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These are terrible places

Saraki with heavy heart towards Baba

Baba really cage this guy

Why no good things come out of this IMO state

Good one

saintkeppy:
Once this Airport Project is Completed &commissioned, it therefore means all the States in the South-South Region has an Airport.

Namely:

Margaret Ekpo Int'L Airport, Calabar, Cross River State.

Ibom Int'L Airport, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.

Port HarcourT Int'L Airport, Port Harcourt
Rivers State.

Bayelsa Cargo Airport, Bayelsa State.

Asaba Int'L Airport, Delta State.

Benin City Airport, Edo State.

agabusta:
It is Asaba International Airport. Not cargo.

The only functional airport in the south-south you just mentioned are;
Port Harcourt
Benin
Calabar

Every other airport in the zone is helipad and emergency landing field. Is it Delta airport, that cannot contain a drone

Ok

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Prophets of doom

While Mystic Marcus, a supposed psychic pig, has picked the Super Eagles as one of the semi-finalists of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, August 3, 1996, still remains the biggest date in Nigeria’s football history.
It was the day the U-23 team beat Argentina’s U-23 team 3-2 to win Olympic Games gold. The nucleus of that winning team was forged, coincidentally at the 1994 World Cup, which was also hosted by the USA.
When Emmanuel Amuneke swung his left boot at a free kick taken by Wilson Oruma in the 89th minute – all attention turned to the centre referee, Pierluigi Collina, as the Argentina players raised their arms in unison, assuming an offside would be called.
Collina pointed to the centre circle – the goal was given and Nigeria was crowned champions of the world, albeit through the Olympic route.
Many Nigerians would want an epiphany – but this time on the World Cup stage. It can be dreamed but can they achieve it? Many did not believe the 1996 squad was going to win any medal whatsoever, but they accomplished far beyond what many projected they would be able to achieve.

What made that team so successful?
Continuity – from the coaching perspective, Johannes Bonfrere had been an assistant under Clemens Westerhof before being handed the reins of the team when Westerhof departed after the 1994 World Cup. Bonfrere knew the players and they trusted him in return. Gernot Rohr built his own team, discovered players and instituted his own way of playing, assisted by an NFF, who for once have provided all of the team’s needs. Though he is not yet two years on the job, Rohr’s ability to command the respect of all the players is something that bodes well for the group.
Attacking numbers
Looking at Celestine Babayaro’s average positioning [he started at left back] throughout the tournament and you see that the team was not afraid to attack because the left-back was always close or inside the opponent’s box on many occasions. The major challenge this 2018 set has faced is not creating enough goal scoring chances and that boils down to not having numbers in the opposition box. Even though the Eagles scored four against Argentina last November, analysis of the moves to score the third and fourth goals revealed the Eagles had two players in the Argentine box on each occasion – not enough!
Technically astute changes
Let’s say almost all the substitutions made by Bonfrere in Atlanta paid off. Victor Ikpeba, Wilson Oruma, and Garba Lawal came into the team at one stage and added to the output. That is one area in which Rohr has shown strength – but that still needs to improve. In the opening match between Russia and Saudi Arabia, players that came off the bench scored three of the five goals.
Great Stamina
They just kept going and never gave up. It could have been easy for the team to believe they had achieved a small victory by coming from 3-1 down to equalise against Brazil in the last minute of normal time. But in extra time, they were pressing and fortunately, Nwankwo Kanu scored that golden goal that took the team to the final.

Unity of purpose
Even when, on the eve of their departure to the Olympics, the team lost 2-0 to Togo in Lagos, the focus did not change and neither did the team implode due to infighting – they were together through the good and the bad. This class of 2018 is said to be the most united Super Eagles’ squad in many years – they need to show that unity on the pitch by giving of themselves to one another.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/06/breaking-ronaldo-accepts-2-years-prison-18-8m-euro-fine-tax-case/

Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo has agreed to pay the Spanish taxman 18.8 million euro ($20 million) to settle a tax fraud claim, a legal source said Friday.

The deal between the fiscal authorities and the advisors of the star comes hours before Ronaldo’s Portugal face Spain in the World Cup in Russia.

The agreement still has to be ratified and will likely come with a two-year jail term — although sentences of up to two years are not generally served in Spain.

The former Manchester United player, who is at the World Cup on the back of a third straight Champions League title with Real, appeared in court last July at Pozuelo de Alarcon, a wealthy Madrid suburb, to answer four counts of tax evasion.

Procecutors allege the five-time Ballon d’Or winner took “advantage of a company structure created in 2010 to hide income generated in Spain from his image rights from tax authorities”.

He is alleged to have used companies in low-tax foreign jurisdictions — notably the British Virgin Islands and Ireland — to avoid having to pay the tax otherwise due.

In 2014, Spanish authorities say he was late in declaring that year just 11.5 millions euros of revenue earned in Spain for the period 2011-2014 when his earnings in his country of residence totalled 43 million euros.

The Spanish taxman also found he did not declare 28.4 million euros in image rights agreed for 2015-2020, leaving 14.7 million owing. His legal team had blamed the affair on a simple different interpretation of which revenue he was obliged to declare in Spain.

In May, legal sources indicated that the Portuguese, the world’s highest paid sportsman last year with $93 million for 2016-2017 according to Forbes magazine, had proposed making a 14 million settlement.

Had the case gone further, without the player offering a full settlement, he could have faced a fine of a reported 28 millions euros as well as a three-and-a-half-year jail term, according to the Spanish tax office union Gestha.

Ronaldo’s big La Liga rival, Barcelona’s Argentinian star Lionel Messi, paid a two-million-euro fine in 2016 in his own tax wrangle and received a 21-month jail term, the latter reduced to a further fine of 252,000 euros equivalent to 400 euros per day of the original term.

In a statement issued by the Gestifute sports agency which represents him, Ronaldo insisted last year that he had “never hidden anything, nor have I had the intention of evading taxes”.

Prosecutors had alleged a “voluntary and conscious breach of his fiscal obligations in Spain.”

To me 1962 and 2002, take it all

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/272238-2026-world-cup-how-nigeria-other-countries-voted-fifa.html


More details have emerged about how countries voted for the host of the 2026 football World Cup.
PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported how Morocco on Wednesday at the Expocentre in Moscow lost out 65-134 to the joint bid of the United States of America, Canada, and Mexico.
In a bid process that lasted 15 seconds, FIFA revealed that Nigeria, through the Nigeria Football Federation president, Amaju Pinnick, voted for Morocco.
There were insinuations that after President Donald Trump sort of threatened to withhold or stop aid and help to countries they currently support, there were fears that a lot of countries, including Nigeria, would be forced to vote for the United bid.
However, Nigeria’s relationship with Morocco has improved over the years leading to a first presidential visit by a Nigerian leader to the North African country. During President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit, several agreements were signed between Nigeria and Morocco.
Out of the 53 CAF-affiliated countries; nine voted for the joint bid – Benin Republic, Botswana, Cape Verde, Guinea, Liberia, Namibia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Ghana was unavoidably absent because of recent developments that saw the federation president resign.
Of the superpowers, China, France, and Italy voted for Morocco while Russia, Germany, and Japan voted the joint bid.

I laugh in Swahili

It is very crucial and highly recommended that every child must undergo immunization in order to make it out alive and healthy as they get older. It is usually between the ages of nine months to eleven months that immunizations are highly advised to be carried out on children. In this post I would be taking you on a journey through the problems of immunization in Nigeria, but first, I want to explain the meaning of immunization for those who may not be so conversant with the ‘immunization’ term.

What is Immunization
Immunization can be said to be the process whereby a person is administered a vaccine to make them immune or resistant to an infectious disease.

A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine). Vaccines help to stimulate the immune system of a person in order to protect them from reoccurring infections and diseases. The presence of vaccines in the body introduces the immune system to the bacteria or virus weakened microbes, the body then produces antibodies to fight the weakened microbes and suppresses its effect, this helps make the immune system become stronger whereby it cannot be taken by surprise when the body comes in contact with the virus or bacteria as time goes on. The importance of immunization to a child cannot be overemphasized, it has served as proven tools used to control and eliminate life-threatening diseases such as measles, polio, and yellow-fever e.t.c. Immunization is the best health investment a mother can make in the life of her child as it has been proven to save lives of over a million children all around the world and therefore leading to a healthier childhood and easier motherhood. However, though immunization is key to a healthier childhood, there are still problems faced with immunization in Nigeria, they are stated below.


1. Inaccurate Knowledge about the Function of Immunization

Misconception of immunization as to their preventive function poses a serious problem in Nigeria. A research conducted in six states in Nigeria in 2004 explains that some diseases that cannot be vaccinated against, such as cholera, malaria, epilepsy are believed by the locals that vaccination cures these kinds of diseases. In March 2005, Katsina state, immunization nurses and organizers concluded that only polio immunization is more than enough to protect a child from all childhood diseases even those diseases which there are no vaccinations to. The most people who are likely to have this false knowledge include illiterates, and those who do not have access to effective and well-informed health officials and facilities.


2. Inadequate Storage Facility

The unavailability of effective storage facility is also a major problem of immunization in Nigeria. The cold chain has become quite ineffective and has been unable to be repaired, despite the fact that Nigeria has received large quantities of this equipment. In some states in Nigeria, cold chain equipments are poorly stored or handled. Also, during the transportation of these vaccines from one place to another, some have been mishandled or improperly stored and has thereby reduced the potency of the vaccines which in turn can seriously affect a child’s health thereby confirming the fear of the locals that immunization kills children rather than protect them.


3. Religion

In some parts of the northern states, immunization is considered a sin against their belief. Muslim states have very little immunization coverage and the lowest on the list are the north-west statestate. However, in the south, eastern and western states in Nigeria, there is a higher level of awareness about immunization but this is only restricted to the Christian areas as the Muslims in the west have even lower immunization coverage due their religious beliefs and poor education.


4. Political Problems

In Nigeria, there are several policies that affect the health sector. The poor coverage of immunization in the northern states can be traced to the inadequacy and ineffectiveness of the government officials to provide enough vaccines and immunization facilities to the locals. At the state levels, there have been cases of frequent reshuffling of civil servant staffs and sometimes unqualified staffs are appointed to take over responsibilities meant to be handled by experts. These governmental policies do play a critical role that contributes to the problems of immunization in Nigeria.


5. Negative Beliefs

One of the major problems facing immunization in Nigeria is the negative belief held by some religious individuals and some parents. A lot of people reject immunization because of the stories they hear from false rumors and incorrect facts. The Muslims belief that immunization is an undercover plan instigated by the westerners to reduce the Muslim population, with this negative belief it becomes almost impossible for immunization to cover most part of the northern states such as Jigawa, Kano and Yobe states. This sort of negative understanding has resulted to a high deficiency of immunization coverage in the north.


6. Lack of Confidence

Lack of confidence and belief in immunization is also a major problem. Most mothers in Kano state, have no belief in immunization as they think it would result in a more severe side effect and the fact that most of them belief that immunization cures all diseases and when this doesn’t turn out to be true it heightens their doubts, further making it impossible to get their children immunized.


7. Inadequate Facilities, Supplies and Vaccines

The main duty of the federal government is to provide the facilities needed to state and local government to carry a successful immunization program, apparently that hasn’t been the case so far, as the government has proven to be highly incompetent and disorganized in this department and as well other sectors of the Nigerian economy. There have been cases of withheld funds, according to a research in 2002, the government did not give up any financial assistant to the health sector and in March 2003, the government had just only made it a budget that had not yet been approved. The inability of the government to supply vaccines on time can lead to an outbreak of diseases and apparently this happens mostly in the north and a very few parts in the east and this I can say, is the core cause of the problems of immunization in Nigeria.


8. Negative Attitudes

The negative responses, attitude and behavior of the nurses also contribute to one of the problems of immunization in Nigeria. Some mothers have complained about the rudeness of the nurses and it has been one of the major reasons why immunization has not been taken very serious by these mothers. Also the nurses’ negative attitude towards work exhibited in their lateness to work has caused some mother to wait for an overbearing period of time thereby losing out on their pre-planned schedule especially for those mothers with a busy schedules and even at that, these nurses rarely or never apologize for their lateness or bad attitude. Some mothers have also complained about the nurses’ rudeness to them when they arrive late, even sometimes they override the “first-come-first-serve” rule and begin with those they are more familiar with, thereby ignoring those that came around first. These bad attitudes exhibited by the nurses have caused a gradual reduction in the population of women who would come around to get their child immun


9. Health of the Child

Sometimes the health of the child can be posing as a huge barrier that faces immunization in Nigeria. In a situation where a child is malnourished and sick, it becomes almost impossible to get such a child immunized especially when the child even becomes sick on the day he/she is supposed to get immunized.


10. Unavailability of Parents

The unavailability of a mother can disrupt the immunization process. The failure of a parent to present the child for immunization on the appointed day is also problem that faces immunization in Nigeria, this usually happens when such a parent is crippled with the fear that the vaccines provided are not safe enough for their child.Lack of transportation fares or even lack of access to immunization centers especially for mothers living in the very rural areas where they have little or no access at all to the clinic poses as a problem. The long waiting hours and inconvenient immunization hours also discourages most women from bringing their child in for immunization. These problems can be sorted when the government decides to take the girdle of their responsibility a lot more serious and becomes effective about it; also, carrying out a mass campaign in the rural areas to educate the locals about the importance of immunization and its functions in the human body can help reduce the effects of the immunization barriers. The release of funds should be done early enough to avoid outbreak of diseases and immunizations facilities should be provided and well-managed by competent and polite experts/staffs.

Nigerian music legend, Ras Kimono is dead. He died on Sunday 10th June aged 60.

Ras Kimono who was known for hit songs like ‘We no want’ and ‘“Rum-Bar Stylée” was said to have concluded plans to travel to the United States last night, and he complained of feeling funny.



According to reports, the legendary raggae artist was rushed to a hospital in Ikeja, where he was later taken to Lagoon Hospital on the Island where he died.

May his gentle soul rest in peace.


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/06/breaking-legendary-raggae-artist-ras-kimono-dies-60/

OK noted

Awesome

OK, watching keenly

SpecialAdviser:
I love it when they jail a politician but one question I keep asking is;

WHEN WILL EFCC JAIL APC MEMBERS?

This mode of fighting opposition in the name of fighting corruption will spell doom for the nation.

Buhari is a scam

What do you mean, if you don't know anything pls ask questions. Lucky Imasuen, Jonah Jang and others are not APC members?

I wonder ooo

From ur discuss, I believed it means ur part in the game, as in male or female which one are u into

Yes! Just bought one for my Aunt going to Houston
Minimum 371k

Hmmn

BB10 for that amount? No way

Very unfortunate, my heart goes to the parents of the deceased

Very funny