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shadrach77: Something does not sound right with this story. Or the story does not sound complete. The pictures might be photoshopped. How did the road get cleared? Did the lions walk off? Was the police called? The article was silent on all of these. And who in his/her right mind would come out to take pictures of lions walking on a road?

oga shut up and read the article...call police for Lion??no be only police,na navy

hardbody: Learn to write in English my friend or better still use your local dialect. Stop defending people in your class, a bunch of dummies.

how about you remove the "a" b4 the bunch....oversabi

chelseabmw: since its a police officer then am okay.....not the other way round....Last year alone police has killed too many civilians

lmao,so this year they should drink from their cup bah?well you guys should let the OP be,he might not be articulate and fluent in english as it is not his mother tongue but am sure there are things he can do better than some people mocking him...don't forget he is only doing an on the spot reporting,its not like he created the thread to show off.....@OP I hope this is for real ooo!because some people can do anything to get to front page

Wow!!!just imagine encountering this kind of crocodile while swimming,micheal Phelps will envy you

An Afghan prisoner murdered his wife
during a conjugal visit, allegedly because
she had been unfaithful after he was
jailed for killing her relatives, police said
Wednesday.
Din Mohammad was sentenced to 20
years in prison two years ago for killing
his mother-in-law, and his wife's brother
and sister in the northern province of
Samangan.
Mohammad's wife, whose name has not
been disclosed, visited him in jail in the
provincial capital Aybak on Monday and
was found dead in a small private room
used for inmates to see their wives,
police said.
Mohammad confessed to her murder,
Samangan police chief Ikram Nikzad told
AFP.
"Mohammad was told by his mother that
his wife had affairs," he said, citing a
police investigation.
"When she came to visit him in jail he
strangled her with her veil and killed
her. They were meeting in a private
prison room," he said.
Mohammad's mother has been detained
for questioning, Nikzad added.
According to a UN report last month,
Afghanistan has made progress in
protecting women against violence, but
many still suffer horrific abuse 11 years
after a US-led invasion brought down the
Taliban regime.
Afghan women still endure killings by
relatives in the name of family honour,
forced marriages and domestic abuses.
There are fears that legal protection and
other gains made by women will be
eroded after NATO and the United States
withdraw most of their 100,000 troops
by the end of 2014.

BarryX: May the Baptism of goals from the likes of Emenike, Victor Moses,Ideye and SUNDAY Mba himself this Sunday be our Portion coupled with some lack-lustre performance from the likes of PItroipa and the Local dude with peroxide-dreadlocks waxed upper round haircut, Grant our selfish wishes Lord!

hehehe...Sir Bance isn't a local dude ooo!you can google him up,he plays in the bundesliga

Hmmmmmmmmmm!!!na wa oooo!!!

okorafor aboy: abeg,una no dey sleep?make una no vex ooo!!!

shut up joh!!!jobless attention seeker

Too bad,am sure if the match was live on NTA he wudnt have gone to a crowded viewing centre,Nigeria-a country where people die avoidable deaths....R.I.P

DJDOLA: They should just merc For d dis. Pastor beside poeple still atend is church...

they should have mercy on a murderer,if it was your sister he burnt to death will you be saying the same thing??I wonder how people like you reason

I am a firm believer in death penalty,he who wickedly takes the life of another deserves nothing but death.....

Mtchewwwwwwwwwww!!!some people can show themself eh,why not take the picture to his boss or better yet send it to Thisday to publish so he will be sacked for eating amala, OP better find something useful to do with your life,you can go to Mali and cover the war there if you are so jobless,journalism M̶̲̥̅γ̲̣̣̥ foot

viciati: Efe Ambrose the best performer today.Moses was also good.Our strikers were useless upfront.Overall ratin;bad game for the eagles.

how was Efe Ambrose our best performer??he went forward a couple of times but did it amount to anything meaningful??he was also quite average in defense,was easily bypassed resulting in some dangerous crossings from his wing....Good ratings Jarus,I totally agree with you....Though I will give Yobo a 4,he made a mess of a simple clearance resulting in a corner kick,I wonder what happened to his confidence

below is my top 10 list of failed
assassination attempts that, had they
succeeded, would have had tremendous
repercussions to this day.
(Note: I’m only including actual attempts
here, not plots that were stopped before
they had a chance to be carried out.)


10. Charles De Gaulle
President of France, 1962 (re-
enactment in video starting 4:50)
While the controversial French President
and World War Two leader of the Free
French had several close calls with
assassins throughout his long political
career, none came as close to success as
that of August, 1962. Riding in his car
down the Avenue de la Liberation, De
Gaulle’s vehicle was suddenly sprayed
with machine gun fire as it sped through
the streets of Paris at 70 miles per hour.
(The attack was carried out by a
maverick French Air Force officer
infuriated with DeGaulle’s decision to
grant Algeria its independence.)
Though the attack killed two policemen,
shattered the rear window of his Citroen,
and took all out all four tires, his driver
managed to get away with the President
and his wife unharmed. Had he not, it’s
interesting to consider what direction
France might have gone without the
larger-than-life De Gaulle at the helm for
the next seven years.

9. Gamal Nasser
President of Egypt, 1954
Most people outside the Arab world have
probably never heard of Gamal Nasser,
but for almost two decades he was the
driving force behind Arab nationalism in
the region and the impetus behind the
country’s many wars with Israel. As such,
had he been hit by even one of the eight
bullets fired at him while he was
delivering a live radio speech in October
of 1954, it’s unlikely the Arab/Israeli wars
of 1956 or 1967 would have happened,
nor would the deadliest of all Arab-Israeli
Wars, the Yom Kippur conflict of October,
1973, have occurred. (Though this last
war was engineered by his successor,
Anwar Sadat—Nassar having died of a
heart attack three years earlier—it was
in direct response to the humiliation the
Egyptians suffered at the hands of Israel
six years earlier.)
Of course, it’s entirely possible one of his
many lieutenants would have stepped
into his shoes upon his death, but none
of them appeared to possess Nasser’s
charisma or bellicose tendencies, making
the future direction Egypt might’ve
taken less certain. It’s possible it would
have been less confrontational; but, of
course, there’s no way of knowing.


8. Andrew Jackson
President of the United States,
1835
While most people imagine Lincoln’s
assassination to have been the first
attempt on a sitting American
president’s life, few realize how close
one of his predecessors came from being
the first to die at the hands of a gunman.
It happened late in Jackson’s first term
when a crazed man walked up to the
president as he walked out of the Capitol
building’s east portico and aimed two
percussion pistols at “Old Hickory.”
Remarkably, both pistols misfired,
leaving Jackson unharmed but his
attacker bloodied and bruised after a
thorough thrashing by the burly
commander-in-chief, who apparently was
as adept at wielding his cane as he was a
musket. The man was unceremoniously
hauled away by authorities (including a
former congressman named Davy
Crockett) and, after being deemed
insane by doctors, was left to rot in an
asylum for the rest of his life. Had the
two shots, fired at point blank range,
succeeded, the impact on the political
direction the country was heading under
Jackson’s heavy handed federalism
would have been dramatic. Whether it
would have been better or worse for the
country is debatable but that it would
have been different is not.


7. Ronald Reagan
President of the United States,
1981
It’s interesting to imagine what the
eighties would have looked like had one
of John Hinkley’s hastily fired bullets
found its mark and Reagan’s more
moderate Vice-President George H.W.
Bush become president eight years
earlier than he eventually did. Would he
have been able to rejuvenate the
economy, as Reagonomics did in the
mid-eighties, or rally the people to bring
pressure on the Soviet Union? While
much of Reagan’s agenda would
probably still have made it through, it’s
difficult imagining the more moderate
Bush persuading the populace with the
elegance of the “Great Communicator”
or demanding that Gorbachev dismantle
the Berlin Wall. Still, he did navigate the
country through the collapse of the
Soviet Union and two wars during his
single term, so it’s entirely possible he
would have been up to the task eight
years earlier. Fortunately, modern
medicine and Reagan’s hearty
constitution ensured that the world
would never find out what the eighties
might’ve looked like without the
“Gipper” at the helm.


6. Benito Mussolini
Fascist Leader of Italy, 1926
It appears that 1926 was not a good year
for il Duce, who was to face—and survive
—no fewer than four separate attempts
on his life over the span of just seven
months. (On the other hand, since none
of the attempts succeeded, it may have
been a very good year for him, if a very
bad one for Italy.) The first attempt was
made by an Irish woman who very nearly
shot off his nose, while three others—all
men—either missed their mark or were
caught in the planning stages. In every
case, they ended up deader than their
intended target. Had any of them proven
a little more steady on the trigger,
however, the Fascists would have not
only lost the driving force behind their
movement, but quite possibly even their
tenuous hold on power. Who—or what—
would have replaced him? Another
fascist who might have proven even
more capable than il Duce himself? A
reinvigorated monarchy? A pseudo-
democratic republic? It’s anyone’s guess

.5. Franklin Roosevelt
President-Elect of the United
States, 1933
It’s hard to imagine weathering the twin
storms presented by the Great
Depression and World War Two without
Roosevelt at the helm, but that almost
was the case. It (almost) happened in
February of 1933 when the then
president-elect was riding in an open car
in Miami, Florida. A crazed Italian
immigrant named Giuseppe Zangara
fired five shots at him, missing him but
managing to hit and kill the mayor of
Chicago, Anton Cermak (who had been
riding in the car with Roosevelt). Had
Zangara succeeded, Vice-President John
Garner would have been sworn in as the
32nd President and the thirties could
well have been very different. Better?
Worse? There’s no way of knowing what
kind of president Garner would have
made, but it’s hard to see how the more
diminutive Garner would have gotten
the New Deal, Social Security, or Lend-
Lease through a hostile congress.


4. Abraham Lincoln
U.S. President, 1864
Lincoln’s assassination at the hands of
actor turned southern agitator John
Wilkes Booth in 1865 was the stuff of
legend as well as an unmitigated
disaster for the South, Yet, imagine if an
earlier attempt in August of 1864 had
succeeded. While not generally known to
most people, someone took a shot at the
president while he was riding in his
carriage around Washington, missing his
head by inches (and putting a hole in his
trademark top hat). Had their aim been
just a little better, the Great
Emancipator would have been
succeeded by Hannibal Hamlin (who?)
which may have well given the
upcoming election to Lincoln’s overly
cautious former commander, General
George McClellan. How either Hamlin
(had he won reelection) or McClellan
would have prosecuted the last year of
the war—much less dealt with southern
reconstruction—is a source for some
debate. Lincoln’s death, if combined with
a lame-duck Hamlin and a conciliatory
McClellan, might have encouraged the
South to hold on just a while longer and
resulted in an armistice rather than a
victory, dramatically changing the
history of America.


3. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Russian Revolutionary and Founder
of the USSR, 1918
Shortly before he became the
undisputed leader of the Soviet Union,
Lenin was nearly done in by a female
assassin and fellow communist named
Fanya Kaplin, who got off three shots at
the man just as he was about to step
into his car. Though seriously injured (he
was hit in the arm and jaw), he
recovered and used the attempt on his
life to both bolster his popularity as well
as instigate a reign of terror against his
opponents.
But what would’ve happened if Fanya’s
aim had been better? Would the
Communists have prevailed against the
Mensheviks or defeated the royalist
White Army without their philosophical
and political leader? Certainly the future
would have been much more up for
grabs without Lenin in charge, though
it’s difficult to tell how it could have
been much worse for the Russian
people. It’s at least a safe bet that Stalin
—the man who would eventually
succeed Lenin and turn Russia into one
giant gulag—was in no position to take
power at that point, making it difficult to
know who might’ve finally seized the
reins of power. This makes this one of
those failed attempts that’s difficult to
assess whether its success would have
been beneficial for Russia or detrimental;
in either case, it certainly would have
been different.


2. Wilhelm II
German Kaiser, 1901 (video is
footage of Wilhelm II and son, not
actual assassination attempt)
When an anarchist took a shot at the
Kaiser while the king was visiting
Bremen, Germany in March of 1901—
only mildly injuring the man—few
realized just how costly that miss would
prove to be. How so? Had the shot found
its mark, it’s possible World War One
never would have happened and the
course of history—especially in Europe—
would have been dramatically altered. Of
course, one can’t put all the blame for
Europe’s descent into madness in 1914
on the bellicose Wilhelm II, but it’s
entirely possible that a more practical
and cool-headed leader might have been
able to keep events from spiraling out of
control as quickly and completely as
they did. Would that man have been the
Kaiser’s son, Wilhelm III? Probably. The
only question then would be whether the
boy king (he would have been just 19
years old when he succeeded his father
in 1901) would have been the man to
change history thirteen years later or
would he have gone down the same
tragic path his father took? We will never
know.



1. Adolf Hitler
Leader of Germany, 1944
The details of just how close a band of
conspirators headed up by a disfigured
Army Colonel named Claus von
Stauffenberg came to killing Hitler in his
Prussian hideout in July of 1944 is the
stuff of legend (and has even been
made into a recent movie starring Tom
Cruise). But, consider what it would have
meant to the war in Europe had it
succeeded. Clearly the conspirators
would’ve had the upper hand and, with
the help of key anti-Nazi elements within
the Army—who saw the war as a lost
cause at that point—might well have
succeeded in ousting the Nazis and
negotiating a quick surrender to the
allies, shortening the war by ten months
and saving millions of lives in the
process. With Germany entirely
unoccupied by foreign invaders at that
point, it would not only have greatly
reduced the level of death and
destruction that was to be seen over the
next few months, but would have
undoubtedly altered the political
landscape of Europe and likely changed
the complexion of the looming Cold War,
probably in the ally’s favor. As it was, the
bomb that was planted under Hitler’s
briefing table was a little too far away
from der Fuhrer when it went off,
dooming Germany in the process.




www.toptenz.net/top-10-failed-assassinations-that-would-have-changed-history.php

tunapawizzy: my brother pls explain d implications of d 2 as it regards to marriage...pls i wana learn dnt refer me to google

its simple,in M̶̲̥̅γ̲̣̣̥ own understanding,if your marriage is annulled then its like you were never married in the first place,there will be no connection between both of you,people can not refer to kim as his ex wife,it happens when 1 party discovers that he or she have been tricked into a marriage,unlike in the case of divorce when there is still connection between the man and woman....simple,the man wants a clean slate,he wants to start afresh,its like being born again in christianity

Welcome home M̶̲̥̅γ̲̣̣̥ people....to the land flowing with milk and honey

freecocoa: Whether the marriage is annulled or not, biko nu does it change they FACT that they were once married? The whole wide world know their story so the chris guy should just move the feck on with his life, same goes for kim.

Onyino just like too much and unnecessary drama, mscheew .

abeg go check dictionary if annulment and divorce na the same thing??why U̶̲̥̅̊ no dey gree hear word??

That is what happens when men marry because of physical attributes and sexu@l attraction,she has a pretty and popular face,great hips,cute eyes,flat tommy so I must marry her....smh

No I did not,I am a geologist so I guess that's why I was posted to the ministry of water resources....please you might be better off teaching,believe me

Just like in russia,its a waste of time taking hostage in Algeria...they will simply bomb everybody to smitten....reminds me of the belsan hostage situation and massacre by russian troops.....may the souls of the victims RIP.....they war against terror must go on

Giant of Africa M̶̲̥̅γ̲̣̣̥ foot

http://tonyowei./2013/01/11/fuel-subsidy-removal-a-year-after-by-tamara-kuro-owutu/


By this time last year, the attention of the world focused on Nigeria as the OCCUPY NIGERIA protest raged on. Thousands of Nigerians took to the streets of major cities of the country to protest the shocking removal of subsidy on premium motor spirit popularly known as petrol by the administration of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.

Nigerians were jolted few hours into the New Year when President Goodluck Jonathan brazenly announced the removal of subsidy on PMS in his New Year broadcast leading to an increase in the price of petrol from 65 Naira to 141 Naira in an attempt to ‘fully deregulate and privatize the down stream sector.’

Spontaneously, thousands of Nigerians, old and young, male and female, Christians and Muslims took to the streets to vent their anger at the perceived insensitive nature of the government, which they claimed is on a mission to further impoverish the masses with its anti-people policies.

It was almost a case of “when the present is intolerable, the unknown harbours no risk” as some youths vented their anger by the destruction of public properties.  Clashes with security personnel was a common sight as the protest intensified leading to few deaths and injuries across the nation.

The mass strike and uprising was called off after labour leaders and the federal government agreed to a suspicious compromise and finally settled for a price of 97 Naira with many Nigerians crying foul amidst rumours of a sell out by labour leaders.

A year after, a lot of questions have been left unanswered.

1)      Is the GEJ administration taken clear steps to revive our refineries? Are our refineries refining more crude or will it be importation as usual?

2)      Have the subsidy probe been handled with sincerity? How many of the culprits have been prosecuted? What clear steps are being taken to clean up our oil sector?

3)      Is President Jonathan living up to his promise of reducing his foreign trips to a barest minimum and also reducing the size of the entourage he takes on those trips?

4)      Where are the buses that were promised Nigerians to help attenuate the increased cost of transportation and reduce the burden on Nigerians? Was that promise fulfilled? Because I stay in the southern part of the country and I haven’t seen any of those buses.

5)      Was the subsidy protest a success or did the people who die in the course of the protest died in vain?

6)      Did Nigerians really buy petrol for 97 Naira in 2012? What is the government doing to ensure that petrol is sold at its official price across the nation?

7)      Have the funds saved from the government SURE-P program been utilized judiciously to improve the lives of Nigerians?

This and many more still lingers portraying the government has not concerned with the suffering of Nigerians.

Owutu Tamara Kuro is a Port Harcourt based writer. You can follow him on Twitter: @tammyDmilanista

Disclaimer: This is solely the view of the writer and not of tonyOWEIOnline. Thank you.

In enugu its quite intense ooooo!I just wear jacket dey form lyk say I dey romania

Well as M̶̲̥̅γ̲̣̣̥ people will say all I can tell you is that enuge di okay....am also a batchB corp member,serving in a ministry,don't expect much in terms of extra job to fetch you more money as this place is not exactly an industrial hub....leave everything in the able hands of God,don't struggle with nature

I love hitler for just 1 thing,he hated and killed gays :DI love hitler for just 1 thing,he hated and killed gays

brilliant505: hmm travelin is my greatest phobia cos i always throw out(vomitt) on the way.

me too,I always make sure I don't press M̶̲̥̅γ̲̣̣̥ phone in a moving vehicle if not I will throw up...heard ginger will help

POVERTY.....I fear am pass gun shot,even pass mathematics

I used to be one of the people that think the military might of iran is a bit over rated but with their antecedent of going on the offensive at the slightest provocation I am having a rethink....I see Iran as a nation capable of bringing the middle east down with it in terms of an all out conflict...their recent capture of a us drone speaks volumes of their guts and will...

http://m.aljazeera.com/Index/MiddleEast#/story/2012122862357402782Tehran begins naval drills in oil and gas
shipping route aimed at showcasing its
military capabilities.
Iran has started six days of naval drills in
the Strait of Hormuz aimed at
showcasing its military capabilities in
what is a vital oil and gas shipping
route, the official IRNA news agency
reported.
The manoeuvres began early on Friday,
involving warships, submarines jet
fighters and hovercrafts.
Naval commander Habibollah Sayyari
said on Friday the "Velayat 91" drills
would last until Wednesday across an
area of about one million square km in
the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf of Oman
and northern parts of the Indian Ocean,
IRNA said.
Sayyari said the goal of the manoeuvres
were to show "the armed forces' military
capabilities" in defending Iran's borders.
Iran's state TV reported that Tehran
had warned ships to stay away from the
site until January 3.
The drills come as the West increases its
pressure over Iran's nuclear programme.
The West suspects it may be aimed at
producing nuclear weapons, a charge
Iran denies.
Iranian officials have often said Iran
could block the strait - through which
40 percent of the world's sea-borne oil
exports pass - if it came under military
attack over its disputed nuclear
programme.
Iran held a similar 10-day drill last
December and sent a submarine and a
destroyer into the Gulf four months ago
just as US and allied navies were
conducting exercises in the same waters
to practice keeping oil shipping lanes
open.
Sayyari was quoted as saying on
Tuesday that the new drill would test the
navy's missile systems, combat ships,
submarines and patrol and
reconnaissance methods.
A heavy Western naval presence in the
Gulf is meant to deter any attempt to
block the waterway

In times like this of increasing sexual assault on women I think every society must take clear steps to checkmate the disgusting and wicked trend,from sterner sentences for culprit to tackling the issue of indecent dressing among our young women because believe it or not some of these rape cases are self induced....


http://m.aljazeera.com/index/home#/story/20121224142653129706

Women in Swaziland risk arrest by
wearing "revealing clothes" that violate
moral standards, police spokesperson
says.
Women in Swaziland risk arrest if they
wear miniskirts or tops which expose
part of their stomach as they will be
violating moral standards, a police
spokesperson has said.
"I have read from the social
networks that men and even other
women have a tendency of
'undressing people with their eyes'"
- Wendy Hleta, police spokesperson
"The act of a rapist is made easy,
because it would be easy to remove the
half-cloth worn by the women," Wendy
Hleta was quoted as saying.
Offenders face a six-month jail term
under the ban, which invokes a colonial
criminal act dating back to 1889.
The ban also applies to low-rise jeans.
"They will be arrested," she said.
Hleta said women wearing revealing
clothing were responsible for assaults or
rapes committed against them.
"I have read from the social networks
that men and even other women have a
tendency of 'undressing people with
their eyes'. That becomes easier when
the clothes are hugging or are more
revealing," Hleta said.
Traditional costumes
However, the ban does not apply to
traditional costumes worn by young
women during ceremonies like the
annual Reed Dance, where the ruling
King Mswati III chooses a wife.
The monarch already has 13 wives.
During the ceremony, beaded traditional
skirts worn by young bare-breasted
virgins cover only the front, leave the
back exposed. Underwear is not allowed.
The law was enforced after a march by
women and young girls last month
calling for protection against a spate of
rapes in the impoverished kingdom,
almost entirely surrounded by South
Africa.
According to a media report, the march
was blocked by police.