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KELECHUKWU, CLAP FOR YOURSELF

WELL DONE!!!!

Sunnynwa: Unfortunately, my Yoruba tenant cannot say the same.

Is this the same nwabobo?? sunnyT's sales boy who sleepz in his oga's shop??

FreeGlobe: No difference. SE is locked to APC. All these noisemakers are Tinubu's lackeys

Everybody knwz SE is locked to development and progress

i dont know anywhere else oo .... but D'BANJ is the most hated celebrity on nairaland

igbsam: And you call that ridiculous ? My friend got married to an owerri girl last year. He paid a bride price of N2.5million, after which, he bought the wedding materials for all the relatives, from the mother, to the father down to the uncles and aunties, the sisters and cousins including nephews. He was also give 2 family members to train in school and business. After 8months of the wedding.....the bride's father demanded for a car and the father specifically asked for a 2005 c-class Mercedes Benz Car which he borrow money to buy for him. The mother asked for some money to fill her shop with stocks which my friend is still finding it difficult to give her. Isn't this ridiculous ?

Your friend na cash cow?? Abi himself don form richman for them .. Cos d demands are jst too ridiculous

Afam4eva: Congrats to Okagbare. For her to beat Chioma Ajunwa's record shows that she has a bright future in long jump.


I wonder what happened to Olusoji Fasugba. I just stopped seeing him. He was really good and was heading for the top. I also miss Uchenna Emedolu. If we can groom Obinna metu, i think he can go really far cos i saw what he did at the Beijing olympics.

fasuba now works in the british military

acidtalk: Most Nigerians are vunch of HYPOCRITES.

You all come here condenming a celebrity or celebrity to be on how they spend their money and the material things they acquire. But you same people will have ONLY N50,000 in your account and go buy a Blackberry phone of N48,000.

You are jobless and use a Phone of over N60,000 and keep begging your contacts to help you pay your BIS subscription every single month.

You same people don't have a house of your own but yet save and even borrow money to buy a car, while still squatting with family and friends.

I see lots of people doing same and even worse if they were in these same celebrities shoes.

If you have over 500 facebook friends, 200 Blackberry Contacts, 1,000 Twitter followers and you are still Jobless and Poor then it is high time you should realize you are a FAKE wanna be Social Being. Most of you lack basic Financial and Moral habits but yet want to be judges on these people's lifes.

God bless ya ....

[quote author=IGBO-SON]All these stupi/d cults, religions and belief-systems in this 21st century!? No wonder we're finding it hard to progress as a people in science, technology, and good governance. [/quote]abegi .... There ar traditionalists in china ... Are they not progressing??

Five things Real Madrid must do to overcome Borussia Dortmund
José Mourinho must play Mesut Ozil in themiddle and hope his team plays at a higher intensity than in the 4-1 first-leg defeat
Mesut Ozil and Xabi Alonso are key players if Real Madrid are to have a chance of overturning the 4-1 first-leg deficit against Borussia Dortmund. Photograph: Juan Medina/Reuters
Sid Lowe in Madrid

1. More intensity ...


José Mourinho complained that his team played the first leg "as if it was a friendly". "We only do licit things," he said. "We're so pure, so innocent, so naive that [Robert] Lewandowski scored four and we didn't commit a single foul on him." While the idea of Mourinho's Madrid being pure, innocent and naive is pretty comic, it is true that there was a lack of intensity about them in the first leg and Pepe didn't commit a single foul. Yet it was not so much about Lewandowski, it was all over the pitch: Madrid were slower to every ball.

2... and fewer mistakes


Before the first leg Mourinho claimed thatevery one of the four goals Borussia Dortmund had scored against Real Madridin the Champions League could be attributed to individual mistakes. After thefirst leg, Mourinho claimed that every one of the four goals that Dortmund scored against Real Madrid could be attributed toindividual mistakes. Eight from eight, then. Which is really just Mourinho shorthand for: "It's not my fault, it's theirs." Allowing for the exaggeration andthe self-interested shifting of blame, and allowing for the fact that focus and attitude are a manager's responsibility too, there was nonetheless an element of truth in what he said. The first goal beganwith a wayward Xabi Alonso pass, the second with unconvincing defending, and the fourth was a penalty. Intensity and concentration are key.

3. Get Mesut Ozil back into the middle and back into the game


Angel Di Maria only arrived in Germany onthe morning of the first leg, flying into Dusseldorf and travelling by road from there to Dortmund after the premature birth of his daughter. Mourinho decided that he was not ready to play so had to find a replacement (or perhaps, who knows, he always planned to make a change?). By opting for Luka Modric he did not just swap personnel, he swapped system. Mesut Ozil, the player who has done most to give Madrid creativity and fluidity this season, who plays and makes others play, was exiled on the right wing. From where his influence was zero.

4. Sergio Ramos back to central defence

In the absence of Alvaro Arbeloa and Michael Essien, playing Sergio Ramos at right-back was natural enough. He was, after all, a world and European champion at full-back. But it is over a year now sincehe has played there regularly and moving him also meant bringing Pepe into the middle. That, too, looked logical enough. But Ramos looked like what he was: a man out of position. Meanwhile Pepe performed poorly - both in footballing terms, which was more or less predictable, and defensively, which came as a greater surprise. Ramos's absence from the middle also meant that Madrid found it harder than ever to bring the ballout from the back, forcing Alonso back, although he has tended to drop ever deeper this season anyway, and distancing him from his midfield colleagues.

5. Liberate Alonso


The talk is always of how to stop Ronaldobut Jürgen Klopp insisted that the real keyto defeating Real Madrid is to close down Xabi Alonso and prevent him from providing the passes that release Ronaldo. It may be that the inclusion of Modric in the first leg was designed to release the tension on the former Liverpool midfielder, giving Dortmund someone else to close down, but it did not work. Ronaldo was rarely given the ball and Alonso, who looked sluggish when he did get possession and found Sami Khedira even further away from himthan normal, was closed down swiftly, unable to play any of the diagonal balls that are so often the starting gun for Madrid's attacks. He needs protection to play and more options to hit.

Napolitano: War is one of the worst things that could ever happen. He is one of the few Nigerians in Libya then whose stories you are hearing. Many others have their blood sunk in the desert sand.

sure .... Many are dead

“The book really shines a light on my journeybut the emotional aspect also of me being locked up in my apartment for 16 days with no food, no water and no lights and basicallyalmost dying of starvation.
“I’m telling the story and while you’re reading you can hear the pain in my voice, the tears coming down my eyes, it’s really emotional. I’ve read it four times and every time I read it I shed a tear.
“At the time I was 26 years old and this is something you wouldn’t want a 26-year-old kid to go through.”
He eventually fled Benghazi, along with teammate Moustapha Niang, in the dead of night by car to a refugee camp at Saloom on the Egyptian border.
There he spent three days living rough before the pair, again under the cover of darkness, decided to make a run for it by giving the checkpoint staff the slip and bribing a bus driver to take them to Cairo.
While on that bus, Owumi received a call on his now-working mobile from his coach in Libya offering him the chance to play for a team called El-Olympi in Alexandria, Egypt’s second major city.
He agreed, going against the wishes of his family and girlfriend in America, who had been frantically trying to bring him home. As it was, Owumi won the championship with El-Olympi and was named Most Valuable Player.
Yet, on his return to the United States, the enormity of his ordeal finally hit him and he was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Owumi has learned to live with the events ofhis past but it still shapes his future.
“What I went through I don’t think will ever leave me, I just have to control it because it was just too much in a short period of time – seeing my family struggle, my girlfriend struggle, seeing myself struggle and transform into this person I never knew I could transform into.
“It’s a day by day struggle, life, you’ve got to take it a day at a time. But, to be honest withyou, those memories will never go away.
“It’s like a soldier who’s been through war, it’s always going to be there but you just have to learn to control it.”
His story is both utterly compelling and highly emotional. Nobody can fully understand what he went through in Libya


some parts of the story

“As Americans we look at Muslims in a negative light and these guys didn’t know me at all, they just knew I was an American guy and they fed me, they told me to pray with them even though I was a Christian. A Christian can’t pray with a Muslim but they saw the pain in my eyes.
“I’m from Nigeria where Muslims and Christians clash (in northern Nigeria) and within the story it’s nothing but the Muslims helping out the Christian boy – feeding me when I had no money in Egypt because I was eating out of trash cans – it was bad.”
Remarkably, Owumi returned to basketball and this summer joined the Wolves. He has linked up with Stan Ocitti and Sherrad Prezzie-Blue, players he already knew and who convinced head coach Paul James to sign him.
Although amazed he can still step onto a court, Owumi feels at home in Worcester.
“To be honest with you, I don’t even know how I’m playing basketball to this day,” he said. “That’s God’s work because I’m not mentally in any shape to be playing basketball.
“It was my family who pushed me back into basketball and they said, ‘Listen, it’s the one thing you love, you’re not going to be playing it forever so while you’re young keepplaying it because it brings you happiness’. I really didn’t want to play basketball because I was afraid of being away from my family again.
“Everybody read the story and I think Sherrad sent it to coach and he was, like, thisis a great player, you’ve got to get this guy.
“Being here has got me a lot more comfortable. I can say I wake up in the morning and not worry about what’s going on outside of my window.
“I go nights without sleeping, it’s just normal for me now. That’s just the life I haveto live now and I’m not mad about it but I have a lot of things to work on mentally.
“But I’ll get there in time so I’m not worried about it.”
•Courtesy: www.worcesternews.com

ALEX Owumi comes across as a laid-back, down to earth guy without a care in the world.
The Worcester Wolves point guard carries a warm smile as he sits down to chat at the University of Worcester.
Yet, beneath the 28-year-old’s casual exteriorlies a harrowing story; one that has changedhis life forever and lives with him every day.
One that will, during 2013, be released in a book written by himself in collaboration with Daniel Paisner, who has penned New York Times bestsellers for the likes of Hollywood stars Denzel Washington and Whoopi Goldberg.
For, in 2011, Nigerian-born Owumi found himself caught up in the uprising to overthrow dictator Muammar Gaddafi in Libya.
Having gone there to further his basketball career, following a horrible time in Macedonia during which he was racially abused, he played for a team run by Gaddafi.Owumi even became friends with his sons Mutassim and Al-Saadi.
“The book is not going to put me in a situation where I’m saying I’m pro-Gaddafi or pro this because I befriended them,” he said.
“The book really shines a light on my journeybut the emotional aspect also of me being locked up in my apartment for 16 days with no food, no water and no lights and basicallyalmost dying of starvation.”
Inadvertently, Owumi had been catapulted into a living hell, barricading himself in his Benghazi flat – because it was too dangerous on the streets when violence erupted – and unable to contact the outside world.
“It’s the type of book you read and the words jump out on the page,” he said.
“I’m telling the story and while you’re reading you can hear the pain in my voice, the tears coming down my eyes, it’s really emotional. I’ve read it four times and every time I read it I shed a tear.
“At the time I was 26 years old and this is something you wouldn’t want a 26-year-old kid to go through.”
He eventually fled Benghazi, along with teammate Moustapha Niang, in the dead of night by car to a refugee camp at Saloom on the Egyptian border.
There he spent three days living rough before the pair, again under the cover of darkness, decided to make a run for it by giving the checkpoint staff the slip and bribing a bus driver to take them to Cairo.
While on that bus, Owumi received a call on his now-working mobile from his coach in Libya offering him the chance to play for a team called El-Olympi in Alexandria, Egypt’s second major city.
He agreed, going against the wishes of his family and girlfriend in America, who had been frantically trying to bring him home. As it was, Owumi won the championship with El-Olympi and was named Most Valuable Player.
Yet, on his return to the United States, the enormity of his ordeal finally hit him and he was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Owumi has learned to live with the events ofhis past but it still shapes his future.
“What I went through I don’t think will ever leave me, I just have to control it because it was just too much in a short period of time – seeing my family struggle, my girlfriend struggle, seeing myself struggle and transform into this person I never knew I could transform into.
“It’s a day by day struggle, life, you’ve got to take it a day at a time. But, to be honest withyou, those memories will never go away.
“It’s like a soldier who’s been through war, it’s always going to be there but you just have to learn to control it.”
His story is both utterly compelling and highly emotional. Nobody can fully understand what he went through in Libya.
But Owumi wants people to be aware. Perhaps it’s part of the healing process, but he wants to share his experiences. As a devout Christian, he believes it offers hope.
“I had to put the story out because it touches anybody who has ever been through something when they thought they couldn’t get out,” he said.
“Within the story, my father, who’s been battling cancer for 11 years, goes into a diabetic coma and gets depressed because I didn’t come home and stayed in Egypt and played basketball.
“Within the story, a girl and her father stayedacross from me in the same apartment building in Libya; she got raped right in front of my eyes by two soldiers. I was this close to actually committing murder and killing one of the soldiers.
“Also, there’s me getting arrested, being in solitary confinement in an Egyptian prison with no windows, pitch black, basically livingwith rats. I was sleeping in dirty urine water.
“I actually escaped from the Egyptian refugee camp. When I escaped, I found out later that if I had got caught I could have done five years in prison. I never really knewthat, but at the time I was just trying to get home. You could see where I was at mentally.”
He continued, “The most important thing is it bridges a gap between Muslims and Christians. On the road when I left the refugee camp for Alexandria was seven hours. Within those seven hours I met some of the most hospitable people I’ve ever met and those were Muslims

mumumugu: If u break d heart of a soldier daughter, u are likely to die young through letter bomb

even d'banj sef na soldier son

omidan21: Pls does did make sense and is dis advisable.choosing NDA as first choice of institution when filling the jamb form.what u think,cause admittance into NDA without connection is 10percent.so why putting all my eggs in one basket they shouldn't have made it a compulsion in Jamb.duis is Bleep up.so sad

same thoughts

honeric01: Cassava wetin? didn't you hear the flood swept away all the cassava planted in Nigeria?

was it available even before the flood

wirinet: You all have been eating cassava bread (and biscuits, gala, other confectionaries) since the middle of last year. The policy is that at least 10% of bread and confectionaries should be replaced by cassava flour, but trust our bakeries who are trying to save cost, they sometimes mix their wheat flour with close to 30% cassava flour. Even the wheat you buy in the market for home use is already mixed.

You will notice the unplesant after taste of most biscuits, sausage roll(gala) and even bread sold today. You will also notice that most bread in the market is very crumbly and spoils within one or two days after purchase. To make matters worse, my wife always get constipation after eating some brands of bread which never use to happen before. We suspect it is due to too much cassava flour.

So almost everybody buying bread in Nigeria has already consumed cassava bread.

maybe in the branded breads ... Buh d local breads(agege breads) hasnt change ooo ... Still normal

Walexz02: ....when it is well monitored and cheap, I think it will be good.... Btwn, cant you hear some1 up there saying it is very nutricious? Me ehn, I will like to taste it...

me too oo

Walexz02: Since the bread is approved by the FG I dont know why it is not available in town? Abi na only Aso rock dem dey produce am for?

d tin tire me ooo ...... Dem no suppose publicise am wen dem knw say d tin no go circulate

Heard its been produced in FUNAAB(federal university of Agriculture Abeokuta) ... Hope i would get to taste it some day

Have u seen the bread outside the aso villa??

Dem suppose carry this thread go frontpage wether we go c person wey watch am

Good morning Nairalanders

posting this out of curiosity

Its almost a year since GEJ launched cassava bread .... I still cant get to eat the bread ....

Have u taste the bread??
Hw gud is it??...
Where can someone get it??

Made d frontpage once .... With the thread on Nigeria basketball team versus tunisia during the olympics

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