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AutosRe: Honda Baby Boy Available For Sale550k by BABSIN(m): 11:53am On Jul 15, 2014
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AutosRe: Banker Used Golf 4 Car For Sale N250,000 Auction. This car has been sold by BABSIN(m): 11:28am On Jul 15, 2014
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AutosRe: Honda Accord (Bull Dog)- N300,000 by BABSIN(op): 11:10am On Jul 15, 2014
lincoln0854: If it goes for 300 letz chat here is my email lekanwasiu33@yahoo.com
Checkyour email. I have responded
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AutosRe: Honda Accord (Bull Dog)- N300,000 by BABSIN(op): 4:19pm On Jul 13, 2014
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AutosRe: Honda Accord (Bull Dog)- N300,000 by BABSIN(op): 1:50pm On Jul 13, 2014
perfectwazobia1: put pics or na scam!
Not a scam, it's my personal ride. be rest assured you a dealing with the owner directly and not an agent
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PoliticsRe: Gov Okorocha Reacts To Charly Boy's Humiliation by BABSIN(m): 5:24pm On Jun 29, 2014
freshness2020: Charley boy did the needful.
Okorocha was looking for a way to score cheap political gains, I know him, he is my governor and know what he can do as well.
Rochas has lost it all, the best thing for him is to go back to his grass hoots (PDP) and make peace with his elders, that way 2015 is sure for him.
I don't see a future with him and APC.
My guy you are very wrong... Okorocha has always pitch his tent with the northerner since the time of Harry Akande and co. when they were all justling for APP presidential Candidate then. Infact I got know Okorocha in 2003 when I saw his Posters and grassroot campaign inpact in remote villages in Zamfara and Sokoto.
PoliticsRe: Stella Oduah's Profile On Wikipedia Wasnt Edited - Findings by BABSIN(m): 6:30am On Jan 08, 2014
Sharaap.

It has just been updated again this Morning at 5:01am.

This page was last modified on 8 January 2014 at 05:01.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Oduah-Ogiemwonyi
PoliticsRe: Two Unnamed Animals In Presidential Zoo To Spend N34.5million This Year by BABSIN(op): 1:01pm On Jan 04, 2014
pembisco: Haters at work. Op u mst a bigot For misleadind d public...gej actually reduced d villa feeding budget from 1b to 3hundred and somtin million ...nt sure bt its nt upto 400m . Yu refer to ur president and wife as animals and forgetin dat yu mst be an animal too since yu ar ruled by one..yu kan go and die pls
Bros where did you see that the unnammed animals were refer to as GEJ or any one else. Why don't you called the columnist and ask him yourself or get today National weekender and turn to the Back page to verify this.
PoliticsRe: Two Unnamed Animals In Presidential Zoo To Spend N34.5million This Year by BABSIN(op):
In Fact some members of the National assembly jokingly said they wish they were one of the animals or even a third one added to the animals...

Cheii, This animal are even chopping more than some big net worth CEO talkless of Oil and gas worker or common Nigerian.
PoliticsTwo Unnamed Animals In Presidential Zoo To Spend N34.5million This Year by BABSIN(op):
Uproar in National Assembly as 2014 National Budget report suggest that two unnamed animal in the presidential Zoo will enjoy the luxury of spending 34.5 million Naira this year alone.

Source: Today National Weekender Column by Desmond Ekwueme-08035321476
CareerRe: Undergraduate Quits Medical School After 10 Years To Pursue His Dream by BABSIN(op): 12:15pm On Dec 26, 2013
CareerUndergraduate Quits Medical School After 10 Years To Pursue His Dream by BABSIN(op): 6:01pm On Dec 25, 2013
When I saw this article, I was like.....No Way...He must be kidding me. But reading through I knew that this young man took a truly courageous decision, which many would never dare.

And to think that the movie " 3 Idiots " gave him some courage to act. Quite Inspiring
And for parents who love to impose certain professions on their children.This is a must read for you.

Ismaila Mansur Akolade is currently a 100 level student of Mass Communication at the University of Lagos. He had spent 10 years at the University of Ilorin, studying Medicine before quitting barely two weeks to the commencement of his final qualification examination.

His days at the University of Ilorin was saddled with constant failure, which ended up putting him at the bottom of the class. He decided to quit at the last minute. Today, Ismaila is neither sitting at the bottom nor struggling in his new course of study, as he currently sits in the 1st class category with a Grade Point Average of 4.71. Read his story below.........

In an exclusive interview with The Nation, Ismaila revealed that his action was triggered by his passion for the journalism profession, which he said was parallel to the wish of his father. He noted that his dream was never to become a doctor, but was forced into an unholy matrimony with the profession by his father who sees the medical profession as prestigious and thus wants ‘the best’ for his son. He counsels parents and young ones.

In his words, “ Parents should allow their children to express themselves. That parents are privileged to give birth to children does not give them absolute control over their destinies. Parents can only guide their children. Children should be allowed to have more input on how they would live their lives.

Parents should not play God with the future of their children. Your child doesn’t know how to write or speak English very well but he is very exceptional in Mathematics and you insist he should go and study law!

He has a special ability in writing poems and mind-bogging articles but poor in calculations, yet you said he must be an engineer! Parents should stop acting against the natural talents and propensities of their children.”
He also challenges young ones to hold their destinies in their hands to avoid being swayed unnecessarily. “ If you don’t make a decision for yourself, someone will make it for you. Don’t abandon your future in the hands of anybody.

Do your own research and know the movers and shakers in your profession of interest, so as to inspire you the more. Young ones should not leave everything in the hands of their parents. It is noteworthy that he who pays the piper dictates the tune, especially when the piper has not decided the exact tune to play.”

" Principally, my action was due to the fact that I never wanted to be a doctor. I was initially in medical school because I had to follow my father’s bidding. He wanted me to become a doctor but when I discovered after 10 years that it was not going to work and that my professional life was going to be nastier and more horrible, I took the decision to leave and follow my dreams.

I refused to be held down by the medical certificate because I reasoned that if I should write the final examination, it might make me drift away from my dream of studying Mass Communication.” He said.

He recalled his days at the University of Ilorin Medical School, as ‘horrible’ and ‘nasty,’ noting that he was a very terrible student and had a very negative reputation.

“ Perhaps, I was the most unserious medical student UNILORIN has ever come across. I spent 10 years in the medical school, four of which was due to failure. I repeated class in 200, 300, 500, and 600 levels respectively.

After the whole saga, especially when I came to study Mass Communication, I discovered that my failure was not due to an inability or mental incapacity to handle medicine; it was because I was just never interested in it.”
He revealed that the reason for his passion for the journalism profession was his talent and propensity which he believes would thrive and gain relevance only if allowed to be expressed as a journalist.

He said his father was embittered by his decision to quit medicine after all his investment into the profession. He however said he was encouraged to embark on his mission after seeing the movie titled, ‘Three Idiots,’ which triggered the instinct of resoluteness in him and taught him that life is predominantly about risk taking.

According to him, “ I will not want to feel the way my father felt when I left. If I put myself into his shoes, I won’t want a son to do to me what I did to my father. However, I got the inspiration from the movie to dare and to take a seemingly difficult action, more especially because life is risk taking and not about the present alone.

The lessons from that movie contributed 40 per cent to my final decision. I believe strongly that if I graduate from UNILAG, become a world class journalist and achieve greatness in the profession; my father will be one of those who will celebrate with me.”
He admits that it was not easy for him to start afresh and adapt since he had spent most of his years studying science-based subjects in secondary school. Sitting down to deal with arts-based subjects, he said, was difficult but the determination to succeed made him to withstand the avoidable failure that stared him in the face.

“I was driven by passion. I went to settle with all relevant books. I did extensive reading and I also had a friend who taught me mathematics. When the result came out, it was excellent. I actually had distinction in all my papers.” He said.

He recognised the contributions of his lecturers in Mass Communication department, to his quick adaptation to life on campus, saying that their words of encouragements, have helped him to quickly overcome his medical school trauma, and helped him to re-orientate towards excellence.

Ismaila said the 10-year experience has redefined him and has taught him a lot of lessons, which he wishes to use to educate the younger ones to forestall falling victim of such unpalatable experience.

He appealed to parents to always consider the interest and ability of their children rather than imposing professions on them.
Foreign AffairsRe: Nelson Mandela Was On US Terrorist Watch-List Until 2008 by BABSIN(op): 8:21am On Dec 06, 2013
That is the West for you.
PoliticsRe: Are Prophet Suleiman's Prophecies Coming To Pass? by BABSIN(m): 7:49am On Dec 06, 2013
Smh.... Are you guys for real.
Foreign AffairsNelson Mandela Was On US Terrorist Watch-List Until 2008 by BABSIN(op): 7:34am On Dec 06, 2013
Do You Know That Nelson Mandela Was On US Terrorist Watch List Until 2008?

Former South African President Nelson Mandela passed away Thursday evening at the age of 95. While he was revered by politicians today as a human rights icon, Mandela remained on the U.S. terrorism watch list until 2008, when then-President George W. Bush signed a bill removing Mandela from it.

Then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called the restrictions a "rather embarrassing matter that I still have to waive in my own counterpart, the foreign minister of South Africa, not to mention the great leader Nelson Mandela."

"He had no place on our government's terror watch list, and I'm pleased to see this bill finally become law," then-Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) said in 2008.

South Africa’s apartheid regime designated Mandela’s African National Congress (ANC) as a terrorist organization for its battle against the nation’s legalized system of racial segregation that lasted from 1948 to 1994.

Former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher also described Mandela’s ANC as a “typical terrorist organization” in 1987, refusing to impose sanctions on South Africa’s apartheid regime. President Ronald Reagan did as well.

In 1986, former Vice President Dick Cheney, then a congressman, voted along with 179 other members of the House against a non-binding resolution to recognize the ANC and call on the South African government to release Mandela from prison. The measure finally passed, but not before a veto attempt by Reagan.

In 2000, Cheney maintained that he'd cast the correct vote.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/05/nelson-mandela-terrorist_n_4394392.html
PoliticsPolice DPO Impound A Citizen's Car For Complying With Traffic Regulations by BABSIN(op): 2:38pm On Nov 23, 2013
A sick colleague of mine closed from night shift yesterday morning and was on his way home. He was stop at the Abule Egba Junction by the Traffic Control Light and also with the Co-ordination of the LASTMA personnel always staying at that Junction. However, a private Toyota SUV vehicle right behind kept on horning and he wondered why the vehicle was so much in a haste. So the LASTMA in front of him ask him to give way while the Stop light was still on because the man horning behind him was the DPO. And as soon as he gave way, the DPO ask that his vehicle be impounded and also be thrown into cell on the reason that he obstructed the way of the DPO.
AS I write, My Colleague car is still in new Oko Oba police station and He was only release yesterday because he was ill and was already throwing up at the station.
The Policemen in the Station has refuse to state the DPO name but we found out he is popularly called Canada and he is been feared by his men.

I urge all Nigerians to assist with stamping out this gross Impunity and Oppression by this DPO by Broadcasting this message until it reaches the IG.
PoliticsRe: Overcoming The Fear Of Vested Interest: Sanusi Lamido At Tedxy by BABSIN(op): 8:30am On Nov 01, 2013
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PoliticsOvercoming The Fear Of Vested Interest: Sanusi Lamido At Tedxy by BABSIN(op): 7:32am On Nov 01, 2013
You may not agree with this man, but this is an indisputable fact for the youth.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjViGLJIU9g
Jobs/VacanciesRe: Procter & Gamble Pre-nysc Internship Program-cee00001091 by BABSIN(m): 7:37am On Oct 26, 2013
PoliticsRe: Anambra Guber Election 2014 . (answer Correct And Win Big Promo From Mtn) by BABSIN(m): 8:52pm On Oct 20, 2013
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SportsRe: Haruna Lukman Deserves Eagles Call Up by BABSIN(m): 9:23pm On Oct 12, 2013
SportsRe: Haruna Lukman Deserves Eagles Call Up by BABSIN(m): 9:21pm On Oct 12, 2013
Christianity EtcRe: Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo Of COZA In Sex Scandal by BABSIN(m): 5:42pm On Aug 24, 2013
While I'm not confirming this particular story, for those of us in the hospitality realms, we will tell you story like this is even Godly as to have church member having affair with men of God rather than having the usual roll call of call girls at the reception waiting in turn for men of god.
Foreign AffairsRe: Exclusive: US Bankrolled Anti-morsi Activists by BABSIN(op): 8:02am On Jul 13, 2013
....In late May he instructed, "Behead those who control power, water and gas utilities."

Soliman removed several older social media posts after authorities in Egypt took notice of his subversive instructions, court documents show.


Egyptian women supporters of ousted president Morsi [EPA]

More recent Facebook instructions to his 83,000 followers range from guidelines on spraying roads with a mix of auto oil and gas - "20 liters of oil to 4 liters of gas"- to how to thwart cars giving chase.

On a YouTube video, Soliman took credit for a failed attempt in December to storm the Egyptian presidential palace with handguns and Molotov cocktails to oust Mors
...."We know he gets support from some groups in the US, but we do not know he is getting support from the US government. This would be news to us," said an Egyptian embassy official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media.

Funding other Morsi opponents

Other beneficiaries of US government funding are also opponents of the now-deposed president, some who had called for Morsi's removal by force.

The Salvation Front main opposition bloc, of which some members received US funding, has backed street protest campaigns that turned violent against the elected government, in contradiction of many of the State Department's own guidelines.
Democracy programme defence

The practice of funding politicians and anti-government activists through NGOs was vehemently defended by the State Department and by a group of Washington-based Middle East experts close to the programme.


Symbolic coffins for the more than 50 people killed Monday [EPA]

"The line between politics and activism is very blurred in this country," said David Linfield, spokesman for the US Embassy in Cairo.

Others said the United States cannot be held responsible for activities by groups it doesn't control.

"It's a very hot and dynamic political scene," said Michelle Dunne, an expert at the Atlantic Council think-tank. Her husband, Michael Dunne, was given a five-year jail sentence in absentia by a Cairo court for his role in political funding in Egypt.

"Just because you give someone some money, you cannot take away their freedom or the position they want to take," said Dunne.

Elliot Abrams, a former official in the administration of George W. Bush and a member of the Working Group on Egypt that includes Dunne, denied in an email message that the US has paid politicians in Egypt, or elsewhere in the Middle East.

"The US does not provide funding for parties or 'local politicians' in Egypt or anywhere else," said Abrams. "That is prohibited by law and the law is scrupulously obeyed by all US agencies, under careful Congressional oversight."

But a State Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the issue's sensitivity, said American support for foreign political activists was in line with American principles.
Foreign AffairsExclusive: US Bankrolled Anti-morsi Activists by BABSIN(op): 7:55am On Jul 13, 2013
President Barack Obama recently stated the United States was not taking sides as Egypt's crisis came to a head with the military overthrow of the democratically elected president.

But a review of dozens of US federal government documents shows Washington has quietly funded senior Egyptian opposition figures who called for toppling of the country's now-deposed president Mohamed Morsi.

Documents obtained by the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley show the US channeled funding through a State Department programme to promote democracy in the Middle East region. This programme vigorously supported activists and politicians who have fomented unrest in Egypt, after autocratic president Hosni Mubarak was ousted in a popular uprising in February 2011.

The State Department's programme, dubbed by US officials as a "democracy assistance" initiative, is part of a wider Obama administration effort to try to stop the retreat of pro-Washington secularists, and to win back influence in Arab Spring countries that saw the rise of Islamists, who largely oppose US interests in the Middle East.


Activists bankrolled by the programme include an exiled Egyptian police officer who plotted the violent overthrow of the Morsi government, an anti-Islamist politician who advocated closing mosques and dragging preachers out by force, as well as a coterie of opposition politicians who pushed for the ouster of the country's first democratically elected leader, government documents show
Information obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, interviews, and public records reveal Washington's "democracy assistance" may have violated Egyptian law, which prohibits foreign political funding.

It may also have broken US government regulations that ban the use of taxpayers' money to fund foreign politicians, or finance subversive activities that target democratically elected governments.
USAID manages about $1.4bn annually in the Middle East, with nearly $390m designated for democracy promotion, according to the Washington-based Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED).

The US government doesn't issue figures on democracy spending per country, but Stephen McInerney, POMED's executive director, estimated that Washington spent some $65m in 2011 and $25m in 2012. He said he expects a similar amount paid out this year.

Read documents here:

Colonel Omar Afifi's June 18, 2013 Facebook post Colonel Omar Afifi's March 7, 2013 Facebook post Excerpt From List of NED Grants, 2011 Excerpt From NED 2009 Annual Report Excerpt of NED's 2010 tax return
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A main conduit for channeling the State Department's democracy funds to Egypt has been the National Endowment for Democracy. Federal documents show NED, which in 2011 was authorised an annual budget of $118m by Congress, funneled at least $120,000 over several years to an exiled Egyptian police officer who has for years incited violence in his native country.

This appears to be in direct contradiction to its Congressional mandate, which clearly states NED is to engage only in "peaceful" political change overseas.

Exiled policeman

Colonel Omar Afifi Soliman - who served in Egypt's elite investigative police unit, notorious for human rights abuses - began receiving NED funds in 2008 for at least four years.

During that time he and his followers targeted Mubarak's government, and Soliman later followed the same tactics against the military rulers who briefly replaced him. Most recently Soliman set his sights on Morsi's government.

Soliman, who has refugee status in the US, was sentenced in absentia last year for five years imprisonment by a Cairo court for his role in inciting violence in 2011 against the embassies of Israel and Saudi Arabia, two US allies.


'Bureau for Democracy'

Washington's democracy assistance programme for the Middle East is filtered through a pyramid of agencies within the State Department. Hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars is channeled through the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL), The Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), USAID, as well as the Washington-based, quasi-governmental organisation the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

In turn, those groups re-route money to other organisations such as the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute (NDI), and Freedom House, among others. Federal documents show these groups have sent funds to certain organisations in Egypt, mostly run by senior members of anti-Morsi political parties who double as NGO activists.

The Middle East Partnership Initiative - launched by the George W Bush administration in 2002 in a bid to influence politics in the Middle East in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks - has spent close to $900m on democracy projects across the region, a federal grants database shows
He also used social media to encourage violent attacks against Egyptian officials, according to court documents and a review of his social media posts.

US Internal Revenue Service documents reveal thatNED paid tens of thousands of dollars to Soliman through an organisation he created called Hukuk Al-Nas (People's Rights), based in Falls Church, Virginia. Federal forms show he is the only employee.

After he was awarded a 2008 human rights fellowship at NED and moved to the US, Soliman received a second $50,000 NED grant in 2009 for Hukuk Al-Nas. In 2010, he received $60,000 and another $10,000 in 2011.

In an interview with the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley, Soliman reluctantly admitted he received US government funding from the National Endowment for Democracy, but complained it wasn't enough. "It is like $2000 or $2,500 a month," he said. "Do you think this is too much? Obama wants to give us peanuts. We will not accept that."


Join the discussion. #EgyptSpeaks

NED has removed public access to its Egyptian grant recipients in 2011 and 2012 from its website. NED officials didn't respond to repeated interview requests.

'Pro bono advice'

NED's website says Soliman spreads only nonviolent literature, and his group was set up to provide "immediate, pro bono legal advice through a telephone hotline, instant messaging, and other social networking tools".

However, in Egyptian media interviews, social media posts and YouTube videos, Soliman encouraged the violent overthrow of Egypt's government, then led by the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party.

"Incapacitate them by smashing their knee bones first," he instructed followers on Facebook in late June, as Morsi's opponents prepared massive street rallies against the government. Egypt's US-funded and trainedmilitary later used those demonstrations to justify its coup on July 3.

"Make a road bump with a broken palm tree to stop the buses going into Cairo, and drench the road around it with gas and diesel. When the bus slows down for the bump, set it all ablaze so it will burn down with all the passengers inside … God bless," Soliman's post read.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/07/2013710113522489801.html
PoliticsRe: Is MADIBA Dead? by BABSIN(op): 12:25am On Jun 12, 2013
FYI: Madiba is the nickname for NELSON MANDELA
PoliticsIs MADIBA Dead? by BABSIN(op): 12:19am On Jun 12, 2013
Just heard this evening that Madiba passed on but this is yet to be announced by the mainstream media.
lf true, may his soul rest in peace.
if not, may the lord give him strength to go through this trying period and gives his life journey a fruitful and effortless ending
PoliticsRe: Boko Haram Fights Back: Corpses Strewn All Over Maiduguri by BABSIN(m): 9:56am On Jun 09, 2013
mekaboy: What took them so long to cooperate? I guess they might be xtian youths.
this comment depict an extreme dump bigot

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