watchindelta:
"So please let this be the end today. Don’t ask me about Uche. We have Obafemi Martins and others (doing well) and nobody is making fuss about not being invited.

feyif:
Striking Every Time in Nigeria Is Now Rampant*modifield* Wike Is D The Thief Who Is Stealing Their Money To Campaign

taharqa: 'Making', not 'made' Sense I said. Biko, I cannot type unnecessarily. See d Comment from @TMidas I quoted and fully endorsed above.. And by d way, if you read my comment on d PT claim on d last page and if you hv any Sense, you wud be very circumspect at accepting any of these allegations without both criticali analysing it Or waiting for other Info esp counter ones from all sides.

nextdoor84: Even if the car is purchased at 255 million each...what has that got to do with most yorubas ranting on this thread....the car belong to the office of the minister not her home...she will surely leave the office and someone else will use the car......please let me remind you all..This is not Odua republic..this is Nigeria and it belongs to all of us!!

A four-megaton nuclear bomb was one switch away from exploding over the US in 1961, a newly declassified US document confirms.

Two bombs were on board a B-52 plane that went into an uncontrolled spin over North Carolina - both bombs fell and one began the detonation process. The document was first published in the UK's Guardian newspaper.

The US government has acknowledged the accident before, but never made public how close the bomb came to detonating.
The document was obtained by journalist Eric Schlosser under the Freedom of Information Act.

Schlosser told the BBC such an explosion would have "changed literally the course of history". The plane was on a routine flight when it began to break up over North Carolina on 23 January 1961. As it was breaking apart, a control inside the cockpit released the two Mark 39 hydrogen bombs over Goldsboro.

One fell to the ground unarmed. But the second "assumed it was being deliberately released over an enemy target - and went through all its arming mechanisms save one, and very nearly detonated over North Carolina," Mr Schlosser told the BBC's Katty Kay.

Only one safety mechanism, a single low-voltage switch, prevented disaster, he said.

The bomb was almost 260 times more powerful than the bombs that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The accident occurred during the height of the Cold War between US and Russia, just over a year before the Cuban missile crisis brought nuclear fears to the US's front door.

There has been ongoing speculation ever since, including a 1961 book by former government scientist Dr Ralph Lapp. The newly declassified document was written eight years after the incident by US government scientist Parker Jones - who was responsible for mechanical safety of nuclear devices.

In it, he comments on and corrects Lapp's narrative of the accident, including listing that three out of the four fail safe mechanisms failed, not five out of six as originally thought by Lapp.

"One set off by the fall. Two rendered ineffective by aircraft breakup," Mr Jones writes. "It would have been bad news in spades." \par
"One simple dynamo-technology low voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe."

There has been no official comment to the newly declassified details.

"Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven - for she loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little." Luke 7:47

I'll never forget hearing the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir in concert. The sincerity and depth of feeling the singers brought to the music showed that it was more than a mere performance. When they sang "I'm Not Afraid Anymore," you could tell that many of the singers identified with the experience of living in constant fear before they met Jesus - fear of violence, fear of not having enough money, fear of what might happen to their children, fear of not being able to get the drugs needed to feed their addictions, fear of every tomorrow. As the soloist, Calvin Hunt, sang, the spotlights showed tears flowing down his cheeks. No wonder - Calvin spent years as a crack cocaine addict on the streets of Brooklyn before being transformed by the life-saving power of the gospel. That's why he could sing with such passion; each word of the song flowed from the heart of one who had been forgiven much.

It reminds me of the woman who poured perfume on Jesus' feet. The drama unfolds for us in Luke 7:36-50, when she crashed the dinner party at Simon the Pharisee's home. She knew that Jesus was there. This was her chance to express adoring worship to her Savior. He was worth the risk for her, the town prostitute, to show up uninvited, worth the embarrassment to step from the crowd and approach Him, worth the price of the valuable perfume and the kisses and tears that she poured out at His feet.

But as moving a moment as that was, Simon the Pharisee was not impressed. He was indignant about the 'waste' of perfume (Mark 14:4-5) and thought, "If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is - that she is a sinner" (Luke 7:39). I suppose we shouldn't expect the proud Simon, in bondage to his unbending tradition, to understand this kind of extravagant, self-effacing worship. But before we come down too hard on him, let's consider the fact that there might just be a Pharisee in all of us.

Unfortunately, it seems that over time we grow accustomed to what we have been rescued from and what we really deserve. Without a continuing awareness of why grace is so necessary for us, we are lulled into forming an exaggerated perspective of our own worth before God. It's no wonder, then, that our worship is often lacking the kind of passion that Calvin Hunt and the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir display in their love for the Savior.

Jesus, knowing what Simon was thinking, rebuked him for his graceless, self-righteous attitude and for the pride that put his interests above the needs of others. In fact, Simon thought so well of himself that he felt it was too risky to honor Jesus as the guest of honor at his dinner. Yet Jesus commended this town prostitute for her extravagant worship. He told Simon, "I came into your house. You did not give me any water for my feet, but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. You did not give me a kiss, but this woman, from the time I entered, has not stopped kissing my feet. You did not put oil on my head, but she has poured perfume on my feet. Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven - for she loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little" (Luke 7:44-47).

Let's take the lesson personally. True ongoing love for Jesus flows from a heart that is gripped by the awareness of how much we have been forgiven. When we grasp both the depth of our sin and the depth of God's grace in Jesus Christ, then we'll be looking for ways to join this woman at his feet to extravagantly express our love and gratitude to Him!

emiye: Why is Bamidele so desperate and stubborn? Why start a campaign that violates the electoral act? Elections in ekiti will hold some time in May/June 2014

I hope the campaign rally organised is recorded, that is enough ground for him to be disqualified. 90 days before election is what is stipulated

INEC only recently cleared candidates for anambra state election of NOV 16 to start campaign .

He also said both the public and private sectors were involved in
corruption but stated that he would
not give out their names “so that I
won’t be attacked.”

biodunid:
The MASSOB leader had during a
meeting in Owerri, the Imo State capital, with other separatists,
including Dr Frederick Fasehun, Asari Dokubo, Hamza al-Mustapha,
Mohammed Abacha and Yerima
Shetimma, issued a communique in
support of the unity and coexistence of Nigeria.

solomon111: ASUU is fighting for their allowances,yet some deluded people think ASUU is fighting for them.
Nigerians are gullible sha.

bankoleben: 'Our leaders are selfish!' 'We only have self-serving Governors'. 'The President is corrupt!' How many times have you heard those statements from Nigerians? We are quick to put blames solely on the leaders. We blame everyone else but us for our misfortune. It's them when things go wrong. We seem comfortable living in denial. We pretend to be blind to the foundational truth of the causes of bad governance we have in our society today.

The bitter truth everyone seems to be running away from is that the leaders we have today are just the true reflection of the Nigerian state. The difference? They have only gotten a bigger platform, a higher office to do what what most Nigerians would do - use every paraphernalia of public office to pursue selfish interest. Isn't it funny that the same set of people - head teachers and Principals that have mismanaged their school resources, student leaders who have sold out their conscience on the altar of Mammon, leaders of small groups who have not been accountable for the little committed to their hands - all complain about bad leaders, when in fact, they could be worse if they lay their hands on higher offices. We have too numerous pretenders these days, masquerading as democrats.

Where are the Labaran Makus of yesteryears? Or shall we ask of the outspoken Reuben Abatis of not too long ago? We all know the stories. Just make your voice heard, and when the opportunities come, you grab them. Is that not what we have around us today?

A lot has been said about corruption in Nigeria and what it has degenerated to. Our President recently claimed that the issue of corruption is exaggerated. In my opinion, I think it is much worse than we think. Many years ago, towards the end of the military era of the 1990s, I had a conversation with one of my childhood friends that I still remember vividly till date. We were primary school kids playing around one evening in my village when the issue of governance popped up. We all agreed that the leaders of that time were 'bad', and to an innocent kid, bad is bad. But then, my friend asked if I wouldn't 'swallow money' (a direct translation of what he said in Yoruba) if I occupied such position. My response was simple and straight forward: No way! I was however startled with what he said afterwards. He said he would 'swallow money'. That's how low our fatherland has fallen! The seed of corruption has long been planted in our hearts and entrenched in our culture, and now it has matured and producing fruits in multiple folds.

Everyone is part of this problem. When somebody gets into a public office his family and friends expect him to build bigger houses and acquire new cars. He is termed stupid if he doesn't. And the same people who mount such pressure on them to steal complain about bad governance.

We are in a fix and urgently need a way out. Do we go for a revolution? Well, Rotimi Amaechi said the other day that Nigerians are not ready for a revolution, and I can't agree more. Revolution in Nigeria - as we have it today - will only succeed in removing a set of corrupt leaders and enthroning a new set of corrupt, perhaps more brutal leaders. We need a change, but that change must start in the hearts of individuals. When that is done, even the most brutal and corrupt leaders would find no hiding place among us. Anything short of this, a million revolutions would change nothing. A vivid example of this is Egypt. They wanted a change, they wanted freedom, but what did they get after sending Mubarak away? A new set of leaders that are even more dictatorial and restrictive than the previous administration. We must not commit the same mistake. There are many people who are only interested in using the masses to meet their selfish interest.

Are our leaders corrupt? Certainly! And so are many of us. Until individuals, who are the constituents of the larger society change nothing changes. Our destiny is in our own hand. Each time we vote based on sentiments or don't ask the right questions, we demonstrate our approval for such inept leadership. We are our own problem, and only we can solve it. The ball is, and has always been in our court!

That
is why the wife of Bayelsa State
Governor traveled from Yenagoa to receive the First Lady. Ordinarily, one
would have expected the same
complement from the wife of the
Rivers State Governor.

Nigerian club Sunshine Stars say English Premier League side Arsenal have never asked them to take Godfrey Oboabona on trial.

Media speculation last week
suggested not only did the Nigeria defender turn down the offer of a trial and but he criticised manager Arsene Wenger too.
"I never said anything about a highly respected manager like Mr Wenger showing me a lack of respect," he said.

Oboabona also says he was not aware of any invitation for a trial.

"I have had so many text messages, phone calls about it - the rumour that I was invited on trial was not true - I only read about it like everyone else," he explained to the BBC.

"I've always said I will take my time, focus on my development as a player and continue to give my best in every game. "At the appropriate time, when clubs must have seen me well enough, they will hopefully approach Sunshine Stars in Nigeria.

"My desire is to grow every day, sadly all the things written about Arsenal did not come from me."

The 22-year-old played a big part in Nigeria's victorious 2013 Africa Cup of Nations campaign and was also part of their Confederations Cup squad. He was an integral part of Nigeria's qualification for the African Nations Championship, the continent's tournament for locally based players only, for the first ever time.

The Sunshine Stars' chairman Mike Idoko also insisted there has been no approach from Arsenal.

"It all began in the media and ends there," he told BBC Sport. "If there was any substance to the
story, we expect Arsenal would
approach his club first. "We haven't had any official communication with Arsenal or any Premier League club about [Godfrey] Oboabona."

dungrin:
Guy enjoy urself. Go meet u there...bt these 1 u said d place is filty hope it ain't dat bad, & hw many hrs 2 camp 4rm onitsha?