£67m for a goalkeeper ?

As if they will obey him when himself cannot even obey the C - in - C

Voice and Data simultaneously on mobile device



https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/20/6661887/you-can-finally-talk-and-use-data-simultaneously-on-new-verizon

How come them Amaechi and co no Dey see dis type buy when dem go China

Dear VO,

I currently have a valid US visa on my Nigerian passport. however there is an error with my date of birth on my current passport which I am in the process of correcting same with the Nigerian Immigration Service.

Kindly advise how I can transfer my current visa to the new passport once the changes have been effected.

The ministry will come out na to protest and probably write a letter to the body to withdraw the assessment.

LETTER TO ATIKU...

BY A DISSATISFIED NIGERIAN...

CHURCHILL OKONKWO

You are a symbol of the past failures and the politically corrupt in Nigeria. With all due respect, therefore, I, on behalf of millions of Nigerians want to remind you that you should shut up when we are discussing anti-corruption challenges and the way forward.

I laughed cynically when I heard you brag that you would “shock everyone because you will fight corruption …if given the opportunity to preside over the affairs of the country.” You challenged Nigerians to either “come forward with a single shred of evidence of [your] misconduct while in office or keep quiet.” Crude arrogance! You subsequently bragged that your stupendous wealth was a result of your “resourcefulness and successful investments.”

What a lie! To use your own words, that display of arrogance was “morally offensive” to millions of Nigerians. Please, sir, accept my apologies, but the issue is not about your “entrepreneurial spirit” but whether you can corroborate the SOURCE of your investments and wealth. Sir, you are not more resourceful than millions of Nigerians, and thousands of investors with hard-earned and traceable source of wealth. So, sir, take your sermon of rooting out corruption in Nigeria to the sedimentary rocks in the valley of Adamawa Highlands.

As a show of good faith, sir, can you please explain to Nigerians how a retired Customs officer and VP, you, got the millions of Dollars, without a bank loan, you paid to the American University in Washington DC for a direct license to use the franchise of the university? We know that your estimated $25 million worth of University (ABTI American University) in Yola was not just because you were resourceful.

What is the source of the inexplicable reason for your increased wealth after 8 years as VP? Accept my apologies sir, but can you explain to Nigerians the source of hundreds of multi-million Naira mansions, mostly built on what Nigerians believe to be proceeds of corruption? What of the $125m you diverted from the Petroleum Trust Development Fund (PTDF)? Can you please, sir; explain to Nigerians how you managed to command controlling shares in Bank PHB, controlling shares in Intel, and oil services companies operating in many African countries?

If you are as smart and intelligent as you want Nigerians to believe, then it will not be difficult to break down the source of your wealth. Believe me, there are millions of Nigerians out there that are more resourceful than you that will be turned into billionaires overnight if only you can show us your magic wand. So, without explaining the source of your wealth, it is an insult to ask us to provide evidence that you are chronically corrupt. The burden of proof is on you, sir.

How can Nigeria move forward, when we are hamstrung by symbols of past failures, like you Atiku? Let me remind those still living in the graveyards of yesteryears of what you sir, represents. Your mere presence in Nigerian politics reminds us of the era of fire-breathing monsters that plundered the national wealth. Sir, your administration with Obasanjo represents a government of the ugly and predators. Under you, and Obasanjo, corruption was so sweet and so exquisite that the political class fell over themselves to worship the mini gods in Aso Rock.

Accept my apologies, sir, but Nigerians have not forgotten that under you and Obasanjo, our yesteryears were locust-infested. When you fought corruption with Obasanjo, we had wretched criminals that grew the size of their stomachs and pockets from “Turn Around Maintenance” of our refineries and under-selling of government entities to cronies. Under you, and Obasanjo, we had ministers and thieves that were busy acquiring properties worth billions while our infrastructures decayed.

Sir, you are a woodpecker that feed on the pantry of the poor, but found a way to avoid having boils in your mouth. The same mouth you are now using to insult us and bragging about how clean you are in amassing wealth in the midst of poverty in your backyard.

Atiku, sir, your ambition, therefore, deserves to be killed now. It is time for you to retire from public life, disappear from Twitter, political screens, and sight somewhere far away. Sir, when you drive around the hills and valleys of Adamawa Highland, are you not worried about the difference between your fortunes and that of the poor masses you represented?

Nigerians believe that corruption is a bigger threat than insecurity in your backyard in Northeastern Nigeria. Fighting corruption in good faith will heal the wounds of millions of Nigerians adversely affected over many decades. Unfortunately, sir, until you explain to us how you amassed your wealth, you are not the right man to lead Nigeria.

The stories surrounding the cancellation, the legality or illegality of the contract between Intels and its subsidiaries with Nigerian Port Authority (NPA) is an indication that your greed is finally catching up with you. For me, that deal is like the rest of the dubious investments you are now flaunting, all of which is a textbook example of how crooked bureaucrats like you amass wealth through cronyism and graft.

So, accept my apologies. You, like your boy the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, represent the dangerously corrupt political elites in Nigeria. As you make an attempt at the Nigerian Presidency for the umpteenth time, know it that your reckless shame has expired. The period from 1999 to 2017 is gone, even though the mess you and Obasanjo left behind is still hunting Nigerians.

Sir, I love you, but, until we begin to challenge serving and former civil servants and public office holders like you that cannot explain how they acquired so much wealth, we cannot really claim to be fighting corruption. Shed some light on the source of every Kobo of your shadowed investments and businesses and shame the people you refer to as “political enemies”.

While I wait for your explanation, know it that I will be the first to raise my hand and campaign for you if you will satisfactorily demonstrate the source of your wealth the way you explain to a 3-year old that 1 + 1 = 2. I say this with as a much respect as I can muster, hoping that you will disgrace me with verifiable proof.

Until you do that, sir, you should shut up and bow your head in shame, if there is still any left, when Nigerians are talking about the serious business of fighting corruption.


You can email Churchill at churchill.okonkwo@gmail.com or follow him on Twitter @churchillnnobi.

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Wa gbayi

Happens to me. Taken and implemented advice from several doctors to no avail. I Stopped bathing with sponge and it reduced it drastically. Only take my bath with sponge once in two week on a weekend when I am not going out and ready to scratch my body.

Happens to me. Stopped bathing with sponge and it reduced it drastically. Only take my bath with sponge once in two week on a weekend when I am not going out and ready to scratch my body

That Range don't look brand new to mee

majorgr:
first and foremost u will have to tell us which pest u noticed on the plant, we just don't treat things blindly.

I am not exactly sure as I am new to this plant stuff, Just wanted some form of beatification for my house.

The plant name is Tiger Sago palm tree. After some checking online, I gathered that a common pest is spider mite that causes brownish leaf on the plant.

This is what it looked like when I bought it.

Horticulturist in the house, Please which pesticide can I use for this plant.

First Picture, The guy top left.... The look on his face though

So whose body was initially recovered and rejected by the family ? Does it mean there are lots of bodies under the ocean unaccounted for

Epic..... Your husband..... Thats a broda right there........ Love him already.

ffrreeee:
Congratulations
I still ask my husband why he didn't propose like this during our time. He just came around one day and said let's start making preparation for our wedding
I asked him, just like that? Aren't you proposing?
Then he said, what's the need? We v been dating for almost 3years and i know you love me, so why waste time on that childish act. Abeg start contacting the vendors. I was dumbfounded

Just for information sake, to the professionals.

Is it right for banks to charge VAT on card annual maintenance fee as a service ? Because its enough they are taking 100 naira from people's acct already. why the vat for an intangible item ?

slimz10:


Track him down for school...(or any open place)
Call am chairman say you want to reason am something.. ..

Move out with him and buy him drink (alcohol... 2 Bottles minimum)......
Tell him to forget about that "stuff" that happened in the hall that you were provoked previously before your issue with him (no apologize like woman o... I mean by kneeling down and crying)
Hear him out... . Smile if the case is settled and top up his drink with one more bottle.

Nb: Use this method if he is a top man... not all those wanna be.
Oko polythenic is a strong cultist school and I believe that all guys issue can be resolved over a bottle of beer.

I was never a cultist but will adopt this method when in similar case.

Final bullet: fictional scenario which might still give you the desired results.

You don turn office till you graduate, Get SARS on the mofo.

Hmmm... As difficult to believe as it seems, The op made some valid points. Your life, your choice. Wish you a good life ahead

I am not sure if this is the right section for this topic.

I recall when the price of PMS was increased we were made to believe that market forces will gradually bring down the price in the coming months. While we have the likes of NNPC selling for between 141 and 143 in some stations we have the NIPCOS selling for 143 and the all time low I saw today somewhere around egbeda was 139/litre. But we have the major marketers like the Totals, Forte, Conoil and Mobile still selling at 145.

Sometimes , I find myself trying to get to a fuel station that sells for 143/litre before I buy fuel even though the 2 naira can be considered negligible. My question therefore is that? Are we really buying the right value of fuel from the fuel stations selling below 145 or we are buying from adjusted pumps or low quality fuel (burns faster)

Becos the puzzle for me is why are the major marketers not coming down from the 145

#justasking make I no just dey fool myself in the name of getting more value for hard earned money.

When it happened to me, after series of sit downs with my wife and no progress, I simply moved over to a friend's place.. I didn't even inform my wife. Immediately I closed from work on a Friday, I went to my friend's house (Bachelor). They were all looking for me, I didn't even pick their calls, until my mom called me and I explained to her. I think she told my wife and she came to my office to look for me on Monday. Without any form of quarrel I calmly told my wife that I have decided to move on since I cannot marry her and her mother and its obvious she cannot talk to her mom. Because sincerely I didn't have any reason to talk to the mother to avoid any issue of disrespect. I told her I was trying to put some money together to get an apartment of my own and start all over again.

After long quarrel through the week she called me that my MIL in not coming over this weekend that I should please come back home. I waited till Monday after work and I went back home and I don't know what she eventually told her mom and I didn't ask till today except when we had our second child. my MIL no dey come anyhow.

It was a drastic trick I used if it had backfired. It created a strain in our relationship but I think I am better for it.

Has it gotten this bad with our value for human lives ?

Just look at Arase, Even when the jokes are not so funny ?

Hehehehehe......Nothing wey we no go see for Nigeria

The Surulere Police Division, Lagos State, on Tuesday arrested four men, who were accused of eating late in the night around the Ojuelegba Bridge in the Surulere area.

Our correspondent learnt that the suspects – one of them identified as Sango Svengali – were eating noodles at a shop on Ogunlana Drive around 11pm, when the policemen, said to be about eight, rounded them up.



The policemen, who reportedly brought three vans, were said to have accused the men of eating late and queried why they did not eat in their houses.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the suspects were subsequently whisked away to the Area C Command, Surulere.

It was learnt that the policemen at the counter allegedly demanded N15,000 ‘settlement’ from the men, threatening that they would sleep in the cell overnight if they failed to settle.

Our correspondent gathered that Svengali and his friends, who were not made to write any statement, offered N5,000 but the policemen refused.

Our correspondent learnt that on Wednesday, the suspects were brought before the area commander, who noted that they resembled Boko Haram members, ordering them to shave their beards.

Speaking with PUNCH Metro on Thursday after regaining his freedom, Svengali said the policemen did not ask any of them for identification before forcing them into their vans.

He said, “I had a stressful day at work on Tuesday. There was a lot of traffic. Instead of going home through the Third Mainland Bridge, I decided to spend the night at a friend’s place in Ojuelegba. Some other friends came to my friend’s place. Later, around 11pm, we were hungry and we decided to go down the road to buy noodles.

“The Mai shai are basically night-food people. So we knew they would still be selling food. We drove to Ogunlana Drive and saw a woman selling noodles by the roadside. The three of us decided to buy noodles and eat. We sat on the trunk of the two cars we brought and ate the food. As we were about to go, three police vans stopped by our vehicles. There were about eight policemen in the vans.

“The policemen dragged me into one of their vans. I was confused and wanted to resist. But when I saw the young man selling recharge cards beside the woman being slapped several times, I knew it was useless resisting. The policemen did not ask us any question. They did not ask us to identify ourselves.”

Svengali added that when they got to the station, they met eight others who had been arrested.

He said, “While in the van, the policemen sitting beside me collected my phone and started searching through it. He checked through my electronic mail, and when he did not find anything, he said, ‘Sometimes you go dey pray say you no dey road when devil dey pass.’ He added that we would ‘sort it out’ at the station.

“As we moved on, I noticed that my other friends – except one – were in the other vans. When we got to the station, we found that eight people had been picked up too. The policemen at the station said, ‘Why una no chop for house?’ One of my friends started negotiating for us at the counter. The policemen said they wanted N15,000 to let three of us go. He was begging them to take N5,000. They refused.

“The cell stank like a gutter. There were about 18 of us there. We endured the stench till morning. When it was around 7am, we were brought before the area commander. We were lined up like criminals. He said our misdeed was that we ate at an unholy hour. He said we looked like fanatics and Boko Haram members.

“He ordered them to lock us up again. After some time, some of our friends came, one of them is a lawyer. He spoke to the area commander. He said the only way to release us was to shave our beards. The police bought shaving sticks and made us shave at the counter. I was so embarrassed. All this while, we never wrote any statement. We were not accused of anything. When I finally left, it was some minutes before 10am.”

Our correspondent learnt that one of the suspects communicated with the Complaints Response Unit, Abuja, through Twitter, to report the alleged bribe the policemen demanded.
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, had yet to reply to a text message sent to her phone on the incident.

The Head of the CRU, Force Headquarters, Abuja, CSP Abayomi Shogunle, however, replied on Twitter that a team of policemen had gone to the police station to ascertain the claim of the complainants.

He said, “A special monitoring team from the Force Headquarters on nationwide patrol is at the police station in Ojuelegba to verify this report. The complaint is acknowledged and the tracking number is CRU 359117.”


http://www.punchng.com/police-detain-men-eating-late-demand-n15000-bribe/

The frustration and suffering is just so much.

We generate our electricity through generators, inverters, solar panels and what have you.
We provide our own source of water through boreholes.
Some Community Development Areas (CDAs) even come together to repair their roads. (Had my ball joint messed up this morning on my way to work because there was no street light to see the pothole on time. Guess this was my own fault because I should be used to potholes on Nigerian roads by now).
We get own abokis and vigilante groups as security, because even the security agencies sef make life unbearable for us.
Even the Apex bank that is suppose to regulate Monetary Policy.... Oh gosh.. Make I no even go there.

At the end of the month, I get some part of my salary chopped of all in the name of payee tax.(I could actually use this money to buy fuel and fix my shocks.)

Maybe I need some form of enlightenment on the usefulness of this Nigerian Federal and state Government other than political promise.

Which date ?

Just to ask ? Are the lawmakers still going to be paid while on recess.

Here we go again.... Why must we go always go along the line of political party or tribal line.

Agubushmenyo:


Goodluck sister... But remember, Nobody can unseat Buhari come 2019... If you think am lying, name the PDP candidate!!

Atiku(APC)
Sule lamido
Ribadu
Goje
Kwankwaso?

When you have a name, Mention me.

We that voted Buhari knows that it will get rough before it gets better!!

Peace

I just don't get it. No Fuel, No Light, No water and the government fraudulently removes TAX from my hard earned take home pay that no longer takes me home

I just think we are the architect of our own problems or it seems so. This latest round of fuel scarcity causing untold hardship on us could have been avoided.
Why do sensitive government organisations strike at the slightest provocation without warning or notice ? Strike should be a last resort to dispute resolution.
Where are these NLC guys when you need them ?.. Oh sorry they only come out when there is money to be made in the struggle.
Can we ever achieve 8000 MW electricity generation in this country ?

For every good news there is a sad news to counter it.

Gushhhhhh

May God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Good problem

This is a good problem