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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Manchester City Vs Barcelona : UCL (3 - 1) On 1st November 2016 by joedams: 9:08pm On Nov 01, 2016
Oluaye Messi....Home and away hat trick loading.

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Jokes Etc / Re: When A Rat Follows You From US To Nigeria by joedams: 1:19pm On Nov 01, 2016
JixNation:
what's this one saying??
pic attached now
Jokes Etc / When A Rat Follows You From US To Nigeria by joedams: 1:09pm On Nov 01, 2016
The culture shock waiting for a stray rat...lol

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Southampton Vs Chelsea (0 - 2) On 30th October 2016 by joedams: 5:15pm On Oct 30, 2016
Chelsea on a roll. Good one boys!!
Politics / Re: Photos Of Suicide Bomber Killed In Maiduguri Today as he tried to enter IDP camp by joedams: 2:23pm On Oct 30, 2016
They should just blow up the baga's body up jor, instead of safely detonating the bomb. Afterall his intention was to get blown to shreds, they should do his pathetic body the dishonour.

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Politics / Re: Are APC Supporters Now Officially Designated As JANJA-WEED? by joedams: 2:17pm On Oct 30, 2016
OP has gat a trailer load of Janja Weed in his backyard
Car Talk / Re: 5 Things You Shouldn’t Do When Driving A Manual Car. by joedams: 6:28am On Oct 27, 2016
Some people will tell you the reason they prefer manual is because you can push it to start when it breaks down. I always ask, so you still dey reason to push car for this century? Guy, suffering is in ur DNA.

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Car Talk / Re: 5 Things You Shouldn’t Do When Driving A Manual Car. by joedams: 6:27am On Oct 27, 2016
Some people will tell you the reason t prefer manual is because you can push it to start when it breaks down. I always ask, so you still dey reason to push car for this century?

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Politics / Re: Lagos Inaugurates N500m Disability Trust Fund by joedams: 9:19am On Oct 26, 2016
Like I always say, if Nigeria could be run or operated in the manner of Lagos state, then Nigeria would be one of the most dynamic and stable countries in the world. But alas, the country is in a state of phantasmagoria.

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Business / Re: Air Cargo Exports Up 39% As Nigerians Cash In On Weak Naira by joedams: 7:01am On Oct 22, 2016
Just that one cannot wish for something bad to continue. It seems this recession has awaken all of us. On could have easily said.. Let the recession continue for a lil while longer.

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Politics / President Buhari: My Wife Belongs To My Kitchen by joedams: 3:11pm On Oct 14, 2016
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has responded to the BBC interview with his wife, Aisha, where she questioned his leadership.

Mr Buhari is on a state visit to Germany and reacted to the interview during a joint press briefing with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The AP news agency says he laughed it off and said:

I don't know which party my wife belongs to, but she belongs to my kitchen and my living room and the other room."
Mr Buhari also said that he has much more political experience, AP reports.

So I claim superior knowledge over her and the rest of the opposition, because in the end I have succeeded. It's not easy to satisfy the whole Nigerian opposition parties or to participate in the government.''

http://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-africa-37390997

Health / A Staggering Hunger Crisis Unfolding In Nigeria, And The World Is Barely Aware by joedams: 12:38pm On Oct 14, 2016
They survived Boko Haram. Now many of them are on the brink of starvation.

Across the northeastern corner of this country, more than 3 million people displaced and isolated by the militants are facing one of the world’s biggest humanitarian disasters. Every day, more children are dying because there isn’t enough food. Curable illnesses are killing others. Even polio has returned.

About a million and a half of the victims have fled the Islamist extremists and are living in makeshift camps, bombed-out buildings and host communities, receiving minimal supplies from international organizations. An additional 2 million people, according to the United Nations, are still inaccessible because of the Boko Haram fighters, who control their villages or patrol the surrounding areas.

“We will see, I think, a famine unlike any we have ever seen anywhere,” unless immediate assistance is provided, said Toby Lanzer, the top U.N. official focused on humanitarian aid for the region.

The staggering hunger crisis created by the insurgents has been largely hidden from view, partly because it has been extremely dangerous for aid groups and journalists to visit the area. But institutional failures have exacerbated the situation: For over a year, the United Nations and humanitarian groups dramatically underestimated the size of the disaster, and the Nigerian government refused to acknowledge the huge number of people going hungry in Africa’s second-richest nation. Thousands of people have already died because of the inaction, aid experts say.

“It’s just a complete failure of the system,” said Natalie Roberts, an emergency program manager with Doctors Without Borders, an international aid group.

It took over a year for U.N. humanitarian teams to arrive in cities that were “liberated” from the rebels by the Nigerian military in a major offensive starting in early 2015. Until recently, the United Nations had only tiny staffs working in the northeast. The world body had deferred to Nigeria’s woefully unprepared government agencies to provide assistance, not realizing, U.N. officials said, the scale of the disaster.

Even now, the United Nations admits it is distributing food to only a fraction of those who need it. It says its mission in Borno state, the focus of the crisis, is dramatically underfunded. UNICEF warned recently that as many as 75,000 children will die in faminelike conditions in Borno and two adjacent states over the next year unless more assistance arrives.

The rising toll of the crisis is evident in such places as Banki, a city of about 15,000 near the Cameroonian border that was controlled by Boko Haram until a year ago. On a recent morning, four malnourished children writhed in beds in a clinic run by Doctors Without Borders.

One of them, Fana Ali, was 6 months old but weighed only 12 pounds, her skeletal frame convulsing with each breath. She wore a tiny, bright yellow dress and she had big brown eyes. A doctor fed her sugar water through a syringe. She locked her lips around it.

Less than an hour after she arrived at the clinic, health workers decided Fana needed to be evacuated to a hospital with electricity and more medicine. Xavier Henry, the local coordinator for Doctors Without Borders, called the Cameroonian military for an escort. This is still a war zone, and access to roads is largely dictated by the armed forces in the region.

But the request was rejected without explanation. Thirty minutes later, Fana died. She had malaria and severe acute malnutrition.

The baby’s aunt carried the body back to their two-room home. Fana’s mother, Adama Adam, wept, the tears streaking onto the blue headscarf wrapped under her chin. She was only 15, her skinny arms mostly hidden under flowing clothes.

“We never have enough food,” said Jeme Bukar, Adam’s cousin, who lives in the same house.

Male relatives washed Fana’s tiny body and placed it in a wheelbarrow. Then they picked up shovels and axes, walking toward the packed cemetery just outside the town.

“I tried to call for the escort,” said Henry, shaking his head, his voice cracking.

His last posting was in Yemen, where yet another hunger crisis was unfolding. But the desperation and the scale of the problem in Nigeria have leveled him.

“I’ve never seen anything this bad,” he said.

‘Progress was far too slow’

In 2014, after years of guerrilla attacks, Boko Haram fighters swept across Borno, forcibly recruiting young men to fight and detaining young women in what effectively became rape camps. The insurgents killed thousands of civilians. The rebels became notorious worldwide in 2014 for kidnapping nearly 300 schoolgirls, an atrocity that prompted the “Bring Back Our Girls” campaign. Less well-known was the insurgents’ destruction of the agricultural output of Borno, a Belgium-size state that was once a breadbasket for the region.

The Nigerian military, working with the armies of neighboring countries, launched an offensive in 2015 that reclaimed major cities across Borno. But Boko Haram fighters still moved freely throughout much of the vast countryside. Often, humanitarian workers say, it was too dangerous to send food to those areas, and it wasn’t even possible to learn the level of need in isolated cities. Only the military moved around much of the state.

Even as malnutrition rates soared, army commanders in this oil-rich country were reluctant to call for international assistance. They finally did so in June. Now aid trucks can move along some roads.

“Every time I think I know how bad it is, we get more data and it’s worse,” said Arjan de Wagt, the head of nutrition at UNICEF in Nigeria.

In parts of Maiduguri, the relatively safe capital of Borno, where more than a million people fled and where aid groups have been working for two years, many are still dying of malnutrition. There is not enough food being distributed in enough places to sustain them. The mortality rate in some camps and informal settlements is five times what is considered an emergency, according to Doctors Without Borders.

“Each time we hear of these [gaps in aid] we try and verify and, if we can, begin a distribution,” said Mutinta Chimuka, the head of field operations for the World Food Program in northeastern Nigeria.

The government still does not publicly acknowledge how dangerous the state remains. Last month, President Muhammadu Buhari said in a speech that residents in Borno and neighboring Yobe and Adamawa states lived in relative safety. “Commuters can travel between cities, towns and villages without fear,” he said.

But in July, a U.N. convoy was attacked by Boko Haram gunmen outside the city of Bama, which is east of Maiduguri. The vehicles were armored and no one was injured.

In August, the United Nations sent two helicopters to Maiduguri, to fly humanitarian workers to reclaimed cities across Borno. Late last month, a Washington Post reporter and photographer traveled with aid workers to three newly accessible cities across the state.

But a huge portion of the state is still off-limits, too dangerous for the helicopters to land.

“You look out the window and you wonder: How bad are things down there? We just don’t know,” said Carmen Yip, an emergency health coordinator with the International Rescue Committee.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/world/2016/10/13/they-survived-boko-haram-now-millions-in-nigeria-face-a-new-threat-starvation/?tid=sm_fb

Politics / Re: Boko Haram Commander Says Release Of Chibok Girls Involved A Prisoner Swap by joedams: 12:52pm On Oct 13, 2016
18 out of 21 are nursing mothers. Damn!! The next generation of blood sucking hounds have been born.
Business / Re: The Ban On Imported Rice Is Still In Effect - Nigerian Customs by joedams: 6:50am On Oct 09, 2016
The truth has become a very rare commodity these days. Seems the truth too is going through a recession. I don't know who lie the most, bloggers looking for traffic or a government that lives on propaganda.

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Sports / Re: Ifeanyi Egwim Undergoes Successful Surgery (Photos) by joedams: 10:36am On Oct 07, 2016
This is supercool news. At least El-Kanemi goalkeeper can heave a sigh of relief. Am sure he's been having nightmares since the incident.
Crime / Re: First Time In Prison: Advice Needed by joedams: 10:34am On Oct 07, 2016
All of you giving advice, how many times have you been sent to jail? Most of una wey no fit even slap ur junior for secondary school go come here dey form gangsters. The things Nollywood movies would cause... angry

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Properties / Re: Houses Built Using Cargo Containers (Photos) by joedams: 6:05am On Oct 02, 2016
This is what most of the office buildings at my place of work are made of.

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Webmasters / Re: Mark Zuckerberg Wants To Rid The World Of Disease by joedams: 6:56am On Sep 22, 2016
Some think of what they can do for humanity, others think of what humanity can do for them.
Sports / Nigerian Sets New World Record, Wins 8th Paralympic Gold Medal by joedams: 7:50pm On Sep 14, 2016
Nigerian athlete, Josephine Orji, has just shattered the World Record with a lift of 160kg to win the gold medal in the Women’s -84kg Power-lifting event at the ongoing Paralympics Games in Rio, Brazil.
The latest gold medal is Nigeria’s 8th at the event.
Nigeria now has 11 medals and is 10th on the overall medals table.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/210396-breaking-nigerian-sets-new-world-record-wins-8th-paralympic-gold.html
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: PSG Vs Arsenal : UCL (1 - 1) On 13th September 2016 by joedams: 9:39pm On Sep 13, 2016
Giroud...two seasons in in row. Sent out in the first game of the champions league.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: PSG Vs Arsenal : UCL (1 - 1) On 13th September 2016 by joedams: 9:26pm On Sep 13, 2016
Ospina can save a relationship..walahi
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Manchester United Vs Manchester City (1 - 2) On 10th September 2016 by joedams: 2:20pm On Sep 10, 2016
Ferguson shaking his head

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Manchester United Vs Manchester City (1 - 2) On 10th September 2016 by joedams: 2:17pm On Sep 10, 2016
I smell a late minute goal in this game
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Manchester United Vs Manchester City (1 - 2) On 10th September 2016 by joedams: 2:11pm On Sep 10, 2016
Rooney goes into the books. Keep showing your frustration

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Manchester United Vs Manchester City (1 - 2) On 10th September 2016 by joedams: 2:08pm On Sep 10, 2016
Rooney and Pogba should just volunteer to leave the pitch. Ewo ni radarada gann paa pa
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Manchester United Vs Manchester City (1 - 2) On 10th September 2016 by joedams: 2:06pm On Sep 10, 2016
Poor free kick by De bruyne
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Manchester United Vs Manchester City (1 - 2) On 10th September 2016 by joedams: 2:04pm On Sep 10, 2016
Omo, this match is delicious shocked
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Manchester United Vs Manchester City (1 - 2) On 10th September 2016 by joedams: 1:44pm On Sep 10, 2016
This Bravo na major calamity grin. Pep, swallow ur pride and give Hart a call now grin

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Manchester United Vs Manchester City (1 - 2) On 10th September 2016 by joedams: 1:40pm On Sep 10, 2016
The Nigerian hero, Nacho, comes off. #StandingOvation
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Manchester United Vs Manchester City (1 - 2) On 10th September 2016 by joedams: 1:37pm On Sep 10, 2016
Is £89m on the field? I can only see £1m here oooh. Hian!!

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Manchester United Vs Manchester City (1 - 2) On 10th September 2016 by joedams: 1:34pm On Sep 10, 2016
Rashford and Herrera on for Lingard and Mikitari.

Rashford already showing some good stuff
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Manchester United Vs Manchester City (1 - 2) On 10th September 2016 by joedams: 1:19pm On Sep 10, 2016
Nacho and De bruyne...one goal, One assist each.

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