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Many people noticed
12/12/12, but did you
notice, today is 1st of Safar
1434, which makes it
1/2/34 in Islamic
Calendar..

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Valto: @op, maybe u should go and teach him how to kiss his wife of many yrs.

how much you go pay make i teach am

just this pic and decided to share it to our dear nairalanders

I can confirm that Professor Mrs Kamene Okonjo, wife of the Obi of Ogwashi-Uku, Professor Chukuka Okonjo and mother of the Coordinating Minister for the Economy/­Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was released this morning, five days after her abduction.

The Okonjo Family is full of thanks to the Almighty for this happy development. The family is also highly appreciative of the support and encouragement of President Goodluck Jonathan; the Country's security services for their excellent operations; Governors Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta, Peter Obi of Anambra, Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers and other Governors as well other friends and well wishers within and outside government for their prayers and encouragement during a very difficult period.

May God bless you all.

Paul C Nwabuikwu
Special Adviser to the Coordinating Minister

Paxchal: Nawa o. Common disagreement in verse recitation caused all this security risk that the VP had to be evacuated. Dem no even trust themselves

help ask them woo

Sambo hurriedly leaves his
daughters' wedding cremony.
The wedding fatiha of the two daughters of Vice
President Namadi Sambo started on a colourful
note yesterday in Kaduna and would have gone
down in history as memorial for the couples, their parents and well-wishers but for one sad incident:
A row between two Islamic leaders over a
particular prayer.
In the rowdiness that took the shine off the event
as the followers of the Islamic clerics engaged in a
shouting match, security details hurriedly took Sambo out of the venue of the ceremony.
Trouble started at the famous Sultan Bello Mosque,
Kaduna venue of the event when after conducting
all the formalities for a wedding fatiha, two
respected Islamic clerics, Sheik Dahiru Bauchi and
Dr. Ahmed Gumi were asked to offer a special prayer for the couples.
Sheik Dahiru Bauchi started by reciting Salatil Fati
and ends it with the same Salatil Fati according to
his belief.
When Dr. Gumi took the microphone, he said
“Malam Dahiru Bauchi ought not to recite Salatil Fati in this Sultan Bello Mosque, since we have different
views and understanding on the suplication.”
His statement stirred a row between their
followers, a development that made the guests
including the vice president to immediately rush
out to their vehicles and left the venue. In a reaction, Sheik Umaru Sanda, one of the
lieutenants of the Sheik Bauchi said they were not
happy with the conduct of Dr. Gumi and advised
him to guard against such utterances, especially in
the public.
Similarly, Sheik Yusuf Sambo Rigachikum, said the open confrontation was unnecessary, especially
when the two Islamic sects headed by Gumi and
Bauchi should have used the wedding of the VP’s
daughters to end the age-long rivalry.
The wedding fatiha was contracted amidst tight
security in and around the mosque. One of the vice president’s daughters, Huwaila
Sambo was married to Muktar Gambo Ruma, who
paid N50, 000 as bride price, while Auwal
Abdurrahman,who­ wedded Aisha Sambo paid
N250,000 and five cows, which was received by
Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, who stood as the father of the brides."

12.12.12

Nollywood star, Chinedu Ikedieze was born 12 December 1977 to the family of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ikedieze Ogbonna. He attended the Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu, where he studied Mass Communication.
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Mazi Ikedieze, our son, we are proud of you. Enjoy your day.

SHARE to rejoice with him
COMMENT to wish him hbd

After six months in detention
John Alaku Akpabu, the 39-
year-old man who was
arrested at the Radio House in
Abuja, on May 21, with a bag
containing canisters of teargas and ammunition, is back into
the warm embrace of his
family and residents of Gora in
Karshi, Nasarawa State. Akpabu was arrested by police at the gate of Radio House while a news conference was in progress at the premises with three ministers in attendance. He stopped for a search that revealed the suspicious content and subsequently held
as a suspect with intent to bomb the building which houses two ministers and government’s Capital FM station. Police interrogation led them to Gora for a house search the very next day, Tuesday, May 22. He was taken to the village
in handcuffs by heavily armed
policemen, whose presence attracted dozens of villagers watching from a safe distance how the popular young man was being handled. The police also interrogated his wife, Janet at the hovel which is home to a young family of six. When our reporter visited, not many residents could voluntee information leading to Akpabu’s residence. One resident, who had the courage to do that, had to first extract assurances that his identity must be concealed. Six months later, Daily Trust returned to Gora to find a different mood. Acting as if new to Gora, our reporter made several inquiries, and villagers were too eager to point to the direction of the house where Apkabu lives with his wife and four children. Others also volunteered to lead the way. They spoke of him like some characters in epic movie. When our reporter met with Apkabu in front of his makeshift one-room apartment, he related his experience at Radio House gate; his detention at the most
dreaded Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) and Kuje Prison in the FCT as well as his first two weeks in Gora, after the High Court in Gwagwalada had granted him bail. “It was one policeman that stopped me”, he said, giving details of how the officer later
directed him to take the items contained in his bag to any nearby police station, instead of Radio House since he claimed they belonged to his late elder brother who died in service in Bayelsa State. But he
said a second policeman argued with the first and insisted that their superior officer must hear the case. “It was at that time that private security men attached to Radio House heard of it and began calling newsmen. One of them even started briefing journalists without knowing the details,” Apkabu said. “I was then dragged into a vehicle and taken to the command headquarters where the police commissioner was waiting,” he added. Akpabu had told the police that he was heading to Capital FM, to seek air time to speak on a popular programme, “Lean on Me,” where he intended to call attention to his late brother’s unpaid entitlement. Akpabu said he and his brother’s widow and children had made several visits, seeking to speak and plead with police authorities at various places in respect of the
unpaid entitlements without success. “And I knew if I returned the items we later found among his personal effects, the police will just lock me up on charges of possession of arms. So I decided that I will use the items to call world attention to the unpaid entitlements,” he said. He said while at the command headquarters, the police screamed at him, saying God had exposed him because he wanted to humiliate them as people who don’t pay deceased officers’ entitlements. He said he was later detained at SARS. The next day, according to the suspect, he was taken to Gora, where the whole village appeared to have been waiting. “Crowds followed from a distance, and watched as I was dragged in handcuffs. I felt like entering the ground.” “My worse moment was when I met my wife and children. They were all weeping. I began to weep too,” he said. He said he was returned to SARS for detention which lasted one month before his arraignment at Gwagwalada. But that was the last day the police prosecutor showed up in court, according to Akpabu. He said he was remanded in Kuje Prison for three months and appeared in court two more times. The bail application from his lawyer succeeded during the third appearance, but paper work dragged the process to about two weeks before he finally let off the hook. “On that day, my younger brother picked me up at the prison and drove me straight to a restaurant where I ate food.” He said both him and his brother headed to SARS where he hoped to retrieve his personal belongings including his hand held, ATM card and money. “But policemen there said they haven’t finished prosecuting the case; so they won’t return my personal items. They began shooting in the air to scare me. So we left.” And then he reached Gora at dusk into the warm embrace of his family. “My children slept in my arms that night for the first time in six months. I can’t forget that day.” But he said neighbours tiptoed into his apartment that night, cautious of being implicated in the widely reported case. “By daybreak, the whole village was heading towards my house…but only a few had the courage to come closer. It took over two weeks for them to freely visit,” he said. Akpabu, a trained scar folder now faces another ordeal. “I used to go out and look for jobs, but anywhere I appear now, I answer more questions relating to my ordeal than the job I am looking for.” He said he had two job offers since he left prison; one from a
foreign firm, and another from a female lawyer. “I sat for interview at the firm for a job on their construction site, but the job never came after a security check which revealed my identities as the Radio House guy. The female lawyer even threatened to sue me if I continue to call her line”, he said. Village head of Sarkin Angwan Kalara Gora, Chief Baba Gaza, spoke to Daily Trust, saying “we are happy, and we thank God that his ordeal did not lead to any bad thing. I pray he will get out of
it if he is innocent.”

path427: PS ,
how can one get into this agency .
is one aloud to go there office if u know the office?
Will like to here 4rm u all.

no its allowed but the office is in asokoro hilltop close to dan tata constraction comony

1. Govt Kidnappers
(This one is often used by the
govt of the day to divert
attention) 2. Opposition Party
Kidnappers (A tactics to gain sympathy) 3. Kidnapping for
the money (When you have
no job, you do anything you
see. Criminals use this as well
as greedy people) 4.
Kidnapping for the lesson (If someone wants to teach you a
lesson they come after you or
your people. Govt also use this
tact)am i right lets discuss it

the great man ojukwu always in the news to stop us from knowing more of the bokos while we are here fumming about sum1 family,will this make the kidnappers release mama ngozie?

i wnt say 1st to commt but make we leave baba iyabo AREMU OBASANJO rest now!who told them to give him the role firstly!them think ghana na nigeria wey ppl dnt knw dia right?

it luks gud!just waiting for it to reach frnt page!

1st to commnt rochas is working woo!this is what i call do More talk less!!!how i wish all Govs can be lyk him!

second at last blood on their hands wonder if nigerians can kil themslf because of disappiontment it wil be sumtin i cant say

The Pope is taking a leap of faith
into cyberspace, and now we
know where to find him. The Vatican announced earlier
this month that 85-year-old
Pope Benedict XVI would open
a Twitter account where he
would share spiritual messages
to a new generation of followers. A Monday press conference revealed the Pope's twitter handle will be @pontifex and he'll post his first official tweet
on Dec. 12. But he isn't likely to post what
he ate for breakfast or retweet
your celebrity gossip. According to the Vatican, It's an
attempt to reach a broader
audience with religious
messages, "to try and share the
Good News of Christ with those
seeking answers to life's key questions on their computers,
iPads, tablets or smartphones."And so it seems the most
powerful religious leader in the
world is joining forces with one
of its most powerful platforms
for news, arguments, and over-
sharing. The Pope will send the first
Tweet himself but afterward
staff will take over the typing. "Although Benedict himself
won't be worrying about the
technicalities and won't be seen
regularly checking his account,
he will be selecting the
messages to tweet," the release says. Tweets will be in eight
languages to start, with plans
to add more in the future. The Vatican reportedly considered using the handle @ BenedictusPPXVI but ultimately
it settled on the simpler term,
which means 'pope' and 'bridge
builder,' according to Greg
Burke, senior media advisor to
the Vatican. The account has nearly 200,000
followers, even though it hasn't
tweeted anything yet. A flurry
of tweets directed at @ pontifex has already begun, not all of which are friendly. Some
users poked lighthearted fun at
the Pope's hat, while others criticized the church's ideas and
referenced abuse.
High security measures are in
place to ensure the official
account isn't hacked. The
Twitter company worked with
the Vatican to create the
account, and tweets will only be sent from one computer. Of course, the pontiff tweeted once before to worldwide amusement when he launched
the Vatican news website www.news.va , writing "Dear friends, I just launched
News.va. Praised be our Lord
Jesus Christ! With my prayers
and blessings, Benedictus XVI." The public can send questions to
the Pope via Twitter using the
hashtag #askpontifex. Cheeky questions are already
circulating, such as The Guardian's query: "Will I get excommunicated if I block you
on Twitter??

Common sense tells us that
there are few things less
appetizing than a pile of feces.
So why in the world is a toilet-
themed restaurant that serves
dishes with names such as "green dysentery" and
"diarrhea with dried droppings"
so popular that it has expanded
to 12 different locations?
That's right, bathroom-themed
restaurant chain Modern Toilet first opened in Taiwan in 2004
and has since expanded to
include 12 locations in Hong
Kong, China and Japan with
plans to open in Malaysia, reports BuzzFeed. But don't get grossed out just
yet — there is no actual feces on
the menus, just a lot of items
that sound like something that
belongs in a toilet. At Modern Toilet, the emphasis
is really on the décor. Diners sit
on toilet shaped-seats (with the
lids raised) and are served meals
like hot pots and curries in
smaller toilet bowl-shaped dishes.
The tables are made of bathtubs
with glass tops, and drinks
come in urinal-shaped
receptacles. Even dessert comes
in a little toilet, and the
chocolate ice cream is appropriately swirled to look
like — you guessed it — poo. Would you eat at Modern
Toilet? If the answer is no,
there are still heaps of other
extreme themed restaurants to
jazz up the eating experience. At Hajime Restaurant in Thailand, googly-eyed robots
deliver items and dance, while
at Hospitalis restaurant in Latvia, the restaurant serves
drinks in test tubes and feeds
diners with surgical tools.

10. Buy shoe protectors,
replace as the need arises.
9. In relation to number 10,
carry an extra pair of foot wear (preferably slippers) in
your bag (men inclusive). That
bag should also carry the
following: a small umbrella,
water bottle and small chops
to go. 8. Wear casual clothes to work,
change into your official
clothes at work, then change
back to the casual clothes for
the journey back home. You
don’t want to look too official while trekking.
7. For the ladies, this is the time
to smile from ear to earwith
that ugly male colleague who
drives a car and lives near your
residence. 6. For the guys, buy a car
before your girlfriend’s
colleague starts to take her
home.
5. Save the money for your
gym membership, you are getting enough exercise
already.
4. Start trekking groups in
your office, class, church,
mosque etc. After all it is said
that a trek trekked with companion is no trek at all.
3. Learn how to entertain
yourself in your own space.
Stock up on game consoles,
books, magazines, movies etc.
Pay that DSTV subscription too. 2. As the crime rate increases
due to the okada ban, buy a
gun.
1. If none of the above works,
pack go your village and fulfill
Fashola’s innate dream for Lagos state.

A married lady was goin into a
hotel wiv her boifrnd wen she
jam her husband comin out of
dah hotel wiv his galfrnd. On
sightn d husband, d lady
immediately said "I don catch u today, thanks God I brought
a witnez" the man looked @
her then turned to his galfrnd
nd said, sister mercy u see wah
I've told u. If we hd left earlier
we won't hv caught her here", now d big question is who
catches who?

BREAKING NEWS!!!
Chelsea FC have confirmed MR
BEAN as there new Manager....

this picture was taken in abuja six months ago by ice prince the other guy there is jude okoye of p square it was just taking after watching the video life of illuminati by them its noting more than a publicity stunt if you understand

Overwhelming majority of UN member states okay resolution to upgrade Palestinian Authority's status; 138 countries vote in favor, 41 abstain and nine oppose
The General Assembly on Thursday approved a resolution granting Palestine non-member observer state at the United Nations. As many as 138 countries vote in favor of the bid; 41 abstained and nine voted against it. Earlier, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on the Assembly "to issue a birth certificate of the reality of the State of Palestine
Greeted with thunderous applause, he said that Palestine has come to the UN because it believes in peace. Abbas opened his speech by commenting on Operation Pillar of Defense and denouncing Israel for killing many Palestinians and causing great damage to infrastructure in Gaza.
Referring to the "Nakba" events of 1948, he claimed that Israel committed modern ethnic cleansing. The Palestinian president also rebuked Israel for failing to "save the peace process" and came out against military strikes and settler attacks. He accused Israel of colonizing Palestine and continuing its aggression
Abbas claimed that the Palestinians did not come to the UN to de-legitimize "a country created here many years ago" or to further complicate the peace process, but to launch a last ditch attempt for peace. He said that the Palestinians will not accept anything less than an independent state with east Jerusalem as its capital on all territories occupied in 1967 and a solution to the refugee issue After the bid is approved, the UN will effectively recognize Palestine as a state but it will not be a UN member. Membership is granted only by the Security Council, where the US has veto power. Nevertheless, the move opens the door for the PA to file suits against Israel in the International Court of Justice. Palestinians have been celebrating across the West Bank and the Gaza Strip from noon.

There is tension in Niger
Republic over alleged
preference given to Nigerian
oil marketers in lifting of
refined petroleum products
from the French-speaking West African country’s new
refinery, Daily Trust
investigations show. Chinese
company Soraz operates the
refinery which was
commissioned a year ago in Zinder less than 100 kilometers
north of the border with
Nigeria. A liter of petrol sells officially for more than N200 in the country and the people say prices are too high compared with neigbhouring countries. Nigeriens, including civil society groups, politicians and public sector workers, allege that undue favour is being given to Nigerian companies at the expense of indigenous oil marketers who pay higher to lift products. They named AFDIN Petroleum, A. A. Rano Nigeria Limited, Oando Plc and Dangote among the five Nigerian oil firms enjoying “favour” from the Niger government. A Malian and a Burkinabe firm also enjoy such favours, they said. But some of the affected Nigerian firms said no preferential treatment was being given to them, and that they were invited by Niger authorities to invest as well as buy the surplus from the 20,000 barrels of oil refined daily. Niger’s businessmen also alleged that the loading arrangement favours Nigerian marketers whose tankers lift directly from the refinery without delays, while indigenous marketers go through the state-run company SONIDEF and end up spending up to 40 days before lifting. But authorities in Niger dismissed these claims, saying every oil marketer buys directly from SONIDEF and not from the Soraz refinery. Our correspondent, who visited SONIDEF’s main oil depot at Jagindi area of Zinder, saw hundreds of oil tankers from Nigeria parked waiting to lift oil. But locals said many indigenous oil firms get their supplies from the “favoured” Nigerian marketers as they could not secure licenses to lift oil. It was further learnt that roadside fuel sellers in Niger’s towns smuggle the product from Daura in Nigeria or get it from Maradi (in Niger) from authorized Nigerian oil marketers after lifting from Zinder. People also allege secrecy in the way the country’s oil business is run a year after the refinery was commissioned. ‘Importing corruption’ Abubakar Muhammadu Dandubai, national chairman of NPPAD, a civil society group
based in Niger, accused the Muhammadou Yusouf-led government of selling Niger oil to Nigerian marketers at a give-away price. Dandubai, who was detained for eight days in Zinder prison last year for leading a protest over high petrol prices, said, “It is unfair for the Nigerien authorities to leave Niger’s oil sector in the hands of Nigerians.” “We are not against Nigerians coming to buy fuel or do business with our people but let there be a lasting arrangement that both parties can benefit without anyone complaining. Our government should be as transparent as possible and also carry our indigenous oil firms along while our brothers from Nigeria should not destroy the system through corruption,” he added. He insisted that fuel price in the country must be reduced in the interest of the common man, describing as unacceptable an argument that since the country does not need much fuel then the price should remain as it is. Muhamman Sadat Iliya Danmalam, chairman of Zinder branch of MPCR, another civil society group, expressed regret that Nigeriens are still wallowing in poverty despite the country’s oil revenue simply because of government’s “myopic thinking” that it is not everybody using fuel in the country. Danmalam, a teacher, said nobody can tell you the price at which the fuel is being sold to Nigerian marketers. “It is a common belief even in government circle that the price at which the fuel is sold to outsiders is far below the one sold to our indigenous marketers; and this is very unfair to our people,” he said. He said fuel is very expensive at petrol stations and so motorists prefer to buy it from the roadsides as it is cheaper. Vice chairman of Damagaram region Habibu Yusouf said when the refinery was commissioned last year every Nigerien was hopeful of good future but today one year after its commissioning nothing tangible has changed in the life of an ordinary Nigerien. He said there is no transparency in the sale of fuel because the commodity is sold to outsiders at a give- away rate, expressing regret that petrol sells for nearly N250 per liter in Niger. Roadside fuel, according to him, is cheaper by N20 to N25 per liter. He said Niger’s marketers go to Daura in Nigeria and Maradi to buy fuel from Nigerian oil marketers who get it cheaper from Niger’s refinery. ‘No preferential treatment’ Niger’s deputy minister of petroleum Muhammadou Lawaly Gaya denied giving preferential treatment to Nigerian oil marketers, saying the business is open to all. Gaya said Nigerians were allowed into the oil business because they have experience for well over 50 years, saying the country refines 20,000 barrels of crude oil daily but needs only 7,000 and the surplus has to be sold to their neighbours, especially Nigeria. The deputy minister denied claims that Nigerian marketers
get their products directly from Soraz, saying every marketer whether indigenous or foreign gets his fuel from SONIDEF, the Niger national company. He urged Nigeriens to exercise patience as government plans to reduce the fuel price early next year. The Nigerian oil firms lifting oil
from Niger denied dominating the country’s oil sector because of preferential treatment. Alhaji Ibrahim Dahiru, media consultant to AFDIN Petroleum, said AFDIN has been in the oil business for many years and it was granted approval to lift oil from Niger because it has more than 500 oil trucks, adding that Nigerian marketers will not do anything harmful to Niger. Chairman of A. A. Rano Nigeria Limited, Alhaji Auwalu Abubakar Rano, said he went into Niger oil business
at the invitation of Niger authorities who he said were in Nigeria three times to seek for investors. Rano, who said he only lifts diesel from Niger, described as “highly transparent” the business transaction between marketers from Nigeria and Niger’s oil company. He added that Nigeriens should thank Nigerian investors for boosting their oil business rather than castigating them. Public affairs department of Dangote Group denied that they lift diesel from Niger, saying all the diesel they use for their factories is sourced in Nigeria. Oando’s Group Corporate Communications Department did not respond to inquiries

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prize of what say it now

1. Who brought X'tian to
Africa
2. Why was X'tian brought to
Africa
3. Who told Africans about
Jesus 4. When was the bible written
5. Where was the bible written
6. How was the bible written 7. If bible was written 600yrs
after Christ, who brought the
idea to write Bible up? Who
Typed it and who took them
to printers? In the process
how many corrections were made and who authorised the
final edit? 8. God obviously didn't speak
to all the authors of the bible
at the same day and time to
write the bible. So who did? 9. Who collected the books
making up the bible from
authors and why did the
person choose those books? 10. Did someone miss out on
other books or they simply
took the ones they want to
add? 11. Why don't African
Christians have answers
outside the Bible when asked
about Christianity? Is it
because they don't know any
other thing to say about the foreign religion? 12. Why didn't the promoters
of Christianity succeed in the
Arab world? 13. Why is it that everything
the promoters of the bible told
Africans not to do, is what
they are doing? Gay, science,
racism, question the bible, etc. 14. Is it true that Africa is
200yrs behind? And they
know we will never be able to
question these things? So they
inserted it in the bible that you
shouldn't question them? 15. Before Jesus was
introduced 2100yrs ago there
was life in Africa, why are all
black men in the Bible Slaves?
None was king or rich?

aboki by ice prince it really rocks

[quote author=Mynd_44]If anyone of you can find proof that this happened, that person's next internet bill is on me.[/quote]dont worry we have the video