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yarimo:
seyi TINUBU has constitutional rights to contest for governor in Nigeria or not? Isn't that simple question

yarimo:
his has constitutional rights to contest for governor or not? Isn't that simple question

MrHenyr:
No, not F-line

Zooposki:
Ok, it should keep fighting for its life. When it’s tired it will give up. Still does not change the fact that it is the only useless chromosome in the human body.

helinues:
They are joking

Zooposki:
The only useless chromosome in the body is the Make(Y) chromosome. Let your misogynist Bible written by man keep deceiving you. If you like don’t go out there and look for the truth. Keep mistreating Mother Nature and her children, the truth will out. The whole world has been deceived by the Beast and his Book(Bible).

HellVictorinho9:
U mean ur dads hero

Noted

HellVictorinho9:
U guys really av nothing serious to do with ur time here

HellVictorinho9:
Is that how they greet you?

helinues:
Good

Ebora owu, kaa'ra o le oo

God bless Nigeria

HellVictorinho9:
Including your family members

helinues:
Have you also been subjected to an abject poverty by this government? You are sounding as if you are talking from experience

helinues:
That's the assertion from those who knew nothing about economy

Na big honor for France, dear President Bola Tinubu @officialABAT, to welcome you for dis State visit as one big partner and friend of today and tomorrow.

E still dey sweet me well well as I remember say I be young intern for French Embassy for Nigeria that time. pic.twitter.com/nKj3fWUfK2

— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) November 28, 2024

FreeStuffsNG:
Two shameless fornicating adults.

She stopped caring for me
Okunrin ọle alapamaṣiṣe. Lazy man, she should be feeding you and still feed your 5 children. Smh.
This is a lesson for every iyawo saara out there. Nothing for you like this woman!

Clairvoyancy:
By his nickname, we can guess who the mentor is

Welcum:

Bobo
Chicago
Bola
Connect the dots.

Ruud van Nistelrooy is on the brink of being named the new manager of Leicester City.

Sources in Holland believe a deal is close between the Premier League strugglers and the 48-year-old Dutchman, who departed the coaching staff at Manchester United earlier this month following the arrival of new boss Ruben Amorim.

The Foxes quickly identified Van Nistelrooy as having the right qualities to unite the King Power dressing room after Steve Cooper lost the backing of his players and subsequently the Leicester owners before being sacked in the aftermath of the 2-1 home defeat by Chelsea.

Van Nistelrooy was unbeaten in four games as interim United manager following Erik ten Hag’s departure from Old Trafford - and was disappointed not to be offered a job in Amorim’s backroom team.

The Foxes quickly identified Van Nistelrooy as having the right qualities to unite the King Power dressing room after Steve Cooper lost the backing of his players and subsequently the Leicester owners before being sacked in the aftermath of the 2-1 home defeat by Chelsea.

Van Nistelrooy was unbeaten in four games as interim United manager following Erik ten Hag’s departure from Old Trafford - and was disappointed not to be offered a job in Amorim’s backroom team.

Former club Hamburg wanted him as their new coach but the prospect of going into 2. Bundesliga didn’t excite the ex-Holland striker after his taste of the Premier League.

Van Nistelrooy impressively rallied United’s players following the sacking of Ten Hag and was in the running to remain in charge until the end of the season until Amorim made it clear he would welcome the opportunity to leave Sporting Lisbon for a crack at the biggest managerial job in England.

He also has extensive knowledge of the Premier League and started preparing himself for a move back to England after leaving PSV Eindhoven 18 months ago after a successful season in charge of the Eredivisie club.

Van Nistelrooy rejected the chance to become Burnley boss in the summer when United approached him. It is believed he will be given a two-and-a-half-year contract after demanding some measure of security in his negotiations with Leicester.

The Foxes, promoted to the top-flight under Enzo Maresca last season, are currently lying 16th in the table after winning twice in their opening 12 games with Cooper at the helm.

Sonnobax15:

Anything the hands of an illegal and wrong banny touches, automatically turns into a pool of tears

dawnomike:
Hehehe... That love will first fly out of the window

A woman has revealed how she accidentally threw away the 'key' to her boyfriend's £569million Bitcoin fortune, as he fights for the right to search a huge landfill in an attempt to find it. 

Halfina Eddy-Evans, speaking for the first time about her ex-boyfriend James Howells' cyber nightmare, admitted taking the hard drive to the tip in Wales but claims she did so at his request.

Howells claims he mined the Bitcoin himself in 2009 and then forgot about it. But after discovering the 8,000 coins are now worth around £569m he is fighting for the right to search the landfill run by Newport Council. 

She added: 'I'd love nothing more than him to find it. I'm sick and tired of hearing about it.'

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Halfina said she took the hard drive containing the 'key' to the tip nine to ten years ago. The couple have since split up. 

She said: 'I hope he finds it, not that I want a penny of his money, but it will shut him up!'

In an exclusive interview with MailOnline, the mother of their two teenage sons admitted: 'Yes, I threw away his rubbish, he asked me to.

'The computer part had been disposed of in a black sack along with other unwanted belongings and he begged me to take it away, saying "There's a bag of rubbish here to be taken to the tip".

'I had no idea what was in it but I reluctantly dropped it off at the local tip on the way home from going on the school run.

'I thought he should be running his errands, not me, but I did it to help out.

'Losing it was not my fault.'

Ms Eddy-Evans broke her silence after Mr Howells, 39, has vowed to take a council to court in his final bid to unearth the 'key' to a Bitcoin jackpot.

He is battling for the right to dig up a tip where he believes his lost and buried hard drive has been mistakenly trashed.

In a last bid to help unlock his fortune he is preparing to take Newport Council in Wales to court.

The 'lost' fortune at today's prices makes his Bitcoin worth £569m and he has pledged to donate ten per cent of proceeds back to the local area - enough to transform Newport into 'Dubai or Las Vegas of the UK'.

He had acquired 8,000 coins after 10 weeks of experimenting with the new cryptocurrency craze.

At the time he did not realise their value, and he had to stop mining after complaints from his then partner, Hafina. He kept his laptop in their bedroom and, when it was running, the noise of its fan stopped her sleeping.

Soon afterwards James knocked a glass of lemonade over his laptop and despite efforts to clean it, it never worked properly again.

He sold the components for parts, keeping the hard drive and transferring all the photos and music on it to an Apple computer. The only thing he couldn't copy across was the tiny file containing the passcode to his Bitcoins because it wasn't compatible with Apple's operating system.

He claims his partner at the time had chucked away his unwanted belongings, including computer equipment which contained a vital password.

Ms Eddy-Evans from Newport, Gwent, admitted: 'Yes, I threw away his rubbish, he asked me to.

'It was years ago, maybe nine-ten years, and it was accidentally thrown away.

'But I hope he finds it, not that I want a penny of his money, but it will shut him up!'

He threw the hard drive into the kind-of junk drawer most of us have at home and forgot about it for the next three years, concentrating on work and family life — by then he and Hafina had two young sons.

The exasperated mother said: 'It looks like he's blaming me, but I don't think he really is, not that we are even talking now.'

Reluctantly, I did it but had no idea what it contained, a hard drive linked to Bitcoin which then became a big thing, and has since gone through the roof!

'Losing it was not my fault!'

'At the time James had discarded the hard drive, throwing it away and thinking it was of no use.

Recalling the time her then partner asked her to do a favour, she explained: 'He said there were a few black sacks of rubbish to take to the tip, three or four, and he asked me to do it.

But now he thinks it could be worth a fortune and he is still fighting the council. It has been going on a long time.'

She added: 'I'd love more than anything for him to find it. I'm sick and tired of hearing about it!

'Part of me thinks the council should let the tip site be dug up, it's not helping his mental health with the thoughts of sitting in a fortune he can't get.

'But the other part thinks for him just to drop it and let it go.

'People keep tagging me online, my friends and random people, with his comments about his loss of a fortune.

'But I say "Don't ask me about it!".

'I have no claim on whatever money he could be worth. He is the father of my two sons but I don't want a penny of his money.'

The price of the Bitcoin recently hit a record high of $80,000 - a rise of more than 80pc this year and the highest on record since it was formed in 2009. 

But Mr Howells says all Bitcoin needs to do is hit the $157k mark and it would break through the billion pound barrier. 

'This problem is never going to go away. This is always going to be a treasure hunt,' he told Fortune.  

'The treasure is getting more and more valuable by the day, and that isn't going to stop.'

There is more than 1.4million tonnes of waste at the landfill, but Mr Howells says he won't need to search it all as he has narrowed the hard drive's location down to an area of 100,000 tonnes, reported the BBC.  

But Newport city council has repeatedly refused to let him search the area as it 'is not possible under our environmental permit, and that work of that nature would have a huge negative environmental impact on the surrounding area'.

Mr Howells announced last month that he was suing the council for £495,314,800 in damages, accusing the local authority of 'withholding my property without my consent'.

A first hearing on an application from the authority to get it thrown out is scheduled for early month, with a judge set to rule on December 3.  

A spokesperson for Newport City Council said: 'Newport City Council has been contacted multiple times since 2013 about the possibility of retrieving a piece of IT hardware said to be in our landfill site.

The council has told Mr. Howells multiple times that excavation is not possible under our environmental permit, and that work of that nature would have a huge negative environmental impact on the surrounding area.

'The council is the only body authorised to carry out operations on the site.

'Mr. Howells's claim has no merit, and the council is vigorously resisting it.'

NLCreator:
Previous thread

https://www.nairaland.com/8278800/reno-omokri-vows-arrest-ajibade

Reno Omokri, a prominent social commentator, recently disclosed the phone number of Ajibade Onabanjo following a disturbing incident. Onabanjo had allegedly posted a Facebook message wishing death upon Omokri's wife and children. In response, Omokri shared Onabanjo’s phone number publicly but provided no additional information about him.

Curious about the identity behind it, I conducted a follow-up investigation into the phone number using Opay, a financial platform that links accounts to phone numbers. Through this method, I discovered that the number is registered under the name Olabanji Nurudeen Muhammed, rather than the alleged Ajibade Onabanjo. This discrepancy raises questions about whether Onabanjo may have used a pseudonym online or if the number had been falsely attributed to him

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Racoon:
Misplaced priority and wasting the nation's resources while asking the suffering citizens to continue to endure hardship while offering prayers for their perpetual cluelessness and incompetency.

France was accused of “bowing” to pressure from Benjamin Netanyahu after it confirmed on Wednesday that the Israeli prime minister was immune from prosecution by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The ICC last week issued warrants for Mr Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant, the former defence minister, and Mohammed Deif, Hamas military chief, for “crimes against humanity and war crimes committed from at least Oct 8 2023 until at least May 20 2024”.

The move prompted outrage from Israel and its allies – including the US, which is not a member of the ICC and has rejected its jurisdiction.

France has taken a cautious stance on the issue of arrest warrants. Unconfirmed media reports said Mr Netanyahu angrily raised the issue in telephone talks with Emmanuel Macron, the French president, and urged Paris not to enforce the decision.

The French foreign ministry made it plain that it would not arrest him, saying the Israeli leader was covered by immunity rules that apply to states that are not a party to the ICC.

"A state cannot be held to act in a way that is incompatible with its obligations in terms of international law with regards to immunities granted to states, which are not party to the ICC,” the French statement said.

Such immunities apply to prime minister Netanyahu and other ministers in question, and must be taken into consideration should the ICC ask us to arrest them and hand them over,” it said.

Marine Tondelier, the French Green leader, described the foreign ministry’s line as a “disgrace”.

“France is once again bowing to Benjamin Netanyahu’s demands by choosing him over international justice,” she said.

Earlier on Wednesday, Jean-Noel Barrot, the French foreign minister, had already said that France considered that some leaders could enjoy immunity from ICC prosecution.

Asked if France would arrest Mr Netanyahu if he stepped on French territory, Mr Barrot did not give a specific answer in an interview with Franceinfo radio.

He said France “is very committed to international justice and will apply international law based on its obligations to cooperate with the ICC”.

But he added that the court’s statute “deals with questions of immunity for certain leaders”.

“It is ultimately up to the judicial authorities to decide,” he added.

The comments marked the first time a top French official has evoked a possible immunity.

On Tuesday, G7 foreign ministers said they would “comply with our respective obligations” regarding the arrest warrant without going further.

Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign policy chief, said the arrest warrants were “binding” and should be implemented.

Sir Keir Starmer’s official spokesman said the Government respected the court and refused to rule out that Mr Netanyahu would be arrested if he was to come to the UK, in comments widely interpreted as supportive of the decision.

He said: “We respect the independence of the ICC.”

France has been instrumental in efforts to end fighting in the Middle East and, with the United States, helped broker a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon that came into force on Wednesday.

Article 27 of the Rome Statute, the foundation of the ICC, states that immunity “shall not bar the Court from exercising its jurisdiction over such a person”.

But article 98 says a state cannot “act inconsistently with its obligations under international law with respect to the... diplomatic immunity of a person”.

helinues:
Toh

Who are the people reaping out from the skyrocketed price!

noobody:
I wonder why you guys are members of nairaland,
We have thrashed this issues times without number,
You need fright forwarders to ship in items from USA,don't try to form smart by using DHL,FedEx,ups,Aramex,those guys are the worst.
They would rip you off,
They have collabo with customs to rip Nigerians off.

Best you can do,tell your brother to write DHL from his end to return his item since they can't deliver it.

Don't bother stressing your self,

No matter how you run am,you go still pay like 400k or more.

ebukal67x:
Trump is a clown.

President Vladimir Putin has not been seen in public for 13 days following claims of ill health, while the Kremlin is accused of releasing pre-recorded meetings.

The Russian president appears to have mysteriously disappeared - with his last public appearance being nearly two weeks ago at a conference in Sochi.

According to the Telegram channel VChK-OGPU, Putin has been undergoing health treatments: “Indeed, Putin has been absent from work recently and receives all reports exclusively via special communications."

Those close to him are given the same standard answer in such cases: "He is undergoing a medical examination and a regular course of general health improvement."

The channel added that nobody actually knows what the real answer is or where he is.

This is not the first time speculation have grown regarding the Russian president’s health.

Some claim he has appeared overly tired, having difficulty walking and strongly gripping tables in meetings - sparking rumours of Parkinson’s disease.

He was also said to have cancer several times in 2014, 2020 and 2022, and reportedly travels with an entourage of doctors to assist him in case of a medical emergency.

There are also reports of Putin using body doubles, who are said to have gone through intense plastic surgery to look identical to the president.

Speaking to The Sun, Russia expert Keir Giles said: "If you watch Putin closely, it's hard to avoid the suspicion that often some of the appearances you're seeing are not, in fact, the same person."

He also noted the stark differences in the Russian president’s appearance - from looking healthy at one event to looking sick at the next.

"There are some times when he looks really quite frail, bloated, puffy, shaking, having to grip onto the table and only giving very short five-minute speeches even on major public events,” Giles said.

And then there are times when he appears to bounce back as a much healthier individual who is standing up and speaking for 40 minutes.”He added that the state of Putin’s health was a “mystery to us all.” The government has previously denied that Putin’s health is failing.

In October, Putin admitted in a televised meeting that he regularly undergoes medical examinations at the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow.

After this comment, his aides quickly dispelled any rumours that the president was ill. His spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “He meant routine medical examinations.”

The state news agency TASS also insists Putin “has no health problems.”

Regardless of the rumours, the Russian president seems to have no intention of slowing down, having won an election that permits him to continue ruling until 2030.

He has continued to lead Russia and its war on Ukraine.