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Autos › Re: 2001 Nissan Xterra For Grab by bellong(op): 2:40pm On May 15, 2013
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Crime › 18-year-old Undergraduate Stabs Father To Death by bellong(op): 9:49am On May 15, 2013
Residents of Langbasa, Ajah, Lagos State are still talking about 18-year-old Olanrewaju Kayode-Aremu, who stabbed his father, Victor Kayode-Aremu, to death.

Police authorities said the suspect stabbed his 46-year-old father to death while the man was attempting to enter his room.

It was learnt that Olanrewaju was a student of University of Ilorin, Kwara State, but was expelled because he had poor grades.

A police source at Langbasa Divison, where the suspect was detained, told our correspondent that the incident occurred on May 1, 2013.

He said, “Olanrewaju is the first of five children. He lived with his parents and siblings in a duplex in Langbasa. He was enrolled in University of Ilorin to study Geology in 2011 but was later asked to withdraw because he had very poor grades.

“Since he was not attending any school, he started working with his father who was a civil engineer. The arrangement his father made with him was that he would be working with him until he could get admission to another school.”

The senior officer told our correspondent that the suspect was not happy about the arrangement. He said the frustration later led him to laying an ambush for his father while he was trying to enter his room.

He said the suspect stabbed his father in 10 different places, causing him to bleed to death.

He said, “Around 10pm on that day, the whole family had just had dinner and they were watching television when their father received a telephone call. He went upstairs and when he got to the entrance of the room, Olanrewaju appeared from nowhere with a kitchen knife.

“He stabbed his father in the back, sides, hands, legs over 10 times. The man, who was screaming in pains, attracted the attention of other members of the family who were downstairs. When the mother came upstairs, she found her son still stabbing her husband. The presence of other children did not also stop Olanrewaju.

“When she tried to save her husband, Olanrewaju threatened to stab her if she came close. The woman then went outside and called on neighbours for help.”

It took the intervention of neighbours to overpower the 18-year-old and wrest the knife from him.

It was learnt that the victim was rushed to J-Rapha Hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival.

A resident, who spoke to our correspondent on the condition of anonymity, said the family had been in shock and had not been staying home since the incident occurred.

He said, “The family is a young one. Olanrewaju is the first born and he had four younger siblings.”

The suspect, who was not remorseful, said he killed his father because he was convinced that his father did not love him.

He said he was not worried about his predicament since he was too young to be prosecuted.

“The case is a very long story. The truth is that my father never loved me and the only form of care he showed me was paying my school fees. I am just 18-years-old so I know I cannot be prosecuted. I have no regrets for my action,” he said.

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Romance › Re: I Need Your Opininion by bellong: 2:02pm On May 14, 2013
If he is the football freak type and he watches the match at home, tomorrow is the EUROPA league final between Chelsea and Benfica. I am very sure he will want to watch it. Make arrangement for the candle light dinner prior to when he arrives from work and watch the match with him. even if you hate football, join him on this and contribute your quota in the discussion during the game, no matter how stupid/foolish your opinion about football maybe, I assure you he will be turned on another pedestal for you for that act.
This is just a temporal and immediate thing you can do while sticking to other advice that came earlier
Family › Re: Help!my 11-year Old Niece Wants To Have S/E/X. by bellong: 10:45am On May 08, 2013
yellowpawpaw: Let's break it down.
Did primary 1-6 in between 3 to 8 yrs,jss1 and 2 from 9 to 10. Nawaa o ! My eye said its cool but my mind no gree add am up!
Very very possible. I had three students in same class with me who entered JSS 1 at age 9, years ago. A cousin of mine also started JSS 1 at age 9, he is about to graduate from the university at age 20. He entered through pre-degree for a five year program. Meaning he has spent 6 years in the university.
Family › Re: Unnecessary Familiarity by bellong: 7:49am On May 07, 2013
I want to believe prior to western colonization, there was no word like aunty/uncle in our vocabulary. Kids then must have been calling "egbon mi" or "iya lagbaja" for the Yorubas while other tribes had their ways of expressing such. But with the coming of western culture and in a bid to be very polite using English along with native language, the aunty/uncle, mummy/daddy idea came in.
Personally, I think there is nothing wrong with children calling people Mrs/Mr/Miss if they are taught that way. However, in simplifying how to respect older people for kids, the uncle/aunty is not a bad idea but must come with parents explaining the relationship between you and the person to the Kid.

Nevertheless, I think its good not to give a damn about what people think in as much as you train your children to be respectful to all including their peers. Most times we get troubled because of what will people and environment say.

As for me, will always tell my boy who an individual is to me so he can define the relationship without getting confused. Mr/Mrs/Miss. aunty/uncle, grandma etc where appropriate. WIll teach him to use the right word at the right time for the right people.
Family › Re: 9 Reasons Not To Walk Babies by bellong(op): 7:25am On May 07, 2013
Thanks for the tip.... Well appreciated
Family › Re: 9 Reasons Not To Walk Babies by bellong(op): 2:11pm On May 06, 2013
yellowpawpaw: Thanks op for these info,I am a firm believer of allowing a child to develop at its own pace.its not a competition and all children r not d same.u did well
Thanks for reading. I am a firm believer of it as well, however I got to the site while searching for an answer. My boy of four and half months hates being put in a lying position or sitting position. He always wants to be on his feet. I bought a walker to suit his thirst but I read in several baby sites discouraging the use of walkers for babies. Am on the search to assist him with that without getting too much involved. He cannot sit without support yet but he wants to walk... Very funny.
Family › 9 Reasons Not To Walk Babies by bellong(op): 10:52am On May 06, 2013
I can understand the urge to walk babies. After all, they seem to like it so much. When we help our babies walk, they are gleefully entertained — enjoying us enjoying them — while we’re getting a preview of one of life’s major milestones. Sometimes we’re compelled to walk our babies because we think they need help developing their motor skills and believe it our duty to teach them. We worry that our children will fall behind if we don’t give them a hand or two (literally).

So, why rain on this innocent parade and suggest not walking babies?

1. Body wisdom

“Only a baby knows just the way his joints should align,” notes Carol Pinto, a longtime RIE Associate, Feldenkrais practitioner and friend. In other words, when it comes to motor development, babies are self-learners — they really do know best. By holding a baby’s hands to mobilize him, position and reposition his body, we hinder his natural ability to find balance, sense spatial relations, and judge what he can and cannot do. Better to trust our babies to walk when they are ready, and by doing so encourage mental and physical awareness.

2. Safety

Awareness and safety go hand-in-hand, and walking babies makes them less aware — gives them a false sense of balance and of their abilities — which can be dangerous. (In Don’t Stand Me Up I describe an unfortunate incident at our home involving my unwitting husband and a friend’s toddler who was accustomed to being walked down steps.) But babies who are given freedom to move and develop in their own way gain a self-knowledge that keeps them safer. Their inner sense of balance and judgment intact, movements are carefully calculated, and they tend to make fewer reckless moves. In a 1971 study on natural gross motor development at the Pikler Institute (as reported in The RIE Manual) researchers described the children’s movements as “well-coordinated, economical and cautious”. They also noted that “the children, without exception, attained age-appropriate skills.”

3. Habits, dependencies

Walk babies, and they’ll probably want to do it again and again. Not only does this create an unhealthy dependence on an adult for body balancing, it makes a habit of an activity that the baby will likely be much more interested in continuing (and doing far more often) than we are. Babies are extremely fond of repetition. And, personally, I’m not fond of having more situations with babies where I have to say, “No”. Babies who are not walked or otherwise positioned never ask to be.

4. Parent’s backache

Enough said.

5. Thwarts independent play

The walking habit creates an unnecessary and unproductive dependency on the adult for entertainment. Engaging the parent to repeat the activity becomes a distraction when the child could be happily working on developing motor skills his way, or engaged in other more educational, creative and exploratory self-generated activities.

6. Restrictive

Although we probably believe that our well-intentioned manipulation of a baby is helping him learn to move freely, we are actually restricting him (just as we do when propping him to sit and holding him to stand). Babies need lots of practice moving freely to attain new skills. It is best to encourage that freedom and trust them to be inner-directed. Only babies know what they are ready to do and what they’re working on.

7. Loss of transitional movements

Researchers at the Pikler Institute also noted in their observation of the 722 children raised in this model orphanage (the only place that I’m aware of where natural gross motor development has been officially studied) that the children maintained a “stable high activity level during the whole period of learning new motor skills and changed their postures on average of at least once per minute. This indicates that a child restricted from moving freely is deprived of the long hours of exercising in transitional postures before mastering the next developmental skill.” (From The RIE Manual.)

These wonderful transitional postures are one of the striking differences I’ve seen over the years between babies who are allowed to develop without interference and those who aren’t.

There is an agile 7 month old boy in my new class who spends the majority of the class in perfect straddle splits when he isn’t sitting (a recent development) or scooting across the floor. The parents (neither of whom are dancers, gymnasts, or even circus performers) and I were marveling at him just last week, wondering if, and for how long he will maintain this astonishing flexibility.

Transitional postures are building blocks, each one having a distinct and valuable developmental purpose for our child. When we, however subtly, nudge our child to sit or walk, we believe we are helping, but the child ends up losing out on experiencing a healthier developmental process which includes the wide array of naturally strength-building postures.

8. Trust + Mastery = Self-Confidence

Basic trust in our baby means allowing him to drive his development. When a baby feels our trust and is allowed to experience his appropriate self-chosen struggles and then eventually to own his independent accomplishments (like walking), self-confidence is nurtured. Instead of, “Now I can finally do it without daddy’s hands holding me.” It’s “Wow, look what I can do!”

9. I’m enough

When we’re dating, everyone wants to know when we’ll be married. Then we get married and it’s, “When are you having a baby?” Then, “Is the baby smiling? Sitting? Walking? Talking? When are you having baby number 2?” Why is it so hard for us to appreciate what’s going on right now?

Babies need to know that they are appreciated, enjoyed and loved for what they are able to do at this moment. Generally, they never need our help for the basics like sitting, standing and walking. Our interference only confuses the process, and in many ways corrupts it. They really don’t need our help, as much as we’re driven to give it. As Magda Gerber writes in Dear Parent – Caring For Infants With Respect, “If infants are ready to do something, they will do it. In fact, when they are ready, they have to do it.”
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Adapted from this site: http://www.janetlansbury.com/2011/03/9-reasons-not-to-walk-babies/
Education › Turkish Government Scholarship For Undergraduate Degree Starts Today by bellong(op): 9:05am On May 06, 2013
The annual Turkish Government scholarship for students seeking undergraduate admission opens today and will run till end of May. The scholarship include Tuition fees, Accommodation, monthly stipend and health insurance. Please visit the link below for detailed information and application, all the answers to potential questions can be found on the website. THE APPLICATION IS FREE AND FOR ALL THAT MEETS UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSION CRITERIA IRRESPECTIVE OF NATIONALITIES.

http://www.turkiyeburslari.gov.tr/index.php/en/

GOODLUCK TO ALL POTENTIAL APPLICANTS
Educational Services › Turkish Government Scholarship For Undergraduate Degree Starts Today by bellong(op): 8:16am On May 06, 2013
[b][/b]The annual Turkish Government scholarship for students seeking undergraduate admission opens today and will run till end of May. The scholarship include Tuition fees, Accommodation, monthly stipend and health insurance. Please visit the link below for detailed information and application, all the answers to potential questions can be found on the website. THE APPLICATION IS FREE AND FOR ALL THAT MEETS UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSION CRITERIA IRRESPECTIVE OF NATIONALITIES.

http://www.turkiyeburslari.gov.tr/index.php/en/

GOODLUCK TO ALL POTENTIAL APPLICANTS
Christianity Etc › Re: Comparison Between The Bible And Quran With Proof. by bellong: 9:34am On May 02, 2013
Great discuss here that shouldn't have died a natural death.
Nairaland General › Re: Friends and business partners again, case closed. by bellong: 10:05pm On Apr 30, 2013
Sisebuto: I think his telephone number is working now, at least, one of them. I have his last IP, 2-3 weeks ago, and he is in Nigeria, Lagos. I have a person who is going to help me, but I may send some money to pay the transport, hotels and all cost is go to EFCC and ICPC. Obviously is the best way.
Reporting to EFCC is a good idea too but you can exploit all means in bringing the guy to book by equally sending the guy to the office I prescribed earlier... When all the agencies work towards an aim, I believe one of them will get him.
Family › Re: How Do I Tell My Female Friend That I Don`t Have Feelings For Her? by bellong: 12:21pm On Apr 30, 2013
@OP and all those who care to read, LOVE is not an emotion or feeling, its a decision nurture through time... Feelings and emotions fade, but decision made through time will stand the test of time... Though, this is an old thread, your decision about emotion in thinking you love the other girl may be infatuation or feelings out sexual aspirations. Maybe the other girl is "richly endowed" with feminine physique more than your "friend" and that is swelling up hormones in you.. My brother, Love is never about emotion.
From your submission, I believe you are not sincere with the "feelings/emotion" stuff...
Leave career/whatever you term success out of this, ask yourself these questions, which of the ladies have what it takes to be a wife, in terms of maturity of mind and decision making, how do they treat their fellow and people seem to be below them, which of them can offer you godly and responsible advice when needed... Marriage is more than just having a parochial feeling for a woman, its about taking real decision to go with a lady that will turn out to be gold for your life and fulfillment.
If you have made your decision, I wish you luck in life with your decision.
Nairaland General › Re: Friends and business partners again, case closed. by bellong: 11:46am On Apr 30, 2013
@OP, I couldn't read all the stuff posted on this thread, however I have few questions.

Are his phone numbers you listed here still functional?, Does he have a functional bank account? Do you have a representative in Nigeria who could help you lodge a complaint?
If you have a representative, kindly send the person to State Security Service, Lagos office Beside CMD, magodo. The person can go with all the details and documents, I assure you that he will be apprehended within few days. They have helped me with similar situation before and the said culprit is now cooling off his head behind bars....
Autos › Re: Free Vin Checks And Reports Sponsored By Auctionexport.com by bellong: 8:29am On Apr 27, 2013
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Autos › Re: Free Vin Checks And Reports Sponsored By Auctionexport.com by bellong: 11:56am On Apr 26, 2013
Export1... Thanks
Autos › Re: Free Vin Checks And Reports Sponsored By Auctionexport.com by bellong: 10:28am On Apr 26, 2013
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Autos › Re: sold by bellong: 6:31pm On Dec 31, 2010
Cash at hand, let me fly it for 300k, serious buyer
Romance › Re: Please Advise by bellong(op): 11:39am On Jan 02, 2010
she already have a son while the other had aborted twice
Romance › Please Advise by bellong(op):
He is running insane

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