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chaircover: someone please tell me that this isnt true

what if i tell u it happen close to my area n that i witnessed fire trucks first-hand, rushing to the scene.
All i can say now is R.I.P. to those who lost their lives n pray they make heaven.

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[quote author=Yommi£][/quote]@NLers
Guys beware of the END-TIMES n these so-called pastors. I even doubt whether these ladies on dr firemans' poster are humanbeings. My guess is that they're agents of the devil. THE DEVIL'S GETTING REALLY DESPERATE.

playboy19: So with all these faux pas over and over, could it be that Mr Jonathan is just overly dumbb to realize that he's being pushed to do wrong all the time? Isn't it rather obvious that he's working with the wrong team? Or am I thinking too much of this man? I mean expecting too much from his dumbness? Damn, i think i'm gonna be sick.

@playboy19
Guy no sick o! No doctor to cure u o! Dem dey strike.

[quote author=Another Okija]And for the last time I am telling you that until Anambra and Enugu say they cant produce the President before you start talking About Imo, Abia and Ebonyi... Delta State is least on the food chain..[/
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@Another Okija
My fellow Ibo brothers, na so e go dey? We never even enter aso rock, we don begin drag Ibo state wey go pick the presidency. Whether Enugu, Anambra, Imo or Delta shouldnt matter now or ever. We aint voicing as one by this show ya'll putting up. Abeg lets behave.
Meanwhile watch out 4 bluetooth, bittyend aka britney spears n co to come n spew their normal tribalistic hate Poo here.

azpekuliar: This has for long puzzled me. Why do motorists in Lagos drive around with their head lamps on. And I mean regular motorists, not a VIP convoy. I can understand if its done on a hazy day, rainy day but in clear day light and with perfect driving conditions . Or could it be an attempt to show off their vehicles, because a vast majority of the vehicles range form mid-budget to top of the range vehicles, but evn then very few of them have Xenon High Intensity Discharge Head Lamps which I saw on a Ducati this morning and was awed. Even jalopies on Lagos roads are part of this trend. Should this one be added to the list of the motoring cultures peculiar to us as Lagosians/Nigerians or this also obtains abroad?

@op
Ask the americans n canadians they should have the right answer. It mostly has nothing to do with lagosians.

~Bluetooth:
Aim for the moon.If you miss,you will fall among the stars. . . .Bros move on jare,let God deal with all your ibotic enemies.

@Bluetooth
I only had to read ur Poo n said this sounds like that Zap.er, so-called bluetooth n alas its ur STINKY @SS. U STINK EVERYWHERE U GO B.I.T.C.H. U'RE ALWAYS THE FIRST TO INTRO TRIBAL FIGHTS. WHAT HAS DBANJS' FAME GOT TO DO WITH THE IBOS'? FOOL!

anddrewz: Women can be very funny atimes: Imagine I had a little misunderstanding with my wife and she won't let me touch her. Now I am in a fix, I feel like having s*x, should I force her and do it or go out and satisfy myself with another woman? Please I need your honest opinion.

@anddrewz
lol! I've not stopped laughing since i read ur post. Do not force her to give u 'pomo', believe me e no go sweet. Also she'll be dry n u'll be hurting her, unless u don gather money 4 expensive medical bills cos u might damage something in her body.
Pls talk things out with her n make up, simple. Best of luck!

[b]Hi Guyz, am back with the bomb. Now lets see what we have here;


According to the CBN governor, Nigeria's Natuonal Assembly gulped
21% of overhead in 2008
26% of overhead in 2009, and now
25% of overhead in 2010.

This means these guys' looting is on the increase over the years and what have they offered in return? passing only 13 bills out of over 100.

Here;s what Analysts have figured out:

1. It costs tax payers N290million yearly to maintain each member of our National Assembly in a country where 80% of the population earn below 300 naira a day (or N109,500= in a year). N300 = 2 USD (approx)

2. A working day earning of a Senator is more than a yearly income of a doctor.
3. It is more than the annual salary of 42 army generals
4. It is more than the annual salary of 48 Nigerian professors
5. It is more than the annual pay of 70 commissioners of police
6. It is more than twice the pay of the US President
7. It is 9 times the salary of US congressmen


Whilst in Abuja just this week, I learnt that each Nigerian Senator had just collected 42 million Naira as their salaries, expenses and whatever. Each Member of the House of Representative had just collected 36 Million Naira. These are per quarter, which means each Senator gets (I will not say "earn" because judging from the very low quality services they provide to Nigeria, we could hardly say they earned these huge sums of money) 164 million Naira per year – and there 109 of these parasites. A simple calculation therefore means 109 Senators X 164 million Naira X 4 years = 71,504,000,000 or 71 Billion Naira for 4 years. In other words, each Senator will take home 656 Million Naira in 4 years. Not a bad little earner, is it?
For the House of Representatives, there are 360 of these parasites. Each gets 36 Million per quarter, which translates to 144 million per year per Member. The calculation of their drain on the Nigerian treasury is 360 X 144 million Naira X 4 years = 207,360,000,000 or 207 Billion Naira. Each member of the House of Representatives will take home 576 Million Naira after 4 years, laughing all the way to the bank.
According to some reports, "each Senator will pocket 720 million Naira in four years, while each House of Representative member will get 540 million Naira. These sums do not include the approved pay by RMAFC which they also collect. Senate President David Mark gets 250 million Naira per quarter; Deputy Senate President Ekweremadu 150 million Naira; and each of the eight remaining principal officers 78 million Naira". Wow!
Lord have mercy on my poor people of Nigeria. What a waste? What a damn waste? What a thievery and cheating and injustice? And what an aberration of democracy? What an expensive type of democracy we are running here. I am in the dark here!
It is no wonder that Nigerians are yet to see the dividends of democracy, over 11 years later Nigeria's democracy must surely be the most expensive ever run on this planet called Earth and if nothing is done quickly to stem this looting tide, it may come to a time that there will be no money to run the government beyond paying the swollensalaries and allowances of our public office holders. It is definitely unsustainable, profligate, and wasteful and does not yield the desired result. Our democracy, much as we desire it, is run by thieves, opportunists, charlatans and never-do-wells.
Compatriots, think of what these huge sums of money can do if diverted to building power plants to rescue us from our comatose power problem; funding railway and road construction; funding education; reviving agriculture; funding hospitals and dispensaries; rescuing our moribund sports development; developing the Niger Delta; even, payingsalaries of teachers and the pension entitlements of our pensioners. I will throw in funding the proper training and arming of the Nigeria Police Force.
Okey Ndibe called it "A Feeding Frenzy". NEXT's Musikilu Mojeed and Elor Nkereuwem christened it "AnAssembly for Looting" saying "Considering that Nigeria's minimum wage stands at ?5, 500 a month, each senator's quarterly allowance "will pay for 2,909 workers earning the minimum wage." The reporters offered other tantalizing projections. If Nigerians were to fire the entire membership of the National Assembly, the savings would be more than enough to "fund the N88.5billion" Mr. Umaru Yar'Adua budgeted this year for building power plants. Alternatively, we could "fund hospitals and clinics" all over Nigeria, "fix the Benin-Ore Expressway, which has collapsed, or make a significant down payment on the Lagos-Kano railway line". The Tribune editorialised this perilous trend as "Poverty Inflicted by Profligacy". Whatever it is, Nigeria cannot sustain or afford this waste.
The fact is Nigerian politicians have turned themselves into instant millionaires just for being members of the National Assembly, paying themselves huge, obscene and unjustified salaries and allowances not commensurate with their very low productivity and without doing anything worthwhile for the country, for you and me, or forhumanity. They are "Legis-looters", "Dis-Honourables" and "Execu-thieves".
What visible difference has their representations made in the lives of the represented Nigerians to give them the false idea that they deserve their present salary talk less of a pay rise? Please, someone tell me: how many bills have these odious, greedy and lazy thieves passed into law since 1999? Do we actually know what they are doing except some of them using big vocabularies? What are we getting in return for their large obnoxious salaries and expenses? Why are Nigerians funding their expensive lifestyles, and getting zero in return? What kind of legitimate work can anybody do in Nigeria that will fetch such atrocious remuneration or salary?
Our law-makers are overpaid and underworked and what do they do? The only time Nigerian legislators suddenly become vocal and creative (according to Reuben Abati) is when they are hustling for jumbo pay and allowances. This is the case not only in Abuja but also in the states, where the members of the Houses of Assembly are perpetually fighting the Governor to give them more money.
Most of the lawmakers, Federal, State and even the Local Government Councillors are mostly absent, running after and making dubious political and financial deals, "busy chasing contracts in government departments or peddling influence around town, or busy harassing companies and MDAs over which they exercise oversight functions". (Reuben Abati). Anytime they say they want to visit MDAs, etc, it is actually to go and demand and collect money from the hapless civil servants, or else they will institute investigations into their affairs, they always threaten. Compatriots, yes, it is that bad.
At the same time, no Bill gets passed unless individuals and organisations pay bribes to these "legis-looters", despite their already huge remunerations. Yes, believe it. I know. I have been keenly following a struggle to get the National Assembly to pass a Bill to establish an agency which will be of tremendous benefit for the health and safety of Nigerians and huge sums have had to be paid to lawmakers just to get the bill passed, and it has not even happened. They keep demanding more and more everyday.
For Ministries and Government departments and parastatals to get their budgets approved, they have to factor into their respective budget what will go to the legislators as bribes.
Having said all these, who will change it? We are in a dilemma, big trouble, because the very politicians who can change and implement our suggestions are the same people benefiting immensely, corruptly and illegally from it – the Senators, the Representatives (or the Legis-looters). How can they deny themselves the opportunity of looting more money? Where is their conscience and moral and political will to change the system from within, by themselves?
Dear compatriots, how do we overcome this problem and change this system? The problem is not abating, it is getting worse. Next year, they will again move to increase their remunerations. I am out of ideas, please help!
These unscrupulous and conscienceless looters are draining the very life out of us. And others are waiting in the wings to take part in the looting too. We must stop them before it is too late.
Let the truth be said always.
Akintokunbo Adejumo is the Global Coordinator of Champions For Nigeria Organisation (www.championsfornigeria.org)

Hope this is good enough for the legis-looters, or do they want more?
Note two people alone or lil' more were named here. All of them (legis-looters) have been fingered as criminals.[/b]