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Photos: Man Survives A Huge Metal Bar Pushed Through His Head In China

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Mr Ho, 50, was dismantling a property in Guangxi Province in
China when a steel rod fell from above. Miraculously, he managed to survive the
rod's impact, entering through the right side of his forehead and exiting
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Paramedics called to treat Mr Ho were astounded to find him
entirely conscious and lucid, despite the inch-thick rod embedded inside him.</div>
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After having fire fighters removed most of the metal bar outside his 
head, Mr Ho was moved to a larger hospital for further treatment. 
Complex emergency surgery allowed doctors to remove the remainder 
successfully and staff say Mr Ho is recovering well and out of danger. 
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Photos: Man Survives A Huge Metal Bar Pushed Through His Head In China

Mr Ho, 50, was dismantling a property in Guangxi Province in China when a steel rod fell from above. Miraculously, he managed to survive the rod's impact, entering through the right side of his f…

29 Aug 2014

The Internet Will Know No Peace Till We Get A Job - Unemployed Nigerian Girls

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Two unemployed <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">Nigerian girls</span> who
 says age and weight are not on their side have said the internet will 
know no peace until they secure a job in the land they got <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">the education</span> from. The girls who graduated with a 2’1 have
opened a <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">twitter account</span> where <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD11">they have</span> been campaigning for a job. According
to them, they have walked every nook and cranny of Lagos State looking for
a job, with no hope of getting one. They have however resulted in cursing every company they have dropped their CVs with and even calling on God to deal
with them for employing people with <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">connections</span> rather then the diligent ones</div>
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It’s sad, it is heart breaking. But really I think the
<span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD10">government</span> should do something fast about unemployment. We all can’t be <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">entrepreneurs</span>. Here’s a comment they dropped here on the blog, funny girls, but hey, they are
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WHO ARE WE? TWO SMART, UNEMPLOYED GIRLS! WHAT DO WE NEED? A
JOB! WHEN DO WE WANT IT? NOW! THE INTERNET WOULD KNOW NO PEACE TILL OUR NEEDS
ARE MET!</div>
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My friend and I are fresh business graduates and we are sick
and tired of looking for a job. Age and weight is not on our side!</div>
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We wake up everyday and trek from the mainland to the island
with our cv's only to be told 'no vacancy'. God will judge all these stingy
companies hiring secretly. Is it because we don't have connections eh?</div>
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<span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD9">Imagine</span> 2'1 holders submitting CV to security men of
companies. What is this life?</div>
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Every night, we add a new sentence <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8">to our</span> cv yet nothing
nothing. We have remixed our cover letter in every language in Nigeria yet
nothing nothing.</div>
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Nigerian companies keep saying they don't want entry level
applicants except marketers. The few times they request, they would use GMAT to
frustrate somebody.</div>
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See, physically we may have be entry level hires but
spiritually, we are experienced. If we are not working for you, you are wrong!</div>
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We have filled the career sites of a 1001 companies yet no
response from them! One day, we are going to be CEO's and these companies would
offer us business proposals.</div>
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That's when we would pay back!!! For every company that has
sent us a regret mail, we would bounce back bigger and better. For now, we need
a decent job please. Help!</div>
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Twitter is @2unemploydgirls</div>
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Email is 2unemployedgirls@gmail.com</div>
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Their tweets on twitter;</div>
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The Internet Will Know No Peace Till We Get A Job - Unemployed Nigerian Girls

Two unemployed Nigerian girls who says age and weight are not on their side have said the internet will know no peace until they secure a job in the land they got the education from. The girls …

29 Aug 2014

Another Tanker Explosion Rocks Lagos

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Spirit, popularly known as PMS exploded yesterday at Total depot Dockyard,
Apapa Road in Lagos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The fire incident, which started
around 5:00am in the morning raged till 10:am before men of Oando and Total
fire fighters as well as the Fire Service arrived the scene to put it out.</span></div>
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fire started around 5:00am in the morning when people suspected to be
oil-bunkers were busy transferring PMS from kegs to the tanker.</span>

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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“The incident began at about 5am,
when illegal oil-bunkers were transferring PMS from kegs to the tanker. While
transferring fuel from kegs to the tanker, one of the kegs was said to have
fallen and caught fire, which engulfed the tanker. Fortunately, the other
tanker close by was empty it would have been more serious. Immediately the fire
started, the culprits all ran away,” the eye witness said.</span></div>
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of the area had made several complaints in the past to the police on illegal
activities of the bunkerers, but nothing was done until the explosion occurred.
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refused to reveal his identity however, told Vanguard that:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“Well we have tried our best to
put off the fire so it will not affect other property and total dockyard which
of course would have caused a greater damage.</span></div>
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well as a part of a Church building around the area. However, there was no
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A tanker containing Premium Motor Spirit, popularly known as PMS exploded yesterday at Total depot Dockyard, Apapa Road in Lagos. The fire incident, which started around 5:00am in the morning rag…

29 Aug 2014

Is This Supposed To Be Funny?

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Lord have mercy, nobody should pray to have any of these
two. Before now most people were discriminating against people living 
with HIV/AIDS and no one ever prayed to have it. But now it seems a lot 
of people prefer having HIV than Ebola, knowing one can still live long 
with it. This ‘joke’ written by Tolulope Ogunbunmi has been going round
on Facebook since morning with a lot of people reposting and confessing 
they prefer to be HIV+ than having Ebola. </div>
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'A friend was feeling very sick, weak, he was throwing up. He
was taken to the hospital and several tests conducted. At this point all his
family members were afraid to touch him including his wife and children, he was
even locked inside a room.</div>
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After some time a doctor came out and was about to break the
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The doctor said " we have concluded all the necessary
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All the family members started shouting thank God, thank
God, some were even singing praises. One called home immediately and said
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Lord have mercy, nobody should pray to have any of these two. Before now most people were discriminating against people living with HIV/AIDS and no one ever prayed to have it. But now it seems a…

29 Aug 2014

Ebola Researchers To Speed Up Vaccine Trials

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to speed up vaccine trials on Ebola, which could make it possible for healthy
volunteers to start testing it as early as next month in three countries of
Gambia, Mali, and Britain.</span>

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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The vaccines will be made
available to volunteers in Gambia, Mali, and Britain in effort to curb the
spread of the epidemic, which has killed over 1,552 in West Africa so far.</span></div>
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trials could finish by the end of the year (2014). If the trials prove
successful, vaccines could then be given to people infected with Ebola, which
is spread through bodily fluids.</span>

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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">This was made known on Thursday by
leading pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, which is developing the vaccine
with the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Wellcome Trust,
which is partly financing the trials.</span></div>
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candidate Ebola vaccine could be given to healthy volunteers in the UK, the
Gambia and Mali as early as September, as part of a series of safety trials of
potential vaccines.” </span></div>
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ethical and regulatory approval, and will be funded by a £2.8 million grant
from the Wellcome Trust, Britain’s Medical Research Council (MRC) and the UK
Department for International Development (DFID).</span></div>
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some 10,000 extra doses of the vaccine so that if the trials are successful, it
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will take place at Oxford University alongside a US trial run by the National
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deaths, including the index case, a Liberian by name Patrick Sawyer who
imported the virus into the country in July. </span></div>
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secondary schools in the country in order to curb the spread of the deadly
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Researchers have concluded plans to speed up vaccine trials on Ebola, which could make it possible for healthy volunteers to start testing it as early as next month in three countries of Gambia, …

29 Aug 2014

Did You Know? Female Billionaire Folorunsho Alakija Never Went To University

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She is the richest woman in Nigeria and one of the richest in Africa. 
Folorunsho Alakija, chairman of Famfa Oil, has finally opened up that 
she never went to a university, and she quickly added that you do not 
need a university education before you can make it big in life.<br />
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<b>In her words:</b> "I come from Ikorodu, Lagos state. I am married to a
 dashing young lawyer of 70 years of age and we have four grown up 
gentlemen and grandchildren. It has not been a rag to riches fairytale. 
It has not been an overnight phenomenon like some cases which you find 
here and there all over the world. For as long as I can remember, I had 
always wanted my own business. Hard work - am trying to tell you how I 
got to where I am if you want those billions - hard work, diligence, 
persistence... Days where I nearly gave up but I chose not to give up...<br />
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It would have been easy to compromise but I chose not to and I stayed 
focus. I could have stayed a secretary as my father desired according to
 his plan for me but I had bigger aspirations. I dreamt big. God 
strengthened me and gave me wisdom. I had a passion and burning desire 
to succeed. Being a secretary, a banker, a fashion icon, a cooperate 
promoter and printer, a real estate owner, an oil magnate, that I can 
assure you was no easy feat... </blockquote>
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Firm belief that what is worth doing is what doing well or not doing at 
all. I took charge of my life with the tools I have shared with you. I 
chose to become born again at the age of 40. I chose to make a covenant 
with God that if he would bless me I would work for him all the days of 
my life.<br />
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I chose to hold on to the cross and look up to him every step of the 
way. Today additional accomplishment includes a wife of almost 40 years,
 a mother, grandmother, ministry, counseling, outreach, NGO Rose of 
Sharon Foundation for widows and Author, writer, author of several 
inspirational books. All I say to the glory of God.<br />
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So I am 63 and I am not yet done. So what is your excuse? <span style="color: #cc0000;">I never went to a University and I am proud to say so because I don't think I have done too badly</span>.
 You do not have to have a University education to be able to make it, 
so count yourselves privileged to have that education as part of the 
feather in your cap."<br />
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- Mrs Alakija said this to students of UNILAG during the 2014 UNInternational Youths Day in Lagos.</div>
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29 Aug 2014

Single Ladies And the Pressure to Get Married ––Dami Opens Up

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Single Ladies And the Pressure to Get Married ––Dami Opens Up

If your mother wants you to get married, it's because she wants the best for you just as her own mother did for her. But some girls of today are getting it twisted. Read what Dami has to sa…

29 Aug 2014

Jonathan Launches New National ID-Card in Abuja

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<span style="text-align: left;">At last, Nigeria's e-ID Card is 
ready. President Goodluck Jonathan has directed all the federal 
government ministries, agencies and agencies (MDAs) to unify their 
biometric data capture operations with the national electronic identity 
card scheme.</span></div>
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Accordingly, he directed the National Identity Management Commission 
(NIMC) to enrol and issue the card to all federal civil servants and 
pensioners for “speedy and safe payment of salaries and pensions.”<br />
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Giving the directive when he launched the issuance process of the e-ID 
card at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the president asked the 
commission to work with the Integrated Personnel and Payroll System 
(IPPS) and Pension Department.</blockquote>
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Jonathan said, “The Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) should also 
ensure immediate compliance. The regime of duplication of biometric data
 bases must now have to give way to harmonisation and unification with 
the e-ID scheme, which shall be the primary data base.</blockquote>
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At last, Nigeria's e-ID Card is ready. President Goodluck Jonathan has directed all the federal government ministries, agencies and agencies (MDAs) to unify their biometric data capture operat…

29 Aug 2014

Boko Haram Takes Over Catholic Church House

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The Catholic Church on Thursday cried out that Boko Haram insurgents had
 taken over the parish church house as well as houses of Christians in 
the Madagali area of Adamawa State.<br />
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Madagali town is the headquarters of Madagali LGA and it shares border 
with Borno State. It is also the closest town to Gwoza, the town that 
Boko Haram has already annexed.<br />
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The church, in an electronic press statement complained that, “The whole
 town and the parish rectory have been occupied by the terrorists; so 
many structures and items have been vandalised. Dozens killed and a lot 
of church structures have been burnt down. </blockquote>
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“Christians in the town are really in a terribly situation; a moment of great persecution. <span style="color: #cc0000;">Christian men are caught and beheaded; the women are forced to become Muslims and are taken as wives to the terrorists</span>. The houses of Christians that have fled are now occupied by the insurgents. </blockquote>
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“Their cars are used by the terrorists. Some Muslims around identify 
Christian homes to be occupied and the Christians in hiding were also 
identified and killed. Strict Sharia Law has been promulgated, as 
observed by a woman who luckily escaped the death zone."</blockquote>
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Director, Catholic Social Communications in-charge of Maiduguri Diocese,
 Rev. Fr. Gideon Obasogie, who released the statement, said that though 
the members of Boko Haram had been known not to discriminate in their 
attacks, it however seemed that Christians and Christian institutions 
had been at the receiving end of the sect’s mayhem.<br />
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The priest said the situation had gone out of control. “People are 
finding it really hard, citizens are been killed in their numbers,” he 
added.<br />
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He said the Catholic Church had been compelled to close down all the 
churches on the major road linking Borno and Adamawa states because of 
acts of terrorism.</div>
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Boko Haram Takes Over Catholic Church House

The Catholic Church on Thursday cried out that Boko Haram insurgents had taken over the parish church house as well as houses of Christians in the Madagali area of Adamawa State. Madagali town …

29 Aug 2014

Obanikoro Says N1trillion Is Not Enough To Fight Boko Haram

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If a budget of almost One Trillion Naira (N1trillion) is too small to 
fight Boko Haram, then I wonder how much those people who are sponsoring
 the terrorists have? like seriously! Here's what the Minister of State 
for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro told Punch on the controversial issue:<br />
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<b>Recently President Jonathan approached the National Assembly for $1bn
 to fight insecurity. Can you explain in specific terms what the money 
will be used for if the loan is granted?</b>The money is to beef up our 
security capacity and acquire more equipment needed to make us a very 
strong country. And don’t also forget that in order for you to have 
peace, you must be prepared for war. So, I think what the President is 
doing is in the right direction. In fact, if this had been done before 
now, we would have been in a position to crush this Boko Haram 
insurgency faster and with the necessary swiftness.<br />
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<b>Isn’t this loan an evidence that we cannot win the war on terror without foreign intervention?</b></div>
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No, I disagree. We have had a more difficult situation in this country 
in the past and we succeeded in dealing with it. Although the boundary 
for the war then was clearly defined but in this instance, we don’t have
 a clearly defined boundary and the insurgents are faceless. That is the
 only difference but I can assure you that this is a battle we are going
 to win because I am a good student of history and there is nowhere in 
history where evil has triumphed over good. For us as a nation, 
collaborating with other countries makes good sense because terrorism is
 no longer a local issue; it has becomed global issue. Trying to 
localise a global issue would be a mistake on our path because from what
 we are looking at and what we have seen, it is evident that their 
funding is not coming from Nigeria alone but it is also coming from 
outside and it is the effort of other friendly nations that we can all 
work together to bring this to an end and that is why the Federal 
Government has accepted from the United States, Britain and France and 
other nations that have agreed to support us in overcoming this 
challenge.<br />
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<b>Is it that Boko haram will defeat Nigeria if the $1billion is not granted?</b><br />
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Whether the loan is granted or not, we are going to defeat Boko haram, 
mark my words. But the President is preparing us for the future. We must
 continually make progress and part of making progress is retooling 
yourself for the challenges ahead of you. Those challenges, you don’t 
know the form that they will take but a wise man always prepares for the
 dry season and I think what the President is doing goes beyond today.</div>
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<b>But what about the N968bn budgeted for defence as well as the billions spent over the years?</b><br />
When such a budget is made, always try to understand the breakdown. You 
have a military that also must be properly taken care of. There are 
other issues to deal with because you look at salaries, emoluments of 
the personnel, the barracks, maintaining the existing equipment at their
 disposal etc. When you look at some of the vessels that we have today, 
to even fuel one of them will cost close to a billion naira a year. Let 
us take NNS Thunder (a naval warship), for instance. If we use Thunder 
the way it is meant to be used, there is no way we will not be buying 
close to half a billion naira worth of fuel to maintain it and that is 
not the only vessel we have, there are a lot more that require a lot of 
money to manage and maintain and beyond that, if you look at the army 
and air force, you’ll understand that maintaining a strong military does
 not come cheap. And you will agree me with me that if not for the 
Nigerian military, there may have been a state of anarchy in the country
 today because we deployed them almost everywhere that has crisis. Even 
in terms of fighting armed robbery, they are also part of that effort. 
We have stretched the military to the limit if not beyond and yet they 
are still performing at their best so the only way we can make their job
 lighter is if modern equipment are procured that will lessen the burden
 of work and certain things are also put in place capacity for 
preventive strikes. As they say, prevention is better than cure and you 
can only acquire that when you make wise investments.</div>
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<b>We fought civil war for 4 years without borrowing. Why does Nigeria now need to borrow $1bn?</b>For
 every generation, there is a different challenge. The challenge of our 
time is different from the one faced by our forefathers. Bear in mind 
that we were just coming out of colonialism then and also we just ran 
into oil money. The situation now is different. Nigeria’s population was
 about 60 million and now you have a country that is about 170 million. 
Our revenue has not increased at the pace our population has increased. 
The kind of revenue that came in during the time you are talking about 
was far more than the needed expenditure that as some point, it was said
 that our problem was not money but how to spend it but you will agree 
with me now that our problem is not how to spend money but how to make 
money so we are facing a very different period and the challenges are 
not the same. I understand that we can be more prudent with spending but
 the challenge we have now is far bigger than the challenge we had then.
 Don’t forget also that in the last 25 years, no major acquisition of 
military equipment was made in this country. Don’t forget that once the 
investment is made now ($1bn), we won’t have to make it again for the 
next 30-35 years so that is the beauty of making the investment now.</div>

Obanikoro Says N1trillion Is Not Enough To Fight Boko Haram

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