jieta:
na every mata you go carry for head chibok oooo na oby ezekwesili Nigeria don tire for Good luck Jonathan na oby ezekwesili go start riot, buhari no dey rule well na oby ezekwesili go start riot madam na only you dey this country.

if you are that jobless, you can go into business too much of everything is bad

May God have mercy on you. Amen

Bhol28:
I wander why we like politicizing every issue ,it is even because he is a senator that he is just being arrested now.The person he stood for as suretee have eloped almost up to a year now or even more and even him refused to appear in court.He knows for sure that its either he provides kanu or face the consequence.

That would have been the case if your military was wise enough to stay clear from his house. Unfortunately I shudder to say that the current administration is bereft of wisdom.

Tribalism has really blinded us in this country. A judge asked for a senator to stand as a surety knowing well it is a secession case. While some Illiterates come here to ask why a Senator stood surety for a member of his senatorial zone. Indeed maybe IPOB should be allowed to secede.

Mod Please take this to front page. This DSTV monopoly is not good for this country. The people are so unprofessional. No follow up at all, they would not even call to give you a situation report and its over 1 week already.

I need assistance on how fast to resolve this issue as its costing me the world cup matches.
I made payment for auto-renewal of my subscription on the 17th. I eventually got to know that quickteller debited me and did not credit DSTV when my subscription was terminated in the 19th. I have called and written to DSTV but the customer representative wants me to contact QuickTeller.

The problem is I don't have an account with quickteller and cannot lodge a complaint over the phone as I don't fall into any category of their customer. I only used them because I saw them as a payment option on eazy.dstv.com and have used them several times in the past.

Please who has has similar issue and how was it resolved.

cc: Prof800 Ujsizzle

This is the 4th day since my phone disappeared and MTN is unable to retrieve my line and it's frustrating. This is a line that I recharge 10k or more every week and yet they don't feel the urgency to do something about my line. I am losing money everyday and can't keep waiting for them. Please who knows if it's possible to port that number to another network while it's not active. I can not sit here and watch MTN ruin my life and business.

Lalasticlala please help me reach a wider audience.

Yesterday was my first time in Enugu and I must say I was impressed. I never believed it was possible to drive for about 4 hours and not encounter a pothole. Considering the allocation to Enugu is not much I will rate the governor 90%. I hope to visit my hometown Anambra very soon to see if the Obi works as seen on the net are true.

Please was any information given on date and medium of communication of result.

Ladies and Gent, in view of the almost 1 week break which I believe is the handiwork of hackers I humbly welcome you back on behalf of my Oga at the top Seun. So, who has heard from NLNG.

I don't know why Nigeria has an increasing number of sad people. After reading the jokes I saw a good lesson which any reasonable Nigerian lady should see too. Lesson is if he is buying this things and attempts sex then terminate subsequent dates if not it could lead to rape. In my view its a positive joke. People see what they want to see. I'm Out

Please this is a rumour. There is no current recruitment by Dangote refinery. So please don't Spam an innocent lady email box.Thank you

‎‎​I have always known people were behind his resignation. ‎‎​I see this making front page.

iyktane@gmail.com . may God preserve and see her through . will be waiting for the acc.

A Case For Canceling The 2015 Elections By Okey Ndibe

Once again, Nigeria has entered an awful, familiar season. The country’s air is rent with talk of power. Not electric power, no; we’re talking raw political power! And the general elections of 2015 seem to have concentrated the mind of every politician in Nigeria, incumbent and aspirant alike. Nigeria is gravely tense. The country’s political rope has become extremely taut, threatening to snap.

I’d suggest that Nigeria cancel the 2015 elections. The country should then be put in a controlled comatose state, ready for the commencement of urgent, critical care. First, let me offer a sketch of the country’s pathologies.

Nigeria is beset by myriad crises. Boko Haram continues to make life in parts of the country nasty, brutish and short. After a few years of relative quiet, the creeks of the Niger Delta are flaring with sporadic acts of violence, much of them directed at police officers. Other parts of the country are in the vice grip of kidnappers who, when it suits them, murder their quarry even after ransom is paid. Businesses and individuals face a bad – some argue, worsening – state of electric power supply. The streets of many (I suspect, most) Nigerian cities are rife with clogged, fetid gutters that are both eyesores and health scares in-waiting. Hundreds of thousands of university and polytechnic graduates, many of them with cash-acquired or sexually transmitted degrees, haunt the streets, unemployed – some unemployable – and hopeless. Hospitals are so ill-equipped, so scary, that a good percentage of sick Nigerians now fly to Europe or North America (if they can afford it), or flock to India or South Africa (if they don’t have the means for the top-tier destinations), or make do with Ghana (if all farther locations are too expensive), or head for some money-grubbing, “miracle”-minting pastor or imam. The road networks are a shambles.

And there’s much else that demands fixing – schools; oil bunkering; waste disposal; civil services that are shadows of what they ought to be; a police force that engages in widespread extra-judicial executions; judiciaries so corrupt that Nigerians often resort to self-help rather than take cases to court; large-scale embezzlement of public funds by federal, state and municipal officials – to leave it at that.

Nigeria is the perfect place for any leader who welcomes challenges and wants to apply her/his mind to the solution of deep-rooted problems. In other words, there’s plenty of work crying for tested, serious men and women willing to transform their spaces – not just those ready with a facile phrase or two.

If President Goodluck Jonathan realizes the enormity of the crises in Nigeria, then he has kept it a secret unto himself. He has hardly demonstrated an understanding of what real leadership is all about. In the build-up to the 2011 elections, Candidate Jonathan was a factory of promises and pledges. Once sworn-in, Mr. Jonathan seemed to ball up all those promises and toss them in a trash bin. It’s as if he split like an ogbanje, the promise-spewing part of him no longer in touch with the snoozing, alienated president he’s become. On occasion, Mr. Jonathan has shown flashes of an imperial mindset, though not to the same degree as former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

At any rate, our man in Aso Rock leaves the impression of being baffled, intimidated by the sheer size and weight of the day-to-day demands of his office – to say nothing of the long term dimensions of Nigeria’s problems. Quite simply, the task of running Nigeria effectively appears to be far, far above Mr. Jonathan’s pay grade. Yet, that hasn’t stopped him from gearing down (or up, depending on one’s perspective) to campaign mode.

Like the president, most of the first-term governors have reset their priorities to – re-election. The second-term governors are rearing for their next power move. Some, I understand, are figuring out how to corner a seat in the Senate, a chamber whose members are addressed, with a verbal inflation that’s quintessentially Nigerian, as “Distinguished Senator.” – Others are darting about, cozying up to one presumed presidential player or another, their eyes set on prizes that range from VP through minister to ambassador.

The official line is that Mr. Jonathan hasn’t decided whether to seek re-election. But that line is about as credible as former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s insistence that he never wished for a third term in office. Unless you’re a political fool or a visitor just come from outer space, you know President Jonathan is desperate to return in 2015.

Let’s be clear: he has a right – under the constitution – to run. So do those governors seeking re-election, coveting a vice presidential nomination, or eyeing a legislative post.

I think it was former dictator Ibrahim Babangida who once mused that Nigeria’s continued survival defied logic. But even the hardiest of resilient entities finally reach a breaking point. I fear that Nigeria is hurtling to its breaking point – in 2015.

Almost two years before the next round of elections, we witness a ratcheting up of belligerent rhetoric. Mr. Jonathan’s acolytes, Asari Dokubo and Kingsley Kuku chief among them, have threatened Armageddon unless their man was allowed to shamble through another four-year lap. Some Northern politicians have served notice that hell would be unleashed if Mr. Jonathan did not abandon his dreams of occupying the presidential villa beyond 2015.

The threats strike me as real. Those making them have the resume – as well as the wherewithal – to deliver on their warring words. With a wretched legacy to his name, Mr. Jonathan can hardly win without manipulating the powers of incumbency – without rigging, in other words. Bereft of vision and too lazy to articulate a set of viable answers for Nigeria’s maladies, the opposition forces seem bent on out-rigging the PDP. Elections cost too much in Nigeria; they take up scarce resources sorely needed for developmental purposes – and they invariably end up rigged, anyway. It’s all a perfect recipe for certain disaster. Some of us think that the current climate of insecurity in Nigeria is absolutely unsustainable. I shudder to imagine the post-2015 scenario.

Nigerians may not be able to bear – should not bear – the burden of yet another clash of naked ambitions. Neither President Jonathan nor the Northerners who want his job nor the coalition of opposition forces has shown any indication of possessing an antidote to Nigeria’s complex of problems. All of them seek political power, it seems, for its own sake. Let me correct that statement. They appear to share a dream: to preside over the unabated dispossession of the Nigerian people.

Nigeria is highly combustible, ripe – at the slightest instigation – for horrific bloodletting. Were the global mood and circumstances different, today’s Nigeria would be a prime candidate for a coup d’etat. That such an occurrence is unfeasible has not stopped some Nigerians from fantasizing about military intervention, conveniently forgetting the horrors that came with such past military incursions. The fact is that a coup is highly unlikely, above all because the international community is now highly allergic to uniformed poseurs who seize power.

I recommend what amounts to a “self-help” coup, a dismantling of the dismal apparatus that we have misnamed democracy. Here’s a quick outline. President Jonathan, the 36 state governors, and the municipal councils should stay in office till 2015. Instead of holding elections that are bound to carry a staggering price tag and result in massive rigging, Nigerians should have a big convocation of vital interest groups – labor, students, the military, religious leaders, professional groups (doctors, lawyers, accountants, academics etc). The body should then invite experts in different fields to assume control of various sectors of the country – health, education, sanitation, the judiciary, security, infrastructure, and so on. Each of the thirty-six states should also have similar arrangements at the state and municipal levels.

The caretaker administrators, chosen on the basis of expertise alone, should run Nigeria for a minimum of ten years. The first five years should be devoted to designing and building a truly modern Nigeria – one in which power supply is regular, healthcare is sound, education is reformed, and infrastructure developed. During the next five years, the caretakers should begin to draw up a draft constitution that contains noble ideals, spells out what it means to be a citizen (duties, responsibilities and rights), decentralizes power, establishes stable, independent institutions (the judiciary, law enforcement, electoral commission), and expunges such oddities in the extant constitution as “security vote” and immunity for crime-committing governors and presidents.

I’m afraid, really afraid of what lurks in the corner if we bumble into 2015 determined to hold elections when – as usual – no contending party (least of all the ruling one) is contemplating playing by honest rules. I fear, then, that the alternative to a caretaker arrangement is to have a blood-soaked Nigeria in the hands of undertakers.

‎‎​I don't understand why we must always derail threads in this forum. For those that opined that having an uncle put in a word or two after having proved yourself deserving of a Job is right, ‎‎​I beg to disagree. ‎‎​‎‎​I will prefer they do their favoritism before contacting successful candidates that way they save people heartaches.
@ yuzedo Man please act like an adult in public irrespective of it being faceless or not. Enough with the insults thank you.

Please Sir help me check this VIN V5J6YH1723L00000. Happy easter in advance. Iyktane@yahoo.com.Please ‎‎​I have to make a decision tomorrow you skipped it the first time ‎‎​I posted it .

Please Sir help me check this VIN V5J6YH1723L00000. Happy easter in advance. Iyktane@yahoo.com.

Something has to be done about the state of our aviation sector. Enough is enough.

Was port harcourt affected because ‎‎power has been off since early saturday morning.

What would have been another air disaster was on Sunday, averted by whiskers as an Abuja-bound aircraft made a dramatic return to Lagos when one of its engines developed a mechanical fault mid-air.

On board the aircraft which belongs to Med-View Airline were 73 passengers including Mr. Donald Ojogo, the newly appointed Politics Editor, Abuja, of the Independent Newspapers Limited, publishers of Daily Independent, Saturday Independent and Sunday Independent.

The Lagos-Abuja bound flight, VL2104, scheduled for 12 noon on Sunday had taken off at exactly 12.15 pm, 15 minutes behind schedule.



But at exactly 12.30, about five minutes after the seat belt signs were put off, there was a loud bang at the engine side of the aircraft forcing it to drop in altitude even as it became unstable, swerving slowly and steadily in left and right directions for about two minutes.

The development elicited instant prayers, wailings and cries from the passengers, most of whom were women with the silence of the Aircraft Crew, especially the Pilot, further heightening tension in the plane.

 http://dailypost.com.ng/2013/01/27/74-passengers-escape-air-crash-after-abuja-bound-plane-develops-fault-15-minutes-after-take-off/

If ur guy is a Man United fan, Pray very hard. In fact insist on collecting ur Valentine gift before 13th of Feb. That day is d day Man United and Real Madrid first leg of d champions league match was scheduled( a day b/4 Val. 14th Feb). I wonder what will be ur case if Man U Lose!
ABI U NO NO!

A timely piece . Truth cannot be buried.

@ preciousbro your course is on track. ‎‎​I also studied industrial chemistry and current work in the oil and gas industry as a pvt chemist. So keep hope alive.

This is really wonderful please keep up the good work.

CRACK YOUR RIB!!!



Dear Readers,

Adhere to these simple, straight forward rules and you will be glad you did. If your disobey, two things will likely happen. Your pocket value will depreciate to depressing proportions or your dearly beloved car will hate your for being a careless owner or in worse cases……..fill in the gaps



1. When in doubt, accelerate!

2. Be prepared to ram into anything stopping you that is wearing uniform in Lagos (police,traffic warden, FRSC, Kai brigade, fire brigade, VIO, LASTMA, LAMATA, LASWA)

3.If you get caught by any chance, do not allow them to enter your car, if they happen to get in do not drive from that spot (veer off traffic & settle promply), and if they don’t agree, pretend that you are calling your uncle who is in the army (believe me it always works), never follow them to any sort of office except you are ready to pay ten times more than what was demanded.

4. Never give police or VIO your original particulars (whether expired or up to date).

5. Danfo drivers believe they are immortal. Never yield to the temptation to teach them otherwise.

6. Okada riders have a pact with suicide, avoid them like a plaque.

7. Avoid BRT buses in all ramifications, they have no brakes.

8. Taxi cabs (oko asewo) should always have the right of way, all of them have been driving in Lagos for 25 years.

9. Never, ever, stop for a pedestrian unless he flings himself under the wheels of your car.

10. The first parking space you see will be the last parking space you see. Grab it. Survival of the fittest you may say!

11. Learn to swerve abruptly. In Lagos, potholes (and sometimes car-holes) are put in key locations to test drivers’ reflexes and shock absorbers,( I saw one man fishing in one of the potholes last week).

12. There is no such thing as “one-way” in Lagos. Expect traffic from any direction at all times. The okada riders are the experts in this area.

13. Never get in the way of a car that needs extensive bodywork, except you want to spend your whole Saturday at the panel beater’s place.

14. Morning rush-hours are equivalent to Lagos grand prix (who gets to the junction first).

15. There is no such thing as a short-cut during rush-hour traffic in Lagos. Everybody might be inclined to take that ’short-cut’.

16. When asking for directions, always ask at least three people. Lagosians always claim to know every inch of the city – even areas they’ve never been to.

17. Use extreme caution when pulling into service lanes. Service lanes are not for breaking down the traffic, but for speeding, especially during rush hour.

18. Never use directional signals, since they only confound and distract other Lagos drivers, who are not used to them.

19. Similarly, never attempt to give hand signals. Lagos drivers, unused to such courtesies, will think you are making obscene gestures to them. This could be very bad for you in Lagos.

20. Hazard lights (popularly called “double pointer”) is not, (as commonly supposed) used to indicate a hazard. It is a warning to you that he is a bonafide Lagos driver, he’s headed ’straight’ and as such, will not stop under any circumstance. Take him extremely seriously especially if he backs it up with a continuous blast from his “horn”.

21. At any given time, do not stand on the zebra crossing expecting traffic to yield to you, or else you will have to explain to the on coming traffic whether you look like a zebra.

22. Speed limits are arbitrary figures posted only to make you feel guilty.

23. Remember that the goal of every driver is to get there first by whatever means necessary.

24. In Lagos every spot is a potential bus stop. FRSC and LASTMA know that too. It is in their constitution.

25. Above all, keep moving. Even with a flat tyre!!!

HORNING IN LAGOS
Horn’ when someone executes a dangerous maneouvre.

‘Horn’ when you’re about to move off.

‘Horn’ when you’re about to overtake.

‘Horn’ when someone is about to overtake you.

‘Horn’ when turning into a road.

‘Horn’ when emerging from a road.

‘Horn’ back when someone horns at you. It’s considered good etiquette.

‘Horn’ when you hear a chorus of horns. Don’t worry if you don’t know what all the ‘horning’ is about.

‘Horn’ when you’re happy.

‘Horn’ to the beat when you’re playing music in your car.

Good luck, as you expeditiously navigate through Lagos and hustle and bustle!

@Xhero sorry for your loss girls like that are rare but God will always find a way to console you.

Glo has already compensated all customers. Simple check ur expiry date it has been extended by 3 days. ‎‎​I only fear for such if its the theifing yellow network. Glo just had a minor trouble and has resolved it.

Even if Glo goes off for 1 month i still respect them for making life easier for Nigerians (MTN customers inclusive). keep up the good job Glo .

Some people would not cease to amaze me. "Why do this its not scriptural" I bet you don't celebrate ur birthday cos its also not scriptural as well as many other things it is you celebrate that the scripture does not document. I wonder what you people expect to be written in the bible, probable a verse where Jesus would say "celebrate my birthday and then my death when i die". Please take all this your "I too know" attitude somewhere else .
@ Op none is more important than the other given the circumstances that nearly prevented the Birth of Jesus and also the fact that His death on The Cross made us free I can only say both days are worth remembering.

Mine was that Shell have started calling for test. That was the only guy that got me today cos I was like very alert today.

Any right thinking person should know this is an April fool. when he wanted to launch Nairaland 2 he tested it by posting a link where we could check it out. Whoever thinks Seun would go straight to put this up straight away without our input needs his/her head examined. @Seun sorry I did not fall for this I am too alert today.