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Islamic leaders call on administration to rethink policy towards hunger-striking detainees during religious fast, Guantanomo Bay, Cuba. Scroll down for video Islamic community leaders are calling on the Obama administration to rethink its policy of force-feeding hunger-striking detainees in Guantánamo during the month-long fast of Ramadan that have begun on Monday. The US government has said that barring "unforeseen emergency or operational issues" it will respect the daylight fast by trying only to force feed 45 detainees at night. Muslim groups say that by refusing to suspend the practice during Ramadan the US is adding insult to injury. "We believe it's wrong to force feed at any time but it is particularly upsetting to do it through Ramadan," said Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman of the largest US Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, the Council On American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). He said the situation was Kafkaesque: "It's not just a religious issue, it's also a human rights issue in violation of international norms and medical ethics." Dr Azzam Tamimi, an Islamic community leader in Britain, said he hoped the Obama administration would reconsider. "As Ramadan starts, this issue is becoming increasingly embarrassing for the US government. It's about time President Obama took a brave decision to end this in a way that would be appreciated around the Islamic world." The continuation of force-feeding through Ramadan is being legally challenged by four of the 106 detainees who are on hunger strike in protest at their prolonged detention without trial. A lawsuit filed with a federal court in Washington last week argues that night-time feeding could lead to long periods without water, endangering the hunger strikers. To mark the beginning of Ramadan, the human rights group Reprieve has released a video in which the actor and rapper Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) submits himself to the enteral feeding imposed in Guantánamo. When the first tube was dislodged, he was unable to go ahead with a second attempt by the medical team to insert it. The star said that he volunteered to be force-fed by two volunteer doctors to highlight what was happening to the hunger strikers in Guantánamo. The four-minute video, directed by Bafta award-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia, seeks to reconstruct the specific force-feeding instructions set out in standard operating guidelines from Guantánamo leaked to al- Jazeera. It shows a plastic tube being inserted through Bey's nostril into his stomach. The "Medical Management Standard Operating Procedure" document leaked from the detention camp defines a hunger striker as a detainee who has missed at least nine consecutive meals or whose weight has fallen to less than 85% of his ideal body weight. If force feeding is deemed medically necessary, medical personnel shackle the detainee "and a mask is placed over the detainee's mouth to prevent spitting and biting". A feeding tube is then passed through the detainee's nostril into the stomach. The process takes about 20 to 30 minutes but they can be required to stay in the restraint chair for up to two hours until a chest x-ray confirms the nutrient has reached their stomach. The prisoner is then removed from restraint chair to "dry cell" where they are observed by a guard for up to an hour "for any indication of vomiting or attempts to induce vomiting". If they do vomit, they are returned to the restraint chair for the entire duration of the observation period in subsequent feeds. If they bite the tube, the guards hold their head still for "as long as necessary for the detainee to relax his jaw". Other religious groups have also spoken out against the practice. Last month Bishop Richard Pates, chair of the committee on international justice and peace for the US conference of Catholic bishops, wrote to the defence secretary Chuck Hagel noting the opposition of the International Committee of the Red Cross to force-feeding. "Rather than resorting to such measures, our nation should first do everything it can to address the conditions of despair that have led to this protest." rtsp://v7.cache8.c.youtube.com/CjYLENy73wIaLQmOtvk_xzkU4hMYDSANFEIJbXYtZ29vZ2xlSARSBXdhdGNoYLqw08rG2d_lUQw=/0/0/0/video.3gp;connectionuid=S%20TCP-WiFi;ipsec=false
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"I Signed Myself Into Slavery Because Of Unemployment And Now I Can't Get Out" Please I urgently need the help of any legal practitioners. I really don't know what I've gotten my self into. I finished NYSC last year and two months later I was interviewed for a job at an Indian owned Pharmaceutical company. After two months I was offered the job as a Medical representative. My self and all other successful applicants were given a one-week training before we were all dispatched to our different states. Among the employment forms we were given to sign there was a SERVICE BOND form which states that "I am to work with the company for TWO YEARS or pay a sum of 250.000" I signed because of the employment situation in the country and to be honest I was desperate I couldn't afford to be unemployed I had so many family pressures I was almost becoming depressed. I am now on the job and my people I AM SEEING HELL!!! I work tirelessly my salary is less than 100k I spend a greater amount of it on transportation(Nature of the Job as a Medical Representative I Move from one place to the other) we were promised a car for mobility but this is almost 6months and absolutely nothing is being said about it. I am under the sun under the rain working. I hate complaining because I feel it is synonymous to being ungrateful but some days I can't take it I feel like quitting on the spot! After I realised the service bond I signed I refused to sign the offer of employment letter (I still have it in my possession). Now I'm seeking a less stressful job because honestly this one is beginning to affect my health. How do I go about this SERVICE BOND please I really need help. I can't pay that 250k I can barely save up to 20k every month infact successfully saving 10k a month is a miracle! And I can't work for another 18 months I'm not sure I will survive. Please I need Your help! http://m.naij.com/news/39768.html |
jhydebaba: We don hearI be confirm man,,, |
A couple that has been unable to conceive after one year of regular unprotected sexual intercourse is considered infertile. Today, 25 per cent of couples are infertile. There is a worldwide emotional epidemic of infertility. In Nigeria, infertility, which used to be a small area of gynaecology practice, has now become a huge discipline with several doctors devoting their clinic solely to the practice of treating infertility. As we get older, our ability to get pregnant decreases. Only one per cent of teenagers are infertile, while a large majority of infertile couples are in their 30s. It is well documented that from our teen years when the last thing we wanted was a child, to our mid 30s when we are finally secure enough to start our family, our ability to conceive decreases almost by 25 per cent. We know that in all species, there is a very short window - in fact, a matter of days - during each month that the female is fertile and can get pregnant through sexual intercourse. The timing of sex is therefore very important if a species is to have an efficient and high fertility rate. In humans, women go through a period of 14 days when the follicle in the ovary develops. This starts from day one of the menstruation until the egg is sufficiently mature and ready for ovulation. Once the egg is released at ovulation, there is another 14-day period that it can be fertilised. If sexual intercourse occurs at the right time, then the embryo grows and implants in the uterus, or womb. If sexual intercourse occurs at another time other than the ovulating period, it is very unlikely that the woman will get pregnant. Animals go through what is described as an "estrus" cycle or "heat." Humans go through a menstrual cycle. Apart from other hormonal variations, one significant difference between humans and animals is that the female sex hormone, estrogen, which increases just before ovulation in animals, is the trigger factor for their sex drive. This hormone is responsible for producing eggs. In other words, animals do not desire to have sex unless there is an egg to be fertilised in the female's womb. In humans, sex desire is much more complex and is not driven by the female sex hormone, estrogen; but by the male sex hormone, testosterone. This is unique in the animal kingdom and it is especially a human phenomenon. The small amount of testosterone that the female makes is enough to generate sexual drive in her. It is only few females that recognise the slight increase in testosterone around the ovulation period to enable them deliberately initiate sex at the appropriate time to get pregnant. http://m.naij.com/news/39592.html |
Most guys like to believe that they are grown men, but until you realize the differences between the two, you can never know for sure. See the things that make you a Real Man below; 1. Boys play house. Men build homes!!! 2. Boys shack up. Men get married!!! 3. Boys make babies. Men raise children!!! A boy won't raise his own children. A man will raise his and someone else's. 4. Boys invent excuses for failure. Men produce strategies for success!!! 5. Boys look for somebody to take care of them. Men look for someone to take care of!!! 6. Boys seek popularity. Men earn respect by knowing how to give it!!! 7. Boys quit and walk away when things get hard. Men will promise to love you through it all. |
Earlier today, the sitting of Rivers State House of Assembly was disrupted when hoodlums and some members attacked the principal officers of the house, with an assortment of weapons. One of the victims, majority leader of the house, Chidi Lloyd, recounted his experience in the hands of the hoodlums. READ BELOW: Well, yesterday the Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Otelema Dan Amachree directed that the House be reconvened to consider an amendment to the 2013 appropriation law which the Governor had communicated to him via a letter and as if Mr. Speaker saw what was going to happen today, he wrote a letter through the Clerk of the House to the Commissioner of Police to provide security for today's sitting and he also wrote to the commander of 2 Amphibious Brigade who also doubles as the head of the internal JTF. So when we got to work this morning, we saw the presence of policemen numbering over 50 and we thought that this was in response to Mr. Speaker's request. Shortly thereafter, I noticed that the five anti-Amaechi members were discussing in clusters and calling on their boys to come in. Initially, the policemen were searching everybody who would come into the premises. I had to even come down at the gate and trekked into the premises. So after a while, we learnt that there were phone calls and the commissioner of police personally called the unit, the man in charge to allow everybody in. We went in as members who have not seen ourselves for sometime because of the crisis in the state. I was on my seat, without provocation, Hon. Evans Bipi came to me in the full glare of everybody on camera and started raining punches on me. As his leader I did not react because I felt that it is something we could settle, whatever it is, maybe I didn't greet him also. So he continued when that continued, the speaker intervened and said, ha, what's happening. Then he reached out for the tripod that stands the camera, used it freely on me, himself and Michael Okechukwu Chinda. They flogged me to their satisfaction, I didn't just utter a word until Hon. Ihunwo graciously asked me to run for my dear life because they have brought people with guns and of course when I looked at the gallery they were shouting who is the Chidi Lloyd, who is the Chidi Lloyd. So at that point, I'm sure somebody may have reached out to the governor of the state who came in with his own security because these other policemen were there standing helplessly, watching what was going on. So he came and rescued members out of the place. Then after a while we heard that they had sat, that they were meeting, they were trying to meet, they had procured a fake mace to the House, so we went back and I took the mace where they were sitting, then I sustained injury as a result of the violence by Michael Chinda and Evans Bipi. So while I was in the hospital the speaker and other members of the House sat and heard the amendment that the governor sent, was presented on his behalf by the deputy governor. Now these amendments are, the governor said he was just seeking for us to via some sub heads for him to enable him take care of certain unforeseen events such as flood and all that. That is why we went to work for the state only to be dealt with in the manner that they have dealt with us. I want to use this opportunity while in the hospital here, I have received phone calls of threat to life for my family and I. Incidentally, I'm so helpless, I don't know who to run to. I can't go to the commissioner of police because he is already in the arena, he's already on the other side. I'm appealing to well-meaning Nigerians to pray for me and my family. That is the last hope we have resorted to and that we also urge the National Assembly, the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Reps not to turn the other way on the events of Rivers State. This could lead to something that we cannot imagine. It had happened in Anambra State, people were laughing, today is Rivers State nobody knows the next state it would be. If we are practising a democracy, let us please for crying out loud play by the rules. Nigerians should pray for me and come to our aid. The state is under siege. You can't even vouch for the safety of the Governor. The people are getting more dashed out on a daily basis http://m.naij.com/news/39663.html |
rodeo0070: It’s a concept that can be difficult to come to terms with, but like it or not our intellect (or our perceived intellect) can often work against us in life. The indications are all there once you have the eyes to see them. Have you fell into the “I think I’m too smart for my own good” trap? Don’t worry the big part of correcting a mistake is realizing it exists! Check out these 5 signs you are not as smart as you think you are and see if any or all apply to you. Coming quickly to terms with them and correcting this kind of self-defeating behavior can make you truly smarter fast! And perhaps more importantly, much happier too.
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Jamey Maxwell: On the street... HustlingI dey tell u |
Man must chop naw,,,,, |
JayCee2010: @ OP
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peppy luv:Smh....
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Hmmm....I believe to refuse unless d seen is pic.. End time |
joel lala: more picsIs dat yellow bus Ur car? |
I dey tell U Endtime tins
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Read ur Books at night and stop watching africa magic yoruba |
Endtime!!!!!!!!! |
Smh.. Endtime... |
I Dnt Tink anytn is bad abt dis..who knws seun's Wife age? I learnt is 70...so abeg leave d guy..we dey endtym Naw |
Dis is unfair!!! Young souls... |
Hahaahahahhaha Bt guy,,no front page 4 u...sori ![]() |
Just passing by.. |
Hmm..al iz well wit dm 10th to comment..aigoo |
Y ar u guys just barking arund... I Thought u ar believe dat money can do al tings... Aigoo |
By d way who is chris okotie!!! Is he a nigerian or what.. Well,dat name sounds familiar in Hollywood |
Nd I have feelings 4 dis girl oo... Who gt her contact... I can't believe am in love... |
Well...my Area dey enjoi! Na 30minutes in 3days,,, 10min. Each day ![]() |
Very sad....dey just wasted dere Lyf cos of pleasure of Few Hours..BIG GUYS ND GIRLS..stp chasing afta wordly pleasures so dat u wont endup lik dis |
Whats d meaning of judge not..many christians nowadays dnt read d bible wit d holyspirit in Dem..dats y dey neva get wat d bible realy means...if sumtn is rong condemn It inasmuch u ar nt doing it too..nd d spirit of God justifies u..jesus condemn d Pple of capernaum saying Dey will go to hell..y can't U Say he Judged .. When peter says o stupid galatians,,was he nt condeming dm 4 Doing bad ting...even if One tel a broda Dat wat he is Doing is rong..dey Will say dat he is judging...study d bible nd Get urself approve..nt just reading Hw Will u bring worldly Tings into d church..light nd darkness can't Walk 2getha..most of u xtrians have most of dis jagons on ur fones still u go to church Nd Pray...hear d word!a tym of purging is coming...goats wud be seperated From d Sheep...nd al who serve God without God's will |
sunny3kng: The Brain At Council Bluffs |
Send greetns to pa.yar'dua.....tell I'm dat nigeria still dey d way he left it ooo...no development |
MsSantaClaus: Gosh! How much more ridiculous can you beShe died cos of forncation nd even covetousness,,she was frm A rich backroud |

so OP, which one u be
