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[size=18pt]Punishment or Child Abuse?[/size]

By MICHAEL ERIC DYSONSEPT. 17, 2014

WASHINGTON — THE indictment last week of the N.F.L. player Adrian Peterson by a Texas grand jury for reckless or negligent injury to a child has set into relief the harmful disciplinary practices of some black families. Mr. Peterson used a “switch,” a slim, leafless tree branch, to beat his 4-year-old son, raising welts on the youngster’s legs, buttocks and scrotum. This is child abuse dressed up as acceptable punishment.

While 70 percent of Americans approve of corporal punishment, black Americans have a distinct history with the subject. Beating children has been a depressingly familiar habit in black families since our arrival in the New World. As the black psychiatrists William H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs wrote in “Black Rage,” their 1968 examination of psychological black life: “Beating in child-rearing actually has its psychological roots in slavery and even yet black parents will feel that, just as they have suffered beatings as children, so it is right that their children be so treated.”


The lash of the plantation overseer fell heavily on children to whip them into fear of white authority. Terror in the field often gave way to parents beating black children in the shack, or at times in the presence of the slave owner in forced cooperation to break a rebellious child’s spirit. Black parents beat their children to keep them from misbehaving in the eyes of whites who had the power to send black youth to their deaths for the slightest offense. Today, many black parents fear that a loose tongue or flash of temper could get their child killed by a trigger-happy cop. They would rather beat their offspring than bury them.


If beating children began, paradoxically, as a violent preventive of even greater violence, it was enthusiastically embraced in black culture, especially when God was recruited. As an ordained Baptist minister with a doctorate in religion, I have heard all sorts of religious excuses for whippings.

And I have borne the physical and psychic scars of beatings myself. I can’t forget the feeling, as a 16-year-old, of my body being lifted from the floor in my father’s muscular grip as he cocked back his fist to hammer me until my mother’s cry called him off. I loved my father, but his aggressive brand of reproof left in me a trail of un-cried tears.



Like many biblical literalists, lots of black believers are fond of quoting Scriptures to justify corporal punishment, particularly the verse in Proverbs 13:24 that says, “He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him.” But in Hebrew, the word translated as “rod” is the same word used in Psalms 23:4, “thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.” The shepherd’s rod was used to guide the sheep, not to beat them.

Many believers — including Mr. Peterson, a vocal Christian — have confused the correction of children’s behavior with corporal punishment. The word “discipline” comes from the Latin “discipuli,” which means student or disciple, suggesting a teacher-pupil relationship. Punishment comes from the Greek word “poine” and its Latin derivative “poena,” which mean revenge, and form the root words of pain, penalty and penitentiary.


The point of discipline is to transmit values to children. The purpose of punishment is to coerce compliance and secure control, and failing that, to inflict pain as a form of revenge, a realm the Bible says belongs to God alone.

Yet secular black culture thrives on colorful stories of punishment that are passed along as myths of ancient wisdom — a type of moral glue that holds together varying communities in black life across time and circumstance. Black comedians cut their teeth on dramatically recalling “whoopings” with belts, switches, extension cords, hairbrushes or whatever implement was at hand. Even as genial a comic as Bill Cosby offered a riff in his legendary 1983 routine that left no doubt about the deadly threat of black punishment. “My father established our relationship when I was 7 years old,” Mr. Cosby joked. “He looked at me and says, ‘You know, I brought you in this world, I’ll take you out. And it don’t make no difference to me, cause I’ll make another one look just like you.’ ”


The humor is blunted when we recall that Marvin Gaye’s life ended violently in 1984 at the hands of his father, a minister who brutalized him mercilessly as a child before shooting him to death in a chilling echo of Mr. Cosby’s words.

Perhaps comedians make us laugh to keep us from crying, but no humor can mask the suffering that studies say our children endure when they are beaten: feelings of sadness and worthlessness, difficulties sleeping, suicidal thoughts, bouts of anxiety, outbursts of aggression, diminished concentration, intense dislike of authority, frayed relations with peers, and negative high-risk behavior.

Equally tragic is that those who are beaten become beaters too. [/b]And many black folks are reluctant to seek therapy for their troubles because they may be seen as spiritually or mentally weak. The pathology of beatings festers in the psychic wounds of black people that often go untreated in silence.

[b]Adrian Peterson’s brutal behavior toward his 4-year-old son is, in truth, the violent amplification of the belief of many blacks that beatings made them better people, a sad and bleak justification for the continuation of the practice in younger generations. After Mr. Peterson’s indictment, the comedian D. L. Hughley tweeted: “A fathers belt hurts a lot less then a cops bullet!”

He is right, of course, but only in a forensic, not a moral or psychological sense. What hurts far less than either is the loving correction of our children’s misbehavior so they become healthy adults who speak against violence wherever they find it — in the barrel of a policeman’s gun, the fist of a lover or the switch of a misguided parent.

Michael Eric Dyson, a professor of sociology at Georgetown, is writing a book on President Obama and


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/opinion/punishment-or-child-abuse.html?_r=0.

A man has been spotted helping a nurse in the US with ebola board a flight to a specialist unit - without wearing any protective equipment.

The air ambulance company official, who is carrying a clipboard, comes within feet of Amber Vinson, who is now being treated in isolation in Atlanta, Georgia.

He is seen handling items given to him by a person wearing protective clothing, but his employers Phoenix Air said he did not need to don a hazmat suit.

Ebola is contracted through contact with an infected person's bodily fluids, and it is not airborne.

But this incident is the latest to raise questions about the US response to the outbreak, which has killed more than 4,000 people in West Africa.


Other mistakes include:

:: Allowing Ms Vinson to travel on a commercial plane from Cleveland, Ohio, to Dallas, Texas, even though she was showing the early symptoms of ebola.

The nurse did tell officials she was running a temperature, and now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is trying to track down 132 other passengers on that plane.

:: Another nurse who contracted ebola did so after an "unspecified breach of protocol". Nina Pham, 26, had been wearing full protective gear when she was treating Thomas Eric Duncan, who died after catching ebola in Liberia.

:: Healthcare workers have inadvertently violated protocols by wearing too many protective layers, according to CDC director Thomas Frieden.

:: Mr Duncan was sent home from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, despite telling medical staff he had come from the West African nation.

:: Workers were seen not wearing any protective clothing while they cleaned the outside of his Dallas apartment.
Video: How Ebola Attacks The Human Body

:: A nursing union has alleged a litany of errors in the treatment of Mr Duncan, claiming that he was kept in a non-isolated area of the emergency department for several hours and that nurses treating him were also taking care of other patients.

However, one notable success in the fight against ebola involves Nigeria and Senegal, two countries where the outbreak has been largely contained.

Nigeria had eight deaths but brought its outbreak under control by tracking 894 people who had been in contact with a man who brought the virus from Liberia, and visiting 18,500 more people to check for symptoms. Here are seven things Nigeria did right:

:: Training

Nigeria's Public Health Department sent dozens of doctors on an ebola training course. Hundreds of private clinics have been trained in identifying symptoms.

:: Communication

The first known case was a man exposed in Liberia, who despite medical advice travelled on a commercial aircraft from Monrovia to Togo, via Ghana, then changed aircraft and flew to Lagos. He died on 25 July.
Video: Speed of Ebola Spread Graph

Port Health Services conducted early contact tracing at the airport, and worked with airlines to ensure proper notification of the outbreak.

:: Early tracing

Suspected cases were isolated at ebola treatment facilities, initially in Lagos and subsequently in Port Harcourt. A contact tracing team, staffed by dedicated epidemiologists, was established to investigate all primary contacts and alert the case management team to anyone showing symptoms.

:: Response

Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Health activated an Ebola Incident Management Centre (a precursor to the Emergency Operations Centre) on 23 July, to rapidly respond to the Ebola outbreak.

The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) credit this response with helping to contain the outbreak.

:: Mobile phones
Video: Hazmat Crews Board Plane In Boston

An emergency presidential decree enabled officials to access mobile phone records and empowered them to lean on law enforcement agencies where necessary to track down people at risk.

:: Awareness

Nigeria Health Watch set up EbolaFacts.com within 24 hours of the first confirmed case. The site received 600,000 hits and 850,000 Facebook views within a week.

:: Government support

President Goodluck Jonathan declared a national emergency, and approved a 1.9bn naira (£7.2m) fund to help fight the outbreak.

http://news.sky.com/story/1354204/ebola-mistakes-in-fighting-deadly-virus

codedguy1: I don't know how healthy obasanjo and Buhari's relationship is, but I know obasanjo will not want Atiku to be president. I also don't think Tinubu will trust Atiku. Buhari will be irritated with Atiku now.

The convention where APC's presidential candidate will emerge will be quite interesting.

GEJ just dey laff. Obasanjo will rather have Jonathan there than Atiku who seem to be more audible in the APC presidential race than Buhari.

Mark is there to tell Obasanjo to support the lesser evil which is Jonathan.

Tinubu go just collect money and sell the APC presidential slot regardless of who becomes their presidential candidate.

All these are my personal permutations anyways.

Omo, your head dey there!

Chop knuckle!

Police arrest aspirant for alleged certificate forgery

The police in Ebonyi State have arrested a councillorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Odah Mmaduabuchi, for alleged certificate forgery and impersonation.

This followed two petitions by an aspirant, Kingsley Onu, to the Commissioner of Police and the Chairman of the State Independent Electoral Commissioner (EBSIEC), John Nkwuda.

In the petition titled: “Conspiracy, Forgery and Impersonation”, Onu alleged that the party’s State Deputy Chairman, Joseph Onwe and the councillorship candidate for Ntezi ward in Ishielu Local Government forged a West African Senior Secondary School Examination statement of result.

The petition reads: “I wish to bring to your notice act of conspiracy, certificate forgery and impersonation against Odah Mmaduabuchi, the councillorship candidate of Ntezi ward and Joseph Onwe, the PDP Deputy Chairman, who hail from Amata Ntezi Community, Ishielu Local Government Area.

“Mr. Odah did not attend any secondary school in Ebonyi State or elsewhere in Nigeria.

“He conspired with Joseph Onwe to forge and impersonate the May/June 2008 West African Senior Secondary School Examination Statement of Result with examination number 4120810154 and Examination Center, Community Secondary School Agba, belonging to Odah Ogochukwu, his younger sister.”

Police spokesman Sylvester Igbo confirmed Odah’s arrest.

He said the police were still investigating the matter.

When contacted, Onwe said: “I don’t know what you are talking about.”

http://thenationonlineng.net/new/police-arrest-aspirant-for-alleged-certificate-forgery/

BackDatAssUp: He must be an APC member.

Did you read the second new article?

PDP House of Rep Aspirant, Son of NTA Director Among Arrested Robbers

Fresh facts have emerged that a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ayodeji Olumudi was also part of the arrested robbers by the Nigeria Police Force Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Adeniji-Adele Street, Lagos State.

The robbers are reportedly given gun by an All Progressives Congress Chieftain

The APC chieftain has been identified as Honourable Odeyemi Itunnu.

According to the police, Itunnu is also a Local Government Executive in Efon-Alaaye, Ekiti State.

After the arrest of the gang, FSARS said it recovered 17 of their stolen cars in different parts of the country, most of which were Toyota and Honda models.
Three assorted guns were also recovered from them.

But APC said it was not only its member that was a suspect. They alleged that the PDP chieftain was also involved.

The APC in a statement said, "The story, which makes the headlines in some national newspapers, refers. While it is not the intention of APC to deny the political affiliation of the said Itunu Odeyemi, who hails from Efon-Alaaye Ekiti to the All Progressives Congress (APC), we however wonder why he is the only one so identified and wish to draw your attention to the following:

"1. That the said Itunu Odeyemi is neither a chieftain, nor a leader in our party. He is a registered member though and we could not have raised any doubt on his integrity, except for his proving otherwise.

"2. That Itunu Odeyemi, first from the right in the picture displayed, is not the only culprit with political affiliation. We are concerned that a more prominent person among those paraded as robbers is one Ayodeji Olumudi, who is a core member of the People's Democratic party (PDP) from Kogi State since 2009. He stands 3rd from left in the picture displayed, putting on a red T Shirt.

"The attached picture is a from poster he released when he was contesting for House of Representative in 2011. This picture is also on his Facebook page with the name (Ayo Olu) which can be accessed through this link — https://www.facebook.com/ayo.olu.775

"His mother is Vicky Olumudi, an Executive Director at Nigeria Television Authority (NTA)"

It will be recalled that an APC chieftain Honourable Odeyemi Itunnu, was identified to have given gun to the robbers.

Itunnu said: “Omoniyi (Ajewole) is my political thug.

“I brought him to my place and gave him a gun to secure me.
“Actually, I have never participated in any robbery operation, but he used to escort me with the gun.
“All of us, who are chieftains, were given slots in the state and we were working for the state government.
“Every political party, including ours, has factions.
“That was why I gave him the gun, so that he could always protect me wherever I went.
“I also told him to be with me, particularly as the Ekiti election then was approaching.
“But before the elections, I just saw the police then coming to my house to arrest me.
“I had seen the gun on the ground during the 2007 elections violence in the state and had kept it.”
Other members of the robbery gang are Omoniyi Ajewole, Oluseye Jacob, Oluwadamiliare Rasaki, Ajisafe Olawale, Ogunniyi Sunday, Tolani Babatunde, Abubakar Umar, Odeyemi Itunnu and Ayodeji Olumudi.

The gang met its waterloo after the arrest of Ajewole, 28.
Ajewole alleged that Itunnu was his political godfather.
The police explained that the suspects were arrested after they received a complaint from a victim who had allegedly being robbed of two vehicles.
The victim told the police that aside from the two vehicles, he was also dispossessed of other valuables.
He said the incident occurred on June 27, 2013 at his Ile-Ife, Osun State residence.
It was gathered that the case was later transferred to the FSARS.

Ajewole said: “He gave me the gun to use in protecting him during any campaign violence.
“But I had not yet used the gun before I was arrested in September 2013.
“I am not a robber.
“I prefer to be called a political thug.
“I was the only one the Honourable gave a gun and he was also paying me salaries.”

The Force Public Relations Officer, Mr. Frank Mba, addressing journalists, said that all the suspects connected with the crime would soon be arraigned before a court of law for the criminal charges preferred against them.
Mba added: “This is a case that started on June 27, 2013 after a Nigerian was robbed of two vehicles and other valuables and he had reported to the police.

“This arrest is one of the achievements of the federal SARS.
“It led to the arrest of nine suspects who were clearly linked with not just the armed robbery reported, but a series of such in several parts of the country.

“An interesting aspect of the arrest is that Ajewole confessed to the police that he is not an armed robber but a political thug working for Honourable Odeyemi Itunnu from Efon Alaaye, Ekiti State.

“We want to warn politicians to steer clear of actions that are capable of posing a threat to the security of the country.

“Meanwhile, all the suspects will soon be arraigned before a competent court of law.”
The cars recovered are:
· Toyota Highlander Jeep Model 2008 with Reg. No. GWA-489-BC,
· One Toyota Matrix car Model 2007, Reg. No. RSH-196-DA and other personal effects belonging to the said victim.
· One Toyota RAV-4 Jeep with Reg. No. EPE-477-AC,
· Two unregistered Toyota Highlander Jeeps,
· Two unregistered Toyota Saloon Cars, 2012 model,
· One unregistered Toyota Camry 2009 model,
· One Toyota Avensis Saloon Car with Reg. No. EKY-989-AX,
· One M/Benz E-Class 350 Series with Reg. No. LND-919-EC,
· One Honda Accord Coupe with Reg. No. EKY-857-CH,
· One Toyota Camry car with Reg. No. YEN-902-SY.
· Others are one Toyota Highlander with Reg. No. GWA-489-BC,
· One Toyota Camry with Reg. No. AKD-882-AC,
· One unregistered Sienna Bus and
· One unregistered Toyota RAV-4 2009 model.

http://www.dailytimes.com.ng/article/pdp-house-rep-aspirant-son-nta-director-among-arrested-robbers

[quote author=johnie]“I suspect that my enemies, who are bitter that I was anointed to fly the APC flag for Ibeju Lekki constituency at the House of Representatives in 2015 have a hand in this.

“As I speak to you, no one knows that I have been arrested. Please forgive me and give me another chance to represent my people in the House of Representatives.”


Wonderful!

Represent who?

House of Reps aspirant nabbed over alleged pipeline vandalism

on October 01, 2014 / in News 10:05 pm / Comments

By Evelyn Usman

A59-year-old suspected vandal, who was arrested by operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Task Force on Anti-Pipeline Vandalism in Ogun State, has blamed his indulgence on his quest to raise money for his political campaign towards 2015 general elections.

The Officer in charge of the task force, Friday Ibadin, who identified the suspect as Wahab Junaid, said he was arrested at Ifote village in Obafemi/ Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State.

He said three big valves, allegedly mounted on Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, right of way at Ogere by the suspect and his accomplices, were recovered by the operatives who acted on a tip-off.

Ibadin disclosed that it was the fourth time Junaid would be arrested over a similar offence.

He said: “ On September 15, detectives acted on an intelligence report that Junaid was back and currently operating with his boys at Ogere, Ogun State.

“Detectives, led by Ogere sector commander, ASP Shakwallo Philemon, stormed the area and arrested him. We are still on the trail of his accomplices who are still on the run. He would soon be charged to court. “

During interrogation, the suspect, popularly known as Doctor, disclosed that he usually bought a truck load of siphoned petroleum product from vandals for N1.5 million and sold for N3 million.

Junaid, who admitted to have been arrested thrice before now, said: “I swear, after I regained freedom in 2012, I stopped everything that has to do with pipeline vandalisation. But politics lured me back to it.



‘My objectives’

“I am an active member of All Progressives Congress, APC, and the slot for the House of Representative was zoned to my area, Ibeju Lekki constituency.

“I am one of those who have best opportunities to contest and win the election.

“I was told to go and look for money to sponsor my campaigns. I am a graduate. I read Botanical Science and Animal Rearing. I am a veterinary doctor. Unfortunately, people no longer patronise us and I had to change my profession.

“Since I did not have enough money to sponsor myself, I called my friend, one Oloje, a vandal, who told me that the area was calm and suggested that I could come and load some trucks.

“I was actually waiting at the designated point with the trucks with which to lift the product when policemen arrested me.



Arrest history

“ I was arrested in 2008 by the Task Force but was discharged and acquitted. In 2010, I was also arrested at Epe, but also regained freedom after several months.

“Again, I was arrested in 2012 over a similar offence by policemen from FESTAC Division. As usual, I was arraigned in court. But through the help of my lawyer, I was able to secure my freedom.

“I suspect that my enemies, who are bitter that I was anointed to fly the APC flag for Ibeju Lekki constituency at the House of Representatives in 2015 have a hand in this.

“As I speak to you, no one knows that I have been arrested. Please forgive me and give me another chance to represent my people in the House of Representatives.”

- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/10/house-reps-aspirant-nabbed-alleged-pipeline-vandalism/#sthash.Oeph5O5G.dpuf

RaphaellaDD: That report is wrong. The Liberian man went to the hospital and said that he had been vomiting, he also specified that he just returned from Liberia . The nurse that attended to him gave him antibiotics and told him to go home. She didn't inform the head doctor or arrange for tests to be done.
Anyway, it's good that the US can come to Nigeria seeking help in 1 area at least. There's room for improvement after all.

I hope one hater of Nigeria (Africa) would not say the nurse must be a Nigerian (African)!

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Punishment or Child Abuse?

By MICHAEL ERIC DYSONSEPT. 17, 2014

WASHINGTON — THE indictment last week of the N.F.L. player Adrian Peterson by a Texas grand jury for reckless or negligent injury to a child has set into relief the harmful disciplinary practices of some black families. Mr. Peterson used a “switch,” a slim, leafless tree branch, to beat his 4-year-old son, raising welts on the youngster’s legs, buttocks and scrotum. This is child abuse dressed up as acceptable punishment.

While 70 percent of Americans approve of corporal punishment, black Americans have a distinct history with the subject. Beating children has been a depressingly familiar habit in black families since our arrival in the New World. As the black psychiatrists William H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs wrote in “Black Rage,” their 1968 examination of psychological black life: “Beating in child-rearing actually has its psychological roots in slavery and even yet black parents will feel that, just as they have suffered beatings as children, so it is right that their children be so treated.”

The lash of the plantation overseer fell heavily on children to whip them into fear of white authority. Terror in the field often gave way to parents beating black children in the shack, or at times in the presence of the slave owner in forced cooperation to break a rebellious child’s spirit. Black parents beat their children to keep them from misbehaving in the eyes of whites who had the power to send black youth to their deaths for the slightest offense. Today, many black parents fear that a loose tongue or flash of temper could get their child killed by a trigger-happy cop. They would rather beat their offspring than bury them.

If beating children began, paradoxically, as a violent preventive of even greater violence, it was enthusiastically embraced in black culture, especially when God was recruited. As an ordained Baptist minister with a doctorate in religion, I have heard all sorts of religious excuses for whippings.

And I have borne the physical and psychic scars of beatings myself. I can’t forget the feeling, as a 16-year-old, of my body being lifted from the floor in my father’s muscular grip as he cocked back his fist to hammer me until my mother’s cry called him off. I loved my father, but his aggressive brand of reproof left in me a trail of un-cried tears.



Like many biblical literalists, lots of black believers are fond of quoting Scriptures to justify corporal punishment, particularly the verse in Proverbs 13:24 that says, “He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him.” But in Hebrew, the word translated as “rod” is the same word used in Psalms 23:4, “thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.” The shepherd’s rod was used to guide the sheep, not to beat them.

Many believers — including Mr. Peterson, a vocal Christian — have confused the correction of children’s behavior with corporal punishment. The word “discipline” comes from the Latin “discipuli,” which means student or disciple, suggesting a teacher-pupil relationship. Punishment comes from the Greek word “poine” and its Latin derivative “poena,” which mean revenge, and form the root words of pain, penalty and penitentiary.


The point of discipline is to transmit values to children. The purpose of punishment is to coerce compliance and secure control, and failing that, to inflict pain as a form of revenge, a realm the Bible says belongs to God alone.

Yet secular black culture thrives on colorful stories of punishment that are passed along as myths of ancient wisdom — a type of moral glue that holds together varying communities in black life across time and circumstance. Black comedians cut their teeth on dramatically recalling “whoopings” with belts, switches, extension cords, hairbrushes or whatever implement was at hand. Even as genial a comic as Bill Cosby offered a riff in his legendary 1983 routine that left no doubt about the deadly threat of black punishment. “My father established our relationship when I was 7 years old,” Mr. Cosby joked. “He looked at me and says, ‘You know, I brought you in this world, I’ll take you out. And it don’t make no difference to me, cause I’ll make another one look just like you.’ ”


The humor is blunted when we recall that Marvin Gaye’s life ended violently in 1984 at the hands of his father, a minister who brutalized him mercilessly as a child before shooting him to death in a chilling echo of Mr. Cosby’s words.

Perhaps comedians make us laugh to keep us from crying, but no humor can mask the suffering that studies say our children endure when they are beaten: feelings of sadness and worthlessness, difficulties sleeping, suicidal thoughts, bouts of anxiety, outbursts of aggression, diminished concentration, intense dislike of authority, frayed relations with peers, and negative high-risk behavior.

Equally tragic is that those who are beaten become beaters too. And many black folks are reluctant to seek therapy for their troubles because they may be seen as spiritually or mentally weak. The pathology of beatings festers in the psychic wounds of black people that often go untreated in silence.

Adrian Peterson’s brutal behavior toward his 4-year-old son is, in truth, the violent amplification of the belief of many blacks that beatings made them better people, a sad and bleak justification for the continuation of the practice in younger generations. After Mr. Peterson’s indictment, the comedian D. L. Hughley tweeted: “A fathers belt hurts a lot less then a cops bullet!”

He is right, of course, but only in a forensic, not a moral or psychological sense. What hurts far less than either is the loving correction of our children’s misbehavior so they become healthy adults who speak against violence wherever they find it — in the barrel of a policeman’s gun, the fist of a lover or the switch of a misguided parent.

Michael Eric Dyson, a professor of sociology at Georgetown, is writing a book on President Obama and


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/opinion/punishment-or-child-abuse.html?_r=0.

(CNN) -- The Scots are talking a lot this week -- perhaps you've heard a little something about an independence referendum -- and that makes us happy.

That's because we like how the Scots talk.

Not necessarily what they say -- just the way they say it.

Imagine the way your Scottish pals might pronounce "pour" and "poor."

The Scottish accent is like no other.

Then again, neither is any other accent.

It's estimated that there are nearly 7,000 languages on earth.

That's nearly 7,000 different ways to traipse clumsily through the English language -- or to sex it up like an old Justin Timberlake song.

Of course, no accent is sexy when it's strong enough to crush a beer can.

Which means not all accents are created equal.

You choose: Hottest accents

All of this got us talking this week about which accents we like most.

So we decided to hold a vote of our own -- a Facebook poll to ask which accents you prefer. (Trinidadian has charged to the front at the time of writing. You can cast a vote via this link:: /1wHkW0y.)

Below is the list of sexiest brogues we came up with by deploying an admittedly unscientific methodology -- meaning we asked around the office, which does at least account for more nationalities than colors in the M&M universe.

Our also-rans included Australian (as appealing as warm Foster's to some, tantalizingly exotic to others) and Japanese (the language of repressed salarymen is also strangely designed for pillow talk).

Feel free to state your objections and/or rain your accolades in the comments section below and vote in our Facebook poll.

Because when it comes to accents, there are no absolutes.

Except that the one that makes you cringe is absolutely horrible.

You know which one we're talking about.

13. Argentine

Famous tongues: Fernando Lamas, Gabriela Sabatini

A historical refuge for Spaniards, Italians and Germans, the hyper-libidinous South Ameripean melting pot of Argentina has cultivated a proud, pouty tone.

With its own pronunciation of Spanish letters ("ll" sounds like "shh" and its own words ("you" is "vos", this is a dialect that's hard to get. (Or at least plays that way.)

Sounds like: A tightly tuned guitar of G-strings strummed by a lamb shank

12. Thai

Famous tongues: Tony Jaa, Araya 'Chompoo' Hargate

With five tones comprising their native speech, the traffickers of this often fragile accent turn any language into a song of seduction.

Thai is largely monosyllabic, so multi-beat foreign words get extra emphases right up until the last letter, which is often left off, leaving the listener wanting more.

Sounds like: R-rated karaoke

11. Trinidadian

Famous tongues: Nicki Minaj, Billy Ocean

For fetishists of oddball sexuality, the Caribbean island of Trinidad offers an undulating, melodic gumbo of pan-African, French, Spanish, Creole and Hindi dialects that, when adapted for English, can be sex on a pogo stick.

Sounds like: A rubber life raft bobbing on a sea of steel drums

10. Brazilian Portuguese

Famous tongues: Alice Braga, Anderson Silva

Perhaps owing to its freedom from French influence, the Brazilian Portuguese accent has a more colorful, puerile flair than its coarser European counterpart.

The resulting yowl of drawn-out vowels reveals a flirty freedom of spirit that suggests a permanent vacation.

Sounds like: The near, then far, then near again hum of a low-wattage vacuum cleaner that runs on dance sweat

9. U.S. Southern

Famous tongues: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Lawrence

There's nothing sexy about being in a hurry, and you could clock the growth rate of grass with the honeyed drawl of a Southern beau or belle.

Sounds like: Molasses taking a smoking break

8. Scottish Famous tongues: Ewan McGregor, Rose Leslie

Some of the vocal strangulations heard echoing around Glasgow are registered as a danger to shipping, but in less industrial corners of Scotland melodic voices capable of ranging a full octave in a single "aye" tumble like soft rain on warm bagpipes.

These are gentle, knee-melting tones that conjure cozy firesides and beguiling knitwear before their sudden swing to reproach leaves us whimpering for more.

Sounds like: A stroked tartan cat

7. Irish

Famous tongues: Colin Farrell, Andrea Corr

Valued slightly more in men than in women, the Irish brogue is a lilting, lyrical articulation that's charming, if not exotic.

Fluid and uplifting, it can swing from vulnerable to threatening over the course of a sentence, restoring your faith in the world again ... right before it stabs you with a broken bottle top.

Sounds like: A marauding pixie

6. Nigerian

Famous tongues: King Sunny Ade, Omotola Jalade Ekeinde

Dignified, with just a hint of willful naivete, the deep, rich "oh's" and "eh's" of Naija bend the English language without breaking it, arousing tremors in places other languages can't reach.

Sounds like: The THX intro with teeth


5. Queen's English

Famous tongues: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley

Authoritative.

Upright.

Erudite.

Scholarly.

Few accents promise the upward nobility of the Queen's English.

It's a take on the language that sets hearts devoted to James Bond and Hermione Granger aflutter.

And, should the speaker fail to slake your most wanton desires, eh, at least you'll learn something.

Sounds like: A crisply ironed shirt playing a harp

4. Czech

Famous tongues: Petra Nemcova, Jaromir Jagr

Like Russian, without the nettlesome history of brutal, iron-fisted despotism, Czech is a smoky, full-bodied vocal style that goes well with most meats.

Murky and mysterious, the Bohemian tone is equal parts carnal desire and carnival roustabout.

Sounds like: Count Dracula, secret agent



3. Spanish

Famous tongues: Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz

Sensual and beckoning, but with the passion to unleash hell kept just barely restrained, Castilian is like a dialectic Hoover Dam.

But then there's the lisp.

Tender, vulnerable and cute as a baby's hangnail -- no one owns the "th" sound formed by tongue and teeth like those who speak the language of Cervantes.

Sounds Like: An outboard motor on Lake Paella

2. French

Famous tongues: Marion Cotillard, Jean Reno

The come-hither condescension and fiery disinterest of the French tongue remains paradoxically erotic.

Sounds like: A 30-year-old teenager


1. Italian

Famous tongues: Monica Bellucci, Alessandro Del Piero

Raw, unfiltered, the Italian accent is a vowelgasm that reflects the spectrum of Italic experience: the fire of its bellicose beginnings ... the romance of the Renaissance ... the dysfunction of anything resembling a government since Caesar.

Insatiable, predatory and possessive, this is sex as a second language.

Sounds like: A Ferrari saxophone

Which is your favorite accent?

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/17/travel/sexy-accents/index.html?hpt=hp_c5

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Kevin names Cash Cows

Ghana Black Star and Schalke 04's attacker Kevin Prince Boateng who had a bust up with Coach James Kwesi Appiah whilst on international duty in Brazil has gone viral with his 'Letter to the GFA Pt 1'.

Kevin was sacked from the Black Stars camp with his friend Sulley Ali Muntari for gross insubordination.

But according to the German born Ghanaian, there's more to the story than what the GFA has officially put out saying that the Association is been manned by corrupt officials who would like to use the players as their cash cows to milk the nation.

The player said the team is divided into factions and he's very glad to belonging to the Black Stars Anti Corrupt Squad: Kevin Prince Boateng, Sulley Ali Muntari, Michael Essien, Adam Kwarasey, Andre and Jordan Ayew.


The lines below explains how the player explained his side of the story; Kelvin: There are a lot of issues revolving this team which Ghanaians don't know so they say what they feel like.

They are all corrupt and they always want to make money from us without working for it.

I know I may not be called into the team again but I'm highly elated that I belong to anti corrupt group in the team ( Sulley, Dede Ayew, Jordan Ayew ,Kwarasey, Kwadwo Asamoah, Essien n myself)

It is very insane for John boye n Gyan to tell the Manager to drop Kwarasey for Dauda just 45min before the match, all because he can't speak the local language to command the central defence.

I'm very disappointed in the manager and the entire staff. What is the use of so many GFA officials here.

We are very sorry to Ghanaians for what happened but we were pissed, for they were using us as their "cash cow" to dupe the nation.


How can players dictate to the manager. So I asked, what is the role of the so-called technical bench?

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=314844

NPA to meet over possible fuel price increase


Public Relations Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has given indication officials of the petroleum industry regulator will meet this weekend to decide whether to increase the prices of fuel or maintain it.

There are speculations that Tuesday July 1, 2014, will see fuel prices go up by about 20% to enable oil distribution and marketing companies to recover the cost in procuring crude oil into the country as the fall in the value of the cedi against the US dollar has increased the cost crude oil import.

However, according to a B&FT report, NPA Public Relations Officer, Yaro Kasambata, said on Friday the Authority is still uncertain about whether prices of fuel will go up or be maintained next week.

He, however, hinted that a hike in fuel prices as is being speculated cannot be ruled out.

“Those who have speculated this thing [20% fuel price increase by July 1, 2014] are reading the market and examining the petroleum products prices that have been published. They may not be wrong that based on these figures and factors, prices of petroleum products could go up by this margin or that. This is simple arithmetic and anybody without the NPAs approval can predict fairly the margin that must be increased", the B&FT quoted Kasambata in a report.

According to the NPA Spokesperson, NPA officials are "still collating figures and we will meet over the weekend. We will look at the overall effect of what we have and that will be the decider that on June 30th or July 1, prices should go up or stay flat."

Yaro Kasambata says the meeting by NPA officials for a possible upward review of fuel prices has come about because some fuel stations in the country were hoarding the product in anticipation of a price increase.

"Where such cases exist, the police have assured that they will intervene and order the filling stations to sell to the public,” he said.

Currently, Premium sells at GH¢2.73 per liter at the pumps while Diesel is sold at GH¢2.65 per litre.

Kerosene is also traded at GH¢2.61 a litre and GH¢2.87 a kilogramme for LPG. Gas Oil and premix fuel have been pegged at GH¢2.7 and GH¢1.25 a litre respectively.

[b]Since the year began, prices of petroleum products have been adjusted upwards three times, which sums up to about 16 percent as a result of a fall in the cedis despite the strong intervention by the Central Bank in February.

The NPA, which adjusts prices fortnightly, has forecasted a weaker cedi in the next couple of months, implying more pain in store for consumers-- who are also struggling with energy supply rationing.

Currently, business activities have virtually ground to a halt as acute fuel shortage has hit most parts of the country following government’s failure to pay bulk oil distribution companies (BDCs) several billions of dollars being subsidies on petroleum products since 2011.

BDCs have warned that government’s failure to pay up about US$1.5billion -- a figure the Finance Ministry has disputed and pegged it around GH?300million -- could result in stocks that could last for about three days as their inability to raise letters of credits from the banks to pay suppliers could cut supplies[/b]

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=314720

Ghana buys electricity from Ivory Coast to keep TVs running during World Cup

To ensure the broadcasting of World Cup won't be disrupted, Ghana has purchased 50 megawatts of electricity from its neighbor, Ivory Coast, according to a news release by Ghana's Public Utilities Regulatory Commission.

The commission is also appealing to the public to reserve energy by turning off power-consuming appliances such as freezers and air conditioners.

Due to low water levels at hydroelectric dams on the Volta River, which produces most of the country's electricity, Ghana has suffered power shortages this year.

Ghana's current total installed generating capacity needs to be increased to 5,175 megawatts by 2023 to address the current power shortages and ensure an adequate supply of electricity, according to the Volta River Authority.

http://www.modernghana.com/news/549430/1/ghana-buys-electricity-from-ivory-coast-to-keep-tv.html

Brace Up For More Fuel Shortages - MP

Robert N.D. Mosore
THE NEW Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Talensi and Deputy Ranking Member of the Committee on Energy and Mines, Robert N.D. Mosore, has urged Ghanaians to brace themselves up for more fuel shortages as a result of lack of concrete policy direction on energy by the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC).

According to the Deputy Ranking Member, since the NDC had failed to take advantage of the downstream petroleum processes resulting from exploration of Ghana's oil, and rather chosen to rely heavily on the importation of finished products through the Bulk Distribution Companies (BDCs) in smaller quantities, fuel shortages would continue to live with Ghanaians.

'After Ghana had found oil in commercial quantities, the NPP government signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) to build an additional refinery at TOR with capacity of 150,000 barrels per stream day which was meant to cater for the domestic needs of the country and export to the West African market,' he recalled, stressing that when the NDC won power in 2008 it completely abandoned that good initiative.

The MP, who was speaking exclusively with DAILY GUIDE in Parliament on the current fuel shortage facing the nation, said the NDC government, upon assuming power, shelved that pragmatic move and adopted a different government policy which result Ghanaians are seeing today.

'If the government had decided to refine Ghana's crude oil, we could have gotten gasoline, gas oil, kerosene, dirty oil as well as bottom products which could be used to manufacture fertilizer and bitumen,' he said, pointing out that government's approach to the energy sector was a total misplacement of priorities and policy direction of petroleum and energy issues.

He said the only solution to the constant fuel shortages was for the government to support TOR to revamp its processing plants so as to start producing at its maximum capacity.

Talking about subsidies on petroleum products, Mr. Mosore said categorically that there is no government subsidy on petroleum products such as petrol, gas oil and liquified petroleum gas, except pre-mix fuel; and challenged the government to publish petroleum products which are subsidized for the public to know.

The issue of severe shortage of fuel was raised in Parliament yesterday by the NPP MP for Asene/Akroso/Manso, Yaw Owusu-Boateng, who rose on a 'point of order' told the Speaker that the fuel shortage in the country had brought more hardships to the people and as their representatives, the Speaker must allow them (MPs) talk about it.

The Speaker, Edward Doe Adjaho, said the issue raised by the MP was a very important one but he (MP) was not using the right channel to raise the issue on the floor for proper debate.

'Hon Member, this issue has not been raised in a statement by any Member for me to decline,' Doe Adjaho said, adding that Owusu- Boateng's intervention on the fuel situation was not consistent with the rules of the House and that the rules must be followed.

http://www.modernghana.com/news/552272/1/brace-up-for-more-fuel-shortages-mp.html

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Do you know. . .

Boonyamin is the Arabic format of Benjamin. Just as Isa is the Arabic form of Isaiah (Aramaic)/ Jesus (Greek) and Barak appears both in Arabic and Hebrew?

Boonyamin Taiwo is the grandson of a late oba in Lagos State?

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I have observed that Olamide's BGEL album cover pose has gone viral.

I am surprised that no one has compared the positioning of his hand with that of Baphomet.

What's your view?

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[quote author=I no know book]Hype it, then when it becomes hot, dump it. It's nothing but a hype and dump thingz, it's an ageless, well practiced system of hyping stocks. And trust me, it's gonna work, because there will always be suckers. How could shares you bought with N4,000,000.00 in 2012 pay you a dividend of 702k in 2013? How much did UBA declare as dividend? Please, people look before you leap because I know that so many people will be rushing off to buy UBA stocks after reading this clever advert. DON'T BE A FOOL![/quote]I am even wondering if there isn't insider trading involved given that he works with UBA Capital and "made" all that money from UBA stocks.

Secondly the OP has given too many personal details about the person.

His name: S _ P _
Where he lives:S _ R _ _ E _ E
His hometown: O _ O G _ _ _U
How much he has now:You all know now!

I hope he doesn't get kidnapped!

[quote author=Mynd_44]Only for Naija[/quote]
Did you read this part?

How much? Some notable footballing thrashings

1885: Arbroath 36-0 Bon Accord (Scotland)

1995: Man Utd 9-0 Ipswich Town (Premier League record)

2001: Australia 31-0 American Samoa (World Cup qualifier)

2002: AS Adema 149-0 Stade Olympique L'Emyrne (Madagascar)

Seun/Mods, I think this should be on the front page.

It is absolutely scandalous!

Na him you GRAB am so?

10 July 2013 Last updated at 16:05 GMT

[size=18pt]Nigerian football team thrashed 67-0 is disbanded by owner[/size]

By Oluwashina Okeleji BBC Sport, Lagos

The owner of a Nigerian side beaten 67-0 in a vital match has disowned and disbanded the club.

Bubayaro lost heavily to Police Machine, who were looking to secure promotion to the lowest tier of the Nationwide League Division.

Machine's promotion rivals Plateau United Feeder won their match against Akruba, played simultaneously, 79-0.

Nigeria's football authorities have suspended all four clubs involved, calling the results "mind-boggling".

“A mind-boggling show of shame. It is unacceptable - a scandal of huge proportions”

The Nigeria Football Federation on the two scorelines

Police Machine needed to win and outscore Plateau United Feeder, but the final results would have seen the latter promoted on goal difference.

The Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) has imposed an indefinite ban on the four clubs and struck the results from the records, with further investigations promised.

Feeder scored 72 of their goals in the second half, while Police Machine found the net 61 times after the break in their match.

Bubayaro owner Shuaibu-Gara Ahmed Gombe, who was in Lagos and not at his club's game, said he had ordered the team not to play the match but he was ignored by team officials.

"As soon as I heard the result, I disbanded the team," he told BBC Sport.

"It's disappointing that some people would bring the game to disrepute out of desperation."

He added: "I have written a petition to the (state) police in Bauchi to investigate this shame and arrest anyone found to be involved."

It is also claimed that attempts to make arrests after the Bubayaro match were thwarted when players and officials disappeared immediately after full-time.

Some who attended the two matches reported incidents including questionable refereeing decisions, inexplicable added time and club officials rather than ball boys returning balls into play immediately after goals had been scored.

How much? Some notable footballing thrashings

1885: Arbroath 36-0 Bon Accord (Scotland)

1995: Man Utd 9-0 Ipswich Town (Premier League record)

2001: Australia 31-0 American Samoa (World Cup qualifier)

2002: AS Adema 149-0 Stade Olympique L'Emyrne (Madagascar)

A journalist who saw Bubayaro's defeat against Police Machine, and who asked not to be identified in order to protect his own safety, told BBC Sport: "In the second half, we started witnessing outrageous own goals, free-kicks and terrible goalkeeping.

"Feeders blasted goal after goal past Bubayaro. Officials of the club turned into emergency ball boys, instead of retrieving the ball from the net, they quickly threw another ball into the centre circle.

"It was ridiculous, because the losing side didn't make any effort and the officiating was abysmal, with controversial calls being made and unaccounted additional minutes played.

"Some people were on their mobile phones updating officials at the other venue."

The NFF called the situation a "mind-boggling show of shame" and said players, match officials and the tournament coordinator will be investigated for match-fixing.

NFF's organising committee chairman Mike Umeh said: "It is unacceptable - a scandal of huge proportions. The teams are suspended indefinitely, pending further sanctions.

"We will investigate this matter thoroughly and get to the bottom of it."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23253562?print=true

franchizy: The pictures are fabricated and its even an old pictures. I urge nairalanders to disregard dis pics and demand 4 a current pics.
Team Buhari

I have been waiting for someone to say the pictures are photo-shopped.

You guys never cease to amaze!

sjeezy8: OK Im assuming you didnt know where eko atlantic will be located away from "low quality of life, squalor and corruption, lack of instutuitions and general public decorum" as you put it

Could you get a bigger and clearer copy of this image for us?

Thanks!