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Chai! there is God o.

The tyranny of the lifeless one will not stand. #BackToDaura2019. #SayNoToLifelesness

#SayNoToLifelesness #BackToDaura2019

He was threatening to remove Saraki and now he is the one about to be removed. Hand don catch monkey.

It is Fez cap NOT Face cap.

The Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) says none of its members was involved in an auto crash over the weekend in Benin City.
The union described as false and mischievous speculations that some of its members were involved in a road accident.
This is contained in a statement signed by JOHESU’s National Secretary, Florence Ekpebor, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja.
The statement identified those involved in the accident as “outsourced staff working as cleaners in University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH).”
It stated that most of the victims were from companies belonging to the Chief Medical Director of UBTH and Managing Directors of Federal Government owned hospitals.
The statement further described the rumour as a cheap blackmail by medical doctors for cheap publicity and propaganda.
“We want to draw the attention of our members across the country that no JOHESU member was involved in the road traffic accident that occurred in Benin, Edo State.
“However, our hearts go to the victims of the road crash as we join in wishing them a quick recovery.
“We also advise NMA to respect life by desisting from propaganda that disrespects the sanctity of man, for the purposes of recruiting public sympathy especially through falsehood and rumours,” it said.
The union also described the purported court injunction ordering JOHESU to stop its on-going strike by some publications as rumour.
Meanwhile, the union said it was not unaware of the alleged machination and propaganda by the Federal Ministry of Health and the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) that were bent on thwarting the on-going nationwide action.
“JOHESU leadership feels and empathises with members of the public on the pains they are going through.
“However, we want to inform the general public that if it is true that there is court order to stop the strike, we are not aware neither has JOHESU been served with any court processes or order to stop the on-going nationwide strike.
“This is just a figment of the imagination of mischief makers, busy bodies and interlopers.
“Members of JOHESU do not live in the moon; they are Nigerians who have a sacred duty to provide health services to the sick and the wounded.
“Therefore, they also have mothers, fathers, friends, sons, daughters, cousins, among others, who require medical services at this point in time, but the ugly situation brought about by the insensitivity of the Ministry of Health for fairness in the health sector has brought us to this ugly situation,’’ the statement read in part.
It specifically noted that the union after several meetings had collapsed was left with no choice but to continue with its demands for a better health system where efficiency, manpower development, fairness and better remuneration would be the corner stone of the health system.
JOHESU appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to order the Ministers of Labour and Health to do the needful by bringing these unwanted circumstances to an end through the implementation of signed agreements and MoU between the federal government and the union.
“The leadership of JOHESU therefore insists that no amount of intimidation, arm-twisting and harassment will cow us from pursuing our constitutional and fundamental rights to protest and strike.
“Therefore, our members across the federation have been advised to stand firm and fight for the good of our country.
“The Ministry of Health should be reminded that all over the world no mistreated worker can put in his best,” it stated.
The union however assured the federal government of its determination and desires of members to support this administration for better healthcare services to all Nigerians.
(NAN)

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/269273-benin-accident-victims-not-johesu-members-official.html

That is a very lazy defence of the so called president of Nigeria.

Go to YouTube, search and watch Android working with fragments tutorials.

Who dey use glo?

Cool

Fake news. Do you know what $50 billion is?

Yes, Federal Fulani Republic of Nigeria

The Arewa youths are even more pro Biafran. They want it to happen this October

They will soon add Sambisa as part of Biafra

The man who blew vuvuzela instead of whistle on his colleagues

Given what those students went through just to get registered when digital registration is supposed to be easier, the JAMB management is as fraudulent as those poor students.

That is the same state that got the lion's share of the DSS recruitment. In Nigeria mediocrity and incompetence is power.

This is the most stupid claim of the year.

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It's International Left-Handers Day, so it's time to give left-handers some overdue appreciation.
There was once a time (a long time ago), when people believed that being left-handed meant a person was more prone to "dealings with the devil" and that the trait should be corrected, according to the New York Times. Thankfully, the prejudice is gone, but people are still curious—why do some kids grow up left-handed versus right-handed?
Numbers suggest that about 90% of people are right-handed, and 10% use their left hand predominantly. Notable left-handers include President Barack Obama, Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey. Some researchers believe that being left-handed is at least partially related to genetics, though it's likely not the full story.
One 2013 study, published in the journal PLOS Genetics, identified genes and gene mutations that can influence the development of "left-right asymmetry in the body and brain," Smithsonian.com reports. It's possible that some of these genes are related to handedness. But some experts say they think genetics is responsible only 25% of the time, and that handedness may be pretty random. As the Atlantic reports, some researchers believe that being left-handed may be a trait that has continued through time because it gives some people an advantage during fighting.
While experts are still sorting out the reasons, scientists have shown that there doesn't appear to by any differences between right and left-handed people when it comes to personality traits like extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotionality and openness to experience.While there are advantages to being left-handed, especially when it comes to sports, there's also the disadvantages (like getting elbowed during dinner). So make sure that left-handed person in your life is having a happy holiday.

©TIME.COM

Cwarrect

Ali Modu Sheriff will now own the "Primitive PDP"

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By Brent Meersman
Government's proposals to clampdown on immigration and a recent disgraceful xenophobic march against African and Asian nationals living in South Africa reveals a society from top to bottom, across the political spectrum, confused and at odds with the values embraced by its Constitution.
The morning of the xenophobic march, a caller into a radio show of the national public broadcaster said, "It's not the Pakistanis and the Somalis, but the Nigerians who are the criminals." Such absurd views and national stereotyping are not new. The radio presenter dutifully read out deeply prejudiced SMSs, which listeners had sent in, without any comment on their stupidity.
Outrageous notions persist with depressing frequency: the Somalis cheat local businesses, the Zimbabweans steal jobs, the Chinese are smugglers, the Indians are crooks, the Nigerians are scammers, and local South Africans are dead beats, who prefer to live on social grants rather than lift a finger to help themselves.
Before the march a pamphlet circulated saying Nigerians and Zimbabweans 'hijack our buildings, sell drugs, inject young South African ladies with drugs and sell them as prostitutes'. A march against an undeniable crime problem in the inner city is one thing, but a march against foreign nationals is utterly unacceptable.
Such prejudice against nationals of certain foreign states can be found among the rich and the poor; from civil society organisations such as the Mamelodi Concerned Residents (who convened the march) to city officials; from politicians on the left and centre to the far right; from nurses and teachers to the police. Police regularly extort bribes, victimise or fail to protect foreign nationals.
Recently, a circular was distributed by a primary school saying: ‘If any foreign child arrives here on Monday we will phone the police to come and collect your child and you can collect your child at the police station’. It said the instructions came after meeting Home Affairs officials. After a public outcry, it was withdrawn.
To mark his first hundred days in office, newly elected DA Mayor of Johannesburg Herman Mashaba said he was “declaring war against illegality”, by which he meant the 115,000 undocumented, mostly African, immigrants he alleges occupy the inner city and are getting in the way of a business opportunity for property developers. So much for the man who founded the hair product line Black Like Me.
In the following weeks, Mashaba was pleading for peace and condemning xenophobia. But the
dog whistle had been heard .
On a wing and prayer, South Africa has not seen the same scale of displacement, murder and mayhem it saw during the spate of violence characterised by Afrophobia of 2008. However, the country is on a knife edge. Any politician using the word “war”, while promising mass evictions and blaming immigrants for government’s failure to police crime and steward the economy is courting disaster.
Violence against immigrants has never stopped; it continually simmers with devastating consequences for innocent people caught in the middle. Eleven Somali nationals were killed in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, in the past month alone, including three shopkeepers who were gunned down on the same day at different locations according to police. The instances of violence against African immigrants in this new year countrywide are too many to enumerate here.
Officially, on paper and under the Constitution, South Africa has one of the best and most advanced approaches to immigration, allowing immigrants to settle freely wherever they choose and enjoy full and equal protection under the bill of rights. This is a humane, practical and sensible approach.
But on the ground, African and Asian immigrants face institutionalised bureaucratic harm, with
numerous policy decisions and administrative actions being taken, such as closing access to processing centres, that almost seem designed to turn perfectly law-abiding foreign nationals into undocumented and therefore “illegal” immigrants. The immigration process is so opaque, most opt for asylum.
By not allowing people to work, study, become documented and assimilate, government creates the very conditions for which it then proceeds to blame foreign nationals.
There are now thousands of Malawians and Zimbabweans detained and living in the most appalling conditions in South African prisons.
Of course, there are also instances where South Africans have protected, helped or gone to the rescue of foreign nationals and where people co-exist quite happily. But politicians exploit prejudice. Lip service is paid to African solidarity, but it is clear that both the ANC and the DA want to clamp down on immigration in the erroneous belief that this will somehow relieve social pressures. It will not. Only the economy and a less corrupt government can do that. Wiping out a class of entrepreneurs and sorely needed skills will do more harm than good to South Africa’s failing economic engine.
A new green paper (a discussion document drafted by a Ministry and the first step to making new laws) from the Department of Home Affairs is extremely sinister, and so is the proposal for a new Border Management Authority .
Under the proposals, asylum seekers will lose their rights and will be prevented from living normally while their cases are being assessed.
Most alarmingly, processing centres are to built on the border, with the South African government seemingly not having learned a thing from the disastrous examples of the European Union, Turkey and Australia.
This is the South African version of Trump’s wall. It won’t work. It will create centres of misery and abuse. It will have a terrible effect on the areas where these places are created. It will harm South Africa’s international image and it will cost a fortune down the line.
It will be interesting to see who gets the contracts in the US to build Trump’s Mexico wall and administer it. Soon it will be time to start asking, the same questions, closer to home.

Source: ALLAFRICA.COM
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South Africans Animals

Just installed it. Very nice app for those who care about their eyes when using their phone in the dark.

anicho:
how would Nigeria do Better than Holland, Spain and Italy with our recycling of old brains in the seat of power where the younger generations are swept to one corner and injustice and oppression of tribes are a norm coupled with greed of political office holders to syphon community funds into personal accounts.

nope whoever did that research has got that nigeria all wrong

You are assuming that things are going to remain the same for that long.One day the cup of those you mentioned will be full and the right people will take over and engage our population in active production of goods and services. That's why China and India are projected to overtake the US because their population is more than double that of the US. Our population is currently 7 times that of Canada and similarly that of Spain and Netherlands you mentioned so don't be so pessimistic.

More holes on the tattered umbrella.

By 2050, the world is likely to have changed drastically from what we know now, and the planet's economic and financial landscape will be no exception.
A report from professional services giant PwC looks at which economies around the world will be the biggest and most powerful in 33 years time.
The report, titled "The long view: how will the global economic order change by 2050?" ranked 32 countries by their projected global gross domestic product by purchasing power parity.
PPP is used by macroeconomists to determine the economic productivity and standards of living among countries across a certain time period.
With the exception of the USA, many of the world's current powerhouse economies like Japan and Germany will have slipped down global rankings, replaced by countries such as India and Indonesia, which are currently emerging markets.
Check out the ranking below (All numbers cited in the slides are in US dollars and at constant values (for reference, the US's current PPP is $18.562 trillion):

32. Netherlands — $1.496 trillion.

31. Colombia — $2.074 trillion.

30. Poland — $2.103 trillion.

29. Argentina — $2.365 trillion.

28. Australia — $2.564 trillion.

27. South Africa — $2.570 trillion.

26. Spain — $2.732 trillion.

25. Thailand — $2.782 trillion.

24. Malaysia — $2.815 trillion.

23. Bangladesh — $3.064 trillion.

22. Canada — $3.1 trillion.

21. Italy — $3.115 trillion.

20. Vietnam — $3.176 trillion.

19. Philippines — $3.334 trillion.

18. South Korea — $3.539 trillion.

17. Iran — $3.900 trillion.

16. Pakistan — $4.236 trillion.

15. Egypt — $4.333 trillion.

14. Nigeria — $4.348 trillion.

13. Saudi Arabia — $4.694 trillion.

12. France — $4.705 trillion.

11. Turkey — $5.184 trillion.

10. United Kingdom — $5.369 trillion.

9. Germany — $6.138 trillion.

8. Japan — $6.779 trillion.

7. Mexico — $6.863 trillion.

6. Russia — $7.131 trillion.

5. Brazil — $7.540 trillion.

4. Indonesia — $10.502 trillion.

3. United States — $34.102 trillion.

2. India — $44.128 trillion.

1. China — $58.499 trillion.

© INDEPENDENT.CO.UK

By 2050, the world is likely to have changed drastically from what we know now, and the planet's economic and financial landscape will be no exception.
A report from professional services giant PwC looks at which economies around the world will be the biggest and most powerful in 33 years time.
The report, titled "The long view: how will the global economic order change by 2050?" ranked 32 countries by their projected global gross domestic product by purchasing power parity.
PPP is used by macroeconomists to determine the economic productivity and standards of living among countries across a certain time period.
With the exception of the USA, many of the world's current powerhouse economies like Japan and Germany will have slipped down global rankings, replaced by countries such as India and Indonesia, which are currently emerging markets.
Check out the ranking below (All numbers cited in the slides are in US dollars and at constant values (for reference, the US's current PPP is $18.562 trillion):

32. Netherlands — $1.496 trillion.

31. Colombia — $2.074 trillion.

30. Poland — $2.103 trillion.

29. Argentina — $2.365 trillion.

28. Australia — $2.564 trillion.

27. South Africa — $2.570 trillion.

26. Spain — $2.732 trillion.

25. Thailand — $2.782 trillion.

24. Malaysia — $2.815 trillion.

23. Bangladesh — $3.064 trillion.

22. Canada — $3.1 trillion.

21. Italy — $3.115 trillion.

20. Vietnam — $3.176 trillion.

19. Philippines — $3.334 trillion.

18. South Korea — $3.539 trillion.

17. Iran — $3.900 trillion.

16. Pakistan — $4.236 trillion.

15. Egypt — $4.333 trillion.

14. Nigeria — $4.348 trillion.

13. Saudi Arabia — $4.694 trillion.

12. France — $4.705 trillion.

11. Turkey — $5.184 trillion.

10. United Kingdom — $5.369 trillion.

9. Germany — $6.138 trillion.

8. Japan — $6.779 trillion.

7. Mexico — $6.863 trillion.

6. Russia — $7.131 trillion.

5. Brazil — $7.540 trillion.

4. Indonesia — $10.502 trillion.

3. United States — $34.102 trillion.

2. India — $44.128 trillion.

1. China — $58.499 trillion.

© INDEPENDENT.CO.UK

Confidence is one of the greatest gifts a parent can give their child.
Carl Pickhardt, a psychologist and author of 15 parenting books , says a kid who lacks confidence will be reluctant to try new or challenging things because they're scared of failing or disappointing others.
This can end up holding them back later in life and prevent them from having a successful career.
"The enemies of confidence are discouragement and fear," he says. So, as a parent, it's your job to encourage and support your child as they attempt to tackle difficult tasks.
Here are 17 more tips for raising a confident child:
1. Appreciate effort no matter if they win or lose
When you're growing up, the journey is more important than the destination.
So whether your child makes the winning goal for his team or accidentally kicks it out of bounds, applaud their effort, Pickhardt says. They should never feel embarrassed for trying.
"Over the long haul, consistently trying hard builds more confidence than intermittently doing well," he explains.

2. Encourage practice to build competence

Encourage your child to practice whatever it is they're interested in -- but do so without putting too much pressure on them.
Harmony Shu, a piano prodigy, told Ellen DeGeneres that she started practicing when she was just 3 years old.
"Practice invests effort in the confident expectation that improvement will follow," Pickhardt explains.

3. Let them figure out problems by themselves

If you do the hard work for your child then they'll never develop the abilities or the confidence to figure out problems on their own.
"Parental help can prevent confidence derived from self-help and figuring out on the child's own," Pickhardt explains.
In other words, better that your child gets a few B's and C's rather than straight A's, so long as they are actually learning how to solve the problems and do the work.

4. Let them act their age

Don't expect your child to act like an adult. "When a child feels that only performing as well as parents is good enough, that unrealistic standard may discourage effort," he says. "Striving to meet advanced age expectations can reduce confidence."

5. Encourage curiosity

Sometimes a child's endless stream of questions can be tiresome, but it should be encouraged.
Paul Harris of Harvard University told The Guardian that asking questions is a helpful exercise for a child's development because it means they realize that "there are things they don't know ... that there are invisible worlds of knowledge they have never visited."
When children start school, those from households that encouraged curious questions have an edge over the rest of their classmates because they've had practice taking in information from their parents, The Guardian reported, and that translates to taking in information from their teacher. In other words, they know how to learn better and faster.

6. Give them new challenges

Show your child that they can make and accomplish small goals to reach a big accomplishment -- like riding a bike without training wheels.
"Parents can nurture confidence by increasing responsibilities that must be met," Pickhardt explains.

7. Avoid creating short cuts or making exceptions for your child

Special treatment can communicate a lack of confidence, Pickhardt says. "Entitlement is no substitute for confidence."

8. Never criticise their performance

Nothing will discourage your child more than criticizing his or her efforts. Giving useful feedback and making suggestions is fine -- but never tell them they're doing a bad job.
If your kid is scared to fail because they worry you'll be angry or disappointed, they'll never try new things.
"More often than not, parental criticism reduces the child's self-valuing and motivation," says Pickhardt.

9. Treat mistakes as building blocks for learning

"Learning from mistakes builds confidence," he says. But this only happens when you, as a parent, treat mistakes as an opportunity to learn and grow.
Don't be over-protective of your child. Allow them to mess up every now and then, and help them understand how they can better approach the task next time.
Pickhardt says parents should see "uh-oh" moments as an opportunity to teach their kids not to fear failure.

10. Open the door to new experiences

Pickhardt says you, as a parent, have a responsibility to "increase life exposures and experiences so the child can develop confidence in coping with a larger world."
Exposing children to new things teaches them that no matter how scary and different something seems, they can conquer it.

11. Teach them what you know how to do

You are your child's hero -- at least until they're a teenager.
Use that power to teach them what you know about how to think, act, and speak. Set a good example, and be a role model.
Pickhardt says watching you succeed will help your child be more confident that they can do the same.

12. Don't tell them when you're worried about them

Parental worry can often be interpreted by the child as a vote of no confidence, he says. "Expressing parental confidence engenders the child's confidence."

13. Praise them when they deal with adversity

Life is not fair. It's hard, and every child will have to learn that at some point.
When they do encounter hardships, Pickhardt says parents should point out how enduring these challenges will increase their resilience.
It's important to remind your child that every road to success is filled with setbacks, he adds.

14. Offer your help and support, but not too much of it

Giving too much assistance too soon can reduce the child's ability for self-help, says Pickhardt.
"Making parental help contingent on the child's self-help first can build confidence."

15. Applaud their courage to try something new

Whether it's trying out for the travel basketball team or going on their first roller coaster, Pickhardt says parents should praise their kids for trying new things. He suggests saying something as simple as, "You are brave to try this!"
"Comfort comes from sticking to the familiar; courage is required to dare the new and different," he says.

16. Celebrate the excitement of learning

Kids look to their parents for how they should react to things. So if you get excited about them learning how to swim, or speaking a new language, then they'll be excited about those things too.
"Learning is hard work and, when accomplished, creates confidence to learn more, so celebrate this willingness to grow," Pickhardt advises.

17. Be authoritative, but not too forceful or strict

When parents are too strict or demanding, the child's confidence to self-direct can be reduced.
"Dependence on being told can keep the child from acting bold," he says.

© INDEPENDENT.CO.UK

When these monsters were bombing churches they were applauded by these same people, now the chicken has come home to roost.

True talk.

Great idea!