₦airaland Forum

she has that giant bottle of pepsi right on, and cooling off that thing.

Horiolah:
lol.... our people no knw shit_

see them praising dere oppressor.

good 5 hour Canadian documentary! 'Ring of Power' https://www./video/x4fdzxz


11 minute segment of the monarch's wealth

The Ring of Power - The Committee of 300


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BR1HliX4Sk

herdsmen? i'm thinking political thugs of unknown origin masquerading as herdsmen to stir up strife, division, and tribal mischief amongst the masses. the elite's tricks of deception no be small!

As protests and deaths escalate in Haiti, mayors cancel pre-Carnival parties

FEBRUARY 08, 2019 07:46 PM

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article225999135.html

A demonstrator draped in the Haitian flag, holds up a copy of the Haitian constitution, during a protest to demand the resignation of President Jovenel Moise and account of how nearly $2 billion from Venezuela’s PetroCaribe oil fund have been used by the current and past administrations, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019. DIEU NALIO CHERY AP
There were more deaths and injuries in Haiti on Friday as Haitians took to the streets in a second day of protests, and the mayors of two major cities announced the cancellation of pre-Carnival street parties for this weekend.

Sen. Youri Latortue, who represents the Artibonite region, said two people, including an 18-year-old protester, were killed and 10 others were injured in a protest in the city of Gonaives that degenerated as police opened fire to disperse the crowd. He accused police of killing the 18-year-old at the port.

But a police source refuted the claim, citing a video that showed the teen in a conflict with armed agents at the port and not Haiti National Police officers, who were not at the scene.

In addition to Gonaives, protests were also reported in the southern cities of Port Salut, Jacmel and Les Cayes. In Port-au-Prince, the U.S. embassy issued security alerts for certain areas, including roadblocks and protests around Aristide University in Tabarre and near a police station in Delmas. It also reportedly asked embassy employees, along with those employed by the U.S. Agency for International Development, to leave a Petionville hotel over security concerns.

Asked about the veracity of the report, a Department of State spokesperson for Western Hemisphere Affairs noted the security alert issued for Friday and said: “We do not comment on personnel movements for reasons of security.”


Thousands of demonstrators march in the street of Port-au-Prince on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019, as they chant anti-government slogans during a protest to demand the resignation of President Jovenel Moise and an account of how funds from Venezuela’s PetroCaribe oil fund have been used by the current and past administrations.
Dieu Nalio Chery AP
With some schools remaining closed and many Haitians opting to stay home Friday, concerns are growing about the new wave of protests that are being fueled by Haitians’ frustrations over the rising costs of living and an economy in shambles. The mayors of Port-au-Prince and Petionville both confirmed to the Miami Herald that given the troubling situation, they were canceling Sunday’s Pre-Carnival street parties in their respective cities.

“The police are working non-stop, and with all of the trouble taking place right now I don’t think they can guarantee the security of the population. So we canceled,” Port-au-Prince Mayor Ralph Youri(cq) Chevry said.

The festivities usually draw thousands of revelers along with DJs and foot bands playing traditional Haitian Carnival tunes known as Rara in the walk-up to the pre-Lenten celebration.

“We are acting responsibly,” Petionville Mayor Dominique Saint-Roc said. “Given what’s developing in the country and how Feb. 7 unfolded yesterday with protests, I took the decision to cancel until the situation improves.”

Besides, Saint-Roc said, protesters appear to be “fixated” on his hilly city at the top of metropolitan Port-au-Prince. While home to the Jalousie slum, the city is also home to some of Haiti’s wealthy who drive $150,000 SUVs and other luxury vehicles.

Symbols of wealth, the vehicles have also become the targets of protesters’ frustrations. During Thursday’s countrywide protests, which marked 33 years since the fall of the country’s 28-year Duvalier family dictatorship and the two-year anniversary since President Jovenel Moïse took office, protesters hurled rocks at vehicles and set others ablaze.

Haitians don’t usually postpone Kanaval, the merrymaking celebration that begins several days before Ash Wednesday in many Caribbean and Latin American countries. But with a domestic currency in free fall, inflation at 15 percent annually and a deficit of $89.6 million in the nation’s budget for this year, some have argued that Haiti cannot afford the $2.3 million officials have allocated for Carnival and the country’s embattled leaders should cancel the party all together.

“We can’t afford festivities,” tweeted the Haitian actress Gessica Geneus, who has become a vocal critic of the country’s mismanagement of nearly $2 billion from Venezuela’s PetroCaribe oil program, and the population’s ongoing misery. “We simply don’t even have the money for it. What’s so complicated for them to accept?”

So far, the big party remains on. On Friday, following a meeting with rice importers to see how they can bring down the price of one of the main staples of the Haitian diet, President Moïse appealed to the country’s opposition to come “sit at one table so we can find a solution to the country’s problems.”

“We know that the country’s problems aren’t solely political. The country’s problems are social, economic and political,” he said. “We have to sit together and talk, so we can look each other in the eyes and put the country on the road to true change.”

Moïse’s calls for dialogue have for now been ignored by the opposition, which has called for his resignation.


JACQUELINE CHARLES
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Jacqueline Charles has reported on Haiti and the English-speaking Caribbean for the Miami Herald for over a decade. A Pulitzer Prize finalist for her coverage of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, she was awarded a 2018 Maria Moors Cabot Prize — the most prestigious award for coverage of the Americas

oh boy, dis woman again?

Introducing Jennifer Douglas Atiku, The Con Artist

By Churchill Okonkwo

The transferred money made Atiku an “employer of labor” and a proud owner of American University of Nigeria (AUN), a school, whose tuition fees more than 99% of Nigerian students cannot afford.

http://saharareporters.com/2019/01/08/introducing-jennifer-douglas-atiku-con-artist-churchill-okonkwo

Hurricane? aren't those still considered destructive that cause loss of life, limp, and property?

Meek Mill – Going Bad Ft. Drake [Video]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1gp0m4B5p8

Red Bull doesn't give you wings. Street KNOCKOUT

Some thug tried to step up to former heavyweight boxing champ Rocky Lockridge. Rocky-1 Thug-0.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISbbGzuowIE

dat yansh is saying something

she shakin it for the guys on twitter, maybe the gram too

https://twitter.com/JanemenaT


Janemena-symply-tacha
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@JanemenaT
Jan 18


Go Nude Next Time – Singer Mr 2kay Urges Inappropriate Instagram Dancer (Photos)
https://gistmore.com/go-nude-next-time-singer-mr-2kay-urges-inappropriate-instagram-dancer-photos

wow, times flies. dem all walking. time for daddy prince to score anoda goal.

R.I.P. to the Broda

SexU - Destinee Lynn (lyric video)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgxQXLkXpi8

BlacChyna mama

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bte07RMHbRv/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_video_watch_again

The 8 Best Supplements to Boost Testosterone Levels

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/best-testosterone-booster-supplements

Barayeks:
I know this is a sensitive topic because we all have female family members, I just hope you take time to read till the end before you comment.

Every single female on the surface of this earth cheats, they just have different names for it to help them feel good about it...some call it "having options", others call it "not putting all your eggs in one basket", but whatever they choose to call it, its still cheating because you don't have to sleep with another person before it is considered cheating..those other guys being entertained in the DMs/ WhatsApp e.t.c....thats cheating.
It begins from Casual Chats and progresses into sexting and exchange of nudes...next thing is she's looking for a flimsy reason to break up.
Cheating in females only stops in a few after marriage, when they've finally secured a good basket to keep all their eggs.....but even then some never stop cheating.

mr ams agrees with u op. but i think there's a few good ones out there.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLZBvgWVlOc

Exotic Dancers made $3 Million in the Strip Club from the Super Bowl

The strippers in Atlanta made $3,000,000 in one night at QC's 'Stripper Bowl' � that's a cool $120,000 in one night for each stripper

The Economics Of Stripping At The Super Bowl (HBO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u3wBgWhvyg

the guy has done well for HIMSELF! hopefully there's a minimum of poor and hungry constituents in his state/senatorial district.

Ilorin mansion > London mansion/s

London Houses Worth £15 million Linked With Saraki Listed For Probe

https://secure.saharareporters.com/2018/02/04/london-houses-worth-%C2%A315-million-linked-saraki-listed-probe

yes commence the start finish debate. here's some material to use in a civil online argument

PDP Abandons N16b Secretariat Project
BNL Construction and Engineering Company handling the construction of the edifice has since moved out of site following the inability of the party to provide more funds for the project.

http://saharareporters.com/2017/01/22/pdp-abandons-n16b-secretariat-project

imma a fan but broda has to get his staff or pa to iron his political attire before appearances.

dem wrinkles and dat thin chinese material chai.

as an seasoned film and image professional him should know better.

i like dis quote better

https://lailasnews.com/el-rufai-foreigners-body-bags/

"nobody will come to Nigeria and tell us how to run our country”, he said.

some women just get blessed wid a good mate after going thru the b.s.

kudos to dis marriage

Today's Quiz 6/2/2019

Which guy in this pic is the Alpha Male and which one be the Beta Male?

China has made a shocking food production discovery – electro culture

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Increased food production means increased use of resources. Image: REUTERS/China Daily

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/10/china-has-made-a-shocking-food-production-discovery-electro-culture

The country with the world’s largest population also has the largest number of mouths to feed. That calls for increased food production. But increased food production means increased use of resources – soil-based nutrients, water, fertilizers, and pesticides. Or does it?

Researchers in China have made a breakthrough that means more food can be grown without placing a burden on these finite resources. It all hinges on the introduction of one key component: electricity.

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Image: China Daily
According to the South China Morning Post, experiments by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, involving farms across the country, found that vegetable crop yields could be increased by 20 to 30%. That’s despite using substantially less pesticide (a decrease of between 70 and 100%) and a 20% reduction in fertilizer consumption.

In a series of large greenhouses, with a combined area of 3,600 hectares (8,895 acres), bare copper wires have been suspended three metres above ground level. The cables run the full length of the greenhouses and carry rapid pulses of positive charge, up to 50,000 volts. These high-voltage bursts kill bacteria and viral plant diseases both in the air and the soil. They also affect the surface tension of any water droplets on the leaves of plants, accelerating vaporization.
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A farmer harvests vegetables in a greenhouse on a farm in Beijing's Yanqing County
Image: REUTERS/Jason Lee
The introduction of electricity into the plants’ immediate environment is also credited with helping assist the transportation of naturally charged particles, such as bicarbonate and calcium ions, within the plants.

It also seems to speed up metabolic activities like carbon dioxide absorption and photosynthesis, the process whereby sunlight enables plants to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose, generating oxygen as a byproduct.

The study’s encouraging results are leading to an increase in the use of electro culture throughout China, with an extra 1,000 to 1,300 hectares of growing space being added each year. At current rates of growth, that represents a 40% increase year-on-year.

Experiments involving the effect of electricity on plant growth are not a new phenomenon. The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences has been working on them since the 1990s, and in 1985 the New York Times reported on experiments being conducted at Imperial College London involving tiny doses of electricity being given to plant cells. And as far back as 1902 observations have been made about the way electricity appeared to affect plants, when a Professor S Lemstroem noticed plants growing under the aurora borealis were actually growing more rapidly than the same plants in warmer climates. Earlier electrical experiments on plants, from the 18th and 19th centuries rarely provided conclusive results, though this is likely to be due to the unreliability of the equipment involved and the rudimentary understanding of electricity.

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Strange lights in the sky: does the aurora borealis help plants grow?
Image: REUTERS/Alexander Kuznetsov/All About Lapland
That China is now conducting these experiments in functioning farms, growing crops – rather than purely in laboratory conditions – gives a clearer indication of the results’ reliability. And with greenhouses covering more than 4 million hectares, producing nearly 1 trillion yuan worth of vegetables each year, the implications of these experiments are enormous too. Producing more food without putting exponential pressure on resources, or using prohibitively high levels of chemicals is likely to be one of the 21st century’s abiding themes.

Have you read?
Climate change is making our food less nutritious
As the world fights plastic waste, could food waste be next?
This animation compares the population growth of India and China
Between 2015 and 2050, half of the world’s population growth is expected to be in just nine countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, and the United States.

China’s population is expected to peak at around 1.4 billion by the year 2030, before gradually declining. By 2030, the United Nations estimates that the global population will reach 8.5 billion, up from 7.3 billion today. At that point, China is likely to have been replaced as the world’s most populous country by India, and Nigeria will be well on its way to becoming the third-largest country in the world, by population size.

nice dividends of working out!!!!!

Ini Edo’s Waist Causes A Stir On Social Media After Hitting The Gym (photos) - Celebrities - Nairaland

https://www.nairaland.com/4920843/ini-edos-waist-causes-stir#74111603

( though I waited just five days for jane's reply)

there u go mr. op

and gain some wisdom in such matters

AMS = Alpha Male Strategies - Romance - Nairaland


https://www.nairaland.com/5001088/ams-alpha-male-strategies#75394251


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American financial press mirrors recent Nigerian media reports.

Trump-Linked Lobbyists Help Nigerian Politician Gain U.S. Access

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-04/trump-linked-lobbyists-help-nigerian-politician-gain-u-s-access?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=business&utm_source=twitter

By Christian Berthelsen

February 4, 2019, 2:10 PM EST

U.S. visa long eluded candidate who cropped up in graft probes
Ballard Partners, run by ex-Trump aide, planned D.C. meetings
Until last month, Nigerian presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar had a problem. He was persona non grata in the U.S. after cropping up in connection with several corruption investigations.

Then the cloud lifted. Years after he’d last been seen in the U.S., Abubakar surfaced in Washington in January. He held court at the Trump International Hotel. He met with members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Congress. Those meetings were trumpeted to his followers back home on Facebook and Twitter. The public tour has helped silence opponents who said Abubakar couldn’t effectively lead one of Africa’s biggest economies if he wasn’t even welcome in the U.S.

Nigerian Opposition Presidential Candidate Atiku Abubakar Interview

Atiku AbubakarPhotographer: George Osodi/Bloomberg
Abubakar had been blocked from entering the U.S. under a State Department edict applying to officials linked to foreign corruption, two former U.S. officials said. One of them said the Nigerian had been seeking a waiver to enter the country for years and expressed surprise when told that the effort was ultimately successful.

Abubakar’s rehabilitation was driven in part by Washington lobbyists and lawyers with links to President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential race. Ballard Partners -- run by Brian Ballard, a fundraiser for Trump’s campaign who now has a deep roster of clients eager for an inside track to the administration -- helped set up meetings for the candidate in the U.S., according to people familiar with the firm’s work for him.

Read More: Trump’s Florida Fundraiser Flourishes as New Washington Lobbyist

Law firm Holland & Knight lobbied the State Department, House of Representatives and National Security Council on Abubakar’s behalf on visa issues, according to a disclosure filed with Congress. The firm’s lead lobbyist on the effort was Scott Mason, who previously directed congressional relations for Trump’s campaign and transition team.

In defusing opponents’ chief criticism, the U.S. visit and meetings positioned Abubakar as a stronger challenger, not to mention a potential international partner to the U.S. should he prevail in Nigeria’s Feb. 16 presidential race. He’s the leading opposition candidate to run Africa’s most populous nation and top petroleum producer, where wealth and corruption mix with extreme poverty to create deep concerns about security and safety.

A member of Abubakar’s communications team, Boladale Adekoya, denied Abubakar had been banned from the U.S. A State Department representative declined to comment.

Mason didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Ballard referred questions to its lead lobbyist for Abubakar’s political party, James P. Rubin, who said he wasn’t involved in getting the travel visa and was focused on pushing for fair elections in Nigeria.

Cash in Freezer
Abubakar’s troubles with the U.S. date back more than a decade. In 2004, George W. Bush signed a presidential proclamation meant to deny corrupt foreign officials a coveted luxury -- fluid access to the good life in America and a safe place to stash ill-gotten proceeds.

Abubakar’s name surfaced in two criminal cases in the U.S. -- the prosecution of German engineering giant Siemens AG for paying bribes to officials in Africa, and the prosecution of former U.S. Representative William Jefferson.

In the latter case, Abubakar, then Nigeria’s vice president, gained notoriety for his connection to $90,000 in cash found in Jefferson’s freezer in 2005. In a secretly videotaped conversation, Jefferson told an undercover informant that the money was for Abubakar, intended to smooth the way for a U.S. company’s African expansion. Prosecutors never introduced evidence showing Abubakar solicited or accepted a bribe, and he was never prosecuted. Jefferson was convicted, though his case was partially overturned on appeal.

Abubakar was also the subject of a 2010 congressional investigation, which found that he and his wife transferred more than $40 million in suspect funds into the U.S. from offshore corporations. Lawmakers said Abubakar held a stake in an oil-services company that received hundreds of millions of dollars in payments from Western companies seeking to do business in Africa, including when he was vice president.

Abubakar has attributed his wealth to prudent investments and luck. In an interview, Edward Weidenfeld, a Washington lawyer who represented Abubakar at the time of the Jefferson and Siemens cases, said he maintained his innocence in those proceedings.

Adekoya, the Abubakar spokesman, said Jefferson had falsely accused Abubakar of being the intended recipient of the cash. Regarding the $40 million Abubakar brought into the U.S., Adekoya said it was intended as payment to American University to launch a school in Nigeria. He added that Abubakar is a “reputable entrepreneur" and a successful businessman, that his funds were from legitimate business ventures and that his oil-services stake was held in trust while he was in office.

Visa Waiver
Once the State Department bars a foreign official it becomes difficult to get the ban rescinded, according to the two officials. By U.S. law, the status of visa applications is confidential. So are the identities of barred foreign officials. The process by which people get on or off the list is also opaque.

In certain cases, the department will grant temporary waivers allowing dignitaries to visit, often with limits on duration and itinerary. If indeed a ban were in place, Abubakar may have been granted a waiver to encourage good relations should he win, one of the officials said.

Holland & Knight, which was hired at the end of October, disclosed payments of $80,000 in relation to its visa work for Abubakar.

Through his spokesman, Abubakar said he applied for and received a visa through the U.S. mission in Nigeria.

Abubakar’s People’s Democratic Party of Nigeria inked a $1.1 million annual contract with Ballard Partners last fall, according to foreign lobbying records filed with the Justice Department. People familiar with Ballard’s work on Abubakar’s behalf said it included getting him a meeting at the State Department during his visit and shepherding him to various events.

Rubin, Ballard’s primary lobbyist on behalf of Abubakar’s party, was an assistant secretary of state during the Clinton administration. He joined Ballard’s firm as a lobbyist last year, according to a disclosure filing. (He was also previously an executive who helped lead Bloomberg’s editorial page, then called Bloomberg View.)

“My work on behalf of the People’s Democratic Party exclusively focused on pushing for free and fair elections and did not involve any consular matter or visa matter,” Rubin said.

Ballard’s Roster
Ballard Partners opened its Washington office in 2017, just months after Trump’s election. Ballard had previously been as a lobbyist in Florida for Trump; after the election, he was a member of Trump’s inaugural committee. The expanding client roster includes household corporate names such as Amazon.com Inc., Boeing Co., Uber Technologies Inc. and H&R Block Inc., according to lobbying disclosures filed with Congress.


Ballard has also attracted a roster of foreign governments such as Kosovo, Qatar, the Maldives and Azerbaijan. Another pair of clients, the Republic of Turkey and Turkiye Halk Bankasi AS, have been implicated in U.S. court proceedings in a scheme to aid Iranian sanctions evasion, for which Halkbank remains under scrutiny by U.S. authorities.

The firm has also been expanding and adding firepower, in recent weeks hiring other Trump loyalists including a recent White House spokesman, Raj Shah, and the former attorney general of Florida, Pam Bondi. As attorney general, Bondi declined to pursue fraud charges against Trump University after Trump’s charitable foundation gave $25,000 in 2013 to a re-election fund for Bondi.

During his visit, Abubakar held a “town hall” at the Trump International Hotel in Washington to meet with Nigerians in the U.S. He also appeared on a panel at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, stopped at the office of the Voice of America and met with Representative Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican. Abubakar’s campaign broadcast the town hall meeting on Facebook, and he posted a string of photos of his U.S. visit and meetings to his Twitter account, including one from his arrival at the airport putting him back on U.S. soil.

A spokesman for Smith didn’t respond to questions about the meeting. A Chamber of Commerce spokeswoman said the roundtable discussion was private.

— With assistance by Greg Farrell, Tope Alake, and Bill Allison

Brian Ballard Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

i had to look up to see why y'all throwing all the shade on dis babe.

http://adelove.com/2018/04/13/some-women-are-prostitutes-pretending-to-be-a-wife-asiwaju-gentry/


Bleaching: This throwback photo of Actress Mercy Aigbe has got people talking
https://www.kemifilani.com/2018/02/bleaching-throwback-photo-actress-mercy-aigbe-got-people-talking.html

The Money, Looks, Status & Personality Debate (Which Is More Important)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXcIxVdynDs



How Long Should You Date A Woman & How Women Do All The Choosing


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zw6HrV2SbE

Signs A Woman Only Wants The “D” From You & The Benefits To Being In A Relationship


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQVdulI3X64

Woman Wants To Keep The Relationship Private & How To Tell If You’re Breaking Her Down


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7faqAXK8TI