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Buchukwu:
All hail Buhari, the terrorist elect who has never tampered nor touched a public fund during his tenure in office. BEHOLD THE MESSIAH AND SAVIOUR OF THE ZOO.

The Pope’s Nose
Benedict XIV was also a snuff-taker. He is said
to have once offered his snuffbox to the head of
some religious order, who declined to take a
pinch of snuff, saying, “Your Holiness, I do not
have that vice,” to which the pope replied, “It is
not a vice. If it were a vice you would have it.”
Pius IX was an inveterate snuff-taker, and was
so effusive and constant in it that he often had
to change his long white soutane a few times a
day—it was white, after all, and the snuff dust
would settle on it. He offered snuff, and snuff-
boxes to visitors. The Church had established a
monopoly on the tobacco trade in the Papal
States and, in 1863, during his pontificate,
consolidated its tobacco processing operations
under the Pontifical Director of Salt and Tobacco
in a newly erected building on the Piazza Mastai
in the Trastevere district in Rome.
When the
representative of
Victor Emmanuel
came to him to
submit conditions
that the pontiff
believed were
unacceptable, the
pope “beat on the
table with a snuff
box, which then
broke.” The
representative “left
so confused he appeared dizzy.” In 1871, the
pope also, during the time he was the “prisoner
of the Vatican,” offered up his “gold snuff-box,
exquisitely carved with two symbolic lambs in the
midst of flowers and foliage,” to be offered as
the prize in a worldwide lottery to raise money
for the Church. (Right: Audience with Pope Pius
IX—Library of Congress)
Leo XIII favored snuff. Before he became pope,
he had served for a time as papal nuncio in
Brussels and enjoyed the conversation and
company of the cultured and easy-going
aristocrats there. One evening at dinner, a
certain Count, who was a Freethinker, thought he
would have a little fun at the nuncio’s expense,
and he handed him a snuff box to examine,
which had on its cover a miniature painting of a
beautiful nude Venus. “The men of the party
watched the progress of the joke, and as for the
Count he was choking with laughter, until the
Nuncio deferentially returned the box with the
remark: ‘Very pretty, indeed, Count. I presume it
is the portrait of the Countess?’” Toward the end
of the pope’s life, he suffered when he had to
give up tobacco on the advice of his physicians.
How about other modern popes? Pius X took
snuff and smoked cigars. Benedict XV did not
smoke and did not like others’ smoke. Pius XI
smoked an occasional cigar. Pius XII did not
smoke. And John XXIII smoked cigarettes.
Paul VI was a non-smoker. So was John Paul I,
though Vatican officials appeared to hint—just
after his sudden, perplexing death—that his final
ill health might be due to heavy smoking.
John Paul II did not smoke, but Pope Benedict
XVI reportedly does (or once did), apparently
favoring Marlboros.
Holy Smokers
Venerable Marie Thérèse de Lamourous, having
been shown the mantle of St. Teresa of Avila in
the Carmelite convent in Paris, was allowed to
put it on: “I kissed it; I pressed it upon me,” she
wrote, “I remarked everything, even the little
stains, which seemed to be of Spanish snuff.”
Tobacco use became an issue during the
beatification investigations of Joseph of
Cupertino, John Bosco, and Philip Neri. With the
first two, the devil’s advocates argued that
heroic virtue did not apply because they used
tobacco. Joseph’s advocate argued, based on
interviews with Joseph during his life, that his
smoking was an aid to his holiness, helping him
stay up at night for his devotions and extend his
fasting. In the case of Philip Neri, the
examination of his corpse during the
investigation showed that the soft tissues of his
nose had gone and so his body was not
incorruptible. It was suggested that this was due
to his heavy use of snuff. But these were weak
arguments against their saintliness.
Bernadette
Soubirous
had
childhood
asthma and
her
physician
prescribed
snuff for it
(her snuff
box is on display at Lourdes, right). When she
was sixteen, in school, she later remembered,
“One Sister was shocked when I started
everybody sneezing by passing snuff around
while she droned away in French.” After she had
entered the convent later in life, “She produced
her snuff box at recreation one day, to the great
scandal of a Sister. She cried out: ‘Oh, Sister
Marie-Bernard, you will never be canonized.’ ‘Why
not?’ asked the ‘snuffer.’ ‘Because you snuff.
That bad habit almost disqualified St. Vincent de
Paul.’ ‘And you, Sister Chantal,’ twinkled Sister
Marie-Bernard in reply, ‘you are going to be
canonized because you don’t indulge.’”
St. John Vianney took snuff, often during his
hours-long sessions hearing confessions. Padre
Pio kept his snuff in a little pocket of his habit,
and passed snuff around to his visitors. A
biographer wrote that, “One evening, during a
conference with oncologists, in the midst of a
report on cancer research, Padre Pio turned to
one of the men and asked, ‘Do you smoke?’
When the man replied in the affirmative, Pio,
pointing his finger censoriously, chided, ‘That’s
very bad,’ then, with almost the same breath,
turned to another doctor and asked, ‘Have you
got any snuff?’”
Jesuit Snuff[/b]
A Jesuit was asked whether it was licit to smoke a
cigar while praying, and his answer was an
unequivocal “no.” However, the subtle Jesuit
quickly added that, while it was not licit to smoke
a cigar while praying, it was perfectly licit to pray
while smoking a cigar. —St. Holger’s Cigar Club
In the 16th and 17th centuries the Jesuits
developed large tobacco plantations in Central
and South America and held financial interests in
retaining revenues from them. Dominicans,
Franciscans, and Augustinians had similar
arrangements in Central America.
During this time, the Jesuits, fond of their snuff,
were accused by their Protestant and secular
opponents, without any evidence that I have
found, of carrying poisoned snuff about their
persons and offering it to those they attempted
to assassinate. “Jesuit snuff,” this imaginary
stuff came to be called. The fear surrounding it
appears to have been most intense after tens of
thousands of barrels holding fifty tons of Spanish
snuff were captured from Spanish ships in Vigo
Bay in 1702 by English admiral Thomas Hopsonn
and found their way into the British market.
At the same time, Jesuit missionaries introduced
the snuff they loved to China’s capitol during the
Manchu dynasty, about 1715. For some time,
Chinese converts to Catholicism were called
“snuff-takers” by their countrymen and handled
the manufacture and selling of snuff in Beijing.
Many Tibetan Buddhist monks are still quite fond
of snuff.
The Jesuits were not alone among the
mendicant orders in their love of snuff. Laurence
Sterne, author of Tristram Shandy , also wrote A
Sentimental Journey through France and Italy in
1768, in which he described an incident—edifying
and humbling to him—of exchanging snuff boxes
with a poor friar. But during the 19th century, the
fashion of using nasal snuff faded away, and
cigar, pipe, and then cigarette smoking replaced
it. Literary sources show that taking snuff was
more and more left to the old and the poor, and
to certain conservative clergy who persisted with
their snuff rather than switch to smoking.
In an 1846 letter, Fr. William Faber, Priest of the
Oratory of St. Philip Neri, wrote, “At Florence,
the Superior of the Camaldolese expressed a
great desire to see me; he was ill in bed, and his
bed full of snuff; he seized my head, buried it in
the snuffy-clothes, and kissed me most
unmercifully.”
“Ten Years in Rome,” an unsigned article
published in 1870 in The Galaxy magazine, tells
us, regarding Capuchin friars, “You see the
specimen going about Rome in his dark-brown
habit (from which keep clear), his black horn
snuff-box, and his filthy blue cotton handkerchief
stuffed in his sleeve, and his wallet hanging on
his arm.”
And Maud Howe, in an article published in The
Outlook, entitled “Roman Codgers and Solitaries,”
commented, in 1898, upon a begging friar
offering her a pinch of snuff from a shabby horn
snuff-box. “Snuff is still taken in Italy by the old
and the old-fashioned,” she wrote, “and it has the
sanction of the clergy. In Rome it is thought
hardly seemly for a priest to smoke; they nearly
all use snuff; indeed, I have seen a priest take a
sly pinch while officiating at the altar.”
An editorial writer in the Dublin Review of 1847
lamented that those making initial inquiries into
the Faith often discovered “that the Catholic
priests are generally only a poor, ill-instructed,
snuff-taking, common sort of persons.” Ironically,
the author wished for a different sort of priest, a
“wise and winning” one—and gave as an example
St. Philip Neri.
Into the 20 th century, the dusting of clerical
snuff signified being old-fashioned and out of
touch, for James Joyce added the detail to his
description of the decrepit priest, Fr. Flynn, in
Dubliners .
In September 1957, Pius XII addressed the
General Congregation of the Society of Jesus in
Rome. He used the occasion to urge the Jesuits
—as well as other religious orders—to tighten
their discipline, and embrace austerity, partly by
eliminating “superficial articles” from their lives,
including “not a few comforts that laymen may
legitimately demand.” “Among these,” he said,
“must be included the use of tobacco, today so
widespread and indulged in.” In the same spirit
of abstinence, they “should not indulge in
vacations outside their order houses without
extraordinary reason nor undertake in the name
of rest, long and costly pleasure trips.”
By 1964, the Jesuit magazine America was
commending the U.S. Surgeon General’s report
on smoking soon after it was released.
And in 2002, John Paul II signed a law making it
“forbidden to smoke in closed public places,
places frequented by the public, and workplaces,
situated in the territories of The Vatican, the
areas beyond the borders of this State [that is,
Vatican offices in other countries], and in public
transportation means.” A fine of 30 Euros was
set for violators.
A private pleasure, indulgence, and comfort, a
means of social intercourse, a civic violation, a
health hazard, an addiction, a nuisance, and a
“vice.” But is using tobacco per se a sin? That
question, dear reader, is, as they say, above my
pay grade.

Yustash001:
This one na great lie,..how they wan take cross the red sea?...hope this trekking madness stops when Buhari is sworn in...

Osirimononaye:
Nigeria!!!

Uncleodi:
Ftc

Like seriously! In almost how many years on NL with my moniker, I just made it on fp as ftc...all thanks to God and to my homies too
...flying to the moon.


They victim may have been a graduate of Computer Science. But couldn't continue being idle due to no job. Really, the economic situation is not friendly but shouldn't be an excuse for crime.

IfyAwazie:
Lol, make i no just talk anytin cos i no want wahala,

adewaletb3:
So is he good looking?

dreamzy:
whats your definition of HANDSOME?

Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole (born 4 April 1952) is a
former labor leader, turned politician who
recently won a landslide victory for a second
term as the Governor of Edo State in Nigeria on
the platform of the Action Congress . His first
term was won following his court appeal to the
results of a massively rigged April 2007 election
in which the candidate of the ruling People's
Democratic Party Oserheimen Osunbor had
initially been declared the winner. He assumed
office on 12 November 2008 after winning the
appeal. [1]
Oshiomhole was formerly president of the Nigeria
Labour Congress (NLC), and was prominent as
the leader of a campaign of industrial action
against high oil prices in Nigeria. [2]
Background
Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole was born on 4 April
1952 at Iyamoh, near Auchi in Edo State. He was
born Muslim but was led to Christianity by his
late wife Clara who died of cancer aged 54. He
is Catholic and his Christian name is Eric. After
his secondary education, he obtained a job with
the Arewa Textiles Company, where he was
elected union secretary. He became a full-time
trade union organizer in 1975. He then studied at
Ruskin College, Oxford in the United Kingdom
[citation needed ] where he majored in economics
and industrial relations. He also attended the
National Institute for Policy and Strategic
Studies, Kuru . [2] Adams Oshiomole is married to
Lala Fortez [3]
Labor leader
In 1982, Adams Oshiomhole was appointed
General Secretary of the National Union of
Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria,
a union with over 75,000 workers. After
democracy was restored in 1999, he became
president of the Nigerian Labour Congress. [2]
Early in the administration of President Olusegun
Obasanjo he negotiated a 25% wage increase for
public sector workers. In return he publicly
supported Obasanjo and endorsed his candidacy
when he was re-elected in 2003. [4] The Textile
union elected Oshiomhole for a second term as
General Secretary, while he continued as
president of the NLC. [5]
The relationship with Obasanjo turned sour as
neglect of local oil refineries led to reliance on
imported gasoline, followed by rises in the price
of fuel. Oshiomhole led strikes and
demonstrations against the increases. He faced
arrests, tear gas and temporary blockades of
union offices, and Obasanjo introduced legislation
to make it more difficult for the NLC to strike. [4]
The NLC alleges that on 9 October 2004
Oshiomhole was abducted by State Security
Services during a protest, but the Nigerian
government say he submitted to voluntary
custody. [ citation needed ]
Oshiomhole represented African Workers for two
terms on the Governing Body of the International
Labour Organisation (ILO), serving on the
committee on Freedom of Association. He was
also a member of the Executive Board of the
International Confederation of Free Trade
Unions . [2]
Edo State Governor
In April 2007, Adams Oshiomhole ran for
Governor of Edo State under the Action Congress
Party, with which his Labour Party had entered a
strategic alliance. [2] Oserheimen Osunbor of the
People's Democratic Party (PDP) was declared
the winner. However, the AC contested the
election on the basis of various irregularities. On
20 March 2008, an Edo State election tribunal
nullified the election of Oserheimen Osunbor and
declared Oshiomhole the winner. On 11
November 2008, a federal Appeal Court sitting in
Benin City upheld the ruling of the state's
elections petitions tribunal, declaring Oshiomole
to be the Governor of Edo State. The decision
was based on several voting irregularities. [6]
In 2012, he was elected to a second term ,
winning the elections in a massive landslide.

Awoofawo:
Ode suffering from Yorubaphobia!!! Is agbada and hat now exclusively Yoruba dressing culture....?

You folks are very sick and need urgent medical evaluation.

IamOdin:
Op,this is utter rubbish,balderdash and false delusion!!.I think you're dotty and your idiosyncrasy is likened to that of a mentally impaired for creating such an insensate thread.Must you bug us with everything that litters your young mind??.Why generalize what you can't defend if called for??.That poo you posted up there is what you personally can't do in the presence of your crush not even fiancee,cos when you're of age you'll know marriage is pellucid as diamond and got no time for pretence.

I wonder what inspired you into creating this muck of a thread..


Btw,how old are you??

Pipsland78:
Yoruba man arrested for jumping the White House fence.

Yes...because if a Nigerian is caught with drugs in Asia they would say "Igbo man caught with drugs"

Muyogoa:
These are some of the Non-sexual things that ladies found so attractive in men

1) MEN WITH DETERMINATION/ STRONG GOALS : Ladies are attracted to men who has strong determination for a goal or career. Men who are consistently pursuing their dreams. Men who never give up. Men with strong minds. No wonder the wife of the President elect publicly proclaimed how much she loves her husband when he won the election after contensting for about 4 times. A lady would rather prefer to go for that 25 years old part one medical student that a 22 year old graduate of botany who previously had the intention of studying medicine.

2)LEADERSHIP QUALITY: Ladies are so much attracted to men who exhibits strong leadership qualities right from their youthful age. A dynamic student union activist a class rep, head boy, and so many other leadership posts which potray a man to have a good leadership quality.

3)INTROVERTS/GENTLE/Q UIET GUYS- ladies are equally attracted to guy who had quiet nature. They admire an easy going and calm guy. Those ones that would not shout at you during a mis- understanding not to talk of raising there hands to beat them. Infact such men don't like shouting while talking. Those set of people tends to be quiet and calm during public gathering. So quiets that even the women around would notice. Those men don't go about talking, laughing loudly, hugging people at such gathering but rather they remain quiet in their seats with gentle smiles on their face.

4) PRESENT and UNDERSTANDING GUY- They love guys who are always with them. Men that gives them attention. Men who are willing to listen to even their most uninteresting discussion and yet eager to hear more. Men who are understanding and who don't take their errors and mistakes too far.

5) GODLY and ''DEEPER LIFE-LIKE MEN''.: ladies strongly have the phobia for divorce as a result they go for men who would never divorce them nor beat them regardless of their errors or mistakes.

6) HARDWORKING GUYS- Women loves hardworking men. Lazy men could be turn off for ladies. They prefer men who are diligent in whatever they do.

7) BRIGHT FUTURE GUY- ladies would rather go for a guy with bright future. Probably base on his smartness, intelligence, course,profession and family background

NEAT GUYS- the way you dress is the way you would be address. A guy with tattered dress, uncombed hair with smelling and stinking body and mouth odour is a turn off for ladies.

9)MEN WHO LOVES THEIR CAREER: Men who still love their job without minding their salary or wage. Men who put all their effort even in their mean professions without any complain or murmuring.

10) KIND MEN- Ladies are attracted to kindness. In this area, love could be blind. The kindness the man exhibits to a lady could so much cause a lady to be attracted to him not minding his other behaviours.

RickRichards:
Didn't care to notice. Just always liked the green ones. Thank heavens I now have a wardrobe assistant. And she'll even do the job for free. You're such a cute, kindhearted munchkin, Nneka. What would I do without you?
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I guess it's time.