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Celebrities / I Bought A House At 14 – Atiku by femmefatale: 6:35am On Sep 18, 2013 |
A former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, seems to be in love with controversy and he appears to be a dogged fighter in the game. In politics, he has an ample dose of unsettled issues with the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, especially now that he is linked to the New PDP. Not done with that, the other day too, he engaged his former boss, President Olusegun Obasanjo, in a debate about his eligibility to travel to the United States of America. However, just as the US dust is settling, the former number two citizen on Tuesday stirred a fresh debate on the social media space, declaring via a post on his website that he bought a house for his mother at the age of 14. Atiku, in the blog post, said contrary to the belief that he “soiled” his hands while serving in the Nigeria Customs Service, as well as during his eight-year tenure as Vice-President; he had a history of genuine “business success.” He said, “It never mattered that I had a history of business success prior to entering politics. It never mattered that from the moment I bought my mother a home as a 14-year-old boy, I was running various businesses to provide for my family.” But tell it to the marines, seems to be the thinking of the some Nigerian social media users, who received the claim with a pinch of salt. Little wonder, they further prodded him to explain how, at 14, he mustered the financial muscle to buy a house. For instance, an online socio-political activist, Kayode Ogundamisi, is one of the first critics, who questioned the former Vice-President’s claim. Ogundamisi said, “How did we end up with deluded characters as so called leaders in Nigeria. That former Vice-President Atiku would have Nigerians believe he bought a house for his mother as a minor/child is a clear indication that Nigeria’s problem is beyond human understanding.” Another Facebook user, Adedayo Daramola asked,“Was it through innovation or through corruption that the former Vice-President accomplished the feat.” However, Ogundamisi and Daramola are not alone in the circle of Nigerians doubting the veracity of Atiku’s claim. For another Facebook user, Steve Collins-Ogwu, there appears to be more than meets the eye. He stated, “At that age, what was he doing to rake in cash to have been able to afford the home? The last I checked, he was not into entertainment of any kind or an athlete to be able to earn cash at such an early stage. I need him to lecture me on how he did it.” On Atiku’s blog post also, a reader, who identified himself simply as Inyang described the former vice- president’s piece as “rhetoric” and called him as a “trickster.” Inyang said, “Sir, I pray many Nigerians will be able to see beyond that gibberish piece of write-up and see you for the trickster that you are. You bought your mother a house at 14! What business brought forth such largesse? “I personally would like to know. Please spare us the rhetoric and leave room for the younger and honest blood in our beloved country Nigeria who are out there praying for the chance to lead this country out of the mess you and your likes have led it. Please find a place to sit and give chance.’’ Meanwhile, Atiku on noticing the controversy his claim had generated online hurriedly took to Twitter to clarify his position. He said via his Twitter handle, @atiku, that due to his “humble background,” he took vacation jobs to fend for himself and his family members as a teenager. He tweeted, “It’s true I bought my mother a home as a teenager. At 14, I was working as a clerk for Mallam Adamu Ciroma, the District Officer in the Ganye Native Authority. It was a temporary holiday job. “The house was a thatched, mud bungalow, with two rooms, a kitchen and bathroom. It cost £9, saved from my £3 monthly earnings. In those days, secondary school students in long vacations took jobs. Temporary jobs for experience and some money, before returning to school. “Most kids of my age bought shirts and shoes – but my mother was homeless. So, I saved and I bought that home for her. It is possible for people from a humble background to accomplish great things, even as teenagers, believe it or not.” But even with his later clarification, many are still not satisfied with his explanation. According to them, the development smacks of a hidden political agenda. An anonymous reader on lindaikeji..com wrote, “Why does Atiku kind of remind me of ‘I had no shoes’ saga. Now I see someone introducing some political emotional tactics to win hearts, a scheming for some certain agenda!’’ Another reader on the same blog stated, “Alhaji Atiku, I am assuming that your holidays were for a full three months in one calendar year and you did not pay any taxes on the money you were paid? Or did you save over two to three years working the same job? A likely story! The chances you guys had then, hmmm? “Now I’m a graduate and I cannot even afford a day’s meal not to talk of, buying a house for my mother as well. So much for the havoc you guys wrecked on the system, amassing wealth for yourselves!’’ Punch |
Health / Intelligence Killing Foods, Avoid Them! by femmefatale: 8:13pm On Sep 17, 2013 |
The ultimate reason we eat is to achieve good health and retain it. Good health also suggests being in good mental state; because, as psychiatrists argue, there is no good health without mental health. When we eat good foods, our bodies get nourished from the head down. Eating wrong foods — such as sugary foods — can affect the way our brain works. Scientists say our brains need sugar every day to function. “Brain cells require two times the energy needed by all the other cells in the body — roughly 10 per cent of our total daily energy requirements. This energy is derived from glucose (blood sugar), the gasoline of our brains,” scientists say. In other words, sugar is not the brain’s enemy; rather, added sugar in foods is. Research indicates that a diet high in added sugar reduces the production of a brain chemical known as Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor. Without BDNF, they note, our brains can’t form new memories and we can’t learn (or remember) much of anything. Levels of BDNF are particularly low in people with an impaired glucose metabolism — diabetics and pre-diabetics —and as the amount of BDNF decreases, sugar metabolism worsens. What are these foods? Here are some of them: Sugary products The list is endless, and they include biscuits, canned and bottled drinks, canned fruits in syrups, sweetened ‘fruit’ juices, dissolvable powdered drinks, candies (sweets), cakes, dried fruits, jams and other sweetened spreads, so called energy bars, milk shakes, etc. Experts say it isn’t that you don’t eat any of these foods at all; what they are concerned about is their percentage to the content of your entire daily meal intake, and also if your entire meal chain revolves around these foods — as is the case with some people. A group of researchers, led by the University of California Los Angeles biology professor, Fernando Gomez-Pinilla, discovered that bingeing on soft drinks, sweets and sugary snacks for as little as six weeks may impair brain function. The study, which was conducted on rats, is the first to show that a diet high in fructose (sugar) slows down the brain, and thus hampers memory and learning. Gomez-Pinilla says, “Our findings illustrate that what you eat affects how you think. Eating a high- fructose diet over the long term alters your brain’s ability to learn and remember information.” Before now, scientists had proved beyond reasonable doubts that sugar harms the body through its role in diabetes, obesity and liver problems. Another study published in Psychology Today states that overeating, poor memory formation, learning disorders and depression have all been linked to the over-consumption of sugar. So, instead of feasting on sugary snacks, try wholesome fruits. Junk foods As far as some people are concerned, patronising fast food joints is status symbol and therefore a sign of “arrival.” Well, that’s very contrary to commonsense, as scientists claim that the bad fats in junk foods can actually clog up the brain and interfere with the way it sends messages. The effects are even worse in growing children, they warn. According to a study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, the IQs of children who ate fatty, sugary, processed foods appeared to suffer years later, while the IQs of those who ate healthy foods increased. Again, researcher, Dr. Alex Richardson, of the University Laboratory of Physiology in Oxford and co-director of the Food and Behaviour Research Charity, said trans fats displace healthy fats in the brain. She warns, “Every time children eat crisps, biscuits or cakes, they are filling themselves with what are essentially toxic fats. There are no health benefits to these hydrogenated fats, yet they are all that some children and adults are eating. “They are replacing the essential fats that would make their brain and body work properly with ones that are clogging up the machinery. In layman’s terms, the brain gets thicker,” Richardson says. Fried foods Besides the fact that regularly eating fried foods can give men aggressive prostate cancer, scientists warn that their effects on brain function are as terrible. A study by researchers at the University of the Basque in Spain, published in the journal Food Chemistry, revealed that compounds released from common cooking oils significantly increase the risk of neurologic degenerative diseases and a variety of different cancers. They conclude that toxic compounds from fried foods cause cancer and deteriorate brain health. Diets rich in French fries, crispy fried shrimp and classic fried chicken, among numerous others, could only land you in hot water, even if metaphorically. In the United States, for instance, many schools have cut out fried foods in the café, all in a bid to help kiddies’ brain power. Instead, they serve baked chicken, baked chicken wraps, strawberries, peaches, sweet potatoes, carrots and kale. Experts also recommend alternate food preparation methods such as roasting, steaming and broiling. Salty foods Before now, scientists had made us know that too much salt and too little exercise are hard on the heart. However, new research suggests that they can be hard on the brain, too. A three-year study of more than 1,200 people, led by Carol Greenwood, a nutrition scientist and interim director of the Baycrest Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied and Evaluative Research in Toronto, has linked a salty diet and sedentary lifestyle to cognitive decline in old age. In fact, scientists say salt affects your brain the same way hard drugs do! Of course, we don’t cut off salt from our diets totally; rather, what we need is a balance between things. A physician, Dr. Louise Chang, notes that the iodine in iodised salt helps the body make thyroid hormone, which is critical to an infant’s brain development. So, a little salt is essential to good health. “Healthy adults should consume salt and water to replace the amount lost daily through sweat and to achieve a diet that provides sufficient amounts of other essential nutrients,” Chang counsels. Others brain killers Other brain-killer foods to avoid include processed protein such as found in hot dogs, salami, sausages and processed meats; nicotine, as found in cigarette; alcohol, processed foods and artificial sweeteners. You are advised to eat your foods as naturally as possible. The Punch |
Romance / Re: Ladies What Will You Do?(photo) by femmefatale: 8:47am On Sep 17, 2013 |
Cahmegga:Abi ooo |
Romance / Re: Ladies What Will You Do?(photo) by femmefatale: 8:38am On Sep 17, 2013 |
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Romance / Re: Ladies What Will You Do?(photo) by femmefatale: 6:35pm On Sep 15, 2013 |
okpara ugo: the only one I won't leave alone is that one in a kneeling position.... |
Romance / Re: Ladies What Will You Do?(photo) by femmefatale: 9:42am On Sep 15, 2013 |
Justosaus: leave dem alone... None of dem's worth d headacheyeah, none of dem is worth d headache but u sure u gonna leave dem alone? Even ur babe? |
Romance / Ladies What Will You Do?(photo) by femmefatale: 9:02pm On Sep 14, 2013 |
Guys what will you do as well?
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Romance / Re: Guys Please I Need Your Advice On This..... by femmefatale: 10:43pm On Sep 12, 2013 |
Enegod: You dated someone at one time orHmm....tnx Kelechi2020: @op marriage is a very complicated issue that i dont think should be handled with kids glove(am just a teen probably single but believe me i always partake when mariage disputes are being resolved)my thought initially too, because I was made 2 understand dat d man is a family friend. Richfella: What happened in Vegas...stays in Vegas.believe it or not, I am not d person...but tnx 4 d piece Bootylicious: I see no reason why she should tell him..... it's her past and some things r better untold.. we all have secrets dis is not a complicated secret like not having a womb, especially d guy being d type dat kips using what Shez said against her....kk...tnx Tnx evry1 |
Romance / Guys Please I Need Your Advice On This..... by femmefatale: 8:54pm On Sep 12, 2013 |
A lady friend of mine has a very committed relationship and they are walking down the aisle soon but my friend has a secret she wanna tell her boyfriend(she said her conscience has not been too friendly with her on this issue). The thing is, she once dated an old and married man when she freshly graduated hoping he would help her secure a job (because she came out with a 3rd class) and help in some financial aspects too because they were virtually feeding from hand to mouth then. The man in question happens to be very influential and was promising to get her into NPA or NNPC (because my friend studied Chemistry). To cut this long story short, this man was just posting this lady and got nothing done 4 her as regards job, though she said he helped a little financially. Her confusion now is, she wants to open up to her fiance before they finally tie d knot but her bf is the type that tells all (dat she's told him abt her) to whoever cares to listen whenever they have misunderstanding. He keeps referring to issues that are meant to be long 4gotten each time they have an argument. He'd call her Uncle or Mum to report to them and in the course slips out what is meant to stay btw dem (some mistakes she made even b4 she met him). Now the question is, should she tell him about this man? I initially told her to go ahead but when she told me about the reporting and all, then I said we should bring this to NL and hear people's opinion. Please we need your candid piece of mind on this. Thanks all. The guy is a nairalander but the babe isn't, I'll sure give her every piece from here. |
Nairaland / General / Re: 16 Surreal Places Found On Earth by femmefatale: 5:19am On Sep 10, 2013 |
Wow!!! Beautiful nature.... Nos 1 & 8 are my best in the list though. Nice one Op |
TV/Movies / Re: The Day They Came (A Short Sci-fi Film) by femmefatale: 5:39pm On Sep 09, 2013 |
genetos:Ok then.....was having an idea but not anymore Gud job u did though |
TV/Movies / Re: The Day They Came (A Short Sci-fi Film) by femmefatale: 3:07pm On Sep 09, 2013 |
Nice one genetos........Is dat u in dre? Hmm...... |
Nairaland / General / Re: In The Last 20 Years, I’ve Spent An Hour Daily Reading Dictionaries –obahiagbon by femmefatale: 5:29am On Sep 07, 2013 |
@ See trousers for chest!!! |
Nairaland / General / In The Last 20 Years, I’ve Spent An Hour Daily Reading Dictionaries –obahiagbon by femmefatale: 4:52am On Sep 07, 2013 |
Patrick Obahiagbon, the Chief of Staff to the Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, in this interview with GBENRO ADEOYE, talks about his controversial way of speaking and why he chooses to speak that way What is your educational background I am by the grace of the celestial choir, a legal practitioner, a public administrator, an international historian and a diplomat. I earned a degree in Law and was called to the Nigerian Bar as a solicitor and advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria about 25 years ago and I do also have a double-barreled Master’s degree in Public Administration and in International History and Diplomacy. Why do you always speak ‘big grammar’? I am not really consensus ad idem with those who opine that my idiolect is advertently obfuscative. No no no, it’s just that I am in my elements when the colloquy has to do with the pax nigeriana of our dreams and one necessarily needs to fulminate against the alcibiadian modus vivendi of our prebendal political class. How do you talk to your wife, children and even your friends? I relate with my family and friends very warmly and in an atmosphere of camaraderie, stripped of my confutational habiliment and gladiatorial homilies. I am a very peaceful, calm, level-headed and celestially attuned soul personality. Is this the way you proposed to your wife, speaking high tech grammar? Of course, the business of the day when I interfaced with my wife on matters of the heart had to be in plain Caeser’s language and you can decipher why that had to be so. The matter in view did not permit itself of sphinxian conundrum. It’s a long time ago, so I can’t remember the exact words I used. We had a relationship for ten years before we got married. We’re looking at close to 20 years ago. How does your family understand your English? My family and friends understand me perfectly just the same way you understand me now though, I must admit that it depends on the issues on the piazza. Is this the way you were speaking in your school days? I’m sure if you confer with my school mates they will tell you that I no longer speak what those who just know me now call “grammar.” I could speak for about twenty minutes when I was in the university and you won’t understand one word of what I said. I must say I have deteriorated in my grammatical construct. How did you start speaking in this manner? It all happened when my father brought me a teaser which stated that good orators had ruled the world and you must have to be a feisty orator if you must rule the world. As an impressionable young man, I alacritously threw myself into the whirligig of improving my usage of words by amassing new words on a daily basis. Did you write exams in school in these big words? I used such words very-very freely in my exams both at the secondary school and in my university and little wonder I had the misfortune of my English results being seized intermittently in my O’ Levels. WAEC released my results for the other subjects and withheld my English result. This happened for about three years. Twice, I passed the University Matriculation Examination but I could not proceed to the University because of my English results that were not released. At the end of the day, it was released after the third attempt. Didn’t you have problems with your teachers? It no doubt gave me serious issues at the university and that is because some, if not most of my lecturers, ran away with the erroneous impression that my attitudinal predilection had a deprecable tinge of academic braggadocio and intellectual megalomania. But this assumption was both mendacious and a fallacious ad hominem. I could not but take solace in that Latin apothegm which states that O Tempora! O Mores. Was English your best subject? My best subject in secondary school was government and religion and am sure that I was drawn to religion because, I now know as a student of Rosicrucian mysticism, that I was a student of divine light in my last incarnation. As for government, I just fell in love with the subject due to my early attraction in life to issues of political-economy. So what did you score in English language? English language was of course my hobbyhorse and passion but like I earlier asseverated, my results were constantly guillotined to my utter chagrin that I had to lapse into a jeremiad of lachrymoseim for a period of aeon. I would need to check the result again to be sure of my score. Do you pray the same way you speak? God understands all languages, my brother and I pray to God using any word that pops up. May I posit that the key points in prayers are your sincerity, purity of heart, walking within the compass and to what extent are you ready and worthy of receiving the benediction of the cosmic and the cosmic masters because as we say in mysticism- “when the students are ready, the masters would appear.” Take my words my brother that more than seventy per cent of humanity don’t know how to pray but that is a matter for another day. By the way, are there other names you call God? God is variously known as Jehovah, Yaweh, The Great Grand Architect of the Universe, The Cosmic Host and several other names known alone to heirophants but which names are so ineffable for me to mention here. Do you know that many people don’t take you too seriously when you talk because they think you are not communicating Why will I be perturbed from ensconcing myself in the palatable arms of Morpheus because people have deprived themselves of the cultivation of the regime of the mental magnitude? I read all the farrago of baloneys and vacuous bunkum from pepper soup objurgators. The spirit of animadversion remains their fundamental human right. It also remains an indubitable fact that I get millions and millions of requests daily from people all over the world requesting for my verbal mentorship which positive cosmopolitan reactions have assisted my equipoise and righteous sense of pachydermatous garb. I cannot put my nose to the grindstone daily and expect to be understood by those luxuriating in a modus vivendi, verging on pepper souping, goat heading, suyaing, big stouting and isiewulising. Has a philosophical wag not once pontificated that things of the spirit are spiritually discerned and that it takes the deep to call the deep? We will speak more on this matter of critiques and chichi dodo another day. You were there when a teacher in your state couldn’t pronounce ‘solemnly’, how did you feel? I was indeed sad that a teacher in Edo State could not pronounce a simple word as ‘solemn’. That was certainly one of my low moments in the service of Edo State but the eulogies must go to Comrade Adams Oshiomhole who put in place the infrastructure that made it possible to detect such an egregious ambience and this government would stop at nothing in cleansing the Augean stables. Have you ever considered organising English classes in Edo State? I would have loved to organise English classes, my brother, but you will agree with me that I am sufficiently busy just now. Why do you pull your trousers up beyond the waist? Hahahaha….That trousers style is called Yohji Yamamoto. It was my own audacious statement toe rmonstrate against the pervasive tendency of Nigerians especially our youths that took to the practice of putting on trousers exposing their lower anatomical contours and I will do it over and over again. When you speak to Caucasians of English origin, how do they react to you? My friends that are whites simply marvel and sometimes get maniacally bewildered when we engage, most times to my consternation. Do you think that you understand English language better than the owners of the language? I have never had the ambition to know the English language more than the owners. However, I must mention that they are shocked most times to find out several words from me they never heard of that existed in the dictionary. Yet, those words are supposed to be theirs. Na so we see am. Have you ever met with the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka? And what’s your opinion of him? Professor Wole Soyinka is an international personality. It’s either you have met him personally or by reputation. He is a great man and I enjoy reading him anytime, any day. Can you ever be caught speaking what many would consider as normal English? I speak in plain Ceasers language or what you call the normal language and let me tell you that I will hold my own even in pidgin conversation. No just try me at all at all o. What is your take on the ongoing crisis in the PDP? The crisis in PDP? All I can say is that I join some people to dey laugh o and he be like say my laugh go tay well well o. Are you likely to contest for a political office? I am still in politics, serving the good and amiable people of Edo State. Being the Chief of Staff to the comrade governor is in itself an art of daily political engineering. Do you look forward to developing your own dictionary? My own dictionary? I have never really given that a thought, but there is a young man in one of our universities who travelled all the way to meet me in Benin. His doctoral thesis is on “Obahiagbonism as a style of language.” How many dictionaries do you read a day and how often do you read dictionaries? I have read and still do read a vaudeville of dictionaries from Websters to Funk and Wagnalls, from Cambridge to Oxford dictionaries, from Black’s Law Dictionary to Encarta and from Encyclopedia Britannica to Foreignisms, etcetera. I developed my corpus of vocabulary by reading omnivorously. I have also spent nothing less than an hour daily on my dictionary for over twenty years. So, whereas the dictionary for most people is a mere occasional reference point, it is for, me a vade-mecum. It may also interest you to know that there is much to learn from our daily newspapers. You seem to mix English with other languages… On mixing of languages; that comes with reading omnivorously. You cannot but pick these words here and there if you have an audacious reading culture. Is any of your children like you? My children are still growing but I petition the celestial choir and cosmic hosts to give them the gift of kissing the hybla bee. What is your favourite quote? One of my favorite quotes is from the sapiential mind of the late Ikene philosopher, Papa Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo, when he was quoted as saying that, “the greatest glory is not in never falling but to rise up after a fall.” Are you planning to contest in 2015? I always feel flattered and smile with delight when I hear positive commentary on my tenure at the National Assembly and the wish of Nigerians to see me back at the National Assembly. I am humbled but as a student of mysticism, nothing happens in my life by accident. I am a robot in the hands of God and from that point of view therefore, 2015 would take care of itself. All my efforts just now my brother is geared towards complementing the efforts of the comrade governor in the total transmogrification of Edo State which is enough to chew at the moment. Let me however use this opportunity of your question to appreciate my numerous admirers all over the world. How are you coping with the Governor of Edo State, knowing that the two of you have strong personalities? When two or more personages are united only by the bonds of rendering service, that in itself becomes an agglutinating fragrance. In any case, I am very clear that Comrade Oshio Baba is the Governor of Edo State and I am his privileged Chief of Staff. So we are working together very harmoniously and in an ambience of conviviality in our unstoppable desire in taking Edo State to the next level. Culled from: The Punch
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Family / Re: Fun- Bonding Activities For Couples by femmefatale: 5:55pm On Sep 06, 2013 |
orgasticdance: the men i see doing the things in your list are not men in the mold of murray bruce, donald trump, fola adeola, psquare, wizkid, late senator chuba okadigbo, govnor fashola, or even the most able mechanic in ketu. alpha males who for the most part drip with bloodthirsty ambition. no time. we'll send the cheques insteadYou won't be surprised to know that those aforementioned men still find time out of their very busy schedule to do some of dos things with their women. 2 Likes |
Romance / Re: A Thread for Single Ladies :) by femmefatale: 2:00pm On Sep 04, 2013 |
Hmm.... tnx all d same St_Obaino: |
Romance / Re: A Thread for Single Ladies :) by femmefatale: 11:34am On Sep 03, 2013 |
Yeah, u are so on point, getting pregnant for a guy can neva ever b a marriage bait(4 guys). But i really do not blame som ladies dat do dat bcuz some guys can be so self-serving, as in, ehnn. bukatyne: |
Family / Re: A Nairalander Bathing His Baby by femmefatale: 10:50am On Sep 03, 2013 |
I love this..got me thinking though. Hmmm....... namis007: My wife just delivered recently and I have always wanted to be a part of everything going on with my son including bathing him. I begged my mother-inlaw when she came for omugwo to teach me how to bath my baby, and I can say am very good at it because since my mother-inlaw left, I ve been taking turns with my wife to bath the baby. I enjoy it very much. |
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