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He has Secondary school certificate or OND, why you have HND, BSC or even MSC.

Would you ever accept to go into a relationship with him?

Sanitation is cancelled due to common entrance.

Summary ooooo

O serious

Lagoon yaaa.

eleru gbe eru ee ooooo

again.

These is past and should remain past.

debolly:
Just the truth.....Op is so on point.

hmmmmmnnnn

our dear troubled region.

debolly:
Seriously
How did you get to this stage in the first place? . So you found nothing interesting about this guy & you were with him for 4years?. Haba!!!!!!
All the same a broken relationship is better than a broken marriage. It won't be fair on your part to continue with the marriage when you know it @ the back of your mind that you'll divorce him.

One needs God's guidiance before choosing a life patner.

SAY BABA
SAI BUHARI

Good for him, he made a fool of himself.

Wind of change has blew his senses away.

Buhari joor..
Buhari Jaree..

Change we want.

Wind of change blowing everywhere.

We want Change
Change we want

SAY BABA

SAI BUHARI

The wind of CHANGE is blowing across my dear country.

SAY BABA
SAI BUHARI

We want change.

SAY BABA
SAI BUHARI

say baba
sai Buhari

#babanowthatyouarethere do not make same mistake like GEJ.
#babanowthatyouarethere let the world know that stealing is corruption.
#babanowthatyouarethere be the one to know and not America.
#babanowthatyouarethere do not set up committee for every issue.
#babanowthatyouarethere save us from Nepa, Revive our educational sector.
#babanowthatyouarethere only thunder should strike and not ASUU.
#babanowthatyouarethere do not say we have a strong economy because of number of private JETs in the country.
#babanowthatyouarethere do not divide us across religious line.
#babanowthatyouarethere please be the president and not your wife.

GEJ, sincerely you have overstayed.

look at the way these guy is scamming us.

Seun,

Kudos to your good work.

Please kindly consider opening a section for "LAW AND LAWYERS"

we will have access to advice from lawyers on every issues.

my contribution.

regards.

debolly:
If you didn't eat jollof rice from this cooler, mind how you talk to me

Some people don old ooo.

This is one simple question I want every ordinary Nigerian going out to vote this Saturday to answer before leaving home.

When was the last time, the son, daughter, wife, sister or brother of your party leader counted among the dead or the wounded in election fracas?

When was the last time a family member of your party leader’s got arrested at the Occupy Lagos rally? How many of them got burnt down with their huts during one of those wee hour raids of Fulani herdsmen? And when the Beroms, the Agatu or the Southern Zaria people decided to launch retaliatory attacks, how many of the kith and kin of the big men got hit?

If you answer these questions sincerely, it would then dawn on you that, irrespective of whether you support PDP or APC, the only business you have to do this weekend is to go, cast your vote (and, if you would), stay and watch the counting. After that, leave the rest to INEC, the candidates, their party leaderships and the courts. For even if INEC declares a result you strongly feel did not reflect how you voted, you would not get the commission to reverse itself by taking up arms. If they say monkeys and baboons would soak in blood, you’re neither monkey nor baboon, wait and see when the monkeys and baboons would emerge from the bush to bring this about. For if you raise a finger against your fellow Nigerian, you’ve automatically called yourself ‘monkey’ and ‘baboon’.

Clearly, some people have made up their minds not to accept any result that is not in their favour. Some want to blackmail the rest of us to vote one particular way, simply because they feel they have monopoly of violence (you’ll notice I did not mention APC or PDP) and would unleash mayhem on us if we did not vote for them. Some have told us that one particular candidate cannot win unless the election is rigged. They have threatened to resist that ‘rigging’ with the last drop of their blood. Now, that’s the recipe for war.

But the fact remains that not a single one of these war mongers, heating up the polity today can survive one good dirty slap without turning up at the emergency ward.

So, basically, all the noise they are making is in the hope that you and I (the common people) would be activated into riot mode, waiting for them to give the order, whenever it suits them, for us to go on rampage, killing ourselves and destroying whatever is left of our poor infrastructure – and, in the end, giving them the bargaining chips to go and negotiate with themselves, settle themselves and leave us to lick our wounds and bury our dead.

So, isn’t it time we let them deploy their children to fight this war, for once? After all, when they get to office, it is these same sons and wives and daughters and concubines, who end up cornering all the spoils of the office.

Only last night, as I tried in vain to get some sleep, my mind kept drifting off to what lies ahead of us this weekend. I kept painting scenarios of the morning after. What if Buhari does not win? What if Jonathan loses? Who would monitor the election in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa? Would they just sit somewhere and cook up results? What if some people insist on going to vote with their bombs?

I would get so scared that I would intermittently interrupt my thoughts to say a prayer for the country. There is no denying the fact, there is still tension in the land. And much of it is attributable to what the politicians have said, what they have failed to say, and their general body language.

But as I tossed from one corner of my bed to another, I ran a mental check on the families of all the key politicians, who are calling the shots today, heating up the polity and threatening fire and brimstone if the result did not go their way.

Virtually all of them have their families abroad. Their children are all in choice schools in Europe, America and Dubai and South Africa. They only come home to pick up party tickets to run for offices (after their fathers have used our heads to break coconut and clear the way for them). And in the event that they are unpopular (as they always are), it is still those of us here that their fathers would still use to rig the election for them.

And their politician fathers, who stay behind in the country to cause problems have one leg in the country and one leg outside the country. All of them have valid multiple visas on their passports (that is if they all don’t have diplomatic passports). They drive bulletproof vehicles and live in fortified fortresses.

So, even if the violence they daily toy with finally erupts and claims as much as five million lives, there is absolutely no chance that they, or any of their children, would fall victim. But that is just by the way.

Depending on what side of the political divide one is, the last six weeks must have been the longest or shortest six weeks ever. While the PDP wished each week could drag to nine days, the APC wished six weeks could be compressed in to six days.

Now, we’re less tagn 72 hours to March 28. Yes, in a twinkle of the eye, the six weeks, which seemed so long a time has suddenly flown past.

Of course, I would not be saying the whole truth if I fail to acknowledge that the postponement appears to have favoured the PDP more than it did the APC. I would be lying if I fail to recognise the fact that while the APC machine, which seemed to have been primed for February 14 lost steam with the postponement, the PDP train suddenly found its rhythm, gathered momentum and is set now to finish very strongly – stronger than would have been the case if we had gone ahead with the initial February 14 date of the presidential election.

So, was this the real reason for the postponement (and not necessarily the security reasons earlier advanced)? My answer is yes and no. If the ruling party felt that it was heading for an electoral humiliation, it had every right to do all that is constitutional to save itself. Fortunately for it, the shift did not breach any law.

However, I am one of those who believe the postponement was necessary, but not because of insecurity alone. Because, even now that we’ve improved on the security situation in the North East, we still do not have any guarantees for the affected areas in Yobe, Borno and Adamawa.

Rather than security, I was convinced that, irrespective of Prof. Attahiru Jega’s posturing, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was not ready for election. I was convinced INEC was on the verge of cooking up figures, forcing same down our throat and never minding the post-election consequences.

Today, six weeks after, I feel the electoral commission is now ready to an acceptable level. Although I still could not get my PVC, I feel many more people have now got theirs and we have also used the intervening period to draw attention to the anomaly and injustice that Jega seemed determined impose on us all on February 14.

Now, even when one is not satisfied with what is on ground, at least, one is consoled that the abracadabra has been reduced to a level we can comprehend a little bit. Whatever is left, we can always take to the courts and election tribunals after the election – since it is now very clear that we would end up in court, irrespective of where the victory pendulum swings.

My only prayer is that we restrict our protestations to the courts and not take them to the streets. That is also the worry of President Barack Obama and the rest of the world. That we never lose sight of the fact that we all still need Nigeria after this election.

Of course, the logical question every reader would now be asking is, where do I stand or who do I think would win. Well, several weeks ago, I argued that President Jonathan would take it by a narrow margin, but all the Buharists came after me, saying my conclusion did not tally with my analysis. So, I am reluctant to say that anybody would win, except to put on record that I have not seen any reason to change my conclusions of several weeks back.

Only last week, I had the opportunity of listening to Buhari in detail. It was the interactive session he had with ‘artisans’ in Lagos. I was listening on my car radio, as I was caught up in an end-time traffic gridlock.

Suffice it to say that I was not impressed with the outing. Buhari seems to have one answer for every question. He found a way of linking everything to corruption and insecurity. He would say: Question six is related to Question one, and he would go on to repeat what he answered for Question one. Everything from the economy to security, agriculture, National Assembly, foreign policy, health and education was reduced into a vague answer of security and corruption.

For someone like me who has since concluded that Buhari is only articulate when he’s on BBC Hausa Service (where he thinks in his mother tongue and delivers with an overdose of emotion and narrow sentiments), the outing in Lagos last week only confirmed that the things he does not understand about running a country are more than the things he understands.

I get this feeling that his handlers have coached him on what to say in public and he has learnt it by rote, and tries not to step out of line.

The few times he has tried to speak off the cuff had always landed them in embarrassing situations, like when he promised to stabilise crude oil prices and lately when he talked about bringing down the exchange rate to one naira to the dollar. Left on his own, he would also talk about retrieving and nationalising privatised public companies.

For me, Buhari’s lack of content is what we are wrongly describing as arrogance. He is not arrogant. He just does not know. He carries on as though his brain was frozen in 1983. That is why Godswill Akpabio and his PDP governors are complaining about the age of Buhari’s ideas.

Of course, the saving grace is that, as president, Buhari would have a lot of smart people around him. But that is the snag: Why punish us with the choice of Buhari when APC could simply have given us one of these its many smart people to run against Jonathan?


Source : http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=110711

debolly:
Let the guys do the talking.

the third girl can later becomes first, and the first can become the third.

Love goes beyond stature.

insightful

The King Abdullah Economic City, (KAEC, pronounced "cake" is one of four new cities upon which the late monarch pinned his hopes for the future of his realm once the oil runs out.

Peppered with cranes, the city - or building site to be more accurate - lies one-and-a-half hour's drive north of Jeddah between the Red Sea and scrubby desert.

Its future depends on balancing the complex and evolving transport, health, education, housing and employment requirements of the city's projected two million residents.

A computer model of how the city should look when finished
The new city will cost $100bn to complete
According to Fadi Al-Rasheed, the managing director of Emaar Economic City, the publicly traded Saudi company that runs the entire KAEC project, the new generation of Saudis expect a city that matches the modern lifestyle they have grown used to while studying abroad.

"We're building with the 65% of the population who are under 30 in mind," he explains. "And we have almost 200,000 Saudis studying abroad. Inevitably they are going to change things when they come back."

These statistics are compounded by the fact that more women than men graduate from university. These changing demographics are bringing with them new social demands that will likely revolutionise how the country develops.

View of buildings under construction
When completed KAEC will be larger than Washington DC
Megacity
At 70 square miles KAEC will eventually be a metropolis slightly larger than Washington DC and at a cost of $100bn (£67m), mostly from private funding, the King Abdullah Economic City is second to none in the grandeur of its vision.

"We aim to create one of the world's largest ports," says Rayan Bukhari, a young manager at the King Abdullah port.

"We're not competing with Jeddah's Islamic port - but we are going to take business away from Jebel Ali in Dubai. That's because of our quicker, more automated offloading and customs procedure."

According to Mr Bukhari, King Abdullah was determined to involve the private sector in the economic development of the country; casting aside tribal and regional rivalries in the interests of creating a modern business economy.

"Freight arriving at the port will be taken directly to the capital via the new land bridge," he explains, "At the moment lots of products destined for Riyadh are shipped to Dubai, but that will change. They'll be shipped here as it is cheaper - and can be delivered more quickly within the Kingdom."

View of the Haramain railway station being built
British architect Norman Foster has designed the Haramain railway station
Speed is integral to KAEC's vision for future. With Mecca and Medina on the high speed train network that links KAEC with the two holy cities, well-heeled Umrah (pilgrimage to Mecca) pilgrims are expected to visit the city as they travel from the place where the Prophet was born to the place where he is buried.

"The Haramain station is due to open by the end of the year," says Fadi Al-Rasheed, "That train service will alter a lot of things for us."

Map
The station is designed by British architect Norman Foster, famed for London's "Gherkin" skyscraper and the Reichstag Dome in Berlin.

It is expected to reduce the journey time from Jeddah to 30 minutes and bring religious tourists to the city on extended pilgrim visas.

And as Jeddah becomes ever more clogged with cars, KAEC claim's it will limit fuel emissions by providing electric cars for use within the city free of charge.

Repeated rethinks
It has, however, not been entirely plain sailing for the country's newest city.

Even though KAEC is developed and managed by the private sector and is listed on the Saudi stock exchange (Tadawul), economic realities in the Gulf have hit home and necessitated a government loan amid the current fall in oil prices and the more widespread economic downturn.

The speed of social change in the kingdom is also making itself felt for what has become a fluid master plan.

"We've altered our plan four times already," confirms Head of Strategic Planning Tareq Salaita, "We may well need to have another rethink."

View of a canal surrounded by buildings
Only 15% of the city has been finished so far
Creating a massive new city that is able to encourage enterprise in a practical way has up-ended the usual rigmarole of applying for permissions.

The government has set up an Economic Cities Authority overseeing all four megacities and dealing with every licence, construction permit and approval needed from different ministries. This time-saving move should help the hundred companies that are setting up in KAEC avoid costly delays.

So far only 15% of the city has been developed - industrial estates, residential districts and public facilities are currently under construction.

Ninety kilometres of roads are already in use but what about the thorny question of women driving? In 20 years when KAEC is due to be completed, will females be behind the wheel?

According to Dania Beidas, who lives and works in the city during the week, in two decades the question may well be irrelevant.

"I hope that we will be allowed to drive here eventually," she says. "But with driverless cars in the pipeline, it may not matter any more."

Source : http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31867727

The country's largest Presbyterian denomination has changed its definition of marriage to include gay couples -- though not explicitly.

Presbyterian Church (USA) approved an amendment to its constitution after most of its 171 presbyteries -- or governing bodies -- voted for it, PC (USA) said Tuesday.

Before, the definition said marriage was between "a man
The new definition says, in part, that "marriage involves a unique commitment between two people, traditionally a man and a woman, to love and support each other for the rest of their lives."

Already, PC (USA) ministers can perform same-sex marriages in states where such marriages are legal, the group said. But no teaching elder or session can be forced to conduct same-sex marriage ceremonies if they do not believe they are appropriate.



Not all members supported the decision.

In a post on PC (USA)'s website, Jean and Robert Gorney accused the church of going against the Bible and threatened to leave.

"We are not to change the Bible," their post said. "I don't care who disagrees."

But the Covenant Network of Presbyterians, which says it supports "a fully inclusive church," welcomed the news Tuesday night.

"The change aligns the church's constitution with a reality that has long been true: Both same-gender and opposite-gender couples have been living in relationships that demonstrate covenant faithfulness, shared discipleship and mutual love," the group said.

"We are also aware that the discussion has been a difficult one for many, and that some will feel a deep sense of pain over this decision. The Covenant Network is committed to fostering healthy dialogue and working with those who hold a view different from ours, seeking opportunities for us to model an authentic and productive unity."

The amendment will take effect on June 21.

Source : http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/17/us/presbyterian-church-gay-marriage/index.html

lastpage:
We all jump to conclusions because we dont actually examine the "problem"!

1.) Was man (humans) actually created to be monogamous?
If we were created from that "bang" it mustn't be just a single or small bang..... it must be "banging repeatedly" (joke)

It appears to me, that having more than one mate during a life time, is the innate behaviour of "most" males, even amongst lower animals?
Why do we think "man" should be an exception to this general rule?

2.) Despite "Western ideas" about marriage, Western marriages have failed to succeed at monogamy, as many of them have more than one wife/husband, during their life time!
Why is there a quest and desire to "kpekus" more than one man or more than one woman.... in the life span of a humanbeing? (Serial Monogamy)
Now, you might argue that "divorce and re-marry" is not monogamy but think deeper and you will see that it is actually a worse-form of polygamy as some men/women are rendered "used" ...and it does not really favor a woman to serially marry and re-marry over and over again.
It is just a "legal solution" that deals with the problems associated with "inheritance".... but it does not change from the "practice and fact" of polygamy.

3.) Listening to the Women's day celebration message, facts show that there are more girls in schools nowadays, more women around, more female child births..... more and more women everywhere

Now, l may be wrong but l guess it is the dream of most if not all women, to one day, settle down with their own husband?
if all these women decide to take "one man" to each self, ............or put in the corollary, if all the men decide to take just one woman out of all these women, for themselves...WHAT HAPPENS TO THE TONS OF WOMEN LEFT UNMARRIED ...and who desire to marry and have a family of their own? Tough luck for them, abi?

4.) Is it actually a "Christian Sin" to marry more than one wife?
I have read about "implied statements" like "keep the marriage bed holy" and stuffs like that but l have never seen it anywhere, (except the ADVICE for a "titled christian" to be the husband of one wife. That is specifically addressed to the "tilted" Christian.) where it is said that Polygamy is a sin!
From Abraham the father of nations (if it was a sin, Sarah would not even dream of the idea ...and Abraham would not even concede to it, to marry a second wife), to David the "Apple of Gods eye", to Solomon whom God gave a "blank Cheque to ask for ANYTHING" .... just to mention the THREE MOST-LOVED MEN BY GOD, in the Bible, who were Polygamous and it never stopped or impeded their relationship with God!
So, are we more Holy than any of these three? Abegi, watch your side o!

Now, there is an element of selfishness in Polygamy [/b]and not surprisingly, it is the same woman (once she can hook a husband for herself), who thinks what befalls her fellow woman as regards getting married is NOT HER BUSINESS!
Like a "prize" a woman wants to keep her her husband to herself ONLY.... No Sharing!!

[b]But instead of women accepting that the "selfishness" is about them, they shift the blame on the men!
They say the man that wants to marry more than one wife is selfish, huh?


BTW; What works for the white man "culturally", may not work for the African man because the "cultural values" that we embrace may be/ is different!
What a white woman values most in a marriage is not necessarily what a Nigerian woman will value the most, in her own marriage!
same with the comparisons of white men and African men!

So, instead of Africans being forced to embrace the ways of the white men as "better", why dont they for once, embrace our own ways... or do we still think we are inferior in EVERYTHING, even in marriage values?

In summary, l think what ever "pleasure or woes" that is found in a polygamous marriage... is also found in some monogamous marriage.... just that the "enemy chosen' may be different!
Just name it, from STI's, to hate, envy, avarice, jealousy, murder, e.t.c.... if it is not the other wife, it is the husbands sister or the Mother-in-law, e.t.c

Okay now, if my wife reads this post, she would start a "big discussion" tomorrow!

Lastpage!

Am keeping these for someone

Its a delibrate act, the guy surely wants more 37years not month.

Better to be US prison than roam the streets of Nigeria.

Dear scholars in the house, please educate me of the rewards for women in islam.

We have had that part of the reward for men in Aljanah is beautiful young women, will women also get men as reward?

What are the rewards for women being obedient to their husband, for being pious and chaste?

Why are no emphasis in the reward that awaits the muslim woman?

The world's first successful penis transplant was recently performed at Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town.

This pioneering operation restored the dignity of a 21-year-old man who lost his penis when it developed gangrene after a ritual circumcision, and it has probably also given him back the ability to father his own children naturally - something doctors hint he has been trying out for more than a month.

"The patient is very happy and he's doing well," says Prof André van der Merwe, head of Stellenbosch University's Division of Urology, who led the surgery.

In a marathon nine-hour operation, doctors surgically transplanted the entire penis (from the glans to the base) from an organ donor. The patient's own penis had to be amputated three years ago in order to save his life, leaving him with a stump no longer than 1.5cm after which he was unable to urinate standing up or have sexual intercourse.

The patient has made a full recovery from the transplant, which took place three months ago. He is able to obtain erections, urinate standing up and has regained sensation in the organ.

This is the second time that this type of procedure was attempted, but the first time in history that a successful long-term result was achieved.

"There is a greater need in South Africa for this type of procedure than elsewhere in the world, as many young men lose their joysticks every year due to complications from ritual circumcision," Van der Merwe told Health-e News.

"For a young man of 18 or 19 years the loss of penis can be deeply traumatic... there are even reports of suicide among these young men"

Although there are no formal record on the number of penile amputations per year due to ritual circumcision, one study reported up to 55 cases in the Eastern Cape alone, and experts estimate as many as 250 amputations per year across the country.

"This is a very serious situation. For a young man of 18 or 19 years the loss of penis can be deeply traumatic. He doesn't necessarily have the psychological capability to process this. There are even reports of suicide among these young men," says Van der Merwe.

The operation was part of a pilot study to develop a penile transplant procedure that could be performed in a typical South African hospital theatre setting.

"The research was conducted in partnership with local public health structures and will be delivered to the people who need it most," says Dr Nicola Barsdorf, head of Health Research Ethics at Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS). "Once the surgery is made broadly available it will be offered in state facilities and accessible to vulnerable groups that are often unable to afford state-of-the-art health care."

Nine more patients will receive penile transplants as part of the study. This procedure could eventually also be extended to men who have lost their joysticks from cancer or as a last-resort treatment for severe erectile dysfunction due to medication side effects.

The planning and preparation for the study started in 2010. After extensive research Van der Merwe and his surgical team decided to use some parts of the model and techniques developed for the first facial transplant. The surgeons connected blood vessels and nerves as small as 1mm to 2mm using microsurgery usually employed in plastic and reconstructive surgery.

"South Africa remains at the forefront of medical progress," says Prof Jimmy Volmink, FMHS Dean. "This procedure is another excellent example of how medical research, technical know-how and patient-centred care can be combined in the quest to relieve human suffering."

Source : http://allafrica.com/stories/201503140117.html