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DaveHarry:
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Okay will post my telegram channel address very soon. Sure games I will be posting. It might be just a single game sometimes and it will not be every weekend.

Jennyclay:
Most of you jobless men have pride

You don’t have another job and yet you’re resigning from the little job you’re managing . If I’m one of the management I would make sure you don’t get your salary!! Nonsense!!

How much is even your salary in your current job? If your salary isn’t up to #1 million a month, just kindly stay away from a relationship before you put someone’s daughter in abject poverty

Are you doing this for the fun, or you really detest men?

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I chew bitter to sweet

Cristiano Ronaldo has aimed a dig at eternal rival Lionel Messi by claiming that the “Saudi championship is much better than the USA”.

The Portuguese superstar has been in the Middle East since taking the decision to join Al-Nassr on the back of the 2022 World Cup finals in Qatar. He was a free agent at that point following his release by Manchester United. He has since seen Messi reach the end of his contract at Paris Saint-Germain, allowing him to choose the next port of call in his remarkable career. The Argentine icon has signed for MLS outfit Inter Miami, in a major coup for MLS and the American game as a whole, with interest from Saudi Arabia said to have been snubbed.

Ronaldo has suggested that Messi took the easy option in heading for the United States, with the five-time Ballon d’Or winner telling reporters when asked what the future holds for him: “Returning to Europe, for me, is a closed possibility, I'm already 38-and-a-half years old and... it's not worth it. Europe lost a lot of quality. The only one that is one of the best is the Premier League, the Spanish league lost its level, the Portuguese one is not 'top,' the German one also lost a lot of quality. The USA? No, the Saudi championship is much better than the USA.”

Ronaldo has spent time in Europe with Sporting, United, Real Madrid and Juventus, but he believes that – with the likes of Karim Benzema, Roberto Firmino, Kalidou Koulibaly, Sergej Milinkovic-Savic and Marcelo Brozovic joining him in Saudi Arabia - the Middle East is the place to be. He added: “In one year, more and more top players will come to Saudi. In a year the Saudi league will overtake the Turkish league and Dutch league.”

https://www.goal.com/en/news/cristiano-ronaldo-dig-lionel-messi-mls-man-utd-real-madrid-legend-european-football/blt4142160adb648711

No person shall have in his possession or under his control any firearm or ammunition except with a license from the president or the inspector-general of police, according to the Nigeria’s Firearms Act No 32 of the 1959 CAP F28 LFN 2004.


Maybe he has license

The heart of man is desperately wicked. Something you can't create, you end it.

Italy U19 have won the European Championship beating Portugal 1-0 in the Final.

The Azzurrini became European champions thanks to a goal of Fiorentina starlet Michael Kayode in the Final against Portugal on Sunday.

Kayode scored the winner with a header at minute 19, making the most of a Luis Hasa cross from the left.

The Juventus midfielder had a chance to double the score shortly afterwards but was denied by Portugal keeper António Ribeiro.

The Azzurrini dominated the opening 45 minutes and were solid defensively in the second half when Francesco Pio Esposito and Emanuel Vignato had two more opportunities to double Italy’s lead.

Portugal had beaten Alberto Bollini’s side 5-1 during the group phase, which had seen Italy finish runners-up with four points in three games.

Italy beat Spain 3-2 in the semis on Thursday and conquered the trophy on Sunday.

This is Italy’s second European title at a U19 level. They won the trophy for the first time in 2003, in another Final against Portugal.

That time, the Azzurrini won 2-0 with goals from Luigi Della Rocca and Giampaolo Pazzini.

Dis food na #250 for mama corner na

Glocal1:
No matter how they try to clear the eyes, they can't clear the chemicals in their system.
What an illicit and unethical use of medicine.

I saw this lovely lady at a store looking nice but later discovered through her social media handles that she smokes marijuana and likely a lesbian.

I wonder what's really happening in Nigeria with this menace of weed abuse.
A lot needs to be done to curb and eradicate drug abuse and homosexuality in our country.

Marijuana is not just any other herb/drug out there, it is the real deal. Eat it or drink it or smoke it and you are good

Akwamkpuruamu:
60% of naija youths weed

Just like sex, weed sells.

Sometimes wen I dey ghetto joint dey drag my weed, only d number of people dat comes to buy marijuana alone, makes me wonder why it's still illegal in Nigeria wen d govt can just legalised it and generate cool revenue. Make tinubu open him eyes well to see d need to legalise marijuana: the good cure for glaucoma and others.

Something can be legit until a Nigerian is involved

All governments manage their territories with laws. This is easy enough to understand with respect to solid ground: when you look at a map, borders usually mark where the authority of one country ends and another’s begins. But what about maritime countries, which either border or are completely surrounded by the sea? Do their laws stop at the shoreline? Would that mean that the seas beyond are lawless?

The high seas are not lawless. Well, not completely. According to international law, a maritime country extends outward some distance from its shoreline. During the 20th century several attempts to develop an international “law of the sea” have been made under the aegis of the United Nations. The results of the third and most-recent United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (which took place in Montego Bay, Jamaica, in 1982) were largely successful, with more than 160 countries having signed the agreement by 2017. Several countries, including the United States and others with significant ocean-facing and sea-facing coastlines (such as Colombia, Venezuela, and Turkey) had yet to sign the agreement, however.

Generally speaking, the law of the sea stipulates that maritime countries essentially control their territorial waters from the shore out to a distance of 12 miles (19.3 km), the “12-mile limit.” Within this zone, all laws of that country apply: the country can build, extract natural resources, and either encourage or forbid sea passage through it (or flights over it) just as if it were a parcel of land. Maritime countries are also entitled to an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) made up of the water column and the seabed out to a distance of 200 miles (about 322 km). (The sizes of some EEZs may be limited by the presence of the EEZs of other countries, in which case the overlapping area is often divided equally between the various parties.) The maritime country that owns the EEZ also owns the sea life and mineral resources found within it, but it cannot prevent ships, aircraft, and other vessels from foreign countries from passing through it and over it.

Nevertheless, there is still a lot of ocean beyond the world’s 12-mile limits and EEZs. How are legal matters handled in the vast stretches of ocean beyond? In these regions, vessels and aircraft from any country are free to pass through, fly over, fish, and extract mineral resources. With respect to crimes committed in these areas, the laws of the country owning the vessel or structure upon which the crime has been committed hold sway. This may seem pretty straightforward, but vessels in the sea are often on the move, which creates jurisdictional headaches for investigators and government officials. For example, which country’s laws apply when a person from Country X commits a murder aboard a cruise ship owned by Country Y in international waters, but between the time of the crime and its discovery the ship enters the territorial waters of Country Z?

With respect to international crimes—such as piracy, human trafficking, and crimes against humanity—any country or international organization can theoretically claim authority over the matter using the concept of universal jurisdiction. This concept could be used to justify the right of one party or another to thwart the criminal activity as it happens, bring charges against the assailants, and try the assailants in their own national (or international) courts. Since the laws of individual countries and international courts are not recognized by all countries, however, there is often no fully accepted referee. Government officials in one country might choose not to recognize the legal authority of another.

Source:-
https://www.britannica.com/story/are-there-laws-on-the-high-seas

7. Evelina Tshabalala

Evelina Tshabalala is an accomplished marathon runner, mountaineer, and activist. She grew up in Durban in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. Tshabalala, 57, has endured unthinkable loss, having lost her father to a fatal assault and her son to drowning. She has also lost her brother and sister.

She won the first race she ever entered, a 10K, and then went on to win a 5K later that same day. At 19 years of age, Tshabalala ran her first marathon in such a fast time that she qualified for the South African Championships, where she won bronze.

Between crushing marathons and ultra-marathons, she noticed that her health was declining. It was affecting her running, so she decided to get an HIV test. “I said whatever the result, I will deal with it, I’ll be proud if it’s good, if it’s bad — I’ll be strong,” she said. She later found out she was HIV-positive.

Tshabalala is a founding member of the organization Positive Heroes. Based in Cape Town, South Africa, the nonprofit promotes educational awareness around HIV and strives to reduce stigma and misinformation about the condition. Positive Heroes draws on role models like Tshabalala to drive home its message.

In addition to her running accomplishments, Tshabalala is an accomplished mountaineer. She has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Mount Elbrus in Russia, and Mount Aconcagua in Argentina, the highest peaks in their respective continents. “I’m a role model because I’m proof that life is not finished when you have HIV,” she told Positive Heroes.

6. Gareth Thomas

Gareth Thomas, 48, is a Welsh former professional rugby player with an impressive list of accolades: He’s one of the most-capped Welsh rugby union players, he’s ranked 14th among international try scorers, and he is the third highest Wales try scorer. He also won four rugby league caps for Wales.

In 2009, Thomas was the first professional rugby union player to come out as gay while still an active player in the sport. He retired from rugby in 2011. Since then, Thomas has become an activist for LGBTQ athletes.

In 2019, Thomas publicly shared his HIV-positive status, a move that made him think he would be ostracized. “This was something that I felt people wouldn’t understand,” he told The Guardian in 2020.

However, it turned out to have a positive impact on his life. “I actually feel kind of empowered and feel like I live a freer, happier life when I don’t have secrets,” he said.

Thomas has used his platform to advocate for LGBTQ equality, mental health, and HIV awareness. “I realized having HIV doesn’t limit me; it actually challenges me to make sure that every moment of my life I live to my full potential,” he told The Guardian. “I really, really was convinced I was going to die. I don’t feel like I’ve had this rebirth, but I do feel like I’ve had a rewiring. I’m OK with who I am. So it has changed my life, in an unbelievably positive way.”

5. Nina Martinez

Nina Martinez never thought she’d be an athlete. Having contracted HIV from a blood transfusion weeks after being born, she found out she had HIV when she was 8 years old, after contracting chicken pox and subsequently requiring a blood test.

Martinez, 39, said in 2018 that she’d experienced an “unexpected adulthood,” having been told throughout her childhood that she would die young. She defied those perceptions, graduating from Georgetown University and Emory University while traveling to talk to college students about HIV prevention. Martinez is a runner who has finished five half-marathons and the Marine Corps Marathon. “I’ve had my fair share of physical discomfort,” she said in the 2018 interview. “It’s challenging in a different way. In some respects, being a patient prepared me to be a runner.”

Martinez enjoys running to raise money for HIV charities and HIV awareness. “There’s still this visceral reaction when somebody says they are HIV-positive. I get a lot of ‘I’m sorry.’ What are you sorry for? That I lived? At its core, it’s a virus. We should treat it as such.”

Notably, Martinez gained notoriety in 2019 for being United States’ first HIV-positive kidney donor. “I think for me, first and foremost, it’s the chance of showing people that I am just as normal as you,” she told Fox 5 Atlanta. “And, I don’t think there is any better way, or more powerful way, than to donate an organ.”

4. Rudy Galindo

Rudy Galindo, 53, is an internationally recognized figure skater who discovered ice skating when his older sister was taking lessons at the local rink. His talent for skating was not without its sacrifices. “My dad gave everything … so my sister and I could have skating lessons and stay off the streets,” he told Hispanic Network Magazine in 2018.

When Galindo was 13, he was paired up with skater Kristi Yamaguchi. Galindo and Yamaguchi won many championships in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a successful pairs team, after which they began participating independently outside of pairs. In 2000, Galindo revealed he was HIV-positive. Since then, he has been working to build awareness for HIV/AIDS research, and he thrives as a coach of young figure skaters in San Jose, California.

In 2013, Galindo was inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame. Though his figure skating years are behind him, coaching is what Galindo loves. “I’ll be coaching until I die. … I will be here in a walker,” he told NBC Sports in 2020.

3. Marvelyn Brown

Marvelyn Brown was 19 when she found out she had HIV. In a 2008 interview with NPR, she recalled having a “blank feeling” because she didn’t think it would happen to her, a high school basketball star from Nashville. She was shocked to learn that she’d contracted the virus from her boyfriend.

Brown, 38, became an outspoken advocate for HIV awareness, emphasizing that it’s a preventable disease. She wrote a memoir, “The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful, and (HIV) Positive.”

In the NPR interview, Brown defended herself against criticisms that she glamorized HIV. “In no way am I glamorizing HIV,” she said. “I’m talking about it. Marvelyn is glamorous, fabulous, all these things, but HIV is still a very hard disease to live with.”

Brown noted that when things get her down, self-love keeps her going. “A lot of people would regret it or whatever, but it really taught me self-love, self-acceptance, and self-responsibility. And that’s the best thing I could possibly ask for.”

2. Ric Muñoz

Raised in Los Angeles, marathon runner Ric Muñoz didn’t start running until his 20s. Despite his late start, he quickly gained positive feedback about his stride from more experienced runners, which spurred him to keep at it.

Now 64 years old, Muñoz ran his first marathon in 1983, followed by another in 1984, and then three more in 1986. Around the time of those early marathon finishes, he first learned about HIV and AIDS. Friends and acquaintances were getting it, some dying, at a shocking rate. Reflecting on that period in 2018 in an interview with WBUR, Muñoz remembered thinking to himself, “I guess I’m just going to wait for my time to come.”

Muñoz got tested for HIV when he was 28 years old. When he found out he was HIV-positive, he didn’t see it as the end. He told himself, “I’m just going to do what makes me happy for as long as I can, as best as I can.”

The marathon became Muñoz’s strongest race. He could have slowed down and taken it easy, but running meant too much to him. In 1990, he ran nine marathons, one of which qualified him for the Boston Marathon. In 1994, Nike asked Muñoz if the brand could feature him, a marathon runner with HIV, in its ads. After being advised by some to not do it for fear of what publicly disclosing his HIV status would do, Muñoz decided to go for it.

Nike’s ad with Muñoz helped show that people with HIV can live full lives and even active ones. It also helped show those in the general population that people with HIV are more than their virus. Today, Muñoz continues to run as part of his healthy lifestyle.

1. Greg Louganis

Greg Louganis, 62, is a gold medal-winning American Olympic diver who is often considered the greatest diver in history. His diving career highlights include winning gold medals in both the springboard and platform dives at the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games, making him the first diver to win two golds in back-to-back Olympic Games. In 1993, he was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.

In 1988, Louganis found out he was HIV-positive. In 1994, he publicly announced that he was gay, and in 1995 he publicly disclosed his HIV status. That same year, his autobiography “Breaking the Surface” was published. In addition to being a recognized diver, Louganis is an LGBTQ activist and motivational speaker.

Louganis has noted that he sees working out and being physically active every day just as important as taking his medications. “I try to live by example — being gay, being HIV-positive — you know, life goes on,” he told ESPN in 2016. “HIV taught me that I’m a lot stronger than I ever believed I was. Also, not to take anything for granted. I didn’t think I would see 30, and here I am at 56.”

If you’re living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), it’s important to remember that an HIV diagnosis doesn’t have to keep you from doing what you love and living an active life. While HIV may affect your physical health, you can still be an athlete or involved in any profession in whatever way feels right to you.

So, Check out stories of seven incredible athletes — both professional and amateur — who show that being HIV-positive hasn’t held them back. In fact, it inspires them to keep going, stay active, and spread awareness.

9jatriot:
I remember Kanu as someone who can be very tactical but also emotional. So he really looks like someone who can function as a technical adviser but not head coach.

I remember how he used to go to coaches and point out what he has observed in the game being played and when he is substituted into the game he will exploit those loopholes of the opponent and help to go on to win the game.

And Nigeria super eagles did not win world cup?

Billionaire2:
Fvck government !!

“We are the monsters you made”

You must be 18 years old. iTunes card yahoo boy.

Who give Dem right to flog anybody for indecent dressing?

"the world is yours" -

Tony Montana

mysticwarrior:
The US would never be stupid enough to send an unconventional weapon to Ukraine for them to use it against Russia, because it would only give Putin reasonable excuses and pretexts to use any form of unconventional weapon against Ukraine and ww3 could be triggered if that happens .

Nlfpmod Mynd44

The US have said "it's a difficult decision" which must be carried out

Hope una go chop am too

The US announcement meant that all the world's declared chemical weapons stockpiles were "verified as irreversibly destroyed," the OPCW said.


But how true?

Nelson21:
Nlfpmod Mynd44

For those that hate long writeups.

The U.S wants to send cluster munitions to ukraine and this is causing alot of controversy because cluster munitions are weapons that release many smaller bombs 💣,

https://i1.lensdump.com/i/J9wSqo.jpeg

over a large area, often killing or injuring civilians who are not the intended targets. They also leave behind unexploded bombs that can harm people for years after the conflict. 🙁

That’s why more than 100 countries, including NATO allies have agreed to ban them.

Some of the bomblets can just be there for some time and just explode unexpectedly. Very dangerous weapon to use. But I read somewhere that Russia has used some in kharkiv. Don't know how true that is anyway.

ItooWorWor:
Lies

True

The US will send Ukraine a cluster munitions package to help in its counteroffensive against Russia.

The White House said it had deferred the decision for as long as it could because of the risk of civilian harm from unexploded ordnance.

Ukraine has been asking for the weapons for months amid an ammunition shortage.

Cluster munitions - which are banned by more than 100 countries - are a class of weapons that contain multiple explosive bomblets called submunitions.

US officials had reportedly been hesitant to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions as they can kill indiscriminately over a wide area, threatening civilians. The US has a stockpile of these cluster bombs, which were first developed during World War II.

The munitions are controversial because of their high failure rates, meaning unexploded bomblets can linger on the ground for years and possibly detonate later on.

US law prohibits the transfer of cluster munitions with bomblet failure rates higher than 1% - meaning more than 1% of the bomblets in the weapon do not explode - but President Joe Biden is able to bypass this rule.

Defence Department officials told reporters on Thursday the Biden administration was considering sending cluster munitions with a failure rate lower than 2.35%.

The Pentagon noted that Russia has already been using cluster bombs in Ukraine with even higher failure rates. A United Nations investigation found Ukraine has likely used them as well, though the country has denied doing so.

Officials are planning to send artillery shells to Ukraine, with each containing 88 separate bomblets, according to US media reports. They would be fired from Howitzer artillery weapons already deployed by the Ukrainian army.

The aid package also includes Bradley and Stryker fighting vehicles, air defence missiles and anti-mine equipment, officials told reporters.

Human rights groups have urged Russia and Ukraine not to use cluster munitions and have asked the US not to supply them.

In a statement on Friday, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights once again called on the countries not to use cluster bombs, arguing they were dangerous.

"Cluster munitions scatter small bomblets over a wide area, many of which fail to explode immediately," said office spokesperson Marta Hurtado. "They can kill and maim years later. That's why use should stop immediately."

Some US lawmakers have also asked the Biden administration not to send the weapons, arguing their humanitarian costs outweigh their benefits in the battlefield.

Defence Department official Laura Cooper told Congress last month that military analysts had found that cluster bombs would be "useful, especially against dug-in Russian positions".

The Biden administration's new weapons package is worth $800 million (£626.5m), CBS News reported.

DaChosenOne:
UK is one of Nigeria's best allies. Nigeria's no.1 enemy is Fulanis.

Propaganda