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Where is TUC when NNPCL is selling a local produce (crude oil) to the refineries in dollars? TUC and double standard!

*FOR SALE* ;

Newly built, duplex at main Jericho
Price N120m

peter0071:
Biko sleep over it. i have few questions for you before you make that decision:
1. whats her genotype
2. whats her blood group.
3. what.s her character
4. what type of lady is she?
5. lastly, confirm that she is not pregnant and wants to do this marriage project to pull you into commitment

why is your girl not ready for marriage? are you ready for marriage?

i love her bold steps though. if your girl wont be ready even 2023 and you are ready, and you love this other girl, get to knowing her and do the needful

Love this!

anised a family gathering to celebrate her 60th birthday
ByYusuf Akinpelu April 9, 2021 1 min read
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The Prime Minister of Norway, Erna Solberg, has been fined 20,000 krona (£1,713), for violating her own government’s COVID-19 social distancing rules, the police said Friday.

The Prime Minister had in February organised a family gathering to celebrate her 60th birthday with 13 family members at a mountain resort despite a ban on gathering of more than 10 people.

The two-term prime minister later apologised last month.

Although her action would not normally have attracted a fine, police chief Ole Saeverud told a local news conference that as the prime minister she should be held to a high standard.

“Though the law is the same for all, all are not equal in front of the law,” Mr Saeverud said.

“It is therefore correct to issue a fine in order to uphold the general public’s trust in the rules on social restrictions,” he added.

“Solberg is the country’s leader and she has been at the forefront of the restrictions imposed to limit the spread of the virus,” the police boss noted.

It is yet to be seen if the fine would have an impact on Ms Solberg’s Conservative Party’s reelection bid come September, but it is believed that it may dent her popularity.

The Scandinavian country has maintained some of Europe’s lowest COVID-19 infection and death rates, partly due to its strict movement restriction when the virus broke out.


https://www.premiumtimesng.com/foreign/world-foreign/454107-norway-prime-minister-fined-by-police-for-breaching-coronavirus-rules.html

A banker went to a Yoruba restaurant in Ibadan to eat.

Banker: What do you have?

Waiter: Amala, Ewedu, Gbegiri, Ofada Rice, White Rice, Efo Riro, Akara, Iyan, Ewa Agayin, Moi-Moi, Eba, egusi , Obe Ata...

Banker: Okay... bring a plate of Ewedu and Gbegiri with Amala, put 2 ogufe, 1 shaki, 2 ponmo, 2 abodi, 1 roundabout and pack 2 Ofada Rice with beef and Obe Ata takeaway....

Waiter.... How do you want the ewedu? Do you want it on top or in another plate.

Banker... Put it on top and spread the Amala well well.

Waiter..... What about the takeaway?

Banker....... Same thing, pack it together in one plate.

Waiter..... Will you like pure water or bottle water?

Banker ..... Bottle water.

Water....... Cold one or room temperature.

Banker...... Chilled bottle of water.

Waiter: Oga Sorry Sa, awa food don finish.

Banker: (angrily) Why then did you tell me that long menu? And all the series of questions you've been asking? You've been wasting my time.

Waiter: (smiling) Oga Sa, Shebi when I come to your bank ATM; after asking me for English or Yoruba, withdraw or check balance, PIN, savings or current, amount, print receipt, no receipt, your ATM go come tell me say, *Temporarily Unable To Dispense Cash*

Shebi now you know how e take dey pain..... ������

Good day all and please do enjoy the rest of ur day! �

*Oracle of Words.

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A picture of a newborn baby boy holding his mum's patently failed coil has gone viral.

The 34-year-old mum - who already has two other kids - had the intrauterine device (IUD) inserted two years ago. However, the coil did not do its job and she became pregnant, giving birth at Hai Phong International Hospital, in Hai Phong, Vietnam.

During labour, the IUD came out along with the baby, who subsequently gripped it in his hand.

https://www.ladbible.com/community/viral-picture-of-newborn-baby-holding-mums-failed-coil-goes-viral-20200706?source=facebook

@Wema Bank direct palliative to depositors.

Hope other banks will emulate!

Senators elected on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, clashed over calls for President Muhammadu Buhari’s resignation.

Mr Enyinnaya Abaribe’s call for the resignation of Mr Buhari over what he termed inability to fix security problems in the country, led to the sparring match.


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WHY DOES BANNING WORK ELSEWHERE AND NOT IN NIGERIA?

First of all, you don't always need to ban to be competitive in the modern market. Nigeria banned fruit juice imports in 2002 and some analysts have pointed to the growth of the domestic juice production as proof that banning works. However, there are two ways to judge this policy:

1. How competitive will the Nigerian fruit juice market be if we lift the ban today, 17 years later?

2. How strong is our exports?

On question 1, the Nigerian market will not be competitive. Remove the ban today and Nigerians will be attracted to the lesser prices of the foreign fruit juice products.

On question 2, we don't have a strong export market. In fact, Ghana which did not ban imports makes five times more than we do in exports.

In other words, the ban has not helped the country improve its domestic production, especially when you realize that while we have banned imported packaged fruit juice, we still import great amounts of juice concentrates. Companies import juice concentrates, mix it with water, bottle them up and transport them to the various markets in the country. We have mastered the art of deceiving ourselves.

Import bans don't work in Nigeria because the fundamental reasons why imports are necessary in the first place are still there. The headache of clearing goods at the port is so bad that the country loses $19 billion (5% of GDP) annually from the delays, traffic jams and illegal charges. It takes less time to go from Lagos to London (7000km) than to move from Apapa to Ojota (27km). As you know, the challenges of inadequate power and transportation infrastructure are still there. The security hurdles are still high. These all add up to the reasons imports are attractive.

Import ban is not a magic wand or formula. Until what makes import ban work in other countries are in place, businessmen like Dangote who tout import bans as shortcuts to sufficiency in anything are only planning for your pockets.

BUT THE CEMENT BAN CREATED JOBS...

But Dangote employs people, you say…

Yes, he does. According to the Company's 2018 Annual Report (15, Page 38), Dangote Cement has 17,447 direct employees. But I have always made the analogy of fuel scarcity to explain the irrationality of this argument. Hundreds of jobs across the country are created during periods of fuel scarcity. Several young men who would otherwise be sitting under the bridge are gainfully employed, moving jerrycans and easing the pains of car owners. So do you think it makes sense to protest for the government to make available regular fuel scarcity episodes?

Of course not. It's the same reason it makes no sense to praise the tens of thousands of jobs created by Dangote Cement cornering the market and making Nigerians pay through their nose when millions of jobs are waiting to be created by allowing geneuine competition in the cement industry and its attendant effect on the construction industry. Think of the businesses and employment waiting to be created if we are to bridge the 22 million housing deficit in Nigeria.

Our situation is dire. More than ever, we need entrepreneurs whose creative insights would unleash the potential in our economy. People like Dangote stand in the way of that.

A few days ago, I finished reading Duncan Clark's: "Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built" and just like Ratan Tata, Hugo Boss, Paul Getty and my favorite entrepreneur, John D. Rockefeller, the only way these ones got rich was by making otherwise expensive commodities cheap for the masses. This is the blueprint of capitalism.

If you ban wheat, milk or vegetable oil today, as being advised by Dangote, the price will simply get beyond the reach of the masses, just like it's happened to rice and cement.

THE COST OF EXPENSIVE CEMENT

This importation of cement comes at a price: Housing.

According to Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN), Nigeria's present housing deficit in 2019 stands at 22 million. This year, United Nations called Nigeria's housing crisis the worst in world.

If cement is a critical component in building, and the Nigerian market is dominated by Dangote Cement, which has about 70 percent of the market, then it is safe to say that Dangote contributes immensely to the housing crisis in Nigeria.

If 80% of Dangote Group's revenue comes from Dangote Cement and Dangote owns 85% of Dangote Cement, then it shows that Aliko is to be fingered in the country's housing challenges.

HOW WE DON'T PRACTISE CAPITALISM

If there's anything capitalism is good for, it is reduction in prices of commodities and services. The richest capitalists in history got their wealth from mass production of goods for the masses. Henry Ford made a car so inexpensive that 3 months of wages became enough for Americans to get a brand new car. You must have seen the image of IBM 5MB hard drive costing $35,000 annually in 1956. Thanks to capitalism and the crashing of prices, you would consider it useless if gifted in this age of cheap smartphones. Everyone involved in making that 5MB Hard drive obsolete became stupendously rich. Capitalism rewards value addition.

It is no longer capitalism when you manipulate a system or collude with the state so you can fleece people off without adding value. That's not capitalism. We have a name for it: Cronyism.

THE CEMENT SAGA...

For some people, the production of cement within the shores of Nigeria is a thing of pride. They point out to a Nigerian producing for Nigerians as the highest form of patriotism. But policies should not be judged by the 'feel good' factor, rather they should be measured by their impact on the people.

It would be recalled that the Nigerian Government in its attempt to boost local production placed a ban on importation of cement in 2001. President Olusegun Obasanjo seeing that the objectives were not being met lifted the ban in 2007, only for the ban to be placed back again.

Give or take, we have had 18 years to evaluate the impact of the ban. The overwhelming consensus is that Nigerians pay among the highest prices for cement in the world. A quick search on Konga shows a 50kg bag of cement costs $7, while a 2016 World Bank report (Page 61) on competition in Africa reveals that the average global cement price is around $3.4. Almost two decades after, Nigerians pay double the global prices for the price of cement.

I hear you retort that it's the tough business environment that has made things, cement inclusive, so expensive. And that would be true for cement if the profit margin is not exorbitant. In 2017, a Bloomberg Intelligence report showed that the average global profit margin for cement companies was 17%. For Dangote Group, the profit margin was 42%. That's more than twice. I just checked the result for 2018 and the profit margin has shot up to 64%.

If conditions are difficult, then the profit margin should shrink, not explode. It goes without saying that it's Nigerians who are paying through their nose when they could easily get the product for much lesser.

This World Bank report, on page 64, shows that Dangote has been granted exclusivity to materials, including limestone used to produce cement.

Nigerians don't understand that when they mention cement production in the country as a pointer to why banning things is good, they are indirectly encouraging a system of exploitation.

Every single time a Nigerian business man tells you Nigeria should ban importation of something without calling out the problems which necessitates importation of that product in the first place, know that they are thinking of enriching themselves at your expense.

In 1838, Carl Knorr recognized a problem with cooking in Germany. People wanted their soups to have certain flavours and would spend hours drying, grinding, boiling vegetables and other spices to add to their meals. So he created the Knorr brand. You recognize the name because you have used a Knorr seasoning cube before. Today, Knorr products are sold in nearly 90 countries around the globe.

To get to this level of patronage, the Knorr brand had to innovate and make the gains of simply using a seasoning cube more than the gains of making the seasonings by individuals. At this period, people had more time than money, so to make the purchase of these products attractive, Carl had to invest in creative methods to make the products as cheap as possible. Obviously, the innovation methods worked. In Nigeria today, you can get a cube of Knorr seasoning for as low as N20.

Why is this story important? Because people no longer understand what is meant when we say that while an imperfect system, the market system remains our most effective weapon in fighting poverty.

This correction is important in light of Dangote Group's tacit endorsement of the government's ban on rice importation. Calling attention to itself, Dangote says its farmlands in the country will enable Nigeria export rice.

Yet this is not the first time Dangote is supporting the ban of imported products. In the past he had asked for the ban of Tomato. But the peak for me was in the exclusive interview with Financial Times in July 2018.

He said: "Nigeria still imports vegetable oil, which makes no sense. Nigeria still imports 4.9m tonnes of wheat, which does not make sense. Nigeria still imports 97 or 98 per cent of the milk that we consume. The government needs to bring out a draconian policy to stop people importing milk, just like they did with cement."

Did your heart skip at the mention of cement? Well, mine did.

Of course it makes no sense to import what we can produce. So the question is, what is stopping us from producing instead of importing. Until those constraints are identified and dealt with, banning would mean making life more difficult for Nigeria.

And this has happened before.

Source:

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No one in Nigeria's history is this corrupt!

Chai!

It's more than Nigeria's foreign reserve!!

Thirteen and a half tonnes of gold worth up to £520million is found in a corrupt Chinese official's home and £30BILLION in suspected bribe money in his bank account
By Billie Thomson For Mailonline

- Thousands of golden bars and bricks were discovered in a room during a raid

- Inspectors also discovered £30 billion in suspected bribes on his account

- The 58-year-old official in Haikou has been sacked and is under investigation

- He would have been richer than China's richest man if charges turn out to be true

A powerful Communist official in China is suspected to have received 13.5 tonnes of gold and £30 billion cash in bribes.

Thousands of golden bars and bricks were discovered at the leader's home during a raid by corruption inspectors earlier this month.

Their value could be worth up to £520 million, according to international trading prices.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7528217/amp/13-5-tonnes-gold-worth-520-million-corrupt-Chinese-officials-home.html

Am sure she will be the first person to cry foul if the man changes.

Didn't she see all these qualities in the man before marriage?

Women, as insatiable as the grave.

Wife applies for divorce in UAE because her husband doesn't argue with her, shows 'extreme affection' and 'even helped clean the house without me asking'

- Wife complains her husband is too kind and never yells during one-year marriage

- Woman filed for divorce at a Sharia court in Fujairah, UAE, over his 'extreme love'

- She claimed she suffered 'hell' due to 'cruel-free treatment' and begged for a row

- Husband helped with the housework and showered her with gifts, a court heard

- Man went on tough diet and exercise regime when she moaned about his weight

A woman in the UAE is seeking a divorce because her husband's 'extreme love' sees him help with the housework and shower her with gifts.

She told a Sharia court in Fujairah that her spouse never argued or yelled at her and was always kind.

But despite his affection, the woman claimed her life was 'hell' due to his 'cruel-free treatment', according to the English language UAE newspaper, Khaleej Times.

She reportedly complained 'his love and compassion are so over the top' and she filed for a split.

The woman told the court: 'I am choked by his extreme love and affection. He even assisted me in cleaning the house without me asking him.'

According to reports, the woman said the couple never had an argument and the husband did not shout at her during their year-long marriage.

When she complained about his weight, the man even went on a strict regime of dieting and exercise which left him with a broken leg.

But this still did not please the angry wife who still complained of her spouse's many gifts and compliments, according to local media.

She added: 'I am eagerly longing for a single day of dispute, but this seems impossible with my romantic husband who always forgave me and showered me with daily gifts.

'I need a real discussion, even an argument, not this hassle-free life full of obedience.'

The husband begged the court to deny the divorce request.

He told the court: 'It's not fair to judge a marriage from the first year, and everybody learns from their mistakes. I am and always wish to be a perfect and kind husband.'

The court ordered an adjournment of the case to give the couple a chance to settle the dispute themselves.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7384159/amp/UAE-woman-files-divorce-husband-showers-gifts-helps-housework.html

Our present national predicament reminds me of the last days of Socrates, the Greek wise man. After an ignorant mob condemned him to death, for urging the people to be rational in their beliefs and in their approach to life, his triumphant detractors gloatingly asked him to plead for his life, so that they might have mercy on him. Socrates burst out laughing, instead. This was certainly not what they expected from a man staring death in the face. He did not do any of the usual things a condemned person in Athens of those days would do; like weeping, inviting relatives to weep on his behalf, or pleading outstanding family duties. No, he simply informed his surprised audience that they were spectacularly ignorant, in cheerfully assuming that the living were better off than the dead. He laughed at their presumption, pointing out that none of them really knew for sure whether they were, in fact, even doing him a favour by executing him. Of course the courtroom was quiet for a while, before renewed howling for his head resumed. But the man had made his point about the human tendency to make claims we cannot substantiate, based only on our thoughts and feelings of the moment.

Jonathan’s lousy handling of his promise to northern politicians, the international projection of him as ‘tolerating’ corruption, and his weak control of the state fuelled the quasi-consensus about the need to remove the Bayelsa-born president. But there was a misstep. Our would-be saviours moved rather hastily from the assertion (correct in my view) that Jonathan performed very badly as president, to the claim that anyone else, or even anything else for that matter, would make a better president and leader. While they correctly noted that the former president offered well-made spades to those who dug his political grave, they did not notice that the grave diggers were also digging too close to where they were standing. That they have all now caved in with the surrounding soil and pile of red earth they dug out of the ground is, therefore, not entirely surprising. They forgot that whoever does not look for the toots of a problem, but seeks to find progress and improvement in constant change “stands on the precarious ground of an adventurer.”

The Nigerian state is where it is today because many “prominent” Nigerians have consistently shown a cheerful disregard for the fallibility of human opinion and the finitude of their own knowledge and certainties. While propagating and projecting the “anything but Jonathan” mantra, many did not envisage our reality of today. Are they all happy now? Are they faring well? Do we have a better president, a better, stronger and more united nation? Do we stand our full height, and are more respected, in the comity of nations today? Are we more secure and better structured to withstand the vagaries of a 21st Century world? I think not!

A church just celebrated the release of five pastors kidnapped last week. Catholic priests ingloriously protested in Enugu over insecurity. So-called socio-cultural organisations are still making empty threats. But because too many would-be saviours are complicit in what we are facing today, there are really no messiahs out there. Watch out for the bad stretch ahead, as we face the fruits of presumption.


https://newsscrollngr.com/index.php/component/k2/item/18563-anyone-but-jonathan-right-okey-ikechukwu

In 2015, after President Muhammadu Buhari won the elections, friends with whom I had supported his quest were so excited to get invites to Eagle Square for his inauguration. I didn’t get any such invite and I am usually not excited about ceremonies anyway. For me it should be all about the substance. No one needs to tell us that we should by now focus on rescuing our country, not grabbing power for its own sake.

In time, I started seeing behaviors that were not in tandem with the persona of Mr Buhari that we had been sold; it was Bayo Omoboriowo taking pictures of Buhari from every angle, and the rapidity spoke of vain self-worship; it was Buhari getting angry each time he was reminded that the people are suffering and asked what he wished to do about it. 6 months will disappear and we would not have ministers. In between, Buhari dilly-dallied on the matter of open asset declaration, eventually pushing back on the pretext that the constitution did not require that of him and whoever wanted to see what he owned should apply to the Code of Conduct Bureau, where he was sure they will be stalled. A scanty list was released which showed hesitation and a desire to remain in the realm of opacity.

I ported; stopped being a Buharist altogether.

I had had enough of the scam which has lasted till date since 2015. The reality is that Nigeria has tumbled everywhere. We have tumbled in terms of human development. Nigerians are poorer. We tumbled in terms of inequality; the few ‘winners’ took it all. We tumbled in terms of illiteracy and ignorance; there are more children on the streets. Those who clink champagne glasses still exist, but they did not notice that their numbers were getting fewer. Thousands of families are emigrating to countries that value human resources.

Buhari fumbled, and eventually shut up on Nigerians. In four years he had only one open media parley! No one knew his mind. Even the security of the nation that was meant to be his forte, suffered. Today we have kidnappings and marauding in the North West where he is from. His own very village chief was seized for almost 3 months by the bad boys. 90 years old and blind retired Justice Mamman Nasir, a district head too, was kidnapped and may have died shortly after release as a result of trauma suffered in the hands of ‘bandits’.

Zamfara State became notorious for bandits who killed at will. Sokoto was not spared. In the North East, Boko Haram still holds sway. Yobe, Borno and Adamawa still suffer in their hands. Middle Belt of the country roils in conflicts between herders and farmers. In fact, the government is in the process of setting the country on fire entirely by grabbing lands by force in every local government in order to settle herders and their cows.

Buhari did not plan for our children, but cares so much for cows; how they will eat, get their inoculations, where they will sleep and so on. Cows are far more important than humans under Buhari. Where we should have been declaring emergencies on human issues – education, health, security, environment – we dropped the ball and focused instead on cows.

South West has become a no-go area. Senators can only fly to their state capitals. All our policemen are now on escort duties as our ‘big men and women’ have to protect themselves first; everyone else is on their own. Buhari also conducted a general election that is probably the worst in the history of the country. An election reflects the spirit of the incumbency.

Nigeria teeters at the edges like never before. For the first time, Abuja has become war zone, where anyone could walk into a stray bullet. The serenity of the city has been permanently disturbed. Perhaps Abuja will now pay for the decades of sleaze and embezzlement upon which it was built.

It is a sign of Buhari’s inefficiency that the incarceration of El Zakzaky was mismanaged and is now a major issue gaining international attention. There seems no intelligence to the way governance is run these days, except when they want to harass the little people.

So East, West, North or South there is trouble in the land. We don’t need much convincing to know that Buhari is a huge mistake and the next 4 years will be another rollercoaster of trouble. On the economic front, the Buhari government doubled Nigeria’s debts under 3 years and is collecting more as we speak.

Buhari has to tell us who he really is, and where his allegiance lies. Is he just a very well-packaged ‘figazi’, currently unraveling?

All said, Buhari promised that since he didn’t know most of the people he worked with the first term, this next team will be ‘him’. I felt he made a fair try at poetic elocution on that occasion.

I only want to ask Buhari: Is this you sir? Are you Akpabio? N108bn hangs on his neck. We knew he went crazy as governor of Akwa Ibom. Sir, are you Uche Ogah? His company, Masters Oil was indicted for N2.9Billion subsidy fraud in 2011. He refunded N1.2bn in 2016. Are you Timi Sylva? He was arrested for N48bn fraud in 2013. We know that because he is now an APC kingpin his sins have been forgiven and his dozens of properties returned. Are you George Akume? He has an old N2bn fraud case with EFCC. Or is N2bn now too small in your books that it is insignificant? Are you Henry Nwajiuba? What happened to the microfinance bank he formed? What was Dariye’s link with that bank? How many widows are gnashing their teeth today as a result of his actions? Are you really Rauf Aregbesola? What is the state of Osun today? Did we not see in stark reality how he overtraded on infrastructure and left the people broke and broken? Is this what it’s all about?

What are we doing with 9 ex-Governors whose tenures were mostly full of fraud and mediocrity? Are we trying to rehash the past or build a new future? What did these governors achieve in their states? What are we doing with 13 people who served the first tenure? What did they achieve to warrant a recall?

But my biggest concern is with the issue of corruption. Buhari goes around with this anti-corruption toga and is always eager to speak about his own piety. However evidence on ground points to something different, especially with this list of new ministers.

A few days ago, we read that MD of Asset Management Company (AMCON) – a bad bank where Nigeria’s poor taxpayers’ money has been used to bail out fat-cats who borrow and refuse to pay – drew attention to the fact that many of the new ministerial nominees, as well as many lawmakers who are today confirming the ministers, are bad customers of AMCON. I know that at least Senator Ifeanyi Ubah is owing at least N160bn to AMCON (in other words the Nigerian people). Ahmed Kuru also said AMCON may be unable to recover at least N5 trillion which those guys are sitting on.

I am afraid. Barbarians have finally seized the treasury. Buhari has turned out a paradox. He has shown that in this Nigeria, bad is good, black is white, evil is holy… we live in abracadabra land. I see no easy ways out of this logjam Nigeria has put herself in.

Buhari, is this really you? If it is you, are you not telling our children that a meritorious career in crime, fraud and sundry dishonesty is now a requirement for people who want to serve in government?

https://newsscrollngr.com/index.php/component/k2/item/18440-so-buhari-is-this-you-tope-fasua

IN IBADAN, Did/Do you know that:

*Ibadan is the third Largest city in Africa after Cairo
and Johannesburg (Wikipedia)

*Ibadan is the third most Populous city in Nigeria
after Kano and Lagos

*Ibadan is the Home of Nigeria Army 2nd Division

*Ibadan City alone has a population of 3,720,643
people (2006 census), with this more populous than
States like, Enugu, Gombe, Osun, Cross-River, Sokoto, Ondo, Kebbi, Edo, Benue, Bayelsa, Abia,
Kwara, Adamawa, Ebonyi, Kogi, Nasarawa, Taraba,
Pleatue, Ekiti, Yobe and Zamfara (2006 census)

*Ibadan has 11 recognised Local Government Area
with an Average of 338,462 people per L.G.A as against 150,000 people per L.G.A of Fed constitution recommendation, the Nigerian Constitution stipulate 14 L.G.A for provision to create a state

* "Ibadan North" L. G. A. is one of the first four most populated L.G.A in Nigeria with 856,988 people and
Oluyole 734,377 people (2006 census)

*Ibadan has 5 metropolitan L.G.A namely Ibadan
North, Ibadan North-West, Ibadan North-East, Ibadan
South-West and Ibadan South-East

*Ibadan has 6 Urban L.G.A namely Egbeda, Oluyole, Ona-Ara, Lagelu,Akinyele and Iddo

*Ibadan has its oldest L.G.A as Oluyole L.G.A and Lagelu L.G.A

*Ibadan is the Capital of Western Colonial
Administration 1893 and also Western Region since
1939 *Ibadan operates the most orderly and peaceful
monarchy system anywhere in the whole universe

*Ibadan hosts the very first University in Nigeria and
the first and the best Zoological Garden nationwide (in the University of Ibadan campus)

*Ibadan cover a total Area of 3,186 sq. km (1,195sq miles) close to the whole of Lagos State 3,348 sq.
km

*Ibadan has 7 Federal Constituencies as against
constitution stipulation of 6 to create a state

*Ibadan puts Oyo State as the 4th largest economy in
Nigeria *Ibadan is Nigeria’s 3rd cheapest city to live.

*Ibadan has a Federal Airport (Alakia), boarding
passengers to cities like Kano, Lagos, Abuja, Benin,Port Harcourt etc.

*Ibadan has 4 Government Reservation Areas (GRA,
as we call them) – Iyaganku, Jericho, Onireke, and Agodi.

*Ibadan hosted the first Housing Corporation in
Nigeria that built the first housing estate in Nigeria,
Bodija Housing Estate.

* Ibadan has the oldest Surviving Newspaper in
Nigeria (Tribune Newspaper) * Ibadan hosts the first TV station in the whole of Africa 1959 as WRBC, later WNTV/WNBS and now NTA Ibadan

* Ibadan has 7 Television stations (Galaxy as the first
private station in Nigeria 1996, NTA, AIT, MiTV,
because, Channels Ibadan and Silverbird Ibadan)

* Ibadan has a whopping 14 Radio stations operating in the same city; namely Fresh FM, Splash FM, Inspiration, Premier FM, Oluyole FM, Lagelu FM, Star FM, Space FM, Diamond/UI FM, Naija FM, Radio Nigeria, Amuludun FM etc.

*Ibadan hosts Mapo Hall, one of only 2 Town Halls in Africa of Greco-Roman architectural style.
*Ibadan’s house-numbering, system for postal delivery using the cardinal points, N, S, E, W, SW,SE, NW, and NE is the only one of such postal codes in Africa, designed by the British.

*Ibadan has the Bower Tower, designed by British Colonial Officer Taffy (also designed the Mapo Hall)
is the only structure of its kind in Nigeria and West
Africa, located on top of the city in the Agala Forest.

*Ibadan hosted the first fruit canning factory in
Nigeria, Lafia Canning Company, established and
owned by the Western Nigeria Development Corporation, and supplied by the citrus and pineapple farm of Apoje, near Ijebu Igbo (in present day Ogun State)

*Ibadan consists of several almost-independent, self-
sustaining big communities:
• The City itself • University of Ibadan campus
• The Ibadan Polytechnic campus
• The University College Hospital (UCN) community
• The Moor Plantation Community, including the
IAR&T campus
• The IITA community • CRIN community
• The Nigerian Railway compound and living quarters
• The Odogbo Barracks community of the Nigerian
Army
• The Lead City University campus
• The religious communities of Immanuel College and the Dominican Community.

*Ibadan is the only city in Nigeria that has over 15
Federal Tertiary Institutions/Research Institutes,
namely:
1. University of Ibadan, formerly University College,
Ibadan,1948 (Nigeria’s Premier University).
2. Nigeria Institute for Social and Economic
Research, (NISER)
3. Institute for Agricultural Research and Training
(I.A.R &T) Moor Plantation
4. National Institute of Horticulture Research and
Training (NIHORT)
5. National Cereal Research Institute (NCRI) 1978
6. National Root Crop Research Institute (NRCRI)
7. Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN)
8. University College Hospital (UCH) 1948, including School of Nursing.
9. Federal School of Statistics 10. Federal School of Hygiene
11. Federal Co-operative College
12. Federal College of Agriculture,1921
13. Federal College of Animal Health and Production Technology
14. Federal College of Forestry .
15. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, IITA (an international/global Institute)
16. Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria (CRIN)1976
17. National Institute of Science Laboratory
Technology (NISCLT)
18. Ibadan Polytechnic (owned by Oyo State) but started as the National College of Science and
Technology

* Ibadan has several private higher institutions of learning such as:
• Immanuel College of Theology
• Lead City University • Ibadan City Polytechnic
• BOLMOL Polytechnic
• Dominican University
• Tower Polytechnic
• All-Ibadan College of Education
• Mufu Lanihun College of Education *Ibadan has the Largest Supermarket in Africa (Shoprite Ibadan Ring-Road branch).

*Ibadan has the first stadium and International
Stadium in Nigeria (1945) the Liberty Stadium (now
Obafemi Awolowo Stadium) with 35,846 capacity

*Ibadan is the home of Book Publishers, having over major 20 printing companies i.e. Oxford University Press, Ibadan University Press, Heinemann, Evans,
Spectrum, Bounty, Odua Press, Macmillan etc.

*Ibadan hosts the Regional Headquarter of Central
Bank Of Nigeria, Dugbe, under which states like
Ondo,Delta, Ogun, Kogi,Edo Ekiti, Ilorin, and Oyo operate.

*Ibadan to Oyo is the first motorable road in Nigeria
1905 built by Sir Percy Girouard
*The busiest road in Nigeria after Lagos-Abeokuta
expressway is Lagos-Ibadan followed by Abuja-
Kaduna express road *An Ibadan man, Mr Taiwo Akinkumi designed Nigeria
Nation Flag (1959)

*Ibadan has the first tallest building in Africa, "Cocoa
House" 1952.

*Ibadan hosts the first set of Secondary schools in
Nigeria.
• St. Anne's School, Molete 1868,
• Ibadan Grammar School, Molete, 1913,
• Ibadan Boys High School, 1938,
• Government College, Apata, Ibadan 1927,
• Queen School, Apata, Ibadan 1956,
• St Patrick Grammar School 1962, • Ibadan City Academy, Eleta, 1946,
• Wesley College, Elekuro, (a teacher training college)
1905,
• St. Theresa’s Girl School, Oke-Ado, 1932,
• Yejide Girls Grammar School, Kudeti, 1956,
• Loyola College, Agodi,1954, • Lagelu Grammar School, Agugu,1958
• Igbo Elerin Grammar School, via Ibadan, 1957.

*Ibadan is the city with the highest number of
Professors in the whole of Africa

*Ibadan is the fastest growing city in Nigeria (NBS).

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Who dare call Jesus Christ our LORD a prophet?

Just in case he is the Son of God sitted @ the right Hand of God!

Prophet na understatement

I quite understand where you are coming from. You need to study the bible more. Jesus is a prophet. Jesus is our High Priest. Jesus is the Son of God. He is equally our Advocate.