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buildins collapsin in Nigeria since 1960

Seun did try sha, but it isnt enuf to crown him wit award

Nice move. i pray Nigeria will lead the way in the fight against ebola

marieolae: ok putting these celebrities aside, who can not make any difference to the efficiency of the economy. Nigerians must vote agaisnt PDP for the country to move foward. I think nigeria needs a president who can steer its ship from the brink of collapse. A president who can turn things around. Which can only be found in APC. I'm praying for Nigeria because it saddens me.

Thou the president is weak, buth i just like his transformational agenda. It is drivin our economic forward, comfirmed!. The president also need to strenghten his fight against corruption (this is what i hate about this administration the most) - It is big setback to economic development. im no fan of GEJ thou

snowprince07: TAAAAAAAAAAH Op comot dia u don marry na him u want mke dem woo u??

Ure not ok...

snowprince07: nothing cus am not married yet

Then you have no business here...i need people with marriage experience

snowprince07: i go read this long thing say nah exam i de write ni

Lol...This isnt ment for you after all, there are many people here who are preparin for marriage...

The success or failure of your marriage
relationship depends on how well you handle
a number of personal issues. Review these
questions with your partner.
Relationship Goals & Personal Habits
1. Why are we getting married?
2. What do we as a couple want out of life?
3. Do you think our relationship will change
after we are married?
4. What do you think we'll be doing in thirty or
forty years?
5. How often do you drink?
6. Have you ever hit someone?
7. Do you have a criminal record?
8. How would you describe yourself?
9. How do you think I see you?
10. Do you think it is important to know one
another's physical and mental health
histories?
11. Will you clean the toilet?
12. How are we going to divide up the
household chores?
13. Does religion play an important part in your
life?
14. Do you think faith and spirituality are
important in a marriage?
15. What is your image of God?
Finances
16. Can we talk about money?
17. Are you a saver or spender when it comes
to money?
18. How much do we owe in debts and what
are our assets?
19. Do you want to have a budget?
20. Where does our money go?
21. Should we have a joint checking account or
separate accounts or both?
22. Who is going to be responsible for making
sure that bills are paid on time?
23. Do you consider going to the movies and
having a vacation every year a necessity or
a luxury?
24. What are our financial goals?
25. Do you have any outstanding fines or
debts?
26. What are our future plans for purchasing a
home?
27. Do we both know where our important
financial documents are located?
Family
28. Do you want to have children?
29. Do we want to have children?
30. If we decide we do, how many children do
you want to have?
31. How long should we be married before
having children?
32. What kind of parent do you think you will
be?
33. What is your parenting philosophy?
34. Will one of us stay home after we have
children?
35. What type of birth control should we use if
we want to postpone or prevent
parenthood?
36. How do you feel about adoption?
37. Do you have any children already?
38. What was your childhood like?
39. Was your family an affectionate one?
40. Do you think we will have problems with
your family during the holidays?
41. What values do you want to bring from your
family into our marriage?
42. What do you like and dislike about your
family?
43. What do you like and dislike about my
family?
44. What do you like and dislike about your
parents' marriage?
45. What do you like and dislike about my
parents' marriage?
46. How much time will we spend with our in-
laws?
Sex & Intimacy
47. Can we talk about sex?
48. Should we talk about sex?
49. Are you comfortable discussing your sexual
likes and dislikes?
50. What are your expectations of our sexual
relationship?
51. Am I a jealous person?
52. Do I have trust issues or feel insecure?
53. How important is affirmation to me?
54. Do I handle compliments well?
55. What is your love language?
56. Do you think we listen to one another well?
57. Do you think it is important to be faithful to
one another?
58. How do you want to spend our days off?
59. What are your expectations about how we
will spend our free time?
60. Do you believe that we should be doing
everything together?
61. Can we each pursue our own interests?
62. Do you need time alone?
63. How would you feel if I want a night out
with my friends now and then?
64. How will we make sure we have quality time
together?
Conflict & Communication
65. How will we make decisions together?
66. Are we both willing to face into difficult
areas or do we try to avoid conflict?
67. Do you think we have problems in our
relationship that we need to deal with
before our wedding?
68. Do we handle conflict well?
69. How are we different?
70. Do you think our differences will create
71. problems in our marriage?
72. Do you expect or want me to change?
73. Can we both forgive?
74. Are we both willing to work on our
communication skills and to share
intimately with each other?

Lol

Everyone knows that getting married is a
major life decision. Yet people have different
ways of knowing when the time is right to get
married and who to marry. How did you
decide to get married? What do you wish you
had known prior to getting married? What can
you share with folks considering getting
married?

Rapzino: ExJoker ma buddy, them ladies don't wanna woo ya boy.

Lol...our girls dont have the guts(uncivilize) to woo a guy

I guess it was a hybrid car on a maiden flight -we are reachin there technologically

Sijioke: your name reminds me of a pure oil. That relieves my body.

Haba! Hold body now bro, leave the girls to do there work today

crazyawesome911: Why are you more concerned about what I did than helping me

Understandin any problem is the first step to solvin the problem

crazyawesome911: Somina doesn't wanΤ̅ Τ̅Ơ talk Τ̅Ơ me again I don't know what Τ̅Ơ do, I feel like I'm gonna commit suicide. She's an Awesome amazing angel, I started believing in God because I am sure she's an angel that fell from heaven.


Ps- I can't tell you what I did tho.

Just tell me what Τ̅Ơ do Τ̅Ơ make a girl(her) stop being mad at me. Thanks!

Stop offendin Her (them)

Truth they said is always bitter. You were wrong for breakin up with her just 'cause she told you the truth but it would have been better if u had told us her reason for tellin you bout the incident

No guy shul give in so easily, the girls need to suffer small but the girls aint makin any move...smh

Remember the sci-fi thriller GATTACA? For
those who never saw the film and/or eschewed
all pop culture in the late 90’s for some
reason, it was a popular movie that came out
in 1997 about genetically modified human
beings. Now some literally genetically
modified human babies born that same year
are entering their senior year of high school.
The first successful transfer of genetic material
for this purpose was published in a U.S.
medical journal in 1997 and then later cited in
a Human Reproduction publication in 2001.
Scientists injected 30 embryos in all with a
third person’s genetic material. The children
who have been produced by this method
actually have extra snippets of mitochondrial
DNA, or mtDNA, from two mothers – meaning
these babies technically have three parents.
It’s still unclear whether all 30 babies turned
out healthy. The Institute for Reproductive
Medicine and Science (IRMS
) at St Barnabas, participants of the
experiment, finally began following up with at
least 17 of the now teenagers earlier this year,
according to the UK’s Independent. We’ve
reached out to IRMS to get those follow up
results but have not heard back yet.
While we don’t know the identity of these
genetically modified teens, or even how they
are doing health wise at this point, the ethics
of creating designer humans is still very much
a hot button issue. Modifying humans
genetically to create some superior race of
people or simply to chose one preferred visual
trait over another has been debated among
scientists, politicians and others ad nauseam.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration no
longer even allows such genetic modification
to embryos, citing them as a “biological
product” and thus under its jurisdiction. They
put the kibosh on this practice back in 2002 .
However, these original embryonic
modifications were for parents who would
potentially pass on severe genetic diseases to
their children if it weren’t for scientific
intervention.
These teens could potentially pass on their
genetically modified material to the next
generation. So even if no other humans are
legally able to be created this way in the
future, we’ve already introduced biologically
modified genetic material into the population
with the potential to affect large swaths of
future generations to come via reproduction.
We’ll be sure to update you, should IRMS
release any information on the health of these
teens.





http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/28/the-worlds-first-genetically-modified-babies-will-graduate-high-school-this-year/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000591

ITbomb: No be today dem start to sell substandard phones, maybe this guy wan show strong head, area fathers just wan take do example for others wey no wan settle

Lol

MrsBreezy: Lol then pm me . Or add me on bbm. Don't be shy. I've nothing to hide

I never fancy bbm wat bout whatsapp?

Elantracey: lol , alright .

Just checked my pm thinkin i wuld receive a short note from with your contact attach to it

MrsBreezy: Awh I might. You never know till you try...

Haha of course I've no problem with that... just that I've no stories at all . Unless you ask of course

Lol...if am to ask you questions bout yourself...after all this place is an open space..privacy's needed #wink#

Sarimah: oya nau

Lol...scare rite?

Have you ever wondered why you usually miss
glaring bloopers in major motion pictures? If
you are like most people, you probably believe
that just because your eyes are open, you are
seeing. So why do we sometimes fail to see
things that are right in front of our eyes?
The reality is that attention plays a major role
in visual perception. One of the primary
reasons why you fail to notice these mistakes
in films and television programs is a
psychological phenomenon known as
inattentional blindness. When your attention is
focused on one demanding task, such as
paying attention to the main character in a
movie, you might not notice unexpected things
entering your visual field.
Research on Inattentional Blindness
The term was first coined by psychologists
Arien Mack and Irvin Rock who observed the
phenomenon during their perception and
attention experiments. "Because this inability
to perceive, this sighted blindness, seemed to
be caused by the fact that subjects were not
attending to the stimulus but instead were
attending to something else ... we labeled this
phenomenon inattentional blindness (IB),"
they explained.
One of the best-known experiments
demonstrating inattentional blindness is the
Simons and Chabris "invisible gorilla test." In
this experiment, researchers asked participants
to watch a video of people tossing a
basketball and the observers were told to
count the number of passes or to keep track of
the number of throws versus bounce passes.
Afterwards, the participants were asked if they
had noticed anything unusual while watching
the video. In most of the tests, approximately
50 percent of the participants reported seeing
nothing out of the ordinary.
What was it they had missed? In some
instances, a woman dressed in a gorilla suit
strolled through the scene, turned to the
camera, thumped her chest and walked away.
How on earth could so many people could
miss such an obvious and unexpected thing
right before their eyes? Because their
attention was focused elsewhere on a
demanding task, the gorilla basically became
invisible.
Explanations for Inattentional Blindness
Why does inattentional blindness occur?
Rather than focusing on every tiny detail in
the world around us, we tend to concentrate
on things that are important and then rely on
our existing schemas to fill in the rest. This is
highly economical and allows us to focus our
existing attentional, cognitive, and processing
resources on the things that are most
important, while still allowing us to have a
cohesive and seamless experience of the world
around us.
One of the reasons why people so often miss
the gorilla sauntering through a scene of
people playing basketball is simply because
the stimulus lacks what is known as
ecological validity. How often does a gorilla
show up in the middle of a basketball game?
Because this is unlikely to happen in a real-
world setting, we are simply less likely to
notice it.
The salience of the stimuli is important. While
we do sometimes fail to miss essential
information in the world around us, we are
generally pretty good at noticing relevant
information such as a car speeding toward us
or a deer jumping out of the trees into the
road.
A Few Real-World Examples of Inattentional
Blindness
Even though you think you are paying
attention to the road, you fail to notice a
car swerve into your lane of traffic, resulting
in a traffic accident.
You are watching a historical film set in
ancient Greece. You don't notice a major
blooper in which an airplane appears in the
background of a pivotal scene.
You decide to make a phone call while
driving through busy traffic. You fail to
notice that the traffic light has turned red,
so you run the stop light and end up
getting a traffic ticket for inattentive
driving.
While playing a video game, you are so
intently focused on spotting a specific type
of "bad guy" that you miss another threat
to your character and you end up losing the
game.
Observations
"Simons and Chabis carried out a further
experiment in which observers counted the
passes made by members of the team
dressed in white or the one dressed in
black. The gorilla's presence was detected
by only 42% of observers when the attended
team was the one dressed in white, thus
replicating the previous findings. However,
the gorilla's presence was detected by 83%
of observers when the attended team was
the one dressed in black. This shows the
impact of similarity between the unexpected
stimulus (gorilla) and task-relevant stimuli
(members of the attended team)."
(Eysenck & Keane, 2011)
"Inattentional blindness can be attributed
to an overuse of top-down processing .
Information that participants were not
attending to was filled in with that
individual's expectations. In this sense,
inattentional blindness is similar to change
blindness . However, change blindness
generally refers to missing a change in a
previously present stimulus, and
inattentional blindness generally refers to
missing a new stimulus."
(Mauldin, K., 2013)
The bottom line:
Just because your eyes are open doesn't
mean you are seeing everything in the world
around you. Perception depends upon
numerous factors, including attention.
Sometimes we miss the things that are right
in front of us.
References
Eysenck, M. W. & Keane, M. T. (2011).
Cognitive psychology: A student's handbook .
Psychology Press.
Mack, A. & Rock, I. (1999). Inattentional
blindness: An overview by Arien Mack and
Irvin Rock. Retrieved from www.theassc.org/
files/assc/2417.pdf
Mauldin, K. (2013). Inattentional blindness. In
A. K. Taylor (Ed.). Encyclopedia of human
memory. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, LLC.
Simons, D. J., & Chabris, C. F. (1999).
Gorillas in our midst: Sustained inattentional
blindness for dynamic events. Perception, 28,
1059-1074.
Simons, D. (2012, Sept.). But did you see the
gorilla? The problem with inattentional
blindness. Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved
from http://www.smithsonianmag.com/
science-nature/but-did-you-see-the-gorilla-
the-problem-with-inattentional-
blindness-17339778/?no-ist

Source: http://psychology.about.com/od/cognitivepsychology/fl/What-Is-Inattentional-Blindness.htm

Sarimah: u wish

Wish? I can probe you then sue you to court....

muchyblink: A girl farth loudly in public cos i was funny and i was blamed. It's in me

Now that is serious

Sarimah: u r already an amebo so no point

I was just tryin to be nice that's all, after all i dont need to inform any sss wen i can handle dat myself

Nigeria recorded a major success in the battle
against fake phones when Mr. Lin Tian Huan,
described as ‘kingpin’ of a Chinese syndicate
that dumps fake phones in the country, was
arrested Friday at Ikeja Computer Village, the
nation’s biggest technology market.
The Phone & Allied Products Dealers
Association, which recorded the feat when the
alleged kingpin who is also a Chinese national
was arrested by its task force when passing
off fake Samsung and Nokia phone brands,
said it marked a major breakthrough in its
efforts to rid the market of fake phones and
other counterfeit technology products.
Mr. Iyke Nwosu, the President of PAPDAN who
confirmed the arrest to Technology Times said
that the Chinese national Mr. Lin Tian Huan
said to reside at No. 4 Cornerstone Estate,
opposite Abiola Garden, Alausa, Ikeja in Lagos
was allegedly caught in the act passing off the
fake and substandard mobile phones as
genuine Samsung and Nokia brands.

Sarimah: y not go and inform them?

Will you promise not to call me an amebo if i do dat?...i hate to be call an amebo!!!