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Champs congrats oh! am so happy for you. I hope you are taking some progesterone supplement. Also please add some baby asprin. This baby will stick in Jesus name. I celebrate with you. I am next in Jesus Name.. Congrats

Hi Ladies.. I did my IUI this cycle and am waiting for my positive result. I know it worked, i have faith and i feel pregnant.

Anyways, i thought i share this little article i found on baby aspirin and fertility

Recently, a number of different studies have been performed on the use of aspirin to increase fertility. Women who had experienced multiple miscarriages and who were undergoing IVF treatment were given low doses of aspirin daily. Subsequent pregnancy rates were then compared to pregnancy rates produced by women who received no aspirin therapy. Surprisingly, more than 45% of those women taking aspirin during treatment became pregnant, while only 28% of those women not taking aspirin were able to conceive.

Recent aspirin studies also show that aspirin may be helpful in increasing pregnancy rates in all women. Aspirin appears to increase the activity of the ovaries, allowing them to release multiple eggs during ovulation. It also appears to increase blood flow to the uterus, allowing for a thicker and healthier uterine lining .

Hello Ladies, thanks for starting this conversation. I actually met with my neuropath doctor who advised me to go on a diet go Paleo diet (cave man diet). She says it reduces fibroids as well as cyst. Its involves practically no carbs. I just started yesterday and trust me it not bad. Lots of fruits and vegetable and meat and eggs. She also prescribed a few herbs, am going to write the names but I am not sure people in Nigeria can get it.
1) Pregnancy prep
2) Tribulus Formula
3) Vitamin b6
4) Vitamin D
5) Inositol
I am 144/lbs but I have to get back to 124/lbs. I have to loose 20pounds. I am going the caveman’s diet and I am training too. Goodluck ladies. I just discovered today that I have a small endometriosis in my left ovary (cyst) . I am also on clomid too, started today and doing an IUI. I strongly believe this is my month. Lets stay positive

Aww Ngozi. Please don't feel bad. These things do take time and trust me yours will come. In no due time. The ladies here are very encouraging.

I too feel that way, and lo and behold my period comes. I see many of my friends get pregnant but i try not to let it get to me.

Stay strong, BIG HUGS

Hahah, Nice, we most likely do the IUI, but my hubby is all natural, but i have given him an ultimatum, hehehhe, here i run the show

@Camrygmail, i don't think i am pregnant because i did not get an positive OPK , Hence it likely i had an anovulatory cycle.

Good luck ladies, and lets keep encouraging one another.

All the best to you champs, keep us posted. Multiples are great, you have them all at once. hehehe, hugs and kisses

Hey Ladies
For days 1-3 i took 150MG and then 4 i up it to 200MG and day 5 150MG.

I usually have 32 days period, but now i am not even sure when my period will come. I used a Canadian Brand, i have to look at the name again and will get back to you ladies.

Thank God for good insurance i am thinking of grabbing my hubby for an IUI, i don't have time to wait anymore. I just want a baby and have 1 year off and chill with my kid, hehehe,,

Good luck my beautiful ladies, hugs

Ok Ladies, remember i told you i will let you know if Soy worked for me. Well, NO it did not. It actually messed up my cycle. It works for some women but definitely not for me. I will suggest Vitex, it a much power herb.

I will keep you posted. Good luck ladies

Yeap, i have seen the book but not read it. there is so much info on the internet. I chart my CM and take my temp every morning. It really works, Good Luck ladies,

And yes, drink a lot of water, it helps with CM

Well, I used Soy this month, and if it works i will let you guys know. I have a couple of friends who have used it and got pregnant. So we see.
Robitussin
I have used EPO, and yes it does increase your cervical mucus, but i heard it could delay your ovulation. I have used Robitussin, but be careful. Make sure its the DM.

Good luck ladies. And hey, SOY should be used like Clomid, donot exceed 200Mg a day. It does cause headaches though.

I tried vitext too and it did shorten my cycle.

No Soy can be bought from any health food store am not sure of any health food store in Nigeria, am sorry!

I talk about my TTC journey with anymore who cares to ask. I am the open minded type. If you ask, i tell you my journey if you are willing to listen. Who cares what others think, it’s my life. I live my life the way I want I got nothing to hide.

I think the problem with us is that we attach spirituality to everything in Nigeria. We think our inability to conceive early is God punishing us for something or the devil is after you. We all forget that knowledge is power

champs:
Where can one get Soy Isoflavones in Nigeria? Ready to try something new next cycle.

Unfortunately No. I don't live in Nigeria. Vitex could works too if you know where to get that

Hey Ladies have you heard of soy isoflavones? It’s a natural alternative to Clomid. Goggle it. So many women use it here in Canada. Actually many doctors rather their patient try that first before clomid. You can find it in the health food store. I cannot believe we have these many Nigerian women talking about trying to conceive. I remember trying to have a conversation with a friend about it and she kept saying God's Time, i got really pissed off

http://www.osundefender.org/?p=25892


The way these guys steal, it’s like they don't have kids to tell them facebook is free. I wonder how much he spent opening a twitter account

I thought mr president says no more international travel for govt officials ?  ENough is enough oh

Source: http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5721486-146/story.csp

On April 7, 2010, a day after her appointment as minister for petroleum resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke flew to Beverley Hills in Los Angeles to revel in a lavish party and fashion show put together by Christopher Aire, a United States-based Nigerian celebrity jewellry designer and merchant, whom she met during her 15-month tenure as minister for solid minerals and steel development.

By the time the bejewelled Mrs Alison-Madueke returned home a few days later to assume duties as Nigeria's first female oil minister, she had achieved three clear objectives from the trip - she had unlimited fun, acquired some of Aire's exotic gold and gemstones, and handed Mr Aire an invitation to become one of Nigeria's biggest crude oil lifters.

It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship.


At the time, the 47-year-old Mr Aire had nothing whatever to do with the oil business. His company, Solid 21 Incorporated, dealt strictly in jewellery and timepieces. Those close to him said Mr Aire was content with his jewellery business and had no plan to venture into Nigeria's murky oil waters. But all that changed after his meeting with Mrs Alison-Madueke that fateful April 7.

As the minister was flying home, Mr Aire also kick-started the process of registering brand new companies with which he planned to lift Nigerian crude. On July 9, 2010, the jeweller incorporated Siseno Oil Nigeria Limited, with him and one Patience Iluobe (believed to be his relative) as directors, to carry out the business of petroleum products sales and distribution.

Twelve days later (July 21, 2010), Mr Aire, through his agents, headed again to the Corporate Affairs Commission, where he incorporated another firm, Caligeria Oil Limited, also for the purpose of conducting petroleum products sales and distribution.

This time, one of his US-based companies, Osiri Holdings, Ms Iluobe, and one Otaigbe Onyekwere Agba, were named as directors. Mr Aire also proceeded to incorporate a US version of Caligeria with himself, his bodyguard, Joseph Agbi, and Jivani Davoodian, a Californian lawyer, as directors.

Favourite crude oil lifter

Mr Aire passed the papers of his newly minted companies, which have neither fixed addresses nor personnel, to the Crude Oil Marketing Division of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. Shortly afterwards - a month after the companies were born - Mrs Alison-Madueke discretionally approved the award of crude oil lifting contracts to the two firms, in violation of NNPC guidelines for lifting of Nigerian crude.

She also disregarded the fact that the "briefcase company" had no track record and lacked the ability to perform. According to a stringent guideline released by the NNPC in early 2010, companies which wish to lift Nigerian crude must prove that they are bona fide end users and that they are established and globally recognised large volume traders with evidence of their global network, their activities, and volumes of crude oil handled in the last three years.

Such companies must also provide evidence that they are registered Nigerian companies with operations in Nigeria's oil and gas industry, and must have a minimum annual turnover of at least $100 million and net worth of not less than $40 million.

Applicants are also required to show commitment to the development of the Nigerian economy by investing in any number of opportunities that abound either in the oil industry or gas sector. Besides, successful companies are expected to post a $1 million performance bond through a first class Nigerian bank in addition to the regular crude oil contract provisions.

In the same guideline, the corporation promises transparency, fairness and equity in the contract award processes. "The NNPC further wishes to emphasise that there is absolutely nothing like ‘Presidential', ‘Task Force', ‘Ministerial', ‘Diplomatic' or any other form of special or privileged allocation, which can be peddled by hawkers or anyone," the guideline states.

Mrs Alison-Maduekwe approved this guideline, which was posted on the NNPC's website on June 24, 2010, over a month after she became minister. But by allocating crude oil to Mr Aire's companies without regard for these rules, the then minister, insiders say, demonstrated a penchant for violating laws, including regulations she helped put in place.

Those who should know at the NNPC say Siseno and Caligeria did not meet any of these requirements. In fact, NEXT was able to determine that the companies do not have fixed addresses or personnel in Nigeria. Caligeria has Plot G19, House 34, Dan Alhaji Road, Barnawa, Kaduna, as its registered address. Siseno, on the other hand, listed Dollar Shop at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja as its operational address.

But visits to those addresses showed that these companies never operated out of those locations. Plot G19, House 34, in Kaduna is an unpainted residential bungalow, and residents and neighbours said no company known as Caligeria has ever operated in the building. "Just because their owner knows the minister and hosted her well at his glamorous event in California, the companies are today two of the biggest lifters of Nigeria's crude oil," said a source at the petroleum ministry.

We have learnt that, between them, Mr Aire's two companies lift 60,000 barrels of crude per day, the highest for any established industry player and twice as much as well-known companies such as Addax, Vermont, Oando, Unicorp and others who are allocated 30,000 barrels per day. The government, through the NNPC, subcontracts crude marketing by allocating crude lifting contracts of 30,000 barrel per day; but some traders like Glencore, Travigura, Vitol and Sahara get as much as 60,000 barrels per day.

Nobody got more than the minister's jeweller friend

As usual, Mrs Alison-Madueke declined to state her own side of the story to our reporters. She called off an interview appointment scheduled with our editors for June 13. She also did not return calls and text messages seeking her comments for this story.

Mr Aire did not respond to our enquiries either. When our reporter called his California office, a spokesperson who identified herself as Adriana, requested that questions should be e-mailed directly to her. She did not respond to the email as at the time this newspaper went to print. But the spokesperson of the NNPC, Levi Ajuonoma, rose in stout defence of his organisation, saying the organisation did nothing wrong. "The process for crude oil lifting license is so cumbersome. If you don't meet the requirements, you cannot be approved to lift crude," Mr Ajuonoma said. He confirmed that Caligeria, which he claimed had been around for a long time, got a one-year lifting contract that had since expired. He denied that Siseno was awarded contract to lift crude, saying "there is no such company on my list." But information at our disposal shows otherwise.

Caligeria's registration documents, obtained officially from the Corporate Affairs Commission, indicate that the company was incorporated less than a year ago and has a subsisting contract with the NNPC. High level sources also confirmed to us that Siseno, also less than a year old, is on the list of our country's crude oil traders. With the arbitrary allocations to his no-address companies, Mr Aire and his associates earn about $11 million a year in profit for doing virtually nothing. Crude lifters make about 50 cents a barrel per day, which cumulatively comes to about $30,000 per day in profit for the jeweller-turned-oil magnate.

Typically, what these ‘briefcase companies' do is team up with influential officials such as Mrs Alison-Madueke, lobby for contracts independently, and then sell their allocations to more established traders. Mr Aire's companies also benefitted from Mrs Alison-Madueke's discretional award of contracts for the lifting of products from the Oso condensate (an extra light Nigerian hydrocarbon) and the Escravos liquefied petroleum gas terminal. Our sources said Caligeria lifts 45,000 metric tonnes of condensate, while Siseno gets 30,000 metric tonnes of LPG from Escravos. Industry insiders said profit from this also runs into several millions of dollars.

Some industry operators described the obvious in calling Mr Aire's a "sweetheart deal". "We just can't understand why briefcase companies without any track record became Diezani's most favourite companies to lift crude oil," said one highly placed source in the petroleum ministry, who did not want to be named for fear of reprisal. "This is the highest level of arbitrariness and corruption I have ever seen, and this woman must be made to answer questions," the source said.

Allison-Madueke's bazaar

Arbitrary awards of crude lifting contracts to obscure companies is indicative of the corruption in the oil industry, which allegedly skyrocketed during the tenure of Mrs Allison-Madueke to a degree last seen during the Sani Abacha administration. Insiders said that during her tenure, awards of contracts were characterised by bribery of top politicians, cronyism in allocation and indirect ownership in some of the lifters, and payment of huge bribes to high level facilitators within the petroleum ministry and the NNPC.

But this has not stopped Mrs Allison-Madueke, who has alienated the entire industry as well as her cabinet colleagues and senior aides to the president, from lobbying furiously for reappointment. Sources say Mrs Allison-Madueke, who is close to the president, is also opposed by Patience Jonathan, the president's wife.

Despite what appears to be overwhelming opposition, however, insiders still rate Mrs Allison-Madueke's chances high, as the president finalises his list of cabinet ministers for transmission to the Senate this week. Our investigation revealed that apart from Caligeria and Siseno, the former minister also trampled on due process in awarding crude lifting contracts to other companies such as Sullom Voe, Spog, Tempo and Tacomo. Insiders also accuse her of discretionary awards of Escravos liquefied petroleum gas contracts to Addax Energy, Avidor Oil and Gas Limited (believed to have connection to Vitol), Taleveras Business, Accoldis Limited (with connection to Spog), Elan Oil (believed to be another version of Traffigura) Tempo Energy Limited, and Blissfield Enterprises. Yet, the bazaar did not end there.

Mrs Alison-Madueke, our sources further revealed, proceeded to discretionally approve the awards of Oso condensate contracts to Algasco (also linked to Vitol), Optima Energy Services, Theydon Petro SA, Ocean Bed (with connection to Sahara Energy), Mangrove Energy, Havistar Petroleum (linked to Taleveras), Hyson, Ascon limited, Nipco Plc, Vitacan Services Limited, AMG Petro Energy, Energy Resources Management, Ultimate Gas Limited, Tempo Energy, Caligeria Oil Limited, Mez Technical Limited, Messrs Affiliate Global Exchange Limited, and Mezcor SA. Most of these companies have little or no investment in Nigeria, as required by the NNPC guideline for crude oil lifting.

A stench of corruption

The former powerful minister worked through a group of very small, even shadowy, companies that always seem to get the best contracts from the NNPC in the upstream and downstream sectors and on occasion in the services industry.

The tangled web of questionable deals includes last-minute assignment of production rights in five large oil blocks to Septa Energy and the obscure Atlantic Drilling Concept Limited without a public tender. The practices also include the secretive award of kerosene allocations, crude oil allocations, fuel oil allocations, LPG and condensate exports, automotive gas oil and naphtha. Oil traders, according to insiders, regularly pay substantial kickbacks into the offshore accounts of top oil sector executives. Insiders say the Isle of Man has been a favourite jurisdiction for such offshore accounts.

The funds are paid directly into the accounts from outside Nigeria and thus the funds never enter Nigeria and cannot be tracked internally. The funds are often then laundered through real estate purchases. A source familiar with the arrangement said London remains the dominant location where funds are laundered in this fashion.

It is said that since Farida Waziri became the chairperson of the EFCC, the Metropolitan Police had enjoyed zero local co-operation in pursuing such matters. In fact, the source added, when the Met briefs the EFCC on such cases with a view to getting its assistance, elements in the commission promptly informs the target - for a fee of course. Under Mrs Allison-Madueke, all sorts of gaps have been exploited. As at April this year, 600,000 metric tonnes of diesel had been imported, with importers shaken down at a rate of N10 per litre.

We have no evidence that these bribes directly involved the former minister. NEXT had also uncovered an elaborate bribery scam at the Petroleum Product Pricing and Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), where oil marketers were compelled to pay bribes in US dollars in exchange for obtaining authorisation to import gasoline.

Our investigation at the time showed that oil marketers were instructed by PPPRA to call a mobile telephone number and pay a bribe of $8 per metric tonne of petroleum allocated to them, such that a firm with a 100,000 metric tonnes allocation would be required to pay a bribe of $800,000 in cash. We were also able to establish in subsequent investigations that Mrs Alison-Maduekwe appeared to have violated Nigeria's procurement law by quietly signing away operatorship rights in five lucrative oil blocks to two barely established companies.

Dbanj sha, Anywhere there is money he is there. Typical Yoruba man! Enjoy my brother!

Is he single?

As long as there is poverty, people will sell their votes to the highest bidder which is always PDP

Let’s hope this leads to something good. At least let’s get Justice


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Akiika:
Don't go there and negotiate the fake fuel subsidy removal only, seize this opportunity to demand for accountablity, transparency and reduction of GEJ Govt's profligacy. Tell him the other polilooters with our money, get him to commit to arresting them, retrieving our money and subsequently prosecuting them.

You are a correct person. I am tired of this subsidy talk. What we should ask for is transparency. Abeg jor, why does your officials earning so much? Give us numbers. Subsidy is nonsense, it just the tip of the ice-burg

Seriously? Ultimately, it’s the poor that will continue to suffer. God help my country

Why insult a very intelligent woman. See my people; if Nigeria looses the woman, then we have lost a whole lot. Ngozi, Sanusi, and Goodluck are one of the smartest things that have happened to Nigeria in a long time. What is manifesting is the reality of a cleanse going on in Nigeria. We cannot live on borrowed money any more. Yes I agree we have to fight corruption, but we have to start from somewhere. Let’s give these people a chance abeg

A man that could not handle a debate, is President, lol, Nigeria!!!

gozzilla:
I am surprised at the level of decay our society keeps slipping in to.

You have to understand that God not only talks about Pastors (or men of God) being given such high esteem, it talks about us respecting all authority. It means it is also not very wise to insult your leaders, even the so called elected one.

These things are so spiritual, there is no way to explain it logically. Remember it is like creation, so spiritual, that all attempt at a logical explanation fails or falls short.

Comparing the creation story to your pastor's slapping incident as spiritual? you are a confused person my friend. If this is the caliber of people that are our future leaders in Nigeria then we are in trouble.

gozzilla:
But this is all common sense. No society prospers when its "elders" are ridiculed and their wisdom ignored.

It is a sorry case when so many feel that insults is the way to go. You simply can not say something is all wrong when you clearly do not have a better option. These men you accuse of being evil we are yet to see the offences they have committed. A man builds a vision and a dream, we should crave for more of his type, rather we want him down. We are building a dangerous society for ourselves.

You are talking nonsense my friend. Big nonsense, shame on you shame shame shame!!!. The root of Africa's problem is the fact that we don't question our elders and pastors. This is not being rude to them, but question their judgement and reasoning. In the west, when you tell a child what they know is wrong, they question the hell out of you! You cannot slap a 5 year old child here because there know better and question your act. We Africans need to wake up and realize that enough is enough, who says we cannot question our elders. Show me where in the bible that say not to question elders. Nonsense!!! You Nigerians will remain poor until you realize how much your "elders and pastors" have cheated and stolen from you

@ samyng, you are embarrassing your pastor even more. You are showing that you guys know nothing about the bible and you pick and choose verses that work for you and your pastors. Nonsense, you think you are talking to fool. Come on!

tpia@:
^Stop calling your b1tchy mother everywhere plz.

Ok, you were scarred by your witch ancestry.

So?

You need to get the sh1t slapped out of your head back into your butthole.

Tilapia, me, i no dey fear winch ohhh!!!, cos my own winch is for Jesus. hahahaha,  you don dey kolo,  am i getting under your skin.ahahahah,  Listen, you don start to see craze , its just starting, lol, the gods of your forefathers are coming after you eh,  olodo.

Again, go and slap the winch out of boko haram and corrupt Nigerian politicians. Go and pick on someone your own size. You are nothing but a tilapia in the ocean

bid4rich:
I beg tell them oooo may be they will listen to you.

What I just came to realise is that "the eyes of men are too sharp to see people's failure than their successes.

To all you religious bullies and Zombies. This trend is here to stay because unlike you guys, someone of us know the difference between right and wrong.

Tilapia, Tilapia,  how many times did i call you? You are a zombie. Go and slap the witches out of boko haram now. My people say "he who the gods want to destroy first makes crazy",  from your writing, its obvious you don dey kolo ooo. Nonsense!!!

tpia@:
shut up you sob and stop referring to me in that manner.

if you're not a b.astard you'd know when to shut your trap.

maggot spawn that you are.

tilapia, you are an agboro. First class one. Poverty is making you catch witch. Tell your pastor to go and slap boko haram now,  serious bomb will ridicule all of you zombies

tpia@:
i thought you were familiar with english language.

did oyedepo tell the girl she's a witch?


the way you yourself label people here and instigate others to attack them- how is that different from your upbringing where you were labelled a witch?

Tpia Yes he called her a witch and condemned her to hell. You looser get a life