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Tony Spike: The Doctor had to travel to different time-lines to find that question. He never knew He was the question himself...lol. What a conundrum!

Yes. It was quite interesting seeing how it unfolded. I salute you, sir. A fellow Dr Who fan.

Tony Spike: What is the first question?
The death of the Doctor at Lake Silencio by the impossible astronaut known Melody Pond or Dr. River Song (Season 6)...I love this season so much!

The first question is resolved in the climactic episode from season 7: "The Name of the Doctor". It is the oldest question, the one the Doctor has been running away from from the very beginning. It is Doctor Who?

deols: The man travelled through time to ensure that a rapist got sentenced.

Err...that's probably not Doctor Who. Doctor Who is a memorable character. He is called Doctor Who as in literally a question because he is the man with no name. He quite simply calls himself "the Doctor".

naptu2: Dr Who is a time lord who travels through time and space in his Tardis (Police box). In the earlier series, it is said that the Tardis has a fault. This means that they usually end up in a different planet or century from their intended destination. In the later series, it is said that the Tardis has a mind of its own and decides where it wants to take the Doctor.

The Doctor is often accompanied on his travels by some humans. They often have to fight against aliens, robots or ancient gods.

A Time Lord of Gallifrey. Wonderful memories from by-gone years. And I love the new series as well! The longest running sci fi show of all time.

"... on the Fields of Trenzalore, at the fall of the Eleventh, when no creature can speak falsely or fail to answer, a question will be asked - a question that must never be answered"

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agbameta: This is an investment by a private company so what's this really got to do with GEJ and his pose of corruption and incompetence?

I am now convinced that you are a certified idiöt. The private investment is made possible by the reforms initiated in the agricultural sector by GEJ, yes GEJ which has led to an increase in rice production. Why didn't the private company open their mill in 2007? Doofus! Here collect your certificate of stüpidity.
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onomeasike: The whole Nigerian health sector stinks and we have not seen the worst yet.
From the crippling of nafdac by appointing a doctor to head nafdac, to payment of teaching allowances to medical interns, illegal headship of hospitals to upstage well trained professional hospital administrators and overreaching to start regulating the other health professionals. Trust me, this can only happen in an unserious nation.no minister of doctors will ever succeed as a health minister in this country again.This is extremely unbelievable! !!!

What are you on about? Historically, weren't doctors the original teachers of nurses, pharmacists and lab scientists?

berem: Imagine comparing the retardeen to Nelson Mandela?

I have already told you to get an education. You were the originator of this thread - with the intention of ridiculing the president. In any case, someone has already given you an appropriate answer.

PvtParts: [size=14pt]Many politicians have also rung the bell. On a tour of the U.S. to promote economic cooperation, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited the capital of capitalism in order to partake. Other famous politicians who have had the honor of ringing the bell include Nelson Mandela and Rudy Giuliani.
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etouts of APC go and eat sh1t

berem: Una president wan go ring bell for America! LOL!!

He is your president too, mörön!

Ringing the opening bell of the NYSE is a symbolic art and an honor. If the news is true, then President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan belongs to such notable company as Nelson Mandela who were also given the honor of ringing the bell of the NYSE.

You really need to get an education.

TalkNews: https://www.newsinnigeria.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/amalaha-scientist.jpg

A student in Nigeria is claiming he can prove gay marriage is wrong through science – and his scientific “breakthrough” is backed by his university.

“It’s debatable as to whether the embarrassing article is more damming of the standard of education at the University of Lagos or of the standard of journalism at This Day,”

The article is thrash.

The so-called "research" is thrash.

And the University of Lagos is a joke for putting this forth as research. . . basic secondary school science.

No wonder ASUU cannot articulate its demands in an innovative way and must always resort to strikes. The lecturers have nothing to teach, and the students cannot learn. Blind men leading other blind men.

The opposition to homosexuality is on moral grounds. Science cannot make a case either for or against the vile practice.

Bidam: Is the house of Israel and the house of judah a gentile?

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(2Co 5:17) Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
(Gal 3:24-29)

^{...just passing through. Bye}

Context is important. Statistics are like bikinis which are interesting not so much by what they reveal but what they conceal. Viewed in full context, there really was no significant change in Nigeria's CGI in 2013-2014 over the preceding 2012-2013 period.

For the 2012-2013 period: Nigeria ranked 115 out 144 surveyed countries with a score of 3.67
For the 2013-2014 period: Nigeria ranked 120 out 148 surveyed countries with a score of 3.57

We can also compare Ghana for the same periods:
For the 2012-2013 period: Ghana ranked 103 out 144 surveyed countries with a score of 3.79
For the 2013-2014 period: Ghana ranked 114 out 148 surveyed countries with a score of 3.69

The interpretation of the of the 12 pillars of the CGI is more nuanced than the conversation here suggests.

nuclearboy: What if Amaechi, on the other hand, is the pivotal hand of this clock?

Anything is possible. We shall see how it plays out...but it seems like a desperate gamble by the 7.

Long time bro! How you dey?

Politics, it is said, makes strange bedfellows, but even the strangeness of the principals in this PDP 'faction' must give one pause. Consider the seven governors involved:

Sokoto - NW,
Kano - NW,
Rivers - SS,
Adamawa - NE,
Niger - NC,
Jigawa - NW,
Kwara - NC

Rotimi Amaechi sticks out like a sore thumb...and so the question must be asked: what is he doing among such strange bed-fellows. My interactions with people from Rivers state lead me to believe that public opinion in his home state is not in support of his moves. Amaechi is an intelligent fellow who no doubt has his finger on his people's pulse. Why would he want to alienate them and isolate himself unless of course there is another plot at play?

Here is my thesis:

1. I doubt if the governors would have been bold enough to break away in such spectacular fashion without believing that Amaechi belonged to their camp, because they would probably reason that having Amaechi on their side would weaken the President's support base and thereby strengthen their faction.

2. While they might try to spin it as a bold move on their part; the reality is that they have been isolated and forced out of the PDP fold proper.

3. I believe Rotimi Amaechi is in cahoots with the President and has acted as the "Judas goat" to force the enemies and traitors within to reveal themselves publicly and leave the party.

4. In the next few weeks, we should expect a spectacular reconciliation between the President & Rotimi Amaechi which will leave these governors and Atiku hanging high and dry. I expect Atiku should have learned something from how his protege Soludo was manipulated into losing the gubernatorial nomination.

We will see how events play out. But we should always remember that in the shadowy world of politics, nothing is ever as it seems and we should stop taking things at face value.

striktlymi: There is also the possibility that when God said 'day', he is actually defining it the way he sees it and not necessarily as man sees it. We know too well that a day for God is like a thousand years for man...so it is possible that when God said 'the first day', he actually meant the first 100,000 days or more as man would see it.

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And the evening and the morning were the first day...not several thousands evenings and mornings.

Gbawe: We do not need a new nation to make the SW a developed region. We only need a few changes at the centre and I believe these changes will be seen if the PDP is defeated.

While I agree with you that changes to the centre are needed, such as fiscal federalism, and more devolution of powers to the federating units, are you sure that these changes will emerge with the defeat of the PDP? The alternatives to the PDP have not shown that they have the will or vision to push through such a change. We will probably end up like the animals in Animal Farm...exchanging one set of overlords for another.

aletheia: ...suggestions on a differential tax regime are impractical, discriminatory and run counter to the rights of Nigerians to reside anywhere in Nigeria.

Scenarios:

Mr A. just completed primary school and decided to come to Lagos after months of urging by his brother who's living in Lagos this past 5 years. Mr A. arrives and takes up work as a shoe-shiner/porter. According to the proposed tax regimen, being a new "immigrant", he ought to pay for instance an income tax of 35%. Several problems immediately arise:
a) How on earth, is the LASG going to assess his daily income for tax purposes?
b) No doubt Mr A. belongs to the lowest income band, and by progressive taxation principles ought to even be exempt from tax!

Mr B. a top company executive is newly redeployed to Lagos by his company. Since his income is readily traceable, the LASG is able to skim 35% off his pay. On Fridays, he likes to go clubbing...but the problem is how on earth he is going to pay the 17% VAT on the beer he drinks as a newly arrived "immigrant" to Lagos...since the bar man doesn't ask for his duly stamped passport showing the date he crossed Lagos state's borders.

Mr C. has been in Lagos for 15 years now. All his children were born in Lagos and attend Lagos schools. Since he works in Alausa as a civil servant, every month, regular as clockwork, LASG takes off income tax of 25% as a "longstanding" resident. Brother J. arrives from village to stay with him while learning "trade". I wonder how LASG is going to tax Brother J. for the privilege of being newly arrived in Lagos.

If only, Mr A. and Brother J. had stayed back in their states and not come to Lagos to increase the population without engaging in taxable economic activities. Perhaps if there were more economic opportunities back home in their states...

Katsumoto: First, the proper thing to do if you find a post offensive is to call it out. You didn't do that, instead, you are making references to posts in weeks/months gone by that may or may not offensive. That surely is juvenile.

I guess I was a tad too abrasive and aggressive. I sincerely apologize for that. I found the OP offensive and I suppose I displaced the aggression on to you.

But I must disagree with you that Lagos by itself and on its own can control immigration into Lagos state through a system of taxation, no matter how creatively structured. Again the examples from Chile and Russia are about using taxes to encourage investment and economic growth, not to restrict migration. Any solution to rural-urban migration must involve other states.

I suppose we will have to agree to differ. Have a nice day.

Katsumoto: Was it necessary to resort to ad hominem attacks? Why can't you let the merit of your position speak for itself without trying to gain an advantage? Clearly you didn't completely read my post but decided to attack me nonetheless.

How can Lagos ensure good governance in other states? Doesn't sound asinine? Can Lagos make other states select sound administrators? Did you read anything in my suggestions which prevents other Nigerians from residing in Lagos? Who picks up the tab unequal and unfair migration which places a strain on infrastructure? Don't all EU citizens have a right to reside anywhere within the EU? Why then are France, Ireland, Italy, etc deporting roma gypsies?

Why are there different fees for out of state residents and state residents in the US? Wouldn't you argue that is also discriminatory? Don't people who live outside the congestion zone in London pay more than those who live within the zone?

In what way did I attack you? I only stated my disappointment in how your views have changed or are changing. If you doubt me, why don't you compare your posts these days to those of earlier years and see if you don't sound more intolerant now of other ethnicities.

As to your suggestions, exactly how do you hope to enforce a differential tax regime such as the one you propose? Such a proposal must fall at the first constitutional challenge. So in your system of differential taxes, a person resident in Lagos for 5 years is an out of state resident, while those who have resided in Lagos for 10 years are considered state residents? You know that is not how it is defined in the US that you try to use as an example, so that is a fatally flawed example.

Your attempt to use the London congestion charge, I believe, is another flawed example. Nothing actually stops Lagos state from introducing such a charge, if it doesn't already exist, but to attempt to tax Nigerians for exercising their fundamental right to reside in Lagos is the unconstitutional.

No where did I suggest that Lagos is responsible for ensuring good governance etc in other states, but I also pointed out that urban immigration is not just the problem of Lagos but also of other major urban centres in the country. Thus, the solution must of necessity be a supra-state one, not the sort of knee-jerk, asinine solutions being suggested by bigots. For, example the push towards SW regional integration is one such potential solution to slowing the migration into Lagos.

Katsumoto: I am for controlling the growing population in Lagos but not along ethnic lines. The best way to accomplish this task is along economic lines. Lagos has to reduce the size of the underground economy; Fashola has made good progress in this regard.

Then it should introduce taxes intended to discourage immigration to it's borders. For instance, residents who have been paying taxes for 10 years should pay 25% income taxes while new immigrants should pay 35%. This can also be applied to all other consumer and business taxes. The additional revenue can be used to maintain recurrent expenditure, which would be higher given the burden on infrastructure by new immigrants. Mind you, this tax would apply to all, including those from other SW states. Residents can also be issued cards which can be used to consumers at source. Again 10 plus year residents can pay 12% VAT while new immigrants pay 17%.

Lagos can also enter into a partnership with Ogun to build residential estates in Ogun and provide rail between Ogun and commercial centers in Lagos. Businesses can also relocate plants and industrial parks to Ogun leaving Lagos with just office space.

Your suggestions on a differential tax regime are impractical, discriminatory and run counter to the rights of Nigerians to reside anywhere in Nigeria. If you lie down with dogs, then you will get up with fleas. Your often association with ethnic bigots is beginning to cloud your objectivity. The best way to stem immigration to Lagos is to ensure good governance and the expansion and diversification of the economies of other states, not to erect walls whether physical or virtual.

Also you need to recall that rural-urban migration is a worldwide phenomenon. People always gravitate to major urban centres and so the problem of Lagos is also the problem of Kano, also the problem of Abuja, also the problem of Port Harcourt.

But you already know this, which is why it's so disappointing seeing you making common cause with ethnic jingoists, whose views are often laced with hateful diatribes.

Desola: Is it, really? Isn't Lagos equally a sovereign state? If it has power to remove unproductive non-indigenes like it did some ibo indigenes then surely, it can be suggested that it possesses the power to control it's borders, non?

Lagos is not, and was never a sovereign state. You really ought to get an education like someone suggested and get to know the meaning of "country".

The most painful part, is that genuine, bonafide Lagosians don't espouse this sort of rubbish, only wild-eyed ethnic bigots like you.

frosbel: I think this article is necessary to counter the plague of FALSE visions from Hell and to further enlighten the brethren on the need to be careful when listening to , or reading about these encounters.

While I do not agree with your views on "hell". I must concur that based on scripture it is certain that these so-called visions of heaven and hell are false and designed to mislead.

It must also be pointed out how very similar these visions are to Dante's work: The Divine Comedy.

At OP: what you wrote is no different from what the Serpent told the Woman. "Ye shall be as gods". In a beguiling sense, men are gods. However, the scriptures speak plainly:

(1Co 8:5) For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
(1Co 8:6) But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

musKeeto: How do you jump from 'God exists' to 'Jesus is real'

History-Reason-Faith

Gbawe: This is what posters like you, carrying 'issues' around, enjoy. This mindless back and forth that means you were always angling to be obliged so you can get into market-women quarrelling mode you enjoy far more than contributing your own opinion. You have done exactly this before and I should have known better than to even respond to anything you write. I simply will not bother in future. Not worth the hassle really for a junk, emotional and personality-obsessed tw1t like you. You should really get a life. You don't sound mentally healthy or secure.

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See your life in 3D! Magana dogon turenchi! Simple kweshion, you no fit answer, jus' dey blow grammar.

1. How many pro-development bills have been passed by Tambuwal's House of Representatives?
2. In fact, how many bills have they passed since 2011?
3. Why has the petroleum industry bill not been passed?
4. Why have they not voted a pay cut for themselves?
5. You 've forgotten his relationship with the disgraced Bankole?

Oh! Sorry! I forgot! Hound dogs are only good for whining and crying:

You ain't nothin but a hound dog
Cryin all the time.
You ain't nothin but a hound dog
Cryin all the time.
Well, you aint never caught a rabbit
And you ain't no friend of mine.

Now run along, and go play with your squeaky toy.

Gbawe: You could have asked why I rate the man and I would have told you. Yet, like others here you appear to be into trying to taint others negatively.

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What's with the whining? Aren't the answers to the questions I asked you objective enough to convince me or anyone else as to why you think Tambuwal "seems to be about development overall".

aletheia: 1. How many pro-development bills have been passed by Tambuwal's House of Representatives?
2. In fact, how many bills have they passed since 2011?
3. Why has the petroleum industry bill not been passed?
4. Why have they not voted a pay cut for themselves?
5. You 've forgotten his relationship with the disgraced Bankole?

Gbawe: Tambuwal went to Osun and, as the fourth most powerful Nigerian, helped peace reign when the PDP was trying to heat up the polity dangerously and rope Aregbesola into some 'Islamisation' plot.

The man shunned partisanship to say he did not see any Islamisation going on. Instead he stated unequivocally that all was peaceful and that Aregbesola was busy with his core duty and delivering for the people. The PDP troublemakers like Omisore had no choice but to shut up after that because Tambuwal would not join them in 'dirty politics'. This is, by all accounts, a man who appears to want to side with what is just and equitable. In fact, Tambuwal reminds me of Ken Nnamani who is another PDP politician I like and respect.

There are other instances where Tambuwal has acted similarly when he could have joined the politics of enmity most Nigerian politicians uphold. Next time, abeg avoid quoting me if you will only make wrong assumption against what I write. You could have asked why I rate the man and I would have told you. Yet, like others here you appear to be into trying to taint others negatively.

You are the one reasoning sentimentally. Distilled to its essence: your reason for thinking Tambuwal "seems to be about development overall" is because he did not antagonize Aregbesola. Really? What puerile reasoning.

"Politics of enmity." That's rich, coming from an ACN hound dog like you.

Which reminds me of Elvis Presley's song:

You ain't nothin but a hound dog
Cryin all the time.
You ain't nothin but a hound dog
Cryin all the time.
Well, you aint never caught a rabbit
And you ain't no friend of mine.

When they said you was high classed,
Well, that was just a lie.
When they said you was high classed,
Well, that was just a lie.
You ain't never caught a rabbit
And you ain't no friend of mine.

Gbawe: Tambuwal's ideological leanings has always being with the opposition. There are no saints in Nigerian politics but I personally like Tambuwal because the guy is brave, sophisticated, silently resolute and classy. He will go to Osun and tell the truth about the good work Aregbesola is doing. Ditto for Imo, Ondo or any State with performing leaders.

Tambuwal seems to be about development overall and it will be interested to note what his role will be towards 2015. He is definitely a suave and charismatic operator.

Really? How many pro-development bills have been passed by Tambuwal's House of Representatives? In fact, how many bills have they passed since 2011? Why has the petroleum industry bill not been passed? Why have they not voted a pay cut for themselves? You 've forgotten his relationship with the disgraced Bankole?

He's not pro-development. He's one of the fat cats gaming the system for their own personal gain and ambitions.

It is amusing to note how the "evil" men of PDP suddenly become "progressive", and "pro-development" and "good" when they become perceived as one of the incumbent president's rivals.

PapaBrowne: ...If Jonathan lives by these laws, ...

If? I am often amused when critics dismiss Jonathan as "clueless". Anyone who is familiar with the 48 Laws, will recognize in GEJ a consummate practitioner of those principles. Review again Jonathan's accession to power and juxtapose those events and subsequent ones against methods espoused in Robert Greene, Sun Tzu, and Machiavelli's books...and it becomes apparent.

The president dissembles, distracts and misdirects by his actions in other to lull his opponents into a false sense of security. He can be ruthless when directly challenged as witnessed by:
1. James Ibori
2. Charles Okah

At post. There is a time and place to apply the laws. The time to not outshine the master is when you are yet to accede to power...a part that GEJ played well. Now it's time for the application of other laws:

Law 41

Avoid Stepping into a Great Man’s Shoes

What happens first always appears better and more original than what comes after. If you succeed a great man or have a famous parent, you will have to accomplish double their achievements to outshine them. Do not get lost in their shadow, or stuck in a past not of your own making: Establish your own name and identity by changing course. Slay the overbearing father, disparage his legacy, and gain power by shining in your own way.

Law 15

Crush your Enemy Totally

All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely. (Sometimes they have learned this the hard way.) If one ember is left alight, no matter how dimly it smolders, a fire will eventually break out. More is lost through stopping halfway than through total annihilation: The enemy will recover, and will seek revenge. Crush him, not only in body but in spirit.

iykofias: u'r such a fool didn't u watch d news, didn't u see gov. Akpabio, jang n co at d arena. I wish people who have trouble
communicating wouldn't tel d smart ones 2 shutup. hw old r u anyway.

Jerie: Are you related to Creek Joe? I'm asking coz your IQ levels are d same. Didn't you read in the OP's post where it was written that Ashishana Okauru counted and Uduaghan was the Returning Officer? In Akpabio's list, an absent governor even voted. Get your facts right and stop advertising your stupidity.

loswhite: ur level of dumbness is unimaginable.....smh

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aletheia: Typical! A lot of Nigerians cannot have a simple discussion without resorting to insults...and we wonder why there is so much violence in the land. What I have written is information I am privy to from an insider. A lot of what actually transpires is never what we read in the news. No need for you to develop high BP over Amaechi's matter.

I made my point without insulting anyone. Like I said, I am only passing on what I heard. Only time will tell what truly transpired at the NGF election. None of you lot pontificating or getting hot under the collar was there. But you probably need to ask yourself why 18 governors are so vehement that Amaechi was not elected. In any case let Amaechi's camp release the video of the election and thus end all this back and forth.

Larryfly: oh just shut up! nobody even the ass kissin akpabio has made such baseless and unfounded....so jus shut ur shit hole

Typical! A lot of Nigerians cannot have a simple discussion without resorting to insults...and we wonder why there is so much violence in the land. What I have written is information I am privy to from an insider. A lot of what actually transpires is never what we read in the news. No need for you to develop high BP over Amaechi's matter.

Symphony007: i am sure by 18. You mean the 18 governours that attended jangs so called meeting. Well the election was a secret ballot so no governour knew who the other voted for. Some of the governours in that jang meeting voted ameachi. But akpabio just wiped up every governour he could find to attend this meeting and create the kind of suspision that you're feeling in the mind of nigerians.

I wonder where y'all got this notion of a "secret ballot" from. What transpired was that 17 governors met in the Rivers' State Lodge, declared that they had formed a quorum and "duly elected" Amaechi as NGF chairman. The other faction was largely absent. Whatever "victory" Amaechi has gotten is Pyrrhic and leaves the NGF divided and no longer an alternative power centre to the Presidency. This probably is the objective...

mikeansy: Pardon my Geography, is Benue North or South of River Niger?

Benue State is geographically East of the Niger and South of the Benue River. Please note how close Nsukka is to Otukpo - David Mark's hometown. Thanks.