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Buh seriously why same time ,date and a test for just 2 hours? dont be surprised they kmew this would happen and it all balls down to the fact that they have their candidates already

na wa oooo.....i even comot hauz dey think say na my internet service no good reach....i reach cafe...dat wan con worst

He has done good for himself in 2014....he can't win all

Got the email too now....cray. People

@OP....don't tell me you never got any sign before she dumped you....it must have been she was dating you out of pity and you thought you could buy her love with that phone. But bro it doesn't work that way, if you can't get a girl to love you naturally even if you buy a plot of land for her at Ikoyi the love will only last for some while. Same thing almost happened to me but this isn't a girl that doesn't love me though, we were suppose to see afta couple of months and she would get a phone I got for her but she intentionally brought menstruation to my house without my consent because she knew I would my postpone our meeting until she's done with her menstruation. What I did was give her, her fare and told her I'm yet to get the phone I promised her, though I have the phone already. I did that because I felt she was selfish and she wanted the phone at all cost, you won't believe the girl stopped talking to me after one week of that incident. In a nutshell, bro if u want to get your phone all well and good but I advise you rather let go. Next time don't buy a girls love with a gift, let it come naturally and if you will give a girl gift let it be of less value.

As Nigeria battles its worst epidemic outbreak in recent history, it is worth pointing out certain issues concerning the deadly Ebola virus. These issues should not be allowed to go under the radar as our failures give further evidence that Nigerians are caught in a helpless situation, thanks to the incompetence our leaders display.

As far back as March of this year, Foreign ministers of West African countries including Nigeria met under the auspices of ECOWAS in Ivory Coast, to discuss the Ebola epidemic that was then taking hold in Guinea and would gradually spread into Sierra Leone and Liberia. In a communiqué issued after their meeting, they declared Ebola a ‘serious threat to regional security.’  The question is, asides from the usual issuance of statements, what memo did Aminu Wali, our Minister of Foreign Affairs, or the two Ministers of State, Violet Onwuliri and Nurudeen Mohammed, write to the presidency about the seriousness of the issue, especially after attending the ECOWAS meeting? Did any of them write to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Department of State Security - DSS - Police, Immigration and Port Health Authorities about the seriousness of the Ebola virus and its threat to our homeland security? The answer would be no, as they believed the usual communiqué issued after the meeting would be sufficient.

In April of this year,the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, informed Nigerians on national TV that the Federal Government had taken all measures to prevent the outbreak of Ebola in the country. To say he was just joking and making a fool of himself would be an understatement. As it turns out, there were no health screening checks at the nation’s airport until after the Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, attacked the nation with biological terrorism. It makes one ask the question, how long will we continue to exhibit this childish and immature behaviour of not taking public service seriously? When will elected officials begin to see their offices as a true opportunity to provide services to their country and her people? We had the better part of six months to prepare our borders and formulate a response to Ebola, to identify it as a strategic threat to our national security and well-being. However, we did nothing until we were suddenly attacked; then we rushed into action.

Compare that to more serious nations like the UK, who on hearing of the Ebola outbreak in Nigeria, convened a COBRA meeting chaired by their Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond. This was based on the fact that they realised that Nigeria is the most populous nation in Africa with lots of visitors to the UK. The circumstances of the disease arriving in Nigeria mean that it could also arrive at their own borders if all the necessary precautions were not taken. Isolation units were quickly prepared at some major hospitals. Immigration and port health officers were put on alert, while internal memos were sent out to all NHS doctors and GPs across the country to look out for cases of people just returned from Africa with complaints of fevers or malaria. That is a country that understands what it is like to handle public service.

It is the same with Senegal who has closed her borders to neighbouring Guinea since March. Mauritania followed suit the same month by closing most of its borders with Senegal. Gambia suspended air travel and the launch of a new air carrier to Guinea. This shows that just like the UK, there are other African countries who understand what public service means and are not into the buffoonery of joking with the lives of their people the way that Maku, Wali, Onwuliri et al. have done with Nigeria.

Can one also ask, "what is the work of our National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and the DSS if they cannot protect the homeland from external and internal attacks?" Agencies like the DSS, as confirmed by their spokeswoman Marilyn Ogar are well paid by the government, and yet they can not prevent a case of bio-terrorism as we were just recently attacked by Patrick Sawyer. In the future, as soon as the Ebola epidemic clears across West Africa, would the NIA do an extensive investigation as to why Sawyer came into Nigeria knowing fully well he was carrying the Ebola virus? There is a possibility that the Liberian government might have a hand in it with the thinking that if Nigeria were attacked with the virus, it would bring international attention to their plight and rescue their country from the epidemic. I’m not making accusations against the Liberian President Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson as she might not be aware of such decisions within her government, but it is a possibility that someone in her government could have ordered the attack. What about the possibility that sympathisers of ex-Liberian warlord Charles Taylor could have set-up the attack to teach Nigeria a lesson. He has many sympathisers still in the Liberian government who are possibly not happy with the role we played in handing him over to the International Criminal Court in the Hague to be tried on war crime accusations.

Will the NIA carry out an investigation in future to unravel all this? In saner climes, that is definitely what a government would do. The information they find out from their intelligence services would usually be made known through press leaks. It took investigations from Times to discover that Sawyer worked for a private company - Acelor Mittal - and not the Ministry of Finance in Liberia as claimed. The Deputy Minister of Finance in Liberia, Sebastian Muah, who authorised his travel now claims that Sawyer was a Public Health officer. It all shows that there is a cover up somewhere with Sawyer having used a false identity to be allowed to travel and that Nigeria has been biologically attacked for reasons quite unclear. I do not need to go into all of Sawyer’s actions while caught on CCTV, before he left Liberia, and his contrasting actions when he landed in Nigeria. They include borrowing the mobile phone of the ECOWAS who met him at the airport - who is now dead - the fact that he told lies about his condition at the hospital in Lagos, yanking off his Intravenous (IV) infusion and splashing blood all over his bed sheets and hospital ward. Reports that he deliberately urinated on the floor and on nurses treating him, show that it was a predetermined bio-terrorist attack, but what we need to unravel is who was behind it and why? One wonders why he insisted on being allowed to proceed to Calabar to do more damage, especially considering that Calabar was Charles Taylor’s last known base in Nigeria and that whoever sent Sawyer might have wanted revenge on the people of Calabar who reported Taylor’s movement to security agencies and prevented his escape the year he was arrested and handed over to the Hague.

I’m happy that Sawyer’s body was cremated by the Lagos state government and his ashes returned to his fellow collaborators in Liberia. That should be the message we send out to people or countries who hate us as a nation. However, my grouse is with our government and the incompetence they display. A public servant should be proactive in his thinking and always cover all the bases to ensure that the nation is well served. It's when Nigerians realise they have a government that is proactive in taking care of their needs that the feel loyalty, patriotism and nationalism. It's not only when you announce you want to build roads, bridges or award contracts every Wednesday that you believe you are serving Nigerians. At this stage of our lives we all know that is an avenue to loot our resources. It's the little well considered actions you take to show you care about Nigeria and Nigerians that foster patriotism and nationalism within the people. In a more civilised nation, you can’t come to the people asking for their votes and talking about a seven point transformation agenda when you can’t protect their lives or be seen to be proactively protecting them from bio-terrorists like Patrick Sawyer, or you find it impossible to rescue 219 girls who have been in captivity for close to 140 days and just hope people would forget about it and move on.

Say what you like about the Lagos state government, but their actions since the Ebola outbreak have not only been reactive but very much proactive. I take for instance their call on pastor T.B Joshua, to ban people from West African countries coming to his church for Ebola miracles. It takes a proactive government to think about that and cover that base, otherwise you might see bodies transported into the country for miracles at T.B Joshua’s church, thereby endangering our lives. It is these little actions people see that distinguish followers from leaders, as not all followers would have thought of that angle. It makes people bond with their government, staying loyal to them. It is not when you issue meaningless press statements and releases that you are on top of a situation or you have everything in place that shows you serving the people. Its about concrete proactive actions you take most times that make people realise they have a government serving them.

Now due to the failure of our government, leaders and relevant homeland protection agencies, we have a deadly epidemic on our hands. In case we don’t know how deadly Ebola is, I will explain. Asides from its near 90% fatality rate in most past outbreaks of the disease and the fact that it spreads through bodily of all kinds - skin, body fluids, sweat, semen etc. - the virus oozing from the body of one dead Ebola patient is enough to infect the earth's entire population three times over. It's the reason the Americans and Spanish had to fly their infected citizens at great risk back home. It's not because they wanted to prove they could cure them, but because the risk of allowing them die in Liberia - with poor handling of the dead- and then bringing back their dead bodies to their families, was far greater than having them brought in while still alive. Also a patient who recovers from Ebola may still spread the disease to others through bodily secretions up to seven weeks after their recovery, hence the deadliness of the virus we allowed to slip into the country, due to the incompetence of those we gave the mandate to watch over our affairs.

For me, whenever we investigate the reason for Sawyer’s actions, via our foreign affairs ministry and intelligence services, we have to exact some punishment on his collaborators and indeed Liberia, so other nations don’t see Nigeria as a soft target. It's time we recall some loans from Liberia if they owe us, or dispense with some services we render to the country if and when it's proven that Sawyer’s attack was deliberate, which I believe it is. It is time we stop playing big brother to a majority of African countries who hate our guts as a nation and always want to prove to us that they are more clever and try to find opportunities to make a fool of us, as they consider us an unserious and weak country that can’t manage its affairs. It is also an avenue for us to find a cure for Ebola and turn a bad situation into a chance to truly claim that title, "Giant of Africa."

I understand that a Nigerian abroad has donated an Ebola drug he developed but this is calling on all our scientists and traditional-medicine practitioners to come up with a possible cure. The ZMapp product was got from tobacco plants, thus a cure for Ebola won’t be far off from plants similar to that which contain nicotine/caffeine and flavonoids. I would also suggest that we hand out lots of Vitamin C to Nigerians to boost their immune systems. We should also remind them of regular infection control practices like hand washing, sterilisation, disinfection, washing of clothes and sun-drying them. Not to mention the ban on the eating of bats and the sale of bush meats especially in towns and villages across the country. Above all we should handle corpses with serious care at this moment, with families of confirmed Ebola patients g consent forms not to have public funerals for their loved ones should they succumb to the disease, but leave the government’s public health officials to either cremate the bodies or bury them in graves - which are to be dug a bit deeper as advised by WHO - to prevent the spread of the virus.

I sincerely condole with the families of the health workers who have lost their loved ones and pray for their sake that the at the end of this outbreak, the government investigates Patrick Sawyer’s true mission and uses this Ebola outbreak as a wake up call to their duties. I hope they come to see public service as a chance to show their ability to deliver genuine service to the nation and not just attend meetings issuing communiques and press releases. We want a competent and most often than not a proactive government.

Ola’ Idowu a Management Consultant and Researcher writes in from the UK.

Hello Girlfriends/Wives......

Now that the temporary girlfriend/wife(World cup) will be leaving on sunday, We the Boyfriends/Husbands are imploring you to come back home after you left for your friends/families.

It is not in our way to let you go, all through the time that we have the temporary Girlfriend/Wife(World cup) around but we couldn't just rival you with the World cup, We believe you should understand it comes in every 4 years and whenever she's around she gives us total satisfaction we deserve as a man.

At this juncture, we implore you that you return home from next week Monday so that you can at least enjoy full dedication/concentration of one month before the start of a new season which kicks off on August 16.

N.B...Though there will pre season friendlies involving clubs but that will only take partial concentration.

Thanks for your understanding and Co-operation.

Signed
Association of Boyfriends/Husbands

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And who gave you the statistics of poor people in his church. Most of you wish pastors are poor, it is the desire of the devil too, but its too late they have discovered their rights in Christ. If you as an ordinary member realize your right in Christ and work hard, you will the rich class, its not meant for pastors alone but some are leading by example.

It was Judas who criticized Mary for spending on Christ with the argument that such spending should have been given to the poor, an argument Jesus countered(John 12:3-5). The same old trick of the devil: trying to use comion for the poor to stop believers from getting any favour. For crying out loud 90% people are poor by choice not by chance. Many had the same challenge that made them poor but utilized it to become rich while they were giving excuses. You don't expect me to be living poor just because their are people who refused to pay the price that I paid. Some people are making money now while some are always on Nairaland lazying and looking for the next pastor to criticize, later in life they will look for those to blame for their poverty: either government or uncle. I have told myself, I have no reason to be poor and even if I am a pastor, it has not changed my conviction. Hate me as you can, its not my fault, I labour for it like some pastors do

Disclaimer: Please note that I am not saying there are no theifing men of God, but such people often return to poverty, karma catches up with them. And even if not, they will pay the ultimate price but it is not you that should judge a God's servant(Rom 14:4), no not in a public forum, bible is against it; it is not you that should the camp of the acc of the brethren (Rev 12:9-11)except you are working for the devil yourself


Are u kiiding me? Why does a man need a car of 120m or a jet for? Not talking of a man of God, what is the essence of that car? Knowing fully well he just acquired a Range Rover for 33m. I think you're missing something, why are pastors in Nigeria after luxuries? No one is thinking like a poor man but common sense tells us this is no way right. All of these things they do is not preaching the word,they are meant to be role models but their love for money is somthing I can't just comprehend and we all know they are doing this at the expense of their poor . Little wonder Karl Marx said religion is a tool of oppression used by the oppressor to oppress the oppressed. God help us

I think many of us don't understand where Amaechi is really coming from. What he simply means is we standing against all forms of corruptions. Satnding against corruption shouldn't be focused on political office holders alone but the judges that are in charge of their cases. They keep adjourning the case until we forget totally about the case, now to the office holders, its no more news that each an everyone of them takes from the national cake without minding what happens to the people they represent. I don't think we need to throw stone but what is needed is that the legislatiors include in our constitution that there should be a capital punishment for any public office holder caught to have siphoned the public funds, I know this will never happen in Nigeria but I bet you not until we have something stiff like this Nigeria will never experience change. I don't need to remind us pending cases we still have in court.

Farouq Lawan(Adhoc commitee on fuel subsidy)
Tukur & Arisekola Sons(fuel subsidy fraud)
Babalakin(Ibori's accompanies on fraud)
Stella oduah(#225m armoured cars)

All these people are still walking free,God help Nigeria

Shows how unserious you're .this is a national issue if you want to talk about you rather go to 2go or any oda social networks your mates use. We talking corruption you talking arsenal. I don't even have to ask you if you saw the topic because I know you never checked

olala32: Watching.!
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is today really my birthday?
Mama:my son u re going to marry very soon.
Me:but i wan to marry an arsenal fan mama.
Mama: why do u wan to marry an arsenal?
Me:mama because dey re very faithful..
Mama:hw do u no they are faithfulful my son..
Me:mama! Cant u see?for the past 7years arsenal did not won any trophy and stil counting but, dey still hoping it s well mama..
Mama: meaning.
Me:if they got marry to me, even if i m broke they will stil believe, love me, and even die for me as they are about to die for arsene wenger.
Mama: my son so u re as foolish as arsene wenger.
Me:mama no! Is jux dt i don t like spendin unnecessarily on importants things.
Mama: kk my son. I wish u mr president(gudluck)

Corruption is not a recent phenomenon that pervades the Nigerian country. Since the creation of modern public istration in the country, there have been cases of official misuse of resources for personal enrichment. Nigeria is ranked 139th out of 176 countries in Transparency International's 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index, tied with Azerbaijan, Kenya, Nepal, and Pakistan.
Some writers have posited about the different potential causes of flagrant and pecunious graft that exists in the country: many blame greed and ostentatious lifestyle as a potential root cause of corruption. To some, societies in love with ostentatious lifestyle may delve into corrupt practices to feed the lifestyle and also embrace a style of public sleaze and lack of decorum. The customs and attitudes of the society may also be a contributing factor. Gift giving as expressions of loyalty or tributes to traditional rulers may be fabrics of the society.
Also, a political environment that excludes favours towards elites or wealthy citizens may also be influenced by corruption.
Corruption is now been transferred from one generation to the other and a common saying in the society is that if you're not corrupt you can't make it big in Nigeria. Public office holders now transform public funds to personal funds in expense of the people. The big question now is how do we eradicate corruption in our society because every soul in Nigeria is now corrupt even without the help of socialization but this happen unconsciously. This is perilous to our society and what we have to pray against is that we won't get to the State of Anomie in our Society. God bless Nigeria, it pains me a lot that I'm corrupt but it is what our society has shape to but I think we can change our society. It begins with everyone of us

Datruggedman: if u want davido 2 fixture dat fat guy,like diz post

If u want Davido to fixture dat fat Guy....see Oyinbo(God dey)

Thanks bro.....they won't stop finding ways to get pple

What's up guys? I got a text message from Geo Recruit, asking me to come for an interview at 14 Toyin str.,Ikeja. Any news about them?

RIP

Bloody fools

tope56: It's health stream alliance

Good...do you knw em?pls tell me more about em....cuz I'm not in for this health shit

Called the number now jor....the guy said one health stream Alliance,that they are in conjuction with world health organisation.

Guys,I guess they are one of those people that will ask u to pay after interview.I'm not in for all those health shit

Hayjaycity: That's wale tinubu' s number..you ave been invited by Oando Plc...its an oil and gas company. Don't miss this chance o. Odeh

Yeah I did apply for one oil n gas stuff..dunno is Oando...I had better be on my way then

U are invited for oral and written interview 11th Feb, 2013 @ d building beside Ecobank Agodi Gate Ib. Come with ur cv.

Go for interview @ IB all the way from lagos

See Yeye people.......

The Confederation of African Football has reached an agreement with the Broadcast Rights owners and the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria, BON, that will see the 2013 AFCON Final match beamed live on Terrestrial TV in Nigeria.
The agreement will see tens of millions of Nigerians watch the final match between Nigeria and Burkina Faso in their homes on local television stations for the first time since the competition started.
The final game will be played on Sunday.

Billyonaire: *Privacy
*Little or no income Taxation
*Drunk Driving without jail term
*Plural marriage and even adultery without jail term
*Cheap business registration
*Cheap Gas and Petrol
*Liberty to practice any religion without being lynched.
*All year round sunlight
*Clean air
*Rich Cultural heritage
and a thousand more

I guess you're not a Nigerian or u don't live here...Nigeria a place where u can't sleep with your two eyes closed,a place where thousands of graduates are wandering arond seeking for jobs,a place where prices of goods keep rising,a place where money keep losing its value.This is a serious issshh,please don't come here to say things that are not meaningful

CROWÉ: There is no country in the world that religion serves as a way of unifying people, stop spreading bullshit, second, it is not the Nigerian governments responsibility to bring AFCON to Nigerians, you people depend too much on the government, whether it is how we have been conditioned or not, unless you were born in 1970 such a backward mindset is not forgivable. I think it was HiTV, if they still exist yell at them and AiT and NTA etc leave the government out of it, they have things that they are actually responsible for.

Get the message right...ITs not that we are asking too much from the govt or they are solely responsible to bring the AFCON matches to our homes but the message is that they could have influence BON if they really want to bring smiles to Nigerians face....We've had a lot of public office holder mis-manage money above what LC2 demanded.

Ibn Khaldun & Emile Durkheim both shared the same view that religion serves as a unifying factor in any society I.e Religion is a great binding force that brings people closer in any society. But reverse is the case in Nigeria because religion is on its deathbed.

One other thing that unites the masses in Nigeria is football but it baffles me when our dear government couldn't pay for the TV rights to bring ongoing AFCON 2013 to our homes,reason been that the fee LC2 requested was too outrageous but permit me to say the fee won't be outrageous If its to be siphoned.

The FG has stopped paying for subsidy fee over a year and the deal was that the money used in paying for subsidy could be channeled elsewhere,ever since there have been hike in fuel prices,increment in transport fares,increment in tuition fees,increment in prices of goods & services e.t.c

The question that comes to mind is what then do we set to enjoy as Nigerians?Things going from bad to worse....Arrghh

Is he to be blame?Ecowas knew before now that he's a useless father but because of the status of Nigeria among Ecowas they needed someone from Nigeria and they feel he's the eldest of all Nigeria leaders...SMH Nigerians..Someone like Obasajo representing us...terror has come upon d land

yewee: Wetin u self go do 4 dat church "OLOJUKOKORO" sebi na C&S u dey attend

Thank u ooo jare...we attend d same church ooo....I mean C&S....Now she yaff go to anoda church...SMH

I know by now the likes of Bukky ade and Co will be eating their words with a well deserved delicacy...She was bragging yesterday with FEC meeting...She was sounding kind of sure that Deziani would be present at the FEC meeting but I know she was not present yesterday...I guess by now you won't have to disregard news published by Sahara reporters...believe it or not this people have their source and they won't publsih any news without having gathered some facts...Am not bloody concerned with what happens to the first lady and DeZiani...It does not affect me one bit

banki:

well Abati is always denying some allegation or the other apperntly after denying it turns out that the first lady was actually sick and is hospitalized in .... he should have rather made statements like "the first lady went for a routine medical check up in and we expect her home soon" nigerians no go too vex but you tell us she went to rest makes us look foolish, and i know we are not thats why you have the guts to call people that critizse you in the social media jobless because you think they are stupid! nigerians already know that even though the minister of health gave an order last year that hence forth all government officails must use nigerian hospitals for thier medical check ups etc, he was only blabbing like the rest of his collegues because soon after David Mark, went to isreal and it was well publised,today Dame and Denzaine are in europe for medicals...... the government says one thing and does the other, they want to go cashless but increase currency note, they want to cut execciseve expenditure and they buy new jets and increase thier aides and special advisers,They want to stop the fraud in the oil industry but they accept money from the oil cabals for elections,they critize the social media but the use the social media for elections, they want to create unity in nigeria then they employ niger delta militants to guard the oil pipelines,mmmmmmm PDP the more you look the less you see, ride on

@banki....You have said it all...The FEC is filled up with confused minds,I don't know if I should say they are naïve or incompetent....they take wrong steps at the wrong time.its a case of the blind leading the lame...I don't understand a govrnment that wants to run a cashless society and still want higher denomination in circulation...A government that is yet to stabilize electricity but wants every household with prepaid meters...SMH for our leaders,they are bunch of fools...

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Including the Beer-Seller who happens to be you![/quo

Why do you have to attck people in such manner...who do you regard as beer seller...probably tha should be you.
You commented on cheap network access,thank God for the cheap network access Nigeria should have long been sold out to a Chinese company..yes d youth engage in internet fraud but believe me if not because of that most youth must have been miserable and fustrated,I don't blame those that engage in it...even if you have the opportunity u will because the future of d youths have been mortgaged in this country and we are treated like slaves in our own fathers land...what advise will u give to a 300 level student of lasu who sponsors himself to school and for the sudden increase in school fees...where we he get that kind of money?Pls when u comment don't regard people as agbero or beer parlour sitters...The internet access is paying off

I never wanted to comment on this issue but I just ave to...First lady Vs Diezani.
Who bloody cares what happens to them.I don't wish their death but c'mon people why do we have to come here debating about people that do not add values to our lifes rather than inflict pain on us.We all loose our loved ones and no one comment on their demise,so I see no reason why we bother ourselves on the said illness of this unfortunate being...Aso rock has a history and we all know that,I bet u dat history won't rest until we have a president that will get things right.There is a way you will pay for your gross mis-conduct and believe me the history is still @ large...just be attentive the news might break out soon

People are not respected...The masses have been forsaking,the youths future have been mortgaged and the public opinions are no more respected...since the inauguration GEJ all of his policies have been anti peoples policy...I wonder if this guy how it feels to live in a hopeless situation...I knew all their plan is to make us shout and clamour but the deed has been done and they have a master plan.What we saw january was the the tip of an iceberg...If we don't fill up the street now with protest by january next year we will buy a slice bread for 500#....This isn't democracy but an authoritian government that don't seek the public opinion before they launch their stupid policies