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I love your thought. All you need to do is to pursue your dream, be diligent and passionate about what you do. You may not be as wealthy as she is or as famous as she is but i can tell you that you will be fulfilled. Don't forget we all work on different speed, timeline and road.

If you make your passion your profession, work will be like play. Thanks

Shortyy:
I really envy this woman. Nothing like living your dream.

I want to one day, live mine.

This one that Saraki is going everywhere, i am sure he will soon come to my house to consult with me too.

Please don't quote me because i am feeling cold.

You saw the form? Pix or i don't believe you saw it. You are only making it up to get some likes. I am very sure if you actually saw it, you would snap it and upload it.

Well away from that lie, i strongly believe this their tradermoni is a way of sharing money for election purpose because i am surprise why Osun state happened to be one of the first state to get this fund. If this had been in the pipeline since 2016, then why executing it now close to 2019 election and Osun election is around the corner.

Politicians can lie like bedspread.

bedspread:
I saw the form given out to the people to fill before having access to the form..

PVC number is a requirement!!

You can DECIEVE yourself
Not GOD

Oga ade, park well. You only want to satisfy your ego and selfish interest. Stop deceiving us we are not Kwarans.

Wike, stop these baseless accusation. What evidence do you have that they want to kill you? What are those things you have seen that made you jump into these conclusion. Well elction is nearby we should expect all sort of non-sense.

If all what you've said above are your evidences, then they are baseless because i know that violence had always marred election in Rivers State. It preceeds you and no one is shouting that they want to kill him.

first i believe anyone has the right to vote and be voted for irrespective of region. The issue of zoning was a PDP agenda which is alien to Democracy and Nigeria constitution. Any region has the right to present candidates and if voted for in a free and fair election, then we all must abide by it. Don't forget, North has the population and more states and they use these as an advantage over other regions. Again, they are always one sided because majority are not educated unlike what we have in South where most are educated and belief no one can control or tell me what to do.

The issue of zoning is really causing issues in Nigeria because some regions or ethnic group may believe that it is their sole right to be there at a particular period and spend a certain period (i.e. 8yrs). However, if we all have it behind our mind that anybody can ascend to the presidency through a free and fair election then i am sure we would have a near better democracy.

blackgold90:
You are not right nobody can override others...
They can still be voted out after just 4years.


If I go by your reason,what if after buhari 4years that you think south west should get it... What if PDP in order to win project a northern do you think Southwest will win that elections?

There is a way things should go,so if will have a governor or a president that is not performing will should let him stay because if are afraid of some people not going to leave ... Don't think crooked

You all keep deceiving yourselves. So what they are throwing to make us belief is that Ganduje did not buy the forms with his own money? This is just a situation of the Governor and Buhari using these groups to front for their ambitions. I strongly believe that they are the one financing these groups.

In as much as i agree with her but i belief there are somethings that are better left in the confines of the secret of bedroom rather than saying it publicly. It helps to protect the sanctity of affairs. Just my opinion!

Don't worry i belief with time innoson will get there. All we need is our Government to be supportive and put in place the appropriate laws. We can do it, Nigeria can be great, Innoson can rule the world.

Millenniumlady:
Innoson global car show

Thank you for this further analysis. I graduated from OAU, however, i can boldly say Covenant University will soon overtake most of our prestigious universities if care is not taking. CU is to a large extent doing a great job. Kudos to CU

HigherEd:
UI = 950/114 dept = 8 publications/dept

OAU = 550/88 = 6 pub/dept


CU = 500/32 = 15 publications/dept - we the boss

RevenGeMission:
Another Flatron Bites the dust, The fact that we choose not to talk about it does not mean GEJ did not leave the country for medical checkup




August 22, 2014, Friday Jonathan still went to Germany for Alleged Medical check up

www.naija.ng/280234-president-jonathan-sick-flown-germany-urgent-medical-treatment.html#280234


4 years ago , Jonathan and his wife went to Hospital in Germany before going to a summit in France , they both went for medical checkup

https://www.naija.ng/53613.html#54460

Same 4 years ago , Jonathan was admitted into a UK hospital , for months too , his ailment ? Abdominal pains rumored to have been caused by excessive drinking of ogogoro

https://www.naija.ng/52767.html#45253


2010-2012 , it was rumored that Jonathan alone spent ~ 4 Billion of foreign travels alone ! not even medicals
http://dailypost.ng/2012/12/08/jonathans-spent-n3-3-billion-20-trips-abroad-2012/




So much travels that NBC and American Media complained that Jonathan was spending too much, him and his delegates stayed in most expensive hotels around the world and shop at high end malls


You don't want to open a pandora box because the internet never forgets

http://saharareporters.com/2012/10/14/many-travels-president-jonathan-dailytrust

Thanks for these facts.

soberdrunk:
The only way this guy will stand a chance is if the election is done on Instagram or Twitter, let us even put rigging and malpractices aside, in what part of the world do you wake up one morning without holding any political office before, having any political experience or being a billionaire and think because you can string one or two big english words together you deserve to be president? Somebody that cannot even get up to 1000 votes in his community talk less of the main source of votes(The North).....

Fact!

Corrinthians:
Please this is outside the topic. I need some help.

There's this Igbo gospel song I keep hearing in different places, but don't know the title.

I LOVE THAT SONG! INSPIRES ME. SOUNDS REALLY SPIRITUAL.

Dont know how to describe it but the woman seems to be screaming praises to God. I hear words like "Chimoooooooo!!" Then at some point she keeps screaming "Ebubedike, Ebubedike, Ebubedike" (towards the end I think).

Please anyone who has an idea the song I'm referring to and knows the title should help me with it. The translation too wouldn't help. I NEED TO HAVE THAT SONG IN MY PHONE.

That song touches a very deep part of me and I don't know why, just like Enya's songs.

The song you are looking for is Ekueme (I may not get the correct spelling) however you can google it or download it on YouTube.

Waakanda:
Thought I saw some people playing soccer

Not on third mainland bridge but at Iyana oworo. you people just post with wrong title.

We are great Jokers. Paying pastors and imams? Ambode, you really fall my hands.

Imagine these jokers. How is that even possible. Even impeachment won't happen. Imagine these jokers. How is that even possible. Even impeachment won't happen.

oruma19:
is it ur money? it is supposed to be my savings , i should be given all my money. Nigeria is not a working country, a few people are digging into poor people's savings and using it to enrich themselves u are trying to explain what i dont know. must u save money for me/ is not like its a country where tinz work. nonsense

Oga no be fight now. I am not the one keeping your money. I was only trying to explain position of the law. Now if you would like to know, I share the same position with you but the law will not allow me. If allowed, I will keep my pension myself because I don't trust all these government officials.

But what can we do?

I wonder why people are so happy with what is happening in the political sphere. These people are not doing these for the people's interest but for their own self interest.

Should anything happen in PDP, you will see them running back. I don't give a dam about PDP or APC they are all the same with personal interest.

mexioni:
Story seems much, i need expert advise on this. Am thinking if meeting my employers to write to our PFA so we can withdraw up to 15-20% of our total contribution, how possible is it since we r still in employment?

PFAs are guided by the pension act and your PFA is not exempted. The law does not allow any withdrawal from the involuntary contributions except some conditions are met and these are especially when one is out of job for say 3 months or upon retirement.
However, for the voluntary contributions, you are allowed to withdraw a certain %every two years starting from the date of last withdrawal. Subsequent withdrawals will be from the incremental contributions. where there are no incremental contributions, you would not be able to withdraw any amount.

I hope this piece help.

Ejimagift:
Majority of Nigerian youths brain has also melted. Keep supporting APC and PDP in this defection saga as if they give a damn about you and your hopeless families. Only demented youths will keep supporting their oppressors. Dino Melaye keeps displaying uncountable luxury Cars that can feed a whole local government. They are all friends behind the scenes and won't hesitate to attend each others children weddings irrespective of party differences.Saraki, Buhari and other thieves in NASS and their children can never be broke nor suffer again in life. Can that be said about you supporting them with hungry belly and empty pockets? Instead of taking our country back from this irresponsible charlatans, Nigerian youths have turned their future to another Messi/Ronaldo argument calling Saraki Goat. I just SMH.

God bless you for these points.

I am very sure he speaks from experience.

EmpresFIDEL:
please friends i really need your advice. I have been dating him for 5yrs now, we love each other so much . but our genotype is giving us serious issue, we are both As and we don't consider brake up as an option. the pressure on my boyfriend from family and friends is making him want to dissolve the relationship when he still love me deep down and I love him too.. we are just too confuse. I don't want to lose him.

please can you contact me. I think I can help. I have a sister with similar situation but today the children are all fine.

How is this witch hunting? The question we should ask is if he actually committed the crime. If he did, then no witch hunting whatsoever. From the evidences tendered by efcc, I am convinced that he ate our yam. The money he and his cohort stole would have restored our hospitals to world standard. So let him enjoy himself. Once he travels, then that is the end of the case.

Yoshy:
Though this is witch hunting, I can authoritatively tell you that Metuh wants to run for his life.

Thank you for your response. I am very grateful. From inception, I wanted to apply for MSC finance (pt) but I was informed that Bsc accounting would not be considered for admission into MSC finance hence my reason for applying for MSC account (pt). But recently I had that Bsc accounting is been admitted for MSC finance (pt). So I want to see if I could still be considered for MSC finance (pt).

Secondly, I want to diversify my skill away from accounting. Please if you have any idea on how to go about it please let me know. Also I am open to your advice.

Deprofessional:
Why would you want to do that? What's your motivation?

Hello house, I was admitted for MSc accounting (pt). I want to switch course to MSC finance (pt). Please is it possible? If it is, how can I go about it?

Hello pals, do anyone have the time table for Msc accounting (pt). Also I want to confirm if lectures have started. If not, when it would be starting. Thanks for your anticipated response.

Anyone that what to join Msc Accounting PT WhatsApp group should comment with his or her number.

andaxon:
U could create a group

Quite thouthful of you.

Please is there any WhatsApp group for MSC Accounting PT? Also can someone enlighten me on the fees and how to make payment

This week marked the 50th anniversary of the declaration of the Sovereign State of Biafra and one or more questions still linger. I will not delve into the more contentious questions, but for the sake of improving the relationship between the Igbo and their Yoruba neighbors, let me touch on one or two areas where, if the truth is brought to the fore, the relationship between omo Oduduwa and Ndi’Igbo could be improved. Firstly, why do Ndi’Igbo still believe the false stereotype that the omo Oduduwa (Yoruba) are cowards? This is simply not true and the facts do not support this belief.

In the history of Nigeria, only two men have returned to Nigeria to face almost certain death even when they had the option of a very comfortable political asylum abroad. Both of them are Yoruba. In 1985, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida toppled the Buhari regime while Major General Tunde Idiagbon (mixed Yoruba/Fulani) was at Mecca yet Idiagbon returned.

In 1995, Olusegun Obasanjo (pure Owu Yoruba) was accused of planning a coup by the blood thirsty tyrant, Abacha (if you do not like that truthful description of Abacha or if you believe that ‘Abacha did not loot’, you can go and join him where he is) while he was away in Copenhagen.

He returned to face almost certain death. What more example of bravery can there be than these two shining ones. Furthermore, there is the apocryphal example of Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi who chose to die with the Head of State, rather than abandon his guest, which he was at liberty to do. I am hard pressed to believe that if it was vice versa, Ironsi would have done the same for Fajuyi, but then again, I may be wrong. I admired Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu for his guts and stubborn determination during the events leading up to and during the civil war, but I was disappointed that he fled Biafra when the end came.

I wish he remained. I also admired the Right Honorable Nnamdi Azikiwe, but Chief Obafemi Awolowo would NEVER have abandoned his people as Azikiwe did when he defected to the federal side during the civil war. Awolowo was in prison because of his people and he could have been released had he compromised his beliefs but he stoutly refused. That is courage not cowardice.

I have been in direct communication with General Yakubu Gowon whom I admire but he did not return to Nigeria after he was accused of being behind the Dimka coup. All things considered, Fajuyi, Obasanjo and Idiagbon are probably the bravest Nigerians ever.

They are (were in the cases of Fajuyi and Idiagbon) certainly braver than Murtala Ramat Mohammed, who was safely in London waiting for Joe Garba and co to topple Gowon. Even with the sullying of his name as a Quisling in the pages of history, it is on record that of all the first republic politicians that were killed in the January 1966 coup, only Samuel Ladoke Akintola, the Premier of the Western Region, put up a fight.

He had a rifle and exchanged gunfire with Captain Emmanuel Nwobosi and his men. Akintola, a civilian, injured the trained soldiers and was only killed when his ammunition finished. And even at that he did not cry or beg! Ndi’Igbo may do well to remember how Wole Soyinka, at great risk to himself, traveled to Enugu during the height of the civil war crisis to persuade Ojukwu against secession. Soyinka had nothing to gain. He did what he did as a humanitarian in support of the Igbos, an act for which he was arrested by the Gowon led Federal Military Government and thrown in jail for 26 months, 22 of which he spent in solitary confinement.

These facts of history prove that the stereotype of Yorubas as cowards is false. Every ethnicity has cowards and brave men. As we celebrate #BiafraAt50, I hope the Yoruba and Igbo can find common ground and unite as Southern Nigeria’s two main ethnic nationalities otherwise the South will continue to be politically disadvantaged even when it is the most educationally advantaged part of Nigeria.

It is true that the Igbo are marginalized in Nigeria, however, I am of the opinion that a lot of the blame for this can be laid at Ndi’Igbo’s doorstep. In my opinion, and remember this is an opinion not a fact, the major undoing of Ndi’Igbo is their misunderstanding of the term strength. Ndi’Igbo erroneously believe all strength is physical. They do not seem to realize that strength is your ability to assert your will on earth and that that ability may not always be physical. The proverb-discretion is the better part of valor-is not understood by the Igbo. They tend to be reactionary and consider pausing to study a situation before you respond (not react) as cowardice. One or two of them may get it, but as a race in general they do not.

They do not consider diplomacy as a first step. To them it is weakness and makes you an efulefu! If they have an enemy, they are not able to suppress their emotions and work with those they do not like.

They must make their hostility obvious to the person they do not like and being aware of the dislike, the person is armed against them. In an organization, others may be sublime and discrete in their scheming, but the Igbo are more likely to be obvious and in your face about theirs and end up causing unity amongst their enemies in plotting their downfall. As a general rule, Ndi’Igbo have very little humility and are very proud individually though there are few exceptions and I must single out my friend Emeka Maduewesi as one of those exceptions. An epitome of a gentleman! Another example would be Uche Chuta. May God throw up leaders like Uche in Igboland!& For example Since 2010, my white beard has been my trademark. In fact Punch newspapers refers to me as ‘the white bearded Omokri’. Yesterday (May 30th), my grandfather called me and asked me to shave it off because he does not like it. That same day, I obeyed him.

I obey my grandfather at 43 the same way I obeyed him at 3. I am very successful today and I trace my success to the upbringing and prayers I got from my father and grandfather. No money ritual is as effective as a prayer and blessing from your fathers. I may be wrong, but I am not sure that a father or grandfather can have this type of influence on an adult financially and socially successful male in Igbo land. What I did may even be construed as weakness. In my opinion, Ndi’Igbo are also individually more intelligent than their neighbors (I call it as I see it) but they hardly use their intelligence to unite and have one leader, one goal and one destiny.

Because of this, even though they are more intelligent, they are almost always doomed to serve those that are wiser than them because wisdom is superior to intelligence. The Igbo also appear to value leaders because of the leader’s personal attainments in life and so money gives you more leadership credentials than wisdom or age. They forget that a rich man may have more clothes than an elder but cannot have more rags than him. They overestimate the power of money and underestimate the power of wisdom.

If the Igbo can learn humility and practice diplomacy and discipline themselves to have one leader that they listen to in good and bad times not because he is always right but because he is their leader, their marginalization will end and their dominance will begin. These are merely my opinions which may be wrong. Now that I have touched on Ndi’Igbo, perhaps I may also touch on the South in general. There are four things that the South has to understand about the North. One, there is no such thing as Hausa Fulani. It is a myth. There is Hausa and there is Fulani. The second thing is that the Fulani are not our enemies.

They are our rivals for power. Once we make this paradigm shift, our attitudes to seeking political power will change. The third thing is that the Northern elite are experts at brinkmanship. A perfect example is the recent ranting by the chairman of the Northern Elders Forum, the cantankerous Ango Abdullahi, who says that the North is prepared to split from Nigeria. When at Chief EK Clark’s 90th birthday in Abuja, Ango Abdullahi said “I come from Kaduna State, the population according to the 2006 census puts us at 6.3 million. And if you look at the resources that come from the so called federation account to Kaduna, it is one quarter of what Delta gets”, what Nigerians should understand is that he was only playing the game of brinksmanship. Kaduna contributes only 0.1% of the funds that enter the Federation Account and gets 1.4% of the monies that leave the Federation Account. Who should complain between Kaduna and Delta? The fourth and final thing is that too many Southerners are filled with hostility for the Hausa people. Unbeknownst to but a few of us down South, there are very few actual Hausa people in the North. Hausa is more of a language than a people.

Most of those we in the South label ‘Hausa’ in the North are a motley crew of various minority ethnic groups who are bound together by a common lingua franca-Hausa. For decades before Independence these minority groups had been dominated by the Fulani and when Independence came they thought that the more exposed Southerners would come and hand them a hand of fellowship and deliver them from their oppressors but to their shock we greeted them with hostility and sometimes open hatred and a wise sage like Sardauna Ahmadu Bello opened up his hands to them through his policy of One North and empowered Northern minorities like Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Sunday Awoniyi and co. Who knows, he may have done the same with the South and created a truly ‘One Nigeria’, if his life had not been tragically cut short in the coup mistakenly called Nzeogwu coup but which was actually masterminded by Emmanuel Ifeajuna with Nzeogwu being slightly more than a pawn in the game. Ahmadu Bello was not a tribalistic leader. But he was a regional leader. He was suspicious of Southerners in general and he had something akin to disdain and maybe even contempt for Ndi’Igbo. It is an inconvenient truth that cannot be denied. Even his hardcore followers cannot deny this. He is caught on video articulating this view and these videos are now on YouTube.

Some of Sir Ahmadu Bello’s successors have built upon the foundations he laid and have matured to be great patriots. For instance, despite what the media has written about him to exaggerate his faults, the fact remains that former President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida is one of the most patriotic Nigerians alive. Only President Olusegun Obasanjo can be said to be more patriotic than General Babangida in contemporary Nigerian history. How do I mean? Consider this; In 1998 after Abacha died and Babangida’s protege, General Abdulsalami Abubakar became head of state, President Babangida engineered the shift of political power from the North to the Southwest and specifically to President Olusegun Obasanjo. For those who think that he had to do this let me ask you a question: What would have happened if the 1999 Presidential election had been thrown open to all and sundry, and not just restricted to the Southwest, and a Northerner like Atiku Abubakar or some other credible Northerner had won? Would the Southwest have seceded? Would there have been war in 1999? Would Nigeria have gone the way of Rwanda? No, no, no! There would have been a great discontent in the Southwest, but as long as the results were free and fair, there would have been little the Southwest could have done to change the situation.

Now let me ask a hypothetical question: Placed in that same situation, with Igbo dominance in the military and in government, would an Igbo leader have ceded power to the Yorubas to compensate them for an event like June 12 knowing that even if he did not there was little they could do by way of taking the power from him? Even an Igbo man would agree with me that this is very unlikely. I do not need to ask the question of whether or not a Yoruba man would do this because General Olusegun Obasanjo had already done it in 1979.

It is this statesmanly humility, (having the power to do something that would favour yours and your people’s cause, yet having the conscience and discipline not to do it because it is against the principles of natural justice), that Ndi’Igbo lack in sufficient quantity at their leadership levels. The above reason is why power continues to elude them. It is more than physical. It is spiritual. As James 4:10 says “Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.” This humility is ingrained into Yoruba and Northern youths from infancy. In the North, youths squat to greet their fathers and their male elders.

In the Southwest, children are taught to prostrate for their elders as a form of greeting. Banky W, is an international star but when he met Dele Momodu, he prostrated before him. Long before him, Sir Shina Peters did that to King Sunny Ade. I doubt that an Igbo man can even muster enough humility to prostrate before his own father how much more an elder! He would consider that as foolishness. And there is nothing unGodly about this.

It is not idolatrous. Many Igbos like to claim Jewish ancestry. Maybe they are right maybe they are not. But Abraham is the father of the Jewish nation. In Genesis 18:2 the Bible records that “Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby.

When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.” Look at that “bowed low to the ground”. Abraham prostrated! That act of humility does not take anything from you. But it gives everything to you. You see, a man’s greatest pleasure and need is not money or sex. It is to feel important. It is to be respected. Both religion and science support this position.

In Genesis 1:28 God gave man a charge and said “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion”. It is God Himself that put the desire in man to want to dominate, to want to be respected. According to Sigmund Freud, man is dominated by two urges, the sex urge and the urge to be important. This goes back to Genesis 1:28 ‘be fruitful’ and ‘have dominion’.

Women by and large influence men through the first urge which Freud named ‘Eros’. Men influence other men through another part of the male personality that Freud called ego. Because every man has an ego (the only difference is in size) it is very difficult, if not impossible to influence another man without massaging his ego. Refusal to do so can only end in two ways: Conflict: which arises when two egos collide and one refuses to bow to the other, or Frustration: which arises when one person refuses to work on the ego of a man who has power over him. And let me say that no one can have power over you except he was given that power by God which is why Romans 13:1 says “there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.

Reno Omokri is a Christian TV talk show host and founder of the Mind of Christ Christian Center and the Helen and Bemigho Sanctuary for orphans.
He is the author of three books, Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God, Why Jesus Wept and Apples of Gold: A Book of Godly Wisdom. His upcoming fourth book, Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years: Chibok, 2015 and Other Conspiracies, is set for release in June.

http://uncova.com/what-the-igbo-can-learn-from-yoruba-and-fulani-about-power--reno

Remember the Nigerian pastor Tim Omotoso who was declared wanted recently in South Africa, for the abuse of 30 young girls whom he kept in his house? Omotoso was said to have abused the girls under the pretext of saving them from drug abuse. While some were members of his singing group known as Simply Christolite, others dropped out of the Kwazulu-Natal university.

Meanwhile, Bishop Vusi Dube of the National Interfaith Council of South Africa, said he had always been suspicious of Omotoso’s activities. He said: “I challenge all honest Nigerian pastors to condemn this. If they don’t, there will be assumptions that they have no problem with this behaviour.”

There are new details to the story. Pastor Omotoso was arrested and dragged at the Port Elizabeth Airport on April 20. He has now been charged to court and some of the revelations at the court hearing are shocking!

Herald Live reports that details reveal how Pastor Omotoso always make the girls rub Vaseline on their thighs while telling them to recite Psalm 51 – a psalm that deals with sin and being cleansed. After which the South Africa-based Nigerian pastor would then tell the girls that If they tell anyone about their encounters they would be cursed and would die.

Nigerian televangelist is facing 22 charges relating from s*xual assault to human trafficking with possible additional charges to be added at a later stage.

Recall that the general overseer of the Jesus Dominion International was apprehended at the Port Elizabeth Airport in the restroom on April 20, minutes after his flight from Durban landed. He was dragged by police officers in an embarrassing way while many onlookers booed him.

http://www.eagleheadline.com/archives/2372?transsion=1

This is a show of shame. In a sane society people like this ought to be rebuked and be made to realize the wrong they have done.
I quite understand that we have greater thieves in our society who are yet to be apprehended or death with. Majority of our politicians fall in these categories. This is not a yardstick or enough reason to exonerate him.
James Ibore case is different because his Case had been made known and he is now an ex-convit. We don't have to celebrate him but rebuke him. Celebrating him is mere encouragement for his co-thieves to continue looting.
I pray by the power of almighty God that other thieves like him will be heavily and mightily disgraced, punished and failed.