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American singer and actress Whitney Houston has died at the age of 48.

A spokesman for Houston's family confirmed the news, telling Reuters: "Unfortunately, it is true."

The cause and the location of her death were unclear, Houston's publicist Kristen Foster told the AP news agency.

Regarded as one of the most celebrated female acts of all time, Houston's later career was overshadowed by substance abuse and her turbulent marriage to singer Bobby Brown.

Houston's background was steeped in soul and gospel music.

Her mother was gospel singer Cissy Houston and she was cousin to singer Dionne Warwick, and goddaughter to Aretha Franklin.

Having grown up in New Jersey, she began singing in church and then in the night clubs of New York, and was a model before being signed by Arista Records.

At the height of her career in the 1980s and 90s she won many awards and enjoyed several number one singles and albums.

Houston also enjoyed success acting in films such as The Bodyguard and Waiting to Exhale.

In recent years drug use took its toll on the star and her voice - once acknowledged as one of the finest in pop music - was badly damaged.




http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-17001548

Enjoying the fruits of your labour abi? Can't blame you my guy. The harder they come, the easier they fall. If those ladies spread their legs anyhow, poke away

Chief Olusegun Okikiola Mathew Aremu Obasanjo. The father of modern day Nigeria, Balogun of Owu, "the best President" and the most patriotic of the lot till date. Never the most refined in his guile and manners but by Jove he has the balls of steel and the clout needed to lead as a true leader.  

Some of the projects that he instituted as well as structures and institutions that he built while the CinC of the armed forces and the head of the Supreme Military Council are still in existence till date. The piss-poor bunch that came after him bar the duo of Buhari/Idiagbon were just not it.

I wish there are compassionate lawyers out there willing to sue the pants off this  fraud,charlatan, buffoon and egotistic fool, pro bono, on this lady's behalf, of the person of David Oyedepo the woman beater/assault perpetrating preacher.

Silly fool. You're either able and willing to perform deliverance or not. There's no need to assault someone just to hide your incompetence and inadequacies as a fraud.

Come back Jose Mourinho, all is forgiven.

Ain't Very Bright (AVB-Andres Villas Boas) is sure going to get the sack pretty soon with these horrible string of defeats.

Bayer Leverkusen 2 Vs Chelsea 1.

An ageing and decrepit team of OAP's - Old Age Pensioners.

Any hope for Chelsea in EPL and UCL?

Bayern Leverkusen 2 vs Chelsea1

Tobi_dad:
Every fraternity assumes an air of secrecy and a rite of passage. These rituals appear strange and pointless to the uninitiated in order to keep future fakers in claiming that they were also part of a frat group. The fraternal bond is meant to be strengthened during your college years with your co-frat buddies through common slang, dress codes and also music. The idea behind a fraternal group is to promote co-operation after graduating in business, job offers and whatever personal help can be given to any member. In short a fraternity is more of co-operative society. Unfortunately, we live in a society that has the ability to make good things bad and bad things even worse.
Only in Nigeria is there a problem with fraternities

Thank you. Very well said.

presido1:
But he still associate with NAS is our universities today. If you doubt i can post a picture of him with Seadogs in one of our universities.

NAS a.k.a Pyrates Confraternity is non-existent in primary, secondary or tertiary institutions in Nigeria and indeed anywhere in the world as they were proscribed in June 1985 on all university campuses. Get your facts right! And which "our university" are you talking about if I may ask?

Prof. Wole Soyinka is a living legend/member of the Original Seven of the Pyrates Confraternity a.k.a (NAS) and not "One Of The Founding Fathers of Cultism".

For the ignorant few; here are your answers.

Introduction To NAS
National Associaltion of Seadogs (NAS) is a Nigerian charitable and humanitarian organisation and is the registered name for the group also known as the PYRATES CONFRATERNITY.

The origins and growth of NAS is narrated in detail on the History page. It began as a University campus confraternity in the premier university, University of Ibadan, Nigeria and has grown into an international organisation with branches in 36 states of Nigeria including the Federal Capital Territory, South Africa, UK, Republic of Ireland, USA, Japan, The Netherlands and Canada.

The organisation is dedicated to humanitarian and charitable endeavours within Nigeria and whatever society the members find themselves.

Philosophy
The Pyrates Creed- The Pyratical aims of fighting all social ills and conformist degradation within and outside our midst stand supreme. These are translated into the creed which is supposed to act as a guide to our acts and thoughts and to the solutions to dilemmas that may face us in making choices in life. There are four compass points whose function is to give us founding principles upon which to direct our lives: The following quotes are from the NAS handbook

Against Convention

Convention means Complacency, Conservatism and Stagnation. It is anti-INITIATIVE, anti-IMAGINATION, anti-CREATIVITY. "This is how our fathers used to do it" is the unthinking excuse of the lazy, unadventurous mind. Bribery or "cola" is also Convention. Land grabbing, land speculation, land monopoly in the midst of the landless masses is also Convention. Acquisitiveness, "Propertymania", "O-wanbeism", is also Convention. Down then with Convention. Raise the banner of REVITALISATION.

Against Tribalism

Which goes also for what went under the camouflage of the Party System. Wherever Party = Partisanship = Tribalism = Clannishness = Statism = Atavism and all other forms of narrow throw-backism. FIGHT it! Stand outside it as an independent unit and march with ideas, which cut across petty alliances.

For Humanistic Ideals

No slave to dogma. Simply placing Man at the centre of word, thought and deed. Thinking and acting for the community of man - village, city, school, college, nation, continent-wide. Refuse to be blinded by slogans, dissecting what are hidden behind seductive formulae. Asking instead: what's in it for Man? For him and the community of his kind? Ask what you can do to raise that community to the highest level of fulfillment.

For Comradeship and Chivalry

It means that sense of obligation, moral, communal, humane which makes the strong, the privileged, the informed protect the weak, the under-privileged and the uninformed. Not: "My Mercedes is bigger than yours , so get out of my way!" My Kawasaki is the ultimate in machismo, so watch me "buzz" the mini-scooter into the gutter and scatter men and fowl alike!" "I control a student journal, show me fear or I'll show you hell!" "As for women, surrender to me or I'll libel you with my fantasies!" "Dig man. AM I NOT GREAT?" ANSWER: COMRADESHIP AND CHIVALRY reject: " To him who hath, more shall be given" and proclaim instead "TO HIM WHO HATH NOT, ALL SHALL BE PROVIDED" . Thus we move to destroy ELITISM!

http://nas-int.org/about-nas

Does our so called Mr. President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan actually hear her wife make these regular gaffs without as much as placing her under permanent (home/domestic) house arrest?

Enough of these headache inducing loose cannons, abeg, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, First Lady. E don do. Kilo de?

Na by force to attend public functions, abi na by force to speak Queen's oyinbo sef? just yarn in pidgin English and all will be forgiven Mrs. First Lady. No wahala, opari, shikena.

Classical P*ss taking by the British. They'll go to any length to protect their own interests without giving a hoot whose horse is gored. Kudos to the minister of aviation for this dignity restoring gesture. Once you let them know, that you'll not be taken for a fool, they promptly sit up and accord you the respect you deserve.

Who is responsible for this nonsense from the Brits? Our leaders and gullible fellow citizens with their inferiority complex about anything foreign being superior to our locally produced, goods and services.

Who'll feel the heat the most? BA of course, as the Nigerian routes, that is, Lagos/Abuja - London routes, with their contemptuous and degrading treatment of Nigerians are their cash-cows and the goose that lays the golden egg, profit wise. They milk Nigerians to subsidize other less profitable routes elsewhere, in Europe/America, with better treatment in terms of service and comfort, to boot.

I really feel proud for once that my beloved country is standing up to the bully-boy tactics of the British. Lets rip the BASA agreement to shred. Thank you Minister of Aviation, God bless you, God bless Nigeria. Never again must we be made fool of by the British in whatever guise it comes.

Thank you.

[b]djustice
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Re: Olusegun Obasanjo. Like Or Loathe Him, Is The Greatest Living Nigerian.
« #1 on: Yesterday at 11:52:58 PM »
Without a shadow of a doubt. But expect the sheep in 3-2-1, they'll start bleating as usual, without any proof beyond the same old tired rubbish, Odi (soldiers were killed, their colleagues retaliated), power (sabotaged by the Northern power clique, led by Yar'Adunce), $16b spent on power (debunked time and again by people who know better), power probe (the man replied, they scattered, turned out it was a shake-down, led by the lead investigator himself, with the approval of Yar'Adull).

Obasanjo almost single handedly squelched apartheid and negotiated Mandela's freedom (says Margaret Thatcher), sent the military back to the barracks and kept them there, got rid of the odious debt inherited from idiots like IBB, Shagari and Abacha, brought back the dead middle class, sorted out telecoms, strengthened the banks, got us R-E-S-P-E-C-T from the international community, so tey even Gaddhafi, who intimidated Abacha in this same Nigeria with his guards, was made to behave himself by small Fani-Kayode!!

He put our aboki friends in their place, and demystified them completely, freeing the Middle-Belt and Nigeria as a whole from their grip in the process. He almost single handedly installed Jonathan with that famous statement to the comatose but concealed Yar'Adua that the cabal was using to torment all of us:"Yar'Adua should do the honorable thing and resign"! That's the statement that set off the noisemakers like awon Save Nigeria, and gave Dora Akunyili the courage to set the chain of events rolling that would eventually see Jonathan installed as Acting President. First time a Southern Minority, first time an Ijaw Man, the people feeding Nigeria with their oyel, would become President!!!

Stopped Atiku, IBB and the murderous Buhari dead in their tracks with some correct political maneuvering that left them dazed and gasping for breath. They're still gasping!!

On top of it all, the man still actually works as a farmer, daily!!! At his age, !! IBB, the younger man, has ALL his(our) money abroad in France, servicing the comatose French economy, instead of bringing it back here to help our own economy.

Atiku is busy collecting mansions all over the world. If it's not Potomac, it's Dubai. Buhari is busy building a private Boko Harmy and bomb us all to death, all this while Obasanjo feeds the nation!!

Yes indeed. Obasanjo IS without a shadow of a doubt, the most influential, powerful, patriotic, detribalised African alive today.
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Thanks @djustice for your well articulated response.

The only meaningful and most insightful response so far. Analytical, sensible and bereft of any silly, infantile and jaundiced name-calling contributions.

You only have to agree/disagree with my point of view with well-thought out responses please.

Fellow Nigerians, I have sat, thought and pondered over our current crop of leaders that are still alive and wondered who to recognize, and bestow the singular honour of being called the greatest living Nigerian but found no one worthy of it other than, Retired General Olusegun Aremu Okikiola Obasanjo. Crude and controversial his ways and idiosyncrasies might be to some; his patriotic love, vision, unity and the achievement of greater things for our beloved country Nigeria is unwavering.

Right, before anyone start posting insults and such unsavory words, I neither work for nor have any connections with the person of the retired general,  just sheer observation of his achievements in trying to foster all that is good for the country and Africa, so far, till date, I believe qualify him as the greatest living Nigerian.

Failed ayeta, may Baba Kazeem's soul rest in peace.

Lesson for everyone, do not use yourself as experimental guinea-pig whatever the assurances given by any human soul. Life has no duplicate.

@ Grown Man, I wrote the one you just added flesh to on that linked-website, Jimmy Sonde's blog, while not logged into Nairaland. It's just un-imaginable nonsense from her really. See my up-to-date version above. Thanks a lot, grown Man, my fellow sensible Nairalander. Please pray for the nonce.

Irunmole.

[b]"Someone wrote this on Jimmy Sonde's blog,

A big fool you are. Can you bear to listen to the garbage coming from your own mouth? "My father has the money to bury me. So, why are they talking about it"? They are talking about it because you're not intelligent enough to know the ill-effects of smoking. Also, you do not sound as smart as you make yourself believe, as no father/mother would like to use their hands, or spend their hard-earned money to bury their child. Parents pray to be buried by their children not the other way round. What a daft silly low-life with over-inflated feeling of deluded self importance.

Very shallow way of reasoning.

Somebody please knock some sense back into her porous brain.

All the above PLUS THIS

Tonto, a movie star has responsibilities to those who follow her. Misguided children may one day repeat what you are saying. I wonder? would you like to pay for your child's burial? Though sadly, I won't be suprised if you think thats okay sha,  I go dey pray 4 u".[/b]

Global warming don reach Naija be that.

A big fool you are. Can you bear to listen to the garbage coming from your own mouth? "My father has the money to bury me. So, why are they talking about it"? They are talking about it because you're not intelligent enough to know the ill-effects of smoking. Also, you do not sound as smart as you make yourself believe, as no father/mother would like to use their hands, or spend their hard-earned money to bury their child. Parents pray to be buried by their children not the other way round. What a daft silly low-life with over-inflated feelings of deluded superiority and non-existing self-importance.

Very shallow way of reasoning. "Most Africans  are not exposed" my Ar$e, simply because you're earning some few kobo from acting silly on screen and speaking gob-sh1t from your twisted mouth.

Somebody please knock some sense back into her porous brain.

My primary school teacher at Ereko Methodist School, 35 Berkeley Street, Lagos, MR FUNSHO ADEYIGA. He was such a sadistic fellow who relished flogging us, his pupils at the least excuses. His red blood-shot eyes were enough to send you to an early grave. Never imparted any knowledge in me and indeed those of us whose parents never sucked up to him. He was just sheer terror. I jubilated when I passed out of his class in pry six, many moons ago.
Ereko Methodist School, brilliant and wonderful school then with 100% G2 and common entrance score. God bless our able and competent then headmasters, namely; Mr. Otubaga, Mr Banjo et al who made school fun then, thank-you wherever you may be.

FUNSHO ADEYIGA was one evil and sad person who almost killed my interest in education at an early age, save for God and my parents for me turning out to be who I am today.

Get real!!! Methink you should be flogged to bring you back to your senses.

Warri, aka Wafie city.

The simple answer is that  for every sensible guy/lady out there, there is also an army of mugs/mumus  with more money than common sense which is not common. Gold-diggers are not born as gold-diggers, they are made, by the gullible and weak-willed fools in our midst. There you go.

She's better off staying where she is. What's the point in coming to join a bunch of clueless and vision-less lot, only to be used and tossed aside like a piece of useless rag.

There is no God, just beings and entities, living or dead.

I hate EBA.

Second daughter - 4th July.

Former girlfriend - 4th July.

Fhemmmy:
some scary diet u got there

Oloye, Otunba Femo, that scary diet works wonder with your anus after a bout of diarrhoea, total blockage ni, in combination with those other ones mentioned in my previous post. Na di bobo ask question about drinking too much garri na im I kuku give am some more advise from my boarding house experience.

Make im go perform the experiment with the diet come tell us.

Yes, if you have experienced an eye-watering and energy-sapping bouts of diarrhoea. Drink garri with little amount of water. You may then top-it-up with dry bread. For added effect, eat roast corn for dessert. Wash the whole lot down with a glass of water. Try it and then come back here to give us feedback.

Snake (Python)

Frog (Akere)

Cattle Egret (Lekeleke)

He-goat (Ikori). The aroma is enchanting, especially with Ukodo and unripe plantain, Ogwo-evwri and starch.

Crocodile meat. Tastes like chicken.

Pigeon.

Turtle-Dove (Oderekoko). Countless victims of my sharp-shooting catapult skills in those days growing up in Lagos.

Smoked monkey (Afinoto), especially when cooked with Amiedi laced with crayfish and periwinkles in a small earthenware pot known as Efre in Urhobo.

Smoked/fried Beetle larvae (Odon), with kpokpo-garri.

Camel meat (Rakunmi). National Youth Service Corp days in Sokoto. Cheap in Kasuwa compared to Shanu (Cow meat/beef) but took ages to cook.

Drew the line with dogs and cats when offered by friends. We had a well-loved dog then and could not imagine myself in my minds-eye eating our family pet.

Love is nothing but glorified infatuation at the altar of irrational thinking.

A glowing example of the calibre of our so-called leaders. Spineless, incompetent, unprincipled weakling. Same as previous leaders, same usual recycled dregs and rubbish.

World Cup 2010: Nigeria 'drops team ban threat'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2010/8790094.stm

FIFA only eye-balled him and he blinked first. All talk and no balls. I would have expected him not to be bullied and cowed into submission if the two year ban will be the much needed tonic and remedy in reversing our fast dwindling reputation and fortune in local/world football. If it's going to act as a tool for critical self-examination, wholesale re-organisation and positive way forward, so be it. The two year ban, as announced by Mr President Goodluck Jonathan, had he the guts to follow it through, to put a two year halt to the putrid stench that Lulu and his cohorts had turned Nigerian football to would have been the best panacea to our ailment and chronic loss of face, reputation, and respect in the world of football.

I cannot envisage a George W Bush of old or a strong Tony Blair reversing a well-publicised decision which, in their opinion is not in the interest of the American or British. I doubt it if they'll allow a non-governmental body to dictate and issue deadlines and ultimatums to them.

The hallmark of a strong leader is one that is able to make and take incisive decisions and stand by them, based on his principles and convictions. No so this fool who has succeeded in making a laughing stock of Nigerians, leadership wise. He is a joke. It is "Not Yet Uhuru" for football in Nigeria. With wishy-washy leaders and decisions like this, getting to our football promised-land will remain but a pipe-dream and a mirage.