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It's a deal, God keep us till then

spikes C: See you at the front line then

Please my foot, keep it to yourself

spikes C: lol...server ni, i beat the whole system dude.

Ok, just tell me to teach you. say pls

No, in your nightmare

You know server was kind to you then, but this time, I'll be the winner

spikes C: Cheat? lol...in your wild dreams


Errrrm...ok, both

''On politics, Buhari said the incessant military interventions were due to the failure of politicians to respect the rule of law, “characterised by massive corruption and lack of accountability”''

I think it's absolutely relevant, considering what is happening in Egypt presently and other Arab countries due to bad leadership.

PapaBrowne: Why this man doesn't understand that this kind of information is irrelevant in 2013, I don't understand.

Please Sir, can you tell us something that is relevant to the growth and development of this country??

Well said, this is one of the reasons African leaders should govern with fear of God and be accountable to the electorate. A quick question to you, in asmuch as I don't support coup, but if by default; an elected government is repressive and corrupt, what do you think will happen if not coup?

ckkris: A coupist is the same as an armed robber. Gen Buhari is the same as Idi Amin, Gadaffi, Morsi, Babangida. If a successful coupist is okayed, then no one has any right to complain about armed robbery. A mutinous coupist robs the entire nation of their God-given right to live as they pleased. Gen Buhari says no, and like Morsi begins to make outrageous DECREES. Who authorised him to overthrow an elected government. The guy man would have made himself Field Marshall had he lasted much longer. It was also after some years that Babangida promoted himself to 4-star general. Bad people.

More than selfishness, they're dragging the legacy of Madiba in the mud. His lifeless body will definitely shudder over this event.

nerodenero: All I see is selfishness!

You are a cheat, don't worry I'll beat you to the prize this time

spikes C: You know how the last one went right
Am still the boss around here ya know

No, it's Ishan girl

Ekiti girl

It is amazing the kinds of businesses that can be uncovered in Africa’s second largest economy. snakeHave you ever eaten snakes? Our friends at Battabox https://www.cp-africa.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/snake.png took a trip down to Nigeria’s snake market in Badagry where there is a thriving network of sellers selling what seems to be a delicacy in high demand in the market. According to one of the sellers, buyers visit from various states across Nigeria to buy the snakes. Some of the sellers also use it to make delicacies such as pepper soup and the snakes retail at about N1,400 a piece.

Check out the description by Battabox:

BattaBox heads down to the Nigeria Snake Market! While most people are rightly scared of snakes and their poisonous venom – for Nigerians and African Food – they can make a tasty dish.

“They sell snakes here!” explains Odunayo, our BattaBox presenter. “Nigerians – we sabi chop things o!”

Enormous bags of hundreds of different shapes, lengths and sizes of snakes – and customers (mostly women who own restaurants) all rush to the bags and grab as many as they can as fast as they can – before they are sold out. The Snake market is just outside of Lagos in Badagry.

“They bring the snakes from the Republic of Benin,” says Bati who has been selling it in the Badagry market (near Nigeria’s border with Benin) for many years now. And customers come from across South-West Nigeria like Ondo and Oyo state to buy.

“People really love snake! They come from far and wide to eat!” says one young woman is buying a large bag, full of snakes – “We buy from here and then use it to cook as Pepper Soup… its tastes to delicious and sweet – it tastes like fish.”

One large snake can cost up to 1400 Naira ($9) and the small snake can cost as little as 500 Naira ($3). Eating snake is popularly thought of as good for the body – “if you eat snake, you will get more strength and look more healthy,” Odunayo explains.

However, a recent study found that the snake population is crashing in Nigeria.

The causes are not known and similar severe declines in populations were found in the UK, France and Italy… but eating snakes in such numbers surely cannot help. And such declines, say environmentalists, has a massive ecological impact with considerable biodiversity loss.

But Odunayo buys her own snake to take home for her own favorite African food – pepper soup.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zBdD4qiGow&feature=player_embedded


Chai, can't imagine myself eating those demons

Nigeria’s former head of state, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari said he decided to retire with his rank in 1985, to defend and promote the integrity of the military, instead of promoting himself.

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Buhari

The former Head of State made the statement at a public presentation of two books: “Nigerian military in politics, 1966-2011 and politics of transition to civil rule in Nigeria” in Zaria, Kaduna State.

The books were published by Malam Nuhu Ramalan, Head of Political Science Department, Federal College Education (FCE), Zaria.

“It was the conviction of our regime that, being the Head of State and Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, it does not mean that you are the overall General.

“My ultimate goal as at then was to ensure the integrity, justice, equity, accountability and transparency in the system. That was why I did away with unnecessarily promoting myself to General,” he said.

Speaking on the military in politics, Buhari, the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the 2011 general elections, identified some weaknesses of the past military regime to include corruption and abuse of office.

On politics, Buhari said the incessant military interventions were due to the failure of politicians to respect the rule of law, “characterised by massive corruption and lack of accountability”.

The Chairman of the occasion and former Secretary-General of the defunct Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Malam Aliyu Umar, said the books would be resource materials in the study of Nigerian politics.

“The two books are reflection of the present Nigerian political scenario,” he said.


http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/07/06/buhari-why-i-didnt-promote-myself-army-general/?utm_source=&utm_medium

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – A grave-digging dispute has added to the bitter family feuding, over sex, money and power, among Nelson Mandela’s heirs which has set South Africans on edge as the anti-apartheid icon lies critically ill in hospital.

The Nobel peace laureate is famous the world over for spending 27 years in jail and then reconciling with his white oppressors after he became the nation’s first black president.

But as the 94-year-old Mandela fights for his life, a legal battle among feuding relatives over his eventual resting place has descended into a messy public soap opera.

Mandela’s three deceased children were reburied Thursday after 15 family members, including his three daughters and wife Graca Machel, won an urgent court order against Mandela’s oldest grandson, Mandla.

The family said the 39-year-old Mandla, who is the clan’s traditional chief had moved the remains from Mandela’s childhood home in 2011 without the consent of the rest of the family.

Shortly before the remains were re-buried, Mandla, in a nationally televised news conference Thursday, launched a tirade against the rest of the family. He accused his aunt, the anti-apartheid hero’s daughter Makaziwe, of trying to “sow divisions and destruction”.

After saying he wouldn’t air the family’s “dirty linen” in public, Mandla went on to say his brother Mbuso had “impregnated my wife”. He also said his two other brothers were born out of wedlock.

The dispute has earned the Mandelas the doubtful accolade of being seen as South Africa’s Ewings, a comparison with US soap opera Dallas which recounts a wealthy Texas family’s intrigues and conspiracies.

“Mandla Mandela has become the veritable JR Ewing of the Mandela family,” internet website Daily Maverick wrote, comparing him to the show’s anti-hero.

The grave dispute touches on Mandela’s own eventual resting place. In the past he had said he wanted to be buried in Qunu, his rural childhood village and retirement home in the country’s rolling southern hills.

The former statesman’s parents lie here, as do Mandela’s three children, who died in 1948, 1969 and 2005.

His family argued Mandla wanted to change Mandela’s gravesite to Mvezo and so moved the children’s remains to stake his claim for a new burial site.

South Africans have reacted with shock at their disagreements.

“The public is trying to give them space to run their affairs but they are busy displaying their dirty linen for all to see,” wrote Michael Mokoena in a letter local daily The Times.

“I should think they can come together and try to resolve this matter and not take each other to court,” a woman named Johanna told AFP.

The tiff has also elicited comments from the country’s moral compass and another Nobel peace laureate, Desmond Tutu.

“Please, please, please may we think not only of ourselves. It’s almost like spitting in Madiba’s face,” Tutu pleaded in a statement, referring to Mandela by his clan name.

Presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj called the dispute “regrettable” and urged the Mandela damily to resolve their differences “as amicably and as soon as possible”.

But the scandal does not stop there.

Mandla, 39, has had two traditional marriages interdicted by his estranged first wife, and is locked in land dispute with his neighbours.

He has also disappointed in parliament, where he serves under the ruling African National Congress, the movement his grandfather led.

Another lawmaker, Mandela’s ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, was convicted of kidnapping a youth in 1980 who her bodyguards later killed.

A court convicted her of fraud in 2003, and a posh private school almost had her assets seized in May this year over $10,000 (7,800 euro) debt over a relative’s school fees.

The Mandela family, which includes the anti-apartheid hero’s three daughters, 17 grand-children and 12 great-grandchildren, avoided the media spotlight during his political career.

But after his last public appearance in 2010 some seemed to find their family name’s value irresistible.

While Mandela always strictly limited commercial use of his name to charities, four of his grandchildren in 2010 set up the clothing brand LWTF Clothing, acronym for their grand father’s famous autobiography Long Walk to Freedom.

The line’s t-shirts liberally display his signature and photo.

His eldest child Makaziwe and her daughter Tukwini later launched the “House of Mandela” wine label.

In another episode that jars with the global peace icon’s image, two other granddaughters recounted their high-society life in a reality television show, dubbed “Being Mandela”.

Zenani and her half-sister Makaziwe made headlines this year trying to remove three directors Mandela appointed to the trust fund that holds the family fortune.

At stake is the $1.7 million the global icon has made through royalties of his autobiography and art works carrying his hand prints and prison number, 46664.

The sisters accused the trustees, including respected lawyer George Bizos — a close friend who defended Mandela in the case that sent him to prison — of interfering in family affairs.

The three trustees for their part told the court Mandela didn’t want his daughters to manage his affairs.


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Wow, lovely family.

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Hope it's not true, that guy is still young.

Sorry, I'm still cleaning my closet

Nice list anyway.

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Eighteen soldiers, including a lieutenant, on Monday appeared before a General Court Martial in Jos, Plateau State for aiding members of the fundamentalist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, and other insurgent groups in their activities.

The soldiers are members of the Joint Task Force code named Operation Restore Order in Borno State and the Special Task Force also known as Operation Safe Heaven in Plateau State.

The JTF and STF were deployed in the two states following the menace of insurgent groups in the country. While the JTF is also battling with Boko Haram members in Adamawa, and Yobe states, the STF has been grasping with Fulani herdsmen who, in the past 10 years had taken Plateau State by the jugular.

The soldiers are being tried under charges termed, “communication with the enemies, cowardly behaviour, murder and manslaughter.”

The General Officer Commanding the 3 Division of the Nigerian Army, Maj.-Gen. Ebisowei Awala, said before the inauguration of the five-member panel that the soldiers were duly investigated by the military police.

Awala described the court martial as one of the instruments conferred on him by the Armed Forces Act chapter A 20 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria to address problems in the army.

He explained that any officer who wanted to succeed in the military should be disciplined and loyal, adding that these were two “essential requirements” an officer should not lack.

The GOC said, “Discipline is the foundation on which the military career rests; as a matter of fact, discipline and loyalty are two essential requirements no officer or soldier, who wants to succeed in professional soldiering, can afford to lack.

“It is the duty of superiors to observe, correct and instantly deal with negligence or any misconduct on the part of subordinates.

“When there is any breach, it is expected that appropriate disciplinary measures must be taken by commanders to forestall future occurrences.

“This way, the Nigerian Army can continue to play its constitutional role and sustain its accolade as the pride of the Nigerian nation.”

Awala said that the court martial was necessary so as to ensure that the high level of professionalism required to confront the lingering security challenges in the country, especially in the North-East was sustained.

He enjoined the parties in the court martial to discharge their duties expeditiously and with a high degree of commitment, to enable the accused persons to get justice.

According to him, justice is a three-way traffic that involves the accused, the army and the state; hence the need for fairness and equity.

“I want to implore this general court martial to ensure that no effort is spared to achieve this three-way traffic of the justice system; in this case, of the accused, the Nigerian Army and the state.

“Where a person is convicted of an offence, sentence ought to be passed. Such sentences must be humanely meted out.

“Punishment is among the means available for the maintenance of discipline in the Nigerian Army; as such the kind and amount of punishment should be adequate enough to achieve its purpose and serve as a deterrent to others.’’

He stressed that the GCM was convened to sustain a high level of professionalism required to confront the mounting security challenges in the Division’s area of responsibility.

Judge Advocate, Col. Dorothy Wilson-Ekwo, told newsmen after the convening of the GCM that the suspects would be given a fair hearing.

When the charges were read to the soldiers, they pleaded not guilty. No lawyer appeared for them.

Thereafter the court rose without announcing any adjourning date.

However one of the lawyers present, Mr. A. B. James, told journalists that he was only there as an observer.

Another court martial is also trying 14 officers and men under the 3 Armoured Division for various acts of misdemeanour.

A former Commander of the 33 Artillery Brigade in Bauchi, Brig.-Gen. Muraina Raji, was tried by a Special Court Martial at the 3 Armoured Division, Jos for his alleged role in the escape of two high-profile Boko Haram suspects.

Though he was discharged and acquitted of all the three charges, he was convicted on “special findings” by the court and sentenced to a three-month loss of seniority in his rank.



http://www.punchng.com/news/18-soldiers-on-trial-for-aiding-boko-haram/

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The driver of a trailer, identified as Umar, caused panic on Monday when he attempted to escape the scene of an accident.

The incident, which involved a Sinotruk trailer with number plate KANO MKK 37 XA belonging to Dangote Cement Company, and a Nissan Vanette bus, marked LAGOS EKY 631 XC, happened on the Calabar-Itu highway.

The accident occurred when one of the side tail-boards of the trailer opened unexpectedly. It smashed the bus, which was by its side.

The door and window frames of the bus were sliced with the driver and two other passengers on the left flank of the vehicle sustaining serious injuries.

The driver, who was obviously aware of what had happened, however, ignored the people who flagged him down.

Instead, he accelerated and ran over a security barricade in his bid to escape.

The driver brushed two other trailers and shoved some vehicles on the road aside.

On getting to the Ekim-Itam junction in Akwa Ibom State, the driver veered off the road, destroying security barricades.

No fewer than 15 vehicles, including a police van followed the fleeing trailer.

Immediately Umar halted the trailer, he jumped down and attempted to escape alongside three other occupants of the trailer, but they were apprehended.

Umar and the three others, who identified themselves as Iliasu, Sumaila and Talihu, narrowly escaped being lynched by some occupants of the vehicles that pursued them.

It took the intervention of two riot policemen to calm down the angry commuters.

When asked why he did not stop after the accident, Umar claimed that he “was not aware of what happened.”

But one of the occupants of the trailer contradicted his claim, insisting that the driver was actually trying to escape.

Umar said the truck was detailed to Calabar to supply bags of cement to a customer, adding that they were on their way back to Obajana in Kogi State.

The police detained Umar and his accomplices, while the trailer and the bus were taken to the Police Station at Itu.



http://www.punchng.com/metro/trailer-driver-smashes-vehicles-to-escape-accident-scene/

Nice review, hope to get a copy of the album.

Hehehe, that was not the deal, you don't have to forget anything. It's not as if I cannot recite it too, you know!

CFCfan: Yep. I only forgot the 2nd stanza

Really, you have a super memory then, I need to upgrade mine asap

CFCfan: No, I have never forgotten the lyrics.

Hmm, google was your friend

CFCfan: Arise O compatriots
Nigerians call obey
To serve our fatherland
With love and strength and faith
The labour of our heroes past
Shall never be in vain
To serve with heart and might
One nation bound in freedom
Peace and unity

You want to start World War III

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End-time swag

GooseBaba: Why dem no like to wear panties....carry leg anyhow all yansh don open finish.

Gosh, that was fast.

You welcome.

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Really! Welcome to the league

Lest I forget, I'm doing great, thanks.

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