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The recent practice of sealing up the brand names of prescribed eye drops by specialists can effectively go for an intellectual property offence called passing-off. A product is passed-off when the brand name is replaced by another name. The owner of the new name commits the offence. In this recent practice regarding eye drops, the names of the eye clinics are often printed on the bands used in sealing off the brand names belonging to the pharmaceutical companies that manufactured the prescribed eye drops.

Funny but true

dunkem21:
Great varsity of Nigeria, my Alma mater.. Hail her and rejoice for the giant awake..

Where the nations' potentials do brood in the nest.. Hail her and rejoice for the sake of knowledge..


My Alma mater.. my Alma mater..

Noble are thy looks and thy ideals..

.. and great are thou, in science and in arts..

In other realms of learning, thou art all SUBLIME!

all that eulogy for what What's the rank in the world, assuming this assessment is balanced? We celebrate mediocrity. Being a lion myself I cant eulogise this.

Does anyone know where they sell used household property in Abuja, like the ones malam sell in Lagos?

Funny

Very funny

tola400:
Senator Oluremi Tinubu today sent a letter to Senate President Bukola Saraki and the Chairman Of APC, John Odigie-Oyegun over her recent row with Dino Melaye.

See What she Wrote Below:


Source:http://www.flexygist.com/2016/07/19/tinubu-writes-national-assembly-apc-leadership-asking-for-sanctions-against-dino-melaye/

I was plagiarized in that petition.

Mologi:
I am taller....

just that my legs are not long ...

model kor. Poor sports development in Nigeria. See basketball height

Towncrier247:
Today, Kate Henshaw clocks 45 years of age, while just yesterday, her colleague, Ronke Ojo AKA Ronke Oshodi Oke clocked 42 years. What is it that make some people old when they are getting old and others younger when they should actually be looking old? What is it?

http://www.newseveryhour.com/2016/07/ronke-oshodi-oke-vs-kate-henshaw-spot.html

make up no free me check

still avil

“BEFORE WE GOT MARRIED I USED TO GET MY V@GINA ATE EVERY NIGHT, BUT THEN HE STARTED ACTING BRAND NEW, HE KNOWS I LOVE MY P***Y ATE BEFORE WE MAKE LOVE IT’S ALL HIS FAULT”

Said 38-year-old Maryland native Tasha Smith who is making headlines for retaliating against her husband for one simple mistake.

Smith grabbed a gun and drove to her husbands girlfriends home. But why? Because the husband stopped eating her V@gina and got a new woman.

Once in the apartment, Smith shot her husband Reginald. Once police arrived he was rushed to the local hospital, and died from gunshot wounds.
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“SHE WENT THERE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT HOW HE STOPPED EATING HER V@GINA BUT WAS EATING HIS NEW GIRLFRIENDS V@GINA SO THINGS GOT CRAZY AND HE WAS SHOT IN THE CHEST”

The new girlfriend Beverly Andrews told Tmzworldstar:

“I’M NOT SAYING I AGREE WITH WHAT SHE DID BUT I UNDERSTAND WHY SHE FLIPPED OUT, I JUST THINK SHE TOOK IT WAY TOO FAR SHE DIDN’T HAVE TO DO THAT”

Tasha’s trial date is set for next month, in which “She wishes to profess her innocence and go to trial on this matter,” according to Assistant Public Defender Arthur Knight.

http://tmzuncut.com/wife-kills-husband-because-he-stopped-eating-her-vagina-every-night/

I could not believe that soldiers will be behaving the way Turkish soldiers were behaving while being arrested by ordinary police officers. They were even raising their hands in surrender while being arrested.Some were even weeping like children. They needed to see Okar and co.

Nigerian soldiers are tough. They will fight to the last if they will attempt this.

Why Turkey’s coup failed, according to an expert


Friday night’s military coup against Turkey’s civilian leadership appears to have failed. By Saturday morning, The New York Times reports, Turkey’s security services had detained "thousands of military personnel" who had participated in the coup.

"There were few signs that those who had taken part in the coup attempt were still able to challenge the government, and many declared the uprising a failure," the Times’ Tim Arango and Ceylan Yeginsu write.

That raises two big questions this morning: Why did Turkey’s coup fail, and what happens in the country next?

Naunihal Singh has some helpful answers. Singh is an academic and the author of Seizing Power, a groundbreaking book on coups. Singh drew on a huge dataset of coup attempts, as well as hundreds of hours of interviews with actual coup participants, to develop a comprehensive picture of what makes coups succeed or fail.

Last night, as it seemed the coup in Turkey was faltering, I called up Singh to ask him what he thought of the situation — and what it tells us about the future of Turkish democracy.

According to Singh, the failure of Turkey’s coup wasn’t likely determined by the coup plotters’ military strength, or even their support inside the military. It was determined by their inability to make it seem like they were going to succeed. The ability to shape perceptions of success, often through media, is crucial in coups — basically, if people think a coup is going to succeed, they usually just join up because they don’t want to be on the wrong side of the guns.

The Turkey plotters failed to create this perception, and now they — and Turkish democracy — may end up paying the price.

"Coup supporters didn’t try to fight till their last breath," Singh says. "These are groups that are willing to surrender even if they might be tried for treason afterwards."

According to Singh, this is common in coups. The whole point of a coup is for a faction of the military to take over the government without kicking off a civil war. They want control over a stable society, not one fracturing into bloodshed. That means that coups are typically marked by defections to whatever side appears to be winning, rather than outright military conflict between factions.

In coups, then, perception is reality: If Turkey’s coup leaders had successfully created the perception that the overthrow of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was inevitable, then even Erdogan sympathizers in Turkey’s security services would have been unlikely to oppose them.

"When a coup starts, it’s by faction: It’s a small number of people who are trying to takeover, and perhaps a small number of diehard loyalists, but most of the military is sitting in the middle," Singh explains. These fence-sitters "choose the side that they think will win, and when enough people do that it has a self-fulfilling aspect."

Turkey’s coup plotters, by all accounts, failed to do that.

One critical way to create this self-fulfilling prophecy, according to Singh’s research, is to take control of the broadcast media. Once you’ve got the radio and television stations, you then use them to tell everyone the government has already been overthrown. That convinces people in the military that the coup has succeeded, leading them to take your side.

But reports on the ground say that this didn’t happen. President Erdogan managed to make a televised statement opposing the coup (though he did so, amusingly, via a cellphone on Skype). Leaders of major political parties, including the opposition, publicly opposed the coup.

Perhaps most importantly, the coup plotters did a very poor job of getting their message out. While they did seize a number of media outlets, like CNN Turk, they failed to use them effectively in broadcasting their message.

"We had no clear statement from the coup forces. No leader came on TV, no real manifesto," ZeynepTufekci, a professor at the University of North Carolina who was in Turkey during the coup attempt, tweeted. "In Turkey, successful coup attempts are massive, happen within chain-of-command, and take over media immediately."

The coup plotters failed to establish the perception that they were fully in control, and hence failed to win the overwhelming bulk of the military to their side. It’s still early, so we can’t be sure of anything. But given Singh’s research, and the information we have, it’s very likely that this explains — at least in part — why they failed.

What happens when coups fail

After any coup fails, the nightmare scenario is a mass, violent purge of "disloyal forces" by the government. Erdogan’s heated rhetoric last night suggested this was a real possibility. He blamed the coup on his political opponents in the Gulen movement, and warned in a televised address that "they will pay a heavy price for their treason to Turkey."

Luckily, Singh says, violent purges after coups are actually fairly rare — because they’re not in the government’s interest.

When the government starts killing people in the military, even officers who weren’t involved in the current coup get nervous about the government one day killing them. That makes another coup in response to the purges — Singh calls this a "counter-coup" — more likely. Governments know this, and so generally respond to coups by putting loyalists in charge of the military, rather than killing soldiers en masse.

"What you [typically] see is more consolidation than retribution," Singh says. "Consolidation [means] making sure your guys are in power. But you don’t see retribution because too much retribution sets up the risk of a counter-coup."

This doesn’t mean mass violence is outside the realm of possibility. But it does mean that Erdogan’s heated rhetoric isn’t necessary a good guide to what he’ll actually do when it comes down to it.

The more subtle and pernicious consequence could be serious damage to Turkey’s democracy — and even a transition to authoritarianism.

For years now, Erdogan has been attempting to stifle dissent and consolidate power in his own office. He’s cracked down on Turkey’s freedom of the press, violently dispersed anti-government demonstrations, and pushed constitutional changes that would consolidate dangerous amounts of power in the office of the presidency.

Previously, Turkish democratic institutions had seemed strong enough to fend off Erdogan. Erdogan’s party lost a June 2015 national election, in large part due to the Turkish public rejecting Erdogan’s proposal to amend the constitution and give himself greater powers.

But it’s possible that the coup attempt might change things. The coup made Erdogan, previously the authoritarian villain, look like he was the defender of Turkish democracy. It also created fears of instability that might make people more amenable to his strongman pitch.

That’s the biggest fear for Turkey watchers right now.

The failed coup "will clear the way for total domination of Turkish politics by Erdogan," Dani Rodrik, an economist at Harvard, told my colleague Ezra Klein last night. "It will make it easier for him to make the constitutional changes he wants to make himself essentially the one and only politician deciding everything in the country."

So while mass bloodshed may be unlikely, a more insidious risk — that the coup ushers in the death of Turkish democracy — is very much on the table.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/why-turkey%E2%80%99s-coup-failed-according-to-an-expert/ar-BBuoI7v?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=UP97DHP

HungerBAD:
Afusat Take am easy.

3 Rounds?really?even Cutehector and his gang of roving testosterones in the Romance Section of Nairaland,don't even have this Energy lol.

This case is tricky.

This is where this man's medical records comes into play. If this has been bothering him for 13 years,then he should have a medical record somewhere,but according to him,he could not afford one so resorted to Panadol and Amplicox.

So unfortunately,this is how and why this man will lose this case. Nigerians needs to be informed about proper documentations,especially if it will lead to a lawsuit in future.

I don't see how a judge can award him monetary compensation,as this is a case of he said and the company said.

Dear God,you know I have been faithful to you. Please do not push an Afusat into my life.

Thank you.

I am happy I don't have her kind of woman. I heard a tribe in Kogi state their women are like that

Rest in the bossom of our Lord, saint of God

That's a threat of rap

Avail.

The deadliest of the attacks were at Gulani and Dikwa and we were at the suburbs trying to enter the communities as humanitarian aid workers. The terrorists cam from an ambush and opened fire on us. We were physically shielded by Nigerian soldiers while obeying the abrupt metalic voice from the one of the them to lay flat on the floor to dodge bullets emanating from the sporadic shots from the Boko Haram terrorists.

We were immediately on the floor, only hearing the continued shout of orders, followed by intermittent clatter of rifle fire from the soldiers amidst a windy "alau akuba" from the terrorists running helta skelta in the bush. Different prayers ran through the people lying on the floor including me, the three soldiers standing guard near us shouting on us to remain calm.

One of the soldiers would utter what sounded like a code or Morse as if trying to impatiently retreat cos the gunfire was beginning to come from another direction. I guessed he was calling for a backup probably airmen from the headquarters. I was imagining how many the terrorists were in number. Cries of anguish were always heard from distant places following gun shots.

The rifle fire continued while we lay still on the floor.

After about 2 hours, sounds of gun fire stopped though shouts were still heard from afar. Communication from the soldier standing close to us was apparently revealing the casualty figures. About 3 men fell and another 2 missing. I only saw a wounded soldier crying in anguish. It was like they used a sharp matchete to batter his right leg. Maybe a kind of gun or a bomb used to attack him completely shattered his leg. The terrorists were killed en masse but I did not know the number.

A vehicle drove by and we were ushered in by a different group probably from the HQ cos their military fatigues were not rumpled or dirty.
We were driven to maidugri and back to our hotels. We left for Abuja the next day.

At the office, what my colleagues demanded first was life insurance. After our meeting, I was drawing their attention to the need to think of eternity. No comment was made on that and they continued to demand extra insurance cover for their lives.

Eternity does not matter but insurance does.

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Like seriously, more experienced people should air their views on this.

@lalasticlala or ishilove could could this a push

Here good deal

Who is beautiful or handsome to an average Yoruba person may be different to similar perception by an Igbo person. To a Yoruba girl, a handsome dude should just look ok, not necessarily with six packs or pointed nose but could have a broad shoulder. He should just have a good posture and have a height a bit above average. To Igbo girl, the the handsome guy has a pointed nose (imi kwu oto), possibly fair skinned and tall. On the other hand, to pass for a pretty lady to a Yoruba guy, you must be "breasticous and bottominous". Both assets must be there . While to an Igbo guy the girl should be light skinned with pointed nose and dimples with some hairs on her arms or chest. She could have a flat back or front, with these qualities she's considered ok. While someone like mr. Ibu could be considered ugly by Igbo girl (though his money is a big shield) he is just ok to a Yoruba girl. Same with Kunle afalayan or Taribo West. Wizkid is perfect to any Yoruba girl but not so to her Igbo counterpart. Omotola is an epitome of beauty to a Yoruba guy but not so to his Igbo counterpart. Oge Okoye is perfectly ok to the Igbo dude but not same to his Yoruba counterpart. This analogy is not considering money, fame or tribal leaning.

He has thrown in several application for different UN job openings that match his qualifications and had always been greeted with regret letters. What's really wrong and what's he not doing well

Stil svai

FG just announced extension of the public holiday till friday. A group of clerics said yesterday's moon was a crescent moon and hence defies hallowed Islamic practice. According to the clerics, it will be a sacrilege to base the Eid on that.

Nice one. Would have asked to try some places on the UK but Brexit

robosky02:
Nigerian Female Soldiers Back In The 60's and today (pictures)



http://www.nationalhelm.net/2015/05/historical-pix-civil-war-veteran-gen.html
http://dailymail.com.ng/photos-female-cadets-now-present-in-the-nigerian-defence-academy-nda/2/

the first pic is Biafran female soldiers

Happy day

ChuzzyBlog:
So, DJ Abbas reacted to the news that the Supreme court of Nigeria had announced 22 new SANs and wondered why Lawyer and human rights activist Festus Keyamo wasn't one of them. OAP Freeze responded to his question and a brief convo ensued. Read the rest of the tweets below:-


SOURCE: http://www.chuzzyblog.com/2016/07/why-is-festus-keyamo-still-not-san-dj.html

you guys cant fail to amaze me. How are those appointed SAN better than Keyamo. Remember that Gani suffered same fate and was later vindicated. What people don't understand is that Keyamo is a hardliner in legal practice and still better than almost 60% of those appointed learned silks. Moreso the politics in such appointment is dirtier than you think. There are emminent lawyers who are not nearing the inner bar for same reasons. My dear Ayo Olanrewaju the brain behind the Gani's Nigeria Weekly Law Report, the best and oldest law report in Nigeria, has never ever been mentioned. Time will tell.

Its too annoying how they use English words in igbo movies shown on Africa Magic. Even words that have igbo names are spoken in English. It will be nice if film producers tutor their actors on how make use of igbo language. I have a friend that was denied a role in a Yoruba movie because of failed attempt to pronounced appropriately a Yoruba word. The igbo producers should just sit up.

Bum.p

Avail. Happy holiday