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uihebom: Chai, na God go guide dem sha. I like army wella. Its not easy to decide dat you want to enrol in to that school. The force I hate with passion na ... Well make I no talk una know dem.

Sherlock Holmes: Na them wicked pass na!

How?

[quote author=Okiki_Oluwa]Whao! It must be very challenging for those girls. Didn't know they were so young, 18, 20 years of age.
Wishing them the best.
TDM Activated!
@Acidosis, Idowuogbo's body is too sticky & tough. She no fit do the kind training wey this girls they do (treak 12Km in a day). Her mouth is her only weapon... FMJ![/quote]the earlier the better for them.

Acidosis: Idowuogbo, why are you wasting your talent on Nairaland?
or na only mouth u get??

Well, I'll enrol my 1st daughter/Son...

Life as a civilian is prone to oppression of all kinds... Military rocks!

Pls, tell her. i always like military, 1 on my children will definitely be a military officer by God's grace if im not able 2 join.

At the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), female cadet officers excel in academics more than their male counterparts.

The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) was established on 5th February 1964 in response to the defence needs of independent Nigeria to train only male officers for the country’s Armed Forces. The role of the Academy was to provide each officer cadet with knowledge, skills and values necessary to meet the requirements of a military officer through military, academic and character development.
But history was made when the President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan on the 14th of February, 2010 ordered that the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) commences enlistment and training of female regular combatant officers.
At the beginning, only 20 female cadets were admitted into the academy for regular combatant training, but today the number has increased to 56.
Checks by Weekly Trust revealed that while the male cadets are taking the lead in the military training, the female are taking the lead in the academic aspect. Weekly Trust learned that out of the 10 positions in the class, the first eight are female cadets while their male counterparts take the remaining positions.
Speaking, Cadet Rejoice Igom, a 20 year old lady from Taraba State, who is also one of the 20 pioneer cadets that started in the Academy with 63 Regular Course, said it has been challenging.
According to her, “It has been very challenging so far because when we came, we where the first set of female cadets in the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) so most of the male cadets were thinking we can’t make it. On our resumption day they were calling us names including prostitutes, asking us why we could not just go to a civil university.
“One of the most challenging aspects of the training for me was “endurance trekking.” Our endurance trekking covers about 12 kilometers on a daily basis, but as time went on, I kept on pushing and whenever am with my course mates, I never come back with them because I used to drop on the way but a third or fourth timer will encourage me and bring me back.
She said happily that now when she go for endurance she goes with the male squared and comes back with the male squared.
“During our obstacle training, it was not easy in the beginning because I used to be very weak also especially during horizontal and vertical rope pull, we could not pull through especially the female cadets, so we used to encourage ourselves because at the beginning we were 20 and we were divided into four battalions that is five of us per battalion, so we used to come together and ask ourselves what happened in your battalion and we would share experiences which really helped us pull through till the end of the first four months in the Academy.
“That is when we challenged ourselves that if we cannot do well in the military training then we must do well in the academic training, so we were able to read well and we came out tops in our various departments including our military training,” she stressed.
On how she was able to cope, she said “it is a thing of the mind and I tasked myself that since my male colleagues can do it, then I too can do it and even though I knew I was weak in some aspects, I also knew I was strong in some other aspects even stronger than my male counterparts.”
She affirmed that none of her course mates in the pioneer set have dropped out and they have intensified efforts to encourage the second set of female cadets so that they can also excel in their chosen career.
“The Academy has been the best place I have been to and it is fun being here and I have no regrets what so ever for choosing a military career.
“My motivation has been that I grew up in Kaduna and I have heard so much about the academy, so it has always been my wish that female cadets be admitted into the academy. Therefore when I heard about it through my mother, I was excited. She did not even know that I was interested in joining, so I bought the form wrote the examination in Maiduguri, Borno state and I was lucky to be one of the short listed candidates for the 63 regular combatant course. I went for the interview and when the final list came out, I was one of the candidates.
“I admire the Army officers and am proud to be an Army cadet; in the history of Nigeria there has never been a female Chief of Army Staff (COAS) so as a pioneer female cadet I hope I can push through because I would like to be the first female COAS Nigeria has ever produced,” she said.
Cadet G. Fedemou is a foreign student from the Central African Republic. Though she could not speak very clear English she told Weekly Trust that she has learnt a lot that she would take back to her country when she passes out from the academy.
On her part, officer cadet Fatima Saleh, an 18 year old indigene of Adamawa State who happened to be the only Muslim in the pioneer set, said she was discouraged by her Arabic school teacher from enrolling.
“When I gained admission into the academy, my Arabic school teacher was against it, but my mother continued to encourage me and I was also determined to join the academy and that was how I found myself here,” she stated.
She maintained that there is no bias between Christians and Muslims as she has taken all the cadets as her sisters. “We do everything together in pursuit of our dream”, she said.
Officer Cadet Nneamaka Adrika is a 21 year old indigene of Anambra State. She said she found it very difficult when she came to the academy at first because there where so many things that she was not used to during her life as a civilian.
“One of the difficulties I faced was the endurance thing; running 13 kilometers everyday is something I did not do when I was a civilian, so I had to get used to that. Another aspect was sleep, sometimes for close to two days we do not see our beds as we are somewhere training or doing one thing or another and before you know what is happening it is morning and you have not slept and the only time you have is to dress up and go for classes.
“So you see yourself struggling between receiving your lectures, sleep and then you see yourself matching and sleeping. Before now, I would never have believed that someone can sleep while walking, but I saw that in the academy because at the beginning I was matching and sleeping at the same time due to tiredness and my body being overworked,” she said.
She is optimistic that she will reach the highest position in the Navy which is the Chief of Naval Staff and probably the Chief of Defence Staff since the present CDA is a naval officer.
Captain Roseline Agwai is an Army officer and also a 2IC female training instructor with the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), she said the training in the academy entails physical, academic and character training.
“The training of cadets in the academy entails physical, academic and that of character for them to become commission officers in the Nigerian Army. They are meeting up to the standard required of them in both academic and military training and even some of them are above the standard set because they are performing better than their male counterparts.
Lt. Commander Abimbola Akinkwade, the 2IC Mogadishu Battalion said the cadets will undergo five year programme. She said in the first four years they will get their degrees and the last year is 80% military and 20% academic training.
Speaking, the Commandant of NDA Major General Emeka Onwuamaegbu said the first set of the regular combatant female cadets who commenced training in September 2010 has continued to excel in all aspects of the training in the academy.
“The female cadets in the academy have continued to excel in both their academic and military training, in fact in the area of academics, they have outperformed their male counterparts because in the first 10 positions in the academics training, eight are females cadets, the best cadet for military training is a female cadet.
“In the areas of discipline, they have not been found wanting, in the areas of physical training, they have also done exceptionally well, so I commend Mr. President who ordered for the training of female cadets for regular combatant programme in the academy and I think he has been vindicated by his decision to open the doors of the academy to the female folks.
“I would want to encourage all qualified female candidates who are Nigerians to take advantage of this opportunity that has been opened up for them because in the next 10-20 years, if they do not, they will find out that females from other parts of the world have left them behind”, he noted

source: http://weeklytrust.com.ng/index.php/features/11486-at-nda-female-cadets-lead-in-academics

CLIQBOY: if na iman or alfa now..the large mouthed nairalanders will be bashing islam has a whole..well i reserve my comment

This is one in a thousand, while boro haram and some muslim cleric do use guns and dangerous weapons to threaten non-muslims. btw this was a case of Christian to christian not christian to non christian.

What is d big deal, are they not human beings? are they not supposed to socialize like others, so kini big deal? FYI,it not only 9ja police that do that its every where.

The other day an assistant referee posed with Messi to take a photograph, if its Nigeria, people will be raising eye brows.
abeg, free them.

A fire swept through a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil early Sunday, killing at least 245 people and leaving at least 200 injured, police and firefighters said.

Police Maj. Cleberson Braida told local news media that the 245 bodies were brought for identification to a gymnasium in the city of Santa Maria.

That toll apparently would make it the deadliest nightclub fire in more than a decade.

Braida said the club had only one working exit, and the majority of victims died trampled in an attempt to flee.

The cause of the blaze was still under investigation but authorities told local reporters that fireworks, perhaps shot off by the band, erupted in the midst of the performance and one hit the roof.

Michele Schneid, a 22-year-old cashier, told local news media that people began to shout "Fire!," setting off the stampede.

"Many people ran for the bathrooms and wound up dying suffocated," he said.

The newspaper Diario de Santa Maria reported that the fire started at around 2 a.m. at the Kiss nightclub in the city at the southern tip of Brazil, near the borders with Argentina and Uruguay.

Ezekiel Corte Real, 23, was quoted by the paper as saying that he helped people to escape. "I just got out because I'm very strong," he said.

Police estimated 900 people were in the club when the fire broke out.

The fire led President Dilma Roussef to cancel a series of meetings she had scheduled at a summit of Latin American and European leaders in Chile's capital of Santiago, and was headed to Santa Maria, according to the Brazilian foreign ministry.

"It is a tragedy for all of us. I am not going to continue in the meeting (in Chile) for very clear reasons," she said.

"Sad Sunday", tweeted Tarso Genro, the governor of the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. He said all possible action was being taken and that he would be in the city later in the day.

Santa Maria is a university city with a population of around a quarter of a million.

A welding accident reportedly set off a Dec. 25, 2000, fire at a club in Luoyang, China, killing 309.

At least 194 people died at an overcrowded working-class nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2004.

A blaze at the Lame Horse nightclub in Perm, Russia, broke out on Dec. 5, 2009, when an indoor fireworks display ignited a plastic ceiling decorated with branches, killing 152

A nightclub fire in the U.S. state of Rhode Island in 2003 killed 100 people after pyrotechnics used as a stage prop by the 1980s rock band Great White set ablaze cheap soundproofing foam on the walls and ceiling.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/police-death-toll-245-brazil-club-fire-134056545.html

[quote author=Okiki_Oluwa]How did dey violate the rules? News not complete.
They didn't ban micro mini skirts![/quote]only trousers was banned.

Kogi State government has banned female teachers in the public primary and secondary schools from wearing trousers during school hours.
The state Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Grace Elebiyo during a press briefing on Wednesday warned that any female teacher caught violating the order will face disciplinary action.

Elebiyo said this new order came after some female teachers in the state were caught violating their professional code of dressing.


She asserted that Kogi State Ministry of Education would no longer tolerate indecent dressing to schools.


The commissioner added that government would soon commence on the rehabilitation and upgrading of facilities in primary and secondary schools in the state.

source: http://talkofnaija.com/index.php/news/noticeboard/female-teachers-banned-from-wearing-trousers-in-kogi-state/80169

The Emir of Kano, Ado Bayero, was on Saturday afternoon attacked by gunmen leading to the death of his driver and his orderly.

The gunmen laid ambush on the convoy of the Emir around the Zoo road when he was returning from the Murtala Mosque in the city where he had gone to attend a Quranic recitation competition.

Mr. Bayero was reportedly saved by his driver and orderly who formed a protective wall around him and took the bullets fired at him. They are both reportedly dead.

“His driver called Barde and orderly were killed instantly, and his first son, the Ciroman Kano is badly injured from bullet wounds” a source just informed us.

Mr. Bayero is however safe and back to his palace.

A lady whose house is not far from the scene of the attack informed us that a number of the emirs’ palace guards were also killed in the attack. About 10 people are feared dead from the attack.

“One of them even tried to take refuge in our house but could not succeed because the young men sitting in front of the building locked the doors after they heard the gunshots” she said.

Efforts to reach spokespersons of the Police, Magaji Majiya, were unsuccessful, while that of the JTF, Ikedioha Iweha, referred us to the Emirate Council.

source: http://premiumtimesng.com/news/115974-breaking-news-emir-of-kano-saved-in-attack-driver-orderly-killed.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=breaking-news-emir-of-kano-saved-in-attack-driver-orderly-killed

Why is the moderator hiding the posts?

I LOVE THIS!! GOD BLESS YOU UZOR KALU, EAGLES ALL THE WAY.

Evasive boss of Bi-Courtney Company, Mr. Olawale Babalakin has finally showed up in court today for a long-filed arraignment by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission [EFCC].

Declared wanted by the EFCC yesterday for failing to honor an appointment for his preparatory arraignment billed for court today, Babalakin denied EFCC’s declaration of him ‘wanted’ as a figment and machination of the anti-graft agency. The wanted businessman appeared in court flanked by his[b] prayer warriors, some in mufti wears and others in celestial garments.[/b]

Soon after the court began proceeding, his counsel began applying for bail, stating grounds of the defendant’s status and applying for his bail on the basis of self-recognition. Also, immediately, his hired prayer mongers commenced muttering prayer points for the granting of his freedom as he pleaded ‘not guilty’ to all twenty-one count charges filed against him.

Presiding judge, Mr. Adeniyi Onigbanjo granted his bail on the ground of his self-recognition. However, as a precaution to prevent his jumping bail, court ordered the seizure of his international passport with the EFCC. His counsel, Olawale Akoni, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, assured the court that his client will be available any time requested by the court. Counsel to the second defendant, Mr. Alex Okoh, Tayo Oyetibo [SAN] also took same ground to apply for his client, bail grant. Mr. Okoh was also granted bail on the similar ground of self-recognition. He already had his travel passport deposited with the EFCC.

Application to quash the charge by the defense counsels were dismissed by the court. However, in a desperate measure to save Babalakin and his co-defendant from complicity, counsels to the defendants have also filed affidavits challenging the competencies of the charges, which became subject of another consideration. Justice Onigbanjo adjourned matter to 25th February 2013.

Mr. Babalakin had been playing tricks to avoid arraignment. Some of his tricks included using his associates to stand for administrative bail, failing to appear in court in the pretext of sickness while applying for court order to stop the EFCC from prosecuting him and feigning sickness at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission accused Mr. Babalakin of Criminal Conspiracy and Money Laundering to the tune of N4.7billion. Babalakin was said to have laundered money on behalf of UK jailed former Governor of Delta State, James Onafefe Ibori. He also took money in a fraudulent deal to acquire a bombardier jet for the jailed former Delta State Governor.

source: http://saharareporters.com/gallery/photonews-finally-wale-babalakin-shows-court-his-prayer-warriors

lack of interest!

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You just can cheat nature!!

Footballer Levi Foster got a yellow card for farting in the refs face.

He was having his boots checked before kick-off when he broke wind.

Outraged match official Bunny Reid threatened to send him off until an apologetic Levi talked him into just a caution as both sides burst out laughing.

The game ended in a 5-0 win for AFC GOP over Portsmouth Sunday league rivals Apsley House with windy Levi named Man of the Match.

Levi, 30, admitted: I had a curry the night before.

Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/football-player-gets-booked-for-farting-431979

djeezy: Nice pictures, she's really pretty. Btw I commented because I'm 100% sure it will make front page.

u r a BAAAAD boy!!

@ OP,

1. so, cus Sumbo was Tuface Ex, she should not marry again?
2. Most girls have an Ex in their lives, do you suggest they remain single?
3. What makes Sumbo Tuface's "wife"?
4. Why didnt Tuface marry her?

nne3870: Sumbo is soooo fine. The boys are really cute too, idibia should have married this one, that annie girl is ok too but not very beautiful.
Guess beauty is in the eyes of the beholder!!

1. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
2. Tuface knows the reason why he choose Annie
3. Marriage is not all about beauty
4. There are so many beautiful girls out there who are single (and looking/searching for husbands) with no attitude.
5. Inner beauty comes before outward beauty.

EX! EX!! EX!!! NONI

gwas: Club rules man.
I will take Nigeria game serious when they start playing a good football.

Presently, there is an improvement compared to previous squad

Jibson999: Dem force you to open the thread, go drink ur kunu jor...

i pity you. go and meet you "ex".

Most football (esp European clubs) fans prefer watching and supporting their clubs at the expense of their country. Some can even be so passionate about this clubs to the extent of doing some "nasty" things (like betting, etc), but when it comes to Nigerian matches, some will not want to watch, some will see mistakes (and condemn) anything a Nigerian player touches the ball; Some will prefer to watch club matches to country matches; some dont have faith/belief in Nigerian games.


As a football fan, which do you prefer to watch or support? Your clubs or Country?