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Sctests:
The name 'nigeria' is cursed. Dissolve the country.

Are you a coward ? People insult you and your reaction is to run away, kicking yourself...

Funny people from funny places infesting the Nigeria space and speaking up as if they are Nigerians...

freshalien:
Invade where?? A country that cannot even clear terrorists from its own land, you want it to invade another country. Smh for you.

See daft question. You should be asking instead, why on earth would Nigeria want to invade a crap place like Togo. Of all countries - even if dem dash you Togo, you no go swear for that person?


I prey that one day Nigeria is lead by someone like me.

princewarri1985:
MAKE THE IDIOT NON BOLD COME WARRI HERE COME TRY THAT NONSENSE, IF HE TRY AM EHN, NA FINISHING FOR HIM AND HE MOPOS, KOGI YOUTH TOO WEAK, MY DREAD LOCK IS 5 YEARS OLD AND I PREFER A BULLET TO MY HEAD THAN ONE IDIOT GO TRY TOUCH MY HEAD WITH SCISSORS.

What is the position of your traditional culture on dada?

What are its antecedents as far as you're concerned?

Ban textbooks, says father who nurtured Countdown prodigy Anne-Marie Imafidon

Anne-Marie Imafidon is the oldest of five maths prodigies
Anne-Marie Imafidon is the oldest of five maths prodigies
Sian Griffiths, Education Editor
Sunday December 19 2021, 12.01am, The Sunday Times
When Anne-Marie Imafidon took over Rachel Riley’s duties last week, becoming the first black presenter on the long-running Channel 4 quiz show Countdown, her father had mixed feelings.

Professor Chris Imafidon said he was “very proud” watching his daughter — a child prodigy who passed GCSE maths aged 10, speaks six languages and started an Oxford degree at 15 — but he also felt sad when he watched the contestants struggling with mathematical questions.

“I pity them,” he said. “They freeze when it comes to numbers ... that seed of fear was planted at a young age ... our education system reduces children’s confidence and makes them feel so much of a failure they cannot do anything.

“When this happens parents can step in







https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ban-textbooks-says-father-who-nurtured-countdown-prodigy-anne-marie-imafidon-swj3w6hj9

dasparrow:
What sort of country is Nigeria? No freedom at all. So much abuse of power. Very soon, these politicians will have Nigerians wearing uniform

Are you kidding? No freedom in Nigeria? Lol, Nigeria's problem is due to an abundance of freedom. The Nigeria state has little footprint. Even some America intelctuals, in cautionary warning against Republicans fundamental advocacy for small government, argued that Nigeria would be America's future.

Nigeria is a wild ungoverned space where people generally act as they wish, often selfishly, and often without concern for the reputation of thire country, which is consequently to the detriment of future generations.

Often government can't act with the severity situations deserve for fear of Nigeria's mouthy masses running to report to the West utilising every modern means available. Very free and disloyal people.

emmy4real94:
Absolutely, do you have a blog? I'm thinking of starting one for tech and space exploration..

No, I don't. Good idea though,you should absolutely try it. All the best if you do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpnnD_0IlbE

emmy4real94:
Give me the Hallaa!

I can't wait to see updates about how our planets and solar systems came to be

This telescope is gonna go back in time and capture moments.. very exciting, kudos to NASA.

This may interest you: Neil deGrasse Tyson and Natalie Batalha discuss James Webb Space Telescope. It's a resent discussion.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxKzh6ilMas

harqinhola:
For me , it's a NO ! What's with all the muscles ? I like them AFRICAN (if u know what i mean ) , thick, curvy and beautiful .

Thick and curvy isn't African - except you mean some tribes, for example Zulus. Thick and curvy is an African American invention informed by thire misconceptions of the true African physic . The slightly muscular pictures posted by OP is actually the truer physical form of premodial African women but with curved spine (side view) and fuller buttocks.

The thick curvy form popularised in music video and youth culture was born during the era of plantation slavery when black men lusted after mulatto women. The truer African female muscularity, which is now in vogue by super models on the catwalk, was viewed negatively and associated with field slaves.

The natural muscularity of the African woman was viewed negatively in favour of the softer looking white and mixed race women.

Futurism

Scientists Are "Terrified" of NASA's James Webb Telescope Launch
Victor Tangermann in Off WorldOn December 14, 2021
NASA is about to launch its James Webb Space Telescope. Astronomers are absolutely mortified of a disaster if anything goes wrong.

Terror Launch
NASA is about to blast a massive space telescope into space that has cost the agency approximately $10 billion and more than 20 years to build — meaning that astronomers are absolutely horrified by the possibility that something could go wrong during the launch later this month, The New York Times reports.

“I will almost certainly watch the launch and be terrified the entire time,” University of New Hampshire physics professor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein told the newspaper.

The Ariane 5 rocket, with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope on board, is set to launch from a European facility in French Guiana on December 22, the culmination of years of delays and massive budget overruns.

Engineers were already holding their breath after technicians encountered a heart-stopping “incident” last month while mounting the structure to the rocket’s launch vehicle adapter, in a hiccup that ended up pushing back the telescope’s launch even further.

Futurism

Scientists Are "Terrified" of NASA's James Webb Telescope Launch
Victor Tangermann in Off WorldOn December 14, 2021
NASA is about to launch its James Webb Space Telescope. Astronomers are absolutely mortified of a disaster if anything goes wrong.

Terror Launch
NASA is about to blast a massive space telescope into space that has cost the agency approximately $10 billion and more than 20 years to build — meaning that astronomers are absolutely horrified by the possibility that something could go wrong during the launch later this month, The New York Times reports.

“I will almost certainly watch the launch and be terrified the entire time,” University of New Hampshire physics professor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein told the newspaper.

The Ariane 5 rocket, with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope on board, is set to launch from a European facility in French Guiana on December 22, the culmination of years of delays and massive budget overruns.

Engineers were already holding their breath after technicians encountered a heart-stopping “incident” last month while mounting the structure to the rocket’s launch vehicle adapter, in a hiccup that ended up pushing back the telescope’s launch even further.

Can’t Look
Even once it’s in space, the telescope will have to deploy a gigantic mirror made up of several hexagonal mirror pieces, a process that will take six nail-biting and anxiety-inducing months to complete.

“The entire astronomy community, given the broad range of anticipated science returns and discovery potential, has skin in the game,” Yale astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan told the Times. “We are all intellectually and emotionally invested.”

In other words, the stakes couldn’t be higher.

“Any failure of JWST would be disastrous for NASA,” Cambridge University astronomer Martin Rees told the NYT in an email, noting that any points of failure during the unfurling of the mirrors could end up being “a mega-catastrophic and embarrassing PR disaster.”

Unfortunately, failure is always an option. Such a disaster could leave a very dark mark for the space agency, like when it accidentally crashed a spacecraft into Mars.

But the payoff could be equally huge: once deployed, the space telescope could usher in a new era in space exploration, potentially rewriting our understanding of the early days of the our universe — much like its predecessor, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euXTkNVSv7U

Clever, farsighted Governor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPOQD6Pz79k

Henri244:
If not how gullible the Caucasians are, what's beautiful about this outfit?!

I'm sure the judges viewed the other costumes with same gullibility....

Hong Kong property tycoons, brokers snap up virtual land in metaverse as valuations soar
Virtual land sales are a hot new trend in a tech world increasingly fascinated with the metaverse, a shared, immersive 3D space where people can interact
In Hong Kong, where housing is scarce and property is deemed the most critical of investments, the interest around digital land sales is reaching a fever pitch

Valuations for virtual land at times exceed those in the real world. Photo: SCMP Handout
Big Tech
Hong Kong property tycoons, brokers snap up virtual land in metaverse as valuations soar
Virtual land sales are a hot new trend in a tech world increasingly fascinated with the metaverse, a shared, immersive 3D space where people can interact
In Hong Kong, where housing is scarce and property is deemed the most critical of investments, the interest around digital land sales is reaching a fever pitch
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Josh Ye
Josh Ye

Published: 8:30am, 14 Dec, 2021

The term “metaverse” is suddenly everywhere, a buzzword constantly on the lips of tech gurus and cryptocurrency enthusiasts. But the latest group taking an interest in what many believe to be the next iteration of the internet is made up of property tycoons and real estate professionals keen to buy up land in the digital world. Virtual land sales have become one of the hottest new trends in a tech world increasingly fascinated with the metaverse, a shared, immersive 3D space where people can interact. Valuations for virtual land at times exceed those in the real world.

A plot of land on popular metaverse platform The Sandbox, controlled by Hong Kong video games unicorn Animoca Brands, sold for about US$4.3 million last month to Republic Realm, a New York-based firm that develops real estate in the metaverse. In Hong Kong, where housing is scarce and property is deemed the most critical of investments, the interest around virtual land sales is reaching a fever pitch. If the next iteration of the internet involves three dimensions, many believe virtual land upon which the likes of digital shopping malls and mansions can be built will inevitably become a highly sought-after asset.

Consequently, not only are big conglomerates rushing to get in on the action, individuals including former property brokers and asset managers are also busy scooping up land.

This week Adrian Cheng Chi-kong, the third-generation scion of Hong Kong’s New World Development, announced he has purchased one of the biggest plots in The Sandbox. The 42-year-old billionaire said he will form a “GBA Pavilion” in which start-ups from the Greater Bay Area can sell their products virtually.

Away from the limelight, individuals in the industry are also taking notice. Andrew Man, a Hong Kong-based investment professional at a public property investment company, said he has also started buying up land in The Sandbox. The amount of interest from buyers is nothing short of astonishing, he said.

“Last Saturday, a new area opened up and the land was sold out in about a second. They made about 100 new plots of land available at the time,” the 29-year-old said. “I was in a WeChat group with a number of other landowners and we all failed to buy one. It’s literally a race for finger speed.” Man currently owns three plots, one of which has nearly quadrupled in value in the space of a few short weeks. “When I bought it, it was about 1.8 ethers (US$7,241). Now it’s nearing 7 ethers,” he said. Ether is the world’s second largest cryptocurrency. Virtual land is typically sold in the form of a non-fungible token (NFT) which is a blockchain-verified tradeable voucher that guarantees the authenticity of a digital asset. NFTs are then often traded via cryptocurrencies.

The escalating frenzy around virtual land sales has triggered concerns in Beijing reflected in mainland Chinese state media recently.

The Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily newspaper issued a fresh warning last week saying speculators risk “getting burnt” as they try to turn a quick buck buying virtual land. The report said property sales in the metaverse were akin to “product financialisation” and carry the risk of volatility, fraud, illegal fundraising and money laundering. Man said the conventional wisdom that applies to property investment very much applies in the virtual world as well. The biggest factor that determines the value of a plot of land is unequivocally “location, location, location,” he said.

In turn, there are two factors which determine the value of the location itself: distance from the centre of the metaverse and the callibre of neighbours. “Someone just paid US$450,000 for a tiny plot of land to become Snoop Dogg’s neighbour in The Sandbox,” he said, “One of my plots is next to a huge unsold plot. I’m just hoping it will eventually be taken up by Disney or something later on.” Jason Au, director of the Nasdaq-listed investment firm Troops Inc, is also an avid buyer of digital land. Formerly an owner of a property brokerage firm in the Mid-Levels district of Hong Kong, Au joined some NFT enthusiast friends in buying a handful of big plots in Decentraland, another popular metaverse platform similar to The Sandbox, in August. One plot, he believes, is worth nearly HK$10 million (US$1.28 million).

anonymous1759:


Quote coming from a shallow mind . No foreign country will align with an African Nation if there’s nothing to gain if you don’t know.
The money one British company is earning here cannot be compared to what a Thousands of Nigerian are earning in the UK.
They’ll do anything(British) to see Nigeria not divide because of their companies over here.

A divided Nigeria is more profitable to Britain and the West! you either misunderstand international relations in the context of blacks, Africans and Africa nations or you're willfully ignorant in order to push a secessionists agenda.

There is nothing UK would love more in Africa than Nigeria in conflict. War is profitable and refugee crises is profitable. Go and ask Umara Zulum why he is rightly desperate to pull down the Internal Refugee camps...

Something like the Squid Game is going to have its origin in something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNFCfEf0SPw


Imagine if this had taken place in Nigeria, you scumbags would be foaming at the mouth.

You people stab Nigeria in the back then later have the nerve to ask, "oooo, why do Nations like UEA , target Nigeria?"

Viltron:
It's true. Nigeria is more of the squid game than the movie itself

Really, not China, not North Korea not US but Nigeria ?

On twitter, An arena in South Dakota is holding a " Dash for Cash" where teachers have to fight for Dollars for thire schools!!

JUST IN: An arena in South Dakota is holding a “Dash for Cash” where teachers get on their knees and fight for one dollar bills that they can use for classroom supplies while spectators watch and cheer. (h/t
@AnnieTodd96
)

JUST IN: An arena in South Dakota is holding a “Dash for Cash” where teachers get on their knees and fight for one dollar bills that they can use for classroom supplies while spectators watch and cheer. (h/t @AnnieTodd96) pic.twitter.com/jIht84Ls9W

— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) December 12, 2021

Laura Shepard Churchley, whose father, Alan Shepard, made history in 1961 as the first American to travel into space, was among the crew of six.

The eldest daughter of pioneering US astronaut Alan Shepard took a joyride to the edge of space aboard Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket on Saturday, 60 years after her late father’s famed suborbital Nasa flight at the dawn of the Space Age.

Laura Shepard Churchley, 74, who was a schoolgirl when her father first streaked into space, was one of six passengers buckled into the cabin of Blue Origin‘s New Shepard spacecraft as it lifted off from a launch site outside the west Texas town of Van Horn.

The crew capsule at the top of the fully autonomous, six-story-tall spaceship soared to an altitude of about 350,000 feet (106 km) before falling back to Earth, descending under a canopy of parachutes to the desert floor for a gentle landing.

The entire flight, from liftoff to touchdown, lasted a little over 10 minutes, with the crew experiencing a few minutes of weightlessness at the apex of the suborbital flight.

Voices of Churchley and her crewmates exclaiming excitement at the ride could be heard in audio transmissions from the capsule played during a live launch webcast by Blue Origin as the vehicle neared the climax of its flight.

The spacecraft itself is named for Alan Shepard, who in 1961 made history as the second person, and the first American, to travel into space – a 15-minute suborbital flight as one of Nasa’s original “Mercury Seven” astronauts. A decade later, Shepard walked on the moon as commander of the Apollo 14 mission, famously hitting two golf galls on the lunar surface.

Churchley was one of two honorary, non-paying guest passengers chosen by Blue Origin for Saturday’s flight. The other is Michael Strahan, 50, a retired National Football League star and co-anchor of ABC television’s Good Morning America show.

They were joined by four lesser-known, wealthy customers who paid undisclosed but presumably hefty sums for their New Shepard seats: space industry executive Dylan Taylor, engineer-investor Evan Dick, venture capitalist Lane Bess and his 23-year-old son, Cameron Bess. The Besses made history as the first parent-child pair to fly in space together, according to Blue Origin.

Saturday’s flight was expected to reach a maximum height of about 65 miles – just above the internationally recognized boundary of space known as the Karman Line, roughly 62 miles (100 km) above Earth.

The launch marks the third space tourism flight for Blue Origin, the company Bezos, founder and executive chairman of retail giant Amazon.com, formed two decades ago, and the company’s first with a crew of six passengers.


Article taken from The Guardian UK

nedekid:
But why will all these countries be treating us any how?
There has to be something wrong somewhere. No respect at all!

Racism.

The outside world is always looking to prejudice black people. However, liberal progressive values that gained impetuous after the second world war due to fascism, communism and Nazi Germany holocaust, places pressure on Nations to adhere to human rights. The sixties protest movements reinforced this, Civil rights and feminism foremost.

In spite of this, progress against Racism has seen more resistance worldwide than antisemitism and chuvanism. Nations practice and exploit racists notions in anyway they can get away with given the prevailing liberal progressive paradigm established by the West led by America due to defeating communism and fascism during the second world war. And nations can be quite creative how they try to practice Racism. For example, right now, nations could exploit this Omicron to exclude Africans from world participation.

Finally to Nigeria, which is what you want to understand. Above, I mentioned that the world's nations can be creative in how they try to practice Racism. Nigerians are targeted because other African nation's people support the racism targeted at Nigerians. The nation's abroad don't prefair or like Ghanians , African Americans, Kenyans, South Africans or any blacks but if they can get away with singling out any set of black people, they Will. If none black nations could isolate Nigerians, they would be ridding themselves off a large chunk of black people, that is all that matters.


I was of necessity simplistic since the fact that Nigerians value education, are often hard working and progressive wherever they travel, can be wealthy and are represents of the most powerful black nations, plays a part.

Ttalk:
You have said noting but gibberish, we all saw similar incident in SW of Nigeria, up to today there has not been concrete evidence from Nigerian government to prove their innocence. Even if it were to be false, where are the evidence and facts to buttress it. We all see how other nation manage their security issues. United State identify and rescue their kidnapped citizen within 24hours within Nigeria territory where our security system could not detect.

What is the purpose of government if it can't defend it's people. Nigerians are sick of all this defence coming from you guys. We live in a country where 100 of people are being abduct as single operation in different parts of the north undetected, it became more worrisome when our security outfits becomes target and easy access where bandit just visit and kidnap military officers, isn't it insane that despite all these Nigeria government has not been able to prosecute any of the sponsors.

Regardless of what you say, Nigerian government is culpable at least for negligence. They have performed abysmally and shouldn't be defend by any rational mind

Acceptable points, no doubt, but the bit at the bottom, bolded, is a dubious concept. Very dangerous actually. This is the idea that if for instance, media working for the opposition of any persuasion, put it out there for international consumption that Buhari and his party members regularly hold secret parties in which young virgins are sacrificed, their organs consumed raw in an orgy of blood bathing, anyone that informs the international community that this is not true (perhaps because they are riling against damaging stereotypes that African leaders are often literal Cannibals) is "Defending the Government".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKD0iSMLmFE

Africa holds back Nigeria. If only it was possible to uncouple Nigeria from Africa and settle her as an island far from the content, Nigerians would flourish.

My apologies on behalf of Shawn to every Nigerian under 20 years old that regularly visits Niaraland.

Why do some of you believe whatever is presented as news? Conversely why are some news peddlers so mentally decrepit, they aren't able to elevate thire minds above purveying thoughts of squalor, death and decay?

Of all the possibilities opening up for young people in the world today due to amazing technological, biological and electronic breakthrough, the only thing in some African peoples mind is how to degrade the African nation Nigeria by relentlessly spinning out lies and focusing on negative truths.

Great Nigeria soups, wicked OP

If lives depend on it, I'd have to reluctantly delete Okra since Okra and Ogbono serves a similar purpose but Ogbono soup is more uniquely Nigerian, and complex to arrive at, than Okra soup that other nations could mistakenly create due to the common place presence of Okra in the rest of the word.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCL-w80hZy8



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSgrWjUDmSY

Proudly Nigerian here (and will have it no other way) I've never defrauded of cheated anyone although i have been cheated and defrauded by people of other Nationality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSD_vpfikbE