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Video: Window Seat
Erykah Badu, went nude for her 2010 soul ballad
“Window Seat .” In the video the neo-soul singer is
seen walking down the street while disrobing in
Dealey Plaza in Texas, the site of president John F.
Kennedy’s assassination. At the end of the video Badu
is apparently shot in the head by an unknown shooter
just after removing her underwear, possibly
attempting to mirror Kennedy’s killing. As her body
lay on the ground blue paint spills from her head,
forming the word “Groupthink” as the singer narrates
a poetic voiceover. The video was inevitably subject
to much controversy and Badu was charged with
disorderly conduct for public nudity, was forced to
pay a $500 fine, and served 6 months of probation.

Video: What’s My Age Again?
Punk band Blink-182 took to the streets of LA in the
video for their 1999 single “What’s My Age Again?”
only… without clothes. The entirety of the video
depicts the band streaking through the city, much to
the shock and humor of most of the neighborhood.
In reality, they were actually wearing skin colored
underwear for the majority of the video but the
shock value is pretty much still there, regardless.

Video: So What
The always-edgy Pink sought to make a statement in
the video for her 2008 hit “So What .” The song is
inspired by the breakdown of her marriage to Carey
Hart and the video features a drunk and angry Pink
acting out in various situations. In the middle of the
video, she strips down to her birthday suit on the red
carpet in front of the paparazzi and starts doing
playful choreography. Censor bars present, of course.

Video: Womanizer
With her first No.1 hit since 1999’s “Baby One More
Time,” Britney Spears blazed through the charts with
her hot single “Womanizer” in 2008. Things got pretty
hot in the video too, as an unclothed Spears can be
seen lying down in a sauna throughout the video,
using her hands and legs to cover her lady parts. She
eventually stripped down again in 2011 for the music
video for her single “Criminal.”

Video: Bad Romance
At this point, Lady Gaga’s provocative antics aren’t
really shocking. Nudity in particular shouldn’t be too
much of a surprise. Gaga first went nude for her
2009 music video for “Bad Romance .” Then she did
again for “LoveGame” that same year… and again for
“Telephone” in 2010, and “Marry the Night” a year
later.. and… you get the point.

Video: Down for Whatever
Kelly Rowland stripped down to nothing but a pair of
shoes for her 2011 song electro-pop tune “Down For
Whatever .” At various points of the video she’s
standing on a platform in heels and nothing else, but
thanks to clever lighting and camera effects, you can’t
see the full monty.

Video: Stay
Rihanna, while no stranger to being raunchy in her
performances and videos, surprisingly took a much
more tasteful route when she decided to bare it all in
the video for her 2013 ballad “Stay,” featuring Mikky
Ekko . The singer is shown lying in a bathtub full of
water throughout the entire piece, obviously
unclothed but not in a provocative manner.The video
is poignant and dramatic, a refreshing departure for
the typically hyper-sexualized star.She also went bare
for her colossal number one hit “Umbrella” in 2007,
but her body was coated in silver paint and cleverly
positioned to cover herself.

Video: California Gurls
Colorful pop sensation Katy Perry decided to take a
trip to Candyland for her 2010 chart-topping hit
“California Gurls,” but this isn’t the Candyland from
your childhood. A carefree Katy is seen in the video
lying on her stomach sans clothes atop a cloud of
cotton candy with nothing but a bit of pink fluff
covering her bare bottom and chest.

Miley Cyrus sparked a firestorm of controversy when
she appeared nude while riding an oversized
wrecking ball in the video for her single “Wrecking
Ball,” but many forget that artists stripping down for
their music videos isn’t a new occurrence. Many have
come before young Miley and many will come after…
not that we’re condoning such actions. We’re just
amazed at the level of confidence these folks have
with their bodies. That’s gotta stand for something,
right?

Miley’s been living the wild life lately, particularly
after her twerk-filled performance at the 2013 VMAs.
Shortly after the controversial on-stage romp, the
soon-to-be 21-year-old decided to strip down for the music video to her single “Wrecking Ball” released in September . During the video she’s seen swinging
around unclothed riding on well…a wrecking ball
while singing. It wasn’t the first time she was seen in shocking attire (or lack thereof), and likely won’t be the last.

Please I would love to ask for d help of my fellow nairalanders..I am contesting for a spelling bee competition in my school and I would love u guys to help me with some spellings that could be possibly asked on that day..especially for those who has got the experience and all students...plz y'all should help me in winning this price..thank u

For me I would go with Cortana cos it has predicted 13/13 matches in d world cup so I blive it still rules in dis game...

Minister of State for Defence,
Musiliu Obanikoro, on
Wednesday alleged that the
Boko Haram insurgency
plaguing the nation was a
creation of friends of former
Lagos State Governor, Bola
Tinubu.
He claimed that those friends
had vowed to make Nigeria
ungovernable for President
Goodluck Jonathan.
Obanikoro, who was reacting
via his twitter handle to a
statement credited to Tinubu
accusing him (Obanikoro) of
concentrating more on politics
than insecurity, stressed that
such allegation against him was
rather unfortunate.
Tinubu, National Leader of the
All Progressves Congress (APC),
had alleged in the statement that
Obanikoro had spent more time
in Ekiti than Chibok, where
over 200 schoolgirls were
kidnapped by Boko Haram
insurgents in April.
According to Tinubu, the action
of Obanikoro not only
amounted to irresponsible
democratic governance, but also
a hoax.
But Obanikoro reacted angrily
to Tinubu’s allegation, saying it
was evident that Tinubu was
only attacking him for political
reasons and not on democratic
ideals.
“The Boko Haram mess we are
dealing with was created by
Tinubu’s friends who promised
to make Nigeria ungovernable
for this government.
“Tinubu and politicians like
him should devote their time
and efforts towards supporting
the government in fighting
Boko Haram.
“I hope Tinubu knows that
attacking Obanikoro over Ekiti
is crying over spilt milk. We
have bigger issues to deal with
as a nation,” Obanikoro stated.
The minister added that “the
government was battling with
the security mess created by
Tinubu’s friends”, warning that
Tinubu and his friends should
rather support the government
in fighting Boko Haram or hold
their peace.

Nigeria’s Ministry of Defence said more than 100
Islamist militants were killed in raids on two
camps following a bomb attack that claimed the
lives of 21 people at a shopping center in Abuja,
the capital.
Security forces raided a camp near the Niger
border and another in the northeastern state of
Borno, killing 50 militants in each location, the
ministry said in an e-mailed statement late
yesterday. Two members of the Multinational
Joint Task Force, which includes troops from
Nigeria and neighboring Niger and Chad, were
killed, it said.
The June 25 blast in Abuja injured 52 people,
the National Emergency Management Agency
said. It was the third bombing this year in the
capital of Africa’s biggest oil producer. While no
group has claimed responsibility, the Islamist
group Boko Haram killed at least 75 people in an
explosion in an Abuja suburb on April 14. The
same day the militants kidnapped more than 200
schoolgirls in Borno state.
“The recent attacks, together with the
kidnapping of over 200 schoolgirls, have raised
Boko Haram for ordinary Nigerians from a
distant, contained threat to something more
tangible, politically relevant and potentially
threatening,” Philippe de Pontet, Africa director
at New York-based Eurasia Group, said in e-
mailed comments yesterday.
Suspect Shot
The Ministry of Defence said yesterday that
more explosives were found in a bag dropped by
one of the attackers, who was shot dead while
fleeing. The bombing occurred in Abuja’s Wuse 2
district, popular with wealthy Nigerians and
foreigners.
A week before the bombing, government
spokesman Mike Omeri said intelligence reports
indicated militants planned to hijack gasoline
trucks and use them to carry improvised
explosives to the capital.
Boko Haram, which means “western education is
a sin” in the Hausa language, has focused its
five-year insurgency on the north and the
capital, hundreds of miles from the coastal oil
and gas fields and the southern commercial
capital, Lagos. Nigeria attracted a record $21.3
billion in foreign direct investment last year,
according to the national statistics agency.
The militants drew international outrage when
they kidnapped the schoolgirls from the town of
Chibok in Borno state. Most of the girls are still
missing, and countries including the U.S. and U.K.
are aiding the search and rescue effort.
Election Campaign
Nigeria, a country of 170 million people with
Africa’s biggest economy, is roughly divided
between a mainly Muslim north and
predominately Christian south.
President Goodluck Jonathan has said Boko
Haram is part of al-Qaeda and poses a threat to
countries throughout the region. Jonathan cut
short his visit to Equatorial Guinea for an
African Union meeting to return to Abuja
yesterday, his spokesman Reuben Abati said in a
text message.
His administration has enforced emergency rule
in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, the three states
where Boko Haram is most active, since May
2013.
Jonathan hasn’t said if he will seek re-election in
February.
“The Jonathan administration will scale up
security spending to counter Boko Haram, and
spread military patronage,” said Eurasia’s de
Pontet. “National security is now the dominant
campaign issue, with corruption and power now
secondary matters.”

God bless ur mother..some ppl watch football with centiment....they can neva tell demselves common truth

bayased human being....una no go Eva tell una selves d truth....

Two weeks after the Academic Staff Union of
Universities suspended its strike, lecturers in the
Colleges of Education are set to begin a
nationwide strike on Tuesday.
This was stated in a letter served on the
Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike
and a copy obtained by our correspondent in
Abuja.
The letter was delivered by the General Secretary
of the Colleges of Education Academic Staff
Union, Mr. Nuhu Ogirima, who lamented that the
Federal Government had failed to address issues
raised by the union.
The union’s complaints are infrastructural decay,
poor funding, non-implementation of the 2010
FG-COEASU Agreement, poor conditions of
service, brain drain and illegal imposition of the
Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information
System.
In the letter signed by the COEASU National
President, Asagha Nkoro and Ogirima, the union
accused the government of directing the National
Commission for Colleges of Education to impose
the IPPIS on colleges without recourse to earlier
meetings by parties.
It said, “While government held series of talks
with the union leadership between September and
December 2013, evidence abound that
government does not wish to keep her side of the
bargain in meeting the understanding reached at
such meetings.
“This, without equivocation, is unacceptable to
our union given the peculiar high nuisance and
volatile nature of the colleges of education sector.
“More so, but for the constitution and
inauguration of the Needs Assessment Committee,
government merely paid lip services to all other
issues, highlighted in our earlier
correspondences”.
COEASU complained about discrimination against
lecturers in colleges of education which includes
refusal to fund the Peculiar and Responsibility
Allowances as obtainable in Earned Allowances of
the universities; refusal to implement the
migration of lower cadres as obtainable in
polytechnics; and non-accreditation of
programmes of the colleges of education among
others.
In compliance with the resolution of its Expanded
National Executive Council Meeting, COEASU said
its members had been directed to resume a full
scale strike action suspended earlier this year,
“unless and until government meets the
demands”.
In an interview with our correspondent, Ogirima
said the union embarked on the strike due to the
attitude of the government.
He said, “You would recall that we observed a
week warning strike earlier this year and the
Federal Government called us for talks. Sadly, but
for the NEEDS Assessment Committee which
government inaugurated, all other issues remain
unattended in spite of the over six (6) months of
dialogue.
“We, therefore, have no alternative but to embark
on the strike action since this appears to be the
only language gov’t understands.”
When contacted, Wike’s Special Assistant
(Media), Simeon Nwakaudu promised to address
the issues raised by the lecturers today. :-XTwo weeks after the Academic Staff Union of
Universities suspended its strike, lecturers in the
Colleges of Education are set to begin a
nationwide strike on Tuesday.
This was stated in a letter served on the
Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike
and a copy obtained by our correspondent in
Abuja.
The letter was delivered by the General Secretary
of the Colleges of Education Academic Staff
Union, Mr. Nuhu Ogirima, who lamented that the
Federal Government had failed to address issues
raised by the union.
The union’s complaints are infrastructural decay,
poor funding, non-implementation of the 2010
FG-COEASU Agreement, poor conditions of
service, brain drain and illegal imposition of the
Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information
System.
In the letter signed by the COEASU National
President, Asagha Nkoro and Ogirima, the union
accused the government of directing the National
Commission for Colleges of Education to impose
the IPPIS on colleges without recourse to earlier
meetings by parties.
It said, “While government held series of talks
with the union leadership between September and
December 2013, evidence abound that
government does not wish to keep her side of the
bargain in meeting the understanding reached at
such meetings.
“This, without equivocation, is unacceptable to
our union given the peculiar high nuisance and
volatile nature of the colleges of education sector.
“More so, but for the constitution and
inauguration of the Needs Assessment Committee,
government merely paid lip services to all other
issues, highlighted in our earlier
correspondences”.
COEASU complained about discrimination against
lecturers in colleges of education which includes
refusal to fund the Peculiar and Responsibility
Allowances as obtainable in Earned Allowances of
the universities; refusal to implement the
migration of lower cadres as obtainable in
polytechnics; and non-accreditation of
programmes of the colleges of education among
others.
In compliance with the resolution of its Expanded
National Executive Council Meeting, COEASU said
its members had been directed to resume a full
scale strike action suspended earlier this year,
“unless and until government meets the
demands”.
In an interview with our correspondent, Ogirima
said the union embarked on the strike due to the
attitude of the government.
He said, “You would recall that we observed a
week warning strike earlier this year and the
Federal Government called us for talks. Sadly, but
for the NEEDS Assessment Committee which
government inaugurated, all other issues remain
unattended in spite of the over six (6) months of
dialogue.
“We, therefore, have no alternative but to embark
on the strike action since this appears to be the
only language gov’t understands.”
When contacted, Wike’s Special Assistant
(Media), Simeon Nwakaudu promised to address
the issues raised by the lecturers today.

[quote author=odua boy][/quote]Oga abeg where z kukere...u
writin outta line man

eluquenson: In your best opinion, which state Governor deserves the Award for Best Performing Governor overall in 2013?

. uhmmm I tink d governor of abia state deserves it....Lmao.....Governor of Rivers state or Lagos jhor

The Executive Secretary, National Universities
Commission, Prof. Julius Okojie, has vowed to
report vice-chancellors of universities running
illegal and non accredited courses to the
Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related
Offences Commission for prosecution.
He said this on Monday at a press briefing in
Abuja.
Besides, he noted that intellectual decay had set
into the university system due to politics of
appointment of heads of departments and the
effect of the just-suspended strike by the
Academic Staff Union of Universities, which made
lecturers to stay off duty for almost six months.
He said, “We (NUC) are amazed about the number
of vice-chancellors that visit ICPC everyday.
“All these unapproved courses that some
universities are running, the vice-chancellors are
in trouble because ICPC and NUC are not going to
take it. We have to address the issue – including
misapplication of fund for projects.”
Describing the situation as “academic corruption”,
Okojie said the commission had started
sensitising universities on what constitutes
violation of law with a pilot study already ongoing
in a few universities.
“ There is what we call academic corruption. If
you employ students that are not supposed to be
in the system, it is corruption,” he added.
Okojie said NUC would provide information on
universities running illegal courses to the ICPC.
The NUC boss recalled that seven Nigerian
universities were among the 15 that won the
regional competition for African Centres of
Excellence.
He said an additional three had been included in
the list of winners to increase it to 10 from
Nigeria that will get $8 million grant each.

The best graduating student of Crawford
University, Igbesa, Ogun State, Oluwatimilehin
Sotubo, speaks to SAMUEL AWOYINFA on his
road to success
The best graduating student of the Crawford
University in the 2012/2013 convocation,
Oluwatimilehin Sotubo, did not initially set out to
study Economics. In fact, he had done two years
as a medical student at the Olabisi Onabanjo
University, Ago Iwoye, before he took another
Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, and
secured admission to study Economics at
Crawford.
Sotubo says he got fascinated to medicine
because his father, Olukunle (now late), and elder
brother, Tomiwa, were doctors. But after two
years, he found out that he had no passion for it.
He says, “I was admitted in 2007 to study
Medicine, but we resumed in 2008. I enrolled as a
medical student because my dad and elder
brother were doctors. I did very well in all my
courses, but along the line, I discovered that I
really did not have passion for Medicine.
“After a close monitoring of my dad’s schedule, I
realised that the profession was too demanding.
So I quit in 2009. I had to sit the UTME and
applied to read Economics at the Crawford
University and I passed.”
Beaming with smile, slim-built Sotubo adds that
he has no regret for a change of course of study
and university.
“No regret whatsoever. I believe as an economist,
I can still save lives, through sound economic
policies that will lead to creation of employment
and development of the country,” he says.
For him to earn the best graduating student
status, he notes that prayer, hard work and focus
were three ingredients that led to his recording
the feat.
He adds, “First, I did not joke with my studies.
Again, I prayed before and after writing any of the
examinations.
“I believe in the power of focus and hardwork.
These attributes really helped me in becoming the
best graduating student.”
For Sotubo, who beat 287 other students, scoring
a Cumulative Grade Point Average of 4.91 out of
5 CGPA, it was no surprise that he was the
cynosure of all eyes during the school’s fifth
convocation last Wednesday.
Indeed, the 21-year-old received eight of the
academic prizes rolled out by the university. They
include the Chief Ernest Shonekan’s Prize for the
most Outstanding Behaviour; Prof. Peter
Okebukola’s Prize for the Best overall Graduating
Student; Remi Olowude’s Prize for the Best
Overall Result in Economics, and the Ngozi
Osueke’s Prize for the Best Behaved Graduating
Male Student.
Other prizes the lad won are the Vice-
Chancellor’s Prize for the Best Student in
Business and Social Sciences, University’s Prize
for the Best Student in Economics, Parent
Forum’s Prize for the Best Student in Business
and Social Sciences and Parent Forum’s Prize for
the Best Student.
For him to have earned this, does it mean that he
had no time for extra-curricular activities on
campus? Not quite, he responded quickly, adding
that fate had a hand in all of this. According to
him, he had a girlfriend while he was at 100-level,
but the relationship crashed as quickly as it
started.
The youngster, who attended Mayflower School,
Ikenne, Ogun State adds, “Yes, I had a girlfriend
while I was in 100-level, but we discovered that
our views and ideas were different. We had to
discontinue the relationship, and that was where I
ended everything that had to do with romance on
campus.”
On his role model, he notes, “I will consider
anyone who is affecting the lives of the people
positively anywhere he or she finds himself or
herself as my role model.”
Sotubo’s mother, Adebukola, who offers an idea
of her son’s next agenda, notes, “After his one-
year compulsory National Youth Service Corps
scheme, he will be going for his master’s
programme.”
The mother of three, who works with an
international agency, however, will not reveal
whether he will do the programme in the country
or overseas.
Meanwhile, of the 288 graduands, 17 of them
made first class grade, while 62 others obtained
second class upper division.
In his convocation lecture entitled: Higher
education and The Nigerian 20-2020 dream,
former Vice-Chancellor, Obafemi Awolowo
University, Ile Ife, Prof. Michael Faborode,
examines the nation’s higher education and
submits that a lot still needs to be done in the
sector.
He notes that the task of rescuing and refocusing
the nation’s higher education is becoming more
daunting by the day. According to him, policy
inconsistency and recurrent somersault is a major
complication.
Faborode, who is the Secretary-General,
Association of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian
Universities, explains that the governments of
emerging economies support, fund and promote
institutions of higher technical learning, as well as
academies of engineering and technological
sciences, among others.
Also, the former Executive Secretary of the
National Universities Commission and Crawford
University Council Chairman, Prof. Peter
Okebukola, notes that for the public universities
to get optimal result in infrastructure
development, the Federal Government’s N1.3tn
revitalisation funds needed to be judiciously
spent.
Pointing to a 2012 study conducted by the Global
University Network for Innovation, Africa, he says
though funding plays major role in improving
quality, there is still need for quality university
leadership, staff and students.
He adds, “With inept, inefficient and corrupt
management, the huge injection of funds will have
minimal impact. Second, if the students come
poorly prepared from the secondary school level,
with poor study habits and are morally bankrupt
as a consequence of poor home training, the
effect of huge buildings and fat salaries of staff
brought about by the huge injection of funds will
not go far.
“Third, if the quality of staff in terms of potential
to deliver quality education and moral upbringing
is low, we will be climbing a greasy pole in trying
to improve quality of the system through funds
injection only.”
The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Samson Ayanlaja,
notes that the university’s vision is to produce a
new generation of skillful, knowledgeable and
honest workforce and leaders.
He says, “We have continued to excel in the
teaching and learning and acquisition of
knowledge which, as we know, is the present
global intangible currency that translates to skill,
competence, knowhow and consequently
economic development and national technical
advancement.
“The university is addressing the scourge of
unemployment headlong by attempting to bridge
the skill gap and exposing students to hands-on
entrepreneurial skills.”

The Executive Secretary, National Universities
Commission, Prof. Julius Okojie, has vowed to
report vice-chancellors of universities running
illegal and non accredited courses to the
Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related
Offences Commission for prosecution.
He said this on Monday at a press briefing in
Abuja.
Besides, he noted that intellectual decay had set
into the university system due to politics of
appointment of heads of departments and the
effect of the just-suspended strike by the
Academic Staff Union of Universities, which made
lecturers to stay off duty for almost six months.
He said, “We (NUC) are amazed about the number
of vice-chancellors that visit ICPC everyday.
“All these unapproved courses that some
universities are running, the vice-chancellors are
in trouble because ICPC and NUC are not going to
take it. We have to address the issue – including
misapplication of fund for projects.”
Describing the situation as “academic corruption”,
Okojie said the commission had started
sensitising universities on what constitutes
violation of law with a pilot study already ongoing
in a few universities.
“ There is what we call academic corruption. If
you employ students that are not supposed to be
in the system, it is corruption,” he added.
Okojie said NUC would provide information on
universities running illegal courses to the ICPC.
The NUC boss recalled that seven Nigerian
universities were among the 15 that won the
regional competition for African Centres of
Excellence.
He said an additional three had been included in
the list of winners to increase it to 10 from
Nigeria that will get $8 million grant each.

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so damn boring

dah was d best score

take it to d less privileged...#Teamteensconnect

[color=#000099][/color] A.C Milan ceo Adriano Galliani has expressed his admiration for the barcelona wizard ahead of tomorrows champions league tie...

Yes o

Brodamus it is highly karid.:-)carry on