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Ezeife is old and politically dead. He hold no real pull or power...hehe
There is big difference between me and Chino because I don't label Imo state, as a whole. But I understand Imo people hate Anambrarians right from my days in Lagos to overseas. Its a known fact but I won't go into that. Now,you have a lunatic of a governor who dare speak against the almighty Omanbala but we go show am pepper. Rochas is a goner! Omanbala bu ISI MMILI ndi Igbo and must be respected,else,consequence will follow. Okorocha must apologize to the Omanbala nation!

Omanbala or whatever is not a nation. There is only one Igbo nation. Omanbala is only but a mere political entity created by unelected military coupists. Please let's stop all this division. There was no Omanbala, Imo, Abia or Ebonyi 100 years ago. But there has always been the Igbo nation. Get that into your head.

See The Picture That Is Trending On The Social Media; Has It Gotten This Bad?

When a president is now perceived as an enemy and obstacle.

Lagos is the only viable place in the Southwest.

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#Legends

Great men with ambition and vision like BMB should be the ones leading Nigeria, not some certificateless, aloof and entitled dullards. Lalasticlala front page ASAP!

Wow! This is beautiful. The African culture is indeed very beautiful. Igbo Amaka. Don't u think so Lalasticlala?

It's the inalienable right of people to stage peaceful protests. Look at what is happening in , get no police officer or even military officer for that matter has opened fire on any protester. Nigeria is one grand deception.

Oh dear. This is gruesome

Crying right now

Lalasticlala please do move this pitiful thread to the front-page.

The five SE governors are

Willie Obiano of Anambra state
Rochas Okorocha of Imo state
Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia state
Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu state and
Dave Umahi of Ebonyi state

Woow!

This is highly commendable. Lalasticlala where art thou?

Lalasticlala, oam4j

Lalasticlala

Chicago-based United Airlines is the latest casualty of Nigeria’s economic slowdown as the company has announced that it will stop flights to the country after June 30th. A United spokesman cited a “downturn in the energy sector” as well as difficulties with repatriation of its dollar profits amid tight foreign currency controls by the Nigerian government.

United, the third largest US carrier by revenue, currently flied from Houston to Lagos everyday.

Since the turn of the year, Nigeria has struggled with dwindling foreign reserves as a result of a drop in the price of oil, its main revenue source. To curtail outflow of foreign exchange, the government put in place strict controls, including limiting repatriation of dollars out of the country. Airlines operating in the country have been badly hit by the policy which has left Nigeria owing airlines, including United, around $575 million according to International Air Transport Association.

The airline’s decision to cut flights in a market where government’s policies, including currency controls, have affected its business is not without precedent. In 2014, United reduced its Venezuelan operations by 43% in similar market conditions. The airline’s withdrawal from Nigeria weakens the countries strength as an aviation hub in Africa as it is now left with only Delta Air as the remaining major international carrier flying direct to Nigeria from the United States.

The news is also likely do more harm to Nigeria’s poor reputation as a conducive business environment. It already ranks 20 places from bottom in the World Bank’s most recent Ease of Doing Business report.

The effect of president Muhammadu Buhari’s economic policies will once again be questioned as he closes in on completing his first year in office this weekend. The president’s firm refusal to devalue the Nigerian naira, despite a steep fall in value against the dollar, plus bans on imports of several items has seen investors grow increasingly cautious about operating in the country.

The impact of the policies was particularly felt in the first quarter of 2016, as the economy shrank for the first time in two decades with analysts warning of an impending recession.

http://qz.com/693972/united-airlines-is-canceling-its-direct-flights-to-nigeria-as-the-dollar-crunch-bites/

Lalasticlala

Hmmm
I never knew Nigerians were this angry. Femi adesina, garba shehu, lai Mohammed nd co should come and see this. Nigeria is really boiling. I underestimated the level of anger in the average Nigeria with this istration. This is serious.

Lalasticlala come see

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Nigerians and Africans have no chill

A post on BBC Africa's Facebook page read, "YOUR VIEWS: Nigeria's president Muhammadu Buhari vowed to restore national pride when he was elected to office a year ago. Has he made good on his promise?

Are you proud to be Nigerian? If you live outside of the country, do you think other people's perceptions of Nigerians have changed?

Comment below or send a WhatsApp audio message to: +44 73 41 07 08 44. to include your name, town and country."

And these were the heated responses from respondents all over the world, including some Ugandans all the way from Kampala:

When we think about "leadership books," we tend to think about non-fiction titles like "Talent Is Overrated," "High Output Management," or the perennial favorite, "How to Win Friends and Influence People."

But according to Scotty McLennan, a lecturer in political economy at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the school's former dean of religious life, limiting ourselves to manuals and biographies and case studies means we're missing something big.

Some of the most valuable insights into the heart of leadership don't come from the business aisle, he says. They come from the literary classics.

Unlike traditional business books, literature allows you access to the inner lives of its characters.

"You see them not only in their work environment, and in decision-making moments, but in their larger life," McLennan explains in a video produced by Stanford GBS. Literature can "show you reality in a way that case studies and biographies and other things that are supposedly about reality can't touch," he says. He even teaches a course on the topic for MBA students: "The Business World: Moral and Spiritual Inquiry through Literature."

Here is what might be the most thought-provoking — and most beautiful — business reading list of all time, according to McLennan.

Rachel Sugar contributed to an earlier version of this article.

'The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The Great Gatsby," which McLennan calls an "American dream" book, tells the story of a Midwestern farm boy who was driven to succeed by the love for his lost love, Daisy.

"What's so great about Gatsby is his idealism, his dreams, his green light in the distance, which set him apart and make him greater than the rest," McLennan saidduring a 2014 sermon at Stanford.

"We can learn from him how life can be transformed, by pitching one's life above the day-to-day practicality, above the desire for security, above the drive for power. I don't think that many of us can live at Gatsby's level of idealism very much of the time," he says. "But of course Fitzgerald's book challenges us to an idealism beyond Gatsby's, by pointing up so poignantly the limitations of his ideals."

Find it here »

'Siddhartha,' by Hermann Hesse

Another of McLennan's favorite literary lessons in work-life balance and living well? Hermann Hesse's "Siddhartha."

The novel follows a man who is struggling to "combine business and spirituality," McLennan explained in a (different) interview with Insights' Deborah Petersen this past winter. "He becomes a rich merchant who is at first unattached to material success, concentrating on putting his customers first and acting ethically with all stakeholders. But then he becomes covetous, succumbs to the 'soul sickness of the rich,' and becomes not only mean-spirited but also suicidal."

Eventually, he finds something like balance ferrying travelers across a river, "providing spiritual mentoring to some, but finding that most people simply want good transportation services."

Find it here »

'The Stranger' (or 'The Plague,' or 'The Fall'), by Albert Camus

Every now and then, McLennan recommends turning to the existentialists.

"Books like 'The Stranger' or 'The Plague' or 'The Fall'" — all by Albert Camus — are "pretty powerful ways of clearing the deck,"he says in the video.

Temporarily shelving questions of spirituality and religion, these books probe at something even more basic: What is the meaning of life, if there is any meaning at all?

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'Zuckerman Bound,' a trilogy by Philip Roth

Literary critic Harold Bloom said the trilogy— which follows Roth's fictional alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman — "merits something reasonably close to the highest level of aesthetic praise for tragicomedy." That's one reason to read it.

But that's not the only reason the books appear on McLennan's list. In a 2013 sermon at Stanford, he called 'The Ghostwriter' — the first of the three novels in question — a "wonderful illustration of the importance of balancing personal ambition with social awareness – of balancing individualism with community responsibility."

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'The Remains of the Day,' by Kazuo Ishiguro

McLennan points to Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day" as a helpful study of the difference between East and West.

And he's not the only one. The novel, which follows an elderly butler so profoundly devoted to his profession he's blinded himself to the rest of the world around him, is regularly referenced in writing about leadership and ethics (like here, and here, and here).

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'Death of A Salesman,' by Arthur Miller

Also included in what McLennan calls the "American dream" books, this play is a lesson in trust — in oneself and the surrounding world.

As he explains during a 2003 sermon, traveling salesman Willy Loman thought he could singlehandedly control his destiny and that of his family, trying to force himself and his sons into jobs that didn't fit their nature.

"What if he'd let go, relied on others around him rather than trying to control everything himself, and accepted his own basic nature rather than trying to become someone he wasn't?" McLennan asks. It's likely he would have been much more successful.

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'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe

Even if you read "Things Fall Apart" — or any of the rest of these — as a high school freshman, McLennan recommends giving it another go.

Because the thing about great literature? "The exact same book looks different every ten years," he says, and whatever you got at 16 will be different from what you get at 26, 36, or 66.

McLennan recommends the Nigerian classic because it "helps people see the juxtaposition of traditional African society with the imposition of Western religion, military, and business," Rimby writes.

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'The Last Tycoon,' by F. Scott Fizgerald

In the video, McLennan raves about Fitzgerald's final (and unfinished) novel, which offers insight into the always-relevant crisis of work-life balance.

Fitzgerald follows the life of Hollywood mogul Monroe Stahr (based on the real-life film producer Irving Thalberg) — a staggeringly successful business executive who's thriving in public and flailing in private.

"What we begin to see is the lack of a fully integrated life — somebody who is literally working himself to death, but doing very well," McLennan says. "And then you need to ask, could he do as well if he had a more balanced life?" (For the record, McLennan says his students seem split on the question.)

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'Jasmine,' by Bharati Mukherjee

Jasmine tells the story of a young Indian woman's journey from Florida to New York to Iowa to California in search of the American Dream — and it's a regular on McLennan's syllabi.

Talking to Petersen, he outlines the (many) takeaways:

"... how to balance new-world selfishness in personal freedom with old-world selflessness in familial duty; examining whether there is a stable self (or Self) to rely upon in each of us or an ever-changing identity as we change our environments; the foundation of morality in karma, or reaping what one sows; and the struggle between fate and will."

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'Miramar,' by Naguib Mahfouz

"Miramar," which follows a peasant woman named Zohra who escapes her family and finds employment in a small hotel in Alexandria, makes McLennan's list for its dissection of sexual harassment in the workplace.

But in a 2012 sermon at Stanford, McLennan offered another reading of the text — one with (secular) business implications.

According to him, the book illustrates the tension between enduring values (justice, freedom, and "courage as a virtue" and things that are ultimately fleeting (among them, the "single-minded pursuit of profit to the exclusion of fundamental human values".

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'All My Sons,' by Arthur Miller

According to a 2010 McLenan sermon, we see two characters learn important lessons about where we place our values and the multifaceted nature of people.

American businessman Joe Keller its to shipping out defective cylinder heads that led to numerous deadly airplane crashes during World War II — and possibly the death of his pilot son, Larry — and says he did it for his son, Chris, who would inherit the business.

"Joe expands his value orientation beyond his own family to think about his nation," McLennan says. "He understands that not only Larry and Chris are the sons whom he had to care for, but 'They were all my sons.'"

As a result of his father's crime, Chris abandons his naive idealism, "sees that the world is not as black and white as he once thought, and he begins to develop a capacity to relate to others as having a mixture of virtue and vice, rather than being uni-dimensional."

Find it here »

By the World Economic Forum

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/05/11-classic-novels-every-leader-should-read/?utm_content=bufferf2740&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

MrMcJay:


After meeting the Pope, GEJ still said stealing is not corruption. Son of perdition.

Son of jealousy, what of your master than said Abacha is not corrupt?

MrMcJay:
This is the man that the children of hate and anger said wants to Islamize Nigeria.

This is called diplomacy and PR Mr. Cone Head.

Good. GEJ met a bigger personality, the Pope. No shaking.

Lalasticlala
Wailers food is ready

David Cameron has described Nigeria and Afghanistan as "fantastically corrupt" in a conversation with the Queen.

The PM was talking about this week's anti-corruption summit in London.

"We've got some leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries coming to Britain... Nigeria and Afghanistan, possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world," Mr Cameron said.

Asked whether the PM knew he was being filmed, Number 10 said: "There were multiple cameras in the room."

Follow live reaction to the PM's comments
After Mr Cameron's comments, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby intervened to say: "But this particular president is not corrupt... he's trying very hard," before Speaker John Bercow said: "They are coming at their own expense, one assumes?"
The conversation took place at Buckingham Palace at an event to mark the Queen's 90th birthday.

BBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale described the PM's comments as a "truthful gaffe", because the two countries involved were widely perceived as having a corruption problem.

Afghanistan was ranked at 167, ahead of only Somalia and North Korea, in Transparency International's 2015 corruption perception index. Nigeria was at 136.
'Head-on'

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari won elections last year promising to fight widespread corruption in Africa's largest oil producer.

The government will host world and business leaders at the summit on Thursday in London, aiming to "galvanise a global response to tackle corruption".

Speaking ahead of the summit, Mr Cameron said: "For too long there has been a taboo about tackling this issue head-on.

"The summit will change that. Together we will push the fight against corruption to the top of the international agenda where it belongs."

Last year Mr Cameron was recorded talking about Yorkshire people "hating each other" - and he was previously caught revealing how the Queen "purred" with pleasure when he told her the Scottish independence referendum result.

Asked whether Mr Cameron had apologised to the Queen over the corruption remarks, his official spokesman said the presidents of Nigeria and Afghanistan had "acknowledged the scale of the corruption challenge they face in their countries".

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36260193

Cowardly governor. Hausa-Fulani toy. And this shiii_t is coming from a man who declared a state-wide one-week public holiday just for his mother's burial.

Still dull

Lalasticlala I saw a similar thread on the oba of Benin last week. Do the needful. Let's spread the culture and educate our youths about their storied past.

1956: Queen Elizabeth II And Prince Philip Meet His Majesty Obi Okosi Of Onitsha


The Queen of England and the Prince Consort meets the Obi of Onitsha, His Majesty Obi Okosi, in Onitsha during the British royals' tour of Nigeria in 1956. With them is the great Zik of Africa, Nnamdi Azikiwe.