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Why should i pollute the air with my i pass my neighbour generator to watch a media chat when about 57 students were just killed by terrorists? We must attend and reflect on more serious issues.

To me, this guy is just a business militant cashing on Fg and N/D people's ignorance

what is double post?

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Nigerian student emerged second best in 2013 world research competition
September 19, 2013 | Filed under: Africa | Posted by: VibeGhana

A graduate of National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) and member of Congress of Noun Students (CONS) Mr. Bayo Soneye has emerged second best student in the world research competition in Art category with his enthusiastic participation in the Giap’s Confluence v1.0 2013 International Competition of Research Paper/Project/Dissertation for UG/PG students held in Mumbai, India.

With this feat, The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has again proven it’s capacity to produce students capable of competing and excelling among students across the world.

Mr. Bayo Soneye graduated from National Open University of Nigeria
(NOUN) in 2011/2012 session after claiming M.Ed in Educational
Administration and Planning.

The event host, Gyandhara International Academic Publication (GIAP) is a fast emerging e-publication house in Mumbai, Muscat and California, registered with Ministry of Finance, Government of India.

GAIP helps students in preparing quality manuscript form their data, by our experts’ feedback and assistance.

GIAP’S Confluence v1.0 competition was a humble start by GIAP to provide a platform to students to show case their research talent to the world.

According to GIAP in their message of thanks sent to the winners and participants on 14th of September 2013, it noted that, all papers presented at the event were of high quality and upto mark.

‘’It was a tough time for our judges to decide winner among these kind of papers.’’ The organizers said.

After a long discussion, GIAP committee announced Soneye Semiu Adebayo, A Nigerian Student from National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) as the second best in Art category of the competition with his paper titled, ”The Impact Of Application Of Information And Communications Technology (Ict) In The Administration Of Polytechnics In Ogun State, Nigeria”.

Cash prizes and merit certificates are being issued to all winners.

http://vibeghana.com/2013/09/19/nigerian-student-emerged-second-best-in-2013-world-research-competition/

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Advice of Muhammad Ali to his Daughters

The following incident took place when Muhammad Ali's daughters arrived at his home wearing clothes that were not modest. Here is the story as told by one of his daughters:

When we finally arrived, the chauffeur escorted my younger sister, Laila, and me up to my father's suite. As usual, he was hiding behind the door waiting to scare us. We exchanged many hugs and kisses as we could possibly give in one day.

My father took a good look at us. Then he sat me down on his lap and said something that I will never forget. He looked me straight in the eyes and said, "Hana, everything that God made valuable in the world is covered and hard to get to. Where do you find diamonds? Deep down in the ground, covered and protected. Where do you find pearls? Deep down at the bottom of the ocean, covered up and protected in a beautiful shell. Where do you find gold? Way down in the mine, covered over with layers and layers of rock. You've got to work hard to get to them."

He looked at me with serious eyes. "Your body is sacred. You're far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too."

Source: Taken from the book: More Than a Hero: Muhammad Ali's Life Lessons through His Daughter's Eyes.

I culled this from a member of this group's page. It's dialog between the said member and our Speaker Razak Atunwa. The conversation ended with Atunwa deleting the member from his FB friends list. It's a long conversation though. Enjoy...!

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My People, could please follow my conversation with Rasak Atunwa:

ATUNWA: Pleasant drive to work this morning. No frills, no convoy, no security..... just the intermittent hailing of fans

ME: @Atunwa: are you sure they were hailing you or cursing you? you probably didn't hear then well or you have hearing impairment or visually hallucinating for you to see the cry in their heart. I'm so sad that you can come up to tell us the same people you and your accomplices, Mai guard ad bukola have impoverished are hailing you? Aren't you ashamed of th rot you brought to this innocent town. In 2003, when you were first deported from UK where you were a taxi driver for Baba Saraki, I was not in doubt that you joining the then bukola govt will bring doom to the already doomed desperadoes he had in his team. I just dnt know what this country has turned to, where my unsuspecting country men celebrate mediocrites like you. Its on record that at the initial stage of your career, you were a frustrated individual who eventually became an economic emigrant to UK, taking up hopeless surviving job of driving in UK. You really didn't have a place here and you couldn't fit in, hence your departure to cold lad. Thank God to Gbemi Saraki who got you the job of a driver for her father in UK anytime he (Baba Saraki) travelled abroad. Your frustration can as well be seen in your inability to attend Nigeria Law School up till now, and the reason why you can't be called a Barrister and Advocate in Nigeria context. I challenge you to say to the whole world, if you ever had even a plot of land prior to your appointment as Bukola's Commissioner? Can you also tell the world, how much you worth now since after your appointment? In less than 2yrs into your appointment, you built a mighty house behind federal Secretariat, worth N300million. Pls tell us,how much is your salary that you could build such a house. its so pathetic that you waste such money on a venture that can never last beyond you. What happens after your death or even when your status changes, let's see what happens when you are out of office and you are not exposed to stealing Kwara money again. How will you cope maintaining tha white elephant house? Let me remind you, when the law is done dealing with bukola, you and your co-thieves will be next to face the wrath of law, you can never live to enjoy your loot. This state has suffered so much in your hands, you can't go scot-free not you, not your cronies! Before you make further mockery of your irritating claim of peoples' hailing, kindly answer these questions: 1)Weren't you a common Taxi driver in UK before you were brought down to be Baba Saraki's PA by Gbemi? 2) How much was in your account before then? 3) Where did you get the money you used in building your white mansion at Fate-basin area in Ilorin? 4) What is your academic qualification and from which Institution? 5) Was is it true that you couldn't go to law school because, then you were too poor, financially and academically to do so? 6) If you truly the people are hailing you, can you please go to any Ilorin interior, like Oloje pakata, adabata, even the area you claim as your home council, Okekere and stand in the open to say you are Rasaq Atunwa? Please I wouldn't advise you not to go without your aids. If you can reply me and answer all these questions, then I will consider being your fan henceforth on the condition that you will not hide anything. But if you do, I will go further to give deeper details because I know you better than anyone....back in the UK then

ATUNWA: Abubakar Baba Sulaiman: First learn some manners. Then stop peddling falsehoods. Then you will find peace within yourself and before God.

ME: one honourable Ibrahim made an adjunct comments and I replied him thus: @Hon. Ibrahim: First, let me thank you for your comments/contribution. Then I will honourably beg to disagree with you. Perhaps, you didn't get me right or you are being political to speak against your speaker. I have never said it's a crime to travel abroad for greener pasture neither did I discourage genuine struggle. I have been in UK, USA and Australia a number of times. I love travelling, infact, I'm presently in the UK. But let me tell you living abroad, especially UK is on of the most traumatic economic challenge any black man can face, especially a Nigerian, considering the economic alienation and disgusting racial discrimination. The one lives in the UK or not be ale to travel to UK is never equated to being poor or being rich, its just a matter of choice. Travelling to the UK or any other European Country or the US could be for study, legitimate work or due to economic hardship in Nigeria. I'm not being general about my last piece on Razaq, I'm particularly referring to him because I know his antecedents.

Secondly, I also beg to disagree with you that someone will commit this such heinous crime and all you could say is we should "leave him to God", oh oh, spare me! So are you telling me that you being a Law maker is a waste of state resources. Yes, I mean to say, if people break law and we just leave them to God, then why do we have Houses of Assembly and National Assembly that make laws? Does that mean, if, God forbid, armed robbers, entered your house, stole your property and inflicted serious harm on you, but eventually they were arrested, will you have said the police shouldn't prosecuted them and should leave him to God? Even Qur'an ad Bible have laws which prescribe how certain offences should be punished (an eye for an eye and mosaic laws). God didn't say we should leave things for Him but we should do justice within our self. Infact in those days, the only thing we leave to God is when those that are supposed to do justice did not do it, then we say we leave you in the court of God, but now, the people have deviced their own criminal justice system, we give the erring political office holder who betrays our trust the appropriate sanction. @Rasak: your response is laughable and shallow. I'm disappointed that you couldn't provide answers to my queries. Is th is all you could possibly offer? This stae is so unlucky for being led by witless opportunists like you. Who could be more mannerless than you who have stolen and betrayed the thus of the people, who could be more mannerless than you who built for himself multi-million naira mansion and shamelessly leave his supposed family house in shambles, who could be more mannerless than a man like you who participated in the making of anti-peoples' law, who could be more mannerless than you who sit over rubber stamp house of assembly, who could be more mannerless than a man like you who doesn't have the right mind of his own than what a bukola saraki orders you to do, please who is mannerless here? If you think all I have said are falsehood, the onus is on you to prove me wrong and I shall provide you with more documentary evidence of your atrocities. Please, if you must know, I'm more at peace with my self, my family, my town and my state. I'm a responsible married man, well established and distinguished. if there is anyone who needs peace, its you. You need to emulate my achievements and good virtues. if you are really sure you are at peace with yourself I'm boldly challenging you, yet again, walk the streets of Ilorin and let's people see you, I'm sure your story will change.

Enough of this status faking, you guys are not what you claim you, you are bunch of cursed members of Pharaoh entourage! Walahi, God will not let you cheat this poor state without justice.

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PDP crisis: Four prominent Kwarans marked for assassination?
*Ex VC, minister, Senator and party chairman listed
*PDP denies Saraki’s link to the attempt

By Ayo Fasanmi, Ilorin

As the crisis hitting the ruling People Democratic Party (PDP) rages and ravages the sickly pores of their venation, we gathered that in Kwara, where major actors of the party’s crisis are from, the situation has bordered on an assassination list that is circulating in the state capital making people become jittery with the trend of events.

The pro-Bamanga Tukur end of the PDP divide have come up to say that the Baraje-end have listed four of their leaders for assassination. The source told www.gongnews.net that “these individuals’ heads may have been paid for by the one whose grip on the control of the state’s political machinery is fast withering.”

Of names touted in the list are former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Prof. Shuaib Oba Abdulraheem, who was a gubernatorial candidate at the last party elections. He is currently the Federal Character Commission Board Chairman.

Senator Ajadi Suleiman Makanjuola, former Senator from Kwara South, 1999-2003 and a former lecturer at the state polytechnic was also listed on the assassination list.
Former Sports minister, Hon. Isa Ibrahim Bio, who was a former House of Representative member representing Baruten/Kaiama constituency was said to be on the list; Bio also contested the state’s gubernatorial election that produced the sitting governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed. Bio was also a former Speaker, Kwara State House of Assembly and held portfolio as a former Minister of Transport.

A fourth person listed on the said list include Barrister Kunle Sulyman, the first PDP Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State.

It would be recalled that the former chairman of the party in the state, Barrister Kunle Sulyman, had last weekend alleged threat to his life over reports that he may re-emerge for the position.

Sulyman, who was Kwara State PDP chairman between 1999 and 2001, in a statement by his media aide, Shehu Tijani, and made available to www.gongnews.net said he has received several hate mails and text messages since a media publication that he may re-emerge as the new chairman of the party in the state.

He said: “I have received several hate mails, text messages and some mysterious people have visited my house and even trailed my car since the publication.”

In response to an e-mail inquiry about the charges of assassination in the state, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) through its publicity secretary, Masu’d Adebimpe said, “we received with shock the alleged assassination attempt on four members of our party, the claim was a ploy to seek attention.

He continued, “First and foremost, the party wish to state that there was no iota of truth in the alleged claim and our Leader Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki would and never plotted assassinating any individual or group of people, either party men or non party member.

“The allaged (sic) claim that they belong to a group was news to us as at no time did any member of our party make a public declaration denouncing our state Chapter of our party, we remain one indivisible PDP member.

The Party wish to call on the Security agents in the state to as a matter of urgency investigate the alleged assassination attempt on these members of our party.

Thorough investigation into the alleged claim become (sic) necessary to ascertain the veracity and otherwise of their claim and to bring to book those behind this heinous act.

However the Party wish to warned (sic) those behind this falacy and scrupulous claim to be mindful of their utterances, as the party as well as the State government would not allowed (sic) any Individual or group of persons to plung (sic) our dear state of harmony back to the dark age which we had all put behind us.

The PDP in Kwara remain (sic) united and formidable under the leadership of Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki and our National Chairman Alh. Abubakar Kawu Baraje.
Kwara Politics has managed to dig further on the assassination attempts. The information scooped in the process led to the revelation of the names of the Kwara state political stalwarts marked for elimination. These individuals’ heads may have been paid for by the one whose grip on the control of the state's political machinery is fast withering are:
1. Prof. Shuaib Oba Abdulraheem, current FCC Board Chairman
2. Senator Ajadi Suleiman Makanjuola, former Senator from Kwara South, 1999-2003
3. Hon. Isa Ibrahim Bio, former Fed House of Rep member (Baruten Kaiama constituency); Former Speaker, KWHA; Former Minister of: Transportation & National Sports Commission.
4. Lawyer Kunle Sulaiman, First PDP Chairman in Kwara State.

Other names will follow soon. Stay tuned as events unfold.

http://www.gongnews.net/pdp-crisis-four-prominent-kwarans-marked-for-assassination/

IS THERE ANY HUMAN RIGHT PERSONALITY IN NIGERIA?

Do we have any human rights personality in Nigeria? If yes, Who are they? What have they done for human rights to deserve to be called a human right personality?

I know we have some popular names Like femi Falana,Festus Keyamo etc, but since i didn't have much closeness with them, i do not know what they have done to deserve to be called human right activists or personality..

If you know any human rights activists,lawyer,personality or who ever including the above mentioned names, kindly state so and tell us exactly what they have done to deserve that title.

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Tuface At 38: Read Annie Idibia’s Romantic Birthday Messages To Hubby

One of Nigeria’s biggest music stars Innocent Ujah Idibia aka Tuface is a year older today, 18th September, 2013 and his wife, Annie Idibia took to twitter to express her love and gratitude for him.

See her lovely messages to her hubby as he clocks 38.

http://www.informationng.com/2013/09/tuface-at-38-read-annie-idibias-romantic-birthday-messages-to-hubby.html

IRON ORE FOR SALE IN NIGERIA

A Nigerian company in the mining industry has just informed that it has got over 10,000 tonnes of Iron ore for sale. Any interested buyer should inbox me for details. kindly share and inform others that may be interested.

The company and its mining operations are based in Kogi State and Kogi state has the purest and highest deposit of Iron Ore in Nigeria.

Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted. The ores are usually rich in iron oxides and vary in color from dark grey, bright yellow, deep purple, to rusty red.

Nigeria is estimated to have about 5 billion tonnes of Iron Ore and Stone.

If you are interested, send message to discus4now@gmail.com or inbox me.

The Truth people don't know about AFRICA.

December 18, 2012 at 9:19am

So many people say Christianity was an imported religion by Europeans and American into Africa. It is time to re-write our history by shattering the false assumptions about Africans with the truth of the Gospel. The gospel came to Africa long before Europe became Christian or before America was founded. The problem was that Africa backslide into idolatry after we lost the pentecostal fire.

The Ethiopian eunuch after his encounter with the Holy Ghost through Philip brought the gospel to Africa. Check Acts 8:26-39

Some hard facts about Christianity and Africa:

Without the involvement of ancient Africans, there would have been no Christianity today.
Without the involvement of ancient Africans, it is possible that there would have been no nation called Israel today.
Christianity has existed in Africa for over 2,000 years.
Christianity got to Africa before it got to Europe and America.
Africa was the first place the Christian church existed outside Palestine.
The oldest Christian denomination in the world today is not in Europe but in Africa (The Ethiopian Orthodox Church).
Culturally speaking, Christianity is more African than European.
Biblically speaking, there are many prominent Africans who contributed significantly in the making of Christianity.
Moses was born and educated in Africa. Aaron, Miriam, Joshua and Caleb were all born and came out of Africa, they were of African nationality by birth. Read Exodus 2, Deuteronomy 31, Numbers 14:28-30.

Keturah – wife of Abraham is of African origin(Genesis 25:1), Hagar was African( Genesis 16:1), Zipporah – wife of Moses was African (Exodus 2), Jethro was African, Hobab who guided Israelite in Number chapter 10 out of the wilderness was African. Asenath wife of Joseph was an African, Rahab the harlot from whose lineage Jesus chose to come was an African, Ebed-melech the Ethiopian saved prophet Jeremiah from the dungeon of well where he was thrown. Simon of Cyrene, A black African, helped to carry the cross of Jesus to the place of crucifixion. The parents of baby Jesus, were instructed to flee to Africa (Egypt) for refuge when Herod was killing all male children in Israel. All those who crossed the red sea were Africans by birth and in origin.
The garden of Eden was geo-located in an area whose climate is now proven and called Africa.

Africa has the world’s richest deposits of natural resources, but when we strayed away from the gospel, we went backward and began to starve and begged. Almost all countries in Africa were colonized by distant nations (France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Spain), except Ethiopia. When we dropped the fire of the gospel, we lost our nations. Our harvests were stolen away by ex-convicts, social and political misfits who were sent to colonize us.

Our university of Timbuktu was wiped off. Zulu and other African kingdom vanished. Our backsliding from the gospel brought us into judgement and enslavement. From the sugarcane plantations and factories, there is still another form of African slavery today, in a greater plantation. African Professors of Medicine work under their students abroad, Doctors of Economics become dish washers, Masters in Sociology are security gatemen. African Chartered accountants become taxi cab drivers abroad.

In Isaiah chapter 3 verses 1-5, God chose a strange punishment and judgement for backsliding into idolatry: God removed the leaders making them slaves to babies in foreign lands. God made such nations leaderless. All the problems of Africa can be summarized under one word: LEADERSHIP!!! A leaderless people is an evidence of God’s anger. A quarter of the black-skinned race are Nigerians.

There is a divine controversy against Africa: IDOL WORSHIP! This is what led to about 75 spiritual problems that troubles Africa. An idol is anything you place before or beside God and which you cannot drop. idolatry is one sin whose punishment is generational according to the bible in Exodus 20:4-6: the sins of the fathers producing serious and devastating consequences for unborn children.

Idolatry has enthroned over 75 mad spirits troubling Africa, among which are:

spirit of slavery,
dream and home manipulation,
evil spiritual marriage,
household wickedness,
collective captivity,
spirit of wastages and anti-maintenance spirits,
incisions,
sacrifice and pouring of libation,
ear and nose piercing,
familiar and polygamous spirits,
territorial spirits and geographical strongmen,
blood covenants,
land covenants,
curses,
marine powers,
destructive charms and incantations,
poverty,
evil altars,
polluted thrones,
buried virtues,
spells, jinxes and enchantments,
star hunters,
star gazers,
demonic cultural festivals,
blood money,
evil gates,
polluted wealth,
ground spirits,
forest spirits,
ancestral strongmen,
eaters of flesh and drinkers of blood,
evil praise name,
cross-road spirits,
palace spirits,
transfer of virtues,
crab spirits,
satanic worship,
cemetery of good things,
starvation and famine,
tribal and ethnic conflicts,
civil wars,
black versus black conflicts,
abuse of women,
preventive diseases,
etc. etc.

All of us must repent individually and collectively as well as repent of the idolatry sins of our ancestors. We need individual deliverance, collective deliverance and continental deliverance from the evil consequences of idolatry.

In 1977 in Nigerian Government hosted what it called the World Festival of Black Arts and Culture (FESTAC 77). That was what triggered the new phase of terrible problems in Nigeria. One man called Chief Obafemi Awolowo warned them no to host that demonic jamboree. He said it was a show and parade of our crude primitivity. That the Government should vote that money meant for FESTAC 77 for education, but they refused to listen to him. We invited all deformed and active demonic altars of our ancestors and renewed covenant with them.

KEYS TO DELIVERANCE FROM IDOLATRY

We must surrender our lives to Christ Jesus and be born again.
We must repent from all known sins,
We must humble ourselves, we are too proud for God to use,
We must pray deep prayers from the heart,
We must seek the face of the Lord;
We must turn from our wickedness,
We must abandon all those dumb idols of our forefathers;
We must call solemn assemblies for prayers.
We must raise watchmen in major cities who can intercede for such cities,
We must speak destruction unto both deformed and active altars. Africa has the largest number of altars in the world. (evil altars are actively behind the orgy of violence in the Niger Delta).
We must abandon evil cultural festivals and embrace the good ones.
We must also pray out the bad leaders of our nations,
We must org anise territorial deliverance for our land (lands where no good thing prosper there).
We must also abandon non-sacrificial ice-cream Christianity.
We must design strategies for dealing with environmental household wickedness;
We must take the battle to the heavenlies, Read Job 38:12-13, Judges 5: 20
We must go for individual and collective deliverance.
We must break the curses of idolatry,
We must go back to primitive Christianity handed over to us by our fathers. (holiness within and without).
We must methodically reject slavery by becoming self-sufficient, break the import dependency syndrome.
We must carry the battle to the waters (against marine powers).
We must imbibe the reading culture.
We must pray detribalizing prayers, de-patterning prayers;
We must break free from the village anointing that makes us local champions when we are actually loaded with international talents.
We must fight on our knees and not just argue on our feet.

PRAYER POINTS

Every idol of my father’s house assigned to demote me, I bury your power now, in the name of Jesus.
Any curse under which I labour, I cancel you by fire! in the name of Jesus.
Every curse of backwardness, hear the word of the Lord: DIE!!! in the name of Jesus.
Powers dragging me behind my divine level, DIE!!! in the name of Jesus.
Blockages!!! on the way to my promised land, CLEAR AWAY!!! in the name of Jesus.
Witchcraft prophecies against my destiny, BACKFIRE!!! in the name of Jesus.
Every power demoting Africa! Every power demoting Nigeria!! DIE!!! in the name of Jesus.
My hands, hear the word of the Lord: PROSPER BY FIRE!!! in the name of Jesus.
Every blessing, Every virtue, Every breakthrough, that my ancestors have lost, I re-possess them by FIRE!!! in the name of Jesus.



This research was culled out from the book, Satanic Diversion of the Black Race by Dr. D.K Olukoya. Dr. D.K Olukoya is a renowned scientist, an intellectual colossus, an academic front-liner, an erudite scholar to the core, an epitome of humility and a compendium of grace. He's also the general overseer of the mountain of fire and miracles ministry world wide. http://www.mountainoffire.org. God bless you as you read.

the world need to give peace to get peaceful

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Several killed in US Navy base shooting
Four people killed and eight others injured after gunman opens fire inside Washington Navy building, official says.

Four people have been killed and at least eight others injured in a shooting at the US Navy Yard in Washington, a Navy official said.

Police were searching the Navy complex after the shooting on Monday morning to track down one or several gunmen involved in the attack.

Washington Post reported that there were three shooters, including one in military fatigues.

A Navy official said one shooter had been "contained".

Al Jazeera's Kimberly Halkett, reporting from the scene, said there was an "enormous police presence" in the vicinity of the Navy Yard. wo helicopters were flying over the complex and roads were blocked.

A Washington police spokesman said a police officer and one other law enforcement officer were among those shot.

The Navy did not officially confirm the number of casualties, but said "several" people had suffered injuries. It said people inside the building had been directed to stay in place.

The Navy said at least three shots were fired at 8:20 am (13:20 GMT) in the headquarters building of the Naval Sea Systems Command.

About 3,000 people work at the headquarters.

'Fortress'

Witnesses saw police with rifles running towards the complex as police believed the attacker was holed up inside.

Al Jazeera's Rosiland Jordan described the attack as "shocking", since the Navy complex is a high-security facility.

"It's a fortress," she said, adding that staff need to present ID cards to get in and that cars are checked to get access to the complex grounds.

Flights at Reagan National Airport were temporarily halted to enable helicopters to fly injured to the hospital.

The White House said President Barack Obama had been briefed about the unfolding situation by senior aides.

Naval Sea Systems Command builds, buys and maintains the Navy's ships and submarines and their combat systems.

It is the largest of the Navy's five system commands and accounts for a quarter of the Navy's entire budget.

The Navy Yard complex is located 1.6km south of the US Capitol. It includes a museum and the residence of the chief of naval operations, among other buildings.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/09/201391613153627767.html

FAKE LIFE

Intro

Living fake is easy yoo
All it takes is to get a fake hair
fake nail, fake accent, fake fame, and fake you
Yea, you living a fake yoo
boro boro...ha ha ha, i no like am
i no dey boro boro

Chorus

omo naija ni mi and i still keep it real
i no dey boro boro
won ni mo ti lenu ju kin ma fese rin
i nodey boro boro
but i will still be real until i make it 4 real
i no dey boro boro
boroboro boro boro oooo
i no dey boro boro

verse 1

Every now and then
people dey see me 4 shows
them dey see me 4shows
but yet, omo i never get much thou oo
never get much thou
sibe sibe awon temi fe kin ma show oo
won fe kin ma show
but omo, i no sabi live fake life
sabi live fake life
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i will post the rest upon request..

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CALLING NIGERIAN POLICE BACK TO REASON
By:AMB. Abdulrazaq O Hamzat


When I first read the news about police preventing the Rivers State Governor, Chubuike Rotimi Amaechi from entering the government house, I take it as one of those falsified news report concocted to mislead the public, but I after some while, the news was verified to be true. It was established that, the Nigerian Police truly prevented the Rivers State Governor, the chief security officer and the number one citizen of Rivers state from entering his own government house on what was described as an order from above.

When further inquiry was made into what transpired at the scene, it was revealed that, the police officer who led the team to prevent the Governor from entering the Government house reportedly told Amaechi that he does not take orders from the civilian, even when he was aware that it was the Governor. Reports have it that, Amaechi came down to speak with the police officers who insisted that they can only act with superior order from Abuja.

Also, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mrs Angela Angela Agabe was also reported to have said, the police had to block the road to ensure there was no breakdown of law and order. Law and order where? Inside the Government House?

In her words, 'The governor has other routes to get to the Government House. So, I don't see how this should be an issue,' Agabe said.

After observing the situation closely, it seems that the Nigerian constitution which established the Nigerian police has been rendered useless by this administration. As it stands, the constitution has been reduced to a mere book to be read by few and dump in a bin. If not, a police officer who was made an officer by a civilian constitution would not have the audacity to stand before the chief security officer of a state and say that he can not listen to a civilian.

It is my believe that, the police officer who arrogantly spoke to the Governor in such manner is also aware that the Inspector General of Police who represent the highest authority in the police ranking takes order from the presidency (civilians), but I presume that, the police officer's audacity is not out of his personal arrogance or ignorance, but out of a deep rooted misinformation and spoon feed courage given to him by the Rivers state police commissioner Mr. Mba, who seems to have encouraged his officers to be rude to the state governor in an effort to provoke the governor into acting rashly, relying on the support from Abuja as the officer rightly said to nail the governor.

Looking at the role the Nigerian police are playing in this political battle, it is so disheartening that the police seem to have lost focus, abandon its constitutional role of maintaining law and order to participating in partisan politics and being used as a tool in political contest within a political party.

We` should also not forget that, when Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State decided to create a faction of the NGF with some governors, he opened his separate secretariat to carryout his faction's activities without question. When he did, the Nigerian police were not deployed to the venue to seal up the office, but when some members of the people Democratic Party (PDP) decided to create a faction of their party led by Alhaji Kawu Baraje, the police were deployed to seal up their secretariat.

The question most well meaning Nigerians are asking is, why has the police not sealed up the Jonah Jang faction of NGF secretariat the way it sealed up the PDP factional secretariat?

The New PDP in a press statement by the national publicity secretary reacted to the sealing up of its secretariat that, '' the party views the continued seal up of its offices as barbaric, undemocratic and an abuse and demonstration of naked power''.

In a similar statement, former vice president Atiku Abubakar asked the IGP to order the policemen occupying the headquarters of the New PDP to vacate the place immediately. He noted that, the action of the police has no justification in law, but was rather borne out of political control. Atiku added that, while it is embarrassing that the police have yet to give a reason on why they are laying siege to a political party's office, the whole world knows these are acts prompted by unscrupulous politicians who do not even have the moral conscience not to involve the police in politics''. He further added that, a politically partisan police force sets a dangerous precedent, as they will be entrusted to supervise free and fair election in the future.

Again, on what ground was this act carried out? Do the police operate under separate laws for the supporters of the president and another law for his political opponents?

In calling the Nigerian police back to reason, let me state that, the role of the police is in ensuring public safety and gaining public trust to enhance mutual relationship between the police and the community, so as to improve the security of lives and properties as police primary functions.

Study shows that, the 1999 constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria provides that the members of the Nigerian Police Force shall have such powers that may be conferred upon them by the constitution. The Police Act provides for such powers and duties. The police has the power to arrest any (offender) in bracket and the power to detain and search the offender. They also have the power to take the finger print of the offender, search his property and to conduct prosecutions in courts of law. The powers bestowed upon them are very expansive, but they must be exercised under the law. (CSS341)

We are still asking, under what law did the Nigerian police operate to seal up a political party's office? And how does the internal political struggle to control a political party concerns the police since such struggle has nothing to do with physical confrontation that could endanger public safety? Even if there is confrontation, are the police expected to take side to intimidate and violate the law of the land which empowers them to operate with impunity?

Without fear or favour, I submit with the authority of the Nigerian constitution that, it is illegal for the Nigerian police to prevent a state Governor from entering his residence or seal up the secretariat of the New PDP under whatever guise. This is an abuse of privilege, misuse of power and a height of impunity.

On a lighter note, the police were said to be acting on the directives of the presidency, but can we entirely blame the Nigerian president (Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan) for using the police to his advantage?

In my view, as much as the president should be blamed for wrongly using his privilege as the president, the larger part of the blames should go to the Nigerian police that have allowed themselves to be used for activities other than the constitutional roles and duties of maintaining public peace `and order.

The president is not a police officer and he may be ignorant about the ethics of the police, but the Inspector General of Police, who stand as the custodian of the police principle and ethics should be able to draw a line between loyalty to one individual's desire and loyalty to one's nation and one's professional ethics.

The police institution is a separate entity to the political parties, but when the police officers headed by the IGP that should act according to the law and ethics of their profession couldn't differentiate between party politics and state affairs, the police institution become a machinery of intimidation and abuse which both the police and the president should be held accountable.

In addition, the IGP who should ordinarily be the custodian of police principle and ethics even have greater blame in this regard, considering the facts that he his the number one police officer with adequate knowledge and understanding of the police acts and should be the number one protector of such acts to ensure the police is up and doing to the best of its ability.

According to Pugh (1986), a good police officer must have the qualities of common sense and mature judgment and must react quickly and effectively to problem situations'. Pugh also added that, A good police officer must be able to adopt the appropriate role of policing to the situation he or she encounters. Common roles include law enforcement, maintenance of social order and public servant. Finally a good police officer must have the appropriate concepts governing police work which are (1) an effort to improve the welfare of the community and (2) a respect for the individual's rights, worth and dignity.

If the Inspector General of police who ordered his men to prevent a sitting governor from entering his government house and to seal up the New PDD secretariat has respect for individual's rights as provided by the constitutions, he would have defied such a barbaric order of abuse and constitutional violation by the president.

This again puts a question mark to the sincerity of the Inspector General to reform the Nigerian police as we were made to believe said the former vice president, Atiku Abubakar.

According to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, '' by the latest behaviour of the police force, the IGP has put a big question mark over the sincerity of his touted reform of the police''. Atiku further declared that, IG Abubakar has started on the wrong foot by being openly and overzealously partisan over the internal crisis of the PDP.

It is expected that, the Inspector General Police would uphold the primary ethics of his duties as a police officer, by ensuring his men conform to the duties of a sensible police officers, but it is a shame that the police had been reduced to nothing, but a mere tool not for community policing as provided by the constitutions, but to be used for selfish political battles while abandoning the major responsibilities.

Again, the expected qualities of common sense and mature judgment that should be demonstrated by the police was nowhere to be found, as the police were reduce to a mere tool to unlawfully coerce and abuse the liberty of the citizens as guaranteed by the constitution.

It is worth to note that, this loss of reason, violation of rights, neglect of duties, dumping of responsibilities and the usage of the police for such negative purposes span from the deep rooted police corruption, but 'Nothing undermines public confidence in the police and in the process of Criminal Justice more than the Illegal acts of police officers' said the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice.

According to David Burnham, the social cost of police corruption undermines the enforcement of the law, allowing widespread illegal activities to represent a secret tax on business to flourish. It destroys the department itself, robs the police officer of self respect and respect for superior officers and the department as a whole. Effective discipline becomes impossible when corruption is systematic and Knowledge of the existence of corruption undermines the public's faith in the police and entire criminal justice system.

It was stated that, at the philosophic level, any police organization that seeks to serve democratic and humanitarian ideals must be (and be seen to be) transparent, fair, apolitical, accountable and responsive to public perceptions and expectations. Such policing is said to be characterized by the notion of 'police service' rather than 'police force', where the most significant benchmarks of performance are public satisfaction, trust and confidence. (CSS341)

Small (1984) noted that, the police force have dual role to play in a given society.

Firstly, they are expected to protect the constitution of the society of which they are employed and perform other relevant duties in this regard and secondly, While on duty, they should endeavour to avoid pressure from special interest groups, since that will reduce public confidence, without which their job could become not only difficult but also make conviction almost impossible.

In addition, Kennedy (1994) opines that, policing a multicultural world is a key challenge to the police, and this challenge is compounded by contradictions inherent in maintaining public order on the one hand, and sustaining the freedom and wish of other members of the society. Hampton (1960) added that, the influence of globalization, coupled with the new culture of economic and political alliance etc have continually put to critical test the role of the institutional systems for law and order. He mentioned that, the growing crises of law and order, the rising spate of crimes in the society, and crisis of unity among different cultural and religious groups noticed in various parts of the globe are pointers to the objective shortfall in the performance of the police force vis-à-vis the order maintenance responsibility.

Let me conclusion that, Hampton was able to establish a linkage between police, crime and order. According to him, the failure of police reflects on the state of the crime statistics and public order as well as generates fear and insecurity, thereby creating a crime-prone. It is also my believe that, the failure of the Nigerian police to enjoy public trust is as a result of police corruption, which first have Its effect in the politicizing of the police, undue influence by politicians and failure of the police to act according to the standard of a respectable police institution.

I therefore call on the Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Muhammed Abubakar to undo the damages he has done to the Nigerian police to avoid sending wrong signal to the teeming young officers who rely on precedent of their seniors to be guided. He should also apologize to the Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi for trampling on his right of office as well as order his men to vacate office of the New PDP, leaving politicians to settle their scores.

AMB. Abdulrazaq O Hamzat writes from Abuja and can be reached on discus4now@gmail.com
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