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great song and video from granddad

Fela Kuti - Sorrow Tears & Blood (Original Extended Version)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj1wpNuQRaM

news article reminds me of hank and chicka's film


https://plus.google.com/+9jalife/posts/BzLePaCxWsy



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R2W7PocSug


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almost 2016 and the author's thoughts are still mired in tribalism.

political jobs/appointments/ministerials should go to the most qualified, are honest and have deep sense of personal integrity to move the country forward regardless of the applicants ethnic group/s. if a large percentage happen to come from a certain group for a finite period of time then so be it, it's for the greater good and advancement of the federal republic. penning articles about the calculus of ethnicities in government appointments is dated and non-productive. that idea comes from the british template of division and artificial balance.



"Even on the issue of appointments, Buhari must be very sensitive to the political realities of Nigeria.
Over the years, I have argued over and over again on this page that in a multi-cultural and complicated political set-up like ours, there must be a conscious effort to avoid lop-sidedness.

A country packed with over 250 ethnic groups — and well-pronounced geo-political and ethno-religious divides — requires delicate and deft political management.

I understand very well that there are still thousands of appointments to come, but the impression you don’t want to create from the beginning is that you are one-sided."

[b]Good information on hustle, luck, hard work, and perseverance. Almost everyone on NL has indirectly patronized a product she helped manufacture.



International Business
How a Chinese Billionaire Built Her Fortune

By DAVID BARBOZA JULY 30, 2015
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Zhou Qunfei leading a media tour of her company, Lens Technology, which is a multibillion-dollar operation at the vanguard of China’s push into high-end manufacturing. Credit Gilles Sabrie for The New York Times

Zhou Qunfei is the world’s richest self-made woman. Ms. Zhou, the founder of Lens Technology, owns a $27 million estate in Hong Kong. She jets off to Silicon Valley and Seoul, South Korea, to court executives at Apple and Samsung, her two biggest customers. She has played host to President Xi Jinping of China, when he visited her company’s headquarters.

But she seems most at home pacing the floor of her state-of-the-art factory, tinkering.

She’ll dip her hands into a tray of water, to determine whether the temperature is just right. She can explain the intricacies of heating glass in a potassium ion bath. When she passes a grinding machine, she is apt to ask technicians to step aside so she can take their place for a while.

Ms. Zhou knows the drill. For years, she labored in a factory, the best job she could get having grown up in an impoverished village in central China.

“She’ll sometimes sit down and work as an operator to see if there’s anything wrong with the process,” said James Zhao, a general manager at Lens Technology. “That will put me in a very awkward position. If there’s a problem, she’d say, ‘Why didn’t you see that?’ ”


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Ms. Zhou’s ID card from when she was a factory worker. As a child, she helped her family raise pigs and ducks for food and additional money. Credit Gilles Sabrie for The New York Times
Ms. Zhou has honed her hands-on knowledge into a world-class, multibillion-dollar operation, one at the vanguard of China’s push into high-end manufacturing. Lens Technology is now one of the leading suppliers of the so-called cover glass used in laptops, tablets and mobile devices, including the Apple iPhone and the Samsung Galaxy. This year, her factories are expected to churn out more than a billion glass screens, each refined to a fraction of a millimeter.

“This is an industry that requires highly sophisticated technology,” says Stone Wu, an analyst at IHS Technology, the research firm. “If you have a ruler, check out how thin 0.5 millimeters is, and you’ll understand how hard it is to manufacture something that thin.”

In creating a global supplier, Ms. Zhou, 44, has come to define a new class of female entrepreneurs in China who have built their wealth from nearly nothing — a rarity in the world of business. In Japan, there is not a single self-made female billionaire, according to Forbes. In the United States and Europe, most women who are billionaires secured their wealth through inheritance.

No country has more self-made female billionaires than China. The Communist Party, under Mao Zedong, promoted gender equality, allowing women to flourish after capitalism started to take hold, according to Huang Yasheng, an expert in China’s entrepreneurial class and a professor of international management at M.I.T. And in a country with few established players, entrepreneurs like Ms. Zhou were able to quickly make their mark when they entered business in the 1990s as China’s economic engine was revving up.

Ms. Zhou’s stake in Lens Technology, which went public this year, is worth $7.2 billion. That puts her fortune on par with the media tycoon John C. Malone and Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay.

Ms. Zhou isn’t a celebrity chieftain, like Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of the e-commerce giant Alibaba. Few in China had even heard her name before her company’s public offering this year. She rarely grants interviews or makes public appearances.

An elegant woman with a cherubic face, owlish glasses and a preference for Christian Dior suits, Ms. Zhou is fastidious and demanding — “Sit up straight!” she commands of a general manager during a meeting. Yet she exudes charm and humility, a quiet recognition that things could have easily turned out differently.

“In the village where I grew up, a lot of girls didn’t have a choice of whether to go to middle school. They would get engaged or married and spend their entire life in that village,” she said in an interview at her office, where there was a wooden statue of Mao and a 27-inch desktop Mac. “I chose to be in business, and I don’t regret it.”

Leaning Toward the Obsessive

The youngest of three children, Ms. Zhou was born in a tiny village in the Hunan Province of central China, a farming community about two hours south of Changsha, the provincial capital. Her mother died when she was 5. Her father, a skilled craftsman, later lost a finger and most of his eyesight in an industrial accident.

At home, she helped her family raise pigs and ducks for food and additional money. At school, she excelled.

“She was a hard-working and talented student,” Zhong Xiaobai, her former middle-school teacher, says. “I once read her essay, ‘My Mother,’ aloud in class. It was so moving it brought everyone to tears.”

Despite her academic focus, Ms. Zhou dropped out of school at 16 and traveled south to Guangdong province to live with her uncle’s family and search for better work. While she dreamed of becoming a fashion designer, she eventually landed a job on a factory floor in the city of Shenzhen, making watch lenses for about $1 a day.

The conditions, she said, were harsh. “I worked from 8 a.m. to 12 a.m., and sometimes until 2 a.m.,” Ms. Zhou recalled. “There were no shifts, just a few dozen people, and we all polished glass. I didn’t enjoy it.”

After three months, she decided to quit and wrote a letter of resignation to her boss. In it, she complained about the hours and boredom. Even so, she expressed her gratitude for the job, saying she wanted to learn more.

The letter impressed the factory chief, who told her the plant was about to adopt new processes. He asked her to stay, offering her a promotion. It was the first of several over the next three years.

In 1993, Ms. Zhou, then 22, decided to set out on her own. With $3,000 in savings, she and several relatives started their own workshop next door. They lured customers with the promise of even higher-quality watch lenses.

At the new company, Ms. Zhou did it all. She repaired and designed factory machinery. She taught herself complex screen-printing processes and difficult techniques that allowed her to improve prints for curved glass.

“In the Hunan language, we call women like her ‘ba de man,’ which means a person who dares to do what others are afraid to do,” said her cousin Zhou Xinyi, who helped her open the workshop and now serves on the Lens board.

Along the way, Zhou Qunfei married her former factory boss, had a child and divorced. She later married a longtime factory colleague, who serves on the Lens board, and had a second child.

Her work habits lean toward the obsessive. Her company’s headquarters is at one of her manufacturing plants in Changsha. In her spacious office, a door behind her desk opens into a small apartment, ensuring she can roam the factory floor day or night.

Propelled to Dominance

It was the mobile phone that made Ms. Zhou a billionaire.

In 2003, she was still making glass for watches when she received an unexpected phone call from executives at Motorola. They asked if she was willing to help them develop a glass screen for their new device, the Razr V3.

At the time, the display screens on most mobile phones were made of plastic. Motorola wanted a glass display that would be more resistant to scratches and provide sharper images for text messages, photos and multimedia.

“I got this call, and they said, ‘Just answer yes or no, and if the answer’s yes, we’ll help you set up the process,’ ” Ms. Zhou recalled. “I said yes.”

Soon after, orders started rolling in from other mobile-phone makers like HTC, Nokia and Samsung. Then, in 2007, Apple entered the market with the iPhone, which had a keyboard-enabled glass touch screen that rewrote the rules of the game for mobile devices. Apple picked Lens as its supplier, propelling Ms. Zhou’s company into a dominant position in China.

After that, Ms. Zhou invested heavily in new facilities and hired skilled technicians. More than once, colleagues say, she put up her apartment as a guarantee for a new bank loan. Within five years, she had manufacturing plants under construction in three cities.

“She’s a passionate entrepreneur, and she’s very hands-on,” says James Hollis, an executive at Corning, which has a partnership with Lens Technology. “I’ve watched her company grow, and her develop a strong team. Now there are over 100 competitors in this space, but Lens is a Tier 1 player.”

Lens operates round the clock, with 75,000 workers spread across three main manufacturing facilities that occupy about 800 acres in the Changsha region. Each day, the company receives bulk shipments of glass from global manufacturers like Corning in the United States and Asahi Glass in Japan.

The glass is cut, ground down to size, bored and polished to give each plate a transparent finish. Then the plates are strengthened in a potassium ion bath, painted and cured. Finally, they are cleaned and coated with anti-smudge and anti-reflection films.

Ms. Zhou designs and choreographs nearly every step of the process, a detailed-oriented approach she traces to her childhood. “My father had lost his eyesight, so if we placed something somewhere, it had to be in the right spot, exactly, or something could go wrong,” she said. “That’s the attention to detail I demand at the workplace.”

Lens has not experienced the kinds of labor troubles that have clouded other contract manufacturers like Foxconn. But current and former workers say the job is challenging. Much of the work is done by young women who inspect glass at different angles, trying to detect flaws.

“As a quality inspector, I had to stare at those products all day long, so this is a tiring job,” said Gao Zhimei, who recently left Lens Technology. “But I should say that working in manufacturing is always tiring and working at Lens is not more tiring than working in other factories.”

Expanding a Customer Base

Lens Technology went public in March, as the Chinese stock market was booming. With the recent market collapse, the company has lost 45 percent in value, but it is still worth about $8 billion.

Last year, the company notched revenue of about $2.4 billion. Profit rose 40 percent in the first quarter. But Lens gets nearly 75 percent of its revenue from Apple and Samsung, making the company reliant on just two customers. In May, at the first shareholders’ meeting since the company went public, an investor pressed Lens about how it planned to maintain an edge in a hyper-competitive market that thrives on innovation.

Several executives tried to answer the question. Then Ms. Zhou spoke up, saying she was prepared to diversify the company’s business with production facilities geared toward higher-end glass, as well as sapphire and ceramic.

After the meeting adjourned, investors piled into a bus and rode with Ms. Zhou to the Lens campus, less than a mile away. Ms. Zhou had sat quietly through much of the shareholders’ meeting, but on the tour of the factory, she came alive. The shareholders hung on every word.

Zhang Ruoyao contributed research.

A version of this article appears in print on August 2, 2015, on page BU1 of the New York edition with the headline: The Village Girl Who Grew Up to Be a Billionaire .

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lay down the strict discipline in my home


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Is the buying still going on?

G.N. is just as, or more beautiful with no warpaint on her face and weave in her head....and you can that to the bank!


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well worth the reading time ....


Is Boko Haram a CIA Covert Op to Divide and Conquer Africa?
Selected Articles
By Julie Lévesque
Global Research, February 14, 2015

http://www.globalresearch.ca/is-boko-haram-a-cia-covert-op-to-divide-and-conquer-africa/5431177

Support for the alleged looter's class no be small thing on NL.

HB to one of the true Nollywood Queens.
Her personal health and fitness program is on another level.

I finally had the opportunity to watch 'Stronger Than Pain' just a few days ago. Great love story!


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Respect

Blair House

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blair_House


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Blair House is primarily used to house foreign heads of state visiting the president (when foreign leaders stay there, the house flies their flag)

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congrats nyc nyc lookin pretty,lookin pretty ...... cha, the beach wore off....

i see most of the daily NL dullard crew is on vacation....

cha ....saw this similar plot in at least two nollywood movies that i can instantly recall 'white hunters', and 'black bra'

the term house cleaning>witch hunt




cut the deadwood out
1. Lit. to prune away and remove the dead branches from a tree or bush. They cut a lot of the deadwood out to save the tree. You have to cut out the deadwood to make room for new growth.
2. Fig. to remove unproductive persons from employment. This company would be more profitable if management would cut out the deadwood. When we cut the deadwood out, all our departments will run more smoothly.

is NL under new ownership? hard to believe this fluff is on the front page.

this story is coming to fruition ... it was posted on nairaland at time of the writing.

Nigeria: Targeted for Destruction

Posted by Gordon Duff, Senior Editor on November 14, 2011

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/11/14/nigeria-targeted-for-destruction/

It is widely known that certain foreign elements are providing security to the president and providing his current security details.

What a joke, you might say. These same foreign elements are the same who have sold outdated equipment to the government and are going around Abuja installing CCTV and bomb detection equipment around the capitol, technology decades old.

What are the costs expended so far on security equipment and the so called security consultants?

Why have certain individuals collected bribe money to award these security contracts at over inflated figures?

Now, this is one example of several of how corruption is endemic and goes to the heart of government.

You may wonder who stands to benefit from these contracts at the expense of the security of the president, the presidency and the nation.

The answers to these questions lies within the presidency itself because of the acts of these individuals in the last few weeks.

There are no real interests to control the activities of Boko Haram because of the vested interests of certain foreign governments in collusion with their agents in the present administration and the country.




Sources within the Intel community have confirmed that Boko Haram is getting Intel assistance from senior Nigerian intelligence officials.

To these officials, this is a means to an end.

The danger here is that a monster has been created which sooner or later may go out of control of their political masters.

Certain people are benefiting financially from the current security situation in the country, from inflated security contracts.

One such individual from within the presidency recently placed orders from a North American and Middle East country located near Tel Aviv.

What is the cost of a Nigerian life (Mr.) and how much is it worth to you sir?

baba won

section 6 of the constitution spells it out. takes about 5 minutes or less to read.


NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCIES ACT

http://lawnigeria.com/LawsoftheFederation/NATIONAL-SECURITY-AGENCIES-ACT.html

6. Instruments relating to the advisory councils, the structure, etc., of the Agencies

The President may by an instrument under his hand make provisions with respect to the following matters, that is to say-

(a) the composition, membership and appointment to the advisory councils established by section 5 (1) of this Act;

tweet by the bloomberg author ....


by Daniel Magnowski


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https://twitter.com/dmagnowski

"daniel magnowski ‏@dmagnowski Nov 19

The CBD in Abuja, #Nigeria is a bleak, miserable dead zone -- apart from the magnificent eagles sailing on thermals outside the office"

looks like the president makes the final decision... hope the bot doesn't evaporate this post.

read sections 1C, 3(1), and 4(c)

according to the law these fellows should out hunting BH and its sponsors.




NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCIES ACT

http://lawnigeria.com/LawsoftheFederation/NATIONAL-SECURITY-AGENCIES-ACT.html

what gold in her stomach?

" Anita Solomon gets to keep the greatest trophy of all, the Gold inside her."

bas·tard
ˈbastərd/
noun
noun: bastard; plural noun: bastards

1.
archaicderogatory
a person born of parents not married to each other.
synonyms: illegitimate child, child born out of wedlock; More

courtesy of http://www.nairaland.com/

circa 2013

An Expatriate's Indepth Analysis Of Corruption In Nigeria - Politics - Nairaland

https://www.nairaland.com/1407845/expatriates-indepth-analysis-corruption-nigeria


deliberately running down the country’s refining capacity in order to partake in the lucrative import of fuels; falsifying delivery notes of said refined fuels in order to receive greater government subsidies; deliberately restricting the country’s power generation capacity in order to benefit from the importation of generators (which must be run on imported fuel)

I need to save up some naira so I can go visit T.S.H. and taste the product

Talindo Steak House
7b Karimu Kotun, Victoria Island, Lagos 101007, Nigeria






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SUSPECTED SHOOTER PICTURED: Nine killed during prayer service at historic black church in Charleston, S.C. in hate crime; manhunt on for white male suspect in state's worst mass shooting

Nine shot dead at black church in Charleston, South Carolina, in suspected hate crime; white suspect remains at large
Charleston, S.C., police released these photos of the suspect that opened fire during a prayer meeting inside a historic black church Wednesday night, killing nine. Authorities asked the public to call 1-800-CALL-FBI with tips.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2015/06/17/shooting-downtown-charleston-south-carolina/adZxsf0gZwsQrqEAocRtwI/story.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/charleston-church-shot-article-1.2262014

Man in custody now, don't know if gunman #chsnews

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another source ...

Police investigating shooting in Charleston, S.C.
Melanie Eversley, USA TODAY 11:14 p.m. EDT June 17, 2015

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/06/17/charleston-south-carolina-shooting/28902017/


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Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church sits at 110 Calhoun St. in Charleston, S.C. (Photo: Facebook)

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Police are investigating a shooting downtown that may have resulted in multiple fatalities.

Some reports by journalists and others on social media indicated there may have been multiple deaths, but that could not be confirmed with police, who said they had no information on victims.

South Carolina Rep. Peter McCoy tweeted that nine people were confirmed dead.

Police said the shooting took place at an address that corresponds with that of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.

The house of worship is the oldest AME church in the South and is led by South Carolina State Sen. Clementa Pinckney, a Democrat. The church has one of the oldest and largest black congregations south of Baltimore, according to its website. Denmark Vesey, executed for attempting to organize a major slave rebellion, was one of the founders.

The shooting took place at about 9 p.m. ET, Charleston police said via Twitter. The gunman is still on the loose, police told the Charleston Post and Courier.

The suspect is a white male about 21-years-old and is wearing a grey sweatshirt or hoodie, blue jeans and Timberland boots, officials said.

The FBI and chaplains were on the scene, Post and Courier reporter Melissa Boughton tweeted.

A woman who answered the telephone at the Charleston Police Department late Wednesday said she'd heard nothing about a shooting. Tweets from Boughton indicate there is law enforcement activity downtown indicative that a shooting has taken place.

An emergency medical worker told people on the street to "drive far away or to go indoors," Boughton tweeted at about 9:45 p.m. EDT.

hot off the newswires ....

Shooting reported at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina

By Ed Payne, CNN

Updated 11:00 PM ET, Wed June 17, 2015
Police: Shooting at a church in Charleston, S.C.

Police: Shooting at a church in Charleston, S.C. 01:03

(CNN)Police in Charleston, South Carolina, are at the scene of a shooting at a historic black church, a local lawmaker told CNN Wednesday night.

There was no immediate information on potential victims.

The shooting took place at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, said State Rep. Wendell G. Gilliard who represents the district where the church is located.

On its website, the church describes itself as the "oldest AME church in the south."

Gilliard didn't have additional information and said he was on his way to the scene.

Police too have offered little information. The department listed the site of the shooting as 110 Calhoun Street, the location of the church.

The department said the suspect in the shooting is a clean-shaven white man in his 20s, with a slender build. He was wearing a grey sweatshirt, blue jeans and boots.

Soon afterward, news camera showed officers taking a man matching that description into custody -- but police said they were still looking for the shooter.

Every Wednesday evening, the church holds a Bible study in its basement.

Corey Wessenger, who was standing across the street from the church, said the area was swarming with a heavy law enforcement presence.

"I just saw a group of about 40 people escorted by cops," Wessenger told CNN by phone.

Patrick Wright, a reporter with WFMY News, tweeted, "We've been told not to leave our restaurant here in #Charleston for the time being. Helicopter still circling above."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/17/us/charleston-south-carolina-shooting/



Police respond to shooting at Charleston, South Carolina church

http://abc11.com/news/charleston-sc-police-respond-to-shooting-at-church/791511/


NEWS
Police respond to shooting at Charleston, South Carolina church

Updated 12 mins ago
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WTVD) --
Police are on the scene of a mass shooting at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina.

It happened around 9 p.m. Wednesday around the Emanuel AME Church.

Sources told ABC News that at least eight people are dead, and several are injured.

Emanuel AME Church is one of the largest, oldest black congregations in the South.

The pastor of the church is South Carolina State Senator Clementa Pinckney.

At last report, the gunman was still on the loose and a manhunt is underway on the ground and in the air around downtown Charleston.

The suspect is described as a 21-year-old clean-shaven white man, who was wearing a grey sweatshirt and Timberland boots.

The FBI is also responding to the scene.

hmmm, this thought or decision doesn't fit the family profile of mostly investing in tangible assets.


The Dantata/Dangote Story: How To Create A Dynasty Of Billionaires - Business - Nairaland

https://www.nairaland.com/891985/dantata-dangote-story-how-create

What, NL no love for Festus Ezeli?



Born October 21, 1989 (age 25)
Benin City, Nigeria
Nationality Nigerian


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