I'm impressed by the tone of the letter. He said that he would personally write a response. Well, with what I've seen here I think that he should teach Abati, Okupe and Omokri how to respond to such letters. He would easily win over more people with statements like these, rather than the uncouth responses that are provided by some of his aides.
[size=14pt]Justine Sacco Deletes ‘Hope I Don’t Get Aids’ Tweet – and Her Account – After Landing in Africa[/size]
By Josh Dickey | The Wrap – 9 hours ago
Justine Sacco has landed — and as a first order of business, the spokeswoman for Barry Diller’s company IAC deleted the tweet that got her in very hot water as she was taking off from London to Cape Town, South Africa.
Moments later, she deleted her account (which had ballooned from some 400 followers to more than 8,000) outright.
But by then, its a matter of public record:
And the storm had long since begun.
Sacco’s tweet provoked anger from the social media mob, which closely tracked her long flight and made #HasJustineLandedYet the No. 1 non-promoted hashtag on Twitter while she was en route. It also raised the ire of her employer, which responded to TheWrap’s request for comment with the following statement Friday:
“This is an outrageous, offensive comment that does not reflect the views and values of IAC. Unfortunately, the employee in question is unreachable on an international flight, but this is a very serious matter and we are taking appropriate action.”
IAC owns and operates myriad digital businesses, from Ben Silverman’s production company Electus to video sites Vimeo and CollegeHumor. Sacco has worked there for more than two years, joining from the WWE.
During the hours Sacco was on her flight, the Internet pounced — with everything from LOLcats-style images (left) to tweets referencing Duck Dynasty, which had its own open-mouth-insert-foot moment this week. One relief organization — Aid for Africa — snapped up the domain name justinesacco.com, and had it redirect to their site while she was still in the air.
Even Buzzfeed piled on, creating a post of 16 Tweets Justine Sacco regrets.
Sacco’s employment status wasn’t immediately clear as of this posting, but IAC had removed her name from its website‘s media contacts list by the time she landed.
The post Justine Sacco Deletes ‘Hope I Don’t Get Aids’ Tweet – and Her Account – After Landing in Africa appeared first on TheWrap.
I remember that time very well. The only thing that I can't remember is the specific match in which Pereira wanted to introduce Ronaldo.
I'm sure I still have my 1994 editions of Complete Football at home. I'll give you the Eagles room numbers at Papendal and how they paired up.
From wikipedia
Aged 17, he was a part of the Brazilian squad that won the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
Ronaldo made his international debut for Brazil in 1994, in a friendly match in Recife against Argentina. He went to the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States as a 17-year-old, but did not play. He came to be known as Ronaldinho ("little Ronaldo" in Portuguese), because Ronaldo Rodrigues de Jesus, his older teammate on the tournament, was also called Ronaldo and also nicknamed Ronaldão ("big Ronaldo" ) to further distinguish them.[32] Another Brazilian player, Ronaldo de Assis Moreira, who is widely known as Ronaldinho, would come to be called Ronaldinho Gaúcho when he joined the Brazilian main national team in 1999.
erniok: Those four were never at USA 94. They featured at France 98.
They were at USA 94. Westerhof picked the Nigerians as alternate players (a move that annoyed journalists because they wanted him to take Nduka Ugbade, so that he'll set a record as the first player to play in all levels of FIFA world cups (u17, u20 and senior world cup). Kanu's debut for Nigeria was in the friendly match Nigeria vs Sweden, which was played during the preparations for USA 94.
Carlos Alberto Pareira was about to introduce Ronaldo into a match at USA 94 when the Brazillians conceded a goal, so he sent him back to the bench.
deols: I wanted to show you this picture at the time but was not able to post it.
They look hideous!
I wonder what those people talking about "solemn occasion" would say if they see what happens at Ikoyi Cemetery every Friday. You'll see undertakers dancing around with coffins, etc. The camera man that took that photo said that it would be impossible to remain stony faced throughout the ceremony with the way the south africans were dancing and celebrating in the stadium.
jblaqq: Are you a lover of jazz\instrumentals? Kindly tell me d title of the LAGOS WEEKEND TELEVISION theme song in the earrly 80s.....anyone tht knows Richard clayderman's chariots of fire will know d theme song.tnx all
Ernie Watts - Chariots Of Fire (Qwest Records. 1982)
[size=14pt]8 Photos You Didn't See From Obama's Trip to South Africa[/size]
Nina Ippolito | 13 hours ago | 69 Comments
On Tuesday, conservative news outlets in the United States decided that the best way to commemorate the life of Nelson Mandela, and to report on the memorial services in his honor, was to manufacture a controversy about an AFP photo of President Barack Obama shooting a selfie with Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt. According to Fox News, the “international incident” was so bad that, “The tsk-tisk-ing could be heard across continents.”
Liberal news outlets countered with a photograph from former President George W. Bush’s Instagram feed, taken at the same memorial, in which he’s seen posing with pop star Bono.
Two things were lost amid the nonsensical partisan wrangling. First, the furor shamefully overshadowed the memorial service itself, and the heartfelt messages that were delivered by Mandela’s family and colleagues. Second, such outcries overlook the close quarters in which our Democratic and Republican politicians actually live and work.
Candid images from White House photographer Pete Souza tell another story.
... and by political adversaries and allies alike.
Perhaps, instead of giving in to the frantic us-or-them discourse proffered by the media (Funeral selfies! Handshakes! Ted Cruz!), it's time that we acknowledge that conservative and liberal politicians spend more time together, and have more in common with one another, than we’d like to believe.
deols: Just expressing this as an attempt to neutralise the 'outrage' on his 'non-sad' mood, taking pix with that Danish PM like they were at a party, etc as carried by some US dailies.
Lol. South Africans were dancing and singing at the stadium. The announcer had to tell them to tone down the singing so that people could hear the speeches. Remember that this is an african funeral for an old man. Funerals for old men and women in Africa are usually seen as a celebration of life and the relatives are often expected to dance at the funeral.
Anyway, this is the view of the photographer that took the "non-sad" picture.
The saying "a picture is worth a thousand words" is true. However, we don't realize is that those 'thousand words' may be true or completely false. So we should be careful about the assumptions we make based on a photo. Sometimes it's just not what it seem.
That's the case of the Obama selfie photos taken at Nelson Mandela's memorial service held on Tuesday, December 10, 2013. Of everything that happened at the event, the 'most important' news that made headline on various media outlets was President Barack Obama taking a selfie with UK Prime Minister David Cameron and Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt while first lady Michelle Obama seemed peeved as the three leaders took the picture.
Roberto Schmidt, the photographer who took the viral shot posted this article online regarding media obsession with the pictures:
So here’s the photo, my photo, which quickly lit up the world’s social networks and news websites. The “selfie” of three world leaders who, during South Africa’s farewell to Nelson Mandela, were messing about like kids instead of behaving with the mournful gravitas one might expect.
In general on this blog, photojournalists tell the story behind a picture they’ve taken. I’ve done this for images from Pakistan, and India, where I am based. And here I am again, but this time the picture comes from a stadium in Soweto, and shows people taking a photo of themselves. I guess it’s a sign of our times that somehow this image seemed to get more attention than the event itself. Go figure.
[...] So Obama took his place amid these leaders who’d gathered from all corners of the globe. Among them was British Prime Minister David Cameron, as well as a woman who I wasn’t able to immediately identify. I later learned it was the Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt. I’m a German-Colombian based in India, so I don’t feel too bad I didn’t recognize her! At the time, I thought it must have been one of Obama’s many staffers.
Anyway, suddenly this woman pulled out her mobile phone and took a photo of herself smiling with Cameron and the US president. I captured the scene reflexively. All around me in the stadium, South Africans were dancing, singing and laughing to honor their departed leader. It was more like a carnival atmosphere, not at all morbid. The ceremony had already gone on for two hours and would last another two. The atmosphere was totally relaxed – I didn’t see anything shocking in my viewfinder, president of the US or not. We are in Africa.
I later read on social media that Michelle Obama seemed to be rather peeved on seeing the Danish prime minister take the picture. But photos can lie. In reality, just a few seconds earlier the first lady was herself joking with those around her, Cameron and Schmidt included. Her stern look was captured by chance.
I took these photos totally spontaneously, without thinking about what impact they might have. At the time, I thought the world leaders were simply acting like human beings, like me and you. I doubt anyone could have remained totally stony faced for the duration of the ceremony, while tens of thousands of people were celebrating in the stadium. For me, the behavior of these leaders in snapping a selfie seems perfectly natural.
I see nothing to complain about, and probably would have done the same in their place. The AFP team worked hard to display the reaction that South African people had for the passing of someone they consider as a father. We moved about 500 pictures, trying to portray their true feelings, and this seemingly trivial image seems to have eclipsed much of this collective work.
It was interesting to see politicians in a human light because usually when we see them it is in such a controlled environment. Maybe this would not be such an issue if we, as the press, would have more access to dignitaries and be able to show they are human as the rest of us.
I confess too that it makes me a little sad we are so obsessed with day-to-day trivialities, instead of things of true importance. - Richard Schmidt | AFP
Kanu Nwankwo, Wilson Oruma, Karibe Ojigwe and Ronaldo Da Lima played for their national U17 teams in 1993 and also played for their senior national teams in 1994. The four of them were at the USA 94 World Cup.
These two threads remind me of a passage from Olusegun Adeniyi's book. I'll post the passage here when I have the time (time is my biggest problem at the moment. There's just not enough time).
naptu2: All Suicide-Bombers Are Going To Hell - Gumi by luv2talk(m): 12:48am On Apr 15
Destination Of All Suicide Bombers Is Hell, Sheik Gumi Says
By SaharaReporters, New York
Hell is the destination of all suicide bombers, fearless cleric Sheik Ahmad Mahmud Gumi warned today in a sermon SaharaReporters monitored in New York.
He pointed out that while young men commit suicide, they ought to reflect that those leaders who send them to their deaths do not commit suicide or send their children to die in the same way.
Gumi who has been critical of the Boko Haram sect, said in the sermon: [size=14pt]“The prophet – Salawatullahi alaihi- is a mercy for mankind. He said the way to Paradise is easy for those that follow his path. He said: “everybody in my Ummah is going to enter the paradise except he who refuses. They said (the companions): oh messenger of Allah, who will refuse? He said: whoever obeys me enter the paradise and whoever disobeys me he has indeed re...fused” Al-Bukhari.”[/size]
In an important sermon that has implications for violent Islamic sects that use suicide bombing as a key tool, Gumi offered the message that those that agree to use themselves as bombs do more than die in vain.
“Despite this ease of entering Paradise, those that commit suicide for whatever reason have guaranteed for themselves the Hell Fire forever,” he said.
He called on the faithful to be aware that nobody should deceive them to take their own lives, saying that real Jihad is fought to either win or get martyrdom.
[size=14pt]“The shahada is gotten when killed by enemy action,” he said. “Allah said: ‘Let those Fight In the cause of Allah who sell the life of This world for the Hereafter to Him who fighteth In the cause of Allah,- whether He is slain or gets victory - soon shall we give Him a reward of great (value). ” Q4/74.May Allah continue to guide us all to the straight path.”
Continuing, Sheik Gumi quoted Anas: “If not for my hearing the prophet – alaihis Salam- saying: Do not wish for death I would wish for it” Al-Bukhari.[/size] People are forbidden to wish for death talks less of committing suicide. Islam is a practicable religion. We are required to do what we can do and leave the rest to the Al-Mighty. [size=14pt]“So fear Allah As much As ye can; listen and obey and spend In charity for the benefit of your own soul and those saved from the covetousness of their own souls,- They are the ones that achieve prosperity.” Q64/16.
“Whoever therefore will be taken by fanaticism or sickness or depression to kill himself, he has condemned himself to eternity in the Hell fire, May Allah Save us from it. Muslim narrated from Abu Huraira who said: the messenger of Allah said: “whoever will kill himself with an iron, then he would be tormented with his iron in his hand injuring his belly continuously in Hell Fire forever. And whoever will drink poison and then kill himself, he will continue sipping the poison in the Hell fire forever. And whoever fall from a rock then kills himself, He will continue falling in the Hell fire forever”.[/size]
He stressed that whoever will explode himself with explosives for whatever reason or disguise will also continue to be in his explosion in hellfire forever, stressing that this is what the hadith teaches. Suicides, he warned, are tormented by the same means they employ to kill themselves.
[size=14pt]“Today we see young men killing themselves with explosives in the name of Jihad yet they never reflect that those ‘leaders‘ that send them to such adventure never commit suicide nor send their children to commit it.”[/size]
[size=14pt]Gumi is right, no compulsion in religion[/size]
Published on Saturday, 18 August 2012 06:00
Written by Bello Sa’id
Recent comments by prominent Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, condemning the incessant attacks by terrorists claiming to be Muslims has once again thrown light on the issue of suicide bombings and other acts of violence, as well as the position of Islam on them. The sheikh’s remarks, coming during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, has attracted a lot of comments and generated so much fear about his security. These fears are not out of place as it has become very obvious that anyone who publicly condemns the activities of Boko Haram in Nigeria today also becomes a prime target of the misguided group’s senseless killings.
The Saudi-based scholar penultimate week while preaching at the famous Sultan Bello Mosque in Kaduna condemned the killings claimed or attributed to the group and other violent groups citing verses from the Holy Quran that have outlawed the killing of innocent souls.
“This is why we are of the view that those behind these killings are not doing it because of Islam. Islam does not allow its followers to engage in the killing of innocent people. Even during wars, we are not allowed to torch places of worship of Christians and Jews. We are not allowed to kill women and children except if they are among those fighting Islam. Therefore, these people killing indiscriminately are just wicked people who have an agenda to destroy our religion and our people. It is important for those in authority to stop corruption and stop imposing themselves on people. Nigerians should be allowed to choose their leaders.” Sheikh Gumi said.
Sheikh Gumi’s comments are not new. Many scholars have condemned the activities of Boko Haram before now. What is new in my view however is that the Sheikh was able to summon the courage to say in public what many leaders and scholars only say in private. Other scholars often condemn such killings in such a manner that suggests that they are being cautious of the fact that they could become instant targets of those misguided elements.
But Gumi’s approach was different. He hit the nail on the head, saying it out loud that the teachings of the Quran have made it clear that ‘there is no compulsion in religion’ and Boko Haram was wrong to have issued an ultimatum to President Goodluck Jonathan to convert to Islam.
[size=14pt]Indeed Quran chapter 109 is very clear on the position of Allah on people who believe in Islam and those who don’t. The verses read as follows: “(1.) Say (O Muhammad) to those disbelievers in Allah, (in His Oneness, in His Angels, in His Books, in His Messengers, in the Day of Resurrection, and in Al-Qadar, etc.) (2) I worship not that which you worship (3) Nor will you worship that which I worship. (4) And I shall not worship that which you are worshipping. (5) Nor will you worship that which I worship. (6) To you be your religion, and to me my religion (Islamic Monotheism).[/size]
With these verses from the Holy Quran in mind, it remains a mystery how group of people will issue an ultimatum to a Christian to convert to Islam or face their wrath. It is however very unfortunate that a few youngsters would be coerced into joining the group to carry out instructions from evil minded leaders of the deadly sect. The sect’s leaders continue to live in comfort and convenience while bullying mostly young adolescent males to go out and commit violent crimes against harmless citizens.
The sect’s problem is both a reflection and a reminder on the moral decadence that has occurred in the Nigerian society. Many parents across the north have become negligent, careless, irresponsible and nonchalant that that they bear children and hatch no plans to provide the basic shelter, nutritional, educational, health and other needs of those offspring. At very tender ages, children are sent out on the streets under the cover of seeking knowledge, thereby exposing them to various kinds of conditions ranging from starvation, poor healthcare, immoral acts and bullying.
The end result is what we have on our hands today. Millions of uncultured almajiris now roam the streets of the north looking for activities to occupy their minds. The wanton poverty and joblessness in the land now makes it easy for such children raised with no morals to become vulnerable for recruitment by the evil sect and other criminal groups.
This has resulted in a situation where in the past two decades or so, a few thugs will at the slightest provocation begin to set houses ablaze, killing people and looting assets. As is traditional in this country, very little efforts have been made over the decades to tackle these issues. Ethno-religious violence has become the order of the day, with thugs and homeless children killing and looting all the way.
It is in the light of all these that I find Sheikh Gumi’s comments welcome at this critical time. If the terrorists would not listen to Emirs, Governors and other political leaders, at least they will do themselves some service by listening to the learned Sheikh. Then, what is their justification for such violence? It’s time to stop this madness and anyone who is anyone in the north must play a part in this task. It is the most important national assignment of our time. This is not just the work of security agents. Our leaders in the north - all of them; northern elders, governors, former governors, former heads of state, emirs, traditional title holders, captains of industry, legislators and everyone that matters – it’s time to get to work. No more lip service.
bboiabb: wow i wont lie.. i love the ones he made(expecially the 3rd one...reminds me of our old jersey in 1994 i think). i wish fans can make jerseys then NFF will vote and create the winners choice.
That 1994 jersey is my favourite super eagles jersey
President obasanjo bows to greet his president,goodluck jonathan today in nairobi kenya,both were special guest of honor in the kenyan 50th anniversary celebrations.
Pukkah: This is the season of quashing and clearing.
The report did not mention the quashing of Alamieyeseigha's conviction. Never in the annals of Nigeria's democracy have more convictions been quashed and individuals cleared than now.
More and more convictions are being quashed and cleared under the corruption-friendly administration of the Chief Quasher himself, Conviction Clearer Quashluck JonaClear.
Nigeria is on the brink of being quashed and cleared!
Christianity Etc › Re: Merry Christmas Everyone! by naptu2: 11:28am On Dec 25, 2013
It seems it's quashing season https://www.nairaland.com/1554313/abuja-federal-court-quashes-el#20195983
