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Abeg pop the Dom Pérignon, make we shark, as big boys, leave that apprentist(studio), 

na MI and tuface go fit manage raise the quality of the guy Album, if not the Album no go make any sense

this time around i no dey worry myself dey arrange the format, now na maga dey come pay me their due regularly at when their time reach, how u see am na

Lolajoy:
Hahahahahahahhahahahaha very funny i actually pity 3000.

pity ursef cos u no go leave to see am

hmmmn year 3000

wats goin on here

i'm a fresh boy

they said its for security reason

mama g na u go resurect this thread

hello guys

Dani where are u, dis thread should b locked, u said it, pls do ur job

pls keep the fire of love ever burning, so they said

Fresh facts emerging on the alleged attempt by 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to blow up a passenger plane in the United States on Christmas day showed that the attempt would have been averted if the Yemeni government had not frustrated the attempts by the suspect's father, Alhaji Umar Mutallab to visit the country in search of his lost son.

A source close to the security agencies investigating the attempt from the Nigerian end, hinted THISDAY that about three months ago, the former chairman of First Bank of Nigeria Plc, Alhaji Mutallab applied at different times for Yemeni visa but was turned down.

The elder Mutallab, a prominent banker and muslim who is the chairman designate of the yet to be established Jaiz Islamic Bank ordinarily would have no problem obtaining travel permits into any country in the world, including the US, but was refused visa by the Yemeni embassy.

The source said after the attempted bombing suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who was pursuing a post graduate degree in the United Arab Emirates visited Yemen to participate in a short course in Arabic studies with the permission of his parents, he later wrote to them that he would like to embark on another five year study programme in Yemen.

At this point, the elder Mutallab rejected his son's request and insisted he should return to Dubai or UAE to complete his masters degree programme.

He also threatened that if Farouk did not comply with the instruction, he would stop funding him.

However, Farouk, the source said, told the father that the refusal to provide funds for his programmne would not make him change his plans. He later sent a message to the father that he was severing his links with the family. He said the message would be the last time any member of the family would have any contact with him as they would henceforth not be able to get in touch with him.

Farouk then went ahead to discontinue the use of the telephone numbers he was using from Dubai and the one he used to contact the father when he got to Yemen.

It was the last message Farouk sent to the father which got him worried and led to his desperate moves to visit Yemen in search of his son.

After several attempts to get entry visa to Yemen, the ex-First Bank chief then decided to pursue alternative means of seeking to search for his son and repatriating him back home.

He then contacted the American Embassy in Abuja and the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), the foreign arm of the nation's intelligence network for help.
Surprisingly, both the embassy and the NIA did not seem to have taken serious action on his report. The lack of concerted effort to act on the report and the refusal of the Yemeni authorities to allow Alhaji Mutallab enter its shores to search for the young man who he suspected had fallen into the hands of people with extreme tendencies in Islam eventually led to the attempt to blow up the North-west Delta Airliner with almost 300 passengers and crew members.

However, the Ghanaian aviation authorities yesterday responded to the information released on Thursday by its Nigerian counterparts that Farouk only spent 27 minutes in Nigreria on his way from Ghana before boarding a KLM airline plane to Amsterdam on Christmas eve.

Reuters yesterday quoted a Ghanaian airport official Yaw Kwakwa, deputy managing director of Ghana Airports, who said Farouk may not have begun his journey from Ghana.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had been thought to have started his journey on December 24, taking a Lagos-Amsterdam flight, but Nigeria said on Thursday he had first flown from Accra to Lagos.

"The fact that he possibly boarded a Virgin Nigeria flight from Accra to Lagos does not mean he began his journey in Ghana as is being claimed by some officials in Nigeria," said Kwakwa.

Information Minister Dora Akunyili said on Thursday the suspect took a Virgin Nigeria flight from Accra to Lagos before boarding a KLM flight from there to Amsterdam. He began his journey in Ghana and spent less than 30 minutes at Lagos airport, she said.

He changed planes at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport and flew to Detroit. Nigerian and Dutch officials have said he passed through the normal security screenings at Lagos and Schiphol airports.

"We realised (he) probably could have been in Ghana , so we heightened our security checks, but that does not mean he began his plans from Ghana," Kwakwa said.

Ghana tightened security checks at Accra's Kotoka International Airport the day after Abdulmutallab's arrest, Kwakwa said, but no decision had been taken on whether to use body scanners.

"Body scanners are effective tools, but apart from the cost, there are issues such as the infringement of privacy still around its use, so we want to weigh all the options before deciding whether we should buy it or not," he said.

Abdulmutallab, 23, has been charged with trying to blow up Northwest Airlines flight 253 as it approached Detroit from Amsterdam with almost 300 people on board.

Meanwhile, THISDAY's continuing background checks on Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab turned up an interesting angle to his personae.
For instance, a neighbour of the Mutallabs, Kabiru Suleiman, who was also a secondary school mate of Farouk at Essence International School, said despite Farouk's strong views about religion, he admired a certain female school mate, Asmau when they were in JSS One (seventh grade).

He said: "I know he liked her and he spoke about her a lot to me. When he was leaving for British International School in Togo, he told me to take good care of her."

However, when THISDAY contacted Asmau at her family residence on Ohinoyi Road, Kaduna, although she admitted that Farouk was an old school mate, she said she didn't know whether or not Farouk liked her because he never told her so.

"Yes, we were classmates in JSS One. We shared the same seat in the class. He never told me he had any feelings for me. We were just classmates and spent only the first term together before he left for the British International School," she said.

na wa oo , so because i share my dream with una, lysaa why u come dey attack me like this na, na only me u call all those things eh

Which kind dream i even dream last nit sef, i just find my self naked with one fine okpeke, as i say make i slot my debit card inside the ATM machine, nai my phone just ring wake me up. My ppl una gudmonin,

blacksta:
I think he is joking  -  Some people dont realise that War on Terror is not a script written by the western world

i thought as much how would americans be funding terrorism indirectly, yemen on its own is a small poor country so i dont see any reason America would want to go to that extend

No2Atheism:


Sometimes its quite funny that the same Arabs that are figthing US do not realise that the US itself is the one funding them to fight the US so that the US can get an excuse to then turn around and wag an un-ending war against the Arabs . . .



Talk about working for your enemy against your own interest without even knowing it . . .

hey are u serious or u're just joking

i guess u look into the case

*yawns*

wetin i do am

studio43:
Gidson u nor deliver the message to lyssa well jor

Abeg studio, make una no drag me put in the middle of una riot luv

Pharoh:
4 Witch Person Head

sorry o! i no know say ur head dey there , but y u come dey sleep 4 bush na

most of the post are from single and unmarried, the reality comes at Marriage, so everybody should hold his/her views till they get married and see how it suits

Threats by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula against targets in Yemen prompted the closure of the U.S. and British embassies there Sunday, officials said.

"There are indications that al Qaeda is planning to carry out an attack against a target inside of Sanaa, possibly our embassy," John Brennan, the assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, said on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday. "And what we do is to take every measure possible to ensure the safety of our diplomats and citizens abroad, so the decision was made to close the embassy."

The United States is working closely with the Yemeni government on the proper security precautions, he said.

The British Foreign Office told CNN its embassy also closed because of security concerns. A spokeswoman said a decision would be made later Sunday on whether it would reopen on Monday.

U.S. State Department spokesman Fred Lash would not elaborate on any specific security threats, and said he did not know how long the embassy would remain closed.
The embassy on December 31 alerted Americans in Yemen to remain on alert for the possibility of terrorist violence.

On Christmas Day, a Nigerian man allegedly attempted to detonate an explosive device on board a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Detroit, Michigan. On Saturday, President Obama linked the suspect, 23-year-old Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, to an al Qaeda affiliate based in Yemen.

Shortly after the incident, Yemen-based al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility for the bombing attempt.

"I think what we've seen over the past several years in Yemen is an increasing strengthening of al Qaeda forces in Yemen," Brennan told CNN. "There are several hundred al Qaeda members there."

In a Sunday interview on the BBC's "The Andrew Marr Show," British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said besides increased security measures, "We've got to also get back to the source of this, which is Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan, and we've got to recognize that we've got a group of young people who have been radicalized as a result of teaching by extremist clerics, and we've got to recognize that we're fighting a battle for hearts and minds here as much as everything else."

He said Britain will work with American authorities to support the Yemeni government in its counterterrorism efforts.

On Saturday, Gen. David Petraeus, head of the U.S. Central Command, met with Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen, a senior U.S. government official told CNN. During his meeting with Petraeus, Saleh expressed his appreciation for U.S. help in combating extremists, offered more support for U.S. counterterrorism strikes, and said he would continue providing assistance for the U.S. investigation into the attempted bombing, the official said.

The official said that Petraeus was carrying several messages and "various items" of information from Obama to Saleh. No further details were available.
The two men discussed the latest intelligence on al Qaeda in Yemen, the official said, adding that the group in the U.S.-Yemeni meeting was kept very small on both sides.

In remarks Saturday, Obama pledged that everyone involved in the attack would be held accountable, and highlighted his administration's attempts to crack down on extremist enclaves in Yemen. The president also reiterated his long-standing promise to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat" al Qaeda.

Obama said that AbdulMutallab had recently traveled to Yemen and that "it appears that he joined an affiliate of al Qaeda." Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula apparently trained AbdulMutallab, equipped him with explosives, and directed him to attack the plane, the president said in his weekly radio address.

Obama has been criticized by some political opponents for not responding more aggressively to the bombing attempt.

From the first day, the Obama administration has been focused on Yemen, Brennan said Sunday
"We are very concerned about al Qaeda's continued growth there, but they're not just focused on Yemen," he said of al Qaeda. "They are, in fact, looking toward the West." That's why, he said, "we have to get to this problem in Yemen now."

"This is not the first time this group has targeted us," Obama noted. Recently, he said, "they have bombed Yemeni government facilities and Western hotels, restaurants and embassies -- including our embassy in 2008."

"Everything is possible" in terms of U.S. military assistance, Brennan told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday. The United States is providing Yemen with "security, intelligence and military support," he said. "We want to make sure the Yemenis have what they need."

He told CNN that while the United States has made progress in diminishing al Qaeda's capabilities, the organization is still a threat and still has the capacity to carry out attacks, and continues looking for ways to do so.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/01/03/yemen.us.embassy/index.html

studio43:
How come u manage to know wetin dem dey call monkey tail if i may ask, Ore gba jesu sinu aye o

wetin concern accepting Jesus and monkey tail now

hmmmn

*just stopped bye to take a pee, spits and left*

lysaa:
laugh is laugh u can't wear it out. copy that!

hey pls dont bite me

SOS , i no see any SOS message, how u take send, through phone,sms, letter, town crier or u shout am from on top moutain