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rastamouse: Hahahahahaha

Ghana lost a match here and the whole of NL is like a big party . I SMH.

But sorry guys...Nigeria cannot reach Ghana's pedigree in football. At all levels in male football, Ghana has been better than Nigeria and no one ever said Ghana will win every day.

By the way you guys need to go to bed early because Burkina Faso has a great surprise for your Super Chickens Inconsistents

emex50: Mikel has not really impressed many furios Nigerians who have really expected much from him. whether he is there or not will not make any difference. let him rest his ass on the bench.

emiye: Yes Acidtalk, Nigeria will barely qualify from the group stages, but at the end qualify after a hard battle, and eventually reach the final of the AFCON 2013 nations cup. Quote me later

chess guru: It isn't rocket science. Its becos we've been throwing away leads from d beginning of the tournament which is very bad.
I believe that @ 7mins 2 go, with 2 goals up, what a team should be doing is maintaining possession and not attacking recklessly.

uzor02: Imagine keshi u re winning with 2goals and ur opponent have a red card he removed mikel 4 yobo. Wat rubbish is dat is he trying to defend t 2goals lead or what and he calls himself a coach ... I tire

Today we'll be learning about "Farouk" d evidence taker. Who is Farouk?

Farouk (verb): To collect bribe and deny it, attributing evidence to video doctoring. Past tense: farouked - Example: To farouk is human

Farouker (Noun): A person who farouks - Example: The National Assembly is populated with diehard faroukers

Faroukee (Noun): A person who is farouked - Example: The desperate contractor became a faroukee in order to win the business

Faroukiology (Noun): The study of bribe collection and denial of obvious evidence - Example: The politician has a degree in Farouikology from the University of Corruption in Nigeria

Faroukracy (Noun): Government of bribery, by the bribe givers for the bribe takers - Example: Our nation has been practicing faroukracy from independence

Faroukism (Noun): The political ideology of bribery, corruption and cover ups. Example: EFCC has prosecuted many advocates of faroukism

Faroukiosis (Noun): A chronic mental and heart disorder of bribe giving, taking and denial- Example: The doctors have diagnosed all the young politicians of acute faroukiosis.

Faroukis (Adjective) having the appearance of, or relating to bribery and denial - Example: Results of the investigation appear really faroukish

Faroukistically (Adverb) Carried out or done in a way that suggests a farouk -Example: The lawmakers carried on faroukistically

a.A.K:
Pls what dos it cost to do a dna test?

Three of 10 men are not fathers of their ‘kids’, says DNA expert
Friday, 28 September 2012


Is paternity testing becoming an issue in Nigeria?

We have seen that there is serious need for it because in many homes things are happening that are scary both to the lives of children and their parents. And for the general statistics that is now available, it is found that three out of every ten men are not the fathers of their babies. Similarly, three out of every ten children are not fathered by men they have seen as their biological fathers. What we have found out is that, anytime we take ten men, at least three of them eventually found that they are not the fathers of the children they call their own. And these men would have taken care of the children for all their lives.

Now, the global statistics is 100, 000 out of every 300, 000 men. But what we have found that is that the situation is higher in Nigeria than other places. For example in our laboratory here, 50 per cent of the cases comes out negative. And we also realised that majority of the first-borns are affected. You only need to be here to see big men cry like little kids and watch children weep in agony. It has been that bad. And I dare say it is becoming something every home must do and you may be quite surprised at the level of dastard revelation.

About thirty per cent of fathers are unknowingly bringing up children who are not biologically theirs. And it is suspected that this percentage may be on the increase due to sexual recklessness. According to recent trends in sexual health, especially in Nigeria, it was suggested that unprotected sex and multiple partners are comparatively common occurrences with a large proportion of conceptions still unplanned. So, more than half, that is, 50 per cent of all paternity tests carried out by our lab comes out negative and the most affected are first-borns, except in a few cases.

Do these cases happen mostly in matrimonial settings or in casual relationships?

In both matrimony and casual affiliations! I tell you, we have had series of married men come here and go back home devastated. In one instance, a man came here with his wife. Out of the five children he thought were his own, he discovered that only two belonged to him. And they are both duly married, living together as husband and wife. You see, the major problem we have in our country is that most of these cases are not duly documented. So, people don't know we have such issues among us. In fact, some even don't know where to go for the test to determine their child or children's paternity. And I tell you, if you go to ten homes as we speak, you will be amazed to find that in almost all of them the children there do not belong to the men. It is that rampant.

If it is that rampant, how would you describe the three years since you started testing men?

Now, the general statistics by the American Association of Blood Banks is that globally, 100, 000 out of 300, 000 men are not the actual fathers of their presumed children. And like I said earlier, the Nigerian situation is even alarming. Also, Duess International, the condom manufacturers, once noted that Nigeria has the most reckless sexual life. So, you can then imagine what the outcome would be like if we say okay, let's start taking statistics one-by-one.

How many families do you attend to each week?

We test about 15 to 20 families. People come here as a result of various types of controversies over the paternity of certain children. You know, families have come to us with claims that a child neither takes after the mother nor the father in looks and character. So, the man of the house would be curious to ascertain facts. And when they come here with such children, the fears of the fathers have often been affirmed. Fathers usually have the doubts; maybe he has been hearing some rumours, and you know, men are often the last to hear such things about themselves. Until many of them come here to take the test, they have nurtured other men's children before realising it.

What does it take to do a paternity test?

Technology has made it so easy. It is just like any other deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) test. In less than two seconds, we take the sample from the man. We use the Helix Swabs like a "big cotton buds" to extract some cells from the man's mouth. We rub the 'Swab' up-and-down the mouth to get some epithelial cells from around the cheek bone. In the nucleus of every cell, there is DNA. Once we collect that, we purify, extract and then multiply it and get the genetic profile which we then send to DNA laboratory abroad for testing.

What happens in situations where DNA samples do not match as we saw with someDANA victims?

So many reasons could be responsible for that. We have had a case in which a boy went to an hospital to claim the body of his deceased dad and on testing him, it was found that he was not fathered by the dead man. The genetic profile of the boy does not match with that of the man he claimed to be his father. And DNAs don't lie. The medical experts conducting these tests have nothing personal against the people that come to them for testing. Every human being take half of the genetic profile from either parent. Therefore, it is a matter of case closed if the genetic profile of the living does not match with that of the dead man. He is simply not that father.

- thenationonlineng.net

cogitoErgo: However, with the rejection of the bill by the House of Representatives to change the name of the institution from University of Lagos (UNILAG) to Moshood Abiola University (MAULAG) left Mr. President with no other alternative than to accept that the institution must remain what it is, in deed and in truth.


source:- dailypost.com.ng/2013/01/22/university-of-lagos-announces-new-convocation-dates-president-jonathan-left-puzzled/

youngies: “I’ll be out within a few minutes,” he told his chauffer who zoomed off in the direction of Oxford street.
More: http://channelkoos.com/index.php/news/3690-gov-chime-at-london-hospital-over-ent-condition

CFCfan: The Super Eagles can still go all the way in this tournament. Remember that Spain lost their 1st game at the last World cup to an unfancied Swiss team, but ended up wining the trophy.
So in football, it ain't over till it's over.

luvinhubby: I've always asked why the fees for the only university owned by Lagos state govt was jerked from N25,000 to N250,000 & nobody has explained it till now.

thoth: I don't see the point in your post, i asked a question in the post you quoted and you could have answered that.
Will minimum wage be enough for one child ? Even if the child is in high school and the mom is a single parent. And please don't include medicals,transport and clothing in your calculation, just rent, feeding and education (for the child) for the two .
There are millions of parents that earn minimum wage and their children is of university age or already in University.
Sometimes we talk as if we all don't live in the same society and you can't look around you and see the way those policies are causing living cost to go up. Everything keeps getting expensive cause of goverment tax, you can't turn your head without paying another VAT, fuel price increased every two years and cost of transport soaring, electricity tariff has jumped to almost 25naira per kilowatt hour and where can you even find clean water ?
I guess your kind is the one that would suggest they should trek to avoid the transport cost, take their bath once a week, and have only one bulb in their house which they would use for just an hour every night. Do you even know how much is a litre of Kerosene in the market or would they not cook anymore all in your bid to cut their coat according to YOUR STYLE(no more their size)
Let's be humans for once and look carefully around us and see what is really going on.