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Sagytarius: You are right, I remember that poem: Nile, Niger, Senegal, Congo, Orange, Limpopo, Zambezi.

Athough, as a kid then, I used to call it "hipopo".

The music video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0A1_HfoK54

emmadan: eeeeeh.oliseh dey speak french.ikotabaya

He played for Standard Liege in Belgium.

C.E.O Dancers and D'Banj.

African time

Who wins it?

reedonne: Where

Lekki

Reasonably good here.

[quote author=DGI-PLUS]http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52597:bravo-to-lagos-over-childrens-rights&catid=67:you-report-lagos&Itemid=583

THANKS to the recent legislation passed in Lagos State by the administration of Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola SAN, the caning, beating or physical torture of school students, and of workplace apprentices, has been outlawed entirely, and declared both illegal and criminally culpable throughout that state. This recognition accorded the basic human rights of Lagos State’s children, by Governor Fashola, is, without question, one of the most constructive, progressive and profoundly humanitarian initiatives ever set forth into law by any Nigerian elected leader, since the nation’s 1960 independence.

A simple internet search yields an abundance of thoroughly documented medical evidence, which unambiguously links the “punitive” beating of human beings to very severe and permanently debilitating injuries that range from blindness-inducing eye damage, to life-long paralysis of the legs, possible from SINGLE blunt-force cane impacts to the sciatic nerve, which runs close to the spine in the lower back, just beneath the skin. A research paper recently published by the Department of Ophthalmology, at the College of Health Sciences in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife, cited a four-year study which concluded that an astonishing 30.3% of all eye injuries, presented at that hospital alone, by children aged between 5 and 15 years old, were DIRECTLY attributed to caning or whipping attacks that went horribly wrong, either in schools or at home.

From a purely medical standpoint, there is NO safe area of the human body suitable for assault with a stick or other blunt-force weapon. Just as easily as a cane-strike to the lower back carries the potential to inflict lifetime lower limb paralysis on the victim, an errant stick, whip or belt-buckle impact to the wrist is equally liable to fracture, deform or displace the delicate wrist carpal bones that articulate within very tight tolerances, thus degrading forever the wrist’s flexibility and range of motion. Caning the hands of a student, such that permanent bone injury and loss of flexibility to the hands results, would effectively END whatever aspirations the victim may have held of becoming a surgeon later in life. The disastrous effects of losing one’s sight or mobility to a caning incident would be no less life-destroying, and require no elaboration.

The injurious psychological effects, of exposing children to physical brutality in the name of discipline, can last a lifetime, but do also manifest behaviorally in the short term, as illustrated by the extremely high prevalence of school-yard bullying of juniors by senior students, whose own corporal punishment and physical torture by school authority figures imparts a misconception of normalcy to the use of violence as a tool to gain “respect” and the illusion of compliance. In nearby Ghana, by way of comparison, where all forms of corporal punishment have been outlawed for decades, school-yard bullying is virtually non-existent, while a very high level of orderliness and discipline is maintained in Ghanaian secondary schools, without any recourse to violence by school authorities. Unsurprisingly, the Ghanaian education system remains one of the best in Africa today, producing highly proficient graduates who are in great demand globally.

Governor Fashola’s administration has boldly righted a festering injustice that has for decades been perpetrated against Nigerian children enrolled in schools nationwide, as well as in places of trade apprenticeship. Once again, Governor Fashola lives up to his billing as a leader far ahead of his time, now by endorsing the imperative to safeguard the BASIC human rights of Nigeria’s most important citizens – her children. For the betterment of Nigerian youth enrolled in schools and workplaces across the entire federation, the stellar, inspirational example just set by Governor Fashola is one well worthy of emulation, as it stands to swiftly transform Nigeria’s primary and secondary educational systems for the infinitely better.

Striking any adult person with a stick or other weapon constitutes a violent criminal offence statutorily classified as Felony Assault and Battery, for which jail sentences can be imposed after a fair trial, under Nigerian law. On the unassailable premise that schools exist to prepare students for life as productive, civilized and peaceful citizens of law-abiding societies, that fundamental prohibition of violence against adults must be extended to govern all conduct towards children within schools and workplaces throughout any nation that embraces human rights for human beings of every age demographic.[/quote]

Lagos State Government bans flogging of students and apprentices.

https://www.nairaland.com/708677/lagos-state-outlaws-flogging-students

deols: They don't even speak Arabic in Turkey.

Where does the rumour of having a MUslim name to play in Tuirkey come from?

what is a Muslim name?

It's got nothing to do with Islam.


There were rules that limited the number of foreign players that could be fielded in a game or registered in a season. Some players were encouraged by their clubs to take up dual citizenship in order to get around this rule.

Jayjay Okocha, Uche Okechukwu and other players became Turkish nationals and thus had turkish names on their turkish passports. Jayjay became Muhammet Yavuz.

CHESSBOARD: if this stewpid thread is a kind of entertainment, then Agbaya naptu, ur grey matters don dey turn black.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Just seeing this.

Oby is a genius! This is just the kind of entertainment I need. I must find the time to read everything.

Obiagelli: Same to you Sir, how have you been? I haven't been seeing you around, though I have been peeping thru your dairy. wishing you a wonderful new year

I've been busy. Hope you liked what you read

Obiagelli: Going by achievement and overwhelming love for Gej across the country, the pdp should pick enugu state governor as vice presidential candidate for 2015.

Chime has performed excellently well and this would also make easy the actualisation of an igbo president in 2019.

We should do without the Northern born to rule mentality.

Another reason is that the pdp is purging itself of corrupt northern elements.

Happy New Year!

Probably a response to this thread - Africa's Richest (from Nigeria) Land In Nairobi.




https://www.nairaland.com/1431331/africa-richest-nigeria-land-nairobi

It's obviously crazy to say that the President went to Nairobi with 7 presidential jets (read the first 3 posts on the thread).

row2ray: How much is the car

The car has been sold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw95DZvfsFM

they shut down Admiralty Road!

Merry Christmas