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Nothing, absolutely nothing will happen to this guy.

Hasn't him been appointed to a number of 'useless committees' which were formed since GEJ came to power.

Yet some very useless individuals will be crying that GEJ is their best man for the office of the presidency.

How many known corrupt individuals have been jailed, talkless of charging them to court under this GEJ government?

I like Nkem Owoh's song - I go chop your money - just for the comic relief.

I prefer roast duck.

Tribalism and ethnicism - are very biggest reasons why Nigeria will never develop or attain great heights.

Why can't we just put all these nonsense aside and see what Mr Elliot has to offer?

As long as he's a Nigerian, even half-Nigerian, he's good to contest for any political position.

As for me if he's the best candidate I will surely vote for him. We need people like him in politics.

We are too full of ourselves in this country with useless positions and titles.

The next GEJ election slogan will be that, "GEJ has created 3million jobs in Nigeria".

By the way, what's the purpose of the SURE-P program?

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/indian-shiite-group-puts-huge-bounty-isis-chief-105920735.html

An Indian Shi'ite group has announced a huge bounty on leaders of Sunni Islamist organisations across the world including Isis (now known as Islamic State), which is wreaking havoc in Iraq and Syria.
The All India Shia (Shi'ite) Hussaini Fund (AISHF) has said a reward of 10 million Indian Rupees (£100,000) will be given to anyone who kills one of five men; Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Al Qaeda chief Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed, Taliban chief Mullah Omar and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen chief Azhar Masood.
"At the meeting of our all India executive on 6 September, we discussed the matter of putting rewards on killing of these five persons heading five organisations involved in terrorism. The resolution was unanimously passed. We will give the reward to those who kill them," the secretary general of the Shi'ite group AISHF Syed Hasan Mehdi told the Press Trust of India.
The group had earlier offered to send thousands of young Shi'ites to Iraq in order to participate in the ongoing battle against the Sunni insurgents.
"We are putting posters across the country including Lucknow, Hyderabad and Jammu and Kashmir to announce the reward as we feel that these terrorists do not deserve to live. They are killers of humanity and innocent persons of all the castes," the secretary general added.
AISHF has claimed millions of Muslims across India are ready to contribute funds towards this cause.

Beauty - 8/10
Frontage - 7/10
Yansh - 3/10

My verdict.

Some folks nearly killed themselves few weeks ago with regards to the construction of the bridge.

They were adamant that the construction have started, they even posted pictures to back up their claim.

Now this article is singing a different chorus compared to those folks.

Which reporting side should we believe now?

RNS) Large churches in the South tend to pay their senior pastors the highest salaries, a new survey finds. That’s one of the conclusions on churches and finances released Tuesday (Sept. 9) by Leadership Network, a Dallas-based church think tank, and the Vanderbloemen Search Group, a Houston-based executive search firm for churches and ministries. A total of 727 North American churches with attendance ranging from 1,000 to more than 30,000 answered questions, more than double the number of congregations featured in previous studies.

The survey found that 14 percent of large churches have a financial bonus structure for their top leader. And one in five of the big congregations find ways to collect their money other than passing the proverbial offering plate. Warren Bird, research director at Leadership Network, said pastors have long held a lofty place of authority in the South, and that may be why they are paid more in that region.

Northeastern churches are the second-highest paying, followed by the West and the Midwest. The lowest-paying region in North America is Canada. The higher pastor salaries in the South contrast with lower-than-average wages for the region. The Department of Labor Bureau of Statistics reports average annual wages of workers in all the states in the Deep South — Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina — are lower than the U.S. annual wage of $49,804.

Although researchers agreed not to divulge specific salaries of particular pastors or the identity of participating churches, they were able to determine trends in these congregations that reflect about one-quarter of the nation’s Protestant worshippers. For example:
* The larger the church, the more the senior pastor is likely to be paid.
* The second-in-command at many churches earns about 70 percent of the salary of the top executive.
* Three-quarters of the churches gave pay raises between 1 and 5 percent and the most common raise was 3 percent for 2014.

“Bigger means more employees, more volunteers, more moving parts and a greater scope of leadership required,” Bird said. “That reality usually leads to more compensation across a host of organizations.” In fact, the common pay raise also reflects a wider social trend. Towers Watson, a Virginia-based professional services company, released a separate survey Monday (Sept. that found that U.S. employers plan to give their professional employees an average pay raise of 3 percent in 2015.

Researchers for the large-churches survey found that donations are slightly higher at those churches that pass the plate, but all churches in the study offered more than one option for giving: 81 percent provide online giving options; 37 percent had a donation box in the lobby; and 25 percent had an electronic kiosk in the lobby. Far surpassing churches of other sizes, congregations with more than 10,000 worshippers were least likely to pass offering plates.
“If your stereotype is that every church passes the plate, they don’t,” said Bird.
Online giving has been growing in popularity for seven years, Bird said. He recently visited a church in Australia that gets 80 percent of its donations via the Internet. One Maryland megachurch gets 40 percent of its giving through online donations. How much do congregants know about the finances of their churches? Bird said most congregations will get some kind of a report from their leaders.

“It is extremely rare that the entire congregation will be privy to specific salaries,” he said.
But even people with inside knowledge about church salaries need to know more about how to handle their finances, said Holly Tate, director of business development at Vanderbloumen.
“Churches are known to fall behind in compensation trends and they end up losing their staff because of it,” she said.
The survey also found:
* 80 percent of the large churches were predominantly white, while 20 percent were made up mostly of another racial or ethnic group or were multiethnic.
* The larger the church, the more likely it is to be a multisite congregation.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/09/southern-megachurches-pay_n_5793052.html

Do we know how much our Nigerian megachurches pay their Pastors?

It seems that some people are not happy with ISIS according to the article and the links below:

Pictures of Lebanese activists burning flags in Beruit in protest against Islamic State militants have sparked a hashtag campaign against Isis.
The hashtags #BurnISISFlagChallenge or #BurnISIS have been circulating across social media after pictures of three boys burning a flag in Beruit’s Sassine Square emerged on Saturday.
One example was a video of person burning a picture of the flag, captioned: “I nominate the whole world to the #BurnISISFlagChallenge. You have 24 hours. GO!!"
The burning is understood to be in response to the beheading of a Lebanese officer by Islamic militants. Photographs of the soldier's death were posted on social media on 28 August, prompting anger from mourners in Lebanon who accused the government of neglect for failing to secure his release.
The burning of the flag has been heavily criticised by the Lebanese justice minister, who was quoted in Lebanese news as warning the “strongest punishments” would be meted out to those who burned flags last week.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-ice-bucket-challenge-lebanese-activists-burning-flag-sparks-antiislamic-state-hashtag-campaign-9714437.html

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/burn-isis-flag-challenge-goes-viral-arab-world-124824439.html#BEg7J8N

http://www.inquisitr.com/1454324/burn-isis-flag-challenge-going-viral-in-middle-east-as-anger-toward-militant-group-grows/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-29130369

more info on bbc news

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-29130369

even the bbc news website have something to say about this!!!

All of the above including, RA (aka mouth of the president), DO (aka presidential attack lion) and LM of the APC party.

Ali Modu Sheriff's sins have been forgiven.

When he was in the APC party, most news report alleged he was a BH sympathiser, now that he has defected to PDP he is no longer part of BH.

I'm not suprised when people call GEJ unprintable names. He needs to grow some balls and deal with this BH issue.

Now, will it be appropriate to say PDP is BH and BH is PDP.

This is bordering on the ridiculous now. GEJ must be sensitive and cautious with regards to his bid for 2nd term.

When will the eko-rail transit be in operation?

With the huge financial gains of the first gulf war in the early 1990s coupled with sound infrastructural development, Dubai has overtaken Nigeria many times over. In the 1990s to early 2000s, who in their mindset will visit Dubai?

What happened to the the reported $12bn windfall which Nigeria gained during that period?

Now it is the most favoured holiday destination for most Nigerians, including our thieving politicians.

I think the wife's mother should come first, as it will be easier for the wife to relate and overcome any post pregnancy issues.

This kind of relationship works well.
The difference in age is hardly every noticed.

Did the cleric get his understanding and teaching on the topic he is discussing from the quran, hadiths or just his own head knowledge?

No wonder some people are brainwashed into believing this kind of teaching.

A very close family friend who was an ex-employee of DAAR Communications left the organisation because of non-payment of monthly salaries over a long period. As par her information, only selected close family individuals are paid, or else the organisation will be held to ransome.

That's the problem with a one-man leader organisations, they do whatever they like.

It was in the news earlier this week that BH are pushing towards Maiduguri, some people say that the report is nonsense.
Within that period, BH have taken over some major towns, when will those in authority go something about this menace.

DIWANIYA, Iraq — Ali Hussein Kadhim, an Iraqi soldier and a Shiite, was captured with hundreds of other soldiers by Sunni militants in June and taken to the grounds of a palace complex in Tikrit where Saddam Hussein once lived. The militants, with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, separated the men by sect. The Sunnis were allowed to repent for their service to the government. The Shiites were marked for death, and lined up in groups. Mr. Kadhim was No. 4 in his line.

As the firing squad shot the first man, blood spurted onto Mr. Kadhim’s face. He remembered seeing a video camera in the hands of another militant. “I saw my daughter in my mind, saying, ‘Father, father,' ” he said. He felt a bullet pass by his head, and fell forward into the freshly dug trench. “I just pretended to be shot,” he said. A few moments later, Mr. Kadhim said, one of the killers walked among the bodies and saw that one man who had been shot was still breathing. “Just let him suffer,” another militant said. “He’s an infidel Shia. Let him suffer. Let him bleed.”

“At that point,” Mr. Kadhim said, “I had a great will to live.” He waited about four hours, he said, until it was dark and there was only silence. About 200 yards away was the edge of the Tigris River. He made it to the riverbank, where the reeds gave him some cover. There, he met an injured man named Abbas, a driver at Camp Speicher who had been shot by militants and shoved into the river.

Mr. Kadhim stayed there three days with Abbas, who was so badly wounded he could barely move. Mr. Kadhim ate insects and plants, but Abbas was in too much pain to eat much of anything. “It was three days of hell,” Mr. Kadhim said. As Mr. Kadhim planned his escape, Abbas begged him to come back for him, and, if he could not, to at least tell the story. “Let everyone know what happened here,” Abbas told him.

A Cruel Fate
Back now at his family home here in southern Iraq, Mr. Kadhim, 23, recounted his story on a recent afternoon while taking a break from harvesting dates in his uncle’s orchard. His is one of a very few witness accounts, and perhaps the most detailed, to emerge after the June massacre of Iraqi soldiers stationed at Camp Speicher, a former American army base in Tikrit, Mr. Hussein’s hometown.
Mr. Kadhim spoke plainly and evenly about his experience, and how he set off from the riverbank on a nearly three-week, underground railroad-style journey through insurgent badlands, relying on sympathetic Sunnis to deliver him to safety.

Continue reading: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/04/world/middleeast/surviving-isis-massacre-iraq-video.html?_r=1

Why aren't moslems all over the world condemn these senseless brutality against their fellow human beings?
It's so sad that some 'criminal elements' are giving Islam a bad representation, even their leaders are not concerned.

tbaba1234:
"A woman without a husband (or divorced or a widow) must not be married until she is consulted, and a virgin must not be married until her permission is sought... (Muslim)

You who believe, it is not lawful for you to inherit women against their will, nor should you treat your wives harshly, hoping to take back some of the bride-gift you gave them, unless they are guilty of something clearly outrageous. Live with them in accordance with what is fair and kind: if you dislike them, it may well be that you dislike something in which God has put much good [ Quran 4 19-20]

The Quran passage you quoted is different from what 'some' moslems practice in reality.
It quite obvious that people now know the real interpretation of the Quran, in that men are more favoured and women are treated differently.

This is a sad case which became public because of the high profile of the people involved.

All the roads leading to nowhere.

The worst open-secret ever in the Nigerian political scene.

Everyone knows GEJ will contest for the 2nd term and he's perfectly entitled to seek re-election.

But will he win is another permutation still yet to be decided, as some parts of the North-East are gradually been given new identities.

kolubo: My own fact. No matter how young babies are, they can sense btw Bossom and other parts of d body.

That's a real fact.

Easy to understand.

Goes to show with proper medical attention, some people can still survive.

Kudos to the LASG, Federal Ministry of Health and the many countless and heroic individuals who volunteered their time and efforts in curtailing the spread of the disease.

The first British person to contract Ebola during the outbreak in West Africa has been discharged from hospital after making a full recovery.
William Pooley, 29, has been treated in a special isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
Mr Pooley was given the experimental drug ZMapp and has praised the "world class" care at the hospital.
About half of the 3,000 people infected in the outbreak, which started in Guinea, have died.
Mr Pooley was working as a volunteer nurse in one of the worst affected countries, Sierra Leone, when he contracted the virus.
He is unsure when he became infected, but started feeling sick and needed a blood test.
He recalled the moment his fears were confirmed: "I was woken early that evening by one of the World Health Organization doctors and immediately I knew it was bad news.
"I was worried that I was going to die, I was worried about my family and I was scared."
He was flown back to the UK by the RAF on Sunday 24 August.
Mr Pooley was in the earlier stages of the disease. He had a high temperature but was not bleeding.
He is not infectious to anyone else now. The virus is cleared from the body, and there is no risk to the wider community in any way”
End Quote Dr Michael Jacobs Infectious diseases consultant
He said: "I was very lucky in several ways; firstly in the standard of care I received, which is a world apart from what people are receiving in West Africa at the moment.
"And my symptoms never progressed to the worst stage of the disease, I've seen people dying horrible deaths, I had some unpleasant symptoms, but nothing compared to the worst of the disease."
He was treated with the experimental Ebola drug ZMapp, a 12-hour infusion of antibodies, that has been given to only six other patients.
It is not clear if the infusion helped, but levels of the virus in his bloodstream did fall significantly after the treatment.
Dr Michael Jacobs, an infectious diseases consultant at the hospital, said: "He is not infectious to anyone else now. The virus is cleared from the body, and there is no risk to the wider community in any way."
He said the isolation unit Mr Pooley had been kept in was going through chemical decontamination.
"This unit is always there, it's business-as-usual for us, we were prepared for this to happen and we're prepared if it happens again."
The global response to the disease has been "lethally inadequate", according to the charity Medecins Sans Frontieres.
In the face of quite likely a horrible death, they're continuing to work all day, every day helping sick people, it's amazing”
End Quote William Pooley Ebola patient
Estimates suggest up to 20,000 people will be infected during this outbreak.
Mr Pooley praised the efforts of other people working on the ground.
"It's just heroic what they're doing, they know what might be facing them," he said.
"In the face of quite likely a horrible death, they're continuing to work all day, every day helping sick people, it's amazing."
He said it had felt "natural" to go and help in West Africa, that he had no regrets and was "more committed than ever to nursing".
Mr Pooley is heading back to Eyke in Suffolk with his family this afternoon.
"They incinerated my passport, so my mum will be pleased to know I can't go anywhere," he added.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29045908