposed to do

fulanimafia:
How would anyone believe that they only donated 8 bags of rice because of a picture showing samples of the donation, when the report accompanying the photo clearly stated they donated 200 bags?

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/aisha-buhari-donates-relief-materials-agatu-crisis-victims/

PDP is just a desperate, shameless, propagandist party. Fortunately for them their legion of iPad 'yoots' hate to read and are as blank as an empty bottle.

Why is the 'sample' of cowbell more than the one in the warehouse?

mapet:
How come you try to Lord Benin opinion as standard. If the Benin's decide to cage their Oba in the palace, it is their own cup of tea. Our Obas have been free to move, associate and relate even with other Kings.

He or she is lying and he knows it... Age slowed down the Oba not tradition. How would it look like if a story comes out that he died while visiting so and so?
Use Google to check the itinerary of the Oba of benin in say 1986

maureenihasee:
Arole Oodua, Ooni Adeyeye Babatunde Ogunwusi (Ojaja II) arrived at the Nnamdi Azikwe Airport Abuja yesterday and he was ferried into town like the
Royalty that he is....Today Tuesday March 29thhe will attend the birthday colloquium of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu at the International Conference Center

http://www.maureenihasee.com/2016/03/photos-ooni-of-ife-arrives-abuja-in.html

Is it the government, himself or the people he presides over that is responsible for the cost of his lifestyle?

prettythicksme:
Hhehehehehe just kidding tho,na Joseph Ayo Babalola university.Private uni tho

How on earth would students of a private University be termed 'broke'?

lolaxavier:
Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has asked Governor Nyesom Wike to be holistic in his comments about developmental projects in Rivers State.

Amaechi who was reacting to Wike’s statement on the Rivers monorail project, where he (Governor Wike) said he will not touch the project based on the advise of the people of Rivers State, explained that Governor Wike does not understand that the monorail project belonged to the Rivers people and not him, Amaechi.

Amaechi said same Rivers people had consistently praised the project and had seen it as a way to jump-start the local economy and place the state at the forefront of transport infrastructural development in Africa.

He also said most of the projects being referred to as abandoned projects by Governor Wike were ninety-percent completed.

Amaechi, however, cautioned Governor Nyesom Wike to stop lying to the people of Rivers State.

He said, “Governor Wike said that he will not touch Amaechi’s monorail and that the entire state has told him not to continue with the project. Can someone please tell Wike that the monorail belongs to Rivers State and it’s not Amaechi’s private monorail”, Amaechi stated.

“Governor Wike, which Rivers people told you not to touch the monorail project? Is it the same Rivers people that have consistently praised the project and see it as a catalyst to jump-start the local economy and place the state at the forefront of transport infrastructural development in Africa? Or is Wike aggregating the jaundiced views of the coterie of court-jesters that hang around him daily, as the opinion of the entire people of the State?

“It is sad, very sad that Wike has elected to play politics with this laudable project that was almost completed before Amaechi left office”, he added.

Amaechi, who preceded Wike as governor of the state then described Wike as a “shameless liar” for either underplaying projects embarked upon by his administration or cornering them as his achievement.

“Governor Wike also described several ongoing projects in the State when Amaechi left office as ‘abandoned projects’, which he claimed to have completed or about to complete.

“He specifically mentioned the Ogoni-Andoni-Opobo Unity road that connects the Island of Opobo to Andoni and the rest of the State. What a shameless lie! This project was ongoing and was almost completed as at May 29, 2015. May we also remind Wike that the Eagle Island- Diobu road that he once claimed to have been abandoned was 90 percent completed with just the final course of coal tar remaining as at when he succeeded Amaechi.

“It’s repudiating that Wike would even attempt to rubbish and destroy the laudable projects and achievements Amaechi made in the health and educational sectors as governor.

“Shamefully, what has happened in the past months since Wike became governor is that Wike has neglected the model schools and health facilities built by Amaechi and have allowed them to rot away, taken over by weeds and grasses, in tandem with his policy of not wanting to touch Amaechi’s projects or build on Amaechi’s enduring legacies.

“Governor Wike, these projects belong to Rivers State and its people, not Amaechi,” he reiterated.

http://dailypost.ng/2016/03/29/monorail-wike-is-a-shameless-liar-amaechi/

Monorail to Jumpstart the economy? Na wa

walegee:
You unilorite?

No.

londoner:
Can someone explain how the 300,000 Meters will improve the supply of electricity?
Thanks.

Everything now boost power supply including payment for darkness.

olillywales:
http://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2016/03/i-wont-touch-amaechis-rivers-monorail-wike/

There's no monorail in Calabar, just Tinapa for fun seekers and holiday makers

Sunnycliff:
Our preachers of today cannot give such messages the apostles gave that led to their death by gruesome means. They rather preach what will cheer the people and not what will prick their hearts. What a great shame!

God make me a true soldier, I will die at my post!

#itpaystoserveJesus

You can fil the vacuum.....preach that which they don't preach after all the boo of revelation makes it clear that we have two ministry: priest 2:king


He died so we can reign as priest....preacher and as king....power ,authority, influence, here on the earth unto our God.

Richy4:
hahahaha No.... but yes it was a state university... and I heard they moved to their permanent site some years back... That a particular governor built a university in his home town for them

Please rest the guess .....ESUT known then as A-Shoot

Get education.....his monorail can’t come under the federal government expense when he had the time to finish it,as governor.

[quote author=rottennaija post=44173926]Guy, go get a life. Amaechi isn't going anywhere. He will finish the monorail and the airport GEJ abandoned. This antics isn't working [/quo

tiwiex:
400 trillion naira? Our budget is about 6trillion naira. and previously, it averaged 4trillion naira. That figure is completely impossible. They are lying. Maybe na typo and they meant 400 billion. make una check am na. How much do we even make from crude in a year. This na typo my people or we don really enter one chance from these people.

It is many times more than our total reserve....m I can't understand where such money was made and hiwbit was possible for the country to function with 2tr dollars stolen.

Babacele:
about is quite different from being specific. all the money returned has route ,date, amount n names attached to them. you think PMB is stewpid?

No. He is not. He should just use the same channels they normally activate to leak details of investigations or planned investigation.

Somebody leaked the employment story at CBN

New grid are been built.....the one in Calabar was built during Jonathan regime and it did not lead to incessant power cut because it is entirely new ....it is not removing old wires,the mast were constructed on site and after all connection they went to do the transfer of the power. You can still comeand see both lines stand side by side..

Quakertellicus1:
Seems like everyone is in love with Mr Cane today!

OK....here is what PMB should have done on July 1 2015...


2.Started fixing the transmission system which is so out of date,one private investor wondered how it had been working all these years back in 2014. Cost of doing that....hundreds of billions of naira per annum. Length of time....at least five years. (And there would even be worse power cuts because most of the grid would have to be taken offline while replacements go on.).

3.New hydroelectric plants. Time for that...four years.

4.Metering the whole of Nigeria...that is doable in one year.

Let's be honest....even if APC had hit the ground running...it would have taken a good ten years before you people would have seen light.


(This is not a defence of APC...just telling it as it is. If GEJ had won...it would have been the same old story).

passionate88:
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, my brother man you try. See as Nigeria don scatter since you leave, people don dey kidnap s whole major of Nigerian army, states elections inconclusive, now the ministers are to be blamed and the person that took 6 good months to appoint them is exempted, boko haram now behead female soldiers, our presidiot will soon remix the hit song walk walk walk walk walk with rihanna, their children are employed by the CBN while we are advised to be entrepreneurs, Mr.Jonathan, you try no be small. The president even confess that he's a. FAILURE.

A colnel was kidnapped not major and he is more than a major and lieutenant colnel.... a state governor during the military regime

sinkhole:
If it is AEDC in Lafia Nasarawa State, I could have joined the soldiers.
But AEDC Lafia performed miracle around Easter o, from around 12noon on Saturday till about 6:30PM on Sunday electricity was just on cintinuosly but I could not meaningfully used it because I was always thinking that they will soon switch it off

You made me laugh out loud.....you could not use it because you don't trust it to last

Babacele:
hate-filled illiterates . How do u expose an exhibit meant for evidence in a law court in the public? isn't it prejudicial? after the trials ehnen we can demand full disclosure. One of the damages PDP have done to the nation especially its own kids satanoids- is deliberate miseducation with half baked curriculum that is causing the mental constipation you read here. Now PMB ' s straight procedural gait they now misinterpret wrongly as an illegal limp. Mortally fractured Satanoids I pity una.

Can't they take the 'inside sources 'route? They can leak any other information but not this one .

Btw, over 400 trillion has been mentioned by the government law officer.... has that prejudiced cases involved

simtosul:
www.sunnewsonline.com/recovered-loot-why-we-wont-disclose-amount-buhari/

2 trillion dollars!!!

Bekwarra:
I served this nation in Cross River state for the mandatory one-year NYSC programme. I passed out on July 2nd 2015 (CR/14B). I served in Bekwarra Local Government Area; two schools located in Akpakpa and later Afrike 1. Being someone that loves travelling and seeing places, I moved around the state and was able to visit 15 of the state's 18 LGAs so I can say I know some things about the state. These are 10 of my observations in the state of The People's Paradise.

1. The people are warm and friendly
Cross Riverians are a warm and friendly people. They are accommodating and drawn to visitors. They are always ready to help you if they see that you are a new face there. This was evident from when we got to the NYSC camp at Obubra. They are always very ready to help and they feel easily drawn to visitors. Someone like me who's always slow and cautious when making friend was able to make a handful of friends in a short period of time. I've been to a few places in Nigeria but the people of Cross River are some of the most friendly.

2. They Are Great Cooks

I once told a friend over phone while still in Cross River that "bro if your life depends on food and you want to marry solely for food, please get a Cross River chick". That Cross River women are good cooks is an understatement. Their girls and women are experts in cooking. Cooking for them comes with ease. They have these tasty and delicious soups gosh they are fantastic. Back in Lagos we are all used to Calabar kitchens and we respect their soups but I'm telling you there is more to their delicacies than Calabar soups. Back in Bekwarra I enjoyed tasty soups like Oturukpa, Akum, groundnut soup and Beniseed soup. It was also in Ogoja that I ate plantain porridge; unripe plantain cooked with palm oil, bitter leaf, crayfish and dry fish. What a delicacy. Whenever you visit Cross River, make sure you eat their local meals. I'll recommend beniseed with akpu. Their akpu is strong and hard jeez; more like something you can use to deworm by stoning the worms inside you to death. I nicknamed one girl fufu pounder due to her dexterity in handling the pestle. Bekwarra people cant do without eating akpu in a day.

3. It's A Largely Rural State

The state is a largely rural state in all ramifications. Apart from Calabar and a few other towns like Ogoja, Ikom and to a lesser extent Akampka and Obudu, Cross River state is largely rural. There's not much on ground in terms of infrastructure, development and economic activities. The government should do more in terms of infrastructure. They should stop concentrating on Calabar and allow development to spread especially to the northern part of the state. For example I don't have verifiable data but I can say that from my observations, Ikeja LG has more banks than the whole state. Successive governments seem to be concentrating development in Calabar which is an impressive and beautiful city already. No hustling in the state, if you are not a farmer then you are a civil servant. There are few economic activities. Even in Calabar, the peeps move to neighbouring states and towns especially PH to hustle. You don't hustle in Calabar, you spend. The city is expensive yet few economic activities happening there afford the people little opportunity to hustle unlike other big cities in Nigeria. For example Calabar is still sleeping by 6am, few people and cars on the road by that time unlike Lagos which is awake and on its feet already by 4am. I once told one of the teachers in my school that you can be caught in traffic in Lagos by 5am and he turned me to a liar. To him it's strange.

4. There's More To The State Than Calabar

So many people see Cross River and Calabar as the same. I used to feel the same until I went there. The state is one of the most diverse in Nigeria with over 33 languages being spoken there. Most people back in Lagos that called me during my service year or chatted with me usually told me "guy I hear say u dey serve for Calabar". I'll only shake my head and smile thinking that "these people don't know I'll spend between 5-6hrs going to Calabar from here". There are other people with culture and languages different from that of the Efik people. There are Bekwarra, Afrike, Ogoja, Yala, Boki, Obubra, Obudu people to mention a few. For example Bekwarra and Afrike people are in the same local government but they have similar but different languages..

5. Agriculture Is A Way of Life
Many outsiders who have never been to the state before see it as a riverine state whose major source of life is fishing. Many people see Cross River as this state of fishermen who love carnivals and festivals. Except the coastal parts of Cross River South and Central, other parts of the state are largely agrarian. They are mostly farmers. They take agriculture seriously and they never joke with it both males and females. Cross Riverian kids are introduced to agriculture at a very early stage. They go to the farm with their parents. If their men are not on the farm making heaps or clearing the bush, they'll be on the palm tree tapping or in the bush hunting. Their women are not left out; they are either planting cassava, peeling cassava and making garri, making palm oil (well refined) or back home preparing akpu and soup. These industrious people love agriculture a lot and this is responsible for cheap food. Food is so cheap and with a little amount, you can eat to your satisfaction with the exception of Calabar obviously. They have food and farm products in abundance and at cheap prices. One of the things I cherish most about them is that they are hard workers. I respect them a lot.
The government still needs to help them a lot in the area of improved seeds, fertilizers, mechanized farming (almost non-existent) and to stem the scourge of Fulani herdsmen (I witnessed a lot of confrontations between the villagers and the nomads)

6. Backward Educationally
This is a general problem in Nigeria. Education in this country is a joke but some states are still better than others. I can't vouch for any northern state but in the context of southern states, education in Cross River still has some catching up to do. I can't say for South East and South South states but placing Cross River state beside South Western states, there is a very big gulf. Education is not really taken serious us here and the government also is not really helping matters in this regard. Their children and parents don't take education serious and the few who do are not encouraged by the government. Majority of schools in the rural parts depend on corp members for staff strength. The quality of education is low and examination malpractice is rampant and encouraged. I can recollect my VP once telling the students to learn how to write fast when note is being dictated because during their external exam nobody will slow down for them when answers are being dictated. The bitter truth is, the state still have a long way to go in terms of education.

7. Calabar Girls Are Not The Real Deal
Whenever you mention Cross River, Calabar comes to mind and merely hearing Calabar, two things come to mind; their soups and girls. Many people do have the erroneous belief that Cali girls are so beautiful, exotic and refined more than any other in the state. Although, Cali girls are more popular and more exposed but when it comes to beauty, I'll unequivocally give it to Ogoja girls especially those of Igoli and Ishibori. They are beautiful in the pure and real sense of it. They are ravishing, homely and naturally beautiful. Worthy of note are also some Bekwarra girls (not many), Ikom, Boki, Obudu and Obubra girls.

8. They Love Burial Ceremonies
This is one of the highlights of many villages. Burial is only second to Christmas. Burial ceremonies are big occasions. Naming and wedding ceremonies are more of rarity but burial ceremonies are the big deal. The whole place is always agog with preparations and they spend a lot on it. They don't like burying their dead outside their villages so they don't mind bringing them in from other parts of the country where they died. Their burials last for weeks or more at times. Although I didn't witness any naming ceremony and only witnessed a single wedding ceremony, I witness lots of burial ceremonies which not only for old people. A 30-year old man's burial will see food being cooked and guests been fed.

9. They Have The Best Palm Wine
One of the things that made me enjoy my stay in Cross River is palm wine. Cross River especially the northern part is a land of palm wine. If you've been there before, you can't but attest to the fact that they have superb palm wine. I'll say it's the best in Nigeria. I had many drunken days there. My students spoilt me with it, my VP being a tapper too was also culpable. They have two varieties; the up one and the down one. The up one is fresher, richer and definitely costlier. It is the one that's tapped from the top of the palm tree. The down one is cheaper but greatly more intoxicating. You get drunk easily while drinking it. It's gotten from palm trees that have already been cut down. You can get the best palm wine in places like Afrike (Bekwarra), Mbube (Ogoja), Okpoma (Yala) and Obudu. They have it in abundance and it is cheap.

10. They love to enjoy themselves. No matter how poor this people are, they still find time to enjoy themselves. They love dancing to a fault and not only that, they are expert dancers. Gosh these people can dance. The way they wiggle their bodies is something else even the small ones among them. They love their ceremonies and most especially new yam festival. The Calabar Carnival is a shining crown on all their festivals. There are lots of other festivals and events to witness in Cross River. Sundays are always bubbling even the most rural villages. People go out to drink, see friends, hold meetings and unwind. In short they love to unwind and enjoy themselves. Their Christianity does not stop them from drinking and making merry.

Other notable observations are that they are generally Christian mostly Catholics and Assemblies of God members, it is a very big state, only Oyo state is bigger in southern Nigeria, there are some parts where you'll have a foot in Nigeria and the other in Cameroun (there are some parts in Lagos state where you won't know whether you are in Lagos or Ogun state, the same is applicable in Cross River), life is serene and generally peaceful, no hold ups, no shouting and cursing and the hustle and bustle of city life, if you've never seen a witch in real life go to some parts of Bekwarra like Ebegang and Anyikang, nature is at its best here with nice scenery.
These are my observations of about a year that I spent in the state. My stay their was enjoyable and fulfilling, a few disappointments and a lot of memorable moments. I'll love to visit the state again. I may be wrong in some of my observations but those are the things I observed as a CrossKopa who served in Bekwarra and was able to visit 15 out of 18LGs. Your views are welcome from both indigenes and non-indigenes.

Calabar is home to over twenty tank farms .....Northwest, Dozzy,Ibafon,fynefield,Linc,Hyde,Oryze,Tempo gate etc