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This is wonderful and this is the first time this Eclipse is occurring since the last one in 1918. The Eclipse has already began since 15mins ago and in about 2 hours time, US West Coast will be covered in total darkness in the middle of the day.

CNN correspondent, Pit is reporting the scene live from West Coast University in United States and you can watch the Eclipse in Virtual Reality on CNN.COM/ECLIPSE

According to NASA, on August 21, 2017, all of North America will be treated to an eclipse of the sun. Viewers around the world will be provided a wealth of images captured before, during, and after the eclipse by 11 spacecraft, at least three NASA aircraft, more than 50 high-altitude balloons, and the astronauts aboard the International Space Station – each offering a unique vantage point for the celestial event.

Watch it live here via the link below... wonderful God ...

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Oboy

They taught us in primary school then that;

Skeleton is the bonny structure and frame work of the body... Now what is Buhari?

Abeg check if this is love or money! Young Nigerian Man Finds Love In Very Older White Lover - Photos

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American Movie star, Will Smith in an interview revealed that he has been given a green-light by former President of the United States Barack Obamato portray him (Obama) in a movie. The actor said this when he featured in Carpool Karaoke of James Corden‘s The Late Late Show.

Will Smith said he has not only been asked about starring as America’s first Black president in a movie, Obama has also given him his blessing.

According to him;

“I talked to Barack about it. He told me that he felt confident that I had the ears for the role,” Will Smith said.

See the footage below...

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this the rrsult now

mad man

Make una see the kind house landlords dey build now for mmadu chineke kere eke to sleep inside. When did human being become a dog abeg? This house is located in Mayfair Gardens Ajah - Sangotedu axis, Lagos State.

I thought before one builds a house, the government will approve the plan first. Are you telling me that Lagos State government approved this kind of plan of house for someone to live inside it?

I think is time for this country to seat up and stop this status quo of a thing, it will not get us anywhere. I saw on news today that Emir of Kaduna or so (not sure) is kicking against restructuring of Nigeria and my question is, are people crazy?

You can see the said house as advertised on olx.ng website and the house is even going for N150k per year. These landlords are crazy. And the agent wey advertise am self, e bi like say make I just kill am..lol

Guys this is the more reason why you should put hand on deck and build your own house. This nonsense is getting too much.


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Zimbabwe’s First Lady, Grace Mugabe has allegedly beaten up a girl who lives with her son at a hotel in Mzansi. Recall that her arrogance was revealed to the world when she claimed that "Even if my husband is dead, Zimbabweans will still vote for him.

The lady in question, Gaby took to her Instagram to write about the incident.

In her words:

“Rob jnr was put out of the hotel room and Bellermine ran away. “My two friends and I were beaten up in a room with 10+ men leaving her to do it.” “She split my head open in three places with an extension cord and used the plug to hit me.”

Daily sun ZA Reported that the first lady missed a youth rally in Matebeleland South on Saturday after being forced to travel to South Africa to have her foot examined following a freak accident in Harare International Airport a few weeks ago.

Furthermore, the first lady while screaming and kicking Grace, grabbed the girl by the dreadlocks and with the assistant of her aids, they beat her up. The Mail quoted sources at the scene saying the girl tried to fight back and one of the First Lady’s aides was seen drawing out a gun from its holster.

Police cars and ambulances were apparently seen driving in and out of the property.

See photo below…


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Shocking - 1500 Year Old Bible Says That Jesus Christ Was Not Crucified - Must Read

A 1500 year old bible according to Media Hoarders, has been seized from a gang of smugglers in a Mediterranean-area operation in which it is revealed that Jesus Christ was never crucified on the cross as commonly believed.

According to this ancient version of the Bible, Jesus ascended to heaven alive, and Judas Iscariot was crucified in his place.

The book was discovered in the year 2000 but kept a secret until now. It contains the Gospel of Barnabas – a disciple of Christ and states that Jesus was not only spared his life, but was also just a prophet rather than the son of God.

Anonymousmags.com reports:

According to reports, experts and religious authorities in Tehram insist that the book is original. The book itself is written with gold lettering, onto loosely-tied leather in Aramaic, the language of Jesus Christ.The text maintains a vision similar to Islam, contradicting the New Testament’s teachings of Christianity. Jesus also foresees the coming of the Prophet Muhammad, who would found Islam 700 years later.

It is believed that, during the Council of Nicea, the Catholic Church hand-picked the gospels that form the Bible as we know it today; omitting the Gospel of Barnabas (among many others) in favor of the four canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Many biblical texts have begun to surface over time, including those of the Dead Sea and Gnostic Gospels; but this book especially, seems to worry the Vatican.

The Catholic Church wants in

What does this mean to Christian-derived religions and their followers? Quite a tight spot. The Vatican has asked Turkish authorities to let them examine the contents of the book within the Church. Now that the book has been found, will they come to accept the it and its evidence? Will they deny it altogether? Call it a “Muslim lie”, as did the “Truth” Magazine, in 2000?

To many, this book is a beacon of hope, that believers soon realize that the object of their adoration is arbitrary; and that all text, especially religious text, is subject to interpretation.

What does this mean to atheists/agnostics/secular thinkers? Is the text real? Fake? Does it matter? Hopefully, this news inspires the religious to ask questions, instead of pointing fingers or believing anything blindly.

Please, don’t go poking fun or tossing around the “I told you so!”s. The biggest danger of faith is when people believe what they want to believe, defending against any and all evidence; especially when that evidence revolutionizes their foundation from the ground up. And the biggest culprit to that danger is the ego trap: rejecting/criticizing others, for being unlike you.

For centuries, the “defense” of blind faith has driven nations to war, violence, discrimination, slavery and to become the society of automatons that we are today; and for just as long, it has been justified with lies. If you know better, act like it

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abi u won be baby mama?

deed people they talk?


I despise this country called Nigeria

omg,


God please guide your people as we start the hussle of this week..


In another news, Glo is really giving back to the society and they host their free show again in Ibadan termed Glo Laffta Fest yesterday..


Checkout photos from the show @ http://www.exlinklodge.com/2017/08/basketmouth-bovi-helen-paul-storm.html

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In another news, Glo is really giving back to the society and they host their free show again in Ibadan termed Glo Laffta Fest yesterday..


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It was indeed a Laffta Fest and I was there live. I have not had this much fun of lately but guess what? I even attended this fun packed Glo event free of charge. Guess how guys! Just simply recharging your Glo sim. They sent me an sms of invite and that is all.

The fun packed 2nd edition of Glo Laffta Fest 2017 is currently going on at Jogor Event Center @ Harvester Avenue, off Liberty Road, Ibadan, Oyo State and it saw many young comedians perform on stage and woow the audience to the fullest.

It also saw some of the big names in the industry; Basketmouth, Helen Paul, Bovi Osuma etc, perform their art on stage. RND, Uche Jumbo, Ebube Nwagbo, Victor Osuagwu, Odunlade, Mr. Latin and some other big names in Nollywood were also in attendance.

Glo, thank you for giving me a wonderful and entertaining show today and above all, thanks for giving back to the society. Remember, all you I did was just stay online on Glo and recharged my sim.

Checkout #glolafftafestibadan for more...

More pics below....


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I know getting fake ass is the trending thing for ladies this days but am confused on what to think about this particular one.

Guys, I need you to help out...

Is this real of fake?


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God have mercy


In another news, Can This Be Real? Checkout This Lady's Backside


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Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, a foremost Ijaw leader, the Convener of the Pan – Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) and an elder statesman, in this interview, speaks in the distortions inherent in the Nigerian system and the restructuring we need.

At what point did the distortions in the system that have given rise to the calls for the restructuring of the federation begin?

That was in 1966 when some army majors struck and most of the big politicians and many senior army officers were killed in a coup. Up till that time, the constitution in operation provided for fiscal federalism which implied that whatever you produced in your region, you take 50% while, out of the remaining 50%, the federal government that had little responsibility will take 20% and the remaining 30% will be shared among all the regions.

Aguiyi Ironsi took over and, advised by some senior Igbo army officers that Nigeria should run a unitary form of government, he promulgated Decree 34, which we are now practicing today in the name of federalism. When General Gowon took over from Ironsi, he decided to find out what Nigerians wanted. Northern Nigeria proposed regionalism; they no longer wanted a federal system of government. Western Nigeria was ready to go. It was the Mid – West team, headed by Anthony Enahoro, that saved the situation and the Gowon administration adopted a federal system of government. Meanwhile, Gowon did not abrogate Decree No 34. The war came and he created 12 states. General Murtala succeeded Gowon and created more states and we had 19 states. Other heads of state came and created more states until 1998 when the number of states came to 36.

What about the local governments that were said to have been arbitrarily created?

The same military governments arbitrarily created local governments each favouring the areas where their leaders hailed from. That anomaly gave KANO State 57 local governments whereas Bayelsa State has only 8. Besides, you cannot create local governments without the federal governments approving it; this is a weakness, this is not part of a federal system. Local governments should not be part of the federating units.

Local governments should be created by state governments, pay them, dissolve them if they want to and there should be no administrators because the constitution provides that local governments should be run by elected officials. But it is obvious that local governments were created to take money from the federation account. Kano State alone collects about six billion naira every month for its local governments whereas Bayelsa, with eight local governments, even though a small state but produces oil, how much does its local governments get? That is one situation people don’t understand. Now some people are in favour of state police even though Tanko Yakasai argued, in his book that the police in the hands of unscrupulous governors could be misused just like the native authorities of the past did. But state police will provide more security. And the constitution says governors are the chief security officers of their states whereas they don’t control the states commissioners of police. So when the governor gives the commissioner of police directives, he has to clear with the inspector general of police.

The National Conference of 2014 where you were a delegate representing your Ijaw people and the Niger Delta apparently tried to correct some of this anomalies but the recommendations have unfortunately not seen the light of day.

It is not only in the areas of revenue or the local governments and state police that we have anomalies and we tried to use the opportunity of that conference to address. The restructuring that many people want envisages that the Office of the Attorney General should be separated from the Office of the Minister of Justice such that the former is professional and independent while the latter is political. The Office of the Accountant General should also be split. There should be the Accountant General for the federal government and the Accountant General for the federation. These are some of the things the 2014 National Conference recommended. At the moment, the federal government has about 98 items under its control. All we are saying is that some of these items should go to states; since there are no regions, states should be the federating units. In education, why should the federal government be involved in primary and secondary education? In the 1960 constitution, University of Ibadan was the only federal university followed by the University of Lagos in 1962. ABU, University of Ife and University of Nsukka were regional universities at the time. What we are saying is that some of the items exclusive to the federal government should be concurrent. And then when you talk about agriculture, the federal government has no land, it is state government that owns land. Let agriculture be designated as a state function. So when you talk about devolution, it is all about rearranging the constitution so that more functions will go down; and if more functions go to the states, more revenue will be given to them. Today, the federal government receives about 58% from the federation account. It should not have more than 42% while the state and local governments should have the balance. This is what we call devolution of power and we are recommending. We also said that the National Assembly should be restructured so that it becomes part-time in order to save more money and the same thing should operate at the state level. Federalism is what Nigerians want so that everybody can have a say in government, in order for people to have a feeling of belonging to government.

Regardless of the recommendation of the 2014 National Conference and that of the 1999 constitution review committee of the National Assembly headed by Senator Ike Ekweremadu, the lawmakers last week threw out the devolution of power bill. What is your take?

It is like they were not listening to Nigerians. The whole of the South believes in devolution of power, the whole Benue in the north central believes in devolution of power, even Taraba, parts of Borno, parts of Kebbi believe in devolution of power. Then there are some prominent northerners like IBB, Atiku who also believe in devolution of power. In fact, APC, its manifesto talks about devolution of power. Recently the party set up a committee headed by the governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El- Rufai to look at power devolution and they said they are not opposed to restructuring. And so all we are saying is that the National Assembly was insensitive to the feeling and wish of Nigeria. Unlike the Ekweremadu’s committee in the 7th National Assembly which went round the whole country and the mandate was devolution of power, this 8th National Assembly did not go anywhere. They just retreated to Lagos where they spent billions of naira of Nigerians money and came out with a flawed constitution amendment. Who gave them the mandate? They were elected to represent the people. Some of them are afraid that some of the benefits they have in the National Assembly, they won’t have it again, they will no longer enjoy the power they have today, the number of committees will be reduced; that is why some of them are narrowing their thinking on devolution of power. But I am happy to note that both the President and Deputy President of the Senate have said that this will be revisited when they come back from their recess; so we pray that they will listen and, during their holiday, they will be able to communicate with their people and, when they come back, they should do the right thing.

I want to correct one impression that was given wide publicity yesterday (Tuesday) when I said that ‘no restructuring, no Nigeria’. All I was saying was that we all believe in the unity of Nigeria, we believe in one Nigeria. A young lady at the Ijaw Academy, Kaiama, Bayelsa State asked Professor Wole Soyinka, about two weeks ago, when he visited with Prof J.P. Clark and others, ‘is the unity of Nigeria negotiable?’, and the answer was what I gave on Monday. We all believe that we should be one country, but on what basis? How do we belong to one country? What are the conditions? Are we going to belong to a country that is lopsided, one side oppressing the other; one side having all the appointments? This is what our forefathers did not do. They sat down in 1953 to discuss the basis of our coming together. We should all be equal. Our regions should develop at their own pace. Fiscal federalism should be part of it. This was what took them to London and this was what they negotiated. What I was saying (on Monday) was that it would be impossible to live in a country that is not restructured. The present constitution is oppressive, it is unitary and Nigerians rejected it as far back as 1953; not that we will secede, we are not talking about that. President Muhammadu Buhari said we must kill corruption otherwise corruption will kill Nigeria. I said we must restructure otherwise non-restructuring of Nigeria will kill Nigeria. I didn’t say we should break up or Nigeria will not exist. I believe in Nigeria.

You were once in the Senate. If you are to set agenda for the 8th Senate on how to bring back the killed devolution of power bill, what will you tell senators?

I have a different view completely. I believe that Nigeria needs a new constitution and I believe that the National Assembly has no authority to make a constitution for us. Constitution making is the responsibility of the entire country, the people of Nigeria and the National Assembly is not the people of Nigeria. But if we are to panel-beat the present constitution to make it look new, then the people must be consulted. And how do the lawmakers consult the people? Perhaps they should go back to their various constituencies as Ekweremadu’s committee was doing to find out the wishes of Nigeria before they should come back to revisit the bill on devolution of power. Without devolution of power, it will be difficult for the country’s constitution to work, no matter how they amend it. Some of the things amended are part of the restructuring we are talking about; but they should go the whole hog, the meat is devolution of power. So my advice to them is to go back, consult more with the people and when they come back, they should consider that bill again. They have power to revisit and they should revisit it.

The National Assembly has asked the Presidency to send the 2014 Confab Report as a bill to them; what is your take on this?

That should be the exact thing to do. The 2014 National Conference was made up of 492 people and about 100 various organizations comprising of the youths, young ladies, the handicapped, including the blind, the crippled, the deaf, were there. Retired police and army officers, judges, civil right activists, market women, everybody was there. There was no section of the country that was not represented and they came out with 600 recommendations and resolutions. And they went to the extent of amending the present constitution and produced a new version and some of the recommendations are administrative, government should do those ones. And then government should send a bill to the National Assembly for those recommendations that require legislative procedures. I also think the National Assembly has also got the copies of the conference report; if they have it, somebody should bring it as a private bill if the government is not ready. And as I was told, the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, and other offices all have copies. If they are sincere, they have a way of finding the report. The report was not only addressed to the Presidency, but also to the National Assembly, so they (lawmakers) should adopt the one they have. All the things we said about devolution of power, on transport, aviation, labour, works, on every ministry; we had 20 committees and some had co-chairmen while some had single chairmen and northern leaders, some of whom are now disassociating themselves from this thing, 12 of them were leaders of the committees, more than those from the South.

As a father and one who has seen it all, what is your message to Nigerians, especially against the backdrop of those beating the drum of war and calling for secession?

I think Nigeria is one country, we cannot break up. My advice to those beating the drum of secession is to take it easy. The war of 1967 to 1970 claimed so many lives and property, made some Nigerians to almost become second class citizens in their own country. These boys who are going around, and led by Nnamdi Kanu, some of them were not born at that time, and if they were born, they were very little children. I agree that President Buhari’s government has marginalized them. Okay. What of former President Jonathan’s government? I think the Igbo played a leading role in former President Jonathan’s government; they had every chance, every opportunity to develop their area. But some of them were selfish. The secretary to the government was an Igbo man. At a time, the Chief of Army Staff was an Igbo man; the Igbo occupied very important positions in former President Jonathan’s government, so they couldn’t have said they were marginalized. Rather it was the Yoruba who were crying that they were being marginalized. And towards the end of Jonathan’s government, he decided to give them so many posts because we all belong to one country called Nigeria.

So these boys should be told the history of Nigeria from independence to let them know that the Igbo were not marginalised in the past, especially in the First Republic and, in fact, their kinsman, Ironsi, was Head of State. Rather we the minorities have always cried of marginalization and not the three major ethnic groups, until 1966 when the coup of the young majors changed the face of Nigeria and the Igbo suffered in the war that followed, but the era is gone. And they won’t say that during Shagari’s time in the Second Republic the Igbo suffered because an Igbo man, Dr Alex Ekwueme, was the vice president. If the Igbo are marginalized, they are being marginalized by the present administration and I am one of those who support them in their cries against marginalisation, but secession is not the answer.

There is nowhere that youths will take over the administration of a place and it is very irresponsible for Kanu to say there will be no election in Anambra State in November. He should be arrested and detained. There is a limit to their agitation and I am happy that the President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo has condemned them.

And those agitating for secession do not know the implications. Kanu and his group are saying they have drawn a map which runs from Benue to the South-South, including Cross Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta, that will not happen. They should know the implications of what they are looking for, they should be educated and government should change and see that the Igbo are not marginalized. The Igbo produce oil in Abia and Imo states, and for you to establish the NNPC Board of nine members and the Igbo are excluded, it is unfair. And to make matters worse, six northerners whose area doesn’t produce oil are in the board? Two, why should an Igbo man not be in the Council of State? Why should an Igbo man not be a senior security officer? Even if they are not in the army, they must be somewhere. These are good cases that they have. In the appointments of persons into federal parastatals and others, why should the Igbo not be there? I think these are some of the things people are kicking against and we all support them.

How do you view the quit notice to the Igbo resident in the North?

I support the Igbo because anything against the Igbo is against all of us. How do you differentiate an Igbo man from a Yoruba man? How do you differentiate an Igbo speaking man from the man in Asaba? Enough is enough. The Arewa youths have no authority to issue that statement if they believe they are Nigerians and that they are in a country where everybody lives wherever he wants to. In the First Republic, a Hausa man was the Mayor of Enugu, an Igbo man held the same position in the North and Igbo people have been living in the North for at least a hundred years. No young Hausa man or a Fulani man should come forward to give the Igbo notice to quit the North by October 1; they are criminals and should be arrested. I was shocked to see the governor of Borno State sitting down with one of the northern youths who issued the quit notice to the Igbo and saying they had to review the threat; that is nonsensical. The governor of Kaduna State where the decision to ask the Igbo to quit was taken has said the boys are criminals and they should be arrested. But if they are not arrested chiefly because we want peace in the country, everybody should be treated alike.

I am also appealing to the northern youths to rescind that quit notice before October 1; in fact, that should be done this August so that we can have peace in the country


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