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Romance / Re: American Nicki Minaj Vs Naija Nicki Minaj by KennedyOkpara(m): 5:24pm On Mar 08, 2017
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Romance / Re: Is my Ashawo friend beautiful ? PHOTO by KennedyOkpara(m): 5:48pm On Mar 06, 2017
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Education / Re: 25 Greatest Unsolved Mysteries Ever by KennedyOkpara(m): 5:47pm On Mar 06, 2017
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Just outside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, you will behold a statue that has coded encryptions on its surface. This very captivating sculpture was created by Jim Sanborn to show that everything can be resolved and decoded with the use of patterns and clues. Of the four inscription sections that were included, only the first three have been cracked. But the fourth? Noteven the brilliant minds in the CIA were able to get to the bottom of it.
Romance / Re: Please Who Knows This Girl? She seems to be everywhere[pic] by KennedyOkpara(m): 8:47pm On Mar 05, 2017
FreshShavedBalls:
I've been hearing a lot about her. I think her name is Mia something...can't remember Does anybody here knows who she is and what she is so well known for?

Help a brother out undecided
Education / Re: Remember D Nigeria Vs India Match People Talks Abt? Here Is All You Need To Know by KennedyOkpara(m): 3:03pm On Mar 05, 2017
Abaje195:
REMEMBER THE NIGERIA
VERSUS INDIA MATCH
EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT?
HERE’S ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW
ABOUT IT (WITH PHOTO)

Nigeria versus India match: Virtually everybody
born before the invention of the internet must
have heard the tale of a nonexistent football
match between Nigeria and India that obviously
took place in a parallel universe and somehow
we got to hear the gory stories of that match.
Though there are many variations of the story,
every prevaricator seems to agree on a couple
of facts about this fictional football match. Each
storyteller agrees that; 1. This match ended with India scoring 99 goals
and Nigeria scoring just one goal.
2. Nigerians where unable to kick the ball
because the football kept turning to a lion (or
something scary) to prevent them from playing
the soccer ball.
3. The Indians later agreed that if Nigeria could
score a goal, they would concede defeat.
4. Samuel Okwaraji scored the winning goal and
lost his life in the process.
5. FIFA banned India from soccer because they
used black magic in that very game
With the help of common sense (not that it was
absent back then), quick access to information
and the internet, every right thinking Nigerian
has come to realize that such a story should be
filled under blatant lies.

Why Did This Story Thrive
For So Long?

Most people like to pass off this story as true
with the fact that no one has ever seen India in
an International Football Match. Since no one
actually saw India participate in most
international soccer games, this gave a little
credence to the story. India
Another reason this lie could thrive for long was
the fact that credible information was not
readily available at our finger tips. It not like
every Emeka, Audu and Ojo could visit Google in
a matter of minutes and tell our ominous
fabricators that they should stop spreading toxic
lies.
And to be honest we have a tingling feeling that
this lie was concocted by an elder of a
community because, let’s be honest who
questions the words of the elders in Nigeria.
Remember, what an adult sees sitting down a
child will never see even if he consults Google,
Siri or Cortana.
The Element of Truth In
This Story
On the 12th of August 1989, Nigeria lost Sam
Okwaraji.
Sam Okwaraji was the player rumored to have
lost his life in that game when in truth he died
during a FIFA World Cup qualifying game against
Angola in the 77th minute.
He collapsed and died of cognitive heart failure.
May his soul rest in Perfect Peace. AMEN
So that is the only truthful thing about that
story, the fact that a Nigerian player died during
a football match. That’s it. The match was not
against India, we did not lose the match and as
you must have guessed, and there were no lions
either.

What Is The Deal With
India Anyway?

India qualified for the 1950 FIFA world cup as a
result of the withdrawal of their scheduled
opponents. But the Indian football governing
body, the All India Football Federation (AIFF)
decided against going to the world cup, being
unable to understand the importance of the
event at that time.
Some of the Reasons shown by the AIFF
included the cost of travel, lack of practice
time, team selection issued and valuing the
Olympics over the FIFA World cup. It should be
noted that FIFA agreed to bear a major part of
the travel expenses, but it did not really help
their decision making.
Was India Banned For
Refusing To Play
Barefoot?
The 1948 London Olympics was India’s first
major international tournament, where a
predominantly barefoot Indian team lost 2 -1 to
France.
Following the 1948 Olympics FIFA imposed a
rule banning barefoot play.
The belief that the Indian team refused to play
because they were not allowed to play barefoot
is not entirely true according to the then team
captain who said it was just a story to cover
the disastrous decision of the AFIF.
After the 1950 fiasco, India has never come
close to qualifying for the World Cup.
The reason you do not see India in World Cup
competitions is because they do not qualify
So Does The Indian Team
Wear Soccer Boots?
In the 1952 Olympics, the Indian team lost 10 –
1 to Yugoslavia (talking about taking a beating).
As a result of this magnanimous defeat the
AIFF made it compulsory for its team members
to wear boots

Is it Possible to win a
match with a 99 – 1
match margin?

Yes.
It is absolutely possible to rake 99 – 1 from a
single football match. Let’s take a walk down
memory lane and see how this is even possible.
Now allow us to digress.
The highest scoring soccer game was 149-0!
You’re probably wondering how a soccer team
could be so bad that they let 149 goals be
scored, but the truth is it was a form of protest.
The event occurred in 2002 after a 2-2 draw
between rival teams Stade Olympique de
L’emyrne, or SOE, and AS Adema of
Madagascar, which resulted in the referees
awarding a penalty causing SOE to lose the
game.
During a match fixing debacle in Nigeria, the
Feeders scored 72 of their 79-0 victory in 45
minutes of play. Police Machine scored 61 of
their 67-0 victory in the second half. At one
point, they scored four goals in a minute.
Arbroath won Bon Accord 36 – 0 in 1885. It held
the largest margin of victory in professional
football where both sides wanted to win.
So, yes, given the “right circumstances”, a team
could actually receive 99 – 1 beating without
any black magic whatsoever.
Jokes Etc / Re: Funny Meme (PIC) by KennedyOkpara(m): 4:04pm On Mar 04, 2017
thonyrule:
This got me laughing hard.... Add yours
Celebrities / Re: Runtown Will Be Getting Laid By This Lady If He Enters South Africa by KennedyOkpara(m): 3:52pm On Mar 04, 2017
Zicomanie:
Nigerian music star, Runtown, will be coming to South Africa soon, and according to this South African lady, he should be held responsible if she ever gets pregnant after his arrival.
source: http://www.omonaijanews.com/2017/03/runtown-will-be-getting-laid-by-this.html

Celebrities / Re: Spotted: Falz The Badt Guy And Lookalike (Photo) by KennedyOkpara(m): 3:49pm On Mar 04, 2017
sabama007:
This is another picture of a celebrity meeting his lookalike.


That's Falz the badt guy standing with Thalheeb.


They really look alike she


cc lalasticlala

Politics / Re: Breaking News : Buhari Hands Power To Osinbajo (CNN) by KennedyOkpara(m): 3:14pm On Mar 04, 2017
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Jokes Etc / Re: 6 Funny Meme To Brighten Your Day*** by KennedyOkpara(m): 12:17pm On Mar 04, 2017
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Culture / Re: Historical Facts About Ilorin And Kwara Yoruba by KennedyOkpara(m): 9:15am On Mar 04, 2017
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Education / Re: Some Bizarre Facts You May Know. by KennedyOkpara(m): 8:55am On Mar 04, 2017
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TV/Movies / Re: BBNaija: Voting Polls Favour Efe Despite Dirty Nose-Picking Habit by KennedyOkpara(m): 8:10pm On Mar 02, 2017
boring bbn
Art, Graphics & Video / Re: Let's Draw! A Hand (Lessons on how to draw) by KennedyOkpara(m): 8:13pm On Feb 14, 2017
which pencil una dey use
Art, Graphics & Video / Cartoon Effect#need Help by KennedyOkpara(m): 8:10pm On Feb 14, 2017
pls how do I make my picture look like this with photoshop

Gaming / Subway Surfers Cheat Apk by KennedyOkpara(m): 6:20pm On Feb 12, 2017
please I heard of subway cheat please I need the link to download it .Thank you.
Phones / Re: Play Store Not Working by KennedyOkpara(m): 6:25pm On Feb 11, 2017
def111:
same with me lenovo P70, for the day I buy the phone till now. I will never recommend lenovo to anyone to buy
it my parent that bought it for me
Phones / Play Store Not Working by KennedyOkpara(m): 1:08pm On Feb 11, 2017
pls play store is not working on Leno go s890, I have tried every means(including Root) but to no avail I need your help.
Jokes Etc / Re: Closed by KennedyOkpara(m): 1:01pm On Feb 11, 2017
fake news
Jokes Etc / Post by KennedyOkpara(m): 12:54pm On Feb 11, 2017
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Jokes Etc / Funny Photos by KennedyOkpara(m): 1:14pm On Jan 28, 2017
please post pictures I can use to yab someone
Phones / Re: How Many Of Us Remember This Lamp by KennedyOkpara(m): 12:23pm On Jan 28, 2017
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Science/Technology / Technologies To Watch Out For by KennedyOkpara(m): 12:48pm On Dec 24, 2016
WHILE WE can’t really predict what the future holds, we can look at how far we’ve come with technology in merely the last decade and realize the present we know now will, very soon, find itself memorialized in nostalgia. Here are some technologies on the horizon that are poised to change your life.

2017
Ultrabooks – The last two years have been all about the tablet. Laptops, with their “untouchable” screens, have yet to match any tablet’s featherweight portability and zippy response times. However, by next year, ultraportable notebooks — Ultrabooks — will finally be available for under $1000, bringing a complete computing experience into areas of life which, until now, have only been partially filled by smaller technologies such as tablets and smartphones. They weigh around three pounds, measure less than an inch thick, and the hard drives are flash-based, which means they’ll have no moving parts, delivering zippy-quick startups and load times.

The Mars Science Laboratory – By August 2012, the next mission to Mars will reach the Martian surface with a new rover named Curiosity focusing on whether Mars could ever have supported life, and whether it might be able to in the future. Curiosity will be more than 5 times larger than the previous Mars rover, and the mission will cost around $2.3 billion — or just about one and a half New Yankee Stadiums.


The Brain Cap, from U of Maryland.
The paralyzed will walk. But, perhaps not in the way that you’d imagine. Using a machine-brain interface, researchers are making it possible for otherwise paralyzed humans to control neuroprostheses — essentially mechanical limbs that respond to human thought — allowing them to walk and regain bodily control. The same systems are also being developed for the military, which one can only assume means this project won’t flounder due to a lack of funding.

2018
The Rise of Electronic Paper – Right now, e-paper is pretty much only used in e-readers like the Kindle, but it’s something researchers everywhere are eager to expand upon. Full-color video integration is the obvious next step, and as tablet prices fall, it’s likely newspapers will soon be fully eradicated from their current form. The good news: less deforestation, and more user control over your sources.

4G will be the new standard in cell phone networks. What this means: your phone will download data about as fast as your home computer can. While you’ve probably seen lots of 4G banter from the big cell providers, it’s not very widely available in most phones. However, both Verizon and the EU intend to do away with 3G entirely by 2013, which will essentially bring broadband-level speeds to wireless devices on cell networks. It won’t do away with standard internet providers, but it will bring “worldwide WiFi” capabilities to anyone with a 4G data plan.

Read more: 10 ways technology will change travel by 2020
The Eye of Gaia, a billion-pixel telescope will be sent into space this year to begin photographing and mapping the universe on a scale that was recently impossible. With the human eye, one can see several thousand stars on a clear night; Gaia will observe more than a billion over the course of its mission — about 1% of all the stars in the Milky Way. As well, it will look far beyond our own galaxy, even as far as the end of the (observable) universe.

2019
A 1 Terabyte SD Memory Card probably seems like an impossibly unnecessary technological investment. Many computers still don’t come with that much memory, much less SD memory cards that fit in your digital camera. Yet thanks to Moore’s Law we can expect that the 1TB SD card will become commonplace in 2014, and increasingly necessary given the much larger swaths of data and information that we’re constantly exchanging every day (thanks to technologies like memristors and our increasing ever-connectedness). The only disruptive factor here could be the rise of cloud-computing, but as data and transfer speeds continue to rise, it’s inevitable that we’ll need a physical place to store our digital stuff.

The first around-the-world flight by a solar-powered plane will be accomplished by now, bringing truly clean energy to air transportation for the first time. Consumer models are still far down the road, but you don’t need to let your imagination wander too far to figure out that this is definitely a game-changer. Consider this: it took humans quite a few milennia to figure out how to fly; and only a fraction of that time to do it with solar power.


The Solar Impulse, to be flown around the world. Photo by Stephanie Booth
The world’s most advanced polar icebreaker is currently being developed as a part of the EU’s scientific development goals and is scheduled to launch in 2014. As global average temperatures continue to climb, an understanding and diligence to the polar regions will be essential to monitoring the rapidly changing climates — and this icebreaker will be up to the task.

$100 personal DNA sequencing is what’s being promised by a company called BioNanomatrix, which the company founder Han Cao has made possible through his invention of the ‘nanofluidic chip.’ What this means: by being able to cheaply sequence your individual genome, a doctor could biopsy a tumor, sequence the DNA, and use that information to determine a prognosis and prescribe treatment for less than the cost of a modern-day x-ray. And by specifically inspecting the cancer’s DNA, treatment can be applied with far more specific — and effective — accuracy.

2019
The world’s first zero-carbon, sustainable city in the form of Masdar City will be initially completed just outside of Abu Dhabi. The city will derive power solely from solar and other renewable resources, offer homes to more than 50,000 people.

Personal 3D Printing is currently reserved for those with extremely large bank accounts or equally large understandings about 3D printing; but by 2015, printing in three dimensions (essentially personal manufacturing) will become a common practice in the household and in schools. Current affordable solutions include do-it-yourself kits like Makerbot, but in four years it should look more like a compact version of the uPrint. Eventually, this technology could lead to technologies such as nanofabricators and matter replicators — but not for at least a few decades.

2016
Space tourism will hit the mainstream. Well, sorta. Right now it costs around $20-30 million to blast off and chill at the International Space Station, or $200,000 for a sub-orbital spaceflight from Virgin Galactic. But the market is growing faster than most realize: within five years, companies like Space Island, Galactic Suite, and Orbital Technologies may realize their company missions, with space tourism packages ranging from $10,000 up-and-backs to $1 million five-night stays in an orbiting hotel suite.

The sunscreen pill will hit the market, protecting the skin as well as the eyes from UV rays. By reverse-engineering the way coral reefs shield themselves from the sun, scientists are very optimistic about the possibility, much to the dismay of sunscreen producers everywhere.

Read more: 13 future car technologies for your road trip in 2020
A Woolly Mammoth will be reborn among other now-extinct animals in 2016, assuming all goes according to the current plans of Japan’s Riken Center for Developmental Biology. If they can pull it off, expect long lines at Animal Kingdom.

2017
Portable laser pens that can seal wounds – Imagine you’re hiking fifty miles from the nearest human, and you slip, busting your knee wide open, gushing blood. Today, you might stand a chance of some serious blood loss — but in less than a decade you might be carrying a portable laser pen capable of sealing you back up Wolverine-style.

2018
Light Peak technology, a method of super-high-data-transfer, will enable more than 100 Gigabytes per second — and eventually whole terabytes per second — within everyday consumer electronics. This enables the copying of entire hard drives in a matter of seconds, although by this time the standard hard drive is probably well over 2TB.

Insect-sized robot spies aren’t far off from becoming a reality, with the military currently hard at work to bring Mission Impossible-sized tech to the espionage playground. Secret weapon: immune to bug spray.

2019
The average PC has the power of the human brain. According to Ray Kurzweil, who has a better grip on the future than probably anyone else, the Law of Accelerating Returns will usher in an exponentially greater amount of computing power than ever before.


The Web Within Us. Image by Anna Lena Schiller.
Web 3.0 – What will it look like? Is it already here? It’s always difficult to tell just where we stand in terms of technological chronology. But if we assume that Web 1.0 was based only upon hyperlinks, and Web 2.0 is based on the social, person-to-person sharing of links, then Web 3.0 uses a combination of socially-sourced information, curated by a highly refined, personalizable algorithm (“they” call it the Semantic Web). We’re already in the midst of it, but it’s still far from its full potential.

Energy from a fusion reactor has always seemed just out of reach. It’s essentially the process of producing infinite energy from a tiny amount of resources, but it requires a machine that can contain a reaction that occurs at over 125,000,000 degrees. However, right now in southern France, the fusion reactor of the future is being built to power up by 2019, with estimates of full-scale fusion power available by 2030.

2020
Crash-proof cars have been promised by Volvo, to be made possible by using radar, sonar, and driver alert systems. Considering automobile crashes kill over 30,000 people in the U.S. per year, this is definitely a welcome technology.

2021
So, what should we expect in 2021? Well, 10 years ago, what did you expect to see now? Did you expect the word “Friend” to become a verb? Did you expect your twelve-year-old brother to stay up texting until 2am? Did you expect 140-character messaging systems enabling widespread revolutions against decades-old dictatorial regimes?

The next 10 years will be an era of unprecedented connectivity; this much we know. It will build upon the social networks, both real and virtual, that we’ve all played a role in constructing, bringing ideas together that would have otherwise remained distant, unknown strangers. Without twitter and a steady drip of mainstream media, would we have ever so strongly felt the presence of the Arab Spring? What laughs, gasps, or loves, however fleeting, would have been lost if not for Chatroulette? Keeping in mind that as our connections grow wider and more intimate, so too will the frequency of our connectedness, and as such, your own understanding of just what kinds of relationships are possible will be stretched and revolutionized as much as any piece of hardware.

Truly, the biggest changes we’ll face will not come in the form of any visible technology; the changes that matter most, as they always have, will occur in those places we know best but can never quite see: our own hearts and minds.

Education / What Department Is The Best In Secondary School by KennedyOkpara(m): 12:20pm On Dec 24, 2016
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Phones / Re: Affordable Internet Data Plan & Call Tariff Plan Of All NG Networks This Month by KennedyOkpara(m): 12:17pm On Dec 24, 2016
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