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Oga Moderators, please kindly push this to the front page. Let other honorable members of the house see the wonders of God this Sunday. Remain blessed

You are calling Holy Ghost fire on top boiling river

uBuNiT:
that is evil

holi gos faya

Thanks bro.

Osebanjo:
Nice

And Semo

Laurelita:
Op o, abeg we fit use am do garri?

Are you telling me my brother. Na money dey yab us for Africa

Aliyeous:
amazing ...you see the world when you travel

MickzyDonald:
let my 2025 car key drop inside that water and see if i won't swim in and out of it

Allow me to introduce you to the hottest river in the world. No living thing can live in that water. Popularly called the "Boiling River", the temperature of the water is around 93 degrees Celsius - mind you the boiling point of water is 100 degrees Celsius

The river is found in the Amazon jungle that is part of Peru in Latin America.

Regarded as the world’s largest thermal river, running hot for nearly four miles and reaching up to 80 feet at its widest point and 16 feet at its deepest.

While the river’s extreme temperatures are not unusual for a geothermal surface, it is deemed remarkable in that it is non-volcanic. The nearest active volcanic area is actually more than 430 miles (700km) away.

The so-called ‘Boiling River’ is said to be the “crown jewel” of an unusual collection of three non-volcanic rivers in the area.

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Culled from: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/south-america/peru/articles/peru-mysterious-boiling-river-that-can-burn-you-to-death/

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Thank God it's Friday my dear brothers and sisters. Please click the links on Apple Music, Spotify, and Audiomack to enjoy my latest song called Pandemic featuring Mr Nelson, the baddest ryhmer in Naija. I promise to do gbedu for my Nairaland people this year if I blow!!!

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The current fiscal structure of the country is not sustainable my brothers and sisters. It's time for the fiscal restructuring of the nation.

Many great countries including the United States were built on the foundation of their founding fathers.

The case is the opposite for Nigeria where our leaders departed a long time ago from the foundation of fiscal federalism (regions generating revenue and disbursing to the Federal Government) established by our founding fathers. We as a nation moved from that foundation to build on sinking sand; now the building looks like it will fall with a big bang. WE NEED TO GO BACK TO THE FOUNDATION OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS WHICH IS FISCAL FEDERALISM OR WE ARE FINISHED AS A NATION.

Just viewed this write-up on social media. After patiently going through it, I have seen that Nigeria's present issues have been there before before. Please read patiently and wonder about the future of our dear country.

THIS PRESENT DARKNESS.

Before he died in 2015, the late Professor Stephen Ellis wrote his last book titled ‘This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organised Crime’. Going through this book left me with several thoughts, most of them unpleasant.

It is a fascinating read covering, not just organised crime, but the evolution of the Nigerian state (or maybe they are the same thing?). At any rate, I want to share 8 random things I found interesting in the book and I will leave you to draw your own conclusions.

1. In 1947, late Chief Obafemi Awolowo wrote that “Corruption is the greatest defect of the Native Court system.” He complained that not only did judges take bribes, people used their connections to enrich themselves and avoid punishment for their crimes. He also wrote that in the north, a new Emir always removed all the people appointed by the previous Emir and replaced them with his own people. He wrote all these as a complaint against the Indirect Rule system favoured by the British.
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2. In 1922, the Colonial Secretary in London, one Winston Churchill, wrote to Nigeria’s Governor General at the time, Sir Hugh Clifford, asking him to ban certain types of letters called ‘Charlatanic correspondences’. This was because J.K Macgregor who was Headmaster of Hope Waddell Training Institutionalized for 36 years, had discovered hundreds of letters written and received by his students ordering all sorts of books, charms and even potions from England, America and India in particular. Most of the charms were nonsense and the students were invariably asked to send more money if they wanted more powerful ones. A total of 2,855 such letters were intercepted by the Posts & Telegraph Department between 1935 and 1938.
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3. In 1939, a Nigerian businessman based in Ghana named Prince Eikeneh, wrote to the colonial government in Nigeria complaining about the number of Nigerian girls who were coming to Ghana to work as sex workers. He said the girls were usually taken there by a Warri-based Madam named ‘Alice’ who told the girls they were going to learn a trade or get married. He concluded that the trade was very well-organised and profitable for the ring leaders.
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4. In 1950, Abubakar Tafewa Balewa said ‘the twin curses of bribery and corruption pervade every rank and department of government’. At that time, the word ‘awoof’ was already being used to describe how civil servants used their positions to enrich themselves. In 1952, an anti-corruption campaigner named Eyo A. Akak complained that Nigerians were abandoning farming for trade due to materialism and consumerism. He said that every ex-serviceman now wanted to own a Raleigh bicycle before going back to his village while every civil servant wanted to own a car. He even blamed women (partly) for this because all of them only wanted to marry rich men.
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5. In 1959, there were 60,000 school graduates in the Western Region. By the following year, the number had increased to 200,000. However, this led to a now familiar problem. By 1963, primary education was turning out 180,000 graduates a year but only 80,000 of them could find jobs, according to the Regional Minister of Finance. The same minister also said he was ‘looking for a method to crackdown on school principals who were collecting money from students for a variety of services’.

6. In 1968, a Polish-British sociologist named Stanislav Andreski coined the term ‘kleptocracy’ to describe the system of government he found in Nigeria. He said ‘Nigeria is the most perfect example of kleptocracy since power itself rests on the ability to bribe’.

7. In 1975, a report of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the shortage of petroleum products found that a lot of the petrol being imported into Nigeria (due to the inability of the Port-Harcourt refinery to meet local demand) was being smuggled to Chad and Niger Republic. As soon as NNPC was formed, people swarmed around it and all sorts of people got crude oil lifting contracts. The US Embassy in Paris reported in 1973 that a random American walked into the Embassy and showed them a contract he had to lift 2 million tons of Nigerian crude oil. He told the Embassy that ‘a great deal of under the table payments were taking place in Nigeria to obtain crude oil’.

8. Around 1979, a British bank, Johnson Matthey collaborated with the Central Bank of Nigeria to export huge amounts of forex from Nigeria on behalf of politicians like Alhaji Umaru Dikko in contravention of foreign exchange controls. The bank later collapsed due to unsecured loans to Nigeria and had to be bailed out by the Bank of England with £100m in 1984 – the first time the Bank of England had ever rescued a private bank in British history. It also led to the passing of the Insolvency Act by Margaret Thatcher’s government in 1986. One of the directors of the bank, Vasant Advani, ran to Nigeria in 1986 but returned to the UK in 2008 for treatment when he was diagnosed with cancer. In 2011, at the age of 67, he was sentenced to 16 months in prison for the fraud that brought down that bank. No official on the Nigerian side, to the best of my knowledge, was ever convicted.

What do these stories tell us? Is Nigeria hopeless or cursed? Can things ever change? Have we always been this way or is it a recent thing?

The answer is what you say it is.

This is so sad. Imagine killed on her husband's birthday!!! I wonder if the man will ever celebrate his birthday again.

Also, imagine just when she and her family were just about to escape from Naija. May her soul rest in peace

To the cold-blooded and evil murderers, "There is no peace for the wicked" saith the Lord.

Quiet people tend to be more deadly than loud people. This is because when provoked, they think people are trying to ride on them because of their quiet and gentle nature. So when they strike, they do so with deadly force.

Secondly, because of their quiet nature, they think a lot and therefore are very creative - they can think of 1,000 ways for you to die

Never try a quiet guy or babe oh. You will meet your doom!!!

I like you bros. You always dey see

Drsnives:
Revealed to her all the I'll talks her bf de yan behind her back thinking say she fit give me small Congo shine..

Lass lass na me them take settle

I foresee her knocking at my door asking for favour in a week time. The favour is nor too clear, let's wait till then

This I have seen

The gods of the land

darocha1:
Jack M'a !



Who did you offend

Hello, my dear Nairalanders.

Saw this picture on Facebook and have been laughing and rolling in my bed ever since.

Funny enough, I have had a similar experience where my advice was sought by my cousin regarding her relationship. I gave her very good and candid advice only for her to turn around and declare me as "the enemy of the state" - please note that both guys and ladies can be offended with relationship advice. Since then I have vowed to always remain in my lane regarding people's relationships.

BTW the relationship eventually crashed as she later found out that her boyfriend was a serial womanizer which I warned her of.

Abeg feel free to share your experience!!!

China on Saturday fined Jack Ma's Alibaba Group a record $2.8 billion for abusing its leading market position.

Alibaba Group said in a statement that the penalty came from the State Administration for Market Regulation, which had been investigating it since December.

The fine was yet another sign that Chinese regulators have taken a more critical stance towards the tech empire built by Ma, one of the country's wealthiest moguls.

Speaking at a conference last fall, Ma made negative comments about international financial regulations. Chinese President Xi Jinping then reportedly halted a planned $37 billion initial public offering by Ant Group, another Ma company.

After the clash, Ma disappeared from public view for months. It was later reported by The Financial Times that he'd spent some of that time meeting with regulators.

The government on Saturday said Alibaba had used anti-competitive practices in its online retail market.

The fine was equal to about 4% of Alibaba's annual sales in China, according to Xinhua News, a quasi-state media outlet. Local news reports said the company would be required for three years to complete "self-inspection" reports that it would then submit to the watchdog.

"Alibaba accepts the penalty with sincerity and will ensure its compliance with determination," the company said Saturday in a press release.

Culled from the Business Insider - https://africa.businessinsider.com/tech-insider/alibaba-group-hit-with-record-dollar28-billion-fine-amid-increased-government/e65spvw