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The world's first successful penis transplant has been reported by a surgical team in South Africa.

The 21-year-old recipient, whose identify is being protected, lost his penis in a botched circumcision.

Doctors in Cape Town said the operation was a success and the patient was happy and healthy.

The team said there was extensive discussion about whether the operation, which is not life-saving in thesame way as a heart transplant, was ethical.

There have been attempts before, including one in China. Accounts suggested the operation went fine, but the penis was later rejected.

see the full story here: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-31876219

who do you want to be more like between your dad and mom and why?

I want to be like my mom because of her neatnest and tolerance.

i want to be like my dad in terms of handling issues with maturity and boldness.

share yours.

saying that she is a lesbian without any tangible evidence is injustice to your wife and the sales girl.
But seriously man you need to conduct a thorough research before taking the last decision.
Ask her to tell you why is that girl so important her? because to me there is no justification whatsoever for her stupid reaction.

choose among the following:
fear of losing your loved ones, parent, wife,friend, etc..

fear of losing money,

fear losing your job

fear of death,

fear of the uknown.

fear of the result of an exam/test, school exams, HIV test etc.

you can add

The emerging reality within the ruling All Progressives Con­gress (APC) is an intriguing one. The arrowheads of the par­ty, President Muhammadu Buhari, and Bola Tinubu, appear to be working at cross purposes. The romance between them appears to be fading too fast.

We have a telling instance onour hands. The race for the emergence of the leader­ship of the National Assembly is a ready reference point.

What is the issue here? Two fellows – Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara- have, against the wish of the national leader­ship of the APC, emerged as President of the Senate and Speaker ofthe House of Representatives, respectively. The party, we were told, held a mock election over the weekend where Ahmed Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila were tipped to emerge as Senate President and House Speaker, respectively. However, the party’s choice was repudiated by a sizable majority of members of bothchambers of the National Assembly. They threw the party’s position overboard and went ahead to see to the emergence of Saraki and Dogara on the floor of the Senate and the House.

The lawmakers of opposite tendency, who saw to the emergence of Saraki and Dogara, did not stop there. They also made it possible for a member of the op­position Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ike Ekweremadu, to emerge as Deputy President of the Senate.

The ruling party, obviously thrown into blue funk by the development, is raking up muck. The national leadership, goaded on by Bola Tinubu, has thrown its hat into the ring. It is set to do battle with those it has described as treacherous lawmak­ers within its fold. The leadership has describedwhat Saraki and Dogara havedone as the height of indiscipline. It has vowed to invoke the supremacy of the party against them.

But there is a snag. President Buhari does not share their sentiments. He has, contrary to Tinubu’s position, accepted the emergence of Saraki and Dogara and has expressed willingness to work with them. Unlike the Tinubu tendency within APC, which believes that leaders of the National Assembly must be anointed by the bigwigs of the party, Buhari’s position, at least, on the surface, is that members of the National Assembly should beallowed to choose their principal officers. These differing tendencies have automatically introduced a divide within the APC.

Indeed, what transpired this Tuesday was no happenstance. The plot looks properly choreographed. Buhari, the leader of the party, was scheduled to hold a reconciliatory meeting with the opposing tendencies within the party to harmonise their positions before the inauguration of the National Assembly. But the man did not make himself available for the talks. His absence stalled themeeting and paved the way for what transpired at the National Assembly that day. It is, in fact, intrigu­ing that one group was waiting to meet with the president while the other was in the chambers of the senate, with the full complement of the principal staff of the National Assembly, electing leaders of the senate. The president could not have been unaware of the goings-on. But he must have chosento look the other way because the development, obviously, did not go againsthis interest. This emerging reality tells a lot of story about the famed Buhari-Tinubu rap­prochement.

But the cordiality of their relationship appears to be taking a nosedive. Buhari, the man for whom Tinubu staked almost every­thing tosee to his emergence as president, is set to be his own man. He does not want the Tinubu brand of politics where power flows from onlyone source. And to demonstrate his rejection of the Tinubu approach, the president is quietly shieldinghimself away from the Tinubu influence.

Perhaps, the first major indication that signposted the way Buhari’s mind was working was in the choice of his media team. The president chose his own men. He would not be bothered that Tinubu deployed his entire media machine and machinery to fight his (Buhari’s) presidential battle. The president does not appear to want strange bedfellows around him. He wants to know, as Chinua Achebe would say, when the rain will begin to beat him.

The immediate impression a discerning observer will run away with in all this is that the APC, which managed to emerge victorious in the recent general elections, wasunited by only one thing – the resolve to end the reign of Goodluck Jonathan, as Ni­geria’s president. The APCeasily achieved consensus inthis just as Nigerians, again according to Chinua Achebe, will always achieve consensus only in one thing – their common resentment for the Igbo. Beyond that, the party is a very divided house. Since the only agenda that brought the party to­gether has been taken care of, the party can, as well, implode and even explode. This appears to be happening already.

Another scenario that should interest observers is the consensus that a tendency within the APC in the National Assembly reached with their colleagues from the opposing PDP. Both parties, in what looks like a seamlessexercise, came together to decide on who their leaders should be. The rapprochement even made itpossible for an opposition party member to emerge as Deputy President of the Senate. What this means is that in the absence of the President of the Senate, the minority PDP will have one ofits own control proceedings in the senate. It will be interesting to see how this will play out.

This intriguing development would have mattered were we in for real politics where the ruling and opposition parties have different persuasions and ideolo­gies.But here it does not matter because APC and PDP are one and the same thing. In fact, APC is usually taken to be a waste basket of the PDP. That is why both have no difficulty flocking together.

But the real interesting angle to all of this appears to be what Saraki and his supporters within the APC represent. Saraki was one of the henchmen of the PDP, who defected in droves during those hectic moments to the APC. Those were people who were part of everything that PDP had been since 1999. When they left the party, they were not,strictly speaking, against theparty. They were against the situation in the party at thattime that appeared to be strangulating them. What they did was to revolt against that tendency, usingthe instrumental­ity of another platform, in this case, the APC. Having achieved their objective, they can, as well, assert themselves. This is what they have begun to do.

Ordinarily, President Buhari, who has never been in league with the Saraki tendency in politics, is supposed to be uncomfortable with the couphatched and executed by these former members of the PDP. But he is not. Having become presi­dent, Buhari is very willing and ready to free himself from the stranglehold of the tendency within the APC represented by the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN). Therefore, if he had tolook the other way to ensurethat the ACN tendency is sufficiently weakened, so be it. That appears to be the Buhari attitude to the emerging scenario within APC.

If what has happened at the National Assembly is sustained, we will come to see a situation where a sizable number of APC lawmakers will tend towards PDP. In fact, majority of them will not mind returning to PDP if that is what has to be done to ensure that the ACN tendency does not dominate the affairs of the APC. Nigerians should expectmore of such twists in the years to come.

But now that a segment of the APC which represents itsnational leadership has received an upper cut, what does it do about the situation? Will it and can it unseat the leadership that has emerged on both floors of the National Assembly? The true test as to who ownsthe party resides in the way this Gordian knot will be cracked.

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=122872

LAZY AKPOS : During an English lesson, the teacher instructed his students to write a composition.??Question: Assume you are in a war, write a story on your experience?Akpos did not write anything and kept seated.

The teacher got puzzled, walked to Akpos' desk and asked him why he was not doing the exercise.


Akpos replied, "I was killed immediately at the beginning of the war.

Sex is literally a matter of life and death. If an animal doesn't manage to produce offspring, its genes will die with it. So they have evolved to be very good at courting and mating.

Males are often the ones doing the pursuing, so they have evolved all sorts of ways to attract females. Male birds often havestunningly beautiful feathers– think of a peacock's tail– or the ability to sing elaborate songs.

The same principles apply to insects. That is why maleRoesel's bush-cricketshave evolved their amazing courtship apparatus.

They have a pair of curved rods called titillators pointing out of their genital openings. They look a bit like coat hooks.

Until recently no one knew what they were for. But it now seems they stimulate a sensitive area of the female's genitals.

The new results have been published in the journal Arthropod Structure and Development.

Gerlind Lehmann of the Humboldt-University Berlin in Germany and her colleagues examined the titillators under microscopes. Then they watched bush-crickets mating, and used CT scans to figure out what the titillators were doing during mating.

They found that the male repeatedly, and rhythmically, inserted the titillators into the female's genital opening.

The titillators were gently drumming on a plate inside the female's genitals. This plate was covered in different kinds of sensory cells, suggesting that the female could detect the titillators' drumming.

This suggests that the titillatorsare somehow helping the male keep the female interested, much as mating humans perform pre-intimacy on each other's genitals to stimulate sexual desire.

In unpublished experiments, Lehmann tried shortening the titillators.

The females became more likely to resist the male's attempts at mating, and males were less likely to succeed in transferring sperm.

The highly sensitive spot inside the female's genitals may sound rather similar to the center of gravity, a region inside the human vagina that is sensitive to sexual stimulation. But the two may be very different.

In particular, it's unclear whether the female insects experience any pleasure from the titillators. Insects such as bush-crickets may not be conscious enough to experience sensations such as pleasure.

Instead the action of the titillators might do something more functional, such as suppressing her instinct to fightthe male off.

source: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150607-these-insects-use-vibrators

A former Governor of Kaduna State, AlhajiBalarabe Musa, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint ministers and other government functionaries fromthe opposition parties, saying a government of national unity should be paramount in his agenda.
Musa, who spoke in an interview with our correspondent, on Wednesday, berated the winner-takes-all political culture in the country and argued that a coalition government was imperative.
He said, “President Muhammadu Buhari should form a government of national unity. He should appoint ministers and government functionaries, not only from the APC but from the Peoples DemocraticParty and other opposition parties.”
While commenting on the high cost of governance in the country, Musa asked the Governor of Bauchi State, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar, and his Kaduna State counterpart, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, to disclose their full entitlements rather than “merely announce a 50 per cent reduction in their salaries.”
“The recent announcement of a slash in salaries by El-Rufai and Abubakar is too symbolic. What about other remunerationthey get besides salaries? We have to know about all the governor gets, not justsalaries. It is not really commendable. It isnot enough. It is politically distractive. Letthe two governors reveal the whole entitlement that they get, including salaries. They should let us know what each governor costs the state,” Musa said.
While reacting to the election of Senator Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara, as the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives respectively, Musa said although the election process was democratic. He said, both Saraki and Dogara should be loyal to their party, noting that they got elected on the platform of the APC.
He added, “Let the President first initiate the reduction in the entitlements for political office holders through an act of law. Although the moves to reduce the remuneration of public office holders failed during the Shehu Shagari era in the Second Republic, people are now more aware and enlightened and the lawmakersshould support that. It is the President who can champion the initiative. He has more powers than other public office holders.

http://www.punchng.com/politics/buhari-should-appoint-ministers-from-opposition-parties-balarabe-musa/

The emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki as the President of the Senate and Yakubu Dogara as the Speaker of the House of Representatives may have altered the cabinet consideration of President Muhammadu Buhari,THE PUNCHhas learnt.
Saraki, a former governor of Kwara State, is from North-Central while Dogara hails from Bauchi, North-East.
The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, is from the South-East while the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yusuf Lasun, hails from the South-West.
All these officers, except Ekweremadu, are members of the ruling APC.
The deputy senate president is the only member of the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party.
President Buhari was said to be waiting for the outcome of the election before making announcement on key appointments in his government.
Apart from the ministers, he was said to be waiting for the election of principal officers of the National Assembly before naming his Secretary to the Government of the Federation, his Chief of Staff and Special Advisers.

Investigations by our correspondent in Abuja indicated that the position of the SGF hitherto reserved for the South-East may now go to another zone because of the emergence of Ekweremadu.
In anticipation that the position would go to the zone, Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State was said to have submitted three names to the President.
Those on his list are a former Governor ofAnambra State, Senator Chris Ngige; a former Governor of old Abia State, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu and Prof. Anthony Anwuka.
It was gathered that in the negotiation that brought Saraki to power, the zone agreed to rather go for the position of the deputy senate president instead of the SGF.
The presidential source said, “President Buhari is seriously tinkering with the original list he has for political offices. This is because the emergence of the officers of the National Assembly has affected the original list he has.
“Though he was expecting some elements of surprise in the election, but I think he never bargained for a total disregard to party directive in the election of the officers.”
So far, in the distribution of offices, only the South-South region has not benefitted.
It was gathered that some people were arguing that since the National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, hails from the zone, that should be considered as a position.
“Because of this, the zone is being considered for a strategic position by the President either as the SGF, CoS or others. But politicians from the North-East are still mounting pressure on the President to cede the position of the SGF to the area,” the source added.
The emergence of Lasun is also said to bethreatening the zoning of the office of the office of the Minister of Justice and the Attorney General of the Federation to the South-West.
It was learnt that Vice President Yemi Osibanjo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, was saddled with the responsibility of nominating a lawyer for the position.
The VP, it was further gathered, would be in charge of justice and law reforms to be carried out by the Buhari administration.
If those who want the office taken out of the zone succeed, it was gathered that it may go to Kebbi State, where a particular SAN who worked for the presidential bid of Buhari and Osinbajo was being considered.
The argument of these set of people, wasthat majority of those being considered in the South-West, are not card-carrying members of the ruling party.
It was learnt that the President has however not made up his mind on this issue.
Our correspondent also gathered that the name of a former Commissioner of Finance in Lagos State, Mr. Olawale Edun, was being touted as one of the people to be appointed from the zone.
The snag in his nomination, it was gathered, was that he was being nominated out of Ogun State where he hails from with the intention of occupyingthe slot of his home state.
However, it was learnt that the Governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun, is resisting the move by allegedly saying he would be the one to nominate minister from his state.
Also being touted as a minister is the Executive Chairman Lagos State Board of Internal Revenue and Chief Executive Officer Lagos State Internal Revenue Service, Mr. Babatunde Fowler.
Efforts made to get the reaction to the story however were not successful as calls made to the telephone of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, indicated that it was switched off.
He also didn’t reply to a text message sent to him.
But a Presidential source said that “the non- appointment of some of the key aides of the President was because President Buhari was waiting for the elections at NASS.
“He didn’t want to make the mistake of appointing his aides from the zone where the leadership of both the Senate and theHouse of Representatives could have emerged.
“You know that the case of the South-East was particularly worrisome because they didn’t vote for the APC and they don’t have any senator or Rep from the APC. So, the way of taking care of the zone in key appointment was giving us headache.
“Now, the zone has come through the back door to get the office of the Deputy Senate President. That is okay for the Presidency. That shows the zone has helped itself and has also helped the Presidency.”
It was learnt that anytime from now, the President would name some of the peopleto be appointed into the key positions, especially those that may not need the approval of the Senate.

http://www.punchng.com/news/saraki-dogaras-emergence-may-alter-buharis-cabinet-list/

agarawu23:
thanks bro
that's why should vote me for Mr Nl

you have my vote

agarawu23:
okay!
I will advice you to ask her out if you know you love her instead of the friend zone wey u put yourself.

don't ever think a lady likes you or wanna date until you tell her how you feel and hear her response. I can see you like this babe and that's why you are worried about her attitude.

bro, go for her if you will find happiness in her. you aren't a young nigga

woow i like this, i think its the best so far

agarawu23:
bebene

you aren't dating the lady you are talking about

you are thinking if she likes you or not and you failed to express your feelings to her.

you asked her a question and she trow you back the question your reply to her question and attitude after your answer isn't our biz since you guys aren't dating

now you are asking us how to get her back
get what back ?
your friendship ?
or relationship?

the friendship
the friendship back to normal. cos clearly it was my answer to her question that made her angry, but she is saying its not.

hehehe guys what are you turning this thread into? a royal rumble fight or what?
for you saying its not complete ask question or keep off.

yes he is among my role model, GEJ wanted to make his life miserable for exposing their biggest scam. But god saved him and provided a strong shield for him. which position would you have suggested for him?

boko haram can never be good muslims they have different perception of what islam is all about

the biggest losers are shekarau and nuhu ribadu

IGP should remember that this is not the stealing is not corruption gvt that he is used to

dharay99:

yhu claim u've made sensible posts here n der n wah d Bleep is
my biz wid daht niggah.?

And see where ur sensible post got u, a simple write up and u mixed everything up.

And listen, if ur job on nl is 2come make sum outdated advice to some chipmunks, im not here for daht.

Im here jez for fun nd if d way i carry myself around is
begginin to give u cramps, mehn d Bleep do i qive on daht.

How abt yhu, telme d damn solution uve given him so far,
Uve just been busy making long range posts nd u here
claimin u are helpin.

Dude plz, save doz write up & shove it up ur àss cuz
uve mixd evritin up from d onset by calling d girl his gf.
#full crap#

you guys should pls end this

naijaboy i like your post and you are on point,one should post base on the way one undersdant the write up.However, if you dont get something right its not bad to ask for more clarification. dharay99 you are also on point, i just want you to mention what exactly you want know.

dharay99:

yhu guys are forgetting sumfin here,

He didn't say d girl is her "girlfrnd"

Them still dey jonze around.

yes

dharay99:

how can a girl just change like daht
all bcuz of dat simple talk.? Naa

He better open up and stop & giving us cracked stories.

what you read was what really happed.what more do you want to know? be precise

naijaboiy:
[color=#1980BC]Op I guess you and your girlfriends ideas about marriage are at a clash here.

One of the reasons why some people don't get married despite how much they love themselves is because they couldn't agree on certain things that will definitely affect their marriage along the line.

I don't really see your issue as a problem though because you were simply telling her your own fears and she is meant to understand that. Everything is not meant to go her own way all the time. I hope you told her the reason why you wouldn't like to rush to have kids after marriage.

However,,some things are not really clear here. Like the age of you and your girlfriend. Is she getting old already that delaying child birth may be dangerous?

Or is she just a naïve young girl who sees nothing in marriage except being the mother of the house and having babies.

Please do well to answer these questions for further explanations.[/color]

she is 23 and am 27

i have a friend(girl) its normal friendship, and actually i like her. I have started thinking of us being more than friends and with all indications she likes me too.
Things were normal between us until i asked her what is it she is afraid of about marriage life? she told me and ask me same question, i said to her am fraid of the hardship that babies come with,but not that i dont like kids, and even if i should get married now i will not allow my wife to get pregnant untill like one or two years.
since the time we had this discussion she have been acting somehow and i asked her is it because of what i said about babies? she said no.
Nairalanders how can i get her back? i love her.

obj a real patriot

fashiola my next president

ogawisdom:
Only a big fool like u will ask this questn baboon

oh god thank you for not allowing me to be trained this way.

ogawisdom:
Yes Buhari is a national disaster already. He deceived nigerians to get power

and what are your reasons for saying that?

this is for those asking why has he not handle boko haram issues and others.
i think he should be given atleast 3 to 6 months before people should start criticize his administration or do people want him to perform miracle?

OreMI22:
The time is getting closer. All that is needed now is a major spark to get people to act.

pls can you explain more what you mean by a major spark?

Eshinwaju:
Biafra....only exist on d Internet.........social media tins...even yeboes don't want it......

be careful bro cos i can see some are already sharpening their knives to cut ur upper lips for this post.

NormalCodes:
O.P because when something is about to happen, it usually is the talk of the town.

ok we are waiting, and if at all is going to happen we pray that it shall be peaceful.

I use to hear or read a story that man get stuck while having sex, how is this possible and if it is possible why is it that married couples dont get stuck?