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Most of what we see in movies are just fictions, fantasies, fairytales. We find them interesting because it a shortcut and anti-nature. A Billionaire's daughter falling in love with a Gateman... (This is the silliest of them all) An Honest man who has been suffering all his entire life finally get his big break not by coming up with an innovative, disruptive ideas or committing an unspeakable crime but by seeing a huge sum of money in a bush or coming across a long-time successful friend who want nothing in return but to see him successful. A man finally winning the love of a woman by taking on countless sacrifice... (You can never satisfy a woman, especially once you took on that route) And lots of some recycled useless beliefs. |
mikeapollo:Reminds me of that popular warren Buffett saying I look for three qualities when hiring people: integrity, intelligence, and energy — Integrity matters most because without it, the other two will kill you..Warren Buffett When a person's lacks integrity, you want him/her dumb and lazy, not smart and hardworking. |
yMcy56:LOL...You probably think of stocks all day long...Go out and touch Grass. |
SonofElElyonRet:Lol….The Law! You first have to state the above in bold… |
SonofElElyonRet:I wish we could have more NSEMPA people here, their insights would be invaluable. If I may ask, what coins do you have your eye on? |
SonofElElyonRet:Glad to see you here. |
emmanuelewumi:When all these new “participants” begin to watch their life savings, hard-earned money evaporating, I wonder if they will be buying the dips more or rushing to get out first… We all know the outcome of the latter on stock prices. Soon enough, we will know if the market (human nature) has evolved past 2008. |
AndroBlaze:You said this "What is wrong with the current south eastners we have now? Why do they see Yoruba behind everything?" Many years ago, during my service days in the east...I was speaking to the student one day about their poor performance in mathematics in waec and the students said something I will never forget. I will quote it words for words "Our mummy said that the reason why we don't pass waec is because the Yorubas do not want us to pass" |
lavylilly:LOL.... What a ridicule! So, Chelsea winning just two games in a row is now a remarkable and threatening feat. |
Agbalowomeri:LOL...With Lapo money. |
Duke007:The only reason why I like your comment is the bolded…And probably the only part I did not skip why skimming through. |
Samantha125:At times, you seem like a child to me, then a lady and sometimes a guy. |
Robnectar:Lol…Lost? After wiping out 19 billion dollars in longs, Late last year and some subsequent billions of dollar here and there. |
yMcy56:Probably they will be hugely fined and allow to continue. |
londonerr:LOL...What Bola Tinubu is doing to Nigerians is what Wale Tinubu is doing to Oando Shareholders. If you are a Nigerian and still holding Oando stock, Three Gbosa for you. The years ahead are long. |
Basic123:You meant a great time of hardship. |
Chad has announced it will remove entry visa requirements for all African nationals, with the policy taking effect on January 1, 2027. President Mahamat Idriss Déby made the declaration, framing the decision as a step towards strengthening African unity and making the free movement of people and goods across the continent a practical reality. "The Chad of Toumaï, cradle of humanity, opens its borders and abolishes entry visas for all Africans," Déby stated, as reported by The Liberalist. How will Chad benefit? Chad's geography gives the announcement particular significance. The landlocked country shares borders with six nations, placing it at a crossroads that connects North, West, Central, and East Africa. Political analyst Évariste Ngarlem said the practical benefits of the decision would be felt quickly, noting that travellers would now be able to plan trips to Chad without navigating administrative delays or waiting periods tied to visa applications. Ngarlem added that removing travel barriers of this kind typically produces a swift increase in both tourist and business arrivals. He also described the move as a form of "soft diplomacy," suggesting it could motivate partner countries to adopt comparable policies and accelerate the continent's broader push towards open borders. According to Business Insider Africa, the announcement contributes to a growing pattern across Africa, where governments have increasingly moved to lower the barriers that have historically made intra-continental travel among the most restricted in the world. Which are other visa-free African nations? With the policy change, Chad becomes the eighth African country to grant visa-free entry to all African citizens. It joins a group that includes Rwanda and Kenya, both of which have extended similar open-door policies in recent years. The move aligns with the African Union's Agenda 2063, a long-term framework for continental integration, as well as the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which aims to reduce barriers to trade and movement across member states. From Tuko.co
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"The entire history of AC Milan is in tears following the passing of Franco Baresi. His example and integrity will be forever etched into the Club's DNA, just as his iconic number 6 shirt is.." AC Milan legend When a club bids farewell to one of its players in this way, it becomes clear that he is much more than a legend, and Franco Baresi is part of the AC Milan crest, the club that has announced the player's death at the age of 66. What happened? The cause of death has not yet been revealed, but in August 2025, the former player had undergone surgery to remove a lung nodule. Intervention in 2025 The player himself warned that "I will need some time to recover all my strength" at that time. One man club Born in Lombardy in May 1960, Franco Baresi joined AC Milan's youth academy in 1974. He would never leave the club again. Early leadership He joined the first team in 1978, a month before turning 18. By 18, he was an undisputed starter. By 22, he was the team's forever captain. A legendary Milan And mind you, he was captain of a team that included Paolo Maldini, Alessandro Costacurta, Carlo Ancelotti, Marco Van Basten and Mauro Tassotti, which gives you an idea of Baresi's leadership abilities. A different kind of center back Baresi broke the mold of the burly, rugged center-back. Franco was thin and lanky, but he compensated for his physical limitations with impeccable technique and elegance, as well as superb anticipation. Natural leader Now, if there's one thing that made Baresi stand out, it was his leadership on the field. With just a glance, he could organise a legendary defence that was always super effective. The great European football power In fact, under the guidance of Franco Baresi, AC Milan became the dominant force in European football in the late 80s and early 90s. 23 years of Rossoneri Finally, Franco Baresi hung up his boots in 1997, after 23 years at the club, 15 of them as captain and, among other titles, six Scudettos and three European Cups. Legend also with Italy He played 719 matches for the Rossoneri -a record surpassed only by Maldini -in addition to 81 appearances for Italy, with whom he won the 1982 World Cup and lost in the 1990 semi-finals and the 1994 final, both on penalties. Interesting comparisons One only needs to compare the current international situation of Italy to further appreciate the achievements of Baresi's Italy. Forever the 6 of Milan His greatness led AC Milan to retire his number 6 jersey the same year he left the club. A number 6 that now has even greater significance. The chosen ones Now, if there is one thing that defines the career, life and trajectory of a footballer, it is the treatment he receives from his biggest rival and, in this case, Inter Milan has not hesitated to praise the greatness of one of the legends of football. Nerazzurri elegance "Farewell to Franco Baresi, protagonist of the great challenges of the Milan Derby and one of the figures who have most defined the history of the rivalry. Captain, team man and standard-bearer of Milan, he has lived every encounter with Inter with competition and respect, within a challenge that has written unforgettable pages of Italian football." Farewell Baresi When your biggest rival speaks about you like that, it means you were, are, and will be an eternal legend of football, of Milan, and of Italy. Have a good trip, Franco In fact, simply searching Baresi's name on any social media platform is enough to realize the magnitude of a player who will be remembered for years to come. Rest in peace. From Dailyshowbizz
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Kylian Mbappe is Real Madrid‘s biggest superstar signing since Cristiano Ronaldo back in 2009 – but how does he stack up against his idol after two full seasons? The parallels are closer than you might think. Both players boast outrageous numbers. But, in their first two seasons at least, they’ve been starved of silverware, eating the dust of a dominant Barcelona team. Like Ronaldo at the turn of the 2010s, Mbappe’s individual output has been outrageous. He’s scored goals at an astonishing rate, winning his first European Golden Shoe, and further established himself as one of Europe’s most devastating forwards. You could argue that aside from trophies, he’s looked every inch the Galactico Madrid thought they were signing. Aside from the comparatively minor UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Intercontinental Cup – trophies lifted off the back of a Champions League lifted before his arrival – the big trophies have remained out of reach for France’s all-time top goalscorer. But it was a similar story for Ronaldo back in the day. The Portuguese superstar didn’t win any trophies in his debut season at the Bernabeu, while in his second year he had to stomach Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona retaining their La Liga crown and winning another Champions League (knocking out Los Blancos en route). He did, at least, score the winning goal in a Copa del Rey final victory over Barca that year. It wasn’t until season three that Ronaldo’s trophy cabinet started to match his goalscoring return. He notched 60 goals in all competitions in 2011-12 and fired Madrid to their first La Liga title in four years. His manager that year? Jose Mourinho. A good omen for Mbappe, perhaps. Mbappe has actually scored exactly as many goals as Ronaldo had for Madrid after two full seasons, but he’s played considerably more games and minutes, notched more penalties, and only registered half as many assists. He still has to take his game up another level if he’s to match prime Ronaldo. “Look after the lad,” Ronaldo told El Chiringuito back in February 2015. “The fans need to look after him. He’s very good. The club have to help to protect him, I have no doubt he’ll bring a lot of joy to Madrid fans.” “I love [Mbappe], not just because of his story as a kid, how he loved Cristiano, I was his idol. “It’s complicated, because he doesn’t know how to play as a forward in my opinion — or rather, it’s not that he doesn’t know, but it isn’t his position. If I was at Madrid, I’d show him how to play as a number nine. “I wasn’t a forward. I got used to it, but I was a winger. People forget that. I was a forward, but not a typical forward. I think [Mbappe] shouldn’t be a typical forward, he should do things his way.” Here’s how Ronaldo and Mbappe compare after their first two seasons at Real Madrid: Kylian Mbappe’s first two Real Madrid seasons Games: 103 ⭐ Goals: 86 Assists: 12 Goal contributions: 98 Penalties: 19 ⭐ Free-kicks: 1 Minutes per goal: 97.2 Minutes per non-penalty goal: 124.8 Minutes per goal or assist: 85.3 Trophies Won: 2 (2024 UEFA Super Cup, 2024 FIFA Intercontinental Cup) ⭐ Cristiano Ronaldo‘s first two Real Madrid seasons Games: 89 Goals: 86 Assists: 24 ⭐ Goal contributions: 110 ⭐ Penalties: 13 Free-kicks: 11 ⭐ Minutes per goal: 87.53 ⭐ Minutes per non-penalty goal: 103.12 ⭐ Minutes per goal or assist: 68.44 ⭐ Trophies Won: 1 (2010-11 Copa del Rey) From Planet Football.
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CandyOps:1. They are in a state of shock, they might forget how to drink water, causing them to choke 2. Due to surgery, if surgery was to be performed on them, the water they have taken could be a problem when given sedatives causing them to vomit the water, which might lead to lungs infection. 3. They might be suffering from internal bleeding and as a result of the loss of blood, their body might seek for water as a means to replace the blood they are losing, taking water at this point is actually pretty bad because the water causes the blood to become thinner, leading to more rapid blood loss. |
Blackoven:I will agree with you on the bolded...Provided a man is not fuuuuccking the lady...But a case where men want to be sleeping with a lady and at the same time not spending a dime on her, makes no sense to me. Imagine such a lady to be our sister, getting foorkeed without getting a dime, how would that make us feel? I believe the word 'dating' here is related with sex too. Whenever modern women mention the word "Dating" interchange it with the word "sex". I hope this helps you see the big picture. |
franchasng:This ought to be the Natural settings of things.... During the days of our forefather, a man won't be given a wife until he is a man (can till the ground, hunt, fight etc) and has proven himself in whichever of this field he chooses. Sadly, fairytales (Nollywood, Hollywood, Novels), Inflations (persistent rise in prices of foods), joblessness and above all addictions (porn, drugs, hookups etc) has rewired the brain of the modern man. Embracing beliefs, dogmas that will ultimately leads to his own demise |
Diamond098454:Which one are you after? |
Last March, a six-year-old girl named May (a pseudonym) left her home holding her mother’s hand, believing she was going on a trip. Her father carried a suitcase filled with clothes for a week, a stuffed animal, and clay. Their destination was Xinhua Hospital, affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University. What awaited May was a “brain gene-editing therapy” that had never been attempted on any patient worldwide. Three days after medical staff injected the treatment into her spinal fluid, she developed a fever. Soon after, she stopped urinating, and her platelet count plummeted. Before being moved to the intensive care unit, May whispered, “Mom, I want to go home.” May died a week after the treatment, and the incident remained undisclosed for over a year. It was recently revealed in a joint investigative report by the international journal *Science* and Retraction Watch. The tragic outcome of the therapy, which aimed to correct a single faulty DNA base in her gene, has sparked safety concerns. May suffered from Snyder-Robinson Block-Campo syndrome, a rare genetic disorder caused by a mutation in the CHD3 gene, which delays language and motor development. With only about 200 confirmed cases worldwide, the condition is not life-threatening. May’s symptoms were relatively mild—her drawing and writing skills lagged behind peers, but she could still attend kindergarten. However, her parents feared that as she grew older, the gap with peers might widen, leaving her unable to live independently. After learning about a professor’s research at Shanghai Jiao Tong University through a social media group for families with rare diseases, the parents emailed in 2023 requesting treatment. The professor claimed the gene-editing technology had reached a turning point and that a treatment could be developed. The parents trusted his assurance that a top-tier hospital would prevent safety accidents. The technology used was “base editing,” which corrects a single incorrect DNA base in the CHD3 gene. The challenge was delivering the editing enzyme and guide RNA to brain cells. Researchers embedded the genetic blueprint into an adeno-associated virus (AAV), a modified virus stripped of its ability to replicate or cause disease. However, the genetic material required for the therapy was too large to fit into a single AAV. It had to be split into two viruses, both of which needed to enter the same brain cell for the edit to work. This lowered the success rate. To deliver both viruses to enough neurons, the dosage had to be increased dramatically. The team bypassed the blood-brain barrier by injecting trillions of viral particles into May’s spinal fluid through a needle inserted between her vertebrae. She died a week later. The hospital’s ethics committee concluded after an emergency meeting that May’s death was caused by “thrombotic microangiopathy,” a condition where microclots form in small blood vessels, destroying red blood cells, platelets, and damaging organs like the kidneys. The hospital acknowledged the treatment was directly responsible. Problems arose from earlier animal tests, which showed warning signs. Before May’s trial, the team tested the treatment on four monkeys. The final toxicity report revealed that all four developed liver damage, and some suffered kidney injury. Experts argue that if such risks were identified, additional tests with lower doses should have been conducted. Steven Gray, a professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, told *Science*, “This therapy should never have moved to human trials.” Yet, the ethics committee approved May’s trial before the final monkey toxicity report was completed. The research director informed the parents about the monkeys’ abnormalities but reportedly downplayed the risks. The consent form mentioned the possibility of thrombotic microangiopathy and organ damage, but May’s parents claimed they were never told the treatment could be fatal. Critics argue that for a first-in-human trial, the risk of death must be explicitly disclosed. May’s parents were not just trial participants—they were funders. They covered $860,000 (approximately 1.2 billion Korean won) for treatment development, mouse, and monkey experiments. Some payments were made directly to a researcher’s personal account. The parents also gifted iPhones, iPads, and Maotai liquor, and covered meal expenses. Desperate, they pooled money borrowed from relatives to fund the research. In February of this year, about a year after May’s death, the team published results in *Nature* on correcting the CHD3 gene in mice and delivering the therapy to monkey brains. The initial draft included May’s and her parents’ genetic information, along with a thank-you note for their participation and support. However, the final paper omitted all references to May, her death, and the parents’ contributions. It also excluded the finding that all four monkeys had liver damage. The parents demanded the paper’s retraction, fearing other families might pursue the same treatment based solely on the study. The research director initially agreed but later stopped responding. After the paper’s publication, Chinese state media hailed it as the “first ray of hope” for families with rare diseases—a claim that prompted May’s parents to go public. Chinese authorities later fined Xinhua Hospital approximately $3,600 for failing to properly supervise the trial and register it as a commercial study. *Nature* stated it was unaware of May’s death during peer review. Balancing Risk for Non-Life-Threatening Genetic Diseases Not all gene therapies are risky. For conditions like spinal muscular atrophy, proven treatments have dramatically improved patients’ lives. Gene therapy’s high efficacy comes with significant risks. For patients facing imminent death without treatment, even severe side effects may be justified. However, for cases like May’s—where a normal lifespan is possible and symptoms can be managed through rehabilitation and special education—the acceptable risk threshold should be much higher. There are concerns that parents’ hopes for their children and researchers’ expectations might cloud judgment of true risks. In May’s case, the informed consent process failed to disclose the possibility of death, and research ethics regarding transparency after her death were not upheld. While gene-editing technology advances rapidly, safety safeguards have yet to catch up. From MSN
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Magnumproperty:And what was the message he was trying to pass down to you all, through such act? I am pretty sure will we pick something from your intellectual enlightenment. |
Petro-Dollar is untouchable. |
Seriously, what was Argentina gameplay for this match. I regretted taking my time to watch it. |
See as the Argentina players were rushing and passing the ball to Messi, hoping he delivers them, forgetting that he is the oldest player on the pitch. Unlike his rival that wait for the final pass because he is old.... LOL |
What Spain lacks up front, it more than makes up for at the back. Predatory France couldn’t even score just one goal.` |
Fiscus105:LOL....If you want to marry bro, go get married. |
Freshtruth:If they do not do that dude will be having 15 goals by now.... The game look so simple and boring to him now...The Goat no longer pays attention to penalty; he gives it away. |

