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http://www..net/2015/04/photos-dammy-krane-keeps-his.html

The singer had earlier vowed to cut his dreads if Buhari became president..He kept to his promise yesterday

"As I promised a fan that I will cut off my dreads if Sai Baba wins The Presidential election ... #CHANGE"

See how he looks without it..


http://www..net/2015/04/photos-dammy-krane-keeps-his.html

*Buhari will die before the Election - Ayo Fayose

*Buhari is brain dead - Mama Peace

*If APC survives till October 2014, call me a bastard- Doyin Okupe

*Mark my words, It will not happen for Buhari to rule Nigeria - Doyin Okupe.

*If APC wins, I will go on exile - Bode George.

*Buhari can never win in Yoruba land - Gani Adams.

*Jonathan will shock APC with defeat - FFK

*If Jonathan loses, we would set Nigeria on fire - Asari Dokubo.

*We instigated the 6 weeks postponement so that Jonathan can win - Fasehun

*I will deliver 1 million votes to Jonathan in Ondo state. - Mimiko

*We shall deliver the South West votes to Jonathan. - Afenifere

*Tinubu is no longer a force in the South West. - Yinka Odumakin. *Buhari at 70 wears diapers like my mother. -Fayose

*Jonathan already has Lagos votes. - Musiliu

They are all what they call themselves.


www..net/2015/04/must-read-notable-nigerians-who-cursed.html

Gen Buhari Has Had 25% Of Votes In 24 States Already .

According to the constitutional provisions that an incoming government should have at least 25% of votes from at least 24 states of the federation, we are pleased to inform Nigerians that that landmark has been reached by the General even with 3 states yet to be announced.



http://www..net/2015/03/breaking-news-gen-buhari-has-had-25-of.html

This Day Newspaper And Arise News London Declare Gen Buhari Winner Of Presidential Election...

Arise news London and their sister newspaper company in Nigeria has already declared Gen Buhari the winner of the elections in the country.

The programme is on now and the results are even yet to be announced in Nigeria...

More details soon


http://www..net/2015/03/breaking-news-this-day-newspaper-and.html

According to the technical ground of the constitution, Buhari of APC must score up to 25% in 1/3-(about 13 states-where GEJ won him), out of the 36 states, before he (Buhari) can be declaired a winner over the incumbent president. So, even if Buhari won most of the states in Nigeria, but if he couldn't win up to 25% votes in the states that GEJ defeated him, the presidential election thus, will be declaired inconclusive, and thus, GEJ of PDP will still emerge as the winner.

In the states in South-East and South- South that GEJ won, did Buhari won up to 25% votes? Let the Notherners start educating their people nowoooo-about what the Nigerian constitution says
based on technical ground, because I know, as soon as they hear that GEJ is announced the president, they will start their senseless killings.

Know it now that on technical ground of the constitution, that Buhari is too
far from becoming the president-inspite of the fact that he is the one leading in most states.



http://www..net/2015/03/breaking-news-constitutional-provision.html

Mufutau Ajadi Lanihun, an Ibadan-based businessman and philanthropist, is dead.

Popularly known as “Olowo ti nfowo sanu’’ due to his generosity, Mr. Lanihun died at the age of 69.

A senior member of the Lanihun family confirmed his death on Sunday evening in Ibadan.

Also confirming the death, Ishaq Sanni, the Chairman of the Muslim Community of Oyo State, said the deceased would be greatly missed, particularly because of his kindness, generosity and philanthropic assistance to mankind and Muslims in particular.

Mr. Sanni recalled Mr. Lanihun’s contributions to the education sector, saying that he built schools and gave scholarships to many indigent students.

Mr. Lanihun, who had not been seen in the public lately due to his protracted illness, died at his Ibadan residence on Sunday.

His remains were interred at his Oke-Ado residence in Ibadan, with the Chief Imam of Ibadan, Suara Haruna, leading the “Janazah’’ prayers for the repose of his soul.

Prominent Islamic scholars, among other personalities, witnessed the “Janazah’’ prayers.

One of them, Abdul Salam, said that Mr. Lanihun would always be remembered for his contributions to the development of Ibadan, especially in the areas of education and commerce.

Until his death, Mr. Lanihun, who was the Giwa Adinni of Yoruba land, had several other religious and traditional titles.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/180096-popular-ibadan-businessman-mufu-lanihun-dies-at-69.html

http://www..net/2015/03/popular-ibadan-businessman-mufu-lanihun.html

The singer is a year older today March 29th and released these sexy pics to celebrate. Happy birthday to her.

More photos when you continue...

http://www..net/2015/03/singer-adokiye-releases-sexy-new-photos.html

This is a last minute attempt to win the mandate of Lagosians!

An electorate sent me the items she was given at her polling unit just to get her to vote fore PDP!

Well she got the materials and didn't take the money (as she sad) but this is not what we want!

Mandate and legitimacy can't be bought! It is earned....


http://www..net/2015/03/photo-pdp-shares-branded-note-books.html

This seems to be a satire for the People's Democratic Party as their party bus on their way to a polling unit was caught in mud in the middle of the road!

The officials in the bus had to run for safety and find a way to bring the sinking bus out!

http://www..net/2015/03/photo-pdp-party-bus-stuck-in-mud-as.html

While some youths are sleeping @ home. These are the real heroes of our democracy.


http://www..net/2015/03/photo-oldest-woman-ever-seen-at-polling.html

https://twitter.com/NaijaCorpers/status/581794763088752640/photo/1

With few hours to go to the commencement of the first round of elections for federal office seekers in Nigeria, a leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was in the early hours of Saturday, March 28, 2015 caught with thumb-printed ballot papers en-route and unknown destination.

According to photos which have surfaced online, Basirat Ojugbele, the APC Woman Leader in Lagos West was reportedly caught in an unnamed area of the state at about 12:15am in charge of a bus with registration number FKJ 450 XJ by security operatives.


When the bus was searched, a large amount of ballot papers already printed were discovered.


http://www..net/2015/03/breaking-news-apc-women-leader-caught.html

http://www.edificationinfo.com/2015/03/100-quotes-to-get-you-out-of-your-slump.html


50. "We cannot change life! We can only change the way we live life. Any moment is the best moment, and any place is the best place." -- Tishan



51. "I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone." -- Nina Simone



52. "Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My greatest regret is how much I believed in the future." -- Jonathan Safran Foer



53. "I have accepted fear as a part of life, specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown, and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far." -- Erica Jong



54. "When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'" -- Shunryu Suzuki



55. "Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we are in need of *at the time that we are reading.* How obvious the thought seems once it has been articulated! As with love, politics, or friendship: readiness is all." -- Vivian Gornick



56. "Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire." -- Patti Smith



57. "Buy the ticket, take the ride." -- Hunter S. Thompson



58. "The proper response to conflict, whether it lies within us or without us, is disengagement." -- Brian Browne Walker



59. "What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner." -- Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette



60. "You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now." -- Joan Baez



61. "Question: Since you are here to remember who you are, why have you forgotten? Answer: Perhaps you have lived another’s dream and not your own." -- Rusty Berkus



62. "If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



63. "Lose faith. Pray anyway. Persist. We are made to persist, to complete the whole tour. That's how we find out who we are." -- Tobias Wolff

64. "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." -- Walker Percy



65. "When a person begins to yell during an argument, it is a tip-off that he is unsure of himself." -- Ann Landers



66. "I said this to my daughter, if you don't practice the guitar, when you get older you wouldn't be able to play it. It's that simple. If you want to play the guitar, you put a half hour in everyday, but you have to do it." -- Woody Allen



67. "Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing what you have to do." -- Cheryl Strayed



68. "I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them." -- Macon Leary



69. "As you begin to live according to your own guidance and your own daring, everything changes completely." -- Barbara Marciniak



70. "If you are called to be a sweet sweeper, sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.'" -- Martin Luther King Jr.



71. "In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer." -- Albert Camus



72. "You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across -- not to just depict life -- or criticize it -- but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. things aren't that way." -- Ernest Hemingway



73. "I've seen a jillion miracles. They're all around. Every green leaf is a miracle." -- Jimmy Dean



74. "All I ask is that you do your best, and forget the rest." -- Tony Horton



75. "The thing I try to get across to the writers -- and I do a lot of writing, too -- is that when I do stand-up, nothing I talk about is funny. Everything is really sad and tragic and then I make it funny." -- Chris Rock



76. "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make big choices in life. Because almost everything -- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure -- these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." -- Steve Jobs



77. "I actually started to think a lot about the difference between a creative gesture and a noncreative gesture. I decided that all gestures were creative. Because you always have to make a decision at some point." -- Andrea Zittel



78. "A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life. Reach out. Take a chance. Get hurt even. But play as well as you can." -- Maude in "Harold and Maude," written by Colin Higgins



79. "Drop all ideas of achieving in meditation, just do it naturally; what happens happens on its own. One day, effortlessly, everything starts happening by itself." -- Osho



80. "I see the notion of talent as quite irrelevant. I see instead perseverance, application, industry, assiduity, will, will, will, desire, desire, desire." -- Gordon Lish



81. "You make one good friend a summer ... and you're doing pretty well." -- Tripper Harrison in "Meatballs," written by Len Blum, Dan Goldberg, Janis Allen & Harold Ramis



82. "Don't be like me. Be better than me. That's the goal." -- Michael Jordon



83. "Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more." -- Erica Jong



84. "As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being." -- Carl Jung



85. "Marry somebody you love. That's the whole thing. And continue to love them." -- Charlie Daniels



86. "Nothing is always absolutely so." -- Theodore Sturgeon



87. "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." -- The Dalai Lama



88. "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." -- Annie Dillard



89. "Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce. In summer, we work hard to make a tidy garden, bordered by pansies with rows or clumps of columbine, petunias, bleeding hearts. Then we find ourselves longing for the forest, where everything has the appearance of disorder; yet we feel peaceful there." -- Natalie Goldberg



90. "The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good." -- Stanley Kubrick



91. "I try to live my life in such a way that I don't have any regrets. That's probably why I work so much. I don't want to feel I missed something important." -- Philip Seymour Hoffman



92. "Because I'm not beaming with a radiant smile every two minutes, then I'm lonely and waiting for my hero? Well, guess what? I'm not waiting for my hero. I'm my own hero."

93. "Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid." -- Michel Gondry

94. "How I became a better writer was that I kept writing." -- Sallie Tisdale



95. "The relationship that counts most in my life is the one I have with myself. I have a great, great, great relationship with myself, and it gets better and better as I get older. The other day, I was talking to Barry in the car and I said, 'I'm so glad I'm me!'" -- Diane von Furstenberg



96. "The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death -- however mutable man may be able to make them -- our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light." -- Stanley Kubrick



97. "It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego." -- bell hooks

98. "A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you." -- Harold Ramis



99. "The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing himself, always." -- Arthur Miller



100. "Well, in retrospect, what it came down to was that I would not allow myself to be defined by other people, white or black. It was beneath me to blame anybody for what happened to me. What happened to me was my responsibility. I didn't want any pity. 'Leave me alone, I'll figure it out.' I was very wounded and I was very dangerous because you become what you hate. It's what happened to my father and I didn't want it to happen to me. His hatred was suppressed and turned against himself. He couldn't let it out -- he could only let it out in the house with rage, and I found it happening to myself as well. And after my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So -- Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket." -- James Baldwin

We all have favorite inspirational quotes, and I'd love it if you share yours in the comments below so we can make this the best possible resource to remember and inspire and forge ahead.



So, what do you have taped on your wall, computer screen, tattooed on your arm?

What keeps you going?



Here's what helps for me, collected over a lifetime.



1. "Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it." -- Steve Jobs



2. "If you wait, all that happens is you get older." -- Larry McMurtry



3. "I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them." -- Tom Petty



4. "There is no remedy for love but to love more." -- Henry David Thoreau

5. "I've always run by the hierarchy of 'If not funny, interesting. If not interesting, hot. If not hot, bizarre. If not bizarre, break something." -- Jon Stewart



6. "I went for years without finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged." -- Erica Jong



7. "Between grief and nothing I will take grief." -- William Faulkner



8. "What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." -- Crowfoot



9. "Gambling is not a vice. It is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play." -- Jeanette Winterson



10. "Don't worry, and don't kick yourself forever. Just take the opportunities when they come." -- Bob Diamond in "Defending Your Life," written by Albert Brooks



11. "We must hold in our minds these utterly contradictory thoughts: not one of us matters at all; each of us is infinitely precious." -- Jane Emily Bowers



12. "Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team." -- Scottie Pippen



13. "All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware." -- Martin Buber



14. "There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning." -- Thornton Wilder



15. "I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark burn out in a brilliant blaze than it be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." -- Jack London



16. "As you begin to live according to your own guidance and your own daring everything changes completely." -- Leonard Willoughby



17. "The best training is to read and write, no matter what. Don't live with a lover or roommate who doesn't respect your work. Don't lie, buy time, borrow to buy time. Write what will stop your breath if you don't write." -- Grace Paley



18. "People always say to me, 'When you get to the NBA, don't forget about me.' Well I should've said back, 'If I don't make it to the NBA, don't you forget about me.'" -- William Gates



19. "Because that is when you love somebody -- when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game." -- Philip Roth



20. "He leans over and takes her hand. With the other he touches her face. 'You your best thing, Sethe. You are.' His fingers are holding hers." -- Toni Morrison, "Beloved"



21. "You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take." -- Wayne Gretzky



22. "When life gives you lemons, just say, 'Bleep the lemons,' and bail." -- Chuck in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," written by Jason Segel



23. "Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment. Know the sweet joy of the way." -- Dhammapada, "Words of the Buddha"



24. "I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within." -- Eudora Welty



25. "A moment comes when the true self reveals itself. That moment comes when you are willing to be unconditionally present in the imperfection of this moment. A simple change of attitude; instead of chasing after perfection, you allow a total and profound surrending to the imperfection of the moment." -- Tyohar

26. "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." -- Anais Nin



27. "It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him." -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn



28. "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined." -- Thoreau



29. "Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle." -- Christian D. Larson



30. "Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to have woken up. I am alive. I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it, I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others, to achieve enlightenment for all beings, I am going to have kind thoughts towards others. I am not going to get angry, or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can." -- H.H. The XIVTH Dalai Lama



31. "Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in the magic will never find it!" -- Roald Dahl



34. "Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. Live in the faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you!" -- Christian D. Larson



35. "There is a peaceful place inside that welcomes you. A space so safe, so still, that there is no forward or backward -- only the eternal flow of the present moment. Entert his place where the truth of your being resides and appreciate who you are." -- Rusty Berkus



36. "Every single person has within an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness. Every single human being can experience that -- infinite intelligence, infinite creativity, infinite happiness, infinite energy, infinite dynamic peace." -- David Lynch



37. "I find that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works." -- Louise Hay



38. "The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." -- Marcel Proust



39. "One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now." -- Annie Dillard



40. "It's always been my philosophy: Turn the page. If something falls through, turn the page. It's over with, get used to it, get on with it. Very simple. It's always worked for me." -- Merv Griffin

41. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” -- Rumi



42. "Hold fast to stars. Hold fast to the elusive, the intangible, the never to be had; for stars fall from heaven sometimes, and kings are born in barns, and miracles rise out of little things." -- Anonymous

43. "Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap." -- William Bennett



44. "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

45. "I salute you! There is nothing I can give you which you have not; but there is much, that, while I cannot give you, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today. Take Heaven. No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present instant. Take Peace. The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet, within our reach, is joy. Take Joy." -- Fra Giovanni



46. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery



47. "Life is so generous a giver but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power. Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch the angel's hand that brings it to you. Everything we call a trial or a sorrow or a duty, believe me that angel's hand is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing presence. Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty beneath its covering, that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage then to claim, that is all." -- Fra Giovanni



48. "The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been." -- Sri Ramana Maharshi



49. "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible." -- Arthur C. Clarke

The people must be really hungry, and no party is more aware of this than the PDP. As the presidential election day draws closer, anything, everything and many things will be obtainable.

Ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party, out of desperation for the votes of the lowest people in the social ladder, has packaged ‘garri, sugar and groundnut’, to sadly sway voters into voting for them.

Have a look… and say a prayer for Nigeria:

http://www..net/2015/03/photo-pdp-shares-packaged-garri-sugar.html

The University of Port Harcourt has declined a Freedom of Information, FOI, request for the doctorate degree records of President Goodluck Jonathan.

In a response to the Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, a Rivers State-based civil society organization, the university said a request for President Jonathan's academic records did not fall within the provisions of the FOI law.
"The Management of the University has carefully considered your request vis-a-vis the FOI Act," the university stated in their letter dated 26th February, 2015, and signed by Eric Loveday Osuo Abonemi, the institution's Legal Officer.

"It is my instructions to inform you that your request does not come within the relevant provisions of the FOI Act for its practicability or for the University to provide such details as requested.

"Details of the Ph.D Degree of President Goodluck Jonathan in the University of Port Harcourt cannot therefore be made available to you."
The Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law had filed an FOI request, three weeks ago, to the university seeking relevant details of Mr. Jonathan's doctorate qualifications.

The letter requested the following information relating to the president's doctorate qualification, citing the provisions of Sections 2 and 4 of the FOI Act, 2011:


1. The title of the president's doctorate dissertation
2. Year of registration as a doctorate candidate
3. Name of his doctorate supervisor(s)
4. Name of his external examiner(s)
5. Comments/reports of the external examiner of the dissertation/thesis
6. Photocopy of the dissertation/thesis
7. Date of graduation from the university
The organization said it was willing to bear any cost the university might incur in making photocopies of the requested documents and for posting them.

President Jonathan was admitted into the Department of Zoology (now renamed Animal and Environmental Biology), University of Port Harcourt, in 1977, where he graduated with Second Class Honours (Upper Division).
In 1985, Mr. Jonathan obtained a Master of Science degree in Hydrobiology and Fisheries, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Zoology 10 years later.

Both degrees were also from the University of Port Harcourt.

Lately, Mr. Jonathan's academic qualifications have come under increased scrutiny ahead of the forthcoming general elections. Critics have accused the president of failing to complete his doctorate programme.
In a response to an enquiry by Punch Newspaper in January, the university dismissed such claims as having "neither legs nor grounds to stand on".

The university had also told any person or organization seeking additional information on Mr. Jonathan's qualifications to contact the school authorities.

"We have absolutely nothing to hide as an institution that has a statutory mandate to advance the frontiers of knowledge," William Wodi, the university's Deputy Registrar (Information), had told the newspaper.
It is unclear why the university declined to release Mr. Jonathan's academic qualifications to the civil society organization after giving that commitment.

Jiti Ogunye, a Lagos-based lawyer, said the president's academic records ought to be freely available in the university and not be "opaque or hidden".

"The FOI is applicable to the academic records of a public officer whose academic records are being requested by a Nigerian citizen or a nongovernmental organization duly registered in Nigeria with a view to promoting accountability and transparency in government," Mr. Ogunye said.
"The academic records of the president are not the medical records of the president in which case a medical officer can say the FOI is exempted, or the records between a lawyer and his client which are covered by the confidentiality rule."
WHAT THE FOI ACT SAYS
According to Section 14(1) of the FOI ACT, subject to subsection (2), a public institution must deny an application for information that contains personal information and information exempted under this subsection includes:
(a) files and personal information maintained with respect to clients, patients, residents, students, or other individuals receiving social, medical, educational, vocation, financial, supervisory or custodial care or services directly or indirectly from public institutions;…
(2) A public institution shall disclose any information that contains personal information if –
(a) the individual to whom it relates consents to the disclosure; or
(b) the information is publicly available
(3) Where disclosure of any information referred to in this section would be in the public interest, and if the public interest in the disclosure of such information clearly outweighs the protection of the privacy of the individual to whom such information relates, the public institution to whom request for disclosure is made shall disclose such information subject to Section 14(2) of this Act.

Mr. Ogunye said that an institution might attempt to hide under Section 14(1)(a) to decline disclosure of information.

"My argument is, this information is publicly available and ought to be disclosed. The president has said he obtained his Ph.D in that institution, so it's publicly available," Mr. Ogunye said.

"So why will an institution refuse to disclose an information that is publicly available? The university has acted wrongly and can be compelled by the suit of the non-governmental organization concerned to disclose the information."

http://www.edificationinfo.com/2015/03/uniport-hides-jonathans-doctorate.html

It's no news that Waje has recently emerged looking slimmer than she was last year.Speaking to Saturday Beats, she said comments about her weight depressed her..

“I reduced my weight because I watched my performance on screen one time and I was shocked. When you are on screen, you add ten pounds and there was a time I was performing and it was shown live. I did not like the comments on twitter and it made me depressed for a while. I had to make a decision if I wanted to enjoy life and call myself a fat person or I could live a better lifestyle. As a female brand, I am a visual brand and when you look good, people tend to take you more seriously. You also feel smarter, so I had to start thinking in that direction.(more below)

“The weight loss was intentional and the reason was because I wanted to live a healthier lifestyle. I just want to reduce my food intake, especially junk foods. My stylist is hoping I get slimmer because it is easier to style slim people. For slim people, you can get clothes off the rack but for people like me, we have to make the clothes most of the time,” she said.

http://www..net/2015/03/i-had-to-loose-weight-waje.html

Denrele has been rocking his blonde locks since the AMVCAS and he sure slays the look in this new photo shoot by TCD photography..
Checkout more pics of him on the Owen gee show .

Ladies, don't forget he's still single and searching!

http://www..net/2015/03/denrele-his-blonde-hair-stun-in-new.html

At the recently held PDP rally in south west Nigeria state of Ekiti state, the first lady gave this speech.

It reads as I quote

" A lion borns a lion; A lion cannot borns a goat. Fayose is my husband's junior brother- my small husband! PDP is a talkingnado party.... APC is death... If you drink am you go die! They have been changing names; they go soon dey bear Ebola "



http://www..net/2015/03/must-read-patience-jonathans-quote-at.html

The students of Mechanical Engineering Department of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, over the weekend, unveiled an energy efficient and environment friendly “Made in Nigeria car”.

The car is expected to use one gallon of fuel to cover 100km, the university authority said.
Addressing newsmen after a demonstration-drive of the car in ABU, the Head of Department, Mechanical Engineering, Dr Mohammed Dauda, said the car would participate in “Shell Eco Marathon Competition” in Netherlands during the year.

Dauda, who is also the Dean, Faculty of Engineering, said the car was part of the Federal Government’s automotive policy essentially targeted at stimulating the growth of the automotive industry.

“In addition to that, I must say, the reason why we started this came from Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited. They invited ABU to participate in what they called Shell Eco Marathon Competition. “This is an annual competition that Shell invites academic institutions both universities and colleges all over the five continents of the world whereby faculties of engineering design and develop an automotive car.

“The car should be one that consumes the lowest fuel but goes the far distance. This competition is carried out in America, Europe and Asia and we (Nigeria) are participating in the European one in Netherlands, May 2015,” he said.

Dauda said that almost all the materials used for the production were sourced locally.


He said Shell invited ABU to design and develop a car that would compete in the 2015 Rothadam Eco Marathon Competition.
“But based on the theme of the competition, “Echo Marathon” which is making it environmentally friendly or echo friendly, what we tried to do is some kind of recycling.
“Even though there are things that we did not fabricate ourselves but you will be surprised that some of the components like the electrical, we just looked at an old computer system and then adopted some of the components that would be useful to us.
“So this is one example of what we did which is recycling, otherwise, I will say 100 per cent everything is produce locally here in Zaria,”
Dauda said.
He identified limitation of machine tools and the lack of funds to adequately carry out the project as challenges to its actualisation. (NAN)

http://www.edificationinfo.com/2015/03/photo-abu-zaria-students-manufacture.html

The actress and producer looked fab for an outing yesterday. .Her face is flawless!


See her full look with Michelle Dede below

http://www..net/2015/03/photo-rita-dominic-looks-elegant-in.html

Davido shares another sexy pic of his new girlfriend..Says she has no competition.

All the girls before her are definitely going to be jealous. He has flaunted girls before but not like this..The love must be real...


http://www..net/2015/03/photo-meet-davidos-new-girl-friend.html

Pastor T.B joshua of the Synagogue church of all nations says Nigerians should pray because he forsees a plane crash ..Speaking during a televised service on Sunday 15th March 2015,he said

“Pray for Nigeria because I am seeing a plane crash,“It’s not a good thing to lose personalities again,”

He specified that that prayer and fasting should be offered from 19th to 23rd.

On elections,he said,

“The challenge Nigeria is facing – on the day of voting, when you drop your votes in the ballot box, you will know who is PDP and who is APC. It’s a parable; very delicate. Because everybody plays a game; we deceive ourselves. ‘So this man voted for this party but he’s in that party.’ ”

On his church building collapse which killed 116 ,he said

“God gave me an order that I should continue this work – so I must do it. Nothing can separate me from the work of God but your prophet is not happy. I will be happy when vengeance comes,”


http://www..net/2015/03/tb-joshua-predicts-plane-crash-in.html

Two police officers fighting (more like one was delivering blows while the other took it without fighting back) was uploaded on Youtube two days ago.

It shows the fighting at the entrance of an unidentifiable bank somewhere in Lagos with alcohol beverage Alomo Bitters seen on the ground next to the men.

There's a third police officer carrying an AK47 who tried to stop the beat down.


http://www..net/2015/03/photos-two-policemen-fight-each-other.html

By guys, I mean men! The BBA winner shared this sultry photos and asked "What would you do to her /with her if you had her for 24hrs?".

Feel free to answer...:-)



http://www..net/2015/03/bba-winner-dillish-asks-what-men-will.html

Paul Okoye and his wifey way back..

This was when he was a church boy (spot the bible? )Some say she isn't the one though..

I think she is..

https://instagram.com/p/0IuQWvRvhH/

Every little girl looks forward to her wedding day. They can’t wait to meet the Prince Charming who will sweep them off their feet. But, as you grow older, you realize that nobody’s perfect.



Your dreams of marrying Prince Charming become dashed away as quickly as the movie ended. So instead of looking for Mr. Perfect, you look for the one who is perfect for you.

As you look for Mr. Right, you try to look past some of bad traits so you can see all the good ones. This is good. It shows that you’re not shallow. But, despite how shallow it might seem, there are some guys you should just leave in the dating pool. Here are 10:



1. The commitment-phobe

Finally locked down the guy every girl’s been chasing? Well, I got news for you. Just because he finally decided to knuckle down and commit, doesn’t mean he’s committed. If he used to be a commitment-phobe, he may still be and you’ll always wonder how invested in the relationship he really is.



2. The rebel

A lot of women are attracted to the bad boy. There’s just something mysterious and romantic about him. But a lot of times the rebel in society is a rebel in marriage. And pretty soon you’ll find him rebelling against you, too.



3. The narcissist

Narcissus was an ancient Greek mythological figure who was so beautiful that he fell in love with himself — but because he couldn’t leave his own reflection in the water, he eventually drowned. A person who is a narcissist is so convinced of their own greatness that they don’t see their weaknesses. Marrying a narcissist is a very one sided relationship. They’re always trying to vaunt their own greatness — often at the expense of others.



4. The control freak

Everybody likes to have things their own way. Unfortunately, because men are socialized to express hostility and anger when they don’t get what they want, a man who is a control freak can often become intimidating and even abusive (physically or mentally).



5. The I-know-more-than-you

It’s a good thing to marry a person for his brains. But be careful because you might end up marrying a know-it-all. And you’ll always feel like you’re wrong — even if it’s just an opinion.



6. The mama’s boy

You’ve heard that how a man treats his mother is how he’ll treat you. So you look for a guy who is close to his mom and spends a lot of time with her. But be careful, if he’s too close you’ll find yourself married to his mother, too. So you better get used to hearing, “My mom doesn’t do it that way.” And you better get used to his mother being your marriage counselor, too.



7. The pretty boy

Get used to spending your weekends at the mall looking for new clothes instead of going to soccer practice. But at least you’ll have a great looking house and car (even if you can’t afford it).



8. The pushover

As mentioned before, everybody likes to have their own way. So when you find a guy who lets you do whatever you want and doesn’t complain about it, you want to grab him up. But after a while you’ll find yourself making all the decisions. And then you’ll find yourself complaining because he doesn’t pull his own weight.



9. The manly man

This guy talks about sports, beer and hunting all the time. Sure, he’s rugged but you better be prepared to change all the diapers and do all the housework. And forget about him getting you something nice for Valentine’s Day because real men don’t do that mushy stuff.



10. The fitness freak

Who doesn’t want a guy with chiseled abs and nice arms? But despite all his good (physical) traits you may soon find that the gym is taking up an exorbitant amount of time in your family’s life. And you’ll find yourself using phrases like “did you beat your PR today, honey?” But more importantly, a man who lets the gym run his life has let the servant become the master and you’ll soon find that he has other priorities out of whack, too.

Yes, there are bits and pieces of these personality traits in every Prince Charming. But just make sure they’re only bits and pieces or you’ll find yourself married to a frog instead of a Prince.


http://www..net/2015/03/10-guys-you-should-never-marry.html

Just saw a gruesome video online that broke my heart. Men... and even women stood and watched as this man stripped his wife to her underwear and brutally beat her with a plank.

The people who posted the video online said he beat her to death, but that isn't shown in the video.

The last seconds of the video shows the man dragging the very weak woman away.

They said the man attacked his wife after catching her with another man. And no, it didn't happen in Nigeria.



http://www..net/2015/03/photos-husband-beats-his-wife-almost-to.html

According to eye-witnesses, mobile policemen attached to Zenith Bank branch at Elf Bus stop in Lekki Phase 1 beat this unidentified man to a pulp yesterday March 11th.

Don't know exactly what he did to warrant such brutal assault.

The man fell unconscious and was rushed to the hospital by the police and other passers-by who got involved.

Hopefully, someone in higher authority will caution these officers.

http://www..net/2015/03/photos-policeman-beats-driver-to-coma.html

BREAKING NEWS: Panic in Aso rock as Mu'azu tenders his letter of resignation.

I am no more part of you. Fani- Kayode & Ayo Fayose have destroyed all our campaign strategies. They have turned PDP to an opposition party." - Adamu Mu'azu (PDP Chairman)

Details shortly. .


http://www..net/2015/03/breaking-news-pdp-chairman-tenders-his.html