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Australian girls will travel from Australia to Canada and spend $2,000 dollars for flying ticket which is nearly One Million naira and travel a distance of 17 hours on air to visit a man,American girls will spend over $2,500 dollars which is over #1M naira to buy air ticket and travel almost 18 hours journey on air from America to England to visit a man and also buy expensive gifts for him, European girls will spend over £2,000 euros which is around #1M naira and buy plane ticket to fly 17 hours all the way from Europe to Asia to visit a man. But a Nigerian lady cannot travel a journey of 15minutes that cannot cost #500 to visit a man inside her own country, she will ask for transport fare ; yet she will tell the Nigerian guy that she needs good and caring man. Copyright: Ike's Blog.   All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this Blog Page, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior...

As the race for the November governorship race gets closer, the State Governor, Mr Willie Obiano has perfected plans to wreck other candidates financially, while ripping them financially to his benefit. One of the strategies put in place by him is imposing bills on aspirants who want to make use of billboards situated in the state. This revelation was made by one of the aspirants Osita Chidoka of United Peoples Party (UPP). According to him “under the draconian tariff, candidates are required to pay N5 million per view side of Unipoles; N5 millon per view side of gantries and bridge panels; and N10 million for LEDs. The state is also charging the candidates N5 million for posters per senatorial zone, N2 million per Federal Constituency and N500, 000 per Local Government. Our state has three senatorial zone, 11 federal constituencies and 21 Local Government Areas. If my campaign were to erect 3 Unipoles billboards per Local government, the 21 Local Governments in the state will...

New insight into recent altercations between the Senate and the Comptroller General, CG, Col. Hameed Ali, of the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, are beginning to emerge which invariably points to actions of a major smuggler, airline owner and political financier, Dahiru Mangal. As gathered exclusively , Senate hard stance on the CG came barely days after a major operation to extradite Mangal from Chad to answer to alleged smuggling charges went awry. The smuggler and owner of Max Airline, a principal carrier for pilgrims to hajj, is believed to be the biggest smuggler in the country. He was major financier of Late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s election among other top politicians from the North. Apart from politicians, traditional rulers, chiefly from Katsina, his home state are beholden to him. He is said to have a lot of customs officers in his pocket, brings in as much as 400 trailers of contraband on each trip from the Northern borders; and escorts each of the convoy in a...

The Federal Government has said it is currently investigating the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) over debts owed contractors to the time of about N1 trillion. The Government said it wants to access the activities of the commission with the probe as well as establish what has been happening with the huge funds sunk into it over the 17 years of its existence. Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Uguru Usani, who stated this in Abuja on Thursday, also stated that the probe will among other things verify all projects and resources deployed to the commission since it was created in the year 2000. This is coming at a time the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it has seized a mansion allegedly belonging to a former Executive Director, Finance and Administration, of the commission, Henry Ogiri. According to Usani, there is also need to clean up the commission over allegations that some staff are in the business of demanding for percentages bef...