For non-Dutch speakers, here is what the certificate says:

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Integration Diploma

Caroline Sam

Born 2 November 1982 in Badawa, Nigeria

Has successfully passed the integration exam.

The civic integration examination, as referred to in Article 7, second paragraph, preamble and subsection a. of the Integration Act or Article 13, first paragraph, of the Integration Act as it read on December 31, 2012, achieved the required level of the Common European Framework for Modern Languages.

The integration exam includes the following tests

Knowledge of Dutch Society
Fluency
Writing
Reading
Listening Comprehension

place
Groningen

date
July 6, 2015

On behalf of the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, for this

KNM Hut
Service Manager exams
integration
Office of Education

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BTW, the integration exam is a legal requirement for non-EU citizens to learn the Dutch language and pass an exam to demonstrate proficiency. . .all within a few years of arrival in the Netherlands.

I guess this is a major milestone for her regarding her Dutch residency.

PS: I just learned that "Badawa" is in Kano state

The New York Times recently published its coverage of the Equilar 200 Highest-Paid CEO Rankings, an analysis of the top paid CEOs at public U.S. companies with at least $1 billion in fiscal year-end market cap.

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Following a meeting with President-Elect Buhari yesterday, Republic of Benin's President, Mr. Thomas Boni Yayi said, "‎Benin is the 37th state of Nigeria, and 55 percent of population in Benin comes from Nigeria, you know I am at home here." (See: https://www.nairaland.com/2315626/benin-republic-nigerias-37th-state#33757625)

It got me thinking that a forward-looking government in Nigeria could consider acquiring Republic of Benin!

Yeah, yeah, what has Nigeria done with its population of 170 million that an additional 10 million would hold out any benefit? Answer: I did say "forward-looking", so the benefits will be in the future. In international land matters and demographics economics, more is supremely better than less.

Referencing the experience of the US, there are at least 5 options open to Nigeria:

(1) Negotiate a purchase like some US territorial acquisitions >> A somewhat fair price is negotiated and paid, but the buying country usually has the power in negotiation
- Alaska bought from Russia for $7.2 million in 1867 (equivalent to $121 million in present day terms)
- Puerto Rico+Guam+The Philippines bought from Spain for $20 million in 1898 (equivalent to $567 million in present day terms)
- Louisiana bought from France for $15 million in 1803 (equivalent to $236 million in present day terms)


(2) Open Ended Lease. . .for pittance >> Basically exercise ownership rights on the land for nothing; keep your military base close just in case
- Guantánamo Bay leased from Cuba in 1901 for $2,000 in U.S. gold coins per year, renegotiated in 1934 to $4,085/year


(3) Direct Annexation. . .because you are bigger >> Here, you are "chancing" the smaller country and taking its land
- Texas annexation in 1845 (Crimea moves)


(4) Indirect Annexation. . .have someone else do the dirty job >> Give some time for the dust to settle, then absorb the proxy government
- A group of businessmen funded a coup that overthrew Hawaii's Queen Lili'uokalani in 1893. Initially, the US turned down a request by the new government for annexation (wink-wink). Five years later, Hawaii joined the US and all its citizens given US citizenship.


(5) Military Conquest. . .bring out the big guns and damn the consequences >> Survival of the fittest, biggest and strongest
- Mexican Cessation Lands comprising California was lost by Mexico to the US following the Mexican–American War of 1846–48

We could make President Yayi's wish a reality after all! LOL!

What do you think?

Oh WHAO! A gem is gone!

Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako, spoke with some journalists on his defection from the PDP, the state of emergency and other issues. JOHN ALECHENU was there

Some people are saying you committed political blunder by moving to APC. Do you agree?

If I like it (or not), my running for political office is over. Am I going to contest as governor again? Did anyone tell you I want to be a senator? I told David Mark, in front of President Goodluck Jonathan that God forbid me seeking to be a senator. I am not participating in this game.

Secondly, they started saying I wanted my son to contest as governor. I had to come out and tell them, I promise you on my word of honour, I am not supporting my son for governor in 2015, he is not contesting. Neither is my wife.

Political parties must continually evolve. In those days you could get away — and some of them in the past got away with this level of impunity — and nobody challenged them. Democratic culture must be developed from top to bottom and people down below should have a right to select their unit leadership and their ward leadership.

The practice of rigging election or anybody coming out to say I am putting this person at the local government or House of Assembly, has to stop.

What was the genesis of the crisis in the PDP in Adawama, which led to your defection?

We had a bye-election here, we finished the primary on a Saturday and on Monday morning, the Chairman, sitting down in Abuja, sends the name of his distant cousin on his mother’s side, who never contested in the election primaries as the candidate for that election and Independent National Electoral Commission, which witnessed the primaries and the party headquarters, which witnessed the primaries, didn’t shout to say ‘no, we did not witness this man as the winner.’

The PDP hierarchy is corrupting our security and judicial institutions by the day. They can corrupt INEC, they can corrupt the Nigerian Police; otherwise, how can you explain a situation where governors were meeting, one DPO was sent by his boss to come and tell them to disperse.

You say you wanted us to sit down and reconcile with you, we sat down to discuss what action to take: whether to reconcile or not to reconcile with you and you sent a DPO to us.

This level of anarchy is it not worse than ‘I, brigadier so and so; on behalf of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic, all you bastards are gone now!” We cannot wait for that, the people must see we are self-correcting ourselves. Self-correcting the political system, we will not accept this level of impunity. It’s not just Adamawa. I have craw-craw on my foot for fighting in Bonny during the civil war, it has not gone yet, I was commanding officer of NNN Akpe. There was fire dropping all over me, all over my ship! You want me and my children to go through that hell of fire again?

Was there an agreement between President Jonathan and northern governors for him to serve for only one term?

In the first place, when that agreement was brought for me to sign, I told them that in the agreement signed in 2003, this President was number 73 (Obasanjo was there). We agreed that the terms 2007 and 2011 belonged to the North. He was number 73 at that time; he was the Deputy Governor of Bayelsa. So, when they came, they said I should sign. They said he had agreed he would sign that he would not contest in the year 2015. In the first place, I said I did not believe him because he did not give his pledge for the agreement signed in the year 2003, they said ‘ah, ah Baba Maimangoro,’ I said ok, I will sign. So I signed.

Who brought the agreement?

The Niger State governor was there, the Katsina State governor was there, all of them, northern governors, were there. They were there trying to get our support for Jonathan. The Niger State governor took it to him and he signed. Obj (Obasanjo) will tell you, he came here and sitting here pleading with me to support Jonathan in 2011. Jonathan came here and virtually took an oath to serve only one term.

Did Obasanjo come with Jonathan?

Absolutely! That he was going to serve for only one term. So, when he went back to Obasanjo to seek for his support for 2015, Obj asked him, ‘How? You came here, you promised me in the year 2011 and I went country-wide to get you support.’ I told all of them, Obasanjo told us that he had promised that it was only one term that he was going to do.

Who has that agreement now?

The Niger State governor has the agreement. We want to deal with people with honour. Not people who want to drag us into civil war because of impunity, because of lawlessness, because of not fulfilling their pledges that will only take us to civil war in this country. Leaders must be honest with their colleagues and must be honest with the greater society. I have my craw-craw from the first civil war, and if there is the need to develop another craw-craw in another civil war, I will stand by.

SOURCE: PUNCH Newspapers - http://www.punchng.com/news/tukurs-imposition-of-cousin-started-pdp-crisis-nyako/

As reported on TMZ, Cyrus, 20, appeared on NBC’s Today show in New York this morning, wearing tiny white shorts and a large, blingy chain necklace, in support of her new album Bangerz.

In the requisite sit-down segment, host Matt Lauer obviously had to ask about her drawing media attention for being a sexualized pop superstar more in the vein of Rihanna than Cyrus’s former wholesome TV persona of Hannah Montana.

As Lauer gingerly put it: “This sexual side of you that we’re seeing a lot of right now, something that’s going to be here a while, then you move on to something else?”

To which Cyrus, without missing a beat, impishly replied:“Well, I heard that when you turn 40, things start to go a little less sexual.”
Lauer countered with mock indignation and said, “Don’t say that!” But Miley just kept going.

“Probably around 40,” she continued. “Around that time I heard that’s when people don’t have sex any more. So I guess maybe around then.”

When Lauer revealed that he was 55, Cyrus responded with a rather unsympathetic, “Oh, well, then you’re really definitely not sexual.”
In recent months, Cyrus has been making headlines with her outrageous behaviour.

SOURCE: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/celebrity-news/miley-cyrus-says-people-stop-having-sex-after-40/article14721861/