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youngest85:
The back to back hit exit of keshi and Amodu....

Thank God we 're still alive. Nah make we see the end of the year by his grace.

rawpadgin:
the crazy a$$ company were i work finally paid my(4months) salary

Lol, Bros? 4 Months? That company don pass crazy o.

So, it is already the end of June. Many will consider this the halfway point through 2016. While it may not be regarded as crossing into a new year, there were memories made, lessons learned and opportunities found.
So for the month of June: What were your most memorable moments?

The Governor of Enugu state Rt. Hon Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, graced the UN International day against drug abuse and illicit trafficking organized by the NDLEA Enugu Zone command. The date originally was on the 26th, but it had to be shifted to Monday the 27th.
As he was about to leave, he met with some students of the 9 schools that were available at the time and promised each schools #100,000 in appreciation for honouring the invitation.
The presentation of Money were made available to each schools as the programme continued.

Airtime:
op. u b enugu corper?

Nah, Imo state.

forreelinc:
Ugh! CDS tomorrow
don't even remind me

Hehehe. You nor get choice. This weekly CDS sef tire me.

Wetin person nor go see for this country.
So, I was returning home from CDS. At a point a fellow guy alighted from the keke I boarded and suddenly a drama started.
Started watching another trailer of Nollywood, I saw how the guy and keke man were fighting coz of 10 Naira change. He said the keke man must give him his 10 Naira change, And truly he was unwilling to leave the change.
Naso Bros follow keke reach em' bustop. Very far from where he alighted at first. Cheiii.
Well it is good to value anything you have, no matter how small it may be. But not to that point.
I blame the state of the country tho' .

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Can this ever be Possible?

petz:
I no fit shout! Dat white guy; Wetin person do am?

Lmao... The material of em' trouser sef don reach to sew clothes for 2 children.

Most men and some guys are guilty of this.
Are you wearing that suit or is the suit
wearing you?

Most men and some guys are guilty of this.
"Are you wearing that suit or is the suit
wearing you?"

10. Ants are a delicacy for many.
Ants are edible and not just for birds, anteaters and monkeys.
In Australia, honeypot ants are eaten raw like sweettreats because their bellies are filled with nectar. In China and parts of Africa, they are deep-fried. In Colombia, the fat-bottomed ants are toasted like popcorn. These same ants are dipped in chocolate and served in some exotic restaurants in other parts of the world or packaged and sold in department stores. In Thailand, red ants are sautéed and made into a salad.
Ant eggs are served as delicacies, too. They are especially popular in Mexico, where they are called escamoles.

9. There is a supercolony of ants that stretches over more than 3,000 miles in Europe.
Argentine ants are special in that the new queens do not go off to start their colony from scratch. Rather, they branch off from the main colony, taking a few workers with them. Because of this, supercolonies form and one of them is taking over southern Europe. Scientists took specimens from various nests in France, Italy, Portugal and Spain and as it turned out, they all belonged to the same supercolony, refusing to fight each other.
Argentine ants have also spread to mainland USA, Hawaii, Australia, Japan and New Zealand. All of these are large supercolonies of their own, making scientists fear that they may one day become a nuisance.

8. Some soldier ants guard the nest with their heads.
Ants do not only have to find food to feed the entire colony. They have to defend the nest from predators and from other ants who might want to steal their food or the brood. The soldier ants are the ones who have this duty and they take turns guarding the entrances to the nest. It can be difficult to keep track of everyone coming in and out, though, so some have come up with a more creative means of guarding.
They use their large heads to plug the entrances. If an ant from the colony wants to come back in, it simply has to tap the head and it will be let through.

7. Fire ants can clone themselves.
Most queen ants reproduce the usual way – by mating with a male. Queens of fire ant colonies, however, don’t have to. They can lay eggs even without mating, passing a hundred percent of their genes to their offspring, which is much like cloning.
What happens to the males then? In cases where the queen fire ants mate with males, the male genes destroy the female genes and only male ants that carry a hundred percent of the genes of their fathers hatch. Now, that’s payback and more importantly, a creative means of surviving.
In essence, the queen’s sons are clones of her mate while her daughters are her clones.

6. Ants can lift objects up to 50 times their body weight.
Ants are strong insects. In fact, they can easily carry much more than they weigh. This is considering ants have strong muscles yet are very light. Elephants have strong muscles, too, but because they are heavy themselves, they can only lift up to 25% their own weight.
They have to carry their own weight, too, after all.
Most ants can carry up to 50 times their body weight. Some can even carry up to 5,000 times their body weight, which is amazing, considering most of that weight is carried on their strong, flexible necks.

5. The queen ant feeds her first batch of young with her own saliva.
Starting a colony isn’t easy. After the young queen ant leaves her colony - because there can only be one
queen in a colony – she flies in search of a mate. After mating, she looks for a place to lay her eggs.
She lays just a few at first, feeding them with her own saliva since she cannot look for food and there is no one else to feed them. As for her own food, she doesn’t eat, simply absorbing her wings for nutrition.
The first batch of young grow up and take care of her, some of them going out to look for food and after she eats, the queen ant lays more eggs, laying more and more – sometimes, thousands per day – until there is a whole new colony.

4. If the queen ant dies, the whole colony dies with her.
In a bee colony, when the queen dies, a new one is chosen from among the larvae, fed royal jelly and raised to become the new queen. In most ant colonies, when the queen ant dies, the colony eventually dies off. This is because although all of the ants in the colony are females, only the queen ant can lay eggs and after she dies, no one takes her place and so no new members are added.
How does the queen ant die? Believe it or not, some queen ants are killed by her own rampaging worker ants, who either sting her to death or do not bring her food. Whether or not they are aware that they are killing off the colony by doing so remains a mystery.

3. Some ants are slave-makers.
Think ants are such docile creatures? Think again.
Several species of ants live by raiding the nests of other ants, usually those related to them, during which they steal hundreds of pupae. Sometimes, they even capture the adults and bring them back to their nests. Back in their nests, the pupae are cared for, often by the captured adults, and raised as slaves, which later on find food for their masters, defend the nest and even participate in future raids, even raids against their original nest. Cruel, isn’t it?

2. Some ants know how to farm.
There is only one animal, apart from humans, that knows how to farm and that is the ant. Well, some species of ants does that.
Leafcutter ants, for example, tend to a fungus orchard. That is why you don’t see them carrying bits of food back to their nest. Instead, they carry bits of leaves which they hold above their heads like umbrellas, hence their name. These leaves are further cut down and combined with the feces of the ants to make a large ball of mulch and from this mulch, fungi grows. The ants care for the fungi and then feed on its most nutritious parts, thus having a constant food supply.

1. Some army ants are used to stitch wounds.
If you ever found yourself with a bleeding wound in the middle of the forest and don’t have any bandages or needles and thread to stitch it with, don’t despair.
Who knows? You might stumble across some army ants.
Stumbling across army ants is usually not good news because of their painful bite and their voracious appetite, attacking and consuming just about any creature in their path. But if you have a bleeding
wound, army ants can do you some good. That’s because once they bite, they don’t let go, not even for a time after they’re dead. If you let them bite on either side of a gaping wound, the wound will close
temporarily so the bleeding will stop and eventually, the wound will heal permanently.
Think this is a joke? The people in South America and Africa have actually been doing this in place of surgical sutures for centuries.

Ants are cool creatures. They have been around since the time of the dinosaurs and can now be found almost everywhere on earth. They live in colonies that number hundreds where everyone plays a role.
They build nests with numerous underground tunnels and chambers. They work hard, constantly looking for food. They can also be dangerous with the harvester ant widely considered to be the most venomous insect and the bulldog ant being responsible for several deaths.
Here are some weird and fun facts about ants that you might not know about.

fernandoc:
Kids can be funny. God give me lively kids.

The girl is very funny. She took her teacher by suprise. Lol... That was a classwork.

Lol.. Nor be small thing. The bright red lipstick tho' and the huge thigh gap.

Most parents look forward to being presented with a drawing from their child when they arrive home from school.
But one mother might not have been so pleased when she received a rather unflattering portrait by her six-year old daughter, believed to be from the US.
Beneath the words, 'This is what mom looks like in the morning', the girl drew a sketch of her mother with spiky hair, zombie-like eyes and a grumpy expression on her face.
Next to this, the youngster drew a picture of what her mother looks like when she is going out.

Most parents look forward to being presented with a drawing from their child when they arrive home from school.
But one mother might not have so pleased when she received a rather unflattering portrait by her six-year old daughter, believed to be from the US.
Beneath the words, 'This is what mom looks like in the morning', the girl drew a sketch of her mother with spiky hair, zombie-like eyes and a grumpy expression on her face.
Next to this, the youngster drew a picture of what her mother looks like when she is going out.

Most parents look forward to being presented with a drawing from their child when they arrive home from school.
But one mother might not have so pleased when she received a rather unflattering portrait by her six-year old daughter, believed to be from the US.
Beneath the words, 'This is what mom looks like in the morning', the girl drew a sketch of her mother with spiky hair, zombie-like eyes and a grumpy expon her face.
Next to this, the youngster drew a picture of what her mother looks like when she is going out. The glamorous portrait shows her mother with voluminous hair, long eyelashes and bright red lipstick.
She is pictured wearing a short black dress with pink shoes, in contrast to the T-shirt and pyjama bottoms she is wearing in the other sketch.

On Saturday morning we awoke to a rather horrifying sight: hundreds of little brown bugs pouring out of the pantry cupboard and across the kitchen floor.
We've encountered ants, pantry moths, and grain beetles but this was a new one for us ... research revealed our new visitors to be grain weevils.
Here's what we've learned about grain weevils and how you can prevent them from invading your bag of rice/wheat or Semovita…
The rice and granary weevil are pests of stored grain and seeds. They develop inside whole grain kernels
as small, white, wrinkled, grub-like larvae. There is generally no external evidence that the larvae have been eating and growing inside the seed until after
about one month when the adult weevil chews through the seed coat and emerges. The adult weevils are 1/8th inch long and have slender, hard-shelled bodies that appear pitted or scarred with tiny holes. They are brown to reddish brown in color.
Though they are harmless to people, houses, furniture, clothing and pets. They cannot bite or sting and they do not carry diseases. The harm they do is destruction of the seeds they infest and the annoyance of being in the wrong place.
These are steps that can be taken to eliminate and prevent rice or grain weevils.
Prevent
• Inspect all grains upon purchase.
• Freeze grains for at least 1 week (or store permanently in the freezer) to kill any eggs.
• Buy grains in small quantities and eat within a reasonable period of time. (We certainly learned our
lesson with this one!)
• Store grains in tightly sealed glass, metal, or sturdy plastic containers (not bags).
• Place a dried bay leaf in each container or bag of stored grain and flour. This will discourage weevil infestation.
• Small bags of black pepper placed around the cupboard/pantry or shelves may repel weevils.
Eliminate
• Discard any infested foods. Grain weevils can bore through plastic and cardboard so inspect everything thoroughly. (We chose to be safe and got rid of everything that wasn't already stored properly.)
• Vacuum pantry shelves, cracks, and crevices.
• Wipe shelves with white vinegar.
• Dispose of garbage and vacuum bags outside, away from the home.
• Check regularly for reappearance – it may take awhile to get rid of them completely.
Have you ever dealt with grain weevils? Any stories or tips to share?