Merlin or Avatar Aang?
Who will win in a fight?

I doubt if there will be a winner.

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UnfairLife7:
what exactly is your Cgpa?

I am a graduate of industrial Chemistry with a second class lower (2.2).

Please is it possible for me to get a scholarship with my certificate? If yes, Please which UK/US/CANADA Master's Program can I get with my certificate?

I need a lot of information on this.
Thank you.

Lets have it.

Tell us your reasons.

Congratulations to Nigerian students�

God bless us all and our parents financially as we resume back. Safe travels and journeys as we resume back to our respective schools �
Success in our tests and exams and at at the end, May we all graduate excellently, Amen �

Wycliffe Muia

BBC Monitoring

Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) held an emergency meeting on Tuesday following deadly floods that could worsen after neighbouring Cameroon opened flood gates at a dam to release excess water.

Since the start of the rainy season in July, at least 300 people have been killed and more than 100,000 others displaced.

Nema Director General Mustapha Habib Ahmed said 13 Nigerian states are at risk.

He said the spill-over effects from Cameroon's Lagdo dam combined with heavy rainfall could affect more states - including the oil-producing Niger Delta.

“The released water complicates the situation further downstream, as Nigeria’s inland reservoirs including Kainji, Jebba and Shiroro, are also expected to overflow between now and October ending," Mr Ahmed said.

Heavy rains in the north-eastern Yobe State have submerged roads and swept a major bridge linking the state capital and some local government areas, the authorities said.

Deep down in my heart, this thought bothers me cos I know am a sinner just like everyone is and I also know that am not a saint. It's a 50/50 thing cos I'm human, cos we're all human. But deep down in me and my outside realm ,I am more of a saint than a sinner. whenever I go wrong or sin,I immediately ask for forgiveness and I guess it's more or less the same for us all.

my question for me and you all is that, with the half Saint,half sinner, repentance and others, if we die someday, if you're to judge yourself truthfully based on your actions and lifestyle, where do you think you'll end up? Heaven or Hell?

It happened last month,last Sunday of June.
Very sad and sad and reading about this here made me and my family started crying more.

On our way to church on that day while driving by along the way, we discovered the house was burnt but didn't know it was serious.
We were so perplexed seeing fire ambulance and police.

On our way back home from church,we got info that one person died,got burnt to ashes without recognition.

Day by day we were getting updates cos different stories were flying around and the family were at the hospital fighting for their lives.
Ọmọ we should just b thanking God all secs for breathing.

Now the both family will have no place to go to or start from cos everything they had got burnt including the house.
I cried for days while hearing a different news.

The family were rushed to the hospital were fighting for their lives. They were guest rejected at General Hospital before they got to LUTH

P.S: the other tenant got a prophetic word some time that they should leave the house,so they left 2wks ago so it remained only this family and we also heard that those people told this family about the prophecy and that they should leave to.
It was the 3rd child,12 yrs old that was burnt into ashes without recognition.

Now this morning while reading from PUNCH, I read that ,
The whole 4 male children later died, the 3 other taken to the hospital suffered severe burns and finally passed away.

The parents though sustained some degrees of burns while trying to rescue the boys and the little 8yrs old girl remained .
Just like that and they all died. the eldest child was 18.
Is this how people die?? Why do we live to die?
My phone is filled with water,let me wipe it again.

The couple said they've no idea how the fire started.
What if they commit suicide cos of this?.
Their whole male children's lives and properties gone save only the 8yrs old daughter remained.

By Nduka Orjinmo

BBC News, Abuja


Bola Tinubu
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Mr Tinubu wields enormous power in western Nigeria politics
Bola Tinubu, 70, widely credited with shaping Nigeria's commercial hub Lagos, will lead the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) into next February's presidential election but he faces a reinvigorated opposition, allegations of corruption, and health issues as he eyes one of Africa's most daunting jobs.

Once forced into exile by military ruler Sani Abacha, Mr Tinubu knows the value of freedom and wears it as an insignia on his signature hat - a broken shackle that looks like a horizontal figure eight.

A trained accountant, it was the activities of the pro-democracy National Democratic Coalition (Nadeco) group, where he was a member, that brought him into Abacha's crosshairs.

The opposition of groups like Nadeco and Abacha's death in 1998 ushered in Nigeria's democracy in 1999 and in many ways, Mr Tinubu, a former Mobil oil executive, feels entitled to Nigeria's presidency.

He will be banking on his experience in politics and huge influence across the country to win the election, where he will face stiff competition from former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, who is standing for the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and a burgeoning campaign by the Labour Party's Peter Obi, who is hugely popular with urban voters.

If Mr Tinubu, known as Jagaban by supporters, gets the top job, he would be looking to unify a country divided across regional lines, tackle widespread insecurity, create jobs and bring down rising inflation.

But it is not a job that fazes him. He has pointed to his time as Lagos state governor between 1999 and 2007 to sell his candidacy to party delegates and will be hoping to do the same with Nigerians.

Under his tenure, Lagos massively grew its income through huge foreign investment, while a public transport scheme that saw new lanes created for rapid buses eased the notorious traffic jams faced daily by commuters.

A conductor stands in front of a Lagos danfo
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Despite its enormous wealth, Lagos has not been able to solve its notorious traffic jams by completing a light rail project started by Mr Tinubu
But the city of around 25 million people has not lived up to its reputation as a megacity despite his claims of turning it around.

Public infrastructure is largely in a state of disrepair- basic amenities such as water and public housing are decrepit, while a light rail project started during his reign has not been completed almost 20 years later despite the riches of the state.

He has also been accused of keeping a grip on state finances despite leaving office in 2007.

Every governor that has succeeded him has been a protégé following a "grand roadmap", while one that dared to find his own path was quickly brought to heel, aided by powerful transport union members.

There are also allegations of corruption against Mr Tinubu, which he denies.

Two years ago, Dapo Apara, an accountant at Alpha-beta, a firm where Mr Tinubu purportedly holds stakes through a crony, accused him of using the firm for money laundering, fraud, tax evasion, and other corrupt practices.

Mr Tinubu was sued despite he and Alpha-beta denying the allegations but all parties decided to settle out of court in January.

Such allegations, including twice facing Nigeria's Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), on allegations of breaching the code of public officers - where he was cleared - make opponents say Mr Tinubu is not the right man for the job in a country where corruption is high.

In the last election, a brazen display of an armoured van used by banks to move money driving into his palatial compound in the Ikoyi area of Lagos fuelled suspicions that he was involved in vote-buying, which he made no great effort to deny.

"If I have money, if I like, I give it to the people free of charge, as long as [it's] not to buy votes," he said.

Many people have also not forgotten his comments after the deaths of #EndSars protesters in the Lekki part of Lagos in 2020, when he questioned the intentions of young protesters who died.

He is seen as the political godfather of the south-west region and its most influential figure, who decides how power is distributed among his many acolytes.

In 2015 he described describes himself as a "talent hunter" that puts "talents into office".

Buhari, Osinbajo and Tinubu
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Mr Tinubu (left) claims to have helped both Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo (centre) and President Buhari (right) into office
His immense political influence led to the merger of opposition parties in 2013 and eventually wrestled power from the then ruling PDP in 2015 - a rarity in Nigeria where incumbents are rarely defeated.

Last week, when it looked as though Mr Tinubu's aspirations were flagging, he reminded Nigerians that he was largely responsible for installing President Muhammadu Buhari after the former military ruler had failed on several occasions to win the presidency.

Mr Buhari's associates have since tried to downplay the former governor's influence in the 2015 election, but it is unlikely that the current president would have emerged, twice, without the backing of Mr Tinubu.

Mr Tinubu is widely touted to have also nominated the current Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo to his role and had a hand in the emergence of Nigeria's Senate President Ahmed Lawan and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila.

That is why his supporters saw it as a betrayal when the vice-president, who worked with Mr Tinubu as a commissioner in Lagos, ran against his former boss for the APC ticket.

Now that all that is behind him, Mr Tinubu is expected to embark on an intense campaign across Nigeria canvassing for votes where many will keep a keen eye on his health and physical appearance.

Last year, he spent three months in London for a knee injury and there are other concerns about an undisclosed ailment.

Nigerians may be wary of another president with health issues after President Umaru Yar'Adua died in office in 2010 and a current president who has spent considerable time getting medical treatment abroad.

Mr Tinubu also faces the tricky task of choosing a running mate and navigating Nigeria's complicated religious and ethnic permutations.

Power is usually rotated between the north and the south, which are respectively dominated by Muslims and Christians.

Mr Tinubu, a southern Muslim, has to decide if he will seek a Christian politician from the north - a limited pool - and risk losing votes in the region, or settle for another Muslim, possibly alienating southern Christian votes.

This conundrum has not been made easier by the main opposition PDP which has Mr [quote][/quote] Abubakar, a Muslim from the north and is expected to pick a Christian vice from the south.

But whoever wins February's election, in what is likely to be tightly contested, will have to tackle many issues left behind by Mr Buhari - widespread insecurity, high unemployment, rising inflation and a country divided along ethnic lines.

It is not an impossible job, but the task ahead is daunting.