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A man went to face an interview board, a member of the Board asked him, "Tell the difference between "COMPLETE" and "FINISH".The man replied, I am clarifying with example, "When u marry a right person you are "Complete"and when you marry the wrong one you are "Finished".When you now marry a wrong one from a wrong family “you are completely finished”.

@op I think MBj's advise ^^^ makes sense. You should not remain silent about this matter, summon the courage to expose your problems to your family. you have to broke the shackles of oppression, bully and intimidation.

A Naija boy abroad called his mum to say he's got AIDS. His mum begged him not to ever come back home. Surprised he asked why and she replied; If u come, your wife go get am and give your younger brother who go give house girl and she self go give your papa and your papa go give me and i go give driver who go give your sister. If your sister get am, the village don get am be dat! We are counting on u 2 die alone

I can now confidently tell you that if I did not go to that constitutional conference, as God commanded me, Nigeria will be in pieces today. One of our major objectives was to decentralise political power in Nigeria to the six newly proposed geopolitical zones. We wanted to empower the six geopolitical zones and weaken the Federal (central) Government to discourage corruption and make politics at the centre unattractive to people that have the love of money at heart.

We discussed zoning and rotation of the Presidency. We agreed that only three representatives from each state should take part in the debate. The debate started on a Thursday. That weekend, the traditional rulers held their unofficial private meeting at Apo village. We concluded that by Monday morning, we would go and see the chairman of the conference, Justice Karibi Whyte. Fortunately for us, on getting there, the conference Vice Chairman, Justice Mamman Nasir, a former President of the Court of Appeal, was present.

When we were about to go, the Holy Spirit said to me that I should not let them go yet. I immediately requested all to sit back once again. I then said, Mr. Chairman, my prayer is that Nigeria will not break up through this conference as a result of our deeds or misdeeds. I said we had listened to 18 states debating whether they should release MKO Abiola or not. Those who spoke for the North did not want Abiola released. Those from the South wanted him released. I said I am sure that at the end of the debate today, Monday, the pattern will be the same.

By the prompting of the Holy Spirit, I then said if I were in your position, I would make a pronouncement after the debate that a committee be set up and immediately locked up in a room to discuss the subject matter thoroughly and dispassionately and come up with a reasonable compromise and recommendation. The chairman looked at his vice and they both smiled in agreement and said ok, thank you.

We continued the debate and at the end of it all, it was exactly the same pattern as I was divinely prompted to predict. The chairman and the deputy had obviously briefed Dr. Olusola Saraki who was the chairman of the Business Committee of the conference. At the end of the debate, it was Saraki who suggested exactly what I had earlier been divinely directed to tell them in the morning. He suggested that we should form a committee of 50 people. They called them the Committee of the 50 Wisemen of which I was a member. We were locked up. Saraki was made the chairman of the committee.

The debate started around 4.00 p.m. We southerners wanted the presidency zoned to the geopolitical zones and rotated among them. But the northerners neither wanted zoning nor rotation. Around 10.00 p.m., somebody from the North suddenly, got up and said ok, we accept that there will be zoning and rotation. But it would be between the North and the South and the six zones. We southerners then agreed we believed it was only a modified form of what we actually wanted. We, however, insisted that the rotation had to start from the South (the Yoruba in particular) in order to assuage frailed nerves and compensate the aggrieved zone. We all agreed. That was how we came about the rotation between the South and the North.

I got up to request that the decision should be inserted in the Constitution to avoid problems or misunderstanding in the future. It was Mr. Paul Unongo who said that the decision was not a constitutional matter but a political matter and that it would always be resolved politically. If we had inserted it in the Constitution then, this imbroglio we are having today, would not had arisen.

One president, two vice presidents with five-year one term tenure

One other important thing we decided which they also jettisoned was that we should have two Vice Presidents i.e. one President, with two Vice Presidents. This was because we envisaged what happened recently. Our view was that if we have two Vice Presidents, one from the South, the other from the North, it would mean that only a northern VP could succeed a northern President if anything happens to the northern President. We envisaged what happened recently.

They adopted about 75 percent of our 1994-95 Constitution to form the 1999 Constitution. The salient and the most relevant and very important points were left out. They only took what they thought suited them most. This is probably the payback period. President Goodluck Jonathan, however, rightly and justifiably said that he will only go for just one term of four years. Wise decision. This of course is what he is justifiably entitled to on this joint northern ticket he holds.

We also, concluded that we should have only one term of five years for the president and governors, no second term. The country was also expected to register only five political parties. See the very unwieldy situation we have today with scores of registered political parties leading to some disenfranchisements at voting. The government should please do something to correct this soonest

At what time were you booed at the constitutional conference?

That was at the initial stage. There is no crown without a cross. The booing was the cross I had to carry. Of course, the rotational presidency which finally brought General Olusegun Obasanjo to Aso-Rock on May 29, 1999, as our president was the befitting crown. Somehow, I became the leader of the Yoruba delegates at the conference. The Yoruba delegates were meeting in my house allocated to me at Apo Village, Abuja, every Monday night to plan and discuss our programme for the week.

We also had a prayer group praying for the conference every Tuesday night.

It was at that prayer conference that God revealed to us what later (two and a half years after) happened to General Oladipo Diya. This was about the then Abuja bomb explosion. Diya could have been blown up in the plane at the Abuja Airport if care was not taken. God sent me to him and I delivered the message. God told him what to do and I believe he obeyed God.

Whether I was booed or not, when we resumed after a two-week break, they gave delegates the opportunity to make their maiden speeches. I wrote, by divine prompting, that I would speak on Tuesday, July 12, 1994. That was the day they said I was booed not knowing that God had His own plan and purpose for that day. I got up at the conference to make factual but brutally frank speech.

What did I say that really offended them? I said ‘what has MKO Abiola done that all or almost of us here present has not done before? Why can he not be forgiven?’ I said that even some of us here had done worse things than MKO. Of course, Dr. Umaru Dikko was also present as a nominated delegate. The human crating episode in London was still very topical and very fresh in our memories. That was my maiden speech that caused the uproar. They assumed, rightly or wrongly, that I was addressing Dikko and they not did like that at all. God actually used the incidenct to establish us Yoruba.

When they started the noise, all the Yoruba delegates decided to walkout of the conference in protest. I have never before seen Yoruba so united. I also got up and wanted to walkout with them. They kept on pleading that I should not leave. The other traditional rulers, the Hausa, the Igbo and even the Yoruba said that I should not join them to walk out. Almost all the other Yoruba delegates left the conference hall. It was a divine strategy. I remained in the conference hall.

All the Hausa and Igbo in the hall were pleading with me to do everything possible to pacify them and make them come back to the conference. The Yoruba delegates later came and called me. They told me it was a strategy for all the delegates at the conference to henceforth see me as the leader of the Yoruba delegates at the conference and always respect, not only myself, as a traditional ruler but all the other Yoruba delegates and the Yoruba as a race. The Igbo kept coming to us and pleading that we should neither break the conference nor break Nigeria in the process.

We went back to the conference hall on the condition that I am allowed to conclude my speech. They agreed. Unfortunately for them, Justice Karibe White the chairman of the conference, a southerner, was not presiding that day. It was his deputy, Justice Nasir, a northerner, who presided. So it was seen as a clearcut case of the North versus the South. Justice Nasir kept pleading with me. What had infuriated me was the fact that a day or two before that day, Obasanjo had gathered some traditional rulers to visit Abacha. Obasanjo invited me to join them as the leader and a Yoruba traditional ruler present at the conference. We all went to see Abacha who, having listened to all our pleas, said he wanted to listen to the personal views of each of us traditional rulers one after the other.

There were 15 of us present. I was the only conference insider at that meeting. All of us spoke one after the other. We were discussing whether they should release MKO Abiola or not. All the northern traditional rulers, eight of them, present, said they should not release him. All the seven southern traditional rulers said they should release him. The northerners outnumbered the southerners by one. It was the following day that I delivered my speech at the conference. I therefore, understandably, spoke vehemently against the set-up, and they were infuriated.

When I came up again to speak for the second time, that day at the conference, they already started seeing us, the Yoruba delegates, as the real first team of the Yoruba and not the second team that they hitherto thought we were. I told them that, even if we all wanted one united Nigeria, it would certainly not be just at any cost to us. It would certainly have to be with mutual respect. Everybody deserves his due respect. That there is a limit to human endurance. That we will certainly not allow anyone or indeed any tribe to enslave us Yoruba anymore. That we are all free born of Nigeria. Everybody has the right to be here at the conference and every Nigerian has, or ought to have, a right to be President.

I told them I was with Abacha the previous day along with Obasanjo and about 15 traditional rulers among others. I said the eight northerners did not want MKO released while the seven southerners wanted him released. The same pattern seemed to be taking shape here and now and this will certainly not be tolerated. The whole place was calm. They all listened to me with rapt attention.

By the time I finished, it was Dr. Tunji Otegbeye, now of blessed memory, who first came to congratulate me and said ‘you are indeed a fire brand’. That my second coming was even more pungent and more powerful than the first. It is obvious that if God did not send me to that conference, with His wisdom, there will be no Nigeria today. I thank God most sincerely for using me as a vessel unto honour. I am eternally grateful to God Almighty and I am still readily available to Him for His use at anytime. May His Holy name be praised both now and forever more in Jesus Name. (Amen)

The Osile Oke-Ona, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Oba Adedapo Adewale Tejuoso, has explained why the late General Sani Abacha refused to release the late Chief MKO Abiola, the widely acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election from detention. The monarch was a member of the 1994/95 Constitutional Conference. He spoke at a media parley marking his 22 years on the throne at the weekend in Abeokuta. Excerpts:

Ogun State at 35

Many governors have come and gone in various disguises, but Ogun State is yet to fulfill her destiny. A godly giant that is being toyed with, making people feel like grasshoppers in their own sight. God Almighty will surely remove the blinkers covering our eyes sooner than later in Jesus Name. We allude to Nigeria’s underdevelopment, but God spoke through an anointed man of God, Benny Hinn, USA, that Nigeria is the best kept secret of God. My son, Dr. Lanre Tejuoso, was present at the crusade and they prayed fervently for the fulfillment of the prophecy to come to pass.

By the same token, Ogun State is going to be great, no doubt. God has assured us that without peace in Egbaland, there can be no peace in Ogun State or in Yorubaland not to talk of Nigeria. Justice, love and peace must therefore, be promptly established. As we all wait to see what will become of Nigeria, we also wait to see what will become of Ogun State. It is not a mere coincidence that all the important church activities in Nigeria are centred in and around the state.

Why do we have the camp ground of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Deeper Life Bible Church, Mountain of Fire & Miracle Ministries on the Lagos–Ibadan Expressway and the Shiloh of the Living Faith Church a.k.a. Winners Chapel in Ogun State? Obviously, God means business in Ogun State. God wants to take over Nigeria at the right time and I believe the time is almost at hand. The Messiah is probably just around the corner.

When God was sending His people (missionaries and evangelists) to Nigeria, it was Ogun State that opened its doors to accept Christianity into Nigeria in 1842. It is not a mere coincidence that it was in Abeokuta that Christianity first took root in Nigeria. It is not a mere coincidence either, that Ogun State (Abeokuta) has produced Presidents/Head of State for Nigeria about three or four times. Tell me any other state or town that can boast of this in Nigeria today.

Nigeria’s birthday should be January 1, 1914

I was reading in one of the newspapers a few days ago that the real birthday of Nigeria should be January 1, 1914. That was the day Nigeria was created (amalgamation of the Northern and the Southern Protectorates) and was pronounced Nigeria for the first time. That means in another three years, Nigeria will be 100 years old.

God has something in mind for Nigeria. He gave us so much resources and wealth but because He has His own plan, He did not put the best of the people in Nigeria yet. He only wanted people who will hold forte temporarily until He is ready to showcase His plans. Maybe in our 100th year, which will be January 1, 2014, God will expose the greatness of Nigeria to the world.

How God used me to save Nigeria

I say all these because God had used me to keep Nigeria one. It was around January, 1994, that we were praying here at home. God gave me a very important message that day and I wrote it down. He told me that they were going to call me to do something for Nigeria soon, that I should heed the call. On June 23, 1994, the following day that MKO Abiola was arrested, after he declared himself as president of Nigeria, the call came that I had been nominated by the Federal Government as the traditional ruler to represent South-West region at the Abuja Constitutional Conference of 1994/95.

Just as predicted, when I was nominated, there were disagreements, uproar and objections, most of them ill-motivated. People came here as if they were going to war to convince me not to go to Abuja. They came to my house here chanting war songs and threatening fire and brimstones, asking me not to go to Abuja. I said to them that I have been called by God to go and see what I can over there. Just let me go and obey God’s command.

Frazy, you should know that your Bf is a real bully. He is trying to bully you into submission and after that, he has total control of your being. Don't allow him. he is not good for you.

Frazy, i am sorry you are living in bondage and he has you under his spell. Cut yourself loose and taste freedom.

We can all agree on the obvious signs your sweetie wants out — like he swaps that wallet photo of you for one of his mom — but what about the more subtle signs? Spotting them is the key to surviving with your pride (and even your relationship) safely intact. “Instead of closing up when we’re afraid a romance may be ending, we need to force ourselves to be open,” says Maya Talisman Frost, owner of Real-World Mindfulness Training. “In many cases, open communication can prevent a downward relationship spiral, so pay attention and watch for opportunities to connect.” Here are five early clues you’re about to get dumped:

Warning Sign #1: Your dates morph into group outings

Has he started inviting a few friends — or a few dozen — along when you go out? He may be trying to tell you something, according to Matt Kennedy of Orlando, FL: “When I want to end a relationship, I’ll invite my buddies along with us to movies, parties and dinner,” he explains. “That way, it becomes more of a group thing instead of a date.”

And even more telling than the size of the crowd is the way he acts within it. “If he’s more flirtatious with other women, making you feel extraneous, or he scans the room instead of focusing on you,” he may be ready to move on, says Debbie Mandel, author of Turn On Your Inner Light.

Warning Sign #2: He becomes Mr. Extreme Makeover

It’s an old wives’ truism for a reason: a person who’s cheating suddenly wants to look better, says Lisa Daily, author of Stop Getting Dumped! “So if he was a blue button-down shirt and chinos kind of guy and suddenly he’s wearing Armani, that’s not a good sign,” she explains.

But hey, new threads and six-pack abs doesn’t mean he’s getting some love on the side — just that he’s open to the idea. “What most of my guy friends say is that when they’re not into the relationship anymore, they’ll work out and buy new clothes because they’re looking to impress women,” says Janelle Nicolo of Beverly, MA. “Since most men in relationships get comfortable and ‘let themselves go,’ when your man starts taking better care of himself, he may well be contemplating replacing you.”

Warning Sign #3: He’s cranky and critical all the time

You tell a joke; he rolls his eyes. You ask what he’s doing Friday; he snaps, “Why are you pressuring me?” You complain about your boss, and he sides with her! What gives? “When there’s a lot of contempt in the relationship and he’s suddenly critical and judgmental, that’s a warning sign,” says Diana Kirschner, Ph.D., author of Opening Love’s Doors. Sometimes when a man feels unhappy but powerless to change things, he’ll act out (kind of like a two-year-old who doesn’t want to eat spinach). Yes, you’re the spinach in this scenario, but don’t take it personally: he is jumping down your throat for absolutely no reason. Remember that you deserve to be worshipped, not tortured, by your man. And love is supposed to be fun.

Warning Sign #4: His body language says, ‘Get me out of here!’

You know those guys who three days before they dump you say, “You make me so happy” or “We should get our own place together,” right? We all wonder why they do it, but the good news is, there’s a way to see it coming — just check out his body language when he speaks. Watch for the one-shoulder hug, a sign he’s “distancing” himself from you in the relationship, says Daily. Patting your back while hugging you is another bad sign, because it shows he’s uncomfortable. Also, check to see if he’s looking up and to the left as he proclaims his devotion to you. According to private investigators, a guy who does this is lying: the look to the left shows he’s using the “creative” side of his brain, says Daily — a good indicator that he’s telling you a whopper.

Warning Sign #5: He’s hard to reach — in every sense of the word

Check all that apply: Do you find yourself calling him more than you used to? Wondering why it took him a day to respond to your email when he used to IM you back in 10 seconds? Has he cancelled more than one date in the last month because he’s crazy busy at work? Has he tried to change the subject after you brought up an issue that requires future planning for two — from where to go Saturday night to whether or not to live together? According to Kirschner, these are “tells” spelling out his time-to-get-outta-here intentions.

To tell if he’s just genuinely busy or getting ready to break free, tune in to how you feel about his lack of time, says Nicole E. Marquez of Tempe, AZ. “For a month or so before my boyfriend broke up with me at lunch — just like George on Seinfeld — there was a ‘dark cloud’ over the relationship,” she recalls. “It was like a sense of impending doom. I think with relationships, your gut feeling is always right.”

Bottom line: If any of these clues rings true, try talking to your guy, says Talisman Frost. Let him know that you want to hear whatever he’s thinking — the less judgmental your tone, the more likely he’ll be to truly open up. In some cases, just being able to vent his relationship anxieties may relieve them. At the very least, by speaking up you gain some ownership of the breakup, making you feel less like a victim and more like the mastermind of your own love-life happiness

New York-based writer Lisa Lombardi.

By Reuben Abati


SOMETHING serious seems to be happening to the age-old "owambe" culture in Nigeria, a reflection of the dynamism of culture and of the telling manner in which economic conditions impact on socio-cultural expressions. The "owambe" phenomenon is one of the established patterns of social life, particularly among the Yoruba speaking people of Nigeria. By the 70s and 80s, up till the 90s, no weekend was complete without someone throwing a lavish party: every social incident, including the purchase of a new car, even a second hand car, or a refrigerator for the household, deaths, birth, a promotion in the office, weddings, a journey- pilgrimage to Mecca or Jerusalem, or any trip overseas, or return from such trips occasioned huge celebrations; if a new house had just been completed, it had to be "warmed," and if it was a car, it had to be "washed", not with soap and water of course, but carton loads of drinks, greedily consumed by neighbours who were called upon to share the glory of success.


The social station of the celebrant determined the scope and richness of the celebration, but for major events like funerals, child naming ceremonies, weddings, graduation parties, there was a conventional template which social pressure turned into an obligation. The character of that template is like this: to really belong to the "owambe crowd" , a Yoruba word that means "we have it, so we can flaunt it"; no party is complete without the notorious "aso ebi" (group attire) which every invitee is expected to buy and wear as a tag of identification with the celebrant; the party itself is deliberately loud, with food and drinks generously provided, and wasted (owambe!); and there would be a musician on the bandstand, the more popular the artiste the better. The venue of such parties used to be a school field, or the streets, deliberately shut down to attract more attention, until state governments banned the holding of parties on main roads. One notorious man once shut down the Lagos-Benin expressway for his mother's funeral party! Soon, it became fashionable to rent events centres, really expensive events centres; and the party could go on all night-long.


The owambe parties became so frequent and often resulted in armed robbery attacks, and high rate of vehicle accidents the morning after; consequently, some state governments banned night parties. Still, this did not discourage the party goers and the generous celebrants. Parties held during the day-time were just as robust and showy, and the Yoruba were the most notorious promoters of this culture, with the men's expansive, parachute-like agbada, and the women's headgears of different designs, shapes and sizes, all creatively embroidered and worn with accustomed grace.


On a typical weekend, an average couple could be invited to about five parties, with five different "aso ebis", changing from one attire to the other, rushing from one end of the city to another. Usually what was meant to be a lot of fun, was invariably a lot of work and quite an expensive pre-occupation. Most persons woke up on Monday morning, completely worn out, groggy from weekend partying, and broke-celebrants expect gifts, the musicians expect to be decorated with cash: and this is a spectacle unto itself, naira plunking, later demonized by the Central Bank of Nigeria as an abuse of the national currency, but no one has listened, is a special art, easily converted into an entertaining spectacle by those who have mastered it. So common was the owambe among the Yoruba that other Nigerians who seemed to be more restrained soon began to organize owambe parties too: the oil boom had made easy money possible, and for years, Nigerians really lived it up. One contemporary English dictionary, describes the Yoruba as "the fun-loving people of West Africa!"

Continue reading http://odili.net/news/source/2011/jun/3/10.html

Manny4life see he has done his maths well enough.

Multi-Trex Integrated Foods Plc (“Multi-Trex” or “The Company”) is a public limited liability company incorporated in Nigeria on 30th November 1999. Multi-Trex started business as a private cocoa merchant; buying cocoa beans from a select group of local suppliers for export to customers mainly in Europe.

In 2003, the company took advantage of the Nigerian government’s policies on non-oil export to expand its business operation by going into processing of cocoa beans into semi-finished industrial products i.e. Cocoa Liquor, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Cake and Cocoa Powder.

To achieve its objectives, the company exclusively hired the production facility of Nigeria’s first cocoa processing plant for a period of two (2) years.Following the success of its manufacturing operation, the company resolved to build its own first cocoa processing factory with an annual capacity of 10,000 metric tonnes (MT). Working with top-rated technical experts and cocoa processing equipment manufacturers from Europe, the company’s factory was completed in 2005 and commissioned on February 1st, 2006 by the then President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR. The factory has since been upgraded to 15,000 MT annually.

The company also went on to construct an ultra-modern cocoa cake grinding plant, designed to pulverise 8,000 MT of Cocoa Cake into Cocoa Powder annually.The company completed a large-scale expansion project in late 2009, with the construction of a brand new 50,000 MT capacity factory with state-of-the-art cocoa processing equipment. In addition, the first cocoa plant is being further upgraded to increase its annual capacity to 30,000 MT before the end of the year. With an installed cocoa processing capacity of 80,000 MT, Multi-Trex is the most modern and biggest cocoa processing facility in Nigeria.

The company has successfully revolutionised the industry since entering the cocoa processing business and is committed to ensuring customers receive the best possible quality cocoa products. Multi-Trex prides itself in establishing a strict quality management system in line with leading Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) principles. At Multi-Trex, we believe that our people are our greatest source of competitive advantage.

We are therefore very particular about the quality of people we hire and the relevance of their work experience. Our organisation is made up of a good number of Nigerians with extensive experience in cocoa processing and trading.Our passion for excellence, strict adherence to high quality standards and membership of renowned cocoa associations (World Cocoa Foundation, Cocoa Producers Alliance, Cocoa Processors Association of Nigeria, etc.) have ensured continued patronage of our products in both local and International markets

FUTURE PLAN

The company plans to utilise cocoa powder output from its grinding plant to produce cocoa-based consumer products such as chocolate drinks, chocolate dry mix and chocolate bars. It is expected that the company’s manufacturing facilities to support the production of these new products will be on stream later this year.One of our goals is to be the champion of local consumption of cocoa-based fast- moving consumer goods (FMCG) in Nigeria.

As early as 1999, we established a sizeable cocoa plantation, which today serves as a crucial source of high quality seedling for supply to farmers to boost production. Furthermore, Multi-Trex has developed key initiatives geared towards further boosting production of high quality cocoa beans in Nigeria. These initiatives are being implemented in collaboration with relevant Government agencies and international organisations such as World Cocoa Foundation, USAID-MARKETS, Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, etc.

Expansion of existing markets is an integral part of the company’s future plans. Multi-Trex has successfully established a subsidiary in Zambia to facilitate sale of cocoa-based products in the South African region.

Go to the link and read just one of his interview concerning cocoa biz.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:d5MqVSRVfbAJ:www.nigerianbestforum.com/index.php%3Ftopic%3D94481.0%3Bwap2+dimeji+owofemi&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&source=www.google.com

manny4life:
Isn't that why you write up a detailed and modeled business plan? Plan and evaluate your cash structure, perform market analysis, test your entry and exit strategies, guarantee funding including cash projections, financial forecast and projections et al? They are at an early / infant stage and they talking about money? Someone did not do their math correctly, quite unfortunate they are caught up in the mess; worse come to worse they have an exit strategies.

With regards to European players, goes back to my previous post; those ones are chunking out expensive chocolate, why not define your niche and perfect in it? If I managed that company, I will pick one product line (chocolate candies)and perfect in it rather than have different product lines yet your caught up. I will perfect and market that niche to Nigerian and other African nations, you would be surprised at how well it does. It's a gradual process before you catch up with the big guys, you can never start out with the BIG companies.

Take for instance, my tooth is really bad because I ate a lot of snickers while growing although I've stopped for health reasons not due to chocolate, but my point is snickers cost about $1:49 for the big bar and $0.89 for the smaller bar, Mars income alone from the sale of Snickers alone within the U.S. alone runs into hundreds of millions of dollars because people like me can't stop eating because it's cheap and tasty and nutty as well. In Nigeria were labor is cheap (about 4x cheaper, and the resources are even cheaper, )Nigeria has the two main raw materials ( Cocoa and Groundnuts ), you have everything covered, you will produce 5x more cheaper and even sell at a higher price if it's quality.

I don't know if anyone shares my opinion on this, but at least 10% of Nigerians population (kids up to 12years) are their major target market.

Manny4life, I think you should do a thorough research of the guy involve in this business, then you will know that he has done his maths correctly.

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I saw the site, nice factory, BTW Do they export the "finished products" and to where?

I mean, like this company -->> http://www.barry-callebaut.com/  <<-- that company makes about $5 billion in sales from Cocoa products annually, that's a lot of money.[/quote]The finished products are for local market for now, but they have plans to export to foreign market in the near feature. The semi finished products like cocoa liquor, cocoa cake, cocoa butter and cocoa powder and the raw cocoa is being export to Europe mostly the UK and Italy.

We already have a company that process raw cocoa to chocolate and beverages. Maybe many of you guys aren't aware of a company called Multi-Trex Integrated Foods plc.

This company is Capable of processing 50,000 tons of cocoa a year, it (together with its now dwarfed forebear peering beside it with a capacity for another 15,000 tons) becomes easily one of the largest, if not the largest cocoa-processing factory in Africa! And that is counting the big names in the industry in Nigeria.

The estimated asset worth of the Multi-trex complex is over N10 billion, most of it in state-of-the-art machinery bought through multi-layered financing arrangements initially begun with NEXIM (Nigeria’s export promotion bank) but spearheaded and hugely borne by Skye Bank, and supported by some foreign backers of the young entrepreneur, Mr. Dimeji Owofemi.

If you are guys are interested in knowing more about this company and the man behind this , you can google Multi-Trex Or Dimeji Owofemi.

Wtf is mankini?

*Just passing by*

For you to be in a relationship that is unconditionally filled with love you have to find someone who you think you could love for the rest of your life. You need to find someone who you have a true connection to. However, loving unconditionally does not mean that you give into everything. Some things that your mate will do will be devastating to your marriage. Rather it be stealing money from you, having an affair, or just doing things that aren’t appropriate for married couples, you may find that you love has it’s limits. When it comes to betrayal or deceit, they are two exceptions. Loving unconditionally means that your wife can crash your car and you don’t get upset for the cars sake. It’s about still caring for her when she burns dinner or gains five pounds, if you can love without concern to change then you can love unconditionally.

unconditional love; a noble objective or a deceptive rationalisation?

Can someone please give us the line up of both teams?

Gbawe:
Ditto for most of the SW, North et al. It is really tragic how some Nigerians think and talk with myopic and unhelpful feudalism. I am of the opinion , with how they talk, that many commentators on Nairaland (yorubas, Igbos, Hausa et al) live in Caves and have no exposure to what obtains worldwide at all !!!! Otherwise they will not taunt each other with what does not matter while we are all living with abject underdevelopment banished from most developed nations over a 100 years ago !!!! I don't think most commentators here live normal lives where they have the type of real world responsibilities, exposure and associations that enables them to understand , let alone put into practice, the type of reasoning that enable normal successful adults set priorities that aids development and progress for themselves and for others.

Uncle Gbawe you could not have said it better.

And where is Jenifer to respond after reading (nelson Nwigwe) the son side of the story?

This woman na complete home wrecker, she is bent on destroying his husband reputation and career. It's a pity, most times good men get this kind of women. The guy must be weak going by the antecedent between him and his wife. I think he loved her, but for the woman she was just with him to get what she can. She is pure devil's incarnate. Smh.

Chai! This woman na witch confirm.

Wislet:
@ILEKE IDI, honestly i thought u wer a smart lady. No daughter of yours wil marry an Igbo? That is good for the Igbo man too. Are ALL women married to Igbos crying foul? U conclude cos of a story u dont know it's truth. Anyways same stereotype goes to u yorubas being  highly promiscuous. Are YOU one? Lol. Stereotype. . . To all those suggesting divorce, maybe in your culture it's an easy/everyday occurrence. But Igbos value marriage. Divorce is de last, if avoidable option. Only allowed in cases of promiscuity, but even some stay to resolve dat instead of separating. So dont try to teach/preach divorce like it's normal, IT IS NOT NORMAL. The Bible gives only ONE provision for that. It is considered a SIN by God for anyone to do that for any other reason.

Don't mind Ileke idi . She might be suffering from inferiority complex or maybe she has ppd.

That is why she has carefully chosen the words she used in the story that appeared in the Star where she was talking of spine and paralysis. Mrs Wigwe is an avid watcher of the television channel Crime Investigation. She hardly watches anything else.

IMO. This woman is sly, deceitful and manipulative. This are the kind of women that expect too much and bring little or nothing to the table.

IMO. I think the man might be telling the truth.

Nice one Orikinla.