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[quote author=Table Leg ]So nairaland is now for kids or what? peni....s getting censored?

Fu...cking crasss![/quote]yup, I don't get it either

taharqa2: Great thread...

Thanks

PeterKbaba:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCeqOR3vqzw



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg8yQmfQsyc

Thanks for the videos

Drlumi: Good Morning- Wemimo AyoDavid

http://youtu.be/oyUsDwo_WFQ

thanks for the video

ogenjemz8: chris Attoh is sexiness personified. he is very attractive

true, Good looking man

interesting

OMG this is sick

panafrican: This is what happens when a so -called modern country humiliates men and takes manhood away from them by empowering women to spit on any male.
This being said, if you check the data in Canada and the United states, the findings could well be more alarming.Someone called it the womanization of the American society. For instance in many american schools, when teachers or school administrators call parents,there is no man to talk to. It is most of the time a woman.
Why? because men are sick of being run over by the justice system.

It's sad though but I think it is more then that though, I think the institution of marriage in general is not appreciated any more

Hezron Lorraine: Odikwa plenty.

ok lol

lets hope this is permanent

Hezron Lorraine: We shouldn't cry about the fact that these kids grow up without a male model,rather we should channel our energy into empowering the system to accomodate people to see the benefits of training their children together.it should be made to reconcile spouses who have left their partners alone to handle the upbringing alone.

Yes,single parents are also great teachers.We can't undermine their efforts,many people today are products of single homes.

yes true many good people have been raised out of a single family home, and single family homes shouldnt be put down but those numbers in England are alarming but I agree their should be programs to educate and promote people in staying together as a couple to raise their children

I don't see what she is gaining by saying this information to the public smh

Sagytarius: Hmmm!23% Ghanian? Nzogbu dikwa.

how is it trouble?

[quote author=panafrican]Wait until Dos Santos dies. Portugal will seize all the assets and claim that the man was a dictator. His daughter who has invested a lot of many out there will see all doors closed in her face when she asks for any legal help in Europe.


so true

[b]"A million children are growing up in ‘men deserts’, living without a father and rarely meeting an adult man, a study of family breakdown said yesterday.
It said the continuing increase in the number of lone parent families means that in some areas three out of four families are headed by one parent.
Their children, most of whom are growing up without fathers, lack the influence of men not only at home but also in the other key areas of their lives, the report from the Centre for Social Justice said.
In particular few ever meet men at school. One in four of all primary schools has no male teacher and four out of five have fewer than three, it found.
The report described the impact of family breakdown as an ‘emergency’ and said that the response of politicians of both Left and Right has been ‘feeble’. It urged David Cameron to ‘get a grip’.
The findings are potentially embarrassing for the Prime Minister because the Centre for Social Justice is the brainchild of Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, who launched it in 2004 shortly after being deposed as Tory leader.
Its director Christian Guy said: ‘For all of the promises the Conservatives made in opposition, hardly anything has been done to resist the tsunami of family breakdown battering the United Kingdom.’
The study, Family Breakdown: The State Of The Nation, said numbers of lone parent families are rising by 20,000 a year and will reach a total of two million before the next election in 2015.
Some areas are dominated by single parent families, it found.
In one area of Sheffield, Manor Castle, 75 per cent of households with dependent children are lone parent families.

In Liverpool Riverside, Birmingham Ladywood and Bidston and St James in Birkenhead, the level is more than 70 per cent, and in 15 other places more than 60 per cent.
In all, 236 localities have more than 50 per cent of homes with children headed by a sole mother.

The report said half of all children now being born will not grow up with both their birth parents and that in all a million children have no worthwhile contact with their fathers.
It added: ‘Lack of male role models in many young lives is further compounded by the dearth of male teachers within state primary schools.

Although these trends are nationwide, they are particularly pronounced in our poorest communities where two thirds of all young adolescents have seen their parents part.’
It said the costs of family break-up were ‘devastating’, adding that children from broken families are 50 per cent more likely to do badly at school, struggle to make friends, find it difficult to control their behaviour, or to overcome anxiety and depression.
The report estimated the cost of family break-up, including the price in benefits for state support of families without work, at £46billion a year, or £1,541 for each taxpayer.
It projected that the bill will rise to £49billion by 2015.
The main engine of family break-up, it said, is the spread of cohabitation. ‘It is the instability of cohabiting couples rather than a surge in divorce rates that is fuelling the disintegration of the UK family,’ the report said.
‘Since 1996, the number of people cohabiting has doubled to nearly six million.
Cohabiting parents are three times more likely to separate by the time a child is aged five than married couples.’
Since the election Mr Cameron has failed to act on his pledge to give a tax break to married couples.
He has, however, promoted same-sex marriage even though there was no mention of the subject in the Tory manifesto or the Coalition agreement.[/b]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2338646/One-million-children-growing-male-role-model-Report-blames-single-parent-families-lack-men-classrooms.html

[b]"Angola is Sub-Saharan Africa’s third largest economy, after South Africa and Nigeria (1). It is already one of Africa’s biggest oil producers, with an average output of 1.8m barrels a day since 2008, and its extensive reserves may be even greater than thought, since prospecting suggests its deposits have geological similarities with the very rich Brazilian oilfields. After nearly three decades of civil war (2), a national reconciliation programme has given the country political stability, which is attracting foreign investors. Angola is being courted by its former colonial master, Portugal, which has been forced to adopt drastic austerity measures. “Angolan capital is very welcome [in Portugal],” said the Portuguese premier Pedro Passos Coelho during a visit to Luanda last November.

The new Angolan bourgeoisie are buying real estate in Lisbon — which may have contributed to the rise in property prices — but most Angolan investment has been in Portuguese banks and energy firms: around $2bn, or 4% of the total value of companies listed on the Portuguese stock exchange. The figure is difficult to calculate, given the complex connections between Angolan and Portuguese banks. The Angolan oil firm Sonangol (Africa’s second largest company in 2010) has led this trend.

The flow of Angolan funds into Portugal accelerated in 2008. Sonangol took a major stake in Portugal’s largest private bank, Millennium BCP. Santoro Finance, owned by Isabel dos Santos, eldest daughter of Angola’s president José Eduardo dos Santos, is also involved: the Esperenza consortium, formed by Santoro and Sonangol, has a 45% stake in Portuguese group Amorim Energia, which has a 33.3% stake in the Portuguese state-owned oil company Galp Energia. Private Angolan banking firms, such as Bank of Industry and Commerce and Atlantic Private Bank, have established subsidiaries in Portugal.

In a few years, Angola’s banking has been transformed. The Portuguese Banco Espírito Santo was a pioneer, setting up operations in Luanda in 1993, soon after economic liberalisation, and establishing close relations with the government. Angolan mobile phone carrier Unitel, of which Isabel dos Santos is majority shareholder, has enjoyed spectacular growth thanks to its partnership with Portuguese telecoms companies, and claimed 6 million subscribers in 2010.

In March 2009, during Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos’s visit to Portugal, a thousand businessmen met at the Ritz Hotel in Lisbon to discuss further strengthening economic and financial relations. Manuel Domingo Vicente, then chairman of Sonangol declared an interest in building a lasting relationship with Portugal (3). Presented as one of Africa’s most influential entrepreneurs, he is considered likely to succeed dos Santos as president. Soon after this visit, Sonangol and Portuguese state-owned bank Caixa Geral de Depósitos established an investment bank (based in Angola) to facilitate the development of infrastructure and heavy industry."

Heavy losses

"Portuguese banks suffered heavy losses when the global financial crisis struck, as did their foreign shareholders. This did not discourage Sonangol, which helped Millennium BCP to recapitalise, enlisting the help of Bank of Brazil and a Chinese bank, yet Millennium BCP had too much exposure to Greek debt and posted a net loss of 786m for 2011. By contrast, Millennium BCP’s subsidiaries in Mozambique and Angola saw profits rise by 50%.

Frequently criticised by the International Monetary Fund for a lack of transparency in its management, Sonangol acts like a state within a state: it has established the equivalent of a sovereign wealth fund that it manages directly in conjunction with its 22 subsidiaries, which cover all economic activity. Sonangol also collaborates with China International Fund, a private Chinese firm based in Hong Kong. This resulted in the establishment of China Sonangol in 2004 and has helped Sonangol’s business diversification. With or without its Asian partner, Sonangol is present in many African countries, in Latin America (Cuba, Ecuador, Venezuela) and in the Middle East (Iraq, Iran).

Angolan corporate strategists see Portugal as the ideal platform for the internationalisation of their companies. They are conscious of being the masters now in their relationship with Portugal, yet Portuguese entrepreneurs benefit from the relationship. Portugal is going through a severe recession, and the opportunity to participate in Angola’s huge reconstruction and development projects, largely financed by the Angolan government, is a blessing for many. Of the 532 foreign companies operating in Angola — and controlling 40% of its gross domestic product — 38% are Portuguese (18.8% are Chinese). With unemployment in Portugal at 13%, Angola has attracted tens of thousands of workers, not all skilled. This worries the Angolan government, which regularly deplores the lack of opportunities for its young people. The official number of Portuguese nationals living in Angola rose from 21,000 in 2003 to over 100,000 in 2011. According to Angola’s consular service, there may be twice that number. The number of Angolans living in Portugal has fallen: the land of opportunity has moved south."[/b]
http://mondediplo.com/2012/07/11angola

lol, the world is getting crazy

Fulaman198: Thank you kindly sir

congratulations Fulaman, glad you were picked

Afam4eva: See what the world has turned into.

well to me I feel the reason Britain is going through this is because the give to much government support and welfare compared to the US, when it comes to teens having kids, so people are taking advantage of that law and having kids on purpose at teenage ages in that country just so they can get a nice apartment for free for example.

Seven constituencies in the country constitute more single-parent families than couples
Britain has highest proportion of single parent families in Europe

[b]"Single-parent families are now so common that couples living with their children are the minority in some parts of the country.
Data shows there are seven Parliamentary constituencies where single-parent families make up the majority of households.
There are close to 2million single-parent families in the UK and we have the highest proportion of children brought up in one-parent families of any major European country.

The seven areas where single-parent families are the majority are in the urban hearts of London, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds.
In one constituency, Lewisham Deptford, 58 per cent of households with children are headed by lone parents.
At the other end of the spectrum, in the rural district of South Northamptonshire just one in every 20 family units is headed by a single parent.
The figures, from a Freedom of Information request to the Office for National Statistics, were greeted with concern yesterday.
Jill Kirby, a social policy expert and former director of the Centre for Policy Studies, said: ‘Children need input from both parents in order to thrive.
‘Research shows children growing up in fatherless homes are much less likely to do well at school and are at twice the risk of getting into problems with drink or drugs, or involved in crime. The UK welfare system has been partly to blame, by providing a substitute breadwinner rather than encouraging parents to stick together.’

Two years ago a report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which represents industrialised nations, exposed Britain’s shocking record on broken homes.
It found we have more children living in one-parent families than any other European country and more of our single mothers are unemployed and on benefit than anywhere else on the Continent.
The study revealed 23 per cent of British children up to the age of 14 live in single-parent families, behind the US on 26 per cent. And 48 per cent of single mothers in Britain are unemployed, the highest rate in the OECD apart from Turkey.

The Parliamentary constituency with the highest proportion of lone-parent families is Lewisham Deptford in South East London, which includes such places as New Cross, Brockley and Honor Oak.
There are around 8,000 lone-parent families in the seat – represented by hard-left Labour MP Joan Ruddock – making up 58 per cent of the total.
Next comes Lewisham East and Liverpool Riverside, both on 56 per cent. Manchester Central and Vauxhall are on 54 per cent, while Birmingham Ladywood and Leeds Central are on 53 per cent.
The area where children are most likely to live with two parents is South Northamptonshire, which covers small towns such as Brackley and Towcester.
Just 5 per cent of families in the seat, represented by the Tory Andrea Leadsom, are headed by a lone parent. North East Hampshire and Wycombe are next on 7 per cent, while Devizes and South Norfolk are on 8 per cent."[/b]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2183462/Single-parent-families-common-todays-Britain-couples-minority.html

I'm am not surprised this has been reported and brewing for decades in england

[b]Last night, as the bodies were still being counted at the shopping mall, one British woman was notably slow to join the condemnation.
For Samantha Lewthwaite, the daughter of a former British soldier who grew up attending school discos in Buckinghamshire, views these awful events as a cause for jubilation.
Kenyan anti-terror police revealed yesterday that Lewthwaite - who is known to many as the White Widow - may be the brains behind the operation to bring terror to the heart of Kenya, a country once synonymous with the sexual high-jinks of the Happy Valley expatriate set, but rapidly becoming a new battleground in the war between Islamists and the West.
‘I suspect this woman Lewthwaite is behind this attack,’ a senior anti-terror source told me last night as survivors described how a woman in a veil appeared to be commanding the other terrorists as they hunted down and killed non-Muslim shoppers.
The idea that she might have ordered the attack – or even led it herself – is not far-fetched at all.
Having converted to Islam as a young woman and married a man who went on to be a 7/7 London suicide bomber, she has become a key figure in the terror group behind this weekend’s attack.

Lewthwaite has even
It is an extraordinary, macabre journey into darkness for the 29-year-old, who grew up as a normal teenager in Aylesbury before meeting Jermaine Lindsay, a British Muslim, in an online chat room when she was 17. The pair married three years later.
When her husband was named as one of four suicide bombers who blew up Tube trains and a bus in 2005, killing 52 people, Lewthwaite initially condemned her late husband’s attack and denied any knowledge of his plan.

This was a lie. More than eight years later, Lewthwaite is one of Al Qaeda’s main recruiters in East Africa and is an official spokesman for Al Shabaab (The People), the terrorist group behind the horror in Nairobi.
As well as railing against ‘infidels in the West’, Lewthwaite had previously used a Twitter account to denounce a rival foreign terrorist in the text-speak of a teenager.

‘Fyi [for your information] sam lewthwaite thinks u r a irritating obnoxious contemptible little Muj PRAT,’ she wrote. (‘Muj’ is a contraction of mujahideen – a jihadist).


The object of her anger was Omar Shafik Hammami, a former student from Alabama. Last week he was shot dead in an ambush by terrorists loyal to the White Widow.

‘May his fate serve as a lesson to all those who want to follow in his footsteps as a poster boy for jihad,’ Lewthwaite wrote gleefully on Twitter.

To add to her name for ruthlessness, the White Widow did not mention in her tweets that a British man reputed to be her second husband was also killed in the ambush.
Her fearless reputation within Africa’s growing Islamic terror network has been strengthened by her own involvement as a mujahid – or warrior – during a series of bombings and shootings in Kenya’s tourist areas.
Known to her devoted followers as dada muzungu – Swahili for white sister – Lewthwaite moved to Kenya with her three children in 2007.
A small, dumpy woman, she cut off all links with her family in Britain and became immersed in East Africa’s Islamic terror networks, forging links with other British fanatics who had come to Kenya to wage ‘jihad’ against non-believers. It was last year that details of Lewthwaite’s secret new life emerged in grisly detail.
A white woman, later identified as Lewthwaite, had led a group of terrorists who fired grenades into a bar in Mombasa, the Kenyan coastal tourist resort popular with Britons. Three people, including a child, were killed and more than 50 injured.
In truth, I was deeply sceptical when news was first leaked two years ago about the White Widow’s alleged role as a terrorist with the group now causing carnage in Nairobi.
Yet now, having spent time among her acolytes in the Islamic stronghold where she once lived near Mombasa, and in briefings with police, prosecutors and senior investigators during subsequent investigations in Nairobi, I have no doubt that Lewthwaite is a cold-blooded killer and a dangerous ideologue.

Senior officers in Kenya have told me they will kill her on sight. So far, however, she has avoided arrest by wearing all-concealing Islamic dress as she has flitted between Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania.

Meanwhile, the group she is allied to continues to wreak havoc in the region.
Al Shabaab grew out of the chaos of Somalia, and has seen jihadists wage a brutal war to impose strict sharia law in the East African state.

But Kenyan forces, supported by Britain and America, have been waging war across the border in Somalia in an attempt to keep the Islamists from power.
With the war against Al Shabaab in Somalia proving highly effective, Kenya’s support has made it a key enemy of the Islamists.
Even before this weekend’s attack, the activities of Lewthwaite and her fellow terrorists had turned Kenya into a place of fear and paranoia.
Clearly, the White Widow has a taste for blood. It remains to be seen whether she will live long enough to kill again.[/b]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2429684/Kenya-mall-attack-anti-terror-police-believe-British-White-Widow-Samantha-Lewthwaite-massacre.html

amacastel: 8yr old Yemeni childbride dies of internal injuries after sex with 40yr old groom

just sick

[b]"Most of us are curious about our family lineage. For Vanessa Williams, who recently took part in the show “Who Do You Think You Are” and explored her family’s history, the task was both surprising and informative. Here, she talks about what she learned and how she plans to use that information.

How did you become interested in finding out about your lineage?

I’ve always been interested, but I was introduced to Ancestry.com [one of the websites that help people research their family backgrounds] before I even did a show called “Who Do You Think You Are,” so I signed up as a member to document my own family tree, and my DNA analysis was done as a part of doing the show.

We ended up doing two stories on my father’s side. One of my great-great-grandfathers was a soldier in the Civil War, and the other was born a slave but ended up being an educator and principal, and one of the first black legislators in Tennessee back in 1885. The stories are rich and informative and intriguing, but also as an African American, you don’t always have the luxury to know exactly where your ancestors are from.

What did you find out about your DNA?

My DNA breaks down as follows: I’m 23% from Ghana, 17% from the British Isles, 15% from Cameroon, 12% Finnish, 11% Southern European, 7% Togo, 6% Benin, 5% Senegal and 4% Portuguese.

Now, I can’t wait to go to Ghana and Cameroon and Togo and Senegal — it’s a great opportunity to see why the customs resonate with you. I love to travel and I love to explore, and I have to admit that I was always jealous of people who knew their cultural background. Both my family and myself came out with light eyes, so obviously there is a recessive gene here. Not knowing what that was just made me very curious.

How did it feel to find out about all these different parts of your lineage?

It’s fascinating! The first person I called was my mother, and I sent her my results and copied all my kids so they know where half of their genetic makeup is from. I wish that my father was still alive, because he was a huge history buff and interested in genealogy as well. It allows a greater sense of history for the family and a bit of pride as well.

Why do you think this information is important? Is it just for your own knowledge or to do plan to use it for health purposes as well?

I remember my mother told me that when my brother was a baby, they identified some blood issue with him, and they asked her if she had any relatives from Italy because this particular blood characteristic was consistent with someone from Italy. My mother said, “No, no, nothing like that.” Well, now come to find out 45 years later and obviously we have the same genetic makeup that Southern European is 11% of our makeup.

How did your family react to all this information?

They loved it. They really can’t wait to go on our world tour of where we’re from. The biggest surprise was Finland. How did that happen? Who is Finnish? That is definitely going to be one of my trips coming up. It’s all surprising, really interesting and it’s really incredible."[/b]
http://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/2013/05/14/actress-vanessa-williams-explains-how-dna-powers-her-family-tree/?o_xid=55843&o_lid=55843&o_sch=External+Paid+Media

she resembles her father

Good for him the man was a psycho and a sexual predator