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If dis was a drug bust, d responses and comments would have been typical.... Waiting to see NCAN comments and response to dis sort of story

I hereby declare most of us "Ancient of Years"...

Lol... @Sarrki com and chi chomtin ooo, Una Oga dem give una ellaaaa part 2 ooo

Choiii OP u don old ooo.. Na dat period dem still dey do petroleum perspective with one guy wey don turn big Oga for nnpc now...

As usual, twist and turn every corruption story and allegation into a GEJ and family affair which morons will swallow hook line and sinker... Make dem dey deceive d ppl dey want to deceive. What happened to all d previous Jonathan's family allegations? Every day same shit, jus different shithole...

CarolineOlawale:
Marvis is way better than that Igbo jail bird from the land of the fading sun called Nnamdi kanu.



Flat heads are bunch of stupid people!

Ur obsession with "Igbos" is becoming dementia and paranoia.. Ur comments are becoming somewhat boring. U don't have to create proxy accounts jus to show how mad u are...

DaudaAbu:
So it seems

Its not jst Nigerian issue afterall

D Nigerian version is a Nigerian issue... D only condition where such marriages are allowed there is if d child is already pregnant and with the consent of the parents.. Otherwise sex with a minor is still an offence and termed statutory rape if U didn't know dat... Is sex with a minor an offence in Nigeria? No point trying to justify why perverts are perverts.. Those nations do not operate on a law different from their constitution (sharia). Their laws are clear on wen and why such marriages are allowed and dey are already amending the law to b more considerate. Under what laws do we operate here? U have a nation where a law different from its constitution is in use in most states... Nigeria's situation is peculiar to Nigeria and most undeveloped Islamic nations becos u barely see d developed ones flaunting their pedophiles...

N.B Hope u know d photo u used is from a social experiment on times Square to raise awareness about child brides all over d world.. It was staged to see people's reaction to a 65 yr old marrying a 12 yr old.. U shld Google it and see reactions and tell me d same is shared in d north...

It's quite clear U want to justify child marriage in d north by comparing same in d US. U do realise d Internet is jus one click away to verify facts but u yet u decided to intentional misinform ppl by posting Wat suits ur intents.. Anyway here's d Virginia's stance on child(minors) marriages

Underage Marriage in Virginia
The basics of Virginia's marriage age requirement laws are listed in the table below. See State-by-State Marriage "Age of Consent" Laws
for a comparison.
Code Section 20-48, 49
Minimum Legal Age With Parental Consent
Male: 16; Female: 16
Minimum Legal Age Without Parental Consent
Male: 18; Female: 18
Comments
Parental consent not required if minor was emancipated. Minors under 16 may obtain license in case of pregnancy or birth of child with parental consent and proof of pregnancy from a doctor.

clearly explained here

Underage Marriage in Virginia
Virginia marriage law allows minors to marry with parental permission. If either future spouse is age sixteen or seventeen, they may marry with a parent's permission. Children fifteen and younger may not marry, even with parental consent. However, a pregnant minor or parent under the age of sixteen may obtain a marriage license with parental consent and proof of pregnancy from a doctor

here's d link
http://statelaws.findlaw.com/virginia-law/virginia-marriage-age-requirements-laws.html

Oh and here's a state by state age of Consent as regards child marriages..
http://family.findlaw.com/marriage/state-by-state-marriage-age-of-consent-laws.html

Minors are minors and there's nothing ur religion or culture can say to justify it... D look on d faces of these child brides says it all...

U shld also visit dis link...
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/08/child-marriage-forced-minors-virginia-law

Whether dis report is fake or not like some morons are already inferring, why exactly is it taking 2yrs+ to probe d allegations of arms fund misappropriation by GEJ and his govt? Even wen Lai Muhammed was running his mouth about d army fighting with substandard weapons, didn't d army com out to refute d claims?? Some of U jus want to b perpetually stupid and dumb dat one begins to wonder if it's intentional or if it's jus a case of having no brains at all...

CarolineOlawale:
Igbos are now wishing they can be the EFCC boss so they can divert the recovered stolen funds for their personal use.


Shame on Igbos!

Ur obsession with "Igbos" must b depressing for u considering most of u now open numerous accounts jus to ridicule urselves.. What has ur comment got to do with d post??

TonyeBarcanista:
Just stop it! Amaechi was the one that first bought lots of weapons for Ateke Tom as far back as 2005-7 to help him actualise his ambition to govern. He was the one that has been doing dirty jobs in the street for Odili. You have no idea...


PS: Ateke publicly confessed when they fell out and Amaechi tried to use the state apparatus to silent him.

Ateke Tom, December 2008
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0812/S00164.htm

What U're trying to do is convince a basket dat it can hold water which is definitely not possible.. Don't worry about convincing Zombie-in-Chief otherwise...

shortgun:
I didn't say its easy thing to do.
In marriage you have to endure n tolerate a lot of things.
What she did will surely not bring peace to her home.

Neither would ignoring her husbands unfaithfulness... D man's reaction is a clear fact dat her message has been gotten loud and clear.. If she was not a "wife" like u claimed, d man would have openly rebuffed her right there nd den because he'll have been quite comfy with wateva show she was going to put.

wtfCode:
She 4 control herself nah.
And that scene will never stop the man 4rm doing it again.

shortgun:
In reality she created a scene, she lacks self control.
If a man is not getting happiness with his wife he will look elsewhere.
From the story one can clearly see that the woman is not a "wife".
A wife will not disgrace her husband in public.
A wife will stand by her husband when he makes mistakes.

No d woman is a neighbor not wife... So seeing her HUSBAND in a beer parlour with a galfriend, she was supposed to jus walk away or applaud d lovers? To think she's even nursing their still need baby all alone at home while d husband chills and somebody is questioning if she's a wife.. What beta way to stand with d man by sitting with him at d table instead of dragging him off d table? Some of U are jus hypocrites

See him strong face like Nigeria condition... But seriously DSS shld invite nigerians to follow dem on some of these their loot recovery, so dat we fit mend dem jus like dis guy...

It's our dumb view of religion dat has made us as backwards nd myopic as we are.. We carry religion for head yet na we commit pass... Instead of worrying about Satan and his antics why not worry about living a "holy" life instead.. We seem to fear d devil more than we fear God himself and in our paranoia we create mountains out of molehills and see things in absolutely nothing...

These bloggers can b dumb and dumber... Wey d crowd? It's even a movie set, see d script with the other guy....

Dang!!! Loser husband... And to think he ended up with a sister who was formerly a dude... But some of una are jus sadists sef... Jus enjoy the story jare

I think I know d movie... There's suppose to b a part 2....

Clearly a R.Madrid vs Juventus final...

AP Explains: The origins of 4/20, marijuana's high holiday

northwestgeorgianews.com

Apr 20, 2017 7:59 AM



Marcio Jose Sanchez File - In this April 20, 2010 file photo, a large marijuana joint is lit at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Thursday, April 20, 2017, marks marijuana culture’s high holiday, 4/20, when college students gather - at 4:20 p.m. - in clouds of smoke on campus quads and pot shops in legal weed states thank their customers with discounts. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

SEATTLE (AP) — Thursday marks marijuana culture's high holiday, 4/20, when college students gather — at 4:20 p.m. — in clouds of smoke on campus quads and when pot shops in legal weed states thank their customers with discounts.

This year's edition provides an occasion for pot activists to reflect on how far their movement has come, with recreational pot now allowed in eight states and the nation's capital, as well as a changed national political climate that could threaten to slow or undermine their cause.

Here's a look at the holiday's history.

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WHY 4/20?

The origins of the date, and the term "420" generally, were long murky. Some claimed it referred to a police code for marijuana possession or that it arose from Bob Dylan's "Rainy Day Women No. 12 & 35," with its refrain of "Everybody must get stoned" — 420 being the product of 12 times 35.

But in recent years, a consensus has emerged around the most credible explanation: that it started with a group of bell-bottomed buddies from San Rafael High School in California, who called themselves "the Waldos." A friend's brother was afraid of getting busted for a patch of cannabis he was growing in the woods at Point Reyes, so he drew a map and gave the teens permission to harvest the crop, the story goes.

During fall 1971, at 4:20 p.m., just after classes and football practice, the group would meet up at the school's statue of chemist Louis Pasteur, smoke a joint and head out to search for the weed patch. They never did find it, but their private lexicon — "420 Louie," and later just "420" — would take on a life of its own.

The Waldos saved postmarked letters and other artifacts from the 1970s referencing "420," which they now keep in a bank vault, and when the Oxford English Dictionary added the term last month it cited some of those documents as the entry's earliest recorded uses .

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HOW DID '420' SPREAD?

A brother of one of the Waldos was a close friend of Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh, as Lesh once confirmed in an interview with the Huffington Post. The Waldos began hanging out in the band's circle, and the slang spread.

Fast-forward to the early 1990s: Steve Bloom, a reporter for the cannabis magazine High Times, was at a Dead show when he was handed a flier urging people to "meet at 4:20 on 4/20 for 420-ing in Marin County at the Bolinas Ridge sunset spot on Mt. Tamalpais." High Times published it.

"It's a phenomenon," said one of the Waldos, Steve Capper, now 62 and a chief executive at a payroll financing company in San Francisco. "Most things die within a couple years, but this just goes on and on. It's not like someday somebody's going to say, 'OK, Cannabis New Year's is on June 23rd now.'"

Bloom, now the editor in chief of Freedom Leaf Magazine, notes that while the Waldos came up with the term, the people who made the flier — and effectively turned 4/20 into a holiday — remain unknown.

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HOW IS IT CELEBRATED?

With weed, naturally. Some of the celebrations are bigger than others; Hippie Hill in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park typically draws thousands. In Seattle, the organizers of the annual Hempfest event are anticipating about 250 people at a private party. Some pot shops are offering discounts or hosting block parties.

College quads and statehouse lawns are also known for drawing 4/20 celebrants, with the University of Colorado's Boulder campus historically among the largest gatherings — though not so much since administrators started closing off the campus several years ago. Generally, 4/20 events in Colorado have dropped off significantly since the state legalized recreational use in 2012.

Some breweries make 4/20 themed beers — including SweetWater Brewing in Atlanta, whose founders attended CU-Boulder. Lagunitas Brewing in Petaluma, California, releases its "Waldos' Special Ale" every year on 4/20 in honoring of the term's coiners; it's billed as "the dankest and hoppiest beer ever brewed at Lagunitas."

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THE POLITICS

This year's 4/20 follows successful legalization campaigns in California, Nevada, Maine and Massachusetts, which join Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and Washington as states that allow recreational marijuana. More than half the states allow medical marijuana.

But it remains illegal under federal law. Attorney General Jeff Sessions this month ordered a review of marijuana policy to see how it may conflict with the President Donald Trump's crime-fighting agenda, and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly recently called marijuana "a potentially dangerous gateway drug that frequently leads to the use of harder drugs." That's a view long held by drug warriors despite scant evidence for its validity.

Sixty percent of adults support legalizing marijuana, according to a Gallup poll last fall, and two-thirds of respondents in a Yahoo/Marist poll released this week said marijuana is safer than opioids.

Undermining regulatory schemes in legal pot states could prompt a backlash that would hasten the end of federal prohibition, said Vivian McPeak, a founder of Seattle's Hempfest.

"We're looking at an attorney general who wants to bring America back into the 1980s in terms of drug policy," McPeak said. "I'm skeptical they can put the cannabis genie back into the bottle."

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WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

McPeak says 4/20 these days is "half celebration and half call to action."

For the Waldos, who remain close friends, it signifies above all else a good time, Capper says.

"We're not political. We're jokesters," he said. "But there was a time that we can't forget, when it was secret, furtive. ... The energy of the time was more charged, more exciting in a certain way.

"I'm not saying that's all good — it's not good they were putting people in jail," he added. "You wouldn't want to go back there. Of course not."

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Associated Press writers Kristen Wyatt in Denver and Sadie Gurman in Washington, D.C., contributed.

Source: http://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/associated_press/news/national/ap-explains-the-origins-of-marijuana-s-high-holiday/article_4192cf1a-e483-5884-bc8e-183ce5c00692.html

RapportNaija:
Lol, obviously, the reporter convertes bail to dollars

Other news agencies reported bail to b #500,000 so y una dey convert una own to dollars...

Na craze dey worry dem but something doesn't add up about d story. Don't understand why their bail was in dollars and then all their sureties had to provide was just two passport sized photographs, valid identity card, bank account number, letter of credence from a traditional ruler, a 2015 utility bill and a valid GSM numbers??

See as u dey like all those ladipo boys wey dey hustle customers for ppl...

Airforce1:
I think I like her kind of breast..
A little bit pointing down. . but still OK for me.

A little bit ke? Dat boobi is on a freefall... Slippers and Fried eggs standard

sarrki:
Then I ask why all the riches

Vanity upon vanity

So poverty is also not vanity abi? We all want to b rich and famous and daily pray for Baba God to pick or calls.. Why we no dey pray to die soon since all is vanity? He lived a fulfilled life and has left a legacy but wealthwise and familywise..

potent5:
This one wey dey smile like this. Na so them dey take start. Later they will turn Tiger for ouse. I trust Musa sha; I know say any rubbish hin go slap shegge shegge comot for her eye. Walahi

Musa wey don chop Kobnomi abi u think say na clear eye him take pursue mother of him children arrange anoda one sharp sharp... He's now under d influence of belusom and as such can do nada

Nurse!! Nurse!! U ppl have allowed him escape again....
Make una dey double him dosage na abeg... Now he's raging free

dotcomnamename:
1.diot . What doe this topic has to do with Nigeria President? That is how illiterate like you fail exams. All your mission is to look for opportunity to blame others for your failure to be responsible in your life.

Some una sef wey body jus dey pepper... Where did he mention d name Buhari in his post? U wey literate spot d name from his comment...

No worry jus send us his number, make nigerians transfer d credit directly to his line... Awon Oshi