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[size=14pt]Spain denies Ondo govt officials visas[/size]
News Sunday, November 28, 2010


By Dayo Johnson

AKURE-ONDO State Government yesterday expressed dismay over the refusal of entry Visas to Madrid by the Spanish Embassy in Nigeria to its officials.





http://odili.net/news/source/2010/nov/28/302.html

Some government officials of the State Government were expected to accompany an 11-year old winner of the 2009 MARE International Mountain Climbing Expedition, Master Akinwunmi Sunday Edward to Spain.

Those billed to travel with the boy included the State Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Mr Tola Wewe, Chief Press Secretary to Ondo State Governor, Mr. Olabisi Kolawole Edwards, Chairman, Idanre Local Government Area, Mr. Sunday Taiwo Ayodele.

In requesting for the entry Visas for the boy and those who were to accompany him, the State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko had directed the Secretary to the State Government, Dr Aderotimi Adelola, to write to the Consular General of the Spanish Embassy intimating him with the intention for the trip.

A statement by Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Kolawole Olabisi said this was to enable the State Government to redeem its pledge to sponsor Akinwunmi to a country where there is mountain climbing.

The team had on November 10, gone to the Embassy and submitted their papers, paid all the required fees and were asked to come back on Tuesday, November 23, only to be refused entry visas.

The Information Commissioner Ranti Akerele in Akure regretted the development, insisting that the refusal of the request for entry permit was a rude shock and a setback for "2010 MARE Expedition".

According to him, this was despite the media blight already given to the intended trip of the Young lad to Spain.

This, he noted, had been widely reported by both the Electronics and Print Media world wide and after following due process, the Spanish Consular could refuse them entry visas on the flimsy excuse that they may not be returning back to Nigeria and that they appear not to have sufficient means of subsistence if allowed to enter Madrid, their destination in Spain.

"In our opinion, this is a mundane, lame, absurd and laughable excuse adduced by the Spanish Embassy that officials of a State Government who, the State had expressly stated in its letter that it would be sponsoring would either bolt away or have no means of sponsoring their trip!

"Again, it is an affront to aver that these State officials who have subsisting and valid Visas to other very advanced nations and who have equally travelled to several countries and have returned home would now abscond in Madrid!

This, is no doubt, unacceptable and definitely not a nice way to carry out bilateral relation between two sovereign nations and we take serious exceptions to this. We are hoping the Consular General of Spain in Nigeria would make amends for this error of judgment made by his officials as we want to believe that he was not aware of this slight of sort on the integrity of Ondo State and by extension, our great nation, Nigeria in the interest of our two nations and in conformity with our fundamental human rights as expressly stated and sanctions by several statutes internationally,

That's why it is voodoo. The voodoo froze the blood in his carotid arteries.

fstranger:
Heh Omo Ibo
what is your own with ma life

I wasnt talkING to you, I was talking to ma sister iice
Take time oooooo

Shouldnt you be selling spare parts somewhere in Lagos?
Why the phucc are you on NL.   .   .  Now run to alaba and go get me some badly needed spare parts

You want to know what time I will be leaving the house so that your alaye behind can ask me for N20?.

Not too expensive if you have the cash joor. Omotola buys $1k handkerchiefs anytime she comes to Maryland.

fstranger:
upload your nyansh make i see
please

Why not first of all upload the whole version of your stupidity & idiocy instead of uploading them bit by bit  make I  laugh small please.

iice:
[color=#9900ff]Do they?
I must be rolling with the right set of men if they can notice other things right off the bat beside nyansh and bosoms [/color]

May be you are not very good in monitoring their eye movement. Some men have mastered that art to the point of checking them out way before you come 25 yards closer to them. Which kin leg dem dey check out?. Do you hang with only pastors or what?

iice:
[color=#9900ff]@Topic
They notice eyes, shape, legs and feet.[/color]

Pleeze, they notice your boooobs first.

rokiatu:
Mr Emeka, calm down. The beauty of the butt lies in the eyes of the beholder

Okay oooo

rokiatu:
lol maybe the jeans reduced it. Sometime jeans make people butt look smaller then it really is.

Even Beyonce butt look smaller in jeans

Unless there is something wrong with my eyes because no matter how jeans can cover your butt or how much a picture is resized and reshaped, the butt in that picture is not big enough to qualify people following her around and shouting waaaaow. Check out the size o her legs, it does not have the structure to carry a monster butt. I am not saying that her butt is not big but she is blowing it off the radar. may be sha, she lives in Rome where all the women have flat behinds because that her behind is normal size in NY.

MzDarkSkin:
similar to ms. eve's response. they tell me so i do not have to wonder. I walk pass men, they see my behind and all i hear is "Gaddamn!" "Yo! you see that?" or "girl how you get in them jeans?"

BOTTOM LINE: s3x.

Let's face it, women have so much competition amongst ourselves it is naturally there are some self esteem issues for most of us or atleast something we wish to change, since i was a young girl i wanted a butt reduction. I didnt care if white girls were buying padded jeans, i felt and sometimes still do due to the reactions i get, a bit self conscience when guys react to my behind. it makes me wish at times it wasnt there. but all of my guy friends say "oh girl you just fine! you are trippin? you know (insert wise guys advice that is sexual in nature  )?" so. . .what ever. lol. i mean i admire myself in the mirror from time to time [size=5pt]at times in the unclothed[/size] and i am happy with what i see but then as soon as i hit the road, some jack arse says some nasty ish and its back to square one. some times i feel like men AND women are staring at my backside so i wrap my sweater around my waist  or walk swiftly lol.

Is that not you in the profile picture?. That backside is not big to me o. The way you described it made it look like your is ikebe super.

What Men Really Notice When They Look at You


When men look in the mirror, they flex and wink at themselves. Women, on the other hand, mutter aloud about last night's carbs. Aaron Traister has an urgent plea: Relax! To that guy at the other sink, you're a total babe.

http://lifestyle.msn.com/relationships/article.aspx?cp-documentid=26199866&GT1=32023

footreja:
@ Aloyemeka, Are you sure that was what the husband did? Because Islam does not forbid a man, marrying second wife oooo . 

Yes am sure.

Uzzyan:
truth be said, its too xpensive!!! No hard feelings!!

That's because you are poor. Eva Longoria's wedding dress cost over $100k and she wore it for only 1hr.

aysometin:
I definitely will, ,makes no sense

What if the hypothetical man is Dangote?

deols:
I doubt that. 150k is over 22.5 million naira. thats no chicken change nd i bet not many nigerians wld pay that 4 ds kinda dress. d designer'd be losing a great deal if xpectn this to be a business strategy

So you are telling methat if your husband of boyfriend buy you this dress as birthday present, you will reject it because of the amount he paid for it?.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=558814.msg7235544#msg7235544 date=1290982455]So this is what they do with state money ?[/quote]Is that not better than giving it to strippers?

fstranger:
What a childish way to reason!
I pity your wife and children, hope they are not as stupi.d as you are

Your parents must be ashamed of you.
IS THIS ALL YOU CAN COME UP WITH? *SMH*

GBAM GBAM.

violent:
bla bla bla bla

not a single name!

May be na your girlfriend dupe Alao Akala.

deols:
and she wont evn b able to wear it over nd over again now dat evry1's seen it on her. like i said, if she's able to afford more nd more of it, no qualms. but what about the poor pple in hr village

What if it was given to her by the designer for free so she can help market the dress?. Many Nigerian rich  ladies will love and pay $150k or N18M for it, you know. People buy $2M worth of wedding gown even though they won't wear it again after their wedding day.

deols:
i wonder if there'r no poor people in her village.

its her money sha 

How is that her problem?. Plz vote for the dress.

[size=14pt]Female Bank Manager Dupes Lover-governor N2bn[/size]
•Runs Away With Husband


A female bank manager of a new generation bank with a branch situated in Osogbo, Osun State capital and her husband have dialogued with their feet, having successfully swindled one of the governors in the South-West geopolitical zone who is still contending with dispute over the election that brought him to the office to the tune of two billion naira.


According to a reliable source in the said bank, the way and manner the former female bank manager whose intimacy with the governor-turned-victim, turned in her resignation letter suggested that there was something beyond ordinary about the scenario.

Another source amongst senior members of staff of the bank hinted that the former bank branch Manager was not under any job threat or conflict with the management of the bank at the headquarters, noting the branch was still getting commendation under the leadership of the ex-bank manager.
However, OSUN DEFENDER has stumbled on a scoop which painted the graphical account of the situation that might have plausibly led to the sudden resignation of the woman from her plum job.


It was gathered that the ex-banker had a close relationship with the duped and embattled governor, a situation that made her to wield a great influence on the governor to the extent that she was undertaking money laundering on his behalf.
Investigation further revealed that the cordiality between the duo of the governor and the ex-banker dated back to 90’s, when the latter was just a marketer in the bank.

Checks have shown that the ex-banker reportedly wielded her influence to install her husband as a local government council caretaker chairman in one of the councils in the affected state sometime ago. Whilst she allegedly secured another multimillion naira contract for her husband as a state project reportedly meant for an international market.
It was gathered that the governor again saddled the ex-banker with the responsibility of laundering N2 billion for him, a foreign exchange deal, but the banker did not wait for another opportunity before she threw in the towel and fled the shores of Nigeria together with her husband who had got 80 per cent of the mobilization fee for the state project where he had refused to execute the contract.

According to a source close to the governor, the ex-banker has added insult to the injury of her victim, for the governor’s fate at the court as touching the election that brought him to the office is still hanging in the balance.

The source said that the governor was jolted by the development, noting that he is still nursing ill-feeling towards the woman, on the premise that he had done a lot for the woman and her family, but has kept his next plan to his chest.
By Kazeem Mohammed

http://www.osundefender.org/?p=10502

Guy with half a head















https://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/nov2010/7/2/carlos-rodriguez-pic-miami-dade-county-police-handout-531806970.jpg



How is this possible? 25 year old Carlos Rodriguez had half his skull removed after an accident. The police got this mug shot of him after arresting him for hiring a prostitute.

How a man can survive with half his skull gone is beyond me, I guess God works in the most amazing, mysterious ways,


http://lindaikeji..com/2010/11/guy-with-half-head.html#links

[size=18pt]PLZ VOTE[/size]

Sunday, November 28, 2010
[size=14pt]Omowunmi Akinnifesi's $150, 000 Dany Atrache diamond studded dress[/size]

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This is what Ex beauty queen Omowunmi Akinnifesi wore to Nigeria's Next Super Model contest on Friday. A dress by French/Lebanese designer, Dany Atrache, valued at $150, 000. Dany Atrache was one of the designers who showcased at the modeling contest on Friday at Eko Hotel, his first visit to Africa.
The only thing more beautiful than Omowunmi's dress is Omowunmi's face.
Lovely!

http://lindaikeji..com/2010/11/omowunmi-akinnifesis-150-000-dany.html

seyibrown:
'Freedom of Religion' is constitutional but 'Freedom to incite some people to embark on religious disturbance' is not.  Do you want to read the news article you posted again?

Prevention of 'religious disturbance' is better than its cure as we know that 'religious disturbance' usually costs lives in Nigeria! It's never a 'PEACEFUL RALLY'!

Who was inciting who?. Don't Christians preach their gospel openly?. Is it right to arrest them because they are inciting others to accept Christ?. The police neither found any weapons with them nor can they prove that they are planning a jihad apart from the usual suspicion. This is bullying in my opinion.

One heart and one soul. So both religions can manage to live in peace?.

Osama10:
We are very silly in this country, don't we do verification of documents before we elect our governors, presidents and the rest of them?

There is a limit to verification. You wouldn't go about verifying WAEC result for someone who has a JD or LLB.

They were arrested because they are muslims period. What of Christians ib the South who form confraternities in our various tertiary institutions? Have they all been arrested?. This is an infringement on their right period. Whatever you suspect they are about to do may be true or false. You don't arrest people on mere insinuation.

[quote author=igochopur$ link=topic=558463.msg7231202#msg7231202 date=1290916886]shut up. Go to America and ask how many people are in jail for being Muslims. Shut up. Where were you when these people were causing trouble? So, its payback time now and to curb their excesses, its now blame on GEJ. If they gang up and kill again, you will blame the same Jonathan for not acting enough,.[/quote]You can shut me up 200 times but the truth remains that the Nigerian constitution stipulates that every citizen must have freedom of religion.

[size=14pt]Molara’s Jollof Beans[/size]


I’ve read that the word Jollof is another way of saying Wollof or Wolof; one of the languages spoken in Gambia and Senegal and a minute part of Mauritania, or that it originally stood for a combined dish of rice and fish also called Benachin or Ceebu Jen.


If I were asked what Jollof means, I would disrespectfully propose that it means “Enjoyment!” Isn’t that one of its most recent casual meanings? The other is formed from adding the word rice, both words standing for a famous ubiquitous red-faced rice dish served at most social Nigerian events and sold at most fast food joints. The only similarity with the original Wolof version is that it is cooked slowly in a suspension containing tomatoes, tomato paste, onions and hot peppers.



The Wolof version is grander, and more elaborate, cooked with spices and different kinds of meat. I would hate to say that many Nigerian jollof rices are pretenders. I have also tasted many delicious versions, the best in taste for me always cooked outside over firewood.
I was thrilled when I went to visit my brother and his family some years ago and my lovely sister in law, who I’m not flattering but is really really lovely in that salt of the earth fashion cooked something called Jollof Beans. I was immediately enthralled.
The word Jollof is already so gastronomically familiar that putting it in front of beans just made all my salivary glands go into overdrive. I love the facts that the recipe is like a family heirloom taught to Lara by her mother who was taught it by her own aunt 45 years ago. If I were Lara, I would never give away such a recipe without making the asker beg and grovel for it.


The first premise is of course beans, light brown small glossy black-eyed beans that the Yoruba call ewa oloyin (honey beans) because they say it has a superior sweetish accent to it, and it cooks quickly. If one can’t

buy the oloyin, the next in preference is “olo 1” which is the first of three grades in darker brown-eyed beans. Then there is olo2 and olo 3. Lara’s preference is olo 2.
There is also a trendy unclassified grade not quite white yet not quite brown from Kano, and not even available in Oyingbo, Iddo, Ikotun or Mile 12 markets, only in Abuja. I myself had no clue that beans had grades until a friend of the family called Ime Mukolu, who “knows her beans” gave me a summary on the complex fascinating, mind taxing negotiation of grades of Nigerian beans.
The beans are picked for stones, soaked for some minutes, the skin of the beans washed off as if one is making moin moin or akara. The beans are placed in a pot with just enough water to cover the top of the beans. The beans are cooked over medium heat until soft. Thereafter, blended peppers tomatoes and onions, (or just ground dried pepper) diced onions, a little tinned tomato, fresh shrimp and pieces of smoked Titus fish, stock, a little vegetable oil, and salt are added. All the ingredients are mixed together well and returned to the hob for about ten minutes. The end product should not be watery or thick. Total cooking time is about thirty-five minutes.
Lara lists Maggi as one of her ingredients, but I don’t see why homemade stock added as part of the water allowance at the beginning of cooking the beans and then again when all the other ingredients are added to the beans won’t do significantly better than Maggi.
When she gave me the recipe, I remembered an old forgotten passion for smoked Titus fish bought from the market wrapped in greasy old newsprint, the smell so gorgeous that the fish never quite makes it home to where it was intended for cooking vegetable soup. I would of course always give myself a roaring stomach ache since the handling of the smoked fish in the market is never quite as hygienic as one would like and the application of heat when one reaches the house is necessary to make it safe for consumption.



I must make a last reference to onions and their textural magical touch to food. It was Aunty Thelma who gave me an old hand secret about finely chopping or blending onions and how making a decision for either determines whether the stew or soup to which they are added is velvety or just plain smooth. One would imagine that blended onions give a velvety texture, but it is actually the finely chopped onions that melt down into a glossy velvety soup. I’m still trying to figure out the chemistry behind that.
So there is Molara’s understated but very successful Jollof beans with beautiful melted down onions, the dazzling smell of smoked Titus fish and the extravagance of fresh shrimp, eaten with dodo or soft bread rolls, thats Lara’s suggestion. I would eat it with a confident sprinkling of Ijebu Gari.

http://news2.onlinenigeria.com/news/general/75301-Molaras-Jollof-Beans.html