For me, I play the piano and a little bit of sax.

Pls share urs..

I think its George Bush

And how will this picture of Davido and his father affect the price of garri in the market? Seun I need you to tell me how!

The next will be picture of tonto dicke kissing Seun!

Ishilove: It has being a year of the gari revolutionaires...

Presido, you have mail...

I jst sent my reply. How do we chat?

PeterKbaba: [b]LASTMA, KAI Operations In Lagos Are Classic Models - US Security Expert

Dec 19, 2012 - The classic approach of traffic control and environmental management in the city of Lagos with over 18 million people has been recommended as a basic model for emerging mega cities in the world.

This assertion was made by the Homeland Security Coordinator, State of Maryland, United States of America, James Russell Sharpe while speaking at the presentation of Field report by Batch 6 participants of the Career Evaluation Training programme for Law enforcement officers of the Lagos State Government.

James Russel Sharpe disclosed that from the experience displayed by LASTMA and KAI participants at the training programme, the officers are great sets of dedicated and motivated personnel who exhibited strong will to do the job.

He remarked that the scenario based module of the training which exposed the officers to field operations in Mile 12, Ojota, Apongbon and Obalende areas of the state also, provided the trainees with solutions to challenges encountered on the field which he described as excellent.

James Russell Sharpe who is leading a team of experts to develop standards and training schedule for the training of Law enforcement officers of the Lagos State Government added that with the continued training of the personnel, traffic control and management as well as security and environmental status of the state will be a reference point and good case-study for other states to emulate.

The Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Transport Education, Dr. Mariam Masha while speaking with newsmen said there has been a marked improvement in the discharge of duties of these law enforcement officers.

Dr. Masha added that government intends to achieve improved service delivery by continuously improving the quality of personnel in its enforcement agencies and maintaining a professional status by instituting training programmes that are practical, effective and consistent with international best practices.

She said, "The one-month training programme has been a worthwhile experience for the officers themselves for their personal development and relationship and once you are disciplined, then it becomes easier to work with the people, adding that the core outlines of the training programme is to empower the participants on how best to do their job and relate with the public through advocacy.

"Through the concept of community relations visits and field projects, service delivery, empathy and team work has really been on the increase and the reception in the various communities such as orphanage homes, hospitals and major parks has been overwhelming and cordial as well as result-oriented,"Dr. Masha added.

Two group leaders in the Batch, Usman Adeshina Tajudeen and Salami Shakirat Omolara commended the state government for exposing them to the training programme, saying the team building and emotional intelligence aspects of the training have really prepared them for more constructive engagement with the publics.

They both jointly assured that with the exposure to these modern-day approaches of engagement, people of the state should be ready for a new LASTMA and KAI when they get back to their offices.

A total of 1,200 LASTMA and KAI personnel have been trained under the Career Evaluation Training programme for Law enforcement officers of the State Government aimed at improving their service delivery, with special importance on advocacy and not the use of force in the discharge of their duties.[/b]

http://www.tundefashola.com/archives/news/2012/12/19/20121219N11.html

Pls who knows the recipe for egusi soup?

At the end of every year, I believe we all sit down to think about the begining, count our losses and achievements and make plans for the new year or as we all put it "new year resolutions". Some might have made the vow "new year, new life" and up till now nothing has changed!

As the year draws to a close, my fellow Nairalanders, check your life, check yourself, which of your resolutions and goals have you achieved? why have'nt you achieved some? And maybe your plans for the new year!

For me, 2012 has been a year of great testimonies and achievements!

What's yours?

Abrantie:




This is the first picture of Pia Balotelli, the new baby daughter of firebrand Manchester City striker Mario.

The little girl was born earlier this month to his ex-girlfriend Raffaella Fico, 27, and arrived three weeks early - she had been due on Christmas Day.

Balotelli has yet to see his daughter in the flesh and and is said to have only seen pictures of her via email.

In her first interview since giving birth Raffaella lashed out at the player for failing to act as a proper father.

In an interview with glossy Italian weekly Chi, Raffaella posed for several pictures with Pia, as well as her mother and brother Francesco, after securing a five figure deal with the magazine.

Chi is the same publication that printed pictures of a topless Duchess of Cambridge in the summer which were taken while she was on holiday in France with Prince William.

Furious Raffaella stormed: 'Mario for me is irresponsible. It came to a certain point where he was just not interested in anything, not in me or our daughter.

'Up until certain things happened he was supposed to marry me. That was our project, our desire.

'Then all of a sudden everything collapsed and I don't know why.'

Raffaella and Balotelli were an item for almost a year but split up in March after she flew to Manchester to confront him over a series of alleged affairs - the bust up was so furious that police had to be called to his Cheshire home.

Then in June during the European Championships, Raffaella contacted Balotelli to tell him she was pregnant with their child but initially he refused to accept it was his and demanded a DNA test.

Devastated Raffaella then hit back and said she had no fear of taking the test and her family rallied round her as it emerged she had also been contacted and urged to have an abortion - something the deeply religious underwear model ruled out completely.

Two months ago things appeared to be back on track when Balotelli issued a statement saying he was dropping the DNA requirement and that he would be 'trying again' with Raffaella and the two were pictured kissing on the balcony of home in Naples.

But despite his promise it quickly became clear he had no intention of doing the honourable thing as Raffaella confirmed that after he left her in Naples he failed to contact her in the following weeks.

Raffaella, who appeared on Italy's version of I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, described he moment she went into labour and rushed to the clinic.

'I sent Mario a text message at 3pm when the first contractions started and then again at 6.30pm when I went into the delivery room. I sent him another as soon as I came out and Pia had been born.

'But he only bothered to get in touch at half past midnight when my phone rang.

'I said to him "Mario, I've given birth" and he just said "Ah OK, I'm not bothered" and he then put the phone down. I've not heard from him since.'

'Mario's not even bothered about seeing his daughter - even if he doesn't want me to take a DNA test anymore I will do. I will make the results public so everyone knows Pia is Mario Balotelli's daughter.'

When asked if Balotelli had offered financial help Raffaella said: 'I have not had any economic help from Mr Balotelli.

'He is worth more than da Vinci's Mona Lisa but for his own daughter he hasn't flashed a penny. I have not even had a call asking if I needed anything. I don't need him or his money.'

However when asked what she would do if Balotelli did get in touch, Raffaela said: 'The door for his daughter is always open. The door of my heart is closed forever.

'I think when he came back to Naples a couple of months ago to see me that was just a PR exercise.

'Things then were not going well for him on and off the field.

'He doesn't have any paternal instincts. He is not even curious about his own daughter.'

Raffaella, whose previous boyfriends have included Cristiano Ronaldo, named her daughter after a mystical monk called Padre Pio who was famous for having bleeding wounds in his hands and feet exactly where Christ had them.

During the summer she made a pilgrimage to his shrine near Foggia where she was photographed in prayer in front of his statue with her mother and brother.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2250154/Mario-Balotelli-Newborn-daughter-football-superstar-met-father.html

Pls I need directions on how to fry plantain.. Any help??

sylve11: U know the harmattan is not yet out fully, and u know sugar + garri thoroughly mixed with cold water ought to be nutritious (add #10 cowbell milk if u so wishes). Manage it, cos some have food but they cannot eat, some can eat but have no food; u have sugar and so u can soak garri. so manage am. It is well!

Access Bank knows the importance of sugar in the lives of Nigerians cos 95% of Nigerians use sugar to soak GARRI, including Seun and his re.tarded mods! And I guess the OP was one of those calling for our heads during the GARRI revolution championed by BBPREYE and EBAMMA! Go and soak more GARRI and stop complaining!

GBAM!

Have you ever pondered on this?

That explains the useless system we have in Nigeria, that have no respect for the Engineering profession. That's why we are so backward in technology. Have you heard of a graduate lawyer or doctor that is doing his/her NYSC being sent to teach in our schools? They are sent to the hospitals or the judiciary, while we the engineers are sent to schools to teach, after being given half-baked lectures from very old and useless lecturers, especially the ones in the east that will come to class and start speaking igbo language as if he is in his village!!!! Dammm!

I wonder what NSE and COREN are doing about this!

Enough is enough!

If you are an Engineer, LIKE this POST!

GBAM!

Today I came across the old advert for the Dangote Graduate drivers job, and I saw one of the requirements that applicants should be less than 25 years, is it that those ph.d applicants had their ph.d's before 25yrs or the age factor in job applications dose'nt really count?

What's your take on this?

ngosayogie: Fears that the end of the world is nigh have spread across the world with only days until the end of the Mayan calendar, with doomsday-mongers predicting a cataclysmic end to the history of Earth.

Ahead of December 21, which marks the conclusion of the 5,125-year "Long Count" Mayan calendar, panic buying of candles and essentials has been reported in China and Russia, along with an explosion in sales of survival shelters in America. In France believers were preparing to converge on a mountain where they believe aliens will rescue them.

The precise manner of Armageddon remains vague, ranging from a catastrophic celestial collision between Earth and the mythical planet Nibiru, also known as Planet X, a disastrous crash with a comet, or the annihilation of civilisation by a giant solar storm.

In America Ron Hubbard, a manufacturer of hi-tech underground survival shelters, has seen his business explode.

"We've gone from one a month to one a day," he said. "I don't have an opinion on the Mayan calendar but, when astrophysicists come to me, buy my shelters and tell me to be prepared for solar flares, radiation, EMPs (electromagnetic pulses) ... I'm going underground on the 19th and coming out on the 23rd. It's just in case anybody's right."

In the French Pyrenees the mayor of Bugarach, population 179, has attempted to prevent pandemonium by banning UFO watchers and light aircraft from the flat topped mount Pic de Bugarach.



According to New Age lore it as an "alien garage" where extraterrestrials are waiting to abandon Earth, taking a lucky few humans with them.

Russia saw people in Omutninsk, in Kirov region, rushing to buy kerosene and supplies after a newspaper article, supposedly written by a Tibetan monk, confirmed the end of the world.

The city of Novokuznetsk faced a run on salt. In Barnaul, close to the Altai Mountains, panic-buyers snapped up all the torches and Thermos flasks.

Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian prime minister, even addressed the situation.

"I don't believe in the end of the world," before adding somewhat disconcertingly: "At least, not this year."

In China, which has no history of preoccupation with the end of the world, a wave of paranoia about the apocalypse can be traced to the 2009 Hollywood blockbuster "2012".

The film, starring John Cusack, was a smash hit in China, as viewers were seduced by a plot that saw the Chinese military building arks to save humanity.

Some in China are taking the prospect of Armageddon seriously with panic buying of candles reported in Sichuan province.

The source of the panic was traced to a post on Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter, predicting that there will be three days of darkness when the apocalypse arrives.

One grocery store owner said: "At first, we had no idea why. But then we heard someone muttering about the continuous darkness."

Shanghai police said scam artists had been convincing pensioners to hand over savings in a last act of charity.

Meanwhile in Mexico, where the ancient Mayan civilisation flourished, the end time has been seen as an opportunity. The country has organised hundreds of Maya-themed events, and tourism is expected to have doubled this year.

Nasa has been aggressively seeking to dispel doomsday fears. It says there is no evidence Nibiru exists, and rumours it could be hiding behind the sun are unfounded.

"It can't hide behind the sun forever, and we would've seen it years ago," a Nasa scientist said.

The space agency also rejected apocalyptic theories about unusual alignments of the planets, or that the Earth's magnetic poles could suddenly "flip."

Conspiracy theorists contend that the space agency is involved in an elaborate cover up to prevent panic.

But David Morrison, an astronomer at Nasa, said: "At least once a week I get a message from a young person, as young as 11, who says they are ill and/or contemplating suicide because of the coming doomsday. I think it's evil for people to propagate rumours on the internet to frighten children."

Mayans themselves reject any notion that the world will end. Pedro Celestino Yac Noj, a Mayan sage, burned seeds and fruits to mark the end of the old calender at a ceremony in Cuba. He said: "The 21st is for giving thanks and gratitude and the 22nd welcomes the new cycle, a new dawn."

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9730618/Mayan-apocalypse-panic-spreads-as-December-21-nears.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+delicious%2Fgqlf+%28Christian+Headlines+Top+Headlines%29&utm_content=FaceBook

Please who knows the recipe for afang soup?

phunmy dahdah: I can't help but laugh at what you guys wrote that led to you been banned, because to me it does not warrant been banned. Anyways I hardly comment NL because am always busy at work or doing important things,but I read most of the stories posted. Pls seun and moderators please tender your justice wit mercy.

I am tired of Nairaland!
Seun is scared of adding a "delete" button cos the day he does that, only 235 people will be left on Nairaland!

GBAM!

Instead of u guys to help a brother out by answering my simple question, u're here critisizing me for asking "HOW DO I CHANGE MY BBM STATUS"

God bless all of you.

jaydude:

See this f.ool oo like anyones life is dependent on nairaland u wretched b.east of burden..rubbish on ur g.oat head *accept simple correction m.ugu

I think ur literally too stu.pid to insult!
MAD WOMAN VO.MIT!!!

jaydude:

Shu.t up there v.aga/bond...can't u see how dum.b u are? Ppl are complainin of sumones write up bein too long and ure stil 'quoting' it for ppl 2 spend more time scrolling...mum'u n u aint ashamed 2 run ur mouth d more...and wots wit bringing acid talks matter here? Wots b basis of comparism btw u guys? Who's seeking for a g.oats attention? Rubbish on ur head!

If I start with you eh, you will beg Seun to delete your account on Nairaland! Rubbish!

muktar mtt: U r d fool of d first oder making dis stupid analysis, y dey accept amnasty during yar-uduwa time because dey knw wat will come 2 dem if dey did't take it will b ugly so militant cnt b talcle nd biafaran a nofing but a joke gej is going gown nd nfing will gonna hpnd.

When that time come u'll end up flogging cows in the bush!
ADAMU!

cinammon: @BBPREYE wot exactly is wrong wit uu quoted d whole story again 2 jus ask a flimsy question...Iwo omo yi!..I hp d bb is urs o,dis 1 u r askin hw 2 change status?!LEARNER,return fone 2d owner jare or dos nairaland luk lyk google 2 u

So you won't help me..

My name is BAN! I aved been BANNED and BANNED and BANNED and still expecting a BAN this week sha! I hate Nairaland, its like a cult, once ur in, u can't leave! I believe Seun has an hidden agenda. Time will tell sha.

Meanwhile I hate Sexkillz, he's so DUMB!

HQ:



You Quoted the entire thing just to type that?!

I weep for both Nigeria and Nairaland.

If you can't answer the question, why do u comment?

13volts: "October 1 2010 Bomb Blast Setup and Government Double Standard" is title of this letter written from Kuje Prison by Charles Okah addressed to Cardinal Okojie....I did not realize how much of a threat some of us have been to the GEJ Gang of Thieves as far back as October 2010....interes ting reading.....Enj oy....

CHARLES OKAH PRISON LETTERS - 08/12/2012 - THEWILL

November 19, 2012

Charles T. Okah
Single Cell Block
Kuje Prison
Abuja, Nigeria.

His Eminence
Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie
c/o Catholic Church Secretariat
Lagos, Nigeria.

Your Eminence:

October 1 2010 Bomb Blast Setup and Government Double Standard

Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I hope this letter meets you well. The reasons I choose to direct this letter to you are that I am a Catholic and you are an old boy of my alma mater, St. Gregory's College, Lagos.

I write from Kuje Prison Abuja where two other Catholics and I have been languishing in solitary confinement for 2 years on trumped-up charges relating to the October 1, 2010 bomb attack claimed by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND).

My name is Charles Tonbra Okah, aka Billy Bones. On October 16, 2010 my residence in Apapa GRA was invaded by operatives of the State Security Services on the warrant that I was the suspected spokesman for MEND using the pseudonym
"Jomo Gbomo." My eldest son, visiting from the United States where he attends the University of Kansas (KU) was also arrested.

At the SSS Headquarters Abuja where we were flown to blindfolded with our legs and hands bound, my 'cooperation' was solicited for something completely different to my surprise. My captors threw me a lifeline; offering me our freedom and a lucrative contract in exchange for false testimony against my
younger brother Henry, who is resident in South Africa. I was to write a false statement claiming to have been told by Henry about the bomb plot and naming the following persons as his conspirators: Former Head of State, General Ibrahim Babangida, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, Mallam Nasir El Rufai, Chief Timipre Sylva, and Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan. I bluntly refused.

To maintain pressure on me, I was told that my son would be implicated in the bomb matter, my containers of legitimate imports then at the Tin Can Port would be impounded and my business destroyed. I still did not budge, tossing their lifeline back with royal disdain.

When they realized I was not going to connive in their scheme, they became formal and reverted to the main reason for my arrest. I was asked for the MEND password which I told them I did not know. They bound me in a chair, took off my trousers and clamped a device to my penis. My legs were then put inside a basin of water. The device when turned on passed a high voltage of electricity to my body and I lost consciousness. This was on Monday October 18 at about 6pm. When I regained consciousness, I discovered I was at the National Hospital emergency room. I remember the doctors asking why I had trauma marks on my chest where the SSS doctor performed Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR). The SSS operatives
were evasive in answering questions at the hospital. That night I was released and taken to rest for the night at the State House Clinic. That was the last time a torture was carried out on me.

My son was eventually released after Mr. Femi Falana visited in the company of my wife after a month of being denied access to a lawyer. However, my containers have been impounded up to date and my bank account frozen.

The SSS stopped asking about the MEND password after Jomo Gbomo made another statement while I was in their custody but refused to still let me go because I did not cooperate earlier with them. Meanwhile in the ongoing trial in South Africa, Henry is accused of being the same Jomo Gbomo by the same people who say I am JG.

Double Standard in Kuje Prison:

On December 24, 2010 we were remanded in Kuje prison as a result of our application to be removed from the SSS detention cell. Unknown to us, the SSS passed instructions from "above" to the prison authorities to carry out "special treatment" in order to stampede us into a trial towards conviction. For 2 years we have been locked up in solitary confinement, are not allowed to exercise or get sunlight outside and are forced to sleep on the floor when bunk beds are available. Even a court order by Justice Gabriel Kolawole to the prison for a change in our confinement style was ignored after it was superseded by an 'order from above."

In late 2011, while locked up inside our cell block, prison officials clothed in protective apparel, face masks and gloves carried out fumigation without opening us to wait outside. Our protests fell on deaf ears and by the time they were finished we were in distress.

The Youth Corper doctor on call tried her best within her limits to the emergency she was confronted with. The poisonous gas and barbaric action reminiscent of the Nazi concentration camp infamous gas chambers, eventually led to the death of one Francis Osuwo, aka Gboko, also roped into this case by the SSS and a man I have never met before.

Interestingly, the four persons in detention were strangers to each other except for one Obi Nwabueze who is a family friend and close associate of Henry.

The fumigant whose chemical constituent were never relayed to us have affected my neurological system and I have been on a daily prescription of strong neurological medication prescribed by a neurologist of the National Hospital, Professor Bwala.

While the Boko Haram suspects at Kuje prison are allowed to worship in the prison mosque, we have never set foot in the prison chapel. They are also enjoying privileges such as cable television, radio, liberty to move within the prison walls, bunk beds to sleep on and phone calls to their families. We are
denied all of the above.

When I asked the current Controller of FCT Command the reason for the disparity, he said "the fear of Boko Haram is the beginning of wisdom." He further said the Moslem community was concerned about their welfare in custody.

Double Standard in the Court:

Even in the Courts where justice is supposed to be blind, the double standard is glaring. While Senator Ndume, accused of being a financier to Boko Haram was given bail by the same Judge presiding over our case, we have been denied bail.

I understand that this Senator was permitted by the same court to travel on his religious obligation to Mecca for the lesser Hajj while we are refused from attending mass in a chapel less than 50 meters from our cell block.

The court is willing to permit the Senator approval to travel abroad for his medical check if he can provide proof that such check up is not done locally. Meanwhile, I have been denied my application to go on a compulsory checkup which in my case is mandatory for a kidney donor, having donated my left kidney to my mother 30 years ago.

Our cases have been adjourned repeatedly for cruelly long durations. The last time I appeared in court was March 2012 and the next adjourned date is January 31, 2013, that is if that date will not be shifted again under a flimsy excuse.

All we ask is for a free and fair justice from an independent Judiciary that should release us instead of holding us as scapegoats over an obvious power show. While this government continues holding us hostage, our families are becoming destitute.

Our rights to freely worship as Catholics is being infringed by the state who have more respect for Islam when all religions should be treated equally.

Double Standards in the Polity:

The National Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki (rtd.) was quoted as saying that the government of President Goodluck Jonathan has the phone numbers of suspected Boko Haram sponsors. Later the Inspector General of Police said certain
individuals had been put on a "watch list" as suspected Boko Haram sponsors.

Now the big question is why did the government not simply have our phone numbers and put us also on its 'watch list" while we move about freely? They did not hesitate to arrest us, clamp us on trumped-up charges and detain us on flimsy excuses. They did not merely talk, they took action even in South Africa where
my brother was arrested since 2010. Is there a better word to describe this other than hypocrisy?

The same government eager to negotiate with Boko Haram who claimed responsibility for over 100 attacks where Catholics have suffered the brunt, have refused to negotiate with MEND and continue to delude themselves that all is well.

Why would this government expect Boko Haram to unmask it leaders and negotiate when they can see that perceived leaders and supporters of MEND are being persecuted and jailed?

I welcome a fact-finding visit from the Church in the company of credible Human Rights groups to verify our allegations.

On the two occasions Kuje Prison was visited by the Bishop of Abuja during the Christmas of 2010 and 2011, he was surreptitiously steered away from where were we are held hostage and I believe he has no idea of what is going in inside Kuje prison.

Our prayers is that leaders of our Churches will be more sensitive and proactive in politics of the land that touches the lifes of their followers and not leave delicate issues solely in the hands of corrupt and selfish politicians, and majority of the population rid of a "Potiphar" mentality who believe lies when
told by SSS.

May God save our beloved country.

Yours Sincerely,

Charles T. Okah

CC: Pope Benedict, Vatican, Rome
Catholic Bishop of Abuja Diocese, Abuja FCT

"I was sick and in prison, and you visited me."
-Matthew 25. 35, 36

From Nasir El-Rufai's wall.
http://www.thewillnigeria.com/opinion/17471.html

Pls how do I change my BBM status?