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me1234: Nigeria refuse to forgive IBB for not accounting for $12b dollars oil wind fall yet. OBJ squandered $16.5b dollar to give us darkness and the western press are silent about it. Why GEJ is accused of diverting $7b dollars OBJ diverted in the same account over $20b dollar as a matter of fact the 36 governors took OBJ to court the case is still at the supreme court. And Some bias nigerian still call GEJ the most corrupt president. i rest my case

That's the same issue am having with them

Bishop Magic: Obansanjo without a doubt holds the top spot followed by IBB, then Abacha.

Yes, he's worst. i hate him

Adetula1: Abacha

Are you sure Abacha was the most corrupt, in my opinion i don't still think so. IBB is still worse

pc guru: Here's some tip

1. Blood Type (its important as am in that AS Boat)
2. Hobbies and Interest, In this hard times, Hobbies and interest develop into career a girl without an hobby or interest is a laid back one
3. Engage her in some discussion relating to current events, makes no sense dating a dullard however this is not a yardstick some are not interested am talking about those who don't do anything but check Twitter/FB
4. Then you ask about her type of movies/songs/books and games if she does, this gives you a persona (What type of person she could be), Just talking to my now babe for the first time, i could tell, she's someone am gonna keep, just have to get over the AS issue.

All the best and if you are a girl, do the opposite also.

Thanks for the info...its late already

SuperSuave: Ur moniker says "Thinkdeep" why cant U̶̲̥̅̊ use ur sense aπϑ post smtin sensible or search google for answers instead of wasting our MBs mtcheeeew!

You must be a fool

Not ATM machine, it is ATM* point of correction*, it is automated teller machine (@OP, change your error). The last machine should not be there

109 views and no comment, nairalanders why? This one na gobe. #chai

Yes

theoctopus: Why are you so terribly daft? So working with all governors mean heeding to their blackmail or accepting their political demands? Did he not approve the Lagos state government $200 million loan for building of several projects in Lagos? Did he not give out some FG rail tracks to LASG to boost the light rail project? Did he not support the Eko Atlantic and Lekki deep sea port? Has he not supported numerous projects in Ogun, Edo, Adamawa, Niger, etc. Did OBJ ever work with the opposition? DId OBJ not hold LASG money for 4 years? Why not acknowledge the truth. Pathetic!

I dont think u should sound harsh b4 relating to a friend..calling a person terribly daft for commenting on a post is out of it...watch your tongue please

sincerenigerian: I read this part and I said where is Amaechi, Nyarko, Aliyu, Kwakwanso, Oshiohmole and co.....

I wonder too oo. *mouth sealed*

I relate with all Governors irrespective of political party affiliation but I have not worked against the interest of the PDP. What I have not done is to influence the electoral process to favour our Party- GEJ
http://www.thinkdip..com/2013/12/i-relate-with-all-governors_1726.html?m=1

Thinkdip..com

Dats a funny question i ask u, but its a reality already that 2012 and 2013 are both appearing in one day 20.12.2013..

Dear MTN,

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Congrats! To claim it text OK to 38430 NOW!. Then just now i received a call and guess who called
me? 7070... Abeg wetin them wan tell me wey
them never send for text? who knows what the next format
will be?
Pals, please judge me and MTN oh. I dey my
own...dem wan force N2,000,000 enter my hand, N2,000,000 na by force ni?

Ken Saro-Wiwa was born in October 1941, the
eldest son of a prominent family in Ogoni,
which is today in Rivers State, Nigeria. After
leaving university he initially pursued an
academic career.
During the Biafran war (1967-1970) he was a
Civilian Administrator for the Port of Bonny,
near Ogoni in the Niger Delta. He went on to
be a businessman, novelist and television
producer. His long-running satirical TV series
Basi & Co was purported to be the most
watched soap opera in Africa.
Two of his best known works were drawn from
his observations and experiences of the
Biafran war. His most famous work, Sozaboy: a Novel in Rotten English, is a harrowing tale of a naive village boy recruited into the army. On a Darkling Plain, is a diary of his experiences during the war.
Ken Saro-Wiwa was consistently concerned
about the treatment of Ogoni within the
Nigerian Federation and in 1973 was dismissed from his post as Regional Commissioner for Education in the Rivers State cabinet, for
advocating greater Ogoni autonomy.
During the 1970s he built up his businesses in
real estate and retail and in the 1980s
concentrated on his writing, journalism and
television production.
Throughout his work he often made references
to the exploitation he saw around him as the oil
and gas industry took riches from the beneath
the feet of the poor Ogoni farmers, and in
return left them polluted and disenfranchised.
In his book of short stories, Forest of Flowers
(1986), the following passage from the story
Night Ride, reflects Saro-Wiwa’s anger at
Seeing multinational oil companies, like Shell,
appropriating land from local people:
An old woman had hobbled up to him. My
son, they arrived this morning and dug up
my entire farm, my only farm. They mowed
down the toil of my brows, the pride of the
waiting months. They say they will pay me
compensation. Can they compensate me for
my labours? The joy I receive when I see
the vegetables sprouting, God’s revelation
to me in my old age? Oh my son, what can I
do?
What answer now could he give her? I’ll look
into it later, he had replied tamely.
Look into it later. He could almost hate
himself for telling that lie. He cursed the
earth for spouting oil, black gold, they
called it. And he cursed the gods for not
drying the oil wells. What did it matter that
millions of barrels of oil were mined and
exported daily, so long as this poor woman
wept those tears of despair? What could he
look into later? Could he make alternate
land available? And would the lawmakers
revise the laws just to bring a bit more
happiness to these unhappy wretches whom
the search for oil had reduced to an animal
existence? They ought to send the oil
royalties to the men whose farms and land
were despoiled and ruined. But the lawyers
were in the pay of the oil companies and the
government people in the pay of the lawyers
and the companies. So how could he look
into it later?
In 1990, Saro-Wiwa started to dedicate
himself to the amelioration of the problems of
the oil producing regions of the Niger Delta.
Focusing on his homeland, Ogoni, he launched a
non-violent movement for social and ecological
justice. In this role he attacked the oil
companies and the Nigerian government
accusing them of waging an ecological war
against the Ogoni and precipitating the
genocide of the Ogoni people. He was so
effective, that by 1993 the oil companies had
to pull out of Ogoni. This cost him his life.
Love his word like: we all stand before history

Without doubt ASUU as done something in some people's life either negative or positive.
But surely i know many people have benefited from dis ASUU strike positively like:
1- getting a new phone
2- meeting new friends
3- finding out your friends in school are your cousins
4- got new laptops
5- bought new clothes u got new shoes
6- learn one thing or the other
7- got your spouse and also got time to know each other well
8- got wedded
9- and for dose who has the grace to have babies during ASUU strike also gave birth.
Has ASUU not done good thing in your life. If u know u are among the testifies joyfully drop a comment.
You can write down what ASUU strike has done for you that as not been listed above.
Source:www.nairaland.com/1553452/positive-effect-ASUU-strike

DID YOU KNOW!!!.
1. Falling coconuts kill about 150 people every
year!
2. An average man spends 145 days of his life
shaving.
3. The water you drink today, has already been
drunk many times before..
4. Orgasms can lower a woman's risk of heart
disease, breast cancer, stroke and depression..
5. Female kangaroos have 3 vagina's.
6. There are at least 6 people in the world who
look exactly like you. There's a 9% chance that
you'll meet one of them in your lifetime..
7. People kiss at weddings because kisses were
used in ancient times to seal contracts..
8. Between 6 and 9 billion condoms are used
collectively across the world each year..
9. Being called "Baby" has a positive effect on
the female brain, causing instant emotional
stress relief..
10. Dog nose prints are as unique and individual
as human fingerprints

daudae1: guy u d dream...wake up! many more months ahead..

Check the link

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will suspend the five months strike next week after the union signed a Memorandum of Understanding to that effect with Federal Government on Wednesday

ASUU President, Dr. Nasir Fagge, who signed the agreement on behalf of the union, confirmed to journalists that the strike would be called off next week following agreement signed by both parties.

Fagge said the MoU contained all the demands presented by the union.
Source:http://thenationonlineng.net/new/strike-fg-ASUU-sign-mou/

PerfectaB: Obama's speech writers are really good!

May be his writers live in his brain. Because he reads them from his head

desgiezd: How much does that of Nigeria cost?

I don't know oo...but wait do you thing Nigeria president speech will cost something

To Graça Machel and the Mandela family; to
President Zuma and members of the
government; to heads of state and
government, past and present; distinguished
guests - it is a singular honour to be with you
today, to celebrate a life unlike any other. To
the people of South Africa – people of every
race and walk of life – the world thanks you
for sharing Nelson Mandela with us. His
struggle was your struggle. His triumph was
your triumph. Your dignity and hope found
expression in his life, and your freedom, your
democracy is his cherished legacy.
It is hard to eulogise any man – to capture in
words not just the facts and the dates that
make a life, but the essential truth of a person
– their private joys and sorrows; the quiet
moments and unique qualities that illuminate
someone's soul. How much harder to do so for
a giant of history, who moved a nation toward
justice, and in the process moved billions
around the world.
Born during world war one, far from the
corridors of power, a boy raised herding
cattle and tutored by elders of his Thembu
tribe – Madiba would emerge as the last great
liberator of the 20th century. Like Gandhi, he
would lead a resistance movement – a
movement that at its start held little prospect
of success. Like King, he would give potent
voice to the claims of the oppressed, and the
moral necessity of racial justice. He would
endure a brutal imprisonment that began in the
time of Kennedy and Khrushchev, and reached
the final days of the Cold War. Emerging from
prison, without force of arms, he would – like
Lincoln – hold his country together when it
threatened to break apart. Like America's
founding fathers, he would erect a
constitutional order to preserve freedom for
future generations – a commitment to
democracy and rule of law ratified not only by
his election, but by his willingness to step down
from power.
Given the sweep of his life, and the adoration
that he so rightly earned, it is tempting then
to remember Nelson Mandela as an icon,
smiling and serene, detached from the tawdry
affairs of lesser men. But Madiba himself
strongly resisted such a lifeless portrait.
Instead, he insisted on sharing with us his
doubts and fears; his miscalculations along
with his victories. "I'm not a saint," he said,
"unless you think of a saint as a sinner who
keeps on trying."
It was precisely because he could admit to
imperfection – because he could be so full of
good humour, even mischief, despite the heavy
burdens he carried – that we loved him so. He
was not a bust made of marble; he was a man
of flesh and blood – a son and husband, a
father and a friend. That is why we learned so
much from him; that is why we can learn from
him still. For nothing he achieved was
inevitable. In the arc of his life, we see a man
who earned his place in history through
struggle and shrewdness; persistence and
faith. He tells us what's possible not just in
the pages of dusty history books, but in our
own lives as well.
Mandela showed us the power of action; of
taking risks on behalf of our ideals. Perhaps
Madiba was right that he inherited, "a proud
rebelliousness, a stubborn sense of fairness"
from his father. Certainly he shared with
millions of black and coloured South Africans
the anger born of, "a thousand slights, a
thousand indignities, a thousand
unremembered moments … a desire to fight
the system that imprisoned my people".
But like other early giants of the ANC – the
Sisulus and Tambos – Madiba disciplined his
anger; and channelled his desire to fight into
organisation, and platforms, and strategies
for action, so men and women could stand-up
for their dignity. Moreover, he accepted the
consequences of his actions, knowing that
standing up to powerful interests and injustice
carries a price. "I have fought against white
domination and I have fought against black
domination," he said at his 1964 trial. "I've
cherished the ideal of a democratic and free
society in which all persons live together in
harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an
ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve.
But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am
prepared to die."
Mandela taught us the power of action, but
also ideas; the importance of reason and
arguments; the need to study not only those
you agree with, but those who you don't. He
understood that ideas cannot be contained by
prison walls, or extinguished by a sniper's
bullet. He turned his trial into an indictment
of apartheid because of his eloquence and
passion, but also his training as an advocate.
He used decades in prison to sharpen his
arguments, but also to spread his thirst for
knowledge to others in the movement. And he
learned the language and customs of his
oppressor so that one day he might better
convey to them how their own freedom
depended upon his.
Mandela demonstrated that action and ideas
are not enough; no matter how right, they must
be chiselled into laws and institutions. He was
practical, testing his beliefs against the hard
surface of circumstance and history. On core
principles he was unyielding, which is why he
could rebuff offers of conditional release,
reminding the Apartheid regime that,
"prisoners cannot enter into contracts". But as
he showed in painstaking negotiations to
transfer power and draft new laws, he was not
afraid to compromise for the sake of a larger
goal. And because he was not only a leader of a
movement, but a skilful politician, the
Constitution that emerged was worthy of this
multiracial democracy; true to his vision of
laws that protect minority as well as majority
rights, and the precious freedoms of every
South African.
Finally, Mandela understood the ties that bind
the human spirit. There is a word in South
Africa – Ubuntu – that describes his greatest
gift: his recognition that we are all bound
together in ways that can be invisible to the
eye; that there is a oneness to humanity; that
we achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with
others, and caring for those around us. We can
never know how much of this was innate in him,
or how much of was shaped and burnished in a
dark, solitary cell. But we remember the
gestures, large and small - introducing his
jailors as honoured guests at his inauguration;
taking the pitch in a Springbok uniform;
turning his family's heartbreak into a call to
confront HIV/AIDS – that revealed the depth
of his empathy and understanding. He not only
embodied Ubuntu; he taught millions to find
that truth within themselves. It took a man
like Madiba to free not just the prisoner, but
the jailor as well; to show that you must trust
others so that they may trust you; to teach
that reconciliation is not a matter of ignoring
a cruel past, but a means of confronting it
with inclusion, generosity and truth. He
changed laws, but also hearts.
For the people of South Africa, for those he
inspired around the globe – Madiba's passing is
rightly a time of mourning, and a time to
celebrate his heroic life. But I believe it should
also prompt in each of us a time for self-
reflection. With honesty, regardless of our
station or circumstance, we must ask: how well
have I applied his lessons in my own life?
It is a question I ask myself – as a man and as
a president. We know that like South Africa,
the United States had to overcome centuries
of racial subjugation. As was true here, it took
the sacrifice of countless people - known and
unknown - to see the dawn of a new day.
Michelle and I are the beneficiaries of that
struggle. But in America and South Africa,
and countries around the globe, we cannot
allow our progress to cloud the fact that our
work is not done. The struggles that follow the
victory of formal equality and universal
franchise may not be as filled with drama and
moral clarity as those that came before, but
they are no less important. For around the
world today, we still see children suffering
from hunger, and disease; run-down schools,
and few prospects for the future. Around the
world today, men and women are still
imprisoned for their political beliefs; and are
still persecuted for what they look like, or how
they worship, or who they love.
We, too, must act on behalf of justice. We,
too, must act on behalf of peace. There are
too many of us who happily embrace Madiba's
legacy of racial reconciliation, but
passionately resist even modest reforms that
would challenge chronic poverty and growing
inequality. There are too many leaders who
claim solidarity with Madiba's struggle for
freedom, but do not tolerate dissent from
their own people. And there are too many of us
who stand on the sidelines, comfortable in
complacency or cynicism when our voices must
be heard.
The questions we face today – how to promote
equality and justice; to uphold freedom and
human rights; to end conflict and sectarian
war – do not have easy answers. But there were
no easy answers in front of that child in Qunu.
Nelson Mandela reminds us that it always
seems impossible until it is done. South Africa
shows us that is true. South Africa shows us
we can change. We can choose to live in a world
defined not by our differences, but by our
common hopes. We can choose a world defined
not by conflict, but by peace and justice and
opportunity.
We will never see the likes of Nelson Mandela
again. But let me say to the young people of
Africa, and young people around the world -
you can make his life's work your own. Over
thirty years ago, while still a student, I
learned of Mandela and the struggles in this
land. It stirred something in me. It woke me up
to my responsibilities - to others, and to
myself - and set me on an improbable journey
that finds me here today. And while I will
always fall short of Madiba's example, he
makes me want to be better. He speaks to
what is best inside us. After this great
liberator is laid to rest; when we have
returned to our cities and villages, and
rejoined our daily routines, let us search then
for his strength - for his largeness of spirit -
somewhere inside ourselves. And when the
night grows dark, when injustice weighs heavy
on our hearts, or our best laid plans seem
beyond our reach - think of Madiba, and the
words that brought him comfort within the
four walls of a cell:
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
What a great soul it was. We will miss him
deeply. May God bless the memory of Nelson
Mandela. May God bless the people of South
Africa.

President Barack Obama’s expected 10-minute
speech at Nelson Mandela’s memorial will cost
taxpayers at least $500,000 per minute.
That’s not counting any cakes and coffee he
and his inner circle consume aboard Air Force
One during the 18,000-mile round trip to
Johannesburg, via Dakar, in Senegal.
The 28-hour two-way flight will cost $5 million
because the four-engined Boeing 747 costs
roughly $180,000 an hour to operate,
according to a May 2012 report by the
Congressional Research Service.
The cost includes jet fuel and subsequent
maintenance of the aircraft’s engines,
electronics and hotel-class facilities.
Obama has been accompanied by the First
Lady, Attorney General Eric Holder, national
security advisor Susan Rice and confidante
Valerie Jarrett.
However, Obama will get numerous free
mementoes of his trip , including photographs
of him telling the world’s dignitaries his
personal feelings Mandela’s legacy and how it
affected his own world-historic life.
The president’s extensive security details,
including guards and armored limousines, are
flown to his destinations aboard C-17 cargo
lifters, based in Andrew Air Force base.
Source: dailycaller.com/2013/12/10/obamas-speech-at-mandela-memorial-will-cost-taxpayers-500000-per-minute/

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – South Africa
struggled Monday to meet the unprecedented
logistical challenge of hosting close to 100
world leaders flying in from every corner of
the globe for the state funeral of freedom
icon Nelson Mandela.
“The world literally is coming to South
Africa,” said the government’s head of public
diplomacy, Clayson Monyela.
“I don’t think it has ever happened before,”
Monyela said of the wave of 91 leaders,
including US President Barack Obama, bearing
down on the country.
Nelson Mandela
Many will join the 80,000 people expected to
cram Tuesday into the FNB stadium in Soweto
to take part in a grand memorial service for
their inspirational first black president.
Reflecting the depth and breadth of Mandela’s
popularity, the event will see political foes
Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro share
the same stage in paying tribute to one of the
towering political figures of the 20th century.
South African President Jacob Zuma will make
the keynote address, and other speakers will
include UN Secretary Ban Ki-Moon and
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.
Four of Mandela’s adored grandchildren will
speak for his family, while neither his widow,
Graca Machel, nor his ex-wife Winne
Madikizela-Mandela are listed on the
programme.
The memorial service, in the venue where
Mandela made his last major public appearance
for the 2010 World Cup final, is seen as a final
chance for grieving South Africans to unite in
a mass celebration of his life ahead of the
more formal state funeral.
Some 120,000 people will be able to watch the
event on giant screens set up in three overflow
stadiums in Johannesburg.
‘You are never prepared enough’
Although Mandela had been critically ill for
months, the announcement of his death on
Thursday night still rocked a country that had
looked to his unassailable moral authority as a
comforting constant in a time of uncertain
social and economic change.
“I don’t think you are ever prepared enough,”
said Zelda la Grange, who was Mandela’s long-
time personal assistant both during and after
his presidency.
“We had prepared ourselves emotionally but
still we are overcome by this feeling of loss
and sadness,” La Grange said.
A single candle was lit in Mandela’s tiny prison
cell on Robben Island, where he spent the
harshest of his 27 years in apartheid jails,
before emerging to lead his country out of the
shadow of apartheid into a multi-racial
democracy.
The week-long observances will culminate
Sunday in Mandela’s burial at a family plot in
his boyhood home of Qunu in the Eastern Cape.
The government has sought to dissuade A-list
dignitaries from attending, citing Qunu’s rural
location, the lack of amenities and limited
space.
Ahead of the burial, Mandela’s body will lie in
state for three days from Wednesday in the
amphitheatre of the Union Buildings in
Pretoria where he was sworn in as president in
1994.
Each morning, his coffin will be borne through
the streets of the capital in a funeral cortege,
to give as many people as possible the chance
to pay their final respects.
11,000 troops mobilised
Around 11,000 troops have been mobilised to
ensure security and help with crowd control.
Despite the sudden influx of international
dignitaries and the compressed preparation
time, National Police spokesman Solomon
Makgale insisted that the security apparatus
could cope.
“Having so many heads of state is not a
security headache for us. We’ve learned over
the years,” Makgale said, adding that they
would be “working closely” with the foreign
leaders’ own security details.
As well as Obama and three previous
occupants of the White House, British Prime
Minister David Cameron, French President
Francois Hollande and Afghan President
Hamid Karzai were all on the guest list.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who was
among the first to arrive, visited the Nelson
Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg where he
paid handsome tribute to a “giant for justice”
whose “mighty life” touched millions.
Parliament met in special session Monday, with
MPs carrying single red roses as they entered
the assembly building that was flanked by
giant portraits of Mandela in tribal dress and
as an elder statesman.
Opposition leader Helen Zille said every
politician had a duty to carry forward
Mandela’s ideals of justice and equality for all.
“He has handed the baton to us and we dare
not drop it,” Zille said.
Africa will be represented at the funeral by
Nigeria’s Goodluck Jonathan and more than a
dozen other heads of state and government.
Notable absentees include Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who cited high
travel and security costs, and Mandela’s
fellow Nobel peace laureate, the Dalai Lama,
who since 2009 has twice been denied a visa
for South Africa.
Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey and singer-
activist Bono, as well as British billionaire
Richard Branson and musician Peter Gabriel
were expected to be among the celebrity
mourners.