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ramdris:
They should introduce this to the NPF cos those guys dresses anyhow and always looking dirty..

I mean I was wondering when the commissioner said "they should look neat like their counterpart in Nigeria police"

blazer234:
What kind of thoughtless comment is this?

You need more of what?

More of talents Nigerians to leave the country and become slaves to america?

Have you listened to any of Donald Trump's campaigns?

And you think he would have archived this feat if he was in Nigeria?
The guy is not saying every Nigerian should migrate to America but that we need more more talents like him.
And we need our Edu system fixed so we can retain our best talent

If you have, you will know better than that funny comment of yours.[/quote]

Men listening to this man on BBC's "story story" was always a pleasure. He had the best accent of any nigerian artist.

You pay him,but you don't pay the player so how do want him to perform with players that are not motivated?

Why should NFF BE the one to chose assistant coaches for our national team coach.. You went ahead to sack his assistant and impose your choice on him?

Kenzico:
See as Oyibo people carry Goat like say Na Human Being"

That's a WEST AFRICAN DWARF GOAT
Thank God for my Agric Teacher back then

Well, they are being guarded by animal rights
And their animals enjoys protection Right unlike
Nigeria

We never see human rights, na animal rights we wan shooop

muaa:
The fact that other countries are pledging support for the palastanian state does make Buhari eligible to support them as well. This is because he has a similar case at home that he's yet to resolve.
He is supposed to be indifferent about the issue. As a wise leader, you don't have to comment on every issue.
He should better take clue from GEJ.

Apart from that... Nigeria is a "secular state" and that makes us no-allign by default..so a responsible president should not be seen as "frolicking" around a particular state because of his religion beliefs.
Ordinary Nigerians can do that, but not a president that should represent the interest of all.

The is the more reason people kept saying buhari has a hidden agenda to Islamise Nigeria, and we are gradually seeing the result

dyn1800:
Was there a Biafra state in the first place?

Not just a mere "state"... But there was a "country" -Chinua achebe

Reference:
He is not preaching against it. He is asking for a convergence of indicies so that the economy is on an even. No one can build effectively on uneven ground. Can you?

One out of many rexamples (reasoning examples). If I was to set up industry requires fx and I bought at 300. How will I compete with you who buys at 'government' rate if I'm not on the list, connected or corrupt. The uneven playing field is a big disinvestment. If the margin was 2, 10, 15% I may harzard it but the margin in 70% encounting. Which kind of profit will I make to hedge this risk.

I don't really see any need for convergence, let's get off our shoulder once and for all. So am not really interested in him preaching against or in favor, my point is, if he didn't do much to eradicate it, so what?

That has always been our problem, in that you give pple (all our past leaders inclusive) opportunity to make a difference and they fail to do that and still turn around to crucify others.

Ejanla07:
You 're yoruba why do you sound so pained. An industrial cluster like aba need seaport to help export...

Well, not really seaport, let just say a "port" because there's no sea but river. So a deep port should be fine

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janellemonae:
D point u just made now, is d point d person u quoted also first made: DT he doesn't understand d obsession for a seaport.

Surely there are hundreds of landlocked successful countries. Even in subsaharan africa, Botswana ranks highest on a lot of indices and is landlocked.

If he doesn't understand the obsession for a seaport, then that clearly is not my point.. Because I do
understand it and am in full support of it.we get obsessed until it becomes a reality.

There's a difference between saying "why should you have it and saying you cannot have it" because you are land-locked..

Special adviser on "selfie" hian

janellemonae:
All is well and good wt ur comment. I support Igbo striving to get a port if it will make them feel better. Everyone has a right to want sthn and its none of our business if they strive towards it.

My problem wt ur post is when u include SS in all these ur analogy. There are ports in the south south currently. I know for a fact DTS were dangote imports his raw materials from, not Lagos. Don't be sly in ur comment. I believe what mainly attracts businesses, especially food & oil (our largest imports by volume and cost) is d fact DT their largest market is currently in Lagos. They have warehouses there where there's an ease for logistics. I think Igbo businessmen can patronize d SS ports too but dont do this for these same reasons. Pretty sure 40% of all their imports end up getting sold in alaba or ladipo or yaba b4 going to other states. You need to look at all d factors dt contribute to d lagos port, as a whole. DT state alone has almost 20million pple living in it.

If 40% OF GOODS ARE BEEN SOLD IN ALABA AND YABA, DOES THAT MEAN THEY CAN'T DIVERSIFY?

Do we ever look at the bigger picture?
In terms of population, the southeast is bigger than most independent African nations, so that is more than enough market for their Marchants, not to talk of trade with neighboring south south.

omonnakoda:
There are several and your point is?

You guys should chill jare!

You keep talking about landlocked as if it a death sentence
SWITZERLAND is a landlocked country, and Nigerian economy can't even match up to them.
What is so special that we have archived as a country even with having a seaport?

Incase you don't know, The Suez canal is a man made port and it's far exceeds Lagos port in terms of significance and values
So what's the noise about been landlocked?

9japrof:
The same sanusi, the same ApC spy I government that began blowing whistle into an imagined money that was looted by the past administration.

The truth is that when you make lie a priority, it comes back twofold to hit you in the face: Buhari, Osibanjo, Elrufai, Sanusi and the chairman of all lies, Liar Mohammed.

Oh Naija we so gullible, we believe every bullshit our political elites throw to us

This is a different SANUSI O,this one is Joseph Sanusi

We had parallel market system even when Sanusi was in central bank, so why is he now preaching against it?

omonnakoda:
but you ARE land locked. The RIver Niger goes all the way through Kwara and Niger states which are landlocked just like you. The river changes nothing

Do you know how many landlocked countries that are far better than Nigeria economic wise?

AustineE1:
It is a welcomed development and i wish my amiable governor Obiano of Anambra state and other South East governors can key into this project,this must been taken into priority as an Igbo project.
We must try to call out other interest groups in South East to join hand and make this port project a reality.
Chukwu gozie umuigbo!

I thought they said we are land-locked?

KingTom:
I don old o. That time wey me and my brothers dey watch most wanted with Vaseline and groundnut oil now regina and ibinabo don get pikins wey don big finish

So who are are going for, the mother or the daughter?

But what are you doing with convoy?

all those okija rings wey him carry full hand though

one brutal,too many
time like this i only wish i can wake GANI FAWEHIMI from the grave
i mean do we still have human right lawyers in country again,abi they have all turned to politics

the same ABUBAKAR that emptied our treasury all in the name of Transition

how do you ppl find it comfortable displaying and exposing innocent kids on social media

StOla:
If she's Lebanese as I suspect, then she might have Nigerian citizenship by birth. Even the dad might have been born in Nigeria.

Lebanese and Indians don't just invest only in a foreign country, they stay on and live with their investment. Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania are prime examples of countries with a burgeoning Lebanese/Indian migrant community.

and after so called naturalization she still could not find one naija guy good enough for marriage?
who dem dey deceive?

if you were in search of a new, disease-fighting antibiotic, where might you start? In a swamp? A remote island? Well, how about combing beards? Michael Mosley investigates.

On Trust Me I'm a Doctor we do experiments which sometimes throw up genuinely new science. In a previous series, for example, we discovered you can cut the calories in pasta by cooking, cooling and then reheating it.

That was a very pleasing result. But our most recent discovery, finding bacteria which appear to be producing a novel form of antibiotic, feels altogether more significant. What was particularly delightful was that they were found growing in someone's beard.

Beards, as you may have noticed, are back. The chin-strap, the goatee, the neck beard and the Van Dyke, they all have their fans. But with beards sprouting everywhere, like new grass in the spring sunshine, there has inevitably been a backlash.

Critics claim that beards are not only an irritating affectation but can potentially harbour unpleasant bugs.

So, what's the evidence that beards pose any sort of health risk? Pogonophobes, people who fear beards, had those fears confirmed by a recent study in New Mexico where they found traces of enteric bacteria, the sort usually found in faeces, in randomly sampled beards.

As one newspaper put it: '"Some beards contain more poo than a toilet."

But is this typical? A recent and rather more scientific study, carried in an American hospital, came to very different conclusions.
Find out more

Trust Me I'm A Doctor is on BBC Two at 20:00 on Wednesday 20 January - or watch later on BBC iPlayer

In this study, published in the Journal of Hospital Infection, they swabbed the faces of 408 hospital staff with and without facial hair.

They had good reasons for doing so. We know that hospital-acquired infections are a major cause of disease and death in hospitals, with many patients acquiring an infection they didn't have when they went in. Hands, white coats, ties and equipment have all been blamed, but what about beards?

Well, the researchers were surprised to find that it was the clean-shaven staff, and not the beardies, who were more likely to be carrying something unpleasant on their faces.

The beardless group were more than three times as likely to be harbouring a species known as methicillin-resistant staph aureus on their freshly shaven cheeks. MRSA is a particularly common and troublesome source of hospital-acquired infections because it is resistant to so many of our current antibiotics.
Image copyright iStock

So what's going on? The researchers suggested that shaving might cause micro-abrasions in the skin "which may support bacterial colonisation and proliferation".

Perhaps. But there was another more plausible explanation staring them in the face. That beards fight infection.

Unlikely? Well, driven by curiosity we recently swabbed the beards of a random assortment of men and sent them off to Dr Adam Roberts, a microbiologist based at University College London, to see what, if anything, he could grow.

Adam managed to grow over 100 different bacteria from our beards, including one that is more commonly found in the small intestine. But, as he quickly explains, that doesn't mean it came from faeces. Such findings are normal and nothing to worry about.
A brief history of beards
Image copyright Alamy

Alexander the Great reportedly banned his soldiers from growing beards, for fear that enemies would hold on to them in battle as they killed them
Hadrian (76-138AD) was apparently the first Roman emperor to grow a beard
At 17ft 6in long, Hans Langseth's beard may have been the longest ever - after his death it was donated to the Smithsonian in Washington DC
Beards were compulsory in Afghanistan under the Taliban - they were banned by Albania's communist leader Enver Hoxha (1908-1985), and more recently for a while in Turkmenistan

Far more interesting, in a few of the petri dishes he noticed that something was clearly killing the other bacteria. The most obvious suspect was a fellow microbe.

We see microbes as our enemy, but they clearly don't see us that way. Down at their level bacteria and fungi spend their time competing with each other. They fight for food, resources and space. By doing so, over millennia, they have evolved some of the most sophisticated weapons known to microbe-kind - antibiotics.

Penicillin was originally extracted from Penicillium notatum, a species of fungus. The microbe-killing properties of this fungus were discovered by Alexander Fleming when he noticed that a fungus spore, which had accidently blown into his lab from researchers further down the corridor, had killed some bacteria he was growing on a petri dish.
Image copyright Science Photo Library Image caption The fungus Penicillium notatum - is there something similar in beards?

So could our mysterious microbes be doing something similar? Killing fellow bacteria by producing some sort of toxin?

"Yes," says Adam extremely cautiously. "Possibly."

Adam indentified the silent assassins as part of a species called Staphylococcus epidermidis. When he tested them against a particularly drug-resistant form of Eschercichia coli (E. coli), the sort that cause urinary tract infections, they killed with abandon.

Purifying and properly testing a novel antibiotic is so expensive and has such a high failure rate that it is extremely unlikely doctors will be prescribing Beardicillin any time soon, but Adam is deadly serious about looking for replacements for our current stock of antibiotics.
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Famous beardies ZZ Top

As he pointed out, antibiotic-resistant infections kill at least 700,000 people a year, projected to rise to 10 million by 2050. There have been no new antibiotics released in the past 30 years.

As well as our beardy findings, Adam's team have recently isolated, from microbes sent in by the general public, anti-adhesion molecules which stop bacteria binding to other surfaces. They think there may be potential for adding this to toothpaste and mouthwash, as it could stop acid-producing bacteria from binding to enamel.

Surprising, isn't it, what you can find in a beard?

courtesy...the BBC

PDP actually outspent APC in advert so we should be asking how they were so rejected my the nigerian pple?
i also think that we need to revisit our core value as it pertinent on elections.candidates should be made to source for fund from the citizens just like its done in US.



Published On: Wed, Jul 29th, 2015
Main Story / Exclusive | By Daniel Obi
PDP lost presidential election despite outspending APC by N1.8bn in advertising

A report by Compliance and Content Monitoring Limited (CCM) a technology player in media monitoring in Nigeria, has shown that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) outspent the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2015 presidential elections as regards media advertising nationwide, with a ratio of 3:1 yet still lost the elections. The media organisation valued 2015

chizzzzzzzzzzz. dont we have animal right group in this country? how can ppl be so daft,you million try feed and upkeep the lion and suddenly kills it for nothing sake.a whole zoo has got no tranquilizer?

cruzita:
I thought men love women with big handbag and aged weavon.just asking

more like ,women with Ghana must go? no way
infact, i noticed recently that women with big bags tend to work a wkward ,more like hunch back ,because the load affects the streightness of the shoulder.i prefer purse anyday

na waa for lawyers, you AFE BABALOLA agreed to be a counsel to the rapist?

it would have been better for the tribunal to seat in ABUJA like the Rivers state own,already the ipeazu gang has tried all evil machination ,including burning down INEC Office in ABA

djdoxxx:
Okay, Thats Good To Hear...So, Presently What Do You Do?

i beg how do i contact you?

Angelovic96:
lets see what happens because this government will surely loose the mandate of nigeria

speak for yasef,am a Nigerian and they have my mandate 1000 %