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Meanwhile you should read

20 Unbelievable White House Security Breaches

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If you were asked to name the most secure residential building on planet Earth, you’d probably guess that it’s the home of the President of the United States. Well, you might have to guess again after reading this.

While ostensibly a fortress and one of the most heavily defended buildings in the world, people actually manage to infiltrate the White House almost every time. According to a report published by the Secret Service, there has been more than 100 breaches since 1980

Just last week, two men were accused of breaching White House security less than 24 hours apart: an Iraq veteran who allegedly jumped the fence carrying a knife, and a teenager who drove up to the gates and refused to leave.

Here are a few unbelievable White House security breaches throughout history.

1. Omar Gonzalez Wanted To Warn The President About The Atmosphere Collapsing

Omar Gonzalez scaled the fence outside the White House, dashed across the lawn and entered the executive mansion

Gonzalez was eventually stopped by a plainclothes agent inside

According to agents who arrested him, Gonzalez who was with a knife, said that he was desperate to see the President to warn him about ‘the atmosphere collapsing’.

Omar Gonzalez had more than 800 rounds of ammo in his car plus two hatchets and a machete

Gonzalez was also stopped on Aug. 25 while walking along the south fence of the White House. He had a hatchet in his rear waist band but was not arrested after he permitted a search of his car, which was parked nearby.

Police found camping gear and two dogs but no ammo

2. Micheal Rudzik Mistakenly Breached The White House

In 1986, Michael Rudzik was arrested at some place just inside the White House fence.

According to report from the following day, Rudzik “had no intention of harming the first family”; in fact, he may not have known he was climbing into the White House.

A Secret Service spokesman explained that “alcohol and medication taken by Rudzik may have contributed to the incident.”

3. Anthony Henry Wanted The President To Remove “In God We Trust” From Currency

In 1978, Anthony Henry climbed the fence wearing a karate gi and was confronted by security.

He pulled a knife and wounded two guards. After his arrest, it was revealed that he wanted President Carter to remove “In God We Trust” from currency.

4. Joseph Tubbs Wanted The President To Give Him A Job

What do you do when you do not have a job? You apparently walk straight to the straight to the President requesting for a job. Dont believe us? Ask Joseph Tubbs.

In 1981, Joseph Tubbs climbed the north fence apparently because he wanted a job. He is not alone, Mark Hotchkiss was arrested in 1986 for the same reason.

5. Robert Preston Wanted To Show The World He Was A Good Pilot

In 1974, Robert Preston stole a helicopter and after a hot helicopter chase from the police, he decided to stop at the White House where Secret Service agents started shooting at him.

At that point he went ahead and landed and surrendered.

So what was his motivation? He had just failed out of flight school and wanted to show the world that he was a good pilot .

6. Gerald Gainous Was Determined To Make The President Pardon His Father

In 1974, Gerald Gainous was a man on a mission: to get inside the White House and have a nice chat with the President about pardoning his (i.e. Gainous’s) father.

He entered the white house, wandered around the grounds for an hour and a half in, strolling up to President Ford’s daughter while she unpacked her car. He was eventually caught.

Ten days later when he did it again. That was not the end of it.

The following year he jumped the White House fence twice more. By the fourth attempt, the Secret Service was literally waiting for him on the other side of the fence.

7. The British Burnt The White House To The Ground

When it comes to unwelcome visitors at the White House, the British Army probably ranks at the top of the list.

During the War of 1812 British forces entered Washington D.C. they burnt the white house to the ground and to make issues worse, they kept throwing wood to the flame just to make sure the flame stayed overnight.

Eventually the war ended and the White House was rebuilt.

Moral Lesson: Dont Mess With Englishmen, else they will burn your presidential villa

8. Charles Dickens Broke Into The White House When The President Failed To Answer The Door Fast Enough

Charles Dickens (a famous writer) broke into the White House in 1842 when President Tyler failed to answer the door fast enough.

9. Francisco Martin Duran Was Trying To Save The World From An Alien

Francisco Martin Duran, pulled a rifle from under his trench coat and opened fire, unleashing at least 29 rounds at the White House, where President Clinton was watching football.

When he stopped to reload, passersby managed to tackle and subdue him. Duran pleaded not guilty and mounted an insanity defense, claiming that he was trying to save the world by destroying an alien “mist,” connected by an umbilical cord to an alien.

His insanity plea was rejected and was convicted of attempted assassination and sentenced to 40 years in prison. He is set to be released in 2029

10.Lowell Timmers Wanted To Revert His Daughters Fiance’s Deportation

Angry that his daughter’s undocumented fiancé could be deported, Timmers threatened to blow up his van near the White House.

“I want my son, and I’m not leaving until my son-in-law is out of jail,” Timmers reportedly told authorities during the ensuing four-and-a-half-hour standoff.

He eventually surrendered peacefully, and later pleaded guilty to making a false explosive threat. He told the court, however, that he couldn’t “rule out” the possibility that he would do it again, but “the odds of that happening are 800 million billion [sic] to one.”

11.Tareq and Michaele Salahi Crashed a Dinner Party in The White House

In what may have been the most glamorous breach in White House history, Tareq and Michaele Salahi managed to slip through two security checkpoints and into a White House state dinner, where they mingled with the president, vice president and chief of staff in November 2009.

White House security wasn’t aware of the intrusion until the next day, when the Salahis bragged about their stunt on Facebook.

12.Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez Was Convinced Obama is the Foretold Anti-Christ

Apparently fearful of an impending apocalypse, Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez fired at least eight rounds at the White House from the window of his Honda Accord, striking the building several times and severely damaging its façade.

President Obama, whom Ortega, reportedly called “the anti-Christ,” was away at the time. Ortega fled the scene and was apprehended in a hotel room in Pennsylvania five days later.

He eventually pled guilty to firing an assault weapon at the White House and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

13.The 2 Year Old Baby That Breached The White House Fence

In perhaps the most adorable security breach to date, a 2-year-old squeezed through the White House fence, spurring a lockdown and delaying the president’s impending address to the nation.

“We were going to wait until he learned to talk to question him,” a Secret Service spokesman said, ”but in lieu of that he got a timeout and was sent on way with parents.”

The toddler managed to squeeze through the fence onto the White House lawn, before being returned to his parents. He was unable to answer security questions, as he had not yet learned how to talk.

14.Richard Weaver – The Invisible Gate Crasher

Perpetual gate crasher Richard Weaver managed to get by Secret Service checks four times: he managed to shake George W Bush’s hand at his 2001 inauguration, infiltrate a 1991 prayer breakfast led by the first George Bush and Bill Clinton’s 1997 inaugural luncheon.

He said God made him “invisible to security”.

He was only arrested after approaching George W. Bush at a 2003 prayer breakfast.

15.Frank Eugne Corder Crashed A Plane On The White House Lawn

Frank Eugene Corder crashed a small airplane on the White House South Lawn. Corder was killed in the crash. Radar at National Airport only picked up on the plane minutes before it crashed, The Los Angeles Times reported.

The plane skidded across the lawn and slammed into a wall just below the presidential bedroom. Corder, reportedly intoxicated at the time, was the sole fatality.

16. The Nakedd Man Who Had An Urgent Appointment With President Obama

Protestor Michel Bechard was refused access to the White House and responded by stripping naked.

He then fought with security guards and was arrested for assault and indecent exposure. He claimed he had an urgent appointment with President Obama.

17.Lucas Proves That You Are Never Too Old To Breach The White House

A 66-year-old man proved that age is no barrier to trespassing. Catalino Lucas Diaz scaled the White House fence and claimed to have a bomb.

Security had to use water cannon to destroy the package, but it did not contain any dangerous materials.

18.The Reporter Who Forgot Her Pass

The first fence-jumper to enter the White House was Beth Campbell — who was also an Associated Press reporter covering the 1937 inauguration.

When she couldn’t find her access pass, she simply jumped the fence

19.Jeffery Grossman Wanted to Discuss Health Care with Obama

Jeffrey Grossman of New York was arrested shortly after hopping the fence.

He said he was on his way to discuss healthcare with President Obama.

20.The Family Who Confidently And Easily Honked Their Way Into The White House

In an October 1982 case dubbed “The Family Outing,” James Douglas Imes, 38, his wife and two sons drove to the White House in a minivan, honked their horn and were let on to the grounds.

Officers were confused because another gate was broken, then assumed the family was authorized until they neared the Oval Office entrance.


See, even the White House is not thaat saft.


What do you think would happen to these people if they tried any of these stunt with our very own Aso Rock?

Let us know in the comment section below.

- See more at: http://giftedgreen.com/2014/blog/2014/09/26/20-unbelievable-white-house-security-breaches/#sthash.8QJ8o6IU.dpuf

Gloria3389: @op please what message are you trying to pass across??....
not to judge pple by their virginity?....
if that is the message I strongly agree with u....but some parts of your post supports premarital sex....or am I getting u wrong?....I need clarification pls

The post dosent support premarital sex, neither does it condemn it. Just as temigrace said "Different strokes for different folks".
What the post is against is the way people get to make virginity look like a monumental deal. And like you said, the post is strongly against using virginity as an indicator of morality or goodness.

For crying outloud. . . There are psychopaths and sociopaths out there who are virgins

Arva: I don't agree with you at all o...OP.

What is your opinion?

This is supposed to promote sesual promiscuity but can we all stop talking about virginity like it is such a big deal. Yes, I said it, virginity is grossly overrated.

Virginity is not a thing, really, it is a social construct meant to make people, especially women, feel badly about their sesuality and sesual experiences. Virginity is a passive-aggressive way of policing other people’s bodies and passing judgement on how they use them.

One problem that people fail to realize about virginity is that there is no hard and fast way of deciding who’s a virgin and who isn’t. Do you really think virginity can be measured or checked?

Many people define loss of virginity in almost the same way – a sesual act where the pennis penetrates the vaggina. But does that mean, then, that a lesbbian who has only been with other women is a virgin? Is a ggay man, who has only ever had anal seex, a virgin? Most people would agree that they aren’t really virgins, even if they’ve never had pennis-in-vaggina-style-intercourse.

How about rape victims? Who decides if they are virgins after the act of being raped? Rape victims usually consider themselves to be virgins because they don’t consider what happened to them to be seex.

Putting these into consideration, how then, do we define virginity?

Some people would say that performing any sesual act constitutes loss of one’s virginity, but that is a definition too broad for word virginity. Kids start experimenting with sesual play and experimentation at a fairly young age (common you know you are guilty), so does it then follow that every child who’s kissed someone of the opposite seex or played “mama and papa” has de facto lost their virginity? I am quite sure this sounds as crazier than ingesting salt to help prevent Ebola.

Another problem is that there is literally no way of knowing if someone is a virgin or not. People might tell you that you can check if a woman’s hymen is broken, but that’s not a reliable indicator at all. A hymen can be broken without any kind of sexual intercourse, through sports or some kind of injury. Hymen can be replaced through reconstructive surgery.

That is not all, hard to believe but not all women are born with hymens. Not all hymens tear during penetrative sex. And yet, we’ve all been sold this idea of torn flesh and blood on sheets as some kind of rite of passage for women.

And that is not the annoying part. The annoying part is how people associate virginity with being a good person. Like seriously? People consider a girl who is a virgin a good person and vice versa. The way some people flaunt the fact that they are virgins makes you wonder when virginity became the standard for measuring morality.

Just because you are a virgin, does not make you a better than the person who isn’t. It is a life choice and while we respect that, it does not give you the avenue to look down on anybody.

It’s like choosing not to smoke and all of a sudden you start to think you are better person than those who choose to smoke. You might live longer but it sure does not make you a better person.

Deciding what makes you a better person encompasses a million things and virginity is definitely not among them.

Finally, why is virginity so damn important to us? We don’t have nouns for who or what we were before we hit any other life milestones – there’s no term to refer to a person before they can walk or talk or read and write – all of which I would argue are more important achievements than getting laid – and yet it’s the sex that we focus on. Why do we put so much more weight on this one small facet of human life than we do on any of the others? Why are we still making a big deal out of who is a virgin and who isn’t?

This is the discussion that we should be having – not the advantages and disadvantages of being a virgin or not, but why we still use this damaging term.

We need to talk about why the idea of virginity continues to hold such sway over our cultural consciousness.

Most importantly, we need to figure out a better way to talk to kids about their bodies and their sexuality, because the way that we’re doing it now clearly isn’t working.

http://giftedgreen.com/2014/blog/2014/09/25/virginity-is-grossly-overrated-opinion/

Conspiracy theorists love to spin tall tales of secret government research laboratories where deadly biological agents are cultivated and monsters are bred, and like many other unexplainable diseases, Ebola is not left out of the taradiddle fabrication factories.

At Gftedgreen, we love conspiracy theories because they tend to give an interesting view to every topic, no matter how boring or mundane such an issue might be, conspiracy theorist would give you a juicy, interesting view within minutes.

Despite the amount of information out there, conspiracy theorists are still able to give the Ebola an arousing spin.

1. Ebola Was Created By The United States

Dr. Leonard Horowitz, a Harvard graduate, an independent investigator, believes that the viruses (Ebola, AIDs, Leukemia etc.), that now threaten humanity’s survival, most likely evolved from early cancer virus experiments in which top military-pharmaceutical scientists infected monkeys with viral genes from other animals.

Such contaminated monkeys were then used to develop viral vaccines tested on humans simultaneously in New York City and Central Africa.

These “vaccines” they believe are the cause of source of every life-threatening virus that plagues the world today.

2. Ebola Is A Cover For “Cannibalistic Rituals.”

Recently, an angry mob numbering thousands gathered outside one of the main Ebola treatment hospitals in Sierra Leone, threatening to burn it down and remove the patients.

According to Reuters, “the protest was sparked by a former nurse who had told a crowd at a nearby fish market that Ebola was unreal and a gimmick aimed at carrying out cannibalistic rituals.”

Police were forced to use tear gas to disperse the crowds.

3. Ebola Is A Cover For Buying And Selling Body Parts.

This paranoia was fuelled further by health workers’ practice of burying the bodies of Ebola victims as soon as possible to prevent the spread of the virus.

Ebola victims taken away by health officials are rarely seen again alive – or even dead. Nobody is returned to the family for customary burial due to the virulent nature of the disease. Loved ones just disappear.

But that meant many family members never saw their loved ones’ bodies.

In Guinea, officials are working to ensure burial practices are not only medically safe but respectful of the local culture.

4. Ebola Is Witchcraft

It’s no surprise that the religious leaders in Africa are doing more harm than good when it comes to the Ebola outbreak.

Pastor T.B Joshua, a respected man of God in Nigeria and Africa, insists that the killer disease Ebola currently ravaging West Africa is from ‘the pit of hell’. Satan is the manufacturer, the source,” Joshua defiantly declared to the faithful.

Pastro T.B Joshua also sent 4,000 bottles of ‘Anointing Water’ to the Ebola-stricken nation of Sierra Leone on the request of the government, alongside $50,000 in humanitarian aid.

He is not alone. Others are convinced that the Ebola virus is a plague unleashed by God to punish ‘immoral acts’ like homsexualty. Various church leaders of the Liberia Council of Churches (LCC) reportedly attended a meeting to discuss ‘a spiritual response’ to the outbreak which has claimed over a thousand lives in West Africa

5. Ebola Is Meant To Create A Lucrative Market For The US And US Drug Manufacturers

When US President Barack Obama rejected Nigeria’s request for the ZMapp drug (an experimental drug believed to cure Ebola) conspiracy theorists started weighing in on possible motives behind the super power’s decision.

Conspiracy theorists believe the spread of Ebola is intentional so that companies involved in the production of the vaccine/cure would benefit.

That would be if Ebola does turn into a further global health crisis, it will certainly prove lucrative for certain US drug manufacturers who can stack up millions of dollars.

6. Ebola Is A Just An Excuse For International Aid

After the Ebola outbreak, monetary aid has been flowing into West African countries to help combat Ebola, and conspiracy theorists believe this is the end game Ebola.

Government officials getting rich off the aid pouring in from around the world is just one of the theories circulating among West African communities.

7. Ebola Is A Population Reduction Technique

No conspiracy theory would be complete without creating a link to the New World Order, popularly known as Illuminati.

Conspiracy theorists believe that the ultimate goal of the New World Order is to reduce the population of the world to a few millions and Ebola is one of their weapons.

Other believe Ebola is meant to reduce the population of Africans only. Their reason? Why would a drug magically surface when an American is infected and it becomes incurable when an African man is infected?

8. The Marburg Connection

The first outbreaks of a Filovirus (Marburg which is nearly identical to Ebola and which causes clinically indistinguishable hemorrhagic disease) took place simultaneously in laboratories in Frankfurt, Marburg and Belgrade in 1967. These labs were all producing vaccines using (amongst other animals) African green monkeys.

Interestingly, though the outbreak was associated with the monkeys, there is no known animal reservoir for either of these viruses – humans appear to be their only victims. It seems that fruit bats can spread the virus but they are not affected by it.

And again, the index cases were not in Africa but instead, were in European vaccine laboratories.

These facts have to lead a thinking person to ask the question – are these viruses man-made or do we believe that their sudden emergence simultaneously in three European vaccine labs is a mere coincidence?

9. Ebola Is Not The Killer, The Cure Is

Do you wonder why any normal thinking person (or a even health worker) would evade treatment after such a person diagnosed with Ebola? They might believe that Ebola is not the killer; the treatment, they believe is what is responsible for the death of so many people. They believe, the human body is strong enough to fight the virus.

With so many people dying after leaving home to receive treatment, some residents have come to equate the effects of the disease with efforts to respond to it. Raphael Frankfurter, an aid worker in eastern Sierra Leone, described hearing one woman saying about the hospital in Kenema: “Ebola is a lie! They’re sending people to Kenema to die!”

10.Ebola Is Intended To Create A Global Leader

Conspiracy theorists believe Ebola virus is meant to bring the world to its knees and make whoever has the cure the global leader.

Our Advice?

If you suspect you have come in contact with someone who has Ebola. You have a good chance of staying alive if you seek help from the right authorities. This is not the best time to call your pastor or run to your village.

Ebola is not a death sentence, infact you have a chance of surviving Ebola when you seek medical attention from the authorities.

Without good care, Ebola will kill you painfully. The good news is, the handling of reported Ebola cases in Nigeria is excellent. Ebola fatality rates in Nigeria are the lowest in the world right now.

Call 0800-EBOLA-HELP (0800-326524357) now.

What other conspiracy theory have you heard about the Ebola virus? Let us know in the comment section below

- See more at: http://giftedgreen.com/2014/blog/2014/09/25/10-conspiracy-theories-about-ebola/#sthash.FL5l80G8.dpuf

Nigerians have a long lasting relationship with fear. From killer beans to people turning into yams to Madam Koiskois to Bush babies and a lot more that cannot be accounted for.

Not that fear is a bad thing. It is good to be brave and audacious but sometimes fear is the one thing will keep you alive. After all we stand in the compound of a coward to point out the ruins of a brave man.

This is our list of the scariest thing in Nigeria right now. You can add your entry in the comment section below

9. 2015 Election

This is perceived to be the mother of all elections in Nigeria. It is to be the epicenter of any distress that is predicted to occur in the year 2015. This is not farfetched from the truth considering the fact that almost every perturbing event in Nigeria is somehow related to the upcoming 2015 Election.

To add salt to injury, there are factions that are already vowing to rain down fire and brimstones if their preferred candidate does not win the upcoming election. Political office holders are more concerned about the upcoming election than the welfare of its subjects.

Lest we forget, the CIA also predicted that Nigeria will cease to exist as a country in the year 2015.What does that even mean? You could interpret that in more than one hundred ways and none of them will look pretty.

8. Village Witches

Nigerians are very religious. A country made up of predominantly Christians, Muslims and a few traditional idol worshipers. And in recent times we are starting to have a growing number of atheists.

Notwithstanding your beliefs or affiliation, no one wants to mess with the witches in the village. If you’ve stayed in Nigeria for up to a year, you would come to see some f**ked up sh*t that can only be attributed to be the handiwork of your village withes and wizards.

Trust us, you do not want to get on the bad side of them witches. They really don’t care if you acknowledge their existence or not. Neither do they care if you serve a higher God; that has never stopped them from trying to ruin your life.

7. Police

By default the first reaction a Nigerian experiences when a sees a Policeman is fear. In other societies, when you see a policeman, you feel safer.

Policemen make Nigerians uncomfortable, we really don’t know if it because of the extra-judicial killings (or as it is popularly know “accidental discharge”), unprovoked arrest, bribery, or their truth seeking baton.

6. Unidentified Bag

When you come across an unidentified bag, anywhere it is safer to move away as fast as you can from such an object except if being blown to pieces sounds like a welcoming idea to you.

You have been adequately warned.

5. HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS has killed millions people in Nigeria and many more are infected with HIV/AIDS right now. Considering the fact that there still no cure for HIV/AIDs it would be in everybody’s best interest to be educated about this disease.

If HIV can be managed and an individual can live a long and fulfilling life with the virus, then why are we scared of this disease?

Up to 81% of Nigerians (we just made up that figure) are more scared of the stigma associated with HIV/AIDs than the disease itself.

We are more worried about how we are going to die than what people will say about how we died. That is very reasonable.

4. Army

Nigeria has been ruled by the military for a while and we have experienced what the military can do, we do not need a hearsay version.

As the popular saying goes “When an army officer slaps you; you will remember that the police is your friend”

3. Ombatse

What would you expect when a community kills over 55 police officers and 10 operatives of the Directorate of State Security? We have a couple of suggestions. The community would be the next location for the preview of World War III or a magical transformation of such a community to the stone age. . . considering the Police are, well, the Police. No one should forget Katsina ala and Udi so soon.

Well, Ombatse killed a lot of policemen and operatives of the DSS who happened to be armed with assault rifles and a mean attitude. They did this while they were armed cutlasses; yes you read that right, cutlasses.

If na you, you no go fear?

2. Boko Haram

Nothing to say here. Seriously. Nothing

1. Ebola Virus

The Ebola Virus is a recent but formidable entry to the list. A virus with no cure, kills within days and can be easily contracted. Ebola is the number one item on the list even though it has killed about 8 people in Nigeria. The lowest figure on the list

Ebola has caused schools to shut down, public scare on numerous occasions, a more attentive approach to hygiene and a lot more.

Ebola kills you in one of the scariest ways known to Nigerians; fever, vomiting, diarrhea, generalized pain or malaise, and sometimes internal and external bleeding (which is a cute way to say you have blood coming out of every orifice on your body)

Death itself comes from various complications, including seizures, organ failure, and low blood pressure.

What else do you think Nigerians are scared of? Let us know in the comment section

- See more at: http://giftedgreen.com/2014/blog/2014/09/24/9-scariest-things-in-nigeria-right-now/#sthash.ieqcDA71.dpuf

19. The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

20. “Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.”

21. “No man however great is greater than his people”

22. “Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache”

23. An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.

24. There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add to that huge number of people writing here when there are so few people writing about somewhere else.

25. The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.

http://giftedgreen.com/2014/blog/2014/09/22/25-thought-provoking-quotes-from-chinua-achebe/

15. “The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.

16. A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

17. “When brothers fight to death a stranger inherits their father’s estate.”

18. The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

http://giftedgreen.com/2014/blog/2014/09/22/25-thought-provoking-quotes-from-chinua-achebe/

9. “A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.”

10. “A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.”

11. “What a man does not know is greater than he.”

12. “In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.”

13. “When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?”

14. “He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.”

http://giftedgreen.com/2014/blog/2014/09/22/25-thought-provoking-quotes-from-chinua-achebe/

No doubt, English Language is a unifying language in most Commonwealth countries especially Nigeria where over 500 indigenous languages are spoken. But the pace at which these indigenous languages are losing out to the English language is alarming.

A recent UNESCO research shows that on the average, 25 percent of children below 11 years are unable to speak their parents’ indigenous language in Nigeria, and if the trend is not checked, the research notes that Nigerian languages will be in extinction in two to three generations, that is in 50 to 75 years time

Currently Nigeria has about 16 endangered languages and 10 extinct languages that can be accounted for.

In case you came across any known speaker of any of these languages, could you please notify the authorities, not that Nigeria lacks bigger problems but this is also important

Below are ten extinct language of Nigeria

1. Ajawa

Ajawa is an extinct Afro-Asiatic language formerly spoken in Bauchi State, Nigeria. Ajawa became extinct between 1920 and 1940 as speakers switched to Hausa

2. Auyokawa

Auyakawa is an extinct Afro-Asiatic language formerly spoken in Jigawa State, Nigeria. The extinct date is missing.

3. Basa-Gumna

Basa-Gumna is an extinct Kainji language ofNigeria. It was spoken in Chanchaga, Niger state, and Nasarawa, near the Basa homeland. Speakers have shifted to Hausa. The language became extinct in the year 1987

4. Gamo (Buta) and Ningi

Gamo (Buta) and Ningi are an apparently extinct Kainji dialect cluster of Nigeria. The extinct date is also missing.

5. Kpati

Kpati is an extinct Grassfields languageformerly spoken in Taraba State, Nigeria. Extinct date missing

6. Kubi

Kubi (also known as Kuba, Kubawa) is an extinct Afro-Asiatic language formerly spoken in Bauchi State, Nigeria. Members of the ethnic group now speak Hausa. Extinct date missing

7. Mawa

Mawa is an extinct and unattested language of Nigeria. It was apparently different from a language of Chad also known as Mawa, and so is unclassified. Extinct date missing

8. Teshenawa

Teshenawa is an extinct Afro-Asiatic language formerly spoken in Jigawa State, Nigeria

9. Odut Language

Odut is an extinct Upper Cross River language of Nigeria. It was formerly spoken in Cross river State

10. Luri

The extinct Luri dialect is not well attested

What do you think can be done to prevent the extinction of Nigerian Languages in the society today?

- See more at: http://giftedgreen.com/2014/blog/2014/09/23/10-nigerian-extinct-languages-and-what-you-think-can-be-done-to-save-perishing-nigerian-languages/#sthash.9docNcXa.dpuf

7. “Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!”

6. My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered

7. “If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”

8. “It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.”

1. When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

2. One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

3. People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

4. “We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: "He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.”

http://giftedgreen.com/2014/blog/2014/09/22/25-thought-provoking-quotes-from-chinua-achebe/

Travelling by road gives you the opportunity to meet a wide array of people. After travelling for a while you will come to realise that you will surely meet a certain group of Nigerians.

Below is a simple guide to a few of the many different types of people you will while travelling by road in Nigeria

1. The Story Teller That Won’t Shut Up

They never shut up. These are stranger who just love live and they just happen to be very friendly and chatty.

They always have a story to tell. They are very easy to identify as they usually leave their common sense at home when they travel

2. The Rude Loader

He wants you to pay for every item that is larger than the size of backpack. You will not blame him until you meet the . . .

3. The Unbelievably Bulky Traveler

This person usually travels with the highest amount of unimportant items you can ever think of.

Don’t be surprised if you find a grinding stone among or a mortar (or any ridiculous item) amongst this person’s luggage.

4. The Human Navigator

This person is apparently on this particular route all the time and knows every short cut, every nook and cranny of this route.

They usually come in handy sometimes.

5. The Assistant Driver

His job is to give the driver a crash course on how to drive a car. And if the driver proves to be adamant, he will remind the driver how he has been driving for (insert a very large figure) years.

Just hope you do not have two of this kind of people in your bus, else they will annoy the driver to a river. Literally

6. Front Seat Freak

They want to ride in the front passenger seat of the bus by all means and this is usually for some personal (unimportant) reason that you might never comprehend.

We like to think that they are trying to avoid sitting beside an annoying passenger or sitting in the front passenger seat of the bus gives them a feeling of control.

It probably makes them feel like the most important person in the bus (after the driver of course!).

7. The Radical Preparing A Stink Bomb With Their Stomach

They are going to eat everything they can lay their hand on during the journey and trust us, it won’t be funny for the other passengers when it starts coming out from the other side. If you know what we mean.

8. The Romantic Couple

They are super chill and friendly. They are most likely to engage in acts that will give the other passenger a mixed feeling of irritation and jealousy.

9. The Couple Who Seems To Be Trying Too Hard

You can tell they’re both equally in love and frustrated at the same time. Travelling with someone else is never easy and when you’re in a relationship you can only imagine it takes a little bit more patience than usual. Like the worldly couple, everything they do is together.

10.The Student Who Is Just Resuming School

A couple gigantic bags of clothes and foodstuff enough to feed a whole village? That is a student who is just resuming school.

Get ready for some professional level bargaining

11.Pastor Who Scares The Life Out Of You

This pastor is here to pray for your bus before it leaves the terminal or during journey. If only he would pray peacefully and just leave. He is going scare you with tales of where you are going to in case there is an accident and you do not survive.

Who does that?

12.The Phone Addict

Similar to travelling with a couple but this person is obsessed with their gadgets and married to their apps. They usually dedicate their time to their phone even when there is not network coverage.

Whatever you do, don’t try and take their phone off them, you’d have more chance trying to wrestle the prey from an alligator’s jaw.

13.The Person With A Caring Lover

They are usually members of a loved up couple who obviously are divided by a couple of miles (okay thousands of miles). Your travel buddy will constantly be on the phone with their lover.

And when they are not the phone, they will talk about their other half at every opportunity they get. Not fun.

14.First Time Traveller

It’s this person’s first time travelling by this route, they will keep asking questions like, “are we there yet?”, “Where are we”, “How many hours do we have left?”

Don’t you just hate it when that happens?

15.The Shady Marketer

You sometimes meet them before the bus leaves the terminal or during the journey. They always seem to have a ridiculous product that is guaranteed to work for a maximum of 23 hours or a drug that is going to heal every disease known to man.

Piece of advice; don’t buy anything from such people. Anything

16.The Incurably Sick

Admittedly some people get road sick, not that being road sick is not annoying to your co-passengers but we are talking about the group of people who are sick and just won’t wait to get well before travelling. The Patrick Sawyer type of people.

They seem bent on infecting you with whatever illness they seem to have contracted. Yuck!!

17.Those That Are Never Comfortable

They seem to be deluded that the bus is the couch in their sitting room and will try their best to be comfortable.

Little tip? They always turn out to be master trouble makers.

18.Police Who Will Demand A Bribe Or Delay Your Bus For No Reason

This policeman will demand a bribe from your driver and if the driver refuses, he will ask to search every bag in that vehicle (or just ask you to park for a long time doing nothing) just to waste your time.

Since nobody wants that, drivers prefer to just bribe the policemen except there is . . .

19.A Soldier Who Will Save You From Prowling Policemen

They will save you from the normal police hassle on the way.

20.The Policeman Dressed In Military Uniform

He is a soldier alright but we prefer to call him a policeman because he behaves like a lowest of policemen you can find on the street.

21.The Odd Couple

This may not actually be a “couple” as such, but rather two people that are traveling together that you wouldn’t have thought would get along. For example, a shy guy traveling with a really extroverted, and charismatic person.

When you meet these people, your faith in humanity will be restored somewhat as you realize that we can all get along if we want to.

22.The Average Amazing Person

They are usually your favorite person on the bus. You just happen to like them for no apparent reason. They are friendly, funny and considerate. You enjoy their company, and just wish you could keep in touch with them because it is important you extend your network of good people (since they seem to be rare these days).

If you are unable to see them again, just be thankful that they exist.

You are really thinking that you are an Average Amazing Person, aren’t you? Yeah right!

At the end of it all, no one is perfect. The truth is there’s no perfect travelling companion, and any seasoned traveller will tell you, that it takes a lot of compromise and understanding of that person to get past the little time you have to spend with this group of strangers.

Have you ever traveled with people like these? How did it go? What are some types you’ve met while travelling by road?

Tell us about your experience in the comment section below

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4. Macadam

Before you start sceamin that Macadam is not an everyday item, do yourself a favour and check a dictionary. Macadam is a paved surface having compressed layers of broken rocks held together with tar. This basically defines the road you use virtually every day

The word owes its existence to John Loudon McAdam, a Scottish engineer and road-builder. MacAdam was the first to propose “compacted crushed stone as a road covering.” In other words, he is the father of modern road construction. The word “tarmac” is also partly derived from his name; it is a blend of “tar” and “MacAdam.

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3. Jacuzzi

Have you ever thought about the origin of the word Jacuzzi, that luxurious bubbly bath that every Nigerian musician claims to own?

It’s the surname of the brothers who invented it back in 1956.

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2. Biro

You virtually make use of this item almost every day. Biro is the last name of a Hungarian inventor who invented the object “that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper.” His full name is Biro Laszlo Jozsef.

Ever stopped to wonder how miserable your life would be without a biro?

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When something is named after a person or a place or a company, we call that name an eponym. Eponyms are everywhere—in science, medicine, the arts.

This list focuses on words that are eponyms but are so common that you might come in contact with some of them every day and barely know how they got their names.

1. Teddy

The toy was first created in 1902 and was named after the then president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt.

Historians agree the teddy bear got its name when ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt, as the 26th president was nicknamed, on a hunting trip in Mississippi.

The president failed to make a kill and so his hosts caught a bear, presenting it to him as a target.

He refused to shoot it, saying: “Spare the bear”.

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We all know there are some animals that you do not want to mess with, especially snakes. This is because we are obviously scared of their venomous bites. But what other animals has nature prepared for us that is as poisonous and venomous as snakes?

Giftedgreen provides you with 9 poisonous animals you should never mess with, ever.

9. King Cobra – World’s Longest Venomous Snake

The King Cobra can grow up to 18.5 ft (about three times the average height of a human) in length and it is known to eat other snakes. A single bite of this snake is powerful enough to kill a human on the spot and just 7 millilitres a King Cobra’s Venom can kill a fully grown elephant in just three hours.

Its venom is not as toxic as other venomous snakes, but King Cobra is capable of injecting five times more venom than the black mamba and can result in mortality up to 5 times faster than that of the black mamba

8. Poison Dart Frog – World’s Most Venomous Amphibian

Just 2 micrograms (the amount that fits on the head of a pin) of its toxin is capable of killing a human or 10, 000 mice or other small mammals.

They are called “dart frogs” because indigenous Amerindians use their toxic secretion to poison the tip of their blow darts. This poison of this animal can be found on its skin and will kill anybody who touches or eats it.

7. Stone Fish – Most Venomous Fish

The Stone Fish hold the title of “World’s Most Venomous Fish”. Its sting is so powerful that some people insist it causes the most terrible pain experienced by man.

It appears similar to the colour of the stones in the water (hence the name), this characteristic makes it difficult for swimmers to recognize it, step on it and trigger the sting. A sting that would leave you begging that the affected part should be amputated.

The Stone Fish has gruesome-looking spines that are designed to hurt any predator and stepping on its spine would at best cost you your leg and at worst your life.

6. Brazilian Wandering Spider – 2007 Most Venomous Animal (Guinness Book of Records)

Not only is this spider the most venomous spider, it also appear in the Guinness Book of World Records (2007) as the world most venomous animal, it is also the spider responsible for most human deaths.

This animal has a tendency to wander (thus its name). They can be found hiding in houses and cars of densely populated areas, especially during daytime.

It is also called the “Banana Spider” because they like to hide in banana plants.

Its venomous bite causes not only intense pain, the venom of the spider can also cause priapism – uncomfortable erections lasting for many hours that lead to impotence.

5. Blue Ringed Octopus

This is a very small animal, about the size of a golf ball. Do not underestimate it because of its size, it holds enough venom to kill 26 fully grown adults and unfortunately, there is no antidote. To make matters worse, its bite is usually painless; you will only become aware of it when the deadly neurotoxins begin to work, which is almost immediately.

If you ever get bitten by this animal, you will be paralyzed within minutes and unable to breathe at the same time.

Assuming you receive artificial respiration, the toxin will show you no mercy as you will remain conscious until the venom is neutralized by your body.

4. Puffer fish – Second Most Venomous Vertebrate

This is the second Most Venomous Vertebrate (The first is the dart frog) in the word. Its victim generally dies form suffocation caused by paralysis of the diaphragm muscles.

The poison can be found on the skin and certain organs of many puffer fish.

This puffy fish produce rapid and violent death. Puffer’s poisoning causes deadening of the tongue and lips, dizziness, vomiting, rapid heart rate, difficulty in breathing, and muscle paralysis. Victims die from suffocation as diaphragm muscles are paralyzed. Most of the victims die after four to 24 hours. There is no known antidote.

You certainly do not need to be told to stay away from this fish right? Surprisingly enough this fish is a delicacy in Japan and Korea. And you thought Nigerian were stubborn.

On the bright side, only licensed chefs are allowed to prepare this delicacy.

3. Marbled Cone Snail – Most Deadly Sea Creature

The Marbled Cone Snail is very rare animal and its nickname is the “Cigarette Snail,” it has ben said that when you are stung by this animal, you’ll have just about enough time to smoke a cigarette before you stop breathing.

A single drop from this creature is enough to end 20 adult lives. Its venom causes severe pain, inflammation, numbness, breathing problem and even muscle paralysis.

By now you should know better than to pick up this snail. Just in case you are the stubborn type, we might also add that there is no known antivenom.

So do not touch, ever.

2. Inland Taipan – Most Venomous Serpent

The venom of the Inland Taipan contains enough venom to kill 100 grown men or 250, 000 mice. Believe it or not, its venom is 200 – 400 times more toxic that a common cobra. A single bite can lead to death within minutes.

Fortunately, this snake is very shy and there have been no documented human fatalities (all known bites have been treated with antivenin). Yes it has an antivenin

1.Box Jelly Fish – Most Venomous Creature

The Box Jelly Fish kills more people every year than sharks, crocodiles and stonefish combined. It is transparent in nature making it difficult to spot in water. The sting is so powerful that the overwhelming pain is enough to cause shock, drowning or heart failure even before reaching shore. The toxins from this creature attack the nervous system, heart and skin cells.

You have virtually no chance to survive the venomous sting, unless treated immediately. After a sting, vinegar should be applied for a minimum of 30 seconds. Vinegar has acetic acid, which disables the box jelly’s nematocysts that have not yet discharged into the bloodstream (though it will not alleviate the pain). Survivors experience pain weeks after the contact with box jellies.



Random question, would you eat this puffer fish even if prepared by a licensed chef? Let us know in the comment section below.

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Are you of the opinion that you have a messy life?

The fact that you can read this right now shows that you are more lucky than more than half the population of the world.

You don’t believe us? Let the facts speak for themselves

1. 4.3 billion People (More than half the population of the world) live on less than $2 (about N300) a day.

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2. 100 million go to bed hungry every night.

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3. 842 million people in the world do not have enough to eat

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4. 780 million people lack access to an improved water source; approximately one in nine people

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5. If you woke up this morning with more health than illness you are more blessed than the million people who will not survive this week.

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6. If you can read this article you are more fortunate than 785 million adults in the world who cannot read it at all.

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7. ONE BILLION people still don't own a mobile phone

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8. And a third of the world does not have access to the internet

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9. 17,000 kids will die today of starvation.

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10. If you can afford to eat 3 meals a day for 3 weeks straight, you are in the top 15% of the richest people in the world

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11. 2.5 billion people, don’t have access to a toilet.

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12. If you have a bed, fridge, closet and a roof over your head, you are richer than 75 percent of the world.

13. If you have a bank account you are richer than 35 percent of the population.

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14. If you have 1,000 in your wallet and owe no one you are richer than 25% of Americans

15. If you have money in the bank, your wallet, and some spare change you are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy.


Are you still complaining?


http://giftedgreen.com/2014/blog/2014/09/12/15-facts-that-will-make-you-realize-how-lucky-you-are/

1. What are e-cigarettes?

E-cigarettes are electronic devices that imitate conventional smoking by vaporizing liquid nicotine.

E-cigarettes usually gives the same feeling as smoking cigarettes just that this time the feeling comes though the vapor not highly toxic cigarette smoke.

2. How do e-cigarettes work?

When an e-cigarette is inhaled, the device is powered up. The e-cigarette then vaporizes some of the liquid nicotine which is located in an insertable cartridge.

The vaporized nicotine then flows through the device and into the user’s mouth. Each hit has about 90 percent of the nicotine from a conventional cigarette puff.

3. How is the vapor from e-cigarette different from tobacco smoke?

Conventional cigarette contains tobacco and other items added to improve the substance to make the product taste or feel in a particular way that they deem fit. E-cigarettes on the other hand contain vaporized nicotine and in some cases a small amount of flavoring

Conventional cigarette is burned and inhaled as mordacious smoke. Instead of burning and inhaling pungent smoke, e-cigarettes just heat up liquid nicotine to turn it into odorless vapor.

4. Will e-cigarettes eventually kill me?

The amount of research isn’t much, but scientists agree that e-cigarettes carry numerous health risks, even if the dangers aren’t as glaring as conventional cigarettes.

The American Heart Association resolved that e-cigarettes emit several dangerous toxins and could lead to detrimental health effects, although the long-term biological effects need more study

One study from an international group of scientists found e-cigarettes are safer than conventional cigarettes but still toxic. Researchers estimated conventional cigarette smoke contained 9-450 times more toxins than e-cigarette vapour.

Some ongoing research has indicated that e-cigarettes could cause genetic mutations that can lead to cancer.

Another group of scientists found that certain cells exposed to e-cigarette vapour showed similar genetic changes as cells exposed to conventional cigarette smoke. The changes weren’t identical, but researchers said there were striking similarities — enough to raise concerns that e-cigarettes could, at some level, lead to lung cancer.

5. What other dangers are associated with e-cigarettes?

First of all nicotine is stall addictive, that means e-cigarette users could develop a lifelong habit of consuming the drug.

Nicotine in itself presents some health concerns. Researchers say that that nicotine alone — the main substance found in e-cigarettes — strains development for foetuses, newborns, children, and teenagers. Adolescents exposed to nicotine in particular showed enhanced vulnerability to impulsivity and mood disorders, among other issues.

Researchers and experts have linked E-cigarettes to addiction, developmental issues among youths and reports to poison centers

6. Will e-cigarette help me quit smoking?

E-cigarettes have little-to-no effect on a person’s ability to quit smoking and could, in fact, lead some people to take up smoking.

A group of researchers suggested that e-cigarettes either have no effect on quit rates or correlate with a reduced chance of quitting.

But researchers cautioned that several of the analyzed studies didn’t control for level of nicotine dependence, which means their findings could just show that more addicted smokers — that is, those least likely to quit — are more likely to turn to e-cigarettes.

Still, there’s some reason for concern. The problem, as researchers explained, is nicotine is still addictive, even if it comes in an e-cigarette. So if someone tries an e-cigarette without ever having smoked before, he or she could get hooked on nicotine. And that nicotine addiction could then lead to conventional smoking.

7. I once read second hand smoke from conventional cigarette is dangerous, what about second hand vapor from e-cigarette?

Secondhand smoking from conventional cigarettes, is proven to be very bad for people’s health, particularly children.

The most comprehensive analysis of the research so far, suggests e-cigarette vapor contaminates the air with nicotine and toxins, but the long-term health effects of exposure to these secondhand chemicals remain unclear.

A group of researchers found e-cigarette vapor leaves nicotine in indoor environments, but they didn’t find significant traces of tobacco-based toxins like carbon monoxide. And conventional cigarettes, they found, left 10 times more nicotine than e-cigarettes. But the study, the authors cautioned, looked at a limited number of chemicals.

Another study found traces of select toxins in e-cigarette vapors, but these toxins were 9-450 times less prevalent than what’s found in conventional cigarette smoke. Another study from German health researchers also found increased levels of some toxins following e-cigarette use.

The studies, however, called for more research. It’s still unclear whether consistent exposure to secondhand nicotine and toxins, especially the low levels left by e-cigarettes, could be dangerous to someone’s health in the long-term.



8. E-cigarettes is an electronic device, do I need to worry about electrocution or explosion?

E-cigarettes are electronics, so they can explode. There is YouTube video which shows an e-cigarette explode.

Still, like most electronic malfunctions, it’s rare. Most people can use their e-cigarettes without worry of explosions.

9. So what is the verdict?

E-cigarette while a new and welcomed development should be treated with a very high amount of caution as very little is known so far about it.

Stay safe, stay healthy.


Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comment section below

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The Nagasaki Brothers: Shortly after the bombing of the city, this photo was taken. The younger child in the picture is dead and the older boy is his brother. He carried his brother to a crematorium, watching him burn but refusing to cry. He had just lost everything in the world, but still focused on honoring his fallen (and equally innocent) younger brother.

Love is among one of the most talked about topics in the universe and yet it is still one of the mysteries of life. We spend years upon years finding it and yet only a small percentage of us ever get to find it.

1. Love is universal . . . . . yet very particular

Just like smiling, love is a language everybody understands. It cuts across every political, social and ethnic group that exists on earth. No matter who you are, what you do or where you are there is someone out there who loves you exactly the way you are. You probably knew that already, didn’t you?

What you probably don’t know is that love is at the same time very particular, just like your fingerprint. What keeps you apart from your significant other might be the same thing keeping another relationship. What worked for a couple might not work for another couple.

So how do you know what will keep your relationship working? The key to unlocking the secret to making your relationship work is communication, lots of communication.

Our advice: Do not compare your relationship with that of others or imitate the methods of other couples and expect the same result.

2. There is always someone better

It doesn’t matter who you choose as your designate true love, there will always be someone better out there. No matter the requirements you assign to your one true love, there will always be someone out there who will best them every criteria that you hold dear in your search for true love.

You will come across such people. Is it looks? You will meet someone finer. Is it money? You will meet someone richer. Is it social status? You will meet someone higher on the social ladder.

Our advice: If we have to dump our current lover for someone better all the time, then we are no different from animals

3. You might not marry your true love

Marriage is the ultimate goal of every wonderful relationship, at least down here in Africa. We all fall in love so that we could one day walk down the aisle with our significant other, exchange vows, have kids, grow old and die together. But this might never happen. Know why? Because life is unfair, that’s why.

There will be obstacles to your happily ever after, there will be so many obstructions that you might not be able to survive your relationship. Some of these obstacles will end your relationship and you will eventually end up settling for someone else just for the sake of getting married.

Our advice: Like we said earlier life is unfair.

4. You don’t have to be with someone to love them

One great misconception people have about love is that you have to be in a relationship with someone to love them. This is not entirely true. When you fall in love with somebody, it is not compulsory that they become your partner, but this does not stop you from loving them any less.

Our advice: If you love someone, then you should love them enough to let them go.

5. Loving someone and hurting them is not mutually exclusive

One of the obligations that come with loving someone is the compulsion of always wanting them to be happy. You are willing be bend in half even up to the point where you snap, if that would put a smile on their face.

You would never imagine a day when you would hurt the love of your life, intentionally or unintentionally, but believe us that day will surely come. Oh, lest we forget, a day will also come when your sweetheart will hurt you too; they will hurt you deep, real deep.

Pain is bound to be a part of every relationship. Continuous pain? No way. When the pain becomes continuous and unbearable, communicate with each other and wait for it to stop and if the hurting continues, you should both go to the airport and buy plane tickets that leaves in opposite directions.

Our advice: Love is meant to be enjoyed, not endured. A little conflict is okay, but constant pain is not acceptable, be it physical or emotional

6. Love is all about giving

Most people think when you find true love all of your worries are over. You will finally get everything you ever wished for, everything you ever never had while growing up will be available, every missed opportunity will be compensated. Sorry to rain on your parade, but that is not the case.

When you finally find true love you will come to realise one of the true beauties in love is giving. You are willing to give your time, resources and everything you hold dear in your life just to see a smile of your lover.

It’s not true love when all you do is receive and give nothing. True love gives, gives and continues giving.

It’s not love when all you do is receive, even when it is in your power to give you still decide to hold back. You are busy thinking of how what you are giving will bring forth bigger fruits. In this case, you are not in a relationship, you are in a business partnership.

Our advice: When you find love, give all you can and expect nothing in return because when you expect, all you will ever get in return is disappointment

7. You will sometimes wish you were single

Your single friends make being single a lot of fun. They might sometimes mock you and make you feel bad for being in a relationship. They will keep late nights, have multiple partners and sometimes make corny jokes about relationships.

The truth is that they might joke all they want but deep down, they are jealous and the honestly wish they had a taste of what you have.

Your friends do not even have to trigger the feeling of wanting to be single. Sometimes all it takes is a little relationship conflict or dispute and you would wish you were single.

Our advice: You have a better chance at catching lightening than finding true love. Don’t lose what you have.

8. Love will not fix you

No one is perfect but some people are a lot more damaged than others. If you are rude, bad-mannered or a plain pain in the butt to everybody and yourself then get proper help. No one can truly love you until you start to love yourself. No one will love you if you do not love yourself.

Love is not a catholicon (a hypothetical drug that heals all diseases). If you are broken, love will not mend you, only you can fix you. You could be swimming in an ocean of love and still b as broken as ever.

Finding love will not make all your problems go away. You will enjoy the first gush of romance and it will be fun but you will eventually realise that you are in the exact same place you ever were, except that you have to worry that someone else will have to carry your “baggage” with you.

Expecting love to fix you is like spraying perfume on poop and expecting to become a rose flower. It might smell nice for a while, but is still poop, the perfume will wear off and it will eventually stink.

Our Advice: Get your sh*t together before you start your quest for true love.

9. There will sometimes be conflict (lots of conflict)

Fairy tales always end with “and they lived happily ever after”. What you fail to realise is that “happily ever after” usually includes one or two conflicts every now and then. There will be disputes, there will be quarrels and sometimes full blown fights but the most important thing is to get past your differences and realize that your love for each other is bigger than any disagreement that you might be having.

After all even scientist agree that lack of conflicts in a relationship usually indicate a lack of interest.

Our advice: It is better to lose your pride because of your love than to lose your love because of your pride

10.You will do it all over again

No matter how many times you’ve had your heart broken. No matter how much you lost in your quest for love. No matter how deep your injuries were. No matter the number of times you’ve been burnt. You could describe love as the most horrible monster that ever lived but the truth is….

The next time you find love, you will fall all over again.

You know why? Because the only thing worse than love is to be alone.

Our advice: Do not let other people pay for the mistakes of your failed relationships

What other lesson did you learn from finding true love? Let us know in the comment section below

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Ebola has been in Africa a lot longer than most people envisage. There have been previous incidents that only aftected a fraction of people. This is 2014, and so far it has infected 1, 700 and killed over 900.

Apart from how deadly the Ebola virus actually is, it turns out that we know very little about it.

1. What is Ebola?

Ebola virus disease (EVD) or Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) is a disease of humans and other primates caused by an ebolavirus. Symptoms start two days to three weeks after contracting the virus, with a fever, sore throat, muscle pain and headaches.

Typically, vomiting, diarrhea and rash follow, along with decreased functioning of the liver and kidneys. Around this time, affected people may begin to bleed both within the body and externally.

Ebola is a deadly disease with a fatality of up to 90-percent. As of August 6, 2014, the World Health Organization claimed that 932 people had died of Ebola so far in the summer of 2014.

2. Is this the First Ebola Outbreak?

No, Ebola first appeared in the year 1976 when two simultaneous outbreaks occurred; one in Sudan and the other in Democratic Republic of Congo. The outbreak in DRC was within proximity of Ebola River, giving the virus its name.

This outbreaks happens to be the worst in history. This very outbreak has a fatality rate of about 60 percent.

3. How come everybody is just hearing of Ebola?

There have been numerous outbreaks after that of 1976; one was in the year 1995 in DRC where the virus infected 317 patients and killing 245. Another low-level outbreak occurred in Gabon. In the year 2000, in Uganda 415 people were infected but task forces and the WHO helped contain and eventually eliminate the breakout but only after 224 deaths occurred.

The last outbreak of high causality was in 2007 in DRC where 247 were infected, killing 183 of the total number of people infected.

4. Is it possible that Ebola has infected people much further in the past?

Of course, it is likely that Ebola has infected people much further in the past. Some historians claim that Ebola was responsible for the Plague of Athens, which struck the Mediterranean during the Peloponnesian War in 430 B.C. According to the historian Thucydides, who himself contracted the disease but survived, the plague came to the sea-faring Athenian people from Africa. Evidence is circumstantial, but descriptions of the disease—including its prevalence among caregivers and symptoms like bleeding—do indicate that Ebola may have been the culprit.

5. If Ebola kills its victims fast, then why has it not burned itself yet?

Viruses that quickly kill their victims naturally fill us with terror, but these are hardly the most insidious. Death within a manner of days is scary, but it is a terribly ineffective way to spread a disease. Fast-acting viruses like Ebola have historically burned themselves out quickly and close to their original source, whereas viruses that manifest slowly, such as HIV/AIDS, have spread across the globe.

Scientists believe that the reason Ebola keeps managing to pop up is that the virus has found a reservoir in the bat population of central and western Africa, in the same way that bats have become the vector for rabies in other parts of the world. The fruit bats, which are asymptomatic, transmit the disease to animals like the duiker (a small antelope) and primates like chimpanzees and gorillas.

In more economically advantaged parts of the world, these creatures would quickly perish, and the story would be over. However, in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, there is brisk trade in “bush meat,” wild animals that are hunted and sold. Bush meat can be nearly any species, including bats, monkeys, and rats. It would have only taken a single infected animal being eaten to start the entire 2014 contagion.

6. How can I get infected?

Transmission Ebola can be transferred from animal to animal, from animal to human and from human to human.

The infection travels via fluid secretions (blood, urine, semen, mucus), usually orally or through broken skin. In many cases, contaminated victims’ vomit has been a primary catalyst for the virus to travel, or burial ceremonies where improper handling methods infected community members.

In Africa, contact with animals infected with the virus such as pigs, monkeys, bats, and porcupines inflicted humans.

Many healthcare and hospital workers have died from the disease through lack of knowledge or environmental exposure.

7. Does it help to take my bath with salt and water?

No it doesn’t. The whole salt and water rumor was created by a bored youth and it’s really unfortunate that it happened to spread around like wildfire. In fact, the rumor led to the death of 20 people who ingested too much salt.

8. What is the source of Ebola?

Studies throughout the decades have led researchers to believe that one of the greatest sources for Ebola is the fruit-eating bat. Three different bat species carry RNA sequences, proof that their bodies carry mutations from the Ebola virus. This suggests that these bats may have lived with the virus for a long time, and that they could be the source. The often wide range of area a single outbreak can cover also implies that the source could be a mammal that can travel great distances very quickly

9. How is Ebola related to bush meat?

. A proposed chain of events by many scientists is: bat droppings are eaten by terrestrial animals; the animals die, and then their carcasses are handled by a human. Keep in mind, not only is the human race at risk: approximately one third of gorillas in protected areas have perished from the virus in the last 15 years.

While Ebola thrives in living bodies, the virus has been found in the carcasses of apes that have been dead for several days.

10.How do I know if someone has Ebola?

Early symptoms of the virus do not look much different from the common flu, fever, or stomach viruses. Therefore, the disease usually is unreadable until there are multiple cases, which is why containment is difficult.

Ebola and Marburg viruses start to show symptoms after approximately five days after infection. Chills, sore throat, a typical-feeling fever, sore joints — all common symptoms that would not necessarily send a victim to the doctor.

Days later, vomiting, bloody diarrhea, body rashes and red eyes begin, and increase in severity. Many cases result in internal hemorrhaging or external bleeding from the mouth, nose, ears, and rectum.

The best way to be sure is to visit a Hospital where available tests can be carried out on the patient.

11.Is there a cure for Ebola?

While there is not a known cure, the Ebola virus can be mollified and often eliminated if discovered in a timely fashion. In 2012, groundbreaking scientific findings were published in Science Translational Magazine, claiming that two leukemia drugs showed signs of halting Ebola virus replication. Intensive care treatment is necessary, and many drug therapies are in the process of being validated. Further work on finding a definitive vaccine continues; in many cases, electrolyte and nutritional management have aided in rehabilitating infected patients.

Developing a cure or vaccine has not historically been a financially viable option for pharmaceutical companies, since there would be no profit in it.

Despite the lack of commercialization potential, the world’s governments have been taking the disease seriously for years, sinking millions of dollars into research on how to stop Ebola if it were to be used as a biological weapon. Some experimental vaccines have shown great promise, including one that completely prevented rhesus monkeys from becoming infected with the Zaire strain, the one responsible for the 2014 outbreak. This vaccine is so effective that it even cured four monkeys that had already been infected. However, interesting private industry in making this a reality for the masses is an altogether different hurdle.

There are many reasons why finding a cure for Ebola is quite an uphill battle. For starters, antiviral treatments are much harder to establish than antibacterial. The ebola virus develops rapidly and evolves at breakneck speed, which means that today’s vaccine could be obsolete tomorrow. At a research safety level categorized as “biosafety level 4″, the total-lockdown laboratory situation means that there are limited facilities for studying the virus and extremely delicate, time-consuming procedures.

Scientists have been working on mutations of the virus to create a safe strain, with the hopes of finding a vaccination.

12.How come American are better at containing the virus than Africans

According to epidemiologist Ian Lipkin of Columbia University, “Sustained outbreaks would not occur in the US because cultural factors in the developing world that spread Ebola—such as intimate contact while family and friends are caring for the sick and during the preparation of bodies for burial—aren’t common in the developed world. Health authorities would also rapidly identify and isolate infected individuals.”

A more likely, route of transmission is the African custom of washing corpses before burial

13.Is it safe to relate with an Ebola survivor?

Even after a clean blood test, though, Ebola can linger in strange ways, such as in the breast milk of lactating women. It also stays in semenfor up to three months, as blood-borne antibodies don’t reach the testicles, so men who recover from Ebola are told to practice safe sex with condoms. Seminal fluid taken from Ebola survisors contained the virus 61 days after their recovery.

Experts state that likelihood of Ebola spreading through sexual contact is minimal, particularly because those with high viral loads are in no condition to be amorous.

14.What should I do if I suspect I have come in contact with someone who has Ebola?

If you suspect you have come in contact with someone who has Ebola. You have a good chance of staying alive if you seek help from the right authorities. This is not the best time to call your pastor or run to your village.

Ebola is not a death sentence, infact you have a chance of surviving Ebola when you seek medical attention from the authorities.

Without good care, Ebola will kill you painfully. The good news is, the handling of reported Ebola cases in Nigeria is excellent. Ebola fatality rates in Nigeria are the lowest in the world right now.

Call 0800-EBOLA-HELP (0800-326524357) now.

15.Why is Ebola found in Only APC States?

We are Nigerians; we should be united especially at times like these. Everything does not have to be about politics.

Ebola is a serious threat to Nigeria as a nation. This is not the right time for anyone to start painting a picture that does not exist.

Ebola is a common enemy and we need all hands on deck for us to prevail.

What other questions do you have about Ebola? ask them in the comment section below

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How time flies. You are already celebrating your 25th Silver Jubilee on planet earth. It seemed like yesterday when you got admission into the university and right now you are already through with service (NYSC).

You probably have a job that is paying you a meagre salary, and if you are among the lucky ones, you already have a partner and you are waiting for your ship to sail in so that you can have your happily ever after.

We’ve put together 25 financial things, big and small, you should know before you turn 25. Why would we do something like that? So you can achieve your financial goals with plenty of time to reap the fruits of your labour.

1. How To Make A Budget

This is because without a budget you are like a blind man driving a car, and do you know what happens when blind men drive cars? At best they do not get to their destination and at worst they end up in a horrible crash.

Simply put, without a budget you may not reach any of your goals like buying that car you’ve always wanted, a home befitting of your taste or just having enough money to fend for you and your family when you retire.

2. How Much You Should Be Saving

How much of your income should you be saving? The simple answer is 20 percent. How did we come about this number?

Well, the 50/20/30 rule, which divides up your monthly budget as follows: 50 percent is reserved for essentials (rent, electricity bill, water bill), 30 percent is allocated for your lifestyle choices and at least 20 percent goes to “financial priorities,” which includes debt payments, your retirement contributions and your savings.

3. Differentiate Between An Asset And A Liability

Simply put an asset makes you smile to the bank in the long run while a liability converts your pocket to a basket, literally.

4. The Perfect Data Bundle Plan For You

Internet data bundle has somehow proven to us that it is an essential commodity to the human race. There is no perfect data bundle for everybody.

Depending the size of your income and your internet surfing habit, choose the plan that best suits you.

5. Celebrities Lie About How Much They Are Worth

Celebrities are always lying about how much they earn and how much they are worth. That is what they do for a living, they lie.

Do not get caught up in the hype.


6. Your Net Worth

You also have a net worth. Having a net worth is not reserved for Millionaires and Billionaires. Your net worth is the sum total of your assets (Bank accounts, savings, investments etc) minus your debts (loans, liabilities etc).

Your net worth is great way for you have a good view on your finances. It helps you know where you are now, where you are going to and in most case gives you a wakeup call back to reality.

7. How Much You Make and Where, Specifically, Its Going Out.

This sounds like a simple task right? But the truth is that most people, regardless of their age, don’t know how much they money they have coming in and going out.

8. What Is a Financial Emergency and What’s Not

It’s not funny when you go all Bill Gates on a date only for you go home to a nagging land lord. At 25, you should get know your priorities. By 25 you should have a fat overfed saving account and it shouldn’t end there, you should be able to spot a financial emergency.

9. How To Manage Budget Raiding-Friend

Everybody has at least one of such friends. They are cute, funny and just happen to be one of your closest friends. But the truth is, each time you hang out with them, it tells on your budget.

No one is telling you to lose a friend; we are saying you need to learn how to neutralize these culprits if you ever want to be financial independent.

10.That, The Older You Get, The More Sophisticated Your Financial Life Becomes

Your meagre salary might be enough for you to live a lavish lifestyle right now and you might be tempted to start saving when you make more money.

The truth is, as you start to make more money, you will have more financial obligations. You will move out of your self-contained apartment, you will get married, have kids and start paying school fees.

Bottom line? Today is the time to start, not tomorrow

11.How Your Lover Handles Money

If it is important to know your lover’s favourite colour, worst habit, favourite meal then you might as well know about they handle money and where they stand financially today.

If you are going to spend the rest of your life with them you might as well know what you are getting into.

12.How To Spot A Scam Artist/Investment

You are too old to fall for any investment scam, be it online or in your village. By 25, it would be a pity for you to fall for a Fraudulent Scheme, no matter who is presenting such to you.

13.How To Maximize Your Time

The last time we checked time is still money. Binge watching a complete movie from season one to five is no longer cute.

When it comes to spending your time, you should follow a simple rule. If doesn’t make you money, doesn’t make you happy and does not make you better, then you should not waste your time doing it.

14.That It Is Possible To Accomplish Multiple Financial Goals At Once

Your financial life does not need to be a “this or that” situation. In order words, you want to build your savings, reduce your debts, pay your sibling school fees but you only have a limited amount at the end of each month.

The first thing you should know is that you are not alone; there are many people like you. Second, know that with proper financial planning and prioritizing you can meet all of your financial goals.

15.That You Will Never Have Enough Money

By now you should be aware that even with trillions of naira in your bank account; you will never have enough money. The more money, the more things you have to spend on. Even the super-wealthy also feel poor.

So waiting for the fictional time when you will have “enough money” is like waiting for a ship at a train station.

16.That You Will Never Know The Truth About Other People’s Finances

Your co-worker whom you earn the same salary with might have a luxurious car and an exquisite home but you’ll never know if he is deep in debt, inherited a huge sum from his parents or he might just be from a wealthy family.

It will be in your best interest not to compare yourself to other people, your only competition should be yourself

17.How To Dress Fabulously On Your Budget

It a wonderful thing to look good, but overspending on the latest and coolest apparel could mean the downfall of many. It’s possible to cut down on your clothing budget and still rock head-turning style, on just about your salary.

18.The Big Cost Of Your Little Splurges

By 25, you should visibly comprehend how a bottle of beer everyday can add up and stop you from making progress in you quest for financial abundance.

19.How To Negotiate A Better Salary

Yes, spending less and saving more will help but the fastest way to financial freedom than growing your income. You should know your worth and make sure you are earning what you’re worth.

20.That You Should Not Depend On One Source Of Income

This might be a trick from basket sellers but it is advisable to not put all your eggs in one basket. Diversify your sources of income; you will be surprised at the extra income you can earn from that special skill of yours.

21.You Should Be Prudent With Your Wedding Expenditure

What shall it profit a man to have an exuberant wedding celebration and starve after the ceremony?

22.Your Network Is Your Net Worth

Make sure you choose your friends and acquaintance carefully. Remember, you are three persons away from everybody in this world.

23.Your Own Financial Personality

How do you react to money? What are your spending habits? What are strengths and weaknesses when it comes to money? You need to find out and work on it.

24.Do Not Forget To Live Life

On your way to financial independence do not forget life. In case you forget, you only live once and what’s the use of all the money in the world if you have no one to spend it with.

25.With Total Discipline You Can Achieve Everything

Without discipline you can achieve nothing, with partial discipline you can achieve some things and with total discipline you can achieve anything.

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gloriaz: good to know nigerians can not only copy stuff. but i cant open ur link.

Sorry about that. We moved most of our articles to our new site. this is the new link

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Virtually everybody born before the invention of the internet must have heard the tale of a nonexistent football match between Nigeria and India that obviously took place in a parallel universe and somehow we got to hear the gory stories of that match.
Though there are many variations of the story, every prevaricator seems to agree on a couple of facts about this fictional football match. Each storyteller agrees that;

1. This match ended with India scoring 99 goals and Nigeria scoring just one goal.

2. Nigerians where unable to kick the ball because the football kept turning to a lion (or something scary) to prevent them from playing the soccer ball.

3. The Indians later agreed that if Nigeria could score a goal, they would concede defeat

4. Samuel Okwaraji scored the winning goal and lost his life in the process.

5. FIFA banned India from soccer because they used black magic in that very game

With the help of common sense (not that it was absent back then), quick access to information and the internet, every right thinking Nigerian has come to realise that such a story should be filled under “Blatant Lies”.

Why Did This Story Thrive For So Long?

Most people like to pass off this story as true with the fact that no one has ever seen India in an International Football Match. Since no one actually saw India participate in most international soccer games, this gave a little credence to the story. India

Another reason this lie could thrive for long was the fact that credible information was not readily available at our finger tips. It not like every Emeka, Audu and Ojo could visit Google in a matter of minutes and tell our ominous fabricators that they should stop spreading toxic lies.

And to be honest we have a tingling feeling that this lie was concocted by an elder of a community because, let’s be honest who questions the words of the elders in Nigeria. Remember, what an adult sees sitting down a child will never see even if he consults Google, Siri or Cortana.

The Element of Truth In This Story

On the 12th of August 1989, Nigeria lost Sam Okwaraji.

Sam Okwaraji was the player rumored to have lost his life in that game when in truth he died during a FIFA World Cup qualifying game against Angola in the 77th minute.

He collapsed and died of cognitive heart failure. May his soul rest in Perfect Peace. AMEN

So that is the only truthful thing about that story, the fact that a Nigerian player died during a football match. That’s it. The match was not against India, we did not lose the match and as you must have guessed, and there were no lions either.

What Is The Deal With India Anyway?

India qualified for the 1950 FIFA world cup as a result of the withdrawal of their scheduled opponents. But the Indian football governing body, the All India Football Federation (AIFF) decided against going to the world cup, being unable to understand the importance of the event at that time.

Some of the Reasons shown by the AIFF included the cost of travel, lack of practice time, team selection issued and valuing the Olympics over the FIFA World cup. It should be noted that FIFA agreed to bear a major part of the travel expenses, but it did not really help their decision making.

Was India Banned For Refusing To Play Barefoot?

No.

The 1948 London Olympics was India’s first major international tournament, where a predominantly barefoot Indian team lost 2 -1 to France.

Following the 1948 Olympics FIFA imposed a rule banning barefoot play.

The belief that the Indian team refused to play because they were not allowed to play barefoot is not entirely true according to the then team captain who said it was just a story to cover the disastrous decision of the AFIF.

After the 1950 fiasco, India has never come close to qualifying for the World Cup.

The reason you do not see India in World Cup competitions is because they do not qualify

So Does The Indian Team Wear Soccer Boots?

Yes.

In the 1952 Olympics, the Indian team lost 10 – 1 to Yugoslavia (talking about taking a beating). As a result of this magnanimous defeat the AIFF made it compulsory for its team members to wear boots

Is it Possible to win a match with a 99 – 1 match margin?

Yes.

It is absolutely possible to rake 99 – 1 from a single football match. Let’s take a walk down memory lane and see how this is even possible. Now allow us to digress.

The highest scoring soccer game was 149-0!

You’re probably wondering how a soccer team could be so bad that they let 149 goals be scored, but the truth is it was a form of protest. The event occurred in 2002 after a 2-2 draw between rival teams Stade Olympique de L’emyrne, or SOE, and AS Adema of Madagascar, which resulted in the referees awarding a penalty causing SOE to lose the game.

During a match fixing debacle in Nigeria, the Feeders scored 72 of their 79-0 victory in 45 minutes of play. Police Machine scored 61 of their 67-0 victory in the second half. At one point, they scored four goals in a minute.

Arbroath won Bon Accord 36 – 0 in 1885. It held the largest margin of victory in professional football where both sides wanted to win.

So, yes, given the “right circumstances”, a team could actually receive 99 – 1 beating without any black magic whatsoever.

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The educational system should be a citadel of education and enlightenment, an abode of learning where anyone can safely discover the truth about everyday facts. This system given us the opportunity to become mature and responsible adults, securing our knowledge in science, mathematics and history.

Except, of course, for all the ridiculously irresponsible lies we’re being fed. Here are nine of the biggest lies taught to us in school.

1. There are three states of matter


You might remember being taught that there are three states of matter namely; solid, liquid and gas. Well that is not entirely true. Your teacher might have lied to you because you were probably too young to comprehend the other states of matter. Although it wouldn’t hurt your science teacher to say something like “there are three popular states of matter” or “we are going to learn three state of matter at this stage”, your science teacher had to ram a lie to your throat not minding how difficult it would be for you to unlearn such a prevarication.

Four states of matter are observable in everyday life: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Many other states are known such as Bose–Einstein condensates and neutron-degenerate matter but these only occur in extreme situations such as ultra cold or ultra dense matter. Other states, such as quark–gluon plasmas, are believed to be possible but remain theoretical for now. For a complete list of all exotic states of matter click here.

2. Bats are blind


Despite the old adage “blind as a bat” it would surprise you to know that absolutely every bat has eyes and can see better at night than humans.

Yes! You can close your mouth now. True they use echolocation, but it is simply to augment their vision, not to replace it.

Interestingly, bats will even rely on their eyes over their echolocation results. In some studies, they have flown directly into a window through which light is shining, ignoring the echolocation telling it that the path was not all clear.

3. You have five senses



Humans do not have just five senses, there are at least nine senses and most researchers think there are more like twenty one or so.

Humans have more than the commonly cited five senses. The number of senses in various categorizations ranges from 5 to more than 20. In addition to sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing, which were the senses identified by Aristotle, humans can sense balance and acceleration (equilibrioception), pain (nociception), body and limb position (proprioception or kinesthetic sense), and relative temperature (thermoception).Other senses sometimes identified are the sense of time, itching, pressure, hunger, thirst, fullness of the stomach, need to urinate, need to defecate, and blood carbon dioxide levels.

Each time a teacher says there are five senses, the teacher is referring to Aristotle’s classification of the senses, which if you ask us is a very old text to teach a student in the 21st century.

4. People thought the earth was flat

If you learned in school that Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain in 1492 and crossed the Atlantic Ocean, disproving a common belief in those days that the Earth was flat, then the lesson was wrong.

Several books published in Europe between 1200 and 1500 discussed the Earth’s shape, including “The Sphere,” written in the early 1200s, which was required reading in European universities in the 1300s and beyond. It was still in use 500 years after it was penned.

It is not true that people thought the earth was flat and that was the reason why they refused to travel thinking that they would get to the end of the earth and fall off. And this was the reason why Christopher Columbus was not allowed to sail round the world in 1942

It’s well documented that we’ve known the world is round since the days of the mathematical geniuses of ancient Greece. People like Pythagoras (6th century B.C), Euclid, and Aristotle (4th century B.C) all wrote works indicating that clearly, the Earth was round.

5. Humans evolved from apes


It is true that humans do belong to the same taxonomic family as the great apes, like gorillas. It is also true that the closest known living relative to Homo sapiens is the chimpanzee. However, this does not mean humans "evolved from monkeys". We share a common, humans and the great apes—chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans—started with a common ancestor, and then evolved in separate directions over the years.

So next time someone claims you evolved from a monkey, correct his mistake. Better yet, if this person is a political or cultural leader, inquire why he is spreading misinformation. The truth may be surprising.


6. Diamonds are formed from coal


You might have been made to believe that diamonds come from pressurized coal. This misconception stems from the fact that diamonds and coals
are made of carbon.

If you believe that diamonds are made from highly compressed coal, don’t worry—so does everyone else. But it’s completely false: diamonds are found in vertical shafts filled with rocks formed by volcanoes, while coal is mainly found among other types of rocks—like limestone and shale.

Coal is almost never found in the same type of environment as diamonds. Coal is formed near the surface from plant matter, while diamonds are formed in the Earth’s mantle—over ninety miles (145 km) closer to the core—and then carried up to the crust during volcanic eruptions.

It’s true that diamonds are formed from carbon by intense heat—2,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,100 degrees Celcius)—and high pressure, but it’s unlikely that the carbon comes from coal. So while the idea of a lump of coal becoming a beautiful diamond makes a pretty picture, it’s still one big spoonful of lies.

On the other hand, modern science can pretty much turn anything into a diamond in the lab: even the corpse of your recently deceased loved one. Aww.

7. There are different taste areas for taste on your tongue


All different tastes can be detected on all parts of the tongue by taste buds, with slightly increased sensitivities in different locations depending on the person, contrary to the popular belief that specific tastes only correspond to specific mapped sites on the tongue. The original tongue map was based on a mistranslation of a 1901 German thesis by Edwin Boring.

In addition, the current common categorical conception is there are not 4 but 5 primary tastes. In addition to bitter, sour, salty, and sweet, humans have taste receptors for umami, which is a savory or meaty taste.

8. Mother birds will abandon their chicks if they are touched by human


Popular belief claims that if mothers smell the scent of human on their chicks, they will leave them to die. But it turns out that the touch of a human isn't enough to drive a mother away from her maternal duties.

"Birds don't have a very strong sense of smell, so you won't leave a scent that will alarm the parent," Cornell biologist Miyoko Chu tells Livescience.com.

In reality, mother birds can be just as devoted as human parents.
"Usually, birds are quite devoted to their young and not easily deterred from taking care of them," Chu said.

But experts still advise not to poke through bird nests.

"The fact is, birds don't abandon their young in response to touch, [but] they will abandon [their offspring and their nest] in response to disturbance," University of Montana biologist Thomas Martin tells Scientific American.

9. Lightning never strikes the same place twice


This myth is actually an old idiom meant to explain that unfortunate occurrences will not happen twice in the same way to the same person. While the old saying is comforting, lightning can actually strike anywhere twice – the main question is the probability of this occurring. For a random object in your backyard, this might be fairly low.

But the 1,454-foot-tall Empire State Building is actually struck about 25 times per year. Humans are no exception: US park ranger Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning seven times between 1942 and 1977, and lived to tell the tale (or rather all seven of them).

Lightning is more likely to strike taller objects because they carry the upward channel better than shorter ones. But the probability of a lightning strike also depends on other factors, such as the presence of salt water, metal, or moisture in or near the ground.

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1. If you are going to be a feminist, at least know something about it.

2. If you are getting a university degree in hopes that it would increase your bride price, you’re in for the shock of your life.

3. You should also strive for success. Remember, success is not sexually transmitted

4. Anytime you compete with another woman for a man’s attention, you demean yourself.

5. If he hits you once, that is the end of that relationship.

6. Every Lady should know how to turn down a man politely without making a scene or making him go bankrupt.

7. Before sex, a man isn't thinking clearly and a woman is thinking clearly. After sex, it reverses. The man is thinking clearly and a woman isn't. Be wise

8. There is a thin line between sexy and slutty, find it.

9. Its okay to cry, but never cry for the same reason twice.

10. All that talk about feminism and you do not think its okay to ask a guy out? Girl you are delusional. Lol

11. Never visit a guy if you do not have enough money to go back home.

12. Make your own money.

13. A man who gives you his word and eats them has just lost the right to be called a man

14. Remain a virgin because you want to, not because of religion, society, your family or pride.

15. Just because you are wearing beautiful pants does not mean we have to see them. We don’t.

16. If the only thing you can offer in a relationship is between your legs, then you are too young to be in relationship.

17. Never make a sex-tape. Those things have a way of getting to the internet.

18. If an action doesn’t make you happy, better or richer, then you shouldn’t be doing it.

19. I love a girl who fights for me in public. Said no guy ever

20. If someone else doesn't like your confidence, that's their problem. Why? You always come before they do, that's why.

21. You were born a queen, don’t die a bitch.

22. When on a date, always suggest to split the bill.

23. When entrusted with a secret, keep it.

24. No matter how macho your boyfriend is, there is always someone to kick his ass. Enough with the attitude

25. Acting stupid isn’t cute, just stop already

26. Never lie to your doctor.

27. It’s a toilet, not your private photo studio.

28. You have to be a woman, before you can become a lady.

29. Take a vacation from your cell phone, internet and TV once a year.

30. Don’t fill up on beans, no matter how good it tastes.

31. When you are with new friends, don’t talk about old friends

32. It’s never too late for an apology

33. When you marry someone, remember you marry their entire family

34. A beautiful woman can make herself look ugly in the eyes of a man if she is very insecure

35. Don’t make a scene

36. Relax; it’s just a relationship, not a job opportunity.

37. Know when to ignore the camera.

38. Make time for your mother on your birthday. It’s a special day for her too

39. Address everyone that carries a firearm professionally, yes especially the Nigerian Police Force

40. If you’ve made your point, stop talking.

41. You can dip a skunk in perfume and expect it to become a puppy. Eventually, the perfume will wear off and you will still have a skunk in your hands. Yeah, people never change.

42. Learn to say “Thank you”.

43. Admit it when you are wrong.

44. Flirting is cheating, if you are in relationship.

45. Just because you are a virgin does not mean you are a good person. Virginity has nothing to do with being a good or bad person.

46. How long you keep a man waiting says how much you respect him and how much he likes you.

47. Look people in the eye when you thank them.

48. Do not look at your failed relationships as mistakes; they are lessons for you to learn from.

49. Know at least one good joke. You will need it.

50. Learn how to cook at least one good meal

51. Twerking will get you a man for the night; dignity will get you a husband for a lifetime

52. If you don’t understand, ask before it’s too late

53. Know the size of your boyfriend’s clothes.

54. If you cannot be happy alone, you won’t be happy with a man in your life.

55. Relationship and Love isn’t about looks; gorgeous women get dumped everyday

56. It’s okay to go out all by yourself.

57. With the security situation of Nigeria. You should keep fit, you never know when you might need to run for your life

58. Never take back an ex, you left him for a reason, remember?

59. If he asks you to meet your father for money, tell him to meet his mother for sex. You don’t sound like a love peddler; you gave an
insensitive boyfriend a dose of his pill.

60. Listen to understand, don’t listen to reply.

61. Always insist he wears a condom. Yes, it feels good without a condom, but unwanted pregnancy doesn’t feel so good, neither does STD.

62. Keep your word.

63. Carry your mother’s bag, she carried you for nine months

64. You are what you do, not what you say

65. If you have a sister, get to know her boyfriend. It is very important

66. Never call someone before or after 9am and 9pm. MTN lied, there is nothing cool about extra cool night calls

67. Always wear a bra to work.

68. If he loves you, never leave him for a richer dude. Why? There will always be a richer guy out there, finding someone who loves you is as rare as catching lightening.

69. You are never too old to need your mom.

70. If you make the decision to wear heels on the first date commit to keeping them on and keeping your trap shut about how much your feet hurts.

71. Know the words to the second stanza of the National Anthem

72. Smile at strangers.

73. Never have sex with a guy that doesn’t want you as much as you want him

74. Compliment his suit

75. If you aren’t confident, fake it. It will come.

76. Sleeping around can take you to the top, but it won’t keep you there.

77. You can tell the size of a man by the size of things that bother him

78. Never lend anything you can’t afford to lose. Especially your heart and your home

79. Find your passion and figure out how to get paid for it

80. No matter their job or status in life, everyone deserves your respect.

81. Do what needs to be done without complaining. It won’t help speed things up

82. Always go out into public dressed like you are about to meet the love of your life.

83. Don’t change yourself to make him happy.

84. If you are the smartest girl in the room, you are in the wrong room

85. Do whatever you want to do in life, but be the best at it

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