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ITbomb: Why is he always smiling?

b'cus he dn't knw what x 2 du

theozobby: I was shocked to the bone when I was going thru some of there horrible and devilish comments
May God have Mercy on all.

even me oh! Fear donn dey catch me 4 NL
wait oh first. are all dis gay ppl on NL in Nigeria? is knwoitall a mod of which section?

This is realy a breaking NeWs from a breaking ............

f.babs:
Have done that twice on free will and insha Allahu,I will continue. To me,the whole process is fun and seeing what am been taught in class being put to practice makes me happy.
It's good to save lives.

must u ppl flaunt ur ID when commenting ? :@

mancheeutd: i ve donated blood 3 diff times they(the organisation) comes to futa every year i even have a donor's card so no big deal its just a service to humanity u might never knw who needs it so bro SAVE A LIFE.

2ru talk, but what of if na ocultic pple come and u dn't knw it dem ?:>

We don enetr militery rule?

Without ben told u pple dn't knw
It dea culture?
the earlier u knw it d beter 4 u pp

I can't blive that we also have gay even in NL
this world is on extral time abaut 2 End oh!
I can feel God's pain now, as he is regreating creating Adam

Wow very interesting, you u pple are just waking up?
Ppl allow themselfs 2 b hit b4 taking actions, in other word medisin after death,
never d less R. I. P to ur love ones that u ppl lost when u wea ignorant;(

Ok now make them give una breake abi? We understand :p

Umu d sharp

So! no part of 9ger is save again?

Whats happening 2 d gay nation?
Judgment so early?

I just finish reping ur sis, and now ur mum wants me 2 du dsam

Looking @ the way Nepa gives light 2 our vilage now, one would tink it End time tinz, cous it 23 hrs a day 2/7 with full curent,
my village is in Imo state

He saunds like one of those pri. Sch Tcher

careytommy: when will she start wearing burqua as a proper muslim woman?

na when she learn how to handdle, service and maintain rifle

Twenty-four hours after the House of Representatives lent its voice to criminalise homosexuality and same-sex marriage in Nigeria, the police in Edo State Wednesday paraded 26 suspected criminals among whom was a pastor identified as Philips Ogbebor who was alleged to have had carnal knowledge of a 20-year-old male member of his church (name withheld). The pastor was alleged to have had intercourse with the victim and told him he would die if he ever disclosed what happened.

When confronted with the allegation, the pastor simply said: “God will judge, go and talk to others” and kept on mumbling. But opening up on his experience, his victim said: “I told him I had never done this since I grew up, but he did it and it hurt me… Then I said I would not allow it again, so after the second attempt, I threatened to tell other people. But he made me take an oath and threatened that if I ever told anyone, I would die.

“He (pastor) then took sand and olive oil, poured it on my head; then he wore a black garment and informed me that I would die. He then killed a black fowl and gave me the liver and gizzard at around 2.00am to eat, threatening that if I ever told anyone, I would die like the fowl had died.

“But when I realised that it was a sin, I met a man of God and asked that he should pray for me and asked for God’s forgiveness and told him that I was ready to expose the pastor, since he had forced me. So I went to the church to expose the pastor. When he heard it, he threatened me, sending his younger brother and members of his gang after me and since then I have been running.”

Also paraded by the state Police Commissioner, Folusho Adebanjo, were two suspected cultists believed to have participated in the recent rival cult clash in the state and seven suspected pipeline vandals and operators of illegal refineries.

On the police parade row were two suspected armed robbers, from whom a Toyota Camry car that was stolen at gunpoint in Kaduna State was recovered. A suspect who was alleged to have demanded a N20 million ransom from one Joseph with death threats, and three others, who the police boss said were in possession of firearms without licences, were also paraded.

In addition, two suspects were held for allegedly raping a 20-year-old lady in the bush; just as five other persons including a middle-aged woman, all from Ojah, Akoko-Edo Local Government Council, were accused of burning to death one Funmi Abiodun on the suspicion that she was a witch who caused the death of a relation, were also paraded.

Speaking on the suspects, the Edo police boss said: “The war against criminality is relentlessly being waged against men of the underworld; the command is not leaving any stone unturned as regards crime and criminality in Edo State.”


http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/police-parade-alleged-homosexual-pastor-25-others-for-various-crimes/152396/

As the 48-hour ultimatum handed to President Mohammed Morsi to resolve the crisis in Egypt ran out Wednesday, the country’s military moved in and overthrew the country’s democratically elected leader and suspended the constitution.

In Morsi’s place, the powerful military appointed the North African country’s head of the constitutional court, Adly Monsour, as its interim head of state.

Expectedly, the political turmoil in Egypt pushed up the price of United States light crude oil to above $100 a barrel for the first time since September 2012.

The US light crude rose more than two per cent to $101.80 a barrel in Asia trade, while Brent crude, which is the benchmark for Nigeria’s sweet crude, also rose one per cent to 105.20 a barrel.

Egypt is not a crude oil producer but it controls the Suez Canal, one of the world’s busiest shipping channels that links the Mediterranean with the Red Sea, thus giving the troubled country a crucial role in maintaining global energy supplies.

The Middle East accounts for about a quarter of the world’s crude oil output and over two million barrels of oil are transported through the Suez Canal daily.

In a televised broadcast, flanked by military leaders, religious authorities and political figures, the head of the Egyptian army, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, effectively declared the removal of elected Islamist president, reported the Reuters news agency.

Al-Sisi called for presidential and parliamentary elections, a panel to review the constitution and a national reconciliation committee that would include youth movements.

He said the roadmap had been agreed by a range of political groups.

Before his overthrow, huge cheering crowds of Morsi’s opponents had gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square and other locations nationwide, waving flags furiously in expectation that the military would act to remove the Islamist president after the deadline expired.

The military had not said it would act immediately at the stroke of the deadline's expiration. But it said it will impose its own political plan if Morsi failed to satisfy the protesters' demands.

Before the deadline, the military had already moved to tighten its control on key institutions, putting officers in the newsroom of state television, in preparation for an almost certain push to remove Morsi.

For the second time in Egypt's tumultuous two-and-a-half years of upheaval, the powerful army has moved in to remove the country's leader.

But this time, it has ousted a democratically elected president, the first in Egypt's history -- making its move potentially explosive.

Just before his overthrow, Morsi, inaugurated a year ago after the 2011 fall of his autocratic predecessor, Hosni Mubarak, repeated his vows not to step down in the face of millions of protesters in the streets in the biggest anti-government rallies the country has seen.

His Islamist supporters had vowed to resist what they called a coup against democracy, and had also taken to the streets by the tens of thousands.

At least 39 people have been killed in clashes since Sunday, raising fears the crisis could further explode into violence.

In a last minute statement before the deadline, Morsi had rejected the military's intervention, saying abiding by his electoral legitimacy was the only way to prevent violence.

He criticised the military for "taking only one side."

"One mistake that cannot be accepted, and I say this as president of all Egyptians, is to take sides," he said in the statement issued by his office before his overthrow.

"Justice dictates that the voice of the masses from all squares should be heard."

The free election of a president had been one of the aspirations of the 2011 revolt that toppled Mubarak.

However, Morsi's opponents contended that they wanted to remove a president who had lost his election legitimacy by trying to monopolise power with Islamists -- and that if it took the army to intervene to bring in new leadership and put the country on a more democratic path, so be it.


http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/oil-prices-soar-to-over-100-as-egypts-military-overthrows-president-morsi/152400/

IT will no longer be business as usual for bankers and their customers in Kano, Anambra, Abia, Rivers, Ogun and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), as electronic platforms take the centre stage of banking activities in those states beginning from Monday.

Already, banks are sensitising customers for take-off of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s cash-less policy in the five additional states, with some of them sending text messages to account holders alerting them on new cash deposit and withdrawal benchmarks as well as other requirements of the scheme.

Although the Lagos pilot project, which began a year ago, is still fraught with challenges, ranging from poor ICT infrastructure to network ‘downtimes’ associated with poor quality of GSM services, among other bottlenecks, the CBN governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, had insisted that the project would be extended to these states in preparation for a nationwide rollout. The focus, however, is on key commercial and urban centres of Onitsha, Kano, Port Harcourt, Abuja and Aba.

The apex bank cited heavy cash transactions in many of the states’ market or urban centres as the compelling reason for taking the scheme in the areas. But it is feared that the banks will still have to grapple with the traditional banking habits and, sometimes, low literacy and awareness level of the majority of businessmen in some of those states, many of whom are yet to understand the details despite the CBN’s campaign.

A big chunk of the rural population in communities that feed into the commercial/ urban areas in most of the selected states remain semi-literate, sometimes completely operating outside of the formal banking system.

“For this reason, we are educating our customers, said an official of one of the new generation banks in Lagos.

Asked to explain what the policy portends for those that would, henceforth, need banking services in the designated areas, she said new cash deposit and withdrawal benchmarks of N300,000 (for personal accounts and N3 million (for corporate accounts) will now be applied in the affected areas.

Also, third-party cheques in excess of N150,000 can no longer be “cash-drawn” over the counter, even as she explained that “although you can use your ATM card to do transactions on a Point of Sale (POS) machine and other electronic/internet channels, you can no longer do more than N150,000 cash withdrawal with your ATM card in a day.”

Meanwhile, World Bank’s Payment Systems and Remittances Specialist, Carlo Corazza, said ‘revolution’ in global payment system has resulted in great savings, which are significant for development purposes.

Corazza made the disclosure at the conference on cash-less initiative, organised by DeNovo Limited and Reach Legal Consulting, in conjunction with the CBN, in Lagos.

“Going electronic,” he said, “can save about 75 per cent of costs usually associated with cash-based regime, which is huge, especially in this era of stretched resources, urging stakeholders to support the scheme.

According to him, the system has also lowered the costs associated with physical barriers in international trade, making it easier for access to financial services in various countries, another positive signal in international cooperation.

But Deputy Governor, Operations, CBN, Tunde Lemo, who was represented by the Director of Banking and Payments System Department, Dipo Fatokun, said the initiative became necessary, given the fact that an efficient payment system enhances financial inclusion, effective transmission mechanism of monetary policy and overall financial stability.

“This is because the cost of cash and associated risk of a cash-driven economy to Nigeria’s financial system were high and in response to these challenges, CBN and the Bankers’ Committee initiated the ‘Cash-Less Nigeria’ project with the pilot run in Lagos and now to be extended to five additional states- Abia, Anambra, Ogun, Kano, Rivers and Abuja by July 1.

“Just this month, we went live on cheque truncation nationwide, thereby making cheque payments to clear within a clearing cycle of T+1. The CBN has licensed about 18 mobile payment operators to offer payment services via the mobile phone that over 100 million Nigerians carry.

Fatokun added that the cash-less policy was designed to promote financial intermediation and inclusion, minimise revenue leakages and increase revenue generation, as well as reduce incidences of robbery and amount of cash payments in the system by encouraging electronic payments.

The policy on withdrawal allows individual customer to make cumulative withdrawal of N500, 000 daily across the counters and the ATM. “Withdrawal above this limit will attract the payment of a processing fee of three percent for the amount above the limit,” the official said.

“Corporate customers are allowed to make cumulative withdrawal of N3, 000,000 daily. Withdrawal above the limit will attract a processing fee of five percent.

“The policy on lodgment allows individual customer to make cumulative lodgment of N500, 000 daily. Lodgment above the limit will attract a processing fee of 2 percent above the limit.

“Corporate customers are allowed to make cumulative lodgment of N3, 000,000 daily. Lodgment above the limit will attract a processing fee of three percent above the limit.

“I need to make it clear that it is the account to which withdrawal and lodgment is made that bears the processing charges and not the individual that receives or deposits the cash.

“Cumulative withdrawal/lodgment means the totality of all withdrawals and lodgments across all the customer’s accounts in the bank.”

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=125971:cash-less-policy-begins-in-kano-anambra-rivers&catid=1:national&Itemid=559

wow!!1
more pic pls.

The Senate was thrown into confusion, yesterday, as two senators were nearly engaged in fisticuffs following disagreements over President Goodluck Jonathan’s letter stating why he cannot assent to the State of the Nation Address Bill 2013 as passed by the National Assembly.

Trouble started when discussions on the President’s letter degenerated into a heated debate with tempers rising. In the heat of the debate, Senator Kabir Garba Marafa, ANPP, Zamfara Central, moved to remove his clothes (babanriga) and was ready to throw a punch at Senator Igwe Paulinus Nwagu, PDP, Ebonyi Central. It took the intervention of some senators and the Sergeant-At-Arms to stop them from exchanging blows.The State of the Nation Address Bill, among others, will empower the lawmakers to compel the President to appear before the National Assembly to deliver the address once a year.

It would be recalled that the President in a letter to the Senate President, Senator David Mark early last week, said that his assent to the Bill would be subject to the incorporation of some fundamental amendments that would bring the Bill in conformity with the dictates of the Constitution, especially the discretion conferred on the President by Section 67 of the Constitution.

Jonathan wrote: “I am inclined to accede to the Bill subject to the incorporation of some fundamental amendments proposed to bring the Bill in conformity with the dictates of the Constitution”.

President Jonathan in the letter noted that the Constitution had made ample provisions for such an address and that the new Bill would amount to a duplication of legislation.

He, therefore, proposed a redrafting of Clause 1 (2) to make it more flexible by substituting it to read: “The State of the Nation Address shall be delivered to a joint sitting of the National Assembly within 30 days of the commencement of the legislative year”.

For Clause 3, which purports to empower the National Assembly to summon the President, where he decides not to make the address, the President said it should be substituted with a clause that conforms to the language of the Constitution.

According to him, it should rather read that: “Where for any reason the President is unable to present an address in accordance with Section 1 of this Act, the President shall in writing, inform the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives and either designate the Vice President to present the address on his behalf or transmit to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the text of the Address”.

Senators divided

For Senators who spoke on the letter, it became very clear that they were not happy with the action of President Jonathan refusing to assent to the Bill which was already passed by the National Assembly. Many lawmakers argued that the President’s observations amounted to a veto of the Bill, while some advised that the Bill be reviewed to reflect observations of the President.

Confusion enveloped the Chamber when Senator Ita Solomon Enang, PDP, Akwa Ibom North East stood up to talk and drew his colleagues’ attention to the contradiction between the Senate Rule and the Constitution with respect to the Bill that has been processed by the National Assembly Conference Committee.

He told his colleagues that the President has no such powers to propose amendments to a Bill after it had been passed, adding that there were public hearings when all including the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Special Advisers and Special Assistants would have used to raise objections to the Bill and sections the President was not comfortable with.

Senator Ita Enang said: “I am from Akwa Ibom State, South-South, a Nigerian and an unrepentant member of the Peoples Democratic Party. Mr President, the question before us is the question of jurisdiction; it is whether we have power to determine what the president asked, it is when we answer this that we can proceed.

“He cannot make amendment or propose amendment to any bill. Mr President, I submit this on the basis of the fact that one, the procedure for making law is this- our Standing Order requires that when a law is to be made, first, you publish that bill in the gazette, the Senate Journal of the National Assembly and this bill was published in the journal like any other bill. Hearings were held on this bill and when hearings were held, from 2003, there was Secretary to the Government of the Federation, there have always been Attorneys-General, there have always been Special Advisers to the President on National Assembly Affairs.

“Did any of them at any given time, when this bill was being considered either in the House of Representatives or in the Senate, come to the Public Hearing or the committee handling the bill that this is the amendment they have proposed?”

At the peak of the confusion, Senate President, David Mark, confirmed to Senators that “as it is today (yesterday), we have boxed ourselves into a corner. We have this rule and as Ita Enang clearly pointed out, any act that is against the Constitution is null and void but it is not as simple and straightforward as that because we now have a standing rule”.

Senate President Mark who also ruled out the possibility of over-riding the amendment as proposed by some lawmakers, said, “even if we have to over-ride, it cannot be today because over-riding would not be by mouth votes. My understanding of Enang’s conclusion was for us to get interpretation from Supreme Court but how to go about it is not clear to me”.

Mark intervenes

As the debate continued, the Senate leadership sensed that if not stopped and plenary suspended with proceedings adjourned, the atmosphere could further degenerate to where the Senate President may not be able to control.

The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu with moves to create a window of escape, suggested that the debate be adjourned to allow for consultation with members of the House of Representatives.

Ruling on the matter, Senate President put forward a question on whether or not the debate should be adjourned. The response further confirmed a terrible division among lawmakers as Nays had it. Senator Mark thereafter withheld his ruling on the matter to avert worsening the situation.

It was during the 15 minutes rowdy break and waiting to know whether or not the Senate would stop debate on the subject matter that Senators Kabir Garba Marafa and Igwe Paulinus Nwagwu were seen attempting a fight.

Angered by the development, Senate President Mark said: “As democrats, we should resolve all the problems by talking and not by boxing. In any case, for the first time in 14 years, I have seen an effort for people to put out boxing gloves. It’s never necessary, we must never do that, we are distinguished senators and elder statesmen.

“We can do all the talking but we should never resort to boxing.

“I want to appeal once more that we should suspend the debate on this for today, if nothing else but because of the way temper has risen.”


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/07/state-of-the-nation-address-bill-senators-fight-over-jonathans-letter/

The Senate was thrown into confusion, yesterday, as two senators were nearly engaged in fisticuffs following disagreements over President Goodluck Jonathan’s letter stating why he cannot assent to the State of the Nation Address Bill 2013 as passed by the National Assembly.

Trouble started when discussions on the President’s letter degenerated into a heated debate with tempers rising. In the heat of the debate, Senator Kabir Garba Marafa, ANPP, Zamfara Central, moved to remove his clothes (babanriga) and was ready to throw a punch at Senator Igwe Paulinus Nwagu, PDP, Ebonyi Central. It took the intervention of some senators and the Sergeant-At-Arms to stop them from exchanging blows.The State of the Nation Address Bill, among others, will empower the lawmakers to compel the President to appear before the National Assembly to deliver the address once a year.

It would be recalled that the President in a letter to the Senate President, Senator David Mark early last week, said that his assent to the Bill would be subject to the incorporation of some fundamental amendments that would bring the Bill in conformity with the dictates of the Constitution, especially the discretion conferred on the President by Section 67 of the Constitution.

Jonathan wrote: “I am inclined to accede to the Bill subject to the incorporation of some fundamental amendments proposed to bring the Bill in conformity with the dictates of the Constitution”.

President Jonathan in the letter noted that the Constitution had made ample provisions for such an address and that the new Bill would amount to a duplication of legislation.

He, therefore, proposed a redrafting of Clause 1 (2) to make it more flexible by substituting it to read: “The State of the Nation Address shall be delivered to a joint sitting of the National Assembly within 30 days of the commencement of the legislative year”.

For Clause 3, which purports to empower the National Assembly to summon the President, where he decides not to make the address, the President said it should be substituted with a clause that conforms to the language of the Constitution.

According to him, it should rather read that: “Where for any reason the President is unable to present an address in accordance with Section 1 of this Act, the President shall in writing, inform the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives and either designate the Vice President to present the address on his behalf or transmit to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the text of the Address”.

Senators divided

For Senators who spoke on the letter, it became very clear that they were not happy with the action of President Jonathan refusing to assent to the Bill which was already passed by the National Assembly. Many lawmakers argued that the President’s observations amounted to a veto of the Bill, while some advised that the Bill be reviewed to reflect observations of the President.

Confusion enveloped the Chamber when Senator Ita Solomon Enang, PDP, Akwa Ibom North East stood up to talk and drew his colleagues’ attention to the contradiction between the Senate Rule and the Constitution with respect to the Bill that has been processed by the National Assembly Conference Committee.

He told his colleagues that the President has no such powers to propose amendments to a Bill after it had been passed, adding that there were public hearings when all including the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Special Advisers and Special Assistants would have used to raise objections to the Bill and sections the President was not comfortable with.

Senator Ita Enang said: “I am from Akwa Ibom State, South-South, a Nigerian and an unrepentant member of the Peoples Democratic Party. Mr President, the question before us is the question of jurisdiction; it is whether we have power to determine what the president asked, it is when we answer this that we can proceed.

“He cannot make amendment or propose amendment to any bill. Mr President, I submit this on the basis of the fact that one, the procedure for making law is this- our Standing Order requires that when a law is to be made, first, you publish that bill in the gazette, the Senate Journal of the National Assembly and this bill was published in the journal like any other bill. Hearings were held on this bill and when hearings were held, from 2003, there was Secretary to the Government of the Federation, there have always been Attorneys-General, there have always been Special Advisers to the President on National Assembly Affairs.

“Did any of them at any given time, when this bill was being considered either in the House of Representatives or in the Senate, come to the Public Hearing or the committee handling the bill that this is the amendment they have proposed?”

At the peak of the confusion, Senate President, David Mark, confirmed to Senators that “as it is today (yesterday), we have boxed ourselves into a corner. We have this rule and as Ita Enang clearly pointed out, any act that is against the Constitution is null and void but it is not as simple and straightforward as that because we now have a standing rule”.

Senate President Mark who also ruled out the possibility of over-riding the amendment as proposed by some lawmakers, said, “even if we have to over-ride, it cannot be today because over-riding would not be by mouth votes. My understanding of Enang’s conclusion was for us to get interpretation from Supreme Court but how to go about it is not clear to me”.

Mark intervenes

As the debate continued, the Senate leadership sensed that if not stopped and plenary suspended with proceedings adjourned, the atmosphere could further degenerate to where the Senate President may not be able to control.

The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu with moves to create a window of escape, suggested that the debate be adjourned to allow for consultation with members of the House of Representatives.

Ruling on the matter, Senate President put forward a question on whether or not the debate should be adjourned. The response further confirmed a terrible division among lawmakers as Nays had it. Senator Mark thereafter withheld his ruling on the matter to avert worsening the situation.

It was during the 15 minutes rowdy break and waiting to know whether or not the Senate would stop debate on the subject matter that Senators Kabir Garba Marafa and Igwe Paulinus Nwagwu were seen attempting a fight.

Angered by the development, Senate President Mark said: “As democrats, we should resolve all the problems by talking and not by boxing. In any case, for the first time in 14 years, I have seen an effort for people to put out boxing gloves. It’s never necessary, we must never do that, we are distinguished senators and elder statesmen.

“We can do all the talking but we should never resort to boxing.

“I want to appeal once more that we should suspend the debate on this for today, if nothing else but because of the way temper has risen.”


source

the DON

I wanted 2 say it End time tinx, but just rememberd they said the world will End come 2013 :p :p :>

After all me and my husband du it every time....patience Jona
hope dix z one of d comment?

jaywatt: Waiting be this, *sigh*

hope u are nt taging it End time tin?
Cus letest discovry says the world will End ,come 20000013

fittty: You're such an ignorant soul!!! Now tell me the source of your news and where it states this happened on sunday night? And don't tell me your source is http://m.naij.com/news/38401.html which has "0" I repeat "0" comment on the topic. And don't also tell me another source is those dead bloggers that get their news from Nairaland.com and run posting it on their blog

FYI i have a childhood friend that schools in Malaysia who was among the victims. He was released on the ground that he had a genuine valid study visa and is a registered student in his school. After the incident he had to rent another apartment away from where there are high concentration of illegal immigrants to avoid such occurring

Ok Mr. Knw it all can u pls. share any link 2 it when it happn last yr

fittty: This is stale news!. It happened late last year sometime around September. I wonder why everyone is just getting to know this just now.

my friend leave that word of encouragement you are giving to your self, just pray for them that dea papers are up2 date to avoid nt to be deported, and check if you knw any of them in Malaysia then try their number now if it going 2ru to comfirm if they are included
YOU CAN TRY TO INQUIRE FROM OTHER SITE IF YOU ARE NOT CONVICE