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Placards at the next match should solve this.

Thanks for the advices, I wish it was that easy. It gets more complicated cos I'm the only guy she's ever liked/been close to so I'm guessing she won't handle rejection well.

2face is the king of stage performance.

An education tax of 2% of assessable profits is imposed on all companies incorporated in Nigeria. This tax is viewed as a social obligation placed on all companies in ensuring that they contribute their own quota in developing educational facilities in the country.
The ETF account should be audited because going by the billions companies makes in this country, our education institutions should never lack funds.
i'm guessing our clueless president does not know that an account like that exist.

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I've had this close friend that has been showing signs that she wants to be more than just a friend. The problem is that she isn't my "type" and I don't think we're compatible. However I like her as a friend and won't wanna hurt her feelings by rejecting her or by dating her knowing fully well that I won't marry her.
Please advice me on what to do.
NB: I'm looking to settle down.

He can do better.

Nice guys finish last, so do nice girls.

By Elor Nkereuwem

January 18, 2011 02:34AM
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has demanded the extradition of a 26-year old Nigerian, Olaniyi Makinde, in connection with e-mail scams currently valued at about USD800,000.

A source at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said the FBI is particularly interested in Mr. Makinde, who is currently standing trial in Ondo State, because of the peculiarity of the scam method which involved remotely breaking into the accounts system of an online payroll company in California, Intuit Inc.

When contacted, the spokesperson of the EFCC, Femi Babafemi, declined to speak in details about the case but our source also said that the EFCC and the FBI have been working together on this case since last year adding that while the FBI would like to try Mr. Makinde in the US, the EFCC want him tried in Nigeria.

Amongs other charges in the 23-count charge brought against the 26-year old, the EFCC said that Mr. Makinde managed to manipulate the American online payroll system to deposit cash in his Intercontinental and Ecobank accounts in Nigeria.

“He installed malicious codes in several victims’ personal computers with which he fraudulently stole their bank information to steal $600, 000,” an official document obtained by NEXT said.

“Because of that boy, three FBI agents came to Nigeria in October. They wanted to see the person that could carry out this deal offshore,” our source at the EFCC said.

The accused, Mr. Makinde, who also goes by the aliases Olaniyi James and Andrea Bradley, recently graduated from the University of Ado Ekiti with a degree in Economics and is scheduled to take part in the compulsory National Youth Service scheme.

He however remains in the custody of Nigeria’s anti-graft agency which said that if convicted of the over 20 count charges brought against him, Mr. Makinde could serve as much as 60 years in jail.

U havn't even listened to Untouchable am ur making comments.

There's been so much talk about who's better, now they've dropped fresh albums and i'll like to know who u think performed better.

Assange becomes ‘Man-of-the-year’
By Our reporter
Sunday, December 12, 2010

Julian Assange, the Wikileaks whistle-blower, may have murderers and rapists as his companions as he languishes in a London prison, but his miniature double is in rather more exalted company.
A figure of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is placed in a Neapolitan Christmas crèche depicting the Nativity of Jesus in Naples.

Craftsmen in Naples have for centuries earned their living carving wooden Nativity figures and for the last few years have extended their repertoire to celebrities, politicians and others in the news.
This year they have bestowed the dubious honour on Julian Assange, 39, who is in Wandsworth prison after being denied bail over allegations of sex assault against two Swedish women.

The figure of Mr Assange is on display in Via San Gregorio Armeno, a narrow alley in the historic heart of Naples, in among dozens of Wise Men, Virgin Marys, Josephs, sheep and oxen.
The Australian is depicted wearing a suit and clutching a laptop computer.

The six-inch high figure was created by Gennaro Di Virgilio, a master craftsman, who each year produces at least one contemporary figure to juxtapose with the more traditional Nativity scenes he makes.
“I included him to poke a little fun at the world and have a good time,” said Di Virgilio, 29, whose family has been making nativity statuettes, known in Italian as “presepe”, since 1830.
“In a sense, Assange is the man of the year,” he said.

In recent decades, artists and craftsmen who make Neapolitan crèches have used them to portray the signs of the times. There is only one copy of the Assange statuette, which costs 130 euros ($226). Di Virgilio says he will make others on request.

Assange becomes hero
WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, has become a cult figure whose supporters are spread across the globe.
No one person has polarised opinions so sharply in recent times as Assange has. After his recent arrest by the British police, there were protests outside British embassies.
A group of hackers took down the sites of Internet payment service - Paypal, Mastercard and Visa - after they froze the flow of funds to Assange’s accounts.

The release of top-secret diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks has embarrassed the U.S. government and filled reams of newsprint all around the world. While most countries have been shrill in their condemnation of Assange’s latest work, some countries like Russia have called for him to be given the Nobel Peace Prize.

Parents defend him
Assange’s mother, Christine, termed his arrest as “unfair.”
Conspiracy theories have been floating on the web about the charges against Assange and their validity.
His stepfather, Brett, said: “Julian was a bright child with a strong sense of right and wrong.”
In this day and age where the world has supposedly come closer after the advent of telephones and Internet, Assanage’s maverick ways continue to evoke awe and suspicion among people.
His nomadic ways were cited as a reason for him being denied bail in the UK.

Vatican offended by Ireland’s clerics’ sexprobe
Newly released United States diplomatic cables indicate that the Vatican felt “offended” that Ireland failed to respect Holy See “sovereignty” by asking high-ranking churchmen to answer questions from an Irish government commission probing decades of sex abuse of minors by clergy.

That the Holy See used its diplomatic immunity status as a tiny-city state to try to thwart Ireland’s government-led probe has long been known. But the WikiLeaks cables, published by Britain’s The Guardian newspaper on Saturday, contain delicate, behind-the-scenes diplomatic assessments of the highly charged situation.
The Vatican press office declined to comment on the content of the cables Saturday, but decried the leaks as a matter of “extreme seriousness.”
The U.S. ambassador to the Holy See also condemned the leaks and said in a statement that the Vatican and America cooperate in promoting universal values.

According to the deputy to the Irish ambassador to the Holy See, the Irish government gave in to Vatican pressure and allowed the church officials to avoid answering questions from the inquiry panel, according to one of the cables from a U.S. diplomat.
Ambassador Noel Fahey apparently told U.S. diplomat Julieta Valls Noyes that the sex abuse scandal was a tricky one to manage.

“The Vatican believes the Irish government failed to respect and protect Vatican sovereignty during the investigations,” read the cable from Noyes, deputy chief of mission. Elsewhere in the cable, the diplomat, citing a Holy See official, wrote that the inquiry commission’s requests “offended many in the Vatican” because they were viewed as “an affront to Vatican sovereignty.”

The diplomat also said: “Adding insult to injury, Vatican officials also believed some Irish opposition politicians were making political hay with the situation by publicly calling on the government to demand that the Vatican reply.” The Irish government wanted to be seen as cooperating with the investigation because its own education department was implicated in decades of abuse, but politicians were reluctant to insist Vatican officials answer the investigators’ questions, the cables indicate.

One cable discloses the behind-the-scenes diplomatic maneuvers by which Irish politicians tried to persuade the Vatican to cooperate with the probe. “In the end the Irish government decided not to press the Vatican reply,” the U.S. diplomat wrote, citing Fahey’s deputy, Helena Keleher. Saturday’s official Vatican press statement said the WikiLeaks cables “reflect the perceptions and opinions of the people who wrote them and cannot be considered as expressions of the Holy See itself.” It added that the reports “reliability must, then, be evaluated carefully and with great prudence.”

The cables also contain information regarding the Vatican’s relations with the Anglican Communion, which includes the Church of England and its affiliates in more than 160 countries.
One cable reports that Britain’s ambassador to the Vatican warned that the pope’s invitation to disaffected Anglicans to join the Catholic Church had chilled relations between the two churches and risked inciting a violent backlash against British Catholics.

A November 2009 file from U.S. Embassy at the Vatican quotes British envoy Francis Campbell as saying that “Anglican-Vatican relations were facing their worst crisis in 150 years as a result of the pope’s decision.”
The Vatican moved last year to make it easier for traditional Anglicans upset over the appointment of female priests and gay bishops to join the Catholic Church, whose teaching holds that homosexual activity is sinful.
The pope invited Anglicans to join new “personal ordinariates,” which allow them to continue to use some of their traditional liturgy and be served by married priests.

A cable quotes Campbell as saying the move put the Anglican spiritual leader, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, “in an impossible situation.” And he worried that the crisis could aggravate “latent anti-Catholicism” in majority-Protestant England.
“The outcome could be discrimination or in isolated cases, even violence, against this minority,” the cable said.

Arrest triggers protests
Assange’s recent arrest in London has triggered off a wave of protests across the world, by people who believe him to be the last hope of a free and fair press.
Assange, who describes his style as “scientific journalism”, says the philosophy behind WikiLeaks is “to radically shift regime behavior, we must think clearly and boldly for if we have learned anything, it is that regimes do not want to be changed. We must think beyond those who have gone before us and discover technological changes that embolden us with ways to act in which our forebears could not.”

“The more secretive or unjust an organisation is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie, Since unjust systems, by their nature induce opponents, and in many places barely have the upper hand, mass leaking leaves them exquisitely vulnerable to those who seek to replace them with more open forms of governance.” Already, American senators have called for Assange to be tried for espionage. Some people have even called for him to be “bumped off.”

He had previously released a video, which showed American helicopter gun crew in Baghdad shooting and killing two Reuters photographers. WikiLeaks had selectively in association with top newspapers of the globe released 25,0000 American diplomatic cables. These cables show the candour and blunt assessments made by American diplomats across the globe. Assange’s stance of taking on the world’s only superpower and exposing the inner workings of one the most secretive organisations in the world has made him an instant hero among the masses.

Data Capturing machines stolen at airport

By Ifedayo Adebayo and Elor Nkereuwem

December 9, 2010 07:21AM
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An undisclosed number of the Direct Data Capture machines ordered by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) have been stolen from the cargo section of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

The remaining machines, some of which carry the tags of the Saudi Airlines Cargo with airway bill number 06584662572, were sighted at the National Aviation Handling Company premises yesterday. The contractor was identified as Zinox Nigeria Limited.

At the scene, Custom officials and staff of the Federal Aviation Authority of Nigeria were seen monitoring the movement of the remaining machines to the tarmac. When asked why, one of the officials who was in mufti and refused to identify himself replied, “we are asked to return them or what do you want to know?” The missing machines had led the authority to stop further clearing of other consignments.

According to clearing agents at the scene, officials of the State Security Services came to the place early in the morning to arrest the Customs Officer in charge of operation who was simply identified as W. Waziri and some other officials who were on night duty when the machines arrived the country.

Porous security

“It is not a new thing, but this must be from above,” one airport official said, adding, “Who needs such things (DDC machines) if not the politicians? So many things use to go missing here and I cannot blame anybody for that. The equipment to offload them from the aircraft are not many. So due to that, they sometimes allow the clearing agents and some individuals to go into the place, especially that place from the tarmac (pointing at the gate that linked a warehouse called Shed 4 to the tarmac) to find their goods.”

According to an official of one of the companies involved in the importation of the data capturing machines, the theft is not such a shock. He said, ”that is Nigeria for you. It is not only DDC. I heard they stole some PHCN equipment also.”

He blamed the lax security in the airport and the cargo section for the theft, observing that many people who had no business entering the place are allowed to loiter there aimlessly.

However, he said as far as the company is concerned, the consignments are still with the Customs and clearing agencies and have not been handed over to the company, “they are still at the airport. I learnt it was at the clearing point in the airport that they learnt that some equipment have been tampered with inside the shed of FAAN.’’

In a telephone interview, Kayode Idowu, the spokesman to the chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission described the news that some of the data machines have disappeared as “a bizarre piece of fiction.”

According to him, “I think somebody is playing games with fiction. Only a while ago, somebody called me to say some ballot boxes have been stolen and now this. The truth of the matter is that it is a bizarre piece of fiction. It is not true.”

Silence rules

The State Security Service whose officials were said to have come from Abuja to make some arrests refused to talk. Marilyn Ogar its spokesperson did not respond to both calls and text messages sent to her. She later told the reporter to call her this morning as she was busy in a meeting.

An e-mail to Jamil S. Zamzami, the spokesperson of the airline that brought in the cargo also went unanswered. However, airport officials who spoke to NEXT on condition of anonymity said there was no doubt that the disappearance occurred on Nigeria soil.

Although other sources said the missing items were ballot boxes, Mr Idowu described this as untrue. He said, “How could ballot boxes have been stolen? The contracts were just awarded just last week. How can it be that they are in the country already? You need to ask questions.”

Expensive equipment

Firms contracted for the manufacturing and supply of the DDC Machines include Zinox Technologies Ltd. which is to supply 80,000 units at $1, 771. 73 per unit; Messrs Haier Electrical Appliances Corp Ltd, which is to supply 30,000 units at $1, 699. 60 per unit; and Avante International Technology Inc., expected to supply 22,000 units at $1, 699. 60 per unit.

The total unit costs of the 132 units stand at about $230m, inclusive of all taxes and charges.

Already, the commission had embarked on the training of its staff that would in turn train the ad-hoc staff to be engaged for the exercise, which will be mainly Youth corps members.

The contract for the supply of about 150,000 pieces of the collapsible ballot boxes for the sum of N1.95 billion has been associated with controversies since it was awarded by Mr. Jega.

Just last week a law suit brought against INEC, the Federal Government of Nigeria and four others by Beddings Holdings Limited, was thrown out by an Abuja High Court. The plaintiff claimed he has the patent for the collapsible boxes, and has filed a new action asking that he be paid 50% of the total sum of the contracts.

the absence of evidence is not d evidence of absence.

Foooooooooollllllllssssss!
They should slash their own allowance if they want to save money.

Why should EFCC wait till election before picking corrupt politicians. If any politician of corrupt, he should have already been in jail and not leaving them to move free but now preventing them from contesting. The law doesn't say that corrupt poeple should be allowed roam about be prevented from contesting in elections.

Jega or no Jega, jonathan is d man.