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Hello OP, please how do I get rid of raised black spot

winniz:
Yorubas keep talking about Cannibalism while you lots are the one that Practice it till date e.g your Obas.

How do they? Please enlighten me

IsraeliAIRFORCE:
Don't be deceived, this is part of a wider war by Southwest Nigeria against any rising State in Southeast using foreign correspondents to hinder direct foreign investment and development from the region.

This same people have strategically position themselves far back as 1970s to put holes in all environmental assessments conducted for development in Southeast.

Remember the publication which highlighted how Enugu Airport failed to follow due process and so many of such investments.

Easterners should open their eyes to understand the economic war and where it is coming from.

I.diot. Na maggots full your brain.

What has your tribe's cannibalism got to do with the Yorubas. Na dem send you to dey kill person do lunch

Blame GEJ
It is a federal road

Well articulated press release. Lai Mohammed always live up to expectations. He is a good example of what a spokeperson should be.

He should take the trip since he has nothing to fear about

There are different meanings of abuse to different individuals, depending on how it is percieved in the individuals mind, culture, home, community, friends and family etc.



However, let’s assume the same definition; Albeit, we don’t want to be narrowly focused on single incidents. We need to look at the wider picture.

Domestic Abuse can be any form of incident (s,) which is controlling , coercive, threatening and violent. This can encompass psychological, physical, sexual, financial and emotional. This list is not limited to the types mentioned.

For the less privileged women going through this dilemma or have been through the predicament only understands too well how domestic abuse can lead to other complex situations.

Whether or not you’re ready to leave your abusive partner, there are things you can do to protect yourself. These safety tips can make the difference between being severely injured, killed, and escaping with your life.

1. Contact the domestic violence/sexual assault program in your area. They can provide emotional support, peer counseling, safe emergency housing, information, and other services while you are in the relationship, as well as if you decide to leave.

2. Build as strong a support system as your partner will allow. Whenever possible, get involved with people and activities outside your home and encourage your children to do so.

3.Be kind to yourself! Develop a positive way of looking at yourself and talking to yourself. Use affirmations to counter the negative comments you get from the abuser. Allow yourself time for doing things you enjoy.

4. Be ready to leave at a moment’s notice. Keep the car fueled up and the driver’s door unlocked. Hide a spare car key where you can get it quickly. Have emergency cash, clothing, and important phone numbers and documents stashed in a safe place (at a friend’s house, for example).

5. Practice escaping quickly and safely. Rehearse your escape plan so you know exactly what to do if under attack from your abuser. If you have children, have them practice the escape plan also.

6. Make and memorize a list of emergency contacts. Ask several trusted individuals if you can contact them if you need a ride, a place to stay, or help contacting the police. Memorize the numbers of your emergency contacts, and domestic violence hotline.

7. Come up with a code word. Establish a word, phrase, or signal you can use to let your children, friends, neighbours, or co-workers know that you’re in danger and the police should be called.

8. Know your abuser’s red flags. Be on alert for signs and clues that your abuser is getting upset and may explode in anger or violence. Come up with several believable reasons you can use to leave the house (both during the day and at night) if you sense trouble brewing.

9. Identify safe areas of the house. Know where to go if your abuser attacks or an argument starts. Avoid small, enclosed spaces without exits (such as closets or bathrooms) or rooms with weapons (such as the kitchen). If possible, head for a room with a phone and an outside door or window.

As females we should always remember that we are not to blamed for been battered or mistreated. Neither are we the cause of our partner’s abusive behavior. We deserve to be treated with respect and have happy life.


http://www.naij.com/435893-9-ways-to-protect-yourself-in-an-abusive-relationship.html

Senator-elect and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State, Mr. Buruji Kashamu, on Saturday, denied any past trip to the United States and ruled out any possibility of ever visiting the country in the future.

In an interview with Sahara TV, which was monitored by our correspondent, the PDP chieftain likened such a visit to leaping into fire.

Asked by the interviewer to clarify his alleged involvement in a United States criminal case as detailed in a popular prison memoir-turned-TV series by American, Piper Kerman, Kashamu refuted the claims.

He said, “I am a Nigerian. I am not running away from my fatherland. If anyone thinks he has a case against me, he should follow due process and we will take it up from there. I am not under any obligation to go to the US to answer the same charges after the true judgment of the British court has exonerated me of the same allegations.

“Asking me to take the next available flight to the US so as to clear my name is like asking me to jump in a fire-may the Almighty rescue me from it. If the US prosecutor could hide important evidence that later exonerated me in the UK court, only God knows what they will do in their country.

“I have done a lot of things to clear my name. I spent four years in detention at the hands of the US authorities to prove my innocence before I was eventually exonerated. This was also in the presence of the US prosecutors and other agencies in various countries, like the Republic of Benin, Nigeria. It was after a rigorous trial with pictorial and documentary evidence that I was discharged.”

Kashamu further explained that the case was taken to London and he was acquitted. He added that his accusers should follow legal process if they believed their claims held water.

“I have cleared my name and myself in London. If anybody believes that they have any other case against me, they should come through due process. I am ready to challenge it. I am ready to face it without any problem.

“I have never in my life put my foot into the United States. I have never demanded for their sticker. I have been a businessman right from 18 years old. Up till today, I continue doing my business. My last submission is that I know nothing about what they are saying over there,” he said.

http://www.punchng.com/news/going-to-us-is-like-jumping-into-fire-kashamu/

Na wa ooo
@ Barcanista, how much did u sell ur soul to the devil for?

Arthur Eze has no shame. Paying homage to the same APC he labelled "Amala and Ewedu party" at a rally in anambra.
He is a good example of an AGIP (Any Government In People).


Shame!
Shame!!
Shame!!!

Am Mel-San

Yeye dey smell


Pathetic Loser

Good riddance

Nice analysis

By Ikenna Asomba
One week after the presidential election, human rights lawyer and former President, Nigerian Bar Association (2006–2008), Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, takes a critical look at the election’s outcome, describing the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, President Goodluck Jonathan, as the number one hero for conceding defeat to his All Progressives Congress, APC, counterpart, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.

* Olisa Agbakoba
Agbakoba speaks on the voting pattern in the South-East and North-West, how the incoming administration can help restructure Nigeria’s electoral process, the outcome of the National Conference, the huge cost of governance, PDP’s dissatisfaction with the poll result and the threat by the leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, NDPVF, Mujaheeden Asari-Dokubo, to go back to the creeks, following the result of the presidential poll. Excerpts:
The presidential election has come and gone. What is your critical appraisal of the entire process?
We have had this election, which ran for three days of absolute inactivity. I feel the country should not be shut-down because we are having elections. However, I had predicted that nothing will happen to Nigeria. I was confident that there will be no violence. I was confident that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, will not come in time, I was confident that the smart card readers, SCRs, will not work efficiently, but I was confident about the process. It has generally improved. So, let’s not lament. For the fact that Nigeria has not vanished like many people thought, I think it’s a plus.

Following the outcome of the election, do you think we have heroes and villains?
Yes. The number one hero is the man that has worked himself out and discovered that he has been tremendously relieved, and that is President Goodluck Jonathan. President Jonathan didn’t make the mistake that Gen. Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB) made. The glory that Jonathan has now taken today was the glory that IBB would have taken in 1993. What was IBB doing after nine years in office? So, I have the impression that Jonathan called himself to question, having been in power since 1999. He would have said, ‘well, I have given it my best shot but now I lost. Rather than allow my supporter like Elder Godsday Orubebe to rubbish me, I will rather give in’.
The second hero, if I was to consider, are Professor Attahiru Jega, the INEC Chairman, or the Nigerian masses, but I give it to the Nigerian masses to decide.
However, I will say Jega is a hero. His calmness and civility resulted in the election being concluded peacefully and accepted by everybody. Even President Jonathan accepted it.
To expand on why I said Jonathan is a hero, it’s because there is no known dictator the world over that concedes defeat to an opposition. Again, he is a hero for the fact that he allowed the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, to grow. It may be easy to say Jonathan has no choice, but he indeed has choices. Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has shown that he can absolutely decapitate the opposition.
So, that is a very strong commendation for Jonathan for allowing the democratic process to work, he allowed multi-party democracy, he allowed free elections. We have seen some Nigerian Presidents who didn’t allow it, we have seen how the National Party of Nigeria, NPN, frustrated Chief Obafemi Awolowo of the Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN, from becoming President. We have seen how IBB did not allow the process to produce MKO Abiola. So, we must give Jonathan the credit for being cool, calm and accepting defeat.
Again, the opposition APC is another hero. For the fact that there was a credible and intelligent opposition among whom were Babatunde Fashola, Dele Alake and Wale Edun, the thinkers, that is why they beat the PDP. The PDP was busy doing hate campaigns, which APC also did and we condemned it. What I saw was an APC with an absolute brilliant football team with people around. The PDP was a weak football team with a weak manager and that cost them the election. So, those are the four heroes.
On the other hand, the biggest villains are the South-East and the North-West. It is incredible for Jonathan to have won with such numbers in the South-East. It is unbelievable and doesn’t do the leaders of the South-East any good, neither does it do the leaders of the North-West any good for Buhari to score such number of votes. We need balance voting like we saw in the South-West. How can a man score about 90 percent? Is it that the South-East was shut-out from the national equation? So, the villains are leaders of the PDP in the South-East who don’t understand the balance voting is critical. So, we hope that the April 11 gubernatorial elections will produce a balance voting in Lagos, Enugu, Kaduna and other states. I don’t want to see that Party A has 90 percent and Party B has 0 percent. That is not voting, that is the biggest draw-back in this election.

What should be blamed for the imbalanced voting?

Ethnicity was the cause. We must get rid of that, because that is the only thing that would identify a region as a villain. The challenge for the APC government will be to zero into vote Player pattern. These whole business of restructuring Nigeria, where settlers residing in a place can contest and win elections is what we need to do to move forward. So, we want the April 11 gubernatorial election to reflect balanced voting. The problem the PDP had was that it got too confident because it was getting all the votes. So, we don’t want the APC to become the PDP and get all the votes. People should vote with their heads, for the party they want in a way that is straight.

Do you advise the new APC government to look into the outcome of the National Confab?

They should consider the outcome. I was a member of the National Conference and there were challenges. It depends on your interest. There are about 170 million Nigerians of different ethnic, religious and linguistic backgrounds, and something meaningful has come out of it was. But who would have believed that the National Conference would have gone as well as it is. So, we can do it. I expect that the APC will begin to find a common ground that all Nigerians can live together, that is the recommendation. So that in 2019, we won’t have this issue of imbalanced voting. It’s not good for the system.
However, to achieve absolute balanced voting, it’s a long-term thing. It requires discussions at a constitution conference, so that people begin to feel less about state of origin. Why do I need to indicate my state of origin on forms? The larger question is the constitution conference you referred to. We can start now by demonstrating that balanced voting is the way to go. Balanced voting is key. I don’t expect the South-East where I hail from, should have voted 90 percent for Jonathan. It was that balanced voting that Buhari got that made him win. What helped Buhari was the consistent balanced voting in the middle between 40 and 60 percent across the states. But on the part of Jonathan, the few high-graphs proved unhelpful. So, as a politician, it makes sense to me to appeal to everybody. I would rather split the votes with my opponent in my stronghold, and also split the votes with my opponent in his stronghold. By and large, it was the failure to understand balanced voting that caused the PDP the election.
This strategy of balanced voting was exactly what took US President Barrack Obama to the White House. If Obama had felt that since I’m a black man, I’m going to stay with the blacks in America, he would have lost. But he crafted his demographic voting strategy to the extent that everybody felt included. So, with what we have seen in this election, I believe Nigeria has passed that stage.

The cost of governance is high, while many live in poverty. What should be done?

They should decapitate the civil service. This is very important now, and I think Generalhas alluded to it. If people are coming to the National Assembly with a view that they will receive the kind of emoluments they receive, let Buhari make it clear that they won’t get it.
Let him make it clear that if a lawmaker thinks he will be getting over N600 million representing the people, and we have more than 60 million unemployed Nigerians, let him (Buhari) make it loud and clear that his administration will not let it happen.
Again, we need to take up the Stephen Oronsaye Committee Report. If you read that report, it rationalises out 30 percent of the civil service. So, the civil service is over-bloated and needs to be cut down, in favour of capital projects.
Again, considering the dwindling oil price, one big area the new administration should look into is the maritime sector. The money in the maritime sector is unbelievable as you can see that Apapa, in Lagos, is the largest port in Central West African zone. Particularly, as the government has declared a highly progressive social security policy of distributing benefits to the poor people, it has to look for money.
The third area that the new government has to look at is the counter-corruption programme. It has to absolutely dismantle the present framework and erect a new one. Let the message be made very clear that there will be a response by government should a public servant be corrupt. When there is the perception that corruption will be severely punished, you will be very shocked that people will be in line. But if there is no perception that corruption will be severely punished, people will misbehave.

An all-inclusive government:

If I am Gen. Buhari, I will pick the best professional team, it doesn’t matter where you are from, so long that it complies with the Constitution. For instance, if there is a person serving in the current administration that did well, I will pick that person to serve in my team.

PDP’s dissatisfaction and impending law suit

Nobody should cause that confusion. The man who ran the election says, ‘I concede defeat’. If the PDP goes to court, they are on their own. I, as a lawyer, will not support the PDP going to court, when the principal has conceded defeat. This was the reason the petition in Ekiti State was not really strong, because Fayemi’s heart was not in it.
Today, we can see Fayemi celebrating, that is concession and the beauty of democracy. You can’t win all the time. Look, God has blessed Jonathan to the point where he has been in office consistently since 1999. When Jonathan was working in the NNDC, I was long a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and I am still a SAN. From NNDC, he became deputy governor, governor, vice president, acting president and then president. Come on, this is one man? God has blessed him indeed to get to the peak of his political career.
By and large, even though logistics is a challenge, let us thank God that the elections were peaceful and results accepted. Out of this election process had come a number of new things. Concession is one, the President conceded defeat. So, I will expect that in the gubernatorial election on April 11, we can get more concessions. Then, we see the lines of fierce professional opposition. So, the next thing now is to begin to see the lines of strong parties. I want to see Nigerian parties emulating the parties in the United Kingdom. You can’t see the Labour lawmaker moving to the Conservative because an election was lost. It doesn’t happen because there is an ideology. Here, our political parties have no ideology, truth be told. Hopefully, in the next four years, incidents where one political party fielding a candidate and still goes ahead to endorse another candidate will be impossible. We need to see a tougher INEC that disallows this kind of incidents. If your party’s candidate is on the ballot and you go ahead to endorse another party, the INEC Chairman should disqualify you.

What do you make of the renewed threat by Asari Dokubo to go back to the creeks, because Jonathan lost?

He will be in prison. Asari Dokubo cannot threaten Nigeria. Look, who is he working for? That is why I make Jonathan my number one hero. You can’t cry more than me that lost my mother.
The President has conceded, so who is Asari Dokubo to say he is going back to the creeks? What is he going back to the creeks to do? Let him go back to the creeks and he will die in the creeks.
Buhari has said his administration will run Boko Haram out of town. So, any miscreant that wants to make trouble, it is the duty of the President to deploy our cohesive force to flush the person out. We want peace, so nobody should disturb our peace in this country.

About 302 out the 360 members of the House of Representatives will not return to their seats when the 8th session of the National Assembly will be inaugurated on June 6, investigation by The PUNCH has shown.

Leading the pack are the Speaker, Aminu Tambuwal; the Deputy Speaker, Emeka Ihedioha; the House Majority Leader, Mulikat Akande-Adeola; the Chief Whip, Ishaka Bawa; the Minority Whip, Sampson Osagie; and the Deputy Minority Leader, Abdulrahman Suleiman-Kawu.

Other prominent non-returning lawmakers are a former Chairman, Adhoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy Probe, Farouk Lawan; and the Chairman, House Committee on Petroleum Resources (Upstream), Ajibola. Muraina.

Lawan, also a former chairman, House Committee on Information and House Committee on Education, was first elected to the House in 1999.

While Tambuwal, Ihedioha and other principal officers vied for either governorship or senatorial positions, the majority of the lawmakers lost their re-election bid during the March 28 National Assembly election, leaving just about 58, who scaled through the hurdles.

The PUNCH had reported earlier in December 2014 that over 155 lawmakers failed across political parties to secure return tickets at their party primaries. More losses were recorded at the main election on March 28.

In 2011, about 99 lawmakers returned from the 2007 set.

The PUNCH findings on Sunday showed that the Peoples Democratic Party recorded the heaviest losses, as more results of the elections became available on Sunday.

The PDP had less than 160 members before the March 28 election from its original majority strength of 208 in June 2011, owing to mass defection to the All Progressives Congress.

Investigations indicated that the performance of the PDP at the poll still left it with a membership figure under 150.

A National Assembly official told The PUNCH on Sunday that with many members of the PDP exiting the House, the APC had a clear majority.

He said, “The APC is in the majority clearly; it doesn’t call for debate, judging from the outcome of the elections.

“We are talking of above 200 members now and the preoccupation is how the party will constitute the next House by picking its leaders.”

The PUNCH learnt that states with the highest number of members also failed most to return their old members.

For instance, all but six out of the 24 lawmakers from Lagos State did not make it to the next Assembly.

The successful six are the current Minority Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila; Abayomi Ayeola; James Faleke; Jide Akintoye; Yakub Balogun and Dauda Kako-Are.

Similarly, not up to 10 of Kano’s 24 members survived the keenly-contested elections.

Kaduna State has 16 members, but not up to 10 are returning. Same for Benue State whose six, out of 11 legislators failed to win the election.

The returning lawmakers in Benue are Herman Hembe (APC); John Dyegh (APC); Ezekiel Adaji (PDP); Sampson Okwu (PDP) and. Emmanuel Udende (PDP).

All six new comers are from the APC, giving the party eight lawmakers in the House out of the 11 representing Benue State.

Akwa Ibom returned only two out of 10 while Bayelsa returned only one member out of six.

Abia State returned three of its eight lawmakers.

Reacting to the high turnover of members, the Chairman, House Committee on Electoral Matters, Jerry Manwe, described it as a “disaster.”

Manwe, a member of the Social Democratic Party, said the House would be “almost entirely new in June.”

Though, Manwe admitted that such was the “beauty of democracy,” he expressed reservations that the new environment would slow down legislative proceedings.

He said, “We are going to have a situation where so many people will have to learn everything from the scratch.

“Some will not even know why they are here; there will be a lot of challenges ahead, but this is democracy.

The Chairman, House Committee on Justice, Ahmad Ali, also observed that the National Assembly would have the “uphill task” of training a new House as from June.

Ali said, “I don’t see the scenario in front of the House as easy; they will have to spend more money to train all these people afresh.

“It is a huge budget because you are throwing experience away for new hands, who can hardly do anything on their own without adequate training on legislative processes.


http://www.punchng.com/news/302-reps-wont-return-to-house-in-june/

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Ok

She is still a learner in the game of politics.

Cutehector4u:
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For one room in the flat

Cutehector4u:
The 70k is it for one yr or six months ?

For one room in the flat and it is for one year

pinkiepetite:
d whole 3bedroom flat is 70k? or js d amout she's to pay for her room?

The 70,000 naira is for one room in the flat

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/10/21/rwanda-united-statees-ebola-screening/17653947/
The East African nation of Rwanda is requiring all visitors from the United States and Spain to self-monitor, fill out an extensive questionnaire and report their medical condition for the first 21 days of their visits because of the Ebola cases that have surfaced in the two Western countries.

Coincidentally or not, the new screening follows an embarrassing uproar in a New Jersey school over the imminent enrollment of two Rwanda children that initially prompted their parents to keep them at home for 21 days.
The order by the Rwanda government to visiting Americans and Spaniards was posted Tuesday on the website of the U.S. Embassy in Rwanda:
"On October 19, the Rwandan Ministry of Health introduced new Ebola Virus Disease screening requirements. Visitors who have been in the United States or Spain during the last 22 days are now required to report their medical condition—regardless of whether they are experiencing symptoms of Ebola—by telephone by dialing 114 between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. for the duration of their visit to Rwanda (if less than 21 days), or for the first 21 days of their visit to Rwanda. Rwandan authorities continue to deny entry to visitors who traveled to Guinea, Liberia, Senegal, or Sierra Leone within the past 22 days."
The U.S. and Spain have both recorded deaths from Ebola. In Dallas, a Liberian national died of the virus two weeks ago and two nurses who treated him tested positive for the virus. At least two Spanish missionaries died in Spain after contracting the disease in West Africa. One Spanish nurse also tested positive for the Ebola virus.

Rwanda is located in East Africa about 2,600 miles east of Liberia, the closest of the three West African countries with the Ebola outbreak. Rwanda has been unaffected by the Ebola outbreak on the other side of the continent and has reported no cases of the virus.
The dust-up in New Jersey involving two Rwanda children took a new turn Monday with an apology by the superintendent of the Maple Shade School District in Burlington County.
The children were supposed to begin classes Monday at Howard Yocum Elementary School in Maple Shade, N.J., but ran into a backlash from other parents, WTXF-TV in Philadelphia.com reports.
The uproar started after a school nurse sent a note to staff members saying that the school intended to take the temperature of the two students three times a day for the next 3 weeks, the normal incubation period for Ebola.
The letter quickly leaked to parents, stirring up fears and prompting the school district to post a note that their parents had voluntarily decided to keep them at home for 21 days.
But on Tuesday, the school district changed course again and apologized for its rash behavior, noting on its website that its schools have "become the unwitting 'face' of our nations fears with regard to pressing health concerns."
"None of the actions that have shined the regional light of media exposure on Maple Shade Schools was mean-spirited or ill intended," writes school superintendent Beth Norcia.
She says the school next week "will welcome the new students whose parents graciously offered to keep them close this week."
She adds that the schools will "consider the unintended consequences of our messages more carefully in the future. No matter how well-intentioned, a message that originated within our schools created conflict and concern within the Maple Shade community. We offer our sincere apologies."

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