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MilitantAtheist:
We ain't paying sh!t to any white pussy ass loser

See dis kolo! Like say u n ur NFF get any option other than to blab initially. NFF will still end up paying the money even before the 45-day deadline.

Ajay7411:
Make your own money, there is no chance for free loafers like you.

Omo....see dis baldheaded!

DR Congo international Jody Lukoki, who began his senior career at Dutch giants Ajax, has died at the age of 29.

Lukoki also had spells at PEC Zwolle, Bulgarian club Ludogorets and Turkish outfit Yeni Malatyaspor, and was most recently on the books of Dutch side FC Twente.

"The club is shocked and deeply moved by this tragic event," a statement on the FC Twente website said.

"FC Twente sympathizes with his loved ones and wishes them a lot of strength in processing this great loss."

The cause of Lukoki's death is not yet known.

The winger joined FC Twente on a two-year deal last June but suffered a serious knee injury during pre-season training.

His contract with Twente was terminated in February, because of what the club called "events in his personal life".

Zwolle stated their "dismay and sadness" following the death of Lukoki, who had scored the club's first ever goal in European competition.

Last week the player posted on his Instagram page that he was working in the gym on his comeback from injury.

Lukoki scored five goals in 35 outings for Ajax before moving on to Zwolle in 2014. The following year, he joined Ludogorets, where he spent five years and made 158 appearances, scoring 30 goals.

After spending the 2020-21 campaign in Turkey he returned to the Netherlands with Twente.

Lukoki represented the Netherlands at youth level but made his senior international debut for DR Congo in 2015.

The last of his three caps for the Leopards, which all came in friendly matches, was against Burkina Faso in 2020.

So nairalanders are this rich and if a fellow asks for just 10,000 naira for some urgent needs, you won't even see like 20 people coming out to say okay we will contribute the money for you. Now where is the love if what you all are claiming to make weekly/monthly is true? I sorry o!

he doesn't let it control him, he functions well but I just have a problem with it.
I see you are a very selfish person. As in very selfish and self-centered individual.

Jamb selling forms, FG approving new varsities almost every month, ASUU going on strike every now and then, yet I still see more people flocking to exam halls in order to secure admission first before anything else like learning a skill/starting a business. Walai, if de born me again for Nigeria, I no go near school gate. When they say school na scam, na for only Nigeria.

Dmacqh:
Amen , boss .

Chelsea fan

I like liiverpool but liverpool's only title this season would be the Carling cup!

The value of Bitcoin continued to fall over the weekend as it dropped below $34,000 (£27,630), according to the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange.

The world's largest cryptocurrency by market value has now fallen by 50% since its peak in November last year.

The slide in the value of digital assets comes as stock markets around the world also dropped in recent days.

On Monday, some Asian markets headed lower again with Japan's benchmark Nikkei index down by around 2%.

Bitcoin accounts for about a third of the cryptocurrency market with a total value of $650bn.

Ethereum, the second biggest cryptocurrency in the world, has also fallen in value, down by more than 10% in the last week.
Although much of 2022 had been relatively quiet for the cryptocurrency market, volatile trading in digital assets has not been that unusual in previous years.

Trading was dominated for years by individual investors, but more recently the market has seen an influx of professional investors, such as hedge funds and money managers.

With more traditional investors trading digital assets, cryptocurrencies have increasingly followed the movements of global stock markets.

Many of the institutional investors that buy cryptocurrencies treat them as risk assets, similar to technology stocks.

In times of market uncertainty traditional investors will often sell what they see as riskier assets and move their money into safer investments.

Last week, central banks around the world, including the US, UK and Australia, raised interest rates as they attempt to tackle rising prices.

The US Federal Reserve raised its key lending rate by half a percentage point, marking its biggest rate hike in more than 20 years.

That has triggered more concerns among some investors that inflation and the higher cost of borrowing could have a major impact on global economic growth.

Investors are also worried about the impact of the war in Ukraine on the world economy.

Meanwhile, in the last year Bitcoin has become legal tender in two countries - El Salvador and the Central African Republic.

Since El Salvador said it would allow consumers to use the cryptocurrency in all transactions, alongside the US dollar, the International Monetary Fund has urged it to reverse its decision.

Bros that 6months is the ideal for a yearly tenant. I had same issue back in February when my rent was just barely 4 months old. The landlord and his lawyer think say I no know anything. I just discarded the notice. Na only dem resolve d matter within. 6 months notice before/after your rent expires is okay.

Present Nigeria economic situation plus relationship with a naija girl equals atinumefiyia. make I no yan pax so.

No job/profession is easy.

anada one. Well d game is to be sold and not told.

Eastcoastboy:
That's to roast Barbeque. Okay cool. E sure me say you been burn some people fish wella!

No no....as far I don dey inside something, I dey quick catch up....

Eastcoastboy:
What's BBQ please?

Barbeque

hoilakes:
adapt to anything good or bad

Dat is why naija leaders keep misbehaving knowing fully well the citizens will adapt.

I applied for BBQ man job back then without any experience and I got the job. It was a high paying one back then before I left.

Presently, am in need of a Job.
Warri, Delta State.

A woman who took up running after she lost her left leg to cancer has passed the Guinness World Record for most consecutive marathons.

Jacky Hunt-Broersma, 46, has run 26.2-miles every day since mid-January, normally taking around five hours.

On Saturday, she completed her 104th consecutive marathon in as many days - an achievement she expects to be certified by Guinness World Records.

A spokesperson said certifying the record would take around three months.

Waking up on Sunday - a day off at long last - was a bizarre experience for Jacky.

"Part of me was really happy to be done," she tells the BBC from her home in Arizona. "And the other part kept thinking I need to go running."

Her body is also recovering from the record-chasing effort, despite having stopped. "I feel tighter than I have the whole 104 marathons," she admits.

But Jacky - who was born and raised in South Africa, and has also lived in England and the Netherlands - is grateful. Because running has given her the confidence she was afraid she would never regain.



In 2002, doctors in the Netherlands diagnosed her with Ewing's sarcoma, a rare type of bone cancer.

Within two weeks, they amputated her left leg to save her life. She was only 26 years old.

"It was a rollercoaster," she recalls. "Everything happened so fast."

For the first couple of years, Jacky struggled with the change in her life. She was angry that she had got cancer and embarrassed to be different. She wore long trousers in public so people would not notice the prosthetic.

Almost on a whim, she took up running in 2016.

She had cheered her husband on at long-distance running events but had never considered doing it herself, thinking it was only "for crazy people".

Buying a special prosthetic for long-distance runners, she signed up for her very first 10K (6.2 mile) run.

On the eve of the race, she switched her registration to the half-marathon category - and she has not looked back since, exploring longer distances and different terrains.

"I'm an all or nothing person, so I just threw myself in," she explains. "I love pushing boundaries and seeing how far I can push."

At the beginning of the year, Jacky gave herself a new goal: the record for most consecutive marathons.

The female Guinness record stood at 95 - set two years go by Alyssa Amos Clark, a non-amputee runner from Vermont - who did it as a pandemic coping strategy.

The male Guinness record is held by Enzo Caporaso of Italy with 59 - although Spanish ultra-runner Ricardo Abad reportedly ran 607 consecutive marathons, finishing in 2012.

So Jacky - a mother of two who works as an endurance coach - started running with the record in mind, making sure she always ran at least the length of a marathon.

She did the world-famous Boston Marathon in Massachusetts and the Lost Dutchman in Arizona, but marathons are not scheduled every day, so she also ran on local dirt paths, neighbourhood trails and even her own treadmill at home.

And when British runner Kate Jayden broke Alyssa's record by completing 101 runs, Jacky kept going to beat her and "to round the month [of April] off" with one final marathon.

All told, she ran 2,734 miles. Guinness World Records told the AP news agency it would take around 12 to 15 weeks to review the evidence and certify the record.

Documenting those runs on social media, Jacky has raised over $88,000 (£70,000) for Amputee Blade Runners, a non-profit organisation that provides running blades like hers to amputees.

The runs have been mostly a mental game, she says, but they have also taken a physical toll.

She has to wear liners and sweat socks with her blades, and needs to foam roll, stretch and ice her leg stump daily. Remarkably, she remained injury-free throughout the feat.

In fact, Jacky wishes she had started running earlier.

"Running has made such a difference on my mental state and it showed me how strong my body can be. It gave me a total new acceptance of who I am and that I can do hard things."

And she is determined to keep going. Next up: the Moab, a gruelling 240-mile race in Utah this October.

A former Philadelphia police officer has been charged with murder for fatally shooting a 12-year-old boy in the back during a chaotic foot chase in early March.

Authorities say that Edsaul Mendoza, 26, engaged in a "tactically unsound" pursuit of Thomas "TJ" Siderio and shot him despite knowing he was unarmed.

Police believed a friend of his was involved in the theft of a weapon.

Mr Mendoza was arrested on Sunday.

According to a presentment of facts released by Philadelphia's District Attorney, Mr Mendoza was part of a group of four plainclothes officers who confronted Thomas and a 17-year-old friend - identified in court documents as "NK" - on 1 March. The officers believed that NK was "tangentially connected" to a stolen firearm investigation.

When they attempted to stop the boys, "a shot went off" and broke a rear passenger window, the presentment added. When the boys attempted to flee, Mr Mendoza chased Thomas and fired at him three times.

The third shot, the document alleges, took place even though Mr Mendoza knew that Thomas' weapon had been discarded some 40ft (12m) away. Thomas had stopped running at the time the final shot was fired.

"Thus, when Mendoza fired the third and fatal shot, he knew the 12-year-old, five-foot tall, 111-pound Thomas Siderio no longer had a gun and no ability to harm him," Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner told reporters on Monday.

"But he fired a shot through his back nonetheless, killing him."

Mr Mendoza was fired by the police force soon after the incident, with the police commissioner saying at the time that the department's use-of-force policies had been violated.

According to Mr Krasner, much of the evidence against Mr Mendoza stems from video footage of the shooting, which will not be released until authorised by a judge. He described the video as "disturbing to watch" and said that Thomas was "essentially facedown on the sidewalk" and possibly surrendering.

Mr Mendoza was taken into custody on Sunday and is being held without bail. A preliminary hearing has been set for 16 May.

A public defender who represented him at a bail hearing on Monday could not be reached. A local chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police has now said it will provide him with a lawyer.

Thomas' great-grandmother, Mary Siderio, was quoted by a local CBS affiliate as saying she was "happy" to hear of the charges against Mr Mendoza.

"I'm so heartbroken, I can't sleep," she said. "None of us can sleep. It's horrible."

Better

Seen and appreciated.

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa had to leave a May Day rally after workers stormed the stage where he was speaking.

Chanting "Cyril must go," they held up signs demanding a wage increase during a ceremony in a stadium near the north-western city of Rustenburg.

The protesters, who worked at a local mine, have been striking for weeks.

President Ramaphosa tried to address the miners' concerns but was greeted by booing.

The workers want an annual salary pay rise of 1,000 rand ($63; £50) - a demand which President Ramaphosa addressed directly.

"We have heard that message and we will be dealing with that matter," he is quoted as telling the miners by the IOL news site.

He also pledged to speak to the relevant authorities to meet their demands, IOL reports.

In a two-minute video of the disruption, the president can be seen making repeated attempts to calm the workers down, only to be greeted with further jeering and booing.
At Sunday's event, which had been organised by South Africa's trade union federation Cosatu, police had to step in while a bodyguard led the president away from the venue, according to IOL.

The workers were from Sibanye-Stillwater, which is a metal mining company and the world's largest primary producer of platinum, according to its own website.

South Africa's economy has been hit hard by the Covid crisis, and unemployment is now around 35%.

Mining is one of South Africa's most important sectors - accounting for 8-10% of national income and employing almost 450,000 people - but it has been in decline in recent years.

Potential foreshadowing of re-election woes
May Day is a key event in the yearly calendar of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and its trade union allies, and usually draws huge crowds. The fact that what looked like just a few hundred workers turned out to see the president speak was an indication that he was not welcome.

Questions are now being asked about how and why security assessments did not pick up that this might happen.

But perhaps the more important question is why the ANC and Cosatu leaders seem to have been surprised at the level of anger on the ground. It suggests a level of disconnect between the experiences of ordinary people, and those in power.

It is worth noting that some of those who jeered President Ramaphosa at the rally were members of the union he helped to found. Mr Ramaphosa was the first general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers.

This is a year in which the ANC holds elections which will decide who leads the party into the country's next general election. This sort of reception from a key constituency - workers - may foreshadow some of the challenges Mr Ramaphosa could face in seeking re-election.

All this plenty seizing. Still drugs no dey scarce for the street. How come?

Seize one, thousand don pass.

Liposure:
where dem dey sellam

A policeman sighted.
Olosho!

sapele914:
It makes no sense, why will the government kill Uwazuruike, who is working for them?

You ipobians & Guilty Conscience, you commit a crime, & can never man up to it, Empty Barrels.

You don't know politics?

Everyday I will say I will stop marijuana intake, everyday I find myself still going to get some wraps.

I attend Jesus Church of Salvation, Ekpan, Delta State.

Happy Sunday and new month!

Germany has filed a case against Italy at the UN's highest court over attempts within Italy to claim compensation for Nazi-era war crimes.

In a submission to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Germany says Italy continues to allow cases in its domestic courts despite a 2012 ruling that such claims were inadmissible.

It says that, since that ruling, over 25 new cases have been filed in Italy.

In some of those, the courts have ruled that Germany should pay compensation.

Berlin says it is bringing the complaint now because of two ongoing cases that could see properties in Rome owned by the German state seized to finance compensation payments.

A court in Italy says it will decide by 25 May whether to force the sale of certain buildings, some of which house German cultural, historical, and educational institutions.

The dispute dates back to 2008, when Italy's highest court ruled that Germany should pay around €1m (£840,000) to relatives of nine people who were among 203 killed by German forces in Tuscany in 1944.

Germany argues it has already paid out billions of euros to countries impacted by World War II since the conflict ended in 1945.

Its filing cites a part of the 2012 ruling that says that, by allowing the claims in its courts, Italy had "violated its obligation to respect the immunity which the Federal Republic of Germany enjoys under international law".

It can take years for the ICJ to issue rulings, but Germany has asked the court to take measures to stop Italy auctioning off any property while its broader case is being considered.

The ICJ, based in The Hague, the Netherlands, is the principal judicial body of the UN, with one of its primary roles being the resolution of legal disputes between states.

cavreek:
Nigerians are very patriotic, in fact one of the very patriotic
That's why u hardly see any Nigerian that wants to japa

No be only!