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Just realised that his wife is older than him by a couple of weeks.

Why not pen your argument instead of hurling insults at me.

Martins Oloja of Guardian Newspaper is the ONLY INTELLIGENT ONE amongst the 5 Nigerians involved in Tonight's soap opera called 'presidential media chat' produced by Ebele Jonathan. Nigerian Journalists should follow Oloja's courageous template and I still insist tonight's show is GEJ'S best ever, more composed, assured and calm. My only worry is that he believes his own LIES.

So this TB Joshua never buy jet? wetting im dey for when im get a son like this dumb Onazi? And which kain prophet dey give im son only one goal to score with such a big, wide post? No be Jesus feed multitudes with only five fishes?

PASSERS-BY, motorists and pedestrians alike scampered for safety, dodging missiles such as broken bottles and bricks that were flying from all directions as the open space opposite Coker Bus Stop along Orile Coker-Mile Two Expressway was turned into a battlefield of sorts.

Those who managed to stop and look, saw two groups of students from Jubilee Senior and Junior High School, Orile and Sari Iganmu Secondary School going after each other’s throat.

A few of them were bleeding from injuries, which did nothing to calm the particularly tense atmosphere.

When, however, a passer-by inquired from some of the students what it was all about, it turned out that the fight was because of a girl.

According to two students from Sari Iganmu Secondary School, Ibrahim Kareem and Ihugode Bamidele, the clash between students from the two schools had been brewing for sometime.

“A female student from our school turned down a request for friendship from a boy also in our school and instead started to befriend a boy from Jubilee Senior and Junior High School.

“Those of us in Sari Iganmu considered it a big slight, which was unacceptable and we demanded that the Jubilee boy should discontinue his affair with the girl.

“He refused and students from his own school rallied around to support him.

“It had all been verbal threats until on Monday when the clash took place.”

Another student said teachers from both schools had been aware of the trouble brewing between their students apparently, had not done anything to nip the matter in the bud as a result of which there is so much hostility between students in the two neighbouring schools.

He said: “There had always been some intense rivalry between students from Jubilee Senior and Sari Iganmu Secondary, which has now degenerated over the girl’s rejection of the boy from her school.”

A student from Jubilee Senior and Junior School identified only as Tunde, who was also at the scene of the fight, said he was afraid that if nothing was done by the school authorities, the police and government, “it may lead to more serious trouble in which someone may be killed all because of a girl.”

A passer-by blamed the management of the two schools for not doing anything while such trouble has been brewing between students of the two schools.

He also blamed the Nigeria Police for not doing its job as “not even a policeman cared to intervene to disperse the students even when the fight spilled over onto the expressway from the open space at Coker.

“It is also cause for shame to parents of those students that their wards, instead of concentrating on their studies, choose to waste their time on love affairs when they are not ripe.”

A parent whose child attends one of the schools also blamed the management for not taking the necessary action to stop the fight between the two schools.

He suggested the matter be reported to the Parents /Teachers Association (PTA) and that the main actors should be fished out and punished to act as a deterrent to others.

A resident of the Coker area, however, suggested that the open space from where the fight ensued should be put to better use.

“That space should be put to good use instead of allowing it to be used for all sorts of atrocities by all manner of miscreants.’

http://ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=104776:pupils-of-two-lagos-schools-exchange-blows-over-a-girl-&catid=3:metro&Itemid=558

Artificial buttocks. This may sound weird and funny to you, but it is a new craze in fashion that has been putting smiles on the faces of the women folk, especially those who are not proud of the size of their buttocks.

And the reason for this may not be far-fetched. In a society where the African woman is admired mainly because of her outward beauty and other physical endowments, some women often feel inferior when they are not ‘judged’ as looking sexy and beautiful. From crazy hairdos to weird dresses and now artificial buttocks, all a woman craves is to be seen and admired as being fashionable and trendy.

According to some fashion-conscious women, men’s changing ‘tastes’ are part of what is pushing fashion buffs to the extreme. Ask male folks, some say they like it big, though they rarely openly acknowledge it. Therefore, some admitted, a woman tends to be more fascinating and sought-after when she has it well rounded and curved, especially at the behind. Thus, it has become a difficult game to some women who always want to please their men, forcing a resort to artificial addition to their natural buttocks.

However, Nancy (not her real name), a part two student at the Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo, disagrees with the belief that the reason for patronising artificial buttocks is to please the opposite sex. According to her, she bought the artificial buttocks because she couldn’t wear certain clothes that would fit her. “It looks like the normal tight ladies wear under their clothes as undergarments. The difference here is the foam being added to the hips and buttocks in the tight to give more flesh to my buttocks.”

Asked if it can be noticed when worn, as some ladies are not comfortable with this, some women say it looks like a normal underwear ladies use, which is not conspicuous. Besides, if you take a look through the market when it is displayed, people often mistake it for leggings. This, says Mama Rilwan, a trader that deals in female accessories and undergarments at Yaba market, Lagos, also explains why artificial buttocks come in only black colour. It also comes in different sizes, depending on the shape of the female buttocks.

However, just as it puts smiles on people’s faces, the product, which was introduced to the market early this year, is not cheap due to additional pad put in the tight, as each artificial buttock sells for an average of N1,500.

As sexy as it appears, do artificial buttocks have any side effect on users? A health practitioner at Ajegunle General Hospital, Lagos, who prefers anonymity, explains that it is not detrimental to the health as long as it doesn’t change their physiological composition. She added that using artificial buttocks is like wearing a padded brassiere to support one’s breasts, emphasising that the only thing that poses a threat is when users change their physical body. “But lets face it, whatever is fake is fake,” observed the health expert.

Imprisoned former Governor James Onafefe Ibori of Delta State today bought a full-page advert in a Nigerian newspaper to congratulate his peer, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, on his

60th birthday. Mr. Alamieyeseigha was a former governor of Bayelsa State. Like Mr. Ibori, he was ensnared in legal trouble in the UK for his money laundering activities. He escaped from UK authorities and arrived in Nigeria where he was tried by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and jailed.

Mr. Ibori’s preposterous birthday message to his fellow criminal appeared on page 16 of The Nation newspaper which is owned by former Governor Bola Tinubu of Lagos State, himself a hugely corrupt politician.

Mr. Ibori hailed Mr. Alamieyeseigha as “governor-general of the Ijaw Nation.” In the four-paragraph statement, former Governor Ibori also sympathized with Mr. Alamieyeseigha over the latter’s ostensible persecution. He encouraged the former Bayelsa governor to seek solace in the purported confidence of Ijaw people in him. Mr. Ibori also expressed confidence that Mr. Alamieyeseigha would be vindicated in future. He concluded by wishing that the former Bayelsa governor would enjoy a “rich and rewarding” life he has succeeded in making for himself.

A source close to those who recently saw Mr. Ibori in his British jail reported that the former governor, who styled himself the “Ogidigbodigbo of Africa,” had turned into “a humble Christian.” In his birthday felicitations to his fellow jail-bird former governor of Bayelsa, Mr. Ibori wrote, “I join your numerous well-wishers to thank the good God who has kept you alive despite the vicissitudes of life – the lies and ill-treatment – that came your way just because of crass and debilitating politics.”

Last April, Mr. Ibori is currently serving a thirteen-year jail term after he pleaded guilty before a Southwark Crown Court to charges of monumental corruption and money laundering offence. Mr. Ibori was tried for stealing public funds that exceeded $250 million and diverting them to offshore personal accounts using UK banks and financial institutions. The massive loot enabled Mr. Ibori to acquire real estate in the UK and other countries as well as private jets and expensive cars.

UK law enforcement authorities determined that Mr. Ibori and former Governor Victor Attah of Akwa Ibom State collaborated in one of the corrupt schemes. The two former governors formed a phantom company known as ADF and used it to siphon about $37.5 million from Delta and Akwa Ibom states’ shares in a fraudulent V-Mobile deal.

A Nigerian court presided over by Justice Marcel Awokulehin had initially acquitted Mr. Ibori of all charges, before the hands of the British law caught up with him and tried him properly in the UK. SaharaReporters revealed that Justice Awokulehin had accepted a $5 million bribe to set the former governor free.

With credit for his time in detention both in the United Arab Emirate and the UK, Mr. Ibori is expected to spend approximately seven years in jail.

In July 2007, Mr. Alamieyeseigha was convicted after pleading guilty to six charges before a Nigerian court. Transparency groups as well as the EFCC accused him of embezzling millions of dollars of the state’s earnings from oil revenues. Mr. Alamieyeseigha acquired a huge stake in an oil refinery in Ecuador and bought several houses in London, California and South Africa.

President Goodluck Jonathan was a deputy to Mr. Alamieyeseigha during the latter’s tenure as Bayelsa governor. A source close to Mr. Jonathan told SaharaReporters that Mr. Alamieyeseigha had pleaded with his erstwhile deputy to grant him presidential pardon. “Chief Alamieyeseigha has begged Mr. President for pardon to enable him regain political relevance after his conviction tarnished his image, but President Jonathan has been reluctant,” said the source. He added that Mr. Jonathan “wants to avoid conveying a worse impression about his administration’s attitude towards corruption.” Many Nigerians rate the current president as one of their most corrupt rulers in recent times.

This June, United States Department of Justice seized the sum of $401,931 traced to Mr. Alamieyeseigha in a Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC account in Massachusetts. In July, US authorities also seized $3 million in funds looted by Mr. Ibori.

Last month, the Nigerian government said it was taking steps to recover Mr. Alamieyeseigha’s loot seized by the US government. The disclosure came after an advocacy group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), pressured the Jonathan administration.

http://saharareporters.com/news-page/jailed-ibori-uses-newspaper-advert-congratulate-alamieyeseigha-birthday

Don't you know Nigeria is the 2nd most corrupt country in the world?From corrupt suppliers of kits to corrupt corpers!

This must be the work of the father

ojeffo: what is d grand total of the numbers of ur sojourn on planet earth in direct comparison and contrast with my own personal earthly sojourn in numerical equivocation?

Pastor Okotie and Hon.Obahiagbon wouldn't have done better!

Agege Bread is the most popular bread in Lagos and major parts of Nigeria. The cheapest bread for the citizens...

Some white ladies are seen here also trying to buy Agege bread...
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Agege Bread get international recognition be that O...lol

STOCK EXCHANGE UPDATE

1 AEROPLANE = ₦ 64M

ngooka: Soon another vagabond governor go crash, we are watching efcc and there dull work. God will George every body

How insensitive these politicians could be at times beats me real hard.Even at critical times like this when the people they govern are in dire need and tomorrow when he crashes in his new acquired baby some Nigerians would expect me to cry for him.OVER MY DEAD BODY.

Jarus: With this guy's writing skill, one begins to wonder whether it's the same football fileds that produced the likes of Ikpeba, Yekini and co that produced.

I don't think a veteran journalist would do better.

Meanwhile, he is only dreaming. SA, even with all the home advantage, can't win this AFCON. Its between CIV, Ghana or Nigeria. If there is any outsider, it's going to be Algeria. SA can't win this AFCON.

The place of education can't be over -emphasised.Guess you know he holds a HND,mechanical engineering from Ibadan polytechnic.

It is more expensive to bankroll terrorism.

Why is NCC banning when MTN is about to announce its unrealistic winner of Airplane? Yeye pple!

Forgive my words here, but if 'yahoo boys' and 'blackberry youths' are the reasons he is saying there would be a revolution I think he is WRONG, An average yahoo boy careless about the Govt is doing, he just prays dollar rises up, his white Maga pays, he buys d latest rangerover, sleep with numerous young university/undergraduates gels. And if the money is not entering well, he goes to yahoo+ (yahoo with JUJU) our youths (we youths) just want to make money no time for 'kick against corruption' revolution campaigns etc.... Goto the street u wil confirm what I just said, same as our female youths, Gone are those days where u see an uneducated Youth doing prostitution, Now undergraduates with average grades, private university girls are into e-prostitution (twitter,fbook, sexchat prostitution)... There can't be any revolution because morally our youth are defected.

The comments hereunder were said to be have been made by Pastor Bakare during the second Save Nigeria Group public lecture in Lagos condemning the spate at which religious leaders slow down the morale of millions of Nigerian citizens while they live in luxury and acquire new jets:

'All General overseers and religious leaders must go to prison, so they can feel the Nigerian situation. lock Pastor Adeboye Pastor Kumuyi myself and others up in a Nigerian prison, may be if we come out we will change and put the interest of our people first, preaching greed is sin, we have the confidence of millions of people and continue to fail them, that must change"

"I am not inciting the public against the church and the mosque, but the congregation must demand explanation from their leaders, they must demand to know where they are getting the money if it is not from the church offering then it is from Abuja – all general overseers must go to prison."

http://saharareporters.com/video/video-all-general-overseers-must-go-prison-pastor-bakare

What is wrong with a pastor owning a small plane for God's work in this jet age? Please, let’s get out of this poverty mentality mold. Rich people don't see anything wrong with it, only poor people do. Lol!

Somebody is asking, how owning a jet will benefit the preaching of God's word.

Firstly, our dear Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor can now preach in four Nigerian states or two countries in one day and still return back to Warri to sleep.
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Secondly, I am believing God for my own Jet too.

I hope that with these few points of mine, I have been able to convince you and not to confuse you that it is good for pastors to own private Jets

wellmax: PASTOR TUNDE BAKARE IS THE SENIOR ELDER OF LATTER RAIN ASSEMBLY(FATHER'S HOUSE). . . . A CHURCH WITH THE MISSION TO FILL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD, TO RAISE AN ARMY WHO WILL NOT BOW THEIR KNEES TO CORRUPTION, A NEW BREED WITHOUT GREED, A RADICAL OPPOSITION TO CORRUPTION.

He will be 56 year old today, 11.11.2012

Leave a goodwill message for him

Pastor Bakare is 58 and not 56.He was born 11/11/1954.

Your love for Nigeria is not in doubt by those of us who know you personally.
You breathe and live Nigeria, one reason why I supported your political involvement even though you are a leader in the community of the believers' fold in Nigeria.

Today, as you turn another year, I wish you happy birthday. May what you wish and dream about Nigeria come true. Happy birthday to Pastor Babatunde Gbolahan Bakare.

Fellow Lagosians, I will start by saying that your informed arguments and points of facts have persuaded the State Executive Council to lift the partial restrictions on the use of Motor cycles for commercial purposes in Lagos State.

The Exco was persuaded with the arguments that the daily contributions from the Okada riders to the unlicensed touts assuming the role of trade union could be deployed to change the face of the Okada business and health and safety of Lagosians.

Our earlier decision was premised on the rate of accidents across the state and the victims of such accidents on hospital beds across the state.

In line with logical thinking and holistic approach to challenges, we have decided on the following:
1) All touts that collect tolls from Okada riders and assumed associations are hereby proscribe
2) The daily N300 collection from the Okada riders shall be collected and managed by a civilised agency
3) With the figures on hand, 50,000 members contributing N300 daily will give the yearly N5.5billion

4) The said tolls collected will be used to finance and regulate the commercial cycle sector. The following will be the heads and units that will attract the IGR spending:
A) N600million will be used to purchase accidental insurance that will be comprehensive in nature. The effect of this is that no future accident victim of the Okada will be left out of pocket and the riders will be fully compensated in case of accidents
B) N1.8billion will be used as collateral to secure 10,000 tricycles and such investments in the purchase will be made over 5 year period by which I believe all the motor cycles would have been replaced by tricycles for hither land etc
C) A retraining scheme will be set up will N50million targeted towards the degree holders amongst the Okada riders
D) Completion of the retraining scheme will entitle each of tje graduate Okada riders N1m to set-up businesses of trained choice.
E) The total amount that will be committed to this is N500million yearly covering 500 over 5 year period
F) All Okadas in the state will be colour marked and each colour indicating where they will ply...
G) N100million will be used to purchase colour coded helmets for all riders in the State
H) to prevent the excuse being given for not wearing helmet, we shall commit N20million yearly for making disposable inner hats that all Okada riders must give to the passengers so that the passengers will be comfortable to wear helmet
I) N300million will be set aside yearly to maintain an enforcement agency
J) N100million will be provided to the management of police to complement the enforcement responsibilities...special and dedicated police men to be assigned to the scheme
K) N1billion will be used to resurface most feeeder roads as palliative measure pending the time the State Ministry of Works will embark upon asphalt construction

Fellow Lagosians, as you are aware, the tolls would not be collected in advance but the government in order not to be held back have spoken and agree the scheme with 3 major banks to provide the funding pending the time all the revenues will come in and my government provided the collateral/stand as guarantor.

Fellow Lagosians, we are of the opinion that if proper retraining becomes the bedrock in search for health and safety, the rate of accidents will reduce.

The compulsory insurance scheme for all the stakeholders will serve as safety net for all and such scheme will even expand insurance sector in Nigeria as a whole

Fellow Lagosians, unlike the ban syndrome we applied before, this scheme will take gradual kick-in effects but we believe that the remarkable change and the regulated commercial cycle riders will be a pacesetter and move away from the hitherto health hazard sector we used to have.

An agency has be set up and backed by the state Assembly laws and all riders are asked to report to the regional offices in their local government of residence for update.

Thank you and God bless you all...

Hmm...imagine this was the approach the Lagos state government took, how will you react to this?

In their famously controversial book, The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, described religion as the opium of the people which, when taken in right dosage, benumbs the body and soul to suffering, shame and sin. The church, especially in Nigeria, has been so emblematic of the Marxian prognostication and turned otherwise educated men and women into robotic wimps, manipulated by pastor, prophets and prophetesses and recounting sometimes meaningless supplications to a creator, whose methods they hardly comprehend. The same goes for other religions, which have tended to follow a certain pattern that thoroughly negates all the principles of mutual and peaceful co-existence.

Just a few days ago, a friend complained that Nigeria is one of those third world countries where people worship all kinds of supernatural personalities and pray harder than they work yet criminals pervade the land and people perpetrate all kinds of heinous crimes even in the most sanctimonious of places and the country is retarded in growth. Meanwhile, some European countries, where less than 15% of the population recognise the existence of any gods and never bother to go to any place of worship, be it Sunday or Friday, are doing good, showing love and prospering as a people. It is this conundrum, which got so flagrantly played up in some of the media reports credited to President Goodluck Jonathan this week that has prompted this intervention.

Among all the stuff he was said to have said during the Independence Day celebrations, Mr. President reportedly declared a one year prayer session upon which we must now hinge the future and prosperity of Nigeria. First of all, I don’t understand why the president would make such a proposition to the hapless and long-suffering people of Nigeria on such an occasion. Some of us were dying to know how he intends to deal with some of the more pressing challenges facing the country, but not much came through.

Take the example of power. Paradoxically, most people were unable to watch the president’s Independence Day speech due to power outage and those who did paid dearly for it, literally, as the light was gone soon after never to return till the next day, if at all. For power, it’s all contracts, contracts and more contracts-even as we hope the water levels do not recede ultimately to show PHCN for what it truly is.

As far as I know, the Roman Catholic Church has been saying the “Prayer for Nigeria in Distress” for over two decades. Yet, neither the leaders nor the followers have changed. Former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (rtd), has led a prayer project called “Nigeria Prays” for over 10 years and nothing seems to have changed. It is possible that quite a few of the new fangled churches take some time off their busy schedule (of praying for prosperity and such matters) to say a prayer or two for the country.

There are several hours of video footage and tonnes of press clippings showing several politicians, especially the Christians, visiting one religious leader or another seeking divine guidance or so it seems. Others have also been known to have visited some notorious shrines in the more seedy and dingy enclaves. But even so, and in spite of all of these, things haven’t got any better.

My second point is the rather wrong impression created by the president (by the way I didn’t say our president lied) by claiming that the United States of America made it to greatness through prayers. I reckon Mrs. Hilary Clinton didn’t bother to listen to the speeches, otherwise the Americans would have been protesting such glaring misinformation. Brothers and sisters, the US was built on hard work, passion, vision and an overwhelming quest to be the best. If at all, they must have prayed for longer days than nights so they could get more nation-building work done!

At this point, I pause to remember an anecdote about a protest by world leaders to God over His seeming preferential treatment of Nigerians by blessing them with good weather conditions and abundant natural resources. As the story goes, God smiled at the angry protesters and asked them to go back home and wait to see the kind of leaders He would send to Nigeria. Fabulous as this story may sound, Nigeria has had a rough ride with leadership since independence, but for one exception (Gen. Muhammadu Buhari’s era) but even so, not much was achieved while seeking to correct past mistakes.

As a country, we have so much natural resources and brilliant and hardworking people, but we don’t seem capable of feeding ourselves (less than 20% of the population of India) much less maintain a 100km road leading from Lagos to Ibadan! And the president wants us to pray?

Today, Nigerians are wracked by the menace of terrorism, armed robbery, kidnapping and now flooding. What exactly has the government done to deal with these core aspects of their Key Results Areas, aside inexplicable budgetary allocations and platitudes in the media? Yes, these may be inevitable with the gripping high unemployment figures, but what is the government doing to complement the effort of the few surviving private sector companies? Flooding may be a natural disaster, but didn’t we get warned by the Meteorological Agencies even as we all rue Global Warming? Yet, we allow the floods to wreak so much havoc, with the death toll rising from across the affected parts of the country and billions of naira worth of property damaged.

President Jonathan says we should pray, yet he’s not even been to any of the flooded zones, like George Bush of the same US did during Katrina and Obama has been doing all through the year as the elements ravaged the US.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I haven’t said that Nigerians should not pray. As a matter of fact, I am a firm believer in the efficacy of prayers. The only difference between me and some folks is that they believe that prayer answereth all problems. Hell no! For goodness sakes, pray if you want to pray, but do something. So, those who want to pray for 10 years can get on with it, if that’s what they have elected to do but they must realize that there are at least two clear risks in going that route. One, if we sheepishly get down on our knees and pray with our eyes closed, in a manner of speaking, those we have sent to represent us will prey on us (pardon the pun). Secondly, the natural resources we have were fortuitously granted by divine providence. I can admit so much.

However, we have to turn those raw materials into finished, profitably marketable goods, to make good sense of them. There is no amount of prayer that can turn water to wine in Nigeria of today. Even that was then, and in far away Galilee. If we can’t build or maintain our refineries, we will continue to export cheap crude and import expensive by-products, regardless of how long and how hard we pray.

So, I am totally not on this one with the president. I suggest he says just a little prayer to God for dependable, serious-minded and effective lieutenants who will help him take the country out of the dark woods where it is currently languishing clueless. In the meantime, I will say a prayer to God to grant our president the wisdom to see through the sycophancy of many of his assistants and acolytes and immediately appoint men and women of knowledge and passion who will help him make the difference rather than worry about their personal comfort and 2015.

I believe there are too many people telling the president only what he wants to hear and playing politics with the lives of Nigerians and the future of the country. President Jonathan can still make history, for all the right reasons, if he can hearken to the voices crying so bitterly and loudly in the Nigerian wilderness. Prayers won’t change Nigeria; affirmative and honest actions will.

Emeka Oparah contributed this piece from Lagos

The dead body of a young Nigerian man was discovered yesterday Friday October 26th in the wheel well, the undercarriage compartment of an Arik Air aircraft, after it returned from a flight to New York, United States.

One of the airline’s officials who spoke to ThisDay said the deceased might have hidden himself in the wheel well for days and was crushed to death while the flight was airborne to the JF Kennedy Airport, New York, from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

The official who spoke to THISDAY said the dead body was found during a check on the aircraft panel as it was being prepared for another flight and that the undercarriage compartment of the Airbus A340-500 is big enough to accommodate a person, besides the space for the tyres.

“He probably might have hidden himself there some days and died while the aircraft was on its way to New York. We found him when we were doing checks on the panel; the aircraft probably came back with him dead,” the official said.

The source said that it is out of ignorance that people hide in the wheel well and plan to stowaway because “the compartment is not pressurised like the cabin of an aircraft and it is not heated, so survival is rare even if the person is not crushed by the wheels.”

Pilots and aeronautical engineers familiar with the wheel well compartment said it is roomy enough to contain a human being, but it is highly unlikely that any one who hid there would come out alive after a flight that took several hours due to lack of oxygen.

The official attributed the incident to porous security at the airport, noting that “if having access to the airside is stringently prohibited, anybody that is not an official of airlines, handling companies and Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria would not gain access to the tarmac.”

Another source said: “The security at the airport is very bad and that explains why somebody can gain access to the airside and inside the aircraft and no one will know.

Security around the cargo area is even worse and from there anybody can take anything into the tarmac. Now, it is a human being that is smuggled in; one day a dangerous object will be smuggled in.”

THISDAY investigations revealed that stowaways connive with ground handling companies to access the airside and the wheel well.

“The handling company workers and the security operatives indulge in a lot of illicit activities at the airport and over the years there have been efforts to put a check on such excesses but every effort has so far failed,” said another source.

Source: THISDAY

I would rather have a 100 who can create Hollywood and control the culture of the entire world than a 75000 Sunday - Sunday tongue speaking dancing folks who would be controlled by the 100 from monday to saturday(It is even amazing that there dance steps is controlled by the 100) selah

RIP Pilot Dambaba Suntai

I consider this statement too sweeping and hasty in conclusion.

The federal government is set to ban the sale of rohypnol, otherwise known clinically as Flunitrazepam, a sedative with hypnotic effect that was used to lull late Miss Cynthia Osokogu to complacency while she was gang raped and later killed.

About two months ago four accused persons, Okwumo Echezona Nwabufo (33), Ejike Ilechukwu Olisaeloka (23), Orji Osita (32) and Maduakor Chukwunonso (25) were paraded by the police in Lagos for the murder of Osokogu.

Later two of them, Nwabufor and Olisaeloka told the police about how they met, drugged and strangled the victim in order to steal her money.

Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu told State House correspondents Wednesday at the end of the weekly Federal Excutive Council (FEC) meeting in Abuja that the decision was informed by the need to curb the disastrous use of the drug, which has also been banned in some countries where it was used for similar purposes.

Also described as a ‘date rape drug’, rohypnol is sold over the counter in many countries across the globe.

Act No. 43 of 1989 which established the National Drug Formulary and Essential Drugs List empowers it to prohibit importation into and manufacture in Nigeria of any drug not on the List.

Prof. Chukwu said his ministry has directed the National Drug Formulary and Essential Drug List Committee to look into the possibility of banning the drug or otherwise.

According to the minister: “I have directed the appropriate body which is the National Drug Formulary and Essential Drug List Committee, which is established by a separate law in this country to immediately look into whether we should ban the drug or not.”

He explained that this decision is informed by the fact that “in some countries, that drug has now been banned and it was also for similar reason (rape) that those countries decided to ban that particular drug.”

http://newsbytesnow.com/2012/10/24/flash-cynthia-osokogu-fg-to-ban-date-rape-drug/

I love sucking boobs I no go lie like the one in this pix!

Jesus w as almost certainly a cannabis user and an early proponent of the medicinal properties of the drug, according to a study of scriptural texts published this month. The study suggests that Jesus and his disciples used the drug to carry out miraculous healings.

The anointing oil used by Jesus and his disciples contained an ingredient called kaneh-bosem which has since been identified as cannabis extract, according to an article by Chris Bennett in the drugs magazine, High Times, entitled Was Jesus a Stoner? The incense used by Jesus in ceremonies also contained a cannabis extract, suggests Mr Bennett, who quotes scholars to back his claims.

"There can be little doubt about a role for cannabis in Judaic religion," Carl Ruck, professor of classical mythology at Boston University said.

Referring to the existence of cannabis in anointing oils used in ceremonies, he added: "Obviously the easy availability and long-established tradition of cannabis in early Judaism _ would inevitably have included it in the [Christian] mixtures."

Mr Bennett suggests those anointed with the oils used by Jesus were "literally drenched in this potent mixture _ Although most modern people choose to smoke or eat pot, when its active ingredients are transferred into an oil-based carrier, it can also be absorbed through the skin".

Quoting the New Testament, Mr Bennett argues that Jesus anointed his disciples with the oil and encouraged them to do the same with other followers. This could have been responsible for healing eye and skin diseases referred to in the Gospels.

"If cannabis was one of the main ingredients of the ancient anointing oil _ and receiving this oil is what made Jesus the Christ and his followers Christians, then persecuting those who use cannabis could be considered anti-Christ," Mr Bennett concludes.

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Every religion that comes begets a new one. Two hundred years from now the people that will occupy this world will look at our era and our religions that we fight for and die for and call our age the Extreme Dark Ages. In another two hundred thousand years, nobody will remember what god we fought for, killed for, or died for. Just like we have no idea what god the people who were on this earth 100,000 years ago fought for, killed for or died for.

It is hard to imagine it now, but after the Third World War and after a nuclear war, a new world will emerge with new religions. The old religions left standing will go through reformation. And subtly and gradually, new religions will replace the old. Because it takes hundreds of years for this kind of transformation to be visible, it is hard for those living in that age to notice the change as it happens. We won’t wake up one day and notice that our religion is dead.

The Chancellor of Covenant University (CU), Ota, Ogun State and the Bishop of Living Faith Worldwide, Dr. David Oyedepo, has said that the foundation for the third of the planned seven universities of the church will be laid in January, next year.

Bishop Oyedepo spoke yesterday during a media briefing to mark the 10th anniversary of Covenant University.

He said his intervention in education sector was to prove that sanity could still return to the much troubled sector in the country.

He said the plan to establish four universities in Nigeria and three others to be spread in West, Central and East African nations was part of the church’s resolve to reclaim the lost glories in the continent.

The cleric said the third ivory tower, which will be named Crown University, would be sited in Calabar, Cross Rivers State. The university will primarily focus on Maritime studies.

Bishop Oyedepo blamed the rot in the nation’s education system on what he described as ill-advised decision of the government to take over schools from the missionaries. He said the foundation of education in the country cannot be discussed without the influence of the missionaries, who he said established the first school in Badagry in 1843.

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